SpiderOak is a well-established provider and along with the now defunct Wuala, it has focused on offering a secure cloud storage solution. When Wuala was shut down in 2015, many users started looking for alternatives and SpiderOak is one of the best ones, thanks to the fact that it is a zero-knowledge cloud. They offer end-to-end encryption, which means that users encrypt and decrypt their data on their own devices. This makes SpiderOak an appealing solution for security conscious users because it implies that the provider doesn't have access to their passwords or encryption keys and would not be able to check their data. We'll take a closer look at the security offered by SpiderOak.
SpiderOak uses its own encryption method so unlike the case of open source technology, the code can't be inspected by independent parties. As such, users will need to trust that SpiderOak's proprietary solution is truly safe as it is not possible to confirm that there are no back-doors installed into the code. You'll just have to take their word when they say that their service is secure. However, if you don't want to take any chances, it is important to consider additional steps to ensure that your data is protected. Before uploading your files to the cloud, it is advisable to encrypt them using an open source tool like TrueCrypt.
Still, it should be mentioned that SpiderOak offers practical functionality that TrueCrypt doesn't support. For instance, you can encrypt and decrypt files individually. SpiderOak also supports easy syncing across multiple devices, as well as file versioning. This are convenient features that you don't get if you only use TrueCrypt. One thing to keep in mind is that when it comes to zero-knowledge services, it is your responsibility to look after your password and encryption keys since only you have access to them. If you lose them, SpiderOak can't help you to recover them.
The provider uses 256-bit AES in CFB mode with HMAC-SHA256 encryption. All the keys are encrypted with 256-bit AES using a key created from your password by PBKDF", a key derivation/strengthening algorithm using sha256. A 3072-but RSA key pair is included with every account and SpiderOak has plans to use it for multi-user private collaborative and sharing functionality in the future.
Although SpiderOak is a relatively small provider, it has gained recognition thanks to its secure online storage service. However, since the company is based in the United States, it is more vulnerable to surveillance by the NSA. This government organization is known for targeting internet services that operate in the US and many companies are forced to hand over data, or do it willingly. As previously mentioned in our review, SpiderOak has proprietary software, meaning that it can't be independently audited to confirm that it hasn't been compromised by the NSA or other organization. However, it should be noted that the provider has shared many of its own tools and resources with the open source community and it even aims to making its client code open source at some stage.
Although SpiderOak offers many advantages, there are some issues that should be considered. The first thing to keep in mind is that only the SpiderOak client is zero knowledge and if you access your account via the web interface, your password is provided to the SpiderOak servers. However, the company has acknowledge this as an issue and it states that the data is never written to a disk. If you access your files outside the SpiderOak app, your password has to be provided to their servers for authentication and in order to be directed to the data. Still, many people won't consider this as a major deal, particularly since being able to access files on the go and from any location is very convenient. Although SpiderOak supported Bitcoin as a method of payment for a while, it doesn't offer this option anymore.
In spite of some minor flaws, SpiderOak is an excellent service that supports convenient features. Although it uses proprietary code and it is based in the US, the company has a solid reputation as a reliable solution and so far, there hasn't been any evidence showing that it has been compromised by the NSA. Although when you access your data remotely from outside the SpiderOak client, your password is provided to the servers, the convenience of being able to access your files from anywhere may be more important than the small security risk involved.


Jerry Crabb raced motorcycles, 3-wheelers, and 4-wheelers from the 1960's into the 2010's. At the age of 47, in 1990 he made his first start in a 410 cubic inch sprint car at Knoxville Raceway. In 1991 he built his own 360 cubic inch sprint car, and raced at Knoxville and several Iowa tracks until 2006. He was the winner of the 1998 Masters Classic at Knoxville Raceway. This book contains recollections from a fifteen year member of Jerry's sprint car pit crew.


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Things That Make You Smart
I started reading "Things That Make You Smart" by Donald Norman and one paragraph struck a chord with me:
When technology is not designed from a human-centered point of view, it doesn't reduce the incidence of human error nor minimize the impact when errors do occur. Yes, people do indeed err. Therefore the technology should be designed to take this well-known fact into account. Instead, the tendency is to blame the person who errs, even though the fault might lie with the technology, even though to err is indeed very human.
Now, read this quote from James Gosling that I took from the introduction, by Richard Gabriel, to "Successful Lisp" by David Lamkins:
Very dynamic languages like Lisp, TCL, and Smalltalk are often used for prototyping. One of the reasons for their success at this is that they are very robust...Another reason...is that they don't require you to pin down decisions early on. Java has exactly the opposite property, it forces you to make choices explicitly
Contrast it with the following quote from Niall Ross during his keynote speech at Smalltalk Solutions:
... back to language comparison: static-typing is the ultimate up-front optimisation
C#, Java, etc.: designed by and for those who expect to be right first time
Smalltalk: designed by and for those who don't
We, Smalltalkers, Lispers, and dynamic language lovers everywhere, embrace the human in all of us and make the machine conform to us not the other way around. We understand that we err and we're not going to get it right upfront. But, Java and the static hounds think that we should blame the programmer for being human. Make the language easy for the computer and not the poor programmer. And right there, I think you have the split between the two camps. One is machine-centric (Java, C, C++, C#, etc) and the other is human-centric (Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Self, Python, Io, Slate, etc). I know which one I pick. Sad thing is that we've had these human-centric languages since 1960 (or was it 1958?).
I can't wait to read the rest of the book!
What's really sad, is that not only have we had these languages since the 60's, but some of them (I'm mostly thinking of Lisp) have had most of the major features of most of todays modern languages since the 60's.
Another example of Worse is Better.
Isaac Gouy said...
read this quote from James Gosling
How much credence should we give to a selective quote, that's had words removed in 3 places (2 elipsis and the concluding sentences from the paragraph)?
1) "Lisp, TCL, and Smalltalk ... are very robust
The missing words tell us that, by "very robust", Gosling means disallowing pointer arithmetic and manual memory alloc/dealloc - so Java is also "very robust".
2) From the selective quote, we might be tricked into thinking Gosling believed "Another reason... is that they don't require you to pin down decisions early on."
From the original text, we find something quite different. Gosling said - "Another reason given for these languages being good at prototyping...".
It's something other people believed, not something Gosling believed.
3) The missing final sentences contradict your implication that "Java and the static hounds" "expect to be right first time"
"...make choices explicitly. Along with these choices come a lot of assistance: you can write method invocations and if you get something wrong, you get told about it early, without waiting until you're deep into executing the program."
Here's the full text:
"Very dynamic languages like Lisp, TCL and Smalltalk are often used for prototyping. One of the reasons for their success at this is that they are very robust: you don't have to worry about freeing or corrupting memory. Programmers can be relatively fearless about dealing with memory because they don't have to worry about it getting messed up. JAVA has this property and it has been found to be very liberating. Another reason given for these languages being good for prototyping is that they don't require you to pin down decisions early on. JAVA has exactly the opposite property: it forces you to make choices explicitly. Along with these choices come a lot of assistance: you can write method invocations and if you get something wrong, you get told about it early, without waiting until you're deep into executing the program. You can also get a lot of flexibility by using interfaces instead of classes."
Java: an Overview (pdf) p4
To Isaac:
I'm sorry I didn't include the entire quote, I was quoting from another source and didn't know where the original came from. I apologize. But, I think the meaning is the same. For example:
they don't require you to pin down decisions early on. JAVA has exactly the opposite property: it forces you to make choices explicitly
Still means what I meant it to which is that Java forces you to make decisions early where in late-bound languages you can delay. I don't think it changes the meaning.
Besides, in dynamic languages you're always running the program and there is no distinction between compile and run-time. Your program is always running. Besides, static typing only finds 1% of the bugs. The obvious "duh" bugs. It doesn't get the major logic errors. Granted, this still happens in dynamic languages, but not as much because we are always running the program. The cycle between coding and running is very small. There's a reason Kent Beck and other Agile guys talk about a short cycle between coding and running. It's to catch those. But, I'm off topic now. Besides, until casting is disallowed, you're still going to have that vulnerability. The new generics in 1.5 help in that regard. But, what about methods expecting Object as an argument in frameworks? You still have to cast.
I will agree that interfaces are better than classes. I believe the behavior is more important. But, I have found it rare for java developers to use them. I only used interfaces in my arguments of my public methods. This way I never cared what was passed in, but adhered to that interface. It drove a lot of developers mad. Again, I'm off topic.
And one more thing, one commenter expressed that it was easier to understand APIs in java than in a dynamic language. I usually figure out an API by running it and playing with it. To me, that is way more helpful than a static, dead listing of a file. It's like trying to figure out what a person is like after they're dead and you can't talk to anyone they knew. I'd rather learn while they are still alive. Besides, properly written code in any language is obvious to what it does. If it isn't obsious, then it's poorly written. A bad API is a bad API whether it's java or Smalltalk.
I know this might come as a shock, but I don't hate java. I use it at work. Well-written code is always a joy to work with. It's just that I can express my ideas more succintly in dynamic languages and change my mind more frequently. This means if I paint myself into a corner, I can get out with less effort. Simple refactoring is always easy, but major design changes is where a language is put to its test in my opinion.
1) the meaning is the same
No - the omitted words changed the meaning, let's take your example: they don't require you to pin down decisions early on.
Gosling wrote: "Another reason given for these languages being good for prototyping is that they don't require you to pin down decisions early on."
Clearly, Gosling was correct - it is a reason some people (you yourself) give.
Gosling did not write that he agreed with that reason - but the selective quotation misleadingly makes it seem that he did.
2) Besides, in dynamic languages you're always
You seem to be mistakenly conflating the Smalltalk image with file-based languages like Ruby, Python...
3) Besides, static typing only finds 1% of the bugs
Really! Got any evidence?
4) The obvious "duh" bugs
Even primitive static typing would have caught this GNU Smalltalk bug
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-smalltalk/2005-07/msg00019.html
5) until casting is disallowed
Now it seems that you would like more static type checking than Java provides? If that's what you want, it is available - try OCaml/SML, Haskell, Nice, Scala...
6) Simple refactoring is always easy, but major design changes
I'm told that IntelliJ IDEA now includes a rewrite engine - "Structural Search and Replace" - that's how we should do major design changes.
It doesn't matter what I think Gosling liked or agreed with the reason. He was simply stating why they are good at prototyping. It changes NOTHING of my point.
You seem to be mistakenly conflating the Smalltalk image with file-based languages like Ruby, Python..
HUH?! No, I am not. You are constantly running your code in a Smalltalk image just like in Ruby and Python. It's called an interpreter.
1% bugs comment...
Only the evidence that I observed from working on several java projects. There's no substitute for unit testing. We all want robust systems. I just think we come from two different mind shares. We both get our jobs done and both of our ways makes us successful. The static vs dynamic typing debate will go on forever. We view the robust problem in radically different ways.
NO. You are putting words in my mouth. I'm simply stating that Java typing system is broken and does not provide the safety that you proclaim it does. I have indeed seen and studied Haskell. I do like their type system better. But, I prefer to type less.
Gee, we have that too. The refactoring browser started in Smalltalk. Fire up VisualWorks and there's a very sophisticated rewrite tool that allows structural search and replace. It's been ported to Squeak recently as well.
1) It changes NOTHING of my point.
Perhaps you'd like to restate your point.
2) constantly running your code in a Smalltalk image just like in Ruby and Python. It's called an interpreter
#1 Let's write some Python code in a text-editor.
#2 Let's run that Python source code file from the command-line.
Seems like the program was only "running" in step #2. (Maybe you're conflating "interpreter" with REPL?)
3) 1% bugs comment... Only the evidence that I observed...
So you haven't watched the programmers on those Java projects, and recorded how many errors were caught by the compiler?
"The static vs dynamic typing debate will go on forever" as long as people invent evidence!
"this might come as a shock" but I wrote Smalltalk day-in day-out for 10 years.
5) Java typing system is broken and does not provide the safety that you proclaim it does
Where exactly did I proclaim that?
6) Gee, we have that too
Pardon me, it seemed from "Simple refactoring is always easy, but major design changes..." that you hadn't used a rewrite engine to make major design changes.
You are right. But, isn't the E in REPL an interpreter? Besides, when I program in Ruby. I have a Ruby VM running and just re-load my file. It's not much different than the way I program in Lisp. If I hose things up, I just restart the VM.
I'm sorry I have not done due deligence on that one. It has been my experience that the compiler catches the simple bugs and not the logic bugs which are the trickier ones anyway. Simple bugs do still happen in Smalltalk, but they are caught early in life. It's been rare and only the result of a sloppy programmer to get those types of bugs in production code. Java seems to penalize all programmers for the habits of sloppy programmers.
I think people have been successful on both sides. Thus, with different experiences, you can come off with different view points. To me, it's the difference between liberal and conservative. There's nothing wrong in either's view. They just look at the problems differently. I'm more successful in dynamic languages, thus my bias.
You didn't. It was a wrong implication on my part. I apologize.
2) You are right. But, isn't the E in REPL an interpreter?
iirc this started with "Besides, in dynamic languages you're always running the program".
Now we've agreed that you are talking about REPL, the obvious question is 'do statically typed languages have REPL?'
REPL for Java
REPL for OCaml
3) I'm sorry I have not done due diligence on that one.
Here's the problem, you made the claim "static typing only finds 1% of the bugs" - and now all those Java and static hounds can use that false claim to demonstrate that Smalltalk advocates make self-serving claims which are simply untrue.
It has been my experience that the compiler catches the simple bugs and not the logic bugs which are the trickier ones anyway.
But once again, I doubt that you have recorded what errors the compiler traps, even during your own programming sessions - so what you call "experience" is actually just guesswork.
Simple bugs do still happen in Smalltalk, but they are caught early in life. It's been rare and only the result of a sloppy programmer to get those types of bugs in production code.
I have a great deal of respect for the expertise and professionalism of the VW engineering team. Here's the VW 7.2.1 Fix List. Many of the items are new or changed functionality, but let's pretend they are all bugs.
imo At minimum 5% (and at most 15%) of those items could have been detected by static type checking.
Errare humanum est.
"Java has exactly the opposite property, it forces you to make choices explicitly"
This is a misconception. There's no reason you can't change types any time you like in a Java program, and refactoring IDE's make it easy. In fact, renaming a method or changing its signature is far easier in Eclipse or IntelliJ than it is using Python and emacs.
In an XP project, the design can change radically from one week to the next. There's nothing about Java that prevents this, if you have the right tools.
(What I meant was that you do have to say what type you want today, but you can always change your mind tomorrow. It's explicit but very changable.)
Dolphin Giveaway
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It Can't Be Done
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JBoss Developer's Notebook
SmallHttpUnit Lives
Ozzfest Rocked
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Omaha Smalltalk User's Group
HP Sucks
Eclipse And Scheme
iShuffle Operational!
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Hi, I'm Heather and I just unpacked my childhood ponies. I have ponies, clothes, the nursery (in play condition w most accessories), and stable. I'm not sure how to go about pricing and selling my collection! Thank you!!
Hiya! Welcome to the board. I'm sure we can get some help pricing, but are you suuuuuuuurrrrrreeeee you wanna sell? I can't tell you how many have sold off their Ponies only to regret it later. But if you're certain, you've come to the right place!
And I'm not far from you really. I'm like 60 miles away. Do you see me waving to you?
It happens as soon as you open the box and see your old friends! Who can resist their adorable faces?
Howdy, neighbor! I'm Alyx and I live in the North Dallas area.
The dolls move around at night when you're sleeping. If anything happens to you they'll take over the house and refuse to let anyone in!
He will be the general of the dreaded doll army! It would be a good horror story. The Puppy and His Poppets.


In this role, will be an integral part of the School's continued excellence and innovation in both research and teaching. You will be working as a senior member of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) on team-based, externally funded research and highly impactful projects in line with the Centre's vision – to carry out research that stimulates new thinking and creative practice and enables cultural organisations to become more ambitious and impactful in nurturing more equitable and inclusive societies.
You will initiate and develop research projects and secure funding for new projects; manage budgets and contracts; create learning resources from research to support teaching; and generate and capture impact. You will contribute to and further enhance the profile of the Centre, the School and the University. You will be responsible to the Director of RCMG.
With a demonstrable track record in research, you will have experience of socially engaged research and practice. A range of research skills is key, predominantly using qualititative methods but quantitative methods and approaches are welcome. You will have experience of managing budgets, as well as of securing research funding which has significant impact. We are looking for a self-starter who has experience of presenting research findings and disseminating them to museum professionals, engaging policy makers, academics and agencies beyond the cultural sector.
For informal enquiries, please contact Jocelyn Dodd jad25@le.ac.uk or 0116 252 3995 or Richard Sandell on rps6@le.ac.uk or 0116 252 3965.


We at RCR understand that there is a particular learning curve to surmount when it comes to technology we depend on, and that learning process is ongoing.
Windows 10 has been around for a while now and some of our clients were "forced" to upgrade when Microsoft released the free update. Even if your device has had Windows 10 installed on it for a while, you may still be in the dark about some of the necessary and also cool things that Windows 10 offers.
There are many resources online, like YouTube, but that can be intimidating and somewhat difficult to find the path you're looking for.
The videos are short with clear audio and video, which is not always easy to find.
We hope that you take the time to learn a little bit more about your device and the software that it's running as it can help you and also protect you. If you know how things are supposed to work, you may be able to spot when a potential threat is attempting the clone the look and feel of Windows and cause you harm and headache.


While engines are usually monitored within a ground-based scheduled maintenance programme, this new method allows for real-time in-flight engine health monitoring (EHM). The E-Workbook application is linked to Snecma's research platform, Samanta, and is used to maintain a history of the systems' maturation process. It provides a single platform for the capture, analysis, searching and reporting of all research and development (R&D) data.


Is This Wine As Unusual As Its Name?
Be honest, did you ever hear of Maratheftiko before? I'm guessing that if you have heard the name, you have either visited Cyprus or you are a Greek or Greek Cypriot. For the rest of us the first time we will encounter the name is when picking up a bottle of wine with this grape variety mentioned on the label.
Maratheftiko is an ancient grape variety indigenous to the sunshine island of Cyprus.
This grape is grown in limited quantities around the island but mostly in the Pitsilia region. This is a mountainous area of rocky land on very steep slopes, used mainly for grazing goats and sheep and for producing small amounts of cereals, wine and our grapes.
At our local supermarket, Alpha Mega in Skarinou, they were offering bottles of Ayios Elias, a Shiraz – Maratheftiko blend. I had been on the look out for a new wine to taste test and the packaging suggested an interesting product not unlike one of our favourites, Ayios Andronicos from the Vasillikon winery.
Bottled in a tall, dark green bottle, this red wine has a modern, serrated edge designed label and is sealed with a traditional cork beneath a plastic and metal neck seal. These points suggest an interesting product.
There is a very small indication on the rear label stating that the wine contains sulphites.
Close inspection of the label reveals that Ayios Elias comes from Chrysorroyiatissa Monastery located in the Paphos District of Cyprus.
If, like me, you are keen to know more about where this wine is made, read on.
Chrysoroyiatissa (Greek: Χρυσορρογιάτισσα) is a monastery dedicated to Our Lady of the Golden Pomegranate located about 40 kilometres north-east of Paphos, Cyprus at an altitude of around 2,700 feet. It was reportedly founded by a monk called Ignatius (Greek: Ιγνάτιος) in the 12th century. It lies 1.5 kilometres from the today village of Panayia, birthplace of the hero of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios. The present building dates to 1770.
In the 1980s, with the revival of small boutique wineries such as this one this variety was rediscovered and its cultivation is slowly on the increase again, as it offers a distinctive character to local wines.
Keo, the largest brewing business and winery on the island is part owned by the Church. Keo has been one of the companies to encourage growth of this challenging variety. Maratheftiko does not have hermaphrodite flowers like many cultivated grape varieties and requires co-planting with other varieties in order to achieve fertilisation and fruit development.
To answer the question initially posed, join me later when we uncork a bottle and give it a taste test. Will Maratheftiko make it onto our list of recommended local wines?
Footnote: We offer our guests a selection of wines to test on arrival at the villa. It seems an ideal way for those who enjoy wine to get to know varieties that they might otherwise never taste.


Our Director Joel Kellhofer suddenly signs with a Texan twang. The reason? He has just addressed the Business Convention and Expo of the Deaf in Houston, Texas. Joel was one of the award-winning Deaf entrepreneurs who were asked to speak at this international event about their business experiences. As if he's JR. You'll never hear the end of it. For more info, see http://wpress.deafbiz.org/.


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JLR to test future vehicle technologies on UK's first connected corridor
Jaguar Land Rover is investing in a 41-mile 'living laboratory' project on UK roads to develop new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies. The new CAV test corridor includes roads around Coventry and Solihull.
The £5.5m (US$8m) UK-CITE (UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment) project will create the first test route capable of testing both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure systems on public roads in the UK. New roadside communications equipment will be installed along the route during the three-year project to enable the testing of a fleet of up to 100 connected and highly automated cars, including five JLR research vehicles.
The fleet will be used to test a range of different communication technologies that could share information at very high speeds between cars, and between cars and roadside infrastructure, including traffic lights and overhead gantries.
The UK government will support the project with a £3.41m grant from the UK's innovation agency, Innovate UK.
Dr Wolfgang Epple, director of research and technology at JLR, said, "This real-life laboratory will allow us to test new connected and autonomous vehicle technologies on five different types of roads and junctions. Similar research corridors already exist in other parts of Europe so this test route is exactly the sort of innovation infrastructure the UK needs to compete globally."
Meanwhile, JLR is also investing in a multi-million pound research project that will help future autonomous vehicles drive naturally like human drivers, rather than like robots.
A fleet of JLR vehicles will be driven daily by employees of the London borough of Greenwich, to establish how a range of different drivers react to real-world driving situations, including heavy traffic, busy junctions, road works and bad weather. Data from sensors in these cars will reveal the natural driving behaviors and decision-making that drivers make while driving, including complex and stressful scenarios.
The three-year £5.5m (US$8m) Move-UK project, led by Bosch, will also use this data to help develop insurance policies for future autonomous cars. Insurance experts will provide their expertise on the liability of certain scenarios using the real-world driving data supplied by the fleet of test cars.
The research will also be supported by the UK government with a £2.75m (US$3.98m) grant from Innovate UK.


The food we love to eat, is the food we love to serve. So whether it's a traditional Sunday roast or one of our new dishes, we're sure there's something for everyone to enjoy at Moo Bar & Grill.
To complement our delicious around-the-world inspired BBQ cuisine food, we have a wonderful array of wines, real ales, soft drinks and spirits. Explore our menus below and then book a table to enjoy!


The Doctrine has long studied the harnessing and manipulation of Esper. Their prestigious academies have trained the greatest scholars, sages, and mystics the universe has ever known. If the Darkspace Calamity is to be stopped, the Doctrine's knowledge and skill will be of paramount importance, and its students will be challenged as never before.


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Reporters Committee urges Florida to adopt broad court access policy
Remote electronic access to case files should be just as extensive as access available at the courthouse, the Reporters Committee…
Remote electronic access to case files should be just as extensive as access available at the courthouse, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said in comments filed Tuesday with the Supreme Court of Florida's Committee on Privacy and Court Records.
The Reporters Committee strongly opposed the Florida committee's proposal to classify some information found in court records as "not appropriate for public release," or even exempt from public records. Instead, the Reporters Committee urged Florida to adopt a "broad but sensible" access policy such as those employed by the federal courts and by New York.
"[P]roviding co-extensive remote and paper access is the most faithful means of accommodating the public's established First Amendment and common-law rights," the Reporters Committee wrote, asserting that both legal and public-policy considerations justify remote access to judicial records.
The Reporters Committee pointed to several instances of computer-assisted journalism – including a January 2004 series by the Miami Herald – breaking stories of major public importance, thanks largely to electronic access to court records.
If Florida feels compelled to protect certain sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, the Reporters Committee suggested that it instruct litigants to avoid including such "personal data identifiers" in their filings, or else limit it to the last four digits. The court, however, should make it clear that the public can still request an unredacted version of the document – a request that may be granted when the public interest in disclosure outweighs the interest in privacy.
"A policy of broad access to court documents improves the quality of news coverage, enhances the public's capacity to monitor the judicial system, and acts as a check against injustice and abuse," the comments concluded.
The Florida Committee on Privacy and Court Records is scheduled to hear public testimony on Nov. 17 in Tallahassee.
The Reporters Committee is a voluntary, unincorporated association of reporters and editors working to defend the First Amendment rights and freedom of information interests of the news media. The Reporters Committee provides representation, guidance and research in First Amendment and Freedom of Information Act litigation.
The comments to the Florida Committee on Privacy and Court Records can be found at: https://www.rcfp.org/news/documents/20041103-floridaele.pdf
Florida Supreme Court restricts electronic access to court records
Panel recommends electronic access to court records -- with limits
Reporters Committee supports continued online access to federal plea agreements
Judicial Conference votes on electronic access to court records
Reporters Committee asks federal judges to allow electronic access to court files


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Experience sunset out at sea on this 2 hour harbor cruise aboard a double-decker cruise boat with music, contests, etc.
We custom design a t-shirt to commemorate your GradCity Grad Trip!
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The Next Federal Reading Initiative Could be Broadest Yet
In the wake of the demise of the federal Reading First program last year there's been a lot of speculation about when and how the federal government would again attempt to tackle the nation's significant literacy problems. There's been little question about whether there would eventually be a successor to Reading First, which pumped about $6 billion into K-3 reading instruction across the country since 2002.
There's been more discussion of the issue lately (Eduflack outlines his own suggestions here). Now there's a draft bill circulating which details a federal reading effort that would target children of all ages, essentially from birth to high school.
Could this signal that the recent federal hiatus from reading-reform issues, prompted by the controversy over Reading First, might be coming to an end? A Senate aide confirms that there is bipartisan interest in the bill, which reflects the handiwork of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington-based organization that has focused a lot on adolescent literacy. The bill, I'm told, could be introduced after Congress' Memorial Day break.
The proposal holds true to many of the tenets of Reading First, particularly the need for instruction grounded in skills that also builds vocabulary and comprehension. But it goes further in making writing a key component of effective reading instruction, as well as the importance of students' motivation to read.
Reading First drew criticism from many in the field for ignoring those elements. Some other additions might answer some of that criticism as well: There is an expressed emphasis on what are described as "the characteristics of effective literacy instruction." Under that banner students would be exposed to a variety of texts, reading practice, and text-based collaborative learning. Also emphasized are language development, the family's role in building literacy, and the need to build students' interest in reading.
Instructional materials used by grantees in the program would be need to be "based on scientifically valid literacy research," the draft says. There's no detail about what that term means, and under Reading First the demand for materials and strategies based on "scientifically based reading research" caused a lot of confusion and was interpreted in different ways. It also led to a lot of commercial products marketed as "research-based" that didn't necessarily meet the standard.
Reading First was also slammed for real or perceived conflicts of interest among federal officials and consultants involved in the program. The draft bill, and new rules instituted at the Ed. Dept. in the wake of the Reading First controversy, try to address those problems.
The proposal, of course, carries a hefty price tag: $2.3 billion.
Do you think the feds should get back into the reading reform business? Does the draft bill address all the key points, and adequately tackle the problems in Reading First?
A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.
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May 11, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project — Was Marx a superman or a human being? Joan Robinson once asked a Soviet professor this very question. Of course, Marx was human, he answered. 'Then he could make mistakes?' Yes. 'Would you mind mentioning a mistake that he made?' The Soviet professor changed the subject.
However, 150 years after the publication of Volume I of Capital, it is long past time for revolutionaries not to change the subject but to talk seriously about mistakes Marx made in Capital and their implications. This article is about one such mistake and how it infected Capital and subsequent practice.
January 29, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The following talk was given at the International conference "150 years Karl Marx's Capital - Reflections for the 21st century" held in Athens, Greece on January 14-15, 2017. Organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - Athens Office in cooperation with Theseis, the conference discussed the actuality of Marx's theoretical system of the critique of political economy 150 years on from the publication of Capital Volume I.
국제전략센터/International Strategy Center -- 2016년 5월 24일 – 링크스– 마이클 레보위츠는 사회주의적 대안 구축에서 나타날 수 있는 문제점을 연구하는데 많은 시간을 할애해온 맑스주의의 선도적 인물이다. 레보위츠는 2004년부터 2010년까지 6년간 베네수엘라 까라까스의 미란다 국제 센터(CIM)에서 혁신적 실천방안과 인간 발전을 위한 프로그램 개발 책임자로 일하면서 "21세기 사회주의" 건설에 참여할 기회를 가졌다.
레보위츠는 최근 링크스와 공동 주최로 호주에서 개최된 21세기 사회주의 컨퍼런스에 참석했다. 아래 내용은 컨퍼런스에서 레보위츠가 중심이 되어 논의한 오늘날 라틴 아메리카에서의 신자유주의 반대와 사회주의 대안 전망에 대해 인터뷰한 내용이다.
June 20, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Speaking at the "Socialism in the 21st Century" conference held in Sydney in May 2016, leading Marxist author Michael Lebowitz, who writes and researches the problems and possibilities of building a socialist alternative, presents a paper on what socialism might look like in this century and the differences with 20th century socialism as represented by the developments in the Soviet Union.
The conference was organised by the Socialist Alliance and sponsored by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
May 24, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Leading Marxist author Michael A. Lebowitz has dedicated a big part of his research to the problem of the possibilities of building a socialist alternative. He spent six years (2004-2010) in Venezuela working as a director of the program for Transformative Practice and Human Development at the Miranda International Center (CIM) in Caracas, where he had the opportunity to participate in the building of "socialism for 21st century".
Lebowitz was recently in Australia for the Socialism in the 21st Century conference, which was co-hosted by Links. In the interview published below, Lebowitz covers some of the topics he discussed during his visit regarding the opposition to neoliberalism and the prospects for a socialist alternative in Latin America today.
Este oportuno libro anteriormente fue publicado por Colección Debates Sobre Socialismo, Corporación Plataforma Nexos, Escaparate Ediciones, Chile, octubre 2012.
Su autor es Profesor Emérito de Economía de la Universidad Simon Fraser de Canadá. Para nosotros los cubanos su obra nos s muy familiar y hoy podemos recordar varios de sus trabajos: Más allá de El Capital: la economía política de la clase obrera que recibiera el Premio Deutscher en 2004 a la mejor y más innovadora obra reciente de tradición marxista en el mundo angloparlante. Este texto fue publicado en Cuba en 2008 por la Editorial Ciencias Sociales. De igual forma en 2009 la Editorial Ciencias Sociales publicó El socialismo no cae del cielo y en 2015 Ruth Casa Editorial y el Instituto Juan Marinello publicaron Contradicciones del socialismo real: el dirigente y el dirigido. Más recientemente Lebowitz publicó The socialist imperative.
Michael Lebowitz's "The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development"
March 6, 2016 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The following was a presentation given by Cuban scholar Olga Fernández Ríos at the launch of the Cuban edition of Michael Lebowitz' The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development at the Havana International Book Fair, February 15, 2015. It has been translated by Sean Seymour-Jones.
Lebowitz will be one of the keynote speakers at Socialism for the 21st century: Moving beyond capitalism, learning from global struggles being held in Sydney on May 13-15.
This timely book was previously published by Colección Debates Sobre Socialismo, Corporación Plataforma Nexos, Escaparate Ediciones, Chile, October 2012.
Its author is a professor emeritus of economy from the Simon Fraser University of Canada. For us Cubans his work is very familiar and today we can recall many of his works: Beyond Capital: The Political Economy of the Working Class that received the Deutscher Prize in 2004 for the best and most innovative recent work of the Marxist tradition in the English-speaking world. This text was published in Cuba in 2008 by Editorial Ciencias Sociales. Likewise, in 2009 Editorial Ciencias Sociales published Socialism Doesn't Fall From the Sky and in 2015 Ruth Casa Editorial and the Instituto Juan Marinello published The Contradictions of "Real Socialism": The Conductor and the Conducted. More recently Lebowitz published The Socialist Imperative.
On this occasion, we dealing a study that covers a very topical subject of interest to our country and for the Latin American context: the pertinence and existing possibilities for the development of socialism with a correct understanding of the process of socialist transition.
Michael A. Lebowitz (pictured) will be one of the keynote speakers at Socialism for the 21st century: Moving beyond capitalism, learning from global struggles being held in Sydney on May 13-15.
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — An earlier version of this paper was presented at 'The First World Congress on Marxism' at Peking University, 10 October 2015 in Beijing, China.
Everybody is talking about it — the dangers presented by climate change. Adding significantly, though, to the emphasis upon the need to take dramatic action now has been Pope Francis's recent Encyclical Laudati Si', 'On Care for our Common Home'. Its over-riding theme is that we must 'protect our common home'. 'The climate,' the document stresses, 'is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all' and is 'linked to many of the essential conditions for human life' (23). Not only, however, are we destroying those conditions but, 'the earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth' (21). How is it, the Encyclical asks, that we have 'so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years' (53)?
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May 19, 2015 -- JohnRiddell.Wordpress.com, submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal by the author -- In current discussions of twenty-first century socialism, the work of Michael Lebowitz has a unique merit: it is rooted in the experience of Cuba and Venezuela, where efforts in recent decades to move toward socialism have been the most vigorous. Quotations from Che Guevara and Hugo Chávez set the tone.
Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro with Marta Harnecker at the award ceremony.
For more by or about Marta Harnecker and her ideas, click HERE.


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ASDA'A BM's Arab Youth Survey wins In2 SABRE
' Thought Leadership in PR' Award for record third year running
10th annual ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey findings to be unveiled on May 8, 2018, in Dubai
ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller, the region's leading Public Relations consultancy, has received the 2018 In2 (Innovation & Insight) SABRE Award for 'Thought Leadership in PR' for its annual Arab Youth Survey 2017, for a record third year running. The SABRE Awards are organised annually by The Holmes Report, the authoritative voice of the global public relations industry, for PR consultancies and clients operating in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Recognised by global think tanks and international media as one of the most important pieces of research on the attitudes and aspirations of the region's largest demographic, the award was announced just as the Agency prepares to unveil the findings of the 10th edition of the annual ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey on May 8, 2018, in Dubai.
The In2 SABRE EMEA Award recognised the ninth ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey 2017, which revealed that optimism had dropped among young Arabs across much of the region and indicated a widening divide over hopes for the future between those living in the wealthy GCC states and those living elsewhere in the region. This was reflected in the main theme of the survey, "The Middle East – a region divided". The Survey is based on findings from face-to-face interviews with 3,500 Arab men and women aged 18 to 24, from 16 nations across the Middle East and North Africa.
Sunil John, founder and CEO of ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller and President, Middle East, Burson Cohn & Wolfe, said: "Our annual Arab Youth Survey has time and again presented defining social, cultural and political trends that shape the region. As a pioneering and independent study, the Survey's findings bring invaluable insight for governments, businesses, policy makers and civil society. The third consecutive win for our annual Arab Youth Survey at the 2018 In2 SABRE Awards underlines the strength of this powerful initiative, which is recognized by our peers across EMEA markets as best-in-class."
The findings of the ninth ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey formed the basis of a comprehensive suite of media collateral, including its Top 10 Findings, press releases, high-level presentation, sharable videos and the in-depth White Paper, which includes commentary by internationally respected analysts who provided context to the findings. All material can be downloaded at: www.arabyouthsurvey.com
Coverage of the survey recorded over 500 known print, online and broadcast coverage hits, gaining a total print and online reach of 273 million. On social, the Survey recorded over 2.6 million impressions on Twitter with over 38 million #ArabYouthSurvey hashtag impressions, and 19 per cent fan growth on Facebook with a total reach of over 8 million.
The In2 SABREs recognise excellence in various categories of innovation and insight—with an emphasis on content creation—as well as PR agency management and marketing. The Awards will be presented on May 23 at the In2 Innovation Summit at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
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It seemed like only yesterday that the city of Los Angeles was facing more than $500 million in red ink, the prospect of thousands of layoffs, and the dreaded "b"-as-in-bankruptcy word. Wait, it was only yesterday -- like last month. The City Council ended up balancing the budget, but only with the promise of income that hasn't really come in yet.
... those entities would give the city cash up front -- $53.2 million by October -- to get their hands on those money makers.
Now, why would the city give up control of such cash-generating enterprises? It sounds desperate huh? Like the $100 million lottery winner who sells his ticket for a few mil upfront so he can buy a new double-wide and a new Rolls-Royce Ghost for his baby mom.
If the deals don't go through city employees could be looking at 10 additional furlough days, Santana said. The City Council was expected to take up the matter Wednesday.
"We need to end the year in the black and we already know we have this hole, so we need to mitigate it one way or the other,'' he said.
The garages include those at Pershing Square downtown, Hollywood and Highland Center and the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Prime parking, that. The city, of course, would get a guaranteed cut. But it would give up main control of the lots for 50 years under the deal.
Some day you'll be able to explain to your grandchildren how this City Council gave up control of prime city property in order to make a (small) dent in its 2010-2011 fiscal budget.


Does the word gamification make you cringe? That's okay. I get it. It sounds like an annoying made-up word. Like selfie or asap.
It's true: gamification is a concept that needs to be defended. We spend too much time shooing video games out the door to turn around now and invite games back in. All I ask is that you give me a few minutes of your time to tell you about gamification and how you can use it in your classroom. To keep you engaged, I propose to give you a level-up for every section you read, and if you keep reading and beat the third level, I'll reward you with some great gamification resources along the way.
Due in part to the popularity of video games, the use of gamification has blown up in the last 10 years. Programs as diverse as diet regimes, business training and grocery-point programs are using gamification to improve consumer and employee buy-in. It is everywhere, but what is it?
At its more basic level, gamification adds play to non-play activities. I shouldn't have to tell you how important play is. A recent study of free-ranging brown bears showed that, all other things being equal, bears who played more as cubs survived longer in adulthood. Play is just as important for the students in your classroom as it is for free-ranging brown bear cubs. Adding play to non-play activities increases our motivation to keep at it.
The first level is done! You just levelled up! Great work!
Let's talk about video games. I know that educators have a complicated relationship with video games. For every education title that helps, there are thousands of games that distract and detract from learning. And the statistics about video gameplay can be downright scary. Did you know that 97 percent of 12-to-17-year-olds play video games and that, on average, 8-to-14-year-olds play more than an hour per day?
But the popularity of video games should make us wonder: what's the secret? Researchers have been pondering that question as well.
Video games require active participation, which means that players are more actively engaged than if they were passively watching a movie. Video games are excellent motivators because when players receive incremental achievements – level up! – this reinforces the purpose of the activity. Of course, video game programmers also utilize our competitive and co-operative natures. We enjoy succeeding, either alone or in teams, at tasks that are meaningful and require work.
It turns out that the inherent characteristics of video games also make them powerful motivational tools. According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a renowned psychologist, we are happiest when we are in the "flow," that is, when we find the sweet spot between doing something too difficult and doing something too easy. Video games are designed to match the player to the optimal amount of challenge.
The characteristics of video games make them excellent learning tools. Players develop skills through repeated practice and dynamic feedback. In many ways, video games are great teachers. We may not always love the curriculum, but there is no doubt that players are learning.
You're really moving along now! You finished another level. Keep it up!
Video games and gameplay are powerful teaching tools, but I am not suggesting that games can entirely replace instruction. We don't need to replace textbooks with games – although a public charter school in New York City has done just that! We apply the elements that make video games effective to the classroom. How do we do that?
Gamifying the classroom – As part of my classroom experience, I have worked with children with autism. For those students, the end goal of social competence can be daunting and vague. A daily goal of initiating conversations with three peers was a much more effective way to track progress. We kept track of our daily goals and celebrated our success together.
There are software programs that can help with gamifying the classroom. ClassDojo is a software program that superimposes game elements on the classroom environment. Students create personalized avatars and are rewarded by accumulating points for preferred behaviour. Teachers can customize the outcomes and set goals for the class.
Gamifying the grades – It may seem silly to use terms like "experience points" or "level-up" when tracking student progress, but some students will respond to it. Using language that matches their video game experiences puts classroom activities in a new context. If you want to recognize accomplishments without necessarily assigning a grade, try awarding students with badges. Badges are digital rewards that provide accreditation students can earn and display. Badges may seem simplistic, but they have been used to recognize experiences at post-secondary institutions, and for job training and employment opportunities. Badges can be arranged online in databases such as openbadges.org.
Game-based learning – Gamifying learning is a little like chocolate coating. If the task is somewhat unpleasant, adding game elements can make it easier to swallow. However, some of the greatest value of games comes from the games themselves. For example, co-operative games teach collaboration and social competence. The research on games has consistently shown that, in many ways, playing is learning!
According to pocketgamer.biz there are over 100,000 educational apps available at the Apple App Store. Introducing educational apps or online programs can supplement instruction and provide welcome opportunity to practise important skills. Video games already come preloaded with the kind of motivational elements that foster development. Video games can even inspire innovation.
Have you heard of Foldit? Foldit is a game that made the news recently because its players may have helped save the world. Foldit is a problem-solving puzzle game designed by protein scientists to provide players opportunities to fold proteins. Folding proteins is an important component of bioengineering, helping scientists to tackle problems in medicine such as disabling the flu virus. Over a span of 10 days, 60,000 people played the game and the top scores were analyzed. The players' contributions led to new findings and were reported in a journal article.
Not all classroom games have to be digital. When I was teaching Grade 4 measurement, I had a hard time teaching centimetres and millimetres. I couldn't persuade the students to practise until we created a game that required measurement. Pirate-themed movies were big that year, so we created a naval warfare game. My students created their own model ships and movement cards. Each turn in the game was planned ahead and when the ships were within firing range (10 cm, 5mm), they could fire on each other. Of course this meant that at every turn my students were measuring. Not only did they enjoy playing during math period, but I always had a group of students who would stay in at recess to play.
Game design – Up to this point, game elements have come through the teacher's influence. But what if the students were allowed to design games of their own? As I described in a previous Voice article (Fall 2013), my daughter used Minecraft to build a digestive system for her Grade 5 project. If you don't know Minecraft, it is a creative block-based computer building game that can be used to demonstrate knowledge. Schools have used the game-design elements of Minecraft to teach every subject from language and history to civics and art. If you are interested, look up MinecraftEdu.com, a community of educators who use Minecraft to design interactive learning.
For those students who aspire to be programmers, web-based programs provide opportunities for students to create their own video games. (I would have loved that when I was in Grade 5!) For example, Gamestar Mechanic teaches users how to program video games. Students can log on, complete the training activities and design games to demonstrate their knowledge. Games can be used to model the water system, the 12 Labours of Hercules, problem solving or other curriculum-specific tasks.
Having this article sectioned off into "levels" may not have been the main motivator to read to the end. But whatever the reason, you're here now. You've read the entire article. The truth is that accumulating points and reaching levels can be very effective for students who appreciate the consistent feedback and achievable goals. Adding elements of games into our classrooms can help our most vulnerable students focus in class and demonstrate their best work.
Flipquiz uses the model of game shows to structure response times: flipquiz.me.
Kahoot is designed to provide an engaging interface for quick responses: getkahoot.com.
Socrative is an audience-response game interface that allows for the creation of games filled with classroom content: socrative.com.
Jeffrey MacCormack is currently on leave from his classroom pursuing a PhD in Education at Queen's University. He is conducting research on several topics including social skills interventions for children with autism, emotional well-being and rates of physical activity of school-age children, using interest-based programs to increase motivation, and the effect of morphological instruction on decoding abilities of elementary school-age children. He is a member of the Simcoe County Teacher Local.
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For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 2 is Available!
Our second treasury book, The Complete Library, Vol. 2 is out now! Order it today from IDW Publishing, or check your local bookstore. (We won't be carrying it in our online store – the sheer weight of this book makes it too expensive to ship from Canada).
Since their debut in 1979, the world has watched the Pattersons grow up in real time—and to many readers, they feel like family. The cast expands, and roles that will play a big part down the road are just starting to bud.
New adventures await Elizabeth as she enters kindergarten and has to spend some time in the hospital. Michael has to deal with a bully at school and takes a flight to Vancouver—all by himself! John has an unfortunate accident and is arrested for breaking and entering! And Elly finds a worthwhile cause in heading up a campaign to save the historic city hall that has been scheduled for demolition.
Volume Two collects the complete daily and Sunday comics from January 1983 through July 5, 1986, with all Sunday comics printed in color.
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Do You Collect Comics Clippings? Can You Help Us?
As IDW Publishing puts together the next of Lynn's treasury books, we're looking for some help to re-create the vintage colouring from when the strips were originally published, in 1983 and 1985. We're missing some parts of specific strips – here is a list of dates, below, followed by images of the strips in question.
Thanks for looking! We'll be very grateful if you can help us locate the colour references!
– Lynn and the team.
This entry was posted in News and tagged clippings, idw publishing on March 14, 2018 by fborfwnews.
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston and Editor Kurtis Findlay will be on hand to sign copies of the brand new For Better or For Worse, The Complete Library, Vol. 1: 1979-1982, published by IDW/Library of American Comics.
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Grant Recipients Grants to Artists Music/Sound 2011
Michael Webster
Photo by Monique Prieto.
Composer, Recording Artist
Born Berkeley, CA, 1966
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... without this grant, without the moral support, knowing that it flowed from the regard of my peers, I might have lacked the resolve to see this work through.
- Michael Webster, January 2012
Michael Webster is a composer, conductor, performer, and recording artist who has created film scores, albums, art songs, and operas. His body of work grows out of classical training and his study of ancient music forms. Webster's operas, specifically, are rooted in the sensitivity that words and poetry create musically.
Webster's performances include Michael Webster and his Band of Grown Men, which premiered at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1998), and Proposal for The Side of the Mountain, at Santa Monica Museum of Art (2002). In 2004, Webster's opera Hell, based on Dante's Inferno, with a libretto by Eileen Myles, premiered at Performance Space 122. It went on to tour at venues including St. Mark's Church, the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico. With funds from his Grants to Artists, Webster completed the vocal score of a new opera Nice Day for the Races––based on a radio play by Samuel Beckett––the first portion of which was shown in film form in 2013 at 356 Mission, Los Angeles. Webster was also able to resurrect the non-profit Peoples Opera, which he and Eileen Myles formed in 2004.
Webster has recorded a number of solo albums including The Native Shrubs of the Santa Monica Mountains (1994), Lotus Festival (2000), and Report (2008). Additionally, Webster has composed and recorded scores for artists' films shown at the Venice Biennial and the Whitney Biennial.
Prior to his 2011 Grants to Artists, Webster received a grant from the UC Institute for Research in the Arts (2004), a Meet the Composer Grant (2005), and The Puffin Foundation General Grant (2006). Webster received a B.F.A. (1990) and an M.F.A. (1992) from the California Institute of the Arts.
I'm especially interested in music whose tempo changes fluidly, music in which fluidity becomes the ground on which the figure of song can be composed. I found a template for non-metrical rhythm in English speech––and in poetry which proceeds from speech. Joining words, already synesthetic objects, in their syntax, to notes in theirs, all governed by the quick metric modulation of the talking mind.
These interests led me naturally to compose opera, an arena where music and words are projected, amazingly, by human bodies only, as well as to the creation of the Webster word-organ, in which text and notes are projected together mechanically from a keyboard. I'm currently working on an opera in two acts from a radio play by Samuel Beckett, a new collection of recorded art songs, and a book about the unit circle.
Installation view Coat Check Chimes, 2008, Whitney Biennial, by Webster and Mungo Thompson.
Shakey's, 2005, Blackston Gallery, New York, music by Webster, performance by Joe Sola.
Shakey'swith Joe Sola, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 35-minute performance, 2005.
"Blue Day" from Report, 2008, Lovethink Records.
"Lotus Festival" from Lotus Festival, 2000, Lovethink Records.


Sandwiched between a coffee shop and a pub, an unremarkable Westminster office block has had its secret unmasked.
For the last six decades the building, on Palmer Street and opposite St James's Park tube station, has been the London home of spy agency GCHQ.
Unknown to the public, intelligence officers have worked to protect national security from the drab-looking building since 1953.
It has been at the centre of planning for key events including the London 2012 Olympics.
The inconspicuous-looking red brick building has also been the control centre from which counter-terror operations have been mounted.
GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said: "As we depart our Palmer Street site after 66 years, we look back on a history full of amazing intelligence, world-leading innovation, and the ingenious people who passed through those secret doors.
The true use of the spy facility has only been revealed after the agency moved out to a new base - the location of which is, of course, top secret.
What is GCHQ and what does it do?
GCHQ works alongside MI5, MI6 and law enforcement to protect the UK from threats including cyber attacks and terrorism.
The spy agency was established on November 1 1919 as a peacetime "cryptanalytic" unit made up from staff from the Admiralty's Room 40 and the War Office's MI1(b).
During World War Two, GCHQ personnel moved to Bletchley Park where they decrypted German messages, most famously by breaking Enigma communications.
After a search, the Ministry of Works provided a newly built, Government-leased building on Palmer Street, where it stayed until it moved earlier this year.
The agency, which is celebrating its centenary, now has bases in Devon, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire.
Can you crack GCHQ's coded tweet to the Queen?


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Price Estimate

When possible, show a price estimate on the left side of a Create form page so that customers can get an  understanding of how their actions impact potential costs. Changes in to settings in the create form (e.g. changing cpu count), should impact the values displayed in the price estimate.

Within a .row, use the .priceEstimateContainer to display the estimate values and .createFormContainer to contain the <form>. The price estimate container, by default, is positioned as sticky content.

Open Example Page

<div class="row">
  <div id="priceEstimateContainer">
    <div id="priceEstimate">
      <h5 class="content-header">ESTIMATED COST AS CONFIGURED</h5>
      <div class="cost-value">$75.29</div>
      <div class="cost-interval">PER MONTH</div>
      <div class="cost-value">$0.10</div>
      <div class="cost-interval">PER HOUR</div>
      <div class="disclaimer">Does not include bandwidth charges. Final cost will vary based on usage.</div>
    </div>
    <div id="priceBreakdown">
      <div class="line-item">
        <div class="line-item-display">2 CPUs</div>
        <div class="line-item-cost">(~$0.02/hr)</div>
      </div>
      <div class="line-item">
        <div class="line-item-display">4GB Memory</div>
        <div class="line-item-cost">(~$0.06/hr)</div>
      </div>
      <div class="line-item">
        <div class="line-item-display">100GB Storage</div>
        <div class="line-item-cost">(~$0.02/hr)</div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="createFormContainer">
    <form>...</form>
  </div>
</div>

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Even my daughter's freaked out about my birthday.
Hello 40! How are ya?
I'm great, thanks for asking. Let's get a few things straight. I'm not happy about you're here, but I've decided to embrace your arrival. I'm going to stop whining about being older and be grateful for the wisdom I've accumulated. I'm also going to embrace this new year and get a few things taken care of. To that end, here's my must do list for 40. Keep any judgements to your self and just be happy I'm not kicking you to the curb.
I awoke at 5:30 AM this morning–who does that on their birthday, right? It was a combination of worry about work and a toddler's elbow in my face (somebody small decided to sleep with Mommy last night). The Keurig called, and as I write this post, I'm wondering why I don't get up this early every day. The quiet is heavenly.
I am serious about a "must do list for 40." I'm not calling it a bucket list because that sounds morbid. Rather, it's a strategy for turning this 40 business around and being cool–excited even?–with my new decade. (OK, excited is ridiculous.) Here goes…..
Send 40 people in my life 40 thank you notes for their influence on my life.
That's quite a list. I thought about listing 40 things–since I am 40 and all–but realized soon enough that a realistic must do list is more important than a clever one. I'm planning to blog about my progress on this list, in the hopes that, by writing about it, I'll really be able to make this new year filled with change–good, me-directed change.
Let me know what you think by posting a comment below: did I miss something? what would you have included on your birthday list?
Oops…got to go…birthday present opening awaits!
I love waking up early and having quiet coffee time, I'm on the fence about a haircut myself and I adore the 40 thank you notes idea!
Your list names the exact things I continually tell myself to work on. Best of luck with the list and the wonderful decade ahead!


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import basService from '../common/bas.service';
import schema from '../models/user.schema';

export default class Service extends basService {
	constructor() {
		super('user', schema);
	}

	create() {
		return {
			name: '',
			nickName: '',
			desc: '',
			img: null,
			roles: []
		};
	}
}


"Fah who for-aze — Dah who dor-aze"
And what news, exactly, are we clasping?
Silent night, holy night! Son of God, love's pure light.
He is we. We are he, Seuss might say.
And so we assume we know all about him. Our Who-savior.
Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive.
Want to take hold of your life? Let it go, for God's sake.
Want to live? Take up your cross and follow me to mine.
What Seusical nonsense does he rhyme?
From what planet is this babbling-baby-Lord?
How can your Deoxyribonucleic acid be both ours, and God's?
yet you know first-hand the one who is?
How are you both my brother and my God?
But hear the angel's warning.
Break forth, O beautiful heavenly light. Break forth around us and illuminate the world in which we live. Give us eyes to see what you see, O Lord: a world broken, rent, in a thousand cross-like ways; yet a world, being reconciled and redeemed by your love—with a million resurrection possibilities.
How we thank you O Lord that we need not shudder in fear.
How we thank you for the angelic message of purposeful hope.
and makes buoyant our confident joy.
R. and her husband spent forty plus years in the business of helping people find just the right place—a place for shelter, a place for family, a place for living. After all, as they say: "Location, location, location." I bet a great many of us occupy our places of habitation because of their guidance and transaction.
Location, location, O blessed new location.
It is to those who grieve, to those who ache for another place, to those who struggle with the brokenness of the world that the news of Revelation 21 comes, a sweeping vision a place soon to be unveiled. It is a large, living picture of time soon on its way. It is, if I may, the New Testament's best property listing. It is a sacred prospectus. It is a glimpse of God's future, the precise details of which are beyond telling, beyond technical description.
Contra the cable TV preachers, Revelation 21 is not interested in vacating the mystery of how it will be. It is simply interested in the news that it will be. Not because we can explain it, decode it … but because God has promised it.
R's baptism is the mark that she is sealed in this vision. Her profession of faith was her own indication that she was confident in this living hope. And so we name today the good news that she is bound up in this sweeping promise; she is already glimpsing the leading edge of this stunning vision; she will, together with all of creation, together with all the saints of God—not by their virtue but by God's grace—she will be raised up holy and whole. And until then, she is held safe in God's good care until it fully and completely unfolds.
This bold New Testament faith does not cancel out our grief, or sequester it, or judge it … as if, one either believes the good news or one grieves. Christian hope in the vision of Revelation 21 honors our grief, gathers up each precious tear, affirms every ache of the heart. Because, every lament is a prayer for a new location, every tear is a bold request for a new time, every sign is a plea for a coming time when God will be all in all.
Q. What is the Christian hope? A. The Christian hope is to live with confidence in newness and fullness of life, and to await the coming of Christ in glory, and the completion of God's purpose for the world.
Q. What do we mean by the resurrection of the body? A. We mean that God will raise us from death in the fullness of our being, that we may live with Christ in the communion of the saints.
Q. What is the communion of saints? A. The communion of saints is the whole family of God, the living and the dead, those whom we love and those whom we hurt, bound together in Christ by sacrament, prayer, and praise.
Q. What, then, is our assurance as Christians? A. Our assurance as Christians is that nothing, not even death, shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Who doesn't enjoy the Christmastime tale of the sheep-herders abiding in the fields, and who hasn't dressed up a child in a bathrobe and towel for herding in a pageant full of cardboard sheep? The shepherds of Luke 2 are a holiday staple. Hearing their story again brings a sense that all is right-side-up with the world.
Yet God is turning the world upside down.
It must be so, if we are to believe Luke's account that it is to shepherds, of all people, that the messengers of heaven make their explosive appearance. "God's chosen fellow has come!" they sing out. Only, let us observe that this choral anthem is delivered, not from the choir loft of the downtown temple, or from the steps of the royal city hall, or on the stage of the popular amphitheater. The song rings out in the outskirts of town, out in the fields, on the periphery of the world's typical attention. The first hearers of God's gospel: third-trick sheep-tenders whose names we are never even told. Not preachers, not priests, not theologians. Shepherds. Sideliners.
It could be that one of the body's finer attributes is the eye's peripheral vision—the ability to notice the sidelines, what's afoot off center. "Who's that coming up behind me? Is that my turn there? Watch out … here comes a fast ball out of nowhere!" There is a lot happening on the margins of our existence, and, similarly, it is the account of Luke more than any other gospel that summons us to imagine God busily at work in the margins of the world.
Consider Luke's cast of characters. Father Joe: a first-century Jewish everyman. Mother Mary: an otherwise unknown teenager from the lower ranks of society. She herself gets the joke inherent in God visiting her, of all people (Luke 1:48). Fisherman. Tax collectors. Hemorrhaging women and leprous men. In this tale, old women get pregnant (1:18) and even dependent children are welcomed in to the fellowship of those of follow God's unlikely messiah (18:16). Luke presents us with a shepherd willing to risk the safety of the centered hoard to secure the protection of one stuck in the margins (15:4). This is God, out on the holy periphery.
So then, insists Luke, Christmas is a time for clearing our tangential vision. Rub your eyes and pay attention all-around, because if God is whimsical enough to dispatch a sky-splitting singing telegram to a band of third-shift animal wrestlers out on the edges of reality, then this God is just as likely to be up to something marvelous and life-altering out along the margins of your life, too.
Some stranger speaks truth. Some coincidence smells of providence. Some impossible dream will not go away. Some forgotten piece of your story jostles for attention. Some summons to serve keeps popping up in the oddest of places. Some hint of resurrection tickles your imagination. Each could be dismissed as the ordinary weirdness of the world; each could be embraced as the movement of God. Meanwhile, all the Bible knows how to do is to demand that you your seatbelts are fastened and your tray tables are locked, because one is never quite sure what improbable, peripheral means God might use to invade and heal the world, and your life in it (1 Corinthians 1:28).
So have the merriest of Christmases. He is born in Bethlehem.
Oh, and watch your flank.
We serve a sneaky God.


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Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Discussions: perl code in template files?
perl code in template files?
All the pages on my site has an ASP snippet that opens a file, reads the content (a number) and writes the number + 1 to the file (a global counter, kind of). And of course displays the number on the page.
Is it possible to add some perl code to the template files for the *.cgi files that does the above?
Look at the Enhanced Template.pm Mod located in the Resources Center.
You can also add PERL codes in the subroutines in the site_html_templates.pl and then reference those PERL codes via template specific variables or global variables. EXAMPLE: Look at the WebAdverts code hack referenced in the Links 2.0 Customization Forum.
Good luck....and next time, search the forum and resources section of this site before posting questions...many of them are already answered!
I added &add_counter; below the &html_print_headers; line in all subs that generate the CGI-pages.
to my CGI template files (add.html, etc.)? Or have I misunderstood?
Are you using TEMPLATES or NOT? Sounds to me like you are NOT using templates and just the site_html.pl, which means that using PERL codes in the "template" files is a mute point, don't ya think!
Well, you should simply create a GLOBAL tag out of the &add_counter sub.
in the %globals hash in the site_html_templates.pl file.
Then use <%counter%> in your template files.


The London-based Watson, who has more followers on Instagram than former castmate/fast-fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur Millie Mackintosh, fronts the newly launched Gold Pack collection. The capsule is currently exclusive to U.K. sneaker retailer JD Sports.
While her sports ties remain slim, a release from Puma called out Watson's sharing of "health and fitness tips" plus "honed physique" as her key attributes. Those 1.3 million followers don't hurt, either. The athleisure pieces of the collection skew more street than sweat style, with metallic gold detailing on a crop tops, leggings and a classic low-court sneaker, offered in both black and white colorways.
While recent campaigns from Rihanna and Jenner have resulted in sell-out shower sandals and slip-on kicks, this is Watson's second campaign with JD Sports for Puma, a sign she's clearly connecting with the athletic behemoth's U.K. consumers.