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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FM Walkie Talkie 2piece Set with large range up to 6 km and free hand mode
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FM Walkie Talkie 2piece Set with large range up to 6 km and free hand modePowerful, handy and lightweight!
The Walkie-Talkie Set of National Geographic is the perfect companion for any of your adventures. With a range of up to 6 km in open terrain, you can even bridge long distances and have an uninterrupted reception! The Walkie Talkies are small enough for children's hands. But if you need your hands free when romping and exploring in nature, no problem - the practical belt clip and the free hand mode make it possible!
The menu function can be easily and conveniently controlled using the 5 function buttons.
For dark days a flashlight integrated, which can be switched on by pressing a button
- Walkie Talkie Set for two
- extremely long range of up to 6 km in open space
- VOX function for hands-free use
- 8 narrow band channels adjustable
- 10 different ringing melodies
- Headphone jack
- Volume adjustable
- battery-operated (3 AAA batteries required per unit)
- practical belt clip
- built-in flashlight
- 2 walkie talkies
- 2 belt clips
- Manual
Technical Data
|Extended warranty
|5 years
|Total length
|130 mm
|Total width
|50 mm
|Total height
|30 mm
|Net weight (without access.)
|60 g
|Net Weight total (incl. accessories)
|65 g


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January 2014
Monthly Archive
Monthly Archive
Posted by TheShot on 12 Jan 2014 | Filed under: Beans, Café Society, Fair Trade, Local Brew
Taking a short respite from our series on espresso in Napoli and the Amalfi Coast, we have a couple of local coffee shop reviews to catch up on. One is the obscure and eponymous CoffeeShop_.
This dive of a coffee shop has been operation since 2012, but the overwhelming majority of locals in the neighborhood wouldn't know it. It kind of defines the term "understated", so you pretty much have to stumble upon it.
It's a tight space with no seating, inside nor out, though thankfully they do offer their espresso in "for here" cups anyway (Pagnossin cups with no saucer). Though even with the tight space and nothing to sit on, you'll often find people hanging out inside.
In addition to espresso drinks they sell Hario drip coffee (they also sell the drippers) and baked goods from Batch. Their coffee is proudly sourced from Emeryville's Ubuntu Coffee Cooperative, which also explains some of the other "hippie crap" on the drink menu such as yerba mate and matcha.
Using a two-group Promac, they pull shots with a very creamy texture. It has an even-textured medium brown crema with a flavor of pepper and mild spice with some modestly sharp brightness (to let you know the coffee is freshly roasted). But without potent fruitiness or candy-like sweetness.
Three generous sips, and we're still not entirely sure why the espresso shots get the nickname "Dirty" here. (As in: "I'll have a Dirty, please.")
Read the review of CoffeeShop_ in Bernal Heights.
Posted by TheShot on 09 Jan 2014 | Filed under: Add Milk, Café Society, Foreign Brew
The town of Forio on Ischia's west coast has about 17,000 inhabitants and faces a wide-open Tyrrhenian Sea. Because of its exposed location, it boasts numerous coastal watchtowers dating back to the Middle Ages as protection against invading Saracen and African pirates. By the 1950s, the marauding pirates were replaced by an invasion of marauding artists, turning Forio into something of a global artists' retreat. Rape and pillage comes in many forms.
Yet it remains a beautiful location. There are narrow streets, working painters and ceramic workshops, idyllic views of the volcanic rocks and sea, and Saracen architectural details around town dating back to some of its earliest invaders. Divino Cafè resides near the center of town on a (mostly) pedestrian walkway between fashionable shops and restaurants — with the occasional disturbing breast-implant disaster parading by courtesy of an aging local fashionista. (Prepare about an hour for your scalded eyes to recover.)
It's a rather small space with a couple of tables in front, an angular serving bar, and a semi-private upstairs lounge (when open). Unlike most coffee shops in the area, they proudly brand themselves with the decidedly not-local Lavazza. Like a number of cafés around Napoli, they proudly offer their own version of a zucchero-crema concoction (literally, "sugar-cream") — which they call Cremina di Caffè — to optionally add a formulated syrupy sweetness to their variations of espresso drinks. And also like a number of notable coffee shops around Napoli, their list of coffee drinks is long.
Sticking to the basics for review purposes here, they use a three-group La San Marco lever machine to pull shots with an even, medium brown crema. It has a pungent flavor that's a bit narrow, and its served in Lavazza-logo cups from Cup & Saucer. Rated two chicchi and one tazzina in the 2014 Bar d'Italia.
Read the review of Divino Cafè in Forio d'Ischia, Italy.
Posted by TheShot on 07 Jan 2014 | Filed under: Café Society, Foreign Brew
Despite being a relatively large island, you can get around most of Ischia through a combination of walking and its rather dubious-yet-functional public bus system. Starting from the island's main transportation hub of Ischia Porto (i.e., the actual ferry port) and the nearby bus terminal, walk east, towards Ischia Ponte, for about a half-mile and you'll encounter Bar Calise a Ischia.
This massive café resides along a more suburban-looking stretch of Ischia's Via Antonio Sogliuzzo. The Bar Calise owners started their business nearly a century ago in nearby Casamicciola Terme. But in 1960, as the neighborhoods east of Ischia Porto experienced a great deal of expansion and development, the owners branched out to this flagship location on Piazza degli Eroi.
It has several signs off the main road to flag down drivers and an assortment of pedestrians. It also has a rather extensive parking lot (for Italy), a wide swath of outdoor garden seating, and some indoor seating inside the huge café and bar. Besides the various panini, pizza, pastries, and many other edibles, they also serve a decent espresso.
Using dueling three-group La Cimbali machines with a gold patina at the rear bar, the professionally dressed baristi pull shots with an even, medium brown crema that's a bit full in the (Porland) cup for the region. (Though it is still only about three sips.) It's a dark, rich pour with a good body and some smokiness over that characteristic Passalacqua pungency that characterizes much of Napoli.
Order at the bar for only €1 — though most patrons order the table service version for €3 with a relatively flavorless cookie served over the top of the cup. Rated two tazzine and one chicco in the 2014 Bar d'Italia.
Read the review of Bar Calise a Ischia in Ischia, Italy.
Posted by TheShot on 03 Jan 2014 | Filed under: Café Society, Foreign Brew
Like it's more famous and cosmopolitan sister, the island of Ischia resides in the Gulf of Naples. But that's where the similarities end.
Capri draws mostly international tourists on day trips seeking the fashionable high-life. Years ago while hiking Capri's (highly recommended) Villa Jovis around 8am one Sunday morning, a peek over a cliff's edge revealed a marine invasion of ferries and tour boats from all directions that must have rivaled D-Day on the beaches of Normandy.
By contrast, Ischia draws far more tourists and yet has a completely different feel. For one, 80% of the tourists are Italians — most of whom stay overnight. Ischia is a larger island and supports a much greater number of local residents, giving it a strong sense of community. The island feels more like a connected suburb of Napoli (despite the one-hour-plus boat ride). And then there are the spas and hot springs.
For San Francisco area residents, imagine if Angel Island was encircled by a few smaller, more casual versions of Sausalito. Except Ischia goes back to at least Greek settlers in the 8th century B.C.
As for Ristorante e Bar Cocò: what a complete scene. It's hard to overstate how much this local café resides at the center of an entire island's social fabric. A combination bar and restaurant, this Ischia institution opened in 1951. The island locals who flock here partly do so out of the quality of the place, but perhaps moreso because of its stunning location: along the shores at the base of the footpath that leads to the dramatic Castello Aragonese.
Built by Hiero I, tyrant of Sicily, in 474 B.C., the site of this castle has since been alternatively sacked/occupied/expanded by Parthenopeans, Romans, Visigoths, Vandals, Goths, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, the Angioini, English, and the Bourbons.
Mornings, afternoons, and (in particular) evenings, people gather at this watering hole at the base of the footpath to eat, drink, and mostly socialize beneath the shadow of the castle. There are many Italians sitting out front for table service beneath a thatched roof (where they serve €1.70 espresso instead of the in-bar €1). Inside there's only a cashier and standing at the bar — other than seating inside the neighboring restaurant with shorter hours.
At the bar they use a four-group lever La San Marco machine to pull dense, syrupy shots of Caffè Moreno. It has a dense thickness and outstanding body with an even, dark brown crema that looks a bit like a dark brown egg yolk at times.
A two-sips short shot with a deep, darker flavor of pungent herbs and cloves served in Cocò-logo IPA cups. No wonder the 2014 Bar d'Italia rated them two chicchi (and one tazzina).
Read the review of Bar Cocò in Ischia Ponte, Italy.

subset: commoncrawl


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What's RVoice ?
RVoice is a website and a magazine. RVoice is made by and for Bristol's children and young people in care and care leavers. RVoice exists to make sure these young people have a voice and opportunities to say what they think, be creative and be listened to.
The site has tons of useful information about being in care. You can find out about your rights, things that are going on in and around Bristol and how you can get your voice heard and join in.
You can upload your own photos, play games, read blogs and keep up to date with all the latest news. Everything you need to know about being in care in Bristol is right here.
We're updating the site all the time with new information. If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact R Voice at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can!


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I can't tell you how much time I've wasted looking up social media cover photo sizes, profile picture sizes, backgrounds, etc. Finally I wrote down all the social media sizes that I use on a regular basis. I'm in the process of making some really great templates to share. But until then, here's the current sizes you'll need to make yourself look amazing!
Cover Photo: 851 x 315
Profile Picture: 180 x 180
Event Image: 784 x 295
Profile Header: 1500 x 500
Profile Picture: 400x 400
Cover Image: 1080 x 608
Channel Art: 2560 x 1440
Banner Size: 646 x 220
Profile Picture: 50 x 50
Hopefully that saves someone a little time! Design away


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Started weblog.
Thanks Wojtek for an excellent piece of software!
Radius news:
- Radtest language has reached more or less mature status.
- The documentation draft for 1.2.94 is available
Awfully tired of writing docs!
Radius news:
- Finished documenting radtest. Fixed several inconsistencies as well.
- Documented radauth.
- New contributions in /contribs subdirectory: passwd_to_db from Gerald Coon, radsend (original name: 'simula.pl') from José García and passcvt from yours faithful.
Tar news:Two updated localizations are available for 1.14: Dutch and Simplified Chinese.
Mailutils news:Fixed minor bug in 'include/mailutils/daemon.h'.
I have a strong feeling that back in the days when we were editing our code with ed (I still use it quite often, I must admit) our code contained less errors and was far more readable than today.
I have just finished cleaning up my buddy's code that was written on a 120-columns-per-line screen and contained quite a few copy-n-paste bugs. Sure, one can read a 120-chars single-line declaration. One can even read a whole 80-line screen of such declarations, but I strongly doubt whether one will really understand what he has read and be able to spot out the error. Especially when one has been looking at his screen for 20 straight hours, you know.
SoftwareMy todo list is quite long (as usual), but I have a strong urge to play charango... Its strings will surely keep me away from the console today. Chores will wait. Vielleicht das nächste Mal:))
Anubis newsImplemented XELO extension. XDATABASE EXAMINE now works using MD5 hashes, just as was proposed in the initial 'pixie-dixie' draft.
Mailutils newsLots of changes. Still cannot understand why compiling guimb/main.c fails at argp.h on Sparc. Hopefully Alex will be able to provide a preprocessor output file, this should solve the puzzle...
No coding today. Playing charango again:)
However, there are some news:
Mailutils newsThe "error_t on Sparc" problem has been solved! It turned out that one of Guile includes defined
error_t without defining symbol
__error_t_defined. It's easy to fix, but Guile people should have
known better than doing such things.
Back to tar. I hope to fix listed-incremental problem today.
Anubis news:Committed a fix to the problem recently spotted by Wojtek: when switching to the user's privileges anubis did not clear the list of complementary groups.
Tar news:Luca Fibbi reported that version 1.14 incorrectly skipped members in a
PAX archive. It turned out that it was incorrectly deeming
the members to be sparse, and that, in turn, due to the fact that the
member header was not decoded prior to calling
Lots of interdependencies...
I have finally moved the runasimi site to LINGUA engine!
Runasimi newsAdded chapter about cardinal numerals in Quechua.
LINGUA engine was a great experience and it has
shown that
eXtrans is a nice idea. It has, however, some
deficiences. Some of them were already fixed (I hope to make CVS
repository available soon). The two most important ones remain:
- Rudimentary error checking and reporting,
- Keeping its own database of target-source file dependencies.
The diagnostics does not help to find out the exact place in the
XML file where the error occurred. Its an awful work to
scan the entire source to find out a misplaced or mistyped tag.
I have made some improvements which do help in certain cases, but
the main part of work is still ahead.
Keeping a separate database of target-source file dependencies makes it
difficult to use
eXtrans in makefiles. Both
Ellinika and
Runasimi use
rule to override the difficulty, but the solution is far from being optimal.
I'd like to rewrite
eXtrans so that it produces
makefiles instead of keeping its own database
of files to be modified.
An interesting approach would be to create a derivative class from
XTransBase which would override
so that it would add appropriate output file name to the
rule being generated. The rest of methods should probably simply call
pass and do nothing. At the end of processing this auxiliary
class would output the rules it has generated (and, possibly, purge orphan
html files).
Theoretically this should work.
The related
makefile rule will then look like follows:
xtrans: $(EXTRANS) -M $(SOURCE) > .extrans.mk $(MAKE) -f .extrans.mk
|Coredumped on reading a single escape character. Wonder why no one has noticed this before!
|GNU multivolume cannot accept members with filenames longer than 100 characters to straddle the volume boundary. It did not check filename length, however.
Coca no es cocaina. Coca es la hoja sagrada. Jallalla Bolivia, jallalla Oruro, Soy de los cocanis alma, vida y corazon. -- Savia Andina
Added chapters about
ordinal and
monetary numerals.
Anubis authmode testsuite
The testsuite driver starts
anubis daemon in
authmode as follows:
anubis --norc --relax-perm-check --altrc target.rc
where target.rc is the full filename to the configuration file for this instance of the program. It contents is described in detail in the next section.
anubis switches to the daemon mode. Theoretically,
we could have used
DejaGNU's remote.exp to talk to
the daemon. However,
DejaGNU is not able
to handle
TLS encryption, so this method does not suite
our needs.
Instead we launch a second copy of
anubis, but this
time using the following command line:
anubis -Dfi --norc --relax-perm-check --altrc interface.rc
This instance of the program remains in foreground and
DejaGNU talks to it using already existing
anubis.exp module. Moreover, all the
testcases can be run without modifications.
The following diagram illustrates data flow between main testsuite
program and
anubis daemon.
Configuration files
As usual, both target and interface configuration files are
created from their corresponding
*.in source files.
The purpose of this step is to expand variables
TESTDIR and
TOP_SRCDIR, thereby providing correct paths to data and
binary files. Usually this is done on compilation time by testsuite/etc/Makefile.am. However, to
launch the first (
authmode) instance of
anubis we need to know the port number to bind to. Using
any predefined port number is not a good idea, as it may be in use
at the time the testsuite is run. Prompting the user to supply the
port number is even worst.
The solution is to select the first available port number among
TCP port range 1025-65535. For this purpose we
use findport.c
from the GNU Radius package.
The corresponding part of
DejaGNU source will look like:
# Prepare a sed expression: set sed_expr [remote_exec host "$FINDPORT -c1 -s1025 -f's^@AUTH_PORT@^%d^;'"] append sed_expr "s^TESTDIR^[board_info $host_board srcdir]^;" append sed_expr "s^TOP_SRCDIR^[board_info $host_board top_srcdir]^" # Create target configuration file set output [remote_exec host \ "sed -e '$sed_expr' \ [board_info $host_board top_srcdir]/testsuite/etc/target.in"] save_to_file "[board_info $host_board srcdir]/etc/target.rc" $output ... Run 'anubis --altrc target.rc' here ... # Create interface configuration file set output [remote_exec host \ "sed -e '$sed_expr' \ [board_info $host_board top_srcdir]/testsuite/etc/interface.in"] save_to_file "[board_info $host_board srcdir]/etc/interface.rc" $output
It is supposed that
save_to_file writes to the file
whose name is given in its first argument the lines from the list
given as its second argument.
The amount of time elapsed between creation of the target
configuration file and launching first
anubis instance
should be as small as possible, in order to diminish the probability of
some other process occupying the port number retuned by
findport. So, it is preferable to start first
anubis instance right after creating configuration
file for it.
Theoretically, it is still possible that by the time first
anubis starts up the port number will become occupied.
This will cause the testsuite to fail, so we should make sure
an appropriate diagnostic message will be issued.
However, the probability of such failure is quite small. I have been using this approach in GNU Radius testsuite for more than four years and I cannot remember ever having encountered such a situation.
Given all the above, let's now see what should the configuration files contain.
Target configuration
file, target.in
BEGIN CONTROL mode auth bind @ANUBIS_PORT@ local-mta TESTDIR/mta -bs -d TESTDIR/etc/mta.log \ -c TOP_SRCDIR/testsuite/data/anubis.pem \ -k TOP_SRCDIR/testsuite/data/anubis.pem logfile TESTDIR/etc/anubis.log ssl yes ssl-key TOP_SRCDIR/testsuite/data/anubis.pem ssl-cert TOP_SRCDIR/testsuite/data/anubis.pem END BEGIN AUTH sasl-password-db text://TOP_SRCDIR/testsuite/data/anubis.textdb sasl-allowed-mech CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 # Err, a practical joke: smtp-greeting-message "Hej, sloneczko" smtp-help-message "Czlowieku, dopomoz sobie sam!" END
Interface configuration file, interface.in
BEGIN CONTROL logfile TESTDIR/etc/anubis.log remote-mta localhost:@ANUBIS_PORT@ ssl-oneway yes esmtp-auth anubis:guessme END
To be continued...
Implemented Anubis
Dixie testsuite following the
guidelines set forth yesterday.
Nothing more to say. Playing music...
El dia de avui es, potser, decisiu per als veneçolans: es celebra el referèndum revocatori... Fa més de un any que no tinc novetats de Oswaldo i Francisco. Com estaran?
He millorat el diccionari de Quechua una mica. Llavors em torno a tocar quena amb la consciència tranquil·la.
Chávez guanyà! Estic molt content.
Takie oto ponure spostrzeżenie...
Hackowałem blogRight-a. Wynikiem jest ta strona.
Oto pierwsze z nich:
Kijów. Andrzejewski zjazd. "Zamek Ryszarda". Okolo 8:00
Musiałem przypomnieć sobie kurs astronomii by obliczyć kiedy słońce będzie w potrzebnym miejscu :^)
Zamkiem Ryszarda nazwał ten gmach wybitny rosyjski pisarz Wiktor Niekrasow (podobno na cześć Ryszarda I "Lwie Serce", z ktorym oczywiście ten gmach aż nijak nie jest związany). O gmachu mówiono dziwne rzeczy, głównie z powodu tego że, jak powiadają mieszkańcy, jego kominy wydają nocą dziwne dzwięki. Swego czasu w "zamku" mieszkało wielu pisarzy i malarzy.
Nowe zdjęcia. A oto kod który je wyświetla: webgal.cgi.
Good news
Welcome to my local CVS Repository.
Today I was heavily hacking on tar. Lots of bugfixes and improvements. See ChangeLog entry for more info.
Bad news
|Summer is over :((
Το μνημείο της Φιλική Εταιρείας στην Οδησσό
Έχω παρευριθεί στα αποκαλυπτήρια του μνημείου των θεμελιωτών της Φιλική Εταιρείας στην Οδησσό. Ωραίο μνημείο και ωραίο θέαμα. Περιμένω με ανυπομονησία την αρχή του διδακτικού έτους στο Ίδρυμα Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού!
Today I attended the opening of the monument to the founders of Φιλική Εταιρείας near the Foundation for the Greek Culture in Odessa. Nice monument! The opening was dedicated to the 210th anniversary of the city and 10th anniversary of the Foundation. The programme of the celebrations is quite long and interesting. More info and photos in the future logs!
GNU tar 1.14.90 released
As the version number implies, it is an alpha. Complete list of user-visible changes follows:
* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices from being purged. With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the back up. This change fixes the bug. * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with the GNU convention. * Skipping archive members is sped up if the archive media supports seeks. * Restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option, or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores. * `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of the file names had their prefixes stripped off. * New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable introduced in version 1.14 * New configure variable DEFAULT_RMT_DIR allows to specify the directory where to install `rmt' utility. This is necessary since modifying --libexecdir as was suggested for version 1.14 produced a side effect: it also modified installation prefix for backup scripts (if --enable-backup-scripts was given). * Bugfixes: ** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps. ** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option. ** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters. Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames. ** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice, previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first extracted copy in such cases. ** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option. ** Fixed verification of the created archives. ** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous versions failed to recognize \a and \v).
cpio + tar + pax = paxutils
Three commits in a day are definitely too much...
The festivities are over, and I'm back to work on free software.
After more than half a year delay (!!!), Savannah people have approved
paxutils. The project seems to have bad karma...
Anyway, since I've just released
tar 1.14.90 and the
version 2.5.90 of
cpio is ready and working, I've started
merging the two projects into
paxutils. The road will be long.
I am going to export as much of the good ideas and as little of the
codebase from each package as possible.
If everything goes as expected, the first version of
paxutils should be ready by the January. If, on the contrary,
the things continue going from bad to worst as they have been during all
this year... well, then I'll make it by the beginning of March.
I have released radius 1.2.94. Hopefully it won't be long before the release of 1.3.
Version 2.5.90 of
cpio is available for download from alpha.gnu.org. This is the first version of GNU cpio with official
NLS support.
Working on GNU Anubis. Our current deadline is tomorrow.
Today I started the second year of learning Greek in Ίδρυμα Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού.
Chasing for bugs...
There are two very interesting ones:
AnubisFirst is in Anubis. When running Anubis test suite in
Wojciech noticed that some daemon instances enter endless loop
attempting to free a chunk of memory.
My further investigation has shown that it always occurred when trying to
free an ASN1 node belonging to
_gnutls_pkix1_asn tree. The
bug manifests the following regularities:
- With
MALLOC_CHECK_unset, it is almost certain to appear in every test suite run.
- With
MALLOC_CHECK_=2the bug never appears. I find it extremely uncommon, even taking into account Murphy's law. I suspect it to be a very important issue, although at the moment I cannot say why.
- Using
mallocby Doug Lea (
$Id: malloc.c,v 126.96.36.199 1998/08/28 12:06:46 drepper Exp $), the exact location of the dead loop is in
frontlinkmacro, namely:
else { /* This loop is endless. Obviously the memory chain is corrupted */ while (FD != BK && S < chunksize(FD)) FD = FD->fd; BK = FD->bk; }
(invoked from
chunk_free()near line 2965).
It seems like a heap corruption, the two basic questions are: why
it is not revealed at an earlier stage by
debugging code, and why enabling this same debugging code makes the
bug disappear? It will take a while to answer these questions...
Yep, the second one is there. It manifests itself as an incorrect
comparison of two
struct timeval. More precisely,
in the following snippet:
gettimeofday(&now, NULL); timersub(&now, start, &diff); if (timercmp(&diff, tval, <)) { ...
timercmp incorrectly returns
false when
now differs from
start by several milliseconds
(the actual order of magnitude of
tval is several seconds).
The bad thing about it is that both
timersub and
timercmp come from standard glibc headers...
Paxutils' project page is updated.
Paxutils' official page at http://www.gnu.org/software/paxutils is still unavailable, despite the fact that I have uploaded an updated version two days ago. E-mails to Savannah hackers and GNU webmasters have so far given null effect. In fact, they remained unanswered.
For the time being, I have to host paxutils page on my server.
I'm quite accustomed to various delays, but frankly, sometimes I'm getting bored...
Good reading
The Ancient Scripts site is fantastic.
A very good introduction to Korean language.
New releases
GNU Radius 1.2.95 and Anubis 3.9.96 are available.
LINGUA project
I had a bit of free time, so I've used it to polish
LINGUA engine.
Currently it is written using eXtrans
, which, albeit a great program, is not flexible enough for my needs.
In addition to already described problems,
its handling of nested tags is not consistent.
Surely I could have modified it further, but it appeared to me that I'd be better off writing a replacement for it from the scratch. And of course I was going to write it in Scheme :)
So, I've started a new project under a working name xmltools. It is a collection of Guile modules that should
provide the functionality similar to that of
eXtrans yet
largely extended and improved. The project uses expat library and Mixp - a Guile interface module to
In its current state,
xmltools already supply all of
eXtrans functionality, including postprocessor support.
Today I have written basic part of lingua.scm. The good thing
is, it is already able to process
xml and produce valid
html output!
Hopefully it won't be long before I rewrite
LINGUA entirely in
Well, it took four days to entirely rewrite
lingua in Scheme
using xmltools.
Now it allows much greater flexibility than
eXtrans version did.
Moreover, it is easily extensible. There are still some minor points to
work out, but as a whole
xmltools+lingua is quite mature now,
uhmm..., except for the docs... I'll need some time to write them.
Then I'll probably host the project on Gna!.
In the meanwhile I have already rewritten
ellinika using the new stuff. It allowed me to use normal
Makefiles, split the single source file into several smaller
ones and do
a lot of cool things I couldn't have dreamed of using
News in argp module
(did I say I am maintaining it? Well, so I am, since the day before yesterday)
I've fixed a nasty coredump that occurred if the option name of an
OPTION_DOC was set to
NULL. Besides, updated
argp will never attempt to translate an empty help string.
And finally, new option
OPTION_NO_TRANS prohibits translating
name field of an
OPTION_DOC option. The latter
is already used by
Dictionary structure
I have started to rewrite dictionaries in Ellinika project. The idea is
to use
XML instead of the definition language I have been
using so far. The latter was designed to be simple, short (I hate to
type) and suitable for describing dictionary entries. Its parser
is written in
C and is therefore fairly fast. Presently,
the dictionary
created with it contains 1150 entries, and the process of its creation
has confirmed that the dictionary structure is right and
input language generally suitable for the purpose. However, it has also
exposed some drawbacks of the language.
The principal drawback is that currently a dictionary entry is supposed to contain only one part of speech 1) , i.e. currently assumed entry structure is:
(key part-of-speech articles)However, there exist words that pertain to several parts of speech simultaneously, and that change their meaning according to the part of speech. For example, κρυώνω, when used as a transitive verb, means to refrigerate, whereas being used as an intransitive verb it means to feel cold, to freeze. The number of such words (verbs in particular) in Greek is fairly large.
So, I have decided to redesign the input language, but instead of
simply fixing the already existing language, I've chosen to fully write
the dictionary sources in
External representation
In the new definition language each entry is represented as follows:
<NODE> <K>string</K>+ [<F>string</F>] <P ID="string"> <M>string</M>+ <A>string</A>* <X>string</X>* <T ID="string" />* <X>string</X>* </P>+ <X>string</X>* </NODE>
(as usual, optional elements are inclosed in brackets,
* means
zero or more occurrences of the element, and
+ means one
or more occurrences of the element).
Elements have the following meaning:
- Start the definition of a dictionary entry
- Introduces the dictionary key, i.e. the word of the source language that is explained by this entry. There may be several keys if the notion in question has several sinonyms.
- Introduces grammatic forms of the key, whenever these are not formed by standard rules. In future I expect to write proper verb conjugator, then this field will probably mark a reference to or invocation of it.
- Part of speech and meanings associated with it (see below). Attribute
IDintroduces the name (usually abbreviated) of the part of speech.
- Translation of the word (
Mstands for Meaning)
- Antonym
- Cross-reference for this entry. Usually this is a reference to sinonym or some semantically related key.
- Topic or group this entry pertains to.
IDidentifies the topic. When many entries pertain to the same topic, their definitions can be enclosed in
<T ID="name"> ... </T>construct.
There are two special forms of this notation. One is useful as a shortcut for those words that have only one part of speech (as I said I hate to type, so I'm trying to spare as much typing as possible):
<NODE> <K>string</K>+ [<F>string</F>] <P>string</P> <M>string</M>* <A>string</A>* <X>string</X>* <T ID="string" />* </NODE>
Another one introduces an entry that is a reference to another entry in the dictionary:
<NODE> <K>string</K>+ [<F>string</F>] <P>string</P> <X>string</X>* <T ID="string" />* </NODE>
This is useful for such pairs as "ο ποταμός" and "το ποτάμι", both meaning
"river" but having different genders. The special form
<X /> means reference to the immediately preceeding node
definition wich has at least one translation (
M element).
A working example can be found here.
Internal representation
The initial version of the dictionary translator is already available. See its heading comment for the short
description of the internal representation (
Scheme of course).
1) The term part of speech is used here in broader meaning: e.g. for the dictionary purposes transitive verbs and intransitive verbs are regarded as different parts of speech. I'll possibly have to introduce finer granularity here (e.g.
part-of-speech/subpart or something similar), but currently I am not sure it will be worth the effort.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
guile-sql and
into a single project: gamma.
Dictionary support is ready
Dictionary of Ellinika site
has been completely rewritten in
XML (see this entry for more info). The project now uses
gamma instead
guile-sql +
html (sic!) wygląda to tak:
<hr> <center> [ <?guile (let ((env (current-image-neighbors))) (if (car env) (begin (display "<a href=\"") (display (image-url (gallery-id) (car env))) (display "\">") (display "Poprzedne zdjęcie") (display "</a> | "))) (if (cdr env) (begin (display "<a href=\"") (display (image-url (gallery-id) (cdr env))) (display "\">") (display "Następne zdjęcie") (display "</a> | ")))) ?>Już jasne do czego zmierzam, co? No właśnie, chcę zmodyfikowac mod_guile tak, by Apache rozumial
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Fatally short of time...
The new radius documentation is available.
The main page is now
xhtml 1.0 (as well as
radius homepage)1) .
I wish I would be able to convert documentation files to
xhtml as well,
but that would require either updating
texi2html (I wouldn't like
to do this) or
texinfo (I'd love to, should the time permit)...
Anyway, the package itself is ready for the release. Today I have fixed a
small bug that manifested itself on
BSD systems, and have given
a final polish to the docs. I'm going to release the stuff before Nov 06.
1) By the way, I'm working on the
xmltools translator for producing standard GNU web pages (working name
السّلام عليكم
Well, my log got interrupted for more than two weeks... I have started to learn Arabic, and it is taking now the rest of my time, which was in short supply already. I am growing more and more fascinated by both Arabic script and its grammar...
The long silence does not mean nothing was being done. So, a short summary:
- GNU Radius 1.3 is ready for the release. The current snapshot is marked 1.2.96 and is as usual available from mirddin.farlep.net. I am waiting for Jordi to finish Catalan translation, that's the only thing missing.
- Several bugfixes and improvements have accumulated in GNU mailutils which makes me plan to release a maintenance version next week. See NEWS file for a short description of these.
- I have submitted a hacked version of
rmail.elto emacs-devel. This version makes extensive use of the new features provided by GNU mailutils
movemailprogram. Both modified source and diff file against the latest CVS version 1.393 is available.
- Finally, Wojtek says it's less than a month left before releasing GNU Anubis 4.0.
Yesterday I released version 1.3 of GNU Radius. I wish Jordi updated Catalan localization. It was very important to me. Pity...
More work on
rmail.el. People from
have supplied some fresh ideas and RMS have asked me to update documentation
as well:
Updated versions of rmail.el: modified source and diff file (against the latest CVS version 1.393).
ChangeLog entry:
* mail/rmail.el: Updated to work with movemail from GNU Mailutils (rmail-pop-password,rmail-pop-password-required): Moved to rmail-obsolete group. (rmail-set-pop-password): Renamed to rmail-set-remote-password. All callers updated. (rmail-get-pop-password): Renamed to rmail-get-remote-password. Take an argument specifying whether it is POP or IMAP mailbox we are using. All callers updated. (rmail-pop-password-error): Renamed to rmail-remote-password-error. Added mailutils-specific error message. (rmail-movemail-search-path) (rmail-movemail-variant-in-use): New variables. (rmail-remote-password,rmail-remote-password-required): New customization variables. (rmail-probe,rmail-autodetect,rmail-movemail-variant-p): New functions (rmail-parse-url): New function. (rmail-get-new-mail): Updated for use with GNU mailutils movemail. Accept mailbox URLs no matter what flavor of movemail is being used. * etc/NEWS: Document changes to rmail.el * man/rmail.texi: Likewise
Back again
After a more-than-busy two-week pause I'm back again (I'd better tell some other time what I've been doing during these two weeks). Most important news during this time are: together with Max we have set up our server (Ulysses) and I've finally managed to mirror both ftp.gnu.org and www.gnu.org. Moreover, both mirrors are now accessible as ftp.gnu.org.ua and www.gnu.org.ua.
Another mirror I've been runnng, that of the Unix Heritage Society at tuhs.org.ua, is now hosted on this server too.
Needless to say that my personal page is served by Ulysses as well.
The question now is, how much will it cost to maintain all this, given its average daily traffic... We'll see...
Other FS news: a simple script to view
po files. Why? I don't know. May prove
useful some day... Click here to see
it work.
Hacked on GNU mailutils and introduced a universal sql-access layer. The auth library has been rewritten accordingly and mail.local is finally able to retrieve mailbox quotas from SQL database, a feature many of the mailutils users have constantly pinged me about.
While feedling with mailutils I've noticed something that makes me feel
a bit uncomfortable: we have no convention on how to write diagnostic messages.
Some of them begin with a capital letter, some don't. Some end with a period,
some don't. A chaos. We should certainly change it, but I'd better do it
after releasing 0.5.1 maintenance release (this change will affect
po files, and hence will require waiting for the translators to
finish their jobs).
Anubis: a couple of security-related changes proposed by
Ulf Härnhammar.
Socks.c still waiting to be rewised by Wojtek.
Oh, yes, forgotten to say: among various junk on my machine I've excavated my geek code. Its surprising how little has changed since I wrote it...
Items from my museum
/etc/issue made by a friend of mine for one of my machines.
It is dated some time around 1999
I baptized the machine pepelatz (a term from Georgi Daneliya's film Kin-Dza-Dza). Wander what's this? Here's the definition:
Excerpts from "The Technical Dictionary of Cuue", Prentice-Hall, 5255:
pepelatz, n: Flying apparatus (usually very rusty) used in conjunction with gravitzapa (see).
gravitzapa, n: An indispensable part of pepelatz (see).
I can only add that the machine looked almost exactly as its prototype :)
I have been chasing for bugs in
gsasl 0.2.2 for over four
hours. Managed to find quite a few. Debugging is probably the most
exhaustive kind of work I've ever tried...
Emacs folks have begun arguing about GFDL vs. GPL problem
(though, frankly speaking I can't see any problem at all). Debian
people evidently become tired of it and their discussion on this topic
has faded away. Now it's
emacs-devel turn, isn't it?
Interestingly, how similar both threads are: the two sides go on spitting
different reasons and no one seems to have heard the other, whereas RMS
keeps olympic silence and only when really annoyed does he tell: "I
believe GFDL does what it should". So spricht Zaratustra...
Several things have happened recently:
- A courageous decision of the Polish Government prevented European Union from adopting a disastrous "Software Patent Directive"
- Re-elections in Ukraine. Let's wait for the results...
- A bunch of christmas releases: Anubis 4.0, tar 1.15.1, cpio 2.6 and mailutils 0.6


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Tips for Budgeting for Your Household
A lot of people live beyond their means. It's easy to do when you find yourself with a few thousand dollars worth of credit open on a piece of plastic and a mall full of wonderful shinyful things. Or a restaurant full of delicious sounding entrees that would be much easier to order than to prepare yourself. Unfortunately the result is that too often, too many people find themselves living paycheck to paycheck and not a lot of hope of saving for the future. Rising medical costs combined with less coverage leaves too many of us on the brink of disaster. What do I mean by that? No savings and a potential medical emergency forces far too many families into bankruptcy. With a little planning and a little know-how, you can learn tips for budgeting for your household that allows you to put aside a little something for a rainy day.
Tip 1: Assess Your Spending
Track everything. Absolutely everything. Whether you pay with cash, card, check, or buttons and pocket lint. Keep a running record. If you allow yourself a cash "allowance" that you can spend on whatever you want, that's great. But track those expenses too. They all count. You will be amazed to see how much the morning lattes add up to, or how much those scratch tickets are costing at the end of a month. A lot of times seeing the actual amount written in numbers and black and white can show where you're bleeding out financially, and you can make adjustments accordingly. By tracking what you're spending, you can work on budgeting accordingly.
Tip 2: Go on a Debt Diet
Stop using your credit cards unless it is an absolute emergency for one month. Thirty days. It's harder than you might think, but it can be a valuable way of assessing what is a need versus a want. This means eliminating even the smallest purchases if they aren't absolutely necessary. So no candy for the kiddos at the checkout of the grocery store. No bottle of soda from the cooler near the register. No zipping to the coffee cart in the middle of your workday to get over the 2 pm slump. It means a month of brown-bagging your lunches. Furthermore, it means filling your thermos with coffee before you leave for work for the day. It means a difficult few weeks, but at the end of it all you should have a pretty good stash of cash that you can put towards savings or paying off debt,
Tip 3: Eat at Home
Even just the occasional pass through the drive-thru to save the hassle of making dinner on a really long day can add up. The average cost of a fast food dinner for a family of 4 is around $28. Compare that to approximately $1-$3 per person to make dinner at home, and you have a pretty big gap in price. Sure, experiences are crucial to quality of life. However, when you are living beyond your means, it is often necessary to forego experiences in favor of better quality of life in terms of less stress and more financial security. Budgeting for food is probably the biggest household expense aside from mortgage payments. When you cut eating out from your expenses, you can greatly reduce your food bills every month.
Tip 4: Cut Extra Expenses
How much is your cable bill every month? Are you still paying for a landline? What about your energy bills? Look at your monthly expenses and start trimming away what you don't really need. It may be difficult to bear the thought of eliminating cable. However, you'd be surprised at how quickly you get used to not having a hundred channels at your fingertips. Between Netflix and Amazon and all different types of streaming services, you can still have access to your favorite entertainment options without paying cable t.v. prices.
Additionally, you may want to consider getting rid of that old landline. Fewer and fewer households rely on a landline phone anymore, and the reason is that it is providing the same service as a cell phone at an additional price. Another place where you may be able to save some extra cash is on your energy bills. Simply lowering your thermostat one degree will save approximately 3% off your overall bill. Those dollars add up over the course of the colder months and you can potentially save hundreds of dollars in a single winter. If you want to take your energy savings even further, consider switching to energy efficient light bulbs. Turn off lights when you aren't using them. Only do full loads of laundry and dishes. Start stacking your energy savings and you will be surprised at the difference in your budget.
Additional Budgeting Tips for Households
There are a number of different apps available that you can use to save extra money. Different apps like Ibotta and Checkout 51 offers users rebates on specific items. The key to using these types of apps is that you need to make sure they are items you would buy anyway. If not, you are wasting money. The beauty of these apps is that you are able to combine rebates with coupons in order to save even more. Also checkout Target's Cartwheel app and consider a RedCard Debit Card. It is different than a credit card in that it works just like your regular bank card, except users get 5% off of all purchases every time they use the card. No interest, no monthly payments, no credit. What's not to love?
I'm not going to tell you to clip coupons and scour sales ads–though those are other great ways to save money for your family. However, many people find they waste a lot of time looking for coupons they will likely never use. Instead, check sales ads for local stores. Buy pantry items when they are on sale. Purchase meat in bulk if possible and freeze it in smaller portions. Pay attention to sale papers. Most importantly, pay attention to what you're spending on a daily basis. You will be surprised to see where you are spending the most money. Once you see where most of your expenses are coming from, you can work on changing your habits. Start saving for a rainy day. Budgeting for a household isn't hard. It's sticking with the budget that can be tricky.


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How to Calm a Crying Baby
Calming a Crying Baby: Tips on How You Can Do It The life of a parent is never easy, especially for those who are first-timers. It is going to entail sleepless nights and tiring days. Your life is surely going to take a 360-degree shift. There are even some instances wherein you might question your … Read more


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My history and experience in the funeral profession started at a very young age helping and working in our local funeral home. I've been a licensed funeral director for nearly 40 years. And with each firm we partner with, I treat it exactly like I was taught at a young age. I was fortunate to have four mentors during my apprenticeship that showed me how a funeral home was to be run. B. James Doerksen, Michael Garcia, Vic Wiens and Lee Edwards were the epitome of great funeral directors…It was those four men that gave me a great foundation.
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Is there any Net Asset Value (NAV) record date for the sale and purchase of mutual fund?No, there is no record date for NAV declaration.
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No, there is no record date for NAV declaration. The applicable NAV for purchases and sale will be as per the SEBI stipulated cut-off time. Currently, the cut-off time for mutual funds is 3 pm in the offline mode, 1 pm for liquid schemes, and 2.30 pm on the online platform (for all schemes).


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LaVonda Atkinson, the cost engineer for the Central Subway project, this year filed a complaint with the city's whistle-blower program alleging serious lapses in accounting procedures and unethical behavior on the $1.578 billion project. Among her more disturbing charges reported to SF Weekly:
• A Muni official, in writing, acknowledges plugging a "make-up #" into a federally reported document in order to maintain the desired total budget: a "make-up #" $30 million off from the data within that very document and $43 million greater than the prior month's reported total.
• Atkinson claims she was instructed to override computer formulas and manually reduce cost variances to zero — obscuring millions of dollars of month-to-month reassignments of budgets and expenditures, often on projects completed as long ago as 2010. As such, budgets are retroactively altered to match actual expenditures, and then the alterations themselves are hidden by zeroing them out.
• There is a $40 million gap between the figure Muni reports to the city controller and what it reports to the Federal Transit Administration regarding its spending on preliminary engineering.
• A $17.1 million computer program purchased, explicitly, for budgeting the Central Subway project is going unused — in favor of Microsoft Excel.


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Cincinnati Steampunk Salon – June 7th, 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Aether, rejoice, for the June Salon is almost upon us! As mentioned yesterday, The Band of Pirates will be the featured performers this month, but we will also be joined by DJ Nymphoma.
DJ Nymphoma (aka Nicodemus Blasko) can regularly be found each Wednesday at The Mad Frog "spinning" great goth and industrial tunes for the weekly Absolution nights, and we're thrilled to have him run the Salon's dance floor this weekend.
If you've still yet to attend the new style Cincinnati Steampunk Salon at Molly Malone's (112 East Fourth Street, Covington, KY 41011) here's what you can expect. We start at 8PM with silent movies projected on the wall, while people mingle, chat, drink, and order food from the bar; a couple of vendors will be there with steampunk shiny things as well. This month we will be drawing the winner of the Pin Give Away draw. Around 10:30PM to 11PM the band will take the stage; about midnight, the guest DJ takes over to conclude the night with a couple of hours of dancing. Typically Molly Malone's starts closing around 1:30AM . . .
While many will attend in Steampunk attire, it is not required; we're just happy that you decided to come out and join us for the neoVictorian fun. Please note that unlike Arnold's (our previous location), Molly Malone's is a 21+ establishment.
RSVP to our Facebook Event Page to see who else is going this month 🙂
There is NO COVER CHARGE for the Salon, but please be ready to donate to the pass of the hat for our performers.
Thank you to Cosgrave Studios for capturing the fun and larks of the May Salon.


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Looking for gift ideas for an oboist? It's not easy to gift players of this tonally complex and unique orchestral instrument. We identified eleven ideas to point you in the right direction:
1. Book: Oboe Art and Method
It's no secret the Oboe is a difficult instrument to play, which is all the more reason Oboists love to hear advice from experts on topics ranging from sound production to reed maintenance. You can find all that and more in "Oboe Art and Method" by Martin Schuring, professor of music at Arizona State University. Readers praise the book's practical tips that improve everyday playing – and the clear, succinct writing style that makes it accessible to all players.
2. A quality reed case
Oboe players often use generic, black cases from local music stores to keep their reeds. While practical, your Oboe player will appreciate an upgrade. We recommend this attractively priced Swiss, wooden case by Oboes.ch
3. Masters of the Oboe CD
This CD is packed with solos by a variety the top worldwide professionals. Musicians love comparing the best players against each other, many of whom they will know by name—or perhaps even met— if they've been playing long enough.
4. Oboe Solos
After listening to Oboe Masters show off their artistry, your Oboe player will want to make some noise herself. Oboe Solos: Everybody's Favorite Series has a wide selection of solos both written for Oboe and transcribed from other instruments. It suites a variety of playing levels from intermediate to college and professional.
5. Oboe necklace
Carrying an oboe case around isn't much of a conversation starter. But don an Oboe necklace and everyone will be curious to learn more — except maybe the flute players. While Oboe players may be on the shy side, help her (or him!) show pride in the instrument with a small, tasteful necklace.
6. Oboe stand
For the practical and/or accident prone, keep the oboe safe and sturdy with a stand. Whether you want easy access to the instrument at home or off your lap in a long rehearsal, you'll get your mileage out of it and then some.
7. Book: Oboe Reed Styles
For the true oboe fanatics out there, Oboe Reed Styles will satisfy the never ending quest to craft the perfect reed. This book is a one-of-a-kind study of 166 different reeds produced by 80 different players. What really makes this book a must have are the clear photographs clearly outlining each style. Your oboe player will not put it down.
8. Oboe wall poster
We recommend this classy poster that puts the Oboe into context of its broader reed family, helping the Oboist feel less alone in the world – while revitalizing any dowdy bedroom, college dorm or, with a nice frame, a living room.
9. #Oboe water bottle
Musicians, especially wind players, need to stay hydrated while playing. It's common for professionals to have a bottle of water in rehearsals and concerts. Help your oboe player out with this elegant #oboe water bottle.
10. Cat playing oboe tee
A must-have for any feline friendly oboe players, this cute t-shirt will knock his or her socks off. Available in five colors and in both genders.
11. Oboe earrings
These wonderfully detailed oboe earrings will add that extra touch of class to her concert attire. Everyone in the band or orchestra will be fawning over these little pewter-cast gems.
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This Los Angeles Artist Thanks Alan Watts For His Newly Released Single
Sunni Colon is a Los Angeles based singer that is driven by love on his newest single "Little Things." Accompanied with a funk-jazz influenced production by the Canadian DJ Kaytranada, this is a summer evening jam.
While crooning over the funkadelic produced track, Sunni said that the "lyrics stem from mindfulness while living in this beautiful yet chaotic world." During the time of writing the single, he tapped into Alan Watts' music and would only listen to him play guitar.
The artist mentions an Alan Watts quote that he recalls every time he would get caught up into "bullshit."
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." Have a listen to the full single below.


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We actually had school last Monday to make up one of our snow days so far, and were apparently the only school in the county who met on Prez Day. But thanks to yesterday's storm, we got a 3-day weekend in February anyhoo. :-)
Usually February is my bluest month. But this Feb wasn't as bad as the past couple ones have been. I even managed to go somewhere for a weekend! Usually when I make weekend plans for Feb, I wind up getting sick, or having piss-poor weather to drive through, or just wind up not being in the mood to socialize. But last weekend, I headed north to visit elsaf and spend a couple of days with her and judiang.
The original plan was to stay till Monday, but the rescheduled school day put paid to that idea. So instead I drove up Friday and left on Sunday. I had hoped to stay until after lunch on Sunday, but Michigan decided it wanted a February snow storm, and I timed the departure to give me the best weather for the drive down. I left at noon and only got a bit of snow in Toledo and a small amount of sleet in Findlay (which I mostly missed by eating lunch in Findlay).
Our one full day together allowed us to have lunch at Uncle Harry's deli (mmmm, matzo ball soup and sauerkraut sandwich! - it was a vegetarian Reuben, so basically a sauerkraut sandwich and it was very yummy!) and see The King's Speech. We all agreed it was an excellent film. That evening, Elsa christened her kitchen proper (our main reason for the visit) by cooking us and her bro & sil some lamb shanks, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and pear halves cooked in Merlot and served with ice cream. Excellent meal and actually not too bad for Weight Watchers Points (as best as I could determine).
Anyway, March starts this week, which means that Winter still isn't over and could dish us out other days off if it so decides. But we're even closer to Spring (and Spring Break for that matter), which is a very good thing indeed.


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This guarantee extends to the Customer, within thirty (30) days after the date of purchase, a refund of 200% of the difference between a current locally-advertised lower price on a similar make/model tire and the price of a tire purchased from a Wheel Works company-owned store. Customer must provide a current local advertisement. This guarantee excludes clearances, closeouts, catalogs and internet quotes. This refund is not to be combined with any other offer or used to reduce outstanding debt.
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At Wheel Works, our goal is complete customer satisfaction. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the service you received or our nationwide limited warranty, please contact the Manager of the store you visited. You may also contact Customer Retention toll free at 800-33-WORKS.
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We promise that the services we perform will be fixed right the first time. If the automotive repair or service was performed improperly, then we will re-perform the service at no additional charge to you, during the established warranty period.
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We value your time. If your vehicle is not ready at the time we promised, we will offer a 10% discount on your next purchase (discount cannot exceed $25.00) which is valid at any company-owned Wheel Works Store. The subsequent second visit must occur within one year of the original service. This discount can not be used to reduce outstanding debt.
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Most parts and services purchased at Wheel Works are covered by a minimum of twelve (12) months or 12,000 miles, whichever comes first, with some parts and services carrying a different warranty. Some exclusions may apply; please see details below. Warranties apply to parts installed and service performed on private passenger vehicles. This warranty is valid at company-owned Wheel Works locations.
Auto parts which prove to be unserviceable during the warranty period will be replaced free of any additional charge for parts or labor, except as noted under "Exclusions", below.
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(for workmanship and material related issues)
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Service Includes: Brake System Flush and Clean / Adjust Rear Axle (if applicable)
|24 Months / 24,000 Miles
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and Brake Installation Hardware (1)
|Lifetime (1)
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|Shocks and Struts
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|Steering & Suspension Parts
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|Lifetime Wheel Balance (3)
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Other Service Warranty Exclusions: Replacement of anti-freeze or clamps is not included in the warranty on belts/radiator hoses. Cost of refrigerant and recharging of the air conditioning system is not included with the warranty on air conditioner parts or air conditioner compressors. Cost of additional brake system components, including rotors and drums and/or labor to restore Brake System to its safe proper operation is not included with the warranty on Brake Shoes, Disc Pads, Calipers and/or Wheel Cylinders and all other hardware. Batteries are covered by a separate warranty from the manufacturer.
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Tires purchased at Wheel Works are covered by a Manufacturer's Limited Warranty from workmanship and material related issues. Tires may also be covered by a Supplemental Mileage Limited Warranty which varies by tire brand and model. Information about these tire warranties is provided separately at the time of purchase.
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Revolution Of Rising Expectations
As a teacher and unionist, I have listened to my colleagues for more than 25 years describe their hopes and aspirations for their profession and union. The emerging consensus includes learner-centered schools, shared communitywide accountability, a more genuine teaching profession, and a union that acts as an agent for reform as well as an advocate for doing right by kids.
Any vision is only a pipe dream unless created twice: first in the mind and then in the real world. If we can envision it, then we can also achieve it. What follows is my attempt to envision the ideal school culture 10 years hence, to paint a picture of a reformed profession and teachers' union. I should point out that many are already hard at work building such a tomorrow today.
In my vision, teachers are paid and treated like true professionals. Because they are closest to the classroom and to the students, they have the most authority, the most status, and the most money. They command salaries and have working conditions comparable to those of other professions with similar educational requirements and societal importance. Teachers have their own offices, office hours, secretaries, and telephones; they even have unrestricted access to the copying machine. They no longer lament that they love to teach but hate their jobs.
Teachers know their students well and how to teach them effectively. They are generalists first and specialists in their own disciplines second. They are experts in child and adolescent development and adult learning. They are knowledgeable about, and sensitive to, the racial, class, and gender diversity of the environment in which they teach, and the ranks of educators are representative of that diversity.
New teachers do not have to learn their jobs in solitude by trial and error. Novices are inducted into the profession with assistance from mentors--experienced and expert colleagues who guide rookies' initial steps in teaching. Through professional practice schools, the world of teaching is connected to teacher preparation; there is no longer a wide gulf between theory and practice.
A National Board for Professional Teaching Standards makes judgments about what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do and certifies those who meet these high standards. Two-thirds of the members of this national board are themselves board-certified teachers elected by their peers. Emergency, provisional, and temporary teaching licenses have no more validity than would emergency medical licenses, provisional architect licenses, or temporary attorney licenses. All teachers are fully prepared for practice. Professional standards, developed by teachers, are now routinely upheld through peer review. The consensus among teachers is that no one knows the difference between good teaching and bad teaching better than the best teachers themselves.
With increased collegiality, teachers have broken the isolation that had historically characterized their professional existence. Through exchange programs, teachers spend time teaching in other settings and levels. There are continuous conversations between teachers of different levels and disciplines. Teachers have the time to collaborate, learn from each other, and plan together--not as an afterthought on weekends or at the end of a long day's work but during the actual workday.
Teachers' work is matched appropriately with their respective stage of development in the profession. Those with the greatest experience and highest level of expertise teach the most challenging assignments. Teachers can be promoted in teaching without being simultaneously promoted out of teaching. They can achieve higher pay, more responsibilities, and greater autonomy without abandoning the classroom.
Teachers, not textbook publishers, have control over the curriculum. Teachers play a central role in developing and maintaining rigorous and uniform standards for student learning. They also control professional standards, professional practice, the hiring of colleagues and administrators, and their own professional development. They have the time to think systematically about their work--constantly learning, discussing, assessing, and adjusting their practice. They don't stop learning when they start teaching. They continually review and question their own practice and that of their colleagues. They contribute to research and validate the research of others. Their discourse is informed by examples in other schools, countries, fields, and sectors of society.
Unexamined educational tradition has now yielded to reflective practice that is both responsible and responsive to students' needs. Lecturing occurs only occasionally and usually to large groups of students, freeing colleagues for small group seminars and other activities. Because teachers spend less time lecturing, they spend more time guiding, facilitating, and supporting what students do--provoking students to learn how to learn and how to teach themselves.
Bureaucratic adherence to rules and regulations has been replaced by accountability to the clients--students and their parents. "Doing right by kids'' is the moral imperative for teachers. If students are not learning the way that teachers teach, then teachers teach the way students learn. They also nurture their students' readiness to learn. They serve as advisers to small groups of students. They meet with these students each day and ensure that there is effective communication between the school and home. They stay with their students for more than one year. This guarantees that there is an informed context for every need that arises for each student. Teachers recognize that teaching kids must be preceded by reaching kids, since they do not care how much we know until they know how much we care.
Teachers are respected and valued as experts on teaching and learning. They live up to such expectations by continuously reflecting on their work and by employing knowledge that is research-based and validated by practice. Teaching has become so attractive as a profession that graduates from medical schools, law schools, and engineering schools prepare and apply to teach in our schools.
The teachers' union has changed in tandem with the profession. In fact, the union is responsible for many of the reforms that have transformed schools and education. It has accomplished these changes by working with other partners whenever possible and by promoting reform without permission when necessary.
Instead of two major teachers' unions, there is now one merged organization that acts as an advocate for all of America's educators and all of their students. Features of industrial unionism have yielded to changes that offer the promise of making public education more effective. The scope of collective bargaining, for example, has been extended to include negotiations on professional issues--in addition to wages, benefits, and working conditions. The union now promotes such practices and dynamics as peer review, differentiated staffing and pay, public school choice, professional accountability, the transfer of teachers based on criteria other than seniority alone, and the involvement of parents, students, and peers in teacher evaluations.
Considering itself to be the voice of professional practitioners, the union now spends as much energy and resources on the professional needs of its members as it does on collective bargaining, contract enforcement, economic benefits, and other basic traditional union functions. Recognizing that the welfare of the union and its members hinges on the effectiveness of the profession and industry within which it exists, the teachers' union has formalized its commitment to reform.
This new teachers' union considers unionism and professionalism as complementary and not mutually exclusive. It helps its members become agents of reform rather than the passive targets of reform; it views the negotiated contract as the floor and not the ceiling for what union members are willing to do for students; and it acts as the guardian of professional and educational standards.
Change does not come easily. The problem with today's schools is not that they are no longer as good as they once were but rather that they are precisely as they always were, while the needs of our students and society have changed significantly. Reform--the translation of vision into reality--is a search. Along the way, there will be false starts, wrong turns, negative findings, and pain. But the pangs of adjustment are evidence that the changes are real.
We can succeed if we are passionate about change and commit for the long haul. But to do that, we first must instigate among our colleagues a revolution of rising expectations and create a vision that inspires others to aspire to more. Then we must do the hard work that is unavoidable when the agenda is so ambitious. And when we succeed, we will have built a more genuine teaching profession for ourselves and more effective schools for all of our students.
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Well, the year has come and gone, and I managed to track all of my mileage. I'm really in love with Strava – I love all the stats that come with it. Years ago, I used DailyMile, and I appreciated the social aspects, but I don't need a purely social tracker. However, with Strava, I get all sorts of great data and tracking PLUS the social aspects. Let's be honest – social pressure does help keep some of us motivated.
The bigger thing Strava showed me was the amount of time I spent working out this year – 279 hours – over 11 and a half days!
December Totals
Swim: 3.2 miles
Bike: 191 miles
Run: 3.2 miles
Yeah, that run mileage is low. I didn't talk about it much, but I've been battling something in my left hip/glute/hamstring/quad since before Space Coast. I had issues with my 6 mile run before the race, then the race went fine til I screwed up my right soleus. So I had to give that time to heal – and then when I tried to get back to running, my left leg started giving me trouble again. It's been incredibly frustrating, and a whirlwind of emotions. I started to worry that maybe I had a stress fracture in my hip. Given how things are going, I'm thinking it's probably hamstring, but I'm not taking this mildly. I've been going to physical therapy, and I'm also going to see an orthopedist, just to be sure this isn't something more. But things are looking up. (At least today – I'll probably have another meltdown that I'm broken in the next week or so.)
2017 Totals
Swim: 46.8 miles
Bike: 2059 miles
Run: 478.2 miles
So I didn't make my run goal this year – and I admit, it kills me to be less than 25 miles short. But stepping back was the smart move. It's better to be healthy than to make some arbitrary goal.


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Freshman guard Edgar Sosa scored a career-high 22, including 10 straight late in the second half, to lead Louisville to a 74-71 win over Ohio in the opening game of the NABC Classic on Friday.
Terrence Williams added 12 points, eight assists and six rebounds as the Cardinals (3-2) withstood a late push by the Bobcats (4-2) to remain undefeated at Freedom Hall this season.
Sonny Troutman led the Bobcats with 22 and Jerome Tillman had 18 points and 13 rebounds, but the Bobcats couldn't pull off the upset after erasing a 16-point deficit.
"Coach got on us at halftime and told us to take the open shot," Sosa said. "Coach told us at halftime it was going to be a tight game, going down to the wire. He called it. They wouldn't go away. Once we got it to 13, I thought we would take it to 20, maybe 30, but they're a tough team. They kept fighting."
Louisville appeared ready to pull away after it went on a 16-3 run early in the second half to put the Cardinals up 51-35. But the Bobcats rallied to get within 56-55 with 5:42 to play.
Sosa took over from there, hitting a pair of 3-pointers, a couple of free throws and a pretty runner in the lane.
WILLIAM & MARY 61, NORTH FLORIDA 44: Nathan Mann scored 13 - including six during a 23-5 run that broke open a close game in the second half - to lead the Tribe (4-4) over the visiting Ospreys (1-8). The game was tied at 34 with 11:43 to play before Kyle Carrabine hit a 3 to start the game-deciding scoring spree for the Tribe. Mann's two free throws capped the spurt, making it 57-39 with 1:52 left. Chris Timberlake scored 15 for the Ospreys.
Wooden won't travel
After a lot of travel recently, John Wooden plans to skip next week's doubleheader in his home state of Indiana. The 96-year-old former UCLA coach was in Anaheim, Calif., for festivities surrounding today's John R. Wooden Classic doubleheader, featuring No. 1 UCLA, Texas A&M, George Washington and Southern Cal.
"I don't get around very well and I probably should stay home more," he said.
On Dec. 16, the John R. Wooden Tradition in Indianapolis features No. 5 Ohio State, No. 15 Butler, Cincinnati and Purdue.