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This Week in Music and Blu-rays: September 27, 2011
This Week in Music
Brett Milano takes a listen to the latest new releases and reissues: Wilco’s The Whole Love, Pink Floyd’s (the whole) Dark Side (enchilada), the Bangles’ reunion, Steven Wilson’s double solo album, and more.
This Week in Blu-rays
Gene Newman looks at the latest in HD movies: Transformers: Dark of the Moon brings its supersized metallic orgy to your TV; Ben-Hur packs in everything except a chariot with spiked wheels; Paramount gives you a trio of classic comedies: Airplane!, The Naked Gun, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles; and more.
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Feed Your head Music Used LPs
Just came back from Feed Your Head Records, a used LP store off Morland, inside the I-285 perimeter, south of I-20 just past the Zoo in Atlanta. Met a nice gentleman, Tom Osborne, the owner for the first time after conversing off the Hoffman Forum. Needed something to feed my 3 turntables for the holidays. spent 3 leisurly hours listening to some vinyl feed off a Grado Sonata.
Purchases: Grand Funk Railrod Greatest Hits ('75) pristine condition 34 years old and sounds great; Harry Chapin, Short Stories(you probably know him from Cat In The Cradle), 1973; and finally Julie London, Julie Is Her Name, mono pressing 1955, great sound just like she is standing in front of me. Very cool. John Marks can eat is heart out over the Julie London find. All for $21.00 .
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Well, I envy you the London. It was worth the $21 by its lonesome.
Apropos of nothing, the missus has my Christmas wish - the new Mosaic Bing Crosby collection, which looks pretty wonderful.
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"Fundamentally customers are trying to move to a world where they can reduce complexity and cost not just by simplifying application management infrastructure, but by leveraging real-time application delivery to reduce support costs," wrote Harry Labana, CloudVolumes' senior vice president and chief product officer, explaining the potential appeal of his company's software, in a blog post announcing the acquisition.
VMware plans to integrate CloudVolumes' software more tightly with VMware Horizon, which is VMware's desktop virtualization software.
The CloudVolumes software packages the application within a container that can be quickly copied out to multiple users. The administrator sets the basic configuration for the application within a single "gold master" copy that can be shared by all the users. The CloudVolumes software maintains the customized settings for each user within the user's own environment.
CloudVolume's modular approach is somewhat similar to Docker, another container-based virtualization technology that has been generating much interest of late. The open-source Docker, which is offered by Google as a cloud service, speeds the responsiveness of virtualized applications by packing them in containers that can be run by the host's OS, rather than by the OS within the virtual machine itself.
VMware did not specify if it would operate CloudVolumes as a stand-alone subsidiary, or fold the company's software and personnel into its own operations. VMware may reveal more of its plans for CloudVolumes at its VMworld annual user conference, being held next week in San Francisco.
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The 'bubbling invention' of the Islamic world lit up the dark ages. By Tim Radford
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The relay-race model of intellectual history is simple enough: a go-ahead culture picks up the torch, runs as far as it can, and hands the light of learning to a younger contender before sinking into exhaustion.
1. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
2. by Jim Al-Khalili
The ancient Greeks fan the flame of rational inquiry and surrender it to the Romans, who leave it to flicker. The Vandals and Visigoths snuff it out. But embers of scholarship still glow in the eastern empire of Byzantium, and when the Arabs emerge from the desert darkness and establish the fabulous empire of Islam, inquiring minds in Baghdad and Isfahan translate, preserve and annotate the wisdom of Ptolemy and Aristotle for the next six centuries. The sultans and satraps storm Europe with the sword, but with them too arrives the astrolabe, algebra and the glory that was Greece.
This is enough to light up the dark ages, ignite the Renaissance, and inflame modern science. The evidence is in the nouns: algebra, alchemy, alcohol and even the capital letters of astronomy and history, Aldebaran and Avicenna and the Almagest of Ptolemy.
So far, so familiar. But Jim al-Khalili's book does more than just enrich a familiar narrative: it brings alive the bubbling invention and delighted curiosity of the Islamic world. The Greeks certainly provide the thread for the story, but from such thread the Ummayyads and Abbasids wove their own astonishing fabric of discovery and enlightenment. Empires are built on bloodshed but survive on know-how. "The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr," said the prophet Muhammad, and the empire founded in his name had a communication problem to solve before it could build its knowledge economy.
Persian or Pahlavi texts had to be translated into Arabic, among them studies of astrology, which may originally have been based on mathematics texts in Sanskrit. The new empire also needed Arabic versions of texts on geometry, engineering and arithmetic; it clashed with the Chinese, and from prisoners learned the art of papermaking. The first paper mills were established in Baghdad at the end of the eighth century: dyes, inks, glues and bindings followed. During and after the reign of Harun al-Rashid, the fabulous caliph of the so-called Arabian Nights, Persian, Arab, Christian and Jewish scholars all began to translate and publish medical and mathematical texts from Greek and Syriac as well as Persian and Indian scripts.
Around this time, Geber or Jabir ibn Hayyan the alchemist composed the Kitab al-Kimiya, a systematic examination of the nature of matter, which in 1144 would be translated into Latin by Robert of Chester as the Liber de compositione alchimiae. From Jabir we gain the word alkali, the distilling apparatus known as an alembic and – says Al-Khalili – perhaps even the word gibberish. Later Arabic texts delivered words we still use today: amalgam, borax, camphor, elixir. Whether Jabir counts as scientist or alchemist is an open question: within a generation, real science, intense scholarship and a palpable curiosity about the physical world began to emerge. Harun's successor Al-Ma'mun is linked with the founding of the House of Wisdom, a library, academy and translation factory that may have become at the time the largest repository of books in the world. Polymaths produced maps that showed the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic as open bodies of water, and tried to crack the meaning of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; they composed star charts, and adapted the Hindu number system to deliver the numerals we now use every day.
Not all Al-Khalili's heroes were Arabs: Omar Khayyam calculated the length of the solar year to 11 decimal places and composed in his native Persian a famous Treatise on Demonstration of Problems in Algebra, as well, of course, as those lines about the jug of wine, the loaf of bread and thou. Aristotle, too, lives on in this story: he appears in a dream to a caliph's son, and he fascinates generations of Islamic scholars. They were also people of their time. They accepted the theories of the four humours and the geocentric universe. But Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics pioneered the study of refraction and applied mathematics to a theory of vision; his successor Ibn Mu'adh used Euclidian geometry to calculate the height of the atmosphere at 52 miles (it is about 62 miles).
The tradition of inquiry and scholarship reaches far beyond Baghdad: to Samarkand and Bokhara, to Cairo and Cordoba. In the 10th century, in Andalusia, Al-Zahrawi devised the forceps, speculum and bonesaw, pioneered inhalant anaesthetics in the form of sponges soaked with cannabis and opium, and even described the first syringe. Ibn al-Nafis in the 13th century anticipated Harvey and described the pulmonary transit of the blood from the right side of the heart, via the lungs, to the left.
Al-Khalili is a Baghdad-born British physicist: his command of Arabic and mathematical physics invests his story with sympathy as well as authority. He is careful to put Arabic science in its context; he tries not to claim too much for his heroes and his attention to detail and fairness is rewarding. The metaphor of science as a relay race is exposed as unsatisfactory: cultures overlap, enrich and stimulate each other, and 10th-century Arab scholars greedy for understanding form a community with 16th-century Elizabethans or 21st-century Cambridge dons. The easy equation of Islam and wilful ignorance never made sense – empires are not sustained by ignorance – but even in the 11th century, the rationalists felt it necessary to defend reason.
The Persian Al-Biruni, who measured the height of a mountain and the angle of dip of the horizon to calculate the circumference of the planet to within an accuracy of 1%, warned that the extremist "would stamp the sciences as atheistic and would proclaim that they led people astray, in order to make ignoramuses of them, and to hate the sciences. For this will help him conceal his own ignorance, and to open the door to the complete destruction of the sciences and the scientists."
He might have been talking about the mullahs of modern Tehran, or the ranters of the US religious right. In the end, Arabic science did falter. The flame was picked up by Copernicus and Galileo, by William Harvey and Isaac Newton. In 2005, scientists from 17 Arab countries produced 13,444 scientific publications. Harvard University alone that year produced 15,455.
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There they stand, lined up on the library shelf in all their bleak austerity: the dictionaries, from many-volumed to compact, the thesauruses by Roget and others, Martindale on drugs and Merck on diagnosis and therapy and Black on medicine generally, definitive accounts of Who's Who and who used to be who - devoted in every case to the marshalling of verifiable fact. Not many jokes there, you might think.
But look more closely: observe, for instance, among the dictionaries, Chambers' taste for pawky Scottish usages; or mark the whole light industry now commemorating E Cobham Brewer, whose original Phrase and Fable dictionaries were compiled by simply copying down any smidgin of information that caught his fancy. Then there's Fowler, regarded by those who have never read him as a cold, imperious pedant, though that was never true even when he wrote his Modern English Usage, and is certainly not the case in the hands of recent editors. There are even writers of reference books who go beyond quirky to crazy. Alexander Cruden (1701-70), author of Cruden's Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, trawled unaided through the whole of the Bible, noting down every word and compiling them into a kind of index. If you want to know how often "topaz" crops up in the Book of Job, Cruden's your man.
From time to time in my researches I've come across a reference book which, though devised in the name of incontrovertible information, is brimming with personality. Take, for instance (if you can find it, which isn't easy), a work called The Directory of Railway Stations, by RVJ Butt, which does just what it says it does, listing every railway station, platform, halt and stopping place, public and private, living or dead, in the UK and Ireland. Here are stations, some now famous, which once had quite different names: some even had one name in the timetable, a second displayed on the platform, and a third on its railway tickets. A poem by Edward Thomas begins: "Yes, I remember Adlestrop"; had he been there some 70 years before, he'd have had to remember Addlestrop and Stow Road, which would rather have spoiled things.
A new station in Yorkshire in 1855 was initially Hangman's Stone, but was modified a month later to something less alarming. Some others were doomed in a mere few weeks: Cadmore's Lane, Cheshunt, opened perhaps with the mayor and a brass band in April 1842, lasted only till June 1. Sometimes stations that were some distance from a big centre of population would parade a name which suggested they were handier for such townships than, in fact, they were. Thus, Narberth Road for Cardigan and Tenby (a glance at the map would show how ambitious this claim must have been) was reduced to Narberth Road for Cardigan, before becoming Clynderwen, and later Clynderwen Halt.
I haven't discovered much about RVJ Butt (those bleak, reserved initials seem to me to add to the charm of the book). The blurb on the cover says he taught for some time at a leading independent school, which I think was King's Canterbury. It also explains that his book evolved from the railway tickets he'd collected since his youth. Some of these tickets appear as illustrations, alongside photographs of such scenes as Mallaig station (the most westerly on mainland Great Britain, behind which can be seen the Sound of Sleat), or a quite extraordinary station at Denbigh.
It's perhaps the most endearing feature of the directory that these tickets are here and there subjected to critical analysis. One from Letterkenny to Derry, for instance: "A shorter route would have been via the Londonderry & Lough Swilly railway via Tooban Junction." Yet perhaps this traveller nursed a distrust for the Londonderry & Lough Swilly, which some accounts of that eccentric endeavour suggest might well have been justified. I've long treasured a tale of this line which features a young scion of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy arriving at one of its stations and requiring a porter to help him carry a vast portmanteau to a station nearby. "Ye've a load of luggage, sor!" the perspiring porter gasps. "Are ye goin' far?" "Well, actually, yes," the young man says. "I'm going to China." To which the porter immortally replies: "Ach, well, sor, at least ye've the worst of the journey over."
McKie's Gazetteer, by David McKie, is published by Atlantic Books at £30
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Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg
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Wolfmother, the That '70s Show of modern rock bands, return with a second record. Well, we say return, but two of the three original members left in 2008, citing "irreconcilable personal and musical differences". Ouch. So this Wolfmother consists of the remaining member, Andrew Stockdale, plus a whole new group. It's been four years since their debut album and, based on this evidence, Stockdale has spent most of the time playing Guitar Hero and listening to Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. His Robert Plant-style yelping cuts through a haze of beer-chugging riffs. There's no shame in harking back in rock time, but if you're going to plunder the land of hot licks, best follow the lead of the White Stripes than, say, Jet. Cosmic Egg is the sound of a serious lack of invention.
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Don’t Like Your BFF’s ‘Ratchet’ Fiance? You Should Still Be a Bridesmaid
Ask Demetria: Don’t ruin a friendship just because you don’t support your bestie’s choices.
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Dear Demetria:
My BFF is engaged and so happy. Her fiance is a thug, cheater and liar. I don't support ratchet, so I hadn’t planned to attend the wedding. I was just going to claim work responsibilities. Now BFF wants me as bridesmaid and for me to pay for my dress. How can I tell her that I will not be attending and won't be a bridesmaid? —Anonymous
You don’t tell her that. You buy the dress and you be a bridesmaid.
I skipped my best friend’s wedding when we were 22 because I didn’t approve of her mate. Really, I didn’t approve of her getting married. Like your friend, she had asked me to be a bridesmaid.
There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with being a bridesmaid, and she was incredibly happy. But there was something going on with her, and she was, in my opinion, in no position to get married. She was coming off a particularly eye-opening experience she had as an adult, and she was still reeling. And by reeling I mean she made one bad decision after another, each progressively worse. Her marriage was her first time any of the decisions would be life-altering.
That was part of it. The other part was I’d known her since she was 12, and getting married at 22 was not the plan. She was supposed to graduate and move to New York. And then she was 22. “Who gets married at 22?!” I thought. None of our friends nor I knew the guy. She didn’t know him. They dated for only three months before they got engaged. There were a lot of reasons, I thought, for her not to get married.
I asked her if I could speak freely, and she said I could. So I said all that, and she thanked me for my opinion and said she was getting married anyway. So I started badgering her about it to the point that I even annoyed myself. Then we got into a huge argument about me badgering her, and I declared I wasn’t going to her wedding because I wasn't supporting bad decisions.
The result was she got married anyway, and for two years we didn’t speak. Her kid was born, and I didn’t meet her oldest child until his first birthday and missed out on being his godmother. We’ve long since “mended” our relationship, at least to the point that we talk, mostly on Facebook.
I still haven’t met her second kid, and one morning this year, I woke up to a 1,000-word, out-of-the-blue email telling me more than a decade later how much I had hurt her by not coming to her wedding. “If you didn’t want to support us,” she wrote, referring to herself and her now ex-husband, “then you should have come to support me.” I ruined a great friendship from my high horse. A decade later, I am still mending it. Missing her wedding was not worth it.
I tell you that to tell you this (again): Go to the wedding. Stand in line with the other bridesmaids in a dress you’ll probably never wear again and support your friend, even if you don’t support her union or her “ratchet” boyfriend or whatever else you don’t support. Stand there and smile and say “I’m happy for you” at the reception, because even if you don’t like her man, she does, and she has to deal with him. You don’t. Your opinion on this here doesn’t really matter.
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Peter Jackson holding an Oscar.
Peter Robert Jackson (October 31, 1961), is a New Zealand-born Academy Award-winning director. He directed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and well as played several minor parts.
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Public Image Ltd., debut gig at the Rainbow Theater, London, 1978.
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Elementary, Dear Data
Trivia, Quotes, Notes and Allusions
Quotes (2)
• Data: We shall return to the holodeck where I shall dare it to defeat me. And you, madam, are invited to be a witness. Dr. Pulaski: I wouldn't miss it.
• Dr. Pulaski: To feel the thrill of victory, there has to be the possibility of failure. Where's the victory in winning a battle you can't possibly lose? Data: Are you suggesting there is some value in losing? Dr. Pulaski: Yes, yes, that's the great teacher. We humans learn more often from a failure or a mistake than we do from an easy success.
Notes (2)
• Professor Moriarty returns in the Season 6 episode "Ship in a Bottle."
Trivia (5)
• Moriarty calls the computer "Mr. Computer" even though the ship's computer clearly speaks in a female voice.
• After Moriarty gives the sketch of the Enterprise to Data, Geordi asks, "What's wrong, Data?" Data hands him the page. Geordi says, "Data, this is impossible," and he flips the paper over so that it faces the camera. At this point we see the drawing right-side-up, which means that Geordi was looking at it upside down.
• Trivia: In this episode, Picard utters a profanity other than the usual "damn" or "hell" we see in most Trek series, saying "merde" in response to finding out that Moriarty was programmed with skills that would defeat Data. "Merde" is a French word that translates in English to a 4-letter word for excrement.
• After the first holodeck adventure, Geordi tells the computer to freeze-program, but the fire keeps burning in the fireplace.
• Data says Holmes defeated Moriarty only at the cost of his own life. That's not correct; because of the outcry by Doyle's readers over the great detective's death, Holmes "survived" the fall at Reichenbach Falls and returned in "The Adventure of the Empty House."
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• Title:
Referencing the phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson," commonly attributed to Sherlock Holmes in the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In fact, the phrase never appears in any of the author's works. The only time Holmes ever uses something similar is in "The Crooked Man," when he simply tells Watson, "Elementary."
• Sherlock Holmes Stories Asked to create a Sherlock Holmes mystery for Data, the computer combines elements from two Holmes mysteries. Jabez Wilson and The Red Headed League are, of course, from The Red Headed League, but the murder method (sending a venomous snake down a bell cord) is from The Speckled Band. The first mystery (the one chosen at random at the beginning) is A Scandal in Bohemia.
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scene girl:
there a different types of scene...
-might have piercings.
-wears skinny jeans alot.
-has choppy layered hair
-has high confidence
-has a myspace
-wears little bows
-shops at hot topic, zumiez, jounerys, ect.
-likes bright colours
-gets online alot
-has extesions
ashlee: ohmygod. jeffree star is da shit.
ashlee: applesauce is totally stellarr fosho like da shizzle
ashlee: i kno. i wish i was them.
A girl who is usually confused with beeing emo. They are attention whores (no-offence).
Hair: Often blonde or black with sopme kind of unatural color. Its also usually teased the bigger the better. The hair is always straightned and they go through lots of hairspray. Hair extensions help alot. The hair is epic.
Shoes: Vans,Converse,Skate shoes, as of now ballet flats. Remember the morer colorful the laces the better.
Jeans/pants: Skinneys are a must the tighter the better. Rips and holes are also excepitable just make sure you have crazy colorful leggings to go with them. Denim mini skirts are okay to.
Shirts: Random logos. band tees are great too. Make sure you have plenty of tees with cartoon characters such as Gir, My little pony, power rangers etc. Lacy colorful tanktops are great to.
Makeup: Thick eyeliner is a must. Usually black but remember to put some color in it the more colorful the better! Scene girls also usually use fake eyelashes and colorful eyeshadow almost to the brow.
Music: Is very important. Scene girls usually like local bands and are always at concerts. Scene girls often listen to anything exept country and most rap.
Etc: Make sure your always on your cell. or myspace (make sure you post lots and lots of pics of yourself) Piercings are great but that all depends on you. There names are also important such as Kiki Kannibal.
Scene girl #1-Are you going to never shout never's show tonight???
Scene girl #2- Pshyah its gonna be the absolute Sexx!!!!! And plus what kind of lame wonder duck isnt going?
Scene girl #1- Hah! I knew you were my favorite Biatch for some reason.
by XxKaylee KatastrophicXx June 01, 2010
Scene Girls are normally defined as loud and bright,they usally wear tight clothing,or graffic tees with hello kitty,rave,screamo,punk or rock bands or Gir.They tend to date scene guys which are tall skinny have long bangs usally covering eyes and are deffined as outcasts in high school and middle schoo,
ledamonsterbunny,izzy murder,hannha beth,scene girls
by Killer Scene June 26, 2011
-MUST have a myspace (Stickam is also acceptable,)
-has some strange color in hair
-hair must be choppy or messy or something!
-usually have long and colored extensions (coon stripes-)
-facial piercings (i.e. septum, monroe, snakebites, nostril, lip, eyebrow ect.)
-act like an immature little kid
-either do gore, or lush (cute.)
-wear super tight pants
-really any shirt is acceptable
-bows in hair
-dark rimmed eyes (shitload of eyeliner)
-brightly colored eyeshadow
-hello kitty and gloomy bear!!!
-say things like "rad" "stellar" "gnar" "cunt" "hoez" "nigz"
-have obsessions with random cute things that 4 year olds like
-listen to grindcore (or metal or techno or anything, really)
-think highly of yourself
-must love Jeffree Star
-take myspace pics in weird angles and be original!
-have a myspace name ending with some sort of inanimate object or starting with an adjective i.e. "lexi lush" "meggie massacre" "kiki kannibal"
-screw everyone
-don't ever admit to being scene, cuz honey, if you're in the scene, don't act like it
-call people hun, sweetie, love, darling, sexy, cutie ect.
-being bisexual is very in right now for guys and girls, but if you don't actually like the same sex, then don't pretend you do
-try to get tons of friends on myspace (ex: "I have 15k!")
-be a bitch, but be sentimental at the same time
-always try to be original
scene girl 1: "I can't wait to go to hot topic today! that store is so effin rad"
scene girl 2: "yahh, they got the tightest pants evahhh"
scene girl 3: "let's stop off at claires too. i feel like getting some totally lushed out bows. i need new myspace pics!"
scene girl 1: "yahh."
scene girl 2: "oh em gee! we should totally get some pics of us making out!"
scene girl 3: "oh fuck yeah!"
scene girl 1: "that would be so hardcore!"
scene girl 2: "fuck yeah, you nigz are so hot!"
scene girl 1: "lets go, cunts! can't wait to get to the mall!"
by Arghhhh Emmm Kayy May 24, 2008
Apparently, young females that tend to hang outwith other dubious, self-entitled children desperately seeking to break away from the traditional "emo" pack and portray the following qualities:
1. terrible haircuts
2. poor fashion sense (leggings are not pants)
3. a slurry of star tattoos and lip piercings that they will soon regret
just walk around any mall at any time and look for a scene girl
by monsterweenie January 08, 2012
Scene girls are very confident. Their clothes are bright. A typical outfit would be-- A big bow in teased hair. Black eyeliner (with cat eyes) and fake eyelashes. A Hello Kitty t-shirt. Red and black zebra striped skinny jeans with yellow ballet flats. Lots of big necklaces and bracelets. Neon colors are a must. Band shirts are great too. Anything with Hello Kitty, Kuromi,My Melody, Gir, etc. are the best to wear. Little and big bows are great and are also a must. Skinny jeans are the best to be worn. Remember, the tighter the better. Teased/spiked hair are usually seen on scene girls with many colors. Lets put it at this, the 80's are their fashion.
Music ranges from The Medic Droid to Black Dahlia Murder to The Beastie Boys. Mostly anything except country.
The scene queens are gods. Like Jeffree Star Hannabeth Kiki Kannibal Zui Suicide.
They are confident and don't care what you think. They do whatever they want to.
scene boy- hey babyy. are yew going to the show tonight?
scene girl- duhh! its going to be sooo awesomatastic!
regular girl- whats with you scene kids? you all look weird.
scene girls- we dont care what you think
regular girl- ugh. . . *rolls eyes and walks away*
by mimiMASSACRE December 25, 2008
The way we are. Haters who have nothing better to do than bitch on a goddamn online dictionary make us giggle :3 you wee cutiepiies <3 xox We are gorgeous and fun and haters are jealous cuz we actually have friends hehee xo
Scenegirls are the sexiest people alive so get a grip haters xx kthxbaiii we know you love us really so get over your super inflated ego and see we're our own people and have our own style. mwaaah peace rawwr <3 xoxoxo yours truly, scene girl <33
by KandiiKanee xo May 04, 2011
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Film Studies
Film Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that considers the history, aesthetics, and ideology of cinema as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of personal, political, and cultural representation. On both the graduate and undergraduate levels, courses are offered on a variety of topics involving film and moving-image culture, among them authorship, adaptation, world and national cinemas, genres (such as comedy, the musical, horror, science fiction), modes (such as documentary and experimental cinema). In all courses, students are exposed to a wide range of artists, works, styles, and movements from a number of different critical and theoretical perspectives.
FILM 2332, Understanding Film, is the introductory undergraduate course that serves as a prerequisite for all upper-level film studies courses; it is also a required course in the ATEC undergraduate curriculum.
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Wife, mother, Huntington's patient: Sharon Shaffer's story
People with Huntington's disease learn about the fatal degenerative illness that destroys brain cells in different ways. Sharon Shaffer's messenger was a "60 Minutes" documentary.
"While watching the show, my dad insisted that his mother looked exactly like the lady on television," Shaffer wrote in an 2003 article for the San Diego chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America.
"The subject they were discussing was Huntington's disease."
A call from Shaffer's father to his own father, Shaffer's grandfather, revealed the truth: Huntington's had killed her paternal grandmother. Her father's increasingly frequent stumbles, which had mystified doctors, were at last explained.
And after Shaffer had married and given birth to two daughters, she too, manifested symptoms of Huntington's.
Shaffer, an accountant, stopped working in 2007. She must now focus her entire attention to tasks that she once could perform automatically. Because depression is one of the disease's symptoms, she takes an antidepressant. She doesn't take a drug that reduces her uncontrollable movements, because it made her feel too sleepy.
And Shaffer knows her condition will get worse with time, unless an effective treatment for the disease is discovered.
Despite that knowledge, Shaffer says she still finds satisfaction in life, especially with her husband, Renato, and daughters Taylor and Alexa.
Last September, the Shaffer family visited New York City to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A photo of them on the Empire State Building, with the empty spot where the World Trade Center once stood in the background, depicts a happy and apparently healthy family.
"I'm still able to do quite a bit, in comparison to how my dad was," Shaffer said. "My dad kind of checked out a little bit and he just gave up. He was overwhelmed. As long as I can walk, and I'm not couch-bound or wheelchair-bound .... "
Right now, memory loss is the most troubling part of the disease for Shaffer.
"That's the most frustrating part," she said. "My short-term memory is completely gone, or going. I forget what I'm doing, I forget where I put things all the time."
Besides her family, Shaffer said she gets encouragement from her Huntington's support group.
"I really feel like it's helping me with my symptoms," she said.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You are in a state of flux, not willing to commit to even the simplest of daily habits. Wondering "what would –––– do?" will help you get centered. (Fill in the blank with your icon of choice.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your opinions are strong, and they won't be shared by many of the people around you today. However, you can and will make your point without making an enemy.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your busy life may be leaving someone out – someone very close to you, no less. It only takes five minutes to reconnect with your loved one. You're so happy when you take the time to do so.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The song of your soul is like the classic Russel and Ellington heartbreak song that goes, "Don't get around much anymore . . . " It's hard to go to the old places without that special person, but do it anyway, and you feel like a winner!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Too much of anything can drive you off the straight path – including too much of being on the straight path. Explore your "bad" self. Be willing to ruffle someone's feathers or disturb the status quo if it's how you really feel.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You're the sign of tangible results. You believe that you can improve anything you can quantify. But if you can't quantify it, you can't improve it. Get hard facts and numbers in places you didn't think to look yesterday.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). This is a chaotic day unless you make up your mind early on and stick to your plan. If you think you can do it, you can. If you think you can't do it, you're right about that, too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). With what part of your work are you least familiar? This is the perfect day to get educated. People are open to sharing all they know with you. Give other water signs (that's Cancer and Pisces) the benefit of the doubt.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Being prepared is your key to confidence. When you know you can deliver the goods, you have no problem selling yourself. A stranger is your link to new friends and possibly love. Chat up someone new.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The stars align to nudge you toward that place you've always wanted to go. Pictures, scents and foreign accents fill your head with curiosity. Tonight, start to form a plan about how you'll get there.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Though you have very few regrets, you do have one or two persistent ones. Regret is an opportunity to do things differently when they pop up in your life again – and important lessons always do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your window into someone's soul is not through the eyes, but through the deeds this person does today. One action says it all. Read the signs, and react to them.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 4). There are so many opportunities to revel in your power this year! Your career sprouts wings, and you no longer feel bound by the forces that kept you down before. Give love another chance in December. Doing business with family is favored in the spring – together you could make a mint! Love signs are Taurus and Gemini. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 33, 20, 36 and 38.
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Overarching science strategies, plans and policies
There is no specific national policy or strategy of Marine Biotechnology. Overarching science and technology policy is based on the Spanish Science Law of 1986 and described in the Spanish National Strategy for Science and Technology (ENCYT) managed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
• The Spanish Science Spanish National Strategy for Science and Technology (ENCYT) covers the main principles and general objectives governing both nationwide and regional science and technology policies, for the period 2007-2015. [1]
The main instrument to implement the National Strategy is the National Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation Plan (2008-2011/+2012) (National R&D&I Plan ) which has a four-five year duration and it is executed based on annual Work Programmes. Although academic research is a major component of the National R&D&I Plan, specific actions are also included to support technological innovation.
The Plan sets up 4 main Strategic Areas:
• Area 1: Development of Sienctific and Technological Knowledge and Capacities
• Area 2: Promotion of Cooperation in RTD
• Area 3: Sectoral Development and Technological Innovation
• Area 4: Strategic Actions
In addition the Plan also sets up 6 Instrumental Action Lines to implement these Strategic Areas which are develop through different Programmes and a number of Subprogrammes. One of the Strategic Actions is focussed on Biotechnology, though no specific reference is made to marine biotechnology in it. As to the Programmes and Subprogrammes of the National R&D&I Plan, none of them make reference to marine research but the Plan is open to this research community since it follows a bottom-up approach. Successful marine projects/initiatives are supported through different programmes and subprogrames of the National R&D&I Plan, including the Strategic Area on Biotechnology.
• The National Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation Plan (National R&D&I Plan) [2] [3]
Recognising the importance of R&D&i to sustaining and boosting growth, productivity and society’s wellbeing, and to bring Spain into line with the more developed countries of the European Union in terms of Research and Development, the Government drew up a new Strategy called the INGENIO 2010 Programme whilst keeping up all the existing efforts in the area of R&D&I. In the implementation of this strategy the necessary territorial coordination has been promoted so as to avoid wasting resources, increase the effectiveness of public R&D&i investment and reduce the existing territorial imbalances. The INGENIO 2010 Programme includes the Programmes CONSOLIDER, CENIT and the Plans AVANZA and EUROINGENIO.
• INGENIO 2010 Programme [4]
Research funding schemes and programmes
• The National R&D&I Plan is structured in Actions Lines, Programmes and sub-programmes. In addition it has got 5 Strategic Areas with relevance for Marine Biotechnology activities. These Strategic Actions are Health, Biotechnology, Energy and Climate Change, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and New Materials and New Industrial Processes.
As indicated above, there is not a specific sub-programme or priority on marine sciences within the National R&D&i Plan, nevertheless most of the programmes and subprogrammes of the National R&D&I Plan follow a bottom up approach and may fund research in marine biotechnology.
Fundamental Research on Biotechnology, including marine biotechnology, is mainly funded through different Programmes and sub-programmes of the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation, including the National Programme on Fundamental Research (the programme CONSOLIDER, the sub-programme of non-oriented research, and the subprogramme TRACE of oriented research of knowledge transfer to industry).
In addition industry-leaded or oriented research projects on Biotechnology may be funded through different programmes including the National Programme on Applied Research (i.e. the Sub-programme of Applied Industrial Research funded by MINETUR and Sub programme.of Colaborative Projects for Applied Research, Sub-Programme of Applied Research in Technology Centres funded by MINECO), National Programme on Public-Private Cooperation (i.e. the Sub-programme in Support of Singular Strategic Projects and the Sub-Programme INNPACTO), the National Programme for Experimental Development (i.e. Sub-Programme of RTD projects, Subprogramme of industrial experimental development projects) and the Specific Programme for Private-Public Cooperation of RTDI on Apply genomics and Biotechnology. The CENIT Programme was also an important that aimed at financing industry leaded projects.
Moreover MINECO through the National R&D&I Plan also provides funding for research in biotechnologies, including marine biotechnology, through programmes aimed at predoctoral and graduate researchers as well as for tenured scientists (Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva Sub-Programmes), as well as funding for specific programmes to facilitate mobility of researchers. In addition the Sub-Programme Torres Quevedo aims at contracting PhD to work for industries and SMEs, technology centres and science parks.
Successful marine projects/initiatives that are supported by the different Programmes and sub-Programmes of the National R&D&i Plan are generally managed within a specific management area and by a team devoted to marine sciences. The Biotechnology Strategic Action can fund also marine biotechnology projects related with the marine environment. The commitments to INGENIO 2010 Programme (see above) also include a number of specific support programmes which follow up a bottom up approach and are open to Marine Biotechnology such as the CENIT Programme and the CONSOLIDER Programme.
• The CONSOLIDER Programme aims to support outstanding research groups in all the fields of science and technology to increase the average size of research groups, raise the levels of funding available to the best lines of research, eliminate excessive fragmentation in research and promote the participation of public research centres in the European Framework Programme. It has increased cooperation between researchers with regard to projects run by leading consortiums and unique installations, mobilising a total of 2,000 million euros. About €10M funding has gone to marine and aquaculture projects (not limited to marine biotechnology) up to the end of 2011. The CONSOLIDER Programme is funded through a sub-programme of the National R&D&I Plan
• The CENIT Programme was funded by CDTI and aimed to finance major lines of industrial research by means of public-private collaboration using a mechanism of 50% co-financing by the private sector. This Programmed ended up in 2010.
At regional level, the different regions have their own RTD programs which are also bottom up and are therefore opened to marine research and marine biotechnology. Nevertheless in some regions, like Galicia, the Regional RTD Plan include a priority line on Marine Research and Development. In others Regions, like Cataluña or the Basque Country, the term “marine” is echoed in some of the objectives of those Plan.
In the field of aquaculture JACUMAR (The Advisory Board on Marine Cultures) which depends on the Ministry of Agriculture , Food and Environment (MAGRAMA) in agreement with Regions is responsible for setting up multiannual RTDI plans on aquaculture, which may include biotechnology issues related to this field. These projects are funded by JACUMAR.[5]
A database which may contain relevant funded projects is available at [6], but it does not cover all relevant projects and may not be fully up to date. The MarineERA projects database [7] also contains recent information on marine research projects.
Research priorities for marine biotechnology research
Strategic Action for Biotechnology[8]
Strategic documents
A good overview of the Spanish science policy landscape in English, including downloadable strategic documents is available from the MINECO website[1]
Infrastructures and coordination and support capacities / initiatives
• Spain has a National Programme for Science and Technology Infrastructures to implement priorities of its National R&D&I Plan. The Programme for Science and Technology Infrastructures which aim is to improve the existing RTD infrastructures, their maintenance and optimize their use. The Programme also foresee the design, building, maintenance, operation and upgrade of ICTS (Unique Scientific and Technological Infrastructures) and GIC (Large Scientific Infrastructures) with a national and EU dimension. Contribute to the development of the Regions to promote the territorial cohesion.[1]
• In 2012, Spain maintains about 7 large marine research equipments registered in the European large Exchangeable instruments database [9].
• Within the framework of the INGENIO 2010 Programme, the ICTS (Unique Scientific and Technological Infrastructures) are configured as instruments for scientific and technological development. Currently there are 7 Marine ICTS in Spain, including the 3 Research Vessels (RV Cornide de Saavedra, RV Sarmiento de Gamboa, RV Hespérides, 2 Antarctic Basis and 2 ICTS still in the construction phase (PLOCAN and SOCIB). In addition these there are 3 which still are in their design phase (OOCMur, UTO and , MAREAS). The network of ICTS is coordinated by IEO [12]
• Key aquaculture experimental and research facilities in Spain include
• 2 Experimental Research Facilities (IFAPA)
• Aquaculture Pilot Plant (Centro tecnologico Gallego de Acuicultura CETGA)
• Experimental Research Facilities (Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas ICCM)
• Experimental Research Facilities (Centro de Investigaciones Marinas -CIMA)
Major initiatives
Spanish Biomass Technology Platform One the priorities of the Strategic Plan of this platform is the production of biofuel from microalgae. [13]
PTEPA is the Spanish Platform for Fisheries and Aquaculture Research. This platform has develop a SRA [14]
Genoma Spain is a government-supported public foundation devoted to promoting technology development, knowledge transfer and innovative practices, chiefly in the biotechnology sector.[15]
More relevant projects:
• AQUAGENOMICS (2008-2013) is a project funded (€6M) under the CONSOLIDER Programme and probably the only current Spanish project dealing specifically with marine biotechnology. The project aims to improve aquaculture production through the use of biotechnological tools. It is composed of 18 project partners coordinated by Inmunología IIM CSIC. [16]
• CENIT Acuisost (2007–2011) is a project funded under the CENIT Programme with a budget €22M to develop and evaluate raw materials, technologies and processes in marine aquaculture comprising items such as nutrition, biosafety and commerciasation of product with added value, food security and revalorization of subproducts that improves the sustainability. It is composed of 22 Companies and 17 research groups lead by Grupo Dibaq and coordinated by Esmedagro.[17]
Other partly relevant CENIT project include:
• CENIT Nanofarma: €15M (2006-2009) [18]
• CENIT Oncológica: €17M (2009-2012)[19]
• CENIT BIOSOS: €13,6M (2009-2012) biorefinery/algae [20]
• CENIT VIDA: €19M (2010- 2013) energy and algae [21]
• CENIT PILBE: €10,7M (2006-2009) biodiesel and algae [22]
• INNPACTO Polysfera (2010-2013) [23]
• INNPACTO ORALBEADS (2011-2014) [24]
• INNPACTO BIOKÉTIDO (2011-2014) [25]
Industry: Spain is host to Pharmamar, one of the most successful companies dedicated specifically to marine biotechnology in the world [26]. Pharmamar is specialised in development of antitumor drugs of marine origin.
CEAMSA, , manufactures and supplies a comprehensive range of high quality carrageenan and pectin products to the global food industry. [28]
BioFuel Systems. A company specialized in the production of biofuel from marine microalgae. [29]
ANFACO-CECOPESCA it is a large company that conducts research in a number of fields related with marine biotechnologies and their use in aquaculture and seafood processing, [30]
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Editors' pick
Japandroids and Love Is All
Editorial Review
CD Review: "Post-Nothing"
The members of Japandroids are all confused. They have something to say, but they're not sure they want you to hear it. So on "Post-Nothing," Vancouver din-rockers Brian King and David Prowse turn their observations into chants, reiterating them until they're inescapable. Then they bury those refrains in noise, so that listeners may not even notice them. Which, come to think of it, is also what they do to their surprisingly catchy melodies.
Admittedly, some of the duo's dispatches are more consequential than others. "Wet Hair" concludes with this manifesto: "Let's go to France so we can French kiss some French girls." But even at their silliest, the band's lyrics express a lust for life that isn't merely about lust. Philosophically, the centerpiece is the sprawling "Young Hearts Spark Fire," in which the singers protest, "I don't want to worry about dying."
The twosome also has another means of expressing its will to live: King's room-filling guitar chords, whose impact is broadened by distortion, and Prowse's arena-size drumming, which ranges from simple time-keeping to Keith Moon-style flourishes. At slower speeds, as on "Crazy/Forever," Japandroids do a reasonable impression of metallic boogie. But most of these songs move faster, which suits the band's almost-optimistic outlook.
-- Mark Jenkins, Weekend (July 2009)
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God will help people avoid sin, says pope
November 4, 2013
Even though human beings are weak and imperfect, Christians can’t be lazy and wallow in sin, Pope Francis said.
Believing in God means making a real effort to live the faith fully, not superficially, and asking the Lord for help and strength to follow him on the path of holiness, he said in his morning Mass homily Oct. 24.
“We really are weak, and many times – many times – we sin, we have shortcomings,” he said.
The tendency to sin must be accompanied by acknowledging, “‘Yes, I’m a sinner, I am weak’ and always going to the Lord and telling him, ‘Lord, you have the strength, but give me faith! You can heal me!’”
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Miska Knapek
Imagine what you would create if you took weather data -- information such as wind speed and direction -- and created a 3D form from it.
Designer Miska Knapek has done exactly this taking meteorological data and using software and a computer controlled drill to create models from it (see video below). The resultant project, Windcuts, includes models that used five days worth of wind information and others that model just one day's worth of gusts.
Knapek explains in the project's Flickr gallery: "The direction of the line is the wind's direction. The width and speed of movement is the wind speed. And the height [of the model] is the temperature."
Windcuts is part of a larger project called Infosthetics, which includes wooden representations of tidal data, bus routes, stock market figures and, most intriguingly, the "moods" of weeping willow trees.
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Aim higher, reach further.
Herbalife Feud Gets Personal
"He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to prison."
The investing world has gotten less perilous since Gilded Age speculator Daniel Drew uttered these words. But the fight over Herbalife Ltd. has taken on a more personal, distinctly 19th century flavor. Rather than a battle among faceless institutions, as is usually the case today, Herbalife features a handful of financiers—Bill Ackman, Carl Icahn and George...
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CERN was a European research center, and Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau had apparently just visited HUT to speak about their work. (In his book, Berners-Lee only mentions Cailliau visiting HUT during this period, but the Erwise group say they positively remember Berners-Lee speaking.) Finland also was a frontier of information technology at the time: the Finnish university network FUNET had been established in 1984, and chatting protocol IRC, Linus Torvalds’ Linux, and SMS text messaging had all been created there.
Whoever was the conduit, Berners-Lee’s request attracted the attention of the Finns’ instructor, Ari Lemmke, who suggested the group start to work on it or “something Linux-related.” They chose the browser.
As Kim Nyberg explains: “Ours was a totally unknown field. But when we heard of the idea of the browser, we realized that it could be a big thing. We were amazed when we thought what all this could lead to. It became a truly interesting experience.”
The four Finns completed their browser by April 1992: only a couple thousand lines of code were needed, so the work was feasible. They demonstrated it to their professor, Martti Mäntylä, showing how Erwise could surf Web pages—there were just 12 in the world at the time, according to Nyberg, Sydänmaanlakka, and Rantanen. The students got a top grade from their professor.
Erwise Screen Shot The men are still very proud of Erwise. Despite being such an early take on the idea of the graphical browser, it already had interesting and advanced applications. You could click the highlighted hypertext link with your mouse, and a new page was opened! Erwise could also search for text on a Web page. The browser even could load several different pages simultaneously, which Mosaic still could not do a year later.
Erwise even seemed to sow some seeds of Google. If Erwise couldn’t find a search word on one page, it would start to look for the term on other Web pages. Such a function would become the basis of crawler or spider programs that today’s search engines rely on.
Erwise was soon followed by other browsers, such as ViolaWWW and Midas. Andreessen’s team at NCSA created Mosaic independently, but version 1.0 wasn’t released until about year later, in early 1993.
“At first they did a lot of things quite wrong with Mosaic. There were problems we had already solved,” Nyberg laughs (You can find a 1993 e-mail from Nyberg to Marc Andreessen with some advice regarding Mosaic here.) In any case, Mosaic brought the World Wide Web to the general public. A year after that, Clark and Andreessen incorporated Mosaic Communications, soon to be known as Netscape—and the rest, as they say, is history.
Why didn’t Erwise become a household name? Why aren’t the Finns billionaires or mega-millionaires, like Clark and Andreessen?
The three engineers I met with laugh and remember those times with nostalgia. The Finns knew what they had accomplished and considered their options. But for a variety of reasons, they say, Erwise could not have achieved commercialization.
They point out one decisive issue: Finland in April 1992 was in a horrible recession. The country was almost bankrupt. No corporate, venture, or government money was available for startups, and there were no angel investors in Finland at the time. Nobody even knew the concept.
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Al Hoff is a zinester from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Al Hoff is best known for her zine Thrift Score, subtitled, "the zine about the fun of too much thrifting", which was the ongoing chronicle of Al Hoff‘s adventures in thrift stores, including her experiences with other shoppers as well as descriptions of popular thrift store items and tips on second hand shopping. Thrift Score was published from 1994 till 1998.
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Black Screen after Parallels Tools installation.
Discussion in 'Windows Guest OS Discussion' started by dougwo, May 14, 2013.
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I updated to the newest version of Parallels 8. I run Windows 7 and it comes up and immediately goes to the Parallels tools installer, as usual. When Parallels tools is complete, the system reboots and I get a black screen. I can press ctrl-alt-del and get a menu. But when I login, I get black screen. If I start over from my backup file and abort the Parallels tools install, Windows 7 runs fine.
I can get my latest VM file from the back-up and the process is just repeated.
Is this a known bug in parallels tools? Can I get a newer version?
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The Pyramid Web Application Development Framework
See :ref:`firstapp_chapter` for a full explanation of how this application works. Read the :ref:`html_narrative_documentation` to understand how :app:`Pyramid` is designed to scale from simple applications like this to very large web applications.
Front Matter
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cluegun is a simple pastebin application based on Rocky Burt's ClueBin. It demonstrates form processing, security, and the use of :term:`ZODB` within a :app:`Pyramid` application. Check this application out via:
git clone git://
virginia is a very simple dynamic file rendering application. It is willing to render structured text documents, HTML documents, and images from a filesystem directory. It's also a good example of :term:`traversal`. An earlier version of this application runs the website. Check this application out via:
git clone git://
shootout is an example "idea competition" application by Carlos de la Guardia and Lukasz Fidosz. It demonstrates :term:`URL dispatch`, simple authentication, integration with SQLAlchemy and pyramid_simpleform. Check this application out of version control via:
git clone git://
KARL is a moderately-sized application (roughly 80K lines of Python code) built on top of :app:`Pyramid`. It is an open source web system for collaboration, organizational intranets, and knowledge management. It provides facilities for wikis, calendars, manuals, searching, tagging, commenting, and file uploads. See the KARL site for download and installation details.
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% Felix's Node.js Convincing the boss guide
boss. Well, maybe. I have had the pleasure of [consulting][consulting] for
different businesses on whether node.js is the right technology, and sometimes
the answer is simply no.
convince the management.
## Bad Use Cases
### CPU heavy apps
sense. The most obvious such case is apps that are very heavy on CPU usage, and
very light on actual I/O. So if you're planning to write video encoding
software, artificial intelligence or similar CPU hungry software, please do not
use node.js. While you can twist and bend things quite a bit, you'll probably
get better results with C or C++.
### Simple CRUD / HTML apps
PHP, Ruby or Python at this point. Yes, your app might end up slightly more
scalable, but no - your app will not magically get more traffic just because
you write it in node.js.
The truth is that while we are starting to see good frameworks for node.js,
there is nothing as powerful as Rails, CakePHP or Django on the scene yet. If
most of your app is simply rendering HTML based on some database, using node.js
will not provide many tangible business benefits yet.
### NoSQL + Node.js + Buzzword Bullshit
If the architecture for your next apps reads like the cookbook of NoSQL
ingredients, please pause for a second and read this.
Yes, Redis, CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, Casandra, etc. all look really tempting, but
so did that red apple Eve couldn't resist. If you're already taking a
technological risk with using node.js, you shouldn't multiply it with more
technology you probably don't fully understand yet.
Sure, there are legitimate use cases for choosing a document oriented database.
But if you are trying to build a business on top of your software, sticking to
conservative database technology (like postgres or mysql) might just outweigh
the benefits of satisfying your inner nerd and impressing your friends.
## Good Use Cases
Building light-weight REST / JSON api's is something where node.js really
shines. Its non-blocking I/O model combined with JavaScript make it a great
exposing them via a JSON interface.
### Single page apps
If you are planning to write an AJAX heavy single page app (think gmail),
node.js is a great fit as well. The ability to process many requests / seconds
with low response times, as well as sharing things like validation code between
the client and server make it a great choice for modern web applications that do
lots of processing on the client.
### Shelling out to unix tools
With node.js still being young, it's tempting to re-invent all kinds of software
for it. However, an even better approach is tapping into the vast universe of
existing command line tools. Node's ability to spawn thousands of child
processes and treating their outputs as a stream makes it an ideal choice for
those seeking to leverage existing software.
### Streaming data
Traditional web stacks often treat http requests and responses as atomic events.
However, the truth is that they are streams, and many cool node.js applications
can be built to take advantage of this fact. One great example is parsing [file
uploads in real time][realtimeencoding], as well as building proxies between different data
### Soft Realtime Applications
Another great aspect of node.js is the ease at which you can develop soft real
time systems. By that I mean stuff like twitter, chat software, sport bets or
interfaces to instant messaging networks.
But please be careful here, since JavaScript is a dynamic / garbage collected
language, your response times may sometimes vary depending on how often and long
the garbage collection kicks in (at which point your program is stopped). So
don't try to build hard realtime systems in node, that require consistent
response times. Erlang is probably a better choice for these kinds of
## Convincing the boss
Once you have determined that your use case is a good fit for node.js, it's time
to convince your boss or management of giving it a go.
### Building a prototype
The best way to put your foot into the door, is to suggest taking a week to
build a simple prototype of a certain part of the application you have in mind.
It's usually easy to get management to agree to that, since they don't have to
make a long term commitment yet.
After you've got the approval, it's usually easy to get a basic system up and
running, which will provide you with much more hard data and evidence of the
benefits of node.js.
### Finding developers
Think of JavaScript whatever you want, but at this point it's becoming the
[lingua franca][] of computer programming. Pretty much every personal computer
has one or more JavaScript interpreters (browsers) installed, which means it's
almost impossible for most web developers to not learn it at some point in their
This means that you get a huge and diverse pool of people you can hire, and you
probably already have plenty of talent in your own company. So if you're working
for a growing company, this is a strong argument favouring node.js.
[lingua franca]:
### Vibrant community
At this point the node.js community is growing at an insane pace, attracting
some of the smartest developers in the industry. This also means that the node
ecosystem is growing every day, and it's also easy to get free and commercial
support from various sources.
### Performance
This argument has to be carefully played, but if performance is a critical
aspect of your application, node.js has lots to offer. With five companies
(Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Opera) competing over the best JavaScript
implementation, node's underlaying interpreter (Google's v8) has become insanely
fast, and getting better every day.
Combining this with node's radical model of non-blocking I/O, you have to try
very hard to create a sluggish application. Most node apps are easily capable of
handling thousands of concurrent connections, on what could be considered
moderate hardware by any standards.
### Corporate Backing
One of the risks with using a young open source project is the lack of longterm
commitment by its authors. This isn't the case with node.js. Node is currently
sponsored by [Joyent][], who has hired Ryan Dahl and several other core
contributors, so there is a real economic force backing the future development
of the project.
Amongst other things, this has already given companies like Yahoo! and HP
(formerly Palm) enough confidence to build their next generation products on
node.js, so your boss can certainly relax by reading their reassuring
## Convincing a client
If you're a freelancer or small company doing contract work, convincing a client
to use node.js might be a different story. After all they are usually very
dependent on your judgement, as well as continuous support for the software you
create for them.
My advice here is to be a little more conservative, and double check if node is
a good fit. If it is, make sure that you have the resources and time to support
the application in the future. The node.js team is releasing new versions at a
rapid pace, and so you should expect a little work every 3-6 months to update to
the latest version.
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Graded Feature Support: Look up web technologies and find out if they are ready for use.
JavaScript CSS HTML
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Before you begin
1. Install Node (with npm):
2. Install Sass:
3. Optionally, install Compass:
Getting Started
1. In your terminal, navigate to this project and type:
npm install .
1. To generate the index.html page, type:
node .
1. Important Note: To check if the urls are accurate (and for deploying to production), type:
node . checkurls
1. Each of the features requires its own markdown file under posts folder. It is easy to create using the shell script on the parent directory. Just type ./ and start entering details about the feature you want to add.
2. All styles must be in the included Sass file rather than be updated in the generated CSS file. Easiest way to compile them is to use Compass:
compass watch .
Dec 12 2011
• No more JSON!
• Now we create each 'feature' with a markdown file that has YAML-like front matter. To make this easy, there is a script that you can run to automate the creation of the file for each feature that needs to be written about. e.g. you would do ./ and then enter "text-shadow" if you want to create a markdown file for the text-shadow feature. There is a if you want to refer to (but really the shell script should do all the prompting for you to get set up). It even starts your default editor for you with the newly created file if you have the $EDITOR set up in your PATH.
• features.json is retired, only to be used for reference at best (as if its any useful).
• Plan is to port content directly from the modernizr wiki for now, link to caniuse data for more info.
• Likely, the templates might change in the meanwhile, I welcome your feedback on this setup. If you have better ideas, lemme know!
So new workflow for adding content here would be to run ./ But everything else remains the same.
Nov 7 2011
Branch now uses node and compass!
July 9 2011
A very basic idea of how this would look like. Lame filters and colors. See:
"How do I use prefixes" would link to:
1. Where all prefixes occur (css properties, values, DOM interfaces).
2. How to use modernizr's prefix-returning function for use in your script.
3. A reduced snippet from there?
4. Graceful degradation guidelines
5. Link to Tantek wiki page on why we have prefixes (and when we wont have them).
"Tools for Feature Support":
2. modernizr polyfill wiki
3. modernizr
4. CSS Preprocessors?
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1. Mechanical changes to add DESTDIR support to packages that install
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their files via a custom do-install target.
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1. Modular Xorg support.
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1. Point MAINTAINER to in the case where no
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developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
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1. Add <sys/time.h> to autoconf check for fd_set so that it is properly
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detected on Interix.
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1. Massive cleanup of and files in pkgsrc.
jlam authored
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting as well as all of
the files to follow the new example in
The loop to include all of the files needed by the package
is moved from and into
is now included by each of the individual files and provides
some common logic for all of the files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one file includes another.
The second major change is teach the files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing and files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for
and files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package should also include
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of have been removed.
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1. s/
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1. Use tech-pkg@ in favor of packages@ as MAINTAINER for orphaned packages.
jschauma authored
Should anybody feel like they could be the maintainer for any of thewe packages,
please adjust.
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1. do-install:
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- be noisy.
- create directories first, then install files into them.
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1. Cleanup MKDIR usage => INSTALL_*_DIR
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XXX need to teach pkglint to be more picky about this
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If anywhere, it should be the value of MAINTAINER in the Makefile.
Some minor cleanup/reformatting while I'm here.
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variable substituition of "MASTER_SITES" and "PATCH_SITES".
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2. Initial import of FreeBSD "xcoral" port:
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A multiwindow mouse-based text editor for X.
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…re not required for regular development
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Sqlnet.log should be ignored
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Merge pull request #2607 from guilleiguaran/add-rbenv-gitignore
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(temporary hack) generate a main file for RDoc escaping "Rails"
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RDoc autolinks the word "Rails" to the doc page for the Rails module.
But README.rdoc is displayed in the home page at GitHub and the slashes
are visible there, which is weird. We leave by now the slashes off in
the file, and generate a second file for the API with them.
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[#6484 state:committed]
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IdentityMap - Adding Weakling and IM Base as concern
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Ignore the dist directory
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Ignore generated railties RDocs [#4289 state:resolved]
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1. Ignore all pkg files
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1. Refactor plugins
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1. Have all the tests running off a single Gemfile
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Restore "Start Rails::Application object
josh authored
This reverts commit f14ad41.
2. @josh
Revert "Start Rails::Application object"
josh authored
This reverts commit 4129449.
3. Start Rails::Application object
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Ignore bundled gems
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Memoize in the endpoint.
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Get ActionPack's test running on bundled gems. This should make runni…
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…ng tests on new machines, as well as CI, work well.
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1. Refactor ActionView::Resolver
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2. Add ActiveModel's ./pkg and ./doc to .gitignore
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1. @josevalim
Starting test structure.
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Merge branch 'master' into active_model
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1. @wycats
Bring abstract_controller up to date with rails/master
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abstract_controller refactor. They all need to be revisited to ensure
that fixes made in 2.3 do not reappear in 3.0:
AR not available
* This will be reimplemented with ActionORM or equivalent
implicitly rendering a js response should not use the default layout
[#1844 state:resolved]
* This will be handled generically
Improve view rendering performance in development mode and reinstate
template recompiling in production [#1909 state:resolved]
the changes here are very implementation specific and cannot be
cleanly applied. The following commits are implicated:
workaround for picking layouts based on wrong view_paths
[#1974 state:resolved]
commit, we will reimplement this change.
make action_controller/layouts pick templates from the current instance's
view_paths instead of the class view_paths [#1974 state:resolved]
to the reimplemented ActionController::Base.
fix HTML fallback for explicit templates [#2052 state:resolved]
issue needs to be revisited. After discussing the underlying problem
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Improvement WHIRR-130 Clean up Maven POMs
New Feature WHIRR-444 Write a script to run the integration test matrix
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Bug WHIRR-747 Whirr builds with new version require mvn install before site can be generated
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Re: A new metric for source package importance in ports
On 28 November 2013 00:04, Steven Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi josch!
> On 27/11/13 17:58, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>> http://mister-muffin.de/p/Gid8.txt
>> One can see that now the amount of source packages which is needed to build the
>> rest of the archive is only 383.
> So, there are 383 packages that share the same, maximum value (in this
> case 11657) in the second column?
>> Does anybody see enough value in these numbers for source package importance in
>> the light of bootstrapping Debian (either for a new port or for rebuilding the
>> archive from scratch)?
> I find the list of 383 packages interesting, at least. I think this
> closure is what I had in mind[0] for regular testing of ports'
> toolchains and reproducibility of builds. Because each Debian port
> depends in some indirect way on the authenticity of these packages. And
> likewise any toolchain bugs are most critical here. I just didn't think
> there would be so many packages.
> Does the list vary by architecture? I see many odd things in here such
> as 'systemd' and 'redhat-cluster' which would be unavailable if trying
> to bootstrap a non-Linux port, for example.
> I also find it interesting to see openjdk-7 listed but not gcj; or even
> gcc-4.8. Was this computed for jessie or sid?
I guess implicit relationships are not considered: build-essential
build-dependencies, and essential dependencies. I would expect for
packages in those to sets have the highest rank, since,
hypothetically, all packages in debian build-depend & depend on those.
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Re: Can we pull KDE?
David Welton writes:
> Communicating with them seems like a first step.
I wrote:
> Seems to me that the first step is getting a legal opinion from a real
> lawyer. Is there any possibility at all of doing so?
Phil writes:
> Why ?
So that we will have a solid basis for a decision and an unquestionable
response to the inevitable flames and accusations. We presently have at
least three conflicting 'legal' opinions from at least three different
non-lawyers. Don't you think it would be a good idea to resolve this with
an opinion from someone who actually knows the law?
> Surely we should decide if it is morally justifiable to tolerate the
> abuse of someone's copyright, rather than asking some lawyer if we are
> likely to be able to get away with it (especially since a lawyer will
> probably only be able to tell you about the jurisdiction in which they
> practice).
You seem to be expecting that a lawyer would tell us that it is legal to
continue to distribute KDE. I would expect the opposite.
> I feel no need for a legal opinion when I decide that incorporating third
> party GPL code into non-free programs is wrong, because if it happened to
> my code I would be outraged, regardless of whether I had any legal
> recourse.
Obviously, if we can't get a lawyer we'll just have to make do with our
best guess, as we always have. However, I note that KDE is still there.
How long do you think it will stay after a lawyer says that it is illegal?
NOTE: I'm responding to a cc'd copy of Phil's message. I never saw it on
the list, though the headers include
'cc: Debian Developers List <[email protected]>'
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[email protected] Do with it what you will.
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Re: Lxdoom, ability to package, copyright
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:58:03PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> I'm interested in packaging (as my first package!) Lxdoom.
> However, it is a non-free package - I'm not so concerned about
> that, it's only a game - and what's more, it depends on the
> registered .wad files of Doom, Doom 2, or another id game.
> Is it allowable to include lxdoom in Debian? I note that
> the Policy manual does allow 'contrib' to depend on packages
> which aren't in Debian at all. Can this be done?
The problem with lxdoom (Joey Hess had it in Debian at one point) is that
the license on the original xdoom source is so non-free it's not
distributable. Granted, this is not what John Carmack intended, but it's
what has happened. When this was discovered we had to pull it.
NONE of the doom ports can be packaged until such time as the issues are
resolved WRT the original xdoom source license. If that happens it's
perfectly acceptable to put doom in contrib or if you can come up with a
free iwad (new textures, new levels, new sounds, new everything) you could
actually put it in main. There exist free textures and sounds, even free
levels. But it'd take a lot of time to put them together (IMO would be
worthwhile if I had time.)
Still, it all comes back to the license iD has given us, which makes every
single doom port out there a Copyright violation. =< If you can convince
the people at iD to notice you long enough to get them to fix it, all
would be nifty---you can package lxdoom and I'll package lindosdoom. =>
Joseph Carter <[email protected]> Debian GNU/Linux developer
* lilo hereby declares OPN a virtual pain in the ass :)
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On Thu 12/18/03 08:43, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:43:27PM -0800, Nunya wrote:
> Which is why the phrase "In God We Trust" is engraved or printed on all
> the US currency. That's why the Pledge of Allegiance has the phrase,
> "Under God.." Yeah, adamant.
Adamant about the seperation of state and non-christian churches[0].
But, of course us weirdos[1] in california decided the pledge was
unconstitutional... of course I'm sure that was overturned[2].
And there is no _seperation_ of church and state. There is simply the
freedom to choose your own religion, and the federal congress has no
authority to make laws regaurding religion. However, this is the federal
government, states (depending on their constitutions) can make laws as
they see fit [3].
[0] Due to the definition of a religion. Satanism is generally described
by the masses as a cult, rather than a religion.
[1] Ok, it was really the 9th circuit of the US superior court (me
thinks, but close enough.
[2] I'm too lazy to check.
[3] Well, almost, we did have a civil war over this.
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Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD
Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> writes:
> [Andrew Suffield]
>> AMs aren't much better, as a group. The FD checks their applications so
>> as not to waste the DAM's time reviewing bogus ones, and the DAM checks
>> them to filter out people who shouldn't get in. The reason why we need
>> both these checks is most simply explained by pointing out that both of
>> them reject a significant number of applicants - if we didn't have
>> them, people would get in who shouldn't, or the DAM's already limited
>> time would be wasted, slowing the process down more.
> You seem to assume that all rejections are correct, and get rid of some
> people which should not be accepted as debian developers, while all
> approvals are suspect and might let through a person which should have
> been rejected. Is this correct?
> Do you have any good arguments why it isn't the other way around, that
> some of the rejections get rid of people which could have done a great
> job as a debian developer?
Have you read the reasons for holds and rejections at the FD and DAM
Really, folks, quite a bit of this information is public. I admit that,
being in NM myself, I have had more reason to go poking around on the web
site and reading up on various records, but it's worth spending some time
on the site before participating in these sorts of threads.
Like Andrew says, the three stages of checks are only pointless
bureaucracy if the last two steps are rubber stamps. As you can see
clearly from the NM site, they're not. Given that, you have to dig a
little deeper and figure out why people may get all the way through the AM
stage but still not get approved.
Looking at the records on the site, you'll find that, of the three current
front desk holds, two are for incomplete skills testing and one is for a
key problem. Particularly given the rest of this thread and the desire to
see more people jump in to be AMs, you do need this sort of check by a
third party. Not all AMs are experienced; not all AMs are going to
remember everything.
Looking at the DAM holds, you'll see that most of them are for lack of
activity. Now, you might argue (reasonably) that the current extended
length of the process is partly to blame for that, but on the other hand,
joining Debian really is a committment. While I wouldn't say that it's as
easy to participate in Debian without being a DD as some of the other
folks on this list, it most certainly is possible. I'll also point out
that, for every other open source project I've been involved in, it's
taken at *least* a year of steady activity on the project and regular
patch submission before I got direct commit access. I wouldn't expect
Debian to be that different.
I do think that the amount of time NM takes at the moment is a bit too
long, but I don't think it should be quick. I think it's important to
verify that people really *want* to be DDs before approving them, and
while sheer time lag isn't necessarily the most friendly way of doing
this, it can still be rather effective.
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Re: priorities
> anything particularly important? We have:
> * required/essential -- stuff that can't be removed: libc, dpkg,etc
Packages which are required to be present for the packaging
system to be able to install additional packages. This means dpkg and
everything dpkg itself needs; if these packages are gone, the system
can't repair itself, and can not move to a more tenable state.
> * important -- the rest of base, stuff necessary to bootstrap
> and recover a usable and useful system
The subset of the OS required to boot and be able to install
further packages. Note that just required packages might not constitue
a bootable system.
> * standard -- a minimal collection of useful stuff we'd like to
> see on every Debian system
> optional -- all the good software in the world
> extra -- obscure stuff
If we are removing the invariant that everything in optional
distinct section?
Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
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Re: Bug#629385: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch
<#part sign=pgpmime>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:33:05 -0700, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hearing no objections, I call for a TC vote on the following ballot:
I vote AB.
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More sorbs blacklisting
sorbs is now blacklisting sites because they guess that it is a
dynamic ip number.
<[email protected]>: host mgw.netsite.dk[] said: 554 Service
unavailable; Client host [] blocked using
dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net; Dynamic IP Addresses See:
http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml? (in reply to RCPT
TO command)
My IP number is
The reverse is
There is no indication of a dynamic IP number - and it is not. It has
been fixed for many years.
Is this a new sorbs idea?
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Re: KDE filesystem structure
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:45:36AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 23:55, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >
> > Using that as the KDE root is just SILLY BAD WRONG EVIL.
> >
> > Do you also advocate having the apache root in /usr/lib/apache? After a
> > while it starts to defeat the whole point of /usr/bin. What next? A
> > Debconf note saying that you have to have "export
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde3/bin" in your ~/.<whatever> to be able to run
> > startkde?
> >
> Apache is beyond the scope of discussion I think.
No, not in the slightest. We are talking about setting a Debian-wide
precedent, which is why I urge you to take it to -devel.
> However, as you indicate, if FHS compliance requires that people should
> change their PATH variables to run software installed in /opt or use
> ridiculously long pathnames then it is clearly something that should be
> avoided. My feeling is that packages ought to be able to install front end
> files by linking into the /opt/bin, etc. However, that is discussion of the
> FHS and not discussion on debian KDE packages.
Well, it says "don't stuff around with /opt/{bin,lib,...}", I think
that's pretty clear.
> > I register my vote of disgust. It IS difficult, in fact, because it
> > means we fuck around with how Debian has done things since well before
> > the Dark Ages. When you ask people what the best thing about Debian is,
> > they respond "policy" (in general; some say dpkg/apt). So what are we
> > doing? Random crap, I hear you say?
> >
> > Don't.
> >
> > Please.
> Of course I won't do any sort of change before there is some form of
> consensus. It's a small change, but without agreement it can't be done. Note
> that you are saying it is bad because it's a change to something old. :)
We need consensus from -devel, not just -kde.
> There are two choices KDE programmers favor:
> 1) Installing into /opt/kde{version}
> 2) Installing into /usr
> Debian does the latter, but... kde2 vs. kde3.
As I keep reminding you, KDE hackers are upstream, not Debian. They pump
out tarballs of an awesome desktop environment. We make it so you can
type "apt-get install kde", instead of building that stuff. I suggest we
keep this separation, unless coolo wants to take over the packaging
Daniel Stone <[email protected]>
<exel> If Theo de Raadt patches a security hole in the woods and there's
no-one there to see him, will it still be fixed in OpenBSD three years ago?
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Re: Bug#365408: [POLICY-PROPOSAL] Drop java*-runtime/compiler, create classpath-jre/jdk and java-jre/jdk
Arnaud Vandyck <[email protected]>
> MJ Ray a Â?crit :
> [...]
> > A virtual package name is a functional label, not a product name.
> > Java is the name of an island and a natural language too.
> > I'm surprised if Sun can prevent use of a word in this way.
> A function that is used to call a runtime, compiler, etc of the Java(tm)
> language!
A package name does not call the language.
Java is the name of an island.
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Re: Install on an Octane
Just for grins, you might want to try the LiveCD RC6 in that directory tree under experimental/mips. (Back up 2 levels.)
That is a bootable CD that should take you strait into an XORG-X11 environment. You cannot login as root directly. Just wait and it will timeout and log you in as a "gentoo user". You can then "sudo su -" to get a root shell.
From there, I typically repartition the main hard disk and make about a
50MB volume header on the drive. I use dvhtool to stuff the netboot image there and add arcload and a basic arc.cf file that will allow me to load the netboot image. I typically leave it there even after I have my run-time kernel as an emergency repair system.
The decision you will need to make is whether you want a gentoo or a debian system. Although you might not be able to do the initial install of debian quite so easily since the Octane is not a fully supported platform, it should still be possible. This might entail manually creating and mounting your disk file systems from within the LiveCD environment or the gentoo netboot environment and manually dropping down the debian base system instead of the gentoo base. You would then have to roll you own debian kernel package for IP30. You could probably theft a gentoo kernel for that to get started.
After that, you should be able to dselect all your favorite stuff like normal. I have both a Debian and a Gentoo install on separate boxes and find reasons to enjoy both. I really like being able to quickly install a debian binary package when I need a tool for a quick job. On the other hand, for an R5K or higher CPU, it's nice to be able to compile all your packages with the CPU optimizations the way Gentoo does.
Either route you go, please keep us posted on your success. Gentoo has a mips list too and I subscribe there as well.
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:12:33AM -0500, Mike Martin wrote:
On 2/13/07, Michael Bevilacqua <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/13/07, Mike Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm (still) trying to install Debian on an SGI Octane. Unfortunately,
Great! Thanks for your help. I think this is exactly what I need. Now,
I just need to find a Debian IP30 Netboot image. The images I've found
are either IP22 or IP32. Does anyone know where to get an image that
will work on the Octane?
I doubt you will find Debian IP30 images. Here is a Gentoo one:
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Bug#301301: marked as done (gkdial: Improper copyright file)
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Removed
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere. Please contact me immediately.)
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The copyright file says, in effect: "Copyright: GPL", but the GPL is a
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Re: Dain Bramaged
Intent is one thing. Impact is another.
"I tried to put a downspin on the ping-pong ball, but had a weak grip on
my paddle, so the ball floated just past the edge of the table."
"I tried to convey an idea, but used language with overtones (for some)
I hadn't intended, and hence failed to communicate my message as
accurately as I'd hoped"
The two are sometimes closely related, but should never be confused for
each other.
Brian C. White wrote:
> > > BP> The X doesn't match X message is brain-damaged. ...
> > >
> > > I find the use of illness or injury as a derogative analogy to be
> > > offensive, and most emphatically so in this context, given that the
> >
> > May we please keep the Political Correctness confined to other
> > venues? There was (to my knowledge) no value judgements made in
> > Bruce's usage of the phrase. It was merely descriptive, and hardly
> > abusive to anyone.
> I agree! Taking offence where none was intended is self-destructive,
> not to mention just plain stupid.
> Brian
> ( [email protected] )
> In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
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Re: Font references and info
On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> spake thus,
> I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful
> to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was
> inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fixed them yet. So I'm hardly an
> expert.
Fonts in X are something that I've never really comprehended, and I wish someone somewhere would explain what the deal is with font servers like Xft and FreeType, their strengths and weaknesses, and what about anti-aliasing, and having fonts like Verdana available for just web browsing.
If someone could write a mini-HOWTO on these topics it'd be like Christmas for me over here.
Just a footnote to Ross: I don't mean to be nitpicky but you should either just break paragraphs, or more sensibly break your lines at 72 or 75 characters, it would help legibility enormously.
Aaron Bieber
Graphic Design // Web Design
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Re: [all candidates] DPL term duration
Hi Moray, hi all,
Le mardi, 12 mars 2013 21.24:15, Moray Allan a écrit :
> In my view, if we want to lengthen the term of office for our
> leadership roles, which could have beneficial aspects, we should do that
> as part of a wider reform that reduces the concentration of roles/power
> in a single person.
As I see it, one way to do that (which has certainly been proposed already)
would be to have a sort-of "DPL guild"⁰. It would have these properties¹:
- "enough" members
(start with 3 for example, but a fixed number set in the constitution)
- fixed-length terms ("18 months" for example)
- renewable terms
- overlapping terms (more by coincidence than by enforcement)
- resignation is possible per-member, at any time
(so if one member resigns, a new one is elected ASATCP²)
- leadership/chairman role (if needed) rotated between the elected members on
a regular basis³
What do the candidates think of such a system; would it be something you would
push, not push, why?
Thanks in advance, cheers,
⁰ Team / Board / Committee / Whateva, the name isn't the core of the idea.
¹ Which are quite alike those of the swiss federal government
² As Soon As The Constitution Permits
³ Could also be done by decision of the "guild", for example; or not at all.
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When using the caching features of Windows Server AppFabric, your application will use the DataCache object to store data in the cache. This object is referred to as the cache client. To create a cache client that uses the default cache, use the GetDefaultCache method. To create a cache client that uses a named cache, use the GetCache method.
For performance reasons, we recommend that you minimize the number of DataCacheFactory objects created by your cache-enabled application. Store the DataCacheFactory object in a variable available to all parts of the application that use cache clients.
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We highly recommend that you secure any XML-based application configuration files used to specify the cache client. The machine names of cache hosts are specified in this file. However, for another client to actually access the cache cluster, they would require permissions to access the cache cluster.
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The server stores objects in serialized form in the cache. When a cache client requests an object from the cache, the server sends it to the client over the network. The cache client then deserializes the object for use by the client application. To speed up the process of retrieving an object, enable local cache. For more information about enabling local cache, see Enable Windows Server AppFabric Local Cache or Enable Windows Server AppFabric Local Cache (XML).
When local cache is enabled, the cache client stores a reference to the object locally. This keeps the object active in the memory of the client application. When the application requests the object, the cache client first checks whether the object resides in the local cache. If so, the reference to the object is returned immediately without contacting the server. If it does not exist, the object is retrieved from the server. The cache client then deserializes the object and stores the reference to this newly retrieved object in the local cache. The client application uses this same object.
The lifetime of an object in the local cache is dependent on several factors, such as the maximum number of objects in the local cache and the invalidation policy. There are two types of invalidation for local cache: time-out-based invalidation and notification-based invalidation. For more information, see Expiration and Eviction (Windows Server AppFabric Caching).
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Reviews for Baby, It's Cold Outside
xoxotaylor chapter 1 . 5/16/2009
this is so. so. so. SO cute! i've read it before, and my good friend annie and i randomly send each other links to stories, so today she sent me this one. and oh hot dang. its amazing. so cute and fluffy and smutty but not overly smutty its just ah. it had me scrunching my nose [in a good way. when i like stuff i scrunch my nose&grin.. i know, crazy habbit.] and grinning. (: makes me want christmas, haha. altho, i'm perfectly fine with summer, lol. anyway! i wuff it (:
11nivea342 chapter 1 . 3/18/2009
so so so sweet yet so hott ha. i love the playfulness that's there, too, luke can always make her smile and she deserves lots of smiles. great work!
A-shiningstar chapter 1 . 1/1/2009
aw sexy, sweet and funny...hormonal peyton is a riot. Well done!
LPlover chapter 1 . 12/30/2008
Very nice! loved it! :D
Avschick33 chapter 1 . 12/28/2008
Loved it Kate! Please, with a cherry on top, write more stories with a pregnant/hormonal/emotional/taking it out on Lucas, Peyton. (Did that make any sense?) They're too cute and funny. And ending it with smut isn't a bad idea either ;-). Great job! Can't wait for more from you!
Leyton-equals-TrueLoveAlways chapter 1 . 12/27/2008
adorable. great job
BrownEyedCynic chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
Always love the leyton fluff...great job...
WDE11 chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
I love your fluff. Thanks for the Christmas present!
yaba chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
hehhe let me tell you silly christmas fluff works! I loved it, not only was it adorable but sexy as hell! this was amazing, keep writing and merry christmas!
nmufti87 chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
Amazing one-shot. Loved the way you wrote each scene. Especially love the part in which Lucas knew that Peyton was just being hormonal, and that there was nothing seriously wrong with her. And I loved how Peyton apologized for being bitchy just because her clothes wouldn't fit. All in all, loved it. Can't wait for more stories.
Merry Christman to you, too.
inevitablevauseman chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
The best Christmas present yet.
I was so thrilled to see a new one shot posted from you, and to see that it was in the m rating.
That was amazing - i love your writing, so much! And the ending was so incredibly cute, and sweet.
Thank you so much for posting this.
lukenpeyton-puckleberry-4ever chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
i loved it, it was cute
GirlinTheCafe chapter 1 . 12/25/2008
Ooh sweetness ... nothing better than some good LP fluff on Christmas morning.
leyton-is-lovee chapter 1 . 12/24/2008
This was adorable. Hormonal Peyton is amazing, she literally makes my day. And that Mrs. Claus outfit - holy wow - it needs to come to life lol. The smut was perfect and I loved the moment they had after it. The fact that she yelled at him because her clothes didn't fit; so cute.
I can't wait to see more from you love.
desrm chapter 1 . 12/24/2008
my christmas just got a little merrier. Damn.
okay so hormonal Peyton makes my life. How freaking hilarious is she? But poor thing, though I laugh, at the same time I just want to hug her, haha.
holy hot LP. A Mrs. Claus getup has never seemed hotter, lmao. Poor Luke would have another heart attack if this happened for real.
I loved that she had to ask him twice if he loved it, he was so speechless. priceless.
you know, you're like the queen of writing smut oneshots now. it amazes me.
The ending was so freaking adorable. So fluffy and Christmas-y, lol! I floved it. "I'm a horrible wench" made me LMAO for some reason.
Such a great job once again, my KZ! More soon, kthnks?
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The people of Springfield stared at the group of EPA helicopters as they left, sealing the entire town in a transparent dome. Russ Cargill, director of the EPA, had appeared on a big-screen TV, claiming that the reason for quarantining them was 'pollution' down in Lake Springfield. They had protested, but Cargill had merely laughed them off.
But the puzzle to them was: Hadn't Lake Springfield been cleaned up and blocked off?
So the townsfolk of Springfield had rushed to the lake, to be shocked by the black waters of what had been picturesque Lake Springfield.
A little fishing around had revealed a missile silo painted with a crude caricature of a pig's face, and labeled as 'PIG CRAP'. Upon further inspection, the words, 'RETURN TO HOMER SIMPSON, NO REWARD', were found on the other side of the silo.
It wouldn't have been an exaggeration to say that the townsfolk wanted to lynch Homer Simpson's family. They all gathered en masse, complete with burning torches, and trooped towards the Simpson's family home. Even Grandma Jacqueline, Patty, and Selma Bouvier, together with Grandpa Abraham Simpson joined the mob (the Bouviers were after Homer, so was Grandpa).
They were out for blood that night.
They had almost torched the wrong house, but were corrected by Homer Simpson's dimwitted laughter upon seeing their mistake. They had quickly surrounded the Simpson's home, and Chief Wiggum's men had promptly broken open the door.
The Simpson family huddled upstairs, where Homer almost successfully held the mob at bay by imitating the sound of a chainsaw. But this minor distraction was insufficient, and soon the Simpsons were walking slowly across a plank between their house and that of Ned Flanders, a wannabe Good Samaritan.
Fortunately for the mob, Homer's pet pig had knocked the plank down, causing his entire family to take shelter in Bart's tree house. That too, was dealt with, as Otto Mann's school bus was chained to the tree and started up. The ground shook as the entire tree was pulled into a steep-angled position, half uprooted. Unfortunately, this rendered the five nooses attached to the tree branches from being useful to hang the Simpsons.
Then, baby Maggie Simpson had jumped off the tree house into her sandpit, and appeared on the outside of the dome. Only the Simpsons, high up in their semi-uprooted tree, could see the sinkhole that allowed Maggie's safe passage.
"OK kids, follow me!" cried Marge Simpson, running towards the tree house door, towards the sinkhole.
Before anything else happened, Homer Simpson, behaving selfish as usual, shoved her aside and jumped for the sinkhole. He landed in it, but a beer-belly created from years of donuts and beer made him nothing more then a plug for the sinkhole.
After that, justice was quick.
The Simpsons, excluding Maggie, were rounded up and brought to the town square. There, four nooses had been tied from the Kwik-E Mart's signboard (The townsfolk decided that Maggie didn't really deserve to be hung. She was later smothered with a pillow.).
The four Simpsons were led to their respective nooses one-by-one, with Marge being the first. She had glared at a crying Homer with eyes full of hatred, even as a noose was slipped around her neck.
Her last words to him were, "Burn in Hell."
Then, Bart had been hung. He lasted considerably longer than Marge had, and this was probably due to Homer's hobby of strangling him. Then, Lisa was hung. Her death actually caused some tears, due to her last words.
"I love you, Colin…"
Finally, Homer Simpson was dragged to his noose. The lynch mob decided that he had suffered enough from watching his family get hung one-by-one. He had been harder to hang, when his morbid weight caused to first noose to snap, and the Kwik-E Mart's sign to collapse on the second attempt. He had been put out of his misery by Montgomery Burns, who, with the aid of Waylon Smithers, had driven an axe through his (Homer's) head.
Many though it was the first time anybody agreed with something that Burns had done.
After the lynching of the Simpsons, Springfield had settled into a state of savagery. Supplies that ran out and were never renewed, and the dome, drove numerous residents to the point of insanity. The townsfolk of Springfield slept with their doors locked, and with loaded firearms by their side.
For the first week after the lynching, many gunshots were heard at night. People went missing and were presumed dead.
No bodies were ever found.
One-by-one, the residents of Springfield lapsed into a life of cat-and-mouse. If you walked alone on the streets, you were toast. If you decided to go outside at night, you were toast. If you wanted to go to work or school, the school and most offices had been burnt down. Only the Nuclear Plant remained operational, with several hardworking employees keeping the power running to the town.
When Krusty The Clown was found dead with bullet wounds, the townsfolk realized just how dire their situation had become.
Then, one day, Russ Cargill had announced that the President had ordered Springfield to be sterilized. The townsfolk, by this point of time, had been reduced to wariness, and dismissed this announcement as a farce.
When the single helicopter carrying the bomb had flown towards the dome, they had watched in silence. Watched as the bomb ticked away in mid air. People walked in the streets unarmed and unharmed for the first time in weeks. Confessions were made, and people came out of the closet for others.
Mr. Burns was seen in Smithers' arms.
Miss Krabappel and Principal Skinner were openly holding hands.
Jacqueline Bouvier and Abraham Simpson were watching the sun set, in each other's embrace.
Waiting for the second when Springfield was destroyed.
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Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-ohki OVA4 Prologue
By Galaxy1001D
Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi GXP and all related characters are © AIC/Pioneer/Funimation. This story has been written solely for entertainment. The views expressed herein do not necessarily express the opinions of AIC/Pioneer/Funimation, the author, or this website.
Pushing a key on her holographic keyboard, Washu summoned a device that looked like a flying miniature camcorder. "Hey, this thing on?" She muttered as she leaned over and tapped the device to make sure it was working before leaning back to sit on the floating cushion she used as a seat.
"Hi there, Tenchi fans!" called Washu's nasal voice. "All of us in the cast and crew of Tenchi Muyo are tickled pink by all of the love and support you've given us over the years. We appreciate the fact that you've watched our shows and even read and wrote fan fiction about us. From all of us, I just want to say thank you.
"Some newcomers to the Tenchi franchise may be confused by the conflicting continuities," the redhead continued. "Just as there are many different versions of your favorite comic book superheroes, there are different versions of the Tenchi gang as well. So far we have had two TV shows of twenty-six episodes each, two manga series, and twenty episodes of Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-ohki, the Original Video Animation. That's not including our numerous spin-offs, specials or movies."
"Yes indeed," the little carrot top sighed, "it certainly looks like the Tenchi saga is complete. With one exception. Both Tenchi Universe TV and Shin Tenchi Muyo AKA Tenchi in Tokyo had twenty-six episodes, but Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-ohki, the continuity that started it all, has only twenty episodes, what is the deal with that?"
With little warning, the mad scientist went from lecturing to indignant. "For crying out loud, people! The original continuity has spanned both the manga and Tenchi Muyo GXP! How come the series that GXP is based on has fewer episodes than the sequel? What the heck is going on? How come the other two series has twenty-six episodes but the original has only twenty, huh?"
"I dunno," Ryoko's voice answered. "Maybe the third OVA might have, I dunno, sucked?"
"Hey!" Washu protested as she looked to her right. "Tenchi OVA3 was a fitting continuation to the series!"
"No it wasn't," the cyan-haired space pirate said as she walked into view. "It blew chunks. Aside of you and Tenchi, the regular cast was barely in it. Noike had no story purpose, and the pacing and directing was crappy. For crying out loud, our fight scenes were edited out. I had more onscreen time in the seventeenth episode of Tenchi Muyo GXP than in any single episode of OVA 3."
"Quiet you fool," Washu hissed as she stood on top of her floating cushion to put her hands over Ryoko's mouth. "If you go around saying that, nobody is going to buy the DVD's!"
"So what?" the pirate shrugged as she took a step back and removed the little scientist's hands from her mouth. "If they don't watch OVA3, they'll still like Tenchi Muyo. Sounds win-win to me."
"Connect the dots, you idiot," the redhead hissed as she gestured to the floating camcorder. "If no one buys the DVD's, we won't get another series! And you can kiss any possibility of a fourth OVA goodbye!"
"Ooh!" Ryoko's golden eyes became as wide as saucers and she looked at the camera fearfully. "Uh, I mean OVA3 kicked butt! Yep! Answered all the questions we had about OVA one and two! That's right! No plot holes or continuity errors or anything! And certainly no retroactive continuity or anything like that! It's the way Tenchi Muyo was supposed to be from the beginning, I swear!"
"Will you get out of here?" Washu snarled. "Go! Go!" The little genius made shooing motions with her arms as Ryoko retreated out of the camera's view. "Eh-heh-heh," a sweat drop appeared at the redhead's temple as she smiled guiltily at the camera.
"Ahem," the short scientist cleared her throat as she tried to regain her composure. "As my fellow cast member pointed out, there is a small yet vocal minority who has expressed dissatisfaction with our third OVA series."
"Wow!" Ryoko's voice called from offstage. "Look at all the hate mail! I sure wouldn't want to be in Noike's shoes right now!"
Washu valiantly tried to ignore her. "A few, a very tiny few, just one or two of you really, felt that Funimation version didn't do justice to the series the way the Pioneer LDC versions did…"
"MAN!" Ryoko shouted from offstage. "You wouldn't believe how many people the twentieth episode ticked off!"
"Will you shut up?" Washu screeched. "What are you doing in here anyway? I thought I locked the door to my lab!"
"Saw…ree," Mihoshi's voice called out. "I think I broke the lock to your door, but don't worry; I think I can fix it!"
"Oy…" the redhead covered her face with her hands.
"Don't worry!" Ryoko shouted. "I'll help her! We'll have it fixed in a jiffy! Just keep going!"
"Yeah right," the scientist muttered. "Okay, just be quiet, okay?" she shouted to the offstage pair.
"Got it," Mihoshi's voice replied.
"You won't even know we're here!" Ryoko promised.
"Sure I won't," Washu grumbled. "Ahem," she cleared her throat noisily. "Well, those of us at the Masaki house agree that the original series should have twenty-six episodes, just like Tenchi GXP did. So Galaxy1001D has offered to write six episodes in story form for us."
The sound of approaching footsteps at a run was heard as Washu rolled her eyes in exasperation. Suddenly, Princess Ayeka appeared onscreen at Washu's right.
"Oh no!" Ayeka gasped. "Not him! Tell me it's not true Lady Washu!"
"What's the matter with him?" Washu asked irritably. "He's just as good as anyone else is."
"The problem is that Galaxy1001D isn't Japanese!" Ayeka squeaked. "He hasn't even eaten Japanese food! He knows nothing of our culture, of our legends, nothing! He comes from the country that dropped atomic bombs on this island!"
"So what?" Washu growled. "We have lots of fans in America. What's the big deal?"
"You don't understand," Ayeka clasped her hands in her best 'damsel in distress' pose. "This is the same man who thinks that Tenchi's mother was his grandmother based off a mistranslation in episode four! He isn't even familiar with the back-story of the OVA's! He's going to skip the 'True Tenchi' novels! He's just going to make it up whole cloth!"
"He's going to skip the 'True Tenchi' novels?" Washu grimaced in shock as a bead of sweat appeared in her hair. "But… my complex background… Jurai's history… what about that?"
"He's just going to make it up from scratch," Ayeka told her with moist eyes. "If it wasn't translated into English as a cartoon, he's just going to disregard it."
Washu seemed to freeze as her eyes bulged out. "Th-that's fine… just fine…" she stammered weakly. "Rewriting my background. That's good, that's being creative. It's all good here," the little genius lied bravely.
"I'm sorry," Ayeka closed her tearful eyes and covered the lower half of her face with her sleeve as she patted the stunned redhead on the shoulder. She turned and left the camera's view.
"Th-that's good," the scientist burbled in shock. "Hey, maybe he'll do great… Y-yeah… nothing wrong with that… Good for him…"
"Who cares," Ryoko's voice called out. "Hopefully that will mean more lines for the rest of us."
That broke the spell. Washu frowned and shook her head to clear it. "AHEM," she cleared her throat extra noisily this time. "As my friend and colleague pointed out, these six stories will be based off the events of Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-ohki, and Tenchi Muyo: GXP, with few or no references to other sources."
"Except maybe Tenchi Universe," Ryoko shouted from offstage. "He's a big fan of Tenchi Universe."
"Isn't he going to include the manga?" Mihoshi's voice asked. "I thought he liked the manga."
"Will you shut your pie-hole!" Washu growled. "Ahem," she cleared her throat again. "As I was saying…"
As Washu spoke voices and noise could be heard from offstage.
"Okay Ryoko," Mihoshi's voice said. "Hold the door still for me okay?"
"Check," Ryoko's voice answered.
"All of us here at Tenchi Muyo encourage all of you aspiring writers to try your hand at writing the fourth OVA series," Washu continued. The screech of a power drill nearly overpowered the voice of the little scientist as she continued speaking. "This is just one interpretation and if your version is better we'd be happy to star in it," Washu said as the repetitive sound of a hammer striking against wood was heard in the background. "Don't get discouraged because somebody else is already writing it," she added as the drill almost drowned her voice out. "We and our fans would be happy to give your version a chance." The drill stopped and the hammer's booming pounding was heard again. "Will you keep it down?" Washu shouted at the duo that was repairing the lock on her door. "I can't hear myself think here!"
"Keep yer shirt on," Ryoko retorted.
"Sorry Washu," Mihoshi's high-pitched childlike voice called out. "We're almost done, we promise!"
The scientist gnashed her teeth and glowered at the offstage pair. She turned back to the camera and took a deep breath to calm herself down as Ryoko and Mihoshi's voices lowered to a quiet mutter. "Ahem," the redhead cleared her throat yet again. "In the meantime let's give the writer our encouragement and support…"
"Otherwise the little whiner will get discouraged and leave us all hanging," Ryoko snorted, "then we'll never find out how it ends."
"Will you SHUT UP!" Washu screamed. "This is why we don't have very many fan fiction writers! You're always so mean to them! Why are you two still in here, anyway? Get out of here!"
"We're done!" Mihoshi's voice chirped.
"I think we did it, Washu," Ryoko called.
"Will you two idiots get out of here?" Washu left her seat to run offstage. "Out! Out! OUT!" her voice screamed.
"Okay, don't get your knickers in a bunch, sheesh," Ryoko said.
"Goodbye, see you later Washu!" Mihoshi said sweetly.
"You're done fixing the lock, just leave!" Washu ordered.
"See yuh," Ryoko muttered.
"Goodbye!" Mihoshi gushed.
The sound of a door slamming could be heard.
Washu returned to the camera's view muttering under her breath. "What a bunch of pests! That dumb blonde broke the lock on my door and then she thinks she can fix it… Guh!" Washu grimaced in fear as a disconcerting thought struck her.
She ran offstage again and soon the sounds of a doorknob rattling could be heard. "Oh no!" she exclaimed. "Just as I thought! Those two idiots locked me in! Mihoshi! Ryoko! Open the door! You made it lock from the wrong side! Open the door you guys! Can you hear me? HEY!"
Tenchi is in his room when Ryoko pops out of the wall and hugs him. Japanese kanji appears obscuring your view as a woman's voice sings a peppy tune.
When the cherry blossom starts to bloom
Meet me here in my lonely room
We'll find a passion filled fantasy
And this time you will stay with me
Ayeka bursts into the room and chases Ryoko away. Ryoko sticks her tongue out at Ayeka. More kanji appears and disappears.
All the misery that we knew before
Stays away when you are at my door
My heart will sing at ev'ry tender touch
And, oh, you'll want me twice as much
Sasami and a toddler Ryo-ohki wave out the kitchen window at Ryoko and Ayeka fighting. Sasami leaves the kitchen and enters the main living room.
A new dimension of love
A bold adventure waiting for you
The true dimension of love
A soaring flight. A dazzling view
Mihoshi waves at Sasami from the top of the stairs before tripping and falling. She sits up and winces in pain as she rubs her head.
We're gonna take it all the way
We'll make the dream so totally real
See greater wonders by the day
Then tell the stars what glourious rapture we feel
Washu opens the door under the stairs and walks out carrying a strange device. Mihoshi bumps into her and the redhead drops the gadget, that shatters at her feet. Washu transforms into a baby and Mihoshi catches her before she falls. Ryo-ohki startles Mihoshi and she tosses baby Washu into the air.
Soon, with the start of Spring
We'll know our hearts are changing
Leave the hurt behind
I'll be true and kind
Be the best you'll ever find
Noike smiles enigmatically as the wall behind her become the stars. Baby Washu tumbles through space and falls back down to Earth.
We don't ever have to cry or fight
Something tells me we can make it right
Enough of wandering far and wide
I just can't forget you though I've tried
The camera pans down to the outside of Tenchi's house to see Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, Ryo-ohki, and Noike catch the baby with a blanket held between them. When the crowd parts, Washu is a twelve-year-old again and the cast waves to you.
This is destiny so why pretend
Close your eyes kiss me once again
I'll always be the only one you need
So go where your deepest longing leads
Next: Yosho Unmasked
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A/N: Back again with more GerIta… or really a bit more like ItaGer this time. Are you sick of me yet? Anyway, another deanonning from the kink meme. The prompt is as follows:
Germany is really stressed and making him even snappier with Italy than usual. Italy is paranoid and wails that Germany must really hate him after all, but Germany assures him that it's because his back and shoulders are in such terrible pain due to stress. Italy wants to help, so he offers to give Germany a massage. The massage is so pleasant and relaxing that Germany manages to fall asleep during it.
Bonus: Italy steals a kiss before snuggling up beside him for siesta.
Germany let out a deep, long suffering sigh as he closed the door wearily behind him. He had just returned home from what was definitely the worst day he could remember having in at least the past fifty years. It had started out with the train being late and him realizing once he boarded that he had forgotten his agenda at home on the kitchen table which he then had to run home to retrieve. This caused him to completely miss the very important meeting with Austria and a few of his diplomats, which he had thought was an hour later than it really was. Then there had been the bomb threat in his capital building before lunch time, the discovery of a moderately serious scandal in the IRS before mid-afternoon and had ended spectacularly with him having to walk home from the train stop in freezing, pouring rain and realizing that he had lost his wallet somewhere on the way.
All of this, understandably, had put Germany in a rather bad mood. A headache pounded fiercely and his temples and his back and shoulders were screaming with stress-induced tension, not to mention the cold and wetness that came from his walk home in the rain. He just wanted to take a few aspirin, have a hot shower and fall into bed. Though with the luck he'd been having today, he was kind of afraid that he'd find out he was completely out of pain-relievers, that his plumbing had burst and that his bed would collapse under him when he fell into it. It wouldn't surprise him, really.
"Germany!" a voice gasped, startling the hell out of him. Suddenly, he found himself being jerked into a rib-crunching hug, and a head of chestnut hair nuzzling enthusiastically against his chest. "You're home! I got worried because you were late and I thought something had happened! I made dinner but you didn't come so I put yours in the fridge! Should I warm it up for you?"
Of course; Italy had chosen tonight to invite himself over. Normally Germany didn't mind his sweet Italian lover surprising him with hugs and kisses and a delicious homemade dinner after a hard day's work but today he just wasn't in the mood. And Italy's bright, chipper voice was doing his headache no favors, not to mention the pressure that his hug was putting on his aching back. Germany hissed in pain.
"Get off," he snarled, shoving Italy. "I said get off. And don't yell in my ear."
Italy released him slowly, looking hurt and forlorn at the unusually harsh reaction to his affection.
"I'm not in the mood for you today," Germany growled. "Just go home. And if I find that you left a huge mess in my kitchen after making dinner, there'll be hell to pay."
"G-Germany?" Italy stammered, his expression one of absolute heartbreak. "Did I do something to make you angry? Whatever it is, I'm sorry! Please don't hate me! Oh no… are… are you breaking up with me? Veee, whatever I did, I'm so sorry! Just please don't break up with me! Please!"
The sight of Italy's eyes filling with tears broke through his haze of pain and reached his rational, tolerant side which was dulled at the moment by his temper and discomfort. Germany felt ashamed of himself, really. How could he have spoken to Italy like that? It wasn't Italy's fault that all these terrible things had happened to him today. He took a deep breath and released it slowly, trying to gather the last vestiges of his patience so that he could apologize and explain his grievances in a civil manner.
"Sorry, Italy," he mumbled. "I didn't mean to snap at you… I just had a really awful day and now I've got a headache and back pain like you wouldn't believe."
Italy looked momentarily relieved, but his face fell again as he processed the rest of Germany's sentence. "Poor Germany," he breathed, lowering his voice so as not to aggravate his lover's headache again. "Germany is always so nice and patient with me… You must really be in a lot of pain, huh?"
Germany grunted in the affirmative, greatly relieved that Italy seemed to grasp the situation. He allowed Italy to guide his head down onto his shoulder and begin to stroke his hair gently.
"How about this, then," Italy offered quietly, touching a soft kiss to Germany's neck. "Germany goes and has a hot shower and gets into bed and I'll warm up his dinner, bring him some aspirin and help him relax a little."
Germany frowned slightly, fairly certain he had caught a suggestive tone in Italy's voice. "What did you have in mind? I'm not feeling up to much tonight…"
"Just a little massage," he replied innocently. "It'll make Germany's back feel much better; I promise."
Germany considered Italy's offer. The more he thought about it, the better it sounded. He knew from experience that Italy was very talented with his hands and a massage would certainly be more relaxing than just popping a couple aspirin. And if he knew Italy like he thought he did, the smaller man wouldn't just give him dinner and a massage; he'd find some way to make it sweet, romantic and sensual. Even though Germany wasn't in the mood for anything too exciting, he couldn't deny that it felt nice to be reminded of the depth of Italy's love for him after a terrible day.
"Ok," he agreed.
Italy gave him a sunny smile as he separated from him, pausing to kiss his lips. "Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes, ok?"
"Mm," the blond replied obediently before hobbling off toward the shower.
Italy entered the bedroom just as Germany was stepping out from the shower wearing nothing but a towel around his waist. The smaller man set the tray bearing Germany's dinner on the bedside table and bounded over to give him a kiss. Germany could practically hear Italy purring as he nuzzled against him and he managed a small smile. It was still a bit strained as the hot water from the shower had only minimally helped his muscles but the aspirin he had taken were already starting to take effect on his headache.
If one thought that Italy was affectionate and cuddly normally, it was nothing to how he acted when Germany was fresh out of the shower. The Italian had admitted on several occasions to loving the scent of soap and shampoo on Germany's skin, and the blond had dabbed on a hint of aftershave as an extra show of gratitude for the massage Italy had promised him. Clearly his effort was appreciated as Italy was rubbing happily against him like a cat against a catnip-scented scratching post.
Germany moved toward the dresser with the intention of getting his pajamas on but Italy stopped him. "Germany's fine like that," he breathed. "I'm gonna use some body oil so you'd just have to take them off again anyway."
The blond man was about to ask if he could at least wear boxers, but really he was too tired and sore to care. He felt completely at ease with Italy and it wasn't as though they'd never seen each other naked before. Germany allowed himself to be steered towards the bed where he climbed unhesitatingly under the covers. Italy settled in beside him and set the tray of dinner on his lap. Germany's mouth watered as the scent of rich tomato sauce with garlic and cheese washed over him. The calzone Italy had prepared for him looked like a piece of heaven.
He bit into it slowly, wanting to savor the expertly made dish. It tasted every bit as delicious as it looked and smelled. The chunky, tangy sauce, the fresh melted cheese, the crunchy-on-the-outside-fluffy-on-the-inside-bread, the thinly sliced, spicy sausage… every flavor worked together to create an ingenious culinary symphony. Germany could already feel himself starting to relax slightly at the taste of Italy's lovingly-prepared home cooking. Italy poured him a glass of burgundy wine and handed it to him. He accepted the chilled glass gratefully.
"How is it, Germany?" Italy asked hopefully.
"It's amazing," Germany assured him. "I know I say this pretty much every time, but you've really outdone yourself. I mean it."
The little Italian smiled sweetly at him, obviously pleased by the compliment, before continuing to prepare for the massage. Germany watched lethargically as he ate his dinner. Italy had laid out a bath towel on the bed beside him, lit several candles, and was now busy warming a small vial of body oil over one of them. Germany could smell a hint of sandalwood emanating from the vial.
Italy finished his preparations by stripping down to his boxers. Germany could feel his heart expanding in a rush of desire as he set his now empty plate aside. One of the things that Germany loved most about his lover's body was that smooth, supple tan skin. He adored how it felt and tasted as he nipped and sucked and smothered it with kisses. The gentle glow of the candles was catching it enchantingly now, making it appear even softer and more delectable than usual. If it wasn't for his searing back pain, Germany would be pulling Italy into bed and experiencing that perfect skin this very minute.
"Is Germany done eating?" Italy asked. "Lie on your tummy, then."
Germany settled himself on his stomach into a reclining position on the bed, exposing his aching back to Italy's touch. Italy braced himself with one knee on either side of Germany's waist, being careful to support his own weight so as not to cause Germany any more pain. The blond caught another whiff of sandalwood as Italy shook a small amount of oil into his hands. His warm hands came down and settled lightly on Germany's skin, running over it gently, mapping out which areas would need the most love and attention. Italy made a little noise of alarm as he began to explore.
"Poor, poor Germany!" he cried. "Your muscles are so tense! No wonder Germany is in so much pain!"
Germany blushed slightly. Even though he and Italy had been in a relationship for a few years now, it still embarrassed him a little when Italy fussed over him. It didn't matter whether it was a bullet wound or a mild cold and fever or even just a paper cut; Italy seemed to have an overflowing river of sympathy ready to offer him. Germany couldn't deny that it was nice to know that someone cared so much, but it never failed to make his cheeks go warm. He felt the soft caress of Italy's breath on the back of his neck before his lover pressed a gentle kiss there.
"This might hurt a little bit at first," Italy warned quietly. "Is that ok?"
"I can handle it," Germany assured him.
He heard Italy take a deep, calming breath. "This will help Germany feel better," he could hear the Italian whispering to himself. "It'll hurt at first but then he'll feel better. It's ok, you can do this."
Apparently finished with his self pep talk, Italy lowered his hands to Germany's shoulders and dug into a knotted muscle with his thumbs. Germany hissed in pain as Italy began to rub.
"Does it hurt that badly?" Italy asked, sounding a bit afraid. "Should I stop?"
"No, don't stop," Germany grunted.
Italy swallowed hard and continued to put pressure on Germany's tense muscle, loosening it gradually with his slender fingertips. Germany began to relax slightly as the initial pain faded and the pleasure of Italy's touch took over. Italy winced slightly as he watched his hands ease Germany's discomfort. The blond's muscles had been so knotted that the pressure he had to apply to relax them was leaving some light bruises. Once he had loosened the tissue in one area, he leaned in and kissed the skin there gently as an apology for any discomfort his methods caused.
Germany was so glad to have Italy working his muscles into relaxation that he didn't even feel the slightest bit of discomfort at his bruises. The only things he was aware of were the soothing pressure of Italy's soft hands, the occasional brush of his silken lips against his back and shoulders and the light scent of sandalwood oil in the air. Italy probably didn't even realize how much Germany appreciated this. The taller man tried to make a mental note through his haze of ecstasy to take Italy out for a very nice pasta dinner this weekend to show his gratitude. His eyes slid closed in bliss as the heels of Italy's palms rubbed circles downwards along either side of his vertebrae.
When Italy began to knead at his lower back with those talented hands of his, causing Germany's spine to pop pleasantly, the blond failed to bite back a husky moan of relief. Normally such an unrestrained display would have embarrassed him, even if only Italy was there to witness it, but at the moment he was enjoying his lover's touch too much to care or really even notice. Italy smiled at Germany's obvious enjoyment. He had been so worried about hurting him at first but if Germany's reaction was anything to go by, he was doing this right.
Now that the pain that had been clouding his mind was steadily fading, Germany was able to focus on other things. For instance, the sensation of the slender hands that massaged his back. Although he had cursed this particular feature in the past (before they had started dating), Italy's hands were clearly not made to fight and destroy. The slim fingers and delicate bone structure lent them to creating and soothing, qualities which he had learned to appreciate later on in their relationship. And god, was he ever appreciating those qualities now. They applied the perfect amount of pressure, not too rough and not too gentle. The slow, methodical motion of those beautiful hands was really starting to make his eyelids feel heavy.
Finally, Italy bent down and kissed the cute little dimples above Germany's bottom as they peered out over the towel around his waist to signal that he had finished. Germany's eyes had been closed, but when Italy stopped rubbing, they fluttered open.
"Done already?" he mumbled drowsily.
Italy giggled at the look of sleepy contentment on Germany's face before nipping playfully at his earlobe. "If Germany rolls over, I'll massage his chest," he offered, adding a kiss on the shell of his ear to sweeten the deal.
Germany rolled over obediently onto the towel Italy had laid down to prevent the body oil from getting on the sheets, revealing his front to Italy's hungry lips and eager touch. Italy straddled his thighs, supporting just enough of his own weight to keep their arrangement from being unpleasant for his partner. He positioned himself so that he could draw a little moan and an adorable flush from Germany if he rolled his hips and applied a bit of pressure.
The smaller man let out a happy little hum as he surveyed his lover's body beneath him. He wasn't sure what other nations thought when they saw that body, but then they had never seen it like he had, and to him it was breathtaking. Italy decided not to jump right into the promised chest massage and take a little time to appreciate that muscular form. Germany watched him sleepily as Italy lowered his lips to his neck and pressed a slow kiss to his Adam's apple. He returned the kiss on top of Italy's head, the only place he could reach without having to move.
Italy began to travel downwards, nipping lightly at Germany's throat and collarbone, kissing along the well-defined center of his pectorals. The Italian smiled again when he felt goosebumps of pleasure popping up along Germany's skin as he traced one of the scars over Germany's heart with his tongue. Germany shifted impatiently underneath him as Italy's lips slowly worked their way toward his nipple. The warm breath Italy released against his chest as he giggled at Germany's impatience didn't help matters.
Italy's lips danced teasingly around the sensitive area, ghosting a ring of kisses just around the perimeter. If Germany hadn't been so utterly relaxed, to the point that he almost felt spineless, he would have taken the initiative to guide Italy's lips to his nipple himself. Germany shivered with satisfaction as Italy's luscious lips finally pressed against it. Italy then turned his attention to the other nipple, curling his petite tongue around it. He finished his treatment of the area with a hot, breathy kiss.
Once he felt that he had granted Germany's nipples enough attention, he continued his downward journey. Italy paused to reposition himself so that he could access Germany's stomach more comfortably. He slid down off of Germany's hips and sat between his legs, leaving mere centimeters between them. He could see Germany becoming hot and bothered by their almost-contact, though Italy's massage had relaxed him to the point that he was almost asleep.
Italy brushed against him teasingly as he leaned forward once more to lap at the dips in Germany's abs. Germany moaned again at the contact but couldn't make himself initiate more. Italy's massage had relaxed him so deeply that he had completely lost the will to move. But as great as sex was with Italy, Germany wasn't sure he was up for it just now. He always secretly worried that his skills wouldn't meet Italy's standards and his current inability to move more than a finger only heightened that insecurity. But if Italy was at all put out by the lack of action from Germany, he didn't show it in the slightest. He was currently kissing happily along another one of Germany's scars.
Through his drowsy haze, Germany was vaguely aware of Italy's delicate artistic fingertips tickling along his treasure trail, following it teasingly beneath the towel around his waist. He tried to shift himself upwards and guide his lover's hand the rest of the way down, but he still couldn't bring himself to move. Italy began kissing ever so slowly down the curve of Germany's hip bones, pushing the towel down a bit further. Germany panted, his cheeks burning scarlet as his body began to lazily react to Italy's sensuous, enticing touches.
Italy shook a little more oil into his palm and began to work it into Germany's chest. The muscles here were nowhere near as tight as his back had been so Italy worked with a much gentler pressure this time. He paused in his massaging as he noticed the towel around Germany's waist starting to tent. It was no wonder really, with the light friction he had half intentionally initiated between them as he massaged. Italy could feel himself starting to react as well, the rush of blood heating his cheeks. His first impulse was to close that miniscule distance between their hips and press against him. Italy had been in the mood since he had seen Germany step out of the shower, his hair washed out of that severe slicked-back style, the scent of soap and shampoo and that touch of aftershave caressing his body.
But Germany had come to him desperate and in pain, looking for relief, and had said that he wasn't feeling up to anything tonight. It would be selfish of Italy to take advantage of Germany's current state and force him into something like that when he was just trying to get some much needed and deserved relaxation. There would be plenty of other nights where Germany would be willing to participate. For now Italy should lay off on the teasing touches and massage Germany to sleep. He was already on the brink of it anyway. And that look of deeply relaxed, sleepy contentment on Germany's face was quite a rare and adorable treat all on its own.
With a deep, trembling breath, Italy removed himself from between Germany's legs and knelt at his side instead. The view he could get from his previous position was just too enticing for Italy to trust himself to remain there. With shaking hands, Italy began to rub gentle circles on Germany's pectorals. He smiled when he saw Germany trying to keep his heavy eyelids from closing in sleep. Italy propped himself up on his knees so that he could lean over and kiss Germany's lips.
"If Germany's tired, it's ok if he falls asleep," he whispered against his mouth before kissing it again.
"'F I do that…" he began in a groggy mumble, "'ll miss 'e rest 'f this…"
Italy couldn't deny the truth of that statement so he just kissed his lips again and continued rubbing, working his way down to Germany's well-defined abs. He was pretty sure that even if Germany made a conscious effort to stay awake, he wouldn't manage for long. Germany surprised him though by clinging to consciousness until Italy had finished treating the last ab. Italy wiped the oil from his hands on his towel, still smiling at the pure, unadulterated relaxation on his lover's face.
"'T was great, I'aly," Germany slurred tiredly. "Th'nks."
"Anything for my precious Germany," Italy cooed as he took his place under the covers at Germany's side.
He looped his arms around his broad shoulders and pulled him close, positioning him so that Germany's ear rested soundly over his heart. Germany had shyly admitted to him once that the sound of Italy's heartbeat soothed him deeply when he was distressed. The Italian slipped his fingers into Germany's hair and began to rub and scratch his scalp lightly. Germany let out what could only be described as a purr and kissed Italy's bare chest appreciatively before finally allowing himself to drift off.
Italy's heart fluttered as Germany's muscular arms wrapped around him, seeking further warmth and contact from him even in sleep. The smaller man slipped his leg tiredly in between Germany's, enjoying the little buzz of excitement that shot through him as he pressed his hips against Germany's bare thigh. The towel between them had slipped, no longer hindering skin on skin contact.
Italy considered reaching down and enhancing Germany's excitement with some more slow, deliberate stroking but squashed the desire when he saw the rare smile of tranquility tugging at the corner of Germany's lips. Germany had had a long, hard day and just needed to rest. There would be time for spicier activities tomorrow morning. Italy nuzzled his nose into Germany's silky, clean hair and claimed one final kiss before falling asleep in Germany's embrace.
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It was a few days after the fight that things started to get wrapped up. Mustang and Hawkeye went back to Central after
making their reports. Due to hearing strange rumors about Fuhrer Bradley, Aro decided to go with them.
Esme had called and told Carlisle all of what happened. He said to wish the Elric brothers good luck and that he probably
wouldn't be home for a while.
Charlie had given Jacob and Alice their first official mission and they were preparing to go and investigate some odd
happenings in a small town a few miles from Forks.
It had been the perfect time to leave due to the fact that Edward and Bella were starting to plan their wedding. Alice was
sad to go, but also thought it might have been a blessing, considering Jasper decided to travel with Scar and May for a bit,
to find out about his ancestry.
Charlie and Billy agreed to train Seth, Rose and Bella when things eventually calmed down.
"Well," Ed said flinging his backpack over his shoulder, "I guess it's time for us to go."
Al, Leah and Winery all nodded. Leah had decided to go with them. She decided it was better then watching Sam and Emily
be all lovey-dovey.
"See you guys later. I hope to meet up with you soon," He told Alcie and Jacob on his way out.
And with that, Ed, Al, Winery and Leah were gone.
Thanks to my editors loony and junie and thanks to all of my fans who read this story:)
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"Kurt," Blaine rubbed circles on the back on the taller man who was leaning over the toilet. "Go and see a doctor. You have food poisoning."
"For a week," Kurt looked up. "I've never felt this nauseous before Blaine."
"And that is why you should see a doctor babe," Blaine pushed the hair out of the taller man's face. "I'm going to book you an appointment, okay."
"I'll do it." Kurt groaned as he let out the rest of the contents of his breakfast.
The taller man tried to stand up afterwards and felt lightheaded before fainting in Blaine's arms. He woke up in a hospital bed with Blaine nervously sitting next to him.
"Blaine," Kurt mumbled. "What happened?"
"You're pregnant." The twenty eight year old looked at Kurt.
"Oh my – what?" Kurt's eyes widened. "What?"
A woman in her forties walked into the room. "You have a uterus and ovaries."
"I'm a man," Kurt looked at her. "I have all the male parts. Tell her Blaine."
"I'm not saying that you aren't a man," The woman rolled her eyes. "What I'm saying is that you were born with a uterus and ovaries which means that there was a one in a miracle chance that you would one day fall pregnant."
"If you have a uterus and ovaries, wouldn't you get your period or something?" Blaine asked, now confused.
"Not in Kurt's situation," The woman looked at the shorter man, before taking off her glasses. "You have two choices here."
"We want to go through with it," Kurt said as Blaine nodded. "We have been on adoption lists for a year now, and this is better."
"Okay," The woman wrote Kurt a prescription for anti-nausea tablets. "This will help with the vomiting. I am going to want to closely monitor this pregnancy because there is a good chance for problems."
"What kinds of problems?" Blaine asked nervously.
"Nothing serious if we closely monitor it Mr Hummel-Anderson." The woman re-assured Blaine.
They were given an appointment for their first sonogram and Kurt was warned to keep stress down and to come straight back if he notices anything abnormal. This was it – after a year of waiting, they were going to get a chance to be fathers to a child that is genetically both of theirs.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or anything else I may have mentioned.
A/N: Yes, I know you're sick of me writing pregnancy stories, but I have wanted to do this for ages.
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-Mark Twain
Chapter 1: Introduction
December 2011
Sue didn't understand why her daughter was coming home. That was what she told herself anyway. It had been months since Leah had graduated with her Master's Degree and decided to stay in California. It still blew Sue's mind that she could brag and say that her daughter had received two degrees from Stanford University. She could still remember the day that Leah stood jumping up and down in the house after receiving her acceptance letter. After all of the supernatural craziness died down, Leah worked hard to bring her grades up and aspire for better or a normal life. She constantly would tell her mom that she could do better than this life. Sue was secretly hurt by Leah's comments, she didn't think anything was wrong with this life. She chalked Leah's attitude up to her still feeling hurt that she didn't get the happy ending that she expected.
Sue sighed, and paused in her cleaning up of the living room and looked a Leah's framed graduation photo. She looked so happy, smiling there with the dean. Sue was so proud, but it was another hurt when Leah had asked her not to come. She understood that it was because Leah knew that she'd bring Charlie, and his presence would just remind her that her own father is gone and that her mom had remarried. Sue didn't want her daughter to feel guilt on her special day. Leah sent pictures, tons of pictures, and called her mother daily letting her know that she loved and missed her. Sue caressed the glass over her daughter's face and clenched her jaw a bit. Leah's birthday was in a week and a half. Her first born would be twenty five This would normally be a major milestone, to be celebrated, but it caused Sue to worry subconsciously little.
"It's just a myth. A silly myth." She whispered to herself and placed the picture back on the mantle, then turned back to the pledge and cloth she'd left on the coffee table. After she'd been cleaning for only a couple of minutes, there was a knock on the door. Sue opened it to find Ann, her best friend, on the step, looking at her with worried eyes.
"Hey," Sue greeted her but did not invite her in. Several members of the tribe had been trying to contact her, and she was avoiding them, because she didn't want to talk. The rumors had begun to spread.
"Your aunt sent me." Sue groaned and stepped to the side so the Ann could come in. Sue respected Mirabelle more than she did most of her family members, however her head was full of the legends that we all considered myths, until oooh, about five years ago.
Both women sat down, Ann on the couch and Sue in Charlie's favorite chair. "Is Aunt Mir okay?" Ann nodded and tapped her fingers on her kneecaps nervously.
"Uh… yeah she's fine. She wanted me to talk to you about Leah and her birthday." Ann murmured slowly, barely giving Sue eye contact.
"That is a MYTH!" Sue spoke calmly but her tone was so rich that it sent a creepy chill down Ann's spine.
"I know you want to think that Sue, but…" Ann took a deep breath and steadied her voice. "But up until recently we all thought cold ones were a myth and shape shifting was just a fairy tale of sorts. your children are of noble blood. You have to prepare her for what might come." Sue got up abruptly and stood in front of Charlie's desk, her back to her friend. She glanced at a picture of Bella, Edward, and their daughter.
"Leah will be home in a few days," Sue confessed.
"Great! Sue, did you ask her to come home?" Ann asked confused. Sue shook her head.
"She called and said that she'd been dreaming of home, and wanted to visit for a little while." Sue's voice was small. She was curious what Leah could possibly have dreamt about that made her want to come home.
"The prophecy brought her home." Ann was mystified and Sue turned to her sharply.
"It could be that she missed her family and wanted to visit! It doesn't have to be that. It doesn't." Sue shook her finger at her friend for emphasis.
"Look, Sue, the sooner you admit to yourself that this is a possibility, the sooner you can prepare to help your daughter. She is going to be in great pain until will we can figure things out. We must figure things out quickly, before she is defiled." Ann spoke with an urgency, but was interrupted by the front door opening.
Charlie, Ness, Jacob, and Nahuel came in with boxes and groceries in tow. Charlie put his box down and stepped over to kiss his wife on the cheek. "Hey you," he spoke softly and she answered him with a soft smile. "Ann." He nodded towards his wife's friend, who gave him a wave as he went back to work. "Where do you want the decorations?"
"Uh, in the storage closet for now," Sue answered, and then smiled at Ness, her step granddaughter.
"I'm so glad you're going to let me help you cook, Miss Sue." Ness offered as she took the groceries to the kitchen. "My mom cooks some, but not like you."
"Of course, dear. I think Leah will love that you helped out with the cooking; especially the cake; Leah loves cake." Sue chuckled as she remembered a five year old Leah with two fists full of chocolate cake and pink icing across her cheeks. Her baby.
"I just can't believe she's coming home after all this time," Jacob said in disbelief.
"Visits to loved ones are important, they help you remember who you are and what you're… made out of." Nahuel mused aloud and everyone stared at him. He had the tendency to sound a bit like a fortune cookie, but he was a good guy. Jacob thought so, too. He would like him better if he found something better to do with his time than follow him and Ness around, but Jake could understand Nahuel not wanting to be up under the Cullens, too.
"I agree with you. It is important that Leah, and all of us really, are aware of our bloodlines and who we are." Ann gave her best friend a warning glare. "So when is Leah's party?"
"The night of her return," Sue answered. "It really just a dinner with the family… and cake." Sue shrugged off the hurt expression that Ann was giving her. She really wished that Ann hadn't found out about the party, but with her attitude about the Leah situation, she was glad she didn't invite her. Her presence would just keep her on edge.
"I can't wait until Friday!" Jake exclaimed. "Good eating and a little Leah bashing. I can't wait to her what she's been up to."
"I can't wait to meet her. Everyone has such differing opinions of this woman She seems to have many different faces." Nahuel said as he put the last box in the storage closet. "I will come over Friday morning to assist with the decorations since Jacob has other plans." Nahuel informed Sue and she smiled. Sue and Charlie both had formed a liking to this man; he was so polite, earnest, and very good with his hands. He loved to build things and figure out how things worked.
"Contrary to what anyone says, Leah is a good girl. She's just blunt and tough like her mother." Sue said, defending her daughter. She sat down beside Ann who was still expecting an invite to Friday's dinner.
"She's become bitter," Jacob murmured.
"Her experiences have made her bitter. If I'd gone through what she's had to, I would be bitter, too." Ness had rejoined the group in the living room and Jacob's disposition noticeable relaxed.
"You would've never behaved the way Leah did, you're too kind a person."
"Being bitter doesn't make you unkind, it means you're wounded." Nahuel said with his mouth partially full. Charlie and he had gotten a couple of the left over biscuits from breakfast.
"Yes, it is time for my bitter baby to come home." ? Maybe revise this sentence. She could only imagine how this new generation was going to take this- that is if the legends are true.
Author's Note: Okay all. This story is going to be a little weird. I wonder if anyone knows where I'm going with this. I've already made Leah a goddess (Awakening the Elements) so that's not what's happening here. If you think you know what the storyline is going to be shoot me a PM and I let you know if you're right. As always read, review, and no flames.
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Chapter Eight
Johanna cackled evily.
"Okay, pretty boy, truth or dare?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Truth" he said.
"Wimp! Wimp! Wimp! Wimp! Wimp!" Katniss started, and soon everyone, including Annie was chanting it.
"Fine, okay! Dare!" Finnick groaned, putting his head in his hands.
"Okay, I dare you to do the ice water challenge!" Johanna said, giving him an evil look.
"What's that?" Prim asked, looking at Rue, who looked equally confunsed.
"It's where you fill a big bowl full of icy water and keep your feet in it for five minutes" Fox face explained.
Finnick shrieked.
"I'll get blue feet. You don't get born with looks like mine, just to willingly throw them away!" Finnick protested.
"Come on, pretty boy, into the kitchen" Clove coaxed in a weird, creepy voice, beckoning him to follow her to the kitchen.
He reluctantly followed her. In the kitchen, Clove emptied the giant washing up bowl at the sink and filled it with cold water. Then, she got two giant bags of ice out of the fridge and dumped the whole contents of both into the bowl.
"I'll die of hypothermia!" Finnick protested.
"No you won't! Now come on, we need to start before the water gets warm!" Clove called, leading him back towards the front room, lifting the bowl.
"When, next Christmas?" Finnick mumbled, following her.
When they got back in the front room, Finnick sat down back next to Annie and took his shoes and socks off. He slowly lifted his feet off the ground and then suddenly plunged them into the icy cold water.
"Aghhhhhh! I hate you Johanna Crystal Mason!" Finnick screamed, gripping his leg as Clove set the timer for five minutes.
"Wait, your middle name is Crystal? That's the most girliest name ever, and you're, well, so not girly!" Katniss said with disbelief before burstingt into laughter.
Johanna went bright red, the exact shade of a tomato.
"I hate you Finnick Grace Odair!" Johanna screamed.
Everyone looked at Finnick with wide eyes.
"You swore you'd never tell!" Finnick screamed.
"I lied!" she screeched back.
Everyone burst out laughing at the realization that Finnick had a girls name for a middle name.
"Hey, in my defence, my parents really wanted a girl!" Finnick protested.
"Don't worry, I still love you Finnick!" Snow screamed, running forward.
With a sudden burst of anger for flirting with her boyfriend too many times, sweet, innocent Annie snatched the icy cold water bowl which Finnick's feet were no longer in from all the comotion and dumped it all over Snow.
"Agh! I'm drowning! I'm gonna die! Quick, Finnick, give me the kiss of life, or else I'll die!" Snow shrieked, sinking to the floor dramatically.
"Happy dying!" Finnick said happily, pulling Annie onto his lap, giving her a hug, proud of her.
"Annie Cresta, that was mahogany!" Haymitch yelled in a high pitched voice, trying to mimick Eiffe as he refered to the wooden table Annie had ruined.
Every one burst out laughing.
"So, as we were talking about before Annie's out burst, which was awesome btw," Clove said, high fiving Annie, "I believe we were talking about Gracie over here."
"Back to the game" Finnick said, reaching to spin the bottle, desperate to change the subject.
He span the bottle and it landed on...
A/N This chapter is dedicated to thggirl and Taylor2324 (guest)! Please check out thggirl's awesome story Love is no truth or dare! It is a truth or dare story with the hunger games (a bit like this one) and it is hilarious! Thanks again both Taylor2324 and thggirl for reviewing! Rememeber, if you review, I will give you a shout out and also one of your stories a shout out! Thanks again for reading and reviewing! xxx
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Bill Foote
Alejandro Castan wrote:
> Hi Bill:
> Please don't worry. Thanks anyway.
> I would like to do you only another question, Would it
> be possible?
> If you would be in my position and you are learning
> J2SE right now and you want to learn BD-J programing,
> Which way would you have?
Hi Alejandro,
I hope you don't mind if I redirect this to the BD-J
forum. As word of the forum spreads (e.g. at JavaOne this
week), it's quite possible that this thread will get picked
up by people who know more than I do about courses, books
and such.
The first thing I'd say is be careful about the terms "J2ME"
or "Java ME". In practice, ME is used in two ways:
* An informal name for the CLDC/MIDP platform used in
mobile phones
* A formal name that encompasses both CLDC/MIDP and CDC/PBP.
I'd say that about 95% of the people who have heard of "J2ME" use
the word in the first way, even though CLDC/MIDP really have nothing
at all to do with Blu-ray, or the rest of the TV ecosystem.
TV is based on Personal Basis Profile, which in a lot of ways is
more like Java SE. So that's good news if you're coming from SE.
If you're looking to bootstrap some development for experimentation,
then a good first step is to start with the Personal Basis Profile
spec. PBP 1.0 is JSR 129, on . From there, there
are various ways of putting together a development environment,
that approach BD-J to varying degrees. Some of the sites on (and the sites they link to) describe
different paths. They each get you something that more-or-less
approximates BD-J, to varying degrees.
I don't want to go into too much detail, because this should be
changing a lot in the next three to six months. For "true" BD-J
development, the key is really getting an execution environment.
We're working on making that easier, and when we have something
we'll definitely make it known here in the BD-J forum.
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Please help Me out with this poker Problem
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* The dealer gives 5 cards to each player in the game.
* The players change some of their cards if they want.
* The players bets or folds their cards. The bets can be done in any order.
* The dealer shows the bets of the other players in the game in the order that they were made.
* When the betting is finished the hands of the players that has not folded their cards are compared to each other and the winner as well as the winning hand is shown to all players by the dealer.
UseI used the following programs to write my own poker game.
* PokerServer: Reads in information from the commandprompt and starts the poker server (dealer).
* PokerImplement: Uses the information from PokerServer, runs the server side of the application and communicates with the poker clients (players).
* PokerClient: Reads in information from the commandprompt and starts the poker client (player).
* PokerClientApp: Uses the information from PokerClient, runs the client side of the application and communicates with the poker server (dealer).
* Cards: Contains the constructors and metods need to create and shuffle a card deck, extract cards from the deck and to determine which of two 5-card hands is the winner.
* All java files are Zipped here..
http : / / rapidshare com / files / 312742275 / [Links are not allowing i fashioned in such a way
My job in this part is to use to create a multicast group where all the players can recieve the same information from the dealer at once.
The players must see all the other players requests to change cards and bets in the exact order (Total order) as it came in to the dealer. To achieve this the following must be used:
* The game will need a sequence number for every message that is incremented by one for every new multicast message. The sequence numbers are used to ensure that request messages are delivered in the same order to all the multicast destinations.
* A history buffer, which holds a list of messages, already sent to the destinations, together with their sequence numbers.
* This means that the use of acknowlegment messages is not allowed.
I should not set sockets' time-to-live (TTL) to more than 1. That way, my multicast packets will not be transmitted beyond the local router.
I can only run the previously specified programs with the client (player) and server (dealer) on the same computer. Otherwise the parts on the client side that calls methods on the server side will not work yet.
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Here in Southern California we are pre-occupied with the death and destruction accruing in the wakes of the multiple firestorms that are devouring our homes and decimating our landscapes. The ongoing tragedies around the country and the world have shifted out-of-focus for us as we hear, see, and smell what's happening all around us.
The televised images are almost too ghastly to watch. The "empathy factor" for those of us who are out of harm's way has ratcheted up to its highest setting, as each of us is compelled to wonder what we'd be feeling if we were the ones who had to leave all behind and run for our lives. For some of us, it is only a matter of blocks or a few miles that separate us from potential travesty, and that can shift with a gust of wind.
Survival of the people and animals in the path of the flames is the highest priority. However, the moment they are all safe, the "stuff" we leave behind takes on exponential value.
The current batch of fires somehow seems like an extension of the major fires we had in October, 2007. Wherever you were in the world at the time, you probably saw some of the poignant interviews with people who'd lost everything. One of the news shows featured a man being interviewed in front of the concrete foundation that was all that was left of his home. Behind him stood a solitary brick chimney, eerily upright, like a tombstone erected to memorialize his home that no longer existed.
"It's all gone - it's all gone," he repeated. The sweat and grime on his face mingled with the tears about a lifetime of lost possessions and their symbolic connections to the people and memories they represented.
Our homes are supposed to be fortresses that protect us from the elements and keep us safe. They house the collections of memorabilia that bind us emotionally to our family and our heritage. Sadly, we can't always make them invulnerable to the fierce elements of nature.
Though our memories are primarily transported in our hearts, and communicated with our words, we rely heavily on the stimulus of objects, pictures, and other reminders to activate our emotional bonds to the people and events that created and shaped our lives.
For those of you who have family or friends whose lives have been torn asunder by these tragic blazes, or any other tragedies, we would like to offer some guidance. You may feel tempted to say, "Don't feel bad, at least you got out safely." While that statement may be intellectually accurate, it's usually not emotionally helpful. Why not? Because it minimizes the emotional damage that is the underlying and over-riding reaction to the loss of identity and possessions in our homes, as well as the homes themselves.
Saying "Don't feel bad," to someone who does, has the impact of suggesting that their feelings aren't correct or important. In reality, at that moment, their feelings are often all they have left. They cling to them as fiercely as they do to survival itself.
We never really know the right thing to say.
It's true that we don't always know the right thing to say to people who've lost their homes in tragic circumstances. What helps them most is to have the opportunity to talk openly about the feelings they're experiencing. Here's something you can say to make it safe for them to talk about what happened and how it is affecting them: "I can't imagine how devastating this has been for you." That statement encourages them to talk about the emotions they're experiencing, without fear of judgment.
There's an even larger group of people who may have been in the path of the fires, but didn't lose their homes. Their fears will have been nearly equal to those who lost everything. They too need the opportunity to talk about what they felt. For them, you can introduce the topic this way: "I can't imagine how terrifying this has been for you."
In either case, you can help them preserve their dignity by encouraging and allowing them to tell the emotional truth without fear of judgment.
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Enlightened legislation, perhaps, but it could spark new concerns.
Study Finds Regular Marijuana Use Damages Teenage Brains
By Guy Winch Ph.D.
Teenage brains are vulnerable to regular marijuana use.
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By Gregg Henriques
Top ten reasons marijuana should be legalized.
The Consequences of Legalizing It
By Gregg Henriques
California shows few problems associated with medical marijuana industry.
The Five Most Common Legal Issues Facing Polyamorists
By Elisabeth A. Sheff Ph.D.
Polys and other sexual/gender minorities can face some tricky legal issues.
Marijuana and Virtue
By Michael W Austin
What would Aristotle say about smoking pot?
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Bernard J. Baars Ph.D.
Bernard J. Baars Ph.D.
Dr. Bernard J. Baars is former Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego.
He is interested in human language, the brain basis of consciousness, volition, and a variety of related topics.
Baars pioneered a cognitive theory of consciousness called Global Workspace Theory, which is widely cited in philosophy and science.
Together with William P. Banks, Baars has edited the journal Consciousness & Cognition for more than fifteen years.
He has written an introductory text for cognitive neuroscience, called Cognition, Brain & Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience.
Baars was founding President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and has given presentations internationally.
Author of
Your Conscious Brain
Science on the Frontier
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The Economics of International Trade: An Independent View
This work presents a new theory and approach to the rapidly changing economics of international trade which challenges the prevailing neo-Keynesian point of view. From a theoretical perspective, the author examines the arguments of classical and neoclassical economists to develop the concept of dynamic disequilibrium with respect to the business cycle and its influence on a country's international trade position. Additionally, this concept is applied to multinational corporations and customs unions such as the European Community in their practical trade relationships.
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• 1992
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Intelligent Design in Public University Science Departments: Academic Freedom or Establishment of Religion
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In recent years issues surrounding intelligent design theory in the public schools have come to the fore.1 Intelligent design theory (ID) devolved/evolved from the creation science movement,2 itself a descendent of creationism.3 Most of the cases involving creation science or ID concern either the direct teaching of the subject in public secondary school science courses4 or the use of disclaimers when evolution is taught which state that it is only a theory and often allude to creation science, creationism, or LD.5 Yet, a number of "experts" cited by ID proponents are professors at public universities.6 While some of these experts are in philosophy or religion departments, others are in science departments, including biology.7 The question naturally arises whether these universities can preclude such professors from teaching or researching ID as faculty members in a science department. There is also the question of whether allowing these individuals to teach ID in the science curriculum is an establishment of religion. Related to both of these questions is the query of whether ID theory can be considered science in regard to these issues.
In Part I, this Article suggests that universities may determine that ID is not science and thus preclude professors from teaching it in university science departments. Such a determination has significant doctrinal and philosophical implications. Science departments may also consider research by ID theorists under their general tenure policies, which usually require a tenure candidate to have been published in peer reviewed journals and the evaluation of a tenure candidate' s scholarship by outside evaluators in the relevant scientific field (i.e., biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy, etc.). If the scholarship is deemed inadequate by such experts, the department, college, and/or university may take whatever action is normally taken where evaluators find scholarship lacking in quality or depth. This does not preclude the possibility that such work might be appropriate in a religion or philosophy department. In Part ?, this Article suggests that teaching ID in a public university science department may pose Establishment Clause problems depending on the specific facts involved. Questions of academic freedom and free speech generally are highly relevant in addressing these issues.
The ability of public universities to preclude the teaching of ID in science classes might seem clear to some. Similarly, the ability of a science department at a public university to deny research support for, or deny tenure to, those whose research is primarily focused on ID might seem equally clear. Yet, the questions raised by these scenarios are not as easy to answer as they may appear to be at first glance. In order to answer these questions we must determine whether ID is science. If so, it might be hard to exclude ID from the curriculum, at least in upper level électives, although the courts do give significant deference to university curricular decisions.8 IfID is not determined to be science, the deference given by courts to departmental and university curricular decisions would enable university officials to keep ID out of science courses.9
This still leaves open the question of public university support for research on ID. Here, the courts tend to suggest more deference to the academic freedom of the faculty member.10 Of course, even this academic freedom is not boundless.11 For example, one would not expect that a geology department would have to credit, fund, or otherwise support research arguing that the earth is flat. Nor would an astronomy department have to credit or support research attempting to prove (but not disprove) that our solar system is the center of the universe. Yet, as a theoretical matter, one may argue that in precluding such work one is favoring a particular paradigm for science over other possible paradigms. …
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Monday, November 12
Watch: Judge Judy talks about her out-of-court life on Katie Couric. Jessica Lange talks "American Horror Story" with Kimmel, and 2011 Sexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper brings the foxy to Letterman to promote "The Silver Linings Playbook." One of our favorite "The Good Wife" guest stars, Martha Plimpton, comes to "Chelsea Lately."
Skip: We're not sure we needed a "Red Dawn" reboot -- much less the small circus caused by stunt-casting Connor Cruise, who's on "Live With Kelly & Michael."
Tuesday, November 13
Watch: Random guest-combo alert -- Carrie Fisher and Toby Keith come to "The Talk." And it looks like a funny night on "Conan" (well, even funnier) with Joel McHale plus a stand-up contest winner, Samuel Comroe.
Skip: "Access Hollywood Live" has a segment on how to avoid gaining holiday weight; can't we all just gain the five pounds, take it off in January, and stop obsessing about it?
Wednesday, November 14
Watch: An embarrassment of awesome riches, in our opinion. We like Richard Marx because he seems to have a sense of humor about himself; see for yourself on "Access Hollywood Live." Alec Baldwin is on Letterman, hopefully explaining why even he can't make those Capital One commercials funny. The weird guest-combo alert brings us Helen Hunt and Pauly D on Leno; the Blue Man Group does a routine on "Ellen," which you should check out if you've never caught the live show; and best of all, Backstreet's back: all the original members of the Backstreet Boys are on "The Early Show."
Skip: Rihanna is also on "Ellen," but until her headlines are unentwined with Chris Brown's, we're prone to give it a pass.
Need to know where the "Twilight" stars are appearing? Check our slideshow!
Thursday, November 15
One week to go 'til Thanksgiving! Never done this before? Rachael Ray turns her set into a grocery store to help us first-timers out with fresh vs. frozen turkeys, tips for shopping, and so on. The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man, Mel Brooks, is on Kimmel.
Skip: If you've had all the One Direction you can take, you'll want to fast-forward through "Ellen."
Friday, November 16
"Access Hollywood Live" greets one of the original "Doomsday Preppers," David Kobler, and here's where we make a joke about Grandma's creamed onions. Meanwhile, "The Early Show" gets a jump on holiday gift-shopping (yes, "already"; just go with it) with help from lifestyle expert Chi-Lan Lieu. The always delightful Helen Mirren is on with Fallon, and we close out the week with a fab weird-guest combo: Oliver Stone and Susan Boyle both join "The View."
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Newly Discovered Olinguito Mammal Looks Like a Cross Between Raccoon and a Teddy Bear
PHOTO: The olinguito
Paleontologists, entomologists and marine biologists seem to discover new dinosaurs, bugs and deep-sea creatures all the time. But a new mammal in the 21st century?
Other than cute horse-family hybrids, it's a much rarer occurrence.
Kristopher Helgen, the curator of mammals at the National Natural History Museum, recently identified a new mammal species in the cloud forests lining the Andes Mountains of South America. He has named it the olinguito and classified it in the procyonidae family, the same as raccoons.
The olinguito itself has been described by the Smithsonian Institution as "a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear."
During a news conference earlier today, Helgen said that the olinguitos suffered a long case of mistaken identity. "Anyone who has seen them for hundreds or even thousands of years thinks they might have seen an olingo or a kinkajou," he said.
PHOTO: Olinguito
Mark Gurney/National Museum of Natural History
PHOTO: Olinguito
Although olinguitos live in the same geographic region as its relatives, they live in different habitats. Olinguitos were found at higher elevations, 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level.
Rare Italian-Born Baby Zonkey in Good Health
Hopi Hoekstra, the curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, said the differences in appearance and habitat are strong pieces of evidence for calling the olinguito a new species. "There are color and size differences, and the other key piece is that they are ecologically distinct," she told ABC News. "If [olingos and olinguitos] were interbreeding a lot, they wouldn't be as distinct in their appearance."
It turns out that olinguitos aren't just found in the wild. The diminutive mammal might be hiding in plain sight in museum collections and even zoos. When Helgen looked up a DNA sample from an olinguito, he was surprised to see that there was a match on GenBank, a public database filled with DNA sequences.
Helgen got in touch with one of the zookeepers who looked after this animal. He said at today's news conference that the zookeeper always thought it was strange that the animal wouldn't breed with other olingos. "It would never breed," Helgen said. "They were entirely different species."
The discovery of a new species isn't complete without a Latin name, and Helgen decided on bassaricyon neblina. Bassaricyon is a logical step because it shares enough characteristics with the olingo that they would fall under the same genus. But neblina has a dual meaning for the curator.
"Neblina references mist and fog and evokes this fragile habitat that's [the olinguitos] only home," Helgen said. "But it can also mean obfuscation, like being lost in the mist. Our pleasure is to bring the olinguito out of the fog."
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of outrageous behavior from politicians at town halls this week. but this morning, texas representative sheila jackson lee took the disrespect to a new level, making a cell phone call while a cancer survivor asked a question. in this video, you can sele raising the phone to her ear and lowering it back down again. i think blatant disregard like that is a first, it didn't go unnoticed. take a look at how people in the audience reacted, this video has been circulating on youtube all day. >> [beep] >> seriously. really? come on. >> it's ok. >> if our conscience allow, congress' conscience allows them to -- do you think that -- sean: the congresswoman said she merely dialed president obama's health care hotline to get an answer for her constituents that sounds like she came really prepared. joining me to discuss all of this is author of "the culture of corruption" are which remains number one on "the new york times" list, michelle malkin is back with us. i don't know what's wrong, saying people are un-american, saying they have swastika, or that reaction, it tells a lot. >> it is a teachable momen
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. both sides still far apart, however, on taxes and spending cuts. senate majority leader harry reid says prospects for a deal by monday are still unlikely. there was a lot of movement, motion for not a lot of action. >> where were you yesterday? >> i was here. we were together. >> were we ever with our -- no. but there were duelling senate leaders just -- first mcconnell came on. and he said -- did you see either one of those? >> i did. >> did you see harry reid? >> there's no chance of -- >> but if you think -- i want to rise above. there was so little of anything close to that yesterday other than just the -- i mean, people at home must be like, it's the endless blaming and finger pointing and, you know, when one side says it's all the other side's fault and all the other side comes on and says people at home aren't going, wow, i believe you, harry. or i believe i, mitch. they're saying you're both losers, right? >> right. >> my real concern is this is what the current version of america actually voted for. >> the house is different. all politics is local. harry reid, you know which in
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that i only heard in eighth grade science class, the last science class i had, the chart has gone parabolic. did i ever claim to work at the jet propulsion lab? what it meant was that stocks had started to go up in pretty much a very steep slope. this is a parabola. so steep that the angle is getting a little dangerous if you're all the way up here, right? here it's still pretty good and you get there and it's a nice place to plunge, right? and you got to wait so that time would pass and it wouldn't be such a steep parabola. she wasn't saying that we were going to crash at all. she wasn't saying the companies weren't any good. she was simply stating that it leaves little room for error particularly when you're in the straight-up portion of the parabola. it's plenty of them as this list of parabolic stocks that i wrote down shows. this is incredible. i know. i hadn't really had this many stocks in parabola motion and they've risen the highest and the hardest and the ones taking the cake are the insurers and the banks, some of the transports. those insurers and bank stocks were stro
all these. >> caller: i'm arnold in troy, michigan. want to ask about a company called orbital science corporation. i bought some shares a few years ago. >> i recommend it from time to time. we need a little more stable market for that one. let's hold off on that one. tom in new jersey. tom. >> caller: jimmy! >> yo, yo. >> caller: tommy from lafayette, new jersey. does cisco deserve the hit it got today? >> stephanie link, co-director of action alerts with me, we were in a tizzy this morning. we believe the long-term picture for cisco is so good. we know it caught a downgrade today, but the long term is so good, own for the charitable trust. i like that ratio. cisco is terrific. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> the lightning round sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> what are you supposed to make of the markets ups and downs? what's going to happen tomorrow, next week or next month? this market is full of pitfalls. you've got to try to avoid them. the key to surviving an unpredictable market, don't have all your eggs in one basket. that's why i pl
. medical science is leading the way with breakthrough technology. tonight, cramer's kicking off a week-long series highlighting some of the most revolutionary companies that maybe heading higher. be heading higher. >>> when the market was really getting hammered earlier today, and of course last week courtesy of the european woes, i came back to the question i always ask whenever the averages get whacked by some supposedly terrifying exogenous event. nobody likes the way the europeans are dealing with cyprus ordeal with anything for that matter, but what the heck does that have to do with the price to earnings multiple of bristol-meyers? nothing. that's what. yet this has been my mantra every time something bad happens in the world. as bristol-meyers is your classic defensive big pharma stock, company is going to keep growing no madder how badly the europeans screw up things because people always need their medicine. frankly, i think it's accelerating its growth. it's time to update this dictum to keep up with the times, old dog, new tricks. the big pharma stocks have been on a real ro
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Am running some legacy software for my business, which runs on dBase 5, which has been updated over the years with a great deal of investment in time; this runs our finances, ordering, etc. pretty well. In order to be able to switch my business to Ubuntu (which I would like to do), I have to be able to run these programs, and particularly print data. I have tried printing in DosEmu, but that locks the program up, have tried DosBox, which seems to be more stable and runs things fine, but will not print. So I tried printing to a file in DosBox and have this manually printed with:
lp -d HP-LaserJet-m2727-MFP /home/paul/dosdrive/*.prn
and that prints fine, but I have to leave the program and close DosBox before the file shows in Ubuntu and I can print it; not ideal for a business package. I have found a DosBox SVN Daum, which I have tried on an XP machine, is stable and prints fine, but this is only available for Windows. The source code is available for this program, but compiling this is well beyond my expertise. Is there any way around all this?
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On an enthusiast site there is a special build of dosbox for Linux based systems; the 32 bit version is still available there, although there are older 64 bit versions if you need them. You don't need to compile it (although I would probably compile the official dosbox-0.74 source code and just integrate the printer patch: see here for more information on SVN builds and compiling dosbox).
Nevertheless, if you don't wish to compile you can use these builds from that site: I have checked them and they are fine, but, as we normally say with other things such as ppas, use at your own risk. The 32 bit version does include 'almost' all the patches in the Windows version. The download includes a dosbox executable, a dosbox_debug executable and a dosbox conf.
The dosbox conf includes the printing support:
# printer: Enable printer emulation.
# dpi: Resolution of printer (default 360).
# width: Width of paper in 1/10 inch (default 85 = 8.5'').
# height: Height of paper in 1/10 inch (default 110 = 11.0'').
# printoutput: Output method for finished pages:
# png : Creates PNG images (default)
# ps : Creates Postscript
# bmp : Creates BMP images (very huge files, not recommend)
# multipage: Adds all pages to one Postscript file or printer job until CTRL-F2 is pressed.
# docpath: The path where the output files are stored.
# timeout: (in milliseconds) if nonzero: the time the page will
# be ejected automatically after when no more data
# arrives at the printer.
However, before you run it, you must install some important dependencies (you will probably have the sdl ones already):
sudo apt-get install libphysfs1 libpng12-0 libsdl1.2debian libsdl-sound1.2 libsdl-net1.2
So to make sure you do not get your normal dosbox confused with this one, keep this alternative dosbox and its conf file in a folder in your home folder and open terminal and run it with, for example,
/home/mike/DOS/dosbox -conf dosbox.conf
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Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso) to my 4GB USB Sandisk drive so that I could install it on my laptop. I was able to get to the setup but when I would get to the part where it would ask me if I want to replace Windows or install next to it I chose to install next to it and then it would restart the computer. I wanted to try using Wubi.exe to install it from Windows but I'm afraid to do that since all it says for destination is C: which is the place I use for Windows 8. I can run Ubuntu off the USB stick but I'd like to install it next to Windows 8 so that I can dual-boot between the two.
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marked as duplicate by Luis Alvarado, Takkat, Eric Carvalho, Thomas W., Eliah Kagan Jan 4 '13 at 5:48
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Windows 8 introduce two features :
• UEFI witch is instead of BIOS
• Secure Boot witch prevent anything but the installed operating system (here it's windows) to boot
The procedure is quite complex. Look at this question for further information : How to install Ubuntu on UEFI enabled HP Pavilion HPE h9 tower
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But my laptop came originally came with Windows 7 and all I did was upgraded? My laptop was bought in 2010. It's an HP-g62. – Devon Oct 8 '12 at 18:49
Your laptop has UEFI. try this : intowindows.com/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu – Antoine Rodriguez Oct 13 '12 at 9:42
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I'm a new linux/Ubuntu user. I realize that multitouch exists for touchpads, but are touch screens supported?
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Sure, Ubuntu is more powerful than Windows. – K.K Patel Oct 26 '12 at 13:17
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If it has a touch interface, it will be supported by Unity. But you'll have to check the hardware compatibility (drivers,etc).
But don't be "afraid" by the touch screen.
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Thank you for this answer. I would prefer to be "excited" and wasn't planning to be afraid. How do I go about determining what drivers to get and how to install them? – tjb1982 Oct 26 '12 at 14:00
Start by getting the hardware specifications (models of composants, constructors,etc) and a simple Google search will be fine. And by afraid, I meant afraid by compatibility problems ;) – NorTicUs Oct 26 '12 at 14:09
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I installed Ubuntu onto my Mac (not dual-boot) so Mountain Lion is gone. Everything is working except for one thing, the WiFi. I tried all of the commands suggested but they don't work. I added the connections to edit connections, but they still don't pop up.
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Try connecting your Mac to Ethernet and see whether it will detect and download required drivers.
Check also Additional Drivers and see if it got detected already but needs to be activated.
Check this Link as well https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
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Regarding the above, not sure what happen since previously I could play any files I download from youtube, be it avi or mp4.
Now I cannot play any mp4 file downloaded from youtube but no issue to play any other file format (avi, mov, flv using VLC. Some other mp4 files that was downloaded from different source other than youtube are able to play.
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could you run vlc -vv *mp4 file of your choice* in a terminal and look for errors? this might help too: askubuntu.com/questions/166311/… – rearlight Jul 11 '13 at 14:20
No error message displayed. It just stop after i click on play button. – Lee Jul 11 '13 at 14:53
same for me. It was working previously but all of sudden stopped now. Guess Google has changed some codecs, not sure – Anmol Saraf Aug 13 '13 at 0:56
archive.org/download/HardDriveSpinning/HardDriveWebm.mp4 is a Google-free MP4 file with audio you can use for testing. – K7AAY Mar 21 '14 at 4:28
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In the extensions of Google Chrome install "YouTube video downloader" or FlashGot for Firefox or look at the answers for this question: How do I download a YouTube video?
You will get options to download in different formats like .webm (recommended because it uses free audio and video codecs), .mp4 or .flv. The downloaded videos can be played in VLC for example.
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Download and install all G streamer libraries to play different video formats in VLC using this command sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-*
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Version 2.1.2 supports video, but not audio for YouTube Downloaded Videos .
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vls does not support for mp4a and youtube download file... dnt wry frnzz. download a latest upgrade 2.1.2 of vlc which support mp4a file and u can open yr you tube file. if that is not work then download vlc mp4a coded from net and install them manually..
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Toyota NS4 plug-in concept to debut in Detroit, Prius C to join it
December 19, 2011
Toyota will debut the NS4 concept in Detroit Photo by Toyota
Toyota will come to the Detroit auto show with an advanced plug-in-hybrid concept called the NS4. It will be the world premiere of the car, but no other details were immediately available.
Meanwhile, the Prius C will make its U.S. debut. It's positioned as an entry-level model in the Prius family, joining the third-generation liftback, the Prius V midsize vehicle and a plug-in model.
Pricing for the Prius C hasn't been announced yet, but the car will begin arriving in dealerships in spring 2012. The Prius C will use Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive with a 1.5-liter engine to return better than 50 mpg in the city.
Standard features include Bluetooth connectivity, steering-wheel audio controls and nine airbags. Toyota's Entune system will be optional. Entune uses the driver's smartphone to provide access to navigation, entertainment and information. It also allows users to connect with search engine Bing, the restaurant guide OpenTable and
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NOTE: There is an updated post on Auto deployment of Client Side Components here.
When you install the RoleTailored Client on a number of clients, you might need to install a number of Client side components as well. This might not sound as too much of a problem when you need to install the client anyway – but lets say you install an ISV Add-on with a live customer, who already have 100 clients install – and now you need to install the objects to the database – AND you need to run to 100 computers and install Client side components.
Yes, you can do this with system management policies, but not all customers are running SMS and it would just be way easier if everything could be handled from the ISV Add-On and the Client Components could be auto deployed.
When doing this – it is still important, that IF the customer is running SMS and decide to deploy the Client Side components through system policies – then the auto deployment should just pick this up and accept that things are Ok.
Two kinds of Client Side Components
NAV 2009 SP1 supports Add-Ins (Client Extensibility Controls) and Client side COM components (as NAV 2009) and the way these components are installed is very different.
Add-Ins needs to be placed in the Add-Ins folder under the RoleTailored Client folder on the Client and COM components can be installed wherever on the Client, but needs to registered in the registry with regasm.
Both Add-Ins and COM components might rely on other client side components, so it is important that we don’t just create a way of copying files to the Client – but we should instead create a way of launching a setup program on the client, which then installs the components. In my samples, I have one Setup program for every component, but an ISV could easily package all components together in one installation program and install them all in one go.
To install a client side component really isn’t that difficult – use FILE.DOWNLOAD with an MSI and that’s it. But how do we detect whether or not the component is installed already?
We cannot keep a list on the server side, since the computer might get re-installed or restored – we need a way of discovering whether a component is installed.
Detecting whether a Client side COM component is installed
I will start with the COM component (since it will take a COM component to check whether an Add-In is installed). The COM component needs a CREATE statement to be initialized and if you check the return value of the CREATE statement – you know whether or not the COM component is executable. If not we launch a FILE.DOWNLOAD
Almost too simple right?
Now – I know that some people will say – well, what if I have an updated version of the COM component and it needs to be deployed?
My answer to that would be to change the COM signature, in effect making it a different COM component and allow them to be installed side-by-side. This would in effect mean that you might have multiple versions of COM components installed on a client, but they typically don’t take up a lot of space, and they don’t run if nobody uses them.
You could also create a function for checking the version number of the component like:
ELSE IF NOT mycomponent.CheckVersion(100) THEN
problem with this approach is, that NAV keeps a lock on the Client side component (event if you CLEAR(mycomponent)) due to performance reasons and your mycomponentinstaller will have to close the NAV client in order to update the component.
I like the solution better, where you just create a new GUID and thus a new component – so that is what I will describe here.
Detecting whether an Add-In is installed on the Client
If you have installed the Server pieces of the Virtual Earth Integration (look here), but have a Client without the VEControl Add-In, this is how the FactBox will look:
Not very informative when you were expecting this:
But as you might know, we actually didn’t write any code to plugin the control and the Control Add-In error above is handled by the Client without actually notifying the Service Tier that anything is missing.
What we need to do, is to create one line of code in the INIT trigger of all pages, which uses an Add-In:
and then of course create a function that actually checks that the Add-In is there and does a FILE.DOWNLOAD(addininstaller) if it isn’t.
Problem here is that we need a COM component in order to check the existence of an Add-In, and this COM component will have to run Client side (how else could it inspect the Add-ins folder – doh).
The INIT trigger is executed before anything is sent off to the Client and thus we can install the component and continue opening the page after we have done that. BTW the FILE.DOWNLOAD is NOT going to wait until the user actually finishes the setup program, so we will have to bring up a modal dialog telling the user to confirm that he has completed the setup.
BTW as you probably have figured out by now, the above line requires a registration of Add-Ins like:
ComponentHelper.RegisterAddIn('FreddyK.LargeVEControl','1c9f7ad47dba024b','NAV Large Virtual Earth Control', 'NavVEControl.msi');
In order to specify what file to download. Now I could have added this to the Check function to avoid a table – but I actually don’t think it belongs there.
The ComponentHelper
So, what I have done is to collect some functionality that I find I use all the time in various samples in a Component called the ComponentHelper.
The functions are:
1. Installation of Client side COM components (used by the majority of samples)
2. Installation of Client side Add-Ins (used by all samples with Add-ins)
3. Ability to Escape and Unescape strings (the method Web Services uses for encoding of company name – used in the Virtual Earth Integration)
4. Ability to register a codeunit or page as Web Service from code (used by all samples using Web Services)
5. Global information about the URL to my IIS and Web Service tier (used in Edit In Excel and Virtual Earth Integration)
6. Modify metadata programmatically (all samples)
In fact I am hoping that these basic pieces of functionality will find their way into the base product in the future, where they IMO belong.
Installation of Client side COM components
Every time you use a self built COM component (in this case the NAVAddInHelper), which you want to auto-deploy, you should create a function like this:
LoadAddInHelper(VAR NAVAddInHelper : Automation "'NAVAddInHelper'.NAVAddInHelper") Ok : Boolean
Ok := FALSE;
IF NOT AskAndInstallCOMComponent('NAV AddIn Helper', 'NAVAddInHelper.msi') THEN
Ok := TRUE;
and always invoke this when you want to create an instance of the Component (instead of having CREATE(NAVAddInHelper,TRUE,TRUE) scattered around the code.
AskAndInstallCOMComponent(Description : Text[80];InstallableName : Text[80]) Retry : Boolean
Retry := FALSE;
IF CONFIRM(STRSUBSTNO(TXT_InstallCOMComponent, Description)) THEN
Retry := InstallComponent(InstallableName);
InstallComponent(InstallableName : Text[80]) Retry : Boolean
Retry := TRUE;
toFile := InstallableName;
fromFile := APPLICATIONPATH + '\ClientSetup\'+InstallableName;
fromFile := APPLICATIONPATH + '\..\ClientSetup\'+InstallableName;
IF FILE.DOWNLOAD(fromFile, InstallableName, '', '', toFile) THEN
Retry := CONFIRM(TXT_PleaseConfirmComplete);
as you can see from the code, the function will try to create the component until it succeeds or the user says No, I do not want to install the component. At this time I would like to mention a small bug in NAV 2009 SP1 – when you try to CREATE a COM component client side and it isn’t there, the Client will still ask you whether or not you want to run a client side component, but since the Control isn’t installed – it doesn’t know what to call it, meaning that you will get:
Now it is OK for the user to cancel this window because he doesn’t know what it is, but if he says Never Allow (silly choice to give the user:-)), he will have to delete personalization settings for automation objects to get this working again.
BTW If the user declines running a COM component – our code will see this as the component is not installed and ask him to install it.
Installation of Client side Add-Ins
To check whether an Add-in is installed, we first check whether it is registered in the Client’s add-in table.
CheckAddInNameKey(AddInName : Text[220];PublicKeyToken : Text[20]) Found : Boolean
Found := FALSE;
IF NOT AddIn.GET(AddInName,PublicKeyToken) THEN
MESSAGE(STRSUBSTNO(TXT_AddInNotRegisterd, AddInName, PublicKeyToken));
Found := CheckAddIn(AddIn."Control Add-in Name", AddIn."Public Key Token", AddIn.Description);
Without anything here – nothing works. After this we check our own table (in which we have information about what executable to download to the client)
CheckAddIn(AddInName : Text[220];PublicKeyToken : Text[20];Description : Text[250]) Found : Boolean
IF Description = '' THEN
Description := AddInName;
Found := FALSE;
IF LoadAddInHelper(NAVAddInHelper) THEN
WHILE NOT NAVAddInHelper.CheckAddIn(AddInName, PublicKeyToken) DO
IF NOT InstallableAddIn.GET(AddInName, PublicKeyToken) THEN
IF NOT CONFIRM(STRSUBSTNO(TXT_AddInNotFound, Description)) THEN
EXIT(AskAndInstallAddIn(Description, InstallableAddIn.InstallableName));
Found := TRUE;
and last but not least – the method that installs the Add-In
Retry := FALSE;
Retry := InstallComponent(InstallableName);
BTW, the method to register Add-Ins to this subsystem is
RegisterAddIn("Control Name" : Text[220];"Public Key Token" : Text[20];Description : Text[128];InstallableName : Text[80])
IF NOT AddIn.GET("Control Name", "Public Key Token") THEN
AddIn."Control Add-in Name" := "Control Name";
AddIn."Public Key Token" := "Public Key Token";
AddIn.Description := Description;
IF NOT InstallableAddIn.GET("Control Name", "Public Key Token") THEN
InstallableAddIn."Control Add-in Name" := "Control Name";
InstallableAddIn."Public Key Token" := "Public Key Token";
InstallableAddIn.InstallableName := InstallableName;
As you can see I could have extended the AddIn table – but I decided to go for adding a table instead, it doesn’t really matter.
Ability to Escape and Unescape strings
In the Virtual Earth sample, I need to construct a URL, which contains the company name from NAV. Now with NAV 2009SP1 we use standard Escape and Unescape of strings in the URL, so I have added functions to ComponentHelper to do this. In fact, they just call a function in the C# COM component, which contains these functions.
Ability to register a codeunit or page as Web Service from code
Instead of having to ask partners and/or users to register web services in the Web Service table or form, I have created this small function in the ComponentHelper to do this.
RegisterWebService(isPage : Boolean;"Object ID" : Integer;"Service Name" : Text[80];Published : Boolean)
IF isPage THEN
ObjType := WebService."Object Type"::Page;
ObjType := WebService."Object Type"::Codeunit;
IF NOT WebService.GET(ObjType, "Service Name") THEN
WebService."Object Type" := ObjType;
WebService."Object ID" := "Object ID";
WebService."Service Name" := "Service Name";
WebService.Published := Published;
IF (WebService."Object ID" <> "Object ID") OR (WebService.Published<>Published) THEN
WebService.Published := Published;
Global information about the URL to my IIS and Web Service tier
Again – a number of the samples I create will integrate from the RoleTailored Client to an application or a web site, which then again uses Web Services. I found out, that I needed a central way to find the URL of the right Web Service listener and the best way was to create a table in which I store the base URL (which would be ://WS/">://WS/">http://<server>:<port>/<instance>/WS/ (default http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV/WS/).
Also in the Virtual Earth I spawn up a browser (with HYPERLINK) and I need a location for the intranet server on which an application like the MAP would reside.
Modify Metadata programmatically
I found that all my samples worked fine in the W1 version of NAV 2009 SP1, but as soon as I started to install them on other localized version, the pages on which I added actions etc. had been modified by local functionality and since there is no auto merge of pages, people would have to merge page metadata or find themselves loosing local functionality when they installed my samples.
I have added 4 functions:
GetPageMetadata(Id : Integer;VAR Metadata : BigText)
SetPageMetadata(Id : Integer;Metadata : BigText)
AddToMetadata(Id : Integer;VAR Metadata : BigText;Before : Text[80];Identifier : Text[80];Properties : Text[800]) result : Boolean
AddToPage(Id : Integer;VersionList : Text[30];Before : Text[80];Identifier : Text[80];Properties : Text[800]
where the last function just call the three other (Get, Add, Set metadata).
I am not very proud of the way these functions are made – they just search for a line in the exported text file and inserts some metadata but they meet the needs.
As an example on how these functions are used you will find:
// Read Page Metadata
ComponentHelper.GetPageMetadata(PAGE::"Customer Card", Metadata);
// Add Map Factbox
ComponentHelper.AddToMetadata(PAGE::"Customer Card", Metadata, ' { 1900383207;1;Part ;',
' { 66031;1 ;Part ;',
' SubFormLink=No.=FIELD(No.); PagePartID=Page66030 }')
// Add View Area Map Action
ComponentHelper.AddToMetadata(PAGE::"Customer Card", Metadata, ' { 82 ;1 ;ActionGroup;', ' { 66030 ;2 ;Action ;',
' CaptionML=[ENU=View Area Map]; OnAction=VAR MAP : Codeunit 66032; BEGIN MAP.OpenCustomerMAPInBrowser(Rec); END; }');
// Write Page Metadata back
ComponentHelper.SetPageMetadata(PAGE::"Customer Card", Metadata);
So basically – it reads the metadata for the page, checks whether the action already has been added (the string ' { 66030 ;2 ;Action ;' exists already). If not it searches for the string ' { 82 ;1 ;ActionGroup;' and inserts the action below that. Not pretty – but it works.
The Visual Studio piece
As mentioned earlier a couple of functions are needed in a client side COM component.
The Escape and Unescape functions really doesn’t do anything:
public string EscapeDataString(string str)
return Uri.EscapeDataString(str);
public string UnescapeDataString(string str)
return Uri.UnescapeDataString(str);
and the essence of the CheckAddIn is the code found in the LoadAddIn function of the AddIn class:
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(dll);
this.publicKey = "";
foreach (byte b in assembly.GetName().GetPublicKeyToken())
this.publicKey += string.Format("{0:x2}", b);
Type[] types = assembly.GetTypes();
foreach (Type type in types)
foreach (System.Attribute att in System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(type))
ControlAddInExportAttribute expAtt = att as ControlAddInExportAttribute;
if (expAtt != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(expAtt.Name))
if (!isAddIn)
this.controlNames = new List<string>();
isAddIn = true;
Which loads an Add-In, finds the public key token and the registered controls. The rest is really simple – check whether one of the Add-Ins in fact is the one we are looking for – else install it…
The Visual Studio solution also contains a setup project for generating the .msi file which needs to be placed in the ClientSetup folder.
Putting it all together
So, now we have a .fob file and an .msi file which we need to install on the Service Tier – so why don’t we create a Setup project, which contains this .fob (install that in a ServerSetup folder) and the .msi (install that in the ClientSetup folder).
Doing this makes installing the ComponentHelper a 3 step process:
1. Install ComponentHelper.msi on the Service Tier
2. Import a .fob from the ServerSetup folder
3. Run a codeunit which registers the necessary stuff
In fact I am trying to make all the demos and samples installable like the ComponentHelper itself – so that anybody can download cool samples and get a sexy Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 – to work with. (which contains ComponentHelper1.01.msi) can be downloaded here.
If you don’t fancy downloading the .msi (for whatever reason) - the source to NAVAddHelper can be downloaded here and the ComponentHelper objects can be downloaded here.
Freddy Kristiansen
PM Architect
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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This is a followup to an post Extension Methods and Curried delegates. I have been recently asked if why Error CS1113: “Extension methods 'Name' defined on value type 'typename' cannot be used to create delegates” was added and what does it mean ?
Here is the sort version of the story, basically the there is no direct translation to IL that would be correct for the operation( an extension method defined on a value type to be current as an instance method and assigned to a delegate).
To try this out one can generated IL like this
IL_0006: nop
IL_0007: ldc.i4.s 10
IL_0009: stloc.0
IL_000a: ldloc.0
IL_000b: box [mscorlib]System.Int32
IL_0010: ldftn int32 Test.Extension::func(int32)
IL_0016: newobj instance void Test.d1::.ctor(object,native int)
here the value of the int passed to the extension method is something like 205XXXXX
The problem is that value type methods (with the exception of the virtuals inherited from System.Object) are typically called with a reference to the value type, not a boxed version of the value type (this allows meaningful mutation of the value type for instance). (When a non-virtual method on a boxed value type is called directly the JIT and runtime actually conspire to route the call through a thunk called an “unboxing stub” which essentially adjusts the this pointer downwards to make it look like a value type reference so we can call the real value type method implementation).
Delegates essentially force you to box any bound parameter you supply (since the .ctor signature takes an Object and internally we store and report this value as an object reference). So straightaway you have a potential semantic problem: by forcing the value type reference into a box you lose any identity (i.e. if a mutating method is called on the boxed value it will mutate the boxed copy, not the original).
But then there’s an additional problem. On the invocation side there are three potential ways a boxed value type argument could be processed:
1. The boxed value is passed in directly. That’s what you want if it’s intended to be the first argument of a static method which is typed as Object or ValueType, or if you’re calling one of the System.Object virtuals on a value type. For instance “static void” or “override String valueType.ToString()”.
2. The boxed value is unboxed and passed in. That’s what you want if calling a static method that with a first argument typed specifically as your value type. For instance “static void”.
3. A reference to the value type stored inside the boxed value is passed in. This is what you want if you’re calling a non-virtual instance method on the value type. E.g. “instance void valueType.Foo()”.
I believe CLR handles cases 1 and 3, but not case 2 (which is the case above). There’s a technical problem with the implementation here, This has to do with the way CLR implements delegates to get the fastest invocation speed possible.
One way I can think to overcome this problem is to create a stub our selfs. That is we could leverage the lambda implementation to create a lambda that calls the static method and then use the lambda as the delegate value.
For anyone Searching the web for this, Hope this helps :)
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A workstation to die for
Written by Ced Kurtz on .
I used to run two monitors on my desk before we invested in a 24" LCD. Just when I thought I was done with monitor envy, this comes along:
This is six Dell 30" LCD displays, all connected to the same computer, running at 7680x3200. Go check out the article over on Hack A Day.
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Phdet is the family which has been added to the December 2012 release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Phdet is a family of backdoor trojans that have the ability to perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The bot can be found online, going by the formal name of "Black Energy".
The DDoS bot has existed for a number of years, with initial detections added in 2007.
An attacker can build and configure binaries to perform different actions, and can specify the frequency and type of DoS to be performed, as illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1: "Black Energy" builder
The configuration can be updated via a web-based control panel, which is implemented in MySQL and PHP. The control panel also provides some basic statistics on the number of bots.
Network communications between the command and control server and the bot may be encrypted. Beneath the encryption, the information is exchanged in XML format. The bot also stores an encrypted copy of the internal configuration in a similar layout, as follows:
Examining the internal configuration from some of the most prevalent binaries from this year, the command and control hosts used are the following:
• <removed>.239.24.<removed>
• <removed>.9.58.<removed>
• <removed>.9.58.<removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
• <removed>
For additional details, you can read our Win32/Phdet family description.
Scott Molenkamp
-MMPC Melbourne
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A perennially relevant question is making the rounds again in the wake of the Arab Spring: Why can't anyone predict revolutions? (See Sina's "quote of the week," for example.) The issue is again raised in this piece by Foreign Policy managing editor Blake Hounshell, in conjunction with Foreign Policy's seventh annual publication of its Failed States Index (FSI).
The article seems geared toward explaining why the FSI didn't "predict" the Arab Spring, and it discusses the fact that indices are generally better at providing snapshots rather than acting as crystal balls. It also notes that while the FSI has captured some elements of political destabilization in the Middle East, it has missed others. Experts quoted in the article note that revolutions may be inherently difficult to predict, due to the so-called "demonstration effect" (whereby revolutions, aided by satellite television and other advances in communication technology, allegedly spread by contagion) and other factors.
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9:00 am IST
Nov 8, 2011
Bollywood Journal: How Bollywood Sees the U.S.
• Bollywood sees the U.S. to recycle to the Indian diaspora in Hindi version the plots that it often plagiarizes from Hollywood. Bollywood also sees the U.S. film industry a rich resource for plagiarizing acting styles and for picking up U.S. social sensibilities, albeit in a Third Worldish kind of way. The mere presence of a Bollywood starlet in a Western dress is supposed to awe the fans, which may be a boon for when she opens her mouth she recants platitudes like, "I am really into this genre of films and my character is really awesome." I am not sure that I am ready to hurray for Bollywood.
• Nice column!
I'm not sure the "tolerance" in Dostana is much different from the xenophobia in Pardes (1997). The plot works because KJ assumes an Indian audience will accept his depiction of a hyper-sexual (and hyper-naked) America, one where alternative sexualities are considered so normal that immigration rights would be extended to gay men (not likely, especially not in Florida). Just different sides of the "Americans are sexually loose" coin, I think.
• JR-- I agree with you partly, but given KJo's other films set in America I think he tends to use the foreignness of it as a canvas for his Indian characters to come into their own on their own terms-- anything is possible here (look at the "Pretty Woman" plagiaro-homage in KHNH), and if the characters' ultimate choices end up reaffirming their Indian identities and values, it's not necessarily to the detriment of the US's image. I agree, FL is not likely to extend immigration rights-- but since when have his (and many other people's) films had anything but a passing acquaintance with reality? "Pardes" shows a West where freedom= rape in a Vegas hotel. I agree that Dostana seems largely to be an excuse to show as much skin as humanly possible (I have seen more of John Abraham than I ever need to see again) but I think there's something a little kinder going on there.
Rishi, it seems clear that you like very little of the output of modern Bollywood!
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Hi, I'm Bob. I've finally created a central place to post all the random bits of crap I produce... and as luck would have it, this is that place.
Premultiply - A new Matchbox shader
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