Obtaining a driver's license in my hometown required a classroom course followed by a practical component called, helpfully, "Behind the Wheel." After acing some true/false quizzes and viewing safety films, I passed the written permit test without issue. Then I met Wild Bill.
Wild Bill helped hundreds of teenagers learn to drive, and I fear I may have been his most challenging charge. On my first day, I hit the curb and forgot to put the car in "park" before I got out. He just shook his head. While mastering country roads, Wild Bill told me to accelerate. I informed him that I wasn't able to successfully steer beyond 30 mph, but he kept urging me on. We soon approached a hill and the car practically came to a standstill halfway up. Wild Bill yelled, "Floor it, Bigham!" and I did — right into a ditch at the side of the road. More head shaking. Parallel parking also proved challenging, as did operating the windshield wipers. Quiet head shaking.
Wild Bill harbored hopes I would pass the driving test before the school took possession of the brand new driver's education vehicle. Instead, it returned to the school with damage to a side mirror. (To my credit, I told Wild Bill quite specifically that turning into alleys was not my forte.) I did pass the driver's test, finally (this warranted a grin), and on the same night backed into a fence post.
Wild Bill is gone now, free at last to cruise the roadways alone in his own vehicle. I think of him when I have mistakenly driven down one-way streets in the wrong direction, parked with wheels atop a curb, or struggled to operate my car's air conditioning. I shake my head and give a hint of a smile.
AUTHOR'S PHOTO CAPTION: This photo is from the early 90s, probably around five years after I learned to drive. The car is the Buick station wagon I drove during my college years. (Thanks to Dad for passing it on to me.) I have apparently always had a complicated relationship with automobiles!
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: William "Wild Bill" Heyser is a person I will never forget. He must have had some kind of special gene that made him impervious to fear. How else could one copilot with hundreds of teenagers as they learned to drive? I honestly was not sure I would ever acquire a driver's license (and he probably felt the same without outwardly showing it), but he patiently worked with me until I did. At the time, I was completely stressed out by these driving lessons and simply grateful that he didn't yell. It wasn't until years later that it occurred to me how infinitely patient he must have been. I wish I had realized that in time to thank him for helping me develop an important lifelong skill that I continue to use every day.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sarah Bigham reads, teaches, and writes in Maryland, where she lives with her kind chemist wife, their three independent cats, and a rather unwieldy herb garden.
Thanks for posting this, Sarah. Besides having such a wonderful writing style, you made me stop and think about my three and their learning to drive. The first time Adam took the car alone, he claimed he was going to the library. Ralph and I went to Weis Market a little later and saw Adam and three friends, who were hanging out the car windows, having fun driving around the Weis parking lot!


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Q: VBS append a child node i'm trying to add a child node to the GG node.
Dim objCurrNode : objCurrNode = "/AA/BB/CC/DD/EE/FF[@name=""Hello""]/GG"
Set objKid = oXML.createElement("HH")
objCurrNode.appendChild (objKid)

I get Object required... What am i doing wrong ?
Thanks :)

A: To make objCurrNode.appendChild objKid (without (), because you call a Sub) work, objCurNode must be an object, it has to be assigned to with Set. The XPath expression
"/AA/BB/CC/DD/EE/FF[@name=""Hello""]/GG"

can't be used to  create an object, but you could use the .selectSingleNode method to find the node.

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Q: NullPointerException testing ADS method I'm fairly new to java and I'm trying to test some of my methods in a class but I got the NullPointerException
public class ArrayListTest {

private List ar;

@org.junit.Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    List ar = new ArrayList();
}

@Test
public void testAdd() throws Exception {
    System.out.println(ar);
    ***ar.add(33);***

The error points at ar.add(33);
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.company.ArrayListTest.testAdd(ArrayListTest.java:23)
...a bunch of other invokes...

Looking into add method, I can't find anything wrong.
public class ArrayList implements List{

private Object[] elems;

private int nrElems;

public ArrayList() {
    nrElems = 0;
    elems = new Object[10];
}

public void add(Object e) {
    System.out.println(e);
    if (nrElems == elems.length) {
        resize();
    }
    elems[nrElems++] = e;
}

Any ideas? The test class is using my own implementation of ArrayList


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Speeches 5 February 2013
WCIT Postmortem – the lessons learned
Good afternoon everybody. It's great to be here today, especially since there's snow on the ground and the temperature has been in the low teens where I live in Ohio. Orlando seems awfully nice.
Last year, Steve Feldman described NANOG as a "a whole bunch of people who work together and spend a lot of time arguing about stuff." That seems like a good jumping off point for my talk today, which is about the recent World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT—another place where a whole bunch of people came together to argue about stuff. The stuff people were arguing about at WCIT was pretty different than what you might see on a NANOG mailing list, but it's important to all of us, so please bear with me as I tell you what happened—and why you should care.
The main agenda item for WCIT, which took place in December in Dubai, was revising an international treaty governing telecommunications—things like the interconnection of telephony networks and roaming for mobile phones. These days, policymakers in many countries are increasingly apt to put the Internet in the same category as telephony and telecommunications. International treaty negotiation is Layer 9 stuff, but believe me, it has a lot of practical implications.
To jump into the details of what happened at WCIT without any context might create a narrative that's not that interesting and hard to follow, so perhaps I should start with the conclusion, like someone jumping ahead to the end of a chapter in a book. And if you see how this chapter ends you might worry a little bit, because WCIT did not go well. I say this not as a citizen of one of the countries that chose not sign the revised treaty—more on the politics of all that in a few minutes—but as a representative of a global organization whose mission is to advocate for the things about the Internet that make it great.
I'll add just one other point, which I hope will resonate with many in this audience. And that is that the things that happened in Dubai, though carried out as part of an intergovernmental process—all Layer 9 stuff, as I said before—these things could potentially have a lasting impact on the Internet's infrastructure and operations, and on the content that's so fundamental to its value. The Internet has flourished as a result of the collaborative efforts of engineers willing to set politics aside and put a borderless technology ahead of any national interest—people like those of you here today. If it wasn't clear before WCIT, it should be clear now that it's unrealistic, maybe even irresponsible, to assume that the Internet can remain untouched by politics.
For those in the Internet community with their ears to the ground, WCIT had long been a concern. An early sign of what was brewing came in 2011, when China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan approached the U.N. with a proposal for an International Code of Conduct for Information Security. The proposal included a line about "curbing the dissemination of information" that undermines other countries' "political, economic and social stability," and that wording set off alarms among the Internet's many free speech advocates. The China-Russia proposal wasn't the first indication that countries have differing perspectives about the Internet; those differences had been evident as far back as 2003, at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. Here we were eight or nine years later, facing similar issues of Internet regulation.
At the Internet Society, we felt a responsibility to weigh in on the debate. We had a pretty high profile in the 18 months leading up to WCIT, and used media, one-on-one meetings and public appearances to encourage policymakers to pay attention to what was happening. We did our advocacy wherever we thought it would make a difference, from the scientific centers in Europe where the Web had been invented to developing nations that are at the heart of the Internet's future growth. And of course, we brought our concerns to Washington. Last May, we testified before a House Committee on Capitol Hill about the risks the Internet was facing from WCIT.
All of this activity gave us a chance to reinforce the things that are enduringly great about the Internet. Many of our chapters (the Internet Society has 90 around the world) got involved in informing local communities and policymakers about the importance of the multi-stakeholder process. This is the idea that the Internet's future path should be based on the input of individual citizens, industry, civil society and policymakers. That's how the Internet has always grown, as opposed to its course being determined primarily or entirely by policymakers.
Two-thousand-and-twelve (2012) was also the year of SOPA and ACTA, two other Internet regulatory efforts that faced tremendous public opposition. WCIT followed these, and was another threat that needed our attention.
WCIT came at an incredibly important moment in the Internet's evolution. I'm not talking about the political gaps that became increasingly evident at the conference– East vs. West, new vs. old, one system of political philosophy versus another. To some extent, all of that was noise. A far more substantive change is the rate at which Internet use is starting to grow in the developing world. There are 4.5 billion people who don't yet have Internet access, versus the 2 billion who do. As people in places like Lesotho, Uruguay and India come online, the Internet will be transformed in ways that are hard to imagine but that will keep on making it richer– provided these new users have the chance.
The Internet already accounts for more than $2.3 trillion of GDP in the world's 20 biggest economies. If it were its own economy, the Internet would be the fifth biggest in the world, behind only the U.S., China, Japan and India. And that growth is dwarfed by what will happen in some less-mature economies, where many people are just getting online for the first time. In Russia, the dollar volume of online retail will rise by a factor of more than 3 between 2010 and 2016, BCG predicts. Online retail will quintuple in Indonesia, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. It will rise by a factor of almost 6 in China, and by a factor of 11 in India. A lot of this growth will come from new users.
WCIT, which started on December 3, was the venue chosen by the International Telecommunications Union for updating its international telecommunications regulations, or ITRs. Since 1988, the ITRs had governed international phone calls and set guidelines for relationships between international carriers.
Traditional telecommunications in 1988 was largely dominated by state-owned operators, and there was some logic to a treaty that spelled out the responsibilities and rights of each country, down to who paid for what, and what was permissible. But extending a telecom treaty to the Internet is a little bit like putting a steel base around the roots of a tree and then telling the tree to go ahead and flourish. It isn't the environment that's needed.
I mentioned before that Internet development is a multi-stakeholder process. Many of you here know this firsthand and have been part of it, contributing to technical work that has taken place in various open forums like this one.
By contrast, treaty-making is a closed-door activity. Few outsiders or regular citizens have a chance to influence it; none has a vote. Instead, treaties are negotiated between nations, and advance through committees, with disputes being handed off to other committees with different areas of authority. Sometimes like-minded countries insert new text into a treaty, and that's the first time that other countries get wind of a proposed change.
This is what happened during the very tense 2-weeks at the WCIT in Dubai. Many of us, already wary about the nature of proposals we'd seen prior the conference, were faced with a host of last-minute proposals for either treaty-text or Resolutions that removed any hope that countries might tread lightly when it came to the Internet, or leave the Internet out of the amended ITRs altogether.
Though a strong coalition of countries from around the world made it clear that they would not accept such a sweeping revision of the treaty, a new Resolution related to the Internet was finally adopted over the objections of countries like Sweden, Canada, the US and the UK. This Resolution proposed a much more prominent role for governments and the ITU on Internet matters, with only a passing reference to the value and promise of multi-stakeholder policy development. From our perspective, the resolution shifted the emphasis from community and consensus to centralization through government action. Then, as the conference was nearing an end, something else happened to highlight the rifts between delegations: countries became entangled in a highly political debate over human rights that resulted in a contentious vote.
When the conference ended on December 14, 89 countries signed the revised treaty, including China and Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, most of Africa and virtually all of the Arab League. Fifty five countries decided not to sign the amended treaty, including the U.S., most of Europe, the Philippines, Japan, Kenya, Chile, India and Costa Rica. It's important to note that some of the 55 countries that voted "no" may, in the end, decide to sign the Final Acts.
So, WCIT was over. The various delegations returned to their home countries to figure out what had just happened, what it meant, and what to do next.
That brings us to the present—and to the postmortem we're doing today.
For those of us who spent months preparing for WCIT and were in Dubai, it's important to look at the bigger picture. At face value, the treaty text does not "break" the Internet. Indeed, most of the worst proposals about routing and IP addressing and mandatory standards do not appear in the Final Acts. The new treaty does provide for greater transparency regarding mobile roaming rates and recognizes the fact that interconnection and traffic routes should be determined by private operators. However, these are comparatively small steps forward. Looming bigger are concerns that the scope of the treaty—language on security or spam, for instance—will ultimately place restrictions or limitations on the Internet. And questions remain about which companies or operators will ultimately be covered by the text.
What happens next? The new treaty doesn't go into effect until January 2015—compliance with new regulations takes a while. So all countries—those that have signed the treaty and those that haven't–have a couple of years to figure out exactly what changes they are going to make.
Unfortunately, the desire by some to give the ITU an operational role in the Internet has not abated so it is important to pay attention to the upcoming calendar of International policy meetings. It's still possible that governments are going to seek to give the ITU operational governance of things like IP addressing or standards or domain names or interconnection agreements. Among the countries that attended WCIT, there are some that clearly think, "Hey, what crosses our border should be nationally managed and regulated." Of course, the Internet has never worked that way. With the Internet, a person using Skype or downloading music or paying bills online or sending an email doesn't know the path the data is taking to get between two points.
Nor do they have to. Any part of the network that draws attention to itself, or creates friction in the movement of Internet traffic, raises costs and interferes with the experience.
In some ways, the debate at the WCIT helped to clarify the risk: That the global Internet may give way to a set of national internets with their own rules and gatekeepers, and with higher costs for all. If that happens, the platform will become more fragmented and fewer people will use it. I'm not even sure it would be the Internet anymore.
From the point of view of a timeline, the next major event is the ITU's Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, South Korea in October 2014. This will be when the ITU will firm up the policies it outlined in the acrimonious last days of Dubai. But those of us trying to defend the idea of an open, decentralized, global medium can't sit on our hands and wait for Busan. There will be an important number of touch points between now and then, including the ITU World Telecommunication Policy Forum this coming May on Internet policy issues, and the ITU World Telecommunications Development Conference in March of 2014. More important, perhaps, are the efforts we can all make, including in communities like NANOG, to reach out and work with governments. Where we have opportunities to be involved, we need to take those opportunities because the alternative is a Dubai-like environment.
On the plus side, WCIT provided a great deal of insight into developing country priorities with respect to the Internet. Make no mistake, many of these countries want to become part of the information economy. At the same time, they have important questions and, in many cases, legitimate concerns. They have concerns about the high cost of connectivity. They have concerns about privacy and consumer protection. They have a hunger for education in the areas of IP addressing and numbering—no country wants to be victimized by number misuse or fraud. These countries have a desire to make smart infrastructure investments; to get answers to weighty questions surrounding censorship and human rights; and to have their experts represented in technical standards processes.
Finally, these countries do appreciate the fact that the Internet is different from the telephone system—though the push to bend the ITRs to accommodate the Internet suggests they don't understand the differences in detail. From our perspective at the Internet Society, that is what is darkening the skies, post-WCIT.
As we think about how we might influence what happens from here, it's important to start with a realistic picture of what's possible. We're not going to solve the tectonic rifts that in some cases exist between governments—those are real, they are often geopolitical, they probably are not going away. But what we can do is work with some of the countries in the middle.
These countries have hard questions about how to take the core elements of the Internet model – bottom-up, consensus-based decision making and apply that approach to hard issues like combating malware and spam and botnets or bringing down connectivity costs. On the screen you can see a list of issues that many countries newer to the Internet brought up at WCIT, in one way or another.
The concern is that there is a vision of the Internet, one we heard at WCIT, that would subject these areas to greater government oversight. Most of the things on this list (the first four or five of them, anyway) could be viewed as the nuts and bolts of the Internet; they have traditionally been handled by engineers.
The risk, and in some cases the current reality, is that countries will look only to the ITU for guidance on these technical issues. The network operating community—including organizations like the IETF, many of the organizations you work for, and many of you individually–have the credibility, knowledge and, I think, motivation to offer these policymakers another way of thinking about these problems. It's critical that we do this.
Indeed, these dialogues are already starting to happen. Last year, ISOC arranged for policymakers from a number of countries including Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Paraguay, and Lesotho to come to IETF meetings that were taking place around the world.
The policymakers in these countries face unique challenges. Their countries may have a single dominant telecommunications provider—an incumbent that owns much of the country's communications infrastructure, employs tens of thousands of people, and represents a significant source of revenue for the country. Whether or not these incumbent telecom providers are protected by legislation—and they often are—they have an enormous amount of power. In theory, they might like the added revenues that would come from building up the Internet part of their businesses, but they aren't in a rush to do so if it means increasing the competition they face.
This puts the policymakers in a tough position. They often have to persuade the incumbent telecom company to open the door to new entrants and new services. In Kenya, for example, the government had to take a very tough stand vis-à-vis the national telecom operator in order to launch the local Internet Exchange Points. We know now that this act of courage was critical – the KIXP has transformed the Internet ecosystem in Kenya and the spillover effects of more investment, local content and higher quality of service are quantifiable.
By coming to multistakeholder events like the IETF or the Internet Governance Forum or the African Peering Forum and engaging with the Internet community, these policymakers have started to become more fluent in matters like how Internet traffic is routed, how the domain name system works, or the economics of setting up Internet Exchange Points. They are starting to use the Internet technical community—the source of deep expertise and great problem-solving skills—as go-to sources of information.
We have been pleasantly surprised at the receptivity of policymakers to attend IETF meetings and similar events. We expect 10 or more developing country policymakers to attend the upcoming IETF meeting this March in Orlando and others are set to join us at IETF Berlin and Vancouver.
I hope some of you will be in a position to participate in the give-and-take with countries newer to the Internet—it's a fascinating experience for those on both sides of the conversation. The bottom line is: figure out where you can provide information and play a role. And then go ahead and do it. Remember, we are not home free by any means. If we don't step forward, there is still a risk that many countries will turn to sources of information that don't support the Internet's multi-stakeholder model and will make critical decisions on the basis of that information.
So far, the Internet has been impervious to just about everything–regulatory threats like WCIT and those that preceded it, a meltdown that nearly toppled the world's financial systems. Through it all, the Internet has just kept growing and evolving. And the expectations are for more growth. Between 2005 and 2015, the Boston Consulting Group expects global Internet traffic to grow by a factor of more than 30. Forecasts show that 3 billion people will be online by 2016. That's 500 million more people than are online today.
It's exciting to think about the new energy, the new ideas, and the increased richness the Internet will have as a result of these new users, many of whom will be in developing countries. But these benefits will only accrue if the Internet retains the qualities it has today, including the qualities of global reach, easy access, collaboration, and innovation not requiring approval from any authority.
My personal hope is that we will one day look back on WCIT as a troubling chapter in a longer story that ultimately came out well—as opposed to signaling a sustained negative turning point in the narrative of the Internet. However, this is not a case where we can flip forward to see how the story ends. The story is ongoing – it did not actually begin at WCIT and it certainly doesn't end there – and we all have an obligation to shape where the story goes next. This collective good is dependent on the contributions, ideas and efforts of people and countries everywhere, including you. In short, the stuff worth arguing about is happening in some new places.
Thanks for listening and have a great conference.
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Q: How to remove objects from an array having values that are present in an other simple array (jquery) I have the following two arrays:
SimpleArray = [2,3];
ObjectArray = [{
    id: 1,
    name: 'charles'
},{
    id: 2,
    name: 'john'
},{
    id: 3,
    name: 'allen'
},{
    id: 4,
    name: 'jack'
}];

I want to remove objects present in ObjectArray that have id's equal to the values present in SimpleArray.

A: If you want to delete data from original array then use Array#splice() method

SimpleArray = [2, 3];
ObjectArray = [{
  id: 1,
  name: 'charles'
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: 'john'
}, {
  id: 3,
  name: 'alen'
}, {
  id: 4,
  name: 'jack'
}];

for (var i = 0; i < ObjectArray.length; i++) {
  if (SimpleArray.indexOf(ObjectArray[i].id) > -1) {
    ObjectArray.splice(i, 1);
    i--;
  }
}

console.log(ObjectArray);

In case you need to generate new filtered array then use Array#filter() method

SimpleArray = [2, 3];
ObjectArray = [{
  id: 1,
  name: 'charles'
}, {
  id: 2,
  name: 'john'
}, {
  id: 3,
  name: 'alen'
}, {
  id: 4,
  name: 'jack'
}];

var res = ObjectArray.filter(function(v) {
  return SimpleArray.indexOf(v.id) > -1
})

console.log(res);


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Cesarismo (de Júlio César) é um conceito utilizado por diversos autores para definir um sistema de governo centrado na autoridade suprema de um chefe militar e na crença em sua  capacidade pessoal, à qual são atribuídos traços heroicos. Este líder, surgido em momentos de inflexão política, se apresenta como a alternativa para regenerar a sociedade ou conjurar hipotéticos perigos internos e externos. Por isso,  este tipo de governo costuma apresentar  elementos de culto da personalidade.

Habitualmente se considera que seus expoentes clássicos são Júlio César, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleão Bonaparte, Napoleão III  e Otto von Bismarck.

O cesarismo também se caracteriza pela adoção de soluções militares para os problemas políticos, recorrendo à guerra ou à imposição da vontade sobre os adversários.

A palavra bonapartismo é frequentemente utilizada  como sinônimo de cesarismo, embora alguns autores estabeleçam diferenças conceituais, restringindo sua aplicação à ideologia própria do governo de Napoleão Bonaparte. Antônio Gramsci, por exemplo, considera o bonapartismo como a manifestação burguesa do cesarismo.

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O cesarismo é uma grande descoberta das teorias políticas do século XIX.
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Succession season 3 episode 2 spoilers: What's in the papers?
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As you prepare for Succession season 3 episode 2 on HBO this weekend, we come bearing a simple message: Prepare for war.
In the weeks to come, Kendall Roy is going to look towards his next big move after trying to wreck his father's future. What does that include? For starters, trying to recruit everyone else. He's going to continue speaking out against his father in public, and in private, the carnage will be SO much worse.
New Succession video! Check out some more of our thoughts on the premiere below! We'll be here to cover every episode throughout the season, so we suggest that you SUBSCRIBE to Matt & Jess on YouTube. There are more updates coming and of course, we don't want you to miss any of them.
If you head over to the link here, you can see an extended look at what lies ahead that raises a lot of different questions. Take, for example, what the FBI is planning to do at Waystar, and also what is going to be going on with Gerri as the new CEO.
Perhaps the most important mystery, though, is this: What's in the papers that Greg decided not to shred last season? Greg is in a lot of ways the most bumbling person on the show and yet, he did at least recognize that information is power — and all of a sudden, he has it. The other advantage that he has as a character is that no one would ever take him seriously. He is, perpetually, the most underestimated person on this show, and also for good reason.
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New seconday school and kindergarden in Viimsi is for more than 350 pupils and 120 places for kindaergarden kids.
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European Hospital of Marseille
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Old saltwater pool in Reichenhall
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St. Mary's Cathedral
The 1,200-year-old St. Mary's Cathedral in Hildesheim is currently undergoing a restoration.
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The building of the Hungarian National Theatre is one of the most famous and most modern buildings of the city. The theatre is on the banks of river Danube.
Cape Town Stadium, South Africa
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Makkah Royal Clock Hotel Tower
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Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral - Teramo, Italy
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Cathedral Dome of Atri, Italy
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Bauska castle
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Dutch National Military Museum
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The Tale of Two Cruiserweights
By Charles Presnell
Over the last two years the careers of O'Neil Bell and Kelvin Davis have circled each other. On May 23, 2003 the two put on a classic battle for the NABF and USBA titles, and more importantly, an eliminator for the IBF Championship. The fight went back and forth with both fighters tasting the canvass. In the end, Bell won by an eleventh round knockout. In what should have been the end of the story, it was only the beginning.
After the fight, Davis' camp would file a protest with the IBF citing that Davis was knocked out by a punch landed while Davis was already down. Later Kelly Davis, the brother and trainer or Kelvin, would say that he didn't blame him for hitting Kelvin while he was down since Kelvin tried to hit Bell while he went down, but missed. The IBF agreed with the protest and ordered a rematch for the title eliminator. Bell refused to give Davis the immediate rematch. Consequently, Davis was allowed to fight Louis Azille in an elimination bout while Bell would fight Derick Harmon.
Davis would beat Azille by a twelve round split decision and be made the mandatory for James Toney. Toney opted to vacate the title and move up to heavyweight. The next available contender for Davis to fight would have been Vassily Jirov, however, he decided to move up to heavyweight as well. Davis would find a worthy oppodent in Ezra Sellers. A year after he lost to Bell, Davis fought and won the IBF Championship by knocking Sellers out in the eighth round. The demand for a rematch with Bell would grow even more.
Bell, who knocked out Derick Harmon, would next fight Ezra Sellers in another IBF Title Eliminator. Bell knocked out and retired Sellers after two rounds and claimed his right for a rematch with Kelvin Davis. A rematch he intitally did not want, nonetheless, there was a championship at stake this time so Bell was eager to make the fight happen.
In February, it seemed as though we were going to finally get to see the rematch between these two top cruiserweights. Then politics came into play. While waiting for his first title defense, Kelvin Davis was forced to file bankruptcy. Due to the bankruptcy, his bout agreement for the O'Neil Bell rematch, as well as his promotional contract with Don King, became void. Soon after filing bankruptcy, an attorney representing Davis, Thomas Hale, contacted Don King and said that Davis would go ahead with the fight in February against O'Neil Bell. Hale, who Boxingtalk has learned has lawsuits and grievances filed with the state bar association for malpractice, never asked for a new bout agreement. DKP assumed they were operating under the previous bout agreement. This was not the case. Weeks before the bout was to take place, Davis' camp made it known to the media that there wasn't a valid bout agreement for the Bell fight. DKP then brought a new bout agreement and demanded that Kelvin sign another long-term promotional contract (an action that is barred by the Ali Act). Davis and Bell both showed up in St. Louis in hopes of Don King restoring the bout to the card. Unfortunately, King decided against it.
Shortly after, the IBF decided to strip Kelvin Davis of his championship for failure to defend his title. The IBF did not care what the circumstances were behind the fight not taking place. Kelvin tried to get the decision by the IBF reversed and came up with the $10,000 fee to get a hearing. Unfortunately, despite his efforts to keep his title, the IBF would deny Davis his championship, thus stripping him. So on top of sanctioning fees for two eliminators and a world title fight, Davis just wasted an additional $10,000…all because he filed for bankruptcy. With Davis stripped of his title, the door opened for O'Neil Bell to take on Dale Brown for the vacant title.
That would bring us to this weekend for the next chapter in this tale of two cruiserweights. Both O'Neil Bell and Kelvin Davis would be fighting, but on separate cards. On ESPN Friday Night Fights, Bell fought Dale Brown and on the undercard of Brewster-Golota, Kelvin Davis would fight Guillermo Jones.
Bell went into his match with Brown very confident. So confident that he had his wrestling coach, who didn't know anything about being a cutman, as his cutman. Brown hurt him several times and looked to have outboxed Bell. Bell fought a very flat fight and it appeared as though he was own his way to losing his bid for the vacant title. As fate would have it, it was not to be for "The Cowboy" as Bell was given the decision, winning the IBF Title and upholding his end of the deal to setup the rematch with Davis to decide once and for all the true IBF champion.
On Saturday Night, it was Kelvin Davis' turn to show the world that he was the rightful champion as he took on the very tough Guillermo Jones. Jones, who fought longtime WBO champion Johnny Nelson to a draw, recently lost a very close split decision to Steve Cunningham. Jones would prove to be too much for the comebacking Davis. Having not fought in a year, Davis suffered a fourth round TKO loss at the hands of Jones.
Some will think this is the end of the saga between O'Neil Bell and Kelvin Davis. Afterall, Dale Brown's loss to Bell was controversial and many believe Brown won the fight. He put on a great effort with Bell and he deserves a rematch. Then there's Guillermo Jones, who just beat Davis. If you go by lineage, Jones would be the man to fight Bell for the rights to the IBF title, leaving Davis on the outside looking in. Not to mention, Davis' loss makes him 3-3 in his last six fights so a rematch with Bell looks less appealing. Nonetheless, don't be surprised if you hear talk of "Give 'Em Hell" fighting "Koncrete" once again. There are quite a few complex and compelling stories in boxing right now and this is another one. Fans have waited a long time to finally see the conclusion of the Bell-Davis tale. This may have been it, or it may take more time and a few more interim fights before it comes to pass. As the saying goes, "if it makes dollars, it makes sense!"


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Samuel Leigh (1780 – 1831) was a bookseller based in the Strand during the early decades of the the 19th Century. He specialised in travel guides. In 1829 he published an extraordinary book: Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond. It mainly comprised a 60 foot long sheet which folded out concertina style, although some editions were made up of a series of individual sheets. On this ribbon of paper was printed a hand coloured aquatint of both banks of the Thames, facing one another, so one bank is always upside-down, depending on which way you hold the book. Approximately 15 miles per bank, 30 miles in all. This was, of course, immediately before the railways and almost half a century prior to Bazalgette's embankments. Bridges across the river were still relatively few. It is therefore a marvelous visual record of the Thames of the late Georgian era.
Fast forward to the early 21st Century and we find a man called John Inglis doing a very similar recording project, except, of course, using photography. His idea was virtually the same as Leigh's, except – remarkably – at first he was blissfully unaware of the earlier work. Once Leigh was brought to his attention, it fundamentally transformed his own project in a most exciting way. Using rapidly improving web technology, the old and the new could exactly mirror each other in a tool that could prove both invaluable and entertaining to everybody from curious Londoners to serious historical researchers. This of course involved a massive increase in the workload and extension of the project timeline. With meagre funds, the project has relied on a dedicated band of volunteers.
One of the challenges was to obtain a best possible digitised version of Leigh. Using six surviving copies, the team took high resolution shots of the best bits of each, and then digitally repaired them for colour correction, staining, cracks, folds and so on.
This done, the team has now reached a key stage of the project: the book. Panorama of the Thames: A Riverside View of Georgian London by John Inglis and Jill Sanders is now published by Thames and Hudson. Apart from some nonedescript countryside parts of the riverbank, this book contains all of Leigh, both banks. The authors have departed from Leigh by treating each bank separately. This is something of a sacrifice it can be argued, but I think the correct decision. It has freed up space for text entries describing all notable buildings and structures, many of which no longer exist. The panorama has been divided into sections, with short introductions. The overall result is image rich with text relatively light and for me, that balance is perfect.
The tome is large, quite weighty and simply wonderfully produced. Lavish. There is great pleasure between its covers. This is more than a book: it is a treasure. Treat yourself.
Panorama of the Thames: A Riverside View of Georgian London (256pp) by John Inglis and Jill Sanders is published by Thames and Hudson with a cover price of £30. It's available on Amazon and Waterstones.
This publication is the first book from the project. More are planned. The ongoing Panorama of the Thames project is here. Check it out; have a play.
There are more than a thousand works by the Georgian satirical cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson (1758 – 1827) in the Royal Collection. The Prince of Wales (later George IV) bought most of these, not as a connoisseur (which he was), but rather in a vain attempt to reduce the circulation – among the aristocracy at any rate, for he always bought the best examples. Queen Victoria, by contrast, adored them. We'd like to think that her reputation as a dour moralist has by now been well and truly scotched.
Rowlandson, like his exact contemporary James Gillray, was a Londoner. As an artist he was formally trained. He was a bon viveur, a prankster. Any money he had, he spent. He sometimes lived in damp and dismal accommodation. But free spirit that he was, he knew he could draw his way out of trouble when he needed to, and he did. His work wasn't as angry as Gillray's nor as moralising as Hogarth's before him. One senses it was a bit cleverer than theirs; that ideas came to him more easily and simply flew off his pen as they did.
A new show at the Queen's Gallery features around a hundred examples of Rowlandson's works from the collection. They clearly demonstrate the scope and facility of his mind and pen. His talent as a caricaturist is demonstrated in this Hogarthian set of "types".
A whale which had been beached at Gravesend was making the news, detracting from the Duke of York's failings. Here he beseeches the creature to stick around.
The nation was fascinated by the French Revolution toward the end of a century of frequent conflict with France. Here are two examples of the same cartoon – The Contrast – demonstrating how English Liberty was far superior to its French equivalent, very much grist to the mill. Overtly propagandistic, the uncoloured version was priced at only 3d, encouraging the widest possible distribution. Very much a you-never-had-it-so-good sentiment. This work also appeared recently at the Magna Carta exhibition at the British Library.
After Trafalgar, there was a possibility that Nelson's body would be transferred to another ship to be transported home, but the sailors of the Victory were having none of it. No real axe to grind, this patriotic and sentimental print makes the point. Nelson's body was conveyed in a barrel of brandy of course, but hey.
It would another half century before cartoons like this appeared in newspapers and magazines. They were distributed individually from print shops at prices ranging typically from one to eight shillings. Collectors tended to mount them in volumes to be handed around on social occasions. Buyers and those who couldn't afford to collect would eagerly browse the latest examples in print shop windows. The back wall of the exhibition has a selection displayed in this way to give you a sense of the print shop window. I works rather well.
And here is a rare and interesting survival: a screen decorated with cut-outs from the leading satirical prints. The wealthy could afford both to collect prints and to cut them up.
These examples can but give you a tiny taste of the show, for this is a substantial and important exhibition, a must for anyone interested in the late-Georgian satire boom, the likes of which were not seen again until the early 1960s.
Note. Included in your ticket is another quite exquisite exhibition running in the gallery over the same period: Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer.
All images courtesy Royal Collection Trust. Photos: Mike Paterson.
This year is the 200th anniversary of the death of the London cartoonist James Gillray (1756 – 1815). He's one of our best-known illustrators, usually mentioned in the same breath as Hogarth, Tenniel and Shepard. Like Hogarth earlier in the century, Gillray trained as an engraver and followed that trade for a short while before discovering his métier.
That profession was the vicious lampooning of prominent persons, primarily politicians and royalty. So rich were his ideas conceptually that they have provided templates for cartoonists ever since, but primarily during our own times. He's imitated more so even than Hogarth because his illustrations are more punchy, more precise, less cluttered.
This frequent habit of cartoonistic homage down the years forms the basis of a new exhibition celebrating the Gillray anniversary: Gillray's Ghost, at the Cartoon Museum. It features about 70 items: original hand-coloured prints by Gillray, alongside the modern equivalents by the likes of Steve Bell, Peter Brookes, Chris Duggan, Martin Rowson, Dave Brown, Nick Garland and others.
The most fecund of these, and the headline illustration of the show, is The Plumb Pudding in Danger from 1805 (pre Trafalgar), featuring Pitt and Bonaparte carving up the globe. Food and gluttony are, of course, a common trope for cartoonists down the years. There are at least half a dozen variants of this in the show. Here, using David Cameron and Nicola Sturgeon, is Steve Bell's.
The Baked Bean in Danger. Anniversary homage by Steve Bell. © Steve Bell.
To my mind, the most famous of all is A Voluptuary, the image of the Prince Regent, leaning back languidly, picking his teeth with a fork, not a care in the world. Chris Duggan's cartoon shows a select committee absentee, ditto.
Here we have Pitt, Fox and Adlington wrestling each other while Bonaparte is about to assassinate Britannia from behind a curtain. Britannia Between Death and the Doctor's (sic). Dave Brown's version shows Brown and Clegg as the doctors with Cameron as Death.
And so on. The exhibition is well conceived and nicely executed. As ever with the Cartoon Museum, thoughtful and thought-provoking.
Gillray's Ghost runs at the Cartoon Museum until 17 January 2016. The exhibition is included in museum entry of £7 adults. Friends of the Museum and Art Fund members enjoy free entry.
Monday 16 November, 17:30. Introductory talk by Cartoon Museum director, Anita O'Brien. Glass of wine included. All tickets £12.50 + fee. Book here.


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Mateus José de Lima Wesp (Passo Fundo, 23 de julho de 1988) é um advogado, professor universitário e político brasileiro. Foi presidente do PSDB no Rio Grande do Sul e é deputado estadual.

Biografia
Disputou sua primeira eleição em 2012, pelo Partido Progressista, deixando de se eleger vereador em Passo Fundo por 20 votos. Em 2016, foi o vereador mais votado da cidade.

Formado em Direito pela PUC-RS, com especialização, mestrado e doutorado em Direito Público na UFRGS, concluiu, em 2018, o pós-doutorado em Filosofia do Direito.

No mesmo ano, foi eleito com 28.173 votos deputado estadual.

Em agosto de 2021, votou contrário ao PL 119 2020, do deputado Issur Koch (PP), que criava o cargo de biomédico no quadro de servidores do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Explicou ser a favor da matéria, mas votar contra pelo que alegaria ser uma inconstitucionalidade formal. No mesmo mês, foi também contrário ao projeto de instalação de câmeras filmadoras nas viaturas e uniformes dos policiais, de autoria da deputada Luciana Genro.

Nascidos em 1988
Naturais de Passo Fundo
Membros do Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira
Deputados estaduais do Rio Grande do Sul
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4N200, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (Attention Prefix Hunters!). Look for radio club "Novi Beograd", YU1FJK, to be active with special callsign 4N200A. They will be also use this callsign during some contests. QSL via YU1FJK or 4N1A.
5H, TANZANIA. Hans-Peter, HB9BXE, who states that it has taken a long time to receive a license from here, will be active as 5H1BP from March 1-6th. He received his license on February 19th. Activity will be on 80-10 meters on CW/SSB/PSK31 using a FT-857 with only 100 watts into a wire antenna. On Monday (February 23rd), Hans-Peter will start to climb on Kilimandscharo and hope to arrive on top of the highest mountain of Africa at an altitude of 5896m ASL on Friday, February 27th at 0815z. He plans to be active for about 20 minutes on 21.222 kHz +/- QRM. There will be a list taken beforehand by Sigi, HB9DLE, via E-mail of interested amateurs in order to minimize the pile up and to speed up the traffic. Sigi's E-mail address is: hb9dle@uska.ch During the second week, Hans-Peter will be active from Zanzibar Island (AF-032). QSL via his home callsign HB9BXE.
5U, NIGER. Bull, 5U7JB, hopes to be active during the CQ 160 Meters SSB Contest (February 28-29th). He is currently busy putting up an inverted L antenna. Bull has been active during the past week on 75/40/17/12 meters SSB. Watch around 3793 kHz between 0318-0500z, 7080 kHz around 0530z, 17 meters after 0930z and 12 meters between 1045-1630z. QSL via ON5NT.
8P, BARBADOS. Tom, W2SC, will be active as 8P1A in the ARRL DX Phone Contest (March 6-7th) as a Single-Op/All Band/High Power entry. QSL via NN1N.
8P, BARBADOS. Will/AA4NC (W4MR) and Jim/K4MA, who were active as 8P9JA in the ARRL DX CW Contest this past weekend (QSL via K4MA), will be active for a few more days as 8P9JB. They will go QRT February 24th.
8Q, MALDIVES. Hardy, DL5SBA, will be active as 8Q7BA from about March 4-20th from Athuruga Island (AS-013). Activity will be on 20 meters, possibly 30 and 17 meters as well, on RTTY/PSK only. He will use a TS-50 with 50 watts into a wire quad antenna for 20 meters - possibly 17/30m with the tuner. Hardy tells OPDX that he will be there on vacation not an expedition, so activity will be sporadic. QSL via bureau (preferred) to DL5SBA.
9K2, KUWAIT. Faisal, 9K2RR, will be active in the Russian DX Contest (March 20-21st) as a Single-Op/All Band/CW entry. QSL via the bureau.
9K43, KUWAIT. Hamad, 9K2HN, informs OPDX that they will be celebrating their "National and Liberation Day" in Kuwait on February 25th and 26th. For this event they will be using the special event callsign 9K43NLD. Activity will start on February 25th and last until the 29th. QSL cards go via 9K2RR.
9U, BURUNDI. Michael, PA5M, has finally received his license and will be active as 9U5M until he leaves on March 17th. He is in Bujumbura for work, so activity will mainly be in the evening hours from his hotel starting around 1600 to 1700z. His activity will be on 40-10 meters CW and SSB, including the WARC bands using 100 watts to a vertical. If it is possible for him to stay longer at the office, he "might" be active on 80 meters, too. However, this is not very likely to happen very often due to the local situation as he has to get back to his hotel. This past week he was active on 30 and 20 meters CW between 2000-2130z. There is a Web site which will be updated regularly with info and also an online log search is expected soon at: http://www.pa7fm.nl/9u5m/ QSL requests should go to PA7FM: Dennis Robbemond, Loggerhof 11, 3181NS Rozenburg, The Netherlands (SAE with 2 USDs or 1 IRC outside Europe; inside Europe 1 USD or 1 IRC).
A3 & ZL, TONGA AND NEW ZEALAND (IOTA and Lighthouse Op). Operators Wolfgang/DH3WO, Christoph/DL5DAN and Mathais/DJ2HD will be active from Fafa Island (OC-049), March 15-29th. Look for A35DH (QSL via DH3WO), A35DJ (QSL via DJ2HD) and A35DA (QSL via DL5DAN) to be active on on 80/40/20/17/15/12/10 meters on SSB, PSK31 and RTTY. After March 29th, the trio will be active as ZL/DH3WO, ZL/DL5DAN and ZL/DJ2HD from the Northern Island of New Zealand (OC-036) and possibly from other Islands/Lighthouses there for the next two weeks. QSL via their home callsigns via the bureau.
A6, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Robert, S53R, who was active as A61AJ this past weekend during the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 21-22nd), will be active this coming weekend (using the same callsign) in the CQ 160-Meter SSB Contest (February 28-29th) as a Single-Op/High Power entry. Please remember to QSL as follows: K2UO for North/South America and all the U.S. possessions; and DJ2MX for the rest of the world.
DAYTON 2004 TOPBAND GATHERING. All 160 meter enthusiasts are cordially invited to the Topband dinner on Friday night of the 2004 Dayton Hamvention. This annual event brings together 160 meter fans from around the world for food, drink and camaraderie. Here are the particulars:
Date:      May 14, 2004
Time:      6:30 PM Social Hour with Cash Bar - 8:00 PM Dinner
QTH:       Neil's Heritage House Restaurant, 2323 Schantz Avenue, Dayton
Fare:      Salad, rolls and butter, dinner entree, dessert & beverage
Cost:      28.00 USD each which includes complete dinner, taxes and
gratuity. Choose Roast Sirloin of Beef, Broiled Salmon,
Breast of Chicken Supreme.
Make your dinner selection and pay in advance to: George Taft (W8UVZ), 271 Parkshore Drive, Battle Creek, MI 49014. Please notify George ASAP by E-mail for a reservation (including your dinner entree choice), at: w8uvz@arrl.net. Reservations must be paid by May 1st. Overseas visitors are most welcome, of course. Please reserve by E-mail and pay at the door, if desired. Map of the restaurant location is available by request.
F5, FRANCE (Castle Activity). Maurice, F5IYU, plans to activate two castles in the Province Champagne Ardennes. Look for him between February 23-27th, to sign F5IYU/p on CW only on 7010 kHz +/- QRM from the Castle of Saint Thierry (References: DFCF 51007) and between March 1-12th from the Castle of Merfy (References: DFCF 51009). For both operations the daily schedule will be from 1900-2130z and sometimes from 1200-1300z. QSL via the French REF Bureau only. Please no direct cards. SWL cards are welcome too.
HD8, GALAPAGOS ISLAND (A Rare Prefix To Be Activated!). Alfredo, HC1HC, will be active as HD8A from Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, from March 2-9th. During the ARRL DX Phone Contest (March 6-7th), he will sign HD8A/QRP. He may also sign HC1HC/HC8 before and after the contest. His activity will be on 160-10 meters, mostly SSB, some CW. HD8 is a rare prefix which counts for the "HC8/HD8 DX Diploma". View the colorful awards at: http://www.octavia.com/QSL/awards.htm QSL HC1HC/HC8 and HD8A via NE8Z: Rick Dorsch, P.O. Box 616, Hamburg, MI 48139 USA.
IARU TEAM NEEDED. Frosty, K5LBU, is trying to put together a team for the IARU contest this July to operate from Botswana (A22). The contest is on July 10th and 11th. He currently is not sure of the cost, but the team will arrive in Johannesburg on the 7th so they can have a day to unwind before taking a 6 hour drive to Botswana. They plan to be in the country for 10 days. Everyone could have their own A2 callsign to use before and after the contest. Frosty also states their visit includes a visit to one of the game parks to see the big lions, elephants and such. If interested, contact Frosty at: frosty1@pdq.net He would like to have a team in place by the end of May, but have some idea by end of April. Visit the following interesting Web pages at: http://www.k5lbu.com and http://www.dxsafari.com.
IOTA NEWS.................
AF-004. Terry, M0CLH, is expected to be active as EA8/M0CLH/P from Tenerife Island in the Canary Island group between February 23rd and March 1st. This is a holiday style operation, and he will be using dipoles for 20, 17, 15 and 12 meters. QSL via his home callsign, direct or by the bureau.
AS-015. Rich, PA0RRS, is now active as 9M2/PA0RRS from Penang Island until March 2nd. He was spotted this past weekend on 30 and 20 meters CW. QSL via PA0RRS, direct or via the bureau.
EU-129. Operators Axel/DL8RL, Klaus/DL8DZL, Falk/DF3UFW and Jorg/DL2DSL will be active from Usedom Island, April 23-30th. The team will also activate for the German Island Award the counters O-13, 31 and 35. QSL via the DARC Bureau.
IS0, SARDINIA. Two members of the Florida DXPedition Group, William/N2WB and Bill/W4WX, will be in Sardinia, March 22-27th. They will operate using the callsigns IS0/N2WB and IS0/W4WX Look for them on the HF bands on CW, SSB and RTTY. QSL IS0/N2WB via N2OO and IS0/W4WX direct or LoTW. JT, MONGOLIA. Igor, JT1FDD, is expected to be active from Mongolia bewteen now and February 29th. The bands/modes of activity were not provided. He was, however, active in the ARRL DX Contest this past weekend. QSL via RW6HS, direct.
KH6, HAWAII. Len, K1NU, will be signing K1NU/KH6 from the SeaQMaui resort (http://www.seaqmaui.com) from March 4-9th. Plans include a low-power entry in the ARRL DX Phone Contest, some WARC band operation (mostly CW) before and after the contest, and possibly some 60m operation, if he can get an antenna up. All operating will be casual - "vacation mode". Logs will be uploaded to LOTW upon his return home. QSL is also OK via the bureau or direct via his home callsign.
OPEN UKRAINE RTTY CHAMPIONSHIP 2004. Dima, UT5RP, Editor of UT5RP PSK31 DX Notes, wants to remind everyone that this contest starts March 6-7th. George, UT1HT, is the organizer of the Championship. The CONTEST consist of two parts:
Low Band (1.8 and 3.5 MHz)
High Band (7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz)
The LOW BAND part includes two rounds: the First round is from 2200-2359z (March 6th), and the Second round from 0000-0159z (March 7th). The HIGH BAND part: from 0800-1159z (March 7th). See full rules on "SM3CER CONTEST SERVICE" at: http://sk3bg.se/contest/ukrartty.htm (english) and http://www.uarl.com.ua (russian)
OY, FAROE ISLANDS. Kevin/ON5DRE and Erwin/ON4QJ are expected to be active from here between May 3-13th. Callsign will be announced at a later date. Activity will be on 160-2 meters. However, they will be mostly active on 80, 40, 17 and 2 meters. Also, if AO-40 survives and gets fixed by then, they will also be active on it. For 2 meters, they will be active on phone as well as some digital modes to compromise the somewhat low power.
P4, ARUBA. Tony, N2KI, will be active as P40KI from May 15-22nd. His activity will be SSB and RTTY on 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters. QSL via his home callsign.
P4, ARUBA (Update). John, W2GD, who was active as P40W in the ARRL DX CW Contest this past weekend, will be active this coming weeknd in the CQ 160-Meter SSB Contest (February 28-29th). His operating class has not been decided, and it will not be decided until contest time (possibly Single-Op or Multi-Op). John will be here until March 1st. Last week before the contest John was quite active on 160/80/40 meters CW. There were some 15 and 10 meters during the day. QSL via N2MM.
Vladimir, LZ1OT, informs OPDX that he is the QSL Manager for Vladimir, 4L1GW. QSLs are already printed, and he will answer them via the bureau or direct.
Tom, WW5L, reports that all received direct cards for his 7P8TA Dxpedition last July as of February 21st have been mailed. A mailing for bureau received cards (there aren't that many) is being prepared.
Mac, W3HC, reports, "Anybody that sent a card to W3HC for a BI3H 2000 card and had it returned unverified.......please resubmit, Mac has finally got the 2000 logs in order."
QSL FM5BH via W3HNK. Operator Laurent, FM5BH, was active this past weekend in the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 21-22nd) as a SOABHP entry.
QSL GJ2A via GJ3DVC. Operator Rich Gelber, K2WR, was active this past weekend in the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 21-22nd) as a SOAB entry.
QSLs for Hiro, JA6WFM/HI8, should ONLY be sent directly to the address of JA6VU in a SAE. Please do not send it to the JARL Bureau. JA6VU's address is: Kano Masaaki, 712 Kagami-Machi, Yatsushirogun Kumamoto 869-4203, JAPAN.
QSL JY9QJ via DL5MBY. Operator George, JY9QJ, was active this past weekend in the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 21-22nd) as a SOAB entry.
QSL LU5FF via EA7JX. Javi, LU5FF, participated in the ARRL DX CW Contest this past weekend as a SOABLP entry.
QSL Manager OM2SA's correct mailing address is:
George Sipos
93013 Trhova Hradska 550
Republic of Slovakia
NOT THE MANAGER. Koos, KK3S, reports that he is still receiving QSL cards for V51E, V26DX and TU2XZ. He is not the QSL Manager for these stations. QSL V51E direct with a SASE. QSL V26DX to KU9C (direct or bureau). QSL TU2XZ via W3HC (direct only + SASE).
RX3, EUROPEAN RUSSIAN (Island Activity). Alex, RX3AJL, will try to activate some islands in the White Sea (some RRA NEW ONEs, Kamostrov, Chernetskiy, Kislukhi, Vodokhebikha, Dvinskaya Luda and possibly some others...) during the period of February 23rd and March 6th. Operations will be on 20 meters with 5 watts. QSL via RX3AJL.
SATELLITE NEWS. OSCAR-11 was launched on March 1, 1984. After nearly 20 years in orbit it is still transmitting useful data. To commemorate its 20th birthday, AMSAT-UK is issuing a special QSL for reports of reception during March. There will be special endorsements for hearing the satellite on its birthday, and for mode-S reception. For full details visit the AMSAT-UK Web site at: http://www.amsat-uk.org.uk/
SILENT KEY. OPDX has been informed that well-known DXer, CE7ZK, Percy Raurich, from Port Montt, Chile, has become a Silent Key (SK) last weekend (February 14th). OPDX and its readers would like to send out our deepest sympathy to his family and friends.
T33, BANABA (DXpedition Update). Alan, K6SRZ, sent out the following press release this past week: "The T33C Banaba Dxpedition remains on schedule for starting operations on April 4th or 5th and continuing for at least eleven days. This is a major DXpedition, covering all modes and all bands from 160 through 6 meters. Our container of equipment has arrived in Fiji and will shortly be on its way to Tarawa where we will load it aboard the vessel Te Taobe that will take us to Banaba. The expeditioners extend their thanks to all the sponsors, organizations and individuals who have contributed to the expedition. Banaba is not a tourist destination: everything we need, including food and clean drinking water needs to be shipped to the island. Shipping costs have been very high. We still welcome any and all contributions. You can find details of the trip, including the on-line logbook and QSL information at our Web site at: http://www.dx-pedition.de/banaba2004/ There is still room for another one or two operators to join the team, though arranging air transport to Tarawa at this late date may be difficult. Please distribute this to all interested radio amateurs. We look forward to hearing you in the pileups...." Contact: Alan Esheman, K6SRZ, at: doctore@well.com
T48, CUBA. Look for Don Fisher, VE3ESE, and members of the Santiago de Cuba University and City Club to activate T48RAC during the ARRL DX Phone Contest (March 7-8th) from Santiago de Cuba. They will be operating 40 and 20 meters. QSL via VE3ESE: Don Fisher, 48 Lucerne Dr., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2E-1B3 (SASE, with IRC or G/S -- Note Canadian postage only).
T98, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Correction). Jose, CT1FKN, informs OPDX that he has made a mistake in his announcement of his T98FKN operation (refer to OPDX.648). He does "NOT" have authorization to use 6 meters, but only HF, 144 and 440 MHz.
V47, ST. KITTS. Stephen, K2SB, who was active as V47KP this past weekend in the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 21-22nd), will be active again in two more contests coming up. Look for him to be active this weekend as V47KP in the CQ 160-Meter SSB Contest (February 28-29th). Operating class is to be decided yet. Also, look for Joe/K3NM to join Stephen (using the same V47KP callsign) in the ARRL DX Phone Contest (March 6-7th) as a Multi-2 entry. QSL all three contests via K2SB.
XF4, REVILLA GIGEDO (Update). Rafael Antonio ("Tony"), XE1GRR, informs OPDX that next month (in March) a team of eight operators will activate Socorro Island (IOTA NA-030, Grid Locator: DK48), in the Revillagigedo Island Group. They will use the callsign XF4IH between March 3-20th. Operators mentioned are: Jose/XE1J, Enrique/XE1IH, David/XE1XR, Ismael/ XE1AVM, Javier/XE1KOF, Luis/XE1GLL, Martin/XE2ML and Tony/XE1GRR. Activity will be on all the bands and modes HF/VHF/UHF including 50 MHz, CW/SSB/ RTTY/SSTV/PSK31/JT44 and the Satellites: AO-40/AO-7/FO-29/AO-27/SO-50. QSL Manager is XE1IH: Enrique Garcia, P.O. Box 118-481, Mexico, D.F. 07051, MEXICO.
ZD8, ASCENSION ISLAND. Glenn, K6NA, will once again be active as ZD8A from February 28th to March 2nd. He is expected to be operating on all HF bands, mostly CW. QSL via N6CW.
ZP5, PARAGUAY. Tom, ZP5AZL, will be active as ZP6Y in the ARRL DX SSB Contest. He informs OPDX that it will probably be an all band operation, but he is not sure about high or low power. QSL via W3HNK or ZP5MAL.
ZS10, SOUTH AFRICA. Look for ZS10RSA to be active to celebrate 10 years of democracy in South Africa. Activity over the past weekend was on 20 meters SSB. QSL via KK3S, direct or via the bureau.
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50 Years of Spaceflight: Astronauts Ponder the State of Exploration
By Tariq Malik 2007-10-04T11:00:00Z Spaceflight
Sputnik replica on display in the Milestones of Flight at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
(Image: © Eric Long/National Air and Space Museum.)
Fifty yearsago today, a small satellite -- the world's first built and launched by humans-- rocketed into orbit, beaming down a series of beeps that heralded the comingSpace Age to anyone listening on Earth.
The former Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik 1, a 23-inch(58-centimeter) wide sphere that resembled a silver beach ball with antennas,on Oct. 4, 1957 marked humanity'sfirst leap into space.
"Itis the kind of the kind of thing that does not belong to just one country,"said veteran cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who will launch to the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) next week with the Expedition 16 crew, of Sputnik'slegacy. "It belongs to humanity in general."
Larger andmore sophisticated machines followed Sputnik into space, some with creaturesaboard and others with science instruments, and it was only a matter of timebefore humans catapulted themselves into that high frontier above Earth.
With theSoviet Union's successful launch of cosmonaut YuriGagarin on April 12, 1961, which sparked a race with the United States to send astronauts tothe moon and back, humanity firmly established its grasp on spaceflight. ByJuly 20, 1969, the first humans – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin – were on themoon.
"Herewe are, for the first time, leaving our planet," former Apollo astronautEdgar Mitchell told SPACE.com. "It's the beginning of a whole newepoch in human civilization."
Mitchell wason the winning side of the lunar space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union.He served as lunar module pilot during NASA's Apollo 14 mission – America's thirdmanned moon landing – in 1971.
Sputnik'sfirst flight and the advancements that led to Gagarin's launch and NASA'sApollo landings marked a pivotal point for human exploration, one that has ledto a permanent presence for astronauts aboard the ISS, he said.
"It'sabout as important as when the Phoenicians first started paddling across theMediterranean and the South Sea islanders first started in their outriggercanoes across the Pacific Ocean," Mitchell said.
Fromnational to international
But humanspace exploration was initially driven by political pride and technologicalprowess, not pure science and wonder, former spaceflyersrecalled.
"Whatmotivated us…to go to moon was the advancing nature of the Soviet Union with Sputnik," former Apollo 11astronaut Buzz Aldrin – the second man to walkon the lunar surface – told SPACE.com. The Cold War between thetwo superpowers was well under way by then, he added.
Since Gagarin's first flight, 462 men and women have launched into spaceand 21 have lost their lives aboard spacecraft on Earth or in flight. But it wasn't until July 17,1975 that two spacecraft from different nations – former rivals theSoviet Union and the U.S.– met in space for the first time during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. Now
Three spaceflyers -- Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, OlegKotov and U.S.astronaut Clayton -- are living in orbit today aboard the International SpaceStation, though none of them were even born yet the day Sputnik launched.
"Ithink it's very important that we work together," Anderson told Russian students this week."I think the most important thing about the International Space Station isthat we're learning to go farther as a world, and not just as independent countries."
Momentumlost
NASA isonce more trying to reach out to the moon by retiring its three remaining spaceshuttles in 2010 and reviving the capsule-based spacecraft concept from its Apollo era toferry astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2020.
"Wehad the potential, when we got back from the moon in the Apollo days, to startbuilding the technology…to get on with it and go to Mars," Apollo 12lunar module pilot Alan Bean told SPACE.com."I thought in my lifetime I might see people on Mars; certainly I wouldsee them training and getting ready to go."
But, explainedBean, cultures and countries rarely live up to their potential due to theshifting nature of interest, funds and priorities between generations.
"I'mnot discouraged by it," Bean said, but stressed that NASA will likely needmore definite funding if it is to succeed in returning astronauts to the moonby 2020, let alone reaching out beyond lunar exploration.
Continuedcooperation among different countries, Malenchenko added, will also be vital tothe success of the ISS and future missions to the moon and Mars.
On Oct. 10,Malenchenko – who commanded the ISS in the past – will launchtoward the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from BaikonurCosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Riding to space with him will be U.S.astronaut Peggy Whitson – the first female spaceflyer to command the ISS –and Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysia'sfirst astronaut.
Whitsonand Malenchenko, the space station's core crew of Expedition 16, willrelieve Yurchikhin and Kotov aboard the orbital laboratory. Anderson will join Expedition 16 for thefirst leg of the mission.
Astronautsfrom Europe and Japanare also due to visit or stay aboard the ISS during Expedition 16, and onlythrough such cooperation will research and exploration prosper aboard thestation, Malenchenko said.
"Thatwould be the way to go in the future as well," he added.
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Q: apt-get does not remove initscript? This day I tried to remove apache2. It's bundled with Ubuntu Lucid, which I don't need. I used apt-get remove apache2 to remove it. But somehow, the initscript was still there, in "/etc/init.d/". I tried the apt-get purge command, but the result was the same.
How come the apt-get command fails not remove initscript, even though the script was made by apache2 package.

A: The init script is not removed because it is considered to be a configuration file, or "conffile" (because some people might want to tweak their init scripts).  In Debian (and derived distributions) conffiles are kept on the system when packages are uninstalled, to make it easier if you want to re-install them later.
If you're sure that you want to remove the conffiles as well, then you should pass the --purge option to apt-get or aptitude.

A: Have you tried apt-get remove apache2 --purge ?

A: A more low-level method to remove the package is:
dpkg --purge apache2.2-common

(I checked the right packages name for you is: apache2.2-common)

A: Use:

dpkg --purge --force-depends apache2.2-common

then:

apt-get install apache2.2-common

The --force-depends makes sure it just removes that package only. It will break your dependencies, but since you're immediately reinstalling it afterwards, it shouldn't be an issue.

A: The exact owner of the init script is apache2.2-common, not the apache2. The apt-get purge apache2 command will purge the apache2 package but only remove apache2.2-common as its dependency. You should name all packages you want to purge to actually purge them or use the reciept from https://serverfault.com/a/326306/52873.


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Q: Application is crashing when i click settings option in live wallpaper Nothing is posted in logcat.Application just stops working.
Here is my code form manifest
<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <service android:name =".LiveWallpaperAndroid"
     android:label = "@string/app_name"
     android:icon = "@drawable/ic_launcher"
     android:permission = "android.permission.BIND_WALLPAPER" >
    <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.service.wallpaper.WallpaperService" />
    </intent-filter>
    <meta-data android:name ="android.service.wallpaper"
         android:resource ="@xml/livewallpaper" />
    </service>

    <activity android:label="@string/livewallpaper_settings"
        android:name=".LiveWallpaperSettings"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Light.WallpaperSettings"
        android:exported="true"
        android:icon = "@drawable/ic_launcher">
    </activity>
</application>

Below is my settings Activity code
public class LiveWallpaperSettings extends PreferenceActivity
implements SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener
{
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle)
{
super.onCreate(icicle);
        getPreferenceManager().setSharedPreferencesName(LiveWallpaperScreen.SHARED_PREFS_NAME);
addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.football);
getPreferenceManager().getSharedPreferences()
        .registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
}

My xml file for settings is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:title="@string/livewallpaper_settings"
android:key="livewallpaper_settings">

<ListPreference
    android:key="livewallpaper_testpattern"
    android:title="@string/livewallpaper_settings_title"
    android:summary="@string/livewallpaper_settings_summary"
    android:entries="@array/livewallpaper_testpattern_names"
    android:entryValues="@array/livewallpaper_testpattern_prefix"/>
<CheckBoxPreference android:key="livewallpaper_movement"
    android:summary="@string/livewallpaper_movement_summary"
    android:title="@string/livewallpaper_movement_title"
    android:summaryOn="Moving test pattern"
    android:summaryOff="Still test pattern"/>
</PreferenceScreen>

What is wrong here.I am unable to come up with anything because nothing is shown in logcat about any error.

A: it occur many time with me also, i know this problem and solution well,i think you just forgot to change your package name in you xml folder wallpaper.xml file, just check following you got your answeres.
i think you wallpaper.xml // you understand your file name whatever you take
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <wallpaper xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:settingsActivity="YourAllPAckageName.YourSettingActivity"
   android:thumbnail="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

like,
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <wallpaper xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:settingsActivity="com.wallpaperexample.WallpaperSettingsActiity"
   android:thumbnail="@drawable/ic_launcher" />


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