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KOffice Design Competition Winner
Martin Pfeiffer has won the competition for KOffice 2 GUI and functionality design. All entries are available under the GPL license at the results page. His entry was chosen from among the eighteen submissions because of its innovative, ground-breaking approach to workflow and document handling. Across the board, the entries were of a high quality and demonstrated eagerness to think outside the established office suite paradigm.
Some general trends were clear across the entries: a palette-based
In the end the jury was in complete agreement. But all contestants have reason to be proud of their work and the jury is very grateful for their entries. We especially wish to commend those people whose native language is not English for their courage. They labored under the additional handicap of an unfamiliar language and still had the courage to share their ideas with us.
ok see this in 5 years :-)
By ch at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
congrats martin!
By ac at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
I'm hugely disappointed; I sent my PDF entry to three email addresses, even went to the IRC channel for confirmation of receiving my entry, and it's still not shown on the results page. I wonder if it was ever received.
I don't know if my idea sucked or was plain and obvious, but it's a huge bummer it wasn't even in the running and I never knew it. I can't believe all this time I've been sitting here thinking they were reading it. I put a lot of work into it. I wonder what the heck happened. :-( Mine was an interface reorganization with an emphasis on a context-sensitive area to keep things familiar and free of clutter (first thing to go was that horrible toolbar).
Since it doesn't matter now, I offer it to the world: Click here to read my entry in original PDF form if you want to check it out. Let me know what you think. It's nothing revolutionary, but it's not intended to be. These crazy experimental office interfaces are exactly what the user doesn't need.
Man, what a disappointment that they never even got it. Figures. But hey, I offer mine here as GPL too--if someone wants to use it for something, go right ahead.
By Preston at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
Hmm, thought HTML tags were allowed. Just copy and paste this into your address bar:
Anyway, congratulations to the winner.
By Preston at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
8mb pdf is really huge :-) , but anyway we live in a world where you download movies >600mb very fast.
but i like the overall quality and style of your article - because i cant judge on the contents i wont say anything about it , but the presentation is top.
By chris at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
I did send a version with smaller resolution illustrations that reduced the size to about 4MB. Oh, well. :)
By Preston at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
Preston, I never received your submission -- but possibly Inge didn't manage to get it through to me. I tried to mail you an apology today, but my mail to your gmail account bounced. In any case, my apologies for the mess-up. There was nothing intentional to it! Would you your submission to figure on the page with all the submissions?
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
No apology necessary; these things happen. :) I emailed to you, Ingwa, and the main contest address, but it's likely the file was just too darned big. I never received an error, so I assumed the mail had gone through. Based on the direction taken by the winning entry, I suspect I wouldn't have won the competition regardless, but I appreciate the offer to list it on the results page. It was a fun competition to work on anyway, even if I never actually competed!
By Preston at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
Sorry to know that Mr.Preston. However you should have tried to split the article to parts. Your article is about 8Mb and I am trying to download it since morning.
Manik Chand Patnaik
By Manik Chand at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
Maybe it's because you wrote your proposal in Pages...
Just kidding. Your ideas look pretty good, and I'm sorry they never made it to the results list.
By anon at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hope it's not sour grapes, but...
I feel sorry for your work being lost in the mail, especially since it really looks quite nice. Hopefully there will be a more robust submission procedure next time...
By Martin at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
Congrats to all :)!
Even though we now have "one true winner", I do hope that some of the best ideas in other suggestions will be used as well. I espesially like Moritz Zimmermanns ideas as well as Sergiy Kudryk's suggestions (since the content is the most important thing, why not remove everything else but the content? Work in full-screen mode).
By Janne at Mon, 2006/03/06 - 6:00am
combine ideas ?
These are all great ideas - could multiple styles be implemented and then the user could choose which one they liked best - and they could switch in the middle of the document?
What I liked best were the new icons - they were a vast improvement over the current one - I also liked the simplified interfaces - not having to look through long menus and dialogs to find simple options like export to html, pdf, or save and breaking things up into logical breaks like font, image, table buttons and then you could have detachable palettes that pop up when you click on them.
All great improvements and I am impressed with their creativity and their immense effort and thoroughness and most of all licensing these as GPL.
By Benjamin Huot at Tue, 2006/03/07 - 6:00am
Flip windows for edit properties
I think that the 'flip windows for edit properties' in Airas Kirejevas proposition is very smart and innovative.
By Charles de Miramon at Wed, 2006/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Flip windows for edit properties
It has been used before in Sun's Looking Glass demo's -- but it's something that we might want to implement kde-wide. Same with a scratch area for notes.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Wed, 2006/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Flip windows for edit properties
"It has been used before in Sun's Looking Glass demo's"
Not to mention in Dashboard-widgets in OS X.
BTW, why isn't this piece of news in the fronpage of kde.org?
By Janne at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Some great ideas
I really like the ideas from:
Jeroen Vaes
One should not need a menubar anymore for doing things, and IF than it's better putting it somewhere, where it does not waste space. Also the idea with the statusbar from Jeroen is great, a zoom slider makes more sense there than a combobox in the toolbar.
By Martin Stubenschrott at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Please don't go with a palettes interface.
I teach daily at least on 5 Adobe products and constantly see that novice people, just don't know what to do with this kind of interface!
While on the subject, I'd like to referto a common problem I see in Linux interfaces, they tend to do buttons and widgets way too large, that end occupying too much screen real estate. Please understand that people with small screen sizes should also be able to use the programs comfortably. This is evident in the case of Krita's tool panels... on a 1024x768 screen the pannels leave just a very small space left for image display and editing, which should be the main purpose of the program! I see they are improving on this lately, but much more effort should be put in order to really use the least space possible for putting on screen the necessary controls (use smaller fonts, smaller thumbnails, smaller buttons) See Adobe products for this, in this dept. they've done it right.
Finally, I know this is not the best place to send this comments, but I just don't know where todo it, so please forward them to the apropriate places. thx!
By Gabriel Gazzán at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Don't go with a "floatting" palettes interface
that is.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Don't go with a "floatting" palettes interface
I think docking palettes help a lot; And I personally like them a lot. But whenever I look at Photoshop on Windows I get annoyed by the way the palettes don't move with the window and are in general a pain. I tend to hide them in the nice palette dock that I discovered through one of our submissions.
That's not to say Qt's docker windows are perfect. If you look at a commercial application like Bibblepro (which is really, really cool btw), then you can see that they have the same agony with dockers that I have.
And the size of the widgets inside the palettes is indeed a problem. There's only so much you can do with small fonts and small thumbnails. The widgets themselves tend to be bigger than necessary. But apart from creating completely new buttons, sliders (done one for Krita), text boxes and list boxes, there's not much to do. We cannot even do a fixed width layout because translations will change the width from language to language.
Anyway: the best place to send comments about Krita is the friendly krita developer mailing list (http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop).
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Don't go with a "floatting" palettes interface
thanks for the reply.
In particular, the value input widget is a huge waste of space, I love that tiny solution found by Adobe: just displaying the number, with the ability to drag right/left over it to increase/decrease the amount, or to simply click over the value to be able to change it "by hand".
By Gabriel Gazzán at Fri, 2006/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Please don't go with a palettes interface.
Yes, it would be much better if KOffice maintained the dockable panels it already has (see Krita, for example).
It's good to explore new interfaces, but one of the best things of the KOffice workspace is that it is tightly integrated, tabbed and docked (in a way much better than most Windows programs, for that matter): IMHO, it could and should evolve, but while keeping these very good UI elements.
For example, one of the things I hated most when I used the Classic Mac OS was the chaos of windows and floating palettes everywhere: Mac OS X is much better on this front - but KDE/KOffice is even better! :-)
The winner's concept of a future KOffice interface, anyway, seems to be rather compatible with a good "dockable" integrated workspace, like today's one...
By Sven at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
trying too hard
This whole contest strikes me as doing too much, going for the radical overhaul when there are plenty of small things that would make a world of difference.
1) make it fit (as in WordPerfect)
2) good integration with the address book. KWord needs the ability to integrate with the address book in a manner that lets one print an envelope by choosing an entry in the address book. Right now in OOo one has to mess with mail merge and databases, and I don't think KWord is any better. A simple way to merge in addresses in the header of a letter and an optional envelope (or just envelope) by choosing an entry in the address book, without having to mess with database fields, would be very welcome. Again, this is something WordPerfect does right.
It's not an either/or proposition of course. I hold out hope that little things like this can be included even in the event of a total UI redesign. Please don't lose sight of stuff like that.
By jason at Thu, 2006/03/09 - 6:00am
Outside the Box
I congratulate MP for his entry.
He has some good ideas, but I wanted to specifically recognize his ideas which indicate clearly that the office suite paradigm is a box. I have previously expressed my ideas for an office "suite" which would be totally outside the box and it didn't go anywhere.
Unfortunately, many users can not seem to think outside the box. IIRC, radical ideas like the Trapeze spreadsheet have not done well in the market. However that idea lives on in the WordPerfect spreadsheet functions (NOT Quattro Pro)
So, my random thought is that it probably would not be a good idea to implement his user interface ideas although what he says about the fact that the underlying structure of KOffice is very true.
What I would suggest is that we keep the traditional structure of KOffice while improving its internal integration (and convert the current apps to KParts) and then implement his ideas in a more radical way in a new application which does NOT use separate applications but rather uses a single framework to work on the document with the KParts. The framework would not be a large program since all it would do would be to load, save, and print files. It would call the KParts to do all the work.
This would require a new file format which could include all types of content -- something like HTML. It appears that XML would be quite suitable for this and would mostly use the existing OASIS file formats.
Currently, GoBe Productive has been moderately successfull in the marketplace. Although I do note that the promised Linux version has never materialized. It appears to me that we could make a better unified office "suite" framework using the KOffice apps as KParts.
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The USGS published a national fact sheet detailing water contamination issues.
So what to do?
• On an individual level, use a filter that specifically removes pharmaceuticals. The one I know of, Aquasana, can be found here. (I'm sure there are others, too.) Other negatives of bottled water aside — manufacturing, transportation, fossil fuel content, cost, solid waste, plastic-related health issues — remember that bottled water is frequently nothing more than tap water in a bottle and actually has lower regulation standards than tap water.
• Write to your senator and congressperson to demand regulations and oversight of our water supply. Information can be found at the Environmental Working Group's Take Action page. Call on pharmaceutical companies to follow responsible business practices by implementing collection and disposal programs of PPCPs, or financially supporting those programs.
• Limit the amount of drugs that you take or purchase in the first place. For your own health and the planet's, don't take anything you don't really need. Buy only as much as you're likely to use before the expiration date (don't, for example, buy aspirin in bulk to save a buck). And if you start a new medication, ask the doctor to prescribe only enough to see if the medication will work for you. That way, if the medication doesn't suit you, less is wasted.
And how to dispose of what you do end up with?
• Don't flush PPCPs, whether in the form of a liquid or a solid. The EPA has deemed flushing PPCPs in domestic sewage systems as the "least desirable way to dispose of any drug." Wastewater treatment plants and septic systems are not currently designed to treat pharmaceutical waste.
• Instead, check with your police department to see if they have a drug collection program. Some city police departments and county sherriff's offices have established disposal programs; if yours hasn't, ask them to.
• Check to see if your community household hazardous waste program collects medications. Most communities have pharmaceutical take-backs at least once a year that allow the public to bring unused drugs to a central location for disposal. These are often part of EPA-sponsored household hazardous waste collection efforts. Earth911 is my go-to place for recycling resources. Enter your ZIP code for local information. Occasionally, you'll find a pharmacy that is willing to take waste PPCPs — ask your pharmacist.
If no collection options exist, follow these federal guidelines:
• Take unused or expired prescription drugs out of their original containers (remove labels or blackout prescription and personal information).
• Mix prescription drugs with an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter, and put them in impermeable, non-descript containers (empty cans or sealable bags) to ensure the drugs are not diverted — for illicit use, or accidentally ingested by animals or children. Watch this video for one such disposal technique.
• These options should be followed for both over-the-counter and prescription meds, whether yours or your pet's!
As to your question about what pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies do with their excess or expired drugs, it's hard to say. Nursing homes and hospices, which may have even greater amounts of waste PPCPs than pharmacies, are free to flush them. Pharmacies also dispose of some waste in the trash or sewer, and coordinate with the EPA and law enforcement, or a "reverse distribution" company to dispose of hazardous waste. These reverse distribution companies return eligible, expired drugs to the manufacturers for credit. But disposal is complicated by unclear, and outdated definitions of what is considered hazardous, and conflicts between state and federal requirements. Indeed, it is not unusual for pharmacies to discard controlled substances and antibiotics through the sewer system. Products that are collected — from pharmacies, institutions or individuals — are usually incinerated. CNN Money explored this issue, focusing on Illinois-based Stericycle and New Jersey's Covanta which sell expired drugs to utility companies that incinerate the waste as part of their energy-generating process.
On to antimicrobials!
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Neck pain is a common condition, affecting millions of Americans. In many cases, x-rays do not show anything visibly wrong with the neck, suggesting that the problem is a relatively subtle one involving soft tissues. (Conversely, x-rays of people without neck pain often show arthritis; this suggests that even when positive x-ray results are found in people with neck pain, they may be unrelated.) Subtle or not in origin, the discomfort of neck pain can be severe, and lead to real disability.
The cause of soft-tissue neck pain is not known. Symptoms may follow a whiplash injury, or simply arise, apparently, from bad posture or chronic tension.
NOTE: It is unclear that any conventional medicine intervention for neck pain or whiplash speeds recovery or produces any other long term benefit.9-10,20
Although several alternative treatments for neck pain have shown promise, none possess meaningful scientific substantiation.
A 2006 review of the literature found 10 controlled studies of acupuncture for chronic neck pain.21 The pooled results suggest that acupuncture may be more effective than fake acupuncture, at least in the short term. However, overall the study quality was fairly low. Subsequently, a pilot study showed that 10 weeks of acupuncture combined with physical therapy was more effective than either acupuncture or physical therapy alone for chronic neck pain, at least over the short-term.23 Other randomized trials have found that real acupuncture (versus placebo treatment) improved the quality of life in people with chronic neck pain.26,28
In another study, 124 people with chronic or acute whiplash were randomized to receive 12 sessions of real or sham electroacupuncture (electricity is applied to the acupuncture points).27 While those receiving real electroacupunture did have less pain, the results were not clinically significant, and there were no improvements in disability or quality of life. Interestingly, in a study of 177 people with chronic neck pain, fake acupuncture proved more effective than massage.5 If acupuncture does have an effect on neck pain, it is probably modest.
Millions of Americans report that chiropractic spinal manipulation has relieved their neck pain, but there is as yet little scientific evidence supporting the use of spinal manipulation for this purpose.1,2,11-12,25 Most studies have found manipulation (with or without related therapies such as mobilization or massage) to be no more effective than other treatments for this condition.
One large study (almost 200 participants) found that a special exercise program called MedX was more effective than chiropractic spinal manipulation.3 However, a study reported in 2006 showed that a single high-velocity, low-amplitude (eg, chiropractic-style) manipulation of the neck was more effective than a single mobilization procedure in improving range of motion and pain in people with neck pain.19 And a 2010 systematic review including 17 randomized trials found mixed results for the benefits of manual therapy (including manipulation and mobilization) combined with exercise.24 According to these researchers, high-quality studies showed manual therapy plus exercise to be more effective than exercise alone in the short-term, but there was no difference over the long-term.
Osteopathic manipulation, a form of treatment often compared to chiropractic, is widely believed to help neck pain, but there is as yet no meaningful scientific evidence to support its use for this condition.14 Many people with neck pain use massage therapy for relief, but, again, scientific support is lacking, and one study found fake laser acupuncture more effective than massage for neck pain.5
A treatment called prolotherapy, as well as the herb white willow, have shown promise for back pain, and might be useful for neck pain as well.
In one study, an ambitious holistic treatment regimen for neck pain (including craniosacral osteopathy along with Rosen Bodywork and Gestalt Psychotherapy) failed to prove more effective than no treatment.16
Other herbs and supplements sometimes recommended for neck pain, either on the basis of their use for related conditions, or because of their known medical properties, include boswellia, butterbur, chondroitin, ginger, glucosamine, proteolytic enzymes, and turmeric.
Qigong is an ancient Chinese practice involving various breathing exercises and physical postures, which are thought by its practitioners to enhance general health. In one study, Qigong was no more effective than conventional physical therapy exercise techniques in the treatment of chronic, nonspecific neck pain.22 Some benefits were also found when Qigong was combined with movement exercises in a review of 27 randomized trials with 3,005 adults. Most of the trials reviewed had biases that may have affected the final results.30
Dry cupping is an ancient technique used to treat pain. The technique involves placing cups on the skin and then removing the air from the cups to create a vacuum. In a small randomized study, 50 people with chronic neck pain were randomized to dry cupping or the wait-list (no treatment).29 Those who underwent the treatment reported a decrease in their neck pain. In the absence of a placebo control (sham cupping), however, it is not possible know whether the cupping itself led to beneficial effect in this pilot study.
Biofeedback, hypnosis, and relaxation therapies may offer help for pain in general.
1. Coulter ID. The Appropriateness of Manipulation and Mobilization of the Cervical Spine. RAND: Santa Monica, Calif; 1996.
2. Gross A, Kay T, Hondras M, et al. Manual therapy for mechanical neck disorders: a systematic review. Man Ther. 2002;7:131.
3. Nelson CF, Bronfort G, Evans R, et al. The efficacy of spinal manipulation, amitriptyline and the combination of both therapies for the prophylaxis of migraine headache. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1998;21:511–519.
4. White AR, Ernst E. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for neck pain. Rheumatology (Oxford). 1999;38:143–147.
5. Irnich D, Behrens N, Molzen H, et al. Randomised trial of acupuncture compared with conventional massage and "sham" laser acupuncture for treatment of chronic neck pain. BMJ. 2001;322:1–6.
6. Sarig-Bahat H. Evidence for exercise therapy in mechanical neck disorders. Man Ther. 2003;8:10–20.
7. Zhu XM, Polus B. A controlled trial on acupuncture for chronic neck pain. Am J Chin Med. 2002;30:13–28.
8. Nabeta T, Kawakita K. Relief of chronic neck and shoulder pain by manual acupuncture to tender points-a sham-controlled randomized trial. Complement Ther Med. 2003;10:217–222.
9. Dziedzic K, Hill J, Lewis M et al. Effectiveness of manual therapy or pulsed shortwave diathermy in addition to advice and exercise for neck disorders: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in physical therapy clinics. Arthritis Rheum. 2005 Apr 7 [Epub ahead of print].
10. Verhagen A, Scholten-Peeters G, Bie R, et al. Conservative treatments for whiplash. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;1:CD003338.
11. Haneline MT. Chiropractic manipulation and acute neck pain: a review of the evidence. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2005;28:520-5.
12. Gross AR, Hoving JL, Haines TA, et al. Manipulation and Mobilisation for Mechanical Neck Disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;1:CD004249.
13. White P, Lewith G, Prescott P et al. Acupuncture versus placebo for the treatment of chronic mechanical neck pain: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:911-9.
14. Gross AR, Hoving JL, Haines TA, et al. Manipulation and Mobilisation for Mechanical Neck Disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;1:CD004249.
15. Aigner N, Fialka C, Radda C et al. Adjuvant laser acupuncture in the treatment of whiplash injuries: a prospective, randomized placebo-controlled trial. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2006;118:95-99.
16. Ventegodt S, Merrick J, Andersen NJ et al. A Combination of Gestalt Therapy, Rosen Body Work, and Cranio Sacral Therapy did not help in Chronic Whiplash-Associated Disorders (WAD) - Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Scientific World Journal. 2005;4:1055-68.
17. Witt CM, Jena S, Brinkhaus B et al. Acupuncture for patients with chronic neck pain. Pain. 2006 Jun 13 [Epub ahead of print].
18. Vas J, Perea-Milla E, Mendez C et al. Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for chronic uncomplicated neck pain: A randomised controlled study. Pain. 2006 Aug 22 [Epub ahead of print]
19. Martinez-Segura R, Fernandez-de-Las-Penas C, Ruiz-Saez M et al. Immediate effects on neck pain and active range of motion after a single cervical high-velocity low-amplitude manipulation in subjects presenting with mechanical neck pain: a randomized controlled trial. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2006;29:511-7.
20. Stewart MJ, Maher CG, Refshauge KM et al. Randomized controlled trial of exercise for chronic whiplash-associated disorders. Pain. 2006 Oct 6 [Epub ahead of print]
21. Trinh K, Graham N, Gross A, et al. Acupuncture for neck disorders. Spine. 2007;32:236-243.
22. Lansinger B, Larsson E, Persson LC, et al. Qigong and exercise therapy in patients with long-term neck pain: a prospective randomized trial. Spine. 2007;32:2415-2422.
23. Franca DL, Senna-Fernandes V, Cortez CM, et al. Tension neck syndrome treated by acupuncture combined with physiotherapy: A comparative clinical trial (pilot study). Complement Ther Med. 2008;16:268-277.
24. Miller J, Gross A, D'Sylva J, et al. Manual therapy and exercise for neck pain: a systematic review. Man Ther. 2010;15(4):334-354.
25. Martel J, Dugas C, Dubois JD, Descarreaux M. A randomised controlled trial of preventive spinal manipulation with and without a home exercise program for patients with chronic neck pain. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2011;12:41.
26. Sun MY, Hsieh CL, Cheng YY, et al. The therapeutic effects of acupuncture on patients with chronic neck myofascial pain syndrome: a single-blind randomized controlled trial. Am J Chin Med. 2010;38(5):849-859.
27. Cameron ID, Wang E, Sindhusake D. A Randomized trial comparing acupuncture and simulated acupuncture, for sub-acute and chronic whiplash. Spine. 2011 Apr 7.
28. Liang Z, Zhu X, Yang X, Fu W, Lu A. Assessment of a traditional acupuncture therapy for chronic neck pain: a pilot randomised controlled study. Complement Ther Med. 2011;19 Suppl 1:S26-32.
29. Lauche R, Cramer H, Choi KE, et al. The influence of a series of five dry cupping treatments on pain and mechanical thresholds in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain--a randomised controlled pilot study. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011;11:63.
30. Gross A, Kay TM, Paquin JP, et al. Exercises for mechanical neck disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;1:CD004250.
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories Summary
In "The Garden Party," Laura prepares to attend her mother's garden party.
Laura watches hired men erect the tent for the party. She delights in the beautiful arrangements her mother has made.
Upon hearing that their neighbor has died, Laura insists that the party be cancelled out of respect, but she changes her mind after seeing the beautiful party clothes that were prepared for her.
- At the end of the party, Laura takes a basket of leftovers to the neighbors. She's taken to see the dead body and has an epiphany in which she realizes that death is merely a peaceful sleep.
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"The Garden Party" may be Mansfield's most famous story. It is exceptional and typical at the same time. Laura, a vibrant young woman, is the central character. The story also depicts a worldly older woman (Laura's mother), a sophisticated social gathering (the party itself), some moderately dense males, and a disturbing event to which they all react differently. The action of the story, more conventionally straightforward than that of "At the Bay," is also typical of Mansfield. It leads both Laura and the reader to an epiphany—an enigmatic moment of revelation that, in this story, is comic and overwhelming at the same time.
Unlike "At the Bay," where Mansfield took readers into many minds, readers live through this story in only one. Laura appears to be about sixteen, a young woman on the edge of adulthood. Not only do readers hear her talk, they listen in on her thoughts. She is a bit afraid of the men who put up the tent for the party but enjoys hearing their good-natured banter. Readers sense her joy at being alive when she reacts ecstatically to the spots of light the sun makes on an inkpot. Mansfield brings the reader close to Laura in another typical way. Even the opening description of the day and the flowers seems to be in a character's mind, not the storyteller's. To many readers, that mind soon becomes Laura's.
The opening scenes all suggest a wealthy, normal, and happy family. Laura appears to supervise the tent, but is not allowed to decide where it should be placed. Her sisters strike sophisticated poses; one sings a gruesome song and flashes a big smile. Laura's mother protests that she will leave the arrangements to her children but organizes the party anyway, providing expensive flowers, a band, and dainty sandwiches. As usual, Mansfield suggests moments of happiness with telling details and evocative descriptions.
Then comes the news that turns Laura's day around: A man has been killed in an accident, a man who lived in a lower-class cottage almost next to their home. Laura's instinctive reaction is that the party must be stopped, since the man's family might hear the band playing. Her sisters and her mother argue with her. She does not change her mind until she sees herself in a mirror—a lovely girl with a spectacular black hat trimmed with gold daisies—and until her brother Laurie compliments her. The party goes ahead, a typically exciting, shallow Mansfield party. Guests compliment Laura, especially on her hat. When the party is over, her mother tries to make amends by filling a basket with party leftovers and sending Laura with it to the dead man's cottage.
The journey at dusk is frightening. Laura walks into a different world, a lower-class world of grieving, ill-dressed, unsophisticated people. At the dead man's house, she gives the widow her basket. She is led against her wishes to the bedroom where the corpse has been laid out. Laura, however, is not horrified, but sees the corpse as merely sleeping. She sees death as something calm and even beautiful, something far removed from her silly afternoon. "Forgive my hat," she says. She has had an epiphany. Her reply is woefully inadequate, but the reader has been shown a character's moment of understanding and growth. The reader has had an epiphany as well, though it is not the same as Laura's.
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There's now a Highlander Hybrid for every type of family, the scenic route never looked so good. Constantly having to search for a fuel pump is a thing of the past, as the 2017 Highlander Hybrid provides up to an EPA-estimated 30 mpg city.1 Every new Highlander comes standard with the Star Safety System,™ our advanced integration of safety technologies. And with seating for up to eight, Highlander Hybrid is designed to be just as versatile, fun and comfortable as you need, because some of the best memories are the ones you don't plan for.
Wondering if the Toyota Highlander Hybrid is the Toyota for you? Here are a few ways in which the 2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid 4WD-I Limited Platinum compares against the 2017 Nissan Pathfinder Platinum 4X4. To start, Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD's Fuel Economy (city) is 29 while Pathfinder Platinum 4X4's Fuel Economy (city) is 19, and the Cruising Range of the Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD is 476 while it is 399 on the Pathfinder Platinum 4X4. If safety features are a concern, consider that Halogen Headlights and Front Knee Airbags are Standard on the Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD while Not Available on the Pathfinder Platinum 4X4. Also consider Downhill Assist Control is Standard on the Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD, whereas Not Available on Pathfinder Platinum 4X4. Finally, Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum AWD has 19.3 more cubic feet of Interior Volume than Pathfinder Platinum 4X4.
These are just a few areas where the Highlander Hybrid outperforms the Pathfinder. Learn more in the chart below, or contact a dealer near you today!


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I'm currently working on a heavily AJAX-oriented ASP.NET MVC web application for a business client and using jQuery to call controller actions, retrieve JSON data and then manipulate the DOM to display the data. Several of the pages have quite a bit of dynamic HTML that has to be generated once a JSON object is returned from an MVC controller action which generally leads to a lot of custom JavaScript. After working through my first page on the project I realized that I was creating a maintenance nightmare due to the amount of JavaScript being written and decided to look into other options.
The first thing I looked for was some type of JavaScript template that would work much like GridView templates in ASP.NET. I wanted to be able to define a template in HTML and then bind a JSON object against it. That way I could easily tweak the template without having to actually touch my JavaScript code much. I found several potential template solutions (and Microsoft will be releasing a nice option with ASP.NET 4.0 as well) that were nice but many were so CSS class centric that they ended up being a turn off since I felt like I had to learn yet another coding style just to use them.
I eventually came across one by John Resig (creator of jQuery and overall JavaScript genius) that was so small that I wasn't sure it would even be viable. I mean we're talking tiny as far as code goes…so tiny that I figured it wouldn't work well for what I needed. After doing more searching and research I came across a post by Rick Strahl that mentioned John's micro template technique and had a few tweaks in it. I tried it and was instantly hooked because it gave me the power to use templates yet still embed JavaScript to perform basic presentation logic (loops, conditionals, etc.) as needed.
The Template Engine
The first thing I did was add the template function as a jQuery extension so that I could get to it using familiar jQuery syntax. This isn't required, but makes the template convenient to use. I ended up going with Rick's slightly tweaked version and I only changed how the error was reported. I'm not going to go into how to extend jQuery in this article, but here's what the parseTemplate extension function looks like:
$.fn.parseTemplate = function(data) { var str = (this).html(); var _tmplCache = {} var err = ""; try { var func = _tmplCache[str]; if (!func) { var strFunc = "var p=[],print=function(){p.push.apply(p,arguments);};" + "with(obj){p.push('" + str.replace(/[\r\t\n]/g, " ") .replace(/'(?=[^#]*#>)/g, "\t") .split("'").join("\\'") .split("\t").join("'") .replace(/<#=(.+?)#>/g, "',$1,'") .split("<#").join("');") .split("#>").join("p.push('") + "');}return p.join('');"; //alert(strFunc); func = new Function("obj", strFunc); _tmplCache[str] = func; } return func(data); } catch (e) { err = e.message; } return "< # ERROR: " + err.toString() + " # >"; }
That's all the code for the template engine. Unbelievable really. Runs on chipmunk power.
Creating a Template
Once the extension function was ready I had to create a template in my MVC view (note that this works fine in any web application, not just ASP.NET MVC) that described how the JSON data should be presented. Templates are placed inside of a script tag as shown next (I chopped out most of the template to keep it more concise):

After a little thought you may wonder why I didn't simply update the spans and divs using simple JavaScript and avoid the template completely. By using a template my coding is cut-down to two lines of JavaScript code once the JSON object is created (which you'll see in a moment) and this is only part of the template. Here's another section of it that handles looping through menu items and creating rows:
<# if (MainItems == null || MainItems.length == 0) { #>
 No items selected
 <# } else { for(var i=0; i < MainItems.length; i++) { var mmi = MainItems[i]; #>
  <#= mmi.Name #>: <#= mmi.NumberOfPeople #> ordered at $<#= mmi.PricePerPerson #> per person
 <# } } #>
Binding Data to a Template
To bind JSON data to the template I can call my jQuery extension named parseTemplate(), get back the final HTML as a string and then add that into the DOM. Here's an example of binding to the template shown above. I went ahead and left the JSON data that's being bound in so that you could see it, but jump to the bottom of LoadApprovalDiv() to see where I bind the JSON object to the template. It's only two lines of code.
function LoadApprovalDiv() { var subTotal = parseFloat($('#SubTotal').text()); var salesTaxRate = parseFloat($('#SalesTaxRate').val()) / 100; var salesTaxAmount = subTotal * salesTaxRate; var deliveryFee = parseFloat($('#DeliveryFee').val()); var adminFee = (subTotal + salesTaxAmount + deliveryFee) * .05; var total = subTotal + salesTaxAmount + deliveryFee + adminFee; var deliveryAddress = $('#Delivery_Street').val() + ' ' + $('#Delivery_City').val() + " " + $('#Delivery_StateID option:selected').text() + ' ' + $('#Delivery_Zip').val(); var creditCard = $('#Payment_CreditCardNumber').val(); var abbrCreditCard = '*' + creditCard.substring(creditCard.length - 5); var json = { 'FinalSubTotal' : subTotal.toFixed(2), 'FinalSalesTax' : salesTaxAmount.toFixed(2), 'FinalTotal' : total.toFixed(2), 'DeliveryFee' : deliveryFee.toFixed(2), 'AdminFee' : adminFee.toFixed(2), 'DeliveryName' : $('#Delivery_Name').val(), 'DeliveryAddress': deliveryAddress, 'CreditCard' : abbrCreditCard, 'DeliveryDate' : $('#Delivery_DeliveryDate').val(), 'DeliveryTime' : $('#Delivery_DeliveryTime option:selected').text(), 'MainItems' : GenerateJson('Main'), 'SideItems' : GenerateJson('Side'), 'DesertItems' : GenerateJson('Desert'), 'DrinkItems' : GenerateJson('Drink') }; var s = $('#MenuSummaryTemplate').parseTemplate(json); $('#MenuSummaryOutput').html(s); }
You can see that I call parseTemplate(), pass in the template to use and JSON object and then get back a string. I then add the string into a div with an ID of MenuSummaryOutput using jQuery. Here's a sample of what the template generates:
If you're writing a lot of custom JavaScript currently to generate DOM objects I'd highly recommend looking into this template or some of the other template solutions out there. I can't say I've tested performance but can say that I'm working with some fairly large templates which are loading in less than 1 second. I personally feel it's the way to go especially if you want to minimize code and simplify maintenance. I think Microsoft's entry into this area with ASP.NET 4.0 further validates the usefulness of client-side templates.


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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is an awesome IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.
It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.
It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
It is shipped in Fedora (>= 4). Plug-ins are continuously being added to Fedora. We aim to take care of Eclipse plugin review requests quickly. Packaging guidelines for Eclipse plugins can be found here: Packaging/EclipsePlugins.
Fedora Eclipse
Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK along with many plugins (see below). We are working on making plugin packaging easier (see RPM Stubby.
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EGit -- git support
EMF -- Eclipse Modeling Framework
EPIC -- Perl tooling
GEF -- Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (not the Visual Editor )
MoreUnit -- Helper for writing more and better unit tests.
Mylyn -- a task-focused UI for Eclipse with bugzilla and trac integration.
Photran -- Fortran support for Eclipse
PHPEclipse -- PHP tooling
QuickREx -- Regular expression tester
RPM Specfile Generator -- This plugin makes packaging other plugins really easy.
Eclipse SETools -- SELinux policy analysis tools
Shelled -- Editor for shell scripts
SLIDE -- SLIDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) developers and integrators
Subclipse -- support for working with Subversion repositories
Coming soon in rawhide:
Plug-ins We'd Like To Ship
- all of it needs DTP and WTP
- could ship a stripped-down version in the meantime
- Package of lpgjavaruntime
- Fix build with lucene 2 and submit it upstream
Fix build with java 6 - Fixed in latest build in rawhide. review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484676package built with just a few features
- tracker bug to get all dependencies in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485460
- probably needs some non-Eclipse deps
- Valgrind
- needs BIRT
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools
- OProfile
- could go in now
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools
- requested here
- what's the status of VE and recent Eclipse SDKs?
Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on Freenode . There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode. Community around the Eclipse Linux Tools project is emerging now and developers are hanging out on #eclipse-linux on Freenode.
It has automated tests . You can also run individual plug-in tests .
Running the Eclipse SDK automated tests against the installed RPMs can be done using the following steps:
- $ svn co http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools/sdktests/3.4.1/Fedora eclipse-sdk-tests
- $ cd eclipse-sdk-tests
- $ ./build.sh
- (... wait for build)
- # rpm -Uvh RPMS/{x86_64,i386,etc.}/eclipse-tests-3.4*.rpm
- $ cd <somewhere you can write>
- $ /usr/lib (or lib64) /eclipse/dropins/eclipse/runtests
- (... wait for tests to run)
- $ ls /tmp/eclipseSDKtests/results/html
- View results in browser: file:///tmp/eclipseSDKtests/results/html
We appreciate any and all reports of success or failure with the SDK tests. The fedora-devel-java-list mailing list is a fine place to send them.
We plan to ship the Eclipse SDK (eclipse SRPM) version 3.4.2 in Fedora 11. A Fedora 10 update will also follow. Other Ganymede release train projects should be updated to their Ganymede "Service Release 2" releases when they are available. We are using the following tracker bug for updating to 3.4.2:
According to Releases/11/Schedule, Fedora 11 is currently scheduled to be released on 2009-05-26. This is before the schedule release of Eclipse 3.5 which will be some time after 2009-06-12, according to http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse#release_milestones. We would like to avoid having 5 months of a gap between the release of Eclipse 3.5 and it being available in a Fedora release. As such, we plan on doing an upgrade to 3.5 some time in the Fedora 11 life cycle. See this tracker bug for getting Eclipse 3.5 ready:
There are also the following tracker bugs for various packages we ship and for upgrading them to their Galileo version:
The other plugins we ship should work with Eclipse 3.5 without problems. We will of course have to coordinate testing them all.
In order to coordinate this effort, we will be requesting a koji tag (and repo?) to use for our builds and so that others can easily consume this work and report errors.


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* '''Overlay MIP(s) at X% opacity''' - Overlays the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_intensity_projection Maximum Intensity Projection] of the image onto the current Z-slice at specified opacity.
* '''Overlay MIP(s) at X% opacity''' - Overlays the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_intensity_projection Maximum Intensity Projection] of the image onto the current Z-slice at specified opacity.

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This tab aggregated widgets for tracing and frequent operations.
Cursor Auto-snapping
If active (the default) the cursor snaps to the brightest voxel in its vicinity. To accomplish this, SNT takes the cuboid of the specified dimensions (in pixels) centered on the current cursor position and searches quickly for local maxima in that neighborhood, moving the cursor to that position. The Z-plane in which the maximum was found is automatically selected if the "Z" parameter is greater than 0. Noteworthy:
- This feature assumes the signal is brighter than the background as typically found in fluorescent images.
- If multiple maxima exist (e.g., when the signal is saturated), it snaps to their centroid.
- To streamline the computation: XYZ dimensions are constrained to even numbers and limited range.
- Snapping occurs in 2D (i.e., in the active plane) if Z=0.
- The XZ, ZY views are synchronized when 3D snapping is active (i.e., Z>0).
By default, SNT uses the A* search algorithm to automatically construct paths between two manually selected points. To manually place each node in a path, toggle this feature off.
A quick way to improve the quality and efficiency of the pathfinding is to enable "Hessian-based analysis", which filters the image for tube-like structures. Two parameters need to be chosen:
- Sigma - Controls the spatial scale of the filtering. A lower value of sigma will capture small structural details but is more sensitive to noise. A larger value of sigma will consider larger scale structure, but may be less sensitive to local shape characteristics. It is generally advisable to pick a value which reflects the average radius of the structures you are tracing.
- Maximum - The maximum pixel intensity on the Tubeness image beyond which the cost function for A* search is minimized.
These parameters may be chosen "Manually" (if you already have a quantitative understanding of the image) or "Visually" (generally more intuitive). If you choose "Visually", the dialog will prompt you to click on a representative portion of the image which has meaningful structure. Once you click there, a 9-square palette will be generated showing increasing values of sigma (from top-left to bottom-right) applied to that chunk of the image.
Experiment with moving the "Adjusted Max" slider to find a setting which captures the important structures you are interested in, while taking care to avoid over or under-saturation. In the former case, the search might consider pixels outside of the tubular structures. In the latter case, the search might take longer or not finish at all, since each pixel will carry greater cost than it should. It is usually safe to choose a value somewhere near the median. Once you have chosen this value, click on the square in the palette with the sigma that best fits your application (its border will turn green) then press "Apply". The parameters will be transferred to the interface and a Gaussian convolution will be run over the image, which may take some time depending on its size. Once it's done, path-finding will occur on the Hessian image. To display this image during tracing, go to View › Show Hessian (Tubeness) Image from the SNT dialog.
Tracing on Filtered Image
SNT's "Hessian-based analysis" option provides a convenient and easy way to pre-process your data. However, if your data requires tailored pre-processing, you may also choose to trace on a user-specified filtered image. For example, one might use the Frangi et al. 1998 method to enhance vessel-like structures.
A Single Image
To process a single image, load your image ("test.tif", say) into Fiji and select Process › Filters › Frangi Vesselness. (There is more information about this plugin on its page.) By way of example, let's say that you select two scales, from twice the x voxel separation to five times that value. We apply a Gaussian convolution at each scale. Assuming your image has isotropic resolution, the parameters would look like this.
Save the result by doing File › Save As with the same extension as the original image ("test-filtered.tif", for example). Then, with SNT open, go to the main dialog tab and look for "Tracing on Filtered Image". Click "Browse" to load the filtered image, select "SNT" for the parser and press "Load". Finally, toggle the "Trace on filtered Image" checkbox. Now the path-finding will occur on the filtered image.
To display the image, from the SNT dialog go to View › Show Filtered Image
Preprocess Multiple Images
The easiest way to preprocess multiple images is to record a macro for processing a single images, and then wrap it it in a loop to iterate over all the files in a directory. For example:
d = getDirectory("Select a directory"); files = getFileList(d); extension = ".tif"; for( i = 0; i < files.length; ++i ) { filename = files[i]; if( endsWith(filename,extension) ) { l = lengthOf(filename); el = lengthOf(extension); basename = substring(filename,0,l-el); expected_window_name = "vesselness of "+filename; output_filename = d + File.separator + basename + ".tubes.tif"; open(filename); run("Frangi Vesselness (imglib, experimental)", "number=1 minimum=0.288387 maximum=0.288387"); selectWindow(expected_window_name); saveAs("Tiff", output_filename); } }
Filters for Visibility of Paths
By default, the entire path is projected onto the current Z-slice. This is useful to see how much has been completed, and gives a sense of the overall structure of the reconstruction. However, SNT provides 3 additional visibility options for paths:
- Only selected paths (hide deselected) - Only show paths that have been manually selected in the Path Manger or with the G key (⇧ Shift+G to select multiple paths).
- Only nodes within X nearby Z-slices - Only show nodes within X number of Z-slices on either side of the current slice.
- Only paths from active channel/frame - If tracing on a multi-channel image or an image with a time axis, only show paths from the active channel/frame
Any combination of these options may be toggled at once.
Default Path ColorsPath color in SNT indicates status of the path. The default color indicators are:
Green- Finished path, selected for interaction.
Magenta- Finished path, deselected meaning it cannot be extended or edited until selected.
Cyan- Temporary path segment, unconfirmed.
Red- Temporary path segment, confirmed.
The default colors for finished paths can be changed to any color in the CMYK model. To do so, press the "Selected" or "Deselected" button under "Default Path Colors" in the SNT "Main" dialog tab.
The "Enforce default colors (ignore color tags)" checkbox, when enabled, will force all paths to conform to the default colors specified by the "Selected" and "Deselected" color buttons. Any custom color tags will be ignored until the checkbox is toggled OFF.
Selected paths can be assigned custom color tags from the Path Manager. To do so, go to Tag › Color then choose the desired swatch. Each path can be assigned any color. To change color of all paths, deselect all paths first.
This tab aggregated widgets for advanced settings.
Data Source
- Overlay MIP(s) at X% opacity - Overlays the Maximum Intensity Projection of the image onto the current Z-slice at specified opacity.
- Draw diameters in XY view - Displays the stored diameter (if any) in the XY view for all existing nodes. Each diameter is drawn as a line segment with length = diameter, which is bisected by the orthogonal tangent vector to the path at that node.


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Tom Sherak has been re-elected prexy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, his second consecutive stint in the one-year post.
At Tuesday night's board meeting, others elected were Sid Ganis, first vice prexy; James L. Brooks and Phil Robinson, veepees; Hawk Koch, re-elected as treasurer; and Annette Bening, secretary.
Ganis is a governor in the public relations branch and past Academy prez; Brooks and Robinson (who was re-elected) are in the writers branch; Koch is producers branch and Bening, actors branch.
These will be the first officer stints for Brooks and Bening.
Academy board members serve three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive terms in any one office.
The AMPAS prez heads up board meetings, is a member of all Academy committees, and sits in on as many meetings as time allows, as the panels deal with various Acad functions (the library, scholarships, film preservation, et al.).
The prexy also has a hand in Oscar-related activities, including securing the Oscarcast producer. However, on June 22, Sherak and AMPAS announced Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer would produce the 83rd annual ceremony, an unusually early unveiling of those roles. The Oscarcast will take place at the Kodak Theater on Feb. 27 and air live on ABC.
In the past, AMPAS announced the president on the morning following the board meet. However, in the age of Twitter, execs last year began sending out the release same night.
Sherak is beginning his eighth year as a governor, repping the executives branch; before his first prexy stint, he had served as treasurer.
He is a consultant for Marvel Studios and Relativity Media. Previously, he was a partner at Revolution Studios where he oversaw the release of more than 30 films including "Black Hawk Down," and "Anger Management." Before joining Revolution, Sherak was chairman of Twentieth Century Domestic Film Group and served as senior exec VP of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
He had previously held various positions at Fox, including exec veep of Twentieth Century Fox and president of domestic distribution and marketing. He began his career in the biz at Par in 1970.


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Toshiba, not surprisingly, isn't commenting one way or the other on the scale of the loss its HD DVD business was this week alleged by Japanese newspaper Nikkei to be facing.
The paper also claimed that Toshiba's HD DVD operation would have lost ¥50bn had the consumer electronics giant not pulled the plug on the format. If Nikkei's numbers are correct - and we won't find out until Toshiba reports its full-year financial figures next month - it's clear that Toshiba's bosses believed to better to take a big loss now than continue losing money on the format.
Toshiba is expected to post a full-year profit of ¥250bn, Nikkei said, below the giant's own forecast of ¥290bn. Toshiba's current fiscal year ends on 31 March.
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One week in Eastern Tasmania
Tasmania differs from the Australian mainland both in terms of environment and culture. The weather is much more temperate, and in winter can plunge to freezing temperatures. The people are more laid back than mainland Australians, particularly more than those based in Sydney or Melbourne.
As with all Australians in rural areas, everyone is almost universally friendly and you will often be met by a "g'day" while wandering around. A smile and a "hello" back is the best response.
Although not as arduous of a trip as one in the Outback, a good map is required before starting the journey if you are self driving. If you rent a car, then you are likely to be able to borrow a decent one.
Although not having accommodation booked in advance gives flexibility, contact numbers for the Australian Youth Hostel Association [1] can be useful, if you are a member of Hostelling International. Additionally, most tourist information centers can help book accommodation for you as you travel. It is also possible to stay over night in pubs, although they tend to be slightly more expensive than normal budget accommodation.
Finally, when walking to certain areas some things are essential: decent walking shoes, at least half of a liter of water per person (as you will perspire a lot), factor 30 sunscreen and mosquito repellent.
Get in[edit]
This itinerary is intended to start in Hobart, the state capital of Tasmania.
By plane[edit]
The main Australian airlines, QANTAS [2], JetStar [3], Tigerair [4] and Virgin Australia [5] all fly directly to Hobart from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Avalon.
By ferry[edit]
A car and passenger ferry service runs from Melbourne, arriving at Devonport. The service, known as the Spirit of Tasmania [6].
On arrival[edit]
Cheap car hire deals can normally be found pretty easily either on the Internet (before departure) or on arrival at Hobart. It is recommended that self-drive is taken for this itinerary.
Day one - Hobart: Depending on what time you arrive in Hobart, your activities can be limited to exploring the town center and its museums, climbing to the top of Mount Wellington that overlooks Tasmania or exploring the sea port.
Other activities include the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory [7] just outside Hobart and the Cascade Brewery [8] to watch either chocolate or beer being created (with free tastings of either).
Day two - Launceston: Drive to Launceston, stopping off on the way at the Lake [9] for a bit of fishing. While in Launceston, the nearby (about ten minutes drive) Cataract Gorge [10]offers some spectacular views of the Tamar River.
Day three - winery tour: For those who are fond of wine, the northeastern corner of Tasmania has a number of wineries such as the commercially renowned Bay of Fires winery [11], and smaller boutique vineyards such as Stoney Rise [12]. It is recommended that an organized wine tour [13] is done to ensure that everyone gets an equal tasting!
Day four - waterfall watching: Around the north-eastern tip of Tasmania there are a number of waterfalls to explore. These vary in size and in the volume of water cascading. During wetter times, the waterfalls can be at the most impressive BUT access to them may be restricted due to the danger of slippage. The main waterfalls that attract the most visitors are Lilydale Falls, Ralph Falls and St Columba Falls. Freely available maps of the north-eastern parts of Tasmania have these and all other waterfalls clearly identified.
Day five and six - Bicheno and the Eastern coast: Having rounded the top of north-eastern Tasmania, the entire eastern coast offers beautiful white beaches and crystal blue seas on which to relax. Depending on the time of year, the water can be very cold for swimming and can therefore be quite deceptive, as the beaches look tropical. Due to Tasmania's small population and it's isolated position, it is highly likely that you could have a beach to yourself or be sharing it with very few other people. The main beach areas are the Bay of Fires, Binalong Bay and Wineglass Bay (accessible only by footpath and not suitable for the less able).
Also down the eastern coast, there is the small town of Bicheno. The beach here is surrounded by rocky outcrops and gorse-like bushes. However, the real attraction is just after sundown as the bushes contain nests of fairy penguins and it is at this time that they return from a day in the sea. Guided tours are available to view these (at around $18 per person) although with a flash light and a bit of patience it is possible to find them for yourself. (Be kind to them and cover your torch with a red filter and DON'T use flash photography). The freely available local map has icons identifying the main areas where the penguins congregate.
Day seven - Port Arthur penal settlement: This penal settlement was in use until the late 1800s when it was ravaged by fire. It offers an interesting look at the history of the island, specifically around the Hobart area, and gives an idea as to what it was like to live there. A lot of the buildings have been restored to show them as they would have looked while occupied, while others have been left to the ravages of time.
Near Port Arthur is a Tasmanian Devil sanctuary. The population of this rare animal is declining due to a facial tumor that is infecting (and ultimately killing) them. This sanctuary provides a safe environment for them, while working other groups to discover the cause of the tumor, and hopefully a treatment for it, before the species is wiped out. It is recommended that a visit is paid to help this good cause.
End of journey - Return to Hobart: After exploring Port Arthur, the journey to Hobart takes around 45 minutes.
Stay safe[edit]
Tasmania has few of the dangerous creatures normally associated with Australia, because the temperature is too cold for them. Nevertheless, caution must be exercised on self-drive excursions that cross through the countryside, especially at night. The amount of roadkill that can be found on the roads is evidence to how easy it is to hit them. Although a wombat may look cuddly, they can do a lot of damage to the average car!
As always, the application of common sense can prevent other dangerous situations from occurring. Don't wander down deserted streets at night if you're by yourself, etc. Australia maintains reciprocal arrangements with most countries regarding medical treatment, but if you wander off the beaten track then it may be a bit of a challenge getting to a hospital for treatment. An additional risk is that mobile (cellular) phone coverage in Tasmania can be very patchy.
Get out[edit]
If time permits, spending time on the western side of Tasmania is very rewarding as it's much more rural than the eastern side. It can also be argued that a trip to Tasmania is incomplete without a trip up the Cradle Mountain. Strong walking shoes are recommended.


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Betty White, Emmy award-winning TV star and Morris Animal Foundation trustee, will celebrate animal health in Williamsburg, Va., on Saturday, October 16. White will make a personal appearance at Binns of Williamsburg from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to sign a collection of European handcrafted ornaments, called The Pet Set, created by Joy To The World Collectibles. The signing will be followed by a black-tie fundraiser for Morris Animal Foundation at the Virginia Ballroom, Colonial Williamsburg Lodge starting at 7:00 p.m.
Betty will take a break from 5-7PM before the BLACK TIE GALA featuring BETTY WHITE in The Virginia Room of Colonial Williamsburg's Williamsburg Lodge at 7:00 pm.
She's gone from "golden" to "hotter than ever" and at 7PM, Betty White will strut her stuff live at the black tie gala to raise money for the Morris Animal Foundation.
A Silent Auction will feature items from celebrities and designers from all over the country. Elton John has sent in one of his gold albums to be auctioned off. All auction proceeds to benefit the Morris Animal Foundation.
The FOOD NETWORK's ACE OF CAKES TELEVISION SHOW WILL BE FILMING! The gang from the Food Network's Ace of Cakes is donating an amazing cake to the event for GALA participants PLUS they will be filming the event for an upcoming Ace of Cakes show!!!
Enjoy dancing to the 17 piece Andrew Thielen Big Band (www.bigbandonline.com)
Reserve your seat now. Tickets are selling quickly. Limited space available at $195 a person.
We promise this will be an event you will never forget! Formal black tie attire.
For tickets, call Binns at 757-229-3391 9:30AM – 6PM daily (12PM-5PM Sundays)
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