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The thing is that this is a really dated opinion. While I realise that it was really painful for those months, the end result is that audio on Linux seems to work a hell of a lot better these days.

By making Linux audio temporarily problematic Linux audio became a solved problem (at least in my mind, and the minds of many users of the major distributions that use it)

Except its not dated at all. I have constant issues with PA randomly failing to do basic things like mixing, or outputting any sound at all on newest code releases. This is still a real problem for people, pretending it isnt and everything is solved and working because it works for you is an incredibly shitty attitude.

Stop it.

And yes I reported the bugs.

I receive all the bugs for Mageia. I don't notice bugreports for PulseAudio like what you describe. Seems very aggressive to suggest that someone has a "incredibly shitty attitude" just because someone has a different perception.

it's rather frustrating to be continuously told your problems don't exist because they aren't a problem for somebody else.

It does not seem that dated to me. Last time pulseaudio broke the sound at my computer was in two weeks ago on Debian Squeeze. Could have been a Debian fuckup, could be my hardware but whatever it was it was fixed with sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio.

I realize that is all anecdotal and I could be one of the few people in the world who still have problems with it.

Well, all software has problems. I just doubt that if problems were as prevalent as the vocal minority make out that PA would remain in the major distributions.

Not so dated IMHO. My default reaction to sound issues on Ubuntu 12.04 is to kill all pulseaudio processes.

And everytime, without fail, audio starts working again.

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Diamyd® vaccine approved for studies in children down to 3 years of age in the US
Diamyd Medical reports today that the United States Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has approved the experimental use of Diamyd® vaccine in children as young
as 3 years of age in the TrialNet GAD study, enrolling 126 new onset type 1
diabetes patients in North America.

The TrialNet GAD study, conducted by an international network of leading
pediatric and adult endocrinologists and immunologists, has previously enrolled
new onset type 1 diabetes patients from 16 to 45 years of age but is now allowed
by the FDA to enroll and administer the Diamyd® vaccine to children as young as
3 years of age.

“This is very encouraging news,” says Elisabeth Lindner, CEO and President at
Diamyd Medical. “The approval to enroll small children in the TrialNet study is
based on an FDA review of safety data from our ongoing Phase III trials and
further supports that the Diamyd® vaccine's safety profile is strong.”

The TrialNet study is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial,
which aims to enroll a total of 126 new onset type 1 diabetes patients at 16
TrialNet sites in the US and Canada. One third of the participants will receive
3 injections with the Diamyd® vaccine, one third will receive 2 injections with
the Diamyd® vaccine and one third will receive placebo (inactive drug). The
purpose of the study is to determine whether the Diamyd® vaccine will preserve
the body's ability to make its own insulin to help control blood sugar.

The trial also includes extensive immunological studies to clarify the mechanism
of action of Diamyd® and to evaluate the correlation between the clinical and
immunological outcomes of Diamyd® treatment in new onset type 1 diabetes

Diamyd Medical has approved the protocol and has executed a Clinical Trial
Agreement with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases, part of the US National Institutes of Health, to supply clinical-grade
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The company's most advanced project is the GAD-based drug Diamyd® for type 1
diabetes. Phase III trials for this drug are in progress in both Europe and the
US. In addition, the company has initiated clinical studies in the US in the
area of chronic pain, using its Nerve Targeting Drug Delivery System (NTDDS).
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As Leif gets sent packing and Tarzan rises, Troyzan suddenly emerges as the least likable player on the 'One World' beach.
By Josh Wigler

Troyzan on "Survivor: One World"
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Two weeks ago, if you had told me that 50-year-old photographer Troy "Troyzan" Robertson would be my least favorite person on "Survivor: One World," I would have pushed you in the mud and shouted in your face, "This is my island!" OK, perhaps something a little less aggressive, but I still wouldn't have believed you.

Then Wednesday night happened.
Troy, with his back against the wall and few to no allies to turn to, did the only things he could to survive against the newly strengthened women's alliance: He pretended to find another hidden immunity idol (after playing his the week before), he won the next immunity challenge, and then he ... rubbed it in everyone's faces with an F-bomb for good measure? Bad, Troyzan! Bad!
Unlike Tyrion Lannister of "Game of Thrones" fame, you clearly do not understand how the game is played. On "Survivor," it's not enough just to win: People have to like you too, in order to secure their votes in the end. Troy's frustration over having no allies turned into an all-out verbal assault on anyone and everyone still living on that beach, effectively ruining every chance he had at securing partners in the game despite having a lot to offer a potential new alliance. For someone who appeared to be so good at this game just a few weeks ago, the immediate crash and burn of Troyzan — still crashing, still burning into next week, mind you — was absolutely dumbfounding to behold.
MTV News' weekly "Survivor" chat with two-time player and regular commentator Rob Cesternino continues this week, focusing on Troy's collapse, Leif's ousting, Tarzan's surprising rise as a serious competitor and the continued Kimsanity at the "Survivor" auction.
MTV: My opinion of Troyzan sunk very low very quickly this week. I appreciate a guy doing what he has to do to survive, but not only is there no need to be an a--hole about winning, not only is there no strategic upside, he's actually actively damaging his chances to win, in the unlikely event that he makes it to the end.
Rob Cesternino: You know, it's hard to find a situation where you're rooting against the back-against-the-wall underdog. Somehow, Troyzan is now having people root against him because of the way he's carrying on. There's a lot of whining that he's doing. None of it is advantageous to his survival.
MTV: Sabrina said it well: Even if you're winning challenges, even if you're surviving, you have to be likable to win in the end.
Cesternino: It's totally true. But in some weird way — and I don't think that this is what's going on — it could work to Troyzan's advantage a little bit in that he becomes so unlikable that he's no longer a threat to win the game. At some point, people might think, "I need to go to the end with Troyzan, because everybody hates him." He's certainly committing game suicide one way or the other. He might be able to make it to the end by being such a pain to everybody left in the game, but I don't think that's what he's doing strategically.
MTV: Right. He's quickly becoming the Phillip [from "Survivor: Redemption Island"] of the season. That was supposed to be Tarzan's job!
Cesternino: Not even Phillip. Phillip wasn't hated enough, I don't think. Troyzan's becoming more of a Russell Hantz, someone who everyone has all these hard feelings towards. Whereas Phillip got on people's nerves, I don't think anybody hated him. It's just the way Troyzan keeps carrying on. It's undercutting what he's trying to do strategically. He can't build alliances while pissing everybody off in the game. How are Alicia and Christina going to go and be in an alliance with him when he's telling them "don't f--- with me, this is my island!" It's tough.
MTV: On paper, the deal he's proposing makes sense: the three remaining men plus the two women who are clearly at the bottom of the totem pole. You gain a five-to-four majority over the other women. The numbers add up. But Troyzan couldn't sell it. He's become such an unlikable guy that no one agreed to what was really a pretty good deal.
Cesternino: That's the frustrating thing! He has the right plan and he made a compelling argument. For Alicia, I think she threw the game away tonight. If I'm Alicia, why not go in a five-person alliance with Troyzan, Tarzan, Leif and Christina? Who's beating her out of that crew? Those are the four easiest people to beat in the jury right now, and she's the only one who could possibly win out of that group. Why wouldn't she jump ship to that group? But there are ways in this game. People are afraid to make moves. They just think everything's going to work out for them in the end — but it's not!
MTV: There was never a moment where I was worried about Kim's safety. I wasn't even worried for Tarzan. I feel like the episode would have made a bigger effort to stress that danger if he was really on the chopping block. It had to be Leif, who had his fun moments, but overall didn't have much of an impact on the season. Were you surprised at all to see Leif go? Was there anything he could have done differently in order to stay?
Cesternino: I don't know. If you would have told me pre-season that there would be a little person on "Survivor" and he was going to last 10 episodes on the show and he's going to be completely unmemorable, I would have called you a crazy person. That being said, Leif really seems like a nice guy. But it also seems like he never really had any idea of what was going on in the game at any point. Even for an episode where he's voted off, he was barely on the show. He was the Purple Kelly of this season! Though Leif did have one great moment for the road: when he was in the ocean with Tarzan washing him. That was pretty great.
MTV: More and more, Tarzan's just breaking out as the star of this show. He was great in this episode again. And it wasn't just him patting Leif on the head, he actually did well in the game this week. He was second place in the challenge, he gave that public pep talk to Troyzan in a very classy and well-articulated way, and when push came to shove, he made the smart vote: It was either going to be Tarzan or Leif going home, so Tarzan voting for Leif definitely made sense over voting Kim, like Leif did.
Cesternino: You know, I think he knows what's going on a little bit. I don't think it was just a shot in the dark, him throwing a vote at Leif. I think he's with the women. We're not really being shown who he's with right now, but I get the sense that he's with the women. Because he even says to Troyzan, "Look, I'm trying to beat you." I get the sense that he's not on the same page as Troyzan. He hasn't gone along with any of Troyzan's plans to vote out Kim — they didn't vote together. I would be very surprised if Tarzan gets voted out before another woman leaves the game. They don't look at him as a threat. They look at him as a guy who can't win. When they're down to seven maybe, that's when the girls might start going after one another, and Tarzan's still in the game. Kim didn't feel like she was in any danger, no matter what Troyzan was doing. She didn't even talk about playing the idol. If Troyzan was really getting close to making something happen, I think she might have played it.
MTV: The game is certainly afoot!
Cesternino: It is! We don't know who Tarzan's letter [won at the auction] was from, either. And what's going to happen to his car?
MTV: That's a great question. [Laughs] I love the "Survivor" auction; it's always my favorite challenge on the show. This season's take was great. Our girl Kim was the clear victory there.
Cesternino: Kim was definitely the winner — and so were we! Usually on "Survivor," you have to get naked to get the chocolate and peanut butter. But Kim got naked and then paid for chocolate and peanut butter. She could have just killed two birds with one stone by going in the shower to get the chocolate and peanut butter! That wasn't great "Survivor" thinking.
MTV: But a $40 shower and a $240 bowl of chocolate and peanut butter isn't such a bad deal out there, either.
Cesternino: Yeah, that was a good deal. [Laughs]
MTV: Another great moment from the auction: Troyzan and Christina's bidding war over the immunity challenge advantage. It played out as you'd expect: Troyzan goes (almost) all in, with Christina unwilling to really seal the deal. That's been her MO all season long. What can she do to make herself noticed in the game?
Cesternino: I don't know what Christina is doing in the game. She didn't bid on anything. It's just symptomatic of her game in general. She's at the auction, the money is in her hands, and she's just not buying stuff. I don't know what's going on. She's in the game, she has a vote, and they're just not counting. There's no chance that she's getting past the final five or six in the game, because she's so stuck on the sidelines.
MTV: Looking ahead, what are Troyzan's chances of survival? Is there anything he can do strategically and socially to get to the end, or does he need an immunity run to win?
Cesternino: He does have his work cut out for him. I always watch "Survivor" after the merge, and really, I'm watching for the weeks where there's an odd number of people left in the game. Those are the weeks where you tend to just need one person to switch things up — like at seven, to make the split four to three. When there are eight people left, like there's going to be next week, it's going to be hard, because you need to get two people to switch. Now with Leif out of the game, he'll really need a number of people to switch. I just don't see that happening at this point in the game unless something really drastic happens.
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Photojournalism And Post-Processing: Should Contest Images Be The Actual Published Picture?

Feb 20, 2013
World Press Photo of the Year by Paul Hansen of Dagens Nyheter.
World Press Photo of the Year by Paul Hansen of Dagens Nyheter.

By Donald R. Winslow

DURHAM, NC (February 20, 2013) – In the days following the announcement of the World Press Photo of the Year there's been quite a discussion going on in cyberspace about post-processing of news images, and how far is too far given the ethics of reportage and today's digital photography.

There are two interesting points of view to consider today in light of this ongoing discussion. First, Allen Murabayashi has published a commentary on Petapixel asking, "Why do photo contest winners look like movie posters?" Murabayashi shows examples of photographs and makes us wonder whether Photoshop has been used to open up faces, change color and white balance, or apply post-processing vignetting.

"When images cease to look real and to be overly retouched, we have a veracity problem," Murabayashi  wrote. "And if we subscribe to the common ethos of photojournalism (i.e. that we are trying not to deceive the viewer), then we have an increasingly enigmatic issue."

But the Twitter link that really caught my attention this morning one to a Flickr page by André Gunthert which shows Paul Hansen's photograph as it was published by his Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, on November 11, 2012, during the photograph's live news cycle. Gunthert has published a side-by-side comparison of the newspaper's original published image along with the one that earned top honors in World Press Photo's contest.

Unfortunately, I'm old. I've been around Photoshop for a long, long time. When I worked in Silicon Valley ten years ago at CNET Networks I got to meet some of the people at Adobe whose names appear on the Photoshop launch screen. The software has come a long, long way since the early versions. So when I look at these side-by-side files on Flickr, my eyes are drawn to the faces of the six men left-to-right across the image; to the white balance of the shrouds on the bodies of the two children; to the light and range of light on the victims' faces; to the hazy background that exists just over the heads of the procession; and to the density of the sky and the variations in the shadows on the upper left wall (in the photograph's "11 o'clock" position).

Examine the photograph at these described areas and decide for yourself what you think may be taking place in these compositional points. Is this much-ado about nothing, or is there something here that can be used as a "teaching moment" and is there an issue that the industry needs to discuss?

The decision regarding post-processing boundaries is in the hands of the editors who decide what to publish in their newspapers and magazines and Web sites, and in the hands of the judges who pick winning images in contests, and in the crowd-sourcing voice of the world's photojournalists who by speaking out, or by staying silent, self-police the industry by voicing what's okay and what's too far.

The fact that we're having this discussion again must mean that some people think there's a problem. From what I hear and read, it sounds like many are about 50/50 on the issue today. And the particular image being discussed has just taken top honors in two very prestigious contests that were judged and chaired by some of our industry's most ethical and admired professionals. So as I think about this issue, I also think about how much I respect their opinions.

Hansen's photograph was discussed in LENS by Jim Estrin in The New York Times the day after it won World Press, and Estrin asked World Press jury chair Santiago Lyon of the Associated Press about post-processing and the light quality in the photograph. Lyon told Estrin that Hansen's photograph was "within the acceptable industry parameters."

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm also bringing this up again because NPPA will shortly begin judging its own Best Of Photojournalism contest. BOP contest chair Terry Eiler and the committee will assemble a panel of expert judges from around the world who are also some of our industry's most ethical and admired professionals. I'm not part of the judging process, and as of today I have no idea who the judges for BOP will be. But I'm glad this discussion is taking place right now, and I'm wondering if this topic will come into play as NPPA's judges look at the Best Of Photojournalism entries.

Whether one agrees or disagrees on this topic of post-processing in photojournalism, by all means let's hope that this discussion continues. If the contest winners are a signal to young photojournalists about what's okay in image presentation and post-processing manipulation, then shouldn't the picture that's entered in a contest be the same image that was published by its editors?


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BROOKLYN, NY - It was a jam packed day at the iS8/Nike Spring HS Classic quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon at Nazareth Regional HS. Four teams took to the court to face each other.
In the first match-up the Panthers (seniors) demolished the Warriors followed by Believe Prep versus Long Island Lightning (Ahern). In the third game, the Badgers faced NYC Jayhawks with Sports U take on New Heights in the finale.
NY Panthers (Seniors) Eat The Warriors, 81-31
This game got ugly fast. With 5 minutes remaining in the first quarter, the Panthers found themselves leading over the Warriors 24-7. The Panthers' furious run was led by the fast breaking and dunks by Manny Suarez (Bayonne Catholic 2013).
The second quarter turned out to be nothing but the same. More steals that led to easy fast break dunks for Suarez coupled along with the good play making and scoring by guard Aaron Cust (Uniondale HS 2013). The Warriors really struggled to score points on the inside due to the length and athleticism of Suarez and a balanced scoring effort gave them an insurmountable at halftime 39-12
The half opened up with a three point shot by the Panther's Jerel Marshall (Mount Vernon 2013) along with a dunk by Suarez and continued to be a long afternoon for the Warriors. The Panther continued to run away with this one.
The Panthers were led by Cust with 16 points. Suarez contributed 14 points. The Warriors were led by Ashon Giddings with 11 points.
Believe Prep smacks Long Island Lightning (Ahern), 70-54
The Lightning started the game off scoring a lot out of the gate and jumped out to a 10-2 lead causing Believe Prep to take a timeout. Lightning player, Kewan Beebe (Glen Cove HS, 2013), got off to a fast start and scored a couple of lay-ups in transition. In the first 3 minutes of play, it appeared that Believe Prep was in trouble; they turned over the ball and struggled to finish easy lay-ups.
This began to change after Shadell Millinghaus (Believe Prep, 2013) caught a vicious alley oop slam from the right side to inch his team back to within 4 points with 2 minutes remaining in the quarter. Beebe then respond with a steel and a dunk of his own and his Lighting held a 17-14 lead at the end of the first.
Lightning player, Dwayne Daniel (Lawrence HS, 2014), opened up the half with a steal and a lay-up and his team then set up in a 3-2 zone to slow down the perimeter shooting of Millinghaus and Believe Prep but to no avail. Another alley oop slam with 2:00 minutes, this time by Leroy Fludd (Believe Prep, 2013), gave Believe Prep their first lead 21-19. After a couple of threes and solid defense for the rest of the quarter Believe Prep pushed the lead to 38-23 at half.
The second half was dominated by Believe Prep. Millinghaus continued to dominate the game with fall away three point shots and effortless scoring and the Lightning continued to struggle and trailed by as much as 20 at one point. However, with 2:45 remaining a trey by Beebe brought the Lightning back to within 9 points causing Believe Prep to call for time. A few buckets and a three by Millinghaus with 1:17 sealed the game for his team and kept the Lightning at bay.
Believe Prep was led by Millinghaus with 31 points while the Lightning were led by Daniel with 18 and Beebe with 14 points.
Badgers bury NYC Jayhawks, 67-55
The Badgers opened up this game with an early 7-0 run capped off by a one handed slam by Shamiek Sheppard (South Shore, 2013) causing to Jayhawks to call at timeout. After the timeout, Tawayne Anderson (Long Island Lutheran, 2013) responded with a deep three from the left wing and his team responded with a couple of buckets to make the score 11-8 with 4:22 left. At the half, the Badgers held a narrow lead 33-28.
In the second half, the Badgers continued to play well behind the good play of Sheppard, he played very aggressively in the paint and scored several lay-ups on the inside off of drives, he also assisted teammate David Tait (South Shore, 2013) on a nice alley-oop to make the score 39-31. A few plays later, Sheppard's teammate, Khadeen Carrington (Bishop Loughlin, 2013) served up a left handed facial that had the crowd going crazy with 2:16 remaining. The Badgers led by as much as 15 during the third end ended the quarter up 54-41.
UConn bound, Terrence Samuel (South Shore, 2013), facilitated easy baskets for his teammates and with 4:56 left the Badgers led comfortably 61-46. Anderson and the Jayhawks were resilient and did not give up and they came back to within 7 points of the Badgers who called timeout with 3:00 minutes remaining to stop bleeding. After the timeout, the Badgers regrouped and cruised to a victory.
Sheppard led the Badgers with 16 points while Anderson led the Jayhawks with 10 points.
Sports U topple New Heights, 73-57
The game started out with both teams trading baskets. New Heights opened up in a 2-3 zone and Sports U came out in a man-to-man. With 1:02 in the first the score was tied at 15-15 and both teams appeared to be bringing their A game for the day.
The second quarter consisted of both squads trading baskets. DeAndre Bembry (The Patrick School, 2013) showcased a couple of impressive dunks one of the a sick two handed alley-oop. Sports U played excellent defense and really rattled the normally stellar guards on New Heights, both Chris Robinson (Cardinal Hayes, 2014) and Paul Jorgensen (Don Bosco Prep, 2013) struggled to score. At the end of the half Sports U led 30-28.
New Heights came back out in the second half with a hard full court press but got burned by a couple of transition pull up threes by Hallice Cooke (St. Anthony's, 2013) that hit nothing but the bottom of the net.
Bembry and Cooke began to get hot and the defense by Sports U slowly started to crumble New Heights. At one point Sports U's lead ballooned out to 20 points with 2:32 remaining and they never looked back again.
Cooke led all scorers with 16 and teammate and Bembry tallied 13 points for Sports U. New Heights was led by Robinson and Mustafa Jones with 10 a piece.
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According to the National Ag Safety Database, crash fatality rates in the most rural counties are almost double what they are in urban counties.

Here are some more surprising facts about rural driving that come from the database:

  • Rural crashes are more frequent, more severe and more likely to result in death than urban crashes.
  • Tractors are involved in the majority of crashes on roadways.
  • Tractors are getting faster; some travel up to 45 mph.
  • Most farmers believe driving their tractors on rural roads is more dangerous now than it was a few years ago.

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Comply with your state laws. For headlights and taillights, most state laws require using headlights 30 minutes before sunset, until 30 minutes after sunrise.

Also use headlights whenever insufficient light or unfavorable weather conditions exist. ASAE recommends two headlights on the front, at the same level, positioned as far apart as possible. They also recommend one rear-left and one rear-right red taillight mounted as far apart as possible, and two red reflectors visible from the rear.

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BATON ROUGE, La -- Later this morning it will be known whether or not Ed Orgeron has pulled the biggest recruiting coup of 2006.
Around 9:00 am it will be known where Keiland Williams will attend college.
Williams will decide between Ole Miss, LSU and USC at that time in the library of Northside High School in Lafayette, La.
Should Williams, who is rated five-stars by and ranked as the No. 5 overall prep school prospect, decide on Ole Miss it would news on the scale of Brent Schaeffer's recent commitment to the Rebels.
For Williams to leave Louisiana after growing up just an hour west of LSU and Baton Rouge would send shockwaves through the college football world and cement Orgeron's reputation as an ace recruiter.
So will it happen? Will Williams spurn the home state Bengal Tigers and commit to Ole Miss or USC?
That's unclear as sources have Williams' decision literally all over the map. According to some Williams' has committed to Ole Miss, other sources have Williams a lock to LSU while there is still some discussion that Williams still hasn't made a decision.
Several factors are working in favor for a number of schools.
Each school offers Williams the chance to step in and start immediately.
USC loses Lendale White and Reggie Bush. LSU loses Joseph Addai and Alley Broussard is battling back from injury while Ole Miss will undergo a scheme change under new offensive coordinator Dan Werner.
There are other factors working in favor of each school. USC offers the allure of Los Angeles while LSU guarantees that Williams will be hailed as a hero for staying home to play. Ole Miss will have two of Williams' Hargrave teammates and best friends on the roster next year in John Jerry and Jerrell Powe.
Williams visited LSU officially this weekend and will make the announcement before traveling back to Virginia and class at Hargrave.
Exclusive Live Coverage of Williams press conference will be available throughout the morning on RebelGrove/OMSN.
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New Dave Kinsey Art Print, “Year of the Woman” (Onsale Info)

Dave Kinsey is set to release a new art print in two different colorways this week. “Year of the Woman” will be available in a 20″ x 26″ gold version with an edition of 100 for $100, or an 18″ x 24″ blue version that has an edition of 175, but will only be $55. Both of these go up for sale sometime on Wednesday, January 30. Visit

EDIT:  A new print has been thrown into the mix.  “Final Protest” will also be released tomorrow.  This one has an edition of 150, is 7 colors, and costs $150.  They also gave an approximate time of “around 12pm” tomorrow.  This all goes down at

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  1. ahhhhhhh ian francisesssssssssssssssssssses

  2. Thanks for the heads up on this print! Just ordered the blue one – my first Kinsey! Woo hoo!

    And clearly the subject is a woman.

  3. Loved the 3rd one and got – also the 2nd one, thought being if I sell the 2nd one it will pay for the 3rd one – its basic math and will probally F up but lets see.

  4. I think it’s nice that an artist did a print about androgyny.

  5. Thanks for pointing the baby out – I didn’t see that, maybe its his wife or something – does he have a new born as its “woman of the year”
    Cool – that makes it extra nice

  6. Definitely like the politcal implications of the prints

  7. and the abstract sexual exploration

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{{{Turbid Ice}}}

A thick upper layer of turbid ice, commonly found in first-year ice, results from a second, far more important entrainment mechanism. Turbid ice contains evenly disseminated fine sediments. In some winters it is widespread over the Beaufort Sea shelf. The originally disseminated sediment soon becomes concentrated on the surface by summer melting. Brown discoloration in this July, nineteen seventy-nine satellite image shows the regional extent of sediment-covered ice in that year. The region of discolored ice carried sixteen times more sediment than the local rivers supply each year. According to free drift simulations, the ice with its sediment load is displaced from the shallow shelf to the area covered by the colored ellipse within one year. These findings have prompted detailed studies of the entrainment mechanism for turbid ice.

Turbid ice is produced by a process called suspension freezing. It requires a combination of subfreezing air temperatures and turbulence, leading to water temperatures slightly below its freezing point. When water is supercooled and turbulent, frazil ice crystals occur in the water column and on its surface as streaks seen here on a shallow Arctic lagoon. Frazil interlocks with itself and with suspended matter in the water. Frazil crystals such as these on a sandbed attach to various fixed objects forming anchor ice, seen here on a current meter and here on a net. During and after a freezing storm, frazil in the water column and anchor ice rises with its sediment to the surface to form a layer of slush ice which can become several meters thick. This dirty slush layer congeals with time as it freezes from the surface down. Afterwards clean ice grows below the dirty slush. Details of the interaction of frazil with suspended matter and with the bed have been examined in many laboratory experiments. A small racetrack flume placed in a freezer was used in some of these experiments. The following freshwater sequence shows the action of frazil ice on a sand substrate with currents moving at sixty centimeters per second. A lack of ice on mineral specimens suspended in the water at the left and on the sand bottom is observed until just before maximum supercooling is reached. As the water temperature drops to slightly over one-tenth of a degree Celsius below its freezing point, frazil flocks are forming and can be seen moving along the bed. These are mostly too heavy with sand to rise.

Classic theory of sediment dynamics which considers stress of the bed, threshold velocity for grain movement, saltation and so on, breaks down in supercooled water.

Finally, at the point of maximum supercooling, ice is beginning to build up on mineral specimens on the left while flocks roll along the bed sluggishly and occasionally come to rest in the shelter of a ripple where they are buried by the advancing sand. The frazil moved by the currents is enriched in particulate matter above levels in the surrounding water. This is what ultimately leads to the formation of turbid ice.

Other sets of experiments were conducted in two-meter deep tanks placed in freezers to learn about the interaction of frazil rising through a sediment-charged water column. Frazil forms in the base of these tanks which are stirred mechanically. In this view frazil crystals are seen at the sixty centimeter level in seawater. Frazil crystals rapidly grow and flocculate as they rise from the region of basal turbulence into quiet water at ninety centimeters and here at one hundred ten centimeters. Rise rates vary with flock size. Large flocks rise much faster than small ones. Fast-rising frazil flocks entrain particulate matter into their wake and slam into slow ones, often destroying them. The result is a considerable differential-motion-induced small-scale turbulence in the water, shown here as the camera follows rising frazil flocks over a distance of thirty centimeters.

In most experiments the slush ice accumulating at the surface has higher sediment concentrations than the underlying water. This indicates turbid ice is produced by frazil scavenging of sedimentary particles from the water. The scavenging is made visible here by introduction of fluorescent sand grains, appearing in ultraviolet light as bright spots. As some grains continue to settle downward, others are trapped by frazil flocks and are carried upward.

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During freezing storms and frazil production, concentrations of suspended particulate matter in the Beaufort Sea are elevated to an order of magnitude above those during otherwise similar, nonfreezing storms. Particles are also subjected to scavenging by resuspension from ice wallow. At such times, wind-driven currents of two knots occur on the shallow shelf, resulting in major sediment movement through the action of still-submerged sediment-charged frazil, before true ice rafting on the sea surface begins.

Major entrainment events may ultimately introduce sediment loads of over one thousand tons per square kilometer of ice and are therefore highly significant for the shelf and coast sediment budget.


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Blending folk, soul, blues, and Appalachian traditional elements into a refreshingly timeless sound that sits outside any particular musical era, Valerie June stands in a long and storied line of unique performers in Memphis, a city with a still vibrant music scene even into the 21st century.

The daughter of a brick cleaner from Humboldt in the flatlands of West Tennessee, June took quickly to the various local roots music styles in the area, teaching herself guitar and developing her own stylistic mix, interpreting traditional material like it was still alive and breathing, and writing her own material with an eye to the influences of passionate and socially minded songwriters like Bob Marley. She officially began performing at the age of 19 as half of the husband-and-wife duo Bella Sun (the couple released an album, No Crystal Stair, in 2004 on their own Bella Sun Music imprint), but when the marriage fell apart, June left the South and began living the life of a gypsy street musician, playing for change in bus and subway stations up and down the West Coast. She eventually returned to Tennessee, settling finally in Memphis, where she slid right into the city's active music scene. By now she had added banjo and lap steel to her musical base, and she began to draw local attention for her powerful performances, becoming a favorite at area folk festivals and workshops.

She recorded two albums, The Way of the Weeping Willow and Mountain of Rose Quartz, at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis, but she really came into the national eye when she was featured, along with rappers Al Kapone, Muck Sticky, and other musicians, in the MTV web series $5 Cover (put together by Craig Brewer, the creator of the movie Hustle & Flow), which followed Memphis musicians as they scrambled to pay the rent, fall in and out of love, and yes, play music in one of the most storied musical cities in the world. The series aired early in 2009, giving June and her music a platform for wider exposure. Using the publicity from the $5 Cover series, June went on to record the 2010 EP Valerie June & the Tennessee Express with the Old Crow Medicine Show. In 2011, June raised $15,000 via the crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter to help fund the recording of her next album. A move to Brooklyn from Memphis and an introduction to Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys) put into motion the recording of her third studio album, Pushin' Against the Stone. With her singles on heavy rotation on European radio and a support slot with British singer/songwriter Jake Bugg, June's popularity continued to soar with Pushin' Against the Stone, finally released in May 2013 in Europe and in the U.S. in August. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

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The Osiris Curse

The Osiris Curse by Paul Crilley (Pyr, 2013) Tweed & Nightingale Adventure 2 should have a young adult health warning on the cover. In all innocence, I pick up the next book from the pile and discover myself cast adrift in a dumbed down science fantasy, patronisingly aimed at the young. This is Sherlock Holmes meets Hyperborean lizards from a Pellucidar underworld who threaten to destroy the human world because we have inadvertently been destroying the underground environment in our search for additional energy sources. Ah ha, another version of Sherlock Holmes and a story somewhat adjacent to the ingenious manga, anime and film series Dectective Conan by Gosho Aoyama (because someone thought this might be confused with that barbarian fellow, the series was renamed Case Closed to avoid distressing Robert E Howard fans who might not be able to understand the jacket artwork on the manga or the words used to describe the television and cinema versions). The hook for the Japanese story is that our brilliant amateur detective is forced to take an experimental poison but, instead of killing him, it reverts him to childhood stature which is actually a convenient “disguise” because it enables him to access places and talk to people who underestimate him. Note his dependence on Rachel Moore and, to some extent, Amy Yoshida — females of the species. In this book series, the mind of Sherlock Holmes is salvaged after his demise at Reichenbach Falls and relocated to a cloned body, then nine months old in chronological age. At that point in cranial development, the cloned body was not able to absorb Holmes’ memories, just most of his intellect, so the emergent young man is an erratic detective genius. He’s “adopted” by Barnaby Tweed, is christened Sebastian Tweed and partnered with Octavia Nightingale.

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So our young detective with female sidekick takes on the role of defender of the British Empire which is full of stupid adults with the possible exception of Queen Victoria who puts in a cameo appearance at the end. The setting is very strongly located in a steampunk era. Under Queen Victoria’s benign rule, Babbage has perfected the difference engine, Tesla has done just wonderful things with electricity, and so on. Looking around the streets, we have both steam- and electric-powered conveyances. Large robots are slowly finding acceptance in heavy industry and on the docks to do the heavy dirty work, while “android” robots act as house servants. And in the air, ornithopters and hydrogen airships with electric engines driving turbines rule. There’s also a grey area in which spiritualism and a more general interest in the practical side of the medium’s experience has led to the capture and manipulation of “souls”. In Tweed’s case, the mind was placed into a cloned body, but they can also be placed in bottles and inserted into machinery. That gets around the programming problem since oral instructions can then be given. Even H G Wells comes into play as the inventor of an invisibility cloak (and time machine). There’s not a single original element on display nor, in the world building, is there any any sign of a unique version of Victorian steampunk emerging. It’s all very generic (as you might expect from a YA title — teen readers are not expected to know what else has been written in this field, nor to care for any particular logic in its execution).

There’s some minor angst from our young hero. He’s feeling like a cuckoo in the nest, like someone who doesn’t quite fit into this world (and who can blame him for that assessment of his situation). Naturally, there are romantic twinges in the relationship between our two heroes and some experimental osculation at the end as acceptance of the consequences of the male/female thing is completed. As to the plot, it’s a mishmash of espionage adventure tropes being forced into Edgar Rice Burroughs directions with a vague attempt at Sherlock Holmesian detective analysis thrown into the works. It’s all rather embarrassingly bad for someone like me to read. I suppose it might be acceptable for ten to twelve year-olds who have never read anything intelligent in the steampunk subgenre to start off their reading careers but, to be honest, I suspect The Osiris Curse is more likely to drive them away.

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Oregon State may be starting out slow on the recruiting front, but picked up a fast wide receiver on Friday afternoon which has sparked a renewed enthusiasm for the Beavers efforts. Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) Los Osos wideout Victor Bolden pulled the trigger and made it official on Friday making the call to Coach Joe Seumalo and Danny Langsdorf.
"I sat down with my family and we really felt that Oregon State was the best decision," he said. "It will be the best place for me."
Bolden is a quick, 5-foot-9, 165 pound receiver who has already drawn comparisons to former Beaver standout James Rodgers. He has been recruited to continue the tradition of running the fly sweep in Corvallis and Bolden looks forward to making things happen at Oregon State.
When spoke with him Friday afternoon, he had not yet been able to reach Coach Riley or Coach Brennan, but he said that both Langsdorf and Seumalo were excited to receive his call.
While he may take an official visit or two during the season, he said that his commitment to Oregon State is solid.
"Yeah, I may still take some trips, but I consider my commitment to Oregon State to be very strong," Bolden said. "I plan to get busy and start helping build my class of teammates at OSU."
His first trip however will be to Corvallis in early August where he plans to make an unofficial trip to see the campus and meet some of his future teammates.
"Right now I'm focusing on my high school team and finishing out our year strong," he said. "I will make an unofficial trip to Corvallis the first week of August to watch a little Fall Camp and meet some of the guys."
He's also working on wide receiver Jordan Villamin who has already visited Corvallis. Villamin, who lives in nearby Etiwanda, California is a friend of Bolden's and he said he's already working on him to join him at Oregon State.
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The Art of Missing

IN ONE OF Aesop’s fables, “The Rogue and the Oracle,” a man approaches the Oracle at Delphi. In his hand, which he keeps hidden under a cloak, he has a little bird. The plan is to ask the oracle whether the bird is dead or alive: if the answer is “dead,” he will simply produce the living creature; if “alive,” he’ll crush it. But an oracle is not an oracle by being easily tricked, and the reply is this: “Stranger, whether the thing that you hold in your hand be alive or dead is a matter that depends entirely on your will.”

I was reminded of that line while looking at artist and architect Maya Lin’s recent exhibition at New York’s Pace Gallery. There, from projectors attached to the ceiling of one of the gallery’s side rooms, ferries of sentence traveled across the wall, turning when they reached a corner as if hitting a bend or rapid. The words included historical accounts of the wolves that used to live in Manhattan, the oyster beds that once flourished around the Hudson, and a seven-foot sturgeon spotted in 1950 on the river’s New Jersey side by the writer Joseph Mitchell.

Lin is best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, a competition she won in 1981 while still a student. The finished site, together with the precocious grit with which she met the obstacles to realizing it, turned her into a celebrity. Since then Lin has gone on to do other memorials, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, but for a long time she has said her last such project is in the works. Launched in 2011, the new memorial is ongoing, dispersed, collaborative, a kind of museum — that room at Pace with the running text is a part of it, though just one of many. There are satellite sculptures and multimedia installations planted throughout various cities, but the core of the project lives online, on an unusually cool website called What Is Missing? As for the “missing,” well, that would be animals and their habitats. The site honors extinct or endangered species, ecosystems lost or degraded, and, on a positive note, conservation efforts that have done some good.

In a departure from Lin’s previous offerings, the project is forthright about mission — a piece of “guerrilla artwork,” to use her own phrase. It’s an apt description, but don’t expect this project to behave like a political pamphlet. The information that populates the site is discreet, its clean restraint a catalyst for the viewer’s emotion; moreover, some of the power of the facts stems from what’s unusual and suggestive about their context. The very idea of a tribute to the extinct reminds us, by contrast, of what societies usually choose to commemorate: people as opposed to animals or places, the named rather than the countless anonymous, losses within recent memory. (Though a memorial like Lin’s might plausibly have begun with the Industrial Revolution, prehistoric megafauna figure in its scheme.)

While the concept does manage to avoid the challenges that go with remembering a human tragedy — mercifully, animals can’t dispute your design or stir up false controversy — other problems beckon. A memorial doesn’t work if visitors aren’t moved, and how do you move people with respect to beings that, all too often, they have never experienced firsthand? And since advocacy is intrinsic to the subject, how do you help fortify the will to do something? Part of Lin’s response to this pickle is to test the whole memorial genre formally: “I love rethinking what things are, changing assumptions,” she’s said in an interview, “so what if a monument, which we normally think of as being singular and static, can exist in many places simultaneously?” The digital world answers that call, and even enables viewers to interact with and add to the project over time.

But what of the site itself? As you enter to a concert of twittering and croaks, little dots move in a swarm across the screen, assume the forms of certain animals, and then take their allotted seats on a darkened map of the world. Placing the cursor over a dot reveals the name of an animal, place, or ecosystem; click on it, and a number of things might happen. An excerpt from Captain Cook’s journals may pop up, or a video begins, suddenly placing you in a mangrove swamp or before the enthralling dance show of a prairie chicken (he’s a must-see). As at the Pace show, brief sentences accompany the video entries — data about shrinking glaciers, bald eagles and DDT, commercial fishing laws unenforced, the disastrous toll of hunting and poaching for rare animals. With a video of pteropods, the text only has to explain what we’re looking at: the marine snail’s lack of shell is a new development, the result of ocean acidification. Visitors to the site are welcome to add their own memories, too. A resident of Spring, Texas, on the disappearance of fireflies from her town, writes: “It’s been twenty-five years, and I have not seen one since. I miss them.”

I won’t describe how the website functions in every detail — there are too many facets to it, and the point seems to be to discover them for yourself. Also, tech-impaired, I’m still working them out. Yet the sheer sensory pleasure of the site is worth noting. The quality doesn’t seem incidental: in a memorial to extinct animals, it won’t do to simply list names — the reduction of wildlife to text and statistics, to be filed away and forgotten, is part of the problem. A reconstructed memory would require that we picture the beast in question, read stories of actual encounters, hear the animal’s voice itself. All of this is included in What Is Missing? and among its auditory treasures are growling jaguars, the shrill yet somehow fetching cry of Indri lemurs, and “The Most Beautiful Sound of the Humpback Whale.” So-called “background” noises of forest and ocean are acknowledged as dynamic foregrounds; from what I can tell, there are no narrating human voices. The cumulative effect is soothing and makes it more likely that one will take time wandering from entry to entry, getting happily lost as though in a museum.

That a site so sadly themed is actually enjoyable speaks nothing against its seriousness. In fact, that element bolsters the project’s political stance, telling us what a memorial of this kind must do to be effective: make you want to stay. For a memorial to contain so much in the way of aesthetic seduction, seeking to lure us in and make us return and keep learning things, underscores a hard truth about extinction: on the whole, we are terrible at staying on the subject. When the barrier isn’t disregard for all that doesn’t obviously touch self-interest, it’s the demands placed on our attention by the usual plethora of other crises in the world. And then one suspects there is just something intrinsic to the topic that prevents us from thinking about it clearly. Extinction, after all, is mighty Death crowned, a more absolute death than death — hardly surprising, then, if it tends to be avoided, smoothed over, or if it plays tricks on people’s brains. Just as people will dream of the departed or catch themselves in anticipation of their presence, one sometimes hears the plight of threatened creatures referred to in a curiously resigned way, as though a species might just check out for a while and show up again another time.

To some extent, an inability to absorb the phenomenon is natural: we’re often talking about animals unseen by most people and scales of time and numbers so large as to challenge sympathy. Fresh opportunities for engagement, one hopes, will help rescue the cause from its abstract glare. A memorial like Lin’s is smart to emphasize geography, identifiable causes, and successes in conservation, while also showing us how the long-range view might serve as a source not of indifference, but of sadness and outrage. To imagine that, by our own hands and in such a short passage, so many ancient and hard-won chains of life could be severed!

In Aesop’s day, estimates put the world population at 100 million — in other words, about seventy times fewer than the present figure. Given the relative abundance of other life on earth at that time, it’s natural that the plight of the bird doesn’t seem symbolic or even really the point of the fable mentioned earlier, but rather more like an attractive literary device. Read through the lens of our modern day, though, it turns central. Now that we’ve come to know the oracle’s truth on a grander scale, how do we stop wasting time with the disingenuousness of the rogue?

James Guida is an Australian living in New York. He is the author of Marbles—a book of short prose, or of aphorisms—and of essays that have appeared in a range of magazines and websites, among them The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, n+1, Orion, and Tin House. In 2011 he was awarded a fellowship in non-fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts.

  1. I don’t understand why this article lacks a link to the What is missing website.

  2. @ Yen Chin I agree. Perhaps it is an oversight the way the math at the end was– there is no “70 times fewer” or anything times less, as we all to often hear in our dumbed down culture. Multiplication increases; division lessens.

  3. Please remember the reason there isn’t a link is because this article was originally published in a print publication. It’s easy enough to find it, however, and I can’t wait to peruse it.

  4. The link worked for me …. just click on the title of the website that is in italics.

  5. I only got a black screen when I went to the website.

  6. You will get a black screen initially – takes a little while to load. Well worth it…

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Pop Culture meets Aboriginal Art Along the Kingsway Trail

Kingsway Trail
Artist: Sonny Assu

Starting September 28th, 2012 commuters along Kingsway may notice some new signage marking their urban treks to home, work and play.

As part of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary, the City of Vancouver commissioned artist Sonny Assu to design a street marker to be installed along Kingsway from Main Street to Boundary Road. The signs mark Kingsway’s shared history as an aboriginal foot trail and wagon road. The artwork incorporates the artist’s signature style of Pop-Culture-meets-Aboriginal Art to make this history visible in our daily lives.

The marker is installed on both sides of Kingsway and mimics highway signs that identify the route, including a stylized maple leaf using coastal First Nations design elements. The project informs people of the ancient foot trail that connected the Fraser River and what later became New Westminster and False Creek and English Bay. The signs also acknowledge the early colonial history as a wagon road.

As an urban indigenous person calling Vancouver home for many years, I wanted to honour the First Peoples history and Musqueam, Squamish and Tsail-wututh Nations with my work…. In a project to acknowledge Vancouver’s 125 years, I recognized the inequality in that conception of history. Hidden in plain sight, it seems we forgot to acknowledge the first 9000 years.”          – Sonny Assu

The artwork was unveiled by Mayor Robertson at City Council as part of the celebration of National Aboriginal Day on June 21, 2012.

ABOVE and BELOW: Mayor Gregor Robertson and Glenn Alteen, Program Director for the Grunt Gallery unveil Sonny Assu’s work in Council Chamber beside the proclamation declaring National Aboriginal Day.

About the Artist

Sonny Assu grew up in North Delta, BC, away from his ancestral home in Cape Mudge and Kwakwaka’wakw culture. He graduated from Emily Carr University in 2002. In an exploration of his mixed ancestry, he works across disciplines and appropriates and transforms items of consumer and popular culture and First Nations iconography.

A solo exhibition, Sonny Assu: As Defined Within the Indian Act, was held at the Belkin Satellite Gallery in Vancouver in 2006. Assu’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including How Soon is Now? (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009) and Beat Nation: Hip Hop as an Indigenous Culture (Grunt Gallery, 2009, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2011), as well as Comic Relief (National Gallery of Canada, 2008) and Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 (Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, 2005, and touring through 2009). His work is in a number of collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and Seattle Art Museum.

About the Program

In September 2010, the Public Art Program held an open call to artists to propose projects to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Vancouver. The opportunity was to commission new works for short-term and permanent installations in a range of media to mark time, record change, and identify unique geographic and civic spaces, characters or communities that have animated the city or are markers for its potential in the future.  One hundred projects were proposed; eight were shortlisted for development and six projects were commissioned.

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We can find the main page with the list of journals.
I want to modificate this template. So I haven't found which one belongs to it.
And one more thing - I need to add a custom css only for this "area": for journals list page with all its pages(Home,About, Log In and so on), but this css should not interfere with any other journal css.
How can I make it? Load it in its own template?
Thank you!
P.S. I've found the templates: they are put in "user" and "index" folders. But still can't figure out how to load separate css only for this modules with smarty syntax... OR should I write a plugin ?

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Re: Main Page Customization

Postby Garant » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:11 am

Made a hack with JS:

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    <script type="text/javascript">{literal}
       var loc = window.location;
       var currentURL = loc.pathname;
       if (currentURL=='/ojs/index' || currentURL=='/ojs/' || currentURL=='/ojs/about' || currentURL=='/ojs/user/register')
        loadjscssfile("/ojs/styles/images/main_page_style.css", "css")
    function loadjscssfile(filename, filetype){
     if (filetype=="css"){
      var fileref=document.createElement("link")
      fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet")
      fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css")
      fileref.setAttribute("href", filename)
     if (typeof fileref!="undefined")

But it's not a real solution. It would be great in future to make a possibility to customize the main page and also add classes to published elements.

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Re: Main Page Customization

Postby JasonNugent » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:43 am

HI Garant,

You can do what you want to do with a plugin. A 'generic' plugin that hooks against TemplateManager::display would have a chance to call addStyleSheet() on the template manager variable before the template was shown. You'd just have to test for the specific template you wanted. Have a look at the addStyleSheet() method in lib/pkp/classes/template/

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Re: Main Page Customization

Postby Garant » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:55 am

Hi JasonNugent!
Thank you for your answer!
Sound like a good solution. I will try to write a plugin for this purpose.
So the plugin could consist of a one function which will check for specific template and if that criteria will be met - call addStyleSheet() method?

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Monthly Archives: February 2004

iSync, ical and p800

iSync kept bumming out on me when trying to sync my calendar on my P800 with ical. It seemed to get all the items from the phone, merge them ok but then fail with a comment like ‘could not connect to p800 please check the pairing with this computer’.
This Apple document sorted out the problem for me – I didn’t even get to the stage of rebooting the computer. It seems to be curable by removing and re-adding the phone from devices to sync. Next: turn all my calendars to RDF and put them up somewhere.
Oh, powerbook users may need the bluetooth firmware upgrade.

I decided to set up moblogging on planB (a movable type weblog), inspired bydanbri’s typepad one. There are probably better ways of doing it…Joi Ito has a moblogging resources page that might be useful.

I fooled around a bit with Joi Ito’s python script but didn’t know enough python to be bothered to debug the error I got (it was Saturday):

sh:~/moblog/mail2entry-2002-12-25$ cat 416D0264.jpg | python /home/libby/moblog/mail2entry-2002-12-25/ test
/home/libby/moblog/mail2entry-2002-12-25/ SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
def main():
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/libby/moblog/mail2entry-2002-12-25/", line 50, in ?
File "/home/libby/moblog/mail2entry-2002-12-25/", line 43, in main
return result
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment

Another guy had the same problem but no solution.

So then I tried Dav Coleman’s perl version. It requires XMLRPC::Lite and MIME::Explode; they were both on the system I was using. I commented out the japanese text bits and the system calls to java etc.

I have an account that can recieve mail on the same machine as my blog. I don’t know whether it needs to be – the perl program uses XMLPRC to post to the blog.

So, in order, this is what I did.

  • created an email alias on the machine. I could have used my default one, but figured better to make it a bit more secret. Just knowing the mail address wouldn’t allow anyone else to post though.
  • got the perl prgram, made sure XMLRPC::Lite and MIME::Explode were installed

  • edited out the ‘system’ calls and japanese bits I didn’t need
  • with help from shellac, installed procmail and wrote a .procmailrc file in my home directory:

    * ^FROM: .*theemailaddrfrommyphone
  • set up a new username and password for my blog and found out a bunch of information I needed
  • created .blogpostrc file in my home fdirectory, looking like this (following the instructions in the perl file)

    blogurl =
    blogxmlrpc =
    blogimgurl =
    subdir = default
    output_dir = /usr/local/apache/htdocs/archives/images
    bloguser = username
    blogpass = pwd
    blogid = 5
    defaulttitle = new post from cell phone
    defaultbody =
    defaultcategory = 28
  • tested it by mailing myself a picture from my phone

Fiddling with the actual perl code (to process text atachments), it was easier just to pipe a saved message to procmail manually: cat msg | procmail

And bingo – it worked. I’m going to set up a new blog specicically for pictures. And then I want to be able to parse RDF somehow out of the text attachments.


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Jail break: Solution

There are 100 prisoners in 100 separate locked cells. During the night each of 100 prisoner officers visits the cells. The first officer visits every cell. The second officer visits cells 2,4,6,... etc (every 2nd cell), the third officer visits cells 3,6,9,..etc (every third cell), the fourth officer visits every fourth cell, and so on until the 100th officer visits the 100th cell. On a visit each officer unlocks the door if it is locked or locks the door if it is unlocked. If the cell remains unlocked after all officers have completed their rounds, the prisoner can escape. In the morning, how many prisoners have escaped and why?

A cell will remain unlocked in the morning if it has been visited by an odd number of prison officers during the night. Let's look at a particular cell $n$. It will be visited by an officer for every number $a$ that divides $n$ (including $a=1$ and $a=n$). If $a$ divides $n$, then so does $n/a$. Thus, divisors of $n$ come in pairs $(a,n/a)$. If $n$ is not a square number, then each such pair is made up of distinct numbers. So, if $n$ is not a square number, then cell $n$ is visited an even number of times and therefore ends up locked. If $n$ is a square number, then the cell is visited an odd number of times and remains unlocked in the end. There are 10 square numbers up to and including 100, so the answer is 10.

This puzzle was contributed by John Rowland, an IT officer who also provides maths tuition, preparing students for examinations at GCSE and A level.

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Introducing: WPMU DEV Google Maps Plugin

Google Maps has become an important tool for pretty much everyone these days. Who doesn’t check their directions before they head out on a journey? Or use the Smartphone app to navigate around town?

But embedding it in your website has never been a 100% simple matter, especially for people not comfortable working with code. WPMU DEV’s Google Maps Plugin makes it incredibly simply to embed a map in your website. You don’t even need to visit Google Maps to do it!

  • Simple Embed in your Posts and Pages with the “Add Map” icon in the visual editor
  • Full Mapping Widget
  • Advanced Settings
  • Compatible with WordPress, BuddyPress and MultiSite

The Google Maps icon appears in your visual editor:

Location of Google Maps Icon in Visual Editor

Click it and the map options will pop up:

Google Maps Popup Window

Insert all of your information, save the map and insert it into your post. A shortcode will appear:

Google Maps shortcode in visual editor

And here it is on your page:

Map with pin at Paris and directions

You can even get directions and use street view!

Of course, you need to be able to add your maps anywhere on your site so we’ve added a widget as well:

Google Maps widget

WPMU DEV Members can download our new Google Maps plugin straight away. Or if you’re not a member you can buy it for just $39.


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Works at Eddie Kritzer Productions
Attended Boston College
Lives in Santa Monica, CA
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I created,produced, and syndicated radio's 1970's number one radio show, Rock Around The World,(1975)   (150 stations)

I interviewed such guests as Roger Daltry, Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Joe Walsh, Boston, David Crosby, The Cars, Queen, etc,
and other Rock Stars all over the world, then inserted them in the radio show out of Boston,  WBCN was our flagship Boston station
I was in Los Angeles once a month, and London every other month, Rock Around The World was on for nine years.
I went on to create Rockline, the first live by satellte radio show broadcast around the world, still on the air after 27, years,
I was partners with Bill Cosby, and Art Linkletter on Kids Say The Darndest Things which has a three year run on CBS (Bill Cosby)
I have had shows on CBS, ABC, NBC, USA, MTV,FOX COMEDY CENTRAL, PAX-NET, PLAYBOY including creating The concept for The American Comedy Awards (Budd Friedman) ABC, FOX, Comedy Central (16 years)                    False Witness movie on NBC, 19.9 rating 29.9 share.
How Do They Do That on NBC Radio with Ed McMahon
I am currently partners with Ryan Seacrest Productions on  a new version on Kids Say The Darndest Things
I have sold books by Art Linkletter, Bill Cosby, and many others
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I have been or are partners with Art Linkletter, Bill Cosby, Christina, Aguilera, Ed McMahon, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Aaron Spelling, Larry Flynt, Sam Rubin, Budd Friedman, Magic Johnson,
I recently sold The Tiger Woods Syndrome to HCI Books, they  published The Chicken Soup for The Soul, at One Hundred Twelve Million Copies is the best selling book series ever published.
The Tiger Woods Syndrome,  written by Psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Bruns & Dr. R. A. Richards, it will be released on March 18th, 2010
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Career Fair Tips for Students

Recorded workshops available on ANGEL: Select workshops provided via Career Services at University Park are made available to students. Students should log in to ANGEL, click on "Find A Group," and search for the "Career Services Recorded Workshops" group. To enroll and view the content, students will need to click "Enroll (no pin required)."

How to Work a Career Fair

The company representatives who are attending may be technical staff members, not from the personnel office. They may not be in a position to hire you. However, they can provide you with very valuable information about their organization and refer you to someone who might be able to hire you.

Preparation is the key to making a successful presentation at any job or career fair. At a minimum, you should do the following:

Seniors: It is suggested that you approach the company representatives from a networking standpoint. Don't start your conversation with "Are you hiring?" Ask them about their jobs, products and companies. Let the conversation take a relaxed, natural pace. Prepare a thirty-second "sales pitch" so you can talk about your academic discipline, senior projects, Penn State Behrend and yourself. If they are hiring and are interested in hiring you, they'll tell you. Company representatives are going to have questions for you as well. Be prepared to converse.

Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen: Your goal is to learn more about the many different job titles and fields within engineering. First, you should explain your interests, background and career goals. Seek advice from the representatives. Remember, they were in your shoes not so long ago. The potential always exists for internship opportunities. However, don't walk up to a company representative and ask for a summer job/internship. Let the conversation flow naturally. When the time is right, ask if there is any potential for summer employment or internships with their organization. Remember, you are an ambassador of your academic program and Penn State Behrend. The way you conduct yourself reflects on you and the university. Some suggested questions to ask employers:

  • Ask about the manufacturing processes, production methods, products or services provided by the company. Impress them with your knowledge of their company/products/services.
  • What is a typical work day like at your company?
  • What are your job responsibilities?
  • What do you like most about your job? What do you find most challenging?
  • What other career areas are related to your area of expertise?

Note: Do Not Approach An Employer In Pairs Or In Groups! Go up to a recruiter by yourself. Employers want to talk with one person at a time. Your diminish your chances if you are "part of a herd." You could also discuss the projects that you have been associated with (e.g. Senior Design Projects, etc.) and the skills that you have gained. If you've had a internship, talk about the experiences that you had. Everyone attending the fair should be prepared to talk about themselves, their abilities and their skills. Also you should have a carefully prepared resume that has been checked over by faculty or staff. If you have any questions or concerns (e.g. preparing your resume) make an appointment in the ACPC.

Interviewing Information

You should be well-prepared for any career fair by improving your interviewing skills. Even if you have had some interviews recently, it never hurts to brush up on those skills. You should make an effort to review the interviewing information available in the ACPC Resource Room. You can schedule mock interviews with ACPC counselors who will help you to evaluate your interviewing skills. At the very least, you should review the Interviewing information and practice what you read.

Business attire is required of all participants. If you are not sure what that means check with the CDC staff. There are videotapes that can be viewed in the CDC that present information on proper interviewing attire. You will not be allowed into the Fair without proper attire.

For men: dress shirt, tie and dark slacks.

For women: gray or blue dress suits or appropriate business attire.

Suits are highly recommended for seniors.

Prior to the Fair: Prepare!

  • Think about your strong points, your goals, the company and where you want to go within the company. Prepare a "one-minute commercial."
  • Be prepared to discuss where you want to work geographically (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York), what you like doing, what you're looking for in a first job, what your most relevant skills are.
  • Prepare your resume! If you need assistance, attend the resume workshops or use the examples found in the ACPC. Once you've started, meet with a counselor to "fine tune" your resume.
  • Understand how your skills (or the ones that you want to develop) relate to the employment opportunities available at your chosen organizations.
  • Watch the "Connecting with Employers: Making the Most of a Job Fair" video in the ACPC.
  • Thoroughly research your top companies and gain background information upon which you can base your conversations with the company representatives. Check the ACPC and company web pages for the information that you'll need to prepare for the fair.
  • Prepare your own job fair kit complete with resumes (enough for all employers that you want to talk with). Other items that support your interests and abilities such as references, written work or a portfolio can also be helpful.

Day of the Fair

  • Dress as you would for a job interview. You want to present the best image possible. Jeans, sweatshirts, and backpacks won't cut it. Avoid excessive jewelry and perfume. You will only have a few minutes to make an impression as a job candidate. Positive first impressions are critical.
  • Arrive early and map out your strategy. Who will you talk with first? Lines will be long for some companies. Plan accordingly and don't waste valuable time by standing in line.
  • Keep an open mind and don't reduce your opportunities due to lack of information or effort. You may want to tour the arena and make contact with all the organizations to learn more about them and what they have to offer, but visit your top companies first.
  • Introduce yourself to the representative in a positive and confident manner; offer a firm handshake. Include your name, your school, major, and the year you are graduating.
  • Tell the recruiter what your interests are. For example: Discussing a particular career or job with that organization; learning more about the organization and available opportunities; learning more about what someone does in a particular career; discussing internship or summer job opportunities.
  • Give the representative a resume and be ready to discuss your background, qualifications, and career goals. Ask what you should do to apply for a position with them.
  • Think of questions that you have regarding your area(s) of interest. Take notes on what you hear. Some questions might be:
    What are common career paths with your organization?
    What is the training program for new hires?
    What do you look for in a candidate?
  • Make sure you obtain the representative's name, title, address, e-mail, and phone number so you can follow up with them. Collect literature and business cards whenever possible, and ask the representative when you can expect to hear back from them.
  • Be sure to take notes after visiting each table. Write down your thoughts about the company, the recruiter, your chances, follow-up strategies, to-do list, etc.

After the Fair

  • You should make it a point to follow up with a letter expressing your interest in the company and in what it has to offer. You may want to include an updated résumé or provide better answers to specific questions asked during the fair. Thank-you and follow-up letters should be received by the employer within two to five days after a fair.


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Public Lab Wiki documentation

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This page is somewhat out of date; it applies mainly to the website. Please see

This is an overview page for website moderators, who delete spam, ban spam users, etc. to keep our site clean. As time goes on we will likely need more moderators as our community grows; if you are interested please be in touch with

Moderators can:

  • block users
  • spam comments
  • unpublish/delete notes and pages

This is a serious responsibility and we have to be careful not to misuse moderator power. Only ban/block/spam if you are sure that it is in fact spam, and please tell the other moderators.

How to moderate

Comment moderation

The simplest moderation task is to look for new comments. If you're subscribed to all new comments, you'll get emails as new ones are posted, and if they look suspicious (i.e. "beautiful jewelry" or "raiders tickets") click through and investigate. If they're obviously spam, you can use the links below the comments to "Submit spam" as shown in the image below. If you're not sure, it's worthwhile to click on the author's name to see if they have other legitimate posts.

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Approving new comments

Non-PLOTS-users can post comments, but they're held for moderation. Check to see if any new comments are waiting to be approved here:

We should check that as often as possible so people don't have to wait too long. We should also figure out how to get emailed when comments need to be moderated.

Note and page moderation

Basic moderation: Those with the "moderator" privilege can see a link on pages and notes, below the subscription links, labelled "Report to Mollom". This can be used to quickly submit spam and it also improves our automated spam catching system.

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  • New notes and pages can be deleted by moderators by clicking the "Edit" tab and choosing "Delete post". It's worthwhile to first click on the author name to check if they are a spam user; the account can be Blocked following instructions below.
  • Revisions on pages can be reverted by clicking on the "Revisions" tab and reverting to a recent clean revision.
  • New published content can also be reviewed en-masse at the address (only accessible to moderators).

Advanced/batch note/page moderation

If you have the privileges, you can visit this address and batch-delete:

User moderation: "Blocking" users

Spam users can be blocked by visiting their profile pages (click on their author name in a research note or wiki page revision) and checking "Blocked" instead of "Active".

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Finally! Is explicit content coming to the iPhone?

By J. DeVoy

From the Telegraph:

Several developers have reported seeing a new category appearing in the drop-down menus of iTunes Connect, the platform they use to distribute apps through the App Store. Alongside standard categories, such as “entertainment”, “games” and “productivity”, is a new tag: “explicit”.

Apple has not commented on the rumours, or confirmed whether or not it will be adding an explicit category to the App Store. Some developers are now reporting that this category has been removed from iTunes Connect lists

The screenshot tells the story.

Rumoured explicit category for App Store

This will be a step forward for Apple if it comes to fruition.  Recently, the company caused a small uproar for pulling an adult application from its iTunes Store.  Moreover, this would be a significant change from Apple’s recent position against adult content in the iTunes Store, which was flimsy to begin with:

When asked about the Swimsuit Edition app, Phil said, “The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format.”

Oh, so recognized brands like Hustler and Vivid don’t meet that threshold?  My bad.

4 Responses to Finally! Is explicit content coming to the iPhone?

  1. Actually, if Apple thinks it will make money (and it will), then they’ll probably incorporate it at some point.

    • J DeVoy says:

      You’d think so, but these things aren’t always economically rational. Walmart just acquired Vudu, the direct video service, and isn’t picking up its sizable adult offerings. Link: http://www.xbiz.com/news/117840

      Then again, Walmart is widely known for screwing everyone (See generally, the documentary “The High Cost of Low Price”), while Apple is a bit more progressive.

  2. Rogier says:

    Devoy: I take serious exception to your facile assertion about Walmart. Really low stuff.

    • J DeVoy says:

      Oh I don’t doubt the complexities of Walmart’s model – I congratulate them for being as successful as they are. But they have gotten a lot of bad publicity out of it, and they suffer a good degree of public scorn for it. To the extent the documentary I cited was accurate, some of it may be well-deserved.

      But I do think that stripping the adult content from vudu was imprudent. Walmart knows more about the deal than I do, but I don’t think the technology is mature enough to reap fat profits without reaching the adult market. Furthermore, it fits snugly in with their policies against carrying controversial products (e.g. uncensored albums, the bane of my adolescence).

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Windows Phone's Market Share Down Just 0.1 Percentage Point in Q3

Microsoft's beleaguered Windows Phone platform continues to lose ground to the major smartphone OSes, but at a less precipitous rate than in previous quarters, according to the latest market share figures from Gartner.

Just over 1.7 million Windows Phone-based smartphones shipped worldwide in the third quarter of 2011, the research firm revealed on Tuesday. That number represents a 22.8 percent drop from the year-ago quarter, when 2.2 million Windows Phone-based smartphones shipped.

Windows Phone closed Q3 2011 with 1.5 percent market share, down from 2.7 percent in Q3 2010.

However, Windows Phone's market share has stayed relatively flat from quarter to quarter. According to an August announcement by Gartner, Windows Phone's market share in Q2 2011 was only incrementally higher, at 1.6 percent, suggesting the platform's rate of decline may be slowing. (The decline between Q1 2011 and Q2, for instance, was 2.0 percentage points.)

Recent mobile market share numbers from comScore also seem to suggest that while Windows Phone continues to lose market share, it's doing so at a trickle. In an October report, the analytics firm compared Windows Phone's average U.S. market share over the three months ending in May to the three months ending in August and found that it dropped by only 0.1 percentage point.

As RCP Editor in Chief Scott Bekker wrote in a blog post at the time, the numbers indicate that "Microsoft's rate of market share loss is moving in the right direction."

"Previous comScore reports had Microsoft dropping 1.7 points of share in June and 1.0 points in July, so the 0.1 point loss is downright stable," he noted.

In another report released earlier this month, comScore found a similarly marginal decline of 0.2 percentage point when comparing Windows Phone's average U.S. market share over the three months ending in June to the three months ending in September.

By comparison, in each comScore report, Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS recorded a higher subscriber base than Windows Phone but sustained market share losses of 5.0 and 4.6 percentage points.

The Top 5
Despite an apparent slowdown in its decline, Windows Phone still placed sixth in the Gartner report released Tuesday. Once again leading the smartphone OS race is Google's open source Android platform, which according to Gartner shipped on 60.5 million units worldwide in Q3 2011 -- nearly triple the Android units shipped in the year-ago quarter. Android closed the quarter with 52.5 percent market share, up from 25.3 percent in Q3 2010.

"Android benefited from more mass-market offerings, a weaker competitive environment and the lack of exciting new products on alternative operating systems such as Windows Phone 7 and RIM," said Roberta Cozza, principal research analyst at Gartner, in a statement.

Trailing Android are the Symbian (16.9 percent market share) and Apple's iOS (15.0 percent). Both OSes recorded declines from their respective year-ago market shares of 36.3 percent and 16.6 percent. However, Gartner projects that iOS will have a strong Q4 due to robust iPhone 4S presales and growing adoption in emerging economies, particularly in the wake of price cuts for older iPhone versions.

Rounding out the top five smartphone OSes are BlackBerry OS (11.0 percent market share) and the Samsung Bada (2.2 percent).

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