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from the about-time deptWhile there certainly have been improvements in car technology over the past few years, the culture of "hacking" your car still hasn't become as popular as you might expect. We've been seeing a few recent attempts to let people get access to their own car's data, which hopefully will begin to open up this market, as new apps and services let you do a lot more with your car, in part just by accessing and understanding more information. A few months back we wrote about the Automatic Link device to get useful information out of your car's dataport and into your smartphone -- and this week's awesome stuff post is about two similar crowdfunding projects that focus on making the dataport useful to car owners.
- First up is the AutoAide from Park.IT. It does the basic stuff that you'd expect -- such as telling you what the various engine warning lights are referring to, and monitoring things like the car battery's health. It also claims to improve the GPS functionality of your phone, though it's not entirely clear how necessary that really is. The key focus, though, is for parking. As its name suggests, Park.IT already has an app that helps you find parking and also avoid parking tickets. And, not surprisingly, that's built into AutoAide. If a lot of people are using AutoAide and Park.IT (maybe a big stretch), it can even alert you when someone is leaving their parking spot.
- Next up, we've got Fuse, which is somewhat more ambitious attempt to make use of the car's dataport. Again, it does a lot of the expected stuff, tracking your driving habits, keeping track of maintenance and expenses, but then it also tries to connect with other apps and services. One feature is the carpool feature, which automatically classifies regular trips and can associate your contacts with the people you pick up, doing things like automatically emailing them when you're getting nearby. The company also promotes that the data is stored in a personal cloud -- and, like Park.IT above, it seems like the dataport device is partly promoting the company's "main business." In this case, Fuse is a product of Kynetix, which has an open source cloudOS, which Fuse users can use to store their own data under their own control.
Fuse and they're about 20% of the way there with still about four weeks to go. To be honest, this one struck me as way too expensive for what you get. Not only is the device itself more expensive ($139 -- or $119 if you get in on the early bird), there's also an ongoing service fee. Getting in on the Kickstarter deal only gives you a 90 day free pass on service. So it seems like this could get expensive quickly, and it doesn't even look like the app is that well developed, or has that many features. Considering many of the other devices in this market are both cheaper and have no service fees, it's a tougher sell here (for example, the Automatic Link, which is getting very good reviews is $100 with no service fees).
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WVU finance committee gets update on athletic facilities plan, PRT modernization
Significant facilities improvements and investments are in store for West Virginia University athletic facilities and the Personal Rapid Transit system, pending Board of Governors approval at the April 4 meeting as well as further authorization from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission at its April meeting.
The Board's seven-member Finance Committee, chaired by William O. Nutting, vice president of Ogden Newspapers, reviewed the plans and associated resolutions that would authorize the issuance of revenue bonds in late summer to cover the principal costs of updating and modernizing many of WVU's decades-old facilities at Friday's (March 28) meeting.
The athletic facilities master plan – with some projects expected to begin later this year; others in the coming years – is estimated to cost $106 million, with $75 million in bonds made possible from guaranteed annual revenue from the Big 12 Conference, $6 million from a capital expenditure fund in the multimedia rights contract with IMG and $25 million in private donations through the Mountaineer Athletic Club.
Initially, the football team room in the Milan Puskar Center will be updated and expanded, and renovations and expansions will be undertaken at 35-year-old Milan Puskar Stadium to include the concourses, restrooms, gates, concessions, LED boards and wall graphics. A marquee at the Coliseum intersection is also planned.
Many of the current athletic facilities are 35-45 years old and in need of major makeovers, said Michael Szul, senior associate athletic director for business operations.
He said the following revenue and non-revenue sports projects are also in the planning stages: renovation of the Coliseum restrooms and concession areas and potential expansion of the concourses; renovations and a new indoor track at the Shell Building; additional home and visiting locker rooms; additional weight rooms; renovation of the Natatorium and tennis courts; repurposing Hawley Field; and additional infrastructure improvements to enhance the fan experience.
Szul also recapped recently completed projects, including the new basketball practice facility, renovations at the Dreamworks soccer stadium, the weight room and coaches meeting area at Puskar Center, renovations at the Natatorium and ongoing preventative maintenance projects – in addition to the new TIF-funded baseball ballpark slated for completion in early 2015.
WVU's nearly 40-year-old Personal Rapid Transit system, or electric-powered people mover that connects WVU's three campuses and Downtown Morgantown business district, is also in need of major modernization as identified in the PRT Master Plan, officials said.
Since opening in 1975, the PRT has provided some 81 million passenger trips (some 15,000 each weekday) without injury and taken countless vehicles off the congested roadways in Morgantown. It is considered the primary "critical" mass transit system for the movement of students, employees and visitors on a daily basis.
With reliability a major issue after nearly four decades, however, WVU is committed to a multi-phase PRT revitalization program and has invested nearly $21.7 million to advance Phase 1 of a modernization plan.
Randy Hudak, associate vice president for Facilities and Services, said Phase 2 will target the redesign and replacement of the Automatic Train Control System, replacement of substations and electrical gear, and tunnel repair at an estimated cost of around $53 million.
This second phase of modernization, if approved, will be financed through revenue bonds supported by WVU fees ($10 per semester increase through 2022) and federal grants, Hudak said, with work to begin immediately.
A number of downtime events currently experienced by the PRT are related to the present train control system, he added, and the new system will include new vehicle controllers, wayside and station computer control equipment, central control equipment and fare gates with new destination selection units. The new system will also use radio frequency communication rather than current signaling methods, reducing maintenance needs and improving system availability.
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In the photographs, dressed in jacket and dark tie, he looks like the prefect at my grammar school who cowered against the corridor walls when other pupils approached him. The mathematician and visionary Alan Turing is the subject of a compact exhibition at the Science Museum in London.
During the Second World War Turing famously helped to crack the German Enigma code using one of the earliest electronic computers, the 'bombe'. The cracking of the cipher, which the Germans believed impossible, probably shortened the war by years, saving countless lives.
Dozens of wheels rotated in each bombe making a noise like 'a thousand knitting needles'. And a legion of bombes supported decryption on an industrial scale. So effective was it that on one occasion a message was decoded in less than 15 minutes.
When the war ended, Turing worked on the government Advanced Computing Engine (ACE) project. Before such machines were invented, large scale arithmetical calculations were carried out by teams of specially trained women.
Computers were then quickly applied to complex problems in chemistry and life sciences. At Manchester University, Turing researched the relationship between mathematics and cell growth, beginning a new field he named Morphogenesis. At Oxford, in 1957, Dorothy Hodgkin used Pilot ACE and X-ray crystallography (a technique also fundamental to the discovery of the structure of DNA) to help her to crack the structure of vitamin B12 and was awarded a Nobel Prize.
Turing was condemned for homosexuality in an era when it was illegal. Under constant surveillance as a security risk, he apparently took a bite from a cyanide-laced apple. His death was officially declared suicide, though the exact circumstances remain a mystery.
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In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan conducted a controversial and now-famous experiment. Rosenhan instructed eight healthy people to go to emergency rooms around the United States and pretend to hear voices. The voices were not threatening, nor did they instruct these people to act in any dangerous way. Despite that they lacked any other symptoms or psychiatric history, all eight were admitted — some for weeks —
"Hallucinations,'' Oliver Sacks's 13th book, answers this question.
In this fascinating and engaging "anthology of hallucinations," Sacks uses the unique mixture of patient anecdote, memoir, scientific information, and broad reference to literature, art, music, history, and philosophy that has characterized all his work to explore various types of visual, auditory, tactile, and other illusory sensations — excluding those caused by mental illness.
Sacks begins by describing Charles Bonnet syndrome, a condition in which people with impaired eyesight experience visual hallucinations. Bonnet was an 18th-century naturalist who associated his grandfather's visions of floating blue handkerchiefs and ghostly house guests with his blindness. Sacks notes that Bonnet attributed such hallucinations in a sane person "to continuing activity in what he postulated were visual parts of the brain — an activity drawing on memory now that it could no longer draw on sensation." This was a radical notion in an era before it was understood that different areas of the brain control different functions.
Now, of course, this concept is widely familiar, and it seems that virtually any human trait — empathy, depression, an appetite for sugar, a fondness for Bach — can be traced to a few millimeters of cerebral cortex and a couple of neurotransmitters. Still, as Sacks demonstrates in "Hallucinations,'' the extent to which even transient and subtle brain injury can affect our perceptions, and the ways in which our life experiences can alter the brain, are surprising. He devotes chapters to the hallucinations caused by migraine, epilepsy, drug use and withdrawal, delirium, narcolepsy, and Parkinson's disease. He also details the phantom sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that people may experience after an amputation, a profound loss or trauma, or a period of sensory deprivation, such as incarceration.
Though Sacks provides much scientific information in "Hallucinations'' — which, like all his books, is heavily footnoted and meticulously referenced — he is never reductive. He resists the temptation to explain all hallucinations in neuro-anatomical terms and allows for the possibility of mystery. For example, a blind patient of Sacks's with Charles Bonnet syndrome hallucinates unwelcome visitors in fancy dress. The intruders mostly appear at night, pouring through the walls of the patient's nursing home by the hundreds, the women in "beautiful green hats" and "gold-trimmed furs." Sacks sees the nocturnal intensification of the woman's hallucinations not only as a neurological phenomenon, but as a Proustian one: He's reminded of how the bells of Combray seemed to ring louder at night in "Remembrance of Things Past.''
Similarly, Sacks considers the hallucinations sometimes associated with religious and artistic inspiration as both neurological phenomena, and something more. It's long been speculated that Joan of Arc had temporal lobe epilepsy, and it's well known that Dostoevsky suffered from the disease. Yet, Sacks points out, "[e]cstatic or religious or mystical seizures," such as might cause the visions that both Joan and Dostoevsky had, "occur in only a small number of those who have temporal lobe epilepsy." He suggests that while a seizure may affect "parts of the brain that serve to mediate religious feeling," certain people may have, based on their life stories as much as on their neural circuitry, a predisposition to such hallucinations.
Life stories have always been the most compelling part of Sacks's work, whether his patients' in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat'' and "An Anthropologist on Mars'' or his own in memoirs such as "Uncle Tungsten,'' and "A Leg to Stand On.'' Readers may find "Hallucinations'' a bit lacking in this regard, since most of the clinical anecdotes here are quite brief.
But a whole chapter of "Hallucinations'' centering on his regular use of amphetamines, morphine, and LSD in the 1960s, is vintage Sacks. Ranging from De Quincey to Timothy Leary, from acetylcholine to Coleridge, Sacks both informs us about the history and pharmacology of hallucinogens, and moves us with an intimate account of his coming of age as a doctor and as a writer.Suzanne Koven, a primary care internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, writes the monthly "In Practice" column for the Globe. She can be reached at
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With the loss, the Bucs fall to 1-5 on the season, while the Tigers remain perfect at 8-0. Despite the loss, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow was pleased with the fight of his team.
"To come on the road and lose to an ACC school by eight, we're obviously not pleased with the loss but you can't be unhappy with the effort," Bartow said. "Tim and Courtney really played with a lot of energy. We just needed to hit some shots when we had open looks and we didn't do that."
The Tigers took an eight-point lead into halftime, holding the Bucs to their lowest first-half point total of the season at 36-28. Clemson extended the margin to 14 with an 8-2 run to start the second frame capped by Sam Perry's layup with 17:38 to play.
However, at that point, the Bucs used a 10-2 run of their own to pull within six with 11:23 to play with Smith scoring all 10 points, including eight-straight in 49-seconds. After Smith's three pulled ETSU to 54-48 the answered by ripping off a 13-2 run of their own, punctuated by Cliff Hammonds matching Smith with 10 consecutive points.
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Editor's Note: In recent years the Bulletin has asked the winners of the ASIS&T Research Award to describe their careers and interests for the Bulletin. The 2003 winner was Danish information scientist Peter Ingwersen.
Highlights of a Career in Information Science
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As a matter of fact, I would have liked to become either an historian or a geologist (like my father), specializing in techniques for dating artifacts and geological events, such as the Carbon 14 test. Instead I graduated in library and information studies at the Royal School of Librarianship in Copenhagen in 1973. My thesis was an empirical study using observation and interviews, as well as quantitative analyses, of the use of catalogs in public libraries in Denmark. That was prior to the online age, so essentially the thesis dealt with the patrons' use of card catalogs, including subject access, and the initial interaction with the librarians when patrons could not find their way. Looking back on these activities some 30 years ago it seems evident that already at that time I liked making quantitative empirical investigations; looking into the processes of retrieval; and digging into the historical perspectives of the objects researched.
Immediately the Royal School employed me as a lecturer in information storage and retrieval, cataloguing and indexing theory. I was very lucky because I came to work with Professor Paul Timmermann, who was trained in the research spirit of the Niels Bohr Institute (nuclear physics), that is, highly rigorous experimental settings and research approaches. Paul was extremely good at producing novel research ideas and questions, which were carried out by younger researchers such as I. He also emphasized the international dimensions of library and information science and encouraged international publishing. So from 1976 to 1980 I was part of a research team that did experimental research on cognitive processes concerned with user-intermediary-system interaction. However, being a Danish academic at that time did not automatically mean that one could write fluently in English. Writing in English was in fact very cumbersome to begin with. But I soon got a tremendous boost.
I became a research fellow in 1982-84 at the online service of the Information Retrieval Service of the European Space Agency (ESA-IRS), located in Frascati, Italy. My R&D activities were concerned with user-system interface improvements, the development of a new family of online support and retrieval tools and online systems management. For instance, I was part of the group that invented the online term frequency feature, ZOOM, much later taken up by Dialog as the Rank command. Also, I wrote database descriptions and manuals and implemented online databases, all of which provided a lot of help in improving my written English. Most importantly, the international research environment at ESA directly supported and encouraged me to become more scientific in the sense of hard science. Most researchers came from such disciplines, and I am very grateful for the shaping and sharpening of my profile as a researcher that took place at ESA.
Back again at the Royal School of Librarianship in Copenhagen I got tenure as an associate professor in 1984. Owing to my new experiences concerned with technical and scientific information systems and systems design, obtained during the ESA period, I started up a new department dealing with IRM and design of specialized information services and systems for industry and institutions, in collaboration with my wife-to-be, Irene Wormell. During my Italian experience my research interest started to concentrate on information interaction and intermediary (interface) functionality for IR. Probably for that reason I was invited during the spring term 1987 to be a visiting professor in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University to work with Professor Nick Belkin.
Nick and I knew each other from many conferences dating back from the mid-70s the so-called IRFIS conferences. We had been exchanging models and ideas on the cognitive viewpoint for interactive IR for more than 10 years when I came to Rutgers. At that time we also attempted to bridge the more user-centered and interactive research environment to the mainstream IR laboratory community with the help of many key scientists from both sides. This attempt was probably too advanced at that time, but it paved the way for the more interactive tracks in the NIST TREC (National Institute of Science and Technology Text Retrieval Conferences) research activities that were soon to appear. My interest in interface issues dropped after I had published my book, Information Retrieval Interaction, 1992, which was based on cognitive views and my doctoral thesis. It really seemed obvious that the expert system approach to interactive IR (IIR) was too narrow and unattainable.
Instead I became very interested in the theoretical development of IIR during the 1990s. Since our laboratory facilities were not adequate for taking part in TREC we concentrated on modeling. At the same time, around 1990, I became one of the driving forces behind the curriculum development of the master of science (Msc) program in library and information science at the Royal School of LIS and later the development of the Ph.D. program. I was appointed head of the MSc program from 1990-93. In July 1993 I switched over to research to become head of the Department of Information Retrieval Theory which, owing to a new constitution for the Royal School as a university in 1999, merged with the Department of Information Studies. Since 2001 I am a research professor in that department.
The theoretical development of IR during the 1990s was commonly a question of producing new kinds of logic or mathematical techniques guiding (and improving) IR performance. Since my theories of IR were based on a cognitive view and were not mathematical, but conceptual, emphasizing the interactive aspects of IR, my contributions on, for instance, polyrepresentation at the ACM-SIGIR conferences were constantly scheduled in the user-centered sessions such as those on interface and interaction issues. In a way it is interesting (and sad) to observe that hardly any theoretical development has taken place in IR during the last decade, as can be seen from the omission of theoretical sessions at SIGIR. Anyway, the principle of polyrepresentation assumes that actors of different cognitive nature over time make different interpretations of the same information objects. Such different interpretations could be represented by, for instance, the original author's full text, an indexer's keywords added to the document in scientific contexts, and citations or inlinks that later refer to the same document. The assumption is that the more different and frequent the representations that point to the same object, directed by an information request, the more relevant/useful that object is to that information request (or searcher, or situation, etc.).
That kind of theoretical development and ensuing hypotheses on performance improvement, the meaning of relevance, and the connection to evaluation measurements require testing. Owing to its complexity, also involving human subjects, such testing might be very difficult. Fortunately, from the mid-1990s I was lucky to get some extremely intelligent, innovative and hard working students with whom I have collaborated up to this day. Pia Borlund, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Birger Larsen and Lennart Björneborn have been the most consistent co-workers cutting out their own edges in LIS research but there have been others who have contributed as well over shorter intervals. Internationally, I have also had the privilege to co-author with scientists like Peter Willett at Sheffield and Kalervo Järvelin at Tampere, Finland, and to work at the European level in close cooperation with Keith van Rijsbergen's IR Laboratory in Glasgow over the years.
Probably owing to many different factors, also unknown to me, I was fortunate to receive the Jason Farradane Award 1993 from the Institute for Information Scientists, UK, and a year later the ASIS&T Distinguished Lectureship Award for my contributions to the cognitive approach to IR. I also had the privilege of chairing the 15th ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, held in Copenhagen, June 1992, and serving as program chair in 1995 and 2000.
Gradually, from the mid-1990s, I began another research track. Aside from IIR I became interested in bibliometrics/informetrics. In particular, I became hooked on doing experiments with online bibliometrics (for example, citation analyses) with a senior colleague in Denmark, Finn H. Christensen, and Irene Wormell. We formed a Center for Informetric Studies 1996-2000.
To me, as to a few other LIS scientists in the past, like Eugene Garfield, Don Swanson, Abe Bookstein and Jean Tague, bibliometrics is very closely associated with IR. In fact, bibliometric analyses can only be carried out by means of comprehensive IR, and the use of incoming citations and outgoing bibliographic references as means to improved IR seems rather obvious. Hence, when the Web started to emerge as a natural object or platform for research I carried over the ideas from bibliometrics and traditional IR into the new field of research: webometrics. From a variety of perspectives, several other LIS scientists did the same almost simultaneously such as Blaise Cronin, Bar-Ilan and Ronald Rousseau, who were supplemented by new powerful approaches from people like Kleinberg (hubs and cognitive authority), Lawrence & Giles (Citeseer; use of links and citations for retrieval) or Brin & Page (Google's PageRank by inlinks and anchor texts).
Currently, I am engaged in the TAPIR Project on Text Access Potentials for Interactive IR as chair of the research team, since 2001. The project is based on the polyrepresentation assumptions to be tested and concerns the development of work-based multi-evidence access to, mainly, scientific and multimedia information objects and structured texts, including Web-based environments.
You can be sure that these last 30 years have constantly been exiting times for me!
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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Today, when you think about looking for something on the Web, there's only one search engine you turn to – Google. With its speed, unique indexing technology and huge database of Web pages, Google has rapidly become the best search engine on the Web, with results that are frighteningly accurate and search algorithms that are optimized for the hyperlinked, diversified information structure of the Web.
However, this isn't an article about Google – more than enough has already been written about it, by people far more experienced and knowledgeable than yours truly. Rather, this is about something related – setting up a search engine for your own Web site, so that users can locate what they're looking for quickly and efficiently. If you've ever attempted this exercise, you know that it can take anywhere between a few hours to a couple of weeks, depending on the requirements and the amount of precision needed.
There are many ways to index the content of your site. You could store the content in a database, index it and use SQL queries to look for records matching the search string. You could scan the site content to build word frequency tables, and use those tables to locate matching pages. You could use a natural-language or fuzzy search engine to create an index for your site and return results scored by relevance. Or you could save yourself a lot of development time and effort, and just install ht://Dig
What is ht://Dig? Good question. Come on in and find out.
{mospagebreak title=Digging Deep}
In the words of its official website ht://Dig is "a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet…meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site." ht://Dig was originally developed at San Diego State University, and is today very popular amongst developers looking to quickly add search engine capabilities to a Web site.
ht://Dig works by traversing a Web site and creating a database of all the unique words it finds as it follows hyperlinks from one page to another. This database, together with information on the URL associated with each document, is created every time you request a re-indexing of the site, and is merged with the results of previous index runs to create the foundation for the search engine.
Every time a search is executed, this database is scanned for matches to the search string and a list of results retrieved. The matches are further ranked according to an internal scoring system to filter down to the most relevant, and the results returned to the user, together with links to the pages on which the matches occurred. The process, though somewhat complicated, is nonetheless extremely fast and — thanks to intelligent search algorithms and scoring systems — also very accurate.
ht://Dig also supports Boolean searches, which make it possible to selectively widen or close a search; fuzzy searching, in which the search is automatically expanded to include similar-sounding words, synonyms and plurals; depth-limited searching, in which only documents which are at a particular depth from the tree root are searched; and META-tag indexing for more accurate search results. Both search and result pages can be extensively customized in the ht://Dig system, and — since the source code is freely available under the GPL –developers can even modify and enhance the application to their own specific needs.
Now that you have the background – let's get to work, by installing and configuring ht://Dig.
{mospagebreak title=Source Control}
First, you'll need to install ht://Dig on the Linux box you plan to use as a Web server. Drop by the official ht://Dig website and get yourself the latest stable release of the software (this tutorial uses ht://Dig 3.1.6). Note that you will need a C compiler and a running Web server in order to use the software (this tutorial uses GCC 3.2 and Apache 1.3.26).
Once you've downloaded the source code archive to your Linux server, log in as "root",
$ su –
Password: ****
and extract the source to a temporary directory.
$ cd /tmp
$ tar -xzvf /home/me/htdig-3.1.6.tar.gz
The next step is to configure the package using the provided "configure" script. Before doing this, though, there are a couple of decisions you need to make.
There are two primary components to ht://Dig: the binaries used to index the site and create the database of search words, and the program used to perform a search on this database and return a result set. The indexing tools, and the database that results from their use, can be placed anywhere in the filesystem, but the search binary must be located in the Web server's CGI directory.
Additionally, the images used in the result page created after an ht://Dig search must also be located under the Web server root, so that they appear correctly when the page is viewed through a Web browser (assuming, of course, that you're using the default result page templates).
Given this information, and assuming the Web server is located in "/usr/local/apache/", the server's CGI area is "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/" and the server's document root is "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/", you will need to give the "configure" script the following arguments:
$ cd /tmp/htdig-3.1.6
$ ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/htdig
This tells the system to install the indexing tools to "/usr/local/htdig/", the CGI search binary to "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/", and the result page images and a sample search form to directories under "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/htdig/".
{mospagebreak title=Script Barf}
In case the "configure" script barfs and spits messages at you about "installing the libstdc++ library", and if you're sure the library is already installed (the default situation if you're using GCC 3.x), you can try modifying the command above to include some additional variables:
$ cd /tmp/htdig-3.1.6
$ CXXFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated CPPFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated ./configure
–prefix=/usr/local/htdig –with-cgi-bin-dir=/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/
Next, compile and install it.
$ make
$ make install
ht://Dig should now have been installed to the directory "/usr/local/htdig".
You can verify this by doing a quick directory scan of that directory –
here's what you should see.
$ ls -lR /usr/local/htdig/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 18:32 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 18:39 common/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 18:32 conf/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 18:44 db/
total 2860
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 580424 Oct 15 18:32 htdig*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 580424 Oct 15 18:32 htdump*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 390930 Oct 15 18:32 htfuzzy*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 580424 Oct 15 18:32 htload*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 381489 Oct 15 18:32 htmerge*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 376361 Oct 15 18:32 htnotify*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2158 Oct 15 18:32 rundig*
total 6248
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 84 Oct 15 18:32 bad_words
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 923308 Oct 15 18:32 english.0
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 5756 Oct 15 18:32 english.aff
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 197 Oct 15 18:32 footer.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 891 Oct 15 18:32 header.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 194 Oct 15 18:32 long.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1404 Oct 15 18:32 nomatch.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2285568 Oct 15 18:39 root2word.db
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 67 Oct 15 18:32 short.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 14481 Oct 15 18:32 synonyms
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 90112 Oct 15 18:39 synonyms.db
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1275 Oct 15 18:32 syntax.html
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 3022848 Oct 15 18:39 word2root.db
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1108 Oct 15 18:32 wrapper.html
total 12
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 8580 Oct 15 18:42 htdig.conf
total 236
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 63488 Oct 15 18:44 db.docdb
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 11991 Oct 15 18:42 db.docs
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 5120 Oct 15 18:44 db.docs.index
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 54004 Oct 15 18:44 db.wordlist
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 82944 Oct 15 18:44 db.words.db
The Search Binary
The search binary should have been installed to "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/htsearch",
$ ls -l /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
total 560
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 558796 Oct 15 18:32 htsearch*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 268 Aug 18 16:37 printenv
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 757 Aug 18 16:37 test-cgi
with a sample search form and images to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/htdig/".
For an explanation of what each binary does, visit the ht://Dig documentation here.
Once you've got ht://Dig installed, the next step is to configure it and start indexing your site. Let's look at that next.
Building An Index
ht://Dig is configured via a single configuration file, named "htdig.conf" and located in the installation's "conf" directory. Most of the time, this configuration file is set up automatically based on the arguments you passed to the "configure" script, and only needs to be altered to reflect the URL at which indexing should begin.
Pop open this file in your favourite text editor, and look for the "start_url" variable:
# This specifies the URL where the robot (htdig) will start. You can specify
# multiple URLs here. Just separate them by some whitespace.
# The example here will cause the ht://Dig homepage and related pages to be
# indexed.
# You could also index all the URLs in a file like so:
# start_url: `${common_dir}/start.url`
start_url: http://localhost/
Alter this variable to reflect the URL at which indexing should begin, and save the changes back to the file.
{mospagebreak title=Variable Control}
You can also alter a number of other variables that control ht://Dig behaviour through the configuration file. Amongst other things, you can modify the location for the search database, specify a list of URLs and extensions to be bypassed while indexing, enable or disable the fuzzy logic algorithms, limit the amount of content stored in the search database and control the maximum amount of data read over an HTTP connection.
The next step is to actually build the search database. As noted previously, when indexing a Web site, ht://Dig recursively spiders the site(s) and builds an index of all the unique words it finds. This process is activated via the "rundig" script, found in the installation's "bin" directory:
$ /usr/local/htdig/bin/rundig
New server: localhost, 80
0:0:0:http://localhost/: +* size = 487
1:1:1:http://localhost/company/: -+++* size = 2867
2:2:2:http://localhost/services/: -***+++++- size = 5219
htmerge: Sorting…
htmerge: Merging…
htmerge: 100:creative
htmerge: 200:good
htmerge: 300:online
htmerge: 400:specifically
htfuzzy/endings: words: 13200
htfuzzy/synonyms: 1519 worshipping
htfuzzy/synonyms: Done.
htfuzzy: Done.
The "rundig" script looks up the configuration file to figure out which URL to use as the root for indexing, and begins traversing and scanning the pages under that URL.
Once it's done, the search database will have been created (in the installation's "db" directory) and is ready for use. The next step is to integrate the ht://Dig search form and form processor into the Web site.
{mospagebreak title=A Well-Formed Plan}
When ht://Dig is first installed, a sample search form is automatically installed into the directory specified via the "–with-search-dir" configuration parameter. In this particular example, I had specified that the form be installed to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/htdig/sample" – so trot on over there and take a look inside:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<title>ht://Dig WWW Search</title>

WWW Site Search

This search will allow you to search the contents of
all the publicly available WWW documents at this site.
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">

Match: <select name="method">
<option value="and">All
<option value="or">Any
<option value="boolean">Boolean
Format: <select name="format">
<option value="builtin-long">Long
<option value="builtin-short">Short
Sort by: <select name="sort">
<option value="score">Score
<option value="time">Time
<option value="title">Title
<option value="revscore">Reverse Score
<option value="revtime">Reverse Time
<option value="revtitle">Reverse Title
<input type="hidden" name="config" value="htdig">
<input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="exclude" value="">
<input type="text" size="30″ name="words" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Search">

{mospagebreak title=What You See}
When you view this form through your Web browser, you should see something like this:
Enter a search string into the form field, and ht://Dig should go to work processing your search request. Here's what the result looks like:
Needless to say, you can customize this output, and even the manner in which the search is carried out. If, for example, you tell ht://Dig to display the results in "short" rather than "long" format, you'll see something like this:
You can also perform a Boolean search, simply by selecting "Boolean" from the drop-down list:
{mospagebreak title=Custom Job}
ht://Dig allows you to customize both the search form, and the result page generated from a query. In order to demonstrate, I'll create a plain-vanilla search form, called "search.html", which looks like this:
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
<input type="text" name="words" size="15″>
<input type="submit" value="Begin Search">
There are a couple of important things to note here. The first is the
ACTION attribute of the <FORM> element, which must point to the "htsearch" utility located in the Web server's CGI directory – you'll remember that this location was specified when configuring the software.
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
The second is the search box itself – note that this element must be named "words", so that the "htsearch" utility knows to use the data within it as the search string.
<input type="text" name="words" size="15″>
A number of other variables may also be set in this form to control the
behavior of "htsearch" – here's a brief list:
sets the name of the configuration file to use
sets number of records per result page
sets type of search (any word, all words, Boolean)
if set, excludes URLs matching this pattern from the result
if set, includes only those URLs matching this pattern in
sorting method for result set
Controlled Behavior
Here's an example:
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
<input type="text" name="words" size="15″>
<input type="hidden" name="format" value="builtin-long">
<input type="hidden" name="matchesperpage" value="25″>
<input type="hidden" name="method" value="and">
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="score">
<input type="submit" value="Begin Search">
More information on what these variables mean can be found in the ht://Dig documentation, at http://www.htdig.org/. For a working example, refer to the sample form installed by the software (as discussed on the previous page).
{mospagebreak title=Out With The Old}
Once the form is submitted, the "htsearch" utility takes over and queries the database to retrieve a list of pages matching the query string. This utility also takes care of generating the result page, as per the formatting parameters specified. In case you'd like to control the appearance of this page, ht://Dig allows you to customize the result page templates as well, though the process is somewhat convoluted.
- You can alter the header and footer of the result page by setting the "search_results_header" and "search_results_footer" variables in the configuration file to point to custom header and footer files. Alternatively, simply customize the application's default "header.html" and "footer.html" files, installed to the application's "common" directory.
- You can customize the page that appears in case a syntax error is found in a Boolean search, by modifying the file "syntax.html" in the installation's "common" directory. Alternatively, create your own file and tell ht://Dig where to find it by setting the "syntax_error_file" variable in the configuration file.
- You can tell ht://Dig to display a custom page if the search produces zero matches, by setting the "nothing_found_file" variable in the configuration file, or by altering the "nomatch.html" template in the installation's "common" directory.
- By default, ht://Dig ships with two built-in templates, "builtin-long" and "builtin-short", which are used to display the results found during a search. You can modify the results page to conform to the design of your site by altering these templates, named "long.html" and "short.html" respectively, or use your own templates by setting the "template_map" variable in the configuration file.
All these templates can contain special ht://Dig variables that will dynamically be replaced with actual values when a search is performed.
While on the topic, here's a quick tip: if you're setting up a simple search engine, or if you're pressed for time, I'd advise you to simply modify the default templates that ship with the application, rather than creating new templates and configuring the system to recognize them.
{mospagebreak title=Caveat Emptor}
Thus far, the previous examples have assumed a Web site consisting of static HTML pages as the base for ht://Dig's indexing routines. But in today's interactive Web, such Web sites are far less common than database-backed, highly-interactive and content-rich portals. How does ht://Dig do when faced with one of these?
The answer, not surprisingly, is quite well. You don't need to do anything special to get ht://Dig to index a database-driven site – simply give it the starting URL as usual, and the program will take care of traversing the dynamically-generated content and building an index.
One thing to remember here, however, is that since such sites change frequently, it's a good idea to recreate the ht://Dig database on a periodic basis to ensure that the changes are reflected in the search database, and to ensure that users always get the most accurate results from the system. This can easily be accomplished by adding a "cron" job to execute the "rundig" script on a periodic basis – perhaps once every day around midnight, so that users aren't impacted too much by the temporary performance drag as the index is regenerated.
Previous examples have also assumed that ht://Dig was being used to index a single site. If you'd like to index multiple sites, the ht://Dig FAQ suggests two ways to accomplish this. Door #1 involves indexing everything into a single database, and then using "restrict" and "exclude" parameters in the search form to constrain searches on a per-site basis. Door #2 involves creating separate databases for each site (through separate configuration files) and telling "htsearch" which configuration file (and hence which database to look in) through the "config" parameter in the search form. Either way, when dealing with such sites, it's also a good idea to configure ht://Dig to archive smaller descriptions for each page, so as to reduce the disk space taken up by the search database. See the ht://Dig online FAQ for more information on how to do this.
{mospagebreak title=Ending The Dig}
And that's about it for this article. Over the last few pages, I introduced you to the ht://Dig indexing system, explaining its important features and guiding you through the process of compiling and installing it on your Linux box. With the tools installed, I then showed you how to configure it for your specific site hosting needs, and how to actually begin indexing a Web site.
With the index created, I then moved on to a discussion of the front-end interface, explaining how to build a search form to capture user queries, and pass those queries on to the ht://Dig search utility through CGI. I also demonstrated the process of altering both the search form and the search results page to blend in with the design and aesthetics of your own site design. Finally, I showed you how you could use ht://Dig to index a content-heavy database-driven site, as opposed to the standard static pages used in previous examples.
However, everything I've discussed in this article is only the tip of the
iceberg – ht://Dig can handle more than just the common scenarios discussed in this article, and if you're serious about using it on your Web site, you should also take a look at the following links:
The ht://Dig Web site, at http://www.htdig.org/
The ht://Dig FAQ, at http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
The ht://Dig configuration variable reference, at
The ht://Dig mailing list, at http://www.htdig.org/mailarchive.html
ConfigDig, at http://configdig.sourceforge.net/
A number of other alternatives also exist to ht://Dig – take a look at the following links to learn more about some of them:
PhpDig, at http://phpdig.toiletoine.net/
iSearch, at http://www.digvid.info/isearch/home.php
mnoGoSearch, at http://www.mnogosearch.org/
And until next time…happy searching!
Note: Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in this article.


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1. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?pwillener Feb 27, 2012 7:07 PM (in response to K_Vent)
What is your operating system?
2. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?K_Vent Feb 28, 2012 6:03 AM (in response to pwillener)
Hi, Pat!
It is Windows XP 32bit......
3. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?K_Vent Feb 28, 2012 4:42 PM (in response to K_Vent)
Apparently, it seems as if it crashes in my Internet Explorer as well. I usually use youtube as a test to see if it will play the videos straight through. That does not happen. Is there a glitch in Adobe Flash 11? If so where can I find the old file to Adobe Flash 10?
5. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?K_Vent Feb 28, 2012 8:38 PM (in response to Carl E. Myers Jr.)
Thanks for the link Carl! So after searching on S3 Graphic website, I was recommended to go to the original vendor for my PC. Saw an updated version of the drive , downloaded it. Went through uninstalling old flashes. Then came across a link from Adobe labs with a newer version of the flash (Adobe 11.2). Downloaded files for both Internet Explorer and for other browsers. Tried IE and it crashed not once but twice. I then decided to test it out by downloading Opera. Works fine with it. So far so good. Did a test by playing a youtube vid. ... Don't know what to do with the IE version maybe I will check back and see what happens......and probably report back. Thanks Guys!
6. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?K_Vent Mar 7, 2012 7:42 PM (in response to Carl E. Myers Jr.)
So I am replying to give an update. As stated, I updated my display adapter to the latest version I could find which was 2004 version of the S3 ProSavage DDR. Got the latest version of adobe. Seemed ok at first. However shockwave begins to crash for Opera, IE and even my Real Player browser. Question: What other alternatives do I have at this point?Is there still an old version of Adobe Flash 10 somewhere?
Thanks for any help that is rendered.
7. Re: Flash/Shockwave issues. How to deal?chrisc59802590 Mar 8, 2012 1:49 PM (in response to K_Vent)
Here's the FAQ with a link to our archived Flash Player versions
Where do I find previous versions of Flash Player?
I'd recommend following the "clean install" procedures listed out in this FAQ
How do I do a clean install of Flash Player?


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The 10 Worst Job-Hunting Mistakes
Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or you're a veteran in your field, it is important that you take the right steps toward landing you ideal job. There's more to a successful job search than ironing your best suit and printing out extra resumes. Today's employers are looking for the best of the best, and one typo on your cover letter can can get you thrown into the "Do Not Call" pile. Avoid these common mistakes to score your dream job.
5. Poor Speech
Speaking correctly, when on the phone with a potential employer or when in an interview, is just as important as having a typo-free cover letter. As a healthcare professional, you will be expected to interact with a wide variety of people, from children to adults to professional peers. No matter who you are speaking to, you must be able to speak clearly and concisely. This means leaving out the "ums" and "likes", not talking too fast or too slow, and using strong words to get your point across.
You must be able to speak to the level of your audience. In an interview, you should talk to the potential employer with confidence but stay away from sounding arrogant. It is also important to not speak like a child who is being scolded. Don't whisper or slur your speech, and remember to take a breath between sentences.


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My WIP takes place in an era I made up called the transhuman revolution. It's basically pre-cyberpunk. But the technological advances are beyond me (Im no scientist, and no little about the specifics of genetic engineering). The POV is through the eyes of a 17 year old slacker so I'm allowed to go 'light' on the science without appearing pretentious and adding "because magic!" It gives me some room to work with, and the fact that this 'transhuman revolution' only works as the setting, and a 'secondary antagonist'. It does not have a ton to do with the MC or the actual plot. It's basically just the society and world she is walking through.
In the middle of telling the story, I drafted a 2 paragraph info dump about the era, that didn't really need to be there, because it didnt affect the MC directly, in regard to the plot she is moving through. So i ended up removing it, it slowed down the action -- and exposed my lack research on the subject. Here is my roughed efforts to describe what exactly this transhuman era is, (paraphrased), "The current controversy, that is the Transhuman Revolution, is based on the External Bionic Chips (EBCs) becoming... INTERNAL Bionic chips." (The external is somewhat cyborg, the internal is nanotechnology . The controversy is, external chips are fine, they don't directly mess with the body, while internal chips can restructure an individual from the inside out (like in the story Blood Music) and is incredibly dangerous and argued immoral. It seems a bit juvenile, switching out external for internal for some overly simplified explanation for transhumanism.
I'm having a problem with distinguishing nanotechnology from being a cyborg. I'd assume the Cyborg technology would come BEFORE we inject ourselves with nanochips, but not totally sure. And I'm not sure how'd they mix with one another.
Anyway, one of the obvious problems is I've not read any other novels about transhumanism, so any good recommendations?


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SMU's Environmental Studies Program is an interdisciplinary curriculum for students who are interested in studying the environment at a societal and policy-making level but do not intend to become scientists. Complex environmental issues are considered from multiple perspectives such as anthropology, business, economics, engineering, science and sociology. A major in Environmental Studies is easily complimented by a double major or minor in many other fields including:
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the IP address of the interlock that should be in wbnitride but is actually in wbmetal.
So, things work properly and we can fix this in one of two ways:
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Wall Street Journal shares 12 leadership tips from President Glassner
April 28, 2014
In a commentary for the Wall Street Journal, President Barry Glassner shares 12 tips for successful leadership that work as well in the business world as they do in higher education.
The advice shared by Glassner and coauthor Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, comes from their time in academia as well as through service on corporate boards.
Among the ideas discovered through personal experience or passed on by mentors: talk less, listen more; consult customers; use the board of trustees or directors; and don't take things personally.
Given the busy lives of college presidents and business CEOs, Glassner and Schapiro write, it's important for leaders to remember to take care of their health and enjoy life.
"Some presidents wonder how they can find the time to do those sorts of things. The answer is simple: Act like a president and take control of your schedule."


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They recently celebrated their third wedding anniversary, but Fergie and Josh Duhamel still feel like newlyweds.
"We like each other. We like hanging out together and we have fun," Fergie tells MTV News. "We have fun in the kitchen cooking and singing silly songs. Not to give too much away — I'm not going any further than that — but we have a good time together, and it's nice to get to have that quality time. We enjoy it."
Though they're often asked when they plan to start having kids, Fergie insists she won't be making a pregnancy announcement anytime soon.
"It's not happening yet, I can tell you that definitely," the Black Eyed Peas singer, 37, says. "But we want to have a family, so that's in the cards, but it's just not this second."
Though Duhamel, 39, is currently shooting Scenic Route, his wife is currently taking a break from music. "Eight years of being on the road, and now I've been off the road, what, five months?. . .I'm enjoying this time of just being home for that long of a period."
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Latest Attack On A Free Press: Reporter Arrested For Asking Questions To Trump Administration Officials
from the um-what? dept
Another day, another attack on a free press. The latest: a long-time reporter, Daniel Heyman, of the Public News Service in West Virginia was arrested for asking questions of Trump administration officials. Heyman yelled some questions to Health & Human Services Director Tom Price along with White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway:
Daniel Ralph Heyman, 54, with the Public News Service of West Virginia, was freed on $5,000 bond Tuesday night on a charge of "willful disruption of government processes," according to a criminal complaint.
"The above defendant was aggressively breaching the secret service agents to the point where the agents were forced to remove him a couple of times from the area walking up the hallway in the main building of the Capitol," the complaint states. It adds Heyman caused a disturbance by "yelling questions at Ms. Conway and Secretary Price."
Whether you like it or not, the press is kind of supposed to ask questions of elected officials. That's their job. And, sure, some will argue that the complaint says that he was "aggressively breaching the secret service agents," but others on the scene indicated nothing beyond ordinary questioning happened:
Valerie Woody, who was there as outreach coordinator for the West Virginia Citizen Action Group, said Price's group was moving quickly down a hallway and Heyman was racing after them.
"I saw nothing in his behavior, I heard nothing that indicated any kind of aggressive behavior or anything like that," she told Public News Service. "Just simple, you know, trying to get somebody's attention and ask them a question. It seems to me there was no violation of anyone's space, or physicality, other than the arrest itself."
And, making matters worse, rather than admitting to over-aggressive enforcement, Price is cheering on the arrest:
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for "doing what they thought was appropriate" in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him, but added that it wasn't his call to say whether they took the proper measures.
Price said the reporter confronted him while he was walking down a hallway. "That gentleman was not in a press conference," he said.
I'm curious if Price (or anyone else, for that matter) could point to where in the First Amendment there's a rule that says the press is only allowed to ask questions "at a press conference." That's not how it works. There's also this:
Asked Wednesday by STAT whether he thought Heyman should have been arrested, Price said: "That's not my decision to make."
Well, that's only partially true. Obviously, the local law enforcement gets to make that decision, but there's nothing stopping a competent public official from telling law enforcement to knock it off and to answer a few basic questions from a reporter.
In an era where we're hearing more and more about both attacks on a free press, as well as the need for a stronger press, these kinds of shenanigans should not be allowed. In the past, when we've covered police arresting reporters, the courts have come out repeatedly in favor of the reporters (that whole First Amendment thing still matters). But that's of little use in the moment when police are dragging reporters off to jail for shouting questions outside a press conference.
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Brought this to my attention from our man Jason, we've got all sorts of toy blaster goodness with celebrities happening on the Fox Lounge; check it out and lemme know what you thought it was that caught my eye about this... :)
Sunday, November 4, 2012
YouTube: Fox Lounge blaster goodness
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I KNOW I KNOW! PICK ME PICK ME! they have guns :P JK The oddly colored swarmfires!(there is 2 of 'em) Do i get a cookie?ReplyDelete
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And FREAKING AWESOME.
I cannot believe that this actually happened. Is reality breaking down or something?
Eh, who cares.
Also, SWARMFIRE REPAINT LOOKS FREAKING SEXY.
Still, THANK YOU, oh god THANK YOU Pocket for finding this video and sharing it with us mere mortals.
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Caution: cereal entertainers
The men who Melbourne wakes up with take their funny business seriously.
GIVEN the lead-up gift they deliver to Neil Mitchell every morning - year after year of sterling breakfast-radio ratings for 3AW - Ross Stevenson and John Burns can probably be forgiven the odd on-air heist from their station stablemate.
It works like this: the day begins with two reformed lawyers possessed of withering wit devouring the airwaves for 180 minutes. Then comes Mitchell's marquee morning current-affairs show, which prides itself on breaking news and having the best guests talking about the biggest stories.
But, as Stevenson tells Green Guide with typical dry delivery, station fraternity only goes so far - if he and Burns get the chance, they're happy to swipe a star interviewee before they've properly arrived in Mitchell's town square.
''There may or may not have been instances,'' he says, ''where interview subjects have rung up, and they have rung a program which isn't Neil Mitchell's program, and said, 'I'm here to be interviewed by Neil,' and they've been told, 'Just hold on the line, you'll be interviewed in a moment.'''
Thus, a Mitchell exclusive finds its way to air a little earlier than planned. That irreverence has been the trademark of Stevenson across 23 years at 3AW, and of Burns, who came aboard as permanent breakfast co-host 13 years ago on the retirement of Dean Banks. (Burns had been the breakfast show's gluttonous and garrulous Sir Lunchalot since Stevenson's Lawyers, Guns and Money days on 3RRR.)
It's a serious business being breakfast-friendly funny men, at least for station management, which has rarely had to worry about a bad start to the ratings day for the past quarter of a century.
The Ross and John show is an institution, one of the clubs in which Melbourne conducts its business, with a nod, a wink and many laughs as each weekday grinds into gear. It's the home of The Rumour File, where big new stories often take their first rehearsal before bowing as headline news later in the day. In this comedy-driven courtroom, the lawyers-turned-hosts are happy to lead a witness or go easy on the hearsay rule - they're humorists, not historians.
And the station has let them have their heads, and continues to do so, giving the lie to thoughts that the sacking of Derryn Hinch last year was a harbinger of cultural change.
''There's never been a change of culture since I had anything to do with the station,'' says Stevenson, who suggests it's a little bit rich for him or others on the roster to parade their ratings success without a nod to the golden history of the station. ''[Ratings success is] obviously lovely to happen but you work at a radio station that has existed since 1932 and has been successful for virtually the entire time, so you never lose sight of the fact that the radio station is a juggernaut.''
He adds, by way of explaining that snaffling of the occasional guest from Mitchell: ''One thing I would say about this radio station is that it's more competitive internally than externally. That's the culture of 3AW.''
Burns says that after all these years, he's not tired of the routine.
''Never,'' he replies when asked if he's ever faced another year on air and thought of pulling the pin.
Stevenson confirms, ''It's the same for me, too. The time goes so quickly. And I never get sick of talking to this man. We don't see each other off-air a great deal. We go our separate ways pretty much straight after the program. It's not as if we're married.''
They have real-life spouses at home. For Burns, there are a couple of ways to judge whether he's done a good show that day. There's his gut - ''normally I come off-air thinking it's been a good laugh and that means it's been a good program'' - and his wife. ''If I ever forgot that my wife is listening, I would be reminded very rapidly,'' he says.
Stevenson says: ''I always think of two people who are listening - my mother and my children, they're at either end of the wicket for me.''
They say, the basic structure and regular segments aside, little detailed planning goes into the daily broadcast.
''It's organic,'' Stevenson says. ''Virtually no planning.''
Burns: ''The magic, I think, is that because of our relationship everything is … spontaneous.''
On-air from 5.30am, Stevenson says they don't have a proper meeting until the big news bulletin of the day kicks in. ''We have our first meeting for the day at 6 o'clock,'' he says. ''It would be too boring otherwise.''
How long can they carry on? A good while yet, it seems - even if the fun faded, there'd be other reasons to turn up every morning.
''I've got an 18-month[-old] child,'' Stevenson says.
Burns: ''And I haven't got enough super.''
Stevenson: ''We'll do it - who knows what the horizon is in media land? You don't take anything for granted but, yep, we'll keep going for a while.''


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Fromms Adult Gold
Feeding guideline:
A 50lb adult dog should be fed 3 cups per day.
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Pearled Barley, Oat Flour, Duck, Corn, Fish Meal, Brewers Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid), Beet Pulp, Whole Egg, Cheese, Flaxseed, Brewers Dried Yeast, Lecithin, Monocalcium Phosphate, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, DL-Methionine, Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Chondroitin Sulfate, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Bifidobacterium Longum, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Lactobacillus Salivarius, Enterococcous Faecium, Vitamin A, D3, E, B12 Supplements, Choline Chloride, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Biotin, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Carbonate, Manganous Oxide, Copper Oxide, Cobalt Carbonate, Calcium Iodate, Sorbic Acid, Sodium Selenite.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Protein 24% Minimum
Fat 16% Minimum
Moisture 10% Maximum
Ash 6.5% Maximum
Fiber 3.5% Maximum
Average Analysis - "As Fed" Basis:
Protein 24.8%
Fat 16.4%
Linoleic Acid 3.6%
Linolenic Acid 0.6%
Calcium 1.2% g
Phosphorus 1.0%
Sodium 0.4%
Potassium 0.6%
Magnesium 0.12%
Zinc 135 mg/kg
Iron 229 mg/kg
Manganese 70 mg/kg
Copper 11.0 mg/kg
Cobalt 0.4 mg/kg
Iodine 1.53 mg/kg
Selenium 0.47 mg/kg
Fiber 2.8%
Moisture 8.3%
Ash 6.4%
Carbohydrates 41.3%
Vitamin A 18,200 IU/k
Vitamin D 1,300 IU/kg
Vitamin E 180 IU/kg
Vitamin K 1.52 mg/kg
Vitamin B12 0.10 mg/kg
Choline Chloride 2,320 mg/kg
Niacin 82 mg/kg
Pantothenic Acid 26 mg/kg
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) 38 mg/kg
Riboflavin 7 mg/kg
Thiamine 8.7 mg/kg
Pyridoxine 4.2 mg/kg
Folic Acid 1.0 mg/kg
Biotin 0.3 mg/kg
Technical Information:
(kcal/gm) 4.330
(kcal/lb) 1,965
(kcal/gm) 4.070
(kcal/lb) 1,850
(kcal/cup) 405
Food Density
(oz/cup) 3.5
Pepsin Digestibility 90.0%
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First two ingredients are named meat products.
Use of low quality grains and controversial fillers.
The first two ingredients in this food are named meat ingredients. The first of these is chicken inclusive of water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). Note that this is an example of the practice of splitting (see note on main page), but in this case serves to increase our level of confidence in the amount of meat product in the food since the split ingredients (meal form included) still rank ahead of the first grain by weight.
The primary grain in the food is barley, which is a decent quality grain. The next is oat flour which is a filler. That is followed by corn which is a cheap grain that is frequently problematic in dog food, being the cause of a great many allergies. Fish meal is a further meat ingredient in the food, but we note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
Brewers rice is another low quality ingredient. It is a low quality grain and by-product.
Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Note that this food uses citric acid as a preservative and thus should not be premoistened prior to feeding (a bloat risk factor for large breed dogs).
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