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AHA Activities , From the Professional Division
Annual Report of the Professional Division for 1998
This is my last annual report as vice president of the Professional Division. A broad overview of the division's activities in 1998 has already appeared in the annual meeting Program, prepared by AHA headquarters staff. Here I will simply touch on some of the central and ongoing concerns of the division. During the three years that I served as vice president, 33 complaints (by my count) were brought to the division. Ten of these complaints involved allegations of plagiarism, another 13 dealt with allegations of unprofessional conduct of various sorts, and the remaining 10 alleged unfair hiring practices. We declined to hear 14 of the complaints, based on the criteria in the AHA's Statement on Standards. My annual report for 1997 discussed various composite scenarios based on those 14 complaints (Perspectives, April 1998), explaining why they did not meet the standards for a full review. Besides the cases filed formally, many individuals discussed potential complaints with me informally by phone or e-mail. That remains an option for members who want an outside opinion, and it can often be more useful and faster than filing a formal complaint. For example, an allegation of unfair hiring practices may be impossible to demonstrate from the written record, as required by the AHA's Statement on Standards, and a job candidate may feel too vulnerable to bring a formal complaint. Instead, once alerted, the vice president for the Professional Division may be able to make inquiries or even resolve a matter informally without mentioning the job candidate.
Dissatisfaction with the job market is presumably more widespread than the number of formal and informal complaints would indicate, based on the "war stories" told among job candidates. At the January meeting in Washington, the division once again sponsored a "Mock Interview" session to give job candidates practical advice about how to present themselves in interviews. I also stopped by the waiting room for the Job Register interviews several times, simply to observe. The physical facilities were arranged about as efficiently as they could be, and the local graduate students staffing the registration desk and the waiting room seemed committed to being as helpful as possible to the candidates who filed in and out. Nonetheless, improvements can be made even to the most efficient operation, and the stress inherent in the hiring process can magnify every perceived flaw. If you have suggestions as to how the Job Register could be improved, please send your ideas to the Professional Division or to Robert Townsend at AHA headquarters. Suggestions will be particularly helpful if they come from recent participants in the Job Register, both interviewers and job candidates.
Last fall, the Professional Division reviewed and edited the AHA's guidelines for the hiring process, adding several points about on-campus interviews and contract negotiations. Our aim was to make the guidelines as clear and comprehensive as possible, although obviously we could not cover every contingency. Last fall the division also began to review the statement on standards regarding the hiring process. The statement deals only with open searches; it does not even acknowledge practices known as "spousal hires," "special opportunity hires," and "administrative transfers," which are relatively common in the profession these days. To remedy this lapse, it is likely that the division will consider the full range of hiring as it continues its review. The AHA Council and the Professional Division continue to view the job market and the annual meeting's Job Register among their highest priorities.
The AHA also continues to monitor the use of part-time and temporary faculty. (The phrase "adjunct faculty" is often used to describe them, but that category is too general and ambiguous to be useful.) The Professional Division developed a set of guidelines, approved by Council in May 1998, outlining good practices to be followed when part-time and temporary faculty are hired to teach history. The guidelines aimed to integrate part-time and temporary faculty into the intellectual and administrative life of the hiring institutions, for the benefit of all concerned. Our point of departure in developing the guidelines was the closing document from the conference on part-time and temporary faculty (a.k.a. "adjunct") cosponsored by the AHA and held in September 1997. The AHA continues its partnership with the other organizations who sponsored that important meeting. In the past several years, the division has sponsored the discussion of issues crucial to the profession. Whenever possible, we organized a panel on a specific issue at the AHA's annual meeting, continued the discussion at the luncheon of department chairs during the meeting, and later arranged for the publication of related articles in Perspectives. The issues we focused on were the downsizing of departments and graduate programs (1997), tenure and post-tenure review (1998), part-time and temporary faculty (1998), the job market and the production of PhDs (1999), and faculty governance and unionization (1999). Further discussion of these issues has taken place on the e-mail listserv established for department chairs by the AHA.
The five-person division changes its identity each year, due to the staggered terms of the members. AHA staff support by Sharon K. Tune and Robert Townsend in Washington provides the continuity and paperwork that the division needs to function, and I am grateful as always for their help. In past years I have thanked division members as their terms ended. This year I am very pleased to thank Gail Savage, whose term ended in January. Gail provided exemplary service to the division, taking special interest in the concerns of part-time and temporary faculty and in our liaison with the AHA's Task Force on Graduate Education. She also served as contributing editor of Perspectives for professional issues. In that capacity, she took responsibility for highlighting topics that the division had identified for special attention. As Gail and I leave the division, its work will proceed under the leadership of Barbara D. Metcalf (Univ. of California at Davis), with continuing members Leila Fawaz (Tufts Univ.), James Grossman (Newberry Library), and Marilyn Young (NYU) representing Council, and newly-elected member Charles Zappia (San Diego Mesa Coll.). They and Council will decide what issues the division will address as the AHA enters the new millennium, and I wish them all the best in that endeavor.
—Carla Rahn Phillips (Univ. of Minnesota) was vice president of the AHA's Professional Division, 1996–99.
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The Sesame documentation is pretty extensive, but also perhaps a bit daunting, especially if you are relatively new to Sesame, or indeed to tools like Eclipse or Apache Maven.
To help people who are new to Sesame get started, I have written a step by step tutorial how to use these tools together and build a simple Semantic Web application.
The tutorial is available on the Sesame documentation website:
Since release 2.5.0, Sesame supports reading and writing a binary RDF serialization format. Its main features are reduced parsing overhead and minimal memory requirements (for handling really long literals, amongst other things).
Unfortunately, however, the format is currently not documented in the Sesame manuals. I have therefore done a bit of reverse-engineering and actually tried to reconstruct from the code how the format works. This post is a first draft of my reconstruction of the format.
Warning: dry technical stuff coming up. Read at your peril.
MIME Content Type
Sesame assigns the content type
application/x-binary-rdf to its format.
Overall design
Results encoded in the Sesame Binary RDF format consist of a header followed by zero or more records, and closes with an
END_OF_DATA marker (see below). Values are stored in network order (Big-Endian).
All string values use UTF-16 encoding. Reference ids are assigned to recurring values to avoid having to repeat long strings.
The header is 8 bytes long:
- Bytes 0-3 contain a magic number, namely the ASCII codes for the string
"BRDF", which stands for Binary RDF.
- Bytes 4-7 specify the format version (a 4-byte signed integer).
For example, a header for a result in format version 1 will look like this:
byte: 0 1 2 3 | 4 5 6 7 | -------------------+-------------+ value: B R D F | 0 0 0 1 |
Content records
Zero or more records follow after the header. Each record can be a namespace declaration, a comment, a value reference declaration, or a statement.
Each record starts with a record type marker (a single byte). The following record types are defined in the current format:
NAMESPACE_DECL(byte value: 0):
This indicates a namespace declaration record.
STATEMENT(byte value: 1):
This indicates an RDF statement record.
COMMENT(byte value: 2):
This indicates a comment record.
VALUE_DECL(byte value: 3):
This indicates a value declaration.
END_OF_DATA(byte value: 127):
This indicates the end of the data stream has been reached.
All strings are encoded as UTF-16 encoded byte arrays. A String is preceeded by a 4-byte signed integer that encodes the length of the string (specifically, it records the number of Unicode code units). For example, the string 'foo' will be encoded as follows:
byte: 0 1 2 3 | 4 6 8 | ---------------+-------+ value: 0 0 0 3 | f o o |
RDF Values
Each RDF value type has its own specific 1-byte record type marker:
NULL_VALUE(byte value: 0)
marks an empty RDF value (this is used, for example, in encoding of context in statements)
URI_VALUE(byte value: 1)
marks a URI value
BNODE_VALLUE(byte value: 2)
marks a blank node value
PLAIN_LITERAL_VALUE(byte value: 3)
marks a plain literal value
LANG_LITERAL_VALUE(byte value: 4)
marks a language-tagged literal value
DATATYPE_LITERAL_VALUE(byte value: 5)
marks a datatyped literal value
URIs are recorded by the
URI_VALUE marker followed by the URI encoded as a string.
Blank nodes
Blank nodes are recorded by the
BNODE_VALUE marker followed by the id of the blank node encoded as a string.
Depending on the specific literal type (plain, language-tagged, datatyped), a literal is recorded by one of the markers
LANG_LITERAL_VALUE or
DATATYPE_LITERAL_VALUE. This is followed by the lexical label of the literal as a string, optionally followed by either a language tag encoded as a string value or a datatype encoded as a string.
Value reference declaration records
To enable further compression of the byte stream, the Binary RDF format enables encoding of reference-identifiers for often-repeated RDF values. A value reference declaration starts with a
VALUE_DECL record marker (1 byte, value 3), followed by a 4-byte signed integer that encodes the reference id. This is followed by the actual value, encoded as an RDF value (see above).
For example, a declaration that assigns id 42 to the URI 'http://example.org/HHGTTG' will look like this:
byte: 0 | 1 2 3 4 | 5 | 6 7 8 9 | 10 12 14 16 18 (etc) | ----------+---------+---+---------+----------------------+ value: 3 | 0 0 0 42| 1 | 0 0 0 25| h t t p : (etc) |
Explanation: byte 0 marks the record as a
VALUE_DECL, bytes 1-4 encode the reference id, byte 5 encodes the value type (
URI_VALUE), bytes 6-9 encode the length of the string value, bytes 10 and further encode the actual string value as an UTF-16 encoded byte array.
Note that the format allows the same reference id to be assigned more than once. When a second value declaration occurs, it effectively overwrites a previous declaration, reassigning the id to a new value for all following statements.
Namespace records
A namespace declaration is recorded by the
NAMESPACE_DECL marker. Next follows the namespace prefix, as a string, then followed by the namespace URI, as a string.
For example, a namespace declaration record for prefix 'ex' and namespace uri 'http://example.org/' will look like this:
byte: 0 | 1 2 3 4 | 5 6 | 7 8 9 10 | 11 13 15 17 19 (etc) | ----------+---------+-----+----------+----------------------+ value: 0 | 0 0 0 2 | e x | 0 0 0 19 | h t t p : (ect) |
Comment records
A comment is recorded by the
COMMENT marker, followed by the comment text encoded as a string.
For example, a record for the comment 'example' will look like this:
byte: 0 | 1 2 3 4 | 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 | ----------+---------+-------------------+ value: 2 | 0 0 0 7 | e x a m p l e |
Statement records
Each statement record starts with a
STATEMENT marker (1 byte, value 1). For the encoding of the statement's subject, predicate, object and context, either the RDF value is encoded directly, or a previously assigned value reference (see section 2.3) is reused. A Value references is recorded with the
VALUE_REF marker (1 byte, value 6), followed by the reference id as a 4-byte signed integer.
An example statement
Consider the following RDF statement:
<http://example.org/George> <http://example.org/name> "George" .
Assume that the subject and predicate previously been assigned reference ids,
(42 and 43 respecively). The object value has not been assigned a reference id.
This statement would then be recorded as follows:
byte: 0 | 1 | 2 3 4 5 | 6 | 7 8 9 10| 11 | 12 13 14 15 | 16 18 20 22 24 26 | 28 | ---------+---+---------+---+---------+----+-------------+-------------------+----+ value: 1 | 6 | 0 0 0 42| 6 | 0 0 0 43| 3 | 0 0 0 5 | G e o r g e | 0 |
Explanation: byte 0 marks the record as a STATEMENT. Byte 1 marks the subject of the statement as a VALUE_REF. Bytes 2-5 encode the reference id of the subject. Byte 6 marks the predicate of the statement as a VALUE_REF. Byte 7-10 encode the reference id of the predicate. Byte 11 marks the obect of the statement as a PLAIN_LITERAL value, bytes 12-15 encode the length of the lexical value of the literal, and bytes 16-26 encode the literal's lexical value as a UTF-16 encoded byte array. Finally, byte 28 marks the context field of the statement as a NULL_VALUE.
Buffering and value reference handling
The binary RDF format enables declaration of value references for more compressed representation of often-repeated values.
A binary RDF producer may choose to introduce a reference for every RDF value. This is a simple approach, but it produces a suboptimal compression (because for values which occur only once, direct encoding of the value uses fewer bytes than introducing a reference for it).
Another approach is to introduce a buffered writing strategy: statements to be serialized are put on a queue with a certain capacity, and for each RDF value in these queued statements the number of occurrences in the queue is determined. As the queue is emptied and each statement is serialized, all values that occur more than once in the queue are assigned a reference id. This is, in fact, the strategy employed by the OpenRDF Rio implementation of this format.
It is also important to note that reference ids are not necessarily global over the entire document: ids are assigned on the basis of number of occurrences of a value in the current statement queue. If that number drops to zero, the reference id for that value can be 'recycled', that is, reassigned to another value. This ensures that we never run out of reference ids, even for very large datasets.
The record marking approach ensures that the format can be read and written in a completely streaming fashion, reducing memory overhead and making it very suitable for large datasets.
The next steps are to do actually do a bit of analysis on this format. For example, I'd be keen to compare this approach in more detail with the HDT format, currently a W3C submssion. Aduna's motivation for implementing its own custom format had to do with optimizing performance for datasets with very long literal values, but I haven't yet seen any comparitive figures on byte size and processing speeds.
I recently became aware that the implementation of arbitrary-length property paths I created for Sesame's SPARQL engine suffered a serious flaw: it didn't scale. At all. The chosen strategy (see my earlier blog post on this topic) of evaluating paths of ever-increasing length using multi-joins slowed down to a crawl (through tar) on any serious dataset at about length 7 or 8. Queries involving such paths took 15 minutes or more to complete. Clearly, this would need a little improvement.
Looking at the implementation, it turned out there were two main bottlenecks in the performance:
- complete re-evaluation of all paths of length (n – 1) whenever we expand the path length
- a computationally heavy cycle-detection check
After fiddling about with some ineffectual half-measures for one or both of these problems I decided to take a step back, and completely rethink the algorithm. It occurred to me that if we did a proper breadth-first search implementation we could eliminate the computationally expensive multi-join altogether (and even more importantly, the hugely inefficient repeat performances on known paths for every increase of the length). We could simply use a FIFO queue to pop intermediate values on and keep doing simple lookups of patterns of length 1.
Let me clarify with an example. Suppose you have the following path-expression:
ex:alice foaf:knows+ ?x
In the naive join-based algorithm, this would be evaluated by first looking up all paths of length 1:
BGP(ex:alice, foaf:knows, ?x)
If the result of this is not empty, we continue by looking up paths of length 2, adding a filter-condition to guard against cycles:
Filter( And(?a1 != ex:alice, ?a1 != ?x), Join( BGP(ex:alice, foaf:knows, ?a1), BGP(?a1, foaf:knows, ?x)))
I won't bore you with the details for paths of length 3 and further, but I trust you appreciate that this can quickly become quite big and complex. Also, notice the fact that in the expression for length 2, we have
BGP(ex:alice, foaf:knows, ?a1), which is essentially the same expression we already evaluated for paths of length 1. We already know the answers to this bit, yet we still create a new join which will re-evaluate the damn thing, for every increase of the length, again and again.
Enter the new algorithm. I got rid of joins completely. Instead, I introduced a FIFO-queue of values. We iterate over results for length 1, reporting all resulting solutions, and putting all bindings found for
?x onto the queue. Then, when all results for length 1 are exhausted, we examine the queue. If it is not empty, we pop the first value, and create a new BGP where we replace the start with the popped value. We iterate over solutions to this BGP, and again, we report all solutions and add all bindings of
?x thus found to the stack. We continue in this fashion until finally the last iteration is exhausted and the queue is empty.
This is really classic breadth-first search, so no new wheels have been invented here, but it is amazing (although in retrospect really quite understandable) how much more performant this graph traversal mechanism is than the earlier join-based approach. One experiment I did (using the DBPedia category thesaurus) was the following query:
SELECT ?sub WHERE { ?sub skos:broader+ <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Business> }
This query (which effectively retrieves all subcategories of Category:Business) took over 15 minutes to complete in the original approach. After switching to the new BFS-based approach, it completes in roughly 120ms.
One thing I haven't touched on yet in this new implementation is how to detect cycles. In the original approach, we retrieved solutions that encompassed the complete path (joins with intermediate variables) and we used filters to check that all of the intermediate vars are pairwise distinct. Clearly, we can't do that in this approach, because we no longer have all these intermediate vars available at once.
The solution is actually rather simple, if you stop and think of what a cycle actually is: a cycle is a path where at the end you have gotten back where you started (in other news: water is quite wet). Therefore, you simply have to mark where you've been before (that is, which solutions you've previously reported), and you're home free.
A list internally records all reported combinations of the start value (
ex:alice) and the end value (each binding of
?x) of our path. Whenever we find a new solution during iteration, we check if the reported combination already exists in that list, and if so, we discard it.
Why not just record the end values? Well… Think about it. Do all path expressions start with a fixed start point?
This approach to cycle detection has two consequences:
- cycle detection has become a cheap lookup in a list.
This is quick, but puts a burden on memory space. In practice, however, the result of property-paths stays small enough to be able to keep such a list without problems.
- We now automatically filter out duplicate results
The second consequence is really useful in practice: the old approach reported back all possible paths of all possible lengths, so if for example Bob is a friend of Alice but also a friend of a friend of Alice, we would get back Bob twice – which is clearly redundant information. In the new algorithm, Bob is only reported once, saving bandwidth, computation time, and the user having to jump through a lot of hoops to get unique results.
The new and improved algorithm will be available in the next Sesame release (2.6.1).
This just in from OpenRDF.org: We are very pleased to announce the release of Sesame 2.6.0. This is a major new release with some very exciting features, most importantly:
- SPARQL 1.1 Federation support
Sesame 2.6.0 features support for the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language Federation extension as specified in the Last Call Working Draft. This enables the incredibly powerful possibility to directly query and integrate data from any public SPARQL endpoint.
- SPARQL Repository
The SPARQLRepository enables you to programmaticaly connect to any SPARQL endpoint via the Repository API. It also offers the option to send custom HTTP headers (for example API keys) to endpoints which require this.
- User-configurable parser behavior in Repository API
You can now configure the way the parser handles validation, errors, and datatypes verification when uploading a file directly via the Repository API.
Apart from these features the release includes a number of bugfixes and minor improvements, see the Changelog for full details.
The SPARQL 1.1 federation extensions in Sesame 2.6.0 have been contributed by fluidOps, in cooperation with Ontotext and Aduna.
As usual, the latest Sesame release can be downloaded at OpenRDF.org.
It's not yet up on the openrdf.org news page (mainly due to New Zealand being so far ahead of Europe – ha!), but Sesame 2.5.1 is now available for download.
This is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues in the newly developed SPARQL 1.1 Query/Update support. Additionally, the Rio parser has improved support for validation of XML Schema datatypes and language tags.
For a full overview of changes, see the ChangeLog.
From OpenRDF.org: We are very pleased to announce the release of Sesame 2.5.0. This is a major new release with some very exciting features:
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Language support
Sesame 2.5 features near-complete support for the SPARQL 1.1 Query Language Last Call Working Draft , including all new builtin functions and operators, improved aggregation behavior and more.
- SPARQL 1.1 Update support
Sesame 2.5 has full support for the new SPARQL 1.1 Update Working Draft. The Repository API has been extended to support creation of SPARQL Update operations, the SAIL API has been extended to allow Update operations to be passed directly to the underlying backend implementation for optimized execution. Also, the Sesame Workbench application has been extended to allow easy execution of SPARQL update operations on your repositories.
- SPARQL 1.1 Protocol support
Sesame 2.5 fully supports the SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF Working Draft. The Sesame REST protocol has been extended to allow update operations via SPARQL on repositories. A Sesame server therefore now automatically publishes any repository as a fully compliant SPARQL endpoint.
- Binary RDF support
Sesame 2.5 includes a new binary RDF serialization format. This format has been derived from the existing binary tuple results format. It's main features are reduced parsing overhead and minimal memory requirements (for handling really long literals, a.o.t.).
Sesame 2.5 SPARQL improvements have been made possible by Ontotext, in cooperation with Aduna. We hope you enjoy the new features and look forward to receiving your feedback.
See the release notes for a full overview of all changes.
The Sesame framework comes with a pre-packaged web service (often referred to as the Sesame server). This web service enables deployment of Sesame as an online RDF database server, with multiple SPARQL query endpoints and full update capabilities.
In the default setup of the Sesame server, however, there is no security at all: everybody can access all available Sesame repositories, can query them, add data, remove data, and even change the server configuration (e.g. creating new databases or removing existing ones). Clearly this is not a desirable setup for a server which is publicly accessible.
Fortunately, it is possible to restrict access to a Sesame server, using standard Java web application technology: the Deployment Descriptor.
In this recipe, we will look at setting up some basic security constraints for a Sesame server, using the web application's deployment descriptor, in combination with basic HTTP authentication. For the purpose of this explanation, we assume you have a default Sesame server running on Apache Tomcat 6.
Sesame HTTP REST protocol
The Sesame server implements a RESTful protocol for HTTP communication (it's a superset of SPARQL protocol). What that comes down to is that the protocol defines specific locations, reachable by a specific URL using a specific HTTP method (GET, POST, etc.), for each repository and each operation on a repository.
This is good news for our security, as it means we can easily reuse HTTP-based security restrictions: since each operation on a repository maps to a specific URL and a specific method, we can have fairly fine-grained access control by simply restricting access to particular URL patterns and/or HTTP methods. read more
From openRDF.org: Sesame 2.4.1 is a bugfix release, fixing various reported issues in the new SPARQL 1.1 query functionality and a number of stability/scalability improvements. Some highlights:
- SPARQL GROUP BY with complex expressions as arguments are now evaluated correctly (SES-774)
SUM and AVG now silently ignore non-numeric values (SES-788)
- Performance improvements in processing of aggregate operators (SES-789)
- Fix for native store data corruption issue (SES-776)
- Various other fixes and improvements in handling of property paths and aggregate operators
See the release notes for a full overview of all changes.


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I've just got the newest incarnation of my wifi tool ready for testing.
It is available on github. As there have been a few nibbles, I've added swifer-git to the AUR.
I readily admit this may be partially reinventing the wheel of tools like netcfg. I've never used netcfg, but there seems to be a lot to it. There is very little to swifer.
Swifer, ran without parameters, will present a ncurses list of available networks (manual mode) and connect you to the one you select. If you select an unsecure/open network wifi will do this silently. If you select a secure and unknown (see "add" below) swifer will prompt you for a passphrase to pass to wpa_supplicant. If you select a secure and known network swifer will also handle this silently requiring no further input.
Parameters: (each can be invoked with the first two letters):
Automatic connect mode will not present the ncurses menu. Instead wifi will automatically detect the strongest signal available among known (see "add") networks and connect to it.
Any is like auto (and implies auto), except that it will select the strongest connection from among any known networks and any unsecure/open unknown networks. Effectively this gets you the best available connection without requiring any further input.
Add will add the network selected (either from the menu or from the auto-detect) to the list of known networks so it can be automaticaly connected to in the future.
Other options in various states of usability:
reconnect (INCOMPLETE)
Reconnect will keep wifi alive and monitor the network connection. If it disconnects or drops below a signal threshold, wifi will reconnect to the best available network.
Verbose is not particularly useful yet as it only disinhibits dhcpcd output for troubleshooting purposes. Verbose is disabled in any automatic mode.
- Wifi is only a wifi tool and does not manage any wired connections.
- Wifi is for automating simple but repetitive manual connection steps. Wifi will *break* complex setups with mutliple connections. For example, wifi kills any active dhcpcd or wpa_supplicant process before it starts a new one. If you want dhcpcd active on eth0 AND you try to use wifi for wlan0, you will lose your eth0 connection. I do not consider this a problem as I define the scope of use of wifi as a tool for more "common use" to just get a wireless connection. Those with more advanced needs should not use this tool.
- With the above, wifi's management of WPA networks is very "vanilla". It simply calls wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant. If you have advanced security needs you may need to customize these (just once) in your wpa_supplicant.conf. After that wifi should connect to your network well.
Optional configuration:
/etc/swifer.conf will be created when you "add" the first network. You can also create this manually and add either of the following options to the top (above "[NETWORKS]") of the file to change the defaults to use an alternate interface or a drop-in replacement for dhcpcd (such as dhclient).
INTERFACE = wlan0
DHCP = dhcpcd
Potential advantages: (over other connection tools)
- Wifi is simple. The code is (I hope) simple. The configuration is simple (all automated). Use is simple.
- Unless invoked in "reconnect" mode, wifi does not run as a daemon. It just sets up your connection then gets out of your way.
Future directions:
A systemd service file for auto modes is coming soon. With this you will be able to have wifi automatically connect to the best available network at boot (if you enable the service). (done)
- Finish the reconnect modes.
- Put together a man page. For now see the README, or just ask here.
- There most certainly are many. Let me know when you find them.
(edit: formatted for easier reading)
NAME CHANGED AS REQUESTED: Swifer is a Simple WIFi ConnectoR.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-12-31 00:23:05)
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Please, if it's not too late, consider changing the name. Using a completely generic name for something like this will cause immense frustration when searching for issues, even more so with a name that refers to something that is likely to be sought in conjunction with the application (cf. "maxima" for a computer algebra system that does calculus).
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Definitely not to late. I'm open to suggestions for a name that will avoid confusion but will still be descriptive/meaningful.
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Sounds interesting, I'll give it a shot!
About the name, Xyne is definitely right. How about "swinct" (simple wireless network connection tool)? Or "cnwt" (chuck norris wifi tool)? I'm just fooling around, but maybe I'll come up with a better idea, who knows
EDIT: This post can now be ignored - this issue is solved.
If anyone more familiar with systemd than I am can point me in the right direction as to why the service file fails, I'd appreciate it.
I have a couple known networks set up, so if I run `wifi auto` wifi connects to a known network and launches dhcpcd and I am connected. If the same command is executed from a service file it did not seem to do anything. By some exploring I found that it did, in fact, execute just as it should, but the dhcpcd process was killed after wifi finished.
There is some difference in how systemd executes commands in a service file and how they are run from the command line. So I even tried a service file with an exec line of "/bin/bash -c 'wifi auto'" and it failed in the same way: it ran, but dhcpcd was killed afterwards.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-12-29 20:12:36)
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Without knowing a lot about systemd, I looked at how netcfg does it. Interesting lines for you could be
in the [Service] section and
in the [Unit] section seems to make sense too.
I tried the different types, and the remain after is only for systemd's record keeping. But I think I have a solution. I was using simple "system(...)" calls in the code instead of forking, and using execvp. I'm testing the new set up now.
These changes seemed to do it. Though it could be the service file to as "Type=forking" is not the same as "Type=Forking" ... what's the forking difference!
EDIT: Name change is complete. Wifi is now Swifer.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-12-29 20:32:07)
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Last week I was contacted about a problem in swifer. Aparently I forgot to implement part of the configurable dhcpcd/dhclient option. Swifer would read the config, but then (try to) launch dhcpcd regardless of the setting.
This was quickly fixed on git and should be working now. But all my replies to that email have been returned as undeliverable even after I looked up that users website, double checked the email address, and tried again.
So, please report all bugs and or requests here or in the AUR comments. This way we will have a functioning line of communication, I wont have to hunt for email addresses, and everyone can benefit from any progress made.
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Am I the user in question? At any rate, thanks for the update; I'll give it a shot. Will also report bugs & kudos here from now on.
Yup. I wasn't going to name names. I got your email and replied that day and it bounced back immediately as undeliverable. So I came here, and got your email link, and that looked like it went through ... but several days later I got the undeliverable notice.
I am interested if this works as intended with dhclient as I have not tested it myself, so do keep me posted.
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I just did a git clone and ran make && sudo make install clean. I enabled swifer.service via systemctl. I then rebooted. swifer did not connect to my network. It used to at least get the name of the right network, and I would then manually use dhclient to actually connect to the network, but this no longer seems to work.
Here is my /etc/swifer.conf:
DHCP = dhclient
Am I missing anything obvious?
That is an odd problem, the dchp option shouldn't affect how it initially connects to networks.
Could you run swifer manually and see if it connects?
Tomorrow I'll get dhclient myself and start experimenting on my end.
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Interesting. Running swifer manually has no effect at all. This makes me think I'm about to have egg on my face because I am missing something horribly obvious, but I can't think of what it is.
None of 'swifer auto', 'swifer any', 'swifer autoconnect' or 'swifer verbose' produce much in the way of output and nothing in the way of results. 'any' and 'verbose' ask me to choose a network from the ncurses menu, but they don't seem to be doing anything at all to connect to networks; 'ip addr' shows no ip address, and conky doesn't show either the network name or an ip address. 'ping google.ca' of course outputs 'ping: unknown host google.ca'.
EDIT: I'm on Fedora, btw.
Last edited by hellomynameisphil (2013-01-18 09:49:42)
Sorry If I missed it but does it allow you to connect to WEP - I know WEP is a bit old but my wifi at home has to use it as my friends computer is still on WIN98 ! and that cant use WPA
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As is, no it probably doesn't. I have virtually no experience with WEP so I wouldn't know where to start. But if you make it easy for me by outlining the steps you would take to manually connect to WEP networks, I'd be happy to implement options for those steps in swifer.
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As is, no it probably doesn't. I have virtually no experience with WEP so I wouldn't know where to start. But if you make it easy for me by outlining the steps you would take to manually connect to WEP networks, I'd be happy to implement options for those steps in swifer.
This is an official example:
http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb. … s/wep.conf
| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' |
I'm not really sure what to make of that example - how was it generated, where do those values come from? The only documentation I can find for WEP are lines that say not to use it. I'm sure I could search harder, but I don't have any need for it myself.
Again, I would be happy to build it in to swifer, but I'd need the actual steps one would take to connect manually. Using wpa_supplicant with an existing configuration entry such as that one would only be the last step. Swifier will already do that step quite well: just use `swifer add` then select the network, then manually edit the network config file for that network in /usr/share/swifer/. From then on swifer would connect properly.
But to automate the generation of such a config file I'd need to know how it should be generated.
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I'm not sure if I have ncurses issues or what, but the text is invisible when I run 'swifer any'. I've tried this with both a ssh terminal from another Linux host (Fedora) and an ssh terminal from Putty (Windows). I can do a copy/paste and pull the text into a text editor and it is there, but I see nothing on the ssh window.
For the record, I compiled and am running this on a pogoplug (ARM) and had no indication that there was a problem during the compile. Obviously I have no organic video available so the only way I can see anything is via ssh. I use other tools like lynx all the time over ssh and they all appear to display fine.
Should I try changing colors or something and recompile?
There should not be any output with `swifer any`. The "any" parameter implies "auto" so the menu should not be displayed.
Do you get the menu if you just run `swifer` with no parameters? What text are you able to copy and paste when you do `swifer any`?
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Interesting. I went in again just now to do a copy/paste and it pulls up the list of access points in glorious color. Everything appears to be working fine now. I'm trying to remember if I did a reboot after I installed it last time....
Anyway, 'swifer' and 'swifer any' appear to do the same thing: pulls up a list of access points with the percentages next to them. 'swifer auto' returns: [swifer] no suitable networks found. This is what I'd expect as I have saved no SSID/password pairs.
CTRL-C does not appear to work. The only way I can bail out is to select one of the APs and then hit CTRL-C when it asks for the password.
I'll post more results as I play around with it.
Ah, there was a typo that made the "any" mode not work. I don't use that option much, so I never caught it. I just pushed the fix for that.
To quit, hit 'q'.
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Question - is the 'reconnect' mode working yet? I noticed that in the service file the 'reconnect' lines are all commented out. That's the one thing netcfg never was able to do...automatically reconnect to a different network when I put the laptop to sleep then wake it up in a different location.
Not quite. (edit: not in a way that has been tested).
All that's missing is an efficent way of checking whether the connection is still good. I could do a popen("ping ...") and read the results - but this would just be ugly. I've meant to look into a way of doing this - if anyone knows, let me know.
I can have it trigger a reconnect based on signal strength pretty easily. But signal strength and connectivity are not the same. One could have a strong signal from the router, but the router's network connection could be down.
EDIT: I just grabbed a bit of code from one of my other projects that should do the job well. I just pushed the changes to git - but be warned, until I wander around with my netbook, I can't make any promises that this will work - nor can I promise it will not break in really ugly ways.
Reconnect only works in auto modes - it doesn't make much sense to reconnect in manual modes ... it'd have to open a terminal, display the menu, etc. That will never happen.
Last edited by Trilby (2013-03-24 19:00:57)
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Tested your changes...not working as of yet.
I used this line in /usr/lib/systemd/system/swifer.service:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/swifer auto reconnect
enable and started swifer.service:
sudo systemctl status swifer
swifer.service - Simpler wifi connector tool
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/swifer.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2013-03-24 12:59:24 PDT; 11min ago
Process: 1040 ExecStart=/usr/bin/swifer auto reconnect (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1855 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/swifer.service
Mar 24 12:59:25 scotty dhcpcd[1855]: wlan0: acknowledged xxx.xx.4.152 from xxx.xx.5.1
Mar 24 12:59:25 scotty dhcpcd[1855]: wlan0: checking for xxx.xx.4.152
Mar 24 12:59:29 scotty dhcpcd[1855]: wlan0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
Mar 24 12:59:30 scotty dhcpcd[1855]: wlan0: leased xxx.xx.4.152 for 7200 seconds
Attached to normal wifi network (added to swifer), then attached to hotspot on phone (added to swifer), then suspended, shutdown the hotspot on my phone, then resumed (no connection achieved).
It doesn't look like there's any swifer process that stays running when the swifer.service is activated. Could that be the issue?
Last edited by firecat53 (2013-03-24 20:20:19)
I'm at home with a wired connection - so I can't do any of my own testing until tomorrow - but if you wish to do some testing, I'd suggest taking the service out of the equation - first see if swifer will reconnect.
Just do "swifer auto reconnect" from a terminal (as root or w/ sudo). Then see if there is a swifer process after it is connected. If there is turn off one of the networks and see if it switches.
As is, the problem could be service-file related, suspend-resume related, or process forking related. My first goal would be to pinpoint which of the three is the problem.
EDIT: one likely issue is that swifer may currently exit if there are no suitable networks found during a rescan. To check whether this is the issue, you could look in the stderr output. Does stderr from service-file-launched programs go to journalctl?
EDIT: as an only partly related aside "reconnect auto" is no longer needed, the reconnect keyword implies auto, as it makes no sense to have a manual reconnect mode.
EDIT: I just pushed a change that fixed a foolish mistake in the execvp call. I'd be surprised if this was the only problem preventing reconnect from currently working, but it was certainly one of them. As a bonus (mistake in hindsight) I replaced two system() calls with execvp - I feel much better not opening a root shell just to stop current dhcp or wpa_supplicant processes.
Last edited by Trilby (2013-03-24 22:06:24)
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As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations. That's why I've chosen to talk about this topic in my presentation at the FOWD conference. In this post, I want to do a recap of my slides – Finding Inspiration From Your Environment. Read on to find out how my work habits and environment influence my design.
Working at Home = Killing Your Creativity
My work habits and environment have a big influence on my work. So, I'm going to talk about my work environment first. Being a freelancer, I get the freedom to work anywhere I want as long as there is internet connection. Most freelancers would prefer to work at home or in a small/shared office. Personally, I find it very boring working at home. To think about it, how can you find new ideas if you are constantly facing your work and computer. Yes, you can browse the web or CSS gallery sites such as Best Web Gallery to find inspiration. But since my work is web design, I prefer to find inspiration offline (this way I can avoid being overly inspired by other websites).
My Office = Starbucks
To keep my creative juices flowing, I like to take my laptop and work out of my home or office. My favorite places are coffee shops such as Starbucks and book stores. Don't worry, I'm not suggesting you setup a home office at Starbucks like this photo. I only use a tiny table that is enough room for my laptop.
You may wonder: isn't that annoying when people bump into you? Actually, I like that sort of distraction. I like to see fresh faces walk in and out. Sometimes I even get inspired by the clothes they wear or the tattoos on their skin. If I need a break or design feedbacks, I will talk to the Starbucks employees or the regular customers. For design feedbacks, I like to ask non-designers because they often give me comments from a different perspective.
I like to see fresh people and things around me, so I don't go to the same location all the time. I hop around, sometime 2 to 3 different locations in one day.
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The other place I like to go to is book stores such as Chapters or Indigo. Book stores are like a massive inspirational depot filled with a wide range of books, magazines, gift products, posters, and print ads. Whenever I have a brain block, I like to walk around the book store and scan the magazines, book covers, and post cards.
Shopping Mall
Shopping center is another inspirational depot. You can get inspired by so many things – from clothing to print ads, from window display to mall decoration, etc. By looking at the fashion design, you can tell what are the current trends. I look at the fashion trends and adapt it in my design. For example, when I was designing Web Designer Wall, I noticed a lot of apparels were designed with floral patterns, so I adapted it into my design.
Art Supply Stores
Although I don't create traditional art nor need art supply any more, but I go to art supply stores from time to time to check out the craft papers. Below are some nice art papers I found in an art supply store.
Art Galleries
To find new art styles and trends, I visit comtemporary and private art galleries. Sometimes I may even spot inspiring street art while walking on the street in downtown Toronto.
Inspired by Nature
Now I would like to present to you two of my latest illustrations: Abstract Phoenix and Peacock. I will show you where I drew inspiration from and how I incorporated them into my design.
#1: Phoenix Illustration
I started this illustration by drawing a basic shape of the phoenix in an abstract form. As I moved along, I added many elements that you can find in nature: DNA helix, dandelion, tree leave and butterfly wing patterns.
#2: Abstract Peacock
This illustration entitled Abstract Peacock because the main idea was inspired by the peacock's back and feathers. If you take a closer look at the illustration, you may find elements like: flower petals, rooster feathers, snake tail, and fireworks.
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It happens sometime: You get inspired by something, become too focused on it and ended up creating something that is too similar to the original source. So, how can you avoid being a copycat? I have two techniques which work really well for me:
Zoom into the subject and pick up the details.
Mix and match different sources.
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- Zoom in and focus on the tentacles.
- Use the shape of the sucker to form a tentacle.
- Create in abstract form.
- Zoom in further and focus on the suckers.
- Manipulate the sucker in different forms.
- Form a shape with shapes.
- Design a pattern with the shape.
2. Mix and Match
The following example shows how I gathered different design patterns and create my own pattern. I zoom in and find the partial patterns that I like and then put them together to form a new pattern.
Next time you are outside, try to pay more attention to you environment, you may find a lot of interesting things that you can incorporate into your design. I don't purposely go around to find inspiration. The places I mentioned in this article are part of my life and daily routine. I always have my iPhone or camera handy. Whenever I see something nice, I will take a photo to document it. Hope you find this post useful. Enjoy your life and design more beautiful things!


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12G of youtube use in 30days? Wow, good for you if you just stuck to you tube and other embedded video (such as in CNN etc). Must have kept you busy clicking around!Originally Posted by Pappin
I've had the account since March/08 and had no issues until a Telus rep called yesterday and advised I should move to the $65/1GB plan. He said I was abusing the terms of service.
In the last 30 days I've used 12GB, not abusive for an "unlimited" account, in my estimation. I mentioned I didn't see youtube as a streaming service, as it dloads the vid to my PC. He disagreed. When I mentioned I felt Telus was trying to pressure me into moving off of my unlimited account, he got defensive.
I haven't used bit torrents,or setup and FTP server, or VoIP. Their terms of service state "...will not use the service for: multi-media streaming...", is the very vague part where he says I'm abusing the service.
The way the internet is now, it's almost impossible to avoid multimedia.
Anyone else have the phone call trying to force you off the unlimited plan?
I'm trying to get them to clarify multimedia streaming for me.
12G of youtube use in 30days? Wow, good for you if you just stuck to you tube and other embedded video (such as in CNN etc). Must have kept you busy clicking around!Originally Posted by Pappin
I dont know if you recived a call from them , sounds like BS to me they cant force you to change.
I'm not saying it's just youtube, there's some MS updates, some audiobooks from a club I belong to, google earth, maps, work related stuff, pictures and photo albums, fairly basic stuff.
Multimedia definition aside, I'm not bit torrenting or hosting anything and I don't see anywhere where Telus has defined any kind of monthly cap. I see some people are racking up huge usage numbers, one even mentioned a TB, yet no call. Seems strange to me.
Yes, they called me yesterday. He was really trying to push me into the $65/1GB monthly plan. I can see why there is a petition by an MP to get these companies to "define" clearly what's allowed and what isn't.Originally Posted by TelusRepGuy82
If you want an honest opinion... Telus is still in the 90's with mobile data from a business perspective. In fact, every single carrier in North America is.
Mobile Data is not just for businesses anymore. It is for regular consumers. The problem is, they're used to having big business (Oilfield companies) with $13,000 Aircard bills, and then they don't care how much they use...
Now Johnny Neat-And-Clean gets a laptop for his graduation, moves out into the country (Our situation where i work) and needs internet. He gets an Aircard on an Unlimited Data plan for $100 we'll say. Now that same person is probably using as much or MORE internet than the oilfield guy, and paying 1/1000th the bill for it and Telus/Bell/Verizon/etc. doesn't like it... They need to be making money, and they see an opportunity. So little Johnny gets a call saying they can reduce his bill by $35/mo but only gets 1Gb of usage and pays $10 per GB overage fee. Little Johnny may or may not be dumb and that's where the decision stays until Johnny gets mad at the company for being stuck in the 20th Century Business Model... etc. etc.
Same reason for the incoming text charge. They are using it more, so they want to make money off it if they can.
That's all I have to say, because in the end ... Aircards were originally intended for business use, not residential youtubers ... The fun part is going to be if/when I get an HTC Diamond and I get to keep my $15 Unlimited Email/IM/Web/GPS data package... Hi Youtube ... you're built into my phone now ... what can they say about it now... That is going to rock the boat that much more.
I'm not sure what all the rules are on this plan but youtube is multimedia streaming for sure. But like you said, it's pretty hard to avoid multi media on the internet today. It's everywhere!
If I were you I would stick to my guns. It doesn't sound as though he's forcing you off the plan as of yet.
12GB of Youtube?
..Do you own a television?
Anyways, don't budge.
Just out of curiosity, where were you using the data?
I'm wondering if this is like the Bell thing and perhaps you're using native Bell network and thus incurring roaming charges to TELUS, hence them wanting more money.
Kinda scary cause in the last 2 days I went and transfered about 15 gigs just to see how much I could get going over EvDO...
If they kick me off the $100 plan after only 4 months where I've barely used it and haven't even been to the USA yet I'm gonna be pissed. $500 invested in nothing.
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Yeah I thought Telus was pretty good about leaving people alone to enjoy their connect plans. I know that Bell is notorious for booting people if your running a VPN or doing something they don't like. Maybe your theory of being on the Bell towers has some truth to it.
Tell those malnourished douche nozzles where to stuff it.
If they're trying to tell you that Flash Video is against the TOS, then it's impossible to browse WEBSITES. Plenty of websites have .flv embedded right in the ads. Even Google ads have flash video in them.
Inform yourself. Do not budge. Tell those gerbil sodomizers to crawl back in their holes.
UNLIMITED MEANS UNLIMITED. Stick to that point. Ask them if they'd like a call from the CBC, or a petition like the one Rogers just went through. Ask them how you can possibly know what the CONTENT of a page is before you LOAD IT.
I'd like to see them call me to change *my* plan: it's an L&R special connect plan. "Oh, so after offering me $300 annually in SAVINGS to get me to sign a 3-year contract, you're now asking me to gargle your scrotum and switch onto a plan that will cost me $3000 extra annually for the remainder of my contract? You little cockteasers. Perhaps the internet and the media would like to know about your scam?"
I'm not sure how to tell if I'm on a Bell network.
The Sierra Wireless Watcher just says 3G Connection.
I'd pop a screenshot in (of course that would be termed abuse as a picture
is considered multimeda) lol........
I tried to drop a screenshot in this reply but I don't know how.
I thought more peeps would be getting calls from them as it seems they
are using more than I am on average?????
Originally Posted by w4lker
LOL Priceless
If you told us the area you're connecting from we could deduce this from the native coverage offered by either TELUS or Bell.Originally Posted by Pappin
Chances are if it's in B.C. or Alberta it's not roaming since TELUS has complete coverage and Bell roams off them in the outskirts. If you're on the outskirts of Ontario however, TELUS is likely roaming on Bell. Knowing if you were on Bell would be helpful for us out West because possibly they're only going after roamers at this point.
Nevertheless this is concerning to me and I appreciate you posting about it.
I hope if anyone else has been contacted by TELUS regarding overusage of the unlimited connect plans they will come forward and report it here.
We need to nip this thing in the bud. TELUS is and was known as the better data provider, and if they're changing on us we need to let the public know. I'm sick of jumping around from one provider to the other because they decide all of the sudden unlimited is not unlimited. When LTE comes out and we have 100 Mbps wireless data, how are we going to be expected to keep to only 10 or 20 gigs per month? Things are going upward, especially with Rogers of all companies offering 6 GB for $30. For $75 or $100 we should easily be getting 15 or 20 GB per month for what we pay, and unlimited is designed so that one month you may only use 1 or 2 gigs but the next you use 30 or so...that's life and unlimited should allow us that flexibility.
Yeah, im scared too.
I helped get sis in law on this plan, left Bell to get it.
That is, after their round of cut off letters a few months ago.


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Rewarding Careers in Sustainable Business
There are a wide variety of opportunities for those interested in pursuing a career within sustainability. It is important to remember that many of these fields are fairly new and with proper planning and initiative any student can break into them, regardless of his/her major. Explore "Green Business Majors" on the left hand side of the page to see how your businesses major could be the right fit for a career in sustainable business.
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As corporations continue to see value in sustainable business many may seek to create sustainability specific positions. Currently, organizations who do have positions with a sustainability title generally only promote those jobs from within their current organization because most of the time the sustainability title is an add-on to a person's job description, like "Director of Marketing and Sustainability." Thus the person with the title generally has little working knowledge about sustainability and has to educate themselves before they can actually build strong initiatives. As more companies begin to realize the true complexity of integrating sustainability into an organizational structure there is a high probability that they will opt to hire people who already have experience in sustainability. As it becomes more mainstream to create sustainability specific positions, there is a good probability that effective sustainability personnel will be given the chance to rise to the C-suite level as a "Chief Sustainability Officer." In fact, this trend has already started as SAP, Sun Microsystems, Georgia Pacific and Du Pont already have Chief Sustainability officers.
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My Turner connection ( or not )
My granny Nellie Crackett was born Ellenor Turner. When I started on my genealogy adventure the Turner line was one of the few that I felt sure about but that certainty was quickly dispelled when hunting for vital records further up the line. I discovered that my great grandfather George Murray Turner was about 3 years old when his "parents" married. His birth record states that he was illegitimate and gives his birth name as George Murray. However, following his mother's subsequent marriage he was raised as a Turner so I have decided to document the Turner connection while being aware that there is most likely a biological father still to be identified. George was raised by William Robinson Turner, son of John Thomas Turner son of John Turner. Although I have not yet checked records further back I have seen a few trees taking the line back several generations and plan to take a closer look at these.


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Pohang Steelers have stunningly won the K-League title, scoring with almost the last kick of the season to defeat title rivals Ulsan 1-0.
In what was effectively a head-to-head play-off for the K-League championship on Sunday, Pohang went to Ulsan knowing anything less than a win would see the home side claim the title.
Ulsan's home crowd had already started to celebrate their third league title with around five minutes to go at Munsu Cup Stadium but in the 89th minute Kim Won-Il bundled the ball into the net to steal victory and the championship for the Steelers.
Pohang, who last won the K-League in 2007, clinched the double in South Korea after beating Jeonbuk Motors in the FA Cup final last month.
A free-kick with a minute left decided the championship with the Ulsan goalkeeper initially saving but the Steelers kept the ball in play before Kim swung his boot at the ball to send it into the corner and spark pandemonium amongst the visiting fans.
The win - Pohang's fifth in a row in the K-League Classic's championship round - took the Steelers to 74 points, one ahead of Ulsan, while Jeonbuk claimed third and a spot in the AFC Champions League after a 1-1 draw against fourth-placed Seoul.
In the other game on Sunday, Incheon United defeated Suwon Bluewings 2-1 thanks to Lee Hyo-Gyun's 95th-minute winner.
In the relegation round, Daegu were confirmed to go down to the second tier of South Korean football after a 0-0 draw with Gyeongnam.
Daegu will join Daejeon Citizen in the K-League Challenge next season after both teams finished on 32 points following the latter's 2-0 win over Chunnam Dragons on Saturday.
Gangwon may join Daegu and Daejeon in the second division next season after their 3-0 win over Jeju United was not enough to avoid finishing in the relegation play-off position.
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Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto meetup #3
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Topics: neurotropics, step counting, tracking through low-cost devices (mylifestracks.com doesn't seem to work – correct URL?)
I also shared my time tracking, grocery tracking, and price book. People found the batch cooking stuff interesting. =) Here are the slides I used:
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As crash avoidance features make their way into mainstream vehicles, one advanced technology to help drivers avoid speeding-related crashes is still on the sidelines. It's called intelligent speed adaptation (ISA), and research indicates that it could help drivers keep their speeds in check.
ISA systems use GPS to link a vehicle's position to digital maps that include speed limits to determine if a vehicle is exceeding them by a preset amount, which drivers can specify in some cases. Some newer systems use cameras to read speed limit signs. What happens next depends on the ISA. The most common scenario involves an audible or visual alert telling the driver to slow down. Some ISA systems give a haptic alert via the accelerator that makes it increasingly harder for the driver to depress the pedal. Intervention systems can reduce engine throttle to automatically decelerate a vehicle.
ISA differs from the more familiar speed limiters on commercial vehicles and buses. Speed limiters, or governors, prevent a vehicle from traveling faster than a predetermined maximum speed. With an ISA, drivers can specify the warning threshold depending on a road's speed limit and can switch off the devices.
To promote the technology, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) counts ISA systems as one of the safety features automakers can use to qualify vehicles for Euro NCAP Advanced. Models that have earned the designation so far haven't been fitted with an ISA (go to www.euroncap.com/rewards.aspx). In the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) doesn't include the technology among the crash avoidance features it recommends in the New Car Assessment Program.
Although ISA systems haven't been deployed on a large scale on private vehicles in the United States or Europe, the devices have been studied for more than 20 years. Several studies, including two recently published ones, point to potential benefits.
In field studies, advisory ISA systems are sometimes coupled with economic incentives to not speed. Researchers who conducted the first naturalistic driving study of ISAs in the U.S. concluded that drivers who received modest cash incentives for not speeding were more likely to abide by posted limits than drivers of vehicles with ISAs limited to providing speed alerts.
The study by researchers at NHTSA, Old Dominion University and Western Michigan University involved 50 drivers ages 24-39 with at least five years of driving experience. Participants drove study-provided vehicles fitted with an ISA for four weeks. Forty drivers received speed alerts. A subset of these were paid as much as $25 to drive within 4 mph of the speed limit in weeks 2-3. They lost money if they sped. A control group of 10 drivers didn't get alerts or cash.
Drivers in the incentive group reduced the percentage of time they drove 9 mph or more over the limit to less than 1 percent, compared with about 5 percent in the baseline period. Drivers in the control and warning-only groups traveled 9 mph or more over the speed limit as much as 9 percent of the time.
"The findings have implications for the use of intelligent speed adaptation systems in conjunction with insurance premiums to significantly improve traffic safety," the authors conclude. They note that a limitation of the study was its short duration.
In Denmark, researchers from Aalborg University and Copenhagen University evaluated an ISA combining speed advisories with insurance discounts and found that linking an ISA to incentives can reduce speeding. The greatest reductions were on roads with 80 kph (50 mph) limits. The calculated proportion of distance above the speed limit dropped from 13 percent in the baseline period to just below 4 percent in the study period. When drivers turned off the system, speeding relapsed to the baseline level. The 2007-09 field trial included 153 drivers ages 18-81 who drove their own vehicles fitted with an ISA.
Other technologies can help drivers stay within speed limits. Some GPS navigation systems and cellphone applications can provide real-time speed alerts. Roadside electronic signs that display vehicle speeds serve a similar function and have been shown to reduce speeding. Drivers also can use a vehicle's cruise control settings to avoid speeding.
Although not marketed as ISA systems, a few aftermarket in-vehicle monitoring devices that use GPS data to provide speed alerts are available in the U.S. Most are used by commercial fleets. Tiwi is one system available to consumers. The device provides verbal feedback to drivers who speed, don't buckle up or drive aggressively.
A 2009 Institute study found that equipping the cars teens drive with monitoring devices that provide real-time feedback can reduce their risks behind the wheel (see Status Report special issue: teenage drivers, May 7, 2009).
A number of U.S. insurers offer policyholders discounts for using various types of monitoring devices. Specifics differ in terms of what kinds of data get collected and whether a vehicle's location is tracked.
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Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) says a significant amount of renewable energy will be integrated into the province's bulk power system.
According to IESO, more than 3.2 GW of renewable energy will be integrated into the system in the next 18 months, including Ontario's first two transmission grid-connected solar projects.
Additionally, total wind and solar generation connected to the province's transmission and distribution systems are expected to reach approximately 6.8 GW and produce approximately 14.9 TWh of energy annually by August 2014.Â
The next element – dispatch of grid-connected renewable resources – is planned to be in place within the forecast period and will give the IESO a necessary tool to help manage the system efficiently and reliably, notes the system operator.
'Integrating renewable resources into Ontario's changing supply mix has been a learning process for both us and the renewable generators,' says Bruce Campbell, vice president of resource integration. 'Everything we've learned will be applied in the coming months as wind and solar gain even more prominence on the grid.'
IESO also says that progress continues to be made in removing coal-fired generation from Ontario's supply mix, saying that the remaining generating units at Lambton and Nanticoke are scheduled to stop burning coal by the end of the year. Additionally, the IESO says the conversion of the Atikokan generating station – from a coal-fired unit to biomass – is underway, with the unit expected to be in service by the third quarter of 2014.


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Damn it feels good to be a renter. I may not have equity but every month I write one check that takes care of my rent, cable and electric bill. No assessments, no real estate taxes.
Halloween Eve I was all comfy, sitting by my light switch ready fireplace, bowl of microwave popcorn and dalmatian puppy in hand. The darkness of Lake Michigan could be seen from the window of my hi-rise apartment. The original Amityville Horror was on television. Poor things, sinking all of that money into a house only to find that it harbors an invisible pig named Jodi and leaks blood just when you were planning the house warming to end all house warmings.
A homeowner is something I have never been. Afrocity moves around too much. When I have thought of it, watching the headaches that my condo owning friends had to endure was enough to scare me into being a lifetime renter.
Let's just consider my failure to own as a Peter Pan/Wendy complex of sorts. I can't commit to a piece of property no matter how beautiful she is.
Perhaps my complex is a result of the trauma that follows homelessness. If I don't own one I can't lose it.
From this article in the Chicago Sun-Times:
Chicagoans taxes up 9 percent, Obama's taxes up 1 percent
Obama's bill barely edges up — but he still pays more than $22,000
October 30, 2009
BY Tim Novak
Many Chicago homeowners will see their property taxes rise sharply in the tax bills going out this week. But not President Obama. His taxes on his Kenwood mansion are up just 1 percent, records show.
Obama owes $22,456.43 in real estate taxes this year on his Kenwood mansion — $223.09 more than he paid last year, when he was running for president.
The median tax bill for city homeowners is up 9.6 percent.
That's largely because the 7 percent exemption given to homeowners is being phased out.
But the president didn't take that exemption during the last two years. So he's not experiencing the pain of losing it, like most other Chicago homeowners.
Obama does pay more in property taxes than most politicians in Chicago and Cook County do, the Chicago Sun-Times found by examining online copies of the tax bills that Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas mailed out this week. But Obama's seeing one of the smallest increases among Cook County politicians.
Sounds like the Obamas are on the treat side of the Chicago real estate tax trick. I am posting a comments found at the article by a Chicagoans that obviously represents the "trick" side of things:
My property taxes went up 63%!!!! An extra $2600 a year!!!!"
Of course, you are not part of the elite……You are receiving….."change."
"Obama and all other politicians whose only answer is to raise fees and taxes should automatically pay the max. This is the same president who wants to fund health care off the backs of those who make the most money. They should follow their own logic and have to pay the most when they claim that they need more."
"…maybe if Pres O had bought it for full market value instead of the Tony Rezko bargain basement price he would be paying his fair share,,,, And ya gotta wonder how many haven't paid …"
"I am not a happy camper. My taxes went up a little over 30% – an additional $700 for the second installment. My house is upside-down and I can't get refinancing, yet someone thinks it's okay that I pay more tax for a house that's gone down in value. People already in dire straits are only going to go deeper in the hole. I have to think hard about whether or not it's worth it for me to keep this house."
Maybe the treat part of "Change You Can Believe In" is coming a little later for those of you who were tricked into voting for the Great Pumpkinhead.
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