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Create an Online Citizen Participation Portal
The creation of an online portal for citizen participation would be an institutionalized government portal that would allow citizens to research, discuss, and oversee formation of public policy as well as locate and log community service.
The closest thing to this so far would be a hybrid of the creations of the Sunlight Foundation, primarily OpenCongress.org. It would provide a portal for citizens to review and comment on proposed legislation and track government accountability (such as donors to their representatives). However, institutionalization will help get members of government and their staff interacting with citizens.
For example, on the government side there should be functionality that allows a representative to filter out all comments to find those posted by their constituents. They could also allow twitter or RSS to rapidly take surveys amongst constituents. Filters could also be used to find expert opinions by filtering out constituents to see what lobbyists or academics are saying about a bill. Combine these filtering options with data visualization tools will make it easy for representatives to tap into the public consciousness and citizens to have a dialogue with their government on issues of the day.
Another filter would be to adjust the scale on which you are viewing. Be able to toggle between the district, state, and national discussions so you can find issues more relevant to your specific location. This could also be used to find local volunteer and public service opportunities. Furthermore, each opportunity could use a standard form to log hours of volunteers, so your citizen profile could show not only how active you are online but also how active you are in your community. This would be a great way to get credit for civic participation.
There are many more ways this could be more efficient. Please provide feedback in the comments section.
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Also, based on this article ( http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-04/st_thompson ) it seems like Clive Thompson has some good ideas on how to help regulate all the input this citizen portal would receive.
You might want to check out http://thepeopledecide.is/
It has only been operating for a few months, so there are a few bugs in it's design. But on the whole, this is probably the approach to accomplishing what you are suggestion.
Good two-way communication between the participant and their elected representatives isn't there yet. In addition, each bill listed should have a blog page assigned to it, with some good deliberative groupware working. But this website is simply miles ahead of anything I have seen covering this area, and is definitely worth the read and even joining up.
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The correct URL for The People Decide web site is http://thepeopledecide.us/
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David, I've seen a couple of sites trying to do this, I want it institutionalized to ensure that there isn't an overlap of effort and it is guaranteed that staff in the government are actively processing it. Having multiple sites, whether it be OpenCongress.org or thepeopledecide.us, fragments the effort, hence the need for one portal.
Absolutely agree with what you said on institutionalization. Overlapping efforts, when the goal is coordinated effort and communication, seems irrational.
A standard HUB of government participation and action is what we need to truly utilize the dispersed nature of knowledge and opinion.
To the extent this is like an open wiki and not controlled by gatekeepers, it would be a very productive service. If citizens feel the conversation is controlled (institutionalized?) by hidden gatekeepers, they will ignore it. It should not be just an information reference site, but also an information gathering site, like wikipedia. Wikipedia is so successful because it's perceived as "owned" by its contributors and participants.
The open market of participants has to be able to police itself from abuse, but there should be no sense of Big Brother making judgments on content. If this functions properly, representatives should be getting their marching orders from their portal.
Are you listening, Ahnuld?
I think there needs to be a balance between them and a process by which ideas get created, merged, rated, and processed. Users absolutely should be able to contribute, but there needs to be a way of keeping discussion on task and evidence based.
The 3 step method of brainstorming, discussing, and drafting of this current initiative is a good process to model after, although I think rather than having "gatekeepers" it should have facilitators who can create surveys and organize points of contention so that everyone can understand the structure the issue.
Hopefully this will not only let it act as an outlet for opinionated citizens, but also as a way that those in government can provide insight that helps educate people about the complexities, research, and rationales behind policies.
NationBuilder is an open source platform in active development that the government could use for this.
It will launch as a web service in a few weeks: http://nationbuilder.com/
It is currently being used to experiment with how the White House might work using this here: http://whitehouse2.org/
Tom --
I got your comment/message under my idea:
"MyGov.gov" --> Customized to What Affects You
From the discussion here, it sounds like you are talking not so much
about a "portal", but the feature for group-dialogue that would be found
there, and then on to what's are the best platforms out there.
Of course, eventually, there will be some kind of website ("portal") like you describe.
But, at this early point in the process, it is premature to discuss (here) which
particular software might be suitable for such a site.
I'd like to discuss this more, but this brainstorming phase/site will go inactive
on June 3rd, so is there a relevant online discussion area that is
better suited (than here) for continuing this?
Stephen Buckley
(my profile here) http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/pmd/3860-4049
(I posted this on Steve's page as well, but putting it here to keep everyone in the loop)
Actually the homepage of this site says brainstorming is over May 28th and then discussion begins on June 3rd. I'm assuming that is to let them process and merge ideas to see which were popular (so our ideas could have been merged anyway). My comment on the combination of the Sunlight Foundation sites was not intended to be a comment on the kind of software, but rather the functionality. Combining all of their sites would lead to a lot of functionality, from news, monitoring bills, and overseeing lobbyists and campaign finance (MAPLight).
I've not only commented on your post but various others as well, including the function to rate discussions and let them go to the top or to use a policy wiki. I'm not sure where a good discussion could take place (I'd like to include others who have commented on our posts) but I will e-mail you so we have a line of direct contact (I may even add your blog to my RSS feed!).
As a software developer, one of the most important points to me about this is that the software developed for anything to do with voting is open source (that is the source code can be read and reviewed by anyone. This is so that 'we the people' can review the code that is doing the work powering our democracy) and is owned by the government (and by extension, the people), not by some private sector company. Also, the release control process must be open and reviewable as well. It's all well and good to be able to see source code, but there is a lot that happens from source code to functioning computer system. It must be verifiable if it is to be able to provide us with any level of faith in 'the system'.
It will be a matter of utmost importance to verify the identity of people logging in to system to record their votes. Tampering with this system would need to be made a federal crime with stiff penalties. There are lots of ways to provide secure web access. In my opinion the absolute best would be to create a secure, enclosed, electronic kiosk network available at post offices, libraries, government buildings and the like where anyone can go to record their votes in an extremely secure manner so that it is not subject to the vagaries of viruses, worms, keystroke-loggers and such that plague the common home computer. This also provides folks who do not have home computers access to the same electronic voting system as those more fortunate.
It would be fine to make the site accessible from home computers to review materials, record voting intentions and such. However, for absolute security, the final voting should be only possible via the kiosk network.
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For news and moderated discussion (public, but unofficial) about the
continuing development and implementation of the "Open Government
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1. send mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com
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I think this is a great idea as most politicians do not put out surveys and only go by what we the people want by us calling and sending letters and emails. Why don't they work for us? They should be willing to ask us what we want, not the other way around!
The complexities of business and invention need not be compromised in supporting standard portal connections. The ability to connect to the rest of the world and access the strength of community the web has to offer is vital for all humanity to compete in future learning environments. The fundamental secure portal that this writing refers to is a high level secure portal connection, the device offers the user the immediate ability to connect and transmit or receive data on the move. It unifies what is technically possible and marketable into a single device. Vital statistics would be monitored and available to the user for analysis. Applications that enhance the user in interactions with the community at large offer advantages that right now while available, are weakened in usefulness by fragmented and independent design. The trends in communications design and embedded applications have made rapid acceptance in society. The convergence with green power generation from the user coupled with embedded applications that provide enhancements for connectivity would also assist in societies efforts to reign in cybercrime. A standard portal device will offer encryption levels that are hack proof and will be designed to ensure user privacy. A citizen standard connection portal, in the spirit of transparency the strength in the adoption lies in the societal acceptance. When all citizens have the power of connectivity to participate in the strength of community, opportunity for enhanced learning becomes more powerful as well.
The costs of governance have the potential for drastic reduction. By merely giving every person in America immediate connectivity no matter where they are in the world reduces the infrastructure costs of providing the services of government and society as a whole. By giving this level of possibility to all Americans the strength of what it means to participate in building success will become immediately apparent. The design of this device through peer review across the population's diverse spectrum of scientists', business leaders, social network professionals and government agencies, along with the public at large will give 21st century clout to the protection offered within the constitution.
Cyber security will be made highly affordable to implement as the standard would have the largest audience not only in its creation but as well in its deployment. Once deployed the increased connectivity to efficiently deliver the services primarily of government but of all aspects of societal interactions, will be the 21st century platform for all cumulative societal efforts engaged in national and global prosperity.
Wireless connectivity offers the most efficient transition to full participatory access for all Americans.
Anything web based, and accessible from any home computer is effectively insecure. Given the level of malware that can infect home computers, for example keystroke loggers and site redirections could wreak havoc on the security of a system based on a web site.
I would posit that similar things are true for cell phones, in that software can be downloaded to many of the phones by the company that owns the phones without customer knowledge.
If you are referring to a different physical device, distinct from the home computer or personal handheld device common in these times that would be provided to all citizens... Assuming it could not be used for other stuff than what the government provides for it to do... I could discuss the security level of that sort of device further without feeling a need to discount it off hand as I would do regarding personal computers or the like. However, I would suggest that providing a government funded device to all citizens, to be replaced in case of damage, malfunction, loss... would have a high cost.
Certainly startup is thought to be expensive, however; the techniques for creating nanotechologies are getting more capable all the time. Cost effectiveness has been demonstrated many times before and is a matter of fact in using general design principles coupled with mass production. I just want to ensure that all citizens have affordable access to such powerful concepts of learning.
A standard citizen portal connection that is highly affordable, wireless and miniturized and uses extremely low amounts of power is the way forward. To combine efforts of cyber security, affordability and wireless connectivity into a single device is a significant strategy that will be a cornerstone that when combined with other great ideas mentioned on this site and elsewhere will have no equal for years to come.
Virtual citizenship and activism...great idea!

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CAGE tags at bidirectional promoters. CAGE tags were mapped according to their sequence identity on the negative or positive strands. Within a 20 bp regions surrounding the TSS, one dominant peak is detected for each strand. CAGE tags represent an average of the number of promoters in the analysis.
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Come May 7 and Anlayphoo will go into the history books as India's highest polling booth with one of the smallest electorates.
Situated at the altitude of 5,000 meters, Anlayphoo polling booth is located in the Nyoma block of Leh district where the temperature plummets to minus 20 degrees in the winters.
With an electorate of 69 people, the Anlayphoo polling booth is accessible by road unlike some other booths which are still not reachable in Ladakh.
"There is a road link which connects Anlayphoo with the mainland. This booth is accessible by road. Therefore we will be sending our polling party by road to set up the booth at Anlayphoo," Ghulam Ahmad, assistant returning officer Leh, told dna.
Election authorities have finalized all the preparations for setting up the country's highest polling booth. According to officials, the election material and staff will be dispatched to the area three days in advance to set up a polling booth.
"Since it is an arduous journey, the polling staff to the area will start some days before elections. Around four people would be posted at the polling booth for free and fair polls," said an official.
Unlike Anlayphoo, there are several polling booths in the division which are still inaccessible by road. Authorities have requisitioned for the helicopters to airlift men and material to the inaccessible polling booths to ensure free and fair polling.
"There are six to seven booths where we need helicopters to ferry men and material. These are still not connected by road. So we need to keep everything ready before hand," Ahmad said.
Anlayphoo is a part of Ladakh parliamentary constituency which goes to the polls on May 7. With an electorate of 1,59,949, of whom 81,168 are male voters and 78,781 are female voters, Ladakh parliamentary constituency comprise four assembly segments — two each in Kargil and Leh districts.


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Gigi Jordan says she saved her autistic son from a life of sexual torture by his father....
Yikes. First of all, she DID kill her son. So she can say all she wants 'but I tried to kill myself', she still killed her son. This lady is either mentally ill and in some sort of paranoid delusion, or she's telling the truth. The article states she went to police. Did she ever take her son to be physically examined? Could there be a way to tell if his father were abusing him? So so so sad either way.
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Killing a child to save him from abuse? I don't believe that one for a second.Just my opinion
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I don't know enough about this case to offer much of an opinion but from what I know of maternal filicide:
The most common motive for maternal filicide is altruism under Resnick's spectrum. Though the link between suicide and filicide is high a 'let down' period occurring in both altruistic and acutely psychotic filicides sometimes prevents the parent from completing the suicide. In an acutely psychotic filicide we often see a confession almost immediately and a very high history of past psychiatric hospitalization. (Think Schlosser and Yates.) In non-psychotic filicides, according to one study, approximately half of the murderers are afflicted with a personality disorder.
Resnick defines five types of filicide. In "altruistic" filicide a parent—almost always a mother in this category—kills her child or children as an extension of a suicide attempt. "These mothers see their children as an extension of themselves," he said. "They do not want to leave a child motherless in a 'cruel' world as seen through their depressed eyes."
In a second type of altruistic filicide a child is killed to end his or her real or imagined suffering. "These mothers may project their own unacceptable symptoms onto the child," he said.
Last edited by BritsKate; 08-21-2012 at 05:10 AM."Emotional abuse isn't calling someone a name; it isn't simply raising your voice at someone you're meant to love...it's a concerted effort, a campaign, designed with the sole purpose of destruction. Your destruction. Emotional abuse crushes your spirit. It steals a piece of your soul. It changes everything about you and how you interact with others. You are never the same having survived it. In its wake, you question everything you ever thought you knew. You wonder what's wrong with you. You believe you aren't worth loving. You doubt yourself - constantly. And you learn to live with scars no one sees."
How awful!!!! Lock her up and throw that key away!!! This case has taken some weird turns, for sure.JMO, MOO, Doing my best. I am not perfect and I don't expect you to be either.
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When police officers broke down the door at the Peninsula Hotel in 2010, the evidence of what had happened inside Room 1603 seemed fairly clear. Gigi Jordan, a multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive, was on the floor, disoriented and babbling. Her 8-year-old son lay on a nearby bed — stiff, cold, still. There were scores of pills and bottles of alcohol scattered about.
"I want a lawyer," she muttered to the first officers who asked her what she had taken, according to prosecutors. To another officer, she said she wanted to die.
Four and a half years later, Ms. Jordan, 54, will go on trial for murder in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Opening arguments in the trial, which is expected to last two months, are to begin Wednesday.
Socialite Gigi Jordan murdered her autistic son to avoid dealing with his developmental disorder, prosecutors said at the start of her trial on Wednesday, but the defense said it was a mercy killing to protect the boy from being raped by his father...
Jordan's defense team, which also includes such high profile lawyers as Ron Kuby, a bombastic civil rights attorney and radio-show host, and Alan Dershowitz, the prominent Harvard University law professor, has filed legal papers saying she acted out of "altruistic filicide."
In his opening argument, Brenner focused on Jordan's state of mind, telling the jury she was emotionally disturbed by the actions of Tzekov and threatens made by her first husband, Raymond Mirra Jr., a Philadelphia businessman who she said vowed to have her killed or institutionalized.
Wealthy pharmaceutical exec Gigi Jordan left "fresh bruises" on her doomed 8-year-old autistic son after plunging a syringe filled with a deadly cocktail into the boy, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jordan's deadly act was "chilling and horrifying scenario" in which the non-verbal child, Jude Michael Mirra, slipped into a slow death with gradual organ failure inside a posh Manhattan hotel room, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos argued in his opening statement...
Jordan even suspiciously handled her finances, Bogdanos said — going her laptop to transfer $125,000 from his trust fund to her account through her adviser — as the young boy died in the room with her.
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What an incredibly tangled web.
Mom is currently chewing up her 12th defense attorney; she's gone through 11 previously in the past year alone, with a nonstop stream of motions that presently fill 7 bankers' boxes at the courthouse. If the subject of this case weren't so terribly sad, it would be a jaw-dropping piece of theater - whether tragedy or comedy, I don't know.
She is really something else. To this layperson, she seems to be totally off the rails, mental-health-wise, and probably was for years. She won't let them examine her, so they can't try to defend her on that basis. OTOH, if she was rearing her son with no assistance, that could've made her not only more exhausted but also more paranoid.
What a weird, weird story. Whatever happens, there is no justice for that poor child whose life was so short, and who suffered so much.
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But Mr. Bogdanos, in his opening statement, said Ms. Jordan's actions just before the her son's death seemed to be those of a "calm, businesslike" woman, not an emotionally distraught wreck.
He said she had just returned from a four-day trip to Florida when she checked into the Peninsula Hotel at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 3. She stopped on the way at a Chase bank on the Upper West Side, where she transferred $8 million to her checking account from her savings account, he said. That night she ordered Jude chicken fingers and carrots from room service.
The next morning, Ms. Jordan told a maid not to clean the room. That night, at 7:15, she called for a page and gave her two certified letters to mail, with specific instructions to send them from a midtown post office. One was for Doctors Without Borders, the other for the Red Cross. Three hours later, she called the front desk to arrange to extend her stay a third day, Mr. Bogdanos said. She met a night manager in a hallway and calmly paid him $1,000 in cash to reserve the room for a third night. "At this point Jude is almost certainly dead," Mr. Bogdanos said.
When officers entered room 1603 on the 16th floor of the hotel, they found 5,819 pills, including more than 1000 Xanax tablets and more than 400 Ambien, Mr. Bogdanos said... A "pill crusher" and syringe, "the kind you use to force liquids down someone's throat," were inside the room, he said.
Fresh bruises were on Jude's nose, chest and around his chin "where she held his jaw open," Mr. Bogdanos said, adding that he had likely been dead for 14 hours before police found him.
"How long did this take? Don't think minutes. Think hours," Mr. Bogdanos said.
Crazy? Like a fox.
Flint, suspicious of Jordan's stories (among other things, she claimed that Jude, who was autistic and communicated by pointing, was typing the details of the sex abuse into a computer), showed her letters to local police, who took mother and child into custody. When no signs of physical abuse were found on the boy, he and his mother were released and left the state. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...jordan_cha.php
Sounds like this woman and what she did to her son were part of an overall bid for attention.
This woman brutally murdered her small, helpless son. She likely did it for attention, considering the diagnosis, as well as her call to alert a family member before she did it (she would be "rescued", of course, due to that call). Her behavior (transferring money from her son's account to her own as he lay dying, and demanding a lawyer the moment she is found next to her dead child), show that although she may have a mental health diagnosis (MSBP), she's not crazy at all. She fully knew what she was doing as well as the legal ramifications.
I am surprised to see a lot of gymnastics being done in what seems an attempt to excuse this woman's actions:
1. She an overwhelmed mother of a disabled child.
2. Her ex was raping and molesting the kid so it drove her crazy.
3. She didn't do this for attention. She did it because she suffers from serious mental health issues (delusions) that she (I feel it is being inferred a bit) couldn't control.
It's not surprising to me that she won't allow herself to be evaluated for mental health issues. She knows she wont' be found insane. She's hoping the jury will just nullify what she did based on her accusations. I don;t see how that's possible. It is no defense. But from what I'm seeing here, I actually think she has a chance at the impossible.
I don't think that's right. It's not justice for Jude.For Travis Alexander, a human being.
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Multimillionaire former drug company exec tearfully admits to killing her autistic eight-year-old son but denies forcing cocktail of pills down his throat in high-end Manhattan hotel suite
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A millionaire pharmaceuticals entrepreneur, living in fear and convinced a mutual death with her developmentally disabled 8-year-old son was the only solution, deliberately gave him a lethal dose of prescription drugs and exchanged goodbyes but later tried to revive him, she told jurors on Thursday.
On hearing the boy, Jude Mirra, struggling to breathe, "my heart started pounding," Gigi Jordan testified at her murder trial.
"I raced over to him. I was crying and sobbing," she said. "I was crying and calling, 'Jude! Jude! Jude!' And then I started to attempt CPR."
"The nonverbal, often tormented-seeming Jude was initially deemed autistic but later was diagnosed with immune-system abnormalities, post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems, according to Jordan."
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Now she's claiming that it was the child's idea for her to kill him! Supposedly he told her via facilitated communication to do it.
" 'Let's just get out while we can,' she claims Jude wrote on January 26, 2010, days before his body was found in the Peninsula Hotel. 'We r going to die anyway let's do it ourselves instead of them.
'We need to leave in a way we want to, not their way. Get the pills and try to do it.'
She claims he wrote other messages claiming it wouldn't be murder and urged her to use 'a lot of drugs' so he would die peacefully".
" Your 6¹/₂-year-old child the first night he ever typed typed out the words, I want to aggressively punish God? Bogdanos asked incredulously.
The jurors rolled their eyes as she replied, Yes, in a business-like tone."
Even before the jury had finished its first day of deliberations on Wednesday, a woman on trial in Manhattan for poisoning her disabled son was vowing to appeal the verdict while her lawyers moved for a mistrial...
The jury of seven men and five women started deliberating at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, and continued until 4:30 p.m., when the judge dismissed them for the night. They will resume deliberations on Thursday morning...
Minutes after starting deliberations, jurors asked that most of the evidence presented during the two-month trial be sent to them. Later they requested transcripts of testimony about telephone calls between Ms. Jordan and Mr. Mirra.
Dr. Phil just interviewed her. What a horrible case. Even worse, she stated she would do it again, and make sure she took her own life. That poor baby never had a chance.http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sho...lisa%20tackett
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Despite that Jude was nonverbal, Jordan testified that the boy learned to communicate with her by typing on a laptop computer and BlackBerry. That was how, she said, he told her about abuse he endured with bizarre satanic elements from being forced to drink blood and kill animals to being zapped with electricity.
The boy also typed a message saying he wanted to die, testified Jordan, a millionaire and socialite.
Bogdanos argued that for jurors to accept Jordans defense they would have to believe that Jude, at age 6, began typing comments such as I want to aggressively punish God while describing the alleged sexual abuse
This woman has said her losing her mobile phone was proof her first husband wanted her dead, she has accused him and his wife of abusing her son but didn't remove his name from the list of emergency names at his school. She has also accused husband number two a grandfather, uncle and two babysitters. This is not a woman driven to kill she talked about killing him if treatment didn't cure him
The longtime pal of a pharmaceutical exec on trial for killing her own son testified Wednesday that the troubled millionaire had talked openly about her desire to end the severely autistic boys life just three years before she force fed him a fatal dose of prescription drugs.
Rita Cristman had an ominous phone conversation with killer mom Gigi Jordan in 2006, she told Manhattan jurors.
She said that if the procedure didnt work, she was going to end it, Cristman testified, referring to a stem cell transplant Jordans son Jude Mirra was about to undergo in Chicago in a bizarre effort to cure his autism symptoms.
She said, Im going to give myself an overdose and I said, What about Jude? and she said, Im going to take him with me and give him an overdose, too. I cant leave him behind. No one would ever be there for him.
In another phone conversation, Jordan made a disturbing admission to her ex friend.
Gigi said to me, You know parents of autistic children that die are better off than those that live, Cristman recounted.
I said, Why? and she said, Well one morning you wake up and the child is gone. Its like theyve been kidnapped and when your child is kidnapped youre forever looking for them and wondering where they are and you cant mourn.
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The former best friends had a falling out when Jordan began blaming Cristman for her troubles with Jude, she said.
We had been arguing a lot, she said of the last phone conversation she remembered having with Jordan in late 2006.
I said, Why are you angry? She said, Because its all your fault, you told me to have Jude and Ive never been more miserable in my life!
Cristman said she didnt report Jordans bizarre ranting because she didnt believe she meant it.
I didnt take her seriously at the moment. She was a very dramatic person, the witness said. She got angry easily she was emotional all the time. I never knew how she was going to behave.
Although Cristman said Jordan was erratic, she said she was often very caring and generous.
Jordan had taken her friend on at least five vacations, paid off her credit card debt and even set up trusts for her children. She is godmother to Cristmans daughter.
Jordan has argued that she poisoned her son at the Peninsula Hotel because she feared her ex-husband was planning to kill her.
Jude would then be handed over to his biological father, Emil Tzekov, who she believed had physically and sexually abused him, she said.
But prosecutors have countered that Jordan killed her son after years of experimental treatments had failed to cure his autism.
Jordan was discovered semi-conscious on the floor of her room within arms length of her 8-year-olds corpse amid thousands of pills and an empty bottle of Grey Goose February 5, 2010.
I wonder if this could be a case of Munchausen's by proxy? I presume that psychosis (delusions) has been ruled out? What we need to know is - did she truly believe that these things happened, or not?
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Internationalization and localization are means of adapting software for non-native environments, especially for other nations and cultures.
Parts of an application which might need to be localized might include:
The distinction between internationalization and localization is subtle but important. Internationalization is the adaptation of products for potential use virtually everywhere, while localization is the addition of special features for use in a specific locale.
For example, in terms of language used in software, internationalization is the process of marking up all strings that might need to be translated whilst localization is the process of producing translations for a particular locale.
Pylons provides built-in support to enable you to internationalize language but leaves you to handle any other aspects of internationalization which might be appropriate to your application.
Internationalization is often abbreviated as I18N (or i18n or I18n) where the number 18 refers to the number of letters omitted. Localization is often abbreviated L10n or l10n in the same manner. These abbreviations also avoid picking one spelling (internationalisation vs. internationalization, etc.) over the other.
In order to represent characters from multiple languages, you will need to utilize Unicode. This document assumes you have read the Understanding Unicode.
By now you should have a good idea of what Unicode is, how to use it in Python and which areas of you application need to pay specific attention to decoding and encoding Unicode data.
This final section will look at the issue of making your application work with multiple languages.
Pylons uses the Python gettext module for internationalization. It is based off the GNU gettext API.
Everywhere in your code where you want strings to be available in different languages you wrap them in the _() function. There are also a number of other translation functions which are documented in the API reference at http://pylonshq.com/docs/module-pylons.i18n.translation.html
The _() function is a reference to the ugettext() function. _() is a convention for marking text to be translated and saves on keystrokes. ugettext() is the Unicode version of gettext(); it returns unicode strings.
In our example we want the string 'Hello' to appear in three different languages: English, French and Spanish. We also want to display the word 'Hello' in the default language. We'll then go on to use some plural words too.
Lets call our project translate_demo:
$ paster create -t pylons translate_demo
Now lets add a friendly controller that says hello:
$ cd translate_demo
$ paster controller hello
Edit controllers/hello.py to make use of the _() function everywhere where the string Hello appears:
import logging
from pylons.i18n import get_lang, set_lang
from translate_demo.lib.base import *
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class HelloController(BaseController):
def index(self):
response.write('Default: %s
' % _('Hello'))
for lang in ['fr','en','es']:
response.write("%s: %s
" % (get_lang(), _('Hello')))
When writing wrapping strings in the gettext functions, it is important not to piece sentences together manually; certain languages might need to invert the grammars. Don't do this:
msg = _("He told her ")
msg += _("not to go outside.")
but this is perfectly acceptable:
msg = _("He told her not to go outside")
The controller has now been internationalized, but it will raise a LanguageError until we have setup the alternative language catalogs.
GNU gettext use three types of files in the translation framework.
The first step in the localization process. A program is used to search through your project's source code and pick out every string passed to one of the translation functions, such as _(). This list is put together in a specially-formatted template file that will form the basis of all translations. This is the .pot file.
The second step in the localization process. Using the POT file as a template, the list of messages are translated and saved as a .po file.
The final step in the localization process. The PO file is run through a program that turns it into an optimized machine-readable binary file, which is the .mo file. Compiling the translations to machine code makes the localized program much faster in retrieving the translations while it is running.
GNU gettext provides a suite of command line programs for extracting messages from source code and working with the associated gettext catalogs. The Babel project provides pure Python alternative versions of these tools. Unlike the GNU gettext tool xgettext, Babel supports extracting translatable strings from Python templating languages (currently Mako and Genshi).
To use Babel, you must first install it via easy_install. Run the command:
$ easy_install Babel
Pylons (as of 0.9.6) includes some sane defaults for Babel's distutils commands in the setup.cfg file.
It also includes an extraction method mapping in the setup.py file. It is commented out by default, to avoid distutils warning about it being an unrecognized option when Babel is not installed. These lines should be uncommented before proceeding with the rest of this walk through:
message_extractors = {'translate_demo': [
('**.py', 'python', None),
('templates/**.mako', 'mako', None),
('public/**', 'ignore', None)]},
We'll use Babel to extract messages to a .pot file in your project's i18n directory. First, the directory needs to be created. Don't forget to add it to your revision control system if one is in use:
$ cd translate_demo
$ mkdir translate_demo/i18n
$ svn add translate_demo/i18n
Next we can extract all messages from the project with the following command:
$ python setup.py extract_messages
running extract_messages
extracting messages from translate_demo/__init__.py
extracting messages from translate_demo/websetup.py
extracting messages from translate_demo/tests/functional/test_hello.py
writing PO template file to translate_demo/i18n/translate_demo.pot
This will create a .pot file in the i18n directory that looks something like this:
# Translations template for translate_demo.
# Copyright (C) 2007 ORGANIZATION
# This file is distributed under the same license as the translate_demo project.
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: translate_demo 0.0.0\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-08-02 18:01-0700\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <firstname.lastname@example.com>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Generated-By: Babel 0.9dev-r215\n"
#: translate_demo/controllers/hello.py:10 translate_demo/controllers/hello.py:13
msgid "Hello"
msgstr ""
The .pot details that appear here can be customized via the extract_messages configuration in your project's setup.cfg (See the Babel Command-Line Interface Documentation for all configuration options).
Next, we'll initialize a catalog (.po file) for the Spanish language:
$ python setup.py init_catalog -l es
running init_catalog
creating catalog 'translate_demo/i18n/es/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po' based on
Then we can edit the last line of the new Spanish .po file to add a translation of "Hello":
msgid "Hello"
msgstr "¡Hola!"
Finally, to utilize these translations in our application, we need to compile the .po file to a .mo file:
$ python setup.py compile_catalog
running compile_catalog
1 of 1 messages (100%) translated in 'translate_demo/i18n/es/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po'
compiling catalog 'translate_demo/i18n/es/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po' to
We can also use the update_catalog command to merge new messages from the .pot to the .po files. For example, if we later added the following line of code to the end of HelloController's index method:
response.write('Goodbye: %s' % _('Goodbye'))
We'd then need to re-extract the messages from the project, then run the update_catalog command:
$ python setup.py extract_messages
running extract_messages
extracting messages from translate_demo/__init__.py
extracting messages from translate_demo/websetup.py
extracting messages from translate_demo/tests/functional/test_hello.py
writing PO template file to translate_demo/i18n/translate_demo.pot
$ python setup.py update_catalog
running update_catalog
updating catalog 'translate_demo/i18n/es/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po' based on
We'd then edit our catalog to add a translation for "Goodbye", and recompile the .po file as we did above.
For more information, see the Babel documentation and the GNU Gettext Manual.
Next we'll need to repeat the process of creating a .mo file for the en and fr locales:
$ python setup.py init_catalog -l en
running init_catalog
creating catalog 'translate_demo/i18n/en/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po' based on
$ python setup.py init_catalog -l fr
running init_catalog
creating catalog 'translate_demo/i18n/fr/LC_MESSAGES/translate_demo.po' based on
Modify the last line of the fr catalog to look like this:
#: translate_demo/controllers/hello.py:10 translate_demo/controllers/hello.py:13
msgid "Hello"
msgstr "Bonjour"
Since our original messages are already in English, the en catalog can stay blank; gettext will fallback to the original.
Once you've edited these new .po files and compiled them to .mo files, you'll end up with an i18n directory containing:
Start the server with the following command:
$ paster serve --reload development.ini
Test your controller by visiting http://localhost:5000/hello. You should see the following output:
Default: Hello
fr: Bonjour
en: Hello
es: ¡Hola!
You can now set the language used in a controller on the fly.
For example this could be used to allow a user to set which language they wanted your application to work in. You could save the value to the session object:
session['lang'] = 'en'
then on each controller call the language to be used could be read from the session and set in your controller's __before__() method so that the pages remained in the same language that was previously set:
def __before__(self):
if 'lang' in session:
Pylons also supports defining the default language to be used in the configuration file. Set a lang variable to the desired default language in your development.ini file, and Pylons will automatically call set_lang with that language at the beginning of every request.
E.g. to set the default language to Spanish, you would add lang = es to your development.ini:
use = egg:translate_demo
lang = es
If you are running the server with the --reload option the server will automatically restart if you change the development.ini file. Otherwise restart the server manually and the output would this time be as follows:
Default: ¡Hola!
fr: Bonjour
en: Hello
es: ¡Hola!
If your code calls _() with a string that doesn't exist at all in your language catalog, the string passed to _() is returned instead.
Modify the last line of the hello controller to look like this:
response.write("%s %s, %s" % (_('Hello'), _('World'), _('Hi!')))
Of course, in real life breaking up sentences in this way is very dangerous because some grammars might require the order of the words to be different.
If you run the example again the output will be:
Default: ¡Hola!
fr: Bonjour World!
en: Hello World!
es: ¡Hola! World!
This is because we never provided a translation for the string 'World!' so the string itself is used.
Pylons also provides a mechanism for fallback languages, so that you can specify other languages to be used if the word is omitted from the main language's catalog.
In this example we choose fr as the main language but es as a fallback:
import logging
from pylons.i18n import set_lang
from translate_demo.lib.base import *
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class HelloController(BaseController):
def index(self):
set_lang(['fr', 'es'])
return "%s %s, %s" % (_('Hello'), _('World'), _('Hi!'))
If Hello is in the fr .mo file as Bonjour, World is only in es as Mundo and none of the catalogs contain Hi!, you'll get the multilingual message: Bonjour Mundo, Hi!. This is a combination of the French, Spanish and original (English in this case, as defined in our source code) words.
You can also add fallback languages after calling set_lang via the pylons.i18n.add_fallback function. Translations will be tested in the order you add them.
Fallbacks are reset after calling set_lang(lang) – that is, fallbacks are associated with the currently selected language.
One case where using fallbacks in this way is particularly useful is when you wish to display content based on the languages requested by the browser in the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. Typically the browser may submit a number of languages so it is useful to be add fallbacks in the order specified by the browser so that you always try to display words in the language of preference and search the other languages in order if a translation cannot be found. The languages defined in the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header are available in Pylons as request.languages and can be used like this:
for lang in request.languages:
You can also use the _() function within templates in exactly the same way you do in code. For example, in a Mako template:
would produce the string 'Hello' in the language you had set.
Babel currently supports extracting gettext messages from Mako and Genshi templates. The Mako extractor also provides support for translator comments. Babel can be extended to extract messages from other sources via a custom extraction method plugin.
Pylons (as of 0.9.6) automatically configures a Babel extraction mapping for your Python source code and Mako templates. This is defined in your project's setup.py file:
message_extractors = {'translate_demo': [
('**.py', 'python', None),
('templates/**.mako', 'mako', None),
('public/**', 'ignore', None)]},
For a project using Genshi instead of Mako, the Mako line might be replaced with:
('templates/**.html, 'genshi', None),
See Babel's documentation on Message Extraction for more information.
Occasionally you might come across a situation when you need to translate a string when it is accessed, not when the _() or other functions are called.
Consider this example:
import logging
from pylons.i18n import get_lang, set_lang
from translate_demo.lib.base import *
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
text = _('Hello')
class HelloController(BaseController):
def index(self):
response.write('Default: %s
' % _('Hello'))
for lang in ['fr','en','es']:
response.write("%s: %s
" % (get_lang(), _('Hello')))
response.write('Text: %s
' % text)
If we run this we get the following output:
Default: Hello
['fr']: Bonjour
['en']: Good morning
['es']: Hola
Text: Hello
This is because the function _('Hello') just after the imports is called when the default language is en so the variable text gets the value of the English translation even though when the string was used the default language was Spanish.
The rule of thumb in these situations is to try to avoid using the translation functions in situations where they are not executed on each request. For situations where this isn't possible, perhaps because you are working with legacy code or with a library which doesn't support internationalization, you need to use lazy translations.
If we modify the above example so that the import statements and assignment to text look like this:
from pylons.i18n import get_lang, lazy_gettext, set_lang
from helloworld.lib.base import *
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
text = lazy_gettext('Hello')
then we get the output we expected:
Default: Hello
['fr']: Bonjour
['en']: Good morning
['es']: Hola
Text: Hola
There are lazy versions of all the standard Pylons translation functions.
There is one drawback to be aware of when using the lazy translation functions: they are not actually strings. This means that if our example had used the following code it would have failed with an error cannot concatenate 'str' and 'LazyString' objects:
response.write('Text: ' + text + '
')
For this reason you should only use the lazy translations where absolutely necessary and should always ensure they are converted to strings by calling str() or repr() before they are used in operations with real strings.
Finally you can produce an egg of your project which includes the translation files like this:
$ python setup.py bdist_egg
The setup.py automatically includes the .mo language catalogs your application needs so that your application can be distributed as an egg. This is done with the following line in your setup.py file:
package_data={'translate_demo': ['i18n/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo']},
Pylons also provides the ungettext() function. It's designed for internationalizing plural words, and can be used as follows:
ungettext('There is %(num)d file here', 'There are %(num)d files here',
n) % {'num': n}
Plural forms have a different type of entry in .pot/.po files, as described in The Format of PO Files in GNU Gettext's Manual:
#: translate_demo/controllers/hello.py:12
#, python-format
msgid "There is %(num)d file here"
msgid_plural "There are %(num)d files here"
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""
One thing to keep in mind is that other languages don't have the same plural forms as English. While English only has 2 plural forms, singular and plural, Slovenian has 4! That means that you must use ugettext for proper pluralization. Specifically, the following will not work:
if n == 1:
msg = _("There was no dog.")
msg = _("There were no dogs.")
This document only covers the basics of internationalizing and localizing a web application.
GNU Gettext is an extensive library, and the GNU Gettext Manual is highly recommended for more information.
Babel also provides support for interfacing to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.
You should also be able to internationalize and then localize your application using Pylons' support for GNU gettext.
Please feel free to report any mistakes to the Pylons mailing list or to the author. Any corrections or clarifications would be gratefully received.
This is a work in progress. We hope the internationalization, localization and Unicode support in Pylons is now robust and flexible but we would appreciate hearing about any issues we have. Just drop a line to the pylons-discuss mailing list on Google Groups.
Integrated collection of utilities that assist in internationalizing and localizing applications.
This package is basically composed of two major parts:
- tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs
- a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.
BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
Representation of a specific locale.
>>> locale = Locale('en', 'US')
>>> repr(locale)
"Locale('en', territory='US')"
>>> locale.display_name
u'English (United States)'
A Locale object can also be instantiated from a raw locale string:
>>> locale = Locale.parse('en-US', sep='-')
>>> repr(locale)
"Locale('en', territory='US')"
Locale objects provide access to a collection of locale data, such as territory and language names, number and date format patterns, and more:
>>> locale.number_symbols['decimal']
If a locale is requested for which no locale data is available, an UnknownLocaleError is raised:
>>> Locale.parse('en_DE')
Traceback (most recent call last):
UnknownLocaleError: unknown locale 'en_DE'
For more information see RFC 3066.
Mapping of currency codes to translated currency names. This only returns the generic form of the currency name, not the count specific one. If an actual number is requested use the babel.numbers.get_currency_name() function.
>>> Locale('en').currencies['COP']
u'Colombian Peso'
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').currencies['COP']
u'Kolumbianischer Peso'
Locale patterns for currency number formatting.
>>> print Locale('en', 'US').currency_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'\xa4#,##0.00'>
Mapping of currency codes to symbols.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').currency_symbols['USD']
>>> Locale('es', 'CO').currency_symbols['USD']
Locale patterns for date formatting.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').date_formats['short']
<DateTimePattern u'M/d/yy'>
>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').date_formats['long']
<DateTimePattern u'd MMMM y'>
Locale patterns for datetime formatting.
>>> Locale('en').datetime_formats['full']
u"{1} 'at' {0}"
>>> Locale('th').datetime_formats['medium']
u'{1}, {0}'
Locale display names for weekdays.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').days['format']['wide'][3]
Locale patterns for decimal number formatting.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').decimal_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#,##0.###'>
Return the system default locale for the specified category.
>>> for name in ['LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LC_MESSAGES']:
... os.environ[name] = ''
>>> os.environ['LANG'] = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
>>> Locale.default('LC_MESSAGES')
Locale('fr', territory='FR')
The following fallbacks to the variable are always considered:
The localized display name of the locale.
>>> Locale('en').display_name
>>> Locale('en', 'US').display_name
u'English (United States)'
>>> Locale('sv').display_name
The english display name of the locale.
>>> Locale('de').english_name
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').english_name
u'German (Germany)'
Locale display names for eras.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').eras['wide'][1]
u'Anno Domini'
>>> Locale('en', 'US').eras['abbreviated'][0]
The first day of a week, with 0 being Monday.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').first_week_day
>>> Locale('en', 'US').first_week_day
Return the display name of the locale using the given locale.
The display name will include the language, territory, script, and variant, if those are specified.
>>> Locale('zh', 'CN', script='Hans').get_display_name('en')
u'Chinese (Simplified, China)'
|locale – the locale to use
Return the language of this locale in the given locale.
>>> Locale('zh', 'CN', script='Hans').get_language_name('de')
New in version 1.0.
|locale – the locale to use
Return the script name in the given locale.
Return the territory name in the given locale.
the language code
The localized language name of the locale.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').language_name
Mapping of language codes to translated language names.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').languages['ja']
See ISO 639 for more information.
Locale display names for meta time zones.
Meta time zones are basically groups of different Olson time zones that have the same GMT offset and daylight savings time.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').meta_zones['Europe_Central']['long']['daylight']
u'Central European Summer Time'
New in version 0.9.
The minimum number of days in a week so that the week is counted as the first week of a year or month.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').min_week_days
Locale display names for months.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').months['format']['wide'][10]
Find the best match between available and requested locale strings.
>>> Locale.negotiate(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['de_DE', 'de_AT'])
Locale('de', territory='DE')
>>> Locale.negotiate(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['en', 'de'])
>>> Locale.negotiate(['de_DE', 'de'], ['en_US'])
You can specify the character used in the locale identifiers to separate the differnet components. This separator is applied to both lists. Also, case is ignored in the comparison:
>>> Locale.negotiate(['de-DE', 'de'], ['en-us', 'de-de'], sep='-')
Locale('de', territory='DE')
Symbols used in number formatting.
>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').number_symbols['decimal']
Create a Locale instance for the given locale identifier.
>>> l = Locale.parse('de-DE', sep='-')
>>> l.display_name
u'Deutsch (Deutschland)'
If the identifier parameter is not a string, but actually a Locale object, that object is returned:
>>> Locale.parse(l)
Locale('de', territory='DE')
This also can perform resolving of likely subtags which it does by default. This is for instance useful to figure out the most likely locale for a territory you can use 'und' as the language tag:
>>> Locale.parse('und_AT')
Locale('de', territory='AT')
Locale patterns for percent number formatting.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').percent_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#,##0%'>
Locale display names for day periods (AM/PM).
>>> Locale('en', 'US').periods['am']
Plural rules for the locale.
>>> Locale('en').plural_form(1)
>>> Locale('en').plural_form(0)
>>> Locale('fr').plural_form(0)
>>> Locale('ru').plural_form(100)
Locale display names for quarters.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').quarters['format']['wide'][1]
u'1. Quartal'
Locale patterns for scientific number formatting.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').scientific_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#E0'>
the script code
The localized script name of the locale if available.
>>> Locale('ms', 'SG', script='Latn').script_name
Mapping of script codes to translated script names.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').scripts['Hira']
See ISO 15924 for more information.
Mapping of script codes to translated script names.
>>> Locale('es', 'CO').territories['DE']
See ISO 3166 for more information.
the territory (country or region) code
The localized territory name of the locale if available.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').territory_name
Locale patterns for time formatting.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_formats['short']
<DateTimePattern u'h:mm a'>
>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').time_formats['long']
<DateTimePattern u'HH:mm:ss z'>
Locale display names for time zones.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_zones['Europe/London']['long']['daylight']
u'British Summer Time'
>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_zones['America/St_Johns']['city']
u'St. John\u2019s'
the variant code
Mapping of script codes to translated script names.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').variants['1901']
u'Alte deutsche Rechtschreibung'
The day the weekend ends, with 0 being Monday.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').weekend_end
The day the weekend starts, with 0 being Monday.
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').weekend_start
Patterns related to the formatting of time zones.
>>> Locale('en', 'US').zone_formats['fallback']
u'%(1)s (%(0)s)'
>>> Locale('pt', 'BR').zone_formats['region']
u'Hor\xe1rio %s'
New in version 0.9.
Returns the system default locale for a given category, based on environment variables.
>>> for name in ['LANGUAGE', 'LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE']:
... os.environ[name] = ''
>>> os.environ['LANG'] = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
>>> default_locale('LC_MESSAGES')
The "C" or "POSIX" pseudo-locales are treated as aliases for the "en_US_POSIX" locale:
>>> os.environ['LC_MESSAGES'] = 'POSIX'
>>> default_locale('LC_MESSAGES')
The following fallbacks to the variable are always considered:
Find the best match between available and requested locale strings.
>>> negotiate_locale(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['de_DE', 'de_AT'])
>>> negotiate_locale(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['en', 'de'])
Case is ignored by the algorithm, the result uses the case of the preferred locale identifier:
>>> negotiate_locale(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['de_de', 'de_at'])
>>> negotiate_locale(['de_DE', 'en_US'], ['de_de', 'de_at'])
By default, some web browsers unfortunately do not include the territory in the locale identifier for many locales, and some don't even allow the user to easily add the territory. So while you may prefer using qualified locale identifiers in your web-application, they would not normally match the language-only locale sent by such browsers. To workaround that, this function uses a default mapping of commonly used langauge-only locale identifiers to identifiers including the territory:
>>> negotiate_locale(['ja', 'en_US'], ['ja_JP', 'en_US'])
Some browsers even use an incorrect or outdated language code, such as "no" for Norwegian, where the correct locale identifier would actually be "nb_NO" (Bokmål) or "nn_NO" (Nynorsk). The aliases are intended to take care of such cases, too:
>>> negotiate_locale(['no', 'sv'], ['nb_NO', 'sv_SE'])
You can override this default mapping by passing a different aliases dictionary to this function, or you can bypass the behavior althogher by setting the aliases parameter to None.
Parse a locale identifier into a tuple of the form (language, territory, script, variant).
>>> parse_locale('zh_CN')
('zh', 'CN', None, None)
>>> parse_locale('zh_Hans_CN')
('zh', 'CN', 'Hans', None)
The default component separator is "_", but a different separator can be specified using the sep parameter:
>>> parse_locale('zh-CN', sep='-')
('zh', 'CN', None, None)
If the identifier cannot be parsed into a locale, a ValueError exception is raised:
>>> parse_locale('not_a_LOCALE_String')
Traceback (most recent call last):
ValueError: 'not_a_LOCALE_String' is not a valid locale identifier
Encoding information and locale modifiers are removed from the identifier:
>>> parse_locale('it_IT@euro')
('it', 'IT', None, None)
>>> parse_locale('en_US.UTF-8')
('en', 'US', None, None)
>>> parse_locale('de_DE.iso885915@euro')
('de', 'DE', None, None)
See RFC 4646 for more information.
|Raises ValueError:
if the string does not appear to be a valid locale identifier
Low-level locale data access.
The Locale class, which uses this module under the hood, provides a more convenient interface for accessing the locale data.
BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
Check whether locale data is available for the given locale. Ther return value is True if it exists, False otherwise.
|name – the locale identifier string
Check whether locale data is available for the given locale. Ther return value is True if it exists, False otherwise.
|name – the locale identifier string
Locale dependent formatting and parsing of dates and times.
The default locale for the functions in this module is determined by the following environment variables, in that order:
- LC_ALL, and
BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
Return the number of the week of a day within a period. This may be the week number in a year or the week number in a month.
Usually this will return a value equal to or greater than 1, but if the first week of the period is so short that it actually counts as the last week of the previous period, this function will return 0.
>>> format = DateTimeFormat(date(2006, 1, 8), Locale.parse('de_DE'))
>>> format.get_week_number(6)
>>> format = DateTimeFormat(date(2006, 1, 8), Locale.parse('en_US'))
>>> format.get_week_number(6)
Locale dependent formatting and parsing of numeric data.
The default locale for the functions in this module is determined by the following environment variables, in that order:
- LC_ALL, and
BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
Exception raised when a string cannot be parsed into a number.
Return the given number formatted for a specific locale.
>>> format_number(1099, locale='en_US')
>>> format_number(1099, locale='de_DE')
Return the given decimal number formatted for a specific locale.
>>> format_decimal(1.2345, locale='en_US')
>>> format_decimal(1.2346, locale='en_US')
>>> format_decimal(-1.2346, locale='en_US')
>>> format_decimal(1.2345, locale='sv_SE')
>>> format_decimal(1.2345, locale='de')
The appropriate thousands grouping and the decimal separator are used for each locale:
>>> format_decimal(12345.5, locale='en_US')
Return formatted percent value for a specific locale.
>>> format_percent(0.34, locale='en_US')
>>> format_percent(25.1234, locale='en_US')
>>> format_percent(25.1234, locale='sv_SE')
The format pattern can also be specified explicitly:
>>> format_percent(25.1234, u'#,##0\u2030', locale='en_US')
Return value formatted in scientific notation for a specific locale.
>>> format_scientific(10000, locale='en_US')
The format pattern can also be specified explicitly:
>>> format_scientific(1234567, u'##0E00', locale='en_US')
Parse localized number string into an integer.
>>> parse_number('1,099', locale='en_US')
>>> parse_number('1.099', locale='de_DE')
When the given string cannot be parsed, an exception is raised:
>>> parse_number('1.099,98', locale='de')
Traceback (most recent call last):
NumberFormatError: '1.099,98' is not a valid number
the parsed number
|Raises NumberFormatError:
if the string can not be converted to a number
Parse localized decimal string into a decimal.
>>> parse_decimal('1,099.98', locale='en_US')
>>> parse_decimal('1.099,98', locale='de')
When the given string cannot be parsed, an exception is raised:
>>> parse_decimal('2,109,998', locale='de')
Traceback (most recent call last):
NumberFormatError: '2,109,998' is not a valid decimal number
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Jason Reitman Will Direct 'The Possibilities'
The drama is based on 'The Descendants' author Kaui Hart Hemmings' book about a mother struggling with the loss of her son.
The drama is based on 'The Descendants' author Kaui Hart Hemmings' book about a mother struggling with the loss of her son.
By Brian Gallagher | 1 year ago
Josh Brolin worms his way into the life of Kate Winslet in this upcoming drama from 'Juno' director Jason Reitman. In theaters Christmas Day.
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Adam Sandler, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner and Rosemarie DeWitt are being eyed for roles in this film based on a novel by Chad Kultgen.
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Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin star in this adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel about a single mother harboring a wanted fugitive.
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The director still doesn't have a 'Baywatch' script, and he doesn't anticipate that Howard Stern will be doing a follow-up to 'Private Parts' anytime soon.
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|The effects of structural modifications on sigma receptor binding
|Xu, Rong, 1977-
|University of Missouri--Columbia
|The sigma receptor is a unique receptor family that has two subtypes: sigma1 and sigma2. Sigma1 receptors are involved in several physiological functions such as psychosis and depression. Sigma2 receptors are expressed in a variety of human tumors. Thus the selective sigma1 ligands have potential usage in central nervous system diseases, while sigma2 selective ligands can play an important role as biomarkers and therapeutic agents of tumor proliferation. Two well characterized compounds, SA4503 and conformationally flexible benzamide were chosen as our leads. Structural modifications were conducted in order to study the effect of structural elements on sigma binding properties; the possibility of new ligands as potential SPECT imaging agents was also explored. The result showed most of the SA4503 analogs had moderate affinity and no selectivity between sigma1 and sigma2 receptor subtype. All of these analogs had increased binding affinity for sigma2 subtype than their lead compound SA4503. The modifications made by replacing the left phenylpropyl group of SA4503 with an N-iodoallyl group yielded a sigma1 selective ligand (1h-7, E-IA-DM-PE-PIPZ) that had appropriate lipophilicity for penetrating the blood brain barrier in the CNS. The in vivo studies using radioiodinated 1h-7 showed that it had high specific binding to the sigma1 receptor in the mouse brain and thus it had great potential as SPECT agent for brain imaging. The modifications on the benzamide series of compounds by rigid dioxy rings showed similar trend in binding affinities as observed in the similar modification made on theSA4503 phenolic side chain, the most rigid methylenedioxy analog had the highest affinity and the least rigid propylenedioxy had the lowest affinity for sigma1 subtype. Sigma2 affinity was not affected significantly by the size of the dioxy ring. The modification of the strained tetrahydroisoquinoline ring with a freely rotating amine chain maintained the sigma1 affinity unchanged, while decreasing the sigma2 binding affinity dramatically. Thus a rigid tetrahydroisoquinoline is an important structural element for selective sigma2 binding in the benzamides series compounds.
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Import Manufacturers: Sometimes it's really a overhead when dealing with large number of manufacturers. In such case what you can follow the following simple steps for the import of manufacturers: 1> Create a file in the root of magento dir: manufacturer_import.php 2> Write the following code there: [code php] <?php require_once 'app/Mage.php'; umask(0); Mage::app('default'); $_manufacturers = file('manufacturers.txt'); $_attribute = Mage::getModel('eav/entity_attribute')→loadByCode('catalog_product', 'manufacturer'); $manufacturers = array('value' ⇒ array(), 'order' ⇒ array(), 'delete' ⇒ array()); $i = 0; foreach($_manufacturers as $_manufacturer){
$i++; $manufacturers['value']['option_' . $i] = array($_manufacturer);
} $_attribute→setOption($manufacturers); try{
$_attribute->save(); echo 'Manufacturer successfully imported';
}catch(Exception $e){
echo 'Import Error::'.$e->getMessage();
} [/code] 3> Note i have used manufacturers.txt in the root dir with the values of manufacturers in newline format. For example: Dell Toshiba Sony Fujitsu ... and so on You can also use array instead. But above techniques comes into handy when you have hundreds of manufacturers. 4> Simply run from browser: http://my-magento-store/import_manufacturer.php 5> You are done. Note: Don't repeat 4 unless you delete those values from backend manually.
Todo: Skip the import for existing values.
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Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
Sun, Apr 14, 2013
Times: 7:30PM
Venue: Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02115Contact:
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Mandolinist Chris Thile of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers and Yo-Yo Ma's The Goat Rodeo Sessions joins renowned jazz pianist Brad Mehldau for what promises to be an enthralling concert experience. Both are virtuosos who boldly mix their respective areas of expertise--bluegrass and jazz--with influences from Radiohead to Bach. Now these kindred spirits combine their dazzling imaginations in an evening of classical transcriptions, pop covers and original songs.
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Leaving for France
Old ceramics factory :
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Old ceramics factory
Old ceramics factory : Michelin's recommendations
Situated at the corner of Rue des Imbergères, it was founded by the Duchess of Maine. The products manufactured here are exhibited in the Île-de-France museum in Sceaux Park.
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...smug smile... had 5 days left of AL from last year so took two Fridays off, including today and have a week following the May bank holiday off work
Added bonus, weather today was cracking here in the NW
A nice sunny day here, blue skies and white cloud with no wind.
Plastic GH is full to bursting with germinating seeds. Mooli's enjoying the cool weather, sown only last week, several rows of seedlings have come up, under glass in a raised bed. Trying three different varieties this year, going for different colours...red, white and black.
Evening all. Home late this evening so just catching up on things.
Ever so pleased, just checked the heated propagator and all but one cucumber seed has come up. Have sown courgettes and squash this evening. Thinking ahead, does anyone know how you would cook spagetti squash.
Some of the plants which were potted up yesterday have gone over to damping off, should have waited till their roots were a bit more developed, some were still very tiny, never mind patience is a virtue, will wait longer before potting up the next batch.
I've some very dainty dwarf tulips which came into flower today. Not at all like your traditional tulips, leaves are the same but flower heads are more a cross between a daff and tulip without the sticking out bit on daffs. They've produced 1 - 3 flower heads per stem.
Warm and sunny today. Did loads in the garden.
Oooh - Frank - Having never been to the races before, it could have been a disaster, I was thinking, jeans, t-shirt and four seasons coat. So pleased after discussion with two older brother's...I bought a new outfit...did my nails and had hair done on Friday....
Had such a good time may do ladies day next year...
On a lighter note there is another exclusive club which Verdun and I are members of, it's a club with no face but you do need to have brown hair and wear a blue T-Shirt.
Was just leaving, will get my coat.
It would appear I'm one of the 'out crowd' as I was never invited in with the 'in crowd'.
That is appalling Verdun to be asked to disown a particular member publicly, can't image anyone who posts on here who deserves that kind of treatment, if people are not happy with a poster they can post direct to the people who run the site.
Like you Pam, I joined the forum several years ago and like the easy way we can interact with like minded gardeners. I don't go on face book or twitter.
If this site does close and you find a good one do post me a PM would be happy to join you and that goes for anyone in the out crowd. And on that note I'll put on my coat.
Nearly fotgot, my first tulips appeared today. A dwarf mix variety, some have three flowers, not at all like traditional tulips, quite dainty and ever so nice. Will check out the Spring Sweethearts thread and make it my mission this year to learn how to post pics.
I'v some lost plants not yet found, a hosta, I know where it was planted and last year it did put out a few leaves but it's not there now, couldn't find it when turning over the soil. I've two more in another part of the garden planted as bare roots last year but the grounds swallowed those up too. Also lost a 'Bleeding Heart'. Three were planted but only two coming up this year and one of those is a little reluctant.
Have at least four prs of secatuers, the shed eats those. Bought a pink handled pr but they are already lost and likely not to be found until the shed gets it's next clear out.
Now if I told you that Sam, I'd have to shoot you either that...or... I'd be shot down myself.
Not caught up on todays events but it wasn't very pleasant yesterday, I was thinking of taking a break from the forum. Don't think posters realise the impact these negative intersctions are having on poster who just come on site to talk 'gardening'.
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The average American teen spends up to seven hours a day in contact with others on electronic devices, and a recent survey by AVG Technologies found that almost one in six 6- to 9-year-olds and one in five 8- to 9-year-olds have experienced what parents consider objectionable or aggressive behavior online. Other research revealed that 43 percent of kids in grades 4 through 8 were the victims of some form of cyberbullying. Although girls are more likely to be targets than boys, boys are quick to spread the bullying messages. Bottom line: It's never too early to take precautions.
To protect you and your growing child, here is a list of mobile apps, social monitoring software, Internet browsers, and other Web-based products to prevent cyberbullying on computers and cell phones.
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