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As we approach the 2014 legislative session, the prescription status of pseudoephedrine is again being debated. It is imperative the medical community lend its voice to the debate to ensure this decision is based on the facts. This initiative has been side tracked, in the past by a mirage of public outcry and economic shell games that do not take into account the societal costs of methamphetamine abuse and addiction.
Pseudoephedrine is one of two oral decongestants indicated for the temporary relief of nasal congestion associated with allergic rhinitis, sinusitis and upper respiratory infections. It is not a curative medication. It does not reduce the duration of any illness and does not prevent any long term complications. A meta analysis to determine its efficacy suggested a 6 percent decrease in symptoms with one dose and less response with subsequent doses. Studies done in patients with sinusitis failed to show consistent efficacy.
Pseudoephedrine, like most medications, has contraindications and side effects. It is relatively contraindicated in patients with hypertension. It should be used with caution in patients with heart disease, cerebral vascular disease, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, glaucoma, and prostatic hypertrophy. Obviously many individuals should avoid this product due to possible side effects and equivocal benefit. Common side effects include nervousness, insomnia, palpitation, urinary retention and elevations in blood pressure.
Pseudoephedrine is also the only essential ingredient in the manufacturing of methamphetamine. The manufacturing process utilizes toxic and flammable materials. This process endangers those around the manufacturing process and those who are forced to deal with the toxins left behind. This group includes innocent children and our first responders. Recent efforts to limit pseudoephedrine availability have done nothing to curtail the manufacturing of methamphetamine. Lab seizures increased with recent law changes. In states that have enacted "prescription only" laws have seen a dramatic decrease in methamphetamine production.
I had the opportunity to participate with the Kanawha County Drug Task Force. This group consisting of pharmacists, physicians, educators, law enforcement and business representatives, made recommendations for curbing our current drug abuse problems. This group was overwhelmingly in favor of making pseudoephedrine prescription only, except for tamper resistant products. This is the same recommendation provided by the governor's task force.
Arguments against this policy change center around mythical public sentiment against a change. I say mythical, because my practice takes care of approximately 4,000 patients and I have yet to hear any concern. The exemption of tamper resistant products still allows for nonprescription access for these products. Another argument concerns the economics of sales and tax revenue losses. This does not take into account the costs of lab clean up, law enforcement costs and the societal costs of addiction. In addition, I would conservatively estimate that over 50 percent of current sales are for illegal activity.
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Incalculable waste of beauty and talent. Only 48 years old.
R.I.P., Whitney.
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Tragic,seemed she'd 'lost her way' long ago though. A natural successor to Aretha and Gladys Knight--or so it seemed-- once upon a time.
This has been a really BAD year for music... already.
"Nothing is worse for a musician than getting an opportunity you aren't prepared for." - Quincy Jones
This is on the BBC website, it seems scarcely credible. So talented, I think those records from the 80s were classics of their time- such an incredible voice. I always enjoyed playing Saving All My Love as a ballad. Very sad.
Horrible news!
Such a friggin waste...no disrespect to her..but damn...thats a shame.
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RIP Whitney... "And I will always love you"
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A pure and beautiful voice, her gift was not wasted.
Just to imagine how many of us felt so good hearing her songs. We should be thankful. Yes, her gift was not wasted. Sometimes having too much is difficult to manage. We have seen it before. Lets hope she is better now, singing as she always did.
"The key to improvising is being able to play and listen at the same time."
There are many great musicians, but very few that were great right from the get go. Whitney could nail a song on her first take. With that type of talent, it was not wasted as we all heard it from the first time she sang. The sorrow comes from the idea that we'll never get to hear her do that again, but maybe that's the cost of it. Rest in peace.
OMG, what a sad news!! I'm still practising and memorising her song"Waiting For You" on sop
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Truly a sad event. Just spent the last hour listening to her first album. What a voice what a sound; may she rest in peace. I hope her daughter and family members hang tight and take care.
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Extremely sad and totally unexpected news to wake up to today. She had such a great voice and enriched our lives with it. The biggest loss however is the human one for her family. For her mom Cissy, cousin Dionne Warwick, and daughter, this has to be one of the worst experiences of their lives. I feel for them and hope they can find the strength to make it through.
I play saxophone because I Love it. It gives me enormous Pleasure & I couldn't not play if I wanted to.
It's a collaborative social activity, not a pissing contest or competition.
The only people that you need to satisfy are yourself, those you play with and the immediate audience.
A wonderfully gifted musician who had a hard time making her world work. Such a tragic later life.
The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
Didn't We Almost Have It All.................
Talent is a gift from the Lord.
Don't squander it......
Whitney Houston is one of the greatest singers of our time. Her vocal quality and singing ability was truly remarkable. Another icon passes on, and at still a young age. I feel sad.
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The full extent of the cultural, linguistic, religious or other differences among the Israelites in antiquity is unknown. Following the defeat of the Kingdom of Israel in the 720s BCE and the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE, the Jewish people became dispersed throughout much of the Middle East, especially in Egypt and North Africa to the west, as well as in Yemen to the south, and in Mesopotamia to the east. The Jewish population in Palestine was severely reduced by the Jewish-Roman Wars and by the later hostile policies of the Christian emperors,[2] against non-Christians, but the Jews always retained a presence in Palestine. During this period, Paul Johnson writes: "Wherever towns survived, or urban communities sprang up, Jews would sooner or later establish themselves. The near-destruction of Palestinian Jewry in the second century turned the survivors of Jewish rural communities into marginal town-dwellers. After the Arab conquest in the seventh century, the large Jewish agricultural communities in Babylonia were progressively wrecked by high taxation, so that there too the Jews drifted into towns and became craftsmen, tradesmen, and dealers. Everywhere these urban Jews, the vast majority literate and numerate, managed to settle, unless penal laws or physical violence made it impossible."[3]
In the early-Byzantine 6th century, there were 43 Jewish communities in Palestine. During the Islamic period and the intervening Crusades, there were 50 communities which included Jerusalem, Tiberias, Ramleh, Ashkelon, Caesarea, and Gaza. During the early Ottoman Period of the 14th century there were 30 communities which included Haifa, Shechem, Hebron, Ramleh, Jaffa, Gaza, Jerusalem, and many in the north. The most dominant location became Safed which reached a population of 30,000 Jews by end of the 16th century, after the expulsion of Sephardim from Iberia, a century earlier. Johnson notes that in the Arab-Muslim territories, which included most of Spain, all of North Africa, and the Near East south of Anatolia in the Middle Ages, the Jewish condition was easier as a rule, than it was in Europe.[4]
Over the centuries following the Crusades, Jews from around the world began emigrating in increasing numbers. Upon arrival, these Jews adopted the customs of the Mizrahi and Sephardi communities into which they moved. With Baron von Rothschild's philanthropic land purchases and subsequent efforts to turn Palestine into a verdant Jewish homeland, and the subsequent rise of Zionism, a flood of Ashkenazi immigration brought the Jewish population of the region to several hundred thousand.
Ethnic Makeup of Jewish Population of Israel[citation needed] TOTAL 5,818,000 100%
Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews 2,921,000 50.2%
Morocco 800,000 15.2%
Iraq 404,000 7.7%
Yemen 295,000 4.9%
Iran 236,000 4.0%
Algeria/Tunisia 224,000 3.8%
Other Asia 150,000 2.5%
Turkey 147,000 2.5%
Libya 136,000 2.3%
Egypt 112,000 1.9%
Other Asia 200,000 1.7%
India/Pakistan 76,000 1.3%
Latin America 25,000 0.04%
Other Africa (Not South Africa) 3,000 0.05%
Beta Israel (Ethiopia) 130,000 2.2%
Ashkenazi Jews 2,767,000 47.5%
Russia 1,018,000 20.9%
Poland 400,000 8.3%
Romania 351,000 7.6%
Other Europe 168,000 3.7%
North America (Including 4,000 African American Black Hebrews) 165,000 2.8%
Germany/Austria 160,000 2.7%
Latin America 82,000 1.4%
Bulgaria/Greece 97,000 1.9%
Hungary 63,000 1.3%
Czechoslovakia 60,000 1.2%
South Africa 20,000 0.4%
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When the original developers of Star Control 2 contacted the online Star Control fan community, they presented an enticing question: if they released the source to the 3DO version of Star Control 2 under GPL, would anybody be interested in porting it to modern-day computers?
Michael Martin, a 26-year-old Ph.D. student at Stanford University, answered the call. After removing proprietary 3DO-specific components from the code, the developers released the source for Star Control 2 to the public. Martin and other Star Control fans then organized themselves to port the game to run on modern systems and operating systems. They renamed the project The Ur-Quan Masters, because they do not actually have the rights to the name Star Control.
In November 2002, the fans-turned-developers released an alpha of their port. The current release is still in an alpha state, but it's playable from beginning to end. The only major missing features that correspond with the original 3DO version of Star Control 2 are a user-friendly, in-game configuration system, and content displays. The Ur-Quan Masters is a fully playable port of the 3DO version of Star Control 2 done by fans of the Star Control games. Figure 1 shows the Linux version of the port.
Figure 1. The Linux version of The Ur-Quan Masters--click for full-size image
"While it's an alpha, it's more stable than many commercially released games," claims Serge van den Boom, a 26-year-old computer science student at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Among his contributions to Ur-Quan, he developed the Linux port of the game.
The most obvious question is: why port Star Control 2 at all? It ran on Windows 98 with some effort, but rarely if at all on newer versions of Windows without the use of an emulator such as DOSBox. As the project's goals page suggests, bringing the story and game humor to other platforms for the first time was a major reason for the work. As Figure 2 shows, even the original graphics still look nice, though UQM scales them to look prettier at higher resolutions.
Figure 2. The port features improved graphics resolutions--click for full-size image
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Speaking of graphics, another project goal is to allow people to make their own modifications for the game. There are no plans currently to produce new graphics add-ons, but there are three or four new music packs. Of course, the game will still be playable and fun with the original media files.
"Star Control 2 is generally considered to have been one of the greatest sleeper hits of the early '90s," says Martin. "It also hasn't really been runnable on any system once Windows 98 became standard, and its 1993 console port was to a system, the 3DO, that sank without a trace. Those of us working on the project are all part of its fan base, so the project more or less justifies itself for us." Martin's primary work on Ur-Quan has involved updating the original code's 2D graphics rendering engine.
Additionally, the 3DO version of Star Control 2 contained a lot of extra content and some modifications that made for a smoother gameplay experience. To reiterate, it is the source code of this version that Martin, van den Boom, and their fellow fan developers have used to update for play on modern computers.
Martin and van den Boom spoke with us about the unique process they've been going through in their porting of GPL, formerly closed, code.
Howard Wen: What would you like people to pay notice to most about your Star Control 2 project?
Michael Martin: The game itself. It borrows a number of gameplay elements from earlier games. The Starflight series is the most obvious influence on the exploration segments, and the combat system was explicitly designed as a modernized version of SpaceWar. The synthesis [the Star Control games] created of them has not been credibly--or even feebly--imitated since.
Serge van den Boom: Everyone I know who played Star Control when it was originally released loved it. Anyone who is bored of modern games, which provide little more than fancy graphics, should try it. Those who originally played the game on the PC may want to try [our port] too, as it includes the speech and other enhancements of the 3DO [version].
Also, I'd like to direct your attention to a related project by a group called Precursors. They are remixing all the music of the Star Control game. It was started at the same time as the source was released. We've been in constant contact with them.
HW: For now, what are the technical limitations of your port?
MM: The core code is still convinced that it's running on a 320-by-240 screen. So drop-in replacement of higher-resolution graphics or the like isn't really feasible.
The code also does a lot of rather questionable pointer arithmetic, and as a result is not currently "64-bit clean." Issues have been seen to arise on architectures where structure alignment is a requirement as well.
SvdB: On the other hand, the game is already playable on [32 bit] big-endian systems, like Macs.
Howard Wen: What programming language did you use in the porting process?
Michael Martin: We're trying to leave the game logic itself more or less intact--as such, we stick with C. We have translated it into something much more resembling standard ANSI C now.
The original code included sizable chunks of preprocessor directives to let it compile under several incompatible commercial compilers. I would have been a preteen back then, so I can't really give a lot of insight as to which compilers were being straddled.
HW: Besides the game's original source, does your port incorporate outside code or libraries which your team did not originally develop?
MM: The most important one is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, which provides a uniform interface for input and high-speed graphics output across a great many platforms. An OpenGL rendering engine is available as well.
Audio data is stored either in the original MOD format or was converted into Ogg Vorbis, so the Vorbis decoder and the MikMod decoder are also incorporated into our system.
Serge van den Boom: The main reason these were chosen was because they would run on a wide range of platforms. We wouldn't have to worry about the system-specific features ourselves.
HW: Did you create any new technology specifically for the port?
MM: A number of libraries have been created to assist in the back end for the project--to date, only the VControl input library has been released in its own right. But a number of file- and content-management and indexing libraries are also being developed to replace the somewhat brittle original system.
SvdB: The file I/O system I created consists of a virtual file system, which is composed of the directory structures from various locations, including from .zip files. It allows for easy overriding of the standard files with files from add-on modules, as well as having data split up in various locations--game data on a [read-only] CD-ROM, saved games in a user directory.
HW: What are the biggest technical challenges you've faced in the porting process?
SvdB: While the code is really smart in some ways, it was written in an age of different programming practices. Combined with the fact that this code was never intended to be read by others--and, as a consequence, has close to no documentation--we frequently run into hidden invariants.
MM: I'd say the biggest was getting familiar enough with the code to determine which aspects of it are critical to operation, and which were kludges to make it run acceptably fast on a 286 [processor].
The code was inherited from console code for the 3DO and assumed, among other things, an asynchronous "fire and forget" threading model, which does not translate well to modern operating systems. I'm currently working on filling in new configuration menus so that features may be controlled outside of the command line.
HW: What advice can you give to somebody when attempting a port of this scale?
SvdB: Assume everything is there for a reason, however strange it may look. If you're going to replace something, don't just write from scratch, but first understand what the original code was meant to do.
MM: If the program has seen continuous use unpatched for as long as Star Control 2 did, a healthy respect for the original code is a good attitude to have. Also, focusing on writing a clean working interface to the target platform means you have runnable code much sooner.
HW: What advice do you have for others who want to port or enhance the code of a GPLed program that was once a commercial product?
SvdB: If you're porting an old game to a modern system, make use of the capabilities of the new system; trade speed and memory for portability and extensibility. Also, unless the program you are porting already included much documentation, document as you discover more of the workings of the code. And as I said before, know what the original code did before you replace [any of] it.
MM: For porting, focus on providing the interface layer between the original code and the target platform or library, and push the emulation layer as high up as possible for maximum portability.
For enhancement, keep it modular, and keep the ability to roll back to a simulation of the original game. If the game was popular enough to be GPLed but not reiterable enough to have perpetual sequels, it's a worthy goal to keep the original playable for historical interest.
Also, for either, get licensing issues straight with the company at the beginning; it's much harder to recruit an effort around something if it's not clear what the status of works derived from the content, but not the code, is.
HW: If somebody wants to contribute to your project, what skills from them could you use now?
MM: We've generally been reluctant to actively recruit developers once the project got under way, because the features we need are pretty dependent on one another. At any given time, there usually aren't more than five or six outstanding things that need to be done, and can be done, given the state of everything else.
That said, the bug list has gotten rather long as of late, and many of them involve interactions with the core code, which we haven't really studied in enormous detail. Debugging these would require more information about the structure of the core than we really have had time to discover. So code analysis and reverse engineering from the source would probably be the most useful skills [from volunteers].
HW: In the end, what are your thoughts about the open source philosophy of program development, based on your own experience in porting Star Control 2?
MM: I don't really think this is a good project to measure the OSS philosophy with.
The kinds of features that this project needs are actually mostly "orthogonal" to what the community it targets desires--in this case, to play a favorite old game again. This produces friction and makes it much easier for real life to intrude upon its developers. The other, mostly academic OSS projects I've been on were driven by new needs amongst the developers themselves.
SvdB: One large advantage of open source that has been apparent in this project is that you can build on work by others.
It's unlikely that a company like Toys for Bob, the original developer of Star Control, who makes games for a living, would spend their resources on a port of a game that never reached a large audience, when they could be making something new. Without the open source philosophy, The Ur-Quan Masters would never have existed.
Howard Wen is a freelance writer who has contributed frequently to O'Reilly Network and written for Salon.com, Playboy.com, and Wired, among others.
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Student pharmacists from The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo visited the State Capitol on Tuesday to deliver informational packets to legislators.
Lawmakers are deliberating the fate of funding a permanent building for the college. UH says the accreditation of the college is at risk, which is being evaluated by committee members from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
The conference committee is the final hurdle for legislation before heading to state House and Senate floor votes in early May.
The state Senate has included the $38 million needed for the building in its budget, but the House has not.
The informational packets, including a CD with 1,000 letters of community support and petitions with 1,243 signatures, are a product of a group of community members called the Friends of The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Steering Committee, headed by Kelvin Sewake, a Hilo resident.
"The community has really come out in full support of the College, and for that we are truly grateful," said Sewake, who also is the father of a student pharmacist. "The letters and petitions represent the hopes and dreams of the current pharmacy students as well as the bright future for all aspiring pharmacists."
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In praise of what? Pic? Pic? Pic, the old diagram generation "little language" and half brother of roff (or troff or groff), from the days when Unix was young? Yes, indeed, that pic.
Why, in this day of convenient WYSIWYG tools, from Xfig over the GIMP to Visio, would anybody want to make drawings using a command-language, which needs to be compiled(!) to generate a viewable diagram? Well, as it turns out, there are in fact a number of excellent reasons:
My own reasons for learning about pic were a combination of several of these reasons. I wanted to generate images of several 3D bodies (cubes, cones, etc.). But I wanted to be free to change the viewing angles and orientations, without having to do a lot of manual rework. And preparing these illustrations was supposed to distract me only minimally from my main objective. So, pic served me well.
But there is yet another reason for studying pic. It is an excellent example how powerful a "little language" can be. In particular, I was impressed how pic achieves great ease of use through meaningful defaults, which often seem to anticipate the "common case" very well. It can do so, in part because its application area is intentionally quite limited: black-and-white drawings of regular shapes. Because the job it is meant to do is small, pic itself can be simple.
Pic is a little language for the specification of certain kinds of diagrams "frequently used in technical papers and textbooks" (quoted from "Making Pictures with GNU PIC" by Eric S. Raymond). It is not meant to be a general-purpose graphing language, although its scripting abilities allow application to areas not initially intended.
Here is the equivalent of "Hello, World!", using pic:
.PS box "Hello" .PE
and it is compiled into PostScript using the following command line (using the GNU version of all tools):
pic hello.pic | groff > hello.ps
Alternatively, you can call
groff with the
-p option, like so (see Figure 1):
groff -p hello.pic > hello.ps
Figure 1. Hello
A more interesting program is this:
.PS box "Box" arrow "Arrow" "" circle "Circle" line "Line" "" ellipse "Ellipse" arc "Arc" .PE
With the exception of the
spline command, this picture demonstrates all graphing elements native to pic. We see two things; for one the syntax is trivially easy. The only features that aren't entirely obvious are the lines
.PS and
.PE. These are
groff directives to start and end a picture. Also, the selection of graphics primitives is quite limited: no triangles, diamonds, or pie slices, etc. (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. All graphing elements native to pic
What struck me most about this syntax, though, was the kind of sensible defaults. The diagram "flows" in some direction, following the commands. New picture elements are joined to one another in an obvious way. (By default, the flow is left-to-right, but can be changed at any point with the
left, and
right directives.)
Although the choice of graphics primitives is limited, there are many ways to change the appearance of the elements.
All elements can be individually sized like so (see Figure 3):
.PS box # Default size: 0.75 wide by 0.5 high move box width 0.1 # Full name of size attribute move box wid 1.5 ht 0.25 # Abbreviated attribute names are possible .PE
Figure 3. Box sizes
All sizes are given in inches of the final (printed) diagram (!). The overall scale can be changed by including the
scale statement before any drawing command, e.g.,
scale=2.54 will change the unit to centimeters.
Objects can be dashed, dotted, and filled. GNU pic also allows you to generate boxes with rounded corners. All these decorations can be customized, usually through a numeric argument. (In the following example, note the double arrow as well.) See Figure 4.
.PS box rad 0.15 # Box with rounded corners line dotted ellipse dashed 0.2 line <-> # Double arrow circle fill 0.4 move to last circle .n + ( 1, 0 ) # Explained in section on Coordinates below spline right 1 then down 0.5 left 1 then right 1 move to last spline .start # Go back to start of spline, cf. text below line dashed right 1 then down 0.5 left 1 then right 1 .PE
Figure 4. Decorations
Splines can be used to express some "dynamic" diagrams in an easy fashion. They are specified through their vertices, as seen when comparing the spline to the control line in the picture above.
Pic makes massive use of relative coordinates. Mostly, you tell pic to go some place by telling it how to get there from some place you already know. So, pic gives you a rather expressive set of commands to describe relative positions.
The simplest is the
last (or
2nd last etc.) directive, illustrated in Figure 5:
.PS circle move box move circle arrow from 2nd last circle to last box .nw arrow from 2nd last circle to last box .sw line from last box to last circle .w .PE
Figure 5. Circle illustrating 2nd last directive
If nothing else is specified, a position is located at the center of a picture element. However, we can also express different points on a picture element, by using compass points, such as
.n (north),
.ne (north-east),
.e (east), etc. For lines, arrows, and splines, we can use the
.center, and
.end control points. (The dot preceding each location name can be remembered by thinking of graphics elements as
structs and the control points as their members.)
To specify arbitrary locations using these control points, we can either use offsets, using the notation of vector addition, e.g.,:
last box.ne + ( 0.1, 0.1 )
Alternatively, we can "interpolate" between any two positions by specifying a fraction, using the rather verbose syntax:
f of the way between p1 and p2
or the much terser variation (see Figure 6):
f< p1, p2 >.
.PS C1: circle move B: box move C2: circle arrow from C1 to B .nw + ( -0.1, 0 ) # Vector addition arrow from C1 to B .sw + ( -0.1, 0 ) arrow from B to 1/3 between B .e and C2 .w # Interpolation .PE
Figure 6. Relative coordinates
In the last example, we have used labels (starting with a capital letter and ending with a colon) to refer to picture elements. Labels are a great help to stay in control of more complex diagrams. Use them a lot!
While relative coordinates are very convenient, and allow easy, almost logo-like creation of diagrams, absolute coordinates can have their advantages, too. In particular, I found it helpful to define a set of "reference points" at the beginning of a complex diagram and to assign labels to them. Relative coordinates and offsets can then be made from those reference points. Figure 7 illustrates absolute coordinates.
.PS A: ( 0, sqrt(3/4)) B: ( 0.5, 0) C: ( -0.5, 0) line from A then to B then to C then to A circle rad 0.1 at A circle rad 0.1 at B circle rad 0.1 at C .PE
Figure 7. Absolute coordinates
Note the use of the mathematical expression
sqrt(3/4) in the last example. Pic allows you to include mathematical expressions (including trigonometric functions, exponentials and logarithms) and to evaluate them at runtime.
You can define macros in pic, using the
define command. Through macros, we can extend the very small set of built-in graphics primitives. The following program demonstrates a friendly example.
.PS define smiley { # Takes three arguments: $1: x-pos, $2: y-pos, $3: size (radius) r0 = $3 # Face r1 = 0.4*r0 # Radius of mouth and eye locations r2 = 0.04*r0 # Radius of eyes C: circle rad r0 at ( $1, $2 ) circle rad r2 filled at last circle + ( r1, r1 ) # Right eye circle rad r2 filled at 2nd last circle + ( -r1, r1 ) # Left eye pi = atan2( 0, -1 ) S: C + ( r1*cos(1.25*pi), r1*sin(1.25*pi) ) line from S to S for phi=1.25*pi to 1.75*pi by 0.1 do { line to C + ( r1*cos(phi), r1*sin(phi) ) # Mouth } } pi2 = 2*atan2( 0, -1 ) for x=0.1 to 1.3 by 0.08 do { smiley( 1.5*x*cos(x*pi2), 1.1*x*sin(x*pi2), 0.23*x ) } .PE
Note how variables can be passed to the macro and are available inside the macro in the form of the expressions
$2, etc. See Figure 8.
Figure 8. Smiley
The last example also demonstrated pic's built-in looping facility. (There is a conditional construct, as well.)
Macros, together with the control flow constructs, can be used to generate graphics elements, which are missing from the list of built-in primitives. For instance, the mouth of the smiley in the example above shows how arbitrary arcs (i.e., with arbitrary start and end angles) can be set up as macros.
Finally, pic can execute an arbitrary command or include an arbitrary file through the
sh or
copy commands, respectively. This can be very handy. For instance, in the example below the Perl program
trsf.pl applies a set of coordinate transformations to the raw coordinates contained in the file
coord.raw and generates an intermediate file
coord.tmp of pic objects (e.g., containing lines like
A: ( 0.2, 0.5 ), etc.). This intermediate file is included though the
copy command, and the locations defined in it are then used to generate the actual drawing.
.PS sh { perl trsf.pl < coords.raw > coords.tmp } copy "coords.tmp" spline from A then to B then to C then to D then to E circle at F .PE
This can be more convenient than reading commands from standard input, because in the example above, the Perl program does not actually have to generate complete pic commands: it merely transforms and formats raw coordinates, the remainder of the drawing commands is kept in a separate pic program file.
(Note that escaping to a sub-shell is considered unsafe, since in principle any command could be executed by
sh{...} and pic needs to be put into unsafe mode using the
-U command-line option.)
No program is an island, and pic is no exception. We have already seen how to include output of other programs into pic. What can we do with the output generated by pic?
Pic itself is merely a pre-processor for troff, so we can include troff commands in a pic program. In general, lines beginning with a period are being passed through to troff. This is mostly useful to control the rendering of text included in a pic-diagram. Some of the most relevant troff commands are:
.ft X
X can be one of:
R (upright, Roman),
B (bold),
I (italic),
BI (bold italic), or
P (previous, to switch back to the previous font).
.ps N
N can either be a number, giving the absolute size of the desired font in printer points (e.g.,
.ps 14), or it can be a relative size specification (such as
.ps +2 or
.ps -2), which changes the font size relative to the previous size. Omitting the argument will reset the font size to the previous value.
.fam F
T selects Times Roman,
H selects Helvetica, etc.
By default, troff generates plain PostScript, although it can also generate output suitable for processing by TeX (as well as some other formats). One useful program to use with pic (and troff) is
ps2eps. This program converts plain PostScript into encapsulated PostScript, and crops the page to the minimal bounding box containing the image. An encapsulated PostScript file so obtained can be converted using the
convert utility from the ImageMagick toolset to practically any common graphics format out there , for instance to PNG, for use in web pages.
This concludes our brief overview of pic. Despite its age, it is still amazingly useful when generating certain diagrams, in particular when the diagrams are to be scripted in some way.
Pic is a small language and easy to pick up. Although this article doesn't cover everything, it introduces almost all of the elements of the pic language. The sensible choice of defaults and the rich facilities to express relative coordinates make working with pic quite easy and rather enjoyable.
The original tutorial and reference on pic was authored by Brian Kernighan: "PIC - A Graphics Language for Typesetting" and provides a complete introduction in a mere 25 pages. Eric S. Raymond has written an updated manual, specifically for the GNU version of pic (and groff) "Making Pictures with GNU PIC," which, at 37 pages, is not much longer. Between those two papers, you will find answers to almost all questions about pic. Both can be found on the Net.
ps2eps tool is available at http://www.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps and is highly recommended over the equivalent
ps2epsi utility, which is part of the Ghostscript distribution. Finally, the homepage for ImageMagick's set of image manipulation tools is http://www.imagemagick.org.
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MONTPELIER — Officials in the Capital City are reminding residents that effective Feb. 1, new parking fees will go into effect.
The changes were recommended by the Montpelier Parking Committee and approved by the City Council in November.
Rates for parking meters will go from $0.75 per hour to $1 per hour.
For permits, the 60 State St. lot and the Blanchard Court lot will see increases in permits from $50 to $100 per month, and short-term vending permits will increase from $0.35 per hour to $0.75 per hour. Permits for the North Branch, or Jacobs Lot, will increase from $70 per month to $100 per month.
The old Vermont League of Cities and Towns lot next to Shaw's will see an increase in permits of $40 to $70 per month.
The Pitkin Circle lot will see an increase in the seasonal rate, from April 1 to Nov. 15, from $262 to $325 per year.
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Surprise! Obama Supporters Want Israel Dead
RebelPundit's Anne Sorok exposes the Left with their own words, as Obama supporters were out celebrating
From The Blaze on Sorok's video
"It really mean to me, no more Israel," one supporter said. The rest of the man's answer is almost entirely indiscernible as English. However, TheBlaze will try to transcribe his comments as accurately as possible:
"Iran. Man, to tell you the truth, if mother f**ker Obama, if uh, they thought Mitt Romney was going to war with mother f**king Iran. And they felt, the mother f**ker, what's his name? Notnuhnoo [sic]," he continued.
"Oh, Netanyahu?" Sorock clarifies.
"He felt the mother f**ker was going to war with f**king Iran, he felt Obama wasn't going to go with that sh*t though. Obama fell back like man, f**k that sh*t, kill those mother f**kers," he concluded.
There's your typical leftist. Taking the side of Iran and wanting to see Israel wiped out, or at least forced to give up most of the land they won as they were attacked multiple times by Arab nations. Leftists sympathize with terrorists who stand against everything Liberals stand for…well, they do agree on destroying Israel.
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Google's video recaps 2012 most popular searches
Google's video recaps 2012 most popular searches
For those whose apprehension escalates as year 2012 draws to a close, here's a video that will make you look forward to what could be in store for next year.
Instead of a countdown to Armageddon, Google encapsulated in a less than three-minute video the search trends of 2012, which featured the world's history makers, hitmakers, and game changers.
The year-ender video reminds viewers of the milestones and breakthroughs of science, the rise and fall of leaders, and the death and birth of icons. It also winds back viral videos – from tragic to silly – that have enraged many, that have touched hearts, and have left some teary-eyed.
The top trending Google searches included the death of singing icon Whitney Houston, the damages of Hurricane Sandy, the US presidential election, the Olympics 2012, the hit film Hunger Games, the viral dance Gangnam Style, and sports superstars like Jeremy Lin.
It also featured the supersonic space jump of Felix Baumgartner, the nationwide protests that toppled tyrants from power, and the highly anticipated tech gadgets and video games.
At the end of the video, Google Zeitgeist wrote: Search on. Google serviced a total of 1.2 trillion searches and 146 languages in 2012.
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"Our Town," Thornton Wilder's three-act play set in a small town in New Hampshire a century ago, turns 75 Tuesday. It was Jan. 22, 1938, when the main character, the Stage Manager, first guided an audience through the play - staged at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
Last month, I sentenced Jared Lee Loughner to seven consecutive life terms plus 140 years in federal prison for his shooting rampage in Tucson. That tragedy left six people dead, more than twice that number injured and a community shaken to its core.
In mid-December, some Brenau trustees, administrators, employees and faculty members joined with city officials, business leaders and other guests for an informal coffee klatch commemorating the beginning of the university's long-term lease arrangement with the city.
It was a year of storms, of raging winds and rising waters, but also broader turbulence that strained our moorings. Our atmosphere, our politics, our economy - rarely in memory have they seemed in such constant agitation.
I learned this year that one of my favorite Christmas songs was written during a very uncertain time in our country and in our world.
One year ago, we wrote in this space of an unmet human need - the need for relief from hunger among those Gainesvillians and Hall Countians who, while fortunate enough to have housing, nevertheless suffer from "food insecurity" - the gnawing uncertainty of "where their next meal will come from."
Having four children 10 and under offers plenty of intimate, hands-on lessons on human nature. For example, sometimes, in spite of Michelle's and my best efforts, good parental instruction is ignored and hard lessons have to be learned. I'm not talking about situations that lead to enforced discipline, but those that result in sad and tough natural consequences.
The Pew Forum recently found that 1 in 5 people claim no religion. There is a growing diversity of worldviews in this nation. In our present political landscape there is much distrust between "values voters" and secularists. Open communication is going to be all the more important for our democracy to survive. I hope to explain why many secularists find "values voting" worrisome.
The election is history and businesses across America know who will lead the country for the next four years. But will the tone of the second term be as harsh and demeaning about businesses and the people who run them or will President Obama finally realize that American free enterprise is the force that makes the country strong and prosperous?
The canard that President Obama is anti-business is a propaganda remnant from Mitt Romney's failed presidential campaign.
We in the blue states hear from the talking heads on Fox News and MSNBC that many of you in the red states are so distressed about the outcome of the elections that you would like to secede from the Union. Now, it seems that at least six of you - Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina - have submitted enough signatures (25,000) on petitions to the White House website to merit a formal response, with more petitions on the way.
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What would happen if you just froze the Thursday milk without scalding and then thawed it 4 days later on Tuesday?
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Local robotics teams show off their creations
While mainly about home improvement, the Greater La Crosse Home and Builders Show at the La Crosse Center served as a platform for some local high school students to demonstrate their latest building projects.
The Seven Rivers Robotics Coalition, made up of local high school robotics teams, displayed their creations on Sunday.
Take a look at these robots they designed to throw frisbees. The teams build their robots and then train to compete in tournaments.
A member of the Aquinas high school robotics team says, along the way, she's picked up a lot of other life skills.
"I went in not knowing barely anything," said Aquinas High School sophomore Alexis Puyleart. "I could tell the difference between a screw and a nail of course, but I didn't know how to use barely any tools but now I can tell you all about screws and could go on for a half our about that. I know how to use band saws, jig saws, drills and pretty much every tool we have in the robotics room."
The Aquinas team won its regional competition earlier this month and is heading to nationals in Saint Louis at the end of April.
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GSA Release No. 10-26
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GSA Special Paper Exposes Raw Beauty of the Bering Glacier System
Boulder, CO, USA - The opening chapter of this new Special Paper from The Geological Society of America is titled, "The raw beauty of the Bering Glacier." One could argue that the entire book is about that raw beauty, in all aspects, as seen through the many disciplines brought to bear here: glaciology, geology, paleogeology, hydrology, limnology, oceanography, tectonics, geomorphology, geophysics, meteorology, remote sensing, climate change, anthropology, and ecological studies pertaining to vegetation, fish, and marine mammals.
This truly is an interdisciplinary effort. Edited by Robert Shuchman of Michigan Tech Research Institute and Edward Josberger of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the book includes contributions from workers at several universities in the U.S. (most notably, the University of Alaska and Michigan Tech) and the UK; the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the North Slope Science Initiative, the Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan, the Altarum Institute, GeoStrata LLC, Eastman Kodak, NRF Taxonomic Services, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The book's 24 chapters include a thorough botanical inventory, a review of freshwater biogeography focusing on fish assemblages, an examination of where harbor seals haul out onto the glacier, and a survey of resident and migratory birds. Two chapters, one an introduction to the Bering Glacier system and the other an analysis of the Bering Glacier surges, are penned by Bruce Molnia of the USGS and Austin Post (USGS retired), to whom the book is dedicated.
Most unique is the inclusion of eight chapters in a section titled "New investigator activities at Bering Glacier" that documents research by high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, including minority student research funded by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
The compilation of these individual studies into a single publication allows for a more complete understanding of the role the approximately 5000-square-kilometer Bering Glacier system plays in the greater southeastern coastal region of Alaska and, through its wastage, its impact on the circulation of the northeast Pacific Ocean and on the global sea level.
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A combination of physical and chemical processes works to maintain life.Biochemistry deals with these complex processes. In order to have a better understanding of the logic of life one needs to know about the structure of biomolecules and the way they interact with each other.
Physical biochemistry uses a variety of physical techniques to study the structure of biological function of the molecules in living organisms. There are methods to determine the structure of biomolecules. Other methods are used to study the interaction of biomolecules with each other and their enviornment. Instruments in a physical biochemistry laboratory can include NMR, IR, CD and fluorescence spectrometers, calorimeters and molecular modelling workstations.
My research interests are in the chemical synthesis and de novo design of peptides and proteins, solution and membrane structures of peptide and protein pore-formers, energetics and mechanism of interaction of peptides and proteins with biological membranes and the implied role of biomembrane architecture, functional aspects and dynamism of peptide and protein ion channels and carriers (including the mechanisms of ion transfer through membranes), protein folding mechanisms in solution and membrane milieus, molecular modelling of biomolecules, and peptide antibiotics.
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1) Trans-bilayer ion conduction by proline containing cyclic hexapeptides and effects of amino acid substitutions on ion conducting properties, J. Taira, S. Osada, R. Hayashi, T. Ueda, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, H. Aoyagi and H Kodama, Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan 83: 683-688 (2010)
2) Ion channel activity of transmembrane segment 6 of Escherichia coli proton-dependent manganese transporter, V. Ňuňuková, E. Urbánková, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki and R. Chaloupka, Biopolymers 93: 718-726 (2010)
3) A comparative study on conformation and ligand binding of the neuronal uncoupling proteins', M.V. Ivanova, T. Hoang, F.R. McSorley, G. Krnac, M.D. Smith and M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, Biochemistry 49: 512-521 (2010)
4) The acidic domains of the Toc159 chloroplast preprotein receptor family are intrinsically disordered protein domains, L.G.-L. Richardson, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki and M.D. Smith, BMC Biochemistry 10: 35 (1-8) (2009)
5) Effect of ring size on conformation and biological activity of cyclic cationic antimicrobial peptides, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, L.H. Kondejewski, L.C. Wheaton and R.S. Hodges, J. Med. Chem. 52: 2090-2097 (2009)
6) Chiral thiol-stabilized silver nanoclusters with well-resolved optical transitions synthesized by a facile etching procedure in aqueous solutions, N. Cathcart, P. Mistry, C. Makra, B. Pietrobon, N. Coombs, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, and V. Kitaev, Langmuir 25: 5840-5846 (2009)
7) Interaction of gramicidin S and its aromatic amino acid analogs with phospholipid membranes, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, R.S. Hodges, J.E. Meissner, U.E. Hassenstein and L. Wheaton, Biophys. J. 95: 3306-3321 (2008)
8) A CD study of uncoupling protein-1 and its transmembrane and matrix-loop domains, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, M.V. Ivanova, B.L. McIntyre, C.L. Newman, F.R. McSorley, E.K. Young and M.D. Smith, Biochem. J. 411: 593-603 (2008)
9) Ion-Channel formation assisted by electrostatic interhelical interactions in covalently dimerized amphiphilic helical peptides, J. Taira, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, S. Osada, F. Kato and H. Kodama, Biochemistry 47: 3705-3714 (2008)
10) Structure-activity relationships of diastereomeric lysine ring size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S, E. J. Prenner, M. Kiricsi, , M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, R. N. A. H. Lewis, R. S. Hodges and R. N. McElhaney, J. Biol. Chem. 280: 2002-2011 (2005)
11) Second transmembrane domain of human uncoupling protein 2 is essential for its ion channel formation, H.Yamaguchi, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki and H. Kodama, FEBS Letts. 577: 299-304 (2004)
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1) Go mad. Opulently mad! Hit up Waldo's On High hair salon in the Short North tomorrow during Gallery Hop to see "Opulent Madness," a photography exhibit of works by Matt Reese (of We Are Glitterati) of a concept by artist Jefferey Steele. The photos feature fashion designs for a wedding ceremony between a high-fashion, glamorous clown and her circus' ringleader.
3) Go channel Chanel. The iconic perfume and accessories line recently launched a special web page timeline of the company's history. Peruse the years between 1880 and today to see gorgeous photos from past campaigns and to indulge in trivia about the luxury brand. Did you know Chanel No. 5 was so named because it was the fifth scent a perfumer presented to Mz. Chanel in 1921? Now you do, pretty.


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Factory Principles to Accelerate Enterprise Virtualization
Executive Overview
To create the infrastructure for our private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of our Office and Enterprise computing environment. This presents the challenge of how to rapidly virtualize thousands of servers located across Intel and owned by a variety of Intel business groups.
To address this, we created a standardized, repeatable, high-volume virtualization process analogous to a factory production line, managed by a dedicated operations group within Intel IT. We call this the Virtualization Factory. It consists of seven clearly defined steps that encompass the entire virtualization process, from identifying physical servers that are virtualization candidates to removing these servers from the environment after migration. Key learnings include:
• To accelerate virtualization, it was not enough simply to provide technical capabilities: we also needed to create demand among business groups and convince them that we could virtualize applications without impact to the production environment.
• To achieve our goal of virtualizing 75 percent of applications, we needed to remove technical limitations so that we could virtualize mission-critical and externally facing applications in a secure manner.
• Post-conversion technical assistance and tuning were important to help ensure a good customer experience and an efficient production environment.
• Final steps, such as standardizing systems management of the virtualized server and removing the physical servers from the environment, required significantly more work than originally anticipated.
The Intel IT Virtualization Factory has played a key role in successfully accelerating virtualization within Intel's Office and Enterprise IT environment. We began 2010 with about 12 percent of the environment virtualized; by year's end this rate had more than tripled to 42 percent, and we remain on track to virtualize 75 percent of our environment over the next few years. We plan to further drive adoption of virtualization during 2011, while continuing to improve and automate our processes.
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- 8:32 pm Monday, October 7th, 2013 by Dian Vujovich
Wanting a job is one thing. Finding a job quite another. Being furloughed from a job opens a big can of worms for the vast majority of employees who need their paychecks.
I call the Tea Party the Me Party and credit them with why our government has shut down causing, at its height, some 800,000 individuals to be furloughed.
With the Me Party run by freshmen clearly in control of the House of Representatives, the Lord of the Flies comes to mind. In this instance, the Me Party punks would be the ones lacking Piggy's eyeglasses. We all know that it's [More]