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Fix “FAIL – Application at context path /application-name could not be started” deployment error in Tomcat manager

Thursday, October 1st, 2015

While deploying an environment called "Interim" which is pretty much like a testing Java application deployed from a Java EAR (Enterprise Archive) file from within a Tomcat Manager GUI web interface after stopping the application and trying to start it, the developers come across the error:

FAIL – Application at context path /application-name could not be started

The error puzzled me for a while until I checked the catalina.out I've seen a number of thrown Java Eceptions errors like:

Okt 01, 2015 10:48:46 AM org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplicationContext

Schwerwiegend: Context initialization failed

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '' defined in ServletContex

t resource [/WEB-INF/pp-server-beans.xml]: Cannot create inner bean ‘(inner bean)’ of type [org.jvnet.jax_ws_commons.spring.SpringService] while setting bean property

'service'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '(inner bean)#33': FactoryBean threw exception on

 object creation; nested exception is java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

I've googled a bit about the error:

"FAIL – Application at context path /application-name could not be started"

and come across this Stackoverflow thread and followed suggested solution to fix web.xml tag closing error but it seems there was no such error in my case, I then also tried solution suggested by this thread (e.g. adding in file:

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].level = INFO
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

unfortunately this helped neither to solve the error when it is tried to be started from tomcat manager.

After asking for help a colleague Kostadin, he pointed me to take a closer look in the error (which is a clear indication) that the reserved space is not enough (see below err):

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

And he pointed me then to Solution (which is to modify the present tomcat settings which looked like this:

# Heap size settings

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2048M -Xmx2048M"

# SSCO test page parameter

# Default garbage collector settings

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -XX:MaxPermSize=128M"

# Aggressive garbage collector settings.

# Do not use! For testing purposes only!

#export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xss128k -XX:ParallelGCThreads=20 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=31 -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:MaxPermSize=128M"

####### DO NOT CHANGE BELOW HERE #######

# Disable X11 usage

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.awt.headless=true"

# Garbage collection log settings

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:/web/tomcat/current/logs/gc.log -XX:-TraceClassUnloading"

# Enable JMX console

The solution is to to add following two options to export JAVA_OPTS (above options):

-XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

After modifications, my new line within looked like so:

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2048M -Xmx2048M -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

Finally to make new JAVA_OPTS settings, I've restarted Tomcat with:

cd /web/tomcat/bin/
sleep 5; ./

And hooray it works fine thanks God! 🙂

Preserve Session IDs of Tomcat cluster behind Apache reverse proxy / Sticky sessions with mod_proxy and Tomcat

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

Having a combination of Apache webservice Reverse Proxy to redirect invisibly traffic to a number of Tomcat server positioned in a DMZ is a classic task in big companies Corporate world.
Hence if you work for company like IBM or HP sooner or later you will need to configure Apache Webserver cluster with few running Jakarta Tomcat Application servers behind. Scenario with necessity to access a java based application via Tomcat which requires logging (authentication) relaying on establishing and keeping a session ID is probably one of the most common ones and if you do it for first time you will probably end up with Session ID issues.  Session ID issues are hard to capture at first as on first glimpse application will seem to be working but users will have to re-login all the time even though the programmers might have coded for a session to expiry in 30 minutes or so.

… I mean not having configured Session ID prevention to Tomcats will cause random authentication session expiries and users using the Tomcat app will be unable to normally access below application with authenticated credentials. The solution to these is known under term "Sticky sessions"
To configure Sticky sessions you need to already have configured Apache/s with following minimum configuration:

  • enabled mod_proxy, proxy_balancer_module, proxy_http_module and or mod_proxy_ajp (in Apache config)

  LoadModule proxy_module modules/
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/

  • And configured and tested Tomcats running an Application reachable via AJP protocol

Below example assumes there is Reverse Proxy Load Balancer Apache which has to forward all traffic to 2 tomcats. The config can easily be extended for as many as necessary by adding more BalancerMembers.

In Apache webserver (apache2.conf / httpd.conf) you need to have JSESSIONID configured. These JSESSIONID is going to be appended to each client request from Reverse Proxy to each of Tomcat servers with value opened once on authentication to first Tomcat node to each of the other ones.

<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember ajp:// route=delivery1
BalancerMember ajp:// route=delivery2

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mycluster/

The two variables route=delivery1 and route=delivery2 are routed to hosts identificators that also has to be present in Tomcat server configurations
In Tomcat App server First Node (server.xml)

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="delivery1">

In Tomcat App server Second Node (server.xml)

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="delivery2">

Once Sticky Sessions are configured it is useful to be able to track they work fine this is possible through logging each of established JESSSIONIDs, to do so add in httpd.conf

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"\"%{JSESSIONID}C\"" combined

After modifications restart Apache and Tomcat to load new configs. In Apache access.log the proof should be the proof that sessions are preserved via JSESSIONID, there should be logs like: - - [18/Sep/2013:10:02:02 +0800] "POST /examples/servlets/servlet/RequestParamExample HTTP/1.1" 200 662 "http://localhost/examples/servlets/servlet/RequestParamExample" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130807 Firefox/17.0""B80557A1D9B48EC1D73CF8C7482B7D46.server2" - - [18/Sep/2013:10:02:06 +0800] "GET /examples/servlets/servlet/RequestInfoExample HTTP/1.1" 200 693 "http://localhost/examples/servlets/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130807 Firefox/17.0""B80557A1D9B48EC1D73CF8C7482B7D46.server2"

That should solve problems with mysterious session expiries 🙂

Debian Linux: Installing and monitoring servers with Icanga (Nagios fork soft)

Monday, June 3rd, 2013

There is plenty of software for monitoring how server performs and whether servers are correctly up and running. There is probably no Debian Linux admin who didn't already worked or at least tried Nagios and Mointor to monitor and notify whether server is unreachable or how server services operate. Nagios and Munin are play well together to prevent possible upcoming problems with Web / Db / E-mail services or get notify whether they are completely inaccessible. One similar "next-generation" and less known software is Icanga.
The reason, why to use Icinga  instead of Nagios is  more features a list of what does Icinga supports more than Nagios is on its site here
I recently heard of it and decided to try it myself. To try Icanga I followed Icanga's install tutorial on Wiki.Icanga.Org here
In Debian Wheezy, Icinga is already part of official repositories so installing it like in Squeeze and Lenny does not require use of external Debian BackPorts repositories.

1. Install Icinga pre-requirement packages

debian:# apt-get --yes install php5 php5-cli php-pear php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-gd php5-ldap php5-mysql

2. Install Icanga-web package

debian:~# apt-get --yes install icinga-web

Here you will be prompted a number of times to answer few dialog questions important for security, as well as fill in MySQL server root user / password as well as SQL password that will icinga_web mySQL user use.

Setting up icinga-idoutils (1.7.1-6) …
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/icinga-idoutils.conf
granting access to database icinga for icinga-idoutils@localhost: success.
verifying access for icinga-idoutils@localhost: success.
creating database icinga: success.
verifying database icinga exists: success.
populating database via sql…  done.
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
Setting up icinga-web (1.7.1+dfsg2-6) …
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/icinga-web.conf

Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/icinga-web.conf with new version
granting access to database icinga_web for icinga_web@localhost: success.
verifying access for icinga_web@localhost: success.
creating database icinga_web: success.
verifying database icinga_web exists: success.
populating database via sql…  done.
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password

Creating config file /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/database-web.xml with new version
database config successful: /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/database-web.xml

Creating config file /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/database-ido.xml with new version
database config successful: /etc/icinga-web/conf.d/database-ido.xml
enabling config for webserver apache2…
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart
`/etc/apache2/conf.d/icinga-web.conf' -> `../../icinga-web/apache2.conf'
[ ok ] Reloading web server config: apache2 not running.
root password updates successfully!
Basedir: /usr Cachedir: /var/cache/icinga-web
Cache already purged!

3. Enable Apache mod_rewrite

debian:~# a2enmod rewrite
debian:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

4. Icinga documentation files

Some key hints on Enabling some more nice Icinga features are mentioned in Icinga README files, check out, all docs files included with Icinga separate packs are into:

debian:~# ls -ld *icinga*/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun  3 10:48 icinga-common/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun  3 10:48 icinga-core/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun  3 10:48 icinga-idoutils/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  3 10:48 icinga-web/

debian:~# less /usr/share/doc/icinga-web/README.Debian debian:~# less /usr/share/doc/icinga-idoutils/README.Debian

5. Configuring Icinga

Icinga configurations are separated in two directories:

debian:~# ls -ld *icinga*

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun  3 10:50 icinga
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun  3 11:07 icinga-web

etc/icinga/ – (contains configurations files for on exact icinga backend server behavior)

/etc/icinga-web – (contains all kind of Icinga Apache configurations)
Main configuration worthy to look in after install is /etc/icinga/icinga.cfg.

6. Accessing newly installed Icinga via web

To access just installed Icinga, open in browser URL – htp://localhost/icinga-web

icinga web login screen in browser debian gnu linux

logged in inside Icinga / Icinga web view and control frontend

7. Monitoring host services with Icinga (NRPE)

As fork of Nagios. Icinga has similar modular architecture and uses number of external plugins to Monitor external host services list of existing plugins is on Icinga's wiki here.
Just like Nagios Icinga supports NRPE protocol (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor). To setup NRPE, nrpe plugin from nagios is used (nagios-nrpe-server).

To install NRPE on any of the nodes to be tracked;
debian: ~# apt-get install –yes nagios-nrpe-server

 Then to configure NRPE edit /etc/nagios/nrpe_local.cfg

Once NRPE is supported in Icinga, you can install on Windows or Linux hosts NRPE clients like in Nagios to report on server processes state and easily monitor if server disk space / load or service is in critical state.

Tiny PHP script to dump your browser set HTTP headers (useful in debugging)

Friday, March 30th, 2012

While browsing I stumbled upon a nice blog article

Dumping HTTP headers

The arcitle, points at few ways to DUMP the HTTP headers obtained from user browser.
As I'm not proficient with Ruby, Java and AOL Server what catched my attention is a tiny php for loop, which loops through all the HTTP_* browser set variables and prints them out. Here is the PHP script code:

<?php

foreach($_SERVER as $h=>$v)

if(ereg('HTTP_(.+)',$h,$hp))

echo "
$h = $v
\n";

header('Content-type: text/html');

The script is pretty easy to use, just place it in a directory on a WebServer capable of executing php and save it under a name like:

If you don't want to bother copy pasting above code, you can also download the dump_HTTP_headers.php script here , rename the dump_HTTP_headers.php.txt to dump_HTTP_headers.php and you're ready to go.

Follow to the respective url to exec the script. I've installed the script on my webserver, so if you are curious of the output the script will be returning check your own browser HTTP set values by clicking here.
PHP will produce output like the one in the screenshot you see below, the shot is taken from my Opera browser:

Screenshot show HTTP headers.php script Opera Debian Linux

Another sample of the text output the script produce whilst invoked in my Epiphany GNOME browser is:

HTTP_USER_AGENT = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6
HTTP_ACCEPT = application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-us, en;q=0.90
HTTP_COOKIE = __qca=P0-2141911651-1294433424320;
__utma_a2a=8614995036.1305562814.1274005888.1319809825.1320152237.2021;wooMeta=MzMxJjMyOCY1NTcmODU1MDMmMTMwODQyNDA1MDUyNCYxMzI4MjcwNjk0ODc0JiYxMDAmJjImJiYm; 3ec0a0ded7adebfeauth=22770a75911b9fb92360ec8b9cf586c9;
__utmb=238407297.1.10.1333023754; __utmc=238407297;|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/blog/

You see the script returns, plenty of useful information for debugging purposes:
HTTP_HOST – Virtual Host Webserver name
HTTP_USER_AGENT – The browser exact type useragent returnedHTTP_ACCEPT – the type of MIME applications accepted by the WebServerHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE – The language types the browser has support for
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING – This PHP variable is usually set to gzip or deflate by the browser if the browser has support for webserver returned content gzipping.
If HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING is there, then this means remote webserver is configured to return its HTML and static files in gzipped form.
HTTP_COOKIE – Information about browser cookies, this info can be used for XSS attacks etc. 🙂
HTTP_COOKIE also contains the referrar which in the above case is:|utmccn=(referral)
The Cookie information HTTP var also contains information of the exact link referrar:

For the sake of comparison show_HTTP_headers.php script output from elinks text browser is like so:

* HTTP_USER_AGENT = Links (2.3pre1; Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64; 143x42)
* HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING = gzip,deflate * HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET = us-ascii, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1256,
windows-1257, cp437, cp737, cp850, cp852, cp866, x-cp866-u, x-mac, x-mac-ce, x-kam-cs, koi8-r, koi8-u, koi8-ru, TCVN-5712, VISCII,utf-8 * HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en,*;q=0.1
* HTTP_CONNECTION = keep-alive
One good reason, why it is good to give this script a run is cause it can help you reveal problems with HTTP headers impoperly set cookies, language encoding problems, security holes etc. Also the script is a good example, for starters in learning PHP programming.

How to crack password protected rar and 7z files on GNU / Linux

Friday, October 7th, 2011

break / crack password protected rar, zip archives on Linux and FreeBSD rarcrcack

RarCrack is able to crack rar and 7z archive files protected by password on Linux.
The program is currently at release version 0.2, so its far from perfection, but at least it can break rars.

RarCrack is currently installable on most Linux distributions only from source, to install on a random Linux distro, download and make && make install . RarCrack’s official site is here, I’ve mirrored the current version of RarCrack for download here . To install rarcrack from source using the mirrored version:

linux:~# wget
linux:~# tar -jxvvf rarcrack-0.2.tar.bz2
linux:~# cd rarcrack-0.2
linux:~/rarcrack-0.2# make
linux:~/rarcrack-0.2# make install

On FreeBSD, rarcrack is available and installable via the ports tree, to install on FreeBSD:

freebsd# cd /usr/ports/security/rarcrack
freebsd# make && make install

To use RarCrack to crack rar, zip or 7z archive file:

freebsd% rarcrack rar_file_protected_with_password.rar --type rar

The argument –type rar is optional, in most archives RarCrack should detect the archive automatically. The –type option could also take the arguments of rar and 7z .

I’ve created a sample rar file protected with password linux_then_and_now.png.rar . The archive linux_then_and_now.png contains a graphic file illustrating the linux growth in use in computers, mobiles and servers. linux_then_and_now.png.rar is protected with the sample password parola

RarCrack also supports threads (a simultaneous instance spawned copies of the program). Using threads speeds up the process of cracking and thus using the –threads is generally a good idea. Hence a good way to use rarcrack with the –threads option is:

freebsd% rarcrack linux_then_and_now.png.rar --threads 8 --type rar
RarCrack! 0.2 by David Zoltan Kedves (
INFO: the specified archive type: rar
INFO: cracking linux_then_and_now.png.rar, status file: linux_then_and_now.png.rar.xml
Probing: '0i' [24 pwds/sec]
Probing: '1v' [25 pwds/sec]

RarCrack‘s source archive also comes with three sample archive files (rar, 7z and zip) protected with passwords for the sake of testing the tool.
One downside of RarCrack is its extremely slow in breaking the passwords on my Lenovo notebook – dual core 1.8ghz with 2g ram it was able to brute force only 20-25 passwords per second.
This means cracking a normal password of 6 symbols will take at least 5 hours.
RarCrack is also said to support cracking zip passwords, but my tests to crack password protected zip file did not bring good results and even one of the tests ended with a segmentation fault.

To test how rarcrack performs with password protected zip files and hence compare if it is superior or inferior to fcrackzip, I used the fcrackzip’s sample pass protected zip

hipo@noah:~$ rarcrack --threads 8 --type zip
2 by David Zoltan Kedves (
INFO: the specified archive type: zip
INFO: cracking, status file:
Probing: 'hP' [386 pwds/sec]
Probing: 'At' [385 pwds/sec]
Probing: 'ST' [380 pwds/sec]

As you can see in above’s command output, the zip password cracking rate of approximately 380 passwords per second is a bit quicker, but still slower than fcrackzip.

RarCrack seg faults if cracking a pass protected zip is passed on without specifying the –type zip command arguments:

linux:~$ rarcrack --threads 8
RarCrack! 0.2 by David Zoltan Kedves (
Segmentation fault

While talking about cracking protected rar and zip archives with password, its worthy to mention creating a password protected archive with Gnome Desktop on Linux and FreeBSD is very easy.

To create the password protected archive in Gnome graphic environment:

a. Point the cursor to the file you want to archive with password

Gnome pointing file properties drop down menu

b. Press on Other Options and fill in the password in the pwd dialog

Linux protect rar with password on Gnome Desktop

I think as of time of writting, no GUI frontend interface for neither RarCrack or FcrackZip is available. Lets hope some good guy from the community will take the time to write extension for Gnome to allow us to crack rar and zip from a nice GUI interface.

12 must have Joomla extension plugins / Essential modules for new Joomla CMS install

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Joomla bundle of must have extensions picture

These days very often I have to install, plain new Joomla based websites. I’ve realized that since there is no structured guide to follow describing the most essential plugins that every new fresh new joomla installation is required to have.
Thus I took the time and wrote this post, as it will be useful to myself in my future new joomla based websites establishment, I also believe these guide will be useful to other Joomla enthusiasts or administrators in their daily work.

Below I will describe in short the installation, configuration and oddities I’ve faced during installment of the above described bundle of plugins on a plan Joomla 1.5 install.These article will walk through 12 joomla essential plugins that I believe every fresh Joomla installation should be equipped with.
Hope this guide will be helpful to you. Now let’s start it up:

1. JoomlaXplorer – A sophisticated web file explorer for Joomla

One of the basic modules, beneficial with a new joomla CMS install is Joomla Xptplorer . This module enables the joomla admin to browse files in a web file explorer, on the server where the joomla CMS is installed. Below you see how handy the joomla web explorer provided by the plugin is:

Joomla file explorer extplorer module

Installing and using the plugin is a piece of cake. To install the plugin:

a. download Joomla file Xplorer from here or from the official plugin website.

b. Install the plugin through the admin joomla menu:

Extensions -> Install/Uninstall

c. Start using the newly installed plugin by following to menus:

Components -> eXtplorer

2. JCrawler Generate easily sitemap.xml to aim the overall Joomla website SEO optimization

JCrawler logo plugin joomla

I have previously written a very through tutorial on how to install configure and generate website sitemap with Jcrawler module, You can read my article titled: How to build website sitemap.xml in Joomla here

3. sh404SEF – Make your Joomla links and content more user friendly

sh404sef Joomla Search Engine Optimization plugin

sh404SEF is a great Joomla plugin, which will seriously improve SEO and could contribute well for a website to be better indexed with major search engines.

I have previously written an article describing thoroughfully the install and use procedures for the module.
You can read the article Making your Joomla URLS Google friendly with sh404sef plugin / Simple Joomla link SEO here

4. Akeeba Backup Joomla solution

Akeeba backup Joomla Module

Installing a joomla backup solution is very essential if you does take care about your data, it often happens that server hard disk got crashes or a RAID massives got corrupted or some kind of other unexpected disaster hits the server. In these terrible times, having a website backup will save you nerves and data recovery funds, not to mention that in many cases data recovery is impossible.

Joomla has a very easy to use software for creating full website backup called Akeeba Backup

To start using the software one must:

a. Download Akeeba Backup and install it via:

Extensions -> Install/Uninstall

After the Akeeba Backup installation is over, to create your first backup, one needs to navigate to:

Components -> Akeeba Backup -> Backup Now

Each Akeeba backup (a version of the website’s files data and sql info) will be created in an archive file with the extension .jpa
The backup files are created under joomla’s website (main) root directory in directory location administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup

The Akeeba plugin also has capabilities to recover a (.jpa) backup restore point easily.
To recover a backup with the Akeeba plugin one needs to do it once again, via the plugin joomla web interface.
5. Google Analytics (place easy tracking code) in Joomla

Google Analytics Tracking Module for Joomla

a. Download the Google Analytics Tracking Module
The module is available from Joomla Extensions on

At the current time of writting you need to download the analytics_tracking15,zip file

b. Install the Google Analytics Tracking Module;
Login as joomla admin and navigate to;

Extensions -> Install

Place the url to the Install URL: field.
Again as of time of writting you need to place;

c. Open the Module Manager

Extensions -> Module Manager

d. Click over Google Analytics Tracking Module
On the right pane you will notice in the Module Parameters the Analytics_uacct_code field. In the uacct_code field you need to paste your UA obtained from your created google-analytics account.
This code is usually something like UA-2101595-10
Now place your code their and press the save green button located near the right top of the screen. You should see the text in blue Item Saved which would indicate your UA code is stored already in the Google Analytics Tracking Module, now press the Cancel button located again on the right top.
As a last step before the Google analytics is set-up on the Joomla you need to enable the plugin to do you need to press over the tick left sided from the text reading Google Analytics Tracking Module in the Module Manager
e. Click over the Enabled button in Module Manager;
Google Analytics Tracking Module -> Enabled

6. Itprism (Facebook, Twitter etc.) Social Network share buttons Joomla plugin

ITPShare Large Social Buttons Joomla

a. to add the itpsocialbuttons to joomla Download the Itpsocialbuttons latest module files from or use my mirrored module files below:

Download mod_itpsocialbuttons .zip file
Download plg_itpsocialbuttons .zip

After having the two files necessery to be installed to make the ITPSocialButtons appear on website, installation is done like with any other installation:

Extensions -> Install/Uninstall -> Upload Package File (Choose File)

Next its necessery to configure the plugin to do so, follow to menus:

Extensions -> Module Manager -> Share

You will notice the Share dialog in the list of Module Name column in Module Manager

Here is a screenshot on how the settings options for ITpsocialbuttons will look like:

Mod ITpSocialButtons settings screen

The options which I personally changed was:

Show Title – I set this one to No as I wanted to omit the plugin title text to appear on my website.
Further on I’ve set the Enabled option to Yes to enable the plugin and choose the buttons Style option to be of a Small buttons type.
I’ve also found that the most suitable position for the Social Share buttons were to be of a right – Position .

Here is how the social network itprism share buttons looks like:

ITprism Joomla Social Share Plugin various button types

The plugin supports sharing of joomla pages to the following list of social networks:

  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

The module configuration, also allows the user to configure the type of social network buttons, one wants to display on the website.

7. Joomla JCE Content Editor

This content editor is really awesome compared to the default editor TinyMCE. If you want to have an options rich content editor for Joomla, then this is the one for you 🙂
download JCE Content Editor here

After installing the JCE Joomla content editor in order to enable it as a default editor you need to go to the following location:

Site -> Global Configuration -> Default WYSIWYG Editor

There place on Editor TinyMCE and change it with Editor – JCE

Now go to edit some article, and you will see the difference in the editor 🙂

8. Add gallery Joomla capabilities with sigplus (Image Gallery Plus) and Very Simple Image Gallery

Image Gallery Plus sigplus Joomla Screenshot

Image Gallery Plus plugin (sigplus) gallery review screenshot

sigplus Image Gallery Plus is a straightforward way to add image or photo galleries to a Joomla article with a simple syntax. It takes a matter of minutes to set up a gallery but those who are looking for a powerful gallery solution will not be disappointed either: sigplus is suitable for both beginner and advanced users.

Download Sigplus Joomla Image Gallery plugin here
Using sigllus is quite easy all one has to do is use Joomla Media Manager from links:

Site -> Media Manager

Create new folder in the stories folder, let’s say New Pictures and further on use Media Manager to upload all desired pictures to be later displayed.

Being done with uploading the images you want to display, go to Article Manager :

Content -> Article Manager

From there choose your article where new uploaded pictures you want to display and type in the article:

{gallery}New Pictures{/gallery}.

Note that New Pictures is the directory just recently created as stated below, it’s important that there is no spacing between {gallery}and New Pictures, if one tries {gallery} New Pictures {/gallery} instead of {gallery}New Pictures{/gallery} an error will occur instead of the pictures being displayed in a scrolled gallery.

Sigplus Image Gallery has also a number of configuration options, which might make it look a bit more decent.
I have to say in my view the default way sigplus displays pictures is awful!

Another alternative if you don’t like Sigplus ‘s way of creating new galleries is to use Very Simple Image Gallery

Very Simple Image Gallery joomla screenshot

Here is a screenshot on a sample gallery created with Very Simple Image Gallery Joomla Plugin

You can download Very simple image gallery here

After installing the plugin. It’s use is analogous to the Sigplus . To use it likewise sigplus create new directory through Media Manager and in stories and upload your files in let’s say New Pictures1 . Later on in your article place, the code

{vsig}New Pictures1{/vsig}

Gallery will be generated automatically by the plugin. I think Simple Image Gallery is a bit more advanced and gives a better outlook to Galleries, though it’s configuration settings are much less than with SigPlus image gallery.

To add pictures comments e.g. img link alt=” and title=” tib you need to place a code within the Article manager similar to:

{vsig_c}0|Picture_1.JPG|Some sample text|Some other text{/vsig_c}
{vsig_c}0|Picture_2.JPG|Some example text|Some text{/vsig_c}
etc. ..

Note that the 0 in above example specifies the gallery number if you for instance are using a couple of galleries with Simple Image Gallery , the first one you used would be call 0 . The text specified as comments to the picture will also appear after you preview the gallery right below the picture when clicked on as a picture description in a really nice way.
9. Install Google maps plugin for Joomla

Google Maps plugin for Joomla screenshot

It’s a wise idea that every website has a location map on it’s website, for that reason Google maps is just great.
To install Google maps capability to joomla one can use a plugin called Google Maps .

You can straighly download Joomla’s Googlemap plugin from here

Afterwards use Extension Manager to install the plugin e.g. follow:

Extensions -&gr; Install/Uninstall (Choose File)

and click on Upload File & Install button.

To further enable and configure the Joomla Googlemap plugin you will have to go to the location:

Extensions -> Plugin Manager

Therein you will have to find and enable the Google Maps plugin which is to be found in the column named Plugin Manager
On my Joomla installation the plugin was located in the second page with modules, so if you don’t find the module on the listing with modules on the first page, make sure you scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Next button.

Therein in the list you will most likely notice Google Maps use the Enable button to enable it.

Next step is to configure the plugin, to do so press on the plugin name Google Maps
All configuration necessery here is to place Googlemaps API Key in the respective field (you will see it among config options).

Issuing a new Google Maps api key takes just few seconds, if you already have a gmail account just go to and take few seconds to issue the key.

You will get the key right on your gmail account after being issued (to repeat myself issuing takes few seconds so no worrier here).

One moreOnce having the key place it in the Googlemaps API Key field and configuring Address (which is one of the list of many options the plugin provides) you will be done with configuration.

To display a google map the location you just configured go to the Article Manager , select the article where you want the google maps location picture of your address to appear and type in the Article:

{mosmap|text='Exact street address location'|zoom='15'|zoomType='Large'|zoomNew='0'}

After you save the article a very nice Google map showing you the location’s streets will appear.
You can further conifgure a number of things related to the google map to appear, one thing you might want to play with is the zoom option which as you see in below’s code is equal to 15, e.g. zoom=’15’
Set it to another one if you want to regulate your googlemaps zoom level. For more thoroughful options take a look at the extensive plugin documentation.

10. Joomla Xmap (generating static HTML sitemap) Download Xmap from here , install it the usual plugin way.

Right after installation on the plugin succesful install screen you will notice the link component menu .
Clicking on the component menu you will be leaded to a page showing you few links Sitemap’s URL :

  • XML Sitemap:
  • HTML Sitemap:
  • News Sitemap:
  • Images Sitemap:

11. Add Joomla donate Paypal capabilities with Joomla PAYPAL DONATION MODULE

Paypal Donation Module Joomla Screenshot

Just recently I’ve written a a post on how to add a paypal donation capabilities to joomla, you can read my previous post here

12. Install Joomla RSForms Module (Advanced Joomla Forms Support)

Simple Joomla RsForm contact form

If you’re planning to add a complicated form support for Joomla, there are plenty of plugins, however one that was suggested by a friend of mine which is deep in Joomla world and moreover works good on my joomla installations is RSForms

Joomla – RSForms! is free to download and has great and easy interface to create new joomla forms.

At the time of writting I use these three RSForms components on new Joomla installations:

RSform Pro 1.1.0 com
Mod RsForm for Joomla 1.5
Mod Rsform list for Joomla

For latest release of RSForms! use the link

Installation is like any other module and is done through Extensions -> Install/Uninstall menu.

After installation, setting up a new form is available from the Joomla Menus:

Components -> RSform!Pro -> Manage Forms

I would not enter in details on how to edit the default RSForms or create a new RSForm. Just take some time and learn it by trying 😉

After the rsform is ready, to enable the new form, navigate to Joomla menus:

Menus -> Main Menu

Press the New button located in the buttons bar nearby the page header in the list of options in Select Menu item Type you will notice the RSForm!Pro as an option, press on it to establish the new form in the menus.

A follow up window will appear where one can set a Title: and Alias: for the new form as well as few other options.
After finalizing the settings press on Apply button to save the settings and the new form should appear in Joomla.

Probably there are many more handy plugins, which I’m missing here thus I’ll be glad if readers suggest some more helpful essential (must have plugins) for Joomla.
Feedback on this tutorial is very welcome!
Looking forward to hear for your opinions if my article was helpful to you 😉

How to enable output compression (gzipfile content compression) in nginx webserver

Friday, April 8th, 2011

I have recently installed and configured a Debian Linux server with nginx
. Since then I’ve been testing around different ways to optimize the nginx performance.

In my nginx quest, one of the most crucial settings which dramatically improved the end client performance was enabling the so called output compression which in Apache based servers is also known as content gzip compression .
In Apache webservers the content gzip compression is provided by a server module called mod_deflate .

The output compression nginx settings saves a lot of bandwidth and though it adds up a bit more load to the server, the plain text files like html, xml, js and css’s download time reduces drasticly as they’re streamed to the browser in gzip compressed format.
This little improvement in download speed also does impact the overall end user browser experience and therefore improves the browsing speed experience with websites.

If you have already had experience nginx you already know it is a bit fastidious and you have to be very careful with it’s configuration, however thanksfully enabling the gzip compression was actually rather easier than I thought.

Here is what I added in my nginx config to enable output compression:

## Compression
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_comp_level 9;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 0;
gzip_vary on;

Important note here is that need to add this code in the nginx configuration block starting with:

http {
## Compression
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_comp_level 9;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 0;
gzip_vary on;

In order to load the gzip output compression as a next step you need to restart the nginx server, either by it’s init script if you use one or by killing the old nginx server instances and starting up the nginx server binary again:
I personally use an init script, so restarting nginx for me is done via the cmd:

debian:~# /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Restarting nginx: nginx.

Now to test if the output gzip compression is enabled for nginx, you can simply use telnet

hipo@linux:~$ telnet 80
Escape character is '^]'.

After the Escape character is set ‘^]’ appears on your screen type in the blank space:

and press enter twice.
The output which should follow should look like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:04:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 13
Last-Modified: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:04:26 GMT
Connection: close
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Expires: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:04:43 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Accept-Ranges: bytes

The whole transaction with telnet command issued and the nginx webserver output should look like so:

hipo@linux:~$ telnet 80
Connected to
.Escape character is '^]'.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:04:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 13
Last-Modified: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:04:26 GMT
Connection: close
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Expires: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:04:43 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Accept-Ranges: bytes

The important message in the returned output which confirms your nginx output compression is properly configured is:

Vary: Accept-Encoding

If this message is returned by your nginx server, this means your nginx now will distribute it’s content to it’s clients in compressed format and apart from the browsing boost a lot of server and client bandwitdth will be saved.

How to build website sitemap (sitemap.xml) in Joomla

Monday, December 20th, 2010

A joomla installation I’m managing needed to have created a sitemap.xml

From a SEO perspective sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz are absolutely necessary for a website to bewell indexed in google.

After some investigation I’ve found out a perfect program that makes generation of sitemap.xml in joomla a piece of cake.

All necessary to be done for the sitemap.xml to be created comes to download and install of JCrawler

What makes JCrawler even better is that it’s open source program.

To install Jcrawler go in the joomla administrator panel:

Extensiosn -> Install/Uninstall

You will see the Install from URL on the bottom, there place the link to the installation archive, for instance you can place the link of the downloaded copy of I’ve mirrored on ,by placing it on

The installation will be done in a few seconds and you will hopefully be greated with a Installation Success message.

Last thing to do in order to have the sitemap.xml in your joomla based website generated is to navigate to:

Components -> JCrawler

There a screen will appear where you can customize certain things related to the sitemap.xml generation, I myself used the default options and continued straight to the Start button.

Further on a screen will appear asking you to Submit the newly generated sitemap to; Google, MSN,, Moreover and Yahoo , so press the Submit button.
That’s all now your joomla website will be equipped with sitemap.xml, enjoy!

Apache Benchmarking

Monday, January 14th, 2008

They’re few tools out there which are most common in use to do benchmarking and stess test on webservers. One of them “the most common one”is called “ab” or apache benchmark Check it out here another very common tool is called flood Check it here Flood seems to be the newer and most accurate tool to use for stress testing unfortunately it has one weakness. It only works with configuration file which is in xml format. So every time before you start it you have to generate a new xml file to suite your needs. Also a tool recommended to me in the #apache in the network is called “jmeter”, it’s located here . I personally didn’t tested it because it uses Java as a back end. While googling around I also have stucked on this interesting project PHPSPEED although I wasn’t able to test it looks like a promising test suite.END—–


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April's Skater of the Month- Fonda Dixnshoes

Derby Name and Number? How did you come up with it?
-Fonda Dixnshoes 6 1/2" min. A few of my closest friends were helping me pick out names– we also had Mayhem Blahnik and Ms. Mojo Risin. The second I told Classy Chassis my three names, she laughed and said, "Well, you have to be Fonda."

Where did you grow up?
-Williamstown, NJ (though I hate admitting I'm from NJ)

What made you start playing roller derby?
-I had heard about it when I was living in West Virginia and saw that Whip It movie. Unfortunately, at the time there was no derby team in WV, so the second I moved to Philly, I bought some skates, worked on my skills and waited for try outs.

What is your pre-game routine?
-It has changed quite a bit– I used to get nervous before games and would take care of business to relax myself. But now, I just take a nap.

What is your favorite off-skates workout?
-Long walks on the beach, drunkly riding my bike home, fighting with ex-Marines... Seriously, I do a lot of lunges, squats and wall-sits to keep my legs strong.

What is your favorite position to play and why?
-Blocker, hands down. I love destroying jammers' hopes and dreams of scoring.

Worst derby-related injury?
-Hyper-extending my MCL at Battle on the Bank in San Diego. It was completely devastating to know you've trained for months and you couldn't be out there with your team for the rest of the tournament.

What is the most rewarding part of being a member of Penn Jersey Roller Derby?
-The people. I moved to Philly not knowing a soul and when I joined I immediately had 60+ new friends. I hate thinking how my life would be if I didn't have PJRD... quite dull I imagine.

As a member of a bitracksual league, tell us how you feel about the banked track versus the flat track.
-It's no secret that I loathe the flat track. If I never play a flat track game again I would be happy. There's nothing better than the banked track, the power it gives you, the hits you can give. I feel sorry for people who are too scared to get up there because there's nothing else like it. It's almost better than shoes and dix...almost.

What inspires you most when training?
-I want everyone to fear me.

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In September 1977, William C. Pepper purchased Nutter D. Marvel Oil Company which was an Amoco Jobbership located in Georgetown, Delaware.  At that time the business served Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware and had seven employees, two tractor trailers, three local delivery trucks.  This was the beginning of William C. Pepper, Inc.
Mr. Pepper expanded the business with convenience stores and gas stations in Kent and Sussex Counties and then purchased MED Sales located in Rehoboth, Delaware from John Roberts.  MED Sales was a plumbing, heating, and air conditioning business which also sold fuel oil and kerosene.
In 1980, Mr. Pepper expanded in Cambridge, Maryland with the purchase of the former Kayo station located at Rt. 50 in Jacktown, rebranded Gulf.  A new convenience store was built with new pumps.  Later, in 1982 Granville Hooper Fuel Co. was purchased from the late Barry Murphy who was a Local Gulf Distributor.  Mr. Pepper continued to expand with service stations in Ocean City, Maryland and Bethany Beach, Delaware.  In 1983 construction began of the largest pumper on the shore, at the time, at Midway in Rehoboth, Delaware.  These were  Branded Amoco.
In the fall of 1986, the expansion took Mr. Pepper to the Easton, Maryland area with the purchase of Russ Oil Co. from Ken Russ.  The areas served at that time included Kent and Sussex Counties in Delaware and Queen Anne, Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester Counties in Maryland.  This added the Chevron Brand.
 In 1987, Mr. Pepper changed the name of the business to Pep-Up, Inc. and purchased stations in Millsboro and Fenwick Island.  The number of employees had increased to sixty five.  By the fall of 1988, the number of tankers had increased to three, a ten wheeler truck had been added, and local delivery trucks had increased to ten.
The expansion continued in 1989 with the purchase of Tilghman Ice and Fuel, located in Tilghman Island, Maryland from Russell Harrison. That same year service and installation of heat & air conditioning were added to the Cambridge and Easton areas.
In August 1991, Midway Fuel was purchased from Jack Morris and Earl Warrington, a fuel oil distributor in the Rehoboth – Lewes, Delaware area.  This was consolidated with the on going Rehoboth operation.
West Fuel in Salisbury, Maryland, purchased from Doug West, was added in 1992. This made way for the addition of the Pep-Up Credit Cards. This allowed for another 24 hour location, also adding an expanded service area to include Wicomico and Worcester Counties in Maryland.
The year 1993 brought the purchase of the Bethany Beach, Delaware station which had been previously leased.  It was leveled and a Convenience Store and an Amoco gas pumper were constructed.
Passwaters Petroleum in Harrington, Delaware was purchased in January 1996 from Ray Passwaters. He had a fine reputation of 44 years in business selling petroleum products including Unocal Oil and lubricants.
October 1997 brought the entrance into the propane business serving commercial and individual customers.  By this time, all of Delaware and Maryland’s eastern shore was being served with eight tractor trailers, two ten wheelers, eleven tank wagons, and two bobtails.
March 1998 brought the construction of the first propane bulk facility, in Selbyville, Delaware with 190,000 gallon capacity.  A backhoe was purchased in October 1998 for underground tank installations.

December 1999 the Dewey Beach Amoco station was purchased from Amoco Oil Co.  A new plant was built in 1999 at the East New Market, Maryland location.  Six 60,000 gallon propane tanks were added at this location.
In May 2001 expansion led to Pocomoke, Maryland.  An office was opened and a plant was purchased from Floyd Energy, Inc. at Oak Hall, Virginia.   Plans for a new office in Georgetown, Delaware were developed in December 2001 and a survey of the land was completed.
Simpkins Oil Co., Inc. in Princess Anne, Maryland was purchased from Michael Bruce and Kathy Simpkins Beauchamp in September 2002.
Site work was started for the new Georgetown, DE office in August 2003.  The office was completed on April 9, 2004.  A warehouse building was then started, and in August 2004 a new oil plant was set up.  3 - 68,000 gallon capacity tanks were added at the Selbyville propane plant.
A new propane plant was set up at Oak Hall, Virginia in June 2005 with 3 - 30,000 gallon storage tanks added to the Route 13 Facility.
May 2006 brought the set up of a second plant at Oak Hall, Lacato, Virginia.  This is a propane plant with 6 – 30,000 gallon storage tanks.  The capability of unloading two (2) rail cars at a time was included at this facility.
In August 2007 the oil plant in Oak Hall, Virginia was updated with 4 fuel storage tanks.
The plant at Easton, Maryland was rebuilt in January 2008 and a new tank was installed.  At the Harrington plant we rebuilt the tanks and started rebuilding the platform.  In August 2008 new concrete pads were poured, etc., at the Easton plant.  New tanks were installed in October 2009, Route 50 Cambridge Coastal station.
In 2008 pipeline construction of two of the largest developments to date were started: Village at Red Mill in Lewes, Delaware with 550 homes and Millville by the Sea in Millville, Delaware with 3500 homes.  Pep-Up is the exclusive suppliers of propane to these developments.
Additional construction of the Selbyville plant began in 2009.  3 - 60,000 storage tanks were added in addition to 2 rail spurs giving the capability of parking 12 railroad cars and unloading 8 railroad cars at a time.
2011 – Added two 30,000 Propane Storage Tanks in Harrington for more complete service in the area.
August 2013 – purchased Bagwell Gas & Oil in Onancock, VA. with plants and offices in Tasley, Belle Haven, and Cape Charles, VA. This added 3600 customers to our family. Bagwell is one of the largest and oldest distributors of heating oil fuels on the Eastern Shore of VA. In 2005 they added propane to the list of products and services.
With this addition we cover the entire Eastern Shore from the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge (Annapolis, MD.) across to Smyrna, DE. (Kent County, DE) and south to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (Cape Charles, VA.)
Over 150 associates of Pep-Up, Inc. offer the following products and services.
  • Petroleum Products
  • Diesel Fuel / Bio Diesel
  • Fuel Oil
  • Kerosene
  • Gasoline
  • Propane
  • Heating Repair and Installation
  • Air Conditioning Repair & Installation
  • 24 Hr. Card Lock Access
  • Convenience Stores
  • Tank and Pump Sales
  • Budget Programs
  • Fuel Security Programs
  • Automatic Delivery
In 2014 added propane storage of three 30,000 tanks in Eastville, VA.
Also purchased a new office location in Tasley, VA with storage for new propane tanks and trucks.
In 2015 received a permit to install six 29,600 gallon vertical fuel storage tanks in Belle Haven, VA for a new bulk plant along with a remodel of the office.
In February 2016 Pep-Up purchased 2-30.000 gallon propane tanks from the Sussex Correctional Institute in Georgetown Delaware.  In May they were moved to our Belle Haven, Virginia facility, creating a new full service bulk plant  with both oil and propane storage.  In addition a new 30,000 gallon propane tank was purchased from Quality Welding and Fabrication, to provide service to the new Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock, Virginia.
In May of 2017, Pep-Up purchased H.W. Drummond Fuel located in Parksley and Bellehaven Virginia. H.W. Drummond was founded in November of 1959. We have kept all of H.W. Drummond's employees and welcome them to our Pep-Up family. We look forward to continue serving all of the wonderful customers there.
In May of 2018, Pep- Up purchased a storage facility in Eden from another Propane Company. This will increase our storage capacity, and help us better serve our customers.
With fifteen present locations on the Delmarva Peninsula, Pep-Up, Inc. is proud and fortunate to serve local, state, and federal government agencies, marina, commercial, agricultural, industrial accounts, as well as many residential households.  We are now serving all of Delmarva.
The Pepper family is proud to live and work on Delmarva.


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Eth. VIA AEMILIA SCAURI is the name given, for the sake of distinction, to a road which was constructed by Aemilius Scaurus long after the more celebrated Via Aemilia above described. Strabo, the only author who distinctly mentions the two, says that Aemilius Scaurus, after having drained the marshes on the S. side of the Padus, constructed the Aemilian Way through Pisae and Luna as far as Sabata, and thence through Dertona. (Strab. v. p.217.) Whether “the other Aemilian Way,” as Strabo calls it, had been already continued from Placentia to Dertona, or this also was first effected by Scaurus, we know not; but it is clear that the two were thus brought into connection. The construction of this great work must be assigned to the censorship of M. Aemilius Scaurus, in B.C. 109, as we learn from Aurelius Victor (Vir. Ill. 72), who, however, probably confounds it with the more celebrated Via Aemilia from Placentia to Ariminum. But a comparison of the two authors leaves no doubt as to the road really meant. The name seems to have gradually fallen into disuse, probably on account of the ambiguity arising between the two Viae of the same name; and we find both the coast-road from Pisae to Vada Sabata, and that across the mountains from the latter place by Aquae Statiellae to Dertona, included by the Itineraries as a part of the Via Aurelia, of which the former at least was in fact a mere continuation. Hence it will be convenient to discuss the stations and distances along these lines, under the general bead of VIA AURELIA

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AQUAE TARBE´LLICAE (Dax or Dacqs) or AQUAE TARBELLAE, as Ausonius calls it (Praef. Tres, Syragrio). Vibius Sequester has the name Tarbella Civitas (p. 68, ed. Oberlin). In the Not. Gall. the name is Aquensium Civitas. The word Aquae is the origin of the modern name Aqs or Acs, which the Gascons made Daqs or Dax, by uniting the preposition to the name of the place. Ptolemy is the only writer who gives it the name of Augustae (ὕδατα Αὐγούστα). This place, which is noted for its mineral waters, is on the road from Asturica (Astorga) to Burdigala (Bordeaux), and on the left bank of the Aturus (Adour). There are or were remains of an aqueduct near the town, and Roman constructions near the warm springs in the town. The mineral springs are mentioned by Pliny (31.2).

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There is no more eloquent testimony to the miracles of modern gerontology than the Rolling Stones being on tour. Well, some of them are – and the truth is that few but the cognoscenti would even notice if the 76-year old Charlie Watts (who once allegedly punched Mick Jagger for saying he was ‘only my drummer’) were to lay down his sticks. To most people, the Glimmer Twins are the band.
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Publishing is changing.
Danuta Kean recently wrote a piece on the trend towards not paying writers which included this sentence:

Thanks to the rapid growth in blogging and self-publishing – neither of which provide much reward for practitioners (81% of bloggers earn less than $100 a year, while half of US self-published writers earn less than $500 from their books) – the professional status of writers has been eroded, lending credence to the idea that practitioners do it for love not money and that freelancers bring easily replicated skills (they do not, see Danuta’s Guides).

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Bordetella 101: Kennel cough and your dog

Kennel cough, or tracheobronchitis, is an infectious bronchitis that could be compared to a cold with a scratchy throat in people. The most common symptom of canine kennel cough is a harsh, hacking cough that sounds as if something is stuck in your dog’s throat. While it may sound as if your dog could cough up a lung, in general, kennel cough isn’t serious and it usually resolves on its own, just as the common cold does with people. Unfortunately for the concerned pet owner, this can take days to weeks. You will notice in most cases, despite the hacking cough, that your dog will want to eat, drink, and play normally.

This annoying cough is most commonly caused by highly contagious bacteria; in other cases, the cause can be viral. Dogs in highly populated situations such as boarding facilities, doggy day care, and dog parks are most likely to get kennel cough, which can be transmitted by air or by contact with infected surfaces. Puppies and younger dogs are at the greatest risk, but older dogs can also become infected.

The signs of kennel cough can vary greatly. The most common symptom is a hacking cough. It may sound as if your dog is trying to clear something from her throat. Sometimes the coughing causes retching or the vomiting of fluid, and is often worsened when your pooch becomes excited or active.

Additional symptoms can include:

  • Irritated eyes
  • Runny nose
  • Dog Sneezing
  • Loss of appetite
  • Depression
  • Fever
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There is a value. It is a numerical value.

It is the number of children who have been abused. It is the number of incidents of an organization covering it up. It is the number of times a priest has been moved to a parish to avoid dealing with pedophilia. It is the number of times a priest who tries to stop these incidents or begs the Vatican to stop and change their course is told to shut the hell up and pray and reflect upon what they are trying to do. It is the number of times people are willing to look the other way before they can no longer look the other way.

It is the number of times these things can happen before a tipping point is reached.

That tipping point is when a person shifts from thinking “It’s either extremely rare, or completely false” to “Shit. This is really happening. They really are doing this. Oh my god — what beasts have lain in our midst for generations, hidden by robes plastered in ‘piety sequins’?!”

For each person, there is that value, that tipping point. It’s subjective, but it’s a real value of some sort.

For each incident brought to light, for each report published, for each case settled, more people tip over.

As more people tip, more people are having trouble pretending there’s not at least some kind of problem.*

So they start reading the articles more closely. They start thinking more about what’s happening.

And then they tip, too.

Republic of Ireland abandoning religion faster than almost every other country in the world

It’s tipping.

When I started thinking about this, it was “Well, this is a great example of a group that has no clue about self-policing.” Then, I thought about it a few more minutes and realized that the time for “self-policing” is long past. Hundreds of years long past.

In a way they are self-policing. They are trying to “fix the problem.” Trouble is, they see the problem as very different than the rest of the world is seeing it.

Their chagrin is at being caught. Their chagrin is at this data leaking from the organization. Their chagrin is at how they’ve been unable to spin pervasive child sexual abuse and institutional protection of sexual abusers in such a way that doesn’t horrify people. They think of the whole problem as “a PR gaffe.”

As my mother says: “I shit you not.”

This is how they avoid trouble:
The Vatican appoints a new Director of Communications – at last, the days of leaks and gaffes might be coming to an end

This is how they avoid trouble:
Fast vs. facts: Vatican spokesman tries to quickly help media get truth

This is how they avoid trouble:
From St. Louis to Vatican: Meet the pope’s new PR adviser

They hire a new PR guy.

I shit you not.

* Sure, there’s always going to be a group that insists there’s no problem — no matter how many reports they see, no matter how many testimonials they hear, no matter how many souls are broken. There is no helping folks like that — the best one can do is hope they aren’t in charge of the PR engines. Wait-a-sec… damn!


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Xiaomi Mi Max 3 confirmed for July 19 launch, Mi A2 expected out on July 24

After unveiling the Mi MIX 2S and Mi 8 (in three variants) during the first half of the year, Xiaomi might be taking a little break from high-end smartphone announcements, focusing largely on further expanding the company’s already sizable mid-range portfolio.

Two events likely dedicated to two different non-flagship handsets have been officially scheduled for July 19 and 24 in two different places. On the former date, Xiaomi has confirmed it will domestically launch the Mi Max 3 with a “large screen” and “large battery.”

Meanwhile, the Chinese OEM’s first “global launch” in Spain will apparently take place on July 24, and could well host the expansion and rebranding of the Mi 6X regionally announced a few months back.

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This is widely expected to follow in the footsteps of last year’s Mi A1 as the Android One-powered Mi A2, packing a Snapdragon 660 SoC, up to 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage space.

The Xiaomi Mi A2 should be a relatively large 6-inch device with a decently compact body and 2:1 aspect ratio, but of course, the Mi Max 3 is tipped to adopt a display as large as 6.9 inches surrounded by razor-thin bezels. There could be both “standard” and Pro versions in the pipeline, with the latter offering upper mid-range Snapdragon 710 processing muscle. The two models could share a humongous 5400mAh battery, as well as up to 6 gigs of memory.

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2. The Brain that changes itself- Norman Doidge.
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Multicultural friendships

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Spiritual Gleanings by Joyce Sasse

“Sorry I didn’t make the meeting last night,” my Aboriginal friend confessed. She had come to town and walked into the building where we were meeting, but she couldn’t bring herself to enter the conference room alone.

My heart ached for her feeling of aloneness. I think about her now as we try to form our Multicultural Friendship Group. Our tiny organizational committee has been advertising, planning a program and looking at making our meeting-space comfortable for our next meeting. We need, also, to individually invite those living on the edge of our community to “come with us”.

Scriptures are full of stories of welcoming the “sojourners”. Jesus tells about the unexpected kindness of the Samaritan traveler. He called out to “outsiders”, like the tax collector, to be part of his group of disciples. All devout people remembered that the great King David’s Grandmother was from Moab.

It is important for the traditional members of any society to be inclusive of others if we are to have healthy communities.

In my own experience, the saleswoman in our country market in Korea asked me how much I paid for the potatoes I bought from the vendor a few paces away. It was so out of character with the usual exchange of greetings that I said “Why do you ask?” She replied “That woman is new here and she may not know you belong in our community!” Tears came to my eyes when I realized the gentle way these folks took care of me. I began to notice those who held eye contact as we passed on the street, who spoke a greeting, who ran to invite me to come and bring my camera because there was something I might appreciate seeing.

When we have people of different ethnic backgrounds in our communities, it is up to all of us to recognize their hesitations and invite them into our lives. We will all be the richer for experience.

  • The newly formed Multicultural Friendship Group will be meeting for a Potluck Supper on Saturday, November 28 at St. John’s Anglican Church (Main Street, Pincher Creek) from 6 to 9 pm. Everyone is welcome. Come and bring a friend. First Nations folks will be presenting the program.

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Buhari Congratulates Niyi Osundare At 70

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President Muhammadu Buhari joins the literary world in congratulating renowned academic, poet, columnist and dramatist, Prof. Niyi Osundare, as he turns 70.

President Buhari felicitates with all the friends, colleagues and family members of the literary icon, who through courage and the power of the pen has contributed immensely to the political history of Nigeria.

The President believes the septuagenarian’s sacrifices over the years can only be rewarded with strong democratic institutions that guarantee free and fair elections, and an effective governance that provides security, good health facilities and sound education to its citizenry.

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Amadeus For Walmart Soundcheck: Trey Songz Edition

Platinum Boy Music CEO And Trey Songz Music Director & Tour Drummer Amadeus along with the rest of the TSE band stop by the Walmart Soundcheck series featuring Trey Songz. Check the interview below and a couple of performances featuring "Simply Amazing", "Dive In", "Say Ahh", "We Can't Be Friends", "Heart Attack", and "2 Reasons".

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Friday, February 21, 2014

As You See It Challenges #025

Well, we've reached a quarter of a hundred challenges now at As You See It Challenge Blog!  The time has sure flown since September, and we've seen so many delightful ideas from the design team and all of you who have participated!  If you haven't tried it yet, give it a go this week.  Amanda has created a charming sketch for us:

I had great fun designing mine:

  • I finally was able to break open my Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stacks and use this beautiful distressed polka dot paper in Coastal Cabana.  These Paper Stack are a great deal.  For $8.50 (CAD) you get 48 sheets of double-sided paper  - 4 each of 12 double-sided designs.  The sheets are 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"- plenty for a card front with a little trimming, or use them full sized and make your own envelope.  The colours used are Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake, Real Red and Whisper White, and you can see I've used them all here.
  • I used Banner Blast and Hearts a Flutter for all the garland pieces and See Ya Later for the sentiment. I used the rounded banner stamp for the half circles, but punched out a 1" circle with the 1" Circle Punch and cut it in half.
  • I wanted to sew the garlands, but wasn't sure how I would feed the little pieces through the sewing machine and keep them aligned.  I came up with a brilliant (okay, maybe just clever) solution.  I used a tiny bit of snail to adhere each piece on an arc pencilled on a piece of paper. (The arc matches the arc of the doily.)  I made sure each piece overlapped slightly. I sewed them right to the paper and then I cut the paper away behind them.  The little bit of Snail on the backs helped to adhere each garland to the card front.  Whaddya think?

  • The flag garland was stamped using Banner Blast stamps and punched with the Banner Punch.  Banner Blast and the Banner Punch are both Sale-A-Bration items. You can earn either with a $60 minimum order before tax and shipping all during Sale-A-Bration, which ends March 31st!
  • I added a Tea Lace Paper Doily, some Designer buttons and an In Colour Boutique Detail in Coastal Cabana!
So get out your paper and stamps and embellishments and give this week's sketch a try!  You'll get plenty of positive reinforcement and it's a chance to show off a little.  Don't be intimidated.  Stampers are the most encouraging and positive people I know and we all remember when we were just starting out!  I'm looking forward to seeing what's in that creative brain of yours.

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Sex in the Age of Consent

Maybe it's just me, us Autistic folks don't always pick up on public issues quickly.

I gather State Rep Kerry Gauthier (D-MN) got arrested at a rest stop for having consensual sex with a 17-year-old boy.  (The age of consent in Minnesota, as it turns out, is 16.  Color me startled, but okay, Legislature's determination not mine.)  The state's attorney later announced they weren't going to press charges because it was a consensual lawful sex act between two people legally qualified to consent.  They made their Love Connection via a male-seeking-male ad on Craigslist, also entirely legal.  So fine.  Still flabbergasted by the 16-year-old thing, though.

Was thinking on the way home from the store, though....

For whatever reason, Gauthier didn't admit to police why he was in the rest stop.  Contrary to popular public opinion, if you aren't violating the law, much of the vast wasteland that is one's life is actually not the business of the Police, so I'm actually fine with that.  "It shouldn't bother you if you have nothing to hide."  Having your privacy invaded should always bother you.  It should bother you, if you have a private life.  And contrary to #trapwire, you still do.

Here's the thing.  State's Attorney subtracts 16 from 17 and comes up with "legal," taking maybe a minute if he did it longhand.  State's Attorney adds up the acknowledged consent of both parties, and comes up with legal.  The police would I assume be able to do the same math, since they'd know the same law.   Why didn't they?

Of course, given the care with which the minor's name was concealed, I'm sure none of his friends and family know he was arrested and taken to the police station, which makes sense, since he didn't commit a crime.

Perhaps some will take offense at my questioning the actions of the Duluth Police and various "fair and balanced" Minnesota news media and (R-MN) political figures.  But it shouldn't bother them if they have nothing to hide, right?

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Valvados - 2011-04-03
Technically, it's not the oldest known composition, it's the oldest known complete composition. The two Delphic hymns probably predate it, and there's a hymn to a Sumerian or Syrian (can't remember off the top of my head which one) moon goddess that's over a thousand years older than that.

Still, awesome beyond words.
hammsangwich - 2011-04-03
The Beatles totally ripped him off.
Adham Nu'man - 2011-04-03
No, this is an ancient precursor to "Don't worry be happy"

The Mothership - 2011-04-03
This is touching. Adding this to my curriculum.
cognitivedissonance - 2011-04-03
The song is so awful she died of embarrassment.
cognitivedissonance - 2011-04-03
Seriously though, imagine being the wife of the only hetero in all of ancient Greece. Gotta be tragic.

Jet Bin Fever - 2011-04-03
Now add a dem bow beat, a couple dancers and some autotune. That'll be our legacy in 2000 years.
Rodents of Unusual Size - 2011-04-03
Squeamish - 2011-04-03
Simple and beautiful.
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