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The story so far
In my previous post I showed how the "evolutionary rate" of Zhivotovsky, Underhill, and Feldman (2006) is inappropriate for TMRCA calculations, because:
- It is not calculated from the time depth of the MRCA, but of an earlier "Patriarch"; more importantly:
- It is an average over many simulated haplogroups of small size, and not the kinds of haplogroups one is usually interested in dating in population studies
How big are the haplogroups in Z.U.F.-type simulations?
Z.U.F. consider several different demographic models, differing in their choice of m, the population growth constant. The population size increases (stochastically) on average by 100(1-m)% every generation.
I produce N=10,000 simulations for each reported number. These are the average, and maximum number of descendants over these N simulations.
Constant population size (m=1)
Under this assumption, haplogroup size grows purely due to randomness of the fathering process; there is no overall population growth. This is an important case, because the 3.6x slower evolutionary rate has been derived from it.
Number of Descendants | ||||
g | Average | Maximum | ||
10 | 5.9 | 56 | ||
20 | 11 | 106 | ||
40 | 21.1 | 176 | ||
80 | 40.9 | 366 | ||
160 | 81.2 | 801 | ||
320 | 159.8 | 1310 |
It is clear, that this type of simulation produces very small haplogroup sizes. Even for 320 generations (early Neolithic for Greece) the very largest haplogroup produced had 1,310 descendants, while the average one had the theoretically predicted ~160.
Small haplogroups => more drift => loss of variance => lower "effective" mutation rate.
So, as I mentioned in my previous post, to calculate the 3.6x slower rate, not only do we average over haplogroups of all sizes, small and large alike, but we are actually missing the relevant observations. But more on this, in the next section.
Expanding population (m=1.01)
Number of Descendants | ||||
g | Average | Maximum | ||
10 | 6.2 | 54 | ||
20 | 12.2 | 112 | ||
40 | 25.5 | 232 | ||
80 | 62.2 | 559 | ||
160 | 194.1 | 1722 | ||
320 | 1170.5 | 12214 |
Predictably, haplogroups end up bigger in an expanding population, but still far short of the sizes of commonly dated real-world haplogroups. The case of m=1.01 is important, because it is the one which yields the maximum effective mutation rate considered by Z.U.F. assuming haplogroups start with one individual.
Thus, even the highest mutation rate considered by Z.U.F (about 0.55μ over 400 generations) is derived by averaging over haplogroups that are unrealistic (too small). Real Y-STR variance accumulates at a higher rate in the real world.
Why are Z.U.F.-style simulated haplogroups so small?
It is surprising that these simulated haplogroups end up so small, looking nothing like commonly studied haplogroups even for an expanding population.
The apparent mystery is resolved, once we realize that m is nothing more than the average number of sons a man has. The reason why we see haplogroups so much bigger than the simulated ones is because for individual men, m may be much more, or much less than its population average. In other words, there is reproductive inequality, which could be due both to social advantage, or to natural selection.
So, rather than having a uniform m for all men, we can allow m to vary in individual lineages. A man A may have mA<m if he is impoverished or has a faulty Y-chromosome gene, and he may have mA>m if he is a ruler or has an advantageous gene in his Y-chromosome.
The advantage could be slight but long-standing (a small fitness improvement) or small and intense (a conquest or foundation of a dynasty). Its effect on the lucky lineage is an increase in the number of descendants. Its effect on Y-STR variance is a rate of increase approaching the germline rate.
It is clear, by now, that realistic haplogroup sizes can occur only when there is reproductive inequality. They are not the result of genetic drift, but of natural or social selection. And, effective mutation rates should be calculated over successful haplogroups under conditions of reproductive inequality, and not over all haplogroups under conditions of reproductive equality.(*)
A note on sampling
Consider a lineage of 1,000 men (i.e. ~ the maximum produced with reproductive equality) in a population of 1,000,000 men. Its frequency is thus 0.1%
We take a sample of 1,000 men from this population; this is much larger sample than is typically used in population studies, and for a smaller population. We expect on average to find just 1 man from the lineage in question in our sample. You can't do a variance-based age estimate with one man!
Thus, it becomes clear why haplogroups produced by Z.U.F.-style simulations are uninteresting. You just never encounter enough representatives from them in a real population study. You are typically interested in the much larger haplogroups, which could only have proliferated under conditions of reproductive inequality, and which are the only ones that can yield enough representatives in a sample to allow for a variance calculation.
In the previous post I showed that Z.U.F. calculate their effective rate over all simulated observations, but the rate is applied in the literature over a very specific set of observations, i.e. large haplogroups.
In this post, I showed that Z.U.F.-style simulation just don't produce realistic haplogroup sizes. Drift alone can't explain why millions of men share patrilineal ancestry. Large haplogroup sizes require an assumption of reproductive inequality, and Y-STR variance within them accumulates near the germline rate.
(*) Of course, if one studies numerically small populations, it is possible that a slower effective rate may be desired. My concern is with the large human populations (e.g. Greeks or Indians) where real haplogroup sizes exceed greatly those produced by simulations with reproductive equality.
UPDATE (August 8): Continued in On the effective mutation rate for Y-STR variance


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From Openmoko
We need freely distributable/licensed ringtones to ship as default ringtones with the phone.
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Ringtones should be in OGG/Vorbis format (or converted to it), and licensed in a way that allows free redistribution, such as creative commons by, by-nd, by-sa, gpl, public domain, etc ().
Unless a different license type is required for Openmoko all files are released under the CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
All tunes have been composed in Rosegarden (an OpenSource MIDI sequencer available at http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/), rendered on a Yamaha Motif ES tone generator and recorded using Audacity or Ardour.
If you would like to modify the tunes, please keep in mind that rendering the .rg files on a different tone generator will most likely produce very different (maybe better :-P) results. MIDI files are available on request, or can be created using Rosegarden's export function.
File types
- .rg - music "source" files in Rosegarden's native format
- .wav - Rendered music in uncompressed Wave format
- .ogg, .mp3 - Wave files compressed with Ogg Vorbis/LAME
More information at Bugzilla #199
svn.openmoko.org ringtones
Here you can listen the current ringtones and sounds made by Marek "Wansti": http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/OM-2007.2/artwork/sounds/
The GTA02 release of the Neo1973 will only have ONE speaker, making it mono. This might be worthwhile to remember when creating the ringtones.
The default ringtones need to be part of a theme. The different tones for calls/messages should have a unified feel to it.
Community ringtones and sounds wishlist
There are some ringtones proposals from the comunity here: Wish List - Openmoko Ringtones and Sounds. See also ticket 2080 for the package at http://220.127.116.11/artwork_sounds_20081024_extra.tar.gz (broken link, update please) and /src/target/OM-2007.2/artwork/sounds/ from version control
Updating howtos
For ASU, look around for qtopia packages related to sound profiles in the repository.
Tom Yates wrote:
The stock ringtone is /opt/Qtopia/etc/SystemRingTones/phonering.wav. It's a 44.1kHz stereo WAV file, 16-bit.
I decided I wanted a traditional old BT phone, and I found an audio clip of one on the web. It was an 8-bit 16kHz mono clip, called 706_ring.wav. It sounded awful when I moved it into place on the 'phone; very distorted and hissy. I re-codec'ed it on my desktop, using
mplayer 706_ring.wav -ao pcm -srate 44100 -af-add volume=-20
which created a file audiodump.wav, having the right sampling frequency (-srate 44100) and being slightly quieter (volume=-20 being the drop in dB) Being quieter, the distortion wasn't as bad and so it didn't make me jump out of my skin when the 'phone rang. I put this into place as openmoko:/opt/Qtopia/etc/SystemRingTones/phonering.wav (saving the old file first) and now I have my custom ringtone.
Reference: http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/openmoko-2.html#Custom-ringtone
For FSO, see the FSO ringtones page.
SID ringtones
There are many websites where you can download original c64 sid music files.
- The High Voltage SID Collection has over 30.000 sid files
- The top 100
Recommendations: theme from R-Type, IK+ (International Karate Plus), Maniac Mansion, Robocop, Bubble bobble.
Source: http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/OM-2007.2/artwork/sounds/TODO
Feel free to add your own comments or requests here.
-There Is No Phone and Ring'n'Roll are too silent compared to the others. The ending of Ring'n'Roll needs more treble since the low frequencies are hardly audible on the small speaker. -The transition parts in Squirrels and Supertux don't work well; they're too silent so that it sounds as if the phone has stopped ringing if it's carried in a pocket or lying around at a distance. -Notify sounds should be shorter and less intrusive. Maybe reducing the volume will already help.
-Startup will have a voice saying "Welcome to Openmoko" mixed into it. -Themes of matching tones for sms, notify, error, ringtone, etc. -More sounds. :-)

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This delicious dose of Christmas spoof, playing through December 18, highlights holiday irreverence with a hilarious and campy send-up of Charles Dicken's classic tale. The play features 31 well-known Broadway show tunes, 23 wig changes, 20 separate costume changes and four sprightly cast members.
The show goes on at MetroStage, 1201 N. Royal St. For tickets and information, call 1-800-494-8497 or visit www.metrostage.org.


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Queen Palm Leaves Turning Yellow Gilbert AZ 480 969 8808 Warner's Tree Surgery
If the fronds of your queen palms look stunted or frizzled, your queen palms have a fungal infection commonly called 'Frizzle Top'. This disease is spread by rain, insects and people that trim your trees and don't sterilize their tools properly.
A healthy tree that has all the micro nutrients it needs can fight off this infection.
Unlike most other palm trees, the queen palm mainly uses manganese in large amounts as an enzyme-activator to fight off diseases. The reason queen palms are susceptible to fungal infection is usually because there isn't enough manganese available for the new frowns as they develop.
By regularly introducing manganese into the root system in the correct amounts (usually 12% or more), the new frowns will be more resistant to fungal infections.
We Treat Queen Palms with tree injectors high in manganese this gets the micro nutrients directly into the tree. This will get the manganese and other micro nutrients to the fawns quicker.
Sometime In the summer of 2016 a rain that fell in Maricopa County Arizona. Had some unusual effects on certain trees in the valley. I know this because of the sudden increase in calls I received for certain types of tree problems.
First I received a flood of calls on brazilin pepper trees with sporadic dying leaves, something which hardly ever happens, this was matched by calls for grapefruit trees with dying leaves, something that does happen after a rain every two to three years.
Also I received a slew of calls for ash trees with dying branches, that couldn't be totally explained by insect damage. The clincher however was that I observed that everywhere this occurred at least 50% of the queen palms had their new shoot destroyed. This new shoot would have created the top frown for the season, and if a Queen Palm goes for a year or two without growing a top, it is in danger of dying.
I suspect that people will start noticing the damage done to the Queen Palms in the spring of 2017 and beyond, If you're one of those people here's what you should know.
Queen Palms need lots of manganese to fight disease, and grow strong fronds. if a Queen Palm has enough manganese its chances of fighting a disease are greatly improved, and the frond is much less likely to brake in strong winds. If it is manganese deficient it is more susceptible to fungus, and other diseases.
That's why we inject a special liquid fertilizer, high in manganese, directly into the Queen Palms. It is absolutely the fastest way to get the manganese to the tops, which is critical for the correct development of the new fronds.
You can call Pat at (480) 969-8808 to schedule an appointment to have me look at your trees.
Once we get your Queen Palms healthy you can maintain them by either having us treat them yearly with injections, or by doing it yourself with the products listed below. These products are fine if used regularly on healthy trees.
Regular palm tree fertilizers don't have enough manganese for Queen Palms!!!
Queens Palms can be maintained with products like Lutz Manganese Spikes , which you can get on Amazon, and are fine if used regularly, but they take months to deliver the manganese to the top. Moon Valley Nurseries carries a product for Queen Palms called super palm juice, it needs to be applied to the soil monthly, and again it takes time to work its way to the top.
If you're Queen Palm are sick we can usually save them, but if you're Queen Palm develops bud rot, then you're chances of saving your Queen Palms are less.
For more information on bud rot and how to treat it please see this article on Phytophthora Bud Rot.
Warner's Tree Surgery is a family business that consists of my wife Pat, who manages the office and answers the phones, and me - Warner Working. I've been doing this for almost 50 years.
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Additional Tips:
1 In the summer Queen Palms need lots of water 25 to 30 gal twice a week.
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2 Only trim dead frowns, every green leaf will add to its strength.
3 Sterilize saws before cutting frowns, use any household disinfectant spray.
4 When removing dead husks never use a chain saw.
5 When trimming never allow someone to use climbing spikes, Pole saws or ladder only.
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After seeing the tree in the next video I went home and reviewed everything I thought I knew about termites, just to be sure something hadn't changed recently. It hadn't however it probably will at some time in the future, if the Formosan termite gets to Arizona.
The following was copied from the Orkin website at
Do Termites Eat Trees?
Some consumers with trees in their yards notice tree colonies feeding on their trees and wonder how that could be. The popular conception is that termites do not eat trees, but seeing is believing for a lot of tree owners. A more thorough explanation than just a yes or no answer is really needed to address this question in an intelligent way.
Termites Prefer Dead Wood
While termites can sometimes be spotted in trees, they tend to prefer dead wood. When they are in trees, they are usually feeding on the dead cellulose found in the trees. They normally will not eat the wood from a live tree. If you spot termites feeding in a tree, it is probably a sign of a tree health problem. When notice something like this, get a qualified tree doctor to your home to take a look and see what is wrong with the tree. Termites often take advantage of and can even precipitate a tree's decline if it is diseased.
Termites Do Not Kill Trees
Although termites are known to feed on diseased or dead trees and to eat the cellulose off of trees, they are not known to kill otherwise healthy trees. Their visible presence on dead or dying trees does not indicate a causal relationship with their presence leading to the trees' dysfunction. If anything, that relationship goes the other way.
Termites are highly unlikely to ever be spotted on otherwise healthy trees unless no other more preferable food supply is readily available. So spotting termites in a tree is overwhelming evidence that the tree already had major troubles to begin with. It is impossible to say that a termite has never eaten live wood, but their diet overwhelmingly consists of dead wood rather than live wood.
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However that may soon change if the Formosan termites ever make it to Arizona.
Formosan termites have not been identified in Arizona yet. The closest confirmed Formosan termite infestations have taken place in southern California.
Formosan termites are the most destructive termite species in the U.S., as they form the largest colonies of any species. These colonies can contain millions of termites and can cause extensive damage in relatively short periods of time. In ideal conditions like those found in Hawaii, experts estimate they can cause major structural damage to a home in only six months.
Formosan termite damage can be found in many places, from homes, buildings and boats to crops, dead trees and live trees. Formosan termites also can infest wooden railroad timbers and are thought to spread through the transport of recycled railroad timbers often used in landscaping. Pest control experts recommend examining wood for signs of termites before using it in home or garden projects
Also see
Termites in Queen Palm Tempe AZ 480 969-8808 Warners Tree Surgery 01
More on the Formosan termites:
New Orleans Overrun By Termite Swarms Watch the video
Unhealthy Queen Palm Gilbert AZ 480 969-8808 Warners Tree Surgery 03
Unhealthy Queen Palm Queen Creek AZ 480 969 8808 Warners Tree Surgery 01
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A French intelligence agent held hostage for over three years by Somali Islamists is presumed dead following a failed rescue operation by French commandos early Jan. 12, according to the French Defense Ministry. One French soldier participating in the secret operation in southern Somalia was also killed, as were 17 members of the militia group al-Shabaab, officials in Paris revealed. But in response to initial French announcements that the agent — known as Denis Allex — was killed in fighting during the raid, al-Shabaab released a statement insisting that the intelligence officer was still alive, along with an injured French commando French authorities acknowledge as missing.
The early morning operation in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia came just hours after French President François Hollande announced Friday that French armed forces had backed Malian troops with air strikes in a counteroffensive against Islamist insurgents advancing southward from northern Mali. One French pilot providing air cover to Malian army soldiers died from wounds suffered during fighting. While French officials hailed that continuing intervention as successful in pushing the Islamist militants back toward the north of Mali, both that offensive and the failed mission to rescue Allex raise questions about the future of eight French hostages and other Westerners held by extremists in both Mali and Somalia.
(MORE: The Crisis in Mali: Will French Air Strikes Stop the Islamist Advance?)
The raid in Somalia on early Saturday, involving five French helicopters, sought to free Allex, three and a half years after he was captured with another French agent in a Mogadishu hotel in July 2009. The pair had been fulfilling what Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called "official functions" of France's secret service as security consultants to the Somali government. The second intelligence officer escaped sleeping al-Shabaab guards six weeks after the pair's capture, but news about Allex since then has largely been limited to rare video of him reading texts provided by his captors.
Le Drian said Saturday that "for three years, all means to secure [Allex's] release from al-Shabaab were made," but failure of those efforts and the "perfectly inhumane treatment" to which Allex was subjected had forced French officials to attempt the commando rescue.
"We knew this effort would be perilous and place the hostage's life in danger," Le Drian said Saturday, before qualifying the Ministry of Defense's initial announcement that Allex had been killed as French forces closed in. "Everything indicates that Denis Allex was killed by his captors during the operation. The [commandos] advanced to the perimeter of the camp before meeting resistance of great violence … It's a measure of our determination in this operation that 17 al-Shabaab militants were killed."
That determination won't quell a renewed burst of alarm from families of hostages in Africa. In recent weeks they'd mounted high-profile campaigns to remind the public of their loved ones' plight — and urge the French government to do whatever necessary to take them home. It is doubtless that France's intervention in Mali on Friday has increased the earlier fears those families had about Islamist kidnappers' retaliation to eventual French involvement in the conflict. The results of the failed operation in Somalia presumably increased those concerns even more.
(MORE: Mali's Crisis: Is the Plan for Western Intervention 'Crap'?)
Still, officials with France's foreign-intelligence agency, DGSE, recently told TIME that France is in a particularly tight spot concerning French hostages in Africa — particularly Allex. On the one hand, one intelligence officer explained, there's no question of France "paying ransoms to captors the way other European nations have to secure the release of nationals." That interdiction is somewhat new, some foreign critics starchily note, since France is known to have made payments to foreign hostage takers in the past.
"Not in recent years, and not to al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in Africa," the French intelligence official assured. "The millions you pay them today will be the millions in arms, trained-terrorist operatives and deadly attacks they send back your way tomorrow."
On the other hand, the official continued, the brutal conditions in which captives are being held — and the dangerously declining health of some hostages — mean there may be little alternative to mounting commando rescue missions to get them home alive without paying ransoms. That dilemma was particularly agonizing regarding Allex, who as an identified intelligence operative was viewed by al-Shabaab as an extremely high-value prisoner, whose return France would have to pay lavishly for.
"We know he's alive, we know he's being held in extremely harsh conditions that are undermining his health, and we know he must be brought home in the near future," the French intelligence officer said a few weeks before Saturday's mission. "For obvious reasons, nothing more can be said about the topic."
Whether that cryptic comment was a general observation or foreshadowing of the Bulo Marer operation, it may never be known. Nor, for now, is the question of whether Allex is dead as first indicated, or still alive as al-Shabaab claims. However, Le Drian did confirm Saturday that the Malian and Somali operations were entirely independent — apart from their common objective of battling Africa's surging Islamists.
Be that as it may, both offensives also offered grim reminders of the difficulty and risks French military will face in their actions against Africa's well-trained and well-armed Islamist militias. Yet as Le Drian told TIME in December, "When you appreciate the urgency of the threat radical Islamists in Africa already pose to that continent, to Europe and to the West, you realize decisive action isn't a luxury you can do without." While doubtless it is true, families of French hostages may offer other sentiments on the topic in coming days.
(MORE: Mali's Looming War: Will Military Intervention Drive Out the Islamists?)


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Paneer is the same for Indians as what mozzarella is for the Italians, the camembert is for the French and the Gouda is for the Dutch.
Paneer can be compared to cottage cheese and is made very simply in the traditional way by processing the curds of buffalo's milk. The result is a firm cheese, not dissimilar to the mozzarella, which does not melt - making it suitable for use in curries and other savoury dishes.
Indians love their paneer and it is widely used in Indian cuisine. You will often find it in some mouthwatering Indian dishes like the ever popular palak paneer, matter paneer (paneer with peas), paneer bhurji (grated paneer often served with vegetables), paneer tikka masala, (barbecued paneer) and many more.
In the Bengal region paneer is also known as chenna, where delicious tasting sweet dishes are made with this soft silky cheese. Rasgulla (balls of paneer in a sweet sauce, called chashni) and ras malai (flat, round paneer in a sweet creamy sauce) are probably "everyone's darling" and among the most well known desserts made with paneer.
Making this type of cheese, which is rich in protein, at home is very easy. My advice would be, by making double amounts, as paneer freezes well, you will be able to enjoy quick paneer dishes in minutes.
Like this particular dish. A simple dish that took just about 15 minutes to prepare but offers the fullest satisfaction to fulfil my cravings for a quick Indian meal.
I had made a large amount of paneer and frozen it in batches. One lunch time I had my crazy cravings strike me and I was about to reach out to call our favourite Indian restaurant. Then I remembered I had all that lovely paneer in the freezer. I also found a few different varieties of onions in my pantry and a lot of red chillies. The rest I left to my creativity.
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Making Paneer
2 l full cream dairy milk
1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon/lime juice
Gently warm the milk over a medium flame. Just before it starts to boil, add the lemon/lime juice and stir well. The curd will separate from the whey in about 5-7 minutes.
The curd is the lumpy white mass, the whey is the yellow/greenish liquid. Once the curd has completely separated, drain off the whey, retaining the curd, using a strainer or a sieve lined with a white cotton/muslin cloth (cheesecloth). Run some cold water on the curd to cool it down.
Save the whey, as it has some nutritional value and can be used when preparing soups or lentils.
Remove any remaining whey from the curd by pressing it with the back of a spoon. Tie up the curd in the cheesecloth and hang up the bundle so it can drip for 2 to 3 hours. Placing a bowl underneath to catch the drips of whey is a good idea. At this stage,the curd can be referred to as 'paneer'.
Gently flatten the paneer, still wrapped up loosely in the cloth, to make a patty shape. Put it on a plate and put a heavy weight on it. Tilt the plate to one side, so that any whey which is squeezed out can drain off. Leave for four or five hours. Cut into cubes of desired size.
If you are using the paneer – or in this case, the chenna - to make sweet desserts, you do not need to flatten it. The chenna is ready to be used after the dripping stage.
Paneer, unlike other cheeses, has not been matured and is rather bland. If you keep it refrigerated it will last for 5 to 5 days. You can also freeze it for about a month - but once it has defrosted don't freeze it again.
My tip: Freeze the paneer in cubes and portioned into a plastic freezer bag.
Also check out Jai and Bee's great Paneer making tips.
Spicy Paneer Do Piaza
100g paneer cubes
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 teaspoon black cumin seeds
1 bunch of spring onions – green and white parts chopped
2 red onions – finely sliced
2 red chillies – slit sown the middle and then chopped
Bunch fresh coriander leaves - chopped
Salt and black pepper
In a wok, kadai or a shallow saucepan heat the oil. Add the cumin seeds and allow them to pop and release their aroma. Tip in the spring onions and red onions and stir fry until soft. Add the paneer cubes and allow to brown gently. The paneer should take on a light golden color.
Stir in the chillies and season with salt and black pepper. Sprinkle with the coriander leaves.
Serve hot, with fresh rotis or flat bread.
This was my quick lunch and I enjoyed every bite of it. Do not the simplicity of the ingredients or cooking method mislead you. This is and extremely flavourful dish. The sweetness of the onions harmonizes perfectly with the spicy chillies. The paneer gives it an incredible texture.
More Indian Cuisine on WFLH:
Mouthwatering Chicken Curry
Tasty Channa Masala
Comforting Egg & Mushroom Roll
Warming Masala Chai
I'd like to send this as my entry to this month's Jihva being hosted by Nandita of Saffron Trail. Nandita has chosen the wonderful hot ingredient Chillies.
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If you are a regular reader of my blog, you would have realised that I need many photos to compose my post as I am really weak at writing. I find it easier to do up a post with lots of photos as my writing is not very different from a Primary 3 picture composition :')
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Homemade Pizza Dough
(make two 12" pizza dough)
200g bread flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon instant yeast
1/2 teaspoon dried mixed herbs
125ml lukewarm water
1 tablespoon olive oil
- Place flour, salt, yeast and dried mixed herbs in a mixing bowl. Mix well with hand. Make a well in the centre and add the water and olive oil. Using your hand, gradually work the ingredients together to form a soft dough.
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Boston had only two hits through the first seven innings: Marco Scutaro's single to begin the first and David Ortiz's solo homer with one out in the fourth.
Beckett pitched well through 5.1 innings, allowing only two hits and one walk. But the roof fell in very quickly: Macier Izturis doubled to right, Alberto Callaspo doubled to left-center, Torii Hunter singled off Adrian Beltre's glove at third, and Shemp hit a dong to right-center.
In the seventh, Beckett struck out Jeff Mathis, but allowed a single to Bourjos and then walked Bobby Abreu. MDC came in and walked Izturis to load the bases. He got Callaspo to geround out to third, but a run scored. Then Delcarmen walked Hunter to re-load the bases and walked Matsui to force in a run. Scott Atchison then surrendered an RBI single to Howie Kendrick.
The Yankees beat the Tigers 11-5 this afternoon. The Rays lost to the A's 4-3.
Update, 5:28 PM: Dustin Pedroia's left foot is sore. Jed Lowrie will take his place.
Another day, another player to the DL: Today it's Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who will be replaced by Dusty Brown.Ervin Santana / Josh Beckett
The Red Sox go for the series -- and season -- sweep of the Angels. Boston is 9-0 against LAA this year; the Angels have scored more than three runs in only three of the nine games.Scutaro, SSPedroiaLowrie, 2B
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Beckett (7-5-3-1-5, 112) beat Los Angeles on July 28 and Santana had a 7-7-1-1-7, 115 line against the Sox on May 4.
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1951 - Eddie Gaedel -- standing 3' 7" and wearing # 1/8 -- walks on four pitches in his only major league appearance, for Bill Veeck's St. Louis Browns. His contract is voided two days later.
1969 - John Hollison, the last surviving major league pitcher to throw from a mound 50 feet from home plate, dies in Chicago at age 99. He pitched in one game for the Chicago Colts in 1892.
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U.S. weekly unemployment benefit claims drop to 326,000
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 326,000, a sign that layoffs are weighing less on the job market and economic growth.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average dropped 13,500 to 335,000.
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Many economists blamed the slowdown in hiring on bad weather and statistical quirks, and projected stronger gains in the new year.
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The program provided up to 47 extra weeks of unemployment benefits, paid for by the federal government. Those benefits offered payments averaging $256 a week to the long-term unemployed who exhausted their state benefits, which usually last for six months.
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Check out these 10 great apps that take advantage of the Samsung phablet's S Pen stylus.
The success of the first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note proves two things: 1) People really like big-screen phones; 2) The stylus isn't dead after all. Introduced in October 2011, the original Galaxy Note had something in common with most Adam Sandler movies--namely, critics hated it, but the common folk loved it.
Samsung certainly got the last laugh. The company estimates it has sold 10 million Galaxy Notes worldwide--not too shabby for a 5.3-inch phone that reviewers derided for a number of reasons. The phone was too big to fit in your pocket, they said. Its stylus was an unnecessary appendage in the era of touchscreens. And the Note's cheap, plastic casing was subpar for an expensive handset.
While these gripes had merit, the phone's pros obviously outweighed its cons. For reading and Web browsing, a larger display is almost always better. The behemoth Galaxy Note was big enough to replace two devices--a 4-inch smartphone and a 7-inch tablet like the Amazon Kindle Fire. The Note, weirdo that it was, had established a new product category: phone-plus-tablet, or "phablet."
It appears the phablet may have a bright future too. ABI Research estimates that annual phablet shipments will top 208 million in 2015. "The larger screen sizes make a significant difference to the user's experience when compared to conventional-sized touchscreens between 3.5 to 4 inches," said ABI Research senior analyst Joshua Flood in a May statement.
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From Openmoko
These are ideas that are unlikely to be implemented in the neo1973. Some are impossible for any device, some may be possible if technology improves in the future, when patents expire, or in othere models.
Contents |
Storage Devices / Peripherals
Floppy Disk Drive
For people stuck in the past who just can't let go of that last 3 and a half inches.
At least the initial devices will be phones. In a phone this is a bad idea. There may be future devices that it would be appropriate in.
LASER keyboard (can be a full QWERTY keyboard)
- On the hardware side, this would require a $5 laser diode, a $3 (in bulk) custom diffraction grating, and probably a couple of cubic centimetres volume inside the phone.
- This requires a camera pointable to the front.
- It requires an integrated stand for the phone.
- To practically use this, you've got to be 40cm or so away from the phone, which means under 25*20 of text resolution.
- In software, it's relatively easy to parse the camera output, to find changes in the known laser field.
There are major problems.
- Patent issues.
- No tactile response at all, which slows typing.
- An extra 2cc/6g.
There are existing Bluetooth devices that do this. For example, this one from thinkgeek. --Alx 02:28, 29 March 2007 (CEST)
Power Sources
Zero Point Energy Generator
Why bother with solar panels and fuel cells if you can have the real thing?
Air Breathing Micro Fusion Generator
In case the above is not available in small enough sizes
Radioisotope Battery
We could have the first mobile with a 100 year standby endurance. Can the shielding, We can all use a little tan.
V12 Embedded power source
We'll need something beefy to power the next Neos for the above gadgets, I propose the use of a Embeddable Power Source, that with some miniturisation and a bit of design work should be workable as a possible solution.
[1] Is almost an appropriate device.
Flux Capacitor
The device needs a flux capacitor instead of a battery ;)
- This makes no sense, the flux capacitor is not an energy source but a way to distort timespace. (But that's not saying we don't need one ;-D )
Power over WiFi
Using PoWiFi openmoko-devices could be powered by your pc-wifi-card or wifi-router. Charge your mobile at every wlan-ap with no plug-in required.
Another implementation might be power-over-bluetooth.
Human body's kinetic power
With any of these devices, especially those using human energy, happy Openmoko user will at once become noticeably more mobile. Unlimited travel far avay from casual power sources, this is what it gives.
Disinfection UV-Light
I had read about it in an Article on http://www.americanairandwater.com/UV-news/. But Motorola patents it. Yes - finally a way to stop the billions of annual deaths due to cellphone infections! --Speedevil 14:04, 16 February 2007 (CET) It´s just something that flying in my head... It´s not the first "unreal" or "useless" idea. Just for fun! --MookiE 14:51, 16 February 2007 (CET)
More seriously - UV of the required frequency is inherently eye-damaging. Also, as I understand it, there are actually no UV LEDs that will reliably produce 'germicidal' UV. The most expensive - and they are very expensive - ones produce UV of a sort that may kill very susceptible bacteria, but comparatively few. IIRC the LEDs are $20 per. --Speedevil 15:11, 16 February 2007 (CET)
The most efficient germicidal wavelength is at around 260 nm. LEDs at these wavelengths are already available for purchasing, e.g. here: http://www.s-et.com/products.htm - however the cost at this moment is rather high (above $200 per piece; much less in large amounts). The output power is also quite low. However this is likely to improve with time. --Shaddack 00:54, 16 July 2007 (CEST)
FPGA add-on board
Expose the system bus signals to allow easy-ish addition of a daughter board with an FPGA chip. This will allow to leverage a set of projects available at e.g. http://www.opencores.org/ and easily add a wide range of functionality, from high-speed memory-mapped analog inputs (e.g. GNU-Radio, camera (possibly with a hardware MPEG encoder in the FPGA), portable oscilloscope or logic analyzer or multichannel data acquisition unit), to outputs (eg. display drivers for e-paper, framebuffers for TV-out or external monitors - important for e.g. wearable augmented-reality displays), Ethernet controller, mini-PCI card controller, advanced signal processing, cryptographic accelerators, and essentially anything within the limits of the available number of gates in the FPGA chip and available amount of electricity to feed the chip.
This is very unlikely - for several reasons.
- Requires a large, relatively expensive connector, able to pass signals at very high speeds.
- Requires routing from the core logic of the phone to the connector, which makes the PCB more complicated to fabricate.
- There is no convenient memory bus on the phone.
--Speedevil 13:58, 15 July 2007 (CEST)
It is not impossible on very different hardware, but will certainly not appear on a commodity phone.
Let's consider another way then. What we want here is not necessarily a direct access to the system bus (not seeing the schematics I mistakenly assumed it would be the simplest way) but any kind of high-speed I/O. E.g. MMC card interface in 8 bit mode at 52 MHz seems to be able to achieve data transfer rate of 52 MB/s, CompactFlash maximum data transfer rate can reportedly go up to 133 MB/s (if I read the standards correctly) - more than enough for most applications listed above. Possible? --Shaddack 00:54, 16 July 2007 (CEST)
Implementing a beaming-device to the Neo would make it the first phone enabling teleportation. See: [2] Possible implementation difficulties might be the lacking teleportation-support in the GSM standard as well as uncooperative mobile service providers that feel uneasy towards innovative technologies...
(Please get serious. You would obviously need more bandwidth to make this practical. Wifi would be better or at least 3G. maybe you could use Bluetooth with the right compression algorithms.)
(Are you serious? Bluetooth? Please, there's no way that will work. We need at least WiMax or even better, that upcoming Wireless USB standard. l2teleport, please.)
(Also cant say i would be too keen about once i am teleported far away my phone is left sitting on the sidewalk.)
A neat golden mesh flip-up cover
would both make the device look real classy and protect the touch screen when carried in the pocket of skin-tight uniforms of some sort or another
All band compatibility
- Is it possible to make the phone so it can work on any cell network including the Veriz** network in the USA. Unfortunately, the FCC has allowed network providers to have proprietary phones etc... The way the US system works tends to cheapen the phone itself because there is more money in the selling of service, this tends to foster semi-disposable phones. Don't lose focus, you are in business to make money selling phones, make really good solid phones and they will be appreciated. My ideal is to be able to go purchase a phone, purchase a service separately, and be able to change services when necessary.
- Unfortunately, this would add significant cost, volume, and weight. And be useless for the majority of worldwide users. In some carriers cases, you simply can't do this anyway, as they won't supply information on their networks, or let you connect to them with your own handset. Different phones for different markets is probably the way to go. Hopefully eventually the carriers will bring out Openmoko phones.
--Speedevil 15:45, 6 May 2007 (CEST)
SDR Radio
- Advantages
- Removes the need for ANY other wireless radio in the device
- GSM Radio
- Wifi Radio
- Bluetooth Radio
- RFID Radio (may still need a microwave power pump)
- FRS Radio
- DECT Radio
- Etc...
- Reduce battery consumption by an enormous amount
- Allows connection to new types of networks with only a software upgrade
- Removes the need for ANY other wireless radio in the device
- Disadvantages
- Experimental?
- Only one type of wireless network would be accessible at any given time
- Solution: Include 2 SDR radios (this would alleviate radio contention)
- All protocols would need to be coded in software
- Solution: Upgrade primary cpu if necessary (additional power costs for a faster cpu are far outweighed by reduction of radios)
Unfortunately, much of this is incorrect. A wideband software radio eats _enormous_ amounts of power in very fast A/Ds and D/As, as well as fast CPUs. It's also much more expensive in many cases, due to the large amount of CPU power needed, and the expensive chips and wideband RF devices needed. It trades flexibility for hardware signal processing.
One little filter chip can do billions of operations per second, entirely due to the physics.
Also - there is no open-source GSM stack, and this would in fact be illegal to sell in many countries. --Speedevil 20:43, 9 July 2007 (CEST)
Beverage Aids
Beer Cooling
Either Rod's filled with liquid nitrogen pop out the bottom or heatpipes attached to a peltier device. for those hot days when your cold one is just a one.
Hardware enhancements
Some small hardware enhancement could be cheap, but very useful. Please add your ideas/wishes here:
Made Hardware Extension/Expansion for the Base Product
Market this device like a fully customizable PC;
- create a base device, (which you already did)
- add wifi and bluetooth(absolutely neccesary for any mobile device)
- make expansion hardware, that user can connect to the base hardware, (e.g camera & hdd; gamepad...etc)
- just like a PC the user will choose customizations that sue their needs.
- most important, the expansion hardware should NOT be a peripheral that has ridiculously long cables, it should fit snuggly to the device making it a little thicker than the base device.
- This mobile entertainment generation wants an all-in-one device. They want their cellphone, mp3 player, pda, digital camera(which takes good quality and sized pictures), video player to all fit in their pocket.
- That's why the ipod's hot, but that is why this is hotter, the user can get all those things and upload software to make it better it even better to their personalities.
If the hardware is made as customizable as the software, everyone will have one of these device, from the smallest child to a CEO of a corporation, because it can be made exactly to what the user wants. Market the expansion hardware, no-one will mind paying for the parts as they need them, but they will be very upset about not being able to do want they really want to do with it. No one will even think about looking at other devices. If the "regular joe/jill" has to buy a new part instead of a whole new device, which do you think he/she will choose?
- Modular, able to open and upgrade/add hardware while keeping a micro form factor.
The neo1973 is a phone, to be marketed as a phone. Future devices may be marketed in other ways. The shape and number of buttons is fixed for this device. Minor modifications may happen before it ships in September.
See Expansion Back for expansion thoughts. Extendable devices otherwise simply aren't really possible, unless you make the phone larger than needed.
The connectors take up volume, add unreliability, need mechanical fixings, and modules have to be larger than required to allow slight increases in size. --Speedevil 14:47, 17 April 2007 (CEST)


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5 Steps to Successful Self-Employment
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Hands-on adding a new article: Joomla! 1.5
From Joomla! Documentation
(Redirected from Hands-on adding a new article: Joomla! 1.5)
The aim of this document is to work through, hands-on, creating a new article using the Front-end of the Joomla! web site.
Who is it written for?[edit]
- Everyone
You also need:
- access to a Joomla! site
- to be logged in with a username with an appropriate level of permission
Background: Publishing and editing permissions[edit]
There are some restrictions on what different groups of people adding content are allowed to do. There are three group (apart from administrators who can do anything with content), called Authors, Editors and Publishers. Authors can only edit their own material and cannot get their work seen on the site (published) themselves. In summary:-
- Authors, Editors and Publishers can create and alter articles
- Authors cannot 'publish' articles - which means that they do not display until someone with publish permissions has ticked the right box.
- Editors can edit unpublished articles
- Publishers can see a tick-box (which shows whether an Article is Published) when they edit or create an article - so they can publish their own, and other peoples', articles.
- Editors and Publishers can edit documents that they did not create.
To get an Article published depends on the way the site is managed. Publishing is often done by the site Adminstrator. If you are an Author you are likely to need to ask for it to be published before you can do more work on it but Editors can continue to edit before it is published.
More about Permissions in Joomla! 1.5 here:- Permissions in a Joomla! Site
Starting a new article[edit]
You can easily start a new article for yourself although exactly how you do this depends on how the Web site you use is set up.
- Many sites have a USER MENU with several options about things users might want to do. (It is not always called a USER MENU - it depends on the site!). One of the common options is to Submit an Article (Sometimes called Create an Article). If this option is available - use it:-
- Find the USER MENU
- Click on Submit an Article
- Sometimes the site has been set up to show a small icon that looks like a sheet of paper at the bottom of many of the list pages. (This icon does not appear on pages with just one article - it does appear on pages where there is a list of articles.)
Adding content[edit]
The editing screen (called Submit an Article) is loaded. This is the same editor as used for editing Articles, except that it has no content and no title.
- Type in a title in the title box
- Type in some text - or copy text from another document
Saving your work[edit]
Before saving a new article for the first time, you need to enter some information in the Publishing section of the editor, including whether it is published and where it is to be located.
Where will the Article be located?[edit]
- You need to know where the new Article is to be located
- This depends on the organisation of the Web site. If you are using an existing site, you need to be told which Section and Category it will be assigned to. Or it may be uncategorised, but you need to know that this is the case.
- You will also need to know which menu it will be located under. Again this information varies with the way the Menus are set up and the layout of the Site.
Cross Reference: There is detail about Sections and Categories in this series of documents - Background: Sections and Categories |
- If you are a Publisher, type a few lines and then go to the Publishing part of the editor and Save it. You will then be able to continue editing.
- If you are an Author it is worth typing quite a bit of content at this stage before adding the details in the Publishing part of the editor. This is because you will not be able to return to editing until it has been published.
- If you are an Editor, you can continue to edit the article after it has been saved, even when it is not published.
The Publishing part of the editor[edit]
- Scroll down to the Publishing section.
You must make a number of choices about where the new Article will be located and who will be able to read it.
Getting the Section and Category correct usually means that it will display in the right place. The choice of Section and Category will depend on those available on the site you are using.
- Section: choose from the pull-down list
- Category: the choices depend on the Section chosen
- Published: Leave this as Yes. This choice is not available if you are an Author
- Front Page: leave this as No. The exception would be if you are writing an Article for the Front page which is in 'Blog' layout format.
- Access Level: choose the appropriate one for your site.
- Public means that anyone visiting the Web site can read it.
- Registered means that people who have logged in but do not have any write access can read it.
- Special means that Authors, Publishers and Administrators can view and edit it.
- Save the article
- Click on the Save icon
This saves the Article in Joomla! and returns you to where you started (not to the editor).
If you are an Editor or a Publisher - you should now be able to find the article in the place you expect!
- Next time you save it, you will not have to fill out the Publisher part of the editor again.
Where Next?[edit]
- If you want to do more editing and learn how to manage Articles using just the Front-end of the Site - then look at the documents under More hands-on altering and manipulating Articles in the Index to other documents below.
- For setting up a site yourself, look at the documents under Hands-on setting up a Joomla! site in the Index to other documents below.
Further information[edit]
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