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Working for reality TV? Sorry
PREDICTIONS often come back to haunt the predictor, but this column will go out on a limb anyway: Chances are slim to none that the Writers Guild of America will make good on its vow to organize large numbers of reality-show workers as a result of its current strike.
Unless you're one of the harried wage slaves helping to crack story arcs on, say, "America's Most Smartest Model," that forecast may not sound so earth-shattering. But it has important implications for the 6-week-old strike that's paralyzing large swaths of the entertainment industry.
Reality TV, the amorphous catch-all that includes everything from "Survivor" to "Dancing With the Stars" to "The Hills," has emerged as the unlikely flash point of the work stoppage, and not just because the networks hope that hundreds of hours of unscripted series will serve as substitute programming once the networks' well of comedies and dramas runs bone-dry.
Indeed, a no-holds-barred bid to organize more reality-show writers was a major plank of Patric Verrone's successful campaign to become president of the Writers Guild of America, West, two years ago. Verrone, perceived as a hard-liner, has since become a thorn in the studios' side during the recent negotiations. One key factor in the rancorous breakdown of talks Dec. 7 was the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' demand that the guild drop its proposal to extend union membership to writers of reality, as well as animated, material.
Allow us to pause for the uninitiated. Reality shows have writers? Wait -- aren't these shows supposed to be unscripted? Don't they just film whatever happens to fly out of the mouth of Flavor Flav or Nicole Richie or Prince Lorenzo Borghese?
Well, not exactly. Many of these programs are "written" in the editing room by "story producers" who string together hours of footage into some sort of recognizable narrative, frequently with little regard for, um, reality. Supposedly spontaneous events are staged or restaged, chronologies adjusted. Editors routinely use "frankenbites," out-of-context quotes that illustrate points the speakers never intended to make. And yes, contestants have been known to claim they were fed lines and told how to react on camera.
(If reading this spoiled anyone's illusions about reality TV, we are very sorry. At least there's still a Santa Claus.)
But back to the strike. When Variety reported in late October -- less than two weeks before the strike started -- that the guild was abandoning its efforts on behalf of unscripted shows, Verrone lashed back with a memo, published on DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, saying that the union "continues to be committed to organizing reality." And on Nov. 26, the guild issued a blistering report that accused producers of reality shows, most of which make extensive use of nonunion workers, of violating U.S. and California wage and labor laws.
According to the study, which polled 300 reality-TV "writers," 91% reported getting no pay for overtime work, and 86% said they received no health insurance from their employers. More than half said they were ordered to hand in time cards early.
"These are kids who are making a few hundred bucks a week, not guys like me who are making lots of money for doing rewrites," Paul Haggis, a guild member and the writer-director behind the Oscar-winning feature "Crash," told me Friday. Haggis also appeared with Verrone and others at a Dec. 7 rally in Burbank for reality-TV workers' rights. At the rally, Verrone promised listeners that reality-TV jurisdiction "will be in our next contract."
Last year, when writers on the CW's "America's Next Top Model" struck over wages and benefits and sought representation through the WGA, the producers canned them. In October, a California labor agency awarded $35,000 in back pay to a story producer on TBS' "Outback Jack" who was denied overtime (a legal appeal is pending).
And state Sen. Carole Migden (D-San Francisco), chairwoman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Committee, has scheduled hearings for Feb. 1 on the reality-TV labor law issue. "We intend to monitor this situation closely to ensure that reality-TV story producers and other reality-TV employees are paid in accordance to California labor laws," Migden said in a statement.
We wanted to find out what reality producers had to say about all this. Maybe there's some reasonable explanation for why their workers seem so shabbily treated.
So we called up four of the biggest names in the business: Mark Burnett ("Survivor," "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"), Mark Cronin ("America's Most Smartest Model," "I Love New York 2"), Jonathan Murray ("The Real World," "Keeping Up with the Kardashians") and Bruce Nash ("Meet My Folks," "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?").
Through representatives, all of them declined to say one word.
But wait. It turns out that maybe the guild itself isn't as unyielding on the reality-TV issue as it seemed.
During an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Verrone told the reporter that there was "room to negotiate" on the reality-TV proposal. That at the very least throws a different light on the guild's supposedly hard-core stance.
This column wanted to ask Verrone exactly what he meant, but a guild spokesperson said he was unavailable (attempts to reach Verrone since Tuesday were likewise unsuccessful).
Haggis, who admitted he was unfamiliar with the specifics of the reality-TV issue, said that Verrone was merely trying to signal to the studios that they "are reasonable human beings . . . everything is negotiable." But he added: "If you ask me, 'Should we give up on reality TV?' No. That's my personal opinion. I think these workers are literally being treated like wage slaves."
But not everyone shares that opinion, even within the guild. And that may explain why Verrone is softening his rhetoric as the pressure to resume talks hits the boiling point. At some point, the guild will almost certainly have to trim its menu of demands to one or two core points. Try to guess which will get dropped sooner, residuals or reality TV.
It's clear, though, that the issue of how reality TV treats its workers isn't going to go away. Because it's mostly nonunion and unregulated, these shows frequently cut corners, and workers who feel they've been treated unfairly have little or no recourse beyond the legal system.
But then, that's talking about airy concepts like social justice, which can easily be kicked down the curb during a costly strike.
So as more and more "below-the-line" Hollywood workers get tossed out of jobs just in time for the holidays, and as the studios and show runners continue to tally up their ghastly losses from the strike, don't count on the guild negotiators going to the mat for folks who frankenbite.
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There are things you can debate about Brutal Legend, but one thing is an absolute fact: It's METAL, pure METAL!
But how about you gamer? Are you metal? I'm sure you say you are, but are you really metal? Like as metal as the German guy who stopped me at the train station in Cologne to hug me and shout "Fucking Metal" in my face?
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Feel like you might have missed some of the best tunes of the year so far? We know the feeling. Hopefully this playlist will help put your mind at ease.
There's been so much great music already in 2013, and with the help of the DiS hivemind, we've compiled this Spotify and RDIO playlist of our community's favourite tracks of the first three months of the year.
Yo La Tengo – Ohm
Phosphorescent – Song For Zula
John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sacrilege
Phoenix – Entertainment
Prince – Screwdriver
Darkstar – Armonica
Foals – Out Of The Woods
Grouper – Vital
Everything Everything – The House Is Dust
Marnie Stern – Year of the Glad
Hookworms – Away / Towards
David Bowie – The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street
Villagers – Earthly Pleasure - Live from Spotify London
Ed Harcourt – Hey Little Bruiser
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Tango In The Attic – Paw Prints
MF/MB/ – casualties
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Eels – Peach Blossom
Dawn Richard – Pretty Wicked Things
Rhye – The Fall
Foxygen – San Francisco
Haim – Forever - Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix
Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son - John Talabot's Acetate Dub
Ulrich Schnauss – A Long Way To Fall
The Dark Flowers – All the Time Running (feat. Shelly Poole & Charity Hair)
Local Natives – Three Months
Torres – November Baby
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We the Common (For Valerie Bolden)
L. Pierre – Sad Laugh
Disclosure – White Noise
Earl Sweatshirt – Whoa
Paramore – Still Into You
Blood Red Shoes – Black Distractions
Cold Cave – People Are Poison
Kvelertak – Bruane Brenn
Doldrums – Anomaly
Waxahatchee – Dixie Cups and Jars
Tegan And Sara – Shock To Your System
CHVRCHES – Recover
Bonobo – Cirrus
On An On – Panic
Dizzee Rascal – Bassline Junkie
The Bronx – Style Over Everything
The Knife – Full Of Fire
Jagwar Ma – The Throw (Extended Version)
The Ruby Suns – Kingfisher Call Me
What - in your humble opinion - is missing?
Want more? We've made Spotify playlists for January, February, and March. Plus check out our "rolling" threads, for plenty more recommendations: Recommended albums, Dance Mongrel, Rap/Hip Hop, Ambient/Modern Composition/Drone, and Pop.


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In U.S. Smartphone Market, There Is No Third-Place Contender
Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins is right — the struggling company does have "a clear shot at being No. 3" in the smartphone market. In fact, RIM's BlackBerry OS is already the third-most-popular mobile platform in the U.S., according to the latest stats from comScore. Problem is, RIM is so far behind the first- and second-place competitors — Google and Apple, respectively — its ranking in the race doesn't even matter.
For the month of August, RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market fell 3.1 percentage points, to 8.3 percent. That was enough to keep it well ahead of Microsoft, whose Windows Phone platform managed to hold on to a 3.6 percent share. But it's piddling compared to the 52.6 percent claimed by Google's Android OS (up 1.7 percentage points) and the 34.3 percent captured by Apple's iOS (up 2.4 points).
So, sure, RIM's in third place in the U.S. smartphone market. But its market share is less than a third of Apple's, and it's about a sixth of Google's. And it's on the decline.
In other words, if there's a viable third-place contestant in the smartphone OS race, it has yet to prove itself. At this point, if RIM truly believes it has a shot at being No. 3, BlackBerry 10, the company's next generation operating system, must be a miracle of innovation when it finally arrives at market next year.


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Monday, August 30, 2010
Added a Simile Timeline to my homepage
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Third #acs_boston talk: the Orbital Development Kit
The source code is available under LGPL 2.1 at my GitHub account.
Monday, August 23, 2010
First #acs_boston talk: Linking RDF to cheminformatics and proteochemometrics
Acknowledgements to Samuel and Annzi, two great students!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
#ACS_Boston #acsrdf2010 ? It's all about Open Standards!
Besides the really interesting list of chemical domains covered in these talks (see below), this meeting, though I have not advertised it as such, is really about Open Standards in cheminformatics. This is what I just wrote to the Blue Obelisk mailing list (:
Dear ACS-Boston 2010 participants, with this email I would like to ask your attention to the three Semantic Web sessions on Sunday morning, and Monday morning and afternoon. During these sessions 15 presentations will be given on how the Resource Description Framework is changing cheminformatics. It is of special interest to the Blue Obelisk community that the family of RDF technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) are all successful Open Standards, building on older and other Open Standards like HTTP, URI, XML (or JSON or Notation3 or Turtle), etc. Moreover, these technologies are not restricted to one particular domain, such as MDL/Symyx molfile, CML(XXX) are, as this part is covered by the Web Ontology Language (OWL)... each ontology in itself can be (and should ofcourse) be an Open Standard. In three sessions links to computational chemistry, knowledge management, and general applications are demonstrated, with wide variety of chemical disciplines as context, including toxicology, chemometrics, eScience, databases, wet lab experimentation, lipidomics, text mining, drug discovery and health care, gene-disease-pathway modeling, and chemical patents. All people interested in Open Cheminformatics should have a special interest in these three sessions, and I am very much looking forward to seeing you all next Sunday and/or Monday! The full program can be found at: http://egonw.github.com/acsrdf2010/ (please retweet and share with friends otherwise) with kind regards, Egon Willighagen
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Specifying unit test dependencies with JExample
A while ago I asked on StackOverflow about options to specify unit test dependencies. An example from the CDK would be that aromaticity detection in some molecule would require that all atom types are correctly perceived. I could test both in separate unit tests, but with JUnit I cannot have the aromaticity test ignored of the atom typing already failed. Now, being to specify such dependencies is useful, as the failing aromaticity test may be caused by the faulty atom typing, but the failing aromaticity test seems to imply something is wrong with the aromaticity detection algorithm.
One of the answers was JExample. Consider this code:
@RunWith(JExample.class) public class MoleculeTest { @Test public MoleculeFactory testNewMoleculeFactory() { Assert.fail("too bad"); return new MoleculeFactory(); } @Given("#testNewMoleculeFactory()") public IMolecule testNewMolecule(MoleculeFactory factory) { Assert.fail("too bad"); return factory.getImmutable(); } }Reading this Java code requires some experience with JUnit4, but those who already know JUnit4 will also see that the code is somewhat unusual. For of all, we define a special class to run the tests with: JExample.class. A second thing to note is that the top test method actually returns something. The bottom test method is also differnt: instead of being annotated with @Test, it is annotated with @Given. This latter annotation is introduced by JExample to define the dependencies between the tests. The parameter of this annotation defines which test method it depends on. Moreover, it is now also clear what happens with the return value of the top test method: it is passed as argument to the second test method.
Just to show that the system actually works, you can find a screenshot of the Eclipse JUnit View (the JExample update site did not work with Eclipse 3.6, so I have the JExample jar defined as build dependency in the project instead):
Clearly, only one test failed, while the testNewMolecule() method was ignored.
Now, I was wondering if the first method could be reused, and if so, if it would construct a new object. And it does, as is clear from the output of this code:
@Test public MoleculeFactory testNewMoleculeFactory() { return new MoleculeFactory(); } @Given("#testNewMoleculeFactory()") public IMolecule testNewMolecule(MoleculeFactory factory) { System.out.println("Factory1: " + factory); return factory.getImmutable(); } @Given("#testNewMoleculeFactory()") public IMolecule testNewMolecule2(MoleculeFactory factory) { System.out.println("Factory2: " + factory); return factory.getImmutable(); }
which outputs:
Factory2: com.github.egonw.odk.model.MoleculeFactory@7bd63e39 Factory1: com.github.egonw.odk.model.MoleculeFactory@42b988a6
This seems pretty useful. I am not sure yet if it solves all my dependency requirements, though. For example, what I really like to do, is link more complex tests to more than one more simpler tests, where it is clear that the complexer test will fail if one or more of the simpler tests fail. However, the JExample examples suggest that I can only define one dependency, whereas, for example, aromaticity detection depends on correct atom type perception, but also on ring detection. For now, this is a welcome extension of JUnit.
Further reading:
A. Kuhn, B. Van Rompaey, L. Hänsenberger, O. Nierstrasz, S. Demeyer, M. Gaelli, & K. Van Leemput (2008). JExample: Exploiting Dependencies Between Tests to Improve Defect Localization P. Abrahamsson (Ed.), Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 73-82 : 10.1007/978-3-540-68255-4_8
The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #3: stand on shoulders
#solo10: Green Chain Reaction; where to store the data? DSR? IR? BioTorrent, OKF or ??? gives me enough basis to write up a third principle:
Molecular Chemometrics Principles #3: We make scientific progress if we build on past achievements.
Sounds logical, right? Practically, the way we share our cheminformatics knowledge makes this standing on shoulders pretty difficult. But there is one particular aspect I would like to ask your attention for: you can contribute by making clear what shoulders you would like to stand on. That is, where do you prefer to put your effort, and what message would you like to give to your user community.
In the aforelinked post, Peter asks where he should upload his data, and he suggest BioTorrent (see my review BitTorrents for Science), DSpace, and CKAN. Now, his Green Chain Reaction is picked up (see these few blog posts), and the resulting data should be distributed as much as possible. The exact location does not really matter...
By picking where you upload, you make a statement to your community: "Look guys, we are distributing our data via Foo, because we believe those guys are doing good work! Perhaps you can support them too.".
This principle does not only apply to data, it applies to things too. For example, when iChemLabs and RSC ChemSpider Announce Partnership they do not just improve the user experience of ChemSpider (which I certainly won't object against), but they also imply "Look dudes, your product is just not good enough and we do not want to help you improve it either". Of course, ChemSpider has every right, and for them to succeed it is crucial to make decisions like this. Fortunately, ChemDoodle is GPL.
Every project with a user base has the opportunity to support shoulders, if they only visibly stand on them. By merely discussion the Green Chain Reaction, I show to support the this social web experiment. You can too. Use these powers wisely. May the McPrinciples be with you.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #2: be clear in what you mean
Now, the first principle was about the need for access to data (McPrinciple #1). This principle goes without saying, one would think, but is not widely accepted yet. This is why Open Data promotion is still needed. For example, data in papers still is not freely redistributable, as Peter points out once again.
Anyway, this post is not about McPrinciple #1, but about the second principle.
Molecular Chemometrics Principles #2: In order to reproduce cheminformatics studies you need to be able to understand the input data.
Readers of my blog will surely recognize this theme. Clearly this theme explains my past fetish for the Chemical Markup Language, and my more recent work on the Resource Description Framework.
And it is so easy to jump to conclusions. Easy to make mistakes. And this is not just at the received side; the sending person may have accidentally made a mistake, or left something accidentally unclear, causing incorrect assumptions, and therefore errors in the cheminformatics computation. Now, if the data was semantically (clearly) annotated, and the meaning was clear, it was also trivial to see when a mistake had sneaked in. Think of it as a check bit.
"Well, isn't this a bit exaggerated," you might say. Perhaps, perhaps not. An simple, recent example. We all know SMILES, right? And we all know that lower case element symbols indicate aromaticity, right? That is, c1ccccc1 is aromatic, right? So, what's the problem then?
Now, consider the SMILES string c1ccc1. Lower case carbon element symbols, so aromatic, right? Oh, wait...
Therefore, be clear in what you mean. It saves us from a lot of trouble.
Further reading:
- The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #1: access to data
- Molecular Chemometrics, 2006 (doi:10.1080/10408340600969601)
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
XHTML+RDFa: chemical examples
Before I start, I like to put some emphasize on the following RDFa pattern. An RDF resource that serves as subject is always mapped to a HTML element. This can be a div element, but also other elements, as we will see in the example.
A molecule SMILES
The oldest RDFa example in my blog is from 2006. That was almost two years before the final Recommendation, and is not quite accurate anymore. But here's the correct version:
This example shows how to embed the SMILES string CCO semantically. This example shows that the outer most span element is used to define the subject of the RDF triple, using the @about attribute to define the URI of the resource: #ethanol. Note that this URI is relative to the URI of the HTML page in which it is embedded. Later we will see an example with a full URI.
But I don't want to hack HTML!
Yeah, fair point. Just make a point with your publisher when you submit a new paper. It is the duty of the publisher and your software vendor to do this right. In 2008 I wrote a small Ubiquity script to automagically convert an InChI into semantified HTML content. But I am not sure this script still works. If interesting, let me know, and I will revive the Firefox thingy.
And why would I want to do it anyway??
Because software can more easily understand what you mean. This is why Google is now pushing rich snippets. Chemical blogspace understands them too, allowing you to see blog posts about molecules on other webpages. With a simple bit of JavaScript you can link from your webpages, you can enrich your HTML sites with semantic chemistry yourself. Bioclipse also has no problem with extracting the RDF from HTML. Even Firefox can understand it. Really, there is no end to it.
Of course, why you should do this comes basically down to Molecular Chemometrics Principle #2, but I have not written that on up yet (see also McPrinciple #1).
Reporting problems with molecular representations
More recently, I reported about using RDFa in human readable log file for computations I am doing (see Scripts logs as HTML+RDFa: mix free text reporting with CSV). That code looks like:
This example uses a div element to host the subject resource. Again, the resource URI is relative to the URI of the document, e.g. this one. We can also note a new attribute, @typeof, which is here used to define the rdf:type of the #200234 resource.
This code snippet does not define the um namespace, which was done elsewhere in the HTML. Moreover, this code snippet does not actually reuse existing ontologies, which is highly recommended. The upcoming RDF symposium in Boston will tell you all about chemical ontologies in the RDF world (see this detailed program, which itself is HTML+RDFa!). But, if you would just overlook the ad hoc namespaces used, you might appreciate the nesting: besides the compound (#200234), a second resource is defined (#error0). In total, this example contains six triples.
Meanwhile, the output simply looks like:
A molecule table
First of all, the rdf.openmolecules.net project is used to construct an absolute URI for the molecule. The table then gives some properties of the molecule: its name (using Dublin Core, though perhaps rdfs:label is better), the boiling point (nicely encoded as t0 in this 1947 paper), two cheminformatics descriptors, and the SMILES, using the same approach as the first example in this post.
The output of this table looks like:
I will shortly blog about the source of the above code snippet, but you are invited to go ahead and checkout my GitHub activity (RSS).
Steffen, I think these examples should get you pretty far, but please let me know if you have further questions!
Monday, August 09, 2010
XHTML+RDFa Template
One technical approach to implement the idea of adding semantic to text in HTML pages is RDFa. But with any technology, scientists seems to have an in-built deficiency of thinking clearly, and anything beyond being able to format your bibliography with the correct bold and italic seems to be a bit much asked.
Anyway, for future reference, this is a basic HTML framework for embedding RDFa:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
version="XHTML+RDFa 1.0" xml:lang="en">
<title>ACS RDF Symposium, Boston, August 2010</title>
Perhaps you prefer the raw source.
The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #1: access to data
Indeed, I am not particularly one of those bloggers who spends trees after trees, in great detail explaining what is going on. I do make a lot of use of hyperlinking; much more than the average blogger. I actually assume that readers follow links, to read about the perspective of a blog post. But we all know that scientists do not read the cited papers in a paper they are reading, so who am I to assume blog readers would start doing that with blogs :)
Well, since principles seems popular, it might be a good start of my grand scheme that is behind this blog: the Molecular Chemometrics Principles. Hence, this first post about the why. The why is simply to provide a reference frame to what I am blogging about. In the next few posts on these McPrinciples (is that a catchy name, or what?) that will appear over the next two weeks, I will outline the code of chem-bla-ics. And, moreover, from now on, I will tag all my posts with the reaons why I make that post. I am sure that will not be too helpful for the occasional reader, but for anyone who is serious about chem-bla-ics, this will be a genuine gold mine of data for pattern recognition and data mining otherwise.
So, here goes.
Molecular Chemometrics Principles #1: In order to reproduce cheminformatics studies you need access to the input data.
The reason for this is that statistical modeling very much depends on the data on which modeling was done, patterns were recognized, etc. Therefore, without the input data, it is practically impossible to accurately reproduce results. Fortunately, the acceptance of the importance of access to data (e.g. as Open Data) is slowly getting momentum in science.
Further reading: Molecular Chemometrics, 2006 (doi:10.1080/10408340600969601)
Cleaner CDK Code #8: the Java Naming Conventions and Camel Casing
names. Class and interfaces, however, start with upper case characters. By all using these same conventions, we need to learn only one scheme and can more easily recognize what are variables, methods and classes. Have a look at these naming conventions by Oracle and the concept of Camel Casing, heavily used in Java.
BTW, note that the CDK conventions deviate from the Oracle conventions just linked to with respect to variable names. We have not found a way to have PMD to differentiate to where variables are used, and therefore require at least three characters per variable name, to enforce some meaningful naming, which is required by Oracle's conventions too.
Previous topics
- Cleaner CDK Code #7: understand what the code is supposed to do
- Cleaner CDK Code #6: set the CDKException's cause Exception
- Cleaner CDK Code #5: develop against interfaces
- Cleaner CDK Code #4: inheriting JavaDoc from super classes and interfaces
- Cleaner CDK Code #3: run the PMD tests
- Cleaner CDK Code #2: String.contains() and logger messages
- Cleaner CDK Code #1: List and the for-each loop
Friday, August 06, 2010
Oxford... #2
In the afternoon I walked around a bit more in Oxford, did some more shopping... and visited the Apple shop and played with an iPad. It's indeed a great piece of hardware. Looking forward to the first Android versions :)
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Cleaner CDK Code #7: understand what the code is supposed to do
Understand what the code is doing
Understanding what CDK code is doing is not always obvious. Theoretically, the mix of clean code, JavaDoc, and code comments explain enough, but sometimes it is not. Then, it is useful to see how code has evolved: who wrote the code; what was the commit message around that code (further documentation); what did the code look like before that change. This is where git blame comes in (see also how GitHub used this).
Now, to see the history of a source file, we do, for example:
git pickaxe -L 840 -- src/main/org/openscience/cdk/smiles/DeduceBondSystemTool.java
Which will output something like:
00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2010-08-05 16:35:29 +0100 840) * 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2010-08-05 16:35:29 +0100 841) * @param interrupted true, if the calculation should be canceled 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2010-08-05 16:35:29 +0100 842) */ 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2010-08-05 16:35:29 +0100 843) @TestMethod("testInterruption") 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 844) public void setInterrupted(boolean interrupted) { 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 845) this.interrupted = interrupted; 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 846) } 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 847) 00000000 (Not Committed Yet 2010-08-05 16:35:29 +0100 848) @TestMethod("testInterruption") 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 849) public boolean isInterrupted() { 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 850) return this.interrupted; 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 851) } 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 852) 7c5c872c (egonw 2008-02-22 19:13:45 +0000 853) }
The uncommited parts shows a patch I am working on. You see that these methods have last been touched by me. So, it is interesting to see why I added those, for which we look up the commit message (using he commit hash in the first column). We use git show --shortstat 7c5c872c:
commit 7c5c872c6be0e6a24a519eb227e7ed0b76ac37d6 Author: egonw
Date: Fri Feb 22 19:13:45 2008 +0000 Merged the branch egonw/maintest: sets up src/main and src/test for splitting main library from unit tests git-svn-id: https://cdk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cdk/trunk/cdk@10219 eb4e18e3-b210-0410-a6ab-dec725e4b171 2340 files changed, 398392 insertions(+), 92370 deletions(-)
We now actually see an important commit in history. This was the commit where the source code was split up into the two folders we have right now.
Dealing with moved files
Normally, we could do the following to see what the code was like before this commit, by adding the revision hash and a ^ to indicate the last commit before that hash, with:
git pickaxe -L 840 7c5c872c^ -- src/main/org/openscience/cdk/smiles/DeduceBondSystemTool.java
However, this will not work here, because the source code originally was elsewhere. In particular, the code used to be all in src/. So, the original location was src/main/org/openscience/cdk/smiles/DeduceBondSystemTool.java. Therefore, we must use instead:
git pickaxe -L 840 7c5c872c^ -- src/org/openscience/cdk/smiles/DeduceBondSystemTool.java
And then we can continue again.
Previous topics
- Cleaner CDK Code #6: set the CDKException's cause Exception
- Cleaner CDK Code #5: develop against interfaces
- Cleaner CDK Code #4: inheriting JavaDoc from super classes and interfaces
- Cleaner CDK Code #3: run the PMD tests
- Cleaner CDK Code #2: String.contains() and logger messages
- Cleaner CDK Code #1: List and the for-each loop
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Using Bioclipse to upload data to an OpenTox server
As, a result, you can (with the code at my laptop) now do (see this BSL script at MyExperiment):
// requires an unspecified Bioclipse development version ds = opentox.createDataset("http://apps.ideaconsult.net:8080/ambit2/"); opentox.addMolecule(ds, cdk.fromSMILES("CCCCC[N+](C)(C)C")) opentox.addMolecule(ds, cdk.fromSMILES("ClC(I)Br")) opentox.deletaDataset(ds);
Make sure to check out the other stuff I have been doing with respect to OpenTox.
Is there an Open Specification for structure normalization?
Normalization is an important step in many cheminformatics workflows. Picking the right representation for a nitro-group, for example.
Are there best practices here? Should we initiate an Open Specification for normalization steps that should be performed? This would greatly increase the reproducibility in cheminformatics…
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Anyways, going to the Predictive Toxicology workshop, thanx to the bursary award I received from echeminfo (see Oxford, August 2010: eCheminfo Predictive ADME & Toxicology 2010 Workshop).
This afternoon I walked around a bit, watching all the old buildings. But I guess being here without anyone to share it with, and that it just looks Cambridge, makes me not-so-much impressed. Moreover, it's too busy with tourists and people randomly wearing Oxford University sweatshirts. Small and nice was the Museum of the History of Science, with some nice chemical pieces, like this one:
Buildings like the Radcliffe Camera are nice on the outside, but closed. Seems I have to become a fellow first. This is what it looked like today:
But the question is, of course, how long will we keep reading books... they're the hamburgers of educational material... Kindle and alikes will soon drop in price, and cost some €30 euro. But e-book prices will have to drop too, and I still do not get why an e-book is more expensive than a paperback... (see Amazon, the Kindle edition is more expensive than the paperback??). But then again... they are rich, and I am not.
There was some recent talk about the fact that no one can be Open to the full. You either do Open Data or Open Source, and make a living from the rest. That's where I nicely show I know bullocks of economics. I do BODR, CDK, ... all Open, all for free.
OK. That's a plus for Oxford... it makes you think about things. Perhaps there is something to morphogenetic fields...


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Today, entrepreneurs like George Uenishi are flocking to Gowanus and proving art, new media and the foodie movement can coexist alongside the canal after all.
Uenishi opened Digital Plus, a graphic and reproduction company, in a former 10,000-square-foot warehouse located at 411 3rd Avenue in early 2009, after relocating the business from the West Village, where it had thrived for many years. Uenishi said he was ready for the right kind of change, and found it immediately.
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Famous photographers agree. The works of Mark Seliger, Ben Baker, and others line the walls at Digital Plus, which also does work for lesser-known photographers, besides providing a host of other printing services.
The front of the studio is a well-curated, track-lit exhibition space that looks as if it was plucked right from SoHo, just as Uenishi hoped. The gallery is currently showing "20 Years of Photographs" by Adriano Faguentes. It recently hosted a well-attended opening for the exhibit, which is raising funds for Faguentes' next project in the Amazon.
Uenishi said the space is frequented by neighborhood residents and Manhattanites alike, who often come for a stroll in Gowanus before heading to nearby Park Slope for something to eat. "This is becoming like a destination" neighborhood, he said.
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The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women: Progress and Pitfalls for LGBT Rights
Given the recent news about Liberia's president fence-sitting on the issue of current anti-gay Liberia law, I've been thinking a lot about how to address gender bias within an African context.
(I maintain that "traditional" gender roles haven't been adequately explored as the root cause of many intersecting societal problems, e.g. sexism and homophobia, and that Africans — straight or gay — should work together towards their elimination if we stand for true progress. Here's my explanation.)
My search for information on successful models for promoting gender equity in Africa led me to an article about The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women, the first comprehensive legal framework for women's rights in Africa, and an international governing tool that seeks to "improve on the status of African women by bringing about gender equality and eliminating discrimination."
From the UN Women West Africa's blog:
The Protocol is the first human rights instrument to call on state parties to legislate against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other harmful practices and also provides for the right to health and reproductive rights. The Protocol is also the first human rights instrument to explicitly provide for the right to a medical abortion when the pregnancy results from rape or incest or when the continuation of pregnancy endangers the health or life of the mother. It also provides for the right to property and inheritance, equal rights in marriage and divorce, and the rights of elderly and disabled women.
In the above summary, I noted almost instantly that there weren't any explicit protections / provisions made to advocate for sexual minorities (i.e. LGBTQI Africans), which is unfortunate if true (Note: still waiting for comment from UN Women, and will update once I hear back) because the protocol seems to be working; to date, 32 out of 54 African states have taken steps in accordance with the provisions and have implemented strategies to combat the mistreatment of women.
For example, per the protocol, several countries including Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and Tanzania, have legally prohibited the practice of Female Genital Cutting, and Zambia's newly established Division of Gender in Development now reviews existing laws that discriminate against women.
In fact, the pace at which many African countries have embraced the opportunity to improve the conditions of women in their countries has been encouraging enough that UN Women and Equality Now (on behalf of pan-African organization SOAWR, Solidarity for African Women's Rights Coalition) have launched a new initiative to train lawyers across Africa on the protocol's application using this manual.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if African lawyers were also trained in legal advocacy for non-heteronormative women who are mistreated or denied basic rights for not conforming to dogmatic gender roles? I think there is a case for this, as well as using this framework to hold governments in Africa accountable should they choose to promote or sanction the criminalization of LGBT African people.
For one, a clear stance against using culture as an excuse for the mistreatment of women is already included in this protocol. In fact, President Sirleaf of Liberia arguably earned her presidency on a platform that challenged tradition; her work advocating for the rights of women has even earned her a Nobel Peace prize. (Ironic, that this same position is what is keeping her from walking the talk when it comes to providing protections for LGBT Liberians.)
But, more importantly, as a media activist primarily concerned with movement building among African women, I believe that a push to include protections for sexual minorities within the protocol would provide a way for African women's organizations (including those which are focused on LGBTQI issues) to work together, rather than in separate caucuses.
I foresee some resistance to this of course. In my experience, many African women (even those doing human rights work), much like Liberia President Sirleaf, still view discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation as separate from women's issues, often paralleling them when they should be discussing them as intrinsically connected. But the same "traditional" gender roles that keep women trapped in abusive relationships (even at the expense of their lives) are the same ones that cause men to view corrective rape of lesbians as a justifiable lesson in womanhood.
So, before we — as African women – can begin making demands of our leaders, perhaps we need to have more conversations among ourselves. Luckily, we don't need a charter to do this.
"My sisters, my daughters, my friends – find your voice." — President Sirleaf


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We got up early and headed to Lonesome Pines campground to get our new spot secured. Then it was back to Wilder to finish putting the slides in and unhooking hookups and hooking up to roll.
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I have a large backyard! The dogs will have lots of room to explore and potty area. Plus we have a fire pit for when the grand daughter comes to visit. We do get some afternoon sun where the 4 wheelers and truck are parked but i have shade under my awning .. I have several blinds up so i can see outside which i love. When my blinds are down the walls seem to cave in on me even though i am living in much living space with our new home. We have a nice breeze and i the wifi is working!! Wifi is a big thing for me … i love having internet access inside of my home. We get 13 TV channels on our antenna so that makes hubby happy.


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So, by the time the servers came up yesterday it was roughly 7:00 pst. Which meant that I got to enjoy a very delicious meal with the man before logging in for havoc! The first thing I did was purchase my dual spec on Beru. And then respec'd twice after I screwed up my blatant theft of Greylo's raiding spec, and yes…I suck at alt tabbing and short term mermory apparently 🙂
So…I naturally did the first thing any good Moonkin does after speccing. /dance! Oh yea baby!
After that I promptly headed to org to find the big bad boss test dummy, and spread my moonking wings a bit. After about 30 minutes on the dummy, with just MotW, I was running about 3400 DPS. Not SUPER fantastic, but what I felt was acceptable for my first go at it 🙂 I'm in full T7.5 set gear, and solid DPS pieces with the exception of my rings and neck, which are solid spell power pieces, but are my healing pieces. I am hit capped (/cheer), but I did have to use about 3 monarch topaz's to get there. I feel that my haste might be a bit low yet as well, but I'm working on it =)
One thing in the rotation that I was a little confused about is exactly when I am supposed to refresh my DoTs. I start my rotation with FF -> MF -> IS -> W (eclipse proc) -> SF (until eclipse CD) -> MF -> IS ->etc. I'm not sure if that's the correct time to refresh those? I mean, my IS is long gone by the time I refresh it. Is it OK to let it drop off like that? I'm fairly certain that my MF is staying refreshed via my starfires, or am I on crack?
Additionally, I had picked up Squawk and Awe…but absolutely hated the way it was constantly on my bar and the interface for it. So I ditched it and picked up the Eclipse Quartz Module, which is perfect and I feel a much cleaner alternative. I set it so that it showed my MF/IS timers, as well as my Eclipse cooldown timer, and duration timer. All right on top of my current casting bar. It was quite lovely and I enjoyed it very much.
I'm not sure if I will ever be called on to DPS for a boss, but I feel that I've a fundamental understanding of the Moonkin, and could put out at least 4k DPS in a raid setting. I will of course strive to keep improving, and hopefully actually getting better 🙂
For now I will leaf you with those thoughts, and rustle myself off back to the land of trees. (har, har)


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Now that several days have passed -- and the usual suspects have piped in with their disaster tourism, media opportunism, and inevitable bombast – do I feel comfortable writing publicly about the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy.
Sadly, even with important-sounding calls for change, I'm not sure much will change, even after another disaffected young man, with easy access to weapons of war, left a trail of human carnage in a desperate last-ditch attempt for recognition and ideation. Yes, nonstop news coverage, incessant hand-wringing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) reintroduction of the exception-riddled 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban, plus President Obama's moving call for "change" at Sunday night's interfaith vigil for Sandy Hook victims suggest this might be a "turning point."
However, a turning point in red state America? In rural America? The "unprecedented" spike in gun sales since the Sandy Hook tragedy -- including at ArmsX, which sits a short 20 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary -- suggests that not much has changed in gun-owning circles. In most non-urban counties in this country – which vote overwhelmingly along NRA lines in state, local, and national elections -- citizens seem to unconsciously accept that horrific mass killings are the price we pay for unbridled gun ownership.
To understand the genesis of that POV, one needs to grasp how guns are woven into our republic's founding. Our second amendment was largely created to enable citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. Not symbolically defend, but literally defend. As the nation's law enforcement has expanded its weapons capabilities, so too, by virtue of the "natural rights" enshrined in the second amendment, should the weapons capabilities of citizens.
However, tyranny's definition has been distorted far beyond what the founding fathers intended. They did not intend for U.S. citizens to take up arms against their government because they disagreed with, say, high taxes, quotas, wealth redistribution, or amnesty for illegal immigrants. As onerous as those positions may be to some, they do not justify armed revolt. The founders intended civilians to protect themselves against a government that was literally waging violent war on them.
Even as I consider taking up hunting -- out of a desire to procure my own food, not for sport or security -- I am struck by the absurdity of owning a semi-automatic weapon. It serves no sport or hunting function. It is not necessary in most cases of self-defense. One owns a semi-automatic weapon almost exclusively to protect oneself should the U.S. government wage war on its citizens. Alternatively, one requires a semi-automatic weapon should another nation invade the U.S. and our security forces are unable to repel the intruder. Neither event is remotely probable in 2012 America. Nevertheless, American citizens can purchase unabashed weapons of war -- such as the Bushmaster .223 rifle used to mow down 20 Sandy Hook first-graders -- purely as a bulwark against these imagined tyrannical threats.
As we try to forge a new way after the Newtown tragedy, those who believe in hunting's import need to stand up against the extremism on both sides of the gun issue. Bans on automatic or semi-automatic weapons will not in any way affect the sport of hunting. Mandating gun show background checks (however small the purchase), or requiring that one keeps one's guns under lock and key in a place impenetrable to outsiders and one's own children, are not too burdensome to those of us who merely seek to hunt for sport, sustenance, habitat protection, or all three.
Yes, as John Lott argues in More Guns Less Crime, mass murderers pick schools, in part, because they are largely defenseless targets. However, arming teachers and principals, as former Education Secretary Bill Bennett recommended Sunday on "Meet the Press," will turn our schools into mini-prisons. In many parts of the country – as documentary filmmaker Cevin Soling notes in "The War On Kids" -- they already are. In my next post, I will explore ways to effectively protect schools without turning them into fortresses.
For now, we are going to have to forego this illusion that U.S. citizens should be free to arm themselves with military-style rifles, high-capacity magazines, explosives, and more. A fulsomely armed citizenry might be what the founding fathers had in mind in the context of a low-tech colonial war with the British back in 1776, but not in the world of today's high-tech killing machines and droves of lost and systemically emasculated young men with access to such weaponry.
Just as we've had to accept limitations on state rights in order to enable civil rights for African-Americans, women, and now gays, so too we need to pass laws that unequivocally preserve the second amendment's right to bear arms, but circumscribe its purview when it comes to self-defense.
As New York City has empirically shown – much to the consternation of faddish economists like Steven D. Levitt (he of "Freaknomics" fame) --- gun regulation, when combined with smart, robust policing and James Q. Wilson's Broken Windows approach to law enforcement, works. New York City has routinely had the lowest per capita murder rate in the nation for several decades. We need to replicate New York City's practices in full across the nation and give up this outdated canard that dramatically arming citizens is going to solve crime in places like DC, Chicago or Newtown, Connecticut. It can't. It hasn't. It won't.
Nor is it feasible or ethical to keep whole swaths of the population deemed "mentally ill" from owning guns. After all, a healthy plurality of American gun owners likely suffers from some mental impairment: depression, anxiety, PTSD from serving in military conflict, ADD, drug, alcohol, and/or gambling addiction, and, of course, sundry types of oppositional or anti-social behavior. In addition, I am sure many gun owners have expressed viewpoints online that might be deemed "inappropriate" or "dangerous" by one quarter or another. Nevertheless, the MacArthur Foundation found that those who were diagnosed mentally ill were no more violent than those who were not diagnosed mentally ill.
In our quest to keep guns away from the so-called "mentally ill," are we going to ferret out the medical records – in direct violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule -- of the millions of Americans on psychiatric meds or the millions more who had to spend time in a mental health facility because their own caregivers were drunks, drug addicts, abusers or all three?
Such draconian personal invasions under the guise of "mental health" are positively Soviet (the U.S.S.R. made a habit of locking up citizens in psychiatric wards for opposing its totalitarian policies). Absent a clear and reasonable bright line that miraculously demarcates which mental conditions lead to gun violence -- Asperger's Syndrome is typically not one -- such psychiatric litmus tests absurdly infringe upon the basic freedoms of all Americans, including the freedom of speech. We must strongly resist this post-Sandy-Hook mental health detection drumbeat precisely because it will ensnare millions of innocent young Americans in its altruistic trap.
Instead, we must strike a healthy balance between rights and responsibilities without demonizing a large swath of the citizenry in the process. It will require give and take from all of us. In addition, it will require sensible sportsmen to stand up and differentiate themselves from the Prepper fringe – the Sandy Hook shooter's mother was a member -- who are animating the unreasonable resistance to balanced gun regulation.
Yes, cars kill more people every year in America than do guns. However, the primary purpose of cars is transport. The primary purpose of guns is killing. A wise society should be able to navigate that distinction.
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New settlement to boost air quality, Connecticut officials say
Changes made to a settlement agreement between the nation's largest electric power producer and eight states, including Connecticut, are expected to result in significant air quality improvements, according to state officials.
American Electric Power Co. has agreed to more aggressively reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from its coal-fired generating plants than originally called for in a 2007 settlement of a lawsuit Connecticut and the states filed against the utility, said Susan Kinsman, a spokeswoman for Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen.
The company has also agreed to pay $6 million to fund pollution mitigation projects in the eight states, and invest in wind power projects under certain conditions under the changes made to the settlement agreement.
Connecticut's share of the $6 million for pollution mitigation projects is $714,286, according to the changes to the settlement agreement, which were filed in an Ohio federal court Friday.
"My office agreed to reopen the settlement only if the changes would result in a greater environmental benefit to the state and the people of Connecticut, who suffer from higher rates of asthma than those nationally," Jepsen said in a statement Monday.
"This new agreement accomplishes that goal by reducing a significant source of sulfur dioxide pollution faster. It also commits AEP to equip more plants with pollution controls, switch them to cleaner fuels or close them down."
Under the new agreement, AEP will cap its annual sulfur dioxide emissions at 145,000 tons by 2016, and progressively reduce that annual cap to 94,000 tons in 2029. The original agreement capped sulfur dioxide emissions for 2016 at 260,000 tons and ended cap reductions in 2019 at 174,000 tons.
This is the third modification to the original settlement, to which Connecticut environmental regulators were a party. AEP asked for the agreement to be reopened to change the pollution control technology on two of its coal-fired plants in Indiana.
Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection agreed to the modifications to the original settlement, which Commissioner Dan Esty said "moves us closer to closing this unfortunate chapter in our history."
"Our residents have long suffered the public health consequences of air pollution carried here from power plants elsewhere that burn dirtier fuels, while these other states benefited economically from low-cost electricity," Esty said in a statement. "(This) will help level the playing field between Connecticut and other states."
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What distinguishes millennial cooks in America, from, say, the stirrers of any other generation? Not merely the drive to make something easy and in a hurry. It might have to do with exposure - to a wider variety of ethnic foods than ever before, at an earlier age than ever before. Many 18-to-30-somethings logged lots of adolescent hours at ethnic restaurants that once seemed exotic, flavorwise. Their palates have helped expand the international aisles at grocery stores, especially in the Hispanic section. And millennials know how to mine the myriad food blogs, online recipe databases and niche food magazines. Does the term Google cooking ring a bell? Think back, millennials, to the early 2000s, when stumped, Web-savvy cooks would create search terms of whatever ingredients they had on hand, however odd the combination seemed, along with the word 'recipes.' The approach we recommend is not like that. Having the following five ingredients on hand will provide a powerful launching pad. You won't have to hit the tablet and search for ideas. These pantry items will save you time and (takeout) money. They can be deployed in ways that are fit for company. Sure, the case could be made for a different set altogether. We chose these for their practicality, budget-friendliness and range of use. (Note to non-meat eaters: Hope that four out of five will do.) Canned Chickpeas (a.k.a. garbanzo beans), preferably no-salt-added. Once they're drained and rinsed, chickpeas can be eaten cold, hot or at room temperature. Add them to salads and soups and curries and chili and pasta. Roast them, salted with a drizzle of olive oil, for a snack. (Squeeze lemon juice on those; you can't go wrong.) Mash or puree them, then stir in olive oil and your favorite spices. Shape that mash into patties that can be sauteed to a crisp golden brown in less than 10 minutes. They're famous for being the basis of various 'hummi,' as British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall likes to refer to the classic puree of chickpeas, tahini and such. Here's an application that might surprise you: Dessert Hummus. You won't taste the chickpeas, but you will be able to spontaneously produce a somewhat nutritious sweet treat that can stand at the ready, in refrigerator or freezer, for late-night spoonfuls. A millennial mom could pack this off in a lunchbox with pear slices or crackers and receive favorable reviews. Dessert Hummus With a few pantry ingredients and about 6 minutes, you can pull together something nutty and unexpected. A spoonful or two can satisfy a late-night sweet tooth. Serve with cut-up fruit or digestive crackers. Make Ahead: The hummus can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Servings: 9 Yield: Makes about 2¼ cups 15 ounces canned, no-salt-added chickpeas, rinsed and drained ¼ cup creamy low-fat peanut butter (may substitute tahini) 2 tbs low-fat cream cheese (optional) ¼ cup maple syrup or agave nectar/syrup, plus more for garnish 1 tbs packed light brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract ½ tsp ground cinnamon, plus more for garnish ¼ cup canola or vegetable oil Pinch kosher salt (optional) ½ cup semisweet mini chocolate chips (optional) Combine the chickpeas, peanut butter, cream cheese, if using, the syrup, brown sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon in a blender or food processor. Blend or pulse until well incorporated. With the motor running, pour in the oil in a slow, steady stream to form a fairly smooth hummus Taste, and add the salt, if desired, pulsing to incorporate. Add the chocolate chips, if using, and pulse to the desired consistency. Transfer to a bowl, or cover tightly and refrigerate. To serve, sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and drizzle with a little syrup. Corn Tortillas, the six-inch size. You know about quesadillas, enchiladas, tostadas, tacos, mini-pizzas, chilaquiles, and layered Mexican dips and dishes. Cutting them into wedges and baking or frying into crisp chips or salad crunchies. Wrapping them in paper towels and microwaving just until pliable. Now, think soup: Even the tortillas left open to harden in the refrigerator will work. Chop them up and combine them with a can of pumpkin puree, a little cilantro, onion and garlic. Add beer or cider, and water, and seasonings. In less than 40 minutes, you have a pot of something filling and fitting for fall - no blender required. Use leftovers as a sauce for pasta. Pumpkin Tortilla Soup Corn tortillas, fresh or slightly stale, thicken this soup in a flavorful way. If you open two 15-ounce cans of pumpkin puree for this recipe, you'll have a little left over; stir it into store-bought hummus or your favorite chili or muffin recipe. To omit the alcohol, substitute fresh, unsweetened apple cider or sparkling cider. If you have the inclination to make a crunchy garnish, cut 1 or 2 additional tortillas into thin strips and lightly fry them in oil until crisped. Or you can crumble a few store-bought tortilla chips. Make Ahead: The soup can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days or frozen flat in zip-top bags for up to 6 months. Servings: 3 - 4 Yield: Makes about 5¼ cups ½ medium white onion, coarsely chopped 1 or 2 cloves garlic, smashed ½ cup packed cilantro leaves and tender stems, plus a few cilantro leaves for garnish 2 tbs olive oil Six 6-inch refrigerated corn tortillas, cut into strips, then into -inch pieces ½ tsp ground cumin Ground cayenne pepper (may substitute hot sauce) 1½ cups canned pure pumpkin puree (from two 15-ounce cans; see headnote) 1 cup brown ale or hard cider (see headnote) 1½ cups water, or more as needed ¼ tsp kosher salt, or more as needed Toasted hulled pumpkin seeds, for garnish (optional; see Note) Flesh of 1 ripe avocado, cubed, for garnish (optional) Combine the onion, garlic (to taste) and cilantro in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the onion-cilantro mixture along with the chopped tortillas, stirring to coat. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring several times, until softened. Stir in the cumin and cayenne pepper (to taste). Cook for 1 minute, then add the pumpkin puree, ale or cider, the water and salt, stirring to incorporate. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. The tortillas will break up and thicken the soup; add water to achieve the desired consistency. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed. Divide among bowls. Garnish with the cilantro leaves, pumpkin seeds and/or avocado, if desired. Serve warm. Note: Toast pumpkin seeds in a small, dry skillet over medium-low heat for a few minutes, until lightly browned and fragrant. You will hear them make popping sounds.
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Alexander Massouras
And Paul soon forgot his golden house
Julian Page
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And Paul soon forgot his golden house, 2011 Alexander Massouras
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Illustration from The Gilderbook, one of Three Moderately Cautionary Tales, published by Julian Page, 2011. Fig. 15.
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Three Moderately Cautionary Tales
Three Moderately Cautionary Tales is a series of fifty hard-ground etchings in three cycles: each cycle loosely follows the narrative arc of an epiphany. The Gilderbook narrates the protagonists' unrelenting pursuit of beauty. The etchings trace his obsession with gilding and its effect on his world, and the progressive incorporation of gold leaf within the etchings formally mirrors the encroachment they narrate; the narrative bleeds into the form. Hieronymus the Lion Tamer is about the hope of transformation. The hero's attempts to escape from a vocational malaise lead to the surrender of a talent and the pursuit of a new one. The talents are opposites but a similarity—through the historical association between the lion and the bee—lingers. Alfred's Library describes an over-zealous pursuit of knowledge which turns out to be fragile; Alfred's solace is found in rest.
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About the ProductThe Nub is an attractive and unique collection of chairs, armchairs and lounge chairs and benches with solid beech frame and numerous finish options. The design is the result of sophisticated woodworking process and the modern detailing of the sculpted backrest. The geometry of spindles is not only for aesthetic purposes but also provides lumbar support. The alternating rhythm of the namesake nubs gives the pieces their materiality and three dimensional quality.
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Andreu World since its establishment 65 years ago in Valencia Spain, has developed into a company capable of responding to the high standards and quality levels required to supply a rigorous international market for both the residential and contract market. This includes using only FSC certified timbers. The success of the company owes much to applying technological advances to their traditional chair making skills to achieve a quality product that respects and reinterprets the shapes and ideas of yesterday with original designs. There are over 60 collections available, inclusive of a comprehensive range of armchairs, dining chairs, sofa chairs, bar stools and tables.
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Fanny Osborne
Kohekohe – Dysoxylum spectabile
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Fanny Malcolm was born at Symonds Street in Auckland in the early years of colonial settlement. She spent much of her childhood on Great Barrier Island where her family moved in 1859 to farm cattle. Much of Fanny Osborne's childhood was spent in isolation. She and her siblings were educated by their parents, and early on learned an affiliation with nature. Fanny ran away to Auckland to marry one of the other settlers on Barrier, Alfred Joe Osborne. They eventually returned to Great Barrier. When young her parents had nurtured the skills she demonstrated with her sketches, and once she could find the time in between looking after her 13 children, she began painting the wide array of native plant life in watercolour. She may well have produced albums of her watercolours for sale to visitors to the island. This selection of works, bequeathed to the Mackelvie Trust in 2015, demonstrate the delicacy of her touch, her fine sense of colour, and the accuracy of her botanical studies.
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In this Character Education DVD series, Harry, a typical 5-year-old with an active imagination, uses fantasy and humor to resolve his conflicts and frustrations. Each of the 7 volumes contains four 11 minute episodes and a teaching guide.
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In the realm of Diablo clones there are few games I enjoy quite as much as Diablo itself. The Sacred series is right up there, and today we're getting our first look at Sacred 3.
The world of Ancaria is far from perfect but I love it, from the brutal difficulty of the first game to the general glitchiness of the second. In this third installment, announced way back in 2010, the powerful Heart of Ancaria is up for grabs, and the player must stop the CW teen drama-named Zane Ashen, ruler of the corrupt Ashen Empire, from getting his hands on it. Oh that Zane. He's so...you know.
Up to four friends will be able to team up in the fight against Zane, competing and cooperating at the same time. It's one of the joys of Sacred — you want your companions to succeed; you just want to succeed more.
Sacred 3 is under development at Germany's Keen Games, the folks behind Legend of Kay and Anno 1701. It's planned for release in 2013 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. I shall be there when it arrives, ready to kick Zane's Ashen ass.


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We are the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims and those who serve them. Please join us as we forge a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives.
The criminal justice system is the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws. There is no single criminal justice system in the United States but rather many similar, individual systems. How the criminal justice system works in each area depends on the jurisdiction that is in charge: city, county, state, federal or tribal government or military installation. Different jurisdictions have different laws, agencies, and ways of managing criminal justice processes.1
The main systems are:
Most criminal justice systems have five components-law enforcement, prosecution, defense attorneys, courts, and corrections, each playing a key role in the criminal justice process.
Below is a basic outline of the sequence of events in the criminal justice process, beginning when the crime is reported or observed. The process may vary according to the jurisdiction, the seriousness of the crime (felony or misdemeanor),3 whether the accused is a juvenile or an adult, and other factors. Not every case will include all these steps, and not all cases directly follow this sequence. Many crimes are never prosecuted because they are not reported, because no suspects can be identified, or because the available evidence is not adequate for the prosecutor to build a case.
The criminal justice system can be overwhelming, intimidating, and confusing for anyone who does not work within it every day. As a victim, you will need to know what to expect and have support throughout the process.
You will also want to know your rights and the choices you may have to make.4
You may also need information and guidance to help you stay safe. For example, if you are harassed or stalked by the offender at any point in the criminal justice process, you should immediately report these violations to the police and inform the prosecutor. Also, while the offender is in jail or prison, the corrections staff is generally required to notify you if the offender is released or escapes or if a parole hearing is pending, if you request such notification. Also, most states have automated notification systems that allow registered victims (those who sign up) to check on the status of an offender at any time. Such systems will automatically notify you of an inmate's escape or release. (See www.vinelink.com/vinelink/initMap.do for more information about state notification systems.)
Readers may find it helpful to consult their local victim assistance program, local prosecutor's office, state attorney general's office, local or state bar association, or local law library for information specific to their own area or jurisdictions.
2. Defense attorneys sometimes contact victims about their case. Victims do not have to talk to defense attorneys or their investigators and are encouraged to contact the prosecutor if they have any concerns about such requests.
3. Felonies are punishable by more than one year in prison; misdemeanors are punishable by up to one year in jail.
4. See www.victimlaw.org for general information about victims' rights.
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