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This paper presents the CONCERT framework, a push/filter information consumption paradigm, based on a rule-based semantic contextual information system for tourism. CONCERT suggests a specific insight of the notion of context from a human mobility perspective. It focuses on the particular characteristics and requirements of travellers and addresses the drawbacks found in other approaches. Additionally, CONCERT suggests the use of digital broadcasting as push communication technology, whereby tourism information is disseminated to mobile devices. This information is then automatically filtered by a network of ontologies and offered to tourists on the screen. The results obtained in the experiments carried out show evidence that the information disseminated through digital broadcasting can be manipulated by the network of ontologies, providing contextualized information that produces user satisfaction.
eTourism [
Current state-of-the-art technology enables contextual computing services in tourism [
However, context has traditionally been studied in other research disciplines [
In addition, traditional context-aware applications rely on networks of sensors to collect contextual information, which makes them dependent on the particular infrastructure needed to gather contextual information, their hardware infrastructure and corresponding communication protocols [
Motivated by all of the above, this paper presents a specific approach to context-aware information dissemination for travellers based upon a push/filter paradigm, named CONCERT. This framework is built following the statistical recommendations on visitor classification established by the UNWTO [
The remaining of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 presents briefly the related work. Section 3 shows the main theoretic research work carried out, as well as its corresponding semantic model. Section 4 describes the system architecture including a thorough explanation of the reasoning process. Section 5 shows the evaluation and finally, Section 6 concludes the paper with some remarks and suggests future research lines.
Context-aware research falls into two categories with the focus on context theory and establishing and developing standard context-aware models and methodologies. Semantic technologies, more precisely ontologies, bridge between these two categories. From a context theory perspective, the work carried out by researchers was basically focused on defining the theoretical and conceptual foundations of context-awareness. They developed a number of applications in order to test their theory, however, the theoretical work carried was so intense that the most relevant definitions of context were put forward throughout those years [
Analyses of context management methods [
Several mobile tourism guide surveys have already been published [
There are just two examples of real context-aware mobile tourism guides [
Two fundamental issues are addressed in order to accomplish the objectives pursued by the CONCERT Framework: Firstly, the conceptual approach to the notion of context in CONCERT is different from the existing ones. CONCERT'S objective is to study the context of visitors in the framework of human mobility in order to more precisely determine the information that formally describes that context,
The first level of interoperability is provided at the infrastructure level and is achieved by not using external sensors to gather contextual information. In order to tackle this barrier, the CONCERT framework gathers part of contextual and tourism data from the Internet as well as from mobile embedded sensors, such as the GPS sensor, thus avoiding some of the major constraints of current context-aware systems. Therefore, CONCERT does not require further complex infrastructures for context information gathering. In this way, having to populate a particular area of interest with sensors would be avoided on the one hand, and on the other, the use of a CONCERT framework based application would not be limited to such areas. The objective is not to contextualize a particular environment but to increase the level of abstraction of context, thus increasing the level of portability and the interoperability of the model by providing the model with the means to gather contextual information anytime, anywhere. In addition, it supports an architecture that is not dependent on the context gathering infrastructure. Moreover, the increasing availability of Open Linked Data populated by sensors deployed in cities and public spaces has to be taken into account.
The second level of interoperability is provided at the model level. It follows similar approaches to other existing ones,
A sound definition of the notion of context is needed in the realm of human mobility. The definition has to clearly delimit the scope of the context framework presented in this paper, and most importantly, to overcome the drawbacks of current conceptions. The previous notions of context consider only particular environments, the ones populated with networks of sensors, which are modelled including the application that runs in them. Thus, existing approaches are too restrictive and make scalability of the concept to other domain applications very cumbersome.
The conception of context presented in this paper suggests to work on context as a main entity and integrated within the framework of human mobility. In addition, it seems that focusing on individuals rather than on systems and their corresponding functionalities can increase the level of abstraction of the system, and as a consequence, it makes the framework more general and potentially more scalable.
The proposed definition adapts and incorporates already existing definitions and makes them more operative for the tourism domain. Thus, based upon Dey's definition [
Accordingly, contextual-computing in tourism
The context ontology ContOlogy is the core element of this framework. It represents the translation of the conceptual notion of context presented earlier into a computing model through an ontology language capable of checking the model's consistency and providing relevant information through rule-based reasoning. Existing context ontologies have been developed for various uses and cover different domains, but they are not general enough and their extensibility and re-use within other frameworks, including human mobility, poses serious difficulties.
Following the promises of Ubiquitous Computing, the objective of CONCERT is to assist visitors anytime, anywhere. Since existing ontological resources do not fully fulfil this framework's requirements, a new ontological structure needs to be found. A possible approach to overcome this obstacle is to have a new ontological definition based on networks of ontologies [
The components of the network of ontologies,
Altogether there are 86 classes, 41 object properties, 22 datatype properties, and 43 restrictions.
This section presents the technical details of the CONCERT Framework, including its architecture, workflow and the rule-based information filtering process.
The conception of the contextual computing framework presented in this paper has two important architectural implications. Firstly, the server side of the CONCERT Framework retrieves contextual and tourism information from the Internet. Secondly, this information is then sent to mobile devices (client side) through digital broadcasting,
However, this way of sending tourism information would not be of much help to visitors, since it has not been processed taking into account their specific situational context. Thus, the contextual computing module (
The Context Manager is the central component of the Contextual Computing layer. This software module is a background process that runs on mobile devices (client), see
The knowledge base (KB),
Finally, the application layer consists of the presentation logic that interfaces between the contextual-computing system and the user (see
After the incoming information has been filtered by the contextual computing module, it is then ready to be displayed in the visitor's mobile device. The resulting architecture,
One of the objectives of the proposed framework is to filter the tourism information that mobile devices receive. To realize this goal, CONCERT uses a set of semantic-based rules by means of Jena2 Inference Support API. This is a generic purpose rule-based reasoner, used to implement RDFS and OWL reasoners as well. This reasoner supports inference over RDF Graphs and provides forward chaining, backward chaining and a hybrid execution model.
Following, the whole semantic rule-based generic reasoning process ( Each of the variables is depicted with a question mark. The part of the rule before the arrow is the antecedent and the one after is the consequent. If and only if the entire antecedent is true, the consequent is triggered as an action, The premise of this way of calculating the triggering events is that all the preferences are given the same weights. The mathematical method is described as follows. Let be If all the criteria are equally important, the basic utility function is defined as
Each of the variables is depicted with a question mark. The part of the rule before the arrow is the antecedent and the one after is the consequent. If and only if the entire antecedent is true, the consequent is triggered as an action,
The premise of this way of calculating the triggering events is that all the preferences are given the same weights. The mathematical method is described as follows. Let be
If all the criteria are equally important, the basic utility function is defined as
Let us recall that reciprocal means that
This section shows the results of the experiments carried out at CICtourGUNE's lab to validate this research work. The first step is testing the system,
The technical evaluation has been carried out according to various critical variables, such as number of rules, processing time, compilation time, heap memory and CPU usage. The importance of these kinds of evaluations is not merely to analyse current performance, but to be able to predict the system's performance in future potential scenarios as well [
The performance experiments have been carried out populating the network of ontologies with a more or less constant number of instances (73 in this case) and running each time more number of and more complex rules on it. The Context Manager constantly checks the existence of instances in the classes of the ontology before introducing a new one, thus minimizing the number of simultaneously existing instances in the ontology and the computational load it would entail [
The average processing time is relatively high, 7.4 s. However, for non-time-critical applications it is under reasonable margins. Nonetheless, the amount of memory consumed (42.37 Mb) is high as expected. There is a lot of room for improvement in that regard, not only in having to reduce the amount of memory consumption in the reasoning process, but also, in making a more efficient use of the CPU, which is rather low (13.72%). Semantic technologies are very beneficial in terms of what can be achieved with them. On the contrary, their computational requirements are extremely high.
User technology acceptance has become an increasingly studied topic in information systems [
An experiment has been conducted on the functionality of the CONCERT framework-based application. The objective of this experiment was to test people's reaction to it and to automatically obtaining context-dependant information. In the following, the conditions in which the experiment was performed is explained.
Altogether 30 participants freely volunteered to take part in the experiment. 56% of them were males. 40% were younger than 36. They all had as different backgrounds and competencies as possible. It is important to bear in mind that the CONCERT framework aims at being used by anyone, regardless of how skilful one is with technology. Therefore, the large variance on experience with technology accounts for a very diverse sample that enhances the final results. The educational level of the sample is relatively high, since 56% of the participants had some kind of university degree. The experiment was carried out with a PC laptop, the same used for the technical evaluation.
The simulation was carried out with a PC laptop. It is the same one in which one set of the observations corresponding to the technical evaluation was performed. The laptop used runs on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System, Version 2002 SP 3 on Intel Core 2 Duo at 1.86 GHz with 4 GB of RAM memory.
Tourism information was created following the Digital Broadcasting standards and uploaded to the Content Server emulator. The laboratory Content Server broadcasted this information to a particular IP address within the local network area at the lab where experiments were carried out. Therefore, the IP of the laptop had been provided to the Content Server emulator and thus, the laptop could be continuously receiving tourism and context information.
A survey was developed in order to evaluate the performance of the system, in this case, from the perspective of pretending tourists. In addition, participants were given a questionnaire they had to fill in once they had finished their experience with the CONCERT framework-based application.
User testing was conducted in a controlled laboratory environment. First of all, the users were briefly introduced to the CONCERT framework, to the application and to the experiment's objectives. They were instructed on how to interact with the CONCERT framework-based application and before starting with the experience, they were given an example on how to manipulate the application. In addition to that, participants were given a number of scenarios, in which they had to be virtually immersed and try the different options of the application. After having finished the instructions, participants were left on their own in order to accomplish the experience.
Participants were asked to put themselves into the position of a tourist and were also encouraged to recreate, as much as they possibly could, the scenarios that were given. Users had to introduce different types of personal information into the application. By changing their personal context's variables and introducing new ones, they had to experiment with the result the application would provide them with after the rule-based processing of the information by the ontology.
The experiment consisted of seven scenarios and the users had to experiment on all 7 of them. Each of them recreated different contexts or situations and therefore ought to provide different tourism recommendations.
After having completed the user experience, each user had to fill out the above-mentioned questionnaire. On average, the whole experiment took about 15 minutes to be completed.
Results show that 56% of the participants strongly agrees that the CONCERT framework-based application supported them on the move, whereas 44% agrees on that same matter. 68% of the participants expressed that the CONCERT framework-based application improved their tourism experience, whereas only 4% argued that it had no impact on it whatsoever. The application allowed to 60% of the participants to more efficiently move around and 76% of the participants said that the application made it easier for them to find what they needed.
Regarding the ease of use of the application,
Current state-of-the-art of mobile devices and communication technologies allow visitors to be connected to sources of information in an anytime/anywhere manner. However, finding useful information as a tourist in an unfamiliar place is not easy due to the lack of familiarity with the location on the one hand and to the interaction restrictions with mobile devices on the other. This paper presents a specific context-aware approach that comprehends the particular characteristics and requirements of context information management in tourism and thus contextualizes the visitor and the visitor's situation.
The experiments carried out have focused on elucidating whether digital broadcasting is (or not) an appropriate technology to disseminate tourism information and then if it can be processed by means of semantic-based rules. Evidence obtained from the experiments has corroborated this issue. However, due to the high memory requirements and low performance of the CPU, further research is needed in order to reduce the size of the ontology, and therefore, reduce the requirements in terms of memory and resource consumptions to perform the reasoning. Additionally, apart from the low data transfer rate, typical mobile phones are not yet equipped with digital broadcast decoders.
The proposed framework observes the nature of human mobility and opens new chances to study complex scenarios in highly digitalized and hybrid spaces. As Internet-based context information sources is a growing reality, there will be no restrictions with respect to the areas where the framework can be used. Other future research will concern the application of fuzzy logic algorithms to the reasoning process. The impact of the Internet of Things in the model of context and in the context and tourism information gathering is also something to be explored. One final point in the agenda for future research is Cloud Computing and the fast emerging field of mobile apps.
The CONCERT double level interoperability schema.
High level view of the ContOlogy network of ontologies.
Architecture of Digital Broadcasting.
Architecture of Contextual Computing in Tourism.
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Dead to Rights
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"Slate, Jack Slate... Ready to kick ass!"
You are Jack Slate, one of Grant City's most heroic cop ever. Armed with the gun in your pocket, and with your trusty K9 unit, Shadow at your aid, you undertake a mission, so vastly and deadly, it would have heads spinning, even before you pull the trigger. A mission in which you were framed for murder... With 15 non-stop action/adventure chapters, and killer in-game features, Dead to Rights is bound to soon to become an Xbox classic and a smash hit for all!
Graphics -
The graphics in Dead to Rights, are really very smooth. Staying in, in at least 60 Frames Per Second, the graphics are known to drop at some points, but nevertheless, deliver a thrill ride for all! The cutscenes in Dead to Rights, are beautiful too, I might add. Real life like textures in great quality, Dead to Rights sure is one of the best graphically designed games for xbox!
Overall Score - 9/10
Sound -
You ever wonder what will happen in an average shooting game if you turn the sound up? Not much a result of course, but in Dead to Rights the sounds are real as they get in life. From the bullets of your Ak assault rifle, to the screams of your dog's victims, Dead to Rights, contains one of the very best audio sounds you'll ever hear in a video game up-to-date. To summarize everything I've just thrown at you, 'perfect'.
Overall Score - 10/10
Controls -
Well, the number one thing, or almost the number one thing in a game that determines its success are the controls. The controls, in Dead to Rights, are very simple to learn. With a learning-curve of about 15 minutes, you'll have 3 main buttons to work with. The right-trigger which targets your enemy, the A button which fires the gun, and the Y button for bullet-time, or slow-mo, like in Max Payne. Well in my honest opinion, I found the buttons very easy to learn, and remember throughout the game. But at some points, you might get stuck, and start to go ''Where's that button again?''. Oh, don't worry, I assure you that you'll be a master in less then 3 hours with them.
Overall Score - 9/10
Gameplay -
Ah, yes, we're finally here. The number one thing, that determines the success in a video game - the gameplay. The gameplay is simple. You are Jack Slate, in third person mode. You have guns, your fellow K9 unit dog, Shadow, and a little thing called bullet-time. Known for its success, bullet time first appeared in Max Payne where it was one crazy ride, in slow motion! Reappearing in Dead to Rights, bullet-time doesn't disappoint anyone.
Another thing, I'd like to talk about is the level of difficulty. Right away, the level of difficulty in Dead to Rights, becomes really very challenging. You'll have to think, instead of using those guns of yours to blast your way through. You could interact with the world of yours, throwing canisters at enemies, then shooting them to create a big boom, killing everyone you see instantly. Or you could simply take a human shield with the B button, and laugh at the baddies that shoot their own man down. If you find yourself unarmed, you can disarm an enemy as well with the B button (Ain't life great). But in all, the difficulty level, shouldn't be any harder then Halo's Legendary mode. Sure, some parts will keep your journey from lifting off, but you'll master the gameplay, and soon be called the Dead to Rights master! If that fails, you could always take it to the button cheat codes, but who needs that?
Overall Score - 9/10
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On the up side, I liked:
-The great graphics and textures which will have you drooling over.
-The great audio sounds, as well, which sounds like what you'll hear in an action movie or even in life!
-The great features, such as bullet time, the disarm, the use of Shadow (your friendly k9 unit), and many more!
On the down side, I disliked:
-The lack of Multiplayer or Co-Operate options, which lowers the replay value.
-No level difficulty you could pick, such as an easy mode, normal mode, or a hard one. Instead your stuck with a hard one.
-A little to short? The game does feature 15 chapters, but any way you look at it, you could be on chapter 5 in less then 2 or 3 days and to the 1/3 point of being finished.
Rent or Buy -
Well, if your a hardcore third person shooter (TPS) gamer, you should totally buy and add this game to your collection. If you dislike third person shooters for some reason, I think you should hold off on the purchase with Dead to Rights, and rent it instead. Of course, we are talking about 15 chapters. The replay value, is fun, but for how long, will it last in your appeal? If you want the advice of a hardcore gamer as I, I suggest you buy it, after all, this game will have you begging for more, even after you've finished it.
Final Reviewed Score: 9/10 - Great!
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
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The ship itself looks great. We had a balcony room that was quite large. The bed was very comfortable. Unfortunately, people in cabins next to us smoked so we had to limit our balcony time when they were "enjoying" their cigarettes. The public areas of the ship were very well kept. I enjoyed the large well appointed lounges and dining rooms. Some lounges permitted smoking as well.
The meals that were included were okay. The best was lobster night and barbecue ribs and chicken for lunch on the last day. The rest were just okay. You want great food??? Buy a night at one of the four upscale restaurants. It appears to me they have down gauged the standard food offerings to entice you to spend money on the good restaurants. (We had one premium meal with our dinner theater More production. The food was fabulous - but we paid $49 per person to get it.)
Beer, wine, and drink prices were standard for any restaurant or resort. Happy hour?? Never. Full price plus 15% for every drink.
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We booked all our shore excursions through the Royal Caribbean website, but several people we talked to did not and had no problems getting independent tours once we landed at each port. I'm sure they paid less than we did as well.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Karlsson Says Goodbye To Finland
Erik Karlsson has been passing the NHL lockout playing for Jokerit in Finland and yesterday his time there has come to an end, as he has play his last game for the team for the foreseeable future at least. In true EK65 style, his team sent him off with an 8-1 win. You can see from the video that the fans had really taken to him and the feeling seems to be mutual. Karlsson leaves Jokerit as the league's 5th leading scorer, posting 34 points in 30 games while being a +12.
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I agree that "AppCafe" is a good name. However by calling "App-something" I am also very concerned about Apple - they tend to claim anything starting with those key-words like "App" or "i" except their own products are damaging their brand/trademark/image or infringe their patent. One of the most recent examples is the fight for trademark "AppStore" against Microsoft (For instance, http://ipwatchdog.com/2011/01/17/apple-microsoft-fight-over-app-store-trademark-app/id=14438/).

I cannot help worrying - what if Apple files a complaint against the PCBSD project? Will the PCBSD project be able to, or have any resource to, defeat the giant in any patent lawsuit?

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"The Bank of Italy is looking at various options, and is leaning towards selling to FSI, but the matter is still under consideration," said one of the people.
FSI is controlled by Cassa dei Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), a government-owned investment fund run by the Economy Ministry.
The Bank of Italy is considering the sale of its stake, worth 920 million euros at Thursday's closing price, to avoid a possible conflict of interest when it becomes Italy's insurance regulator as planned by Prime Minister Mario Monti's government.
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The matter is still under consideration because a few critical points must be resolved, said one of the people familiar with the situation. Financial markets could react badly to the idea that the Italian state becomes a shareholder in Generali.
"In essence there would be a political shareholder, and that could create a negative market reaction," said the person.
A spokesman for the De Agostini group, which holds 2.43 percent through an investment vehicle, underlined a potential risk to Generali's independence.
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I think you mis-understood the question posed by klode ... he
indicated that he had no idea to implement, and was simply asking *IF*
something would work. As indicated by his post, he acknowledged that
it would probably break design goals.
Yes, it is important to understand the inherent risks to providing a
false sense of security. Manuel has stated time and again that he
would *NOT* apply any form of encryption to the passwords that would
ultimately be transmitted in the clear. It is crucial to know the
risks associated with the config.xml so as to better understand why it
needs to be protected.
There is an argument to be had for klode's idea. If the passwords were
encrypted and decrypted in memory as necessary, then it would be a bit
safer from the perspective of a compromise. At least this way, if
someone were to get a copy of the config.xml, not only would they
*NOT* get the passwords, they would also *NOT* get an easily
decryptable hash either, as the password locations in the config.xml
would be empty and filled in memory at runtime ...
To answer klode's question will require someone with a greater
understanding of the inner workings of m0n0wall than me. I can not
think of any non-technical reasons that it wouldn't work, in fact I
can think of several "good" reasons to try something like this.
However, that does not mean I would endorse doing this against
Manuel's stated objections.
IF, and this is a big IF, someone wanted to experiment with this
concept, for the educational benefit that could be gained, then
potentially a "module" or "plug-in" could be fielded to those willing
to experiment with it.
As for the fact that someone with a simple sniffer could still get the
passwords, that is true already. I firmly believe that if you have
someone on your network running a sniffer, then you have bigger
problems than whether or not your broadband password is obfuscated by
your firewall...
Just my $0.02 on the subject.
On 5/7/05, Paul Rae <PRae at aminocom dot com> wrote:
> No all it would do is give a false sense of security. No matter how you encrypt / obfuscate it on
the box, it needs to be sent clear when its used.
> All it would take is a simple sniffer and you would get it.
> Its wrong to give people a false sense of security.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claude Morin [mailto:klodefactor at gmail dot com]
> Sent: Thu 05/05/2005 23:48
> To:
> Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] feature request (hidden and encrypted passwords/pre-sharde keys)
> [Sorry to resurrect this, but I have a kooky idea. I have no illusions about
> implementing it, it's more intended to nail down my understanding of this
> issue.]
> Is it possible that the problem with this discussion is that everyone
> assumes some sort of fixed obfuscation algorithm in the m0n0wall sources?
> Instead, couldn't an installed m0n0wall store a secret key that is
> notincluded in the
> config.xml file? The secret would be set from the physical console menu, and
> stored elsewhere in the installed m0n0wall image.
> Whenever DynDNS or PPP or anything else needs a password, the local secret
> key would be used to decrypt (in memory only) the appropriate config.xmlentry.
> As I said, it's a kooky idea and probably breaks a bunch of design goals,
> but would it work?
> -klode
> On 4/21/05, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/21/05, Christoph hanle <christoph dot hanle at leinpfad dot de> wrote:
> > > Neil A. Hillard schrieb:
> > > >>i think it is no good solution, that in the webgui and the config.xml
> > > >>the passwords for ppoe etc. and the pre-shared-key are always in
> > > >>cleartype visible; the admin password is hidden or encrypted
> > > >>respectively. Imho is this a big problem with the security.
> > > > Try:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-plaintextpass.html
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thx, i have overlooked this part, but i think it might be possible to
> > > encrypt/decrypt these passwords for example against the admin-password.
> > > And in the web-gui you can use the "hidden" tag.
> > > but i still think, this is a big security hole, that should be fixed.
> >
> > It can't be fixed. Any "fix" would be nothing more than obfuscation.
> > Creating a false sense of security is worse than making it clear there
> > should be *no* sense of security.
> >
> > That FAQ explains why very well.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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By now, almost every gamer has heard about Duke Nukem Forever (DNF), a title that was herald as the next great first person shooter. The game was suppose to be released back in the 90's and was suppose to be the hot successor to Duke Nukem 3D -- a game that became a classic in its own right. DNF arguably had a lot to live up to. Duke 3D had become a pop culture icon, with the protagonist throwing out memorable lines during a fire fight and the game itself delivering a unique style of game play.
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The program, lilo, which resides on /sbin/lilo is a program that is used to install a boot loader on a boot media such as a hard or floppy drive. If the kernel is modified, lilo must be rerun. The boot loader that lilo creates accesses a map of disk blocks that are in the kernel file. BIOS is used by the boot loader to load the kernel and is therefore subject to the limitations of BIOS. Therefore any disk size limitations that lilo has is usually due to the limitations of an older BIOS. Lilo maintains a file called /boot/map by default which contains the names and locations of the kernel(s) to boot. Typing lilo -q will list the names (which are labels in lilo.conf) in this file. Lilo uses the file /etc/lilo.conf to determine what files to map. Another configuration file can be used by using the -C option with lilo. Lilo can specify a root directory for the system by using the option -r. The default boot file to be used as the boot sector is /boot/boot.b.
There are several important functions that lilo may provide to allow a system to boot.
The rdev program can also be used to point the kernel to the root device.
If LILO fails when printing out "LILO", it means the following:
Geometry failure means the number of cylinders, heads, or sectors in the BIOS configuration did not match the disk.
You can use the command "hdparm g /dev/hda" to determine hard disk geometry.
In order for the kernel to be properly started, it must be in the correct location as pointed to by the lilo boot loader program. This location is specified in the /etc/lilo.conf configuration as described above. Also the kernel must be properly setup after any new compile is done. The compile is done from the directory /usr/src/linux. The boot image for the new kernel should be taken from the file "/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage" and renamed vmlinuz or vmlinux-2.2.12-20 or whatever it is your intention to call it. Sometimes a softlink file in /boot called vmlinuz points to the kernel that is to be run. If the copy of vmlinuz is copied from the directory /usr/src/linux, the kernel may not load properly. Sometimes the error message states that the kernel is too large.
Once a kernel is created, it can be further configured with the utility program called "rdev". This program is used to set the image root device, swap device, and RAM disk size. Without using rdev to set the location of the root image, the kernel would need to rely upon the lilo boot loader program to tell it where it is. If this is not setup properly, you would get a message like "kernel panic, unable to mount root device".
In a kernel bootable image, there are several pairs of bytes that specify the following characteristics. These pairs of bytes start at decimal offset 498 in the kernel image.
498 Root flags (One sets the root FS to mount in read or read-write mode)
500-502 Reserved
504 RAM disk size
506 Video mode
508 Root device
510 Boot Signature
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The revolutionaries of Bengal counted a lot on the Midnapore
district andMidnapore never failed in finding men and money in the bid for freedom either
through violent means or through Non-co-operation Movement. WhenGandhiji gave his call and
launched the great Non-co-operation Movement this district again came to the forefront.
The spirit of independence is an indigenous legacy in this district.
In the pre-British time portions of Midna- pore district were held by Sardars who
would carve out small dominions of their own. Some of them assumed dignified names and
claimed high family lineage, which can seldom be proved. This is exactly what had happened
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You can create a music playlist in iTunes, so why not a playlist for news?
The Ongo app for iPad lets you create a custom digital newspaper, allowing you to select what you'd like to read from a handful of publications and organizations — ranging from USA TODAY and the Los Angeles Times to Reuters and the Associated Press. There are more than 45 outlets to personalize your read. (Disclosure: Ongo has financial backing from USA TODAY parent Gannett)
Once you sign up for a free pass with an e-mail address, you can begin customizing the news by selecting the area you're interested in (such as the U.S. or World), type of content (Business, Science & Technology, Sports, Arts & Entertainment, Life and Opinion) or by preferred publication. You can type keywords into the My Topics search window to further tweak the type of content you want to read.
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Information regarding the relationship between caffeine and daytime sleepiness may be of great importance to those individuals suffering from a reduction in quality of sleep. Although the drug is often consumed to alleviate daytime sleepiness and fatigue, caffeine has also been linked tofactors contributing to sleep problems. Ninety-three male/female college students were recruited for this study. This population was asked to participate in this investigation, as late adolescents are often reported to be sleep deprived. These students were administered a food diary to estimate caffeine intake over a three-day period, Profile of Mood States Questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, the Sleep Habits Questionnaire, and the Stanford Sleepiness Scale in an attempt to assess the relationship between caffeine consumption and daytime sleepiness. The results from this study revealed that differences were found with the Epworth Scale between students who reported moderate caffeine intake and those who reported high intake of caffeine but not for those who reported zero caffeine intake (N=92; F=2.9; p=.059). Results were similar for the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (n=83; f=3.88; p=.025) with high caffeine users being significantly more sleepy than low to moderate users. However, no difference was found between moderate and nonusers and high and nonusers. Additionally, the POMS revealed that there were no significant differences between self-reports of mood and age, gender, or grade. Therefore, there were no participants excluded from this study as a result of significant mood differences.
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Telling Science Stories
Mark Roth (bio) and Ann Gibbons (bio)
October 11, 2012
How do you make scientific ideas compelling? Even if your message is true and important, it's hard to reach a general audience with facts alone. Stories are memorable – stories have the power to captivate and inspire high school students, busy parents, and members of Congress. In this workshop with professional science journalists we learned and practiced how to compose a narrative about discovery.
Materials and handouts
We've compiled a handout on the storytelling techniques of Radiolab and journalists , which includes a more detailed explanation of what we discussed in the workshop.
Storytelling techniques of Radiolab
- Audio example: The Haber process, from a Radiolab segment on Fritz Haber.
- Audio example: Viral invasion, from Radiolab's A War We Need.
- Robert Krulwich's commencement address to Caltech: Tell Me a Story (transcript).
We didn't get to this one, but in another clip they describe an experiment in mouse behavior in great detail from the show about words. You can find the transcript here; search for the first mention of "Fernyhough."
Storytelling techniques of journalists
- Study: storytelling significantly changes our brains and behavior (animation, 5:56 long).
- Ann Gibbons' article on revealing the Neandertal genome published in Science compared to her article on the same topic in Slate.
- Mark Roth's article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on facial abnormalities.
- Ann's spectrum of media: how much detail should you include? Depends on where it's being published. Write with a specific audience in mind – that will dictate your content.
Practice constructing a story
We started with a poorly written fact sheet on four topics: GPS, nuclear power, how the internet affects our brain, how DNA was discovered. Small groups turned these into stories, using the techniques we came up with.


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KIND-HEARTED volunteers are helping people still affected by the earthquake in Haiti two years ago.
Seventeen Cricklade-based volunteers from the Community Partners Association UK left yesterday to embark on a 17-hour commute to work in a small Dominican Republic town of Barahona.
The Wiltshire volunteers, aged from 19 to 73, will spend two weeks undertaking desperately needed building repairs and maintenance to schools and health clinics in impoverished villages close to the border of Haiti.
Geoff Haslam, chairman of COPA UK, said: "It's a long way to travel to work, and when we get there, conditions will be grim, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
"June is still the rainy season and temperatures will average 30 degrees. The work group is planning to try and work six hours a day to completely paint and refurbish the Bombita Health Clinic, but we'll have to deal with the conditions there as we meet them."
The intrepid volunteers are all members of COPA, a small registered charity which is based in Cricklade at the United Church.
They are travelling out to undertake essential painting and building repairs to COPA's two schools and health clinics in the Barahona Province.
Barahona is only 60 miles from the earthquake-ravaged Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Conditions in the province are difficult, and many people in the village of Bombita are desperately poor Haitian refugees who fled after the earthquake or have left Haiti seeking work.
Electricity is frequently off and illness is rife in the villages, with the water supply also being intermittent and badly polluted.
Altogether nearly 900 children now attend the two COPA-built schools. COPA provides teaching materials and resources for the schools, together with medicines and materials for the clinics.
Half of the work group will also be running a Holiday Club for up to 240 children aged from five to 13, in the small villages of Bombita and La Hoya.
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Veterinarians and horse owners seeking information on equine endocrine disorders now have a free resource for recent published scientific articles. Dr. Philip Johnson, professor of equine internal medicine at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Nicholas Frank of Tufts University and the University of Nottingham, leading international authorities on equine endocrinology, compiled the collection. Composed of articles from Equine Veterinary Education and Equine Veterinary Journal, it is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1001/(ISSN)2042-3306/homepage/equine_endocrinology_virtual_issue.htm.
The endocrine system is a collection of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream to control an organism's physiological and behavioral activities. The system helps regulate mood, growth and development, tissue function, metabolism, and sexual function and reproductive processes.
Equine endocrine disorders are becoming more promptly identified and treated, thanks to ongoing research and scientific advances, including methods of diagnosis, pharmacokinetics and management protocols. The collection encompasses a comprehensive range of topics within the field of endocrinology and includes authoritative review articles on insulin dysregulation, glucocorticoids and laminitis and paraneoplastic syndromes.
Johnson has been involved in extensive laminitis research throughout the past two decades. Laminitis is a common and potentially severe medical condition of horses and ponies that can cause lameness, pain and debilitation. In severe cases, euthanasia is sometimes the end result.
Although there are many different causes of the condition, Johnson's team has become especially interested in endocrinopathic forms of the disease.
"Endocrinopathic laminitis is a significant risk associated with two of the most common endocrine diseases of horses – the equine metabolic syndrome (insulin dysregulation) and the equine Cushing's syndrome," Johnson said. "Therefore, there is a very profound link between endocrinological disturbance and risk of laminitis."
Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), also known as Cushing's Syndrome, is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that is more easily recognised in its advanced form in older horses. Surveys show a PPID prevalence rate of up to 22 percent in horses older than 15, with the odds of developing clinical signs associated with PPID increasing by approximately 20 percent per year after this age.
Johnson completed his veterinary studies at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and earned a master of science in veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to being a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the European College of Equine Internal Medicine, he is also a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and of the International Equine Veterinarian Hall of Fame.
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Oregon PSR partners with Health Care Without Harm's Healthy Food in Health Care (HFHC) program on the Oregon HFHC Project to employ market-based forces to increase demand for sustainably produced foods, improve hospital food quality, educate the public, and bolster the local economy. The principal goal of the project is to leverage the significant purchasing power and influence of hospitals to support regional markets for sustainable food and to model healthy food choices to the public.
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My man and I have been vigorously sanding (mostly him) and painting (mostly me) various things around the apartment: old end tables, little bookshelves, picture frames and the like. As a result, the place has been a total disaster to navigate, so it was a huge relief when we were finally able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, new and improved, once the paint was dry.
Right. Except we've decided to tear it all up again to finish a few more projects before the weather permanently sours.
Anyway, I wanted to show you my favorite finished project thus far (is anything ever really finished?):
Our shiny 'new' kitchen hutch! New to us, anyway.
I have to say, it was in a bit of a sorry state when Matt first found it, but its potential was obvious, even through this blurry phone image...
After four coats of paint and updated hardware, we are very pleased with the results. Although... I'm thinking that after this whole painting excursion is over, I might see how it takes to some of my 'papering.'
Also, now that I'm looking, I think it might be time to re-stain the shelving unit and our kitchen table gray...
A few coats of paint.
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That turned out great. I can't tell you how many of these types I have passed up at the thrift stores...Shame on me!ReplyDelete
Have a fun weekend.
That looks awesome- the hardware makes it.ReplyDelete
Good job!
That looks awesome- the hardware makes it.ReplyDelete
Good job!
Oh my goodness, I love the Hutch!!! Gorgeous! Where did you guys find it?ReplyDelete
Thanks guys! :)ReplyDelete
Chels, it was given to the retirement center where Matt works. They had it on sale for very little... We probably paid less for it than if we'd found it at a thrift store, and it was in really good condition. :)
Wow, I am completely jealous--what a gorgeous hutch! You guys did a great job, it looks totally new.ReplyDelete
Also, I love your well-stocked pantry!
Wow! Your pantry is amazing! So well organized and spotless!ReplyDelete
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JWoww Shares Her Ultrasound
Jersey Shore star Jenni "Jwoww" Farley is expecting her first baby later this year, a little girl! She shared one of her ultrasounds via Twitter the other day. Congrats!!
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1. Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 - Question about Icons at topAnn154 May 22, 2013 4:32 AM (in response to AndroidOnly)
You probably have both on. Were you getting a picture text message at the top or does it display like that all the time? It will also behave like when there is a system update and the phone is getting the information.
What happens if you turn off the phone data from the settings menu?
Also the full user manual is available online or you can call Samsung and ask for a printed copy be sent to you.
2. Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 - Question about Icons at topAndroidOnly May 22, 2013 4:44 AM (in response to Ann154)
If I go to settings, mobile networks I can turn off Mobile Data and the icon goes away. Isn't this supposed to happen automatically?
I was not getting a picture text nor was an update occurring. It has been in that state since I activated it yesterday at 7:00 PM.
I can't find the user manual for the Verizon manual in PDF format. Can you point me to it?
Thanks Ann
4. Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 - Question about Icons at topLAMMBO May 22, 2013 6:30 AM (in response to AndroidOnly)
Actually I have noticed that also. Has both icons but when searching or downloading the wi-fi is the only one moving. Not sure way both are showing up tho. Good Question
5. Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 - Question about Icons at topKlue May 22, 2013 7:32 AM (in response to LAMMBO)
I have the Samsung Fascinate and both Icons are displayed on top, and the one in use is the one that shows activity. This might be the setup for most Samsung smart phones
6. Re: Samsung Galaxy S4 - Question about Icons at topbucherj Sep 28, 2013 10:27 AM (in response to AndroidOnly)
I also had same two icons displayed when mobile data was enabled. After establishing "home" under settings> more tab @ top>location services>my places; and Car differentiation, I no longer have both WiFi Fan and 4G showing all the time.
this works for me and is far easier than manually enabling/ disabling the mobile data each time I leave home/ return.
Now phone knows which connection triggers the specific connection.
please note: it did not change displayed icons when I only had home defined as my Wifi connection.... only after establishing car's bluetooth as a second trigger----- did the dual icons stop showing on the top.
Hope this works for you as well.


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The portion eastwards from the rood screen is in better preservation.
The rood screen, stretching across nave and aisles, appeared to full advantage, when unbroken by the chancel arch.
A Latin 295 cross with five naves; the transept and sanctuary separated by a rood screen.
Fronting the full width of the nave, the beautiful Decorated rood screen of Bishop Gower now claims our attention.
The step at this point is of oak, and is probably the original sill of the rood screen.
During this episcopate the rood screen was erected, and a sumptuous monument placed over the grave of the founder.
At "Poplar Spring Church" there were double pews built on each side of the chancel abutting the rood screen.
On this higher level stands the altar, which is backed up by the rood screen.
There are twelve stalls on either side, and three on each side of the entrance through the rood screen facing east.
It is sometimes said that the nave is the parish, and the part eastward of the rood screen the cathedral church, but it is not so.