text: This summer's blockbuster movie season has been a true labyrinth of twists and turns. Despite dismally low theater attendance, at least two films – The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises – passed the billion-dollar mark in ticket sales. Close behind those geeky blockbusters, a pair of unexpected heroines emerged from far-away districts to slay the box office. Also, for once, a superhero super team lived up to its potential greatness. And in the end some films needed real-life knights to save the day. This was also the spring/summer blockbuster movie season where, as was the case with Avengers, a tentpole film actually lived up to (if not surpassed) its hype. And it was also the summer when the fans of one film -- Dark Knight Rises -- could've used a real-life knight, and the slightly-hip, slightly-dorky fans of Spider-Man finally got the hero they deserved. So that got us thinking: Why don't we give our favorite movie heroes tales of their own? And, more importantly, why not do it in the best format possible: Comics-style illustrations? Scroll through the gallery above to find out just how and why The Avengers ruled, Katniss Everdeen saved action franchises from being nothing but Boys Town, The Amazing Spider-Man gave Peter Parker a little bit of hip flare, Prometheus renewed our faith in Ridley Scott, and The Dark Knight Rises rose to the occasion despite an awful tragedy. We begin our quest with the one true hero of our hearts, Joss Whedon. Above: Joss Whedon Assembles Super Team, Kicks Super Ass with The Avengers Remember back when Joss Whedon was known as the guy who made Buffy the Vampire Slayer but had no proven box office mojo? Yeah, neither do we. Not to put too fine a point on it, but his Avengers movie is probably the best Avengers movie any nerd could've hoped for. It was action-packed, funny, and brought together the Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America franchises (and a new-and-improved Hulk!) into one pretty awesome story that was unbelievably fun. And it appealed to nerds of all stripes (and probably a few non-geeks as well), bringing in more than $1.5 billion worldwide and making Whedon both King Geek and King of the Box Office. So say we all. (Oh, and The Cabin in the Woods, which he co-wrote, was pretty great too. Oh, and now he's doing a S.H.I.E.L.D. show, which we also are excited about.)Spidey Gets a Hipster Makeover in Amazing Spider-Man And we mean that in the best way possible. Before directing his reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, director Marc Webb made an emo Zooey Deschanel vehicle with a killer soundtrack. So there was some worry that he wouldn't be able to entirely bring the action needed for a Spidey flick. Turns out he could, and he (along with his Peter Parker, Andrew Garfield) brought a smart sensitivity to the web-slinger. And now, finally, '60s Spider-Man has a cool, contemporary counterpart.Ridley Scott Brings Us Closer to God with the Beautiful Prometheus Some loved Prometheus for its existential questions about faith, truth, science, and religion. Others were taken in by director Ridley Scott's beautiful space landscapes. And still others were just happy to see Scott revisit the Alien world he introduced nerds to in 1979. But regardless of why, (most) viewers found a passion for some aspect of Scott's epic tale of otherworldly life. The movie may not have done the boffo box office of some of the other comic book men on this list – just over $351 million worldwide – but its banked and deepened our admiration of Scott forever.Katniss Everdeen Takes Aim at Hollywood, Shoots Us Right Through the Heart There's an old husbands' tale in Hollywood. It said that women couldn't be action heroes, couldn't carry a picture by themselves. This spring, Katniss Everdeen – the teenage heroine of The Hunger Games – proved it wrong. Not only was the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' book a pretty solid picture it also introduced moviegoers to the possibility of a woman leading an action story – and a trilogy at that. It's also brought in more than $685 million worldwide. And, not to be outdone, another woman with a bow and arrow also lit up the screen this summer: The fire-haired lass of Pixar's Brave brought in another $470 million-plus at theaters worldwide.The Dark Knight Rises from Terrible Tragedy This summer Christopher Nolan completed his masterful and epic Batman trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises. But all of the excitement among fans was clouded over when a theater shooting left 12 dead and 58 wounded during a late-night screening of the movie in Aurora, Colorado. But in the aftermath the Dark Knight himself did good – Christian Bale visited the survivors of the shooting. The victims and their families came to the Bat's defense, wearing t-shirts with his insignia to the courtroom where alleged shooter James Eagan Holmes appeared and showing who the true heroes are. (The film also made $1 billion worldwide, inching past 2008's The Dark Knight.)All illustrations: Simon Lutrin/Wired


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Tenon Tours is a tour operator that specializes in trips to Ireland for like-minded people. We have special group-themed trips taking place in the upcoming months that we need flyers designed for, or at least variations of a standard template. This contest is specifically for the design of the front of a postcard for our gay week, in which we will choose a designer before creating the back, as well as other themed trips.
- Trip Details
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- 2 Nights Dublin, 3 Nights Galway
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This is a good moveset for goodra (Pokemon #706) with the gooey ability/trait, a Calm nature, and equipped with Leftovers submitted by Hoharvey. For use in competitive Pokemon battles featuring an Export option and breeding guide.
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Disability and human rights (brochure)
2011 - The Ontario Human Rights Code (the Code) provides for equal rights and opportunities, and freedom from discrimination. The Code recognizes the dignity and worth of every person in Ontario. It applies to the areas of employment, housing, facilities and services, contracts, and membership in unions, trade or professional associations. At work, employees with disabilities are entitled to the same opportunities and benefits as people without disabilities. In some cases, they may need special arrangements or "accommodations" so they can do their job duties.


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(WAFB/Gray News) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday, August 15 that a medication used to treat migraines was being pulled from shelves because continued use could lead to serious, life-threatening infections.
Pfizer Inc. said RELPAX® (eletriptan hydrobromide) 40 mg tablets, lots AR5407 and CD4565, could be contaminated with microorganisms that can cause bacterial dissemination from the gut to the bloodstream, potentially resulting in serious, life-threatening infections. In addition, there is risk of temporary gastrointestinal distress without serious infection, Pfizer told the FDA.
Patients who take the product are urged to consult with their healthcare provider or pharmacy to determine if they have the affected lots.
For the general population the risks of infection are low, Pfizer said. However, patients with compromised immune systems, cystic fibrosis, and chronic granulomatous disease could suffer from a higher risk of infection.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Graco's Passage, Alano and Spree Strollers and Travel Systems
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WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada, today announced the voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo. The recall involves approximately 1,213,000 units distributed in the United States and 968,000 units distributed in Canada.
CPSC urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the recalled cribs, wait for the free repair kit, and do not attempt to fix the cribs without the kit. They should find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. Consumers should contact Stork Craft to receive a free repair kit that converts the drop-side on these cribs to a fixed side.
The cribs drop-side plastic hardware can break, deform, or parts can become missing. In addition, the drop-side can be installed upside-down, which can result in broken or disengaged plastic parts. All of these problems can cause the drop-side to detach in one or more corners. When the drop-side detaches, it creates space between the drop-side and the crib mattress. The bodies of infants and toddlers can become entrapped in the space which can lead to suffocation. Complete detachment of drop-sides can lead to falls from the crib.
For the sixth consecutive year, Max is the most popular name for both dogs and cats. That's according to Veterinary Pet Insurance, which insured some 466,000 clients. Only 13 dogs in VPI's database went by Fido in 2008, placing the name at number 2,866. Rover wasn't far behind at number 2,534. Lassie was number 1,572), Pluto was number 1,009), Spot was number 659) and Fluffy was number 338.
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Speaking of pets, a national survey reveals most pet owners believe they can understand the "woofs" and "meows" of their pets. At least 62% of dog and cat lovers insist their fury friends can understand what they're saying, according to an Associated Press poll. While it may be as elementary as a dog barking "I need to take a walk" or a cat purring "give me more chow," the bulk of pet owners say the dialogue isn't just a guessing game.
Source: Veterinary Pet Insurance
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NetApp tops enterprise array field again
If it hasn't done so already, NetApp is shaking off that "only NAS" label with yet another big win in the Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays.
- Rich Castagna, Vice President of Editorial
If it hasn't done so already, NetApp is shaking off that "only NAS" label with yet another big win in the Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays.
Products in the survey
These products were included in the seventh Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays survey (the number of responses for finalists is in parentheses).
- EMC Corp. Symmetrix DMX/DMX-3/DMX-4 or VMAX/VMAXe (90)
- Fujitsu Eternus DX8400 or DX8700*
- Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. XP Series/HP StorageWorks P9000 Series/HP P10000 3PAR Storage Systems/HP 3PAR T-Class Storage Systems (82)
- Hitachi Data Systems USP/USP V/VSP Series (35)
- IBM DS8000 Series or XIV Storage System (45)
- NetApp Inc. FAS6000 Series or V6000 Series (60)
By now, everyone should be convinced: NetApp Inc. is an enterprise data storage powerhouse and not just a major network-attached storage (NAS) player. For the fourth survey in a row, NetApp has won top honors in the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays (including one shared win with EMC Corp.). As it did the last time out, NetApp won on the strength of top scores in four of the five rating categories to roll up an overall average rating of 6.69.
But NetApp's margin of victory over second-place finisher IBM (6.61) was slim, which reflects how close the competition was in all the rating categories. Hitachi Data Systems Corp. was also in the hunt, ultimately coming in third with a strong overall 6.46, followed by EMC (6.30) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. (6.25).
About the survey
The Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified readers who assess products in five main categories: sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Our objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products were rated on a scale of 1.00 to 8.00, where 8.00 is the best score. A total of 213 respondents provided 320 system evaluations.
Overall rankings
The five vendors that garnered enough evaluations to be finalists racked up solid scores with every product line earning a 6.00-plus score in each rating category. Breaking the scoring down even further, there were only two sub-6.00 scores for single statements within all five categories. Net-App's attempt at a clean sweep of all five categories was thwarted by IBM, which copped top honors for product reliability. Both vendors netted remarkably consistent scores, but the narrow margin NetApp was able to maintain over Big Blue in the other four categories was enough for an overall win. This was a repeat performance for NetApp; the vendor prevailed in the same four categories in the previous Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays.
Sales-force competence
NetApp (6.55) scored highest on four of the six statements in winning this category, which measures the effectiveness of a vendor's sales team in paving the way for a successful implementation. Hitachi (6.38) drew top marks for the other two statements, but it was just barely nudged out by IBM (6.41), which finished second. NetApp's top scores were for having flexible sales reps (6.71) and knowledgeable sales support teams, but it outdistanced the field fairly handily for being easy to negotiate with, with a score of 6.56 that easily topped second-place IBM (6.19).
Breaking down the numbers:
- Hitachi had high statement scores for sales reps that are knowledgeable about customers' industries (6.56) and for reps who keep customers' interests foremost (6.50).
- IBM's best rating was for having knowledgeable support teams (6.66), which was also the highest rated statement across all vendors with a 6.51 average.
- Only one statement score fell below 6.00.
Key statistic:
Considering all five finalist vendors, their average 6.33 category score for sales-force competence is second only to the 6.37 from the last Quality Awards.
Initial product quality
NetApp apparently knows that a good first impression can go a long way; its 6.79 in the initial product quality category was its highest score overall and represented its largest margin of victory. It's also the highest rating we've ever seen for enterprise arrays in this category. Still, IBM's 6.63 wasn't all that far behind and good enough for second (and the third best ever recorded); Hitachi's 6.45 gave it another third-place finish. NetApp had the high scores on five of the six category statements to highlight an usually consistent performance, with statement scores ranging from 6.63 to 6.88.
Breaking down the numbers:
- NetApp had a pair of 6.89s for "This product is easy to use" and for not requiring an unusual amount of professional services help.
- "This product delivers good value for the money" is one of the key statements on the entire survey, and NetApp again prevailed with a 6.88; Hitachi was next highest at 6.66.
- The average for all the products in the initial product quality category was a second-best-ever 6.46.
Key statistic:
Array deployments must be getting easier; the best across-the-board score was a 6.58 for "I am satisfied with the level of professional services this product requires."
Product features
Eventually, any array evaluation comes down to features, and NetApp doesn't fall short by that measure either, posting top marks for five of the seven statements in this category. NetApp was again very consistent, but showed particular muscle with a 6.98 for replication features and a 6.89 for mirroring features. IBM was tops for the other two statements, including a 7.00 for "Overall, this product's features meet my needs." That 7.00 score was one of only two 7.00-or-better statement scores for all categories and all vendors in the survey.
Breaking down the numbers:
- With data growing at unprecedented levels, scaling is an important issue; NetApp's 6.71 for capacity scaling was effectively tied by IBM's 6.70, but all vendors fared well, including a solid 6.60 for EMC.
- IBM's second statement win was a 6.68 (to NetApp's 6.57) for interoperability with other vendors' products.
- Vendors seem to be winning the speeds, feeds and specs race, as the highest average score for all vendors was 6.63 for features meeting users' needs.
Key statistic:
For seven Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays, no vendor has ever been the overall winner without scoring highest in the product features category.
Product reliability
IBM picked up high scores on three of the five statements in the product reliability category on its way to a 6.69 average, which was good enough for a win over Hitachi (6.61) and NetApp (6.58). IBM was strongest for requiring very few unplanned patches, meeting service-level agreements and for providing comprehensive upgrade advice. With a second-place showing, Hitachi stepped up a bit from its third-place finishes in all the other categories. NetApp's weakest statement score was for nondisruptive patching, which kept it from a sweep of all the categories.
Breaking down the numbers:
- Hitachi scored highest (6.56) for nondisruptive patching, but its highest score was a 6.72 for "very few unplanned patches."
- NetApp's highest mark (6.83) was for "This product experiences very little downtime."
- However many nines of reliability you expect, enterprise arrays won't disappoint -- the highest average score for all vendors was a 6.64 for "very little downtime."
Key statistic:
IBM was a model of consistency in the product reliability category, with scores ranging from 6.54 to 6.79.
Technical support
NetApp returned to form in the technical support category with a 6.74, the highest ever rating in the Quality Awards for Enterprise Arrays, which surpassed its own mark of 6.70 in the last survey. NetApp led the group on seven of the eight category statements, highlighted by a 7.00 for "Vendor supplies support as contractually specified." Second-place IBM (6.60) had another strong showing, including a statement win with a 6.72 (to Net-App's 6.70) for having knowledgeable third-party partners. All the vendors fared well in this critical category, with Hitachi (6.41), EMC (6.33) and HP (6.20) rounding out the field.
Breaking down the numbers:
- NetApp and IBM were nip and tuck on most of the statements in the category, and both were strong for the same rating criteria.
- In addition to its 7.00 score, NetApp's top scores were for knowledgeable support personnel (6.89), documentation (6.79) and knowledgeable third-party partners (6.70).
- Besides its one statement win, IBM had the second-highest score for all the other statements in the category.
Key statistic:
Enterprise array vendors are delivering as promised: The highest across-the-board average for all vendors was 6.67 for supplying support per contract.
Would you buy it again?
When we ask our survey respondents if they would buy the same array again given what they know now, we're often surprised when those responses don't match up with the rating category scores. Once again, we have a discrepancy, but overall satisfaction levels appear to be high, with 88% saying they would take the same plunge. Eight-seven percent of NetApp users said they would buy that vendor's product once more—a solid rating, but good enough only for fourth place behind EMC (92%), Hitachi (91%) and IBM (91%).
It's hard to say what kind of reasoning figures into respondents' "buy again" replies. Often, it's as much a case of familiarity as anything else, but how much they rely on their arrays and how much data they pile into them might also be factors. Home to an average of 126 TB, Hitachi's systems are clearly the workhorses of this group. EMC's systems aren't much off that mark, with an average of 117 TB; IBM's and NetApp's products both host an average of more than 100 TB.
BIO: Rich Castagna is editorial director of the Storage Media Group.


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This is apparently a classic but probably tastes nasty.
You'll need:
2x crackers, such as Triscuits
Slice of cheese
Cream cheese, imo (classically it's 2 slices of cheese but I think more surface area would be better)
Cannabis, of suitable quality
Place a dollop of cream cheese on a cracker.
Sandwich the Cannabis between the slice of cheese and cream cheese on the crackers.
Now place in toaster-oven or oven. Microwave oven no good but if only available use lowest power setting.
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Edith Widder was one of the marine biologists who, last year, successfully filmed a giant squid living in its natural habitat. In this captivating TED Talk, Widder recounts details of the expedition (all 400+ hours of it), squid summits, and optical luring — a key insight that made it possible to film this deep-sea beastie alive and in its element for the very first time.
This is really great, and even includes info the recent Discovery Channel documentary on the giant squid left out. The crew's reaction throughout the entire fifth minute is just wonderful.


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From Wikipedia: "A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats."
Note that certain font licenses may impose some legal limitations.
Font formats
Most computer fonts used today are in either bitmap or outline data formats.
- Bitmap fonts
- Consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image of each glyph in each face and size.
- Outline or vector fonts
- Use Bézier curves, drawing instructions and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph, which make the character outlines scalable to any size.
Common extensions
bdf.gz– bitmap fonts, bitmap distribution format and gzip compressed
pcf.gz– bitmaps, portable compiled font and gzip compressed
psfu.gz– bitmaps, PC screen font, PC screen font Unicode and the gzipped versions (not compatible with X.Org)
pfb– outline fonts, PostScript font ASCII and PostScript font binary. PostScript fonts carry built-in printer instructions.
ttf– outline, TrueType font. Originally designed as a replacement for the PostScript fonts.
otf– outline, OpenType font. TrueType with PostScript typographic instructions.
For most purposes, the technical differences between TrueType and OpenType can be ignored, some fonts with a
ttf extension are actually OpenType fonts.
Other formats
The typesetting application, TeX, and its companion font software, Metafont, render characters using their own methods. Some of the file extensions used for fonts by these two programs are
mf and
FontForge, a font editing application, can store fonts in its native text-based format,
sfd, spline font database.
The SVG format also has its own font description method.
There are various methods for installing fonts.
Fonts and font collections in the enabled repositories can be installed using pacman. Available fonts may be found by using:
$ pacman -Ss font
Or to search for
ttf fonts only:
$ pacman -Ss ttf
Creating a package
You should give pacman the ability to manage your fonts, which is done by creating an Arch package. These can also be shared with the community in the AUR. The packages to install fonts are particularly similar; simply taking an existing package as template should work well. To learn about how to modify it for your font, please refer to Creating packages.
The family name of a font file can be aquired with the use of
fc-query for example:
fc-query -f '%{family[0]}\n' /path/to/file. The formatting is described in the FcPatternFormat(3) manual.
Manual installation
The recommended way of adding fonts that are not in the repositories to your system is described in #Creating a package. This gives pacman the ability to remove or update them at a later time. Fonts can alternately be installed manually as well.
To install fonts system-wide (available for all users), move the folder to the
/usr/share/fonts/ directory. The files need to be readable by every user, use chmod to set the correct permissions (i.e. at least
0444 for files and
0555 for directories). To install fonts for only a single user, use
~/.local/share/fonts (
~/.fonts/ is now deprecated).
For Xserver to load fonts directly (as opposed to the use of a font server) the directory for your newly added font must be added with a FontPath entry. This entry is located in the Files section of your Xorg configuration file (e.g.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or
/etc/xorg.conf). See #Older applications for more detail.
Then update the fontconfig font cache: (usually unnecessary as software using the fontconfig library do this.)
$ fc-cache
Older applications
With older applications that do not support fontconfig (e.g. GTK+ 1.x applications, and
xfontsel) the index will need to be created in the font directory:
$ mkfontscale $ mkfontdir
Or to include more than one folder with one command:
$ for dir in /font/dir1/ /font/dir2/; do xset +fp $dir; done && xset fp rehash
Or if fonts were installed in a different sub-folders under the e.g.
$ for dir in * ; do if [ -d "$dir" ]; then cd "$dir";xset +fp "$PWD" ;mkfontscale; mkfontdir;cd .. ;fi; done && xset fp rehash
At times the X server may fail to load the fonts directory and you will need to rescan all the
fonts.dir files:
# xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/misc # Inform the X server of new directories # xset fp rehash # Forces a new rescan
To check that the font(s) is included:
$ xlsfonts | grep fontname
This can also be set globally in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or
Here is an example of the section that must be added to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. Add or remove paths based on your particular font requirements.
# Let X.Org know about the custom font directories Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cantarell" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util" EndSection
Pango Warnings
When Pango is in use on your system it will read from fontconfig to sort out where to source fonts.
(process:5741): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' (process:5741): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
If you are seeing errors similar to this and/or seeing blocks instead of characters in your application then you need to add fonts and update the font cache. This example uses the ttf-liberation fonts to illustrate the solution (after successful installation of the package) and runs as root to enable them system-wide.
# fc-cache /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 3 dirs /usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory fc-cache: succeeded
You can test for a default font being set like so:
# fc-match LiberationMono-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Mono" "Regular"
Console fonts
By default, the virtual console uses the kernel built-in font with a CP437 character set,[1] but this can be easily changed.
The Linux console uses UTF-8 encoding by default, but because the standard VGA-compatible framebuffer is used, a console font is limited to either a standard 256, or 512 glyphs. If the font has more than 256 glyphs, the number of colours is reduced from 16 to 8. In order to assign correct symbol to be displayed to the given Unicode value, a special translation map, often called unimap, is needed. Nowadays most of the console fonts have the unimap built-in, historically it had to be loaded separately.
The kbd package provides tools to change virtual console font and font mapping. Available fonts are saved in the
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ directory, those ending with .psfu or .psfu.gz have a Unicode translation map built-in.
Keymaps, the connection between the key pressed and the character used by the computer, are found in the subdirectories of
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/, see Keyboard configuration in console for details.
Preview and temporary changes
$ showconsolefont
shows a table of glyphs or letters of a font.
setfont temporarily change the font if passed a font name (in
/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/) such as
$ setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2
Font names are case-sensitive. With no parameter,
setfont returns the console to the default font.
Persistent configuration
FONT variable in
/etc/vconsole.conf is used to set the font at boot, persistently for all consoles. See
man 5 vconsole.conf for details.
For displaying characters such as Č, ž, đ, š or Ł, ę, ą, ś using the font
... FONT=lat2-16 FONT_MAP=8859-2
It means that second part of ISO/IEC 8859 characters are used with size 16. You can change font size using other values (e.g.
lat2-08). For the regions determined by 8859 specification, look at the Wikipedia table.
To use the specified font in early userspace, use the
consolefont hook in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf. See Mkinitcpio#HOOKS for more information.
If the fonts seems to not change on boot, or change only temporarily, it is most likely that they got reset when graphics driver was initialized and console was switched to framebuffer. To avoid this, load your graphics driver earlier. See for example Kernel mode setting#Early KMS start, [3] or other ways to setup your framebuffer before
/etc/vconsole.conf is applied.
Font packages
This is a selective list that includes many font packages from the AUR along with those in the official repositories. Fonts are tagged "Unicode" if they have wide Unicode support, see the project or Wikipedia pages for detail.
Github user Ternstor has created a python script that generates HTML documents with PNG images of all the fonts in the AUR and the official repositories: [4].
Latin script
Here are some suggestions. Every user has their own favorite, so experiment to find yours. If you are in a hurry, you read Dan Benjamin's blog post: Top 10 Programming Fonts.
Here is a long list of fonts by Trevor Lowing: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/.
A comparison with images on Slant: What are the best programming fonts?
And a Stack Overflow question with some images: Recommended fonts for programming
- Andalé Mono (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Anonymous Pro (ttf-anonymous-pro, included in ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR)
- Bitstream Vera Mono (ttf-bitstream-vera)
- Consolas (ttf-vista-fontsAUR) - Windows programming font
- Courier New (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Cousine (ttf-croscore) - Chrome/Chromium OS replacement for Courier New (metric-compatible)
- DejaVu Sans Mono (ttf-dejavu) - Unicode
- Droid Sans Mono (ttf-droid, included in ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR)
- Envy Code R (ttf-envy-code-rAUR)
- Fantasque Sans Mono (ttf-fantasque-sansAUR or ttf-fantasque-sans-gitAUR)
- Fira Mono (ttf-fira-mono)
- FreeMono (ttf-freefont) - Unicode
- Hack] (ttf-hack)
- Inconsolata (ttf-inconsolata, included in ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR) - Excellent programming font
- Inconsolata-g (ttf-inconsolata-gAUR) - adds some programmer-friendly modifications
- Liberation Mono (ttf-liberation) - Replacement for Courier New, based on Cousine (metric-compatible)
- Lucida Typewriter (included in package jreAUR)
- Monaco (ttf-monacoAUR) - Popular programming font on OSX/Textmate
- Monofur (ttf-monofurAUR)
- Roboto (ttf-roboto)
- Source Code Pro (adobe-source-code-pro-fonts)
- Default 8x16
- Dina (dina-font)
- Gohu (gohufontAUR)
- Lime (artwiz-fonts)
- ProFont (profont)
- Proggy Programming Fonts (proggyfontsAUR)
- Tamsyn (tamsyn-font)
- Terminus (terminus-font)
- Tewi (bdf-tewi-gitAUR)
- Unifont (most extensive Unicode coverage of any font) (bdf-unifont)
- Andika (ttf-andikaAUR)
- Arial (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Arial Black (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Arimo (ttf-croscore) - Chrome/Chromium OS replacement for Arial (metric-compatible)
- Calibri (ttf-vista-fontsAUR)
- Candara (ttf-vista-fontsAUR)
- Comic Sans (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Corbel (ttf-vista-fontsAUR)
- DejaVu Sans (ttf-dejavu) - Unicode
- Droid Sans (ttf-droid, included in ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR)
- FreeSans (ttf-freefont) - Unicode
- Impact (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Liberation Sans (ttf-liberation) Replacement for Arial, based on Arimo (metric-compatible)
- Linux Biolinum (ttf-linux-libertine)
- Lucida Sans (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Microsoft Sans Serif (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- PT Sans (ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR) - 3 major variations: normal, narrow, and caption - Unicode: Latin, Cyrillic
- Source Sans Pro (adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts)
- Tahoma (ttf-tahomaAUR)
- Trebuchet (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Ubuntu Font Family (ttf-ubuntu-font-family)
- Verdana (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Cambria (ttf-vista-fontsAUR)
- Constantia (ttf-vista-fontsAUR)
- DejaVu Serif (ttf-dejavu) - Unicode
- Droid Serif (ttf-droid, included in ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR)
- FreeSerif (ttf-freefont) - Unicode
- Gentium (ttf-gentium) - Unicode: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Phonetic Alphabet
- Georgia (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Liberation Serif (ttf-liberation) - Replacement for Times New Roman, based on Tinos (metric-compatible)
- Linux Libertine (ttf-linux-libertine) - Unicode: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew
- Times New Roman (ttf-ms-fontsAUR)
- Tinos (ttf-croscore) - Chrome/Chromium OS replacement for Times New Roman (metric-compatible)
- font-bh-ttf - X.Org Luxi fonts
- ttf-cheapskate - Font collection from dustismo.com
- ttf-junicode - Junius font containing almost complete medieval latin script glyphs
- ttf-mph-2b-damase - Covers full plane 1 and several scripts
- xorg-fonts-type1 - IBM Courier and Adobe Utopia sets of PostScript fonts
- noto-fonts - Google Noto TTF fonts
- all-repository-fontsAUR - Meta package for all fonts in the official repositories.
- ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR - a huge collection of free fonts (including ubuntu, inconsolata, droid, etc.) - Note: Your font dialog might get very long as >100 fonts will be added.
Non-latin scripts
Ancient Scripts
- ttf-ancient-fontsAUR - Font containing Unicode symbols for Aegean, Egyptian, Cuneiform, Anatolian, Maya, and Analecta scripts
- ttf-amiriAUR - A classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style poineered by Amiria Press
- ttf-arabeyes-fontsAUR - Collection of free Arabic fonts
- ttf-qurancomplex-fontsAUR - Fonts by King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah
- ttf-sil-lateefAUR - Unicode Arabic font from SIL
- ttf-sil-scheherazadeAUR - Unicode Arabic font from SIL
- ttf-ubraille - Font containing Unicode symbols for braille
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
- adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts - Large collection of fonts which comprehensively support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with a consistent design and look.
- noto-fonts-cjk - Large collection of fonts which comprehensively support Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with a consistent design and look. It is currently a rebadged version of adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts.
- adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts - Simplified Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
- adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts - Traditional Chinese OpenType/CFF fonts
- ttf-arphic-ukai - Kaiti (brush stroke) Unicode font (enabling anti-aliasing is suggested)
- ttf-arphic-uming - Mingti (printed) Unicode font
- opendesktop-fonts - New Sung font, previously is ttf-fireflysung package
- wqy-microhei - A Sans-Serif style high quality CJKV outline font.
- wqy-zenhei - Hei Ti Style (sans-serif) Chinese Outline font embedded with bitmapped Song Ti (also supporting Japanese (partial) and Korean characters).
- wqy-bitmapfont - Bitmapped Song Ti (serif) Chinese font
- ttf-i.bmingAUR - CJK serif font that emphasis on an old-style typeface
- ttf-twAUR - Kai and Song traditional Chinese font from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan
- adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts - Japanese OpenType/CFF fonts
- otf-ipafont - Formal style Japanese Gothic (sans-serif) and Mincho (serif) fonts set; one of the highest quality open source font. Default of openSUSE-ja.
- ttf-hanazono - A free Japanese kanji font, style Mincho (serif).
- ttf-sazanami - Japanese free TrueType font. This is outdated and not maintained any more, but may be defined as a fallback font on several environments.
- ttf-koruriAUR - Japanese TrueType font obtained by mixing ttf-mplusAUR and Open Sans
- ttf-monapoAUR - Japanese fonts to show 2channel Shift JIS art properly.
- ttf-mplusAUR - Modern Gothic style Japanese outline fonts. It includes all of Japanese Hiragana/Katakana, Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, IPA Extensions and most of Japanese Kanji, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese with 7 weights (proportional) or 5 weights (monospace).
- ttf-vlgothicAUR - Japanese Gothic fonts. Default of Debian/Fedora/Vine Linux
- adobe-source-han-sans-kr-fonts - Korean OpenType/CFF fonts
- ttf-baekmuk - Collection of Korean TrueType fonts
- spoqa-han-sansAUR - Source Han Sans customized by Spoqa
- ttf-d2codingAUR - D2Coding fixed width TrueType font made by Naver
- ttf-nanumAUR - Nanum series TrueType fonts
- ttf-nanumgothic_codingAUR - Nanum series fixed width TrueType fonts
- ttf-hannom - Vietnamese TrueType font for chữ Nôm characters
See also #Latin script.
- ttf-paratypeAUR - Font family by ParaType: sans, serif, mono, extended cyrillic and latin, OFL license
- otf-russkopisAUR - A free OpenType cursive font for Cyrillic script
Almost all Unicode fonts contain the Greek character set (polytonic included). Some additional font packages, which might not contain the complete Unicode set but utilize high quality Greek (and Latin, of course) typefaces are:
- otf-gfsAUR - Selection of OpenType fonts from the Greek Font Society
- ttf-mgopenAUR - Professional TrueType fonts from Magenta
- culmusAUR - Nice collection of free Hebrew fonts
- ttf-freebanglafont - Font for Bangla
- ttf-indic-otf - Indic OpenType Fonts collection (containing ttf-freebanglafont), provides the character U+0CA0 "ಠ"
- lohit-fontsAUR - Indic TrueType fonts from Fedora Project (containing Oriya Fonts and more)
- ttf-devanagarifontsAUR - Devanagari TrueType fonts (contains 283 fonts)
- ttf-gurmukhi-fonts_sikhnetAUR - TrueType Gurmukhi fonts (gurbaniwebthick,prabhki)
- ttf-gurmukhi_punjabiAUR - TTF Gurmukhi / Punjabi (contains 252 fonts)
- ttf-gujrati-fontsAUR - TTF Gujarati fonts (Avantika,Gopika,Shree768)
- ttf-kannada-fontAUR - Kannada, the language of Karnataka state in India
- ttf-lklugAUR - Sinhala Unicode font
- ttf-tamilAUR - Tamil Unicode fonts
- ttf-urdufontsAUR - Urdu fonts (Jameel Noori Nastaleeq (+kasheeda), Nafees Web Naskh, PDMS Saleem Quran Font) and font configuration to set Jameel Noori Nastaleeq as default font for Urdu
- ttf-khmer - Font covering glyphs for Khmer language
- Hanuman (ttf-google-fonts-gitAUR)
Mongolic and Tungusic
- ttf-abkaiAUR - Fonts for Sibe, Manchu and Daur scripts (incomplete, currently in development)
- persian-fontsAUR - Meta package for installing all Persian fonts in AUR.
- borna-fontsAUR - Borna Rayaneh Co. Persian B font series.
- iran-nastaliq-fontsAUR - A free Unicode calligraphic Persian font.
- iranian-fontsAUR - Iranian-Sans and Iranian-Serif Persian font family.
- ir-standard-fontsAUR - Iran Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (SCICT) standard Persian fonts.
- persian-hm-ftx-fontsAUR - A Persian font series derived from X Series 2, Metafont and FarsiTeX fonts with Kashida feature.
- persian-hm-xs2-fontsAUR - A Persian font series derived from X Series 2 fonts with Kashida feature.
- sina-fontsAUR - Sina Pardazesh Co. Persian font series.
- gandom-fontsAUR, parastoo-fontsAUR, sahel-fontsAUR, samim-fontsAUR, shabnam-fontsAUR, tanha-fontsAUR, vazir-fontsAUR, vazir-code-fontsAUR - Beautiful Persian fonts made by Ali Rasti Kerdar.
- ttf-yasAUR - The Yas Persian font series (with hollow zero).
- ttf-x2AUR - Free fonts with support for Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Kurdish, Uighur, old Turkish (Ottoman) and modern Turkish (Roman).
- ttf-tlwg[broken link: replaced by fonts-tlwg] - Collection of scalable Thai fonts
- ttf-laoAUR - Lao TTF font (Phetsarath_OT)
- ttf-lao-fontsAUR - Lao TTF fonts, both Unicode and non-Unicode for Windows
- ttf-tibetan-machine - Tibetan Machine TTFont
- ttf-my-padukAUR - Padauk font for Myanmar/Birmania
- ttf-myanmar-fontsAUR - 121 Fonts from myordbok.com
Emoji and symbols
A section of the Unicode standard is designated for pictographic characters called "emoji".
- noto-fonts-emoji - Google's own emoji font, like on Android or Google Hangouts. Some newer additions to Unicode appear to render poorly with Noto fonts.
- ttf-symbola - provides many Unicode symbols, including emoji, in outline style.
- ttf-emojione-colorAUR - a color and B&W emoji SVGinOT font built from EmojiOne (It's the same as emojione-color-fontAUR but with less harmfull configurations).
- emojione-color-fontAUR - a complete, independent, open-source emoji set focused on design correctness.
- twemoji-color-fontAUR - Twitter's open-sourced emoji glyphs.
Kaomoji are sometimes referred to as "Japanese emoticons" and are composed of characters from various character sets, including CJK and Indic fonts. For example, the following set of packages covers most of existing kaomoji: ttf-freefont, ttf-arphic-uming, and ttf-indic-otf.
- font-mathematica - Mathematica fonts by Wolfram Research, Inc.
- texlive-core and texlive-fontsextra contain many math fonts such as Latin Modern Math and STIX Fonts. See TeX Live#Fonts for configuration.
- otf-latin-modernAUR, otf-latinmodern-mathAUR - Improved version of Computer Modern fonts as used in LaTeX
- otf-xitsAUR - An OpenType implementation of STIX Fonts with support for maths written from right to left.
- ttf-computer-modern-fontsAUR, otf-cm-unicodeAUR - Computer Modern (of TeX fame)
- ttf-mathtypeAUR - MathType fonts
Other operating system fonts
- ttf-mac-fontsAUR - Apple MacOS TrueType fonts
See Metric-compatible fonts, which lists available alternatives for Microsoft fonts.
Fallback font order with X11
Fontconfig automatically chooses a font that matches the current requirement. That is to say, if one is looking at a window containing English and Chinese for example, it will switch to another font for the Chinese text if the default one does not support it.
Fontconfig lets every user configure the order they want via
If you want a particular Chinese font to be selected after your favorite Serif font, your file would look like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>Your favorite Latin Serif font name</family> <family>Your Chinese font name</family> </prefer> </alias> </fontconfig>
You can add a section for sans-serif and monospace as well. For more informations, have a look at the fontconfig manual.
Font alias
There are several font aliases which represent other fonts in order that applications may use similar fonts. The most common aliases are:
serif for a font of the serif type (e.g. DejaVu Serif);
sans-serif for a font of the sans-serif type (e.g. DejaVu Sans); and
monospace for a monospaced font (e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono). However, the fonts which these aliases represent may vary and the relationship is often not shown in font management tools, such as those found in KDE and other desktop environments.
To reverse an alias and find which font it is representing, run:
$ fc-match monospace
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
In this case,
DejaVuSansMono.ttf is the font represented by the monospace alias.
Tips and tricks
List all installed fonts
You can use the following command to list all installed Fontconfig fonts that are available on your system.
$ fc-list
Lists installed fonts for a particular language
Applications and browsers select and display fonts depending upon fontconfig preferences and available font glyph for Unicode text. To list installed fonts for a particular language, issue a command
fc-list :lang="two letter language code". For instance, to list installed Arabic fonts or fonts supporting Arabic glyph:
$ fc-list -f '%{file}\n' :lang=ar
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeMono.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom/DroidKufi-Bold.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeSerif.ttf
Set terminal font on-the-fly
For terminal emulators that use
Xresources, fonts can be set by using escape sequences. Specifically,
echo -e "\033]710;$font\007" to change the normal font (
*font in
~/.Xresources), and replace
710 with
712, and
713 to change the
*italicFont, and
*boldItalicFont, respectively.
$font uses the same syntax as in
~/.Xresources and can be anything the terminal emulator will support. (Example:
xft:dejavu sans mono:size=9)
Application-specific font cache
Matplotlib (python-matplotlib or python2-matplotlib) uses its own font cache, so after updating fonts, be sure to remove
$HOME/.sage/matplotlib-1.2.1/fontList.cache, etc. so it will regenerate its cache and find the new fonts [5].


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So I have started following the #RStats tag in twitter. Prior to a week ago I had never Twitterbated so I thought I would give it a go since I am not one to shy away from new technology… much. I think of Twitter like a call in radio show where I get to cut off callers when they annoy me.
Well one of the interesting things I ran across was this tweet that pointed to this page about posting tweets from R. The code example was missing a couple of things, so here's the cleaned up version:
> > > > > install.packages("RCurl") > library("RCurl") > > > > > >
This is a pretty good, and fairly self explanatory example of how to use RCurl to spew out some data. Don't be a scriptard and try to run this without changing 'username' and 'password.' If you do, I'm coming to your house and going to beat you with your own keyboard until you admit that I am, indeed, your daddy.
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In the last year or so many companies appeared and disappeared in the world of cloud mining and very few have managed to survive or turn out to be more than some quick scheme to trick the miners. One of the few cloud mining companies that remain and continue to operate is Bitcoin Cloud Services that is turning 1 year old on March 12th, though we started using it and did our first review of the service just about 8 months ago back in June last year. To celebrate their 1st year anniversary there is a currently ongoing price promotion for Bitcoin cloud hashrate being sold this hole week with discounts based on the amount of hashrate you purchase. The discounts listed below are applied automatically depending on the amount of GHS you buy, they are counted towards the standard price of 0.0017 BTC per GHS that the service has.
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I have long editorialized against diamonds; that a supposed symbol of love and commitment comes on the backs of abused miners and diamond-finishers the world over is one of society's many pathetic and disturbing ironies. Diamond mining destroys lives, the environment, it and funds wars (see stats below).
• Angola's civil war has left half a billion dead and 86,000 maimed. About $3.7 billion in diamonds was pocketed by UNITA, the rebel movement in Angola, between 1992 and 1999 alone.
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo's war continues today, with rebels and armies from neighboring countries and the DRC committing atrocities. The ongoing violence has left 2.5 million dead and millions of people displaced to date. Hundreds of millions of dollars in diamonds are stolen or smuggled out every year.
• On Aug. 27, two miners were killed and four others injured in an explosion at ALROSA's Udachinsky mining plant in the Yakutia Republic.
But if you are still attached to the idea of giving (or receiving) a diamond, there are some great alternatives from lab-grown diamonds — which also happen to cost 25 percent less than those that are mined and fund wars. And since diamonds are just simple carbon chains (as a former geologist, I can tell you that they are perhaps the world's most simple and boring hunks of gem), even diamond experts can't tell the difference between diamonds dug from the Earth (polluting it along the way) and those that are made in a lab. Because diamonds have so little complexity, producing them is a straightforward process.
This is why they are called CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) diamonds, according to producer Washington Diamonds:
"A CVD diamond is grown from a small diamond seed, which adds vaporized carbon atoms one by one to create a larger diamond. This process is known as Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). CVD diamonds are chemically and visually indistinguishable from mined diamonds and experts cannot identify them even through inspection."
CVD diamonds are also U.S.-made, so they don't have to be shipped as far, and better yet, American jobs are created when people buy these gems. "
If I didn't think that diamonds were incredibly boring and cold-looking, I would consider such a gem. What do you think? Would you opt for a conflict-free, lab-grown diamond?
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Research has shown that smacking children is not the way to go, that's why things are so much better now.... young adults are coming through so well adjusted, youth suicide is so much less and dropping, business owners are so thrilled at the work ethic and the police cannot begin to explain how better behaved and respectful these individuals are. Its only up from here on!!
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TALLAHASSEE — As Gov. Rick Scott stood before a group of real estate agents in Clearwater on Tuesday, he used the spike in federal flood insurance rates to do what has become his weekly mantra: blame President Barack Obama.
Never mind that it was congressional inaction that allowed a key provision in the federal flood insurance act to take effect. Scott accused the president of threatening to cripple Florida's real estate recovery by failing to stop rates from rising.
In seeking re-election in 2014, Florida's Republican governor, whose favorable rating hovers below 40 percent in most polls, has found a favorite, equally vulnerable target in the nation's Democratic president.
With Obama only slightly more popular than the governor in Florida, Scott loses nothing by bashing the president. And he has plenty to gain by revving up his Republican base while winning over independents unhappy with the president.
Scott likely will square off next year against Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor who is now a Democrat. Part of his strategy will be the same one employed by Republican Marco Rubio when he defeated Crist, then an independent, in the U.S. Senate race in 2010. He must link Crist to Obama every chance he gets.
In the last month, Scott has blamed Obama for the federal budget cuts to Florida's National Guard troops. He has complained about the president's failures in the launch of the Affordable Care Act. He accused the administration of failing to repair the aging dike that threatens Lake Okeechobee. And, in addition to blaming him for skyrocketing flood insurance rates, he chastised the president for failing to lead to avoid a government shutdown.
"The buck stops with the president. We need leadership now,'' Scott said in a tweet to his 40,000 followers on Wednesday.
It's an attack campaign without an opponent as Obama serves as a convenient straw man to Crist. Crist is expected to announce later this month that he will return to the arena to challenge Scott for his old job.
Scott's Obama-bashing strategy can work in Florida, pollsters say, because the longer Washington remains mired in partisan dysfunction, the more the president's numbers decline.
A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted two weeks ago found that 49 percent of the American public disapproves of the job Obama is doing and 43 percent approves, the lowest measure since he was re-elected in 2012. Independents are increasingly skeptical about the president's health care law with only one in three supporting it.
"Scott is doing exactly what you would expect of him,'' said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "He's the captain of the red team in the state of Florida; it doesn't hurt him to be criticizing the head of the blue team nationally."
Base building is especially important in Florida, as the 2010 and 2012 elections showed. Although Obama narrowly won the state last year, Republicans turned out a larger percentage of their voters: 76 percent compared to 70 percent of registered Democrats.
In 2010, Republicans had a seven-point advantage in turnout over Democrats, a factor Alex Sink supporters say cost her the election. Republicans have traditionally had an advantage in gubernatorial races as a disproportionate number of Democratic voters have stayed home, while Republicans, though fewer in number, are more reliable about going to the polls.
But 2014 is different from 2010. Scott has a record to defend and, after winning narrowly in a purple state as an outsider candidate, the governor has never been viewed favorably by a majority of Floridians in any independent poll.
"In 2010, Rick Scott won in large part because he rode the national Republican wave,'' said Quinnipiac's Brown. "In 2014, Scott may have to create his own wave. We don't know what the outcome will be."
In hypothetical matchups between Crist and Scott, independent voters have consistently supported Crist over Scott.
A poll released last week by the Democratic-affiliated Public Policy Polling found that Crist leads Scott by a 12-point margin and, among independent voters, he leads by 24 points. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in June produced similar results with Crist leading Scott by a margin of 47 percent to 37 percent.
"Polls at this stage are irrelevant,'' said Lenny Curry, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. "Charlie Crist is not the nominee and voters are not paying attention to his record."
Curry said that once Crist kicks his campaign into gear, Democrats "will have no comeback to what Rick Scott has done in terms of fiscal responsibility and education and jobs, but the Republican Party of Florida will make certain that Floridians know that Charlie Crist is unfit to govern."
Among their talking points, he said, will be the jobs lost while Crist was governor, his decision to leave office rather than seek a second term and his "decision to run for the U.S. Senate and, when he couldn't handle it, he switched parties."
Democratic pollster Dave Beattie counters that Scott's focus on Obama's record is an attempt to deflect criticism from his own record, his failure to find a lieutenant governor and what Beattie says are "questions about ethics."
"In 2010, Democrats were beaten down, defensive about health care and voters had a lot of anger that a lot of Republicans rode to victory,'' Beattie said. "This time, voters believe Rick Scott hasn't looked out for them. Things haven't gotten better and they don't trust him."
And, in what may be a prelude to the Democrat's talking points for 2014, Beattie suggests that Scott's record shows that "he had a problem in business with people around him and now he has a problem in government with people around him."
Either way, many expect the 2014 race to be one of the most negative campaigns in Florida's history as both sides attempt to discourage the other candidates's base from turning out and winning over independent voters who do show up.
Scott, a multimillionaire former health care executive, spent more than $73 million of his own money to win election in 2010. His supporters have said they expect the governor, and the Republican Party of Florida, to spend $100 million on his re-election effort. Scott's political committee has raised $17 million thus far.
"Negative campaigns work, particularly with independent voters,'' Beattie said. "They expect people to be bad, so they make a choice between the least worst candidate."
Miami Herald staff writer Marc Caputo contributed to this report.


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Right now seems like a perfect time to revisit Outfoxed, the 2004 documentary about Murdoch's Fox News cable channel and its so-called "race to the bottom" in television news. Yes, this is a distinctly left-leaning look at the news channel and the man who made it, but among the individuals interviewed in the film are many former Fox contributors, reporters, bookers and writers—all of whom cop to the obvious agenda-pushing that is Fox's modus operandi.
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Problems in HelioClim-3
|Last update: Oct. 2016
the "glitter" - the snow - the eclipses - the sea mask - no values below 12°
The "glitter"
The glitter is the reflection of the sun on the Earth surface in the direction of the satellite, as depicted in Fig. 1:
This phenomenon is observed over oceans, clouds, but also over icy and sandy surfaces.
As Heliosat-2 (the model used to derived the HelioClim-3 radiation values from the Meteosat images) associates the quantity of white observed in the image with the quantity of clouds in the atmosphere, the model fails in correctly estimating the HelioClim-3 values by returning erroneously very low radiation values for these locations.
Fig. 1: MSG composite image, 2006-03-29 04:00 UT, © Eumetsat
Impact on the HelioClim-3 values: since 2004, a glitter correction has been set that correctly treats watered areas. Unfortunatly, all the other glitter cases have not been correctly.
For instance, Fig. 2 illustrates the impact of glitter over clouds on the HelioClim-3 data compared with in-situ measurements (pyranometer). This 2-D histogram, which represents the hourly HelioClim-3 data versus the corresponding hourly in-situ measurements for a site located in Brazil after Quality Check for Apr. 2013 to Dec. 2014. The glitter effect affects the data for low sun elevation angles in the evenings from December to February, which results in a cloud of wrong points close to the x-axis (black oval).
Bug between 2009 and 2011
| In 2009: a bug has been introduced in the glitter correction over watered areas. The following regions have been erroneously set to 0 depending on the instant in the year (Fig. 3):
Fig. 3: Between 2009 and 2011
Fig. 4: Since 2011
Consequences on the data: users reported erroneously low values along sea shores, and in particular in Agadir (Fig. 5) and in Namibia (Fig. 6). Indeed, the black rectangle was also affecting the Meteosat pixels along sea shores.
If you retrieve a time series in such areas, you will receive low values between 28 Jan. 2009 until April 2011!
Fig. 5: HelioClim-3 values for Agadir,
year 2009
Fig. 6: HelioClim-3 values for Namibia,
year 2009
The snow
In Heliosat-2, each HC3 radiation pixel value is computed using the "proportion of cloud" or "proportion of white" observed in this pixel in a combination of two channels located in the visible part of the spectra. This "proportion" is computed as an attenuation coefficient of the clear-sky value. When the snow covers the ground under a sunny weather, Heliosat-2 is confusing the snow on the ground with a large cloud coverage. The HelioClim-3 radiation is thus drastically underestimated in snowy areas (the consequence is that the electrical production of a solar power plant covered with the snow and the corresponding HelioClim-3 values are coherent. But the counterpart is that you will not be able so far to rely on the HelioClim-3 to know if the panels need to be cleaned of from snow).
The first step to solve this problem is to flag the HelioClim-3 data when there is snow on the ground to warn the user that he might receives underestimated values. To produce this flag, an alternative source should be exploited, such as the product available over the northern hemisphere from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). This institute provides 1-km (24576*24576 px, Dec. 2014 onwards), 4-km (6144*6144 px, 23 Feb. 2014 onwards) and 24-km products that could be exploited to complete HelioClim-3 delivery.
To definitively solve this issue, other Meteosat channels (infra-red and water vapor) must be exploited.
This snow issue has been regularly reported by our users. Please read the two following conversations:
Conversation 1
I contemplate purchasing an annual subscription to one of our services. However, I compared monthly irradiation values over an inclined (48°) plane from PVGIS (Classic PVGIS or Climate-SAF PVGIS) and from SoDa (HelioClim-3) for the year 2005 for a site in southern Germany (48°, 12°), the irradiation values are strongly lower in your data (half of what is retrieved in PVGIS whatever the database). What is the origin of this discrepancy? Alexey Mineev at REN Solar AS, Norway
Our answer => The PVGIS irradiation values are monthly irradiation values averaged over the years available: over Europe, from 1981 to 1990 for Classic-PVGIS and from 1985 to 2005 and from June 2006 to May 2010 for Climate-CMSAF PVGIS. The data he used is from a specific year 2005 in the database HC3, thus the comparison between averaged values and not-averaged ones should differ but be of the same magnitude. However the values were (rounded):
- monthly HC3 (2005, in kWh/m2): 21, 21, 73, 135, 156, 164, 147, 131, 124, 100, 20, 11
- Climate-CMSAF PVGIS (average): 42, 65, 114, 152, 153, 161, 156, 149, 120, 88, 49, 37
The values are close for almost half a year, but the values are strongly underestimated in HelioClim-3 during the winter period. After a verification, in 2005 the snow cover has been reported by Meteorological Ground stations which confirmed our idea. The answer of this Customer was: The difference during the winter time looks discouraging to us and this is the area of our further interest to look into.
Conversation 2
I am a student of renewable energies and currently I write my bachelor thesis. In the bachelor thesis I evaluate yield prognosis for pv systems and compare predicted yield values with those measured during the operation of the pv systems. For this purpose I need irradiation data for the last years. Would your data suit my needs? J. W., Berlin
Our answer => The document in pdf format accessible here describes exactly the project of this student. More precisely, the influence of snow shading of pv systems is often underestimated. His purpose was to investigate the yield losses through snow shading of pv systems. After the explanations relative to the limits of the HelioSat-2 model, here was my response: As a consequence, for you to be able to carry out your research in good conditions and even if it means that we lose a potential customer, I do not recommend you to use the HelioClim data in order to determine the yield losses through snow shading.
The eclipses
On 20 March 2015 (http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0112015/), an eclipse has generated a shadow on the Meteosat Second Generation images. The consequence is that the HelioClim-3 irradiation values will be strongly overestimated during this lapse of time. Please, pay attention to DISCARD the corresponding slots in the retrieved time series.
The sea mask
Heliosat-2 requises a mask for the distinction offshore/inshore. This mask is derived from a Digital Elevation Model. The problem is that the spatial resolution of the DEM has evolved with the time, from 10 km with Terrain Base to 90 m with the current SRTM base. Twice in the past, the mask has been modified to exploit the most updated information in terms of DEM. This leads to inhomogeneous radiation information along the coasts. Indeed, it might happen that in the past, a given pixel has been stated as located off-shore, then inland, and then again off-shore. This problem is still pending in our base, resulting in a few additional percents of errors along the sea shores.
No values below 12° of sun elevation
When the sun is low above the horizon, Heliosat faces a few difficulties in correctly assessing the radiation at ground level. Indeed, the path of the sun rays is longer which engenders errors. A threshold has been consequently applied in Heliosat-2 below which the HelioClim-3 radiation values are not computed. This threshold has been set to 12°.


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Abuse of our older citizens in the United States comes in many forms, but one of the most insidious practices is through financial abuse. Elder financial abuse is the misuse, mismanagement, or misappropriation, of an older person's property or equity without their informed consent. An example of such a malicious act is when a grandchild for instance, takes their grandmother's social security check out of her mailbox without her knowledge or consent, and then cashes it. A 2009, study from MetLife, found that elder financial abuse is booming, with an estimated costs for older Americans ranging in the billions, some estimating the effect as great as $2.6 billion per year. While all older Americans are potential targets, the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) states that the "typical" victim of elder financial abuse is between the ages of 70 and 89, tend to be Caucasian, female, with a potential health or cognitive impairment. While most older Americans do not report elder abuse based upon fear of retaliation, fear of loss of personal freedoms, or fear of a change in their current living situations, over 90 percent of all reported elder abuse is committed by an older person's own family members. Most frequently their adult children, grandchildren, extended family and lastly a caregiver are often to blame for their deceptive motives. Similar methods can be used to determine whether one's loved one is being taken advantage of by a pop up charity, or telemarketers, as with unscrupulous family members who may not think twice about taking advantage of the older Americans in your life.
Financial exploitation can be conducted in numerous ways but the overarching themes are giving strangers your private information without first vetting them, believing that you can get something for nothing, and playing to a person's goodhearted nature. Suspicious spending is always a trigger for financial abuse. If your loved one who has been diligent about money all their lives suddenly begins making unusual purchases outside of their character, probe to see if they have shared their social security number or credit card information with anyone recently, be it over the phone, or in person, for any reason. If any checks bounce that normally are well within your older citizen's monthly budget, this could be a red flag that someone has been tampering with his or her finances. Particularly going into the holiday season or after tragedy strikes, pop up charities with detailed but bogus websites are ready to take an unsuspecting person's credit card information. Charity websites should end with .org not the typical .com if it is a reputable site, but that nugget of wisdom alone cannot keep you from being scammed. Especially hurtful with these type of scams, is that the person donating thinks they are doing a good deed, when in actuality they have just given their personal information to a scammer who later intends to use the donator's information for the purpose of identity theft.
The Internet is ripe with scams, particularly enticing to older Americans is the one that promises generic or lower costing medications all for a low monthly fee. When you take into account that one of the costliest parts of an older citizens monthly budget is their health insurance and prescription plans it is understandable as to why older Americans are preyed upon. Once you sign up the scammers now have access to your name, address, and credit card information. Even more unsettling is that older Americans who sign up are often being sent placebos or pills that exacerbate their prior medical conditions. Lastly this holiday season by implementing a quick screening of potential scammers you can avoid the "grandparent scam". The grandparent scam goes something like this; a grandparent picks up a call from a frantic voice. The voice on the other end of the phone says, "Hi Grandma, do you know who this is?" Once the unsuspecting grandparent gives a name, the scammer goes into a tearjerker of a story as to why they quickly need them to wire them money, be it payment for a car repair, overdue rent, or hospitalization. Most importantly is that the scammer will implore the grandparent to not tell their parents as it will get them into hot water. In order to ensure that your loved ones do not fall for the "grandparent scam" make it a policy to not answer an open ended question with the correct grandchild's name, and see if the scammer continues with their scripted response. Give the name of a pet or best friend, something easy to remember when you are being pressured to answer quickly. A great way for your parents or loved one to not be bombarded by such phone calls is to put them on the "Do Not Call" list by visiting www.donotcall.gov and to be suspicious of anyone that calls in a panic with a pressure sale.
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