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Marco Rubio Could Make History as First Hispanic US President

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Sen. Marco Rubio entered the U.S. presidential race Monday by offering the nation a younger generation of leadership that breaks free of ideas “stuck in the 20th century,” a jab at both Democratic favorite Hillary Rodham Clinton and his one-time Republican mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Standing in front of a banner that proclaimed “A New American Century” and repeating that refrain throughout his kickoff speech, the 43-year-old Cuban-American used his first turn as a Republican presidential candidate to take on two of America’s political dynasties. In doing so, he bet heavily on the electorate’s frustrations with Washington and his ability to change how his party is seen by voters.

“This election is not just about what laws we are going to pass,” Rubio told his evening rally. “It is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.”

He said it’s also a choice between the haves and have-nots, nodding to his own upbringing by working-class parents. “I live an exceptional country where the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”

Earlier in the day, the first-term Republican from Florida spoke to his top donors and told them many families feel the American Dream is slipping away and young Americans face unequal opportunities. He’s banking on the hope that he, alone among many GOP rivals, can make inroads with groups that have long eluded Republicans – young people, minorities and the less affluent.

“I feel uniquely qualified to not just make that argument, but to outline the policies that we need to have in order to achieve it,” he said on the donor call.

In his televised speech, he told supporters, “The time has come for our generation to lead the way toward a new American century.”

“While our people and economy are pushing the boundaries of the 21st century, too many of our leaders and their ideas are stuck in the 20th century,” he added.

Kelly Steele, 50, and her 18-year-old son wore tie-dyed Rubio T-shirts. “We have had a lot of Bushes,” Kelly Steele said, comparing Rubio to a youthful John Kennedy.

“Sen. Rubio kind of reminds me of JFK,” she said. “He’s got that energy and desire and momentum and excitement.”

A Cuban American native of Miami, Florida, Rubio is a graduate of the University of Florida and the University of Miami Law School (Photo: Google)

On Tuesday April 14th, on his first day as a candidate, he is set to return to Washington to join a Senate hearing on a proposed deal with Iran on its nuclear ambitions.

Rubio faces steep challenges to the nomination, including a well-funded one that Bush is expected to offer. The son of one president and brother of another, Jeb Bush was governor while Rubio was speaker of the Florida House. The two formed a close bond, but a presidential campaign was certain to test the strength of their friendship.

Rubio is the third major GOP contender to declare himself a candidate, after Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, in a field that could grow to 20 or more.

Rubio could make history as the nation’s first Hispanic president – as could Cruz.

A snapshot of where Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stands on issues likely to be debated during the Republican presidential primaries, as he enters the race.

Rubio, whose parents emigrated from Cuba, was a co-author of a bipartisan immigration overhaul that would have provided a pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Rubio backed off the issue, after the measure came under fire from conservatives, saying it could not win enough support in Congress.

Rubio now says that border security must be improved first, followed by revamping the process now used to allow people to immigrate. Rubio has been sharply critical of the Obama administration’s executive actions on immigration, saying that the president has exceeded his constitutional power.

Rubio has been a consistent critic of Obama’s foreign policy efforts, including the president’s dealings with Latin American countries and he has called those policies naive, timid and neglectful. Rubio has been a leading critic of Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic ties to Cuba and called it a “victory for oppressive governments.”

His championing of American exceptionalism makes him more of hawk than some of his rivals. He was among 47 senators who signed a letter warning that Congress could upend the deal being worked out by the U.S., Iran and others to control Tehran’s nuclear program. The letter infuriated the White House, which considered the diplomatic deal the best way to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Rubio, like many Republicans, has called for the repeal of Obama’s health care law. Although he’s criticized the growth of entitlement programs, he has called for increasing military spending. Rubio and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton wrote an opinion piece in March saying the armed forced will be “dangerously unready to deploy” if Congress does not reverse recent cuts to military spending.

This spring, he and Utah Sen. Mike Lee introduced a proposed overhaul of the tax code that would reduce the number of income tax brackets and reduce the corporate tax rate while also creating a new $2,500 child credit.

Last year, he proposed a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s anti-poverty programs. The main thrust of the proposal called for placing most of the programs into one central agency that would then hand out grants to states that would design their own programs.

Rubio opposes Common Core school standards and has been critical of federal support for the standards, saying it appears to be part of an effort to have a “national school board” impose a national curriculum.

That sets him apart from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of Common Core’s architects. Rubio backs school choice programs, including offering taxpayer-paid scholarships that let children attend private schools.

Rubio has consistently supported abortion restrictions during his political career. He’s said the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned. In 2013 he was co-sponsor of a bill that would have banned abortions 20 weeks after fertilization, but included exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the woman.

Rubio said decisions whether to allow same-sex marriage should be left to states. He’s criticized judges for overturning bans of gay marriage and has said that some who support gay marriage have been hypocritical because they have been intolerant of those who do not agree with them.

He opposed a medical marijuana initiative that was on the 2014 ballot in his home state, but he did support legislation in Florida that authorized the limited use of a non-euphoric strain of the drug.

Rubio has acknowledged that the climate is changing, but he has expressed skepticism that it is being caused by human activity. He has also said that the threat of climate change does not justify pursuing policies that he contends would harm the economy.

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Published On: Wed, Apr 1st, 2015

More than 40 International Oil Companies interested in Mexican Energy Market

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Over 40 oil companies have sought access to geological data under Mexicos first oil auction in eight decades, showing interest in the process is holding up despite stubbornly low oil prices, according to the nations hydrocarbons regulator, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“Since the auction, dubbed round one, kicked off in December, foreign and local oil companies have paid fees for access to data containing seismic information for the first set of oil blocks that Mexico will put out for bids. More than a dozen have shown interest in the second set,” the newspaper added, quoting the National Hydrocarbons Commission.

According to the Wall Street Journal the interested parties include global companies such as Chevron Corp. and BP PLC, regional competitor Ecopetrol SA, of Colombia, and Mexican upstart Sierra Oil & Gas.

The tally comes as the commission prepares for the third tender in the auction in April, this time for onshore fields likely to draw interest among small and midsize companies.

The first blocks are for exploration and production in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos extracts most of its 2.3 million barrels a day of crude oil. The auctions will be held in July for the exploratory blocks, and in September for discovered fields.

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We get many calls about parents who drink or use illegal drugs around their children despite a court order. Usually, surveillance is requested. Driving intoxicated while children are in the car is a felony in Texas. Other parents may have alcohol and drug problems or a parent may misuse their prescription pain medication. The issue of misusing pain medications can be a difficult case requiring a good deal of investigation and knowledge of additions and medications.

Some parents feed their prescription drug abuse by doctor hopping or frequent trips to the emergency room for fictitious ailments. Some parents may have real and legitimate ailments but overuse their medications making it difficult to tell abuse from overuse or to tell the legitimate use of medications.

A drug abuser’s profile and demeanor is different from a person using pain medications responsibly. A person who is legitimately using pain medications will tend to try to use the least amount of medication possible to control the pain. For example, they might take half a dose of medication even though the doctor wrote the prescription to take a full dose.

In some of our cases we have found illegal drugs, multiple prescription bottles, and over a hundred beer cans and wine bottles by doing trash pulls – a very effective way to determine what is going on inside a household. Often times, in child custody cases, if drug use is suspected by the other party a motion can be filed by your attorney to compel drug testing – for details on different drug tests and their effectiveness see Drug Testing in Family Law, an article I wrote explaining drug testing in high conflict family law cases.  If drug abuse is suspected by the court, the court upon its own motion can order either party to drug test as well.

In the Temporary Orders stage, it is common that both parties are ordered not to use illegal drugs or drink alcohol in the presence of the children or  drink or use drugs 24 (sometimes its 12 hrs) hours prior to visitation. Some parents still do and as investigators we catch them doing it all the time – because the irresponsible parent does not think anybody is watching and that they can do what they want to, “Nobody is going to tell me that I can’t drink.”, forgetting that the other parent still has a say so in the matter.

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Both situations require a good deal of investigation. In some cases showing proof one is NOT doing drugs or drinking excessively is just as important as showing proof that one is abusing drugs.

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Poetry ranges in type from the simple and short to the complex and long. Knowledge of the characteristics of the types serves as an invaluable guide to the reader of poetry. To approach a ballad as though it were an epic or an epic as though it were a lyric is equivalent to expecting from a comedian the philosophic profundity of Aristotle or from the writings of St. Augustine the humor of a television comedy. The various types of poetry differ not only in their characteristics, but in their intentions and in the means by which the intentions are realized. Each must be known for what it is, what it intends, what it does, and how it does it.

What are the reasons for poetry, and what are some of its uses? A poet who recently was awarded the Nobel Prize has given a memorable answer. "Poetry," writes T. S. Eliot, "may make us see the world afresh, or some new part of it. It may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings to which we rarely penetrate."

It is these " deeper, unnamed feelings," common to us all, which the poet reveals. Discovering our hidden emotions, he becomes their interpreter. He gives our inarticulate sensations words - the right words - and thereby makes us atticulate. He takes a small detail and shows us its overwhelming truth. Calling our attention to things we neglect or fail to recognize, he makes us understand not only their nature but our own.

Poetry, then, is not something odd; it is not a special study," a thing set apart from ordinary individuals. On the contrary, it is a vital part of every man, the expression of his deepest emotions. It is not for the few. It is for everyone, in everyone. It might even be said that man inherited poetry from the universe. Before man was conscious of what was about him, even before he was evolved, the universe was full of rhythm. There was a rhythmic balance of light and darkness; day followed night with inevitable regularity. The sun sank, the moon climbed heaven, and all the stars revolved in rhythmical order. The tides rose and fell with a never-ending repetition. The seasons were set to a constant rhythm of four quarters; the earth turned in a rhythm of twenty-four hours and made a circle about the sun in a rhythm of three hundred and sixty-five days. When prehistoric man came upon the scene, he responded to the sway of a universal pendulum. All the rhythms- of creation were repeated within him: the beat of his heart, the rise and fall of his breath, the alternation of his waking and sleeping. Mothers echoed the eternal rhythm whenever they rocked a baby to sleep or crooned a wordless lullaby. Savage priests danced around campfires, putag ting their prayers into poetic chants, making in ic, and stamping their barbaric rhythms into rituals. Rhythm is the base of poetry. It is the heartbeat and the pulse in the lifeblood of our language. Our daily speech is full of rhythm. When speech becomes uplifted or exalted the rhythm becomes more pronounced, and,-as the rhythm is emphasized, the prosaic becomes poetic. Deeply emotional passages in the Bible, parts of certain novels like Melville's "Moby Dick," and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are printed as prose, but they are so rhythmical that they are often classified as poetry. Poetry, therefore, may be said to be the rhythmical expression of man's highest thoughts and his deepest dreams.

Although it is plain that poetry fulfills a great human need, it is also true that some people have a prejudice against poetry, especially modern poetry. They claim that it is obscure and difficult. They say that it is written on queer subjects by queer creatures, that poets are a lot of moon-struck dreamers, starry-eyed simpletons, and long-haired incompetents who are unconscious of the real world.

Prejudice and truth have little in common. It is worth looking at the truth about poetry if only to dispel the prejudice against it. There have been a few writers, painters, and composers who were strange and eccentric, just as there are strange and eccentric persons in every walk of life. But poetry has been written chiefly by men who were anything but weak or odd. The great poets have also been great persons. They did not try to escape from the workaday world and live isolated lives in some fanciful " ivory tower." Some of them were called upon to perform important missions, and practically all of them were vigorously engaged in the world's work. Chaucer, " the father of English poetry," was an ambassador, but he kept company with millers and peasants as well as knights and priests. Philip Sidney was a gallant soldier. Walter Raleigh was an explorer, a statesman, and a warrior. Shakespeare was an actor and manager of a theatrical troupe, besides being a small-town boy who became the world's greatest poet-playwright. John Milton, champion of the rights of the free man, acted as England's secretary of foreign affairs. The Elizabethan Ben Jonson was a bricklayer. Robert Herrick, author of exquisite lyrics, was a goldsmith. Robert Burns was a farmer.

These men meditated in the midst of action, as have poets in later days. John Keats is sometimes thought of as a fragile spirit; but, before he succumbed to tuberculosis, he was an athlete, a skilled cricket-player, a boxcr, and an all-round good fighter. Emerson is pictured as a preaching philosopher, but he was a rugged citizen of the outdoors and still went swimming in Walden Pond at the age of seventy-eight. Whittier, another famous New England poet, started life as a chore-boy, cobbled shoes, and grew up to be one of the country's most courageous foes of slavery. Besides being the poet of democracy, Whitman was a carpenter, teacher, and active journalist. Tennyson wrote dainty lyrics, but he could bend horse-shoes and throw a crowbar farther than any man in his village. "The great poets," wrote T. W. H. Crosland, "are not only the sanest people in the world, but physically and temperamentally the toughest."

This is equally true of the poets of our own times. Far from being frail in body and precious in thought, John Masefield, poet laureate of England, spent his youth before the mast, sailed the seven seas and, during his stay in America, earned his living in a carpet factory in Yonkers. Edwin Arlington Robinson worked in the New York subway. Robert Frost was a bobbin-boy in the mills of Massachusetts before he became a farmer and teacher in Vermont and New Hampshire. Carl Sandburg drove a milk-wagon, was a harvest hand, dish-washer, truck-handler, handyman, and enlisted as a soldier during the Spanish-American War. Vachel Lindsay pitched hay and tramped across the country, spreading his "gospel of beauty " and trading rhymes for bread. Rupert Brooke and Joyce Kilmer were two of the many soldierpoets who died for their countries. Langston Hughes was a hotel busboy. Merrill Moore left doctoring in Boston to risk his life in China during World War II, and Karl Shapiro wrote much of his best poetry while serving on an island in the South Pacific.

These poets are close to us. They tell about ordinary things: an old wall, a few wildflowers, coal mines, skyscrapers, factories, trees, journeys, homesick blues. They celebrate simple people. One of the great poems of our times is Robert Frost's conversational "The Death of the Hired Man" the most striking section in Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes is the part entitled "Yarns of the People", which is a summary of proverbs, superstitions, country wisdom, tall tales, and folk-sayings. The poets make readers see ordinary things in a sharper focus and feel them with a greater understanding.

There is an unsuspected wealth of beauty in daily speech; we make our language more vivid by using swift poetic phrases. We aren't satisfied to say that a thing is merely "fast"; it achieves increased speed when we say- it is "fast as lightning." To make it still more colorful we used a poetic device called hyperbole (which means exaggeration) by saying it is as fast "as greased lightning! "Contrariwise, an old horse isn't just "slow." It is (to use another comparison or simile) as "slow as molasses" or, to make it still sfower, "as molasses in January." The power of simple poetic comparison is shown in such well-known phrases as "plain as a turnip,"sharp as a knife," "clever as a fox," "hungry as a bear," "scarce as hens' teeth," "cute as a kitten," "busy as a bee." We say these things without being aware that we are using the same devices of speech as the poet.

Even slang has its roots in poetry. Slang, sometimes called the shorthand of the people," intensifies languauge when we speak of "crashing" a party, or "muscling" in. To be "burned up" is a more fiery as well as a more poetic wav of saying "incensed." "I'll tell the world!" is certainly more dramatic than "divulge" or "publicize."

The common man's poetic instinct is strikingly illustrated by the popular names given to wildflowers. In every instance the country name is more charming, and more accurately descriptive, than the technical name. A certain plant is known to the botanist as Arisaema triphyllum; but the ordinary nature-lover recognizes it as a "Jack-in-the-Pulpit," a name which is imaginative and poetically humorous. Instead of the botanical Digitalis, we prefer the whimsical "Foxglove." We say "Monkshood" (which is what the flower looks like) instead of Aconite. We are being unconsciously poetic when we refer casually to such wayside weeds as "Dandelions" (originally "Dent de Lion" or "Lion's Tooth"), "Baby's Breath," "Butter-and-Eggs," "Deadly Nightshade," "Aster (meaning "a star"), "Heal-All," "Solomon's Seal" "Jewelweed," "Thimbleweed," "Black-eyed Susan," etc. The common daisy is like a diminutive sun with its golden center and outspreading rays; it was called, like the sun, the "Eye of Day" or "Day's Eye," hence "daisy."

Like the character in Molière's play who was delighted to find that he had been talking prose all his life, we are continually using poetry for emphasis or for color, even when we are unconscious of it. We are all part-time poets whether we realize it or not.

A good poem creates excitement; the beat of rhythm and the leap of rhyme keep the reader in a state of animation. In all ages men have been moved by lively songs and roused by dramatic poems. Long before poetry was actually written or printed, the ancient bards sang their tales, celebrating heroic battles and glorifying gallant deeds in verse. Poems which tell stories are popular because so often they reach down into the heart of the folk; like folk-tales, they originate among the people. The old tales in verse were made for crowds in market places; they were sung in taverns, and repeated on street corners. The ancient singers put the history of their time into galloping measures and ringing rhymes; they embroidered legends with highly colored figures and turned the news of the day into literature.

It is said that one obstacle to the appreciation of poetry is that the great many different kinds of poetry make it almost impossible to define it. Although poetry may be indefinable, it is unmistakable. Nevertheless it is natural to want an interpretation, if not a definition, which will explain the peculiar power and appeal of poetry.

The poets themselves have tried to describe some of the ways poetry differs from prose. "Prose," declared Samuel Taylor, "consists of words in their best order. Poetry consists of the best words in the best order." Matthew Arnold put the same idea somewhat differently: "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, the most impressive, and the most effective mode of saying things." "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best minds," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley; "a poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." Edgar Allan Poe considered poetry "the rhymical creation of beauty." Robert Frost says that a living poem is "a reaching out toward expression, an effort to find fulfilment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words." Recognizing that it is a combination of romantic beauty and everyday realism Carl Sandburg writes: "Poetry is a synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

It is obvious that interpretations differ; there is no final all-inclusive definition of poetry. Technically, it might be summarized this way: Poetry is a rhythmical pattern of words expressing deeply felt emotion and/or experience and/or imagination. The greater the combination of emotion, experience, and imagination, the greater the poem.

A poem is created when the poet composes it; it is re-created each time it is read with understanding. Before we can appreciate a poem, we must know how to read it. And as we read it, we must be aware of certain values. It will not be difficult if we remember five things about poetry.

  1. Poetry is concentrated thought. A poem says much in little; therefore, we should try to anticipate that concentration. We must focus our attention on the thought, not hurry past the idea.
  2. Poetry is a kind of word-music. A poem has a tune of its own. In reading aloud we should be careful not to spoil the music by using a high-pitched tone or a sing-song voice. Follow the beat naturally; give it full value, but do not force it.
  3. Poetry expresses all the senses. A poem communicates thoughts by the poet's choice of words; therefore, to extract full meaning from the words we should listen with all our faculties. We should listen for the characteristic and changing sounds as well as for the descriptive and unusual words. We should look for the arresting phrase and the illuminating image. We should feel the power of fresh epithets and old allusions. We should smell the perfume and taste the flavor carried by the words themselves.
  4. Poetry answers our demand for rhythm. A poem beats time simply and strongly; therefore, we need only respond to it with our own natural rhythm. Whether or not we are poets, we are all rhythmical by nature; we breathe, walk, run, sing, cheer, dance, even work in rhythm. The poet patterns this rhythm, and the reader enjoys the beat of the lines because they satisfy a deep-seated rhythmic impulse.
  5. Poetry is observation plus imagination. The poet has written under the spell of emotional and intellectual excitement. He has been seized by some mood or the force of some incident, and there has been conceived in him this living thing, this order out of chaos: a poem. The reader should react imaginatively to this intense creation. He should share as much of the emotion as possible. He will then understand not only the meaning of the poem, but its suggestions and implications.

With these five observations about poetry in mind, link to Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence," one of the most imaginative and widely read of modern poems. The poem begins with easy grace yet with concentrated power. Casually, in the tones of ordinary speech, in the simplest possible rhythm, the poet establishes the scene and its background. The reader sees the details of the Maine coast in the opening lines:

    All I could see from where I stood
    Was three long mountains and a wood;
    I turned and looked another way,
    And saw three islands in a bay.

The poem's beat and tone are thus established; the lines proceed as innocently as a child's counting-out rhyme. The rhythm is so definite, the speech so direct, that an intimate contact between the reader and the poet is immediately achieved.

    So with my eyes I traced the line
    Of the horizon, thin and fine,
    Straight around till I was come
    Back to where I'd started from;
    And all I saw from where I stood
    Was three long mountains and a wood.

Thus the very simplicity, the "tone of speech," has vividly reflected not only the landscape seen by the poet, but the mood evoked by it. As one reads further the contact grows closer; the reader yields more and more to the spell of the words. Familiar details take on larger significance. The actual scene is so surcharged with emotion that it becomes more than real and is lifted to the plane of the spiritual.

    I saw and heard, and knew at last And present, and forevermore.
    The universe, cleft to the core,
    Lay open to my probing sense.

Lying upon the grass, the young poet is in such close touch with the sky, the mountains, and Infinity, that what started to be a rhymed record of a scene becomes a vision of immensities. The small and the large are one; the poet becomes part of the earth itself, suffers all its pangs, is pierced by every twisting root. The very epithets - "envious thrust," "brooded wrong," "heavy night" - emphasize the emotion.

    . . .Mine was the weight
    Of every brooded wrong, the hate
    That stood behind each envious thrust;
    Mine every greed, mine every lust.

She sees a man starving in Capri -and starves with him. She sees two ships strike together in a great fog-bank, hears a thousand screams smite the heavens - "and every scream tore through my throat." As the poem proceeds, we realize she is sharing not only the anguish of earth but all its growths and joys. As though she herself were deep in the ground, she feels each penetrating drop of rain, every searching sunbeam. She prays to be restored to finite existence, to the little things of everyday. And suddenly she feels:

    The grass, a-tip-toe at my ear ...
    I felt the rain's-cool finger-tips ...
    Brushed tendcrly across my lips ...
    And all at once the heavy night
    Fell from my eyes and I could see -

She has found an answer to the overpowering immensities. From now on she is vibrantly identified with all that lives and struggles and grows about her.

    0 God, I cried, no dark disguise
    Can e'er hereafter hide from me
    Thy radiant identity!
    Thou canst not move across the grass
    But my quick eyes will see Thee pass,
    Nor speak, however silently,
    But my hushed voice will answer Thee . . .
    God, I can push the grass apart
    And lay my finger on Thy heart!

So the poem draws to its close, mounting ever higher with a quiet but convincing certainty. And the reader mounts with it. The poet's identification of all of life has been shared, apprehended, completed. And it is the reader who has made the final completion- By means so simple and yet so subtle that he is hardly aware of it, the reader has ceased being merely a reader and has become the chief actor in the poem - has become, during the taking-on of this intense emotional experience, the poet herself.

Another poem in which the different effects and poetic devices increase the reader's enjoyment is G. K. Chesterton's "Lepanto." This is the famous Mediterranean naval battle which took place on October 7, 157I, when the Allied Christian powers broke the domination of the Turks The conflict has-additional historical importance because it was the last great encounter between fleets of galleys and also because it was the last of the Crusades. The poem ends with a brief glimpse of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, who fought in the battle and smiled ("but not as Sultans smile") at the outcome. The contrasts in sight and sound are immediately established as the poem begins:

White founts falling in the Courts of the sun

The gathering of the aroused Christians is indicated in the subdued but pronounced alliteration of:

Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard

It increases with the stronger alliterative accents of:

    Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
    Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold,
    In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold

Finally the music breaks out in full force with:

    Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
    Then the rockets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

G. K. Chesterton's shrewd choice of words adds sharpness to the meaning as well as the music. Elizabeth is "the cold queen of England" because she refused to take part in the expedition; the daring Don John of Austria is "the crownless prince risen from" a doubtful seat "because he was the illegitimate brother of King Philip of Spain; the Christian captives are "sick and sunless" "like a race in sunken cities" because they are slaves, chained to their oars in the dark holds of the Turkish ships. Other descriptive terms and resounding phrases indicate the progress of the poem - the ominous and quiet laughter, the continually mounting excitement, the full blast of battle, the final victory.

Further appreciation may be attained by comparing such a poem, in which sound effects are of primary importance, with Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo," John Masefield's "Rounding the Horn," and Harold Monro's "Every Thing." In each, the words project the idea and the emotion with a force and clarity which any sympathetic reader can understand. Such understanding will increase with each reading and enlarge one's receptiveness to the enjoyment of poetry.

Poetry is not, as some suppose, the poet talking to himself exclusively or using a special language to impress a few other poets. It is an act of sharing. The poet hopes to interest all of us; he uses certain devices and forms of poetry in order to make the communication more intense and more memorable to the reader. If we comprehend the poet's intent and grasp his meaning, the sharing of his ideas and emotions makes the poet's world our world.

Essentially the poet's world is our world - a world enlarged by the imagination and enriched with beauty. It is there for us to enjoy by the simple process of reading - reading creatively. In one of his rare and profoundly serious moments, the author of Life With Father, Clarence Day, Jr., wrote this wonder fully condensed essay about reading: "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."

In the vast world of books it is poetry, more than any other kind of writing, which lives on "still young, still as fresh as the day it was written still packed with the power of life, telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." There is no more powerful and no nobler form of speech.

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Below is a small glimpse of recent liturgical art installations, developed through the vision and inspiration of Virginia Thibeaux. To see the archive of photos on Flickr, click here.

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We’re already celebrating Easter here in our house. We love all the things that this favorite Spring holiday brings. We’re also trying a few new things this year.

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Easter Egg Hunt Idea: We always hunt Easter eggs several weeks leading up to the actual holiday. My boys love to grab their pails and race to see who can collect the most eggs. That’s fun and all, until someone is left out because older brother is faster and collected them all. I have the perfect solution for that! Starting this year, the boys are going to get a colored pail and the new directions include only picking up your designated color egg. So, if you’re carrying a yellow pail, you can only pick up the yellow eggs. If you have a blue pail, you’re only able to pick up the blue eggs. I love this idea because it leaves enough for everyone to fill their pails with eggs. That way everyone is happy!

Deviled Eggs

The Best Deviled Egg Recipe: Deviled eggs are one of my favorite things to eat on Easter Sunday. Not sure what it is, but I HAVE to have them for Easter dinner. Here is my favorite recipe.

  • 8 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp prepared mustard
  • 1 tbsp of mayonaise
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • pinch of paprika

1. Place eggs in saucepan and cover with water. Let it boil. Cover, then remove from heat, and let eggs sit in hot water for 10-12 minutes. Remove from water and cool.

2. Peel & cut in half lengthwise. Remove the yolk and combine with mustard, mayonnaise, and salt and pepper. Mix together real well until smooth.

3. Refill each egg half with the yolk mixture and garnish with paprika.

One of the books we’re reading this Spring is An Easter Prayer, written by Amy Parker. This is the perfect book for preschoolers. In this book, little ones learn they have much to thank God for when spring arrives. But the most important thing is JESUS! I encourage you to check this book out at the library or purchase it for your little preschooler to read. It will quickly become an Easter tradition.

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I was just checking my PC temperture with HWInfo and it says the MCP is 90C. I then checked this on Nvidia system monitor to confirm it and it said the same thing. I recently bought a geforce gts 250, and installed a 500W PSU.

I might be wrong but there is a small heatsink near the bottom of the motherboard, that is shaped to allow the PCIe graphics card to fit.

Is this heatsink on the MCP?
And what should I do about the high temperature. I have taken the big fan out of my old PSU, and stuck it on the inside of the cases side grill, and attached it temporarily to the floppy drive power lead. This is obviously not enough. Do you think the heat sink could have been damaged somehow, or is not stuck on properly?

I don't know how long this has been going on, and am not sure whether it has started since using the new card and PSU.

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    I took the temperature with different configurations.

    Took out the graphics card, and left the case open : MCP = 71C
    Closed case/no card/custom side panel fan/pci access panels taken out : MCP = 75C

    Graphics card in/ open case : MCP = 79C
    closed case/with graphics card/(same fan and panels as above) : MCP = 89C

    I am pretty sure it is the thing under the small heatsink now; but also noticed the heatsink is slightly wobbly. Is this a problem, and does it mean that it has come away from the paste a bit?

    I would have thought the temp increase with the graphics card installed is expected due to the higher power draw, and reduced air flow around the MCP heatsink.

    but 71C at idle, with no graphics and with the case open!?
  2. problem sorted, I have bought a bigger system case, some case fans, and a new low profile chipset heatsink/fan. :D
  3. Good to hear. what temps you running now? what kind of chipset heatsink for chipset did you get? i really need to cool down my northbridge
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BERLIN — A wall has appeared around the United States — at a popular miniature world attraction in the German city of Hamburg.

Operators of the Miniatur Wunderland erected the wall complete with barbed wire this week, separating the U.S. display from the rest of the world.

The site is one of Hamburg’s most popular tourist attractions, featuring a vast indoor model railway stretching across two floors.

Co-founder Gerrit Braun said Thursday the idea for the wall arose after staff discussed whether the U.S. display needed changing to reflect “current developments.”

Braun said the wall wasn’t meant to represent U.S. President Donald Trump’s promised concrete barrier along the border with Mexico. Instead, it was intended to encourage visitors to think about what happens “when we build ideological walls around our countries.”


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Saving Batavia: A Vision of Jakarta's Past and Future - Tourism Indonesia

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Saving Batavia: A Vision of Jakarta's Past and Future

If you leave aside South Jakarta’s business corridor, the high-priced restaurants and the city’s many shopping malls, what are you going to do in a metropolis desperately short of public spaces? Where in Jakarta can you escape the pollution, traffic and pressure for a stroll through shaded streets, a coffee at a sidewalk cafe, a visit to an art gallery and a chance to enjoy the architectural treasures of a forgotten time?

Nowhere, is the obvious answer. At least not yet. But if the decaying treasures of old Batavia, the neighborhood now known as Kota Tua, or Old Town, could be salvaged from more than a half-century of neglect, a gem would be revealed that could become an oasis of calm for city residents and a money-spinning tourist attraction for visitors to Jakarta, most of whom just hurry through their hours here, anxious to change planes for Bali.

For now, of course, apart from the partially restored splendor of Taman Fatahillah and the old Dutch city hall, Kota Tua is largely a mess. Historic structures are falling down, trees grow through collapsed roofs. There are seedy nightspots, traffic chaos and little in the way of economic vitality.

We see it differently. Kota Tua is a treasure, one of the largest stands of original colonial-era architecture in Asia. Refurbished, rezoned and allowed to flourish in a public-private partnership — the outlines of which are in a master plan being considered by the Jakarta governor’s office — Kota Tua could, and we think should, take its place alongside the other architectural marvels of Asia.

That the 17th century Dutch had the power and the temerity to think they could recreate their vision of Europe in a tropical outpost rife with disease may be looked upon now as imperial madness. However, the fact that much of this early history remains standing, having evaded destruction through war or a developer’s bulldozer, is a reality that the current generation, separated from the bitterness of the colonial legacy, can now reclaim.

As this special report shows, Kota Tua is integral to Jakarta’s history, and can be a big part of Jakarta’s future.

In its rush over five decades to expand and modernize, Jakarta has largely forgotten its past. Kota Tua is in trouble. The exquisite historic buildings around Taman Fatahillah are crumbling. The grand old boulevard along the Kali Besar canal reeks of stagnant water. The small shop-houses, some providing refuge for squatters, might as well be occupied by ghosts, given how eerie they look after sundown. Similar treasures in Chinatown and the old Arab district bear the scars of neglect.

The whole place could fade to little more than a memory. But given aggressive leadership and a vision of creative change, a city desperate for beauty and calm amid the urban sprawl could benefit immensely from a revitalized and reborn Kota Tua.

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The goal of most people is to be able to own a dream home. This can remain a dream if you are not able to get Canadian home mortgage advice to enable you to make the best decision. There are many companies and banks that offer the mortgage to people. It is important to at least have an idea of their talking terms to able to make a sound decision. The following concern the company offering the mortgage.

There are many banking and financial institutions that do not necessarily need to be licensed to provide mortgage services. Some of the banks are also not necessarily required to complete those loans. This could be risky if you did not have that information before. Some of them will sell the mortgage. Some of them also hire people that are not even qualified to handle mortgage. This leads to poor service. It is therefore important to ensure that the institution that you take a mortgage with is fully licensed and compliant in all things.

A mortgage is a long-term payment that could take up to 15 or 20 years to be completed. It is, therefore, important to check if  is reliable in offering the best mortgage service. You can do this by visiting some of the well-known websites like the Better Business Bureau. Always check the lender to ensure that they have a clean sheet of services and also ensure that you will be taking on a reliable provider.

Some of the brokerage firms have been in existence for less than five years yet have been able to penetrate the market. It is important to consider the background of a brokerage firm. Some of them arise due to the favorable financial situations and will sink back when the adverse conditions set in. Some of them also suffer from lack of expertise in what they are doing. Taking up a mortgage will be placing your trust on shaky ground. It is therefore important to get the service from an experienced lender that will be able to provide best service.

There are different packages that are reserved for different needs. When taking a you are entering a long-term contract;  therefore, you need to be sure that you can sustain the program that you choose. Therefore, choose a broker that has program that best suits your financial needs and which you be comfortable making payments to.

It is important to deal with professional that understand financial matters well. Mortgage is not just about the interest percentages and durations. The brokerage firm should be able to answer your queries well. They should also be able to advise you well as people that know what they are offering.


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You can visit Palm Cove by bus from Cairns. It's about an hour drive. Cause Cairns has no beaches, it's nice to come here to enjoy the sun on the beach.

Palm Cove is okay. It has a nice beach. There are lifeguards as well so ideal when you visit with kids. It can be windy there and you have large waves then so lifeguards are welcome!

There are a few shops but I don't see what the fuzz is about. It's called the 'Saint Tropez' of the northern beaches , I think cause the shops are rather expensive. ;)

We spent some time a the beach but it was quite windy so after a while we walked along the beach to the pier before heading back to Cairns. There are some tourists fishing.
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Bookings of hotel rooms by travel agents account for 81.2 percent of total room nights sold according to TravelCLICK, a provider of e-marketing hotel solutions, and its quarterly eMonitor results. The data shows that worldwide electronic hotel revenue from GDSs and Internet sites increased 16.8 percent over the first quarter of last year. In 2007, Q1 bookings of luxury hotel rooms by travel agents increased 15 percent and surpassed $360 per night in average daily rate. "The luxury hotel market is benefiting greatly from travel-agent generated bookings to sustain high levels of average daily rate growth," said John Hatch, vice president of eMarketing products at TravelCLICK. In sum, GDS bookings by travel agents showed a 10.7 percent increase in average daily rate and 15.8 percent increase in revenue versus the first quarter in 2006. Travel agents continue to be an integral source of higher rate business for hotels, the report said. Visit [] to view the report in its entirety.


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In the UK the Emergency Number for Police, Fire, Ambulance, Coastguard, and Mountain Rescue is 999. When reporting anything try and remain calm and explain the facts.

The Out of Hours Medical assistance line, NHS 24 number is 111. This is for use when the Doctors surgery is closed and your first call unless it’s a genuine emergency.

Non-emergency police can be contacted on 101.

Mountain Rescue main site lists the different regional numbers.

The NHS offer some basic advice on first aid as does Net Doctor, but this is no replacement for seeking professional help.  NHS 24 offers an online checklist.

High Street chemists offer advice and are a great place to start if you feel under the weather or wish to discuss something. They will refer you to a doctor if required.

Should you require a GP or Dentist, a Google search for “dentist” and name of town or “medical practice” and name of town, should provide a number for you.  Again, the local chemist would be able to point you in the right direction.

Emergency treatment at an NHS Hospital in Scotland, is free to everyone, regardless of residency.  However, if travelling from overseas, it is recommended that you take out appropriate Health Insurance.

If you find an unwanted visitor in the form of a tick on yourself or your pet, you can get a tick removal kit from the chemist or vets. To remove a tick, take a pair of tweezers and grip the tick as close to the skin as possible. Pull up and out, without twisting.  If you develop a rash or red ring around the bite, or develop flu-like symptoms within two weeks of a bite, consult a doctor immediately.

If driving in the Highlands, make sure your recovery package is up to date and have breakdown numbers in your glove compartment. And why not invest in a spare pay-as-you-go mobile phone to keep charged in the car.

If you lose your wallet or purse, report it to the police and contact your card providers, bank, insurance and if house keys are lost, arrange a change of locks.

It is a great idea to leave a key with a neighbour when away for any potential emergencies back home, such as a frozen pipe in winter.

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How To Take The Finality Out Of A Final Restraining Order

In the state of New Jersey, a Final Restraining Order (FRO) does not have an expiration date. Therefore, if a Court finds that an FRO is warranted, it will never lapse. The protected party will continue to have the protection of the FRO forever, or at least as long as he or she needs that protection. However, a Defendant may file a motion with the Court to vacate an FRO. However, it is extremely difficult to do so if the protected party does not agree. If a motion to vacate an FRO is filed, a Court will only do so if good cause is shown. The Court will consider eleven factors in making a determination as to whether good cause has been shown:

(1) whether the victim consented to lift the restraining order;
(2) whether the victim fears the defendant;
(3) the nature of the relationship between the parties today;
(4) the number of times that the defendant has been convicted of contempt for violating the order;
(5) whether the defendant has a continuing involvement with drug or alcohol use;
(6) whether the defendant has been involved in other violent acts with other persons;
(7) whether the defendant has engaged in counseling;
(8) the age and health of the defendant;
(9) whether the victim is acting in good faith when opposing the defendant’s request;
(10) whether another jurisdiction has entered a restraining order protecting the victim from the defendant; and
(11) other factors deemed relevant by the court.
Carfagno v. Carfagno, 288 N.J. Super. 424, 435-42 (Ch. Div. 1995).

If the Court is satisfied that good cause has been shown, it may vacate the FRO. As a result, the formerly protected party will no longer have the protection provided by the FRO and the party against whom the FRO was granted will no longer be limited by it. As set forth in the factors, a protected party may consent to lifting the restraining order. There are various reasons why a protected party may feel that he or she no longer needs or wants the protection of an FRO (for example passage of time, distance, child care obligations, etc.). However, if you are a protected party, you should consider this decision very carefully. While you will not be precluded from seeking another restraining order, if needed, you may be vulnerable to future acts of domestic violence, from which you were previously protected. Posted by Robyn E. Ross, Esq.

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  • Looking back at Fedora Workstation so far

    So I have over the last few years blogged regularly about upcoming features in Fedora Workstation. Well I thought as we putting the finishing touches on Fedora Workstation 27 I should try to look back at everything we have achieved since Fedora Workstation was launched with Fedora 21. The efforts I highlight here are efforts where we have done significant or most development. There are of course a lot of other big changes that has happened over the last few years by the wider community that we leveraged and offer in Fedora Workstation, examples here include things like Meson and Rust. This post is not about those, but that said I do want to write a post just talking about the achievements of the wider community at some point, because they are very important and crucial too. And along the same line this post will not be speaking about the large number of improvements and bugfixes that we contributed to a long list of projects, like to GNOME itself. This blog is about taking stock and taking some pride in what we achieved so far and major hurdles we past on our way to improving the Linux desktop experience.

  • Resigning from Fedora Council for Fedora 27

    Since I became a Fedora contributor in August 2015, I’ve spent a lot of time in the community. One of the great things about a big community like Fedora is that there are several different things to try out. I’ve always tried to do the most help in Fedora with my contributions. I prefer to make long-term, in-depth contributions than short-term, “quick fix”-style work. However, like many others, Fedora is a project I contribute to in my free time. Over the last month, I’ve come to a difficult realization.

KDE Events: Akademy 2017 and KDE Edu Sprint

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  • Hey Mycroft, Drive Me to our Goals!

    Almost three months after Akademy 2017, I finally found the time to write a blog post about how I experienced it.

    Akademy is where I learn again about all the amazing things happening in our community, where I connect the dots and see the big picture of where all the effort in the various projects together can lead. And of course, I meet all the wonderful people, all the individual reasons why being in KDE is so amazing. This year was no different.

    Some people voiced their concern during the event that those who are not at Akademy and see only pictures of it on social media might get the feeling that it is mostly about hanging out on the beach and drinking beer, instead of actually being productive. Everyone who was ever at Akademy of course knows this impression couldn’t be further from the truth, but I’ll still take it as a reason to not talk about any of the things that were “just” fun, and focus instead on those that were both fun and productive.

  • KDE Edu sprint 2017 in Berlin

    I had the privilege to attend the KDE Edu sprint in Berlin that happened from the 6th to the 9th of October.

Software: Narabu, ucaresystem, Telegram Messenger

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  • Introducing Narabu, part 2: Meet the GPU

    Narabu is a new intraframe video codec. You may or may not want to read part 1 first.

    The GPU, despite being extremely more flexible than it was fifteen years ago, is still a very different beast from your CPU, and not all problems map well to it performance-wise. Thus, before designing a codec, it's useful to know what our platform looks like.

  • ucaresystem Core v4.0 : Added option to upgrade Ubuntu to the next release

    Since Ubuntu 17.10 has just been released, I have added new feature to the ucaresystem Core that can be used by the user to upgrade his distribution to the next stable version or optionally to the next development version of Ubuntu.

    For those who are not familiar with the ucaresystem app it is an automation script that automatically and without asking for your intervention performs some crucial Ubuntu maintenance processes, which otherwise would be done one by one and pressing Y / N each time.

  • 10 Reasons Why I Switched To Telegram Messenger

    Whatsapp may be the best player in the game when it comes to instant messaging apps, but Telegram Messenger is the entire game itself.

    Because Telegram is not just an app, it is an entire communication platform. It is not bound by restrictions or limitations like other apps.

Graphics and Games: RandR and AMDGPU, Opus Magnum

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  • "NonDesktop" Proposed For RandR: Useful For VR & Apple Touch Bar Like Devices

    Besides Keith Packard working on the concept of resource leasing for the X.Org Server and resource leasing support for RandR, he's also now proposing a "NonDesktop" property for the Resize and Rotate protocol.

    The resource leasing has already been worked out as a candidate for the next update, RandR 1.6, while now this veteran X11 developer is proposing a new "NonDesktop" property for identifying outputs that are not conventional displays.

  • More AMDGPU Changes Queue For Linux 4.15

    Adding to the excitement of Linux 4.15, AMD has queued some more changes that were sent in today for DRM-Next.

    Already for Linux 4.15, the AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager driver should have the long-awaited "DC" display stack that brings Vega/Raven display support, HDMI/DP audio, atomic mode-setting and more. Other pull requests have also brought in a new ioctl, UVD video encode ring support on Polaris, transparent huge-pages DMA support, PowerPlay clean-ups, and many fixes, among other low-level improvements.

  • Opus Magnum, the latest puzzle game from Zachtronics, is released into Early Access

    The developers behind the challenging puzzle games TIS-100 and SHENZEN I/O are at it again and have released their latest title into Steam’s Early Access today.

  • Open your wallets, there's some great Linux games on sale right now

    It's time to throw your wallet at your screen, as we're going to take a look at some awesome Linux games on sale.

System 76 and Purism Laptops

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  • POP!_OS is a developer-focused minimalist Linux distro from System 76

    There aren’t that many Linux hardware manufacturers around. Of the few that exist, System 76 is amongst the most well-known. It offers a slew of laptops and desktops, all shipping with the popular Ubuntu distro pre-installed, saving customers hours of wasted time dealing with driver hell.

    But it recently announced it’s changing gears and creating its own Linux distro, which will replace Ubuntu on its systems, called POP!_OS.

  • Purism’s Linux laptops now ship with Intel Management Engine disabled

    Most computers that ship with recent Intel processors include something called Intel Management Engine, which enables hardware-based security, power management, and remote configuration features that are not tied to the operating system running on your PC.

    For free software proponents, this has been a pain in the behind, because it’s a closed-source, proprietary feature designed to provide remote access to a computer even when it’s turned off. While it’s designed to provide security, it also poses a potential security and privacy threat, since it’s a proprietary system that can only be patched by Intel

  • Purism Now Shipping Their Laptops With Intel ME Disabled

    Purism has announced today all laptops to be shipping from their company will now have the Intel Management Engine (ME) disabled.

    Thanks to work done by security researches in recent years for finding ways to disable ME, especially in light of recent security vulnerabilities, Purism's Coreboot-equipped laptops are now shipping with ME disabled out-of-the-box. Those already with a Librem laptop are able to apply a firmware update to also disable it.

Ubuntu Leftovers: GNOME, Birthday and More

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Flint OS, an operating system for a cloud-first world

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Given the power of today's browser platform technology and web frontend performance, it's not surprising that most things we want to do with the internet can be accomplished through a single browser window. We are stepping into an era where installable apps will become history, where all our applications and services will live in the cloud.

The problem is that most operating systems weren't designed for an internet-first world. Flint OS (soon to be renamed FydeOS) is a secure, fast, and productive operating system that was built to fill that gap. It's based on the open source Chromium OS project that also powers Google Chromebooks. Chromium OS is based on the Linux kernel and uses Google's Chromium browser as its principal user interface, therefore it primarily supports web applications.

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Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Welcomes Unity Fans with New Mutiny Layout, Ships with Snaps

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Ubuntu MATE 17.10 was released today as part of today's Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, bringing six month's worth of improvements and new features for fans of the MATE desktop environment.

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MongoDB's successful IPO reflects its differences with traditional open source

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MongoDB had a good first day of trading with share prices popping roughly 25% over their opening. As the latest big data platform company to IPO, Mongo's fortunes are being compared and equated to Cloudera and Hortonworks.

As upstarts, each is in a race to grow business while whittling down the red ink. Cloudera and Hortonworks are a bit further along this path as their operating losses have begun trending downward - but that happened only after those companies went public.

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Devices: Beelink S1 Mini PC, Aaeon’s SBC, Kobo and LEDE

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  • Beelink S1 Mini PC and Linux – Comedy Gold

    The Beelink S1 is a small, silent mini PC released in August 2017 retailing for around 300 dollars (250 euros). It’s produced by Shenzhen AZW Technology Co Ltd, a Chinese company that focuses on Android smart TV boxes, Intel mini PCs, and home cloud TV boxes.

    The S1 ships with an activated copy of Windows 10. But what makes this mini PC interesting? For starters, it purports to run Ubuntu. Combined with a quad core Celeron CPU, dual monitor support (HDMI and VGA), 4K video, expansion options, together with a raft of other features, the machine looks a mouthwatering prospect compared to many other mini PCs.

  • Kaby Lake Pico-ITX SBC features dual M.2 slots

    Aaeon’s “PICO-KBU1” SBC is built on Intel 7th Gen U-series CPUs with up to 16GB DDR4, dual GbE ports, and M.2 B-key and E-Key expansion.

    The PICO-KBU1 SBC is equipped with Intel’s dual-core, 15W TDP 7th Gen U-series CPUs from the latest Kaby Lake generation. Other 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX boards that run Kaby Lake U-Series processors include Axiomtek’s PICO512. As usual with Aaeon, no OS support is listed.

  • Kobo firmware 4.6.9995 mega update (KSM, nickel patch, ssh, fonts)

    It has been ages that I haven’t updated the MegaUpdate package for Kobo. Now that a new and seemingly rather bug-free and quick firmware release (4.6.9995) has been released, I finally took the time to update the whole package to the latest releases of all the included items. The update includes all my favorite patches and features: Kobo Start Menu, koreader, coolreader, pbchess, ssh access, custom dictionaries, and some side-loaded fonts.

  • LEDE v17.01.4 service release

    Version 17.01.4 of the LEDE router distribution is available with a number of important fixes. "While this release includes fixes for the bugs in the WPA Protocol disclosed earlier this week, these fixes do not fix the problem on the client-side. You still need to update all your client devices. As some client devices might never receive an update, an optional AP-side workaround was introduced in hostapd to complicate these attacks, slowing them down."

Samsung Leftovers

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OSS Leftovers

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  • FOSDEM 2018 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation
  • Top Bank, Legal and Software Industry Executives to Keynote at the Open Source Strategy Forum
  • Copyleft is Dead. Long live Copyleft!

    As you may have noticed, we recently re-licensed mgmt from the AGPL (Affero General Public License) to the regular GPL. This is a post explaining the decision and which hopefully includes some insights at the intersection of technology and legal issues.

  • Crowdsourcing the way to a more flexible strategic plan

    Trust the community. Opening a feedback platform to anyone on campus seems risky, but in hindsight I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The responses we received were very constructive; in fact, I rarely received negative and unproductive remarks. When people learned about our honest efforts at improving the community, they responded with kindness and support. By giving the community a voice—by really democratizing the effort—we achieved a surprising amount of campus-wide buy-in in a short period of time.

    Transparency is best. By keeping as many of our efforts as public as possible, we demonstrated that we were truly listening to our customers and understanding the effects of the outdated technology policies and decisions that were keeping them from doing their best work. I've always been a proponent of the idea that everyone is an agent of innovation; we just needed a tool that allowed everyone to make suggestions.

    Iterate, iterate, iterate. Crowdsourcing our first-year IT initiatives helped us create the most flexible and customer-centric plan we possibly could. The pressure to move quickly and lay down a comprehensive strategic plan is very real; however, by delaying that work and focusing on the evolving set of data flowing from our community, we were actually able to better demonstrate our commitment to our customers. That helped us build critical reputational capital, which paid off when we did eventually present a long-term strategic plan—because people already knew we could achieve results. It also helped us recruit strong allies and learn who we could trust to advance more complicated initiatives.

  • Reform is a DIY, modular, portable computer (work in progress)

    Want a fully functional laptop that works out of the box? There are plenty to choose from. Want a model that you can upgrade? That’s a bit tougher to find: some modern laptops don’t even let you replace the RAM.

    Then there’s the Reform. It’s a new DIY, modular laptop that’s designed to be easy to upgrade and modify. The CAD designs will even be available if you want to 3D print your own parts rather than buying a kit.

    You can’t buy a Reform computer yet. But developer Lukas Hartmann and designer Ana Dantes have developed a prototype and are soliciting feedback on the concept.

  • New neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros

    While artificial intelligence software has made huge strides recently, in many cases, it has only been automating things that humans already do well. If you want an AI to identify the Higgs boson in a spray of particles, for example, you have to train it on collisions that humans have already identified as containing a Higgs. If you want it to identify pictures of cats, you have to train it on a database of photos in which the cats have already been identified.

Ubuntu Leftovers

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Server: MAAS, OPNFV, 'DevOps', and Docker

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  • MAAS KVM Pods

    OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy elaborate virtual (overlay) networks, integrate with a variety of storage backends, even leverage modern hypervisor-like machine containers (LXD) for bare metal performance. Although the tooling allows a full fledged OpenStack deployment on just a single machine, the intrinsic efficiencies that OpenStack’s design promises, materialize at a certain scale — typically at least 12 servers.

  • DevOps for NFV: OPNFV Infrastructure and Continuous Integration

    In this article series, we have been discussing the Understanding OPNFV book. Previously, we provided an introduction to network functions virtualization (NFV), discussed the role of OPNFV in network transformation, and looked at how OPNFV integrates and enhances upstream projects. We continue our series with in-depth insight into the OPNFV DevOps toolchain, hardware labs, continuous integration (CI) pipeline, and deployment tools (installers) from chapters 6 and 7 of the book.

  • A Chat with Chef about the DevOps Movement and Habitat Builder

    Last week at our annual user conference, Node.js Interactive, we announced several new members to the Node.js Foundation. One of the members that joined is Chef. Chef works with more than a thousand companies around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation.

    We sat down with the team at Chef to talk about how Node.js fits within the DevOps movement, why they joined the Node.js Foundation, and also about a new offering from the group called Habitat Builder.

  • Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective

    There have been several blog posts going around about why one would use Docker with R.
    In this post I’ll try to add a DevOps point of view and explain how containerizing
    R is used in the context of the OpenCPU system for building and deploying R servers.

  • Docker on Docker at DockerCon EU 17

    Docker Inc. the company behind the open-source Docker container technology doesn't just build docker, it also used the same technology to power its own services.

Software: Narabu, Network Monitors, Mailutils, Rubik’s Cube, VirtualBox

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  • Introducing Narabu, part 1: Introduction

    Narabu is a new intraframe video codec, from the Japanese verb narabu, which means to line up or be parallel.

    Let me first state straight up that Narabu isn't where I hoped it would be at this stage; the encoder isn't fast enough, and I have to turn my attention to other projects for a while. Nevertheless, I think it is interesting as a research project in its own right, and I don't think it should stop me from trying to write up a small series. Smile

  • 3 Simple, Excellent Linux Network Monitors
  • Mailutils Version 3.3 available

    Mailutils version 3.3 is available for download. See the NEWS file, for information about changes in this version.

  • Now You Can Play Rubik’s Cube Puzzle In Terminal

    Rubik’s Cube game needs no introduction, right? It is a 3-D combination puzzle game invented by Ernő Rubik, a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture, in 1974. It is one of the best puzzle game invented so far to enhance the problem-solving skills of the kids and adults. If you’re one Rubik’s Cube lover, you don’t need to buy it online or from a shop. You can play it right from the Terminal. A fellow Developer has created an utility called “NRubik”. It is an N-Curses based, virtual Rubik’s Cube written in Python. If you’re a hardcore CLI user who lives on Terminal all day, NRubik will certainly make your time useful.

  • VirtualBox 5.2 Debuts Officially with Support for Exporting VMs to Oracle Cloud

    To everyone's surprise, Oracle announced today the final release of the VirtualBox 5.2 open-source and cross-platform virtualization software for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and Solaris.

    VirtualBox 5.2 is a massive update bringing a revamped and more modern graphical user interface (GUI) based on recent Qt5 technologies, as well as powerful new features that will help you with all of your virtualization tasks. One of these new features is the ability to finally export and store virtual machines into the cloud.

    Oracle has made it possible to export VMs to its Oracle Cloud (OPC) public cloud service, allowing users to easily deploy virtual machines across multiple VirtualBox installations. Imagine you no longer have to export a VM to an external drive to import it on another computer, just download it from the Oracle Cloud.

Graphics: Mesa 17.2.3, Libinput 1.9 and More

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  • mesa 17.2.3

    Mesa 17.2.3 is now available.

    In this release we have:

    The Vulkan drivers ANV and RADV have multiple small fixes.

    The EGL code has improved handling of the new wl_dmabuf codepath.

    SWR no longer crashes when checking environment variables.

    Other gallium drivers have also seen updates - freedreno, nouveau and radeonsi. The gallivm module, used by llvmpipe et al. has gained little endian PPC64 fixes.

  • Mesa 17.2.3 Offers Vulkan Fixes, Gallium3D Updates

    Mesa 17.2.3 is now available as the latest bi-weekly update for this current stable driver series.

  • [ANNOUNCE] libinput 1.9.0

    libinput 1.9 is now available. As expected, not a lot of changes since the
    rc2: a few test fixes, a fix to stop excessive logging and an extra
    assert so we fail early in case of a bug.

  • Libinput 1.9 Released With Input Improvements, Requires Meson

    Peter Hutterer has today released libinput 1.9.0 as the latest version of this library used by both Wayland and X11 systems for unified input handling.

  • DRM Leasing Support To Land For Linux 4.15
  • Intel OpenGL Shader Cache Revised Once More

    The long ongoing work to implement an OpenGL/GLSL shader cache for the Intel Mesa driver has been revised once more with 32 new patches hitting the mailing list today.

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  • Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public
  • Canadian govt spooks open source anti-malware analytics tool
    The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said the AssemblyLine tool is designed to analyse large volumes of files, and can automatically rebalance workloads.
  • Microservices served on blockchain, in open source
    Cloud application marketplace company Wireline is working with open source blockchain project developer Qtum The new union is intended to provide a conduit to consuming microservices at [web] scale using blockchain at the core. As we know, microservices offer the ability to create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) without having to manage the underlying hardware and software infrastructure. [...] The Qtum a blockchain application platform combines the functions of Bitcoin Core, an account abstraction layer allowing for multiple virtual machines and a proof-of-stake consensus protocol aimed at tackling industry-use cases. The Qtum Foundation, headquartered in Singapore, is the decision-making body that drives the project’s development.
  • Rendering HTML5 video in Servo with GStreamer
    At the Web Engines Hackfest in A Coruña at the beginning of October 2017, I was working on adding some proof-of-concept code to Servo to render HTML5 videos with GStreamer. For the impatient, the results can be seen in this video here
  • Working Intel CET Bits Now Land In GCC8
    A few days back I wrote about Intel's work on Control-flow Enforcement Technology beginning to land in GCC. This "CET" work for future Intel CPUs has now landed in full for GCC 8. The bits wiring up this control-flow instrumentation and enforcement support are now all present in mainline GCC SVN/Git for next year's GCC 8.1 release.
  • Using Gitea and/or Github to host blog comments
    After having moved from FSFE’s wordpress instance I thought long about whether I still want to have comments on the new blog. And how I would be able to do it with a statically generated site. I think I have found/created a pretty good solution that I document below.

Security Leftovers

  • Where Did That Software Come From?
    The article explores how cryptography, especially hashing and code signing, can be use to establish the source and integrity. It examines how source code control systems and automated build systems are a key part of the software provenance story. (Provenance means “a record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity or quality.” It is increasingly being applied to software.)
  • Judge: MalwareTech is no longer under curfew, GPS monitoring [Updated]
    A judge in Milwaukee has modified the pre-trial release conditions of Marcus Hutchins, also known online as "MalwareTech," who was indicted two months ago on federal criminal charges. Under US Magistrate Judge William Duffin’s Thursday order, Hutchins, who is currently living in Los Angeles, will no longer be subject to a curfew or to GPS monitoring.
  • [Older] Leicester teen tries to hack CIA and FBI chiefs' computers
    A teenager attempted to hack senior US government officials' computers from his home. Kane Gamble, 18, from Coalville, Leicestershire, pleaded guilty to 10 charges relating to computer hacking. His targets included the then CIA director John Brennan and former FBI deputy director Mark Giuliano.

Debian: pk4, Freexian and More

Kernel and Graphics: ZenStates, AMDGPU, RADV, Vulkan, NVIDIA

  • ZenStates Allows Adjusting Zen P-States, Other Tweaking Under Linux
    ZenStates is an independent effort to offer P-States-based overclocking from the Linux desktop of AMD Ryzen processors and other tuning. ZenStates-Linux is an open-source Python script inspired by some available Windows programs for offering Ryzen/Zen CPU overclocking from the desktop by manipulating the performance states of the processor.
  • AMDGPU DC Gets A Final Batch Of Changes Before Linux 4.15
    The AMDGPU DC display code has a final batch of feature updates that were sent in this weekend for DRM-Next staging and is the last set besides fixes for the "DC" code for the 4.15 target.
  • Valve Developer Lands VK_EXT_global_priority For RADV Vulkan Driver
  • Vulkan 1.0.64 Adds In Another AMD-Developed Extension
    Vulkan 1.0.64 is out this weekend as the newest specification refinement to this high-performance graphics/compute API. As usual, most of the changes for this minor Vulkan revision are just documentation clarifications and corrections. This week's update brings just under a dozen fixes.
  • NVIDIA TX2 / Tegra186 Display Support Isn't Ready For Linux 4.15
    While the Jetson TX2 has been out since this past March and it's a phenomenal ARM development board, sadly the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver support for it still isn't ready with the mainline Linux kernel. Thierry Reding of NVIDIA sent in the Tegra DRM driver changes for DRM-Next that in turn is staged for Linux 4.15. Reding commented that there is prepatory work for the TX2 (Tegra186) but it's not all ready for upstream yet.


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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Promotional Spot #4

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Here’s a promotional spot for ABC’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The series, which premiered in September of 1964, was originally broadcast in black and white before switching to color for its second season (1965-1966), and ultimately ran for four seasons, ending after the 1967-1968 season with 110 episodes.

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  • Barry I. Grauman says:

    This promo is from the beginning of the first season (1964-’65), as the “Monday” identification is from the “Year of the Week” fall season campaign the previous summer.
    Probable live announcer tag at :56- “Monday at 7:30, 6:30 Central Time, on ABC.”

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Noel Harrison (1934-2013)

Actor, musician and skier Noel Harrison died earlier this week at the age of 78, although I only read the news this morning. You can find an obituary at The New York Times.

I’ve been pretty vocal over the years about my love of The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., which Harrison co-starred in. Harrison played British U.N.C.L.E. agent Mark Slate, the suave partner to April Dancer (played by Stefanie Powers). The series was a spin-off of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and ran for a single season on NBC from 1966 to 1967. I’ve written an extensive article about the series which you can find here.

Noel Harrison as Mark Slate - Copyright © 1966, 1967 Turner Entertainment Co.
Noel Harrison as Mark Slate
Copyright © 1966, 1967 Turner Entertainment Co.

I must admit that what initially drew me to The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was Stefanie Powers. As the star, she was the focus of most critical reaction to the series, most plots were built around her character, and she got to play with most of the outrageous gadgets. Harrison was often given little to do other than worry about April and/or rescue her. Still, he an integral part of the series, and the two played off one another well.

Powers sent the following Tweet remembering her co-star:

For anyone wanting to relive Harrison’s adventures on The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., the complete series can be purchased on DVD in two parts from the Warner Archive.

  • Barry I. Grauman says:

    The sad fact is, not many people remember Noel Harrison today, as “THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E.” lasted just one season….and he never really had a chance to prove himself in more “substantial” roles. It’s true- ask anyone who never saw “THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E.” who Noel Harrison was, and they’ll answer, “WHO?” (at least David McCallum will be remembered by THIS generation for being on “NCIS”) Apparently, if you don’t appear on a TV series that lasted more than 52 or 65 episodes, and is constantly repeated… might as well be “forgotten”.

  • Jon says:

    Noel Harrison also was the performer of the song that won the Oscar for Best Song in 1968, WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND, from THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. He made history in a way because he followed his father, Rex Harrison, who had won the Best Song Oscar for 1967 for TALK WITH THE ANIMALS from DR. DOLITTLE.

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