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AbstractA tried and true balloon activity is to rub a balloon on your head to make your hair stand up. How does the rubbing build up static electricity? Do this experiment to see if the number of rubs makes a difference.
Test if the number of rubs of wool on a balloon increases or decreases how long the static charge will last.
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Static electricity is the build-up of electrical charge in an object. Sometimes static electricity can suddenly discharge, like when a bolt of lightning flashes through the sky. Other times, static electricity can cause objects to cling to each other, like socks fresh out of the dryer. The static cling is an attraction between two objects with different charges, positive (+) and negative (–).
You can create static electricity by rubbing one object against another object. This is because the rubbing releases negative charges, called electrons, that build up to produce a static charge. For example, when you shuffle your feet across a carpet, you are making many small contacts between the surface of your feet and the carpet, allowing electrons to transfer to you, building up a static charge on your skin. You can suddenly discharge this static charge as a shock when you touch a friend or some objects. Similarly, when you rub a balloon on your head it causes opposite static charges to build up in your hair and in the balloon. You can see these two opposite static charges attracting each other when you pull the balloon slowly away from your head making your hair stand up, as shown in Figure 1, below. You can learn more about electric charges and static electricity in the Science Buddies Electricity, Magnetism, & Electromagnetism Tutorial.
Figure 1. Static electricity makes your hair stand up! (NASA, 2004)
In this experiment you will test if the number of rubs can change how long the static charge will last by rubbing a balloon with wool and timing how long it will cling to a wall. Wool is a material that readily donates its electrons, so when you rub the balloon with it it will donate its electrons to the surface of the balloon, giving part of the balloon a negative charge. The wall should normally have a neutral charge, but the charges within it can rearrange so that a positively charged area is interacting with the negatively charged balloon, causing the balloon to stick to it. By doing this experiment you can investigate how effective rubbing wool against a balloon is at creating static electricity and a static charge.
Terms and Concepts
- Static electricity
- Charges
- Electrons
- Static charge
- Attraction
- How does friction produce static electricity?
- How is static electricity related to charge?
- How can you measure static electricity?
- Science Made Simple. (n.d.). Static Electricity: What Causes Static Shocks?. Retrieved March 18, 2006.
- Museum of Science, Boston. (n.d.). Static Electricity: Electricity Medley. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- The Library of Congress. (2011, June 1). How does static electricity work? Everyday Mysteries. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- Brynie, F.H., 2005. Parents Crash Course: Elementary School Science Fair Projects, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing Inc. pp 124-130.
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- Balloons (at least 3). Smaller balloons, like water balloons, may work better in humid environments, but you will still blow the balloons up with air.
- Woolly sweater, scarf, or blanket
- Stopwatch
- Lab notebook
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- For this experiment, you will need a data table for your results. You will need one data table for each trial, so make at least three data tables for doing at least three separate trials. You can use a data table like Table 1.
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- Blow up the balloon and tie off the end.
- Rub the balloon on the scarf once, in one direction.
- Hold the balloon up on the wall, start the stop watch and release. Does it stay on the wall? If not, stop your stop watch and write "0 seconds" in your data table.
- Touch the balloon to a metal object. This should discharge any extra electrons into the metal.
- Repeat steps 3 to 5, increasing the number of rubs each time until the balloon sticks to the wall. When you increase the number of rubs do not rub the balloon back and forth, but instead always rub the balloon in the same direction each time.
- When the balloon does stick to the wall, keep the stop watch going until the balloon falls off of the wall. When it does, stop the stop watch and write the time in the data table next to the matching number of rubs.
- Repeat step 7, increasing the number of rubs each time and recording the amount of time the balloon sticks to the wall with the stop watch. Write the results in the data table each time. You can continue increasing the number of rubs until you have several data points for the balloon sticking to the wall.
- Make a graph of your results. You can make your graph by hand or you could use a program like Create a Graph to make it on a computer and print it out. A line graph is the best type of graph for this experiment. Make a scale on the left side of the graph (Y-axis) for the time in seconds, and a scale on the bottom of the graph (X-axis) for the number of robots. For each point of data, make a dot where the number of rubs and the time in seconds intersect.
- Analyze your results. Does your data make a line? Does the line go up or down? Does the line level off at some point, or keep going? Does the time the balloon stays on the wall increase or decrease with the number of rubs?
- Repeat steps 2–10 at least two more times so you have done a total of at least three trials total. Does the data for each trial match with the previous trials?
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- Does rubbing in one direction give a different result than rubbing back and forth? Try a different experiment comparing the same number of rubs in one direction compared to back and forth. Does one stay up on the wall longer than the other?
- Static electricity is not good when it gets in your clothes! How do dryer sheets work? Try an experiment rubbing the balloon with a dryer sheet (like Bounce) after rubbing against the wool. What happens to the static cling? Can you rub different times, measure the results and make a graph? If you can, you can make a graph to compare the results of different products. How do they compare? Do they take the same number of rubs to reduce the static cling? Which brands are most effective?
- Try comparing the effectiveness of different materials for producing a static charge. Does rubbing wool work better than rubbing silk? Design an experiment to test several different materials: silk, wool, nylon, polyester, plastic, metal, etc.
- For a more advanced experiment, try investigating static electricity in different conditions, temperatures and humidities (Brynie, 2005).
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Honda became a classic American success story in the '60s. In this single, crucial decade, Honda transformed itself from a domestic supplier to an international corporation, and planted a firm foothold on American soil. Honda began the '60s with 50cc step-throughs, and created a displacement escalator that carried the motorcycle market up to the incredible CB750 four by 1969. U.S. sales skyrocketed from a mere 3200 units in 1960 to an amazing 345,000 units by the end of the decade--more than 50 percent of the U.S. motorcycle market.
Having established itself with a sizable market share, a full line of machines, and a clean-cut image that bucked the hell-raiser Hollywood stereotype, Honda entered the '70s prepared to flex its creative muscle and take off in directions no one else could.
The company's success in the '60s had been based on the proven air-cooled, two-valve engine and tube-frame technology that found its maximum expression in the CB750. And that technology started the decade off with Dick Mann's 1970 Daytona 200 win on a race version of that very motorcycle. But then, Honda broke that familiar mold with a flurry of innovative products that introduced riders to new ways to enjoy motorcycling.
An important element of Honda's strategy has always been innovation, offering completely new products that create new market segments. The ATC™90, introduced in 1970, is a classic example. It single-handedly created the ATV market. Honda also pioneered evolution in existing markets. For example, taking the place of the CL off-road twins of the 1960s were new lines of highly functional single- and multi-cylinder four-stroke SLs, and single-cylinder XLs. The TL125 introduced motorcyclists to another new sport: trials riding. In 1973, Honda parried the two-stroke thrusts of its rivals with the radical CR250M Elsinore™, a purpose-built two-stroke motocross racer that won the National championship its first year out. That same year, Honda's concentrated efforts in the off-road area had helped the off-highway segment grow to 25 percent of the total bike market. Into this thriving market, Honda launched a proliferation of enduro and trail MTs, XLs and SLs, including the hugely successful XL350 in 1974.
Honda was at the same time expanding its automotive efforts, and exploring the idea of producing some of its products in the United States. What's more, a fascinating struggle began to take shape within the company, one that would redirect design and unlock new possibilities for a long time to come. Mr. Honda strongly believed innovative engineering could produce air-cooled auto engines as good as or better than the liquid-cooled competition, so 1960s Honda cars as well as bikes were air-cooled. But Honda's younger engineers strongly favored liquid cooling, both for performance and market appeal. Mr. Honda initially resisted, but after a showdown with company vice president Takeo Fujisawa, he eventually accepted liquid cooling as the key to future development.
Honda's new liquid-cooled direction led first to the CVCC clean-burn auto engine, introduced at the 1972 Tokyo show. This was the first production auto engine to meet the 1975 EPA standard without a catalytic converter, and it demonstrated Honda's research capability to the world. The Honda Civic auto, with this and other liquid-cooled engines, immediately became popular in the U.S.
Such thinking and research led to the creation of yet another new market segment--though not even Honda knew it at the time. The 1975 GL™1000 Gold Wing® was Honda's first thorough synthesis of automotive and motorcycle technologies. The temperature stability of liquid cooling allowed the GL to develop high power, yet lose none of Honda's customary reliability. Gold Wing engineers had envisioned it as the ultimate performance bike, combining 1000cc power with flat-four smoothness and liquid-cooled silence. Indeed, the Gold Wing posted the quickest quarter-mile of its day, but buyers saw its greatest value as a long-distance machine. In a unique partnership with Gold Wing owners, the GL created a whole new category of motorcycle: the dedicated touring bike. Its evolution continues to this day.
However, not all of Honda's innovations gained widespread acceptance. Hondamatic™--a torque-converter-based automatic transmission for motorcycles--was a successful technology that didn't catch the public's fancy. Electric starting had brought a lot of people to motorcycling, and Honda wondered: Would an automatic do the same? The 1976 CB750 Automatic and 1977 CB400A were remarkable machines, but riders chose high-performance over this convenience. Honda also launched two other wildly diverse products in 1977--the NC50 no-ped, an ultralight, minimalist motorbike, and the FL250 Odyssey® four-wheeler, a natural evolution of the ATC90.
By 1978, Honda had prepared to close the decade with a barrage of innovative machines. The first shot came in the form of the CX500. A significant new direction in engine design was packaged into the unusual CX500, whose liquid-cooled V-twin engine was set sideways in the chassis. With four valves in each cylinder, the CX500 was a high-performance pushrod V-twin in a sea of overhead-cam inline-fours. Its radically oversquare bore and stroke of 78mm by 52mm made it the forerunner of all modern short-stroke, big-bore sport bike engines.
Air cooling wasn't finished yet, though. Two stunning new machines used it to probe the future of sports motorcycling in 1979: the 16-valve, twin cam, transistor-sparked CB750F, and the technologically astounding 1047cc six-cylinder CBX. The 750F was a production outgrowth of Honda's successful twin-cam endurance racer, and beckoned the company deeper into sport bike territory. As the first CB750 had realized the legend of Honda's racing fours in the showroom, so the six-cylinder CBX grew naturally from the heritage of Mike Hailwood and the 250cc and 297cc six-cylinder racers of 1964 through 1967. The 1979 CBX became an exotic signpost to the future.
Honda closed the decade by opening a motorcycle manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio, designed initially to produce the Gold Wing. This 260,000-square-foot plant introduced production versatility not found in other Honda plants, giving the company the ability to respond quickly to changing tastes, and to satisfy new and expanding markets. This plant, like Honda's innovative machines, defined a decade marked by classic, hallmark Honda thinking: That anything was possible. From the many new elements discovered and created in the experiments of the 1970s, Honda synthesized new directions for the 1980s. These would lead in turn to new surprises and opportunities. Source


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SEATTLE, Washington - A group of enterprising doctors today were granted a license by the State Board of Medical Examiners in Washington State to open the first of what they hope to be many self-help walk-in clinics in America.
Based on the concept of "been there, done that" but in a more professional sense, the doctors came up with a plan that they say will revolutionize the way people are treated for minor mishaps. The doctors claim that most people nowadays know their way around the internet pretty well. There are hundreds if not thousands of "check your symptoms" sites for them to go online and follow a series of questions to determine what may be ailing them. The doctors also claim that people are much more savvy when it comes to self-diagnosing and treating themselves with over-the-counter and existing prescribed medications, and that those same people would benefit from coming into a clinic and getting a confirmation or denial of their course of action.
"That is where we come in," claims Dr. Stanley Morgenstern, the brainchild who came up with this most unique approach to treating those who cannot afford quality medical care but who need the 'clinic' experience to get well.
"I was seeing more and more patients who would ask me about this treatment or that treatment that they had read up on the internet and in more than one instance I noticed that what they were spouting to me had some truth in it." Morgenstern said he then had several conversations with some colleagues over a multiple golf games and that's when it hit him. "Hey, these people can follow directions. We'll help them out and not charge them a fortune just to see a guy in a white coat do what they can do for themselves," said Morgenstern, and that is how "Self-Check Clinics" was born.
The concept is going to be quite simple. People do not need an appointment to go into the clinic and register to 'consult' with a computer doctor. Once seated before a computer screen, they will be prompted automatically to fill in their name and a brief medical history and state any existing conditions they have as well as medical problems they are having at present. They will also be prompted to report any and all drugs they are taking, whether prescription, over-the-counter, or illegal. They will also be able to slip their arm into a blood pressure cup and have their blood pressure as well as temperature and heart rate readings taken automatically.
The screen will then come on asking them what their major complaint is. Dr. Morgenstern claims that these clinics will only take patients who have minor complaints, such as grinding headache, insomnia, flu other non life-threatening medical issues. Several times throughout the screen process the computer will prompt the patient to go on with the PROCEED prompt. If the computer gets to a point at any time where it senses the patient may have a much more serious problem, it will show a STOP prompt and will advise the patient to immediately see a doctor.
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Some opponents of the new clinics are making their voices heard loud and clear that this is a horrible idea which will lead to misdiagnosis causing more serious medical conditions in the people who use these clinics. Dr. Morgenstern disagrees. "People have options all the time in life," said Morgenstern. "I'll give you a for instance. Most people suffering mild chest pains will first think they are having a heart attack. This is normal to think this way as that is location of the heart. However, nine times out of ten, it is just heart burn. Sure, they could just go over to the drug store and pick up something to ease the discomfort, but with all those products on the shelf, which one do they choose? Tablets? Time-release capsules? Liquids? It can get pretty confusing. Our clinics will help them sort out their needs from Mylanta to Pepcid. That is just one of the many things we can do for them. They will walk out of a clinic better informed of their condition and feel proud that they took part in a positive health plan for a change."
Morgenstern continued, "Would they like to have the money to see a real doctor? Sure, maybe, but until they do, they get charged a little less for almost basically the same treatment. It's a win-win hands down."


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The Postal Service said Thursday that most rates will go up on April 17 under a formula that allows the agency to increase prices within the rate of inflation.
The post office said the 44-cent price of a first-class stamp will remain unchanged, but heavier letters will cost more. The basic rate is for the first ounce, and the price for each extra ounce will rise from 17 cents to 20 cents.
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Under the law, the post office can raise rates as long as it doesn't exceed inflation, which would permit an increase of 1.7 percent averaged over all mail.
The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion last year despite deep cuts of more than 100,000 jobs and other reductions in recent years.
The agency has lost considerable business to the Internet in recent years and the post office last summer sought an increase that would have exceeded inflation, citing the unusual business conditions of the recession. That was rejected by the independent Postal Regulatory Commission.
The post office has appealed that turndown, but in the meantime is moving to increase rates within the legal limit.
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- Letters to Canada or Mexico increase to 80 cents, from 75 cents to Canada and 79 cents to Mexico.
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Mention of the words "techie" and "food" likely brings to mind the typical engineer fare — racks of Popchips, Snickers bars and chilled Mountain Dew, staples all too common to the Silicon Valley start-up pantry.
But some nerds eat better than others.
At least, that's the case for those contributing to "The Start-Up Chef," a new recipe book touting dishes from more than 70 Valley-dwelling contributors who can cook everything from eggs sous vide to steak au poivre (as well a host of other non-French dishes).
It's the pet project of Hunter Walk and Maya Baratz, two techies who wanted to both celebrate the fact that the start-up diet isn't all Funyuns and Twizzlers, while trying to do a bit of good at the same time. Published as both an e-book and a PDF on self-publishing platform Leanpub, proceeds from the book sales go to charities aiming to end hunger.
It's a break from the typical Valley refrain, where dreams of wealth, upward mobility and lavish parties often trump the do-gooder ideas and concerns of social welfare.
"We want to evolve the norms of our industry," Walk, a product head at YouTube who has worked on other philanthropic efforts at Google, told me. "Not only in building amazing products, but in helping the world in general."
As new generations of technologists continue to come into money and prominence early on, Walk says it's all the more important to try and find ways to participate in charitable giving at every point in their careers.
And as Baratz points out, the book offers a taste (ha!) of the lives of founders, venture capitalists and tech writers that we wouldn't otherwise be privy to.
"Not only can these people cook well, but many of these are passed-down family recipes," said Baratz, a product exec at ABC News. "They've brought a lot of personal aspects to the project."
Natch, you'll find a sausage soup recipe on page 138, one that comes straight from the kitchen of "Mom Crowley," mother of Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley.
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The architectural practice around the Swiss born and New York based architect Bernard Tschumi realised the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, which is located within spitting distance of the world famous archaelogical excavation.
"The challenges of designing the New Acropolis Museum began with the responsibility of housing the most dramatic sculptures of Greek antiquity. This collection of objects shaped the program even before a site was chosen. The building's polemical location added further layers of responsibility to the design. Located at the foot of the Acropolis, the site confronted us with sensitive archeological excavations, with the presence of the contemporary city and its street grid and with the Parthenon itself, one of the most influential buildings in Western civilization. Combined with a hot climate in an earthquake region, these conditions moved us to design a simple and precise museum with the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greece.
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In recent commentary in the Financial Times, as well a speech he delivered in Berlin to celebrate the release of his latest book, Soros says that "far from abating, the euro crisis has recently taken a turn for the worse."
The European Central Bank relieved an "incipient" credit crunch through its longer-term refinancing operations. The resulting rally in financial markets hid an underlying deterioration; but that is unlikely to last much longer, according to Soros.
"The fundamental problems have not been resolved," he said. "Indeed, the gap between creditor and debtor countries continues to widen. The crisis has entered what may be a less volatile but more lethal phase."
The only way to "escape the trap" is to recognize that current policies are counterproductive and change course. He acknowledges he cannot propose a cut-and-dried plan, only some guidelines.
"First, the rules governing the euro zone have failed and need to be radically revised. Defending a status quo that is unworkable only makes matters worse," he writes.
Second, the current situation is highly anomalous, and exceptional measures are needed to restore normalcy. Finally, he says new rules must allow for financial markets' inherent instability.
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To give a sense of what was high on our readers' priority lists in 2012, the editors at Education Week compiled a list of our ten most-viewed articles. Below, those stories are ordered by the number of online page views they generated. Take a look at what other readers saw as the most interesting pieces of the year, and catch up on news you may have missed in 2012.
1. Scientists Find Learning Is Not 'Hard-Wired'
Discovering the brain's power to change may be neuroscience's biggest—and most promising—contribution to education. (June 4, 2012)
2. Educators in Search of Common-Core Resources
Teachers and curriculum developers find materials reflecting the English/language arts and math standards in short supply. (February 24, 2012)
3. Consortia Provide Preview of Common Assessments
Experts suggest test-makers will be challenged to write items that will measure the depth of knowledge expected. (August 14, 2012)
4. Research Links 'Responsive' Teaching to Academic Gains
A new study adds to the growing body of research showing that social-emotional learning can positively influence academic, as well as behavioral, results. (September 13, 2012)
5. U.S. Education Pressured by International Comparisons
Concern over U.S. students' middling test scores vies with caution about cultural and other factors that shape school improvement. (January 9, 2012)
6. Studies Link Students' Boredom to Stress
Students may say a teacher's lesson is boring, a researcher says, when frustration is really what they feel. (October 9, 2012)
7. Summit to Make a Case for Teaching Handwriting
Educators and experts say students still need to learn penmanship, even in a digital age. (January 23, 2012)
8. Common Core Thrusts Librarians Into Leadership Role
Already equipped with inquiry-based skills, librarians are helping teachers acquire the instructional methods they need to adopt. (September 11, 2012)
9. Equipping U.S. Schools for the Global Fast Lane
American educators comb the data from school systems in other countries for clues to what might work closer to home. (January 9, 2012)
10. Public Gets Glimpse of Science Standards
An ambitious effort to refocus K-12 science education across the nation enters a new phase today with the release of the first public draft of voluntary, "next generation" standards in the subject. (May 11, 2012)
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Amanda Bynes calls the Obamas 'ugly'
Guess Amanda Bynes won't get invited to White House dinners any time soon. On Monday, according to US Weekly, the 27-year-old actress added the president and first lady to her ongoing list of "ugly" people, tweeting out the creative, well-thought-out message, "Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are ugly!"
Apparently they only recently became ugly in Bynes eyes, because she famously reached out to the president on Twitter last year when she was arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated and sideswiping a police car. "I don't drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me," she asked the nation's leader back then. "I also don't hit and run. The end."
Bynes has a long list of celebrities she's called "ugly" on Twitter, including Miley Cyrus, Drake (for whom she has also professed her undying love), Zac Efron, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Jenny McCarthy, Lance Bass and Courtney Love. She recently explained, "I tweet what I feel."
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A new Great Smoky Mountains chapter of the National Audubon Society formed just a few months ago but can already claims a few hundred members in its ranks.
The Great Smoky Mountains Audubon Society meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month at the Maggie Valley Pavilion. A program on creating "Backyard Habitats" will be featured at the next meeting, held on Tuesday, Aug. 10. Sara Martin, biology instructor at the Haywood Community College and volunteer for the National Wildlife Federation, is the presenter.
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The Great Smoky Mountains Audubon chapter is a part of a larger birding initiative to turn Maggie into a bird sanctuary.
"Over a year ago, I envisioned Maggie Valley as a real bird sanctuary and birding community," said Kathleen Klawitter, a Maggie Valley resident, who spearheaded the club's creation and the Maggie Valley Bird Sanctuary Birding Project.
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Joined: 16 Jan 2006
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Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Posted: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 01:12
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What photo management software is available?
I'd like to store my digital photos grouped by date and be able to add tags to the photos without being tied to an application and database. There are some Linux tools, but they may have excessive dependencies:
F-spot (see
Mapivi (
jBrout (
So far I've used Image Magick's 'convert' to create 50kB versions in separate directories to my 1MB originals because the smaller ones are easier to search through and suitable for attaching to emails. I've also written a short script that uses Unix's 'strings' to determine the embedded date for the picture because I didn't have 'exif' and it may not manage all the formats that I've sifted through anyway.
Now what I need to do is to add some sensible structure to my ever expanding set of pictures. Are there any photograph managers out there?
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Posted: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 01:22
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Mapivi looks like the best bet for running under puppy with no additions.
"jBrout is a photo manager, written in python/pygtk", python is available but it would need to be installed.
"F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop (http://www.gnome.org/).", gnome dependant apps can sometimes run with a few of the experimental libraries around here, but I would guess this one isn't a good choice (although i liked the look of it the most).
Any one know of any others?
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Posted: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 01:26
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If you are not religious about open source you can try Picasa. It installs flawlessly in Puppy.
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Posted: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 09:16
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Well rarsa,
I went to Google and downloaded Picasa for Linux "stand alone version" it is a 25MB download.
I wasn't expecting it to install easily as it wasn't a Dotpup, but following the instructions given by Google it installed itself in about 20 seconds and works as well as the Window version.
I know alot of Linux users don't want to use non open source packages.
When I was a Windows user, I liked trying freeware programs and found some very useful programs.
I believe that if Google or someone else makes a freeware version and allows it to be downloaded and installed for home use then that's fine with me.
Picasa allows me to get that one more step closer to saying good bye to Windows, so to me that's not a bad thing.
One last thing, you need alot of spare space on your HD as Picasa scans all your images and by the look of it, makes copies as my spare HD space when down by 700MB's
O.K one more last thing. If google can make a one package fits all Linux versions, why isn't there more standardisation with Linux packages. It would put one more nail in Windows coffin.
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Posted: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 12:18
Post subject: ONline PHoto editor
I use this online approach, it doesn't have a lot of features, but works for me.
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Posted: Fri 15 Dec 2006, 04:17
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Still I won't be very sorry if someone has time and interest to make a Mapivi dotpup it looks quite well designed software.
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Posted: Fri 15 Dec 2006, 04:32
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I found strange that the Mapivi web site says that it is a standalone application when it clearly also says that it requires perl.
I will take it for a ride and see where it takes me.
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Posted: Fri 15 Dec 2006, 06:08
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john biles wrote:
I know alot of Linux users don't want to use non open source packages.
When I was a Windows user, I liked trying freeware programs and found some very useful programs.
I believe that if Google or someone else makes a freeware version and allows it to be downloaded and installed for home use then that's fine with me.
In that case I'm surprised you haven't tried Xnview from the PSI repos under Graphics.
Sure it's freeware, not Open Source, but when you look at the guy's licencing it's basically forcing business away from Micro$oft and into Open Source/Freeware equivalents. That's a laudible approach IMHO.
Here is a snapshot - note that you can edit IPTC data for your images in this program, it won't add 700Mb to your storage and it has some very sophisticated editing capabilities including batch rename, etc. When you start it, choose Tools-Options-Browser-Start Browser at startup for best access.
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Posted: Fri 15 Dec 2006, 07:16
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Yes, I like XnView too, kind of. It is something like IrfanView, not as good as it I think. Something in it's interface does not completely please me. I know there is possibility for other languages in Xnview, but I did'nt find it in the dotpup one, is it cut off from it?
There is other image viewer available as dotpup too called Gqview. It's smaller and little bit faster than Xnview. But there's no support for IPTC data in it. But it has it's own commenting system. And better and faster fullscreen slide show. Xnviews fullscreen ain't a real fullscreen.
One progran I miss from my Windows is a little peace called PhotoCDBrowser. It has really nice features for viewing pictures and commenting them with text files (you coult get comments showing/hiding with transparent background on the fullscreen pictures by pressing a key. And it had support for voice and music too. It was an exellent program for making photoCDs and browsing images.
You can use these programs for managing photos too, but they are mainly viewers. They are not so much managers.
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Posted: Sat 16 Dec 2006, 01:37
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Taavi wrote:
Still I won't be very sorry if someone has time and interest to make a Mapivi dotpup it looks quite well designed software.
Question... Why do you need a dotpup?
I just downloaded the linux version packed as an executable "mapivi091_Linux.exe", changed the attributes to make it executable and it ran. I didn't like it but it ran.
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Posted: Sat 16 Dec 2006, 02:47
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XnView is still one of the best, I can't stress enough how useful this program is as a general purpose viewer. Can open just about any image format you will ever run across. The drawback is the clunky xlib based interface, and the fact that the Linux version is quite a bit behind the Windows version.
A nice SMALL photo manager is Flphoto. This is based on the FLTK toolkit and runs really fast even on old hardware. Lets you organize photos into albums. It also has a nice export feature that will create a static web gallery out of an album. Drawbacks are the small feature set (it's a tiny program) and the rough scaling of the images.
For high end digital cameras that shoot in a raw format try ufraw. Based on the cli dcraw program but it has a nice gtk interface and endless adjustment options. I like it better than the convertors that Nikon and Canon bundle with their SLR's, and the results are just as good if not better. I use it all the time for images from a Nikon D1x.
Basically, though, there's no one killer app for you. I'd try several and probably use a few different ones. A lot of the nicer ones are unfortunately a little too Gnome-centric to run easily in Puppy, especially F-spot. But the ones I mentioned have minimum deps to deal with. What would be kind of neat is having a dedicated image browser for Gimp, like in Photoshop, which can be used not only to load images but to organize them (moving from folder to folder, deleting, renaming, etc). Or maybe something like acdsee but open source. I'd also like to point out that ideally a photo viewer should be able to open not only jpeg images but also all of the various raw formats, psd files, xcf files, and more exotic things like jpeg2000. But right now most of them don't even scratch the surface as far as the file types issue is concerned. So basically this is still an area where Linux is behind, and the problem is more pronounced for distros that have a lightweight desktop as opposed to KDE or Gnome.
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Posted: Sat 16 Dec 2006, 03:33
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Agrees with Nathan on XnView ! Have not tried flPhoto but am looking at it to see what it is about. Thanks for the info Nate.
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Posted: Sun 17 Dec 2006, 14:34
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Rarsa, I just didn't realise it was so easy. Thanks for a hint. I get Mapivi working. Kind of messy at the first sight. But it has fine options for managing photos; IPTC data is nicely on view for all photos in directory etc.
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Posted: Sun 17 Dec 2006, 22:52
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Hello WhoDo,
I installed XN View 1.70 a few days after installing Puppy 2.10 when it came out. It was around that time I became a fulltime Puppy User.
As I had XN View when I was a Windows user, I was glad to see there was a Puppy version.
As I only used XN view in Windows for unusual formats, I didn't use it much.
So basically what I am trying to say is that I never realized that it could do more than I thought it did.
As I haven't come across a image I wanted to open yet in Puppy that required XN view, I haven't spent time with it.
Thanks for pointing out all the extras it does. I to don't like the fact the Picasa uses 700MB's of HD to sort itself out.
I will now play with both and if XN View does what I want, I will leave out Picasa on my next re-install of Puppy when I have finished trying different Dotspups and decide which ones to keep.
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Using a Platy for this would kind of scare me.
I've had 2 of those develop leaks for no apparent reason. I think it's very important to point out that it's risky enough taking water (even hot) to bed with you when temps are hostile. What are you going to do if you, your clothing, your quilts, and your hammock get wet when temps are below freezing? You probably won't notice until the water has had a chance to soak several items and cool down. That's a lot of push-ups and jumping jacks to do to get and stay warm.
I always start thinking worst case scenarios when I'm doing something like this and I try to minimize those risks as much as possible. In this instance, I choose the most reliable container I can; that ain't no Platy.


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The government of Bolivia is celebrating World Wetlands Day 2013 today by designating three enormous new Wetlands of International Importance in the Department of Beni in the lowland northeast of the country, bringing the Convention's global total of area coverage by the Contracting Parties to 204,797,361 hectares (2,047,973 km2). The new listings, providing strong evidence of Bolivia's strong commitment to wetland conservation and the Ramsar Convention's wise use philosophy, also move that country from 8th place to first place in total land area amongst the Parties, now with 11 sites covering 14,842,405 hectares, surpassing Canada's formerly premier position with 13,066,695.
From the first Ramsar Site designation, Australia's "Cobourg Peninsula" on 8 May 1974, some 28 years elapsed before the listing of "Complejo de humedales del Abanico del río Pastaza" by Peru brought the Convention's global total over 100 million hectares on World Environment Day, 5 June 2002. (Boliva's designation of "Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru" one month later brought the global total to 103 million on 11 July 2002). Little more than a decade later, on World Wetlands Day 2013, the second tranche of 100 million has been added to the Ramsar List, a good suggestion that the pace of commitment to the conservation and sustainable use of wetland resources amongst the world's nations may be accelerating; presently the 164 Parties to the Convention have committed themselves to maintaining the ecological character of nearly 2,100 wetlands, ranging from 1 hectare to more than 6.5 million hectares, from marshes and fens to oases in arid lands, from peat bogs and intertidal mudflats to coral reefs and rivers and lakes.
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Tensions are high in East Atlanta in the wake of several robberies and three homicides that have plagued the neighborhood over the past few months.
East Atlanta business and homeowners joined residents of Grant Park, Peoplestown, Kirkwood, and Chosewood inside Zoo Atlanta's ARC building Wednesday night for a "Joint Neighborhood Crime and Safety Meeting." Several city officials squeezed into the packed auditorium with the residents and law enforcement officers.
Onstage were five panelists, meant to rally, reassure and inform the communities about the measures being taken to solve the crime problem.
One of the panelists was Kevin Spigener, the president of the East Atlanta Community Association. In his speech, Spigener gave those assembled a snapshot of a community on edge:
"In speaking with the people over the last three months, I know that there are feelings of anger, there's feelings of fear, there is a sadness and grief at the loss we feel. Our loss of security, our loss of happiness, our loss of hope in the justice system," he said. "There is anger and rage, perhaps now a channeled rage, but still rage that wants justice and even dares to say it yearns for revenge."
Joining Spigener onstage were House District 59 Rep. Margaret Kaiser, Lt. John Quigley of the Atlanta Police Department, Dave Klepp of TeleNavigators Security & Productivity Technologies, and Lauren Rocereta and Chris Newman of the Grant Park Neighborhood Association.
Though the individuals behind the string of crimes in East Atlanta remain unidentified, Dekalb police recently arrested four suspects, including three juveniles, who they believe could be linked to the crime wave. The suspects in a number of the area's crimes have been described as males in their mid to late teens. A comment Spigener made about the teenage perpetrators sparked anger among a few in the already tense crowd.
"These people are not kids, so let's just call them what they are. They're criminals, who rob, and steal, and murder," he said.
His comments moved one woman, who said her son had been killed in East Atlanta, to speak up and discourage the crowd against vigilante justice. John Jackson, another East Atlanta resident, gave his thoughts on Spigener's words and the crime wave after the meeting.
"It just bothered me how one-sided this event was and how hostile that guy sounded talking about our Black youth," he said, also expressing his displeasure at the fact that all of the panel members were white.
"The crime wave is nothing new to people who are poor and Black," Jackson continued, "nobody ever raised hell about the crime in these areas when it was Black folk."
In contrast, District 5 City Councilwoman Natalyn M. Archibong, who represents the East Atlanta neighborhood, said that she was impressed with the evening's turnout because it shows that neighbors are concerned about their community. In response to the crime wave, she is advocating for a continuation of increased police presence, particularly in East Atlanta's commercial areas.
"I don't think that three murders in two and a half months is the norm in East Atlanta," she said.
Archibong also said that she met with Georgia Power representatives about the issue of inadequate street lighting, and that she is trying to use money from the District 5 expense account to help East Atlanta pay for additional surveillance cameras.
Archibong also stressed the importance of remembering that crime is not isolated to East Atlanta. She described an email she received from Midtown Security Patrol detailing several crimes similar to those seen in East Atlanta.
"We all need to be vigilant and concerned, and this is not just an East Atlanta problem," Archibong said. "As a larger community we all need to work together to make sure that if I'm moving crime out of my neighborhood, I'm not pushing it into your neighborhood. That we're doing something systemic and sustained."
Carlos Campos, the spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department, had a similar message.
"We're not looking at this as just an East Atlanta problem or a Zone 6 problem, because these criminals, they don't look at borders. So we're looking at crimes that are occurring not only in other parts of the city but also across our borders, in other counties, and cities even."
Campos said that in addition to paying close attention to crime patterns and trends in other areas, the APD is working to increase their visibility by putting a substantial resources in East Atlanta and stepping up patrols.
Campos also wished to remind the public to be careful.
"A lot of things are occurring when people are leaving clubs and bars and restaurants late at night. If possible try to get a ride, or as much as possible stay in lighted areas and walk in groups," he said. "We're aware these incidents are happening, we're concerned about them, we're every bit as concerned as the residents and the business owners, and we want to put a stop to them."


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The completion of the French-backed Ashegoda facility saw 88MW added in Ethiopia last year, comprising 53 Alstom 1.67MW turbines. This gives the country 171MW of operating capacity. A further 153MW is under construction at Adama II, this time with Chinese support. HydroChina and CGCOC are building and will operate the facility, while Sany is supplying the turbines. The project is due to finish this year.
While South Africa still had just 10MW turning at the end of 2013, the country should add a staggering 750MW this year. Of this, eight projects totalling 651MW were awarded during the first round of the government's renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme. A further 563MW of round-two projects are under construction, with 787MW in the pipeline from round three. A fourth bidding window for up to 1.34GW of wind capacity closes on 21 July. The other 100MW due online this year is at utility Eskom's Sere demonstration plant.
Meanwhile, South Africa is building an industrial sector on the back of its increasingly stringent local content requirement, now targeting 65%. South African heavy-engineering group DCD started producing steel towers this spring, while Gestamp's tower factory should be in operation by the end of the year.
Kenya, Mauritania, Seychelles and Nigeria
Although Kenya built no new capacity last year, resting at 5MW, in March Belgium's TPF Econoler was due to finish installing its 6.8MW plant, equipped with Vestas turbines, at Ngong Hills. TPF is now waiting for the transmission company to complete the substation and grid connection. Work should also start soon on Aeolus Kenya's 61MW Kinangop project, featuring GE machines and slated for commissioning in mid-2015. Meanwhile, the much-delayed 310MW Turkana project is still battling towards financial close.
The Seychelles commissioned its first 6MW facility in 2013, powered by Unison turbines, while Mauritania also kicked off with 4.4MW supplied by Vergnet. A further 30MW should start turning in Mauritania this year, this time with Gamesa turbines.
Likewise, Nigeria might join the club this year with the completion of Vergnet's 10MW unit at Katsina. Construction was delayed after one of the French engineers was kidnapped by Islamic militants. He escaped in December, and Vergnet had previously said it would hire local subcontractors to finish the work.
In the pipeline: Tanzania and Senegal
All being well, construction should start this year on Tanzania's first utility-scale facility, a 50MW project at Singida with Chinese funding. Geo Wind Power Tanzania, a joint venture between the National Development Corporation, utility Tanesco and Power Pool East Africa, says it is in the last stages of financial close.
In Senegal, the French company Sarreole last year signed a power purchase agreement with state utility Senelec for what will also be the country's first commercial wind farm. Sarreole hopes to reach financial close this summer and to have all 46 Vestas 3.3MW turbines fully operational by 2017.