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P.M. UPDATE: Guess who's among this writer's top-eight prospects to change hands at the deadline? R-A-J-A-I Rajai Rajai Rajai! Smith writes: "Davis lacks any upside but in an organization about to enter a rebuilding mode, swapping an overpaid Morris for a leadoff hitter-to-be is as good a move as can be made."
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Matt Morris is not a happy camper, and he hasn't been one for a while. A couple weeks ago he loosened his tent flap and told the world the Giants seemed more interested in milking the Bondstravaganza than, um, hello, winning ballgames?
Hearing yesterday that he'd been steel-toed out of town, Morris had more choice words: "It is what it is."
Pittsburgh is what it is — Matt Morris's new home — mainly because Morris pitched like a friendly Jugs machine the past month (motto: "Everyone Loves to Hit!"). A few more solid outings, and he might have been chasing a playoff spot with Atlanta, Philadelphia, or Seattle.
I've been to Pittsburgh in the summer, and I found it green and leafy and hilly, a bit like San Francisco but with more river, more humidity, and more fried food. It's got a fine scientifically-minded university and a football team everyone is nuts about. Their baseball team leaves a lot to be desired. So does ours, but theirs might be better to pitch for. Again, here's Morris:
"I'm excited about getting back to the NL Central and getting some better defense and some young guys out there who are looking to play hard," Morris said.
That, ladies and germs, is known as a parting shot. So is this:
"It's been hard (in San Francisco) - it's almost been that you start to accept it (losing) and I hate to say that, unfortunately. It was different. I was used to (Cardinals manager) Tony La Russa in the past and he kind of runs the show and there's a lot of structure. I went to the Giants where it was totally opposite, a different, laid-back feeling.''
It's easy to dimiss Morris's comments as sour grapes. But let's assume for a moment he speaks the truth, that the Giant clubhouse is too laid-back. Implicit in his LaRussa comment: Bruce Bochy does not run the show, and I'll give you three seconds to guess who does.
Next year will be a high-profile clubhouse chemistry experiment: what happens when you remove the best offensive player and the most distracting clubhouse element all in one go? Will the extra harmony quickly be smothered by all the extra-crappy offense? Will the good cheer help oil the gears of a precise, energetic, well-honed small-ball strategy?
If a Bonds-less Giants return to respectability next year, the proponents of chemistry — not to mention the Bonds haters — will pump their fists in glee. I can see the headlines now: "Bye-Bye Barry: Addition by Subtraction." (Hey, not bad. I should do this for a living.)
But there will be no return to respectability, even mediocrity, if the best cleanup hitter the Giants can find next year is Ray Durham.
Near-future agenda: In the next 30 days, Sabean will keep trying to trade veterans who clear waivers. Also on his to-do list: pluck the player-to-be-named from the Pirates' farm system. There's an excellent discussion on the McChronic about the possibilities.


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Review by Sinister187
"The Evil Returns."
In January of 2005, Capcom unleashed 'Resident Evil 4' to gamers across the globe, another installment of the highly-popular, Survival-Horror series, 'Resident Evil'. It was released to much critical-acclaim and received numerous awards and so forth, fans of the series either loved it or hated it, considering the game-play was changed dramatically from the older titles. Gone were the fixed-camera angles and the 'tank-like' controls, new were fast-paced action, massive fire-fights, better controls which allowed for more sophisticated aiming and a plethora of other things. 'Resident Evil 4' changed the series from Horror to Action, so when the time came for 'Resident Evil 5' to be announced, many fans wondered if the series was to return to it's roots and bring back the scariness that we came to love in the first place. After over four years of waiting, we finally have been able to get, 'Resident Evil 5' in our hands, is it scary again? Or just a re-hash of 'Resident Evil 4' with prettier-graphics and some enhancements? Well, truth be told...it's even more action-packed then it's predecessor and not even remotely spooky this time around (For the most part). Read on for further information.
We'll start with story details first then work our way to the game-play, graphics and so on. This time around, Chris Redfield, one of the surviving heroes from the original, 'Resident Evil' game, returns in a muscular-physique that would make Schwarzenegger red with envy. After the events of the 'Umbrella Chronicles', which was an on-rails shooter for the Nintendo Wii, Redfield has joined a group called the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (Or BSAA for short). He is sent in to an African desert area known as Kijuju by the group to investigate a black market weapons deal around the village. He is also joined by series newcomer, Sheva Alomar, who also works for the BSAA (In their African branch), together they look to stop whoever is behind the deals going down, but along the way, they uncover horrors much more frightening than either could have anticipated. There are many plot-twists and surprises that are revealed during the duration of the campaign mode, some of which are unexpected while others are downright disappointing. I won't discuss anymore details for the sake of spoiling the plot. I will say however, the story was more interesting this time than the one in, 'Resident Evil 4', which for all intents and purposes didn't tie-in 'too-much' from the earlier games.
Now for the game-play, 'Resident Evil 5' plays very similar to 'Resident Evil 4', in which the game is done from the third-person perspective and the camera is placed to the back of the player, over-the-shoulder so to speak. When you aim your weapon, the camera focuses over-the-shoulder and a laser-sight guides where you wish to target your enemy. You will spend most of your time running from one point to the other (You can also bring-up a map to guide you in the corner of the screen), aiming and blasting away relentless hordes of enemies called Majini, who are basically the same as the Ganado from RE4. Returning is also the popular Quick-Time-Event' sequences, which RE4 was littered with, they play out the same in this installment. New to the series is the inclusion of Co-Op, both Online and Offline (Which is a good thing). Those who have played 'Gears Of War' should feel comfortable right off the bat with the two-player mode here, done in split-screen and in horizontal-fashion. One player controls Chris Redfield while the other controls Sheva Alomar, if you decide on playing single-player, Sheva will still be by your side and managed by some relatively-good AI. It was pretty refreshing to find out that Sheva can manage to hold her own in single-player and actually help you out, initially, I was nervous about this aspect at first, but thankfully Capcom made her work well.
Together, you will also do some light-puzzle solving, which includes things like maneuvering laser-beams in different directions in order to open-up new paths and lowering bridges, allowing one to cross and access new areas. Gone are item-boxes and typewriters to the surprise of veterans of this series, the inventory-system is done in real-time now (Similar to EA's creepy 'Dead Space') so managing your items well becomes a tactical-element, having your partner guard you as you combine herbs or selecting a new Handgun. Speaking of healing-items, when one is used in close-proximity with your partner, it will heal both of you, I really liked that this was included, it saved me the head-aches of wondering how many healing-items I was going to waste on healing both characters. Sharing items is also a common thing as well, if you are to ensure survival, be sure to lend some healing-items to your partner and pass-on needed ammunition. Or if you happen to collect rounds for a weapon that your partner currently has, you can simply give it to them and open-up a new inventory slot for yourself. Also, the money and treasure collecting addition from RE4 has made it's way back to, RE5. Whenever you pick up gold and such, you get a duplicate of it in your inventory, so both players will have the same exact amount of money in the end. This money can be used to purchase new weapons, weapon-upgrades, armor and other items at the beginning or end of levels.
Graphically, Resident Evil 5' is one beautiful-looking game, up there with the best of the high-budget titles currently available on the market. The character-models are very realistic, the attention to detail on them is astounding, with such tiny things as moving hair, bouncing equipment and facial-expressions. Lighting-effects are incredible, from the blistering heat of the sun in the opening levels to the spooky-darkness of the caves, becoming visible only through a mere lantern in later levels. Pretty-much everything in the game is a feast for the eyes, RE5 is remarkable in terms of graphics. The music however is a bit of a letdown, in earlier entries of the series, the music was extremely creepy and lent an even more horrific-edge to the games, it made the atmosphere feel more uneasy. Here the music is more Hollywood-Action in it's approach, with some even featuring an Orchestral underscore, I wasn't too fond of the music in this entry, it's not terrible, but it's just not memorable or creepy. Sound-effects are loud and good, things such as the roaring of monsters, gunfire, splashing of water and even the infamous revving of the chainsaw, only a select-few bits were recycled from older-titles, specifically, Resident Evil 4'. A major overhaul was done in the voice-acting, which is top-notch in this installment, the older-titles were hampered with cheesy dialogue and atrocious voice-acting.
The control-scheme in Resident Evil 5' is very basic and easy to get accustomed to, there are in total four commands including the default to choose from. I will describe the Type-A commands, which is based on the controls of, Resident Evil 4'. To walk you move the Left-Analog-Stick, to adjust your viewpoint, you move around the Right-Analog-Stick. To perform a quick-turn press down on the Left-Analog-Stick along with the X button, to quick-equip or buy/sell adjust, use the Directional-Pad. To run (When moving) or reload (When weapon is drawn) simply press X, to perform partner-actions or when holding down to change partner mode (Single-player games) press the O button. To open your inventory press Triangle, to do context-actions, swing your knife (When drawn) or fire/throw your weapon (When drawn) press Square. To toggle the map press R2, to draw your weapon press R1, press L2 to locate your partner and L1 to draw your knife. Pressing down L3 and R3 provokes, while pressing Select cancels cut-scenes and ends game (At chapter scores). Finally pressing Start pauses the game while pressing the PlayStation logo takes you to the console-interface.
Resident Evil 5' is filled to the brim with unlockables, you will be playing for quite some time in order to unlock all of them. They range from costumes to Trophies to hidden emblems throughout the game and once found they unlock bonus-points for you to purchase many special-features, which include figurines, infinite-ammo, hidden-weapons and more. Different camera-filters can also be unlocked, which changes the way the game looks in a dramatic-fashion, placing a particular color-filter to the video output. There are also two other difficulty modes to unlock, beating Normal unlocks Veteran (Hard) and beating Veteran unlocks Professional (Very Hard) where the difficulty is ramped up to the point where one-hit means your death. And finally the best unlockable is The Mercenaries' mode, returning from RE3 and RE4, where your goal is to survive under certain time-limits, killing waves and waves of enemies, which in turn gives you a high-score, especially when you achieve lots of combos. Beating this mode and receiving a certain high-score also unlocks multiple characters to play as, it can also be played in Co-Op. There is also a Versus-mode that you can purchase via DLC.
Aside from the regular release, there is also a Collector's Edition of the game (Even the strategy guide) which is quite the pricey one. In this edition, you get a Tricell messenger bag (Which is rather poorly made, don't expect to use it much), a BSAA patch, a Kijuju-inspired necklace, a bonus DVD (Basically the making-of the game) and a Chris Redfield action-figure. The figure is very small, I was expecting something much more along the lines of a standard-sized figurine, but this was minuscule, highly disappointing. The DVD is pretty cool and shows an in-depth making-of the game and some trailers for the RE movies, it also comes in a cool-looking steel case. I only suggest getting it if you are a big fan of the series, otherwise there's nothing here really worth spending that much cash on.
Overall, Resident Evil 5' is yet another excellent entry in the long-running Survival-Horror series. Although, this one is far more Action-oriented than titles prior, even Resident Evil 4'. It still manages to convey some scary scenes, but not enough to be considered a Horror experience. The game took quite the while to get here and disappointed me only in the scare department, but it more than lived-up in the game-play, graphics and fun aspects. I highly recommend Resident Evil 5' to anyone who wishes to play a fast-paced, intense and bloody game, definitely check this one out.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 04/13/09
Game Release: Resident Evil 5 (US, 03/13/09)
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Roger Langridge Moves On From Marvel and DC Citing Ethical Concerns
Chris Roberson, you're not alone. During a recent interview, Roger Langridge announced that, like the Memorial, iZombie and former Superman writer, he will no longer work for Marvel or DC Comics due to concerns over creator rights at the Big Two.Langridge, whose projects for Marvel have included the critically-acclaimed (and Eisner Award-nominated) Thor The Mighty Avenger as well as the first John Carter mini-series, A Princess of Mars, was talking to the Orbital Comics podcast when he said that "Marvel and DC are turning out quite problematic from an ethical view to continue working with," going on to explain that
I think it's down to everyone's individual conscience but I think those of us who have options, and I do have options, I've got a working relationship with a couple of other publishers, I've got illustration work I can fall back on, I'm not beholden to Marvel and DC for my bread and butter. If you do have the option, you maybe should think hard about what you're doing and who you are doing it for.
I was writing the last issue of John Carter when the news came that Marvel had won a lawsuit against the heirs of Jack Kirby and Steve Bissette wrote an very impassioned post about the ethics of working for Marvel under those circumstances. Pretty much then, I figured I should finish the script I was writing and move on… I think it's beholden on the creative community to ask themselves what kind of industry they want and act accordingly.
Since the interview was picked up online this weekend, he has gone on to clarify that he made the decision last summer, pointing out that "I didn't 'quit' anything because I wasn't doing anything for either Marvel or DC at the time."
"I stand by the decision, though, whether it was made ages ago or not," he added. "I mentioned it on the Orbital podcast because I felt like I needed to stand up and be counted. I suspect the generation of cartoonists who come after me will ask what I did in the war, so to speak, and I'd like to answer them without blushing."
Perhaps to the surprise of those who suspect such decisions are the equivalent to committing career suicide, Langridge continues to be busy; not only is his Snarked! series (which he both writes and illustrates) continuing at Boom! Studios, but the new Popeye series he is writing for IDW has just been upgraded from a four-issue mini-series to an ongoing monthly based on the success of the first issue. His name will also be attached to a Marvel series for the next few months despite his decision, as the company is publishing the final Muppet Show series he created for Boom! before Marvel took over the Disney license.


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People critisize her and in many ways,I get that (she went through invitro voluntarily even though she´s single,she wanted a big family etc)..But,Id like to see how many women on their own could have any sanity left after just a week looking after 14 kids,8 of which are TODDLERS..all the same age.
Its insane-madness.Sleepless nights,constant crying and screaming,no intimacy,a perpetually messy house,the chaos,the noise,the choures (washing,cooking,cleaning,bathing,bedtime etc etc etc).How many women can honestly say that all would be fixed with just a glass of wine once the kids are in bed??
The kids life isnt going to be great..but hers in totally in the shitter now too.What man in his right mind will ever want to be with her? What kind of life does she have? Just imagine it for a seond.She made a bad choice and she has her regrets,but cut her some slack people,her situation SUCKS on so many levels.Children are blessings,I have 3 and I love them to death,but we arent supposed to have litters or herds of them at a time and Im sure that even the worlds best mother would fail once she was left alone to provide and care for 14 kids all by herself.As a mother,I can relate to the crazy,lost look on her face,because I know how I feel after a day looking after 3,so my hat goes off to her for getting to the end of each day without taking an overdose.


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Tarantism is, allegedly, a deadly envenomation resulting from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula" (Lycosa tarentula). (These spiders are different from the broad class of spiders called "bird eating spiders" or "Tarantulas".) The condition was common in southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There were strong suggestions that there is no organic cause for the heightened excitability and restlessness that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. Supposedly a particular kind of dance, called the Tarantella, evolved from this therapy. Many people have suggested that the whole business was a deceit to evade religious proscriptions against dancing.
The cultural history of tarantism and the tarantella dance is discussed in John Compton's introduction to the world of spiders called The Life of the Spider, pages 56-57. He suggests that ancient Bacchanalian rites that had been suppressed by the government went underground under the guise of emergency therapy for bite victims.
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Many historical and cultural references are associated with this disease and the ensuing "cure" - the Tarantella. It is, for example, a key image in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
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The Nursing Program within the Morgan State University School of Community Health and Policy is currently seeking applicants for the position of Director of Nursing. Morgan State is an historically black college/university (HBCU) located in Baltimore, MD. It is designated as Maryland's urban serving university with a commitment to community engagement. The program offers the BS and MS degrees.
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Federal Government attempts to stop the decline in the number of students studying maths, physics and chemistry have failed, jeopardising Australia's push to become a high-technology nation, a new report says.
The report, prepared by science faculty chiefs, found that universities' responses to a lack of Government funding had been to shift resources out of science and technology studies.
"[The report] shows that over the last five years the decline in the study of basic sciences, which so alarmed everyone concerned with positioning Australia as a high-technology nation, has proceeded unabated, if not more dramatically than indicated," it said.
"None of the initiatives of government have been of any effect in arresting the decline."
The report was sent to the federal education and science ministers yesterday.
The president of the Australian Council of Deans of Science, David Finlay, said infrastructure in schools and universities had been run down and the problem needed to be addressed quickly.
Better co-operation between state and federal governments to attract more science and maths teachers was also needed.
Improvements to teaching science in schools were in train but that was a long-term solution.
"We need greater emphasis on promoting science and maths and better career paths for mathematicians and scientists," Professor Finlay said. "Our youth will miss the boat when it comes to the new technologies if we don't fix the problem quickly."
Using Department of Education, Science and Training figures, the report, Is the Study of Science in Decline?, found the number of teaching and research staff in science, maths and computing fell by 730 between 1991 and 2000.
Between 1989 and 2002 the number of students studying physical and material sciences fell by more than 31 per cent; the number in chemistry fell by almost 5 per cent; and in maths by 2 per cent.
"[The Federal Government's] Backing Australia's Ability [strategy] is based on a strong science base in this country," the report said. "The findings of this study indicate that the science base is very shaky indeed - especially the enabling sciences."
Since 2000, Australian and overseas students had also turned away from information technology.
Women now made up 55 per cent of enrolments across all science and maths but their lack of interest in maths and physics was of great concern, the report said.
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Yeah..... holding off on solids as much as possible, at least until you get to "normal", can be a good idea if you've already had trouble. Hard at 6mo; they want to try everything! I've wondered about probiotics being dairy-free. They have to be cultured on something. I looked for PB for my severely allergic DD, but because of the severity I had to be 100% sure it wasn't from a dairy culture. Couldn't find one guaranteed with my limited search.
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we use culturelle for kids...dairy and gluten free. it makes a HUGE difference. saw the dr. today, leaning toward MSPIES or FPIES :(
Wow. Be careful about probiotics especially the Culturelle for kids. We tried that with my son and he cried about 6 hours straight, slept for 2 hours and then cried for 4 more hours. The next day he had almost black colored stool. Very scary. Regret that big time.
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If you were wondering about my take on the film Lincoln, here it is. The piece links, as well, to many of the most interesting discussions of the film going on elsewhere about a film which has already generated a great deal of discussion and debate among film critics and historians.
A little excerpt which I hope expresses both my appreciation and enjoyment of the film (including some wonderful acting), and my frustration about why we don't get a different sort of film about the Civil War and emancipation:
The film is an emotionally gripping docu-drama on a hugely significant event in American history. Even those with the critical antenna raised and beeping throughout will still find themselves emotionally engaged. Even when we are told to feel, and what to feel, we do, at the skillful filmmaker's command. We can't help it. Such is the power of movies as purveyors of myths.
But there is another level to consider here, as well—the civil religious myths that the film invokes, and the very limited growth in public understanding of those myths that the film ultimately suggests.
After the emotion evoked by the film subsides, sober consideration begins here: why, in the supposedly "post-racial" age of Obama, is there no space in movies to imagine the historical story of African Americans creating the conditions of their own emancipation? . . .
What leaves me frustrated is the seeming impossibility of bringing into our civil-religious myths the demise of slavery as a possibility—and, really, only a possibility—as a result of the actions of the most powerless in American society, those who forced the hand of the most powerful. The actions of the powerful were necessary, but they were only possible because of the countless actions of the powerless.


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The two rival khans of B town are finally going to come together. Yes, they are really going to make space for each other on big screen.
This is been possible with the efforts of Yash Raj. Salman Khan's 'Ek Tha Tiger' is going to release this Eid. Yash Raj making full use of opportunity has fixed his next movie's trailor with 'Ek Tha Tiger'.
Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Shahrukh Khan starrer untitled love story will be soon seen on big screens. Yash Raj have no doubt, grabbed the wonderful opportunity. This would fetch him maximum eyes!


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Machine learning classification is used in numerous settings nowadays, such as medical or genomics predictions, spam detection, face recognition, and financial predictions. Due to privacy concerns in some of these applications, it is important that the data and the classifier remain confidential.
In this work, we construct three major classification protocols that satisfy this privacy constraint: hyperplane decision, Na\\\"ive Bayes, and decision trees. These protocols may also be combined with AdaBoost. They rely on a library of building blocks for constructing classifiers securely, and we demonstrate the versatility of this library by constructing a face detection classifier.
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First published in 2009, "Professional Penetration Testing" has been reprinted numerous times, and will be re-released in 2012. Below are the downloads to support this second edition; however, the links below can be used for the current edition as well. To understand the purpose of each download, please refer to the appropriate book volume.
Penetration testing is the act of testing a network to find security vulnerabilities before they are exploited by phishers, digital piracy groups, and countless other organized or individual malicious hackers. The material presented will be useful to beginners all the way through to advanced practitioners.


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Ever since agriculture evolved ca 10.000 years ago, plants have been artificially selected to become the fast growing and highly productive varieties we know today. However, humans were not the first to see merit in cultivating their own food, as ants have been doing this for 50 million years.
A lineage of South-American ants collect leaves and recycle their own feces to manure a fungus garden for food. New research shows that these ants have an evolutionary history of improvement of their fungal crops.
A joint effort by researchers at the Universities of Copenhagen and Lund has produced a reconstruction of how fungusgrowing ants have stepwise improved their clonal crops into a robust and superbly efficient farming system.
The results, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, show that reliable delivery of some enzymes and vital amino acids in the fungal food explains that the ant farmers have lost the ability to produce these compounds themselves.
Leaf-cutting ants and fungi in close collaboration
These symbiotic organs provide carbohydrates, lipids, fungal enzymes and vital amino acids and satisfy all the nutritious needs of the ant farmers and of their brood, which also eat garden-fungus. These foodpackage organs evolved ca. 20 million years ago and represented an innovation that allowed today's leaf-cutting ants to evolve truly large-scale farms.
Fungus-growing ants became farmers ca. 50 million years ago, but the first 30 million years they only had small-scale subsistence farms in which they used plant debris to make tiny fungus gardens grow. However, that suddenly changed and from then on developments accelerated.
"Although it took ages of slow natural selection, today's ant farms are ca. 100.000 times larger than those of the first ancestors that invented farming", says Henrik De Fine Licht -the first and corresponding author.
This is comparable to what most modern human agricultural systems have achieved, and it is striking that the scale of environmental effects appears to have increased to the same degree.
Not like human farming that uses enormous amounts of water, fertilizer and pesticides, but for the ants the key resource is access to fresh leaves. Their most advanced societies became aggressive herbivores that cause massive defoliation damage in natural ecosystems and human farmland in Latin America.
Slow natural selection versus fast cultural evolution
However, where specialization in human farming normally increases susceptibility to disease and unfavorable weather, the ant farming symbiosis remained remarkably robust. In fact, they are renowned for having very few serious diseases, which makes it very difficult to control them with environmentally friendly means.
"It is as if the farming ant families and their underground gardens have become single organisms where queen, nurses, foragers, brood and fungus are connected in a huge interaction network. All parties make complementary contributions just like different tissues in a single body. So far studies have only looked at division of labor among the ants, but now we know that fungal organs are also of key significance.
"No other fungus has evolved such organs because they are only meaningful when you rely on farmers. This is similar to cultivated wheat varieties that no longer drop their seeds because humans only propagated lineages that allowed them to harvest the spikes rather than having to pick up the seeds one by one", says Henrik De Fine Licht.
The study analyses specific signatures of selection on fungal genes and provides new understanding of the genetic and protein adaptations that optimized fungal crop performance. We expect that such insights can inspire our own thinking about clever biotechnological solutions to handle green natural resources.
Henrik H. de Fine Licht, Jacobus J. Boomsma and Anders Tunlid (2014). Symbiotic adaptation in the fungal cultivar of leaf-cutting ants. Nature Communications. Published 1 December 2014
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7 New Ways To Ring In The New Year
New Year's Eve is completely overwrought with expectation, isn't it? Will your party be hip-hop-video-caliber awesome? Who are you going to kiss? And most importantly, are you wearing enough sequins?
It's enough to make a girl throw up her hands and stay in watching re-runs of "Breaking Bad."
Never fear, friend. We've got seven ideas for totally different ways to ring in 2012.
1. Travel to a different city. With the advent of Megabus, it's cheap and (relatively) painless to pop over to Chicago/Akron/Boston for the weekend. All bets are off when you're in an unknown city. See how many super touristy things you can do in the hours leading up to midnight. 10:00 p.m. viewing of Chicago's most famous sculpture! 11:00 p.m. Chicago-style hot dog eating!
2. Crash a party full of strangers. The recipe for party-crashing goes something like this: 2 cups of cute outfit, 3 tablespoons of I-know-what-I'm-doing, 1 teaspoon of charm. Every party is improved by the addition of a cute and charming girl, few people are likely to stop you if you breeze through the door and act like you own the place. Prepare some super vague responses for the inevitable small talk: "I know her through work" and "I work in marketing."
3. Get away from the city and appreciate the night sky. If you're feeling more introspective, get out of the city and away from all that light pollution. Rent a house in the country or check out the lodging options in your state parks. Bundle up with some spiked hot chocolate and identify constellations as the clock ticks over.
4. Borrow someone else's New Year's tradition. Every culture celebrates the new year differently and there's no reason you can't borrow a few good ideas. Brazilians wear white outfits and different colored underwear that indicate their wishes for the new year (yellow for wealth, purple for inspiration). The Japanese clean their houses from top to bottom and eat soba noodles. In rural Romania, people dress as bears and then visit the homes of their neighbors and dance for them.
Okay, so maybe you wanna give that last one a pass.
5. Throw a slumber party. Invite your nearest and dearest to show up in their jammies and spend the night playing board games, doing your nails and eating Totino's pizza rolls. Make sure you have plenty of inflatable mattresses and extra pillows!
6. Fancy up the casual. Everything is more fun when you're wearing sequins! Dress to the nines and visit your favorite diner or dive bar. Go bowling in a cocktail dress or check out the dart league at your local VFW in patent leather boots.
7. Make a list of all the things you've accomplished in 2011. With the pressure of having The Best Time Ever, the stress of the holidays and New Year's resolutions that seem to highlight our shortcomings, it's easy to forget all the things we've done right. Pour yourself a big glass of champagne, hunker down with your journal and write down all all the awesome things you've done. And don't forget the small-but-important things! Not killing your houseplants, learning to drop it like it's hot and befriending that cool girl from your book club are all fantastic accomplishments!
How do you plan to spend New Year's?
Sarah Von writes writes daily at YesandYes about topics like non-traditional adulthood, how to cheer yourself up and how to create an awesome group of friends. Also: cats in vests.


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It was just such a combination as was predicated by Bernhardi.
No one quarrels with Bernhardi in his discussions of the problems of war as such.
What are the teachings of history to which Gen. Bernhardi is fond of appealing?
Bernhardi believes in the morality, one might almost say in the sanctity, of war.
Hence Bernhardi writes: 'the maintenance of peace never can or may be the goal of a policy'.
They were inflamed by Bernhardi; but they did not understand him.
Treitschke is the prophet of tribalism, Nietzsche of ruthlessness, Bernhardi of ambition.
Again, Bernhardi makes play with the proviso rebus sic stantibus; and this, curiously enough, he does in reference to Belgium.
The cartoon bears the quotation from Bernhardi "War is as divine as eating and drinking."
Bernhardi: "War is as divine as eating and drinking"Satan: "Here is a partner for me"


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Indian Diplomat Who Pays Nanny $3.31/Hour Now Has Full Diplomatic Immunity
(Jen Chung) The arrest of a senior Indian diplomat last week—over visa fraud charges—has now boiled over into a bona fide international incident.Secretary of State John Kerry called India's national security adviser Shivshankar Menon to apologize about Devyani Khobragade's arrest and strip-search.
Khobragade, a 39-year-old deputy consul in the Indian consulate in NYC, applied for a visa for her caregiver, and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharaha's office alleged that she claimed she was paying the woman $4,500, but it was actually only $573. She is also accused of asking her caregiver to lie. Indian officials blasted Khobragade's arrest, calling it "barbaric and despicable" and had the barriers (to prevent bombings) outside the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi removed.
Now, India is continuing to retaliate, especially after the State Department confirmed that Khobragade was subject to a cavity search: Reuters reports, "The measures included a revision of work conditions of Indians employed at U.S. consulates and a freeze on the import of duty-free alcohol."
State Department spokesperson Marie Harf described Kerry's call, "As a father of two daughters about the same age as Devyani Khobragade, the secretary empathizes with the sensitivities we are hearing from India about the events that unfolded after Khobragade's arrest. In his conversation with national security adviser (Shivshankar) Menon, he expressed his regret, as well as his concern that we not allow this unfortunate public issue to hurt our close and vital relationship with India."
Khobragade's position at the consulate did not give her full diplomatic immunity, so she has now been transferred to India's Permanent Mission to the U.N.—which does give her full diplomatic immunity. But, the Washington Post explains, "A senior Indian official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, acknowledged the transfer would not give the consular employee retroactive immunity. However, he said, it would protect her from future charges."
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Glenwood Management closed on the purchase of a vacant development site on the Upper West Side from Fordham University for $125 million which included the acquisition of more than 300,000 square feet of development rights.
Glenwood went into contract in August and closed Jan. 7, city property records published yesterday show, for the site at 49-55 Amsterdam Avenue, at the corner of 62nd Street, adjacent to the school's Lincoln Center Campus. The site is approximately 90 feet by 110 feet, property records show.
As part of the sale, Fordham sold 313,429 square feet of development rights to Glenwood, quadrupling what it was able to build as of right on the parcel, to a total of 409,889 square feet, an agreement signed Jan. 7 between Glenwood and Fordham and filed this week with the city shows. Glenwood intends to build a residential rental tower with ground-floor retail and parking, the papers filed with the city show. Glenwood and Fordham did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The agreement also contains restrictions — common when a religious institution such as Fordham University which is a Jesuit school sells property — on how the residential building can be used, including prohibiting its use as student housing, and forbidding any nude modeling, massage parlors, sex clubs or liquor stores.
A news report from November, citing sources, said the contract price was $100 million.
Last year, the city granted Fordham the right to build six new buildings as part of a $1.6 billion redevelopment of its Lincoln Center Campus on the block between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues and 60th and 62nd streets. The approval includes its law school and the site just purchased by Glenwood.


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The real dish Monday night came on The Bachelor: After the Final Rose show, where Ben Flajnik talked about what has happened since he proposed to Courtney Robertson in Switzerland months ago.
Ben came on first, saying right off the bat to host Chris Harrison, "I'm still in love with this woman," but added,"It's been a rough ride."
He admits they broke off the engagement. "It became too much; I just cracked." Ben said the break lasted for a "few weeks" as he had to take a step back and "reassess."
Chris Harrison asked about photos that surfaced of Ben with another woman. "On my father's grave, I haven't kissed another woman, hooked up with another woman, cheated on Courtney." It's "tabloid fodder," he says, saying he's "not kissing anybody" in the photos.
What about Courtney trying on wedding dresses? That was done to divert all the attention away from him, Ben says. They agreed that she would do that to take the heat off of him, he says.
Next up: Courtney appears, by herself. "It's all really disappointing. Heartbreaking, really. This is supposed to be a story about love, finding love, and it spoiled," she says.
She admitted she was "responsible" for the reaction she has been getting. "I've got a little sass in me." But she says they were "happy for about a month before the show started airing. We had Thanksgiving with my family in Arizona."
Their breakup happened right around Valentine's Day. "He didn't send flowers, a card, nothing. He didn't even send carnations! ... I was heartbroken. I was so disappointed."
She didn't appreciate him abandoning her. "There's definitely some trust that's been lost."
So where are they now? Are they a couple?
"Yes, we're together. I think," she says, as her eyes glistening. "I don't know. I'm not ready to turn my back on him."
Ben comes on stage and sits next to Courtney. She rests his hand on her leg. He says now, "We're in a good place." And, "It can only get better."
Harrison asks if she can trust Ben. "Not completely," she says. "I believe in what we have and I'm choosing to believe everything he's telling me."
The root of the problem, says Ben, was that they couldn't see each other and talk about it all while the show was airing. "We know this is going to work. We're just going to take our time and assess the relationship. And everyone's going to be a critic."
Ben turned to Courtney. "I can honestly say I want to be with you. I love you. I'm not going to abandon you," he says. "As an engaged couple and as the man, I should have stayed with you the entire way, as opposed to taking steps back. That's not how I operate in real life. And that's the thing, we're about to start real life."
Harrison then runs footage of the proposal. "It's nice to see. It was the happiest day of my life. When I'm with him it's great."
Ben now has his hand on her lap. He has tears in his eyes. "It's hard, because you're so happy, and we said it's going to be the two of us. ... There was never anything wrong with us. That beautiful moment has just been soiled by all of this." He's really crying now.
"It was a good moment. And in time we'll remember how wonderful that moment was."
At that moment, Harrison whips out the ring. Ben looks at Courtney. Says Harrison, "What do you want to do with this. Are you engaged? And if so, should she have a ring on her finger."
Yes, says Ben. "I very much want her to have this again." He slips it on. They hold hands and smile.
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A large supply of nutmeg and clove plants arrived at pinang in 1802, from the Molucca Islands.
Presently he heard a woman's voice in the room say: "Sit down, Siu; I will bring out the pinang and sireh to you."
On the 9th of October we landed on the small island of pinang.
In Sumatra a full grown plant has been known to produce seven pounds; in pinang the yield is much more.
In pinang and Singapore for cultivated the price is 65 to 70 dollars.
At Malacca and pinang it shares attention with the more profitable spices.
Westward of pinang there are no plantations, looking at the subject in a mercantile point of view.
Mr Hooker, when he saw them, said they were the pinang, or betel-nut palm—Areca catechu.
In the season of 1841-42, there was 1000 piculs of cloves shipped from pinang, but none were exported in the two previous years.


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|2000D-1350 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Labeling for Combined Oral Contraceptives; Availability
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Dr. Markus Steiner
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|03/30/2004 05:03:47
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|Family Health International
|International Organization
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|Issue Areas/Comments
| Labeling for Combined Oral Contraceptives - Docket No. 2000D-1350
FHI?s Comment on Contraceptive Effectiveness Rates
The draft guidance document presents pregnancies per 100 women years for different contraceptives; for oral contraceptive pills the rate presented is 1% and for male condoms the rate is 15%. According to the document, these two estimates ?are derived from clinical trial data reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration.? However, the document does not state if these estimates apply to women using the method correctly and consistently or during typical use. We are familiar with results from three recent synthetic condom 510K FDA submissions (eZon, Avanti and Tactylon). In these studies, the six-month typical-use rates for the latex condom arms were 5.4%, 6.2% and 7.9%, respectively. Therefore we believe the reported 15% pregnancy rate for male condoms may be too high if the FDA chooses to rely on clinical trial data.
Although not based on a true systematic review, we believe Dr. Trussell has compiled the best available estimates of contraceptive effectiveness. These will soon be republished in the text Contraceptive Technology (18th edition currently in press). In particular, Dr. Trussell?s typical-use rates, based largely on the NSFG, are 8% and 15% for oral contraceptive pills and male condoms, respectively.. The annual perfect-use rates are 0.3% for oral contraceptive pills and 2% for condoms. Dr. Trussell provides an in-depth discussion of the data sources and rationale for choosing these data sources.
Dr. Trussell?s contraceptive effectiveness rates have been widely used to counsel women both domestically as well as internationally. If specific rates are to be mentioned, we hope the FDA will use these estimates as a starting point in future contraceptive labeling. However, our initial research of the comprehension of contraceptive labeling (Steiner et al, 2003) suggests that women may be confused when presented with numeric estimates of risk. We urge the FDA to conduct research on the presentation of risk to ensure the informed choice of women when they select a contraceptive method.


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Video: Ecumenical Stations of the Cross in Bayswater, Perth, Western Australia
VietCatholic Network3/30/2013
Catholic and Anglican youth took turns carrying the Cross in the Stations of the Cross on the streets of Bayswater, Perth, Australia on Good Friday 29 of March. The ecumenical service, organised by both St. Columba Catholic Church and St. Augustine Anglican Church drew hundreds of Catholics and Anglicans, who walked, sang and prayed together.
As a traditional practice among followers of the Roman Catholic and Anglican faiths, the Stations of the Cross allows Christians to have a spiritual walk with Jesus, taking them back to the events surrounding his prosecution, crucifixion, death and resurrection.
Father Minh Thuy Nguyen, the parish priest of St. Columba's, said he and his Anglican counterpart Reverend Kate Wilmot organized the ecumenical Stations of the Cross "to bear witness to our common hope and to give their parishioners a chance to sing together the beautiful and inviting sound of the word of God."
Stations of the Cross "is a blessing for us until we join again", said Reverend Wilmot at the end of the service.
The service started at the Anglican church and ended at the Catholic Church, where Catholic and Anglican attendees received their blessing from the Catholic and Anglican pastors.
Ecumenical Stations of the Cross Good Friday Service at Bayswater, an initiative of Catholic Fr. Huynh Nguyen and his Anglican counterpart, Fr. Peter Manuel, seven years ago, was warm welcomed by members of both the communities who believed that by walking and praying together, they could show people they confess the one faith, and keep the fraternal harmony of the family of God.
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Generating machines
Generalizing machines
We live to learn
To expand our minds.
But we can only expand
Based on what we already
have learned.
So you read a journal of yours
you made 10 years back,
and you find
you're still saying the same things.
Keeping your routine.
Having most of the same
philosophical thoughts
with only a grain more knowledge
to add to your previous questioning
& make only one tiny alteration
in belief direction.
Out of all the information passed
between each human
between each detail of
social meaning
social structure
social motive.
You read people's words.
How often they say their philosophies to you,
how often we talk about the same subjects
repeat the same subjects
in different scenarios,
& it's funny how we can't remember ourselves
doing it all those times.
How we can still repeat
logical fallacies
& still know we're wrong,
but can't stop the words coming out
of our mouths,
let alone the sentence structure out of our heads
if we succeed with holding tongue.
We need billions of people
to bounce ideas off of
to keep our minds
working at all.
It's no wonder isolated people
get suicidal thoughts.
A brain that doesn't bounce ideas
is a brain that's dying.
Kinetic & mental energy
is all that's keeping
us alive.
Controlled by biology
and history,
we are moved by environmental circumstance,
limited to the few choices we have -
to learn or not to learn.
To know, or not to know.
& perhaps the more we know,
the more we can reach our full potential
of our genetics.
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I think if the third stanza
I think if the third stanza here applied to me, I'd just go ahead and die. It amazes me that more people don't have at least a little bit of curiosity and drive in the learning department, that they don't care to expand their perspective. hell, there's just so much interesting stuff to think about, but, like your poem points out, too many just don't even care. I'm glad you're thinking about it Berri.
I don't think people who are
I don't think people who are unmotivated are necessarily NOT thinking. But I think that not being happy with what's around them has some how enslaved them to feel like the area they're in is the best they can't get.
You don't know until you've experienced things... Therefore, it's easy to make a judgment about something right in front of you. I don't think too many people don't care, I think they just don't know & don't want to waste their time on something that might depress them too much. I can say that from my own experiences.


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Dr. Loosen Erdener Treppchen Kabinett 2011
Riesling from Mosel, Germany
Winemaker's Notes
The Treppchen Kabinett always stands out as a young wine, with its precocious red fruits and dense minerality from the red slate soil.
An elegant yet muscular wine, it makes an ideal aperitif, as well as an excellent partner for lighter seafood and poultry dishes. This wine benefits greatly from a few years in the bottle.
Critical Acclaim
Wine & Spirits - "Firm and delicate, this gives the sense of looking from the top of the rocky Treppchen hill, with the scent of herbs and wildflowers growing between sun-warmed stones. The wine's ripe lemon fruit is enlivened by a breezy acidity, with a clarity and a hint of ginger spice that bring a pairing with sushi to mind. In fact, this will do justice to any dish that requires a light but firm hand."
The Wine Advocate - "Sassafras and candied orange peel characteristic for this site are joined in the nose of Loosen's 2011 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Kabinett by pronounced pepper and cress notes that might have migrated from a Gruner Veltliner. Brighter in its fresh citrus palate suggestions and more focused than its immediate Kabinett siblings, it takes full advantage of the piquancy and bite of zest and cress to deliver a sappy finish of enervating and refreshing persistence. This unusually animated exemplar of its vintage and sector is apt to drink well through at least 2025. Cellarmaster Schug explains that it was fermented largely with cultured yeasts and raised entirely in stainless steel (characteristics true also of the corresponding Urziger Wurzgarten). "
Dr. Loosen Winery
The Dr. Loosen Estate has been in the same family for over 200 years. With ungrafted vines averaging 50 years old, some of the best vineyard sites in Germany (four rated grand cru and two premier cru by both the 1868 German classification and the more current Wine Atlas of Germany), Ernst Loosen has the raw materials for stunningly intense, world-class wines. With crop yields almost half of what is permitted by law, only moderate use of organic fertilizers, and old-fashioned cellar practices, Loosen strives to create wines that unmistakably say, "Riesling, Mosel, and Dr. Loosen." In his own words, "The great winemakers I have met invariably possess a clear concept in their mind of what their wine should be. It's a vision that places terrior over technology, and grape quality over quantity. This is the level of winemaking we pursue at Dr. Loosen. Our goal is to produce wines that are luscious, complex, and true to their roots." View all Dr. Loosen Wines
About Mosel-Saar-RuwerView a map of Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wineries(moe-ZELL saahr -RUE-wehr)The Mosel river winds its way through this wine region, passing by some of the steepest, most northerly vineyards of the world. The wines from the Mosel have a most distinctive soil based on slate. The slate-rich soils covering the region are what imparts the amazing, well-loved slate-y, mineraly flavors and aromas to the delicate Mosel wines. To keep this necessary slate in tact, when the rock slide down the steep vineyard hillsides, the vineyard workers grab a bucket and carry the rocks right back up to the vines. There is a level of care taken in the vineyards of Mosel that rivals most other regions. Tasting the wines helps to understand why.
Notable FactsRiesling is the grape of the Mosel – the combination of this grape with the slate soils is what makes Mosel wines so breathtakingly delicate. Common descriptors of the Mosel Rieslings include steely acidity, wet stone and delicate texture. Lower in alcohol and high in acidity, the wines are still balanced with the rich flavors of Riesling and the slate-y flavors from the soil. Two districts (or Bereiche) that you find most often on Mosel labels are Bernkastel and Zell. Both are good producers of wine from this region. Many other good wines are coming from the area – just look to make sure the bottle says "Riesling" on the label – that's a sign of quality.
About Germany
White Wine GuruWith some of the steepest and northernmost vineyards in the world, as well as the coolest climate, Germany produces some of the best white wines in the world, mainly Riesling. Delicate, age-worthy, intense and elegant are the typical descriptions for these wines. Note that "sweet" is not a common descriptor because the idea that most German wines are sweet is just not so. In fact, the majority of wines made in Germany are dry and more recently, the country is exporting value wines that are easy to drink, extremely food friendly and, luckily for some, containing labels that are easier to read!
The classification system of Germany is somewhat confusing. Like the rest of the old world, there's some hierarchy to it all. The categories are: Tafelwien (table wine), Landwein (land wine, similar to France's Vin de Pays) and the first "Q" level, QbA. QbA wines are easy-drinking and inexpensive – the only requirement being that the wine must come from one of Germany's thirteen official wine growing regions. The final level is QmP, which is the strictest level of German wines. The qualification consists of 6 levels, based on ripeness level at harvest, though that does not always translate into sweetness level.
Here are a few definitions to help in picking out a German QmP wine:
Kabinett(cab-ee-NET)The driest level, Kabinett is usually light-bodied, low to medium in alcohol, and fairly dry. Great everyday wine and food-friendly.
Spatlese(shpate-LAY-zuh)Grapes are picked a bit later than Kabinett (Spatlese means late harvest) and have a fuller, more intense body. Most wines of this level are dry although some are off-dry.
Auslese(OWSE-lay-zuh)Wines of this level are made from select grapes harvested even later than Spatlese. The grapes are selected in bunches to make sure they are of the perfect ripeness level. One step up in both body and sweetness, Auslese wines are balanced but with a bit more sweetness – perfect with spicy Indian food.
Beerenauslese(bare-ehn-owse-lay-zuh)The longer the words get, the higher up in sweetness level you rise. Like Auslese, the grapes are selected individually, but while Auslese is selected bunches, Beerenauslese are selected berries, and usually berries affected by botrytis, or noble rot, so you have an even more specific wine, which, in turn, increases both its sweetness level and its price.
Trockenbeerenauslese(trok-ehn-bare-ehn-owse-lay-zuh)Okay, so Trocken means dry in German and yet this wine is the sweetest of the German levels. The "trocken" comes into play as the berries picked for this wine are dried, intensifying the sugars. So the wine is made from late-harvest dried berries affected with botrytis - a combination that makes a decadent (and expensive!) bottle of wine. A treat if you are able to ever try one.
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MuseScore 0.9.6 released
We are proud to annouce the release of MuseScore 0.9.6, our best and most stable release up to date!
Downloads are available for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu and a Linux tarball.
This release comes with many new features, a lot of fixed bugs, new and updated translations, an improved plugin framework and many more improvements. Read more about new features in MuseScore 0.9.6 in your own language: English, Български, Ελληνικά, Français, Galego, Ialiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Português brasileiro
The MuseScore community grows
While comparing release notes of MuseScore 0.9.5 with the 0.9.6 release notes, we can easily notice that our contributor community is growing. More than 60 people were involved with 0.9.6 which means our contributor community doubled in size in the past 8 months. This is great news but let's find out why this happened.
First of all, with the release of the online translation server in January 2010, the number of MuseScore translators has been doubled. 26 languages are now actively being translated and the quality has gone up a lot. There is however still a lot of place for improvements. The translation server interface will be improved in the coming months, which will lower the barrier to contribute your translation even more. Also new features will be added to facilitate communication between translators, which should improve the overall quality of the translation.
A second reason to explain our growth, is the improved plugin framework in MuseScore. Many internal methods in MuseScore are now available for plugin developers and nicely documented in the plugin development handbook. This attracted new plugins developers and resulted in 9 new plugins. Among them are a Recorder Fingering plugin, integration with SoundCloud.com and Score Statistics. Do you have an idea for a plugin yourself? Don't hesitate to post it in the plugin forum!
More communication is the third reason for growth. If you want to get in touch with the MuseScore developers, there is now the #musescore IRC channel on freenode.net. If you don't have use an IRC client, you can always easily connect via webchat.freenode.net or java.freenode.net. Simply choose a nickname and fill in the #musescore channel name and you are one click away from asking a question to one of the MuseScore developers. For support, we do advice to keep on using the forum, but for developers questions, you now know where to go to.
Give your scores a social life
Nowadays, we share our pictures on Flickr and our videos on YouTube, but what about our scores? MuseScore 0.9.6 comes with a new feature on board to save your scores online to musescore.com. From there you will be able to play your scores online and share it with friends. Musescore.com is still under heavy development, but you can leave your email address in case you wish to be invited for beta testing the service.
Support MuseScore
Share the news of MuseScore 0.9.6 on Twitter, Facebook or other social networks. Tell your friends how good MuseScore is for you! You can also help MuseScore with your donation.
As always, don't hesitate to leave a comment on this post with your questions or remarks.
Well done! I am so impressed with MuseScore thus far, and I use it for all my composing and typesetting. Keep up the good work, and know that there are thousands of people who benefit from you developers' contributions. Your work is well appreciated!
First: I took the file from source of now coming version 0.9.6 of MuseScore and almost all of untranslated/fuzzy strings completed. I send it in attachment to this post. (I let strings like: OnTime, OffTime - I am not sure how to translate it: "On" means, that time is "on" and "Off" means, that time is "off"?).
Second: I saw that there is qt.cs file in locale, but untranslated. The situation with "qt" translation should be as now described from me: I made "qt" translated in autumn of last year, completed in January, and submitted it through Git in February (I think). So I send it in attachment too, simply to be sure - if it is necessary for programs running on Windows or anywhere, where "Qt" is not installed. I didn't made any revision of that translation from February - it's quite big file. :-) And I didn't find time to read "Book of Git" yet. :-)
I didn't made such thing before, but hopefully, there aren't much texts in web interface. Could you give some reference, how to begin? (I have only experience with translation of "wiki" documentation of QElectroTech - programmer made czech docuwiki page as begin, and I've simply continued.)
I can't see a translation tab
(I won't translate into Czeck, don't speak that language at all, but possible into German, it's main page does exist but seems quite outdated)
Bye, Jojo
I attache modified file.
This is mentioned in the new features page (http://musescore.org/en/node/4697); but it doesn't seem to be working as I would have expected. Is this supposed to be the function I recommended last November (http://musescore.org/en/node/3613), where you can double instruments in a score, e.g., have a sax player pick up a flute? If so, it's acting strangely in that, when I click in a blank place on the staff and click Staff Properties > Change Instrument, it wants to change the instrument throughout the score, as evidenced by the instrument label changing at the beginning of the score. Or did I misinterpret the phrase "Change an instrument for an existing staff"?
Thank you very much.
In Staff Properties "change instruments" applies to the whole staff. The "ability to switch instruments mid-way through a staff"is not yet implemented in current versions of MuseScore. However, it is listed on the milestones page.
I downloaded Musescore 9.6 and installed it without error messages. I then found that I still had 9.5 installed (I thought it would be overwritten by 9.6), so I unstalled it. Then when I brought up 9.6, I found I couldn't access either the local or the on line help, though they both worked fine in 9.5. So I uninstalled 9.6 and installed it again, but still can't access wither help. Using either the menu item or the F1 key results in just nothing happening at all. Is there supposed to be a help in this version?
Both should work.
You can find the handbook online at : http://musescore.org/en/handbook and you can also download the PDF
On your computer, the pdf handbook is installed in C:\Program Files\MuseScore\man
Thanks, I went to C:\Program Files\MuseScore\man\MuseScore-en.pdf on my computer and clicked on it and it works fine, so obviously my Adobe works. But I tried again and neither the Local Handbook nor the On Line Handbook functions do anything at all in 9.6. This is very puzzling, since I used them both in 9.5 about ten minutes before I installed 9.6 and they worked fine. And I had no error msg in the 9.6 installation and didn't tamper with anything after I installed it. Does anyone else see this problem?
Actually, looking at it again, I'm not sure I should have said it works fine. The pdf file housed in my C:\Program Files\MuseScore\man\MuseScore-en.pdf has a heading saying it is for version 0.9.2 and above, and that it was "Retrieved from http://musescore.org on Mon, 06/07/2010". If I understand, 0.9.6 was released on 06/08/2010. So is what I have really the manual for the 0.9.6 release?
I created a bug report in the issue tracker so that you can follow any developments on this issue:
#6060: Help > Local Handbook doesn't work
I've downloaded the latest version to run under Lucid, but the splash screen still shows the beta version, and so does the 'About' tag. How can I tell which version I've got, and how do I download and install the stable version?
The version number is in about box. And it's 0.9.6rXXXX.
To install MuseScore 0.9.6 stable for ubuntu go to : https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable
Got the stable version of 0.9.6 now on both pc and netbook after updating Software Sources. Except for a very scary moment when I accidentally got unstable version 0.9.7!
Once again thank you for your patient help.
Operating system: Ubuntu Lucid (10-04), new installation (no upgrade)
As described at 'https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable' page I followed these steps:
- I've added two lines in source.list ('deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu lucid main' and 'deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu lucid main')
- I've added the signing key 3A258030
- I've updated the list of software
After these steps, using Ubuntu Software Center, I've installed MuseScore, but the version installed is the "Unstable Prerelease for Version 0.9.6, Revision 2613".
No problem on my laptop with Windows XP.
Is there something wrong?
At 'https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu' I've selected on the right 'Contact this team's owner' and I've posted there my report. Is it OK?
Now, at 17.38 pm (in Italy), no more problems: without any upgrade in 'source.list', with Ubuntu Software Center I've installed MuseScore Version 0.9.6 Revision 3145 and it works fine.
Best regards
Thank you to all who contributed to this marvellous project! Version 0.9.6 has some great new features, and it is a pleasure to explore it. Also congrats to the guy who made the new program icon, I like it a lot (well that's just the first thing that crossed my mind umm... eye, but there's a lot more great stuff of course). I feel the MuseScore-Project will be very successful in the future, and I hope I can contribute some useful things. All the best and thanks again,
Musescore 9.6 has a new and much more complicated transpose box. That's fine for those who want it, but I really, really miss the old simple box which just let you move up and down by n intervals. Unless I'm missing it, this just isn't there any more. Can this be added again as an option?
Also, there's apparently no help in the handbook for transpose. Shouldn't there be such a section?
You still can tranpose by interval. Go to Note->Transpose, Choose transpose by interval, up down, and your interval and you are set. Just like in 0.9.5.
Thanks for the reply, but the box is still confusing for beginner composers like me. My memory of the old box was that you just needed to click an arrow to transpose everything up or down by 1 interval, or two, or whatever. If I try to transpose with the new box, my options are given with the technical music terms major/minor/augmented/diminished etc., which no doubt are clear to any even basically experienced composer, but that is a category that does not include me. Eventually I'll learn about those things, and I think I have some books I can look them up in, but as a real beginner I can't interpret them, whereas just moving everything up or down by n intervals, with the new key signature conveniently put in for you, was something that even a complete beginner like myself could easily understand and use. One of the advantages of Musescore I think is exactly that it is something that can be used by composers with a wide range of experience, from rudimentary to advanced, and the new transpose method seems to exclude some of the former.
Hi Folks,
Just been playing around with Sibelius, Notion3 and MuseScore and I have to say that in terms up "up and running the fastest", MuseScore wins hands down.
I'm studying composition right now (from the beginning) and for my kind of stuff, MuseScore (+the Fluid GM soundfont) offers everything I need.
Well done! I look forward to trying out my new-found skills using the program!
Why are there so little instruments!?!
Version 0.9.6 shows only the most common instruments initially as described in New features in MuseScore 0.9.6, "User interface", "Save time". To see the full list of instruments just mark the "show more" checkbox.
Was there are particular instrument you were missing?


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Food quality is above average for Norway. Smallest value for money we encountered in norway so far. Small rooms, expensive, no free wifi. Leknes is not of any interest by itself as a town.
Clean nice hotel, large rooms (for Norwegian standards), very comfortable beds Location is a bit in the middle of nowhere. There is nothing to do outside the hotel. Ok to stay overnight while passing the beautiful Lofoten Island.


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Subject: Re: [htdig] Re: Ornamentation?
From: Paul Wolstenholme (email@example.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 10:00:58 PDT
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Geoff Hutchison:
> > At 7:51 AM +0000 10/16/00, crosstar wrote:
> > >I was interested in the ht/dig search engine, but all of the examples
> > >I came acress had the logo and advertising on it (which we could
> > >not use, insofar as we are non-profit and non-commercial).
> ...
> > There is no restriction on use. Naturally we like it when people
> > include the logo or a link to htdig.org, but there is no requirement
> > to do so. The GNU GPL only has restrictions on the distribution of
> > the source code, not on any form of use.
> Our University has a strict policy against any advertising on its web
> sites, but they've never given me any flak for having the ht://Dig logo
> on my search pages. It's not really advertising to indicate which search
> engine you use, and link to their site, especially when it's not being
> sold for profit. Many non-profit and non-commercial sites use ht://Dig
> and do carry the logo. However, if your policy is even stricter than
> ours, as Geoff said, there is no requirement to carry the logo.
I was in a similar situation at a university. Not that anyone at the
university would have ever noticed but I replaced the image with a text
link. I have had no problem. So while it may not be a Ht:/Dig requirement,
I believe that even a small notice is important. In my case, "Search
results provided by ht:/Dig" (with a link to htdig) is located at the
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Travel Guide Caribbean Bahamas Grand Bahama
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Grand Bahama is the northernmost island of the Bahamas and after New Providence the most popular and therefore crowded one in the island chain.
Lucayan National Park is a small park at just 16 hectares. In the northern parts of the park there are trails to a limestone plateau where you'll find caves that open to the longest underwater cave system in the world. There are options to walk along the boardwalks in a mangrove swamp. From here, you can reach Gold Rock Beach, a nice beache fringed by dunes.
Grand Bahama has a pleasantly warm but humid climate. Compared to Caribbean islands more to the south, there are some differences regarding temperatures, mainly because it is somewhat colder during the wintermonths of November to April. Generally though, temperatures are high, with summer maximum temperatures averaging around 30 °C and minimum temperatures around 24 °C. During the wintermonths temperatures are about 5 °C lower. The rainy season lasts from May to October, with September and October being the wettest months. This is also the time (especially from August to October) when hurricanes are a possibility.
Grand Bahama International Airport (FPO) near Freeport has international flights to/from Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach, New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, Toronto, Baltimore, Louisville, Richmond, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Providenciales (main island of the Turks and Caicos Islands), and seasonal to Milan. Moore's Island, Great Harbour Cay Bimini, Walker's Cay, Treasure Cay, Marsh Harbour and North Eleuthra are domestic destinations served.
Discovery Cruise Line operates a daily (except Wednesdays) cruise ferry between Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale in Florida and Freeport on Grand Bahama. It leaves at 9:30am from Fort Lauderdale, arriving in Freeport around 1:30pm, and returns from Freeport at 5:15pm, arriving in Fort Lauderdale around 10:30pm. So a one-way trip takes around 4 hours to the Bahamas, and about 5 hours back, which barely leaves you 4 hours at Grand Bahama Island. There are options to spend the night though and take a ferry the next day back to Florida. Services on board include three buffet meals and a Las Vegas style casino! A return ticket costs around US$140.
Pinder's Ferry operates small boat running twice a day between McLean's Town, Grand Bahama and Crown Haven on Little Abaco.
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