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Trolltech, creators of the excellent cross-platform GUI library Qt on which KDE is based, announced today a new license for Qt/Windows. Called the Qt Non Commercial license version 1.0, it permits developers of non-commerical software to develop with and distribute the Windows version of Qt for free. The Qt Non Commercial Edition for Microsoft Windows is a binary-only distribution and requires Microsoft Visual Studio version 6 (download, FAQ).
Excellent news, but when will we see kdelibs and Konqueror for Windows?
This changes nothing. This is a very restrictive licence. They should rather change their prices Qt/Linux-155$, Qt/Windows-2845$. It would be great !
You must be a very bored person. Go back to where you crawled from.
Note: This person is too lazy to give an email adress and posts nothing but negative one sentence articles. Plus you are lying.
Actually, if you read the faq, trolltech specifically says that the NonCommercial license they are using is incompatible with the GPL, so anything in kde that has gpl code in it cannot use this... which is sad.
In the end, the only way to wrest control of the desktop from Microsoft is to produce GPL applications for their desktop. It's easy for Windows users to convert to GPL applications slowly over time. Once all of their critical applications have been replaced with GPL versions, swapping the operating system out from underneath them will be painless.
I love KDE, but if anyone is going to break Microsoft's monopoly, I think it's going to be Sun's OpenOffice.
>I think it's going to be Sun's OpenOffice.
I hope not, at least not going at it's current state and path. It's a powerful, very mature suite (iirc 6 years in the running), but its very, very bloated. On my machine, opening MS-Word takes about 5 seconds, where as starting the latest stable build (i.e. StarOffice 5.1a-something) takes about 45 seconds! Most of the bloat is due to the fact that StarOffice decided it would be fun to make their own widget set, printing libs, font loader, staticly built OpenGL port, etc.
Not to be negative, but I don't think it has much of a chance unless much the guys at Sun manage to wean OpenOffice off it's little statically built cornucopia and onto something more likely to already be loaded at login/boot-up time (even if that be GTK+/GNOME)
> Not to be negative, but I don't think it has
> much of a chance unless much the guys at Sun
> manage to wean OpenOffice off it's little
> statically built cornucopia
I'm not suggesting that OpenOffice is the better
technical solution. Its their evolution strategy
that is superior, and actually stands a chance
in corporate America of taking desktop share
away from MS.
KDE's proposition: switch your OS and all of
your apps simultaneously, deal with all the
training and support issues for the whole thing
at the same time.
OpenOffice's proposition: slowly replace one
application at a time, until all of your
applications are non-MS, then painlessly swap
operating systems later.
The only way that KDE (or GNOME) is going to
take the desktop market in America is if:
- Europe and/or Asia standardize on it
- that forces Microsoft to develop compatible
file formats so that international firms
can communicate.
- once the office monopoly is broken, American
firms move to open-source to decrease costs
That might actually happen if European gov'ts
decide to standardize on open-source, which a
lot of them seem to be seriously considering.
But Sun's strategy is much more threatening to
<"OpenOffice's proposition: slowly replace one application at a time, until all of your applications are non-MS, then painlessly swap operating systems later.">
This is exactly what this QT release might help KDE do. You could run Konqueror or KWord under Windows, then switch the OS and DE to Linux/KDE later. If only all of KDE was LGPL! For a project as large as KDE, re-licensing is really unfeasable.
>The only way that KDE (or GNOME) is going to take the desktop market in America is...
I believe that you may be missing the point of Open Source. KDE is not a business or a corporation, and the whole concept of market share isn't applicable. Sure, KDE developers love it when KDE is used by users and by other developers, but unlike a business, KDE has a major advantage : it's progress does not depend that it be used by a certain amount of people.
KDE's continued existence depends totally on whether or not the developers continue to work on it, and this will continue even if the developers themselves are the majority of the people using it! The primary reason that open-source software will (IMHO) almost totally replace commercial software in non-specialized fields is because the developers of Open Source have as much time as they feel like to work on it, since marketing is (rightly so) almost non-existant.
This is the way capitalism is designed to work, that is, a product will make it or not depending almost entirely on it's quality. Microsoft and (to a lesser degree) Sun are more concerned over whether or not their customers _think_ the product is of high quality, then whether or not it actually is.
For instance, for all of M$'s raving over how Win2k no longer has DOS, this "feature" is in fact a detriment! With a minor amount of registry editing, you can discover that in fact the OS still depends on and can boot into a version of DOS, but now it is almost impossible for the average user to get at it, even if only to run some classic games or for emergency purposes.
This is why I don't think OpenOffice will last for the long haul. You said yourself that :
>I'm not suggesting that OpenOffice is the better
technical solution
In Open Source development, what else _is_ there but the quality of the software?
Not quite. It was a negative four sentence article! :-)
Hey ,
there is a project to port kde under cygwin
* Xfree is running under cygwin
* the sourforge project is at the following address:
Yeah, but I guess it'd be easier to run KDE/Qt "natively" then via the Cygwin/XFree layers. At least it's another option though. The devil is always in the details, and it's those details that are gonna get discussed a lot in the next couple of days/weeks :-)
Oops, that should've been posted in reply to the 'kde/cygwin' post.
No it isn't. Cygwin is an excellent posix layer and because of kde is build basically on unix systems there are only minor changes like missing header and so one. The most problem currently is caused by limitations of the linker, which has to be solved for porting kde2. Additional the xfree-server has made no problem on porting.
On the http://kde-cygwin.sf.net discussion faq/discussion forum there are some topice relating for native porting kde/qt.
As summary 1) qt isn't a problem, if a developer with good windows api/gui knowledge does this task and 2) an emulation layer for the x dependent kde stuff will be created. On the above website there are links (ntxlib) showing an initial lib for that.
This is simply specatcular, if not for the simple reason that it will shut up a few of the trolling gnomers that like to discredit the validity of using Qt.
If nothing else, this could help kde in such a manner as requiring a simple underlying library change removing the depency on X. Once this is accomplished, kde will truly be universal.
Troy Unrau
There's no need to have a go at the Gnomes Troy. That's just flame bait. If someone wants to troll, ignore them, but for goodness sake don't encourage them with leading statements like yours.
Thats not going to stop them they'll continue to spread FUD. Its all they have anymore.
Craig - be quiet and go away. You annoy the KDE people more than the GNOME people.
I've never seen any pro-GNOME trolls at dot.kde.org, but there are lots and lots of pro-KDE trolls at Gnotices.
But remember that those trolls do not represent GNOME or KDE.
They represent the pro-M$/Slashbot/UltraFlamers community.
This is great news... I'm sure it will help Qt and KDE both get more acceptance...
I wonder what the reason was for this move though. I think it's probably because Troll knew that anyone could take Qt free edition for X and port it to Windows, so they would rather have an official version instead of a rogue version out there.
I haven't read the license yet but I think someone posted that the license was more restrictive than the Qt free edition for X?
If that is so, they probably looked at their options (eventual free Qt for Windows with less restrictive license, or free Qt for Windows now with a license of their choice) and though the second option was better.
What do you guys think?
Do you want to make QTwin32/GPL too? :)
I think, like many others that this is a good step.
maybee one day, Micro$oft will open source windows(never.. they are too greedy.)
Perhaps this will make it easier to port software from KDE to windows, and make it easier for windows users to adapt to KDE (I hope we can still change the shell in windoze.. dont use it. hehe)
this is the result of a lot of hard work. I am grateful for the work of developers all over the world making things happen. just my 2 cents :)
It is possible to change shells under Windows. With Win9x it is a simple matter of changing a line in system.ini (the same way you did in Win 3.x). In Win NT/2000 it's more of a registry change for your profile, but still can be done.
Look at http://floach.pimpin.net for an idea of what replacement shells are already available. Of course, KDE & Gnome as WinShells would be *really* subversive .
This is great. I would love to have Konqi in Windows for those times I must be in Windows (i.e. like right now ). At least I wouldn't feel so far from "home" if I had my favorite "furniture." ;-)
I might add this should also really increase exposure of QT to Windows developers, which means when they have to do a Linux programming project - they may very well choose QT over GTK, Motif/Lesstif, etc.
Or even better - I'm not a programmer, but from what I've heard, QT is orders of magnitude nicer to code for than MFC. This may hopefully mean that more Windows developers (who wouldn't have even thought about *nix) writing their apps with QT instead of MFC. If this happens, then it's extremely easy for someone to port their app to Linux, BSD, MacOSX etc. etc. etc.
This is absolutely great news!
Thank you so much, Trolltech. I just wonder, might Cygwin be one of the supported compilers in the future?
The only issue right now is that one has to possess Visual C++, which is quite expensive.
Cygwin + Qt would be a great choice for win32 Open Source developers.
>Thank you so much, Trolltech. I just wonder, might Cygwin be one of the supported compilers in the future?
>The only issue right now is that one has to possess Visual C++, which is quite expensive.
I kind of doubt that one is specifically locked into using Visual C++ with Qt NC for Win32. Just a little bit of Cygwin linker time and/or wizardy would probably allow the compilation of Qt NC apps with Cygwin's gcc.
I mean it.
Microsoft just changed their developer licenses for all "Visual XYZ" products and libraries etc etc, so that you MAY NOT DEVELOP FREE SOFTWARE with Microsoft products. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19953.html for more details. Here's an except:
"(c) Open Source. Recipient's license rights to the Software are conditioned upon Recipient (i) not distributing such Software, in whole or in part, in conjunction with Potentially Viral Software (as defined below); and (ii) not using Potentially Viral Software (e.g. tools) to develop Recipient software which includes the Software, in whole or in part.
...For purposes of the foregoing, "Potentially Viral Software" means software which is licensed pursuant to terms that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Software.
This might just be the end of Qt on Windows, if it NEEDS Visual C++. You can either develop proprietary software (and then you must pay for Qt as well!) or you switch to Unix altogether (doesn't need to be Linux).
Hrm, I didn't follow your links, but if what you say is true you can just use a different compiler. I have only used Qt/Windows with MS Visual C++, but I have heard it works with cygwin, and I think Trolltech even mentions compatibility with Borland on their website.
Now, the non-commercial Qt/Windows is for VC only right now, but that's probably because it keeps the maintainence down. I see no reason why Trolltech couldn't make a build for use with other compilers. If this is truly an issue I'm sure they'll do it.
I think that license only applies to MS's Mobile Internet Toolkit.
Commercial licenses are viral too!
The Windows license infects everybody who buy a copy of Windows.
That was a license on a _BETA_ version of the _Mobile Internet Toolkit_. Hardly 'all "Visual XYZ" products and libraries etc etc'.
Now, for what they might do in the future; who knows.
I think that linking programs written for the Qt libraries to the new Trolltech no charge licensed win32 libraries should be no problem.
If I write a GPL program using a non-GPL library, for example using Qt/win32 or Motif, I implicitly allow people to link my program to this library. I don't see why it would/should be forbidden to do this. If I want write a Motif application because, for example, I know the API better than of another toolkit, but I'm also a strong GPL advocate, why should I not be allowed to release it under the GPL and make my code available for reuse in other GPL programs?
And if I've got an application using the Qt toolkit, I don't see why I can't link it to the non free win32 version of Qt. As long as this library does the same as the linux version and only has a different underlying system API it's no threath to the freedom of this program. It even enlarges this freedom by allowing people to run it on even more systems!
Just my $ 1e-2
You're obviously not a lawyer (not a bad thing :-)
Lawyers don't care about little things like "intent" or "fairness" when it comes to contracts like the GPL. All that matters is the exact wording of the contract itself. The GPL prohibits distribution of the program without complete source code available for all parts of it, and when QT is distributed along with KDE, it is part of KDE (using the strict definition provided in the GPL itself).
However, as Dre argued very convincingly farther up the page, if QT is distributed seperately from KDE, it is considered a seperate program and is not required to have source code available. Therefore someone wanting to distribute KDE on Windows must simply distribute QT in a package that doesn't have any GPL'd parts of KDE in it.
That's not hard to do; since all of kdelibs is LGPL'd, QT could simply be included there. Problem solved!
Besides, I find it highly unlikely that any KDE developers are going to start sueing people distributing KDE for Windows. If no one sues, no one _gets_ sued, even if it is illegal. Problem solved again!
Looks like the way is clear for people wanting to port KDE to Windows. Now all someone needs to do is *do* it...
I think you can "pull a Linus" and say that your program is GPL, but you allow linking to the non-commercial Qt. In this case you'd have a sort of modified-GPL.
Of course, this only works if every developer in the project agrees on this. I plan to do that with one of my own projects since I'm the only developer. Changing the license of a collaberative work like KWord would be more tricky. But if its one of your own personal apps, I see no reason why you couldn't just release under GPL-with-one-exception.
Replying to myself :)
From http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/noncommercial-dl....
If you wish to port one of the many GPL'd Qt-based Unix applications to another operating system using the Qt non-commercial edition, you need to get that application's copyright holders to add an exception to its license. Similarly, if you develop a new application with the Qt non-commercial edition and wish to license it under the GPL you may wish to add such an exception to your license. The Free Software Foundation has provided the following wording for such exceptions:
As a special exception, gives permission to link this program with Qt non-commercial edition, and distribute the resulting executable, without including the source code for the Qt non-commercial edition in the source distribution.
Guess that answers it!
What if a company develops a program under linux with the Qt Free Edition. but uses the software under windows with the Qt Non Commercial Edition.
after all everybody is allowed to develop using Qt Free Edition. and the non-commercial setting just effect developement and not the usage.
Hi there,
I am just wondering where the project file (.pro), stated in the readme.txt, can be found after project generation? I found only the MSVC++ Project workspace and the msvc++ project .dsp file.
Any help is appreciated.
If you generated your project using the integration plugin then a .pro file is not generated for you.
The example that is stated is based on the hello world example in the package (%QTDIR%\examples\hello) and is for if you build your applications without using the integration plugin.
If you really need a .pro file, then you will have to create this manually. You might find that this is easily done by typing progen > project.pro in the directory with your source as this will create a .pro and include any cpp/header and ui files.
This is really good news! Now free Qt applications can be ported to Winblows.
The bad news is that Visual C++ costs a lot of $$$; what about a Borland C++ port so that we can use the freely available Borland C++ 5.5 command line compilers?
What do you think?
Thats that why i thought.
I just don't want to buy a compiler to develope free applications...
Yes !?!? Why not Borland or GNU C++ Compiler ? Free software with free compilers !
Well, I was going to say I don't really consider $100 that expensive, which about how much you'll find Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard for. It's like $92 at Amazon. But reading the page at Trolltech it says "requiring Microsoft Visual Studio version 6". Now *that* would be expensive. Why the need for Visual Studio instead of just Visual C++?
Its seems Trolltech is mostly using the compiler for VC++? You can use what ever editor you want. It seems that Qt Designer would take care of whatever 'visual' uses VC++ would have. Which means that you're mostly using VC++ for it's compiling/debugging features. Which of course begs the qustion why use VC++? There's plenty of other compilers and debugers out there. Oh well.
I'm begining to think people in Trolltech are so stupid as people in Micro$oft: they release a package to develop *ONLY* free software, but to be developed with a very expensive compiler owned by an anti-free-software company that imposes serious restrictions to free sofware development. Sincerly I can't understand it, there is a big bunch of great free C/C++ compiler for Windows (Borland command-line tools, MingWin, CygWin, RSXNT, ...)(without talk about other OO free compiled or interpreted languages).
Why, Why ?, I can't understand those mad people... Oh, what a headache !
PS: Sorry for my English, my natal language is Spanish.
There is no need to enrich the Windows enviroment with such a good product and keep supporting this non-free products.Whoever wants to program GUI applications in M$-Win can do it with MFC . Open Source and Free Software must be distributed only to those who respect and support the Open Source Software idea and not to all those who keep using products hostile to Linux and open source , products .
Everyone make his choice . Isn't he ?
If I want to write an application I want to make it available to as many people as possible. I choose Linux to do development *but* it has to be said that a lot of people do use Windows. Why should Windows users be denied the advantages of free and open-source software?
And why should I use MFC? From what I've seen of it, it sucks, it's horrendously complicated and unstructured, the Fortran of gui toolkits. I'd far prefer use something like Qt or FOX (another cross platform toolkit).


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Singer Justin Bieber, who is currently in the fourth week of his 10-week "Music Mondays" series, has launched a new track titled "Recovery". It was penned when he was going through a "hard break up".
"It's here. One of the most important songs to me I've ever written. 'Recovery'," Bieber tweeted Sunday. The Canadian artist also shared the link to the song, reports aceshowbiz.com.
"Recovery" is a mid-tempo R&B song that features Bieber singing about wanting to get back with his ex-lover. Bieber described "Recovery" as an acknowledgement that in life you can't just fall down and not get over things.
"You have to step up and recover. At the time, I was going through a very hard break up and when you're going through stuff like that you think that the world is just gonna end. Then you wake up the next day and realise that life has to go on," said Bieber, who has been in an on-off relationship with singer Selena Gomez.
The song samples Craig David's 2000 hit entitled "Fill Me In". Bieber took to Twitter to thank the English singer-songwriter for inspiring him, and wrote: "Craig David thanks for the inspiration bro. Appreciate it." David then replied saying "Well done Justin Bieber".
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Warner Bros. has released two teaser trailers for director Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and they're awesome. While both have the same visuals and music, the Yahoo version has Kevin Costner (Jonathan Kent) narration and the MSN has Russell Crowe (Jor-El). Unlike most trailers that reveal everything, I love how this is a true teaser and it's only towards the end that you realize you're watching a trailer for a Superman movie. Also, the way it uses music and visuals to set the mood is perfect. As I've said many times, Man of Steel is easily my most anticipated movie of 2013 and everything I've seen and learned tells me it's going to be something special.
Man of Steel stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, and Crowe. Man of Steel opens on June 14th, 2013. Hit the jump to watch the teaser.
Next summer, "Man of Steel" is coming to the big screen. The film is from director Zack Snyder and producers Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer from a story by Goyer & Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics.


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Fecel Financial Center LU business school
Lamar University business students will have a new way to expand their knowledge of financial markets and gain new perspectives on the day-to-day global nature of monetary environments thanks to the generosity of Craig and Judy Fecel of Houston.
The couple contributed a major gift providing the resources to establish and maintain operations of the newly created Fecel Financial Center within the College of Business.
"Judy and I believe the FFC will enhance the skills of the current students. Also, we are hopeful that it may become an exciting 'enticement' to attract future students to Lamar," Craig Fecel said.
"The high quality of my education at Lamar was the important first step in my career path," Fecel added. "I'm grateful to Dr. Venta for helping me find a meaningful way to give back to Lamar. I can only dream about this resource being available to me 47 years ago, but now it's available to all students qualified to experience it."
"It is most fitting that the center be named for an individual who has distinguished himself in the world of finance throughout his career," said Henry Venta, dean of the College of Business.
"Lamar was a critical first step in my career path," Fecel said. "At Lamar, I had nurturing teachers who helped me build my self-esteem and gave me the problem-solving tools I would need in the future to meet the challenges I would face in my career."
Fecel earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Lamar in 1966, and then completed a Master of Science in industrial administration from Purdue University the following year.
A financial advisor in Houston for more than 40 years, he is now a PIA Program Senior Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President - Investments with Merrill Lynch's Galleria Office in Houston.
Fecel is the author of the book "How to Profit from the PSYCLE" (1983) and appeared as a special guest on television's Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser in 1980. In 1995, he was one of five financial advisors nationwide elected to Research Magazine's Broker Hall of Fame. Also, in that year, Barron's magazine featured an exclusive interview with Fecel titled "Psyching Out Stocks."
"The Fecel Financial Center will strengthen and enhance the curriculum and learning opportunities in the College of Business," Venta said. "Both students and our faculty will grow through practical experience and through research using the financial center resources. The center will function as an advanced learning laboratory as well as a highly specialized classroom."
The center will be housed in a newly renovated classroom complete with new computer stations and associated audiovisual and display equipment. Students will have access to specialized software and databases to allow for financial research and financial alerts and tools not currently available to them in college.
"Both our undergraduate and graduate students will learn to apply complex financial concepts in an exciting, virtual real-world environment, just like those they will encounter in their careers," Venta said.
In addition to computers with dual displays, the center is well-equipped with software for student projects and research, said Tommy Thompson, associate professor of economics and finance, who oversees the student-managed investment fund that began with $250,000 from the Lamar University Foundation and is exceeding market averages.
In addition to a full complement of software already in use by the college, the center will have Standard & Poor's Capital IQ and Research Insight analytical software for accessing and screening Compustat data. The lab will display news and financial data in real time, Thompson said. The center's market wall will include a touch screen for monitoring the stock indices such as the New York Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ, as well as commodities, precious metals, interest rates and exchange rates.
"We will also be able to create a watch list that we can access throughout the day and run comparisons to performance on the previous day, five days ago, 30 days ago, a year ago or five years ago," Thompson said. "Lamar's advanced finance classes will use the lab as well as graduate finance classes. It will be very well-used and will allow for more interactive learning."
Mark Etheridge, director of Wood Products & Tier 1 Accounts, Thermo Fisher Scientific, a 1980 alumnus and member of the college's board of advisors, helped furnish the center.
Lamar University's College of Business is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB-International) a distinction held by fewer than 5 percent of business schools worldwide. Princeton Review ranked Lamar's College of Business as one of the top 300 business schools in the nation. The Aspen Institute has ranked Lamar's MBA in its biennial "Beyond Grey Pinstripes Global 100" list in 2007, 2009 and 2011.


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Time for a ChartThere were some details that I overlooked, that I would like to discuss, in case you are interested in creating a Chart by a 3rd Party Vendor.
In this case, I am using Family Chartmasters
Two suggestions:
- Read the details of what you are buying
- Read the Chart Screen with the Chart Size.
Here is a piece of an email I received this morning:
The chart you sent is 62 inches wide by 16 inches tall. Normally we would print that on 62 inches of 24 inch paper.Oops. The size of my Chart is wrong.
But what you paid for was 42 inches wide and 12 inches tall.
Here is the screen capture from the Family Chart Master's website:
I had selected 42" wide, but my chart was 62" wide. So, It's important to be aware of the size of the Chart you create and the size of the Chart you are purchasing.
The wonderful folks at Family Chart Masters were willing to make an adjustment, but I wanted to see what it would look like, as I had liked what it look like, which is where my focus was.
Going to the Publish Workspace, Charts again. Since I saved this, I was able to open the Saved Chart. It opened and I selected the Advanced Option and made the adjustments with the sliders on the Top and Left.
My chart is now 61.14 by 23.94 and should fill the Chart just find.
One issue that may be an issue, is the Placement of the Title. It's in the Center of the 2nd of 6 pages, although the setting in FTM2012 says "Center". It will be interesting as to where the Title will appear on the Chart.
Lesson Learned: Verify the Chart Size against the Size of the Chart you are having printed by a 3rd Party.
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I find it quite interesting to study the patterns in library automation in different parts of the world. I use the lib-web-cats directory of libraries to help me gather and analyze data regarding the automation systems used in libraries. While lib-web-cats still isn't as comprehensive, I hope to continually expand its international coverage.
For the last few weeks I have been slowly working my way through the public libraries in Sweden. This Nordic country illustrates some trends in library automation that contrast significantly from what we see here in the United States.
Like many European countries, the local governing authority operates a library service and provides a library management system. As I worked through these libraries on the Web, I observed very similar patterns of organization within each site. Even though I don't read Swedish, I pretty quickly learned the tricks of navigating to the library Web site. (Main page > Kultur och fritid > Bibliotek).
Several trends stand out. It seems that most, if not all, Swedish libraries benefit from the use of modern library automation products. I was not able to find many public libraries without automation. Each municipality or locality operates a library management system or participates in a consortium. I may be missing small libraries in some of the more remote parts of the country, but it seems that standards for library service include automation support. In many cases it seems to be shared with affiliated libraries, often associated with schools in the surrounding communities.
One company, Axiell, dominates the provision of library automation software to Sweden. Axiell Bibliotek AB, a subsidiary of Axiell Library Group, offers two major library management systems to libraries in Sweden, BOOK-IT and Libra.se. Other companies represent a much smaller slice of the Swedish public library arena. Other subsidiaries of Axiell offer automation products to libraries in Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom.
In addition to the library management systems provided by Axiell, smaller numbers of public libraries in Sweden use Millennium from the North American company Innovative Interfaces, Micromarc from a company based in Norway called Bibliotekenes IT-senter AS, and Pulsens Bibliotekssystem from Pulsen.
Please let me know of any omissions or corrections. While I have made a what I hope is a comprehensive sweep of public libraries in Sweden, I have not yet gone through the academic libraries systematically.
Developing a comprehensive representation of libraries in a country is quite a time consuming process, and my time is spread very thin. Help is always appreciated in adding new libraries to lib-web-cats or updating details about technology products used.
Marshall Breeding Jun 10, 2010 10:05:13
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== Feedback/Feature requests ==
== Feedback/Feature requests ==
openpilot did something wrong or unexpected? report the event in the [[openpilot Events]]
openpilot did something wrong or unexpected? report the event in the [[openpilot Events]]
Want to suggest a feature? Go to [https://www.commafeedback.com the unofficial feedback/feature request tracker] and make your suggestions.
Want to suggest a feature? Go to [https://www.commafeedback.com the unofficial feedback/feature request tracker] and make your suggestions.
(you must have at least 500 [[FAQ#commapoints|comma points]] to edit this wiki)
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Revision as of 23:59, 26 February 2018
Welcome to the future home of the highest quality car information on the internet.
Quick Start
If you are looking to get your EON up and running see the following guides
- Installing Giraffe
- Installing EON
- Running ChffrPlus on the EON
- Installing OpenPilot on the EON
- Configuring OpenPilot
- First OpenPilot Drive
- Creating Fingerprints
The EON is the three things that you need for your car. A dashcam, navigation, and music. The EON is the best dash cam for your car. It allows you to help self driving cars, record your drives, and unlike phones running Chffr in the summer the EON won't overheat with an included built in heatsink and fan to help keep it cool
- A Dashcam
- Your iPhone or Android phone can run Chffr but the EON can run ChffrPlus.
- Navigation
- Let's face it most car's built in GPS maps are bad. That is why with an EON you can use the best navigation app out there, Waze.
- Music
- We all like good music in our cars and with an EON you can listen to all the tracks you want through Spotify
You can buy one here
How to install an EON: Installing EON
Panda is a universal car interface. Panda's allow you to talk to your car over USB and WiFi. It supports 3 CAN buses, 2 LIN buses, and 1 GMLAN. The software is 100% open source and is developed openly. Top contributors will be offered a job, comma.ai has a budget to fund this development, as we win if cars are more open and easier to talk to.
See the panda wiki page for more info. Pandas are now for sale at shop.comma.ai
Giraffe connects Panda to vehicle control buses that are not exposed via the standard diagnostics port, usually the LKAS and ACC sensors and commands live on these buses. There are currently 2 versions, one for Honda and one for Toyota. Double check the connector and make sure it is compatible with your LKAS camera.
Buy Giraffe in the comma.ai shop for $60: Honda Toyota
Or build it yourself or modify it for other makes of cars
See Installing Giraffe for help installing it
neo is an open source robotics research platform. It is powered by a OnePlus 3(3T) smartphone and an STM32F205-based CAN interface board. EON plus Panda is capable of everything that NEO is capable of.
See the neo wiki page for more info.
Chffr is like a Fitbit for your car. It's a dashcam app that powers comma.ai's self-driving technology. For every minute you record you get comma points. Pair it with panda and view your compatible car's messages in cabana. It is available for Android and iOS
See the chffr wiki page for more info.
ChffrPlus is the default NEOS program for the EON. It doesn't allow for self driving but it does allow you to run Spotify, Waze, and Chffr all on the same phone with a great UI.
Openpilot is an open source driving agent. It is capable of controlling the gas, brake, and steering on certain cars, reaching up to 6 minutes with no user action required (besides paying attention!). Currently works with Panda and Giraffe on some Honda and Toyota cars with many more Honda and Toyota ports currently underway. See How it works and Installing OpenPilot on the EON for installation instructions for EON
Cabana is a web application that allows you to inspect, label, and plot vehicle data collected by panda which can then be saved locally or committed to GitHub in the form of a dbc file. Cabana syncs panda data with chffr data for an extremely user-friendly reverse engineering experience. This allows you to easily scrub through video segments to target a specific driving event, such as braking, and label the associated CAN messages.
View example here
The NEO and the EON run NEOS, a heavily modified version of android. See NEOS for more info.
If you are having any issues with Chffr, Panda, or Neo please refer to the links below
Comma has a vibrant community working on new ports and features for Comma. Check out the forums and the slack channel. You will need to sign up for slack by entering your email in this web app
How to Help
There are 4 ways to help:
- If you have a car listed here your car is supported by OpenPilot and recording your drives with chffr (or OpenPilot) will help build data to improve route tracking and sensor understanding
- If you have a different new model Honda or Toyota that has both lane keeping assist (LKAS) and adaptive cruise control (ACC), there is probably already a port underway to your car. You should search/ask on the forums and get on Comma Slack and help with the porting.
- If you have a different make car with LKAS and ACC, you can get the Panda and use Chffr to record your drives. If you're a hardware hacker, check out the Giraffe source repo to start adapting Giraffe to your car. You can also use Panda and Chffr to start recording drives now and decoding what CAN messages are available from the diagnostics port.
- If you don't have a LKAS or ACC car, you can still help the research project by getting a Panda and recording your drives with Chffr! You will gain Comma points and help bring the future of self driving cars closer.
And if you don't have a panda, you can help document which cars have ACC and LKAS. This is a great list to start from.
Feedback/Feature requests
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Liturgically speaking, St. Patrick's Day will be on March 14 this year in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.
Liturgically speaking, St. Patrick's Day will be on March 14 this year in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. Parade, corned-beef-and-cabbage, and green-beer speaking, it'll still be on March 17. For the Roman Catholic Church and some of her Protestant descendants, this year will see the rare confluence of St. Patrick's feast day and Holy Week. The Catholic calendar is determined by when Easter falls. A formula used since the fourth century places Easter on the first Sunday after the first astronomical full moon after March 20, the earliest date on which the March equinox can fall. That places the earliest possible date of Easter at March 22. This year, Easter falls almost that early, on March 23, which means that Holy Week, the seven days leading up to Easter, starts on Sunday, March 16. Holy Week is a solemn period. After Palm Sunday, on which Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem is celebrated, things turn dark with betrayals and a crucifixion before the Resurrection turns it all around. "The observance of Holy Week has its own flavor and character in preparation for the celebration of the central mysteries" of the Christian faith, said the Rev. Rick Hilgartner of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The importance of Holy Week observance means that it always trumps any lesser festivals that fall during that time - in this case, St. Patrick's Day on March 17 and St. Joseph's feast day on March 19. Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria addressed the coincidence in his 2008 Festival Letter, which he issues at the beginning of the year to tell the Catholic faithful when holy days like Easter and, thus, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Lent, the Ascension and other celebrations will fall. He wrote that although this year "the commemoration of Saint Patrick is not celebrated due to the timing of Holy Week," for the 22 diocesan churches dedicated to the patron saint of Ireland "this local solemnity is rightly transferred to Friday, the 14th of March." That means St. Patrick's Churches like those in Washington, Minonk, Elmwood and Camp Grove will be able to liturgically commemorate their patron at Masses two days before Holy Week begins. Even the once-a-year Mass at the tiny church in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Kickapoo will be moved to March 14, said the Rev. Patrick Riordan. He's pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Kickapoo, which oversees the cemetery chapel. Since March 14 is a Friday in Lent, though, Catholics are obliged to abstain from meat. Jenky, though, lifted that obligation "in those parishes celebrating the solemnity of their patron on Friday, March 14th." Jenky took what action was available to him from the U.S. bishops' conference, which had earlier ruled that a March 17 liturgical observance of St. Patrick's feast day was out, but that local bishops could move it. "Some places are also moving it to Thursday (March 13)," said Hilgartner, who is associate director of the USCCB's secretariat for the office of divine worship. He said that even in Ireland, where St. Patrick's Day is a Holy Day of Obligation, the liturgical observance is being moved. Outside of churches, though, erin will still go bragh - whatever that means - on the day itself. The annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Downtown Peoria, for instance, will go on as scheduled at 11 a.m. March 17, said St. Patrick's Society president Dann Haney. He said the society checked with the diocese to make sure it wouldn't be a problem to have the parade and post-parade party on March 17. Not only did the society get the OK from Jenky, but it's expected the bishop will lead the parade as usual. In fact, the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral, at which oils for use in rites for the coming year are blessed, will be moved to make way for the traditional Hibernian Society Mass at 8 a.m. March 17. The Chrism Mass is typically held on the Monday of Holy Week, but will be on Tuesday this year to make room for St. Patrick's Day festivities. All of which means it'll be Holy Week, but with a touch of green. Michael Miller covers religion for the Journal Star. Write to him in care of the Journal Star, 1 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61643, call him at 686-3106, or send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Comments may be published.


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Another celebrity chef has decided not to open a restaurant in Donald Trump's planned Trump International Hotel, which the real estate magnate is developing in Washington, D.C.'s Old Post Office Pavilion building.
Geoffrey Zakarian, a restaurateur known for his Food Network appearances, announced late Thursday that he would not open a restaurant planned for the project following the Republican presidential candidate's anti-immigration comments.
"The recent statements surrounding Mexican immigrants by Donald Trump do not in any way align with my personal core values," Zakarian said in a statement. "In light of this, I am unable to move forward with a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel."
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The move comes a day after chef José Andrés announced he would not open a restaurant planned for the forthcoming luxury hotel, citing Trump's remarks demeaning illegal Mexican immigrants.
The Iron Chef, who comes from a family of Armenian immigrants, echoed Andres' concerns, noting that his company, Zakarian Hospitality, "employs many immigrants from nations all over the world, and I look forward to continuing this business culture in my future restaurants."
"We are a nation built from immigrants, my family included," Zakarian said.


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The Fourth Circuit issued its opinions yesterday in two pregnancy center compelled speech cases: Centro Tepeyac v. Montgomery County and Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Baltimore. The decisions tracked the tentative predictions I made after observing oral argument: a narrow, procedure-based decision to vacate and remand the permanent injunction against enforcement in the Baltimore case, and affirmance of the preliminary injunction against enforcement in the Montgomery case.
In the Baltimore case, Judge King wrote for an eight-judge majority (consisting of himself, Chief Judge Traxler, and Judges Motz,
Gregory, Duncan, Davis, Keenan, Wynn, Floyd, and Thacker). Judge Niemeyer authored a dissenting opinion, in which Judges Wilkinson, Shedd, and Agee joined. Judge Wilkinson authored a separate dissent.
In the Montgomery County case, Judge King wrote for
a nine an eleven-judge majority. Judge Gregory and Judge Davis, who did not hear the Baltimore case, joined the judges from the Baltimore case, as did Judge Wilkinson. In addition to joining Judge King's opinion, Judge Wilkinson wrote a solo concurrence. Judges Niemeyer, Shedd, and Agee dissented. [Editorial note: This paragraph edited from the original version to correct error noted in the first comment.]
The combined opinions add up to about 140 pages and it's July 4th, so detailed legal analysis will have to wait.
With respect to First Amendment law standing alone, my preliminary impression is that the decisions have the potential to inject confusion into what should otherwise be a straightforward application of First Amendment law for these ordinances. As Judge Wilkinson notes in his Greater Baltimore dissent, "[t]here has never been any dispute that the Ordinance forces organizations like the Center to communicate a message they would otherwise never utter. Given the dangers of compelled speech, this kind of mandated disclosure should be a last resort, not a first recourse." Yet the majority opinion remands to allow Baltimore to try to establish that its ordinance was somehow a regulation of commercial speech. In support of this decision, the court provides a diffuse statement of the law surrounding commercial speech. The opinion does not endorse the application of the standard of review appropriate to commercial speech but instead asserts that the district court erred by rejecting application of this standard of review based on insufficient facts.
Instead of training its analysis on the speech actually regulated–the speech that takes place in the centers where the government-ordered messages must be posted–the majority opinion sweeps in the need for considering things like "the scope and content of [the Center's] advertisements." This focus apparently derives from Fargo Women's Health Organization, Inc. v. Larson, 381 N.W. 2d 176 (1986), which the majority discusses in detail. But that case dealt with a preliminary injunction that prohibited deceptive advertising rather than legislation compelling delivery of the government's message in conjunction with in-person speech about pregnancy. Indeed, the North Dakota Supreme Court struck out the compelled-speech portion of the underlying injunction in Larson even though–unlike the Baltimore and Montgomery County ordinances–that injunction directly regulated advertising rather than the in-person provision of information. (It may also be worth noting that this non-binding decision of the North Dakota Supreme Court predated the binding decision of the Supreme Court of the United States discussing the boundaries of commercial speech doctrine in Riley v. National Federation of the Blind, 487 U.S. 781 (1988).)
Although en banc rehearing is typically reserved for "questions of exceptional importance" (FRAP 35), it does not follow that en banc decisions actually resolve questions of exceptional importance. The Greater Baltimore decision does not. From the perspective of First Amendment law, its principal defect is failure to delineate the operative legal principles for separating commercial speech from non-commercial speech and explain why those principles called for the kind of discovery it thought necessary. To the extent that it does discuss these principles, the majority's analysis drifts from focus on the nature of the speech directly burdened by the in-center positing requirement. But this drift is largely a consequence of its focus on discovery and procedure rather than elaboration of First Amendment law. Hopefully the opinion's diffuse discussion of commercial speech doctrine may at least avoid doing serious damage to First Amendment law precisely because it is so diffuse.
Nor does the Centro Tepeyac decision resolve any questions of exceptional importance. Its affirmance of the district court's conclusion that strict scrutiny applies to the challenged ordinance is noteworthy but uncontroversial. Had it not relied so heavily on the "abuse of discretion" standard of review, parts of that opinion would be more problematic. The challengers bore the burden of showing a likelihood of success on the merits, but once the court properly recognized that strict scrutiny was necessary, it should have required the government to demonstrate narrow tailoring. It did so, in part. But as Judge Niemeyer points out in dissent, this should have included consideration of less restrictive alternatives to compelled speech for both sentences of the compelled speech.
Given how little these decisions actually decided as a matter of First Amendment law, it seems the principal legal effect of the court's en banc consideration in that area was to deprive the panel opinions in these cases of their precedential force. As someone who thinks those panel opinions were correctly decided in the first instance, that consequence is unfortunate. But the litigation will continue. And barring some surprising fact development or substantial change in governing law, I remain hopeful that the cases will ultimately end up yielding results close to the initial panel decisions.


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We previously posted the recipe for Orange Spoon Sweet and this is the recipe for a spoon sweet with firikio apples. I haven't been able to find the English word for firikio, but they are small, tasty apples - you can see the ones we picked in the photo at the bottom. As I mentioned previously, it's common practice in Greece if you visit someone during the day or early evening, to be offered a spoon sweet, or 'gliko koutaliou'. This is a sweet made from fruit and kept in a jar, to be served on sweet dish (preferrable glass) whenever someone comes.
The recipe below has 2 kg of sugar, but some people use less. You can try it and see what suits your taste. It's really easy to make and is a delightful sweet to eat.
1 kg firikio apples
2 kg sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
10 cloves
4 cups water
Juice from 1 lemon
8 tbsp glucose
Peeled almonds
Peel the apples and core them so that they are still whole but there is a hole through the middle.
Place the apples in a bowl of water and add the lemon juice.
In a pan boil the sugar with the water and the glucose.
As soon as it comes to the boil and the sugar has dissolved, add the apples, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
Continue boiling the mixture, removing the froth every so often, until the syrup has formed. After about 30 min. you can check the apples with a fork and if they are cooked and the syrup has formed, you can remove from the heat.
Let it cool, remove the cinnamon sticks and cloves and fill in the hollow core with almonds.
Put the mixture in a large glass jar, ready to serve whenever you wish.
If you've tried this recipe please rate it!
If you've tried this recipe please rate it!
Eat and Enjoy!


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Ahmadinejad says assassination plot a US lie to cause rift between Saudi Arabia, Iran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday US allegations
of an Iranian assassination plot resembled its claims of weapons of mass
destruction that formed the basis for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and would
prove to be equally untrue.
Ahmadinejad said Washington had fabricated the plot of an
Iranian seeking to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington in order to
cause a rift between Tehran and Saudi Arabia and dominate the oil-rich Gulf.
"In the past the US administration claimed there were
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They said it so strongly, they offered and
presented documentations and everyone said 'yes, we believe in you, we buy
it'," Ahmadinejad said in a live interview on Al Jazeera television.
"Now is everyone asking them, were those claims true?
Did they find any weapon of mass destruction in Iraq? They fabricated a bunch
of papers. Is that a difficult thing to do?
"The truth will be revealed ultimately and there will
be no problem for us at that time," Ahmadinejad said.
US President Barack Obama hopes the foiled alleged plot will
lead to tighter sanctions against Iran - already under several rounds of U.N.
measures over its nuclear programme - and repeated that all options are on the
table to deal with the Islamic republic - a tacit threat of possible military
When asked whether he thought Iran and the United States
were on an inevitable "collision course" towards military conflict,
Ahmadinejad replied: "I don't think so.
"I think that there are some people in the US
administration who want this to happen but I think there are wise people in the
US administration who know they shouldn't do such a thing."
Nevertheless, the commander of the Iranian army ground
forces said his troops were "fully prepared and ready to give a quick
response to any aggression on Iran's soil".
"Today America is too unsteady to even think about
launching an attack on Iran," Ahmad Reza Pourdastan told the semi-official
Fars news agency.
Saudi Arabia, Iran's main rival in the Gulf and with close
ties with Washington, requested the United Nations look into what it called the
"heinous conspiracy" and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday
he had passed correspondence about the affair to the Security Council.
Ahmadinejad called on Saudis not to fall for a US strategy
which he said aimed to divide and conquer the Gulf.
"If the US administration is under the impression that
by doing this it can create conflict between us and Saudi Arabia then I have to
say the US administration is sorely mistaken.
"The US administration is not interested in Iran or in
Saudi Arabia. They see their interests in having a dispute between Iran and
Saudi Arabia -- they want to dominate our region," he said.
Iran's relations with Saudi Arabia have been strained by the
events of the "Arab Spring" as each tries to assert its position in
the region amid a welter of sectarian and geo-political rivalries.
Even before the Arab uprisings began, a leaked US cable
published on WikiLeaks said Saudi King Abdullah had urged the United States to
"cut off the head of the snake" by launching military strikes to destroy
Iran's nuclear programme.
The plot furore appears to have killed any chance of a rapid
return to talks between Tehran and world powers concerned about its nuclear
programme, but Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would examine the
"We are prepared to examine any issue, even if
fabricated, seriously and patiently, and we have called on America to submit to
us any information in regard to this scenario," he was quoted as saying by
the official IRNA news agency.
The USA is simply playing their dirty game again to cause a rift between the ME Nations to control this area.
As stated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "In the past the US administration claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They said it so strongly, they offered and presented documentations and everyone said 'yes, we believe in you, we buy it'," Ahmadinejad said in a live interview on Al Jazeera television.
Why the so called World Court or UN has not taken any action on this false claim which was the reason for starting a war and killing thousands? - Because their blood is different?


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Pink and Champagne Wedding Ideas! Love this color scheme for an elegant wedding! Keep Reading for our Cupcake Delivery this weekend to a Champagne, Pink, and Black Wedding!
We made our first Wedding Cupcakes this weekend! The bride's Wedding colors were Pink, Champagne, and Black! She wanted a square cake on top for her and her husband to cut into. Also a first were the jumbo cupcakes cascading down the tiers! A big "F" for Fritsch on the top made out of Royal Icing topped the Wedding Cupcakes off perfectly!
The Argyle pattern around the cake was also repeated throughout the tiers with a small Black Diamond on top of the Jumbo Cupcakes! Small Champagne flowers and and pink flowers topped the remaining Jumbo Cupcakes. The small Bubble detail at the top of the cake was symbolic of Champagne. Adding a subtle touch to the top of the tier. The cupcakes were delivered this past Saturday to a home in Lake Meade which doubled as the gorgeous setting for the Fritsch Wedding. I even took some photos for brides looking for inspiration!
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HONG KONG, April 29 (Reuters) - Europe-focused clothing retailer Esprit Holdings Ltd said total sales in the nine months ended March fell 3.1 percent from a year earlier in Hong Kong dollar terms, but were up in local currency terms.
Stripping out the foreign exchange impact, revenue in the period rose 0.7 percent in local currency terms. Wholesale revenue was down 7.1 percent in local currency terms while retail revenue rose 8.1 percent.
Esprit, which competes with Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMb.ST), U.S. group GAP Inc and Spain's Inditex SA , reported sales turnover of HK$25.86 billion ($3.32 billion) in Hong Kong dollar terms for July-March, down from HK$26.697 billion a year earlier, according to a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late on Thursday.
Sales in Europe, which accounted for 79.1 percent of total turnover during the period, fell 3.6 percent in local currency terms while Asia-Pacific sales rose 26.3 percent and North America and other regions gained 9.4 percent.
Retail store sales fell 1 percent during the period, it said.
Similar to rivals, Esprit faces the challenge of rising raw materials costs, such as cotton, which will pressure sales of budget clothing chains.
In February, Esprit posted a 21 percent decline in first-half net profit and said it would switch textile sourcing to Bangladesh from southern China to cut costs. [ID:nTOE71903B] (Reporting by Donny Kwok; Editing by Chris Lewis)


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Algot Runeman wrote:upcycle
If Bob were to use some more pallet wood to construct a bird droppings collector underneath the feeder and produce biofuel, there would be less doubt about his upcycling achievements.
Algot Runeman wrote:upcycle
voralfred wrote:Would il be sophistry to argue that anyone who has liked the book Les Malheurs de Sophie should also be called a sophist ?
Algot Runeman wrote:tramlines
A pair of parallel lines, especially at the sides of a tennis court (enclosing the extra width used in doubles play) or at the sides or back of a badminton court.
Late 19th century: from the resemblance to the rails for a tram.
Tom took the trolly to the club where he was a regular line judge for the tramlines on court number one.
Algot Runeman wrote:bezel
1 A grooved ring holding the cover of a watch face or other instrument in position.
1.1 A groove holding the crystal of a watch or the stone of a gem in its setting.
Late 16th century: from Old French, of unknown origin.
"Watch out", advised the jeweler.
"This watch is only water resistant. Do not wear it in the pool or a hot shower. The gold bezel will not be harmed by the pool chemicals, of course, but this is a luxury watch, not a sports model. And the band is Billingsian* leather, of course."
Algot Runeman wrote:flatcar
North American
A railway freight wagon without a roof or sides.
I'm in the midst of doing a 3D project series which began with a steam engine. Doing a flatcar is the second component of a train set because it works well on its own, but also serves as the base for all the other cars down the "line". Rolling this 3D work into WotD is a cheat of sorts, I guess, but flatcar is new to the forum topic!
Algot Runeman wrote:shapka
A brimless Russian hat of fur or sheepskin.
Russian, literally 'hat'.
Sergey shook the snow from his shapka and bulky overcoat before entering the house. Stamping his boots did more to shake the building than it did to dislodge the snow wedged in the tread of the soles.
voralfred wrote:I would think that a shapka would be more appropriate to enter a dacha, or even maybe an isba rather than a simple house. And if the dacha/isba is in the extreme north-east of Siberia, maybe enjoy a little bibimbap.
Algot Runeman wrote:mudra
1 A symbolic hand gesture used in Hindu ceremonies and statuary, and in Indian dance.
1.1 A movement or pose in yoga.
From Sanskrit mudrā 'sign or token'.
Tony took time to demonstrate the gyan mudra, but also pointed out that in the US, a rotation of the hand alters the meaning to 'OK".
could look like a gyan bunny, I mean a giant bunny..
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Khloe Kardashian IS Willing To Give Up 'Khloe & Lamar' To Save Her Marriage
Khloe — we're so proud of you. We've learned EXCLUSIVELY at HollywoodLife.com that you've realized that your marriage to Lamar MUST come first!
Khloe Kardashian is willing to give up fame to save her marriage to Lamar Odom, a source close to the Kardashians tells us.
"Khloe is fighting to save her marriage. She realizes the toll reality TV and being in the public eye has taken on her relationship with Lamar," says the insider.
That's great news Khloe! We have to admit that we've been lobbying on HollywoodLife.com for you to do just that. We were so concerned when sources told us that Lamar was so stressed out trying to perform at his best with his new team, the Dallas Mavericks, while also filming your reality show, Khloe & Lamar. Sources told us that he wanted to quit the show and that was putting strain on your marriage.
But now we hear that you're "even considering not doing another season of Khloe & Lamar," says the source. "Khloe wants to make Lamar and starting a family her number one priority right now!"
Great decision Khloe! You're already a big star and can certainly still be a huge part of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Kourtney & Kim Take New York. Plus, you have your retail business with DASH — hey, could there be a Dallas DASH? — and your multiple product endorsements.
But freeing Lamar from having to worry about a second career besides basketball, will do wonders for your relationship.
Keeping in shape, being focused, travelling, playing his best at NBA level — that's all he should have to worry about. It's A LOT. Especially, when he's still reeling from being traded from his beloved Lakers.
We heard earlier today that you and Lamar had a romantic home-cooked meal recently and spent a night discussing how "Kim's recent marriage issues" have made you both realize that your "love is legit."
We're not surprised that you discovered that.
We can tell just by watching you two interact on Khloe & Lamar, that your love is legit!
Plus Lamar, you couldn't have been sweeter when you spoke to Cosmopolitan magazine with Khloe on the cover, and you said: "Wherever Khloe is, that's where my home is."
That's so sweet Khloe — how can you NOT make a man like that your #1 priority! We're so glad that's what you're going to do!
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Walker, Barrett team up to boost entrepreneurship
Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are teaming up in another rare show of bipartisan support in hopes of stimulating business growth in Milwaukee.
The political rivals -- Walker defeated Barrett in the governor's race in 2010 and again in a recall race last year -- are backing a new entrepreneurship model aimed at encouraging new ventures in the city.
The plan involves a systematic method of encouraging entrepreneurship. Rather than fund individual unrelated start-ups, the goal is to create an environment that fosters long-term growth.
That would involve connecting planners, investors, academics and entrepreneurs, in part so the new businesses can support one other and so the community can contribute by providing the skilled employees necessary to work in those companies.
"We have growing companies that need skilled workers, and Milwaukee residents who need jobs," Barrett said in a statement. "I am proud of this partnership and pleased that Milwaukee is leading the way."
The Walker-Barrett collaboration comes two weeks after they supported a construction project downtown that would free up land for development.
Walker has been struggling to deliver on a campaign pledge to create a quarter-million new jobs before he launches his 2014 re-election bid.
The initiative "will help to support the state's pledge to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin -- one-third of which will come from Milwaukee," Walker said in a statement.
WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked Barrett and Walker about their current working relationship, which Walker described as positive.
"We're going to work together. We have a shared constituency here in the greater Milwaukee area, a key part of the state's economy. We'll keep looking for projects to work with the mayor and other leaders here in the city and the region of Milwaukee," Walker said.
But Barrett said the working relationship only goes so far.
He said their split remains over Walker's call to end Milwaukee's residency requirement and wants Walker to do more to help address the city's foreclosure crisis and what he called the funding flaw in the school choice program.
"That doesn't mean we can't work together where it's possible to work together, but I'm also going to be very, very upfront at the areas where there is not agreement because I think that it hurts the city," Barrett said.
The proposal was unveiled Thursday by the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Collaborating with GMC are the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which is the state's semi-private economic development agency, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Administration and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.


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We've already profiled our question time style pannelists Anna Coote and Owen Jones, next up is Phillip Blond, political thinker and Director of the think tank ResPublica. The video below will give you a flavour of what you can expect at the #PovertyAssembly next month. In it Blond argues for a radical new political settlement that moves beyond the traditional left/right divide.


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Mel Gibson, Screenwriter Feud over Jewish Hero Movie
The filmmaker and Joe Eszterhas erupt in a war of words that opens some old wounds
Proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword, a Hollywood feud of nearly Biblical proportions seems to be developing between Mel Gibson and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas over what was to have been Gibson's movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee.
In a scathing, single-spaced, nine-page letter from Eszterhas to Gibson, dated April 9 and obtained by TheWrap.com, the writer alleges that Gibson never intended to make the movie and, furthermore, "I've come to the conclusion that the reason you won't make 'The Maccabees' is the ugliest possible one. You hate Jews," Eszterhas writes.
The letter also states that Eszterhas (whose screenwriting credits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls) was prepared to write "the Jewish 'Braveheart,' " and he ticks off various ugly epithets that he claims Gibson used to describe Jews. His message also alleges Gibson threatened the life of his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Gregorieva.
EW.com reports that in February Warner Bros. passed on Eszterhas's script, which Gibson was planning to produce, despite the actor-filmmaker's troubling history regarding anti-Semitic comments he has made over the years, and for which he has subsequently apologized.
Gibson did respond Wednesday night in an open letter to the screenwriter, which was also published in the Los Angeles Times and sent to PEOPLE.
"The great majority of the facts as well as the statements and actions attributed to me in your letter are utter fabrications," Gibson writes. "Honestly, Joe, not only was the script delivered later than you promised, both Warner Brothers and I were extraordinarily disappointed with the draft."
"The decision not to proceed with you was based on the quality of your script, not on any other factor," Gibson's response continues. "I think that we can agree that this should be our last communication."
Gibson also said, "Contrary to your assertion that I was only developing Maccabees to burnish my tarnished reputation … I absolutely want to make this movie; it s just that neither Warner Brothers nor I want to make this movie based on your script."
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The Raelian Movement is a non-profit, international organization. It unites those who wish to inform humanity of its true origins and tell people about the very special messages sent by the Elohim, highly advanced extraterrestrial scientists who created life on Earth, including human beings.
But spreading this knowledge is not the only goal of the Raelian Movement. Another primary mission of our organization is to prepare an official embassy to welcome the return of our creators.
Through their messenger, Rael, the Elohim have respectfully expressed a desire to come and meet with us. But since they wish to come only if their presence here is welcome, they ask that we first demonstrate our desire to invite them by building an appropriate embassy in advance of their arrival.
That embassy would become the Third Temple as predicted in the ancient scriptures. According to specifications provided by the Elohim, it must be built in a neutral location that has been granted rights of extraterritoriality and guaranteed neutral air space. Providing such an embassy and obtaining the necessary guarantees for the rights of its occupants will prove that humanity is ready for an official meeting with its creators.
(Detailed plans and specifications for the requested embassy are available at www.ElohimEmbassy.org .)
The Raelian Movement recently asked a number of countries to consider hosting the embassy project, and several have indicated an interest in allocating space for such an endeavor. Preliminary discussions are already under way!
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British actress and model Kelly Brook has moved on from her former boyfriend Danny Cipriani by striking up a new romance with a male model, according to reports.
The "Piranha 3D" star, who separated from the sportsman in August amid cheating allegations, is now dating British model Harvey Newton-Haydon, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper.
The pair reportedly met through mutual friends and has been spending a lot of time together over the festive season.
A source says, "Kelly really likes him but has been trying to keep it quiet as she wants to get serious. She has been playing the field since Danny did what he did. Danny now realizes she is well capable of moving on and it's killing him."


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Last night, the History Channel premiered a documentary, Sex in '69, about the sexual revolution in America. In it, radical feminists of that era reflect on how feminism was shaped by the revolution, and vice versa.
My favorite part about how women were discovering how to pleasure themselves is this lady's face when she's shown a vibrating dildo.
The documentary also talks about the feminist protest of the 1969 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, a pivotal moment in the women's movement. Usually, for retrospectives on feminism, we hear a lot from scholarly talking heads who have not only studied and analyzed the movement, but were also part of it. But Sex in '69 featured a lesser-examined — but equally illuminating — viewpoint: that of a 1969 Miss America contestant. In this clip, Susan Anton, Miss California 1969, gives her take on how the protest affected her. Interestingly, 40 years later, she is grateful for women's liberation, and thinks we still have a long way to go.


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BILLERICA, Mass., Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In an invited talk at Europe's 2013 MipTec Conference and Exhibition, Seahorse Bioscience Chief Executive Officer, Jay Teich, will discuss the factors that enabled Seahorse to maintain steady growth while the market for life sciences tools declined in 2012.
Mr. Teich's presentation, 'Growing in a World of Budget Constraints,' will address the challenging markets faced by emerging technology companies that relied on government research funding during a period of high unpredictability in late 2012 and early 2013.
"American research scientists have struggled through difficult times in the past two years with the uncertainties of a presidential election, sequestration, and an unsigned NIH budget – and their funding continues to be in jeopardy. European research and development support has been equally challenged by the austerity measures throughout the years," stated Mr. Teich. "Despite this, Seahorse has continued to grow at double-digit rates. At MipTec I will present the three primary factors that I believe enabled our survival and success in a tough market environment."
Being held 24th - 26th September, 2013, in Basel Switzerland, MipTec is Europe's leading event for drug discovery and life sciences research, providing a platform for strategic and business-oriented networking, and the opportunity for scientists to gain expert insights into new technology, and leading-edge developments that are accelerating life sciences research and drug discovery. Mr. Teich's presentation is part of the Jumpstarting Innovations in Life Sciences Forum taking place Thursday, 26th September 2013, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, in Room 1, Exhibition Area Hall 4.1.
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