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Even if your new or a Seasoned Trader it's always good to "Sharpen your Sword" from time to Time even if that means going back to school! here is the official [url][email protected][/url] entire school on PDF format just for you! Kudos Please :)
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Ok, I took it apart again! I dropped the plunger down the tube, no issues there, I polished the plunger and it is now smooth!
I cycled the bolt carrier with the tube removed, and it does rub a little on the hammer about 30% of my issues, but I belive this is normal... The other 70% is still the spring. and it does it when I push the plunger down (springs and everything installed) with a rod to simulate the rattail cycling...
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I unscrew the nut until its even with the stock then unscrew by hand:
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Why LulzSec Was Un-Hackable, And Why That's A Good Thing
from the neutrality,-naturally dept
UPDATE: As several people have pointed out, the news broke that several LulzSec members were arrested this morning, and that the leader of the group had been working as an FBI informant. We'll have more commentary on this later.
The question of service provider neutrality is central to every debate about internet policy. From PayPal cutting off Wikileaks to Twitter pushing back against the feds to the new Righthaven's "spineful" hosting, the responsibility of companies to neutrally protect their customers is a contentious topic.
New Scientist has an interview with Matthew Prince, the CEO of CloudFlare, a network security/performance service for websites. One of their recent high-profile customers was LulzSec, the controversial hacker group that executed a string of takedowns and data breaches last year, but whose own website proved impervious to constant hacking attempts because of CloudFlare. Prince talks about their decision to treat LulzSec the same as any other client:
Internally, we had a debate about the right thing to do. It's important to note that because of the way CloudFlare works, no hacking activity was launched from our network – it was simply a matter of publishing information. So hacking happened in other places and then when they published the information about their exploits it would pass through the CloudFlare network.
So in that sense we're more akin to network provider than a hosting provider. If we were to terminate Lulz Security as a client that wouldn't make the content go away, it wouldn't take it off the internet, it would just make it slow and more vulnerable to attacks. Our goal is to power a better internet. There are a lot of things on the internet that I personally find quite troubling and the list of those things is maybe very different from yours, but our role as a company wasn't to play internet censor.
It's good to see companies standing firm on this point. Anyone who understands the internet knows that it runs on fundamental principles of neutrality. Similarly, anyone who understands innovation online knows how vital it is that companies are able to build off the services of others without fear of discrimination. Sometimes this puts service providers in a tough spot, because the pressure placed on them can be intense—but the ones who navigate the situation without betraying their customers send a powerful message about their commitment to internet ideals.
Interestingly, Prince also explains that because of the way CloudFlare security works, the aggression from the
white-hat hacker community (Update: a commenter raised the question: is this really white-hat? That's a great point, and also a separate debate, so I'll just call them 'hackers' for now) against LulzSec actually helped improve security online:
... the attacks against their website just went through the roof. We were actually able to track what those attacks were and provide better and better security over time to help everyone who was on our network.
CloudFlare's core value comes from the fact that every website that is part of our system helps contribute data in order to better protect other websites. As one website gets attacked, the knowledge about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the websites, so that the system gets smarter and smarter over time.
Stories like this also show that while net neutrality is an important concept, regulating it is ultimately less than ideal. When permitted to function without interference, the nature of the internet already encourages and rewards neutrality, with everyone benefiting the most when nobody discriminates.
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From the DVD case:
We have met the enemies and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that's the problem: they are the offspring of aliens who secretly impregnated human women!
That's the riveting premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife with paranoia and set in England's tiny Midwich. There, the glow-eyed humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does. (1960, b&w)
Mark says:
This is another marvelous film saddled with an unfortunate title. It is based on the John Wyndham novel, Midwich Cuckoos. Cuckoos being birds that lay their eggs in foreign nests to be raised by foreign parents.
What I admire so much about Village of the Damned is how understated it is. The events unfold in a tiny town populated with predominantly common people. There is something about ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances that naturally draws our interest.
The children, led by Martin Stephens (The Innocents, The Witches), are effectively cool and creepy. The simple effect of their glowing eyes is supremely chilling, as well as efficient. As a kid you both fear and envy these children with their ruthless control over the adult world.
The protagonist of this movie is Prof. Gordon Zellaby, played wonderfully by George Sanders (The Picture of Dorian Gray). He is not only a scientist assigned to the matter, but the "father" of the lead child. Barbara Shelley (Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Quartermass and the Pit) plays his much younger wife, Anthea, who struggles between a maternal love and justified fear of her son. You may also recognize Michael Gwynn (Revenge of Frankenstein, Scars of Dracula) as Prof. Zellaby's brother-in-law, Maj. Alan Bernard.
Besides a strong cast, who play their parts without a hint of campiness, Village of the Damned also possesses powerful direction from Wolf Rilla. The scenes are crisp and subtle. There is very little onscreen violence, but suspense and suggestion are used competently. Even without a lot of action, we never lose interest in the story. It is more than a little refreshing to watch a film of this genre that holds our attention by the use of ideas rather than overblown effects and violence.
Village of the Damned gets a hearty recommendation from me.
Scene to watch for: Always test the temperature of the milk on your wrist first before feeding it to your alien child.
Line to listen for: "You have to be taught to leave us alone."
Note: If you happen to come across the Warner Bros. DVD featuring Village of the Damned combined with the adequate but inferior sequel, Children of the Damned, buy it. Not only will you get a good price for two films, but film historian Steve Haberman's commentary on Village of the Damned is full of interesting facts and tidbits.
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ATV: a very special delivery - Lesson notes
(Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon", 1865)
1 - Controlling a collisionImagine driving a car between two lorries on a motorway, with only a couple of centimetres' clearance on either side, whilst both you and the lorries travel at 80 km per hour. This is what the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) does in order to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). The only difference is that both vehicles are travelling at 8 km per second and you want to manoeuvre with the precision equivalent to a one Euro coin.
Essentially, a docking manoeuvre is a controlled, inelastic collision. You allow two objects to collide and stick together at a relatively low velocity. So, even though both objects are moving at about 8 km s-1, they approach each other at a few centimetres per second. There are a number of reasons for this.
Since there is relatively low friction compared to on Earth at ground level, any stabilising actions of the thrusters must be performed wisely, otherwise it could throw the ATV wildly off-course. If small adjustments are the only adjustments that can be made, you really want to be approaching the docking point at a very small relative velocity. Think about a driver reversing a car into a very tight space, with a one centimetre clearance on either side. He wouldn't want do this quickly would he? It is the same principle. However, for the ATV, this process is fully automated using information from its own rendezvous sensors, whilst being monitored from the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France.
Furthermore, if you have ever witnessed the inelastic collision of two masses on an air track in a laboratory, you will appreciate that momentum is conserved before and after the collision (Principle of conservation of momentum.) The last thing scientists want is for a 20 tonne mass to bump heavily into the ISS. Apart from the damage, it would affect the velocity, and therefore the trajectory of the ISS.
If the ISS has a mass of approximately 250 tonnes and the ATV is approximately 20 tonnes, we can show that the increase in velocity of the docked ATV and ISS should be about a tenth of that of the relative approach velocity. We will simplify matters and treat this as a linear collision. For the principle of conservation of momentum:
This can be simplified, in the ISS observer's frame, and rearranged to give:
This represents an increase in orbital speed, Δv, for the ISS after docking, relative to the approach speed of the ATV. If we consider (a few centimetres per second), the increase in orbital speed of the ISS is which, compared with the ISS orbital speed of 8 km s-1, is fortunately tiny!
2 - The ATV: "Where am I?"
In the early stages of navigation, the ATV uses a combination of star tracker and Global Positioning System (GPS) data to get closer to the ISS. In a similar way that humans have used the stars to navigate on Earth for many centuries, star tracker – a modern day equivalent to the sextant – is able to recognise different constellations in the sky to calculate its own orientation in space. In addition, GPS, measures angles between the orbiting GPS satellites in order to give positional information. This is the same GPS technology that we use here on Earth.
The GPS receiver uses the network of at least 24 operational GPS satellites. Each satellite orbits with a period of twelve hours such that at any point in time on Earth, a GPS receiver can receive an electromagnetic time-code signal from at least four of the satellites as well as positional data of the individual satellites. The same is true for the ATV in space. The time-codes transmitted by the satellites are all synchronised according to atomic clocks. The GPS receiver also requires a synchronised clock onboard so that it can calculate the differences in time codes (which are travelling at the speed of light) and hence the distance to each satellite. The GPS receiver will calculate the distance to each of the satellites and find the singular point where the surfaces of the spheres, of radii corresponding to the distances from each of the satellites, intersect in space, in order to calculate its position. This is known as three-dimensional trilateration.
If we know, for example,that the time-code signal from satellite A corresponds to tA=0.0796963586 s and from satellite B tB=0.0832568645 s, we can work out the distance to each satellite:
Distance to satellite A, dA=tAc=23908.90758 km
Distance to satellite B, dB=tBc=24977.05935 km
Atomic clocks are extremely expensive and would make the cost of owning a GPS receiver prohibitive, which is why, on Earth, each GPS receiver has an internal quartz clock instead. Unfortunately, this is not as accurate as an atomic clock. If a GPS receiver on Earth is slightly out of synch, it will give a tiny mistake of a few thousandths of seconds for each satellite. Referring to the previous satellites A and B, the times could be, for example tA=0.0797963586 s and tB=0.0835568645 s. This would correspond to:
Satellite A:
dA=tAc=23938.90758 km and a resulting circle error of 30 km
Satellite B:
dB=tBc=25067.05935 km an a resulting circle error of 90 km
This intersection point in the map would give a completely wrong position! Fortunately a third satellite signal is received and the receiver can make an adjustment based on each of the time-code signals it receives. Indeed, each of the distances will be proportionally incorrect and won't intersect at a single point. So, the receiver adjusts its internal clock such that the measured distances intersect at a unique point. The receiver is constantly doing this, so you could argue that you have access to a very accurate clock if you have your own car satellite navigation system. For three-dimensional positioning, a fourth satellite is required. This will allow us to find the right position of a plane, in order to provide altitude information.
Soon, Galileo will be Europe's own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed, global positioning service under civilian control (see related link on right column).
This exercise is partially based on the `Lift-Off' exercises published by ESA BR-223.
3 - Rendezvous in spaceThe ATV is launched into a 300-km orbit, from which an elliptical transfer orbit is used to carry the ATV into a rendezvous trajectory towards the ISS at 350 km altitude. Consider the ISS orbit as fixed in space inclined at 51.6° over the Equator, with the Earth rotating underneath.
The best moment to launch ("launch window") the ATV is when Kourou is almost underneath the position of the ISS orbit. This is known as the launch window and means that, when launched, the ATV will be put into an orbit which is in the same plane of the ISS, resulting in fewer correction manoeuvres during the transfer orbit.
From Kepler's Third Law, we can work out the orbital period of the elliptical transfer orbit. Firstly, we have to find out the value of the constant k in Kepler's Third Law. For this purpose, we consider a circular orbit to be a special case of an elliptical orbit.
(this exercise is based on the `Lift Off' exercised published by ESA BR-223)
4 - How far to docking, Sir?During the final stages of approach, a range-finding technique using pulsed electromagnetic radiation is used to align the ATV during docking with the ISS. At a few hundred metres, a laser pulse is sent to the retro-reflectors on the ISS and the beam transit time is measured to calculate the distance between the ATV and the ISS.
A retro-reflector will reflect light back in the same direction as the source, so the distance measured will be a direct line-of-sight distance. For example, if the pulses are returning with a 1.5µs delay, then we can calculate the distance as follows:
Remembering, of course, that the time has to be divided by two (the time measured is the time for the pulse to travel to and from the retro-reflector). The telegoniometer provides 10000 pulses per second at a different wavelength, ensuring that the final approach is carefully monitored in conjunction with the videometer sensors.
5 - Re-boosting – why such a low orbit?Each day, the ISS loses about 100m altitude due to residual air resistance. Being at a relatively low orbit of 400km, there is still a small amount of atmosphere present with a mean density of the order of:
3.8 x 10-12 kg m-3.
(The actual density varies according to solar activity and whether it is day or night. This approximate value over a year for mean levels of solar activity is taken from the MSISe-90 Atmosphere Model).
We can calculate the drag force FD at a velocity v using where CD is the (dimensionless) drag coefficient of the object, ρ is the density of the fluid (the residual atmosphere) and A is the cross-sectional area of the moving object.
The drag coefficient of the ISS is about 2,07 and for ATV 2,4. The cross sectional area of the ISS can vary between about 700 m2 and 2300 m2, depending on the ISS configuration. If we consider A=1000 m2, this results in a typical drag force of 0,25 N. The decrease in velocity corresponding to this force is
If we consider a typical day, then t=86400 s and Δv=0.09 m s-1, giving a decrease of orbital height of about 100 m per day (see Section 6).
Despite the low atmospheric density at 400 km, there are still several million billions of atoms per cubic centimetre and this results in drag on the ISS, causing it to lose height over time. You would think that the issue of having to re-boost ISS regularly would be a good argument for putting it into a higher orbit. This way, there would be no need to transport large amounts of fuel on-board the ATV to carry out the re-boosting operations.
If only it were that simple! Let's see how much energy is required to get to such an orbital height.
To find out how much energy is required (the work done, Wg) to move a mass from the surface of the Earth (RE) to an altitude of 400 km (RE + 400 km), we need to calculate the difference in gravitational potential energy (GPE) at these two points. Work done = GPE at 400 km – GPE at Earth's surface:
So, each kilogramme of mass requires 3.7 × 106 J of energy to move to 400km this distance from Earth. This is the work done against gravity alone. When you start to include the mass of the ATV body, its fuel and drag due to the atmosphere during lunch, you can see quite rapidly that this requires huge amounts of energy. In fact, the work done against gravity alone is of the order of 7.0 × 1010 J (this is comparable to the energy consumed by an average automobile in one year). Hence the need for a powerful launch vehicle such as the Ariane 5 rocket. (See link on the right column)
Obviously, the higher the orbit, the more the energy required to reach it. This is the principle reason that ISS is in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at 400km. Any higher and more fuel would be needed to get there, resulting in much higher launch costs.
6. Maintaining orbital velocityRe-boosting ISS is done by increasing its orbital speed by a small amount, Δv, which causes it to move to a higher orbit. Since we know the mass of the Earth and the mass of the ISS, we can find its orbital speed. The actual linear velocity is constantly changing, so the value we get for this calculation will be a scalar quantity, hence speed.
We can do this by equating the gravitational force between two masses (namely the Earth and ISS) with the centripetal force required to keep ISS in orbit. In other words, gravity provides the centripetal force.
The gravitational force between two masses M and m, separated by a distance r is given by
Centripetal force is given by F=ma. If we assume circular motion and substitute
for the centripetal acceleration, then we have
So, we have
Rearranging to find v:
Giving just under 8 km s-1. At this velocity, you could fly from Paris to Berlin (877km) in less than two minutes! The ATV is fitted with 4 re-boosting thrusters, each of which can generate 490 N of thrust. When the ATV is docked with ISS, two of these thrusters re-boost the orbit and produce the required Δv. Depending on the height of ISS, a typical re-boost burn may last about half an hour to increase the orbital height by about 30-50 km.
7. Air resistance upon re-entry
Once the ATV's re-supply mission is complete (approximately 6 months), it will leave ISS and be bound for re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Unlike the manned shallow-angle Space Shuttle re-entries, the ATV will move into a steep and destructive trajectory, causing it to start the re-entry at a velocity approaching 8 km s-1. As it descends, the atmospheric density will increase, causing drag.
Whereas the Ariane 5 rocket has an aerodynamic design, to minimise the effects of atmospheric drag during its launch, this is not the case for the ATV. Coupled with the fact that it will be travelling much faster, it will experience very high levels of heating. If it enters the Earth's atmosphere at just under 8 km s-1 the resulting compression of the air in front of the ATV will create a gas shock layer that will reach a temperature high enough to dissociate and ionise atoms in the air, creating a plasma. Clearly, this is a destructive entry. Between 70 and 50 km the ATV will start to dismantle and will repeatedly break up into smaller and smaller fragments, due to the high temperatures experienced. The resulting fragments and waste will completely burn up in the atmosphere, but there is always a small risk that a fragment of debris will fall to ground level, which is why such destructive re-entries are made over the Pacific Ocean.


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Topic: Mac OS X 10.5.7
Tidbit: Apple naming Leopard point release after ancient gods
06/25/2009, 12:06 pm
It's well known that Apple brands major versions of its Mac OS X operating system with code-names corresponding to big cats, but the company also uses similar naming conventions internally for its maintenance releases, such as those for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard bear the names of ancient gods.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.7, Safari 3.2.3 & 4.0 beta update
05/12/2009, 04:05 pm
Apple on Tuesday released Mac OS X 10.5.7, a recommended update for all Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard users that includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of Macs. Separately, the company released Safari 3.2.3, an update to Safari 4.0 beta and security updates for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Apple freezes Snow Leopard APIs as software nears final stretch
05/11/2009, 10:05 am
Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release.
Briefly: Hazmat scare at Apple; Mac OS X 10.5.7; iPhone 3.0 beta 5
05/07/2009, 10:05 am
A building on Apple's Cupertino campus was evacuated Wednesday when an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was discovered. Meanwhile, the company has pushed out new betas of Mac OS X 10.5.7, iTunes 8.2, and iPhone Software 3.0.
Apple lands Xbox boss, Mac OS X 10.5.7, $999 MacBook Air deal
04/30/2009, 04:04 pm
A director of Microsoft's Xbox team is on his way to Apple. Meanwhile, the Mac maker appears to be taking its time to assure that Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update is rock solid before it's released to the public. And one of our sponsors is clearing out early model MacBook Airs for $999 and has dropped word that existing MacBook coupons won't run in May.
Mac OS X 10.5.7 to improve Bluetooth compatibility, stability
04/22/2009, 06:04 pm
Although it appeared that Apple was close to wrapping up development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 late last week, a new pre-release distribution of the software was dropped on developers Wednesday afternoon with a handful of additional tweaks added to mix.
Apple near ready with release of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Juno
04/15/2009, 11:04 am
Apple as early as this week could announce the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, a seventh maintenance and security update to its Leopard operating system scheduled to deliver over a 100 minor tweaks and bug fixes.
Over 100 fixes in 10.5.7; Security Update 2009-002 in testing
04/07/2009, 12:04 pm
Another week has passed and another beta of Mac OS X 10.5.7 has fallen into the hands of Apple developers. Separately, Apple is also beta testing its second security update of the year for certain Mac OS X distributions.
Snow Leopard roadmap; Pro app updates in pipeline
03/31/2009, 12:03 pm
Recently, AppleInsider has been provided with a bit more clarity on Apple's pre-release build cycles for Snow Leopard in addition to being tipped off to several Pro application updates currently undergoing beta tests.
Improved speech dictionary to ship with Mac OS X 10.5.7
03/23/2009, 11:03 am
Among the changes due in the next update to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system is an updated speech dictionary, recent beta distributions of the software reveal.
Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 "Juno"
03/13/2009, 11:03 am
Apple on Thursday evening made available to its developer community yet another pre-release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, which stands to be the seventh maintenance and security update to the company's Leopard operating system in less than 18 months.
Apple ready with second beta of Mac OS X "Juno" [updated]
03/06/2009, 06:03 pm
Users still facing software issues while running the most current version of Mac OS X Leopard may take kindly to word that Mac OS X 10.5.7 is moving swiftly through its development cycle.
Mac OS X 10.5.7 may have Nehalem, Radeon HD 4000 support
02/28/2009, 11:02 am
In addition to expected fixes, Apple's upcoming 10.5.7 update to Mac OS X Leopard is now claimed to recognize Intel's newer Nehalem architecture as well as AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4000 graphics chipsets.
Apple to further polish Leopard with 10.5.7 update
02/25/2009, 08:02 pm
Apple this week is believed to have tapped its vast developer community to begin testing Mac OS X 10.5.7, a sizable maintenance and security update to the company's Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements.


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Friday, May 04, 2007
It's Getting Rough, Off the Cuff I've Got to Say Enough's Enough
But now, now, now it is suppose to rain this weekend too... which means we might have to put off a bunch of gardening shit because the ground is sopping wet.
It's like the entire yard needs to be rung out and air dried. Grrrrr...
I SWEAR TO GODDESS: I will not break my foot this year and will have a plentiful, beautiful garden, damn it.
17 comments:
- lera said...
Your boys are so adorable. Poor guy sleeping on his Lego catalog!
- Friday, May 04, 2007
- Berber said...
I wished we could have some of your rain here. It's been nothing but dry, dry, dry... the soil just blows away in the wind!
(kiddie porn, hehe)
- Friday, May 04, 2007
Only a really smart child would fall asleep on a photo of Lego chess. ;)
- Friday, May 04, 2007
- LLA said...
the boys are looking especially darling in these photos!
And wasn't that a better than average Lego catalog? We had fun pouring over that one here at the House that Crazy Built...
(Oh - and that whole swearing to the Goddess thing?
You're just asking for it, you know?
I think we call that "tempting fate".
Just sayin')
- Friday, May 04, 2007
No breakage of ANYTHING this year, please. And no rain on Sunday. No rain on Sunday. Say it with me now. No rain on Sunday!
- Friday, May 04, 2007
- Oil Cloth Junkie said...
Those little guys are just too cute.
- Friday, May 04, 2007
my boy screamed bloody murder when I told him that lego time was over and it was time for bed...
he decided he was going to stay put, so I turned all the lights off.
sometimes, my kids being afraid of the dark, works in my favor.
your boys are adorable!
- Friday, May 04, 2007
- Chara Michele said...
Nope no breaking anything allowed this year!
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
- Angelina said...
There's a reason I don't let Max read your blog and it isn't the swear words which I could explain away easily enough. It's all the lego porn. If he discovered that your kids have such a lush lego catalog it will be all over for us.
Seriously, your kids are so handsome!
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
You BETTER have a glorious garden you damn martha you. You KNOW I need your flowers....like a ho needs crack.
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
- Angel Jem said...
Love the kiddie porn... I know two little boys who would happily fall asleep over that!
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
- Saturday, May 05, 2007
- Marshamlow said...
OK, it is time for you to check in and let us all know that you haven't been transported to OZ. Dorothy are you there?
- Sunday, May 06, 2007
- Paula Adams Perez said...
Hi Laura! I'm seeing Kansas in the news again! How do you deal with the tornado threat? Brrr! A whole TOWN gone??? (of course, I grew up on the gulf coast of FL. The hurricanes were just a part of life for me...)
- Sunday, May 06, 2007
- Kim -today's creative blog said...
Very cute photos........now you need to scrap them. :)
How I wish my son would fall asleep and random times like this. :)
- Sunday, May 06, 2007
- nuttnbunny said...
I love that "dare me to blow this your way" staredown.
- Sunday, May 06, 2007
- Chickenbells said...
You know, I swear my monthly horiscope said not to wear heels at the end of April because I would hurt myself...phew. I made it, and now everyone is safe (see...you will plant that garden!)
- Sunday, May 06, 2007


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ANTHRO 109A: Archaeology of the Modern World (ANTHRO 209A, ARCHLGY 109A)
Historical archaeology, also called the archaeology of the modern world, investigates the material culture and spatial history of the past five centures. As a discipline, historical archaeology has been characterized by (1) a methodological conjunction between history and archaeology; (2) a topical focus on the ¿three Cs¿: colonization, captivity, and capitalism ¿ forces which arguably are constitutive of the modern world; and (3) an epistemological priority to recovering the perspectives of ¿people without history.¿ Each of these three trends is widely debated yet they continue to profoundly shape the field. This seminar provides an in-depth examination of the emergence and development of this historical archaeology, with a focus on current issues in theory and method. For undergraduates, the prerequisite is Anthro 3 or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 111: Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality (ARCHLGY 129, FEMGEN 119)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Voss, B. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 5
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Fri 9:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 500-106 with Voss, B. (PI)
Instructors: Voss, B. (PI)
ANTHRO 115: The Social life of Human Bones (ANTHRO 215, ARCHLGY 115)
Skeletal remains serve a primary function of support and protection for the human body. However, beyond this, they have played a range of social roles once an individual is deceased. The processes associated with excarnation, interment, exhumation and reburial all speak to the place that the body, and its parts, play in our cultural as well as physical landscape.n This course builds on introductory courses in human skeletal anatomy by adding the social dynamics that govern the way humans treat other humans once they have died. It draws on anthropological, biological and archaeological research, with case studies spanning a broad chronological and spatial framework to provide students with an overview of social practice as it relates to the human body.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors: Seetah, K. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
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09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed 9:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 500-101 with Seetah, K. (PI)
Instructors: Seetah, K. (PI)
ANTHRO 120F: Buying Black: Economic Sovereignty, Race, and Entrepreneurship in the USA (AFRICAAM 120F, CSRE 120F)
This seminar examines how communities of color have critiqued and transformed capitalism in America through concepts of economic independence, entrepreneurship, and sovereignty. By tracing concepts such as the double-duty dollar, casino/tribal capitalisms, retail boycotts, and buying black, the course traces ethnic entrepreneurialism in America. Students will also consider the international context of such US-based movements, particularly in relation to American imperialism and global supply-chain capitalism.
Last offered: Spring 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 126: Urban Culture in Global Perspective (URBANST 114)
Core course for Urban Studies majors. A majority of the world's population now live in urban areas and most of the rapid urbanization has taken place in mega-cities outside the Western world. This course explores urban cultures, identities, spatial practices and forms of urban power and imagination in Asia, Africa and Latin America.nParticipants will be introduced to a global history of urban development that demonstrates how the legacies of colonialism, modernization theory and global race thinking have shaped urban designs and urban life in most of the world. Students will also be introduced to interpretative and qualitative approaches to urban life that affords an understanding of important, if unquantifiable, vectors of urban life: stereotypes, fear, identity formations, utopia, social segregation and aspirations.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Hansen, T. (PI) ; Russo, A. (PI) ; Gray, B. (TA)
2019-2020 Autumn
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 50-51A with Hansen, T. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2019-12-09 3:30pm - 6:30pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Hansen, T. (PI)
UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 40-41J with Gray, B. (TA)
Instructors: Gray, B. (TA)
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
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09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Tue 6:30 PM - 7:20 PM at 40-41J with Gray, B. (TA)
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Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17th century, political interests have had a hand in deciding which traditions, monuments and sites best represent and best serve the needs of the nation. The sum of these domestication efforts, the laws, institutions and practices established to protect and manage heritage, is what we call heritage governance. In this seminar you will learn about the politics of 21st century heritage governance at national and international level. Students will become familiar with key conventions and learn about the functioning of heritage institutions. We will also examine the hidden practices and current political developments that impact heritage governance: how UNESCO heritage sites become bargaining tools in international relations, how EU heritage policies are negotiated in the corridors of Brussels, and how the current re-nationalization of Western politics can affect what we come to know as our common past.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 130D: Spatial Approaches to Social Science (ANTHRO 230D, POLISCI 241S, URBANST 124)
This multidisciplinary course combines different approaches to how GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social science research. We take a collaborative, project oriented approach to bring together technical expertise and substantive applications from several social science disciplines. The course aims to integrate tools, methods, and current debates in social science research and will enable students to engage in critical spatial research and a multidisciplinary dialogue around geographic space.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Instructors: Engel, C. (PI) ; Rodden, J. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-AQR, WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 9
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM at Lathrop 190 with Engel, C. (PI); Rodden, J. (PI)
Instructors: Engel, C. (PI); Rodden, J. (PI)
ANTHRO 132: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World
This course provides an ethnographic examination of religion and politics in the Muslim world. What is the role of Islam in the political life of modern Muslim societies? Conversely, how do modern political powers shape and constrain the terms of religious life? This course takes an anthropological perspective on the study of Islam: our investigations will not focus on the origins of scriptures and doctrines but rather on the use of religious texts and signs in social context and on the political significance of ritual and bodily practices. A major aim of the course is provide students with analytical resources for thinking critically about the history and politics of modern Muslim societies, with a particular focus on issues of religious authority, gender and sexuality, and the politics of secularism.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 133: Masculinity: Technologies and Cultures of Gender (ANTHRO 233, FEMGEN 133M)
What is masculinity? How are masculinities invested with power and meaning in cultural contexts? How is anthropological attention to them informed by and extending inquiry across the academy in spheres such as culture studies, political theory, gender studies, history, and science and technology studies? Limited enrollment.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
ANTHRO 143: Title Social Change in Contemporary China: Modernity and the Middle Kingdom (ANTHRO 243)
Over the last twenty years, residents of the People¿s Republic of China have experienced dramatic changes in nearly every facet of life. This undergraduate seminar introduces students to contemporary China through an examination of various types of social transformation. We will analyze how PRC residents of different backgrounds are confronting such processes as economic liberalization, migration, kinship transformation, sexual commodification, media proliferation, industrialization, and transnationalism? Priority is placed on reading, discussing and assessing research that uses qualitative methods and that situates political economy in dialogue with lived experience.
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I will present some Agile terms & explanations in this post. Before getting into explanation, let us review couple of important questions.
Here is the podcast format of Q&A:
Here is the text format of Q&A:
Question: I know all tools, processes & familiar with practices of Agile methods. Can I go ahead and follow Agile in my Project today?
Answer: Nope. Agile is more than just mere practices & terminologies. Agile is a mindset. It requires a change in work culture which boils down to organization culture. Agile advocates bringing people together in single platform (by a shift in the mindset) than just following the defined processes.
Agile Manifesto's first statement says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
Agile is flexible in terms of processes, tools and you are free to customize/tailor-made them based on your project need. But it is requires constant interaction & collaboration between people with mindset to deliver value to customer through developing usable working software. That is the complex part everyone forgets to appreciate in early stages of Agile adaption & struggle with failures later on.
Question:Why Agile is a great phenomenon you should follow in current economic trend?
You can consider following Agile methodology due to following reasons:
1. Even if you fail, you will fail faster & fail cheaper
2. Providing value to customer by providing important features fast so ROI will be better
3. Will get faster feedback which is good to take corrective steps well ahead before it becomes blunder later on
"Daily Scrum" is a short (approx. 10 – 15 minute), daily recurring, stand up, status meeting conducted mandatorily during the sprint & everyone expected to attend including Scrum Master. Scrum team need to answer 3 questions –
- What happened yesterday?
- What is the work plan for today?
- What are the obstacles exist?
All answers should focus on status based user story and no general discussions.
"User Story" is Scrum term for user requirements. It has short descriptions of user/customer valued functionality that is used for planning & act as reminders to have conversations with customers.
A user story generally has 3 sections: <Who>, <What>, <Why> of a functionality.
Example: As a <Who:Manager> I need to <What:view orders submitted to me> So that <Why:I can take action on those very fast>.
A good user story should have six attributes (acronym INVEST) –
(I)ndependent – No dependency with other stories so that it can be executed in any order & can be prioritized based on value to the organization.
(N)egotiable – User stories are functional requirements in business terms but they are not contractual agreements. Details can be negotiated & modified in a dialogue between customer and dev team.
(V)aluable– Understanding value of a functionality is useful in prioritizing & delivering top features during initial iterations. Value of user story captured insection.(E)stimatable – Developers need to come up with time to complete each user story, so it should be estimatable.(S)mall – User story needs to be small enough so that it can be accommodated in an iteration. Big user stories are called 'Epics' that may contain a 1) complex user story 2) compound (multiple) user story. Epics can be divided into multiple smaller independent user stories.(T)estable – User stories should contain information with which test cases can be generated without much confusion & decision of done can be arrived.
A question often arises is how someone knows whether he/she is done with writing a user story, without having to flesh out all the details, as we had traditionally done within the waterfall environment. One can stop writing the story when:
1. The user cannot decompose a story into more end-to-end stories, meaning stories that touch all the layers of the application.
2. The team can derive tasks, ranging from 4 to 8 hours, to start their development work.
3. It's possible to estimate the "point" of the story. [5]
There are many ways to help verify that the requirements are well written, above we saw INVEST rules for user stories. Another one is known as the CUTFITrules, which we used extensively to help validate the user stories.
(C)onsistent: A consistent requirement does not conflict with another requirement.
(U)nambiguous:The reviewers of a requirement statement should be able to draw only one interpretation of it, regardless of their role.(T)estable: We should be able to create test cases for a requirement. If a requirement is not testable, trying to determine whether it is correctly implemented is a matter of opinion.(F)easible: It must be possible to implement each requirement within the known capabilities and limitations of the system environment.(I)ndependent: No "user story" should be dependent on another "user story".(T)raceable: You should be able to link each requirement to a user and to his goals.
"Sprint" is Scrum iteration time length(typically 1 – 4 weeks) in which development team work on certain prioritized set of backlog items and produce some tangible value to the customer. Sprints are time-boxed & should have same length throughout till the final product delivery. Generally, no scope change is allowed within a sprint but modification user story can be prioritized and included in subsequent sprints.
Each concept in Agile Scrum has one or more benefits (of course any item in this world also have drawbacks too!!!). Here are few benefits behind timeboxing of sprint –
* As Agile focuses on delivering value to customer, timeboxing compels prioritization of work that in turn increases focus.
* Whatever be the status of user stories, sprint comes to end exactly on timeboxed end date, so team focuses on completing all user stories planned for the sprint otherwise it will be added to next sprint.
* As number of items taken in hand (# of user stories) are limited in a sprint so items under development status will also be in limited number.
User stories are planned either by number of days or story points. If total product backlog measured as 150 story points & each Sprint length is determined as 30 story points (based on team's comfort-ability in delivering the potentially shippable product increment), then there will be 5 Sprints/iterations (5 Sprints * 30 story points) for product completion. User stories that add up to 30 story points can only be planned in one sprint. At the end of each sprint, goal set for the sprint is achieved based on agreed definition of done.
One can give a day long lecture about "Product Backlog" as it is the heart of the Scrum framework. Let me put concise explanation about it.
The product backlog is a prioritized list of desired product functionality. It is a highly visible artifact that is accessible to all project stakeholders. A PB item can be a feature, change in existing
functionality, defect, technical improvements or even knowledge acquisition (prototype or POC development). Most PBIs are features – items of functionality that will have tangible value to the user or customer.A good product backlog should have DEEP attributes.
Roman Pichler, and Mike Cohn use the acronym DEEP to summarize key attributes of a good product backlog.
(D)etailed Appropriately:User stories on the product backlog that will be done soon need to be sufficiently well understood that they can be completed in the coming sprint. Stories that will not be developed for a while should be described with less detail.(E)stimated: The product backlog is more than a list of all work to be done; it is also a useful planning tool. Because items further down the backlog are not as well understood (yet), the estimates associated with them will be less precise than estimates given items at the top.
(E)mergent: A product backlog is not static. It will change over time. As more is learned, user stories on the product backlog will be added, removed, or re-prioritized.
(P)rioritized: The product backlog should be sorted with the most valuable items at the top and the least valuable at the bottom. By always working in priority order, the team is able to maximize the value of the product or system being developed.
Defining & documenting product backlog item is called Grooming. Amount of work in a product backlog is executed in multiple iterations called Sprint & sprint backlog is created with subset of high-priority items in the product backlog. At the end of a sprint, in case any item is still pending or new items found they will be inserted into product backlog in the correct order to be worked on in a future iteration.
- http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/make-the-product-backlog-deep
- Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process By: Kenneth S. Rubin, 2012
- Becoming Agile: … in an imperfect world By: Greg Smith; Ahmed Sidky, 2009
- http://www.scrumsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DoBetterScrum-v2.pdf
- http://agilepmstudent.blogspot.in/
- Scrum® in Action: Agile Software Project Management and Development By: Andrew Pham, 2011


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- Due to the natural product, color tone and texture may vary
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All of our pieces are touched by hands many many times throughout their creation, so no two pieces will ever be alike. The images shown are the best representations of the glaze & form.
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Crystal Development
Our crystalline glazes blossom randomly on the pottery's surface like frost on a window. No two pieces will turn out the same. While the macrocrystalline development on glazes such as Winter Storm, Honey Green & Bahama Blue is very unpredictable, we always do our best to put together pottery with a harmony of tone & crystals per customer request.
A common cause is a mismatch between the thermal expansions of a glaze to that of the body on which it is held. Think glaze fit! Because our glaze is very thick and our pieces shrink approximately 20% during firing, crazing often results. Edgecomb Pottery pieces most often exhibit crazing in Seabreeze & Seaglass. It is not considered either cracked or flawed and in fact, can add texture and color to the piece. Crazing will not affect the integrity of our pottery.
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Your child develops letter and sound recognition skills and learns the ABC songs by watching letters and hearing corresponding names/words.
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Global Microbalance Market Insights 2019-2025: Mettler-Toledo, Sartorius AG, Citizen Scales, RADW, Scientech, CI Precision
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In the one minute you will spend watching this film solar energy could power a country the size of Portugal for one week. In one minute. We need an Energy [R]evolution.
The Energy [R]evolution is Greenpeace's plan to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Susan Sarandon narrates the first of three 'Reasons to Believe'.
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I am happy to announce the end of a long saga: my decision to contest a ticket that I received in early March of 2005. I originally blogged about it here:
I went back and toned down some of my original post, because emotion does not help one defend oneself in a court of law.
Having spent an estimated 15 hours working on my defense, doing research into the California vehicle code, and approaching the court with a prepared set of questions for cross-examining my ticketing officer DID help me in the court of law.
I will attempt to give a brief summary of how the case proceeded, because it fascinates me, and because it may be helpful to others who may be contesting the same citation. The most interesting thing to me was that the judge stopped me during cross-examination to dismiss the citation and to discuss his viewpoint: essentially, since the signs over Arroyo Parkway were the same at the time of the ticket, and were later removed due to problems the executive branch had with them, the judge was not going to penalize me for happening to be at that intersection at that particular date. In other words, because the signs had been taken down and replaced, the judge decided to dismiss the case. However, although the judge said I had a pretty good cross-examination, he was not convinced that the officer ticketed me incorrectly, or that this particular sign/signal was illegal.
There were some extremely important things going on legally that I was aware of, yet I did not address through cross-examination to convince the judge otherwise. The most major distinction was whether the "FLASH RED NO LEFT TURN SIGN" was actually an official traffic control device, or a sign. The judge advised me to look into CVC 21351, which essentially allows local authorities to place any sign, regardless of conformance with local law. The distinction is important because official traffic control devices have uniform standards and specifications, outlined in CVC 21400 instead.
The tricky point is that I was ticketed under CVC 22101(d), which allows local officials and authorities to place official traffic control devices (and makes it unlawful to disobey them), but requires them to be placed in accordance with sections (b) and (c). Section (c) covers prohibited turns, and says that local authorities must place signs, not official traffic control devices.
Essentially, what the judge was saying to me was that the question of whether a sign or official traffic control device is required is primarily one of jurisdiction – whether the sign placed up at the Gold Line intersections for a short while is required to be a sign or an official traffic control device depends on whose law is applicable in that case – local or state. In this case, the judge argued that the local law was in effect, but I am not sure I recall the exact reasoning – maybe it's just a tricky issue between state and local jurisdictions.
Anyway, I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I thought I made a pretty good case for it to be considered a traffic control device! If I were to spend more time on it, I would research more deeply into the fundamental differences between signs and official traffic control devices, specifically for a law on the books that states any lighted bulbs or electronically controlled devices are not signs. Significantly, though, I overlooked an entire section (CVC 21351) that the judge had to point out to me which he said was the law under effect at that intersection. So I wouldn't hire myself as a traffic court lawyer just yet. 🙂
Most imporantly, I appreciate the judge's sense of fairness and justice in dismissing my claim, as he believed that it would be unfair to punish me because of the date upon which I took a left turn through that intersection, especially if that type of signage disappeared soon after my violation.
Overall, this was a fantastic experience for me with legal research, and I have to admit that I felt literally excited each time I was in court, especially in the presence of a judge. I know that this was a close call for myself, and I was prepared for any outcome. I won't forget the lessons i've learned in this case, and I definitely won't forget the strange passion the law seeks out in me.
Here are some of the key things I looked at or did that were very useful to me:
- The searchable PDF of the California Vehicle Code, especially Division 11: Rules of the Road
- CVC 22101(d), the citation statute.
- CVC 21100.1, which requires any traffic control device to conform to the uniform standards and specifications … pursuant to section 21400.
- CVC 21450(a), which restricts colors used in official traffic control devices to red, yellow, and green only.
- CVC 21457(a), which describes flashing red stop signals.
- A plan of defense, including a thorough discussion of the main point (sign was supposed to be a traffic control device and did not adhere to standards)
- An ordered questionnaire to help me stay on track during cross-examination of the officer, which first established the facts of the citation, then attempted to probe the officer's understanding of the law as it applied to this sign. (This was most helpful in keeping me calm and on track in front of the judge)
- A methodical approach to my defense following specific reading of the law as it applied to my case.
- Proceeding in the cross-examination with respect for the ticketing officer, who was simply doing his job. I fully recognize the need for law enforcement officers to be able to make stops without having to get into a discussion of state and local authority, and I truly appreciate the service that police provide in the community.


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Meet Draco Malfoy
As you know, Tom Felton's Draco Malfoy has a very, very significant role to play in HP6 and as such is joining Daniel Radcliffe and the others on the first tier of publicity.
Can't decide if I find him attractive. Do you?
It's the shiny suit throwing me off. Don't like.
But he probably won't be wearing it today. He wore on the carpet in London yesterday.
If you are in Toronto you'll get to see him in person. TODAY.
Time: 6:45pm – 7:30pm
Where: 226 Queen Street West
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Akademy 2012 Survey and Videos
Now that Akademy 2012 is behind us and life is getting back to normal, we can now share videos and slides from the conference talks with those who weren't there.
All available videos and slides are linked to from the Akademy Program. We are indebted to everyone who helped record the talks, Marko Puusaar from the Estonian IT College and especially Kenny Coyle who put a lot of time and effort into video post-processing.
Please spend a few minutes completing the Akademy 2012 Survey. The information you provide is important for shaping future KDE conferences and is useful to the Akademy Team and Program Committee.
If you haven't left feedback for talks you attended, there is a feedback link below each talk to help the speakers and future program committees.
Akademy 2012 wouldn't have been possible without the support of our sponsors: Blue Systems, Nokia, Digia, Google, Intel, Collabora, Zabbix, froglogic, Red Flag Software, and media partner, Linux Magazine. Many thanks also to our venue, the Estonian IT College and its staff, speakers and the program committee, BoF leaders, the organizing team and volunteers, and everyone else who helped make Akademy 2012 in Tallinn a success.
Thank you to those who were part of Akademy 2012 in Tallinn. If you have comments or ideas that are not covered in the survey, please email the Team.
Nice keynote from Mathias Klang...
... worth to watch - worth to spread.
And nice to get some updates about Vivaldi and the kernel problems.
Will the still missing videos appear later, e.g "Plasma Active—Freeing the Device Spectrum"?
By Anonymous at Sun, 2012/07/22 - 10:07pm
Slides sources?
KDE took part in the Open Document day and as such should commit itself to also always attach sources of slides.
I'd like to see all Akademy material having free sources available (press books, logos, ...), there is a promo git repository for this if needed.
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Mon, 2012/07/23 - 5:03pm
I unfortunately have to
I unfortunately have to disagree. First of all this would have to be communicated together with the call for communication - it is highly unusual to share the sources for a presentation.
For example I did my slides with LaTeX and as I did the presentation only for compiling it once to pdf, the source code of the presentation does not have the quality so that I would share it. Having the presentation source code in a sharable state would have meant quite some more work which would have made me think twice whether I want to give a talk at Akademy.
By Martin Gräßlin at Mon, 2012/07/23 - 8:43pm
I don't see why you need
I don't see why you need "quality" in your latex code. I do all my talks in Latex Beamer and provide a tarball of the tex file + the screenshots or I add them to my personal git scratch pad. This allows other people to pick my Latex theme for example in their talks and to reuse my slides. Just like I make my C++ code available.
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Tue, 2012/07/24 - 8:18am
I don't see why you need
I don't see why you need "quality" in your latex code.
And another reason is that very often my LaTeX code contains slides I removed later on. So it's much more than what I had in the presentation.
Long story short: without putting time into it, I cannot share it. And if someone wants to have it shared at least for me it would have to be said before I start writing the presentation.
By Martin Gräßlin at Tue, 2012/07/24 - 8:26pm
Latex sources would be quite
Latex sources would be quite a treat. And I think all people who would use the sources know latex well enough that they would not mind the quality - they likely created their own share of hacked together latex presentations :)
Actually with Latex you are in a position that you can share your talk very easily: just tar the latex and the source images and the sources are there.
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Tue, 2012/07/24 - 12:43pm
Many thanks to the team and Kenny
for the awesome videos! Great work, very enjoyable to watch. Obviously a lot of work but totally worth it for us who were not there!
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My people, I have a dream.
That dream, is the reclaiming of the one known as 'Carson'.
His soul is lost not only to us, but to himself. It resides only in the gaming world known as DAoC. I myself fight daily to not be trapped in the same place. Carson is famous in that world, for he is a general and a great leader of men. That is why it is so hard for him to come back.
But my friends. I have the way.
IRN-BRU is the key folks. One sip of the stuff and Carson is reclaimed, able to split himself between the world of DAoC, between the world of IHTBTS and perhaps the 'real' world if he's skilled.
My friends, send Carson IRN-BRU. Send him a lot of it. He needs it if you ever want to see him again. It is imperative that he returns, else your favourite* sexcellent character Mike will only be seen on J'Walkin every once and a while if Joe takes the money and badgers I've sent him.
Please, if you truly care about Carson, send help. Send BRU.
* Favourite is by definition of the author of this post and in no way reflects popular opinion thought it damn well SHOULD. I'm tons cooler then HERB...stupid duck.
G'day all.
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IHTBTS: I'm the only reason to actually read this comic! Why? Cause I'm 'Sexcellent'!
J-Walkin' contains objects or persons that are BUCK NEPALESE NAKED!
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This celestial spectacle will produce as many as 120 meteors per hour at the beginning of 2014.
This 2012 Quadrantid meteor was easily visible above the imager's home despite the bright gibbous Moon and the city lights of Dayton, Ohio.
Here's something to look forward to this new year: The Quadrantid meteor shower will be turning on some holiday lights from December 28 to January 12. This year's meteors are fortunate enough to streak across a moonless predawn sky.
The Moon will set in the early evening, leaving the sky as dark as your site is. The best time to observe the Quadrantids is during the early morning hours of January 3, when they peak. The climax of their sky-show will produce between 60 and 120 meteors per hour, a rate comparable to the more famed Perseid and Geminid showers.
Why, then, are the Quadrantids more obscure? "This particular meteor shower has a narrow peak," says Senior Editor Michael Bakich. "Its high point only lasts a few hours, making it harder to catch. Plus, it occurs in the dead of winter for northern observers."
The January 3 peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower promises to be the best one of 2014.
The Quadrantids are named after an obsolete constellation. In 1928, the International Astronomical Union left poor Quadrans Muralis off the list of official stellar groupings. The Quadrantid meteor shower, however, already had its moniker. The name stuck, although the shower is sometimes called the Boötids, after Boötes, the modern constellation from which the meteors appear to emanate.
Meteors appear because small particles of dust collide with Earth's atmosphere. The friction between these motes and the atmosphere vaporizes the dust, leaving only a trail of light in the sky. Meteor showers usually occur when Earth passes through a comet's stream of debris — discarded dust that traces a comet's orbit.
In this video, Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich gives tips on spending a comfortable and fruitful night while meteor-watching. Click on the image to go to the video.
The Quadrantids, however, occur when Earth passes through the debris tail of a near-Earth asteroid called 2003 EH1. It orbits the Sun once every 5.5 years and was discovered just 10 years ago. To see the meteors caused by this space rock, look one-third of the way across the sky from the radiant (the spot on which the meteor paths appear to be centered) — in this case, in Boötes.
So put on your thermal base layer and head outside to celebrate the new year with the unusual and underrated Quadrantid meteor shower.
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Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey review: a fun smash'em up for kids
If you're a Lego fan and enjoy all of the 3-D games they produce, then you are in for a treat.
Lego Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey is an enjoyable game filled with obstacles, story plots, and destroying opponents.
The game is based off a cartoon called "Legends of Chima," which is a land of paradise that has become a battleground to control to natural resource element called "Chi." The characters are part of animal tribes varying everything including lions, crocodiles, eagles, wolves, gorilla, rhinos and bears. The plot in the game is rather caking but the platform is enjoyable to play and easy to navigate.


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oh im not in CA, close! Washington state!albany07 wrote:Hello Girls! Hope everyone is holding up well. Olim, I am in the same boat as you right now as I am taking inventory of every and anything that may be a symptom every second of every minutue of every hour of every day!!! This is exhausting and mentally taxing. I know I want to enjoy every minute of this pregnancy, and I truly want to believe and trust that everything will be ok... I still want to poas everyday. DH has strictly forbidden this practice. Can we fast forward to 1st USG????? I need a heartbeat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On another note, 30 is the new 20... haven't you heard? We are 6 hours behind here in Chicago.
HollyB - How are you holding up?
Me2009 - How many? I can't wait! Are you in Canada? Btw, I bought a pair of Joe's and Juicy Couture Maternity jeans. I can't wait until they come in the mail! I can barely fit into any of my jeans anymore. I have only gained 3 lbs, but my waist is significantly bigger! I went to a formal party last night and everyone was telling me how great I look (small round bump attended as well), and everyone at our table asked us if we are pregnant! How do people know?????? So weird that something is already noticable. I mean, I know it is no bigger than a grain of rice (4th week) or the size of your big toe (the total mass of cells by the 5th week). My nurse did mention there's a lot of remodeling going on down there in preparation for the next 8 months.
Rikirees - How many did you transfer? Are you ok with having multiples or do you think you are having one? Is the other object the Dr. saw on scan dangerous to the pregnancy? I hope everything is ok.
Anything cool to report? Any new findings from reading books, internet or talking to friends, family, etc..???


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By Sarah Musgrave | Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — The first official day of summer is always highly anticipated in Montreal. But the day before that, June 20, eclipsed it with the official opening of food truck season. It was hard to imagine more perfect weather for the launch of a pilot project that will see 27 food trucks rotating among nine designated spots in the city core through the end of September. Mobile street food purveyors have been operating at special events and on private property, but this marks the first time in 66 years that street food has been legally sanctioned on, well, the street. Throngs of people came out to meet the new faces in new places in the borough of Ville-Marie. Touring three locations at lunchtime on day one, the project was off to a promising start, provided you had eaten enough breakfast to stave off the tummy rumbles while you waited for your fix.
11:20 a.m., Place Du Canada
I didn't think I'd be hungry so early, but as I approach the mob scene outside the SO6 truck, my stomach worries the artisanal sausages will be sold out before I get there. Turns out, the crowd is less hungry citizens and more of a media feeding frenzy, with city officials doing grips and grins for the cameras. It almost doesn't matter that Montreal is light years behind other cities on this culinary front; everyone's just so enthusiastic. A bureaucrat in a grey suit actually elbows me out of the way to get his order. But I manage to maintain my appetite.
Marc-André Lavergne, owner of SO6 (sau-cisse, get it?), tells me the day started with a stroke of luck. At 11 a.m., just as he opened for business, there was a fire drill across the street, sending a first wave of customers to the sidewalk. Win win! The team of five working inside the converted Purolator vehicle are well on their way to getting through their stock of 300 links.
My order: Peanut and cilantro sausage (apparently the most popular choice with the ladies; guys tend to go for the smoked meat). It's messy to cut into, but the Asian flavours are bright, and the quality of the meat – ground Quebec pork shoulder, without preservatives – is noticeable. Likewise the veggies, fresh, still crunchy thin green beans. Would I order it again for $8? Yes.
At a picnic table, Dany Lefrenière and Daniel Mayea tell me they have walked over from the Desjardins offices to give it a try. While he finds it's not up to Austin, Texas, street food standards, and maybe at the uppity end of the market in terms of selection, Lefrenière says he is impressed. "The mayor of Montreal is the only one who's not here today," they joke – and they're neither the first nor the last to make that quip.
12.50 p.m., Square Victoria
I have been waiting in line for half an hour outside La Boîte à Fromages, an expensively kitted out truck serving variations on raclette, when the guy in front of me gives up the ghost. "Let's just go to the food court," he shrugs to his friends.
My order: the classic of boiled and gently fried potatoes, pearl onions, French gherkins, melted raclette cheese (made with Damafro cheese, they make a point of mentioning, which may explain the investment in the vehicle) and some extra chorizo. Would I order it again for $8? Yes, but not for a 45-minute wait. Tommy Irwin and Adriana Sanchez, who work nearby in IT, are more forgiving; they'll just leave the office earlier next time. "It's a good thing we have a cool boss," he says, as they head back up to René-Lésvesque Blvd. with cardboard trays of coagulating cheese.
A few steps away, the St Viateur Bagel truck is less busy, but Robert Morena says he started the morning with 75 dozen bagels, and has already called in for 25 dozen more – in addition to extra smoked meat delivered by taxi. After finding out they were approved for a permit, the team flew to Windsor last week to pick up a truck, and spent a week working around the clock to get it ready. "We kind of knew it was going to be a big day when there were five people in line before 7 a.m.," Morena chuckles. "We told them we weren't set up yet and they said, 'That's okay, we want to be the first ones!'"
1:55 p.m., George-Étienne Cartier monument
Compared to the madness downtown, the scene at the base of Mont Royal is serene after the lunch rush. At Landry et Filles, a snackbar in a converted public works truck from Ste-Julie, Marc Landry is serving cuisine brayonne (referring to non-Acadian francophones from New Brunswick) like the ployé, a buckwheat pancake topped with Matane shrimp.
My order: The meatloaf sandwich, adapted from his mother's recipe, well balanced with spiced beef, cheddar and tomato compote, with wonderfully crisped bread. Would I get this again for $9? Yes.
Sitting in the grass next to the whirring generator, there are still issues to consider. Some people wonder if the permit process really supports the most deserving grassroots entrepreneurs. And while the city has made a point of enforcing eco-friendly directives – takeout packaging has to be largely compostable or recyclable, with recycling bins and garbage cans on site – without hookups to the electrical grid, every truck needs a generator, which is expensive and hardly environmentally friendly. And there's the question of how to follow the trucks – none of the apps or web sites I've tried have been satisfying to use, yet.
As Josée-Ann Landry digs out a popsicle made with Quebec strawberries for my dessert, a group of students stops by. "How do we know where you'll be next?" a girl inquires. Landry suggests they check the City of Montreal's website. "The city? Really?" the girl says, dubiously. Whether that is a good sign for the pilot project remains to be seen. But really, even a couple of years ago, who knew?


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Criterion's Blu-ray edition makes a nice companion piece to another French title, similarly intimate, Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours (L'heure d'été, 2008), about a likewise strained but wealthy family coming to terms with their mother's death and the disposition of her valuable estate. As with that Blu-ray, Criterion does a fine job putting The Secret of the Grain into cultural context via numerous extra features. Filmed in high-definition video (on an HD Sony 900) the 1.85:1 transfer is problem-free.
The movie opens with an understated irony permeating its narrative. As patriarch Slimane Beiji is losing his shipyard job to corporate downsizing, his eldest son, irresponsible Majid (Sami Zitouni), operates a ferry tooling around the habor, inanely showcasing Sète's quaint shipyard and tuna boats for rich tourists. Though married to Russian immigrant Julia (Alice Houri) and the father of a toddler son, Majid sneaks away from the tour for a little afternoon delight with Mme. Dorner (Violaine de Carné), the Deputy Mayor's lusty wife.
The film is a bit like Kurosawa's Record of a Living Being (1955). Slimane is reticent much like Toshiro Mifune's 70-year-old patriarch in Kurosawa's film - women do most of the talking in this film - and likewise he straddles two dischordant families that he wearily attempts to provide for. Slimane is divorced from Souad (Bouraouïa Marzouk), the mother of his children, and for whom she regularly cooks extravagant Sunday meals of couscous with fresh mullet that Slimane provides. In a long, fascinating sequence depicting one of these meals, other family members are introduced, including shrewish cannery worker Karima (Farida Benkhetache), Slimane's bossy daughter, and Riadh (Mohamed Benabdeslem), the youngest son.
Slimane now lives at a nearby hotel-bar owned by his much younger (though still middle-aged) current lover, Latifa (Hatika Karaoui), the single mother of adult daughter Rym (Hafsia Herzi). They don't mind, but he feels like a kept man.
Facing an uncertain future, Slimane opts to use his severence pay to buy a delapidated boat that he plans to restore and turn into a dockside couscous restaurant, with his ex-wife cooking the same hearty meals she serves her family, his children working as waiters, cooks, and so forth. The devoted, determined Rym at his side (she does most of the negotiating), Slimane tries to get a bank loan but is refused for want of collateral, and the red tape in getting the proper licenses seems insurmountable. However, he comes up with an ingenious solution: a one-night-only soft opening, he invites city leaders and other VIPs, hoping that the food and atmosphere will speak for itself and secure the financial investment.
The film's many qualities aren't easily described, which may account for its variously inadequate English titles. The French title translates as "The Grain and the Mullet" but, fearing confusion, in Britain it was retitled Couscous. As film critic Wesley Morris wryly notes in his excellent booklet essay accompanying the disc, "The Secret of the Grain" inaptly suggests a documentary about harvesting wheat. As he put it, the film deserved "a title that puts you somewhere other than aisle seven at Trader Joe's."
More than anything else, the film impresses with its intimacy. Hand-held close-ups dominate, almost nose-to-nose with the film's characters. That, and the fine, naturalistic acting by imperceptively integrated professional and amateur actors, and perhaps at least partly improvised dialogue create the feeling of being seated alongside its characters. When the film audience first sees the family get together, the discussion among Slimane's adult children, most of whom have children of their own, quickly turns to the high cost of disposible diapers. Karima, who in an earlier scene mercilessly browbeats her two-year-old for resisting toilet-training, steers the obsessive and authentically true-to-life discussion. Later, at the dinner table, talk turns to the use (or not) of Arabic in the home, by the siblings and their children. As an American living in Japan with an extended Japanese family, I felt more than a little like the French husband of Lilia (Leila D'Issernio), Slimane's eldest (?) daughter.
Slimane's restaurant obviously is intended to provide his family with some kind of legacy, something to keep the family together and to atone for his great sin of leaving Souad for another woman. However, this only inflames tensions between Slimane's two factions. Rym does most of the leg work but gets no credit from the other family. The restaurant would benefit Slimane's children more than Rym and her mother, but except for Riadh they're generally self-involved, selfish and/or ambivilent to Slimane's plans. (Slimane's children constantly bitch and moan but aren't proactive; Rym and her mother are more practical and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, though the very end of the film demonstrates this too has drawbacks.)
The film climaxes with that opening night, an incredible 40-minute sequence that, because of the intimacy Kechiche establishes, becomes agonizingly suspenseful and grimly comical. Even before disaster strikes, the tension is palpable, and the realistic animosity among the various family members adds to the discomfort.
Also, the screenplay ever so slightly exposes an underlying theme of racial discord and the self-selling of cultural exoticism. The wealthy and white potential investors and government officials are subtly condescending to their Arab-immigrant neighbors yet also attracted to their perceived exoticness. (And in turn, this prompts them to conspire against the restaurant's success, even before Slimane's establishment opens to the general public, less their own rival businesses suffer.) Mme. Dorner, for instance, is clearly attracted to Majid as a kind of "forbidden fruit," and later impresses her friends with a few words of Arabic she obviously picked up from her secret lover. Rym's climactic belly dance in the film's justly celebrated last act indulges cultural expectations ("with a little sex," to quote Sullivan's Travels) while her selfless self-exploitation elicits a mixture of gratitude and resentment from Slimane's family.
The ensemble cast is superb because the acting is totally invisible; it's hard to believe we're looking at actors giving performances and unrelated to one another by blood or marriage. As Morris puts it, "We might as well be guests at their table."
Video & Audio
As The Secret of the Grain was filmed in high-definition, the transfer was done entirely electronically; film elements never entered the picture. According to Criterion's notes, it was "converted directly from the Digital Intermediate color space to SMPTE Rec. 709 24fps 1080p and approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche." The DTS-HD soundtrack, in French and Arabic with bits of Russian, was mastered at 24-bit from the original digital audio master files. The English subtitles are generally good and unobtrusive, but I'd prefer more thorough translations of the credits and text inserts (here including pages from Slimane's business proposal).
Extra Features
The supplements, while not entirely satisfying, are nonetheless plentiful and generally good. Included is a new video interview with the director, who's articulate but not particularly illuminating. More interesting is Sueur ("Sweat"), an extended re-edit of the belly dancing sequence featuring much unused footage, presented as if this part of the film were viewed entirely from the perspective of the restaurant's dining room, with no cutaways to other action.
Herzi, Marzouk, and the film's musicians are interviewed (and, in the latter case, also perform) in separate featurettes; Kechiche and Herzi are interviewed on 20 heures, a French news program and a trailer is included.
Parting Thoughts
A deeply humanist work with more than a dozen engrossing characters, The Secret of the Grain is an outstanding film and a DVD Talk Collector Series title.
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Well, you read my little diatribe on meds/supps. Here's another little issue with supplements.
As a barn worker and horse owner, I like SmartPaks. They're easy to feed, easy to track, and easy to keep fresh. But I have to admit I used to feel bad about all that plastic. My horses already consume a lot of the planet's resources — the shavings, the manure, the long horse baths, the fly spray, and the list goes on. I have used SmartPaks for some time, but not without "green guilt." It turns out, though, that this guilt is misplaced.
I'm green after all!
Last week I added another supplement to Riley's SmartPak — and in talking with the SmartPak rep I confessed my green guilt. Well, God bless the rep. She referred me to SmartPak's green policies and practices (and a statement they published for Earth Day 2008)…
- SmartPak uses recycled plastic (PET #1) that customers can re-recycled in virtually every community in the US. It's the easiest plastic to recycle, it's impermeable, and it's light. Many standard supplement buckets are PET 5 or another type of plastic that is not easily recycled.
- SmartPak recently made it's plastic "blister packs" thinner so that even less plastic is used.
- Supplement products are delivered to SmartPak in bulk, in reusable containers.
- Most of the SmartPak processing and production is tracked electronically (no paper).
- Their shrinkwrap is biodegradable.
- SmartPak uses certified recycled cardboard and they reuse it.
- They don't use styrofoam in shipping.
- They're extremely efficient in their shipping and delivery (Barn Buddies is the tip of the iceberg), plus you save gas from trips to the tack shop.
The SmartPak literature provides a lot more detail, but to sum it up, green is their thing. I may be a gluttonous consumer of unnecessary and frivolous equestrian products — bling browbands, for example — but I need not feel guilty about SmartPaks.
It's amazing and wonderful that something that's actually convenient is also green. It doesn't usually work that way…
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First Annual Report on the Mineral Resources of Alberta Much has yet to be done, and considerable field investigation must be carried out before the extent of the mineral resources of the Province of Alberta can be determined.The details given in ... Show Abstract
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From the same area, samples of Kaskapau Formation dry well, firing range is moderate to long, and the milk chocolate brown colour could be acceptable in "earth colour" pottery or structural clay products. A sample from the Bearpaw Formation in the ... Show Abstract
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Ceramic test data for more than 200 deposits of clays and shales in Alberta resulted largely from early investigations of the Federal Department of Mines (1912-15, 1932) supplemented by more recent work of Alberta Research ... Show Abstract
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Low yields, high grit content, or thick overburden reduce the desirability of other deposits.The paucity of glass shards and the mineralogy of the sand and silt fractions suggest rhyodacite as the composition of the parent volcanic ash for each ... Show Abstract
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The Bitcoin Fund, which launched in late 2012, has returned 4,847% for the year through Nov. 18, according to Exante, a Malta-based brokerage.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency introduced in 2008 that uses peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant (and untraceable) payments for an increasingly wide variety of products.
Exante, which is regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority, reported that the Bitcoin Fund has $35 million under management.
Exante said that as the virtual currency has achieved its initial success, institutional investors and hedge fund managers have sought a regulated investment vehicle for Bitcoin placements.
The Bitcoin Fund offers investors secure, real-time access to the Bitcoin market, Exante said. The fund does not charge a performance fee, but does impose a management fee of 1.75%, as well as a 0.5% transaction fee.
According to Exante, the fund does not use leverage or derivatives for risk management, and there is no discretionary management. One fund share is strictly equal to the value of one bitcoin.
Exante also provides a secondary market for the trading of fund shares.
At present, some 12 million Bitcoins are in circulation, according to Blockchain.
The alternative currency has been extremely volatile this year. In November alone, for instance, prices started at about $200 and surged to more than $900 by midmonth.
The Bitcoin Fund's value per unit as of Nov. 18 was $658, Exante said.
CoinDesk reported that Exante has company in the Bitcoin fund arena. SecondMarket, a New York firm, launched the private, open-end Bitcoin Investment Trust in September. The investment vehicle is based in the U.S., and is open to institutional and accredited individual investors.
SecondMarket also intends to facilitate two-way trading of the trust shares on its proprietary platform to enable both long and short positions, CoinDesk reported.
Check out SEC Mulls Including Advisors as 'Accredited' Investors on ThinkAdvisor.


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