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From Openmoko
Orrery is one of the applications that runs on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, visit Applications
Please note: Some websites have links directly to the .ipk files for this program. While it is very gratifying that other people like the program enough to include a link to the .ipk file, those links will not automatically update when a newer .ipk file is uploaded. So using one of those links might cause you to install an obsolete version of the program. If your version of the code doesn't match the description below, please download the most recent version from here. The current version is 2.7, and the version is shown under the "opts" menu, at the top of the "About Orrery / Symbol Key" page.
The orrery is a simple open-source application for the Openmoko platform which displays the night (and day!) sky. It is nowhere near as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.
The star database was extracted from the Hipparcos catalog. To ease the computational load, the coordinates are not precessed or nutated before being displayed. Orbital elements are used, rather than ephemerides, to calculate planet positions. Although this is less accurate, it dramatically reduces the memory footprint. The planet positions are accurate to a few arc minutes, from 3000 BC to 3000 AD. Since the scale on the default display is approximately 8 arc minutes per pixel, these small errors are imperceptible, unless a very large zoom factor is used.
Note, the screen grabs shown below were taken with the orrery running atop the 2007.2 stack, because I find it easier to do a screen grab with that stack. The program works with SHR, OM2009, OM2008.x, etc. too.
The Display
The image above shows the default display - all stars visible to the unaided eye, with colors for the brightest ones. It's displayed with a Transverse Mercator projection (similar to Norton's Star Atlas) which works well with the VGA aspect ratio in portrait mode. It's a conformal transformation, so the constellations have about the right shapes. The Sun, Moon and planets are plotted, and the Moon is shown with the proper phase. The Sun and Moon are plotted with a size about 3.5 times larger than their true angular size on the sky.
The user may chose to have the program display the stars visible at the user's location and at the current time, or at any other position on the earth, or any other time between 3000 BC and 3000 AD.
The blue line near the bottom of the display is the horizon. Nothing below that line is visible, but the program plots objects there anyway, because it is often useful to know which objects are just about to rise, and which ones have recently set.
The orrery as a compass
The green numbers at the bottom are the azimuth values. The azimuth is measured along the horizon, from north through east. So the azimuth of due north is 0, east is 90, south is 180 and west is 270 degrees. By using these azimuth values, the orrery can be used as a celestial compass, if the sky above you is at least partially clear. Notice that the azimuth values are not exactly evenly spaced. This is caused by the distortion introduced by the Transverse Mercator projection.
If either the sun or moon is visible, you can use the planet compass (under the opts menu) to quickly orient yourself with an accuracy of about 1 degree,
Constellations Display
There are two sky display screens defined. By default, one of them shows the display shown above, and the other shows the constellations, and symbolic representations of the solar system objects.
The constellations are plotted in three colors. The twelve zodiac constellations are plotted in hot pink. The constellations plotted in gold are the classical Greek constellations, as listed in Ptolomy's Almagest (apart from the zodiac constellations, which are also in the Almagest). The only constellation from the Almagest which is not plotted is Argo Navis, which is not one of the official modern constellations (Argo Navis was broken up into the modern constellations Carina, Puppis and Vela). The remaining constellations, plotted in blue, where added during the last few hundred years.
In addition to constellation names and figures, three great circles, the Celestial Equator (light yellow), Ecliptic (red) and Galactic Plane (blue-green), are shown. Solar system objects are shown symbolically (see Mercury, Venus, the Moon and the Sun in the above image).
Displaying Asterisms
There are many informal constellations which are widely known, such as the Big Dipper, The Summer Triangle, etc. The user can choose to display some of these unofficial constellations by selecting "Use Asterisms" from the "items" menu. If you know of some nice asterisms that the orrery does not yet display, please send them to firstname.lastname@example.com, and I'll include them in a future release if I can. The image below shows the Big Dipper and Little Dipper asterisms.
Panning / Exiting Fullscreen
The image can be panned by tapping your finger in the bottom 1/5 of the display (excluding menus). The size of the panning step is controlled by how close your finger is to the edge of the display. If you tap in the center, it pans by 0 degrees, and nothing happens. If you tap near the left or right edges, it pans by the maximum allowed amount, +-45 degrees. Pan steps are quantized in increments of 5 degrees. You may exit fullscreen mode by tapping anywhere in the upper 1/5 of the display area. Tapping anywhere else toggles between the two screens.
Selecting a New Center Azimuth
Panning to a new central azimuth by panning 45 degrees at a time can be tedious. To make a large change in the display's center azimuth you may use the azimuth compass. To call up the azimuth compass, tap the center of the finger-pan area (bottom 1/5 of the display) or press (long tap) anywhere within the finger pan area. The compass shown below will appear:
You may use your finger or stylus to select another center azimuth. Keep you finger pressed to the display as you select your new center azimuth - the selected azimuth will be shown by a white pointer on the inside of the compass circle. Once you release pressure on the screen, the compass will disappear, and the display will be redrawn.
The azimuth compass cannot be accessed if the display is zoomed.
One may enter fullscreen mode by tapping the FS button at the bottom left of the display.
When not in fullscreen mode, one button and four menus are displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Pushing the "FS" button pops you into fullscreen mode. To exit, tap the top 1/5th of the display (if you are in finger mode) or the region where the location and time is displayed (in stylus mode).
Flashlight Modes
The "White Flashlight" button paints the entire screen white, and the "Red Flashlight" button paints the entire screen red. Both may be used as a flashlight, but the red one is best if you are trying to preserve your night vision.
Sunrise, Moonrise and Moon Phases
The "Sun and Moon Information" button displays a page giving the sun and moon positions, rise and set times, phase etc for five days, centered on today:
The highlighted date is the current UT date (unless the time menu has been used to select a different time). The highlighted rise and set times are the next ones which will occur at your location. Of course, that may be on a different UT date (for example, during daylight hours, the next sunrise will be tomorrow). The times are shown as Universal Times (UT), which may annoy people, UT is used because the orrery allows you to select any location on the earth, and any time from 3000 BC until 3000 AD. It would be very difficult to keep track of all the timezone, daylight savings change dates, etc for that time range! So I have wimped out, and displayed UT, which is always reasonably well defined.
The current sun and moon positions shown are geocentric - no topocentric correction has been applied. However topocentric corrections are applied when rise and set times are calculated, so they should be reasonably accurate for a specific location on earth.
The moon illumination percentage shown on the line with the rising and setting times is the value at transit. The illumination shown on the line that has the drawing of the moon phase is the illumination percentage at this moment.
This page also shows the UT date and time of the four major moon phases (New, First Quarter, Full and Last Quarter) for a time span of 17 lunar months, centered on the current time (which of course can be changed with the time menu). The next time and date when each phase will occur is highlighed.
Moon Calendars
Big Moon Calendar
The Big Moon Calendar is a graphic display of the phase of the moon for each day from 10 months before the current month, until 10 months after the current month (roughly 640 days), as shown below:
Each column shows one month, and the day number is shown for each row. At the top and bottom of each column is shown the first letter of the name of the month shown in the column. Two vertical green lines separate years. The current Universal Time date is outlined in a red box.
This Month's Moons
The This Moon's Moons page shows the phase of the moon for each day of a particular month. By default, the current month is shown, but one may use the arrow buttons to pan through the months.
Both moon calendars show "Blue Moons", which are (according to the most commonly used definition) the second full moon in a calendar month which has two full moons. Both images above show the Blue Moon which falls on New Year's Eve, 2009.
To exit the Moon Calendar displays, just tap the screen anywhere.
Meteor Showers
This display shows information for all the meteors showers which will occur during the current year. Remember that to see a meteor shower, you must travel to a site that has a very dark sky. In a city, few meteors will be seen even during a shower.
The items shown on the Meteor Showers page are 1) The name of the meteor shower 2) the abbreviation used for this shower when its radiant is plotted on the sky display 3) the expected number of meteors per hour - this is the maximum you will see under the best circumstances with a very dark sky and the shower radiant directly overhead on the date of the shower maximum. If the rate entry says "Var", that means the rate is variable; such shower are not apt to show a large number of meteors per hour. 4) the range of dates during which the shower will occur 5) the date at which the shower shows the maximum number of meteors 6) the typical velocity of the showers meteors in km/sec - larger numbers lead to brighter, bluer meteors 7) the percentage of the moon's disk which is illuminated on the date of shower maximum - full moon = 100%. A minus sign following the percentage means the moon is waning, a plus sign means it is waxing. Moonlight greatly interferes with seeing meteors 8) the number of dark hours on the date of the shower maximum - defined as the time during which the sun is more than 12 degrees below the horizon, and the moon is far enough below the horizon to not appreciably brighten the sky.
The Meteor Showers page shows information for all showers, the large majority of which are really minor events. Even when a meteor shower is not occurring, you can expect to see 4 to 10 meteors per hour. Many of the showers listed do not even double that background rate, and are of interest only to serious meteor enthusiasts. If you just want to go out and see some meteors for fun, it's best to select a shower with a rate of at least 50 meteors per hour, and to watch it on or very near the date of the shower's maximum.
Each line of the display describes a separate shower. If the shower currently in progress, the line is shown in green - bright green if there will be 2 or more hours of dark sky tonight, and dark green otherwise. If the shower is not currently underway, it will be shown in a cream color if on the night of the shower's maximum, the sky will be dark for at least 2 hours. Otherwise the shower information will be shown in grey, indicating that this year is not a good one to observe that particular shower.
At the bottom of the Meteor Showers page is shown the number of dark sky hours to expect tonight. In this context, "tonight" means the upcoming night if the sun is currently above the horizon, or the current night, if the sun is below the horizon.
If you wish to get meteor shower information for a different year, simply change in year using the time menu.
Many thanks to the International Meteor Organization (http://www.imo.net/imo/intro) for permission to use their data to produce the meteor shower related displays.
Planet Compass
The Planet Compass page graphically shows where each of the planets is at the current time.
The image has one complete circle, which shows the planet azimuth, and one semicircle, which shows the elevation.
The azimuth circle has blue triangles marking the four cardinal points: North, South, East and West. There are small tick lines at the NE, SE, SW and NW directions, as well as a small dot every 10 degrees. The planet symbols are shown with lines projecting to their current azimuth. The line is white if the planet is above the horizon, and red if it is below the horizon.
The elevation semicircle has blue triangles marking the directions of the Zenith, Horizon and Nadir. Small dots are shown every 10 degrees, and there are short lines at +-45 degrees. As with the azimuth circle, lines connect the planet symbols to their current elevations.
Below the compass graphic, the name, Hour Angle (HA) rising time and azimuth, transit time and elevation, and setting time and azimuth is shown for each planet. The name and HA of the planet is highlighted if the planet is above the horizon. The time of the next event - rising, transiting or setting, is also highlighted for each planet.
Solar System
The program can display the relative planet positions in two different ways. In both cases, the view is from the north looking down, with the direction of the Vernal Equinox to the left of the screen (marked with the vernal equinox symbol, and an arrow). At the time of the vernal equinox, the earth will be at the 3 o'clock position in its orbit, so that the Sun will appear at the vernal equinox position.
Schematic Solar System View
This button presents a schematic view of the Solar System, showing the locations of the earth, the earth's moon and the other planets in their orbits around the sun. The view is schematic in the sense that the orbit radii and planet sizes are not shown to scale. However the positions of the objects within their orbits are correct (the heliocentric ecliptic longitudes are correct).
Several buttons are drawn at the bottom of the display, which allow you to show an animation of the motion of the Solar System objects for several time increments. Showing the motion of planets in this way is what mechanical orreries do.
To-Scale Solar System View
This button displays the Solar System with the planet orbits shown with the proper relative sizes. The orbits are also plotted as ellipses in this display, with the correct eccentricity and orientation. The moon is not plotted, because it would be too close to the earth to display if any of the planet orbits were completely shown. Because Neptune's orbit is nearly 100 times larger than Mercury's, it is not possible to display all of the planet orbits simultaneously. There are "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" buttons which allow you to select which proper subset of planet orbits is shown. The current position of each planet in its orbit is shown. Also plotted are grey lines connecting the Sun to each orbit, terminating with a white dot at the position of the planet's perihelion (where it is closest to the sun in its orbit). The image below shows the display when the outermost plotted planet is Mars. Note that the orbits of Mercury and Mars are quite noncircular:
About Orrery / Symbol Key
This button displays an annotated list of all the symbols used on the orrery display.
The time menu allows you to specify an explicit time between 3000 BC and 3000 AD, or the current time. If "Now" is selected, the current time is used and the display updates automatically once per minute. If a specific time is selected, it is shown in red, to remind you that the display is not going to update automatically as time passes. The time may be specified as a calendar date, or as a Julian Date.
The Julian Date is a less ambiguous way of entering times in the distant past than using a calendar date, because of the differing calendar systems in use worldwide before the late 16th century. For example, the date October 10, 1582 never occurred in some European countries. Many countries have gaps in their calendars with missing dates when they adopted the Gregorian Calendar.
The place menu allows you to select the GPS-derived location, a user specified latitude and longitude, or a city or astronomical observatory selected from a menu. The lists of locations are stored in ASCII text files under the menus subdirectory of the program installation area on your phone. You may save your selected location, by hitting the "Save to Configuration File" button, so it will be used the next time you start the orrery. If you would like to add additional cities etc to one of the menus, you may simply edit one of the menu files, and add the name, latitude and longitude of the location. You will need to restart the orrery program for your new locations to become available.
To use the menu option, first select the "place" menu. Then, select the "Menu" checkbox at the top right of the screen. You will notice that the "Region" menu will then become highlighted. Push "Region", and then select the continent or category of the area you want the sky to be shown for. Once you have selected a region, a pull-down menu with the name of that region will appear next to the "Region" button. Use that new menu to select your city. After the city is selected, its name will appear next to the regional menu.
If you select a "Custom" or "Menu" location, a button labeled "Save in Private Menu" will appear. After you select your new position, you may push that button to save it in the menu labeled "Private". That menu is initially empty.
If you use the GPS position feature, the number of satellites tracked, and the number of satellites used for the most recent position fix will be shown on the top text line (after the longitude and latitude). Note that the orrery only checks for a new position once every one minute by default, so you might have a fix with, for example, tangogps before the new position is displayed on the orrery. You can force the orrery to look for a new position by forcing a screen redraw. If the gps unit stops producing new position fixes, the most recent fix position will be used, and the word "stale" will be displayed next to the longitude and latitude.
How to change the default location from Cambridge MA
To change the default location, just use the place menu to select a new location as described above, and be sure to push the "Save to Configuration File" button. That will make the currently selected position your new default location, which will be used whenever the program is started, unless GPS is selected.
The display menu allows you to configure the display, selecting such things as the faintest magnitude object displayed, whether constellation lines are plotted, whether or not star names are displayed, etc.
Deep Sky Objects
If you select "Deep Sky Obs" from the items menu, you will be shown some of the brightest Deep Sky Objects. Deep Sky Objects are objects such as galaxies, expelled envelopes of dying stars, clusters of young stars and lumious gas. A few, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, are visible to the unaided eye. Many more are visible with binoculars or a small telescope. The orrery shows all messier objects, and many other well known bright nebulae and star clusters. The image bellow shows the Messier objects in Sagittarius.
Adding Your Own Deep Sky Object List
You may add your own list of deep sky objects to be plotted. Simply create a file within the directory /usr/share/orrery/deepSky/ with any name. The file should contain lines of text with the format
name HH MM SS.SS DD MM SS.S type mag
where name is the object name, which may not include white space, HH MM SS.SS is the Right Ascension, DD MM SS.S is the declination (do not include a + sign for positive declinations) "type" is an integer specifying the type of object. 0 = Supernova Remnant, 1 = Globular Cluster, 2 = Open CLuster, 3 = Diffuse Nebula (HII region, etc), 4 = Planetary Nebula, and 5 = Galaxy. The "mag" is the visual magnitude. The orrery program currently does nothing with the visual magnitude, but future versions may use it.
Meteor Radiants
If you select Meteor Radiants, then the radiant position for any meteor showers which are now occurring will be plotted. The radiant is the position in the sky from which meteors seem to emerge during a shower - it's the best place in the sky to look for meteors. The radiant is plotted in white if more than 50 meteors per hour are expected under optimal viewing conditions, cream-color if 20 or more meteors per hour are expected, and grey if fewer then 20 meteors per hour are expected. Note that these are meteor rates for the date of the shower maximum - see the Meteor Showers page for more information. The radiant position usually changes as the shower progresses. The orrery takes that into account when plotting the radiant. For example, the image below shows how the radiant for the Orionids (abbreviated ORI in the sky plots) shower moves from northern Orion early in the shower (Oct 2) to Gemini late in the shower (Nov 5):
Changing the Magnitude Limit
The magnitude scale for expressing the brightness of stars and planets is explained here. It is one of the oldest measurement systems still in use today.
By default, the orrery displays every star a person with excellent eyesight located in a very dark area on a moonless night can see. If your observing conditions are less ideal than that, it can be helpful to use the "Mag. Limit" field in the item menu to lower the limit of the faintest object plotted. The plot below shows the "Summer Triangle" region plotted with the default 6.6 limiting magnitude on the left, and a 5.0 limiting magnitude on the right.
If you tap "Save to Configuration File" your new magnitude limit will be the default the next time orrery is run.
Touchscreen Gestures
There are four types of touchscreen gestures which you can make in the plotting area which are recognized by the orrery: Taps, Zooms, Pans and Presses.
If you press the display area, and withdraw your finger or stylus within 0.25 seconds, that gesture is considered a tap.
Tapping in the lower 1/5 of the display area will pan the display in azimuth. If you are in fullscreen mode, then tapping in the upper 1/5 of the display will take you out of fullscreen mode. Tapping anywhere else toggles between the default screen and the constellation screen.
If you press the screen and trace out a roundish figure, and remain in contact with the screen for more than 0.25 seconds, and if the figure encloses a nontrivial (> 300 pixels) area, the gesture is considered to be a zoom. As you move your finger or stylus, the region you are outlining will be shown as a green dotted line. After you release your finger from the display, a red box will be shown. The red box is a rectangle with the aspect ratio of the display area, and the same area and centroid as the region you traced out with your finger. The display will then be zoomed so that the region in the red box fills the display area:
The image above shows the display immediately after the zoom gesture has been made (left) and after the zoom has become active (right). One may zoom an image which has already been zoomed.
Zooming can do some non-intuitive things, especially if you zoom near the upper left or upper right of the display. This is because the orrery's transverse mercator projection always has a line of constant azimuth in the center. This means that something zoomed at the edge of the display area will be rotated as it is zoomed, and some of the stars you wish to display may be rotated out of the display area. It is best, especially if you are zooming in on an area near the zenith, to first pan the display so that the region is near the center of the display, before zooming. The nice thing about the transverse mercator projection is that a zoomed area is displayed with the orientation it would have if you were directly facing it at the time indicated by the display.
If your zoom area includes the zenith, the display may do weird things. This is a bug.
A pan is like a zoom, but with a more linear, rather than roundish gesture. A pan can be used to move the center of a zoomed region. It has no effect if the display area is not zoomed. After you release your finger or stylus following a zoom gesture, orrery will show the region you traced out in green, and will draw a red arrow showing the direction and size of the pan. After that, the display is re-drawn with the new center position.
The image above shows the display immediately after a pan gesture has been made (left) and following the re-drawing of the display area (right).
If you push down on the touchscreen for more than 0.25 seconds, and do not move your finger or stylus significantly while making contact, you will have made a press gesture. Since one almost always moves one's finger a little by while pressing the screen, some small motion is allowed during a press gesture. This means that a zoom or pan gesture cannot be arbitrarily small, because it will be interpreted as a press.
If the screen is zoomed, then the press gesture unzooms it. If the screen is already unzoomed, then the press gesture has the same effect as a tap gesture.
Symbol Key
If you select "About Orrery / Symbol Key" from the "opts" menu, you will be shown an annotated list of the symbols used by the orrery, which is reproduced below:
NOTE: the current version is 2.7.
Planet Symbols
The solar system symbols, used by default on the constellation page (screen two), are the standard astronomical symbols for these objects. They are explained here.
Plotted Lines
The dotted yellow line is the Celestial Equator, the intersection of the Earth's equatorial plane with the celestial sphere. The red dotted line is the Ecliptic. The Ecliptic is the intersection of the Earth's orbital plane with the celestial sphere. The Ecliptic is also the path of the Sun across the sky, and the intersection points between the Celestial Equator and the Ecliptic are where the Sun is at the time of an equinox. Constellations lying along the Ecliptic plane are zodiac constellations. The planets and the Moon are always near, but usually not exactly on, the Ecliptic. The blue-green dotted line is the Galactic Plane, the intersection of the plane of the Milky Way's disk and the celestial sphere.
Displaying Stars Too Faint for the Unaided Eye to See
The default sky catalog used by the orrery contains every star you can see with your unaided eye, even if you have exceptionally good eyesight, and are located in a very dark area on a moonless night. If you wish to display stars which require binoculars or a small telescope to be seen, you can download the file hipparcos_9.0.dat from the orrery area of the gForge site.
You must load this file onto your phone, of course, but you probably will want to store it on the microSD card, because the file is so large (3 megabytes). You must make a softlink in the top of the orrery files area called "faintStars", which will point to where the hipparcos_9.0.dat is actually stored. For example, if you do the default opkg installation of the orrery (or use a script like Kustomizer), and if you store the hipparcos_9.0.dat at the top directory of your microSD card, you must issue the following command to make the faint star catalog usable:
> ln -s /media/card/hipparcos_9.0.dat /usr/share/orrery/faintStars
You must restart the orrery after making this softlink.
Once the new catalog and softlink are in place, the orrery will allow you to change the maximum magnitude (using the item menu) all the way up to magnitude 9.0. Note that the default, smaller catalog is still used if the maximum magnitude is no larger than 6.6, so you may used the orrery with the faint star catalog, and not incur and performance penalty as long as you restrict yourself to stars no fainter than 6.6. The faint (mag > 6.6) stars cannot be displayed in constellation mode.
The default orrery star catalog contains 9931 stars. hipparcos_9.0.dat contains 83392 stars, and is complete to 9th magnitude. The orrery will be more sluggish if you choose to display stars fainter than 6.6. If you choose to display all the stars in the hipparcos_9.0.dat, by setting the magnitude limit to 9.0, it will take about 10 seconds to draw the star map.
The plot below shows Lyra with limiting magnitudes of 6.6 (left) and 9.0 (right).
Remember, there's no reason at all to install the hipparcos_9.0.dat file unless you plan to do star gazing with binoculars or a small telescope.
System Requirements
Supported Phones
This program will run on either the neo1973 (gta01) or the FreeRunner (gta02). Users of the neo1973 may wish to move the files to the microSD card, to save space in the limited builtin flash memory (see below).
Supported Software Stacks
This program has been tested running atop the 2007.2, 2008.x and SHR distributions. The only stacks it will definitely not work on are Android, Qtopia, and their descendants. The orrery is gtk based.
Memory Requirements
This program requires 630 kbytes of storage space in the phone's builtin flash storage or microSD card. By default, most of the files (everything except the .desktop file, the launch icon and the executable) are stored under /usr/share/orrery. This directory tree may be moved elsewhere, if the new location is specified with the -d switch on the orrery invocation line in the .desktop file. The .desktop file resides in /usr/share/applications .
Installing this Program
.ipk files for this program are now available for both the 2007.2 and 2008.8 stacks, at the gForge site. It is much easier to install than it used to be. The latest .ipk files can be found here.
Known Bugs
Zooming the zenith area doesn't work
If you make a zoom gesture that includes the zenith, or if you pan a zoomed region so that the zenith falls within it, the orrery goes nuts.
Landscape display mode doesn't work well
The Orrery program works poorly when the phone's display is in landscape mode. The reason this has not been fixed is that the sky projection used, Transverse Mercator, does not work well with the landscape aspect ratio; there is too much distortion at the edges. The fix for landscape mode will require using a different projection in that orientation. It's on the todo list.
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Revision(ist) History
Version 2.7:
New user features: Monthly moon calendar now uses moon images. Also, both moon calendars now show "Blue Moons", using the common definition that a Blue Moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. Enlarged and re-arranged buttons on the "opts" page, for enhanced finger friendliness. Got rid of "stylus mode". The program is always in finger mode now. There was never a significant difference between the two modes anyway. The program now always saves configuration changes in nonvolatile memory. This is the standard behavior for handheld applications. Bug Fixes: Build-related files completely redone so as to use GNU autotools properly. Program no longer crashes if run on a phone who's locale is set to a language which uses a comma for the decimal point. Improved handling of zoom gestures which originate in the panning area. Before this fix, it was difficult or impossible to zoom an area near the horizon, because such a gesture would be interpreted as a "press" in the panning area, which would call up the azimuth compass. Removed the call to the popt library that parsed the command line arguments. This caused problems, because not all Freerunner software stacks shipped with the popt library. The program now parses its command line arguments with no call to any library. Fixed a bug which made it difficult to use the arrows at the bottom of the monthly moon calendar to change months.
Contact Information
Please send comments, suggestions, questions and/or abuse to email@example.com
Orrery displays the objects in the night (or day) sky. It uses the GPS position, if available


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Be sure to mark your calendars for July 6th when Jeremy has a solo show opening at Fifty24SF here in SF. That night is also the premiere of Fish Tales at the independent before Aesop Rock's show... Fish Tales is a short film made by Fish, Irving, and Eric Noren which was made for Element Skateboards for a line of boards Fish did for them... Make sense?
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On Saturday, March 7, Harvard Law School's Program on Law and Mind Sciences held its third annual conference, "The Free Market Mindset: History, Psychology and Consequences."
Close to 200 people attended the day-long event at HLS, bringing together leading scholars in law, economics, social psychology, and social cognition to discuss their research on the historical origins, psychological antecedents, and policy consequences of the free market mindset.
According to HLS Professor Jon Hanson, Director of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at HLS, the conference's topic was originally intended to be moral psychology, but after the market collapse in October, conference organizers decided that the free market mindset was too important a topic to ignore.
"We did not anticipate the extent to which this topic would be as salient today as it is," said Hanson.
Hanson said he hoped the conference would be an opportunity to examine the free market mindset in light of where we are, to explore why free markets have been so alluring to economists, scholars, and policy-makers even amidst the current financial turmoil.
In a lunchtime keynote address, Judge Richard Posner '62, [photo right] U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, offered remarks focusing on the "current Depression," based on his forthcoming book "A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression," due out by Harvard University Press in May. Posner opened his talk by discussing judicial decision-making, based on his recent book "How Judges Think," and how, among other things, ideology influences decision making.
The conference opened with discussions on the history of the free market idea. HLS Professor Christine Desan, a specialist in legal history, civil procedure, and legal and political thought, spoke about "Legal Categories of Thought," how the law categorizes different kinds of liquidity — including dollars, bonds and securities. She reviewed some of the ways that legal doctrine has disciplined our thought, including assumptions about money, and about free choice in the marketplace.
University of Chicago Law Professor Bernard Harcourt '89 presented his research and recent article on "Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets," In his talk, he traced a genealogy of neoliberal penality and explored the effects it has had in the field of crime and punishment, as well as in the broader economy and society. Both Desan and Harcourt participated in a Q&A session with the audience after their talk.
In another session, Harvard University Economics professor Stephen Marglin, presented a talk on the free market and economics titled "How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community," based on his 2008 book "The Dismal Science." He described some of the foundational assumptions of economics have promoted social isolation over deep social bonds.
Juliet Schor, a professor of sociology at Boston College, presented "Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies." Schor discussed the implications of what has become a profound market failure and the biases that operate in the goods and labor markets.
In later sessions on psychology, Sheena Iyengar, a professor in the management division of the Columbia Business School, discussed her research on "The Multiple Choice Problem," looking at how the exercise of choosing and the availability of numerous options affect decision quality and happiness with decision outcomes.
In "Choice, Social Class, and Agency," Nicole Stephens, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Stanford University, presented her research and a series of lab and field studies questioning the assumption that choice is a fundamental or "basic" unit of human behavior, and that behavior is a product of individual choice.
Jaime Napier, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at New York University working with NYU Professors of Psychology Tom Tyler and John Jost, presented their research on "The Palliative Function of Ideology," drawing on "system-justification theory and the notion that conservative ideology serves a palliative function to explain why conservatives are happier than liberals."
Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of the "Paradox of Choice," gave a talk titled "Addicted to Incentives: How the Ideology of Self Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling," arguing that the reductive appeal to self-interest as the master human motive is a false description of human nature.
In the final discussion of the day, Douglas Kysar '98, professor of law at Yale Law School, and Hanson tackled the topics of law and policy. Kysar focused on environmental policy and argued against the use of strict cost-benefit analysis when creating environmental laws. Environmental law requires a more "humanistic approach," he argued.
In his own talk, entitled "Regulation Reactance," Hanson [photo left] tested his theory that there are certain policy stereotypes ingrained in American culture. Through the use of advertising clips and snips of political speeches, he showed that Americans tend to try to establish a freedom to choose when they perceive that their liberty has been inhibited. In politics, this tends to mean that people think markets lead to freedom, and government regulation is coercive. Hanson and his collaborators (including 3L student Mark Yeboah) are currently studying these implicit policy associations, and how they might affect policy recommendations.
Within the next several months, edited versions of videos from the conference will be made available on The Project on Law and Mind Sciences website (where you can already find videos of presentations from the previous two conferences). In addition, Hanson is working with a group of 3L students on a book, "Ideology, Psychology, and Law," which will include chapters discussing some of the themes from this year's conference.


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What's Wrong With People? asks Sebastian Maniscalco in his hilarious new hit stand-up special airing on Showtime and available on DVD nationwide on March 27th. In What's Wrong with People, he brings his witheringly sarcastic and exasperated take on modern behavior and decorum, trying to bridge the gap between the Italian-American Old World he grew up in and the contemporary frenetic world we all live in today. The result is an original, highly relatable stand-up comedy tour-de-force that has Sebastian performing sold-out concerts worldwide. His self-deprecating comedy reminds fans of a young Jerry Seinfeld who constantly challenges his audience to recognize the absurdities of everyday life.
A native of Chicago, Sebastian grew up with comedy in his blood. After earning a degree in Corporate Organizational Communications from Northern Illinois University , he realized his passion for stand-up comedy and immediately headed out to Los Angeles . While working as a waiter at a Four Seasons in Beverly Hills , Sebastian spent every free night performing at local clubs, bowling alleys and bars. He remembers being so bad during his first stand-up act that the audience jeered him off the stage by screaming, "Sandman! Sandman!" in reference to Showtime at the Apollo's Howard Sims who would usher failed acts offstage with a shepherd's crook. But, with a steadfast work ethic and impeccable comedic timing, Sebastian has risen through the ranks to become one of the most respected entertainers in the stand-up community today.
As his career roll continued, Sebastian catapulted into the national spotlight with a 20-city tour for his one-hour Comedy Central DVD Special Sebastian Live! On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Sebastian has appeared as the unforgettable style correspondent providing hilarious grooming advice to unsuspecting airline passengers and churchgoers. His other national television appearances include the award-winning series The Savages, The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Tim Meadows' The Very Funny Show, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Showtime's Comics without Boarders, Comics Unleashed and Hollywood Uncensored. He is also a popular guest on such ground-breaking podcasts as WTF with Marc Maron.
While perfecting his routine on the stand-up circuit, Sebastian captured the attention of award-winning actor and entertainer Vince Vaughn who selected him to be one of the four featured comedians in the critically acclaimed film Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. "Performing with Vince every night for a month was the best time of my life," Sebastian recalls. With hilarious appearances from other renowned comedians: Justin Long, Jon Favreau, Dwight Yoakam and Keir O'Donnell, the film became an instant cult success.
Throughout his diverse career, Sebastian has worked with many other entertainment legends including Prince, BB King, Al Green, Anita Baker, and Gladys Knight. In 2009, Sebastian completed an international USO tour for the troops where he performed in Guam, Fuji , Misawa, Iwakuni and Hiroshima . His sold-out shows at the Dubai Comedy Festival and Lebanon 's Music Hall have solidified him as an international sensation.
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Sir David Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA British, born 1953, London David Chipperfield studied at Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association in London. After graduating he worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. David Chipperfield Architects was established in 1984 and the practice currently has over 200 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. The practice has won numerous national and international competitions and many international awards and citations for design excellence, including RIBA and AIA awards and the Stirling Prize 2007. In 1999 David Chipperfield was awarded the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. In 2004 David Chipperfield was made an Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and Design, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to architecture. He was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2006, and in 2007 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and an Honorary Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He was elected a Royal Academician (RA) in 2008 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University. In 2009 David Chipperfield was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – the highest tribute that can be paid to individuals for service to the nation – and in the UK New Year Honours 2010 was named Knight Bachelor for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. The same year he was awarded the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts and the Grand DAI Award (Verband Deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieurvereine) for Building Culture. David Chipperfield received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 2011. Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen. David Chipperfield has taught and lectured worldwide. He has been Professor of Architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, and Visiting Professor at several schools of architecture in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts London. zdroj: http://en.wikipedia.org/


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The GOP presidential candidate forum held Saturday in Charleston, S.C., was not exactly a debate. In fact, it was sort of the opposite of a debate.
The event was moderated by Fox News host and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. All the candidates except for Ron Paul attended, but they never actually shared the stage. They were explicitly prohibited from attacking — or even mentioning — each other.
Still, going into the last week of campaigning in South Carolina, most found ways to get in a jab without naming their rivals. The vast majority of the jabs were aimed at front-runner Mitt Romney.
One member of the audience asked Jon Huntsman about his position on abortion.
"I am very clear on my pro-life philosophy," he said. "I have always been pro-life, and I always will be."
Romney supported abortion rights before he changed his position.
Rick Santorum also tried to contrast himself with the stereotype of Romney as a political opportunist who blows in the wind.
"Not everybody agrees with everything that you believe in, but what they want to know is that you believe what you believe," Santorum said, "and folks trusted me that I would stand up and in fact do what I said, and I was doing it for the right reason."
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Newt Gingrich did not even bother with the oblique attacks. He went after the former Massachusetts governor by name. He continued the argument he has pursued for the past week — that Romney made a fortune at the investment company Bain Capital by closing companies and laying people off.
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He was reminded not to mention the other candidates. Having been scolded by the host and booed by the audience, Gingrich joined the other candidates in going after Romney without naming him.
"To ask questions about a particular company is not the same as attacking capitalism, and I don't see how you can expect us to have a presidential campaign in which an entire sector is avoided," he said. "And I guarantee you if we Republicans avoid it, our nominee in the fall is not going to find that Obama avoids it at all."
All week long, Rick Perry joined in the Romney attacks on the campaign trail. Saturday night, however, he was the only one who did not go down that path, talking instead about his record as Texas governor.
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KIEV - Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Crimea as a "sovereign and independent country" Monday, just hours after the strategic Black Sea peninsula declared it had broken away from Ukraine.
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In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians applauded the Sunday referendum that overwhelmingly called for secession and for joining Russia. Masked men in body armor blocked access for most journalists to the parliament session that declared independence, but the city otherwise appeared to go about its business normally.
The US, EU and Ukraine's new government do not recognize the referendum held Sunday in Crimea, which was called hastily as Ukraine's political crisis deepened with the ouster of pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych following months of protests and sporadic bloodshed. In addition to calling the vote itself illegal, the Obama administration said there were "massive anomalies" in balloting that returned a 97 percent "yes" vote for joining Russia.
Obama warned that Russia could face more financial punishment.
"If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions," Obama said.
One of the top Russian officials hit by sanctions mocked Obama.
"Comrade Obama, what should those who have neither accounts nor property abroad do? Have you not thought about it?" Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted. "I think the decree of the President of the United States was written by some joker."
Moscow considers the vote legitimate and Putin was to address both houses of parliament Tuesday on the Crimean situation.
In Kiev, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov vowed that Ukraine will not give up Crimea.
"We are ready for negotiations, but we will never resign ourselves to the annexation of our land," a somber-faced Turchynov said in a televised address to the nation. "We will do everything in order to avoid war and the loss of human lives. We will be doing everything to solve the conflict through diplomatic means. But the military threat to our state is real."
The Crimean referendum could also encourage rising pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine's east and lead to further divisions in this nation of 46 million.
A delegation of Crimean lawmakers was set to travel to Moscow on Monday for negotiations on how to proceed. Russian lawmakers have suggested that formally annexing Crimea is almost certain - with one saying it could happen within days.
"We came back home to Mother Russia. We came back home, Russia is our home," said Nikolay Drozdenko, a resident in Sevastopol, the key Crimean port where Russia leases a naval base from Ukraine.
The Crimean parliament declared that all Ukrainian state property on the peninsula will be nationalized and become the property of the Crimean Republic. It gave no further details. Lawmakers also asked the United Nations and other nations to recognize it and began work on setting up a central bank with $30 million in support from Russia.
The United States announced sanctions against seven Russian officials, including Rogozin, Putin's close ally Valentina Matvienko who is speaker of the upper house of parliament and Vladislav Surkov, one of Putin's top ideological aides. The Treasury Department also targeted Yanukovych, Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov and two other top figures.
The EU's foreign ministers slapped travel bans and asset freezes against 21 officials from Russia and Ukraine following Crimea's referendum. The ministers did not immediately release the names and nationalities of those targeted by the sanctions.
"We need to show solidarity with Ukraine and therefore Russia leaves us no choice," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters in Brussels before the vote. "The 'Anschluss' of Crimea cannot rest without a response from the international community."
He was referring to Nazi Germany's forceful annexation of Austria.
But markets appeared to signal that the Western sanctions lacked punch - with bourses both in Russia and Europe rising sharply on relief that they won't hit trade of business ties.
"So far the sanctions seem fairly toothless and much less severe than had been expected last week," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at Forex.com. "From the market's perspective, the biggest risk was that the referendum would trigger tough sanctions against Russia that could lead to another Cold War."
Moscow, meanwhile, called on Ukraine to become a federal state as a way of resolving the polarization between Ukraine's western regions - which favor closer ties with the 28-nation EU - and its eastern areas, which have long ties to Russia.
In a statement Monday, Russia's Foreign Ministry urged Ukraine's parliament to call a constitutional assembly that could draft a new constitution to make the country federal, handing more power to its regions. It also said country should adopt a "neutral political and military status," a demand reflecting Moscow's concern about the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO and possibly integrating closer politically and economically with the EU.
Russia is also pushing for Russian to become one of Ukraine's state languages alongside Ukrainian.
In Kiev, Ukraine's new government dismissed Russia's proposal Monday as unacceptable, saying it "looks like an ultimatum."
The new government in Kiev was established after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia last month after three months of protests culminated in deadly clashes.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya visited NATO headquarters in Brussels to request technical equipment to deal with the secession of Crimea and the Russian incursion there.
NATO said in a statement that the alliance was determined to boost its cooperation with Ukraine, including "increased ties with Ukraine's political and military leadership."


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We are still right in the middle of asparagus season and I have been enjoying the asparagus every week. One of my favorite flavour combinations with asparagus is asparagus and mushrooms. I also really like a nice tangy goat cheese so when I saw a recipe for a breakfast casserole with asparagus, mushrooms and goat cheese on Kalyn's Kitchen I knew that I would have to try it when the asparagus was in season. The last egg breakfast casserole that I made had cottage cheese in and I really enjoyed it so I added it to this one as well. The asparagus, mushroom and goat cheese egg breakfast casserole was super easy to make and it turned out great. I really liked the way the asparagus, mushrooms and goat cheese were layered in the egg casserole. The goat cheese layer was of course on top so that as the casserole baked it got nice and golden brown and good. The juicy asparagus went well with the tangy goat cheese and the mushrooms rounded everything out. One of the things that I like about these egg breakfast casseroles is that the leftover keep well and they are just as good cold as they are after a minute or so in the microwave. This recipe easily makes 6 servings so I have tasty breakfasts to look forward to for the rest of the week.
Asparagus, Mushroom and Goat Cheese Egg Breakfast Casserole
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 8 ounces mushrooms (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pound asparagus (trimmed and cut into bite sized pieces)
- 1/2 pound goat cheese (sliced)
- 10 eggs
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the mushrooms and saute until tender, about 5-10 minutes.
- Add the garlic, thyme and season with salt and pepper and saute until fragrant, about a minute and remove from heat.
- Spread the asparagus out evenly over the bottom of an 8 inch square baking dish.
- Spread the mushrooms and goat cheese over top.
- Mix the eggs and cottage cheese and season with salt and pepper.
- Pour the egg mixture into the pan.
- Bake in a preheated 375F/190C oven until the eggs are firmly set and golden brown on top, about 20-30 minutes.
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"I'm a medievalist."
"Isn't that kind of narrow?"
I can't say I fielded the question as well as I would have liked. I started with the above ("what do you know?"), followed it up with a sputtering "1,000 years of stuff. 1,000 years!" and when that did nothing to conjure away my interlocutor's blank stare, "and I work in three languages. It's hardly...narrow."
With that, the spell was broken. All it took was the languages, although I guess I should have added, in all honesty, that no one speaks any of them anymore.
Normally, when I say I'm a medievalist, I get one of two responses: 1) they ask if I belong to the SCA or engage in SCA-related program activities; 2) they talk about the Crusades, about which I know next to nothing: cannibalism, sack of Constantinople, and Orlando Bloom, and then I'm tapped. I'm not complaining, mind you. It's nice, comforting even, to see people try to make a connection. It's just that, well, I'd like to hear something else: but not what I heard on Tuesday.
This being Friday, it's a good time to engage in a bit of frivolity. JJC threw duct tape at us; Eileen, naughty wallets; and me, I'm asking for your stories. What's happened when you tell people what you do? I'm not directing this question solely at medievalists.
Sat. Morning Update
I decided to revisit the subject from a slightly different direction. Here you go:
I suppose the reactions of non-medievalists and, especially, non-academics are predictable. To a degree, the reactions, at least with my family or other people from back home, are due to class. Because I'm likely the only medievalist they're ever going to meet, I might as well have declared myself a Martian. With these people, I get either confusion ('you can get paid for that?' or 'no, that's not what I asked. What's your job'?), attempts to engage the Other (who is, astonishingly enough for my family, me) that are, nakedly, only attempts at incorporation or assimilation ('what you need to do is go into business and use your medieval knowledge to get rich: you'd know all this stuff that no one else did, so you'd have that advantage'), or, more rarely, I get hostility ('know-nothing academics'), either because they sense, I hope not justly, contempt for their class on my part--after all, I'm not one of them anymore--or, because they can't find a place for what I do and what I am in their world, there's an angry attempt to set things right through mockery.
So I'm pleased as punch when people try to make some connection on the basis of my interests. That's, dare I say, an ethical moment: paging EJ and Lévinas....
Generally I've found the best thing to do is to follow Liza's example (in the comments) by telling them something gross or weird about what I study. I find the animal trials work well for that. In other words, I find some moment in the Middle Ages that's as Other to me as the Middle Ages, in toto, are to them. I approach my own field of study and, to a large degree, myself with the bemused or off-kilter fascination of the non-expert. Because I think I have a handle on the opening of the General Prologue and its significance (as inhuman sexuality, as compulsory heterosexuality, as whatever), when someone finds out I'm a medievalist and quotes it to me, I'm likely to be frustrated by the chasm between what I (think I) know and what they don't know, or refuse to know, or cannot know. Bridging that chasm, if it's indeed there, would take a semester or, say, 85 minutes before I set everyone aright, before I found, once again, satisfaction or free access to the buffet table or whatever it is I want. But with the animal trials--dressing a pig up as a person and hanging it for murder--no theory, pace Jody Enders, will ever put that right. The trials are just too strange, for me, the supposed expert now estranged from his expertise, and for my interlocutors, of course. I might have had to humiliate my expertise to get their interest, but at least they might leave knowing how unassimilable my own field of study is to anyone's experience and hence how much pleasure it promises. It's possible to do this with Chaucer but it's harder to do it, quickly, for whatever reason.
Now, to evade the risk of this turning into one of those chronic Chronicle first-person pieces, I'll cede the floor to Zizek:
On the rare occasions when, owing to various kinds of social obligations, I cannot avoid meeting my relatives who have nothing to do with Lacanian theory (or with theory in general), sooner or later the conversation always takes the same unpleasant turn: with barely concealed hostility and envy lurking beneath a polite surface, they ask me how much I earn by my writing and publishing abroad, and giving lectures around the world. Surprisingly, whichever answer I give sounds wrong to them: if I admit that I earn what, in their eyes, is a considerable sum of money, they consider it unjust that I earn so much for my empty philosophizing, while they, who are doing 'real work,' have to sweat for a much lesser reward; if I tell them a small sum, they assert, with deep satisfaction, that even this is too much--who needs my kind of philosophizing in these times of social crisis? Why should we spend taxpayers' money on it? The underlying premise of their reasoning is that, to put it bluntly, whatever I earn, I earn too much--why? It is not only that they consider my kind of work useless: what one can discern beneath this official, public reproach is the envy of enjoyment. That is to say, it soon becomes obvious what really bothers them: the notion that I actually enjoy my work. They possess a vague intuition of how I find jouissance in what I do; which is why, in their eyes, money is never a proper equivalent for my work. No wonder, then, that what I earn always oscillates between the two extremes of 'too little' and 'too much': such an oscillation is an unmistakable sign that we are dealing with jouissance. (Plague of Fantasies, 53-54)


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With the country in the midst of a record year for influenza cases, doctors at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation are warning Oklahomans to watch out for another violent and virulent illness called the norovirus.
Often called the stomach flu or associated with food poisoning, norovirus is a highly contagious virus that can cause intense cramping, vomiting and diarrhea and can lead to serious dehydration, said OMRF President Stephen Prescott, M.D.
"Norovirus gets spread around every year during the winter and spring," he said. "Much like the influenza virus, the norovirus mutates as it spreads. In March of 2012, a new strain of norovirus called GII.4 Sydney began making the rounds in Australia, was spread to Europe and now has landed in America. The new strain could account for an increase in transmission this year."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, causing about 21 million illnesses annually. Worldwide about 70,000 are hospitalized, leading to 800 deaths.
"Norovirus begins like most viruses—you inhale it or eat it or rub it into your eyes without even knowing," Prescott said. "Once it's in the system, the virus moves to your small intestine and hijacks cells, forcing them to replicate the virus."
After the cells fill with copies of the virus, they burst open, releasing more virus into your system and begin repeating the process. It could take fewer than 100 norovirus particles to start the illness, according to the CDC.
When the immune system catches on and begins fighting the illness, the inflammation in the lower intestine causes vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping, Prescott said.
"This is what is so ingenious about the norovirus—the unpleasant side effects of the immune reaction cause you to spread it," he said. "Worse still, the virus is hardy, so it can last on surfaces for a couple of days, waiting to infect someone new."
Even though the symptoms only last 3 or 4 days, a person can still transmit norovirus for around 48 hours after the vomiting and nausea stop.
"The best option for staying healthy, of course, is to not be exposed to norovirus in the first place," he said. "But if you or a loved one gets sick, isolation and common sense are the best ways to stop the spread."
- Those who are ill or have recently been ill should not prepare food or care for others, because the virus can still be passed on.
- Wash hands frequently with hot, soapy water and supplement with hand sanitizer.
- Clean and disinfect all surfaces, especially in the bathroom, with chlorine bleach solution of 5 or more tablespoons of bleach per gallon of water.
- Wash produce and thoroughly cook shellfish.
- Wash laundry thoroughly and wear rubber or disposable gloves to handle soiled items, then wash hands immediately afterward.
"If it sounds like hard work, that's because it is," Prescott said. "But as difficult as it may be, it's preferable to contracting the norovirus or passing it on to family members or coworkers."


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Opinion: Immigration an entrepreneurial act
Washington ? At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of "the first comprehensive immigration law." This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell, historian at the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Neb., one of the National Park Service's many educational jewels that make the NPS one of just two government institutions (the other is the U.S. Marine Band) that should be exempt from any budget cuts, for all eternity.
In 1862, the grim year of Shiloh and Fredericksburg, Congress would have been forgiven for concentrating only on preventing national dismemberment. Instead, while defiantly continuing construction of the Capitol dome, Congress continued nation-building. It passed the Pacific Railroad Act to provide for the movement of people and goods to and from the new lands in the West, the Morrill Act to build land-grant colleges emphasizing agriculture, and, most important, the Homestead Act, whose provisions were as simple as the problem it addressed was stark.
What today is called the Great Plains was at that time identified on maps as the Great American Desert. Under the act, $18 dollars in fees entitled homesteaders to farm 160 acres to which they would acquire title for no further cost after five years. Or after six months if they paid $1.25 an acre. (Union soldiers could deduct their time in uniform from the residency requirement.) The act was intended to attract immigrants from abroad — immigrants who would put down roots. For this purpose it provided all requirements for citizenship.
Until then, Bell writes, the states had been "the primary overseers of immigration." And as an immigration commissioner of New York later testified to Congress, large numbers of immigrants would "come regularly to this country every spring" but would take themselves and their earnings back to Europe in the autumn, not paying taxes and depressing American wages.
The Naturalization Law of 1802 required immigrants to receive certificates ("first papers") proving that they had declared upon arrival their intention to become citizens. After five years, an immigrant could take the certificate and two witnesses to a courthouse and be naturalized. This law addressed the worry that Europe was deliberately exporting the wretched refuse of its teeming shores — people of (in a Kentucky congressman's words) "the most turbulent and factious tempers," accustomed to monarchies and sorely in need of Americanization.
By 1850, the United States had acquired, by hook or by crook (including Indian "removal" and the morally dubious but indubitably beneficial war with Mexico), vast quantities of land. Most of it was uninhabited, unless you counted, as few did, Indians. In 1862, with many citizens fighting, noncitizens were needed to (in an Illinois congressman's words) "go upon these wild lands" to increase the nation's wealth.
Bell calls the Homestead Act "an accommodating immigration law" because its requirement that the land be farmed for five years was the amount of time required to become a citizen, and because it began the assimilation of immigrants into American law.
The spirit of the act was optimistic. As the New York Times said, it would attract "the common people of Europe" who are free from the prejudices of "the aristocratic and snobocratic classes."
Under the Homestead Act, which continued in effect in Alaska until 1986, more than 270 million acres — approximately 422,000 square miles or 2.5 Californias — were privatized. The truth-tellers at the National Archives say most homesteaders came from near their homesteads — Iowans moved to Nebraska, Minnesotans to South Dakota, etc. Furthermore, speculators, railroads and other sharpies snapped up most of the land: Of 500 million acres dispersed by 1904, only 80 million went to homesteaders. Small farmers settled more land under the act in the 20th century than in the 19th.
Still, Bell rightly notes that the act was an immigration law in effect as well as intent. By 1870, the foreign-born population of Wyoming and Montana was 39 percent; of Dakota Territory's, 34 percent; of Nebraska's, 25 percent. And the peak years of national immigration, 1905-14, were the peak years of homestead claims.
Skeptics will say that the Homestead Act which welcomed immigrants to a sparsely populated continent is irrelevant to today. Skeptics should consider not only that immigration is still an entrepreneurial act but also that as the entitlement state buckles beneath the weight of an aging population, America's workforce needs replenishing.


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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
How to Cook Hamburgers So That Someone Like Me Would Like Them
37 comments:
I think you meant to embed this video:
The one in the post is from 2008. - June 8, 2011 at 1:44 AM
- Chef John said...
Sorry, but i just check and the correct video is embeded. You must have a browser bug or something. Thanks!
- June 8, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Chef John? Is this brie that I see on top of the burger? Brie? BRIE??? Oh please tell me it's brie!!! oh Chef, you've made me oh soooo hungry!
- June 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM
Ever since I found your food blogg I am totally and utter addicted! Love it! And am passing it on to everyone! Only two things I could wish for is more frequent updates and and your take on something wild likenwild boar,myeahbIm serious lol. Best from Sweden! X
- June 8, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- Monica said...
please what is the internal temperature? Please make again on a gas grill!!!
- June 8, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Chef John said...
Probably 140 internal. Enjoy!
- June 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Talek said...
Thank you for this, I usually have to visit Toronto or beg my local burger bar to cook it to medium which unfortunately doesn't always pan out the way I want it to...
Simple question... Do you prefer stove top or grill method for this? I would think stove top would give more consistency when it cooks but the grill does give that nice smoky flavour... - June 8, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Could you please post your toppings and type of break. I love this video your creations are awesome. Thanks.
- June 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Chris K. said...
Do you have a preference regarding the fat content of ground beef for hamburger? I'm guessing you want a nice amount of fat in there.
- June 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Chef John said...
I like btwn 15-20% as do most
- June 8, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Im a little confused. In Germany I learned, that Americans like their beef for Hamburgers in a very plain way, without any spices like salt and pepper. But nevertheless, that's the way I always made my own Hamburgers. Go on, Chef John! American Food is better than it's reputation. I love this American classics!
- June 8, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Rita said...
"Is it potentially dangerous to eat a pink burger? Of course, but so is crossing the street."
i LOVE it! that is so hilarious and true. and, yes, i love pink burgers. - June 8, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Interesting..what Andre said. I'm from the indian subcontinent so a lot of food here in America is quite simple compared to our's in which almost everyone of them you'll find, onions, garlic, ginger, cumin, salt, chile powder, lots of oil, etc. You can even buy some bags that come with all the spices mixed for a certain dish. But I enjoy American food; though maybe slightly altered.
- June 8, 2011 at 6:43 PM
- Jackson said...
Looks amazing Chef John. I think referencing pulp fiction is appropriate here; "That is a tasty burger!"
- June 8, 2011 at 7:43 PM
Chef John, isnt the burger already seasoned before being formed into patties?
- June 9, 2011 at 12:15 AM
This looks great! Just one question: Rocket surgery? Really? :)
- June 9, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Speaking of perfectly juicy burgers, they should only be put on the right type of bun.
I hate hamburger buns that are either so soft that they turn into a soggy mess the moment they make contact with the juices from a properly cooked burger, or so "rustic" that you spend enough time trying to chew through them that your jaw starts to tire before you finish. I would love a recipe for buns that are somewhere in the middle. - June 9, 2011 at 1:12 AM
Anon, a burger bun should ALWAYS be toasted and lightly buttered or mayo-ed on both sides, IMHO.
- June 9, 2011 at 4:56 AM
Anon, a burger bun should ALWAYS be toasted and lightly buttered or mayo-ed on both sides, IMHO.
- June 9, 2011 at 4:56 AM
- Mililus said...
i love the way you use your words on your blog and in the videos, it's very special and inviting and just plain fun :)
- June 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Food Junkie said...
Chef John, does the heat coming up the sides method work for the barbecue as well or just a frying pan?
Kim - June 9, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, but not quite as exact, but still a good guide.
- June 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Where's all the banter about well vs rare (the way I like it)?
Great video
btw - It WAS a slow day for the inaugural event - noted later.
(slow day again!) - June 9, 2011 at 9:42 PM
- Chris said...
Gorgeous burger, Chef John! The caramelized onions and thick cheese are drool worthy. (Or maybe that pesky neighbor, Pavlov, is playing his hand bells again.)
- June 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM
You just made me so hungry for a juicy burger. Curse you, Chef John, curse you!
- June 14, 2011 at 1:02 AM
Love your videos, Chef John!
You're an AWESOME Chef!!
I'm in Korea, can't easily have this kind of gooood video recepies.
Thank you so much! And could you plspls do some more dessert?
Merci! - June 14, 2011 at 9:27 AM
may i ask why july 27th?
it's my birthday btw, would be an awesome present!
love ur blog Chef! dont stop posting! - July 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM
Chef John,
July 27th has long since come and gone. When are you going to post the burger video you promised? Did you forget?
BTW - I love to cook now because of you and this video blog.
Thank you for all your hard work. - November 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Chef John said...
I did! Thanks! http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-great-northwest-cheeseburger.html
- November 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM
You did not steer me wrong Chef John! Used your exact technique to make my burger tonight and it came out perfectly ! Thanks for the great videos.
-Bridget - October 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey Chef John!
I know this is an old post but I was wondering if you had a method of cooking a burger well done on a stove top without burning it?
I would love to eat it as a medium but because of health reasons, I can't eat raw meat.
Thanks! - September 2, 2013 at 1:07 AM
- Chef John said...
Just use lower heat. Eventually the meat will cook thru. BTW, medium meat is not rare, and is NO danger to anyone. Even med. meat that's pink has reached a temp of 140+, and everything potentially dangerous is killed. Not sure why people still don't know this. It's science! :)
- September 2, 2013 at 2:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Chef John,
what combination of meat do you use on your burgers?
how do you always get that amount of fat ? (15%-20%)
Thank you. - December 26, 2013 at 5:02 PM
- Unknown said...
HiChef John, how are you??
I have the same doubt of Paulo....
What combination of meat do you use on your burgers?
how do you always get that amount of fat ? (15%-20%)
Thank you. - January 28, 2014 at 12:17 PM
- Chef John said...
I always use 85/15 ratio of meat to fat. The butcher sells it that way!
- January 28, 2014 at 12:24 PM
- Unknown said...
I love a medium rare steak but a hamburger I always cook well done. First of all don't buy hamburger buy ground chuck or sirloin. Hamburger meat can have nasty ingredients in it where chuck or sirloin must be just that. It's actually better to grind your own if you can.
- January 22, 2015 at 3:33 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Chef, I don't see the recipe for this burger, Did I miss something? Thanks.
- March 4, 2015 at 2:43 AM


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"Sinister" is a story made of darkness: mysterious loud bangs in the attic, distant moans from the dead, vulnerable children, an egomaniac crime writer and his long-suffering wife, who is plenty fed up even before she discovers he has moved his family into the same house where horrifying murders took place.
The movie opens with four people standing with nooses around their necks and hoods over their heads. From above the frame, a power saw cuts off a tree limb. As it falls, its weight hangs the victims. Soon after Ellison Oswalt and wife Tracy (Ethan Hawke and Juliet Rylance) move into a spacious suburban house, we can see through the kitchen window that the hanging tree, with a distinctive split branch, is in the backyard.
What kind of a psycho would move his family into this house? Even the unfriendly sheriff tells him it's in "very poor taste." But the house was priced to sell. Almost immediately Ellison discovers it was no bargain. In the attic, he finds a box labeled "Home Movies," containing reels of Super-8 film and a projector to exhibit them.
"Sinister" is an undeniably scary movie, with performances adding enough human interest to give depth to the basic building blocks of horror. Ethan Hawke plays an introverted, driven man who wrote a best-selling, true-crime book some years ago and is convinced a book about those ghastly hangings will be another success — especially since one member of the doomed family is still missing.
His wife shares the misgivings of her children about being uprooted from their former home and being moved to an isolated house in the woods. Her distress grows as Ellison locks himself in his office, and grows distant and distracted. Their children, Trevor and Ashley (Michael Hall D'Addario and Clare Foley), begin to have night terrors and episodes of sleepwalking. Although Tracy remains ignorant of the house's true history, the kids discover it soon enough through playground tauntings. Ashley, who has been given one wall of her room to paint on, begins to summon disturbing images.
The film, directed by Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), focuses on Ellison, who spends much time scrutinizing the 8mm movies, which disturbingly show the murders of other families. He transfers them to his laptop, and his stop-action analysis uncovers almost hidden details. Some shots cause him to recoil in terror. He begins to hit the bottle. His wife grows hostile.
Almost all of the action occurs at night. Wouldn't you know for part of the time the power is off in their neighborhood? (The outage doesn't seem to affect the porch lights.) Even when the power seems to be working, Ellison for no reason prefers to creep around the house and climb into the attic carrying a small flashlight, which serves only to make him a target to anything that might be waiting in the dark. I was strongly reminded of Ellen Burstyn creeping into her attic in "The Exorcist," holding only a candle. All through "Sinister," you keep thinking, "Switch on the lights, fool!"
Three supporting characters are effective. Fred Dalton Thompson is the sheriff, whose initial hostility later seems only reasonable. James Ransone is his deputy, a crime buff who is star-struck by the famous writer and signs on as a volunteer researcher. (He dreams of being cited in the eventual book: "You know, like thanks to Deputy So-and-So, without whose invaluable help…").
And then there is Vincent D'Onofrio, as a university professor of the occult and mythological, who opens up a line of possibility that eventually saves the ending from being a red herring. Yes, the ending is horrifying, but I don't believe in that stuff. I'm pretty sure I don't.
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