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Whether Klingon or Esperanto or C, articial languages exert a powerful hold over the human imagination.
Some revolutions are easier to recruit soldiers for than others. For more than a hundred years, the Esperanto movement has been trying to attract disciples with a vision of a world unencumbered by language barriers - a happier, more peaceful world. Esperanto is in fact the world's leading artificial language, thanks to its simplicity: only 16 rules of grammar, no irregular verbs, every word spelled as it's pronounced. The vocabulary is easy to pick up, especially if you speak one of the European languages from which it's drawn.
In a lemon-yellow public school classroom on New York's Lower East Side, Thomas Eccardt erases the math problems on the board, nervously shuffies some papers, and surveys his class: four students, three of them over 50 years old. Eccardt feels the need to give them a sense of where Esperanto stands in America today: "It's not a tremendously big language. You probably don't know any Esperantists. So because it's small, it's sort of like a group of friends." Estimates of the number of Esperanto speakers worldwide range wildly, from 50,000 to 10 million, but 1 million seems like a reasonable guess - about as many as speak Estonian. Eccardt hands out photocopied lesson plans, but before the class can study sample sentences like "Esperanto estas internacia lingvo," he gives them a bit of history.
Esperanto was first proposed in 1887, by a Polish ophthalmologist, L. L. Zamenhof. Growing up in polyglot Warsaw in Russian Poland, he saw the need for a worldwide common tongue. As a young man, he published his language under the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto," a word meaning "one who hopes" in his new invention. The language grew quickly; when Leo Tolstoy praised it, however, the czar suspected it was actually a seditionist plot. This accusation would eventually have to be fought off in many countries: Hitler despised Esperanto - not least because Zamenhof was Jewish - and made special efforts to quash it. The language has always had more appeal in Europe, where dozens of dialects live in close quarters. In America, its most widespread application has been in wargames; when rehearsing European battles, the US Army used to designate Esperanto as the official language of the Aggressor Force.
Around the world, there are roughly 5,000 different human languages spoken today. For some people, that's not enough: they keep inventing more. These linguistically inclined inventors belong to a grand tradition. Beginning with Lingua Ignota, concocted by the abbess Hildegard in the 12th century, people have created more than 700 artificial, or planned, languages. A traditional goal for such a project is to counteract the eternal excess of languages through creation of a modern lingua franca, as Latin was through medieval times, as French once was in diplomatic circles, and as Esperanto aspires to be. In the 19th century, the desire for an international tongue was so strong that hundreds of thousands learned Volapük, which was essentially a mishmash of German. Then, when Esperanto was introduced in 1887, almost all of the Volapükists switched over.
One of the earliest motivations for creating a language, however, was a quixotic one: to re-create humanity's ur-speech, the language used before an angry God destroyed the Tower of Babel, saying, "Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Ramón Llull (1232-1316) strove for such a perfect language, convinced that it would be the perfect tool for Christian missionaries. Consisting of four figures and nine letters (b through k, excepting j), his Ars magna proved to be more of a device for generating theological statements than a spoken dialect. ("bk," for example, means "goodness is glorious.") Llull reportedly died while vainly trying to convert Saracen infidels with his new invention.
Since then, some have proposed returning to Latin, perhaps in a streamlined version: Latino sine Flexione, later known as Interlingua, eliminates all of the endings from conjugations and declensions. The Vatican, in fact, keeps working hard to come up with Latin terms for modern objects. A recent encyclical declared a videocassette to be "sonorarum visualiumque taeniarum cistellulae."
In the process of all this communication creation, it's becoming more evident than ever that languages are not just mutually agreed upon rituals of vocalization. Almost without exception, they become emblems of ethnic or national identity, of personal identity, of technological prowess. And more than mere pride can be at stake: the Japanese have good reason to be concerned that English has become the de facto standard of the Internet. Language can be a symbol of profits, and of power - after all, English became a major language in India not because the Sikhs wanted to read Wordsworth's poetry, but through the military muscle of the British Empire. And those larger linguistic struggles are fought on a smaller scale every day, sometimes over stakes no larger than an unfettered joy in creating new words or in establishing a community whose language can't be understood by others. (When a skateboarder refers to a "Stalefish McTwist over the Canyon," she knows that her parents will have no idea what she means.)
Artificial languages actually exaggerate the battles over what words mean and why; because their sounds have in an overt way been chosen, the whole concept of phonemes having assigned meanings gets thrown up in the air. These languages are also often roiled by civil wars that go far beyond the debates possible with a "living" language. Esperanto was plagued for decades by apostates touting a modified version of the language called Ido. C seems to have more fiavors than Baskin-Robbins. Because there's no entrenched culture for most artificial languages, everyone has an idea of how to improve them (and a better chance than, say, the World English crowd, who would spell conceived as "konseevd").
Authors, of course, have occasionally invented their own artificial languages to round out a fictional world. Anthony Burgess cooked up Nadsat, the language of the yobbos in A Clockwork Orange, by crossing English and Russian with bits of Malay, Dutch, Gypsy, French, and Cockney; Burgess also formulated the vocabulary of grunts for the movie Quest for Fire. For her Native Tongue trilogy, sci-fi author and linguistics professor Suzette Haden Elgin created a woman's language, Láadan, that reversed the gender biases of English. For The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien employed half a dozen major languages of his own invention: the tongues of the Dwarves and the Ents appear only in small snatches, but the philology of the Elves is sufficiently highly developed for Tolkien to have written epic poems and songs in Elvish: "A Elbereth Gilthoniel/ silivren penna míriel/ o menel aglar elenath!" Tolkien even went to the trouble of inventing an old language, Westron, and then hypothesizing how it would have evolved in parallel to the English language.
Sometimes it seems people have come up with artificial languages just to entertain themselves. In Uni, all the singular nouns have exactly three letters. Monling uses one-syllable words exclusively (rendering "the language easiest to learn and use is obviously the best" as "ling 't top pai ken ad ploi, il klar top bon"). Gibson Code employs numbers rather than letters: nouns begin with 1, 2, or 3; even numbers are plural, odd singular.
One of the oddest artificial languages ever was Solrésol, invented by François Soudre in 1827. The Frenchman reasoned that since music was the universal language, the seven notes of the musical scale were the perfect building blocks for an international vocabulary. Single notes were reserved for simple words (do for "no," re for "and"), double notes for pronouns, triple notes for everyday words (do-re-la for "year"), and longer combinations for more uncommon terms. In addition, opposites were expressed whenever possible by reversing the order of the notes: do-mi-sol for "God" means that "Satan" must be sol-mi-do. Soudre tinkered with the language for 45 years, but was never able to overcome the fundamental fiaw: people would rather speak a conversation than whistle it.
Long before that, in the 17th century, the quest for a perfect language had taken on a scientific fiavor: amateur linguists were looking for the ideal medium to bring the march of progress to the common man and impose order on the unruly European languages. Francis Bacon suggested that ideas could be classified with an alphabet that represented fundamental notions. In 1629, Descartes proposed a similar scheme, based on a numerical index. Soon, classificational languages were springing up like erudite crabgrass. (They're also called a priori philosophical languages: a priori meaning that they have no borrowed vocabulary, philosophical meaning that each letter helps determine the denotation of the word.) Dozens were invented over the next two centuries; Sotos Ochado proposed a fairly typical one in 1855. In his scheme, words beginning with a refer to inorganic objects, b the liberal arts, c mechanical sciences, d politics, and so on. Pity the high school chemistry class where hydrogen is ababe, oxygen is ababa, and nitrogen is ababi.In 1960, Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal took matters a step further. He designed Lincos, a language with a very specific application: communicating with aliens in other galaxies. The same year, James Cooke Brown proposed a more earthbound project in Scientific American - Loglan, short for logical language. Loglan was designed to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language infiuences the thoughts of the speaker, rather than being an empty vessel for expression. With a grammatical structure based on the rules of predicate logic, Loglan would presumably train a speaker to think more clearly.
Artificial languages are more than codes. Although the distinction can be blurry, a code typically is an attempt to disguise another language: pig Latin and Morse code rely on a knowledge of English for a message to be understood. Computer programs are referred to as "code" with good reason, but in some ways, computer languages fulfill one of the oldest goals of language designers: a universal tongue whose perfection recalls the days before Babel. Fortran and Pascal have massively stunted vocabularies, but their grammar brooks no ambiguity. They aim not just to be comprehensible to programmers of many countries, but to find an even deeper connection. The languages presume that their grammar refiects both the way human beings think and the way machines think.
Moreover, like some other artificial languages, computer languages assume that no matter what your native tongue, a deeper pattern of thought lies in your linguistic pathways. When we program computers, we may be teaching the hardware to obey our commands - but as anyone who has ever debugged code for days at a time can tell you, the computer also teaches us to think like a machine.
The regularity and simplicity of many artificial languages make them ideal for artificial intelligence research. One language often put forward for this purpose is Lojban, an offshoot of Loglan. Lojban uses the same grammar as Loglan but a completely separate vocabulary; the schism came in 1986 when James Cooke Brown, the creator of Loglan, tried to assert his copyright. Nobody's entirely sure whether a language is in fact copyrightable, but artificial language enthusiasts tend not to have lots of cash to press the issue in court.
Loglan has had long periods of inactivity and has been crimped by its designer's tendency toward constant revision and improvement. So, explains Bob LeChevalier, president of the Logical Language Group, when the group released a guide to Lojban grammar this year, they promised not to fiddle with it for five years. They didn't want people to be chary of learning a language that might be obsolete by the time they were done.
LeChevalier is mostly concerned with getting enough people speaking the language that they can teach others and promulgate it - then, he hopes, serious scientific research will follow. He doesn't even want to speculate on what form a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis might take, because it's still decades away.
Most Lojbanists are scientifically minded, as some initiates find when they try to translate song lyrics. "Lojban can handle metaphor, "LeChevalier says, "but there's kind of a mind-set in the community that doesn't like figurativeness."
A Lojban handbook warns: "Lojban has none of the standard parts of speech. Lojban's 'predicate words' can serve as the equivalent of a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Lojban also supports a 'tense' logic that allows extreme specificity of time and space and relationships, even those implied by time travel." Unsurprisingly, speakers have not fiocked to this language; right now, there are only about 250, of whom 10 or so are fiuent. LeChevalier wistfully recalls an epic Lojban conversation that took place last year: it lasted two hours.
The fastest-growing artificial language today doesn't even attempt to take on the whole of human experience; in fact, its vocabulary has a decided bent toward painsticks and blood pies. The Klingons, Star Trek's interstellar samurai, have a guttural language of their very own, and while it's best suited for barking phrases like "Your face looks like a collapsed star!" (Dejpu'bogh Hov rur qablIj!), devotees have found it adaptable enough to translate songs from Fiddler on the Roof. Due to the magic of the Universal Translator, the original Trek series provided no clues as to what the Klingon language might sound like, beyond the characters' names (Kang, Koloth, Kor). So when a few lines of Klingon dialog were needed for the first Star Trek movie, in 1979, James Doohan (who plays engineer Scott) leapt at the chance. He spat a few lines of aggressive nonsense into a tape recorder and told an actor playing a Klingon to go memorize it. Five years later, on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the producers wanted to be able to have large chunks of Klingon dialog. So they recruited Marc Okrand, a linguist working at the National Captioning Institute, who had come up with a few lines of Vulcan as a favor to friends working on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He remembers of that experience, "I drove away from the studio thinking, 'My God, I just taught Mr. Spock how to speak Vulcan.'"
Extrapolating from Doohan's sounds, Okrand invented a vocabulary and grammar and translated every line of dialog spoken by a Klingon in Star Trek III. He then stayed on the set to correct mistakes - and to incorporate new coinages. Okrand reasoned that since the Klingons were warriors rather than philosophers, their language would emphasize action, and therefore verbs. Klingon has three official parts of speech: nouns, verbs, and everything else. Adjectives don't exist per se: there is no word meaning simply "greedy," although there is a verb "to be greedy" (qur). And most adverbs are agglutinative; that is, limitless strings of suffixes can be attached to a verb to modify its meaning. Some of the suffixes are familiar, such as the ones that can be translated as "perfectly" or "seemingly." Some are not, such as the suffix that indicates the sentence's subject is changing something in the world, or the suffix that lets you know the sentence is a question answerable with "yes" or "no."
Okrand made the language as alien as possible. Sentence structure is object-verb-subject, a virtually nonexistent combination in human linguistics. It can be found in about six out of the tens of thousands of languages that humankind has spoken through the ages. The word order for "Lieutenant Worf killed the Romulan with his phaser" in Klingon is "phaser his using while Romulan kill Worf Lieutenant."
Having devised a language that resembles a Rube Goldberg invention, Okrand convinced Pocket Books to publish The Klingon Dictionary in 1985. Although he had gone to the trouble of constructing a complete syntax, Okrand expected the book to sell only as a novelty item: people would buy a copy for their coffee tables, teach themselves how to shout "Surrender or die!" at other cars on the freeway, and then forget about it. Eleven years later, The Klingon Dictionary has sold more than 250,000 copies. For the vast majority of Trekkers who have bought it, the book remains the joke that Okrand anticipated. But a small coterie of Klingonites have tackled the baroque syntactic structure and learned to pronounce sounds like "ng" at the beginning of a word. While these kamikaze linguists tend to be Trek fans, they overlap only minimally with the crowd who put on costumes and fake foreheads for sci-fi conventions. The Klingon Language Institute, a scholarly organization in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, that publishes the journal HolQeD and the fiction and poetry magazine jatmey, has roughly 1,000 members.
"All the fiuent Klingon speakers can comfortably go out to dinner together," Lawrence Schoen, director of the Klingon Language Institute, cheerfully admits. There are about a dozen of them; one is d'Armond Speers, a linguistics PhD candidate at Georgetown University and the father of a 2-year-old son he's bringing up to be bilingual in English and Klingon. Speers' wife speaks only English, while Speers speaks only Klingon - except when he's reading favorite bedtime stories. Dr. Seuss is not yet available in a Klingon translation. The young boy isn't speaking either language yet.
The few people who can jabber in Klingon effortlessly have all surpassed Marc Okrand, who isn't fiuent in his own invention. And they're light-years beyond the actors and scriptwriters faking their way through the various Star Trek TV series. The Klingon on Deep Space Nine is usually baby talk. "Sometimes they get it right," says Okrand diplomatically.
Robert O'Reilly, who plays the Klingon leader Gowron in a recurring role, says that the tyro Klingon actors sometimes ask him for pronunciation advice just before the cameras start rolling. "I say, 'Just do it with belief. Go all the way!'" In Klingon, "belief" often translates as saliva: when Gowron and Michael Dorn's Worf have a confrontation, makeup artists have to wipe the spittle off them between takes. One guide for speakers of Klingon advises them to begin by purchasing a large supply of napkins.
Klingon is all the more satisfying for its visceral passion. Memorizing tables of prenomial prefixes is less dry when the result is command of a bloody vocabulary. What could be more fun than translating the Sesame Street theme song into Klingon and discovering that "Sunny day, chasing the clouds away" comes back as "Day of the daytime star, the clouds are filled with dread and forced to fiee"?
Paramount once served the Klingon Language Institute with a cease-and desist letter demanding that they stop using the word Klingon in their literature, before relenting and granting KLI a license to use the copyrighted language. This year, KLI published a Klingon translation of Hamlet, following the lead of a throwaway line in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, "You cannot appreciate Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon." KLI's Bible Translation Project is also in full swing - using only translators who can read the original Hebrew and Greek. Paramount is also seeking to profit from the language's growing popularity. In addition to the instructional tapes Conversational Klingon and Power Klingon, last spring saw the publication of Okrand's book of proverbs The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide and the three-volume CD-ROM, Star Trek Klingon: The Ultimate Interactive Adventure, featuring both a language lab for drilling vocabulary and an interactive adventure that requires some fiuency in Klingon to successfully navigate.
While Speers has been told more than once that he's going to permanently screw up his child, he's studied enough developmental linguistics to believe that bilingual children learn to use each language in the appropriate situation and have greater academic success later in life. What he doesn't know is whether Klingon will prove sufficiently expressive for his son's needs as he grows older. While 10,000 words are typically needed for an adult vocabulary in any language, Klingon has only 2,000: some identify less-useful terms like "Tribbles," and one word serves for the colors green, blue, and yellow.
Americans often mock the very idea of designing a global language - it reeks of the antiquated idealism of the League of Nations. Why waste time learning a synthetic vocabulary if English is a de facto standard around the world? But although English is spoken by 10 percent of the world's population, global saturation is probably not in the cards - too many countries are on guard against English and what it represents. Every national tongue, if proposed as a lingua franca, has the faint stench of imperialism. The European Union has sidestepped this question by letting every member country designate its native tongue as another official language of Europe, which only emphasizes the need for a neutral solution. If there is ever to be a true international vernacular, it will probably have to be an artificial language. And though Esperanto seems to be on the wane, it still stands as the embodiment of that possibility.
If Esperanto is nothing else, it is widespread: speakers live in more than a hundred nations. It tends to be more popular in countries where the native tongue isn't an international standard: Brazil, Hungary, Bulgaria. (In Eastern Europe, there's even a slew of Esperanto rock bands.) It's also widespread among members of the Baha'i faith; the prophet Baha'u'llah foretold that the world would be united by one language. And oddly enough, Esperanto has a following in China. In 1991, Chinese state television ran a 40-part series on Esperanto; the idea seems to have been that it would not automatically lead to bourgeois decadence the way that learning English would.
Esperanto proponents still tend to speak (and write) about the language in terms that suggest its worldwide triumph is just around the corner, if only people would take the time to investigate. "Esperanto sounds great!" bubbles one pamphlet. "It has a melodious, euphonious sound that is pleasant to speak and hear." Not everyone shares such enthusiasm for the language. The Interlingua Institute has gone so far as to issue screeds attacking Esperanto and detailing its fiaws: its insistence on ending nouns with o mutilates place names, with USA becoming "Usono"; the rule that all adjectives end in a has annoying exceptions like "iu" (some) and "tiu" (this); the inclusion of six new letters (–c, –g, –h, –j, –s, û) means that many printing presses and computers can't handle Esperanto text. "It is pathetic to see people wasting their time and their lives on such dreck," concludes essayist Frank Esterhill.
Of course, the wagon that Esterhill's hitched his horse to is Interlingua, which optimistically might have 100 speakers, and is most practical for describing plant diseases. Who's wasting time is open for debate. But any artificial language will always be beset by spitballs and suggested modifications: the planet Earth is too big to establish voluntary standards with any ease. For Esperanto, or Interlingua, or even Elvish, to become internationally accepted, somebody would have to blanket the hemispheres with it. The United Nations doesn't have enough muscle for the job, but Nike and Coca-Cola might.
Even if an artificial language somehow became the global standard, it would have the problem of any living language: its speakers would play with it and invent new terms. Soon enough, there would be local jargon, and then dialects; eventually, it would splinter into variants as different as Oxford English and Jamaican patois, leading once again to communication breakdown. Any language is like a melting ice cube: dictionaries and grammar mavens may try to keep it frozen, but if it gets used, it will keep changing and liquefying. So far, only computer languages remain impervious to slang. Their evolutions and revisions are neatly numbered and documented in manuals.
As any software developer knows, however, the best-conceived, most elegant platform doesn't always survive. The Klingon language, for all its tongue-twisting pronunciations, will probably thrive as long as the Star Trek series stay in reruns, outliving any number of more easily digested artificial dialects. True believers looking to bolster their faith in the prospects for a world language might look to the unlikely source of Friedrich Nietzsche. In 1876, he predicted that there would one day be an international language, "as certainly as there will someday be travel by air."


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- For rune lore, see rune magic.
The rune system is the resource system used by death knights, much as mana, energy, or rage are used by other classes or focus used by hunters' pets. The death knight's rune system consists of two very distinct but complementary resources: runes and runic power. Some of the death knight's spells and abilities require spending runes; others require his or her having generated through battle a certain level of runic power. Every death knight who has not recently been in combat enters a fresh combat situation possessing six expendable runes but no runic power. Only by spending some of these runes (each of which regenerates after ten seconds) on battle spells may the death knight thereby acquire and incrementally build up for a short time runic power, which in turn he or she may draw on for other spells. The death knight's rune system thus combines characteristics of those classes relying for combat powers on depleting-but-renewable resources — such as mana (mages, warlocks) and energy (rogues) — with those classes relying for combat powers on resources generated solely through battle itself, such as rage (warriors).
The death knight has access to three different types of runes: Blood, Frost, and Unholy.
These three types of runes are also the names of the death knight's three respective talent trees.
Before casting any spells, the death knight has three pairs, totaling six runes. Different abilities and spells consume different types and amounts of runes and, when used, will place the corresponding rune on a 10 second cooldown (9 seconds if in Unholy Presence, having Improved Unholy Presence). Some abilities are able to refresh certain runes; Empower Rune Weapon will refresh all of them.
There is also a fourth type of rune, which acts as any of the main rune types, the Death Rune.
The death rune can be created by using the skill Blood Tap or through the following talent upgrades:
- Within the Blood tree, the talent Death Rune Mastery will give you a 33-100% chance to convert a Frost and Unholy Rune into a Death Rune after landing a hit with Death Stike or Obliterate. When procced, this will give you two Death Runes.
- The Frost tree talent Blood of the North gives you a 30-100% chance after hitting with Blood Strike or Pestilence that a Blood Rune will become a Death Rune when it activates.
- The Unholy tree talent Reaping provides a 33-100% chance to convert a Blood Rune into a Death Rune after hitting with Blood Strike or Blood Boil.
- Ten seconds may sound like a lot, but it actually isn't. If you only use abilities that require only 1 rune, you will have approx. 2 seconds left when using up all runes, sometimes even less if you've acquired death runes, and after that you also have a good amount of runic power accumulated.
- When a death rune temporarily replaces your frost, blood, or unholy runes it will be used as a last resort if no main rune is available for the ability you want to use. Death runes are not used in the order you receive them; death runes which replace blood runes will be used before death runes which replace frost or unholy runes, and death runes which replace unholy runes will be used before death runes which replace frost runes.
Runic power
Runic power is an extra resource that builds up as the death knight uses his or her abilities, displayed as an empty bar that fills up with a light sky blue color similar to rage under the death knight's health bar. Generally, offensive single rune abilities generate 10 runic power and offensive multi-rune abilities generate 15 runic power. Additionally, Empower Rune Weapon and Horn of Winter generate runic power without costing runes. Talents can improve the runic power generation of some abilities and allow runic power to be generated in other ways. Death knights start with maximum 100 runic power but that can be increased up to 130 through Runic Power Mastery. As with rage, runic power gradually diminishes when not in combat.
Rune abilities by cost
Single rune abilities
Multi-rune abilities
|Frost + Unholy
|Blood + Frost + Unholy
Cataclysm changes
Cost changes to existing abilities:
- Death and Decay: 1 Unholy
- Howling Blast: 1 Frost
- Scourge Strike: 1 Unholy
New abilities:
- [Necrotic Strike]: 1 Unholy.
- [Pillar of Frost]: 1 Frost.
Runic power abilities
Developers said at BlizzCon 2007 that they didn't want the new class to use the traditional resource systems because they wanted the death knight to have a different style of play. They stated their intention was for the death knight to use a mixture of spells and melee in close combat. Because of this, a system that didn't specifically rely on either mana or rage was more appropriate.
This is how the original icons looked:
During the 2008 WWI, it was noted that the original runes were replaced because they were too complex to show them refreshing inside the character's portrait bar.
This is how the replacement icons looked:
Patch changes
- Hotfix (2009-06-02): "Runic Power costs will no longer be lowered by abilities intended to lower mana costs."

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The term Kalamkari is derived from "kalam" pen, and "kari" work. The original kalamkaris had fine black lines drawn with a stylus. Gradually the process evolved from using a pen to printing with hand-carved wooden blocks. Today's kalamkaris feature the same beautiful aesthetic and motifs made with natural dyes on light backgrounds.
Part of the beauty of kalamkari cloth lies in fact that each block is placed by the artisan's hand - what he leaves behind is an imprint of his personality and character. Slight variations are to be celebrated.
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Only 13 months from now, New York City chooses a new mayor, and on the line is the issue of how we manage our public schools. You may have thought this issue was put to bed when Mayor Michael Bloomberg reached agreements with administrators over who gets to steer education policy, but perhaps education professionals are only waiting out these 13 months to get to a new agreement.
In the Mayor's Management Report there was apparently evidence that parents have not been as involved in the process of taking over failing schools and setting priorities. If parents are unhappy with having less involvement, they have a right to feel that way. Every parent wants what they slowly and certainly lose: some semblance of control.
The problem with a public school system (any system) that is so large and diverse is that there needs to be some centrality to the process. Community boards, committees, and parent groups matter in this process. The control of the system being centralized with City Hall, however, matters more.
The next mayor will appoint a schools chancellor to oversee the all-important task of managing failing schools. Those of us who are right-of-center on these issues have been calling for decentralization for years. We wanted to take the power away from the government and give it back to the parents. but we were wrong when it came to a large public behemoth like the New York City school system. Accountability, if it is shared by thousands of parents, means that nobody is really accountable.
Some parent groups are unhappy that they have been relegated to making decisions on homework and little else. Well, making sure your child does his or her assignments is a big deal. It would be a mistake to think that communities, especially where schools are in trouble and failing, are better prepared to steer education policy than the schools chancellor.
Community groups, boards, and parents are well within their rights to have their criticisms voiced and heard. It would be a mistake to not allow such input. There is also great hope in the idea that parents want to be involved.
But the time for parents to take an active role in public education policy is in the next 13 months. Mayoral candidates from now until next November need to be clear about who they want to steer our education system. They cannot be allowed to punt that ball into the post-election season. If parents want involvement, it starts right now with the next mayor.
Argo Gets It Right Argo, starring Ben Affleck, has had two successful weekends at the box office. The story is loosely based on an effort by the CIA to smuggle hostages out of Iran after the Islamic revolution in 1979 and the following hostage crisis.
Surprisingly, there are not only a great deal of Americans who never heard of this operation to rescue these hostages, but many were unsure what this event was – and whether it was real. It was only 32 years ago, which in a historical sense is practically yesterday.
A woman in line behind me, and not much younger, asked her gentleman friend what happened in the hostage crisis. He told her the basics. "Well," she replied "you follow that stuff." Much to his credit, he responded by telling her that regardless of what he follows, this was a national story for 444 days.
Americans have never had the desire to make history a priority, but this is easy history – there was television and actual footage. Argo is a good movie, and to my complete surprise, it portrayed the extremists as extremists.
They showed how people were publicly hanged. They showed the ugliness of a revolution that pushed out an unfair regime only to adopt a dysfunctional autocratic philosophy.
Hollywood usually gets two subjects wrong: sports and politics. In the event that anyone is doubting how true to form Argo is, it looks a lot like what it looked like every night on the news in 1979. And it was real.


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That Weird No Bread Holiday
I am befreckled, pale, and red-headed; if I were a few feet shorter, I'd probably be after your lucky charms.
People are often surprised to find out I'm Jewish. Not because of my looks - I just leave really good tips. (badum!) This time of year, when my non-Jewish friends are happily eating rolls and loafs and other such bread-like substances, they are amazed to find me subsisting on what they previously thought was an uncut sheet of saltines. This time of year means two things. One, it's Passover. Two, the New York Mets are mathematically eliminated from the post-season. That second one has nothing to do with being Jewish, it's just an unfortunate truth.
There are a lot of stereotypes that Jews deal with, and I'm writing this column in part to diffuse them. Growing up Jewish was tough, even in New York. My classmates would always tease me. They'd call me names like "cheapskate" and "hooknose" and "bagel-eater." That Hebrew school sucked.
I observe Passover, and I don't mean that I notice it's there. I do understand the irony of writing a column called "Observational Humor" about observing a holiday ("It's funny because it's Jew!"). As a public service, I'm going to explain Passover to you, the reader. There are many complex and confusing rules about what you can and cannot do, most of which I will omit because I don't understand them.
My typical explanation for Passover is that it's like Thanksgiving without bread or football. And yes, you can watch some Arena League games this time of year. But Arena Football to the NFL is like matzah to a nice loaf of bread. Except when a higher power commands otherwise, there's no way that stuff should be in your house.
The not eating leavened bread thing comes from when Jews were hurried out of Egypt and didn't have time to let their bread rise. To commemorate their flight from slavery, we eat the same crap they were stuck with. This is a valuable lesson - whenever I travel, I pack the night before. If something goes down and my trip has to be commemorated, I don't want generations of kids pissed at me because I forgot to pack my boxers.
Most of what we can't eat comes from the idea of what the Israelites couldn't get their hands on while in the desert. And though it would have been much more convenient for future generations had the Jews been exiled to a Wal-Mart, rules are rules. The stuff you can't have on Passover is referred to as "chametz," which is taken from the biblical Hebrew for "stuff you can't have on Passover."
If you do keep kosher for Passover, you can't simply avoid chametz (pronounced "chametz"). You're also not allowed to own any. Traditionally, Jews "sell" their chametz en masse, just in case they missed anything while they were cleaning. You wouldn't want to get half-way through the holiday before stumbling upon an errant loaf of bread carelessly discarded under a sofa cushion.
I used to call my non-Jewish friends right before Passover and have them take all my chametz. One year, I had to give away about $200 worth of hard liquor. I have since realized that it is cheaper to abstain from grocery shopping and eat takeout the entire month of March.
I sold my chametz this year. I wasn't trying to keep kosher or anything, I just needed the money. Which makes me wonder if I'm a bad Jew or a good Jew. I'm a bad Jew because I only observed the law by accident. But I'm a good Jew because, hey, I made a few bucks.
I'm kidding, of course. We don't actually charge anything for the chametz - it's just a symbolic transaction. And Jews aren't actually cheap either - it's just a stereotype. Passover is one of three eight-day holidays. If we were a cheap people, we'd have found a way to cut those celebrations down a little and save some cash on the gifts.
But perhaps the most important Passover tradition is how cheap other people are (see friends, my). It is rare that anyone offers to buy me beer. Except on Passover, since they know I can't accept. And waving beer in front of a Jew on Passover is like waving a donut in front of a fat guy on a diet. Waving beer in front of a Jewish comedian on Passover is like waving a donut in front of a very poor fat guy on a diet.
But come Passover, everyone I know tries to buy me beer. I've really got to stop going to this Hebrew school.


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I recently hacked up bindings to Gnome for Gnu-smalltalk. I was giving Jeff Waugh some anecdotes about why binding to Gnome VFS was harder than binding to GTK+, and he suggested I blog it…
Theres actually quite a lot of stuff there when I started to think it through, so I'm going to do two (maybe more) entries on it.
Today, I'm going to write about the style of the C headers, and their ability to be trivially machine processed, plus a little more
C header file consistency

In GTK, there are idioms that made doing bindings from the installed header files very easy.
- All the structs are defined via
typedef struct _GnomeFoo GnomeFoo;struct _GnomeFoo{...};
Which means that a simple Awk script can detect all the object types.
- The C functions are all laid out consistently:
returns gnome_object_name_method_name (parameter...parameter);
In Gnome VFS, neither of these are true, instead we see
- anonymous structs:
typedef struct {...} GnomeVFSFoo;
which prevents trivial analysis.
- and broken-line function definitions:
return gnome_vfs_type_method(parameter...parameter);
which means that trivial pattern matching is not enough to kick into analyse a method mode in awk – you need a full lexer & parser at this point.
The point of this is that, without the use of .defs (which AFAICT are not installed by gnome), gnu smalltalk allows a user to build & improve their language bindings with just the standard development-headers & dynamic libraries installed. The closer the automatic generation makes the bindings, the less override & correction work is needed. The GTK+ headers were fantastic, the Gnome VFS present extra challenges (that I haven't worked around yet, in point of fact).
Handles and opaque types

A handle is usually an opaque identifier that one is given by a library, and can pass back to the library upon demand. It might be an index into a table, or a pointer, or even change across minor library upgrades.
IME handles usually have the following properties:
- Can copy by value
- the library will provide generic reference and dereference routines for handles
- Handles are generic across the library
- Handles are dynamically typed
GnomeVFS has a fairly typical handles concept, FWICT. (I'm not an expert here, as I've only looked at the headers, not the full source. Corrections welcomed). There are some unusual aspects….
- Strange typedefs..
typedef struct GnomeVFSDirectoryHandle GnomeVFSDirectoryHandle;
This is strange because the C function to allocate one then accepts
GnomeVFSDirectoryHandle **handle
So, we need to create a pointer to a ponter to a struct whose defintion we never see. Why is this strange? Well, consider:
typedef struct GnomeVFSDirectory * GnomeVFSDirectoryHandle;.. GnomeVFSDirectoryHandle *handle
Which will create the same code, but lets us put a handle on the stack without creating our own typedef. We can still hide the definition of GnomeVFSDirectory.
- There is no library wide Handle reference-dereference methods that I could see. So each handle type is on its own, having potentially difference lifetime semantics. Consistency is good, it allows more predictable behaviour, which encourages programmer productivity (less time finding bugs because handle foo is reference counted, and bar is not.
- Motivation? GObject is great, it allows dynamic introspection by any language on any object runing with gnome. I can, in smalltalk create an object which knows that it is a Dialog, and pass that to a python-library, which expects anything implementing Widget, interrogates my object and finds it is a Dialog.. which is fantastic. GnomeVFS does not appear to have leveraged this at all. If hiding implementation details was the goal, that is inconsistent (other GnomeVFS structs are defined – but still not using GObject), and if its not to hide implementation details, why not expose the public & private aspects the way that GTK objects do, which seems very well designed (for a C program :)).
In my next blog entry, look for dead chickens, premature optimisation, and awkward calling styles.


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Apartment building, marina proposed to be built in South Side
June 21, 2011
Proposals for a four-story 18-apartment building and a SouthSide Works marina were the focus of the June 14 meeting of the South Side Planning Forum.
The first presenter was Diana Lynn, broker/manager of One80 Real Estate Services, who said the apartment building would be at the corner of 22nd St., Merriman Way, and Wharton St. The project team is Green Development and AM Rodriguez Associates. Sota Construction Services is the contractor and CMS Housing is the management company.
One80 Real Estate Services is the leasing agent.
There will be 13 two-bedroom apartments, and five one-bedroom apartments. The top floor will have apartments with lofts. There will be 22 parking spaces, which is more than is required.
Rental rates will be "market rate rent," said Ms. Lynn.
The building will be LEED certified, with its main entry off Wharton St.
The property is zoned urban industrial. To learn whether setback variances are required, a pre-zoning hearing on the project will be held on June 20.
The project will take 12 to 18 months to complete. The team hopes is to begin this winter.
The project team of Sota Construction Services and development partner AM Rodriguez/CMS Housing is not new to the area, having converted the former South Hills High School into subsidized and market-rate senior apartments called "South Hills Retirement Residence."
In the marina presentation, Mabon Lichtenfels, vice-president of construction and development for the Soffer Organization, said the proposal is at the very preliminary design stage.
The next step is further discussions with all parties involved in the project — Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA), Riverlife, city officials, Soffer Organization, said the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers is responsible for the river and its traffic.
Financing for the project still has to be finalized.
The plan is to install floating slips, or docks, which the developer, who also owns the Fox Chapel Yacht Club, would pay for at an estimated cost of $3 to $3.5 million.
The URA or city officials have to find funding for the infrastructure to support the docks – such as an elevator, parking lot and retaining wall work. While the marina could open with a temporary gravel parking lot, it would become a paved lot, in phases, once money becomes available.
Mr. Lichtenfels said he does not know if house boats will be permitted, or if jet skis will be able to be rented, and he is not aware if a liquor license is involved with an entertainment venue at the site. The proposal does not include a fuel dock for boats.
If everything goes very well, the hope is to open the marina in May, 2012.
Regarding the update on Riverfront Park at SouthSide Works, Mr. Lichtenfels said "the park is progressing." The kiosk, which was severely damaged by a drunk driver, will be taken down and inspected. It will probably not be rebuilt and ready to open until October.
Marty Uram, an LTV Steering Committee member, said Riverfront Park has not been turned over to the city because the city doesn't have money to maintain the park. It is expected the URA, Riverlife, Soffer, and city officials will come up with an interim maintenance agreement this week.
Mr. Lichtenfels said the park will probably eventually have to be looked at as a regional asset district (RAD).
In other news, CSX is scheduled to start construction in Nov., 2011, to rebuild the railroad tunnel under Tunnel Park to make the line more accessible to all freight. Currently, the tunnel is not tall enough to allow a double stacked container to pass through.
The planned project completion date is Dec., 2012.
Mr. Lichtenfels said he is worried about the impact of noise and dust on businesses over the 12-month project duration. He said the request was made to begin in the fall when outdoor dining declines.
Mr. Uram also reported the URA is putting up request for proposals (RFPs) for four parcels at the SouthSide Works.
Three parcels are on the vacant site of the former Dick Corp. between the IBEW and the railroad tracks. The other parcel is located next to Matcon Diamond up to Becks Run Rd. Those interested in developing the sites should contact the URA.
In news of the South Side NID Steering Committee, Susie Puskar reported consultants Wendell and Associates were in town on May 13-14.
In addition to meeting with stakeholders, the consultants


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Banana cake
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ServingsServes 8
Ideal for childrens lunch boxes
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- 4oz soft butter (non-salted)
- 6oz golden caster sugar
- 8oz Self raising flour
- 2 large eggs
- 3 large, very ripe banana's
- Heat oven to 180 , grease 2lb loaf or cake tin
- mash banana's with a fork, until smooth
- Cream butter & sugar together and slowly add the eggs
- Mix the two bowls of golden mixture together, fold in the sifted flour, scape into loaf or cake tin
- Bake for 40 mins then lower temp to 150 for a further 30 mins
- leave to cool and enjoy
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This is the most scrumptios banana cake I have ever eaten. Cooking times perfect, follow them exactly and you cant go wrong. After I had prepared all the ingredients I realised I had no eggs!!!!! Looked up a substitute and read that eggs are used for lightening in baking...and was advised to use banana or apple sauce so I did! All together I used 4 bananas and 1 tbsp apple sauce and would do this the next time even if I had eggs! I also added 1 tbsp of vanilla essence, in future will try with sultanas just didnt have any this time. The cake is lovely light and moist my husband just asked for a second piece, better go and get it!!! Cant wait to make my next one!


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- P.G. Monateri said...
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In the early days of my law practice handling personal injury cases, I received a call from a client who was lunching at a restaurant around the corner and informed me there was a large piece of a wooden match in the food she had ordered and wanted to know what to do. I asked her if she suffered injuries in her mouth. She responded, "Oh, no, I haven't started to eat the meal." I told her to tell the waiter to take it back and order something else.
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House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady (R-TX) said Friday that any action on President Trump's somewhat mysterious promise of a 10 percent tax cut for middle-class households will have to wait until 2019 and will depend on the results of the midterm elections.
"We expect to advance this in the new session of Congress if Republicans maintain control of the House and Senate," Brady told CNBC.
Referring to the development as a "plot twist," Roll Call said Brady's comments signal that GOP lawmakers have no plans to take up Trump's plan in the lame duck session in November and December.


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Do you realize that you will have issues with your electrical system at some point ? Keep in mind that this can disrupt the activity in your home and work place if you work from home and cause a lot of headache . You want to get things up and running as guick as possible. Keep our # handy so you have someone that you can rely on.
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Making tight electrical connections is critical to a safe wiring job. If wires come loose, you could get arcing and overheating, which could lead to a fire, However, thanks to reliable connectors and terminals, it's fairly easy to make safe, strong connections. But there are a few things you have to watch out for. We'll show you how to pick the right connector for the job, for example you might need military connectors if they're going to be victims to the elements, and how to prepare the wires for the best connection. We'll also show why you should spend a little extra money when it comes time to buy outlets and other devices. With careful attention to detail, you can rest easy knowing your wiring job is as safe as you could possibly make it.
Choose a connector that fits the wires
Every wire connector is made to join a certain minimum and maximum volume of wires: The larger the wire gauge, the fewer it can hold. Always check the approved list on the packaging (photo above) to make sure the connector is listed for the wire combination you want to join. Even though the connectors appear to be color coded, you can't rely on this. For example, one style of yellow connector joins up to four 14-gauge wires, while another connects a maximum of three. You have to check the label on the package or go to the manufacturer's Web site to find out. Keep a range of small to large connectors and their packaging on hand so you won't be tempted to make do with the wrong size.
Line up the wire ends, then tighten
With the exception of stranded wire, which we'll talk about below, it's important to make sure the ends of all wires are lined up before twisting on the connector. Otherwise the connector won't clamp all wires evenly and one or more could slip out.
Start by stripping the ends of the wires. Check the label on the connector package for the length of bare wire to expose. For all but the smallest and largest connectors, this is usually about 1/2 to 5/8 in. Then arrange the wires parallel to each other with their ends aligned. Keep your eye on the wire ends until the connector covers them to make sure none slips out of position. You don't have to twist the wires together before you screw on the connector. Simply twist the connector until the insulated wires outside the connector begin to twist. Photos 1 and 2 below show how to install the connector. When you're done, tug on each wire to make sure they're all firmly connected.
Buy a wire-stripping tool
Wire-stripping tools do a fast, clean job without nicking and weakening the wires. For most standard house wiring requiring 12-gauge and 14-gauge plastic sheathed cable, I like the Klein No. 1412 stripper ($18) shown here. It can cut the plastic sheathing of 12-2 and 14- 2 plastic sheathed cable, as well as strip insulation on individual wires.
Extend stranded wire 1/8 in. beyond solid wire
If you hold the ends of solid and stranded wire even with each other while you screw on the connector, the stranded wire will often wrap loosely around the solid wires, resulting in a loose connection. This is especially likely when you're joining multiple solid wires to one stranded wire. The problem is easy to prevent by extending the ends of all stranded wires about 1/8 in. beyond the solid wires. Then install the connector as usual.
Stranded wire is a little larger than the same gauge of solid wire. Use a wire stripper labeled for stranded wire, or use the hole for the next largest gauge of solid wire. Remember to tug on each wire to make sure the connector has a solid grip.
Loop the wire for a strong screw connection
Since switches and outlets vibrate a little when used, it's critical that the connections to them be strong so they don't work loose. For screw connections, start with a 3/4-in. length of bare stripped wire. Photos 1 and 2 show how to bend the loop and close it around the screw. Wrap the wire clockwise around the screw so that the loop closes as the screw is tightened. Make sure to tighten the screw firmly. Keep in mind that only one wire is allowed under each screw.
Cut off nicked, bent or twisted ends
Wires that are bent, twisted or nicked are weaker and won't nest together as easily in the connector. Before you reconnect wires to an outlet or switch, or rejoin several wires with a connector, cut off the old bare wire ends and strip the insulation to expose clean, straight wire. It takes a few extra seconds but ensures a better connection.
If cutting a wire leaves it too short to work with easily, splice on an additional 6-in. length with a wire connector
Buy top-quality outlets for the best connections
At most home centers, you can buy an economy outlet for about 50¢ or you can spend about $1.75 for a better one. That's a big jump in cost for something that looks similar and does the same job. It's tempting to buy the cheap one. But you get what you pay for. Premium outlets are stronger, make better contact with plugs and work more smoothly. Cheap outlets can literally wear out if you use them frequently. If you decide to buy premium outlets, look for the kind with clamp screw terminals (Photo 1). They resemble the "stab-in" holes you'll find on economy outlets but actually clamp down firmly when you tighten the screw. If you don't want to spend the extra money to install premium outlets everywhere, at least put them in heavy-use areas like kitchens, garages, workshops and laundry rooms. Some of these areas may require GFCI protection. Always check with your local electrical inspector before replacing outlets.
Strip the wires to the length shown on the stripping gauge (Photo 2). Loosen the terminal screw by turning it counterclockwise to open the clamp. Then hold the wire or wires, one in each hole, while you tighten the screw. Tug on the wires when you're done to make sure they're securely connected.
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Honey Whole Wheat Braids
This hearty, wholesome bread has a slightly sweet taste from honey. I grind my own whole wheat to use in this recipe.
Total TimePrep: 35 min. + rising Bake: 30 min. + cooling
Makes2 loaves (16 slices each)
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 2-1/4 cups warm water (110° to 115°), divided
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/3 cup honey
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 cup instant nonfat dry milk powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 6 to 6-1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- All-purpose flour
- Melted butter
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Add sugar; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the honey, oil, milk powder, salt, 3 cups whole wheat flour and remaining water; beat for 3 minutes. Stir in enough remaining whole wheat flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a surface dusted with all-purpose flour; knead until smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 2 hours.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into six portions. Shape each into a 15-in. rope. Braid three ropes; pinch ends to seal and tuck under. Repeat with remaining dough. Place in two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks. Brush with melted butter. Cool.


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I had dinner last night with an enthusiastic returnee from World Youth Day, which has received ample coverage from many media outlets, with a few all too predictable exceptions. I asked whether he had seen any of the anti-Pope protesters, and he said he had not – which is hardly suprising, given that the people at World Youth Day outnumbered the protesters by about a thousand to one.
And what were they protesting about? It seems the cost. But, as this article from the New York Times shows, WYD will actually benefit the Spanish economy. Besides which, since when did protesters actually protest anywhere about government spending? Forgive me if I doubt their sincerity.
It seems we must get used to the idea that wherever the Holy Father goes the usual suspects will round themselves up and stage a protest, indulging their love for synthetic rage. First London, now Madrid…
But just think about it for a minute. These people do not like the Pope and they do not agree with his teachings. Well, I feel no real empathy with Buddhism, and I strongly disagree with Buddhist teaching on reincarnation. So, whenever the Dalai Lama rolls into town, should I organise a protest? Of course not! And why not? Because I believe in freedom of conscience, and I fully respect the absolute right of the Dalai Lama to believe what he chooses and to teach what he believes. End of. And I also believe that people who want to hang out with the Dalai Lama have an absolute right to do so, part of their basic human right to freedom of association.
It is this freedom of association, and the freedom of expression that goes with it, that contemporary secularists simply do not "get". Dr Evan Harris's secular manifesto makes no mention of these rights, but seemingly sees religion as something relegated to the private sphere alone, as it was in the Soviet Union: "None of it [the manifesto] engages with what families get up to in their home, or religious leaders within their own families." And yet, ironically, freedom of association and freedom of expression are secular values.
And herein lies the problem: our modern secularists are not really secular enough; they are simply people who dislike religion and want it out of the way. A true secularist would welcome the Pope to Madrid, acknowledging his right and the right of his fellow Catholics to do as they please in conscience and within the bounds of the law, a right they share with everyone else.
If none of this cuts any ice, perhaps I could introduce another idea. Protesting about the Pope coming to your city (if indeed these protesters were Madrileños) is simply rude, a case of appalling bad manners. It is against all the rules of hospitality. Last year we had the King of Saudi Arabia here in London as a guest of the Queen. I can't honestly say I warm to King Abdullah, or that I approve of his government and its policies, but if I had met him I would have been polite, greeted him as protocol demands, and wished him well. That is what civility demands. Civility: another great secular value. The expressions of infantile rage that we saw when the Pope came here were in fact very damaging to the so-called secular movement, and revealed the forces of anti-religion for what they were. We need to reclaim the word "secular" for proper use, and we need to stop using it to mask the ugly face of anti-religious prejudice.
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X apps run on native touch Xorg.
While looking for something else in "ps aux" (process status), I noticed that Xorg was running with parameters that explained why x apps were not working when I had previously tested them. Xorg is launced in the kindle touch startup scripts with a "-nolisten tcp" option.
I tried running Xorg again, but with no parameters, and it automatically assigned X display ":1". I had previously copied xeyes for arm from a kindle 3 debian install to my kindle touch /mnt/us. When I noticed that the second Xorg launched using X display :1, I decided to drop what I was doing and test xeyes again, but using display :1 this time. As you can see in the photo below, xeyes is overlaying the top inch of my touch display, with the menu bar (title and time) on top of it. Even though the menu button is covered, it still works.
I have an ebook open (below xeyes and beneath the menu). Whenever I generate an event that updates the display, the eyes move to where my finger is touching. I pressed the menu button, and selected the new Launch menu (from yifanlu) from there. Then I took a photo.
I can make xeyes look wherever I want by touching the screen, then pressing the button switch below the screen (the square patch with four horizontal black lines).
Unfortunately, after the kindle goes into screensaver mode, waking it from screensaver mode makes it kill both Xorg's and restart its own Xorg. When that happened, I just started "Xorg :1 &", then "xeyes -display :1", then touched the button to trigger a redraw. First the display goes all black with only xeyes, then a few seconds later the bottom 85% of the screen displays black on white text like normal. What I did manually could easily be automated, to happen when the GUI framework restarts Xorg.
This discovery means that we can run x apps from the new app launcher menu (like xcalc, for instance). Some x programs might need static linking if their libraries are missing.
Here is a (crappy) photo taken with a cellphone, but it shows xeyes at the top of the display, and you can (sort of) see yifanlu's new App Launcher menu down in the center of the display.
How can I take a screen snapshot without messing up the display? For now, I just used dd to copy the framebuffer to a file (to be processed later). Then due to it being very late into the night here, I used my cellphone to take the crappy photo you see here. Time to get some sleep now.
Well, I think it is cool, anyway... The kindle touch runs X-Windows!
This x program is running native with no other custom code or libraries. It just needs the jailbreak installed so you can start another Xorg and run the x app.
WARNING: due to resource limitations in the kindle touch, there could be problems with running two copies of Xorg at the same time. It may be possible to coax the system into starting only one copy without disabling tcp (needed by x apps), instead of running two copies of Xorg. This exercise was done mostly as a proof of concept (and just for fun too).
More development for this will follow soon from myself and others in the Kindle Developer's Corner here on mobileread.com.
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Why would local apps need TCP support? I'm pretty much always running X with nolisten tcp on my box, unless I know I'm gonna need to do X forwarding over SSH (ie. never).
Can't remember how it's supposed to work right now, but local apps should use the local unix socket AFAIK, not a TCP socket :?.
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Network communications typically use the "7 Layer Model". All X11 data between to processes (whether local or remote) flows through these 7 layers.
At one layer, a socket is an IP <address>:<port> pair. TCP is a protocol used to send data packets through socket.
At another layer, Xorg communicates with X11 protocol, which is sent inside TCP packets via its specified TCP socket.
If you do not tell Xorg with IP address to use it defaults to localhost 127.0.0.1. If you leave off the display number it uses display :0 (port 6000). The default local TCP socket used by Xorg on Unix and other Operating Systems is 127.0.0.1:6000. The commonly recognized host name for 127.0.0.1 is "localhost" (defined in your HOSTS file).
By disabling TCP with the Xorg "-nolisten tcp", it refuses TCP connections to any port, including "the local unix socket".
Of course, the way to know for sure is to just try it. I did, and I posted the results of my tests. It is possible to use other protocols such as UDP, but the version of Xorg installed on the Kindle Touch does lave an option for that listed in its "usage" information, nor do the simple X apps that I tried.
You can read more about it here (and many other places):
If you are aware of *different* "local unix socket" communications method used by Xorg for communicating with local apps, which is not disabled by the Xorg "-nolisten tcp" command line parameter, please enlighten me. Thanks.
EDIT: The reason that I thought this was interesting was that the Kindle Touch is running Xorg natively, and the framework is built on top of Xorg, unlike previous Kindle models which used GTK over DirectFB. There was an X11 hack for the Kindle 2, but I was unable to get that to work on my Kindle 3. In the case of the Kindle Touch, X apps run natively on it using the built-in Xorg (except where disabled by command-line parameters).
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Errm, as far as Xorg is concerned, it only communicates via sockets, not depending on a certain type of them. While there is a convention/standard for transmission via TCP, communicating via Unix Domain Sockets instead is equally common (and *might* slightly reduce overhead). Unix Domain Sockets do not built on the IP layer (as TCP sockets do), thus are not IP addressed. They use filesystem namespace addressing instead (or non at all and do file descriptor sharing among processes). There's a convention to prefix the sockets with the "/tmp/X11-unix/" path. See socket(7), unix(7). Note that these sockets are not the same as FIFOs aka named pipes.
Without further configuration, Xorg handles both TCP and Unix Domain Sockets.
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Unless I completely misunderstand how this works, a standard TCP/IP socket is created when a "/tmp/.X11-unix" file is opened. Or... is there a version without the "." in front of "X11" that acts differently?
Of course, newer kernels may have optimized the file interface better than the sockets interface. The only way to know for sure is to read the GPL source code provided by amazon.
Anyway, the *real* problem is that the Kindle framework appears to lock Xorg localhost port 0 exclusively so other apps cannot use it. Starting another Xorg listening on another port allows apps to use it.
It is a moot point anyway, because even without launching another Xorg instance, there is not much free memory left for native apps, especially if you use a loop mount so you can install packages that need symlinks.
Personally, my experience in all this was a long time ago when things were done differently. I do not know what X11 does down inside. I do know that what you would commonly think of as a client or server is reversed in X11, where the thing that shares the desktop is the client, and the thing you use to connect to it is a server. Did I get that right? It can be rather confusing.
The main point of this thread is that you CAN run native X apps without needing to install your own Xorg, which is what I found interesting. Regardless of what underlying interprocess communication method is used, another Xorg server instance appears to be needed to support native X apps (other than the framework) on the kindle, unless the startup scripts can be modified to allow apps to share display :0 (port 6000).
I wish I had more time to investigate this, but I have other demands on my time, and other things that interest me more than X apps right now, especially after discovering the excessive framework memory overhead inside the Kindle Touch.
I hope somebody can make use of this information. This is just thrown out there to show that it might be easy to port X apps to the Touch, because some small ones already work right out of the box.
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What I need is to figure out what "hot keys" (or Touchscreen variant of that) saves a screen snapshot. Google does not help much here due to "Touch" being such a generic word. And don't get me started about mostly-useless mobileread search function (unless I have not learned how to use it effectively yet).
I remember yifanlu saying somewhere something about touching the screen and holding the button for awhile, but I could not locate that post, and my experiments to rediscover the method did not succeed.
For now, I am going to go back to writing "hacky" code that uses the eips command to provide display capability, until I discover a way that will let me trigger a framebuffer display update after modifying its contents. At least that way, if I need more memory, I can kill the framework and cvm after it launches my native app, giving me more of what I need. My app can restart the framework when it exits.
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Hold down the Home button, tap the screen, continue holding Home for an additional second or two. The screenshot files are saved to the root of USB storage as seen when tethered to a computer.
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I understand what is going on a little better now. Running an X app with no display selection makes it use X display 0, but it stays hidden under the kindle framework display. Doing a "killall cvm" causes the framework to restart, during which time the X app is visible. I had xdaliclock running in the background, and I could see the time displayed during the framework restart. The only difference with loading another Xorg is that it can write on top of the framework display so it remains visible.
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Hi all,
just registered to maybe provide some information on this. I know very little of the Kindle Touch software stack, I've just been doing some reading recently, I don't own the device (yet).
Kindle Touch seems to be running the Awesome Window Manager, so that is most probably the cause of the overlaying of the X apps by the Kindle UI. Awesome is configurable using the Lua language and there will be a rc.lua somewhere on the filesystem that defines the rules for displaying the applications.
Here is rc.lua posted by a user to the Awesome mailing list (the thread). From the looks of it, they are using a modified version of Awesome with the rc.lua also containing a lot of custom code and quite some number of hacks. Your issue is most probably hidden in there somewhere and could be changed.
That is also the place that handles all the input before passing it to the applications, so any global shortcuts can be placed there - like taking a screenshot, you can find the code for that in there. All in all, you can do a lot in that file, making it a great and easy way to mod the device.
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Hi everyone,
since I have just discovered this thread I thought I'd add my 5 cents. I have already experimented with Xorg and running other apps (I'm working on simple GTK frontend to opkg) and here's what I have found.
So first to sum up what you have already said:
1) you can start other X apps without any magick on display :0
2) there's awesome WM running
3) normally you cannot see the window because it's hidden under the framework (there's a trick to it, see below)
Now there is rather complex set of lua scripts (in /etc/xdg/awesome/) for window management (also some stuff to handle different screen orientations) so if anyone wants to hack with that by prepared to get your hands dirty. I didn't spend too much time figuring all what's going on there and at some points I'm still uncertain, but for the moment I have figured enough.
To make the windows visible there is a naming scheme what windows are expected to have in their title. The value is set of key:value pairs separated by "_" (underscore). For example "L:C_N:searchBar_ID:system". You can run "xwininfo -tree -root" to get a better idea. And to dig deeper into this start with "addClient" function in "lab126LayerLogic.lua". The example shows keys L, N and ID but there are few more which are not necessary. Key N defines the type of an application and for normal 3rd party windows the value 'application' seems the right choice. ID seems to be either name of the window or the application (probably the former). The L defines on what layer you want your window displayed.
The available codes for the various layers are the following (from lab126LayerLogic.lua):
A -- Application Layer
C -- Chrome Layer
D -- Dialog Layer
KB -- Keyboard Layer
SS -- ScreenSaver Layer
Here's a piece of content of rc.lua explaining how are the layers organized:
That's all for the moment.
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Thanks, that was really helpful.
Just a small FYI, you can test out different window titles by using xev, for example "xev -name L:A_N:application_ID:x11xev".
This little X11 helper program is installed by default on the Touch and will print out any X11 event it receives.
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Since it seems that this is interesting to more people I will share again the few things I have learend recently (since my new post).
Chrome layer contains the searchbar on top and ads on bottom (for SO version).
Window title is contained in special window called titlebar.
Titlebar is normaly on chrome layer.
If PC:N titlebar behaves like a chrome (e.g. hides when chrome hides). (TODO: find
out when chrome hides and if it's of any use)
L str layer N str window type: "application", "dialog", "pillowAlert", ... ID str name of the window or the parent window for dialogs "system" is reserved for system stuff PC str "N" - set size to full screen "TS" - size to show chrome layer other or missing - normal window, size so that title bar is visible valid for L:A only M bool modal dialog window valid for L:D only RC bool round corners of the window RKB bool requires KB -- positioned so as to expect showing keyboard valid for L:D only
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Is it possible to use this naming scheme to hide the status bar while running something like this?
Thanks a lot!!
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