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Amy Choate-Nielsen: Knowledge of family history helps fish-out-of-water find a place to belong
I was almost 11 years old when my family moved from Oklahoma to Connecticut.
It was quite a rite of passage for me.
My parents had been anticipating the move for what seemed like years. I remember all of us sitting around, looking at a map of this funny little box-shaped state with a tail, trying to pronounce the names of the cities in its boundaries.
"Green-witch," I said, when my parents once looked at a house there.
"No, it sounds like 'Gren-itch,' " they told me. We all looked at each other and laughed at such a silly name. I had grown up in a city called Sand Springs, outside of Tulsa, and I had family in Ponca City and Seminole. Those were the names I knew.
Not Greenwich. Not Stamford.
I remember jumping on a tiny little exercise trampoline my parents kept in their master bedroom shortly after, just trying to imagine what those places looked like. It felt so exciting.
I've always had a case of the travel bug in my system, mixed with gut-deep curiosity and a tinge of the grass is greener on the other side. I was bored of our one-story rambler on a sprawling lawn in the middle of nowhere, and I looked forward to the thrill of moving on.
Now, when I think back on my childhood, I remember how the window in my bedroom lit up with the last rays of the day after I'd been tucked into bed at night. I remember orange carpet and a big basement full of books and toys. I remember our sliding glass door off the side of the kitchen and plenty of room to run and play. What I wouldn't give to still climb my favorite tree next to the driveway.
But, the idea of moving was exciting.
My classmates wrote me notes and had a going-away party.
And they all wrote me for a few months after I'd arrived at our new home.
The boy I liked had kissed a girl. One of my classmates had a new best friend. They had parties and projects and were getting along just fine without me.
I felt like a fish-out-of-water.
My new school was OK, but I felt like a stranger. They had all known each other since preschool, and here I was, the new kid who hadn't even lived in the state for five minutes. I hadn't even lived on the same coast. In fact, I hadn't even lived in a state they'd ever heard of — "Oklahoma? Where's that?"
When my mom came to pick me up from school, the gym teacher, who was always on bus duty, would holler, "Oklahoma — your ride is here!" And then she'd start singing the Rodgers and Hammerstein song, "OOOOOOKLAhoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plains," until I got into my seat and we drove away.
It was embarrassing. But it was part of the passage. And looking back, I have grown fond of the memories I have of the awkwardness of adjusting to a new place, new friends and a new state.
Yet, I always thought I didn't belong. I always thought I lacked that Yankee blood that made New England so proud. I always felt a little bit like I was squatting in someone else's heritage, not my own. I felt a little bit like a bumpkin in the big city, no matter the size of Stamford.
So now, decades later, when my brain finally registers that my ancestor, John Choate, immigrated to Massachusetts in 1643, I finally feel justified in all of those years of displacement. I might not have lived east of the Mississippi for very long, but my roots are decidedly part of the magic and history and establishment of New England. My ancestors lived and worked and built there some 90 years before George Washington was born, almost 100 years before Benjamin Franklin flew his kite and 130 years before the Boston Massacre.
I moved again after I graduated high school to come to college in Utah. My move evoked some of the same feelings, but not as much. Now, however, when I look around the room and feel like I don't fit in, I think of my ancestors.
Through them, through their accomplishments, I can belong anywhere.
Amy Choate-Nielsen is a full-time mom and part-time writer. She spends her days at the park and her nights at the computer. She writes about family history and her quest to understand life while learning about her deceased grandmother Fleeta.
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The Sword and the Comma Or Down with Sibawah by Chérif Choubachy
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The Author: Cherif Choubachy is an Egyptian writer and journalist who was born in Alexandria.He lived in France for twenty-one years (from 1980 to 2001) where he worked as a civil servant for UNESCO and then became director of the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram's Paris office. In Egypt, he was a news anchor for the french-speaking TV news and also Vice-Minister of Culture (from 2002 to 2006).
In 20065, he published the book Down with Sibawayh ( translated into French and published in 2007 under the title Le sabre et la virgule) which caused a fierce controversy in the Arab world. Subsequent to official protests he even had to resign from the government in 2006. In his book Choubachy asserts that one of the principle reasons for the retardation of modernity in Arab societies is the Arabic language itself and its complex rules
The Book: The original title of Choubachy's book was Down with Sibawayh (Sibawayh is considered to be the greatest grammarian of the Arabic language). This title is a bit provocative and immediately shows Choubachy's attitude, that of someone who is preaching a renewal of Arabic. This issue is something taboo in Arab societies, because the Arabic language is sacred, as it is the language chosen by God for his last revelation, the Koran. That being so, we can understand why some asserttions by Choubachy, such as "the Arabs are riding a camel along a motorway" or "the Arabs are not able to write their own languagecorrectly " provoked violent reactions.
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Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't, by Toby MATTHIESEN
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Everybody remembers the Arab uprising as the biggest global turmoil since the collapse of the Soviet Union. These mass protests against authoritarian rule that swept the Arab world in 2011 have changed the Middle East forever. They have broken the common idea that Arab countries are fatally condemned to live under authoritarian rulers and have promoted a new Arab public sphere in which Arab autocrats no longer feel secure. Nevertheless, counter-revolutionary forces have since then rapidly set about attempting to divide the protesters along regional, sectarian, tribal, or ideological lines. Such is the sectarian line that Toby MATTHIESEN has decided to study in his book Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't.
Toby MATTHIESEN is a Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. With Sectarian Gulf, he has written a book about the events which took place in the Gulf during 2011. His aim is to provide us with a contribution to the debates around the Arab uprising.
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Medine, rapper or preacher?
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The idea here is to focus our attention on what one French raptivist[1], writer and performer Medine, has to say in one of his numerous songs concerning Islam, Muslims and current society. This singer was indeed awarded the distinction of figuring in France's public History manuals in 2012[2] , and a few months from now will once again stage a come-back with a new album,entitled "the Alb'man". It is consequently interesting to study, through the lyrics of a recent single, from what angle he approaches the current crisis in inter-religious and community relations in French society.
Medine was formerly a member of the hip-hop collective "La Boussole" in 1996 and has been recording with its music label, "DIN records", since 1995. Known for the quality of his writing and his adamantium[3] nib, Medine is an openly committed artist struggling for the right to be a Muslim in France. His provocative lyrics force listeners to reconsider their attitudes, do some thinking and be more open-minded about the world around them.
The Minority Concept in the Turkish Context: Practices and Perceptions in Turkey, Greece and France, by Samim Akgönül
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Samim Akgönül's book is a blend of sociology, history and political science.The author is a professor at the University of Strasburg and a researcher at the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS). In his new book, Samim Akgönül questions the term "minority", focusing specifically on France, Greece and Turkey. This concept of minority is approached by the author very much in the same vein as the French sociologist, Marcel Mauss did, i.e., as a total 'social fact'. 'Socials facts' are conceptual tools for studying different social situations. The author considers the Muslim minorities in Greece as products of the Ottoman Empire's former supremacy, and the Turkish minorities in France as the consequence of the arrival of Turkish immigration in France during the 1960s. Samim Akgönül claims that the issue of minorities in Turkey arose during the 1923 Turkish revolution, simultaneously with the state's will to obliterate all differences between them.
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Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship by Braham Levey Geoffrey, Modood Tariq (Sidney 2005)
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How can secularism and religious pluralism be thought about oday? Can secularism accommodate changing social contexts and more importantly: the challenge of Islam? The contributors of this volume bringing their expertise in various fields of social, religious and political sciences to bear on the study of these questions agree that the answer to the second of these questions might be "Yes" - or rather "Yes, if…".
The book is the result of a symposium held by the University of New South Wales in Sidney 2005 on Religion and Multicultural Citizenship. The editors are two renowned scholars, Geoffrey Braham Levey in the field of political theory and Tariq Modood in Sociology and Public policy and especially the latter can look back on a large number of publications on the subjects of this volume. In their inquiry on how to conceive liberalism, citizenship and its relation to secularism in a contemporary context, the contributors make the solution they suggest also their guiding principle: Reassessing secularism and religion in the light of the pragmatic question: How are multicultural democracies to be made to work?. The volume tries to break out of a discussion on the circular relationship between religion and the liberal state that simply opposes secularist to anti-secularist views. It attempts to re-think secularism from different angles and discuss its usefulness and possible forms in contemporary political and social contexts.
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Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994)
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- Published: 25 November 2014
- Written by Faustine Faure
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist and writer. She was born in 1955. After graduating, she worked as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in several countries undergoing conditions of war or civil conflict, for instance Bosnia or Somalia. In the 1990s, she spent six years in the Middle East, where she became famous for her coverage of the Gulf war.
Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women is a first-hand account , written in dashing, journalistic style. It is a testimony, based on her own direct experience in the Middle East. Although it is considered to be a non-fictional story, it might have been somewhat fictionalized mainly to meet editorial requirements. As the book was first published in 1994: we can easily imagine that 20 years later, the situation in the Middle East must have changed. That is why we may wonder if the issues raised by G. Brooks are still as relevant as they were then.
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The Copts and the West (1439-1822), by Alastair Hamilton
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- Published: 18 November 2014
- Written by Charles Berger
The Copts and the West est un livre d'Alastair Hamilton, fruit de ses recherches sur les relations scientifiques, culturelles, ecclésiologiques entre les Coptes et l'Occident, sur la période 1439-1822
Au moyen d'une narration riche en anecdotes biographiques, l'ouvrage aborde les tentatives d'union, le développement de l'Eglise Catholique Copte, la concurrence entre protestants et catholiques dans le développement des études arabes et coptes, les biographies d'humanistes coptes ayant enseignés en Occident et finalement le rôle des études coptes dans le développement de l'égyptologie.
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Lydie Salvayre, d'une langue à l'autre…
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- Published: 15 November 2014
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Lydie Salvayre a écrit le livre qu'elle devait écrire, certainement un des livres – sinon le livre – de sa vie. Ce livre, Pas pleurer, intensément, presque fébrilement habité de bout en bout, lui permet de remonter enfin triomphalement, mais aussi avec un certain détachement, aux origines, à l'aurore de sa vie, de son destin : en amont du moment où son devenir personnel allait être irréversiblement délité et en même temps comme encodé à rebours par un des événements historiques majeurs du XXème siècle : la révolution noyée dans le sang de la République espagnole de '36. Le sens de l'être, de notre sujet, est sans doute toujours déjà enfoui, occulté par l'histoire familiale, politique et sociétale, marquant à tout jamais notre subjectivité d'une empreinte collective dont nous luttons pour mettre à jour le sens. Mais chez certains individus, venus au monde à des moments charnières de l'Histoire, cela reste encore plus vrai que pour les autres. Ces êtres, lorsqu'ils accèdent à la parole, à la création, sont comme des paroles vivantes de l'Histoire. On pourrait dire qu'à leur insu – et même peut-être contre leur propre gré – ils ont pour destin de porter une parole censurée, mutilée, qui n'est pas seulement la leur, mais qu'ils ont comme charge paradoxale d'incarner et de transmettre en la dénouant enfin. C'est peut-être là ce qui fait la différence entre un(e) écrivain(e) et un lettré ou un idéologue gratte-papier.
Book Review : Le syndrome islamiste et les mutations du capitalisme, par Ahmed Henni
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- Published: 22 July 2014
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English Abstract: Political Islamism is usually considered to be an 'exotic phenomenon' but is seldom explained in the light of economic dynamics and contemporary policies. Ahmed Henni has based his work on a wide range of statistical and historical data and sought to show how that trend is not so much the result of the Koran as it is that of petroleum-related activities and of the transformations of capitalism. The battle that is being fought for the underprivileged by political Islamism is no longer directed at property and the economic power that is derived from it; political sovereignty is the new target. Judicial claims and egalitarian aspirations do not aim to solve problems that are related to the improvement of standards of living of individuals: their goal is the equal redistribution of the income that comes from other entities. When wealth is based on income, it is granted in accordance with social status, not economic activity. That is the reason why social competition for status and position happens in redistribution rather than the production process. This form of Islamism that is commonly presented as political has expanded tremendously in the Gulf States, where oil income has enabled the latter to accumulate wealth and to become a major hub for consumption over the past few years.
Perçu comme un « phénomène exotique », l' « islamisme politique », n'est que rarement expliqué à l'aune des dynamiques économiques et politiques contemporaines.
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The new approach was consciously designed to be a more visual experience
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Designing BBC Search
Dan Tallis
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Hello, I'm Ryan Hope a User Experience Designer in BBC Future Media. I'm delighted to write my first BBC blog post and tell you about a really exciting collaboration that happened earlier this year between BBC User Experience & Design (UX&D) and the Manchester School of Art.
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The app importantly had to incorporate everything which Children love about CBeebies, the humour, surprise, and excitement. We also needed to make sure it was scalable for an audience who are driven by image led navigation, and reliant on large hit states.
Lean-UX and the big picture: a case study
Ferdinando De Meo
User Experience Designer
Over the last six months, I have been working on some internal systems that the BBC uses for curating and editing some of its content online. Based on this experience, I have realised that a Lean UX approach for a complex media organisation like the BBC can be extremely beneficial.
Creating a universal UX pattern for responsive location search
Simon Meredith
The brief was to create a responsive UX pattern for searching and setting a 'preferred' location across the BBC. We needed a unified UX solution – something that would make the user experience more intuitive and reduce the need to repeat location searches.
Design Sprints at the BBC
Dan Ramsden
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Each 'sprint' focuses on a specific design challenge. And because 'sprinting' is so quick, we explore a range of ideas in a relatively short space of time. That's the theory. But like any bit of design thinking, the real insight came from trying it out and testing it in practice.
BBC iWonder: why did we start with a question?
Paul Crowley
Head of UXD
This is a blog post about the development of the recently launched BBC iWonder brand. It's about how we took user centred designs, a strong editorial proposition and product leadership and created a brand.
Optimising for Touch on the Responsive Web
Rory Pickering
User Experience Designer
While positioned in the GEL [http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel] team, I was involved in producing design guidelines to inform our web-based products across the BBC. One such guideline gives recommendations on how to optimise our products for touch input (in simple terms, to make things 'touch-friendly').


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Borers again
Every so often my neighbor complains that borers killed a peach just when it was starting to produce well. He is about 4 houses away. I lost an old peach about 8 years ago and a plum 3 years ago. I am thinking that the borers are hatched out and looking for a new home. I have a large peach and 2 plums that have just started to get large enough to fruit well. What can I do except water well and feed them? Another neighbor on another street showed me his old nectarine that looked terrible with yellowy leaves and sap running out of the trunk all up and down. I thought that tree looked like it was going to die soon. We also had borers kill some street trees a few years ago but I blamed that on the people letting the parkway dry out and stressing the trees. My neighbor is so down about losing this latest peach and I fear for my adolescent trees as well.
Fruit citrus & vegetable insect control. Put this out one month before bores come after fruit off is good time. I use it every year.
Here is a link that might be useful: borer control
I paint the trunks with 50% white latex paint and 50% water/borer mix. I use spinosad (organic) at the rate used for one application, but if anyone knows a different application rate for painting, please let me know.
I haven't had my trees long, so I'm not sure whether my mix will cut it over time, keep in mind! We do have intense borer problems here, and it's been great so far. We'll see ;)
I spray spinosad a couple of more times during the year, too, for other pests, and I make sure to get the branches and trunks really well. Get the base, too!
The mixing with latex paint is supposed to make it last longer, and a paint covering may help prevent borers as well according to what I read. (It also helps sunburn).
Again, I'm still in the experimental phase myself, lol, but maybe it helps give ideas. I hope the spinosad cuts it because its toxicity is pretty great regarding beneficial insects. I get a lot of mileage out of spiders, preying mantises, ladybugs, etc, in controlling other pests in my little orchard so far, and I hope I can keep that part up if possible.
Yes, I worked hard to build up my beneficial insect populations too. I read that the imidacloprid will kill earthworms. With the lack of rain, trees are stressed all over. I'm sure that the borers are increasing their numbers this year especially.
Exterior white latex paint has been shown to be as affective as strongest insecticides (Lorsban is best) at controlling borers on apples and it is probably a safe assumption that it works as well for peaches. An annual application thickly painted on bottom foot of trunk should be adequate- do not dilute. Pull and brush soil away to point where roots emerge and recover when paint is dry.
Here is a link that might be useful: painting to control borers
I had borers last year for the first time on my peach tree. This year I tried painting the trunk from the soil up to and including the scaffolds with a mixture of Surround @ 3 cups/gal.. No sign of borers this year and there is still a trace of the Surround on every surface I applied it to. It rains little here compared to other parts of the U.S. so reapplication might be needed in rainier areas, in fact, it might not be worth having to do all the reapplications in wetter areas.
Maybe Surround is just the modern and far more expensive equivalent of hydraulic cement + milk :)


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Looking for advice on Solid Color Stains
Please share any experience with this type of product-- positive or negative. We're rebuilding our patio covering and the contractor mentioned that we might want to use SCS instead of white paint.This is a product which we are completely unfamiliar with. The patio covering will be fully exposed outdoors with crossed member timbers forming the "roof". We're located in Southern California and due to environmental laws we're unable to use oil based paints that are more durable. Any other suggestions for a lasting painted finish are welcome!
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Here is a link that might be useful: A similar type of Pergola
Someone is giving you bad information if they told you oil based paints are illegal in So. Calif. For exterior application you can purchase oil based paint or water based paints, also, oil based stain or water based stain, translucent stain or opaque stain. A call to any of the paint producers like ICI, Benjamin Moore, Fine Paints of Europe or any of the other major brands will verify this.
I maybe misinformed as to the formulation restrictions, but the formulations have definitely changed--all the painters/contractors/designers have told me that. The trim on our house used to last 8-10 years, now after two it has cracks. And that was done in summer 2006 (touched up in late 2008) with Dunn Edwards paint. Also this was the painter who did the best prep work we've ever had! Our designer said that she has a customer who leaves the state to buy his paint just to get the more durable formulation.
Please tell me what to ask for. I've used BMoore paint for interior spaces, but agreed to go with Dunn Edwards for the exterior. Later on today I'll look at the cans and let you know what type of paint was used. I'd be grateful for more insight and direction!
There is a seminew formula that is a cross between an oil base and water base paint. If material cost is not an issue, then you can purchase this type of paint from ICI or Fine Paints of Europe. I buy mine from ICI because it's too far to drive to get FPE. In any case, use the undercoat recommended on the can. If you think there are different formulas in different states, call the manufacturer, ask for the chemist, and he will tell you. FPE is a good one to call on this. He will talk your ear off. Call him for sure. Their phone number is 800-332-1556. Let us know what you find out.


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Samsung's first B2B tablet, the Galaxy Tab Active, has gone on sale in Australia.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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Late Blooms from New Plants
In this thread I will post pictures of the new plants I've gotten that put up late scapes.
First is RED CHILE RENDEZVOUS, which opened today. The scape was just below where the foliage was cut back when I received it early this month.
I was amazed by the ruffling, twisting, and curling of this flower. It measured about 5.5" across. Color is like a red hot pepper. It glowed bright in the sunlight.
This was the one that Bill Maryott gave out at the Region 6 meeting this year. It was registered in 2009 but introduced for distribution in 2011.
Lucky you to get that one from Bill! I love that red-hot color and the ruffling. It really does seems to glow and the name is fun. The added bonus is that it is blooming right now. I just love how anything we get from Maryott's wants to bloom, no matter how soon after you plant it and no matter where in the country you live. His plants are magical.
Appreciate the compliments -- it's nice to be able to provide a little color when almost everyone else is done blooming. You guys did the same for me during this hot dry summer. My last daylily before this one bloomed in the middle of July (!!!), so it's been a long time.
I think the yellow wire edge on RCR really makes the red pop.
Other scapes on new plants (which will eventually join this thread):
SKINWALKER (ETA 1.5 - 2 weeks)
CITRIX (ETA 2.5 - 3 weeks)
Today RED CHILE RENDEZVOUS opened its last bloom, and SKINWALKER opened its first. Unfortunately, DW is out of town with the camera, so I have cell phone photos, which are less true to the color.
RED CHILE RENDEZVOUS (compare to the other photo to see how much better my camera shows color).
SKINWALKER (a little frazzled at the tips, but showing the wonderful suspended three-dimensional curls).
CITRIX buds are showing some color now.
And like magic, there it is! It rained hard this afternoon and the flower was all melty when I got home, but it looked pretty excellent this morning. I really enjoy this sort of secondary bloom season where I get a sneak preview of the new plants (and it's also reassuring to know early on that they're the correct plants).
I think the next CITRIX and SKINWALKER open tomorrow, and both have pretty good clusters of buds.
Maybe you're tired of the same things over and over, but here are a couple more shots.
This photo of CITRIX from yesterday came out especially crisp and clear.
And here's SKINWALKER today, the first photo I've taken on the camera rather than the cell phone. Tomorrow will be it's third consecutive day in bloom.
At this point things are so late that they're early! WHEEL OF TIME opened its first bud today, and I had to turn the sepals out this afternoon because it hadn't opened all the way (but when I popped them open, they stayed that way).
Coming soon: MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE in less than a week, and then NEW PARADIGM (barring any freeze).
I'm still holding off on rust treatment just for observation, and NEW PARADIGM is getting pretty freckly and infecting a few of the things around it.
Well here's the last confused daylily to bloom from last year's new plantings. Everything from now forward should be an actual spring scape.
NEW PARADIGM bloomed last week, but it barely opened so I didn't post it. Today it was going to rain, so I cut the scape and brought it inside last night. Not the best bloom ever (nor the best photo), but the weather has been all over the place lately. It's definitely the right plant though!


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This topic discusses the so-called Sugeno, or Takagi-Sugeno-Kang, method of fuzzy inference. Introduced in 1985 [9], it is similar to the Mamdani method in many respects. The first two parts of the fuzzy inference process, fuzzifying the inputs and applying the fuzzy operator, are exactly the same. The main difference between Mamdani and Sugeno is that the Sugeno output membership functions are either linear or constant.
A typical rule in a Sugeno fuzzy model has the form
If Input 1 = x and Input 2 = y, then Output is z = ax + by + c
For a zero-order Sugeno model, the output level z is a constant (a=b =0).
The output level zi of each rule is weighted by the firing strength wi of the rule. For example, for an AND rule with Input 1 = x and Input 2 = y, the firing strength is
where F1,2 (.) are the membership functions for Inputs 1 and 2.
The final output of the system is the weighted average of all rule outputs, computed as
where N is the number of rules.
A Sugeno rule operates as shown in the following diagram.
The preceding figure shows the fuzzy tipping model developed
in previous sections of this manual adapted for use as a Sugeno system.
Fortunately, it is frequently the case that singleton output functions
are completely sufficient for the needs of a given problem. As an
example, the system
tippersg.fis is the Sugeno-type
representation of the now-familiar tipping model. If you load the
system and plot its output surface, you will see that it is almost
the same as the Mamdani system you have previously seen.
a = readfis('tippersg'); gensurf(a)
The easiest way to visualize first-order Sugeno systems is to think of each rule as defining the location of a moving singleton. That is, the singleton output spikes can move around in a linear fashion in the output space, depending on what the input is. This also tends to make the system notation very compact and efficient. Higher-order Sugeno fuzzy models are possible, but they introduce significant complexity with little obvious merit. Sugeno fuzzy models whose output membership functions are greater than first order are not supported by Fuzzy Logic Toolbox™ software.
Because of the linear dependence of each rule on the input variables, the Sugeno method is ideal for acting as an interpolating supervisor of multiple linear controllers that are to be applied, respectively, to different operating conditions of a dynamic nonlinear system. For example, the performance of an aircraft may change dramatically with altitude and Mach number. Linear controllers, though easy to compute and well suited to any given flight condition, must be updated regularly and smoothly to keep up with the changing state of the flight vehicle. A Sugeno fuzzy inference system is extremely well suited to the task of smoothly interpolating the linear gains that would be applied across the input space; it is a natural and efficient gain scheduler. Similarly, a Sugeno system is suited for modeling nonlinear systems by interpolating between multiple linear models.
To see a specific example of a system with linear output membership
functions, consider the one input one output system stored in
fismat = readfis('sugeno1'); getfis(fismat,'output',1)
This syntax returns:
Name = output NumMFs = 2 MFLabels = line1 line2 Range = [0 1]
The output variable has two membership functions.
This syntax returns:
Name = line1 Type = linear Params = -1 -1
This syntax returns:
Name = line2 Type = linear Params = 1 -1
Further, these membership functions are linear functions of
the input variable. The membership function
line1 is
defined by the equation
and the membership function
line2 is
defined by the equation
The input membership functions and rules define which of these output functions are expressed and when:
showrule(fismat) ans = 1. If (input is low) then (output is line1) (1) 2. If (input is high) then (output is line2) (1)
The function
plotmf shows us that the membership
low generally refers to input values less
than zero, while
high refers to values greater
than zero. The function
gensurf shows how the overall
fuzzy system output switches smoothly from the line called
line1 to
the line called
subplot(2,1,1), plotmf(fismat,'input',1) subplot(2,1,2),gensurf(fismat)
As this example shows, Sugeno-type system gives you the freedom to incorporate linear systems into your fuzzy systems. By extension, you could build a fuzzy system that switches between several optimal linear controllers as a highly nonlinear system moves around in its operating space.


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-your college may have some kind of student assistance service that helps with finding roommates or accepts advertisements for students looking for them
-do interview potential roommates to get a feel for their vibe
-do mention your dog so those with allergies or dislikes won't waste both of your time
-do mention your art at least so those who would be bothered by art materials (I am sensitive to the presence of solvents etc) won't waste both of your time
-rent is generally split 50-50 as are utilities unless there is some huge imbalance in the amenities each enjoys- for instance if one occupies a large bedroom with ensuite bathroom while the other has a small bedroom and uses the public bathroom. Some address this imbalance by trading rooms every six months
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What is the goal of the method "setResolvedUrl" ?
Wha'ts a way to utilize when developing audio or video plugin ?
setResolvedUrl: what does it do ?
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2013-09-22 22:28 Post: #2
setResolvedUrl is used to - like the name says - set the (playable) url for an listitem _after_ it got selected.
Main call flow for a plugin without setResolvedUrl is as following:
1. plugin adds a bunch of listitems which have URLs pointing back to the plugin and isFolder=True
(optional repeat step 1 multiple times)
2. plugin adds a bunch of listitems which have playable URLs pointing to a playable resource with isFolder=False (e.g. http://server.com/video.mp4 or rtmp://foo.bar/file)
3. user chose one of them and xbmc starts playing the already known playable url
Problem is, in some cases the plugin does not know the playable URL for all items which were populated in step 2 - the plugin would become slow because it needs to calculate or scrape the playable URLs for multiple ListItems - even if the user only wants to play one of them. This is (one of multiple) good usecases for the usage of setResolvedUrl.
Here the same flow but _with_ the usage of setResolvedUrl:
1. plugin adds a bunch of listitems which have URLs pointing back to the plugin and isFolder=True
(optional repeat step 1 multiple times)
2. plugin adds a bunch of listitems which have not playable URLs (pointing back the plugin) with isFolder=False - but these items represent playable files for which the plugin does not yet know the playable URL
3. user chose one of them and the plugin gets called to set the _resolved_ playable url for the chosen listitem and does so.
4. the player receives the playable url via setResolvedUrl and starts playing the now known playable url.
There are some other usecases in which the usage (or the extra level/round of plugin call) makes sense, e.g.:
- time critical URLs in general (if the user wants to add a listitem to its favourites, the url could be outdated on later call)
- dynamic URLs (the listitem is is meant for something like "play the newest video")
- preventing of XBMC's mime type retrieving HEAD-Request for all playable ListItems URLs
- (much more rare reasons)
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2013-09-23 09:07 Post: #3
A lot of thanks for the tutorial !
I plan to try this different approach in 2 weeks. My Plugin actually have a 'clean' list of url, every one is static, playable and fully resolved, so I'm thinking about the need to do the change, but I'd like to try, and, of course, if it's the 'official' way to play a video, I want to learn it
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2013-10-03 19:56 Post: #4
I found out the setResolvedUrl() is useless without settings the item.setProperty("IsPlayable", "true"). so like:
liz=xbmcgui.ListItem(name, iconImage="DefaultVideo.png", thumbnailImage=iconimage)
But this only works for video and music items.
Is there also a special (hidden) property to set to make this work for picture items?
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2013-10-04 11:14 Post: #5
Do you have an example to a classic listitem and enddirectory ?
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(2013-10-04 11:14)realtebo Wrote: Do you have an example to a classic listitem and enddirectory ?
Have a look at this really simple addon I wrote for RT News: https://github.com/learningit/plugin.vid...default.py
getSources has an example of how to setup a a directory with a playable link and links another level of directories
mode==18 scrapes a webpage and builds a directory of urls with enough data to pass to mode==19 which scrapes and plays the actual link, rather than reading dozens of pages to create static urls.
Remember that everything falls through to the xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(int(sys.argv[1])) at the end of the module.
I use code similar to mode==19 all the time to allow the addon to be called from other addons to play urls which require tokens, cookies, whatever.
You can have a look at https://github.com/learningit/plugin.vid...nowtvguide at mode=='play' to see how I modified an existing USTVNOW addon which uses dynamic urls to allow it to be played from a static url in a .strm file from the tvguide addon.
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So, in this piece of coce : https://github.com/realtebo/plugin.video...y#L115-137
for mp4 in json["files"][language_code]["MP4"]:
i tried to do the following mod
for mp4 in json["files"][language_code]["MP4"]:
but I simply got an empty list ... What I'm missing ?
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Quote:NOTICE: ['plugin://plugin.video.jworg/', '29', '?content_type=video&json_url=%2fapps%2fTRGCHlZRQVNYVrXF%3fdocid%3d502013390%26output%3djson%26fileformat%3dmp4%26alllangs%3d1%26track%3d1%26langwritten%3dI%26txtCMSLang%3dI&mode=open_json_video&thumb=http%3a%2f%2fassets.jw.org%2fassets%2fm%2fijw14nw%2f502013390%2fijw14nw_id-502013390.art%2f502013390_univ_sqr_md.jpg']
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Try casting the jw_config.pluginPid to int, ie int(jw_config.pluginPid) wherever you're using it. It looks like a str to me. I'm assuming that jw_config.pluginPid is a global storing sys.argv[1] from the initial addon call.
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2013-10-07 16:46 Post: #9
As sphere explained, setResolvedUrl is called after the user selects the list item.
So your list item URL should be a 'plugin://plugin.video.jworg' url that calls back to your script with a 'mode' that calls setResolvedUrl with the actual media URL, then the player starts.
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2013-10-07 16:49 Post: #10
I'm simply don't undertstanding why to add more code and more work to something it's already working....
If the goal is 'only' to allow my plugin to be callable from external, I'll don't change my code
I know it's very important for some plugin, but not for mine.
(2013-10-07 16:41)learningit Wrote: Try casting the jw_config.pluginPid to int, ie int(jw_config.pluginPid) wherever you're using it. It looks like a str to me. I'm assuming that jw_config.pluginPid is a global storing sys.argv[1] from the initial addon call.
No, jw_config.pluginPid is already been casted to integer.
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Sorry, i only glanced at the error msg, divingmule is absolutely right. setResolvedUrl is not just for allowing a plugin to be externally callable. It can also be used to defer choices and config parms. For example with the website you're trying to scrape, there are many language choices and video resolution choices. If you defer the building of the playable url based upon language selection, people will be able to add videos to favorites and playlists and be able to globally switch languages being played based upon an addon config parameter because it's not a static url. Likewise for a global addon setting for the video resolution to play. Using your static method, they would have to change all playlists and favorites.
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2013-10-07 20:20 Post: #12
Uhm .. I'm really thankfull for your explanation. If I'd see a situation unable to solve, I'll retry to apply this method.
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i have read all the posts in this thread few times
i think that i am missing something:
1- most of the popular addons i see dont use it
2- it seems like something very important , but i cant understand it yet !
right now i am using folder=false but the addon DONOT scrap each url , so what is the diference?
i really need a simple explanation.
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(2013-12-09 23:15)o2ri Wrote: i have read all the posts in this thread few times
I think what hasn't been specifically said in this thread is that there is a difference between an addon script and an addon plugin. I may get this wrong (and someone correct me if I am), but a plugin is really just an lightweight event processor that handles directory items and doesn't have to concern itself with window processing etc. It is called (loaded) each time a user-defined event occurs to handle reasonable high level activities. There is a single thread which represents the plugin. The final call to xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory is something akin to DefaultWinProc in that it handles all the nitty-gritty common processing details. setResolvedUrl simply sets up that processing for playing a directory item that isn't directly marked as playable when added to the directory.
There are a few reasons for doing it this way, but the most common I've seen is either when you have an index page that you've scrapped which contains urls or video ids to the pages which have the actual playable urls. Another reason is when a token has to be created to play the url. Rather than read each individual pointed to page to resolve the url as you build the index directory, you can put enough info from the index page into the url stored in the index directory item (as playable=false and folder=false) to allow a routine resolve the actual playable url and create a playable directory item for it. It allows you to postpone some the work until the user clicks on the link.
An addon script loads and remains resident, can manage multiple threads and a richer set of events such as input, timers, window components, etc. I think many of the addons that you see directly calling the player, rather than setresolvedUrl are addon scripts, not plugins.
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2013-12-10 22:57 Post: #15
(2013-12-10 00:31)learningit Wrote:(2013-12-09 23:15)o2ri Wrote: i have read all the posts in this thread few times
This is exactly it. I have a video plugin that lists a bunch of categories. When you click on a category it scrapes a website and grabs all of the information for all the videos listed on the page. Some pages may have 50 videos. Unfortunately the acutal mp4 file for each video is not located on that page. You have to click on each indivudual thumbnail to be taken to the video. So, if I didn't use setResolvedUrl() I would have to load 50 pages and scrape them to find the mp4 file, which would take too long and the video plugin would sit there for minutes. Instead, I get the url that the video is on, then scrape it to find the mp4, then call setResolvedIUrl().
You can see that here: https://bitbucket.org/boralyl/plugin.vid...ster#cl-27
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-10 22:58 by foomanshoe.)
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KBI launches investigation in wake of Hamilton County sheriff's arrest
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation following the weekend arrest of the Hamilton County sheriff.
Richard Garza was arrested on suspicion of one count of aggravated assault early Sunday morning in Syracuse, the Syracuse Journal reported. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at about 3:45 a.m. Sunday.
The Greeley County sheriff was contacted once the responding deputy determined Garza was involved and no emergency services were needed, the Journal reported. Garza placed himself on administrative suspension pending the outcome of an investigation.
Undersheriff Nicholas Krug is the acting sheriff in this sparsely populated county west of Garden City and on the Colorado border.
Hamilton County Attorney Rob Gale requested a special prosecutor, according to a statement released by the KBI, and Scott County Attorney John Shirley has been appointed to handle the case.
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