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Dairy manure can be handled as a solid, semi-solid, slurry or dilute liquid such as a lagoon. Solid dairy manure contains significant amounts of bedding and no added water, so that the resulting material will stack, and it can be handled easily with conventional manure equipment (front-end loaders and beater-type spreaders).
Slurry manure contains the solid and liquid portions of dairy manure, is fluid in nature and will not stack. Slurry manure has little or no bedding, and is usually collected in manure tanks, either above-ground, or sometimes under slats. Pumps and tankwagons are required for the handling and spreading of slurry manure, due to its fluid characteristics.
Dairy manure collected and treated in a lagoon is highly fluid and is best handled with irrigation equipment.
Semi-solid dairy manure contains small amounts of bedding, which may be typical in a freestall facility, and can usually be handled as solid if no additional water is allowed to collect or mix with the manure. Picket-dam facilities have proven useful for storing semi-solid dairy manure. Their design allows excess water from rainfall or other sources to drain away so that the material can be handled with conventional equipment. Manure cannot be expected to "dry out" or dewater in a picket-dam facility. The picket dam is effective only in draining away free water, such as rainfall or runoff water from the manure.
Several advantages have been noted in the use of picket-dam storage structures for dairy manure.
Experience with picket dams has shown that certain management techniques are necessary for best performance.
Several design considerations and requirements are necessary in order to optimize performance of the facility.
Loading a picket-dam storage facility is usually accomplished by scraping and pushing manure into the facility via a pushoff ramp, or off a vertical wall along one side. Figure 3 is a schematic of a picket-dam facility loaded in this manner. Experience has shown that manure can build up in front of a pushoff ramp during freezing conditions. The capability to load the facility along one entire side rather than at a single point (pushoff ramp) reduces such problems. If significant amounts of runoff water are likely to enter the unit, the approach should be shaped with a slight dip to intercept runoff water and direct it around the facility, as shown in Figure 1. Manure can still be pushed up the slight incline to the pushoff area. Picket-dam facilities also can be loaded with mechanical devices designed to handle semi-solid manure, such as large piston pumps or conveyor-type barn cleaners.
Figure 1A picket dam facility with a slight dip in the approach can intercept runoff water and direct it around the facility.
The location of the picket dam within the storage facility is very important. It should be located at the position furthest away from the loading point, or in the section that manure reaches last as the storage fills up. This allows the natural slope of the manure surface to shed water toward the picket dam. The picket dam also should be at the place from which manure is first removed from the facility during load out. Thus, the dam should be adjacent to or extending up the entry ramp used for load out. Removing manure from the picket-dam area first prevents pockets forming that may collect rainwater.
Concrete is the preferred construction material for picket-dam storages. Advantages of concrete include durability, all-weather use capability, and the ability to form loading or pushoff walls, bucking walls and an impermeable barrier for the manure. Picket dams have been successfully used in earthen-walled structures, but total cleanout is more difficult due to the sloping earth walls. It is more difficult to structurally integrate the picket dam itself into the earthen walls. An earthen-walled picket-dam structure must have a concrete entry ramp and concrete bottom to avoid scouring as manure is removed.
The concrete entry ramp into the storage should have a maximum 10:1 slope, as shown in Figure 2, and 15:1 is preferred for ease of entry and exit. Some producers prefer having the entry ramp wide enough (40 feet) to park a manure spreader on the ramp while it is being loaded. The entry ramp should be roughened to aid traction during unloading operations. Small channels (3/4-inch x 3/4-inch, 6-inch on-center) cut into the concrete before it sets up will improve traction and drain water toward the picket dam, if they are cut at an angle to slope downhill toward the picket dam. The entry ramp and concrete floor should be placed on a gravel base or compacted fill to prevent settling. The concrete should have at least 3,500 psi compressive strength, and be a minimum of 5 inches thick to support the full spreader and tractor loads which will be imposed. Consider using steel reinforcing to prevent separation due to cracking. Place number 3 (3/8-inch diameter) bars 24 inches on-center, both ways, supported so that they will be in the center of the poured slab (Figure 2). The floor of the structure should be flat, with very little or no slope toward the picket dam. Slope toward the picket dam may cause undesirable manure flow in that direction.
Concrete walls in a manure-storage facility must be designed with adequate strength and reinforcing to withstand loads due to saturated soil outside the wall, pressure of manure inside the wall and any mechanical forces, such as a front end loader pushing manure against the wall. Detailed wall design requires an analysis of the loads which will be present, and selection of adequate concrete and reinforcing to withstand the loads. All potential wall heights and loading conditions cannot be evaluated in this guide. However, Figure 3 is a design for walls up to 6 feet in height which are "free-standing" (the top of the wall is not restrained or tied into another slab). If the top of the wall is tied into another slab, as might be the case on the side where manure is pushed over the wall into the facility, the wall design shown in Figure 4 is adequate.
Figure 2Side view of a concrete entry ramp with 10:1 slope.
Figure 3Design for a six-foot free-standing concrete wall.
Figure 4Design for a concrete wall tied into another slab.
The picket dam must be constructed to withstand the pressure of manure in the facility when it is full. Figure 5 is a schematic of typical construction details for a picket dam. The primary structural supports for the picket dam are treated wood posts set a minimum of 4 feet in the ground. Post size and spacing is adjusted according to wall height. Table 1 gives details on post selection and spacing for picket dams. Figure 6 shows a method of reinforcement for the posts in the concrete floor.
Figure 5Typical construction details of a picket dam.
Figure 6Reinforcement for posts in a concrete floor.
Table 1Post size and spacing for picket dams.
Horizontal 4- by 4-inch treated wood stringers are attached to the posts at appropriate spacings, according to the height of the picket dam. These supports are closer together near the bottom of the wall where fluid pressures are highest, and farther apart near the top. Table 2 gives proper spacings for horizontal supports or stringers.
Table 2Spacing for horizontal stringers in picket dams.
NoteLowest stringer should be within 10 inches of floor. Stringers can be fastened to posts with 1/2-inch galvanized bolts.
Vertical 2- by 6-inch treated wood pickets are attached to the horizontal treated wood stringers. Three-fourths-inch openings between the pickets allow water to drain through the dam. A 1.5-inch deep groove can be cast in the concrete floor as a receptacle for the bottom edge of the pickets, if desired. This will support the bottom edge of the pickets and minimize damage from accidental contact with the loader bucket.
Drainage from the picket dam must be contained or managed so that there is no pollution. The drainage is usually collected in a holding pond, or lagoon, or discharged onto a properly-sized vegetated grass filter strip. Figure 7 shows how drainage from a picket dam may flow directly into a holding pond, or how a collection trough and pipe can be used to route the drainage to a pond located further away. If a pipe or sewer line is used to carry the drainage to a holding pond, it should have cleanouts installed every 50 feet to 100 feet to aid in solving plugging problems.
Figure 7Drainage from a picket dam may flow directly into a holding pond (bottom view) or a collection trough and pipe (top view) may route drainage to a pond located further away.
If the picket-dam storage is too low to allow gravity drainage to the holding pond, a collection sump and pump may be used. However, this situation should be avoided, if at all possible, because of the expense and maintenance necessary to install and operate a reliable pumping system.
Picket-dam storages are usually loaded with manure daily as part of the regular cleanup chores. Manure containing a small amount of bedding works best in picket dams. Manure should be pushed into the storage at the point or side furthest from the picket dam. Care should be taken to minimize the amount of "free" water (runoff, parlor wash water, leaking waterers) entering the storage.
Drainage from the picket-dam storage is highly polluted, and cannot be allowed to enter a stream or watercourse, or discharge from the property. Therefore, the drainage should be collected in a holding pond or lagoon, or applied to a suitable grass filter strip. A lagoon or holding pond used to collect lot runoff and/or milkhouse wash water may also be used to receive drainage from the picket dam.
Manure removal from picket-dam storages is usually accomplished with conventional manure spreaders and front-end or skid-steer loaders. Some fine solids tend to accumulate immediately behind the pickets, and should be removed when the facility is cleaned. The gaps between the pickets tend to become plugged by manure pressure and cleaning operations. These vertical slots should be cleaned, if necessary, after the facility is emptied so that good drainage can occur.
Haul and land-apply manure to correspond with the growing season of the crop, when possible. Follow best management practices in matching manure nutrients to the fertilizer needs of the crop. Soil tests and manure nutrient analyses aid in determining proper manure application rates. Inject or incorporate manure soon after spreading to save nutrients and reduce odor. Consider wind direction and location of neighbors when spreading manure. Try not to spread on humid, still days when manure odors can carry longer distances without being diluted.
The size of a picket-dam storage facility depends upon the number of animals served, the portion of total manure production scraped into the storage and the length of time or storage period between cleanouts. Most dairy operations will need a minimum of three months storage, and six months is more ideal. Table 3 gives the fraction of total manure production expected in the various parts of the facility.
Figures in Table 3 can be used to size a picket-dam storage as shown in the following example.
Table 3Percentage of total manure production in each part of a dairy production system.
ExampleCalculate the size picket-dam storage required to store manure produced in a 60-cow dairy for 120 days. Only manure from the freestall barn (feeding and loafing areas) will be scraped into the storage. Average cow weight is 1,400 pounds
Number of thousand weights = 60 x 1.4 = 84 thousand weights
Required volume = thousand weights x total production x percentage x days storage = 84 x 1.32 x 0.65 x 120 = 8,649 cu. feet
Dimensions for a picket-dam storage with the shape shown in Figure 8 can be obtained using the equation shown. Assume the storage will be 40 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, with a 10:1 slope on the entry ramp. From the equation shown, the bottom length is calculated as follows.
Figure 8Dimension equation for a picket-dam storage facility.
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- Ten Ways to Boost Your Business in Down Times
- SIDEBAR: Weathering Tough Times — Advice from an Expert
Launching a marketing campaign can help you generate new leads and turn a profit in the slowing economy
When sales drop and the economy tightens, electrical contractors' knee-jerk response may be to pull advertising and cancel marketing campaigns, but in the words of William Wrigley of the chewing gum empire, "That is like shutting off the fuel to an airplane in mid-flight."
Rather than decreasing marketing in tough times, electrical contractors need to invest more time and money in attracting and retaining clients. Rick Cross, president of Waco, Texas-based Mr. Electric, says many companies buy an ad in the Yellow Pages and then wait for customers to call them.
"In a great economy when there's more dollars than electricians, it's not a problem," Cross says. "When things get tough, you've got to go out and look for it. As the owner of a business, your job is to make the phone ring."
Here are 10 strategies to help you boost your sales without emptying your pockets.
Develop a marketing plan. As a general rule of thumb, electrical contractors should spend between 4% and 6% of their gross sales on marketing, says Adams Hudson, founder of Hudson Ink, a Montgomery, Ala.-based marketing firm for contractors. Small electrical firms should spend 25% of their marketing budget on Yellow Page ads, 20% on newspaper advertising, between 15% and 30% on direct mail, and 8% to 12% on customer retention. The balance may be used for truck decals, yard signage, radio advertising, and "on-hold" messages. Larger contractors, however, should develop and implement a formal marketing plan. Larry Walker, chief marketing officer and executive vice president of St. Louis-based Sachs Electric, says his company first started publishing a marketing guide almost a decade ago, and now distributes the book to the Sachs management team as an internal, proprietary publication. "Our marketing plan helps us to focus on our industry and match up Sachs' strengths with the market strengths," he says.
Make personal visits to your clients. Developing and cultivating relationships with your clients can open the door to new business opportunities. Sachs Electric, a network of four companies, organizes events called "Lunch-and-Learns" about seven times a year. Walker says his company visits general contractors, construction managers and plants, offers a catered box lunch to the employees, and then presents a 30-40 min PowerPoint slide show followed by a Q&A session about the Sachs family of companies.
Organize promotional giveaways. Contractors can also keep in touch with their clients by sending them personalized gifts during the holidays. Wayne J. Griffin Electric, a Holliston, Mass.-based electrical contractor, recently mailed 2,600 packages containing a golf umbrella, Post-It cube, and drinking glass to clients and friends of the company. All of the products featured the Wayne J. Griffin logo (see photo above). Vice President Jackie Griffin says her company also sends out a small toy. "This year, it was a light-up yo-yo with our logo on it," Griffin says. "Last year we did a bouncy ball. Those little things seem to get the most attention."
Get involved in your community. One simple and low-cost way to spread the word about your company is to organize charity events like golf tournaments, volunteer for a service club, or sponsor an association. For example, Griffin says her company supports Skills USA-VICA, an association for high-school vo-tech students. "It's a good opportunity for recruiting vocational high school students into the electrical industry," she says. "We get very involved in that sponsorship, and I believe we will continue to do that." Contractors who work in larger metropolitan areas can also become involved in electrical organizations and league groups. Cross says one New York City Mr. Electric franchise has become very successful by joining an electrical league, regularly attending the meetings, and networking with other contractors. "Try to find other people who are doing the top quality work that you are doing in other trades," he says. "They may know people who are doing some remodeling in their home and need an electrician."
Advertise in the newspaper and get listed in the phone book. Electrical contractors can run a small ad in the service directory section of the classifieds without breaking their budget. Hudson recommends that companies commit to running a 1-in. by 2-in. ad for 13, 26, or 52 weeks to generate name recognition. "It will drop their daily rate for advertising in that newspaper because their volume has gone up," he says. While Hudson believes advertising in the phone book is a helpful tool for small residential contractors, he thinks buying an ad in a mail pack of coupons is a waste of money. "If a contractor is selling something on the basis of how cheap it is, he is desperately begging for a slow death of bankruptcy," he says. "When profit margins slip in order to get the job, you can't offer the benefits and guarantees that homeowners really want, which are safety, security, and reliability."
Invest in an inexpensive postcard program. Mail postcards to your customers at least four times a year, but preferably once a month. Rather than distributing standard-sized postcards, invest in oversized, 5.5-in. by 8.5-in. cards that won't get lost in a stack of mail. Cross says his 109 franchises send postcards to their clients 10 times a year. The cards feature season-appropriate themes, such as "Time for a Checkup," "Safety First," or "Yard Work."
Send out personalized newsletters. Electrical contractors can also retain their existing customers by mailing newsletters. Hudson says his company sends out about one million newsletters a year to various subcontractors. Rather than glorifying the contractors' projects and achievements, however, the newsletters feature general interest articles that cover such topics as comfort, safety, and savings around the home. The contractors' contact information is then slipped in at the end of the article. "Informative articles that end with a little bump toward a company are eight to 15 times more effective, readable, and memorable than 'We've been in business 28 years and our company does this and that,'" he says.
Launch a Web site. Many Web-savvy homeowners may search online for an electrician rather than flipping through the phone book. To stand out from the rest of the dot-com competition, post articles that are relevant to your potential customers. Hudson says one crime that many electrical contractors commit is making a Web site a shrine to their greatness. "They will put their company name and logo up top and commonly use 'we, us, and our,' he says. "What I see is contractors spending gross amounts of money telling people how great they are when customers do not care."
Drum up press coverage by hiring an outside public relations firm or creating an internal marketing position. The nation's largest electrical contractors don't need to advertise in the phone book or newspaper. Instead, they should spend a lopsided percentage of their marketing budget on public relations. "The little contractor doesn't often get to make news, but the big contractor does," Hudson says. "They would be better vested spending about 30% of their money on a good PR agent and only paying him or her on the published media." Some contractors, like Wayne J. Griffin Electric, also have in-house marketing and business development employees who help drive revenue and create new business opportunities. Griffin says her company has a marketing coordinator who sends out news releases once a month. "We'll determine what projects are worthy of a spotlight, gather all the information, and put together a press release," she says. "Sometimes it runs and sometimes it doesn't, but it's a good chance to take because basically, it's free advertising."
Pay attention to your existing customers. If you're too wrapped up in getting new customers, you may forget about retaining your existing ones. The cost to acquire a customer is generally six times more than the cost to keep a client, Hudson says. Many contractors overspend in nonfocused marketing and underspend in customer retention. "If a contractor went to a microscopic amount of trouble to show they cared two to four times a year, they would be miles ahead of the game," he says. Cross of Mr. Electric says contractors need to foster a continuing relationship with their customers. "Some electricians are sitting on a gold mine, and they don't even know it," he says. "We have a tendency, just like other businesspeople, to think that just because our customers wrote us a check once, they will remember us for life. The reality is that they can't remember the name of your company when your taillights are out of sight."
Whether you're a small business owner or one of the nation's largest electrical contractors, you can boost your sales, increase customer awareness and gain a competitive edge through marketing and advertising campaigns. On the other hand, if you skimp on this area, your sales could drop like an airplane running out of gasoline in mid-air.


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San Antonio, TX (Sports Network) - San Antonio stifled the Splash Brothers and Tony Parker carried the load for the Spurs in a dominant second half.
Parker tallied 16 of his 25 points in the second half and added 10 assists in the Spurs' 109-91 win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of this Western Conference semifinal.
Parker was 9-of-16 from the field for San Antonio, which can advance to the Western Conference finals for the eighth time in 15 years with a win in Oakland on Thursday.
The Spurs outscored Golden State 55-40 over the final 24 minutes, when San Antonio recorded 18 points off 11 Warrior turnovers.
Kawhi Leonard registered 17 points and seven rebounds, Danny Green netted 16 points and Tim Duncan added 14 points and 11 boards in the triumph.
The potent duo of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were limited to a combined 13 points on 6-of-22 shooting for Golden State, which got 25 points and seven rebounds from Harrison Barnes.
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I am sure there is all kinds of stuff that you need to build a walmart. That is not really my area of expertise, and I am not sure what that has to do with table saws. It was not my intent to get in a war over extension cords. My wife has just informed me that I am being insane and wasting my time. She is probably right. That said, my point was they are not readily available off the rack for common sense reasons which I have already laid out. I only know any of this because I wanted one a few years ago and had to splice one up, but ended up just using the generator. It was to run a giant hobart mixer in my backyard. Don't ask. Merry Xmas!
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In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. A year later, he teamed with percussionist Michael Shrieve and guitarist David Torn for The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz. After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, AZ, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes, and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music.
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City details ideas for future CSAH 11 corridor
The city of Pequot Lakes will inform the Crow Wing County Highway Department of the city's vision for the County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 11 corridor when Highway 371 expands to four lanes east of downtown.
The Planning Commission is analyzing the CSAH 11 corridor and the two other gateway entrances to the city that will be established when the expanded highway is built, currently set for 2018.
The vision includes keeping the road corridor safe and efficient for moving traffic. The city is open to exploring the option of constructing small diameter roundabouts on CSAH 11.
Other topics considered include: narrow driving lanes to keep traffic moving slowly; paved multi-use trails for snowmobile/bicycle traffic; sidewalks for pedestrians; stamped asphalt pedestrian crosswalks; buried utility lines; pedestrian scaled lighting; parallel parking; curb and gutter; landscaping showcasing artists' works; no medians; and decorative and pedestrian-scaled lighting.
In other business June 4, the council:
• Heard from resident Jack Schmidt regarding the police department, urban vs. rural tax rate and the removal of trees for a Dollar Store on a corner property.
• Accepted the low bid from Anderson Brothers for various sidewalk improvements for $41,390.
• Accepted a design proposal from Widseth Smith Nolting (WSN) engineering firm for North Washington Street reconstruction from CSAH 11 to Oriole Street, likely in 2014, for $30,150.
• Accepted a WSN proposal for survey services for Trailside Park, which the city now owns, for an estimated $2,200 using park dedication funds.
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Bayreuth Polymer Symposium 2013
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BPS '13 is a biennial international symposium. Current topics of interest from the field of functional polymers, block copolymers, polymer colloids, intelligent polymer interfaces, polymer nanostructures, and polymer nanotechnology, are presented. Special sessions on "Electrospinning" will be included.
A primary objective of this meeting is to bring together people from different areas of polymer and materials science in order to discuss different aspects of fundamental and applied research. The symposium aspires to provide a platform for dialogue between researchers from universities, industry, and research institutions. We especially encourage young scientists to present their work.
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The conference language of all contributions is English.
The conference will start on Sunday, Sept. 15, in late afternoon with two plenary lectures.
Afterwards our legendary get-together "BPS" (beer, pretzel, sausage) will end the first day.
On Monday evening there will be a concert for regular participants.
BPS '13 will conclude on Tuesday evening with the conference dinner.
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New Lynn-based wine website Wine-Searcher was used by the Vatican to order wine for the 115 cardinals involved in the papal election. A mysterious European customer ordered 115 bottles of 2008 Varvaglione "Papale" Primitivo di Manduria wine from Redd Collections in Los Angeles. Shop owner Michael Carpenter explained that his shop comes up first on winesearcher.com, when people look for that particular wine. He only realised the call was from the Vatican when they gave credit card details. Mr Carpenter said the order was also unusual because people don't typically spend about $4500 to ship wine to Europe (US$$20 a bottle and $20 shipping per bottle).
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The total combined weight of the world's ant population is actually heavier than the weight of the human population. (According to @asapscience)
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A Perth man is going to great lengths to return a hand-knitted soft toy monkey he found in the city to its owner. Andy Knox found the stuffed toy, which he christened "Supermonkey", while out with a friend. "It seemed to me he was a one-off, that he was handmade, he must be special," he said. Mr Knox said he had fond memories of a toy kangaroo which was his "mate" when he was a young boy. Mr Knox shared a photo of Supermonkey on Facebook. The social media campaign has already paid off, with the maker of the toy being found and helping out in the search for the owner. (Source: WAtoday.com.au)
In defence of self-defence
"Reading today's snippet about the lad who defended himself at the cost of his Cornetto reminded me of my youngest son when he started at intermediate level at a Form 1 to 7 school in West Auckland in 1984," writes Ian of Whenuapai. "One of the more senior and much larger students tried to provoke my son by pushing him. It must have taken a lot of courage but my son warned the other boy to desist or he would retaliate.The older boy continued to push my son. In response my son punched the older boy in the face and decked him. Fight over. It might not seem PC these days but when my son related the events that evening I praised him for his courage. Aggression and assault is one thing that should be dealt with quickly. Defence? Now that's something different that many of our current, characterless generation of lily-livered, gutless youth know little about. It needs to be fostered."
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According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's new study on who pays how much in state and local taxes:
Combining all of the state and local income, property, sales and excise taxes state residents pay, the average overall effective tax rates by income group nationwide are 11.1 percent for the bottom 20 percent, 9.4 percent for the middle 20 percent and 5.6 percent for the top 1 percent.
In Washington, the most regressive state, the poorest 20 percent of the population pays 16.9 percent of its income in state and local taxes while the richest 1 percent pays a burdensome 2.8 percent. By contrast, in Vermont, the most "progressive" state, the poorest 20 percent pays 8.7 percent while the richest 1 percent pays 8 percent.
In California, the bottom 20 percent only pay 10.6% in taxes, while the oppressed top 1 percent pay a whopping 8.8%.
Texas, in contrast, has a much fairer tax system. There, the bottom 20 percent pays 12.6% in taxes, while the top 1 percent pays an exorbitant 3.2%
"Fair is fair," states Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry, "and if the bottom 20 percent pay almost 4 times more than our job creating heroes, that's just a reflection upon their own stupidity." He then further quipped: "Maybe the poor should hire a team of competent tax lawyers."
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Why the Wealthy in the US are Overtaxed
Original post made by Marie Pinucci, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Feb 2, 2013
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I have a cute greeny crystal ball and I'll consult with it soon. I'm sure my crystal ball has an explanation for what seems to be another inequity in this cruel world.


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Woman Declared Dead in 2010 Found Alive in Florida
(WGAL) A Pennsylvania woman who disappeared in 2002 and was declared legally dead in 2010 has been found alive in Florida, according to police.
Brenda Heist, 53, was reported missing by her husband, Lee, on Feb. 8, 2002, and had been last seen that morning dropping off her two children at school, police said. Heist's car was found a few days later with no apparent sign of a struggle.
Investigators said they received a call on Friday evening that Heist had turned herself in at the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Key Largo. A Lititz Borough detective interviewed Heist in Florida and learned that she had left town to join a group of homeless people who were hitch hiking to Florida, police said.
In Florida, Heist mostly lived as a homeless person, sleeping under bridges and tents, sometimes in a trailer, and eating food that was thrown out at fast food restaurants, police said. She sometimes worked odd jobs cleaning boats.
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What's Left of the American Right
The American Election is only months away, but with both party bases in disrepair it's going to take some tactful politicking in the swing states to win back the White House.
The title of this piece is a sort of three part play on words, a funny little line that might be construed as a blatant mistake but is in all seriousness the heart of the Republican matter. What is Left or left of the American Right? The party is in shambles, with a base as politically divided by values as it is by venues to entertain them. It is a party of punches thrown, in the middle of an arduous trench war across the early states leaving frontline faces battered and bruised and it is a party with a questionable future, the next generation or two having extremely limited public and in turn presidential appeal.
But what's politically Left of the Right is a Democratic donkey party, whose base, while intact, is also a shadow of its former self, lacking the once-fledging support that swept them back to power in 2008.
What's in between is what's in question today and every day leading up to the November election; with both bases broken this race has turned more than ever into a fight for the American middle ground, the people with no party ties who flee fast from high rhetoric and partisan political extremes. These are the people who will ultimately decide the fate of this two party system with two parties on the brink; the people with no party at all are suddenly the people who mean the most to both of them.
The Mad Kings: The Republican Base
At some point, sometime around the rise of the Super PACs, the Republican Party found a funnel for both money and ideas. The problem is that the funnel worked both ways; the money poured into the party when it needed to but the ideas poured out, into a hundred little jars of self-contained (and independently funded) political thought. The Faith Family Freedom Fund and Citizens for Prosperity and Good Government, The Christian Temperance League, each with its own small fortune and unique brand of Republicanism. The results were hollowing; the party was reduced to a well-financed shell that could still win elections by sheer force but without any centralized governing ideals or beliefs.
The longer these rogue groups were left to stew, the longer their ideas were validated by the money pouring in, the more entrenched (and in some cases unhinged) the ideas became and the harder it was to unify them under one banner or behind one leader. It wasn't noticeable at first, the Grand Old Dogs of the party still held court, but the cracks became evident in 2010 when races went un-won, when Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell and Carl Paladino wouldn't cater to anybody let alone their electorate and two or three or maybe ten different narratives began to emerge within the party, each with Republican ties but none really relating to one another and impossible for the average voter to adopt en masse.
What's happened is that unhampered but hyper-funded ideology has taken precedence over the polls; the divided factions of the party would rather throw an election to the wind than cull or incorporate their beliefs. And worse than the mere steadfastness of it all is the proliferation of those beliefs at the expense of well-rooted Republican ideas; these candidates would rather grandstand with their far right and at times far-fetched ideals in the forefront than speak to the talking points on which all Republicans, including themselves, can agree.
This is of course not how electoral politics are played; if the tide turns you turn with it, but if you all turn a different direction, the ship pulls apart…
Into and Out of Thin Air: The Democratic Base
Across the great, seemingly insurmountable divide, things are no better.
Four years ago Barack Obama received the most votes for a presidential candidate in American history and he did it with relative ease. In the Hispanic communities he promised sweeping reform to immigration legislation that had been trampled on by the Republican machine. In predominantly black urban centers, he pledged greater social and economic programs to increase employment opportunities, reduce taxes and provide better services, to all around relieve the burden. And for the youth, he simply tuned into their demographic, becoming what would later be called the first 'Facebook' president. He spoke of high ideals, and he spoke well; he captured the imagination of millions who had either lost faith in or had never known their political system and built a base out of thin air.
Voter turnout that year was the highest it's been in 40 years. African-American voter turnout jumped two percentage points, with 95 per cent voting Democrat. 66 per cent of Hispanic voters turned out to support Obama—the best ever return for a Democratic candidate—and 71 per cent of first-time voters sided with the American Left.
But four years later he has accomplished little on these fronts. Immigration reform has yet to materialize into anything more than that once-pledged promise with no comprehensive bill in sight. Unemployment among African-Americans hovered for a long time at 25-year high, hitting heights of 16.7 per cent and twice the national average, and losses in the House have forced Obama to compromise on a repeal of Bush Era tax cuts that lay a heavy financial burden on lower-income Americans while barely skimming the pockets of the wealthy. Promises made couldn't be delivered fast enough under the weight of a slow-moving and at times stalled Democracy; between economic crisis, two foreign wars and a rash of political infighting his fragile base corroded, disillusioned or bored by what they perceived as inactivity and at times backwards mobility.
Maybe politics didn't agree with them. Maybe they didn't understand or maybe they held to tightly to the promise of Hope and Change. Whatever it was, they stayed home in 2010; Obama lost the midterm referendum along with 63 seats in the house, six seats in the senate and the base he had built out of thin air vanished back into it.
The Fight For Middle America
With both bases in relative disrepair, 2012 becomes a fight for America's independents, the middle ground that holds no allegiance and on which neither side holds an edge. This election will be won and lost in places like Ohio, Indiana, Florida and North Carolina, the swing states, past, present and future.
For Obama it's an uphill battle; he spent much of 2008 campaigning on Hope and Change in America's battlegrounds and beat John McCain by an average of only 1.9 per cent. A second time around, loose rhetoric might be a hard sell after four years of doom and gloom and pitted against a more moderate candidate, the votes could fall against him.
But that more moderate candidate, let's call him Mitt Romney, has problems of his own. Assuming it is Romney, he has spent the past ten months as part of the traveling circus, tangled in the twenty different Republican lines born of their base and has set no clear agenda. Mitt Romney the man has the resume and pedigree of a president, but Mitt Romney the candidate is a mystery so slung by mud thrown by his own party that it will be difficult for any undecided voter to like him let alone discern what his candidacy is all about.
Indeed there is work to be done from both ends. What both parties lack is landslide-like support but what the Republican Party lacks is more deep seated than that. They did themselves a disservice when they favored infighting over forward thinking; not only have they missed an opportunity to seize upon Obama's wandering political base and subpar approval rating (below 50 per cent and falling among independents) but they have decimated the party from within, leaving no prospects, clarity or cohesion for the future. Mitt Romney represents one of the last moderate and maybe electable Republicans we might see on a national stage for a while; a win and the crowning of a definitive leader might be enough to bring this tea party back from the brink but to do so he will have to reboot his campaign on his terms. To win the swing states, the middle ground, Romney will have to run more than an "Anyone But Obama' campaign. Obama will have to offer more than just words to do the same.


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After an inspirational trip to Tibet, Simon created two distinct scents. Inhale was a light and airy breath of fresh air, with melon and cucumber top notes; Exhale was a deep and smoky musing on the incense of the temples. He combined the two to create Breath of God, a perfume that reflected light and dark by merging two scents that seemed impossibly at odds. Breath of God is a balance of fruity notes and incense; it suits both men and women and changes miraculously on the skin.
Simon: "When I returned from travelling, I began making two fragrances. One was rich in wood-smoke, heavy with amber and sandalwood inside the temples. The other fresh, clean like the air whistling across the nomadic grasslands. When both of these fragrances were finished, I realized that the first was heavily masculine, woody and resinous; the other took crisp cucumber notes mixed with neroli and bergamot and was altogether more feminine. I decided to chance mixing the two to see if they blended and the result was Breath of God, a balance of masculine and feminine."


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2) "Why did the exlax have to kick in now?"
3) "Its a bird!" "Its a plane" "Its....a girl?"
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2. I'm going to hold my breath until they give me more points.
3. Using that helium was a good idea.
Ah, Idle, you came out of that mud hole just in time for a much-needed goofy contest. Great captions so far. Don't think I can compete under the new system, but I'll try.
1. "No, honey. I don't see your other skate in there anywhere."
2. "If this doesn't get me to a Level 3, I'm just gonna pop!"
3. "Qing, I told you and told you! If you don't come down, we can't finish the program!"
Okay, so Beaver Cleaver was my one and only shining moment, lol.
#1. Dammit, Kati, I thought you fixed your wedgie!!
#2. Japan's Yoshie Onda gets hit by a taser dart during her LP
#3. Pang and Tong re-enact the Disco Scene from Airplane
#1 Should we call this new lift "The Pretzel"?
The other 2 shots are no longer available for viewing(darn!).
Anyone else have pics like this? These are fun to read and do.
Give them another try, JillLaQ. I just clicked on them, and they seem to be working again.
Serenity, I live in Los Angeles, and I believe that is a conservative estimate. I believe there are at least ten times as many cars as there are people.


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Robert Kuhn
Does the pursuit of pure science make sense in a world of scarcity and strife? With so much poverty on the planet, why spend vast sums of money on, say, the James Webb Space Telescope, due to replace the Hubble at the end of the decade and observe the first stars and galaxies in the universe; or the Terrestrial Planet Finder, whose mission is to detect other habitable worlds—discoveries that, however astounding, can bring no tangible benefits here on this barely habitable world called Earth?
I'd prefer to argue that pure science needs no extrinsic justification—that to seek knowledge for its own sake is among the grandest of species-affirming human endeavors. Unfortunately, beyond a rarefied community of professionals and enthusiasts, such a view can seem self-indulgent and elitist, possibly irresponsible, and can even generate ill will among those who, by choice or necessity, have other priorities.
The usual rationale for spending public monies on scientific projects large and small is that they have the potential to make our lives longer, healthier, safer, happier, more productive, more pleasant. That science, even "pure" science, can strengthen democracy and promote public participation in the political process, both in the United States and throughout the world, is hardly ever mentioned. It should be. Scientific literacy energizes democracy, I suggest, and this is an important ancillary benefit of the promotion of science. Can this proposition be defended? I'd like to try.
I'll start with an observation. In general, countries that have stronger sciences have stronger democracies. And in countries where science has little strength and scientific ways of thinking have no apparent impact, governments tend to range from undemocratic to totalitarian. This is quite obviously correlation, not cause—and even if cause, the direction of the causation arrow is unclear. A democratic country might foster science, perhaps as a second-order effect of the prosperity and high literacy conventionally coincident with democracy, just as logically as a scientific country might foster democracy.
A lack of even rudimentary scientific understanding cuts great swaths across the planet's population and thereby threatens the global community by exacerbating inequalities and fomenting resentment. The rewards of science are distributed unevenly, straining social relations within the United States and widening the gulf between developed and developing nations. Knowledge is power, and whenever segments of a society, or entire countries, are separated from it, disenfranchisement and disaffection are often the result.
Just as advanced science and technology have begun to flourish in almost every corner of the world, antiscience currents are flowing faster, too—fed by a curious confluence of individual alienation, religious fundamentalism, extreme environmentalism and even elements of postmodern scholarship, with its tendency to view scientific research as affected by cultural bias. One sees close ties between the absence of scientific appreciation and the presence of demagogic intolerance—but even so, this is still correlation, not cause.
How might science engender democracy? I'd like to suggest two mechanisms: first, by changing the way people think; second, by altering the interaction among those who make up the community. The more scientifically literate people become, the more they will expect, even demand to participate in the political process, and the more effective they will be at it. Such social evolution may be slow, nonlinear and chaotic, and periodically may even reverse course, but it is probably also inexorable, as the recent history of the former Soviet Union and other Communist countries in Europe shows.
A key to changing the way people think is "critical thinking," the ability to draw logical conclusions, or (more often, in the messy world of social issues) the reverse—to discern gaps in logic, to detect broken conceptual links in the causative chain of, say, campaign promises. Science amplifies our power of discernment; the scientific way of thinking enables us to assess whether facts fit theories, or, in the political arena, whether actual circumstances support proffered positions. Critical thinking is the essence of the scientific method. Knowing the difference between assumption and deduction, and between presumption and proof, can alter one's outlook and transform an electorate. The cognitive skill to distinguish among hope, faith, possibility, probability and certitude are potent weapons in anyone's political survival kit and can be applied in all areas of life and society.
A key to altering the interaction among the members of the community is to see science as a potential unifier. I am moderator of a Public Broadcasting Service series called Closer to Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future, on which scientists debate fundamental issues. Those of us involved with the series have been surprised by the diversity of our viewership. E-mail audience feedback cuts across educational levels, gender, age, race, class and creed—the only common denominator being a keen interest in topics such as consciousness, cosmology and scientific creativity. This evidence suggests a vision of a diverse society in which many value a scientific way of thinking. Such a society has the capacity to respect pluralistic political positions—the essence of democracy—since members can understand that no position, not even their own, can be "proved" to be the correct one with anywhere near absolute certainty. In fact, given the gaps, even chasms, in contemporary political views (within countries as well as between them) the common language of science seems the only force able to provide common ground.
Consider China, conflicted by the tension between promoting science and restraining Western-style democracy. Even given the nation's remarkable development since the advent of reform 25 years ago, education is still limited, and therefore, Chinese leaders believe, so must be competitive elections. China's governing elite, which at the top consists almost entirely of science-trained engineers, do not want uneducated, scientifically naive peasants determining national policies, including the allocation of resources. (One senior advisor asked, rhetorically, Would illiterate farmers vote for the information superhighway?) Measures that would be unquestionably beneficial to China in the long run might not be especially popular in the short run. It is commonly held in China that democracy, a stated goal, can develop only to the extent that education, primarily scientific education, increases. "Revitalizing China through science and education" is a favorite slogan of former President Jiang Zemin, who was equally adamant in promoting science and opposing Western-style democracy, and his policy is being pursued by his successors. It will be fascinating to see whether and how democracy grows with scientific literacy.
In Muslim countries, which for centuries led the world in science, there is an incipient movement to encourage science as consistent with Islam. One devout scientist, a leader in the "Islam and science" movement, believes that teaching science in the religious schools (madrassas) is essential for instituting change.
Admittedly, so far I have only anecdotal observation in support of my thesis that scientific literacy is a natural precursor to political democracy. But it is testable. I envision a simple scatter diagram in which a country's level of scientific literacy (on the x-axis) is plotted against its degree of political democracy.
My guess is that the clustering of the data for the 192-odd countries of the world would be bimodal, with one grouping coherent and the other dispersed. Bunched in the upper right would be the known group of countries combining high science literacy and robust democracy. I expect that the other, dispersed grouping would be spread widely over the entire left and middle regions of the graph, since a larger number of countries have varying degrees of low- to mid-level science and low- to mid-level democracy, with weak correlations between them.
A better test of the thesis, though still unlikely to resolve the correlation-causation conundrum, would probably be longitudinal, tracking the changes of each data point over time as countries migrate in their science and in their governance.
If we followed countries over decades, as they made the (often protracted) journey from lower left to upper right on the graph, from low science—low democracy to high science—high democracy, we would ask: What are the paths of progress? I'd predict that there would be many routes. Some would appear linear, with proportional growth in science and democracy; others geometrical or sigmoidal, as affected by the forces of history: social turmoil, cultural subtleties and external forces.
There are counterexamples to the science-democracy conjecture. It fails to explain the accomplishments of Nazi and Soviet science, which flourished in societies that were among the least democratic. Scientific discovery can be driven by psychological factors, such as creativity under coercion, self-protective and ego, and collective sociology, such as mass hysteria and national chauvinism. I would offer that the sprouting of a democracy-championing individual such as Andrei Sakharov, the highly decorated father of Soviet thermonuclear weapons, is likely in a science-rich totalitarian society and virtually inevitable in an age when access to the Internet is essential for doing good science.
This is the dilemma faced by the leaders of China, who are motivated mightily by pride in China's development. They have before them two roads for national advancement: Open access to the Internet and accelerate indigenous science, while allowing potentially destabilizing elements to enter society; or restrict access to maximize stability (needed, they believe, for uninterrupted development), thereby handicapping Chinese science in an unforgiving, hypercompetitive, global market that is fueled by new knowledge and is exquisitely sensitive to time.
Some might argue that imposing "science" as the highest standard of human thinking undervalues other areas of thought and artificially "privileges" one form of "knowing" over others. Science can in fact be differentiated from other forms of discernment, because its primary power to influence sociopolitical development is more content-neutral, a "way of thinking" rather than a collection of fields and facts. Admitting where intuition outruns analysis—not easily done—should be the hallmark of rational assessment of political trade-offs, historical controversies, moral codes, the reality of religion, the meaning of art and the like.
The primary point is that a proper understanding of the scientific way of thinking compels one to recognize where alleged proofs break down or are downright impossible to construct. This does not a priori obviate awareness or appreciation of a different kind of knowledge or "truth," but comprehending the distinction between proof and opinion should tend to make people more tolerant of the differing opinions of others. Certainly, humanistic understanding is complementary to the scientific for effecting political change, but primarily because it too engenders respect for the pluralism engendered by critical thinking. When citizens can distinguish among proof, likelihood, opinion and hope—and get into the habit of so doing—democracy cannot long be kept from them. Of course, a democracy in full flower cherishes and protects political, intellectual and religious freedoms, artistic expression and literary inquiry.
A fully democratic political system gives all its citizens the right to choose their leaders and representatives; the reciprocal responsibility, implicit in the social contract, is that citizens exercise their franchise with dedication and discernment. Democracy works successfully only when participants are informed and able to make independent judgments. The degree to which they can be swayed by demagogues, influenced by parochial interests, incited by jingoism, or inflamed by ethnic or religious chauvinism is the degree to which democracy does not work.
Challenging current beliefs in various fields of science with a noncynical skepticism creates a healthy mindset for a democratic and tolerant society. On Closer to Truth, we attempt to empower the public to participate in debates about current research on the frontiers of science and its philosophical and social implications. When opposing positions are presented on, say, the nature of consciousness, we encourage all sides—and there are more than two sides to this and other fractious issues—to present supporting data or to admit where they are blurring the boundaries between personal opinion and accepted proof.
The scientific spirit is common to all peoples; it crosses cultures and bonds diverse elements of society, communicating an appreciation of the beauty as well as the benefits of new discoveries, the breathtaking complexity of our vast universe. Science opens the mind. Such are the intangible benefits of the Webb and Hubble telescopes and their like.
About those costly telescopes: I believe basic and applied science and science education are all needed to nourish critical thinking. Science, to be science, cannot stagnate. If scientific education enforces the scientific way of thinking, scientific discovery energizes it, so that both education and discovery nourish and sustain our democracy. And science needs democracy as much as democracy needs science. Vigorous scientific research reflects democratic principles in action, and free and open scientific inquiry cannot take place without the protective support of a robust democracy.
This is not a time to be timorous. With the state of the world as it is, critical decisions must often be based on incomplete data, and it seems to me that the science-democracy link is strong enough to merit action. Taken seriously, support of scientific literacy and research in the developing world could become America's most efficient use of foreign aid. By increasing the scientific spirit in the world, we would be catalyzing a converging way of thinking.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/science-as-democratizer/3
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I currently have a metal excluder bound with a wood frame on my hive. My bees have shown no reluctance to cross the excluder to work on the comb or put honey in the super above the excluder. I chose the wood bound excluder after reading that this type is better for maintaining bee-space for the girls than with a plastic or metal sheet-type excluder laid directly on top of the hive body box. It also provides a nice even seal or "stacking surface" between the wood lips of the hive body and the supers, and I like that too.
I am noticing after a few weeks of use that the interior slot in the wood frame (that is, the slot where the metal excluder "sheet" is inserted into the wood frame) seems to be an EXCELLENT place for small hive beetles to shelter. Now I am rethinking if this style should be my preferred type of excluder. With a basic plastic or metal sheet of queen excluder without the wood frame at the perimeter, I assume there is not any extra nook to harbor SHB inside the hive? Is there a down side to using a flat metal or plastic excluder instead of the wood bound type I have on now?


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This is a list of frequently asked questions about the Midori Web Browser. Anyone feel free to improve and/ or extend this page, but keep it clean and easy to read for other Xfce users.
Midori is a Web Browser, that aims to be lightweight and fast. It aligns well with the Xfce philosophy of making the most out of available resources.
Pronounce it "midoɺi", with a Spanish/ Japanese "r" or "Mee-Doh-Ree" in English or read it Italian. The name comes from the Japanese word 緑 (みどり) for the colour "green".
The paw of a green cat. Obviously. Also it resembles the letter "M" in "Midori". The curving is supposed to emphasize speed.
Midori is basically very portable and should run on all platforms that its dependencies support.
Midori and all delivered artwork are licensed under the LGPL2.
Some websites discriminate against your browser.
If you have Midori older than 0.3.5, go to Preferences > Network > Identify As, and choose Custom. Paste this into the entry:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/531.2+ Midori/0.3
If this doesn't do the trick, try choosing Safari or Firefox.
Many other websites use similar means of detecting the browser.
Ideally Google would follow their own recommendation at some point.
The set of themed icons Midori can use is very limited. For instance icons for a new tab or the throbber are not guaranteed to be available. To fix this, install a Freedesktop.org spec compliant icon theme, such as Elementary, Faenza, Buuf or GNOME.
If you don't have a desktop application that takes care of Gtk settings or if your interface doesn't support a particular feature, you can modify any settings easily manually by specifying them in a text file called ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:
Use Tango as a fallback for your icon theme:
gtk-icon-theme-name = "MySuperFancyTheme" gtk-fallback-icon-theme = "Tango"
Use a smaller toolbar:
gtk-toolbar-icon-size = GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR
Only for those not running a complete DE like Xfce, Elementary, etc…
There is a preference: Preferences → Browsing → Toolbar Style: Small icons
Enable changing hotkeys while hovering menu items:
gtk-can-change-accels = 1
There appears to be an issue with Glib 2.16. The recommended solution is to upgrade your Glib package to 2.18.
On Linux and BSD, you can set XDG_CACHE_HOME for all applications, or just Midori. Midori saves icons and cache files in that location. The default is ~/.cache.
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/dev/shm
Midori >= 0.4.7 automatically picks up the Strict-Transport-Security header and caches sites locally. By design, there's no UI. System administrators can however place a pre-loaded cache at /etc/xdg/midori/hsts.
Midori >= 0.4.7 supports http://git.gnome.org/browse/gcr/tree/gcr for certificate display and management, you can click the lock in the urlbar to see detailed information. Earlier versions, or one without gcr will not handle certificates beyond the lock icon in the urlbar.
No key store is available or it's incorrectly setup. By default GNOME keyring can do this. Under Xfce it is recommended to enable "GNOME services" under "Session and Startup settings". Otherwise this can occur if a script doesn't correctly send the output of "gnome-keyring –startup" to the environment.
Starting with WebkitGTK+ 1.8.2 (Midori 0.4.7) Netscape plugins are now supported if they're installed in Application Data\Mozilla\plugins or bin\Plugins in Midori's folder (ie. NPSWF32.dll for Flash).
You need to set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH, for example like this:
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"
The official Flash plugin is called libflashplayer.so .
You can either run that above line and run Midori in the same terminal afterwards or, for the long term, put it in ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile.d or your respective distribution's place for this.
nspluginwrapper is a program that runs Flash and other Netscape plugins in a separate process. So a crash can't cresh the whole browser and Flash, which is GTK+2 can run in GTK+3.
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i
That's a problem with WebKit. You can work around it to some extent if you start Midori like so:
export WEBKIT_IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS="1" midori
There's no official support right now. It's possible to patch glib-networking to enable 256-bit SSL.
Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/webkit/+bug/871425
Upstream Bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50561
You need to have GStreamer plugins installed which implement the codecs.
Java is supported in WebKitGTK+ since 1.1.22. If you need Java, you need to upgrade to at least that version. Sun/ Oracle Java as well as IcedTea are known to work. Distribution specific setup might be required, such as setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the location of libxul.so and making a symbolic link for libnpjp2.so to /usr/lib/mozilla.
icedtea6 version 1.8 and above has been known to crash midori. If this is the case for you, try sun-jre.
In the menubar, go to View → Toolbars → Menubar, voilà the menubar is gone and a new icon appears at the right end of the toolbar. Click the icon to access functionality that otherwise sits in the menubar. Midori 0.3.2 disables the menubar by default.
Midori tries to make a smart guess on whether you are searching for something or typing a valid address by hand. Yet there are ambiguous cases so it fails.
Try using 'g' in front of the search terms, like 'g Ms.Marple'. The 'g' is a token that tells the browser you want to use Google. See Tools > Manage Search Engines or right-click the location bar and select the menu item, to look at search engines and tokens.
Hold the Shift key while clicking Refresh in the toolbar (this works in Chromium, Mozilla, Opera and Safari, too). Since Midori 0.3.2 you can use Ctrl+Shift+R.
Right-click the tab label, and click 'Minimize' or 'Show Tab Icon Only' (Midori 0.3.5 or older).
You need to set Preferences > Network > Identify As to Firefox.
If you use the Adblock extension, EasyPrivacy may conflict with Google Docs. Disable the subscription if you use it. Otherwise try disabling Adblock entirely.
Place the following in ~/.mutt/mailcap or ~/.mailcap:
text/html; midori -a '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.html
Midori opens files with GIO, and falls back to xdg-open, exo-open or gnome-open if these are available. All of this relies on freedesktop.org MIME configuration. To tweak this there are multiple options:
xdg-open knows how to handle GNOME, KDE and Xfce. LXDE is unfortunately not supported yet, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26058
As of git 2011-03-05 02:40:00 UTC and Midori 0.3.3 you can
Add a line to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:
Or install an application which advertises the scheme like so:
Note that incomplete .desktop files will silently fail and it will look as if it doesn't exist.
First enable spell checking: Edit→Preferences→Behavior and check "Enable Spell Checking".
Now while typing any errors should get underlined in red. To get suggestions, highlight the word and right-click. You should see a list of suggestions at the top of the menu.
On Windows you need to download OpenOffice dictionaries, find the zipped file(s) for your locale(s) and unpack the contents into share/myspell/dicts/ in your Midori installation. The folder should contain *.aff and *.dic files
You can change all values of WebKitWebSettings in the config file (~/.config/midori/config on unices, %APPDATA%\midori\config [please check :)] on Windows). For example, to disable Same Origin Policy for local files, add
to your config file.
[settings] items=auto-load-images;enable-scripts;enable-plugins;identify-as;zoom-level
Add button types separated by semicolon:
Most settings listed at http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/WebKitWebSettings.html will also work as button types.
As of Midori 0.4.4 you can add a hidden option to ~/.config/midori/config like so:
The feature is currently experimental and will change in future versions.
The Advertisement Blocker can be activated under Extensions. It uses the same lists as Adblock Plus. URLs are blocked completely and never loaded. Lists can be added through the option button on the right side in the extension list.
There are two closely related features to open websites as dedicated windows of their own. You can do the following to use them:
You can also add options such as '-e Fullscreen', '-e Navigationbar' or '-e Statusbar' (as of Midori 0.2.9 'midori –help-execute will list all available commands')
File menu/ App Menu button → Private Browsing
A private window is a separate process, so crashes don't affect the normal browser session. No sensitive data such as cookies, history or bookmarks are stored. No extensions are loaded. Panels are not available.
As of Midori 0.2.9 Private Browsing uses preferences, cookies, keyboard shortcuts and search engines from the normal session, but it won't save any changes. This behaviour can be emulated from the command line with "-a" and "-c".
As of Midori 0.3.4 the –private command line switch opens a private browsing instance with normal preferences, cookies, shortcuts and search engines. But no changes will be saved. DNS prefetching is disabled in this mode, also referrers are stripped down to the hostname when navigating between different websites.
The same options available to -a/ –app can be used for private browsing mode.
On Windows builds, -P/ –portable causes all data to be written to the "profile" folder in the Midori folder. Everything, including temporary files and cache, is stored in a sub-folder without touching the system. So Midori can be run eg. from a USB stick on different machines.
There is no specific mode, instead you use several command line switches. A typical fullscreen setup with no toolbar that opens about:blank and resets the session after 2 minutes of inactivity for instance:
midori -i 120 -e Fullscreen -e Navigationbar -a about:blank
Available commands for -e can be listed with "midori –help-execute".
If needed, a customized profile can be created with "midori -c /path/to/folder". Using the shortcut editor extension, keyboard shortcuts can be removed as needed. Afterwards just append "-c /path/to/folder" to the kiosk mode command line.
To restrict pages that can be opened, you can use a regular expression. The expression is a blacklist. To block undesirable sites you can do something like:
-b 'youtube|youporn'
By negating the expression you can also whitelist pages.
-b '^(?!.*?(gmail|mail\.google|accounts\.google)).*'
Any links outside end up in an error page. All images and other files won't be loaded.
Using the WM to get Midori into fullscreen mode, or calling "midori -e Fullscreen" is the typical way. On the next startup Midori will remember the last window size and state.
If for whatever reason this isn't enough, DevilsPie can force Midori to the desired state:
(if (and (is (application_name) "Midori") ) (begin (maximize) ) )
By running a local proxy you can modify web content even before it has reached Midori. That allows you to do things similar to what user scripts and user styles provide and even others that neither is suitable for.
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with filter capabilites and particular support for blocking advertisements before even loading them.
Mousehole is a scriptable proxy server written in Ruby.
Polipo is a caching web proxy (a web cache) designed to be used by one person or a small group of people. It is similar in spirit to WWWOFFLE, but the implementation techniques are more like the ones used by Squid.
The coming libSoup 2.40 will support SOCKS proxies, see the relevant bug report.
libSoup < 2.40 only supports HTTP proxy servers directly. A way to use SOCKS on Unix is to use tsocks with SSH as follows:
server = 127.0.0.1 server_type = 5 server_port = 5555
ssh -D localhost:5555 myhost.com
tsocks midori
You can use the Vim-like key bindings [hjkl] to navigate a page. h=left j=down k=up l=right In a picture:
k h l j
You can also use the arrow keys to do the same.
To enable Hints in Midori, similar to vimperator in Firefox or xxxterm, press .
With hints enabled, type the link number, and press Enter to open the link in the current tab, or Ctrl-Enter to open the link in a new tab. To clear a typed link number before pressing Enter or Ctrl-Enter, use Escape.
Since Midori 0.3.5 Ctrl+Tab is supported by default.
In older versions you can enable the History List extension under Tools → Extensions.
Enable the Shortcuts extension Tools → Extensions. To edit a keybinding Tools → Customize Shortcuts…
Default shortcuts for Find are:
Find: Ctrl+f "/" and ","
FindNext: Ctrl+g and Enter
FindPrevious: Shift+Ctrl+g
Dismissing Find:
When using Ctrl+f to bring up Find, use Ctrl+f again or ESC. When using "/" or "," to bring up Find, the previous works here as well and by simply moving focus away from the Find box. For example: a Tab or a mouse click anywhere[besides links of course].
By default the right mouse button initiates gestures.
You can change the button using a hidden option:
[settings] button=2
For a quick and dirty overview of the gestures in the current release take a look at the preliminary manual. Further information is available at the MGX website.
Additionally, there are programs allowing mouse gestures system-wide, for example EasyStroke.
First enable the "User Addons" extension. It will show up as a "User Scripts" panel (and it also provides "User Styles").
Now you need to find some scripts. You can find some at userscripts.org. Most scripts work fine, some may be written specifically for other browsers.
If you have Midori 0.3.0 or newer, you will be offered to install scripts as soon as you see them on the page.
To manually install a userscript, you have to download the script as a file, and put it in the folder ~/.local/share/midori/scripts. You need to create that folder if it doesn't exist yet. Midori will automatically see and use it, which you can also see in the user scripts panel.
If the script is only shown as source code on the page, you first have to create a new text file in a text editor, copy the source code into the new file, and save it as my-user-script.js where ".js" is the extension.
As previously mentioned, Midori can use most scripts you will find. Midori supports Greasemonkey's @include and @exclude metadata so that scripts are only loaded on appropriate pages. Midori doesn't support advanced metadata, such as @require and @resource, so user scripts can't define dependencies on other scripts - most of the time this isn't a problem. Midori also does not support Greasemonkey API. Scripts must also be compatible with Webkit, since Midori is based on WebKit. A Greasemonkey script that makes use of functionality of Gecko/ Firefox will not work in Midori.
You can use BlockFlash2 as a user script which replaces all Flash elements with a button that says "Play Flash".
You can also use FlashBlock WannaBe as a user script in order to replace Flash elements with placeholders and load them on click. The script is pretty advanced compared to most Flash blockers found on the web.
User styles are CSS Cascading Style sheets that are loaded locally and applied on top of web pages, similar to User scripts, in order to add or alter functionality and also fix bugs.
First, you need to find some styles (or write your own). You can find some at userstyles.org. Many styles may or may not work, depending on whether the author decided to use browser specific features.
To install a user style, you have to download the style as a file, and put it in the following directory ~/.local/share/midori/styles (you may need to create that directory if it does not exist). Midori will automatically see and use it, which you can also see in the user styles panel.
Note, if the style is only shown as source code on the page, you first have to create a new text file in a text editor, copy the source code into the new file, and save it as my-user-style.css where ".css" is the extension.
Open up the Preferences and use the file chooser button beside User Stylesheet to choose a style sheet file. The style sheet will from now on be applied to all sites automatically.
This user css is used to display the corresponding url when a link is hovered. This is similar to what chromium/chrome provides when hovering over a link, shown on the bottom left of the page. Add the following to ~/.local/share/midori/styles, then restart Midori and make sure that it is enabled Tools → Userstyles.
Customize as needed:
a[href]:hover { text-decoration: none !important; } a[href]:hover:after { content: attr(href); position: fixed; left: 4px; bottom: 4px; padding: 0 6px !important; max-width: 95%; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font:10pt sans-serif !important; text-shadow: 0 0 12px white; background-color: ButtonFace !important; color: ButtonText !important; opacity: 0.8; outline: ButtonFace solid thick; z-index: 9999; }


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