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Editor's note: With access to more than three million documents in over 30 languages, Google is a researcher's dream. But like any invaluable tool, knowing the insider tricks of the trade is a must to save time and needless effort. Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest, authors of Google Hacks, 2nd Edition, have set out to educate the masses to the ins and outs of Google. In today's excerpt, they offer the inside scoop on scattersearching, cartography, Google on the go, gmail-lite, and AdSense. With over 150 million Google searches conducted every day, why be just a number?
Sometimes, illuminating results can be found when scraping from one site and feeding the results into the API of another. With scattersearching, you can narrow down the most popular related results, as suggested by Yahoo! and Google.
We've combined a scrape of a Yahoo! web page with a Google search[Hack #41], blending scraped data with data generated via a web service API to good effect. In this hack, we're doing something similar, except this time we're taking the results of a Yahoo! search and blending it with a Google search.
Yahoo! has a "Related searches" feature, where you enter a search term and get a list of related terms under the search box, if any are available. This hack scrapes those related terms and performs a Google search for the related terms in the title. It then returns the count for those searches, along with a direct link to the results. Aside from showing how scraped and API-generated data can live together in harmony, this hack is good to use when you're exploring concepts; for example, you might know that something called Pokemon exists, but you might not know anything about it. You'll get Yahoo!'s related searches and an idea of how many results each of those searches generates in Google. From there, you can choose the search terms that generate the most results or look the most promising based on your limited knowledge, or you can simply pick a road that appears less traveled.
Save the following code to a file called scattersearch.pl.
TIP: Bear in mind that this hack, while using the Google API for the Google portion, involves some scraping of Yahoo!'s search pages and thus is rather brittle. If it stops working at any point, take a gander at the regular expressions for they're almost sure to be the breakage point.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Scattersearch -- Use the search suggestions from
# Yahoo! to build a series of intitle: searches at Google.
use strict;
use LWP;
use SOAP::Lite;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
# Get our query, else die miserably.
my $query = shift @ARGV; die unless $query;
# Your Google API developer's key.
my $google_key = 'insert key here';
# Location of the GoogleSearch WSDL file.
my $google_wdsl = "./GoogleSearch.wsdl";
# Search Yahoo! for the query.
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $url = URI->new('http://search.yahoo.com/search');
$url->query_form(rs => "more", p => $query);
my $yahoosearch = $ua->get($url)->content;
$yahoosearch =~ s/[\f\t\n\r]//isg;
# And determine if there were any results.
$yahoosearch =~ m!Also try:(.*?) !migs;
die "Sorry, there were no results!\n" unless $1;
my $recommended = $1;
# Now, add all our results into
# an array for Google processing.
my @googlequeries;
while ($recommended =~ m!(.*?)!mgis) {
my $searchitem = $1;
$searchitem =~ s/nobr|<[^>]*>|\///g;
print "$searchitem\n";
push (@googlequeries, $searchitem);
# Print our header for the results page.
print join "\n",
h1("Your Scattersearch Results"),
p("Your original search term was '$query'"),
p("That search had " . scalar(@googlequeries). " recommended terms."),
p("Here are result numbers from a Google search"),
CGI::start_ol( );
# Create our Google object for API searches.
my $gsrch = SOAP::Lite->service("file:$google_wdsl");
# Running the actual Google queries.
foreach my $googlesearch (@googlequeries) {
my $titlesearch = "allintitle:$googlesearch";
my $count = $gsrch->doGoogleSearch($google_key, $titlesearch,
0, 1, "false", "", "false",
"", "", "");
my $url = $googlesearch; $url =~ s/ /+/g; $url =~ s/\"/%22/g;
print li("There were $count->{estimatedTotalResultsCount} ".
"results for the recommended search  ~/Sites/scattersearch.html
Your final results, as rendered by your browser, will look similar to Figure 2-15.
Figure 2-15. Scattersearch results for siamese
You'll have to do a little experimenting to find out
which terms have related searches. Broadly speaking, very general
search terms are bad; it's better to zero in on
terms that people would search for and that would be easy to group
together. At the time of this writing, for example,
heart has no related search terms, but
blood pressure does.
You have two choices: you can either hack the interaction with Yahoo! or expand it to include something in addition to or instead of Yahoo! itself. Let's look at Yahoo! first. If you take a close look at the code, you'll see we're passing an unusual parameter to our Yahoo! search results page:
$url->query_form(rs => "more", p => $query);
rs=>"more" part of the search shows the
related search terms. Getting the related search this way will show
up to 10 results. If you remove that portion of the code,
you'll get roughly four related searches when
they're available. That might suit you if you want
only a few, but perhaps you want dozens and dozens! In that case,
more with
Beware, though: this can generate a lot of related searches, and it can certainly eat up your daily allowance of Google API requests. Tread carefully.
Kevin Hemenway and Tara Calishain
Essential Reading
Search Engine Optimization
SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.
Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether your web site depends on broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic, this PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site. You'll learn how to effectively use PageRank (and Google itself); how to get listed, get links, and get syndicated; SEO best practices; and much more.
When you approach SEO, you must take some time to understand the characteristics of the traffic that you need to drive your business. Then go out and use the techniques explained in this PDF to grab some traffic--and bring life to your business.
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car·tog·ra·phy n. The art or technique of making maps or charts.
Google Cartography (found here: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/google-cartography/google-cartography.html) uses Google via the Google Search API [Chapter 9] to build a visual representation of the interconnectivity of streets in an area.
This application takes a starting street and finds streets that intersect with it. Traversing the streets in a breadth-first manner, the application discovers more and more intersections, eventually producing a graph that shows the interconnectivity of streets flowing from the starting street.
Figures Figure 3-5 and Figure 3-6 show maps generated for two of the world's great cities, New York and Melbourne, respectively.
Figure 3-5. New York, U.S., as determined by Google cartography
Figure 3-6. Melbourne, Australia, mapped by a little Google cartography
TIP: If you know the streets in the areas shown, you will be able to find inconsistencies introduced by the text parsing process, explained in more detail in the following section.
Google Cartography uses the Google API to find web pages that refers to street names. Initial street and region criteria are combined to form a search query, which is then executed by the Google API. Each URL from the Google results is fetched and the content of the pages converted into text. The text is then processed using pattern matching (programmers, read: regular expressions) designed to capture information relating to the relationship between streets (for example, streets that cross each other or turn into other streets).
For each page a list of vertices is produced, where each vertex represents an intersection between two streets. After the results for the initial street have been processed, the list of vertices will hopefully contain some vertices that intersect with the initial street.
At this point, the mapper performs a breadth-first search through the streets that can be reached from the initial street. Each street traversed during this process is subjected to the same process as the initial street, expanding the list of known street intersections. This process continues until no more streets can be reached from the initial street or until the halting criteria is satisfied (for instance, reaching the maximum amount of Google API key usage).
Once the data collection phase has completed, the application converts the intersection vertices into a graph. Each street becomes a vertex of its own, with outgoing edges connecting to the vertices of intersecting streets. The connectivity of this graph is analyzed (using the Jung graph package at http://jung.sourceforge.net) to determine the largest maximal subgraph where all pairs of vertices are reachable from each other. This subgraph almost always contains the starting street; the probability of this not occurring should decrease proportionally to the number of streets traversed (which naturally selects for streets that are in the same subgraph as the starting street).
The largest connected subgraph is then visualized using a Radial Layout algorithm provided by the Prefuse graph visualization framework (http://prefuse.sourceforge.net). The graph is initially centered on the start street but will automatically adjust its focus to center around the most recently selected street.
Ignoring its general lack of usefulness (at the time of this writing), there are several problems with the application worth noting:
Using regular expressions instead of a custom parser means that parsing mistakes are not uncommon. The online version of the applet has a voting option enabled for particularly error-prone regular expressions, where more than one page must agree on the analysis for it to form part of the final graph. This eliminates some mistakes but at the cost of many valid intersections. In the future, the applet should make this behavior optional.
Due to the regular expressions used, the application works only with English text and English street-naming conventions. When examining the output, it is also obvious that regional variations of English make a difference. American English, British English, and Australian English often have slightly different ways of referring to street relationships. I've tried to allow for some of the more common variations.
Google's 10-word limit ["The
10-Word Limit" in Chapter 1] means an inability to
effectively filter out previously traversed street names by packing
them into the query prepended by a negative (
sign. Because the street traversal algorithm deliberately tries
streets closest to the initial street, the search results returned on
those streets often include pages already processed. These duplicate
pages are filtered from further processing but getting search results
back for already-processed pages wastes precious Google API key usage
Some streets are hard to disambiguate. Highly generic street names such as Main Street or High Street can pollute the connectivity graph. So, for example, if Interesting Road is found to intersect with High Street, there may be several High Streets found in the results other than the one coming off Interesting Road—thus producing connectivity via High Street, which is not even indirectly connected to Interesting Road and is therefore highly uninteresting.
Having more specific constraints in the search can help, but that will reduce the overall quantity of results.
Another approach would be to prune connections that have low connectivity with other parts of the graph. This will be the case with streets that come off the "wrong" High Street. Again, this would increase overall quality but at the cost of quantity, with inevitable false positives.
The pattern matching (using regular expressions) for street name and type is fairly limited. Examples of streets the current pattern matching will not catch are Route N or Highway N and single name streets such as Broadway.
Point your web browser at http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/google-cartography/applet/mapping.html.
TIP: You will need a recent version of the Java plug-in (1.3.x is not new enough). You can download the JRE which includes the java plug-in from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html. You'll also need your own Google API key ["Using Your Google API Key" in Chapter 9].
When the "Enter parameters" applet window appears (shown in Figure 3-7), enter your Google API key and adjust the maximums per instructions on the Google Cartography page. Now, type in your starting street and any additional search criteria by which to narrow the search.
Figure 3-7. Enter a starting point of interest and anything that might narrow down the possibilities
After a little churning, the applet will display a map for your street and region of interest similar to those in Figures Figure 3-6.
WARNING Be warned that the applet may use large amounts of bandwidth, depending on the parameters you enter.
Richard Jones
Being on the go and away from your laptop or desktop doesn't mean leaving Google behind.
As the saying goes, "You can't take it with you." Unless, that is, you're talking about Google. Just because you've left your laptop at home or at the office, that doesn't necessarily mean leaving the Web and Google behind. So long as you have your trusty cell phone or network-enabled PDA in your pocket, so too do you have Google.
Whether you have the top-of-the-line Treo 600, Blackberry, or Sidekick with integrated web browser; base-model cell phone that your carrier gave you for free; or anything in between, chances are that you're able to Google on the go.
Google caters to the "on the go" crowd with its Google wireless interfaces: a simpler, lighter, gentler PDA- and smartphone-friendly version of Google, a WAP (read: wireless Web) flavor for cell phones with limited web access, and an SMS gateway for messaging your query to and receiving an almost instantaneous response from Google. There's even a mobile interface to Google's Froogle (http://froogle.google.com) product search.
Google PDA Search (http://www.google.com/palm) brings all the power of Google to the PDA in your palm, hiptop on your belt, or cell phone in your pocket.
TIP: Don't be fooled by the palm in the Google PDA Search URL, which is an artifact of Palm's majority mindshare at the time. The interface will work with your Pocket PC, Zaurus, Treo, or any other mobile device that benefits from lighter web pages.
Settle that "in like Flynn" versus "in like Flint" dinner-table argument without leaving your seat. Find quickie reviews and commentary on that Dustmeister 2000 vacuum before making the purchase. Figure out where you've seen that bit-part actor before without having to wait for the credits.
Your modern PDA and the smarter so-called smartphones sport a full-fledged web browser on which you can surf all the Web has to offer in living coloralbeit substantially smaller. You find the usual Address Bar, Back and Forward buttons, Bookmarks or Favorites, and point-and-click (or point-and-tap, as the case may be) hyperlinks. While the onboard browser might just be able to handle the regular Google.com web pages, the Google PDA Search provides simpler, smaller, no-nonsense, plain HTML Pages. And results pages pack in fewer results for faster loading.
Just point your mobile browser at http://google.com/palm, enter your search terms, click the Google Search button, and up come your results, as shown in Figure 5-27.
Figure 5-27. Google PDA Search (left) and results (right) on a Nokia smartphone
You have the full range of Google search syntax [Chapter 1] and complete web index available to you, although it might be more than a little challenging to enter those quotes, colons, parentheses, and minus signs.
If you have a garden-variety cell phoneof the sort your mobile provider either gives away free with signup or charges on the order of $40 foryou may yet find you have a built-in browser...of a sort. Don't expect anything nearly as fast, colorful, or feature-filled as your computer's web browser. This is a text-only world, limited in both display and interactivity.
That all said, you have the wealthif not the Technicolorof the Web right in your very pocket.
Step one, however, is to find the browser in the first place. It's usually hidden in plain sight, cleverly hidden behind some (possibly meaningless) moniker such as WAP, Web, Internet, Services, Downloads, or a brand name such as mMode or T-Zones. If nothing of the sort leaps out at you, look for an icon sporting your cell phone provider's logo, take a stroll through the menus, dig out your manual, or give your provider a ring (usually 611 on your cell phone).
Texting Sure Ain't QWERTY
Whether you're a 70-word-per-minute touch typist or you hunt and peck your way through the QWERTY keyboard, you're initially going to find texting a pokey chore. Rather than the array of letters, numbers, symbols, and shift keys on your computer keyboard, everything you do on your cell phone is confined to twelve keys: 0-9, *, and #. Frankly, it's an annoying system to learn, but once you get used to it, it's not too painful to use; some folks actually become rather adept at it, rivaling their regular keyboarding speeds.
Look closely at your phone and you'll notice each button also holds either a set of three to four alphabetic characters or obscure symbols not unlike those you'd expect to find on the UFO landing in your back yard. Like your regular phone, the 1 button is devoid of letters while 2 holds ABC, 3 DEF, and so on to 9 WXYZ.
When you're in web-browsing mode on your phone, you can tap the 2 button once to type an A, twice in quick succession for a B, and thrice for a C. Four times nets you a 2. Keep going and you'll make it back through A, B, C, and 2 againon some phones encountering strange and wonderful foreign letters along the way. Do this for each and every letter in the word you're trying to spell out, spelling the word "google" like so: 4666 666455533. Notice the gap between the 666 and 666? What you're after is two "o"s in a row, but typing 666666 will get you either a single "o" or an "ø" since your phone doesn't know when you want to move on to the next letter. To type two of the same characters one after another, either wait a second or so after tapping in the first "o" or jiggle your phone's joystick to the right or down.
When it comes to special characters like the dot (.) and slash (/) common in web addresses, you'll turn to the 1 button. A period or dot is a single tap. The slash is usually 15. For those of you keeping score at home, that'll leave you with 92714666 6664555331 11111111111111196555 for wap.google.com/wml.
The texting equivalent of the spacebar is the 0 button.
What of digits? Surely you don't need to type 17 or so 1sscrolling through all the symbols associated with the 1 button ([.,-?!'@:;/( )])just to get back around to the 1 you wanted in the first place. Thankfully, all it takes is holding down the button for a second or so to jump right to the numeral. So instead of tapping through WXYZ to get to 9, hold down that 9 key for a moment or so and you're there.
There are more efficient input techniques, such as T9 ("Text on 9 keys") and other predictive text systems, but they're not as useful for entering possibly obscure words like those in web addresses and Google searches.
Browser in hand, point it at wap.google.com/wml, tap in a search (without tripping over your fingers), and click the Search button or link (as shown in Figure 5-28, left). A few moments later, your first set of results show up (as shown in Figure 5-28, center). Scroll to the bottom of the results and click the Next link (shown in Figure 5-28, right) to move on to the next page of results.
Figure 5-28. Google wireless search (left), first results (center), and link to the next 5 results (right)
Click any of the results to visit the page in question, just as you would in a normal browser. You'll notice immediately that the pages you visit by clicking a result link are dumbed downsimilar to Google's wireless search itselfto suit the needs of your mobile's display abilities.
Truth be told, you're not visiting the resulting page directly at all. What you see on your screen and in Figure 5-29 is courtesy of the Google WAP proxy, a service turning HTML pages into WAP/WML (think of it as HTML for wireless devices) on the fly. Click another link on the resulting page and you'll continue browsing via the Google proxy, Google essentially turning all the Web into a mobile Web.
Figure 5-29. An ordinary web page as seen through the lens of the Google WAP proxy
In fact, you can actually surf rather than search the Web using the Google WAP proxy. Find your mobile browser's Options menu and click the Go to URL link. In the resulting page, enter any web site URL into the Go to URL box and click the Go button to visit a mobile version of that page.
TIP: The Options menu is chock-full of additional options provided by the Google WAP site: search the full Web, the mobile Web (sites Google has found to be optimized for mobile devices), language ["Language Tools" in Chapter 1], and Help documentation.
As a New York Times article ("All Thumbs, Without the Stigma"; http://tech2.nytimes.com/mem/technology/techreview.html?res=9E00E6DE163FF931A2575BC0A9629C8B63) suggested recently, the thumb is the power digit. While the thumboard of choice for executives tends to be the Blackberry mobile email device (http://www.blackberry.com/), for the rest of the world (and many of the kids in your neighborhood), it's the cell phone and Short Message Service (SMS).
SMS messages are quick-and-dirty text messages (think mobile instant messaging) tapped into a cell phone and sent over the airwaves to another cell phone for around 5 to 10 cents apiece.
But SMS isn't just for person-to-person messaging. In the UK, BBC Radio provides so-called shortcodes (really just short telephone numbers) to which you can SMS your requests to the DJ's automated request-tracking system. You can SMS bus and rail systems for travel schedules. Your airline will SMS you updates on the status of your flight. And now you can talk to Google via SMS as well.
Google SMS (http://www.google.com/sms/) provides an SMS gateway for querying the Google Web index, looking up phone numbers [Hack #6], seeking out definitions [Hack #10], and comparative shopping in the Froogle product catalog service (http://froogle.google.com).
Simply send an SMS message to U.S. shortcode
GOOGL), as shown later in Figure 5-30, with one of the following forms of query:
G (upper- or lowercase). You'll
receive the top two results in return, formatted as text snippets,
hopefully containing some information of use to you.
g capital of south africa
G answer to life the universe and everything
vegetarian restaurant Jackson MS
southern cooking 95472
scooters.New York NY
TIP: The Google SMS documentation suggests using a period (.) between your query and city name or zip code to be sure that you're triggering a Google Local Search.
augustus gloop Chicago il
violet beauregard 95472
mike teevee ny
TIP: As with any Google Phonebook [Hack #6] query, you'll find only listed numbers in your results.
Check the current prices of items for sale online through Froogle
(http://froogle.google.com/). To
trigger a Froogle lookup, prefix your query with an
F (upper- or lowercase),
prices (the latter two will also work at the
end of the query).
g nokia 6230 cellphone
price bmw 2002
ugg boots prices
Pass Google SMS a U.S. Zip Code to find out where one might find it in the country.
TIP: Google SMS is sure to sport more features by the time you read this. Be sure to consult the "Google SMS: How to Use" page at http://www.google.com/sms/howtouse.html for the latest orfor the real thumb jockeys among yousubscribe your email address to an announcement list from the Google SMS home page.
You'll receive your results as one or more SMS messages labeled, appropriately enough, (1of3, 2of3, etc.), as shown in Figure 5-30. Notice that there are no URLs or links in the responses: what's the point when you can't click on them?
Figure 5-30. A Google SMS query (left) and response (right)
WARNING While the cost of sending an SMS messages (typically between 5 and 10 cents apiece) is usually borne by the sender, automated messages like those sent by Google SMS are usually charged to you, the receiver. Unless you have an unlimited SMS plan, all that googling can add up. Be sure to check out what's included in your mobile plan, check your phone bill, or call your mobile operator before you spend a lot of time (and money) on this service.
If you wish you could compare prices at that "One Day Sale" on kitchen gadgets without leaving the store, Wireless Froogle (http://froogle.google.com) is as much a part of the shopping experience as that credit card.
Point your mobile browser at wml.froogle.com, tap in the name of the product you're about to take to the checkout (Figure 5-31, left), and up pops a list of prices as advertised by online vendors (Figure 5-31, right).
Figure 5-31. Wireless Froogle Search (left) and results (right)
You'll find everything from cellular phones to yogurt makers, abacuses to faux yak fur coats on Froogle.
At the time of this writing, Wireless Froogle is nowhere near as complete as one might hope. You can't constrain your results by price, group them by store, or sort them in any way. Results don't link to anywhere. That said, it is a still a handy price-check tool as you're standing in that checkout line.
$49.99 for a pashminalemme at it! Sometimes instant gratification is worth it; sometimes paying only $49.99 for silk is well worth the wait.
Being a child of Google, Gmail hides all of its complexity behind a rich, deep, feature-packed yet user-friendly web mail interface, assuming you have the right browserone of recent vintagefor the job. But what to do if your IT department hasn't upgraded your version of the Internet Explorer browser since Windows 95, you're quite happy with the text-only Lynx browser, you're running the latest nightly build of browser XYZ, which Gmail simply doesn't like, or you're trying to reach your mail from a PDA or smartphone?
Gmail-lite (home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-lite, SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-lite; GNU Public License), as the name suggests, puts a plain HTML face on Gmail. It is a PHP application that proxies your interactions with Gmail, allowing you to surf using whatever browser you have at hand or just plain prefer just plain prefer, while keeping Gmail happy with its end of the conversation.
The authors of gmail-lite have done a fantastic job, affording you a plain HTML interface to just about every bit of functionality Gmail provides through its more interactive JavaScript-based frontend.
You have to marvel at the wonders of PHP-based applications and their simple installation. Assuming you have the prerequisites taken care of, it's just a matter of downloading, unpacking, and enjoying. I installed gmail-lite both on my local Mac OS X laptop and under my hosted ISP account in seconds each.
TIP: Gmail-lite assumes you have PHP installed on a web server. It relies upon the libgmailer library (http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net), included for your convenience in the gmail-lite distribution. You also need the curl library (http://www.php.net/curl) with SSL support (http://www.openssl.org) since gmail-lite always talks to Gmail over a secure channel.
Download gmail-lite (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-lite) and unpack the distribution (0.56 at the time of this writing, but yours is sure to be a later version) somewhere under your web server's document root, where the rest of your web site lives (ask your system administrator or service provider if you're not sure where this is):
tar -xvzf gmail-lite-0.56
mv gmail-lite-0.56 gmail-lite
TIP: That last command simply renames the directory to something that will be a little friendlier and easier to remember when it comes to visiting in my browser.
To verify that everything went to plan, point your web browser at diagnose.php using the URL corresponding to the gmail-lite directory on your web sitee.g., http://www.example.com/~rael/gmail-lite/diagnose.php The resulting page should look like Figure 6-18.
Figure 6-18. The diagnose.php script makes sure that everything is installed as expected
If diagnose.php does indicate that something's gone wrong, consult the installation and troubleshooting documentation in the INSTALL text file in your gmail-lite folder.
Point your computer's web browser at the URL corresponding to the gmail-mobile directory on your web sitee.g., http://www.example.com/~rael/gmail-lite (or just click the "Press here..." link on the diagnose.php page).
WARNING Depending on your setup, you may actually need to tack
/index.phpon to that URL, but most PHP-enabled servers know to look for and serve up index.php as a default when no filename is specified and there's no static index.html in sight. The gmail-lite package includes just such an index.php file.
Figure 6-19 shows the plain HTML login screen as it
will appear in a typical browser window. Enter your Gmail login
@gmail.com) and
password, alter the time zone if you feel so inclined, and click the
"sign-in" button.
Figure 6-19. A gloriously plain HTML Gmail login page in a typical browser window
You're greeted with a summary page with links to your Gmail Inbox, Sent, Trash, and Spam folders, Starred messages, and personal labelsshown in Figure 6-20 as it appears in a smartphone XHTML web browser.
Figure 6-20. A summary of the state of your Gmail account as it appears in a smartphone XHTML browser
Click the Inbox link and you'll be presented with a simple list of your incoming messages, as shown on a Pocket PC in Figure 6-21. At the top is a quick-link toolbar and pull-down menus for switching views, exploring labeled mail, and searching your Gmail messages ["Gmail Search Syntax" earlier in this chapter]. (Click the Get button after making your selections or entering a search query.) At the bottom are actions you can apply to any number of checked messages (check the associated checkbox to the right of a message subject to act upon it), including archive/unarchive, label, star/unstar, mark as read/unread, mark/unmark as spam, and trash/untrash. (Click the Do button to apply any action.)
Figure 6-21. Your Gmail inbox, as seen through a Pocket PC
Select any email message to open it. Figure 6-22 shows a typical email message viewed in the text-only Lynx browser. The layout of individual message pages is much like that of the Inbox (or any folder) view. As you can see in the figure, I'm about to take a look at all my "foo"-labeled messages.
Figure 6-22. An individual message in the Lynx text-only browser
WARNING The gmail-lite author does caution that "GMail is a still in beta, and GMailer (along with gmail-lite) is, I would say, an `alpha hack' of a beta software. So don't expect it to work all the time, and do not build critical mission applications upon it" (http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/).
If you're wanting to Gmail from a mobile phone with only a very basic WAP browser on board, you can still Gmail on the go with gmail-mobile [Hack #77]. And be sure to check out [Hack #67] for taking Google search along too.
Use AdSense's built-in (and rather thoughtful) ability to serve ads from alternate URLs when there are no targeted ads to offer.
There's a time and place for public service announcements. You just might not think your web site is the place and certainly not if it happens more than occasionally. When you signed up for AdSense (while you're no doubt a good citizen who pays their public radio and television dues), your intent was to reap a revenue stream from all the hard work that you've put into your content.
Yet there are times when a new section of your site hasn't yet been noticed and indexed by Google, AdSense has nothing appropriately targeted in its inventory, or there's a temporary outage of some kind. The net result is that you'll be running public service ads for the Red Cross or the like rather than revenue-generating, targeted advertising. Google AdSense doesn't get paid and so doesn't pay you for click-throughs on public service advertisements.
Now, you can either simply be OK with this coming up every so oftenI know I amor you can make use of a backup system Google AdSense provides: alternate ad URLs.
Point your browser at Google AdSense (http://www.google.com/adsense) and click the Ad Settings tab at the top of the page. Then, scroll down until you see "Alternate ad URL or color," as shown in Figure 7-11.
Figure 7-11. Provide an alternate URL for ads when AdSense has only public service advertisements to offer your site
Google AdSense suggests (https://google.com/adsense/faq#basics10) four backup options:
Paste in the URL of an image somewhere on the Web, ad or not, static or dynamically generated. This can be an alternate image that you've created and are serving from your own site, one produced on-the-fly by another advertising service, or any other image that either has some revenue stream associated with it or simply tickles your fancy. For example, to serve up a static image named advert1.jpg residing on your web site, you'd provide a URL like http://www.example.com/images/advert1.jpg.
Provide the URL of an HTML page somewhere out on the Web that contains only a snippet of markup for a hyperlinked image. For example, you might have a file on your site called adsense_alternate.html that contains the following line:

TIP: That's all the file should have in it, mind you; leave off all the opening
and closing
bits and everything else you usually pack into your pages.
The URL you'd provide as an alternate would then be a pointer to that partial page, something like http://www.example.com/adsense_alternate.html.
If you have nothing to display as an alternative and are dead set
against running public service ads, blank out the space where the
AdSense ad would have gone by, providing the hexadecimal HTML color
code of your page's background or that particular
bit of real estate. For example, if your page had a background color
#160B35, a lovely dark blue that I use on my
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Google provides an HTML file you can download to and serve from your own web site that calls a bit of JavaScript to collapse your ad so that it doesn't show in the event you'd otherwise have seen a public service ad. For instructions and a link to download the file, visit https://google.com/adsense/faq#basics13.
Whichever you choose, when you click the "Update code" button, a smidgeon of JavaScript (the third line in Figure 7-12) will be added to the AdSense code that you paste into your web page. This additional line provides all AdSense needs to serve up your alternate ad choice when it has no targeted ad to run on your site.
Figure 7-12. An alternate ad URL embedded in Google AdSense JavaScript code
Then again, there is a fifth alternative...
Amazon/Google Ad Replacement (AGAR; http://www.bestdealsdiscounts.com/agar; GNU Public License) is a Perl script that supplements your Google AdSense ads with product advertisement drawn from Amazon's Web Services (AWS; http://webservices.amazon.com) and Associates (http://associates.amazon.com) programs. Not only does it supplement AdSense, but it also mimics it in appearance, supports all the AdSense ad sizes, and allows you to customize your color scheme to match what you've chosen for AdSense.
TIP: For AGAR to be useful (and financially rewarding), you'll need to have signed up as an Amazon Associate (http://associates.amazon.com) through which you make money on purchases resulting from click-throughs on your site.
Download AGAR and get it running as a CGI script ["How to Run the Hacks" in the Preface]. There's not much at all you need to change in the script itself, save replacing the default Amazon Associates ID with your own:
my $associate_id = "insert your amazon associates id here";
WARNING If you're in the United Kingdom rather than the United States, you'll also want to change the locale in
my $locale = "us";to
$uk_associate_id = "coolstufftoown";to your U.K. Amazon Associates ID. If you're neither in the U.S. nor the U.K., there is some further adjustment necessary, but we leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Point your browser directly at the CGI script to test it out and you should see an ad banner, as shown in Figure 7-13, easily confused for an AdSense ad at first blush, but clearly linked to Amazon products.
Figure 7-13. An AGAR-generated AdSense-like Amazon banner ad
The product category is chosen at random by default (go ahead and
reload the page a few times to see this in action), but this can be
customized either by altering the settings baked into the script
itself or embedding settings into the
URL. For example, instead of just pointing at
agar.cgi, try
This produces a 125 by 125 pixel ad drawing from
Amazon's "kitchen"
TIP: While the concept of
id, as expressed in the preceding URL is beyond the scope of this book, suffice it to say that you need to pass matching textual and numerical browse IDs. You'll find a detailed description of browse nodes and IDs in the Amazon Web Services documentation and a list of some of the text/number pairs in the AGAR code itselflook for
%browse_ids =. For an introduction to Amazon Web Services and all other things Amazon, pick up this book's cousin, Amazon Hacks (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/amazonhks; O'Reilly) by Paul Bausch.
(If I may, I'd like to end with a pitch to at least consider letting the AdSense public service advertisements run. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.)
Tara Calishain is the creator of the site, ResearchBuzz. She is an expert on Internet search engines and how they can be used effectively in business situations.
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- An effective framework of light-weight handling for three-level fine-grained recoverable temporal violations in scientific workflows
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- Temporal violations may often take place and deteriorate the overall QoS of scientific workflows. To handle temporal violations in an automatic and cost-effective fashion, we need to resolve the following issues: 1) how to define fine-grained recoverable temporal violations, 2) which light-weight effective exception handling strategies to be facilitated. This paper proposes an effective exception handling framework. Based on a probability based temporal consistency model, the probability range for recoverable temporal violations is divided into three levels of fine-grained temporal violations. Afterwards, three corresponding light-weight exception handling strategies including TDA (Time Deficit Allocation), ACOWR (Ant Colony Optimisation based two-stage Workflow local Rescheduling) and TDA+ACOWR (the combined strategy of TDA and ACOWR) are presented. The experimental results demonstrate the excellent performance of our framework in reducing both local and global temporal violations.
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#183710 - 03/19/09 01:13 PM schwerpunkt
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Does a loanword mean it should be given back at a certain point?
I would give this one back if I were you. Isn't there an English equivalent for it? Something with gravity or so?
I've listenened to the pronunciation and it is nowhere near it.
Shjwayr-poonkt would come much closer.
And when you look at the way it is used I think you wouldn't miss it.:
Context:"In the only arty shot, the Dalai Lama, seen in silhouette, sits at the schwerpunkt of a Mondrian-like composition."
#183713 - 03/19/09 03:11 PM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: BranShea]
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I thought it had been returned long ago, since I've never ever heard or seen it before! :0)
#183717 - 03/19/09 03:35 PM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: twosleepy]
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∴ ∴ ∴ ∴ lots of little schwerpunkts
#183755 - 03/21/09 03:33 AM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: BranShea]
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#183756 - 03/21/09 03:37 AM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: BranShea]
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
I've listenened to the pronunciation and it is nowhere near it.
Shjwayr-poonkt would come much closer.
Closer to what? If it is a loanword do the English speakers have to pronounce it the German way?
#183759 - 03/21/09 05:16 AM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: latishya]
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I know it's an overcharged comparison, but when you borrow a shirt from someone you don't use it to mopp the floor with. Maybe it does not matter.
---Suggested by Latishya:Could be worth a discussion.Quote:It can be applied to any loanword used in any language - should the speakers of the language that borrowed the word try to mimic the pronunciation it had in the original?
#183768 - 03/21/09 09:40 AM Re: centre of gravitas [Re: BranShea]
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Does a loanword mean it should be given back at a certain point?
You'll have to ask the Germans who coined the word Lehnwort, and the English person who calqued (loan translation, Lehnübersetzung) it as loanword. It's funny that the other kind of word, Erbwort 'inheritance word', was not calqued. What's even funnier is that German Lehn (Latin feudum, feodum, beneficium) doesn't really mean 'loan', it's 'fief'. A Lehnsmann is a vassal._________________________
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#183774 - 03/21/09 10:49 AM Re: schwerpunkt [Re: BranShea]
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Isn't the glyph ∴ a therefore sign? That is the plainer cousin of the asterism (link).
[Addendum: Fixed the glyph. Whatever happened to the ability to use Unicode on this site?]
Edited by zmjezhd (03/21/09 10:51 AM)_________________________
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#183775 - 03/21/09 12:38 PM Re: centre of gravitas [Re: zmjezhd]
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Aha!...Aha! That is interesting. Leenwoord, erfwoord, leenheer, leenman, all familiar words from national history.
Is there a specific difference between a Lehnwort and an Erbwort?
Or does it mix and mingle a bit? To my ears the word 'fief ' is always such a funny word.
( the child with the missing front theeth trying to say 'thief ' ? )
Oh, but how about the domestication of the pronunciation of a loanword? (in general and in particular?)
(reminds me of the man who was trying to find the meaning of a Germany originated
word some time ago, but he did not remeber the pronunciation well and the word remained mystery)
looks like a little pyramid to me ∴
#183777 - 03/21/09 01:18 PM Re: centre of gravitas [Re: BranShea]
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>Whatever happened to the ability to use Unicode on this site?
it seems to have (unhappily) got lost in one of the updates. someone should mention that in Anu's update thread!!
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Republican House Speaker John Boehner recently highlighted another gap by praising Ryan's vote in favor of the bailouts. He called those who opposed the bailouts "knuckledraggers." While Boehner reflects the conventional wisdom in Washington that the bailouts saved the economy, only 25 percent of voters agree. Most belong to the group Boehner considers knuckledraggers.
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Abruptly, your old life seems distant.
A path through fields never questioned,
Yet expected, deep down, to hold treasure.
Now your time on earth becomes full of threat;
Before your eyes your future shrinks.
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You feel that against your will
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Feel so isolated and lost.
May grace come to restore you to balance,
May it shape a new space in your heart
To embrace this illness as a teacher
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A courageous hospitality
Toward what is difficult,
Painful, and unknown.
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Help to release whatever has become false in you.
May you trust this light to clear a path
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Ask it why it came. Why it chose your friendship,
Where it wants to take you. What it wants you to know.
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What you need to learn to become more fully yourself
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Pikmin 3 is a real-time strategy game currently being developed specifically for Wii u game console. It is a direct sequel to Pikmin 2 developed for Nintendo GameCube in 2004 and is third in Pikmin video game series. Everyone expected this game to be released among Wii U's titles but was delayed to 2013 for unknown reasons.
Pikmin 3 review, What To Expect
Pikmin 3 gameplay builds on the last pikmin titles wher a player directs hordes of up to a hundred plant-like creatures known as Pikmin. These creatures can accomplish a number of tasks such as destroying barriers, defeating enemies and building bridges if directed appropriately.Each type of Pikmin has special abilities or shields to protect them from hazards, the previous installs had 3 types of piknmin i.e. red, blue and yellow pikmin, this new release will provide additional pikmin types i.e. Pink pikmin that can fly spotted on start screen of developer demo, rock pikmin that smash tough barriers.
This install varies from Pikmin 2 in that a player has the ability to control 4 different leaders at once instead of 2 pikmin leaders. The protagonist/ main character of past titles, captain Olimar is not playable, no one knows why this isn't the case. A Player will discover a new world full of strange creatures and is required to take command of ant-like pikmins trying to survive. This world is filled with treasures and foes making the game action focused. Pikmin 3 offers 2 control mechanisms i.e. Wii remote or the Wii U gamepad. In all cases a player can view a map of the game environment visible via the touch screen.
A trailer of the new Pikmin 3 was shown on Nintendo's press conference on June 2012 with the developers promising better HD graphics and special screen-based controllers that would work best with the Wii U hence the sudden change from Wii.
Watch pikmin 3 game trailer via the link below;
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Why You Will Fall in Love with the World of Pikmin 3 by Menashe Pikmin 3 is a game that we were all waiting for but many seem disappointed in…


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The U.S. Small Business Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Small Business Majority will launch a series of Spanish-language webinars for small business owners on the Affordable Care Act. Every other Tuesday throughout the summer and fall, Spanish-speaking small employers can join representatives from SBA, HHS and Small Business Majority for ACA 101 webinars in Spanish. The webinars will provide small business owners with an overview of the law and information on how they can enroll in the small business health insurance Marketplace. Other topics discussed include market reforms, the small business health care tax credit, and the employer shared responsibility provisions.
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Mark A. FredetteJanuary 25,2013
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NORTH CHITTENDEN Mark Allen Fredette, 64, died peacefully Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013, of cancer.
He was born November 29, 1948, in Rutland, the son of Yvonne (Davis) and Louis R. Fredette. He lived his entire life in the Rutland area, growing up with good friends and enjoying many adventures.
Mark was an integral part of a joyful and prolonged social scene on Center Street during the 70s and early-80s, bartending at Center Street Saloon, the Back Home Café, Petronis and Off Center. He was a passionate motorcyclist, golfer, hiker, traveler and lover of the outdoors. He created the Holden General Store in North Chittenden, providing a valued source of community for five-and-a-half years. Most recently, he enjoyed working at Keiths II in Pittsford.
Mark was predeceased by both parents. He is survived by his wife, Julie; daughter Carrie; sister Shelley; nephew-son Brett Smith and his partner Rosa Walker and their daughter Aster; and extended family and friends.
Mark was a gentle philosopher, a gifted dreamer and a wonderful friend, brother, father, grandfather and husband. He will be missed by many.
A celebration of his life will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Barstow Elementary School gym.
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5 Fun Facts About 'Playing For Keeps' Star Gerard Butler
With "Playing for Keeps" ready to hit theaters on December 7, we thought it would be a great time to bask in the sexy glow of Scottish star Gerard Butler. The tasty actor plays a former soccer star who's seen better days and ends up coaching a kid's soccer team in an effort to improve relations with his son. Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman also star, but we're all about Mr. Butler – and here's five fun reasons why.
1) George Clooney Better Watch Out. Gerard might just give George some competition atop Hollywood's most eligible long-term bachelor list. The hunky Scotsman has yet to be hitched – or even engaged! It looks like George isn't the only former "Sexiest Man Alive" to leave the ladies clamoring for more and hoping that they might be the lucky one who can finally get him to put a ring on it.
2) Just Call Him Gerry. Mr. Butler is pretty easygoing about most things, but he's deadly serious when it comes to properly pronouncing his first name. So many people mistakenly pronounce it "ger-ARD," rather than the correct "ger-ERD." In order to save himself the aggravation, the actor has adopted the practice of asking all interviewers to call him Gerry.
3) He Likes to Rock. There's a reason that Andrew Lloyd Webber said that Gerard had the rock-and-roll voice he's always longed to hear in the laments of his tragic Phantom. Gerry was in a rock band in college and is rumored to be working on an album under the actor/rock star tutelage of Johnny Depp, Jack Black and Marilyn Manson.
4) Don't Ask Him to Do the Dishes. The hottie got a little cheeky talking about going home for the holidays, "I go home and they'll cook Christmas dinner, and she's like, 'C'mon, give a hand, come on, wash the dishes or put the dishes away.' And I'm like, 'Mom, I am a major Hollywood movie star, I can't be doing this. It's embarrassing.'" Looks like it's time for him to either roll up those sleeves or at least hire mom some help!
5) He's All Wet. The gorgeous Gerard seems to have a love-hate relationship with water. In 1997, while filming his first feature role in "Mrs. Brown," he heard cries for help while on a picnic with his mum and ended up jumping in a river to save a young boy who was drowning. Previously, on the first day of shooting for the same film, Butler had to run buck-naked into a freezing sea and developed a nice case of hypothermia. And just last year the actor was rescued after a surfing accident while filming the recently-released "Chasing Mavericks."
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Theater Review: Weston's Chorus Line' is extravagant – and poignantBy Jim Lowe
Staff Writer | August 07,2014Photo by Hubert Schriebl
The cast of Weston Playhouses A Chorus Line.A Chorus Line is unlike most musicals in that it is real its stories and emotional depth are authentic.
Weston Playhouse opened a production of A Chorus Line Friday that proved deeply moving and most entertaining to boot.
Director Malcolm Ewen, one of Westons longtime triumvirate of producing artistic directors, had it right when he called the classic musical a good play about dancers. And thats the way it was treated as a truly poignant play.
And Westons sympathetic treatment did nothing to detract from its entertainment value. The production was as effervescent and extravagant as last years 42nd Street.
Original choreography by Michael Raine joined the Michael Bennet classic dances in flowing almost seamlessly from beginning to end. Simple staging by Jim Sandefur and appropriate costuming by Karen Ann Ledger were made to seem extravagant by the truly creative lighting by Stuart Duke, Westons former managing director.
Marvin Hamlischs excellent music was delivered with flair by the pit band led by Larry Pressgrove, who was also responsible for the successful orchestra reduction.
A Chorus Line, though not quite as splashy as 42nd Street, was among the most extravagant shows seen in Vermont yet that is not what made it special.
The show has a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, with lyrics by Edward Kleban. But the show was initiated by Bennett, the original productions director and choreographer, who collected stories from Broadway dancers.
It is those stories, supported by the music and dance, that give this show its power.
The concept is an audition for an upcoming Broadway show. From 17 professional dancers, eight will be chosen four boys and four girls.
Jim Raposa plays Zach, the director who runs the show. Raposas Zach is stern but knowing, and can even be sympathetic and tender to a deeply hurting dancer. But he becomes completely unraveled when facing Cassie, with whom he once had a relationship.
As Cassie, Sara Andreas gave a dimensional performance as the veteran dancer who has failed to become a star and returned to the chorus line. Andreas, a Broadway veteran herself, proved a fine expressive dancer in her starring number as well as a poignant singer, sharing her plight in The Music in the Mirror.
The real tear-jerker, though, is when Michael John Hughes, in a deeply touching performance as Paul, tells of his parents discovery of his most tawdry performance. Even Zach is moved.
Its not always so serious. Genna-Paige Kanako, as Val, delivers a delightfully brash, but with a touch of personal pathos, Dance: 10; Looks: Three, explaining that she had to buy new breasts to get noticed.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone is wonderfully caustic as veteran Sheila, a thorn in Zachs side who knows the score all too well. And these are just a few of the fascinating but authentic stories.
At Fridays opener, there wasnt a weak characterization among the 23 on stage. Sure, there was some imperfect singing and dancing as there would be at any audition. But the end result was, as Ewen said, a fine play about dancers.
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New Report from Harvard Kennedy School Researchers Calls for Changes to Biofuels Incentives
Report Highlights Potential to Create Sustainable Biofuel Industry in the Developing World
July 29, 2008
Authors: Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program, William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP, Charan Devereaux
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Biofuels have the potential to promote economic development, climate protection and other environmental goals, energy security, and returns to private investors. If not implemented with care, however, biofuel production can put upward pressure on food prices, increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, exacerbate degradation of land, forests, water sources, and ecosystems, and jeopardize the livelihood security of individuals immediately dependent on the natural resource base. Guiding biofuel development to realize its multiple potential benefits while guarding against its multiple risks requires the application of a similarly diverse set of tailored policy interventions, together with integrated efforts to assure that those interventions work synergistically rather than at cross-purposes.
Despite pressure from biofuel critics, governments should avoid simplistic and precipitous changes in course such as rollback or moratoria on existing biofuels mandates or incentives. Instead, the report urges governments to initiate an orderly, innovation-enhancing transition towards incentives targeted on multi-dimensional goals for biofuels development. These goals should include poverty alleviation, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions, increasing use of non-food feedstocks, attaining sustainable biofuel production targets and conserving biodiversity.
The report stems from a two-day workshop in May 2008 hosted by Harvard Kennedy School, in cooperation with the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea Protection of Italy and Venice International University. The workshop convened 25 of the world's top experts on biofuels, economic development and ecology. The purpose of the two-day session was to explore the actions needed to foster the sustainable development of biofuels investments while simultaneously mitigating the impacts on food prices and the environment.
The report, co-authored by Henry Lee, William Clark and Charan Devereaux was released by the Sustainability Science Program of Harvard's Center for International Development and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
In the last six months the focus of the biofuel debate in Europe and the United States has changed from emphasizing the potential contribution of biofuels to increase energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to concern about the impact on food prices, possible increase in greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of forests and biodiversity.
If the United States and Europe want to help the world to realize the potential of a sustainable biofuel industry, they must work to establish an international market to couple supply and demand, and the incentives for investment and innovation at the largest possible scale. Biofuel production should be centered in those regions where feedstocks can be grown most efficiently and where undesirable impacts are the smallest.
The report further warns that the potential benefits of an international market could be outweighed by the risks of damage to food and environmental systems unless adequate protective measures are simultaneously introduced. These protective measures will likely include the explicit recognition that sustainable production of biofuels cannot be expanded indefinitely. There are intrinsic limits on the productive capacity of ecosystems, constraining yields per unit of available area and the amount of area that can be dedicated to sustainable biofuels production.
The report outlines both the benefits and costs to increased biofuel use and provides a number of suggestions for governments in areas such as infrastructure development, agriculture research and development, certification protocols and standards and land use governance.
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Henry Kissinger discusses decision-making at Harvard's Sanders Theatre in April. Moderated by Belfer Center Director Graham Allison, panelists included Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph Nye and doctoral student Jessica Blankshain.
Kissinger's Return to Harvard Draws Enthusiastic Crowd
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Harvard President Drew Faust called him one of Harvards most legendary graduates as she welcomed Henry Kissinger back to campus as part of the universitys 375th anniversary celebration. And the overflow crowd that gathered to hear him speak at Sanders Theatre on April 11 was testimony to that legend.
After his round-table discussion with Belfer Center Director Graham Allison, Harvard University Distinguished Professor Joseph Nye, and Kennedy School doctoral student Jessica Blankshain, the 88-year-old Kissinger mingled with students who crowded the stage to have him sign copies of his latest book, On China.
There were a few echoes of the anti-Vietnam War protests that dogged Kissinger when he served as national security adviser and then Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford from 1969 to 1977. Kissinger responded to one critical question by saying: No one had a bigger interest in ending the war than the people who were in office.
Kissinger described the stark contrast he encountered when he joined the government after 15 years as a Harvard professor of government. He said an academic scholar can pick his topic. He can work on it for as long as he wants. He can choose the best possible vision of it, and he has the option of changing his mind. None of these options exist for the statesman. Issues present themselves and have to be dealt with in a finite period of time.
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WTF is happened to Carmelo? 3 of 11 and 4 turnovers, where is the guy shooting above 60% against Detroit?
You see our plays in the second quarter? Iso Stat and Melo? Douglas hacking and wacking. Giraffries trying to be the beneficiary of a pick & roll? 100 turnovers. No spacing, no plays. HAHHAHAHA D'Antoni's fired.
WTF is happened to Carmelo? 3 of 11 and 4 turnovers, where is the guy shooting above 60% against Detroit?
we need sessions asap give baron all the time he needs we just need something now. No more excuses sign boykins even or arenas this is terrible
I honestly pray to god Melo and STAT restructure their deals, we need better guards so bad
Why does Shump have to throw these passes so hard at guys? Most of the time, they're good looks but he just throws them so damn hard...Just deliver the ball -- you don't gotta throw missiles. He trys to throw the ball right through guys...lol
That's Knicks right there...why make it easy when you can do it as complicated as possible
Im all for putting Lin in, shumpert is looking terrible
If Antoni cares about his job he will not play TD at pg. Use him as a sg in certain situations.
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LOL @ LP, the game hasn't got back after the last time out and now I see it's already half time...
why do we commit so many turnovers it pisses me off so much... if we didnt commit 13 turnovers in the 2nd quarter we'd probally be up right now but no.


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The Return of Home Run Derby
The 1950s classic Home Run Derby is now available on DVD.
Home Run Derby is one of my cherished memories of childhood. I was too young to watch it in its initial airing, but was it repeated many times over the years.
The basic idea was to take two major league sluggers and pit them against each other in a home-run hitting contest. The winner got $2,000, the loser $1,000. This was back in the days when that meant a lot of money to a ballplayer, who usually spent winters moonlighting to make ends meet.
The series was filmed at Wrigley Field — not the Chicago version, but the Los Angeles version. The same Wrigley family that owned the Cubs also owned the Pacific Coast League L.A. Angels. They built a stadium called Wrigley Field in what is now south-central Los Angeles.
(And if you didn't know, the Wrigleys at one time also owned Catalina Island. The Cubs used to travel west to hold their spring trainings on the island, which no doubt helped cut down on extracurricular activities.)
When the Dodgers came to town in 1958, the PCL Angels moved to Spokane, Washington. (The franchise today is the Las Vegas 51s, a Dodgers affiliate.) Wrigley Field sat empty except for Home Run Derby until 1961, when the American League awarded a franchise to Gene Autry in Los Angeles. The A.L. Angels played there for 1961, then moved to Dodger Stadium for 1962-1965. Wrigley Field was finally demolished in 1966.
**** Beverage, president of the Pacific Coast League Historical Society and their newsletter editor, wrote in this month's edition that the three-disc set is available on Amazon.com. If you go to www.amazon.com and search Home Run Derby you'll find the three volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 are $8, Volume 3 is $13. Not a bad deal.
So if you want to see the ancestral homeland of today's Angels — when they really were in Los Angeles — treat yourself to at least one of these discs.
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The mention of Wrigley field brings fond memories for me and becoming an Angels fan in 1961, of course their first year of existence.
A few things standout with the team that year. Wrigley Field had short dimensions, especially the power alleys, and balls flew out of there in abundance. The Angels had five players with 20 + homers and thier team total was at the 200 mark….quite the feat when one considers the Yankees had 233 in 1961, a league record, I believe was eclisped by the Orioles in the late 1990's. The 1961 Yankees had 6 players with 20 + homers, of course 105 of that total were from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, Maris's 61 breaking Babe Ruth's single season record, albeit with a 162 game schedule.
The 61 Angel's win total of 70 still stands as the most by an expansion team, noteworthy compared to formats given to expansion teams in the 1990's, for example, whereby those teams not only had a more talented pool of players to choose from the existing teams, but free agency also, to enhance their rosters.
When the Angels filled their roster in the draft to prepare for their expansion year, each existing team was allowed to protect 25 players, as compared to 15 with more recent major league expansions.
One other thing, I loved the team hats in the early years, with the embroidered halo on top…..I wish they still had that design.


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^^That's what I was about to say, but it's still a hot pic so I think we can let it slide.
Oh, I absolutely agree about it being a hot pic, it's just that I'm not fond of pictures being in the wrong place (as I think you already know )
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Custom cocktails for the Coachella Art Bar.
It didn't take long to settle into world where creativity runs free.
To give context for the level of anticipation for this year´s Coachella, it took only 2 hours and 37 minutes for the nearly 200,000 tickets to sell out.
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City and County Relations
If you drive from East Portland to West Portland, likely you travel on a city-owned street, over a county-owned bridge, onto another city-owned street. A county fire-patrol boat might pass beneath you on the Willamette, heading north, with a city fire boat heading south. And the homeless adult you pass on the bridge is the city's concern, while the homeless youth you pass is the county's concern.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Since 1984, the City of Portland and Multnomah County have operated under an agreement about who does what. But after three decades, the lines have become blurred. An audit this year showed that the old agreement does not provide a comprehensive listing of the core, basic services of the city and county.
I have begun working with the Multnomah County Commission to craft a new understanding of city/county roles. In short: To define "who does what" and "who pays for it." Together, we can bring this essential understanding of how we function into the 21st century.


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August 7, 2013 —
A visit by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to a campaign event for Congressman Chris Gibson sparked a protest by about 75 demonstrators on August 6, across from the entrance of the CVI Building in Ferndale.
The event was hosted by Alan Gerry, the owner of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, and his wife Sandra.
An invitation to the event said that a $2,600 donation entitled the contributor to attend a VIP roundtable, a photo-op, and a general reception: $1,000 was required for the photo op and reception, while the reception by itself required a $250 donation.
As the evening began inside the building, outside on the street multiple speakers addressed various issues, many of which impact people who were not invited to the event and could not afford the price of admission.
In between chants like "Boehner, Gibson too extreme, don't destroy the American Dream," speaker after speaker declared that the poor and shrinking middle class are bearing the burden for steep cuts to federal programs and partisan gridlock in Washington D.C.
Kat Fisher, the Hudson Valley Organizer for Citizen Action New York, ticked off a list of 15 organizations represented at the event, including such groups as the NAACP, the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, Veterans for Peace and the Americans Postal Workers Union.
Launching into her remarks, Fisher said, "Speaker Boehner, Congressman Gibson and the Republicans in congress are clearly out of touch with what's happening here in the Hudson Valley. Instead of creating jobs, investing in our communities, giving kids a head start, fixing our broken immigration system, and protecting our environment, their extreme Washington politics are dividing this country."
Danielle Vereen, who just graduated from Newburgh Free Academy, said students like her who want to go to college face a problem because politicians in Washington "tell us you can't because they don't want to give us federal funding."
Shannon Daniel, a member of the NAACP, talked about the 5% cuts to the pre-school program Head Start, which have been imposed because of so-called sequestration budgeting. She said, "The Sullivan County Head Start program has been so strong and so vibrant for so many years. It hugely benefits not just the single parents in our area, but our struggling families. Cutting Head Start or preschool is basically saying let's decrease a child's opportunity and chances of succeeding in school and life."
Art Zaczkiewicz, introduced as a social worker and community organizer, said, "Consider that two thirds of U.S. corporations pay zero federal taxes, U.S corporations are sitting on $1.8 trillion in reserve cash yet congress refuses to raise the marginal tax rates for those companies, which would stimulate the economy, and create jobs. Instead, they are targeting programs like Head Start and Food Stamps, and that's wrong."
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Now hosting the fundraiser for a Republican, in the past, Alan Gerry has been the target of Republican ire. Before the presidential election in 2008, Senator Chuck Schumer and then-Senator Hillary Clinton inserted a $1 million earmark into a bill to help pay for the creation of the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
At the time, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, who was running for president, said "Woodstock Museum is a shining example of what's wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending,"
The other Republican senator from Arizona, John Kyl, said, "It seems to me that we do have to ask questions like whether it's the will of this body to fund an earmark for a museum celebrating a weekend-long party that occurred 38 years ago."
The senate voted 52 to 42 to kill the earmark, but the museum opened as scheduled regardless.
Syndicated columnist Kevin McDonough, who lives in Narrowsburg, wrote about the subject in a piece on the Huffington Post, https://tinyurl.com/kydrybv [2].


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The Department of Physical Therapy educates Doctor of Physical Therapy students to practice autonomously within an evolving, complex and diverse health-care environment. You'll become a health-care professional distinguished by leadership, innovation and excellence in a dynamic and diverse global society.
The U.S. Department of Labor predicts a
39% increase in demand for physical therapists by 2020. As the life expectancy for Americans lengthens, the need for graduates from physical therapy schools to care for them will increase.
The physical therapy program at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). Click here to access accreditation information.
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