All Blogs

Afi The putative ancestor of the class of small farmers and craftsmen in the Song of Ríg in Norse mythology.

See also AFI.

The Oroqen people (????) (also spelled Oroqin and sometimes Orochen and Orochon) are an ethnic group in northern China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They live in Inner Mongolia and along the Heilongjiang river.

This ethnic-group-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

A yoga instructor performing an asana

Asana is a Sanskrit word that literally means a seat but in the practise of yoga refers to a pose or posture. In Patanjali's yoga sutras Asana means, mainly, sitting for meditation.

The practice of asanas involves stretching and moving the body into various positions. With practice, the body can be made to remain a given position for a longer period of time, comfortably. When a degree of comfort is attained in a given posture, it becomes Asana. In general, however, the term is also used to refer to physical yoga exercises in general.

The practice of asanas is very good for muscle flexibility, and many practitioners believe the positions massage and bring balance to the various internal glands and organs of the body, and that they facilitate and balance the flow of prana (vital energy) in the body.

This physical aspect of yoga has been much popularised in the western world and is practiced by a great deal of people, including many celebrities like Madonna, which has given rise to a misconception that asanas are all there is to yoga. This is not true. Yoga asanas such as shirsasana (headstand), etc. (see below) are actually part of Hatha Yoga, which itself is just one of several different ways of practising and approaching yoga. For example, in Pantanjali's work referred to above, Asana is classified as the third rung in the ladder of the practice of Raja Yoga, which consists of 8 limbs: Yama and Niyama, which are ethical obligations, Asana, Pranayama, which is breath control, Pratyahara, which is sense withdrawal, Dharana, which is concentration, Dhyana, which is meditation, and Samadhi, which is the experience of unity with God.

Conditions for a Good Asana

Students taking a yoga class

The Asana should be firm and easy. It should be steady and not cause discomfort of any kind. Any tightness or tension observed in the body should be consciously relaxed. It should be a comfortable posture in which he or she can sit for a long time. The Asana should be effortless both in the body and in the mind. Absolute ease of relaxation is the sign of perfected Asana. The breathing should be a natural rhythm, through the nose, breathing into the belly and not into the chest.

According to Hatha Yoga practitioners, when this bodily control is achieved, they are free from what they call the 'pairs of opposites', such as heat and cold, hunger and thirst, joy and grief, and so on.

Selected Asanas

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of yoga asanas ( since in reality, any bodily position comfortably held could be an Asana ). There is a wealth of knowledge in books and on the internet, but it is better to begin practicing with an experienced yoga instructor, who can see if you are performing the position correctly, and can prevent you from hurting yourself by overstretching. These days, it is not difficult to find yoga instructors, although good ones are perhaps harder to come by.

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika By Swami Svatmarama (External link) suggests the following "sitting for meditation asanas". Other translations of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika have more to say about the sitting asanas, albeit cryptically.

• Svastikasana: "Sitting straight on level ground, squeeze both feet between calves and thighs [of the opposite legs]. This is svastikasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #19

• Virasana: "Place one foot upon the other thigh and the other foot below the opposite thigh. This is virasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #21

• Siddhasana: "Press one heel into the place below the sex organs [the perineum] and put the other heel just above this region [close to the abdomen]. Press the chin upon the chest, sit up straight, with controlled organs, and fasten the eyes between the eyebrows. This is siddhasana, whereby all obstacles on the path to perfection are removed"

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #35

• Vajrasana: "Place the right heel above the sex organ and the left heel over the right. This too is siddhasana."

HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #36
"Some call this siddhasana; others say it is vajrasana, or muk-tasana, or guptasana"
HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #37

A drawing of a girl in padmasana, the lotus position

• Padmasana: "Place the right heel upon the base of the left thigh and the left upon the right thigh. Cross the arms behind the back and grasp the toes, the right ones with the right hand and the left with the left. Press the chin on the breast and look at the tip of your nose. This is called padmasana and cures all diseases."

(The secret teaching is that there should be a space of four inches between the chin and the breast" Sri Nivasa lyangar. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Yoga Swami Svatmarama (translation with commentary) (Adyar, 1949), p. 22. -Trans.)
HYP Chapter 3 Asanas: sutra #37

Yoga Poses

Yogaasana can be relaxing, gentle, athletic and invigorating.

• Backbends
• Forward bends
• Spine twists
• Arm balances
• Seated poses

External links

1. Sri Swami Chidananda The Philosophy, the Psychology, and Practice of Yoga http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
2. Sri Swami Krishnananda The Yoga System http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/
3. Download the complete text of Sri Swami Krishnananda's and Sri Swami Chidananda's material quoted above from: http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm
4. Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Swami Svatmarama Foreward by B. K. S. Iyengar. Commentary by Hans Ulrich Rieker. Translated by Elsy Becherer. Harper Collins, Aquarian/Thorsons, 1972. Complete text online, 321 Kb. http://lib.ru/URIKOVA/SANTEM/SVATMARAMA/hyp.txt_with-big-pictures.html

The combination Kismet-Ethereal just rules! Make sure you use the latest version of those packages as well as your drivers, especialy when you have an Intel IPW2200-based one, as there are multiple new versions released. Gentoo-users will have to enable the ~x86 keyword.

Capture your stream with kismet (very well configured by default!) and open the dump file (/tmp/Kismet-2005-07-29...dump) with ethereal and have fun. The protocol is much more implemented in the latest version of ethereal now. Management frames can be full inspected. The version of ethereal on the allready mentioned great Auditor Security Collection LiveCD is an older one and doesn't support that stuff completely.

One of the great benefits with this combination on a linux machine is that you can capture and analyse all IEEE 802.11 frames, data as well as management frames, with the full headers as they were sent on the radio. With the windows drivers and capture programs, you can only capture the data inside the data packets, no headers, no management packets. That's why expensive commercial applications like AirMagnet provide their own drivers for a small selection of cards. That's the only way they can capture the most interesting information on a windows machine. So standard (free) linux tools are just great for wireless solutions and analysis, I love it!

Hija,

as some of you might now I'm currently employed (just one month) at some nice company called Dedigate, where I'm allowed to do some nice coding stuff etc (ok, also less exciting things ;-)) whilst getting payed. As I'm behind a computer screens >8h/day over there, trying to write some good code, I'm not in a real coding-mood when I get home (don't flame me, I'm just some normal human being). This implies I rarely blog, as I don't like to blog about my "normal" life.

Nothing too fancy happened lately, except the fact I saw Arsenal (not the football club) live at BoomTown (wiiiii :-)), the DConf project was released to the wolves, and I got 20 years old today (07/28) (got a nice little present from my favourite girl, the piano and violin scores of the Brahms piece I blogged about before, thank you!).

I'm quite tired now, guess I need some good sleep to be able to get to work again tomorrow. 2 weeks to go :-)

Hudson Oaks is a city located in Parker County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,637.

Geography

Hudson Oaks is located at 32°45'2" North, 97°41'49" West (32.750427, -97.696978)¹.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²). 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 1,637 people, 546 households, and 475 families residing in the city. The population density is 247.9/km² (641.7/mi²). There are 569 housing units at an average density of 86.2/km² (223.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.09% White, 0.79% African American, 0.37% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.28% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. 3.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 546 households out of which 46.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.6% are married couples living together, 4.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 13.0% are non-families. 10.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.00 and the average family size is 3.23.

In the city the population is spread out with 31.6% under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 102.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $69,659, and the median income for a family is $74,688. Males have a median income of $57,292 versus $31,818 for females. The per capita income for the city is $24,528. 4.5% of the population and 4.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 5.4% of those under the age of 18 and 12.7% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

External links

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtualearth

Met de vakantie is het weer wat moeilijker elkaar te bereiken en deftig overleg te plegen rond standpunten ed. Echter, net in de vakantie wil men een uitermate belangrijke beslissing nemen, namelijk omtrent de herinvoering van de repets aka parti

Zoals verwacht ook vandaag weer een brok nieuws over prof. Vandamme, tegen wie de UGent een tuchtprocedure gestart heeft. Drie artikels in De Standaard waarin een ex-boekhouder een boekje openslaat over de prof. Jammergenoeg zijn de bewuste artikels enkel voor geregistreerde lezers van De Standaard:

• Vandamme wilde zijn bedrijf redden: Oud-boekhouder legt uit hoe professor Vandamme te werk gaat.
• Voormalige boekhouder van Vandamme bevestigt malafide praktijken: Voor het prestige en voor de euro's.
• Melkkoeien van Vandamme: De voormalige boekhouder van Bikit doet een boekje open over de vehikels die professor Fernand Vandamme gebruikte om geld binnen te doen stromen.

De stroom is op gang gekomen, weldra zijn de praktijken eindelijk te einde. Proficiat, Wouter!

Tamrat Desta (born 1978) is an Ethiopian singer and vocalist. He was born in a small town called Tiqur Wuha, located between the two larger towns of Shashemene and Awasa, the second of three children, all boys. After few years, his family moved to Shashemene, and he again moved to Awasa where he finished high school. All three towns are approximately 150 kilometers south of the capital Addis Ababa.

In 1998, he moved to Dire Dawa, located 515 kilometers east of Addis Ababa, to live with his guardian and work at Cherqa Cherq Yekenet Buden where he received basic training as a vocalist and playing with a band.

In 1999, he moved to Addis Ababa to pursue his music career. In 2004, he released his first album Aneleyaleym, for which he received wide acclaim. Most of the lyrics on this CD were written by Habtamu Bogale, and six of the tracks' melodies were by Tamrat.

External link

• A conversation with Tamrat Desta by Ethiolive

Het hek is helemaal van de dam nu. Wat velen al wisten maar discreet behandelden, is nu op grote schaal naar buiten gebracht op de voorpagina van De Standaard en in het VRT radionieuws. Enkele links: het artikel - 10 jaar wanpraktijken - VRT-radiobericht - ingescande documenten.

Ik heb een sterk vermoeden dat er in de loop van de week meer boven water komt.

The Airport - Lindbergh Terminal light rail station is on the Hiawatha Line in the Twin Cities region of U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the only underground station on the Hiawatha Line, and is located 70 feet (20 meters) below ground level under the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) Transit Center. The twelfth stop southbound, it is a center-platform station and is typically accessed by escalator or elevator. Service began at the site when the second phase of the Hiawatha Line opened on December 4, 2004.

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serves about 34 million passengers annually and is one of the main hubs of Northwest Airlines. Because of this, the Lindbergh Terminal Station is one of the most important on the line. The Hiawatha line creates a direct connection between the airport, downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America.

The location of this station directly below a major airport makes it unique. The tunnel and the station both had to be carefully designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration safety requirements. Passengers can access this station from the Transit Center, which is reached by either taking a people-mover (called a "tram" locally) from the ground-transportation level of the main terminal, or by exiting from the skyway security checkpoint.

This station was excavated after the two main tunnel tubes were constructed with a tunnel boring machine (though cut and cover was used near the ends of the tunnels). During the excavation of the tunnels, a buried river valley was encountered a few hundred feet south south of the station. The walls of the station are painted to look like an outcrop of Saint Peter Sandstone through which the tunnels have been bored. A large installation on the ceiling of this station is meant to look like an aircraft wing.

Lindbergh Station is largely unheated, but maintains a temperature of roughly 50–60°F throughout the year because of its underground location. Small spot heaters are available (as they are at all Hiawatha Line stations).

Notable places nearby

• Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport

External links

• Airport - Lindbergh Terminal Station

Tien fantastische dagen zijn in een hels tempo gepasseerd. Na de Dag van de lege portemonees van gisteren is ook deze editie van de Gentse Feesten aan haar einde gekomen. Ik vond 't alvast dik in orde, heb mij beestig goed geamuseerd. Jammer dat ik een paar keer heb moeten overslaan wegens oververmoeidheid en een zieke vriendin, nietemin was't een beestige tijd. Op naar volgend jaar!

Bloedige islamitische rechtspraak, een analyse waarom Iran homo's ophangt.
De-gou-tant gewoon. Zijn dit mensen of beesten? Ik ben echt enorm verontwaardigd dat mensen tot zoiets in staat zijn.

En om welke reden? Godsdienst? Ik dacht dat de islam een boodschap van vrede was, met respect voor elkaar. En dan gisteren in het nieuws: een doodleuke aankondiging dat steeds meer mensen zich tot de islam bekeren zonder ook maar

Career
Awarded:	25 January 1963
Laid down:	25 January 1965
Launched:	6 August 1966
Commissioned:	1 September 1967
Fate:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS San Diego, California
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9521 tons light, 17252 tons full, 7731 tons dead
Length:	173.7 meters (570 feet) overall, 167 meters (548 feet) waterline
Beam:	30.4 meters (100 feet) extreme, 25.6 meters (84 feet) waterline
Draft:	7 meters (23 feet) maximum, 7 meters (23 feet) limit
Complement:	61 officers, 600 men

USS Dubuque (LPD-8), a Cleveland-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Dubuque, Iowa. Her keel was laid down on 25 January 1965 by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 6 August 1966 and commissioned on 1 September 1967 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In November 1967, the ship arrived at its first homeport of San Diego, California after transiting the Panama Canal.

From 1968 until 1975, Dubuque made five Western Pacific deployments that saw extensive duty in Vietnam. In a highly publicized event in October 1968, the ship returned 14 repatriated prisoners of war to North Vietnam. From 1969 until 1971 the ship conducted ten "Keystone Cardinal" troop lifts to Okinawa as part of the "Vietnamization" of the war. From February to June of 1973 the ship operated helicopters that conducted naval mine clearance operations in Haiphong Harbor as part of Operation Clean Sweep. In April 1975 the ship participated in the evacuation of Saigon and the rescue of refugees fleeing South Vietnam.

On 15 August 1985 Dubuque departed San Diego for its new homeport of Sasebo, Japan. The ship arrived in Sasebo on 4 September 1985 to join the Seventh Fleet Overseas Family Residency Program. Since joining the Seventh Fleet, the primary mission of the ship was to support the US Marine Corps in the Western Pacific.

Official ribbons as of March 3, 2002

In May 1988 Dubuque deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as the control ship for mine sweeping operations to protect US-flagged tankers during the Iran-Iraq War. For its participation in this operation the ship was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation. In 1989 the ship participated in the contingency operation to evacuate American personnel from the Philippines during a failed coup attempt.

Immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Dubuque received tasking in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Shield. The ship functioned as the leading element of Amphibious Ready Group Bravo, which transported Marine Regimental Landing Team Four to Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia during the critical early stages of the multi-national build up.

Need information from 1992 to present.

On 30 July 1999, Dubuque was relieved by USS Juneau (LPD-10) as part of the forward-deployed naval forces. Since that date she has been once again homeported in San Diego, California.

From June to September of 1999 Dubuque participated in the first SHIP-SWAP with her sister-ship USS Juneau (LPD-10), where each ship's crew remained in their original home ports, allowing Dubuque to return to the homeport of San Diego.

Dubuque has received three Battle Efficiency Awards and participated in countless amphibious exercises and operations throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.

See USS Dubuque for other ships of this name.

External links

• USS Dubuque official website

• nvr.navy.mil: USS Dubuque
• navsource.org: USS Dubuque
• navysite.de: USS Dubuque

I'm working on a new Jabber bot: HangBot. It should be able to let the user play small text-based games. Atm, playing Hangman (which is the game the bot is named after) and some other basic functions work. The next task on the list is making the menu-class more flexible so other games can be added easily.

The hangman game is finished (it works as it should), but I still need to find a good dictionary for the game to pick words from. 'Ikke' proposed some files in /usr/share/dict/, but those are too difficult, and they're in English (I'm looking for both English and Dutch dictionaries). If anyone knows where to find a fitting dictionary (rather short, simple words), please comment it.

People named David Koch:

• David H. Koch, United States businessman and politician
• David Koch, Australian financial analyst and presenter

Babaloma is a small town in Kwara state of Nigeria. It is located about 75km from Ilorin, the state capital, and 45km from Jebba, a major city that was located in Kwara State but was moved to Niger State by the Gen Babangida administration. There is evidence that Babaloma was initially settled from the nearby Oyo State.

Babaloma is known as a stop over town especially when the major road that linked Niger state and Kwara state passed through it. Babaloma was one of the first towns in the area to have electricity and piped borne water. Babaloma is situated on the major Osin River, which it treats and pumps both through out the town and to surrounding towns and villages. Abiodun Ajide

De Gentse Feesten zijn nog lang niet ten einde. Gisteren was aldus weer een fantastische avond met goed gezelschap en veel plezier. Zoals de voorbije dagen begon onze avond (na een lekkere pizza in La Rustica) met de dansinitiatie van Boombal. Alweer dolle pret, doch

The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Nakhon Sawan (Dioecesis Nakhonsauanensis, Thai: ?????????????????) is located in central Thailand. It is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Bangkok. The bishopric seat is currently vacant.

The diocese covers an area of 93,547 km², covering 13 provinces - Chainat, Kamphaeng Phet, Lopburi, Nakhon Sawan, Saraburi, Sukhothai, Tak, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit.

As of 2001, of the 8.2 million citizen 9,237 are member of the Catholic Church. It is divided into 28 parishes, having 27 priests altogether.

History

The diocese was erected on February 9, 1967, when it was split off from the archdiocese of Bangkok.

Bishops

• Louis Chamniern Santisukniram: November 5 1998 - July 1 2005 (became Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng)
• Joseph Banchong Aribarg: May 24 1976 - November 5 1998 (Resigned)
• Michel-Auguste-Marie Langer: February 9 1967 - May 24 1976 (Resigned)

External links

• Website of the diocese
• catholic-hierarchy.org

	Catholic Church in Thailand
Archdiocese of Bangkok: Chanthaburi - Chiang Mai - Nakhon Sawan - Ratchaburi - Surat Thani Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng: Nakhon Ratchasima - Ubon Ratchathani - Udon Thani edit

In 1988, Brian Wilson released his first solo album outside of the Beach Boys. Mostly co-produced by Russ Titleman, the album was mostly critically praised upon release, but charted at only #54.

• Note: When Brian Wilson was reissued in 2000, the credits to several songs were revised. Wilson was, in 1988, still under the care of Dr. Eugene E. Landy, who was alleged to have taken advantage of Brian in various ways, including claiming songwriting credits for himself and his girlfriend Alexandra Morgan. These credits are marked with an asterisk, and are not on the 2000 reissue.

Track Listing

1. Love and Mercy (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*)
2. Walkin' the Line (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*/Nick Laird-Clowes)
3. Melt Away (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*)
4. Baby, Let Your Hair Grow Long (Brian Wilson)
5. Little Children (Brian Wilson)
6. One for the Boys (Brian Wilson)
7. There's So Many (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*)
8. Night Time (Brian Wilson/Eugene Landy*/Alexandra Morgan*/Andy Paley)
9. Let It Shine (Brian Wilson/Jeff Lynne)
10. Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight (Brian Wilson/Andy Paley/Andy Dean)
11. Rio Grande (Brian Wilson/Andy Paley)

Ook gisteravond waren de Gentse Feesten alweer meer dan geslaagd. Het was echter immens druk, hoogstwaarschijnlijk doordat de meeste mensen vandaag een dagje vrij hebben. Je kon niet al te makkelijk passeren, vele pleinen afgesloten en de duveltent binnenraken was geen gemakkelijke opgave.

Voor de gelenheid hadden we afgesproken met de studentenvertegenwoordigers van de GSR om de teamgeest te bevorderen. Voorafgaand heeft mijn schatje mij echter serieus laten afzien op de volksdansinitiatie van Boombal. Allesbehalve makkelijk, die volksdansen, uiterst vermoeiend, maar dolle pret. Uiteindelijk daagden we met z'n achten op op de GSR afspraak: voorzitster Sara Willems, Stijn Baert, Stefaan Stroo, Peter Huygebaert en vriendin, aanstormend voorzitter Bram Spiessens (kwam er later bij) en ikzelf met Lynn. Uiteraard kwamen we naderhand nog een aantal gekenden tegen. Dat 't dolle pret was, kunnen onderstaande foto's getuigen. (klik op de foto voor een groter exemplaar)

=> Read more!

Vandaag viert Belgi

Sam Rayburn Reservoir is a reservoir in the United States located in Texas, 80 miles north of Beaumont. It was formerly known as McGee Bend Reservoir until 1963 when it was renamed after Sam Rayburn. The reservoir is fed by the Angelina River. The capacity of the reservoir is 3,997,600 acre-feet. Construction began September 7, 1956 and began serving its purpose on March 29, 1965. The main purposes of the reservoir are flood control and power generation. The reservoir is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth district.

External links

• Handbook of Texas Online, Sam Rayburn Reservoir

This Southern United States location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Ons weekendje Parijs gaat helaas niet door wegens het wegvallen van onze slaapplaats. En ons alternatiefje, een dagje ligfietsen gaat ook niet door, want nu blijkt dat De Ligfiets gesloten is tijdens de Gentse Feesten.

Echter niet getreurd: het weer zit goed en er zijn nog zes dagen vol spetterende Gentse Feesten om volledig uit de bol te gaan! En met het verlengde weekend kan dat helemaal niet meer stuk!

Blijkbaar ben ik niet alleen met mijn bedenkingen bij de peilingen van De Stemmenkampioen. Volgens De Morgen en enkele specialisten is dergelijke peiling zelfs een gevaarlijk spelletje. Wat het cre

Morgen is het eindelijk zover! Ik zal om 20u afzakken naar het Baudelopark om aldaar op het Boombal mijn danskwaliteiten te proberen opdrijven. De plaats van danspartner is ondertussen reeds ingenomen door mijn schatje B-)

Vanavond was het gezellig rondhangen alvast weer dik in orde :-D

The Dornier Do 12 Libelle III (German:"Dragonfly III") was the third of a line of small German flying boats of the 1930s. It started with the Dornier A Libelle I and then the Dornier A Libelle II. The aircraft was also amphibious and would carry 3-4 people. It was powered by a single Argus As 10 engine initially, then switched to a Gnôme-Rhône Titan 5 Ke engine, which was mounted in a pod above the fuselage. It first flew in 1932 and went on to be used by the DFS to pull gliders.

Specifications (Dornier Do 12)

General characteristics

• Crew:
• Capacity:
• Length: 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in)
• Wingspan: 13.00 m (42 ft 8 in)
• Height: 4.20 m (13 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 28.0 m² (301 ft²)
• Empty: 1,075 kg (2,370 lb)
• Loaded: 1,400 kg (3,090 lb)
• Maximum takeoff: kg ( lb)
• Powerplant: 1 Argus As 10, later 1 Gnôme-Rhône Titan 5 Ke, kW ( hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 210 km/h (130 mph)
• Cruising speed: 170 km/h (105 mph)
• Landing speed: 80 km/h (50 mph)
• Range: 580 km (360 mi)
• Service ceiling: 5,100 m (16,700 ft)
• Rate of climb: m/min ( ft/min)
• Wing loading: 50 kg/m² (10.2 lb/ft²)
• Power/mass: hp/lb ( kW/kg)

See also

• List of military aircraft of Germany
• List of aircraft of the WW2 Luftwaffe
• List of RLM aircraft designations
• List of flying boats

Yesterday, I uploaded a new index page for realnitro.be. It's a small page, just to have something that refers to this blog, to some sites I made and to my e-mail adress. (I might add my JID too.) I don't know if the page is working in IE as it should, but I might look into that later today.

Having passed my exams in july, I have a lot of free time (three months minus some vacation work), so I'll probably be able to post some more interesting stuff on this blog for the months to come. (I might adjust mabber.py a bit to make it work again on eduserv, and I should finish that little glade/gstreamer-experiment too some day.)

Perot Systems is an IT company based in Plano, Texas, United States. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange as PER.

Perot Systems Corporation was founded in 1988 by Ross Perot, Texas billionaire, better known as a candidate for President of the United States (in 1992 and 1996).

Peter Altabef was made the president and CEO in 2004.

Diversity

Perot Systems received a 14% rating by the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index in 2004. When Ross Perot returned to the company's helm in 1998 he closed its domestic partner benefits program.

External links

• Perot Systems official website

Van mijn goede voornemen om niet te lang te blijven op de Gentse Feesten en op tijd in mijn bed te kruipen om er vandaag vroeg uit te geraken, is niet veel in huis gekomen. Maar ja, wat wil je? Als je hoort dat om 23u Stef Bos naar het St-Baafsplein komt, dan kan je toch maar moeilijk naar huis gaan h

Hela is also the German name for Hel, Poland and the cruiser SMS Hela

In biological and medical research, a HeLa cell is a cell which is derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died from the cancer in 1951, and circulated (without Lacks's knowledge or permission) by George Gey. These cancer cells are considered "immortal" (that is, they do not die of old age and can divide an unlimited number of times, unlike most other human cells), and have been grown in cell culture in an unbroken lineage ever since.

This cell line was propagated for use in cancer research. Initially, the cell line was said to be named after a "Helen Lane", in order to preserve Lacks's anonymity. The cells proliferate abnormally rapidly, even compared to other cancers.

HeLa cells have been transformed by human papillomavirus 18 (HPV18), and have different properties from normal cervical cells.

They are used as model cancer cells and for studying cellular signal transduction.

HeLa cells have proven difficult to control. They sometimes contaminate other cell cultures growing in the same laboratory, interfering with biological research. The degree of contamination is unknown, because few researchers test the identity or purity of already-established cell lines. It has been claimed that a substantial fraction of in vitro cell lines are actually HeLa, their original cells having been overwhelmed by a rapidly growing population derived from HeLa contaminant cells. It has been estimated that the total mass of HeLa cells far exceeds that of the rest of Henrietta Lacks' body.

Some researchers have argued that these cells are a separate species, because they reproduce and spread on their own; in 1991 it was named and described as Helacyton gartleri.

External links

• Cell Data from ATCC

Voor de cultuurbarbaar die het nog niet wist: de Gentse Feesten zijn weer begonnen. Van 16 tot en met 25 juli staat Gent weer helemaal op z'n kop dankzij dit fantastische cultureel volksfeest. Vandaag heb ik al een eerste bezoekje gebracht en genoten van uitstekende pleinartiesten met vuur en kettingzagen aan het Belfort, de Duveltent, het St-Baafsplein, de Vrijdagsmarkt en een terrasje aan het Vleeshuis. De sfeer was fantastisch, de opkomst enorm, de Duvel, Gentse Tripel en oliebollen hebben gesmaakt. B-) De avond was alvast goed geslaagd voor mij. Het deed me echt verlangen naar meer. Mijn statement dat de Genste Feesten voor mij niet goed zullen lukken wegens de stage, heeft plaats moeten maken voor de hoop elke avond wel minstens voor eventjes te kunnen afzakken naar het oude stadscentrum voor een tijdje puur genot.

Tot morgen!

Deze week heb ik, mede door mijn vermoeidheid niet echt veel tijd gehad om te bloggen. Ik was dan ook vergeten om jullie op de hoogte te houden van mijn resultaten op studiegebied waarvan de laatste onzekerheid donderdag verdwenen was. Een trouwe lezer mij hierop attent maakte.

=> Read more!

Livingston is a town located in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,342.

Geography

Livingston is located at 30°29'55" North, 90°44'54" West (30.498721, -90.748371)¹.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²). 8.1 km² (3.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 1,342 people, 539 households, and 377 families residing in the town. The population density is 166.1/km² (429.8/mi²). There are 581 housing units at an average density of 71.9/km² (186.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.05% White, 2.98% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. 0.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 539 households out of which 34.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% are married couples living together, 15.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% are non-families. 25.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.49 and the average family size is 3.00.

In the town the population is spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 95.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town is $32,813, and the median income for a family is $41,625. Males have a median income of $33,958 versus $20,795 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,075. 12.9% of the population and 10.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 7.7% of those under the age of 18 and 21.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

External links

• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from MapQuest or Google Maps
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Maps

I played a little with GConf today. Here's some little introduction to it.

We'll be doing 3 very simple things today:

1. Read out GConf key values


2. Set key values


3. Read out values, and register to value changes

Reading out a string from the GConf tree

Reading out a value (in our case a string) is very simple: first of all you need to know which string you want to read. In this sample we'll try to get the value of the default browser. Then you create a GConfClient, a proxy to the GConf system, you query gconfd using the proxy, get the value and do something with it.

Here's the code:

/* GConf test reader
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o reader reader.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* String to store the GCKEY's value in */
        gchar *val = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        /* Get the value of GCKEY */
        val = gconf_client_get_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, NULL);
        if(val == NULL) {
                /* Key was not set before */
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Value: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        return 0;
}

As you can see this is very straight-forward.
Now compile and run the code:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o reader reader.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./reader
Working with key "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"
Value: "mozilla"

Setting a key value

To set a key, once more we just need a GConfClient proxy, and call a function to set the new key value:

/* GConf test writer
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o setkey setkey.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/extra/test/key"

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* New value */
        gchar *val = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        if(argc > 1) {
                val = g_strdup(argv[1]);
        }
        else {
                val = g_strdup("testval");
        }

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        g_assert(val != NULL);
        gconf_client_set_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, val, NULL);

        g_print("Value \"%s\" set\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        return 0;
}

Again, compile the code and play around with it:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o setkey setkey.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "testval" set
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey test2
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "test2" set

Now you might want to alter reader.c and compile it again so it reads out this new key instead of the one we used before.

Using change notifications

At last we'll be using one of the more advanced features of GConf, change notifications. This means we can register a callback to a key change, so when the key's value is changed (in-process or by another process) we'll be notified of this.
One again this is very easy: get a GConfClient proxy, figure out to which key you want to subscribe, find out the container directory, tell gconfd you want to register to that "directory", add a key change event handler, and you're done. This might sound confusing, read the code sample to see how easy it is.

/* GConf test listener
 * Compile using
 *      gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o listener listener.c
 */

#include <glib.h>
#include <gconf/gconf-client.h>

/* The GConf PATH we'll want to monitor */
#define GCPATH "/extra/test"
/* Path to the key we'll be working with */
#define GCKEY "/extra/test/key"

/* This is the callback function for GCKEY changes */
void key_changed_cb(GConfClient* client, guint cnxn_id, GConfEntry *entry, gpointer user_data) {
        /* Store the new key value */
        gchar *val = NULL;
        /* A local GConfValue */
        GConfValue *value = NULL;

        /* Get the value from the provided entry */
        value = gconf_entry_get_value(entry);
        
        /* This should not happen, but one never knows */
        if(value == NULL) {
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        else {
                /* Check value type, we want a string */
                if(value->type == GCONF_VALUE_STRING) {
                        /* Get the key value
                         * We use g_strdup because we'll g_free(val) later */
                        val = g_strdup(gconf_value_get_string(value));
                }
                else {
                        val = g_strdup("<wrong type>");
                }
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Value changed: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);
}

gint main(gint argc, gchar *argv[]) {
        /* Our proxy */
        GConfClient *gclient = NULL;
        /* String to store the GCKEY's value in */
        gchar *val = NULL;
        /* A simple mainloop */
        GMainLoop *loop = NULL;

        /* Initialize the GConf subsystem */
        gconf_init(argc, argv, NULL);

        g_print("Working with key \"%s\"\n", "" GCKEY);
        
        /* Get the default GConf proxy */
        gclient = gconf_client_get_default();
        g_assert(gclient != NULL);

        /* Get the value of GCKEY */
        val = gconf_client_get_string(gclient, "" GCKEY, NULL);
        if(val == NULL) {
                /* Key was not set before */
                val = g_strdup("<unset>");
        }
        g_assert(val != NULL);

        g_print("Initial value: \"%s\"\n", val);

        g_free(val);

        /* Watch GCPATH */
        gconf_client_add_dir(gclient, "" GCPATH, GCONF_CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE, NULL);
        /* And specify a callback function for GCKEY changes */
        gconf_client_notify_add(gclient, "" GCKEY, key_changed_cb, NULL, NULL, NULL);

        /* Create a mainloop and run it */
        loop = g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE);
        g_assert(loop != NULL);
        g_main_loop_run(loop);

        return 0;
}

50% of this code is equal to "reader.c". The only "special" things is adding a callback notifier in main(), and the callback function itself.
You should notice GConfValues got a type: in this sample we check whether the key's type equals to "GCONF_VALUE_STRING", otherwise we don't "process" the value.

Once more, compile and run this code:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags gconf-2.0` -o listener listener.c
ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./listener
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Initial value: "test2"

At this point, the program just hangs due to our GMainLoop. The key value is the one last set with ./setkey

Now open a new console, go to the directory where setkey is located, and execute it giving some new value. Then watch what's going on at the terminal where "listener" is running:

ikke@marslander ~/Projects/gconf $ ./setkey "a longer test key"
Working with key "/extra/test/key"
Value "a longer test key" set

In the "listener" console, we see this:

Value changed: "a longer test key"

Jay, change notifications working fine :-)

In this sample we only worked with string values, GConf also supports floats, integers, booleans, lists and even more. Check out the API docs for more information.
If you want to read more about GConf, e.g. its internals, you might want to check this tutorial by the GConf author, Havoc Pennington. Notice this is an old document, so the code samples in there won't work anymore, the GConf API has changed quite a lot since then. The ideas explained in the article are still relevant though, so it's worth reading.

The Quartier Latin is an area in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, surrounding UQAM and lower Saint-Denis Street, between downtown and the Village gai. It is known for its theatres, artistic atmosphere, cafés, and boutiques.

It owes its name, a reference to the Quartier Latin in Paris, to the presence of the nascent Université de Montréal in the 1920s. In the 1940s the university moved out and headed for a new campus on the north slopes of Mount Royal, far from the downtown borough. In the late 1960s UQAM was born and established itself in the Ville-Marie borough, giving a modern underpinning to the name. A large junior college, the CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal also moved in at about the same period.

The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec joined these educational institutions in 2005.

Arcosanti is an experimental town that is being built in central Arizona, 70 miles (110 km) outside of Phoenix. Paolo Soleri, using a concept he calls arcology (architecture + ecology), designed the town to demonstrate ways urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the destructive impact on the earth.

Arcosanti is being built on only 25 acres (0.1 km²) of a 4060 acre (16 km²) land preserve, keeping its inhabitants near the natural countryside. The Arcosanti web site describes how an arcology functions in Arcosanti: "The built and the living interact as organs would in a highly evolved being. Many systems work together, with efficient circulation of people and resources, multi-use buildings, and solar orientation for lighting, heating and cooling."

As of 2005 Arcosanti stands some fraction of 1% complete. Existing structures include a three-story visitors' center / cafe / gift shop, the bronze-casting apse (half-dome) carefully situated to accept maximal winter sun and minimal summer sun, two large barrel vaults, a ring of apartment residences around an outdoor amphitheatre, a community swimming pool, and Soleri's suite. A two-bedroom 'Sky Suite' occupies the highest point in the complex and is available for overnight guests.

In Arcosanti, apartments, businesses, production, technology, open space, studios, and educational and cultural events are all accessible, while privacy is paramount in the overall design. Solar greenhouses are planned to provide gardening space for public and private use, and act as solar collectors for winter heat.

The city serves as an educational complex where workshops and classes are offered. Students from around the world are constructing Arcosanti. In addition, about 50,000 tourists visit Arcosanti each year.

Funds to build Arcosanti are raised through the sale of art objects, the most famous being cast wind chimes. More funds are raised from workshop tuitions, which people ("workshoppers") pay for a five week hands-on experience. The workshops are the principal means by which Arcosanti is constructed.

External links

• The Arcosanti Web Site
• The Arcosanti Work Song (c)1972
• Sky Suite guest review

Ik ben kapot XX(

De voorbije twee nachten maar een paar uurtjes geslapen. Ik moet er echt veel te vroeg uit, om 6u, maar kan echt niet in slaap geraken zo vroeg, ook al ben ik doodmoe, ik word gewoonweg terug wakker en actief 's avonds. Vannacht bijna helemaal niet geslapen: veel te laat gegeten door omstandigheden (en dan nog wel frieten met mosselen, uitermate zwaar), veel te warm en irritante muggen. Ik moest er toch weer om 6u uit en ben vandaag maar om 21u terug thuisgekomen: heel de dag gewerkt (en vooral gewacht) in de Thalys. Gelukkig moet ik morgen maar om 9u45 in Brussel-Zuid zijn, kan ik toch weer wat langer slapen: ongeveer een half uurtje treinen van hieruit in plaats van de normale 1u30 naar Wolfstee.

Deep End was a short-lived supergroup founded by guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who and featuring David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. The group also included bassist Chucho Merchan, percussionist Jody Linscott, keyboardist John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, backing vocalists Billy Nicholls, Cleveland Watkiss, and Chyna, and a five-piece brass ensemble called The Kickhorns. The group performed two 1995 charity concerts at London's Brixton Academy (a third was cancelled due to poor ticket sales), which were later released as the album Deep End Live!; a concert at the MIDEM trade fair in France, and appeared on The Tube.

This music article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Kaminokawa (????; -machi) is a town located in Kawachi District, Tochigi, Japan.

As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 30,885 and a density of 566.49 persons per km². The total area is 54.52 km².

External link

• Official town website (Japanese)

In contradiction to my previous posts, always using the latest version isn't that good.

As I told you, last week, I upgraded the packages IPW2200 and ipw2200-firmware to the latest version available. The big problem with those drivers is, I now have corrupt packages. When I came home, I couldn't connect to my WAP. Infact, I could register my client, but I didn't get an IP by DHCP. When I captured the stream with Ethereal, I saw DHCP-requests from the client, but no answer from the server. /var/log/messages gave me more information and told me there were corrupt packages. I can't give the exact error message right now, I'll post it when I've some time. I'll have to take a look closer to it.

Another problem is kernel 2.6.12. I installed this one, but then my USB mouse isn't working anymore. I've allready read on some site the mouse handling is changed in this version, but I'll have to find out how to fix this. Maybe the problem is related with the fact that hotplugging my mouse doesn't work right now. A little task for when I've some time... If you have similar experiences, please, be my guest.

Vandaag proefjes gedaan met wireless acces points op hoge temperatuur: gewoonweg het toestelletje in een oven gestopt, gebakken op 75

While I was disappointed about printing in linux some time ago, today I was supprised about the way gnome/cups handle network printers. At the office where I'm doing an internship, we have two network printers in our subnet. I was impressed when I opened the gnome printer manager and I saw those two printers allready detected and completely configured. B-) I didn't have to do anything, I even didn't know when they were installed. I just love it!

(note: I didn't test printing allready ;-))

Vorige week heb ik hier eindelijk mijn contract getekend. Uiteraard bevat dit een paragraaf ivm geheimhouding. Gedetailleerde info zal je hier dus niet meer terugvinden. Nu ja, hetgeen hier al gepost geweest is, is ook niet echt dermate gedetailleerd om van een inbreuk te kunnen spreken. Nu ben ik alleszins weer bezig met leuk speelgoed.

Voor de rest valt het hier wel mee. Ik wou bij deze toch nog een teken van leven geven ;-) Ik heb het ontzettend druk, moet vroeg weg en ben laat thuis, dus niet echt veel tijd om dit blogje up to date te houden. Dit weekend is de pc ook niet aangezet geweest: de vrijdag was het proclamatie van mijn schatje met een restaurantbezoekje erna B-) Zaterdag een bezoekje aan haar pappie met een BBQ'tje 's avonds en jammergenoeg werd ik ook verplicht tot shoppen... Zondag dan een fietsnamiddagje, veel te lang geleden en het is pijnlijk vaststellen dat mijn conditie een ware ramp geworden is. Ik ben gewoonweg kapot.

Anyway: back to work now!

Richard Murphy, is an architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and principal architect in Richard Murphy Architects.

History

Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities, and has taught at the latter. He formed his practice in 1991, which has since grown to over twenty architects, and is now housed on Old Fishmarket Close, in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The practice made its name designing small scale extensions to houses and mews conversions, and found great success with buildings for the arts, particularly lottery-funded projects. His work, in its desire to create contemporary architecture but with a sense of place and history, shows the influence of Carlo Scarpa, who he has done academic research into. In 1998 he presented a Channel 4 documentary on Scarpa, directed by Murray Grigor. In 2004 the practice exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

Controversy

Murphy has sometimes attracted controversy. The conversion of John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar attracted angry letters from around the world, in the belief that he was destroying the house as it was when Muir was born. It was in fact simply replacing an older interior representing how the house 'may have been' at the time.

His Mews House on Circus Lane in the New Town of Edinburgh was dubbed the 'Japanese House' by the local press, and felt an inappropriate design for a World Heritage Site, though it subsequently won planning permission.

The proposed Sean Connery Filmhouse would be built over Festival Square in Edinburgh. The square, part of The Exchange Business district designed by Terry Farrell, is felt by many to be a failure. The square is often empty, and as Murphy pointed out, is, despite its name, one of the few places in the city without any presence of the Edinburgh festival in the summer. The MSP Brian Monteith even dubbed the square Ceausescu piazza. Despite this, the Sheraton Hotel is deeply against the proposals, as the building would be right in front of the hotel, and block residents' views of Edinburgh Castle.

Proposed work

• 5-Star hotel on the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site, Edinburgh (within in masterplan drawn up by Norman Foster)
• Sean Connery Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Notable completed work

Projects by year of design

• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1991
• Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, 1994 + 1997 extension
  • Nominated for 1997 Stirling Prize
• Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 1996
• Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre, Peebles, 1998
  • Nominated for 2004 RIAS Best Building in Scotland
• Caernarfon Arts Centre, Wales, 2000
• Oloruso Restaurant, Edinburgh, 2001
• John Muir Birthplace, Dunbar, East Lothian, 2001
• British High Commission, Sri Lanka, 2002

External links

• Official site
• Richard Murphy: Ten Years of Practice at RIBA website

Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot is the name of a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada. Its population is 94,084. (2001)

Geography

The district includes the Regional County Municipalities of Acton and Les Maskoutains.

History

The electoral district was created in 1933 as St. Hyacinthe—Bagot and was first used in the Canadian federal election of 1935.. In 1947 the name was changed to Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. In 1966, it was merged with parts of Chambly—Rouville, and from Richelieu—Verchères and renamed Saint-Hyacinthe . It reverted to the name Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in 1980.

List of Members:

1. Joseph-Théophile-Adélard Fontaine, Liberal, (1935-1944)
2. Joseph Fontaine, Liberal, (1945-1957)
3. J.-H.-Théogène Ricard, Prog. Cons., (1957-1972)
4. Claude Wagner, Prog. Cons., (1972-1978)
5. Marcel Ostiguy, Liberal (1978-1984)
6. Andrée Champagne, Prog. Cons., (1984-1993)
7. Yvan Loubier, Bloc Québécois (1993-present)

This Canadian government-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Madeleine Kunin speaking 11 October 2004

Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was born in Zurich to a Jewish family, and moved to the United States as a child. She was the governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the United States Democratic Party. She was a member of the administration of President Bill Clinton, serving as deputy secretary of education of the United States from 1993 until 1997, when she became the ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

This politics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Cover of Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game published by R.Talsorian Games, set in the near future.

Overview

Based on the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and other "mirrorshades" authors, the feel of the game is meant to be very much style over substance, in what can be considered a distinctly 80's kind of way. The age of the game is today most easily seen from its timeline, which extends to before the fall of the Soviet Union. There are also some aspects of modern 21st century life (such as Internet and cell phones) whose existence in the game is noticeably divergent thanks to this.

The range of characters players can adopt is very diverse, ranging from hardwired mercenaries with psycholinked weapons and boosted reflexes, to Armani-wearing corporate mega-yuppies who make and break national economies with the stroke of a pen.

The basic rules system of Cyberpunk 2020 (called Interlock) is skill-based instead of level-based. With player being awarded points to be spent on their skill sets. New skills outside their expertise can be learned but in-game time needs to be spent on this. A large part of the system is the player characters' ability to augment themselves with cyber-technology and the ensuing loss of humanity as they become more machine than man.

Cyberpunk 2020 is a game with a dark film noir feel if played right, though certain oversights in the basic system can make the average game session devolve into a 1980s action movie with a triple-digit body-count.

What is significant about Cyberpunk 2020 compared to many other roleplaying games is the freedom given by the basic system in character creation. Although each player must choose a character class or "role" from those given in the basic rules, there is enough variation in the skill system meaning that no two members of the same class are alike. A character can also be a total non-combatant (something that is not quite possible in Dungeons & Dragons even to this day).

Another feature that endeared the game to players and Games Masters alike is the inherent lethality. A typical starter-level character facing off against three police officers is very likely to suffer a quick death. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, this is a factor that is not liable to change as the character gains experience (there are no "hit points"). No matter who the character is, a single bullet can result in a lethal wound. This encourages a more tactically-oriented and sneaky game play, which is accordance to the rough-and-gritty ethos of the Cyberpunk genre.

The World of Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020, as the name implies, takes place in North America in the year 2020. The game's default setting is the fictional city of Night City located between Los Angeles and San Fransisco on the west coast of the United States. Later supplements to the game have contained information about rest of the US and the world.

Following a vast economical collapse and a period of martial law, the United States government has had to rely on several megacorporations to survive. This has given them a veritable carte blanche to operate as they will.

The Megacorporations

• Arasaka, a Japanese zaibatsu conglomerate whose megalomaniacal CEO wishes to realize his dream of Japanese world power.
• Biotechnica
• Eurobusiness Machines (EBM), information technology corporation.
• Kendachi
• Merril, Asukaga & Finch, financial analysts.
• Militech, American arms contractor.
• Mitsubishi-Koridanshu
• Zetatech

Sequels

Cybergeneration

Cybergeneration is a follow-up to the original Cyberpunk 2020 game. It is set roughly 10 years after 2020 and is heavily dependant on the concepts and application of nano-technology. A nano-plague is mutating and morphing the youth of society, driving them underground, as society dramatically fears their capabilities and differences. "Cybergen" was originally published as a supplement for Cyberpunk, but later re-released as a fully featured game in its own right.

Starblade Battalion

Starblade Battalion, a setting for R. Talsorian's related Mekton RPG, postulates a more distant future to the Cyberpunk 2020 world (set in the year 2180), where the "primitive" ACPA technology of 2020 has evolved into 15-meter-tall giant robots called Mektons. Between Cyberpunk and Starblade Battalion, the Earth suffered a devastating global ecological disaster called the "Ecocollapse" and is now governed by a totalitarian Green government called the United Stellar States Alliance. Humanity's interstellar colonies are governed by a manipulative corporatist government called the Pleiades Confederacy. The Starblade Battalion setting has been noted for its similarities to Gundam, particularly in that neither antagonistic party is particularly "good", and the primary division is "My side" and "their side."

Cyberpunk V.3

Cyberpunk V.3 (also known as Cyberpunk Version 3 or it's working title of Cyberpunk 203X) is the next-generation of the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game. The setting has been heavily updated from it's last event book series, Firestorm, which covered the opening of the Fourth Corporate War. The aftermath of the Fourth Corporate War has resulted in widespread corruption of the Net and major losses of hardcopied data, to the point that all data is intangible and recorded history is in doubt (an example that pops up in Pondsmith's gatherings at conventions and releases on the Internet is that history has been corrupted that many people in the world now believe Richard Nixon, instead of resigning over Watergate, commited suicide on camera). The war has also lead to the collapse of nations, the world economy, and many of the staple megacorporations. This civil upheaval leads to the rise of the altcults, alternative cultures similar in vein to the phyles from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. In fact, Cyberpunk V.3 has more to do with the new postcyberpunk literary movement and transhumanism than with the Gibson-Sterling mirrorshades movement.

Cyberpunk V.3 is notorious for its overtly long development period and often rumored release dates.

External links

• Homepage of R.Talsorian Games, publisher of the game
• Views From the Edge, a forum dedicated to Cyberpunk 2020 and the genre in general

The University of Washington Medical Center is a hospital in the University District of Seattle, Washington. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Washington.

The 2004 issue of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" ranks the UWMC 9th out of 2,113 hospitals nationwide, in a tie with New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Many UWMC programs score high in specialty rankings, as well: rehabilitation medicine (2); endocrinology (7); orthopaedics (9); geriatrics (10); oncology (10); gastroenterology (10); otolaryngology (12); pulmonology (14); nephrology (16); neurology/neurosurgery (17); rheumatology (18); gynecology (20), and urology (27).

The University of Washington Medical Center opened on May 4, 1959. It grew out of the medical school that the university opened on October 2, 1946. It is home to the world's first pain center and was the location of the world's first long-term kidney dialysis, developed by UW professor Belding Scribner, M.D.

External links

• University of Washington Medical Center

Michael Anthony Gallego born October 31, 1960 in Whittier, California was a Major League Baseball infielder.

Mike's career last from 1985 to 1997. Mike played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals.

Mike attended the UCLA.

External link

• Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis

As I told before, always use the latest version if you have troubles with some piece of software. Such a stupid mistake made me loose lots of time today and yesterday. I had troubles gettig my wireless card in monitor mode. When your card is in monitor mode, you only recieve packets without sending some, so you can't be seen by other hosts but you can listen to all trafic and detect hosts or access points. This is the setting used by Kismet and other programs to analyse your network. Other modes are Managed and Ad-Hoc.

When I used the command iwconfig eth1 mode monitor at my Gentoo-installation, I always recieved an error message "this mode is not supported" or "illegal operation" or something like that. The strange thing was that the software on the Auditor Security Collection LiveCD worked without any problem. After lots of digging into things like iwpriv, wich has lots of more possibilities, I discovered that I was running an older version of IPW2200 and IPW2200-firmware wich doesn't support monitor mode. The version in the stable branch wasn't the latest available version, I had to use the packet from the unstable branch, wich works fine. So if you also have this problem, just add those two ebuilds to your package.keywords file with the ~x86 keyword, upgrade them and everything should work fine :-D

Vandaag zonder problemen netjes op het werk geraakt. B-) Morgen mag ik echter weer eens te voet gaan vanuit Wolfstee, mijn fiets staat namelijk nog op het bedrijf. Ik heb kort nog wat literatuur doorgenomen nog wat analyse software ge

Richard M. Hamilton is a web designer and the webmaster of The Police Notebook ([1]). He has worked in law enforcement for over 30 years as a police officer, instructor, supervisor, and administrator.

Vandaag ging het al heel wat beter dan gisteren :-) In Mechelen was ik nog op de verkeerde trein gestapt, namelijk die naar Antwerpen ipv Lier/Herentals, die vanop hetzelfde perron vertrok, doch een paar minuutjes vroeger. Echter geen probleem, het volgende station was immers Mechelen-Nekkerpoel, wat op nog geen minuut rijden ligt van het station van Mechelen zelf. Beide treinen stoppen daar, dus geen probleem. In Wolfstee stond er na mijn voorval van gisteren uiteraard geen fiets op me te wachten. Te voet is het ook nog doenbaar, doch je stapt er wel een tijdje op.

Vandaag heb ik mij een beetje beziggehouden met wat research rond de huidige draadloze netwerken. Vooral de fysische kant dan, met de verschillende types antennes, hun plaatsing en verloop van de signaalsterkte. Ook nog wat geknoei met de installatie van software voor de detectie en het onderzoek naar de sterkte van aanwezige draadloze netwerken.

=> Read more!

The Maelor is an area of Wales, lying in the county borough of Wrexham. It originated as a commote of the Kingdom of Powys, focused on Bangor-Is-y-Coed.

The Maelor was first divided from the rest of Wales by the construction of Offa's Dyke in the eighth century, but was reclaimed by Wales during the reign of Stephen of England. In around 1202, the Maelor was first divided into two halves, separated by the River Dee, when it was split between two Welsh lords.

In 1282 - 1283, Edward I of England conquered the area east of the River Dee, which became known as the English Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Saesneg). The western area remained Welsh and became the Welsh Maelor (Welsh: Maelor Gymraeg).

In 1397, under Richard II of England, the English Maelor was merged with the County Palatine of Chester to form the Principality of Chester. With the creation of the Kingdom of England and Wales in 1536, the county of Denbighshire was created, containing the Welsh Maelor, while the English Maelor became an outlier of Flintshire, administered from Overton. The English Maelor was also known as Flintshire Detached, and sometimes simply as the Maelor.

In 1974, both halves of the Maelor became part of the Wrexham Maelor district, which in 1996 became part of the county borough of Wrexham.

Jaja, het was echt mijn dagje niet vandaag. Het was de eerste dag van mijn stage bij Siemens, en ik heb nog geen enkele dag gehad met zovele malen pech na elkaar...

Het begon al 's ochtends vroeg. Opstaan om 6u is echt mijn ding niet. Als ik dan ook nog eens nietsvermoedend onder de douche ga staan en merk dat we gedurende drie dagen geen warm water hebben, is de dag al goed gestart. XX(

=> Read more!

Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role as Annette in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and later starring on her own television series, Angie, for two seasons from 1979 to 1980. Her most groundbreaking role has been Dr. Lynn Carson on the soap opera All My Children, which she portrayed from 1982 to 1983. Her character was the first lesbian on the daytime serials.

She played Donna, the mother of Evie, in the children's comedy show Out of This World.

From 2000 to 2003, she played the mother, Eileen Stevens, on Even Stevens, a sitcom that aired on The Disney Channel.

Everywhere you try something that doesn't work, always make sure you're using the latest version available! They say this in every manual, but you don't know how many people are violating this rule. But of course, one can say that the version that's delivered with your distribution isn't the latest, but that can't be a problem.

Why am I telling this? Seems logical. OK, it's logical, but most people sometimes forget it. And I'm also telling this again because people who are using (K)UBUNTU and having problems with their wireless networking, can find a clue in this. When you follow the (nice explained!) steps in the Ubuntu Wiki about installing ndiswrapper, you just use the version delivered with that version of your distro. When I did this yesterday at the notebook of a friend, seems I installed version 0.2rc2 wich is very old. Off course I ran into trouble.

=> Read more!

Since yesterday, exams are finally done! Done! Finally!

Yeah, the last one, speech processing. It was quite hard, harder than I thought, but I was ready with studying, execpt a few pages that were to hard, I thougt. But at the exam, also those pages were asked! Indeed, it was very difficult. When I recieved the questions I thought "oh, shit". But after all, I think I have answered enough to pass. Let's hope.

Also yesterday (ok, two days ago, but I'm still awake so I say yesterday :-)), my girlfriend had her thesis presentation. It'll also be OK, she told. The jury said it was OK, very good, and she answered most questions. With that last one, a big part of her life ends. University career as student is done. She wants to go for a PhD next year, so she won't leave university and our home ;-)

I also bought her a little present. Something because she closes a period and also because I won't see her much while I'm doing my internship at Siemens. We had some drink and a nice evening with some friends, all OK :-)

Gridiron football is a term that refers to both American football and Canadian football. The term came about after it was observed that the field of play in each sport, because of the many lines marking it, resembles a gridiron.

The word "gridiron" alone may refer either to the field or to the sport; however, in North America it's usually only used to refer the field. In some other English-speaking countries--particularly Australia and New Zealand--it is the primary term used to refer to the sport, differentiating it from other forms of football such as Australian rules football, association football (soccer), or rugby football. In the film and TV industries a gridiron is a grid made of steel and/ or iron pipes

In recent years the term has come to be used much more liberally in American Football. John Madden for example uses it to refer to the game itself. "Lets get back to the gridiron" is a type of phrase he and other announcers use when play resumes after a timeout or commercial break. This and other terms are used to glorify the tactics and strategies used in American Football to almost war-like stature.

Barbara Bermudo (born June 15, 1975 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) journalist.

Barbara hosts "Primer Impacto" is a Spanish language news program which covers tragedies and incidents dealing with human nature and is popular among the Hispanic population in the United States. Barbara joined the programme in 2002; the co-presenters are Jackie Guerrido and Carmen Dominicci.

In 2003, Barabara participated as "herself" in the film "Chasing Papi", starring Roselyn Sanchez, Jaci Velasquez and Sofia Vergara.

In 2004, Barbara hosted "Lo Que no vio de Premios lo Nuestro" (What you didn't see in Lo Nuestro Awards) and "Noche de Estrellas" (The Night of Stars).

Barbara has made television appearances in "El Show de Cristina", "El Escandalo del Mediodia" (The Midday Scandal) and "Que Bodas" (What Weddings).

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans