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YES. The simplest of words, but one that Lance Armstrong had never been able to say whenever he was faced with doping allegations. However, when the 41-year-old Texan answered ''yes'' to each of Oprah Winfrey's first five questions in her much-anticipated exclusive interview with him, it was a giant step towards reaching a final resolution to the biggest doping scandal in world sport.
Don't be mistaken. By no means is this the end of the Armstrong story - the repercussions of his interview with Winfrey will be far reaching. This is not just a doping story, but a human story extending beyond sport, considering the litany of lives that have been left in tatters because of it.
And because of that complexity, the interview did raise questions, or at least concerns about how much Armstrong is still keeping close to his chest. Whether that is by will or for legal reasons is not yet clear - the jury will remain out, with some believing it is both.
The first instalment of the two-part interview, aired on the Discovery Channel and on Winfrey's OWN network, was intriguing nonetheless.
Held in a hotel in his home town of Austin, Texas, it began with good pace and purpose, with Winfrey asking Armstrong: ''Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance'', to which he replied: ''Yes.'' Armstrong then repeated the same word he had found so difficult to utter in years past when asked if he had ever used erythropoietin (EPO), testosterone, human growth hormones and cortisone, and if he had even taken blood transfusions en route to winning seven straight Tours de France from 1999 to 2005. To all of them, Armstrong replied: ''Yes.''
He only stopped when Winfrey asked, ''if it was humanly possible to win the Tour de France without doping seven times in a row''. He paused, then replied: ''Not in my opinion.''
Later, he denied doping during his comeback from 2009 to 2011, during which he raced the Tour twice more without winning. ''The last time I crossed the line, that line, was 2005.''
Nevertheless, for a story that has become so large and complex and could yet still end up back in the courts, it was inevitable the 2½-hour interview would raise more questions than answers - questions many observers hope will be answered in part two, which will air on Saturday at 1pm.
We still need to hear more about his associations with the International Cycling Union (UCI). Many will hope he has more to say on that in part two. At one stage, Armstrong tripped up on Friday, fuelling continued doubts about some of his answers. When asked about a donation he made to the UCI in 2005 to help anti-doping, he said he it had happened after he had retired. That's partly true - Armstrong made two donations to the world body, the first in May 2002, when he was still a rider.
It is also a concern that Armstrong defended Italian doctor Michele Ferrari - who was one of five other former associates of the American who were charged with him by USADA and banned for life. Armstrong said Ferrari was a person of noble character, and denied he was the mastermind behind doping on the US Postal Services team. Armstrong also rejected the charge the UCI covered up a positive drug test from the 2001 Tour of Switzerland.
It was interesting to hear Armstrong admit to doping and to watch him try to convince viewers he accepts his guilt. ''I made my decisions. They're my mistakes,'' he said. ''And I'm sitting here today [the interview was recorded on Monday] to acknowledge that and to say I'm sorry for that.''
Sure, many believe that's the mindset of a doper - that everyone does it, so why not me. Trouble is, some riders were strong enough not to follow the same path - take, for instance, Frenchman Christophe Bassons, who was more or less driven out of the sport when he ran foul of Armstrong.
It is worrying that Armstrong said he never viewed doping as cheating during his riding years. Asked if he ever felt bad or wrong about doping, he flatly told Winfrey: ''No.'' He went on: ''[One day] I went in and I just looked up the definition of cheat. And the definition of cheat is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe, you know, that they don't have or that they - you know, I didn't do it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field.''
But as the undisputed king of world cycling, Armstrong's authority in the peloton could have forced change had he wanted it, too - especially with his strong personality. But as much as he said on Friday that he regrets it now, Armstrong did not see it as his culture to change. ''I didn't invent the culture,'' he said. ''But I didn't try to stop the culture, and that's my mistake and that's what I have to be sorry for, and the sport is now paying the price because of that.''
It remains to be seen how sincere he really was. That will take time, considering how far and wide his deceit and betrayal has stretched. He knows it too.
''This is too late,'' he said. ''It's too late probably for most people and that's my fault. I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.''
As careful as he was with his confessions, it was clear he felt uncomfortable on several issues, in particular the involvement of Ferrari, who was on the US Anti-Doping Agency charge sheet with Armstrong. He also wrestled with questions that related to claim he had threatened riders with sack from his team if they did not dope.
Armstrong baulked and paused in his answers. Placing his hand on his heart might have been a subconscious reinforcement of his desire to be seen as sincere. Steering the interview to his family upbringing resuscitated him again. But even he finally conceded he was a bully. ''I was a bully in the sense that I tried to control the narrative, and if I didn't like what somebody said … I tried to control that and say that's a lie, they're liars,'' he said.
Armstrong, at least, recognised that he owed an apology to Emma O'Reilly, his former soigneur on the US Postal Services team for his treatment of her.
But he was also unwilling to speak in depth about his broken relations with Betsy Andreu, the wife of his former teammate Frankie Andreu whom Armstrong smeared publicly for her claims of drugs use. All he would say was that he had spoken to them both recently in an attempt to mend the bridges. He conceded that a 40-minute talk could not achieve that, but also admitted that: ''I did call her crazy. I did.'' But he insisted that he had never called her ''fat.''
The line of aggrieved parties would be very long in the aftermath of the US Anti-Doping Agency's evidence compiled to support the doping and trafficking charges against Armstrong, and its ''reasoned decision'' to ban him for life and strip him of all his results since August 1, 1998. And Armstrong knows they will start lining up soon, if they have not already following the tempered contrition he showed on Friday to those he wronged.
Little wonder he admitted that if he could turn time back he would co-operate with the USADA investigation as did 11 former teammates who testified. Little wonder that as Armstrong pursues the path that he has paved before him with his confession and that he hopes will end with redemption from the public and a reduction of his life ban, he said: ''If there was a truth and reconciliation commission … and I'm invited, I'll be the first man in the door.''
Truth is, it might take a long time for Armstrong, who said he knew he was not ''the most believable'' person in the world, to be invited back anywhere.
When the US Department of Justice dropped its investigation into him last February, Armstrong said the thought he was ''out of the woods''.
He still isn't …
Rupert Guinness is a Sports Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald

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A man arrested after neighbors interrupted what Taft Police are calling a daylight burglary attempt has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Nikolas Stroud Hodges entered a plea of no contest to one count of burglary Thursday in Taft branch of Kern County Superior Court.
Terms of the plea agreement were not disclosed.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 27.
Hodges was arrested by police on Sept. 29 when the responded to a report of a man kicking a door down at the Creekside Apartments on the 400 block of Finley Drive.
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With just minutes to go before the keynote at WWDC, reports are showing that there are 2 massive banners covered with black cloths.
There are 3 confirmed banners on display at WWDC, displaying the much-anticipated iCloud logo, iOS5 and OSX Lion, but what are under these black cloths?
Could this be a 'one more thing' at the end of the presentation? iPhone 4S? iPhone 5? Something More?
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Fall softball is a dress rehearsal for the spring and Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman likes what she is seeing from some of the newest members of her cast.
Saturday afternoon at Draper Diamond the Lady Bisons beat Belmont 5-2 in an eight-inning game and 4-0 in a seven-inning nightcap. The scores meant little, but Ryman was impressed with the performances of a trio of freshmen - Brittany Elmore, Mickey Bell and Tanner Sanders.
Elmore played all three outfield positions and also spent some time at second base. But where she really got noticed was at the plate where she was the lead-off batter in both games.
"Brittany is going to be a table setter for us," Ryman said. "She uses all her tools well. She can bunt, slap or hit away. She found a lot of ways to get on base and really sparked us. She made things happen that eventually led to runs.
"She has great speed. She is the typical type to be a lead-off hitter."
Bell caught 13 innings and has been the workhorse behind the plate this fall as Haley Elliott continues to recover from shoulder surgery.
"Mickey did a really nice job behind the plate," Ryman said. "She blocked several balls and threw at least one girl out. She handled it well."
Sanders, a freshman pitcher, threw six shutout innings against Belmont.
"We have to keep working with her to be smart with her pitches as the game goes on," Ryman said. "She is working extremely hard. She is very, very coachable. She is taking it all in."
Junior college transfer pitcher Heather Parker threw three innings.
"Heather is a very competent pitcher," Ryman said. "She will throw more as the fall goes on.
"We are trying to work with her to stay consistent with her pitches. We want her to get the movement that she needs out of her pitches. She has taken some big strides for us."
Ashley Anderson threw the final two innings of game one and the first four innings of game two. Both pitching coach Paige Cassady and Ryman wanted to see Anderson take a more aggressive approach on the mound.
"We don't want Ashley to be timid or nervous," Ryman said. "She came out and threw very aggressively.
"We need all three of our pitchers to be able to contribute and contribute a lot. We like where they are at and the direction they are going. We just have to keep moving forward."
Ryman wants to see her Lady Bisons be more aggressive at the plate. They appear to be listening to what she is saying.
"I thought on the whole we put the ball in play well," Ryman said. "We didn't have many strikeouts which was good to see.
"We have talked a lot about attacking the ball. We want them to do their thinking in the batting cage and let their instincts take over on the field. We did a good job of adjusting to different situations.
"There are a lot of things we definitely need to work on. But, overall, we had a pretty good day."
The Lady Bisons head across town to Tennessee State for a doubleheader starting at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11. They are back at Draper Diamond Oct. 13 when Middle Tennessee visits for a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m..
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LOVELAND, Colo.—Two Loveland churches are working to transform the secular into the sacred.
Volunteers and staffers from Bent Tree Church were pulling out the bar and dismantling the beer pong area at a former nightclub.
Gone also are the mirrors and gold trim from the all-black walls, 30 couches, about 300 empty liquor bottles and countless shot glasses, said the Rev. Paul Trimble, pastor of Bent Tree.
Trimble announced to his congregation that the church had leased the building. It conducted its first worship service there Feb. 3.
Another Loveland congregation, Foundations Church, also is in the planning stages for the remodel of a local entertainment venue, the former MetroLux 12-screen theater.
In December 2011, 15 members of Foundations bought the long-vacant building at 1380 N. Denver Ave. for the church to use as its new home. The church is in the process of buying it from the members, according to elder board member Scott Mead.
"We're trying to get our arms around what it's going to cost to move in," said Mead, who added that the church has hired an architect and a general contractor.
A capital campaign launched last spring has a preliminary goal of $2 million, he said.
On a typical weekend, the church's three services draw about 1,350 adults and another 300-plus children, Mead said. Phase 1 of the renovation would incorporate a seating capacity of 1,100.
"We've always seen that old MetroLux building as a bit of an eyesore," Mead said. "If there was a way to use that building for good in the community, wouldn't that be a good and God-honoring thing?"
The two nondenominational Loveland churches are less than 3 years old and were formed by pastors who previously had served at Loveland's Crossroads Church. And both have been renting space in high schools in Loveland for their weekly services.
"This will allow us to do ministry seven days a week there," said Trimble, whose Bent Tree had been conducting its worship services at Loveland High School and leasing an office in Palmer Gardens. The rent on the new building is less than the cost of the other two spaces, he said.
The permanent location will serve as a launch pad for Bent Tree, Trimble said, where the goal is to send out teams of pastors and members to plant new Bent Trees in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and other Front Range cities.
"Our long-term goal is to grow and multiply the church—multiple locations, one church," he said. "I'd love to be a megachurch in a lot of small locations."
About 300 people call Bent Tree their church home, Trimble said.
The building just north of the city limits has a long and checkered history as an entertainment venue.
The facility, built in 1970, was home to Western States Construction until 1995, when Drake resident Jerry Shaffer opened the White Buffalo Saloon and Dancehall there as a place for his Jerry Shaffer and the Darn Thirsty Cowboys to perform. The country band had traveled the country, often opening for national acts, but the members wanted to come home, Shaffer said in a previous interview.
Shaffer struggled with noise complaints from his neighbors and closed the White Buffalo in 2006. Since then it has housed the Yukon, Daisy Duke's, Phaze nightclub and then Phaze Event Center and most recently Inferno Event Center.
Over the years it has hosted nationally known bands, local acts and charity fundraisers, in addition to burlesque shows, male revues, bikini Jell-O wrestling and cage fights.
Trimble said Shaffer and his wife, Eileen, still own the building. "They leased it out to a series of bar owners, and it became pretty unsavory," Trimble said.
Conveniently, the Shaffers attend Bent Tree. "They reached out to us and said, 'We would really like for this to be a church if possible,'" he said.
Trimble said he hopes to someday buy the building and make it the church's permanent home.
He said rather than be put off by the building's past, "it made me want to do it."
"The idea is taking a place that the enemy used, in our opinion, to destroy individuals and families, and we would hope that God can use this as a place to reunite families and where people can find hope and love and purpose, and find Jesus," Trimble said.


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Microsoft is the dominant technology supplier across the entire information technology spectrum. Microsoft has approximately 60% market share in the installed server market, and approximately 90% in the desktop operating system market. Other sources provide estimates that are higher.
The heart of Microsoft's business server technology centers around a distributed network directory service called Microsoft Active Directory. Comparing the network directory service-centric focus with the number of sites that really need it, the question should be asked if there is an excessive preoccupation with this technology compared with needs of the market as a whole. In other words, 0.18% of all customers may need a directory service, yet 100% of Microsoft's server technology is predicated upon using it. Why is this so?
Technicians are easily excited over new technologies, and the more complex the subject may be, the more interesting it is to the technician, and the more confounding the impact on the uninitiated. Has the IT world allowed itself to be derailed with needless complexity? Linux does not need a directory service to satisfy the needs of 99.8% of the market place. Why does Microsoft Windows need it? While that question was a digression, it is a vital question all the same.
Since Table 1 shows that 0.18% of all customers (the percentage of 500-plus employee companies) account for 7.67% of servers sold, it is understandable that there should be strong competition in the enterprise market segment. But that does not adequately answer why it should dominate IT practices to the exclusion of any significant market presence for Linux vendors outside of this segment. Most of the IT world's needs can be met with simple, non-complex IT solutions. Should we not first strive to take care of our bases, before attempting to build castles in the sky?
The world is preoccupied with the need for Linux to achieve a dominant share of the high-end server market as the acid-test of being enterprise-ready. The mental assertion being that when Linux reaches maturity in the enterprise market place (500+ users per company) it will magically be ready for the market as a whole. This patently ignores the fact that small sites do not have the same complexity of needs as exists in the enterprise market.
There are approximately 50,000 enterprise-class companies in the world. Of these, a number have complex information technology needs, but certainly not all. If IT press reports regarding successful IT businesses are to be believed, the complex needs of enterprise class companies determine development objectives for the major IT vendors for all market segments. In practice of course, companies such as IBM and HP do produce products that are carefully designed to meet the needs of specific market segments--witness for example the HP OfficeJet all-in-one office fax, printer, and scanner product line.
Red Hat Software, SuSE, Caldera, Novell, TurboLinux, LinuxCare, and their peers in 1998-2000 were all focused on gaining credibility in the enterprise market place. It is a sad reality that every major IT company has its primary focus in the same puddle. IBM, HP, Dell, Intel, AMD, and Gateway are well aware that the bulk of profitable business is derived from a more mundane source--the small to medium business (SMB) market and the lower end of the small to medium enterprise (SME) market.
If the enterprise market is the only one that can be profitable, it is to be expected that a concentration of competitive activity should be observed. Perhaps it is necessary to consider a few additional factors so that the wisdom of the present fiasco can be better understood. Perhaps we shall see that the most profitable market has not yet been tapped.


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Torture Scene Cut from Splinter Cell: Blacklist
After negative reaction to the tone of torture scenes in Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ubisoft Toronto has decided to remove them.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist producer Andrew Wilson discussed some changes coming to the sequel with Eurogamer. Chief among the adjustments being made to the game is the removal of the more uncomfortably violent interrogations showcased during the E3 2012 demo of Blacklist. Though Wilson defended the choice to show off a more action-intensive sequence during E3, even he agreed some mature content needed to be toned down.
"The first thing I'd say about that is that possibly there was missing context - and in an unabridged snapshot, it seemed like pretty tough material," said Wilson. "We've scaled a lot of that back, and as we've gone through the process of development there are always things that you feel are not working as well. Every game does this, and cuts certain things."
Asked if that meant the torture would be taken out of the game entirely, Wilson replied, "Definitely we are not going to see when the game's coming out that there are torture scenes in it. That scene is not there any more. I've not really heard anyone say they loved it..."
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I'm Dylan, the newest member of G4 Station! I'm actually a chef by profession, but I'm taking a break from the kitchen till I start culinary school in February in Melbourne. I'm really really looking forward to Melbourne! I absolutely LOVE that place! So meanwhile, here I am part-timing at G4, hoping to make friends from all over the globe!
I'm an avid football fan! I've been watching and playing football since I was 10! My teams are Manchester United, Barcelona and Brazil. I'm hoping for Brazil to win the World Cup this year and add another star to the 5 they already have on their jersey. I prefer playing Futsal to the usual 11-a-side game. Futsal is a 5-a-side game that is usually played indoors on a hard court, using a special size 4 ball that doesn't bounce. It relies on pace and a lot of skills. I prefer it mainly because you get tea ball at your feet a lot more than the 11-a-side game.
Besides football, I also do Aggressive Inline Rollerblading. It is the kind where we grind, spin and do flips. I've been doing it since 2002 and I will only stop the day my legs can no longer support me. Most of the time you can find me either at Somerset skatepark or East Coast skatepark. I try to rollerblade about 3-4 times a week. It's my other form of exercise besides football.
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The Fort Myers man who masterminded the burglary that led to the fatal shooting of former University of Miami star safety Sean Taylor will be serving life in prison.
Jurors late Tuesday convicted Jason S. Mitchell, 26, of first-degree felony murder and armed burglary.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy immediately sentenced him to life prison, the mandatory prison term for first-degree murder.
Mitchell is the second man to be convicted in the high-profile shooting of Taylor, a Redskins Pro Bowl defensive back who was gunned down inside his Palmetto Bay home in November 2007.
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Earlier this year, the suspected shooter, Eric Rivera, was sentenced to nearly 60 years behind bars.
Also awaiting trial: Charles Wardlow, 24, and Timmy Brown, 22. A fifth defendant, Venjah Hunte, 26, already has pleaded guilty.
"I'm pleased with the verdict," said Pedro Taylor, the Florida City police chief and father of the slain football star. "Still got two more to go."
After more than three hours of deliberations, jurors agreed that Mitchell must be held responsible for the slaying, even though he did not pull the trigger.
Under Florida law, someone who commits certain felonies in which someone dies — in this case, armed burglary — can be found guilty of felony murder. For the burglary, he was sentenced to an additional 40 years in prison.
"He must be treated like he's the person who shot Sean Taylor, if he was one of the people there committing the burglary," prosecutor Reid Rubin told jurors Tuesday.
Prosecutors say Mitchell planned the ill-fated burglary of the home of Taylor, who was home asleep with his girlfriend and their infant daughter.
Taylor confronted the five intruders after one of them kicked in his master bedroom door. Rivera shot him in the leg and he bled to death.
The slaying of the hometown sports legend from Gulliver High shocked South Florida and launched a massive police investigation.
The probe quickly turned to Fort Myers, where investigators soon focused on Mitchell and his pals. He had earlier attended a birthday party at Taylor's Palmetto Bay home for the athlete's sister, Sasha Johnson.
During the four days Mitchell stayed at Taylor's home, the football player even paid the young man to wash his pool deck and mow his lawn.
Johnson last week told jurors that Mitchell, an associate of the woman's boyfriend, witnessed her open a gift from Taylor, $10,000 cash tucked in a purse.
The lure of possible cash hidden in the house spurred Mitchell to later drive to Miami to break into the home, coming up empty-handed. He returned weeks later, but this time with Rivera and three other young men.
On Tuesday, his defense attorney conceded that Mitchell was guilty of burglary – but not of wielding the weapon and shooting Taylor.
"Eric Rivera kicked down the door and shot Sean Taylor on his own. On a whim," lawyer Robert Barrar told the jury.
Rivera, 24, was convicted last fall after jurors, who deliberated 16 hours over four days, could not agree unanimously that Rivera pulled the trigger. Instead, Rivera was convicted of second-degree murder without a firearm and armed burglary.


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We recently had quite a snowstorm and I found myself remembering my dad's frequent quoting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Snowbound". Dad did not often read or quote poetry, but he would say, "Boys! A path!", which comes from that poem. It had obviously amused him once that there would have been a time when that was all a father had to say.
Three words, two nouns and an adjective (indefinite article) , and yet a complete thought. To see if it would still work, I tried it on my son and said, "What would you say if I said to you, 'Boy! A path!'? He is skilled at hyperbole and said that he wouldn't SAY anything, but go make that path by plowing it with my face! Ah! Times have changed.
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Most of the attention paid to concussions this week has had to do with the injuries suffered by quarterbacks Jay Cutler, Alex Smith and Michael Vick.
They weren't the only players to suffer head injuries in Week 10, though. Lions defensive end Cliff Avril, who has 4.5 sacks this season, also wound up with a concussion during the Lions' loss to the Vikings. While he still needs to go through the league-mandated tests before he's cleared to return to the lineup, the team is hopeful that Avril's condition after the game is a sign that he'll be able to play against the Packers.
"He was much improved after the game, probably more so than a lot of the other concussions that we've had," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. "He'll have to go through a protocol to return. But he presented different at the end of the game than some other guys have."
We'll get a better idea of how Avril has progressed when the Lions release their first injury report of the week on Monday. He won't be the only member of the defense to watch closely this week.
Safety Louis Delmas is off of crutches after missing the last two games with a knee injury and the team is also monitoring the conditions of cornerback Chris Houston, safety Amari Spievey and defensive tackle Corey Williams. With the Packers offense finding its stride in the weeks before the bye, Detroit will likely need all the healthy defensive bodies they can rustle up for this week's game.


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Trunk Club's custom team helps Denver guys suit up
Men of Denver: Are you still wearing that same suit you wore to your best friend's bar mitzvah in 2001? If you aren't quite sure whether the answer is yes or no, it's probably time to invest in an updated ensemble.
Shopping for a suit is difficult. Most men aren't exactly sure what size waist they are, what length their pants need to be, how a sportcoat should fit, or what kind of fabric would best suit their lifestyle. And the idea of driving to a mall to sift through racks of wrinkled and baggy slacks and jackets is even more distressing.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just consult with a stylist about what you might need, get measurements taken, and have a suit custom built, just for you? All without stepping foot inside a mall?


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Serenaded by Honeymooners at Boreas Inn!
October 28, 2009 by: Susan Goldsmith
Bill and I have beautiful and unique guests at Boreas Inn, of that, there is no doubt. Do they come for our stuffed pears, our buttery pastries, great coffee, wild mushroom and smoked sturgeon fritattas? Sure they do. Do they come for a dreamy nights' sleep on glorious beds? Yep–they do. Great views, laughter, open space and us, the silly innkeepers….uh huh. But do our guests come to entertain us with exceptional music played just for us at the breakfast table? Very very seldom… Today was such a treat for us. David and Dana Berge, after knowing each other for 30 years, decided to marry last month. They came to Boreas for one night, last night, as part of their ongoing honeymoon. (So sweet!!) We didn't know they were talented musicians and played music with our treasured local resident (well, now he lives across the river…), Hobe Kytr. Dave Berge and Hobe recorded a CD called "Dog Salmon and Rutabagas, Songs of the Northwest". This morning Dana and Dave sang and played "Fisherman's Life" and "Ilwaco Town" and another fine piece on their autoharps. They held a private concert just for Bill and me, impromptu! We were entranced with the picking and the strumming, the beautiful lyrics, and the fact that the music they played for us have meaning to where we live and who we are. Then, winning our hearts even more, they graciously gave us one of the CD's. It was a wonderful trade–we were rewarded by the generosity and grace of these two lovely and talented guests who have found love with each other–we cooked them a great breakfast and gave them a good nights' rest–they played beautiful music together. Such a nice morning. We are grateful to have them as new friends and thankful to Hobe Kytr for sending these very special newlyweds our way. Thank you, Hobe, thank you!


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An ugly court fight between the Kennedy family and the Richardson clan over possession of the body of Robert Kennedy Jr's wife was resolved in favor of the Kennedys on Friday night.
Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide by hanging herself in the couple's Mount Kisco home after bitter divorce proceedings and a severe bout of depression.
Kennedy as next-of-kin wanted her waked in a nearby Kennedy residence and then buried in the Kennedy family plot in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
The Richardson family tried to block Kennedy taking possession of the body by means of a court order. An eleventh hour verdict from a Westchester County judge found in favor of Bobby Kennedy, who then took his wife's remains and held a wake in the house where she died.
The legal battle was waged all day as Mary Kennedy's body was in the possesion of the coroner after a post mortem that showed she died from hanging.
"The body has now been picked up," Donna Greene, a spokeswoman for Westchester County, stated just before the wake, according to the NY Daily News.
"The medical examiner had completed the autopsy yesterday, but a court proceeding was brought by the brother of Mary Richardson as to who would have possession of the body and where the body would go."
Tom Richardson, her brother, was outraged at the way she had been treated in the divorce by Bobby and asked the judge to not grant custody to the Kennedy clan.
The Richardson family believe that she was driven to her death by Kennedy's hardball tactics and repeated use of court maneuveres to win sole custody of their four children.
Richardson family members were still vowing to hold their own family service at the weekend and not attend the Kennedy one.


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"We do it all," said Cranstonian Louis Peters, owner of the Celtic Lounge at Finnegan's Wake in Downtown Providence.
The popular restaurant, located between Trinity Rep and the Providence Performing Arts Center, just two blocks from the Dunkin Donuts Center and surrounded by office buildings, has a varied customer base.
The lunchtime crowd is a loyal cross-section of Downcity office workers, government employees and occasional tourists. Dinner caters to theatre-goers, Providence Bruins and PC fans and customers who have discovered the great comfort food that makes up the huge menu. It is on our list for a meal or snack before or after a Providence Bruins game.
The "After 10" crowd enjoys the atmosphere of a good city bar and lounge, complete with a large selection of beer on tap, including Guinness, Killian and Harp. Local bands, karaoke, a pool table and an upcoming dart league also attract those looking for a fun night out.
Trying to be all things to all people can be a problem for some restaurants, but Peters has found that delicate balance, offering quality restaurant food ("not bar food") at reasonable prices.
Peters kept the well-known "Finnegan's Wake" name, adding "Celtic Lounge" to it. While there are some popular Irish beers and dishes to savor, the establishment is much more than an Irish pub.
On one visit, Joyce enjoyed a blackened shrimp quesadilla with Vermont cheddar ($13.99), while I went Irish with a corned beef brisket and Swiss cheese sandwich ($6.99). Note the word "brisket." This is not your standard deli corned beef. This is corned beef the way it was meant to be cooked: thick, tender and tasty.
Chef Scott Hampson, born and raised in Warwick and now living in Cranston, was mentored by now retired chef Tom Ruggiero, who developed the Governor Francis Inn menu. He has also worked at Bassett's in Warwick and Capriccio's in Providence.
For the past five years, Scott has been creating eclectic menus at the Celtic Lounge. My favorites are his Celtic potato salad, a recipe he admits he "borrowed" from his mother, and a chili to die for. The chili is made with the usual beans and meat but has a touch of carrot and celery that gives it a special flavor. His corn bread comes hot, thin and with a taste that will delight you.
"Everything is made fresh," Hampson said. "We cook a fresh turkey, cut potatoes for our fries and onions for our onion rings, and boil our brisket."
From the calamari appetizer to the fresh-made pizzas and, of course, fish and chips, everything is fresh and served hot. Peter's Syrian mother makes the hummus and has advised him wisely on other "comfort food" items.
The young entrepreneur has big plans for the fall, when the theatre, concert and sports crowds descend on Providence.
Peters is developing a pre-theatre package with a one-page menu, with prompt service that will assure that his patrons will be in their seats before the puck is dropped or the curtain is raised. The function room is being renovated for small parties and special events.
Not only did 38 Studios hurt the state's pocketbook, Peters lost dozens of steady customers who had found a home for lunch and after-work drinks when the employees were let go. His many other "regulars" are still there, and he hopes to find more when the building becomes occupied.
The restaurant caters to families and young children. In fact, it caters to everyone. And you don't have to be Irish.
So, next time you are Downcity stop and say "hello" to Peters and experience fine dining at reasonable prices in a pleasant atmosphere.
They are open weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m; Saturday noon to 2:00 a.m.; SundayNoon to 1:00 a.m. Their phone number is 751-0290.


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Darrow Pond plan is latest in a long line for East Lyme site
East Lyme - A $2.3 million proposal before the Board of Selectmen that would preserve 218 acres in town for open space is the latest installment in the history of Darrow Pond, a property that has been attracting developers and preservationists for decades.
The proposal is tempting because it would allegedly untangle access issues that prevent the public from using the pond on part of the town's 301-acre property and give the town additional acreage, both nearby and elsewhere, for open space. But it is also daunting because of the cost, and because it involves many layers as well as public and private players who are at times at odds.
Key to the decision, which would ultimately go before voters if the selectmen and the finance board approve, is how much townspeople value access to Darrow Pond, a picturesque body of water surrounded by woods, and the acquisition of additional acreage nearby. The same question will apply to the separate 166-acre Gurley Brook Preserve near the headwaters of the Niantic River, which is also part of the proposal.
Businessman John C. Ellis of the Woodsmen Land Trust is proposing an offer with multiple prongs: The trust would purchase roughly 52 acres near the 301 acres at Darrow Pond that the town already owns, as well as the option on the Gurley Brook Preserve, from New England National, a development company with several subdivisions near Darrow Pond. Ellis has told the selectmen the total value of the land and easements is about $4 million.
New England National would release several easements it holds on the town-owned acreage on Mostowy Road in the vicinity of the pond. The trust would then assign or option the land rights to the town, Ellis has said.
The deal is time-sensitive. Ellis has said his contract with New England National expires at the end of the year. He received a $500,000 matching grant last December from the state toward acquiring the Gurley Brook Preserve.
The selectmen have held two executive sessions on the proposal and sent a list of questions to the Woodsmen Land Trust. First Selectman Paul Formica said in an interview last week that the questions include how and when the land would be transferred and the easements relinquished. He said the selectmen are also seeking information on the possibility of settling litigation against the town by New England National.
Formica said the proposal needs to be taken a little at a time and the board is taking the necessary steps before voting. If the selectmen approve the proposal, it would then need approval from the Board of Finance and a vote from residents.
Easements and uses
In 2011, the town purchased, with the help of the Trust for Public Land, the 301-acre Darrow Pond land parcel on Mostowy Road near Route 161. It paid Webster Bank $4.16 million for the foreclosed property.
Under the agreement, about 200 acres will remain permanently dedicated to open space and passive recreation. The 100 acres not subject to the conservation easement are for town use. An Open Space Committee has been working for more than a year on recommended uses for the open space area.
A nature center and water tank are proposed for the town-use portion of the site, which connects to 3,000 acres of trails in the neighboring Yale-owned property and Nehantic State Forest and holds several town wells, said Formica.
A holding tank for the regional interconnection project between New London and the town, intended to alleviate the town's summer water shortage, was originally expected to be placed there. The tank was ultimately placed in Montville at the recommendation of the engineer. But Formica said another tank will likely be placed at the Darrow Pond property in about five to eight years, especially with a growing water demand from new developments, such as the commercial Gateway Commons project near Interstate 95.
Several permanent restrictions placed by the property's former owners remain on the town's land. One easement restricts the public from using the pond and dates back to 2004, said Robert Blatt, managing member of New England National. New England National and Niantic Real Estate LLC each owned portions of the pond and granted each other private access rights. Blatt is also currently listed as the managing member of Niantic Real Estate. Another easement allows the two companies to access and connect to roads on each other's property.
The parcel, with the pond on its northern boundary, went into foreclosure in 2008. Before then, developers had proposed various ideas for the area, which once housed a J.C. Penney warehouse, but each time, the plans fell through.
Blatt, who is from Larchmont, N.Y., and Jeffrey Torrance of East Lyme received zoning approval from the town in 1998 to build a golf course on Mostowy Road under the name New England National, according to news reports at the time. Plans for a previous golf course at the site had dissolved in legal and financial troubles.
In 2004, Virginia-based Darrow Pond LLC, financially backed by L.M. Sandler & Sons, took ownership of the property. In 2006, Vespera Investments received approval from the town to build a 600-unit community for adults aged 55 and older, but those plans also fell through. Webster Bank then foreclosed on the property in 2008 from Sandler, which had taken over the property in 2007 after backing Vespera.
Other acreage
The Gurley Brook Preserve owner is KSK Associates, a limited liability company of which Steve Harney, who serves on the East Lyme Board of Finance, is the principal. The property has been in foreclosure proceedings initiated by RBS Citizens Bank, but Harney said last week that KSK is refinancing and the foreclosure will not go forward. The option on that land, currently held by New England National, is part of Ellis' proposal.
The other acreage proposed for acquisition by the Woodsmen Land Trust includes 7 acres of Darrow Pond itself owned by Niantic Real Estate LLC and about 45 acres on Upper Pattagansett Road that New England National owns. The Zoning Commission approved a 58-unit plan to develop affordable housing - called Evergreen Ridge - on part of that acreage on Upper Pattagansett Road in 2011, but nothing has been built.
Blatt said Ellis came to New England National with his current proposal, and the developers thought it was a good idea and would benefit the town by freeing up easements.
"We were happy to cooperate," he said.
Ellis said he is eager to bring his offer, which gives the town properties called for in its Plan of Conservation, to a public vote. He said he has a $500,000 grant from a private donor for Gurley Brook Preserve and the town could apply for additional grants and raise private donations. Financial details are among the information the town wants to clarify.
On its website, the Woodsmen Land Trust states that, among other initiatives, it helps "develop easements wherein the landowners limit development and use their land for the preservation of hunting, fishing and forestry." The question remains whether the trust would ultimately request to allow hunting on the land proposed for open space.
In response to an interview question, Formica said the last figure available estimated that the town has spent $560,000 over the years, including settlement dollars and legal fees, on matters related to litigation with New England National.
Blatt disagreed with the concept that the newly proposed deal might include settlement of pending litigation. He said any settlement of the two cases in U.S. District Court in New Haven would not be through the Woodsmen Land Trust, but rather in an action the town would have to initiate.
"We're always open to offers," he said. "Obviously, this is long going. The town has spent a fortune on this."
Five years ago, the town settled a lawsuit with New England National and Darrow's Ridge LLC, another company managed by Blatt, for $250,000 and signed a compromise agreement that called for certain conditions.
New England National had filed for bankruptcy in 2002 and sued the town thereafter, citing among other claims that the town assessed its 600-acre property for more than its worth, according to court documents. The lawsuit from the developers had sought $1.6 million from the town but they accepted $250,000 from the town to settle.
But in May 2010, New England National filed a complaint in connection with its bankruptcy case, alleging that the town breached the compromise agreement. The company's claims included that the town continued to consult with a law firm named in the suit on property matters after agreeing not to do so and failed to resolve a permitting issue with the Army Corps of Engineers.
In 2011, New England National filed a second complaint saying the town failed to supervise certain employees, among other claims, according to the adversary proceedings filed in court.
Last March, the federal bankruptcy court dismissed the 2010 adversary proceeding, saying it lacked jurisdiction over the matter. The court granted in part a motion to dismiss the second adversary proceeding. The development company is now appealing those dismissals in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
It's not clear whether the town could meet the end-of-year deadline set by Ellis, given the need for a vote by the finance board and town residents for the project to move forward. The next regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen is scheduled for Nov. 6.
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Distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile.
- 1 Terms
- 2 Getting started
- 3 Configuration
- 4 Compile
- 5 Monitoring Progress
- 6 "Cross Compiling" with Distcc
- 7 Tips/Tricks
- 8 Failure work with CMake or other tools
- distcc daemon
- The PC or server that's running distcc to distribute the source code. The daemon itself will compile parts of the source code but will also send other parts to the hosts defined in DISTCC_HOSTS.
- distcc server
- The PC or server compiling the source code it gets from the daemon. When it's done compiling, it sends back the object code (i.e. compiled source code) to the daemon, which in turn sends back some more source code (if there's any left to compile).
Getting started
Install the distcc package from official repositories on all PCs in the cluster:
For other distros, or even OSes including Windows through using Cygwin, refer to the distcc docs.
Both Daemon and Server(s)
/etc/conf.d/distccd and modify the only uncommented line with the correct IP address or range of your daemon or of your entire subnet:
DISTCC_ARGS="--user nobody --allow 192.168.0.0/24"
Daemon Only
/etc/makepkg.conf in the following three sections:
- BUILDENV has distcc unbanged i.e. without exclamation point.
- Uncomment the DISTCC_HOSTS line and add the IP addresses of the servers (slaves) then a slash and the number of threads they are to use. The subsequent IP address/threads should be separated by a white space. This list is ordered from most powerful to least powerful (processing power).
- Adjust the MAKEFLAGS variable to correspond to the number of sum of the number of individual values specified for the max threads per server. In the example below, this is 5+3+3=11. If users specify more than this sum, the extra theoretical thread(s) will be blocked by distcc and appear as such in monitoring utils such as distccmon-text described below.
Example using relevant lines:
BUILDENV=(distcc fakeroot color !ccache !check) MAKEFLAGS="-j11" DISTCC_HOSTS="192.168.0.2/5 192.168.0.3/3 192.168.0.4/3"
If users wish to use distcc through SSH, add an "@" symbol in front of the IP address in this section. If key-based auth is not setup on the systems, set the DISTCC_SSH variable to ignore checking for authenticated hosts, i.e. DISTCC_SSH="ssh -i"
Start the distcc daemon on every participating machine:
# systemctl start distccd
To have
distccd start at boot-up, run this on every participating machine:
# systemctl enable distccd
Compile via makepkg as normal.
Monitoring Progress
Progress can be monitored via several methods.
- distccmon-text
- tailing log file
Invoke distccmon-text to check on compilation status:
$ distccmon-text 29291 Preprocess probe_64.c 192.168.0.2[0] 30954 Compile apic_noop.c 192.168.0.2[0] 30932 Preprocess kfifo.c 192.168.0.2[0] 30919 Compile blk-core.c 192.168.0.2[1] 30969 Compile i915_gem_debug.c 192.168.0.2[3] 30444 Compile block_dev.c 192.168.0.3[1] 30904 Compile compat.c 192.168.0.3[2] 30891 Compile hugetlb.c 192.168.0.3[3] 30458 Compile catalog.c 192.168.0.4[0] 30496 Compile ulpqueue.c 192.168.0.4[2] 30506 Compile alloc.c 192.168.0.4[0]
One can have this program run continuously by using watch or by appending a space followed by integer to the command which corresponds to the number of sec to wait for a repeat query:
$ watch distccmon-text
$ distccmon-text 2
One can also simply tail
/var/log/messages.log on daemon:
# tail -f /var/log/messages.log
"Cross Compiling" with Distcc
There are currently two method from which to select to have the ability of distcc distribution of tasks over a cluster building i686 packages from a native x86_64 environment. Neither is ideal, but to date, there are the only two methods documented on the wiki.
An ideal setup is one that uses the unmodified ARCH packages for distccd running only once one each node regardless of building from the native environment or from within a chroot AND one that works with makepkg. Again, this Utopian setup is not currently known.
A discussion thread has been started on the topic; feel free to contribute.
Chroot Method (Preferred)
Assuming the user has a 32-bit chroot setup and configured on each node of the distcc cluster, the strategy is to have two separate instances of distccd running on different ports on each node -- one runs in the native x86_64 environment and the other in the x86 chroot on a modified port. Start makepkg via a schroot command invoking makepkg.
Add port numbers to DISTCC_HOSTS on the i686 chroot
Append the port number defined eariler (3692) to each of the hosts in
/opt/arch32/etc/makepkg.conf as follows:
Invoke makepkg from the Native Environment
Setup schroot on the native x86_64 environment. Invoke makepkg to build an i686 package from the native x86_64 environment, simply by:
$ schroot -p -- makepkg -src
Multilib GCC Method (Not Recommended)
/etc/pacman.conf and uncomment the [multilib] repository:
[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Install gcc-multilib from the official repositories.
Compile packages on x86_64 for i686 is as easy as adding the following lines to
CARCH="i686" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -m32" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
and invoking makepkg via the following
$ linux32 makepkg -src
Remember to remove or modify
$HOME/.makepkg.conf when finished compiling i686 packages!
Limit HDD/SSD usage
Relocate $HOME/.distcc
By default, distcc creates
$HOME/.distcc which stores transient relevant info as it serves up work for nodes to compile. Create a directory named .distcc in RAM such as /tmp and soft link to it in $HOME. This will avoid needless HDD read/writes and is particularly important for SSDs.
$ mv $HOME/.distcc /tmp $ ln -s /tmp/.distcc $HOME/.distcc
Use systemd to re-create this directory on a reboot (the soft link will remain until it is manually removed like any other file):
Create the following tmpfile where "X" is the letter for the SSD device.
d /tmp/.distcc 0755 <username> users -
Adjust log level
By default, distcc will log to
/var/log/messages.log as it goes along. One trick (actually recommended in the distccd manpage) is to log to an alternative file directly. Again, one can locate this in RAM via /tmp. Another trick is to lower to log level of minimum severity of error that will be included in the log file. Useful if only wanting to see error messages rather than an entry for each connection. LEVEL can be any of the standard syslog levels, and in particular critical, error, warning, notice, info, or debug.
Both of these lines are to be appended to DISTCC_ARGS in
DISTCC_ARGS="--user nobody --allow 192.168.0.0/24 --log-level error --log-file /tmp/distccd.log"
Failure work with CMake or other tools
CMake sometimes pass "response file" to gcc, but the distcc cannot deal with it. There is a patch file, but it has not been applied to upstream code. If you encounter this problem, you can path this file or use the distcc-rspAUR package in the AUR.


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The Vermont Beekeepers Association is pleased to offer during 2018 another season of hands on training workshops for beekeepers of all levels. These workshops are free and are also open to the public; no experience necessary. The workshops are designed to parallel the Vermont beekeeping season starting off with unpacking hives for Spring and finishing with preparing the hives for Winter. In between the two you will learn how to identify common hive issues, hive management techniques, honey extraction and general good beekeeping practices. VBA workshop instructors will be available to you on specific Saturdays starting in April ending in September. See the VBA calendar for the dates and times.
This year the VBA is offering two locations. The North Yard is located at The Gardeners Supply, 128 Intervale Rd, Burlington, VT 05401. The apiary is located behind the Gardeners building. Access the apiary via the grassy area between the Gardeners building and the barns. Look for signs. Bring a veil and all your questions and concerns.
The South Yard is located at the home of Mike and Kim Paquette. The Instructors are Jeffrey Hamelman (436-1326) Bill Taft (674-5126)
Directions: From Route 91 - Exit 9: Turn left onto Route 5 travel 8.5 miles to Ascutney, VT. Turn left onto Tillman Road, shortly after the Ascutney Farm Stand. Take the first right last house on road.
From Route 91 - From Exit 8: Turn right and head East on 131. At directional light turn left onto Route 5 North. Drive .8 of a mile turn right on Tillman Road. Take the first right last house on road.
Bring a veil and all your questions and concerns.


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We believe all that God has revealed,
all that He does now reveal,
and we believe that He will yet reveal
many great and important things pertaining
to the Kingdom of God.
Words: Joseph Smith, 1805-1844
Music: Vanja Y. Watkins, b. 1938. © 1978 IRI
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Dear developer,
Ok, the plugin works, looks great, you have put a lot of work on it, users are somehow happy, but...at least in my case
I had to spend a loooottttttt of time searching and figuring out (trial and error infinite times) what each field is for and I still don't use many features because English translation is anti-intuitive, and the lack of documentation or even a help file makes things worst.
Please, write something or provide some sample configurations for several user cases so we can learn from them.
And keep on with this great plugin.


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The 22-footer. PHOTO: Annie Fast
I know everyone has been on the edge of their seats waiting for the results of the FIS Snowboard World Cup this weekend … or not. In what we can only hope isn't an ominous foreshadowing of 2010, the Saturday pipe contest was about half of what the X Games and Dew Tour series have been this winter, with no fault going to the riders themselves. There was alot of mumbling about the pipe being under vert, too short, and chewed up, which might not have totally been the fault of the pipe crew from Arena Snowparks—the same crew that builds the Whistler Pipe and the epic Camp Of Champions summer park. The crew got all of three days to fashion the pipe in the shorter-than-it-should-be dirt shell. The under-vertness made for some harsh deck outs especially on day one practice. The pipe crew also hopefully wasn't responsible for the location. No Vancouver skyline, no ocean backdrops, just some dark trees. Blah.
Cypress Mountain has been taking some major PR hits recently starting with last weekends Freestyle Ski World Cup where the resort threatened to tow competitors cars and put signs up at the main lodge saying "No Access For Athletes." Believe it or not. In what is becoming an Olympic locations trend, local riders considered the two other local mountains, Seymour and Grouse, better options for boarders and were pretty surprised when Cypress was selected to host all of the snowboard events.
The women's podium. PHOTO: Annie Fast
To give you the short of it, in the women's pipe, Torah Bright made it through her first air-to-fakie before crashing on her cab 700 on her first run—an easy combo for her that won her X Games gold a few weeks ago. Gretchen never really got the hang of this pipe, either, not finding the speed she needed. The always positive and upbeat Torah summed up the scene: "This should have been the best pipe of the season and it was probably the worst." Ouch. Kelly Clark won the whole things on her first run and 18-year-old Chinese dynamo Jiayu Liu came in second on the podium with Hannah in third. Jiayu looks to be a potential threat for another women's Olympic sweep.
The men's podium. PHOTO: Annie Fast
(Shaun had his hand and wrist wrapped up in the finals.)
In the men's pipe, the Canadians had two riders in finals including Brad Martin, who stuck the only 12 of the day on his last hit, and newcomer Jeff Batchelor—a crowd favorite and definitely one to watch. Scotty Lago also had some great effortless runs, getting the height and finesse as far as I could tell—he just didn't stick his run in the finals. On their second practice runs Shaun White peeled back his thumb and Iouri Podladtchikov painfully scorpioned, but both came back for victory. Shaun took the lead with a mandatory straight air (FIS rules—more on that later), a back 9, back-to-back 10s and an alley-oop rodeo on his first run and held onto it despite a solid surge from Japan's Ryoh Aono. Iouri charged from sixth into third on his second run. All three riders stuck back to back 1080s, which is interesting insight into next year's Olympic judging. In some more Olympic foreshadowing, the mainstream media is trying out some new nicknames for Shaun including "The Robot," "The Animal" (You heard it here first!) and believe it or not, they seem to still be hanging onto the flying tomato. Brace yourself for it.
While the pipe was hurting, the GS racers (yes, snowboard racing) had it the worst of all. The plan of mowing down the boardercross course and setting up a racecourse in a day didn't work. The sugary snow didn't set up, so the hardbooters went home without a race and I'm pretty sure the riders were the ones who made the call to cancel the race, not the officials—an embarrassing situation for the race organizers.
Not to go into details on a situation that has been going on since snowboarding first slammed into the FIS, I'll just note that the first stop in the long road to the Olympics are everything you could hope they wouldn't be. I could go on, but I won't …
Women's Halfpipe Results
1. Kelly Clark (USA)
2. Jiayu Liu (CHN)
3. Hannah Teter (USA)
Men's Halfpipe Results
1. Shaun White (USA)
2. Ryoh Aono (JPN)
3. Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI)
Women's Snowboardcross Results
1. Lindsey Jacobellis (USA)
2. Olivia Nobs (SUI)
3. Helene Olafsen (NOR)
4. Maelle Ricker (CAN)
Men's Snowboardcross Results
1. Markus Schairer (AUT)
2. Mike Robertson (CAN)
3. Seth Wescott (USA)
4. Francois Boivin (CAN)


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Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre.
As he does in a club, he used a microphone and wore jeans. He accompanied himself on guitar and piano. He also had the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on hand, and he gratefully used everything at his disposal to merge pop and new music sensibilities naturally and unpretentiously.
Composer-performers who write orchestral pieces for themselves as soloists can these days be anything they like. Bringing an electric guitar on stage or even DJing along with an orchestra is hardly eccentric. As for mixing styles, that's been going on a lot longer than any of us have been around.
So what was perhaps most unusual about "Crane Palimpsest," part of the final program in Jeffrey Kahane's 15th season as LACO music director, is that the score was conducted by the composer's father. The circumstance, at least since Leopold Mozart exploited his protégé son, is typically the other way around. Siegfried Wagner conducted his old man's "Ring," and Maxim Shostakovich is an interpreter of his father's symphonies.
In the concert prelude Saturday, father and son demonstrated a warm and amusing rapport.
"It's good to see you, you look good."
"Thanks, Dad, can I borrow some money?"
In fact, something significant was going on. This was the first time the 55-year-old Kahane had conducted the music of the 30-year-old Kahane, who has made it his business to go his own way musically, staking out a career as a new music and pop music maverick in Brooklyn. But it may not be all that easy to rebel against a supportive conductor-pianist father who is open to a variety of musics and who called his son one of his musical heroes.
Moreover, the younger Kahane has been attracting increasing attention from the establishment lately. "Crane Palimpsest" is a co-commission with the American Composer's Orchestra and had its premiere at Carnegie Hall last month. Next month, a musical Kahane has scored, "February House," opens at the Public Theatre in New York.
Brooklyn is very much on the composer's mind. "February House," about which there is considerable buzz, concerns the Brooklyn house in which Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, Paul Bowles and Gypsy Rose Lee lived together during World War II. "Crane Palimpsest," meanwhile, is an ode to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Building on the idea of a palimpsest, or a document on which new texts are written over old ones, Kahane draws from Hart Crane's poem "The Bridge" and his own lyrics. Throughout the 22-minute score, though, musical styles tend not to merge but graciously flow one into the next. The orchestra writing is atmospheric, favoring color (particularly with percussion) and eerie strings. Kahane's singing style can be pop-flavored with his own emotion-worn-on-the-sleeve lyrics and more coolly classical for Crane's intricate stanzas.
Each of the work's four sections begins with Crane and moves on to Kahane. Opening with the great poet's dawns, seagull's wings, chained bay waters, apparitional sails and dropping elevators, Kahane sets a somber scene, his vocal line a little like John Adams with friendlier interval leaps. In the second section, Gypsy Rose Lee makes a sort of entrance in a Kahane song ("BMT") about the subway with a snappy Bernstein flavor.
The emotional climax is a rapturous Kahane ballad, "The Navy Yard," sung at the piano. Strings in the orchestra slide up and down like one of Crane's elevators defying gravity. A danger of pop sentiment is sentimentality; there is a hint of that at the end. And for all its surface interest, the orchestral writing could sound at times unfinished.
Still, this is a young composer with a voice, staking out his own territory.And it held its own surrounded by two palimpsestic masterpieces. Kahane the conductor set up "Crane Palimpsest" with Ives' "Three Places in New England," a classic layering many kinds of Americana. Surprisingly, this was the evening's other first, the score never having been played in LACO's 44-year history. It got a clean, illuminating performance. Not every inner part came through (the piano and pianissimo strings sometimes disappeared), but there was no smudging of details.
Haydn's Symphony No. 104, an old favorite of this orchestra, concludes with a Croatian folk song Haydn heard on the streets of London. Kahane, no doubt elated from his son's success, conducted with irrepressible spirit.
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Call it welcome news for the economy: in March the nation added 216,000 new jobs.
At the same time, the unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage points to 8.8 percent.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market gains took place in the service sector, such as restaurants and hotels, health care, temp services, as well as mining and manufacturing. The only lagging areas are construction and state and local governments.
The improved jobs picture took place even though the price of oil and gasoline rose through the month and consumers were beset by the uncertainty of news about the earthquake disaster in Japan.
Instead, the economy seems to be benefiting from record exports, better-than-expected retail sales and healthy spending on new plant and equipment.
This marks the second consecutive month of healthy job gains, prompting some economists to predict the nation was now entering a job creation phase that will carry economic growth through the year.
"We are not having a double-dip recession," says John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, N.C.
Good news, but how good?
During the past four months, the economy has averaged 158,000 new jobs a month, notes economist Sung Won Sohn, a professor at California State University, Channel Islands. Some of this is related to an improvement in the auto sector, he notes. "Demand is rising for small business supplying to the auto sector," he says. "They have been hiring more people."
The White House hailed the better jobs picture. In a statement, Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the last two months of private job gains have been the strongest in five years.
"We are seeing signs that the initiatives put in place by this Administration – such as the payroll tax cut and business incentives for investment – are creating the conditions for sustained growth and job creation."
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"It should hurt us sooner or later, but so far it has not had a significant affect," says Mr. Sohn. "When you look at the highways, there is not a significant thinning out of cars on the road yet."
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I'm going to try to create slightly shorter posts with 'better' content. I know that I've veered from posting directly about genealogy; one thing I know is that this is a record of my experiences and I don't want to hide when Life gets a bit overwhelming. At the same time I understand that readers aren't necessarily interested in that so on with the genealogy!
What's sentimental about today? Well, I'm leaving this morning to head to Delphos, Ohio. It's where my Beightler (also Beighler, Bigler, etc) and Leatherman ancestors were and it's nicely located for my trip on Monday to Marysville and possibly Lancaster, Ohio. I'll decide in the morning whether or not I'm going to drive all the way to Lancaster to pick up copies of the land records from my 4th great-grandfather, George Beighler, who purchased a part of the Refugee Tract and whose heirs confirmed his ownership in 1827. I may go to Marysville first and then end the day in Lancaster. It's interesting because I'd been searching for records of George in Licking County as that's the information on the back of the photograph I have of his son Tobias from 1884. What I didn't know is that Fairfield County was once part of Licking County, no real surprise. And naturally, the minute I looked in Fairfield there were all kinds of records. As I said, go figure...
Either way, the next three days will be spent doing a lot of driving and genea-hunting, and I just can't wait!
I'll be updating my findings here and on Social Media; I've spent much less time there as I've been immersing myself in getting my house and research ready for this trip. I'm wishing all my genea-friends out there safe travels as they journey to Ft. Wayne for the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, and there are so many of you that I 'know' on social media that I can't wait to meet in real life!
Take care everyone!
18 August 2013
Sentimental Sunday - Back to the Roots
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Where Do You Want Your Data to GoToday?
I've argued for years now that the time will come when use of Microsoft Windows on machines storing sensitive data will be deemed an act of misfeasance. By that I mean that the lack of security in Windows will be well enough known that if your lawyer or your accountant stores private data on a Windows machine, and that Windows machine is cracked, you'll be able to sue, win, and collect.
The evidence toward that end mounts. Perhaps most damning, both in content and in the prestige of the organization whence it came, is a 73-page study, "Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge," released last month by the authoritative Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The CSIS report concluded that Microsoft software is so full of security holes, and so poorly audited, that it not only poses a risk to the national security but also cannot be fixed. It is, the report said, an insecure system so complicated that it cannot be made secure.
The computers of most of the Fortune 500 companies have been cracked, the report notes, including last autumn's break-in at Microsoft's own network. Frankly, right now one gets the sense that only an idiot would pass a credit card number over the Internet, so many insecure credit card repositories have been cracked. And, the report noted, the chances are that most cracks go undetected--if script kiddies can do it, imagine what the pros could come up with? (If you've read this column for awhile, this theme will already be familiar to you.)
There are several kinds of security risks familiar to the clue-enabled. There are the virus and virus-like macro attacks in which code finds its way onto your machine and does damage locally or distributes itself by way of your machine to others and causes trouble through the sheer weight of the traffic. There are the distributed denial of service attacks, which produce two flavors of victim: The site that gets hammered, and the hundreds, even thousands of "zombie" machines that do the attacking unbeknownst to their owners. (In at least one DDoS attack last century, which is in this case to say last year, Linux machines were the chief zombies, an exploit having been found and, well, exploited.) There are cracks of websites, substituting some new content for that which the webmaster intended. These three are largely acts of vandalism, just stupid stuff. When The New York Times website was cracked two years ago, the children who did it eschewed any cleverness in their substitute site. (Imagine some fiendish cracker hitting that site and inserting something subtle--sanity in the editorial column, for instance.)
By far the worst, though, is gaining access to data on machines. This can be anything from a doctoral dissertation to a database of a few hundred thousand credit card numbers, along with the names, addresses, and card use histories of the card holders. The potential for abuse is obvious--order up a bunch of stuff, or, if you manifest equal measures of boldness and stupidity, hold the data hostage mpending payment of a ransom--and unobvious: imagine a database of 300,000 cardholders with all their information. That puts you in a dandy little mailing list business, and you'll never get caught. Forget the card numbers--the rest of the stuff is easily saleable, no questions asked.
And when a person has access to a machine, chances are good that the data can be copied, sure, but also manipulated. The fact that macro virii got into into and caused to be shut down a computer network in the National Security Agency last year tells us that somebody bent on more than obvious troublemaking could cause a lot more trouble, unobviously.
The threats are broad and frightening, and they extend to every computer that is hooked to a modem or, worse, broadband. And Microsoft software is not part of the solution.
"It is doubtful that the millions (sometimes billions) of lines of code required to power Microsoft's products could readily be sanitized," nores the CSIS report, which goes on to mention that most government computer systems--including very sensitive military systems--are running software from Redmond.
This represents a golden opportunity. Not just for crackers, though surely that's the case, but for Linux.
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