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Taster: some ideas for a use case on paradata and accessibility opportunities
Note from the JLeRN Team:
One of the tasks we've commissioned from our informal task group is some ideas around use cases, from JISC TechDis, on the potential of the Learning Registry and paradata for enhancing accessibility of OERs. Terry McAndrew, the author, will be presenting at the JLeRN Final Workshop on Monday 22nd October and completing it based on feedback and discussion there; but we'd be interested in any questions or points you have as well prior to the final version being published here. The taster below is Terry's initial thoughts; he'll be updating them between now and Monday.
So, here is your taster:
Paradata and Accessibility Opportunities – Draft
By Terry McAndrew, JISC TechDis.
The opportunities for the use of paradata for accessibility information regarding resources should not be missed. However, getting all the actors to produce and consume this information effectively clearly requires some thought for a realising implementation. Here are some of the issues we need to consider.
Firstly, the 'actors' in these scenarios need to be aware of what is important to capture and share, to enable all potential participants to make the best of the learning and teaching resources available. Generally all actors need to understand that multiple formats for information are necessary to communicate information effectively – it's just that many omit to produce multiple outputs when delivering to an audience.
These actors can be thought of roles in the learning and teaching cycle and are the Creator, Tutor, Student, Publisher, Curator, Librarian, Accessibility Specialist, Manager, and Technical Infrastructure Manager. An actor can have multiple roles.
If you are thinking all these actors will have to co-operate to use paradata in the same way, this would be a mistake. You would be right in thinking though, that these should be aware of the others' perspectives.
The actors and their roles
Looking at how the data is modelled in the JSON representation it may be that these actors can be aggregated under 'educator' or 'student' with additional attributes for the roles they are undertaking at the time of the interaction with the resource. For now, let's use actors in the looser scenario modelling sense.
Creator: Produces original resource but may be unaware of the accessibility needs e.g. a diagram that lacks quality descriptive information for a visually impaired user in effect needs a 'radio' quality description; or a video which needs a transcript for users with hearing difficulties – the transcript provides more usability though; discovery, indexing and usually a better output if the speaker works from a script. The creator however mat wish to declare the purpose or intention of the resource.
Tutor: Uses resources to teach but encounters many different student needs and learning styles; if only they could feed these experiences back into the network to remind the creators of the issues, and how other students with various needs resolved problems. Tutors need to understand that disabilities are by nature often discrete – students do not have their disability "tattooed on their forehead" as many systems would like, just to make it easy to assign the appropraite data. Tutors therefore need to be informed of the nature of the disability.
student: Receives a resource in a context often defined by the tutor, but also as an independent browsing learner. The student need to be able to manipulate a resource independently if they have a disability, i.e. without tutor/demonstrator assistance to engage if possible (mobility impaired: the last thing they want is for someone to move the mouse for them). How, as the consumer, do they feed back this experience in the paradata? Is it gathered by the tutor or given directly – and do they have to declare the nature of the disability (glossory of learning issues) to validate it? Students with a support statement will usually be more active and highlight issues they could have done without. Students without support tend to be more passive, having lower expectations. Paradata could be liberating!
Publisher: Promotes resource into a community, probably using a generic description from interpretation of a complex one. If the paradata was tightly coupled to the resource such that users can easily access the usage information – including the accessibility issues – then the value of the resource may be more quickly assessed. The publisher may be the repository cataloguer.
Curator: Someone who collects interesting information to forward to others with similar interests. They tend to highlight the 'back-story' first, as often demonstrated on scoop.it or paper.li, but the same resource will appear in different collections as it has different aspects to be highlighted. How useful would it be to be able to collect these views (why they qualify each other) and feed this into paradata?
LAMs: Library (and museum) staff are taking a greater interest in social metadata — content contributed by users — as it can assist with discovery and description to both augment and recontextualize the content and metadata created by LAMs. They need to be aware of the opportunity to collect accessibility issues and promote the benefits of online alternative where necessary.
Accessibility specialist: Translates information into advice and technologies. They would be ideally placed to bind or interpret common issues. May be occasionally working with staff developers.
Managers of professionals: Who need to recognise that engagement with paradata is part of professional scholarship. They allow time and resources to be made available to use paradata.
Infrastucture managers: Who enable the network and facilities to be utilised most effectively – if paradata recommends a resource in conjunction with a technology solution then that can make anticipatory provision based on this evidence.
So, how can we realise this interaction?
In oder to better understand the work going on with paradata I chose to inform myself, as many do, with the explanatory videos released by the LR team. Technical text needs context in order to understand it better adn get the impression of where it is heading, what elements are 'concrete' and others which are still under debate. From these I understood that 'slice' waas a practice which could enable the subselection of relevant information. I took this to mean that tools which only needed a smaller proportion of the data could be available to display or capture only the necessary information and therefore reduce confusion. In effect, not to be scared of the complexity that the system can cope with by any given actor role. For those of you without a nervous disposition…
On LR data services http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7YKwmwOoA&feature=related
I was struck by an example given for what was assumed to be a typical use – "state recommends a resource from the khan academy for teaching…" and became concerned that the state may not have considered the accessibility issues it has raised, and whether they would be one of the actor roles I envisaged above? Would they be ones to utilise accessibility paradata when making these recommendations? What tools would they need?
Not too long ago in the subject network (<10 years) we had many discussions about the metadata standards for cataloguing and interoperability – the dreaded 'i'-word. Committment withered away eventually because all the actors who needed to use them would/could not significantly engage with them, and the supporting infrastructure to aggregate the services through each subject discipline needed consistent management buy-in. This needed to be better informed technically to appreciate the network solutions benefits. However, it was clear that significant work would have to be put into evangelising good practice with interoperable resource database to in effect, establish usage as a professional digital literacy. The community was shifting to less complex solutions – social networks and folksonomies.
Metadata itself maps to a procress already embedded in the business of cataloguing resources – it's another way to capture and manage classification information so it is a small step to conceptualise this to operate the same processes in another landscape; what was done in libraries and understood by the lay person (who could physically observe books being catalogued and ordered), moved online. Those using online catalogues to search their library could visualise the translation even without technical knowledge, and retained confidence in the process. Those who are more aware of the power of metadata could federate their searches through other agent software, and in effect be in many libraries at once. Paradata is a little more difficult to communicate as a concept; its the library of the conversation about all those books from the library, and more besides.
However, I don't have to be a developer to get to grips with this – I just have to be able to understand some potential for development.
There is a problem when new technical solutions are facing a new attention challenge; it's another practice to learn and the community that could benefit from them needs convincing there is a significant gain to be achieved. These potential users may have shifted attention to establishing their own online communities of interest through other free innovations which may be more satisfying to use e.g. curation tools and social bookmarking. They may be far from perfect but they can qualify information about resources and help one find allies with similar teaching problems. This shrinks the gap between the problem and the solution, making paradata capture and exchange less of a vital solution. Now that we have professional CPD from mailing lists to twitter, other innovative solutions need to have similar community benefits; finding similar others etc. Does the paradata networking promote this opportunity? If there are less efficient but far more effective alternatives then these will win out when the perspective of effectivness is from an individual's perception, not an organisational one.
I followed the technical information to a something called Twitcurl – is this a potential method of harvesting the collection of tweets around a specific hashtag, or quickly poking information into a paradata network from ones own tweets? Could a hashtag and a shortened URI, coupled with account registration (to capture the twitter ID and map it to ones actor roles), be enough to record an interaction with a resource? This may be appealing to educators and students in the same way that using #fb posts status updates.
Another alternative may be a simple Widget to gather reflection by professionals – something that could be available on all tutor's and student's devices to share interaction comments with a resource as it happens – but a context tag of accessibility info, would probably help. At this point a controlled vocabulary for disabilities may be required e.g. V.I., Blind, Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Print impaired, Mobility impaired etc. We are drifting back to metadata standards again. Oh dear!
It appears the accessibility content could be expressed as an 'activity stream' when sharing specific actions on what people did with an object, but the accessibility information is not simple transactional information – 'teacher posted a transcript' is not 'teacher found it necessary to post a transcript to engage hearing impaired students'.
A resource could have accessibility paradata information utilised in parts of the JISC curriculum lifecycle – design, (re)develop, deliver, support, evaluate. Being able to collate evaluations from students and teaching staff could feed into the next design loop – being able to share a response to the evaluations would promote developments to other potential users (you asked for ……., we did ……..). Being able to filter this by disability may help refine the flow of information between actors and show how a resource is responding to feedback, but a culture change would have to occur to make this commonplace.
Our TechDis Accessibility Passport approach has been available for designers and developers to reflect on the features that may present issues so these can be addressed before a resource is released to the outside world. It works, but has not attracted large numbers of users as they are not finding a need to create a passport for their resources to be used elsewhere – when it is someone else's risk.
'One of the key challenges… is how to engage students, peers and tutors in creative and mutually beneficial dialogue characterised by innovative and reflective critical thinking – both in face-to-face, distance and work-based flexible learning contexts.'
Professor Peter Chatterton, Critical Friend to the JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology programme
Should we look for accessibility information could be captured by proxies? Colleagues or attendees to presentations who could also see accessibility issues/opportunities – where do they pass comment? How could that be useful for paradata on the same topic? Where do you record your thoughts against this presentation? Does it have an event ID?
Video output online suffers from often suffers from poor quality comment streams – would reflections of its teaching potential be recorded through the nodes and then be harvested against the video by some other merged output.
Finally, I tried to think about how it might be expressed, just so I could visualise what tools might be available to create and use this paradata. Perhaps
"activity": { "actor": "email address","verb": "recommends", "disability": "dyslexia"
"object": http://resourceurl/resourceX/,
"content": "individual recommends Xerte LO for dyslexic users to organise and plan"}
Some degree of identifer would help collate suitable resources and experiences with them. Does it have to be repeated for each type of disability? that seems wasteful and probably burdensome (repeated entries need repeated human input?)
Using appropriate attributes to capture roles, information could be coupled with type of disability and the purpose for the use of the resource. Here's a modified example:
"actor": {"role": "teacher",
"attributes": ["elementary", "math"],
"context": ["site", "NSDL"],
"action": {"action-verb": "viewed", "count": 2200, "context": ["detail page"]},
"time-frame": {"start-date": "2011-05-01", "end-date": "2011-05-31"},
"object": {"uri": "xyz", "attributes": ["volcanoes"]}
The flexibility in the system exists, and it's not my role to specify how this can be defined, but I see it can be. I believe it is worth attention to do so to capture an 'accessibility context' for any experience.
We have to think about how to engage all the actor "roles" with the process and visualise some scenarios. Perhaps pre-prepared widgets that may be available to all class participants as an experience review (quick feedback form) or class activity review. At primary school it could be part of the leveling processes that are recorded against curriculum performance, perhaps a tool for special needs support worker. In Higher Education it may work best as a reflective tool used by the student to reveal the issues each resource creates. The teaching staff (tutor and demonsrators) may add other observations against the resource but would need to be aware of the disabilities in the class, and how they manifest themselves – input into the accessibility comment may benefit from some professional qualification.
I am less of a fan of the 'build it and they will come' approach than I used to be: there are too many competitors for attention. The value of paradata needs some appealing tools for all sectors to slice this information they wish to use, in the way that suits them best. However, each of these interface tools should recognise the value of capturing accessibility information at the same time for the benefit of every potential user.


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Lü Bu's famous horse, the 'Red Hare' (aka. Chituma) has spawned many discussions over the years. People wonder if the horse existed, where its name originated, when it died, where it came from, and who owned it. I've attempted to piece much of this information together for you in a new encyclopedia entry: Read about the Red Hare in the Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia.
You can also read more about the Red Hare in one of two forum discussions. If you have any additional information to share, or would like to suggest any corrections, please reply or contact me directly. I hope to write a similar entry for Liu Bei's Dilu Horse. Enjoy!

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I love the silly things they introduce every now and then.
Makes me wonder if there's a Horde equivalent.
Update: There is a Horde equivalent. And it apparently also rewards a cloak with either Gnomeregan or Darkspear emblem on it. But you only get that at level 75+ it seems.
Update 2: And the Horde version is very Trolly, and the Gnome version just right for the Gnomes. Well done.


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Some would make a convincing argument that you need two things to make a sequel to "Predator" -- a big, ugly monster and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The forces behind "Predators" have plenty of ugly alien monsters, but no Arnold in the movie opening July 9. Get used to it people. It still works. Things do blow up and aliens take a butt-whooping without the Governor, who has headaches of his own.
Producer Robert Rodriguez said Thursday he tried to find a way to get Schwarzenegger into the movie, but it was just going to be too difficult with the governor's schedule and the movie's crazy schedule. He gave up early.
"It was gonna be sort of a non-starter," he said. "So we thought let's just make a really great movie."
When Rodriguez originally wrote the sequel in 1995, Arnold was everywhere in it and pivotal in the treatment. But by the time they came around to making the film, Arnold was going to be impossible to get. "In my script, he was the entire film and now he was Governor so I was like, 'I know we can't get him for the lead and I don't think we can get him for a cameo.' "
"But we did entertain the idea of where we could place him." That didn't last long.
Instead the lead role went to Adrien Brody. And there's hardly an uber-bicep to be seen in the cast. Surprisingly, in this darker version of the story, the campy Arnold is not missed (entirely). Brody carries the day as the lead with his brains, even if he does knock an alien brain or two.
And fear not, there's hope for a future role once Arnold is done with the day job in the fall.
"If the movie is well received and people want a sequel," said Rodriguez, "maybe we can ask him for a cameo."


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The Show Went On
As I kneeled over a bucket, throwing up for the 15th time in 30 minutes, my friend said to me, "Sure, you feel terrible now. But this is going to make a great column."
When you're as sick as I was Friday night, it's hard to think about anything other than the feeling in your stomach and the taste in your mouth. Well, there's the sweet release of death, but I only prayed for that two or three times.
I was at Muhlenberg College, preparing to do a show, when the food poisoning hit me. I assume it was food poisoning, because I've never heard of a 12-hour flu. I'd eaten a soup and a salad for lunch because, ironically, my stomach wasn't feeling great from my lack of sleep the night before. So when I proceeded to feel worse throughout the day, I didn't think it was because of what I ate. I assumed it was because the housekeepers had a party outside my door early that morning.
I'm not sure if it was a party, but it was loud. Having gotten in at 4AM the previous night, I made sure to put the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door. What that meant was that housekeepers were not allowed to knock on my door, but they were allowed to yell to each other just outside of it.
"Room 309 has the do not disturb sign up."
I got the soup and salad because I was wondering if my tired stomach could take the grilled cheese and fries I was going to order. Be safe, I thought. Soup and salad. Easy enough.
As I kneeled over a bucket, throwing up for the 15th time in 30 minutes, I said to myself, "I should have had the grilled cheese."
There was another problem - not only did I feel terrible, but I had a show to do. I gathered myself together, washed out the bucket, and went on stage. I think someone drove me to the show in between, but I was too delirious to remember exactly what happened.
I performed for a half hour before I couldn't take it anymore. I thanked everyone for coming, and found the nearest drain. Fellow comedian and traveling partner Steve Boyer finished the show. In the fifteen minutes between when I got off stage and when the show ended, I threw up twice and passed out on a desk in the hallway.
As I lay there on that desk hovering over a bucket, almost throwing up for the 20th time that night, one member of the audience said to me, "you're really sick, huh?"
"No." I replied. "This is an elaborate ruse so people will feel bad for me and laugh more."
Hey, I was sick, I wasn't dead. The day I'm too sick to be sarcastic is the day I'm too sick to talk.
The food poisoning passed the next day, and I ate a bowl of jello and a few pretzels. I also managed a can of ginger ale. Canada Dry should have commercials for just such an occasion.
"When you feel like you're dying, try some Canada Dry! Don't remember the name? It's "Dry" - just like the heaves you had last night!"
While I was sick, I couldn't think of anything other than the pain and how slow the clock was moving. Less than 24 hours later, I didn't even remember how bad I felt. That's the amazing thing about being sick - you forget about it pretty quickly. Well, that's ONE of the amazing things. The other amazing things are too disgusting to print.
I am proud that I was still able to perform. And I'm glad that after the show, we drove to New York where my mother took care of me until I felt better this morning. That's the odd dichotomy of my life right now. I'm old enough to stubbornly insist on going to work despite being sick, but young enough that after work, I still needed my mother. (A necessity which may never go away).
I like I earned a badge last night by having the show go on despite how I felt. And to all comedians, musicians, and other performers who are in a similar position, I have one piece of advice: If you happen to eat at the Allentown Friendly's on Cedar Crest Boulevard, get the grilled cheese.


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GILBERT, Minn. (CIRCA) - Some "tipsy" birds ruffled up feathers in a Minnesota city after consuming fermented berries.
The Gilbert Police Department says it was alerted by several residents that birds in the small city had been acting erratically by flying into windows and crashing into cars.
In a public notice, police explained that berries growing in the region had fermented earlier than normal after a frost hit the area.
"Many birds have not migrated south, so it appears to be more prevalent than in past years," police stated.
Police explained it was the younger birds that were affected, since their livers aren't as tolerant of toxins.
"It appears that some birds are getting a little more 'tipsy' than normal. Generally, younger birds' livers cannot handle the toxins as efficiently more mature birds," police said.
The police department told the public there was no need to notify it, since the effect would wear off.
Police added they could be contacted for "Heckle and Jeckle walking around being boisterous or playing practical jokes" or "Woodstock pushing Snoopy off the doghouse for no apparent reason."


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Dinner & Cruise with live music on New Year's Day
Regarding the winter holidays our Dinner & Cruise with live music program will start after our holiday concerts on 1st January.
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The Danube, this very important and mighty river that takes its source from Germany, flows through many capitals on its journey to the Black sea. In Budapest it runs majestically through the center of the city, creating one of the finest panoramas of the continent. The Danube's embankment treasures the old and embraces the new, historic is mingling with the modern. Let us invite you to see our capital on the most Shipromantic way!
Dinner & Cruise with live music (at 19:00h & at 22:00h)
The vibrant city of Budapest has various faces. At night it calms down, the lights are lit, and a new city awakens after sunset. We created this program for those, who would like to enjoy the wonderful view of the city swimming in lights, accompanied by a real candlelight atmosphere with a romantic dinner and live music. The delicious meals on our boats, are prepared by Chef Molnárka Péter.
The salon music is performed by members of the Kodály Zoltán Awarded Rajkó Folk Orchestra.
The meals are prepared by Chef Molnárka Péter.
Our program takes you on a 2 hour long cruise on one of our air-conditioned/heated ships, on which you will also have the best view of the panorama from the upper deck of the ship.
Ticket prices
With Dinner
Adult: 49 EUR
Student: 47 EUR
Without dinner
Adult: 19 EUR
Student: 18 EUR
Cold entries
Spiced cottage cheese cream and traditional greaves cream
Alföld style goulash with small dumplings
Vegetable cream soup
Warm main courses
Mini stuffed cabbage
Traditional chicken leg "Paprikasch"
Roasted chicken breast with basil-cheese sauce
Spicy pork rib with thyme – mustard sauce
Roasted sea fish with Chardonnay sauce
Garnishes and vegetarian
Grilled polenta with feta cheese
Grilled vegetables
Homemade dumplings with spinach and mustard-mushroom sauce
Hash-brown potatoes
Steak potatoes
Fresh seasonal salads with dressings
Italian pasta salad
Caesar's salad
Sweet corn salad with mayonnaise
Season fruit basket
Home-made strudel
Somló style sponge cake
Mini tarts
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In the early hours of April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant exploded, setting into motion the world's worst nuclear disaster. Now, 26 years later, it may be a distant memory for many, but for those on the ground in Ukraine, it remains a chilling reminder of the destructive power of nuclear energy.
Valeriy Zabayaka was one of the plant workers who became a "liquidator," one of thousands tasked with the awful job of clearing the radioactive disaster zone.
Tall, broad and strapping with a heavy mustache and a handshake that could crush granite, Zabayaka is every inch the iconic Soviet hero. He could have stepped straight out of a propaganda poster, but he's just an ordinary man who found himself in an extraordinary situation. While his eyes don't belie the horrors he has seen, his words tell a different story.
"When I heard about the explosion no one told us the radiation level was life-threatening," Zabayaka tells us. "This was the time of the former Soviet Union and the authorities were hiding the information about the danger from us. The level of radiation where I worked was already very dangerous. I was in a group of 20 and only six of us are still alive. My health is damaged."
When asked whether he had a choice in becoming a liquidator, he claims he did. But given the choice again, Zabayaka admits he may have taken a different path.
"I was young and Pripyat city in Chernobyl was like the motherland to me," Zabayaka says. "Today, maybe I would make a different decision, but back then there was only one. When I left after liquidating, though, people I knew well looked at me like a stranger."
I was given special permission to drive into Chernobyl as part of Land Rover's Journey of Discovery to China, raising £1 million for the Red Cross. Zabayaka was one of the first Chernobyl residents I met during the trip inside the exclusion zone that surrounds the plant – a facility that is still leaking radiation today.
Before the disaster, Valeriy's home of Pripyat was a bustling city of 50,000 just 3 kilometers from reactor number four. Living standards were a world above anything the average Soviet citizen could dream of. Facilities and amenities abound, shops were well stocked with nearly impossible-to-buy Western goods. Outside of Moscow's shops for the elite, for example, Pripyat was the only place in the Soviet Union where Chanel perfume was available.
Wages were over double the national average and life was good. Work was plentiful, and with plans to ultimately build 12 reactors at the plant, it stood as a glittering testament to Soviet technological expertise.
The explosion changed everything.
Today Pripyat is deserted, a desolate, crumbling ghost town that was left in a hurry by a population who only thought they were leaving for a few days. It lies derelict in its entirety in the shadow of the reactor, a testament to all the dreams that were crushed and lives that were lost that fateful day. The town's dodge cars and Ferris wheel stand frozen in their tracks. A teddy bear sits on the window sill of the town's kindergarten. Gas masks lie in the empty cots.
It's like walking the set of a horror movie, except the horror here is very real.I'm driving the deserted streets in the tracks of people who used these roads to escape the fallout. Lada's and Moskvitch's of the Communist Party elite. But hierarchy was no immunity to radiation. I park the LR4 outside the tallest building in town – a formerly swanky hotel.
Ascending the broken and icy steps to the top floor ("the lift is out of order because we didn't pay last month's electricity bill," our guide jokes) is like walking the set of a horror movie, except the horror here is very real. This place is deeply contaminated, but it's hard to keep in mind as the radioactive contamination is invisible, an insidious influence that remains beyond our sight.
Our guide carries a Geiger counter at all times. It chirrups with excitement when held close to lichen or moss. Holding it to the concrete skeleton of the buildings barely gets a reading. Our safety has been assured, but we're still donning a protective suit, which like everything else we're wearing, will be thrown away at the end of the visit. Maybe burned.
As such, looking from the hotel's once grand roof terrace, the ghost town image disappears. From a distance the buildings below still look slightly rundown, but the overall impression is little different from other poor towns in rural Russia. Even the lack of cars is similar in other small towns dotting the landscape.
Our final stop is next to the reactor, which now sits under a makeshift cover of concrete, steel, lead and metal sheeting. Standing next to one of the most iconic images of the 20th century turns me to ice. I remember the radiation cloud blowing across London in 1986. Now I'm only a few dozen feet from the source.
A guide explains how plans are in place for a better cover – a nuke-proof sarcophagus – to help bring this dreadful chapter in history to some sort of a close. The trouble is, this is the same story that has been coming from here for years – all that seems to change is the deadline which keeps extending, seemingly inexorably, into the future.
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RDEV(8) Linux Programmer's Manual RDEV(8) NAME rdev - query/set image root device, swap device, RAM disk size, or video mode SYNOPSIS rdev [ -rsvh ] [ -o offset ] [ image [ value [ offset ] ] ] rdev [ -o offset ] [ image [ root_device [ offset ] ] ] swapdev [ -o offset ] [ image [ swap_device [ offset ] ] ] ramsize [ -o offset ] [ image [ size [ offset ] ] ] vidmode [ -o offset ] [ image [ mode [ offset ] ] ] rootflags [ -o offset ] [ image [ flags [ offset ] ] ] DESCRIPTION With no arguments, rdev outputs an /etc/mtab line for the current root file system. With no arguments, swapdev, ramsize, vidmode, and root- flags print usage information. In a bootable image for the Linux kernel, there are several pairs of bytes which specify the root device, the video mode, the size of the RAM disk, and the swap device. These pairs of bytes, by default, begin at offset 504 (decimal) in the kernel image: 498 Root flags (500 and 502 Reserved) 504 RAM Disk Size 506 VGA Mode 508 Root Device (510 Boot Signature) rdev will change these values. Typical values for the image parameter, which is a bootable Linux ker- nel image, are as follows: /vmlinux /vmlinux.test /vmunix /vmunix.test /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1 When using the rdev, or swapdev commands, the root_device or swap_de- vice parameter are as follows: /dev/hda[1-8] /dev/hdb[1-8] /dev/sda[1-8] /dev/sdb[1-8] For the ramsize command, the size parameter specifies the size of the RAM disk in kilobytes. For the rootflags command, the flags parameter contains extra informa- tion used when mounting root. Currently the only effect of these flags is to force the kernel to mount the root filesystem in readonly mode if flags is non-zero. For the vidmode command, the mode parameter specifies the video mode: -3 = Prompt -2 = Extended VGA -1 = Normal VGA 0 = as if "0" was pressed at the prompt 1 = as if "1" was pressed at the prompt 2 = as if "2" was pressed at the prompt n = as if "n" was pressed at the prompt If the value is not specified, the image will be examined to determine the current settings. OPTIONS -s Causes rdev to act like swapdev. -r Causes rdev to act like ramsize. -R Causes rdev to act like rootflags. -v Causes rdev to act like vidmode. -h Provides help. BUGS For historical reasons, there are two methods for specifying alterna- tive values for the offset. The user interface is cumbersome, non-intuitive, and should probably be re-written from scratch, allowing multiple kernel image parameters to be changed or examined with a single command. If LILO is used, rdev is no longer needed for setting the root device and the VGA mode, since these parameters that rdev modifies can be set from the LILO prompt during a boot. However, rdev is still needed at this time for setting the RAM disk size. Users are encouraged to find the LILO documentation for more information, and to use LILO when boot- ing their systems. AUTHORS Originally by Werner Almesberger (firstname.lastname@example.com) Modified by Peter MacDonald (firstname.lastname@example.com) rootflags support added by Stephen Tweedie (email@example.com) Linux 0.99 20 November 1993 RDEV(8)
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Eric Bobrow necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 168 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
MasterTemplate (http://www.actemplate.com) & Best Practices (http://www.acbestpractices.com)
I am an expert consultant and master trainer for ArchiCAD, a high-end 3D software tool for architects. Three years ago I created an add-on for ArchiCAD called MasterTemplate that is sold world-wide (400+ users in over 20 countries).
I am launching a new Best Practices online training program this coming Thursday November 18 - hence the fast-track contest - I put this off, and now need this right away!
I am well-respected personally as a technology expert by those who have seen my ArchiCAD Tips and Tricks articles or videos. I care passionately about my clients, and work very long hours to deliver the highest quality support I can.
The recession has hit architects very hard, and my business has suffered greatly. I now work alone (the "company" is me) and am "reinventing" my business.
I will be offering online software training for ArchiCAD (The Best Practices Course) through a membership site, and working to expand my own branded add-on for ArchiCAD (MasterTemplate).
Our market is the world of ArchiCAD users. These are the architects and related building designers who use this advanced 3D architectural design software solution.
They have a strong "design sense" and are somewhat independent - ArchiCAD is highly-respected, but NOT the mass-market leader for architectural software. They are sort of like Apple users - these are people who wouldn't give up their software if you paid them.
I need two closely related logos to use for my two websites:
Our market for the new Best Practices online course is a combination of our existing clients (those who have bought MasterTemplate or ArchiCAD itself from us) as well as other ArchiCAD users who are looking to improve their skills to take better advantage of the technology. Some know me and my company, others will not.
I want to closely coordinate the marketing for the two products, with a similar look, so this is a contest for two related logos that will share graphic elements and style.
The winning designer may get a follow-on contract for redesign of our main company website logo at:
Two closely related logos for the http://www.actemplate.com & http://www.acbestpractices.com websites, as well as repurposing for email and other digital marketing.
The name of each product (e.g. "MasterTemplate" and "Best Practices" aka "The Best Practices Course") should be very prominent.
These tag lines need to be incorporated in the website header versions of the logos:
MasterTemplate - The Office Standard for ArchiCAD
The BEST PRACTICES Course - Helping ArchiCAD users get the most out of their software
On the current Best Practices site, there is a graphic element that I used to use for MasterTemplate - a Leonardo da Vinci woodcut illustration that shows an intricate geometric form. This form (I can't remember it's name, but it's like interlinked dodecahedrons) is meant to suggest the following attributes:
- Beautiful 3D geometry
- Interlinked forms where everything "fits together"
- Classic design
Unfortunately, this image is "old fashioned" and somewhat hard to "read". I'd love to get a strong "3D" graphic element that looks modern and is very legible yet carries the attributes mentioned above.
You may use the colors on the existing websites as a starting point, but I am open to new color schemes.
Do not use stock images or clip art.
Supply JPG, layered PSD as well as other "native" digital files.
P.S. You may wish to refer to the website for ArchiCAD: http://www.graphisoft.com
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About self-harm and suicide
If you or someone you know is at risk of self-harm or suicide, you should seek help as soon as possible by contacting agencies specializing in crisis intervention and suicide prevention. Also alert the team devoted to handling threats of self-harm or suicide if you encounter such threats on Twitter.
Twitter's approach to self-harm and suicide threats
After we assess a report of self-harm or suicide, Twitter will contact the reported user and let him or her know that someone who cares about them identified that they might be at risk. We will provide the reported user with available online and hotline resources and encourage them to seek help.
Recognize the signs
Judging behavior based on online posts alone is challenging, but there are potential warning signs or indicators for self-harm or suicide. Below are questions to ask yourself to help assess if another user is feeling suicidal:
- Does this person post content about depression or feelings of hopelessness?
- Is this person posting comments about death or feelings that death is the only option?
- Is he or she posting comments about having attempted suicide in the past?
- Is he or she describing or posting photos of self-harm or identifying him or herself as suicidal?
- Has his or her mood and the content of his or her posts changed recently?
If you've assessed the situation, and know the person involved, encourage him or her to seek professional help. If, on the other hand, you don't know the person involved, you may still contact them to express concern or refer him or her to a counselor, a suicide hotline, or someone who might know them better. If you don't feel comfortable reaching out to the person on your own or aren't sure how to reach them, you can also alert Twitter.
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For those of you who have no idea what this is all about read below the latest picture
Where it all began back on April 2, 2012-
Poll- New Gallery Wall At The House.
Posted on April 2, 2012 by Joey C
The Mrs just put up this great wall of frames. Over/under on the time before any pictures get placed in the frames is 2 months and I've got the over. What cha got?
Not So New Gallery Wall Poll Update 4/24/12
Posted on April 25, 2012 by Joey C
For those of you who participated in the Poll Back on the 2nd of April as to whether the wall of frames someone I may or may not be related to through marriage tastefully attached to our hallway wall would be filled with pictures within two months time, I have an update-
Update: 4/25/12
How bout that gallery!
Posted on May 25, 2012 by Joey C
Not-So-Gallery Wall Update One Month In
Posted on May 2, 2012 by Joey C
It was one month ago the poll took place and most took the under two months option.
Like I Said-Easy Money On The Over
The Over Pays- Told You It Was Easy Money 🙂 June 8, 2012
Posted on June 8, 2012 by Joey C
Anyone want to go double or nothing on another two months of empty picture frames?
Easy Money Baby!
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On last night's episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey, the ladies of Jersey continued to fragment – but surprisingly so did the men! There was drunken debauchery, poison expulsion, and a fight! Oh, Joe G-to-the-iudice, why you such a mess?
Things begin with Jacqueline Laurita throwing the wayward Hatley Holmes out of the house. Except, Ashlee's hatless now – she's Lohan-esque instead (I would call her Injectibles Holmes, but people might think I'm talking about Jacqueline). Anyway, Jacs didn't seem at all sad to see her go. And poor, once-promising Albie Manzo was sentenced to drive Ashlee to the airport. In the car she whines and fussed about flying and begs the aeronautics gods to make her 21 so she can get wasted before her flight. Then she brags about the time she drank a bottle of cough syrup through a straw to ease her fear of flying. That's not completely cracktastic or anything! #rehab.
Albie compares Ashlee to Ke$ha but I think that's too generous because at least Ke$ha has some semblance of talent (maybe?) and a career of some
undeserved recognition.
Melissa Gorga pays a visit to Non-Juicy Joe where he is hard at work overseeing the development of buildings. She's wearing some sort of tight, mini dress and Joe gooses her as they tour the facilities. Joe owns three buildings on the same street – one for each of their children. Melissa doesn't get a building – she gets Joe and his poison instead. #luckygirl #sarcasm. They reminisce about a time when they had no money to buy diapers and were poor, poor while Joe was developing his buildings.


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Automatic PowerLock™ Drawbar
Available for most manual & CNC mills with standard R-8 collets or 30 or 40 taper tool holders. Automate your present "Knee-Type" milling machines by installing a Kurt PowerLock Drawbar. PowerLock Drawbars reduce tool change time and allow more cutting time in the cycle. This eliminates waste. The whole process using the Kurt automatic or mechanical PowerLock Drawbar cuts the tool change time to one-fourth the time required to change tools manually with wrenches. An added benefit is consistent torque on the drawbar rod. When you multiply the time savings for every tool change on all of your mills, it can really add up.
*Note: All machines that have Erickson Quick Change Spindle, and are converted to a Power Drawbar will have sharp threads and drive keys exposed near the spindle nose. We recommend the installation of a 194-00-SA Erickson Spindle Nose Guard. For Manufacturers not listed, contact factory.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• After being sacked twice in the Bears' first three possessions vs. Arizona, QB Jay Cutler said, "We had some protection issues last game. There might have still been some little effects from that, just trusting the guys up there." Kind of like when Reagan said the Secret Service weren't trying hard enough to protect him. [CSNChicago.com]
• Shino Tsurubuchi is back, bitches. U.S. Open officials are "confident in her abilities" as a "world-class official." Besides, Serena's out so there probably won't be any ball-down-throat threats for Tsurubuchi this year. [Associated Press]
• Unfortunate story-line wording on the N.Y. Daily News sports homepage: "L.T. shows he still has some juice." L.T. old, but L.T. strong! [NY Daily News]
• Whoever keeps trying to frame former Royal and Met Ambiorix Burgos has apparently struck again. This time, he's accused of kidnapping and forcing his ex-wife Dilenia to eat rat poison. Previous times, he was "accused in a fatal hit-and-run involving two women" and found "guilty of assaulting his girlfriend in a hotel near Shea Stadium." [cnnsi.com]
• Randy Couture dominates, forces James Toney to submit. Ball-gag not included. Presumably. [MMAFighting.com]
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reopened fishing in federal offshore waters from Caillou Bay (La.) west through Texas. Southeastern Louisiana anglers took that to mean their reprieve from the oil closure in other Gulf waters is not far off. [New Orleans Times-Picayune]
• Drew Rosenhaus is pissing the Dolphins off. [Miami Herald]
• USA's B-Team 106 - Croatia 78 [Yahoo Sports].
• England coach Fabio Capello "urged" David Beckham to consider coaching, but offered the "faint prospect of being recalled to the national team." (Psst, David, he's trying to tell you something without, you know, telling you something.) [AP]
• Baltimore Ravens WR Donte Stallworth broke his foot. He'll miss two months. [Baltimore Sun]
• Tampa Bay Bucs coach Raheem Morris doesn't like right defensive end Stylez White's practice effort. The problem? Morris: "We're going to tolerate him until we can replace him." Reality: It really doesn't look like they're trying to replace him. [SportingNews]
• Said Albert Pujols yesterday, "God's given me some amazing talent, but I also think that it's my responsibility to give back to the community of St. Louis as well as to the Dominican Republic." This came after he drew high heat for attending Glenn Beck's rally/whatever in D.C. before Saturday's game. On the diamond, he lost 14-5. [KansasCity.com]
• Hawaii vs. Japan. Two teams enter. One leaves with its shining Little League moment. The other, international shame. [LittleLeague.org]
• And, finally, from the "Hickey's Biased" coverage files …
"I am not pressing any charges or filing suit against Mr. Morgan or the Nationals organization, nor do I harbor any animosity toward him," the fan said. "I was very surprised by the suspension. Obviously, MLB is taking it very seriously. I wish him luck with the appeal." [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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A little hand holding
We've started checking out pre-school options in the area for the fall. As the girls get older they are getting so curious about everything including other children. When we get together with friends and their children of similar ages the girls play so nicely and have a great time every time. A few hours of pre school each week will be a great introduction to school for the coming year.
We learned a lot about toddler development just from visiting the different school and speaking with the administrators. We also learned that holding hands with an adult and another child is an important skill for even the youngest students primarily for navigating through the halls day to day and more importantly for fire drill execution. They did assure us that if a child doesn't want to hold hands and walk as a group in an emergency they will be carried to safety, but having the skill can't hurt.
I tried to show Talia and Jordan how to "hold hands" by clasping my own hands together. This is what I ended up with.
Next I showed Talia how to hold my hand then asked her to hold Jordan's.
They'll get the hang of it. And be skipping around the house hand in Han before we know it.
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Certificate appointing James S. Emery as a Justice of the Peace for the First District, Kansas Territory.
Author: Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
Date: November 8, 1854
Reeder made this appointment as the territorial governor. The boundaries of the First District were described in the document based on various geographic landmarks. The district included the town of Lawrence and ran along the south side of the Kansas River to the Missouri state line. Its southern boundary was the Santa Fe road.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: James Stanley Emery Collection, #339, Box 3, Folder Military papers and misc.
Item Number: 100526 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Certificates; Courts; Emery, James Stanley; Justices of the peace; Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864; Santa Fe road
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Iron and Shrews share points
Shrewsbury fought a rearguard battle to stretch their unbeaten run to seven games in a dour 0-0 draw at Scunthorpe.
The visitors failed to muster an effort on target for 80 minutes until substitute Tom Bradshaw finally tested goalkeeper Sam Slocombe from long range.
Despite dominating most of the possession, struggling Scunthorpe could not make it count, leaving them still with only one home win all season.
Their only real effort of the first half came when striker Nathan Ellington, making his full home debut on loan from Ipswich, tested keeper Chris Weale with a free-kick.
Scunthorpe threatened more often in the second half with Jimmy Ryan and substitute Andy Barcham both testing Weale and striker Karl Hawley fired just inches wide from the edge of the box.
The Iron threw men forward in the closing stages and Ryan nearly snatched them the three points with a rasping drive that whistled just wide.
Shrewsbury then came even closer to sneaking a winner in stoppage time when a brilliant effort from Jon Taylor looked destined for the top corner until the ball was tipped away at full stretch by Slocombe.
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Letter unfair to Lane
I am "appalled" at Amy Dearborn's response to the story about Professor Ann Lane. [Mail, May 15, "Lane's honor attack lame" which begins, "I was appalled...] (http://www.readthehook.com/93473/letter-lanes-honor-attack-lame).
She is entitled to her opinion about plagiarism, but she is wrong about one issue: The University Judiciary Committee does not hear sexual assault cases, and it has not done so for nearly two decades. Sexual assault cases are heard by the Sexual Assault Board, a body composed of faculty, administrators, and students.
I also believe that it is important to point out that while the committee has found several students guilty of sexual assault offenses, as far as anyone knows, no UVA students have ever been expelled from the University for rape or sexual assault.
As I believe Ann Lane was trying to say, there are rapists, harassers, and other violent assailants attending Mr. Jefferson's hallowed University without any fear of punishment because they know they can get away with it. This is the double standard to which Lane referred when she questioned how it was possible to expel someone for cheating on a test yet allow violent offenders to remain on Grounds. (If Ms. Dearborn questions this, she can contact the University herself, because results of sexual assault hearings are not protected under the federal laws that keep student records confidential.)
This is partly due to the difficulty of getting evidence that satisfies the "clear and convincing" standard of proof in acquaintance sexual assault cases. But it is also due to a persistent doubt about the veracity of survivors' testimony that pervades our culture. Members of the University community, as well-informed and well-meaning as they may be (they are trained to hear these cases), are no less influenced by the cultural and social norms that give men's words greater power than women's. So, Ann Lane was more on point in her comments about the University's judicial system than Ms. Dearborn. So much for accuracy.
Finally, I feel that is important to say that Ann Lane is a highly respected historian who has not only taught thousands of students to hone their critical thinking skills, but she has ably directed the Women's Studies Program (now Studies in Women and Gender) that has inspired many to enter into work that makes this world a better place for all people, not only women. The productive lives of alumni are far more eloquent testimony to this professor's legacy than an error in judgment made early in her academic career.
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Minor in Web and Technology Literacy (code CECSUM03)
This new minor was recommended by the Academic Senate on April 15, 2004 and approved by the President on June 14, 2004.
Minor in Web and Technology Literacy (21 units)
(Open to all majors except those seeking a B.S. Engineering Technology option in Technology and Engineering Education)
The minor in Web and Technology Literacy is designed to give students from many majors some valuable internet and web authoring skills and a broad understanding of technology. Digital devices and computers are ubiquitous in our lives, yet most people do not know how they were designed, how they work and how to use them. All CSULB baccalaureate degrees prepare students for the reading, writing, mathematical operations, speaking and critical thinking. This minor will provide the technical skills not included in non-technical degrees, but required for success in a highly technical world.
This minor will prepare students to work with a variety of technologies including computers and related technologies and the proper setup and operation of equipment along with valuable troubleshooting skills required of today's work force. Students will gain an understanding of the system design process and how our digital world works. Students will learn to acquire and evaluate information from the internet and to communicate information via the internet including ethical issues encountered when using the internet. In addition, students will learn to create a robust, useable, and accessible Web site. This minor will provide valuable technical skills for a variety of fields including graphic arts, teaching, journalism, law, business and public administration, social work and many others. The minor is conferred concurrently with the BS/BA degree.
Completion of 21 units as specified below:
a. Completion of 18 core units: CECS 101, 110, 200, 300, 410E, and ENGR 304.
b. Completion of 3 units from the following list of electives: CECS 401 E, ENGR 350, 391 or 400E.
EFFECTIVE: Fall 2004
Code: CECSUM03
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Padraig Harrington at Reno-Tahoe Open, Stableford scoring
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Add the score to the list of complicated numbers Padraig Harrington, Justin Leonard, Stewart Cink and others will be calculating at the Reno-Tahoe Open.
For the first time since the 2006 International in Castle Rock, Colo., the modified Stableford will be used in a PGA Tour event. The system designed to reward aggressive play awards 8 points for double eagle, 5 points for eagle, 2 for birdie, zero for par, and minus 1 for bogey and minus 3 for double bogey or worse.
And there's the usual math for the elevation changes and gusty mountain wind on the edge of the Sierra Nevada.
"A lot of calculations have to be done this week," said Harrington, who is making his first appearance at the 7,472-yard Montreux Golf & Country Club in a field that also includes John Daly, Mike Weir, David Duval, Rickey Barnes, Lee Janzen, Rocco Mediate, Stuart Appleby and Chris DiMarco.
"It's a little bit like changing from stroke play to match play. You've got to be a bit more aggressive," said Harrington, who has finished in the top 10 three times this year and is ranked 67th in FedEx Cup points.
"The difference between going from say a par to a birdie is two points. The difference from par to bogey is effectively one point. It's like a shot and a half. Missing birdie putts is a lot worse than missing par putts this week."
It all should make for an exciting finish Sunday on the par 5-18th that stretches to 616 yards but runs downhill, often down wind, and usually is reachable in two.
"You can come down to the last and play the hole OK, make a 5 and some guy four points behind you can pass you," Harrington said. "You never lose a four-shot lead coming down to the last but you could easily lose a four-point lead."
Jana Smoley, director of the 14-year-old tournament, said the course sets up nicely for the different scoring format especially with high risk-reward shots on the final three holes that include the 220-yard, par-3 16th and 464-yard, par-4 17th.
"We like to say black is the new red in Reno," she said. "The highest score wins."
The field includes four players who won the International using the modified Stableford -- Lee Janzen (1995), Tom Pernice (2001), Rich Beem (2002) and Rod Pampling (2004).
Like in Colorado, the ball travels anywhere 8 percent to 12 percent farther at the course halfway between Reno and Lake Tahoe than it does at sea level.
Pampling said he "had no clue" the first time he played at the International because he'd never played in the mountains before.
"It was like 'what in the world is going on here?' I was very confused ... The next year, for whatever reason something just clicked," said the Aussie who thinks the trajectory of his shots may have something to do with it.
"My ball flight is not as high as a lot of guys," he said. "Once it's up there, it's anybody's guess how far it's going to go."
Pampling said all the par 5s are reachable in two and a few par 4s can be driven.
"It's going to make it pretty exciting," he said. "I think sometimes guys try to get too aggressive trying to make eagle and instead of making your birdie you might get a par or bogey."
The Reno field includes more than a dozen golfers in the Top 100 of the FedEx Cup rankings -- Seung-Yul Noh (38), Spencer Levin (42), John Rollins (44), Troy Matteson (63), Kevin Stadler (68), Pat Perez (70), Dicky Pride (72), J.B. Holmes (74), Chris Kirk (81), Bryce Molder (84), John Merrick (90), John Mallinger (91) and JJ Henry (97).
Scott Piercy, the winner last year, won the Canadian Open in Ontario last week to qualify for the WGC's Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. But several other past champs are back in Reno: Notay Begay III, Chris Riley, Will MacKenzie, Parker McLachlin, Matt Bettencourt and Vaughn Taylor, the only two-time winner (2004-05).
The cross-country trip didn't appeal to some who will have to be back in South Carolina next week for the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. But Harrington said he never considered taking the week off.
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Making Histogram
Making a 1D or 2D histogram from a table:Any type of numerical column can be used to make a histogram. In this window, X and Y are column names from which one makes histogram. If a "Weight" column is selected, then the value of each cell is incremented by the value of "Weight" column, otherwise by 1.
TLMIN and TLMAX are the keywords usually used in an event file and are critical to making correct histograms. "Data Min" and "Data Max" are minimum and maximum values of the selected column and are dynamically calculated.
One needs to supply Min, Max, Bin Sizes for both X and Y column (for 2D histogram, X only for 1D histogram). By default, TLMin and TLMax values are used for Min and Max.
One can select a range of rows in the table for making histogram by providing a "Row Range".
Or one can use selected rows in the table window for making histogram by checking "Use selected rows" checkbox.
"Make" button does the following procedures:
1D histogram:
By selecting only the X column and/or Weight column, one can make a 1D histogram.
To retain the histogram, one must Save the file before closing it. fv will warn the user of this if the file has not been saved when closing it or exitting the program.
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SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Sylvia Quast as Regional Counsel for the Pacific Southwest. EPA's Pacific Southwest office serves Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 148 Tribes. Ms. Quast has over two decades of experience handling environmental matters in both the public and private sectors.
Prior to joining EPA, Ms. Quast served as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorneys' Office (USAO) in Sacramento, Calif. where she was responsible for managing an office of 170 employees and personally handled environmental enforcement and defense cases. She has litigated environmental enforcement actions in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Quast also served as the Chief of the USAO's Defense Litigation Unit, where she was responsible for litigation on various issues including environmental cases involving, among other laws, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. After several years in private practice, Ms. Quast started her federal career in 1994 with the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division in Washington, D.C., where she worked on cases involving a variety of environmental and natural resources issues.
Ms. Quast received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and her Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Ms. Quast's expertise has gained her numerous accolades and honors, including service on the Governing Council of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.
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About PowPOW is a curve plotting and image display interface tool written and distributed by the HEASARC at NASA/GSFC.
The current version of POW is 3.0 and it is still under active development. POW features a very flexible developer's interface and a "friendly" end user GUI interface. POW is a Tcl/Tk extension and can be called from standard C or FORTRAN main programs.
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Hey everybody, i am really going into the C and C++ programming language. I will really like to know where i can get some good tutorials on this. I want something that can get me into them. I want to get a tutorial that will give me the compltetely package on these languages. My friends tell me that it will be better if i learn Java first, and then go into the C's. I will like to hear what you people think. I will really appreciate it if anybody finds a good tutorial that they think offers me the full package to any of these languages, can give me the link to it. Thanks a lot and i am looking forward to everybodies help, as you can see i need it.
Please vote and let me know what you people think will be better, learning Java before going to the C's or going straight to the C's.


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ARG Chief necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 238 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
This is a personal logo for a husband and wife team. The logo should incorporate the letters M and V. We are looking to evoke class, elegance, modern simplicity and intelligence. We have chosen the coral color of the V and the brown M to reflect our different personalities, but if you can think of other clever ways to achieve this we would love to see them!
Will try to leave as much feedback as possible to help you with your designs.
We have an upscale, hip, urban client base and would like our logo to reflect the clean lines and modern aethetics of the best contemporary art.
Hello Talented Designers!!
We are looking for a more sophisticated version of our current logo for web, print and merchandise media. This will be a personal logo and should follow the same general design as shown in the attached file.
Please see the 2 images provided. We are interested in creative improvements to logos 1 and 2 which are crude designs for illustrative purposes only. The hummingbird image is included because if a similar shape (no clipart please!) can somehow be incorporated into the "MV" logo then this might interest us (although we are 80% sure that we want just "MV" in the logo).
If you would like to experiment with changing the order of the letters to "VM" we would like to see your ideas. Please check feedback for our final decision on the order of letters (this will depend on how good the submitted designs look).
The color of the "V" letter in the logo must be coral (code F86972). The color of the "M" should be a complimentary brown (or even black) but we have no exact color in mind.
Feel free to experiment with fonts.
We encourage you to use our design but if you have a clever idea for a logo that involves the letters M and V then we would love to see your designs!
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A new store, Chill on the Hill, which sells frozen yogurt, opened Nov. 17 at 5 E. Highland Ave. in the former Balance Fitness Center space. Co-owners Leslie Newbold, 44, and Alison Shoemaker, 45, had been college friends. Neither woman had food industry experience but Shoemaker, who has a financial/business background, wanted to open a store. She asked Newbold, a graphic designer, for help. Eventually Shoemaker asked Newbold to join her in the business.
Why open a frozen yogurt store in Chestnut Hill? "We both have children who complained about having to drive to Manayunk every time they wanted frozen yogurt. Now the kids work at the store. It's a family establishment," said Newbold. "Yogurt has many benefits such as probiotics with live and active cultures. It aids in digestion and may protect against certain cancers."
Frozen yogurt is lower in fat than ice cream. It is a fermented food that is made by adding the live and active cultures to milk. The probiotics break down the lactose in the milk, so that the lactose-intolerant can enjoy a dairy product without discomfort.
Yogurt is an excellent source of calcium, protein and vitamin D. According to the Office of Dietary Supplements, yogurt is a better source of calcium than ice cream. Yogurt can boost immunity and enhances the body's ability to recover from infection. "We buy the yogurt pre-mixed for now. Eventually we would like to make it on-site," Newbold said.
The first step is to take a 16-ounce cup and choose your yogurt. The five stainless steel Electrofreeze machines on a back wall each hold two flavors of yogurt. Flavors range from fruit (pomegranate raspberry, mango sorbet and strawberry) to cookies and cream, peanut butter, Dutch chocolate, alpine vanilla, peppermint stick, sea salt caramel pretzel and original tart (lemon vanilla). Flavors are rotated periodically, with coffee and roasted marshmallow coming soon.
Next you choose one of the 30 toppings. Selections include raspberries, coconut, strawberries, mango, peaches and pineapple. "The Reese's Pieces, Heath Bar Crunch and Chinese Mochis sweet rice cakes are really popular toppings," said Newbold. Also available are sour worms, M&M's, cookie dough, brownie bites, hot fudge and hot caramel, to name a few.
Finally there are sauces to consider. Choices include peanut butter, butterscotch, honey, marshmallow, Nutella, molasses and maple syrup. Sprinkles are also available. Your concoction then gets weighed. The price is based on the weight at 49 cents per ounce. The average price is about $4.
You have the option of eating inside, either at tables in the back of the store or at a small counter with three stools in the front window facing Highland Avenue. There is also a bench outside the store. Newbold lives with her family in Plymouth Meeting, and Shoemaker lives in Wyndmoor with her family.
Newbold and Shoemaker had originally planned to open during the summer, but they were delayed when the building's previous tenant, Balance, was delayed in moving to its new location because of a zoning problem. In fact, the Chill on the Hill owners wound up with their own zoning issues, not to mention a health department review and questions raised by neighbors. And then came Hurricane Sandy, which made the delay even longer. Chill on the Hill did respond to neighbors' concerns by installing a high-tech security system and putting a dumpster in back of the building.
The store is open seven days a week. For more information, call 267-323-2380 or visit www.chillonthehillfroyo.com.


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BOULDER — Colorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano met with the entire athletic director search committee for the first time Thursday afternoon on campus and emphasized how important hiring the right person to be the sixth full-time AD in school history is to the school.
Interim athletic director Ceal Barry, the committee chair, said DiStefano gave the committee some basic marching orders. He wants the committee to cast a wide net, be thorough, prepared and confidential throughout the process.
"We can't protect what a candidate might do, but we can certainly protect what we might do and have integrity in what we're going to do," Barry said. "It's important that we remain confidential, focused and patient if necessary.
"He stressed how important a hire this is for the university, that this is the most important that we have going on right now."
Barry said the time line for hiring a replacement for Mike Bohn, who was forced out in late-May after eight years on the job and the department deeply in debt, remains late-summer. The committee did not make a decision Thursday about whether to use a consulting firm to help with the search. Barry said CU could hire a firm at some point but it is not ready to do so yet.
It might not need to hire a firm to help identify candidates, but one could he used to help in the interview process. Barry said the committee begins its work with a large number resumes and profiles to review from potential candidates who have contacted the school about the opening either on their own or through a third party.
Barry said the CU athletic director job is attractive to many because of the reputation of the school and the location. She said the fact that CU is now in the Pac-12 Conference has enhanced the appeal of the job even further because of the prestige of the conference.
Barry characterized thosewho have contacted the school as "a wide variety" of individuals from varying backgrounds and professions. It is not a list of college athletics lifers.
Barry has been a part of multiple searches over her three decades at the school and admitted there have been times when search committees haven't played much of a role in identifying and hiring candidates. She said she believes DiStefano wants this search to be modeled after the men's basketball search three years ago when Bohn hired Tad Boyle from Northern Colorado.
Barry called that search process "non-traditional."
"To actually have candidates come in and sit down in front of the search committee and not know who you're going to hire," Barry said explaining the characterization.
At the time, some fans carped that Bohn hadn't cast a wide enough net and simply drove to Greeley to hire one of his old buddies from his days as a student at the University of Kansas. However, Barry called the search that produced Boyle as being the most successful in which she has been involved.
When that process began, Boyle was widely considered the third-best candidate behind former CU assistant Steve McClain and former Denver Nuggets assistant and Metro State head coach Mike Dunlap. Barry said Boyle earned the CU job by wowing the committee during the interview process.
From the outset, DiStefano has emphasized that he intends to hire a candidate that can build on Bohn's historic fundraising achievements with the hopes that the next AD might even double them in the coming years.
Barry said identifying candidates who can succeed in significantly raising the bar with donors isn't just about looking at what they have done elsewhere.
"I think you have to look at their record for sure, but I don't think you can base everything on their track record," Barry said. "I certainly think we'd be foolish not to look at the track record of candidates on fundraising or just revenue generation in general.
"You have to look at where was the organization prior to their arrival and what was the progression throughout their tenure? I think it's very similar to looking at a coach. What was the record when they got there and what was the record three years later, five years later, seven years later, nine years later? Yes, you have to look at that, but there is the human side of things, too. What's not in black and white? When you meet someone face to face, your general feel. We're all in the people business. And how do you feel when you meet that person? Do you feel good about it? Because at the end of the day, it's a relationship business."
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WTP CVS Restructuring
In an effort to standardized groups on dev.eclipse.org especially in light of our recent WTP Refactoring, the page is to propose and document how to restructure our CVS directories, so their access can be managed by associating directories with Unix Groups. In principle, we could leave all the directories the way they are now, and just carefully assign the Unix groups on a directory by directory bases ... but, this would be very complicated, error prone, and hard to scale in the future.
The document will start by focusing on the old wst and jst directories, as they need the most work, and other subprojects addressed later, towards the end of this proposal.
WST and JST
These initial WTP projects were created with the following sort of hierarchy -- abbreviated and idealized here to simplify explaining the principles of the restructuring.
wst components assembly features plugins server features plugins tests xml features plugins org.eclipse.wst.xml.core org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui tests examples development thirdparty xsd plugins org.eclipse.wst.xsd.core org.eclipse.wst.xsd.ui tests
The new proposed structure would look as follows
webtools.maps releng.common releng.sourceediting releng.servertools releng.webservices releng.datatools releng.jeetools releng.ejbtools releng.dali releng.jsf webtools.releng features plugins org.eclipse.wtp.releng org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tests org.eclipse.wtp.releng.webupdatesite releng.builder releng.control releng.wtpbuilder releng.wtptools working sourceediting features plugins org.eclipse.wst.xml.core org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui org.eclipse.wst.xsd.core org.eclipse.wst.xsd.ui tests examples development thirdparty servertools features plugins tests
The above examples show a few points related to this restructuring.
- The best top-level directory name should be similar to what the access group name will be: toplevel.subproject.component-subcomponent. We do not currently have components controlled by access restrictions, so I think we in webtools need only define the toplevel.subproject groups for now, hence the top level directories can be simply the subproject name, since 'webtools' is in its own cvs repository, so 'webtools' does not need to be part of the directory name. Also note that component and subcomponents can be added in the future, but best to start off with simplest, and add detail later, when needed.
- Thus, everyone in a particular Eclipse subproject can be associated with a top level webtools directory, and automatically get access to everything in that directory, without the need for more complicated administration.
- Note the previous "assembly" features and plugins will be become part of releng subproject. These are the Eclipse product plugins, and the features that define our builds. Each project will be responsible for their own features delivered to WTP (currently called the build-component features).
- Note the example in source editing where what used to be directories, xml and xsd, are no longer distinguished by cvs directories, but all the plugins flattened under sourceediting/plugins.
- Conceptually and architecturally, xml and xsd could still be called 'components' but they do not have separate access control, so it's a bit overkill (and ultimately restrictive) to define them in separate cvs directories.
- Note that the "access control" for components such as xml and xsd is (still) social in nature. Legally, and in principle, anyone in the source editing project could change the code there, but in practice, there are individuals or small teams that normally do. Others, even in the same project, usually would attach a patch to a bugzilla if they wanted one of those experts to review and commit the code.
- The map files will not have access restrictions per se (all committers will have access to 'webtools.maps' but the maps will be refactored in directories that contain map files only for that subproject.
Detailed Listings
The following are the detailed listing of directories in what would be their new structure.
- webtools.common
- webtools.servertools
- webtools.datatools
- webtools.sourceediting
- webtools.webservices
- webtools.jeetools
- webtools.ejbtools
- webtools.releng
To Do Items
- start to refactor map files now, in preparation for having in separate directories.
- change maps to use module names only, to divide up the change, so once restructuring is done, only the modules file has to be changed, and builds will keep working. Note: there are probably some, JSF or JPA files that will have to be added to modules file. (Remember, any old builds, if they had to be re-created, would have to be changed, but that's unlikely to be needed).
- start to change the build process to build project-by-project in preparation for having map files in separate directories.
- try using CVS snapshots, on local, test machines with some move scripts to test to be sure we've accounted for everything.
Reference and Notes
Committers can see our current CVS directories
Snapshots of our CVS can be obtained at


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