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Should I get iPad 2 or iPad 3 (with 3G & 4G) because all the new iPad has is just retina display and better video recording with an a5x chip?
- Asked by Lorraine B
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It really depends on what you want. Do you need the 4G or do you not? Do you care about a clearer screen or is it not really a big deal? How often will you use the iPads camera where the upgrade will be necessary?
If it fits into your budget, definitely go with the new iPad. If not, the iPad 2 is just as good for 100bucks less. Remember the iPad 2 is only 16GB (unless you buy it refurbished on from a third party). Also, 4G requires a data plan, so keep that in mind too.
- Answered by Brett M from Boca Raton
- 20-Mar-2012
Depends on how you will use it and and how much you have to spend. First, the Retina display is amazingly clear and has better color saturation than the iPad 2. Second, storage size: availability of 32GB and 64GB iPad 2 models will be very limited. Apple is selling only the 16GB model now. The 4G data plans are generally more expensive than the 3G. If you are not in an area where you can use 4G this will not be helpful to you. The A5X chip and increased on-board memory in the new iPad seem to make the device zippier. I didn't hear people complaining about the iPad 2 speed, but the original iPad could be a bit sluggish to use with iOS 5.
- Answered by Jonathan D from Alexandria
- 20-Mar-2012
If you're in the US, then it may be worth considering the new iPad (with 4G). If, however, you're happy with speeds of 3G, then it may be worth considering the iPad 2.
From the way you put your question, I can tell that the Retina Display, HD video recording and A5X chip aren't particularly defining features for you. The display looks tremendous, video recording has slightly been improved but the A5X chip offers little speed increases from the iPad 2's A5 chip.
- Answered by Jack G
- 21-Mar-2012
According to me its not a very huge difference so i would go for ipad 2...its like update to iphone 4S from iphone 4 both have same looks and neglegible differnce.also said by "its better to skip one generation of any apple product "eg;if u have iphone 4 dont buy 4S
- Answered by Dhruv S
- 31-May-2012
Well, as a personal iPad 1, 2, and the New iPad owner, I'd say you gotta go for the new iPad. The difference, depending on which one you plan to buy, is around 100$. Really, 100$ and you get the most beautiful and high resolution display ON EARTH and a faster processor, etc. etc. So basically you're paying 100$ for a Retina display, which is by all means, worth it. If you've never experienced one, then you don't know what I mean, but if you have, you know.
- Answered by Glenn T from San Ramon
- 20-Mar-2012
If you can afford the new iPad purchase it if not the iPad 2 is still a fantastic product good luck in you purchase
- Answered by Nicholas C from Gold Coast
- 20-Mar-2012
Having an original mac book pro I resisted buying San iPad until this week. Went for the best I could afford and I think that's the guide with apple. Like buying the worst house in the best street rather than the best house in a bad street. If you can afford it go for the new iPad.
I can't compare mine with iPad2 - I just know that after 3 days I love it as much as my MBP.
- Answered by Stephanie M
- 29-Sep-2012
I hate to burst anyone's bubbles but it's not EVEN a consideration point to buy an iPad 2 for a measely savings of only $100. I cannot think of a SINGLE reason why you want to miss out on the Retina display - NO REASON. The only considertion for the $100 savings are for bulk purchases for schools and institutes where the final cost would be the difference of couple of hundreds of thousands to a few million dollars.
- Answered by John T from Anaheim
- 04-Sep-2012
If you can afford the extra for the New iPad with 4G then buy it because if you opt for the iPod 2 it will be more than likely that you will possibly regret not buying what you wanted in the first place. I know of people who will always invite or persuade you to buy the cheaper simply because they have it not because it is the best.
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- Answered by Arthur R
- 11-Oct-2012
Just get what you want best. i personaly think that you should get the new iPad as it has retina display BUT.. the ipad 2 or ipad 3 with 4g or 3g would be usefull as not everyone carrys their ipad with them when they go out do they. they only use 3g/4g if they dont find internet conection
- Answered by Riaz W
- 12-Feb-2013
ipad 3
- Answered by Selwyn D
- 15-Oct-2012
i like ipad 2
- Answered by Gyuman H from Allston
- 21-Oct-2012
In my opinion iPad3 is better, but if your looking for a better price you should get the iPad2
- Answered by Boateng B
- 03-Jun-2012


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Cliffhanger's Continuation
With the turret winding up under the base of the helicopter, things were looking grim at the end of the fall portion of Revolution. Had the shot continued, clearly everyone in the field was going to be mowed down in a shower of bullets and blood. Right? But instead, they turned and ran to freedom, making that cliffhanger all the more infuriating thanks to how easily the crisis was diverted. At least kneecap someone or something to make this matter!
Obviously the show cannot continue on without these characters, so the expectations were for the cast to get out of this situation somehow. Yet it still seemed too easy as they took shelter in the decaying shell of an old building seconds before it took a missile to the gut from the pursuing chopper. Flames erupt from its depths to an extent that would make Harry S. Truman proud; yet again we find Miles and the gang safe in an aptly placed freezer. Sure their luck is going to run out soon!
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Before they can celebrate with the addition of Danny and Rachel to the party, there is one last leg of the journey out of the Philly area and away from Monroe, who has now put a target on Miles' head. Thank goodness for hammerspace, which is where I imagine the gang was stashing a horse and buggy, militia uniforms, coffins, and a dead guy. The brand on Charlie's wrist was a nice touch as the lack of use in the plots so far was impossible to miss, but the lack of explanation for the group attaining these items is just lazy. Not only that, but then everyone poured from their coffins in a clown car like fashion since the camera angle made only two coffins visible most of the time, as opposed to the five needed for Miles, Danny, Rachel, Aaron, and the corpse. If only that corpse had been Danny…
With the first ten minutes of the show edited together as if the viewing was being dictated by someone a little too trigger happy with the chapter skip button on the remote, Revolution is not off to a great start.
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Now that Monroe has a power source, the disappointment from Miles not rejoining him at the head of the militia is short lived as he turns full attention towards putting this advantage to use immediately, striking at the rebel forces within the republic. As Neville runs through the rebel camps, calling in air strikes as each new location is revealed, it becomes clear that Jason is not the same man as his father.
Thanks to the handy dandy flashbacks, we know that Neville did not become the man he is today by accepting his weaknesses, so it's not surprising that he is a little more than peeved at his son's doubts about "decisively" slaughtering innocent families tied to the rebel camps. Another thing we've learned about Neville is that he packs a punch, and now Jason knows it too as his father takes out a surprising amount of anger on Jason's face for being a shameful disappointment by reminding himself of the same weaknesses that Monroe just reprimanded him for. It's hard to imagine that Mrs. Neville is going to go along with Neville's orders to "never come home again" since she wears the pants in the family, but until the inevitable family reunion Jason has been cut free to work his way into Charlie's group.
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With the main body of the group at the rebel headquarters in Annapolis, Miles and Rachel go off on their own to find some thermal guided missile launchers. Guess they didn't think to pack those along with the coffins in their infinite storage space… Finally we can get some words to go with those glances between the two in the earlier scenes, but honestly not a whole lot is explained to any acceptable level. For starters, Rachel has no response to Miles saying that he saw her dead body. Was she given some magical potion to make hear appear to be a corpse, or was it a decoy corpse of another blonde woman? Maybe she's just really good at holding her breath. And why fake her death in the first place?
When Rachel doesn't respond Miles continues by saying that he's sorry he can't make all of this up to her because he's to blame for where everything has led. We know that he was there when she turned herself in to the militia, so it must be something more personal since he's never really seemed too apologetic about his past before. So Miles saying something like this to her means that they have some special bond. Granted, an easier way of figuring this out was simply to notice how close their faces were to each other. Tsk tsk…
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FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. - The 2013 Minnesota State Fair is open for what can only be described as fantastic weather on its first day.
Officials note Mother Nature can make or break State Fair attendance on any given day. Folks were feasting on roasted corn before 8 a.m. and the mini-donut stands were packed. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (DFL-Plymouth) enjoyed a breakfast of Lift Bridge Brewery's Mini-Donut Ale. Her collegue Senator Al Franken (DFL-Minneapolis) is also at the Fair. Admission for adults is reduced to ten dollars on this "Thrifty Thursday."
While some areas of Minnesota awoke to a foggy morning commute, those in the far southeast corner of the state are dealing with heavy rain and flash flooding. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for central Olmsted County through 10 a.m. Up to two inches of rain fell in under an hour in some areas, and storm spotters and local police are reporting street flooding in the city of Rochester. Forecasters and emergency officials say excessive runoff is expected to cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses, and other low-lying spots. They're also reminding people not to walk or drive through moving water and flooded areas.
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Cornell's student poets 'fill verbs with gasoline' as a rain-soaked Manhattan audience cheers them on
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NEW YORK -- An homage to Harry Houdini. A collection of haiku written from the perspective of zombies. These were just some of the poems read by six M.F.A. students from the English department's Creative Writing Program at "Poem in Your Pocket Day" in Manhattan's Bryant Park on April 27.
The Cornell students joined poets from the Academy of American Poets (AAP), the City University of New York and New York City high schools to read and discuss their work with a rain-soaked but enthusiastic Manhattan audience at the event, which was co-sponsored by Cornell.
"It's just great to see so many young people picking up poetry and being willing to read it," said Julie Phillips Brown, M.F.A. '08.
As she took the stage, Dawn Lonsinger, M.F.A. '08, praised the crafting and delivery of all the students' poems. "You guys are really powerful," she said. "You've been filling a lot of verbs with gasoline"
The work read by the six M.F.A. students ran the gamut, from somber memories of deceased family members to love seen through the eyes of animals. From her piece, "Honey Me, Honey Hunting," Lonsinger read;
if only we could walk, fly, & sting
without our pitch-dark firebrains,
but traces of loving gum
in the pollen-basket of our optic nerve,
our ordinary nerve, as if useful,
honeyready, I walk repeatedly
toward the door that neither nor,
is not a gift or message.
Much of the poetry recited by the Cornell poets and the high school students spoke intensely to the specific location and culture that the poet comes from. "Being at Cornell has taken me away from the place where I grew up enough that I have the distance to write about it," said Dana Koster M.F.A. '08. "I never wrote about California before, and I don't know that I would've done that if I'd stayed there my whole life."
"Poetry is a really small program -- there are just four of us admitted each year," said Justin Souza, M.F.A. '08. Teaching undergraduate classes is part of the M.F.A. curriculum, and the graduate students are always in high demand. "I had 35 students sign up for 18 slots in my creative writing workshop," said Marisol Baca, M.F.A. '07. Said Cori Winrock, M.F.A. '08: "There are a lot of preconceptions, mostly relating to Shakespeare and formalism. You start by breaking that down and giving them exposure to a lot of different poets."
The Manhattan event gave the Cornell's poets the experience of observing even younger writers, the New York City high school students. Praising the passion of their delivery, Baca said, "The kids' presence, at that age, was totally unbelievable -- I don't even have that now. I think you unlearn that confidence. It's just exciting to see poetry so alive."
In their poems, the high school students spoke animatedly about issues of gender equality, cultural identity, love and happiness. "The most common element in the students' work was trying to figure out feelings, which I thought was really nice," said Baca. "Rather than just blurting the feelings out, they were trying to figure out what that feeling was and where it came from."
"I want these kids to hear what a published poet sounds like," said Paul Romero of the Bryant Park Reading Room, an open-air library originally meant to serve unemployed New Yorkers during the Depression. "They've already got the inspiration -- their teachers are helping them through instruction, and they're learning the basics. They can maybe see where there's a possibility to go to a different stage of poetry, and that it means a lot of different things to a lot of people. The idea is to mix it all up."
The event was organized by the New York City Department of Education in collaboration with the Office of the Mayor and its Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York Times and the AAP. The Cornell poets' trip to the Poem in Your Pocket event was organized and supported by Humanities Communications and University Communications' New York City office.


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Magdalene- love Magnolia or Magdelena
Muriel ???
Mary- I think all of the derivatives have been covered
William- Willow, Wilhemina
Henry- Henrietta (Etta, Hettie, Hattie)
Rupert- ???
I really like Marin, btw. I knew a girl in school named Marin and I thought it was such a lovely name.
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- Cilla, Presley, Celia
- Magdalena, Magda, Darlene, Madeleine, Lena, Malin ( pr. MAH-Lynn), Margaret
- this is hard, I can't come up with anything
- Marielle (would cover Muriel aswell?), Maria, Marina, Marie, Maia, Margo ( cover Magdalene?), Marita, Martha, Marika, Myra, Maisie, Macey, Marilla, Mirella
- Nadia, Alena, Talia, Tana, Natasha, Nanna
- Wilhelmina, Willow, Wilma, Vilja (pr. Vill-yah), Lia
- Heneiette, Henrietta, Henna, Henrika, Hedda, Enya, Helmina, Henny, Hannah, Hanne (pr. Hunn-eh), Hetta, Hettie
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The Events service provides group calendars that you can use to schedule meetings, appointments, and any other type of team occasion. Additionally, a dedicated Events page is available to every group space where the space's moderator has enabled the Events service.
The Events service also enables you to view your own personal Microsoft Exchange calendar within your personal space. In addition, you can overlay group space calendars on top of that calendar, so that you can view all your important meetings in a single calendar.
Note:The Events service is available only in the WebCenter Spaces application, not in custom WebCenter applications. Consequently, when we discuss it in this chapter, we do so only within the context of WebCenter Spaces.
This chapter explores the features offered through the Events service. It contains the following sections:
Section 19.1, "What You Should Know About the Events Service"
This chapter is intended for users who want to use Events service task flows to schedule and track events.
The WebCenter Spaces application administrator has the authority to expose or hide a particular service's task flows. Tasks discussed in this chapter are not available to you if the relevant service is hidden. For information about WebCenter Spaces seeded user roles, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.
Events include appointments, meetings, presentations, and so on. Within WebCenter Spaces, there are two kinds of events:
Personal events are those that concern only you. They could include things like dentist appointments or a meal with a friend.
Personal events come from your Microsoft Exchange calendar and display only to you and only in Events task flows that are located on pages in your personal space.
Group space events are those that involve all members of a specific group space. They could include weekly meetings or presentations.
Group space events display to all members of the group space on the group space's dedicated Events page or in any Events task flow that is located on a page in the group space. Members with the required level of permission can schedule or update events.
Note:If your application uses WebCenter's default user roles, then the required permissions to create an event are included in both the participant and moderator roles. Participants and Moderators can manage all events.
In addition to displaying your personal Microsoft Exchange calendar, in the Events task flow in your personal space you can overlay your personal calendar with events from significant group spaces. In this way, you can have all your important events available in one location, rather than having to go to multiple group spaces to manage your daily schedule. In a group space, if you can create a page and add an Events task flow to it, you can also extend that task flow to display events from other group spaces. This is useful if some group spaces are very closely connected with similar membership lists.
Note:The Events page only displays events from the current group space.
When you first add an Events task flow to a page in your personal space, the task flow does not initially display the calendar of events. Instead the task flow displays a link prompting you to log in (Figure 19-1). For information about logging in to your personal calendar, see Section 19.2.2, "Accessing Your Personal Microsoft Exchange Calendar."
If you do not have a Microsoft Exchange calendar, or do not want to display personal events, but still want to view group space events in your personal space, enable calendar overlaying and then click Continue (Figure 19-2) For information about calendar overlaying, see Section 19.2.8, "Displaying Multiple Calendars in a Single Task Flow."
Figure 19-2 Events Task Flow in Personal Space with Calendar Overlay Enabled
Your application may provide a variety of locations from which to view events.
Figure 19-3 shows events in an Events task flow on a group space page. The Events task flow can also be included on a personal space page.
Figure 19-4 shows events on the Events page.
Through its tight integration with the Links service, the Events service provides the opportunity to associate events with other WebCenter Spaces items. Linking enables you to associate documents, notes, announcements, discussions, and URLs with an event. You can create links from an event by editing the event and clicking the Links icon. For more information, see Chapter 21, "Working with the Links Service."
Meetings are a fact of life. The art is in keeping on top of all those meetings, making sure you can attend all those that matter and keep abreast of what is going on.
Note:The steps in the following sections apply to personal events and group space events. Where there are any differences, these are noted.
This section includes the following subsections:
Section 19.2.1, "Adding an Events Service Task Flow to a Page"
Section 19.2.2, "Accessing Your Personal Microsoft Exchange Calendar"
Section 19.2.8, "Displaying Multiple Calendars in a Single Task Flow"
For the steps to add an Events service task flow to a page, see Section 10.1.4, "Adding Task Flows to a Page."
You may maintain a calendar of events outside of WebCenter Spaces that does not relate to specific group spaces. If you use Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 for this calendar, you can include the information in your WebCenter Spaces personal space. This keeps all your calendar information in a single place, making it much easier for you to organize your day.
Before you can access your Microsoft Exchange calendar in WebCenter Spaces, your administrator must have created a connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server. For more information, see the chapter "Managing the Events Service" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.
To access your Microsoft Exchange calendar:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to your personal space.
Locate the page where you want to add your Microsoft Exchange calendar.
Edit the page and add the Events task flow to the appropriate region on the page.
For more detailed information, see Section 10.1.4, "Adding Task Flows to a Page."
Click Save and then Close.
In the Events task flow, click Login to Personal Calendar.
Note:If you see the link Try Again instead of Login to Personal Calendar, there is a problem with the connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server. Contact your administrator.
Enter your Microsoft Exchange login credentials and click OK.
You can view events as a grid or a list; choose to display events a day, a week, or a month at a time; select the range of hours displayed per day; and include a second time zone in the display.
This section includes the following subsections:
Section 220.127.116.11, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space"
Section 22.214.171.124, "Displaying Events by Day, Week, or Month or as a List"
In every group space, group space events display on the Events page. However, the Events page may not display by default. If so, it's easy to display the Events page using the Manage Pages dialog.
To display the Events page:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the group space where you want to display the Events page.
Select the Manage Pages command from the Page Actions menu (Figure 19-6).
In the Manage Pages dialog, select the Show Page checkbox for the Events page. (Figure 19-7).
In the group space, there is now a tab for the Events page (Figure 19-8).
If you later decide that you no longer want to display the Events page, click the tab and choose Hide Page from the menu (Figure 19-9).
You can display personal and group space events in grid form or in list form. When you display events as a list, all upcoming events for the next year are listed. When you display events as a grid, you can display events by day, week, or month.
To display events by day, week, or month or as a list:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to set event display options.
If the Events page is not available, see Section 220.127.116.11, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
On the toolbar:
Click the Day icon to display the calendar one day at a time (Figure 19-10).
Click the Week icon to display the calendar for the whole week (Figure 19-11).
Click the Month icon to display the calendar for the whole month (Figure 19-12).
Click the List icon to display a list of upcoming events (Figure 19-13).
Figure 19-13 Events Displayed as a List
The calendar refreshes and appears in the selected mode.
Usually, in grid mode, the Events page or Events task flow displays events for the current day, week, or month. To view events for a specific point in time, you can use the previous or next buttons or select a date so that the calendar displays events for a different date.
To select a date:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to select a date for an event.
If the Events page is not available, see Section 18.104.22.168, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
On the toolbar, click the Previous or Next icon until the appropriate date is displayed.
In Day view, this displays the previous or next day. In Week and List view, this displays the previous or next week. In Month view, this displays the previous or next month.
If you know the specific date, on the toolbar, click the Select Date icon (Figure 19-14).
The date picker opens (Figure 19-15). Today's date is boxed, and the currently selected date (which may also be today's date) is highlighted. For example, in Figure 19-15, today's date is the 11th and the selected date is the 15th.
Note:If the calendar overlay feature is enabled in Full mode for the task flow, the Date Picker is always visible to the left of the calendar.
Use the date picker to select the month, year, and day.
For example, select a month from the dropdown list; select a year using the controls to the right of the current year, or enter the value yourself; click a date to select a day. Once you select a day, the date picker closes and the calendar shows events for that date.
To quickly return to today's date, click the Today link.
The Events task flow and Events page include a Refresh icon that you can use to refresh your calendar (Figure 19-16).
This is useful for updating your view of the calendar with any recent changes made by other users. Click the Refresh icon and the calendar redraws, reflecting recent changes.
Time display preferences determine the earliest time displayed on the calendar when events are viewed by day or week.
You can also use time display preferences to identify a secondary time zone. This feature is particularly useful with international workforces. When selecting an hour to hold a meeting, it's useful to know the hours most optimal for meeting in both time zones.
To set up time display preferences:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to set time display preferences.
If the Events tab is not available, see Section 184.108.40.206, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
Click the Set time display preferences icon on the toolbar (Figure 19-17).
The Time Display Preferences dialog opens (Figure 19-18).
From the Start Time dropdown list, select the first hour to display on the grid when there is limited display space. If the grid is big enough to display hours from before the start time up until 11PM, it does so.
Choose from 12AM to 11PM.
Optionally, from the Secondary Time Zone dropdown list select a secondary time zone to display along with the primary time zone.
When a user rolls a mouse pointer over the event in the calendar, event details pop up. The secondary time zone appears in the popup (Figure 19-19).
Click OK to save your changes.
The following section shows you how to schedule an event.
To schedule an event:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to schedule an event.
If the Events tab is not available, see Section 22.214.171.124, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
Click the Create a new event icon on the toolbar (Figure 19-20).
The Create Event dialog opens (Figure 19-21). The fields in the Create Event dialog are slightly different depending on whether you are creating a personal event or a group space event. For group space events, the dialog includes a Category dropdown list; for personal events, the dialog includes a Private checkbox. These options are described in further detail later in this procedure.
Note:You can also easily invoke the Create Event dialog in grid view by double-clicking an empty space or right-clicking an empty space and choosing Create. The advantage of this is that date and time of the event are automatically specified in the dialog.
Figure 19-21 The Create Event Dialog Invoked from a Group Space
In the Title field, enter a brief descriptive title for the event.
For example,
Project Reality Check.
In the Location field, enter the location of the event.
For example,
Bldg. 5, room 786.
From the Calendar dropdown list, select the calendar against which you want to create the event.
If you do not have the calendar overlay feature enabled, there is only one option in this list: the current calendar. For more information about calendar overlays, see Section 19.2.8, "Displaying Multiple Calendars in a Single Task Flow."
In the Time section, select All Day Event to block out the entire day for the event.
All-day events can span multiple days.
In the Start Time field enter or select a date and time to start the event. You can click the Select Date and Time icon and select a start time from the Date Picker, if you prefer.
In the End Time field enter or select a date and time to finish the event. You can click the Select Date and Time icon and select an end time from the Date Picker, if you prefer.
Note:All selections under the Options section are optional.
In the Options section, assign a priority for the event.
Choose from Highest, High, Normal, Low, or Lowest.
Select a category to classify this event from the Category dropdown list.
Optionally, click the Create Category button to create a category and automatically select it for this event.
Categories are useful for creating distinct groups of events, organized according to their general purpose.
Note:The Category dropdown list is not available for personal events.
In the Details text box, enter any additional details you want to include, up to a maximum of 4000 characters.
Select the Private checkbox if you do not want other users to be able to view this event.
Click the Create button.
In the Send Mail message window, click Yes to send an email notification to all members of the group space distribution list informing them about the event (Figure 19-22).
If you do not want to send a notification, click No.
Note:The Send Mail message window does not appear when creating personal events.
Provide your mail login credentials, if necessary.
The Compose window displays (Figure 19-23). The To field is automatically populated with the member email addresses, distribution list, or both for the group space. The Events service also provides a default subject, and attaches a text or HTML file containing the message body file and an icalendar file with details of the event.
Note:If the contents of the To field would be greater than 256 characters, the To field is left empty and a warning message is included in the message body file.
Compose the body of the message and click Send.
A dialog opens with a message that asks whether you want to compose another message or close the Compose window.
Click Yes to open a new Compose window or No to exit.
The event is added to the calendar (Figure 19-24)
The Events page or Events task flow displays basic information about events. To view more information, such as the location or start and end times, simply hover your mouse over an event.
To view event details:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to view event details.
If the Events page is not available, see Section 18.104.22.168, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
Hover the mouse over a link to an event to display the event details (Figure 19-25).
To view the priority or category of the event you must edit the event. For more information, see Section 19.2.6, "Revising Scheduled Events."
You may want to change some aspect of an event; for example, you may want to change the time to accommodate a particular attendee, or the location might become unavailable.
To revise a scheduled event:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to revise a scheduled event.
If the Events page is not available, see Section 188.8.131.52, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
Right-click the event and choose Edit (Figure 19-26).
The Edit Event dialog opens (Figure 19-27).
You can also get to the Edit Event dialog by clicking an event, or by moving the mouse pointer (or using the Tab key) to highlight an event and pressing Enter.
Figure 19-27 The Edit Event Dialog Invoked from a Personal Space
Revise the event details.
Click Update to save your changes.
To cancel an event, you can delete it from the Events page or task flow.
To cancel a scheduled event:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to the Events task flow (or Events page) where you want to cancel a scheduled event.
If the Events tab is not available, see Section 220.127.116.11, "Displaying the Events Page for a Group Space."
Right-click the event and choose Delete (Figure 19-28).
You can also delete an event by hovering your mouse over the event and pressing the Delete key and from the Edit Event dialog.
Click Delete in the Delete Confirmation dialog.
The event is removed from the calendar.
Within WebCenter Spaces, you may be a member of several group spaces. Each of these group spaces may have its own calendar of events. In addition to that, you may also have your own calendar where you track those events that concern only yourself. At the start of each day, the last thing you want to have to do is trawl through each of these calendars individually to determine your schedule for the day.
To solve this issue, the Events service enables you to view multiple calendars, or overlay calendars, in a single Events task flow. The best place to do this is in your personal space, so that you can also include your personal appointments. However, you can also overlay calendars in a group space Events task flow.
The events from each calendar are displayed in a different color to help identify the source of the event.
To overlay multiple calendars in a single task flow:
Log in to WebCenter Spaces and go to your personal space or the appropriate group space.
Locate the page that contains the Events task flow.
If you have not yet added the Events task flow to a page, see Section 10.1.4, "Adding Task Flows to a Page."
From the Page Actions menu, choose Edit Page.
Click the Edit icon for the Events task flow.
Note:If you are working in a group space, you may not have the appropriate permissions to edit the task flow. To enable calendar overlay, contact the group space moderator.
In the Parameters tab of the Component Properties: Events dialog (Figure 19-29), enter
FULL or
MINI in the Calendar Overlay Style field.
FULL provides a more detailed view of the calendar overlay, but takes up more space on your screen. You may want to use the
FULL option when you are first using calendar overlays.
MINI provides a view of the calendar overlay that takes up less space on your screen, but it might not be immediately obvious how to work with the overlays. You might want to use the
MINI option when you have become more familiar with calendar overlays and how to use them.
Click OK.
Click Save and then Close.
The Events task flow now includes an area to the left of the calendar where you can choose other calendars to display in the task flow (Figure 19-30).
If you select the
FULL option for the Calendar Overlay Style, the task flow also now includes a date picker to help you easily move around your calendar.
To add another calendar to the task flow:
In the calendar overlay area of the Events task flow, click the Add Calendar icon.
In the Add Calendar dialog (Figure 19-32), select the group space whose events you want to see in your calendar.
You can select multiple group spaces in this dialog.
Click Add Calendar.
The calendar overlay area now includes your selected group space and the calendar on the right includes events from that group space. The events from the each group space are displayed in a different color.
After adding a group space's events to your calendar you can change various display options by clicking the arrow icon to the right of the group space in the calendar overlay area.
Visible to toggle the display of this calendar's events in the calendar.
You can also toggle the display of a calendar's events by clicking the calendar name or the colored square next to the calendar name.
Change display name to make the name in the list of calendars more meaningful to you than just the group space name.
Remove Calendar to remove this calendar's events permanently.
Open Group Space to open the group space associated with this calendar.
Move to Top/Move up/Move down/Move to Bottom to rearrange this calendar in the list.
The order in which the calendars are listed determines the order in which events are listed when events from multiple calendars occur in the same time slot. Events from the calendar at the top of the list are displayed first.
A color to change the color used for the events from this calendar.
The Events service task flow has associated properties, which users with sufficient privileges can access through the Component Properties dialog in Oracle Composer (Figure 19-35). Many properties are common to all task flows, and the method for accessing task flow properties is the same from task flow to task flow. Common task flow properties and how to access them are discussed in Section 10.4, "Setting Properties on Page Content."
The properties on the Parameters tab of the Component Properties dialog control the default task flow content and facilitate the wiring of the task flow to page parameters and page definition variables. These properties are unique to the task flow type. For information about wiring pages and components, see Chapter 11, "Wiring Pages, Task Flows, Portlets, and UI Components."
Changes to the properties on the Display Options, Style, and Content Style tabs affect the appearance and behavior of the task flow for all users. These properties are common to all task flows. For more information, see Section 10.4, "Setting Properties on Page Content."
The contents of the Events tab depend on the events supported by the task flow. For more information, see Section 10.4.8, "Working with Component Contextual Events."
The Child Components tab displays all of the components contained within the current component. It provides controls for rearranging, showing, and hiding child components. Not all components contain children. So you may find this tab devoid of content. For more information, see Section 10.4.6, "Working with Child Components."
All properties on the Parameters and Display Options tabs provide access to an Expression Language (EL) editor, which you can use to select or specify a variable value instead of a constant value. Click the Edit icon next to a property field to open the editor. For more information about using the editor and for descriptions of common EL expressions, see Section 10.4.5, "Using Expression Language (EL) Expressions with Component Properties."
Table 19-1 describes the properties that are unique to the Events service task flow.
Table 19-1 Events Service Task Flow Properties: Parameters Tab
Whether calendar overlay is enabled. Valid values are:
A unique identifier for event view customization.
Customization ID assists with maintaining the association of this task flow instance with its customization and personalization settings. This value is set automatically. Do not edit this value.
The default current date on the calendar. Valid values are:
Whether users can personalize or customize the task flow. Valid values are:
The name of the group space that is the source of listed events.
Valid values are:
In WebCenter Spaces, the group space display name is available on the General tab of the group space Settings page.
The maximum number of calendars that a user can add to the task flow.
When the maximum is reached, the Add Calendar icon no longer appears in the task flow.
Default value: 20
The maximum number of calendars that a user can display simultaneously.
This value must not be greater than the value specified for Maximum Calendars.
Default value: The same value as that specified for Maximum Calendars


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The Lincoln Park Zoo is seeking the community's input in naming their two newest animals.
The Sichuan takin males were recently born one week apart at the zoo.
Takins goat-antelopes are native to the mountains of China, which is why zoo officials have picked six Mandarin names for the public to choose from. The list of names and the survey is listed on the zoo's web site.
The results will be announced February 20 on the Zoo's Facebook page.
The baby takin males share a father, 6-year-old Quanli, and different mothers.
Five-year-old Mei Li, who was also born at the Lincoln Park Zoo, gave birth on Jan. 31, and Jinse, 8, welcomed her calf on Feb. 9.
The family of five are the only takins at the zoo.
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This week, the Big Red Dog gets a big party; a bookstore takes "llama llama" literally; HMH celebrates Curious George, a pair of author go "camp"ing, Obert Skye takes on Vegas; and a Louisiana school welcomes a visiting author.
Red-Letter Day
Talk about a happy birthday: in honor of Clifford the Big Red Dog turning the big 5-0, Scholastic and author Norman Bridwell are celebrating, big-time. The publisher launched a birthday area on its Clifford site, where kids can send the pup a card, enter a sweepstakes, view a new video featuring Bridwell, and download a free copy of Clifford's Big Birthday App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod. NPR Weekend Edition Saturday interviewed Bridwell and his wife, Norma, and at the Scholastic headquarters on Monday, NYC schoolkids sang an in-person Happy Birthday to the crimson canine. Scholastic also reunited the author with some very important people – all of his living book editors to date: (l. to r.): Cecily Kaiser, Rotem Moscovich, Grace Maccarone, Samantha Schutz (his current), and Eva Moore (a longtime editor of Bridwell's who was originally assistant to Bridwell's first editor, Beatrice Schenk de Regniers).
Llama Drama
It was a wild rumpus indeed on September 25, when Anna Dewdney, creator of the Llama Llama picture books, brought two real-life llamas with her to the Wild Rumpus bookstore in Minneapolis. The crowd numbered more than 100 two-legged guests. "It was nice having it during the day, when preschoolers are looking for something to do," bookseller Katie McGinley said. The store's copies of Llama Llama Time to Share (Viking) sold well in the wake of the author's appearance, and other Llama Llama titles are also moving briskly – though perhaps not quite as nimbly as their mammalian namesakes.
Curiouser and Curiouser
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt held its annual celebration of all things Curious George, Curiosity Day a little later this year – September 22 rather than the usual September 16, H.A. Rey's birthday, due to scheduling issues with the Boston Public Library. But that didn't dampen the spirits of attendees from HMH Children's Book Group (from l.) Amanda Barsuhn, Alex Preziosi, Mary Huot, Curious George (aka Cara Llewellyn), the Man with the Yellow Hat, Anna Meier, and Meredith Wilson. HMH provided free event kits – some 400 of them – to stores and bookstores around the country so they could host their own events. On Rey's actual birthday, CBS Sunday Morning ran a segment saluting the artist and his simian creation.
Happy Campers
NYC's Symphony Space hosted a reunion on September 22 for its Thalia Kids' Book Club Camp, a summer literary program for middle-grade readers, featuring a pair of author guests. Adam Gidwitz (second from l.) and Matthew Cody (center) each read from their newest releases – In a Glass Grimmly (Dutton) and Super (Knopf) – and took questions from former campers and current club members. The Thalia Kids' Book Club, run by (from l.) Jennifer Brenna, Katherine Minton, and Madeline Cohen, brings authors to Symphony Space year-round.
What Happens in Vegas…
Obert Skye's tour for Potterwookiee (Holt) tour kicked off on September 18 and continues through October 1. He did some pre-pub events in his local Idaho, and is now visiting 10 cities and three to five schools each day, followed by an in-store signing in each city that lasts an average of two hours. His September 20 stop: Las Vegas, where some kids from a school visit earlier that day stopped by Barnes and Noble to get their books signed by the author. Potterwookiee is the second in the Creature from My Closet series; the third volume, a mash-up of Pinocchio and Dracula, is due out next fall.
Southern Comfort
On September 17, Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Jefferson Parish, La., hosted author Myra McEntire, author of Hourglass and Timepiece (Egmont USA) for a talk, Q&A and book-signing. Librarian Elizabeth Kahn organized the visit in cooperation with Judith Lafitte of Octavia Books in New Orleans; the school had just reopened after a seven-day closing due to Hurricane Isaac. McEntire (r.), seen here with Enjoli Gilbert (l.), a PFTSTA graduate and former president of Bookmarked – the high school book group – and Courtney Beamer, the book group's current president, also did an interview for a student-created video.


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Look out everyone, the onslaught of 4K Ultra HD receivers is in full effect! Just last week, Pioneer released four 4K Ultra HD models ranging from $400 to $700. These two new Onkyo models, announced in the wee hours of St. Patty's day, appear to be directly competing with those models and are similarly priced. Onkyo's 5.2-channel TX-NR535 goes for $499, while the 7.2-channel TX-NR636 is $699.
Figuring out what to look for in a receiver is challenging to say the least, and most consumers don't have a clue what to look for. So for these two lucky receivers, we're gonna break it down by function to make it all a little easier to digest.
Ultra HD Video
Ultra HD is a great reason to upgrade your receiver. After all, if you have an Ultra HD set running through a non-UHD receiver, you're not getting all the resolution you are paying for. In fact, that's why more and more 4K models are appearing on the scene. Manufacturers obviously see the opportunity as well. Onkyo is one of the first to incorporate HDMI that supports 4K/60 Hz capability in a receiver, meaning that when it's time to watch some live-action in Ultra HD, it is poised to look a lot smoother. PC gamers who want to add surround sound to their 4K/60 Hz experience will be thrilled. In addition to the receivers' Ultra HD chops, both receivers display 21:9 widescreen images, a growing trend in TVs that allows users to watch CinemaScope movies on their TVs without black bars.
Of course, any receiver these days has to keep up with all the wireless streaming technologies in order to be worthy of placing in your home media system. These two both have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and universal support for hi-res network audio. The TX-NR636 adds HDCP 2.2 compatibility to support the latest DRM copy-protection standard. This receiver also lays claim to the title, "first receiver to support HDCP 2.2." That's the latest DRM copy-protection standard that will be adopted for future 4K releases. Who cares and what does it mean? According to Onkyo, it means if you try to play certain 4K content through a non-HDCP-compliant receiver, it will be downconverted to, gasp, standard definition!
Hi-Res Audio
In addition to its "custom high-current architecture" which is touted to manage impedance fluctuations, these receivers include DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD. Better yet, users can locate and stream network-attached hi-res audio tracks using the free Onkyo remote app for iOS and Android devices. As far as your plain-old digital music goes, you can stream it from a tablet or phone, or browse and stream from Spotify, Deezer, AUPEO!, and TuneIn directly from the app. (Support for Spotify Connect will be added later this year via firmware update.) Dial in your speakers using Onkyo's AccuEQ calibration system to optimize the surround sound to suit individual room acoustics and speaker setups.
The TX-NR535 will be available in March, while the TX-NR636 will be available in April. If you have an Ultra HD TV set, check these out, along with the four from Pioneer. And even if you don't have a 4K set, yet need a new receiver, it will behoove you to upgrade to one of these that can accommodate all the latest resolution technologies–be it video or audio.


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Douglas L. Hill, a former news and public affairs director for Richmond NBC affiliate WWBT, died Sunday at his home in Midlothian, Va. He was 91.
During his tenure as news director of the station (which was then WRVA), Hill hosted "The Doug Hill Show" and the station's "Tell Doug" segments about viewer concerns. Hill started his career in print journalism before moving into radio and television, according to WWBT. He interviewed seven Presidents along the way.


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OTTUMWA — Tonie Silva and Carrie Vincent of Mt. Pleasant and Mason Ferguson of Wayland will take the stage in the Indian Hills Community College production of "Fame" next weekend.
Performances will be held at the St. John Auditorium stage beginning Thursday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. The musical will also be performed Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 and Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m.
Admission is free. Reservations are encouraged. Call 641-683-5144.


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To start this series on home made tip-ups, I thought I should begin with quite possibly the best tip-up design I have ever seen catch fish on the ice. I don't actually have this model at hand in my arsenal, and have just seen it in use, so you will have to bear with my hand-drawn tip-up plans, but it is so simple, there isn't any way you could screw this up. Click here to start at step 1 of this fantastic home made tip-up design
Good Engineering Is Evident in the Simplicity of the Design
Someone much smarter than me said something like that sometime. And never has it been more true than in the design of this ice fishing trap. It is hard to call it a tip-up, or even a tip-down, since it has no tips, per se, but while I covered the pond with polar traps and sophisticated, high-priced designs, these two older gentlemen stood, casually glancing at their traps, and out-caught me time and time again.
How Does It Fare Against Our Goals?
In the introductory post to the topic of home made tip ups, I set forth a few goals. Here they are, along with their rating on a scale of 1-5:
- Is it portable? 5 out of 5. you could easily carry 3 or 4 of these, even in their largest forms, in one rucksack. You could build this tip up with smaller PVC, and then carry even more of them.
- Is it fail-safe? 4 out of 5. When discussing their design with the men I saw using them, they even complained about it freezing up. The solution, though, is extremely simple. The tip-ups need to be checked to ensure they haven't frozen to the ice, and the line peeled off of the spool once and a while to ensure that at least some of it will come off of to give the fish a running start.
- Is it effective? 4 out of 5. Yes, it will hook fish. Yes, it will operate, but it has to be watched. The alarm isn't a "passive" alarm like a flag, which alerts you after any activity has occurred. Instead, you only can tell if a fish is actively spooling out line.
- Is it easy to use? 5 out of 5. Check for depth, drop down the line, wrap the line up by hand when you are done. Simple as can be.
- Can it be replicated? 5 out of 5. The most expensive part of the design is the line, and once you have the supplies at hand, it takes about 5 minutes to make one.
There are also the pieces of the tip-up, once we have dissected it. Here is how I scored each piece individually:
- Spool 4 out of 5. This trap is in and of itself, its own spool. It is very simple, which is great, and won't bind up, but the possibility for free-spooling exists (although it is a low possibility), so I subtracted one point. There is no drag, nothing to slow down a fish's ability to run with the line.
- Anchor 5 out of 5. To get this trap to go through the ice, you would have to intentionally do so. If you sprayed some Great Stuff into one end of it to make it buoyant, it would help it float as well, and wouldn't stop you from carying it out to the ice either.
- Alarm 4 out of 5. There is an alarm, but it has to be watched. If a fish pulled some line, then left the line slack, you wouldn't know that anything had happened. This alarm only operates when the fish is actively pulling line out.
Let's Get Started
Supplies needed
- 1 length of PVC, 4" diameter works best. It must be longer than the diameter of your auger. I suggest about 18" of it.
- 25-50 yards of braided fishing line. You can use tip-up line if you like, it doesn't freeze as harshly, so it might be a good idea, but it isn't necessary.
- One can of either black, or brightly colored (pink, orange, whatever) spray paint.
- One small drill bit.
- If you have longer lengths of PVC, you will need a hack saw.
Step 1; create the anchor/spool/alarm
- Drill two holes through the PVC in its center.
- Using your spray paint,make one quarter of the PVC a different color from the rest.
Step 2; Tie on your line
- Thread the tag end of your line through both holes in your PVC
- Wrap the tag end back to your spool, and tie using a strong, secure knot of your choosing (any fishing knot recommended for line-to-line use will work)
Step 3; Spooling & Use
- Wrap the line around the center of the tip-up.
- Drill your auger holes and place the tip up with the tie-down hole directly above the ice-hole, so the line dangles freely into the water.
- Attach whichever type of tip-up rig you prefer. Tip with your favorite bait.
When a fish strikes, and takes out line, the PVC will spin, spooling off the line. From a distance, you will see the colors you spray painted flashing against the ice.
Step 4; Catch Fish!
You will need to set the hook like you standardly would on a tip-up, but otherwise you are done. To reiterate, you will need to watch this trap. This type of active alarm will not reliably tell you if activity has happened in the past, and can only identify if activity is occurring now. Good luck!
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Athens area residents Wayne Dean and Todd Donnan have recently joined AI Insurance Group as commercial insurance producers. Both Dean and Donnan will working with businesses throughout the southeast.
Dean is a native of Athens. He graduated from Clarke Central and earned a baseball scholarship to Augusta State University in 1998. Wayne received a bachelor's degree in communications/broadcasting from Augusta State University in 2002. Prior to joining AI Insurance, Dean worked in his father's and grandfather's retail men's clothing business, George Dean's Men's Wear, where he worked in sales, as well as helped coordinate the marketing and promotional efforts.
Donnan received his BBA in management from Marshall University in Huntington, W Va. in 1995 and received his MBA from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1998. Prior to working with AI Insurance Group, he was a member of the University of Georgia's football coaching staff from 1998-2000, and a sales consultant for GMAC in Duluth.
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Over the past few weeks we have discussed Brazilian jiu-jitsu as it is developing in the continent of Asia. Two weeks ago we spoke about training BJJ in Japan. One week ago we spoke about BJJ in China. This time around we speak with a local subject matter expert, Luke Chaya. In addition to possessing the graphic design skills that resulted in The FightWorks Podcast gi patch, Luke runs BJJ-Asia.com, a site which not surprisingly focuses on Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Asia. Based in Thailand, Luke's site has become a hub of information about South East Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Phillipines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, etc.). In this episode we discuss the nascent jiu-jitsu scene in Asia, from its challenges to reasons to be hopeful.
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Forty-four scientists from around the world have joined the ranks of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking by becoming fellows of the Royal Society.
Those elected include seismologists, mathematicians, neuroscientists and ecologists from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Most work in the UK.
Fellows are elected for their contributions to science, both in research and in leading scientific and technological projects in industry and for research bodies. Fellows must be citizens or residents of Commonwealth countries or Ireland. A maximum of 44 can be elected each year.
Among this year's luminaries are Harry Bryden, professor of oceanography at the University of Southampton, elected for his research into how heat circulates in the oceans, John Croxall, of the British Antarctic Survey, for his research into the role of mammals and birds in marine ecosystems, and Guy Masters, of the University of California, for his work in seismology, which proves there is a difference in the chemical make-up of the inner and outer cores of the earth.
Also included are Peter Sadler, of the University of Edinburgh, who was the first person to propose an injectable gold drug to treat arthritis and has made an important contribution to the development of platinum drugs to fight cancer, and David Spiegelhalter, of the Medical Research Council's biostatistics unit, who played a leading role in the Bristol heart surgery and Harold Shipman inquiries.
This year, two women have been elected to the fellowship. Uta Frith, deputy director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences at University College London, was elected for her "pioneering approach" to developmental disorders, overturning the idea that autism is a social and emotional problem. Deborah Charlesworth, of the University of Edinburgh, was elected for her work on plant population genetics and the understanding of plant breeding systems.
Of the 214 fellows who have joined the society over the past five years, just 22 have been women. However, the society is quick to point out that this figure reflects the low number of women working in the sciences in UK universities. According to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, only 8.5% of women work in science, engineering and technology subjects.
Six academics were elected "foreign members" of the society - they were not eligible to become fellows because of citizenship or residency.
This year these members include Catherine Cesarsky, director of the European Southern Observatory - the highly regarded international organisation for ground based astronomy - for her study of cosmic rays and magnetic fields, and the Nobel prize winner Harold Varmus, for his work on the molecular genetics of cancer and particularly on retroviruses, which mutate and become resistant to drugs quickly. He received the Nobel prize in 1989.
Announcing the fellowships today, the president of the society, Lord May of Oxford, said: "These new fellows of the Royal Society are among the best scientists in the UK and Commonwealth. In being elected to the fellowship they follow in the footsteps of the august scientists of the last three-and-a-half centuries while, at the same time, representing cutting edge science in the UK today. Their collective achievements demonstrate that this country is a major player on the global stage in science."
The Royal Society is an independent academy promoting the sciences.
The new fellows elected to the Royal Society in 2005 are:
Professor James Barber, the Ernst Chain professor of biochemistry at Imperial College London
Professor Martin Barlow, Professor, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia
Professor Laurence David Barron, the Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow
Professor Andrew Blake, Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge
Professor Harry Bryden, Professor of Physical Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton
Professor Stephen Busby, Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham
Dr Luca Cardelli, the Assistant Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge
Professor Deborah Charlesworth, a Professorial Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh
Professor John Collinge, Professor of Neurology and Head of Department of Neurodegenerative Disease at the Institute of Neurology, University College London and Director of the MRC Prion Unit
Dr Paul Corkum a Physicist at the National Research Council of Canada
Professor John Croxall, Head of Conservation Biology at the British Antarctic Survey
Dr Tom Curran, Chairman of the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis
Dr John Diffley, Principal Scientist at the Cancer Research UK Clare Hall Laboratories
Dr Julian Downward, Principal Scientist at the, Cancer Research UK London Research InstituteÀs Signal Transduction Laboratory
Professor Ronald Ekers, an Astronomer at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationÀs Australia Telescope National Facility
Dr Philip Evans, Member of the Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Professor Robert Evans, Professor of Physics at the HH Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol
Professor Alastair Fitter, Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of York
Professor Uta Frith, Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences at University College London
Professor David Gadsby, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology at the Rockefeller University, New York
Professor Douglas Higgs, Director of the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford
Professor Brian Kennett, Professor of Seismology in the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University
Professor David Masser, Professor of Mathematics at University of Basel
Professor Guy Masters, a Professor at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California at San Diego
Sir Tom McKillop, the Chief Executive of AstraZeneca
Professor Goverdhan Mehta, Professor of Organic Chemistry and the Director of the Indian Institute of Science
Professor Roger Miller, the John B. Carroll Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina
Professor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Psychophysics at The City University, London
Professor Ian Paterson, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge
Professor John Pearson, a Scientific Consultant at Schlumberger Cambridge Research and a Senior visiting Scientist at the BP Institute at Cambridge University
Professor Philip Power, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Davis
Professor Nicholas Proudfoot, the Brownlee-Abraham Professor of Molecular Biology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at University of Oxford and Lecturer and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford
Professor Trevor Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge
Professor Douglas Ross, Professor of Physics at the University of Southampton
Professor Philip Russell, Professor of Physics at the University of Bath
Professor Peter Sadler, the Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
Professor Christopher Snowden, the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey
Dr David Spiegelhalter, a Senior Scientist at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the Institute of Public Health in the University of Cambridge
Professor Daniel St Johnston, a Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow at The Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge
Professor Lloyd Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Oxford
Professor Richard Ward, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Durham
Professor Colin Watts, Professor of Immunobiology at the University of Dundee
Dr John White, Chair of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin
Professor Ernest Wright, Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Sherman M Mellinkoff Professor in Medicine at the David Geffin School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
The new foreign members elected to the Royal Society in 2005 are:
Professor Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
Dr Catherine Cesarski, the Director General of the European Southern Observatory
Professor Ilkka Hanski, a Research Professor at the University of Helsinki
Professor Ryoji Noyori, the President of RIKEN and a University Professor at Nagoya University
Professor Hartmut Michel, Director, Department of Molecular Membrane Biology in the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry in the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Professor Harold Varmus, the President and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York
Honorary fellow elected to the Royal Society in 2005:
Leonard Wolfson, The Lord Wolfson of Marylebone, the Chairman and Founder Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation is appointed an Honorary Fellow in recognition of the outstanding support which, over half a century, he has provided for the advancement of science and medicine to almost 100 universities in the UK and abroad.


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Madison WI (SPX) Mar 27, 2007
A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's world.
Global climate models for the next century forecast the complete disappearance of several existing climates currently found in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, while large swaths of the tropics and subtropics may develop new climates unlike anything seen today. Driven by worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, the climate modeling study uses average summer and winter temperatures and precipitation levels to map the differences between climate zones today and in the year 2100 and anticipates large climate changes worldwide.
The work, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wyoming, appears online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of March 26.
As world leaders and scientists push to develop sound strategies to understand and cope with global changes, predictive studies like this one reveal both the importance and difficulty of such a task. Primary author and UW-Madison geographer Jack Williams likens today's environmental analysts to 15th-century European mapmakers confronted with the New World, struggling to chart unknown territory.
"We want to identify the regions of the world where climate change will result in climates unlike any today," Williams says. "These are the areas beyond our map."
The most severely affected parts of the world span both heavily populated regions, including the southeastern United States, southeastern Asia and parts of Africa, and known hotspots of biodiversity, such as the Amazonian rainforest and African and South American mountain ranges. The changes predicted by the new study anticipate dramatic ecological shifts, with unknown but probably extensive effects on large segments of the Earth's population.
"All policy and management strategies are based on current conditions," Williams says, adding that regions with the largest changes are where these strategies and models are most likely to fail. "How do you make predictions for these areas of the unknown?"
Using models that translate carbon dioxide emission levels into climate change, Williams and his colleagues foresee the appearance of novel climate zones on up to 39 percent of the world's land surface area by 2100, if current rates of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions continue. Under the same conditions, the models predict the global disappearance of up to 48 percent of current land climates. Even if emission rates slow due to mitigation strategies, the models predict both climate loss and formation, each on up to 20 percent of world land area.
The underlying effect is clear, Williams says, noting, "More carbon dioxide in the air means more risk of entirely new climates or climates disappearing."
In general, the models show that existing climate zones will shift toward higher latitudes and higher elevations, squeezing out the climates at the extremes - tropical mountaintops and the poles - and leaving room for unfamiliar climes around the equator.
"This work helps highlight the significance of changes in the tropics," complementing the extensive attention already focused on the Arctic, says co-author John Kutzbach, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison. "There has been so much emphasis on high latitudes because the absolute temperature changes are larger."
However, Kutzbach explains, normal seasonal fluctuations in temperature and rainfall are smaller in the tropics, and even "small absolute changes may be large relative to normal variability."
The patterns of change foreshadow significant impacts on ecosystems and conservation. "There is a close correspondence between disappearing climates and areas of biodiversity," says Williams, which could increase risk of extinction in the affected areas.
Physical restrictions on species may also amplify the effects of local climate changes. The more relevant question, Williams says, becomes not just whether a given climate still exists, but "will a species be able to keep up with its climatic zone? Most species can't migrate around the world."
For the researchers, one of the most poignant aspects of the work is in what it doesn't tell them - the uncertainty. At this point, Williams says, "we don't know which bad things will happen or which good things will happen - we just don't know. We are in for some ecological surprises."
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If all ice on the earth melted, the level of the oceans would rise by 64 meters. Many coastal cities would be under water, and so would the Netherlands, a significant part of which lies below sea level. However, the Dutch and the rest of the planet may rest assured: this hypothetical catastrophe could not take place anytime within the next thousand years.
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lsayre wrote:Where does the majority of the coal burn at? How about 2" down from the top of the 'V' sloped firebricks?
Sorry to complicate things..
Sometimes I run it at top of the bricks level, sometimes I mound it high in the center (about 2 inches higher than the top of the bricks), sometimes I run it 1 or 2 inches under the top of the bricks. It depends on the burn time I need to get. Like tonight for example, at 6:00pm I shook and loaded about 2 inches under the top of the bricks since its going to be 9 hours till I shake and load again at 3:00am before work. Then at 3:00am I'll mound it up high in the center for a 15 hour burn till 6:00pm tomorrow. Not that I work that long lol, but I like to eat dinner before tending the furnace. Call me ANYTHING except late fer dinner
The shallower coal bed recovers faster too..


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Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best
Ruby libraries in web history:
* the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security
* Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability,
performance and stability
* Rack, a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks
Which makes it, with all humility, the most secure, stable, fast and
extensible Ruby web server bundled in an easy to use gem for your own
WWW: http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/www/rubygem-thin/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install rubygem-thin
cd /usr/ports/www/rubygem-thin/ && make install clean
pkg install rubygem-thin
PKGNAME: rubygem-thin
SHA256 (rubygem/thin-1.7.2.gem) = 2e98bd8dd5ce1c49b773c4cefd792b2f7f2917c49d483313783b787e935b4f59
SIZE (rubygem/thin-1.7.2.gem) = 58880
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 37
Update to 1.7.2
Changes: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/blob/master/CHANGELOG
Update to 1.7.1
Changes: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG
www/rubygem-thin: switch to rack16 dep to avoid issue in redmine
- Update to 1.7.0
- Update RUN_DEPENDS: use newer rubygem-rack
Changes: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/blob/master/CHANGELOG
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [p-x]*
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Convert USES=gem:autoplist to USES=gem since autoplist is default
create USES=gem and update rubygem- ports to use it
Note that for now ports still have to have USE_RUBY=yes to use USES=gem
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6070
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories v, w, x, y, and z.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Update to 1.6.4
Changes: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/blob/master/CHANGELOG
- Update RUN_DEPENDS: use newer rubygem-rack
- Bump PORTREVISION for dependency change
- Update to 1.6.3
- Add LICENSE
- Sort RUN_DEPENDS
Changes: https://github.com/macournoyer/thin/blob/master/CHANGELOG
- Update to 1.6.2
PR: ports/187998
Submitted by: Michael Moll <email@example.com>
The word 'very' has no place in COMMENT
COMMENT should not begin with 'A' or 'An'
Maintainers were notified and given time to object.
- Add stage support
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Update to 1.2.11
- Update to 1.2.10
- Update to 1.2.8
With portmgr hat, reassign these from clsung (who is apparently having
email troubles) to ruby@.
- Fix dependency versions
PR: ports/150827
Submitted by: myself (pgollucci)
Approved by: maintainer timeout (clsung ; 14 days)
Sponsored by: RideCharge Inc. / TaxiMagic
- Update to 1.2.7
PR: ports/150418
Submitted by: pgollucci
- Update to 1.2.6
PR: ports/150021
Submitted by: pgollucci
- Update to 1.2.5
PR: ports/147544
Submitted by: pgollucci (myself)
Approved by: maintainer timeout (clsung; 20 days)
Feature safe: yes
- GEMS are always RUN_DEPENDS of other GEMS
- Bump PORTREVISION when something other then BUILD_DEPENDS changes
- Some minor verticle whitespace in some ports for consistency with the rest
PR: ports/147551
Submitted by: pgollucci@ (myself)
Reviewed by: portmgr (pav)
With Hat: ruby
- Mass conversion of RF -> RG for MASTER_SITE for rubygem- ports
[RG aka rubygems.org]
PR: ports/147005
Submitted by: pgollucci (myself)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
With Hat: ruby@
- Update to 1.2.4
- Update to 1.2.2
PR: ports/135355
Submitted by: pgollucci
- Update to 1.2.1
PR: ports/134687
Submitted by: pgollucci
- convert to RUBYGEM_AUTOPLIST
remove x-generate-plist and friends
- use RF macro and remove SUBDIR where possible
- remove some uneeded GEM_NAME=${DISTNAME}
(this c/should be handled better in bsd.*.mk)
other deltas specific to individual ports:
audio/rubygem-mp3info - unbreak, fix packaging, bump PORTREVISION
devel/rubygem-rapt - adopt
devel/rubygem-rspec - remove BUILD_DEPENDS=RUN_DEPENDS -- neither set
devel/rubygem-ruby2ruby - add #' for vim highlight
graphics/rubygem-extifr - drop PORTREVISION=0
graphics/rubygem-gd2 - add #' for vim highlight
www/rubygem-rubyfulsoup - swap GEM_NAME / DISTNAME for constistency
Sponsored by: RideCharge Inc.
Tested on: RideCharge's Tinderbox
Reviewed by: stas
- Update to 1.0.0
- Update to 0.8.2
- update to 0.8.1
- Update to 0.8.0
- Add ruby 1.9 support
- Implement new knobs for gems and rake (these are included in
ruby 1.9 distribution already). Also move gem bits from
ruby-gems/Makefile.common to bsd.ruby.mk[1]. Now to depend
on gems or rake you should define USE_RUBYGEMS/USE_RAKE
accordingly. Also RAKE_BIN variable is provided for
pointing to the right rake executable.
- Rewrite RUBY_SCHEBANG in awk to eliminate build dependency
on ruby.
Discussed with: Jonathan Weiss <firstname.lastname@example.com> [1] (gems maintainer)
Tested by: ports@
- Update to 0.7.0
- Update to 0.6.1
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