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We are pleased to sponsor two courses in 2015-2016 through the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program for students interested in biography:
The Biographical Narrative: Approaches to Life Writing (MALS 70900)
Fall 2015 - Tuesdays, 4:15 - 6:15
Prof. Brenda Wineapple
"Biography first convinces us of the fleeing of the Biographied," Emily Dickinson once wrote. But biography and the biographical narrative are all around us, whether in books as dense as bricks or in the few, quick sentences of a daily obit.
What makes a good biography? Character, among other things, and to the extent that biography depends on character, this course looks closely at how such characters are created from real people How a living, breathing person seems to arise out of a mass of sometimes contradictory "facts"; how characters are made to change, that is, if they do; how characters can make a story move; and of course how or if traditional biography can be liberated from its brick-like borders. These are a few of the topics we'll investigate by investigating various biographical narrative, especially those that raise questions about the meaning, aims, ethics, pitfalls, and possibilities of the genre. Writers/books to include Lytton Strachey, Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre), Virginia Woolf (Orlando), Richard Holmes (Footsteps), Janet Malcolm (on Sylvia Plath biographies), Henry James, The Aspern Papers, Adam Phillips on Freud and biography, Julia Blackburn and her biographical inventions about Daisy Bates, Rebecca Solnit on Eadward Muybridge (River of Shadows).
Life Writing: The Art of Biography
Spring 2016, date / time TBD
Prof. Annalyn Swan
"Life Writing: The Art of Biography" will be a sustained analysis of what makes biography, at its best, a genre that combines the strengths of both non-fiction and fiction—the precision of historical and biographical scholarship with the insight and narrative thrust of a good novel. The course will explore the biographer's (and autobiographer's) craft through a range of subjects and styles. It will also provide students the opportunity to write a biographical introduction to, or chapter about, a person who fascinates them.
As literary genres go, biography has always been something of a stepchild—and understandably so. Far too many people approach writing biography as a nuts-and-bolts recitation of a person's life. But the best biography is as different from this pedestrian approach as Jane Austen is to pulp fiction. Great biography tells the tale with panache, while never straying from scrupulous historical and biographical research. It contains, in short, the best of fact and fiction.
The genre can take a number of different forms, from group portraits, to autobiography and memoirs, to the classic tale of one central figure. The course will begin with excerpts from Telling Lives, a collection of essays about the biographer's art that will serve as a foundation for the semester-long discussion to come. The seminar will then trace the crafting of the form through fourteen weeks of close intellectual and stylistic analysis of different biographies and autobiographies. Throughout the semester there will be oral presentations of c. 20 minutes on that week's reading. In week seven, students will submit a five- to seven-page book review that is a more sustained analysis of any one of the works on the reading list. For the main assignment, due the final week, students will choose a figure (or group of figures) to write about. They will research their subjects over the course of the semester and, at the end of the course, submit a 12- to 15-page "Introduction" to, or chapter from, the biography that they would write, in which many of the themes discussed in the course will be encapsulated.


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But in a region rivalry game between two teams as capable as the Trojans and Vikings, paper means absolutely nothing.
East Hall showed as much on Tuesday, pushing the Trojans to the brink before North Hall salvaged overtime where it went on to claim an 88-83 victory in Rabbittown.
The Vikings surged ahead in the third quarter, pushing a 36-35 halftime lead to a 16-point advantage that held at 10 points until the final minutes of regulation.
North Hall (17-2, 8-1 Region 7-AAA) surged back to force the extra frame thanks to an offensive surge led by Adam Kelly, who put up a game-high 31 points. Ebo Smith also tallied 19 points, while Avery Cagle added 16. Griffin Olson also chipped in with 15 points.
East Hall (7-11, 4-5) was led by 19 points from Brian Edwards.
The Vikings will travel to Dawson County on Friday, looking to bounce back against a Tigers team they also pushed to the brink in an eventual 51-43 defeat in Rabbittown on Jan. 4.
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Detroit is under attack by the international banking elite. The gutting of Detroit, its public works, its social programs and all human safety nets is the same Bankster-genocidal model used in Cyprus and Greece.
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The financial elite considers any restoration of Glass-Steagall "an ACT OF WAR". But it's clear that the Banksters have ALREADY declared war, on the people. What will YOU do to stop them?
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The school board tonight is hosting a public workshop to allow members of the public to share their ideas for the superintendent search with the board and the man the board hired to lead the search, Florida School Boards Association executive director Wayne Blanton.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at district headquarters, 301 4th St. SW in Largo.
It was called after board members learned that leaders of the Pinellas Education Foundation, a business-led nonprofit that raises money to benefit schools and students, had planned to meet with Blanton alone. Board members initially raised concerns about that discussion, partly because they wanted to ensure other community members had similar access. Foundation leaders have since canceled their meeting with Blanton and plan to be in attendance tonight instead.


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I think vetiver and sycomore could easily be accommodated in the same wardrobe without redundancy.
That said, I think sycomore is the more interesting of the two.
So I'm in London and have tried a few of the exclusives from Chanel and Dior, and I'm wondering what you think are the best of them.
I've decided to go with Granville from Dior so far, and I'm considering Vetiver and cologne royal as well. I've also set sight on Sycomore, but is kind of similar to vetiver from Dior.
I do own ADP Colonia, so I'm debating the need for another lemony cologne, but I'm still somehow drawn to CR.
About the vetiver offerings, I'm just not sure, even though bners seem to prefer Sycomore over Vetiver.
So. Thoughts? Get them all. Just Granville and sycomore? Or maybe Granville and vetiver, for the sexy dior symmetry?
I think vetiver and sycomore could easily be accommodated in the same wardrobe without redundancy.
That said, I think sycomore is the more interesting of the two.
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Most people mention Sycomore as their favorite Chanel Les Exclusif. Not me.
My favorite Chanel Les Exclusif is Eau de Cologne. It comes in a big 6.8 oz bottle and I would recommend getting that one because you'll want to spray it on heavily (including on your shirt because it lasts fairly long that way). It is marketed as a female fragrance but it's truly unisex.
Of all the various colognes of this type that I've tried (i.e., ADP Colonia, Guerlain's Eau de Cologne, Lorenzo Villoresi Acqua di Colonia), it's my favorite by a large margin. It's just a beautiful scent, and considering the cost of the 6.8 oz big boy, the price isn't that bad, IMO.
I can only think of 3-4 Chanel's that I would buy, but there about 8 Dior's that would get from there exclusive line.
For Dior, I would go with Fahrenheit and Dior Homme Internse. For Chanel, I would go with Dior Homme Edition Blance and Egoiste.
I kinda forgot to mention that I own a 12 ml decant of Sycomore, and I haven't used more than about one ml.
Granville is bankers. I'm still really considering Vetiver, and hoping I will be able to ignore Cologne Royal even though I find that lemon mint just damn good.
Have to sample Eau de cologne as well, but the appaling longevity is a huge turnoff for me.
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Most of the Dior collection impresses me - Ambre Nuit, Oud Ispahan, Leather Oud, Bois d'Argent and Patchouli Imperial are the highlights for me.
I bought a bottle of Leather Oud and it's terrific, but not the most versatile fragrance around.
If I were going to get a second bottle, I'd likely get Oud Ispahan; it's an often-overlooked contender in the sea of rose/aoud fragrances.
Let's face it, Eau de Colognes just don't last and aren't really meant to. So you have to do something to help them out. For me, spraying a little more and applying it to my clothing is a satisfactory answer.
I'd say Sycomore is woody, almost smoky, and Dior vetiver is fresher and more straightforward. If you have not used Sycomore much, it seems you've already answered the question on which one you prefer.
I also love the Chanel Eau de Cologne. As redraider was saying, it is not meant to last: it's just a freshener, a pure spritz of fun. CR doesn't last too long either - that's the destiny of eau de cologne. The Chanel has a touch of green that I find perfect, Dior CR is more citrusy.
For something fresh and green, I'd also recommend you try Chanel La Pausa: it's a straightforward clean iris, very pleasant.
I see you are drawn to the fresh scents. Otherwise, both lines would offer plenty of great warm scents, from Leather oud to Cuir de Russie and more.
As I own all the exclusives of both Chanel and Dior and like them all, it's hard to choose, but if forced I'd go with Dior as the preferred "exclusive collection"
I prefer Sycomore over Dior Vetiver but you might want to consider that Dior Vetiver is supposed to be discontinued....which means if you have the chance to get a bottle, you should probably take it...
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I really like Sycomore, but I guess there is something making me reach for other scents.
I'll give vetiver a skin test tomorrow, and keep on pondering. On paper I found vetiver and sycamore pretty similar, actually. Diors take was infused with coffee and was extremely dark, much more than I was expecting. None of the citrus some of you describe. Strange .
As far as the sheer number of fragrances that I'm likely to deem favorable: Dior > Chanel > Guerlain
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
I've tried out some of the exclusives from both the houses, and Dior is better in my opinion. I liked Sycomore, but I didn't find anything from Chanel exclusives to be really special.
On the other hand I was blown away by Bois d'Argent and Leather Oud, while Vetiver and Eau Noire were quite agreeable too!
I have favorites from both lines. They are not mutually exclusive unless you subscribe to extreme fanboyism..
Chanel's line has Sycomore and Coromandel -- two of my favorites -- whereas the only one I've been moved to purchase from the Dior exclusives is Leather Oud, which I can't help but love despite its challenging base. To be fair, I could spend more time with the Dior line (Vetiver, Patchouli Imperial, and Mitzah all seem promising).
Dior Leather Oud should win an award ! This is one of the best deals in town for quality/price. Dior Vetiver is nice but too simple for my tastes. Oud Isphan is liked by many people but not my taste...too sweet. The others aren't special IMHO.
Chanel really pisses me off because they have great ideas but the collection has serious sillage and longevity issues minus *coromandel. If that was not the case I would own at least 2/3 of them.
The stories about Dior Leather Oud are true. It is a beast and lasts for a LONG TIME. Wear it in warm weather and you will be THAT guy !
Both brands have good their share of successes and fails.
But regarding Sycomore & Vetiver. They are polar opposites.
Vetiver is based around South American vetiver (crips, sharp & dry) whereas Sycomore is based around Indian Ocean veiver (dense, moist & enveloping).
I own and enjoy both.
love both lines TBH,
atm, my nose/collection tend to lean more to the Chanel exclusives range more than the Dior exclusivee
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I'll reiterate that Dior's Vetiver and Sycomore are different enough to warrant having both. I'm not the biggest sycomore fan, but I do admire it's smoky vetiver. Dior's vetiver is a bright lemon vetiver, and it's the one I prefer.
Both houses have extremely rich history. The best of the Chanels are Sycomore, Cuir de Russie (my favorite), Bois des Iles (which I find just completely similar to Egoiste) and Coromandel. Eau de cologne is okay in my opinion. Egoiste trumps them all though.
Dior's are great. Leather oud, ambre nuit (meh in my opinion, but still very respectable), bois d'argent (awesome), vetiver, eau noire (reminded me a lot of A Taste of Heaven). I hear Granville is great. And again, I'd say Dior Homme tops all of these. The dior exclusive line is newer and more modern, while the Chanel exclusives are historically important to the fragrance world and still classics to this day.
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Good stuff in both.
I own Chanel: Bois des Iles EDT & Extrait, Cuir de Russie Extrait, Coromandel, 31 Rue Cambon + Dior: Granville & Vetiver.
I like Sycomore, Leather Oud, Patchouli Imperiale and a few others but not compelled to buy them.
Personally I don't rate either of their classic styled Colognes (too synthetic) - give me Guerlain Imperiale any day.


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Setting Mirror Mode
"Mirroring" what is displayed on your MacBook screen is easy! Mirroring is done so that whatever is on-screen will be displayed on your television after the HDMI cable has been plugged in.
Step 1: Connect your Mac to your TV
Step 2: Click on System PreferencesAfter connecting your Mac to your TV, the F7 hotkey will be activated. This will allow you to activate the Mirroring Mode.
Step 3: Select Displays once the drop-down menu appears
Step 4: ArrangementAnother menu pane will emerge (Display Preferences). Click on Arrangement.
Step 5: Mirror DisplaysOn the lower left hand corner of your Mac's screen, you will see a check box named Mirror Displays. Click on the check box to activate the Mirroring for all connected displays. At the center of your screen, you will see a configuration area where you can make other changes as to what will appear on the other displays connected to your MacBook.
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I am 3 months post op and the surgeon placed my nipples so high up that they show when I wear tank tops or a v-neck shirt. The doctor said that he can't just move them back is this true and if so am I stuck this way forever?
Is There Surgeries to Fix Nipple Sizes and Placement? (photo)
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Areolas too high.
It would be helpful to see a current photo since you note that the appearance has changed conserably. If that is so, you may have some "bottoming out" where the implant has decended below the breast fold. That certainly can be fixed.
It is true that it is very difficult to get an acceptable outcome when trying to lower the nipples and areolas.
Your surgeon might also consider removing some tissue from the lower pole to decrease the distance from areola to breast fold.
It is hard to tell from a single photo that is dated. Perhaps a second opinion is in order.
Thanks for your question, best wishes.
Nipples Too High after Breast Lift
Nipple areola complexes that are placed too high can usually be lowered by tightening the skin below the nipple areola complex.
Nipple issues after 3 months post-surgery
It is unclear exactly what you had done. Did you have a lift only or were implants added? At this point you will have to wait several months fror things to heal. Without an exam in person, it is difficult to say for sure what could be done. The actual moving of the nipple downward can possibly be done, but a scar would be left superiorly. But there are a few "other tricks" that can be done.
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Thanks for your question and for sharing your experience with your breast surgery. From your photographs it appears that you have a condition known as bottoming out meaning the distance from your nipple to the inframammary crease is too long. This can be due to either the weight of the implant pushing the lower pole down and stretching it out or if you had a breast reduction the distance may be too long from the nipple to the inframammary crease. I believe that your condition can be improved by shortening the vertical distance from your nipple to the crease. When the breast falls down and bottoms out the nipple points upward. Give it some more time to heal and work with your plastic surgeon for a solution to the problem.
Nipple/Areola Too High after Breast Lift?
Thank you for the question and picture.
Although it is too early to proceed with revisionary breast surgery, I think you can have some peace of mind that your situation can be improved upon with revision breast surgery.
For example, "internal breast lifting" techniques (capsulorraphy) may be helpful in raising the position of the breast implants on the chest wall. Doing so will better center the position of the nipple/areola complexes on the breast mounds, so that the nipple/areal complexes do not appear to be "stargazing".
You may wish to resubmit photos/question to this site in 3 to 6 months.
Best wishes.
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"Star-gazing" Nipples
High placement of nipples after a breast reduction or a lift is an unfortunate problem. It is difficult to lower nipples, but raising them is easy. This is why I always try to err on the side of making the nipples too low - because raising them is fairly simple. There are some revisional procedures that can be done to help you. You should wait a few more months though, because I bet your nipples will go even higher as your breasts settle and swelling continues to go down.
Post Breast lift and Areolas are high
At three months post breast lift, it is still early in the healing process and I would suggest waiting at least three more months before considering a surgical revision. If at that time you still feel the areolas are higher on the breast than you would like, discuss this with your surgeon. Although the nipples can't be moved lower on the chest without resulting in visible scars on the upper breast, a crescent of skin can be removed from the fold under the breast and this may better position the nipples on the breast mound. Best wishes.
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In what is bound to be the first of many similar special edition releases, Stealth will be receiving a small portion of Wipeout Pure on the same UMD as the movie. The movie was a gigantic flop at the box office, making only $31 million - a poor performance for film that cost $130 million.
Keen to sell plenty of copies on UMD, 'Wipeout Pure: Stealth Edition' is included on the disk. This offers a small three-level chunk from the original game, a special 'Stealth' track and the option to race in the fighter jet from the movie. While this may sound like a nice bonus for movie buyers, it will come at a cost, with the UMD costing $39.95 (no UK release or price details as of yet), some $10-$20 more expensive than the average UMD movie.
Stealth hits UMD in North America on November 15th.


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The Consumer Price Index remained flat in April as energy prices showed large declines, falling 2.6 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the consumer price, U.S. import/export price and producer price indexes. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the core index of consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in the month and at a 1.9 percent annualized rate over the last three months.
With core consumer price inflation both low and stable and with little hint of price pressures coming from earlier stages of production, there can be little reason for inflationary fears. An increase in the rate of inflation would actually be welcome economic news, since additional deflation of nominal debts and lowering of real interest rates actually would help spur demand in the economy and induce additional hiring. This would be particularly important to the United States if the deflationary crisis in Europe should cause both a fall in demand for American exports compounded by a sharp rise in the dollar.
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Amazing Unexpected Captures On Google Street View [Gallery]
Artist Jon Rafman keeps a detailed log of the unusual moments the roving cameras have found.
Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman has a unique way of capturing images; he combs through the Google Street View archives to find the oddest and scariest (and thus most amazing) sights for his on-going project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View. His focus on leveraging digital media is a testament to the vast potential it provides artists for finding materials to work with and concepts to develop. A press release on his website states that he:
Explores the paradoxes of modernity by mixing irony, humour, and melancholy… his work is informed by the rick potential provided by contemporary technology in its possibility for celebrating and critiquing contemporary experience.
In this shot, the Google Street View camera captured a man running in an orange jumpsuit- there are no captions, so one can only make an assumption as to the nature of the image– but given the desolate road and unusual attire, could it be an escaped convict?
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The New York Daily News' Joseph Straw: " CIA sex scandal coming to Capitol Hill" The CIA sex scandal is coming to Capitol Hill, with four-star philanderer David Petraeus due Friday for a grilling on affairs - his own and those of national security.
The disgraced retired general, who resigned as CIA director last Friday over his romance with his married biographer, will address the fatal 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. LINK
The Washington Times' Shaun Waterman and Sean Lengell: " Investigator criticizes State spending on security" The State Department has seen dramatic boosts in diplomatic security funding and staffing but failed to spend the money strategically and didn't fill key posts, a congressional investigator said Thursday as Congress took a closer look at how four Americans died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. LINK
The New York Times' James Barron: " Obama, Visiting New York, Pledges Help in Recovery From Storm" President Obama got a look on Thursday at the muddy wreckage that Hurricane Sandy left in its wake, flying over ravaged neighborhoods in Queens, consoling devastated homeowners under tents and in the streets on Staten Island, and promising a strong and continuing federal role in the recovery. LINK
Bloomberg's Daniel Ten Kate and Margaret: " Obama Courts Asean as China-Japan Tensions Rise: Southeast Asia" President Barack Obama aims to build trade ties with Asia on his first foreign trip since re- election, challenging China as island disputes leave the region more open to closer economic and military ties with the U.S. Obama's three-day trip includes visits to Thailand, which said this week it would join the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, and Myanmar, a former military regime bordering China that is hosting an American president for the first time. LINK
ABC News' John Santucci, Chris Good, and Shushannah Walshe: " Everything Romney Said to Explain Away Loss" Why did Mitt Romney lose the election? If you ask him-as some donors did-it's because President Obama gave "extraordinary financial gifts" to Hispanic voters and other demographic blocs in his voting coalition. This week Romney explained his election loss to high-level donors on at least two private conference calls, and ABC News obtained a recording of one of them Wednesday. LINK
The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty and Dan Eggen: " GOP governors back away from Romney remarks" Republican leaders have begun reckoning with the fact that their party has grown increasingly out of step with a broad majority of American voters. While party leaders remain confident in their beliefs, they have identified a litany of problems and a steep set of challenges: flawed candidates, a problematic message, the alienation of nonwhite Americans who account for a growing share of the population, outdated technology and a political operation that is not up to that of the Democrats. LINK
Politico's Jonathan Martin and James Hohmann: " Republican governors go soft on taxes" Some Republican governors are softening on the party's hard-line toward tax increases for the wealthy, suggesting that GOP congressmen at least be open to rate hikes in exchange for a comprehensive fiscal agreement on taxes and entitlements. "The people have spoken, I think we're going to have to be [flexible] now," said Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, when asked if his party would now have to be open to taxes on the highest earners. "Elections do have consequences. The president campaigned on that." LINK
The Boston Globe's Juliette Kayyem: " The GOP's 'Hispanic problem'" On immigration issues, the Republican Party allowed its most extreme elements to turn white anger into a national platform. And many candidates, knowing that some working-class white voters blamed illegal immigration for the high unemployment rate, competed to demonize undocumented workers in ever-more creative ways. But since last week's rude introduction to demographic reality - only 23 percent of Hispanics voted for Mitt Romney, according to a comprehensive poll by the group Latino Decisions - Republicans have been clamoring to create a new narrative. For a little more than a week now, they have been testing out various theories of … LINK
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Senior friendly volunteer tripsBy peter | Permalink | No Comments | October 17th, 2007 | Trackback
Long-term volunteer travel is typically a young-person's game. Spending 12 months in India or rural Mexico can be hard on the body and the immune system and the elderly generally steer clear.
But if you're in good shape and fit in mind, there are many volunteer companies that would love to have your time and experience at their disposal. Below are some of the volunteer organizations that are reportedly "senior friendly" and participate in projects to which volunteers of all ages can contribute.
This Australia based non-profit combines the resources of the Department of Conservation with the minds of the University of Western Australia in order to protect, study and conserve Australia's natural resources. The program relies on the participation of vacation volunteers, 75% of whom are older adults.
Global Service Corps
With two week to six month trips to Tanzania and Thailand, Global Service Corps offers a package for any level of time commitment. As a result, the group pulls in a diverse group of volunteers, nearly a third of whom would be considered "over the hill" by western standards. Global Service puts volunteers in cultural immersion and service learning programs for sustainable agriculture, English instruction, healthcare, even Buddhist immersion.
The purpose of Detours Abroad is to provide their clients with an experience that grounds them and ties them to a culture or cause. Combining education, exploration and volunteering, Detours Abroad volunteers teach English, help with child care, build structures, and monitor environmental problems in locales such as Ghana, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Peru, Zambia, Ecuador, and Australia.
A Christian, interdenominational program that sends volunteers to the Dominican Republic to work in orphanages, the program can be tailored to send entire families, each member with a unique role. Other popular options include trips that pair grandparents with grandchildren who can work together. Older adults represent over a third of their volunteers.
The original senior-friendly travel group specializes in educational outings to inform and inspire, but they offer a fair amount of service learning projects that take on a specific project in a location. With a minimum age of 55, there won't be any whippersnappers around to make you feel old and elder hostel employees keep the heavy lifting to a minimum.
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ATV tire pressure is one of the most important & most neglected areas in your ride's overall performance. Most manufacturers' ATV tires are designed to run at a low pressure gauge, between three and ten P.S.I.
When mounting, never exceed the pressure listed on the sidewall for bead seating. With a stubborn tire, it may be necessary to release the air & re-lube the beads a couple of times before the beads will seat correctly. If in doubt, take the tire to a professional.
For best performance, you'll need to do some experimenting. Many riders will run higher pressures for hard surfaces. This lowers rolling resistance for a higher top speed, but it will also decrease your ride quality and increase wear in the center of the tire, making it more susceptible to impact damage.
Running at a lower than recommended tire pressure increases footprint; which, under most conditions, will also increase traction. However, under inflation can also cause premature tire failure (from excessive sidewall flex), sidewall and tread cracking, and possibly bent rims. Excessively low pressure also runs a higher risk of popping the tire bead off of the wheel, which will bring your ride to a sudden end.
I recommend starting at the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure and then adjusting up or down a single P.S.I. at a time until you find what works best for your riding style and conditions. On the rears, you'll be looking for the setting that provides the best traction and ride, but in my opinion, the fronts are the most important. Too low of a pressure will make your quad track poorly and turn like a tank. It is common to run different pressures from front to rear, but you should always have the same pressure from side to side on the same axle. A difference as small as one P.S.I. between tires that are sharing an axle can cause the machine to pull to the side with the lower pressure. Keep in mind that this is very subjective area. Each rider will find their own sweet spot at a different pressure for the given terrain.
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by nuttmeg, Nov 1, 2011.
I can imagine if we had Android phones with Alien Shapes in the psychedelic 1960's! Whoa DUDE!
as long as you aint skyrimmin it.. its all good
they'd still come with modems.. and gremlins maybe.. wargames haha.. jp..
Facebook got an update......it changed everything. Ahaha
Hopefully they fixed the memory leak issue we are having with that app
I froze the stock alarm and desk clock and downloaded desk clock plus from the market
Desk clock plus is faster when putting phone in the dock and also gives the temperature. It comes with the real android alarm clock.
Data switch is good if you want to toggle mobile data; we could do that in CM7 but not in the stock ROM on this phone -- unless I missed something? Data switch uses a method I am not familiar with to toggle the data connections off -- it also stops the wireless. This is good for battery.
I'm looking for a good app to keep wifi on after the screen is off as well. I have one that I am testing now.
The experience is still possible.
You don't need an app for that, it's a stock option. Just go into wifi settings and hit the menu button and choose 'advanced' and click on wifi sleep policy and choose 'never'.
I'm way past wanting to do that.
How did you get the stock GB status bar?
I've been trying to get rid of that LG bullshit since i opened the box.
That's a stock picture from the market, not the Esteem status bar.
Like nailzer said, that is cm7 which we currently don't have available for our phone.
I agree that I don't likes LG's icons. They are very large and take up.almost the entire notification bar.
I dont mind the size, in fact I wish the 4G, 3G and 1X icon were more readable when I am driving - wish the battery indicator had a number as well, but i will not try metamorph/ninjasumthingerother until we get a backup
I like this App, its very useful when you need a flashlight. going into my room at night without waking up the wife to plug the phone for charge works very well. https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kZXZ1bmkuZmxhc2hsaWdodCJd
Does anyone have both LG Esteem Optimizer and 2x battery installed and running? Not sure if i should buy 2x battery if i get LG Esteem Optimizer seeing as it says it also extends battery life.
Grandtheft auto 3 out for android. Works perfectly on the esteem
I like brightest flashlight better. Just incase you need to blind someone for a couple of hours lol
I didn't see it on market.
I don't see it there anymore. That is strange it was their earlier.
Glad I bought it before they took it down.
Its there on the PC:
You beat me to it.I just found it.
Just curious why does the market do that?
This happen on another app a while back. It wasn't on market but i found the link.
I second that about Visidon Applock... and I've even tried to fool it.
Works with or without glasses, hat, etc. My son looks just like me, even down to the facial hair, but it won't unlock for him.
I give it 5 out of 5 stars, but just make sure you take many "training" shots of your face in various lighting situations.
Another app I couldn't live without is Gemini App Manager
Where's My Droid has saved my phone on several occasions, so I should add it to that list too. lol
I don't understand why they took the esteem off its compatibility list. It was on there yeasterday when I bought it. The game is very smooth with no lag at all. I'm starting to think there is a conspiracy around not letting the esteem have games that can play without any problems.
You guys tryed frontline commando.


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Friday's Ask the Experts: Cleaning mosaic tiles
August 14, 2009
Friday''s Ask the Experts question from a cleaning professional on the International Custodial Advisors Network (ICAN) "Ask the Experts" page: How do I clean mosaic tiles? Many people insist on using hydrochloric acid. Is this chemical right for cleaning mosaic tiles? If not, what would make them more white and shiny?
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It depends on the type of mosaic tile. If marble, or other calcium-based stone, acid would be very harmful. If ceramic or other clay-based tile, try an alkaline solution, followed by agitation and rinse.
If tile or grout is not completely clean, try a safer acid solution. Look for a product that is an organic ... — Dane Gregory
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Photo Gallery: Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms
Anyone can have a beautiful garden!
The first step to easy gardening is creating the right soil food.
The most nutritionally advanced plant food comes from your garbage. In outdoor compost bins, alternate layers of protein-free organic matter (from kitchen parings to shredded paper) with soil and dry leaves. Keep it moist and turn it every few days to speed up the biodegrading. In six to eight weeks you'll have the black, high-nutrient stuff your plants love.
See more Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms.
Eight degrees celsius is the perfect time to remove protective garden mulch.
While mulch keeps the soil hidden from the sun, it also acts as a blanket, protecting tiny buds from frost. However, if you sweep mulch off too early in the spring, you may inadvertently expose plants to a cold snap. Once temperatures reach a steady eight degrees during the day, it's safe to remove this protective blanket.
See more Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms.
Speed up the growing process for your garden's first blooms.
It may be cool outside, but as the frost lifts, millions of microbes are coming to life beneath it. Carefully sweep leaves and other organic matter off your beds to expose the soil to the sun.
You can't go wrong with these large, leafy plants.
"Early spring is a great time to divide these leafy greens," says gardening guru Marjorie Harris, who suggests digging up the plants as soon as their shoots start peeking through the ground. Split the entire plant, roots and all, in four with a flat-edged garden spade or large knife, and replant. Don't be afraid to lose the great proportions of a huge dinosaur hosta — it should regain its size by summer.
See more Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms.
Maintaining these fabulous lush blooms is easy.
"Big, mop-headed hydrangea plants, like Hydrangea macrophylla, should be cut back to about three stems for form," says gardening expert Marjorie Harris. "Remember to cut on a slant with the higher end at the outside of the plant, to prevent new stems from growing inward."
See more Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms.
Plant this classic climber in the spring for blooms well into the fall.
Easy-care flowers like Clematis terniflora and C. fargesioides will bloom late in the growing season. Clematis don't like sun at their bases, so cover their feet with pebbles and keep mulch about two to three inches away from woody stems to prevent rot.
See more Easy To Grow Plants & Blooms.
Careful pruning is the key to the perfect rose bush.
Cut back dead wood in the spring, but wait until after blooming to do a heavy pruning job on shrub roses. Pay special attention to the sprouts growing from the graft — those lumps sitting just above the soil. These should be pruned right back to keep energy from being diverted away from the plant.
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Start in the spring to promote lush blooms.
These flowers love a good early feed, so spring is the time to place compost around them. Be careful not to cover the small sprouts, known as eyes, at the peony's base. Spring is also a good time to set the plants in cages to support their floppy, top-heavy buds.
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Using a Class IV laser, Dr. Chaudhry eliminates toenail fungus and discolouration without the use of needles or painful operations. The procedure leaves the surrounding tissue unharmed, and the nail grows in clear over the next few months. After treatment, the doctor applies an ointment that can immediately improve nails' appearance.
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This is a dream, a Floridian tropical Tangerine Dream that's come to reality as a luxurious five bedroom beach view vacation home located just off Scenic Gulf Drive in Destin's Miramar Beach. In fact, the sugar white sand beach is right across the street affording this home a spectacular 180 degree view of the Gulf of Mexico. Tangerine Dream is located in the prestigious residential community of Avalon Beach which hosts a community pool and tennis courts. However you may not want to venture far from this home since it has its own pool with a spacious paver tiled deck where you may soak up sun. This stately two story residence is completed in a charming Tuscan architectural style flanked by towering palms and lush landscaping.
Inside Tangerine Dream, the opulent Great Room has vaulted ceilings that soar above with arched windows framing the sensational gulf scenery. This is located upstairs with doors that lead out to the balcony that looks down upon the pool below and the beach beyond. Comfortably elegant furnishings face these views as well as the custom built cabinetry and the large flat screen TV. A columned arch leads to a formal dining room. Above the dining table is a multi-globed chandelier that hangs from a fabulous tray ceiling. The gorgeous open gourmet kitchen has state-of-the-arts everything including stainless steel appliances and a flat cooktop.
The Master Bedroom Suite on this upstairs level has a king sized bed under another elegant tray ceiling with a wall of windows and doors that lead out to the beach side balcony. A spiral staircase outside ventures down to the sparkling private swimming pool. The Master Bathroom is luxurious with a soaking tub and a separate glass door shower. Actually every beautiful bedroom in this professionally decorated vacation home is a suite of its own since each has access to its own bathroom. One more riim is upstairs and the other three are on the first floor. Two of these Guest Bedrooms also have views and direct access to the covered patio that faces the pool and gulf. Here you may enjoy not only the sensational scenery of the jewel toned water but also listening to the soothing sound of the surf.
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Nail biter at Show-Me State Games
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:59:26 GMT —
It was a real nail biter during this yearâ??s Show-Me State Games competition.
Strongman Steve Schmidt, from Leslie, MO, believes he broke a Guinness record for pulling nails out of a wooden board with his teeth.
He pulled 5 nails in less than 22 seconds.
Schmidt is a fifth generation farmer who has broken records with his teeth for more than 3 decades.
He says he does it for the attention.
Schmidt said, â??I never got much recognition as a kid. All I did was work on the farm. I never got to play little league and do sports like everybody else did. I always knew that I was good. My parents said you gotta work.â??
Schmidt said it will take about 2 weeks for Guinness judges to approve his new world record.
He also uses his teeth to bend steel, horseshoes and license plates.


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The YCSA started as one of PPC's centenary celebrations 21 years ago, in partnership with the Association of Arts Pretoria. It is the longest running art competition of its kind in South Africa and a platform for emerging artists to bring their vision to life through the medium of concrete. The theme for this year's competition was Re-imagine concrete.
Zelda Stroud with her artwork, Breastplate.Commentary on manipulation of women Zelda's winning piece is a chainmail breastplate comprising small concrete breasts precisely pieced together by silver links. It is ceremoniously draped over an altar-like plinth covered in illegible text. The piece provides scathing commentary on the manipulation of women to achieve an impossible degree of perfection. It expresses the social and economic manipulation of women by the media in search of the ultimate woman, resulting in financial and emotional distress. Zelda is a well-decorated artist with several awards to her name, among others a merit award at the 2012 Sasol New Signatures art competition. She spent a number of years teaching sculpting, life drawing and art history at tertiary level, while building architectural models and sculptured waxwork figures for museums.
Lwandiso Njara's sculpture deals with the clash between Christianity and traditional cultural norms.Christianity vs TraditionIn his work, Lwandiso explores spiritual awakening and development during his boyhood years in the Mpondo Valley in rural Transkei. He takes a deeper look at the differences between Christianity and tradition, by being critical and open about the vast contradictions that surround his world. The sculpture depicts a goat infused with mechanical cogs, whicht reflects Lwandiso's Xhosa cultural beliefs and their hybridisation with Western technological ways of being. It brings together the realms in which he was raised – portrayed by a sacrificial goat with internal organs replaced by a gearbox.Earlier this year, he bagged the 25th Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Award and prize money of R30 000.
With his sculpture, Ncendani Fobo takes a firm stand against rhino poaching.A firm stance against Rhino poachingNcendani's award-winning sculpture comprises a syringe made from glass and is labelled with the statistics of rhinos killed in past years. The syringe is filled with a number of rhino horns made of concrete to depict the drugs used to sedate the endangered species. The needle is shaped like a horn and the plunger is that of a hand-saw, representing the shocking truth of how the horn is horrifically removed from the animalA total of 16 of the 34 works on exhibition were entered by TUT staff, students and alumni. For this achievement, the Department received R10 000.The PPC YCSA exhibition runs until 20 November at the Association of Arts Pretoria, 173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk. The gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday from 09:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00. Kay Potts, National Chairperson of PPC YCSA, will conduct a walkabout on Saturday, 17 November, at 11:00.
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One shot, one stabbed in Adams Morgan
A person was shot and another stabbed in Adams Morgan early this morning.
Police confirmed two people were wounded in the 2400 block of 18th Street NW.
It was not immediately known what lead to the shooting and stabbing, and there were no details yet on the genders or ages of the victims.
The injuries were not serious and both victims walked to a hospital on their own, police said.


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Four Winds Invitational proceeds going to Memorial Children's Hospital
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians have announced the proceeds from the Third Annual Four Winds Invitational will be used to purchase incubators for the neonatal intensive care unit at Memorial Children's Hospital.
This is not the first donation made by Four Winds. Over $109,5000 has been given to the children's hospital over the past two years, according to a news release.
The 2014 Four Winds Invitational will be held form June 20 through June 22 at Blackthorn Golf Club in South Bend.


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MÖTLEY CRÜE Schedule Jimmy Kimmel Live! Performance
January 17, 2014, 3 years ago
On Tuesday, January 28th, MÖTLEY CRÜE are expected to announce details of their retirement tour, R.I.P. All Bad Things Must Come To An End, at a press conference in Los Angeles. That same night, Mötley Crüe are scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing songs on the outdoor stage.
Vegas Rocks! Magazine's Sally Steele caught up with vocalist Vince Neil during the November 5th VIP party for his Tatuado Eat-Drink-Party!, and one topic of discussion was Mötley Crüe's intended farewell tour within the next couple years.
Neil: "It was just because we all felt - at least me and Nikki (Sixx, bassist) and Mick (Mars, guitarist) - that it was just we didn't wanna go out on the bottom. We didn't wanna be one of those bands that start fading away. We've been on top for 32 years, and it's great. And it's just like, you know what? By the time we finish this tour, it'll be in 35 years of Mötley Crüe. So… that's really kind of it."
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Accessing FitBit Intraday Data
For Christmas my wife and I brought each other a new FitBit One device (Amazon affiliate link included). These are small fitness tracking devices that monitor the number of steps you take, how high you climb and how well you sleep. They're great for providing motivation to walk that extra bit further, or to take the stairs rather than the lift.
I've only had the device for less than a week, but already I'm feeling the benefit of the gamification on FitBit.com. As well as monitoring your fitness it also provides you with goals, achievements and competitions against your friends. The big advantage of the FitBit One over the previous models is that it syncs to recent iPhones, iPads, as well as some Android phones. This means that your computer doesn't need to be on, and often it will sync without you having to do anything. In the worst case you just have to open the FitBit app to update your stats on the website. Battery life seems good, at about a week.
The FitBit apps sync your data directly to FitBit.com, which is great for seeing your progress quickly. They also provide an API for developers to provide interesting ways to process the data captured by the FitBit device. One glaring omission from the API is any way to get access to the minute by minute data. For a fee of $50 per year you can become a Premium member which allows you do to a CSV export of the raw data. Holding the data, collected by a user hostage is deeply suspect and FitBit should be ashamed of themselves for making this a paid for feature. I have no problem with the rest of the features in the Premium subscription being paid for, but your own raw data should be freely available.
The FitBit API does have the ability to give you the intraday data, but this is not part of the open API and instead is part of the 'Partner API'. This does not require payment, but you do need to explain to FitBit why you need access to this API call and what you intend to do with it. I do not believe that they would give you access if your goal was to provide a free alternative to the Premium export function.
So, has the free software community provided a solution? A quick search revealed that the GitHub user Wadey had created a library that uses the urls used by the graphs on the FitBit website to extract the intraday data. Unfortunately the library hadn't been updated in the last three years and a change to the FitBit website had broken it.
Fortunately the changes required to make it work are relatively straightforward, so a fixed version of the library is now available as andrewjw/python-fitbit. The old version of the library relied on you logging into to FitBit.com and extracting some values from the cookies. Instead I take your email address and password and fake a request to the log in page. This captures all of the cookies that are set, and will only break if the log in form elements change.
Another change I made was to extend the example dump.py script. The previous version just dumped the previous day's values, which is not useful if you want to extract your entire history. In my new version it exports data for every day that you've been using your FitBit. It also incrementally updates your data dump if you run it irregularly.
If you're using Windows you'll need both Python and Git installed. Once you've done that check out my repository at github.com/andrewjw/python-fitbit. Lastly, in the newly checked out directory run python examples/dump.py <email> <password> <dump directory>.
Photo of Jogging by Glenn Euloth.
Hackathons, and why your company needs one
I could wax lyrical about how programming is an art form and requires a great deal of creativity. However, it's easy to loose focus on this in the middle of creating project specs and servicing your technical debt. Like many companies we recently held a hackathon event where we split up into teams and worked on projects suggested by the team members.
Different teams took different approaches to the challenge, one team set about integrating an open source code review site in our development environment, others investigated how some commercial technologies could be useful to us. My team built a collaborative filtering system using MongoDB. I'll post about that project in the future, but in this post I wanted to focus on what we learnt about running a company Hackathon event.
If you're lucky you'll work in a company that's focused on technology and you'll always be creating new and interesting things. In the majority of companies technology is a means to a end, rather than the goal. In that case it's easy to become so engrossed in the day to day work that you forget to innovate or to experiment with new technologies. A hackathon is a great way to take a step back and try something new for a few days.
Running a hackathon event should be divided into three stages, preparation, the event and the post event. Before the event you need to take some time to collect ideas and do some preliminary research. The event itself should be a whirlwind of pumping out code and building something exciting. Afterwards you need to take some time to demonstrate what you've built, and share what you've learnt.
Typical IT departments will been given a set of requirements and will need work out how to achieve them. What a hackathon event should allow is for the department to produce their own set of requirements, free from any external influences. In your day to day work what projects you actually tackle will be decided by a range of factors, but a hackathon is designed to let programmers take something where they've thought "we could do something interesting with that data" or "that technology might help us make things better" and run with it. The first stage is to collect all these ideas from the department and then to divide the team up into groups to tackle the most popular projects, perhaps with a voting staging to whittle the ideas down. To keep things fun and quick small teams are key here, any more than five people and you'll start to get bogged down in process and design by committee.
Once you've got the projects and teams sorted you can prepare for the event. People who are working on each project need to think about what they want to have built by the end of event and should be dreaming up ways to tackle the problem. Coding before is banned, but things will go much quicker if you've come up with a plan to attack the problem.
For the event you need to remove as many distractions as possible. Certainly you need tell others in the company that you will not be available for a few days. Whether other possibilities such as not reading your email are doable depends on how often you need to deal with crises. Hopefully with no-one fiddling with your servers fewer things will go wrong than on an average day. Moving location, either to meeting rooms or to an external space are both good ways of getting space to focus on the work.
Once the time has expired you need to wrap the event up, and the key thing is to demonstrate what you've built to the rest of team. Not everyone in IT is happy with standing and presenting, but a few minutes to people they know well should not be a problem. It's tempting to invite people from outside the department to the presentations, and before my first hackathon I was very keen on bringing management, who often won't understand what IT do, into the meeting. Hopefully what is built will show how innovative and full of ideas programmers can be. In reality though the best you can really hope for is a set of tech demos that require quite a lot of understanding about the limitations inherent in building things quickly, which those outside IT will struggle to understand.
The presentations should focus on two things, a demonstration of what you've built and a discussion on the technology used and decisions made. The aim should be to excite the team about what you've built and to impart some of what you've learnt. A good way to spark a discussion is to talk about what problems you encountered. How long the presentations should be depends a lot on the complexity of the problems being tackled, but ten to twenty minutes per project is a good length of time.
In the longer term after the event you'll need to decide which of the projects to keep, which to improve on or rewrite and which to abandon completely. In a more structured and prepared presentation showing the projects to management maybe a good idea. The presentations immediately following the hackathon are likely to be a fairly ramshackle affair and won't make the most 'professional' impression.
Traditional 'training' session don't work to well in IT, it's a easier to learn by doing. Most people are also quite sceptical of 'build a raft' style team building exercises, compared to those hackathons are the perfect mix of learning and fun. They're also a great way to work on the problems that you've wanted to solve for ages but have never found the time. Even if you don't get anything you can use out of the event the process of getting there will be worthwhile. And who knows, you might build a million dollar product for your company.
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Programming Documentary
I'm a huge science and engineering documentary geek. I prefer watching documentaries over all other forms of television. It doesn't really matter what the documentary is about, I'll usually watch it. After getting ready for my wedding I had a bit of time before I had to walk down the aisle so I watched a documentary about pilots learning to land Marine One at the White House. There probably aren't many people who would choose to spend that time that way.
Science documentaries have experienced a renaissance over the last few years, particularly on the BBC. The long running Horizon series has been joined by a raft of other mini-series presented by Brian Cox, Alice Roberts, Marcus Du Sutoy, Jim Al-Kalili and Michael Mosely. These cover a large part of the sciences, including Chemistry, Biology and Physics. Physics in particular is regularly on our screens. Whether it's talking about quantum mechanics or astronomy or something else it seems that Physics has never been more popular.
As someone who writes computer programmes for a living this makes me worry that your average man on the street may end up with a better understanding of quantum mechanics than they do of the computer on their desk, or in their pocket.
It wasn't always like this. Back in 1981 the BBC ran the BBC Computer Literacy project, which attempted to teach the public to program using the BBC Micro through a ten part television series.
Clearly if a project like this was to be attempted today there would be no need for the BBC to partner with hardware manufactures. People have access to many different programmable devices, they just don't know how to program them.
Recent programs that have focused on computers were Rory Cellan Jones' Secret History of Social Networking and Virtual Revolution by Aleks Krotoski. Neither of these were technical documentaries, instead they focused on business, cultural and sociological impacts of computers and the internet.
It's not that more technical aspects of computer don't appear as part of other documentaries, recently Marcus Du Sautoy announced that he is filming a episode of Horizon on Artificial Intelligence. It won't air until next spring, so it's hard to comment, but I suspect it will focus on the outcome of the software rather than the process of how computers can be made to appear intelligent.
Jim Al-Kalili's recent series on the history of electricity, Shock and Awe, ends with a section on the development of the transistor. During it, and over a picture of the LHC, he says something rather interesting.
Our computer's have become so powerful that they are helping us to understand the universe in all its complexity.
If you don't understand computers it's impossible to understand how almost all modern science is done. Researches in all disiplinces need to be proficent at programming in order to anaylse their own data. Business is run on software, often which is customised to the individual requirements of the company. It boggles my mind that people can be so reliant on computers yet have so little idea of how they work.
So, what would my ideal programming documentary cover? The most obvious thing is the internet. A history of computer networking could begin at the development of the first computer networks, describe how TCP/IP divides data into packets and routes it between computers. It could move on to HTTP and HTML both of which are fundamentally simple yet apply to our everyday lives. To bring things up to date it could focus on Google and Facebook and show people the inside of a data centre. I suspect that most people have no idea where their Google search results are coming from.
I doubt that there is much demand for the updated series as long as the 10 part original, but the soon to be released Raspberry Pi machine would be an ideal way to recreate the tinkering appeal of the original BBC Micro. There's something magical about seeing a program you've written appearing on the TV in your living room, rather than on the screen of your main PC. An alternative would be to provide an interpreter as part of a website so you can just type in a URL and start programming.
A documentary focussing on programming would have a difficulty that the original series never had – the fact that computing power is common place means that people are used to software created by large teams with dedicated designers. An individual with no experience can't hope to come to close to something like that. Fortunately computers are so much more powerful today that much of the complexity that you needed to cope with can be abstracted away. Libraries like VPython make it very simple to produce complicated and impressive 3D graphics.
I'm certainly not the only person who wants to help teach the masses to program, but realistically you need an organisation like the BBC to do something that might actually make a difference. Do I think that you create a compelling and informative documentary that might inspire people to program, and give them a very basic understand of how to do it. Definitely.
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The Importance Of Documentation
Recently I've been working a couple of open source projects and as part of them I've been using some libraries. In order to use a library though, you need to understand how it is designed, what function calls are available and what those functions do. The two libraries I've been using are Qt and libavformat, which is part of FFmpeg and they show two ends of the documentation spectrum.
Now, it's important to note that Qt is a massive framework owned by Nokia, with hundreds of people working on it full-time including a number of people dedicated to documentation. FFmpeg on the other hand is a purely volunteer effort with only a small number of developers working on it. Given the complicated nature of video encoding to have a very stable and feature-full library such as FFmpeg available as open source software is almost a miracle. Comparing the levels of documentation between these two projects is very unfair, but it serve as a useful example of where documentation can sometimes be lacking across all types of projects, both open and closed source.
So, lets look at what documentation it is important to write by considering how you might approach using a new library.
When you start using some code that you've not interacted with before the first thing that you need is to get a grasp on the concepts underlying the library. Some libraries are functional, some object orientated. Some use callbacks, others signals and slots. You also need to know the top level groupings of the elements in the library so you can narrow your focus that parts of the library you actually want to use.
Qt's document starts in a typical fashion, with a tutorial. This gives you a very short piece of code that gets you up and running quickly. It then proceeds to describe, line by line, how the code works and so introduces you to the fundamental concepts used in the library. FFmpeg takes a similar approach, and links to a tutorial. However, the tutorial begins with a big message about it being out of date. How much do you trust the out of date tutorial?
Once you've a grasp of the fundamental design decisions that were taken while building the library, you'll need to find out what functions you need to call or objects you need to create to accomplished your goal. Right at the top of the menu the QT documentation has links to class index, function index and modules. These let you easily browse the contents of the library and delve into deeper documentation. Doxygen is often used to generate documentation for an API, and it seem to be the way FFmpeg is documented. Their frontpage contains… nothing. It's empty.
Finally, you'll need to know what arguments to pass to a function and what to expect in return. This is probably the most common form of documentation to write so you probably (hopefully?) already write it. Despite my earlier criticisms, FFmpeg does get this right and most of the function describe what you're supposed to pass into the function. With this sort of documentation it's important to strike a balance. You need to write enough documentation such that people can call your function and have it work first time, but you don't want to write too much so that it takes ages to get to grips with or replicates what you could find out by reading the code.
Some people hold on to the belief that the code is the ultimate documentation. Certainly writing self-documenting code is a worthy goal, but there are other levels of documentation that are needed before someone could read and the code and understand it well enough for it to be self-documenting. So, next time you're writing a library make sure you consider:
- How do people get started?
- How do people navigate through the code?
- and, how do people work out how to call my functions?
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Cleaning Your Django Project With PyLint And Buildbot
There are a number of tools for checking whether your Python code meets a coding standard. These include pep8.py, PyChecker and PyLint. Of these, PyLint is the most comprehensive and is the tool which I prefer to use as part of my buildbot checks that run on every commit.
PyLint works by parsing the Python source code itself and checking things like using variables that aren't defined, missing doc strings and a large array of other checks. A downside of PyLint's comprehensiveness is that it runs the risk of generating false positives. As it parses the source code itself it struggles with some of Python's more dynamic features, in particular metaclasses, which, unfortunately, are a key part of Django. In this post I'll go through the changes I make to the standard PyLint settings to make it more compatible with Django.
This line disables a few problems that are picked up entirely. W0403 stops relative imports from generating a warning, whether you want to disable these or not is really a matter of personal preference. Although I appreciate why there is a check for this, I think this is a bit too picky. W0232 stops a warning appearing when a class has no __init__ method. Django models will produce this warning, but because they're metaclasses there is nothing wrong with them. Finally, E1101 is generated if you access a member variable that doesn't exist. Accessing members such as id or objects on a model will trigger this, so it's simplest just to disable the check.
output-format=parseable include-ids=yes
These makes the output of PyLint easier to parse by Buildbot, if you're not using it then you probably don't need to include these lines.
good-names= ...,qs
Apart from a limited number of names PyLint tries to enforce a minimum size of three characters in a variable name. As qs is such a useful variable name for a QuerySet I force this be allowed as a good name.
The last change I make is to allow much longer lines. By default PyLint only allows 80 character long lines, but how many people have screens that narrow anymore? Even the argument that it allows you to have two files side by side doesn't hold water in this age where multiple monitors for developers are the norm.
PyLint uses the exit code to indicate what errors occurred during the run. This confuses Buildbot which assumes that a non-zero return code means the program failed to run, even when using the PyLint buildstep. To work around this I use a simple management command to duplicate the pylint program's functionality but that doesn't let the return code propagate back to Builtbot.
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand from pylint import lint class Command(BaseCommand): def handle(self, *args, **options): lint.Run(list(args + ("--rcfile=../pylint.cfg", )), exit=False)
Unittesting QSyntaxHighlighter
I'm using test driven development while building my pet project, DjangoDE. A key part of an IDE is the syntax highlighting of the code in the editor, so that's one area where I've been trying to build up the test suite.
To test the syntax highlighter the obvious approach is to send the right events to write some code into the editor the check the colour of the text. Although the QT documentation is usually excellent, it doesn't go into enough detail on the implementation of the syntax highlighting framework to enable you to query the colour of the text. In this post I'll explain how the colour of text is stored, and how you can query it.
A syntax highlighting editor is normally implemented using a QPlainTextEdit widget. This object provides the user interface to the editor and manages the display of the text. The widget contains a QTextDocument instance, which stores the text. To add syntax highlighting you derive a class from QSyntaxHighlighter then instantiate it, passing the document instance as the parameter to the constructor. This is explained in detail in the syntax highlighter example.
The document stores the text as a sequence of QTextBlock objects. These store the text as well as the formatting information used to display it. You might think that you can just call QTextBlock::charFormat to get the colour of the text. Unfortunately it's not that simple as the format returned by that call is the colour that you've explicitly set, not the syntax highlight colour.
Each QTextBlock is associated with a QTextLayout object that controls how the block is rendered. Each layout has a list of FormatRange objects, accessible using the additionalFormats method. It is this list that the QSyntaxHighlighter sets to specify the colour of the text.
Now we know where the colour information is stored, we can find out what colour a particular character will be. Firstly you need to find out which QTextBlock the text you want is. In a plain text document each line is represented by a separate block, so this is quite straightforward. You then get the list of FormatRanges and then iterate through, checking to see if the character you want is between format_range.start and format_range.start + format_range.length
For an example of this you can check out the test file from DjangoDE here
Photo of Testing 1, 2, 3 by alisdair.
DjangoDE 0.1 Released
I spend most of time at work building websites in Django. My editor of choice until now has been Kate with Chromium open on another screen. Most of my co-workers use VIM inside a PuTTY session to do their editing. With multicore machines with gigabytes of RAM, surely there's a better way?
Having decided that none of the existing IDEs quite fit my requirements I did what any self respecting open source programmer with an itch would do, I headed to Google Code, created a new project and then got coding.
The project has now reached the stage where I feel I can make my first release, although this is a release that is very much in the spirit of the open source mantra, "release early, release often." The key features are all in place, which I'll talk about below, but they're all extremely basic and it's not ready to be used as a day-to-day editor. If you're looking for a Visual Studio replacement, this is not it.
The source can be downloaded from the project site, or PyPI. The simplest method is just to run sudo easy_install djangode. You'll need to have PyQt and of course Django installed. This first release also requires Linux, but being a Qt application that requirement will not exist for ever and it will eventually work on Windows (and hopefully Macs too).
DjangoDE uses the manage.py file to define the scope of the project. The "Project" menu bar lets you pick a manage.py file to load, or to create a new Django project.
The editor has a partial syntax highlighter for Python code implemented, and a quick access bar on the left of the window which lets you jump straight to the view implementing a particular url. It also has a tab for each application that is active in your project which lists the models.
When you open DjangoDE it'll show you the Django project website in a tab. If you enter "/" into the address bar it'll load the front page of your website.
Pressing F9 while viewing a source code file will create a breakpoint. If you then use the browser to view a page that passes that line the code will break and that point and the debug bar will appear. This shows you the variables in the current scope.
It's very early days for this project, but these features will be fleshed out in the coming releases. I'd like to encourage people to post issues if they come across bugs or want features implemented. You can also contact me through Twitter as djangoide.
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Some 15,000 young Israelis gathered in King's Square here today to protest Soviet Russia's treatment of its Jewish minority in what was one of the largest public demonstrations ever held in this city. The demonstrators were mainly of high school and college age and included members of most youth organization. Their theme, stated in placards they carried, was "Let My People Go," a demand that Moscow grant exit permits to Jews who want to emigrate to Israel.
The same theme was emphasized by Premier Golda Meir, the only speaker at the rally. She said that while the Soviet regime was "cruel" it was "realistic" and it must recognize that its attempts to suppress the Jews of Russia was one of its biggest failures. Mrs. Meir pledged that Israel "shall not rest a minute and will raise its voice until the Jews of Russia are given the free choice of where to live, how to worship and how to educate their children."
Yesterday, a day of prayer for Russian Jewry was observed in Israel at the behest of the Chief Rabbinate, Prayers were also said for Jews in the Arab countries. Prayer services were held near the Western Wall in East Jerusalem
The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda attacked reports in Western newspapers that Soviet Jews are forbidden to leave the country and settle in Israel. But the paper also published the alleged account of a Jewish family that was permitted to go to Israel but was unhappy there. The Times of London commented that the mere publication of such an account was an indirect admission that many Soviet Jews want to go to Israel.


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2/17 - Providence's men's volleyball squad faced off against the Red River Rebels in Otterburne on Thursday evening.
Despite a heart-and-soul effort, the Freemen were not able to mount a win against one of the province's premiere clubs (Rebels), and fell 3-1. Providence came onto the court on fire behind some inspired play from the KK duo of Delmer Krahn (15 kills, 7 digs) and Dallen Klassen (14 kills, 8 digs), and were able to dominate the first set to win it 25-20.
Unfortunately, the Freemen started to falter in the second set behind poor execution and allowed the Rebels to regain their confidence to take the set. Providence then fought back in the third set, but weren't able to make the big plays when it counted and the Rebels took their second consecutive set.
Junior Ryan Hamm (13 digs, 2.74 passing avg.) tried to calm his squad down behind a characteristically impressive defensive effort, but the Rebels were once again able to find the clutch points to take the fourth set and clinch the match three sets to one.
"We are past the point in the season where we are satisfied with moral victories, and we are disappointed to lose," says Peters. "At the same time, we showed great resilience in the back row, in serve receive, and even more so on defense where we were better than we have been in a long time, probably in a couple of seasons."
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The super hero genre, in particular, has been a thorny landscape for IP, and that is most evident in the saga of one particular hero – or at least a series of heroes with the same name: Captain Marvel.
Digital revolution in copyright law
If you were the Walt Disney Co., and you saw thousands upon thousands of fan-created videos that featured your intellectual property cropping up on YouTube, would you crack down on those violations or would you "Let It Go?"
Supreme Court quashes Aereo but leaves room for innovation
It would appear that many, including the major television networks, would agree with Roberts' assessment that the Aereo technology, which allows subscribers to view over-the-air TV streams through their devices, was using a bit of legerdemain to skirt existing copyright law.
Will the Supreme Court krackle for Kirby?
When Kirby co-created these characters with the likes of Joe Simon and Stan Lee, he was toiling for Marvel (formerly Timely) Comics in a work-for-hire situation. This distinction is at the crux of the legal matter here.
Sherlock in the public domain? Elementary… or not…
The estate of the late author contends that, since the later stories do a great deal to flesh out the Holmes character, the copyright protection should extend until the last Holmes story enters the public domain (sometime in 2022). This would have essentially extended copyright protection over the character to...
Is copyright infringement a Stairway to Hell?
The estate of the late Randy California of '60s band Spirit charges Led Zeppelin with copyright infringement from the song "Taurus."
Prince and the Copyright Revolution (Part 2)
Section 203 of the Copyright Act is intended to serve as a safeguard for creative artists by allowing them to terminate transfers that may have been part of unfair contracts, but the earliest this right can be exercised is 35 years after the date of execution.
Prince and the Copyright Revolution (Part 1)
Recording and publishing companies must now either renegotiate contracts — this time on a much more level playing field — or they must be willing to fight hundreds, or even thousands, of lawsuits.
ABC vs. Aereo to be argued April 22 at U.S. Supreme Court
Oral arguments are scheduled to be heard on April 22 at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that pits ABC and other TV networks against Aereo.
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A Vanderbilt orthopedist is voicing his concerns about the use of anabolic steroids among middle and high school students.
Dr. Andrew Gregory's concern stems from the Major League Baseball's strict ban on performance enhancing drugs which led to the suspensions of more than a dozen players including New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez on Monday.
"If you look at surveys of high school and middle school students, there are some who use steroids," Gregory said. "Based on that information we should start educating kids in middle school about it so they'll understand about it."
Anabolic steroids is different that the anti-inflammatory steroids prescribed by doctors.
Gregory said there are serious side effects of the performance enhancing drugs being used by many athletes.
"You have earlier heart disease. You can have liver disease," Gregory explained, adding, "You can have problems of lots of different organs, and you have earlier death.
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