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For the beginner, assembling an engine at home is most certainly an intimidating prospect. There are plenty of parts that have to fit precisely and there are plenty of dimensions that must be checked and double-checked (and some triple-checked). There are all sorts of seemingly "foreign" pieces that somehow have to work in perfect harmony. For the beginner, it seems like an impossible task to put it all together. We're here to tell you it isn't.
Engine assembly is like any other major project. There are various parts and subassemblies that are completed first, and then each "builds" upon the last. Building an engine at home is a skill just about anyone can learn. Sure you'll need a good collection of specialized tools (we'll help you with tool selection throughout the entire series), but the reality is that anyone can assemble an engine. If you take your time and are meticulous with your work, pretty soon you'll be rewarded with a complete ready-to-run engine.
What follows is a look at how to assemble an engine properly in your own home garage using tools and equipment anyone can purchase (or in some cases, rent). Once you complete the process for the first time, you might be surprised at how satisfying it really is. You'll probably want to follow up with another engine build! Check it out!
A clean working environment
While it's possible to build an engine almost anywhere, a clean environment is a must. In our garage, we stop any car maintenance activities that create dust and grit. For example, if another project requires grinding then we either move the operation to another spot or figure out another time to get it done.
You'll also need a workbench. We have one in our garage, and we'd be the first to tell you it's too small and regularly cluttered. If your workbench is cluttered, clean it off. If you don't have a good workbench, a sturdy folding table will do. Once the clutter is reduced, cover the bench surface with paper. Some folks use newspaper. Others prefer butcher paper. We use white poster board because it's easy to spot little parts, and it's a bit more immune to oil spills than newsprint.
When it comes to using tools, we always clean them after use. We've found a quick shot of brake cleaner (aerosol) and a wipe down with a clean paper towel goes a long way toward keeping the project clean. It also makes it more enjoyable to work with the tools.
Cleaning the pieces
When it comes to assembling an engine, one of the biggest mistakes a novice can make is to contaminate the components. Any piece of grit that turns up during the assembly process can (and regularly will) scratch internal surfaces such as the cylinder walls or reciprocating components. We're convinced contamination is one of the leading causes of premature engine failure. Because of this, once the parts return from the machine shop (obviously something you can't do in your own garage), they must be thoroughly cleaned and kept clean during the entire assembly job.
So how do you clean the pieces? It's actually rather simple. Scrub everything with hot water and liquid dish soap or car wash detergent. The catch here is that you have to access all of the oil gallery holes, which means the block gallery plugs should all be removed (as is regularly the case with blocks that have been through a machining process). The folks from B&B Performance have a special nine-piece brush kit designed to work in all engine oil galleries (see the tools and source list below). They even include two extra-long brushes for scrubbing oil galleries adjacent to the cylinder block lifter bores.
Our backcountry garage isn't blessed with a paved driveway or even a cement apron in front of the overhead doors. It's simply gravel. To circumvent grit accumulation during the wash cycle, we always place the block and components being cleaned on a rubber mat. An old pickup truck tailgate mat or bed floor mat works perfectly. Before going any further, make a mental note: Once you start cleaning something like a cylinder block with soap and water, you can't stop until the job is done. The old saying about "rust never sleeps" truly applies here. You need time to complete both the wash and dry cycles.
Cylinder block preparation
First things first: Hot water and soap is mixed into a bucket and the pressure washer is hooked to a hot water tap. We use a conventional car wash scrub brush for the initial cleaning. Once that's done, remove the cylinder block main caps and go through all of the oil galleries with the B&B Performance brush kit. Once you think everything is clean, start all over again and rescrub the entire works.
We're fortunate to own a big 220-volt, 5.5-horsepower compound air compressor. It produces copious quantities of air. No matter what type of compressor you own (or rent), be sure the regulator is set to provide something in the range of 100+ psi. Snap a blowgun attachment into the air hose and let the compressor rip. What you really need to do is blow as much water off the engine as possible, and the quicker the better. Use the air force to blow all of the water out of the oil galleries, and don't be timid. There will be plenty of water moving around, particularly from the exit points of smaller oil passages.
After drying
Once the block is blown dry, you must oil all of the machined surfaces. There are a couple of ways to accomplish this: A clean rag soaked in clean light oil (for example, 10W-30) or automatic transmission fluid works. So does a light mist of spray lubricant, followed by a wipe down with a clean shop towel. Spray lubricants will naturally displace water so it works in your favor. We always clean the machined surfaces until the shop towels show absolutely no trace of dirt. The preferred towel here is actually a roll or two of paper towels. We prefer the mechanic-style blue jobs since they don't tear or shed as easily as kitchen towels.
We treat all of the internal engine components to the same cleaning process. Once clean, we place the various bits into fresh plastic bags and zip them shut until we need the respective parts. When cleaning items such as a crankshaft, you'll note that the small brushes from B&B Performance go a long way toward getting into the various oil passages. Be careful not to nick any machined surfaces.
Once the block is spic and span, it should be wrapped up. While jumbo garbage bags work, they're usually flimsy. We prefer to use an engine storage bag. B&B Performance offers 4-mil plastic bags designed to protect racing engines against dirt and moisture. They're large enough to accommodate an assembled big-block, even one with headers in place. These sturdy covers are ideal for storing and transporting race motors, too. And that means they're perfect for protecting your block while you're not working on it. We always wrap the block or engine immediately after work on it has ended. Remember, the main idea is to keep contamination to a minimum.
Plugging the holes
All engine blocks are equipped with a series of pipe plugs. They've most likely been removed during the machining and hot tanking process, and obviously should not be present during your cleanup. You'll need to replace them during engine block preparation. Your local auto parts store, car dealer or machine shop can help you with the respective plugs you'll need. For a cleaner look, we prefer AN (aluminum) plugs with internal hexes, but brass plugs will work, too. For some applications, a rear cam plug will have to be installed as well. Most of these are of the drive-in (with a hammer) variety. It's best to leave the cam plug out until later (after the camshaft has been installed). In addition, some engine stand configurations don't allow access to the back of the block, so you won't be able to install the plug until the engine is off the stand.
Typically, the rest of the plugs are equipped with pipe threads. That means the plug is tapered. To seal a pipe thread you can either use Teflon® tape (a pain) or pipe thread sealant. We prefer the latter. Cover the threads with sealant and install the plugs. It's that simple.
The last thing you need to install is the oil filter bypass valve along with the oil filter adapter. There are plenty of different formats out there, but in our sample engine, the bypass valve simply drops into the block. It's driven home and set with a hammer and a small socket. The oil filter adapter is a double-threaded affair. The block side should have the threads lightly covered in blue medium-strength thread-locking fluid (don't use red, as it will require considerable heat if the adapter requires removal). Torque to specs and you are done.
In the next segment, we'll show how to install the crankshaft and measure the main journal, rod journal and crankshaft thrust dimensions. While these steps are absolutely critical in the engine assembly process, it's not as intimidating as it sounds. In the meantime, check out these photos.
Tools used:
- Engine-cleaning brush kit
- Engine storage bag
- Thread sealant
- Medium-strength thread-locking fluid
- 3/16-inch, 1/4-inch, 5/16-inch and 3/8-inch hex drives
- 3/8-inch drive ratchet
- Air compressor
- Blow gun (air)
- Pressure washer
Before a freshly machined engine can be assembled, it has to be cleaned. And really cleaned! You'll need a bucket or two of hot soapy water, a pressure washer and a set of good quality engine brushes.
Scrub all of the accessible surfaces with soap and water. Liquid dish detergent works perfectly. So does automotive car wash soap. You'll have to go through a lot of soap and water. The pieces need to be clean. Once clean, remove the main bearing caps and clean them separately (they're not removed in this photo). Removing the caps allows you to access the main bearing oil galleries.
Once the outside is initially cleaned, you can scrub the internal oil passages. The extra-long brushes from B&B Performance are designed so that you scrub the entire length of the lifter oil galleries and, in the case of this engine, the main oil gallery.
Once rinsed a number of times with hot water, you can dry the works off. Compressed air and lots of it is your friend when it comes to drying engine hardware. We typically wipe dry multiple times.
Continue to wipe the block down until the shop towels no longer show any traces of dirt. Paper towels are better than cloth for this task, and we prefer these blue mechanic towels.
Your finished cylinder block should look like this when you're done. In this example, the water jack core (soft) plugs were installed when the block was CNC machined. Remember, spotless is the operative word – you really can't get these pieces clean enough.
Other components such as the main caps, crankshaft, connecting rods, pistons and wrist pins also need cleaning (using the same process as the bare block). The crank has oil passages machined into it. We're using the B&B Performance brushes to reach inside the passages.
Most engines mandate some form of oil filter bypass valve. Our example uses a valve like this.
The valve slips into the machined passage on the oil filter pad as shown in the first photo. Using an old socket that fits the OD of the valve, seat it with a small hammer. A light tap should get the job done. It has to fit flush with the machined oil filter boss.
Here's a look at the oil filter adapter used in our build (most are similar). The side with the internal wrench hex faces outward.
The oil filter adapter must be locked in place. In this case, Permatex medium-strength thread-locking compound is used. The adapter is tightened with a large hex Allen key.
Most cylinder blocks have a variety of pipe thread plugs. It's common practice to use brass or aluminum or even steel plugs (we use Aeroquip aluminum internal hex jobs). No matter what type of plug you use, you'll need some form of sealant, simply because pipe threads leak without it. You can use pipe sealant tape, but a good thread sealant is easier to use. Coat the thread and tighten the plug. Once the plug is installed, wipe off the excess.
When you're not working on the various engine pieces, wrap them tightly with plastic. We generally try to keep a clean oil-soaked craft paper on the outer machined surfaces (inside the bag). Our example is a paper called "Armor Wrap," but any clean paper will work.


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CRYSTAL BEACH, Texas (KTRK/CNN) - A 14-year-old boy is fighting for his life after authorities say he was sucked into a drain at a Texas water park, possibly while participating in a dare.
Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset says a 14-year-old sustained serious injuries after he lifted a grate and got sucked inside a drain Saturday at Fun Town Water Park in Crystal Beach, Texas.
"From my understanding, it might have been on a dare. He's a large 14-year-old, my size, 5 [foot] 11 [inches], and he picked it up. When he did that, he slipped into the intake," Trochesset said.
An employee shut the pipes off, and the teenager was able to escape. However, he suffered serious internal injuries and was rushed to the hospital.
"Sad, tragic situation for the family. I hope he's doing well. Prayers are going to be needed," Trochesset said.
The owner of Fun Town says his heart goes out to the family. Due to insurance, he couldn't comment further.
The sheriff's office is still investigating and taking a hard look at the grate, hoping to prevent this kind of incident from happening again at Fun Town.
"Is there a way to put a lock on it or some kind of device that screws it down so somebody is not able to just pick it up so easily?" Trochesset said.
The Port Bolivar community held a vigil for the 14-year-old and his family and plans to hold another one as well as a fundraiser in the near future.
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Planners Adopt West Berkeley Subdivision Regulations
Planning commissioners finished the easy part of their West Berkeley zoning changes Wednesday, July 22, but the hardest part will be on their agenda after their August break.
Skeptics of the City Council directive aimed at easing development restrictions in the city's only sector zoned for industry and manufacturing won on one key vote governing the breakup of space within existing sites, but they may face a tougher road on the larger issue of the master use permit.
Master use permits would govern multi-use development on larger sites, but how large and how many are key questions commissioners will address starting in September in meetings likely to provoke semantic firestorms.
The controversy pits a coalition of West Berkeley's smaller manufacturers and artisans against developers with big hopes for the area and a City Council allied with UC Berkeley in a vision of the sector as home to a building and revenue bonanza tied to "green tech" patents created by UC scientists and spun off to start-up companies.
The outcome of the contest will determine the shape of West Berkeley.
During the July 22 meeting, commissioners faced an audience overwhelmingly composed of members of the group West Berkeley Artisans and Industrial Companies (WEBAIC) and their allies.
WEBAIC and two of West Berkeley's leading real estate brokers, John Norheim and Don Yost, have emerged as allies, pitted against the area's major developers and some—but by no means all—commercial property owners.
Commissioners disposed of one key issue by adopting a proposal formulated by WEBAIC, Norheim, Yost and former city Office of Economic Development Director Neil Mayer on rules for subdividing ("demising," in planner-speak) space within existing sites.
The choice facing the commissioners was what level of oversight should govern the demising process.
The first, a zoning certificate is a simple process, acquired by a simple exchange at the counter of the city Planning and Development Department and requires no extensive review.
The second level of oversight governs the administrative use permit (AUP), where scrutiny by city staff is required before a permit can be issued.
The third and most complex level is the use permit, for which applicants must submit to a staff review, followed by a public hearing before the Zoning Adjustments Board.
The two proposals from planning staff would have made the administrative use permit the highest level of scrutiny for demising buildings and allowed a zoning certificate only for the largest divisions of the smallest of three categories of buildings, based on square footage.
The third and ultimately prevailing alternative from WEBAIC and its allies created a simpler system based on the number of proposed subdivisions of a structure.
Breakup into two to five spaces, regardless of square footage of either the building or the newly created spaces, would be allowed with a simple zoning certificate. Subdivision into six to nine spaces would require an AUP, while breakup into 10 or more spaces would mandate a full use permit with a public hearing before the Zoning Adjustments Board.
Before the vote, Michael Ziegler, owner of the Temescal Business Center at Seventh and Heinz streets, urged commissioners to grant demising permits with a simple zoning certificate.
Rick Auerbach, WEBAIC's lone staff member, said his group's proposal would ease the process for owners of small buildings, while "people with large buildings have resources owners of smaller buildings don't, and that's where oversight should be concentrated."
Auerbach said oversight would be concentrated on breakup of large buildings into 10 or more spaces, "because the reality is that more spaces means that disproportionately more people are packed in, more people are parked on the streets."
"We're really liberalizing" the rules, he said. "Over 10 is really where it gets controversial."
Asked by commissioners, Alex Amoroso, the city planner assigned to what is now known officially as the West Berkeley Project, said he had no objections to the WEBAIC proposal, and commissioners voted unanimously to approve it.
Commissioners also voted unanimously to ease regulations on existing manufacturers who want to open retail outlets to sell the products they make. Under the current city zoning code, they can create "incidental retail" outlets on site only with a full use permit and zoning board hearing.
Commissioners voted unanimously to lower the requirement to an administrative use permit from the current use permit level.
Two other unanimous votes would allow site owners zoned for Material Recovery Enterprise (recycling), Manufacturing, Warehousing or Wholesale to freely interchange uses of floor space among the categories with a use permit and to switch the numerical categorization of businesses from the current but outmoded Standard Industrial Code to the North American Industrial Classification System.
The four votes, held within a few short moments, were followed by a burst of applause from the WEBAIC-dominated audience.
Master use permits
By far the hottest potato on the commission's plate is the master use permit (MUP), as it will apply to future development in West Berkeley.
For the council majority and its allies in UC Berkeley and the development industry, the stated goal is allowing development of as many sites as needed to accommodate the anticipated bonanza from high-tech solutions to the energy and global warming crises.
For WEBAIC and its allies, the professed desire is to preserve West Berkeley as a place where artists, small industries and current residents can continue to thrive and not be priced out by rising real estate prices from the anticipated green-tech bonanza.
Under the master use permit, a developer can build in stages as the market warrants while facing only one regulatory process at the very beginning rather than a new one each time something new is built at the site.
While both sides agree the master use permit is a useful development tool, they remain strongly divided about how many should be issued and on what sites.
Other issues involve the height and massiveness of buildings allowed under the MUP process, with developers asking for taller and bulkier buildings than WEBAIC wants; how much parking should be required for each project; what uses should be permitted on MUP sites; and what benefits developers should give the city in exchange for the right to build their projects.
Steve Goldin, a principal at SWERVE, a West Berkeley furniture manufactory and software company and a proponent of greater development in the area, said, "It's an economic issue. There is a subtle bias against developers," but "we need to have flexibility to make a deal with the city to make it work."
Darrell de Tienne, a developer's representative who has appeared before city bodies representing Wareham Properties, Seagate Properties and would-be West Berkeley developer Douglas Herst, said critics "take a rigid point of view" of development. "But you need to know you're getting a new world" with the demand for technology to meet energy needs and global warming, he said.
Business center owner Ziegler built his firm with a master use permit and remains a strong advocate for the process.
City planner Amoroso recommended the city allow a floor-to-area ratio (FAR) of 4, double the current city maximum. Heights would be increased from the current 45-foot maximum to 70, and could go up to 90 feet for projects that meet "special considerations and needs."
He proposed allowing master use permits on all four-acre sites, and granting up to 10 permits in the five years after the zoning changes are adopted. Developers would also be able to buy adjacent sites to meet the minimum acre threshold.
Master use permits could also be granted on sites smaller than the minimum acreage as long as they encompass an entire city block.
Auerbach said four acres is too small, with WEBAIC proposing a four-and-a-half-acre minimum. "Four-acre sites would mean 42 percent of West Berkeley. Instead of six master use permits in five years, Auerbach said, "six projects in 10 years would be a lot."
WEBAIC wants the city to hold with the current 45-foot height limit and a maximum FAR—which compares a building's total square footage to the site area—of 2, "and we want guaranteed benefits." Higher FARs mean taller, denser buildings.
While the commission majority seemed to favor the staff proposal during the discussion, the issue was not resolved, and Amoroso will return to the commission in September with draft language for the revisions.


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Bananas are the cheapest they have been in ages here in Oz. $40/box of organic ones.
I didn´t know you can buy all box from asda, which town do you live in?
non-organic I can get 40lbs for $20 and organic is $30 so I suppose I have a pretty good deal going on =]
I just bought two 40 pound cases of really good organic bananas for a total of $44.91. I think they gave me an extra discount because last time I bought one case it was over 30 dollars (which was just a week ago). They are normally .98 cents a pound without the case discounts here. I live in Washington state.
Here in Spain where I live I had some trouble finding good quality bananas, and now that I did I need to have them ordered every time because they don't deliver those usually. It costs me now 1.59 Euros the kilo, not organic, but they told me the price will be going down into the summer to 0.99 the kilo.
Buy Canarian bananas, they're good =)
Also, natural bananas are around 0.59 €/kg at the market here (not sure if they're identical to everyone else's organic bananas). If they're overripe, prices will drop as much as to 0.20 €/kg.
hey there, i live in utah and also and get my bananas for around $34 which is 89 cents a pound. They are the organics unlimited brand which is by far the best tasting banana brand i have found. Sometimes they come from mexico and those ones taste especially dank! Where are you getting yours for $25 and what brand?
this same thing used to happen to me all the time. good for you that you can seem to be amused by it because i found it rather annoying, mostly because i was usually getting them after work and wanted to get home! i get mine for 89 cents a pound with a case discount.
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Prompted by this question I would like to ask the community how they convert their mathematics into pdf files. In any given procedure for converting mathematics into pdf I am interested in two issues: first typographical quality of text and of mathematical formulas and second production and placement of figures and labels within figures.
As a concrete example my current procedure is: latex and bibtex until the references settle down, dvips -o to produce postscript, and then ps2pdf to produce pdf files. I go through postscript in order to make psfrag labels work. I've never been fully happy with the output - in particular label placement inside of figures is difficult.
As a final issue, in the question referenced, Tilman suggests that pdftex has typographical improvements over latex. I've looked around on-line and these seem to be margin kerning (hanging punctuation) and glyph scaling (font expansion). How does one use these features? Do they make a difference in practice?
EDIT: After a bit of pain, I've managed to switch from my previous procedure (described above) to the much simpler procedure of using pdflatex. Instead of psfrag I now use Colin Rourke's pinlabel package. I am very happy with pinlabel -- the fonts are exactly what I expect them to be, and the job of labelling is much easier than it used to be. It is still possible to align labels inside of a figure, and they virtually always show up where I intended.
I started using the microtype package, which turns on margin kerning and glyph scaling. I can see that these change the output, but I honestly can't say that the output is better - I guess my eyes aren't that sensitive. One thing to watch out for - pdftex 1.20 threw show-stopping errors when typesetting figure captions. I updated to 1.40 and the problem went away.
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farnham16 wrote:DontToewsMeBro wrote:Yes, please fire an extremely young inexperienced coach who has won the Stanley Cup and Jack Adams in the last 3 years. Some of you are downright moronic sometimes. Be careful what you wish for.
First off, I think we will be okay and win this series. But what are your expectations? Just getting to the playoffs? With this lineup? Pens haven't done anything in the playoffs since they won the Cup. And yes, no Sid or Geno last year but they still were up 3-1 in that series and had two home games to finish Tampa off and didn't. With this team healthy and the incredible talent it has, losing in the first round is completely unacceptable. You only have so many chances and teams that are capable of winning the Cup.
Yes, Bylsma has a lot of good qualities and has had great regular season success. But he hasn't gotten it done in the postseason lately and that is all that matters. If he can't get this team past the first round this yea that would be 3 disappointing postseason losses in a row and he shouldn't be the guy going forward.
My expectations are high, but tempered. One team out of 16 wins the Stanley Cup every year. One. Don't buy into the "favored" status because even the favorite rarely wins. It takes a lot of skill, but a lot of luck also. I can say Bylsma has put the team in a position to succeed, and they need to execute. When the Penguins stay discipline, they can beat anybody. I agree with the Bylsma criticisms tonight. Them playing timid and keeping a forward back after the first did them in, I agree. Our powerplay has troubles. But our coach is the most inexperienced part of our team; we have to be ready to go through growing pains with him at times. This isn't Scotty who never came across a situation he had never been in before. I think he's at least earned our respect and patience. We don't need to turn into the Dallas Cowboys of the NHL. The lack of job security at the head coach position in professional sports is appalling and playing Go Fish with them very rarely breeds success.


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Richie Incognito agreed to postpone his grievance hearing challenging his suspension by the Miami Dolphins until the NFL completes its investigation into the alleged bullying of teammate Jonathan Martin.
The hearing had been scheduled for Thursday and Incognito and attorney Mark Schamel arrived for at the team's training facility around 3 p.m. Instead, Incognito met with NFL special investigator Ted Wells, who had been there for the several days interviewing Dolphins players, coaches and other personnel about the alleged bullying of Martin.
Incognito, who was suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team on Nov. 3, has missed two games for the Dolphins, who are 5-5 and tied for the final AFC playoff spot. Under the NFL rules, the Dolphins can continue to suspend him without pay for two more games.
After four games, the team would either have to reinstate Incognito or cut him.
"I have agreed to postpone my expedited arbitration hearing until after the investigation by Ted Wells is complete," Incognito said in a statement. "I will cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation with a goal of resuming my career with the Miami Dolphins at the conclusion of this investigation. I love my teammates and hope we can put this distraction behind us soon."
Meanwhile, the team also said in a statement that Incognito was cooperating fully with the NFL investigation and would meet with Wells.
Martin, an offensive tackle, abruptly left the team last month. Allegations later surfaced that Martin was harassed by teammates, including Incognito, who allegedly sent Martin racist and threatening text messages.
The NFL has launched an investigation into the incident which is being conducted by Wells, who met with Martin last week.
The NFL Players Association is also conducting its own investigation into the matter.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has set up a special committee to create a new code of conduct for the organization in response to the scandal.
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The tagline for this flick says it all: "The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea." And we've got the money shot.
This giant monster B-movie is another thing of beauty from The Asylum, the same production company that brought you The Transmorphers and The Terminators, as well as dozens of other brilliant ripoffs and subgenre sensations.
As giant monster afficionado Avery Battles writes on Undead Brainspasm:
Clearly this film embraces several key elements of the Japanese monster-film tradition: descriptive title, really big beasties and monster punch-ups.
Hell yes. Here's the money shot, kids:
Must. Have. Megashark. With laser eyes, pls?
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It's 11:30pm at the Vinyl in Hard Rock's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and people are starting to assemble in front of the stage in anticipation of one of alternative rock's favorite angry girl-rockers, Courtney Love. This is the seconed of two performances to commemorate Vinyl's One-Year Anniversary.
15 minutes later a regal soundtrack starts playing in the front speakers of this medium sized venue announcing her triumphal entry. As she appears the roaring crowd of Gen Xers goes crazy as she starts throwing flowers left on stage back into the audience.
Love then went right into her hits, starting with Miss World from Hole's 2nd album 'Live Through This'. After some funny Celine Dion related comments, Love followed with the more recent 'Skinny Little Bitch' from Hole's short-lived regrouping in 2010 for the album 'Nobody's Daughter'.
Someone in the audience handed Love another bouquet of roses, which she accepted then proceeded to tear the petals off and throw them back into the crowd in a somewhat defiant, symbolic gesture. One would have expected to hear Hole's song 'Petals' at this moment but instead they played a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Gold Dust Woman'. The crowd went wild as the rose petals rained down on them from the stage. Originally sung by Stevie Nicks, Love's version came off as more edgy and translated well to the fans.
Love's band of veteran musicians carried the music well, along with the younger 26 year old Micko Larkin who joined Courtney's band in 2007 as lead guitarist and eventually replacing Eric Erlandson in the 2010 regrouping of Hole.
'Pacific Coast Highway' also from 'Nobody's Daughter' was next on the set list. Known as an homage to her late husband Kurt Cobain, the song is lyrically quite transparent as Courtney opens up about the scars she incurred during that time.
Another selection from 'Live Through This', 'Violet' was next on the list leading into 'Malibu' from Hole's 3rd studio album 'Celebrity Skin' and followed by the introspective 'Letter to God' from 'Nobody's Daughter'.
The next song, 'Asking For It', although never released as a single, charted on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks in 1995, and originally featured Kurt Cobain from the album ' Live Through This'. From the same album, 'Softer, Softest' followed.
To kick things into high gear as the concert was nearing it's finale they pulled out 'Plump' with a more up-tempo raunchy rock soundtrack from 'Live Through This' and 'Celebrity Skin' with a similar vibe and title track of the album.
The loyal fans seemed to know all the lyrics as they sang along to every song, many of them probably having grown up listening to her music and having followed Love's career since their teens. After about 40 minutes, Courtney ended the concert, and the crowd kept cheering until she returned for an encore.
Love closed out the show with two more songs, 'Petals' with a more 'unplugged' feel which was so popular in the 90's when she rose to fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist with Hole. The final track 'Doll Parts' brought the band back on stage for the finale.
The concert, under an hour in length, might have been a little on the short side, but definitely left the crowd wanting more and ready to see her again the next time Love comes to Vegas.
Love's sarcastic, rough around the edges approach in interacting with her audience between each song is reminiscent of a comedian razzing his audience, and seems to connect well. Love has long been known for these kinds of stage antics and abrasive lyrics, named '"the most controversial woman in the history of rock' according to Rolling Stone Magazine.
Set list:
Miss World
Skinny Little Bitch
Gold Dust Woman – Fleetwood Mac cover
Pacific Coast Highway
Letter to God
Asking For You
Softer, Softest
Celebrity Skin
Doll Parts


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One of El Cajon's Premier events, the famous Cajon Classic Cruise is back again this year for another stay in the center of Downtown El Cajon. Thousands of people from all over Southern California visit this display of classic cars from all over. Join us Wednesday evenings to view the best of classic cars. There are great restaurants along the street, so why not take an evening to join in the fun? Take a look at some of the pictures from our events in our photo gallery or watch a quick video shot right on the street in our video gallery.
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be baying for blood(redirected from be baying for one's blood)
be baying for blood
To be seeking punishment for a person or group. My co-workers have been baying for blood ever since they found out that I lied about my credentials on my resume.
be baying for someone's bloodor
be baying for bloodBRITISH
If people are baying for someone's blood or baying for blood, they want someone to be punished or hurt. Eight thousand supporters were baying for the manager's blood after a 5-0 loss to Grimsby. The travel company had just buried itself with debts of more than £12m and thousands of disappointed holidaymakers were baying for blood. Note: This expression compares the people's demands to the sounds that dogs make on a hunt.


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Just before the season began, the NBA outlined its new procedure for curbing flops, the habit of exaggerating contact that ran over Jeff Van Gundy's dog when Van Gundy was only a young boy.
At the time, certain things weren't entirely clear about the NBA's new restrictions on theatrics: what's the difference embellished and grossly embellished? Where do you draw the line between gamesmanship and cheating? When are you trying to distract your opponent, and when are you trying to trick the officials?
Two of the three cases the NBA has dealt with so far have been fairly straightforward: above, Donald Sloan of the Cavs gets run off a pick and does an arm-flailing pirouette that could only have resulted from a violently illegal screen—Nazr Mohammad's pick wasn't that. Below, Kevin Martin, doing (as Ben Golliver notes) exactly what the demonstration of the flopping videos said you couldn't. At about 1:15 in the video here, Dwyane pulls his go-to leg kick to initiate contact during a shot, just like Martin. Considering how rarely any contact occurs from the play, much less a defensive foul, it's probably a good thing that the maneuver is getting called a flop:
This one, though, from November 5th, is less clear: Jimmer Freddette wacks J.J. Barea in the neck for no reason. It's a foul, and got called a foul. But J.J. Barea got the warning:
How much waving is too much? Players ought to be allowed to draw attention to real contact, within the limits of reason, and that seems to be what Barea does here. Your first warning is free, but violations 2, 3, 4 and 5 mean $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 and $30,000 respectively. The sixth can be an increased fine or a suspension. Sloan and Martin, those guy flopped. But if the NBA applies this rule to every demonstrative reaction to a real foul? We might be seeing some four-on-four in March and April.


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A report out Tuesday that foreshadows the future of urban transportation in the United States, but the futuristic vision, in a study by the Public Interest Research Group, already is happening in some places. In addition to car and bike sharing and real-time transit information available on mobile devices, the report cites ride sharing and apps that connect taxis or limousine service as harbingers of a transition away from the car-centric culture that developed in the 20th century.
"Places like Washington, New York and San Francisco are certainly ahead," said Phineas Baxandall of PIRG, "but it isn't only the big cities. There are other places like Madison [Wis.], which are taking off. There are hundreds of university towns which have really made enormous headway. University of Maryland introduced real-time information on its transit system and saw ridership increase by a quarter really quickly."
It is all seen as a significant shift in lifestyle and transportation made possible by technological advances and driven by a millennial generation that came of age at the dawn of the Internet era.
It is a generation that makes no move without mobile phone in hand, and mastery of that device has opened an unprecedented array of transportation options.
In Washington, for example, your smartphone can indicate when the next bus is coming, how many bikes are available at the nearest Capital Bikeshare station, and whether a Zipcar or Car2Go is waiting just around the corner. It can summon a taxi or the Uber car service in an instant.
A Washington Post poll of District of Columbia residents this summer found that 13 percent of those surveyed said they had used a smartphone app to call a taxi or limousine. Nineteen percent said they had used car sharing, almost double the number of three years earlier, and 21 percent of those who had not used it said they were likely to in the future.
"The new technology puts car sharing and access to car sharing at your fingertips," said Karina Ricks, and urban planner and former associate director at the D.C. Department of Transportation. "It's transportation where you want it when you want it."
The number of Washington households that don't have a car has risen to 38.5 percent. According to the PIRG report, each car-sharing vehicle removes nine to 13 privately owned vehicles from the street because car-share members sell off unneeded vehicles or simply don't buy them.
"What you're going to see is a demographic shift about what's important to the new generation," Cheryl Cort of the Coalition for Smarter Growth said recently. "It's not centered around a prestigious car or car ownership."
Baxandall said that shift is exactly what his new research showed.
"What we found was that millennials were reducing their driving by 23 percent just between 2001 and 2009, a huge drop-off in driving," he said.
Their decision to live in or closer to the urban hubs that many of their parents and grandparents abandoned has been central to an overall decline in American driving, he said.
"Now, it's been eight years in a row that Americans are driving less on a per-person basis," Baxandall said. "That hasn't happened in almost 60 years."
The District of Columbia and Arlington, Va. were early entries into the bike-sharing market, and the numbers of bikes and stations have expanded along with the network of dedicated bike lanes on city streets. The program launched in Montgomery County, Md. last week. The report says there now are similar programs in 30 other cities and at hundreds of universities. Car-sharing companies now have 800,000 members nationwide, the report says.
"Millennials generally want a broader array of transportation options," said Peter Varga, chairman of the American Public Transportation Association. "As we look to our future, transportation systems � particularly public transit � will be built around the smartphone. Smartphone charging stations on vehicles, fare collection via smartphones, WiFi, 4G access, apps that connect public transit."
When Amtrak installed WiFi on a California train line, ridership rose by almost 3 percent, the report says.
"Part of why younger people aren't as interested in driving is the relationships that mobile communication provides," Baxandall said. "Millennials and the new ways that they use transportation may alter the ways that Americans travel as much as the baby boomers did at the outset of the driving boom."


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Eartha Steward: Cruise ships leave trail of pollution in their wake
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Dear Eartha,
My family has planned a cruise vacation in February. While I'm excited to visit the Caribbean, I'm unsure about the impact on the environment. How bad is a cruise's carbon footprint?
– Emmy Silverthorne
Ahoy Emmy!
I wish I had better news but cruises are on the heavy side of the carbon emissions scale. Don't get me wrong, we all deserve vacations to exotic places during our mountain winters. When choosing your vehicle of transportation to paradise, consider your carbon footprint.
Nina Rastogi, from The Green Lantern, determined carbon emissions for a seven-day Carnival cruise from Miami, via the Cayman Islands, Honduras, Belize and Mexico, to Florida (a whopping 1,826.5 miles) is equivalent to a personal emission of 2,137 pounds of CO2 (roughly a ton). A round-trip flight on a jet from Miami to Grand Cayman would emit around 340 pounds of CO2. Big difference!
Rastogi points out that a cruise ship provides more than a seat on an airplane – there's also accommodation and entertainment (which leads to a host of additional waste and environmental impacts). Not to mention the flight or drive to the destination of the cruise. That's two strikes on your carbon footprint. Ouch!
In between ports, cruise ships serve as a floating hotel and party boat. All that partying and all-you-can-eat buffets leads to more waste. Friends of the Earth found that a 3,000-passenger cruise ship (the average) produced about 210,000 gallons of human sewage, eight tons of garbage and more than 130 gallons of toxic waste on a one-week voyage. I know we like to let loose on vacation but can't we be responsible travelers at the same time?
If you remember, only a year ago, the Costa Concordia was grounded off the island of Giglio, along the Tuscan coast. With 2,380 tons of onboard fuel reserves, the damages to the environment and the popular tourist destination could have been catastrophic. As a silver lining, the incident did bring international focus on the operations of cruise lines everywhere. Especially, their impact on our planet.
Internationally, big-ship vacations have increased in popularity with nearly 20 million passengers cruising in 2012. Even though cruises allow people to see a variety of destinations all on one trip, Responsible Vacations found cruises bring limited economic benefit to local communities and small businesses.
The Daily Green reported that a cruise ship generates more air pollution than 12,000 cars in a single day. A frightening statistic when you consider that prior to 2012's new international fuel standards, most cruise lines burned a cheap grade, "dirty" fuel. Critics argue that most cruise lines get away with doing the bare minimum, squeezing through loopholes.
There are cruise lines that have made some environmental strides like the Cunard Line, which has improved the coating on the hull to reduce air emissions. Holland America purchases electricity when stationed at port, as opposed to burning more fuel. The Norwegian Cruise Line offloads used cooking oil in Hawaii for recycling into bio-diesel. At the Port of Miami, the line has donated approximately 1,300 gallons of cooking oil to an organic farmer. The farmer has converted the oil into 870 gallons of bio-diesel to power farming equipment. Celebrity Cruises has installed solar panels to power the ship's elevators and LED lights, saving up to 50 percent on energy demands.
Then there's the whale-size impact of wastewater from the ginormous ships. There are three basic types of wastewater on cruise ships. Bilge water is oily, engine run-off and condensation that collects in the bilge of the ship and is eventually pumped out. Grey water comes from onboard showers and sinks. Last is the dreaded black water, which comes from the toilets and drains of the infirmary.
In addition to sewage, it is estimated that an average cruise ship generates 1 million gallons of gray water and 25,000 gallons of oily bilge water. Most, if not all, cruise lines now employ onboard wastewater purifying systems. However, they must use mechanical, chemical and biological measures to allow the "clean" byproduct to be discharged at sea.
If you do choose a cruise, remember it is not solely the company's responsibility to ensure sustainability. Each of us, whether at home or on vacation, has to do our part to decrease our carbon footprint.
Onboard, be sure to turn off the lights when not in your cabin; don't let your eyes become bigger than your belly while grazing through the massive buffets; and take public transit or walk when at port. Also, the elevators and mechanical doors should be for folks with limited mobility. In addition to saving energy and fuel, using your legs is a great way to avoid the 10-pound souvenir around your waistline. Anchors aweigh!
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Ensemble methods are methods than rather than finding one best hypothesis for the learning problem construct a set of hypotheses (called "committee" or "ensemble") that can, in some fashion, "vote" to predict the class of the new data example. As defined in [1], "an ensemble method constructs a set of hypothesis {h1, . . . , hk}, chooses a set of weights {w1, . . . , wk} and constructs the "voted" classifier
The classification decision of the combined classifier is +1 if H(x) >= 0 y -1 otherwise"
Ensemble learning algorithms work running a base learning algorithm multiple times, generating a hypothesis at each iteration. The hypothesis can be generated in two ways
1) In a independent way, resulting in a set of diverse hypothesis. It can be done by running the algorithm several times and providing different training data at each iteration or providing different subsets of the input features at each iteration. An example of this way is Bagging [2].
2) In an additive way, adding one hypothesis at a time to the ensemble, and constructing the hypothesis trying to minimize the classification error on a weighted training data set. An example of this way is Boosting [3], [4].
Bagging ("Bootstrap Aggregatting")
Given a training data with m examples, Bagging works by generating at each iteration a new training data set of m examples by sampling uniformly from the original examples, which means some original examples appear multiple times and other original examples do not appear in the resampling. If the learning algorithm is unstable (small changes in the training data causes large changes in the hypothesis, like decision trees) then Bagging will produce a set of diverse hypothesis (H).
Having H, for classifying a new example, we should proceed to a voting between all the hypothesis hi belonging to H, and the final classification would be the most voted one.
Boosting assings a weight to each training sample and then, at each iteration, generates a model that tries to minimize the sum of the weights of the misclassificated examples. The errors at each iteration are used to actualize the weights of the training samples, increasing the misclasificated instances' weights and decreasing the correctly classificated instances' weights.
¿Why use Ensembles?
[5] gives a good justification of ensemble using.
- "The first cause of the nees for ensembles is that the trainning data may not provide sufficient information for choosing a single best classifier from H. Most of our learning algorithms consider very large hypothesis spaces, so even after eliminating hypotheses that misclassify training examples, there are many hypothesis remaining".
- "A second cause...is that our learning algorithms may not be able to solve the difficult search problems that we pose"
- "A third cause...is that our hypothesis space H may not contain the trus function f"
Basic References
[1] Dietterich, T. G. (2002). "Ensemble Learning." In The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second edition, (M.A. Arbib, Ed.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. 405-408. (Download)
Specific References
[2] Breiman, L. (1996a), "Bagging Predictors", Machine Learning, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 123-140. (Download)
[3] Yoav Freund and Robert E. Schapire. "Experiments with a new boosting algorithm." In Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference, pages 148-156, 1996. (Download)
[4] J. R. Quinlan, "Bagging, Boosting, and C4.5 (1996)", AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 (Download)
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[5] Dietterich, T. G, "Machine Learning: Four Current Directions" (1997) (Download)
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People do all sorts of crazy things while driving: They knit sweaters, slurp up soup, pluck eyebrows and shave beards. And now an unnamed woman in Yuzhou, China, was caught on camera and by the police breast-feeding her baby while driving.
This mom's situation is even more extreme because she wasn't behind the wheel of a car. She was allegedly weaving through traffic on a moped when her 18-month-old son started fussing and she pulled up her shirt to feed him, the Huffington Post reported. Adding to the dangerous scenario, neither mother or child were wearing helmets.
The woman was stopped by police and simply scolded (not even slapped with a fee) for her actions, according to Geobeats. "She was risking her life, her son's life and the lives of all other road users," a law enforcement spokesperson told Geobeats. "We told her that if she carried on we would confiscate her bike."
Yes, moms are busy and must multitask, but this woman took it to an unnecessary extreme. Let's hope she pulls over next time.


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Last year, Motorola launched the powerful Droid 4 smartphone exclusively for the Verizon Wireless subscribers in the US. This device features an amazing slide-out QWERTY keyboard along with a 4 inch qHD display, 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 8 megapixel camera and much more. However, the device was shipped with the old Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. As promised, Motorola has already rolled out the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update during the Q3 of 2012.
After tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich, most of the Droid 4 users were eagerly waiting for the Jelly Bean update. Nearly 7 months after the last major update, Verizon has finally started rolling out the much-awaited Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) update for the Droid 4 smartphone in the US.
This update comes with the usual Jelly Bean goodies such as Google Now, enhanced notification panel that displays missed calls and emails, voice search, smart keyboard and more. Check out the complete changelog below.
Additional Jelly Bean Enhancements:
- Move between Home screens with intuitive graphics and smooth transitions.
- Enjoy reactive and uniform touch responses.
- Personalize home screen easily by placing widgets directly on the screen.
Device Enhancements:
- Improved voice and data connectivity.
- Calendar settings have been improved for a better user experience.
- Improved reliability and connectivity of Back Up Assistant Plus & Visual Voicemail.
- Mobile Hotspot data connectivity has been improved.
- Sling and MOG application preloads have been removed.
The latest update is numbered 98.72.18.XT894 and it can be easily downloaded via OTA (Over-The-Air). You will be automatically notified once the update is available for your device. If you have not yet received the update, then just go to Settings > About Device > System updates and check for the update. To learn more, head over to this page.


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The Linux video "Swiss Army knife", which plays almost every movie format imaginable [1].
Watching DVB streams
Note that you must configure a channels.conf file and store it in the ~/.mplayer before you can view DVB streams. Instructions on how to do this are detailed in How to install DVB.
You can watch DVB streams with MPlayer by typing:
$ mplayer dvb://
For a specific DVB stream (as listed in the channels.conf file), type:
$ mplayer dvb://"STREAM NAME"
DVB Limitations
- Only free-to-air broadcasts are supported. Decryption through CAM is not implemented in MPlayer.
- There is (presently) no DVB subtitle support in MPlayer.
MPlayer and satellite dishes
If you are using MPlayer with a satellite dish that has a C-Band lnb LO: 5150 or standard Ku Band lnb LO: 10750 such as are commonly used in North America, MPlayer will tune the channel if you use the L Band frequency in your .mplayer/channels.conf file instead of the C or Ku Band frequency. To calculate the L Band frequency for C Band, 5150 minus frequency in Mhz equals L Band frequency in Mhz. For Ku Band, frequency in Mhz minus 10750 equals L Band frequency in Mhz.
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Kona Farmers' Market (Big Island of Hawaii)
Locally grown produce plus arts, crafts, coffee, gifts, and more!
On Alii Drive in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.
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Located on Alii Drive in the heart of Kailua Kona, the Kona Farmers and Crafts Market is a must see while on the Big Island of Hawaii. Come check out the huge selection of locally-grown produce, flowers, hand-made arts and crafts, Kona coffee and a whole lot more, all in a fun, outdoor setting. Whether you are shopping for souviners or gifts, this is the place to be.
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Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2008, 08:11
Post subject: The speech synthesiser
Of course, the output can only be as good as the available speech synthesiser. Unfortunately, e speak is all I have to work with. Better than nothing, and a limitation that a paid for quality synthsiser would fix... In practice, the package shouldn't be too difficult to modify should a better speech synthesiser become available. But I don't have one to try!
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Post subject: yasr usage help
Sleepy though I currently am,
I just suddenly realised that I forgot to include a usage
help for yasr itself. A bit of an oversight that I will fix tomorrow.
I'll upload a new dotpet 0.9.5 with that on the menu then.
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Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2008, 22:28
Post subject: The foksyf Eye R, Screen Environment Reader (was the SRE)
Subject description: new version 0.9.5 package available
The foksyf Eye R, Screen Environment Reader (was the SRE)
new version 0.9.5 package is now available for download; currently still in the repository folder named:
at Caneri's site.
See top of present thread for some details. i e .:
Unfortunately, the name alteration has involved some relatively minor cut and paste documentation alterations,
some documentation file renaming, as well as some menu coding alterations.
The new dotpet menusp reflects these additions. This version has a GPLv3 license only. I'm pretty certain that all the included apps in the package are GPL of one sort or another, but it would be good if you'd check on their websites for yourself, in case I blunder in that regard!
I'm currently also developing a version compatible for the ubuntu family,
but that is taking second place in my priorities at present.
Eventually I'll put the project's documentation in some revision control system to make it easier to handle, but I'm not ready to do that at the moment. In the meantime, if you have any documentation samples of your own (or menusp customisations) that you would like to be considered for inclusion just post them in.
For the moment I'm keeping a simple notebook (along with Notecase) for noting words and phrases that I need to improve or fix to make them spoken more clearly by the speech synthesiser. It would thus be good if you could post a file with any such words/phrases etc that you notice in your testing, for adding to my own notes and todo list. You can either post such an erratum here or to:
wiakapps *AT* wiak *dot* org
The overall erratum is undoubtedly large, so I may take a while implementing all the necessary changes.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2008, 10:31
Post subject: configuring yasr speech 'reader' on the fly
I'm working on configuration issues at the moment, prior to adding some config options to menusp etc. In the meantime you may find the following info useful, if you haven't already discovered it yourself. Note that these are "aural" only configurations, for a blind user - you don't see anything happening on the screen; you have to listen to what is going on:
When yasr the speech reader is enabled you can change most of its options on the fly, including whether to echo typed text or not. Here is a short list of options I know about so far:
1. With yasr enabled, to enter the yasr options menu you should enter the key combination:
ctrl alt o
If you then press letter k it will aurally tell you the current key echo state.
Pressing the space bar cycles you through the possibilities: off, keys, word
Once you have the one you want, you should press the escape key. Yasr then announces it is leaving the options menu.
Finally, you need to save your configuration change by pressing ctrl alt s
To test the effect of what you just did, I recommend that you try typing something, for example in v i, so that you can hear what difference the new option makes. For example, if you have set key echo to "word", then everytime you have finished typing a word, the word will be echoed. If you have set key option to "keys" every key press will be echoed.
2. After pressing ctrl alt o for the option menu:
If you then press letter u it will tell you the current effect of pressing the up and down cursor arrow keys.
Pressing the space bar cycles you through the possibilities: speak line, speak character, or speak word
Once you reach the one you want it to be, press escape key to leave the options menu and save your new configuration with ctrl alt s as you did before.
3. Similarly after ctrl alt o, pressing key c allows you to alter the assignment for "cursor tracking". Again you use the space bar to cycle through the possibilities, and then press escape key and ctrl alt s to save whatever you have selected. Once again you can test the effect in v i; best to type a few lines of text first and then try moving around.
4. One special case after a ctrl alt o, is key s. This has multiple options assigned to it. Each time you press s, a different option starting with the letter s is announced. The options cycled through are:
synthesiser option, synthesiser port, shell, and, split caps.
Most of these are pretty technical and you won't want to alter them.
[Edit] Maybe you do! synthsiser option is very useful, see next post.
Again, the space bar is used to assign new preset values to whichever one you are interested in. Then you press escape and ctrl alt s to save as before.
Finally, there is another way of doing it...
Once you press ctrl alt o to change an option, you can use the up and down cursor keys to cycle through all the possible options. You can change any option thus reached by using the space bar, as before, or by using the cursor left and right arrow keys to assign a new value.
It may all sound a bit complicated, but I found either method easy once I'd tried it a couple of times and got the idea.
I'm still working on what options can be changed altogether, so that is all I know about configuring yasr at this time.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2008, 10:48
Post subject: configuring e speak via yasr: synthsiser option
Changing the speech itself:
After ctrl alt o to select yasr options,
And pressing s until you hear "synthesiser option"
Tap the right cursor key once to hear the word "rate"
space bar (or a further tap on the right cursor key) lets you then alter
that rate (i.e. the speed of e speak speaking). If you change you mind
about entering a new value, press escape key to abort, and then continue
selecting options if you wish by pressing s (or the up/down cursor key).
Alternatively, one you first hear the word "rate", continually tapping
down cursor key will take you through all of the synthesiser options:
rate, pitch, volume, language, output module (for cases where you have an
alternative speech synthesiser to e speak), punctuation (whatever
punctuation you want spoken)
Then press escape key to leave the options and ctrl alt s to save as before.
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Posted: Thu 06 Mar 2008, 17:05
Post subject:
I'm just reposting part of mcewanw's post above so that the links work.
The foksyf Eye R, Screen Environment Reader (was the SRE)
new version 0.9.5 package is now available for download; currently still in the repository folder named:
at Caneri's site.
See top of present thread for some details. i e .:
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Posted: Fri 07 Mar 2008, 12:54
Post subject: wiak.org's fokSyf Eye R development site
wiak.org's fokSyf Eye R development site
which points to the current host site:
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Posted: Sun 09 Mar 2008, 10:02
Post subject: fokSyf Eye R, version 0.9.6 now ready
Subject description: with newest espeak and speechdispatcher and major bugfix
The new 0.9.6 includes the latest compilations of espeak and speech-dispatcher. The bug with "less than signs" not being read out in edbrowse, etc, has now been fixed.
Expanded menusp included and a new setup script, fokssetup, which should be run immediately after the dotpet has been installed. NOTE: it is important that you uninstall any previous version before installing this new one.
Best to read the provided installREADME.txt carefully and not miss out any steps.
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Posted: Sun 09 Mar 2008, 10:44
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Hi mcewanw,
I did a quick test of your new setup.
It seems to work well...I cheat because I am sighted but following your install guide and the menusp it's quite easy to start using your .pet for fokSyf Eye R.
Somehow I crashed fokSyf Eye R..probably because I was typing in commands and made mistakes so the program became confused..if that is possible (maybe the wrong way to say that).
Anyway..this is quite an accomplishment..WELL DONE.
Be not afraid to grow slowly, only be afraid of standing still.
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Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2008, 00:00
Post subject: fokSyf Eye R, Screen Environment Reader
Subject description: new version 0.9.7 now released
fokSyf Eye R, Screen Environment Reader
new version 0.9.7 now released
See top post of this thread for details:
initsp now renamed to: ifoksy
menusp now renamed to: foksy
The foksy menu has undergone some major restructuring and some tidying up.
foksy now has a few simple options,
enter: foksy -? or foksy --help for brief usage details.
I'll be creating an addon for extra fokSyf Eye R compatible applications soon once I've compiled and tested some. The current "eXtra" menu item is currently just a skeleton. However, a somewhat pre-configured version of Brltty, as promised some time back, will be included in the CORE dotpet.
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Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2008, 07:00
Post subject: BRLTTY partially pre-configured dotpet ready for download.
Subject description: Not tested though. And not required generally.
I changed my mind. Since not everyone will want to use BRLTTY and since it is quite a large file (> 1 MByte), I decided to make it a standalone dotpet. Anyway, I don't have a Braille Display, so couldn't really do many tests of any conclusive sort and don't like including things in foksy CORE that haven't had a lot of testing. You will probably only want brltty-x.x-i486 if you have a Braille Display.
If you do want to try it, make sure you read my brlttyREADME.txt file first. If by chance you have a Braille Display and get it going let me know the details if you don't mind, so that I can fine tune any follow up version.
You'll find it with the foksy CORE files on Eric's (Caneri's) site
(url in top post of this thread).
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Subject description: Up and talking on 2.14R
I've got this latest version running on 2.14R. However initially I could not get foksysetup to run. Tried simply clicking on it, and then tried running it from a terminal, but no joy. Eventually opened it in geany (not that I would understand the contents, but I thought I'd have a butchers anyway). I remembered that you could run some files from geany so I clicked 'execute' and that did the trick.
I'm getting used to the voice - I'm sure an experienced HAL or Jaws user would have no problem with it as I've heard some people using voices that sound like a talking watch on speed. A 'natural' voice would probably be too slow and tedious for a competent computer user.
Not that it's particularly necessary for package based on speech, but I have got a terminal setup with larger font and with white text on a dark background. Could be useful for people with some residual vision
(I nicked the script from GLinaccess: http://wearcam.org/glinaccess/README.HTM - some interesting stuff here, and also at http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility&m=102676338828673&w=2, a linux accessibility HOW-TO, but I appreciate I'm drifting a little off-topic here)
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Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2008, 22:31
Post subject: foksy setup is two words.
Subject description: Up and talking on 2.14R
Keef wrote:
I've got this latest version running on 2.14R. However initially I could not get foksysetup to run. Tried simply clicking on it, and then tried running it from a terminal, but no joy. Eventually opened it in geany (not that I would understand the contents, but I thought I'd have a butchers anyway). I remembered that you could run some files from geany so I clicked 'execute' and that did the trick.
In the latest version of fokSyf Eye R the command you should have entered is: foksy setup
[note that there must be a "space" between foksy and setup]
In older versions it was all one word.
Large fonts is a good idea for some. I'll look into that.
Actually, I also about to release a new version which includes cut and paste from X clipboard almost seamlessly from foksy, for those people also using X.
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Posted: Tue 11 Mar 2008, 23:59
Post subject: fokSyf Eye R version 0.9.8 now ready.
Subject description: with almost seamless paste from X ability. A hybrid solution!
Make X apps speak text too! fokSyf Eye R version 0.9.8 now ready.
This version includes what I think is a very useful improvement for those running foksy in an X console (such as an xterm or rxvt):
This version includes p c (paste X clipboard) and p s (paste X highlighted text selection) into vi, (in addition to the usual middle mouse click method), for those using foksy with X.
e.g. you can use ctrl-a, on any focussed X window to select all text, and then in foksy, press p s to paste that text into vi.
Though fokSyf Eye R works perfectly well from a non-X commandline terminal, it also helps create a powerful hybrid CLI + X screen environment reader, when used alongside X application. For example, with p c and p s, foksy adds new power to users of Opera, or Seamonkey, or Firefox. Not only can the visually-impaired user use X screenmagnifiers, they can also, for example, press ctrl-a to select all text in any focussed X window, and then press p s in foksy to immediately paste that text into vi and have it thus read.
For further details and download:
For the moment the paste facility, from the foksy menu, works only with v i. I'll probably be expanding that facility eventually. However, v i is particularly useful in this situation; using this new facility, many visually impaired users foksy will now be able to relatively easily cut and paste articles from a GUI browser into their own text documents for modification and use. This is in addition to the standard middle mouse button approach.
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Posted: Thu 13 Mar 2008, 02:09
Post subject: Make X apps speak text too! fokSyf Eye R version 0.9.9
Subject description: now with (enhanced) almost seamless paste from X function
version 0.9.9 now released
CHANGES: Enhanced the paste from X system,
and made some major structural changes to foksy.
Tidied up a few pieces of documentation and restructured the help system.
Details and download via here:
Clearly the next version will be 1.0.0
I'm not planning to upload that for a while now though.
I first want to test 0.9.9 more, and to port it to some
other Linux distributions
(starting with the Ubuntu family, since I have that),
which may take some time.
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Meet the Web's New Celebrities: Teachers
Regular professors and teachers are finding they can moonlight online and reach a much bigger student and fan base. WSJ's Katie Rosman and Deborah Howes, Museum of Modern Art Digital Learning Director, join Lunch Break. Photo: Udemy.
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... I ... at lunch break I'm Kelli ... the new plants celebrities on pop stars or funny cats and their teachers ... regular professors are finding they can reach a huge student and baseline leading online here with me now is WSJ reporter Katie Rosman and the Museum of modern Art's digital learning director Deborah pounds ... he will start with you explain this trends ... well there's all this activity going on in the realm of education and high end whether it's classes offered by organizations like mamak ... University streaming their classes that mine through various platforms or technical based classes like that you think Sal I that program and I pad app ... and there's incredible user excitement around this in a lot of investment in the same time what's happening is that ... it is ... 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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Hiram Walker Sour Watermelon Schnapps
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Draft beer and variety are two of my favorite things, but I generally avoid bars with too many taps, because I don't trust that the turnover's high enough to keep all the kegs fresh, and the sad fact is that a clean Miller Lite tastes better than a dirty anything.
"Too many" is a variable amount that depends on location and clientele. There's a new bar near Fenway Park with 140 draft beers, which is too many by a factor of 11 unless at least 100 of the taps bleed Bud. Then there's the Cantab Lounge, the only bar in my neighborhood gracious enough to open at 8 a.m.; every time I go, my first thought is, "Wait, are any of these people breathing?" quickly followed by, "I guess it doesn't matter. But how can one of the five draft lines here be devoted to Long Trail Ale? Is that a real tap handle, or is 'I'll take a Long Trail' secret code related to an elaborate disability-check laundering operation involving beer Beer-Nuts and scratch-off lottery tickets?"
On Sunday, Bottom Shelf research director Emily and I went to a newish place a few squares over to see how far their couple dozen taps could be trusted. We'd been once before on a Serious Eater's recommendation, and though I could see the place's charms—beer and tacos and comfortable stools—I was bitterly and loudly disappointed by the bartender's refusal to pour me a pint of beer on any of his five chances.
Quick aside to those who pour beer: a pint is a unit of measure, not a shape of glassware. When I ask for a pint, I would like a 16-ounce glass filled to the very top with beer. If your scummy boss favors those 13-ounce pint-shaped glasses with two-inch glass heels, then I would like one of those filled to the very top with beer as well as two shot glasses also filled to the very top with beer.
Our second trip was much better, because the pints were full and the tacos were good and winter was over. We had a very mild winter in the Northeast so I hate to complain but actually I live to complain so let me here note that winter still sucks even when it's snow-free and 34 balmy degrees. It wasn't as consistently, debilitatingly awful as most winters, but it was still cold and dark enough to make a rational underachiever go into semi-hibernation; I spent the last several months in a contented survival mode, and now it's time to emerge into the world and get glorious.
So last night on our respective ways home from work I got tulips and Emily got tequila and we threw ourselves a raucous 40-minute party between dinner and bed. We haven't had any tequila in the house for a while, but the bottle of Hiram Walker Sour Watermelon Schnapps my favorite publicist sent last month wasn't going to drink itself and I wasn't going to drink it straight, so I decided to try it in the margarita recipe on the back of the label.
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It would be unfair and irrelevant to focus too much on its standalone flavor, though, because this isn't meant for uncut consumption. For the record, the sourness is a pleasant departure, but overall the stuff is nowhere near balanced enough to drink without significant adulteration. Enter the blender.
I still thought this stuff could work out if helped along by tequila and citrus, and I was right. The bracing sour character toughens up your pink slushie, and though the watermelon is even harder to pick out once mixed, there's a definite fruity element involved. If you're got $10 extra and a heart set on a fruity margarita that won't hurt your teeth, Hiram Walker Sour Watermelon Schnapps could be your thing.
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