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Reinhold Weege, who created the popular Emmy-winning sitcom "Night Court" about an often-anarchic, after-hours New York courtroom and its cast of memorably loony characters, has died. He was 62.
Weege, who also wrote and co-produced the television series "Barney Miller," died Dec. 1 of natural causes at his home in La Jolla, said Bonnie Covelli, his former assistant.
"Night Court," which aired on NBC from 1984 to 1992, starred a boyish Harry Anderson as the unorthodox, fun-loving judge Harry Stone and John Larroquette as lecherous prosecuting attorney Dan Fielding.
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Beneath the carnival-like atmosphere of Stone's courtroom, the show pushed the envelope for network television at the time, with occasionally edgy story lines and characters seemingly drawn from the streets of New York City.
Weege said the show was grounded in reality, insisting that he had seen actual courtrooms that were more bizarre.
But "Night Court" was best-known for its humor and assortment of lovable oddballs, including its jeans-wearing, Mel Torme-obsessed judge; its towering, dimwitted bailiff; and a character known as "Phil the derelict," who became the prosecutor's personal lackey. Pimps and prostitutes also made regular appearances, and Weege later disclosed that he had named most of them after his friends.
The series, which began as a midseason replacement, was among the most popular television shows of its era, part of a powerhouse Thursday-night lineup for NBC that included "The Cosby Show," "Family Ties" and "Cheers." It won seven Emmys, including an unprecedented four consecutive supporting comedy actor awards for Larroquette.
"We do great jokes," Larroquette said of "Night Court" in a 1988 Times interview. "The show may not be in any way intellectual and we don't make any pretense of dealing with issues that are impossible to address or solve in the sitcom format.... But if you just want to forget it all for a minute and laugh at pies in the face and pants around the ankles, that's what we do very well."
On Friday, Larroquette paid tribute to Weege in a Twitter post: "In life there are those who impact us with such force everything changes. Reinhold Weege was that in mine. May he truly rest in peace."
Weege received three Emmy nominations for "Night Court" and one for "Barney Miller," the long-running ABC sitcom starring Hal Linden. Weege also wrote several television movies, as well as episodes for the short-lived 1970s series "Fish," a "Barney Miller" spinoff that starred Abe Vigoda.
Born in Chicago on Dec. 23, 1949, Weege grew up in the Chicago area and got a taste of theater in his senior year of high school in Mount Prospect, Ill., when he played Thomas Cromwell in "A Man for All Seasons." Future TV and film actor Bruce Boxleitner and Shelley Pierce, Weege's high school girlfriend who became his wife, were in the same production.
Weege attended a number of colleges, including DePaul and Illinois Wesleyan, then served in the military. As a reporter and editor for a suburban newspaper, he was fired for writing about a secret meeting on a development deal, a story that angered the paper's advertisers, he said in 1994 in the Chicago Tribune.
After that, "I sold our couch, the only asset my wife and I had, got in the car and headed toward Hollywood," he told the Tribune. His big break came in 1976, when he was hired to write for "Barney Miller."
He spoke of his craft in 1998 in the Hollywood Reporter. "My specialty is being funny and substantial at the same time," he said. "I want people to watch a half hour and give a damn about it afterward."
Weege and his wife were divorced. His survivors include his daughters Tez and Alix and his granddaughter Zoe.
A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 16, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills.


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30.15 - UI Password/Pass-phrase Policy
July 22, 2009 (rewrite)
A. General. University of Idaho (UI) electronic communications systems or services must identify users and authorize access by means of a password, passphrase, or other secure authentication process. One of the most common methods attackers use to guess passwords is known as a "brute force" attack. In such an attack, the attacker systematically tries possible passwords until he/she manages to break into an account. Attackers frequently use dictionary files to generate lists of possible passwords and letter/number combinations. Having a strong password or long passphrase greatly increases the security of a system. This policy sets out the password requirements and standards for the UI.
B. Account Types. ITS acknowledges three types of accounts:
B-1. Personal: password is known by a single individual for traditional access to computing resources including computer logon, e-mail, VPN, Banner, and other UI services
B-2. Shared: password is known by one or more users and utilized interactively for system logon. Shared accounts shall not be created when another method of access is available
B-3. Functional: password may be accessible by multiple users, but are typically used only "behind the scenes" by applications and processes and are not recommended for most uses
C. Password/Passphrase Requirements. Where possible, the UI recommends using a passphrase (C-2 below) instead of the traditional password described in C-1. For systems incapable of storing passphrases use a strong password (see D-1 below).
C-1. Passwords: Traditional Personal and Shared Passwords are 8-14 characters in length. Functional passwords are at least 30 characters in length and are recommended to be significantly longer. Choosing passwords that are easy to remember but hard for an attacker to guess will significantly improve the security of your computer and data. When passwords are used they must meet the following requirements:
(a) Personal and Group passwords must be at least 8 characters long
b) Functional passwords must be at least 30 characters and are recommended to be significantly longer, up to the maximum length allowed by the system/application being interfaced with
(c) A password must contain characters from three of the following categories:
- English uppercase characters (A through Z)
- English lowercase characters (a through z)
- Numeric digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., !, $, #, %)
(d) Passwords must not contain recognizable portions of your name
(e) Passwords 8 to 14 characters in length must not contain words found in common dictionaries unless the spelling is significantly altered
(f) Passwords 8 to 14 characters in length must be changed every 90 days. Passwords/Passphrases containing 15 or more characters must be changed every 400 days
(g) Passwords for all ITS-supported services can easily be synchronized and changed by the user through the account management program at ITS Support
(h) All passwords should be securely stored and protected (e.g., no sticky notes on the monitor or stored near the computer, etc.). The use of encrypted electronic password "wallets" (eWallet, Password Safe, etc.) are encouraged.
Note: Requirements a – g above do not apply when changing a Banner password. For assistance with these, contact the Registrar's Office or the ITS Help Desk.
C-2. Passphrase: Passphrases are at least 15 characters in length and must use three of the four characteristics listed in section C-1(c) above. A passphrase is like a password but may contain spaces between words so a meaningful sentence can be formed. Do not use common phrases like advertising slogans, song lyrics or titles, or other easily guessed word combinations. Passphrases must be changed every 400 days.
Examples of passphrases:
- I will graduate in 2050, Go Vandals!
- My dog is also a "Vandal"
Benefits of passphrases:
- easier to remember
- they are longer than traditional passwords making them less vulnerable to attack
- longer time interval between changes
- Passphrases will not be subject to the dictionary password check.
C-3. Shared-access systems: Administrators of shared-access systems must enforce the requirements in C-1 above (whenever possible) in addition to the following:
(a) They must require that users change any pre-assigned passwords immediately upon initial access to the account
(b) They must modify all default passwords for access to devices, and where possible and appropriate:
- configure devices with separate accounts for privileged access (e.g., administrator and root) and unprivileged access (standard user);
- authenticate users with an unprivileged account rather than a privileged account;
- insecure password storage and communication methods, such as the Microsoft "LAN manager hash" must be disabled on all devices;
Note: privileged access should occur through a privilege escalation mechanism which allows the log to show which user was granted additional privileges; and, should only be granted for as long as necessary to complete the task which requires additional privileges.
D. Process.
D-1. Strong Password. If a system will not accept passphrases (as defined above), a strong traditional password should be used. The following are tips on selecting strong passwords which are easy to remember:
Think up a phrase, part of a book, poem, or song and use part of it to form a memorable password. Then use hard-to-guess combinations of letters, numbers, upper/lower case, and symbols (Note: The more diverse characters in a password, the more difficult it is to guess).
For example:
- "Only 75 more days until I graduate from UI!" would be (O75mduIgfUI!)
- "All of Idaho is divided into 2 main regions" would be "AoIidi2mr"
- Think up pronounceable, non-dictionary combinations of letters, and then separate them with punctuation characters and numbers. For example: Har%vee8! (Harvey ate!!") or Shee=nosYoo2? (She knows you too?)
D-2. Password/Passphrase Management.
(a) All passwords/passphrases (passwords) are confidential university information
(b) Each user is responsible for the security of his or her passwords, and accountable for any misuse resulting from the user's irresponsibility
(c) Users will not share their passwords with anyone, including supervisors, administrative assistants, secretaries, or technology service providers. It is against university policy for an ITS employee or technology service provider to request a user's passwords. If someone demands a password, refer him or her to this document or have them call the UI Information Technology Security Officer – ITS
(d) Users shall not use the same passwords for UI accounts as for other non-UI access (e.g., personal Internet service provider (ISP) accounts, free online e-mail accounts, instant messaging accounts, other online services, etc.). This will limit exposure if any of the user's passwords are compromised
(e) Users shall not store passwords within applications or use the "Remember Password" feature (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) for passwords for UI accounts. These features typically do not adequately protect passwords, and it may be possible for a computer virus or unauthorized user to gain access to this information
(f) Users should not write passwords down or store them anywhere in your office. Nor should users store passwords in a file on any computer system (including PDAs, phones or similar devices) without using strong encryption
(g) Failed login attempts are tracked and a user's account is temporarily locked out after an excessive number of unsuccessful attempts. If a user suspects their account has been compromised, he or she must report the incident to the ITS Information Technology Security Officer and change their password immediately
(h) In the case of functional or shared accounts, if the owner or sponsor leaves the University ownership must be transferred to the supervisor or the supervisor-designated replacement. Continued access to a group or functional account is subject to annual review by stakeholders and/or managers of the systems accessible by said accounts
(i) Passwords for any account must be changed when ownership is transferred.
E. Compliance. ITS will advise the appropriate unit manager of any non-compliance with this policy. Unit management shall be responsible for following up with any non-compliance and shall initiate disciplinary action for such non-compliance, where appropriate.

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About Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka; ( 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist, one of the most influential of the 20th century, whose works came to be regarded after his death as one of the major achievements of world literature, to the point that even the term "Kafkaesque" has entered the English language.
The name of Franz Kafka, a genius who brings in an overwhelming majority of people who read or merely heard of him, an attack of melancholy, associations with something gloomy, incomprehensible, illogical or, at best, it reminds of some mysterious depths of subconscious.
Kafka is not only a brilliant author, but also, certainly, one of unique Jewish prophets of the so-called "new era". As a writer, he brought about a complete revolution in thinking and in literature, having laid bare the bottom of consciousness, while as a tragic prophet (were there among Jews prophets-optimists?) he screamed out to all of us about that horror of the European new time, with which, as one of its most impressive achievements, the modern European civilization takes pride till today. The Holocaust was but a nightmare and logical continuation of that horror Kafka screamed about.
Franz Kafka's Maternal Ancestral Rabbinical Roots
The nightmare of reason: a life of Franz Kafka By Ernst Pawel NYTimes "Kafka's Last Trial" "Kafka's Last Trial" The New York Times, September 22, 2010
NYT article…Kafka's actual relationship to Zionism and Jewish culture was, like his relationship to most things, highly ambivalent...In a perfect world, Kafka could be both engaged with a specifically Jewish discourse and a foundational author of European modernity.
…Kafka, tall, dark and broodingly handsome, had fewer and more anguished relations with women…
...As early as 1912, he discussed a journey to Palestine with Felice Bauer, a dictating-machine representative with whom he was to pursue a long, anguished, mainly epistolary romance. (The two were twice engaged to be married before separating in 1917.)
...In 1923, Kafka met Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old runaway from a conservative Hasidic family in Galicia. She was his last and happiest love. The six-foot-tall Kafka at that point weighed 118 pounds. The couple lived for some months in a rental room in Berlin but moved in 1924 to a sanitarium in the Austrian town of Kierling, where Kafka, unable to eat, drink or speak, edited the proofs of his story "The Hunger Artist" and eventually died in Dora's arms.
פרנץ קפקא (שם יהודי: אנשיל [אשר]; 3 ביולי 1883 – 3 ביוני 1924) היה סופר יהודי יליד פראג שכתב בשפה הגרמנית ונחשב לאחד מגדולי הסופרים של המאה העשרים. בין כתביו הבולטים: הרומנים "המשפט" ו"הטירה", הנובלה "הגלגול" ואחרים. כתביו עוסקים במצבו של האדם המודרני העומד מול מערכות בירוקרטיות רבות עוצמה, בהשפעת הטכנולוגיה על החברה וברגשות ניכור ואטימות ביחסים בין בני האדם.
כיום, בכמה שפות, נכנס לשימוש הביטוי "קפקאי" המתאר מצב של עמידה אל מול מערכת ביורוקרטית שרירותית ואטומה.
Recent Books just out about Kafka:
- Why you should read Kafka before you waste your life by James Hawes
- Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka by Rodger Kamenetz
- The Tremendous World I have inside my head--Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley
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What do we mean when we say 'Kafkaesque'?
The great Czech-Jewish writer was more than your garden-variety neurotic. But from to believing that his stories and novels were basically autobiographical is excessively reductionist
By Gerald Sorin
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay, by Louis Begley
Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life,by James Hawes
Haaretz reported recently that scholars may soon have the opportunity to cast their eyes on previously unseen documents, postcards, letters and notes of Franz Kafka, the Czech-Jewish author and tormented genius who wrote in German. Researchers, in this the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth, are ready to pounce on the Tel Aviv apartment of Esther Hoffe, who was once the secretary of Kafka's friend and literary executor, Max Brod, and who died last year, at age 101. These Kafkologists, as Milan Kundera more than half derisively, but unforgettably, called them, are fully expecting the materials to throw light on the work of one of the 20th century's most perplexing yet rewarding writers.
Begley and Joseph Hawes agree that Kafka's great theme is the abiding psychological tension of the modern world, particularly the frustrating, sometimes nightmarish sense of entrapment in bewildering circumstances over which the individual has no control. And both authors recognize what at first might seem paradoxical: Kafka's enormous sense of humor. But these two books are in almost no other way alike.
Begley, the novelist, gives us his mature ruminations while warning against over-interpretation. (Gregor Samsa turns into a giant insect. Although it's not unreasonable to read this as allegory, why deny this incident's terror by turning it into something symbolic?)
On the other hand, Hawes, also a novelist, clearly states that he wants to bring down, with "long-lost dynamite" that "no one has ever used before," the edifice of the "K-Myth." There are profound problems with his approach. Although Hawes' book (the unattractive cover of which looks like it belongs on something called "Kafka for Dummies") reads like a tabloid-style expose, it doesn't actually have much to expose.
Nothing new here
Kafka, Hawes tells us, as if we were hearing it for the first time, was not shy about publicity; was well known in Prague literary circles; and was admired and promoted by Rilke, Hermann Hesse and Robert Musil. Kafka smiled often and wrote many things that were funny, despite (because of?) their macabre dimensions.
Kafka was a strong swimmer, a frequent visitor to all-night cafes and literary soirees, as well as to brothels. His work is not autobiographical. He was not crushed under the weight of an intellectually undemanding job. His Jewishness is not vital to an understanding of his writing; and Kafka, who died in 1924, did not uncannily predict Auschwitz.
Okay, Hawes, a novelist, with a doctorate in German literature, does reveal that Kafka was intrigued by pornography and kept a library of "dirty" books and pictures under lock and key. And Hawes' take on "The Metamorphosis," in which Samsa is transformed into a cockroach (literally "vermin," in German, but variously translated as bug, beetle, etc., take your pick), is original in seeing one of its sources in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther." But, when we read in Hawes' introduction that "never in the history of literary scholarship have so many written about so little [Kafka's oeuvre is relatively small]," we are entitled to ask, why then, yet another book? Unfortunately, one is left with that same question at the end of Hawes' effort at myth demolition.
What a different and more valuable contribution is Begley's. He too deals with the problem of the "perceived autobiographical." Writers, he tells us, "seldom -- perhaps never -- think of only one experience ... concept ... or person, when they create a work of fiction." But Begley also talks about Kafka's work, which Hawes, despite his exclamation that "Kafka was a writer, for God's sake," really does not.
While Hawes' book fails to fulfill the promise inherent in his title "Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life," Begley's "The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head" (a line from Kafka), succeeds brilliantly. Shrewdly allowing Kafka to speak in his own words as much as possible (through the diaries, the works, the letters), Begley also gives us intelligent readings of the stories and novels rather than overheated autobiographical interpretations.
There are, of course, legitimate questions to be asked about Kafka's life, the answers to which might tell us more about his sense of himself and his times, even if not what he "meant" in his work -- such as Kafka's infamous, "What do I have in common with Jews?" Both Hawes and Begley cite instances of Kafka's "negative" remarks about Jews.
After attending a strictly Orthodox wedding, Kafka told Max Brod, for example, "If you look at it properly, it was just as if we had been amongst a tribe of African savages. Sheerest superstition."
But as Begley shows, by quoting copiously from the diaries and letters, this statement was unrepresentative of Kafka's relationship to Judaism. As Kafka wrote to Milena Jesenska (one of his many women "friends," and the only non-Jew among them), "If I'd been given the choice to be what I wanted, then I'd have chosen to be a small Eastern Jewish boy in the corner of a room, without a trace of worry."
Fascinated by Zionism
Kafka obviously romanticized the life of the relatively unacculturated East European Jews. He did, however, take Jewishness and Judaism seriously and he attempted to redefine his identity by reading Jewish books, visiting Hasidic rebbes, studying Hebrew and kabbala, and meeting with Martin Buber. He was also "fascinated" for a short time with Zionism, and was delighted that Felice Bauer (to whom he wrote 511 letters and postcards, and to whom he was engaged twice) shared his enthusiasm for Jewish nationalism.
At one point Kafka thought that he would settle in Palestine with Dora Diamant, yet another woman (there were also a Julie and a Grete) with whom Kafka was intimately involved. This notion faded, however, and Kafka never joined a Zionist organization nor did he ever attend a Zionist meeting.
Neither Hawes nor Begley, however, discusses Kafka's attendance at 20 Yiddish plays in Prague in 1911 and 1912, where once he even played the role of impresario, by introducing the noted actor Yitzhak Lowy. Kafka told the German-Jewish members of the audience that despite their "dread of Yiddish," they would "intuitively" grasp the language of their East European co-religionists. Yiddish, and particularly Yiddish theater, was for Kafka an expression of a direct, passionate, earthy Jewish culture. Just the kind of culture his merchant-father Hermann and most of the other German-speaking Jews in Prague wanted to distance themselves from.
Kafka wrote that Jews of his generation, the sons, had their "posterior legs ... still glued" to their fathers' kind of Jewishness, but that "their waving anterior legs ... found no new ground. The ensuing despair became their inspiration," and led, in Prague at least, to a general reawakening of interest in things Jewish.
In Kafka's "Letter to His Father" (1919), which he handed to his mother Julie (no doubt knowing it would never be delivered), Franz took his father to task for depriving him of true Yiddishkeit. He complained that he had received only an "insignificant scrap of Judaism," including "the bar mitzvah that demanded no more than some ridiculous memorizing." Whatever little Jewishness he had inherited, Franz wrote, was "trickled away with the few flimsy gestures" father and son had performed from time to time in the name of Judaism. The mood, tone and meaning of the "Letter" (at more than 60 pages, probably the longest kvetch ever written) is neatly represented by Begley with a page from Kafka's diary, which the author gives us early on:
No one denies that for years, as a result of insufficient winter clothing, [father] had open sores on his legs, that he often went hungry, that when he was only ten he had to push a cart through the villages [delivering kosher meat] even in winter and very early in the morning -- but, and this is something he will not understand, these facts taken together with the further fact that I have not gone through all this, by no means leads to the conclusion that I have been happier than he, that he may pride himself on these sores on his legs, which is something he assumes and asserts from the very beginning, that I cannot appreciate his past sufferings, and that, finally, just because I have not gone through the same sufferings I must be endlessly grateful to him. [Brackets are mine.]
Kafka speculated throughout the "Letter," rather credibly, about how his father might have responded to his accusations. (For a brilliant, poignant and humorous fictional "posthumous response" from Hermann, see Nadine Gordimer's "Letter from the Father," in "Something Out There," 1984). For the rest of his short life Kafka remained trapped in admiration as well as fear of his father's strength, an ambivalence Hawes seems to miss altogether. Kafka tried as late as 1922, at the age of 39, to imagine, in his diary, what he looked like then in his father's eyes:
A son incapable of marriage, who could not pass on the family name; pensioned off at 39; occupied only with his weird kind of writing, the only goal of which is his own salvation or damnation; unloving; alienated from the Faith so that a father cannot even expect him to say the prayers for the rest of his soul....
Begley rightly focuses on the father-son relationship, and, much more so than Hawes, on Kafka's Jewishness as reflected in his diaries and letters, and even in his novels and short stories. Both authors are alert to the danger inherent in using historical context and biographical detail to "explain" fictional text, and they reject what some biographers have called what biographer Nicholas Murray calls "a striking congruence of themes in Kafka's life and art." Begley, however, while dismissive of this kind of reductionism, is often very helpful in making connections between Kafka's work and his cultural surroundings.
In the short story "Red Peter," for example, in which the eponymous ape gives speeches before learned societies, we forget that apes, however gifted or trained, do not address educated audiences. And our thoughts are turned to the vast shame of the abuse of animals as well as to man's cruelty to other men. But, Begley insists, a persuasive argument can be made that Kafka intended Red Peter's public humiliation as a metaphor representing the failure of Jewish assimilation: "... Jews persecuted ... everywhere giving up the faith and traditions of their fathers and making an immense effort to mimic goyim."
Still, although anti-Semitism (which blatantly marked the worlds of Central and Eastern Europe from the 1880s onward) contributed to Kafka's bleak vision of the incomprehensible and cruel forces to which humanity is subject, for us to read Kafka's tales as parables of anti-Semitic experience is to underestimate and undervalue him. In his fiction, Kafka transcended, without jettisoning, his Jewish experience and his Jewish identity. He wrote about the human condition.
This of course does not make Kafka a model of mental health. Begley and Hawes have given us too much evidence for readers to dismiss Kafka as merely one of your garden-variety neurotics. Kafka did experience long bouts of self-loathing, severe mood swings, paranoia, hypochondria (although he was often ill), as well as self-disgust, especially after engaging in sexual activity with women he saw as beneath him, prostitutes, for example. (Hawes seems surprised by the connection of "dirt" with "sex" in Kafka's mind, and is apparently neither aware of the prevalence of that connection in human imagination, nor of Augustine's famous lament, inter faeces et urinam nascimur -- "between shit and piss are we born?").
Kafka also suffered what seems to be a case of obsessive perfectionism, which was probably one of the factors that kept him from completing his novels. And last but not least was Kafka's classic indecisiveness, mostly mirrored in his inability to stick with commitments to marry.
But, Kafka's life certainly seems to have included intervals of good humor, peace, sociability and beauty. And from time to time, he admitted in letters and conversations with friends that he had been overjoyed, indeed "ecstatic," by the way his writing was going. He remained, however, a very tormented soul. His life, Kafka wrote, "consists, and has essentially always consisted, of attempts at writing, largely unsuccessful." Ultimately, he said, "I have always been discontented even in my contentment." But the absurd question, "Who was the real Kafka?" is relevant only to those who think it essential in understanding Kafka to square the external "normal" reality of his life with the private fictional fantasies and exaggerations of the diaries and letters. Kafka had a real inner life, and the genius and imagination to tell us about it in his fiction.
Joseph Hawes may be correct in saying "the less you know about Kafka's alleged life, the greater chance you have of enjoying his superb writing," but it is only after finishing Louis Begley that I felt compelled to return to the writings of this Czech-Jewish genius.
Gerald Sorin, Distinguished Professor of Jewish and American Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz, is the author of many books, including "Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent," which won the National Jewish Book Award in History.
Haaretz Books Supplement, August 2008
Franz Kafka's Timeline
July 3, 1883
Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
June 3, 1924
Age 40
Klosterneuburg, Wien-Umgebung, Niederösterreich, Austria
June 11, 1924
Age 40
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In biology, mutualism is an interaction between two organisms in which each derives benefit. This principle can also apply to proactive and motivated members of the Arch community wanting to get involved and contribute to their favorite GNU/Linux distribution -- benefiting not only themselves and fellow Archers, but potentially all fans of free and open source software.
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- Remove personal references ("I like to...", "My machine...") to maintain a professional tone.
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Opening (and closing) bug reports on the Arch Linux Bugtracker is one of the possible ways to help the community. However, ineffective use of the bug-tracker can be counter-productive instead of being useful.
This article will guide anyone wanting to help the community efficiently by reporting or hunting bugs.
See also: Bug Squashing Day
Contribute to the Arch Linux Magazine The magazine is a community-backed publication that is always looking for contributers, artists, translators and the like. ALM has its own wiki page here which is an excellent starting place for potential contributers.
AUR and Community Projects
Arch has a vital and active community of software developers and contributing projects.
The Arch User Repository is a community-driven repository of PKGBUILDs for Arch users. Packages in the AUR are built by the PKGBUILDs and are not pre-built binaries like from the official repositories. The AUR was created to organize and share new packages from the community and to help expedite popular packages' inclusion into the Template:Codeline repository.
If you have a project you would like to link to, this is a great place to do it. Include a link to your project, the date your project started, and a brief (one or two sentence) description of your project.
Arch Based Distributions
- Other distributions based on Arch Linux
AUR Helpers
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Pacman GUI Frontends
- Graphical front-ends for Template:Codeline
- Projects that don't quite fit into any existing category
- A third-party package repository and online discussion board for Arch Linux pro-audio users
- A project to get a working Arch system on GNU/Hurd.
- A collection of some of the popular games in [unsupported], to save archers compilation time. They've also patched up many broken games that wouldn't compile.
- @archlinux.us emails, Gmail based
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- Google Earth Arch user map
- A collection of humorous quotes from #archlinux
- Making Arch suitable for server use
- Useful scripts, mods, and tips
- namcap is an utility for Arch Linux which helps in automatic detection of common mistakes and errors in PKGBUILDs. This page is an automatically generated report obtained after running namcap against the core, extra and community trees.
- Package management for OS X via Template:Codeline
- An ALPM package and PKGBUILD parser in Python
- Xyne's contributions to the Arch Linux community
As a developer...
This entry is mainly based on this post in Arch's BBS
Firstly, remember that the main motivation for your work on Arch should be helping the whole community, and not trying to become an "Arch developer" by any means. Secondly, you are also part of the community; to provide help to others means you will also help yourself.
As an artist...
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Take some time this week to read over the following post. We all fit somewhere in it and we all desperately need the grace of God.
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. And there is perhaps no group of people who better embody the sin of self-righteousness in the Bible than the Pharisees. In fact, Jesus reserved his harshest criticisms for them, calling them whitewashed tombs and hypocrites. Surprisingly to some, this demonstrates that unrighteous badness is not the only threat to gospel advancement. Self-righteous goodness is equally toxic.
In Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels, I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites. But the fascinating thing about Jonah is that, unlike the pagan sailors and wicked Ninevites, Jonah was one of the "good guys." He was a prophet. He was moral. He was a part of God's covenant community. He was one who "kept all the rules", and did everything he was supposed to do. He wasn't some long-haired, tattooed indie rocker; he was a clean-cut prep. He wasn't a liberal; he was a conservative. He wasn't irreligious; he was religious. If you've ever read S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders, than you'll immediately see that the Ninevites and the sailors in the story were like the "greasers", while Jonah was like a "soashe."
What's fascinating to me is that, not only in the story of Jonah, but throughout the Bible, it's always the immoral person that gets the Gospel before the moral person. It's the prostitute who understands grace; it's the Pharisee who doesn't. It's the unrighteous younger brother who gets it before the self-righteous older brother.
There is, however, another side to self-righteousness that younger-brother types need to be careful of. There's an equally dangerous form of self-righteousness that plagues the unconventional, the liberal, and the non-religious types. We anti-legalists can become just as guilty of legalism in the opposite direction. What do I mean?
It's simple: we can become self-righteous against those who are self-righteous.
Many younger evangelicals today are reacting to their parents' conservative, buttoned-down, rule-keeping flavor of "older brother religion" with a type of liberal, untucked, rule-breaking flavor of "younger brother irreligion" which screams, "That's right, I know I don't have it all together and you think you do; I know I'm not good and you think you are. That makes me better than you." See the irony?
In other words, they're proud that they're not self-righteous!
Listen: self-righteousness is no respecter of persons. It reaches to the religious and the irreligious; the "buttoned down" and the "untucked." The entire Bible reveals how shortsighted all of us are when it comes to our own sin. For example, it was easy for Jonah to see the idolatry of the sailors. It was easy for him to see the perverse ways of the Ninevites. What he couldn't see was his own idolatry, his own perversion. So the question is, in which direction does your self-righteousness lean?
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March 01, 2012, 10:18:16 AM »
Hi fmanjili,
I'm only going to comment on your PS, but first off I want to caution you in regards to the open nature of your post. You may notice, on most other posts, most people do not use their real names and blank out the names of schools/organizations/persons. The reasons for this are to 1) protect their privacy and 2) protect against potential schools/employers, etc searching out this information in the future. When I was applying to law school (I'm an alum now), we didn't even post our PS online--it was all done through PM! It's up to you, but that is my opinion.
On to your PS...I'm going to make a couple of English grammar/vocab points as I understand from your PS that you are not a native English speaker. 1) Try to avoid the passive voice as much as possible--it makes your sentences longer, slows down your narrative, and weakens the phrasing; 2) Your PS is probably too long in its current format for most PS requirements (I'm not sure of course, but this is my suspicion). One way to make your language more concise is to remove a lot of the "ambiguous" words such as "
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engage" (change to just "engaged"). You will also find that this will speed your narrative along; 3) In some cases, I would reconsider your word choice. You are praising your parents' independent stance, but "incessant" has a negative connotation (read: annoying) and "vague" does as well. Also further on you use the word "kid," which is too informal here. Use "child."
Structurally, I think your PS makes sense. You add on each new stage clearly and tie the story together well. I also think your story is interesting and compelling. If I were you, I would just make sure to trim as much as I can to keep the thread of your narrative moving along.
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Your statement, above all, had exceptional content. You have an excellent story to tell, but the tone and style of the statement is not as provocative or as colorful as your content. It can be considerably enhanced, and you have the numbers to indeed merit admission to DePaul, if not consideration to higher ranked schools (with an addendum for your LSAT score).
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I like your personal statement overall. I can definitely ascertain exactly why you want to be a lawyer. It does seem to be a bit long though. If there is a way that you can shorten it, you might want to consider this option. I had a few content questions for you. Towards the end of your essay, you discuss your law firm internship with rather short detail. What was your title? Was this a law clerk/paralegal internship? Is there something that you learned in this internship that you can tie into your essay in terms of the competencies that will be expected of first year law students? Lastly, in my mind, in order to seal the deal a little harder, is there any other correlation you can make in your essay about why you specically chose DePaul as opposed to another law school, and what specific components of this program interest you as you prepare for a career in international and human rights law. Examples that come to mind might be study abroad opportunities, clinical programs, etc. I think law schools like to know what exactly is attracting the students who apply to their school. Just my thoughts.
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April 09, 2012, 10:49:54 PM »
With all due respect, (sarcastic of course), posting a personal law school admission essay on a public website is not a wise decision- esp on the day before the majority of respectable law school applications are due. You are clearly seeking advice from the wrong place. Your chosen audience is your competition for admission and future success. Rather than rely on instant and uninformed validation/critque from those in a similar place as you- trust your judgement.
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*Attention* – To all those guest that will be coming to G4 Station for accommodation on the 28th March. Please take note between 8.30pm-9.30pm we will have to switch off all the light, and if possible our air-con and computers will be off too (do not worry, you can switch it on if you feel warm or bored) Our deepest apology for any inconvenience cause, but we do hope that our guest will join us hand in hand during this event.
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But the St. Croix, Minn., native knows what he must do to follow in the footsteps left by the likes of Charlie Sturgis, Isaac Wilson and Paul Clark.
Hired as the White Pine Center Nordic director in October, Fick, a former University of Utah Nordic skier, is primed to continue the lengthy tradition of keeping the cross-country ski tracks at White Pine pristine for skiers.
"I like the Nordic community up here a lot. Cross-country skiing is a great sport and everyone involved here is just positive and optimistic," he said. "I want to provide (skiers) with the best possible track for cross-country skiing in Park City. I'm building on what people did in the past."
Like Sturgis, Wilson and Clark, all former White Pine Nordic directors, Fick said his goal is to continue to promote cross-country skiing as a recreational activity around the Wasatch Back.
"We're really hoping to get people set up with equipment or people looking to use cross-country skiing as a way to stay fit," he said. "We want them seeing that it is a good sport that they can do their whole life."
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Fick said being a collegiate Nordic athlete as recently as 2010 gives him an advantage in dealing with the plethora of Olympians and full-time cross-country skiers who use White Pine as their primary source of training in the winter.
"I have the obligation of providing a really great track for them the best I can," he said. "I think it definitely helps me that I've been involved competitively, so I know what people expect. That's definitely an advantage that I have over someone who does it more recreationally."
Although a Midwestern guy, Fick said the mountains had been calling his name ever since he took vacations to Utah and Colorado with his parents as a kid. When the opportunity to ski for Utah presented itself, he jumped at it. When the opportunity arose to work in the Beehive State after graduating from the University of Utah in 2010, Fick went to work for the Solitude Nordic Center and for Jans in Park City.
"I've always had a gravitational pull to the mountains and that's why I'm here," he said.
When asked how he plans to tackle the warm-weather intrusions to the winter as boss at White Pine, he said when it's time to shovel, it's all hands on deck.
"When there's not very much snow, I'm trying to get as many people out there to shovel and make it available for people to train," he said.
Fick said his plan this winter is to provide as stellar a cross-country ski track as possible, and it helps that dogs and snowshoers are not allowed on any of White Pine's courses.
"I want to create a really great, positive atmosphere between the instructors to my ski technicians, to the grinding technicians, to the waxers and basically offering all the services we have for cross-country skiing," he said.
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Who Was Selena Gomez Holding Hands With at the Golden Globes Party?
Selena Gomez isn't wasting any time since splitting with Justin Bieber. She seemed a little tipsy during her fast-talking Golden Globes party interview. She was also seen holding hands with her 'Monte Carlo' co-star Luke Bracey. We can hear the gasps, sighs and gnashing of teeth of Jelena breakup deniers!
Sources told Us Weekly that Sel was "super close" and holding hands with the Australian actor, one of her co-stars in the 2011 teen romp 'Monte Carlo.' He played the love interest of Leighton Meester's character.
The singer/actress, who is getting ready for her buzzed about film 'Spring Breakers' to land, was overhead discussing her failed romantic getaway to Mexico with the Biebs, where she reportedly split a day early after a big fight, possibly over his pot smoking. She was heard saying, "We were fighting."
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I often receive questions about miracles but rarely answer them. This isn't because I don't believe in miracles — because I do — but rather because there are some things from God that don't lend themselves to easy, facile explanations. Some gifts from God need to be accepted in awesome silence and gratitude.
Also, some things we consider miracles are, in the words of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, "just the report of natural events by enthusiastic participants."
However, a dear friend of mine and a member of my congregation was recently the recipient of an unambiguous miracle.
Henry was dying of an aggressive brain tumor. He was at home in the care of hospice angels, family and friends. He was off all his meds and ready to go home. Suddenly, his latest MRI came back with the stunning news that the tumor had simply vanished. Doctors had no explanation about how or why this miracle (their word) had occurred.
I will share with you some of my thoughts on miracles that I shared with my congregation, and would love to hear about any miracles with which God has blessed you or those you love:
I don't expect the weekly Torah portion to be a newscast of contemporary events. The part of the Torah we read every Shabbat is, for me, a view into the eternal, not a report from the neighborhood. Yet, time after time, I have seen a message in the Torah verses, almost a prophecy, and certainly a divine commentary on what God is doing right now in our lives.
We read in Exodus 23:25 v'hasiroti mahalah mikirbecha: "And I will take away the sickness from within you."
I don't know if God was referring to Henry, but this week I think so. I don't say this often or lightly, but we have witnessed a miracle in our midst. Tonight we pray in grateful thanks for Henry's miracle.
There are so many questions about miracles that follow our joy. The responses to these questions, like the miracles themselves, come from God. They are responses, not answers, because these are unanswerable questions. They are mysteries, not problems.
As the philosopher Gabriel Marcel wrote: "Problems are questions we constitute. Mysteries are questions within which we ourselves are constituted." ("The Mystery of Being")
So our spiritual task with miracles is not to answer the questions but to find a way to respond to the mystery. We must live our way through the questions into responses our lives can embrace.
The most spiritually unworthy question about miracles, the question of the cynics and of those of uncertain faith is: "Why was Henry chosen to receive a miracle this week and not all the millions of others still walking through the valley of the shadow of death? Why Henry?"
I received the following e-mail this week:
"Rabbi Gellman: Would you be able to say a prayer for Claire? Claire is the 12-week-old niece of a friend of ours who is suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and needs our prayers. Thanks, in advance."
Why Henry and not Claire? The response to this question, is first off to pray for Claire. We pray that God might have a spare miracle for her.
Our next task is to simply pause and realize that if every prayer were answered, nothing would be a miracle. A miracle is an expected intrusion into Natural Law, or an unexpected gift during a time of desperate waiting. If our every prayer for life canceled the arrival of the Angel of Death, then death, our inescapable destiny, would never come. Those we love would never die. Those who are ill would never languish. Every day would be sunny. Natural Law would no longer be law, and we would live forever.
The consequence of this understandable but childlike fantasy would be that no children would ever be born to replace us, no medicines ever be invented to heal us, and we would never need to develop courage to face life's trials and tribulations.
Miracles need to be rare, or their power would evaporate into our unlimited spiritual neediness. The rabbis taught, ain somhin al ha nes: "do not rely on miracles." We must work to support the work of science as if there is no God, and we must trust in God as if there is no science.
The shortest Psalm, No. 131, and my favorite, gives us a luminous version of this humble response:
"A Song of Ascents; of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me. Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother; my soul is with me like a weaned child. O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever."
The Psalmist specifically teaches us that God wants us to be like a weaned child, not like a nursing child. A weaned child is prepared to live in a world where mothers are present but mother's milk is no longer available. We must be humble and trusting and hopeful. We cannot be demanding of God's hesed, God's grace. We must be simply grateful when it comes, and not feel betrayed when it does not come in time.
German theologian Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) wrote: "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you,' it will be enough." Therefore, the spiritually mature response to miracles is not "Why not others?" but simply, "Thank you." Thank you leads to a faith based on trust. Why not others? leads to a faith constantly hobbled by spiritually debilitating petitions.
Trust is not exactly belief, though it is in part based on belief. Trust is hope, and hope does not arise from believing something or other about God. Hope comes from trusting that God is with us in every circumstance of our life and our death and our life that begins after death.
How can we achieve a faith based upon trust? I can't say for sure, but for now it may be enough to say that miracles come to those who wait upon the Lord in patience, courage and trust. Why they don't come to all who wait is not only an unanswerable question but the wrong one because it implies that the miracles we can see are somehow not enough. The question of "Why not others?" actually prevents us from seeing the miracles around us every day.
There's a wonderful rabbinic legend about how some of those who walked through the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea did not see the miracle at all. How could this be? asked the rabbis, and they answered, "Because they never looked up and so all they saw that day was mud." The only way to see miracles is to look up. We must look up from our daily complaining, from our prayers that include a thousand petitions for each grudging thank you to God.
Our lives, our breath, our friends our community our nation are all miracles. Every day we awaken to eat breakfast and shovel the snow and go to work and come home and shovel the snow. Each day is filled with miracles. Each day, we must not just say but actually believe, "Today, as every day, my blessings exceed my burdens."
Henry's miracle also must remind us that doctors don't know everything. Karen Armstrong and Steven Gould have written that religion and science are non-overlapping magesteria, that they have, "different spheres of competence."
Armstrong insists that religion's task has always been and should continue to be "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there (are) no easy explanations and problems that we could not solve: morality, pain, grief, despair, and outrage at the injustice and cruelty of life."
William Saroyan wrote in "The Human Comedy": "Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit."
And we live in the spirit by caring for those we love. Care comes from the Gothic word Kara which means "to grieve, experience sorrow and to cry out with." And God heard Henry's cries and his family's cries and our cries and God answered them this week. That is all we know and that is all we need to know.
The philosopher of religion Mircea Eliade called the phenomena that confirm the reality of God, hierophanies. Henry is for me this week's hierophany. I often speak with people who have lost or have never discovered faith and they often say to me that if I could show them a miracle they would believe. Now all I have to do is give them Henry's phone number. Thanks to your miracle, Henry, your life and my job have become a lot easier this week.
The dreidels in Israel are different than the dreidels in the diaspora. Here the dreidels say nun, gimel, hey, shin, the first letters of the phrase, "Nes gadol haya sham" a great miracle happened there. Israeli dreidels are imprinted with the letters, nun, gimel, hey, phey. nes gadol haha po, "a great miracle happened here," and let us say to that, Amen.
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The movie stars Jim Carrey as the ever-adventurous Robert Ripley.
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