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Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 19:59
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Subject description: Puppy for the severely disabled
Hello, my name is Will and apologize in advance if this is not in the right part of the forum.
I pored over this to try to make it as concise as possible, as I do not want anyone to tl;dr it.
I am looking for help with crafting a solution for a few friends and people I volunteer my time for who have no use of their arms and legs.
These folks are in wheelchairs and interact with their environment on a "single switch" basis, which means they can use their heads or chins to press a button.
Solutions exist for Windows that allow for them to interact with the computer, but the software and hardware costs are astronomical.
My goal is to give people who can only access the computer with a single switch (quadriplegics/people with cerebral palsy/motor control skills) a computer of their own that they can take with them, so that they can communicate with their friends and family both online, and when they go home via the PC.
Sounds like I am dreaming I know, but after 3 years of working with these folks, I have determined what I need to help them.
I need an on screen keyboard that also has the ability to manipulate the mouse.
I hate to ask for help, but I really need it. I am not a programmer, but I am willing to learn whatever I need to.
To make it short, I need an onscreen keyboard (like onboard) that also has mouse functions (like GOK).
I have found the xdotool command to move the mouse appropriately, but I have no idea how to integrate everything together.
I am probably stupid, and someone could probably look at this and give me a 5 minute solution.
I just don't know where to start or who to ask.
Thanks for your time.
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Posted: Mon 04 Mar 2013, 22:39
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Would they have the ability/dexterity to distinguish between a short press and long press of the button?
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 00:50
Post subject: Can they talk?
There are speech controlled software for computers, saw some pets I think MU was working on.. Also would be interested in helping you if special drivers or complex open source compiling is needed. As a person with a slow form of Muscular Dystrophy myself, I'm constantly displeased with the extreme high cost and lack of quality hardware. There is a brand of joystick (thrust master i think) that can be programed as a keyboard and mouse and cost hundreds of dollars less.
I'm thinking a keyboard overlay with a hot zone for switching between mousemode(as a joystick) and keyboard mode, should be due-able. There are on screen keyboards that come with
by default try that out and see if that type of onscreen keyboard would work,
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 01:36
Post subject: GOK with percise puppy
GOK is availble for Ubuntu apt-get GOK, so it would be available for precise-puppy new version is in Beta testing phase. Also, since I'm in the MDA program already, if you would give me models/controls you already work with I could get the same, if available, from my local support network.
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 01:54
Post subject: Onboard at least can be created for one Pup, maybe others
Hi stardard7452,
Hoping to attract more attention, I posted on the "users" subforum:
. And got to thinking, and tinkering. So I know that Onboard, at least, can be built to run on LxPup-aptget-test. See the following link for the process for creating an SFS --a squash file you load/unload rather than install.
I also provide instructions for creating (I hope) an installable pet. My guess is that it should work on any precise-pups to which python has been installed. First install python and then install an onboard pet or load an onboard sfs which will overwrite any conflicting python libraries. Also, now that we know what debs are necessary, once python is installed, it should be possible to download the Maverick version of those debs and create a pet or sfs which would run under Lupu/Lucids. But see below, and note that precise-pangolin pets/sfses are not always backward compatible: won't run on Lupu/Lucid --different libraries were used.
Regarding gok, I'll take a stab at it, but hope someone who actually knows what he's doing will also. I couldn't find a listing for gok for Ubuntu pangolin, only for Ubuntu Maverick. While I mention that my experience is that apps built for Lupu/Lucid --which correspond more or less to Maverick-- will almost alway run in a precise-pup, apps built for Maverick don't always run under Lupu/Lucids. Only about 2/3 the binaries used in building Lupu/Lucid were from Ubuntu. And sometimes, even though something may not appear on the dependency list of a Ubuntu app, such lists presumes certain base files built into Ubuntu which may not have been included in pups: i.e., Ubuntu presumes a full gnome environment, which Pups don't use because of its bloat. But one never knows until one tries.
Good luck on your project. Don't hesitate to email me if the instructions on the above post need further explanation.
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 12:13
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Subject description: Puppy files found
See my post
for a link to another post containing an on screen keyboard PET for Puppy.
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 12:42
Post subject: Please continue discussions HERE
Hi All,
Nice work 8-bit. Hope it suites standard7452's needs, at least in part.
I found Ubuntu's repo listing for gok under pangolin.
Suggest we concentrate on it as it was what standard7452 actually said he needed.
Sorry to report Onboard wasn't as successful as I hoped. Although it works fine under jejy69's lxpup-aptget-test, the SFS created under it did not run in pemasu's upup372 even though it had python installed. Starting it from a terminal at /usr/bin indicated that "gi.repository" could not be found. Googling revealed that gi.repository was something like --sorry it was late-- an experimental now being combined under something else. Pfind "python" in lxpup...test showed over 500 files> too many to manually copy into a package for use in other Pups. Typing python in synaptic generated a list which ran off the page, maybe thirty. Doable, but the description of many on the list suggests they wouldn't be needed or duplicate others on the list. Really needs someone who understands python.
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 16:40
Post subject:
I fell asleep getting the mouse camera sofware to work,
Python was never a strong point since I never valued its appeal as yet another silly hack crutch that adds bloat on bloat.
But I have the source code and the dependencies are thankfully less than ten. Gnome is not even required, just gtk. so this is hopeful together with 8bits onsreen keyboard would make puppy more appealing to disabled folks.
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Posted: Tue 05 Mar 2013, 17:47
Post subject:
Another onscreen keyboard option is
It needs Java, but I've tried it with Shinobar's JRE sfs (jre-1.7.0.09.sfs) and it is working well in Wary.
Also has a 'rolling' mode, so if someone has a problem using the mouse, it will scroll through all the letters, and they can be selected with any key press. The speed can be altered.
The selected text appears in the bottom window, but is not very big though - no option to increase the size.
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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 12:38
Post subject: Xdotools to simulate mouse
Subject description: GTK conflict attempting GOK under Puppy
Hi standard7452 and All;
Spent a couple of days trying to jury-rig gok into Puppy's environment. I can't do it, and I suspect it can't be done after having built both an SFS using pangoln required debs and another using the maverick required debs. When both sfses loaded but did not run, I typed "gok" in a terminal at /usr/bin --where its executable is located-- and received a report of a conflict in gtk's. I think ubuntu switched over to gtk+ 3, while Puppy is still using gtk +2.
With a couple of possibilities having been suggested to provide an onscreen keyboard, I wondered if there was a way to simulate mouse movements using such keyboard. Googling I discovered xdotools. From what I gather, xdotools uses X itself. So it should be, more or less, distro independent. To install in jejy69's precise-apttest required download of only two debs. The following is the link to Ubuntu pangolin's repo.
According to above, libc6 is required. But Puppy already has it so I'd first test for compatibility before installing ubuntu's, especially as ubuntu's libc6 itself has dependenceis, which may have dependencies and so on until you end up with having built Ubuntu itself.
More information and download link can be found here:
I couldn't figure out how to configure it, but then I never use hot-keys or similar. But the following is documentation for it:
And apparently there's a gui making it easy to configure.
I regret that I could not figure out how to upload the debs to the forum.
As muggins's virtual keyboard,
suggested by 8-bit also is for the X environment (ergo distro independent) and provides a keyboard with numeric keypad, function keys, and special keys, I suggest an experiment of a combination of it and xdotool. Again, my apologies for not having the expertise to conduct such experiment.
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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 14:22
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I got the impression from standard's post that the user would not be able to make keyboard taps so I think that means xdotool may not be a usable option. I think that the "rolling mode" keef mentions would probably be a pre-requisite if the user can only press a separate single button.
If they could use a joystick there would be lots more possibilities but I got the feeling that's not possible. I hope we do hear back from standard as this seems like a very valuable project. I'm still wondering if the user would be able to control "press duration" of the button as that might open some other options.
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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 15:36
Post subject: Explanation of Xdotools employment
Hi greengeek,
You may be right that physical limitations could inhibit the use of xdotool's full capabilities. But what I had in mind was PRE-CONFIGURED pet assigning to xvkbd's Function and other special keys mouse movements generated by arguments assigned through xdotools. Perhaps not perfect, and certainly looses xdotool's flexible customization. But, if possible, and someone were to built such pet, it would thereafter be easy to deploy, and anyone limited to single switch capabilities would only have to learn which special keys produced which mouse movements. Additionally, with the wealth of special keys available via xvkbd's GUI, the need for mouse movements could be limited. For example, a key to expand the menu, menu scroll keys up, down, left & right, and perhaps keys to place the cursor at the start of the address box of a browser, and the start of the search box of a search engine.
Actually, I just realized that the last two suggestions aren't necessary. I've gotten so used to relying on a mouse that I forgot --just tested-- that at least in opera and firefox the tab key will move thru webpage elements. Perhaps other "Standard" applications also "retain" such tab functionality.
By the way, unless I'm misrecollecting or misunderstood, GOK is structured to use 2 mice so may, in fact, present problems for those limited to single switch capabilities.
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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 15:52
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I'm thinking something like this Magoo pet:
combined with WriteAid in rolling mode might somehow be configurable to offer reasonable access to basic functionality through a single switch.
I'm trying to get java installed so I can try WriteAid, buy not having much success yet. (I usually prefer to stay away from java due to security issues but this seems like a worthy project...)
I guess the basic screen would have to scroll through the Magoo tabs (allowing the user to click on the preferred application to open), then WriteAid (or similar) would have to scroll through the tabs within the app, and bring up a keyboard for scrolling through characters to be entered. I wonder if there is an onscreen keyboard that scrolls through an app list as well as keyboard characters?
I wonder if there is some way to set up xdotool so that it keeps scrolling through the Magoo tabs as soon as the PC powers up. Then maybe a single click of a button (grafted into mouse button 1) would activate the chosen tab as it became "scroll focused".
(question: would xdotool interpret WriteAid key depressions the same way it would interpret actual keyboard depressions? eg: if so then xdotool could be configured to interpret some of the WriteAid onscreen characters ("non A-Z" and "non numeric") as up/down/R/L mouse movements)
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It would be nice if stardard7452 checked back in so we would know our efforts are being seen and this is just not a futile effort.
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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 21:35
Post subject: Sent email to xdotools group
Hi All,
Patience 8-bit. Sad to say but some people have a real life which from time to time interferes with Puppy activity.
greengeek raised a good point, especially as I have been making suggestions without solid experiential support. So I've emailed the xdotools usergroup the following:
"Hello everyone.
First off, I'm way over my head but have gotten involved in a worthwhile project: enabling those with cerebral palsy, quadriplegics or otherwise limited to "single switch" mobility to use computers. The project was suggested by Will, known on the Puppy Linux Forum as standard7452. The thread he initiated, currently only 11 posts, can be quickly read here:
. There are a couple more posts on a thread I opened hoping to attract more technically astute users of Puppy Linux. Although we have identified several onscreen keyboards which could be employed, emulation of mouse functions or a work-around remain elusive. I had suggested that perhaps xdotools might provide such functionality,
, in combination with Xvkbd: Virtual keyboard,
but greengeek --suggesting a different approach-- asked a question pertinent to both: whether xdotools would interpret the "pressing" of onscreen keys the same way as actual keyboard key depressions?
That prompted this inquiry to people who may know.
Please feel free to join the discussion on the Puppy Forum (registration required --everyone is welcome, but especially those with technical knowledge) or to respond to this email if for no other reason than to save us some time attempting the impossible. If you have alternative suggestions they would be welcomed as well.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy and cooperation,
mike kessler"
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Illinois Lt. Gov. Simon to run for comptroller
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon ended five months of uncertainty about her political future on Wednesday by launching her 2014 bid for Illinois state comptroller, likely setting her up for a tough race against one of the state's most successful Republican officeholders.
Simon, a Democrat, formally announced her plan during a campaign stop in downtown Chicago, where she vowed she would be "the most aggressive fiscal watchdog this state has ever seen." She was scheduled to appear in Springfield and her hometown of Carbondale by day's end.
"I want to go beyond just transparency and where there is corruption and misspending," she told The Associated Press ahead of her announcement. "Let's engage people about where we're spending money as a state. Let's all be watchdogs."
Simon is likely to face at least one Democratic challenger in the primary: Will County Auditor Duffy Blackburn has mentioned plans to run. The primary winner would face a tough race against Republican Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, a former three-term state treasurer who lost the 2006 governor's race to Rod Blagojevich.
Topinka, who is a former state lawmaker, once served as head of the Illinois Republican Party. Along with experience in winning statewide offices, Topinka has a fundraising advantage, reporting more than $805,000 cash on hand at the end of the second quarter, compared with $272,000 for Simon and $25,300 for Blackburn.
Simon said she's up for the challenge.
"I'm looking forward to a good competitive race," she said at the news conference.
Simon took aim at Topinka during Wednesday's announcement. Since local governments are required to submit financial reports to the comptroller, Simon said Topinka's office could have raised a red flag earlier about scandals such as one that occurred in the northern Illinois community of Dixon, where the city comptroller pleaded guilty in February to stealing nearly $54 million from the city.
"It's time for a comptroller who provides not just accounting, but accountability," Simon said.
But Brad Hahn, a spokesman for Topinka's office and her campaign, said the comptroller "has raised transparency to a new level" since taking office. That included efforts to push the southern Illinois city of Washington Park to submit financial reports, which hadn't submitted data for years and is grappling with major financial issues. He also said she's committed to the job and doesn't view it as "a consolation prize."
"Sheila Simon has been shopping for an office for months. It appears that she settled on this one," Hahn said. "We welcome her to the discussion."
In February, Simon abruptly announced her plans not to seek re-election with Gov. Pat Quinn, but she declined to say which statewide office she would seek. Instead, she played up her legal background as a former prosecutor and law professor, fueling speculation that she would run for attorney general. Simon's campaign later mentioned comptroller and treasurer as possibilities.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan said this month she would seek another term rather than challenge Quinn. That caught Simon by surprise, but she said she was happy with how things turned out.
She said she didn't choose to run for state treasurer because she wasn't seeking an easier contest.
That office is wide open, with Treasurer Dan Rutherford seeking the GOP nomination for governor. However, for Simon to jump in would mean challenging a fellow downstate Democrat, state Sen. Mike Frerichs, who is exploring a bid.
Simon, the daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, worked in Jackson County as an assistant state's attorney and taught law at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She was placed on the 2010 lieutenant governor's ballot by Democratic officials even though she had little campaign experience. She had run for Carbondale's mayor, but lost.
The comptroller is central to handling Illinois' tax money and maintains the state's accounts, paying bills and signing checks to employees.
She said that while weighing her decision, she thought about a conversation she once had with former Illinois Comptroller Dawn Clark Netsch, who died in March. Netsch helped rewrite the state constitution and was the first woman to get the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor.
"I asked her what she found most exciting. It was the opportunity to teach people about the budget, to get more people engaged about how we spend money as a state," Simon told AP. "That's exactly what I want to do."
The office has received attention lately as Quinn moved to halt lawmakers' pay after they failed to act on pensions. After reviewing the matter, Topinka said she had no choice but to withhold the paychecks, citing a previous court case. The head of the House and Senate filed a lawsuit against Quinn over the issue on Tuesday.
Simon said she agreed with Topinka's assessment that Quinn was within his power to veto the budget to cut salaries. If elected, she says she also plans to keep a focus on Illinois' massive backlog of unpaid bills.
"It's a shameful state that we're in," she told AP. "That's something that lawmakers need to pay attention to."
Associated Press writers Sara Burnett in Chicago and Kerry Lester in Springfield contributed to this report.
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There's No Christ In My Christmas
I have been affirmatively opposed to organized religion since about the age of 14. But I love Christmas. It's magical. As you can imagine, this is often a point of contention in debates: "Christmas wouldn't be here if it weren't for Christ, so how can you say 'religion poisons everything'?" they ask me. if you want to "keep Christ in Christmas," by all means, set up your Nativity scene and go to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. It's a free country. I, along with the increasing number of non-Christians, will be by the fire, glass of wine in-hand, listening to some Nat King Cole.


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Michael Wolff: Upfronts not ready for prime-time reality
- The American audience is in inexorable flight from scheduled TV
- Anyone who watches ads probably doesn%27t have means to buy anything
- American marketers have largely turned up their nose to digital
The Upfronts are a media ritual that stretches back to the early days of television. It's when networks offer advertisers a locked-in deal if they buy space for the fall season in the spring instead of waiting until the new shows air, when the costs, especially for hit shows, might likely go up.
Forget the fact that there really is no longer a fall season, that a hit now is hardly what a hit was then, that television networks are themselves pale imitations of what they were — once again the Upfronts are on. Theaters are rented in Manhattan, network heads and ad sales executives are rehearsed, assorted stars are unhappily drafted to participate and, in old-fashioned variety-show format, the new shows are launched and the old patted on the back.
For a generation or longer, the Upfronts have been a sleight of hand in which advertisers are offered less for more. Audiences shrink, impact lessens, rates rise and, for many years now, almost everybody in the television and advertising business has expected a collective awakening and for ad dollars to head for the exit doors.
But, no. The money still flows. Cable joined the networks at the Upfronts, and television executives and advertising agencies, in a symbiotic bid to save each other's jobs, every year patch together in Hail Mary fashion an ever-smaller fraction of the once-great national television audience.
It's preposterous, really. It defies reality. It's smokin' something. Not only is the American audience in inexorable flight from scheduled television, but the kind of person who actually watches ads, given all the available ways to avoid them, is unlikely to be sentient enough to actually hold a job and have the money to buy anything.
At least, that is the reasonable view of a great number of people in the digital media business, who for the better part of a decade have been confounded by the fact that big-brand and big-budget advertisers have failed to keep pace with the movement of the American consumer from television to the Web and mobile platforms.
Despite this overwhelming trend, and even with all the new measurement tools to calibrate the digital audience's actual attention to advertising, not to mention the vastly lower cost of Web and mobile ads, the great and powerful American marketer has still largely turned up his nose to digital — even as it's become a video medium. A Niagara of video.
There are many theories about why this has happened — or not happened — but several years ago those theories coalesced around a singular idea. Digital media was challenged because it lacked an Upfront.
Under the auspices of Digitas, an advertising agency specializing in, well, digital advertising, the "NewFronts" were inaugurated in 2008 to showcase digital content.
Last year, blaming logistical challenges, as well as being regularly disappointed by digital video's failure to catch fire, Digitas turned these sub-Upfronts over to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. (The IAB sets the standards for online advertising formats, including the much-derided banner ad, and has waged a largely unsuccessful campaign to attract big brands to the Internet.)
And, once again, there is considerable anticipation in the marketplace that this is the year, as opposed to all the past years that were supposed to be the year, that online video is going to start to really claim its fair share of the advertising pie.
Advertisers have to advertise, don't they? And they'll have to follow the audience eventually, won't they?
Sure, big brands have been allergic to the low-budget quality of online video. Online video may be most notable for not being watched. The digital audience is possibly even more distracted than the television audience. And "pre-roll," that herky-jerky placement before a video starts, is a desperate and hopelessly maladroit showcase for anybody's message.
Still, AOL and YouTube, along with Yahoo, Hulu, Blip, Crackle, Microsoft and a dozen other companies, have made especially aggressive pitches over the last few weeks that their content is not only capturing a meaningful, demographically appealing audience, but it's cutting-edge, culture-moving stuff.
Their pitch is either "we've got stars like you've never seen them before" — Christina Ricci on AOL or John Stamos on Yahoo with a show about how celebrities lost their virginity — or "we've got non-celebrities who are even bigger than celebrities," such as viral make-up videos on YouTube with a hundred zillion views.
And yet, last week, in the middle of all this strained bonhomie, YouTube announced that it is launching a subscription service, deftly undermining the hopes and dreams of an advertising Renaissance on the Internet.
The real message of the continued resistance to digital content, and the ever-disappointing digital Upfronts, is that while advertisers may inevitably leave TV — and as a generation of chief marketing officers dies out, they surely will leave — they won't necessarily be going anywhere else.
Indeed, the Upfronts, whether for television or digital, are, in proper Mad Men fashion, nostalgic and wistful, a desire to return to better days. (And, in the case of digital, a desire to return to what it never had.)
But harder hearts in the new entertainment business, seeing a world without ads, are manning up to the fact that they are going to have to make you pay to watch John Stamos.
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Anti-Defamation League: Anti-Semitic incidents on rise
An audit by the Anti-Defamation League found that while the number of anti-Semitic incidents fell across the country last year, Connecticut saw an uptick, including two in Fairfield County.
The annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, which the ADL has produced since 1979, found the number of incidents in Connecticut rose from 17 in 2012 to 31 in 2013.
The 31 incidents included 18 identified as harassment, six as vandalism and two as physical assault.
"No one is saying what's happening here is like some of the crises which communities have faced in Europe or places in other parts of the world, where Jews really are living with certain trepidation over who they are," said Rabbi Eric Polokoff of B'Nai Israel in Southbury. "I'm amazed year upon year upon year by the number of times where our kids have been exposed to hatred. It's one of those things where it operates very personally, but oftentimes just slightly below the radar screen."
Two incidents occurred last year in Fairfield County, including one in which several classmates accosted a Jewish student, forced the student into a bathtub and "sprayed (the student) with body spray to simulate the gas chambers and forced (the student) to pretend to `go to sleep,' " said Josh Sayles, assistant director for the ADL in Connecticut.
Sayles declined to identify the town in which the incident occurred, or the victim's gender and age, but he said it occurred in a high school. He did not know whether the incident resulted in law enforcement action, but did say discipline was meted by the school.
The second Fairfield County incident involved social media postings in which a Jewish student, unaware of the significance of a cross worn by another person in a photo posted online, asked about the "t-necklace," prompting another individual to reply "Your a (expletive) the cross isn't a T so take your Jewish (expletive) somewhere else."
Other incidents included mail denying the Holocaust that was sent to a survivor of the atrocity who had spoken publicly about her experience, and vandalism to a Jewish cemetery and educational institution.
Polokoff, who also serves on the executive committee of the ADL in Connecticut, said incidents such as swastikas on school desks are among the more common instances of anti-Semitism he hears about from children at the synagogue. "That's not a neutral symbol," he said. "That's a symbol which for certain people is going to be seen as an act of intimidation."
Nationally, the audit found documented anti-Semitic incidents decreasing by 19 percent in 2013, from 927 in 2012 to 751 in 2013.
And while Connecticut's numbers indicated an increase in 2013, in a news release accompanying the audit, the ADL suggested that increase may be the result of under-reporting in 2012.
In 2012, the audit only found 17 incidents after finding 43 in 2011 and 39 in 2010.
"We're never happy to see an increase in anti-Semitic incidents here in Connecticut, but we're careful not to read too much into the findings of any particular year," said Gary Jones, regional director of ADL's Connecticut office, in a news release.
"The audit is not an exact science. We rely on law enforcement personnel and individuals from across the state to alert us to anti-Semitic incidents. We believe that the reduced numbers reported for 2012 were an aberration, and that our 2013 figures fall more in line with what we saw in 2010 and 2011."
Polokoff agreed that the audit is less than an "exact science," but reiterated that "a number of kids in our community over the last number of years have at some point had some experience which certainly would fall under anti-Semitism."
"Are there incidents which actually affect families and their lives? Absolutely," Polokoff said.
Conversely, the decrease in incidents across the country might too be misleading, as general anti-Semitic hate speech posted to the Internet is not counted in the audit unless the postings target specific individuals.
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10 Most Favorited Bing Homepage Images of the Year
10 Most Favorited Bing Homepage Images of the Year
Ready to daydream about leaving your desk job? Bing has revealed its 10 most fan-favorited homepage image picks of the year, and believe us, they are beauties.
If you've ever visited Bing.com, you know it carefully handpicks stunning images to grace its homepage each day. The Microsoft-powered search engine has tracked user response to these images throughout the past year, and these are the most popular selections based on engagement and viewership.
From an aerial view of boats off the coast of Capri, Italy to a funky-looking death's head hawkmoth in Slovenia, each photo is worthy of your attention.
Bing works with more than 20 map and stock image/video providers to provide pictures for the homepage. Earlier this year, Bing told us how much the team plans which photos it will use months in advance.
"Anything that is stunning and beautiful that matches our style and adds a breadth of life is what we are looking for," Stephanie Hortsmanshof, senior managing editor at Bing, told Mashable.
For a deeper look at the process and what it's like to be the person who selects Bing's homepage images and videos, check out the video below.
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It would not be a stretch to assert that Chinese imports have driven the recent growth in soybean production and exports by the U.S., Brazil and Argentina. Between 1995 and 2009, Chinese imports of soybeans grew by 1.459 billion bushels (from 0.029 to 1.488 billion) while the rest of the nations of world increased their imports by 0.183 billion bushels (from 1.168 to 1.351 billion).
China now imports 53% of all raw soybeans in world trade. While Brazil and Argentina have captured the lion's share of the import growth, any change in the rate of growth in Chinese soybean imports would have serious price and production-growth consequences for the U.S., as well as Brazil and Argentina.
When it comes to decade-long growth rates the size of those recently experienced by Chinese soybean imports, it is always dangerous to extrapolate such rates years and decades into the future. In this case, it is likely even more dangerous to make continued high-growth assumptions because, well, because it is China we are talking about.
China's imports of soybeans stand in contrast to its behavior in virtually all other major agricultural commodity markets. In the case of grains, China exports more than it imports, shipping between 1% and 2% of its major-grain crops out of port in 2009.
While not trying to suggest that we understand the spectrum of considerations that influence the behavior of the Chinese in agricultural markets, we do think it is important to understand the use of grains and soybeans in China.
Rice is one of the traditional mainstays of the Chinese diet and virtually all of the 136 million metric tons (mmt) of production (2009) is used either for food, seed or additions to carryover stocks. Less than 5% of China's 115 mmt of wheat production is used for animal feed, with the rest used for food, seed and changes in carryover stocks.
Unlike rice and wheat, which are primarily grown for food, 75% of China's 2009 corn production is projected to be used for feed with the rest divided up among food, seed, industrial and changes in carryover stocks.
In addition to the high use of corn for animal feed another difference between it and rice and wheat is the increase in production that has taken place since 1995.
In 1995, more rice was produced than either wheat or corn. In the years since then rice production has increased by 6 mmt to 136 mmt. During that same period wheat production increased from 102 mmt to 115 mmt in 2009.
Corn on the other hand has increased over that period by 43 mmt to 155 mmt in 2009 with the proportion of corn production used for animal feed increasing over time. Corn production now exceeds that of rice by 19 mmt.
Soybean production is significantly smaller than the three major grains coming in at 14.5 mmt just 1 mmt more than was produced in 1995. Over that period the use of soybeans for human food has increased 5.6 mmt to 8.8 mmt.
The use of soybeans for crush has increased from 7.5 mmt in 1995 to 44.1 mmt in 2009, an increase of 488%. Most of the meal that resulted from the crush was used for animal feed with the oil being used for human consumption, according to USDA statistics.
The increase in the use of corn and soybean meal for animal feed has supported a 38% and 68% increase in the production of pork and broilers, respectively, over the 1995-2009 period.
Looking over the last 15 years, the data suggest that the Chinese have focused on self-sufficiency in rice, wheat and corn production to the exclusion of soybeans. In addition, the data show that the Chinese have used increases in corn production and soybean imports to increase their production of pork and poultry, maintaining a near self-sufficiency in the production of those meats.
The future of soybean imports by China depends upon the willingness of its leaders to continue that pattern. Another key issue is whether or not the increase in Chinese imports will keep pace with net production increases – production in excess of domestic demand – in the U.S., Brazil and Argentina. Just as soybean producers have benefitted from increasing Chinese soybean imports over the last 15 years, they could face price pressures if future increases do not keep up with the growth in supply. A movement on the part of the Chinese to focus on increasing domestic soybean production could be problematic for the three major soybean exporters.
The data also suggest that a significant increase in the level of imports of pork and poultry would require a change in current public policy. U.S. pork and poultry producers hope changes in Chinese trade policies will result in larger markets for them. In the long term, if large quantities of U.S. pork and poultry are imported by China, it most likely will be because China believes it is in China's long-run best interest to do so. Otherwise, not.
To us, the evidence is strong that – above all else – China takes care of China.


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Expectant Actress Hilary Duff showed off her Christmas baby bump on Twitter with a caption reading: "Happy holidays from the three of us!!" Hilary tweeted her sister, Haylie Duff, painted he stomach saying . "What would I do without you and your artistic ways!"
Hilary is are her husband hokey player Mike Cormie are expecting their first child, a boy, in 2012.


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It is the latest salvo in a series of legal actions over how the government administers its medical pot program.
Earlier this month, Federal Court Judge Michael Manson ruled that patients currently licensed to grow their own marijuana would be permitted to produce the drug even after new regulations banning the practice take effect Tuesday.
The judge granted an application from medical marijuana patients seeking a temporary injunction to preserve the status quo until their constitutional challenge of the new system could be heard.
The government said Monday it will ask the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn the injunction.
Under the existing federal program, thousands of people have licences to cultivate marijuana for personal use to help ease painful symptoms of conditions such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
The government says growing marijuana at home poses hazards including mould, fire, toxic chemicals and the threat of home invasion by criminals.
It plans to allow only select commercial producers to grow marijuana under "secure and sanitary conditions" for distribution through the mail, in dried form, to medically approved patients.
Health Minister Rona Ambrose made it clear in a statement Monday that the only reason her department administers a program is a 14-year-old court ruling that said there must be reasonable access to a legal source of marijuana for medical purposes.
"I want to emphasize that marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine in Canada," Ambrose said.
However, the injunction stands for the moment, meaning patients can continue to grow pot — at least until the next ruling.
It is unclear when the federal appeal of the injunction will be heard.
If the government ultimately fails to overturn Manson's decision, it will leave the path clear for the patients' constitutional challenge of the planned new system.
As a result, the matter could be tied up in the courts for many months to come.
The number of people authorized to possess — and frequently grow — marijuana under the old federal program climbed to 37,000 this year from fewer than 100 in 2001.
Several patients permitted to cultivate their own pot — or serve as a designated grower for someone else — argue the planned new system denies ill Canadians a safe, affordable supply of medical marijuana.
Some say they can grow at home for pennies a gram, while official suppliers licensed by Health Canada charge anywhere from a discounted price of $3 a gram to as much as $13.50.
Denying people the right to produce their own pot would violate their Charter of Rights guarantee of "security of the person," the patients say.
The government rejects the constitutional argument, saying the charter does not ensure the right to produce one's own medication.
Ambrose said she continues to hear concerns from health professional organizations about prescribing marijuana.
Health Canada's statement also said Ambrose has been working with the department in recent months to address concerns about marijuana as a treatment, including the lack of dosage guidelines and appropriate health cautions.
Ambrose has also asked her officials to produce a document on marijuana for medical purposes — in consultation with the medical and scientific community — to help doctors and nurses make decisions, the department said.
"We expect these new measures, including information on dosage guidelines, educational material and increased oversight, will decrease the potential for over-prescribing and negative health impacts."
Several opponents of the planned federal changes — including lead counsel John Conroy — plan to talk about the case in Ottawa on Tuesday and hold a rally on Parliament Hill.
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The Anglo-Saxon name Werrdent comes from when its first bearer worked as a guard or watchman. Interestingly, the name Werrdent was originally from the Anglo-French word wardein, meaning guardian.
The surname Werrdent was first found in Hertfordshire where they held a family seat from ancient times.
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Until quite recently, the English language has lacked a definite system of spelling rules. Consequently, Anglo-Saxon surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. Changes in Anglo-Saxon names were influenced by the evolution of the English language, as it incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other languages. Although Medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, so it is common to find one person referred to by several different spellings of his surname, even the most literate people varied the spelling of their own names. Variations of the name Werrdent include Warden, Wardan, Werden and others.
Notables of this surname at this time include: John Warden, English politician, Member of Parliament for Hereford in 1614; and Sir John Werden (also Worden), 1st Baronet Cholmeaton in the County of Chester (1640-1716), an English barrister, judge, politician, and diplomat. Born in Cholmeaton, he was the eldest son of...
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Searching for a better life, many English families migrated to British colonies. Unfortunately, the majority of them traveled under extremely harsh conditions: overcrowding on the ships caused the majority of the immigrants to arrive diseased, famished, and destitute from the long journey across the ocean. For those families that arrived safely, modest prosperity was attainable, and many went on to make invaluable contributions to the development of the cultures of the new colonies. Research into the origins of individual families in North America revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Werrdent or a variant listed above: Thomas Warden settled in Virginia in 1623; James and Joseph Warden settled in New York State in 1804; William Warden settled in Virginia in 1774.


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Elvis Presley
Sintesi dell'editore
"Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century," proclaimed Leonard Bernstein. The author writes, "His appearance on Ed Sullivan ripped the 1950s in half." By any measure, Presley's life was remarkable. From his modest beginnings in a two-room house to his meteoric rise to international fame, everything about his life, from his outsized talent to his car collection, clamored for attention. And he got it.
Keogh compellingly examines Elvis' life and style to reveal the generous, complex, spiritual man behind the 14-karat-gold sunglasses and answers the question, "Why does Elvis matter?"
"Before Elvis there was nothing." (John Lennon)
"Appealing....[An] intimate portrait of a man who was larger than life." (Publishers Weekly)
Cosa pensano gli ascoltatori di Elvis Presley
- Anonymous User
- 16/08/2007
Is Elvis just his clothes?
I realize that writing the biography of the King must be very difficult, given the complexity and richness of his life, but I must say I was disappointed by this book. There's a lot of information imbalance...a whole lot is said about Elvis's childhood and early years, (actually very interesting), we get a huge amount of details on his clothes (kind of boring, almost as if his beauty and looks were all there was to the King of rock and roll), while other aspects of his life go almost unmentioned. Above all, the writer dismisses the last 2 years of his life in about 20 minutes reading. If you're hoping to find possible explanations or opinions as to why Elvis changed so much, and headed toward self-destruction, you won't find much in this book. The best the author can say about this is that in his last year of life, Elvis was not himself, and nobody knows why.....
Some aspects are covered very nicely, like his childhood or his relationship to his Mom, but other important facts and people aren't even mentioned, like his last girlfriend, singer Kathy Westmoreland (who was one of his closest friends), etc. His separation from Priscilla is also dismissed in a few sentences, as if it would have no big consequence on him or her... Lots is said about his promiscuous life, but the fact he was a gentleman, and many of his dates were actually only friends, is not even brought up, contrary to what I've read elsewhere.
Elvis's spiritual side does come across well, but the long and repetitive descriptions of his clothes are twice as prevalent in the book.
One positive note: the reader is excellent!!
It can be a pleasant reading but don't expect it to be even close to exhaustive. The book is very relaxing, as the author never goes into details about the things that actually bothered Elvis at the end, contributing to his early tragic death, facts that are certainly very sad to hear for those of us who love him.
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- Jane
- 05/09/2006
An odd take on a complex man
In order to understand the odd facets of Elvis' life and style that the author chose to focus on (most disturbingly, constant comparisons of Elvis and Priscilla to Jackie and JFK), you must realize that her last two bios were on Jackie O and Audrey Hepburn. This is why she treats Elvis like a fashion plate to be examined in the same light as Coco Chanel rather than as a musical genius. Still, there is enough relevant facts on Elvis that it is worth the listen. You can tell that the author tows the party line on alot of subjects, but that is the risk you take when you have the cooperation of those who knew the subject. Not a gritty tell all by any means, but and interesting look at a man and an era.
3 people found this helpful
- Geff
- 19/06/2006
The BIG book of Elvis!
After wrapping up the excellent "Beautiful Mind" bio of John Nash I was so impressed with the narrator (Anna Fields) that I went looking for another bio from the exact same narrator, and found it with this fairly extensive portrait of Elvis' life. Fields does a good job with providing just the right amount of "twag" when required to keep it all moving, a tough job for book of this length. Punctutated with colorful backroom conversations recounted from various consorts to the King, and equal parts history and personal recollections, author Keogh captures a glimpse of the huge talent and inner clockworks of this amazing one-of-a-kind fellow whose life - and legend - seemed to outgrow even him.
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- Heidi Poulsen-Lauritzen
- 25/06/2011
4 whatever this listen lacks it is properly THE best read I have done since my all time fave EP book; "Elvis & Gladys" by Elaine Dundy hit the shelves 16 years ago! I recommend Pamala Clarke Keogh and - Anna Fields! HP, Denmark.....
2 people found this helpful
- 20/07/2018
Amazing story! Had me laughing, singing and crying at times. Loved it. Narrator was fabulous.
- John Zippo
- 09/12/2016
Before i listend to this book, i was of the opinion that there was absolutely nothing this book could tell me, that i probaby didnt already know about Elvis. And i was right..kinda..However the narrator tells the story with such style, such skill and humour. It was like listening about the man for the very first time. Would i recommend this book to yawl...hell yeah...utterly awesone.
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text: AgileLoad Video Center AgileLoad Presentation Agileload Setup Monitoring Reporting Scripting Testing methodology Agileload load testing tool presentation Evaluate the performance of your web application, find and fix performance problems quickly with AgileLoad Learn more Agileload Getting started - an application performance testing Overview A video guide to professional performance engineering / testing. Covers questions such as why do we need to do performance testing, what is performance testing and what type of performance tests there are, what's needed to run a performance test. Learn more AgileLoad Getting started - Your first load test using AgileLoad A 5 minute video that shows how to run a small load test in AgileLoad! Learn more Installing Agile Load Installing AgileLoad software is easy and self-explanatory. AgileLoad is software that runs on Windows Machines. You will need administrative rights on your computer to install AgileLoad correctly. Once it's installed then you are ready for the first steps of load testing. If you have some difficulties we explain the process in the video here! Learn more Setting up an Amazon EC2 Virtual Machine as an Injector for Agile Load Setting up a Virtual Machine in Amazon EC2 for use with Agile Load is easy, in this short video we show you how. Here we launch an Amazon Instance that is preconfigured with AgileLoad. Before launching we set up a Key Pair (necessary to connect to an Amazon Instance and also necessary if you want to get the administrator password). We also set up an elastic IP address so that we have an address to connect to and finally we set up a security group which is really a firewall, here we configure ports for Agile Load and for RDP so that we can connect to the machine we have just launched. In short, Amazon EC2 can be used to launch multiple injectors for Agile Load and those injectors can be hosted around the world. In this case we use the Amazon European data centre. This model makes a scalable, diverse and affordable platform for load testing which is why we chose to use it for these videos. Learn more Cloud base performance testing with AgileLoad Performance / load testing from the cloud has many benefits. Cloud load and performance testing enables low cost execution of very large tests without having to invest in large infrastructures by using Amazons redundant data centres. Furthermore cloud based load and performance testing allows load generation from around the world to simulate users in other countries thereby testing the entire end to end infrastructure including your gateways, load balancers and the internet. An understanding can be gained of end user experience and contracting between local and very remote users will show the sum total of the effects of jitter, latency and bandwidth issues. Learn more AgileLoad Mobile Capture Capturing user activity from a device is easy with AgileLoad due to the multiple capture mechansims it supports. In this case we capture a few mobile web requests from an iPhone which could then be used to build a mobile testing scenario. Once the transaction is captured in AgileLoad it is edited in the same way that any other kind of script is edited in AgileLoad Learn more AgileLoad Script Parameterisation 1: Capturing the Script in Script Editor How to record a script in AgileLoad script editor. This script is evolved over the next three videos into a parametrized, data driven script. Learn more AgileLoad Script Parameterisation 2: Usernames - Making a Script Data Driven To create realistic load test you need realistic scenarios and scripts to underpin them. One vital point is to be able to make your test scripts data driven. In this video we show you how to use the data generated in the data generation script to ensure that users in the test each log on as a unique user from a list of 1000 possible credentials Learn more AgileLoad Script Parameterisation 3: Choosing a Random Link In this final stage we see how to make the AgileLoad script choose a random link (hence random product) from the list of products available. So to summarise the script will see a virtual user log in as a random user chosen from a list of 1000 possible user names, it will then choose a random product from the products page and buy that same random product. Learn more Agile Load Automatic Script Parametrisation Setup Here we go through how to set up automatic script parametrization using AgileLoads models. Very useful to save hours, days or weeks on load test projects where scripting is repetitive and taking a lot of project time. This video shows you how to teach AgileLoad how to automatically parametrize complicated scripts, in this case we use a customized SharePoint application as an example. Learn more Manual Script parameterisation in AgileLoad This video shows step by step how to parameterise a value in a script in AgileLoad. Learn more AgileLoad Script Editing: Add Transaction Loop Boundaries Two part video that shows how to simulate a scenario where a user goes to a home page and then loops around the product pages of a site, could also be useful to simulate a scenario where a user logs in once, executes some transaction n times and log out once. Part 1) Describing how to add transaction loop boundaries to scripts. Part 2) Using that script to execute a small test against the target web site. The video demonstrates the use of TransactionBegin and TransactionEnd to control the execution of the requests in the script. Learn more Test Data Generation with Agile Load Load and Performance testing can require huge amounts of data from login credentials to user accounts. Generating this data is not possible manually because of the sheer volumes required. In this video we create some user accounts on our target web application so that we can later use those accounts to log on with for our load test. The data is generated from scratch using AgileLoad's data generation tool. Learn more Performance Test Execution with AgileLoad How to design, execute and analyse a load test in AgileLoad. Learn more Using Distributed Monitors (Agent Based Monitoring) with Agile Load A performance testing without monitoring leaves you half blind and unable to diagnose performance problems at the infrastructure level. Monitoring is vital to be able to make recommendations following a load test so here we address the need to monitor servers and infrastructure when we do not have access to them via a direct network connection. AgileLoad uses other AgileLoad installations to enable it to get around firewalls. AgileLoad tunnels monitoring data through the network or internet from the target location to the testers location. Learn more Monitoring Oracle Databases and Analysing Bottlenecks with AgileLoad This video describes the set up and use of the Oracle monitor / collector and anomaly detector in Agile Load. In this case we set up the Oracle collector template and use another install of AgileLoad to collect the data from the database. This distributed implementation can be useful for monitoring databases where a firewall is between your machine and the target, or like in this case, the Oracle client libraries provided by Oracle do not work on the operating system you are using on your machine and you need to choose another machine with a supported OS to do the monitoring. Learn more AgileLoad Automatic Performance Reports Agile Load can generate performance testing results reports in less than 30 seconds. 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Malware authors have created a proof-of-concept virus that's capable, in theory at least, of infecting Mac PCs running OS X. The Macarena virus isn't spreading and even in the highly unlikely event your Mac catches the infection it doesn't do any real harm.
The low-threat pathogen Illustrates the point that Macs, just like Linux boxes, aren't immune from computers viruses even though incidents of infection on these machines remains as rare as finding hen's teeth. Windows machines have for years been the principal target for virus writers and there's no sign that will change anytime soon, if ever.
Mac viruses were relatively common at the dawn of personal computing, but these days the overwhelming majority of viruses are Windows specific. Macarena isn't the first piece of malware capable of infecting Mac OS X machines. Of the handful of Mac OS X pathogens ever created only the Leap Trojan has been spotted in the wild. ®


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AT&T Reverses Course, Offers FaceTime on Tiered Data Plans
AT&T will offer Apple's FaceTime iPhone video chat service over LTE networks to mobile customers with tiered data plans, the company announced in a course reversal Wednesday.
Previously, only customers using shared data plans could access the service via wireless data services.
FaceTime capability will be rolled out to AT&T customers on tiered data plans over the next eight to ten weeks, according to a company release. The app will remain Wi-Fi-only for customers on an unlimited plan or with a non-LTE device.
In news likely to be welcomed by the disabled community, AT&T also said it will allow deaf and hard-of-hearing customers on its tiered Text Accessibility Plans to use FaceTime over mobile networks.
AT&T has previously argued that the old limitation on FaceTime was in place because its wireless infrastructure couldn't handle iPhone owners across the country using the data-intensive FaceTime. AT&T has more iPhones on its network than any other carrier, perhaps a holdover effect of being the first provider to carry the device.
However, the company offers apps similar to FaceTime that compete with Apple's software, resulting in widespread criticism and charges of violating Federal Communications Commission regulations. Technology policy advocacy group Free Press has been among the most outspoken voices against AT&T's previous FaceTime policy.
"AT&T's course correction is a move in the right direction, but until the company makes FaceTime available to all of its customers it is still in violation of the FCC's rules and the broader principles of Net Neutrality," said Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood in a statement delivered following AT&T's decision.
"AT&T simply can't justify blocking an app that competes with its voice and texting services unless customers purchase a more expensive monthly plan that includes an unlimited amount of those very same services," he continued.
Is this decision by AT&T enough or should it open FaceTime to all subscribers on mobile data plans? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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The United States tax code is a thing of wonderment in its insane complexity. But what if we could massively simplify the code — without changing anybody's tax burden? David Brin, author of the Uplift novels, has a suggestion.
Writing in the Daily Kos, Brin suggests a "no losers" revamp of the tax code, that eliminates tons of provisions but ensures that the net result will not change the tax situation for 100 representative classes of Americans. You could model the tax code on a computer, and program it to eliminate excess provisions without causing any major changes to tax liabilities. Writes Brin:
There is nothing on Earth like the US tax code. It is an extremely complex system that nobody understands well. But it is unique among all the complex things in the world, in that it's complexity is perfectly replicated by the MATHEMATICAL MODEL of the system. Because the mathematical model is the system.
Hence, one could put the entire US tax code into a spare computer somewhere, try a myriad inputs, outputs... and tweak every parameter to see how outputs change. There are agencies who already do this, daily, in response to congressional queries. Alterations of the model must be tested under a wide range of boundary conditions (sample taxpayers.) But if you are thorough, the results of the model will be the results of the system.
Now. I'm told (by some people who know about such things) that it should be easy enough to create a program that will take the tax code and cybernetically experiment with zeroing-out dozens, hundreds of provisions while sliding others upward and then showing, on a spreadsheet, how these simplifications would affect, say, one-hundred representative types of taxpayers.
Check out the rest of his fascinating proposal at the link. [The Daily Kos via PopSci]


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AMS Summer Workshop: Project ATMOSPHERE
Dates: July 13-25, 2014
Application deadline: March 28, 2014
Project ATMOSPHERE is a free teacher professional development program offered by the American Meteorological Society's Education Program. Directed toward improving Earth science literacy and teacher effectiveness by generating interest in science, technology and mathematics among students at precollege levels, the two-week workshop is held at NOAA's National Weather Service Training Center in Kansas City, MO. K-12 teachers who teach weather in the classroom are encouraged to apply and will receive three free graduate credits. The workshop will introduce teachers to the latest technologies and techniques for sensing, analyzing, and forecasting weather, as well as explore ways these concepts can be implemented in classrooms. Attendees will help promote weather education in their home regions by conducting training sessions in atmospheric science during the following school year.
For more information, please visit: ATMOSPHERE.


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Despite being some sort of an OOP fan, I cannot be completely oblivious to its limitations... or shortcomings... or perhaps some lack of foresight in its design. You choose.
There are two issues that always made me reevaluate OOP usefulness. I'm going to discuss them. You, of course, are free to ignore me completely, or provide your insight into the discussion. The reason why I'm doing this is because I never before discussed this issue with anyone. All tidbits of info I read here and there had always been addressed by zealots of either the OOP or Anti-OOP fields, which invariably come strongly biased.
Relational Data Mapping
OOP always was, and still is, a mystery to me. But of all the mysteries, the one I took longer to understand was OOP lack of capacity to establish relational links between data. I mean, everything in OOP screams relations and yet the universe at which this happens is completely different from that of Relational Databases. It's a little like Einstein trying to grab electromagnetism and add gravity to produce an unified rule. It won't happen. Relational Databases and OOP have completely different rules and operate at completely different levels, even if the idea of joining them or trying to find a common place among them may seem appealing.
The very first problem I encountered was trying to achieve with OOP the same level of atomicity expressed by relational databases. I don't think I'm the only one who has ever tried before to simply write a class that translated directly to a relational database table, names and everything, only to have to scratch the design as soon as I tried to express in code the relationships between the tables of the database. What is funny is that it took me a long while to finally understand that the sad truth is that OO design doesn't map well to Relational Data. When I finally did, I felt like Einstein on a bad day.
OOP atomicity is at the class level. Not that of the data member. The amount of effort needed to translate data rules to OOP is high. So high, that it is clearly telling us to stop right there. That is not what OOP was designed for. And this is probably what some OOP defacers don't realize. These are two distinct universes. At first sight the Einsteins may think there is a relationship between them. But... there isn't.
Wish: I wish OOP evolves one day to have the necessary constructs to map directly to relational data.
Moving (Dynamic) Relationships
But if the above is not enough, and someone still insists it is possible to express those kind of relationships (some OOP fans do really believe OOP is the solution to everything), he will be happy to show up with a neat (albeit rather complex) system of classes, interfaces, and whatnots to prove me wrong.
I could perhaps point out the complexity of the code or the time spent for something that is expressed by SQL in 10 or so lines. But that would still lead to debate. As such, all I had to do was to change one of the database rules, to completely destroy his entire design.
OOP is pretty much static. Once the rules are laid out, nothing ever changes. One of the problems of OOP is the fact we need to code with this in mind. OOP defacers point out, perhaps with some reason, if I want to program with change in mind I will end up with a completely different design than that where I didn't expect any changes. But adding to this, we cannot cope with every possible change that may happen in data rules. We can expect a new department to be added to the company. But can we expect Human Resources to move under the direct supervision of the Board for a period of 6 months?
Furthermore, changes in data rules invariably lead to changes in code. There is no way around it. OOP is static and it must conform to the rules in a given period of time. It's easier to predict additions and omissions. But it's much harder to predict, and almost (if not at all) impossible to express, changes in rules.
Wish: I Wish OOP one day adds specific structures capable of expressing ad-hoc relationships.
The best argument against my wishes is how I started them; "OOP is not designed for that". However, I wonder how much of that would be possible.
Granted I never did much reading on these issues. However I don't think it's anyone plan to say OOP is finished, we did all we had to do, and it's the perfect tool for its job. I expect the paradigm to evolve (even if we haven't seen much of that lately) and conform to the demands of an industry that keeps moving towards the future.
OOP lacks abilities to which it wasn't designed for. The question is though, can it add that functionality?


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Article Marketing: Mostly A ScamBlog Post: August 25, 2011
"A fantastic piece of content"... that's your problem right there. 99% of articles "spun" out there are copyright infringing garbage. How can you honestly believe that this type of content is adding to value of the web as a whole? "Spin" the situation all you want, but tactics like those are polluting the web.
I would start writing an authentic article a day and posting it on my blog. Spend another hour trying to build a community of like-minded people who may be potential customers on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Within one year, I built the Journey Mexico Blog to a really well ranking source for credible insight about travel in Mexico. We have thousands of followers who all speak highly of our brand, and I was recently hired by governmental initiative to promote Mexico through blogging because of my efforts. Now we have an assistant to handle the social media side, but for about 8 months, it was just me.
On my personal blog Simply Vallarta, I made one satirical xtranormal video called "Safety of Mexico" that went "semi-viral" within certain circles, which brought me 500 facebook fans and 300 twitter followers in a weekend. It's amazing how quickly/easily you can build real communities of people who care about what you're doing if you just give them authentic content of worth.
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Whitehouse.gov isn't the only governmental website that has gotten a Web 2.0 (well, maybe more like a Web 1.5) makeover. The Republicans members of Congress have revamped their own Web site with some modern touches as well. The new and improved GOP.gov has not only gotten a bit of a redesign, it has added some useful core functionality that should help the GOP extend its reach to more of the Internet-using public.
Under the surface, GOP.gov has joined the Democrats at Whitehouse.gov (and before that, change.gov) in adding a plethora of RSS feeds for interested citizens to keep up on the news. And there are plenty of them, as evidenced by the dedicated RSS feed page, ranging from the last 50 bills to feeds for every committee to videos posted to the site, and nearly everything else one could think of. Most of the feeds appear to work, though all the ones under "Media" (which includes videos, photos, the weekly radio address, the audio podcast, and the video podcast) seem to be broken at the moment.
More significant to the developer crowd is the introduction of the GOP.gov Anywhere API. Through the API, devs can create applications that pull data (through HTTP POST calls) from the site and format it in any number of ways. There are a handful of examples in Perl, ASP, ASP.Net, and JSP posted to the site in order to help people get started. "The GOP.gov API is part of House Republicans' commitment to deliver a more open Congress to the people of the United States by facilitating the transmission of information that can be distributed in real time, across any network, to any user," reads the API page.
As noted by ReadWriteWeb, SunlightLabs has already given the API a test drive and was apparently quite impressed with the available data, though they ran into a number of technical snafus. "Many of these questions would best be discussed for most APIs on a mailing list or with some sort of API contact, but no such official list exists and the only feedback mechanism is an email address listed with a disclaimer stating that the API is not supported," wrote SunlightLabs. "This is hardly the way to foster a community of developers building upon and improving your tools."
Perhaps once the GOP hears about this kind of criticism from the developer community, it will consider changing its tune on the support issue.
In addition to all these newfangled tech additions, GOP.gov offers e-mail subscriptions for the latest news, easier ways to find contact information for Republican representatives (including e-mail addresses and phone numbers), and GOP Portfolio, "a new online community that encourages the promotion of ideas through citizen engagement." And, not to be outdone with the minimalistic robots.txt introduced on Whitehouse.gov, we thought it was worth noting that GOP.gov's robots.txt file has at least the same level of simplicity.
Overall, the site looks good and works (mostly) smoothly. We're certainly liking this new push towards openness and participation from both sides of the aisle, and hope it's not a passing fad.


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Top Global B-schools Now Accept GRE
Top Global B-schools MBA Programmes Now Accept GRE
Five of the top 10 MBA programmes in the world now accept the GRE® General Test, according to the Financial Times' Global MBA rankings for 2009 and Educational Testing Service (ETS). These are China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Harvard (2+2 Program), Instituto De Empresa (IE), MIT Sloan and Stanford.
Canada's Queen's School of Business, ranked by BusinessWeek as the best MBA in the world outside the United States, also accepts the GRE test.
More than 190 business schools from across the globe — including many top-ranked MBA programmes in Europe, Asia and North America — are part of a growing trend of MBA programmes that are seeking to broaden and diversify their candidate pools by accepting GRE test scores.
Last month, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that it will accept GRE scores for admission into its 2+2 programme.