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ATLANTA (CNN) — We think of malaria as a disease that infects more than 200 million people a year, with transmission happening through mosquito bites.
But it's not entirely the fault of the mosquitoes. Scientists are exploring how the malaria parasite itself may actually change a mosquito's behavior to make it more attracted to humans, as if controlling its mind so that the bug goes after us.
A new study in the journal PLOS One demonstrates, for the first time, that mosquitoes infected with malaria are more attracted to human odor than uninfected mosquitoes. This is only a proof of concept, however; more research needs to be done to confirm.
"What we've shown is malaria parasites can manipulate the mosquito's behavior to make it sense our body odor much more easily, and that means they're much more likely to find us," said Dr. James Logan of the Department of Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, senior author of the study.
Researchers used 59 malaria-infected mosquitoes and 97 mosquitoes that were not infected. (Only female mosquitoes transmit the parasite.)
A male volunteer wore nylon socks for 20 hours to collect human odor on the material. Scientists then examined how mosquitoes responded to a human-smelling sock compared with a standard nylon sock without a human odor.
Both groups of mosquitoes were generally uninterested in the sock without the human odor. But mosquitoes with malaria paid a lot more attention to the human-smelling sock, landing on it and probing it more than the non-infected mosquitoes.
This represents the first time female mosquitoes have exhibited a behavior change as a result of malaria in response to human odor, the study authors wrote.
Logan and colleagues have won a research grant to study this further over three years. In the next step, they will take body smell samples from 30 people, "mixing it all up so we've got an overall coverage of different types of human odor," he said. Scientists already know that individuals can differ in their attractiveness to mosquitoes.
Eventually, this may lead scientists to identify chemicals that can be used as lures for traps to target malaria-infected mosquitoes. Currently, the traps catch all kinds of mosquitoes, regardless of their malaria status. It would be more efficient, and better for monitoring purposes, to trap only those that have the parasite. This method might even be used to bring the population down.
There are some other intriguing examples in nature of how parasites control the minds of their hosts. A type of fungus, for example, can take over and eventually kill the ants it infects.
But these "zombie ants" don't have the tremendous human impact of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, which caused an estimated 660,000 deaths in 2010.
"The importance is that we showed in a biologically relevant system of a mosquito, a parasite and a blood host, that the parasite can manipulate the behavior of a mosquito," said lead study author Renate Smallegange, who now works at Wageningen Academic Publishers.


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Most of the graphics drivers in Linux are X11 licensed (X11 license is similar to 2-clause BSD) and retain that license in the kernel tree.
If you're going to troll, at least put some effort in first.
Most of the graphics drivers in Linux are X11 licensed (X11 license is similar to 2-clause BSD) and retain that license in the kernel tree.
OpenBSD devs responds far faster then Linux devs, when it comes to vulnerabilities. But they are very slower when it comes to hardware incompatibility or features.
Security mechanisms like SELinux, AppArmor ... are not protection for vulnerabilities in kernel and they said that they won't implement them, because they are hard to configure correctly.
Anyway FreeBSD has such mechanism: http://www.trustedbsd.org/sebsd.html.
PF and iptables are pretty much the same, but PF has nicer syntax and PF is probably faster on single processor (most firewalls) than iptables.
This happens in the linux kernel a lot.
Yes, that exactly.
I found this google+ thread about Mattew Dillon, the creator of dragonflyBSD:
DragonflyBSD and BSD for that matter is absolutely uneeded. And people like crackpot Dillon need to stop wasting their time on a pile of shit just because he was kicked out of some shitting club (FreeBSD project). It would have been much better if he just joined Linux and help it improve farther.
Right now his just copying Linux kernel techniques just to make his pile of shit have 80% linux performance. I really don't see the point. Join Linux stop making shit.
Just want to add that, as a Windows and Mac user, I find the posts about how much more popular Linux is compared to BSD kinda cute. As if anyone cares about one of those these days. Ok, not quite true. At least BSD has the power to serve as a great code snippets collection for MacOS. GNU/Linux is just useless. Carry on.
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Etched into the canisters is the owner's last name, beginning with the initial "R."
The thieves left a trail of footprints the victim was able to follow through neighboring lawns to a road where he suspects a vehicle had been parked.
Based on a time stamp from a home video surveillance system, the victim said he, his wife, and two small children were home during the time the canisters were stolen. "I was infuriated," he said.
Most upsetting, he said, is that this same scenario happened a little over a year ago in July while he was deployed to Afghanistan.
"I'm almost positive it was the same crew," he said.
The thieves weren't caught then and this time he hopes police are able to find and arrest them.
He also said a third neighbor reported someone had gained access to her garage.
"It's almost like an epidemic," he said.
He said he and his wife were also home when an attempt was made to break into his shed. He also said they chose a quiet neighborhood in the New Hampshire Seacoast after "shopping" a variety of locations in the country in which to retire.
"The concept of someone being outside our bedroom windows at night is unnerving," he said.
Anyone with information pertaining to the theft and attempted break-ins, or who wishes to report suspicious activity in the area, is asked to call the Barrington Police Department through Strafford County Dispatch at 742-4968.


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What if programming language implementations were object-oriented? What if you wanted to change one itty-bitty part of your favorite language? Say you wanted to add an exponentiation operator (^^). How hard would it be?
Wouldn't it be nice if you could "subclass" a language like C# and then add 5 lines of code to make it work and then use it? What if you could add Ruby-like method_missing support in 20 lines?
What if you could conceive of a new language and start experimenting with it in production code in an hour? What if it leveraged your knowledge of existing frameworks like .NET?
Let's imagine that it were possible. Let's say someone else created a basic calculator-like "language":
Even without knowing the syntax, you can probably figure out how it works since it's written very close to the standard way of describing a language. If you give this language "3*4", it will respond with 12. If you give it "2^(3*4)", it'd respond with a nice syntax error message like "I don't know how to deal with the '^' symbol. Sorry!"
But you could make it work by writing this object-oriented-like "subclass" of the language:
Now, giving this language "2^(3*4)" happily gives you 4096.
This worked using simple inheritance. What if you wanted to compose your language from several other languages? That is, something like "multiple inheritance" but without its problems? What if we took a simpler approach and allowed a language to attempt to match elements of any other language?
Let's say we want to build a scientific calculator that leverages some of the work we've already done. Instead of inheriting from it, we'll call out to it:
Now you can calculate expressions like "sqrt (1+2^3)!"
What if such a meta language (e.g. a language for describing other languages) existed? What would you do with it? How might it help you get things done while producing extremely small, but very readable code? What if creating a new language that perfectly fit a problem your software was trying to solve was as easy as writing a simple regular expression?
What if you could get all the whiz-bang, gotta-have tool support like syntax highlighting, interactive debugging, and a compiler for it came at almost no extra cost? What if the barrier to entry for a new language was so low, that almost anyone could do it quickly?
This is what I've been thinking about for the past month or so.
Who? & What?
When I was doing some research for my "Towards Moore's Law Software" series, I came across a very interesting language called OMeta which was created by Alessandro Warth and Ian Piumarta with some inspiration from Alan Kay. In their 2007 Dynamic Languages Symposium paper, the authors described OMeta as
".. a new object-oriented language for pattern matching. OMeta is based on a variant of Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) —a recognition based foundation for describing syntax—which we have extended to handle arbitrary kinds of data. We show that OMeta's general-purpose pattern matching provides a natural and convenient way for programmers to implement tokenizers, parsers, visitors, and tree transformers, all of which can be extended in interesting ways using familiar object-oriented mechanisms. This makes OMeta particularly well-suited as a medium for experimenting with new designs for programming languages and extensions to existing languages."
To be honest, I didn't really understand the paper when I first read it. It sounded cool, but it used a few new terms I hadn't heard of before. However, I couldn't help but be fascinated by OMeta's readable syntax. OMeta doesn't try to solve every problem involved with writing a complete program. It makes no claims about being a good general purpose programming language. But it positions itself by doing just one thing really well:
Pattern matching.
If you look at modern programming languages that are good for developing other languages, you'll notice that they usually have good pattern matching capabilities. For example, in ML (which stands for meta-language), you can specify functions in terms of patterns. Here's how you can reverse a list:
This defines the function named "reverse." When it sees the "pattern" where the function is called with an empty list (nil), it just returns nil. However, when the function is passed in a list whose first element is "x" and the rest of the list is "xs", it will return the reverse of the rest of the list and then append the head of the list to the end.
If you think about it for a second, it's a really compact way of expressing how to reverse a list.
Streams of Anything
What I find interesting about OMeta is how it matches patterns. OMeta can operate on a stream of anything. This is useful because modern language implementations have several phases that work on different types of "things." Here's a simplified view of what a compiler does:
At the start of the process, you're working with individual characters from source code. The list of characters is converted to tokens by use of a scanner. This is how the characters 'i', 'n', and 't' become the "INT" token. The next phase combines tokens together to form a higher level view of the program, typically using a tree data structure. From that phase, several intermediate steps occur on the program (almost always in tree form), until it's finally pulled apart to make an executable program.
Often, you have to use different tools at each phase. You might use lex for the scanner (aka "lexer"), Yacc for the parser, and some sort of visitor pattern in your implementation language (e.g. C#) for many of the intermediate phases. With all of these different tools to learn, it's no wonder why most people don't even bother trying to create their own language.
OMeta is different in that lets you use the same syntax for all phases. The only thing that is different is what the input stream contains. At the start, the input stream is characters. In subsequent phases, it tokens, then trees, and then finally you produce your intended result. At each pass, your OMeta code has similar syntax.
Passing the Match Around
Another interesting bit about OMeta is how it goes about finding rules. Rules are defined in grammars which behave like classes in an object-oriented language. A grammar can "inherit" from another grammar. An added twist is that a grammar can call out to a "foreign" grammar. This makes it easier to build a language from many different reusable parts and allows for trivial "mashups" of several languages.
Additionally, if a rule has multiple "choices," then OMeta always tries to match the first choice, then the second, and so on until it achieves success. Although this seems obvious in hindsight, most parsers don't have prioritized choices and thus they make it easy to define ambiguous rules. For example, is "1-2-3" equal to "(1-2)-3" = -4 or "1-(2-3)" = 2? With prioritized choice, you make this explicit. If it successfully parses, then it has exactly one choice and therefore no ambiguities.
The last really interesting aspect of OMeta's design is what it does when it matches a pattern. A pattern might consist of several sub-components. Each of these components (e.g. rules) can be captured into a variable. OMeta then feeds these variables into a "host" language.
OMeta doesn't care what the host language is. It can be just about any language (e.g. JavaScript, LISP, C++, etc.). Typically, the host language is what the OMeta implementation itself was written in. The host language is free to do whatever it likes with the variables. OMeta is only responsible for getting them there. The OMeta paper describes an implementation where the host language is cola. Other early versions were written in Squeak and use that as the host language.
Why the "#" in OMeta#?
After understanding the basics of OMeta/JS, I thought it would be interesting to have the host language be any .NET language. I started to sketch out what this might look like by using my limited JavaScript ability and translating Alessandro's code to an equivalent functionality in C#. The result was the start of a project that needed a name. "OMeta#" seemed to fit the bill.
Besides, it just sounded better than other .NET-ism alternatives like "NOMeta", "OMeta.net", or "IronOMeta."
Some might ask, "Why .NET?" A subtle reason is that OMeta is useful for code generation. Code generation is a normal part of the .NET ecosystem even if people don't realize it. When people use the graphical designer in Windows Forms, there is a code generator working behind the scenes writing code for their host language (typically C# or Visual Basic). When people write ASP.NET ".aspx" files, there is a hidden process that takes that HTML-like "language" and compiles it to a real DLL.
For example, ASP.NET transforms this:
Into this generated code:
I wanted to bring a similar "it just works" illusion to the .NET world with OMeta#.
One pragmatic question is why even bother adding another language, or rather, meta-language to the .NET world? Why not just get proficient at another toolset that is decent at creating language like ANTLR, Irony, NParsec, or IronRuby? What about using Parsing Expression Grammars in F# or writing Domain Specific Languages in Boo with its extensible compiler pipeline?
Ultimately, all of those tools are pretty good, but none of them did exactly what I was looking for. Some came close, but none of them seem capable of matching OMeta's power and simplicity.
Another reason was that I knew that writing an implementation of OMeta from the ground up would really help me "know" how it works.
More importantly, I thought it would be fun to work on. I'm not a language expert. I'll never reach the level of someone like Anders, but I was one of those odd kids that actually liked my compilers and programming languages classes. I also enjoyed the talks from this year's Lang.NET symposium (even if I didn't understand a lot of things).
The Grand OMeta# Vision
The grand vision for OMeta# is to make it really simple to create languages that "just work." It probably won't have the world's best performance, but it should be decent enough for almost all practical applications. It would be neat to have OMeta# (or something like it) be used to do the following:
- Serve as a common, unified way for developing languages on the .NET platform — There are many helpful, yet often different "tools" out there for various stages of language design. I mentioned a few earlier, but some of the more advanced ones include the new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and Phoenix compiler framework. It would be neat to have a language that abstracted away some of these tools into a clean syntax like OMeta. That way, you'd get the benefit of these tools without having to constantly learn different ways of manipulating the concepts that can be expressed simply.
- Factor out the "goo" of language development — For a language to be taken seriously, it has to have things like syntax highlighting, interactive debugging, and a decent compiler. Each of these takes time to implement and often involves a high learning curve. It would be great if you could just make some minor annotations to your OMeta grammar and then these features would "just work."
- Useful for teaching — One of my favorite textbooks in college was "Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach" by Ramsey (et. al.). Our class used a "draft" version of it (and it still hasn't been published yet). It took a very interesting approach towards teaching programming languages. In order to understand a language like Scheme, you had to implement an interpreter for it in C or ML. I really liked this approach because getting your hands dirty with implementing the language typically leads to a better understanding of it. I would love to have the ability to implement this type of approach in something like OMeta. You could understand the essence of a language by only having to understand a page or two of code. It would also let you learn by experimenting with adding small features to existing languages.
- Practical for production use — For anything to really succeed at moving towards a Moore's Law increase in expressiveness, it has to have reasonable quality. I can imagine OMeta# being introduced into real production projects by first integrating a small amount of OMeta's "generated" a project and then over time implementing more and more parts of the application in this highly specific language. For this to occur, it has to be reliable and simple to use.
When? Where?
All of the parts of the vision are still in the future. To make them a reality will require more than just a single person or even a couple of people. I'm
naïve crazy enough to think that it's actually possible. In an effort not to "go dark," I've decided to be fairly open about the design and implementation of OMeta#. The current state of the code isn't even alpha quality yet. Despite all of these shortcomings, I've posted what I have so far on CodePlex and will continue to make updates to it.
Keeping in the tradition of other OMeta implementations, I've licensed it under the MIT License so that you can use, experiment, play, and modify it without any licensing concerns.
The first interesting result is that I've been able to get a complete end to end demo working for an extremely simple grammar that matches numbers. I fed this input grammar written in OMeta/C#:
into my OMeta compiler/translator and successfully had it generate this output C# file.
There is still a ton of work left. It's quite possible that some of the design decisions I've made so far need to be challenged and redesigned. I'd love to get feedback from anyone that's interested.
What do you think? Do you think OMeta fills a unique niche? Do you think it would be useful to have as a tool in .NET? Would you want to help out making "The Grand OMeta# Vision" happen? If so, what parts can you help out with?
I'm curious to hear your thoughts. In my next post, I hope to cover some of the technical details for how my current implementation works "under the covers."
P.S. Many thanks to Alessandro Warth for creating this beautiful language and helping me get started!


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my mothers ford explorer engine caught on fire not once, but twice.
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You can get nore creative then that
They are most DEFINITELY doing better than GM.
It looks like Lincoln is trying too hard to compete with the Escalade.
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It looks worried... I can't stop laughing.
Most of you people couldn't do a better job at designing it, so shut up.
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A view is the basic building block of any application, and is the first thing that the user sees/possibly interacts with. It is important to carefully design the views of the application, both from a functionality and ease of use stand-point. The user should be able to use the application pretty much on his own without having to read the help manual or other instructions. At least the key functionalities of the application should be easily understandable and usable. Hence it is imperative to design the views of the application in such a way that the important featues/functionaltiies are available from the main view, while the lesser used features/information/setting etc can be done from the secondary views.
Depending upon the usage pattern and functionality one should decide the overall look and feel, styling of the view.
Sometimes it might be needed to use the full screen of the device to display a splash screen/progress etc. In those cases it is imperative to ensure that the view still follows the basic conventions. Even if the view doesn't use the soft keys, the images should correspond to them, to allow user to navigate back/forward to other views.
More details can be had from Full-screen usage on Developer Library
It is possible in Symbian OS, to define multiple views for a single application, and switch between views. An application can present data/content of application to the user in different views after grouping them logically and in order of usage from most used to least used.
Each view has its own identifier & application can switch between views according to the user actions. Best use of view is to use in application which has complex form navigation path, i.e. to show multiple forms category wise. For example, Application can show user personal data (name, surname, age) in one form, user's profession details (company name, designation) in another view and so on.
[edit] Some usability guideline for view are
- Application must handle view switching
User should be able to easily make out what all views they can possibly navigate to, and what are the content/action they can possibly expect on those views. In case of settings etc, provide grouped option menu to take user to the setting view.
- Should allow users to save view data
In case you are implementing text entry forms/settings view etc. if the user has changed any values, the back key should ask the user if they want to save the data before navigating out of the view.
- Addition/deleting of secondary views should be easy
Addition/deleting of secondary views should not alter the layout/flow of the main view by a great deal. The main view is the core of the application with which the user is familiar, in case of updates/changes to the application; make sure that the main view remains intact to a large extent. For instance if you are providing certain functionalities on the secondary view which can be enabled/disabled based on the license/trial period kind of model, the change should be seamless.
- View has all responsibility of the content it displays
From usability stand point it makes a lot of sense to let the view handle the data/content it is displaying to the user. The edit rules/option menu hiding etc should be done by the view. This helps from a maintainability aspect as well by water tightening the data integrity.
- Should handle events/commands passed by the view controllers
The view should handle the events/commands passed by the framework. In case the view is not interested in those events, it should pass them back to the framework so that it can be handled properly.
- Option menu/soft key handling
View should provide the right options and soft key options to the user, which are consistent throughout the application and are easily usable and understandable. More details can be had from Options menu Usability
[edit] Other functionalities supported by views
- You can also switch to an external application view, such as browser or calendar. Also application can pass parameters to them. Switching between views alters the normal flow of events/interaction. Hence a lot of thought should be placed on their usage, how the content will be updated, saved and drawn etc.
More details from:-
Dynamic Navigation Links in Symbian
Utilizing external application views
It is also possible to add features dynamically to an application without linking to the code. Details from Application Interworking(AIW)
[edit] View implementation on Symbian
To create views derive it from CCoeControl class for displaying data and it should be derived from an interface class called MCoeView to create view. MCoeView interface has virtual functions which should be called by the view architecture to register a view, to get its identifier and switch from one view to another. Developer has to remove view from event stack & has to destroy them in destructor.
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Constructed during the early 1890s and opened in 1894, the Colorado State Capitol in Denver features a distinctive gold dome that commemorates the state's gold rush. Constructed of cast iron and copper cladding, the dome was gilded with 200 ounces of 24-karat gold donated by miners in 1908.
Weather – chiefly the state's intense freeze-thaw cycle – has damaged the iron columns, railings and facades of the dome. The observation deck has been closed to all visitors since 2007 due to the danger of falling cast iron. The structural metal fasteners holding the enclosure together has been cited by experts as a significant hazard to the building and its occupants.
Provide work access to the dome's exterior surfaces as part of an estimated $17 million renovation that includes lead abatement, structural repairs, gilding, window replacement and repainting.
Brock Services, LLC (BSL) erected a scaffold system that rests directly on the capitol's roof. An intricate web of aluminum beams, some cantilevered from the inner core, transfers the load of nearly 783,500 pounds of scaffold material to specific rooftop locations, as mandated by third-party engineers. By enclosing the scaffold structure with shrink wrap, BSL provided an all-seasons worksite.
Because there are no dimensional drawings of the capitol building, BSL relied on a linen cloth building layout from the late 1800s to design the scaffold system, which was field engineered as it was erected.
Despite roof loading, weather and elevation challenges, the scaffold was safely erected to full height – 146 feet from the roof to the top of the dome – without a safety incident or damage to the dome structure.
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Paul McCartney Launches 'Out There' World Tour This Weekend
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Paul McCartney kicks off his 2013 Out There world tour at Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Mineirao Stadium. The trek, which will stretch though the August 14th closer in Regina, Saskatchewan, will take in stops throughout the U.S. and Canada -- along with shows set for Poland, Italy, and Austria. Unconfirmed rumors and fan reports have McCartney recently dipping into his Wings catalogue for a reprise of such fan favorites as the classic opening medley "Venus And Mars/Rock Show/Jet," "Letting Go," "Magneto And Titanium Man," "Listen To What The Man Said," his first-ever live version of Wings' 1978 chart-topper, "With A Little Luck," along with George Harrison's 1970 solo classic, "All Things Must Pass" -- which McCartney last performed live in 2004.
Paul McCartney admitted that his pre-show soundchecks have always been a highlight of being out on the road: "I mean, really, all we have to do is check the instruments -- but if we just check them, we'd get bored. So, we've got enough numbers to kind of throw some in, and then if they start to sound really good -- 'Oh, we'll stick that in the show!' But it does become its own little thing. And what happens is, some of the people that come to the show buy a special ticket and come to this one. Y'know, we wanna try and entertain them."
McCartney says that his live shows are a way to celebrate his Beatles music with his fans in a way he never could once the group quit touring: "And I think it was all down to the audience. Revisiting all those people out there. And getting the thrill of seeing the couple necking in the middle of 'Let It Be,' or all those cigarette lighters they hold up during songs they feel particularly strongly about."
McCartney's longtime band includes 25-year-veteran Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards, Rusty Anderson on lead guitar, Abe Laboriel, Jr. on drums, and Brian Ray on rhythm guitar and bass.
Paul McCartney tour dates (subject to change):
May 6 - Goiania, Brazil - Serra Dourada Stadium
May 9 - Fortaleza, Brazil - Castelao Stadium
May 18, 19 - Orlando, Florida - Amway Center
May 22, 23 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
May 26 - Memphis, Tennessee - FedEx Forum
May 29, 30 - Tusla, Oklahoma - BOK Center
June 8, 10 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
June 14 - Manchester, Tennessee - Bonnaroo Festival
June 22 - Warsaw, Poland - National Stadium
June 25 - Verona, Italy - Roman Amphitheatre
June 27 - Vienna, Austria - Happel Stadium
July 7 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place
July 9 - Boston, MA - Fenway Park
July 12 - Washington, DC - Nationals Park
July 14 - Indianapolis, IN - Bankers Life Fieldhouse
July 16 - Milwaukee, WI - Miller Park
July 19 - Safeco Field - Seattle, Washington
July 23 - Quebec City, QC - Plains Of Abraham
August 9, 10, 11 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park (***Show Date TBA)
August 12 - Winnipeg, MB - Investors Group Field
August 14 - Regina, SK - Mosaic Stadium At Taylor Field
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Air Cascadia
The world stands by while Gaza burns...
The world stands by while Gaza burns...
Slaughter in Gaza
- Title: The Assault on Gaza
- Length: 15:23 minutes (14.09 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
0102 Air Cascadia
Cris and Liam with headlines, interviews and commentary. Includes an interview with John Kroger, the new Oregon Attorney General.
- Title: 0102 Air Cascadia
- Producer: Cris Andreae
- Length: 11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
1231 Air Cascadia
Cris Andreae and Liam Delta host news headlines, commentary and interviews.
- Title: 1231 Air Cascadia
- Producer: Cris Andreae
- Length: 12:24 minutes (5.68 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)
Gaza protests shut down San Francisco streets
- Title: Hell in the Holy Land
- Length: 12:07 minutes (11.1 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Mainstream Media: Eyeless In Gaza
- Title: What happens between Xmas and New Year's, stays between Xmas and New Year's...
- Length: 14:12 minutes (13.01 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
1217 Air Cascadia
Cris Andreae and Liam Delta host. Segments include D.C. Dirt with Spencer Raymond.
- Title: 1217 Air Cascadia
- Producer: Cris Andreae
- Length: 13:42 minutes (2.35 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 24Kbps (CBR)
LNG, RNC-8 and The Patriot de-Activates...
- Title: LNG, RNC and The Shoe Heard Round The World...
- Length: 13:32 minutes (2.33 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 24Kbps (CBR)
RNC-8 Update: In Minneapolis, it's a cold day for free speech.
- Title: Free speech on trial in Minneapolis
- Length: 14:03 minutes (12.87 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
membership means more
your threat of quitting your membership gives me two options for analysis:
1) you gave money to Theresa via KBOO.
2) if Theresa died tomorrow, you'd give up your membership.
my interpretation
1) that's cool, man. you support community-based radio based solely on your dedication to one weekly half-hour show. that demonstrates that Theresa's voice represents/intrigues you (and many, many others); however you don't feel represented by any one of the other 500 people who volunteer their time and energy in the 24/7 endevour, and you don't value the input (and miraculous existence!) of the other 5-10,000 members and ten times as many listeners; neither do you support the KBOO mission of including as many underrepresented voices as possible on the air, with natural turnover, schedule changes and opportunities as new people arrive. Membership gives you the power to affect the decision-making, which is why you gave money to Theresa via KBOO; and, by golly, you will do everything in your power to keep her on the air, and you want the KBOO website visitors to know how you feel when they read the comments. You'd even like them to join you in your fight.
2) wow.
my opinion
Personally, Theresa's show is one of my favourites and there are plenty of shows that I not only don't like or don't listen to, but also complain about out loud. It's my radio station, and, like my family, I will not be quiet when they need to shape up or ship out.
writing inflammatory statements on the webpage will remain simply that: inflammatory statements with a reaction or two from trolls (see the 20 pages of Anonymous written about me because of the audio I submitted that Jenka edited), which, in the end, result in: NOTHING. If you want to chat with others online, that's fine, but you should know that nothing said here is considered in the Committee meetings. It's just an informal public forum, not policy binding.
my advice
Instead of threatening us (volunteers, members, listeners and our very existence), why not use your valuable internet time to phrase it as, for example, a question to which one of us could easily respond: "Have there been any changes to Theresa's show? I noticed lately that it has been preemented or even cut. It is my favourite show. [I fear Air Cascadia will take its place--not necessary but very telling that you chose Chris' page to write it--ed.]. " You can copy the question to Theresa's email (though I know from experience she doesn't respond) and/or print it out and put it in her cubby hole at the station. And/or show up to the meetings. And/or call Theresa during her show--she takes calls, you know. Ask her if she'll train or mentor you to do the same kind of work she does.
p.s. Air Cascadia basically is the AM News is Chris Andreae: i was engineering {i'm flattered that you liked it}and was very sad when it was cut--but that is the way of the station; we adhere and adapt to the ever-fluctuating needs of the larger community--but i watched, with great pleasure, as it morphed into Air Cascadia. Though i adore Dennis Bernstein, 15 less minutes of his voice is no skin off my back.
air cascadia
im a conservative right wing trucker and i think cris andrae is the greatest broadcaster on the radio. i try to listen when i dont need traffic reports.
her scathing commentary is the best. i would join kboo but i fear america will become too weak and barry will force me to find a green job soon . keep up the good work
michael j
The anchor news program
The anchor news program Democracy Now, conveiniently aired at 11 AM so that all could tune in was moved to 7 AM with a result that most if not all of the people who work nights won't be tuning in as they are still sleeping. Also missed the 40th anniversary bash as it was inconveinently held from 4 to 10 Pm, on a weekday, which would exclude anyone working swing from attending unless they took a day off. Why couldn't this have been held on a Saturday or Sunday?
Air Cascadia is a very rough and unpolished program that leaves me tuning to OPB or just turning it off.
The choppy, emergent voice of Cris Andreae is certainly a large part in that.
If it is true that Press Watch will be axed for this then it will be an easy decision to withhold future pledges from this listener.
What happened to Presswatch?
Is Air Cascadia taking over what Therisa has been doing? If so, I may give up my membership. First, the am news gets axed to accomodate Democracy Now, now is Presswatch going under the plow?


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Is it coincidental the KDE and Qt seem to share major version numbers?
Phoronix: The Plans For KDE Frameworks 5.0 Were Just Announced
There's more news this weekend out of Berlin about the Linux desktop. Beyond KDE on Wayland and primitive talk about GTK4, at the joint KDE-GNOME Desktop Summit, plans for KDE Frameworks 5.0 were announced...
Is it coincidental the KDE and Qt seem to share major version numbers?
By any chance you guys can make the KDE 5 less options?
or provide a way for people to fork KDE to became KDE-Simple ?
or provide an option in KDE 5 Control Panel which can overide the default setting?
I love KDE. but it have too much option. yes, people will scold me with "KDE have greater flexibility", but that's not the point. sometimes you need the simplicity. Sometimes you need the flexibility.
I might question need for 5 different theming sections in configuration Widget Style, Gtk WidgetStyle, Colour scheme, Window Decorations, Workspace theme.
I agree that setting system can be overly complex but I don't see any way to simplify it significantly without alienating a significant portion of the existing users, many who use KDE precisely because they can configure it to work precisely the way they want.


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H.O.P.E. is a thriving organic garden on Scotland's east coast. It is an environmentally friendly project, providing horticultural training and work experience. All the trainees are people with learning disabilities who live in the Angus area. The project also offers the local community an ever-increasing range of organically grown vegetables, fruit and garden plants. www.hopegardentrust.org.uk
Whitmuir Organics is a small, organic farm in the Borders. Farmed by Peter Ritchie and Heather Anderson, the 140 acres of grade 4 and 5 agricultural land is on a north-facing slope, 900 feet above sea level. They keep pigs, laying hens, turkeys, sheep and beef cattle and despite the very short growing season, produce a range of soft fruit and vegetables on 2 acres of land and 2 poly tunnels. www.whitmuirorganics.co.uk
Earthshare is a small local farm that grows and supplies seasonal vegetables and soft fruit in the form of a year round weekly box. They use organic methods and only include produce from their own farm. Subscribers can become more involved in the growing of their food, and they are offered a discount if they come to the field to help with seasonal tasks such as weeding and soft fruit picking. Subscribers usually make a commitment to EarthShare for a year at a time; during that year they receive an equal share of everything that is harvested. It is all about becoming more connected with your food and sharing the ups and downs of farming life. www.earthshare.co.uk
The Rodways developed a loan scheme, where members of the farm lend against the value of organic dairy cows, with the interest paid in cheese. Forres, Moray, Scotland IV36 2RH T: 01309 676566
Good for Ewe is a community based co-operative formed to satisfy the proven need for affordable, high quality, fresh fruit and vegetables and other local produce in Wester Loch Ewe and the surrounding areas.
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This is a custom coding standard for the PHP CodeSniffer that attempts to codify and enforce the Joomla coding standards.
- Coherent and consisting coding practice makes the files look more professional. Conflicting styles in the same project (or worse, the same file) not only look sloppy, they encourage further sloppiness.
- When all code complies with the same standard, bad code is easier for everyone to spot.
- It makes it easier for someone new to a particular file in the project to find and fix errors, or extend functionality.
- If there is no consistent standard maintained, the sometimes developers will reformat the code to suit themselves. This causes a wide range of changes in the code repository, and if there is a later problem, a significant change could be lost in the chaff produced by a diff.
First of all you have to install the PHP CodeSniffer. This set of files is intended to work with phpcs version 1.4, so behavior with any other version is undefined. One way to do this is to start the console (cmd.exe in windows environments) and type:
pear install PHP_CodeSniffer
To specify a specific version of the PHP CodeSniffer, type:
pear install PHP_CodeSniffer-1.4.x (specify a number for x, versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.5 are available)
Pear will handle the whole installation by itself.
Then download and unzip the Joomla! CodeSniffer and copy the contents of it into /path/to/PHP_CodeSniffer/Standards/Joomla.
In Unix systems this path is usually /usr/lib/php/PHP/PHP_CodeSniffer/Standards/Joomla but this varies from system to system. In Xubuntu 12.04, the path is /usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards/Joomla. Windows based system with XAMPP have the following path: PATH_TO_XAMMP\php\PEAR\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards (for example: C:\xampp\php\PEAR\PHP\CodeSniffer\Standards)
pear config-get php_dir
to find out where the PEAR directory is on your system, then add "/PHP/PHP_CodeSniffer/Standards" to it.
You invoke the custom standard by
phpcs --standard=Joomla file/to/sniff
To test a platform file using the provided platform coding standards use
phpcs --standard=build/phpcs/Joomla path/to/file/or/folder
Further documentation on the use of phpcs can be found at: [1]
While everybody loves the console as it is with no doubt the most effective way to do whatever you need to do.. sometimes even linux gurus need a little bit of comfort.
Fortunately there is a plugin available for Eclipse, Netbeans and PHP Storm that integrates the CodeSniffer into your favorite IDE, so any coding standard violations are shown like "normal" errors.
For netbeans you have to install the sniffer plugin first. You can download the plugin here.
Installation is a breeze and follows the usual pattern:
You are now able to sniff for code violations against common standards like PEAR or Zend etc.
To sniff against your own standards, all you have to do is specify their location and activate them (see screen shot 2)
Happy sniffing
CodeSniffer is supported out of the box in PHPStorm, just go to settings, and under "Inspections" you will see the list of Sniff you have installed.
See: the JetBrains documentation page for setting the Code Sniffer and also phpStorm Blog)
For users on ubuntu using phpStorm. Don't listen instructions at http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/using-php-code-sniffer-tool.html#d59626e1126 because there is no working bat (windows file) on linux system. To validate your CodeSniffer choose /usr/bin/phpcs launcher.
Under Settings->Inspections when you choose joomla profile, in the tree below, search for PHP and open it and than make sure that PHP Code Sniffer validation checkbox is checked. Otherwise PHP Code Sniffer won't sniff your code.
On ubuntu you install code standards with: cd /usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards sudo git clone http://github.com/joomla/coding-standards.git Joomla
It's nice to be able to check that the standards are respected, but it's even nicer if phpstorm helps you formatting properly too as you are coding. To add joomla code style to phpstorm
A CodeSniffer sniff to check against the PSR-x Coding Standard
Download files at
if you are using Xampp,


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Clueless VIA shoots themselves in the foot yet again. Thanks, Michael!
Phoronix: VIA Fails With KMS/3D, But Has Yet Another X Driver
One year ago VIA came out with their Linux TODO list, which was disappointing. This list had a VIA TTM/GEM memory manager module for Q2'2010, a kernel mode-setting driver in the works for H2'2010, and a Gallium3D driver in-development for Q4'2010. Even meeting this TODO list would be bad as the support most Linux customers are after (3D and KMS to a lesser extent) would not be arriving until three years after VIA announced this newest Linux strategy. But, VIA has failed miserably in accomplishing any of these mile-stones for KMS and open-source 3D acceleration support. Though resulting in VIA's Linux community being fragmented even more, new VIA X.Org (DDX) drivers seem to keep popping up. If there wasn't already enough of these not-fully-working and rarely-touched open-source drivers, another VIA Chrome X.Org driver has been started recently that's a fork of another open-source VIA driver...
Clueless VIA shoots themselves in the foot yet again. Thanks, Michael!
On desktop systems the bad via driver support does not hurt that extreme as you could add a dedicated card but for laptop users thats too bad currently. Most drivers are so stupid that you have to force h/v sync, screen res + display size even when they "work". It must be impossible for via to support they onboard solutions with kms with correct edid frequencies. I do not even speak of 3d...
I won't even bother to look into the commits, but the fact that the commits were made by root, makes the whole thing rather questionable, even from this very superficial pov.
Another Dodo.
Considering there are some docs already out, why not set a GSoC target for Via KMS?
It would very likely be working before anything appears from Via...
And i personally find that GSoC results are usually overrated (everyone talks about it solving so many problems, in future, but no one really goes and evaluates such things publically; no-one compares up front expectations with actual results), and a proper modesetting driver is way too much work for GSoC anyway. VIA hw is not glint.
I was under the impression (almost) nobody uses VIA anymore.