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Recent research conducted by Department of Philosophy faculty members includes one book and four journal articles or book chapters.
Deborah Barnbaum, Professor of Philosophy
Barnbaum, Deborah. "Aesthetics and Artists with Autism." Returning as a featured speaker at Kanazawa University (Japan) in March 2012.
Barnbaum, Deborah. The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, but Not of Them (Indiana University Press, 2008) is presently under contract for Japanese translation.
Michael Byron, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Byron, Michael. "Evidentiary Fallacies and Empirical Data." American Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2012): 175–182.
Kimberly Garchar, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Stark Campus)
Garchar, Kimberly. "Sin, Sorrow, and Suffering: A Graceful and Roycean Response to these Deeper Tragedies of Life." The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 33.1 (January 2012): 57-73.
Richmond Moeller, J., Albanese, T.H., Garchar, K., Aultman, J.M., Radwany, S. and Frate, D. "Functions and Outcomes of a Clinical Medical Ethics Committee: A Review of 100 Consults," The co-authors are all members of the Ethics Committee (EC) at Summa Health System's (SHS) Akron City Hospital. Published on line in HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum: An Interprofessional Journal on Healthcare Institutions' Ethical and Legal Issues http://www.springerlink.com/content/182k07g2t1616517/, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., February 1, 2012.
Frank Ryan, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ryan, Frank. Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Great Barrington, MA: American Institute for Economic Research, 2011.
- The work is distributed to all AIER subscribers and will serve as the textbook for the Summer Methodology Graduate Seminar (to be taught by Prof. Ryan) at the Institute in Massachusetts during the Summer 2012 Session. The work serves as a guide to the methodological philosophy of the AIER.
Deborah Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Smith, Deborah. "Mind-Independence and the Logical Space of Wright's Realist-Relevant Axes." The Southern Journal of Philosophy 49.2 (June 2011): 164-191.
Smith, Deborah. "Rainbows, Time Zones, and Other Mind-Independent Objects: Making Sense of the Relevant Notions of 'Mind-Dependence' in the Debate Between Metaphysical Realists and Antirealists." Open Journal of Philosophy 2.1 (forthcoming in 2012).
Jeffrey Wattles, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Wattles, Jeffrey. "John Muir as a Guide for Education in Environmental Aesthetics." Journal of Aesthetic Education (forthcoming in summer 2012).
- Journal of Aesthetic Education is one of the top journals in aesthetics in the U.S. Muir was an explorer focused mainly on Yosemite and the glacier fields of Alaska, and is the founder of the Sierra Club.


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If you pass by the Dansereau House in downtown Thibodaux on a December night, get ready for your jaw to drop.
Every 15 minutes, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., the blaze of lights in the landmark building's front yard goes haywire. From a distance, the rapid-fire flashes of color look like a seizure waiting to happen.
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"This is a much, much faster song than the one we had last year," said innkeeper Paul Worrell. "I really had to step it up to make it work. But I like the result."
Worrell and his wife, Lori, have run the Dansereau House for three years. Each year, they've put out a more extravagant Christmas spread.
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On the inside, the look fits the house's old-school, refined ambivalence — there are eight Christmas trees with warm but subdued lighting and wreaths and strings of lights hanging over doorways.
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On their first Christmas at the house, Worrell, who has been an architect for 30 years, set out a formidable set of lights. But they were mostly static, and he wanted more.
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Leon Whiteson, a Zimbabwe-born architect-turned-critic and novelist who wrote about architecture for publications such as Architectural Digest, the Toronto Star and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, died of cancer Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 82.
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Whiteson was architecture critic at the Toronto Star from 1980 to 1983 and the Herald Examiner from 1984 to 1988. He later wrote freelance articles on architecture and design for the Los Angeles Times and in 1989 was honored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects with its distinguished achievement award in the media.
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The son of an electrical engineer and a homemaker, Whiteson was born Oct. 19, 1930, in the Southern Rhodesian city of Bulawayo. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1953, he worked as an architect in London for about a decade before focusing on writing.
His first marriage, to the former Janine Kahn, ended in divorce. In addition to Layton, whom he married in 1978, he is survived by a daughter, Karen Whiteson, of London; a son, Adam Whiteson, of Los Alamos, N.M.; a stepson, David Layton, of Toronto; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.


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The housing bust claimed another casualty. Invista, Waynesboro's largest employer, decided to idle its local nylon operations temporarily. Closure of the nylon section, which produces fiber for Stainmaster carpets, is forcing the company to lay off 210 employees and at least 132 contract workers.
The Waynesboro manufacturing plant, established by DuPont in 1929 and purchased by Invista in 2004, also produces Lycra, a fiber used in hosiery, socks and sportswear. Demand for that material remains high, according to Invista spokeswoman Jodie Stutzman, who said that apparel-fiber manufacturing lines would not be affected.
Officials for Invista — a Wichita-based subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries Inc. — attribute their decision to close nylon operations to deteriorating market conditions and reduced consumer demand. Since 2005, carpet sales are down 25 percent across the industry. As a result, Invista is also laying off workers at its Wilmington, Del., facility and closing a plant in Canada.
"If people aren't building houses, they can't put carpet in them," says Benjamin Carter, president and CEO of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce. "It's tough on the employees, but this was a business decision and it had to be made so the organization as a whole can survive."
All 632 workers employed at the plant received layoff notices under the 1989 Worker Adjustment and Retraining (WARN) Act, which requires employers to advise employees of mass layoffs at least 60 days in advance. Stutzman says the step was required because the company is still in the process of identifying which employees will be laid off.
The number of employees targeted for layoffs represents 12 percent of Waynesboro's manufacturing work force. In October, Waynesboro's unemployment rate was 5.6 percent, below the national average of more than 6 percent.
Carter, who believes the Invista plant will go back into nylon production once the housing market rebounds, says the regional economy is holding its own despite the layoffs. "It's unfortunate that the company had to do this and unfortunate for those affected, but it's not as devastating to the [Shenandoah] Valley as some people might think," he said. "The economy here is much, much more diverse than it used to be, and so while we've had a bit of a slowdown, it's not nearly as bad as in other places."


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Tori had her eighth birthday over the weekend which means several things happened at our house. For one thing the entire immediate family, from both sides of our marriage, came over for super. That also means the house got an extra good cleaning only a month after its last extra good cleaning, Gabby's birthday was in January. For another thing it meant that we once again had to come up with the "perfect" cake. Gabby let me off easy this year and requested a simple LaLa Loopsy sheet cake, much easier to create than last year's infamous Edward Scissor Hands and Rapunzel wedding cake (no she didn't quite get the comical nature of this union, she just knew she liked them both). Tori on the other hand was having nothing to do with simple.
In retrospect I really caused my own drama in the birthday cake department. I made the mistake of introducing Tori to the wonderful world of pinterest and she spent much of an afternoon perusing pinned cakes and thus her dream of a three tiered University of Kentucky themed cake with a blue ombr'e interior and white exterior with blue piping was inspired.
In theory and as in all good pipe dreams I was well equipped to carry out such a feat. What I didn't foresee was ending up with a sore throat, congestion and being weighed down by a mixture of allergy medication and decongestants. That paired with trying to clean up the house, make the world's largest lasagna, ergo cutting way down on my counter space all the while icing the cake meant that the three tiered cake was condensed to a one tiered four layer cake.
In my defense I did manage to complete the ombr'e internal portion of the cake. In case you don't know ombr'e means that the layers start light and get darker and darker with each layer. I told you, nothing plain for this cake. I also managed to use up six eggs in the cake and another six in the lasagna, a good thing with the way the girls are laying right now.
Needless to say Tori wasn't all too happy about it. Upon viewing the cake in its crumb coat stage (first layer of frosting that allows you to decorate without the crumbs peeking through) she felt certain that all hope was lost. Her cake was going to be a disaster and she simply had to have another cake. So Dennis being the good daddy that he is made a last run to the store for a birthday cake.
So there I was with a four layer blue ombr'e cake that had already been crumb coated and a double batch of decorators frosting. The initial thought was to stick it in the fridge and have it for later; after all we were celebrating Tori's "fake" birthday. Gabby called it that for we had the party on a Saturday and her "real" birthday was on Sunday.
I seem to have some inane need to do everything the hard way though. That and my baking pride got the better of me. I needed to decorate that cake and prove my loving daughter wrong. I never said I was rational or even mature. So decorate I did. It didn't end up white with blue piping but by golly it was UK themed and definitely blue. Consequently if you haven't had the opportunity to work with food coloring paste I highly recommend it. A little warning though, be careful with it, I still have a slight blue tint to my cuticles.
After seeing the cake in its more decorated stage Tori then decided that the world wasn't coming to an end and this cake would suffice. I made a call to Dennis to see if he'd already gotten the cake and learned that he had not one but two personalized cakes. You see Tori and Carolyn, Dennis's mom, have birthdays just a few days apart so Dennis wanted to make sure we'd celebrate Carolyn too. So Tori didn't get a three tiered cake but she did get three cakes…well two at least and a third for her Maw Maw Carolyn.
I suppose in the end it wasn't too bad. The cake turned out decently despite all the drama and everyone ended up going home with cake leftovers and at least a piece or two of the world's largest lasagna. I'd like to say that I've learned my lesson and next year we're just going to stick with the store bought version from the get go but I know I'd be lying. I enjoy the decorating despite all the conflict. I think I'll just need to bar Tori from the internet.
Amy Morgeson
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See also: GSoc Instructions, Last year ideas
These ideas were contributed by our developers and users. They are sometimes vague or incomplete. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you may wish to contact the developers and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at.
Being accepted as a Google Summer of Code student is quite competitive. Accepted students typically have thoroughly researched the technologies of their proposed project and have been in frequent contact with potential mentors. Simply copying and pasting an idea here will not work. On the other hand, creating a completely new idea without first consulting potential mentors is unlikely to work out.
When writing your proposal or asking for help from the general KDE community don't assume people are familiar with the ideas here. KDE is really big!
If there is no specific contact given you can ask questions on the general KDE development list email@example.com. See the KDE mailing lists page for information on available mailing lists and how to subscribe.
|These are all proposals! We are open to new ideas you might have!! Do you have an awesome idea you want to work on with KDE but that is not among the ideas below? That's cool. We love that! But please do us a favor: Get in touch with a mentor early on and make sure your project is realistic and within the scope of KDE.
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When adding an idea to this section, please try to include the following data:
If you are not a developer but have a good idea for a proposal, get in contact with relevant developers first.
Brief explanation: Do you have an awesome idea you want to work on with KDE but that is not among the ideas below? That's cool. We love that! But please do us a favor: Get in touch with a mentor early on and make sure your project is realistic and within the scope of KDE. That will spare you and us a lot of frustration.
Expected results: Something you and KDE loves
Knowledge Prerequisite: Probably C++ and Qt but depends on your project
Mentor: Try to see who in KDE is interested in what you want to work on and approach them. If you are unsure you can always ask in #kde-soc on Freenode IRC.
Krita: digital painting for artists. It support creating images from scratch from begin to end. Krita is a complex application and developers need to have a fair amount of experience in order to be able to do something.
Krita is a widely used digital painting application for professional artists. Last year, Krita gained the ability to create hand-drawn 2D animations, among other new features. For this year, projects that the Krita team would be interested in include the following ideas.
Note that we're always open to ideas you bring in yourself: if you're passionate about something you've come up with yourself, that you want for Krita, that's a big plus for us.
We also expect prospective students to submit at least three patchs for bugs or wishes or small features. We want to know how good you are! See https://phabricator.kde.org/T7724 for some smaller tasks that you could work on that are not bugs.
Brief explanation: This is a hard-core project, only suitable for someone with deep knowledge of the problems of designing multi-threaded software. It involves Krita's core datamodel, where the tiles that compose image data are managed. The main problem is that at the moment the core utilizes QReadWriteLock and QMutex a lot, which means that Krita painting performance stops scaling well, when the number of CPU cores becomes larger than 8. The goal of this project is to locate all the bottlenecks (there are at least 4 of them) and resolve them in a lock-free. One of the bottlenecks involves KisTileHashTable which is used to access the tiles. Since this touches the very core of Krita, a thorough test plan is essential.
Steps to apply: The topic of the project is quite advanced, so we recommend you to do the following steps before writing a proposal:
Expected results: No bottlenecks anymore!
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, threads, locks.
Mentor: Dmitry Kazakov (dmkitryK|log on irc)
Brief Explanation: In Krita, you can already add curves that could be applied to some properties of a layer, like opactity, animating those properties. We want the animation support extended by allowing users to place masks (filter masks, transformation masks, transparency masks) on the timeline and animate their properties using curves. Every property of a layer or mask placed on the timeline should be animatable.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Mentor: Boudewijn Rempt (IRC: boud) or Dmitry Kazakov (IRC: dmitryk_log)
Brief Explanation: Krita has a number of interesting brush engines. One of them is the Shape Brush engine. Inspired by Alchemy, the shape brush "throws" shapes on the canvas. The current implementation is limited to geometric shapes. We want the brush engine to be extended to make it possible to load vector shapes defined as PDF or SVG and use those to draw on the canvas as well. Other improvements are the addition of Feathering, an outline mode, edge sharpening and background textures.
Expected Results: A revampted and exciting shapes brush
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Mentor: Boudewijn Rempt (IRC: boud) or Lukas Tvrdy (IRC: LukasT)
Brief Explanation: Blending modes is the hottest piece of code in Krita. It should process gigabytes of data per second, therefore it should be extremely optimized. Some of its parts are already optimized to use AVX instructions, but some (float16 color spaces) are not. We need to port the rest of the color spaces to AVX and make a research into the possibilities of using AXV2 instructions directly (int16 instructions). Vc library supports AXV2 instructions, though we don't know to what extent, it might happen that you would need to extent the library itself to get the needed functionality. This is another hard-core project only suitable if you have a good deal of experience.
Steps to apply: The topic of the project is quite advanced, so we recommend you to do the following steps before writing a proposal:
Expected Results: Float16 color spaces are ported to AVX, Integer8 and Integer16 colorspaces are ported to AVX2
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, SEE/AVX (read Intel's manual)
Mentor: Dmitry Kazakov (IRC: dmitryk|log)
Brief Explanation: In Krita we have a lot of blending modes, but only Normal and Alpha Darken are optimized and ported to AVX instructions. The reason for that is obvious, these two blending modes are the hottest and are used in every single image produced in Krita. But it doesn't mean that the other blending modes are less important for painters: they still use Multiply for painting shadows, and Linear Dodge for painting highlights, so they should also be fast!
The good piece of news is that all these "non-popular" blending modes are implemented in Krita by means of a single class KoCompositeOpGenericSC, so, basically, as a result of your project you should provide one class only! The bad piece of news is that this single class implements about a hundred of blending modes using C++ templates... so be prepared! :)
Steps to apply: The topic of the project is quite advanced, so we recommend you to do the following steps before writing a proposal:
Expected Results: "Copy" blending mode is ported to AVX, all the "gereric" blending modes are ported to AVX
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, SEE/AVX (read Intel's manual)
Mentor: Dmitry Kazakov (IRC: dmitryk|log)
Brief Explanation: When the user draws a line in Krita, this line consists of thousands of small rectangular images (dabs) that are painted one over another. For each dab Krita generates its own mask (depending on the stylus pressure and tilt) and uses this mask for filling the layer. It happens thousands of times per second, which makes mask generation code one of the hottest places in Krita. We already have AVX optimization for Default brush mask engine and it works 5(!) times faster than Gaussian engine and 3(!) times faster than the Soft engine. The goal of this project is to port the rest of non-optimized engines to use AVX via Vc library and make them faster.
Steps to apply: The topic of the project is quite advanced, so we recommend you to do the following steps before writing a proposal:
Expected Results: Circular Soft, Gaussian and Stamp brush masks are ported to AVX-optimized code. Optionally, if there is enough time, rectangular brush masks are posted as well.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, SEE/AVX (read Intel's manual)
Mentor: Dmitry Kazakov (IRC: dmitryk|log)
Brief Explanation: We already have an optimization for huge canvases, which is called Instant Preview. But it woks only when the user has the canvas zoomed out to fit the screen. There are some usecases, when the user wants to work with a small "working area" of a huge image and he doesn't care what happens with the rest of the image. This project is targeted to optimize this case.
Expected Results: By the end of the summer we expect these features to be implemented:
Steps to apply: The topic of the project is quite advanced, so we recommend you to do the following steps before writing a proposal:
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, OpenGL
Mentor: Dmitry Kazakov (IRC: dmitryk|log), Julian Thijssen (IRC: Nimmy)
Brief explanation: One of the more innovative features in Krita are the painting assistants. These are shapes overlaid on the canvas that the artist can use to help him achieve perspective, straight lines and other shapes freehand. For complex drawings it would be useful to be able to place 3D models on the canvas, position and scale them and use those as guides for drawing.
Expected results: by the end of the summer, 3D models should be shown on canvas as canvas decorations, using OpenGL in hidden-line wireframe mode. The models should be manipulated using on-canvas controls like other assistants. Magnetic snapping is an optional extra.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, OpenGL, Assimp
Mentor: Julian Thijssen (IRC: Nimmy)
KDE Student Programs is the working group responsible for running Season of KDE and managing KDE's participation in Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, and other mentorship programmes.
Brief explanation: Season of KDE will need a new website to make managing the project easier for us. The core feature set that we're looking to have comprises:
For maintainability by the rest of KDE we'd like the app to be in Python (Tornado or a WSGI framework). It would also be nice if the app was an SPA riding on top of a REST API server so we can have command-line tools interacting with the server as well.
Expected results: Easier project administration for KDE.
Knowledge Prerequisite: Python, Tornado/WSGI, LDAP, full-stack web development, Single-Page applications.
Mentor: Boudhayan Gupta <firstname.lastname@example.com>, BaloneyGeek on IRC
Brief explanation: GCompris is a an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Originally written in Gtk+ it's development team started to rewrite it from scratch in Qt Quick.
Expected results: The aim of this year is to complete and getting merged activities that were started but have not been finished. You can find a list of tasks that you can work on at https://phabricator.kde.org/T7498. First phase is to check what is missing to be integrated (on code and graphic side) and then to complete them. You can find at https://cgit.kde.org/gcompris.git/refs/heads the list of the current branches (some of them need to be dropped, so contact us before starting working on one of them).
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Be interested in children's education
Be familiar with GCompris concept and content
Basic knowledge in a programming language (a 1 year school course is enough)
Be able to build the Qt Quick version of GCompris
Application guide: Continuing an activity already started or rewriting from scratch is something you have to check before writing your application. Provide a timeline in your application. If you haven't contributed yet please read http://gcompris.net/wiki/An_exercise_for_new_contributors and http://gcompris.net/wiki/Reviewing_an_activity
There are several info in the wiki: http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner.
Feel free to contact us either on irc or by mail (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Mentors: Divyam Madaan (IRC: dmadaan), Johnny Jazeix (IRC: JohnnyJ), Rudra Nil Basu (IRC: rudra), Timothée Giet (IRC: Animtim)
Expected results: The aim of this project is to build the base for unit testing for GCompris. The student will have to think on what we can test (qml, js...) and how we can put this in place. More information can be found in https://phabricator.kde.org/T7668.
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Be interested in children's education
Be familiar with GCompris concept and content
Basic knowledge in a programming language and CMake use (a 1 year school course is enough)
Be able to build the Qt Quick version of GCompris
Technologies used are CMake, C++, Qt.
Feel free to contact us either on irc or by mail (email@example.com)
Mentors: Divyam Madaan (IRC: dmadaan), Johnny Jazeix (IRC: JohnnyJ), Rudra Nil Basu (IRC: rudra), Timothée Giet (IRC: Animtim)
Brief explanation: KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.
Expected results: Last year a lot of work was done to make KDE Partition Manager not to start as root and use KAuth to elevate privileges. The aim of this project is to finish required refactoring and make sure everything still works.
The two main issues are:
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Application guide: Get in touch on IRC (#kde-devel or #calamares).
Mentors: Andrius Štikonas (IRC:stikonas)
Brief explanation: Kopete is an instant messaging client that has the modular architecture and supports many messaging services with useful plugins to complement them.
Expected results: The aim of this project is to fix the bugs due to porting and improve the frontend and the test coverage.
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Application guide:
Get in touch with us on mailing-list and start hacking KDE and fix bugs. Teams of two people is preferred for this project as it is a lot of work :)
You can contact on IRC also but it is better to discuss over mailing list as not many people are in IRC on #kopete channel.
Mentors: Vijay <email@example.com> (vijay_ on IRC), Kopete Mailing List <firstname.lastname@example.com>
LabPlot is a KDE-application for interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data. LabPlot provides an easy way to create, manage and edit plots and to perform data analysis.
Brief explanation: LabPlot has already some support for plotting of live-data (http://krajszgsoc.blogspot.de/2017/09/in-finish-line-but-not-in-end.html). To cover more use-cases we want to also support MQTT sources. We need to investigate the available MQTT libraries for Qt:
and to add some support for MQTT to LabPlot.
Expected results: Similar to the currently supported data sources (files, sockets, serial port, SQL databases) we want to support the subscription to MQTT brockers and plotting of their data.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, (optional) knowledge and experience with MQTT
Mentor: Fábián Kristóf - Szabolcs (mailto:email@example.com)
Brief explanation: There are many internet pages providing data sets for educational and study purposes for many different areas (astrophysics, statistics, medicine, etc.). Some tools used in the scientific area provide some "wrappers" for such online sources and allow the user to easily play around with those data sets in the applications whereas the technical details like fetching of data from the server and parsing are done completely transparent for the user. The goal of this project is to add similar functionality to LabPlot. There will be a wizard where the user can select from a thematically grouped list of data sets available online. The internal description of such an online data set should contain the URL with the actual file that needs to be downloaded and the settings for LabPlot's data parser (separator, column names and data types, etc.). The data fetched once should be cached so there is no need to fetch from the web again. Here we can have a look maybe at KStars for how to implement such a caching strategy and maybe even re-use some code from KStars. In addition to the list of pre-defined online sources, we need to elaborate how the user can add new online data sets (together with all the required parametrization) and publish the settings to make them available for everybody.
Expected results: We want to be able to easily import the educational data sets available on the internet.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt
Mentor: Stefan Gerlach
Brief explanation: Brief explanation: This goal of this project is to extend the number of supported data sources by adding the possibility to import the data from web services (live and historical financial data, weather, etc.). Most web services expose their data via JSON. We need to add a "JSON filter" to LabPlot capable to connect to a web service, to fetch the data, to parse it and to import into LabPlot's internal data containers. In the GUI the user should be guided through the entry of the service URL, additional services parameters like API token, etc. and through the settings for the actual parsing (which JSON fields to consume and how). Also, it should be possible to refresh the data periodically like it is already possible for the live data (http://krajszgsoc.blogspot.de/2017/09/in-finish-line-but-not-in-end.html). The goal is also to provide a set of widely known web services so the user can select and import the data from a list of pre-defined services. In addition to this, we need to elaborate the possibility to "publish" the settings for a web-service done by the user and make them publicly available to every LabPlot user.
Expected results: Similar to the currently supported data sources (files, sockets, serial port, SQL databases) we want to import the data from web services and visualize it.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, (optional) JSON support in Qt
Mentor: Alexander Semke
Kdenlive is a KDE-application for professionnal video editors. It supports hundreds of video formats, and all the features you can expect from a non-linear video editor, including some advanced features like timeline preview rendering, proxy clips and more.
Brief explanation: Current Choqok UI doesn't make use of QML and creates interfaces in C++ files. The idea is to rewrite the interface in QML. At this point is better doing it with Kirigami since this means it will work on Plasma Mobile too.
Expected results: Choqok UI makes use of Kirigami.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, Qml
Mentor: Andrea Scarpino (IRC: ilpianista)
Application guide: Get in touch on IRC (#choqok).
KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.
Brief explanation: KStars supports many deep sky objects (DSOs) including galaxies, nebulae, supernovae, clusters and more. Currently, some deep sky catalogs are stored in simple space separated text format where they are parsed into KStars directly or into KStars Deep Sky Component SQLite3 database which is then loaded in KStars. However, since all DSOs are loaded at once into memory, this limits the size of catalogs within KStars. A solution similar to how dynamic stars are cached in and out of memory must be developed for DSOs. Furthermore, all catalog entries should have their trixels indexed so that they can be efficiently drawn unto the sky map. Another issue is that catalogs can overlap since there is no cross-identification of various catalogs. For example, Andromeda galaxy exists in Messier catalog as M31, and exists in NGC catalog as NGC 224. The database should support ability to cross-identify objects from all supported and future catalogs.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, Data Structures
Mentor: Jasem Mutlaq (Matrix: Jasem)
Brief explanation: Ekos is KStars premier tool for observatory control and automation. KStars Lite was successfully developed in GSoC 2016 and is available for Android phones and tablets. We would like to extend KStars Lite to include basic support for Ekos. Currently, KStars Lite supports basic telescope and capture controls, but it could be extended to support a richer experience for users who are performing observatory control and astrophotography.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, QML
Mentor: Jasem Mutlaq (Matrix: Jasem)
Brief explanation: Ekos is KStars premier tool for observatory control and automation. A web client port of Ekos is desired where it communicates with the underlying INDI servers and drivers without a direct dependency on thick desktop clients. Ekos includes many modules including setup, capture, focus, guide, align, and mount. All functionalities of the desktop Ekos client are expected in the web client version using Python+Ajax or similar framework technologies suitable for online dynamic driven clients.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, Django/Ajax or similar technology framework.
Mentor: Jasem Mutlaq (Matrix: Jasem)
Brief explanation: The Skymap in KStars desktop version is currently built using QPainter and 2D drawing primitives. In order to take advantage of advances in modern GPU hardware and to present a stunning visual view of the night sky, a 3D backend is desired. Qt 3D provides functionality for near-realtime simulation systems with support for 2D and 3D rendering in both Qt C++ and Qt Quick applications. Within KStars, SkyPainter provides a backend-agnostic class for drawing object unto the skymap regardless of the backend. Previously, an experimental OpenGL backend was developed but was later deprecated due to drawing issues. Since Qt3D provides an abstraction to the backend framework (OpenGL/Vulkan/DirectX), it presents a very flexible framework for building future-proof 3D applications.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt, Prior experience working with 3D applications/games.
Mentor: Akarsh Simha (Matrix: kstar)
Peruse is a comic book reader application by KDE, which is designed to work both on touch based devices, and on the traditional desktop. Additionally, it has a tool called Peruse Creator which is designed to create comic books for use with Peruse and any other CBZ capable comic book reader. It has rudimentary support for the Advanced Comic Book Format, which is a metadata container for comic book archives (CBR, CBZ and so on).
See also the Peruse website for more detailed information: https://peruse.kde.org/
Brief explanation: Peruse Creator is currently very simple, and will allow the user to create a CBZ comic book archive annotated with a subset of the Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF) metainfo, such as authors, publisher information, characters and so on. It does not allow for the creation or editing of the viewport based navigation that ACBF describes, nor does it support the text layers system ACBF proposes for comic book translation. It also lacks editor components for a variety of the general metainformation ACBF suggests.
Your project proposal should include explicit descriptions of which of these you wish to build support for, and how you propose to do so. It should further include timeframes for each.
Expected results: A more capable Peruse Creator.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++ and Qt required, additionally QML/QtQuick knowledge is preferred
Mentor: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen (firstname.lastname@example.com, IRC: leinir, Telegram and twitter: @leinir)
Brief explanation: The current viewer component for Comic Book Archives (CBR) in Peruse is a simple full-page viewer, which only supports page-by-page navigation. The Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF) metadata container brings with it support for a viewport system, which describes how the application should present specific sub-sections of each page, as well as a system for navigating between arbitrary pages in the comic.
Your project proposal should include explicit descriptions of how you would suggest to implement this, as well as a schedule for the work.
Expected results: A viewer component which is able to consume and display the viewport based navigation metadata from the ACBF container, as well as present the general metainformation to the user.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++ and Qt required, additionally QML/QtQuick knowledge is preferred
Mentor: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen (firstname.lastname@example.com, IRC: leinir, Telegram and twitter: @leinir)
KGpg is a frontend for GnuPG key management.
Brief explanation: KGpg currently consists of one application with a very narrow external interface, which is available via DBus. The goal is to split out parts of the code into a static library that is used both by the KGpg binary as well as to-be-written unit tests, which should also cover at least all of the "transaction" classes.
Expected results: unit tests that can be called via CTest, and are integrated into the KDE CI jobs
Knowledge Prerequisite: basic C++, CMake, and GnuPG usage
Mentor: Rolf Eike Beer (firstname.lastname@example.com, IRC: Dakon)
Brief explanation: Libinput is now used as the driver for input devices in most distros. However, System Settings does not present the user with good interfaces for configuring input devices with libinput. Currently the only well-supported use case is for touchpads in a Wayland session. For touchpads on X11, and mice on both X11 and Wayland, the user experience is sub-optimal or non-existent.
Expected results: System Settings should expose good user interfaces for configuring both touchpads and mice when using Libinput, and for both Wayland and X11.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt
Mentor: Nate Graham (Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; Telegram: @nggraham)
Application guide:
Brief explanation: Discover Software Center is in charge of offering different kinds of assets at the moment. Applications, Add-ons, etc as well as serving updates. At the moment it's still not able to update our devices' firmwares. There's a tool for GNU/Linux called FWUPD to do so: https://fwupd.org/developers
Despite the description specifying plasma, the end goal is to provide a seamless solution to have your hardware's firmware up to date. If the proposal is too short, other improvements suggested to add to the idea will be welcome.
Expected results: Plasma being great at having an up to date system, also with hardware.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++ and Qt, also notions of how glib works, to understand upstream FWUPD.
Mentor: Aleix Pol: apol, @AleixPol, firstname.lastname@example.com
Brief explanation: PDF files can contain replies to certain annotations, you would need to add support to Okular and potential poppler so that they show the same way they do on other PDF readers. Once they are shown and if there is enough time adding the capability to add replies is also welcome.
Knowledge Prerequisite: C++, Qt
Mentor: Okular developers https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
Application guide:
You can find all of the WikiToLearn community on chat.wikitolearn.org. We have many other ideas: get in touch with us to discuss them further!
Brief explanation: [|https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/cristianbaldi/wikitolearn-frontend.git/Current PWA] is being used in the first iteration of the new WikiToLearn architecture. It needs some improvement in terms of testing, offline-experience and organization to make it stable and ready for a first stable release. We want, also, to create a cohesively ecosystem of resources and design guidelines that can be easily reused. Main goal of this project is to enhance the existing project to provide a tested, functional and production-ready PWA.
Expected results:
Knowledge Prerequisite:
Mentor: Gianluca Rigoletti (@rigolo)


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's women's basketball team defeated visiting Mount Ida, 70-55, in a non-conference game at the Tripp Athletic Center Wednesday evening.
Tied 8-8 with 14:08 on the clock in the first half, a jumper by sophomore Abbey Fedigan (New Fairfield, CT/New Fairfield HS) gave the Mustangs their lone lead of the game. Fedigan connected on a three-pointer to push Mount Ida's lead to 14-11, but UMD freshman guard Melissa Daigle (Rockland, MA/Rockland HS) nailed a three-pointer on the ensuing possession, tying the game at 14-14 with 11:29 left in the first half. With a 16-16 tie, the Corsairs closed the first half on a 21-6 run, fueled by 12 points from sophomore center Erika Bornemann (Canton, MA/Canton HS), taking a 37-22 lead into the break.
A three-pointer by Jeileen Rivera (Springfield, MA/Springfield HS) on the Mustangs opening possession of the second half pulled Mount Ida within 10 points, the closest they would come to the Corsairs after halftime. UMD rattled off another 18-7 run, gaining their largest lead of the game, a 55-34 advantage with 11:38 to play. The teams matched shots over the next four minutes, allowing the Corsairs to maintain their lead. Trailing 61-40, Mount Ida rallied with a 15-4 run, behind nine points from junior guard Evebonee Acosta (Hartford, CT/Bulkeley HS/Goldey-Beacom College), to pull within 10 points, 65-55, with 2:06 remaining. The Corsairs closed the game with a 5-0 run from the foul line, securing the 70-55 victory.
Eleven players registered points for UMD during the contest. Junior forward Colleen Moriarty (Canton, MA/Canton HS) led the Corsairs with a game-high 17 points, connecting on 8-of-14 attempts, with six rebounds. Bornemann added 15 points, including 2-of-4 from three-point, with a game-high 10 rebounds. Freshman guard Kelsey Garrity (Somerville, MA/Somerville HS) chipped in nine points, with four rebounds, five assists and six steals. Mount Ida was led offensively by Acosta with a game-high 17 points, with four rebounds and four assists, while Fedigan notched 12 points on 5-of-10 shooting in the loss.
UMD forced 23 turnovers while committing only 13, and made 45.9 per cent (28-of-61) of their shots from the field to 44.2 per cent (23-of-52) for Mount Ida. The Corsairs out rebounded the Mustangs, 36-30.
"We played an unselfish game tonight and moved the ball around well," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Amanda Van Voorhis. "We had a clear advantage in the post and they set the tone early. Before the game we talked about moving our feet on defense and defending the three and I thought we did a nice job with that. We are on a little run now and are looking forward to a big conference matchup this Saturday against Western Connecticut. We are playing better basketball and this is the time to be doing so as we strive for the fourth seed."
The Corsairs improved to 13-7 with the victory, while the Mustangs dropped to 10-10 with the defeat. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they host Western Connecticut State Saturday in the first game of a Little East Conference doubleheader. Mount Ida will host Emerson Saturday.


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In a time where newspapers are folding and cutting delivery days left and right, it's easy to forget that the newspaper was once the favorite, and maybe only, way for people to get information. During the American Revolution, journalists were similar to modern-day bloggers. Everyone, it seemed, was starting a newspaper to bring his opinions to the public, including some people who might surprise you. In Scandal & Civility: Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy, Marcus Daniel, associate professor of American History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, offers a new perspective on the most influential, partisan journalists of the 1790s. Daniel reminds us that journalists' rejection of civility and their criticism of the early American government were essential to the creation of modern-day politics. Check back tomorrow for the answers.
1. What early American journalist studied epidemics while taking a break from politics and his newspaper?
2. What grandson of a certain Founding Father used his inheritance to start a newspaper?
3. Which former public-school student, after failing to successfully run a dry-goods shop, decided to "try his luck" at journalism?
4. What Princeton alumnus and early journalist wore homemade clothes to his commencement ceremony?
5. What journalist scandalized Philadelphia with the window dressing in his printing shop and bookstore?


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Repentance is one of the first principles of the gospel and is essential to our temporal and eternal happiness. It is much more than just acknowledging wrongdoings. It is a change of mind and heart that gives us a fresh view about God, about ourselves, and about the world. It includes turning away from sin and turning to God for forgiveness. It is motivated by love for God and the sincere desire to obey His commandments.
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The Need for Repentance
The Lord has declared that "no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven" (Alma 11:37). Our sins make us unclean—unworthy to return and dwell in the presence of our Heavenly Father. They also bring anguish to our soul in this life.
Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our Father in Heaven has provided the only way for us to be forgiven of our sins (see Forgiveness). Jesus Christ suffered the penalty for our sins so we can be forgiven if we sincerely repent. As we repent and rely on His saving grace, we will be cleansed from sin.
Elements of Repentance
Repentance is sometimes a painful process, but it leads to forgiveness and lasting peace. Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord said, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18). In this dispensation the Lord has promised, "He who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more" (D&C 58:42). Repentance includes the following elements:
Faith in Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. The power of sin is great. To become free from it, we must turn to our Heavenly Father, pray in faith, and act as He asks us to. Satan may try to convince us that we are not worthy to pray—that our Father in Heaven is so displeased with us that He will never hear our prayers. This is a lie. Our Father in Heaven is always ready to help if we will come to Him with a repentant heart. He has the power to heal us and to help us triumph over sin.
Repentance is an act of faith in Jesus Christ—an acknowledgment of the power of His Atonement. We can be forgiven only on His terms. As we gratefully recognize His Atonement and His power to cleanse us from sin, we are able to "exercise [our] faith unto repentance" (Alma 34:17).
Sorrow for Sin. In order to be forgiven, we must first acknowledge within ourselves that we have sinned. If we are striving to live the gospel, such an acknowledgment will lead to "godly sorrow," which "worketh repentance to salvation" (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow does not come because of the natural consequences of sin or because of a fear of punishment; rather, it comes from the knowledge that we have, through our actions, displeased our Heavenly Father and our Savior. When we experience godly sorrow, we have a sincere desire for change and a willingness to submit to every requirement for forgiveness.
Confession. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy" (Proverbs 28:13). Essential to forgiveness is a willingness to disclose fully to our Heavenly Father all that we have done. We must kneel before Him in humble prayer, acknowledging our sins. We confess our shame and guilt, and then plead for help.
Serious transgressions, such as violations of the law of chastity, may jeopardize a person's membership in the Church. Therefore, such sins need to be confessed to both the Lord and His priesthood representatives in the Church. This is done under the care of a bishop or branch president and possibly a stake or mission president, who serve as watchmen and judges in the Church. While only the Lord can forgive sins, these priesthood leaders play a critical role in the process of repentance. They will keep confessions confidential and help throughout the process of repentance.
Abandonment of Sin. Although confession is an essential element of repentance, it is not enough. The Lord has said, "By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them" (D&C 58:43).
We must maintain an unyielding, permanent resolve that we will never repeat the transgression. When we keep this commitment, we will never experience the pain of that sin again. We must flee immediately from any compromising situation. If a certain situation causes us to sin or may cause us to sin, we must leave. We cannot linger in temptation and expect to overcome sin.
Restitution. We must restore as far as possible all that has been damaged by our actions, whether that is someone's property or someone's good reputation. Willing restitution shows the Lord that we will do all we can to repent.
Righteous Living. It is not enough to simply try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must fill our lives with righteousness and engage in activities that bring spiritual power. We must immerse ourselves in the scriptures and pray daily for the Lord to give us strength beyond our own. At times, we should fast for special blessings.
Full obedience brings the complete power of the gospel into our lives, including increased strength to overcome our weaknesses. This obedience includes actions we might not initially consider part of repentance, such as attending meetings, paying tithing, giving service, and forgiving others. The Lord promised, "He that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven" (D&C 1:32).
See also Atonement of Jesus Christ; Baptism; Church Disciplinary Councils; Faith; Forgiveness; Plan of Salvation; Sin; Temptation
—See True to the Faith (2004), 132-35
Scripture References
Prophetic Teachings
"The Atonement, Repentance, and Dirty Linen"
The promise of the Lord is that He will cleanse our garments with His blood. … He can redeem us from our personal fall.
Adapted from an article originally published in the April 1995 Ensign. What a wonderful gift the Savior offers—to feel the joy of being free from sin.
From a fireside address given at Brigham Young University, 5 August 1990.
Just as the prodigal's father received him, our Father in Heaven eagerly desires to forgive all those who repent.
Are you taking full advantage of the redeeming power of repentance in your life so that you can have greater peace and joy?
Nephi was right. God gives no commandments to the children of men save He prepares a way for them to obey. However difficult our circumstances, we can repent.
From a devotional address given at LDS Business College on 6 May 1998.
Additional Study Materials
"The Glorious Work of Repentance and Baptism"Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, Chapter 7
"The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel"Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee, Chapter 4
"The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel"Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay, Chapter 21
"Repent, Repentance"Guide to the Scriptures
"Repent and Return unto the Lord"Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, Lesson 35
"The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel"Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, Lesson 7
"Repentance and Baptism"Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, Chapter 9


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Willowburn Colts players Ben Paterson (left) and Josh Shoesmith are hopeful of working with a new coach in 2013.
WILLOWBURN Football Club has not long wrapped up one of its most successful recent seasons, but incoming president Derek Tuffield has already targeted a club priority for 2013.
Tuffield took over the club presidency last month following two previous three-year stints in the job and has set about his first goal of bolstering the Magpies' Colts stocks for next year.
"Our Colts have struggled a little over the last few years and we are very keen to try and address that," Tuffield said.
"To help us, we are looking for an experienced coach who is keen to teach our enthusiastic players and help develop them for the 2013 season.
"We have an acting coach in place but they will step aside when we can hopefully appoint someone full-time to the position.
"It's an area we have struggled in previously and we would certainly love to hear from anyone who thinks they might be the right person for the job.
"The Colts (16-18 years) are the future for all clubs and nurturing them is a high priority."
Willowburn's 2012 included wins in the club championship, Premier Men and Reserve Men premierships, Presidents Cups and the Winstanley Shield.
The Magpie's are also enjoying a beneficial association with the junior Garden City Raiders club.
"We have been building a good relationship with the Garden City Raiders who have around 300 juniors," Tuffield said.
"Our junior numbers are around only 50 or 60.
"Being in an older area of the city with not a lot of expansion we find we have to work doubly hard for numbers.
"So the connection with Garden City feeding into our seniors is proving to be a benefit to both our clubs."
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Neurosurgeon: Evolutionary medicine = waste of time
Of course. The whole concept of evolutionary medicine is a waste of time for a very simple reason:
Evolutionary explanations are merely stories appended to the proximate (scientific) explanations. They contribute nothing to the scientific understanding of the disease beyond the contribution of the proximate explanations.
Evolutionary stories are ad-hoc and generally untestable guesses, and offer no meaningful framework for science. The proximate explanations (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, etc.) are the framework for science.
Strategies for disease treatment and prevention depend on data from the relevant medical sciences, not on speculative stories about origins.
Darwinian medicine is scientifically vacuous, and the Darwinian theory of human origins is the antithesis of human exceptionalism and human dignity.
Medicine can never be a discipline without a subject. Astrobiology can be a discipline without a subject because there are no space aliens to complain that their needs are not attended to. But medicine can't be a discipline without a subject (conventionally, a patient) because medicine must offer solutions, not just theories.
Supposed ancestors, just like space aliens, are not a subject, as far as medicine is concerned.
If you go to your doctor with severe chest pain, you will hardly wish to hear that some professor somewhere has theorized that Pleistocene man did not suffer from your condition because his selfish genes gave him lots of exercise bopping his numerous squeezes around, so ...
So you are supposed to pay for this information, if - out of charity - it can be called information?
Medicine exists, in the words of William Osler to provide cure sometimes, relief often, and comfort always - but never mere theories.
In my view, "evolutionary medicine" is another example of people trying to find a use for something that isn't really any particular use.
Interesting, sure. Useful, no.
I will try to get Dr. Egnor's PowerPoint put up on line somewhere.
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10 U.S. Code § 3965 - Restoration to former grade: retired warrant officers and enlisted members
Each retired warrant officer or enlisted member of the Army who has been advanced on the retired list to a higher commissioned grade under section 3964 of this title, and who applies to the Secretary of the Army within three months after his advancement, shall, if the Secretary approves, be restored on the retired list to his former warrant officer or enlisted status, as the case may be.
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
June 29, 1948, ch. 708, § 204, 62 Stat. 1086.
The words "hereafter", "rank or", and "shall thereafter be deemed to be enlisted or warrant officer personnel, as appropriate, for all purposes" are omitted as surplusage. The words "three months from June 29, 1948" and "whichever is later" are omitted as executed.
1988—Pub. L. 100–456 substituted "retired" for "regular" in section catchline.
1987—Pub. L. 100–180 struck out "Regular" before "Army who".
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Punjab : Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday asserted FDI in retail was in the interest of the farmers and the consumers across the country.
The fears that the FDI in multi brand retail would badly affect interests of the small shopkeepers and traders were unfounded, Pawar told reporters after inaugurating the seventh national conference on "Krishi Vigyan Kendras 2012" in the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) premises in Ludhiana.
"The FDI in retail is in the interest of the farmers and the consumers across the country," he said.
On the trend of paddy-wheat cycle in Punjab, he said it was not only was affecting fertility of the agricultural land, but was also causing depletion of underground water in the state.
Pawar said discussion had been held with Punjab government on the need to change this cycle and he would also discuss the issue with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
He said the Punjab government should look at bringing more area under the cultivation of oil seeds and pulses.
The Minister said the Centres main focus was to bring a second revolution by encouraging maximum paddy cultivation in Eastern parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
Replying to a question, he said the MSP on wheat was likely to be announced within a week.
On the issue of storage of food grains, Pawar said the Centre was working towards increasing storage capacity of food grains by setting up more godowns.
He said higher land prices in Punjab and Maharashtra were becoming obstacles in this regard.
Earlier, during his inaugural speech at the three-day conference, Pawar lauded the role played by PAU and the Punjab farmers for enhancing agriculture production in the country.
He praised the role of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in the country while stating there was need to do more towards upgradation of technology in the agriculture sector.


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CHOWN(2) BSD Programmer's Manual CHOWN(2)
chown, lchown, fchown - change owner and group of a file or link
#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> int chown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group); int lchown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group); int fchown(int fd, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
The owner ID and group ID of the file (or link) named by path or refer- enced by fd is changed as specified by the arguments owner and group. The owner of a file may change the group to a group of which he or she is a member, but the change owner capability is restricted to the superuser. By default, chown() clears the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on the file to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs. This behaviour can be overridden by setting the sysctl(8) variable fs.posix.setuid to zero. lchown() operates similarly to how chown() operated on older systems, and does not follow symbolic links. It allows the owner and group of a sym- bolic link to be set. fchown() is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the file locking primitives (see flock(2)). One of the owner or group IDs may be left unchanged by specifying it as -1.
Zero is returned if the operation was successful; -1 is returned if an error occurs, with a more specific error code being placed in the global variable errno.
chown() or lchown() will fail and the file or link will be unchanged if: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters. [ENOENT] The named file does not exist. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EPERM] The effective user ID is not the superuser. [EROFS] The named file resides on a read-only file system. [EFAULT] path points outside the process's allocated address space. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. fchown() will fail if: [EBADF] fd does not refer to a valid descriptor. [EINVAL] fd refers to a socket, not a file. [EPERM] The effective user ID is not the superuser. [EROFS] The named file resides on a read-only file system. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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From the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 (the so-called "Seventeen Years"), an astounding number of 120 opera films were produced. Many of these films were made by leading directors and were genuinely popular among viewers of the time. Their soundtracks were broadcast on radio and issued as phonograph records. They were learnt by heart and sung by generations of spectators-listeners, thus becoming an integral part of the soundscape as well as visual culture of the Maoist era.
Although many of these films can be considered important works in their own right, they have received scant attention from scholars of Chinese cinema or opera. Studies of Chinese cinema of the 1920s and 1930s often emphasize the links between cinema and theatre, but such symbiosis and tensions are largely ignored in studies of PRC film. The Chinese opera films produced during the "Seventeen Years" are important precursors to the "model opera" works of the Cultural Revolution. The latter have been much studied but have often been treated as aberrant phenomena unrelated to previous developments in Chinese film and opera. One of the aims of our symposium is to rethink the relationship between these two kinds of opera films, and to challenge the perception of cultural production in the socialist period as solely driven by political campaigns. An examination of Chinese opera film will allow us to rethink the cinematic production of the twentieth century in a historical and comparative perspective; to discuss how the filmic medium brought a variety of regional opera traditions to a national audience; and to discover which aspects of the Chinese cultural heritage were promoted to entertain and educate the citizens of the newly founded PRC.
The program of the symposium consists of thirteen papers delivered by faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars at the University of Chicago and from various other US and European institutions. In keeping with our interdisciplinary aims, papers will be divided into thematic panels and will be followed by discussants' comments which will relate them to their own areas of expertise and open up the discussion to broad transregional comparisons. Topics to be explored include the aesthetics of Chinese opera film with particular attention to the rendition of magic and supernatural events; the tensions between stage and cinematic performance; music and voice; the politics of adaptations and remakes; viewing and listening practices; the relationship between opera film, painting, and printed media; and the mutual contamination between acting and staging techniques in cinematic and operatic traditions.


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• AT&T VP: iPhone 5 coming in early October, prepare to get 'really, really busy' and Apple Developing New iPad – New rumors on both the iPhone 5 and the iPad. The latter, from the WSJ, has the iPad 3 launching in early 2012, which follows the product's established cycle.
• Apple files inaccurate evidence in Dutch Samsung case – Apple was accused of similar behavior in the German Galaxy Tab 10.1 case.
• Exclusive: How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous – Interesting look at the FBI's investigation into Anonymous' defacing of a Fox News site.
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• HP: 'We are not walking away from webOS;' exclusive details from inside – At a reported all-hands meeting, an HP exec tells the troops that the company plans to continue developing and hopefully license webOS as a platform. And HP's WebOS conundrum: Sell the IP or try licensing?
• IPad helps Apple take top spot in worldwide mobile PC market – If you count the iPad as a mobile PC, rather than making it a new category.
• Apple Wins Key Patents for Multi-Touch Displays, MagSafe for Future iPad & More and Apple seeks ban on all Galaxy smartphones, tablets in EU – Apple is sealing off the borders and going in for the kill.
• Most Android apps sit idle, top-50 apps make up 61% of all usage, Nielsen finds – I suspect the same is true for iOS apps.
• Google 'Nexus Prime' Android 4.0 phone could launch in October – Reportedly it will be a Samsung phone.
• Rain or shine, see the weather in Google Maps – Should The Weather Channel be worried?
• Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist
• Beware of Juice-Jacking – That kiosk that purports to provide power for your smartphone may be offering a lot more . . . like spyware.
• News sites using Facebook Comments see higher quality discussion, more referrals – When forced to use real names, commenters troll less. But Handing comments over to Facebook is a double-edged sword
• Scoop: RIM in talks for BlackBerry music service – Uh, shouldn't RIM be worried about basic survival? This seems like a distraction.
• Finally: Foursquare lets you check-in to movies, sports games and concerts – In other words, you can now check in at specific events.
• Ashton Kutcher Could Face Questions About Disclosure – Kutcher was guest editor of an online version of Details magazine, and endorsed products in which he's an investor without disclosing that fact.
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text: « Return to Search Mass. Eye and Ear Office of Global Surgery Launches ENT Subspecialty Training Program, Funds ENT Fellow in Mbarara, Uganda. November 12, 2013 Contact: Mary Leach 617-573-4170 BOSTON (Nov. 12, 2013) --Rates of death and disability stemming from ear, nose and throat conditions continue to rise in developing countries like Uganda, but despite the need, fewer than 15 operating ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons serve Uganda's 33.4 million and growing population. Only two ENT residency programs exist in this country, but many trainees do not remain in the country after graduation. Mass. Eye and Ear's Office of Global Surgery and Health (OGSH) has launched a new collaboration with Mbarara University Science and Technology School of Medicine and Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital to help address the need for more trained physicians to care for the ENT diseases and conditions of this population and to help encourage those who are ENT trained to stay in the country to care for those who need them. On Nov. 10, two-person teams comprised of Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School faculty and fellows began an onsite clinical component, rotating every two months, providing subspecialty surgical instruction, didactic lectures, clinical assessments and mentorships. The onsite component will be supplemented and supported through telemedicine, teleradiology and remote educational resources from Mass. Eye and Ear with the cooperation of faculty and staff from ENT, radiology and anesthesia. "Each subspecialty module will last two weeks and be integrated into the local curriculum, dove-tailing into the local education infrastructure to provide maximum benefit and local relevance to the Mbarara ENT residents," said Mack L. Cheney, M.D., a long-time Mass. Eye and Ear physician and Harvard Medical School Professor of Otology and Laryngology, incumbent of the Steven C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Endowed Chair in Global Surgery, and director of the OGSH. "The program begins with laryngology with Ramon Franco, M.D., Mass. Eye and Ear director of Laryngology, and Paul Paddle, M.D., laryngology fellow, as the first rotation." In addition, through a grant from Mass. Eye and Ear's Curing Kids Fund, the OGSH is sponsoring the training of ENT resident Dr. Esther Nakasagga for the duration of a three-year program in Mbarara. "In Uganda, medical residents are not salaried and must pay tuition. This has served as an obstacle to increasing surgical capacity as careers in infectious disease are much more likely to be supported due to considerable investment by international aid." Dr. Cheney said. "Mbarara University Science and Technology School of Medicine (MUST) learned about all of the qualified candidates who applied for the Curing Kids Fund grant and sponsored a second candidate, Dr. Jamilah Nabukenya. These two first-year residents will be part of the surgical training collaboration that the OGSH is starting this month. The OGSH was made possible through the generosity of Carmella Kletjian, who established the Steven C. and Carmella R. Kletjian Endowed Chair in Global Surgery. For more information about the Office of Global Surgery and Health, visit www.masseyeandear.org/GlobalSurgeryHealth