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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic track-and-field gold medalist Carl Lewis won a second federal appeals court ruling allowing his name on the ballot for a New Jersey state senate seat.
Lewis, a 50-year-old Democrat who has been vying for a place on the ballot for the state's Eighth Legislative District, persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to reverse a Sept. 7 ruling barring his name from the list of candidates.
Today's ruling reinstates Lewis as the Democratic party nominee. Lewis won an uncontested primary election in June after the appeals panel temporarily barred a ruling by New Jersey's top elections official that Lewis was ineligible to run because he didn't meet state residency requirements.
New Jersey Secretary of State Kim Guadagno, a Republican who also serves as lieutenant governor, refused to certify Lewis as a candidate last month. U.S. District Court Judge Noel Hillman ruled Sept. 6 that Guadagno's decision and the state's four-year residency requirement didn't violate Lewis's constitutional rights. Ballots for the November race are scheduled to be printed by Sept. 18.
"Today's decision puts this matter with the voters of the Eighth Legislative District where it rightfully belongs," William M. Tambussi, one of Lewis's attorneys, said in an e- mailed statement. "The voters now have a meaningful choice."
Fred Snowflack, a spokesman for Guadagno, said she was "reviewing the decision" and declined to comment further.
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The case turned on whether Lewis was a resident of the state before a Nov. 8, 2007, cutoff. Lewis grew up in New Jersey before moving to Texas and California. Lawyers for the nine-time Olympic gold medalist said he bought a home in New Jersey in 2005, which made him a state resident.
Guadagno said the record showed Lewis didn't buy his current home until Nov. 16, 2007, eight days after the cutoff. She also argued that Lewis certified he was a California resident each time he voted there in three elections in 2008 and one in 2009.
A divided three-judge appeals panel ruled that Hillman erred in upholding the state's finding that Lewis didn't meet residency requirements.
"The state has failed to demonstrate a compelling state interest in the application of this durational residency requirement to this particular candidate," U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro said in a one-page ruling.
Lewis has been campaigning to represent a district that has traditionally elected Republicans. Incumbent Dawn Marie Addiego, a Republican, was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Phil Haines, who was tapped for a judgeship.
The federal case is Lewis v. Guadagno, 1:11-cv-02381, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Camden). The appeal is Lewis v. Guadagno, 11-3401, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia).
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Slow-Cooked Swiss Steak Recipe
This is a favorite because I can flour and season the steaks and refrigerate them the night before. The next morning, I put the ingredients in the slow cooker, and the dish is ready when I come home from work.—Sarah Burks, Wathena, Kansas
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 pounds beef round steak, cut into six pieces
- 1 medium onion, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 celery rib, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 2 cans (8 ounces each) tomato sauce
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt and pepper. Add the steak; seal bag and toss to coat.
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Summary: World War I has started and the military needs horses to move equipment, charge the enemy, and carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield. Joey, a farm horse, is sold to the Army. Joey misses the farmer's son, Albert, and spends the war years wondering if the war will ever end and if he will ever see Albert again.
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so i walk into a bar with someone i work with. he looks around the room and says, "there sure are a lot of...democrats in here."
If it's because there were a lot of minorities in there, yes racist and yes it's pointing out a reasonable stereotype.
Saying something like "you like basketball, right?" to a black male is racist. It is also a pretty reasonable guess because black males like to put themselves into the stereotype. Racist yes, reasonable stereotype yes, but just refrain from mentioning it unless you're trying to be a dck like your friend.
is it because only democrats go to bars?
Jesus the Friend
Who cares.
Using the word "racism" is idiotic.
Every race is different.
I slammed your mom with a non sequitur.
That's what she said.
Well it depends, stereotypical probably.
You're either Christian or you're democrat, and Christians don't drink. Reasonable assumption.
Implying that you can (consistently without error) discern ones political leaning by looking at them.
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You know the saying that if you're in a playoff position at Thanksgiving, you'll likely wind up in the playoffs?
1) Boston – made it
2) Tampa Bay – made it
3) Pittsburgh – made it
4) Detroit – made it
5) Montreal – made it
6) Toronto – flopped like "John Carter"
7) Rangers – made it
8) Washington – failed like Microsoft
The Flyers were 12th but went 31-18-7
Columbus was 13th and went 33-19-4
1) Chicago – made it
2) St Louis – made it
3) Anaheim – made it
4) San Jose – made it
5) Los Angeles – made it
6) Colorado – made it
7) Minnesota – made it
8) Phoenix – losing 8 or 9 down the stretch didn't help
Dallas was 12th with a decent 12-9-2 record and went an unimpressive 28-21-9 to clinch, which just goes to show you how sucky everyone else was.
As it stands tonight, Dallas would face Anaheim and St Louis and Chicago would have to beat the shit out of each other and ONE of them will be wonderfully ELIMINATED. The Ducks have TWO games left (vs the Kings tomorrow and then the FINALE at home against Colorado which COULD determine who each team plays depending on the outcome of the Kings game tomorrow!)
Let's see if I got this shit right (I usually don't)
If the Ducks get 1 point out of 4:
They win the conference no matter what the Blues and Colorado do: They play Dallas
If the Ducks get 0 points out of 4:
If Colorado wins and St Louis wins or ties: Ducks play Minnesota, Colorado plays Dallas, Blues play Chicago
If St Louis gets 2 points and Colorado gets 1 or less: Ducks play Minnesota, Colorado plays Chicago, Blues play Dallas
Remember the 2 points the Kings didn't get in Detroit because 4 refs didn't see a puck hit the mesh, go off Quicks back and into the net? It wouldn't have mattered anyway.
To Jamie Benn who said to the crowd, "We have the best fans in the league" – Um, no, you don't. You don't even have the 17th best fans in the league.
So John Tortorella goes from the Rangers to the Canucks, changes their style and the Sedin's have their worst season ever and they miss the playoffs. Alain Vignault goes from the Canucks to the Rangers, changes their style and they have home ice advantage.
Justin Johnson, who was the Monarchs resident punching bag for nearly 3 seasons made his NHL debut tonight with the Islanders as a 32 year old rookie. Congratulations on NEVER giving up on your dream. Albeit it will be a short one, but at least he got to play 7:15.
Anyone feel sorry for Penner? Anyone?
Alex Ovechkin scored ANOTHER goal on the power play from the circle. I feel sorry for whomever gets Washington in the playoffs. Hmm? What? They didn't MAKE the playoffs? WHAT?
The New Jersey Devils lost their 13th shootout in a row tonight(17 dating back to last season) – if they had won just FIVE of those games, they would likely be on facing Boston in the 1st round.
Ryan Smyth: "I wish I would have won the Stanley Cup" – Well, jackass, the year you left the Kings, they did just that while you were playing golf after yet another miserable Oilers season.
So Detroit lost at home against Carolina…. Guess they'd rather play Boston than the Rangers?
Those 2 points only matter to Detroit who would still be battling for a spot if not for the blind refs.
So close to having it figured out Barry , till the last line. Detroit is in the Atlantic division, they can not play NYR in the first round. They are a wild card team that will play Boston or Detroit. Philly or Lumbus will play the Rangers in round one.
Wild card plays Boston or Pitty. Sorry.
The two points didn't matter for the Kings, but it shure as hell did for Detroit. Without that ref blunder Washington and Detroit would still be battling for the last playoff spot in the east. I believe Illich owes the Kings free pizza for life.
Free pizza? Illich doesn't own a pizza chain, he owns Little Caesareans.
I kinda chuckled when Smyth said that, it's a glaringly idiotic statement. When your drive to play in your hometown outweighs your drive to win the Cup with a bitchen team, then that's what you get fucker. You had your chance, you knew it and you blew it. Suck it up Smyth, no crying allowed.
Just poetic justice with Smyth. I almost felt sorry for him. And then I suddenly realised that he really got what he deserved.
What would be even funnier is if Edmonton wins the cup next season!
I don't know, I really don't think we win the Stanley Cup if Smyth would have stayed with us. The dynamic of the team would have been different.
Only thing that might have hurt is the cap. Smyth would have been on the third with Stoll and Lewis would have probably been the fourth line center instead of Fraser. Who knows really.
Trapper, you are 100% right. There is no way the Kings would have been able to fit in both Richards and Carter with Smyth and his $6.25 mill cap hit, in the lineup. Not sure why everyone is so pissed off he asked for a trade? There is a great chance that if he doesn't ask for a trade we don't win the Stanley cup, so bsaically he did us a huge favour. At the end of the day yes he is probably regretting that decision, but you can't really blame the guy for wanting to leave for family reasons.
funny all the "tears" Smitty had last night….saw those exact same "Tears" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desNNUzLjZg hey, whatever became of Ryan O'Marra? haha Oilers lost that trade too!
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We have currently sorted all of our reservations for TS meals and know when we will need our QS meals! The problem we have is that we have 4 QS left over as we don't eat lunch really when we are there - being from Britain the heat severely kills our appetite...anyway...would you be able to use a QS credit to buy a snack item...I was thinking some treat that I could bring home with me! Not the best use I know...but oh well! x
You could also use them for breakfast or maybe grab a sandwich to take with you when you leave.
We have already planned them for breakfast! We aren't able to use them all because of the days we are going to SW, US, IoA and DC, where we will either be eating dinner or breakfast there! We are just hoping we are able to use them all! Especially seeing as we have 14 snack credits to use aswell! :S
On our most recent stay (Feb '13), we ended up using our QS *and* snack credits to buy some snacks that we then ate on the day we were leaving.
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"Avid created the AAX format with future expansion in mind, so it is only going to become more relevant to our customers," said Jon Schorah, NUGEN Audio creative director. "Our customers who rely on Avid editing tools can be certain that ISL will continue to be compatible with Avid products as they measure and correct for inter-sample levels in their audio."
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A narrative is a story, a sequence of written or spoken words. It is in many ways the foundation that all literature stands upon, that makes language intelligible and shares understanding, whether it is a fictional or factual event. Thus if narratives of various kinds structure the imagined world, they also structure reality, our social world. Humans recount experiences through storytelling and create fictions with words because narratives can explain what could happen, allowing forms of agency that otherwise would not exist.
In the ancient world myths – themselves transported in narrative form – reduced the alien and threatening complexity of experience to an intelligible meaning shared within a particular community. In our modern world novels can be argued to perform an analogous function. As aesthetic discourse, in the form of fictional and imaginary accounts, novels are able to assimilate into their imagined world other discourses – about religion, war, science, art, technology, even the emergence of human consciousness itself – and so to reflect at a higher level upon those discourses, and novels may ultimately (or possibly) reduce these other discourses to a single intelligible world-view. But literary narrative is not only a way of imagining and explaining the world, it also has the power to intervene, to prompt agency. In the times we live in this could not be more true in regards to how people live with constitutional uncertainty in their daily lives, and must cope with a 'risk society' that is as disorientating and perilous as it seems to be exciting.
Nicholas Saul, professor of German literature and intellectual history at Durham's School of Modern Languages and Cultures, is currently researching eco-narratives in German novels, exploring the relationships between understandings of environmental catastrophes in literature within the much wider framework of evolutionary theory and literary evolution, especially the influence of Darwinism.
Saul gave a seminar in IHRR on 'Making Evolution Visible: Volcanoes and Other Tipping Points in Franz Hohler's Apocalyptic Eco-Narratives', that focused on the work of Swiss-German author and cabarettist Franz Hohler, and included views from the German sociologist Ulrich Beck, acclaimed author of World at Risk, and Niklas Luhmann, another renowned German sociologist and founder of sociological systems theory.
Narrative of the Apocalypse
In the eco-narratives of Hohler Saul finds a not unfamiliar narrative that has pervaded human culture at least since the Bible – the narrative of the apocalypse. The use of an apocalyptic narrative about environmental catastrophes like climate change, he notes, is widespread. Yet this turn to the religious or devotional is odd in modern culture, which many people criticise for its unremitting materialism. Ecological theories today are surely by definition scientific and systematic, that is, post-theological and probably materialistic in their assumptions. Thus the narratives of eco-apocalypse, in which a jealous, righteous and vengeful creator God punishes his sinful creatures with the near-extinction of the Great Flood or, ultimately, as in St John, the end of the world, unwittingly carry with them some theological – and mythical – baggage that usually goes unrecognised in popular culture.
'The apocalypse is a pre-modern form of narrative informed by theological categories that inform the shape of the narrative and its content. It's interesting the way it is mapped onto a phenomenon, [such as climate change], that has been only understood in modern, scientific terms very recently'.
Ecological entanglement
While people today live in a far more secular society than, say, the Middle Ages, contemporary society has not been able to dispense completely with the mythical narratives that were once used to make higher forces comprehensible and meaningful. Today our relationship with the environment is thought of in terms of complex systems. Society is ecologically entangled with the natural environment, in a single macro- system, unable to step outside of it. Systems tend to reproduce themselves, heedless of individuals.
Social systems also share so many different relations with the 'natural' environment that it is difficult to find where the two separate. Yet the totality of those complex and systematic relationships is not, as Luhmann would say, intelligible to any single observer. As a result individuals seem at once both to understand that they are complicit in the production of incipient eco-disaster and to feel totally divorced from its causes. Those causes lie in someone else's nuclear (or coal-fired) power station, beyond our understanding or beyond our control. The same applies to the symptoms, which affect someone else's seashore or the survival chances of the generation after next, but not us (even thoughwe think we know that we ourselves, in our generation, contribute to the causes and feel the effects). In short: we as individuals feel we are exposed to risk developments over which we have no control, even if we end up in some obscureway responsible – just like antique heroes in a mythical tragedy of fate, toyed with for the sport of the gods. We are disconnected from reality in our minds to that extent.
In his work on Hohler, Saul refers to the writer's strategy in fiction to reconnect the individual with the environment of which s/he is a part. Hohler writes not just about things, but about people (often writers) observing things which they should, but do not question. Thus his focus is not only on the environmental happenings but also on the response of the individual. Hence Saul sees Hohler as a writer 'who is developing a narrative which brings the events from outside in the world to the inside of the writer's mind'. 'Eco-catastrophe happens over hundreds or thousands of years. It's a development which is simply too big and too hard to encompass in a single conventional explicatory narrative. But Hohler also portrays punctuated equilibrium – sudden revolutionary shifts in the stable balance of the ecosystem – not across the abyss of deep Darwinian time, but over the course of a few years. It's the figure of the apocalypse, of sudden unforeseen collapse, which humanity has somehow caused and is punished for, which maps onto that swift collapse of the ecosystem'.
So what the apocalyptic narrative does according to Saul is make the real, yet normally invisible threat of ecological catastrophe 'visible to the imagination'.
'In this kind of literary form you can after all show the subject and the system as connected. The two fit together and make sense. 'If you can do that, you can make individuals re-enact agency in their imagination, and enact agency intheir own reality. Hohler's fiction can be seen as a kind of tipping point experience for the reader – just as St John's biblical Apocalypse was meant to change the mind of its original reader'. The fact that people became more aware of the complexities of living in the world is also evidenced in literary history, at least if we think of it as a process of cultural evolution, which is also structured by critical tipping points. Saul says literary history is usually (and rightly)divided up into epochs, similar to natural history. In fact, like the history of the natural world, it does not change smoothly and gradually. Often changes in literary history happen suddenly and without previous indication. It is therefore plausible to argue that literature responds to society in crisis as a system responds to its eco-environment in crisis, by adapting in radical and often unpredictable, non-linear ways.
This can help to explain some very sudden shifts in literary epoch, such as that at the turn of the nineteenth century from realism (think Dickens) to modernism (think Joyce) over a few short years. In writing literary history, it is hard to see a linear – narrative – development from Dickens's traditional narrative to Joyce's reduction of time to space in his 'stream of consciousness' narrative. But one can see the shift as an emergent response of literature to grasp the growing complexity of mass urban society and a culture saturated in technology and complex science. And here again Joyce deploys myth; Ulysses, of course. Saul, together with many other scholars today, finds that there are profound, deep-structural interactions between the literary world and society that is evolutionary.
According to Luhmann, you could say that the system of literary production is exposed to perturbations from the social world 'outside' of it. In responding to those perturbations the literary system is itself destabilised, and 'in order for it to continue to perform its role in representing and criticising that world outside it', it must change. 'A tipping point is when a new aesthetic emerges. So you can actually begin to develop a new, literary-historical toolbox for re-writing how literature changes in evolutionary ways'.
Moving on to still another level, we could argue that in the pre-modern world the Bible functioned not only as a myth in the sense defined above, but also as the myth, what we call a master narrative, which governs most of our world view and actions. In modernity of course the need for such a myth still obtains, irrespective of complexity and science. Where are we to find a replacement myth, if our adherence to the world of the Bible has been eroded? It could be that Darwin's theory – a narrative of course – is the answer.
'… Whereby the previous foundational narrative of Occidental culture – The Bible – and all of its associated discourses […] has been eroded and displaced by the process of secularisation, by a critique of revealed truths through human reason. The agent that makes that happen is Darwin – still today the scientific orthodoxy. Darwin penned the tale of the master narrative that today everyone subscribes to'.
From Darwin to post-human
Contemporary German writers such as the Berlin publicist and novelist Dietmar Dath are often 'confessing Darwinists' and extrapolate the evolutionary narrative to its maximum. Thus they write about the post-human, or what it means, or will quickly mean, to live with the capability of genetically engineering our own bodies. This is explored in Dath's futuristic novel The Abolition of Species, a provocative spin on the title of Charles Darwin's opus On the Origin of Species. 'What does it mean asks Dath that we can play with our bodies as with toys, that there's no difference between experimenting with ourselves as with animals. There may be a tipping point in cultural history there'. And Dath sees his owns books as helping us to negotiate that move to the 'post-human human'.
Saul himself is now working on an evolutionary cultural history of German literature, 'not only the history of Darwinism in German literature, but also, ultimately seeing literature itself as an agent in evolutionary change'. This means among other things asking what is the evolutionary function of literature? The question may seem at first overly reductionist and materialistic, but actually understands that literature and the rest of the arts have acquired and perform a distinct function in humanity's cultural evolution. 'Like language clearly it's a kind of evolutionary adaptation. Much better: an 'exaptation', a behavioural capacity of pleasing representational communication in this case, which has evolved not necessarily for a use, but for which a use has been found by humans'. So will literature ever move out of neo-apocalyptic mode?
'There does seem to be a time lag between the development of scientific knowledge and literary forms which make sense of all that. One of the interesting things about eco-literature, up till now, is that it talks about modern crises in old fashioned ways. Somehow it has to have recourse to the theological language and the theoretical narrative of apocalypse. It's as if somehow our literary language lags behind, in the cultural world, what we know to be the case in science. We need a language of agency and change, otherwise we're not going to change, and the old myth of the apocalypse, updated to offer us to the possibility of action, seems to be the best myth available'.
This was also discussed at an event organised through the Tipping Points project that screened the independent short film Beyond the Tipping Point? (see review on Tipping Points website for more details: http://bit.ly/1jCxNVW). Participants and researchers from the project talked about how in the case of climate change people retreat to notions of the apocalypse in order to engage with its impacts on society and the wider environment. While scientific narratives from research in complex systems may be of greater assistance in really tackling the environmental problems that climate change represents, the event also demonstrated that environmental catastrophes like climate change also are brought into greater perspective when the sciences and arts and humanities are in dialogue. Saul says: 'the modus operandi of science and the humanities are not so terribly different at least at some levels. Even science cannot in many ways operate without a narrative. How else could Darwin have formulated his theory, if not using this aesthetic form? That's what the humanities do, we give people narratives, and we know how narratives work. We are the authorities on this for the time being'.
So art, including literature, has a direct role to play in how scientific stories of eco-crisis are taken up by society and spread through popular culture. It could be argued that this is why film also has been so effective at raising awareness about climate change. Narratives that begin with literature often translate well to cinema, and other technologies such as web or mobile interfaces may be bringing these narratives closer to people's lives. Saul argues that the arts are precisely those 'instruments of social action' that Beck calls for in response to the risk society. 'Humans discovered you could do stuff with art as a kind of technology. You get this recursive circulation between the world of technology and the human; we produce art as an evolutionary technology and that technology in an inevitable, recursive way produces us. In that sense modern evolutionary thinkers would think of humans as in fact always already having been cyborgs. Humans exist with technology, that's what humans are, homo technologicus'.
Professor Nicholas Saul is a Co-Director of IHRR. He is leading a sub-theme project 'The Experience of Emergence' at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study part of its 2014-15 theme on Emergence, which includes the 'Emergency, Tipping Points and Fragility' sub-theme led by the Tipping Points project. A podcast of his seminar in IHRR is available online: http://bit.ly/1m9FQR


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I guess that the FR of the cabinet will not be constant but
depend on the 'phase' of the Leslie effect, i.e. the position
of the rotor. In other words, it's not only a delay modulation
but also a 'filtering' modulation.
One way to get a 'near to perfect' Leslie sound and effect
at the same time would be to measure the IR at say 30 positions
of the rotor, then use 30 convolutions and both shift and xfade
them in the correct sequence and frequency. Probably not easy
but it can be done.
If the Leslie effect is already done in softwared, you'd need some
'average' IR of the cabinet to add 'the wood'.
Just drop me a line if you need help in using Aliki to capture
the IR(s).
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Skyworks Solutions (NASDAQ:SWKS) sold off some 17% yesterday in what in my opinion was an overreaction to its latest guidance. This Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone chip supplier is now offering a nice entry point for growth investors.
"Skyworks Solutions offers analog and mixed signal semiconductors worldwide. The company provides power amplifiers and front-end solutions for cellular handsets from entry level to multimedia platforms, as well as smart phones." (Business description from Yahoo Finance)
6 reasons SWKS is still a good growth play at $25 a share:
- The company actually guided to the top end ($420mm in quarterly revenue) of its previous issued sales range. Analysts were expecting a bigger nudge up and the stock was hammered. However, I believe the company is "under promising to over deliver".
- The first teardowns of the iPhone5 have confirmed the company's chips are inside the new version of Apple's juggernaut product line.
- The 16 analysts that cover the stock have a median price target of $35 a share on SWKS, roughly 40% above its current stock price.
- The company has a cash rich balance sheet with over $300mm on the books (approximately 10% of market capitalization)
- SWKS sells for under 12 times forward earnings, a discount to its five year average (14.2). The stock sports a five year projected PEG of under 1 (.84).
- The company has beat earnings estimates each of the last six quarters and consensus estimates for FY2013 have ticked up in the last month. Look for estimates to increase further if the iPhone5 beats sales projections which seems highly probable.


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My Big Bag Of Tricks topic mentions how I made locale variants for a bunch of countries. This topic lists and discusses them in more detail.
Note that for most of these you really should use a 102/105-key (ISO) keyboard! The 'US' 101/104 (ANSI) boards lack the lower left-hand <LSGT> key next to LShift and that one's very useful for adding extra symbols to the standard layout in a sufficiently accessible way.
The basis for these layouts is 'Colemak [edition DreymaR]', using my own preferred AltGr mappings (modifier lv3-4 in Linux terminology) for the Colemak layout. This is also on display in the 'Big Bag' topic. It makes several letters sufficiently accessible as long as they're rarely used: ʒƷ, ß (German 'ss'), øØ, œŒ, æÆ, þÞ, ðÐ, ʃƩ, ŋŊ, åÅ. Also quote marks: ''' """ ‹› «». All the common dead keys are on symbol keys with AltGr (i.e., lv3). Common accents like the umlaut are in good positions. For rarely used accented letters, this should prove sufficient.
The Colemak [edition DreymaR] layout, using different lv3-4 mappings from the standard Colemak.
Shown with the ZXCVB_ 'Angle' ergonomic mod (see below), dead key emphasis and color-coded proposed fingering.
The trick here is separating the main letter block from the symbol keys in the layout definitions. (The semicolon is an in-between key since it's a symbol key that sits in the letter block; QWERTY is to blame for this inconsistency.) Doing this, I can with relative ease substitute the standard symbols for the ones used on locale QWERTY keyboard layout variants. This produces a range of 'Keep Local Symbols' locale variants, that should be in correspondence with what people from those locales are used to and what's printed on their key caps.
Please note: The letter block keys have Colemak[eD] mappings in these layouts! This could lead to redundancies or lack of a lv3-4 symbol (if it's defined on a letter key in the default locale layout and not in Cmk[eD]). If that happens and it's a problem, let me know. For the most consistent and complete set of AltGr mappings, use the 'Unified Symbols' variants.
However, I've abandoned the way of the locale symbols for myself. I found that the locale QWERTY layout for Norway where I live was messy. Furthermore, it made some symbols hard to produce. For instance: For a tilde which is often used in coding and stuff in the computing world you would have to press AltGr and Right Bracket; then since that's a dead key you'd have to type an additional space to release the tilde. Moreover, that won't even always work in apps (especially Java or Flash). Ugh. Other locale layouts aren't much better. Not that the US layout is perfect or anything, but at least it's what many know and expect - symbols that are easily reachable like said tilde or the caret are used in script languages for instance.
So I set out to make a simple and consistent way of providing the necessary locale symbols while keeping the main setup intact.
Here's what Shai has to say about making locale Colemak variants, on the Multilingual page of this site:
If you want to create a layout optimized variant for your language, you can remap the 102nd key (not shown in layout) and some of punctuation keys you don't use often.
I fully agree, and so that's what I've done!
- The LSGT and bracket keys may hold the most common locale-specific symbols.
• The oe/oslash/aring special letters may well be replaced; these should also be on dead keys.
(Also, the œ is rightly a ligature which fits the Compose method well.)
- Furthermore, a set of keys with non-essential lv3-4 mappings (like h/j/k/l) are up for grabs if need be.
• The K key is quite easily reached with AltGr and in the Colemak[eD] it holds non-essential mappings.
• The H key, similarly, is well placed and holds nothing really important.
• The L key, same.
• The J key is a bit of a reach with the AltGr key held down so I hope it won't be necessary.
- If there are many letters using one accent, a well placed dead key (on lv1-2) may be preferable.
• The AltGr dead keys will still be available and some of these (like umlaut and acute) are quite easily reachable too
• Using a lv1 dead key may be preferable for speed typing (Sean Wrona, apparently, uses a sticky Shift for this reason!)
The layouts presented herein will be shown with the AngleWide-Slash ('AWide-35') wide keyboard mod (again, see the 'Big Bag' topic). What this means is that the brackets are moved to the middle on the upper and home row, the VK_102/<LSGT> and Backslash/<BKSL> keys to the middle lower row, the += key to the middle upper row and finally the ?/ key to the upper right. I'm sorry if this confuses anyone, but when I made these images I didn't know of an easy way of changing back and forth between Wide and unmodded setups (I have now learnt to use 'setxkbmap -model' but too late for now...). To my advantage though, the AngleWide mod brings the LSGT/102 key and brackets together right in the middle with the other moddable keys so they can all be shown in a partial keyboard image without everything else in between them! :)
The standard "US English" Colemak [edition DreymaR] layout, shown with the 'AngleWide-35' ergonomic mod I use.
DISCLAIMER: If you study the layout images, don't pay too much heed to the grayed-out keys. The "edition DreymaR" mappings for AltGr (lv3-4) may have been tweaked slightly since they were created. The Colemak[eD] color image above should be correct.
See the next post for the list of locale layouts
See the third post for the list of phonetic script layouts
Some topics on the forum regarding different locale Colemak variants (let me know if I missed any):
Czech Colemak, by davkol
Spanish Colemak discussion (Colemak en Español), by javix
Spanish Colemak, by martinrinconbotero
Greek Colemak, by dkun
Hungarian Colemak, by mr.schyte
Brazilian Colemak discussion, by krp
Danish Colemak, by erw
European multilingual Colemak, by Sprachprofi (including some interesting discussions!)
Lithuanian Colemak, by Tautrimas
Russian Colemak – 'Rulemak' – by ghen (mostly based on KOI-8R)
Russian Colemak by vilem (quite similar to Rulemak, mostly based on phonetics/intuition)
Discussion of Colemak for other languages, by SpeedMorph
Swedish/Finnish Colemak discussion, by Linus
Swedish/Finnish Colemak, by Turbulenz
French Colemak, by Endaka
Portuguese Colemak discussion, by Bee
German Colemak, by vilem
Polish Colemak, by moskit
Norwegian Colemak, by Padde and by Jovlang
International letter frequencies vs Colemak, by Checkit and DreymaR
Wikipedia on letter frequencies vs some languages
ETAOIN - letter frequencies in some languages on cryptogram.org
Last edited by DreymaR (02-Oct-2014 12:06:24)
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In the following I've described how to make a set of locale layouts for many languages, remapping for the most part the bracket keys (LBr/RBr) and the "lesser/greater" key (LSGT) also known as VK_102. If more keys than these are needed, the KLJH keys with AltGr (lv3-4 mappings) are also available in my layout since they hold unessential mappings beforehand and are placed together.
There's quite a bunch of these! I can make more on request or whim. It'd be nice with feedback from local users as some design decisions are open to debate and depend on actual usage as well as personal preferences.
Here's what I've covered so far, providing both conservative 'keep local symbols' and my preferred 'unified symbols' variants
(On a side note, there are but 11 Dvorak layouts so now Colemak really has wind in its locale sails!):
al at ba be bg br ca cz de dk es fi fr gb gr hr il is it latam nl no pl pt ro rs se si tr us
The Belgian, Canadian (international) and French default QWERTY layouts are similar enough that a harmonized 'unified' variant was made for these locales.
This variant should be good for all users of the French and similar languages. One layout to rule them all...
The needed letters for French-type locales are Éé, ÀàÈèÙù, Çç, Œœ. The LBr key has cirkumflex (âêîôû) and umlaut (ëï).
Some letter frequencies for French: é 1.90%; à 0.49%; àèù 0.82%; ê 0.23%; ç 0.09% (which is still more than k at 0.05%); œ 0.02%.
Belgian 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Canadian(Intl) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
French 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for be+ca+fr:
• Judging by the letter frequencies, é and grave merit their own keys; the other accents are of less critical importance.
• Éé gets its own key (LSGT) instead of an acute dead key since it's quite frequent and only one letter.
• A Çç key is preferable to the cedilla dead key since there's only one letter needed, but lv3-4 is acceptable since it's a rare letter.
• For supporting various other accent needs, dead keys are the best option; some are common enough to merit a lv1-2 placement.
• LBr keeps its dead keys as in the default layout for easier access to the cirkumflex/umlaut letters even though these aren't very common.
• RBr gets the grave dead key on lv1 since àèù together are somewhat frequent.
• The numerosign (RBr lv2) is hardly in use generally (some use an N and the masculine ordinal to produce 'Nº') but in French locales it's used.
• The letter K is very rare in French, but lv1-2 mappings should not be changed unless absolutely necessary!
Belgian+Canadian(Intl)+French 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Portuguese (Brazil) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Portuguese (Portugal) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for br+pt:
• The two Portuguese locales' default layouts have the acute/grave key on LBr (br) and RBr (pt); that's too bad.
• I think that the acute is the more common accent? At any rate, it feels logical to place it on the LBr I feel.
• Tilde is also important and used for more than just ñ in Portuguese (ã and õ at least), and cirkumflex is also provided.
• The Çç has a prominent placement in the default locale layouts so it gets its own key (not really sure if that's necessary though?).
• The Brazilian ABNT-2 keyboard's extra key gets the ordinal markers º/ª. These are also placed on AltGr+o/O.
Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Czech 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Polish 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for cz and pl:
• These two locales ended up very similar, with one acute key and one other accent (hacek for cz, ogonek for pl) for commonly accented letters.
• The ů in Czech is hardly ever capitalized in normal text but the Ů is sometimes needed for caps and letter referrals so it's provided (also for consistency).
• The ż in Polish is the only letter using the dot-above accent so it gets a key for itself. I think the AltGr+period dead key is quite easy to hit though...
• The ł in Polish is only available on lv3-4 but I think AltGr+L is an easy reach.
Czech (middle) and Polish (right) 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
German 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for at de:
• The German layout conserves the Üü position from the default layout.
• Ää and Öö are harmonized with the Scandinavian layouts.
• For ß only AltGr+s is provided; I think that's very easy to hit. The capitalized version is there too but it's hardly ever used!?
German 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The Scandinavian languages use the same special letters albeit written differently: Åå Ææ Øø for Danish and Norwegian, and Åå Ää Öö for Finnish and Swedish. Their default layouts are quite similar too, apart from stupid differences in punctuation placement which fortunately won't cause us trouble.
Danish 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Norwegian 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Finnish 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Swedish 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for dk+no and fi+se:
• These locales use the same special letters. The Åå is kept in place (it's in the same position for all the Scandinavian default layouts).
• The Ææ is somewhat more common in Danish and the Øø in Norwegian, but that shouldn't matter much here! Both positions are decent enough.
• The Ää and Öö are placed in harmony with the other Scandinavian (and German!) layouts.
Danish-Norwegian (middle) and Finnish-Swedish (right) 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Spanish (Spain) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Spanish (Latin America) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for es+latam:
• For the Spanish-speaking countries, the tilde is important but only used for Ññ so that letter gets a key for itself.
• The acute and grave are important accents so they get lv1 placement in a logical fashion on the brackets ("up then down").
• Unfortunately, the Spain and LatAm default layouts have different placement of the acute accent key. That's silly I think?!
• The necessary but less common umlaut and cirkumflex accents are given lv2 placements.
• (One alternative idea from user javix for standard Spanish is to make a single dead key for acute and tilde on the <LSGT> key!)
Spanish (Spain and Latin America) 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
English (UK) 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for gb:
• There is none! The US (English) layout serves the needs of all English-speaking locales to my knowledge (the £ sign is there).
• Using the 'Keep Local Symbols' layout the Brits get to find all symbols where they're accustomed to – at the cost of dead keys etc.
Iceland managed to stick with the Þþ and Ðð letters when for instance English lost them and stupidly started writing 'th' instead. ;)
Other than that, they need the Ææ and Öö letters like the other Nordic countries do, but make do without the Åå (as they use Áá instead).
Icelandic uses the acute accent far more than the other Nordic countries.
Some letter frequencies for Icelandic are: ð 5.01%; þ 1.59%; á 1.55%; í 1.34%.
Icelandic 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for is:
• As the letter frequencies show, the Þþ and Ðð are so common that they shouldn't be kept on lv3-4 mappings for this locale.
• Ææ and Öö however, are less common and hopefully AltGr+a and AltGr+k respectively are easy enough to hit.
• There are several accented letters (Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú Ýý) and some are quite frequent, so a good acute dead key is needed.
Icelandic 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Some letter frequencies for Italian: àèìòù 0.89% (è 0.42%; à 0.15%; ù 0.12%; ò 0.11%; ì 0.09%); é 0.06%.
If this is accurate, the accented letters are quite rare all in all.
Italian 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for it:
• For the Italian layout, several different accented letters are needed but capitalized letters weren't in the default layout.
• Thus, the letters were provided directly as in the default layout. The éè key was kept on LBr and the rest put together.
• The ìù were placed fairly logically on the phonetically related J, but had to go on lv3-4 mappings.
[NOTE: The L key is a much better reach than J; I think I'll use that instead. Await an update...]
• If this approach doesn't suit you, I recommend using the Spanish layout instead! It does the same using dead keys.
Italian 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
Dutch 'Keep Local Symbols' Colemak[eD]
The '[eD] unified' solution for nl:
• The Dutch layout is similar to Belgian and other French-type ones but has more use of the umlaut than the cirkumflex.
• Therefore I didn't harmonize it fully with the French-type layouts but kept the LBr key the was it is in the default layout.
• The acute letter Éé is somewhat common as is Óó; the acute dead key on RBr should be good enough for that.
• The IJ ligature isn't provided in the default layout so it isn't here either; I think it's fallen into disuse. The Compose method has it.
Dutch 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]
• Some variants aren't documented here yet even though they have been implemented in my xkb files
• The images are from older Colemak[eD] versions so the grayed-out keys will show strange mappings; I might fix that...
• The 'keep local symbols' variants should probably be shown without the WideAngle mod to avoid confusion!
Last edited by DreymaR (06-Nov-2014 15:45:17)
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For the phonetic variants of Greek and Hebrew script I merely moved the keys of their default layouts to a Colemak setup, not changing anything else. This type of layout already exists in QWERTY form, so making Colemak versions isn't hard.
Ideally, I should be able to define phonetic names for the keys corresponding to Colemak so that other 'phonetic' layouts would work automatically, but I think the XKB way of doing that may be too QWERTY-centric for that to work right now.
For the Kyrillic layouts it's slightly more tricky since Kyrillic script has more letters; user ghen has made a nice solution named Rulemak. There are other proposals as well; see the topics linked to above.
The Colemak phonetic layout for Greek script, simply moving around the keys of the default (here xkb) Greek layout.
The Colemak phonetic layout for Hebrew script, simply moving around the keys of the default (here xkb) Israeli layout.
The Colemak phonetic layout for Russian Kyrillic script – 'Rulemak' by user Ghen.
Based on KOI-8R, with the notable exception of ч for H because it's quite common and used in existing phonetic Russian layouts.
[Note: Rulemak is implemented in xkb and PKL (Win) by ghen himself and ported to my implementations – see the post below!]
The Colemak phonetic layout for Bulgarian Kyrillic script.
This layout was discussed in the Rulemak topic. Notably, ы and ё aren't used but ъ is more common than ю.
NOTE: In Rulemak, the VK_102/LSGT key is combining acute; in Bulgarian Colemak it's combining grave. Makes some accented letters easy to type.
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[Note: Rulemak is not currently implemented in xkb, but there's a PKL layout available?]
I do have an xkb as well as a PKL implementation.
But the one I actually use(d) most is a vim keymap implementation; I can switch between layouts using Ctrl-6 and it affects insert mode only (command mode remains ascii/colemak).
Last edited by ghen (26-Nov-2013 22:43:35)
Thanks ghen! I realize you've had those lying there since 2009; sorry I'm a bit dense. ;)
As a first step, I added your Rulemak pkl file to my PKL archive, and spiffed it up with an icon and your png images as help images for state0/1 (base) and state6/7 (AltGr). Works fine as far as I can see.
It's a bit bare-bones without dead keys, but if users are interested that can be remedied with some copy-pasting and fidgeting. The dead keys would be mostly for the latin script anyway. Same if anyone needs a Wide version; that'd be a little work but not a lot.
NOTE: I started a fight in your Rulemak topic! Any thoughts on that?
[Update 2014-01-12: Updated the xkb files with Rulemak!
• You can select it as 'Russian (Colemak, phonetic Rulemak)' which is a bit Russia-centric but that's the way xkb rolls.
• I added a few lv3-4 mappings, and I use the dead_accents as in Colemak[eD] because I don't think combining accents are fully workable yet.]
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