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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 11 September, 26 November 1962
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 11 January 1963 (UK), 25 February 1963 (US)
John Lennon: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
Paul McCartney: harmony vocals, bass
George Harrison: harmony vocals, lead guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
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Please Please Me
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The follow-up to The Beatles' début single Love Me Do, Please Please Me was originally written as a slow, bluesy song in the style of Roy Orbison. Producer George Martin persuaded The Beatles to rearrange the song, which duly became their first number one single.
We'd had a top 30 entry with Love Me Do and we really thought we were on top of the world. Then came Please Please Me – and wham! We tried to make it as simple as possible. Some of the stuff we've written in the past has been a bit way-out, but we aimed this one straight at the hit parade.
The song was written by John Lennon at his Aunt Mimi's house in Menlove Avenue, Liverpool.
Please Please Me is my song completely. It was my attempt at writing a Roy Orbison song, would you believe it? I wrote it in the bedroom in my house at Menlove Avenue, which was my auntie's place... I remember the day and the pink coverlet on the bed and I heard Roy Orbison doing Only The Lonely or something. That's where that came from. And also I was always intrigued by the words of 'Please, lend me your little ears to my pleas' – a Bing Crosby song. I was always intrigued by the double use of the word 'please'. So it was a combination of Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Lennon was also influenced by Bing Crosby's 1930s song Please, which opens with the line: " Oh, please, lend your little ear to my pleas". The Beatles' song, however, was much less innocent, containing what has been generally interpreted as a request for fellatio.
Please Please Me was the only song performed by The Beatles during their first national TV appearance, for the ITV show Thank Your Lucky Stars. It was recorded at the Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham on 13 January 1963, and was broadcast six days later.
The single, backed by Ask Me Why, caused many to take notice of The Beatles, and particularly Lennon-McCartney's songwriting talent; it led to Dick James approaching them to found Northern Songs, their publishing company.
Please Please Me was excitedly received by reviewers, radio and the public. By its third week on sale George Martin told Brian Epstein to bring the band in from their tour with Helen Shapiro to record the Please Please Me album, which they did on 11 February 1963.
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We almost abandoned it as the b-side of Love Me Do. We changed our minds only because we were so tired the night we did Love Me Do. We'd been going over it a few times and when we came to the question of the flipside, we intended using Please Please Me. Our recording manager, George Martin, thought our arrangement was fussy, so we tried to make it simpler. We were getting very tired, though, and we just couldn't seem to get it right. We are conscientious about our work and we don't like to rush things.
Please Please Me was first brought to The Beatles' 4 September 1962 session, in which they worked on Love Me Do. They played Please Please Me during a studio rehearsal overseen by EMI's Ron Richards, but didn't formally record it.
On my first visit in September we just ran through some tracks for George Martin. We even did Please Please Me. I remember that, because while we were recording it I was playing the bass drum with a maraca in one hand and a tambourine in the other.
George Martin disliked the slow tempo and Roy Orbison-style arrangement, so The Beatles worked up a faster version for their next session.
At that stage Please Please Me was a very dreary song. It was like a Roy Orbison number, very slow, bluesy vocals. It was obvious to me that it badly needed pepping up. I told them to bring it in next time and we'd have another go at it.
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
Although The Beatles attempted to record Please Please Me on 11 September, with Andy White on drums, George Martin saw room for improvement and opted not to release it on The Beatles' debut single. He preferred Mitch Murray's How Do You Do It, which the group had dutifully yet reluctantly recorded in a previous session.
For many years it was believed that EMI had destroyed the 11 September recordings. However, one take from the session was discovered in 1994, and was released on the Anthology 1 collection. Although not the slower Orbison-like arrangement, there are a number of differences from the final version, notably the lack of harmonica.
On 26 November The Beatles recorded a remake of Please Please Me. It was complete in 18 takes, which included Lennon's overdubbed harmonica.
We sang it and George Martin said, 'Can we change the tempo?' We said, 'What's that?' He said, 'Make it a bit faster. Let me try it.' And he did. We thought, 'Oh, that's all right, yes.' Actually, we were a bit embarrassed that he had found a better tempo than we had.
Three mixes were made of the song, two in mono and another in stereo. The mono mixes were different on the single and album releases, with extra echo audible on the album.
The stereo mix was an edit of takes 16, 17 and 18, and contains a vocal error in the final verse, causing Lennon to sing "come on" with a slight laugh. The mix also has a slightly different guitar line by Harrison prior to the final verse.
As with other songs on the Please Please Me album, the song was credited to McCartney-Lennon. The names were switched to the more familiar Lennon-McCartney on subsequent releases.
Chart success
At the end of the session George Martin addressed the group over the studio' talkback system. "Congratulations, gentlemen," he told them, "You've just made your first number one."
He was correct, to a degree. At the time of the single's release, 11 January 1963, there was no standard singles chart. In some – Melody Maker, New Musical Express and Disc – Please Please Me did indeed reach number one, after six weeks on sale.
In the Record Retailer chart, also used by New Record Mirror, it only reached number two. The Beatles had to wait until From Me To You to score their first bona fide chart topper.
Please Please Me, again with Ask Me Why on the b-side, was The Beatles' debut single in the US. It was released on 25 February 1963 by the small Vee-Jay label. The first pressing of the single, corrected on subsequent copies, was credited to "The Beattles". Regardless, the single failed to make much impression, selling little over 7,000 copies.
The song was re-released by Vee-Jay on 30 January 1964, in the wake of the success of I Want To Hold Your Hand. From Me To You was on the flipside of the single, which reached number three in the Billboard Hot 100.


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BSP 81 marks the return of philosopher Patricia Churchland, who I first interviewed back in Episode 55. Our recent conversation focuses on her latest book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality. We discuss the historical background and contrast Churchland's approach to that of Sam Harris in The Moral Landscape. Then Professor Churchland discusses how recent discoveries in neuroscience are shedding light on the evolutionary origins of morality.
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An elementary school in Hempstead Village will be renamed in honor of former Gov. David A. Paterson -- a former student there and the state's first African-American governor.
Fulton Elementary School will be the first school in the state named after Paterson. The Hempstead school board voted to make the change in 2010, but the renaming finally will take effect in September.
"David Paterson is an alumnus of that school," Hempstead Deputy Superintendent Julius Brown said recently. "What better way to honor his contribution to the local community and the state at large."
Hempstead also made history in 2009 when it changed the name of the former Ludlum Elementary School to Barack Obama Elementary School, the first school in the nation to bear the president's name.
"We need our students to understand that we produce all kinds of people -- politicians, players and professionals," Fulton principal Regina Armstrong said.
The unveiling of the Paterson school sign will take place June 26 at 7 p.m. on the school's front lawn. Paterson is expected to attend, along with Hempstead Town and village officials.
"Hempstead is always my home," said Paterson, 59, who was born in Brooklyn but lived in Hempstead from 1958 to 1983. "I still remember most of my teachers from then. If they are proud that the school is named after me, they should be proud of themselves."
Paterson, the son of influential Harlem political leader Basil Paterson, was enrolled in Fulton's mainstream class even though he was legally blind. He was among the first black students to attend the school after the district was integrated in the early 1960s, he said.
"It was the only school in the district that was diverse and it was a remarkable little experiment," he said. "It was an experience that helped us, black and white, for the rest of our lives."
Paterson graduated from Fulton in 1968 and Hempstead High School in 1971. He earned an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a law degree from Hofstra University.
Paterson, a Democrat, was elected in 1985 to represent Harlem in the state Senate and became minority leader before being elected lieutenant governor in 2006. He took over as chief executive in 2008 after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a sex scandal. Paterson explored running for a full term in 2010, but abandoned his campaign.
His 30-month governorship included an acknowledgment of extramarital affairs, ethics probes and scandals that took down some of his top officials. Despite low approval ratings, Paterson managed to impose budget cuts, increase oversight for New York's authorities and create a new pension tier for incoming state workers.
"I took my education seriously and work real hard," Paterson said. "I had to overcome a lot of struggles racially and a disability. I hope it would mean a lot to the students that the person who the school is being named after is not perfect."
David A. Paterson through the years
1954 Born in Brooklyn
1958-1983 Lived in Hempstead Village
1971 Graduated from Hempstead High School
1977 Earned bachelor's degree in history from Columbia University
1982 Completed law degree at Hofstra Law School
1985 Elected to represent Harlem in State Senate
2008 Became state's 55th governor; served until Jan. 1, 2011
2010 Hempstead school district officials voted to rename Fulton Elementary School after Paterson
June 26 Fulton School renaming to take place during a ceremony and ribbon-cutting
Sept. 3 School renaming goes into effect
Sources: Hempstead school district; David A. Paterson; Newsday archives
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WASHINGTON -- Before "sequestration" took effect, the Obama administration issued specific -- and alarming -- predictions about what it would bring. There would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border crossings. Prison guards would be furloughed for 12 days. FBI agents, up to 14.
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"The dog barked. But it didn't bite," said Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition, which pushes for fiscal responsibility in Washington. Bixby said he worries that this budget maneuvering will eventually backfire.
After all, sequestration is not finished, and another round of cuts is coming in October. "Next time you warn about those things, people just say, 'Yeah, sure,' and write it off as political hype," Bixby said. "There is that danger."
Sequestration had been drawn up as a "dumb" cut -- it would slash accounts at many federal agencies equally. There would be no gaming the system. No getting out.
It "won't consider whether we're cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day," President Barack Obama said on Feb. 19, decrying sequestration as a "meat-cleaver approach." "It doesn't make those distinctions."
Now, however, it does.
The Post found enormous variation among the outcomes of those administration predictions. In 13 cases, the results were unclear. Almost four months after sequestration took effect, the agencies could not, or would not, say if their predictions were coming true.
In 11 cases, sequestration turned out to be as bad as advertised, or worse.
The Labor Department had predicted that emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed would be cut by 9.4 percent. But in some states, the reductions have been larger: 11 percent. For an individual, that could mean $450 less in benefits this year.
At the Pentagon, officials had predicted that they would reduce training for the Army, flying time for the Air Force and ship deployments for the Navy. They did all three. "It's extremely hard to show a degradation in our readiness, although we feel it deeply across the force," Pentagon spokeswoman Beth Robbins said.
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In 24 cases, however, The Post's review showed that the predictions were wrong -- sequestration had not lived up to the administration's alarms.
That included some cases in which furloughs were threatened but then reduced or eliminated. Customs and Border Protection agents, for example, faced up to 14 unpaid days before the Department of Homeland Security shifted money around last month to avoid furloughs.
Administration officials say they didn't exaggerate sequestration's effects on purpose. They believed it would be that bad. But then they got unexpected help from Capitol Hill.
"Subsequent to those estimates, Congress took action that changed a number of things," an administration official said. The official was made available by the administration on the condition that the official speak anonymously.
So this is how politicians took the scare out of the sequester: In some cases, agencies dug into their budgets and found millions they could spare. In other cases, Congress passed a law that allocated new funds or shifted money around. In others, lawmakers signed off on an agency's proposal to "reprogram" its money.
In the process, the "meat cleaver" of sequestration often became a scalpel. It spared crucial programs but cut second-tier priorities such as maintenance, information technology, employee travel and scientific conferences.
At the U.S. Geological Survey, for instance, officials had said they would have to shut off 350 gauges that provide crucial predictions of impending floods. They didn't. The real number is less than 90. What was cut instead?
For one thing, $2.7 million in conference expenses have been chopped since February.
"That's where science gets done, at those meetings. That's where you present your preliminary results," said Jerad Bales, the agency's chief scientist for water. One example: Bales said the government spends about $1,000 per scientist who goes to an annual conference in San Francisco.
Last time, it sent 469 scientists. The attendance for this fall's conference has not been set, but Bales guessed it would be more like 350, for a cost of $350,000. "We are not investing in the future," Bales said.
In other cases, however, budget maneuvers made sequestration even less painful. It wasn't a cleaver. It wasn't a scalpel. It was more like liposuction -- carefully removing the things that would be missed the least.
The Justice Department, for instance, cut more than $300 million in what it called "expired balances." In essence, this was money that had been allocated to the department in past years but wasn't spent. When those years ended, the money expired; without Congress's permission, it generally couldn't be spent on anything new.
But, with Congress's permission, it could still be "cut."
So, instead of saving money by furloughing FBI agents and prison guards, the department lost only what it wasn't free to spend anyway.
"It really was a loophole that allowed the Justice Department to largely escape the consequences of sequester," said Scott Lilly, a former congressional staffer who works at the liberal Center for American Progress. "It's a good thing that they got past it. But it also sort of nixed this whole notion that everybody's being treated the same -- and everybody's having to tighten their belt in the same way."
At the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress found a similarly painless cut. Furloughs were looming for air-traffic controllers. Travel delays were predicted to pile up.
But they didn't. Congress prevented the furloughs by substituting another "cut." It took $253 million from the FAA's Airport Improvement Program, which gives grants to airports (among the longtime recipients: Lake Murray State Park Airport in Oklahoma, which was eligible for $150,000 per year, despite averaging one takeoff and one landing per week).
But the FAA's loss wasn't as bad as it sounds: The grantees that were entitled to this money had already told the government they didn't need it this year. They didn't have anything immediate to spend it on. The FAA might still, however, have given it to somebody else.
At the Department of Homeland Security, officials had predicted that there would be insufficient space to hold detained illegal immigrants. It was one of four Homeland Security predictions that didn't come true; another one, about cutbacks at the Coast Guard, did.
What was cut instead? Some things that hurt: Maintenance. Employee bonuses. Hiring.
And some things that didn't.
The department, for example, cut $7.8 million for a grant program that helped prepare for disasters. But it told Congress that this program had $36 million waiting in the bank, "neither dedicated to a project nor an activity." And it said the program was duplicative, anyway. Other federal programs were already doing the same thing. "There is no impact from this reduction because of the duplication," the department told Congress.
At smaller agencies, predictions also turned out to be wrong. U.S. Park Police officers were supposed to have 12 days of furloughs. They took three. The National Park Service found $4 million in savings in its budget.
It was, in sum, a remarkable disappearing act.
The Obama administration still gives credence to estimates that sequestration might cost the country up to 750,000 jobs. Research by Goldman Sachs has shown declines in federal payrolls and layoffs at defense contractors.
But sequestration has not become a daily hassle for most Americans, and its effects on the economy have been softened by a stronger job market and low interest rates.
"It was more the unquantified predictions of calamity by politicians that were wrong," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics, a research firm.
But now, the Obama administration will seek to make the threat of the sequester reappear. In October, when the new fiscal year begins, so will another round of sequestration. The administration expects a new, $109 billion cut.
This time, it says, there will be fewer ways to soften its impact. Many of the easier trims have already been made. The White House is again pressing Congress to agree on a broader budget deal, and replace the sequester entirely, before October comes.
The problem is, officials said all that before.
"Their credibility -- I don't want to say it's shot, but it's definitely diminished," said Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., who chairs a House subcommittee that has oversight over Homeland Security and has examined its sequestration predictions. "They're going to have a hard time doing that, when they had the doomsday scenario, and the sky didn't fall."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A small gesture from a kindergarten teacher at Callahan Elementary School made a world of difference for one of her students.
Six-year-old Brantley Rogers severely injured his eye last week and was nervous about returning to class with an eye patch.
Brantley's mom said he was playing with his step brother outside when a stick he had snapped in half and ended up poking him in the eye, causing an extreme corneal laceration.
But his teacher taught the class to embrace Brantley in a special way.
This week Brown's kindergarten class at Callahan Elementary is eager to learn, but all wearing eye patches.
They're learning more than just how to read with only one eye though -- a life lesson not many 6-year-olds, let alone adults, have down.
"We start the beginning of the year talking about we're all different," Brown said. "We all have differences. Different things we like and that we should accept people for that all the time."
Brantley's seat was empty for a week, his kindergarten classmates questioning why he was gone.
Little did Brantley's friends know, he was also concerned.
"He was just worried what the kids were going to think about him," Brantley's mom Candy said. "He was just like mom I just want to be normal. What if they make fun of me? Can I just take it off while I'm in class?"
"If they're not comfortable in our learning environment then everything I say or try to teach them is not going to do them any good," Brown said.
Brantley's mom said the feeling he got when seeing all of his classmates were on his side was special and far reaching.
"I think we get mixed up in the rush of everyday life and sometimes people just tend to forget the little things that really, really matter," Candy said. "I just felt like she went above and beyond just to make him, one little child. To me he's the world but to everybody else he's a six-year-old and it made me feel so special."
Brantley has stitches in his eye and will have to have another surgery in three months to remove them. He will have to wear an eye patch until then.
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Map 1A: Number of New House Building Approvals by SLA, July-December 2011, ASGC
Map 1B shows how this SLA is now represented by the SA3 of Armadale and its eight SA2s under the ASGS, providing a greater level of geographic detail.
Map 1B: Number of New House Building Approvals by SA2, July-December 2011, ASGS
Under the ASGC, the SLA of Armadale (C) had 708 new houses approved from July to December 2011. Under the new ASGS structure, the SA3 of Armadale also has 708 new house building approvals. There were 456 approvals in the SA2 of Forrestdale - Harrisdale - Piara Waters, 128 in Armadale - Wungong - Brookdale, 38 in Kelmscott, 27 in Seville Grove, 26 in Camillo - Champion Lakes, 20 in Mount Nasura - Mount Richon - Bedfordale, 13 in Roleystone and zero in Ashendon - Lesley.
To read the other case studies in the feature article, refer to Exploring the New ABS Geography with Buildings Data.
More information on the ASGS can be found by visiting the Geography Portal on the ABS website. This includes details about the new ASGS regions referred to in this article, for example, the Statistical Area 2 (SA2) and Statistical Area 3 (SA3) regions.
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What are the origins of a cultural phenomenon, a true classic? As perpetual to holiday lore as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, "Dr. Seuss' 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'" is an indictment of Christmas commercialism that's not only one of the holiday's greatest commercial successes it has been used to year after year to sell airtime to advertisers.
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Now you need to make a [[udev]] rule (for example {{ic|/etc/udev/rules.d and name it 85-jscal.rules}}) so the script will automatically run when you connect the controller:
Now you need to make a [[udev]] rule (for example {{ic|/etc/udev/rules.d and name it 85-jscal.rules}}) so the script will automatically run when you connect the controller:
=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c268", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/jscal.sh"
To get the idVendor and idProduct use {{ic|udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/input/jsX}}
To get the idVendor and idProduct use {{ic|udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/input/jsX}}
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Joysticks can be a bit of a hassle to get working in Linux. Not because they are poorly supported, but simply because you need to determine which modules to load to get your joystick working, and it's not always very obvious!
- 1 Determining which modules you need
- 2 Loading the modules
- 3 Testing Your Configuration
- 4 USB joysticks
- 5 PS3 controller
- 6 Xbox 360 controllers
- 7 Setting up deadzones
- 8 Disable Joystick From Controlling Mouse
- 9 Troubleshooting
Determining which modules you need
For an extensive overview of all joystick related modules in Linux, you will need access to the Linux kernel sources -- specifically the Documentation section. Unfortunately, pacman kernel packages do not include what we need. If you have the kernel sources downloaded, have a look at
Documentation/input/joystick.txt. You can browse the kernel source tree at kernel.org by clicking the "C" (current changesets) link, then clicking the "tree" link near the top. Here's a link to the Documentation from kernel 18.104.22.168.
Some joysticks need specific modules, such as the Microsoft Sidewinder controllers (
sidewinder), or the Logitech digital controllers (
adi). Many older joysticks will work with the simple
analog module. If your joystick is plugging in to a gameport provided by your soundcard, you will need your soundcard drivers loaded - however, some cards, like the Soundblaster Live, have a specific gameport driver (
emu10k1-gp). Older ISA soundcards may need the
ns558 module, which is a standard gameport module.
As you can see, there are many different modules related to getting your joystick working in Linux, so I couldn't possibly cover everything here. Please have a look at the documentation mentioned above for details.
Loading the modules
You need to load a module for your gameport (
cs461x, etc...), a module for your joystick (
adi, etc...), and finally the kernel joystick device driver (
joydev). Add these to your
/etc/rc.conf, or simply modprobe them. The
gameport module should load automatically, as this is a dependency of the other modules.
Testing Your Configuration
Once the modules are loaded, you should find a new device:
/dev/input/js0. You can simply
cat the device to see if it works - move the stick around, press all the buttons. I found my Logitech Thunderpad Digital had two buttons that weren't working with the
analog module. After reading some docs, I saw there was a specific
adi module for this controller. The moral of the story is, if it doesn't work the first time, do not give up, and read those docs thoroughly! I couldn't get anything working at all until I found that documentation.
Another way of testing is using
jstest from the joyutils package. That package also has
jscal for calibrating your device. If you have too many buttons and axes to fit on a single line or your pad has an accelerometer (it continuously sends new events even when nothing really happens) you should use a graphical tool. AUR has jstest-gtk-gitAUR for that purpose. It's essential for testing and troubleshooting a sixaxis.
USB joysticks
You need to get USB working, and then modprobe your joystick driver, which is
usbhid, as well as
If you use a usb mouse or keyboard,
usbhid will be loaded already and you just have to load the
joydev module.
PS3 controller
The Sixaxis gamepad works out of the box when plugged in via USB. Steam properly recognizes it as a PS3 pad and Big Picture can be launched with the PS button. Big Picture and some games may act as if it was a 360 controller.
Gamepad control over mouse is on by default. You may want to turn it off before playing games, See below.
Some people found that the controller is detected properly out of the box, but none of the buttons and analogs do a thing. Pressing the PS button solves he issue.
Xbox 360 controllers
The controllers should work without additional packages, but the wireless controller needs a wireless reciever (the charge-and-play cable can not be used for communicating with the controller). Both the wired controllers and the wireless reciever is supported by the
xpad kernel module.
Unfortunately xpad has problems with new wireless controllers:
- incorrect button mapping. (discussion in Steam bugtracker)
- not-working sync. All four leds keep blinking, but controller works. (discussion in Arch Forum)
The working solution is use xboxdrvAUR. It is alternative driver wich works in userspace. It could be launched as system service.
If you wish to use the controller for controlling the mouse, or mapping buttons to keys, etc. you should use the
xf86-input-joystick package (configuration help can be found using
man joystick). If the mouse locks itself in a corner, it might help changing the
MatchDevicePath in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf from
/dev/input/event* to
xboxdrv with two controllers
xboxdrv supports a multitude of controllers, but it works only in daemon mode. The simplest way is launch xboxdrv as service in daemon mode:
ExecStart = /usr/bin/xboxdrv -D -c /etc/conf.d/xboxdrv
And add support of the second controller in config file:
[xboxdrv] silent = true next-controller = true [xboxdrv-daemon] dbus = disabled
Setting up deadzones
If you want to set up the deadzones of your analog input you have to do it separately for the xorg (for mouse and keyboard emulation) and the kernel driver (for gaming).
Deadzones in Xorg
Add a similar line into your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf before the
Option "MapAxis1" "deadzone=1000"
1000 is the default value, but you can set anything between 0 and 30 000. To get the axis number see the "Testing Your Configuration" section of this article.
If you already have an option with a specific axis just type in the
deadzone=value at the end of the parameter separated by a space.
Deadzones in the Kernel Driver
The easiest way is using jstest-gtk-gitAUR. Select the controller you want to edit, then click the calibration button at the bottom of the dialog. You must set the CenterMin and CenterMax values for joysticks and analog sticks, RangeMin for triggers. Then use
jscal for to dump the new values into a shell script:
jscal -p /dev/input/jsX > jscal.sh # replace X with your joystick's number chmod +x jscal.sh
Now you need to make a udev rule (for example
/etc/udev/rules.d and name it 85-jscal.rules) so the script will automatically run when you connect the controller:
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c268", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/jscal.sh"
To get the idVendor and idProduct use
udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/input/jsX
Finally we must announce SDL our joystick device, or else it will just ignore these to use its own settings.
Add this to your
~/.bashrc :
export SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/input/jsX
(Again, replace X to your device number.)
Disable Joystick From Controlling Mouse
If you want to play games with your controller, you might want to disable gamepad control over mouse cursor. To do this, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf so that it looks like this:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "joystick catchall" MatchIsJoystick "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "joystick" Option "StartKeysEnabled" "False" #Disable mouse Option "StartMouseEnabled" "False" #support EndSection
Joystick moving mouse
Sometimes USB joystick can be recognized as HID mouse (only in X, it is still being installed as
/dev/input/js0 as well). Known issue is cursor being moved by the joystick, or escaping to en edge of a screen right after plugin. If your application can detect joystick by it self, you can remove xf86-input-joystick package.
More gentle solution is to add:
Option "StartKeysEnabled" "False" Option "StartMouseEnabled" "False"
at the end of your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf of joystick
Joystick sending keystrokes
This is a good solution for systems where restarting Xorg is a rare event because it's a static configuration loaded only on X startup. I use it on my media PC running XBMC controlled with Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2. Due to a problem with the d-pad (a.k.a. "hat") being recognized as another axis, I used to run Joy2key as a workaround. Since I upgraded to XBMC 11.0 and joy2key 1.6.3-1, this setup no longer worked for me. I ended up taking a more direct approach and let Xorg handle joystick events.
First, make sure you have xf86-input-joystick installed. Then, create
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf like so:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Joystick hat mapping" Option "StartKeysEnabled" "True" #MatchIsJoystick "on" Option "MapAxis5" "keylow=113 keyhigh=114" Option "MapAxis6" "keylow=111 keyhigh=116" EndSection


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Why Is Newt Gingrich Going to Hawaii?
Unpopular 1990s politician Newt Gingrich likes to hit all the big early presidential primary stops: Istanbul, the Greek Islands, California, California again, and Hawaii. Yes, Newt Gingrich appears to be going on a working vacation again, to "fundraise" during the week of his wedding anniversary.
Newt and Callista Gingrich, who at this point (and all points, ever, really) are just using this so-called presidential campaign to build whatever publicity they can for their conservative D-movie company, Gingrich Productions, are heading out to California to attend a screener of their latest masterwork, Nine Days that Changed the World — a Zapruder film about their Mediterranean cruise, maybe.
Then it's off to Hawaii, for a whole two events spread across four days.
Saturday, August 20th
Wailuku, HI - 5:30 p.m. PT. Newt will join the Maui GOP for a meeting with local activists at the Door of Faith Church located at 432 Waiehu Beach Rd.
Monday, August 23rd
Makawao, HI - 7:30 a.m. PT - Newt will discuss the American founding with the students at Seabury Hall prepatory school. The school is located at 480 Olinda Road.
He's going to shake down those pineapple preppies for money, he is.
If you, the member of Gawker's Hawaii brigade, happen see Newt and Cally Gingrich traipsing about on the beaches of Maui during the next week, please let us know.


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I returned home from the SLJ Summit late last night. I had a great time in Chicago. And it would be easy to simply return with fond memories of time spent with old and new friends. The two days were packed with learning experiences and fun.
I am still working through that learning and I am sorting out the sticky stuff–what happened that truly made a difference.
For now, I'll share just a few of my stickiest highlights:
1. Speaker after speaker affirmed the value of digital citizenship, inquiry, critical reading, evaluation, comprehension, analytical skills, creativity, and authentic assessment.
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4. NCTE's Peter Gutierrez discussed how pop culture (graphic novels, for instance) and fandom can engage literacies.
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6. Speaker after speaker affirmed the need for TLs to be powerful and active teachers of literacies of every sort.
7. Speaker after speaker affirmed the need for TLs to speak up on behalf of learners and their needs.
8. We shared with our dear vendors frustrations over proprietary platforms, restrictive digital rights, and the absence of an attractive and affordable model for what is going to be a huge and very profitable school e-reading market. Should the decisions be exclusively market/vendor-driven? We want a seat at the table. We want a model that works for both schools and libraries, for full classes, for easy circulation, for book clubs, for lit circles. We talked about the importance of our vendor partners helping us help learners to easily access these digital resources when they need or want them. About creating cataloging that makes e-books and interactive media pop. About non-negotiables for both devices and software (for instance, adjustable font, text to speech, attractive interface, annotating, highlighting, dictionary supports, flexibility of text, and more).
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9. We discussed the potential power for digital texts to address issues of currency, equity, customization, flexibility, collaboration, interactivity, and access.
10. Illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky and author Patrick Carman described their processes and their visions. Zelinsky offered a peak into the tools–old and new–he uses to create book art. Carman shared his new strategies and platforms for involving young readers in exciting, interactive reading experiences. (And that he loves to Skype with schools.)
11. Members of the Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy acknowledged that their recent reading research ignored the powerful role librarians play in literacy. They expressed concerns about our young people not mastering advanced literacy skills. And they heard our ardent desire to work with them on future initiatives and research projects.
12. Karen Cator, Director of the DOE's Office of Educational Technology, discussed the National Education Technology Plan and shared that she got the role librarians play as literacy leaders and in integrating technology into meaningful learning.
13. Catherine Snow, of Harvard, expressed real concerns based on research. We are not skilled at teaching learners to attack advanced texts or teaching students to learn through reading. We have yet to address major slumps in 4th and 9th grades. Many teachers assume students come into their classrooms as competent readers. Learning to read and reading to learn are tasks for all grades, across content areas. It is important to teach how students to read like a scientist, write like historian. Content area teachers are teachers of literacy.
Comprehension is a complex act. It occurs when reader, text, and activity intersect.
14. Judi Morellian's story (and wonderful nature videos) reminded us of the difference between skimming and diving in deep.
15. Frances Harris and her students reminded us of students' very different preferences and talents. It was a delight to watch them contribute with poise, maturity, and confidence as they interacted with authors, and vendors, and publishers, and reviewers, and librarians.
And here are some additional important links from the Summit:
- Of course, you'll want to see the winners of the first annual Trailee Awards! (But believe me, you really had to be there.) Thanks to Teresa Schauer for all the heavy lifted she did on our committee and to Rocco for being a swashbuckling co-host! Thanks also to my dressers, Gwyneth and Shannon!
- Check out Neeru Khosla's CK12 Flexbook project, featuring free, downloadable, customizable, printable open source texts for K12. (Also check out some other project on my etext pathfinder.)
- Chuck Follett, President and CEO of Follett Corporation announced a competition with a prize of $100,000 in Follett goods and services for innovation in learning technology integration. (Link to come!)
- This March, Jon Scieszka and Patrick Carman will host a free, live Webinar for elementary students. Sign up here!
- Paul O. Zelinsky shared What I Did for Wood, a look behind the art making for his picture book Dust Devil.
- Read these important reports from the Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy
- Time To Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools
- Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy.
- Andrés Henríquez shared this fascinating video vision of the future of the book.


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So which scandal is the worst? The Barack Obama administration's vulgar taste for investigating journalists? The Internal Revenue Service's belief that some taxpayers are more equal than others? The confusion and inconsistency over the attack in Benghazi, Libya? Or maybe the latest one, the seizure of phone records of tens of millions of innocents?
Politicians and pundits are quarreling over the answer. The dispute over which of these scandals are important - or even which deserve to be called scandals - has taken an ugly turn, as most Washington disputes do these days. But there's a way to work out a ranking of scandals, and even a proper definition of the term, without regard to political preference. To do so, let's consider where the word comes from.
Although we often forget the point, our modern word "scandal" has religious roots. Consider the Oxford English Dictionary's first definition: "Discredit to religion occasioned by the conduct of a religious person; conduct, on the part of a religious person, which brings discredit on religion." The word derives from the Latin root scandalum, meaning "cause of offence or stumbling."
The idea was that the reputation of a religion itself could be harmed by the conduct - the scandal - of its adherents. The OED's exemplars go back to the early 13th century. But the best place to look is the New Testament, where the Greek "skandalon" occurs 13 times. Although the word is variously translated - one theory is that the literal meaning is the stick that triggers a trap - its most famous rendering is as "a stumbling block." Consider, for example, this passage from Romans 14:13 (King James version): "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way."
The metaphor is an unnecessary obstacle placed in the path of the would-be believer - placed there, often, by the faithful themselves. The sin, according to the early Christian writers, lies not with the person who stumbles, but with the person whose conduct creates the obstacle in the first place.
This is the sense in which King Henry uses the word in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I: "O, what a scandal is it to our crown, / That two such noble peers as ye should jar!" He is referring to the bitter dispute between Gloucester and Winchester, whose competition for influence over the young king is spinning out of control. The "scandal" arises because their very public battle is reducing respect for the monarchy itself, and thereby weakening the king's own image and authority.
Viewed this way, what transforms my misconduct into scandal isn't the repercussions for me personally but its tendency to bring disrepute upon some entity or organization of which I am a part. For example, Ingrid Bergman's notorious affair in the late 1940s with the director Roberto Rossellini constituted a scandal only because Hollywood of the time was struggling to project a wholesome image in order to overcome a suspicion (fueled partly by anti-Semitism) that its work would tarnish America's reputation abroad. Today, by contrast, it is impossible to imagine the romantic or sexual dalliance of a film star bringing all Hollywood into disrepute.
Another scandal in this traditional sense is the flood of allegations surrounding Biogenesis, a Florida clinic that sold nutritional supplements. Anthony P. Bosch, the clinic's director, has reportedly told investigators from Major League Baseball that he supplied banned performance-enhancing substances to current players, some of them huge stars. Even if all the claims turn out to be true, the number of users will be a very small percentage of all players - but their misconduct nevertheless will bring disrepute upon the whole league.
Given all of this, which is the worst among our current crop of Washington scandals? I am tempted to choose the effort by the IRS to sort the citizens it serves into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys - an effort, it now appears, not limited to just a few rogue agents far from Washington. Surely this unhappy enterprise serves as a great stumbling block to our national project. And the stumbling is seen to be rather widespread. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll concludes that some six out of 10 Americans believe that the IRS isn't the only government agency targeting conservatives.
The IRS scandal represents what the Jesuit scholar Johannes Ehrat, in his book "Power of Scandal: Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media," calls a "scandal of destination": an abuse of authority for the sake of sending an implicit message subordinating another entity to your institutional goals. In this case, the scandal arose because institutional goals themselves became confused, as the IRS sought to enforce a regime less legal than political.
That's pretty terrible stuff, and pundits who try to downplay it seem to me to be missing the point: What happened at the IRS, no matter whose decision it was, has damaged the public image of government itself. That's what makes it a scandal.
Yet I think there is a scandal that is worse.
Let's return for a moment to Shakespeare's Henry VI, as he explains, in the same soliloquy, precisely why the bitterness between his lords creates a scandal to his crown: "Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell / Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
If we rank our scandals according to the long-term damage they are likely to do, then the worst is surely our ceaseless "civil dissension" - the inability of our leaders to enact even a pretense of getting along. Our politics themselves are our true "viperous worm." The unremitting nastiness of our parties toward each other, egged on by well-paid partisans on the sidelines, is the scandal that truly "gnaws at the bowels" of our republic.
If we don't repair that one, we'll never really be able to fix the others.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Yale University.
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Eating habits and diabetes: How we eat may be more important than what we eat
Lessons from a clinical trial of a naturopathic nutrition study
(supported by Diabetes Action!)
Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH June, 2011
Studies have shown that people who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) also have increased control over health.
Self-management of diabetes isn't easy, especially for people attempting to make lifestyle changes as part of a "big picture" effort to control their diabetes. Even with conventional treatment options, only 47% of people with diabetes achieve the recommended target for blood sugar levels (hemoglobin A1c <7%)1. It is well established that dietary control is the cornerstone of diabetes treatment, yet it is the most complex aspect of diabetes management and can be challenging for people to understand and follow despite following a healthy diet which is one critical dimension of diabetes care that can prevent future complications. Studies have shown that people who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) also have increased control over health 2 and an overall orientation toward a healthy lifestyle3. It is not known if these aspects of self-care emerge as a result of CAM usage or reflect a predisposition in some people to use CAM as part of an overall healthy lifestyle strategy. However, it has been suggested that for some people with chronic conditions like diabetes CAM is a "critical component of self-care management" for diabetes and chronic disease4.
Naturopathic medicine is a system of medicine frequently classified as "complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)" or integrative medicine. Recent surveys tell us that 73% of people with diabetes use some form of CAM, which is higher than estimates for other health conditions5, 6. In some states, naturopathic physicians (NDs) are primary care providers with a scope of practice* that includes nutritional supplementation, herbal medicine, nutrition, exercise, mind-body modalities, minor surgery and most prescription drugs, including all classes of hypoglycemic medications. Few studies have examined how naturopathic approaches impact health in people with diabetes7, 8. Until recently, no study has focused on the nutritional apsects of naturopathic recommendations.
(*To learn more about licensure and scope of practice of naturopathic providers in your state go to: www.naturopathic.org)
In our study, supported by Diabetes Action, we sought out to determine if several naturopathic approaches to diabetes nutrition improved blood sugar (See Table 1). People worked with a naturopathic physician for 12 weeks in a primary care clinic. Their visits included both one-on-one and group visits. We measured if the clinical approach increased patients' understanding of nutrition, eating behaviors, and their overall confidence in managing the dietary aspects of their diabetes. Several questionnaires were administered to each participant, including the Seven Eating Styles instrument, measures of self-efficacy and diabetes management, food intake (3-day diet records), and laboratory measurements of blood sugar and heart disease risk (i.e., HbA1c and lipids). Details of the protocol and results have been published 16 .
Table 1: Core Components of Naturopathic Nutrition
Dietary Principle
Specific Recommendation
Macro-nutrient balance
20-40% CHO, 25-45% protein, 15-35% fat
This is a lower carbohydrate diet that is still diverse, well-balanced, and practically achievable
Low Glycemic Index
Select low GI carbohydrates by paying attention to fiber and whole foods
Low GI foods have a reduced post-prandial glycemic spike and subsequently keep insulin lower
Micro-nutrient Density
Select foods that provide maximal micro-nutrient intake per calorie
Because diabetic diets are often low calorie, it is important to maximize nutrition, especially dietary antioxidant intake
Bioactive Foods
Based on individual needs, select foods that have function beyond calorie or nutrients
For example, including oats in the diet will lower cholesterol and allow emphasis on food rather than medication
Understand Quality of Foods
Learn to select healthy fats. Make conscious choices about organic, wild, local foods
Some fats, like omega 3 fatty acids, have beneficial effects on glycemic control, whereas trans fatty acids and saturated fat increase CV risk
Understand personal eating behavior
Understand emotional and situational eating habits to avoid overeating
Several eating patterns have been linked to overeating; empowerment over negative habits creates change and lead to self-efficacy across diabetes self-care skills.
Cultivate healthful attitudes toward food
Understand food nourishes more than the physical body
For example, children who eat meals with family at the table have lower rates of obesity.
After the 12-week study, blood sugar control (measured by HbA1c) improved significantly from 8.2±0.23% at baseline to 7.7±0.28% at week 12 (p=0.02). Although systolic and diastolic blood pressures decreased (-4±-12.5mm Hg and -4.5±-9.1 mm Hg, respectively), and BMI decreased slightly (33.6±3.8 to 32.8±3.3 kg/m2), these changes were not statistically significant. Similarly, total cholesterol remained unchanged (174.6±14.6 mg/dl at week 0 and 175.1±10.1 mg/dl at week 12).
Perhaps most importantly, participants made notable changes in behavior and eating more healthfully. Changes measured by the Problem Areas in Diabetes composite score improved from a mean 38% out to 19% (p=0.05; lower scores signifying fewer problems). Adherence to self-management recommendations improved as well. Daily blood sugar monitoring increased from a mean 47% of the time to 86% (p=0.05). During this intensive dietary program, participants were asked to monitor their blood sugar multiple times per day in order to learn to identify relationships between food choices and blood sugar; participants checked blood sugars multiple times as directed 5.3 days per week (increased from 2.3 days per week at the beginning of the study) (p=0.04). "[Following] the dietary guidelines provided by the doctor" increased from 1.4 to 3.0 (p=0.02) on the 5 point scale!
The acceptability of the nutritional approach was good. Agreement with the statement "I would encourage others to follow this diet" had a mean response of 3.9 (with 4 indicating "strongly agree"). Participation was rated easy on average; 3.6 on a 0 to 4-point scale ranging from very difficult to very easy. There were no adverse events or side effects during the study.
Eating behavior as measured with the Seven Eating Styles instrument (see Complementary Corner next month) revealed some key findings about how people with diabetes may benefit by shifting their approach to the emotional and social elements of nutrition and eating. The Total Integrated Eating Score, which reflects a balanced, holistic view of eating behavior, improved significantly during the study (p=0.03). Newly discovered by this research, a high score in the Emotional Eating domain (indicating more of an issue) correlated most strongly with higher baseline A1c values (p = 0.04). Improvements in a summary score of the Seven Eating Style, the Integrated Eating score, also correlated with improvements in Hba1c (p=0.046). HbA1c improvement was not correlated with any other dietary factors, including the percentage of calories coming from carbohydrates or total caloric intake. Among the individual Seven Eating Style elements, participants made significant changes in Emotional Eating (p=0.004), Sensory/Spiritual Nourishment (p=0.005), Attention to Atmosphere (p0.002), and in their Total Integrated Eating Score (p=0.006). Changes did not occur in the domains of Food Fretting, Task Snacking, or Social Eating. The Fast Food/Fresh Food element, which captures the overall quality of dietary intake, trended toward improvement (p=0.12).
Our study demonstrated that HbA1c improved by an average of 0.5% following a naturopathic nutrition approach. The impact of educational and behavioral programs for type 2 diabetes, on average, result in a 0.43% reduction in HbA1c, which is consistent with our results. 17 Our previous research of whole-system naturopathic treatment for type 2 diabetes demonstrated a 0.65% reduction in HbA1c (p = 0.05), however this reduction occurred over a longer period of care.7 This difference also suggests a possible contribution by other aspects of naturopathic care, in addition to nutrition, including dietary supplementation, stress reduction counseling, or other elements of whole-system naturopathy that were not evaluated by our study.
Perhaps counseling approaches that include more emotional and social elements of eating and nutrition may be more effective than focusing on calories and carbs? Stay tuned…
Our results suggest that eating behaviors correlate with increased glycemic control. Improvements in emotional eating, bringing attention to the spiritual dimensions of food and the dining atmosphere, and focusing on fresh whole foods versus fast convenience foods correlated with an overall decreased HbA1c, rather than macronutrient content of the diet alone. Perhaps counseling approaches that include more emotional and social elements of eating and nutrition may be more effective than focusing on calories and carbs? Stay tuned…
In health, Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH and Erica Oberg, ND, MPH
We offer our sincere appreciation to Diabetes Action for their support of this research project. This research was also supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
- Saaddine JB, Cadwell B, Gregg EW, et al. Improvements in diabetes processes of care and intermediate outcomes: United States, 1988-2002. Ann Intern Med. Apr 4 2006;144(7):465-474.
- Sasagawa M, Martzen MR, Kelleher WJ, Wenner CA. Positive correlation between the use of complementary and alternative medicine and internal health locus of control. Explore (NY). Jan-Feb 2008;4(1):38-41.
- Nahin RL, Dahlhamer JM, Taylor BL, et al. Health behaviors and risk factors in those who use complementary and alternative medicine. BMC Public Health. 2007;7:217.
- Thorne S, Paterson B, Russell C, Schultz A. Complementary/alternative medicine in chronic illness as informed self-care decision making. Int J Nurs Stud. Sep 2002;39(7):671-683.
- Garrow D, Egede L. National patterns and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine use in adults with diabetes. J Altern Complement Med. Nov 2006;12(9):895-902.
- Yeh GY, Eisenberg DM, Davis RB, Phillips RS. Use of complementary and alternative medicine among persons with diabetes mellitus: results of a national survey. Am J Public Health. Oct 2002;92(10):1648-1652.
- Bradley R, Kozura E, Buckle H, Kaltunas J, Tais S, Standish LJ. Description of clinical risk factor changes during naturopathic care for type 2 diabetes. J Altern Complement Med. Jun 2009;15(6):633-638.
- Bradley R, Oberg EB. Naturopathic medicine and type 2 diabetes: a retrospective analysis from an academic clinic. Altern Med Rev. Mar 2006;11(1):30-39.
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- Nuttall FQ, Gannon MC. The metabolic response to a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metabolism. Feb 2006;55(2):243-251.
- Hartweg J, Farmer AJ, Perera R, Holman RR, Neil HA. Meta-analysis of the effects of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on lipoproteins and other emerging lipid cardiovascular risk markers in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. Aug 2007;50(8):1593-1602.
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- Oberg EB, Bradley RB, Allen J, McCrory MA. Evaluation of a naturopathic nutrition program for type 2 diabetes. Complement Ther Clin Pract. March 2011;doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2011.02.00.
- Gary TL, Genkinger JM, Guallar E, Peyrot M, Brancati FL. Meta-analysis of randomized educational and behavioral interventions in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Educ. May-Jun 2003;29(3):488-501.
- King DK, Glasgow RE, Toobert DJ, et al. Self-efficacy, problem solving, and social-environmental support are associated with diabetes self-management behaviors. Diabetes Care. Apr;33(4):751-753.
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Time Out has today revealed its debut audited figure of 305,348 in its first full month (October) as a free title.
Executives at Time Out had previously planned to disclose its debut Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figure after three months, believing that it would take some time to establish its distribution of 305,000 copies, which was its target initial distribution.
But the title, which switched from being a paid-for title to free title in September, has hit its distribution target earlier than expected.
As a paid-for title, Time Out had been a London institution for more than 40 years, but had suffered badly in recent years, with the circulation halving to around 50,000 from its peak in the 1990s.
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