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A Day in the Life of.. a Dementia Navigator

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My name is Sue Acton and I am a Dementia Navigator working in North Warwickshire.

It’s 9am and I’m heading off to my first client visit of the day. My patch is quite large and a bit of a distance from my home – I cover all of North Warwickshire, including Nuneaton, but live in Leamington Spa – and I need to be in Atherstone for 10am. My briefcase is loaded up with client notes and lots of brochures and factsheets. As well as Alzheimer’s Society material I like to take along relevant information from other organisations such as Age UK and Guideposts Trust, plus details of local dementia services such as a Carer’s Café run by a local GP practice.

My first clients are long standing service users, a couple in their 80s called Mary and Fred. I chat with both Mary and Fred for a while, and then with just Mary. Fred, who cares full time for Mary, takes the opportunity to relax for an hour on his own, knowing Mary is safe – even a short break like this can make all the difference. Mary and I talk about her children and her time as a wartime evacuee, but after a while she becomes emotional – she is terrified of ‘going mad’ and being ‘put away’. Despite the difficulties, it’s clear there is a lot of love between her and Fred. I agree a date for another visit and ask Fred to keep me posted on his Community Care Assessment – I’m concerned that Fred needs more support in his role as carer.

It’s now approaching lunchtime and I have an hour before my next visit, and so I grab a sandwich and coffee at a nearby garden centre. I write up my notes – having an iPad makes it so much easier to keep on top of things when I’m out all day – and also call my boss to discuss a couple of things, including my taking part in a post diagnostic support group set up by the Memory Service team in Nuneaton.

At 1pm it’s time for my second home visit of the day in Coleshill – a new client referred to us by one of our volunteers. Joan cares full time for Roger, and is finding things extremely tough. I simply listen for a while as Joan tells me her story, something that a lot of people want to do at the first meeting. As well as dementia, Roger has a number of physical problems that are in many ways harder to manage, and mean Joan cannot leave the house for more than an hour. I learn that Roger served in the army, and so I agree to look into services provided by The Royal British Legion which may be of use. I also encourage Joan to approach social services for further support. I leave feeling I haven’t been of much use, at least for now.

Today is slightly unusual in that I have a third visit late afternoon – I am meeting Andrew and his son Liam to discuss his wife Kate’s recent diagnosis. Kate and Andrew are relatively young and Andrew still works full time, hence the later than usual meeting. We are getting together in a café in Nuneaton as Andrew feels it would be helpful for him to be able to talk freely.

Again I have an hour before the meeting and so I fire up the iPad – I want to research Roger’s medical condition as it’s not something I have heard of before. I also catch up with some emails and remind myself of Kate and Andrew’s details, as well as adding them to the list of younger clients I am compiling – as a Navigator team we are looking at how we can meet the needs of younger people with dementia and will be inviting them to a meeting to get their views.

At 4pm I track down Andrew and Liam in the café, after the inevitable embarrassment of approaching the wrong people first. We have a long chat covering a whole range of topics, from the genetics of Alzheimer’s to Kate’s symptoms, to the practicalities of Andrew sorting out Power of Attorney to enable him to make decisions for Kate when she is no longer able to do so. I agree to speak to a colleague at Guideposts with whom Andrew has already spoken, and to send some information about our CRISP programme. I also provide various factsheets as well as details of support groups in the area. We will meet again next month.

It’s been a long day, and I head home. Tomorrow I’ll be in the Leamington office all day, writing up the rest of my notes and following up agreed actions. Although this isn’t the easiest job at times and I find it tough when I can’t ‘fix’ things for people, equally I absolutely love it – as well as the satisfaction of helping others, I love meeting such a variety of people and the fact no two days are the same.

To find out more about Warwickshire’s Dementia Navigators’ service please contact Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire on 01926 888 899 or email dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

(The photographs used on this website are for illustrative purposes only)

Dementia Cafés in Warwickshire

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People with dementia often say that following the diagnosis they loose the confidence to socialise. Family members often feel left out and experience social isolation, due to the impact that the caring role has on their time and relationships.

Dementia cafés are drop-in centres offering a friendly and safe environment, where people living with dementia, and their family and friends, can come to meet others who are in the same boat, have a chat over a cup of coffee, share experiences and information, and learn about support available in their local communities.

Dementia cafés offer sessions with speakers from a range of organisations covering a variety of topics that help to support individuals living with dementia, their spouses, partners or children. The cafés can also provide a range of fun activities including singing and playing games from the past.

Dementia café near me

To find a dementia café that is local to you please visits Warwickshire Directory of services. Below is also a list of local dementia cafés, and contact details for any enquiries.

Dementia Café
Waverley Day Centre, 65 Waverley Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1JL
Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 888899

The Little Ray of Sunshine
The Kenilworth Centre, Kenilworth
Contact: Tel: 01926 855205

The Memory Café
Woodloes Tavern, Woodloes Avenue South, Warwick, CV34 5RN
Contact: Paul Murren, Tel: 01926 490327

Singing for the Brain
BRUNSWICK HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, 98-100 Shrubland Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3BD
Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 888899

Musical Memories at The Moorings
The Moorings Bar and Restaurant, Myton Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 3NY
Contact: Age UK Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 458100

Waverley Dementia Carers Group
Waverley Day Centre, Waverley Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1JL
Contact: Waverley Day Centre, Tel: 01926 858433

Dementia Café
Blackdown Priors House, Old Milverton Lane, Blackdown, Leamington Spa, CV32 6RW
Contact: Tel: 0333 321 1924

Dementia Café
St Andrew’s Church, Church Lane, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 9HQ
Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 888899

Bishopton Primary School Community Centre, Drayton Avenue, Stratford upon Avon,
CV37 9PB
Contact: Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project, Tel: 0780 3729894

Dementia Café
Stour Court, Shipston-on-Stour, CV36 4HF
Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 888899

Alcester Café
The Jubilee Centre, Jubilee Hall, (off St Faith’s Road), Alcester, B49 6AG
Contact: Alcester Dementia Café, Tel: 01789 488088

Stour Valley Dementia Carers’ Group
Ellen Badger Hospital, Stratford Road, Shipston on Stour, CV36 4AX
Contact: Stour Valley Carers Support Group, Tel: 01608 663808 or 01608 686013

Dementia Café
The Oasis, 1st floor, Rugby Health and Wellbeing Centre, Drover Close, Rugby, CV21 3HX
Contact: Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire, Tel: 01926 888899

Friday Friends
The Garden Room, Bulkington Village Centre, Bulkington, CV12 9JB
Contact: Bulkington Surgery, Tel: 02476 733020

What other people said:

Dementia café offers good social interaction.

The café is a very good resource of information and is very supportive.

Warwickshire’s 10,000 Dementia Friends Challenge – a call to action!

Warwickshire now has over 7,000 Dementia Friends, which is a huge achievement.  But we still need your support to reach our target of 10,000 Dementia Friends in Warwickshire by the end of June.

Please help us to create a more Dementia Friendly Warwickshire and become a Dementia Friend today! If you are already a Dementia Friend, you could encourage someone else to get involved.

It takes just five minutes to become a Dementia Friend; just follow these simple steps:

  1. Go to https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/
  2. Go to ‘Register and watch the video’
  3. Enter your details on the website
  4. Watch the video
  5. Add your address and a Dementia Friend badge and Little Book of Friendship will then be sent through the post.

It’s as simple as that – become a Dementia Friend today!

If you use Twitter, please let us know that you have got involved:

@WCCPublicHealth            @DementiaCandW

Dementia Friends Information Sessions can be delivered at one of your informal meetings, among a group of friends or at work.

Sessions last up to one hour. If you would like to enquire about holding a session for people you know (provided they are based in Coventry or Warwickshire), please contact us on dementiapartnership at warwickshire.gov.uk

Thank you for your support!

Musical Memories at The Moorings – new Dementia Cafe in Leamington Spa

Musical Memories at The Moorings

Are you living or caring for someone with Dementia? If so the Musical Memories Café could be for you.

The café aims to:

  • Support people, their families and carers living with memory problems.
  • Recognize the importance music can play in bridging memories.
  • Encourage socialising with others in similar circumstances.
  • Enable carers to share experiences, emotions and understanding.

What activities can I expect?

  • Listening to and joining musicians and volunteers in ‘making music’.
  • Sharing experiences and emotions in relaxed, informal surroundings.

What does it cost?

The café is FREE.

Where does the Café operate?

The Moorings Bar and Restaurant,

Myton Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 3NY

10.00am-12.00pm the last Monday every month (except bank holidays)

If you are interested in attending, please contact Age UK Warwickshire for further information:

Telephone: 01926 458100

Living with Dementia – Kevin’s story

My name is Hilary and I am married to Kevin, who lives with Alzheimer’s.

We have been together for the last 46 years – and they have been quite eventful!  We have moved house numerous times, and lived in Australia for 6 years, 4 of them in a remote iron ore mining town on the edge of the Gibson dessert. In 1978 we returned to England with our two daughters who were born in Perth, Western Australia, became foster parents to five teenagers, and adopted a baby with Downs Syndrome.  In the space of three years our family grew from the 4 of us to 10.  Life was busy to say the least!

Our Christian faith is central to our lives, and for 10 years Kevin was the Pastor of an Independent Baptist church in Southend-on-Sea.  Towards the latter part of his ministry there it was becoming obvious that he was having problems with his memory, and whereas it had never been a problem for him to prepare and preach a sermon, things were becoming more and more difficult.  Coupled with the memory problems Kevin also had a sleep disorder, and would often fall asleep at work without realising it.

After various tests at the local hospital, we were informed that it was unlikely that Kevin would work again. We decided to downsize and re-located back to Leamington, where several members of our family lived. There was also a specialist home nearby which could cater for our special needs son, who by this time was in his early 20s.

There was now just the two of us living in a retirement flat.  Kevin had many tests to try and pinpoint what was causing his memory problems, which by this time were getting steadily worse, but no specific diagnosis was given, which Kevin found very frustrating.

Our main source of help and support came from the Alzheimer’s Society, and during one ‘cafe’ we were approached by a Consultant, who, after talking to us both, arranged for Kevin to be seen by Dr. A at a local mental health centre.  Even though Kevin had been on medication for Alzheimer’s prescribed by our GP, he still hadn’t been given a reason why he was on this.

After many years of not knowing what was really happening, Dr. A finally told Kevin that he had Alzheimer’s.  For many people that would be a real shock, but for Kevin it was a relief.  At long last we had a concrete reason for the difficulties he had been experiencing.  Alzheimer’s is not a diagnosis anyone wants to have, but sometimes knowing that there is something wrong, but not knowing what, is even more difficult.

Eleven years have now past since Kevin had to stop working, and although the illness has inevitably progressed, he is still able to enjoy some measure of independence.  One of the most useful tools he uses is a card made for him by the local Alzheimer’s Society stating that he has Alzheimer’s disease.  When he goes to the local shops, he shows a member of staff the card and they accompany him round the shop to make sure that he gets the right things on his shopping list, and help sort out his money.  The staff in these shops have been really helpful, and Kevin no longer has to worry about getting the wrong thing, or forgetting something altogether.  Full marks to all the establishments who have signed up to become Dementia Friendly – it makes a huge difference to the lives of both those with dementia and their carers!

We have trialled a few tracking devices over the past few years, none of which have been very successful, and although the new smart phones can incorporate a tracking system, these types of phones are far too difficult for people with dementia to use.

Kevin has a special phone made by Doro.  It only has 4 buttons, marked A,B, C&D, next to which you can write a person’s name.  For him A is home, B is my mobile, C is his brother, & D is one of our daughters. It also has an SOS button for emergencies.  At the moment Kevin can still use this (usually!) and it means we can keep in contact with each other if he goes out.

Life does not have to end when dementia begins but it can often bring many difficulties. Ever the optimist, Kevin often says ‘well it doesn’t hurt’; physically that may be so, but psychologically things are much harder.

When someone tells you they have Alzheimer’s or dementia NEVER say ‘I can’t see anything wrong with you’ or ‘Oh we all forget things’.  You wouldn’t say that to someone who told you they had cancer, or some other illness, so just try to listen and treat people with kindness!

If you would like to learn more about Hilary and Kevin’s experiences of living with dementia, please visit Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Portal’ Dementia Friendly Communities page and watch the short Dementia Friendly Warwickshire video clip.

Dementia Awareness Week 2015 – diary of events (Warwickshire)

Dementia Awareness Week 2015 will be held between 17th and 23rd May.

The theme of this year’s Dementia Awareness Week is ‘Life doesn’t end when dementia begins’ and the events held during the week will focus around raising awareness of the condition and that people with dementia can live well with the right support.

This year, Warwickshire County Council and partners have teamed up with Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire to put on a number of ‘Signing for the Brain’ events across the county. There will be one main singing event held in each district and borough, and the Dementia Friends campaign song ‘With a little help from my friends’ (by the Beatles) will be performed by local community choirs in public spaces.

The ‘Singing for the Brain’ events in Warwickshire will be held as follows:

  • Warwick District: Saturday 16th May at 2pm – Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa & Warwick Hospital, Lakin Road, Warwick
  • Rugby Borough: Saturday 16th May at 2pm – Rugby Library, Little Elborow Street, Rugby
  • North Warwickshire Borough: Saturday 16th May at 2pm – Atherstone Market Square, Atherstone
  • Stratford District: Sunday 17th May at 2pm – High Street, Alcester
  • Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough: Wednesday 20th May at 1pm – Nuneaton Market Stall, Nuneaton Town Centre

There will also be a range of other individual awareness raising events, held across Warwickshire by different organisations, community groups and in GP surgeries.

If you would like to find out about events held in your local area, please contact Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Partnership on dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

Every action counts! Tweet about your event or action using the hashtag #CWDAW2015 or #DoSomethingNew, or email the Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Partnership on dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk with some details we could promote on your behalf!

Dementia Awareness Week 2015 (17-23rd May) – a call to action!

Coventry and Warwickshire’s Dementia Action Alliance* would like to invite people living and working in Warwickshire to participate in this year’s Dementia Awareness Week, which will take place from 17th – 23rd May 2015. Dementia Awareness Week is supported nationally by the Alzheimer’s Society.

There are an estimated 7,800 people living with dementia in Warwickshire; this is predicted to increase by 30% in the next ten years. Therefore, it is likely that many people will either know someone with dementia or become affected by the illness at some point in their lives.

What could you do?

Some of the easy ways you could do to contribute to raising awareness of dementia could be, for example, displaying dementia awareness related information in a public space, distributing resources that raise awareness of dementia (we can provide those) in your local community or holding a Dementia Friends information session during a coffee morning or a regular group get together.

Becoming a Dementia Friend is about understanding a bit more about dementia and the small things that can help people with the condition. You don’t need to already know someone with dementia to become a Dementia Friend.

These are only suggestions and we invite you to be creative about your own ideas on how you could get involved.

You would not be expected to give detailed expert dementia advice to members of the public who attend your event.

Tweet about your event using the hashtag #CWDAW2015 or email Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance on dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk with a photo we could post on Twitter to promote your event to the world! (don’t forget to obtain all necessary permissions before using the image).

What are the benefits to you?

By helping us to raise awareness of dementia and how it can impact a person’s life, you are helping to improve people’s understanding of the condition and therefore – support more people with dementia, and their carers to feel confident about accessing their local community.

You could also attract new people to join your group or use your services as part of your dementia awareness raising activities. You may also be able to build up new networks with other groups in your community.

What resources / support will be available?

To support you we will provide you with some dementia awareness raising information resources (including leaflets, bookmarks, and posters), a ‘Dementia Friendly Warwickshire’ DVD and a poster to advertise your event.

If you have any questions about running an event during Dementia Awareness Week 2015 please contact us by phone (01926 742214) or email: dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

We are looking forward to hearing back from you!

* The Alliance is made up of a number of organisations working together across Coventry and Warwickshire to raise awareness of dementia and to develop dementia friendly communities.

Warwickshire County Council staff support Dementia Friends

Early in the new year a call went out to Warwickshire County Council staff to encourage them to sign up as a Dementia Friend. The response so far has been really positive with many staff taking part in Dementia Friends Information Sessions, either individually or through team meetings.

Since December the number of Dementia Friends in Warwickshire has increased from 2,353 to 3,620 in March. But there is still a way to go to meet the ambitious target of 10,000 Dementia Friends in Warwickshire by June, so the continued support is needed.

Dementia Friends is an initiative led by the Alzheimer’s Society based on the principle that people with dementia can live well with a little help from other people. Becoming a Dementia Friend is about understanding a bit more about dementia and the small things that can help people with the condition. You don’t need to already know someone with dementia to become a Dementia Friend.

If you would like to become a Dementia Friend it’s very easy and just requires a short time commitment. There are three ways you can get involved.

1. Attend an hour long Dementia Friends Information session. Everyone who attends a session and wants to become a Dementia Friend will get a Dementia Friends badge and information card. You can book a place by going online and visiting the national Dementia Friends website: www.dementiafriends.org.uk

2. Watch a brief video on the Dementia Friends’ website www.dementiafriends.org.uk and leaving your details on the site so you can be sent your Dementia Friends badge and Little Book of Friendship.

3. Groups may want to hold a group Dementia Friends Information session, perhaps as part of their regular meeting. If you would like to find out more about this please email: dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

Participants’ feedback

Here’s some feedback from those Warwickshire County Council staff who have completed their Dementia Friends Information session:

“I just wanted to thank you for coming to our Team Briefing this morning and talking to us about Dementia Friends. I personally found it really interesting, and thought you presented it extremely well”

“I didn’t get a chance to say how much I appreciated yesterday’s training session. You made it very varied and a lot of staff were talking about it through the day and said how interesting they found it. The analogy about the bookcases was very clear and thought provoking.”

“I learnt such a lot.”

For any enquiries please contact Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Partnership at dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

Warwickshire’s Community Support Services for People with Dementia

Warwickshire’s Dementia Community Support Services

Warwickshire County Council have redesigned community support services for people with dementia following a public consultation held as part of Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia Strategy refresh in 2014 and the engagement outcomes. Benefits of the new services will include improved provision of information and advice to people with dementia and their carers, reducing their risk of loneliness and social isolation and preventing avoidable admissions to acute care.

The following services will commence on 1st April 2015:

Dementia Day Opportunities

The aim of the Dementia Day Opportunities service is to help maintain the skills, health & wellbeing and social inclusion of people with dementia whilst providing them with an opportunity to participate in a variety of meaningful activities (for example, reminiscence therapy, music and movement or arts and crafts) and offering respite for their carers. The dementia day opportunities service may be both building based and/or provided in the community, depending on the needs of individuals.

The service may only be accessed via a Social Care Assessment and referrals will be accepted from Adult Social Care, secondary mental health services e.g. Memory Assessment Clinician, GPs, mental health teams, Warwickshire’s Dementia Navigator service or those who self fund their care. Please contact Warwickshire County Council to check if you or the person you look after are eligible for this service (Tel. 01926 410410).

The dementia day opportunities service will be available 5 days a week across Warwickshire. The service will be provided by Age UK in Nuneaton and Bedworth, North Warwickshire and Rugby boroughs (Tel. 01926 458100), and Alzheimer’s Society in Warwick and Stratford districts (Tel. 01926 888899).

Dementia Navigators

Dementia Navigators will provide early intervention and preventative post diagnosis support through:

  • A single point of access to information and advice following a diagnosis of dementia or to those going through the diagnosis journey
  • Signposting to support services available in a person’s locality e.g. dementia cafes or carers support groups
  • Practical and emotional support to people with dementia diagnosis and their carers
  • Signposting to or provision of training around dementia awareness and coping strategies for family carers

People can self refer to the service, or be referred by their GP, health or social care staff.

There will be four (full time equivalent) Dementia Navigators covering all the county. Contact with the service will be via telephone, email and/or face to face depending on individual needs and preferences. The Dementia Navigators service will be provided by Alzheimer’s Society Warwickshire (Tel. 01926 888899).

In addition to the services outlined above, there are also a range of other initiatives and services in Warwickshire to support people to live well with Dementia.

Please visit Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia portal for more details: www.livingwellwithdementia.org, or contact us on dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance – a year on …

In 2012 the Prime Minister launched his Challenge on Dementia outlining a set of commitments to improve the lives of people with dementia and carers. One of those commitments was to work to create dementia friendly communities across the UK.

Coventry and Warwickshire embraced this challenge and in January 2014 formed Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance – a partnership of local organisations and businesses signed up to make the region more dementia friendly.

All communities, organisations and businesses pledging to become dementia friendly in Coventry and Warwickshire are expected to work towards the following core principles:
• Enhanced awareness and understanding of dementia – for example, by offering basic awareness training to staff, sharing information about dementia via newsletters or referring to Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Portal website for more information on dementia and support services available locally (www.livingwellwithdementia.org)
• Aiming to provide a dementia friendly environment
• Developing positive attitudes towards the delivery of services to those most vulnerable in our society

There are currently 28 members of Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance, for example Warwickshire Fire and Rescue service, George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton or Shipston on Stour community, all contributing to making Warwickshire a dementia friendly county. The full list of member organisations can be seen on the national Dementia Action Alliance website:
Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance

As an Alliance, we have developed our local approach and guidance around creating dementia friendly communities in Warwickshire, and awareness raising resources. We are closely linking in with Public Health around development of healthy living campaigns and initiatives e.g. Pictures to Share books, Books on Prescription or Exercise on referral scheme for people with dementia.

We have developed dementia awareness training for staff and people working in the community – so far, more than 400 staff across Warwickshire have attended this course and improved their knowledge of dementia.

We have also produced a short video clip to make people aware of Warwickshire’s initiative and how people can become involved; this clip also explains how local businesses and organisations can become dementia friendly by showcasing examples of those that are already working towards this. Copies of this DVD can be obtained for free by any organisation or business signed up to the Alliance or viewed on the Dementia Friendly Communities page of the Living Well with Dementia Portal.

As part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Living Well with Dementia Partnership’s commitment to making Coventry and Warwickshire dementia friendly, the Council has set the ambitious target of encourage 8000 people to pledge their support to people with dementia, which will take the number of ‘dementia friends’ across the County to 10 000 (Warwickshire’s Dementia Friends Challenge 2015)

There will be a number of Dementia Friends sessions scheduled across Warwickshire, available to local residents, and people will be able to book a place through the Dementia Friends website in the next couple of weeks.

If you would like more details on how to sign up to become dementia friendly and/or if you wish to join the regional Dementia Action Alliance, please contact Coventry and Warwickshire Dementia Action Alliance on dementiapartnership@warwickshire.gov.uk

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>> Any reason this needs to be a postcore_initcall?  Are there users of
>> hwspinlocks this early in boot?
> i2c-omap, which is subsys_initcall (the I2C bus is shared between the
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The LT Savvy Style Challenge: Meet Lydia of Chic on the Cheap!

There’s one more week left for the LT Savvy Style Challenge, and although some may be pulling further ahead than others, there’s still plenty of time to vote for your favorite fashion blogger AND automatically be entered to win $150 to London Times as well as a $100 Amex card to complete your own look. Today we want to introduce you to one of our top contenders, Lydia, of the expert savvy shopping blog, Chic on the Cheap.

“As the name of my blog implies, I’m a style blogger on a budget. I love searching through clearance racks for those hidden gems. I also understand the value of shopping one’s own closet and finding new ways to style old pieces. I’m addicted to prints, bright colors, and bold jewelry (and can often be found in all three of those at once).”

Lydia told us that she browsed a lot of places, but ended up making all of her additional purchases at T.J. Maxx – a savvy shopper’s haven.

Lydia’s blazer is by Olive and Oak – and only cost her $25!

Her studded ankle boots are by Toi et Moi and definitely look like she paid more than what she did for them (which was $18 to be exact).

For her night look, Lydia kept things simple with a few statement accessories ( a great savvy shopping tip, by the way!).

Lydia’s necklace (by Natasha) was $25. Don’t you love how her nail color plays off the gold in the dress too?

Lydia scored these BCBG heels for $26. We’re loving the python accent to dress up the look!

Don’t forget to vote for Lydia here if she’s your favorite and you’ll be automatically entered to win $150 to London Times as well as a $100 Amex card to complete your own savvy look!

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Words Unspoken

Dear D, my Former Friend and Victim

I remember when you joined our class, straight from the grade above. We soon became friends – us –the loners. Both of us were punished for losing the place in Chumash. For me the problem was solved with Ritilin, yet you were different. From the start we were diverse, I, used complain about the times when I got 70%, yet you wished you had that mark instead of your 30%. I loved to read, and when you came to me for Shabbos I used to pine for a book, yet you hated reading, as it was challenging. Our families were different too. You had a cell-phone by third grade while I only got mine in high school. You listened to Non-Jewish Music while I didn’t. As time went on, we got older and class dynamics changed. A. left, leaving her friend B. unattached. Me and B. always were friendly, came from similar backgrounds. B. was the friend I wanted. Sixth grade found me no longer the loner -the loner was you. I started to feel superior then you due to my brain. I used to tease you, or it was more like bullying. I thought that would help me fit in better. After just one term, you left. Continue reading Words Unspoken

The Other Half of Friendship:

Dear Friend,

Do you remember me? You know, your best friend? Well, either way, I remember you.The one who stood up for herself when things went wrong. The one who was my role model for strength. The one who I trusted more than anyone. Where did she go? I wonder if you got lost behind the bad things in life. Did you drown yourself over piles and piles of pills? Or did you simply just surrender? I sure hope not. Continue reading The Other Half of Friendship:

Love is Like

Its like your lips have touched the greatest chocolate ever tasted
Its like your toes have touched the water from the cold ocean floor
Its like your hair blowing in the wind and sun shinning on you
Its like the first star the comes into the dark night sky
Its like a beautiful diamond shinning so brightly in a small broken box
Its like love, love at first sight.

Love is like an ocean moving so fast
The waves want to swallow your last breath Continue reading Love is Like


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ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

Evan Laforge qdunkan at
Mon Feb 13 02:13:43 CET 2012

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Austin Seipp < at> wrote:
>> Sorry, I got caught up doing a few other things the past few days.
>> I'll make a binary of the 7.4.1 release later today and upload it to
>> my account and report back here (the uploading will
>> take as long as the build, due to bad internet right now...)
> Thanks, waiting eagerly :)  Meanwhile, I tried compiling myself, but
> got hung up in compiler/deSugar/Coverage.lhs, where it's not importing
> getModificationTime from System.Directory, but if I import that then
> we have disagreements about whether the result should be Integer,
> ClockTime, or UTCTime.  I'm guessing this is due to recent changes

Never mind me.  For anyone else who might care: compile from the
source distribution, not from the git branch.  And don't run out of
disk space halfway through :)

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[Haskell-cafe] extending bang proposal Re: strict Haskell dialect

Bulat Ziganshin bulatz at HotPOP.com
Mon Feb 6 09:19:25 EST 2006

Hello Ketil,

Monday, February 06, 2006, 4:06:35 PM, you wrote:

>> foo :: !Int -> !Int

KM> (Is the second ! actually meaningful?)

yes! it means that the function is strict in its result - i.e. can't return
undefined value when strict arguments are given. this sort of knowledge
should help a compiler to "propagate" strictness and figure out the
parts of program that can be compiled as strict code. really, i think
ghc is able to figure functions with strict result just like it is able to
figure strict function arguments

KM> Personally, I think is much nicer than sprinkling seq's around, and
KM> generally sufficient.  However, there could perhaps be disambiguities?

btw, it's just implemented in the GHC HEAD

KM> Last time this came up, I think examples resembling these were brought
KM> up:

KM>   foo :: [!a] -> ![a] -> a

yes, i remember this SPJ's question :)  "[!a]" means that list
elements are strict, it's the same as defining new list type with
strict elements and using it here. "![a]" means "strict list", it is
the same as defining list with "next" field strict:

data List1 a = Nil1 | List1 !a (List1 a)
data List2 a = Nil2 | List2 a !(List2 a)
data List3 a = Nil3 | List3 !a !(List3 a)

the type List3 is a simple strict list, like in any strict programming

foo :: [!a] -> ![a] -> ![!a] -> a

translates to

foo :: List1 a -> List2 a -> List3 a -> a

KM>   foo' :: Map !Int String -> Int -> String

that means that keys in this map saved as strict values. for example,
the following definition

type Map a b = [(a,b)]

will be instantiated to

Map !Int String ==> [(!Int, String)]

KM> Anyway, if a reasonable semantics can be formulated, I think
KM> strictness type annotations would be a great, useful, and
KM> relatively non-intrusive (AFAICT, entirely backwards compatible)
KM> addtion to Haskell'.

such proposal already exists and supported by implementing this in GHC

Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz at HotPOP.com

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[Haskell-cafe] The ping method in HDBC

Agent Zhang agentzh at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 09:14:26 EDT 2008

Hi, there

I'm wondering if there's a ping method in HDBC that does the same
thing as Perl DBI's ping. Please see the following link for details:

I think It's rather important for database auto-connection when
preserving database connections for a quite long time in fastcgi
applications. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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Cabal and installing packages.

Gabriel Ebner ge at
Fri Dec 3 12:55:18 EST 2004

Keean Schupke <k.schupke at> writes:

> I find that debian/gentoo etc do not have all the packages available
> for say perl, and it is nice to have a consistant interface on any
> platform...

In such cases I think it's better to provide a way to make native
packages.  E.g. if you want to install some obscure perl module under
gentoo, you can just type in Some::Obscure::Module, and
after a few minutes a bunch of proper native packages will have been

The best thing about is that it uses existing packages if
possible.  So if e.g. dev-perl/LibXML has been patched to work with
gcc-3.4 and the package you want to install depends on LibXML, you
couldn't install it using CPAN but you could using

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[protege-owl] Unique cannonical serialization (using Subversion or some such)

Eric Peterson epeterson at
Wed Mar 18 10:24:26 PDT 2009

Thanks for your reply.  Comments below.

		From: protege-owl-bounces at on behalf of Tania Tudorache
		Sent: Tue 3/17/2009 2:54 PM
		To: User support for the Protege-OWL editor
		Subject: Re: [protege-owl] Unique cannonical serialization (using Subversion or some such)

		Hi Eric,
		I don't think it is a good idea relying on a particular serialization,
		but I understand your set up. Protege 3.x IS using Jena to write out the
		OWL file, that is why it is different each time, so writing your own
		serialization using Jena won't help :)

I was envisioning a rewriting of their writer - rather than just a usage of the writer.

		Instead, you can use the native writer which you can configure from OWL
		menu -> Preferences -> Experimental native writer. If you will also
		enable the 'Sort resources alphabetically' checkbox, then the output
		will be repeatable across different Protege work sessions.

I tried this and had about 1700 diffs resulting from about 30 additive edits on my part and a handful on my colleagues part.  But maybe you didn't mean that this was sufficient for a total solution.

		There have been several emails on the list about using OWL files stored
		in SVN.

Before my original post I started in the FAQ and than spent 15 minutes searching the archive with no luck.  So I very much appreciate your specific answers.

		You should be able to find them in the archive. Main problem is
		that a text-based diff of an RDF serialization of OWL will not be
		useful, as the same OWL axiom can be expressed and serialized in
		different ways (e.g. rdfs:subclass of A -> B, B-> A; and A
		owl:equivalentClass B, etc.)

I've assumed that if there was someone contrived some cannonical OWL serialization, text diffing and merging could work well.  I'm simply wanting to do concurrent editing and easy merging of files.

		So, a text diff will not give the users what they want. There are
		several structural diff tools that you could use that will give a much
		better result. PromptDiff is one of them, is already integrated in
		Protege, and is also used in another project in a production setting.
		So, a combination of SVN with PromptDiff (or another OWL diff tool)
		would work.

I'm assuming that PromptDiff does not semi-automate the merging of files like subversion does, and that it therefore doen't help achieve my particular goals.

		There are other alternatives:
		1. Rather than using Protege 3.x, you should use Protege 4 which uses
		the OWL-API and has a much nicer and user-friendly serialization of OWL.
		It also has support for OWL 2 features that Protege 3.x does not. It
		also supports the rendering of an OWL ontology in different formats that
		might be more "SVN friendly".

This worked!  The number of diffs dropped to about 80 and I was able to quickly merge them using Subversions interface.

Thanks again!

		2. Protege 3.x already has support for collaborative ontology
		development that is integrated in the tool. You can take a look at
		Collaborative Protege [1]
		3. There is a web-based repository tool that might be interesting that
		works with protege as a backend for OWL and RDF.  It keeps track of
		changes, dumps them as RDF files, and has many other nice features
		(visualization, annotation, search, etc.). The tool is open source and
		is domain-independent. You can see an example of the tool here,
		BioPortal [2].
		Eric Peterson wrote:
		> Hi folks;  (I misposted this as a followup)
		> I'm having a hard time collaborating Protege-wise with my cohorts.  We
		> are a Subversion shop, but due to the fact the Protege serializes
		> vastly differently for small changes, we can't diff and merge
		> conflicting versions of our OWL files.
		> I don't think I could sell the use of Protege's collaboration tools,
		> but would value suggestions for solving this problem.
		> I'm considering writing my own serialization plugin for Protege using
		> Jena.
		> Thanks!
		> -Eric Peterson
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So you’re looking for a hosting provider?

You may have noticed me flailing about on Identi.ca/Twitter/Facebook about trying to find a mail hosting provider. My mail hosting story is very long and drama-filled:

  • A long time ago I relied on Gmail. Then, a not-very-nice person broke into my account and took it over. This was a problem since all my university mail, credit cards, etc. sent notifications to that account. Google refused to help, and I can’t blame them – I got what I paid for. You can imagine how painful dealing with that situation was.
  • So then I tried hosting my own domain. That worked out for a while, but then I got hacked by some kind of bot and decided I was not cut out for sys-admining.
  • Next some cool dudes took pity on me and hosted my mail for a few years. This was awesome, and very helpful, but was not meant to last forever and I eventually had to find a new solution.
  • I moved to Yahoo! Mail. I didn’t want the fuss of rolling my own, didn’t want to pay $$, Yahoo! was at least FOSS-ish (Zimbra-based, which is more FOSS than Gmail at least), and even though they are free their customer support is surprisingly great. After a few months of headaches with the web UI clunkiness, ridiculous mail filter limits (only 5? for real?), embarrassing quoting (forced to top-post!), and lack of IMAP support (not even available in the paid-for edition) I decided I had enough. I was wasting too much time and productivity manually filtering mail.

So today I decided I had enough and I was going to fix this once and for all. I decided to go with Dreamhost (both because of an absurdly low price and because the cool dudes who helped me out before had used them). More on that later. Here’s all the suggestions folks gave me while I flailed about (the 20 or so Google Apps suggestions omitted for reasons above :) ):

Mail / Web / Domain Hosting

  • Dreamhost $9/year for special promotion (normally $120/year). Debian-based (sigh) but all the apps offered are open source and they seem unix-centric.
  • Razor Sites (via lavabit.com/credits.html) – Unfortunately these guys are a Windows shop so I didn’t look at them seriously
  • Pair Networks – $360/year, 3GB storage, carbon-neutral which is quite cool, they may actually support procmail

  • Fastmail – many free options but very small quotes (~MBs) until you get to paid plans. $40/year for 6 GB, custom domain, IMAP, unclear if server0side filtering is supported and/or any good. FOSS alignment unknown.
  • Pobox – IMAP plan is $50/year, 10GB storage, custom domain, says it has server-side filtering but does not look like procmail support :) FOSS alignment unknown.
  • GMX – I couldn’t get any details from the site without signing up, but it is free. They appear to openly support Firefox…
  • Tuffmail – ~$200/year for 4 GB storage… ~$52/yr for 2 GB… ~$40/yr for 1 GB… on storage alone seems quite pricey. Offers IMAP. Server-side SIEVE => very nice. FOSS alignment unknown. Seems good but pricey :(
  • Yahoo! Mail Plus – sort of FOSS-friendly (Zimbra-based), but no IMAP. Limited to 200 filters. $20/year.

They Give You a Box and You Roll-Your-Own Services

  • Slicehost – cheapest option is $240/year, 10 GB storage, uses Xen…
  • Linode – cheapest option is ~$240/year, 16 GB storage, uses Xen…
  • RimuHosting – cheapest option is $240/year, 4GB storage. Linux-based and offer Fedora (which they call ‘Fedora Core’) and CentOS.

Dreamhost is pretty much the cheapest paid-for option so I decided to go with it. Some issues that cropped up:

  • Dreamhost promises procmail but it’s a lie, they don’t support it. They did offer to give me a full refund in 97 days if I decided I couldn’t live with it.
  • I used the workaround posted to the Dreamhost support wiki to get procmail to work. It is messy. Basically, I set my real email address as a forward to my Dreamhost shell account, which can use procmail. I write a procmail rule to filter out a particular type of mail, then I forward it to secondaryaccount+filtername@mydomain.com. Then, I have to fill out a seperate webform entry for each secondaryaccount+filtername entry I have in my procmail to move the mail to that ‘subemail address’ to the proper folder. It’s nuts. It’s painful to set up and not quite working yet.
  • Dreamhost doesn’t tell you that they only support SMTPS. A lot of painful attempts to send mail through them ensued until I portscanned my own domain to see only SMTPS open…

Anyway I’m glad so many people tried to help out, and I hope this summary is useful for someone in the same pickle I was in.

About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

34 thoughts on “So you’re looking for a hosting provider?

  1. Thanks for the nice accumulation. It was highly helpful. I was looking for something like this.

    Posted by Sankar | June 17, 2009, 5:12 am
  2. I’m happy with Linode, it took me about a week to get my setup right, but now I’m quite happy.

    Posted by Diego Escalante Urrelo | June 17, 2009, 5:20 am
  3. Well if you’re not affraid of ping, you also have OVH in France :
    For 20 euros a month you get your own box, 250G of disk, 2,6Ghz and 1G of RAM. The bandwidth is 100mbps (not guaranteed of course at this price) and traffic is illimited. I searched in America but couldn’t find such an offer there… And the service is really great (super reactive, helpful). And no, I don’t work for OVH :p

    Posted by Adrien BUSTANY | June 17, 2009, 5:31 am
  4. I’ve had good experiences with RimuHosting (they are Linux people), so if dreamhost doesn’t work out, give them a try.

    Posted by James | June 17, 2009, 6:09 am
  5. I’ve had lots of different ISPs over the years (wanting webspace and email), but none has been nearly as good as DreamHost. The guys there are, in one word: AWESOME.

    I love they control panel, the options/possibilities you have, everything they over and particularly their newsletter (a must-read, even if no topic of the newsletter concerns you)!

    Nevertheless, I decided to go for Google Apps for my emails (which can be easily done on DreamHost) but understand you wouldn’t do so. I primarily did so because I have a HTC Dream and wanted to make use of all the Google-tied applications there (which I love). Otherwise, I’d never have changed my email away from DH since their service is so great.

    Posted by red | June 17, 2009, 6:13 am
    • red: I use Dreamhost too and I am happy with it (just renewed the service for 2 more years) but I have a simple email setup (mostly client-side filtering) and static content on the webiste. For this cheapest plan, it suck if you plan to use some complex dynamic stuff: we tried it for fedoraproject.ro and it was a pain with only a Dupal and a SMF forum.

      Posted by Nicu | June 17, 2009, 6:40 am
  6. Went through the same experiences as you two years ago. FuseMail is what I settled on (http://www.fusemail.com/). Very happy with them.

    Posted by Jeremy Jongsma | June 17, 2009, 6:17 am
  7. I use webserve.ca for setting webstite for clients. Not sure if they provide service outside Canada, they grant virtually unlimited space.

    Posted by Luya | June 17, 2009, 6:51 am
  8. eHeuristic Solutions is an established player in the IT market, is a leading provider of comprehensive Web Products, Solutions and Internet Services, offering Custom Web Design, Web Script and Application, Web Programming, Search Engine Optimization(SEO), Internet Marketing, ready made Website Packages, Internet Advertising,Web directory Solutions, Portal Development, Software Development, Small Business Websites, Link Exchange Services, and customer Online Solutions. By providing all these services in a “one-stop shop” environment, eHeuristic Solutions makes it possible for it’s clients to outsource all of their Internet needs and still have a single point of contact to manage their services.

    Posted by eHeuristic Hosting | June 17, 2009, 7:09 am
  9. The other option for server side filtering that I\’ve been looking at as an alternative to procmail is a protocol called sieve. Its a rfc standard and is supported by quite a few mail servers so it might be they support that instead of procmail.

    Posted by Peter | June 17, 2009, 9:36 am
  10. I have been a happy user of Tuffmail for something like a year now. They provide server-side filtering, polling other boxes, redirecting login-foo@tmbox.com to foo/ folder and lots of other stuff. They did not create their own webmail client (contrary to fastmail) but let you choose which client you want to use at login time. Currently you can choose between squirrelmail, and 5 versions of imp, including a mobile one.

    Posted by Aurélien Gâteau | June 17, 2009, 10:03 am
  11. You can take a look at OVH. They are hosted at France, and give you excellent services at great cost. I\’ve being using it for years, and have dedicated servers and web/email host there.

    It\’s worth to take a look into it if you need more options ;-)

    Posted by David Rando | June 17, 2009, 10:38 am
  12. Maybe I’m missing something, but why not just set up another gmail account?

    Posted by Tim | June 17, 2009, 11:41 am
    • I would never set up another Gmail account. Why would I want to continue a relationship with a service provider who has proved that when I run into trouble they have no interest in helping? Not very reassuring.

      Posted by mairin | June 17, 2009, 1:30 pm
  13. PS: Just out of interest, how did they break into your account?

    Posted by Tim | June 17, 2009, 11:43 am
    • It was an ex-boyfriend and at the time (this was a few years ago) I was still in the process of changing all my passwords. I’m not blaming anyone but myself for getting broken into since I should have been more diligent about locking my stuff down, but I do fault Google for being utterly uncaring and unhelpful in the aftermath.

      Posted by mairin | June 17, 2009, 1:31 pm
  14. I used a free Gmail account for years too but wanted more assurance from account theft or suspension so I purchased a domain from http://www.name.com/ for $9/yr and took advantage of their offer of Google Apps with each domain purchase. I have some peace of mind since I can administer the mail accounts.

    Posted by phantom | June 17, 2009, 11:54 am
  15. Thanks for not mentioning the part where we shutdown our webhost and forgot we were hosting your mail. ;)

    I’m a linode customer now and pretty happy with it, love having that virtual machine out there 24/7, though surely it’s a lot more work if you start getting into mail hosting and such.

    Posted by Devan | June 17, 2009, 1:17 pm
  16. I’m somewhat amazed by your bad luck. I have never had much trouble with accounts. In any case, I’m doing what some of hte other posters are doing and that is in addition to my gmail account I have a google apps account with my domain and I share a linnode server with someone else. Linode is good but you have to figure out backups which is always painful.

    Posted by Sri Ramkrishna | June 17, 2009, 2:58 pm
  17. I use WestHost, which is pretty much overkill for what I host, but their support has been good, and the environment is remarkably similar to a RHEL version (though without RPMs).

    Posted by Matt Domsch | June 17, 2009, 3:20 pm
  18. Huh. I had no idea Yahoo! Mail was restricted like that. Shame, since the Zimbra IMAP implementation is actually very featureful.

    Posted by Matthew Berg | June 17, 2009, 3:29 pm
    • I know! I use enterprise Zimbra IMAP elsewhere and it works well (well for the most part, lack of duplicate suppression sucks) but I’m way dismayed that Yahoo! wont even offer IMAP support for their Plus! paid customers….

      Posted by mairin | June 17, 2009, 5:27 pm
  19. I’ve heard good things about Cotse (http://www.cotse.net) as a mail provider. I haven’t used them myself, but they seem to offer a lot of control over your e-mail.

    Posted by Johan | June 17, 2009, 4:06 pm
  20. I have a Dreamhost account, and am one of the ‘lucky’ ones that still has an old shell account that works with procmail. Recently, however, I decided to move to gmail… or, actually, Google Apps.

    I know you say you’ve had a bad experience with gmail in the past, but my guess is that you’d have less trouble with Google Apps using your own domain. Since you can prove domain ownership (and this is in fact required as you set up the account), if someone were to somehow hijack your account, you’d probably have recourse to get it back. I’d understand if you’re still a bit wary about going back to Google, though.

    Regardless, if you’re storing your email anywhere “in the cloud,” you should be backing it up regularly anyway! Losing mail due to an account break-in is only one of the possible ways you can lose data that you don’t have control over.

    Posted by Brian T | June 17, 2009, 7:53 pm
    • I know, I was totally irresponsible and should have had backups. :( My bad.

      Honestly, if I have an option between using 100% open source software vs Google closed stuff, I’d rather do the open source even if it’s less convenient- Google’s lack of sympathy for my previous rough plight aside.

      I understand though that I’m way more dogmatic than most people. (E.g., no iphone. I know tons of FOSS hackers who have one. I just can’t bring myself to do it.)

      Posted by mairin | June 17, 2009, 9:53 pm
  21. Cool, I’ve been very happy at Dreamhost for a few years now.
    Procmail has always worked fine for me there, though admittedly I don’t do squat with it other than filter mailing lists into folders.
    I remember having to massage my .procmailrc a bit when I started there, but as I recall it was only because the previous provider was not using maildir.
    FWIW, I’ve got entries like this:

    * ^TOlinux-libre@fsfla.org

    And that nicely puts stuff from that list in Inbox/gnulists/linux-libre folder.

    Oh, and they’re carbon neutral too.

    Posted by samnoble | June 17, 2009, 9:18 pm
    • Oh wow! That’s awesome that they are carbon neutral – warm fuzzies :)

      I guess it’s because you’re grandfathered in – new customers just can’t get procmail access to email accounts. :(

      Posted by mairin | June 17, 2009, 9:54 pm
  22. I am very interested in what do you need in email client and server, am currently providing 20 GB space (500 email accounts, red hat server) for ~$350 yearly, am willing to write web email client that doesn’t suck (and even open source it) at some point… mail me

    Posted by adel | June 17, 2009, 11:19 pm
  23. I use dreamhost as well. I run two blogs on an account. There was a time when I actually ran my own mail server, but it is too much of a hassle. It is much easier, IMHO, to simply setup Google Apps for your Domain.

    Posted by Sean | June 18, 2009, 6:31 am
  24. Hey, My gmail account got hijacked aswell, though it was a couple of years back. Its unfortunate that google didnt help you because they helped me get my account back. It took a couple of months of back and worth with google. I had to answer a heap of questions in order prove that i was who i said a i was, but i kept my patience and they didnt fail to deliver.

    Posted by Harsh | June 19, 2009, 2:35 pm
  25. Dreamhost (DH) has a server-side filtering option in their webpanel. This actually makes a .procmailrc for you but you don’t have anywhere near the power procmail offers (of course, you don’t have a shell account to use most of the powerful stuff with).

    So DH might work for you depending on what you need your server-side filtering to do for you. I’ve been with DH long enough to have a shell account, and they wanted me to move to their virtual server farm. So I started converting my filters (which merely sort mail into mailboxes) to use this DH-provided panel configuration. I think it would have worked about as well as the hand-made procmailrc I wrote for myself. Something changed in this migration plan and I ended up sticking with a shell account.

    DH’s support is great, from what I can tell. They’ve always been very attentive to my concerns and responsive whenever I file requests via their support request page. The price is low and the bandwidth and storage are more than generous. I don’t have problems hosting large files (like the ISOs of gNewSense GNU/Linux and source code TAR files I distribute from my blog) and I think my users have no problems connecting to my sites hosted with DH.

    I’ve never had problems using SMTPS, as I wouldn’t have wanted to use unencrypted SMTP (or IMAP, for that matter) anyhow. Both encrypted SMTP and IMAP work well with Thunderbird, my preferred MUA. I understand Thunderbird will make IMAP faster and include email indexing in the next major release, so that should make Thunderbird even more attractive.

    I recommend DH to my friends who want commercial web, email, and/or DNS hosting.

    The only issues I have with DH aren’t specific to DH: if your hoster is based in the US then your hosted data is subject to American laws which could allow the service provider to snoop through your data on behalf of the American government or powerful American corporate interests who seem to have inordinate power over American law. GPG might help here but I have yet to see an MUA that makes it easy for non-technical users to use public key encryption compatible with GPG so they can easily send/receive/verify encrypted email. Hosters in other countries may be more attractive if their privacy laws are more to your liking. I need to do more research about such things to learn what my options are.

    Posted by J.B. Nicholson-Owens | June 19, 2009, 6:25 pm
  26. Thanks !! I was looking for a hosting provider for a client of mine. found it.

    Posted by logicmantra | June 19, 2009, 8:55 pm
  27. I used some gmail accounts for years and happy with it. I use different account for different purpose. I set up forwarding rules on all accounts to a catch all account (also Gmail) so that I can easily read all my emails.
    Then I registered my own domain name and took advantage of Google Apps. Next I will set the forwarding rules to Google Apps account.

    Posted by papandut | June 27, 2009, 3:51 pm
  28. I’m kinda late, but, why not http://lavabit.com ?

    Posted by egoorcs | January 15, 2011, 12:12 pm

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An Act requiring the use of helmets for equine riders and drivers.

By Mr. Kocot of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2005) of Peter V. Kocot for legislation to require the use of helmets for horseback riders and drivers of horse-drawn wagons. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

Peter V. Kocot

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Bill S.1111 188th (2013 - 2014)

An Act relative to ski area operations

By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1111) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation that ski areas be required to provide helmets free of charge with rental equipment and post accident and safety records online for public access. Public Safety and Homeland Security.

William N. Brownsberger

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Download MariaDB Vs. MySQL White Paper.

For all practical purposes, you can view MariaDB as an upgrade of MySQL :

  • For upgrading from very old MySQL versions, see Upgrading to MariaDB from MySQL 5.0 (or older version).
  • Within the same base version (for example 5.5) you can just uninstall MySQL and install MariaDB and you are good to go. There is no need to dump and restore databases. As with any upgrade, we recommend making a backup of your data beforehand.
  • You should run mysql_upgrade (just as you would with MySQL) to finish the upgrade. This is needed to ensure that your mysql privilege and event tables are updated with the new fields MariaDB uses. Note that if you use a MariaDB package, mysql_upgrade is usually run automatically.
  • All your old clients and connectors (PHP, Perl, Python, Java, etc.) will work unchanged (no need to recompile). This works because MariaDB and MySQL use the same client protocol and the client libraries are binary compatible. You can also use your old MySQL connector packages with MariaDB if you want.

Upgrading on Windows

On Windows, you should not uninstall MySQL and install MariaDB, this would not work, the existing database will not be found.

Thus On Windows, just install MariaDB and use the upgrade wizard which is part of installer package and is launched by MSI installer. Or, in case you prefer command line, use mysql_upgrade_service <service_name> on the command line.

Upgrading my.cnf

All the options in your original MySQL my.cnf file should work fine for MariaDB.

However as MariaDB has more features than MySQL, there is a few things that you should consider changing in your my.cnf file.

  • MariaDB uses by default the Aria storage engine for internal temporary files instead of MyISAM. If you have a lot of temporary files, you should add and set aria-pagecache-buffer-size to the same value as you have for key-buffer-size.
  • If you don't use MyISAM tables, you can set key-buffer-size to a very low value, like 64K.
  • If your applications often connect and disconnect to MariaDB, you should set up thread-cache-size to the number of concurrent queries threads you are typically running. This is important in MariaDB as we are using the jemalloc memory allocator. jemalloc usually has better performance when running many threads compared to other memory allocators, except if you create and destroy a lot of threads, in which case it will spend a lot of resources trying to manage thread specific storage. Having a thread cache will fix this problem.
  • If you have a LOT of connections (> 100) that mostly run short running queries, you should consider using the thread pool. For example using : thread_handling=pool-of-threads and thread_pool_size=128 could give a notable performance boost in this case. Where the thread_pool_size should be about 2 * number of cores on your machine.

Other things to think about

  • Views with definition ALGORITHM=MERGE or ALGORITHM=TEMPTABLE got accidentally swapped between MariaDB and MySQL. You have to re-create views created with either of these definitions (see MDEV-6916).
  • MariaDB has LGPL versions of the C connector and Java Client. If you are shipping an application that supports MariaDB or MySQL, you should consider using these!
  • You should consider trying out the TokuDB storage engine or some of the other new storage engines that MariaDB provides.

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The police are your enemy

The police are not your friends. The police are the most dangerous and out of control group that you will come into contact with in your lifetime. Those who read Will Grigg should be all too familiar with the abuses of the police. Will Grigg focuses on reporting the daily outrages of the police around the nation. I often have trouble reading more than the headline and a paragraph or two as I frequently just can’t take reading his specific accounts of misconduct and brutality. Some who know me tell me that I am burdened with too much empathy and put myself into the shoes of others too easily. Maybe. But when it comes to the evidence all around me there is an inescapable conclusion that police abuse is an intrinsic feature of the system. Don’t get me wrong, Will Grigg is not the only one reporting on abuse by the police and legal system; it is becoming a cottage industry to report on the horrors of the police state.

Once upon a time SWAT team raids were reserved for stopping a very dangerous criminal. There were around 3,000 SWAT team raids per year in the early 80s but by last year there were about 40,000 raids. No, we have not gone from 3,000 dangerous criminals to 40,000 in 30 short years: we have gone from having SWAT team raids for very special situations to having teams of militarized police goons invade homes on just phone tips that there may be a little pot being used there. Reason magazine once reported that there were about 5 SWAT team raids a day in Maryland. Radley Balko likes to do a “raid of the day” post in his column.

In a CATO article Balko wrote:

Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.

These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.

But the SWAT teams are only a small part of the story. Police misconduct, abuse, and brutality are all around us. Anthony Gregory reported that “About as many Americans have been killed by police since 9/11/01 as died on that day. Between 1980 and 2005, police killed 9,500 people in the U.S., approximately one per day and almost three-fourths as many people as have been sentenced and executed in the United States since colonial times. A study in Harris County, Texas, found that between 1999 and mid 2005, officers in the county shot 65 unarmed people, killing 17.” We even have police using tasers on school children.

Madness: Even School Children Are Being Pepper-Sprayed and Shocked with Tasers

There is something truly disturbing about a society that seeks to control the behavior of schoolchildren through fear and violence, a tactic that harkens back to an era of paddle-bruised behinds and ruler-slapped wrists. Yet, some American school districts are pushing the boundaries of corporal punishment even further with the use of Tasers against unruly schoolchildren.

And then we have the new issue of the police killing the pets of citizens for their own perverse enjoyment. It is called “puppycide” these days. What sort of cowardly brute would shoot and kill a pet dog chained up in the back yard of a house or shoot a pet lapdog in the living room of someone’s home?

I wondered why we got such great videos of the meteor that struck Russia the other day. Was it coincidence that so many people were filming at the exact time the meteor struck? No, as it turns out the Russians are so convinced that their police are corrupt and dangerous that many Russians have bought dashboard cameras for their cars to have a visual record to use against the thugs called cops. This very short video explains their deep distrust of the Russian police.

In the three decades since the bombing of the MOVE house we have seen the police at all levels in the U.S. have become the brutal, immoral, corrupt occupying force that many warned against for so long. I read Malcom X when I was in college and at the time I thought he was being paranoid, but now I know that he was just telling us what was coming.  The cops have become the standing army the founders warned us against and they are truly the most dangerous gang of criminals the world has seen. (other than the State as a whole)

For much of U.S. history, especially until the beginning of the 20th century, Americans had less government and far fewer police. With the increase in size of the oppressive, bloated state has come the vast increase in the numbers of policemen.  The growth of modern leviathan can not be slowed if we continue to have the vast increase in militarized police that we have seen over the last 20 years.

In the last twenty years we have had about three times as many private guards as cops but we don’t hear about abuses by these “rent-a-cops”. It is as rare as hens teeth to hear of abuse or corruption by the private guard services even as the government cop abuses make news every day.  Private security guards are defenders of property rights and life.

There is every reason in the world to fight for the elimination of government cops in this country. We would all be better off without government funded, armed thugs terrorizing us at every turn. There is a great list of 50 reasons to abolish the Cops that you should read.

We have seen small towns abolish (or here or here) their police force for various reasons. It should become a movement in this country. Remember, the police do not protect you or your property — they are a great danger to life and property. They are the very definition of evil.

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  1. The pigs deserve everything coming to them soon. Its time they were the prey, itsnottoo ardour to find names and addresses of these Nazi cowards.

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Are You In Love With Ryan Lochte Yet?

Are you sure?

How about now?

Ryan Lochte is an Olympic swimmer, winner of several World championships in swimming, and holds a couple records in swimming times as well. He’s posed to possibly beat Michael Phelps (and several other swimmers from around the world, but let’s be honest, Michael Phelps) at the London Olympics.

To add to the tension, Ryan recently beat Michael Phelps (with whom he is friends) in two recent championships. He’s a contender.

Okay, this is pretty adorable.

Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte

But more importantly, he’s posed to be a sex symbol and thus extremely marketable in a way that Michael Phelps couldn’t be:

“We’re a little Phelps’d out,” said Bob Dorfman, the executive creative director of Baker Street Advertising and author of the Sports Marketers’ Scouting Report. As a brand, Mr. Lochte’s appeal is “through the roof,” he added. “He has potential for winning golds, and then just the fact that he’s so damn good-looking. If he can’t beat Michael Phelps in anything else, he can beat him in that category.”

In addition, he already has a catchphrase, a large Twitter following, and a Vogue cover shoot.

With Serena Williams and Hope Solo

“I’m the only one [Vogue cover boy] who had two girls.”

Not to mention a signature shoe covered in rhinestones from one of his sponsors, Speedo, who also sell a $25 flip-flop version of it.

can't wait until Forever 21 knocks the rhinestone versions off...

But Ryan Lochte is different from the usual Olympic athlete: he’s not very interested in his own sport.

“I don’t want to be stuck in the swimming world,” he said. “I don’t just eat, swim, sleep — I don’t do that. There’s so much more to me than swimming.” Away from the pool deck, he added, “I hate talking about swimming.” He prefers playing basketball, or practicing his terrible golf game, or drawing surreal nature images.

Finally, there’s Ryan Lochte’s constant presence in social media, where he retweets fans who wear his sunglasses and posts pictures of his grill. Meanwhile, all Michael Phelps talks about is swimming.

Check out his grill.

Just one more.

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This is the world that we live in

It’s baffling out there. Things that confuse and amaze me:

Wouldn’t this man’s prowess with the electric saw merely prove his fitness for a job?  Austrian saws off own foot to avoid work.

And here I thought Easter was about chasing the Easter Bunny into a trap with sticks and dogs. Easter Egg Hunt canceled because of aggressive parents. “Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hundreds of children have canceled this year’s event, citing the behavior of aggressive parents who swarmed into the tiny park last year, determined that their kids get an egg.”

I thought Spinal Tap had taught everybody: If you’re going to stuff your jockey shorts, use a cucumber.  Man arrested after “abnormal bulge” in underpants. “Police allegedly found nine stolen credit cards, a loaded firearm, about 180 ecstasy tablets, about 28 grams of amphetamines and a large amount of cash hidden down the man’s pants.”

Why was nobody fighting for Trisha Yearwood? Country Music Debate Leads to Hammer Attack. “An argument about country music stars Reba McEntire and Loretta Lynn escalated into a domestic dispute that has Savannah-Chatham police looking for a man believed to have attacked two people with a hammer Tuesday.”

Never, in years of owning pets, has this happened to me. What am I doing wrong? Businessman’s snake vomits cash.

And finally: Yo quiero tacocopter. I need this service. How do I petition the FAA to let tiny robot drones deliver to tacos to me?

Tacocopter Aims to Deliver Tacos Using Unmanned Drone Helicopters.

(Thanks for most of these links to the inestimable Dave Barry. There’s much more at his blog.)

2 responses to “This is the world that we live in

  1. The guy with the pharmacy/gun store down his trousers sounds prepared. For what, exactly, I’m afraid to ask… He sure seemed to cover all the bases…

    These were great. Thanks, Meg. I’m doing a little recovery…and laughter is definitely the best medicine. Well, right after a pants-load of ecstasy, methamphetamines and handguns, anyway…

  2. All I can do is shake my head. Have we always been this insane and only now know about it because of the Internet?

    Here at our apt., they’re having an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday. The 24-year-old who organized it has no idea what is coming her way! The flyer for the event states that it’s for kids 13 and under. Oh baby, is this going to be a mess. I will not be attending.

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