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text: Date: Sun, 03/21/2004 3/22/2004 Trout Unlimited Announces Ted Fitzgerald as American Fork Canyon Project DirectorTrout Unlimited Announces Ted Fitzgerald as American Fork Canyon Project Director Contact: Tim Zink Manager, Media Relations Trout Unlimited 703.284.9427 3/22/2004 -- Washington -- National conservation organization Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced that veteran public servant Ted Fitzgerald will join its staff as the Restoration Project Director of the American Fork Canyon Home Rivers Initiative, a program that combines analysis and on-the-ground cleanup to deliver healthier lands and waters to nearby communities. Fitzgerald will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the American Fork Canyon Project,a multi-year effort to improve water quality and the health of the fishery in the American Fork. High levels of contaminants currently leach into the river from piles of unreclaimed mine tailings, causing a significant environmental and public health threat. Fish living near the sites, for example, have been found to contain almost 10 times as much lead and twice as much cadmium and zinc in their bodies as those living upstream of the hazards. Fitzgerald is particularly well-equipped to deal with the challenges of the project. A professional engineer, he joins TU after 25 years with the U.S. Forest Service, all of which were spent in Utah. During the past four years, Fitzgerald was based in the Uinta National Forest – through which the American Fork runs – where he planned, coordinated and completed the cleanup of abandoned mine lands on National Forest System Lands in the American Fork Canyon. "I am excited for the opportunity to continue the watershed restoration work in American Fork - on private lands and public lands. Trout Unlimited's objectives for this canyon will bring many partners together to complete the work the Forest Service started. The result will restore a more robust, functional ecosystem," said Fitzgerald. "Ted brings to our work an unmatchable combination of technical skills, experience, knowledge of the local landscape and an understanding of how to work effectively with partner groups," said Laura Hewitt, TU Director of Watershed Programs. "His expertise will be essential to TU's efforts to create a positive model of cooperative restoration of abandoned mine sites, which negatively affect 40 percent of Western headwaters streams, according to the EPA." Home Rivers Initiative projects are collaborative multi-year efforts that combine scientific and economic research; community outreach; on-the-ground restoration; and the development of long-term conservation and management strategies on a watershed scale. The initiative has scored major successes on New York's Beaverkill River, Wisconsin's Kickapoo River, Pennsylvania's Kettle Creek, Montana's Jefferson River and Idaho's South Fork Snake River. Mission: Trout Unlimited is North America's leading coldwater fisheries conservation organization, dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. The organization has more than 130,000 members in 450 chapters in North America. Date: 3/22/2004


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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have won SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation, respectively.
Both awards are testaments to the innovative nature of Red Hat's product portfolio and show our leadership within not only the world of open source but also the realm of enterprise IT.
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced Red Hat's win for the 2015 CODiE Award for Best Cloud Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation. An SIIA CODiE Award win is an especially prestigious honor, as each award winner was reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose evaluations determined finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the finalists and their votes were combined with the scores from the industry experts to select this year's 28 CODiE Awards Winners
Red Hat CloudForms provides the industry's most robust open source management experience robust management experience across multiple platforms, built on the open source ManageIQ code. It provides automation and management capabilities for rapidly-evolving OpenStack clouds, as well as support for Microsoft public clouds and the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Amazon Web Services, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. CloudForms also offers interoperability with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enabling OpenShift by Red Hat brokers and nodes to provide services within the CloudForms catalog.
The world's leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise workloads across converged infrastructures, but also pushes the operating system beyond today's position as a commodity platform. Combining rapid technology innovation with stability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 enables enterprises to meet modern datacenter demands with next-generation IT requirements, without increasing complexity. It powers the spectrum of enterprise IT, from application containers to cloud services.
The recognition of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 builds upon Red Hat's previous CODiE Award wins, including OpenShift by Red Hat and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 7 in 2014.
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Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business, Red Hat
"We are pleased that both Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have been recognized for their innovative natures, with each winning a 2015 Software CODiE Award. CloudForms delivers a powerful management solution for the hybrid cloud, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers a re-imagining of what the enterprise operating system can do. Both awards are testaments to the innovative nature of Red Hat's product portfolio and show our leadership within not only the world of open source but also the realm of enterprise IT."
Rhianna Collier, vice president and general manager, Software & Services Division, SIIA
"SIIA's 2015 Software CODiE Award winners' are some of the most innovative, high-impact software products in the market. We congratulate all of this year's CODiE Award winners, and thank them for the contributions they have made to the software industry."
- About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the leader in open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, created a fix for a security flaw in Piranha, the high-availability clustering component of its Red Hat Linux 6.2 open source operating system, last week and issued it to customers within hours of notification by Internet Security Systems. The flaw, identified on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 19, was corrected by Red Hat that evening. An initial patch correcting the software was released to customers on Thursday morning, April 20. The flaw appeared only in version 6.2 of the Red Hat Linux operating system.
The availability of source code enabled the flaw to be discovered and fixed quickly. Corrections for security bugs in proprietary software often may not be available for two weeks or longer.
"We are pleased that the open source development approach enabled us to fix this flaw so quickly," said Michael Tiemann, CTO, Red Hat. "Software is very complex and sometimes errors happen in development. Some have incorrectly called this flaw a 'back door,' which clearly it is not. Software flaws happen, but with open source there's a vast community of experts who make it their mission to seek out and solve problems quickly. This is a perfect example of that process in action - within hours of our learning of the problem, we delivered a fix to our customers."
Red Hat encourages its customers to learn more about the rapid correction of any problem in the Updates and Errata section of our website. An update specific to the piranha package can be found at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000014-16.html.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to delays or reductions in information technology spending; the effects of industry consolidation; the ability of the Company to compete effectively; the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; uncertainty and adverse results in litigation and related settlements; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations; fluctuations in exchange rates; and changes in and a dependence on key personnel, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic and political conditions, governmental and public policy changes and the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.


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Sequoia Concepts Inc can stop the purchase or sale of a home, freeze your bank account, or go after any other unprotected assets in Texas. We can help you settle or otherwise resolve your issues with Sequoia Concepts Inc.
Why did Sequoia Concepts Inc file a lawsuit against me?
Sequoia Concepts Inc purchased a defaulted debt from an original creditor. Sequoia Concepts Inc then files lawsuits against consumers in an attempt to collect the debt. They are counting on the fact that you will not respond or show up to court. If you do not then they may take a default judgment against you. In Texas, a judgment can be aggressively collected for ten (10) years and even longer if they keep renewing the judgment. This gives Sequoia Concepts Inc a long time in which to come after you. Many consumers think that a judgment is just a worthless piece of paper and if they do not want or can't pay then there is nothing the judgment creditor can do in Texas. They are wrong. Judgment creditors can garnish bank accounts taking all the hard earned money. They can file a motion for receivership which allows them to remove money at any time from the bank account. They can stop the sale or purchase of a home or auto. They can try to sell any unprotected assets you may have in Texas. In short, whether a consumer has the funds to settle or not, it can get more costly the longer the issue is avoided.
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If you have been sued then you need to answer the lawsuit. Participants in the system often have a better outcome than those that do nothing. Some of the options that you have are to:
- Attempt to Negotiate a settlement with Sequoia Concepts Inc before the answer is due. Many consumers recognize they may owe a debt and choose to attempt to settle the debt before an answer is due to the court. Sequoia Concepts Inc is often receptive to a quick settlement rather than spending more time and money in a lawsuit. Even if they can provide some of the documentation to the court, there is always a chance they could lose.
- Answer the Lawsuit filed by Sequoia Concepts Inc. Even if a consumer thinks they owe a debt it is still up to Sequoia Concepts Inc to prove that they own the debt, have the right to file suit, and have enough documentation to prove a debt is owed. They may not be able to successfully produce all required documentation when challenged.
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Thursday 10 December 2009
New Mango rider's epic ride home
A few weeks ago, a new customer, Gerd Pachauer, came into the ligfietsgarage to pick up his new Sinner Mango. Number 211. Many people come to collect their new bikes, and many ride them straight home. However, this customer was from the South of Austria and his first ride on the bike would be an epic 1900 km in ten days ride to get home. That's an average of 190 km a day, or nearly 120 miles, into a prevailing wind and in winter. Not bad at all with a brand new bike, and showing a lot of confidence in his new machine.
Gerd didn't even take the most direct route, but first headed west to cross the Afsluitdijk and he further rode through a good part of the Netherlands and Germany, following the course of several rivers including the Rhine, before reaching Austria.
Gerd took many photos on the way, and has put them in an online gallery. The photo above is one of his, showing his Mango as he rode through a mountain pass. For those who understand German he also has a ride story in the German velomobile forum. What's more he has continued to make videos on his youtube channel.
Read my review of the Sinner Mango Velomobile.
5 comments:
- Zyzzyx said...
That is awesome.
Makes me feel guilty for not riding my Quest very much. Only ~2500 miles my first year. Planning to double that for the second year. - 10 December 2009 at 17:58
I am extremely impressed by this feat, and I would have loved to also pick up my own Mango in person and ride it home... seeing this post, I just have to comment and say hi!
It seems that I will be getting Mango number 213 (two numbers further up from Gerd's), but I will only pick it up at "velomobilies.de" in Southern Germany on Saturday, and bring it home by car to Munich. That is only about 260 km, as the Raven flies, but work interferes next week, and I did not feel comfortable putting myself under pressure having to ride home in just one day...
I am all the more impressed by Gerd's journey, and the beautiful photographs he took! - 10 December 2009 at 18:20
- Duncan Watson said...
This is indeed awesome. I am very impressed with this feat and would love to pick up my own velomobile in this way. Good show.
- 10 December 2009 at 20:05
Now that is an impressive journey!!
I was drove over the Afsluitdijk last year, stopped to get a photo, it was bloomin' cold though ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lou_simpson/2389014735/ - 11 December 2009 at 06:30
- David Hembrow said...
I lead a ride across the Afsluitdijk last year. There's a video of this. It's a very unusual place to cycle.
We did it in early summer with a tailwind and no rain. Gerd did it in the opposite direction in the cold as part of his epic ride. His Mango will have made a big difference to the comfort of the ride in those conditions. - 11 December 2009 at 06:45


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Congrats on speaking out! Blogging has come a long way, and has a great deal to offer the average reader.
Those of you who have come to know Wise Bread and Parenting Squad are probably aware that they are blogs â Killer Aces Media FairBlogs ⢠to be exact. So whatâs the big deal? Apparently, in some web circles, blogs are nothing to be impressed by.
I was cruising the web, checking weather forecasts and local news, when I stumbled upon a website that had all the makings of a bookmarked favorite. There were daily updates with conversational style and links to many resources that I would find useful in my daily life. It was professional and had flair. It was, in fact, one of the best blogs Iâve ever taken the time to read.
I did a quick check at the FAQâs in hopes of learning more about the content creators, when I was startled by an answer that rang my bell. In answer to the question, âI like your blog, can I link to you?â the editorâs response was curt. The website, was ânot a blog.â Then the reader was directed to the official âblogâ of the editor, an online journal of trips to the grocery store and updates on well-baby checks.
Odd, isnât it? In a time when blogs are becoming the most efficient method for keeping websites up-to-date, many self-made gurus of the old school web-template format feel the need to bristle at the mention of âblog.â Somewhere along the line, blogs have only become attributed to mommies, poets, and corporate marketing strategy. How is this possible?
Wiki defines âblog as âa portmanteau of web logâ. So all I have to do to qualify as a blog is keep regular updates on my website? I donât necessarily have to use Blogger or Typepad? I can omit mentions of my sonâs soggy diaper or pictures of my latest family gathering? Blogs can be useful sources of information on all kinds of subjects?
Apparently so.
I understand that as bloggers, we have evolved from the earliest forms of online journaling. There was much excitement over a way to communicate both the mundane and odd bits of life with millions of potential readers. Since 2001, however, blogs have been used to enlighten the world with the intellect, emotion, and sincerity of thousands of experts and non-experts with more than just a tale to tell. They have been used to educate on topics ranging from politics, health, news, education, celebrity, and the details of nuclear physics.
Blogs have finally made it.
So what do I say to those who wish to âpoo-pooâ away the merits of bloggers and the virtual homes where they live? You might want to consider joining us.
With information changing quicker than the monthly newsletter or corporate website can keep up with, maybe blogging is the solution for you. With every quality post, you are helping to bring credibility to this new voice of the masses. Who knows? Your customers and readers may even like it.
Disclaimer: The links and mentions on this site may be affiliate links. But they do not affect the actual opinions and recommendations of the authors.
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Congrats on speaking out! Blogging has come a long way, and has a great deal to offer the average reader.
Blogs allow millions of individuals to share insights, discover new information, and build community. My life as a news consumer is better - and the world has become a better, more interesting, and diverse place too.
Elitism, as almost always, distorts, limits, and perverts information and society.
Let's keep the internet, as Abe Lincoln would say, "of the people, for the people, and by the people."
Nicely said, Linsey.
There's a distinction between professional and personal blogs that less blog-savvy folks may not make. Today's probloggers are like yesterday's newspaper columnists, but with direct interaction with readers. And that makes blogging (the medium) way more interesting than newspaper could ever be.


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New ag economists join MSU Extension
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Mississippi State University Extension Service welcomed two new agricultural economists Aug. 16.
Will Maples will be located on the main MSU campus in Starkville, while Brian Mills will be stationed at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville.
Maples, a native of Elkmont, Alabama, earned three degrees in agricultural economics: a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas, a master's degree from MSU and a doctorate from Oklahoma State University.
"Will brings strong marketing skills to the department and understands how that fits into overall farm management," said Keith Coble, Extension professor and head of the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics. "Will demonstrated leadership as a grad student chairing the national grad student organization. We expect he will immediately impact crop economics in the state."
Mills holds bachelor's and master's degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He earned a doctorate in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University. He will conduct research on issues related to crop production, farm management and precision agriculture.
"We are excited to have Dr. Brian Mills joining the faculty at Stoneville," said Steve Martin, interim head of the Delta center. "He will bring much-needed expertise to our team and our producers."


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From planning and teaching curriculum to managing student services, there's a lot to running a physical college or university campus, let alone a digital one.
What's inspiring to us is that over 3,000 higher education institutions, totaling approximately 1.2 million users, are using Slack to keep classes and campus affairs running online.
Here, we'll show you how to bring all parts of your academic community into Slack's secure, channel-based messaging platform. We'll also show you how Slack integrates with the tools your students and faculty already know how to use, from video conferencing and file sharing to learning management systems and more. With these tips, you can set up a productive distance-learning environment in no time.
The basics
Before you start working in Slack with your team, take a few minutes to set yourselves up for success.
- Create different Slack workspaces to separate administrative departments from the student learning environment.
- Create a workspace for each course that contains a set of channels for classroom work, discussion, group projects and office hours.
- To recreate the full campus experience, create a workspace for students to socialize and engage with campus life and receive support from student services. Channels in this workspace might include one for each student group, club and association, as well as channels for services such as #financial-assistance.
- Create a workspace exclusively for faculty and administrators that contains a set of channels for discussing and managing academic and institutional operations, such as #recruiting and #student-affairs.
- Make sure to upload a clear profile photo and fill out your profile details (and encourage everyone else to do the same). It helps make Slack feel like a friendlier place filled with real people, which will hopefully lead to civil and courteous exchanges. Profiles can also be used to communicate important things such as class or office-hours schedules, language fluencies and more.
1. Digitizing the learning experience
Use Slack + Zoom to host virtual lectures and office hours
Setting up a virtual classroom is as easy as starting a Slack channel and a Zoom video conference. Make sure the administrators of your institution's Slack workspace have added the Zoom for Slack app.
- Create a channel and label it with your lecture or project name and invite the relevant students and teaching assistants
- Start a Zoom video call by typing /zoom slash command in the message field of a channel or direct message, then click send.
- You'll see a sleek interface show up in the channel with a button marked "join" that any channel member can access
Students can use channels to post clarifying questions and comments throughout the lesson and their classmates can use emoji reactions to second questions or show support for comments. Not only do channels allow professors to better gauge students' understanding of course material, channels also provide a more inclusive space for less outspoken students to participate equally.
- Use threads to organize smaller group discussions around specific topics during the class
- After the lecture, use the Slack channel to follow up with students on homework and assignments
Maintain office hours virtually
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The Third Testament comprises all of Martinus' published writings and symbols and, as a whole, constitutes a defence of everyone and everything.
Livets Bog – The Book of Life 1-7
The Third Testament provides an explanation of life's own religion. We all of us already exist as members of this religion, bad as well as good, believers as well as non-believers, animals and plants included – in this religion there is therefore no need for initiation ceremonies. Everyone has vital roles to play in the gigantic theatrical performances taking place in nature, and which we call the universe. As the universe is being described here as something alive, it can be likened to a book – "the book of life" that everyone is reading – every single moment. "The book of life" will help us to understand "life's speech", so that we can realise who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
Livets Bog 1
(All versions are published under this Danish title)
In the Preface, Martinus explains about the source from which he gained his knowledge and presents the freedom and tolerance that is afforded the readers on the part of the author. There then follow 6 chapters, which make up the Introduction to the 7 volumes of Livets Bog.
Livets Bog 1 contains the following chapters:
1. The world situation
2. The divine creative principle
3. The new world impulse
4. An international world kingdom under creation
5. Terrestrial Mankind's receptivity to the new world impulse
6. From animal to human being
7. The basic energies and the planes of existence
8. Evolution
As an aid to understanding the analyses, 8 cosmic symbols are presented and explained.
Livets Bog 2
The section entitled "Cosmic Chemistry" begins. This volume focuses on our thought world, mentality or soul. Our fate is exclusively the result of how we use the forces of our consciousness. In order to think and act perfectly we also have to know the laws governing thought. With this knowledge it becomes possible to create a perfect fate for ourselves and a perfect world inthe future. Livets Bog 2 contains the following chapters:
9. The law governing the reaction of substances
10. The eternal sources of power of the I
11. Thought climates
The symbol: "The combination of the basic energies" is
Livets Bog 3
(Not yet printed in English)
The continuation and conclusion of the section, "Cosmic Chemistry". In chapter 12, entitled "Life substances", the basic principles of eternal life are catalogued and described. The symbols entitled, "The principle of cycles" and "The solution to the mystery of life" are explained. This volume concludes with a comparison between the logical structure of the number system and the eternal basic structure of the universe.
Livets Bog 4
The section entitled, "Eternal life" begins. Chapter 13 deals with the subject of "the living being". God is revealed in the living being and vice versa. The unity of eternity and time. Spiritual worlds. Initiated beings and "dead" beings. The purpose of the physical world. The Bible and spiritual science. Politics and religion. Criminal law and Christianity. Democracy, dictatorship, capitalism, communism and the united states of the world. The history and fate of the Jews. The difference between the Old and the New Testaments. Marriage and universal love. The symbol "Life and death" is explained.
Livets Bog 5
(Not yet printed in English)
Chapter 14 deals with the subject of "the highest fire" or sexuality in all its forms. The organic structure of neighbourly love. The transformation of sexuality. The creation of Adam and Eve – a cosmic explanation. Belief in the virgin birth. Attraction stimulated by the desire to mate and universal love. Darkness, suffering and the state of being in love. The combining of the male and the female in the human being's psyche. The creation of Man in God's image. From animal to Man. Various stages of sexuality from "A" to "K". The paths – and mistaken paths – of sexuality are analysed. In the perfect human kingdom of the future one does not marry.
Livets Bog 6
(Not yet printed in English)
Chapter 15 analyses "The kingdom of God or the adventure of life". The inner psychic temple symbolised by the temple of the Jews. The outer courtyard, the inner "Holy Place" and the "Holy of Holies" are symbols of psychic realities that occur on the road to initiation. Meditation, cosmic glimpses, the principle of prayer, electricity and the "guardians of the threshold". The opening of the "Holy of Holies", the experience of being one with God. God talks to his beloved son. God's consciousness; "The Holy Spirit". The Father and the son, the creators of time and space. God as the Father and protector of all living beings.
Livets Bog 7
(Not yet printed in English)
The conclusion of the section, "Eternal life". Chapter 16 looks into the consequences of the eternal world picture and deals with "The cosmic world morality", which will form the foundation of the new world civilisation. The purpose of the world government. An economic system without money. The abolition of punishment and torture. Cosmic science and the limitations of materialistic science. The world picture, summed up in 41 key points. Out of darkness. All living beings will become active cells in God's consciousness. Postscript: "The son of God at one with his Father". This offering of thanks to God was the first thing that Martinus wrote after his cosmic initiation of fire in 1921.
The Eternal World Picture
The cosmic symbols are gathered together in the 5 volumes entitled, "The Eternal World Picture".
With the help of the symbols the reader can easily form an overview of the eternal world picture. Several symbols are also described and explained in "Livets Bog" and in some of the small books.
The Eternal World Picture 1 – comprises symbols 1-16
The Eternal World Picture 2 – comprises symbols 17-26
The Eternal World Picture 3 – comprises symbols 27-33
The Eternal World Picture 4* – comprises symbols 34-44
The Eternal World Picture 5* – comprises symbols 45-77 (Not yet printed in English)
The Eternal World Picture 6* – comprises symbols 78-100 (Not yet printed in English)
Introductions to the symbols here.
Grand Course (complete introductory course)*
In 1955-1956, Martinus reviewed the cosmic worldview in a lecture series of 15 lectures. The book was published posthumously and is based on tape recordings from these lectures. 76 symbols are explained and the book can be recommended as an introduction to the cosmic worldview.
Logic (introduction)
Love and logic is being explained as one and the same thing. Materialistic science and the mystery of life. An illogical view of the world. The Bible contains conclusive answers about eternity, in a form that can be understood by those with less critical faculties but also by those with wisdom. The Biblical account of creation is explained. Reincarnation. The way out of the animal kingdom, the perfect Man at one with God. Eternal life and the understanding of light and darkness. God's elevated view of the world: "Everything is very good". This book is intended as an introduction to the The Third Testament.
The Third Testament – The Intellectualised Christianity (introduction)*
Danish title: "Det Tredje Testamente – Den intellektualiserede kristendom"
(Not yet printed in English)
An edited publication of the manuscripts that Martinus left unfinished and which underline the connections between the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Third Testament.
Funeral Rites
(Not yet printed in English)
Here a new and important aspect of the commandment to love is explained: our relationship to the living microcosmos. Sleep, nutrition, thought, health, vital force, cremation, the picking of flowers, vivisection, poisoning, herd consciousness, materialistic and cosmic science. (Danish title: "Bisættelse").
Smaller books
Many of the following books are based on lectures. In them the reader is given an interesting insight into the initiated being's view of the great questions about life
The crucifixion of Christ on Golgotha at Easter about 2000 years ago was a dramatic turning point in the evolution of man. This book illuminates the meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus; to be a living example of "the finished human being in God's image after his likeness". The concrete events surrounding the crucifixion are looked at. Christ's mission was to show us how to acknowledge our destiny so as to become one with God.
The Principle of Reincarnation
The book comprises four edited lectures:
The Principle of Reincarnation: Every minute atoms and cells in our organism "die" and are replaced by new ones; this is a form of partial reincarnation. In the article an explanation is given of why organisms need to be totally replaced as a natural part of life. Reincarnation and the mystery of "death".
The Galaxies of the Universe: Chaotic and cosmic consciousness. Our body is mostly made of "empty space". The real nature of this "empty space", on both the small and the large scale, is analysed.
Unnatural Fatigue and Depression: About tiredness that is not healed by sleep. About depression, self-pity, nervous breakdown. The real cause and solution.
Through the Empty Space of the Universe: Star systems are born from the "empty space" of the universe. An explanation is given of why this void is really a world of thoughts, concluding with an analysis of the words: "Father, who art in heaven".
The Fate of Mankind
Human beings' path from belief to knowledge. Religion is believing – or seeking – truth and on this basis religion and science will be united as spiritual science. Our spiritual bodies, the spiral zones, physical and spiritual sensory perception, dreams, "death", the condition after natural and unnatural death, suicide. The world government is evolving out of the war zone of humankind. The theoretical foundation for the peaceful world society is summed up in 12 points.
Out of Darkness
– A Glimpse of World Redemption
– The Garden of Gethsemane
Danish title: "Ud af mørket"
(Not yet printed in English)
Between two World Epochs
Danish title: "Mellem to verdensepoker"
(Not yet printed in English)
Devil consciousness and Christ consciousness
– Immortality
– God's Creation of the Human Being
– The World Situation and "the image of God"
Danish title: "Djævlebevidsthed og kristusbevidsthed"
(Not yet printed in English)
The Creation of World Peace
– The "I" and Eternity
Danish title: "Verdensfredens skabelse"
(Not yet printed in English)
The Creation of Culture
Danish title: "Kulturens skabelse"
(Not yet printed in English)
The Road to Paradise
Danish title: "Vejen til paradis"
The Mystery of Prayer
The animal's cry of anguish at the moment of its death is a prayer in its initial stages. The development from the selfish prayer for personal favours towards Jesus' logical, selfless, conscious prayer in Gethsemane, "Father, thy will be done". Prayer is explained as being a way of becoming aware of God. With the help of prayer we can receive inspiration and empowerment in all of life's situations. Every line of the Lord's prayer is gone through and explained from the cosmic perspective.
The Road to Initiation
The book comprises four articles:
On the Birth of my Mission: In this script Martinus gives an account of the profound experiences that totally changed his life, enabling him to describe the eternal truth of the universe, which he formulated in his lifework, The Third Testament.
Cosmic Consciousness: Jesus said, "I and the Father, we are one", meaning that his consciousness was in total harmony with the consciousness of God. We develop towards this cosmic consciousness by developing the capacity to love all beings. Everyone is, without exception, heading for this state of being, with the ability to understand and forgive all.
The Road to Initiation: Humility is the same as admitting one's own imperfection. Through this discovery the path is open to all real wisdom. The rich man and real wealth. Spiritual vanity.
Concerning my Cosmic Analyses: People's receptiveness to The Third Testament is analysed. Who is receptive to these cosmic analyses and who is in need of them? The Culture of Giving describes the nature of a true gift.
Christmas Gospel
Danish title: "Juleevangeliet"
(Not yet printed in English)
World Religion and World Politics
The book comprises four articles:
The Cause of the Fate of Terrestrial Man: How we create our own fate often crucifying ourselves and how we can free ourselves from suffering by the way we bear this cross.
Pilate, Christ and Barabbas: These three persons, as well as others in the Bible, personify the three different mentalities that we are all surrounded by, faced with and pass by on the path of life until the point when we reach full understanding.
World Religion and World Politics: Religion and politics are the same thing but conducted by different powers of the soul. Man has always imagined God and the perfect world. The perfect kingdom of man is impossible to conceive using the imagination, but will even though become reality on Earth.
Why One Should Forgive One's Neighbour: Struggling for
liberty through violence. False priests and true Christianity.
What is Truth?
Danish title: "Hvad er sandhed"
(Not yet printed in English)
The Longest-surviving Idol
Danish title: "Den længst levende afgud"
(Not yet printed in English)
Pages from God's Picture Book, The Glory of Whitsuntide shining over Life
Danish title: "Blade af Guds billedbog"
(Not yet printed in English)
Cosmic Glimpses
– High Intellectuality and Low Intellectuality
– The Sixth Commandment
Danish title:"Kosmiske glimt"
(Not yet printed in English)
The Creation of Consciousness
– Thoughts concerning Easter
– Christmas Candles
Danish title: "Bevidsthedens skabelse"
(Not yet printed in English)
Mental Sovereignty – Cosmic Consciousness
Danish title: "Kosmisk bevidsthed"
(Not yet printed in English)
Mankind and the World Picture
Danish title: "Menneskeheden og verdensbilledet"
(Not yet printed in English)
Marriage and Universal Love
Love is not the same as the infatuation experienced by a couple going through the hormone-stimulated process of "being in love". True love is completely unconditional and is aimed at the human qualities in the human being, regardless of gender. This ability evolves organically as we develop. The Third Testament shows that love forms the foundation of the universe. Through many terrestrial lives we develop our consciousness to become in harmony with the wholeness of God. We will all achieve the experience of being one with God, being able to love our neighbours as ourselves. A cosmic analyse of the biblical narrative of Adam and Eve.
The Ideal Food
A comprehensive examination of all aspects of food regarding health and destiny. Vegetarian food is proved to be the ideal food on the level of development of present-day human beings. Eating meat necessitates the killing of animals as well as beings in microcosmos. The ideal food is still evolving. It is shown which food is normal for the various stages of development. Two cosmic symbols support the analyses.
The Immortality of Living Beings
The book comprises three articles:
The Immortality of Living Beings: The superstition that living beings can die. The analysis of The Third Testament states the immortality and reincarnation of human beings.
The Necessity of Spiritual Science: "Democracy" and "communism", are misleading terms, as they are commonly used. An analysis of materialistic science, dictatorship etc. What will be the solution to the state of the world?
Primitivity and Superstition: Points to different forms of superstition in our culture which creates Armageddon.
Beyond the Fear of Death
– The Psychic Temple
– Judge not
– The Way, the Truth and the Life
Danish title: "Hinsides dødsfrygten"
(Not yet printed in English)
Two Kinds of Love
Danish title: "To slags kærlighed"
(Not yet printed in English)
Universal love is an ability to love one's neighbour regardless of gender. We develop this ability gradually from life to life. This unconditional love is the keynote of the universe and therefore leads to the experience of being one with God.
The book comprises three articles:
On the Altar of Love: Discusses the difference between giving and taking – analysing the era of the golden calf (money or Mammon) leading up to the collapse of the existing old culture and the coming of a new world culture where the only currency of payment will be the carrying out of work.
Meditation: About materialistic and spiritual thinking, cosmic glimpses and one form of meditation that does not involve mental risk.
Mankind at One with God: In life one can observe both unfinished and finished creative processes. Armageddon is a cosmic psychological teaching, which leads the human being to fulfil the law of life: "Love thy God above all things and thy neighbour as thyself".
Life's Theatre of Fate – The Great Baptism of Fire
– Primitive and Intellectual Divine Worship
– In "the image of the animal" and in "the image of
God" Danish title: "Livets skæbnespil
(Not yet printed in English)
The Road of Life
The book comprises three articles:
The Road of Life: The Third Testament shows that all creation is bound by laws. The principle of cycles is a divine law of renewal and transformation. At this moment humankind dwells in darkness, war and misery, but only because it is in transition towards brightness, peace and joy.
Mental Prisons: Mental suffering is caused by a dysfunctional outlook on life. The one who thinks that life should right itself according to their own personal wishes is trapped in a prison. Freedom is the knowledge that everything and everyone is just as they should be, and that "everything is very good".
The Second and the First Resurrection: Explains the resurrection of Jesus and the questions about the materialisation of his physical body – something that will become a natural occurence once moral advancements are made in the course of evolution. Materialisation in general is not specifically connected to moral development. But the first resurrection is the development that happens through countless numbers of reincarnations and leads to the real human being's resurrection out of darkness.
Collected articles 1
A selection of 45 of Martinus' lectures and articles, from the period 1929 – 1972, in chronological order. The current events of the times are reflected in the light of eternity.
* Based on unfinished manuscripts.
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This is an addition for archival purposes of a post that originally appeared at Scienceblogs.
(You leave the country for a few days — I spoke at a conference in Brussels, which was was lovely, thanks for asking — and all kinds of news breaks out. So, sorry to be late on this, but it's an important issue.)
Last week, the Food and Drug Adminstration took the first (baby, mincing, tentative) steps to address the problem of antibiotics being used in animal agriculture, not to treat disease, but to make animals grow up to market weight faster. This practice — variously called subtherapeutic dosing, growth promotion, and "for production purposes" in the FDA's exceedingly careful language — has been fully banned in the European Union for 4 years, and some aspects of the practice have been banned longer.
The simple reason for the ban: There's decades of good science and real-world experience showing that it contributes to the development of drug-resistant organisms in farm animals and the farm environment, organisms that leave farms in the animals and in their manure, and also contaminate the environment beyond farm borders via leakage into groundwater and dust blowing off manure lagoons.That movement off the farm is critical because many of the drugs used in agriculture are the same, or close analogs, of drugs used in human medicine; so resistance that develops on the farm endangers human health as well. (MRSA ST398, livestock-associated MRSA, is the latest example of this. Find a long archive of posts on ST398 here.)
Just to be clear, growth-promoters don't treat disease; they're given to healthy animals solely for the purpose of getting them up to sale weight and to market faster. The ways in which antibiotics are given to livestock to treat or prevent disease have their own issues, but those are not part of the FDA effort. (Historical note: The growth-promoting effect of trace amounts of antibiotics was first recognized in 1947, when scientists at Lederle were looking for something to do with the leftover fermentation mash from the manufacture of chlortetracycline, fed it to chickens, and discovered they thrived on it. Stuart Levy's The Antibiotic Paradox tells this story in detail.)
In human medicine, when we give antibiotics to people who are not sick with a bacterial illness, we call it inappropriate use — and aim massive education campaigns at the practice in an attempt to dial it down. In contract, the animal side has had a free pass for a long time, to the extent that it remains unclear how many antibiotics are used in farming in the US (best estimate: about 70% of all antibiotic use in the US per year), and there is no organized surveillance that would look at what organisms are emerging in animals from that use.
The FDA has been trying to put curbs on growth promoters since the 1970s, always without success; the lobbying against it, by agriculture and also by pharmaceutical interests, is reliably intense. There's been a parallel effort in Congress to limit the use in animals of drugs that have close analogs in human medicine, via the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, or PAMTA, authored by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Congress's only microbiologist. PAMTA has been introduced in several Congresses but this year finally gained some traction. Last year, the Obama administration signaled, in testimony by then-new assistant FDA commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, that it might be friendly to the idea of dialing back on growth-promoter antibiotic use, and it looked as though the long logjam might finally be broken.
Well, OK: Not broken, exactly. Just shifted a little, and maybe showing a tiny bit of light.
On Tuesday, the FDA released a "draft guidance" that proposes animal ag do two things: stop using growth-promoting subtherapeutic dosing, and administer antibiotics to animals under the supervision of a veterinarian. That's the good news.
The bad news: It's only a guidance, not a regulation. In other words, it has no force in law. It's more like a request — though in a press conference last week, Sharfstein suggested it might also be a shot across agriculture's collective bow:
We have the regulatory mechanisms and the industry knows that. But we are also interested in what things can be done just voluntarily that they would do them. And I think it'll be interesting to see how the industry responds to this and how – what direction their comments take. …We're not handcuffed to the steering wheel of a particular strategy at this point. We really want to understand what people think. And but we're also – I'm not ruling out anything that we could do to accomplish these important public health goals. (Transcript)
Reactions to the FDA announcement were predictable — effectively "No science, more research needed": Here's the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, and a standing statement by the Animal Health Institute. (Supporting the FDA move: the Pew Charitable Trusts, the New York Times.)
The draft guidance stays open for public comment for 60 days, until Aug. 30. The required Federal Register posting is here, with the mailing address. Electronic comments can be left at Regulations.gov; the docket number for the guidance is FDA-2010-D-0094; 33 comments have been posted already.


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The instruction booklet said one option was to set up yellow->blue->green from left to right (when sitting in front of the kit), however, I have also seen photos on the internet with a setup of blue->yellow->green. There's even someone who's used a setup of yellow->green->blue in this question.
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The previous chapters discussed how to extend Python, that is, how to extend the functionality of Python by attaching a library of C functions to it. It is also possible to do it the other way around: enrich your C/C++ application by embedding Python in it. Embedding provides your application with the ability to implement some of the functionality of your application in Python rather than C or C++. This can be used for many purposes; one example would be to allow users to tailor the application to their needs by writing some scripts in Python. You can also use it yourself if some of the functionality can be written in Python more easily.
Embedding Python is similar to extending it, but not quite. The difference is that when you extend Python, the main program of the application is still the Python interpreter, while if you embed Python, the main program may have nothing to do with Python — instead, some parts of the application occasionally call the Python interpreter to run some Python code.
So if you are embedding Python, you are providing your own main program. One of the things this main program has to do is initialize the Python interpreter. At the very least, you have to call the function Py_Initialize. There are optional calls to pass command line arguments to Python. Then later you can call the interpreter from any part of the application.
There are several different ways to call the interpreter: you can pass a string containing Python statements to PyRun_SimpleString, or you can pass a stdio file pointer and a file name (for identification in error messages only) to PyRun_SimpleFile. You can also call the lower-level operations described in the previous chapters to construct and use Python objects.
A simple demo of embedding Python can be found in the directory Demo/embed/ of the source distribution.
See also
The simplest form of embedding Python is the use of the very high level interface. This interface is intended to execute a Python script without needing to interact with the application directly. This can for example be used to perform some operation on a file.
#include <Python.h>
main(int argc, char *argv[])
PyRun_SimpleString("from time import time,ctime\n"
"print('Today is', ctime(time()))\n");
return 0;
The above code first initializes the Python interpreter with Py_Initialize, followed by the execution of a hard-coded Python script that print the date and time. Afterwards, the Py_Finalize call shuts the interpreter down, followed by the end of the program. In a real program, you may want to get the Python script from another source, perhaps a text-editor routine, a file, or a database. Getting the Python code from a file can better be done by using the PyRun_SimpleFile function, which saves you the trouble of allocating memory space and loading the file contents.
The high level interface gives you the ability to execute arbitrary pieces of Python code from your application, but exchanging data values is quite cumbersome to say the least. If you want that, you should use lower level calls. At the cost of having to write more C code, you can achieve almost anything.
It should be noted that extending Python and embedding Python is quite the same activity, despite the different intent. Most topics discussed in the previous chapters are still valid. To show this, consider what the extension code from Python to C really does:
When embedding Python, the interface code does:
As you can see, the data conversion steps are simply swapped to accommodate the different direction of the cross-language transfer. The only difference is the routine that you call between both data conversions. When extending, you call a C routine, when embedding, you call a Python routine.
This chapter will not discuss how to convert data from Python to C and vice versa. Also, proper use of references and dealing with errors is assumed to be understood. Since these aspects do not differ from extending the interpreter, you can refer to earlier chapters for the required information.
The first program aims to execute a function in a Python script. Like in the section about the very high level interface, the Python interpreter does not directly interact with the application (but that will change in the next section).
The code to run a function defined in a Python script is:
#include <Python.h>
main(int argc, char *argv[])
PyObject *pName, *pModule, *pDict, *pFunc;
PyObject *pArgs, *pValue;
int i;
if (argc < 3) {
fprintf(stderr,"Usage: call pythonfile funcname [args]\n");
return 1;
pName = PyUnicode_FromString(argv[1]);
/* Error checking of pName left out */
pModule = PyImport_Import(pName);
if (pModule != NULL) {
pFunc = PyObject_GetAttrString(pModule, argv[2]);
/* pFunc is a new reference */
if (pFunc && PyCallable_Check(pFunc)) {
pArgs = PyTuple_New(argc - 3);
for (i = 0; i < argc - 3; ++i) {
pValue = PyLong_FromLong(atoi(argv[i + 3]));
if (!pValue) {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot convert argument\n");
return 1;
/* pValue reference stolen here: */
PyTuple_SetItem(pArgs, i, pValue);
pValue = PyObject_CallObject(pFunc, pArgs);
if (pValue != NULL) {
printf("Result of call: %ld\n", PyLong_AsLong(pValue));
else {
fprintf(stderr,"Call failed\n");
return 1;
else {
if (PyErr_Occurred())
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot find function \"%s\"\n", argv[2]);
else {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to load \"%s\"\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
return 0;
This code loads a Python script using argv[1], and calls the function named in argv[2]. Its integer arguments are the other values of the argv array. If you compile and link this program (let's call the finished executable call), and use it to execute a Python script, such as:
def multiply(a,b):
print("Will compute", a, "times", b)
c = 0
for i in range(0, a):
c = c + b
return c
then the result should be:
$ call multiply multiply 3 2 Will compute 3 times 2 Result of call: 6
Although the program is quite large for its functionality, most of the code is for data conversion between Python and C, and for error reporting. The interesting part with respect to embedding Python starts with
pName = PyString_FromString(argv[1]);
/* Error checking of pName left out */
pModule = PyImport_Import(pName);
After initializing the interpreter, the script is loaded using PyImport_Import. This routine needs a Python string as its argument, which is constructed using the PyString_FromString data conversion routine.
pFunc = PyObject_GetAttrString(pModule, argv[2]);
/* pFunc is a new reference */
if (pFunc && PyCallable_Check(pFunc)) {
Once the script is loaded, the name we're looking for is retrieved using PyObject_GetAttrString. If the name exists, and the object returned is callable, you can safely assume that it is a function. The program then proceeds by constructing a tuple of arguments as normal. The call to the Python function is then made with:
pValue = PyObject_CallObject(pFunc, pArgs);
Upon return of the function, pValue is either NULL or it contains a reference to the return value of the function. Be sure to release the reference after examining the value.
Until now, the embedded Python interpreter had no access to functionality from the application itself. The Python API allows this by extending the embedded interpreter. That is, the embedded interpreter gets extended with routines provided by the application. While it sounds complex, it is not so bad. Simply forget for a while that the application starts the Python interpreter. Instead, consider the application to be a set of subroutines, and write some glue code that gives Python access to those routines, just like you would write a normal Python extension. For example:
static int numargs=0;
/* Return the number of arguments of the application command line */
static PyObject*
emb_numargs(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
if(!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, ":numargs"))
return NULL;
return Py_BuildValue("i", numargs);
static PyMethodDef EmbMethods[] = {
{"numargs", emb_numargs, METH_VARARGS,
"Return the number of arguments received by the process."},
Insert the above code just above the main function. Also, insert the following two statements directly after Py_Initialize:
numargs = argc;
Py_InitModule("emb", EmbMethods);
These two lines initialize the numargs variable, and make the emb.numargs() function accessible to the embedded Python interpreter. With these extensions, the Python script can do things like
import emb
print("Number of arguments", emb.numargs())
In a real application, the methods will expose an API of the application to Python.
It is also possible to embed Python in a C++ program; precisely how this is done will depend on the details of the C++ system used; in general you will need to write the main program in C++, and use the C++ compiler to compile and link your program. There is no need to recompile Python itself using C++.
While the configure script shipped with the Python sources will correctly build Python to export the symbols needed by dynamically linked extensions, this is not automatically inherited by applications which embed the Python library statically, at least on Unix. This is an issue when the application is linked to the static runtime library (libpython.a) and needs to load dynamic extensions (implemented as .so files).
The problem is that some entry points are defined by the Python runtime solely for extension modules to use. If the embedding application does not use any of these entry points, some linkers will not include those entries in the symbol table of the finished executable. Some additional options are needed to inform the linker not to remove these symbols.
Determining the right options to use for any given platform can be quite difficult, but fortunately the Python configuration already has those values. To retrieve them from an installed Python interpreter, start an interactive interpreter and have a short session like this:
>>> import distutils.sysconfig >>> distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('LINKFORSHARED') '-Xlinker -export-dynamic'
The contents of the string presented will be the options that should be used. If the string is empty, there's no need to add any additional options. The LINKFORSHARED definition corresponds to the variable of the same name in Python's top-level Makefile.


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23 junho 2010
[This post is by Jean-Baptiste Queru, who moves truck-loads of source code in and out of the Googleplex. — Tim Bray]
Today is one of those days that has my heart racing; we've just released the source code for Android 2.2. This is a big step forward for the entire Android ecosystem. Please don't melt the servers down again while trying to download that latest source code.
This blog typically talks about developing Android applications using the SDK and NDK. However, the skills of a platform contributor aren't fundamentally different from those of an application developer. Those are simply different roles using the same skill set. I'm providing an update here to the experienced Android programmers all around the world on some of the recent developments in the Android Open-Source Project.
For Google engineers working on Android, releases are mostly known by their code names which are chosen alphabetically after tasty treats. I'll call Android 2.2 "Froyo" throughout this post, since that was its code name. Raw version numbers don't make me salivate as much as the thought of a cold dessert in the California summer.
Let's have a look at some cool aspects of the new Froyo source, and let's then take a few steps back to look at other noteworthy aspects of the Android Open-Source Project.
I had been increasingly involved in all previous open-source releases of Android, from testing the initial code drop to doing all the open-source-related git-level work in Eclair. Following that path, Froyo is the first release where my primary focus has been the Android Open-Source Project from start to finish. I thank the entire Android team for helping me all along with much of that work. Here are some aspects of Froyo that I am proud of, and that kept me busy for the last few months:
Hundreds of platform changes that people everywhere uploaded to the Android Open-Source Project were accepted and merged into Froyo. That process is now a well-oiled machine and will translate well to future contributions.
The open-source release happened in a single step. The whole source tree for the entire Android 2.2 platform is now available, with its full change history. That will accelerate everyone's migration to Froyo from older releases. It is also already fully merged into the open-source master tree. Consequently, we can immediately review and accept platform contributions based on Froyo. That will therefore reduce the risk of merge conflicts between contributions to the open-source tree and changes in Google's internal master tree where those contributions are meant to end up.
In order to make it easier for device manufacturers and custom system builders to use Froyo, we've restructured our source tree to better separate closed-source modules from open-source ones. We've made many changes to the open-source code itself to remove unintentional dependencies on closed-source software. We've also incorporated into the core platform all the configuration files necessary to build the source code of Android Open-Source Project on its own. You can now build and boot a fully open-source system image out of the box, for the emulator, as well as for Dream (ADP1), Sapphire (ADP2), and Passion (Nexus One).
Speaking of device support, we also open-sourced several additional hardware-related libraries that had been closed-source in previous releases, which will open the door to more contributions. Some examples are the recovery UI code for Dream, Sapphire and Passion, and the interface between the media framework and Qualcomm chipsets.
Besides the Froyo source code release, I wanted to mention several other improvements in the Android Open-Source Project:
We've been receiving contributions from more than twenty different companies, and many individuals. We have close to 4,000 registered users on the Gerrit code review server, with an average of 2 contributions per user. Those contributions have been in all areas of the system, from the depth of the C library all the way to the UI of the lock screen. They've covered the full range of complexities, from fixing typos in the documentation or reformatting code to adding developer-visible APIs or user-visible features. I want to thank everyone who got involved for their work and patience.
We're now responding to platform contributions faster, with most changes currently getting looked at within a few business days of being uploaded, and few changes staying inactive for more than a few weeks at a time. We're trying to review early and review often. As I'm typing this, only about a dozen platform contributions haven't been looked at yet, with the oldest of those being 3 days old. More than 90% of contributions to the platform code itself have been actively looked at during the last 2 weeks. I hope that the speedy process will lead to more interactivity during the code reviews. I realize nevertheless that time differences around the world can make real-time communication a challenge.
Over the last 2 months, we've reached a final decision on more than 1,000 changes that were uploaded to our public Gerrit server. That means that those changes were either accepted or rejected after being reviewed. The high quality of the contributions we've been receiving throughout the history of the Android Open-Source Project has allowed us to steadily merge about 80% of them into the main repository, from where they migrate to official releases. That means that an average of 20 changes have been accepted through the Android Open-Source Project into the public git repositories every business day over those last 2 months.
We recently created two new official Google Groups related to the Android Open-Source Project. Android-building is meant to specifically discuss build issues (be sure to search the archives thoroughly before posting). Android-contrib is used to discuss actual contributions (don't post if you don't really intend to contribute and follow through on the review process, and if you haven't already spent an hour or two researching things on your own).
We're developing the developer tools directly in the open-source project, with no work in those areas happening behind closed doors. This covers the Eclipse plug-in and the emulator, and more than a dozen other SDK-related tools.
Once a platform version is open-sourced, all improvements to the Compatibility Test Suite related to that version are made directly to the open-source tree. In fact, release 2 of the 2.1 CTS was done 100% that way, with the development, testing and release process all happening straight in the open-source tree. This is now true for Froyo as well, and we are now accepting contributions into the Froyo branch of the CTS project.
I believe that those last two aspects are important to application developers. If you're an application developer and you'd like to improve the tools that you and your fellow developers use, the process to make changes in that area is now a lot more transparent. Similarly, if during application development you find incompatibilities between devices and believe that those incompatibilities aren't within the letter or the spirit of Android compatibility, you can help improve the situation by contributing a CTS test for that area.
With Android 2.2 now being available to the open-source world, and with the review process working smoothly, I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more high-quality contributions that will be used to build future versions of Android. My sweetest dream, which is also my worst nightmare, is to have so many contributions that I can't keep up with them. Please don't wake me up.