text: {-# LINE 2 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- -*-haskell-*- -- GIMP Toolkit (GTK) General -- -- Author : Axel Simon, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty -- -- Created: 8 December 1998 -- -- Copyright (C) 2000..2005 Axel Simon, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty -- -- This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -- modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public -- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either -- version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. -- -- This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU -- Lesser General Public License for more details. -- -- | -- Maintainer : firstname.lastname@example.com -- Stability : provisional -- Portability : portable (depends on GHC) -- -- library initialization, main event loop, and events -- module Graphics.UI.Gtk.General.General ( -- getDefaultLanguage, -- * Initialisation initGUI, -- ** Support for OS threads unsafeInitGUIForThreadedRTS, postGUISync, postGUIAsync, threadsEnter, threadsLeave, -- * Main event loop mainGUI, mainQuit, -- ** Less commonly used event loop functions eventsPending, mainLevel, mainIteration, mainIterationDo, mainDoEvent, -- ** Call when mainloop is left quitAddDestroy, quitAdd, quitRemove, -- * Grab widgets grabAdd, grabGetCurrent, grabRemove, -- * Timeout and idle callbacks Priority, priorityLow, priorityDefaultIdle, priorityHighIdle, priorityDefault, priorityHigh, timeoutAdd, timeoutAddFull, timeoutRemove, idleAdd, idleRemove, inputAdd, inputRemove, IOCondition(..), HandlerId, FD ) where import Control.Applicative import Prelude import System.Environment (getProgName, getArgs) import Control.Monad (liftM, when) import Control.Concurrent (rtsSupportsBoundThreads, newEmptyMVar, putMVar, takeMVar) import System.Glib.FFI import System.Glib.UTFString import qualified System.Glib.MainLoop as ML import System.Glib.MainLoop ( Priority, priorityLow, priorityDefaultIdle, priorityHighIdle, priorityDefault, priorityHigh, timeoutRemove, idleRemove, inputRemove, IOCondition(..), HandlerId ) import Graphics.UI.Gtk.Abstract.Object (makeNewObject) import Graphics.UI.Gtk.Gdk.EventM (EventM) import Control.Monad.Reader (ask) import Control.Monad.Trans (liftIO) import Graphics.UI.Gtk.Types {-# LINE 100 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} {-# LINE 102 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} {- -- | Retreive the current language. -- * This function returns a String which's pointer can be used later on for -- comarisions. -- --getDefaultLanguage :: GlibString string => IO string --getDefaultLanguage = do -- strPtr <- {#call unsafe get_default_language#} -- str <- peekUTFString strPtr -- destruct strPtr -- return str -} unsafeInitGUIForThreadedRTS = initGUI -- We compile this module using -#includ"gtk/wingtk.h" to bypass the win32 abi -- check however we do not compile users programs with this header so if -- initGUI was ever inlined in a users program, then that program would not -- bypass the abi check and would fail on startup. So to stop that we must -- prevent initGUI from being inlined. {-# NOINLINE initGUI #-} -- | Initialize the GUI. -- -- This must be called before any other function in the Gtk2Hs library. -- -- This function initializes the GUI toolkit and parses all Gtk -- specific arguments. The remaining arguments are returned. If the -- initialization of the toolkit fails for whatever reason, an exception -- is thrown. -- -- * Throws: @error \"Cannot initialize GUI.\"@ -- -- -- * If you want to use Gtk2Hs and in a multi-threaded application then it is your obligation -- to ensure that all calls to Gtk+ happen in a single OS thread. -- If you want to make calls to Gtk2Hs functions from a Haskell thread other -- than the one that calls this functions and 'mainGUI' then you will have to -- \'post\' your GUI actions to the main GUI thread. You can do this using -- 'postGUISync' or 'postGUIAsync'. See also 'threadsEnter'. -- initGUI :: IO [String] initGUI = do initialise when rtsSupportsBoundThreads initialiseGThreads -- note: initizliseGThreads calls 'threadsEnter' prog <- getProgName args <- getArgs let allArgs = (prog:args) withMany withUTFString (map stringToGlib allArgs) $ \addrs -> withArrayLen addrs $ \argc argv -> with argv $ \argvp -> with argc $ \argcp -> do res <- gtk_init_check (castPtr argcp) (castPtr argvp) if (toBool res) then do argc' <- peek argcp argv' <- peek argvp _:addrs' <- peekArray argc' argv' -- drop the program name mapM ((glibToString <$>) . peekUTFString) addrs' else error "Cannot initialize GUI." -- g_thread_init aborts the whole program if it's called more than once so -- we've got to keep track of whether or not we've called it already. Sigh. -- foreign import ccall "hsgthread.h gtk2hs_threads_initialise" initialiseGThreads :: IO () foreign import ccall "hsgthread.h gtk2hs_initialise" initialise :: IO () -- | Post an action to be run in the main GUI thread. -- -- The current thread blocks until the action completes and the result is -- returned. -- postGUISync :: IO a -> IO a postGUISync action = do resultVar <- newEmptyMVar idleAdd (action >>= putMVar resultVar >> return False) priorityDefault takeMVar resultVar -- | Post an action to be run in the main GUI thread. -- -- The current thread continues and does not wait for the result of the -- action. -- postGUIAsync :: IO () -> IO () postGUIAsync action = do idleAdd (action >> return False) priorityDefault return () -- | Acquire the global Gtk lock. -- -- * During normal operation, this lock is held by the thread from which all -- interaction with Gtk is performed. When calling 'mainGUI', the thread will -- release this global lock before it waits for user interaction. During this -- time it is, in principle, possible to use a different OS thread (any other -- Haskell thread that is bound to the Gtk OS thread will be blocked anyway) -- to interact with Gtk by explicitly acquiring the lock, calling Gtk functions -- and releasing the lock. However, the Gtk functions that are called from this -- different thread may not trigger any calls to the OS since this will -- lead to a crash on Windows (the Win32 API can only be used from a single -- thread). Since it is very hard to tell which function only interacts on -- Gtk data structures and which function call actual OS functions, it -- is best not to use this feature at all. A better way to perform updates -- in the background is to spawn a Haskell thread and to perform the update -- to Gtk widgets using 'postGUIAsync' or 'postGUISync'. These will execute -- their arguments from the main loop, that is, from the OS thread of Gtk, -- thereby ensuring that any Gtk and OS function can be called. -- threadsEnter :: IO () threadsEnter = threadsEnter'_ >>= \res -> return () {-# LINE 213 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Release the global Gtk lock. -- -- * The use of this function is not recommended. See 'threadsEnter'. -- threadsLeave :: IO () threadsLeave = threadsLeave'_ >>= \res -> return () {-# LINE 219 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Inquire the number of events pending on the event queue -- eventsPending :: IO Int eventsPending = liftM fromIntegral gtk_events_pending {-# LINE 224 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Run the Gtk+ main event loop. -- mainGUI :: IO () mainGUI = gtk_main {-# LINE 229 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Inquire the main loop level. -- -- * Callbacks that take more time to process can call 'mainIteration' to keep -- the GUI responsive. Each time the main loop is restarted this way, the main -- loop counter is increased. This function returns this counter. -- mainLevel :: IO Int mainLevel = liftM (toEnum.fromEnum) gtk_main_level {-# LINE 238 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Exit the main event loop. -- mainQuit :: IO () mainQuit = gtk_main_quit {-# LINE 243 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Process an event, block if necessary. -- -- * Returns @True@ if 'mainQuit' was called while processing the event. -- mainIteration :: IO Bool mainIteration = liftM toBool gtk_main_iteration {-# LINE 250 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} -- | Process a single event. -- -- * Called with @True@, this function behaves as 'mainIteration' in that it -- waits until an event is available for processing. It will return -- immediately, if passed @False@. -- -- * Returns @True@ if the 'mainQuit' was called while processing the event. -- mainIterationDo :: Bool -> IO Bool mainIterationDo blocking = liftM toBool $ gtk_main_iteration_do (fromBool blocking) -- | Processes a single GDK event. This is public only to allow filtering of events between GDK and -- GTK+. You will not usually need to call this function directly. -- -- While you should not call this function directly, you might want to know how exactly events are -- handled. So here is what this function does with the event: -- -- 1. Compress enter\/leave notify events. If the event passed build an enter\/leave pair together with -- the next event (peeked from GDK) both events are thrown away. This is to avoid a backlog of -- (de-)highlighting widgets crossed by the pointer. -- -- 2. Find the widget which got the event. If the widget can't be determined the event is thrown away -- unless it belongs to a INCR transaction. In that case it is passed to -- 'selectionIncrEvent'. -- -- 3. Then the event is passed on a stack so you can query the currently handled event with -- 'getCurrentEvent'. -- -- 4. The event is sent to a widget. If a grab is active all events for widgets that are not in the -- contained in the grab widget are sent to the latter with a few exceptions: -- -- * Deletion and destruction events are still sent to the event widget for obvious reasons. -- -- * Events which directly relate to the visual representation of the event widget. -- -- * Leave events are delivered to the event widget if there was an enter event delivered to it -- before without the paired leave event. -- -- * Drag events are not redirected because it is unclear what the semantics of that would be. -- -- Another point of interest might be that all key events are first passed through the key snooper -- functions if there are any. Read the description of 'keySnooperInstall' if you need this -- feature. -- -- 5. After finishing the delivery the event is popped from the event stack. mainDoEvent :: EventM t () mainDoEvent = do ptr <- ask liftIO $ gtk_main_do_event (castPtr ptr) -- | Trigger destruction of object in case the mainloop at level @mainLevel@ is quit. -- -- Removed in Gtk3. quitAddDestroy :: ObjectClass obj => Int -- ^ @mainLevel@ Level of the mainloop which shall trigger the destruction. -> obj -- ^ @object@ Object to be destroyed. -> IO () quitAddDestroy mainLevel obj = (\arg1 (Object arg2) -> withForeignPtr arg2 $ \argPtr2 ->gtk_quit_add_destroy arg1 argPtr2) {-# LINE 312 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} (fromIntegral mainLevel) (toObject obj) -- | Registers a function to be called when an instance of the mainloop is left. -- -- Removed in Gtk3. quitAdd :: Int -- ^ @mainLevel@ Level at which termination the function shall be called. You can pass 0 here to have the function run at the current mainloop. -> (IO Bool) -- ^ @function@ The function to call. This should return 'False' to be removed from the list of quit handlers. Otherwise the function might be called again. -> IO Int -- ^ returns A handle for this quit handler (you need this for 'quitRemove') quitAdd mainLevel func = do funcPtr <- mkGtkFunction $ \ _ -> liftM fromBool func liftM fromIntegral $ gtk_quit_add {-# LINE 326 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} (fromIntegral mainLevel) funcPtr nullPtr type GtkFunction = FunPtr (((Ptr ()) -> (IO CInt))) {-# LINE 331 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} foreign import ccall "wrapper" mkGtkFunction :: (Ptr () -> IO (CInt)) -> IO GtkFunction -- | Removes a quit handler by its identifier. -- -- Removed in Gtk3. quitRemove :: Int -- ^ @quitHandlerId@ Identifier for the handler returned when installing it. -> IO () quitRemove quitHandlerId = gtk_quit_remove (fromIntegral quitHandlerId) -- | add a grab widget -- grabAdd :: WidgetClass wd => wd -> IO () grabAdd = (\(Widget arg1) -> withForeignPtr arg1 $ \argPtr1 ->gtk_grab_add argPtr1) . toWidget -- | inquire current grab widget -- grabGetCurrent :: IO (Maybe Widget) grabGetCurrent = do wPtr <- gtk_grab_get_current {-# LINE 354 "./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/General.chs" #-} if (wPtr==nullPtr) then return Nothing else liftM Just $ makeNewObject mkWidget (return wPtr) -- | remove a grab widget -- grabRemove :: WidgetClass w => w -> IO () grabRemove = (\(Widget arg1) -> withForeignPtr arg1 $ \argPtr1 ->gtk_grab_remove argPtr1) . toWidget -- | Sets a function to be called at regular intervals, with the default -- priority 'priorityDefault'. The function is called repeatedly until it -- returns @False@, after which point the timeout function will not be called -- again. The first call to the function will be at the end of the first interval. -- -- Note that timeout functions may be delayed, due to the processing of other -- event sources. Thus they should not be relied on for precise timing. After -- each call to the timeout function, the time of the next timeout is -- recalculated based on the current time and the given interval (it does not -- try to 'catch up' time lost in delays). -- -- This function differs from 'ML.timeoutAdd' in that the action will -- be executed within the global Gtk+ lock. It is therefore possible to -- call Gtk+ functions from the action. -- timeoutAdd :: IO Bool -> Int -> IO HandlerId timeoutAdd fun msec = timeoutAddFull fun priorityDefault msec -- | Sets a function to be called at regular intervals, with the given -- priority. The function is called repeatedly until it returns @False@, after -- which point the timeout function will not be called again. The first call -- to the function will be at the end of the first interval. -- -- Note that timeout functions may be delayed, due to the processing of other -- event sources. Thus they should not be relied on for precise timing. After -- each call to the timeout function, the time of the next timeout is -- recalculated based on the current time and the given interval (it does not -- try to 'catch up' time lost in delays). -- -- This function differs from 'ML.timeoutAddFull' in that the action will -- be executed within the global Gtk+ lock. It is therefore possible to -- call Gtk+ functions from the action. -- timeoutAddFull :: IO Bool -> Priority -> Int -> IO HandlerId timeoutAddFull fun pri msec = ML.timeoutAddFull (threadsEnter >> fun >>= \r -> threadsLeave >> return r) pri msec -- | Add a callback that is called whenever the system is idle. -- -- * A priority can be specified via an integer. This should usually be -- 'priorityDefaultIdle'. -- -- * If the function returns @False@ it will be removed. -- -- This function differs from 'ML.idleAdd' in that the action will -- be executed within the global Gtk+ lock. It is therefore possible to -- call Gtk+ functions from the action. -- idleAdd :: IO Bool -> Priority -> IO HandlerId idleAdd fun pri = ML.idleAdd (threadsEnter >> fun >>= \r -> threadsLeave >> return r) pri type FD = Int -- | Adds the file descriptor into the main event loop with the given priority. -- -- This function differs from 'ML.inputAdd' in that the action will -- be executed within the global Gtk+ lock. It is therefore possible to -- call Gtk+ functions from the action. -- inputAdd :: FD -- ^ a file descriptor -> [IOCondition] -- ^ the condition to watch for -> Priority -- ^ the priority of the event source -> IO Bool -- ^ the function to call when the condition is satisfied. -- The function should return False if the event source -- should be removed. -> IO HandlerId -- ^ the event source id inputAdd fd conds pri fun = ML.inputAdd fd conds pri (threadsEnter >> fun >>= \r -> threadsLeave >> return r) foreign import ccall unsafe "gtk_init_check" gtk_init_check :: ((Ptr CInt) -> ((Ptr (Ptr (Ptr CChar))) -> (IO CInt))) foreign import ccall safe "gdk_threads_enter" threadsEnter'_ :: (IO ()) foreign import ccall unsafe "gdk_threads_leave" threadsLeave'_ :: (IO ()) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_events_pending" gtk_events_pending :: (IO CInt) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_main" gtk_main :: (IO ()) foreign import ccall unsafe "gtk_main_level" gtk_main_level :: (IO CUInt) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_main_quit" gtk_main_quit :: (IO ()) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_main_iteration" gtk_main_iteration :: (IO CInt) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_main_iteration_do" gtk_main_iteration_do :: (CInt -> (IO CInt)) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_main_do_event" gtk_main_do_event :: ((Ptr ()) -> (IO ())) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_quit_add_destroy" gtk_quit_add_destroy :: (CUInt -> ((Ptr Object) -> (IO ()))) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_quit_add" gtk_quit_add :: (CUInt -> ((FunPtr ((Ptr ()) -> (IO CInt))) -> ((Ptr ()) -> (IO CUInt)))) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_quit_remove" gtk_quit_remove :: (CUInt -> (IO ())) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_grab_add" gtk_grab_add :: ((Ptr Widget) -> (IO ())) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_grab_get_current" gtk_grab_get_current :: (IO (Ptr Widget)) foreign import ccall safe "gtk_grab_remove" gtk_grab_remove :: ((Ptr Widget) -> (IO ()))


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For those of you who know me, I profess to be a Google aficionado. I tell the story of first using Google in 2001 to search Samuel Gordge of Australia, and came upon an article from the Australian Family History Society. What was unbelievable was that this article dispelled long-held beliefs that Samuel Gordge drowned on Christmas day. Quite the opposite: he died of a shark bite, but after first looting goodies from the ship he was employed as a cook. The ship had run aground on an Australian shore, and he and his buddies stole the loot and took off in a dingy. He was later found on another nearby shore, shark bitten, only to be identified by the trousers and shoes he was wearing. Further emails and additional research by the author of that article provided us with some fascinating historical records and newspaper articles on the event. I have cousins to this day who do not believe it. I guess the "drowning on Christmas day" story is more sympathetic, but still untrue nonetheless.
Why the article on "practice what you preach?" I had been researching some dead-end lines on my husband's genealogy when an email came in from "Search Tip of the Day" by http://genealogysearchtip.blogspot.com. It simply said, "How often do you Google?," suggesting to do a Google search for every "stuck" person on your list.
Well, I did just that. I have researched this one line for a couple of years without much luck, and after entering the "stuck" person's name into Google, I found someone searching the same line, but their line went back several generations. I will now take their genealogy information and use it to research this family line once again. What a find!
I preach about using Google for your genealogy research, and I was kicking myself for not practicing what I preach. Lesson learned, but thankfully, as I now have several more family members to research and verify!
Here is a link to my handout on using Google in your genealogy research. This handout was part of the materials accompanying my presentation at the Arizona Family History Expo in January. Hope it helps you as well.

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In Reims.
I buy a tin of biscuits roses de Reims. They seem to be a thing here. I had bought Flavigny Pastilles (violet- and rose-flavoured) at a gas station just over the Belgian border. My favourite.
We go to Vimy to see the memorial to the Canadian soldiers lost there in World War I. Before I even realize it, I am crying.We find Heather's great-uncle's name inscribed on the wall.We are approached by a Canadian serviceman who tells us that they had just buried Thomas Lawless (whose remains were found when a house was being built) three days ago. I'm still crying.There are signs warning not to go out past the ridge as there are still unexploded munitions lying in the forest, under the trees. I think about rabbits and hedgehogs and badgers and voles.
We walk the Canadian tunnels at Vimy, chipped out of the chalk. Our guide is from Prince Edward Island. He is a law student and his name is Ryan.
There is grafitti scratched in the chalk walls. Ryan points out a maple leaf carved by one of the soldiers. He turns off the light to show us what it would have been like to have been here in wartime. He asks us to imagine the sounds of shells falling; to imagine how it felt to know that you and/or the people sitting next to you might not return to the cramped, damp "comfort" of the tunnels.
Ryan takes us back outside. We look across to the German trenches. Here, the trenches are so close to each other -- literally a stone's throw away. He tells us that there was an unspoken truce between the two sides -- after all, who wants to worry about being shot at day after day? Life in the trenches is hard enough as it is.
We tour Taittinger. We walk the Saint Nicaise chalk mines where they cellar the champagne. The Romans dug these mines. You can see how they used to cut the blocks away. I run my thumbnail on the wall and the chalk comes away easily. I have chalk under my nails. I think about Tiffany Aching. There is grafitti everywhere here, too.
Our effortlessly beautiful French guide tells us they have no idea when the grafitti is from. She points out the underground remains of the abbey that once stood here before the Revolution tore it down. She tells us that people took shelter here during both World Wars. She makes tired, lame tour-guide jokes. I am disarmed by the marks left here by those who have gone before. I wonder who they were; who they loved; who loved them back.
We drive back to Brussels, eating the waffles we bought at the gas station. They are the kind with the sugar pearls in. It's getting dark here in France. The chalk by the side of the road is so white. The villages clustered around their churches are so lovely. Their lights come on. It starts to rain. We speed home in the cold, dark wet.
I like it here.
11 comments:
- pendie said...
I love your photos; what kind of camera did you use?
- March 22, 2011 at 10:29 a.m.
- Unknown said...
Thank you. I took those with my iPod, using the Hipstamatic app.
- March 22, 2011 at 10:45 a.m.
- pendie said...
Thanks for the response! I've read about that app, now know I need to get it pronto! I'm assuming this trip will inspire some more lovely glove patterns?!
- March 22, 2011 at 11:06 a.m.
- Unknown said...
Wonderful post... beautiful photos!
- March 22, 2011 at 12:06 p.m.
I'm quite jealous of your journey; I would love to go over there some day.
Violet pastilles have been one of my all time favorite sweets since childhood.
I think you should make some Joan of Arc mittens. How could it be otherwise?
- March 22, 2011 at 12:46 p.m.
- Catherine said...
You have taken some beautiful pictures to accompany your moving account. I know the area well, it is achingly poignant to see all those places of heroism and death
- March 22, 2011 at 2:55 p.m.
- Voie de Vie said...
I absolutely get it about France and spontaneously crying. I did the same thing in certain parts, although haven't been to the part you've been to.
Wonderful travel story.
- March 22, 2011 at 3:35 p.m.
- Heather G. said...
I am so glad you found John Gordon. He was not included in the Book of the Dead, so it pleases me to know that his sacrifice has not been forgotten. Someday I will unravel that mystery.
I think I would also be spending most of my time at Vimy crying.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:27 p.m.
- Elizabeth A. said...
Have you read Jane Urquhart's "The Stonecarver"? The memorial is central to the story... an incredible book.. but, then, it's by Jane Urquhart...
Your photos are on par ... Elizabeth
- March 22, 2011 at 8:20 p.m.
- Cakewalk Yarns said...
What a powerful experience. So glad you took the time to do this.
- March 23, 2011 at 9:13 a.m.
- Unknown said...
Thank you. Me too.
- April 6, 2011 at 10:32 a.m.


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Google Drive, also known as GDrive and Platypus, is Google's latest feature bringing cloud storage to its suite of web products -- and will likely destroy successful startups Dropbox and Box.
Google has been at work on the project since 2008, according to Steven Levy's book "In the Plex," eWeek reported. But after not finding a Google exec to shepherd the project, GDrive was shelved.
Then Dropbox exploded onto the tech scene in 2009 just as the idea of cloud storage was gaining momentum. Dropbox originally formed in 2007, and was approached by the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs in 2009 and pressured to sell. The startup turned him down. Last year, Apple began hyping the iCloud, too, its own version of the Dropbox idea and with the release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple users will see that any change made to a document will be seen across all Apple devices.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
But now there's evidence the Google Drive project is finally launching, at least according to one user who spotted it on his Google account, according to Geekwire.
Among the options shown in the screenshot is a link to "Install Google Drive" . . . The timing makes sense: The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google was preparing to launch the long-rumored service "in the coming weeks or months," rivaling Dropbox and other cloud storage providers. Google Drive is expected to be free for most consumers and businesses, with a premium option available for extra storage.


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|Forums: Index → Narutopedia Announcements → Narutopedia look survey
Here's the results for the look survey that was run. We got 736 complete responses, including unfinished survey responses it was 1000 (the cutoff, I don't feel like paying for more than that).
I can crosstab any questions together into charts, and group comments by answer as well if necessary, I can also get specific other answers associated with comments.
- 1. Are you a reader or an editor?
- 2. What is your general opinion on the new look?
- I haven't seen the previous look before.
- I really like it.
- I can tolerate it but I kinda liked the old (Monaco) look better.
- It gets in my way; I wish we had the old look back.
- I prefer other looks like the standard Monobook and Vector skins which Wikipedia have been using.
- 3. Do you think the Narutopedia should re-include the social elements like blogs, allowing random discussions in the forums, fan theories, and fan art?
- I think the Narutopedia should stick to factual encyclopedic information.
- I like the idea of allowing fan theories artwork blogs and forum discussions on the Narutopedia.
- 4. What do you think about the idea of moving the Narutopedia off Wikia and it becoming an independent wiki?
- I like Wikia a lot, if the Narutopedia moved away I'd probably still edit the wiki on Wikia instead.
- I like Wikia a lot, I'd prefer it if the Narutopedia stayed here but if the community decided to move I'd be willing to go along with them.
- I don't care where the wiki is hosted, I'll edit it wherever the community is.
- I'm in favor of the idea of moving off of Wikia.
- 5. If the Narutopedia moved, what kinds of methods would you be fine with for making up the money needed for hosting costs? (Please select all that apply)
- 6. What do you think are good locations for advertisements? (Assuming a Monaco style layout, not Wikia's new skin; needless to say we won't be showing ads for logged in users, or in non-content areas such as discussion pages, special pages, and editing)
- 7. If the Narutopedia moved and offered small cheap advertising blocks using http://www.projectwonderful.com/, would you advertise your own websites in them?
- 8. Would you donate to a company hosting the Narutopedia
- 9. Should the Narutopedia split up into an Encyclopedia off-Wikia, and a wiki covering other things on Wikia?
- The Narutopedia should split up into two wiki on and off Wikia.
- The Narutopedia should stay as an Encyclopedia on Wikia.
- The Narutopedia should move away from Wikia completely.
- The Narutopedia should stay on Wikia and cover both Encyclopedic and fan content.
- 10. Feel free to leave any other comments, suggestions, notes, or ideas on how to pay for the hosting and service here
|I really don't want people coming here and adding whatever they feel like: this is a proud wikia of pure facts in the world of Naruto and freedom of fanon. If thousands of fans just come here and begin to add all kinds of "assumable" nonsense, this wikia will be no different from sites that people host alone and post all the stuff they THINK. It will basically collapse into an another blog site that people come for discussion which ends up in pointless "Who's the coolest ninja in Naruto?"s and all of the original info which people worked on years for will be gone forever.
|Change back to the old style.
|the new wikia design is awful
|I'm ok with fan content, but please ban stuff that are yaoi and yuri.
|I like it the way it is.
|this new shit is very GAY BRING BACK THE OLD ONE TTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS
|i like the new look of the narutopedia, but i still prefer the old one not because i got used to it it's because it is more easier and more child/teen friendlier since naruto is for children and teens.
i don't want narutopedia to move away from wikia...i absolutely don't! that's all...
|i like the old narutopedia beter
|I really prefered the old layout.
|please get the old manaco back i really like that 1 but if not i can handle the new 1
|I like the concept of several communities under one "place" wikia. I also much prefer the old template...the new one compacts the text into one side and its not visually appealing.
|make the story screen a bit wide an i might stick with this new look ps i like chicken
|i wish narutpedia would still be a free encyclopedia :)
|I really don't like the new look on the Narutopedia. Could you change it back or another style kind of like it? Thanks
|Please revert back to the old look. This is terrible and overly-confined.
|Bring the old skin back, please? The new layout isn't nearly as user-friendly.
|it was sweet the way it used to be
|Keep it up ^^
|I love Naruto-pedia the way it is and I love the new look.
I've been coming to this wiki for about a year or so and I love every minute of it.
Updates in information based on the weekly chapters and trivia at the bottom of the pages.
It's just an amazing site,one of my favorites.
|all i want is the narutopedia from before
|I have see this new system at other sites and I don't like it. I think that it is clumsy and hard to get to the data. Please change it back to the way that it was.
|I really prefer the traditional design, please stick to it as the new site is too much of a hassle.
|The original Wiki style is the best
|i really really really liked the old version of narutopedia, please thinking about putting it back please ! sites awesome
|use the old look
|I simply prefer the old look, I don't care about anything else.
|Please bring back the old look, it was so much easier to find what you were looking for and provided more opportunities for searching. It was easy to find your way around the site and get hooked on something you might not have searched, simply because you didn't know it existed. please bring back the old look or at least incorporate elements of it in the new look, it would improve the site so much
|I like the old look where the recently edited pages are on the side bar.
Really makes things easier that way. the colors and layout of the background also match NARUTO more PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD LOOK!!!
|i would like the idea of a better system for navigating episodes like on the one piece wikia where you have a contents for the arcs with the episodes relevant on a link on the top and it scrolls to the relevant episodes below when clicked.
|i want the old narutopedia....im missing the left side panel scroll where latest updates where made
|you r great .. keep goin on (ok)
|i really hate the new look..
|If this Wikia cost me something I probably will not come here anymore. This is like a Hobby of mine. I can live without it too. After all this is not so important as paying for study.
|It should be some comments off people that have seen the episode and talk about it
|I like those information written in narutopedia, because i am a big fan of naruto i hope for more information tnx alot
|The new design is terrible.
Impossible to read. PLEASE bring back the old design.
|i think it'll just be fine if you keep with wikia, and pls get the old look back
|why don't u just link a forum???
|I like the old look better, everything about the old Wikia was amazing I reckon. And also please dont put any ads in the left side bar or anything to hinder the left side bar we had before, I like the left side bar alot :)
|Change it back to the original look. This look makes me extreamly pissed and confused on how to find what I'm looking for.
|I love narutopedia :D it should stay tthe way it is now
|naruto forever!Believe it!
|I think your doing good, so aslong as I can still use this site I'm with you 100%.
|I think you should bring the old design back as fast as possible, because the new design is making so confused. PLEASSSE!!!!
|Eh, I'm not good with money.
|Change the skin .
|New design too cramped
|This new layout is too crampped. Everything is focused in the center and in smaller text. So my only real problem with the new look is that you have all this space and text is scrunched up in the middle
|just change the look
|change it back
|I think you should not change the background
|Good work, keep it up :D
|I want the old look... >:I
|I think the whole wikia concept is very good and it should remain as it used to be. the new style is not bad but is a matter of time to get use to it, so you should give some time to survey in order to work. i know advertising is the only way of resources but the purpose of wikia is not to annoy the visitors. i think you could also add automatic correction (dunno how is it called). Like google has when you write a word wrong and shows with bold letters.
|i should be back on it's original ..
|the new look looks really terrible
|Woohoo! =D
|Please stay with Wikia and change the look back to its old format.
|keep up the good work
|How about you try making a naruto mmorpg and charge membership, and it could be a price lower than the leading mmorpg, runescape which is $5.99 a month. Many naruto fans play runscape and a few world of warcraft so if you mixed elements of both sides and advertised it on your website you should get at least 100 or so buyers. For example, you could design your own ninja, have skills like chakra level and water style and weapons skills then you could level them up and the max level for all of them could be 500. Also, the levels can affect what jutsu you can preform and everyone picks their own Village. Villages can declare war on each other and wipe each other out. This can occur becuase whan a players character dies, he stays dead. However, the player could have like, 20 characters to make up for it. The members could have special powers like becoming jinchuriki, kage, and can make jutsu they can use plus they can use s-leveljutsu. You can decide the price but it should be lower than runescapes!
|I love the old look..because it seems look wider..and more comfortable to read the content..
|recent edits was a good thing on the side, that way, it was easier to see what was edited recently and see if it has been vandalised.
|Well as long as the info i get from narutopedia is all correct and clear, i dont really mind where this goes, plus i like the attention you give to screenshots of skills ;) coz those are some of the things that matter the most to me :)
|make it got video to watch and photos........that's all i want.....
|new look is to narrow
|I love Narutopedia! Keep up the good work.
|i liked the old wikia put it back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|I like how the site is now but honestly, I'll follow whatever the community majority decides to go for. If it is moved, I hope advertisements will remain somewhat tasteful without any sexual overtones. I've seen too many good sites go down due to that. Anyway, I'll wait and see on what happens. Thanks for reading, even if I rambled.
|sorry,,, i dont understand the two question,,, very sorry
|please put some pictures......
|Narutopedia is one of the most awesome I know, so I wish you give the fans what we want and keep up the good work in running this site. Thanks!
|i hope narutopedia better and better
|I hate the slim design. On my 1680 px wide monitor most of the space on monitor goes to the pointless waste of space. (I cant even imagine what the folks with HD monitor or even with greater one must be goingh through) The page design should be dynamic to adjust every monitor size.....
|Do what makes the most economic sense to you. However be carefull because you might go over board trying to make money and scare everyone away. This is why I don't go onto the "new" narutocentral site anymore
|The Narutopedia should have all the good quotes of all chracters.More pictures in pages.But it really is good and keep making this wiki a great site and best of luck.
|I Like Your Wikia Its good with the back ground
|I don't think narutopedia should move to a separate site, off of wikia, bcuz I dont think it would be a good idea, of separating bcuz the information here or off of wikia is gonna be the same everywhere and people come here to look at the information! And I dont think people will donate enough money to run the site at first!
|The site now has a sort of bar on the right side of the page which contains things like: Search, total pages on the wiki, recent edit, photos etc. But because of this, the article feels far too narrow. Theres a relatively small area for the article, and right of it a huge gaping stroke of blank. Should be better if th text was spread over the entire width where possible.
|Wanna Banana?
|Like I said I prefer the old layout better than the new one and that all I have to say..........Oh yah almost forgot...I have one last thing to say *takes a deep breath* " NARUTO
RRRROOOOOCCCCKKKKKSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE NARUTO WWWWOOOOOHHHHHHOOOO!!!! * sigh* that its XD
|i hate the new layout
|Please don't leave, I also like the old way better, because the search bar is easy to reach.
|narutopedia should stay with wikia but it is still okay if it moved as long as it is for free and no membership required to enter the site
|While the new look isn't great, I'd still recommend staying.
|go back to the old pedia
|I love this website as is
|Well, i don't really like the new look, but i do like Narutopedia. That's all. :3
|well wikia is the best information based site on naruto it is the best way to learn everyting about naruto.
|I'd like to have the quick search bar back.
|Naruto rocks! My favorite characters on Naruto are most likely Kimimaro and Gaara Of The Desert.
|I find it hard to navigate since the left sidebar (the one with "Most visited page" etc) is gone. Maybe bring back the old theme or just that sidebar I'm talking to.
|Screw wikia! This new style is CSS VOMIT.
|The new layout sucks
|common fanfic stuff
|I use Narutopedia a lot, and now that it looks like this, I might as well just use something else. It doesn't feel organized, and kinda sucky if I might add. Everything is changing, myspace, pedia's, and now you guys. I'm highly disappointed to say the least.
|I enjoyed the old Narutopedia. The new look impedes my ability to read. Before, my connection, however slow, could load a page in a reasonable time. The new look causes my browser to never load a page.
|The new style is terrible i can barely read it
|Don't fix it if it ain't broken!
|no coments, am satisfied with how narutopedia is now. however, let me point out that id prefer to have the old look back, since i am allready used to it, and i think it would probably also be easier to use.
|The right hand side of the articles now just turns to blank space below the advertisement. This makes long articles really awkward to read because the content all seems smashed to the left, rather than using the full page. Since the content if off center, it is difficult to skim as well as read.
|The new look is nice, but far too thin.
|As a bit of a frequent to this site, on a weekly basis or so, I enjoy the new look quite a bit. The other look was beginning to be a bit stale, but it was tolerable. I think the new site should become it's own independant wikia, but I also think it shouldn't. I just have a hard time believing that the people who use this site so frequently would donate, that's not to say they won't. But to continuously support the wikia, it would be difficult.
I have covered, what I think are some decent ideas for the site on the survey I completed, and I hope to have been of some help with my opinions and thoughts. I will continue to frequent the site so long as there are articles to read.
Thank you for reading.
|Well, i personally dont have any idea, sorry.
|go back to the normal one please
|I really hate the new layout. It's to hard to move and and and I miss the Narutopedia skin background.
|What annoys me the most about the new look is the width. I would really like it to be more.
|I hate how it bring the page to the top when i'm reading. >:(
|I don't like the akward new layout.
|I really hate the new style of this site. The design before was a lot of better, I think that i won't go again to this site if it stay like this
|get the old look back
|i don't really care what happens, but if it is moved and must be paid for by users, then i wont be able to browse any articles because i cant pay. i do enjoy reading the articles to look ahead and read about and learn things that i didn't know about before. i use narutopedia daily and i sometimes, every now and then, i edit but normally everything is fine. thank you for the survey. Hunter Barton, Narutopedia user
|Narutopedia is the best
|I Love The New Look :D
|website should include an area for readers to read naruto online
|i liked the old way narutopedia looked.
|The old looks better. Please change it.
|Change it back!!! I dont like the new set up whatsoever
|The new way reminds me of a glitch my computer has from time to time. It looks squeezed, and somewhat cheap. The old way was clear, understandable, and suitable.
And even though I know a.d.s are needed to keep this site running I still think that they should have no place here
|ok now to have fun
|get the old look back I want to keep track on the content tab what is newly changed and in the new look you guys dont have the tab there :/
|The new look steals content space D< if you have a small monitor, all the text is squashed into a tiny column. and the stupid banners that float with your scrolling is annoying as well. Blocks my screen too much. And yes, i know that that is Wikia's fault.
|The new look makes it virtually impossible to actually read articles, with the primary problem being that each article is now too long vertically and not wide enough horizontally.
|well i like the older version of the site now its all compressed so , the pages are getting LARGER and harder to navigate
|naaah... this survey already took a lot of my time... kthnxbai :D
|Narutopedia is awesome, so you can just keep it the way it is.
|i like naruto=)
|I think this abou covered it all but i realy want the old look back
|i dont know what a wiki or a wikia is
|The share/follow toolbar gets in the way, especially while scrolling
|NarutoPedia is Still the best Database. It's great, many fans use it. I particularly use it almost daily, It should continue the way it is, and I must confess it is improving, the database has every information possible ! Which is what us fans like ! NARUTOPEDIA IS ABSOLUTELY GREAT !
|As an older adult who mostly reads the facts about Naruto and get info on the current episode I am on I enjoy this site very much. It is very informative. Thank you for having it.
|Narutopedia is all right as it is...But it would be better with the old style!!!
|love narutopedia!
|New layout SUCKS
|change it back to its old look
|I enjoy Narutopedia. The one thing I dont't like is the pictures. There simply aren't enough. The ones you do have are good, but you need more pictures
|Just change it back to the original style!
|old look was way better.
|I think that Narutopedia should stay the same way it was before and should continue to stay with the website "Wikia"
Thanks! XD
|This new format is quite ugly. The wikia fuckers need to be smacked.
|i liked the old look, and want that back as my first choice and staying on wikia. But if wikia is adamant about arbitrarily keeping this look here, I'm all for moving to a new website.
|The search bar is often being blocked by the ad box below it making it hard to navigate the wiki. Please move it back to it normal place on the left side of the screen.


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It seems that a lack of response to punishment is often considered useful in diagnosing conditions or symptoms. A good example of this may be in diagnosing psychopathy, in which a lack of response to punishment seems to be a defining characteristics. For example:
Their behavior does not reform in response to punishment; they will impulsively commit crimes despite knowing the consequences they will likely face. They are among the worst of repeat offenders."
It seems odd to me that punishment is considered significant, since in many cases a person we consider capable of making their own decisions may not agree that they have done something wrong, in which case why would the punishment be expected to have any effect?
My question is, how is observing a lack of response to punishment useful in diagnosing any kind of psychological condition? Is the assumption that most people will respond in an expected way to punishment? If so, what is that based on?


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The Futurist, above all else, is devoted to bringing original ideas, observations, and analyses to the blogosphere. The Jeremiah Wright controversy has been heavily analyzed from a mind-boggling array of angles. Yet one noteworthy detail just has not emerged in the discussion. Maybe, as an Indian-American, I am truly a third party, and what was utterly invisible to the two races involved in the discussion, was somehow the very first question that entered my mind.
What immediately struck me is that Barack Obama, who is half Kenyan and half white, still has a darker skin tone than Jeremiah Wright. Indeed, in Africa, Barack Obama himself would be considered white. Could it be that less than half of Mr. Wright's ancestors are black?
To be fair, one must examine additional datapoints. Fortunately, this research exercise required no additional effort beyond what I was about to do anyway. I proceeded to search for photographs of Halle Berry, known to have had one white parent, in order to assess her skin tone. She, too, appears to be of a similar hue as Barack Obama, but distinctly darker than Wright. Here is more video footage of Wright. There just is not enough evidence to believe that even 50% of Mr. Wright's DNA originated from sub-Saharan Africa. Clearly, more than 50% of his ancestry is white.
Reverend Wright has built a career out of being a leader to a community from which less than 50% of his ancestry comes from, while condemning a race that apparently more than 50% of his ancestry comes from. He could just as easily have been a pastor in a white community, where the average skin tone would be closer to his own. White Americans have become so post-racial that it has entirely escaped their notice that the man can scarcely be considered black. His defenders claim that his anger is a byproduct of the racism he experienced in the Jim Crow era, yet he is actively applying the one-drop rule to himself.
It is curious that a man who refers to this country as the "U.S. of KKK-A", managed to attend the University of Chicago, and will soon reside in a 10,340 square foot mansion that his church has provided to him. Most white people are not fortunate enough to live in homes of that size. Indeed, most Harvard graduates don't manage to acquire such an impressive residence. Far from shame America, he has demonstrated how generous, to the illogical extreme, this country is. Nowhere else can someone with light skin pretend to be black, then condemn whites who are closer to his own skin color, and in the process achieve wealth from a nation while simultaneously condemning the same nation through the worst possible insults.
It appears that Reverend Wright identified a profitable niche, positioned his career accordingly, and reaped a rich bounty. As appalled as I am as an American, I am just as impressed as an entrepreneur.
Only in America......
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — As authorities investigated the rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, they compiled nearly 3,000 pages of documents that include everything from interviews with survivors and victims to police reports filed from the scene of the crime.
The documents were released Wednesday, and they provide new insight into how the shooting occurred and the motivations behind gunman Jared Loughner. One of the main themes to emerge was the increasingly erratic behavior of Loughner, perhaps summed up best by his father as he told investigators: He "just doesn't seem right lately."
A look at some of the major findings:
The gunman was polite and cooperative with authorities who were holding him the afternoon following his morning shooting rampage. The conversation as Loughner sat in restraints in an interview room was mainly small talk. Little was said over the four hours. Loughner asks at one point if he can please use the restroom and says "Thank you" when allowed. At another point he complained that "I'm about ready to fall over."
Loughner's mother, Amy, described his run-ins with authorities, his use of marijuana and cocaine, his journals and his increasingly erratic behavior. She also says the parents took a shotgun away from Loughner after he was kicked out of a community college and tested him for drugs because his behavior was so strange.
Randy Loughner said his son became increasingly difficult, and it was a challenge to have a rational conversation with him. "I tried to talk to him. But you can't, he wouldn't let you," he said "Lost, lost, and just didn't want to communicate with me no more."
Despite their son's increasingly bizarre behavior, Loughner's parents never sent him to get help. Randy Loughner said that his son had never been diagnosed with a mental illness. Had he seen a doctor, the detective asked. "No," replied the father. The parents were also asked about any journals or writings that Loughner kept. The father said they were written in an indecipherable script.
Loughner went to a convenience store immediately before the shooting and had the clerk call a cab for him. As he waited for the car, he was pacing inside and outside the store and went to the bathroom three or four times. The employee said that as Loughner was waiting for the cab, he looked up at a clock and said, "nine twenty-five, I still got time."
Loughner was pulled over earlier in the day for a traffic violation by a wildlife agent. He cried and said, "I've just had a rough time," and then composed himself, thanked the agent and shook his hand after he was let go with a warning. The agent asked Loughner again if he was OK, and Loughner said he was going home.
Giffords intern Daniel Hernandez helped tend to his boss after she was shot in the head. In an interview, he described the chaos: "She couldn't open her eyes. I tried to get any responses for her. Um, it looked like her left side was the only side that was still mobile. Um, she couldn't speak. It was mumbled. She was squeezing my hand.
"I did some training as a Certified Nursing Assistant and as a phlebotomist, um, when I was in high school. So I knew that we need to see if she's got a pulse. She was still breathing. Her breathing was getting shallower. Uh, I then lifted her up so that she wasn't flat on the ground against the wall," he said.
Loughner bought a 12-gauge shotgun in 2008, but his parents took it away from him after he was expelled from college and administrators recommended that any firearms be taken away. The shotgun was the only gun his parents knew Loughner owned.
A firefighter described how he cared for Giffords after arriving at the scene. "You'd ask her to grab your hand and she would grab your hand," he said. He and paramedics rushed her to the hospital in an ambulance, giving her oxygen and an IV.
Hernandez described how constituents and other people were lining up to see Giffords, and he was helping people sign in. He recalled handing Loughner a clipboard. "The next thing I hear is someone yell, 'gun,'" he said.
One-time Loughner friend Zachary Osler was an employee at a store where Loughner later bought a Glock handgun before the shooting. Osler was questioned about seeing Loughner shopping inside, sometime before Thanksgiving. He describes an awkward encounter with his former friend. "His response is nothing. Just a mute facial expression. And just like he, he didn't care." Osler told investigators he had grown uncomfortable with Loughner's personality, "He would say he could dream and then control what he was doing while he was dreaming." Osler says Loughner never mentioned Giffords to him.
Osler said when he learned that Loughner was the suspect in the shooting, "my jaw just dropped. And I was like I know this person. Why he would do it? What would his motive be? If he had people help him? I do not know."
Police reports show what authorities found in Loughner's possession after the shooting. In Loughner's left front pocket were two magazines for a Glock, both fully loaded. In his other front pocket was a foldable knife with about a 4-inch blade. In his back right pocket, he had a baggie with some money, a Visa credit card and his Arizona driver's license. He was wearing a black beanie, a black hoodie-type sweatshirt, khaki pants and Sketchers shoes.
A witness described seeing an ominous-looking man in his early 20s wearing a backpack near the shooting scene. The witness later described recognizing Loughner as the same person from photos on the news.


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At least four of the captives being force-fed at Guantanamo were cleared for release years ago.
As of Wednesday, the U.S. prison in southeast Cuba classified 100 of its 166 captives as hunger strikers, according to Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a prison spokesman. Navy medical workers were administering tube feedings to 23 of the hunger strikers, four of them at the prison hospital.
Prison officials have refused to name any of the hunger strikers. But the Justice Department has been notifying the attorneys of prisoners who have become so malnourished that they require the tube feedings.
Attorneys for nine of the men notified The Miami Herald of their identities.
One is Mohammed al-Hamiri, a Yemeni man in his 30s whose New York lawyer, Omar Farah, says he was told by the Justice Department that his client is "on hunger strike and is being force fed." Hamiri is also one of 55 men that the Justice Department has named, separately, in federal court filings as eligible for release.
In 2009, the Obama administration assembled a Task Force of representatives from federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI and Pentagon, to examine the files of the detainees brought to Guantanamo during the Bush years.
It concluded that 46 of the 166 men now there should be held indefinitely, without trial or charge.
But it found that 56 were eligible for transfer and another 30 might be eligible for transfer if certain conditions were met. The majority are Yemeni men, like Hamiri, whose transfer has been put on hold by a combination of congressional restrictions on releases and a White House freeze on transfers in particular to Yemen, which has a fervent al-Qaida franchise called Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Others identified by their attorneys as being force-fed include:
--Tariq Ba Awdah, 34, a Yemeni man whose lawyer says he's been on an uninterrupted hunger strike since February 2007. "I haven't tasted food for over six years," he wrote his lawyer, Farah, this week. "The feeding tube has been introduced into my nose and snaked into my stomach thousands and thousands of times." He has never been charged with a crime at Guantanamo's war court, and his status is not known.
--Ahmed Bel Bacha, 44, an Algerian man whom the Obama administration disclosed last year has been cleared for release
--Jihad Diyab, 41, a Syrian man whom the Obama administration disclosed last year has been cleared for release.
--Nabil Hadjarab, 33, an Algerian man whom the Obama administration disclosed last year has been cleared for release.
--Yasin Ismael, in his 30s, a Yemeni man who has never been charged with a crime and whose status is not known
--Fayez al Kandari, 35, a Kuwaiti, who at one point was considered for prosecution at the Guantanamo war court.
--Samir Mukbel, a Yemeni is in his 30s whose attorney helped him tell his story recently in a column published in The New York Times. His name is not among those the Obama administration has disclosed as cleared for release, and his status is not known.
--Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, 32, a Yemeni who won his habeas corpus lawsuit on Feb. 24, 2010 but lost after the U.S. government appealed to the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, which overturned the release order on March 29, 2011. His name is not among those the Obama administration has disclosed as cleared for release, and his status is not known.
Hunger strike figures rose steadily after April 13, when soldiers stormed inside Guantanamo's showcase communal prison and put nearly every captive at the prison camps complex under lockdown.
Before the lockdown, the military counted 43 of the 166 men as hunger strikers.
The military figure has stood at 100 hunger strikers since the weekend.
The British legal association, Reprieve, whose lawyers represent Shaker Aamer, 46, a Saudi-born former British resident, described Aamer as receiving forced feedings in an email to The Herald on Friday.
Sunday, Reprieve deputy director Hilary Stauffer clarified by email from London that attorneys had received no Justice Department notice that Aamer was among those being tube fed. "Anecdotally, we understood that he [has] sometimes been force fed," she wrote. Aamer is among the detainees defined by the Obama administration last year as eligible for release.
The prison camps in Cuba have been wracked by hunger strikes almost from the start. The Pentagon set up the offshore detention center in January 2002. But the most widespread known hunger strike took place in 2005 when, according to House, "we had a detainee population of 575 detainees with 142 detainees choosing to hunger strike in July."
On average, he said, 30 detainees were "being enteral fed," the Guantanamo term for the process of snaking a tube up a captive's nose, down the back of his throat and into his stomach before pumping in a can of nutritional supplement.


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I'd like to ask about how to use "more".
Would you take a look at the following sentences?
1) If I had studied harder, I could have passed the exam.
2) If I had studied more, I could have passed the exam.
Can I use "more" instead of " harder"? If so, do they express the same meaning?
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Caleb Alexander played collegiate soccer at UNC-Asheville before joining the Rapids front office, first as a tickets sales executive and recently a Service Specialist. He's also a life-long Arsenal fan and will be keeping Rapids fans updated on the Gunners throughout the 2013-2014 season.
Jack Wilshere scored two goals on Tuesday afternoon to lead Arsenal to a 2-0 win over visiting Marseille in the UEFA Champion's League group stage. The win kept the Gunners on top of their group and virtually guaranteed Arsenal of advancing to the Round of 16, although it is possible they could still miss out. As long as they avoid a loss by three or more goals in Italy when they face Napoli on December 11th they will advance, while a win or a tie would also guarantee they finish top of the group.
The Gunners got off to the best start possible with Jack Wilshere scoring after only 28 seconds. Bacary Sagna played Wilshere into space down the right wing, where he cut by his defender, and with his favored left foot, expertly curled a shot into the top corner of the goal. Arsenal nearly scored a second soon after when on-form Aaron Ramsey was denied by Marseille's goalkeeper from close range. Ramsey then presented Arsenal with another chance to score their second when he was brought down after a clever flick over his defender's head. The ref blew for a penalty even though it looked as if the contact happened just outside of the box. Mesut Özil stepped up to take the kick but his short run up and weak attempt was easily saved by Marseille's keeper.
Arsenal finally did get their second goal after some intricate play between the attacking trio of Ramsey, Özil, and Wilshere in the 65th minute. Olivier Giroud did well to hold the ball up on the right side of the penalty area before laying a pass back to Ramsey. Ramsey found Özil in space inside the box and his first time cross with the outside of his left foot was once again finished off by Jack Wilshere. Apart from one excellent save by Szczesny, the rest of the game played out without Arsenal ever looking in danger of giving up their lead, and that has been one of the notable improvements in the team this season.
In recent years Arsenal has been guilty of giving up soft goals that made wins much more uncomfortable, and often times caused them to lose valuable points. This season there seems to be a maturity and concentration throughout the entire team that has cut out many of those mistakes, and as a result, has allowed the team to close out wins and grind out important results. This solidity and the fact that there are goal threats all over the field has really set this Arsenal team up to do something special this season.
Arsenal are back to Premier League action this Saturday when they travel to Wales to face Cardiff City in the first of five games in only 15 days. Cardiff have been very difficult at home this season, with a shock win over Manchester City and a last minute, come from behind tie against Manchester United last weekend. Arsene Wenger will most likely look to rotate his squad for this game, with upcoming fixtures against Everton and Manchester City just around the corner, but he has to make sure his team does not become complacent. Chelsea and Liverpool are waiting to take advantage of any slip up, but I have a good feeling this team won't let that happen.


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Facing busy calendars and over-scheduled summers, Americans are dedicating, on average, only 40 minutes a week for family time, according to a research study from the NYU Child Study Center.
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40: Facing busy calendars and over-scheduled summers, Americans are dedicating, on average, only 40 minutes a week for family time, according to a research study from the NYU Child Study Center. With summer in full swing, it's the perfect time to capture those fleeting family moments and create delicious celebrations of happiness, laughter and togetherness.
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About how many gallons of frozen dairy products are produced yearly in the U.S.?
A. 1.6 billion
B. 25 billion
C. 4.2 billion
D. 586 million
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Cotija cheese: Sometimes referred to as cojito, cotija is a Mexican cheese named after its place of origin in Cotija, Michoacán. An aged cow-milk cheese, cotija is a firm, dry, salty and crumbly cheese that is sold in blocks or grated like parmesan. It also is available in a more moist, less salty variation that tastes a bit like feta.
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Author and beloved food blogger Elana Amsterdam has been living grain free for over 10 years. In "Paleo Cooking from Elana's Pantry," Amsterdam offers up her streamlined techniques and recipes with minimal ingredients for busy cooks on the run. She transforms simple, classic family favorites such as pancakes and ice cream with Paleo-friendly ingredients like almond flour and coconut milk. Paleo Cooking from Elana's Pantry includes nearly 100 recipes featuring the Paleo mainstays of lean proteins and simple vegetable dishes, plus wholesome sweet treats — all free from grains, gluten and dairy, and made with natural sweeteners.
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- A. 1.6 billion (According to the International Dairy Foods Association, due to ongoing technological advances, today's total frozen dairy annual production in the United States is more than 1.6 billion gallons.)
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
The term inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to two disorders that involve inflammation of the intestines: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis . These are each discussed in their own articles.
Another condition called irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is sometimes confused with IBD. However, IBS is a less serious illness that does not involve inflammation.
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Don't miss Maine Sportsman's Night in Thorndike on Saturday, October 12 at Mount View High School. This will be an amazing event of food, fun, and famous people. Here's a peak at what you can expect.
An expo filled with vendors. Seminars on sea duck and deer hunting and predator calling. A presentation on Unity College's fascinating bear study (and yes, it's still going on after that plane crash!).
You can bring your deer, moose, and bear skulls to be measured by an official of the Maine Antler & Skull Trophy Club. I've got one buck whose antlers made the club by a scant one-inch, and another that fell short by that same margin.
You'll be entertained by the most entertaining game warden in history, John Ford, who will be signing copies of his two fabulous books. You can read my review of his new book on my website.
Of course, there will be other famous game wardens there too, including the officers featured in the wildly popular North Woods Law TV show.
And speaking of TV shows, Duckman Martin, star of A&E's Duck Dynasty, will be the featured keynote speaker.
Wild game chef Denny Corriveau will feed you, and there will be lots of other food too, plus door prizes galore (including a sea duck hunt).
All of this begins at 1 pm and costs only $16. Be sure to bring the youngsters. If they are under the age of 8 they'll get in free. But every outdoor kid will love this event.
You can buy tickets and learn more at www.mainesportsmansnight.com and on the event's Facebook page.


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2,700 without power, more rain on way
The river of rain forecast to drench the Bay Area this week has taken its second swipe at the region, generating heavy downpours from the North Bay to the Santa Cruz Mountains, slowing commute traffic and downing electrical lines that supply thousands of households.
More than 2,700 Bay Area power customers were without electricity Friday evening, down from a high of 15,000 earlier in the day, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials. The majority of outages were in the North Bay.
Rainfall totals ranged from impressive - more than an inch in San Francisco and 2-plus inches in Oakland - to gully-washing, such as the 7 1/2 inches that came down in the Sonoma County town of Venado.
At the height of the storm, the morning commute was predictably slow.
"Anytime a storm like this hits anywhere in California, CHP is extremely busy," Officer Michael Ferguson of the California Highway Patrol said as he patrolled San Francisco highways. "There are times when we're going from call to call, crash to crash, and it just doesn't stop."
Starting about 7:30 a.m., Ferguson's patrol car radio made a constant crackle reporting disabled vehicles, potholes that need filling, flooding and minor accidents.
The priority for officers during a rainy rush hour is to keep the roads clear as best as possible.
That includes pushing disabled vehicles out of the roadway and onto a shoulder, as Ferguson had to do for a Ford Econoline van that stalled on westbound Interstate 80 near the Seventh Street on-ramp.
Another officer did the same for a red Nissan sedan that hit the center divide and spun out on Interstate 280 northbound just south of the Avalon Drive exit.
The CHP expects more of the same as heavy rains are predicted to continue off and on throughout the weekend.
As the deluge picks up Saturday night, San Francisco residents can expect about an inch of rainfall, with totals in the wettest parts of the Bay Area reaching up to 7 inches, according to Austin Cross, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
Cross said the agency is monitoring potential flooding in the Russian River area and in the coastal mountains.
In preparation, the San Francisco Department of Public Works has distributed 400 sandbags and has 2,000 more ready for pickup at its yard at 2323 Cesar Chavez St.
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TNR Gold Rejects Third Party Proposal And Provides Los Azules Update TNR.v, MUX
"Kirill Klip, Chairman of TNR commented that: "Although the price being proposed for the Company was materially higher than TNR's current trading price, in our view it fell far short of reflecting the value of the Company and, in particular, the value of the Company's claims in the current Los Azules litigation with Minera Andes Inc."
NovaGold: Southwest Alaska gold project moving ahead
"We have a very encouraging news from NovaGold for all gold mining projects in Alaska. Company and its partner Barrick Gold moves ahead with the $6.7 billion development of Donlin Gold project. Both companies are shareholders in TNR Gold, with Nova Gold holding under 10% of the company - after Shotgun Gold project was consolidated 100% by TNR Gold last year.
TNR Gold's Shotgun Gold project with almost 1 million oz Gold (Historical NON 43-101) resource will bring investors and industry attention again now. The development of Donlin Gold will bring necessary infrastructure to the area making the development of other mining projects possible. The proposed natural gas pipeline is a game changer in the rising Oil prices environment and will provide the unique opportunity for reducing the development and production cost of the mines in the area."
TNR Gold Announces Long Term Debt Financing and Shotgun Gold Project Drill Program
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 31, 2012 --/PRNewswire/ -- TNR Gold Corp. (the "Company") has arranged a $3,500,000 loan (the "Loan") from a private backer (the "Lender") to provide funds for the Company to conduct drilling and other exploration work on its Shotgun Gold Project located in Alaska, and provide the company with additional working capital. The Loan is due and payable on or before May 31, 2015 and is secured by a promissory note and general security agreement. The Loan will bear interest at the rate of 20% per annum. No bonus shares or commission are payable in connection with the Loan.
Objectives of the Shotgun Gold Ridge drill program include:
- Infill drilling to support a compliant NI 43-101 resource calculation;
- Test new geophysical targets identified in 2011;
- Further test at depth feeder zones discovered in 2006.
During 2011 a 3D geophysical orientation survey was conducted across Shotgun Ridge covering the area of historical drilling and extending beyond there along the ridge. The survey demonstrated that resistivity and conductivity methods are able to detect controlling structures within the ridge. This has led to the identification of new targets within Shotgun Ridge that are geophysically similar to the 210m intersection grading 1.29 g/t Au intersected in drill hole 06-43. These targets will be tested prior to the updated, compliant NI 43-101 resource calculation. Additional geophysical surveys will be conducted on prospects Shot and King to locate similar controlling structures and develop drill targets where extensive geochemical anomalies do not yet have identified bedrock sources.
"Given the current financial climate and TNR's undervalued market capitalization we are very pleased to have secured long term, non dilutive funding that will enable the Company to advance the Shotgun Gold project and return to the project generation business plan. Our present strategy is to develop TNR's existing assets to a stage that fosters strategic joint venture partnerships." - Gary Schellenberg, President.
About the Shotgun Gold Project
TNR holds a 100% interest in the Shotgun property which is located 175 kilometres south of Donlin Creek within the Kuskokwim Gold Belt in Southwestern Alaska. This area is emerging as a world-class gold district hosting more than 40 million ounces of aggregated gold resources. The Shotgun property includes a number of prospects, including Shotgun Ridge and nearby Winchester. Donlin is an intrusion-associated system and represents one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in the world. The Company believes that there are several key similarities between prospects in the Shotgun area and that of the Donlin Creek gold deposit as well as other intrusion-associated deposits.
Previous work at Shotgun Ridge by NovaGold Resources Inc. in 1998 estimated an historical resource of 980,000 ounces grading 0.93 gram per tonne (g/t) at a cut-off of 0.5 g/t (This estimate was made prior to NI43-101 and has not been verified by a QP. It is provided for historical information and should not be relied upon).
The Loan is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
John Harrop, P.Geo, is the company's Qualified Person on the project as required under NI 43-101 and has reviewed the technical information contained in this press release.
Over the past twenty-one years TNR, through its lead generator business model, has been successful in generating high quality exploration projects around the globe. With the Company's expertise, resources and industry network, it is well positioned to aggressively identify, source, explore, partner and continue to expand its project portfolio.
TNR's recently listed subsidiary, International Lithium Corp. (TSX:ILC.V), demonstrated the successful application of TNR's business model in which TNR shareholders benefited from a unit distribution upon spin-out of TNR's lithium and rare metals projects. TNR remains a large shareholder in ILC at 25.5% of outstanding shares.
At its core, TNR provides significant exposure to gold and copper through its holdings in Alaska and Argentina; and teamed with the recent acquisitions of rare-earth elements and iron ore projects in Canada confirm TNR's commitment to continued generation of in-demand projects, while diversifying its markets and building shareholder value.
On behalf of the board,
Gary Schellenberg President
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Apparently customers were so angry about their music listening habits made public on Facebook, Spotify decided to change its policy and allow a private listening mode, Spotify founder Daniel Ek said.
"We're rolling out a new client as we speak where you can temporarily hide your guilty pleasures. It works like a browser's private mode," he posted on Twitter Thursday. "We call it 'private listening' and you can find it in the Spotify/File menu and toggle it on/off."
New Spotify users must access the music service on Facebook, and as presented at Facebook's developer conference f8, it would announce all your listening habits to friends. But there has been serious pushback, including tweets to Ek, according to Forbes.
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We think this means users don't want their friends to know they listen to Spice Girls, Julio Iglesias, Rick Springfield or other cheesy recording artists. As Rasmus Otto wrote to Ek, "Finally I can play Justin Bieber without the world knowing."


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A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and could also provide new insights into how cells and other objects are transported within the body.
Inside organs such as the trachea and the intestines, tiny hair-like filaments called cilia are constantly in motion, beating in unison to create currents that sweep along cells, nutrients, or other tiny particles. The new research uses a self-assembling system to mimic that kind of motion, providing a simple way to move particles around in a precisely controlled way.
Alfredo Alexander-Katz, the Merton C. Flemings Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, his doctoral student Charles Sing, and researchers at Boston University and in Germany, devised a system that uses so-called superparamagnetic beads — tiny beads made of polymers with specks of magnetic material in them — suspended in liquid.
Due to the heavy magnetic material content, these beads sink to the bottom of the liquid. They placed the whole system inside two pairs of magnetic coils and used them to apply a rotating magnetic field, which caused the beads to spontaneously form short chains that began spinning. This motion created currents that could then carry along surrounding particles — even particles as much as 100 times larger than the beads themselves.
Alexander-Katz refers to the microscopic assembly of beads — each just a few microns (millionths of a meter) in size — as "micro-ants," because of their ability to move along while "carrying" objects so much larger than themselves. A paper describing the research will appear the week of Dec. 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He says the way the chains of beads moved is a bit like a person trying to do cartwheels while standing on an icy surface. "As they rotate, they slip a bit," he says, "but overall, they keep moving," and this imparts a directional flow to the surrounding fluid.
The new method could provide a simpler, less-expensive alternative to present microfluidic devices, a technology involving the precise control of tiny amounts of liquids flowing through microscopic channels on a chip in order to carry out chemical or biological analysis of tiny samples. Now, such devices require precisely made channels, valves and pumps created on a silicon chip using microchip manufacturing methods, in order to control the movement of fluids through them. But the new system could offer such precise control over the movement of liquids and the particles suspended in them that it may be possible to dispense with the channels and other plumbing altogether, controlling the movements entirely through variations in the applied magnetic field.
In short, software rather than hardware could control the chip's properties, allowing it to be instantly reconfigured through changes in the controlling software — an approach Alexander-Katz refers to as "virtual microfluidics." This could reduce the cost and increase the flexibility of the devices, which might be used for such things as biomedical screening, or the detection of trace elements for pollution monitoring or security screening. It might also provide even finer spatial control than can presently be achieved using conventional channels on chips.
Alexander-Katz says the work might also help scientists better understand the way cilia work, by providing a way to mimic their activity in the lab. "People are still trying to understand how you get hydrodynamic synchronization in the systems" of cilia in organisms — that is, having the individual cilia all working together in a pattern of motion that controls the flow of fluid over them. "This might be a way to test many of the theories."
David Weitz, a physicist at Harvard University who studies colloidal physics and biological systems, says that "The work is a beautiful example of the use of colloidal particles to mimic the behavior of cilia, which are used by cells for propulsion." The use of the beads in a magnetic field "actually causes the chains to move, and induces flow in the fluid. This effect is difficult to achieve by any means, and the method reported here is an elegant and simple means of accomplishing this."
Weitz adds that in terms of applications, "The main utility of these observations is likely to be the understanding of the fundamental properties of these [cilia] structures. They could conceivably ultimately find use as miniature fluid pumps." He adds that Alexander-Katz "is likely to have considerable impact with work like this."
Such a system might someday even be developed to use in medical diagnostics, by allowing controlled delivery of particles inside the body to specifically targeted locations, for example while the patient is in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging system.
Although medical applications might take many years to develop because of the stringent requirements for safety testing, Alexander-Katz says, applications to creating a new kind of microfluidics chips could be achieved "within a year or so." This would essentially just be a matter of scaling up from the simple, basic systems that were tested in this study to more complex assemblies.
December 15, 2009
It provides us an alternative within medicine. If we develop a metabolizable polymer, then we can eliminate the waste out of our body.
Imagine this: we drink the medicine, and lie down. A few minutes later, the thrombus is eliminated without a surgery. The only thing we need to do is to go to the bathroom, and the residue of the medicine is excreted.
December 16, 2009
I think we can use it to do a test that carrying tiny metal beads to move, afterwards we can test how much the current created from the movement of those tiny beads. Because I want to know whether the movement of electron (contained in tiny metal beads) can results current or the diffence with the conventional methods of generating electircal current.
ruth housman
December 18, 2009
these insights provided by ants, do remind me of EO Wilson and his book about insects and the altruism of ants. It's amazing what we learn from the natural world and how we adapt what we learn to further scientific advances.