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My MacBook Pro is infested with a virus -- or some sort of malware; I can't quite figure it out. The browsers (Safari and Firefox) periodically get hijacked. I'll try to load a common site (say this one, or Google) and get involuntarily redirected to some site which purports to provide traffic tracking services or the like.
I called Apple Care and they thought I have a virus, so I shelled out some cash for McAfee's VirusScan, scanned the drive, and found nothing.
The hijacking is frustratingly intermittent, which of course makes it harder to diagnose.
Oh, well, it could be worse. I could be running Vista.
Well, go figure. Turns out I'm still smug. Never mind.
(amusing on-line Apple ad courtesy of The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
24 March 2008
I am no longer smug
My MacBook Pro is infested with a virus -- or some sort of malware; I can't quite figure it out. The browsers (Safari and Firefox) periodically get hijacked. I'll try to load a common site (say this one, or Google) and get involuntarily redirected to some site which purports to provide traffic tracking services or the like.
Posted by shadowfax at 7:00 PM
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I thought Macs didn't get virus-infected?ReplyDelete
They are no less vulnerable than PCs, not in theory anyway. They don't get infected because the viruses are generally written for PCs, and because there are not usually enough macs out there for them to spread effectively.ReplyDelete
Sadly, as they become more popular, this benefit becomes eroded.
I'm not sure that I actually have a virus per se, maybe just a cookie or some malicious bit of code on a web site I visited. It's just weird, actually.
You've already run AdAware and SpyBot or various other "mongoose to the virus's snake" programs, right?ReplyDelete
I seem to recall things like McAfee being better at preventing viruses and not so good at dealing with them once they've gotten in, or at dealing with non-viral nasties... but the likelihood of me talking out my ass right now is pretty high.
Ah man, I didn't think that could happen! My poor Macbook can get sick?ReplyDelete
Shadowsong- Adaware and Spybot are both Windows programs. Mac users are limited in what malware protection/treatment are out there.ReplyDelete
AdAware and Spybot don't run on Macs.ReplyDelete
See macworld for an article on DNS Hijackers here (and how to remove it!)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/24/2008 9:35 PM
The funny thing of course is that you probably wouldn't have that issue with Vista. The Vista security model, jokes aside is just about the most sophisticated around (2nd only to OpenBSD, but it's the most sophisticated that is still easy enough for an MD to use).ReplyDelete
Nobody thought you'd stop being smug.ReplyDelete
- Fidel,MD3/25/2008 5:37 AM
Be smug all you want...when my Vista machine got infected (because I didn't check a file I downloaded) it took me all of 30 minutes to get it fixed - by downloading another (free) antivirus program and running it.ReplyDelete
Macs? No thanks. I want a computer I controll
Not sitting in front of my Mac right now (work makes me use Windoze) so I can't remember the exact steps for it, but make sure you've cleared your cache for both browsers. There are a couple of spring cleaning-type programs out there (check versiontracker.com) that will do this if you can't get the browsers to do it themselves.ReplyDelete
The DNS hijacker is also a possibility.
- Anonymous3/26/2008 9:26 PM
Some adware and spyware use Javascript, which can hijack Macs. Usually they just blow annoying webpages in your face, but they are pernicious and slow down your system.ReplyDelete
There was a version of Java that was more vulnerable, so it has improved. The problem is whenever Java is updated the older version still stays on the computer. I have to remove the older version myself.
Ironically, I have had the same thing happen 3x in the last two days....first time ever after using Macs for over 15 years. (My work PC is Windows and I get virus' all the time)ReplyDelete
My MacBook gets pop-ups with the Safari logo but something doesn't look quite right.
Have a Genuis Reservation already scheduled for tomorrow night (getting more RAM and an external hard drive for my Time Machine) so will mention it to them and see what they say.
As if you're not getting enough advice, but I would direct you to (another) free virus scan application, Avast (http://avast.com/) which has kept me happily virus free for a couple years now. (Disclaimer - happily virus free since a friend of mine went to work for them).ReplyDelete
Good luck!


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Small and intermediate size trees play an important role in the landscape. They can be quite functional and offer seasonal beauty. These trees are generally very easy to maintain and require a minimum of pruning.
Lagerstroemia, crapemyrtle as it is commonly known, is a favorite small tree or large shrub for many southern gardeners. The common name crapemyrtle was derived from the crinkled petals on the end of a long, narrow stem and the similarity of the leaves to a myrtle. Crapemyrtle, also known as "Flower of the South," performs beautifully in all areas of North Carolina except in the highest elevations of hardiness zone 6.
Sooner or later most home gardeners think about growing roses. Landscape uses are quite varied because of the many different types of roses. They can be mass planted in beds, used as specimen or trained plants, planted as screens or hedges, or located near fences or arbors and allowed to climb. Several miniature cultivars can even be used as a ground cover or as edging material. Roses are available in almost any color imaginable and are suited to a number of sites.
Sophisticated propagation structures are not always required to successfully root ornamental plants. Summer propagation of many woody ornamentals can be accomplished by rooting softwood or semi-hardwood shoots in inexpensive frames equipped with an intermittent mist system. During high summer temperatures, leafy soft shoots root more readily if structures are equipped with mist.
Large trees are dominant features in the landscape. Many plans rely on trees for several design functions: to provide background, enclosure, define spaces, help reduce noise and unsightly views. Trees also provide needed shade, channel breezes, and break forceful winds. They also help the environment by filtering pollutants and exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.
Landscapers and home gardeners rely upon plants and shrubs in this size category because of their relatively low maintenance demands. Modern trends in landscaping depict this growing concern by utilizing groundcovers, dwarf, or slow-growing shrubs.
A properly planted tree or shrub will be more tolerant of adverse conditions and require much less management than one planted incorrectly. Planting technique impacts water quality as it minimizes water, fertilizer and pesticide use. When making decisions on planting techniques, one should consider how the plant was grown in the nursery, the plant's drainage requirements, the soil type and drainage characteristics, and the availability of irrigation water. The plant should be specifically appropriate to the site, or the site should be amended to specifically fit the plant.
To insure a successful azalea planting, cultural requirements, planting techniques, and maintenance should be understood.
The Holly (Ilex) genus is very popular among landscape architects, nurserymen and home gardeners. Horticulturalists recognize approximately 20 American Holly species, 120 Oriental species, and nearly 200 varieties of the English Holly.
Ornamental grasses are becoming quite popular for North Carolina landscapes. Designers and gardeners realize the fine accent and architectural effect this group of plants contributes to a garden. As one applies the principles of good design — repetition, variety, balance, emphasis, sequence, and scale — along with the design qualities of color, texture, line and form, one appreciates the many uses and functions of ornamental grasses. (The term "ornamental grass" is really a catchall term used to describe all grasslike plants. These would include sedges, reeds, rushes, and a wide host of others.)
There are several vines which should interest North Carolina gardeners and landscapers. Vines, when used correctly, can be quite an aesthetic and functional addition to the landscape. Basically, there are three types of vines: those that climb by attaching tendrils to a means of support, those that climb by attaching rootlike arms to a wall, and those that climb by twining. The type of vine which is planted will determine the necessity for a supporting fence, arbor, or wall.
This publication offers general recommendations for the timing, methods, and rates of applying fertilizer to shade trees.
Among the early spring-flowering trees, the dogwood is regarded by most North Carolinians as unrivaled in attractiveness either in its natural woodland habitat or in cultivated landscape gardens. This small, ornamental tree offers landscape interest for all seasons, beginning with its floral display in spring and followed by pleasant green foliage (casting a light shade) in summer. Fall in North Carolina is enhanced by the brilliant show of red, orange, and scarlet foliage along with the bright-red fruit borne in small clusters. In winter, button-shaped buds are prominent on the tips of the twigs. The interesting bark texture and branches help create an excellent winter silhouette.
There are several selected pines species which are used in North Carolina landscapes, most being large tree forms. Pines are important to North Carolina not only for the ornamental value but also for lumber, watershed management, resin, turpentine and Christmas trees. There are more than 100 species of the genus Pinus recognized worldwide, of which 36 are native to the United States.
Never before has the demand for energy been as high -- and never before have homeowners become so increasingly aware of the energy savings possible with landscaping. Although it is not possible to control temperature, wind, and other natural elements, certain landscape practices can help modify the climate in and around the home.
Junipers are grown all across North Carolina, in just about every landscape situation: around ski villages at Beech Mountain or around ocean-front cottages on Bald Head Island. There are more than 170 species and varieties being grown by American nurserymen. North Carolinians typically choose certain junipers found in the species J. chinensis, J. horizontalis, J. sabina, J. communis, J. procumbens, J. conferta, and of course, J. virginiana - commonly known as Red Cedar.
A careful selection of plants is very important for coastal landscapes as plants must be tolerant of extreme adverse conditions in the natural environment. The most influencing force is salt spray. Sand, temperature and wind are also influencing factors in plant choice.
One of the most important considerations in developing a landscape plan is maintenance. Currently, many homeowners desire a low-maintenance landscape. A popular project for home gardeners is the reduction of lawn areas and problem spots by the incorporation of the "natural area." This is most easily accomplished with a 3- to 4-inch layer of organic mulch such as pine needles, compost or pine straw. Although the area is to appear natural, it should not detract from the overall landscape appearance.
Shrubs in this category are useful in landscape situations as hedges, small screens, accent plants, large mass plantings, and large foundation shrubs. These plants can be pruned periodically and maintained at a reasonable size.
Flowering crabapples have tremendous potential as small/medium sized flowering trees that can be grown all across North Carolina. These deciduous, spring flowering trees are adaptable to a wide range of soil conditions and have a variety of ornamental characteristics to choose from, including an assortment of flower color and fragrance, fruit size and color, and tree form.
Summer and fall flowering bulbs provide another dimension to gardening. They add beauty and interest to the landscape and, since most of them are tender, they offer a unique challenge to the gardener. There are a large number of different types of bulbs, offering variations in forms, fragrances, colors, and lasting brilliance which many summer annuals cannot achieve.
This publication for property owners and landscapers describes how to prune trees and shrubs properly, which results in attractive, healthy trees and shrubs.
An espaliered plant is one that has been trained to grow in one plane. In the 17th century, 'espalier' originally referred to the frame or trellis on which the plant was trained. Today, espalier refers to both the two-dimensional tree or shrub or the horticultural technique of actually training the plant.
Deer are among the most beautiful and graceful but troublesome wildlife in North Carolina. Over the past 10 to 15 years, damage to ornamental plants in landscapes and nurseries, by white-tailed deer has increased dramatically in all 100 counties. This situation has become a problem due to the increase in the size of the deer population in North Carolina and to the urbanization of rural areas. Conflicts between deer and landscaped spaces are expected to increase, as more rural areas will be developed.
We depend on plants to solve our functional and aesthetic needs in various landscape situations. A popular group of plants being recommended and used in modern landscapes is intermediate and small-sized trees. The trees in this category mature to a particular size and are quite "well-behaved" in the landscape. Generally, the trees, both evergreen and deciduous, mature to a height of 35 feet or less.
As one travels across North Carolina it is quite evident that azaleas are favorite ornamental plants for home gardeners and professional landscapers. Azaleas offer a wide range of size, form and color, and can be used as specimen plant accents or as a mass planting. Flowering dates are from late March to late June with both ever-green and deciduous types available. Azaleas can be grown all across the state (Zones 6, 7, 8, 9), but in order for these shrubs to grow, mature, flower profusely, and generally contribute to the total landscape, an understanding of the different kinds of azaleas, the culture, and environmental factors is necessary.
During the winter months it is necessary to offer protection to certain North Carolina landscape plants. Winter protection does not mean to keep plants warm, as this is virtually impossible but to provide protection from damaging wind, heavy snow and ice, the alternate freezing and thawing of the soil beneath the plants and heat from the sun on very cold days.
This leaflet includes a list of recommended trees that have demonstrated particular resistance to harsh growing conditions, diseases, and insects in North Carolina. It should be emphasized, however, that even these trees have their limits. No single species is suited for all sites and consideration should be given to soil conditions, local occurrence of diseases and insects, microclimate, hardiness zone, and mature tree size when selecting any plant.
Use of bedding plant color beds continues to increase. A recent indicates that over 15% of the flowering bedding plants produced in this country are utilized by commercial landscapers. However, success with color beds requires planning, proper bed preparation, and an intensive maintenance program--all of which are outlined in this publication.
Selecting trees for use under utility lines presents a unique challenge. It is often desirable to have trees that are large enough to provide shade, architectural effects, and ornamental features, all without interfering with overhead utility lines. In this publication, we have listed trees that have a typical mature height of less than 30 feet.
This publication offers guidelines on planning a garden and buying bulbs, as well as planting planting techniques to ensure healthy flowers.
Every nurseryman should know how to prune trees and the reason for the various pruning practices. Many landscape problems can be avoided if correct pruning is performed, while the tree is growing in the nursery. Incorrect pruning practices or lack of pruning diminish the quality of the plant material.
Wet, poorly drained soils present one the most difficult challenges for growing plants in the landscape. Excessive moisture displaces oxygen in the soil and plant roots can suffocate as a result. Many plants are intolerant of having their roots submerged for extended periods of time. Even though standing water may not be present, poor drainage is often responsible for reduced growth and survival of plants in our landscapes.

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Fla. vote problems start early
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With lawsuits, long lines and a final burst of chaos during early voting, Florida is once again living up to its reputation as the most electorally challenged swing state.
Even as Mitt Romney made a final visit to the state Monday, Floridians waited in hours-long lines for one final chance to cast ballots ahead of Election Day — providing even more unflattering images for a state that's already got a secure spot in dark electoral history.
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Voting proceeded in several counties, even though Republican Gov. Rick Scott had refused to extend the state's early-voting hours, which legally ended Saturday.
Election supervisors in a handful of counties — including Palm Beach, home of the "butterfly ballot" from Bush v. Gore fame — found a way around the restrictions by allowing voters to cast absentee ballots in person on Sunday and Monday. But that process was especially slow and cumbersome: In sprawling Palm Beach County, population 1.3 million, Monday's in-person voting was available only at a single county elections office, where each six-page absentee ballot had to be printed individually, according to The Palm Beach Post.
The elections supervisors in South Florida's three urban counties — Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade — had been targets of a federal lawsuit by the state Democratic Party demanding that early voting be extended. On Monday, the counties agreed to continue offering in-person absentee voting until at least 5 p.m. Monday and then again through 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Election supervisors in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, around Tampa Bay, also allowed in-person absentee voting Monday despite not facing any lawsuits, and a judge ordered Orlando's Orange County to reopen early voting Sunday at a site that had been closed the day before by a bomb scare.
Miami-Dade was the scene of an instantly notorious meltdown Sunday, where — as shown in a Miami Herald video — overwhelmed election workers locked their doors for an hour while nearly 200 people outside chanted "Let us vote!" The newspaper said the county's Republican mayor, Carlos Gimenez, had ordered the voting shut down after learning about the additional hours.
Eventually, voting in Miami-Dade resumed Sunday. But by then, the Herald said, some people's cars had begun to be towed from a parking lot nearby.
"This is America, not a third-world country," one woman in line with her grandson told The Herald.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist — once a Republican, now an independent who's campaigning for Obama — called it "unconscionable" that Scott wouldn't extend the hours after it became apparent that the long lines would prevent some people from voting early.
"This is a precious, sacred right that we have in our country," Crist told reporters for the Tampa Bay Times and other outlets. "We're fortunate we get to choose our leaders. It seems to me that if you value that precious right you'd do everything to encourage people to vote."


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The Baltimore Ravens fought through major injuries and a near mutiny to hoist their second Vince Lombardi Trophy in franchise history on Sunday night after their 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. In a matter of minutes, though, the trophy was lost.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh revealed during Monday's news conference that the Lombardi Trophy was misplaced in the craziness of the postgame celebration.
"We hadn't seen this (trophy) since last night," Harbaugh said. "We thought we lost it."
Harbaugh went on to thank whoever returned the Super Bowl XLVII showpiece.
While there's no word on the events that led to the temporary disappearance, there is one noteworthy addendum to the story. Whereas CBS filmed coach Jim Harbaugh's 49ers holding the trophy as part of Sunday's television production, the Ravens refused to participate.
"You don't earn the right to even think about it until you're the one true champion," explained John Harbaugh.
Now that trophy is back in safe hands, Ravens players and coaches have nothing but time to bask in the limelight of the previously forbidden fruit.
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One of my holiday projects was to streamline my storage needs. The recent floods in Thailand have affected global hard disks (HDD) supply. The 3TB drive I bought four months ago for $129 goes for more than $300 now, and the shortage / high price period is likely to continue throughout 2012 as supply catches up with the shortfall. Hence the need to be even more careful than in normal times.
If you are building a new PC now, I strongly recommend a solid state drive (SDD) instead of an HDD for the system drive. 60GB SSDs sell nowadays below the current price for the lowest cost HDD of $100 and 60GB is more than sufficient capacity for the system drive of most users. Even the least of the SDDs outperforms HDDs by a magnitude of factors. Larger capacity HDDs are still critical for the storage of large quantity of data such as photo, audio and video, but this data need not be stored on the system drive. I will try to stretch my existing storage capacity until the shortage is over and prices are back to normal.
HDDs have a limited life span. The question is not whether an HDD will fail, but when. The secret for data preservation has been known to the monks in the monasteries of Europe long before the introduction of Gutenberg's press: replicate, replicate replicate. RAID is an automated, modern incarnation of the monk's painstaking manual process of replicating books to preserve their content in time.
While most HDDs come with a three years warranty, and some are even warranted for five years, the warranty is a false sense of security. It does not cover the stored data and is only indicative of the expected useful lifetime of the device before data is lost due to a failure. Most failures don't result immediately in data loss, but the recovery becomes prohibitively expensive. On my desk I keep a 120 GB HDD that is more than ten years old and still working despite intense 24/7 usage during many years and a transatlantic move. But I have also had HDDs that failed after less than a year. If this happens in a RAID, it is not critical.
My strategy is to use only fresh HDDs for critical data; to store such data redundantly; and to replicate it to fresher / newer HDDs within a maximum of three years. After their first job in the RAID is over, I re-purpose older HDD for non-critical purposes such as scratch or cache disks, but at some point they fail and the question is what to do with the waste. I bring old electronics to the municipal recycling station, but I take the HDDs out of them before doing so. The abounding stories of sensitive data being retrieved from the HDDs of second hand PCs sold on eBays makes me reluctant.
Disassembling an HDD is not a difficult task. All you need are a couple of torx screwdrivers. This was the occasion for a little bit of son-dad quality time. My son was fascinated by using a real screwdriver rather than his toys. He learned about magnetism from the two magnetic blocks of the drive's actuator and he was fascinated by the mirror polish of the platters. Now all the parts can go to the recycling station, except the platters themselves which I will take care of rendering unreadable.
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Judge overturns gay marriage ban
A federal judge in Boston declared unconstitutional the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which codifies marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The July ruling held that the federal law violates states' rights to define marriage by blocking legally married gay couples from federal benefits and violating the Constitution's "equal protection" clause. Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in June that, because European Union members have not yet reached a consensus on the matter, same-sex marriage cannot be viewed as a human right.
Washington pharmacists may pass on Plan B
The Washington State Board of Pharmacy will, for now, allow pharmacists who object to filling certain prescriptions—such as the Plan B morning-after pill—to refer customers elsewhere. Under intense pressure from Governor Christine Gregoire, the board adopted rules in 2007 forcing pharmacists to stock and sell Plan B regardless of moral objections. With lawsuits looming, the board said it is reviewing the regulations.
Court erases FCC decency standards
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the Federal Communication Commission's indecency policy in mid-July, claiming it "effectively chills speech." The court said the policy—which prescribed six-figure fines for "fleeting expletives"—was "unconstitutionally vague" and caused networks to self-censor protected speech. Southern Baptist leader Richard Land said the ruling could "throw open the floodgates to an even greater torrent of filth and perversion on our nation's airwaves."
Regent U. struggles to stay afloat
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freenode/#lisp - IRC ChatlogSearch
2:39:09 pillton You are better off using functions to generate pathnames.
2:59:49 jmercouris pillton: I found it such an obtuse syntax, but I didn't want to change the code that was using it
2:59:58 jmercouris so I ended up making a new path
3:04:53 pillton It is my understanding that it was defined at a time when there where no clear "winners" in terms of pathname syntax or file system functionality.
3:11:27 beach Good morning everyone!
3:11:32 pillton G'day beach.
3:11:33 loke Hello beach!
3:17:42 emaczen morning beach
3:20:26 emaczen pjb: how do we get errno?
3:21:45 jmercouris pillton: yeah that's what I've read as well
3:21:52 jmercouris at least it is OS agnostic
3:21:57 emaczen pjb: Ok, I understand what you said now
3:22:09 emaczen I'm talking to myself practically ha
3:22:52 jmercouris iqubic: I was having trouble just extending the path, the syntax totally threw me off, that's all
3:23:34 iqubic But you were having trouble deleting "|" in emacs too, right?
3:41:30 jmercouris iqubic: yeah, that as well
3:41:38 jmercouris with paredit mode enabled I can't ever delete pipes
3:43:11 pillton You can do multiline comments with #| ... |# .
3:44:51 iqubic Is that why paredit doesn't like removing "|"?
3:45:19 pillton I presume so. It is probably trying to match with another pipe.
3:46:03 White_Flame |foo| is what paredit is looking for, not #| foo |#
3:46:31 pillton That too.
3:47:00 White_Flame I end up using cut & paste when paredit doesn't want to do what I want
4:03:59 jmercouris I'll try C-w next time, thanks for the tip!
4:09:32 aeth I use C-w all the time now
4:14:39 astronavt[m] jmercouris i messaged you
4:19:29 aeth There is one disadvantage to C-w. Now that emacs is integrated with the system clipboard, using C-w as delete will pollute the clipboard
4:45:07 jmercouris astronavt[m]: emailed
4:46:00 jmercouris aeth: Is it now? I still have a sort of "manual" integration with OSX: https://github.com/jmercouris/configuration/blob/master/.emacs.d/osx.el
4:50:07 astronavt[m] ah jmercouris i thought you were talking about the cocoa bridge -_-
4:53:46 jmercouris astronavt[m]: that's exactly what I"m talking about
4:53:53 jmercouris read the whole email
4:53:59 jmercouris it details getting the cocoa bridge to work
4:54:07 astronavt[m] oh ok!
4:54:23 emaczen jmercouris: Are you going to make the cocoa bridge work on Linux?
4:54:35 jmercouris emaczen: I have no desire to, sorry!
4:54:42 astronavt[m] definitely misunderstood. it's almost 1 AM here
4:54:45 jmercouris I think for Unix, I'd just stick to GTK
4:55:05 astronavt[m] does anyone use cocoa for non-mac apps?
4:55:07 jmercouris astronavt[m]: yeah, I just detailed the basics in the beginning in case you would like to customize the location of the cocoa files
4:55:22 emaczen astronavt[m]: OpenStep is the open source version of Cocoa
4:55:36 jmercouris Yeah, I've never heard of anyone actually using it
4:55:56 emaczen it is still in development so someone is using it
4:56:03 jmercouris astronavt[m]: I will publish the directions online in a more consumable format than the repository I linked you to, but Paul Krueger has done a really good job
4:56:23 jmercouris I can't imagine a lot of people are using it
4:56:38 jmercouris I remember many times where I was the only person in the room who actually likes objective-c
4:57:03 emaczen jmercouris: Isn't the cocoa-bridge really nice?
4:58:28 jmercouris emaczen: I'm honestly not experienced enough to say
4:58:44 jmercouris If all of the things I've read about it are true, then yeah, it seems like a very nice integration
4:58:57 jmercouris I guess it's because the objective-c runtime has a lot of paralells to lisp
4:59:54 emaczen jmercouris: it uses the MOP, so you can use a slight variant to CLOS (which is the point of the MOP)
5:01:41 jmercouris What is the MOP? I've never heard this term
5:01:55 emaczen Metaobject protocol
5:02:08 emaczen remember the (:metaclass ...) form?
5:02:18 beach jmercouris: http://metamodular.com/CLOS-MOP/
5:02:26 jmercouris Ah, the message passing
5:02:32 beach No
5:02:33 emaczen no
5:02:49 emaczen CLOS is defined as an OOP
5:02:52 jmercouris no no
5:02:53 jmercouris sorry too quick
5:02:58 jmercouris I didn't click beach link yet
5:03:00 emaczen So you can override the defined methods
5:03:14 emaczen and get new object systems
5:04:34 jmercouris SO a meta object is an object that contains information about an object class?
5:04:52 emaczen yep
5:04:59 beach http://metamodular.com/CLOS-MOP/metaobjects.html
5:05:40 emaczen by default in commonlisp class objects defined by you are instances of standard-object
5:05:42 jmercouris Okay, so not exactly
5:05:53 jmercouris So even the slots have an object describing them
5:06:02 jmercouris This feels like a turtles all the way down implementation
5:06:47 jmercouris thanks for the links & explanations!
5:07:12 jmercouris thanks for the links & explanations!
5:07:15 jmercouris not sure why Circe keeps randomly dropping me as of late
5:07:33 beach What is Circe?
5:07:55 loke IRC client for Emacs.
5:07:58 jmercouris beach: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/circe
5:08:11 jmercouris It's a really good one, great author
5:08:23 sjl jmercouris: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-metaobject-protocol is a really good book to work through if you want to wrap your brain around the metaobject stuff
5:08:28 sjl not free, but worth the price
5:08:31 beach jmercouris: Thanks.
5:09:27 emaczen I'm having trouble finding out how to create an object defined with defcstruct?
5:09:36 jmercouris sjl: Maybe when I have more money, 61 seems a lot for a book :\
5:09:50 emaczen jmercouris: Chapters 5 and 6 are free online
5:10:25 sjl jmercouris: you can get it for around $25 if you don't mind buying used: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0262610744/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=
5:11:23 jmercouris sjl: Interesting, thanks, I think I'll wait till I'm back in Germany to order
5:11:54 sjl it's a good, mind-bendy book. I don't touch the metaobject stuff almost ever, but it was good to read anyway
5:12:00 jmercouris or maybe I'll order it here, and read it when I get back from Germany...
5:12:30 jmercouris Yeah, it is certainly nice to understand kind of what is going on behind the scenes
5:13:37 beach jmercouris: Warning, though: Even as an experienced Lisper, I had to start reading it three times. The first two times, I was completely lost, so I had to put it down.
5:14:09 sjl I'd agree with that
5:14:21 beach jmercouris: So, what I am saying is that, even if you are lost, don't give up. You might have to try again.
5:15:05 beach And people here in #lisp would probably be very happy to give some explanations. For you and for others who might be interested.
5:15:45 jmercouris That's good to know, I appreciate the support :)
5:16:01 jmercouris One thing that I've really liked about the lisp community is that it seems much smaller and friendlier than the others
5:16:16 jmercouris as long as we exclude #emacs
5:17:08 beach Sure, but we draw the line when we have to correct indentation and spacing for the umpteenth time, as would be required for some people who come here.
5:17:35 aeth jmercouris: Most Lisp programmers use Emacs, but (afaik) most Emacs users don't program in Lisp, beyond perhaps some basic configuration elisp stuff.
5:19:58 jmercouris I think that makes sense, part of being respectful of the time of other people is making sure that you have the basics down, and that you aren't wasting their time
5:20:37 jmercouris Especially if you are asking on a public forum, whether it be stack overflow or otherwise, you should really focus on reducing the mental burden of the other person to understand your problem and help
5:21:06 beach Right. Especially since #lisp is not, as some people think, a "Lisp support channel". Newbie questions are tolerated as long as there is some indication that progress is being made.
5:28:58 emaczen How do you create a struct object with cffi?
5:29:27 emaczen All I can seem to get is pointers or Bogus Objects -- whatever that is
5:31:24 loke emaczen: What are you trying to achieve?
5:33:37 emaczen I just want to create a C struct and set its fields
5:33:57 emaczen loke: do you have to use a pointer?
5:34:03 loke emaczen: Dynamic scope or malloced?
5:34:28 loke It all comes down to how you are going to use the struct later.
5:34:40 loke Do you need to pass an actual struct to a CFFI function, of a pointer to it?
5:34:57 emaczen let me check
5:35:14 emaczen I need a pointer
5:36:03 loke Right. So what you need is some memory for the structure allocated. There are two ways of doing so: Either on the heap using basically malloc, or on the stack which has dynamic scope.
5:36:34 loke For dynamic scope (the most common), just do this:
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5:37:04 loke (cffi:with-foreign-objects ((FOO '(:struct NAME-OF-STRUCT))) ...use FOO here...)
5:37:44 emaczen loke: Ok, that is why I got "bogus objects"
5:38:05 emaczen I tried to use it like a let form and return one of the objects
5:38:22 emaczen the equivalent of malloc is #'cffi:foreign-alloc right?
5:38:40 loke Then, you can simply set fields in the stuct using (setf (cffi:foreign-slot-value FOO '(:struct NAME-OF-STRUCT) 'FIELD-NAME) THE-NEW-VALUE)
5:39:46 loke emaczen: yes. But then you have to make sure you free the memory properly later. Sometimes you can use TRIVIAL-GARBAGE to create a weak pointer so that you can free as paert of garbage collection. It depends a bit on circumstances.
5:40:38 loke I do that here: https://github.com/lokedhs/cl-gss/blob/master/src/cl-gss.lisp#L46
5:41:23 emaczen loke: so there is no way to just do struct name; name.field = value; ?
5:41:39 loke emaczen: That was what I was showing you
5:42:12 loke You nee dto put it in foriegn memory somehow.
5:42:14 emaczen loke: Oh, that is the foreign-object way
5:42:56 loke There is a plist representation of a struct value, but that's only used when you pass around literal structures. It's actually quite rare, and most C API's work with pointers to structs.
5:43:00 emaczen loke: I forget that things inside main are just like any other function and would be dynamic
5:43:57 loke If you want to see an example of a lot of complex struct processing which also includes heavy use of literal structs, you can take a look at my cl-rabbit project.
5:44:36 loke https://github.com/lokedhs/cl-rabbit/blob/master/src/amqp.lisp#L61
5:45:58 loke In that function, RESULT is a literal struct (plist representation) as returned by a CFFI function that returns a literal struct.
5:46:14 loke But the content of the struct of course contains pointers.
5:46:47 loke You really need to understand what is going on on a low level, or you'll get mighty confused.
5:47:24 emaczen I don't think I've ever seen literal structs in C before
5:47:52 loke The rabbitmq-c library makes heavy use of them.
5:48:02 loke Basically this:
5:48:34 loke struct foo { ... }; Foo someFunc(Foo x); ← Takes a literal struct as argument and returns another literal struct
5:48:56 loke More commonly, you'd see something like Foo *someFunc(Foo *x);
5:51:34 loke I need to have some lunch
5:52:29 emaczen loke: Thanks for explaining those parts of the API to me...
5:52:43 emaczen C will probably always be a headache for me
5:53:43 shka_ c is headache for almost everyone
5:53:59 shka_ but it is still useful
6:08:36 Zhivago I think you mean struct values rather than literal structs.
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7:36:44 hajovonta hi
7:53:33 beach hello hajovonta.
8:10:19 phoe_ Hey hi hello
8:10:31 beach phoe_: What's up?
8:11:09 phoe_ beach: Me, at work, doing Scrum technical management.
8:11:17 phoe_ At least they pay decently for that.
8:11:26 beach Oh, you're a manager now? Nice!
8:11:58 phoe_ Nope, a product owner.
8:12:08 phoe_ Which is de facto a part of technical management.
8:12:19 beach I see.
8:18:13 beach I think I have a working CST-to-AST system, modulo silly mistakes of course. Now I am thinking of a system for computing indentation from a CST. Such a system would be structured in much the same way as a CST-to-AST system, i.e., it would determine whether a CST represents an atom, a function call, a special form, or a macro call. Function calls are simple.
8:18:15 beach Special forms are fairly simple, because they have fixed indentation rules. For a macro call, the macro lambda list determines the indentation of the argument expressions, but then, whether an argument expression is a form or something else, can only be determined by expanding the macro.
8:19:09 phoe_ Are you going to expand the macros each single time then? What if they have side effects?
8:19:32 beach Well, I can't handle every case. Macro expanders should not have side effects.
8:19:33 Shinmera It's also often desirable to be able to give further hints as to how a macro should be indented as the lambda-list by its own does not provide sufficient information about that.
8:19:37 phoe_ (defmacro plus (&rest args) (print "hello") `(+ ,@args))
8:19:50 phoe_ I see. Sounds plausible.
8:19:51 Shinmera (also see: https://github.com/Shinmera/trivial-indent )
8:19:53 otwieracz beach: Actually we use macro expanders with side effects "on production".
8:20:11 phoe_ But then again, some macros like OPTIMA's and CL-PPCRE's expanders can be really freaky.
8:20:18 beach otwieracz: Then I recommend you don't use the editor I am working on.
8:20:21 phoe_ Since they are there for compile-time computation.
8:20:30 beach I think the Common Lisp HyperSpec has some paragraph about how it is not known how many times a macro can be expanded.
8:20:30 otwieracz beach: note to self: don't use beach editor
8:21:57 otwieracz beach: To be honets, my feeeling is that the editor will be broken if it wont work with something allowed in the language.
8:22:02 pjb As long as you expect your macro side effects to be obtained at "random" times and multiple times…
8:22:19 beach otwieracz: Then I am working on a very useful, but broken, editor.
8:22:21 pjb It is expected that random lisp tools will macroexpand.
8:22:23 otwieracz However, nevermind.
8:22:35 pjb If something breaks, it's the macro fault.
8:22:48 beach pjb: Yes, I am trying to find the relevant paragraph.
8:23:21 beach otwieracz: There is a difference between what the language "allows" and what it defines the effect of.
8:25:05 pjb one guarantee by 220.127.116.11 is All macro and symbol macro calls appearing in the source code being compiled are expanded at compile time in such a way that they will not be expanded again at run time. It doesn't mention edit-time…
8:26:49 pjb I can't search more right now.
8:27:14 beach Yeah, the Common Lisp HyperSpec is not very good with such searches, so it's painful.
8:34:23 beach Shinmera: Definitely very useful. If I use a structure similar to that of CST-to-AST, it will be trivially possible to customize the indentation of macro forms.
8:37:55 shka there is no edit time in common lisp standard
8:38:55 beach shka: In "the" Common Lisp standard. Article required.
8:39:14 shka beach: … yes
8:39:20 antoszka beach: is that editor of yours already available for checkout/building/testing anywhere?
8:39:30 shka and yes, i do work on that manual
8:39:54 shka just give me a moment, i need to sleep as well
8:42:18 beach antoszka: No, it is not ready.
8:42:38 antoszka OK, wasn't following the discussion too much.
8:43:03 beach I'll keep you informed about my progress. :)
8:43:05 antoszka beach: Are you planning to use (whatever)CLIM as the toolkit?
8:43:41 beach Yes, but I have separated the GUI from the rest as much as possible, so it ought to be possible to use something else.
8:44:52 antoszka Yeah, was just going to ask that as well, cool.
8:45:21 Shinmera I know that the expansion of macros can happen multiple times, and I distinctly remember reading that in the CLHS, but I can't find it for the life of me
8:45:23 beach CLIM/McCLIM makes so many things much simpler, though. I can't see myself re-implementing things like presentations for a different toolkit.
8:45:53 beach Shinmera: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It is always very hard to find such things.
8:48:04 shka Shinmera: every decent lisp book mentions this
8:48:33 Shinmera Lisp books are not standards, though.
8:48:37 jackdaniel "every" is an overstatement
8:49:11 beach jackdaniel: To be fair, shka added "decent" to restrict the set. :)
8:49:37 shka exactly ;-)
8:49:55 jackdaniel yes, but I don't think that it is a must for a decent book to mention this particular thing
8:50:23 jackdaniel for instance I don't think I've encountered such statement in CL Recipes, yet I think it is a very decent book
8:54:58 phoe_ Shinmera: https://github.com/xach/dpans/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22multiple+times%22&type=
8:55:14 phoe_ I've been grepping the dpans3 sources for "multiple times" and were unsuccessful so far.
8:55:34 Shinmera I grepped for "expan" but there's way too much to trawl through
8:56:12 phoe_ Shinmera: too much? about a hundred results
8:56:33 Shinmera I grepped the hyperspec, fwiw
9:02:53 phoe_ "Macros intended for use in top level forms should be written so that side-effects are done by the forms in the macro expansion. The macro-expander itself should not do the side-effects. "
9:02:57 phoe_ via
9:02:59 phoe_ clhs eval-when
9:02:59 specbot http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/s_eval_w.htm
9:03:43 phoe_ that's not a direct hit though.
9:04:16 Shinmera I found that before but it's not what we're looking for.
9:10:13 phoe_ I cannot find such a thing.
9:10:42 Shinmera I mean, it's implicit in the sense that the spec never says that it is only expanded once either.
9:10:54 Shinmera It just says that all macros are expanded once you hit runtime.
9:11:10 phoe_ By the time you hit runtime, all macros are expanded.
9:11:13 phoe_ Correct?
9:11:17 Shinmera Yes.
9:11:45 phoe_ So any side effects they might have had have fired.
9:12:24 Shinmera clhs 220.127.116.11
9:12:25 specbot Minimal Compilation: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_bbb.htm
9:13:44 Shinmera And then there's 184.108.40.206.2.2
9:13:50 Shinmera clhs 188.8.131.52.2.2
9:13:50 specbot Macro Forms: http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_ababb.htm
9:15:31 phoe_ Basically, edit-time will be equivalent to compile-time then, since macros will need to be expanded, so their macro functions will need to be called.
9:16:28 phoe_ Gah, this problem is an issue of type "can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift".
9:17:01 phoe_ We got a language powerful enough to turn its source code into Brainfuck and we're looking for an even more powerful tool to handle its power.
9:18:39 phoe_ What would be a technical issue in another language is a social issue in Lisp. (:
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9:44:56 eminhi from clhs prog2 description: prog2 evaluates first-form, then second-form, and then forms, yielding as its only value the primary value yielded by first-form
9:45:03 eminhi is this a typo?
9:45:13 phoe_ eminhi: yes.
9:45:14 beach Yes.
9:45:19 phoe_ this is a known issue with the spec.
9:45:27 phoe_ (prog2 a b c) will return b.
9:45:36 eminhi Is there a list of known issues?
9:45:41 phoe_ eminhi: yes, one second.
9:45:57 phoe_ http://www.cliki.net/Proposed%20ANSI%20Revisions%20and%20Clarifications
9:45:58 phoe_ eminhi: ^
9:46:18 eminhi phoe_: Thank you
11:04:54 dim is it safe to conclude they already had copy/paste at the time when writing the spec? ;-)
11:05:27 Shinmera It was 1990, not 1970
11:12:39 dim (hence the smile, etc)
11:30:30 myrkraverk Copy/paste or its predecessor kill/yank have been here since the 70s.
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11:52:26 pjb dim: it exists in ed(1)!
11:52:43 pjb dim: cf. the t command (transfer).
11:53:14 pjb So it probably pre-existed unix ed, after all, unix is but a simplified clone of older systems and software…
11:54:16 Shinmera I mean, surely you also had machines to copy punch cards, yeah?
11:54:58 pjb Indeed, there was a copy function in the 029…
11:55:08 pjb And you could copy only between given columns!
11:55:35 pjb And I'm sure some assistant spent time copying patch boards…
12:08:27 shka ACTION never, ever, seen machine with punch card input, even in museum
12:36:49 lieven ACTION has booted printers into the RSCS network with a stack of punch cards
12:51:05 pjb shka: you have to look at early computers. Later, punched cards were copied first on an input spool tape (using a secondary computer), before being fed to the mainframe.
12:51:28 shka aha!
12:51:51 pjb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0hDuCa_KlY
13:00:28 edgar-rft email in the 1960's was sending punch-cards in envelopes with stamps on it
13:00:40 phoe_ oh you old boys
13:01:47 shka phoe_: *men
13:03:32 Josh_2 pjb: what a racket that thing makes
13:08:41 shka pjb: those machines look so well preservede
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13:56:41 pjb shka: the thing is that they were built with strong material. Like 5 mm steel. Just like a tank!
13:57:16 pjb I had a sweedish terminal once like that. Indestructible.
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14:06:30 Josh_2 In On Lisp there are two examples as shown in this paste http://paste.lisp.org/display/358509 where one function takes a variable x as an argument to a function and that variable is considered bound, and then another example which takes the variable n as an argument to a function but that variable is considered free. This seems contradictory, is it?
14:07:27 beach Josh_2: It is free in the inner lambda.
14:07:42 phoe_ yes, depends on what you mean by "free"
14:07:45 beach Josh_2: Read up on the lambda calculus for such terminology.
14:07:46 phoe_ and free where exactly
14:07:59 beach phoe_: No, those definitions are well established.
14:08:46 mxb Hi all. Anyone have experience with binary-types package? I'm struggling to try to define a binary-struct which references an earlier field and I'm not sure if it's possible to do so. (Basically parsing {type,length,data[length]} blobs
14:08:47 Josh_2 So because the variable n is used in a lambda it is considered free?
14:08:48 Josh_2 Ahh
14:08:59 phoe_ beach: yes, got it.
14:09:07 shka pjb: 5mm? wow, i would never guessed
14:09:11 beach Josh_2: Because it is used in a function, but it is not a parameter of that function.
14:09:21 Josh_2 I think I get it, the surrounding environment (defun ..) supplies the value
14:09:27 Josh_2 Okay thanks beach
14:09:32 phoe_ mxb: do you have any code of your own so far?
14:09:36 beach sure.
14:10:06 mxb phoe_: yeah, is there a #lisp paste place?
14:10:21 random-nick paste.lisp.org
14:10:23 phoe_ mxb: http://paste.lisp.org
14:10:37 phoe_ with fancy CL syntax highlighting
14:10:54 beach Josh_2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_variables_and_bound_variables
14:11:44 mxb phoe_: I'm learning binary-types with PNG file format - my code is here http://paste.lisp.org/display/358510
14:12:08 mxb PNG spec is here if it helps: https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#5Chunk-layout
14:12:08 beach Josh_2: More relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Free_variables
14:12:12 phoe_ mxb: somewhat unrelated, there already exist PNG readers written in portable CL
14:12:34 mxb phoe_: yeah I know, this is just to learn the library :)
14:12:40 phoe_ :)
14:13:43 phoe_ I never used binary-types myself, but hopefully someone up there can take a peek at your code.
14:13:51 phoe_ Got any errors with this code so far?
14:14:45 mxb phoe_: yes, during macro expansion of define-binary-string size is LENGTH, which is not of type (INTEGER 1 *)
14:14:59 mxb which implies I cannot reference an earlier field in the struct
14:15:02 beach phoe_: You might want to look at the last link as well.
14:16:28 phoe_ beach: got it.
14:17:33 phoe_ mxb: hah, this library is hardly documented at all.
14:17:39 mxb yeah, :|
14:20:06 phoe_ Actually.
14:20:16 phoe_ I don't think you should have a DEFINE-BINARY-STRING up there, for some reason.
14:21:02 phoe_ https://github.com/frodef/binary-types/blob/master/binary-types.lisp#L375
14:21:32 phoe_ Since this a macro, then SIZE must be an integer before its evaluated - so it cannot be a variable.
14:22:00 Bike oh, so this isn't gigamonkeys's? i'm pretty sure his could do that, since it's so common for binary formats
14:22:23 phoe_ Bike: https://github.com/gigamonkey/monkeylib-binary-data this you mean?
14:23:06 Bike yeah, the one in pcl
14:23:16 phoe_ I see.
14:23:39 phoe_ frodef's binary-types might just need a huge revamp documentation-wise.
14:23:47 mxb phoe_: Yes, it seemed like there are signed/unsigned binary integer types, and 'strings', which I took to be arbitary lengths of data
14:23:55 phoe_ mxb: not arbitrary.
14:24:04 phoe_ DEFINE-BINARY-STRING seems to create fixed-length strings.
14:24:09 phoe_ So it's most likely not what you are looking for.
14:24:18 phoe_ s/string/string types/
14:24:29 mxb Yes, I think that's the problem, as the length isn't known at compile time.
14:24:38 mxb Is my understanding
14:26:09 Josh_2 I don't particularly understand lambda calc just like I don't understand normal calculus. However I found this sentence "The abstraction operator, λ, is said to bind its variable wherever it occurs in the body of the abstraction."
14:26:15 Josh_2 So that helps
14:26:29 Bike lambda calculus doesn't share much with "calculus"
14:26:39 Bike the only similarity is that you calculate things
14:27:06 Josh_2 I'm sure if I put some serious effort in I could learn some Lambda calc just like I could with normal calculus
14:27:12 Bike well, and i suppose integration and differentiation can involve binding variables and so on
14:27:28 beach Josh_2: The concept of free variables is very important to the compiler writer, because, in general, they can't be treated as simply as bound variables can.
14:27:59 phoe_ mxb: Yes, I think so.
14:28:04 beach Josh_2: We work hard to preserve the illusion that things are simple. :)
14:28:13 phoe_ And I'm sorry that I can't help in this case. Maybe the library Bike suggested can deal with that.
14:28:35 Bike so, so hard
14:28:49 beach Heh!
14:29:23 xzd hi
14:29:35 beach Hello xzd.
14:30:58 beach xzd: Are you new here? I don't recognize your nick.
14:31:05 xzd yes
14:31:10 Josh_2 noot noot welcome
14:31:31 beach xzd: What brings you to #lisp?
14:31:50 antoszka xzd: hello!
14:33:32 phoe_ I wish I had a #lisp full time job so I could spend all of my time and all of my attention on refining CL documentation and libraries. There's so much to be done in Common Lisp world and I am doing corporate dung instead.
14:33:42 phoe_ I need to figure out how to make it work.
14:34:53 Josh_2 Save some money, buy a van, live in the van using mobile internet and a laptop for 6 months of the year.
14:35:22 shka like a lisp hippy!
14:35:25 Josh_2 Become a student again
14:35:47 phoe_ University is a time-stealer.
14:36:08 Josh_2 I agree, my 11 hours of classes a week steal tons of time.
14:36:41 phoe_ Add time spent preparing for these classes and transit between uni and non-uni.
14:37:38 Josh_2 Well I have a motorcycle so takes me 10 min to get to Uni. I guess you went to a much better Uni than mine if you need to prep for a class


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October means RocktoberFest in Middletown
Battle of the bands competition for $1,000 prize
You can bet your sweet keister the first weekend in October is going to be a rockin' one, thanks to the second annual RocktoberFest on Friday.
RocktoberFest will run Friday through Sunday and will be located in the parking lot of Middletown's Home Depot.
It's going to be three days of live music, with nine local and regional acts as they duke it out in a battle of the bands contest, featuring: Chris Lewis, Crash Course, Remnants, Wicked Wayz, As October Fades, Moment of Truth, 3 Day Weekend, Milo and Fishbowl Project. Five additional live acts will perform throughout the weekend: Payton Taylor, It Is What It Is, Stone's Throw Band, Due West and Chasing Thea.
Here fishy, fishy
Having performed at the Big Ball Marathon in September, keyboardist and singer Dave Fisher of the Fishbowl Project will return to Middletown with his veteran bandmates for their RocktoberFest debut.
Inspired by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Heart, plus a wealth of other acts from the '80s, there's no telling what cover songs the Fishbowl Project might conjure up during their set, since the guys have about "nine hours of material we can do," Fisher said.
Fisher, 44, of Middletown, is keeping mum on the songs his Newark/Wilmington-area band will perform, but added there's "absolutely" a good chance Fishbowl's set may include one or two of the band's original tunes.
One of the originals might be "Back to School," which is "definitely a Texas-blues-infused song," said Fisher, who added most of the band's original tunes are about "finding the right girl, losing the right girl and then coming back together with the right girl."
Whether Fishbowl's fate is to win the grand prize or leave the competition empty-handed, Fisher and his crew are mainly in the contest to win new fans and spoil their existing ones with whatever songs they perform.
"For us, it's really not about winning," Fisher said. "We just want to go out and have fun and play the music and sit there an hear the other bands play."
Milo's revenge
Performing in last year's RocktoberFest gave Milo bassist Chris Pirhalla, 16, and his teenage bandmates a good idea of what it takes to win the contest. For instance, Pirhalla's biggest takeaway from last year's event was that it's not wise to play a list of "obscure" cover songs — something the guys in the were guilty of.
Pirhalla — whose band (based in Chesapeake City, Md.) was eliminated in the first round of last year's competition — doesn't recall the three songs Milo performed, but he does remember one of them being "Heart of Glass" by Blondie — a song that most of the crowd apparently hadn't heard prior to their performance, said Pirhalla, of Wilmington.
For this year's contest, Milo will cover Jimmy Eat World's familiar tune "The Middle," in which the band will tweak the song to give it more oomph.
"I feel this is a little more raw than the original one," said Pirhalla, a junior at the Charter School of Wilmington. "We're just going to put a lot of energy in it and it's going to be a little more simplified. I'm playing my own bass part for it and it'll still fit, but it's just a little different."
The other two songs Milo will play in RocktoberFest will be a surprise.
The rundown
Tonight will feature performances by up-and-coming country singer Payton Taylor and band It Is What It Is.Saturday will see round one of the battle of the bands competition, which will be entirely judged by the audience. Bands are required to play three songs and allotted a maximum of 20 minutes.
During Saturday, the Stone's Throw Band and Due West will also grace the stage.The top three bands will advance to the second and final round held Sunday.
On the day of the final round, each competing band will be given a maximum of 45 minutes to perform. After the final band performs, reigning RocktoberFest winner Chasing Thea will perform while the event committee tallies the votes. After Chasing Thea's set, the reigning band will then crown this year's champ.
The first place winner will earn a grand prize package that includes $1,000 ($500 in cash on the day of the final round and an opportunity for the band to play a paid gig for $500 at Sully's Irish Pub in the coming weeks).The winner will also receive the opportunity to play in the fourth annual Middletown Delaware State BBQ Cook-off in 2013, the 20th annual Middletown Old-TymePeach Festival in 2013, and the opportunity to close out the third annual RocktoberFest in 2013.
In addition, the winner will have a conference call with Eugene Foley, founder and president of Foley Entertainment, Inc., a New York-based music industry consulting firm and licensed entertainment agency. The firm provides a variety of professional services, including artist development and publicity.
The runner-up in the competition will receive $500 and the same benefits as the winner, minus less prize money and the chance to close out the third annual RocktoberFest.
WHAT RocktoberFest 2012
WHEN 5-11 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5 (Payton Taylor and It Is What It Is in concert); 11-11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 (battle of the bands round one and additional performances by Stone's Throw Band and Due West); 11-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 (final round of battle of the bands and additional performance by Chasing Thea)
WHERE Home Depot, 350 Auto Park Drive, Middletown
COST $5 each day; $3 senior citizens; $10 three-day wristband
INFO middletownareachamber.com or 378-7545


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PORTLAND - Portland State University will make history this weekend as it launches research experiments into space.
The experiments will actually be done by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and researchers at PSU will be able to watch every one of those experiments live from a ground station right on campus.
The PSU researchers will be able to talk directly to the astronauts and instruct them how to perform each experiment.
"I get to see my experiments and vision acted out live in space and feel like your along side them," said William Blackmore, a graduate research assistant at PSU's college of engineering.
The astronauts will be testing the behavior of liquids in zero gravity.
The results they find could change the way fuel systems are designed for future spacecraft.
"Like you see with a straw on earth ... liquid will move up it a little bit but it stops because of gravity… well in orbit gravity doesn't stop it ... or won't for a very long time ... so we can utilize that effect to make fluids move on their own," explained Blackmore.
The experiments and supplies will launch into space this Sunday aboard the SpaceX rocket.
It will be the first commercial rocket ever to dock at the International Space Station.
Researchers at Portland State say they are thrilled and proud to be part of this historic event.
"Definitely ... to have the opportunity at PSU to give our own little piece to that history is quite nice," said Blackmore.


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A retired senior military official said he has been told by "sources" that President Barack Obama was at the White House watching in real time as the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, took place September 11. If true, surveillance of the attack as it unfolded would have come from a pair of unarmed drones that were dispatched to the scene and recorded the tail end of the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, including two former Navy SEALs.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, who served as a senior operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan in 2003, told Fox News that the attack unfolded during the "middle of the business day in Washington, so everybody at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, everybody was watching this go down. According to my sources [Obama] was one of those in the White House Situation Room in real-time watching this."
According to another Fox News report, urgent requests from CIA operators in the area were repeatedly denied as the attack was underway, and later as the CIA annex came under attack, with an order coming down twice from the CIA chain of command for the CIA operatives to "stand down" shortly after they heard shots fired at the consulate at 9:40 p.m. September 11.
Shaffer said pressure is mounting on Obama to explain what he knew — and what he could have done to possibly save lives as the attack was underway. "He, only he, could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something," Shaffer said. "That's the only place it could be done." Panetta has insisted that the White House did not intervene because it lacked information on what exactly was happening on the ground at the consulate.
Fox reported that former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, one of four Americans killed in the attack, was part of the CIA team at an annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Stevens and his team were under attack. When Woods and other CIA operatives "heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out," reported Fox. "They were told to 'stand down,' according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to 'stand down.' "
Woods and others from the CIA annex disobeyed the orders and made their way to the consulate, where they came under fire as they evacuated those who were trapped, and recovered the remains of one of those killed in the attack. They were not able to locate Ambassador Stevens, who was also killed, and returned around midnight to the CIA annex, where they again came under fire. Their requests for support were denied, although the CIA team "was in constant radio contact with their headquarters," reported Fox. The report added that "fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive." U.S. forces specializing in counterterrorism rescues were also stationed within two hours of Benghazi, but were never deployed.
Fox reported that the two drones directed to Benghazi shortly after the attack began were both "capable of sending real time visuals back to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers."
Seven hours after he had made his way to the consulate and helped to rescue the remaining staff, Woods, along with fellow former SEAL Glen Doherty, was killed by a mortar attack on the CIA annex. Those seven hours, said military observers, provided plenty of opportunity for forces to come to the aid of those on the ground in Benghazi.
Additionally, reported Fox News, sources on the ground during the attack said that a "special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from." Although the operator repeatedly requested for a Spectre gunship to respond and take out the mortar, no help ever arrived.
Shaffer told Fox News' Heather Childers that the evidence against the Obama administration is "very damning." He recalled that when President Reagan was briefed on a threat against U.S. students in Grenada in 1983, "it took six hours to plan the invasion of a country. Six hours.... So you're telling me we can plan and execute an invasion of a country in six hours but we can't send support to protect our embassy and the staff within six hours? Are you kidding me? " He added that the United States "did have what we call fast teams available in Italy, and there were other capabilities which were local. All these things could and should have been implemented."
On October 27, President Obama insisted in an interview on WUSA-TV that as soon as he became aware of the attack on the consulate, he gave a directive to "make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to" to make sure American personnel were safe.
As for such a directive, Francis "Bing" West, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, told Greta Van Susteren of Fox News that if Obama made that order there will be a "paper trail" to prove it. "Now that's really big," he said, "because that means those who were turning down Ty Woods when he was asking for the help were going against the orders of the President of the United States."
West explained that "a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doesn't take an order from the President when he says 'do everything' and not put that in writing and send it out to the chain of command. If that actually happened the way President Obama … said it happened, there's a paper trail and I think people reasonably enough can say, 'well, can we see the order?' because hundreds of others supposedly saw this order. But if there is no order, then people have to ask some very basic questions. 'What the heck happened?' "
No one wants answers to those "basic questions" more than Tyrone Woods' father, Charles Woods, who said that whoever was responsible for refusing to help his son and the others on the ground in Benghazi are guilty of murder. "They refused to pull the trigger," Woods told Fox News. "Those people who made the decision and who knew about the decision and lied about it are murderers of my son."
As for his son's courageous actions the night of the attack on the consulate and CIA annex, the elder Woods said he was not surprised, but added: "I wish that the leadership in the White House had the same level of moral courage and heroism that my son displayed."
Photo: In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya: AP Images


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If you're a fan of fighting games then you're probably looking forward to EVO 2014 which will take place from July 11th to the 13th in Las Vegas. Tonight on iPlayWinner's The Fray! podcast the lineup for EVO 2014 was revealed. The games featured will be:
In addition there will also be two special Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo events in honor of the game's twentieth anniversary* and talks are on going with Nintendo to have Smash Bros. as part of the event. For those who saw last year's EVO and saw the live stream of Melee, it was a pretty awesome event.
For more info, check out the article over on shoryuken.com.
*While the article on Shoryuken states the SSF2T events are in honor of the game's tenth anniversary, the game came out in 1994, making this year the twentieth anniversary. A simple typo I assume.


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Oenothera is a genus of about 145[3] species of herbaceous flowering plants native to the Americas.[4] It is the type genus of the family Onagraceae. Common names include evening primrose, suncups, and sundrops. They are not closely related to the true primroses (genus Primula).
The species vary in size from small alpine plants 10 centimeters tall, such as O. acaulis from Chile, to vigorous lowland species growing to 3 meters, such as O. stubbei from Mexico. The leaves form a basal rosette at ground level and spiral up to the flowering stems. The blades are dentate or deeply lobed (pinnatifid). The flowers of many species open in the evening, hence the name "evening primrose". They may open in under a minute. Most species have yellow flowers, but some have white, purple, pink, or red. Most native desert species are white. Oenothera caespitosa, a species of western North America, produces white flowers that turn pink with age.[5] One of the most distinctive features of the flower is the stigma, which has four branches in an X shape.[6]
Oenothera flowers are pollinated by insects, such as moths and bees. Like many other members of the Onagraceae, however, the pollen grains are loosely held together by viscin threads, so only insects that are morphologically specialized to gather this pollen can effectively pollinate the flowers. Bees with typical scopa cannot hold it. Also, the flowers open at a time when most bee species are inactive, so the bees which visit Oenothera are generally vespertine temporal specialists: bees that forage in the evening. The seeds ripen from late summer to fall.
Oenothera are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the large white-lined sphinx.[7] The flower moths Schinia felicitata and S. florida both feed exclusively on the genus, and the former is limited to O. deltoides.
In the wild, evening primroses act as primary colonizers, quickly appearing in recently cleared areas. They germinate in disturbed soils, and can be found in habitat types such as dunes, roadsides, railway embankments, and waste areas. They are often casual and are eventually out competed by other species.
The genus Oenothera may have originated in Mexico and Central America,[8][9] and spread farther north in North America and into South America. With the advent of international travel, species are now found in most temperate regions of the world. In Europe alone there are about 70 introduced species of Oenothera.[4] During the Pleistocene era a succession of ice ages swept down across North America, with intervening warm periods. This occurred four times, and the genus experienced four separate waves of colonization, each hybridizing with the survivors of previous waves.[9][10] This formed the present-day subsection Euoenothera. The group is genetically and morphologically diverse and the species are largely interfertile, so the species boundaries have been disputed amongst taxonomists.[8][11]
The pattern of repeated colonizations resulted in a unique genetic conformation in the Euoenothera whereby the chromosomes at meiosis can form circles rather than pairs. This is the result of several reciprocal translocations between chromosomes such that the pairing occurs only at the tips. This phenomenon apparently has non-Mendelian genetic consequences; with this mode of chromosome segregation and a system of balanced-lethal genes, genetic recombination is prevented and the plants display the hybrid vigor of heterosis.[12] This resulted in the evolution of many sympatric races in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Analysis of the cytology of these races and of artificial hybrids between them increased understanding of the genetic and geographic evolution of the Euoenothera. This subject was a major area of genetic research during the first half of the 20th century.[13][14]
The appearance of sudden changes in Oenothera lamarckiana led the pioneering geneticist Hugo de Vries to propose the theory of mutationism (Mutationstheorie) in 1901. This asserted that speciation was driven by sudden large mutations able to produce new varieties in a single step. The understanding that the observed changes in hybrids of the plant were caused by chromosome duplications (polyploidy) rather than gene mutation did not come until much later.[15][16]
Evening primroses were originally assigned to the genus Onagra, which gave the family Onagraceae its name. Onagra (meaning "(food of) onager") was first used in botany in 1587, and in English in Philip Miller's 1754 Gardeners Dictionary: Abridged. The modern name Oenothera was published by Carolus Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae. Its etymology is uncertain, but is believed to be derived from the Greek words ονος θηρας (onos theras), meaning "donkey catcher", or οινος θηρας (oinos theras), meaning "wine seeker".[17]
Evidence of medical effects[edit]
Certain Oenothera plants have edible parts. The roots of O. biennis are reportedly edible in young plants.[18]
There is very little evidence for any effectiveness of primrose oil as a cancer treatment according to the American Cancer Society, and "neither GLA nor other GLA-rich supplements (such as evening primrose oil) have been convincingly shown to be useful in preventing or treating any other health conditions."[19] A Cochrane meta-analysis published in April, 2013, found evening primrose oil capsules and borage oil to be ineffective for eczema.[20]
Most research indicates that orally-administered evening primrose oil does not relieve symptoms of premenstrual syndrome,[21][22] neither does orally administered primrose oil seem to have any effect in shortening the length of pregnancy or labour.[23][24][25][26]
A number of perennial members of the genus are commonly cultivated and used in landscaping in the southwestern United States. Popular species include tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa), Mexican evening primrose (Oenothera berlanderii), and Saltillo evening primrose (Oenothera stubbei).[27]
Annual evening primroses are also popular ornamental plants in gardens. Many are fairly drought-resistant.
The first plants to arrive in Europe reached Padua from Virginia in 1614 and were described by the English botanist John Goodyer in 1621. Some species are now also naturalized in parts of Europe and Asia, and can be grown as far north as 65°N in Finland. The UK National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, based at Wisley, maintains an Oenothera collection as part of its National Collections scheme.
Oenothera caespitosa var. marginata
Oenothera stricta ssp. stricta
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- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Oenothera". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
- ^ Singh, S.; et al. (2012). "An updated review on the Oenothera genus" (PDF). J. Chin. Integr. Med. 10 (7): 717–25. doi:10.3736/jcim20120701.
- ^ a b Mihulka, S.; Pyšek, P. (2001). "Invasion history of Oenothera congeners in Europe: a comparative study of spreading rates in the last 200 years" (PDF). Journal of Biogeography. 28 (5): 597–609. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00574.x.
- ^ Gumbo Lily (Oenothera caespitosa). Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands. USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.
- ^ Peterson, R. T. and M. McKenny (1968). A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-91172-3.
- ^ "White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineata (Fabricius, 1775) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ a b Raven, P. H.; et al. (1979). "An outline of the systematics of Oenothera subsect. Euoenothera (Onagraceae)". Systematic Botany. 4 (3): 242–252. doi:10.2307/2418422. JSTOR 2418422.
- ^ a b Dietrich, W.; et al. (1997). Systematics of Oenothera section Oenothera subsection Oenothera (Onagraceae). Laramie: The American Society of Plant Taxonomists. ISBN 978-0-912861-50-0.
- ^ Cleland, R. E. (1972). Oenothera - Cytogenetics and evolution. Boston: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-176450-0.
- ^ Rostanski, K. (1985). "The classification of subsection Oenothera (section Oenothera, Oenothera L., Onagraceae)". Feddes Report. 96 (1–2): 3–14. doi:10.1002/fedr.4910960103.
- ^ Rauwolf, U.; et al. (2008). "Molecular marker systems for Oenothera genetics". Genetics. 180 (3): 1289–1306. doi:10.1534/genetics.108.091249. PMC 2581935. PMID 18791241.
- ^ Cleland, R. E. (1972). Oenothera - Cytogenetics and Evolution. Boston: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-176450-0.
- ^ Harte, C. (1994). Oenothera - Contributions of a Plant to Biology. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-53114-2.
- ^ Endersby, Jim (2007). A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Harvard University Press. pp. 148–162, 202–205. ISBN 978-0-674-02713-8.
- ^ Ramsey, Justin; Ramsey, Tara S. (August 2014). "Ecological studies of polyploidy in the 100 years following its discovery". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 5 (369): 898–900. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0352. PMC 4071525. PMID 24958925.
- ^ Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants (4 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3.
- ^ Oenothera biennis. Ohio Perennial and Biennial Weed Guide. The Ohio State University Extension.
- ^ "Gamma Linolenic Acid". American Cancer Society. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ Bamford, J. T.; et al. (2013). "Oral evening primrose oil and borage oil for eczema". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 4 (4): CD004416. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004416.pub2. PMID 23633319. CD004416.
- ^ "Evening primrose oil". National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. 2015-02-14.
- ^ Douglas, Sue (November 2002). "Premenstrual syndrome. Evidence-based treatment in family practice". Canadian Family Physician. 48 (11): 1789–1797. PMC 2213956. PMID 12489244.
- ^ McFarlin, B. L.; Gibson, M. H.; O'Rear, J.; Harman, P. (1999). "A national survey of herbal preparation use by nurse-midwives for labor stimulation". J Nurse Midwifery. 44 (3): 205–216. doi:10.1016/S0091-2182(99)00037-3. PMID 10380441.
- ^ Tenore, Josie L. (15 May 2003). "Methods for Cervical Ripening and Induction of Labor". American Family Physician. 67 (10): 2123–2128.
- ^ Adair, C. (September 2000). "Cervical Ripening And Labor Induction Nonpharmacologic Approaches to Cervical Priming and Labor Induction". Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology. 43 (3): 447–454. doi:10.1097/00003081-200009000-00005. PMID 10949749.
- ^ Dove, Dorinda; Peter Johnson (May–June 1999). "Oral evening primrose oil: Its effect on length of pregnancy and selected intrapartum outcomes in low-risk nulliparous women". Journal of Nurse-Midwifery. 44 (3): 320–324. doi:10.1016/S0091-2182(99)00055-5.
- ^ Jones W. and C. Sacamano. Landscape Plants for Dry Regions. Fisher Books. 2000. ISBN 1-55561-190-7
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oenothera.
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- Onagraceae - The Evening Primrose Family. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
- Plants For A Future
- zewczyk, Karolina; Lewandowska, Urszula; Owczarek, Katarzyna (2014). "Influence of Polyphenol Extract from Evening Primrose (Oenothera Paradoxa) Seeds on Proliferation of Caco-2 Cells and on Expression, Synthesis and Activity of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Their Inhibitors". Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences. 64 (3): 181–191. doi:10.2478/pjfns-2013-0003.


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A towering maple tree planted 147 years ago by schoolchildren to honor the passing of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln will be distinguished with a historic marker in the Town of Hanover today.
The dedication of the blue-and-yellow metal sign telling of the significance of the "Lincoln Maple" will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Allegany Road near Mackinaw Road in the town. The public is welcome to the event.
The tree, a sturdy maple that is located on private property that has been in the same family for generations, is an important link to the past for both the country and Chautauqua County, said Vincent Martonis, Hanover historian and curator of the Hanover History Center in Silver Creek.
"It's very historic," said Martonis, who organized the effort to get the marker installed. "Lincoln has, as we well know, a history of contact with Chautauqua County. The incident (with Grace Bedell) in Westfield, of course. But he stopped in Hanover with his inaugural train ... (and) his funeral train stopped there for wood and water."
"In Hanover, a little girl walked up and presented him with a bouquet of rosebuds."
According to local lore, those same local schoolchildren were devastated by the president's death toward the end of the Civil War. The story of how the children planted the memorial maple came down through the decades because one of the children who was there told his children and grandchildren, who passed the story down to the modern day, said Martonis.
"People should know where (the tree) is - and also connect the local history with regional and national history," said Martonis, a retired English professor. "Sometimes people don't realize that significant national events had local tie-ins."
"Here we see how schoolchildren were affected by the death of a dearly loved president. They expressed their grief and their love through the planting of a maple tree."
It will be the first time in nearly a century and a half that the tree has gotten any sort of official designation as a historic and tourist site in Western New York, said Martonis.
The historic marker cost $1,200, money raised through private donations, said Martonis. The installation of the marker is part of a series of five historic sites that will be given such designations in the Hanover area, as part of 200th anniversary celebrations for the town, which was founded in 1812.
The marker for the tree reads this way:
"The Lincoln Maple: This maple was planted in 1865 after Pres. Lincoln was assassinated. Schoolchildren from this Balltown school, built in 1820, planted it."
The tree is situated close to the side of the road along Allegany Road, in what used to be known as Balltown, a small hamlet in Hanover. The property held a small school building in the Civil War period, and the children of the school came up with the idea of planting a tree to honor Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, who had been assassinated in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., in April 1865.
The old maple tree is healthy, despite its age and despite being hit by lightning a few years ago, and aside from some dead limbs that were trimmed last week. It is free of rot and full of life, the town historian said.
"Once we get the dead limbs trimmed off . the tree should live another 50, 60 years, if not more," said Martonis.
As a precaution for the future, the historian said, the family that owns the property where the maple is located took on the task of cultivating and planting a seedling from the tree, which now grows nearby.
That tree, perhaps the Lincoln Maple II of the future, is now 30 or 40 feet, Martonis said, and is growing strongly.
"People need to remember this event," he said.
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Editorial: 'Augie is Key Part of City'
In an editorial, the Argus Leader, the state's largest newspaper, calls Augustana a "dominant part of Sioux Falls' makeup" and calls the College's reputation "integral to the city's high quality of living and ... one of Sioux Falls' key selling points."
Greenfest to Feature Panel Discussion on Environmentalism
Greenfest, an event organized by Augie Green, will feature lawn games on the Campus Green, bike rides, an environmentally-friendly meal in Morrison Commons and a panel discussion on "How Then Shall We Live: A Well-Rounded Approach to Environmental Living."
Five Days, Eight Augustana Events
Music, poetry, a book sale, a film premiere, numerical strategy and a gala event – it's an exciting week at Augustana College! Join the campus community at the following events this week.
In The News: Schmidt Shares Experiences from Rwanda
Monique Schmidt, class of 1998, emphasized the power of service at the Augustana Thought Leader Forum on Friday, April 8. Her presentation, "Reciprocal Transformations: A Discovery of Soul Through Service from Augustana to Africa," discussed her experiences in Kigali, Rwanda.
Augustana to Offer Online Master's Degree in Education
The 19-month, non-thesis program is designed for those who hold a bachelor's degree with an emphasis in education and are eligible for licensure. Applications are due by Friday, May 20. Classes will begin on Monday, June 6.
Show to Feature Songs, Stories in Sign Language
Presented by Augustana Deaf Awareness, "Burst of Sign 2011: In the Spotlight" is a movie and Broadway-themed show featuring songs, skits, jokes, and stories in sign language. The shows will be held Friday and Saturday in Kresge Recital Hall.
Butler to Speak at Augustana Symposium April 9
Dr. Anne M. Butler's discussion, "Placing Nuns Inside the Women's West: Convent Archives and Academic Research," will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, in Augustana's Gilbert Science Center, room 100. The event is free and open to the public.
Alumnus to Debut New Film in Sioux Falls
"You Don't Know Bertha Constantine," a film written and directed by Andrew Kightlinger, class of 2008, and starring Dr. Julia Pachoud Bennett, former assistant professor of Theatre, will make its world premiere at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 15, at the Washington Pavilion.
Library Associates to Host Book Sale April 14-15
The Augustana College Library Associates' Books and More Sale is set for April 14-15 at the Center for Western Studies. The sale will feature books, videos, CDs, DVDs and books and videos for children. Proceeds will support the programming of the Augustana Library Associates.
Alumnus Honored For Clinical Practice, Research and Teaching
Dr. Gene Hoyme, class of 1972, chief pediatric medical officer for Sanford Children's Hospital and nationally known expert on clinical genetics and fetal alcohol syndrome, has received the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr., Education Award by the Western Society for Pediatric Research.


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Australians and Israelis are questioning the official story that the Australian man and Mossad spy who died in an Israel prison in December 2010 committed suicide.
A family friend of Ben Zygier told the Australian Broadcasting Company ( ABC) that he doubts the 34-four-year-old father of two would hang himself in the bathroom of his "suicide-proof" cell.
"The death being noted as suicide comes as a great surprise to us all," Henry Greener told ABC. "He would be the last person on earth that I would guess would take his own life, especially being in a high security prison where there's nothing to hang from."
Zygier's death came two days after he met with top Israeli human rights lawyer Avigdor Feldman, who said Zygier was " emotionally stable" and " absolutely not" suicidal when they discussed his upcoming case.
"When I saw him, there was nothing to indicate he was going to commit suicide," Feldman said. "He asked for advice and I sat and listened to him. Not that I'm a psychologist, but he appeared rational, focused, he spoke clearly about the issue and didn't exude any sense of self-pity."
In a separate radio interview, Feldman expressed surprise a prisoner in "a cell which was being monitored and checked 24-hours a day, could manage to commit suicide by hanging himself."
Uri Misgav of Haaretz writes that Zygier "died in strange, suspicious circumstances," citing the Australian's new daughter and the fact that Feldman was advising him about whether to go on trial in an Israeli court or agree to a plea bargain.
One could imagine a situation in which a person in extreme prison conditions who faces a threatening, fateful dilemma chooses to commit suicide. One may also wonder about the likelihood of his committing suicide four days after his daughter's birth and immediately after meeting a lawyer to examine his options and leaning toward a trial rather than a plea bargain.
Feldman told The Times of Israel that Zygier was told by interrogators that he could "expect lengthy jail time and [to] be ostracized from his family and the Jewish community."
Misgav notes that, based on the information he's gathered, Zygier "had committed an offense of negligence, inadvertently, with no malice aforethought" that could have led to "a certain breach of security." Nevertheless, "it was not a fateful offense and the authorities' reaction was disproportionate" since people who commit severe treason and espionage "are not offered plea bargains."
Zygier's was detained in January 2010, eight days after authorities in Dubai claimed that suspected Israeli agents with fraudulent Australian passports assassinated a Palestinian militant.
Jodi Rudoren of The New York Times reports that Al Jarida, a liberal opposition newspaper in United Arab Emirates, claimed Zygier had provided the authorities in Dubai with "names and pictures and accurate details" in exchange for protection, but Israel kidnapped him from a hiding place and imprisoned him on charges of treason.
On Thursday The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Australian intelligence officials believe that Zygier may have been ready to divulge details about Mossad's use of fraudulent Australian passports in operations.
Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser had this to say:
Zygier 'close to spilling on Israel' Plausible, most likely cause, therefore unlikely suicide. theage.com.au/national/-2eg0…— Malcolm Fraser (@MalcolmFraser12) February 14, 2013
The doubts about the suicide are just the latest in a very mysterious case, the discussion of which was prohibited in Israel for years because of a gag order. Israeli authorities partially lifted the gag order this week, allowing domestic media outlets to quote foreign reports but not publish or broadcast original material.


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Here you can find different case studies from the UK and the rest of the world. Some are extracted from our customer magazine Liko News, which you also can download in PDF format, below.
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The world famous Likorall overhead tracking system from Liko is making a tremendous difference at the Cheviot View Centre in Newbiggin Hall, Newcastle.
Sir Charles Parsons School is a secondary school based in Newcastle upon Tyne for students with special educational needs including severe or profound disabilities, multiple learning difficulties, challenging behaviours, sensory impairment and communication difficulties.
Over the past 10 years, Liko, the UK's leading provider of patient lifting solutions, has installed in excess of 60 Likorall systems throughtout The West of England School and College for young people with little or no sight.
Liko hoisting and tracking systems play a unique part in ensuring The Alan Shearer Centre can realise its goal of being accessible to all children, regardless of disability.
Training programmes and seminars have proven to be a very effective way of increasing awareness and spreading knowledge of how to work safely with patient transfers in the care sector. With this in mind, Liko, with the help of Liko Competence, decided to run a trial session with a view to rolling out a full programme.
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Greater Manchester, one of Europe's leading cancer centres, has been using Likorall gantry system, Solo slings and UltraStretch in its mortuary for over three years.
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Greater Manchester, one of Europe's leading cancer centres, has been using Likorall gantry system, Solo slings and UltraStretch in its mortuary for over three years.
– Now after the course, we are using the overhead lift more often and taking better care of ourselves. We stop to think beforehand, says Susanna Berglund, head of unit and responsible for working environment at the orthopaedic ward at Sunderby Hospital in Luleå, Sweden.
The domino effect: First, three instructors were trained, and then they in turn trained 182 caregivers. An attentive application for local development funds has given almost all of the caregivers in the Scanian town Staffanstorp the Safe Lifting Licence®. – We have received very high evaluations from those who have taken the course, says section leader Ingegärd Florin.
Manual transferring of patients in bed used to be a strenuous operation for the staff at Göransgården. Occupational therapist Cecilia Fransson found a surprisingly simple solution – a green sheet.
Anita Rush works as Clinical Nurse Specialist (responsible for Aid Service in the local government) in Berkshire, England, an area with many bariatric patients. More than 10 years ago, when Anita met her first bariatric patient, she realized that knowledge in the field was missing. She decided to acquire it by herself.
There were two massive outbreaks of the dreaded "Super Bug", MRSA, in 2005 at the University Hospital in Linköping, Sweden. Both patients and personnel were struck, wards were closed and admission of new patients was stopped. We went there to find out what has happened since then. Read more »
Such a simple thing as travelling on a bus can be practically impossible for those with a disability. It shouldn't be like that. And it is no longer like that, thanks to "A bus for All".
– It feels good to be able to stand on my own legs again; now I stand for six to seven minutes at least once a day, says a both proud and satisfied Valter. This doesn't sound like much, perhaps, but his wife testifies as to how good it is for Valter to stand up and how much it means. But she thinks it is a bit unbelievable.
Liko is an expansive company, and we have once again constructed new premises in thelittle village of Alvik, Sweden, where we have our head office. This time we have also built a big film and photo studio. In order to explain the function of our products, we produce a lot of information material, including some instruction films.
In the vibrant city of Peking, there is something as unexpected as a Swedish care home. Or, to be correct, a Chinese care home of Swedish design.
Do you want to keep an eye on the latest in lifting and transferring news? In that case you are in good company, as almost all of your colleagues want that, too. In order to satisfy this need, Liko has developed an e-mail letter, the Liko Update.
This year Liko has moved premises in four places in Sweden, in order to be able to offer better-suited premises for courses, customer meeting, workshops, etc.
From the very beginning consideration for those for whom we develop our products has been our most important guiding-star. Our concept reflects our vision in our daily activity - always to improve life quality for patients and caregivers globally.
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