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January 02, 2018

Decline in conditional scholarship awards at U.S. law schools since 2011

Jerry Organ (St. Thomas) collects the data.  The decline in the applicant pool during this time has presumably put prospective students in a stronger negotiating position, which probably explains the decline in the offers of scholarships contingent on academic performance.

January 2, 2018 in Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Student Advice | Permalink

September 25, 2017

The law school monopoly myth (Michael Simkovic)

It is often assumed that the only way to become a lawyer is to attend an ABA-approved law school.  That is true in some states and, indeed, the ABA has at times expressed the view that it should be true in all states.  But it is not the case in large jurisdictions such as New York or California, nor is it the case in the majority of jurisdictions.  Claims that ABA-approved law school have a monopoly on entry into the legal profession are exaggerations.  Rather, the most popular—and probably most likely—way to become a lawyer is to graduate from an ABA-approved institution.

In leading jurisdictions such as New York, California, and Virginia, an individual who wishes to become a lawyer may sit for the bar examination with between zero and 1 years of law school and between 3 and 4 years of apprenticeship and study under the supervision of a licensed attorney (this is also known as “law office study” or “reading for the bar”).  In California, graduates of non-ABA-approved law schools are eligible to sit for the bar examination.  This includes schools with extremely low-cost, technology-driven approaches to teaching, such as online and correspondence schools.

In fact, non-ABA law school graduates are eligible to sit for the bar examination in most jurisdictions (31 in total as of 2017) according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.**  This includes extremely large and important jurisdictions such as California, Florida, New York, Texas and Washington D.C.  Graduates of online and correspondence law schools are eligible to sit for the bar examination in 4 jurisdictions.

Very few people choose the apprenticeship route, and only a minority opt for non-ABA law schools.  Among those who do, relatively few successfully complete their courses of study or pass the bar examination.  But those who do will have the same license to practice law as someone who graduates from an ABA-approved law school and successfully passes the bar examination.

Why then do so many prospective lawyers choose ABA-approved law schools?

The most likely explanation is that prospective lawyers choose ABA-approved law schools because those law schools provide a valuable and worthwhile service that supports a higher price point than other options.*

Many employers value legal education.  That’s why they typically pay law school graduates tens of thousands of dollars more per year than they pay similar bachelor’s degree holders, even in occupations other than the practice of law.  When law school graduating class sizes increase, and a lower proportion of graduates practice law, graduates don’t typically see a noticeable decline in their earnings premium.

In other words, the benefits of law school are versatile. Graduates of ABA-approved law schools also seem to be much more likely to complete their studies and pass the bar examination than students attending more lightly regulated and lower cost alternatives.

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September 25, 2017 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Student Advice, Weblogs | Permalink

August 21, 2017

Should the government raid university endowments? (Michael Simkovic)

Vanderbilt Tax Professor Herwig Schlunk wants the federal government to tax university endowments, preferably out of existence.  He writes:  “In the best of all possible worlds, the federal government could and probably should . . . confiscate[e] all private university endowments . . .”

Toward that end, Schlunk recycles arguments that were discredited years ago.

Professor Schlunk is famous for asserting that law school is a bad investment.  Schlunk’s bold claim—based on back of the envelope calculations and highly unscientific website surveys—was popularized by the Wall Street Journal and echoed by sympathetic media outlets.  Peer reviewed research by labor economist Frank McIntyre and me—using high quality nationally representative government data and well-established econometric techniques—subsequently demonstrated that Schlunk was mistaken. (See here and here).

This post critiques Schlunk’s recent work on endowments for misuse of discount rates, overlooking the importance of educational quality, mismeasuring student earnings and higher education expenditures, selectively targeting higher education, supporting policies that undermine economic growth, and overlooking stark differences between popular votes and political power.

Misuse of discount rates

To arrive at his headline-grabbing law school result, Schlunk relied on some spectacularly unrealistic assumptions.  As Frank McIntyre and I explained four years ago:

“Professor Schlunk’s analysis assumes astronomical discount rates, low earnings growth rates, and zero inflation for thirty-five years. None of these assumptions are empirically or theoretically justifiable.

Most studies [of higher education] by economists have generally used a discount rate between 2.5% and 3%. . . . Compared with the 3% discount rates applied in labor market studies by economists and suggested by the real (net-inflation) costs of financing a law degree . . .  Professor Schlunk applies real discount rates of between 8% and 27%.

If Professor Schlunk had used comparable assumptions about discount rates to evaluate the value of a college degree compared to a high school diploma, he would have reached the conclusion that few should go to college. Indeed, given a 30% nominal discount rate, whether it makes financial sense to complete high school might be debatable.”

Undeterred, Professor Schlunk once again relies on unrealistically high discount rates and overlooks differences in completion rates, this time to argue that private non-profit universities provide little value when compared to leanly funded, politically vulnerable public universities.  Based on this analysis, he concludes that the federal government should tax universities more heavily than it already does.  Higher discount rates mean that future cash flows have a lower present value.  Thus the value of a lifetime of higher earnings from higher quality education is diminished by choosing a higher discount rate.

Schlunk’s justification for using such high discount rates is that higher education “puts me in mind of income streams I confronted when advising investors in the private equity sector [where] discount rates of as high as 30% were generally applied.”[1]

For the record, peer reviewed research generally finds that private equity returns net of fees are close to or less than those that can be found in the stock market—not remotely close to the 30 percent returns assumed by Schlunk.  (In addition, discount rates are supposed to reflect the weighted average cost of capital, NOT the (higher) returns to equity).[2]  If P.E. investors were applying high discount rates to cash flow projections, this likely means that investors believed that P.E. cash flow projections were over-optimistic.

Overlooking college completion rates

In his latest critique of higher education, Schlunk also overlooks large differences in completion rates.  Four-year completion rates for bachelor’s degrees are almost twice as high at private non-profit universities as at their more leanly funded public counterparts. If one accepts Schlunk’s assumptions of extremely high discount rates, even a modest delay in completion would have a dramatic impact on value.

Overlooking effects of increased educational expenditures and educational quality

Peer reviewed studies that control for differences in student characteristics consistently find that higher expenditures per student lead to significant increases in student earnings and likely contribute to higher completion rates.  (For brief reviews of the literature, see The Knowledge Tax and Populist Outrage, Reckless Empirics; See also here).

Professor Schlunk overlooks these studies.

Mis-measuring student earnings and educational expenditures

Schlunk overestimates the difference in expenditures and resources at elite public and private universities, which leads him to over-estimate the earnings premiums necessary for more resource-intensive private education to be worthwhile.  Schlunk assumes incorrectly that all students at elite flagship state universities pay low in-state tuition, when many students at these institutions pay much higher out-of-state or international student tuition.  He overlooks the extent to which expenditures per student at elite public universities exceed in-state tuition because of state subsidies and cross-subsidies from out-of-state students.  He overlooks the extent to which differences in financial aid affect net-tuition—and therefore educational resources and expenditures—at different universities.

The elite public universities that Schlunk presents as controls that he sees as similar to private universities, but without endowments, actually have larger endowments than many private universities.

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August 21, 2017 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Ludicrous Hyperbole Watch, Of Academic Interest, Religion, Science, Student Advice | Permalink

February 20, 2017

How Syracuse Law made its graduates into stars of the New York Bar exam

We noted awhile back Syracuse's impressive results on the July 2016 New York bar exam--a pass rate of 89%, fourth highest in the state, behind only Columbia, Cornell, and NYU, and ahead of Fordham, Cardozo, Brooklyn, Buffalo and others.   I recently visited Syracuse, and talked with Professor Christian Day about the changes they made to achieve these results.  He kindly gave me a written version to share; I'm sure this will be of interest to many schools.  Professor Day writes:

In the later 1990s and early 2000s Syracuse had a terrible bar pass rate. One year it was dead last among the 15 New York law schools.  A faculty ad hoc committee was created and it developed a program over several years.

Under Dean Hannah Arterian’s leadership the faculty adopted 1L and upper-class curves.  The curves are centered on a low B (2.9-3.0) and approximately 8% of the 1L class is dismissed.  Before the implementation of the curve, most of the students who were dismissed were re-admitted and placed on probation.  But only 10% of that group passed the bar for the first time.   With the new curve, a much smaller group of students is re-admitted and placed on probation.  The Structured Curriculum, described below, and a comprehensive bar success program, which includes a staff member dedicated to the bar success effort have provided a foundation for achievement.  We also inaugurated a comprehensive third year bar prep program.   That program was mandatory for those on probation and voluntary for the balance of the student body.

A consultant worked with the College and confirmed that bar exam success was correlated to 1L class rank AND the number of so-called “bar courses” students had taken. Syracuse had a 90% pass rate for students in the upper 75-80% of the 1L class who had taken most of the bar courses for grade.  Students who failed the exam took around four of those courses, often on a pass/fail basis.  The faculty adopted the Structured Curriculum that requires all students on probation and those below a 2.50 average at the conclusion of the first year to take the following courses for grade:  Commercial Transactions, New York Civil Procedure, Business Associations, Constitutional Criminal Procedure—Investigation and Adjudication, Wills and Trusts, Family Law, Evidence, and Foundational Skills for Professional Licensing  (a bar prep course taught by faculty or staff that emphasizes exam prep and writing).

The efforts have borne fruit. In 2014 Syracuse and St. John’s tied for fourth place among the New York law schools.  In 2016, with the adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam, Syracuse was again in fourth place behind NYU, Columbia and Cornell.

February 20, 2017 in Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Student Advice | Permalink

December 01, 2016

Law schools ranked by employment outcomes based on 2015 ABA data

Here, which also notes (and links to) other ways of crunching the data.

December 1, 2016 in Legal Profession, Rankings, Student Advice | Permalink

November 25, 2016

Law schools ranked by average indebtedness of graduates

The listing also includes the percentage of graduates with debt--the differences here between schools are sometimes striking.

November 25, 2016 in Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Student Advice | Permalink

October 04, 2016

William Baude's "Hamilton"-welcome to the University of Chicago Law School

July 18, 2016

A first sign of trouble with the new Elsevier-owned SSRN

July 12, 2016

Cooter & Ulen's famous Law & Econ text is now available for free download...

...from Berkeley.

(Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)

July 12, 2016 in Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Student Advice | Permalink

June 21, 2016

Now a non-anecdotal factual piece about law schools at the NY Times


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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Berrylicious Summer Salad

This sweet and savory berry salad combines all the delicious flavors of summer together in one bowl....the perfect side dish for your next party, picnic, or Memorial Day celebration!

I will never forget the time, several years ago, when Jorden told me I really needed to cut back on all the fruit I was buying. Too expensive! he said. And I just laughed at him. Because I am CRAZY about fruit....and it's insanely good for you....and if there's anything I'm going to cut back on, it's not going to be fruit! (Sorry, Jorden.)

Living in the Midwest, good fruit can often be hard to come by. For much of the year, we are limited to apples, oranges, bananas, and pears (oh - and strawberries - if you want to spend $5 a pound and have them taste like nothing!) So when summer rolls around, and all the fruits come out of hiding, I'm like a little kid in a candy shop. And so are my kids! We usually just enjoy it "as is" or dump it all into a big bowl and call it fruit salad....but this time around I decided to take a more sophisticated approach.

I imagined all the things I would want in a sweet & savory spinach salad....and then just left out the spinach. Strawberries, blueberries, walnuts, feta cheese, homemade balsamic vinaigrette.....can you get any more sophisticated (or any more delicious!) than that? I dare you.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to tell you that my 6 year old daughter and our 9 year old neighbor, though skeptical, both tried the salad and really liked it! But when Jorden tried it, he wasn't a huge fan. I actually knew that would be the case - he's not a big sweet & savory kind of guy. And/or I'm starting to think he might really have something against fruit. Or.... maybe....just the cost of fruit! (Yes, Jorden.....I am laughing at you. And, for the record, this salad is amazing!)

Berrylicious Summer Salad
2 c. fresh blueberries
2 c. fresh strawberries, cut into eighths
1 c. chopped walnuts
4 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 c. balsamic vinaigrette dressing

Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
3/4 c. olive oil
3 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
2 tsp. minced red onion
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. pepper
(*Adapted from The America's Test kitchen Family Cookbook: Basic Vinaigrette recipe)

Looking for another delicious recipe using fresh summer ingredients? Check out my Red, White & Basil Dip!

Thanks for taking a peek inside my Lemon Tree Dwelling...
I hope you feel right at home!

  1. This salad IS amazing to see and to eat. Thanks for sharing. ☺

  2. Wow, that looks great. The fruit with the balsamic dressing sound like an amazing combination. And then the walnuts and feta.. fuhgettaboudit! Perfect for Memorial Day!

    And who doesn't like fruit?? That's like not liking cookies. Or pizza! It's just not right..

  3. I think balsamic vinegar was MEANT for fruit! So good together. I spend way too much on fruit too, I think half my cart is filled with fruit each week! Love this salad!

  4. Yum! You're genius and Jorden IS crazy! I will be eating this salad this weekend.

  5. I love how your recipes introduced me to balsamic on fruit. This looks so good again. I swear, I'm going to gain 1000 pounds reading your blog - so much goodness! We go through TONS of fruit and like you, most of our year is spent eating bananas, oranges and the "non dirty dozen" (kiwi, cantaloupe, etc). We love when we can get fresh, local berries! It's coming!!! Yay!

  6. There is nothing that says summer more than a berry salad! Yum!
    I am your newest follower, found you via the linkup.

  7. Hi, this sounds so good and I am always making berry salad but never thought to make it like that.
    Julie from

  8. Hi Cathy.
    Wow this looks amazing. I love blueberries in anything. I saw your salad on Manic Mondays
    Also May is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I'm inviting everyone to drop by and read about prevention and early detection. I hope you will take a couple of minutes to visit. Women have to support women in the fight for the cure. Please stop by if you can.
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  9. Yum! Found over at The Flamingo's Linky party and pined ya.

  10. I had to click on this because your picture made it look so delicious! Bet that was yummy and gets eaten up fast!

  11. These looks amazing, Cathy! Love it!

  12. This sounds delish!! I think I take for granted how easy and cheap it is to get good fruit year round in CA. And I still complain about it in winter, lol.

  13. Yummy! All of your recipes look so good today!!

  14. Yummy yummy yummy who doesn't love a good salad in the summer time?

  15. oh my gosh, this is a terrible thing to look at past midnight! Now I'm hungry! Looks delicious, thanks for sharing! I'm gonna have to try it! I popped over from Make it Pretty Monday!

  16. Oh my gosh I love fruit too! I think I'm going to try this with goat cheese instead of feta, mostly because I would eat goat cheese straight if it wasn't so fatty! I'm pinning this! Also, have you tried other fruits yet? Like oranges/pineapple?

  17. Oh my! Cathy I want to have breakfast, dinner and lunch at your house! Yummy!

  18. Cathy,
    This looks delicious. I love blueberries and I feta is my favorite cheese. I'll have to try it. I'm pinning to make soon!
    Wanda Ann @ Memories by the Mile

  19. Love all the berries combined with nuts and cheese! Pinned to make as soon as our Spring start in September :-) Thank you for sharing your delicious recipe at the WEDNESDAYS ADORNED FROM ABOVE Blog Hop !

  20. Your salad sounds divine. I love the sweet and savory mix. This is the perfect summer salad. Thanks for sharing on Thursdays Treasures.

  21. Yet another yummy dish! Thanks again for sharing on Much Ado About Monday!

  22. Yum! Thanks for sharing.

    Bevin @

  23. Wow! What a great salad! Thanks so much for sharing at last week's All My Bloggy Friends! I can't wait to see what you share this week :)

  24. This salad looks oh so delish! Thank you for sharing on Blog Stalking Thursday! I have featured your project on Blog Stalking Thursday Features YOU! The post is going live later tonight. I would love for you to stop by and grab a feature button. Thanks again for sharing!

  25. Featured YOU on my blog this week in my 25+ Berry Recipe round up. Thank you so much for sharing at {wow me} wednesday! :)

    Ginger @

  26. These are by far the most appetising food imagery I've seen in a long time on a recipes blog. Be sure I'll try some of these summer salads with unusual and interesting combinations.

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CPALI: Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International

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CPALI gives hope to local communities through sustainable and innovative programs that harness the power of natural resources.

Supporting lemur conservation by helping communities creatively and sustainably use natural resource

Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International (CPALI) is an international NGO dedicated to a community-centered approach to conservation. Instead of building boundaries, CPALI focuses on strengthening the existing relationship between people and the environment through the development of sustainable livelihoods.

CPALI helps impoverished communities farm and transform native resources to create sustainable enterprises that benefit both people and ecosystems. In Madagascar, the organization works hand-in-hand with SEPALI, an independently-registered Malagasy NGO (2009) in charge of program implementation.

What lemur species does CPALI protect?

CPALI/SEPALI work to engage communities in the northeastern regions of Madagascar, especially in the perimeter areas surrounding the Makira Protected Area and the Masoala National Park. Some of the lemur species found in these areas, include:

  • Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
  • Red-ruffed lemurs (Varecia rubra)
  • White-fronted brown lemurs (Eulemur albifrons)

How is CPALI protecting habitat for lemur conservation?

New cocoon.CPALI works in northeastern Madagascar along the borders of the largest remaining protected area in the country. There, CPALI works with a network of subsistence farmers to cultivate endemic resources and secure a market for their products. Thanks to CPALI’s work, farmers are now planting endemic trees in former clear-cut zones, intercropping trees with edible plants, raising native silkworms to produce silk, using insects as a protein source, and investigating the production of edible mushrooms. The result is a native ecosystem of production which contributes to forest buffer zones near the parks, supports rural farmers, and mitigates the need for bush meat and resource extraction.

Today, CPALI works with a rapidly growing network of farmers’ groups representing 13 communities and over 350 farmers. Together, their participants have planted over 30,000 native trees, raised their average annual household income by over 50%, and are gradually assuming management of the project. Ultimately, CPALI hopes to achieve a sustainable and independent farmer cooperative in Madagascar.

Partnering with local communities

Preparing tree nurseries.CPALI’s greatest strength is that it utilizes resources that are already present: endemic species, local leadership, and community networks. CPALI/SEPALI Malagasy staff manage on-the-ground projects and hire lead farmers in each community to serve as their local liaisons, trainers, and model farmers. These lead farmers, both men and women, are elected by their communities and are intimately involved in program direction, strategy, and implementation.

Prior to implementation, all CPALI/SEPALI projects are evaluated by the community members who would be engaged in the project if it were implemented. In addition, projects undergo scientific evaluation to examine how they will have an impact on the health of the protected area, soil quality, and recovered habitats. Together, these assessments help CPALI evaluate their successes, learn from their mistakes, and make adjustments in policy to better reach their goals.

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Over the summer, Brunel underwent some incredibly dramatic changes. These were done in two forms: the structural changes from 8 academic ‘schools’ into 3 streamlined, more efficient ‘colleges’, as well as a complete renovation of the University’s visual identity, which will be used on every piece of media the University now releases.

While the structural changes have the largest impact upon the student body on a day to day level, the branding is just as important.  Students will only be able to judge the new college system once the academic year has started and over the long term. The branding, however, has proven to have an immediate impact on students. Reactions to both the visual rebrand and the internal restructure, 'TxP', have been decidedly mixed.

This rebrand is one of dramatic proportions, changing many of the key identifiers that Brunel has had since its conception as a University in 1966. In the past 50 years, Brunel has expanded to cater to over 15,000 students, 2,500 staff and a total income of over £170 million a year for 2011/12.

The university market as a whole has changed, with more people going to university than ever before. Brunel needed an image that demonstrated its determination to compete for the best students, researchers and grants. This had to be done on a global scale, as recently Brunel has been placed within top 500 academic institutions in the world, and previously in the top 30 universities under 50 years old, according to the Times Higher Education Survey 2014.

The strategic elements of the TxP project were conducted internally, headed by Vice-Chancellor Julia Buckingham. The external visual and communication work was completed by the worldwide communications company Instinctif Partners.  As an established worldwide company with over 700 clients and 20 years of experience, Instinctif has a vast portfolio of successful projects, with a focus upon 'gaining the market share of younger individuals'. Clients including ASOS, Graze.com and General Electric have benefitted from the work of Instinctif, helping to place these brands into an international frame.

The results of the hard work of the University and Instinctif were officially unveiled on August 1. The main change is the Brunel University London logo. Instead of the wordmark Brunel has been using, the logo is now a modern interpretation of the crest given to Brunel through its Royal Charter. This is a design trend that has been growing over the past few years, with many other companies such as the Royal Mint, and interestingly our Varsity rivals St. Mary’s adopting a similar image. The general implications of these simplifications are to suggest a streamlined, more efficient and modern visual identity.

Other changes, however, have not kept as much of the original ideas. This is seen largely  through the array of banners plastered on every lamppost on campus, declaring that the University is ‘Addressing society’s challenges’. This somewhat replaces the original ‘Innovate or Die’, which follows Isambard Kingdom Brunel's original approach to his famous work, although University Communications Manager Alex Buchanan points out that ‘Innovate or Die’ “is not an official slogan regardless of what Wikipedia says”.

University representatives are keen to point out that 'Addressing society's challenges' is not a slogan, as incorrectly stated in previous Le Nurb publications, but part of the new positioning statement developed by Instinctif, although it is not clear what this actually means for students. University representative, Communications Manager Alex Buchanan also pointed out that the banners are not permanent, and will be replaced throughout the year with other campaign materials relating to projects such as the National Student Survey and Union initiatives.

The full positioning statement reads: “Brunel University London is a leading international university which addresses the challenges facing society through ground-breaking applied research and educational programmes.

“Our students are taught and prepared for their future careers in a supportive culture of excellence, enterprise and innovation. Our work changes the lives of people around the world by bringing economic, social and cultural benefits.”

Nevertheless, when asked if they liked the phrase 'Addressing society's challenges' in an exclusive Le Nurb survey, 74% of respondents answered 'no', with one commenting that it is "ridiculous and easily misunderstood".

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The most controversial change is the colour. The new brand guidelines now state that the University's two main colours are blue and red, a dramatic detraction from the all-blue wordmark and the blue-and-gold crest. Many are disappointed at the lack of yellow in the new designs, as many associate Brunel with the blue-and-yellow/gold of the crest and Union sports kits.

These changes have not gone unnoticed by the student body. In research conducted by Le Nurb, we found that there are incredibly mixed views upon the branding overall.  Of 206 respondents, 59% said that they did not like Brunel's new brand overall, and 14% unsure.

Many students voiced concerns that the new crest and wordmark logo looked remarkably similar to St. Mary's University, with one student commenting "There is certainly a feel that the new brand is very much alike our rival St. Mary's which is a bad thing for Brunel." Alex Buchanan responded that those students and staff who attended the second round of focus groups were given twelve different new logo options, featuring designs with and without crests. The most positive responses were for the inclusion of a crest, according to Instinctif, with one participant commenting that “The crest is prestigious. It makes you feel as though your degree is worth something. The University Council, which made the final decision, were shown the preferred new logo in relation to thirty logos of other universities from across the country, as part of the final selection process. Included in the list were University of York, University of St. Andrews, and King’s College London. Le Nurb can exclusively reveal that St. Mary’s University was not on the list given  the council.

Other students are concerned about the cost of the re-design, with one respondent commenting, "To spend that money and come up with this[?] Really disappointed." Others have pointed out that the design courses at Brunel are some of the best in the country. Le Nurb contacted the University regarding the cost of the redesign but received no reply.

Many students feel that the changes were not properly communicated, and students not properly consulted. A source for Le Nurb who has chosen to stay anonymous has explained their frustration with the system: "I was invited to sit on the focus groups, we argued with the design company Brunel had hired endlessly regarding the colour changes. We also expressed our distaste for the red and lack of yellow to which we received no reply”. This student felt disenchanted by the lack of impact of their views, saying “I was very disappointed… what's the point in being invited to be on a focus group if you do not listen to the students?” The University has provided Le Nurb with a selection of participants’ comments from focus group sessions. One said “Brunel is blue. Blue is Brunel”, while another commented: “I love the blue and the red. They are strong, identifiable colours”

When asked to explain the student consultation process behind the rebrand, Alex Buchanan of the University's communications department explained that students were involved in focus groups along with staff at each stage of the redesign. Alex also pointed out that while blue and yellow appear on the Union's sports clubs kit, yellow has "not been a colour used in university branding for a long period". He also acknowledged that the design of club kits is "solely up to the Union" and the Union would not be forced to adapt them to suit the new University colour scheme, although "We would hope that we can agree a design that everyone will support".

While the visual and communication changes were intended to energise and motivate our University to compete upon a global scale, it has divided the student body, and left a disproportionately high number aggravated and disappointed with the University's new direction.

Got opinions too? Fill in our survey! (http://tinyurl.com/brubrand) We will also welcome any reply articles, sent through to lenurb.brunel@gmail.com


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07 November 2009

It also happens to be true

Living in Very Assisted Living ain't cheap. It's costing my mother $295 a day to be kept in the style to which she would have preferred not to become accustomed. $295 a day is more than her income, so we're starting the process to spend down the deposit she paid when she moved there seven years ago. When that money is (too soon) gone, the facility will help her apply for Medi-whichever.

It depresses Mom to think that she won't have anything to leave me and my neices. I've tried different ways to tell her that, while it is too bad, it's more important to take care of her than to worry about any kind of financial legacy.

Today I may have found a way to phrase it that works for her:

Mom, you worked hard all your life and saved a lot of money, which will be spent to keep you safe and comfortable. You're money should be spent on you. And knowing that you are safe and comfortable means a lot to me.

She said that was "a nice way to put it." Had Mom been more of a fan of Hemingway, she might have said "Isn't it pretty to think so," but I doubt she would have gone to far as quote Brick's "Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?" Mom's never been as much of a cynic as Mr. Williams.

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How To Tan The Safe Way With Tanning Lotions

These days we all want to enjoy the healthy glow that comes with a beautiful tan, but with more and more evidence coming to light with regards to the dangers of the sun’s rays we have to be increasingly careful about jetting off on vacation and roasting in the midday sun in order to try and get some color.

Exposing your delicate skin in hot weather can result in a multitude of problems, but luckily you can now enjoy a golden glow without having to put up with the risks – thanks to the availability of a range of tanning products for the face and body.

From high quality tanning lotions to facial tanner products and tanning crème, you can enjoy a wide range of sunless tanning products so you don’t even have to endure the expense of a holiday in order to look as though you have a beautiful, natural tan. People use all sorts of tanning products these days, from tanning beds to spray on lotions. You can get products that can be easily used in your own home as well as sunless tanning services at a salon.

Avoid the dangers of the sun with these products

There are many dangers that come with exposing your skin to the sunlight. Some of the well known potential dangers of basking in the sun include:

  • Sunburn
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Of course, some of these conditions are more serious than others, but even the mildest of these problems can cause massive discomfort depending on the level of burning and exposure. If you spend all day in the sun trying to achieve that tan you may find yourself walking away with peeling, red skin – or worse – instead of a golden tan.

However, with tanning lotions and other sunless products you can look forward to a great, natural looking tan without the expense or health problems of having to jet off to somewhere hot and sunny to get than tan.

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Planning, implementing and maintaining your outdoor space involves many elements: plant selection and care, insect control, deer management, lawn maintenance, and many other areas.

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Level Green Landscaping can help you design a deer-resistant landscape plan.Are you seeking deer-proof landscaping?  You should be, if you're interested in preventing not only deer damage, but also Lyme disease.  If so, you need to be aware that your deer-proofing options extend beyond deer repellents, deer fencing, noise-makers and other gadgets designed to keep deer away.

Although deer on the verge of starvation will eat almost anything, the landscaper's best long-term option may well lie in a landscape plan that prescribes deer-proof, or "deer-resistant" plants. Simply planting what Bambi usually disdains to eat may not seem as strong a deer-proofing measure as surrounding your property with deer fencing, I admit. But then again, building a fortress around your property has severe aesthetic drawbacks.

If your attitude is, "I just let the deer come in and munch away; I enjoy viewing wildlife," please be aware that you may have to adjust your lifestyle accordingly. Deer can harbor the ticks that carry Lyme disease. The more deer that come to graze on your property, the greater the chances of you encountering the disease-bearing ticks. So take the proper precautions to prevent contracting Lyme disease.

For winter care, the best approach is to identify vulnerable shrubs and trees and put metal stakes and wire fencing as high as is reasonable.  Deer can jump 6-8 feet, so the higher the fence you can use the better.  Schichtels Nursery in Springville , New York has developed a solution, or you can search on for deer fencing systems.


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DNA replication

DNA replication
DNA replication

DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material of most living creatures. It carries genetic information that determines all types of plant lives. DNA replication is a process by which a single DNA molecule is copied, resulting in two identical molecules prior to the cell division. The accuracy and precision in DNA replication has ensured the continuity of life from generation to generation.

Following James Watson and Francis Crick’s landmark proposal for the structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule in 1953, many scientists turned their attention to how this molecule is replicated.

The process of replication is the key to continuity of plant as well as other forms of life. The DNA molecule consists of two polymer chains (strands) forming a double helix.

Each strand is made up of a five-carbon sugar (2′-deoxyribose), phosphoric acid, and four nitrogen-containing bases. Two bases are purines, which have a double ring structure; the other two are pyrimidines, which contain a single ring. The purine bases are adenine (A) and guanine (G), while the pyrimidine bases are thymine (T) and cytosine (C).

The two strands of a DNA molecule running in opposite directions are held together by hydrogen bonding between the A-T and G-C base pairs, which form the “rungs” of the ladder that makes the double helix. Such complementary base pairing is the foundation for the DNA double helix as well as its replication.

Semiconservative Replication

The replication mechanism first proposed by Watson and Crick was that the strands of the original (parental) duplex separate, and each individual strand serves as a pattern or template for the synthesis of a new strand (daughter).

The daughter strands are synthesized by the addition of successive nucleotides in such a way that each base in the daughter strand is complementary to the base across the way in the template strand. This is called semiconservative replication.

Although the mechanism is simple in principle, replication is a complex process, with geometric problems requiring energy, a variety of enzymes, and other proteins. The end result, nevertheless, is that a single double-stranded DNA is replicated into two copies having identical sequences.

Each of the two daughter double-stranded DNA copies is made up of one parental strand and one newly synthesized strand, hence the name semi-conservative (literally, “half conserving”) replication.

DNA Synthesis

DNA Synthesis
DNA Synthesis
DNA replication in plant cells occurs in three basic steps, each catalyzed by at least one enzyme. First, the two original, or parental, DNA strands of the double helix unwind and separate.

Then each parental strand is used as a template for the formation of a new daughter strand. Finally, one parental strand and its newly synthesized daughter strand wind together into one double helix, while the other parental strand and its daughter strand wind together into a second double helix.

The process begins with the separation and unwinding of segments of the parental double helix. To accomplish this, an enzyme named DNA helicase, powered by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), works its way between the two strands. As this enzyme “plows” its way through the double helix, it breaks the hydrogen bonds that hold together the “rungs” of the ladder, formed by the base pairs.

DNA helicase then “walks” along one strand, nudging the other strand out of its way as it goes. The result is that the two DNA strands separate, thus exposing their bases, as though the ladder had been split vetically, down through the rungs.

The second step of DNA synthesis requires the enzyme DNA polymerase, which performs a dual function during the replication. First, it recognizes bases exposed in a parental strand and matches them up with free nucleotides that have complementary bases.

Second, DNA polymerase bonds together the sugars and phosphates of the complementary nucleotides to form the backbone of the daughter strand. Because the DNA polymerase can travel in only one direction on a DNA strand, from the 3′ end to 5′ end, the two DNA polymerase molecules, one on each parental strand, move in opposite directions.

Only one daughter strand is synthesized continuously, while the duplication of another is done piece by piece. As the DNA helicase molecule continues to separate the parental strands, one polymerase simply follows behind it, synthesizing a long, continuous complementary daughter strand as it goes.

The polymerase on the second parental strand travels away from the DNA helicase. As the helicase continues to separate the parental strands, this polymerase cannot reach the newly separated segment of the second strand.

Hence a new DNA polymerase attaches to the second strand close behind the helicase to synthesize another small piece of DNA. These pieces are “sewn” together by another enzyme called DNA ligase. This process is repeated many times until the copying of a second parental strand is completed.

Proofreading and End-Sealing

Hydrogen bonding between complementary base pairs makes DNA replication highly accurate. However, the process is not perfect. This is a result partly of the fast pace (fifty to five hundred nucleotides added per second) and partly to the chemical flip-flops in the bases occurring spontaneously.

DNA polymerase occasionally matches bases incorrectly, making on average one mistake in every ten thousand base pairs. Even this low rate of errors, if left uncorrected, would be devastating to the continuity of life.

In reality, replicated DNA strands contain only one mistake in every billion base pairs. This incredible accuracy is achieved by several DNA repair enzymes, including DNA polymerase. Mismatches and errors are corrected through “proofreading” by DNA polymerase or other repair enzymes.

A separate problem in DNA replication lies at the end of a linear DNA molecule,which is not suitable for replication by polymerase.

Yet another enzyme, DNA telomerase, is involved in solving this problem. It attaches a long stretch of repeating sequence of nucleotide 5′-TTGGGG-3′ to the strand already synthesized by polymerase. This ending sequence (called the telomere) offers protection and provides stability for plant DNA molecules.

Plant Propagation

Overall, the faithful replication and the amazing stability of each DNA molecule ensure the continuity and survival of species from generation to generation. DNA replication precedes every cycle of mitosis, so that two daughter cells derived from cell division can inherit a full complement of genetic material.

The replication is also an essential prerequisite for plant sexual reproduction, a process by which the two sexual cells (pollen and egg) produced via meiosis are united to start a new generation.

The faithful DNA replication and subsequent cell divisions (mitosis) form the basis for plant growth as well as for vegetative propagation in many plant species. Growth in size and volume of the plant results from a combination of mitosis, cell enlargement, and cell differentiation. Mitosis is also essential in wound healing through the production of a mass of cells called callus.

Vegetative propagation, an asexual process through mitosis, plays an important role in agriculture. Through vegetative propagation, individual plants of the progeny population are genetic copies both of the original source plant and of one another.

Such plants are known as clones, and the process is called cloning. Examples of cloning include grafting hardwood cuttings of grapevines and apple trees and rapid propagation of liriope by crown division.

The best-known example of vegetative propagation is probably the production of Macintosh apples via grafting. More recently, micro propagation via direct cell cultures and related biotechnology has played a critical role in agriculture.


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Two Steps Forward, Sixteen Steps Back

I managed to take apart the pieces that I needed to ~ it was the little turnkey thing. I just needed bigger pliers. Cleaned the nozzle with alcohol, scraped out the sooty cylinder, cleaned everything up and put it back together. Made sure there’s adequate antifreeze in the system, etc.

Moment of truth. I flip the switch, run down to the furnace to watch and listen. Three huge puffs of smoke fill the engine room immediately. Dash back up the stairs to shut the system down. Check a few things and try it again ~ more smoke.

I’m done for the day, boys and girls. At least I’m going to take several hours off before I dismantle the whole thing to see what I must have done wrong and try to put it back together. Oh, what I would give for a Y chromosome! Persistence will have to do…

The Saga Of No Heat Continues

I begin to disassemble the heater, figuring that starting with cleaning the system and keeping my eyes open for obvious problems during that process would be a good start. Then I remember that, oh yeah, the guys have always had to take down the automatic fire extinguisher system when they work on this. Crap!

Let’s also remember that I am several inches shorter than the guys who usually do this, 4 months slightly awkward, and in an unprecedented fit of girlishness the other day, have had a set of nails put on my fingers. They look so nice against the background of tools and engines.

And I don’t have that innate guy thing where you can look at a random bolt on the wall and instinctively know that it’s a 5/8 whatever. Given the correct tools, I can operate them just fine, but it takes me a little while to do the math and figure out what the next fraction down is likely to be. And where someone else might have put it last time it was used.

After standing on my tiptoes enough for one session (no, there’s not an easy place to put a box or something ~ I’m not that blonde!), I have it taken apart to this stage. The nozzle is inside the circle there, and I can’t quite figure out how it comes apart. The little turnkey thingy that would make the most sense to me clearly hasn’t been turned recently, unless it was a gorilla who tightened it back up. As Tana would say, friggidyfrigfrig! I think I’ll leave it for a little while and come back to it tonight.

The silver lining here is that when you’re working, 59 degrees is a very comfortable temperature…

Here We Go Again

So it’s 59 degrees on board this morning and I wander up to the bridge to fire up Ye Olde Diesel Heater. Guess what?

Flame out. Just marvelous. I vaguely remember this stuff from last year, but what was I supposed to do again? Dragging out the manuals now…

Piling Art

I’m not normally a huge fan of “art” (I know, it’s probably sacrilegious to admit that, but it’s true). Maybe I’m just too obtuse to get it. But I do know that I loved these little metal sculptures out on the pilings. That made me smile.

Which should be the point of art, I think…

Just went in for an early ultrasound today and we think that we’ve got a boy and a girl! It’s very early, so the tech wouldn’t let us hold her to it, but she said if she had to guess, that would be it. Both babies were very active (Twin B, the boy, was getting bumped around by my heartbeat ~ must be sitting right on the aorta!)and both were indignant when subjected to all the probing.

Everything else is good. There’s a potential 4-6 week charter for KJ next year ~ a family with 10 kids! The charter company wanted to make sure I was OK with that, and I am, provided the boat comes back in the same condition in which she leaves (but that’s true for anybody who charters her, really). They plan to hire a skipper, which is probably a good idea ~ they’ll have their hands full the rest of the time! We’ll see if it comes through or not, but I’m hoping KJ goes out a lot next year.


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Works-for-Me Wednesday- the school crate

Since we homeschool our kids, there's the potential for lots of books to be all over our house. We turned one bedroom of our house into the "school room." Really it's a toy room with a table and some bookshelves, but it keeps us a little more organized. The problem comes because it's right next to the bedroom and it's hard to be in there during nap time. Once again, we had piles of books all over the house.

The problem came to a head after we had the baby last month. I couldn't go up and down the stairs as much (c-sec), but we needed to do something for school. Books were everywhere again. And when I sent them back upstairs with the kids, they ended up in a pile on the floor. (Does anyone else have kids that do that?) I think I have found a solution to our problem, and it has worked beautifully the last couple of weeks.

I saw a post last fall from a mom who had a basket in each room for their school books. So I modified that idea to fit our need. I took a crate and filled it with the books that we use on a daily basis. Throw in a pencil box with writing supplies, and we're good to go! The books are contained in one place, and we can carry them to whichever room we're working in. Right now we're focusing on just a few subjects- Bible, reading/language, math, and Chinese, so it all fits in one crate. Because I know someone will ask here is what I have in our crate: home organization binder, school planning planner, character building book, notebook, phonics book, Chinese lessons notebook, math books, Bible, language book, chapter book, wedgets cards, planner, pencil box.

Do you have a school organization tip to share? We'll be adding the rest of our subjects soon, and this crate isn't going to hold it all! Check out the links at Works for Me Wednesday for other great tips.

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Memory Monday- #8

We're slipping a little this month. We worked on the verse last week, but don't really KNOW it, like we do the previous set of six. This morning I was reviewing with Quinlan, and talking a bit about what it means. "For all have....what? What has everyone done?" He wasn't sure. "All have sinned. Everyone has sinned in their life." He didn't buy that, though "Nuh, uh! Not everyone!" I expressed my confusion. "Jesus never sinned!" He had me with that one!

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"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." ~Romans 6:23

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Adom Service

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Adom, in the Twi language literally means “Grace”. This implies that anyone and everyone who attends an Adom Service attends a “Grace Service” and is sure to leave with grace. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Grace is all we need. Claim it and take it.

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Zero Hour’s beginnings twelve years ago

Tonight I decided to look through old scribblings of mine thinking that I might be able to cobble a book together for use in a possibly nefarious activity in the near future. I discovered a 2002 column I had written for the Duluth Reader during my four-year stint as a columnist. The column presaged the email I’ve been receiving for the past couple weeks from students and parents trying to save the zero hour.

In 2001 I labored long and hard to pass an operational levy. It was an uphill fight. I remember PTA President Judy Seliga-Punyko telling me that she wouldn’t vote for it. She was mad that the school board hadn’t acted on my idea to slim down from three high schools to two high schools. I thought her reasoning was nuts. The following year after the failure of the levy we put an end to the seven period day. Years later Judy’s memory of the loss of the seven periods involved my being on the School Board when it happened so that I could take the blame. She had no memory of voting against the referendum that would have allowed us to keep it.

Well, I’ve pasted the last half of the column below which deals with the Union’s crocodile tears about having lost the extra period. The column begins with my mulling over another run for the legislature in the 2002 election. I eventually did run and lost – one of my thirteen electoral defeats. I think its 13. Its hard to remember them all.

Here’s what I wrote about the “seven period day.” Or, if you’d like, you can read the whole original column:

Last week I bumped into my old nemesis Frank Wanner, the teachers’ union president, a fellow who helped put me in the minority. While my feud with Frank was put to bed two years ago my feud with the folks he helped elect lives on. Well, it’s true that one of them was defeated last year, but the three-high school supporters still have more votes. Frank was very cordial and suggested that we get together. I promised to call.

The next day I had to leave a message with him because he was holding a press conference about saving the seven-period day. I sure wish he’d done this before we finished registering students for a six-period day! When my wife saw him on the news she said, “No wonder Frank was so friendly!” The next day I left another message for Frank.

The weekend was blissfully free of politics (except for some email) until we joined friends for an Easter Dinner. Our friend’s son is interested in political science. He told me that Frank likes to bad mouth SUVs in class. Apparently my website gets discussed too. That explains some of my email.

Frank called me back on Monday and we agreed to meet at Bixby’s. I told Frank that I’d heard that he hated SUV’s. He smiled and asked where I’d heard this. I told him that I had my sources.

We talked about his seven-period day proposal which he assured me was not a negotiations ploy. I prefer to take him at his word. The DFT wants high school students to be able to take up to seven classes a day. Many students, teachers and parents are convinced that this is a key to getting into their preferred colleges. Whether it is or not the six-period day is our response to financial hard times. I told Frank what I keep telling the Board – if we had two high schools we could keep seven periods. Frank didn’t disagree. Ah! But I’m in the minority!

If I could just get elected to the legislature maybe I could do something about school finance. I’m sure not having much luck on the school board.


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[sf-lug] Monday night at the Javacat (and a little poll)

jim stockford jim at well.com
Sat May 13 09:04:56 PDT 2006

SF-LUG meets again, Monday, 5/15, at the Javacat
cafe from 6:00 till 8:00. I'm gonna ask the owner if
we can put in a machine we can build, configure,
play on; maybe I'll have an answer by Monday nite.

Poll: in the sf-lug email are you interested in reading about
1. consumer applications (audio, photo, video...)
2. graphics (image editors, diagrammers, painters...)
3. writing (word processors, grammar and style programs...)
4. databases (in all their various glories)
5. web design (technologies that support page composition, look and
6. web development (programmatic and IT support)
7. job postings (for their amusement value, for edification, 'cause
you're broke)
8. linux kernel and module info (for installation and configuration)
9. installation in general (drivers, partitioning strategies...)
10. distro comparisons (RedHat vs Debian vs ...)
11. community-related (jabber, linux-picnic, trips places...)
12. IT technologies (trends such as SOA, networking products...)
13. what we sf-luggers are doing
other. Lemme know

Me, i'm interested most in 7, 9, 12, 13 and also 1, 6, 11.

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[sf-lug] Fw: Saturday is NOT CONFIRMED

Michael Blanc mblanc at znet.com
Fri Jun 22 13:05:03 PDT 2007

It looks like the consensus of our group is to wait until more is prepared.
Please let us know that the machines are delivered, and that we can arrange
a firm appointment to take stock of things.

 I am forwarding the comment of one member, who most succinctly summarizes
some of the recent discussions on our list. While my own opinion is that it
is overly ambitious, it will yet be useful to have them in mind as
desireable goals.

>I've been thinking a lot about Rick's comments about preparation for
>this kind of volunteer work. I think he made some excellent points about
>ensuring the long term success of the project. I thought it might be
>useful to get some of these questions answered (I'm not sure if they
>have already been answered, or if anyone has any suggestions for changes
>or additions that would be great):
>Why do you want Linux installed on these machines (OpenOffice is
>available on Windows as well)?
>What are the expected uses of these computers, and by whom (and what is
>their computer familiarity/experience)?
>Are the users familiar with a particular version of Linux and/or who
>will be training the users to get them familiar with it?
>Who will be maintaining the computers in terms of hardware issues?
>How will these computers connect to the internet? What is the network
>topology, and/or is one needed to be put in place?
>Who will be maintaining the computers in terms of software after the
>initial installation (installing new applications as needed, fixing
>software issues that come up, installing security updates)?
>Who will be responsible for backups and recovery? What important
>information will need to be backed up?
>Again, any changes or comments welcome.
>Thanks, Tom
>Tom Haddon
>mailto:tom at greenleaftech.net
>m +1.415.871.4180

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[sf-lug] Outlook pop3->IMAP migration?

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Jul 25 14:00:45 PDT 2007

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Lx Rudis wrote:

> hello luggers.
> attached is email from the guy i recently assisted.
> anyone here had experience with this sort of work?
> got any advice?  comments?

A technical but fast way to do this is the way I would do it: First of all
export from Outlook to a regular UNIX mbox file.  Then you can scp that to
the server pretty quickly and import that on the server side all at once.
You could use http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/ to read the
Outlook PST files into mbox files.

The mail server either will expect mbox, in which case you're done, or
Maildir, in which case I recommend mb2md from

Doing it this way avoids the pains of Outlook's IMAP support as well as
minimizes round-trip delays while Outlook waits for acknowledgment of each
individual message from the IMAP server.

-- Asheesh.

Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

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Re: Autoconf will (not?) detect cross-tools unprefixed

From: Erik de Castro Lopo
Subject: Re: Autoconf will (not?) detect cross-tools unprefixed
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:08:48 +1000

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:12:07AM CEST:
> >
> > Does anyone have a quick example of where using a non-prefixed
> > tool name leads to bugs?
> ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i586-mingw32msvc
> If configure finds i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, but only unprefixed ar and
> ranlib, things are going to break pretty quickly.  ;-)

Closer to the original problem, if you are doing a cross compile
build and there is no cross pkg-config but the native pkg-config
exists and finds the native version of the library, you will get
build errors at the linking stage.

These link stage errors can be difficult for people who are new
to cross compiling to debug and fix. They are also difficult for
people who do lots of cross compiling but are new to software
using the autotools.

Erik de Castro Lopo
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  affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's
  activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action,
  but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in
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Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg - bgblitz (1st match)

From: Jon Kinsey
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg - bgblitz (1st match)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:11:35 +0000

At 12:43 12/12/2003, Achim Mueller wrote:
* Jon Kinsey wrote on 12 Dez 2003:
> I came to the same conclusion yesterday, so I'll add 4 new images for the
> reversed direction.

Where did you add it? Does cvs work again?

No I've not done it yet (it's straightforward though so I'll probably pop it in tonight), cvs/savannah is still being rebuilt.

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Re: [Orgmode] keeping track of sent emails in org?

From: Richard Riley
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] keeping track of sent emails in org?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:45:32 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Bill White wrote:
>> On Mon Oct 27 2008 at 13:11, "Eric Schulte" <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> Sebastian Rose <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>> to add links to autgoing mails automatically, adding a link to
>>>> such a
>>>> mail once should be enough, to add the right funciton to your
>>>> 'mail-send-hook' (?? don't no which hook really...) since it's
>>>> just a
>>>> question of the link format.
>>> It seems like this could get complicated as it depends on how/where
>>> you store your sent messages.  Also, it looks like org-mode links
>>> rely
>>> on the gnus group, and article id to link back to an article, so
>>> somehow you would need a hook which runs after the sent article has
>>> been saved into a group and given an ID.
>> Ah ha!  Something was bugging me about org's links to gnus messages.
> Can Gnus in general find messages by message-id?  Then it would be
> nice if we could do that.  I believe the mhe interface does use
> message-id already, maybe others too.

gnus-summary-refer-article (message-id)

But only from the same group summary it seems.

I bet Sacha could have it done in minutes :-;

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Re: [Gnumed-devel] auditing and the multiple-update problem

From: Horst Herb
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] auditing and the multiple-update problem
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 11:02:29 +1000
User-agent: KMail/1.5

On Sun, 18 May 2003 06:52, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >> I believe we have excluded the multiple update problem from
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by multiple update problem ?
> concurrent updates to the the same row

We could always write-lock affected rows whenever somebody requests a
writeable connection;
For the vast, vast majority of already existing records, they will be read and
displayed via a read-only connection.
Now, if the user starts editing such a record, the widget notifies the backend
and requests a writeable connection for the affected rows. The backend fires
a notification and subscribing clients will then notify affected widgets,
whcih in turn change subtly their background colour to indicate that somebody
is modifying the content right now.

This s not too much of a hassle, since it should happen only very, very rarely
anyway. It is the nature of health records that records are added, but rarely
(if ever) modified.

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Re: passing down value of terminal

From: Hans Aberg
Subject: Re: passing down value of terminal
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:00:16 +0100

On 22 Nov 2006, at 19:41, vlad florentino wrote:

In gnu bison:

I have a couple of productions of this type:
ID '.' complex
 : {...}

 : FOOBAR  {...}

How can I pass the value of ID, a terminal, down to the production
'complex', a non terminal. I would like to determine what's the value of ID
and take actions based on that, i.e.:
   if( strcmp(ID.value,"this") == 0)

You can't within the parser itself, as it is a bottom-up parser; so some trick is needed. So either use variable global to the parser, or write it in the action of the first rule you have above (using $1). You might also attempt using negative $k numbers (perhaps $-1 in your case), but that is tricky: for one, thing, it will break if you variable "complex" is used in some other context.

  Hans Aberg

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Re: Review of quota-06

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:41:15 +0100
Message-ID: <423BF3BB.8000507@gmx.de>
To: ejw@soe.ucsc.edu
CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org

Jim Whitehead wrote:
> Julian Reschke writes:
>>I think it would be a useful feature if a client could detect
>>whether a write failed because of disk full rather than quota
>>exceeded (Unix and
>>NFS4 status codes allow the same distinction, see RFC3530,
> So, if I understand you correctly, you're advocating the addition of a
> single additional error code to cover the storage media full case?

My personal preference was to leave disk limits out of quota, and to
define separate properties and precondition codes for them. However, if
people feel this is overkill spec-wise, the ability to distinguish both
cases when an operation fails would be welcome (and a cheap addition).

>>I'd like to understand why it's only optional on non-collections.
> Seems to me this is obvious. There are four cases:
> 1) No support collections, no support others: You don't implement the
> specification

> 2) Support collections, no support others: Frequent case, collections have
> quota information

Why wouldn't the non-collection resources have quota information?

> 3) Support collections, support others: Possibly frequent case, all
> resources give quota and used

> 4) No support collections, support others: This case isn't allowed in the
> specification, but seems unlikely to me, since collection support is so
> useful

> So, is it that you think case #4 is useful, and want it to be allowed? Or
> are you seeking clarification text to be added to the draft?

I'd simply like the spec to be as simple as possible. Adding a special
distinction for case 2 doesn't seem to be that useful.

>>So for a server that implements user-based quota (which IMHO
>>is the most common way to implement it), DAV:quota-used-bytes
>>usually will be the
>>*same* for a collection and it's members.
> Ah, good point.
> Let me try again with some suggested text (the second paragraph is new, and
> based on your previous text):
> "Since there are many factors that affect the storage used by a set of
> resources, including automatic compression, the size of associated metadata,
> and server-inserted content (such as that created by PHP code) in the
> on-the-wire representation of resources, clients are advised to not depend
> on the value of DAV:quota-used-bytes being the sum of the
> DAV:getcontentlength properties for resources contained by a collection.
> Additionally, because there may be a number of distinct but overlapping sets
> of resources for which a DAV:quota-used-bytes is maintained (see Section 4),
> there may be no correlation between the size of the resources in a
> collection and DAV:quota-used-bytes. For example a server that implements
> user-based quotas, DAV:quota-used-bytes usually will be the same for a
> collection and it's members."
> If you have quibbles with this text, please suggest modifications to it in
> spec. language (it's easier than reading your mind :-)

No, the text is just fine. An alternative is not to say anything at all,
but if we do say something, it at least needs to be correct :-)

Best regards, Julian

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Re: Ancestors and siblings

From: Donald Spaeth <donald@spaeth.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:13:23 +0100
Message-ID: <006801c44294$bc201a30$cb6d893e@D9BKQB0J>
To: "Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>, <www-ql@w3.org>

My source was Michael Brundage's new book on XQuery, pp. 68-69.  However, I
had not appreciated the finer points of the distinction between XQuery 1.0
and XPath 2.0, and XQuery was my main concern.  In any case, I am glad to
learn that they aren't as gone as I had feared.  Thanks to Jan for the
pointer to full-axis feature.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>
To: "Donald Spaeth" <donald@spaeth.freeserve.co.uk>; <>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: Ancestors and siblings

XPath 2.0 still has them and for XQuery they have been added as optional
in the last call draft. Why do you think they are gone?

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Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies

These are SERIOUSLY my new favorite brownies. I really truly thought it couldn't get any better than my Ooey Gooey Chocolatey Brownies but let me tell you, I was wrong. These brownies may seriously be the holy grail of brownies. Smooth deep chocolate flavor with just the right amount of peanut butter and chocolate chip in every bite. ohhhhh my, I want to bake another batch now. I will say, after they were finished baking, I snuck a piece to try and was NOT too happy with the taste. By the next morning? Holy shiiiiii...... well, you get the idea. WELL worth the wait. I STRONGLY urge you to try these brownies AND to wait til the next day (or at least several hours) before you try them. (BTW this makes a HUGE batch of brownies. Ideally, you should make them in a sheet pan) I got about 26 GOOD size brownies from this AFTER the hubby took a BIG chunk out.

You will need:

  • 1 pound UNsalted butter
  • 1 pound plus 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, divided into 1 lb and 12 oz
  • 6 ounces UNsweetened chocolate
  • 6 extra-large eggs
  • 3 Tbsp fresh brewed coffee (just go with it!)
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided into 1 cup and 1/4 cup
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 to 1 cup smooth peanut butter

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12 by 18 by 1 1/2-inch sheet pan.
  2. Melt together the butter, 1 pound of chocolate chips, and the unsweetened chocolate in a medium bowl over simmering water. Allow to cool slightly. Stir in the coffee.
  3. In a large bowl, stir (do not beat) together the eggs, vanilla, and sugar. Stir the warm chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and allow to cool to room temperature.
  4. In a medium bowl, sift together 1 cup of flour, the baking powder, and salt. Add to the cooled chocolate mixture.
  5. Toss the remaining 12 ounces of chocolate chips in a medium bowl with 1/4 cup of flour, then add them to the chocolate batter and stir to just incorporate.
  6. Pour into the prepared sheet pan. Spoon the peanut butter over the top of the chocolate mixture and using a knife, swirl it through the chocolate mixture.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes,then take out of the oven and drop the pan onto the counter a few times to release any trapped air between the pan and the chocolatey goodness. Return to oven and bake for about another 10 to 15 minutes more until brownies start to pull away from sides of pan and a toothpick comes out clean. DO NOT overbake!
  8. Allow to cool and ideally these should sit overnight so the flavors can really gel together, They are MUUUUUCH better the next day. Don't eat them and say I didn't warn you! lol
Before Baking. Mmmmm!!!
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  1. Really??? You had to do that to i HAVE to make them, which means i'll HAVE to eat some, there goes my diet (which never really started anyway) LOL :) <3..Seriously, these sound SO good!!

  2. Jami... Yes... yes, you absolutely MUST make these. AND eat them. SO freaking worth it. SO SO SO worth it.

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Nabbed from a friend

Since my Bri stole this from one of her friends' blogs, I figured that I'd do the same.
BUT, since I've obviously got some closeted OCD tendencies, I decided that I'd wait until the first to start it.

Which will happen in the post I'll start in about five minutes. ^_^

But, in case you're WILD to know what all will be coming, here's the breakdown:

30 Day Challenge
Getting to know me.

Each day of the month, write a blog post according to these guidelines below:

Day 1 - Recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 2 - The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 3 - A picture of you and your friends
Day 4 - A habit that you wish you didn't have
Day 5 - A picture of somewhere you've been
Day 6 - Favorite superhero and why
Day 7 - A picture of someone/something that has had the biggest impact on you
Day 8 - Short term goals for this month and when you'll accomplish them
Day 9 - Something you're proud of in the past few days
Day 10 - Songs you listen to when you're bored, happy, sad, mad, etc.
Day 11 - Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12 - How you found out about blogging and why you have a blog
Day 13 - A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14 - A picture of you and your family
Day 15 - Put your ipod or shuffle on-first 10 songs that play
Day 16 - Another picture of yourself
Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18 - List some plans, dreams, and goals that you have
Day 19 - Nicknames you have and why you have them
Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying or being with in the future
Day 21 - A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22 - What makes you different from everyone else?
Day 23 - Something you crave often
Day 24 - A letter to your parents
Day 25 - What I would find in your bag
Day 26 - What do you think about your friends?
Day 27 - Why you are doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28 - A picture of you from last year and now - How have you changed?
Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned?
Day 30 - Your favorite song

So ... I guess I'd better find a recent picture, huh? :P

WOW, I like it and had NO idea you were closet OCD...I am pretty much out of the closet, need to be medicated OCD...to each their own.

Hilary said...

Hmm...Maybe I'll try it! That is if I can think of 15 interesting things about myself! And I may not have a recent picture either (HAHAHAHA)!

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