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Music Player Daemon
MPD (music player daemon) is an audio player that has a server-client architecture. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database all while using very few resources. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Setup
- 3 Clients
- 4 See also
The latest stable version of mpd is available in the official repositories.
Should users wish to run an experimental version, the AUR offers several from which to choose. For example, mpd-gitAUR.
MPD is able to run locally (per user settings), globally (settings apply to all users), and in multiple instances. The way of setting up mpd depends on the way it is intended to be used: a local configuration may prove more useful on a desktop system, for example.
In order for MPD to be able to play back audio, ALSA or OSS (optionally with PulseAudio) needs to be setup and working.
MPD is configured in
mpd.conf. The location of this file depends on how you want to run MPD (see the sections below). These are commonly used configuration options:
pid_file- The file where mpd stores its process ID
db_file- The music database
state_file- MPD's current state is noted here
playlist_directory- The folder where playlists are saved into
music_directory- The folder that MPD scans for music
sticker_file- The sticker database
Global configuration
The default
/etc/mpd.conf keeps the setup in
/var/lib/mpd and uses mpd as default user. However,
/var/lib/mpd is owned by root by default, we need to change this so mpd can write here:
# chown -R mpd /var/lib/mpd
/etc/mpd.conf and add a
music_directory line with the path to your music directory:
music_directory /path/to/music
Music directory
MPD needs to have
+x permissions on all parent directories to the music collection.
If the music directory is located outside of
/var/lib/mpd, you will most likely need to remount the music directory under a directory that the MPD user (mpd by default) has access to:
# mkdir /var/lib/mpd/music # echo "/path/to/music/dir /var/lib/mpd/music none bind" >> /etc/fstab # mount -a
Also see this forum thread.
An additional solution would be to just create a symbolic link into
# mkdir /var/lib/mpd/music # ln -s /path/to/music/dir /var/lib/mpd/music/
If the music collection is contained under multiple directories, create symbolic links under the main music directory in
/var/lib/mpd. Remember to set permissions accordingly on the directories being linked.
Start MPD
MPD can be controlled with
mpd.service using systemd. The first startup can take some time as MPD will scan your music directory.
Test everything by starting a client application (ncmpc is a light and easy to use client), and play some music!
Configure audio
To change the volume for mpd independent from other programs, uncomment or add this switch in mpd.conf:
mixer_type "software"
Users of ALSA will want to have the following device definition, which allows software volume control in the MPD client to control the volume separately from other applications.
audio_output { type "alsa" name "My Sound Card" mixer_type "software" # optional }
Users of PulseAudio will need to make the following modification:
audio_output { type "pulse" name "pulse audio" }
PulseAudio supports multiple advanced operations, e.g. transferring the audio to a different machine. For advanced configuration with MPD see Music Player Daemon Community Wiki.
Changing user
Changing the group that MPD runs as may result in errors like
output: Failed to open "My ALSA Device",
[alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "default": No such file or directory or
player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing "Song Name.mp3".
This is because the MPD users need to be part of the audio group to access sound devices under
/dev/snd/. To fix it add user make the MPD user part of the audio group:
# gpasswd -a mpd audio
Timeline of MPD startup
To depict when MPD drops its superuser privileges and assumes those of the user set in the configuration, the timeline of a normal MPD startup is listed here:
- Since MPD is started as root by systemd, it first reads the
- MPD reads the user variable in the
/etc/mpd.conffile, and changes from root to this user.
- MPD then reads the contents of the
/etc/mpd.conffile and configures itself accordingly.
Notice that MPD changes the running user from root to the one named in the
/etc/mpd.conf file.
This way, uses of
~ in the configuration file point correctly to the home user's directory, and not root's directory.
It may be worthwhile to change all uses of
~ to
/home/username to avoid any confusion over this aspect of MPD's behavior.
Local configuration (per user)
MPD can be configured per user (rather than the typical method of configuring MPD globally). Running MPD as a normal user has the benefits of:
- A single directory
~/.config/mpd/(or any other directory under
$HOME) that will contain all the MPD configuration files.
- Easier to avoid unforeseen read/write permission errors.
Good practice is to create a single directory for the required files and playlists. It can be any directory for which you have read and write access, e.g.
~/.config/mpd/ or
~/.mpd/. This section assumes it is
~/.config/mpd/, which corresponds to the default value of
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME (part of XDG Base Directory Specification).
MPD searches for a config file in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpd/mpd.conf and then
~/.mpdconf. It is also possible to pass other path as command line argument.
Copy the example configuration file to desired location, for example:
$ cp /usr/share/doc/mpd/mpdconf.example ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf
~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf and specify the required files:
# Required files db_file "~/.config/mpd/database" log_file "~/.config/mpd/log" # Optional music_directory "~/music" playlist_directory "~/.config/mpd/playlists" pid_file "~/.config/mpd/pid" state_file "~/.config/mpd/state" sticker_file "~/.config/mpd/sticker.sql"
Create all the files and directories as configured above:
$ mkdir ~/.config/mpd/playlists $ touch ~/.config/mpd/{database,log,pid,state,sticker.sql}
When the paths of required files are configured, MPD can be started. To specify custom location of the configuration file:
$ mpd config_file
Autostart on tty login
To start MPD on login add the following to
~/.profile (or another autostart file):
# MPD daemon start (if no other user instance exists) [ ! -s ~/.config/mpd/pid ] && mpd
Autostart in X
If you use a desktop environment, place the following file in
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=Music Player Daemon Comment=Server for playing audio files Exec=mpd StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
If you do not use a DE, place the line from #Autostart on tty login in your autostart file.
Autostart with systemd
The package mpd provides user service file in
/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpd.service. The configuration file is expected to exist either in
~/.mpdconf or
~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf, see systemd#Editing provided unit files if you would like to use different path. The process is not started as root, so you should not use the
user and
group variables in the MPD configuration file, the process already has user permissions and therefore it is not necessary to change them further.
All you have to do is enable and start the
mpd user service.
- mpd provides also system service file in
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service, but as the process is started as root, it does not read the user configuration file and falls back to
/etc/mpd.conf. Global configuration is described in other section.
- Make sure to disable every other method of starting mpd you used before.
Scripted configuration
Rasi has written a script that will create the proper directory structure, configuration files and prompt for the location of the user's Music directory; it can be downloaded here.
Multi-mpd setup
Useful if running an icecast server.
For a second MPD (e.g., with icecast output to share music over the network) using the same music and playlist as the one above, simply copy the above configuration file and make a new file (e.g.,
/home/username/.mpd/config-icecast), and only change the log_file, error_file, pid_file, and state_file parameters (e.g.,
mpd-icecast.error, and so on); using the same directory paths for the music and playlist directories would ensure that this second mpd would use the same music collection as the first one e.g., creating and editing a playlist under the first daemon would affect the second daemon as well. Users do not have to create the same playlists all over again for the second daemon. Call this second daemon the same way from
~/.xinitrc above. (Just be sure to have a different port number, so as to not conflict with the first mpd daemon).
A separate client is needed to control mpd. See a long list of clients at the mpd wiki. Popular options are:
- mpc — Simple KISS client. All basic functionality available
- ncmpc — Ncurses client for mpd
- ncmpcpp — Almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features written in C++ (tag editor, search engine)
- pms — Highly configurable and accessible ncurses client
- vimpc — Ncurses based MPD client with vi-like key bindings
- Ario — Very feature-rich GTK2 GUI client for mpd, inspired by Rhythmbox
- QmpdClient — GUI client written with Qt 4.x
- Sonata — Elegant Python GTK+ client
- gmpc — GTK2 frontend for Music Player Daemon. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to use, while providing full access to all of MPD's features. Users are presented with several different methods to browse through their music. It can be extended by plugins, of which many are available.
- Dmpc — Dmenu-based MPC client with a playlist manager and state-saving on playlist changes
- Cantata — High-feature, Qt4/KDE4 client for MPD with very configurable interface
- Patchfork — Web client for MPD written in PHP and Ajax


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SHAH WALI KOT, Afghanistan — It is one of Canada's main legacies in Afghanistan, meant to bring prosperity and jobs and win the hearts and minds of the Afghans in Kandahar province. And it still isn't fully functioning.
Situated around 35 kilometres north of Kandahar City, the massive Dahla Dam has been visited by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who highlighted it as one of his government's "signature projects" in this destitute South Asian country. Bev Oda, then the international co-operation minister, called it "one of Canada's most significant contributions to the Afghan people."
When Canada's diplomats, development specialists and soldiers left Kandahar in 2011, our involvement with the dam ended and the government declared the $50-million project a success. But even now, water doesn't reach 30 per cent of the 500 kilometres of canals that Canada paid to refurbish, according to the U.S. army Corps of Engineers. That's because the dam itself is not expected to be fully functional until at least 2017.
Afghan farmers told Canadian government officials 13 years ago that for the silt-clogged dam to work, it would have to be raised so more water could be trapped in the reservoir. Better yet, they said, build a new dam.
The job of raising the dam, which will cost between $150 million to $250 million, now falls to the U.S. government.
Some Afghans in the area blame the Canadians for not doing it, although that was never the publicly stated goal of the project. Others say much of the Canadian funding was wasted since it went to pay for security or high-priced foreign contractors and not Afghan labourers.
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada won't detail how the money was spent, saying it cannot divulge a breakdown of the figures because it has to protect the commercial privacy of the firms involved. SNC-Lavalin, the main contractor, also won't release a breakdown.
Accounting and accountability aside, Canadian diplomats and military officers say the work on the dam has been a resounding success. They say it provides water for farmers to irrigate large tracts of land, allowing them to grow various crops such as pomegranates. If people can make a living, Canadian officials say, support for the insurgents is undercut.
1952: Year the Dahla Dam was built
493 kilometres: Length of irrigation canals that were cleared or refurbished by Canada
30,000: Number of hectares the Canadian government says the Dahla Dam will help irrigate because of that work
$50 million: Announced cost for Canadian taxpayers of the project
The Citizen recently visited the dam but at the insistence of the Kandahar governor's office travelled with seven heavily armed bodyguards for protection against the Taliban as well as rogue police officers who might take the opportunity to harass foreign journalists for bribes. Contractors paid for by the U.S. government were working on fixing equipment at the site's intake tower. Water at the base of the dam's earthen wall was thick with brown sludge from the buildup of silt.
Lt.-Gen. Stuart Beare, whose command oversees domestic and military missions, was in Kabul in November and received a briefing from Canadian diplomats.
"The update I got was the investment made has had a huge positive impact already, agriculturally, water management, the whole nine yards," he said. "Notwithstanding that it may not be at a particular end state or end date, the investment has paid out and it continues to pay out."
Foreign Affairs says the project created 5,000 seasonal jobs, although some Kandahar residents doubt that actually happened. They suggest much of the money instead went to well-connected Afghans and high-priced foreign contractors, and they may have a point.
An estimated $10 million of the $50 million was spent on security, with an undisclosed amount paid to Watan Risk Management, a controversial firm providing for-hire gunmen and run by two Afghan men, Rashid and Rateb Popal.
Both have been convicted of drug-related crimes and Rateb has also been accused by a U.S. congressman of once being an interpreter for the Taliban.
Numerous reports state the men are related to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, but a lawyer for the two denies that is the case. The U.S. military tried to blacklist Watan after allegations surfaced that bribes may have been paid to the Taliban. The firm has denied any wrongdoing.
U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan, however, did raise concerns in 2009 about the Dahla Dam project, alleging that it was being used by the Karzai family to consolidate its power in the region and to reward friends. They also noted the Watan connection to the project.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was so concerned that it sent a confidential cable to Washington, later obtained by WikiLeaks, that highlighted the involvement of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's younger brother. The cable also highlighted the role of Watan's Rashid Popal, who the diplomats stated was a cousin of Ahmed Wali Karzai.
The Americans described Ahmed Wali Karzai, also known as AWK, as the "kingpin of Kandahar" who headed a network of political clans that used state institutions to "protect and enable licit and illicit enterprises."
The U.S. diplomats also warned that the Karzai family was trying to increase its political dominance over two of the most valuable resources in Kandahar — fertile land and water.
"Production and land values there will increase greatly as a result of Canada's "signature" rehabilitation of the Dahla Dam and irrigation works," the U.S. diplomats warned. "Karzai businesses are also set to acquire multiple patronage benefits from Dahla Dam construction and security contracts but the main prize will be political control over long-term allocation of water flows."
AWK, described by the Americans as "widely unpopular" in Kandahar for the way he wielded his power, successfully lobbied Canada on behalf of the Watan security company, the cable added.
Another 2009 report from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul noted that the Canadians were worried about Ahmed Wali Karzai and his suspected ties to the illegal drug trade.
AWK was assassinated in 2011 by his bodyguard and while the Taliban took credit, some suggest the killing may have been linked to his criminal activities.
Romel Punsalan, who oversees work on the Dahla Dam for the U.S. army Corps of Engineers, is aware of some of the controversy surrounding the project.
But he is more focused these days on trying to get the dam up to full capacity. Workers are fixing valves and the intake tower and are expected to be done by early 2015.
After that the Americans plan to raise the height of the dam by five metres. That should improve the volume of available water and deal with the silt that has built up over the last 60 years. It should also allow the irrigation ditches cleaned under the Canadian program to be fully utilized.
Punsalan hopes work on that phase will start this summer and be completed by 2017.
But he doesn't know how it might be affected by the U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan.
"I'm not sure what will happen," Punsalan said from Kabul. "All I'm directed to do is continue planning and moving forward."
The Dahla Dam is not the only such project to run into problems. About 95 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City is the Kajaki Dam, the main source of electricity for Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
Like Dahla, it was built in the 1950s by an American company and deteriorated because of a lack of maintenance. Kajaki's turbines still operate, albeit inefficiently.
The Taliban in the area have constantly attacked coalition troops and prevented any significant repairs. Dozens of soldiers have been killed in the ongoing clashes, including Canadian Forces Master Corporal Darrell Jason Priede, a military photographer whose helicopter was shot down near Kajaki in 2007.
The ongoing problems were highlighted by Canadian Lt.-Gen. Michel Gauthier, who warned that the situation was hindering international efforts in the province. "The lack of access to electricity continues to be one of the top concerns of the people of Kandahar, a problem which has been exacerbated by a turbine failure at Kajaki Dam," Gauthier wrote in a February 2008 report obtained by the Citizen.
"The people of Kandahar continue to see an imbalance between (reconstruction and development) efforts conducted versus their stated needs. Specifically, they state that unemployment and lack of electricity are their greatest concerns but do not see corresponding (reconstruction and development) effort in those specific efforts."
To improve the availability of electricity, NATO mounted one of its largest military operations in 2008: An estimated 4,000 soldiers, most of them British, were involved in transporting a new turbine from Kandahar Airfield to the Kajaki Dam.
The mission was heralded as one of the British army's biggest success stories from Afghanistan.
Ultimately though, the effort was a failure. It was too difficult to truck in the cement needed to build a pad for the new turbine because of insurgent attacks. The Chinese company hired to install the machinery abandoned the project because it was too dangerous. The turbine sits, rusting, in a dirt lot near the dam, according to reports.
The U.S. government is now paying an American firm to install the turbine and other work will be done to refurbish the hydroelectric power system. The work on the $500-million project is ongoing and it's unclear when the turbine will be installed, if ever.
In July 2013, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told Congress his office remains "concerned about the prospects of success at Kajaki."
In the meantime, with the Kajaki Dam still not functioning properly, the U.S. military has tried to solve Kandahar's energy shortage a different way. In 2011 it paid for the installation of large, gas-powered generators in the city, capable of producing 20 megawatts of power.
The Americans will cover the $106-million cost of the generators and fuel until 2015.
After that, Kandahar City may be back to square one without a reliable source of electrical power; the Afghans can't afford the fuel needed to keep the generators running.
With Canada poised to leave Afghanistan for good, Citizen defence writer David Pugliese made his third unembedded trip to Afghanistan in December to see what progress has been made, what opportunities have been lost, and where the country goes from here.
Saturday:Goals versus results: The situation in Kandahar and Kabul
Monday: The money pit: Billions were spent, but who's counting?
Tuesday: Water works: How one of our 'signature' projects fared
Wednesday: Calm before storm: The insurgents are back in the once peaceful north
Thursday: Hold the line: Can the Afghan forces stand up to the enemy?
Friday: War and peace: How the conflict will shape future missions
Saturday: More progress or meltdown: What comes next for Afghanistan?

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I adapted this recipe off a fellow vegan and it is just delicious! It is similar to Indian dhal, but it works extremely well with barley or couscous. Very tasty!
Boil the mung beans until they are tender.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan and add the onion, garlic, capsicums and chilli.
Cook until the vegetables are soft.
Mash the mung beans with a potato masher and add the onion mixture.
Add the tomato puree and pumpkin mash and cook for 10 minutes.
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BARTOW, FL (RNN) - A high school student with clean conduct record was arrested on felony charges and expelled from school after conducting what she called "a science fair experiment."
The incident occurred on April 22 when 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot decided to conduct the experiment on the grounds of Bartow High School.
Wilmot combined household cleaner and aluminum foil in an eight ounce water bottle.
The chemical reaction created a pop that sounds like a firecracker and smoke. Wilmot was not injured and neither was any other student.
"Wilmot advised she was told by a friend how to make the device," said the incident report. "Wilmot advised she did not know what would happen when she mixed the ingredients. She said she did know it would make smoke."
The school's assistant principal of discipline, Dan Durham, was also outside and saw the incident and addressed Wilmot, who was honest about the details of the project.
"She made a bad choice," said Durham told WTSP. "Honestly, I don't think she meant to ever hurt anyone. She wanted to see what would happen and was shocked by what it did. Her mother is shocked, too."
Following the incident, her science teacher was asked if they sanctioned the project. The teacher said no. The responding officer, upon the suggestion of Florida Assistant State attorney Tammy Glotfelty, arrested Wilmot, charging her with possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school sponsored event or on school property and possessing any destructive devices. Both counts are felonies and she will be tried as an adult.
Wilmot has also been expelled from school and will complete the rest of her high school education in an expulsion program. The Polk County, FL school district said the incident was in direct violation of its conduct code and her expulsion will not be overturned. Wilmot will be able to challenge her expulsion.
"Unfortunately, what she did falls into our code of conduct," Polk County, FL district spokeswoman Leah Lauderdale told the Miami Times. "It's grounds for immediate expulsion."
Durham said she is a good kid who has never had to be disciplined.
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The story has garnered buzz across social media - one side defending the student and the other defending the school system for expelling her.
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"Our morning routine consists of fresh water and dry food, and it always starts with the same question: 'Who wants breakfast?'" says Megasko. "The meows and rubs commence. Evenings are wet food, along with a similar question.'"
Introducing both wet and dry food may make it easier to hide medicine in wet morsels if necessary, notes Megasko.
Spread out Meals
Scheduling meals throughout the day and limiting snacking has helped make Kelly Williams' cats, Jackson, Elliot and Scooby, healthier. "We just recently switched to feeding them on a schedule and picking up the leftovers to prevent them from overindulging all day long," says Williams. "It has cut down on the amount of vomit and hairballs, and our obese cat lost 3 pounds."
Morning begins with a hearty scratch behind the ears for the trio, then breakfast with Williams or her father. Williams' husband sits on the floor with the kitties as the cats eat lunch. "They get a small dinner around the same time we eat dinner to keep them from trying to eat ours," says Williams. "Before bed, they get just a tiny bit more to keep them out of our bed at night crying, 'I'm hungry.'"
Create Feeding Stations for Each Cat
Dr. Deb Givin, a Portland, Maine, veterinarian with a cats-only practice, makes sure Bradlee, age 10, and kittens Walter and William have their own personal feeding areas. "Visual separation is important in multi-cat households," says Givin. This also helps you become aware of each cat's appetite, which is important in spotting illnesses early.
When you feed your kitty, Givin believes, you sometimes have to balance conflicting needs. For members of the cat species in the wild, hunting and eating are solitary activities. For people, providing food is an act of love, and mealtimes are seen as social events. It takes planning to mesh the two, says Givin.
She feeds wet food to her cats, and then she uses dry food in foraging toys to give them the experience of "hunting" for food. "Put a portion in a foraging toy to amuse your cat while you are at work," advises Givin. "Hide a cache of dry food around the house so your kitty can 'hunt.'"
Use dry food as a treat to reward good behavior — you can try this after trimming your cat's claws or grooming its coat. A regular snack of dry food in a cat carrier can also create a positive association, Givin says. "A pile of dry kibble in a bowl is boring and may be like an open bag of chips for some cats," she cautions.
Spending time with your cat before a meal can lead to a better eating experience, since it mimics the hunt leading up to a meal in the wild. "Make mealtimes an event," says Givin. "Interaction at mealtime is fun."


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The United States' best known and most influential twentieth century philosopher, John Dewey (DEW-ee) reconstructed a number of inherited philosophical perspectives. They include traditional philosophers' frequent separation of the world of ideas from the world of practical reality; their separation of subject and object, soul and body, God and nature; and their acceptance of the mind as passive instrument that garners knowledge only from the imprint of external events. Dewey formulated a fresh theory of knowledge designed to liberate individuals from social environments he believed were ripe for reform and improvement through the application of reflective intelligence, scientific analysis, and an understanding of the potential for change that could be derived from individual experiences. He reevaluated the social functions of idealism, religion, psychology, logic, and ethics; reinterpreted and helped revitalize liberal democratic thought; and encouraged sweeping educational reform. He was, in addition, an immensely productive scholar throughout his working lifetime of fifty years, publishing twenty-one books—most translated into foreign languages—and scores of significant articles. His collected works fill thirty-seven substantial volumes. Before he died in 1952, Dewey had explored nearly the entire range of philosophical inquiry even though, as some have noted, he never developed a systematic metaphysics. In the estimate of other leaders of the early twentieth century Progressive movement, in which Dewey played an important role, he was regarded as the preeminent philosophical champion of social democracy. Among academic philosophers, he was recognized as a pragmatist of a kind who elaborated and expanded upon experimentalist ideas identified in part with Thomas Hill Green, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, and William James. Liberals widely acclaimed him the conscience of the American people, while many conservatives, fearing the undeniable radicalism of his ideas, denounced him.
Burlington, Vermont, where Dewey was born in 1859, was a rapidly industrializing town of ten thousand, with traditional, if rapidly changing, values that were reflected by the prominence of its churches and by the buildings of the highly respected University of Vermont. What Dewey perceived of the town, however, was the growing social and economic division of its classes, accompanied by distinctions of morality and taste. Dewey was the second son of a middle-aged grocer, later the owner of a cigar store. Dewey's mother was devoutly religious and raised her children alone during the nearly six years that her husband served in the army during and after the Civil War. Thus, while Dewey rejected the sentimental and moralistic piety then characteristic of much of New England religion, he retained a lifelong interest in religion, particularly in Christianity's relevance to people's everyday lives.
Throughout his life, Dewey outwardly appeared the quintessential academic philosopher. He was shy and self-effacing. He lacked the personal vividness that excites biographers and showed no signs of precociousness or even great imagination during his youth and early manhood. Even his most admiring students judged him a boring lecturer, and his abundant writings are undistinguished either by the excellence of their style or by their readability. Moreover, he seemed oblivious to physical or cultural influences that might have marked him in the many places where he studied or held professorships: the University of Vermont from 1875 to 1879; Oil City, Pennsylvania, where he taught school from 1879 to 1881; Charlotte, Vermont, where he taught school in 1881; The Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1884; the universities of Minnesota and Michigan, where he held positions between 1884 and 1894; the University of Chicago, where he served from 1894 to 1904; and Columbia University, where he taught...
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Help for "fear of IP" sufferers!
Dealers, do you have a fear of IP? If so, Honeywell has a cure for you.
The industry is transitioning from analog to IP, but some dealers are a bit fearful of the new technology, according to
Shannon Wilson, marketing manager for Honeywell Systems.
"Maybe they think it's hard to set up; it's too complicated; they don't know the IP address of the camera, or they're just not sure how to do it," she wrote in a posting today on the Honeywell's "The Security Channel" blog.
In response, Wilson said said, Honeywell has "simplified the process with our new network video recorder and performance IP cameras. We're saying it's 3 clicks to live video, and it's true."
To prove that, Wilson said, Honeywell set up a "Honeywell IP Challenge" at one of its ADI sites to let dealers find out for themselves. Check out the video of dealers overcoming their fear of IP.


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We loved seeing all of your gorgeous cards last week. Thanks so much for joining us and we hope you will join us this week again. Our optional challenge this week is to incorporate bows into your holiday or Christmas card.
Remember, however, that the only real rule to play along with us here is to make a holiday or Christmas card.
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Ringing in the good intentions…
New Year's resolutions are like fresh flowers: They don't last very long. So might it not be a good idea to dispense with New Year's resolutions altogether? No, that would be the wrong approach.I have plenty of faith in my own willpower, but not in calendar dates. Anyway, you can make good travel plans with the wrong intentions – or go to the wrong place with the right intentions. I once decided to forgo alcohol for a while. I didn't intend to let beer, wine, or even an eggnog truffle pass my lips – and then I flew to Brazil. Italy also turned out to be pretty much the wrong destination when I resolved to lose weight.
We don't need to stress ourselves like that. It's far better to go someplace first and then decide which bad habit would be easiest to lose. Smoking, in the U.S.; spitting, in Singapore; swatting every insect in sight because it might be a mosquito or the like – a Buddhist country. But watching how tolerantly Tibetans treat mosquitos hasn't stopped me killing them, I just do it with compassion.
And of course, when making resolutions, it's always a good idea to factor in the time of year as well as the destination. If I decide never to sin before nightfall, I should start in the winter. Taking small steps is well known to encourage progress, and a good resolution is like a good man who knows his limits – and the difference between a covenant with God, a deal he makes with himself, and a New Year's resolution.
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Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.


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This paper presents a 2x2 matrix which focuses on individual knowledge and knowledge sharing. There is a vast amount of literature that has acknowledged that the management of knowledge is an important strategic and tactical approach to improve organizational performance. Knowledge sharing between individuals in an organization has also been recognized as a sound strategy to increase the value of the knowledge within a firm. The model presented in this paper proposes a typology of individuals that contributes to the literature both from an academic as well as a practitioner perspective; it extends the literature on knowledge management, and provides suggestions on how to aid individuals adopt a more desirable behavior that is conducive to firm survival.
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(CNN) -- Row houses were reduced to rubble when an explosion rocked a Philadelphia neighborhood Monday, sending at least eight people to hospitals.
Natural gas caused the blast, which collapsed three homes, city officials said in a statement.
Witnesses told CNN affiliate KYW that they smelled gas after the blast.
"I was sitting in the house and I heard a big bang," Mike McGraw told KYW. "The door slammed and the TV went out."
His son, Mike McGraw Jr., said he saw the buckled buildings and watched firefighters hose down a man who had been burned.
"They threw this baby out the window because the girl was on fire," he said, "and the fireman had to catch the baby."
A contractor was doing rehab work in a vacant home when it collapsed, Deputy Fire Chief Robert Coyne told reporters. The two adjacent houses were also destroyed, he said.
One person was in critical condition with severe burns, city officials said.
A spokesperson for Jefferson University Hospital told the CNN affiliate that seven people were being treated for minor injuries there, including a mother, a father, and a two-month-old baby who were inside the home next to the house that collapsed.
Dozens of homes remained evacuated Monday afternoon. City officials said all residents in the area had been accounted for, but fire officials were using listening devices to double check.
Aerial footage of the scene showed a large pile of rubble between two buildings, with splintered wood beams sticking out where rooms of the house once stood.
Joe Szymborski told KYW that he was lying in bed when he heard the explosion.
"I threw on my shoes, ran down there and helped three people out of the house," he said.
"It's just instinct. Anybody would do it for anybody else around here," he said. "We're all neighbors and friends."
The home where the blast occurred was a permitted construction site, city officials said. Authorities are investigating to determine what caused a gas leak in the area. Gas service on the street has been shut off, the city said.
Last month, a four-story wall of a vacant building in Philadelphia collapsed onto an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store, killing six people and injuring 13.
Authorities charged crane operator Sean Benschop, 42, with involuntary manslaughter and other related charges.


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New Releases - February 2001 (2001-02-06)Many products are in the pipeline and you should expect to see many of these new exciting entries right here! First to all you Glock 26 fans, Marui will soon release an extended high capacity magazine. WA, on the other hand, will release a silver version of the Shorty 0.40 as well as a WilsonCombat CQB model as seen on the right. Expect both of these to be released in mid-February.
From Tanaka Works, we are expecting the FN Browning Hi-Power MK-III. Not many airsoft manufacturers have come out with high performing and successful replicas of the Browning so this comes with much anticipation. Preview pictures indicate a finely crafted ABS model, with silver barrel, bolt chamber, trigger, and hammer. Metal parts should include the trigger, hammer, slide lock, safety, and front/rear windage adjustable sights.
Finally, the long awaited FN Minimi is expected to be released from TOP sometime this Spring, though no date has been set yet. TOP promises that the Minimi will weigh in at a hefty 6.85Kg and come 104cm long. This high quality AEG should be made mostly of metal and sport a new "gearbox" design different than TOP's M60 series AEGs. Power will come from a 9.6v battery.


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In its selection process of a route for a massive power transmission line across southern Idaho, the Bureau of Land Management listed eight criteria used in the decision making process.
"Route on public land where practical" came in seventh.
The purpose of the Gateway West Transmission Project, proposed by Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power, is to route energy generated in Wyoming to population centers on the West Coast. Any benefits to Idaho residents are negligible. In fact, it's not even on Idaho Power's list of needed improvements over the next 10 years. However, it will place major constraints on some of the most productive farmland in the state where it crosses Power and Cassia counties. In those two counties, 75 percent of the route will be on private property.
On one hand, it's astonishing that the right to own private property, one of the most basic freedoms outlined by our nation's forefathers, slips to seventh place on a list like this. On the other hand, when analyzing the six criteria deemed more important than private property rights, it's shocking how insignificant individual liberty has become in the view of our federal government.
There are literally hundreds of quotes made by our forefathers about private property rights and their connection to our basic freedoms. James Madison said, "Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected." President Calvin Coolidge said, "Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing." Northern Nevada rancher, the late Wayne Hage, summed it up as well as anyone when he said, "If you don't have the right to own and control property then you are property."
So without further ado, here's what it's come down to, folks. Following are the six criteria established by the BLM as more important than your right to own property:
• Avoid BLM-identified preliminary priority sage-grouse habitat and Wyoming core habitat areas.
• Avoid designated areas such as national monuments, wilderness study areas, national landscape conservation system areas and state and local parks.
• Avoid visual resource management Class II areas.
• Follow existing corridors or linear structures.
• Avoid sensitive species habitat, including bald eagle nests and big game winter range.
• Avoid cultural and natural resource areas.
Sage grouse habitat is more important than private property. We heard a rumor several years ago that by the time all was said and done, sage grouse would make the spotted owl controversy seem small in the realm of economic devastation. This could be a preliminary indication of that prediction coming true. While no one can see into the future, it certainly makes you wonder if the farmers and ranchers who settled southern Idaho by developing the water and hacking a living out of the sage brush would have done so knowing that one day the presence of bird habitat would become more important than farms and ranches.
Wilderness study areas are more important than private property. This is possibly the biggest kick in the guts on the list. It takes an act of Congress to establish a wilderness area, and judging by recent memory, we all know Congress doesn't act on much of anything. In light of that fact, our federal land management agencies have the power to establish a wilderness study area — a de facto wilderness area — on their own. We would be surprised if the BLM could find one acre south of the Snake River in Idaho that meets the true definition of a wilderness area — "untrammeled by man." Yet, here we have another instance of federal agencies running our state.
Follow existing corridors or linear structures. Isn't Interstate 86 an existing corridor for infrastructure?
Big game winter range and bald eagle nests are more important than private property. One of the true benefits of living in Idaho is an abundance of wildlife. Many farms and ranches support wildlife during different times of the year and some incur significant damage. But we don't understand how the presence of wild animals is more important than the presence of Idaho's hardworking farm and ranch families. In addition, we believe those hardworking families have established a firm record of living harmoniously with our abundant wildlife. How a federal agency establishes this as criteria to justify the taking of private land is astonishing.
Private property is an integral part of the engine that powers Idaho's economy. Private property helps pay a lot of mortgages in this state — sage grouse don't. The biggest threat to sage grouse is fire. This tells us that BLM needs to do a better job of managing public land and never be allowed to dictate how and where the rights of private property owners will be violated.
Frank Priestley is president of the Idaho Farm Bureau.


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17-Year-Old Writes Song Asking Taylor Swift To Prom
High-school junior James Powers has been garnering national attention since posting a musical plea on YouTube asking country cutie Taylor Swift to accompany him to prom. He recently appeared on "Morning Express" with Robin Meade but has yet to receive word from Swift.
Either way, we think the song is pretty catchy. See for yourself after the jump.


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The way these pillows are constructed is both simple and suprizing. I loved stuffing them and watching them "bloom" in the last steps. They are also pretty quick to make, and kind of addictive. I want to make a set in every color! –Molly
To make one 17-inch x 17-inch Pillow:
- For the background: two 18-inch x 18-inch pieces of wool felt in a neutral color, I used nutmeg.
- For the flower petals: two 18-inch x 18-inch pieces of wool felt in two bright colors, I used ecru and yellow.
- For the back: a 1/2-yard of muslin in white
- An 18-inch square pillow form
- A water soluble fabric marker
- Neutral colored cotton thread
- A hand sewing needle
Note- The photographs in following instructions show the middle pillow (as seen in the photograph of the pillows on the bed) being constructed. The colors for the far left and right pillows are listed below:
- Far Left Pillow: Background- steel. Flower- ochre and yellow.
- Far Right Pillow: Background- light grey. Flower- ochre and yellow.
Cutting and Marking
Cut the muslin into an 18-inch square and set aside.
Cut each piece of felt into four 9-inch squares.
Mark four of the 9-inch background squares as follows:
Make a mark diagonally across the square, from corner to corner.
Mark another line, parallel to the first, 1/4-inch from the first. This will be your sew line.
Make a small mark in the middle of the sew line and then another small mark 2-inches above the middle mark.
Draw an arch from a corner of the sew line, to the 2-inch mark, to the next corner as shown above.
Repeat this marking for 3 more background squares for a total of 4 marked squares.
Sewing Squares
Arrange all of the felt squares into little felt sandwiches, with a marked square on top, petal color A below that, petal color B below that, and a non-marked background square on the bottom.
Make 4 of these felt sandwiches, stacking them neatly and pinning them at two corners as shown above.
Using a walking foot, sew across the sew line of the felt sandwiches, sewing all four layers together. Backstitch at the beginning and end of each seam.
Cut along the marked curve of the top background square.
Cut the remaining three layers of the felt sandwich to match the top cut curve.
Peel up the top layer up from the bottom right corner of the felt sandwich and keep it out of the way. Cut out the petal colored felt as shown above (be sure not to cut the bottom layer). You will not need these triangles so you can toss them in your scrap drawer.
Open up the background colored felt pieces and you should have a square with a diagonal petal shape in the middle.
Repeat this for the 3 remaining felt sandwiches.
Sewing The Squares Together
Pin two of the petal squares together as shown above. Make sure that the petal colors are alternating (ecru, yellow, ecru, yellow, in this case) and that the petal corners meet each other neatly.
Pin them right sides together but make sure to move the petals out of the way so they don't get sewn.
Starting from the outside sew this seam with a 3/8-inch seam allowance. Stop sewing 1-inch before the end of the point where the petal corners meet. Backstitch at the beginning and end of each seam.
Hand stitch this last inch of the seam using a small running stitch. This way you can assure that the petal corners are meeting up neatly and that you are not sewing the petals down.
Doule check that the petal corners are meeting up well before moving on.
Repeat these steps for the remaining two petal squares.
Arange the two groups of sewn petal squares on top of each other as shown above. Again, make sure that the petal colors are alternating and that all the seams seem straight.
Pin these pieces right sides together, making sure to match up the middle precisely.
Sew this seam in two sections (both with a 3/8-inch seam allowance), first from the left side towards the middle, and then from the right towards the middle. Stop both seams 1-inch before the middle. Backstitch at the beginning and end of each seam. You will have a 2-inch gap in the middle.
Line up all four petal corners as neatly as you can and hand sew the 2-inch gap closed.
The top is all done!
Stuffing and Finishing
Pin the 18-inch muslin square to the pillow top, right sides together.
Sew them together around three sides with a 3/8-inch seam allowance. Make sure the petals don't get caught in these seams. I found it was easiest to sew one side at a time and then arrange the petals to one side or another before starting my next seam.
Turn the pillow right side out and press the raw edges of both the top and back 3/8-inches towards the inside.
Stuff the pillow form into the pillow, Make sure to push it into the corners.
Pin the top and back together along the open edge so the folded edges are encased inside. Hand stitch this side closed with a blind stitch or slip stitch.
Fluff the pillow and press the petals down. Spray away any of the fabric marker markings and enjoy!


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James Fujimoto has been appointed as the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering for a five-year term from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017.
Jim Fujimoto joined the MIT faculty in 1985 as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering after completing his SB, SM and PhD at MIT. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and an Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University. As principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Jim, working with his group and collaborators, pioneered the development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the early 1990s. OCT is a new medical imaging modality which uses echoes of light to enable real-time visualization of internal tissue microstructure and pathology. The development of OCT stemmed from the group's early studies using femtosecond optical pulses to perform optical ranging and measurement in the eye. This ground-breaking research at MIT in collaboration with investigators from MIT Lincoln Labs, the Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine, has resulted in a host of valuable OCT applications spanning ophthalmology and cardiology as well as fundamental research. The technology has had a major clinical impact in ophthalmology, with tens of millions of OCT imaging procedures performed yearly and more than 8 companies which develop OCT instruments for the ophthalmic market. Jim has published over 375 journal articles, is editor or author of 5 books, and co-author of numerous U.S. patents. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many honors include the 1999 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation, the 2001 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Carl Zeiss Research Award in 2011.
The Thomson chair was established to honor the distinguished scientist, engineer, and inventor whose discoveries and inventions made major contributions to the development of the electrical industry. Dr. Thomson served as a member of the MIT Corporation and its Executive Committee, as a non-resident professor of applied electricity, and in one critical period, 1920-21 as Acting President of the Institute. The Elihu Thomson Chair was previously held by Professors Hermann A. Haus and Erich P. Ippen.


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Amen grinder++. I whole heartedly agree.
I came to much the same conclusion in Being a heretic and going against the party line. after having only been using perl for a relatively short time. My experiences since have done little to change my mind.
Back in that old post I tried to make a distinction between the need to parse HTML and the need to extract something that just happens to be embedded within stuff that happens to be HTML. This distinction was roundly set upon as being wrong. I still hold with this distinction.
The dictionary definition of parse is
Whilst the dictionary definition of extract is:
From my perspective, when the need is to locate and capture one or more pieces of information from within any amount or structure of other stuff, without regard to the structural or semantic positioning of those pieces within the overall structure, the term extraction more applicable than parsing. If I need to understand the structure, derive semantic meaning from the structure or verify its correctness, then I need to parse, otherwise I just need to extract. After all, Practical Extraction and Reporting is what that Language was first designed to do.
My final, and strongest argument lies in a simple premise. If the information I was after was embedded amongst a lot of Arabic, Greek or Chinese, then noone would expect me to find and use a module that understood those languages, just to extract the bits I needed.
Examine what is said, not who speaks."Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
#InnovatorSummit -- Clarification on attaching photos to live people in FamilySearch Family Tree
Just a note on what happens when you attach a photo to a live person. Any person who is marked as living in FamilySearch.org Family Tree cannot be seen except by the person who entered the information. Entering information about a living person is optional, since it is not viewable by anyone else. However, photos are not restricted. If you attach a photo to a live person in FamiySearch Family Tree then only the people who can see the living person can see the photo, but if the URL of the photo were to be shared anyone could then view the photo. In effect, if the photo is shared, it becomes viewable by anyone. I hope this is correct. I check directly with the developers.
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The House of Marley, the eco-friendly audio company set up in the name of the late reggae superstar, was in London's Silicon Roundabout at the CES Unveiled event on Thursday to show off its range of headphones and earbuds.
But it was the Bag of Rhythm iPod / iPhone dock that caught Pocket-lint's eye - probably because it reminded us of our yoof when we used to hang around a local car-park with nothing more than a piece of vinyl flooring, a hat and a boombox to keep us entertained. Quite the break-dancer we were, or so our hazy cheap-cider infused memories tell us.
The Bag of Rhythm is probably built with a different intoxicant in mind, and a more greener setting than a Asda car-park, but the boombox comparisons are fairly obvious.
It works off of the mains, but it's the battery pack option that makes it a portable winner (it can also run off of 6 D batteries) and you can pop on a different bag should you not fancy the army-style green option.
Tech-wise, there's not much to it - it'll dock your iPhone or iPod and there's an aux-in port should you be using a non-Apple device.
It'll be hitting the UK in Q1 2012, no word on pricing as of yet - we'll keep you posted.


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Report: Percent of Bridgeport children and poverty rising
The percentage of Bridgeport children living in poverty is rising sharply and is more than double the statewide child poverty rate, according to the latest State of the Child Report from the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group.
The report, which is released annually, compares the well-being of Bridgeport's children to that of children statewide using data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey and such state agencies as the Department of Public Health and the Department of Education.
This year's report shows a significant spike in Bridgeport children living below the federal poverty line, from 31 percent in 2010 to 40 percent in 2011. The federal poverty line changes depending on family size, but is typically defined as about $19,000 for a family of three.
The city's child poverty rate is two and a half times the statewide rate of 15 percent and three times the Fairfield County rate of 12.8 percent. Poverty statistics come from the American Community Survey.
BCAC executive director Mary Pat Healy called the city's increase in child poverty significant but not surprising. She said the advocacy coalition has seen many more families seeking safety net services in the wake of the recession, which the city doesn't seem to be climbing out of any time soon.
"If anyone is seeing any improvement in the economy, it's not Bridgeport," she said.
Barbara Edinberg, BCAC's director of research emeritus, echoed those sentiments.
"I wouldn't say (the rise in poverty) is a surprise," she said. "Bridgeport was hard hit by the recession. But it is alarming."
In addition to the 40 percent of children living below the poverty line, 72 percent of Bridgeport children live in families earning less than double the federal poverty level -- the income many consider necessary to meet a family's basic needs.
Joshua Thompson, director of Mayor Bill Finch's Office for Education and Youth, said the poverty stats show that more must be done to help poor children.
"We are surrounded by the plenty here in Bridgeport and we must all work together to turn the ship for our children," Thompson said.
The report also shows that, according to the state Department of Labor, unemployment in Bridgeport went up slightly from 13.3 percent in August 2011 to 13.5 percent in August 2012. The state unemployment rate was 9.2 percent in August 2012.
Healy said there's also a large income disparity within the state. The median income for families with children in Fairfield County is $109,663 -- nearly four times the median income of Bridgeport families, which is just $29,647.
Healy said the gap between the rich and poor in Connecticut is one of the largest in the country and the disparity isn't on track to lessen any time soon.
"The gap is widening and it plays out in so many other areas, including health and education," she said.
However, the report isn't all bad news. The number of Bridgeport children on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, decreased by 390 between 2011 and 2012, representing a decrease of about 3 percent.
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When the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV, they restructured a lot of contracts to ensure that the nucleus of their title team remained together as long as possible.
The result was not a repeat championship. The Ravens made the playoffs in two of the next three years, but they slowly decended into salary cap hell as a result of those post-Super Bowl decisions and the team slumped before Brian Billick was fired.
According to General Manager Ozzie Newsome, the team learned its lesson that time and won't let history repeat itself. At a press conference in Baltimore Thursday, Newsome was explicit in saying that the team wouldn't restructure deals just to maintain the presence of veterans from the current team.
"We have a great nucleus of young players," Newsome said.
Newsome said he'd consider restructuring particular players, specifically ones likely to reach the end of their deals, but his message can't be seen as a good sign for those hoping to see wide receiver Anquan Boldin back next season. Boldin's $5.5 million salary has been pointed to as one the Ravens may need to erase in order to get under the cap and it's worth wondering how long the Ravens will want to remain in business with a player who turns 33 in October.
Newsome also expressed confidence that a deal will get done with quarterback Joe Flacco and said he hasn't had any official discussions with safety Ed Reed about returning next season. If Reed does return, it sounds like the team would like him to be a mentor to younger players as the Ravens prepare to move forward without some of the players who helped them win the Super Bowl this year.


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As the winter is finally gone and the weather is getting better, it's time to take our bikes out of the garage. However, all the recent years I had one major problem with my bike: Where and how to carry my smartphone safe but accessible. All the years I looked for a decent and proper way to use different smartphones an easy and simple way while biking. So far without luck, until I came across Fahrer Berlin's Spitzel the other day. The Spitzel (German for "snitcher") comes with two components: the holder and a silicon cover. The holder is fast and easily mounted to the handle bar. It only needs to be positioned the way it fits best and after the the clamp needs to be fixed by closing the tension strap.
This allows to mount and taking off the Spitzel holder in just seconds. The clamp fits to various tube diameters from 22 - 34 mm. On top of the holder, the Spitzel comes with an iPhone silicon case that is connected to the base holder by hook-and-loop (aka a Velcro) tape and allows to be used in either portrait or landscape format. Vibration is absorbed through the Velcro tape and silicon case the iPhone sits in.
While I'm not using an iPhone, the idea to mount a smartphone with just a Velcro tape caught my attention and as a matter of fact, there are so many cheap silicon cases for all kind of smartphones available, Fahrer's original iPhone case can be easily exchanged with whatever is appropriate.
Another great side-effect to the simplicity of the Spitzel is the fact that all Fahrer products are produceed in cooperation with sheltered workshops in Berlin by only using manufacturing techniques that can be executed by handicapped people. The limitation is an essential part of the design, as well as the handwork.
Final Conclusion
All the years I was looking for something simple, not too bulky, easily exchangeable and not too expansive and Fahrer's Spitzel is exactly what I was looking for. It's mounted within just seconds and also removed within seconds, to protect it from being stolen and allows to carry different phones the way you prefer it - either portrait or landscape. Since it's so flexible, the display can be perfectly aligned to be watchable, for instance to use a GPS or fitness application or to operate the device's music player.As you can see above, it only need a silicon case for your device and a piece of Velcro tape to replace the original Spitzel case with whatever fits your need best. However, Fahrer has just released a Samsung Galaxy S II version last week as well, so this might be another interesting option for you. Unfortunately, there are no other cases available but this shouldn't keep anyone away to use it with a different phone.
I've just tested it on a ride through the park and it worked perfect and I don't had the feeling that my test device was insecurely mounted but with sit rather strong on the holder. Definitely recommendable for city bikers around the world.
It retails for around 39.00 Euro and is available from bike shops around the world.
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Nabila Ramdani's essay at 'Comment is Free' (Israel's Gaza bombardment has put Palestine at the top of the agenda, Nov. 23), about the aftermath of the Gaza war arrives at quite predictable conclusions about the war's effect on the region.
After offering a soft critique of "Rockets being fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip" (remember these words) and "the bombing of a bus [in Tel Aviv]", Ramdani writes that Palestinians in Gaza are an "oppressed, forsaken people" who were "killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza", which she characterizes as the US backed "Israeli war machine." She further suggests that Israeli behavior in the war was "barbaric".
Ramdani contextualizes the violence in a manner suggesting that the Palestinian casualties during the war has placed the 'Palestine' question in the front of the Arab Spring agenda:
"The oppression of the Palestinian people regains its status as the most pressing problem in the Arab world today. [emphasis added]
This claim, however, is simply risible in light of the events she chooses to ignore: the daily murder and brutality in Syria which has claimed over 400,000 lives, or the increasingly dictatorial powers assumed by Egypt's new President (dashing the hopes that anything resembling a democracy will take hold in that country) and the extreme poverty, underdevelopment and political backwardness which plagues the region.
If the Arabs decide that continuing to feed their malign obsession with Israel is more important than the requirements of their own political progress, it will have signaled that the Arab Spring has failed miserably.
As thoughtful critics have maintained since the uprisings have begun, democracy is more than elections and revolutions. Democracy is a cultural habit which must be nurtured and, even in the best of circumstances, requires time to take root within the body politic. In the Arab world true liberal democracy will require that they find a way to stop scapegoating Jews and Israel and take responsibility for their failures and disappointments.
The decision by a plurality of Palestinians in 2006 to vote for Hamas – a religious extremist movement opposed to human rights and democracy, and opposed to peace with Israel – was a politically destructive act, and represented further evidence of the social and political pathos plaguing their society.
Every rocket fired by Hamas at Israel, and every attempted cross border attack or effort to kidnap Israeli soldiers represents continuing impediments to peace, Palestinian development, prosperity and freedom.
The continued attacks by Hamas also ensure an Israeli response, which, in turn, takes the media focus away from Hamas's failures and onto the desired narrative of 'Israeli oppression' of Palestinians.
Interestingly, the original title of Ramdani's piece implicitly acknowledged the cynical exploitation by Hamas.
First, here's how it looks now:
However, here's a cached version of the original title, published on Friday and evidently revised on Saturday.
The truce between Hamas and Israel would suggest that the rockets will be quieted for a while, but don't expect the peace to last too long.
Hamas's temptation to engage in aggression which they know will end up sacrificing the lives of Palestinians, thus ensuring sympathetic coverage from a pliant media which wants desperately to avoid holding Palestinians responsible for their own failures, will be too great to resist.
Related articles
- 'Comment is Free' contributor: Israeli leaders murder Palestinian children to score electoral points (cifwatch.com)
- Guardian claims Hamas scored political points from photo of Egypt PM cradling dead baby (cifwatch.com)
- The Guardian's Seumas Milne defends Palestinians' right to kill Israelis (cifwatch.com)
- The Guardian preaches propaganda about Gaza war to teaching professionals (cifwatch.com)
- 'Comment is Free' publishes an essay by a Hamas leader…again. (cifwatch.com)
- Will Harriet Sherwood and other journalists be used as human shields by Hamas? (cifwatch.com)
- Following CiF Watch post, Guardian corrects John Pilger's false casualty figures from Gaza War (cifwatch.com)
- Lies of omission and commission: Chris McGreal's propaganda from Gaza (cifwatch.com)
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Bike sharing networks, such as Villo!, are wonderful opportunities for ad-financed public-private partnerships: citizens get access to an extremely useful service, at little cost to them or to public authorities, thanks to advertizing space being sold on the network's bikes and stations. Disappointingly, Villo!'s usefulness has been tainted by the all too frequent unavailability of bikes and parking spaces. Some stations have turned out to be practically unusable, as highlighted in the scores tables.
Where's My Villo? pulls real-time data from Villo!'s servers in order to rate each Villo! station according to its availability in bikes and parking spaces. Our aim is to bring the magnitude of these bike allocation problems to the attention of users and political decision-makers.
And given (1) the public-private nature of the network in Brussels, (2) the monopolistic character of the bike-sharing market, and (3) the fact that Villo! is a source of revenue for JCDecaux through the sale of advertizing space on displays at stations and on bikes, JCDecaux have a special responsibility to insure the service is run more efficiently than it is today. For more on this point, see Where's My Villo?'s guest article for the Open Knowledge Foundation: Open data in public private partnerships: how citizens can become true watchdogs.
The bike allocation problems, along with users' dissatisfaction, have been featured in recent press articles and on the news. Even more poignant are the numerous tweets from people around Brussels, who have either struggled to find a bike when really wanting one, or reluctantly had to bike around to find a parking space to leave their Villo:
|Messieurs de chez #Villo, c'est pas super cool de ne pas avoir de Villo disponible à Legrand à 7h30 du mat'...
|heeft wééral een half uur moeten rondrijden om zijn #villo te parkeren... #notamused
|La répartition des vélos reste le gros point noir du système je trouve. #villo
|So first I miss my bus. Then took a villo. Next couldn't find a station with open spots left
(1) JCDecaux to drastically improve the availibility of bikes and parking spaces, through better reallocation of bikes
Update: shortly after Where's My Villo's launch, JCDecaux announced nightly reshuffling of bikes.We suggest some ways of doing this below, but please suggest your own by emailing us.
And secondly, we call for:
(2) JCDecaux to commit to transparent and easily verifiable service levels
While statistics on this website focus on the share of the day during which no bikes or parking spaces are available, one form of service level commitment that may be legitimately expected from JCDecaux could take the form of: "no station shall remain empty or completely full for more than 60 consecutive minutes". This would allow JCDecaux, Villo!'s operator, to make commitments in the form of response times and plan its teams accordingly.
Finally, we call for:
(3) the committee in charge of evaluating Villo! to include a group of users
Update: in May 2012, the newly set-up evaluation committee, which includes cycling associations and Villo! users, held its very first meeting.
Naturally, this website wouldn't be possible without open access to real-time data. This is great, and open data should be promoted for all public-private partnerships. We call for this transparency to be extended to contractual commitments with respect to Villo!'s quality of service. As far as we know, JCDecaux's contract with the Brussels Region remains entirely inaccessible to the public and to Brussels Parliamentarians.
We're a group of Villo!-using friends, with no vested interested in Villo! aside from the fact we love using them, and would like to use them more often ;) We're reachable at email@example.com. Where's My Villo? was built by Jonathan Van Parys.
Bikes are currently reallocated by Villo! trucks, though how often, or when, this happens is not clear; nor is a consistent pattern in how Villo! decides to schedule its trucks. The frequency of this reshuffling could be increased, or an alert-system could be set up to schedule the replenishement of empty or full stations during the day. A major drawback is the eco-unfriendliness of this solution, so why not switch to electricity-powered buses?
Eco-friendliness: Bad | Efficiency: Good | Overall score: Medium
Update: buses now run at night and are allowed to use the bus lanes.
Why not hire students to replace (or complement) these trucks. They would bike around Brussels, taking bikes from full to empty stations.
Eco-friendliness: Good | Efficiency: Good | Overall score: Good
Some cities have used incentive mechanisms to encourage users to take bikes from full to empty stations, mostly in the form of additional free time (in Brussels, the first half-hour is free for yearly subscribers). Whether this type of incentive would work in Brussels, where empty stations tend to be at the top of hills, and full ones at the bottom, is questionable. An additional weakness of this solution is that it requires a sufficient flow of Villo! users between right areas at the right time of day.
Eco-friendliness: Good | Efficiency: Medium | Overall score: Medium
Update: In November 2012, Villo! announced 10 extra free minutes for people taking bikes uphill.
Increase capacity of busy stations
Some stations may simply not have sufficient capacity to cope with the natural demand for bikes or parking spaces in the area they are situated in. Some busy stations could therefore be expanded to accommodate additional spaces. This would also reduce strain on the reallocation of bikes during the daytime.
Eco-friendliness: Good | Efficiency: Good | Overall score: Good
Update: In November 2012, Villo! announced that the capacity of the busiest stations would be increased (article in French and Dutch). In addition to this, new stations are popping up.
Improved reporting system of broken bikes
Computer screens at the stations should provide an easy way for Villo users to report broken bikes so that they can be picked up by the repair teams. Users should also be able to take out a new bike immediately after realizing the one they just retrieved is broken.
Update: Villo! is now on Twitter, which is one way of reporting issues easily.
Electric bikes (suggested by Mart Parve)
If the problem is that bikes "flow" downhill, then one solution would be to convert the bikes to electric ones, and supplement the stations with chargers. Of course it would be very costly but I wouldn't throw the idea out of the window just so quickly. The usage rate would probably go up massively, and the subscription price could be raised as well, so it's a matter of viability analysis.
Do you have other ideas, or comments about the solutions suggested above? Send us an email: email@example.com
All scores are based on the retrieval of Villo! stations status data from their internet servers at 5 minutes intervals. The accuracy of the scores is therefore contingent on the reliability of Villo!'s data feeds, and the scores assume that any activity taking place within the 5 minute intervals would not alter results significantly.
The bike and parking unavailibility scores represent the percentage of time over the previous 7 days during which the listed station had at most one bike or one parking space available. The higher the score, the worse a station performed. The reason we do not only count stations when they are completely empty is that more often than not, if a single bike remains in the station for a lengthy period, it tends to be broken. The scores exclude the period between midnight and 6am in order not to penalize stations for performing badly during the nighttime. The worst time of day and day of week results, on the other hand, are computed by taking into account all days and all hours over the previous week.Feel free to contact us if you have any questions relating to the data or scores.


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