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Linux Foundation's Deal With the Devil
Last week when Microsoft and the Linux Foundation separately announced a partnership that would see Redmond issuing a Linux certification called Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate Linux (MCSA), Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols felt the need to add the words "not a typo" to the headline of his coverage on ZDNet. A couple of days later, when the story made the pages of The Register the headline included, "Do not adjust your set. This is not an error."
We were just as surprised here at FOSS Force, and Larry Cafiero pulled no punches when breaking the story in Friday's Week in Review. "There's the argument that because Microsoft 'loves' Linux…we should be more inclusive," he wrote, "but this is the company that considered Linux a cancer and has fought FOSS for decades. Rather than throw the Microsoft that is treading water a life preserver, I still think throwing it an anchor would be more fitting."
So what spin did the Linux Foundation, the keeper of the Linux keys, use for its headline when announcing the pact? "A Great Start to a Great Partnership."
The announcement was written by no less than Jim Zemlin, the foundation's executive director. "Microsoft is demonstrating a sincere, smart and practical approach to how it builds new technologies and supports its vast customer base," he wrote. "Microsoft open sourced .NET; it open sourced key parts of its web browser; and it uses Linux for its Azure Cloud Switch. The Linux Foundation and Microsoft share a common, strategic approach to technology development: balance internal R&D with external R&D to create the most important technologies of our time."
For those who missed last week's story, to receive Microsoft's Linux on Azure certification, applicants will be required to pass both Microsoft's own "Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions" exam (officially Microsoft Exam 70-533) and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam. The certs are being issued by Microsoft and became available on the day the announcement was made.
As expected, Redmond kept to the "we love Linux" mantra it's been chanting since Satya Nadella began sitting in the chair Ballmer had been keeping warm: "'The Linux Foundation is the leading organization representing stakeholder interests in the open source ecosystem. That, combined with its proven commitment to professional, distribution-flexible and performance-based certifications, makes it a natural choice for our partner for Linux on Azure certifications,' said Steven Guggenheimer, chief evangelist at Microsoft."
What was unexpected was the Microsoft love that the foundation returned.
"Microsoft, many times over, is demonstrating a strategic approach to open source in order to serve its customers and work well with the global community," Zemlin said. "This is just the beginning of what we expect to be a long and successful partnership."
Although I didn't see this coming, I should have after the November 4 announcement that Red Hat was joining hands with Microsoft Azure in a deal that sent Red Hat employees to work at the Redmond campus, and which would result in RHEL being named by Microsoft as its preferred choice for enterprise Linux. On December 8, the day before Microsoft's new Linux/Azure certification was made public, Red Hat announced it had added support for Azure to its CloudForms tools.
The bottom line is that Microsoft "loves" all things Linux because with the advent of the cloud, on which the company is betting its future, it can sell it. More specifically, Microsoft absolutely must offer Linux to potential Azure customers if it's to have a cloud business at all, as offering Windows without Linux would be pretty much worthless. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure's CTO, said as much during a keynote address at the All Things Open conference in October.
"It's obvious that if we don't support Linux and open source in our cloud," he said, "then we'll be a Windows only cloud, and that would not be practical."
This latest partnership between Microsoft and the Linux Foundation only goes to illustrate something we already know: For all practical purposes, the Linux kernel is a wholly owned subsidiary of big business — and it's being developed without a care for the wants and needs of desktop GNU/Linux users or free tech advocates.
Modern Linux is built by big business for big business, with 80 percent of the heavy lifting coming from corporate programmers, which was pointed out recently in a ZDNet article by Vaughan-Nichols. Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, IBM and SUSE supply the manpower and decide the direction development should take, and as much as we "everyday Linux users" would like to think it ours, it's not. We're just the poor cousins who get to use it because of the GPL.
If the suits who sit in the boardrooms of corporate tech think they need Microsoft — quite frankly, at this stage of the game they do — then the Linux Foundation will continue to put lipstick on a pig and declare there will be peace in our time, even as Microsoft continues practices like extorting money from manufacturers of Linux devices for patents it may or may not have.
Deals like these give Microsoft credibility it doesn't deserve. Unfortunately, there will certainly be more such deals, and Redmond will be able to pass itself off as an open source company without having to do the hard work necessary for it to become a good open source citizen.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
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30 comments to Linux Foundation's Deal With the Devil
tracyanne
I voted "It's good for corporate users but not good for the home user.", but that only what I see as the short term. I sincerely doubt Microsoft has changed it's spots, and this simply means they don't have to.
In the long term I think both corporates and home users will lose. I hope I'm wrong, but Microsoft has done nothing recently, outside of their PR, that makes me think differently.
The day MS drops all those patent actions against Linux and Linux-running entities and makes a legally binding pledge not to file more, such that it can't transfer patents to others to do the dirty work for them either, and of course publicly publishing the list of those claimed hundreds of patents it had been throwing at Linux previously, is the day MS' until-then so-called "love" for Linux might actually be believable.
Until then it's simply more maneuvering for better positioning from which to make the same case it was making when it called Linux a cancer.
Meanwhile, current MS "partners" better beware, lest the same thing happen to them that has happened to many erstwhile MS "partners" over the years…
Doctor Thomas Stockmann
There's a musical theme for this article. It's The Mephisto Waltz.
Dietrich T. Schmitz
If this keeps up, I will be joining Larry by installing BSD.
Microsoft, an 'agent' delegated the responsibility to spy and collect data on users of Windows 10 for the NSA, has left a trail of carnage in their wake with Novell, then Nokia.
They will do their very best to scuttle any business relationship with the Linux Foundation if they can as open source transparency and strong encryption are the only tools we have to protect our rights and privacy.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Microsoft doesn't "partner" with anyone unless they have a plan to undermine or buy them later.
truthtellerjohn
This is a wacky story. First, what you're writing about isn't very new. You're writing about the Microsoft that prevailed back in Ballmer's very early days when he and other top execs were talking about open source as "a cancer."
Did you do ANY research or do they pay you for clip jobs?
Also, the clickbaity "deal with the devil" headline is not only inaccurate but it's juvenile. Seriously, this isn't journalism. It's hack-ism. I doubt very much that you did any original research or interviewed anyone. Just went to the Internet and performed a copy and paste routine.
And not very well.
@truthtellerjohn
awe, what's the matter? Does the truth sting?
Too bad for you.
It was a perfectly appropriate story.
Scott Dowdle
Linux running in Microsoft's virtualization cloud and a cert to go along with it… sounds like more Linux to me. Red Hat has a virtualization platform and it is primarily used to run Windows (for desktops anyway) so go figure.
I'm not sure how having more people with Linux certs is a bad thing.
In 5 to 10 years, when Microsoft has one or more flavors of their own Linux distribution… and it is eating into Red Hat's profits, we might look back to this moment… but all I can say is, bring it on. At least with the Linux kernel being GPLed whatever Microsoft releases will have to have the source code freely available but maybe not the binaries.
Does that sound scary? Well, just imagine all of the BSD code Microsoft has already been using for decades but didn't have to open up and fret no more.
@Scott Dowdle
Be careful what you wish for. The GPL (specifically GPL 2 which the Linux kernel is licensed under) will not protect against every form of Microsoft mischief. Specifically it won't protect against tivoization – whereby open source software's freedoms are rendered moot by digitally signing said software and locking the hardware to the signature. You may have the source, but you can't change it as the hardware will refuse to cooperate. With the help of Secure Boot via UEFI, this can easily prevent even an open source implementation from providing any freedom. For a real-life example – look at Google's Chromecast devices. Open source linux – locked beyond your ability to change.
The GPL3 addresses this loophole, but it was rejected for licensing the linux kernel because Torvalds sees no problem with tivoization. He feels that it's the company's device, so they can do whatever they like with it. The problem with that attitude is what happens when the unlocked hardware alternatives dwindle and you are left with machines running FOSS in name only.
Scary stuff.
Articles like this are a negative influence on the Linux community. They promote the stereotype that Linux users are paranoid and elitist. It's important to be concerned about security and individual rights in cyberspace, but when big businesses like Microsoft attempt to embrace FOSS, regardless of their own self-serving reasons, it can only be a step toward a more open technological environment.
"As much as we everyday Linux users would like to think Linux is ours, it's not. We're just the poor cousins who get to use it because of the GPL." This entitled attitude is the REAL CANCER. Open Source means you have the opportunity to make Linux whatever you want it to be. It does not entitle you to your own personal corporate staff to design the OS to your specifications.
As much as the author would prefer not to hear it, Linux belongs to Microsoft as much as it belongs to anyone else, and I'm glad they're working toward a partnership. Maybe one day, I won't need WINE anymore.
> "when big businesses like Microsoft attempt to embrace FOSS, regardless of their own self-serving reasons, it can only be a step toward a more open technological environment."
In a perfect world, maybe.
There are lots of ways to pervert and weaken the freedoms of FOSS. Microsoft repeatedly proves it can not be trusted…even today. This is not paranoid rambling or outdated fanboyism. Trust Microsoft at your peril.
When they start releasing stuff under the GPL3 or Affero licenses and promise patent protection for end users, they might have a leg to stand on. Until then, it's just a bunch of hot air and marketing (oops, that was redundant).
J.A. Watson
Microsoft has said it themselves.
"Embrace, extend and extinguish"
Those who willfully forget or ignore this do a great disservice to the Linux community.
@JAWatson re:
> "As much as we everyday Linux users would like to think Linux is ours, it's not. We're just the poor cousins who get to use it because of the GPL." This entitled attitude is the REAL CANCER. Open Source means you have the opportunity to make Linux whatever you want it to be. It does not entitle you to your own personal corporate staff to design the OS to your specifications.
I call BS. Microsoft has a long-standing reputation and came close to being charged under the RICO act for abuse of licensing authority by extortionate means (first locking the target company into a Non-Disclosure Agreement while threatening with legal action, then, after the signing of said NDA is done, revealing 'trivial' patent claims (fat16) and even non-applicable claims). The corporations then face a 'shakedown' for money to settle patent infringement, but because of the NDA can never reveal the true nature of the claims made by MS. Very sneaky, very misleading, very evil.
The legal under-handed maneuvers of Microsoft remain legend but not forgotten. The 'innuendo' that Linux is patent encumbered by some 230+ MS patents was 'alleged' but no details of such were 'ever' furnished. It was an attempt to throw off would-be CIOs from even thinking about Linux in the data center.
W. Anderson
If Microsoft is so much in love with Linux as part of their "heterogeneous" Cloud Computing solutions with Azure, according to Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of Linux Foundation, then Mr. Zemlin can explain why Microsoft has not withdrawn it spurious claim that Linux infringes the company's software Patents, without ever providing any documented, verifiable proof of such claim.
Steven V-Nichols should not be parroting Zemlin in all these Microsoft propaganda efforts, particularly since it has been reported by reliable sources that Mr. Zemlin is soon to be an employee of Microsoft, and thus carries no credibility or integrity in the Microsoft loves Linux crass marketing ploy.
Zemlin even had the gall and temerity a few years ago to insist that the Linux community should respect Microsoft. In most every circumstance of early learning of which I am aware, including my own, those that want respect must earn it. It cannot be demanded by anyone, including the slavish Jim Zemlin.
Zemlin said. "This is just the beginning of what we expect to be a long and successful partnership."
What is the procedure to get Jim Zemlin fired?
There used to be a web site that detailed the dirty tricks that Microsoft has used since its inception to get where it is today. Unhappily, I can't find it anymore. I presume that MS eventually used its weight to have the site removed. It would be great if that info could somehow be resurrected. Then newer computer users could understand why many of us old-timers wouldn't trust Microsoft as far as we could toss a caber. And at our age, that's not very far.
Dave Lane
Petrus – I've often referred people to this: https://web.archive.org/web/20050706063445/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html (now only available on Archive.org – thank goodness for their amazing archiving efforts!)
R Clark
As soon as M$ bases its primary system on Linux (with a Windows like GUI for the Windows people), or it completely puts it Windows platform in the public domain under BSD or the GPL3 license, then I will have to say 'M$ really embraces Linux'. Until then I am a total skeptic.
McSinyx
Guys, Linux Foundation has already done sth evil: Tizen and Tizen SDK. The SDK is closed-source and a part of Tizen is released under Flora License 'granting patents to "Tizen Certified Platform" only'. IMO, the Foundation only cares about the development and usage of the Linux kernel (and maybe how to make money out of it), not about the FLOSS things.
Cory Hilliard
Those of us old enough to remember, remember reading the articles and news about the mafia-like tactics that Microsoft used to kill, maim or destroy any opposing force it came against. Dietrich T. Schmitz used a good word when he said, "Carnage". What's weird is, I can't find a single story on any of it when doing Google searches which is crazy, but I remember them.
Microsoft is still Bill's company. Nutella is the next Ballmer. They have 30 years of bloody history to undo if they're going to win people over.
This is exactly why Richard M. Stallman has a name, why Linus Torvalds has a name. They are building products that are free! I always argue that Linux should just be called Linux, because it's a forked project from the project that RMS has and should have the freedom to be called whatever it wants to be called, even if it uses GNU software. But this is exactly where RMS shines most… the GPL license. I think the GPL is his best creation. 1000 years from now, I hope that the GPL allows freedom fighters to still fight against the tyranny of money.
For the hobbyist I guess it doesn't matter. Even though that statement bothers me. The reason I started using linux, apache, mysql and perl was because it was free and I could not afford the Microsoft products as a hobbyist. Nor did I like the "exclusive" attitude when trying to crack the glass ceiling.
ybnrmalatall
The only thing I care about is the open sourcing DirextX… I mean since developers are complete asswiped morons these days.
You people constantly piss & moan about Microsoft, but how does it improve your lot in life? And more importantly, how does it promote FOSS, the supposed purpose of this web site.
If you are serious about true open source, then you should give support to OpenBSD; support a hackathon, do something constructive , other than piss & moan.
It turns out that Microsoft is doing more to implement security mitigations in its code libraries than Linux is; there are many *BSD sources out there discussing this very fact. Microsoft is not the big evil; the big evil is ignorance.
@Richard Thorton You're barking up the wrong tree, my friend.
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As for BSD… As far as I know, FOSS Force is the only tech news site that has a regular weekly column devoted entirely to covering BSD.
And when Microsoft makes a deal with the Linux Foundation to offer Linux certification, not only is that important news (it was covered extensively throughout the tech media), it's also a story deserving of some op/ed attention from FOSS media.
Richard Thornton is unfortunately very naive and ignorant about software security issues in regard Windows and comparison with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Operating Systems (OS) like Linux and BSD UNIX-like.
Since security and reliability have been major focus in the FOSS arena for many years particularly OPENBSD, TrustedBSD, Redhat Enterprise Linux and Suse Enterprise Linux, amoung others,in business and mission critical operations, the severe gap of robust security between Windows and FOSS become obvious and understandable, if one is educated and experienced in history of these OS, especially fact that modern Windows is basically upgrades of DEC VMS based Windows NT, and combined with reality that Microsoft had zero (o) expertise and/or experience in enterprise type Internet/Networking, and you can see clearly that Windows and Microsoft will always be in catch up and/or sucunding mode of others' achievements.
Ubfortunately, as one commenter has stated, most respondents on this and many other tech blogs, are totally ignorant of or too young to know all the deceitful actions and oppressive positions that Microsoft has taken against competitive technologies over the years, especially FOSS OS against which they cannot adequately compete in reliability, scalability/flexibility, robust security and Return on Investment (ROI) when they had erstwhile previously been able to undercut every one else.
> "It turns out that Microsoft is doing more to implement security mitigations in its code libraries than Linux is"
I disagree, but even if it were true it helps no one but Microsoft. Microsoft's code isn't free and open and Microsoft is just as likely to use security features AGAINST its customers as for them, in the name of protecting DRM and preserving a broken, outdated concept of software as property.
That's true – PCBSD, which is a Linux-like FreeBSD.
""It turns out that Microsoft is doing more to implement security mitigations in its code libraries than Linux is"
@Richard Actually, our weekly BSD column covers BSD in general and doesn't focus on a particular BSD OS.
Christine Hall can obviously deduce that Richard Thornton is ignorant about the FossForce BSD columns, and about the true nature of PC-BSD.
I would suggest that he, and most of the Microsoft dupes on this and several other forums, like ZDNet and TheRegister stick to those areas whe anf knowledge may not be so apparent.
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Lutheran North boys hoops off to a blistering hot start
By: Jason Carmel Davis | C&G Newspapers | Published January 17, 2020
Macomb Lutheran North's Colin Moldenhauer looks to make a play during a Jan. 7 win over Clinton Township Clintondale. The Mustangs, 6-0 at press time, have an average margin of victory of 14 points per game.
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Lutheran North boys basketball coach Jeff DeMasse looks on during the win over Clintondale. The Mustangs' next game is against Novi Detroit Catholic Central at 7 p.m. Jan. 23 on the road.
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — The Macomb Lutheran North boys basketball team hasn't been completely whole yet this season, but you wouldn't know it based on how the team has played.
At press time, the Mustangs were 6-0 overall. The team has an average margin of victory of 14 points per game and has allowed 44 points per contest.
Lutheran North coach Jeff DeMasse knows his team isn't a finished product, though.
"We've had spurts of playing really well and at other times — not so much. We've played really well defensively through these first six games, and that has made up for the lack of offense at times," DeMasse said. "We have been dealing with sickness and injuries, and haven't really had a chance to have all 12 boys at one time. So we are playing well, but as we move toward everyone being healthy we can play even better."
The Mustangs are putting up 58 points per game despite sporadic offensive droughts. DeMasse said the team has done a good job of creating and exploiting mismatches.
The focus, DeMasse said, has been on defense.
"We've been making the right adjustments and have picked up the defensive intensity in the third and fourth quarters of games," DeMasse said.
"We have seven seniors and they are our leaders. Four of them have been playing with me since their sophomore year and the other three played a lot last year, so we are more experienced this year than in the previous years. We have talent one through 12, and practices are intense and everyone pushes each other to be better."
Leading the way for the Mustangs has been seniors Caleb Hardies and Colin Moldenhauer.
Hardies leads the team in scoring and has a high basketball IQ, DeMasse said. Moldenhauer is a matchup nightmare for opposing teams, according to the coach. He have the size of a post player, but can handle the ball like a wing. DeMasse added that senior Brendan Herbst has given the team a spark off the bench.
"We haven't been 100% healthy, so we have been forced to go a little deeper (down our bench)," DeMasse said. "We have depth and each player is ready when they're called on."
Among the goals set by the team is a run at the Catholic High School League AA Division crown. The Mustangs will have to beat out Detroit Loyola, Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard and Dearborn Divine Child.
DeMasse said the division includes good teams that are coached very well, and he expects Lutheran North to give itself a shot at hanging a banner.
"I'm looking forward to getting into league play, and I'm confident we can compete at a very high level this year," DeMasse said. "In our league you can't afford to take a night off, so our preparation and work in practice will be key to our success."
Lutheran North's next game is against Novi Detroit Catholic Central at 7 p.m. Jan. 23 on the road.
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HMS Unswerving (P63) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong.  So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Unswerving.

Career
Unswerving carried out work-ups at end of 1943, then joined the 1st Flotilla in the Mediterranean, where she carried out patrols in the Aegean Sea.  She would eventually spend most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the German guardboats GN 61 and GN 62, the German tanker Bertha (the former French Bacchus) and six sailing vessels, and claimed to have damaged a seventh.  She was however unlucky on numerous occasions, unsuccessfully attacking the small German merchant Toni (the former Greek Thalia), the German auxiliary minelayer Zeus, the German transport Pelikan and her escort, the German torpedo boat TA19, and the German merchant Gertrud on two separate occasions.

Under the command of Lieutenant M. D. "Mick" Tattershall, Unswerving was the first British submarine where all the officers were members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve rather than any of them being officers of the regular navy.

Unswerving survived the war and arrived at John Cashmore Ltd, Newport on 10 July 1949 for scrapping.

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British U-class submarines
Ships built on the River Tyne
1943 ships
World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
Ships built by Vickers Armstrong

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It's hard to believe that it has been over a year since we lost actor James Gandolfini. The head of the Soprano's family on the hit HBO series, Gandolfini was beginning to show his range away from his New Jersey mafia persona with critically acclaimed films such as Enough Said and Zero Dark Thirty.
In death (Gandolfini died of a heart attack on June 19, 2013), his presence is as strong as ever and is showcased in the new drama/thriller, The Drop which gets its World Premiere here at the Toronto International Film Festival.


Download MP3 In today's episode Nate and Austin compare Francois Truffaut's best and worst rated films, The 400 Blows (1959) and Fahrenheit 451 (1966), respectively. Nate talks about the fight between the French and Austrian, Austin talks future tech, and they both try to look smart and fail. Check back next Sunday at 7pm PST where we will compare Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996) and A Life Less Ordinary (1997), his best and worst rated films.
Oskar Werner cut his hair for the final scene to purposely create a continuity error. This was due to his hatred for the director.
According to producer Lewis M. Allen, François Truffaut and Oskar Werner hated each other by the end of filming. For the last two weeks, they didn't speak to one another.
Author Ray Bradbury never did any fact-checking in regards to the title. He asked a fire chief what temperature book paper burned at, and was given the answer "451 degrees Fahrenheit." He liked the title so much, he didn't bother to see if it was the correct temperature. Actually, The Chief went to burn an actual book, because he didn't know the answer when Bradbury asked him; he read the temperature with a thermometer.
The location filming of the final sequence with the "Book People" took place in poor weather. It was hoped that the weather would improve for the final days of shooting. Instead, they discovered that it had begun snowing during the night. The filming of the final shots while it was snowing was an unplanned contribution to the film's memorable ending.
François Truffaut said that this was his only film in which he clashed with an actor - Oskar Werner. Truffaut asked Werner to forgo heroics and act with a level of modesty, but Werner chose to play it with arrogance. Truffaut disliked the stilted performance Werner gave and insisted he play it like a monkey discovering books for the first time, sniffing at them, wondering what they are; Werner argued that a science fiction film called for a robotic-like performance.
Producer Lewis M. Allen said the studio's legal department requested that only books in the public domain be shown burning for fear of being sued by offended authors. Director François Truffaut and Allen ignored the request, believing that anyone would be flattered to have their book included.
François Truffaut reportedly said that he found science fiction films uninteresting and arbitrary. Because of this, a friend of his told him the story of Ray Bradbury's novel 'Fahrenheit 451'. Immediately afterward, Truffaut wanted to make a film from the novel and subsequently spent years raising the financing.
PLOT: Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
All the young actors who unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Antoine were used in the classroom scenes.
So pleased with Jean-Pierre Léaud and his screen test (an informal conversation with the film's director being off-camera), François Truffaut doctored it into the finished film by using fade-outs and substituting his voice with off-camera female psychiatrist's voice.
The English title of the movie "400 Blows" is a gross misinterpretation of the original title. The Finnish and Swedish translations of the title, roughly translatable to "400 practical jokes" are closer to the original meaning, albeit not perfect. The Swedish title: "De 400 slagen" means "The 400 blows" and make no sense. The original title stems from the French expression "Faire les quatre cents coups", meaning "to live a wild life", as the main character does. Literal translation of the expression would be "to do the 400 dirty tricks".
Jean-Pierre Leaud's answers to the questions given to him by the psychologist at the camp near the end of the film were not scripted. Francois Truffaut told Leaud in advance about the scene for what to expect to a certain extent, and did provide some minor coaching when Leaud answered the question in between takes as to what was working and what was not, but at large, Leaud's answers are unscripted and ad-libbed, per Truffaut's wishes, who wanted the scene to feel spontaneous and believable.
The title of the film comes from the French idiom "faire les quatre cents coups", meaning "to raise hell".
All spoken lines in the film are dubbed over again by the actors themselves, save for a few minor and trivial parts. For instance, during the last scene, the sound of Antoine's footsteps was added during editing - the truck that the camera rested upon produced too much noise. Shooting on the streets of Paris, as many films of the French New Wave did, was often hectic and re-dubbing everything allowed François Truffaut to not have to worry about lugging bulky and expensive sound equipment around, and more importantly he would not have to worry about a street scene having too much background noise. This made shooting faster and easier.
François Truffaut's first major motion picture.


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Maps, lakes and citizens
HARINI NAGENDRA
URBANIZATION is increasingly emerging as one of the most significant drivers of global environmental change.1 The impacts of city growth are especially noticeable in India, where urban landscapes have grown at unprecedented rates over the last two decades, converting a predominantly rural population to one which is rapidly becoming dominated by city dwellers. Bengaluru, India's third largest city with a population of over six million and a decadal growth rate of 38% between 1991-2001,2 is a case in point, providing a characteristic example of rapid expansion at the expense of natural ecosystems.
While Bengaluru has undoubtedly experienced an explosion in growth in recent decades, the settlements around the city have a recorded history that dates at least as far back as the 5th century CE.3 Urban settlements, however, made their first appearance only in the 16th century when it was established as the capital of the local king Kempe Gowda's kingdom.4 These settlements, along with the surrounding agricultural landscape that sustained their presence, required the availability of a continuous supply of fresh water. However, unlike many other old settlements, the city of Bengaluru was located in the rain shadow of the Deccan hills, and lacked the presence of a large river to provide fresh water.5 Fortunately, the undulating topography of this region gives rise to a number of small streams, which were dammed to form a multiple series of tanks throughout the larger region.6 Inscriptions found near the lakes indicate that some of them date at least as far back as the 5th century.7
Indeed, for those of us living in concrete dominated city environments today, the network of lakes in the Bengaluru area was unimaginably dense. In 1830, for instance, a mind boggling 19,800 lakes were recorded in the surrounding region of Mysore.8 The surface water provided by these lakes earlier constituted over 50% of the water supply of Bengaluru.9 Yet this lake network now lies disrupted and in decay, with many lakes converted to urban land uses, and others polluted and choking with waste, or completely dry and weed infested.
Over the past three years, we have been engaging with the Greater Bengaluru Municipal Corporation, or the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), in an effort to understand how lakes can be managed and restored for urban use, while still maintaining their significance for conservation. An examination of the traditional uses of these lakes, their ecology, and structure is helpful in understanding how it may be possible to develop urban oriented, yet ecologically and socially inclusive, lake restoration plans.
The original network of lakes in Bengaluru was created by checking the flow of rainwater through earthen embankments along a topographic gradient, such that the outflow of water from a lake at a higher level supplied water to the lakes at a lower level through canals.10 Lakes were linked through a web of canals or kaluves, connected to the surrounding agricultural wetland landscape. They ranged in size from small ponds (kuntes or donnes) less than a hectare, used for cattle washing and drinking, to extensive large lakes (keres) of hundreds of hectares in area, used for agriculture, fishing, drinking water and domestic uses.11 All were rain fed. The small and medium tanks were seasonal; only large tanks were perennial.
Lake ecologies were connected to and maintained by human management in a closely linked social-ecological system. Wetlands, orchards and agricultural fields surrounded the lake, and were in turn irrigated by water from open wells that were dependent on the groundwater table recharged by nearby lakes. Water was used for drinking, for domestic purposes such as washing, and to replenish the groundwater table. In the monsoon, rain water overflowed from lakes into adjacent wetlands, and was used for agriculture. When water levels began to recede, cattle grazed on the wetlands, which were largely designated as gomala – common property wetlands where community grazing took place. There was extensive fishing in the wetlands and lakes. Idols were immersed in the tanks during festivals.
The wetland-agricultural-grazing-orchard landscape surrounding the lake acted as a natural watershed basin to recharge the lake with fresh precipitation. Since most lakes were seasonal, and pollution levels were low, it was easy to control siltation. The silt was extracted annually in the smaller lakes, and every few years for the large lakes in the dry season, for use by local communities as inputs into agriculture.12 These lakes also constituted important sacred spaces, and many important local religious festivals were initiated or concluded at local lakes.13 Critical for conservation, lakes also supported a range of important local flora and fauna, including a rich diversity of birds, insects and aquatic life.
As the city began to import piped water from the Cauvery river in the early 20th century, lakes lost their importance as suppliers of fresh water, and instead started being blamed for a host of ills such as flooding and malaria. Many of the city's lakes were drained and converted to other land uses, including bus stands, golf courses, malls and residential areas.14 With urbanization, much of the wetland agricultural landscape around lakes has been converted to impervious concreted surfaces. Instead of rainwater precipitation, sewage and effluents fill the few lakes that remain, converting them from seasonal to perennial ecosystems and drastically altering their biodiversity. Most surviving lakes are heavily polluted with sewage and industrial waste and have significantly reduced water levels. Due to the disruption of this previously well-planned and maintained extensive network into a few isolated and disconnected lakes, significant flooding is often reported in the monsoon season.15
The change from agrarian to urban land use has moved in parallel with changes in lake management and administration. Historically, lakes were managed by the village communities living adjacent to the lake, sometimes with financial support from the kings.16 Specific families and communities were designated to maintain lake canals, bunds and desilting, and specific groups were given permission to use the lake for fishing, collection of fodder, agriculture, washing of clothes and so on.17 These specialized, locally varying and adaptive roles played by different communities were gradually replaced by formal governance structures imposed by the Mysore princely state and British government agencies.18 Later, a bewildering array of government departments became involved with aspects of lake management, with overlapping jurisdictions. These included the Department of Minor Irrigation, Department of Fisheries, Ecology and Environment Department, Karnataka Forest Department, Lake Development Authority, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and the Bangalore Development Authority.19
In 1983, in response to increased public concern about the condition of lakes in the city, the state government constituted an expert committee to investigate this issue. The recommendations of this committee, popularly known as the Laxman Rao Committee, led to the transfer of administration of most of the city's lakes to the Karnataka State Forest Department.20 While this resulted in the survey, fencing and protection of several of the city's lakes, the situation continued to deteriorate.
In 2002, the Lake Development Authority was constituted as an autonomous body responsible for the maintenance and restoration of lakes in Bengaluru.21 The LDA attempt to implement new public-private-partnership (PPP) approaches to lake management met with widespread resistance from civil society, environmentalists and activist groups, and resulted in a number of public interest litigations which have for the time being arrested this process. Currently, lake governance is in the process of being consolidated, with the BBMP assuming responsibility for the maintenance of a majority of the lakes within city limits, along with the LDA and BDA which continue to manage a small number of lakes.
Currently, there are about 210 lakes located within the administrative boundary of greater Bengaluru.22 Given the terrible condition of most of these lakes, the BBMP and BDA are planning large-scale restoration and rejuvenation programmes. These need to be carefully designed. Although these lakes are of human origin, they have over centuries acquired natural characteristics and become nature preserves. Yet their transformation into urban landscaped spaces is perhaps the most significant change in their recent history. While these lakes are undoubtedly critical sources of water supply, and important nature preserves, they also form vital social spaces in a cramped, concrete dominated city environment.
Given the high levels of socio-economic, cultural and linguistic diversity in the city, lakes can become contested public spaces, especially in locations such as Bengaluru, whose historic use and design have changed over time. For instance, for many of the earlier inhabitants of the city, lakes continue to have a significant role in religious and sacred rituals23 – but with increasing urbanization they also play a new role as urban recreational spaces, and locations for reconnecting with 'nature' in the city.24
Although lake restoration programmes have been undertaken in the past, they have not only been expensive but lake condition has often deteriorated soon after in many cases. Restoration has often been piecemeal – one lake is treated, but the upstream and downstream lakes remain polluted, and kaluves continue to be blocked, so the lake soon returns to its original polluted condition. Lake dredging is largely based on considerations of engineering and cost, with lakes dredged in a u-shaped bowl. Yet most of these lakes have a completely different profile, with deep water storage areas near the downstream bund, and shallow water storage in the upstream areas.
Waterspread areas of the lake have been encroached upon to create water intensive, ornamental gardens and play areas, and extensive plantations of water hungry species such as Acacia auriculiformis, casuarina, eucalyptus and silver oak have been planted around several lakes, drying up the water table. There is a clear need to treat each lake as a unique individual entity, with its own appropriate method of restoration based on the size of the lake, its drainage pattern with reference to the sub-watershed in which it is located, the land use and vegetation in the periphery, the biodiversity, and current patterns of human use.
A number of urban researchers, naturalists and concerned citizens have engaged in extensive discussions with the BBMP over the past three years, seeking to develop guiding principles for lake restoration and management that are geared towards conservation in urban environments, while paying attention to the need for urban recreation, social inclusion, maintenance of cultural diversity, and providing space for traditional livelihoods and the urban poor.
In one lake in Bengaluru, the Kaikondanahalli lake, which is located on Sarjapur road at the south-eastern periphery of the city, a group of interested and committed local citizens formed the Kaikondanahalli Kere Abhivruddhe Samasthe (the Kaikondanahalli lake development organization), interfacing with the BBMP to develop an integrated plan for lake restoration that incorporates attention to conservation, water rejuvenation, urban recreation, and socio-economic requirements of a wide strata of society. This group not only includes a diversity of representation from original inhabitants of peri-urban villages around the lake and from recently built high-end apartments and residential layouts, but also incorporates considerations of engineering, ecology, education, communication, and governance.
Once heavily polluted with sewage from nearby residential areas, this lake has now been restored by dredging the basin to remove silt, diverting sewage, restoring the bund, and planting a rich variety of locally suited, biodiversity friendly trees and plants around the periphery. Based on inputs from this group, the lake waterspread area has been maintained during rejuvenation to the maximum possible extent without uprooting existing trees, and a walkway created around the lake which avoids the marshy, biodiversity rich southern end.
Taking into account the requirements of cattle owning households from the nearby peri-urban villages, a separate path has been created to allow cattle to approach the lake for a wash. At the western end, a children's playground has been designed in a location adjacent to a nearby school for children from less wealthy, peripheral city areas. This play area will serve a dual purpose, with the children from the school utilizing it during weekdays, while enabling access to lake visitors during mornings, evenings and weekends.
Based on this experience, the group has also developed guidelines to facilitate a larger rejuvenation programme aimed at restoring and conserving a network of lakes in south-eastern Bengaluru. What are the guiding principles that we can follow? Lakes have different uses and benefits, and there are synergies and trade-offs between these factors. Instead of valuing one benefit, e.g. water recharge, or bird diversity, above all other factors, an integrated approach needs to be followed that incorporates a proper consideration of all these different factors.
Groundwater recharging constitutes probably the most critical use of lakes in water-starved Bengaluru. In addition, however, lakes act as green spaces, lung spaces and areas for micro-climate control. Consequently, many previous lake restoration programmes have converted part of the waterspread area into islands, gardens and tree parks – a well-meaning exercise that unfortunately results in reduction of the primary benefit of the lake as a body for storage of fresh water.
Lakes also act as an important refuge for birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, planktons, and other water and wildlife. Over 140 species of birds, 66 forms of phytoplankton, 62 forms of zooplankton, 16 species of amphibians and 41 species of fish inhabit Bengaluru's wetlands.25 For proper biodiversity support, it is important that lakes provide as many micro-habitats as possible. Thus, lakes should not be dredged in a u-shape, as happens in most current restoration programmes, but with a sloping basin having a deep and a shallow end, such that species adapted to different water depths can be supported.
In urban areas, given the serious dearth of large open spaces for exercise and recreation for both adults and children, paths have been provided around the lake periphery for walking, jogging and exercise, and with play areas for children. Unfortunately, this development of recreational areas has usually been at the expense of conservation. Thus, recommendations have been made that protection for the lake biodiversity be provided by keeping a buffer distance of 150-300m to separate the walkways, play areas and other areas of human use from lake habitat, and screening these areas from the lake by planting trees, bamboo, and tall shrubs. The marshy and shallow water section of each lake, where biodiversity levels are maximum, should also be separated from human disturbance, without walkways or play areas. Boating also creates severe disturbance to bird life, and should not be allowed.
Unfortunately, most lake restoration programmes pay little or no attention to the traditional and current uses of lakes by local residents and the urban poor. While lakes constitute a public commons and should be accessible to all, several of the lakes in the city are now surrounded by private landowners and lack public access. Traditional uses of lakes include idol immersion, irrigation, domestic use, grazing, washing of cattle, and silt extraction. Lakes also constitute important religious and sacred spaces. Thus, sacred trees like the banyan and peepal should be protected where present around lakes. Further, there should be provision for washing of clothes and cattle washing in a confined upstream enclosure, without polluting the lake. Controlled harvesting of grass for grazing should be permitted at the marshy end, as this will prevent the lake from being encroached by grass.
Finally, governance processes for lake maintenance need to be clearly formulated. Lake monitoring and maintenance should involve local communities, elected representatives, government officials, schools and colleges, researchers and NGOs, and disadvantaged groups. Regular monitoring of water condition, pollution and biodiversity needs to be conducted across all lakes, and nearby schools and colleges should be involved in such studies, resulting in greater local awareness and involvement, as well as in building local scientific capacity.
Conservation in urban settings requires concerted, committed action from a number of sectors that takes into account principles of ecology, along with a proper recognition of the role played by nature in an urban setting, where recreation, access to greenery, and considerations of technical and economic feasibility must simultaneously incorporate the requirements of citizens from varied socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, the challenges of urban conservation remain severe. Collective action by a number of sectors, including the government, local citizens, researchers, NGOs, and business is required to make effective progress towards sustainable ecological and environmental planning. Yet, this is hard to achieve in the context of life in an urban environment, where the social, cultural, and linguistic heterogeneity, coupled with economic inequalities, make it particularly challenging to create social capital and facilitate collective action.
A series of 'design principles' outlining conditions that can facilitate successful collective management of natural resources were formulated by Elinor Ostrom.26 These include the need for the people affected by management of natural resources to provide some inputs into making rules related to their management; for regular monitoring of the resource and prompt punishment of offenders; and for people who maintain the resource to have the assurance that they will continue to have rights of management over the long-term. None of these hold true in the Indian city context.
Yet, the experiences in Bengaluru, and some other Indian cities indicate that sustained engagement by citizens can result in change. While the progress achieved may not be optimum or ideal, it does represent a step forward, and the social capital and potential for collective action that has been built can be capitalized on for future urban conservation initiatives. After many decades of neglect, lake management in Bengaluru shows some signs of hope. If citizens of Bengaluru can mobilize the administrative and political will to sustain these programmes at a larger scale, then there is truly some hope for a green urban future.
* The author greatly appreciates inputs provided by the BBMP Chief Engineer (Lakes) and his team, M.B. Krishna, S. Subramanya, Ramesh Sivaraman, Gladwin Joseph, Rohan D'Souza, Priya Ramasubban and Vinay Sreenivasa during multiple discussions on Bengaluru's lakes. Funding for these activities was provided by a Ramanujan Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, and is gratefully acknowledged.
1. N.B. Grimm and S.H. Faeth, N.E. Golubiewski, C.L. Redman, J. Wu, X. Bai and J.M. Briggs, 'Global Change and the Ecology of Cities', Science 319, 2008, 756-760.
2. H.S. Sudhira, T.V. Ramachandra and H.S. Bala Subrahmanya, 'City Profile: Bangalore', Cities 24, 2007, 379-390.
3. B.L. Rice, Epigraphica Carnatica Volume IX: Inscriptions in the Bangalore District. Mysore Government Central Press, Bangalore, 1905.
4. B.L. Rice, Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government, revised edition, volume II – Mysore, by districts. Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, UK, 1897(b).
5. B.L. Rice, Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government, revised edition, volume I – Mysore in General. Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster, UK, 1897(a); S. Srinivas, Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City. Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2004.
6. B.L. Rice, 1897(a), ibid.
7. B.L. Rice, 1905, op cit.; T.V. Annaswamy, Bengaluru to Bangalore: Urban History of Bangalore From the Pre-historic Period to the End of the 18th Century. Vengadam Publications, Bangalore, 2003.
8. B.N. Sundara Rao, Bengalurina Itihasa (A History of Bangalore). Vasanta Sahitya Granthamala, Bangalore, 1985.
9. S.U. Kamath, Karnataka State Gazetteer: Bangalore District. Lotus Printers, Bangalore, 1990.
10. B.L. Rice, 1897(a), op cit.
11. F. Buchanan, A Journey From Madras Through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar. Volume I, reprinted in 1999. Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, 1807.
12. F. Buchanan, 1807, ibid.; BBMP, Namma Bengaluru Nisarga: An Action Plan for Development of Bangalore's Lakes. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, Bangalore, 2010.
13. S. Srinivas, 2004, op cit.
14. K. Gowda and M.V. Sridhara, 'Conservation of Tanks/Lakes in the Bangalore Metropolitan Area', Management of Environmental Quality 18, 2007, 137-151; BBMP, 2010, op cit.
15. BBMP, 2010, op cit.
17. F. Buchanan, 1807, op cit.; B.L. Rice, 1897(a), op cit.
18, S.U. Kamath, 1990, op cit.
19. K. Gowda and M.V. Sridhara, 2007, op cit.
24. J. Nair, The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
25. M.B. Krishna, B.K. Chakrapani and T.K. Srinivasa, Water Birds and Wetlands of Bangalore: A Report on the Status, Water Quality, Plankton and Birds of the Lakes in and Around Bangalore and Maddur, Karnataka, India. Birdwatchers' Field Club of Bangalore and Bangalore Urban Division, Karnataka State Forest Department, 1996.
26. E. Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2005.


We have a number of FAS2040 with AutoSupport disabled, which is how we want it. Periodically they raise the following alarms "Autosupport is not configured to send to NetApp. Enabling Autosupport can significantly speed problem determination and resolution should a problem occur on your system. For further information on Autosupport, please see: http://now.netapp.com/autosupport/". This is sent out as a trap to the NMS. I could get the alarm to be ignored by NMS however, can the alarm be stopped on the FAS2040?
Search KB, there was hidden option to disable these warnings.


Q: My hens are a bit flighty. Will handling them calm them down? What is the best way to do this?
Much depends on the breed. Some are normally docile and don't mind being handled, but these are generally not the best layers. Good layers which have more active (flighty) breeds in them naturally wish to keep out of the way. They will indeed tame down if handled regularly and this is important as a health check as well since any weight loss or gain cannot be seen but only felt. Handling does need to be done correctly so that they are not scared and sit comfortably in your hand. Begin by lifting one hen gently off her perch with both hands around wings and body, facing you. Do this in the dark or nearly dark so you can see enough to do so; a torch will scare them. Then slide your left hand (if right-handed) under her, palm up, spread your fingers and get her legs securely squeezed between your fingers with the body of the hen being in the palm of your hand and facing you - this avoids poo in your pocket! Do not squeeze the body as this will interrupt her breathing. With your now free right hand, feel her pin bones either side of her vent. This is where the fat is kept, so a good layer will have sharpish pin bones an egg-width apart. Her breast muscle can be assessed by your left palm: give her a condition score (1-5, 1=anorexic, 5=obese, thus 3 is good). When finished, reverse the process and gently place her back on her perch, supporting her until she gets her balance and settles down. Once your hens are familiar with the process, a fishing net is indispensable for catching any type of hen during daylight, then continue with the leg-holding and palm placement; under the tail is a good place to look for parasites, for example.


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The brain game helps your kids and also elders to learn, to distinguish between different colours and improve their skills and the memory. One can sharpen their minds just by playing this game. Many people have gained benefits from the game.


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I found this animation earlier called Vaesen earlier this year. It's a bachelor film project from The Animation Workshop and it's amazingly beautiful. The story is timeless and simple, a prince seeks a McGuffin to save his dying father, but beautifully told using only sounds and animation, no words. Find a spare 6 minutes and watch this!
Watch these guys... beautiful things are going to come from them.


Hungry and fool. The Beatles.
This artwork consists of 4 paintings, each 20 cm x 20 cm, 4 cm thickness. The outlines of each of the four works are painted with colored circles, like those of the famous works by Damien Hirst, and they are the frames of these works. Therefore it is a work with integrated frame, ready to hang.
The picture shows the cover of the Beatles album, Let It Be.
This artwork is part of a series of portraits that I am realizing inspired by the words Steve Jobs said during the famous speech at the Stanford University "stay hungry, stay foolish."
In particular, for this painting of the Beatles I chose "let it be" with reference to the song: To reach your goal, when you face obstacles you just let everything take its course.
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Beatty baseball drops doubleheader in Tonopah
The Beatty and Tonopah high school baseball teams both compete in the Class 1A Central League, but Tuesday's doubleheader in Tonopah was not part of the league schedule.
Jo Eason/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times Beatty's Austin McKenzie slides safely into home under the tag of Tonopah's Vance Day during Tuesday's doubleheader in Tonopah. The Muckers won both games by scores of 13-8 and 21-7.
Jo Eason/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times Tonopah's Brayden Tisue tags out a Beatty baserunner during Tuesday's doubleheader in Tonopah. Tisue stole 10 bases as the Muckers swept the Hornets, 13-8 and 21-7.
And that's just fine with the Hornets, who dropped both games of the doubleheader.
In the opener, Austin McKenzie went 3-for-3 with a double, a home run and 3 RBIs, but it wasn't enough as the Muckers rebounded from surrendering a 7-3 lead and posted a 13-8 victory.
Jacob Henry, Brayden Lynn and Moises Gonzalez each had 2 hits for the Hornets, while Henry matched McKenzie with 3 RBIs. Henry, McKenzie and Fabian Perez each scored twice.
The Hornets had their hands full with Kobe Bunker, who went 3-for-3 with 3 triples, driving in 4 runs and scoring 3. Bunker was the only player with more than 1 RBI for the Muckers, who were outhit 13-11.
But Tonopah pitchers had better control, walking 4 to Beatty's 6, and struck out more batters, 10-7. And the Muckers were much more effective on the basepaths, stealing 17 bases to 3 for the Hornets. Brayden Tisue stole 5 bases for Tonopah, while Braxton Barker stole 4 and Derek Eason stole 3.
Beatty's defense made only 2 errors, but they were important, as 4 of the 7 runs allowed by Perez in 4 innings of relief were unearned.
The second game saw Beatty jump out to a 6-1 lead midway through the second inning, but Tonopah erupted for 9 runs in the bottom of the second, 4 in the third and 7 more in the fourth to put away the Hornets 21-7 in five innings.
Again, Bunker was Beatty's nemesis, this time on the mound as well as at the plate. The senior pitched 3 hitless innings in relief, striking out 6 and walking 2. Meanwhile, he tripled twice, driving in 5 runs and scoring 3. Vance Day, who struggled as the starting pitcher for Tonopah, drove in 4 runs with 2 triples and scored twice.
McKenzie again was the top offensive player for the Hornets, going 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs and scoring a run. Perez and Ryan Poynter had the other hits for Beatty, while McKenzie and Perez each stole 2 bases.
That last statistic was a big advantage for the Muckers, who stole 24 bases without getting caught. Tisue again had 5 steals, while Anthony Gromis had 4 stolen bases. Braxton Barker added 3, while four other players had 2 apiece.
The Muckers, who have won four consecutive games, will bring a 9-5 record into today's home game against Eureka, while the Hornets (5-7) are off until an April 25 game against Democracy Prep in Las Vegas.
Beatty and Tonopah will play twice more this season, with a doubleheader scheduled for April 29 in Beatty. Those games, which will count in the Central League standings, were rescheduled because of poor weather March 22.
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Pahrump Connie Mack 14U team rallies to tie, loses in 9th
A brutal summer for Pahrump youth baseball ended Wednesday when the Trojans 14U team was eliminated from the Connie Mack Baseball State Tournament.
Preseason workouts underway for Pahrump Valley boys soccer
The Pahrump Valley High School boys soccer team ended a decade-long playoff drought in dramatic fashion last fall.
Lee Canyon announces fundraiser for injured athletes raised more than $20,000
While Lee Canyon's location seven climate zones above the desert floor keeps summer guests cool and comfortable, those who have been injured negotiating the slopes during the winter are never far from the minds of management, employees and guests.
Souza's Bucking Bulls returning to Tonopah rodeo
Ask Manuel Souza what is most important about the rodeos his Souza's Bucking Broncos puts on, and he's quick to answer.
Ex-Trojan Sandoval getting back on wrestling mats at Ottawa University
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series catching up with Pahrump Valley High School graduates who are continuing their athletic careers in college.
Jones, Musial, Bulac win Pahrump Valley Open Inferno at Lakeview
Deron Jones remembers playing in the Pahrump Valley Open Inferno in the past, when it was an annual event at Lakeview Executive Golf Course.
Pahrump youth baseball teams have rough weekend in Las Vegas
It was a rough weekend for Pahrump baseball teams, as two of them traveled to Las Vegas for postseason tournaments and came back 0-2 in the double-elimination events.


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RAM Ratings has reaffirmed the respective AA3/Stable and A1/Stable ratings of AEON Credit Service (M) Berhad's (AEON Credit or the Company) Senior and Subordinated Sukuk Wakalah Programme as well as the P1 rating of its RM1 billion Islamic CP Programme. The reaffirmation is premised on our expectation of ready extraordinary support from AEON Credit's ultimate parent, AEON Co., Ltd (the Group), and immediate holding company, AEON Financial Service Co. Ltd. The Group is a Japan-based leading retail and financial services group in Asia Pacific.
Our rating action also considers the Company's established franchise in the Malaysian consumer finance market, strong earnings and moderate gearing. Given its significant exposure to low-income borrowers, the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will likely affect the Company's asset quality indicators in the near future. However, AEON Credit's sturdy earnings, even after considering possible erosion, are expected to constitute sufficient buffer against potentially higher credit losses.
AEON Credit's low-income customers are susceptible to adverse changes in economic conditions, especially in the current testing period when more companies are implementing wage cuts and unemployment is edging up (4.7% in August 2020 vs average of 3.3% in 2019). Although the six-month loan repayment moratorium introduced by BNM does not apply to AEON Credit, it had deferred loan repayments for April and May as the disruption of collections due to the Movement Control Order had partly resulted in a heightened credit cost of 4.6% (annualised) for 1H FYE Feb 2021 (FYE Feb 2020: 3.4%).
Repayments subsequently resumed in June 2020 and the Company has launched the AEON Relief Programme to help customers settle the two months' due. Due to the pre-emptive provisioning of RM134 mil which AEON Credit has made in 1H FYE Feb 2021, gross impaired financing coverage was a higher 417% as at end-August 2020 (end-February 2019: 331%) and will probably remain elevated in the foreseeable future.
Despite a reduced pre-tax profit of RM390 mil in FYE Feb 2020 (FYE Feb 2019: RM472 mil) owing to higher impairment charges, AEON Credit's respective return on assets and return on equity of 4.1% and 25.6% in that period are still among the highest in RAM's portfolio of domestic non-bank financial institutions. The Company's strong profitability is anchored on robust net interest margins (FYE Feb 2020: 11.9%) that make up for its riskier lending profile. In 1H FYE Feb 2021, modification loss of RM28 mil and hefty impairment charges slashed its pre-tax profit by one-third to RM114 mil. Looking ahead, the Company's earnings are likely to be squeezed by potentially higher impairment charges over the next few quarters, although the deterioration is expected to be manageable.
AEON Credit's gearing ratio (adjusted for fair value of hedging reserves) is still deemed moderate at 4.9 times as at end-August 2020 (end-February 2020: 5.1 times). Although AEON Credit is inherently dependent on external borrowings to fund its operations, its debt maturities are well spread out while cash balances and unutilised credit facilities were sufficient to cover 2.9 times its short-term borrowings as at end-August 2020.
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SPACE: Helping Kids with Anxiety
by: Melanie Christopher
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – According to the National Institutes of Health, the numbers of kids and adolescents struggling with anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions have been steadily on the rise. Cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches the child coping skills, and medication may help. But for some kids and their families, there is little relief. Now, researchers are studying a new method that helps parents help their children.
Bedtime for some families can become a struggle. But when the goodnight routine for Nicole Murphy's son began to stretch for up to three hours, she knew she needed help with his separation anxiety.
"His little mind was always racing nonstop. So, it was kind of hard for him to shut that off, I think," Nicole explained.
Eli Lebowitz, PhD, Psychologist, Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center, and his colleagues, developed a method of training parents to support anxious children. It's called SPACE, or supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions. Parents go through training to help their child face anxiety. Lebowitz says the first step is to show support and not downplay what their child is feeling.
"I get it. This is really hard, but I know you can handle it," shared Dr. Lebowitz.
Lebowitz says parents also learn to help their child by not accommodating them. For example, a parent who would limit visitors for a child who gets anxious around strangers or speaks for a child who gets nervous speaking, learns not to take those steps. In a study of 124 kids and their parents, the Yale researchers examined whether SPACE intervention was effective in treating children's anxiety.
"Even though the children never met directly with the therapist and all the work was done through the parents, we found that SPACE was just as effective as CBT in treating childhood anxiety disorders," stated Dr. Lebowitz.
The Murphy's used the techniques learned through SPACE to coach their son through bedtime. Within a few weeks, he was falling asleep in 30 minutes.
"For us, it was like life changing, honestly," smiled Nicole.
For more information about SPACE or to find a practitioner in your state, visit spacetreatment.net.
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Major Ripley Arnold Monumental
Major Ripley Arnold Monumental Statue Dedication Ceremony
At last, Brevet Maj. Ripley A. Arnold receives fitting tribute: The Unveiling of the Major Ripley Allen Arnold Monument and the Dedication of the John V. McMillian Plaza took place on Friday 6 June 2014 @ 10:00 am on the banks of the Trinity River.
In a Friday morning ceremony that was both moving and educational, Fort Worth reconnected with its past, honored its long and significant contributions to military history and finally paid tribute to its founder and a cherished modern-day leader.
On the banks of the Trinity River, below the bluff where the original Camp Worth was built, hundreds gathered for the unveiling of the 22-foot Major Ripley Allen Arnold Monument and the dedication of John V. McMillan Plaza.
Arnold, actually a brevet major, established a military post here 165 years ago on June 6, 1849, and named it for his former commander, Brevet Maj. Gen. Williams Jenkins Worth.
ARNOLD, RIPLEY ALLEN (1817–1853). Ripley Allen Arnold, United States Army officer, the son of Willis Arnold, was born at Pearlington, near Bay St. Louis, in Hancock County, Mississippi, on January 17, 1817, and was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1834.
Arnold was killed at Fort Graham on September 6, 1853, by Josephus Murray Steiner, in an exchange of shots. Arnold was first buried at Fort Graham, then disinterred and removed to Fort Worth, where he was buried in the Pioneer's Rest Cemetery, within a mile of old Fort Worth and near the graves of his two infant daughters. He was said to have received the first Masonic rites ever performed in Fort Worth. His diary and personal papers were destroyed by fire at the Fort Worth home of one of his granddaughters.
Several Dignitaries were in attendance at the dedication ceremony in addition to several local and historical associations. See Slide Show below: Among those in attendance:
Comanche Indian Veterans Association
NAS Fort Worth JRB Joint Color Guard
The Sovo Family Singers
Calvary Christian Academy Dragoons
Air National Guard Band of the Southwest
Kenneth Barr - Former Mayor of Fort Worth
Clara Ruddell and Quentin McGown - Historians
Pete Geren - Former Secretary of the Army
Captain Gil Miller - Commanding Officer , NAS Fort Worth JRB
Congresswoman Kay Granger
Betsy Price - Mayor, City of Fort Worth
Keller Masonic Lodge was chartered on 4 December, 1913. Brethren of Keller Masonic Lodge support several worthwhile charities as part of their work. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have regarding Freemasonry.
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