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sigaction - examine and change a signal action
#include <signal.h> int sigaction(int signum, const struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): sigaction(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE
The sigaction() system call is used to change the action taken by a process on receipt of a specific signal. (See signal(7) for an overview of signals.) signum specifies the signal and can be any valid signal except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. If act is non-NULL, the new action for signal signum is installed from act. If oldact is non-NULL, the previous action is saved in oldact. The sigaction structure is defined as something like: struct sigaction { void (*sa_handler)(int); void (*sa_sigaction)(int, siginfo_t *, void *); sigset_t sa_mask; int sa_flags; void (*sa_restorer)(void); }; On some architectures a union is involved: do not assign to both sa_handler and sa_sigaction. The sa_restorer element is obsolete and should not be used. POSIX does not specify a sa_restorer element. sa_handler specifies the action to be associated with signum and may be SIG_DFL for the default action, SIG_IGN to ignore this signal, or a pointer to a signal handling function. This function receives the signal number as its only argument. If SA_SIGINFO is specified in sa_flags, then sa_sigaction (instead of sa_handler) specifies the signal-handling function for signum. This function receives the signal number as its first argument, a pointer to a siginfo_t as its second argument and a pointer to a ucontext_t (cast to void *) as its third argument. sa_mask specifies a mask of signals which should be blocked (i.e., added to the signal mask of the thread in which the signal handler is invoked) during execution of the signal handler. In addition, the signal which triggered the handler will be blocked, unless the SA_NODEFER flag is used. sa_flags specifies a set of flags which modify the behavior of the signal. It is formed by the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following: SA_NOCLDSTOP If signum is SIGCHLD, do not receive notification when child processes stop (i.e., when they receive one of SIGSTOP, SIGTSTP, SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU) or resume (i.e., they receive SIGCONT) (see wait(2)). This flag is only meaningful when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD. SA_NOCLDWAIT (Since Linux 2.6) If signum is SIGCHLD, do not transform children into zombies when they terminate. See also waitpid(2). This flag is only meaningful when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD, or when setting that signal's disposition to SIG_DFL. If the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag is set when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD, POSIX.1 leaves it unspecified whether a SIGCHLD signal is generated when a child process terminates. On Linux, a SIGCHLD signal is generated in this case; on some other implementations, it is not. SA_NODEFER Do not prevent the signal from being received from within its own signal handler. This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler. SA_NOMASK is an obsolete, nonstandard synonym for this flag. SA_ONSTACK Call the signal handler on an alternate signal stack provided by sigaltstack(2). If an alternate stack is not available, the default stack will be used. This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler. SA_RESETHAND Restore the signal action to the default state once the signal handler has been called. This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler. SA_ONESHOT is an obsolete, nonstandard synonym for this flag. SA_RESTART Provide behavior compatible with BSD signal semantics by making certain system calls restartable across signals. This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler. See signal(7) for a discussion of system call restarting. SA_SIGINFO (since Linux 2.2) The signal handler takes 3 arguments, not one. In this case, sa_sigaction should be set instead of sa_handler. This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler. The siginfo_t argument to sa_sigaction is a struct with the following elements: siginfo_t { int si_signo; /* Signal number */ int si_errno; /* An errno value */ int si_code; /* Signal code */ int si_trapno; /* Trap number that caused hardware-generated signal (unused on most architectures) */ pid_t si_pid; /* Sending process ID */ uid_t si_uid; /* Real user ID of sending process */ int si_status; /* Exit value or signal */ clock_t si_utime; /* User time consumed */ clock_t si_stime; /* System time consumed */ sigval_t si_value; /* Signal value */ int si_int; /* POSIX.1b signal */ void *si_ptr; /* POSIX.1b signal */ int si_overrun; /* Timer overrun count; POSIX.1b timers */ int si_timerid; /* Timer ID; POSIX.1b timers */ void *si_addr; /* Memory location which caused fault */ int si_band; /* Band event */ int si_fd; /* File descriptor */ } si_signo, si_errno and si_code are defined for all signals. (si_errno is generally unused on Linux.) The rest of the struct may be a union, so that one should only read the fields that are meaningful for the given signal: * POSIX.1b signals and SIGCHLD fill in si_pid and si_uid. * POSIX.1b timers (since Linux 2.6) fill in si_overrun and si_timerid. The si_timerid field is an internal ID used by the kernel to identify the timer; it is not the same as the timer ID returned by timer_create(2). * SIGCHLD fills in si_status, si_utime and si_stime. The si_utime and si_stime fields do not include the times used by waited-for children (unlike getrusage(2) and time(2)). In kernels up to 2.6, and since 2.6.27, these fields report CPU time in units of sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK). In 2.6 kernels before 2.6.27, a bug meant that these fields reported time in units of the (configurable) system jiffy (see time(7)). * si_int and si_ptr are specified by the sender of the POSIX.1b signal. See sigqueue(2) for more details. * SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, and SIGBUS fill in si_addr with the address of the fault. SIGPOLL fills in si_band and si_fd. si_code is a value (not a bit mask) indicating why this signal was sent. The following list shows the values which can be placed in si_code for any signal, along with reason that the signal was generated. SI_USER kill(2) or raise(3) SI_KERNEL Sent by the kernel. SI_QUEUE sigqueue(2) SI_TIMER POSIX timer expired SI_MESGQ POSIX message queue state changed (since Linux 2.6.6); see mq_notify(3) SI_ASYNCIO AIO completed SI_SIGIO queued SIGIO SI_TKILL tkill(2) or tgkill(2) (since Linux 2.4.19) The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGILL signal: ILL_ILLOPC illegal opcode ILL_ILLOPN illegal operand ILL_ILLADR illegal addressing mode ILL_ILLTRP illegal trap ILL_PRVOPC privileged opcode ILL_PRVREG privileged register ILL_COPROC coprocessor error ILL_BADSTK internal stack error The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGFPE signal: FPE_INTDIV integer divide by zero FPE_INTOVF integer overflow FPE_FLTDIV floating-point divide by zero FPE_FLTOVF floating-point overflow FPE_FLTUND floating-point underflow FPE_FLTRES floating-point inexact result FPE_FLTINV floating-point invalid operation FPE_FLTSUB subscript out of range The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGSEGV signal: SEGV_MAPERR address not mapped to object SEGV_ACCERR invalid permissions for mapped object The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGBUS signal: BUS_ADRALN invalid address alignment BUS_ADRERR nonexistent physical address BUS_OBJERR object-specific hardware error The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGTRAP signal: TRAP_BRKPT process breakpoint TRAP_TRACE process trace trap The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGCHLD signal: CLD_EXITED child has exited CLD_KILLED child was killed CLD_DUMPED child terminated abnormally CLD_TRAPPED traced child has trapped CLD_STOPPED child has stopped CLD_CONTINUED stopped child has continued (since Linux 2.6.9) The following values can be placed in si_code for a SIGPOLL signal: POLL_IN data input available POLL_OUT output buffers available POLL_MSG input message available POLL_ERR i/o error POLL_PRI high priority input available POLL_HUP device disconnected
sigaction() returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
EFAULT act or oldact points to memory which is not a valid part of the process address space. EINVAL An invalid signal was specified. This will also be generated if an attempt is made to change the action for SIGKILL or SIGSTOP, which cannot be caught or ignored.
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4.
A child created via fork(2) inherits a copy of its parent's signal dispositions. During an execve(2), the dispositions of handled signals are reset to the default; the dispositions of ignored signals are left unchanged. According to POSIX, the behavior of a process is undefined after it ignores a SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV signal that was not generated by kill(2) or raise(3). Integer division by zero has undefined result. On some architectures it will generate a SIGFPE signal. (Also dividing the most negative integer by -1 may generate SIGFPE.) Ignoring this signal might lead to an endless loop. POSIX.1-1990 disallowed setting the action for SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN. POSIX.1-2001 allows this possibility, so that ignoring SIGCHLD can be used to prevent the creation of zombies (see wait(2)). Nevertheless, the historical BSD and System V behaviors for ignoring SIGCHLD differ, so that the only completely portable method of ensuring that terminated children do not become zombies is to catch the SIGCHLD signal and perform a wait(2) or similar. POSIX.1-1990 only specified SA_NOCLDSTOP. POSIX.1-2001 added SA_NOCLDWAIT, SA_RESETHAND, SA_NODEFER, and SA_SIGINFO. Use of these latter values in sa_flags may be less portable in applications intended for older Unix implementations. The SA_RESETHAND flag is compatible with the SVr4 flag of the same name. The SA_NODEFER flag is compatible with the SVr4 flag of the same name under kernels 1.3.9 and newer. On older kernels the Linux implementation allowed the receipt of any signal, not just the one we are installing (effectively overriding any sa_mask settings). sigaction() can be called with a null second argument to query the current signal handler. It can also be used to check whether a given signal is valid for the current machine by calling it with null second and third arguments. It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP (by specifying them in sa_mask). Attempts to do so are silently ignored. See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets. See signal(7) for a list of the async-signal-safe functions that can be safely called inside from inside a signal handler. Undocumented Before the introduction of SA_SIGINFO it was also possible to get some additional information, namely by using a sa_handler with second argument of type struct sigcontext. See the relevant kernel sources for details. This use is obsolete now.
In kernels up to and including 2.6.13, specifying SA_NODEFER in sa_flags prevents not only the delivered signal from being masked during execution of the handler, but also the signals specified in sa_mask. This bug was fixed in kernel 2.6.14.
See mprotect(2).
kill(1), kill(2), killpg(2), pause(2), sigaltstack(2), signal(2), signalfd(2), sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), sigqueue(2), sigsuspend(2), wait(2), raise(3), siginterrupt(3), sigsetops(3), sigvec(3), core(5), signal(7)
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Ties Per Inch | Perforation Types
Perforations are used on a laser form when a portion of the form needs to be detached from the rest. Perforations are classified by bursting strength and type. The bursting strength is referred to as "ties per inch" or TPI. The type of perforations are horizontal or vertical, which can be full or partial.
Ties Per Inch
The tie or tab is the part of the perforation where the paper does not get cut, but remains intact to "tie" the paper together. The ties alternate with cut areas to form the perforation. The tied areas of the perforation are usually narrower than the cut areas to allow for easier detachment of the sections separated by the perforation. The proper TPI to use is generally determined by the type of form and the function of the perforation on that form. For laser forms, a micro perforation is most commonly used for the following reasons:
There are times when a micro perforations does not work well on a laser form. If the form is on a heavy weight stock, it is hard to control the cutting depth of the perforation. Using a heavy weight stock may result in a perforation that does not properly detach. You should us a perforation with less TPI when using heavy weight stock. If you are unsure of which TPI to use, you should discuss your options with your supplier.
Perforation Types:
Horizontal Perforations:
Vertical Perforations:
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sigsuspend - wait for a signal
#include <signal.h> int sigsuspend(const sigset_t *mask); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): sigsuspend(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE
sigsuspend() temporarily replaces the signal mask of the calling process with the mask given by mask and then suspends the process until delivery of a signal whose action is to invoke a signal handler or to terminate a process. If the signal terminates the process, then sigsuspend() does not return. If the signal is caught, then sigsuspend() returns after the signal handler returns, and the signal mask is restored to the state before the call to sigsuspend(). It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP; specifying these signals in mask, has no effect on the process's signal mask.
sigsuspend() always returns -1, normally with the error EINTR.
EFAULT mask points to memory which is not a valid part of the process address space. EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal.
Normally, sigsuspend() is used in conjunction with sigprocmask(2) in order to prevent delivery of a signal during the execution of a critical code section. The caller first blocks the signals with sigprocmask(2). When the critical code has completed, the caller then waits for the signals by calling sigsuspend() with the signal mask that was returned by sigprocmask(2) (in the oldset argument). See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets.
kill(2), pause(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigprocmask(2), sigwaitinfo(2), sigsetops(3), sigwait(3), signal(7)
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This morning, the Peterson Companies has offered an olive branch of sorts to the photographers and bloggers it has recently slighted in Silver Spring (a detailed play-by-play of which can be found at the Baltimore Sun):
"We welcome photography, videography and other filming at our Center. We permit all of these activities, as long as our patrons and tenants are neither harassed nor photographed or filmed over their objection. Also, any activity which would interfere with pedestrian or vehicular movement requires advance management approval. We continue to encourage patrons to report inappropriate behavior to police and security personnel. We reserve the right to modify this and other policies."Peterson, owner of the Downtown Silver Spring complex, recently came under scrutiny for its "no photography" policy on Ellsworth Drive after security guards accosted photographer Chip Py two weeks ago. Py was unimpressed by the Peterson Companies' reversal. On the Free Our Streets blog, he said that the photographers' protest planned for July 4th on Ellsworth will go on as planned.
JUTP guest blogger Adam Pagnucco helped to broker the compromise between Peterson and the photographers. His take on the Peterson Companies' attempt to respond to community needs comes AFTER THE JUMP . . .
In evaluating the above policy, it is important to consider the exact legal status of Ellsworth. Ellsworth between Fenton and Georgia is owned by the county. However, it is leased by PFA, the partnership that built and now manages the development. The lease has a broad management rights clause for the partnership. However, it is also contingent on a public use easement that allows right of passage to the public and declares the street to be "public use space." More information on the exact language pertaining to the development can be found on Free Our Streets.
PFA has an option to buy the development outright. After ten years from the signing of its lease, the sale price will be one dollar. PFA could buy it now, but they would have to pay a higher price. The point is that this street could be 100% private property at any time.
PFA's new policy allows substantially the same photography practices that would prevail on a public street. The only difference is that PFA is not conceding that the First Amendment applies directly to what it considers to be its private property through its lease. Some believe that it should concede this right. I do not know of a real estate company that would surrender First Amendment rights on its private property without a court battle.
The organizers of Freeourstreets.org deserve credit for winning a much-improved photography policy from the company. The debate of the past week has also raised a compelling issue: what rights do citizens have on land controlled by public-private partnerships? Shouldn't those rights be addressed in detail in future agreements? The agreements applying to Ellsworth were negotiated prior to 9/11. We live in a different world now and we must closely examine the balance between commerce and liberty in our government's dealings with business.
PFA also deserves credit for acting in good faith and crafting a new policy that will prevent the sort of incident endured by Chip Py. PFA has told the Baltimore Sun that it will now welcome photographers rather than discourage them. PFA could have hired an army of lawyers and fought tooth-and-nail, but they instead chose to listen and change. As someone who has spent his life in the labor movement, I wish more businesses conducted their operations in that way.
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Ten years later, I'm pleased and proud to remind my readers that I opposed the Iraq War before it started. "It would be a terrible mistake to launch a preemptive strike against Iraq," I wrote shortly before the bombs began falling on Baghdad in March 2003.
Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, and turned out to be a very costly — in lives and taxpayer dollars — exercise in foreign policy failure and futility.
Nearly 4,500 young Americans were killed in Iraq, and ex-President George W. Bush's "war of choice" cost taxpayers at least $820 billion and added more than $ 1 trillion to our national debt. The average annual operational cost per U.S. soldier in Iraq was $462,000 between 2005 and 2009, and the Defense Department's special inspector for Iraq reconstruction estimated that the U.S. lost to corruption and/or waste at least $8 billion of the $60 billion earmarked by Congress for the reconstruction of Iraq.
In other words, crooked Iraqis and U.S. contractors stole at least $8 billion from American taxpayers during the war. As Michael Boyle of London's respected Guardian newspaper wrote, "Private companies acted like pigs at the trough, wasting taxpayer dollars ... while the insurgency raged around them."
Washington Post Associate Editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a veteran Middle East correspondent and author of a best-selling book about the early years of the Iraq War, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," recently wrote a column titled "Five Myths About Iraq." His myths are as follows:
1. The troop surge succeeded. Although the surge helped to reduce the level of violence in Iraq, it was a "flop" when it came to political compromise because "the majority Shiites didn't want to give the Sunnis and Kurds a greater role in the government and security forces," Chandrasekaran wrote.
2. Iraq today is relatively peaceful. No way! On the 10th anniversary of the war early this month, bombs exploded throughout the country, killing at least 60 people and wounding many more.
3. Iraq is a democracy. "It is, on paper. In practice, however, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is exercising authority and centralizing power in ways that remind many Iraqis of Saddam Hussein."
4. Iraq is in Iran's pocket. Not really, because even though Iran is Iraq's most important strategic ally, "Tehran's love and money don't guarantee that Iraqi Shiites will do its bidding."
5. The Americans have all left. No we haven't, because 220 U.S. soldiers remain in Iraq along with more than 10,000 American diplomats at the biggest U.S. embassy in the world, in Baghdad.
So we continue to pour hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into Iraq with negligible results in terms of our national security. I think it's time to cut way back on our presence in that violent and unstable part of the world and reduce the amount of money that we're spending on development assistance in Iraq and elsewhere in the troubled Middle East. As the old song goes, money can't buy us friends. Witness the situation in Afghanistan, where we're supposed to be "helping" the corrupt government of President Hamid Karzai, who wants to kick us out of his country. We should take him up on his offer sooner rather than later.
Guy W. Farmer is a retired American diplomat.
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All technologies.
This failure relates to:
The objective of this technique is to describe how using white space characters, such as space, tab, line break, or carriage return, to format individual words visually can be a failure to present meaningful sequences properly. When blank characters are inserted to control letter spacing within a word, they may change the interpretation of the word or cause it not to be programmatically recognized as a single word.
Inserting white space characters into an initialism is not an example of this failure, since the white space does not change the interpretation of the initialism and may make it easier to understand.
The use of white space between words for visual formatting is not a failure, since it does not change the interpretation of the words.
This example has white spaces within a word to space out the letters in a heading. Screen readers may read each letter individually instead of the word "Welcome."
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W e l c o m e

can also be used to add white space, producing similar failures:
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H E L L O

In Japanese, Han characters (Kanji) may have multiple readings that mean very different things. In this example, the word is read incorrectly because screen readers may not recognize these characters as a word because of the white space between the characters. The characters mean "Tokyo," but screen readers say "Higashi Kyo".
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In the row header cell of a data table containing Japanese text, authors often create vertical text by using line break characters. However screen readers are not able to read the words in vertical text correctly because the line breaks occur within the word. In the following example, "東京都"(Tokyo-to) will be read "Higashi Kyo Miyako".
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For each word that appears to have non-standard spacing between characters:
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Oscars Seating Chart: Where Pitt, DiCaprio and Others Are Sitting
The 2020 Oscars are just a couple of days away, and we know where some of your fave stars are sitting.
Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson gave fans a sneak peek, partially unveiling the seating chart at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards, which take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (February 9).
According to a photo posted to her Instagram account, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are both nominated for an Oscar for their roles in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, are sitting front row. Meanwhile, director Quentin Tarantino is not far behind and directly behind Pitt is actor and presenter Mahershala Ali.
"Bags'ing my seat for the Oscars," the actress captioned her post.
Check out the 2020 Oscars seating chart, below:
In another shot posted to Wilson's Instagram Story, you can that Brie Larson will be seated behind DiCaprio. It's unclear where other celebrities will be sitting, but we can expect all the A-listers to show up, including Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and more. They will all walk the red carpet before the ceremony begins at 8 PM ET.
Though tickets to the 2020 Oscars are not unavailable to the public, fans can watch at home by tuning in to ABC.


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SOFU links pasted into questions get automatically replaced by the question title. This has been this way for some time now, and it's great.
However, it is missing from comments. This is very annoying, but apparently by design, although I don't really understand why.
Anyway, seeing as this is probably unlikely to change - does a Greasemonkey or user script exist that emulates the behaviour? Meaning that if I attempt to post a comment with a raw SOFU link in it, the script automatically looks up the question title, and replaces the link, before it gets submitted.
(If it's possible at all to do this - I have no idea whether an Ajax question title lookup is doable....)


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Toronto police say it's "impressive" that they didn't have to arrest anyone after the Raptors' historic win on Saturday night sent thousands of celebratory fans careening onto the streets.
The roar of fans cheering and chanting "We the North" and "Let's go Raptors" flooded the downtown core after Canada's sole NBA team earned a spot in the final for the first time in franchise history.
On social media, videos emerged of fans running into intersections and dancing on top of streetcars and buses, but on Sunday, police spokeswoman Katrina Arrogante confirmed that not a single arrest was made.
"It's impressive. It certainly is," said Arrogante. "We're amazed — police were there to keep the peace and that's exactly what happened."
The festivities ramped up shortly after 11 p.m. when the Raptors defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 100−94, becoming the Eastern Conference champions and advancing to the NBA Finals.
Earlier in the day, fans lined up for hours to pack Jurassic Park, but a thunderstorm prompted Toronto police to post on Twitter that they wouldn't open the fan zone on schedule because of safety concerns. The ban was lifted an hour later and Jurassic Park quickly overflowed with Raptors supporters who braved the rain to watch the game outside Scotiabank Arena.
There was a heavy police presence as some fans got rowdy, but officers say everyone managed to stay out of trouble as the celebrations continued.
Arrogante said officers were called to various spots around the city to assist with crowd control and directing traffic, but no one was arrested. She said she saw videos of fans dancing on streetcars but said there were no reported injuries, and in terms of arrests: "nothing came out of that," she said.
"It turned out better than it could have," said Arrogante.
She said police will be out again Thursday night when the Raptors play the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors in Game 1 and she hopes fans will continue to have fun safely.
Arrogante said fans planning on drinking should get a designated driver or take public transit.
"We're reminding anyone that is going to be celebrating or taking part in any events forthcoming of the playoffs, is to be respectful."
Alanna Rizza, The Canadian Press


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Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer in 1992 of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, now has discovered with Caltech's Maciej Konacki the smallest planet yet detected,in that same far-away planetary system. Immersed in an extended cloud of ionized gas, the new planet orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar. The discovery, to be announced during a press conference at a meeting concerning planetary formation and detection in Aspen, Colorado, on 7 February, yields an astonishingly complete description of the pulsar planetary system and confirms that it is remarkably like a half-size version of our own solar system ? even though the star these planets orbit is quite different from our Sun.
"Despite the extreme conditions that must have existed at the time these planets were forming, Nature has managed to create a planetary system that looks like a scaled-down copy of our own inner solar system," Wolszczan reports. The star at the center of this system is a pulsar named PSR B1257+12 ? the extremely dense and compact neutron star left over from a massive star that died in a violent explosion 1,500 light years away in the constellation Virgo.
Wolszczan and his colleagues earlier had discovered three terrestrial planets around the pulsar, with their orbits in an almost exact proportion to the spacings between Mercury, Venus, and Earth. The newly discovered fourth planet has an orbit approximately six times larger than that of the third planet in the system, which Konacki says is amazingly close to the average distance from our Sun to our solar system's asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
"Because our observations practically rule out a possible presence of an even more distant, massive planet or planets around the pulsar, it is quite possible that the tiny fourth planet is the largest member of a cloud of interplanetary debris at the outer edge of the pulsar's planetary system, a remnant of the original protoplanetary disk that created the three inner planets," Wolszczan explains. The small planet, about one-fifth of the mass of Pluto, may occupy the same outer-boundary position in its planetary system as Pluto does in our solar system. "Surprisingly, the planetary system around this pulsar resembles our own solar system more than any extrasolar planetary system discovered around a Sun-like star," Konacki says.
Fifteen years ago, before Wolszczan's discovery of the first extrasolar planets, astronomers did not seriously entertain the idea that planets could survive around pulsars because they would have been blasted with the unimaginable force of the radiation and remnants of their exploding parent star. Since then, Wolszczan, Konacki, and colleagues have gradually been unraveling the mysteries of this system of pulsar planets, using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to collect and analyze pulsar-timing data. "We feel now, with this discovery, that the basic inventory of this planetary system has been completed," Wolszczan says.
These discoveries have been possible because pulsars, especially those with the fastest spin, behave like very accurate clocks. "The stability of the repetition rate of the pulsar pulses compares favorably with the precision of the best atomic clocks constructed by humans," Konacki explains. Measurements of the pulse arrival times, called pulsar timing, give astronomers an extremely precise method for studying the physics of pulsars and for detecting the phenomena that occur in a pulsar's environment.
"A pulsar wobble due to orbiting planets manifests itself by variations in the pulse arrival times, just like a stellar wobble is detectable with the well-known Doppler effect so successfully used by optical astronomers to identify planets around nearby stars by the shifts of their spectral lines," Wolszczan explains. "An important advantage of the fantastic stability of the pulsar clocks, which achieve precisions better than one millionth of a second, is that this method allows us to detect planets with masses all the way down to those of large asteroids."
The very existence of the pulsar planets may represent convincing evidence that Earth-mass planets form just as easily as do the gas giants that are known to exist around more than 5 percent of the nearby Sun-like stars. However, Wolszczan says, "the message carried by the pulsar planets may equally well be that the formation of Earth-like planets requires special conditions, making such planets a rarity. For example, there is growing evidence that a nearby supernova explosion may have played an important role in our solar system's formation." Future space observatories, including the Kepler and the Space Interferometry Missions, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder, will play a decisive role in making a distinction between these fundamental alternatives.


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Not sure how this escaped my attention until now, but late last year, Bing apparently publicly acknowledged that they still support the META Keywords tag.
Here we all were thinking that the tag had quietly died in it's sleep after a prolonged illness. After all, the last remaining engines it was hooked up to had gradually switched off support, Danny Sullivan had publicly declared the tag dead and spammy meta tag content had become the subject of myth and legend, mentioned only in humorous anecdotes shared over drinks at search industry conferences.
But despite what we all thought, Bing has indeed been indexing the content of the META Keywords tag, but as a signal for detecting low quality sites, rather than influencing page rank. What has caused all the renewed interest and kerfuffle? Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager for Bing, kicked off the confusion when he said this about the tag on Webmaster World last year:
Meta keywords is a signal. One of roughly a thousand we analyze… Abusing meta keywords can hurt you.
Then followed a cloud of webmaster confusion and forum banter about whether SEO's should resurrect the tag on their client sites or not.
As far as I know, Bing is the only remaining major search engine putting their hand up to claim they index the META Keywords tag. According to Forrester's recent discussions with Danny Sullivan, they use it as one of their page quality signals, so it doesn't contribute to page ranking as such.
So here's the deal: the content of the tag may help Bing understand the context of your page, but it won't impact where your page ranks on Bing. In fact, if it is stuffed with too many keywords or repetitions, the tag may send a *low quality* signal to Bing about your site, so it is best created very carefully or not used at all.
For educational purposes, we are still asking Search Engine College students to create a META Keywords tag as part of their assessment items. However, this is to ensure that students know how to craft the tag correctly, in case they decide to use it or are required to craft one in the future for employers or client sites.
If you are still using the META Keywords tag and it looks like an endless keyword repository, I'd suggest changing the content to focus on keyword variations that are still related to your page content, but that you're unlikely to use in the visible content on the page. Things like synonyms, plurals, jargon, regional variations, related terms and word stemming.
If you don't currently use a Meta Keywords tag, don't automatically assume you need to create one just for Bing. If you get it wrong, it will likely do your site more harm than good.


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Finally, after six long weeks of work, I have finished the structural edit of Beneath the Shadows. It's lovely to put my head up again, as I've literally been working morning, noon and night, around my toddler's waking hours, to get everything done. I am already thinking of things that need changing or tweaking, but I will get another chance to do that when the copy-editing begins. I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with this side of the editing process, which is ironic since I've been a book editor for the last ten years. But editing someone else's work is fun. Editing my own novels seems to be much more gruelling, since I find myself continually re-examining every aspect of plot, characters and writing, and coming up with more and more problems or weaknesses that need fixing. However, I thrive on the challenge, and so far I've had two great editors who have really pushed me to make my books stronger.
So, while I've been taking a break, I've been dabbling with my bookshelf on goodreads.com. I now have an author profile, which I'm still working on, and you'll find my latest book reviews on there as well as on this website. You'll notice they all tend to be rather positive, but I often don't finish books I'm not enjoying, and as a result I don't feel entirely qualified to comment on them! I'm currently reading and loving Water for Elephants, so you can expect another positive review soon!
Lately, quite a few aspiring authors have asked me for advice on what to do when you feel your novel is ready to go out into the world. So, while I have some downtime, I'll shortly put up a blog or two with some general advice and information. Good luck to you all. Book publishing is a tough world, but it's a very exciting and fulfilling one too, and I love being part of it.col-md-2


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Being kind by leaving festive goodie bags on car windscreens at the doctors' surgery:
I'm so excited about this act of kindness. I've been thinking about it for a couple of weeks, but with my recent big CFS relapse have had to put it on hold.
But as I start to feel a little better, I made it to the shops a couple of days ago to buy some treats to make some festive goodie bags; and I was delighted to have enough to make 24 bags!
Alongside a few sweet treats, I added a party popper, a festive feather and a Christmas bauble.
I also included one of my brand new Kindness Cards with the message: You are AMAZING (if you forget that, please read this again).
I've also made a 'you've been RACK'ed' card which reads: You have been RACK'ed. You have been chosen to receive this small gift through a Random Act of Christmas Kindness. May your day be merry and bright Xxx
So today I nipped out to pop a goodie bag onto the windscreen of the cars parked in my local doctors' surgery car park. I really hope that it will be a nice surprise for those who've just been to see one of the doctor's about a health issue.
A dapper gentleman dressed in a smart suit was just returning to his car as I was about to put a goodie bag on his windscreen, so I got the chance to give it to him face-to-face instead. It was really heartwarming and rewarding to see his reaction to this little act of kindness: he gave me a huge smile as he said thank you. ♡
With the rest of the goodie bags, I hope to feel well enough to head into the city one day next week and will either hand them out or will hide them for people to find. If not, I'll work something out.
So with this in mind, my happy for today is being kind by leaving festive goodie bags on car windscreens at the doctors' surgery.
ps if you received one of my festive goodie bags, I'd love to hear from you in the comments below…


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Here are a few keywords writers should try to include when relevant on pages:
- Your name. In my case, that would be Robert Lee Brewer. If possible, work your name into the url of any sites you can. This will definitely increase search result rankings on your name.
- Your book titles. If you have published books, include these titles on as many relevant pages as possible. Also, link to pages that sell your published books if you include them. This will increase your search results on your book titles and hopefully sales too.
- Your articles, poems, etc. If you have any published pieces, dedicate a page (or more) to these. I've read several poems in literary journals, for instance, that have led me to search out the poet to interview on my Poetic Asides blog. All I might have at hand to search on is the poet, poem title, and publication the poem appeared in--and sometimes, I'm not able to easily locate the poet and the interview never happens. Help people like me find and promote people like you. Include your name, piece, and publication the piece appeared in, and you may be receiving more page views and interview requests.
- Your location (and previous locations). You don't have to give a mailing address, but location can help people searching you out to know if you are someone they may know. For instance, I've spent my life in the Dayton-Cincinnati, Ohio, and Duluth-Atlanta, Georgia, areas. Make it easy on people who are trying to find you.
- Work experience. Again, this is helpful for people who may know you from a current or previous job. Even if the job is not related to writing, you may have mentioned your passion for writing at another job and customers or previous co-workers may be curious about whether you're still writing away. So anyone who knows me from F+W Media, F&W Publications, United Dairy Farmers, WeatherGuard, Delphi, Skyline Chili, K-Mart, Woody's Restaurant, Burger King, University of Cincinnati, or the City of Moraine Parks & Recreation should be able to find and identify me in this blog post.
I do want to clarify something: The goal is not to load your pages and blog posts up with keywords just for the sake of adding keywords. If they aren't relevant for the page or post, don't try to fit a square peg into a round hole. However, I know many writer sites and blogs that completely pass up SEO opportunities.
For instance, I've read posts by authors who mention their book as "my book" throughout a blog post without ever once referring to it by name. You better believe that if I mention either of my poetry chapbooks that I'll refer to them as ENTER and ESCAPE at least once in the post. In fact, the same goes for my two big books: Writer's Market and Poet's Market.
Here are a few more pieces on SEO:
- Why Writers Should Care About SEO, in which I talk about what SEO is and why it's important.
- SEO Tips for Writers (How to Optimize Your Site/Blog Without Getting Technical), in which I share some tips outside of just keywords on how to improve SEO.
Connect with Robert Lee Brewer on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+.
And sign up to receive Not Bob blog posts direct to your e-mail inbox by signing up for e-mail updates over on the right.
Learn even more about SEO and blog and website optimization with these resources:
- Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, by Peter Kent
- SEO Made Simple (Second Edition): Strategies for Dominating the World's Largest Search Engine, by Michael H. Fleischner
- Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites, by Nelson Bates and Ms. Amber Massey


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Groundhog's Day is coming up! In celebration, Flash Fiction Friday's prompt for this week asks for a story that takes place around February 2nd. Just to keep things interesting, it also must include the word "salad."
I couldn't wait to start writing because Groundhog's day, with its theme of creatures hiding from shadows, fits in nicely with a story I'm already working on. In the scene I wrote, the tables are turned as it's the shadow that is hiding from the "creature" looking for it.
I've managed to exceed the word limit yet again with this story. Only this time I've done so gloriously at a whopping 2,600 words. I just couldn't bear to trim anything out of the scene I'd written. Hopefully you'll love it every little bit as much as I do.
Prompt: This week's challenge is to write a story that takes place on or around Feb. 2nd. Will it climax with a happy ending and the oncoming of spring or will it plunge into the bleak despair of six more weeks of winter?
Genre: Any
Word Limit: 1,500 words
Deadline: 2/1
Hidden Shadows
Patience wasn't usually one of Rosaline's virtues, but when there was something she wanted that required waiting, she somehow found the self-discipline she needed. Rosaline waited a week for the right time to search Katta's room to present itself. When it rained one day, she knew that time had come.
Putting on her boots, she went outside into the Inner Ward. She smiled when she saw the vegetable garden in all its muddy glory. Opening the gate, she stepped inside and plodded around, kicking up clods of dirt and tubers every which way.
When she was satisfied that her boots were covered in as much mud as they could hold, she exited the garden and made her way back towards the castle. Entering through the front hall, she stomped her way to the great hall, leaving a trail of muddy bootprints behind her. Once in the great hall, her lips curved into a smile as she looked down on the floor covering.
She renewed her stomping, vigorously working as much of the remaining mud into the intricately woven carpet as possible. When she ran out of mud on the bottom of her boots, she took them off and rubbed the mud off of the sides into the carpet. Once her boots were free of every trace of mud, Rosaline stepped back and admired her handiwork.
Satisfied, she replaced her boots and headed towards the kitchen. Following the sound of banging pans, she found Katta kneading dough and pulling baked loaves from the oven. Leaning on the counter, Rosaline started to pick at the loaves. Tearing chunks from the still very warm loaves, she stuffed them into her mouth until Katta swatted her away.
"Stop it! If you're going to eat, then take a loaf and be done with it. But don't just tear the tops off of all of them."
Her mouth still full, Rosaline grunted something at Katta and walked away.
"What? I couldn't make out a single thing you said," Katta said, irritated at Rosaline.
Swallowing the last of the bread, Rosaline turned partially towards Katta and said, "I just said that when you're done with cooking, you might want to clean up in the great hall. If you leave mud too long on carpet, it'll set, you know. And you wouldn't want that."
Looking down at Rosaline's boots, Katta narrowed her eyes when she saw their pristine condition. Grinning over her shoulder at Katta, Rosaline sauntered out of the kitchen and towards the stairs.
Putting aside the dough she was working on, Katta went to investigate the great hall. She nearly slipped on a clod of mud she stepped on as she made her way to the large room. After regaining her balance, she looked down and her eyes widened at the trail she saw leading the way.
Rosaline laughed loudly when she heard Katta cursing her in the great hall, not caring whether she heard her. She waited for Katta to storm off towards the kitchen to get the cleaning supplies before doubling back down the stairs and dashing towards the servants' quarters. She had a good hour of uninterrupted time to look forward to alone in Katta's room before Katta would finish with her new chore.
Quickly locating Katta's room, Rosaline slipped into it without any trouble; none of the servants' doors had locks on them so her lack of experience with picking locks wasn't an obstacle to her curiosity. Once inside the room, she set to work looking for clues as to who or what Katta spoke to every night.
Compared to Rosaline's room, Katta's was spartan. She had no frilly curtains or bedspread, and no decorations of any kind anywhere in the room. Rosaline had discovered the first time she'd gone through the room months ago when she'd first arrived at the Castle on the Hill that Katta didn't keep anything in her room that didn't serve a utilitarian purpose.
Today she didn't bother with Katta's stash of plants on her desk. Rosaline considered them weeds and didn't know why Katta bothered with them anyway. Different combinations of ingredients did different things and having too much or too little of one plant could kill your or render the poultice ineffective. It was too much of a pain to worry about when it was easier to just not get hurt in the first place.
Heading straight for Katta's dresser, Rosaline started opening drawer after drawer and rummaging through her clothes. She didn't know what she was looking for (though she was hoping to find a diary or secret love letters), but the first place Rosaline would think to hide something would be underneath her clothing in the dresser. Finding a crude leather bag in Katta's shirt drawer, she pulled it out and upeneded its contents onto the floor.
River stones fell out and scattered across the floor of the bedroom. Rosaline picked one up and inspected it. Turning the stone over in her hand, she saw that on one side a symbol had been carved into the rock. Not recognizing the rune, she tossed the stone away and went back to searching the rest of the drawers. Finding nothing more, she turned her attention to Katta's nightstand.
Katta, unlike Rosaline, enjoyed reading and she had two books placed on her bedside table. Picking one up, Rosaline looked at the title and snorted. It read A Manéan Bestiary: Forest Creatures. She shook the book by its spine to see if anything fell out and was rewarded when a slip of paper fluttered to the ground.
Picking it up, Rosaline read the following lines written on it in Katta's meticulous handwriting:
You are silent like the oak
and just as strong.
You are not like other folk
and can do no wrong.
Giggling, Rosaline tucked it away in her dress pocket. It wasn't hard to figure out who Katta was writing about and having the poem would provide hours of entertainment once she figured out the best way to put it to use. Still, finding out that Katta harbored feelings for one of the brothers was no big find; Rosaline had been able to figure out as much just by watching Katta interact with them at mealtimes.
Rosaline hadn't gone through the trouble of getting Katta out of the way for an hour just to discover a crush she already knew about. She was here for bigger treasure; she was here for "Chicky." Turning to the only piece of furniture left in the room to search, Rosaline set to work stripping the bed of its covers.
Leaving the sheets on the floor, Rosaline examined the bare mattress. She ran her hand between it and the frame all around the bed, but found nothing tucked away. Feeling the stuffing material shift as she pushed and prodded the mattress gave her an idea, though, and she went to Katta's desk in search of something sharp.
Lying on Katta's desk were a couple of implements that suited Rosaline's needs. One was a dagger, its wooden hilt worn and cracked with use and age. The other was a curved blade cast in the shape of a crescent moon. Its handle was made of bone, but was no less weathered than the dagger's. Both tools had been carefully set atop a folded scrap of silk cloth Katta had bought off a peddler years ago, and both had been polished to as brilliant a shine as their old blades would support.
Knowing nothing of athames or bolines (nor caring to know), Rosaline took one look at the dagger's keen edge and judged it suitable for the task at hand. Taking it back with her to the mattress, she started to cut into the mattress itself. Peashucks immediately started spilling out and Rosaline let them fall out onto the floor. Once enough of the stuffing had come out of the mattress to give her some room to stick her arm inside, she rummaged around in the remaining stuffing for anything Katta may have hidden inside her bed.
Rosaline wasn't surprised when she failed to find anything squirreled away inside the mattress. It had been a long shot to begin with that Katta would put something in such a difficult to reach location, but Rosaline was nothing if not thourough when searching for carefully guarded secrets. Back in Windhaven, she liked to think of herself as the next candidate for the King's elite troop of spies.
As persistent as she was when in search of another's secrets, she still disliked having to put too much effort into obtaining the information. Getting on her hands and knees and crawling under the bed was one activity that Rosaline considered "too much effort." As such, she had put it off until the very end, hoping she would have found Katta's secret before the need to wiggle her way under Katta's bed presented itself.
Gathering up her skirt, Rosaline kicked away as much of the peashucks beneath her as she could before kneeling down next to the bed. She bent over first to see if she could see anything, but Katta's bed was pushed into the corner of the room, casting the area under the mattress in darkness. When Rosaline could make out nothing in the darkness, she groaned and reached under the bed as far as her arm would go, waving her hand back and forth to try and find something.
Something found her instead.
When Rosaline felt a sudden pain in her finger, she squealed "Ow!" and yanked her arm out from under the bed. Looking down at her hand, she could see blood start to well up out of a cut on the end of her index finger. Putting her finger into her mouth, she leaned back down and strained to see into the darkness under the bed.
The longer Rosaline stared, the more she thought she saw movement. It was difficult to make out a shape, because the different shades of darkness kept blending into each other, a kaleidoscope of shadows. Rosaline wasn't sure, but she had the distinct impression she was being watched by something in the darkness. At first, this made her uncomfortable, and she moved to get up. A faint noise made her stop, though. Straining to hear, it was difficult for her to make anything out beyond a very light tittering sound. Something about it reminded Rosaline of laughter, and in a second her unease turned to anger.
"You stupid mouse! Nothing bites me and gets away with it," she said, getting up. Looking furiously around the room for something long, her eyes alit on a broom lying against Katta's desk. Katta had made it by hand out of an ash stave and willow twigs. If Rosaline had asked her, Katta might have told her that she called it a "besom." Katta wasn't there to ask and Rosaline wouldn't have cared either way. Grabbing the broom with a triumphant grin, she returned to kneel by Katta's bed.
"I'll show you not to mess with me," Rosaline growled as she plunged the broomstick into the darkness and waved it around. When she felt resistance and heard a startled squeak, she knew she'd hit something. She swung the stick back and forth, giggling when she heard the sound of frantic jumping as her target tried to get out of the way. All of a sudden, the stick stopped meeting resistance, smacking into the wall instead. Rosaline leaned over and stared into the darkness, listening intently for the sounds of movement. Before she had a chance to figure out where her target had gone, the shadows swirled around where she held the broomstick and a black beak darted out and cut a gash into the top of her hand.
With a yelp, Rosaline dropped the broom and clutched her hand to her chest. Scooting backwards as quickly as she could, she put as much distance as she could between herself and Katta's bed, only stopping when she bumped up against Katta's desk. Eyeing the darkness under the mattress warily, she reached up with her good hand and grabbed a strip of linen from off the desk.
Wrapping her hand, she glared at the bed and muttered "You're not a mouse; you're a rat! You can stay down there for all I care. I hope you have lots of babies in that mattress and you all bite Katta when she sleeps." Getting up, Rosaline left the room with as much dignity as she could muster.
Hours later, a tired, dirty Katta returned to her room in search of a fresh change of clothing. Opening her door, she stopped at the scene before her. Her eyes took in every detail – the runes scattered across the floor, the opened drawers, the mattress – but she cared only about one thing. "Chicky?" she called out tentatively. When she received no response, a kernel of fear took root in her stomach and she called our more loudly, "Chicky!"
Her fear broke her paralysis and she started to search frantically through the sheets strewn on the floor. She had just finished pulling the drawers out of her wardrobe and pushing it away from the wall to search behind it when her gut told her her efforts were in vain. Chicky was probably gone. Rosaline had scared him away or he'd snuck out hidden in the folds of her dress. Who was she kidding? A closed door could never keep him contained if he wanted freedom.
Looking around, she sighed at the mess. Exhaustion overtook her and she sat down where she stood by her bed. She was still sitting there surrounded by peashucks when Jon found her half an hour later. Katta had heard him shouting her name down the hall, searching for her, but she lacked the interest to care. When he saw her open bedroom door, he ran in, livid about the state of the garden, only to stare in disbelief at her room.
His eyes met Katta's and his anger grew at the desolation he saw in them. "That girl... this is the last straw. No more. If she likes the garden so much, then she can eat nothing but salad for the next week. No, for the next month! Don't you go giving her anything either, Katta. Look at what she did to your room! She can't get away with this!"
When Katta looked away and chuckled at his pronouncement, Jon left in disgust. Deep down he knew what Katta's laugh had meant and he knew that she was right. There would be no punishment for Rosaline's mischief. As far as the Cauchemars were concerned, the girl had performed to expectations.
Katta sat in her pool of peashucks a while longer, feeling empty and alone. It wasn't in her nature to give up, however, and soon her fighting spirit stirred within her, spurring her out of her depression. She pushed her emotions away and set to work repairing her room. She was in the middle of sweeping all the spilled peashucks into a pile when she heard a chirping sound behind her.
Shrugging it off as her mind playing tricks on her, she kept sweeping. When the chirping became more insistent, she couldn't help but begin to hope. Stopping, she turned around slowly... and found nothing. Disappointed, she kicked herself for wishful thinking and turned back to her pile of peashucks. Just as she resumed her sweeping, a blackness jumped out from within the pile, spraying peashucks everywhere. Startled, Katta smacked it with her broom. The creature emitted a loud "CHEEP!" and flapped its wings in consternation.
With a gasp, Katta dropped the broom and sank to the floor. "Chicky!" Scooping him up in her hands, she hugged him to her chest and laughed. Setting him back down on the floor, she smiled and wiped tears from her eyes as Chicky bounced around happily. "You stayed."
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Hi Everyone It's Wednesday again so that means it's time for a new challenge! Before we tell you the challenge details we would like to thank everyone who joined in our last Challenge and announce our winner.
If you could Please email me firstname.lastname@example.com to claim your prize
The Lucky lady joining us as a guest next time is Calypso
congratulations Calypso
if you could please contact me on the above email for details of next weeks challenge.
Our Topic this week is to add a
Charm to your creations
Don't forget You don't have to use a whimsy image,It would be great if you did though,and it doesn't have to be a card, we welcome all paper projects,
Our Prize this week is
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If you're the parent of a child with a serious allergy, you know the importance of the EpiPen, the device that delivers life-saving epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) to someone suffering from anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction.
However, as of May 2018, Mylan's brand-name EpiPen, as well as its authorized generic, Adrenaclick, were all added to the Food and Drug Administration's drug shortage list. That means those who rely on these devices in case of emergency may find themselves without access.
Adding to the problem is the scramble to obtain EpiPens (and similar products) that often comes this time of year as kids head back to school and up their exposure to possible allergens.
The reason for the EpiPen shortage has to do with manufacturing issues at the Missouri facility that is run by Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc. (owned by pharmaceutical giant Pzifer Inc.), where all U.S.-based EpiPen products are manufactured. The shortage of Adrenaclick is due to a supply problem.
In a statement provided to Fox 8 News, the FDA said it is "working closely with manufacturers and monitoring their supply as the school years begins since this is historically accompanied by increased product demand." The FDA also offered more resources on its website, including manufacturer contact information.
Fortunately, AUVI-Q, another epinephrine injector, which is made by the company Kaleo, is not undergoing a shortage. According to an Aug. 14 statement from Kaleo, its products "are available for prescription and are not affected by the manufacturing delays reported by other epinephrine manufacturers."
But for those who are on the hunt for EpiPen and Adrenaclick, Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), a patient advocacy group, suggested looking for the products at independent pharmacies and grocery store pharmacies. FARE offers more resources for navigating the shortage on their website.
Mylan encouraged patients to call its Customer Relations department at 800-796-9526 for help locating alternative pharmacies. The company recently extended its hours to Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST, and said it been successful in locating products for customers who have been unable to find it on their own.


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The Man Who Beat the NBA, or words to that effect, were plastered across the nation when Haywood's now-famous, then-infamous lawsuit found its way the U.S. Supreme Court and, eventually, a sympathetic set of ears. In ruling that the league's 4-years-out-of-high-school rule to be illegal, the USSC made a champion out of Haywood, and - let's all say it together - paved the way for people such as Moses Malone, Kobe Bryant, etc, etc, etc.
And now, 42 years later, Spencer Haywood is hoping to, once again, be featured prominently in the sports sections of America. Today, tomorrow, this weekend ... some time before Monday night, Haywood will find out if this is the year the Basketball Hall of Fame lets him in the door.
I've written too many words about his case, and come down on both sides of the fence. On the one hand, an in-depth look at his statistics and accomplishments on the court leads me to believe that Spencer Haywood is not a Hall of Famer.
On the other, his off-court accomplishment (and there is truly only one accomplishment that merits mentioning) changes the equation. If you believe that Haywood's lawsuit was history-altering event, and that were it not for his lawsuit the NBA would not be as it is today, then I believe you have to induct him.
While his on-court contributions fall short, his off-court one - when combined, I suppose, with those on-court accomplishments - might just be enough.
For Haywood's sake, I hope so. It is clear that the man desperately wants recognition.
Read this please, its very important for young and old it's our history. Pray for me please. Mr. Early Entry.. m.reviewjournal.com/sports/basketb…
— Spencer Haywood (@SpencerHaywood) April 3, 2013
To his credit, he has reached a good place in his life where this recognition would merely be the icing, and not the cake itself, and for that reason, I hope he gets it.


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By Mary Yearl, Head Librarian, Osler Library of the History of Medicine
After spending the first few months of its new Montréal life in careful hands in the Redpath Library Building for cataloguing and, later, digitization, Eugène Ducrot's manuscript notebook on natural history has finally arrived at its permanent home: the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.
The title page provides a satisfying amount of information to the reader, though it offers barely a glimpse of the beauty that lies within. In the upper left-hand corner in petite pencil script, it is noted that the manuscript was written by J.E. Ducrot, after the lectures of Mr. Denou in Moulins. In bolder ink script, a 19th-century hand announces "Cahier d'histoire naturelle (1835-1837) à Moulins, à Eugène Ducrot." Finally, nearer to the bottom, one learns that the manuscript was given to a Mr. Chavignaud, Moulins, 1848.
If the first manuscript page betrays a certain attention to detail, this is continued in the table of contents. The subjects covered include physiology (lessons 1-10), descriptive zoology ("méthode de M.G. Cuvier" – lessons 11-47), botany (lessons 48-53), and geology (lessons 54-56). To provide some sense of the deliberation given to each of the 56 lessons described, consider the 9th lesson, "Sens de la vue – Lumière – appareil de la vision – sourcils – soupière – appareil lacrymal – muscles de l'oeil – situation de l'oeil – usage des différentes parties de l'oeil – Voie." This level of detail, and sometimes more, is present for nearly every entry in the contents and suggests that this manuscript would serve as a worthy source for those interested in studying natural history education in France during the July Monarchy specifically, or in the 19th century generally.
The majority of the manuscript is devoted to zoology and might be considered fairly timeless, at least with respect to the specific topics of natural history studied. However, some portions reveal the thinking of a past era. For instance, there is a relatively short section on the human races, which Ducrot records as Caucasian, Mongolian, and Ethiopian. When Denou was lecturing, ethnographic and anthropological studies had not yet been confirmed as academic disciplines, though the 1839 foundation of the Société Ethnologique de Paris came shortly after the end date of Ducrot's notes.
Without question, what called attention to the manuscript to begin with were the images. Interestingly, Ducrot's section on botany is remarkably devoid of illustrations; only on one page in the (admittedly fairly limited) section are there drawings, and they demonstrate the shapes of leaves but do not contain written identification. Whether this represents a lack of interest or not would be difficult to say without further examination; there are, however, more illustrations in the similarly brief section on geology than there are on botany.
The true focus of the drawings, like that of the manuscript, is on zoology. In that realm, Ducrot's detail is impressive. He lists the bones, used watercolour to display the heart and lungs (including an attempt to recreate some detail of the inside of the heart), provides an ink drawing of the nervous system, and describes the structure of teeth in a series of small figures.
Eugène Ducrot's Cahier d'histoire naturelle is a new acquisition that has relevance to visitors whose interests lie in diverse interests. The drawings themselves are admirable; the course of study followed by Ducrot might well be useful to those studying pedagogy in France in the mid-nineteenth century; and historians of medicine and science will appreciate the detail afforded by Ducrot to his subject matter. Regardless of the audience, the manuscript is visually impressive and we are pleased that it has found a home at the Osler Library.
Read the full volume in the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_cahier-dhistoire-naturelle_QH51D831837-18271 part of our over 250 titles from the Osler Library that have been digitized and made available to everyone.


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I don't know how many of you are reading this now, as the tour is already over and whoever used to check the website for updates would probably never get this.
Well, as I said… RSS… email subscription… Technology can help. And it's free.
Sitting at the lobby of my hotel in Barcelona (a hotel that promised free Wi‐Fi in the rooms and failed to deliver; which is one of the reasons I started this), I'm going through the comments on my conclusion post and I'm humbled by it all. I remember waking up yesterday (Monday) morning, looking at my BlackBerry and seeing 12 comments over the course of just a few hours, plus a few private emails; comments and emails kept coming throughout the day, as well as today—and, as I said, all comments are welcome.
Thank you all for your support, I really appreciate it.
Following some of the comments, as well as a few private emails I received ever since that conclusion post came out, I decided to post another entry with a few, well, updates. Sort of updates. I don't know how to call it; stuff that was left out.
The first thing I'd like to say something about is my impression of a few certain countries I have been to over the last few months. This entire journey has been one hell of an experience, with one of the biggest challenges being having to quickly adjust to new societies, new norms, new habits, new food, new people. I thought it goes without saying, but apparently it doesn't—so I would like to make it clear: all of my impressions should be taken in perspective, considering the fact that I didn't have that much time to adjust.
Having got used to the convenience and simplicity of living in Canada, obviously some European countries were easier to get adjusted to than others. The difference between Canada and, say, Norway is much easier to "bridge" over than the difference between Canada and Spain, or Hungary. Or Poland. Remember: of all of the European countries I had been to during this trip, only four of them I have already been to before—and even that was for short periods.
Every first contact with new culture bears the seeds of some sort of a culture shock, and when you fly through multiple such places over the course of a week, it's natural to get a bit, well, overwhelmed. My frustration, then, has to be put in context, as it resulted from difficulties of me getting adjusted to the culture. Contrary to what a few people attempted to imply, no, I absolutely don't dislike Spanish people, or Polish people. I don't dislike Spain, Poland or any other country. I just described what goes through the head of someone, coming from a totally different background, trying to adjust quickly. That's all.
Fact is, I am right now in Spain, spending a few days here before returning home this coming Friday. Just had the opportunity to explore a bit of Barcelona over the last two days and I tell you this is one hell of a beautiful city—when you know where to go. Hell, I even had a good breakfast here yesterday, and a good lunch today!
So… No hard feelings, alright? Proportions, please.
Next, about the book. I received quite a few emails from people interested in hearing more details—that's great news. I'm going to dive head‐first into this as soon as I'm back home, talk to publishers and maybe even try lulu.com (thanks Arthur!). Details will be sent by email, as well as posted in this blog.
Next: A song. Someone mentioned that I should write a song about it all, myself being a guitar player and all. Well, not many of you may know this but I did get my hands on some recording equipment very shortly before going on the tour. There will be something composed—maybe not a song, maybe an instrumental, we'll see. I have a few ideas already and will make the time to realize them. Warning: you may dislike it immensely.
And now, to address a few comments from that last post as well as comments from the Kill to Get Crimson tour's last post. The fact that the tour is over is by no means a reason for me to shut up. At the moment, I actually have three blogs: the Kill to Get Crimson blog (inactive, but still online); the Get Lucky blog (from now on, will only contain posts related to the book I'm going to publish); and my all‐purpose blog. That last one is called "The Way I See It" and it can be found here:
It will go through some redesign over the next few days. I usually write there only when I travel, but I have recently decided to write a bit more. What about? I don't know. You may find lots of things there. I'll write about whatever I feel like, and it's not always going to be smart. Or interesting. It may even contain some technology and programming stuff—who knows. I will use tags in order to categorize posts. So, you're welcome to subscribe to the RSS feeds:
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(Both links are also available as buttons in the blog's page itself, see the right‐hand sidebar)
And, as always, comments are welcome.
Thanks again for your support,


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