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Widgets »Twitter Timeline Widget
Twitter offers embeddable timelines that allow you to display any public Twitter feed on your blog. These timelines are interactive, so readers can reply, retweet and favorite tweets straight from your blog or website.
Get Your Twitter Widget ID
First, go to Twitter and create your Twitter Widget. There, you can pick your color scheme and size your Twitter widget. Once you're done, click "Save Changes."
Your widget ID is the long number you see in the URL while editing your Twitter widget:
Copy this widget ID — you will need it to display your Twitter Timeline on your blog.
Twitter Timeline Widget
You can use our Twitter Timeline widget to put a timeline in your sidebar, or other widget area on your blog.
First, get your Twitter widget ID with the steps above. Then, you're ready to add the widget:
Widget Settings
Create a widget by going to My Sites and selecting Customize:
Under Customize, go to Widgets, then Add a Widget:
Search for "Twitter" and you'll see a Widget option for adding your Twitter Timeline:
Open the widget, and add your Twitter widget ID under "Widget ID."
You'll also be able to customize the following layout options:
- Title: Set a custom title to be displayed above the widget. The default text is "Follow me on Twitter," but you can also change it to anything you like (e.g. "I'm on Twitter" or "Recent Tweets").
- Width: You can set a specific width (in pixels) for your timeline. If you set this to "0" then it will try to automatically fill your sidebar.
- Height: You can make your timeline taller or shorter by setting a height. The default is 400px which will normally show 2 or 3 of your most recent tweets (you can see the rest by scrolling).
- # of Tweets Shown: This setting overrides the "Height" setting – if you select 5 tweets, it will always show 5 with no scroll. If you don't set a # of tweets, it will fall back to your height setting, and you can scroll to see more tweets.
- Widget ID: A unique number that identifies your widget with Twitter. See the above get your Twitter widget ID section on where to get this number.
- Layout Options: You can play around with these options to change how your timeline looks. You'll see a preview of the changes in your Customizer.
- Link/Border Color: If you'd like to customize your timeline to match your theme better, then you can enter the hex code for a color in these boxes.
- Timeline Theme: Twitter provides a dark and a light color theme for the timeline, so depending on your blog's theme, you might want to change this.
Once you're done setting your options, just click Save and you can refresh your site to see it in action.
Embedding with a Shortcode
You can also embed your Twitter Timeline on a post or page on your blog.
To insert the timeline into a WordPress.com post, paste the following shortcode into your post editor:
[twitter-timeline id=1234 username=yourhandle]
In the shortcode, id is your Twitter widget ID and username is your twitter handle, without the @ symbol. (See the above get your Twitter widget ID section on where to get your widget ID.)
The shortcode will look something like this in your post editor:
That's it! When you publish the post, it will look something like this:Tweets by @wordpressdotcom


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Dino-Riders Figures – Ebay Market Watch0
As I have studied the completed items listing on Ebay over the last few weeks, one category of toys has really stood out for me in terms of high selling price combined with overall coolness. These toys are Dino Riders, and come from the 1988 animated series by Tyco and Croner of which there were 3 seasons in total
I myself did not have any of the toys or shows, and they had fallen off my radar until recently as they are quite rare toys to find at garage sales etc. here in Australia.
A VHS of the first season did come my way a few weeks back, and I am currently selling this on ebay
I think it was a show that only had limited showing here in Australia on commercial tv at the tome ( maybe very early Saturday morning on Channel 9) so that may have limited the number of kids that were into it, and as a result the number of toys sold here in Australia. This factor has made them quite collectable, in addition to the unique figures / vehicles and dinosaur combinations.
Currently the double packs of Figurines (The bad guys are caled the Rulons the good guys were called the Valorians) are selling for around $15. Most of the sellers are in the US, although there are more Austalian sellers coming onto the market as the sale prices are increasing.
Having futuristic weapons and other gear mounted to dinosaurs was and still is unique, so these toys are sort after. Dino Riders are also one category of toys where you see a large number of MIB (mint in box) listings on EBay. I suspect this was due to them being high priced items ( the toys are large and motorised) and a lot of them were not sold to kids, but instead picked up by collectors at a reduced price on sale.
Mint in Box models of figures such as Edmontonia and Saurolophas selling in excess fo $300 consistantly


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Are some pilots required to wear clip-on ties for safety or efficiency reasons?
Do pilots wear a clip-on tie in lieu of a standard necktie if they do not know how to tie one, while others feel it is less constrictive than a standard necktie?
Is it a standard issue as a precaution against the possibility of pilots being strangled or pulled by a standard tied necktie?
Are they worn for safety, but also for ease of application and removal?
Did some airlines requiring pilots wear a necktie have encountered problems with pilots tying their ties improperly? If so, did these airlines implement clip-on ties to eliminate this problem?
Do some pilots either do not know how, or do not feel comfortable, tying a standard necktie?
Are pilots mocked for wearing a clip-on tie in lieu of a standard necktie, the implication being that refusal to learn how to tie a "proper" tie reflects a wider lack of sophistication?
Because child-sized ties are almost always clip-ons, do some airlines consider clip-ons juvenile?
It is believed that the pilot's necktie caught on the control yoke and before he could free it, the power seat experienced a runaway-aft, pulling back on the control column until the airplane stalled.
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Help! My 5 week old is biting my nipples during breastfeeding. He does fine for the first 5-7 minutes on each side, but then he gets lazy and begins to bite the nipple instead of suck. It has become incredibly painful. So much so that every few feedings I have to pump instead of breastfeed just to give them a rest from it. How do I stop this? I know that he needs about 10 minutes of feeding per side so I can't just stop his feedings when he starts biting. Please help!
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he may be biting you because he is working to make you let down. If your milk stream isn't strong enough to satisfy him, he might be biting just to stimulate your nipples.posted 07/23/2008 by April20Marie
I agree with the switching of the sides...I feed my son from only one side per feeding UNLESS he decides he wants to go for the other side too (that is usually only in the evening for him)... he lets me know he isnt getting what he wants from that side in the same way. So try to break the suction before he bites and switch the sides... good luck!posted 11/24/2007 by brookies86
Have you tried beraking suction on that side and switching him to the other side whenever he starts to this??posted 10/27/2007 by skylargsmom
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The division continues to expand the number of conditions for which we collect outcome data and use these data to improve care. As of this past year we routinely collect outcomes on patients seen for pain conditions, attention deficit disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, sleep disorders, and adherence to medical treatment. To optimize patient outcomes faculty and staff psychologists providing direct clinical care systematically review the treatment literature and design operational procedures for getting evidence-based care into practice across all clinicians within the division. We are also working hard at translating treatments found efficacious in randomized clinical trials with highly selected participants to the real world in which patients may have several co-morbid disorders and not just one condition. By examining our outcomes within each patient group we have been able to identify segments of the population for whom modifications in treatment protocols can improve outcomes for those patients. Our clinicians also inform and adopt new clinical applications of research. For example, our faculty in collaboration with four other centers established the criteria for clinically meaningful impairment on the Functional Disability Impairment measure of pain disability. These findings were then immediately translated into clinical care by becoming one of the key outcome measures for children and adolescents being treated for pain conditions.
In addition to applying evidenced-based treatment in clinical care our faculty are also leading the way in improving patient care at the bedside through research. The Place Outcomes Award is awarded through Cincinnati Children's and was designed to provide funds to improve health outcomes in children by the bridging of research with patient care. Four members of the division have been awarded these grants. Ahna Pai, Ph.D.'s Place Award titled Validation of a Real-time Adherence Assessment System will develop clinical tools that will assess adherence in real-time for the pediatric kidney transplant population. The composite non-adherence risk score and the innovative informatics paradigms developed in this pilot study will be integrated into standard clinical care and will be used in a funded Multisite R01 through NIH/NIDDK to conduct an RCT of a clinic-based intervention to promote optimal outcomes for transplant patients. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic blood disorder that causes pain episodes, organ damage and medical complications (e.g. stroke) which may increase in young adulthood during the transition to the adult healthcare system. Lori Crosby, Psy.D. received a Place Award titled The Impact of SCD Patient Portal on Transition to Adult Care to develop and pilot an SCD patient portal (i.e. electronic way to access personal health information) to empower these youth, improve the transition process, and guide future SCD transition studies. Lori Stark, Ph.D. received a Place Award to pilot test an innovative approach to bring her evidence-based intervention for improving nutritional outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis to patients through the development of a web-based version of the intervention. Because most patients live a long distance from their CF Center and most Centers do not have access to a behavioral psychologist, development of a web-based intervention will allow patients across the country to have access to this evidence-based treatment. Sandra Cortina, Ph.D. received a Place Award to test an intervention that can be delivered by physicians to address adherence to the medical regimen in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. This intervention is innovative as it will use data from electronic monitoring of medication adherence to form the basis of an in-clinic problem-solving intervention. This study is among the first to bring findings from what works to improve adherence in well-controlled clinical trials to clinical care.
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Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, PhD, recently completed a five-year multi-site randomized clinical trial funded by the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) in which cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was found to be a safe, well-tolerated and effective intervention for reducing disability and depressive symptoms in the treatment of adolescents with juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome. Effects were maintained six months after the treatment was completed, showing that the effects of treatment are durable. This is the first rigorously controlled trial of CBT for pediatric patients with fibromyalgia and results will soon be published in the journal, Arthritis and Rheumatism.
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At the Northwest Baptist Foundation, we are grateful to work with individuals who desire to take care of their loved ones as well as provide resources for ministry. We do that by helping establish estate plans, family trusts, charitable trusts, endowment or scholarship funds, and other means to benefit the persons and ministries designated by the individual. We also offer additional services to assist those with greater needs.
In many cases, individuals with special needs do not have family members that can assist them. In those situations, the Foundation can help, not only by managing financial resources, but also by making sure that other personal and medical needs are being taken care of by appropriate and caring professionals.
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Brand Names: Elimite, Lice Bedding Spray, Nix Complete Lice Treatment System, Nix Cream Rinse, Nix Lice Control, RID Home Lice Control Spray for Surfaces
Generic Name: permethrin topical (Pronunciation: per METH rin)
What is permethrin topical (Elimite, Lice Bedding Spray, Nix Complete Lice Treatment System, Nix Cream Rinse, Nix Lice Control, RID Home Lice Control Spray for Surfaces)?
Permethrin is an anti-parasite medication.
Permethrin topical (for the skin) is used to treat head lice and scabies.
Permethrin topical may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What are the possible side effects of permethrin topical?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor at once if you have severe burning, stinging, redness, or swelling after applying permethrin topical.
Less serious side effects may include:
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is the most important information I should know about permethrin topical?
Use this medication exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use it in larger amounts or for longer than recommended.
Do not take this medication by mouth. It is for use only on the skin, hair, fabrics, or other surfaces. Do not apply permethrin topical to open cuts or wounds.
Do not use this medication if you are allergic to permethrin or to chrysanthemums.
For the most complete treatment of lice or scabies and to prevent reinfection, you must treat your environment (clothing, bedding, pillows, furniture, hats, hair brushes and accessories, etc) at the same time you treat your body.
Avoid sexual or intimate contact with others until your lice or scabies infection has cleared up. Avoid sharing hair brushes, combs, hair accessories, hats, clothing, bed linens, and other articles of personal use. Lice and scabies infections are highly contagious.
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Dog steps are made up of two to three steps and two solid sides. They are used to help dogs climb elevated areas such as beds, couches, and tables. They are usually made of foam, plastic, and wood. They can support small dogs weighing less than 13 pounds to larger breeds up to 200 pounds.
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Eggshells for Worms
Hi, I'm Dallas the Worm Man and I'm going to tell you about how to increase the productivity of your fishing worms. Fishing worms are generally stressed out from all the shipping when you buy them. They are going to be dehydrated, and dehydrated worms are not attractive to fish. They are going to need a new home, and a soft bed of top soil, peat moss and some shredded newspaper is the perfect environment for them.
Feeding Your Worms
If you want to keep your worms healthy, you need to feed them. However, you cannot feed them anything acidic. So, no lemons, limes, oranges and so on. If the food will leave a stain on a paper cup, you don't want to feed it to your worms. Acidic food decreases the pH levels of your compost, making the worms infertile. Instead, feed them soft and moist foods, such as watermelon.
One surprisingly effective food product for worms is eggshells. Eggshells will keep your worms extra healthy and make them more productive. They decrease the acidity of the bedding, increasing the pH so that it remains neutral. This is the best environment for your worms to breed and you will soon see them multiplying in number quickly. Eggshells also keep the worms more active in the water, increasing their chances of attracting the big fish.
Eggshells also contain calcium deposits on their surface. Calcium increases the toughness of the worms' skins. This makes them stronger and more active in the water. I highly recommend eggshells as worm food because of all the benefits they provide to your worms. Not only does it make the worms healthier, it also makes them more fertile and increases their rate of reproduction. Ultimately, you have the best possible worms for your fishing expedition.
Sometimes, eggshells can contain salmonella and this can kill your worms. For this reason, I recommend that you boil your eggshells before adding them. Boiling the eggshells kills the salmonella while retaining all the properties needed to keep your worms strapping and fit. Dry out your eggshells and then crush them to get a fine powder that you can sprinkle on top of your worms. You can crush your eggshells using a mortar and pestle, or even just any crushing equipment.
Amount of Eggshells
Now, you might be wondering how many eggshells are required per week. Well, I would say for a medium sized worm compost tray containing bait-sized night crawlers, about one or two eggshells should suffice. This isn't absolutely essential, but it would definitely increase the productivity of your worms.
So, save up on your eggshells throughout the week, boil the shells, dry them, crush them and feed them to your worms for healthier, more active and many more worms. Your worms will be much better in quality than the worms you get straight from the market. A little work and a little care and you will soon be catching more fish than anyone else during your fishing trip.


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With car-like comfort a cabin large enough to comfortably seat up to 5 people, the Double Cab takes you from weekday to weekend with ease.
- 2.2L TDCi Diesel
- 6-speed Manual Transmission (with optional 6-speed Automatic Transmission) (at extra cost)
- Towing Capacity of 3,500kg1
- Payload of up to 1,291kg2
- 800mm Water Wading3
- 3.5" Ice Blue multi-function display
- Bluetooth®4 with Voice Control
- iPod5 integration
- Cruise control
- Steering wheel mounted audio / cruise control buttons
- Power windows and mirrors
- Dynamic Stability Control with ABS
- Overhead console
- Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD) and Traction Control
- Emergency Brake Assist (EBA)
- 12V auxiliary power socket
- Driver and Front Passenger Airbags
- Front seat side and front side curtain airbags
- 4 way manual driver seat adjuster with lumbar support
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13,500kg towing capacity only available on models built from November 2012 onwards. Braked towing capacity when fitted with an optional towpack and towball. Towing subject to State and Territory towing regulations.
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The Family and Medical Leave Act, long a source of angst between employers and employees, continues to broaden its scope, with the potential for additional regulatory changes before year's end.
Since early 2009, several steps have been taken to broaden access to the federal law, including extending coverage to military families and, this spring, announcing the law's applicability to a broader category of parental caregivers, including those of the same sex. U.S. Department of Labor officials also announced in late 2009 that they are reviewing the law's regulations, including changes made late in the Bush administration, with a projected action date of November 2010.
Meanwhile, a recent court case decided earlier this year put individual human resource managers on notice that they might be personally liable in disputes involving the FMLA. The finding in the district case, Narodetsky v. Cardone Industries, "sends shudders down the spines of human resource directors," says Charlie Plumb, chair of the labor and employment practice group for McAfee & Taft.
It's a lot of movement for a 1993 federal law that can attract sharp opinions on both sides.
Advocates for the federal law, which provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave during a 12-month period, describe its job protection as vital for eligible employees who are juggling medical or new parenting issues for themselves or a loved one. But the law also can be confusing and complex to administer, as well as potentially vulnerable to employee abuse, says Gail Scott, a partner at MorningStar Health, which specializes in health and productivity management. "It's a good law that in some cases has gone awry," she says.
Recessionary pressures also have upped the ante, according to FMLA experts. Excessive and unpredictable use of the federal law can erode workplace productivity, at a time when it's most needed, they say. Those stretched-thin employees also may also include human resource staffers themselves, who may be handling FMLA compliance along with other potentially acrimonious employment issues.
"One of the things that's happened in the last six to 12 months is a flurry of new lawsuits by people who have lost their jobs and are alleging that they were selected for that reduction in force because in the past they had requested or taken FMLA leave," Plumb says.
With a little additional scrutiny, though, employers can not only support appropriate FMLA requests, but also identify more borderline claims without landing in a courtroom, according to experts in FMLA compliance from the employer side. Among their recommendations: better tracking of absence patterns and rigorous training of frontline supervisors.
Tracking claims and court cases
From recent data, it's difficult to get a clear picture of whether FMLA claims are becoming more common. Overall the number of new claims declined slightly, by 7 percent, from 2006 to 2008, according to the most recent survey data available from the National Business Group on Health. And the number of lost workdays related to FMLA remained relatively static over the three years surveyed, with a median of 302 days per 100 covered employees in 2008.
But a smaller employer subgroup, which submitted data continuously over the three-year span, reported an uptick overall. Lost workdays per 100 employees increased from a median of 312 in 2006 to 434 in 2008, according to data provided by 11 employers.
One of the challenges involved in handling FMLA claims is that the law is relatively young and the case law is still developing, Scott says. "It's a very complex law that, if not administered properly, can put the company at risk for wrongful-discharge suits."
To date, though, employers have been more successful in the court system, according to one analysis by a University of Connecticut student, which looked at slightly more than 300 appeals court decisions from January 2000 through December 2007. On balance, employers were more likely to win and retaliation was the most frequently filed claim. (The decisions were evenly split on that particular claim.) But employee success has been improving in recent years.
The analysis represents a rare attempt to quantify FMLA experience in the appeals court system, says Steven Wisensale, who advised Samantha Sherwood, the student who conducted the analysis. It also highlights the extent of the litigation surrounding the federal law, says Wisensale, a public policy professor at the University of Connecticut. "I am surprised at how litigious the FMLA has become and how willing corporations are to spend lots of money in court to challenge the employees' access to it and use of it."
On the other side of the corporate table, the Narodetsky case is part of a larger trend in employment law, in which human resource managers have been put on notice that they might be held individually liable in regard to hiring and firing decisions, Plumb says. At this point, he says, court decisions are split around the country in regard to FMLA and individual liability.
But the risk is sufficient that another attorney advises human resource managers to check whether their employer's insurance policy covers them individually, including for attorney fees. Otherwise, "they may have to go out and hire their own independent attorney," says Carl Bosland, a Denver attorney who has written three books about the federal law.
Remaining compliant
As one strategy to ease FMLA-related stresses, employers are increasingly looking at outsourcing, Scott says. Such a step may be helpful if an employer lacks sufficient staff and expertise on site, Bosland and Plumb agree. But outsourcing doesn't provide an inherent shield from liability if something goes wrong, they note.
Legal complications can develop, for example, when corporate leaders think they've outsourced FMLA but are unaware of some of the informal conversations and decisions that are being made by their frontline supervisors, Bosland says.
"You are either militantly outsourcing or you're not," he says. "If you're not training your supervisors on what to look for, because you've outsourced 98 percent of it, your 2 percent is going to get you in trouble."
Frontline managers should be reminded, repeatedly if necessary, to alert human resources if any employee has been absent longer than three days or if there are recurring absences, Plumb says. "Your supervisors are your eyes and ears out there," he says, in terms of identifying potentially qualifying FMLA claims.
Since it's up to the employer to identify a situation that might qualify for FMLA, employers should also consider investing in software that closely tracks absences, Scott says. Ideally, the software will not only track FMLA hours, but also help to flag employee absence patterns that might be eligible for FMLA, she says.
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May 29, 2016
In a break with recent tradition, Southern Miss is scheduled to play all 12 of next season's games on Saturdays.
The 2008 schedule released by the school Tuesday features five bowl teams and no television games on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday, a regular staple for the Golden Eagles the last several years.
Southern Miss opens the first season under new coach Larry Fedora on Aug. 30 against Louisiana-Lafayette in Hattiesburg. Other nonconference opponents include games at Auburn, at Arkansas State and Boise State at home.
The full 2008 schedule:
Aug. 30 - Louisiana-Lafayette
Sept. 6 - at Auburn
Sept. 13 - at Arkansas St.
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Greetings BRC members and supporters in Utah!
Today we have a Utah Land Use Update with news about some important meetings - so be sure to read and forward to friends and family.
Some of the updates were previously blasted to our alert list, including the big news about the latest lawsuit filed by SUWA, or as some of you like to refer to them... Sue-Ya. We also have an update about the effort to formulate an Eastern Utah lands bill and the (lack of) progress on two key BLM management plans.
Using that humorous "Sue-Ya" epithet to describe the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is quite apropos, at least in our opinion. Their latest lawsuit is making nationwide news, including the natural resource newsletters in Washington, DC.
But those same agencies sometimes capitulate to the special interests and we must fight back. On more than a dozen occasions the BRC Legal Program has filed suit against the land managers to fight decisions that unlawfully restricted access, including five (5) cases since adoption of the 2005 Forest Service Travel Management Rule.
We cannot continue this unparalleled effort without the continuing support of our litigation partners, members and financial supporters.
Your generous support of BRC and our legal program has never been more urgently needed. You see, during the economic downturn our traditional fund raising efforts have not been as successful as in the past. While the Board and staff are working on a new approach to raising funds, we must remain engaged with our legal arm on multiple fronts defending our right to recreate on public lands.
I hope you will find value in our efforts in Utah because, frankly, your financial support is desperately needed now. And as you will read below, your donation will make a difference.
Please join us today in making a contribution to BRC that will ensure the success of this transition and allow BRC to serve us well into the future.
Brian Hawthorne Ric Foster
Federal Court Deja-Vu
So many familiar faces... so much more gray hair!
It has been only 12 years since we first met the radicals at SUWA in the federal courtroom and just 9 years since the Supreme Court handed them a 9-0 slap down. But on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, U.S. Senior District Judge Dale Kimball heard oral arguments in their latest attempt to lock up millions of acres of scenic BLM land in Utah.
This time SUWA is joined by preservationist special interest biggies like The Wilderness Society, National Parks Conservation Association, and the Sierra Club. The latest suit challenges six (6) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Resource Management Plans (RMP) and Travel Plans (known now as "Travel Management Decisions") covering nearly 12 million acres in Utah. The case is so massive the court decided to divide it up via BLM Field Office. The Richfield office, home to the YouTube-famous "Cainville" open riding area is up first. (For a complete history of the case check our Summer 2012 Utah Update here.)
Now... let me just stop and give our readers a bit of context. The former management plan in Richfield allowed open riding on 77% of the lands managed by the Field Office, 10% was closed to motorized people, and 13% had travel limits to designated roads and trails. The new plan has less than 1% open riding, closes 13% to motorized use and limited 77% to designated routes. The Travel Decision also closed hundreds of miles of existing roads and trails that were previously open.
That isn't enough for these radical environmentalists and this (latest) lawsuit uses every trick in the book to close even more.
Paul Turcke, BRC's Lead Counsel, is representing people who use the roads and trails in Utah. He argued on behalf of a coalition of OHV advocacy groups (Trails Preservation Alliance (TPA), Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition (COHVCO), and BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC)). The court also heard from lawyers representing the State of Utah and its State Institutional Trust Lands, the affected counties and the oil and gas industry.
On the other side was a phalanx of staff attorneys from SUWA and Earth Justice (Earth Justice is the foundation funded legal arm of the Sierra Club). The plaintiffs typically get to make their argument first, and as you might imagine, the presentation focused on complaints that the BLM didn't close enough lands to people who use vehicles for access and recreation. Among the complaints was that the BLM didn't sufficiently analyze impacts from OHV use on global warming.
We're not joking, and no, SUWA's attorneys didn't complain to the court about the greenhouse gasses emitted by wealthy hikers who drive in from California or fly in from Europe and Asia.
An attorney from the Department of Justice defended the BLM's plans, outlining eight years of seemingly endless environmental analysis. Paul Turcke, representing you, went next and focused on the specifics of SUWA's legal arguments. He was followed by Shawn Welch, Kathy Davis and Tom Mitchell, representing counties, the State of Utah and SITLA (Utah's School Trust lands), respectively. They did a great job of dissecting SUWA's remaining arguments and describing how the decisions have affected Utah.
The Court has taken the matter under advisement and can be expected to render a decision in perhaps 60-120 days. Regardless of its brilliance and/or final outcome, that decision will likely be appealed. The case will then theoretically move on to the Price office, home of the San Rafael Swell or the Moab office, home of, well, Moab.
We'll have updates and info as they become available. (Again, a complete history of this case is here.)
Utah Congressmen begin talks on Wilderness
All three of Utah's U.S. House representatives, led by Rep. Rob Bishop (UT), Chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation, are initiating a process to develop federal legislation aimed at addressing many of the contentious issues plaguing public lands management in six (6) eastern Utah counties (Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Uintah and Wayne).
It seems logical to assume that the effort was motivated by a letter sent to President Obama requesting yet another massive National Monument be designated near Moab, Utah. That request, signed by over 100 outdoor business members of the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), has been criticized by the entire Utah Congressional delegation, Utah's Governor Herbert and the affected counties. Indeed, Grand County (Moab) sent a letter to President Obama asking that he NOT designate a monument!
The big news here is that the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) has agreed to participate. This is big news because in such previous efforts, SUWA has been unwilling to even consider any proposal other than their gargantuan 10 million acre Wilderness proposal.
It is reasonable to assume that SUWA will play the role of the spoiler, participating only long enough to find a reason to bolt from the process and then appealing to President Obama to unilaterally impose SUWA's long sought plans for a Greater Canyonlands National Park.
While that may be a reasonable assumption, we should note that high level staffers from the Pew Foundation are participating, and when you have the people who fund a huge percentage of the anti-access efforts at the table, who knows what can happen.
State and local OHV groups are also participating in the effort, including USA-ALL's Mike Swenson and BRC's Brian Hawthorne. Utah state legislators and counties are very much involved as well.
UPDATE: Tentative dates for meetings announced
We encourage OHV users to attend the participate, but as always, our Action Alert list will be your best source for up-to-date info. Stay tuned via BRC's Action Alert list to keep tabs on this important issue. Subscribe here.
Quick Utah BLM Updates
Cedar City Field Office
For those new BRC members, think of an RMP as akin to a County Master plan, where general guidance is laid out for various uses in various areas.
The good news is they've completed the Analysis of the Management Situation (AMS) and have a Draft Evaluation Report for Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs). They also have an updated website with quite a number of documents that support or were developed as part of the current planning effort. http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/cedar_city/planning.htm
Of importance to BRC's members is that the BLM is preparing Travel Management Plans (TMPs) in conjunction with the RMPs. BLM reports that they are working with local county governments and are performing inventories of the existing road network. That is all well and good, but we remain concerned that BLM is not inventorying for trails, as is required in their planning guidance. Local OHV clubs as well as USA-ALL and BRC are watching this developing situation closely.
St. George BLM Update
As always, we'll keep you updated and we'll let you know when the drafts of these two important plans are released for public review and comment. Until then, as we often say... stay tuned!
The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible recreation, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. With members in all 50 states, BRC is focused on building enthusiast involvement with organizational efforts through membership, outreach, education, and collaboration among recreationists. 1-800-BlueRib - www.sharetrails.org
As a non-profit, grassroots organization funded primarily by membership dues and donations, we greatly appreciate your support. Visit http://www.sharetrails.org/make-a-difference-now to help fund our efforts to protect your trails!


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Interview: One of the brightest young cycling talents to emerge last year was French climber, Warren Barguil. Two stage wins at the Vuelta in his debut season and in his first ever GrandTour says a lot. At the recent Argos-Shimano, now Giant-Shimano training camp we interviewed Warren about his incredible season, his future ambitions and more.
With the pro cycling season starting this weekend Down Under and in Argentina at the Tour de San Luis, it's time to take a closer look at some of the promising new riders in the WorldTour. Young, talented and with WorldTour contracts these Neo Pros could well be the future of our sport.
This time last year, PEZ gave the old crystal ball a thorough polish to see if we could pick which of pro cycling's neo-pros might turn into stars. Some excelled, but others not so much - here's our report card!
Season 2013 is now upon us so we thought it was time to look at some new faces in the WorldTour peloton this year. Some you may already know, some may be completely new, but if our man Gordan is correct, you'll know all these names by season's end. Let's check out who made the cut of PEZ's 13 to watch in '13.
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For a tiny town of 2000, Postville, Iowa has been tagged with a lot of superlatives lately. The biggest immigration raid in American history. The biggest Kosher meatpacking plant in the country.
And now, maybe the biggest scandal over slaughterhouse work conditions since Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle."
On May 12, federal agents swooped in to round up nearly 400 mostly Guatemalan immigrant workers for prison time and deportation. Now comes the inside story of coercion, child labor, and cattle guts — a meat hook beating, and workers who say they felt like slaves.
This hour, On Point: The uproar in Postville.
Julia Preston, national immigration reporter for The New York Times, she has been reporting from Postville, Iowa.
Erik Camayd-Freixas, a federally certified court interpreter, he served as translator for detainees arrested in the Postville raid.
Mark Lauritsen, international vice president and director of the food processing and packing division of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents 250,000 meat packers around the country.
Pastor David Vasquez-Levy, campus pastor at Luther College in Decorah, some 20 miles from Postville. He has ministered to the migrant workers at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, and since the federal raid, he has worked with St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Postville, the migrant workers' church, to help the families of the workers now in jail.
"After Iowa Raid, Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries," by Julia Preston (New York Times)
"An Interpreter Speaking Up for Migrants," by Julia Preston (New York Times)
Read Erik Camayd-Freixas' personal account of the Postville immigration raid (pdf format)


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Oh God unto whom all hearts lie open, unto whom desire is eloquent and from whom no secret thing is hidden; purify the thoughts of my heart by the outpouring of your Spirit that I may love you with a perfect love and praise you as you deserve. Amen.
Sound familiar? The opening prayer of the "Brief Order for Confession and Forgiveness" in the Lutheran Book of Worship is virtually identical. With this prayer, an anonymous 14th-century English author began his guide to Christian contemplation, The Cloud of Unknowing.
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URL Rewrites
I've been in contact with a client's developer this past few days regarding URL rewrites of plain old *.html files to *.aspx. The SEO principle involve in this is pretty simple, "301 redirect all old *.html pages to each equivalent new *.aspx pages". This is pretty tricky and requires more advance coding skills and familiarity with server side scripting, but once implemented properly, you don't have to worry about URL rewrites affecting your search engine rankings.
Why use 301 redirect?
There are several types of redirects to choose from, but 301 redirect which stands for "permanent redirection" transfers link power from the old pages to new pages.
How about javascript or meta redirects?
Client-side redirects such as meta refresh, and javascript redirects do not transfer any link juice and are sometimes classified by search engines as black hat which is due to abuse of some SEO's. Also, in order to maintain your site's link juice and search engine rankings, please take note that client-side redirects should never be used as a substitute for 301 redirects in URL rewrites.
What if im having problems with my webhost and I can't do 301 or any server redirects?
Many developers would be tempted to use client-side redirects as a substitute, but the best thing you can do is use the "rel=canonical" element. Place this canonical element in "<head>"section of all "*.html" pages and use the new *.aspx" pages as target href of the canonical element.
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Meet Our Staff
Rick Pluta
Rick Pluta has been the managing editor and state Capitol bureau chief since 1996. His beats include the Legislature and courts, as well as environmental and legal issues. Pluta has covered the Michigan Capitol since 1987. His radio work has aired on "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "Marketplace," "Marketplace Money," "Justice Talking," and "Soundprint."
Before joining MPRN, he covered the Capitol for WJR-AM in Detroit, The Oakland Press, and United Press International. His first full-time news job was with The Elizabeth (N.J.) Daily Journal. He has also written for The Chicago Tribune, The Toledo Blade, and some magazines and specialty publications. He is a lousy guitar player and an excellent parallel parker.
Jake Neher
Jake Neher is a state Capitol reporter for the Michigan Public Radio Network.
He joined MPRN in September of 2012. Before that he served as a reporter and anchor for WFUV Public Radio in the Bronx, New York, and as News Director for KBRW Public Radio in Barrow, Alaska. He has been working in radio in some capacity since he was 15 years old.
A native of southeast Michigan, Jake graduated from Central Michigan University in 2010. He has a master's degree in public communications from Fordham University.
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The Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Problem
The Problem
The carbon dioxide problem can be stated relatively simply:
Measurements of Temperature and Carbon Dioxide
Measurements of carbon dioxide can be made at any location on earth remote from nearby local sources because the atmosphere is well mixed over periods of a few years. The two most famous sets of measurements were made at Mauna Loa in Hawai'i and at Vostok station in Antarctica.
Sources of Anthropogenic (Human-Produced) Carbon Dioxide
Anthropogenic (human-produced) carbon dioxide is mostly from the burning of fossil fuel: coal, oil, and natural gas. The burning of forests to produce agricultural land, and the burning of forest wood for heating and cooking add smaller amounts. The following information comes mostly from the Statistical Review of World Energy 2005 by British Petroleum.
Anthropogenic sources are a small part of the global carbon system. Their production mixes with carbon dioxide released by the respiration of plants and animals, and through the decay of carbon-based material from plants and animals.
Other Greenhouse Gases
Carbon dioxide is one of several greenhouse gases released in large quantities by human activities. The important gases are:
For more information on greenhouse gases, see the expert's page on greenhouse gases written by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Further Reading
For more information on climate change, read the US Global Change Research Information Office's pages on global warming. Or, read the section on Climate at the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Change Web Site. You may also wish to visit other pages at the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program site. Or The different sites provide different viewpoints and information written at different technical levels.
Houweling, S., T. Kaminski, F. Dentener, J. Lelieveld, and M. Heimann (1999). Inverse modeling of methane sources and sinks using the adjoint of a global transport model. Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (D21): 26,137–26,160.
Fischer, H., M. Behrens, et al. (2008). Changing boreal methane sources
and constant biomass burning during the last termination. Nature 452
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Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments
by David Lebovitz
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Best ice-cream book ever. You'll never need to buy another ice-cream book again if you buy this one as it covers lots of different flavours etc. Has some very ice-cream recipes which are really simple to make, basically stir and freeze. There is a section in the book for making ice-cream additions e..g cookie crumbles, etc. Last section is for making ice-cream cones, cookies, sauces etc.
Wonderful book. Picked it up during the Borders closing. I have read David Lebovitz's blog for ages. The recipes are brilliant and tasty.
Love everything we've tried in this book. Some of the recipes do take a bit of work, or a hunt for an ingredient, bus so far everything has been worth it.
This is the only book I need for ice cream recipes. There's almost too much, because I can never hope to make all of these delicious treats.
I haven't read all of it yet, but this is going to be the only ice-cream book I ever need, I think. Intelligently and amusingly written, a wide range of recipes that leave me in a complete quandary each time as to which one I'm going to make, and some beautiful photographs. The recipes are in both 'cups' and grammes, which is useful for both Europeans and North Americans. Highly recommended!
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This is an advanced constitutional law course examining the Fourteenth Amendment, its history and development, its role in shaping America and the opportunities and choices it offers. The course will examine the framing of the Amendment itself, the crushing of its potential at the end of Reconstruction and why it was so devastating, and the complexity of the recovery of its meaning in the 20th Century, culminating in study of contemporary quandaries. The course will explore the interrelationship and interdependence among rights and procedures in widely disparate fields yielding a realistic understanding of how law works in the area of protected rights.
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|Haymount B&B, Birgham, Scottish Borders
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_Birgham Community Development Trust
Treaty of Birgham
History of Birgham, in Scottish Borders and Berwickshire | Map and description
Saint Foin Riding Stables, Scottish Borders
Fish Tweed
Tweed Guide, Scotland Fishing Guides Salmon Trout River Fly Fishing in Scotland - Home Page
Hirsel Golf Club
Kelso Races - National Hunt Horse Racing in the Scottish Borders - Scotland
The Roxburghe Estate
Welcome to Alnwick Castle - Where History Lives
Welcome to the Jim Clark Rally
Paxton House
Historic Scotland - Smailholm Tower Property Detail
The Hirsel Country Park, Scotland
The Best of the Borders Accommodation Guide
For more information about the history of the Borders, we recommend the Border Reivers website.
As well as describing 300 years of clan struggles and clashes, raids and conflicts, the site has an excellent section on Border Castles & Towers, Villages and the people. It also describes Birgham village rather well.
Finding Out About the Scottish Borders
Many visitors miss out on the unique beauty and appeal of the Scottish Borders as they speed by on their way to the highlands.
Yet this accessible but ancient land is steeped in history, has stunningly beautiful rolling countryside and some of the best fishing, biking and walking you could hope for.
Haymount B&B is right in the middle of the Tweed Valley so we're very strategically placed for all the activities and experiences you might possibly want.
If you're touring by car or motorbike and would like to know more about our local history, there are many castles, abbeys, fortified towers and beautiful estates to be visited. We are always happy to recommend places to our guests. One of the closest to Haymount is The Hirsel, the estate belonging to the Douglas-Home family, which is a country park and opens its gardens to the public during the summer. It also has one of the most beautiful and popular golf courses in Berwickshire.
Another unforgettable place to visit is Smailholm Tower. This 15th Century ancient Peel Tower has been fought over many times in its history but it is its atmospheric location, next to a small loch, that gives it its brooding air and sense of place.


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Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome
By David Whitehouse
Corning Museum of Glass
"Visitors to our museums are frequently unaware that glass has been manufactured for thousands of years, and they marvel at the objects that were made as early as the second millennium B.C. They are also unaware that many of the techniques used to fashion glass into beautifully decorated shapes have been in existence since at least the first century B.C." So write Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum and David Whitehouse, executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, in the foreword to this scholarly and vividly photographed catalog of an exhibition at the museum (through May 27). This collaborative effort by Karol Wight, curator of antiquities at the Getty, and Whitehouse, draws largely on the collections of both institutions, but includes items borrowed from individuals and museums in the United States and Europe to present over 112 striking and rare ancient works and modern imitations. Five chapters of the catalog focus entirely on the rediscovery of certain types of Roman glass and their effect on 19th-century glassmaking, and include the engrossing history and descriptions of cameo glass, gold glass, mosaic glass, cage cups and replicas of Roman glass vessels made at Ehrenfeld and Mainz in Germany. The different techniques used in the making of early glass and present-day reproductions are also examined, further exploring the role of archaeology in the revitalization of the modern glass industry. A remarkable 142-page segment chronicles 114 illustrated works that illuminate the beauty of this familiar medium, lending a new appreciation for a material we so often take for granted in our daily lives.
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Stix Fonts, eventually out.
The StixFonts project is a project to produce high quality fonts for academic publications.
It has been in progress for over ten years and there has been a beta about two years and a half ago. At the same time there had been a discussion on the relevant license for these fonts. The first draft of the license would have made the fonts obsolete as soon as they would be released. However, after public consultation, the project selected to use the Open Font License (OFL).
StixFonts support mathematical symbols from Plane 1, however the WordPress post editor is not able to handle them and truncates the post when you save :-(.
Apart from mathematical characters, StixFonts support Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Compared with DejaVu (default font in Ubuntu), DejaVu still has overall bigger coverage. You would want to use StixFonts if you write academic documents and require to use a wide range of math symbols.
You can get the StixFonts from the StixFonts project website, at version 1.0, in OpenType format. From the zip archive with the fonts, extract the *.otf files into your home directory, in a subfolder called .fonts (if it does not exist, create it). No need to restart the system; any newly restarted applications should be able to see and use the fonts. OpenOffice.org 3.2+ is required (for example, in Ubuntu 10.04) due to the OpenType format of the fonts. If you use OpenOffice.org for your document writing, it might be a good idea to create special styles for your math content and set the StixFonts as the font of those styles. You can type in those math characters using Insert → Special Character... in OpenOffice.org as shown below.
These are the mathematical alphanumeric symbols (fraktur style) in Plane 1. You may notice that some characters are missing (such as capital N fraktur style). It's not a bug. In OpenOffice.org, you click on characters and these are added in a string. Then, when you completed the string with all the special characters you click OK and they are inserted in your document. While we wrote ubuntu as sample text, these are symbols meant for math documents. However, the potential for geekiness in the Facebooks and the Twitters is easy to describe.
The beta version of the StixFonts are already packaged in Debian/Ubuntu as 'otf-stix'. I suppose the package will be updated soon with the new version 1.0.
Laptop without Windows, an update for Dell, Asus, Acer, Compaq
It is very difficult to buy a computer without Windows (that is, to buy it with either Linux, FreeDOS or no OS) in the European market.
Why would you want to buy a laptop without pre-installed Windows?
- Because you are simply not going to use Windows (for example, you plan to use a Linux distribution)
- Because your school has an Developer Academic Alliance (formerly MSDN AA) with Microsoft and they provide the Windows software for you
- Because your organisation has a company-wide agreement for Microsoft software, and you do not wish to pay twice for Windows.
- Because you somehow have a Windows license or Windows package installation box already.
Sadly, when talking to the sales personnel of a manufacturer, it might look an easier strategy to just mention points 2 or 3. There is already some prior knowledge with the sales personnel that large organisations do not need the pre-installed Windows software.
Dell used to sell the N Series laptops with Ubuntu Linux, however they do not sell them anymore, at least in Europe. I contacted a Dell customer care manager on this issue and I was told that N Series laptops are available when you call Dell Sales by phone. I did just that, however the telephone salesperson explained that they do not have N Series laptops anymore. He verified with his own manager.
Dell does sell netbooks with Ubuntu Linux in Europe. For example, the Dell Mini or the Dell Latitude 2100. The situation with the netbooks is almost perfect, but...
What would be desirable is to provide the option, when you customize the Latitude 2100, to be able to select the operating system under the Operating System options. In this way, the customer is in a position to make a better decision between the differences of the two options.
In a regional Dell website, it is possible to select the operating system while you are customizing the computer. In this case, when you select Ubuntu Linux, you can easily see that you are saving €30 compared to the initial price.
It is not clear why Dell UK and Dell Germany do not provide the facility that we see with Dell Greece. Normally the localised editions of a website take any changes later than the main languages (English, German).
Updated (soon after posted): It is possible to get the Dell UK page for the Latitude 2100 so that both pre-installed Windows and Ubuntu appear in the same section. It might be an update that has been rolled out just recently. When you visit the Customise page, you can now see that by selecting pre-installed Ubuntu Linux, you save £24 compared to pre-installed XP.
What would be ideal is for the consumer to have the option to avoid the pre-installed Windows, in a way shown above at the Dell Greece website for the Latitude 2100. Having options for Ubuntu Linux or FreeDOS (for those who already have a Windows license) would be the best value for the customers. This would make Dell the best company around.
So, what's going on with the other laptop manufacturers?
Acer, Asus, Compaq and HP do not appear to sell computers without pre-installed Windows to the European market. I have not been able to locate retailers that would sell a laptop with FreeDOS, let alone a Linux distribution.
Is this the case with Acer, Asus, Compaq and HP in other markets?
This is an example of laptop models from the SE Asian market. The laptops come with FreeDOS and if you want pre-installed Windows, you pay extra (€53 or $74). The quoted price for the laptop is not subjected to local tax for the specific SE Asian country. Here is the price equivalent for each laptop,
Acer: €325 or $460
Asus: €525 or $745
Compaq: €365 or $515
Manufacturers such as Lenovo and Toshiba appear as black sheep to me, regarding the European market. Lenovo is supposed to sell laptops with SuSE Linux, however I could not find an example. Toshiba is completely out of the radar. They might not be a big laptop manufacturer.
What would be great for the European customer is to have the option to buy a product without pre-installed Windows. And this option of buying a computer without pre-installed Windows should be a visible and accessible option.
Droid fonts from Google (Android SDK)
Update 10Feb2009: The Droid fonts are now available from android.git.kernel.org (Download tar.gz archive), under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Ascender (the company who created Droid), has now a dedicated website at http://www.droidfonts.com/ (thanks Rex!). At this dedicated website, Ascender presents the Droid Pro family which has several additions to Droid. For the open-source crowd, it is important to have the initial Droid font family dual-licensed under the "OpenFont License", which would enable the best use with the rest of the OFL licensed fonts.
Two years ago, Google bought a start-up called Android in order to deliver an open platform for mobile applications. A few days ago the Android SDK has been released and you can develop now Android applications that can run in the emulator. Android handsets are expected at some point next year.
Even if you do not plan to develop applications for Android, you can still run the emulator which is functional, includes quite a few samples, and comes with a browser shown above. To get it, download the Android SDK for your system, uncompress it and run
An interesting aspect of Android is that it comes with a set of fonts that have been specially designed for mobile devices, the Droid fonts. The fonts are embedded in the Android image, in android_sdk_linux_m3-rc20a/tools/lib/images/system.img, a clever guy managed to extract them and a modest guy corrected me (Damien's blog to download).
The fonts are probably licensed under the same license as the SDK (Apache License), however it is better to hear from Google first.
In the meantime, here is a screenshot of Ubuntu 7.10 with Droid.
Update: To extract the fonts from the SDK, run the emulator with the -console parameter. The emulator starts and at the same time you get a shell to the filesystem of the running emulator. You can locate the fonts in system/fonts/. Once located the full path of a file, you can extract with ./adb pull system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf /tmp/DroidSans.ttf (thanks cosmix for the tip).
Say No to OOXML
Click on the image above to visit the petition page.
I copy here the terms of the petition to say no on the standardisation of MSOOXML at ISO.
I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:
- There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
- There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
- There is missing information from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
- More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
- There is no guarantee that anybody can write a software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent damages or patent license fees by Microsoft;
- This standard proposal conflicts with other ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
- There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids to enter any date before the year 1900: such bugs affects the OOXML specification as well as software versions such as Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
- This standard proposal has not been created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
This project is an initiative by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), the non-profit that helped achieve the rejection of the EU software patent directive in July 2005.
Update #1: Currently (26Jun07 - noon) there are 8805 signatures.
Update #2: Currently (26Jun07 - evening) there are 9481 signatures.
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OpenVistA information system for hospitals and medical care
It is quite common to expect the availability of free and open-source software for common needs, such as an operating system and an office suite. What is the situation when your needs are much more advanced? Such as, when you are looking for an information system for a hospital?
Luckily, there is such a software package for an information system for hospital needs, called OpenVistA. OpenVistA comes from VistA, a public-funded medical system for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Due to the source of the funding, the source code of the medical system has been available with a liberal license, and gave birth to OpenVistA.
An interesting issue with OpenVistA is that the backend is written with the MUMPS programming language. This programming language is quite old with syntax dissimilar to modern languages. However, MUMPS has become popular in medical care systems and especially VistA. There are people that criticize the programming language; it is important to understand that a big piece of software working well has much more weight over the language preferences. In addition, the front-end is what the end-user uses, and in our case it is written with modern programming languages.
Traditionally, the major front-end of OpenVistA was written in Delphi. Quite recently, a new front-end has been written, in Mono. Thanks to Mono, the front-end is cross-platform and supports i18n (the front-end can be translated in many written languages).
You can try out OpenVistA straight away by downloading the OpenVistA VMWare appliance (image file that contains an installation of an operating system, configured and ready to use). The specific VMWare appliance is based on Xubuntu.
Software for hospitals is quite expensive, and is a lucrative business for software houses. However, when one takes into account that in many countries hospitals are public-funded, it is easy to understand how important it is to use free and open-source software in this case. Sadly, in many cases, hospitals make ad-hoc agreements for such software, resulting to inefficient use of public funds.
Open Font License (OFL) 1.1 Released
Dear OFL friends and reviewers,
We're pleased to finally announce the completion of the SIL Open Font
License version 1.1. This free and open license has been updated to improve
clarity, remove potential ambiguities, and make it easier to use for both
authors and users.
Visit the OFL web site for more information:
A detailed list of changes can be found on the review page:
The only notable change in usage is that authors must now explicitly list
any names that should be Reserved Font Names. The original name of the font
is no longer reserved by default.
Thanks to all of you who have helped us refine this license and make it even
easier to use and understand.
Victor Gaultney & Nicolas Spalinger
Source: http://openlists.sil.org/archives/ofl-discuss/2007-February/000160.html
The OFL is a free and open-source license specifically designed for the licensing of fonts.
Greek Font Society fonts (re-)released under the Open Font License
Several of the Greek Font Society fonts have been released under the Open Font License.
This includes GFSDidotOT, GFSOlgaOT and GFSPortonOT.
Thank you Greek Font Society!
Can you read Coptic?
Coptic is the most recent phase of ancient Egyptian. It is the direct descendant of the ancient language written in Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. The Coptic alphabet is a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving from demotic. As a living language of daily conversation, Coptic flourished from ca. 200 to 1100. The last record of its being spoken was during the 17th century. Coptic survives today as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Egyptian Arabic is the spoken and national language of Egypt today.
Source: Wikipedia on Coptic Language
Coptic, as used today, has signs of influence from the Greek language. If you speak Greek, you should be able to recognise every entry in the screenshot (it comes from the dictionary that is available from http://copticlang.bizhat.com/).
There is a Coptic Unicode block and there are at least three Unicode fonts available with Coptic glyphs.
I am not aware of a keyboard definition to write Unicode Coptic; Coptic uses several combining diacritical marks (accents) and appears to surpass even Ancient Greek/Polytonic in this respect. An easy way to create (easy to write with?) method would be to start from the Greek keyboard layout and replace the codepoints with the Coptic ones. For the 9 combining diacritical marks, three keys should be dedicated, accessible through 1) pressing as is, 2) pressing with shift, 3) pressing with Alt. To avoid using dead keys, there would be a requirement to type first the letter and then the diacritical mark.
In modern Greek we use the ";:" key (on the right of L) to produce the acute and the diaeresis (with Shift) accents. The second suitable key could be the ' " key while the third the "/?" (debateable).
There are several efforts to convert non-Unicode fonts distributed by the Coptic Church. website. Moheb added the Coptic glyphs to the Freefonts. There is more work required to get them added by default to Linux distros. There is a discussion forum on Coptic.
Therefore, the most important task is to create a keyboard layout so that one can write in Unicode Coptic.
Then, existing (non-Unicode) text should be converted to Unicode Coptic so that there is material available. Moheb created support for this in iconv (glibc). There should be a bug report at http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ under product glibc, component libc.
Source: Wikipedia (Coptic script)
There exist free Unicode fonts already to have the text displayed. The conversion of the Coptic Church fonts to Unicode would be beneficial as well. To have them included in Linux distros, the distribution license should be set to one of the FLOSS licenses. An option could be to add to the DejaVu fonts (allowed by the license) so that there is a general purpose open font that is easy to work with.
I, for one, would love to write Greek using a Coptic keyboard layout and a Coptic Unicode font. 🙂
Update: Screenshot that demonstrates how well Unicode Coptic fonts behave when combining marks are used.
Update #2: You can test the above on your system by opening this OpenDocument file using OpenOffice.org or any other OpenDocument-compatible application. OpenOffice.org was verified that it can show combining marks. Your mileage may vary, your comments will be appreciated.
Greek Polytonic HOWTO
Dimitri Marinakis has written a HOWTO on Hellenic (Greek) Polytonic in free and open-source software, licensed by the GNU Free Documentation License.
It gives a background in Ancient Greek and describes how to use Greek Polytonic (read and write) in your Linux system.
Taxis and security
It is quite encouraging that citizens taxed in Greece are able to file their tax reports through the Web, at the Taxis Website. Sadly, it has been reported that standard-compliant Web browsers are not supported by the Taxis Website. If you are affected, do complain about it! If you file taxes and you are affected, file a report.
Let's see some more issues.
A. The main login page is not configured properly with regards to the autocomplete feature found in modern browsers; as is, your username and password get saved by default in your browser. If your computer is stolen or a trojan horse gets installed on your computer, your tax details are gone! 🙁
The Web developer should modify the HTML code from
< span class="textblue2″>< b>user name: b>span>
< input type="text" name="username" maxlength="40″ size="15″ value="testing">
< P>< span class="textblue2″>< B>password:B>span>
< input type="password" name="password" maxlength="40″ size="17″ value="testing">
< span class="textblue2″>< b>user name: b>span>
< input type="text" name="username" autocomplete="off" maxlength="40″...
< P>< span class="textblue2″>< B>password:B>span>
< input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="off" maxlength="40″...
B. The page http://webtax.gsis.gr/taxisnet/login.do claims that users are protected by Verisign (SSL/TLS). Quite sadly, the intent has probably been that users will connect through the proper URL, at https://webtax.gsis.gr/taxisnet/login.do. Dear Taxis, you should place an HTTP redirection to move all users to the SSL/TLS-protected URL. You are in breach of your Verisign license!
I will follow on the above report here.
Actually, it would be much better if the web server is SSL/TLS only (no plain HTTP version available). The web server should be configured at any access to a URL under http://webtax.gsis.gr/... should redirect to https://webtax.gsis.gr/.
C. What is worst of all, the website provides content in the 8859-7 8-bit legacy encoding. It is much better to convert to Unicode and UTF-8. I do not know if users have to write text in Greek for their tax forms...
I don't file taxes so I am not sure if there are more issues once you logon.
Update: The http://webtax.gsis.gr/taxisnet/login.do URL does not work anymore (it forwards to another Website which is down). I did not hear back from Verisign; it's possible that the two events are linked together.
Νέες ελεύθερες γραμματοσειρές από SIL International
Δύο νέες γραμματοσειρές έγιναν διαθέσιμες από το SIL International,
μέσω της άδειας διάθεσης γραμματοσειρών Open Font License (OFL),
Όπου βλέπετε το σήμα ofl, είστε σίγουροι ότι η γραμματοσειρά είναι πραγματικά ελεύθερη.
Οι δύο αυτές γραμματοσειρές δεν έχουν πλήρη υποστήριξη για ελληνικά (μονοτονικό). Περιλαμβάνουν όμως μεγάλη ποικιλία από άλλους χαρακτήρες.
SIL Open Font License (OFL)
Είναι πολύ θετικό που το SIL International προωθεί την διαδικασία δημιουργίας μιας ελεύθερης άδειας διάθεσης γραμματοσειρών.
Σκοπεύουν να την χρησιμοποιήσουν για την διάθεση κάποιων γραμματοσειρών και ελπίζω μια από αυτές να είναι η Gentium, διότι περιλαμβάνει ελληνικά (μονοτονικό και πολυτονικό). Πάντως η γραμματοσειρά Doulos SIL θα διατεθεί με τη νέα ελεύθερη άδεια.
Από το SIL έχουν ξεκινήσει επικοινωνία για τον καθορισμό της άδειας διάθεσης. Για παράδειγμα, δείτε την συζήτηση στη λίστα debian-legal καθώς και την επίσημη σελίδα συζήτησης ofl-discuss. Δείτε τα σχόλια του Jim Gettys για τις ελεύθερες άδειες διάθεσης γραμματοσειρών.
Είναι σημαντικό να στέλνει κάποιος γράμματα σε οργανισμούς όπως το SIL International για την ελεύθερη διάθεση γραμματοσειρών. Οι στόχοι του SIL International δεν απέχουν πολύ από αυτούς του ανοιχτού λογισμικού.


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What we liked most about Silver Saddle Ranch was the peace and quiet. It is a large resort acreage so there was plenty of room to get away from the central complex. The park is also located about 12 miles from town which really gives a sense of being away from it all. Nice ponds, landscaping and lots of trees added to the country feel. On the down side...the central complex closes mid week so be prepared for that. And, on weekends they have a LOT of families come up to visit so it gets busy. Not much in the way of on-site RV services so come prepared. Otherwise, a very nice spot to spend a week. - MtnMutt
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This is a membership resort that allows use by non-members at higher prices. Beautifully landscaped throughout with many top-notch activities/amenities such as horseback riding, swimming, mini-golf, and a bartender who mixes great cocktails. I would have given a 10, but the sewer backed up on me. When I informed the front desk of this, I was told the same thing happened at the same site last week. They should have fixed it last week! - morganhillers


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Can a female also be a karta of HUF. My father was the karta of our HUF. Now he is no more. Can my mother become the karta?
Anagha Deshpande
Yes, a female can become a karta, but only when the male members are minors or are not in a position to manage the affairs and give a declaration to that effect and seek the permission of the Department to allow the female to manage. Champa Kumari Singhi v Revenue (1962) 46ITR81 (Cal).
Moreover, when an existing HUF is reduced to only female members, it can still continue as an HUF with one of the females as a karta. This is in view of the existence of the potential coparcenary as any widow may, in future, induct a coparcener into the family by adoption. CIT v RM AR AR Veerappa Chettiar (70) 76ITR467 (SC).
(1) Under PPF rules, no account can be opened in the name of HUF. However, u/s 80C of the IT Act 1961, an HUF can have a PPF account in the name of any member. Suppose Mr A, the karta, invests Rs 50,000 each out of HUF funds in the PPF accounts of two members of the family Mr X and Mr Y (both being major sons of Mr A), can the HUF claim deduction of Rs 1,00,000 u/s 80C in its own case?
If for the purpose of PPF regulations the accounts of Mr X and Mr Y are treated as their individual accounts, can they each further invest Rs 20,000 each and claim deduction u/s. 80C in their individual cases?
Whether the aforesaid investments would be in violation of PPF rules which w.e.f. 13.05.05 bar HUF to have any account in its name?
(2) Mr A is assessed to tax in his individual capacity. He has deposited Rs 70,000 in his PPF account. He also desires to deposit Rs 30,000 in the PPF account of his major son Mr B and wants to claim deduction of Rs 1,00,000 u/s 80C of the Act in his own (Mr A) case. Of course, in the aforesaid situation Mrs A or Mr B would not claim deduction u/s 80C in her/his case in respect of the said deposit of Rs 30,000. Can Mr A do so and claim deduction u/s 80C up to Rs 1,00,000?
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The requirement for any purchase of land is that it must be in writing, and until the offer was actually accepted by the seller, by signing the document, there is no contract
Clearly this seller is unreliable and has mucked you about, but until his signature is on the contract, there is nothing you can do.
For your reference the Property Law Act says
(1)A contract for the disposition of land is not enforceable by action unless—
(a)the contract is in writing or its terms are recorded in writing; and
(b)the contract or written record is signed by the party against whom the contract is sought to be enforced.
(2)In this section, disposition does not include—
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Triple J radio, Australia
Interview with Stone Gossard - April 6th, 1997
Stone (about no code): were all totally happy with the way it turned out, I mean as happy as we've ever been making records. I mean I think it was probably the funnest record that we've ever made together which was a really nice thing as far as like all of us kind of being in the studio all the time and really enjoying each other. And, I don't know, It's kind of a good time right know for us on a personal relationship level. As far as the sales you know, I think on some levels everyone's a little dissapointed that it didn't do as well as some of the other one's, but it allows us to kinda now dig in a little deeper and think maybe we'll work even extra hard on this next one to really bring out something special.
JJJ : Did you work very hard on the promotion side of things with the No Code album though?
Stone: Ah no not really (laughs)
JJJ: Am I right in saying that you didn't do any film clips what so ever for any of the songs?
Stone: Ah no we didn't do any videos.
JJJ: Now Stone what do you (laughs)... yeah in this day and age of the music scene what do you put the lack of sales to?
Stone: Yeah yeah well that's definitely probably a factor and you know, that we didn't tour so much and that people are probably kind of sick of us and it's kind of an eclectic record and you know whatever, probably a number of different things but ah.. yeah that's definitely a factor, for sure.
JJJ: Your going back in to the studio soon as well? I heard that on the grape vine.
Stone: Yeah yeah we just got done with a months worth of demoing before I came here, actually one of the reasons I came here was to like (hole)? up in a Hotel and listen to the demos and write and figure out how to play every body else's songs (laughs)
JJJ: Is that how it works with Pearl Jam?
Stone: well you kind of, you know, well we go in and we just demo everything and usually when you demo you just do it with who ever, you know you just go in there with Jack or whatever and you get kind of just the basic structure down and then it kind of goes on the big master tape and everybody listens to it and maybe adds a little part on it or something, but you kind of just get a rough kind of shape of the song, and then every one kinda... because not everyone plays on every one song, and you kind of have to listen, gotta figure out if there is a part for you on any particular song or..
JJJ: It's sounds pretty challenging too doing it that way.
Stone: It's fun, it's good, it's actually were probably taking more time on this record this is the first time we've really demo'ed in a long time we normally we just go in the studio and just kinda... bang it out you know, someone has a song we just work it up till it's done, ah this way you kinda get a chance to kinda listen to it a little bit more and ah, hear a rough version and then try to beat it. Which is a good thing for us to do at this time I think, we've done a lot of very spontaneous work and maybe we'll be a little bit more ah.. develop the ideas a little bit more... allow something to.. really arrange something and really spend more time with the arrangements.. 'cause generally the arrangements are pretty much verse chorus verse chorus (laughs)
JJJ: (laughs) they tend to be in Rock 'n' Roll these days.
Stone: Yeah its true, I don't want to get too far away from that but you know it's... if you can work at something for a while you can really, maybe bring out some subtle things that you wouldn't be able to do if you were just doing it one day.
JJJ: Did you fall in love with that very spontaneous approach to making music through working with someone like Neil Young?
Stone: Ah... yeah working with Neil and... kinda working with Brendan, he was, Brendan our producer tends to be a guy that wants to... ah keep the moment fresh and he doesn't let you get bogged down too much and ah. I think it was kinda the only way we could work, I think the band was so wound up at different times that I think that, if you didn't go in there and bang it out it one day, you know, it wasn't going to get done so. Due to the fact that I think everyone feels a lot more relaxed and a lot more like... ah I don't know the pressure has been released in a lot of ways and I think were just able to kinda be more like a normal band now which is kinda exciting.
JJJ: Yeah I mean the whole thing about Pearl Jam was that you didn't begin your career in a normal way.
Stone: Yeah it was pretty unreal as far as that...
JJJ: Are you still feeling the effects of that, the success of Ten?
Stone: Ah.. it's difficult to say. I personally don't think about it that much, I think everyone seems much more like that's just something that happened and it's kind of like ah, a freak and ah.. you trip pretty heavily when you get famous at least our band did. I mean all of us I think went through different phases of being you know, pretty much losing it in differ ways and that's you know, ego tripping and whatever, every combination of neuroses that can come about because your.. personality is sort of... broadcast over the radio or whatever but ah, I don't know it just seems much more like oh it's just normal business as usual now so it's good.
JJJ: Even through the fact that a lot of memebers of Pearl Jam have been playing in other bands so long before the success of your first album. You didn't feel like you were quite ready though to make that big jump into superstardom or getting your records played you know right across the world on the radio.. it hadn't prepared you enough for it?
Stone: I don't know.. I really don't know. I think everyone felt a little bit not deserving of the amount of sales and the amount of attention we were getting and I think it made every one a bit kinda nervous and kind of ah, insecure about sort of our original sort of success. I just feel like were really starting to become a really good band right now which is kinda funny or whatever, but I always tend to think about things way off in the future and past I don't really think about that stuff too much.
JJJ: Well that's an excellent sign for Pearl Jam fans if your just getting your act together now and just become a good band now!
Yeah well we're definitely going for some new stuff in the studio right now so I
think there's going to be some exciting new songs. Every one is writing a lot.
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