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j s-s CODE INPUTS United States Patent Ofiice A mean Patented Jan. 12, 1965 3,165,718 SPECHMEN TDENTEFIQATEON APPARATUS Harold Fleisher, Poughheepsie, N.Y., assignor to International Business Machines Corporation, New York, N.Y., a corporation of New Yorh Filed Dec. 4, 1961, Ser. No. 156,843 3 Claims. (Cl. 34tl146.3)
This invention relates generally to specimen identification apparatus and, more particularly, to an improved character recognition apparatus wherein a function of an unknown character is compared with similar functions of a plurality of reference characters in order to identify the unknown character.
The primary object of this invention is to provide specimen identification apparatus for counting selected groups of character segments in an unknown character and comparing the group sums with corresponding group sums of reference characters.
Another object is to provide such an apparatus wherein the number of groups may be varied, thereby expanding the character recognizing capability of the apparatus.
Briefly, in accordance with a broad feature of this invention, an unknown character is written, printed or otherwise displayed on a matrix. The rows and columns of the matrix are individually scanned to determine for each row and column the number of matrix segments which contain a portion or segment of the character. The individual row and column sums are then individually compared with corresponding sums of a plurality of reference characters to provide an output signal whenever the individual row and column counts of the unknown character coincide with the reference character sums, thereby providing an identification or recognition of the unknown character.
Other objects of the invention wili be pointed out in the following description and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which disclose, by way of example, the principle of the invention and the best mode which has been contemplated of applying that principle.
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FIGURE 1 shows a typical character displayed on a typical matrix;
FIGURE 2 shows an arrangement for counting the unknown character segments and comparing them with reference characters;
FIGURE 3 shows a logical circuit arrangement for recognizing the unknown character;
FIGURE 4 shows a typical character displaced on a larger matrix;
FIGURE 5 shows a more sophisticated character recog nition system which embodies this invention and provides greater resolution of the unknown character; and
FIGURE 6 is a block diagram illustrating the use of cryogenic adders in the higher resolution apparatus.
Now, with reference to the drawings, FIGURE 1 shows a typical specimen or character it? in the form of the Arabic numeral 7 displayed on a three-by-three matrix 12. Even though FIGURES I, 2 and 3 will be considered as dealing with such a three-by-three matrix, the break lines shown in these figures are intended to indicate that any other desired matrix, such as the eight-by-eight matrix shown in FIGURE 4, may be used; however, for the purpose of understanding this invention, the three-by-three matrix 12 will sufiice. The columns of this matrix have been designated as C1, C2, C3, etc., and the rows as R1, R2, R3, etc. Any character or matrix segment may be identified by a coordinate system utilizing the column and row designations; for example, the center matrix segment may be identified as C2, R2.
Turning now to FIGURE 2, there is shown diagrammatically a conventional scanner 14, preferably of the optical type such as a flying spot scanner. Scanner 14 senses or scans individually each column and row in matrix 12 and provides an output pulse each time a portion of the character 10 appears in any matrix segment. The output pulses from scanner 14 are summed by means of a plurality of counters 16a, 1612, etc. The number of counters 16 is identical to the number of rows and columns which, in the case of a three-by-three matrix, would be six. The symbol 20 in block lea indicates a counter to storing the CI count of the specimen or unknown character.
There are also provided a plurality of registers 18a, b etc, each of which holds a row or column count of a reference character. For the case being considered, there would be six registers 18 for each reference character. Therefore, in a system limited to identifying the Arabic numerals, there would be six counters 16 and sixty registers 18. The symbol ZC in block 18a indicates a register 18a holding the C1 count of a reference or perfect character.
The counts of each pair of corresponding counters 16 and registers 18 are applied to one of a plurality of adders 23a, b, etc. For example, the outputs of counters 16a and registers 18a are applied to an adder Ella. Each of the adders 20 functions to perform a comparison of its two inputs. For instance, the CI count of the unknown character 19 is added to the complement of the CI count of each reference character. Consequently, looking at counters 16a and register 13a, for example, when their counts are equal then a perfect match is indicated by a 0 appearing on the adder output line 22a; i.e., line 22 is up. Output lines 24a and 261i may be disregarded for the present. The 0" output on line 22 is coupled through an OR circuit 3ilato condition one leg of an AND circuit 32a. The five other sets of counters, adders, OR and AND circuits all operate in the same manner as just described.
Therefore, each row and column count of the unknown character 10 is compared with the corresponding row and column count of a reference character to condition an AND gate 32 when a match between the corresponding counts occurs. The comparison, of course, in the case of the Arabic numeral identification system is performed for each of ten reference characters and there will be only one set of AND gates 32 all of which will be conditioned by the unknown character.
FEGURE 3 shows a logic circuit for identifying or recognizing the unknown character lltl by utilizing the outputs from OR gates 30. Let us consider the top row of AND gates shown in FIGURE 3 as the AND gates 32 shown in FIGURE 2. As explained previously in connection with FIGURE 2, a positive output from each OR gate 30 is applied via a corresponding conductor 31 to condition one of the AND gates 32. As shown in FIG- URE 3, AND gates 32 are connected in series with a positive voltage +V applied as the second input 33 to the first AND gate 32a in the series. Therefore, if the unknown character matches the particular reference character with which it is being compared, all the AND gates 32 corresponding to that reference character will be closed to provide a path for the voltage +V to appear on the output conductor 35. However, in the case shown, the specimen is an Arabic numeral 7 and AND gates 32 represent the numeral 0. That is, the adders 20 corresponding to AND gates 32 are associated with the registers 18 containing the individual row and cplumn counts for a reference character 0. Therefore, no circuit is completed through AND gates 32 and there will be no output voltage on line 35. For the same reason, there will not be any path completed through the second level 36 of AND gates or through the third level 38, but since the fourth level 40 AND gates are associated with the registers 18 holding the row and column counts for a numeral 7, a series circuit will be formed through AND gates 40 to produce an output voltage on line 42. This output indicates that the row and column count of the unknown character corresponds to the row and column count of the reference character 7, thereby identifying or recognizing the unknown character as 7.
In some applications, it is desirable to attempt to recognize an unknown character even thoughit does not perfectly match any of the reference characters. The amount of error or tolerence allowed may be varied by virtue of the additional output lines 24 and 26 from the adders 20. For example, line 24a is connected to the adder in such a manner as to provide a positive output when the counts in counter 16a and register 18a differ by one unit. By closing the switch in line 24a, this output may be applied through OR gate'30a to AND gate 32a to provide an indication of a match just as if there had been a perfect match which would have been indicated by an output on line 22a. In like fashion, the tolerance may be raised to a difference of two by closing the switch in the line 26a which carries an output pulse from adder 20a when the counts in counter 16a and registcrlSa differ by two units.
FIGURES 4, 5 and 6 illustrate a more sophisticated apparatus embodying the same inventive concept as described inconnection with the apparatus shown in FIG- URES 1.3. V
FIGURE 4 shows an'unknown character 50 displayed on an eight-by-eight matrix 52. The individual columns and rows of the matrix are scanned to provide an electrical pulse for each matrix segment containing a portion of the character 50. These pulses are applied to sixteen individual column and row counters 54a, b L 0, p,- each of which storesthe count or sum of occupied matrix segments for its corresponding row or column. Counters 54 correspond to counters 16 in FIGURE 2.
The counts of successive pairs of counters 54 are fed to corresponding adders 56a, m, 0, whose outputs are each equal to the sum of a pair of rows or columns. These sums may be referred to as secondary sums.
' The output of each of the adders 56 is applied to a corresponding one of a plurality of coders 58a, 0 m, 0, which produce coded outputs based on the bit count inputs considered in groups of two, as follows.
Bit count input: Coder output 0-4 0 8 or more 2 These coder analog outputs are then applied via corresponding conductors 60 as one input to each stage of analog comparators 62, 64, 66', 68, 70 and 72. Additional comparators 74, 76, 78 and 80 are also provided and will be described below. The operation of 66 will also be described below.
Stored in each one of a plurality of code registers 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75 and 79 is a corresponding recognition code for a reference or perfect character. Except for register 65 corresponding to the reference character 3, all the code registers have four stages with each stage providing the second input to the corresponding stage of one of the comparators 62-80. When the recognition code in one of the code registers matches the unknown character code applied to its associated comparator, all four output lines from the comparator will be up, i.e., each line carries a positive voltage. The outputs of the comparators are fed to corresponding AND gates 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, and 100.
In FIGURE 5, each AND gate corresponds to one of the Arabic numerals 1, 2 9, 0, as indicated adjacent the output line of each AND gate. When all four input lines for any AND gate are up, the output of the AND gate will be up, thereby indicating that the unknown character matches the reference character whose recognition code is stored in the code register corresponding to that AND gate. As indicated in FIGURE 5, the Arabic numerals 0, 2, 6, 8, 9 may be recognized by utilizing only the outputs of adders 56 and comparing these outputs with the reference characters stored in the code registers.
However, additional combinations of row and column counts are necessary to identify or recognize the remaining Arabic numerals. To accomplish this function, there is connected to the output of each pair of adders 56 one of a plurality of adders 102, eachof which sums or accumulates the outputs of its corresponding pair of adders 56 to provide what we shall call a tertiary sum. For example, adder 102a sums the'outputs of adders 56a and 560 to provide a tertiary sum equal to the sum of the character segment bit counts of rows 1-4, inclusive, of matrix 52. The output of each of the adders 102 is applied to a corresponding one of a plurality of coders 104 which provide coded outputs based on the hit count inputs considered in groups of four, as follows.
Bit count input Coder output 0-4 0 5-9 1 10 or more 2 The outputs of coders 104 are applied via conductors 106 to corresponding stages of each of the comparators 74, 76, 78 and 80. The other input to each of the comparator stages is from a corresponding stage of an associated code register 73, 75, 77 and 79. These comparators then function in the manner identical to those already discussed to provide an output from one of the AND gates 94-100 when the reference character recognition code in a code register matches the output code appearing on conductors 106.
In order to recognize the Arabic numeral.3, an eightstage comparator 66 and an eight-stage code register are required. For the numeral 3 the outputs of coders 58i, 58k, 58m and 580, as well as the outputs of coders 58a, 58c, 58:: and 58g, must be compared in comparator 66 with the recognition code appearing in register 65. The correspondingAND gate 86 then has eight inputs all of which must be up in order to provide an output to indicate that the unknown character is the Arabic numeral 3. r
* adders to provide other combinations of row and column counts which may then be coded by appropriate coders to provide output codes which may be compared with recognition codes. Of course, the recognition codes must have a correspondingly larger number ofstages to provide the comparison with the higher resolution codes representing the unknown character.
The stages of comparator have been labeled to; indicate the output of coders 104 for an unknown'specimen 50 in the form of the Arabic numeral 7, displayed on matrix 5 shown in FIGURE 4. As may be determined from the above chart for the' outputs of. coders 10.4,,the
output codes on conductors 106 will be 1M2. Stored in code register 79 will be the identical code so that all four input lines to AND gate ltil) will be up to provide an output therefrom, thereby indicating that the specimen or unknown character 5% is the Arabic numeral 7.
The foHowing is a detailed explanation of the operation of the circuit shown in FIGURE 5, utilizing the Arabic numeral 7 as the unknown character 50. The eight-byeight matrix shown in FIGURE 4 is not to be considered optimum, but is merely to be used as an illustration since any size matrix may be used.
These circuits exhibit a hierarchy of decision making. Note that the numbers 1, 4, 5 and 7 can be recognized by a relatively coarse or low resolution count of black bits or character segments. That is, it is necessary to count only in groups of four rows (rows 1-4, 5-8, columns l-4, 5-8) to recognize these numbers, but itis necessary to break down further the bit count into groups of two (rows 1-2, 3-4, etc.; columns l-2, 3-4, etc.) in order to reco nize the remaining numbers. When a larger matrix is used, even greater resolution may be obtained by generating more group sums.
Shown in FIGURE 6 is a cryogenic embodiment of the character recognition apparatus illustrated in FIGURE 5. Each of the counters 54 is represented merely by its corresponding row or column of matrix 52. The adders 56 and 102 are structurally identical to the counting networks 56 and 58 shown in FIGURE 1 of the co-pending application Serial No. 79,823, filed December 30, 1960 by Harold Fleisher and Robert I. Roth and assigned to the same assignee as the instant application. The coders 58 and 104 are structurally identical to the decode networks 62 also shown in FIGURE 1 of this same co-pending application. The comparator and AND gate functions described with respect to FIGURE 5 may be performed by means of suitable comparators 108.
While there have been shown and described and pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions and changes in the form and detail of the device illustrated and in its operation may be made by those skilled in the art Without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is the intention therefore to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the following claims.
What is claimed is:
1. Character recognition apparatus for identifying a specimen character displayed on a matrix having in rows and 12 columns, a counter associated with each row for counting the number of character bits therein, a counter associated with each column for counting the number of character bits therein, a plurality of registers containing individual row and column counts of a reference character, and comparison means responsive to the column and row counters for producing individual outputs when the counts of corresponding rows and columns are equal, a group of AND gates corresponding to the reference character, each of said AND gates being responsive to a difi'erent one of said individual outputs, and means connected to said group of AND gates to provide a recognition signal when the bit counts of all the corresponding rows and columns of the specimen and reference characters are equal.
2. Character recognition apparatus as defined in claim 1 further comprising means associated with said comparison means to provide said individual outputs when the column and row hit count of said unknown and reference characters differ by a predetermined amount.
3. Character recognition apparatus for identifying a specimen character displayed on a matrix having in rows and u columns, a counter associated with each row for counting the number of character bits therein, a counter associated with each column for counting the number of character bits therein, first adder means responsive to selected row and column counters to provide first sum signals representing the first sums of said selected row and column counts, second adder means responsive to selected first sum signals to produce second sum signals representing second sums of selected first sums, individual register means containing various predetermined combinations of corresponding first sums and second sums of reference characters and comparison means responsive to said first and second adder means and to said individual register means to produce a character recognition signal corresponding to the individual register means Whose combination of sums matches the selected first and second sums of said specimen character.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,838,602 Sprick June 10, 1958 2,919,426 Rohland Dec. 29, 1959 2,968,789 Weiss Jan. 17, 1961 2,978,675 Highleyman Apr. 4, 1961
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Adventure Drummer
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Looks like a blast.
Man, that Adventure looks sweet!! (even though its silver )
Studly Adventurer
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Location: Modesto, Ca
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WEll DONE
Keep it comming can't wait for more storys and pics
Regards Steve
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Did I hear you say you want some more?
Thanks a bunch Big Dave and Steve! Glad to hear someone else out here is enjoying these besides me...
Smugmug is now packed with pics and more are on the way...
Check it out!
OK... here's some more...
The sky is overcast and I'm heading west again on I70 towards
No pics anywhere here... nothing on the run was worth shooting... overall St Louis to Kansa City was one of the biggest blahs I've ever had... and of course, no sun.
During the oil change/seal replacement, the tech informs me that there is evidence of a blown head gasket on BOTH cylinders. Not bad yet, but could be trouble later. Another tech, or possibly the owner tells me not to worry about it... I think they just don't have the time to do the job. Its ok; I don't want to be stuck here for 2 days either. I'll keep an eye on it though.
I see that I am 23 miles from Garmin's main headquarters (GPS Manufacturer) and decide to spend the night in K.C., go there in the morning and do the GPS exchange. Hmmm... what the heck is there to do in this town? Well, the song says, when you go to Kansas City, stand on the corner of 12th St and Vine!
"Kansas City here I come"
Ok... here is 18th and Vine... where the hell is 12th?
An old man pulls up next to me:
"Ya lost?"
"I dont think so..."
"Whatreya lookin for boyah?"
"I've come a long way... and I'm trying to find 12st and Vine."
"Wheeel then.... how far you come?"
"New York City."
"Daaaamn boyah! Wheel we best hehp yah fahnd it. It's a bit oh a way 'round. Foller me now... and when I signahl ya, ya go left, ya git it?"
"Yessir. Thank you"
(mah momma taught me mah manners well)
I follow the old guy and he waves me left... now mind you I was on Vine the equivelent of 6 short blocks from 12th but when I looked that way I saw this...
Then I see this...
... A closer look, can this be?...
It is...
...after a confusing search, I find a small park with a sign post in the middle of it. On closer inspection, the sign reads
For those of you too young to remember (and thereby probably wondering what the hell I'm doing here in the first place) I offer the lyrics as tribute...
I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come
Yes, goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come
They got a crazy way a-lovin' an' a I wanna get me some
I was standing on the corner, of 12th Street and Vine
Yeah, standing on the corner, of 12th Street and Vine
With my Kansas City woman an a bottle of Kansas City wine
Well I might take a plane, I might take a train
If I have to walk, I'm going there just the same
I'm going to, Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come
They got a crazy way a-lovin' an I wanna get me some
Oh yeah
Keep your hands off of her, don't belong to you
Keep your hands off of her, don't belong to you
She's mine all mine, no matter what she do
Well I might take a plane, I might take a train
If I have to walk, I'm goin' there just the same I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come
They got a crazy way a-lovin' an I wanna get me some
They got a crazy way a-lovin' an I wanna get me some
They got a crazy way a-lovin' an I wanna get me some!
Man, I thought only New York arbitrarily obliterated it's history.
A few pics with a confused look on my face as people pass looking at me like I'm crazy. (Okay... It may have something to do with the fact that Silver is parked next to the sign, and I had to drive her into the park to do that... wink)
I stop at a McDonalds for a burger and at the pick up window, Mike the manager, having seen my NY plates won't charge me for the meal!!!
My heart aches a little and I am touched by the offer of kindness and acknowledgement of what NY went thru last year. I insist, and pay anyway. It is amazing how little things can affect a person. This tore me up.
Well... I am pretty miserable about not getting to see the famous intersection (not really) and I choose to cheer myself up...
AHHHH! I feel much better now...
Wednesday October 9th
Cloudy, almost warm, I head out at and cross the state line into
I hit roads that have been changed since the last map update and even outside the Garmin building, GPS says arrive at Garmin on right and it's on my left.
A little hung over outside Garmin
Inside the customer service center I meet Kyle and Tom and the rest of the Garmin crew (hi guys and gals) No Streetpilot III's in stock but they completely rebuild my unit in about 3 hours.
Seems the tech at BMW Manhattan plugged the data lines into the battery and fried half the circuits. Speaks volumes about the product that it still worked (even though the batteries kept exploding and it wouldnt run off the bike).
They fix it for free... whew... good company... buy a Garmin fellas...
Kyle helps me reprogram my data card with the DCA info I'll need for the next leg of my journey. At one point he tells me that it's common practice for people to give their GPS voice a name. I'll have to think about that one.
Well done folks... thanks for the help. Garmin's service is top notch (and yes Tom, I forgot, it was me that called you from
"Hey there ya young buck... my doohickey wont find the fish and I keep gettin' lost... can ya fix it for me?"
The weather has improved. It is partly sunny, warm, feels like 70 degrees. I head up I35 to I29 north bound. The ultimate destination is
It is "Go hard or go home" time! I resolve to get as close as I can... the down time at Garmin has put way behind... it is going to be another long day.
Back in
A sign reads "Hot Dogs 25 cents!"
How can I say no?
I have one, then another (with nacho cheese, blecchhh!) I turn to the girl behind the counter and she laughs as I tell her I am going to regret eating these later.
Heck, "They're only wafer thin!"
As I bite into dog #3 I see a small sign that says "Beef Hot Dogs $1.29"
What the heck am I eating! Now I KNOW I am going to pay for this later.
The bugs are sacrificing themselves like crazy... Hey Dude... look at the pretty colors...
This would have looked great on a Yellow GS
Outside, next to my bike I am set upon by vicious flies and see that my front end is covered with them! Damn!
They are going after my bug collection! (Motorcyclist = High Velocity Entomologist). I clean Silver as best I can (horse flies???) and get back in the saddle.
I have crossed into Iowa and am heading north on I29 towards Omaha NE and Sioux City IO. I've missed the turn off for US2 to Lincoln NE to catch I80 West and a more southerly route and I am now committed to the northern passage, catching I90 West out of Sioux Falls SD. I hope the weather holds.
150 miles north of KC I am feeling like a new man. The sky is bright and clear... the air is warm and smells fantastic. Clean. Grass, freshly threshed corn, rain water, flowers. Its harvest season and the fields are 50/50. The contrast of the harvested fields (dry, golden brown short stems cut a foot off the dark fertile ground) and the tall, ripe thick stalks, heavy with corn makes for a pretty picture.
This area of the country is hillier than Indiana. As I pass the corn fields (we should figure out a way to make fuel out of this stuff, solve that oil problem once and for all).
I notice an interesting optical illusion. Due to the lines they are planted in, the color contrast changes as I pass and it appears that the corn is chasing me, trying to keep up, or bowing... hmmm... getting a little weird here.
On the side of the road, map check, a Native American named Trini, riding a Suzuki Marauder pulls up to see if I'm Ok. All's well Trini, thanks for being a good samaritan.
Well! I've given the female voice of the GPS a name, "Rose". Follow me on this one OK?
GPS>Gypsy>Gypsy Rose>Rose (my Moms name! Always a guiding voice giving sound direction) I know, corny, but I like it. (Hi Mom)
The speed limit here is 75 mph and I'm averaging 80/85. Silvers tires are really starting to look worn. Witness another fantastic sunset and then a roadside rest area to make my first payment on those hot dogs (ouch).
I see a stack of scrap paper and read a note from some guy looking for a well endowed trucker for a threesome with his petite yet firm wife. I've changed the language a bit to make it PG but you get the idea. I disregard the invitation because I am on a motorcycle (chuckle), Iowa is an interesting state.
More to follow....
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~~~~````=o&o> Rogue
It is dark now, and much colder as I head north without the sun. I have hit small scatterings of rain. 380 miles for the day and I am low on gas (286 miles since the hot dog stop, got more gas there than I intended, and it's not the kind that makes the bike go!).
I pull off north of Sioux City and am overtaken by the shakes as I fill the tank (7.4 gallons). The cold has me in its grip and I have to go inside. Two bowls of chili and a Hot Chocolate (on the house because I was shaking so badly trying to get my money out, Connie the manager hands it to me and says, "You look like you need it hon." Nice lady)
I eventually warm up enough too continue. On with the new gloves and pants and heated vest and balaclava (ski mask) and I'm ready to go. Oh look... my old friend he rain is back!
Connie says, "Oh God! You're not going back out there, Baby?!?!?"
I always seem to get the best comments leaving gas stations.
I reach Sioux Falls and turn west onto I90 at around 10pm. Making miles. So far so good, rain stopped but I have discovered that my waterproof pants are only water resistant. What the heck, I didn't really believe they'd be waterproof for 50 bucks. This has been a helluva day.
Bump! I know what it is before my rear tire goes over it...Skunk!
Whoooof, thats some strong stuff! Already dead but still fresh, (it wasn'nt me) I grin as I think thats one more item for todays journal entry.
The rest stop outside Sioux City SD... I can't tell you what a relief it was to find it...
But wait! Theres more! I almost don't reach the rest area to make the next payment on the hot dogs (ouch again).
Fog is rolling in and getting thicker as I travel west... its pretty cool at first but getting worse. Finally I can't see a damn thing,
My speed is down to 20mph. Flashers on for fear of being rear ended, I am passed by a pick up and I latch onto his taillights (just ahead of me, thats all I can see). As we fly through the night and mist I wonder what kind of scenery I am missing.
I'm tellin' ya the fog was as thick as cotton!
Fog gets worse and my visor is covered with moisture. As I pass an exit with services, I can barely make out the roadside lighted signs. They are just glowing white balls of light floating in the fog.
Thats it... this is dangerous and I am starting to fall asleep in the eerie hypnotic silence that comes along with fog. I exit and visibility is so poor, I have trouble finding the entrance to the AmericInn that is right in front of me.
Abandon hope... all ye who enter here...
I check in, the rates are up due to hunting season. I'm cold wet tired and frazzled. Brandon, the night clerk offers me a pop tart while I drink a decaf and I hit the sack at 2am after a grueling 570 mile day.
Whew... told you it was going to be a long read. Did any of you actually finish it??? Email me and let me know! I'm having a blast and learning a lot about myself and the world. Thanks for coming along. This concludes our broadcast day... please rise for our National Anthem.
Stay tuned for the next installment...
Once again, the best of life and health to you all!!!
~~~~````=o&o> Rogue
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Outsatnding report Rogue 1...if I happened to overlook you mentioning it...what camera are you using? Those are superb shots. Again, very nice report!
Always mindful of obstruction, do your duty, never fail;
Keep your hand upon the throttle, and your eye upon the rail.
Boneless chicken
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Location: Encinitas, CA
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Damn,, that cop was coool.!!!
Great picts and story!
Keep up the good work and stay healthy... (no hot dogs anymore...). Laterz
The Old ...............expect everything
The middle aged ...question everything
The youth ............knows everything
"It has been said that "Life is a sexually tranmitted, fatal disease." You're born. Sometime later, you die." -Flash412
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Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.
Choose a fucking big television.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows,
stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home,
nothing more than an embarrasment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future. Choose life.
I chose not to choose life, I chose something else instead.
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You might be surprised to learn that the camera I used was a simple Canon Digital Elf > S110 2.1mp. Packs small and recharges quickly from the GS' power source.To get the shots right I've learned to really fine tune the manual mode. Can't wait to get my hands on one of the better lensed cameras with larger memory.
(got the waterproof case for it as well but the GF would kill me if I posted thos pics )
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(boy these smiley are great)
Thanks Peachmaan!
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I dont remember the movie, but the first 15 or so floors are garage parking and they did a stunt of a car jumping out of one building and into another... what the hell movie was that?
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Ok Rogue... nuf is nuf... change your AdvRider name NOW!!! There is and has been a Rogue here for quite some time. You should have noticed when you signed up and couldn't get the Rogue without the one... Ask nice and Baldy can make the change... JUST DO IT!
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didnt mean to step on toes...
Thanks for the heads up Gerg... to quote the stranger when he arrives in town:
"Ah don't want no trouble..."
The situation is being addressed... please stand by...
``~~~=o&o> Rogue1
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Frank Herbert , "Dune"
"I never drive faster than I can see... other than that it's all in the reflexes..." BTILC
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This is like a good movie I can't wait for the sequel.
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World out there please take note
After all the struggle, doubts and fear
This is my moment, this is our year
In fact this is my future this is my life
Dreaming, dreaming always dreaming
No more, no more, reality is here
And I am soaring to the stars
Climbing mountains like a rocket I'm off
No more alone, no more loneliness
No more crying out searching for a friend
He is here and I am truly blessed
I dance and I sing and my heart is full
My creativity is soaring ever upwards
My music blessed with a young man
Working together in unison my melodies sing
World watch out we are now quite invincible
Rejection is not in my dictionary I'm on my way
With all this strength I know we cannot lose
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I would have liked to have seen them actually confront the marriage and get rid of it. After the death of May, and with the word being out on his identity, Peter and Mary Jane just can't handle being together anymore. Peter wants MJ back, so he does a few things to try to cover up his identity again. The groundwork was already being laid for that thanks to the Scarlet Spider Squad who had said that Peter was a team-mate of theirs who had been kicked out. Have Morlun absorb some of Peter's powers and, voila, no more Totem-Spider powers and he needs the web shooters again.
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Scoop: THE MINDY PROJECT on FOX - Today, December 17, 2013
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Cast: Mindy Kaling as Mindy; Chris Messina as Danny; Zoe Jarman as Betsy; Ed Weeks as Jeremy; Ike Barinholtz as Morgan; and Beth Grant as Beverly.
Guest Cast: Anders Holm as Casey; Chloe Sevigny as Christina; James Franco as Dr. Paul Leotard.
THE MINDY PROJECT is a single-camera comedy created by and starring Emmy Award-nominated writer/producer and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling ("The Office"). Returning for its second season, the series follows a skilled OB/GYN trying to balance both her personal and professional life.
Dr. MINDY LAHIRI (Kaling) is a talented obstetrician with a hectic personal life, who struggles to find the right guy, the right outfit and the right attitude. Mindy shares a practice with two doctors, neither of whom makes life any easier for her. Dr. DANNY CASTELLANO (Chris Messina) is a hothead and a guys' guy who criticizes her for everything, including her struggling love life and her lack of professionalism - even though it's obvious to everyone except Mindy that he secretly admires her work. In contrast, Dr. JEREMY REED (Ed Weeks) is the walking definition of bad news, and everything comes easy to this suave skinny jean-wearing Brit.
Rounding out the medical staff is male nurse MORGAN TOOKERS (Ike Barinholtz), a reformed ex-con with a heart of gold who, despite his best intentions, always seems to land himself in trouble; the hospital's resident cheerleader, BETSY PUTCH (Zoe Jarman), a young, earnest and easily excitable receptionist; the grumpy and absent-minded nurse BEVERLY (Beth Grant); and the newest addition to the nurse station, TAMRA (Xosha Roquemore), a girl who would rather dish gossip and dole out beauty tips than do anything resembling work.
Having traveled to Haiti at the end of Season One, Mindy returns from her volunteer mission hoping to save the practice from disarray, but finds that the office has gotten along fine without her, thank you very much. Danny has brought in a new physician, Dr. PAUL LEOTARD (guest star James Franco, "This is the End," "127 Hours"), who has taken over Mindy's office. Meanwhile, Jeremy begins to play a bigger role in the practice and Morgan is spending his spare time saving dogs. In addition to Franco, guest stars for Season Two include ADAM PALLY, Anders Holm, Bill Hader, Kris Humphries and rock group The National, among others.
No matter what challenges she faces, Mindy will continue to search for love, all while juggling a busy social calendar with the demands of her profession. Always the optimist, she still hopes to put the previous year's mistakes behind her, ranging from a string of failed relationships to her many fumbles at work. Even if the universe is trying to turn her into a forever-single "cat lady" of sorts, Mindy is determined to get into shape, find a new look and snag a great guy.
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"The idea that your Internet service provider is going to be spying on the contents of your traffic, even in an automated way, is very disconcerting," said Jeremy Gillula, staff technologist with the San Francisco digital-rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"What if data about your browsing history gets out?" he said. "What if there's a data breach?"
Around the same time the US and Israel were already developing and unleashing Stuxnet on computers in Iran, using five zero-day exploits to get the digital weapon onto machines there, the government realized it needed a policy for how it should handle zero-day vulnerabilities, according to a new document obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
When the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the National Security Agency (NSA) over records regarding the government's alleged prior knowledge of Heartbleed, the privacy group hoped to gain insight into the agency's zero-day exploitation policy.
So what is surveillance? The US military defines it as "systematic observation". It controls "what we see, what we can do... ultimately, what we say", says Schneier. A director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, Schneier has been a go-to expert for years. He helped analyse some of the more technical documents leaked by Edward Snowden. But he wears his expertise lightly: the book moves fast and references are relegated to pages of notes.
Activists say the battle is half won. "The court left intact Section 69A, the government website blocking procedure, despite the lack of either judicial review or transparency in how or which sites are blocked," says James S Tyre, special counsel for Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based advocacy group. "This is the first time the SC has struck down or limited internet censorship laws. However, the SC has much more to do."
Home California Story As Santa Clara County procures 'stingray' cell tracker, increased scrutiny surrounds potentially invasive device
Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy group, said it was "ridiculous" that it has taken so much prying to glean just basic information about the device and its use.
"It's secrecy for the sake of secrecy," he said. "Now they're dismissing cases rather than disclosing information -- that's not in the public's interest. We're not asking for a blueprint, just some transparency."
"If you have one plate scan of one car, all you have is this car was at this place at this time — not what the driver was doing," said Jennifer Lynch, senior staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "But over multiple days, you can get a picture of what someone is doing, where they're going and why. You can start to make pretty broad assumptions of someone's life with the more data you have."
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, says these practices raise security and privacy concerns.
"Ideally, customers shouldn't be in a battle with their ISPs for their privacy. ISPs should be on your side, helping you get a clean connection to the Internet, without interference and without tracking. Unfortunately, that's not really the case today," Hoffman-Andrews told DecodeDC.
"There is clear evidence that ShotSpotter can record conversations," Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Nadia Kayyali told Business Insider.
Despite seeming attempts at privacy improvements, critics say the House version of the bill is in most major respects just as problematic as the Senate version. "You have pretty much non-existent privacy protections, along with new powers to spy on and monitor users…all while being provided broad immunity," says Mark Jaycox, a legislative analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has closely followed both House and Senate bills. "It creates a perfect storm for sharing personal information with intelligence agencies."


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Tom Degan: The debt that the United States has incurred in the last ten years is now at a level where it's probably insurmountable. The only solution (and that's assuming there is a viable solution) will involve taxes – decades of serious taxation.
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Treva Brandon Scharf: Confident people don't bash themselves; they don't let negative thinking and self-loathing screw up a good workout or undermine their progress.
Edward Wasserman: The larger question, to me, was less why she did what she did, but why everybody seemed to care so much, and why her case provoked so much anger.
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Oakdale Stampede parents and football fans alike arrived en masse at season-ending contests on Saturday, Nov. 20 in support of rookie and junior varsity bowl games in the Cen-Cal Youth Football League.
A recent morning brought the first real cold snap of the year. For many anglers, the colder temperatures bring the fish closer to the surface. For others, fishing is only going to get tougher as their species of choice will most likely be hunkering down for the winter. Fishing the wintertime can be extremely tough and for the inpatient person, unbearable. When I think about fishing during the wintertime I immediately think of slowing down and downsizing my line. Unless I'm lucky enough to find an active school of fish the bites are going to be far and few ...
When the Ultimate Fighting Championship picks up World Extreme Cagefighting contracts for a barrage of lower weight bouts in 2011, it will bring along Oakdale-trained Michael McDonald for the biggest fights of his young life.
Nineteen-year-old Modesto native and Oakdale Mixed Martial Arts Club fighter, Michael McDonald, has signed a three-fight contract with one of the premier fight leagues in the sport, World Extreme Cagefighting.
Oakdale High soccer, volleyball, water polo and cross country athletes have their respective postseason lives within their own control, all in need of November success to advance deeper into the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.
If football is the heart of Oakdale athletics, then soccer is the feet.
Coming home with the first place trophy for the second time in as many tournaments, the Oakdale United Insanity U16 girls played their way to a 4-0 mark in the Roseville Invitational over the Labor Day weekend.
The Oakdale Stampede youth football and cheer program went 2-1 in three recorded contests at home on Saturday.The Rookies, competing with no tallied scores, delivered a dominant performance from the youngest division with all players rotating in. Brayden Abell, Javyn Drobnick, Jayden Powers and a few others managed big rushes up the field in the wake of Christopher Kjeldgaard and an impressive offensive line.The Pee Wee team suffered a hard-fought 26-6 loss, but managed their first touchdown of the season.Oakdale's JV, the only team to win last week, managed another big 'W' after a huge defensive ...
Under-13 Oakdale United soccer standout Lane Trapp was at his best at the Shamrock Invitational earlier this month, netting three goals in a huge 5-2 pounding of NorCal Elite for a tournament title.
Trapp, who also scored twice in a big 4-0 drubbing of host Dublin, earns Athlete of the Week honor for his efforts.
Anneliese "Shorty" Davis pulled out all the stops in a complete tournament shut out this month in four games of work at the Tracy United Girls Invitational. She earns Athlete of the Week honors from The Leader for her performance.
Oakdale prep athletes were at their best in the past week in huge Valley Oak League and tournament performances. Following is a summary of Mustang action in track and field, golf, baseball and tennis. Track And FieldJaci Powell and Tim House each earned a trip to the high school record book with thrilling performances at the highly competitive Meet of Champions in Sacramento on Saturday.Powell tied a school record with her second place 15.24-second time in the 110 hurdles while House set a new school best with a 169 foot, 4 inch winning toss of the discus ...
Showing savvy and athleticism well beyond her years, 11-year-old Oakdale resident and Fair Oaks sixth grader Sara Stevens sped to a fantastic leg of the 3200-meter relay and joined three other Central Valley runners in championship honors at the 2010 USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Championships.
Alumni Football U.S.A. team coordinator Tracy Cavender is on a quest to gather Oakdale High football alumnus for an Oakdale vs. Sonora alumni game on Oct. 17 at Dunleavy Field in Sonora.
Eleven-year-old Fair Oaks sixth grader Sara Stevens closed her summer with a fantastic performance at the Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento. Competing with the highly successful Modesto Roadrunners, Stevens and three other girls sped to a first place finish in the 4x800 meter relay.
Stevens earns Athlete of the Week honor for her efforts.
The 11-12 age division standout for the Oakdale gators youth swim team, Emily Bennett, nabbed the highest score of any Mid Valley League swimmer in her group with 23 points at the MVSL championships in Turlock on Saturday, July 24.
Bennett earns Athlete of the Week honor from The Leader for her efforts.
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The summer is off to a sizzling start but it will not be long before the boys of fall take over Oakdale. Like National Football League (NFL) teams, the Oakdale High School varsity football team is currently prepping for the upcoming season. Several members of the Mustang squad headed up to Placer High School recently to participate in a multi-team training camp.
Two of Oakdale's youth softball players are preparing to make a trip to Orlando, Florida to play in the inaugural ESPN Wide World of Sports All American Games July 13 through July 16. Oakdale youngsters Delainey Everett and Kylie Valente were named as members of the Northwest Regional Under Ten team after a tryout in Woodland, California back in February, and were informed earlier this month that they had made the team.
Five teams participated in the four-day annual Oakdale Baseball Association (OBA) Come As You Are tournament this past week. The action began on Wednesday, June 17 and came to a close on Saturday, June 20 under the lights of Fair Oaks Field at Fair Oaks Elementary School. The 12 and under division ballplayers geared up to play under the blazing afternoon sun and under the cool breeze and lights for their night games and put on a show for their fans, family and friends.
The Oakdale Gators Swim team kicked off the 2015 swim season on Saturday, June 6 at the Oakdale Aquatic Center. The first meet of the season hosted a large number of attendees for the Oakdale Swim Team's recreational group. Children as young as the age of 5 were ready to compete and take to the water, swimming in 25-yard events. The meet concluded shortly after 1:30 p.m.
All three levels of Oakdale High School baseball teams and their players were honored on Tuesday, May 26, saluted for their efforts during the season. Coaches, players, family and friends gathered at the OHS main gym Tuesday evening for the end of the season awards ceremony for the Mustangs.
Oakdale High School junior Hannah Chappell has made a tradition out of advancing to the California State Track and Field State Meet. Chappell, who competes in both the discus and shot put throwing competitions, powered her way to first place in the discus competition this past weekend at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Meet at Elk Grove. Chappell's first place heave came on her third and final toss which traveled 151-02 feet. It not only made her a Section champion, it also made her a three-time State Meet qualifier.
One way local youngsters were beating the heat was attending the Kickboxing class the Oakdale Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Academy offered at their Last Stand Training Center. The summer classes began on Monday, June 1 and will conclude on Friday, July 31. This unique class offers kickboxing, submission wrestling and anti-bullying tactics.
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Placed with an almost comical symmetry in the center of the walkway, perfectly aligned with both Monona Terrace's rooftop fountain and the Capitol dome in Madison, it conjures up strangely opposite impressions. On the one hand, it's like a giant tumbleweed, blown in by a freak storm. At the same time, I can't escape the way it echoes an alien spacecraft (especially with Wright's retro-futuristic building as a backdrop), like the one that landed on the National Mall in "The Day the Earth Stood Still." »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: Woody, 'War Horse' and women
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This week Colorlines reported that Advanced Publications cutting daily publication of the New Orleans' Times-Picayune newspaper down to three days a week and shifting an emphasis to online coverage. This gives New Orleans the dubious distinction of being the largest city without a daily newspaper.
This may sound like nothing more than the inevitable extinction of print media. And perhaps there's some truth to that. But in New Orleans over 1/4 of the residents do not have Internet access at home, which means they will no longer have readily available reports on current events. And New Orleans is not the only city making such moves. The New York Times reported on similar downsizing initiatives in Alabama where The Birmingham News, The Press-Register of Mobile and The Hunstville Times will also move to a three-day-a-week print schedule.
Imagine the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster with no daily print coverage? In a world of smart phones and tablets that may not seem like a big deal because, online, information is always accessible. That is, if you have access the online world.
Like Louisiana, Alabama has pockets of deep poverty where that kind of access is not a given. And do your grandparents get their news online? Online coverage can be a powerful democratic tool, but in order to keep it democratic we must first make sure there is equal access to it. And how are the libraries doing in your community? For those who do not have internet access at home, public libraries can be a lifeline to the digital world. Yet with libraries the target of slash-and-burn conservative budgets, access to the internet that way isn't a given.
Denying access to information while simultaneously working to restrict voting rights sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?
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we need newspapers. all people do not have internet at home or a way to get to a library to get on the internet. the same people often do not have a tv or can afford cable. newspapers are important. just as books are.
I hate it when I hit add comment before I'm ready. :-)
What makes me sick is that people will believe their lies no matter how outrageous. Whatever anyone on Fox news says will be taken as gospel. And if enough folks have short term memory problems with what the GOP did before they settled on Romney then they might very well win.
It will be a sorry day when money is all it takes to own the country. Then we're really screwed.
What makes me sick is that people will believe their lies no matter how outrageous. Whatever anyone on Fox news
I'm stealing Rethuglican, I LOVE it. I did not think they could sink any lower. Boy, was I wrong, doing anything they can that makes them think they will win. It makes me SICK to my stomach
The biggest problem with using the Internet for a news source is people tend to find the news feeds that tell them what they already believe. Most news feeds are pretty openly biased and push one point of view, backing it up with any facts they want.
If you do have online access and want a good news source check out Aljazeer or the BBC.
While we have Internet access, my main source of the news is the daily newspaper. I don't read the news on the Internet simply because I don't have time to be online all day, and I refuse to watch the TV news because they tease you with bits about the good news and then make you sit through a ton of bad news (murders, rapes, wars, Rethuglican mudslinging, etc.) or crap you don't give a rat's ass (such as "celebrities" and their happenings) about in order to get to the good news! For poor people who don't have cable TV or Internet access, the daily newspaper is their ONLY source of news short of the neighborhood rumor mill, and how often have you heard news about anything other than the neighbors' activities in the rumor mill? Good luck hearing about local, state, or national news there!
Go to the library? Fat chance. The way funding is being cut for programs such as libraries (no thanks to the GOPTP's idea of budget cuts), and the way that there can be little or no public transportation available in some areas, the poor would be lucky to get anywhere NEAR a library!
Keep the daily newspaper alive!
As a New Orleanian, I can attest that the Times-Picayune has the highest percentage of readership of any American newspaper. I have mine delivered and have to get up at 5:00 am every day (including Saturday and Sunday) to keep it from disappearing off my porch.
The Times-Picayune saved New Orleans after Katrina--the staff was unbelievably heroic and kept on despite the severe flooding of their own building. They have done so much for this city.
It is time for us to save the Times-Picayune. There is a website devoted to doing that:
Please support this incredible award-winning paper.
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1) Bug fixing in 3.1.2: What do I do?
- Understand key dates
- Scrub your bugs
- Get approval for your fixes (if Change Control is in effect)
- Fix your bugs
- Mark bugs to be documented in the release notes
- Determine the doc impact of your bugs
- See the FAQ if you have any questions
2) Key Dates
|B1 until 12/12/2011
|Open bug fixing
| 12/12/2011 Midnight
|Soft Code Freeze. Change Control starts.
3) Bug Scrubbing
Important! We are using the Jira fixVersion field in a number of our queries so it needs to be accurate. fixVersion is a multi-value field. If a bug is fixed in the trunk and the 3.1.x branch it should have fixVersion set to both the trunk version and the 3.1.x version.
Please make sure that you provide as detailed justification as possible for any of your activity below through Jira's comments section.
- Review all of your open bugs using the 3.1.X Bug Fix Criteria, especially those:
- on the unscrubbed P1-P3 list (this list needs to go to 0) [just your unscrubbed bugs]
- with high vote counts .
- you have fixed in the trunk but not in the 3.1.x branch
- bugs you may have in BugDB
- If a bug is already fixed in 3.1.x, but appears on the unscrubbed list then make sure the fixVersion includes an appropriate 3.1.x version (in addition to the trunk version).
- If a bug is not applicable to 3.1.x or you never plan on fixing it in a 3.1.x release then add the following tag: 3_1_x-exclude
- If you are not going to fix it in 3.1.2 but may fix it in a future 3.1.x release then either lower the priority to P4 (if appropriate) or add the following tag: 3_1_2-exclude
- If you want to fix the bug in 3.1.2 then add the following tag: 3_1_2-review
- If the release is under Change Control then get approval before checking in the fix.
- If the release is not under Change Control, then you do not need to get approval
- More details in: How to fix a bug in 3.1.2
- If you are not going to fix the bug in 3.1.2 but want it mentioned in the 3.1.2 release notes then also add the following tag: 3_1_2-release-notes
Helpful Queries
|Unscrubbed P1-P3 Bugs
| Unscrubbed P1-P2 3.1.2 bugs
| This needs to go to 0 before 3.1.2 releases
|Release Notes
|Bugs that have been tagged for Release Notes and are not fixed in the 3.1.X branch
|Votes > 2
|Open bugs that have # of votes > 2
|Fixed in the trunk but not in the 3.1.x branch
|Bugs we think have been fixed in the trunk, but not in the branch.
|Unscrubbed P1-P3 Features
|Unscrubbed 3.1.2 rfes
|3_1_1-next Bugs
| Open bugs that have the 3_1_1-next tag that have not been fixed in 3.1 branch.
|3_1-next Bugs
| Open bugs that have the 3_1-next tag. This does not include bugs targeted (fixVersion) for 3.2 or later since, presumably, the owner is intending to fix the bug in 3.2 or later - not in branch.
|Fixed bugs with bad Fix Versions
|Bugs that have a Resolution of Fixed, but don't have a valid Fix Version. It would be good to start cleaning these up.
4) Bug Fix Criteria
What bugs should you fix in 3.1.2? Bugs that:
- are P1 or P2, since those bugs should typically be fixed ASAP.
- impact product security
- represent a CTS failure
- are a regression of functionality or performance from a prior release
- introduce an incompatibility
- are likely to generate customer support calls
- are an in-your-face issue that will impact a majority of users
- are directly reported by the community or have been created from forum data.
- are release noted from 3.1.1
- were deferred from 3.1.1
For more information on the 3.1.2 release including content and release drivers please see the [3.1.2 Home Page.]
5) Bug Fix Approval Process (Change Control)
After build B14 you must get approval before integrating a bug fix into the 3.1 branch. Here is the process:
- Add the 3_1_2-review tag to the issue.
- Add a comment to the issue providing justification on why we should consider this for 3.1.2. Your write up must answer the following questions:
* What is the impact on the customer of the bug? How likely is it that a customer will see the bug and how serious is the bug? Is it a regression? Does it meet other bug fix criteria (security, performance, etc.)? * What is the cost/risk of fixing the bug? How risky is the fix? How much work is the fix? Is the fix complicated? * Is there an impact on documentation or message strings? * Which tests should QA (re)run to verify the fix did not destabilize GlassFish? * Which is the targeted build of 3.1.2 for this fix?
- Send mail to firstname.lastname@example.com (or firstname.lastname@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com) :
Email Template
To: email@example.com Subject: 3.1.2 Change Request Component Name: XXXXX Issue: http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-NNNNN
- The bug will be reviewed and the 3_1_2-review tag will be removed.
- If it is approved the 3_1_2-approved tag will be added to the issue. The Fix Version/s will be set to the appropriate milestone with an "Approved" comment added to the issue.
- If it is rejected then the 3_1_2-exclude tag will be added to the issue.
- The decision(approved/rejected) will be emailed to the issue owner.
- Once the bug fix is approved please integrate it as described in How to Fix a Bug in 3.1.2 .
6) How to Fix a Bug in 3.1.2
- Get the fix code reviewed by a peer and other module leads if the fix crosses module boundaries.
- Make sure that you are not introducing any FindBugs errors.
- Integrate fix into 4.0 trunk (if applicable, fixes must be checked into trunk first) and update bug:
- Add comment to bug containing trunk svn revision number, file list and comments.
- Set Fix Version to the 4.0 build
- If Change Control is in effect get approval to integrate the fix into 3.1.2 . See Bug Fix Approval Process
- Integrate fix into 3.1.2 branch and update bug:
- Add comment to bug containing branch svn revision number, file list and comments.
- Make sure Fix Version has the correct 3.1.2 build set in addition to the trunk build (be careful not to clear the trunk build version).
- If the bug fix impacts documentation then create a documentation subtask for the bug.
- Close bug as resolved
Note: due to the reorganization of the source in the trunk (due to the nucleus split) back porting of fixes from the trunk to the 3.1.X branch has become more difficult. Specifically, "svn merge" doesn't work like it has for previous releases.We hope to come up with some tips to help folks deal with this difficulty shortly.
7) Release Notes
If a bug needs to be documented in the 3.1.X release notes then add the following tag to the bug: 3_1_2-release-notes
8) Documentation Impact
If a bug fix impacts documentation, for example if you are adding a new CLI flag, or some command output changes, then you must create a subtask for the documentation team. To do that:
- Edit the bug you are fixing
- Click on "create sub-task"
- Enter information for the sub-task. This is similar to creating a new issue, except that it is now associated with the bug you fixed.
- Set sub-task Component to docs
- It is acceptable to refer to the parent bug for details concerning the change (assuming the parent bug has sufficient details for the tech writers).
- I'm scrubbing my bugs and I have some bugs that I want to fix in 3.1.2. How do I indicate that I want to fix them in 3.1.2?
- Between now and B13 you do not need to do tag them with anything special. The bugs will stay on the "unscrubbed list" indicating you intend to fix them in 3.1.2. After B13 we will enter Change Control and you will need to tag bugs you want to fix in 3.1.2 with 3_1_2-review. At that time we will press to drive the "unscrubbed list" to 0.
- What if I'm doing a bug fix that requires a minor enhancement like a new CLI option? Is that OK?
- This is probably OK. Just make sure to create a documentation subtask for the bug so docs knows to document the enhancement.
- I fixed a bug in both the trunk and the 3.1.x branch. The bug is marked "fixed" but it is still appearing in the unscrubbed list. What's going on?
- The fixVersion is probably not set correctly on the bug. It is a multi-valued field. Make sure you have selected both the trunk (4.0) and branch (3.1.x) version in the scrolling list. If the fixVersion does not contain a 3.1.x branch version then we don't know the bug has been fixed in the branch.
- I can't edit fixVersion in a Closed bug
- Correct. When a bug is Closed you can't edit some fields. You need to Re-open the bug, edit it, then Close it. On the other hand bugs that are in Resolved state can be edited.
- Can I add a new product feature in 3.1.2?
- Generally no. There is a list of approved features for 3.1.2. If your feature is not on that list then you can't add it to the release.
10) Summary of Issue Tags
| 3_1_2-approved
|Change Control in effect and bug is approved for the indicated release.
| 3_1_2-exclude
| Bug is excluded from 3.1.2 but should be considered for a future 3.1.x release.
| 3_1_x-exclude
| Bug is excluded from all 3.1.* releases.
| Used for bugs that don't apply to 3.1.x or bugs we don't plan on ever fixing in 3.1.x
| Bug is not applicable to any 3.X or 4.X release (HADB for example).
| This tag is not expect to be used much going forward.
| 3_1-next
| Bug should be considered for a future release.
| Unclear how this tag is used.
| 3_1_2-review
| Change Control is in effect and the bug is being targeted for 3.1.2
| 3_1_2-release-notes
| Bug should be documented in the 3.1.2 release notes
| Bug is a regression from a previous release. Typically set by QA.
| Bug is an upgrade bug. Typically set by QA.
| 3_1-blocker
| Bug is a test blocker. Typically set by QA.
| 508
| 508 compliance bug. Typically set by QA.
| CTS compliance bug. typically set by CTS team.


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Technology, Environment, Social Justice
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies...
Published April 23rd 2010 by Routledge
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological...
Published September 12th 2007 by Routledge
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors...
Published June 4th 1998 by Routledge