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Romain Grosjean delivers a steady and progressive race in Sepang, whilst power issues for Pastor Maldonado forces a tough decision to retire Round two of the 2014 F1® season got underway today, and it was a bag of mixed fortunes for the Lotus F1® Team. Starting in P15 and P16, Lotus F1® Team drivers Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado made good progress off the grid until a loss of power for Pastor during the first lap, cut short the Venezuelan's race who took the tough decision to safeguard his engine and retire. Romain however kept the black and gold flag flying high and advanced quickly, accelerating two places and sliding into P13 during the fourth lap. He then maintained his pace, overtaking Caterham's Kobayashi to claim P12 during lap 32. Continuing his steady fight forwards and providing valuable data for the team, he further ascended into P11 and was forced to furiously defend his place in the last laps of the race thanks to a spirited challenge from teammate of old, Kimi Räikkönen. The Räikkönen charge did not break Romain's lock down and he successfully crossed the line, his P11 finish in hand. Romain Grosjean P11 E22-03: "Eleventh place is good for all the guys at Enstone and at the track, and it's good for me too. Finishing the race was our first objective and then we wanted to see where we were with our car. It's not perfect yet but it's good to be where we are at this stage. I had a big loss of downforce around eight laps to the end especially in the rear of the car which made things difficult, especially when I had to defend. Without that issue, I'm sure we could have finished higher. It's good to be back and close to the points so it's a positive for all of us. It was a good battle at the end. I kept remembering our past battles to make sure Kimi couldn't go through!" Pastor Maldonado DNF E22-01: "After the start we were losing a lot of power so we'll have to investigate later to see what the issue is and analyse the data. This problem meant I had to retire in order to protect the engine. Despite that, this weekend has been clearly a step forwards. Since Saturday, we've been able to run far more with the car and Romain was able to finish the race. Today obviously was not so good for me, but we're not the only ones with issues so early in the season. This is all related to all the complex packages in the car, but we have learnt a lot this weekend and will make progress for the next." Frederico Gastaldi, Deputy Team Principal: "Today Romain drove a great race to be in with a shout of points and finish the team's first race of 2014. That he was able to defend his position for the last eight laps despite his rear diffuser not working properly shows his determination. This determination is shared by the entire team as we now look to extract more performance from the E22. Pastor was very unfortunate with an issue which could have damaged his engine. We needed to retire him so that we can ensure better performance later in the year. We head to Bahrain as determined as ever to find more improvements in performance and reliability." The next round of the competition takes place at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain on the 6th April.
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I'm leading the development of a website for Slow Roll Chicago that shows the distribution of bike lane infrastructure in Chicago relative to key and specific demographics to demonstrate if the investment has been equitable.
We're using GitHub to store code, publish meeting notes, and host discussions with the issues tracker. Communication is done almost entirely in GitHub issues. I chose GitHub over Slack and Google Groups because:
- All of our research and code should be public and open source so it's clear how we made our assumptions and came to our conclusions ("show your work").
- Using git, GitHub, and version control is a desirable skill and more people should learn it; this project will help people apply that skill.
- There are no emails involved. I deplore using email for group communication.*
The website focuses on using empirical research, maps, geographic analysis to tell the story of bike lane distribution and requires processing this data using GIS functions. Normally the data would be transformed in a desktop GIS software like QGIS and then converted to a format that can be used in Leaflet, an open source web mapping library.
Relying on desktop software, though, slows down development of new ways to slice and dice geographic data, which, in our map, includes bike lanes, wards, Census tracts, Divvy stations, and grocery stores (so far). One would have to generate a new dataset if our goals or needs changed .
I've built maps for images and the web that way enough in the past and I wanted to move away from that method for this project and we're using Turf.js to replicate many GIS functions – but in the browser.
Yep, Turf makes it possible to merge, buffer, contain, calculate distance, transform, dissolve, and perform dozens of other functions all within the browser, "on the fly", without any software.
After dilly-dallying in Turf for several weeks, our group started making progress this month. We have now pushed to our in-progress website a map with three features made possible by Turf:
- Buffer and dissolving buffers to show the Divvy station walk shed, the distance a reasonable person would walk from their home or office to check out a Divvy station. A buffer of 0.25 miles (two Chicago blocks) is created around each of the 300 Divvy stations, hidden from display, and then merged (dissolved in traditional GIS parlance) into a single buffer. The single buffer –called a "super buffer" in our source code – is used for another feature. Currently the projection is messed up and you see ellipsoid shapes instead of circles.
- Counting grocery stores in the Divvy station walk shed. We use the "feature collection" function to convert the super buffer into an object that the "within" function can use to compare to a GeoJSON object of grocery stores. This process is similar to the "select by location" function in GIS software. Right now this number is printed only to the console as we look for the best way to display stats like this to the user. A future version of the map could allow the user to change the 0.25 miles distance to an arbitrary distance they prefer.
- Find the nearest Divvy station from any place on the map. Using Turf's "nearest" function and the Context Menu plugin for Leaflet, the user can right-click anywhere on the map and choose "Find nearby Divvy stations". The "nearest" function compares the place where the user clicked against the GeoJSON object of Divvy stations to select the nearest one. The problem of locating 2+ nearby Divvy stations remains. The original issue asked to find the number of Divvy stations near the point; we'll likely accomplish this by drawing an invisible, temporary buffer around the point and then using "within" to count the number of stations inside that buffer and then destroy the buffer.
* I send one email to new people who join us at Open Gov Hack Night on Tuesdays at the Mart to send them a link to our GitHub repository, and to invite them to a Dropbox folder to share large files for those who don't learn to use git for file management.

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This is a simple concept – a search engine that returns Google image results for the same search term from countries across the globe. The results are pretty compelling. Be forewarned – you could end up losing a decent amount of time to this site once you get started.
This Cultural Difference Image Engine (the site itself lacks explanatory info, so I'm making that name up) appears to be the work of a seasoned activist and tech veteran Aaron Swartz and accomplished artist Taryn Simon. The effect is to get a glimpse of what Google users in other countries see when they use the search engine. The results range from brow-furrowing to hilarious.
Based on the several dozen search queries I submitted, the clear winners for substance and style here are North Korea (spoiler alert – almost all results have nothing to do with what you searched for) and Syria, followed closely by France and Iran. Heck, they can all be pretty weird.
If you're having a tough time figuring out where to start, you can get some pretty odd results from some foreign nations when you type in names of food. You're on your own from there.
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Washington - You can forget about the birds and the bees. If you really want to learn how babies are made, you need to know about Juno and Izumo.
Fertilisation takes place when an egg cell and a sperm cell recognise one another and fuse to form an embryo. But how they recognise each other in order to hook up had remained a mystery.
Researchers said on Wednesday they have identified a protein on the egg cell's surface that interacts with another protein on the surface of a sperm cell, allowing the two cells to join.
This protein, dubbed Juno in honour of the ancient Roman goddess of fertility and marriage, and its counterpart in sperm, named Izumo after a Japanese marriage shrine, are essential for reproduction in mammals including people, they said.
This new understanding of the role of these two proteins could help improve the treatment of infertility and guide the development of new contraceptives, the researchers said.
"By identifying this interaction between Juno and Izumo, we now know the identity of the receptor proteins found on the surface of our father's sperm and our mother's egg that must interact at the moment at which we were conceived," said Gavin Wright of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Britain, one of the researchers in the study published in the journal Nature.
The researchers are now screening infertile women to try to determine whether problems with the Juno receptor are to blame.
"It is remarkable that about 20 percent of infertility cases have an unexplained cause," said Enrica Bianchi of the Sanger Institute, another of the researchers.
"We are now asking whether Juno is involved in these cases of unexplained infertility," Bianchi added.
Wright said that if defects in the Juno receptor are in fact implicated in human infertility, a simple, non-invasive genetic screening test could be developed to identify affected women.
"This then would allow us to guide the fertility treatment," Wright said, letting affected women proceed directly to a procedure called intracytoplasmic sperm injection involving direct injection of sperm into an egg obtained from in vitro Fertilisation. Japanese researchers identified the sperm cell's Izumo protein in 2005, but the identity of its counterpart on the egg cell had remained elusive. The Sanger Institute researchers made an artificial version of Izumo to try to find an answer, and found that it interacted with Juno to initiate Fertilisation.
They then developed mice that lacked Juno. The females of these mice were infertile because their egg cells did not fuse with sperm. The Japanese researchers earlier had shown that male mice lacking the Izumo sperm protein were also infertile.
In the new study, the researchers detected a quick loss of the Juno protein from the egg's surface after Fertilisation. They said this may account for how a fertilised egg blocks out additional sperm cells, preventing formation of embryos with more than one sperm cell that would not be viable. - Reuters


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text: On the Go Game Books make the perfect travel toys! Each of these fun-packed activity books for kids includes an invisible-ink marker that stores right in the front cover. Pop it out to color in scenes, complete crosswords, follow mazes, find hidden pictures and more . . . and see Surprize Ink images appear as you color! Includes 24 animal-themed pages, bound in a compact tablet format with a rigid back cover to support comfortable laptop coloring. 24 pages of "magic-reveal" games and activities "Magic" pen stores right in the cover Surprise pictures appear as you color Perfect for travel Promotes fine motor skills, pre-writing skills, and cognitive dexterity


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Alfred Eliab BUCK, Congress, AL (1832-1902)
BUCK, Alfred Eliab, a Representative from Alabama; born in Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, February 7, 1832; was graduated from Waterville (Maine) College in 1859; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as captain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry; appointed lieutenant colonel of the Ninety-first United States Colored Troops in August 1863; transferred to the Fifty-first United States Colored Troops in October 1864; brevetted colonel of Volunteers for gallant conduct; mustered out of the service at Baton Rouge, La., in June 1866; delegate to the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1867; clerk of the circuit court of Mobile County in 1867 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); appointed president of the city council of Mobile in 1873; served as clerk of the United States circuit and district courts in Atlanta, Ga., 1874-1889; United States marshal for the northern district of Georgia 1889-1893; appointed Minister to Japan by President William McKinley in April 1897 and served until his death in Tokyo, Japan, on December 4, 1902; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bhurtel, Shyam Krishna. âAlfred Eliab Buck: Carpetbagger in Alabama and Georgia.â Ph.D. diss., Auburn University, 1981.Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


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You'll struggle to find any friend or foe of Jimmy Eat World who ever thought their appeal came from big, dumb choruses and sappy ballads. People didn't connect with Bleed American because of a song like 'The Middle', even if that was what sparked their interest in the album in the first place. They kept listening for the same reason that any teenager listens to a rock album – because it spoke with a voice that resonated with their own frustration, sadness and angst, but still somehow filled them with hope.
Now though, Jimmy Eat World have grown up and so have we. As a result, they are now writing on Invented, what would be considered, on paper, to be better crafted, more professionally composed songs. The problem is that they haven't copied Idlewild's trick of being just as dissatisfied and disappointed but expressing it with more adult restraint. Instead they've gone and done a Foo Fighters and have found that now that they've got a fan-base who'll by anything with their name on it, writing albums has become very easy. But it shouldn't be.
Take recent single 'My Best Theory'. It kicks in with a dancy, poppy guitar riff, which lets the bass and the drums take the lead for the verse before kicking in properly for the chorus. It's a neat riff, a tight rhythm, the parts of the song seem to fit into place, but it's superficial. The vocals are lavishly double-tracked, the guitars have been savagely processed – with a few tweaks to the instrumentation, this could be chart-topping techno.
The lighter side of Jimmy Eat World is warped out of recognition on 'Stop' which, in a word, is boring. The melodies in the verse get stuck on the same few notes, building up to a chorus that drags its way through distant chord changes into a tedious guitar solo. The song that follows, 'Littlething', is equally bland, though is saved slightly by the strings and melodic percussion that come together for an intricate and interesting final passage.
Songs like 'Coffee And Cigarettes' are easier to take in light of past Jimmy Eat World glories. Here, the production on the guitars is much freer, with verses that dive enthusiastically into vocal duets, sweet melodies and lush, crunchy open chords. The chorus could perhaps be catchier - as it is feels more like a bridge - but it's actually nice to see the band showing some much needed restraint to steer themselves away from the frustratingly conventional.
Other highlights come later on 'Invented' itself, with trundling guitars and breathy vocals that lead into a gutsy, punchy coda that gives the album a bit of a kick up the arse. Closing track 'Mixtape' is an equally effective, mesmerising arrangement that relies bravely on intermittent piano clunks, brief cracks of percussion and relentless twinkling arpeggios. It is thick with ambience, seeming to hold back a lot more and maintaining an emotional mystery that is sorely lacking on most of Invented.
Even after listening to it several times, it's hard to know what the intention was with Invented. After all, other than a few sparkles of sincere tenderness and the odd blast of eloquent tension, this is a record that most Jimmy Eat World fans will struggle to recognise as the band they fell in love with. And if Jimmy Eat World are in fact trying to reach out to a broader audience, the uninitiated are unlikely to find an anthemic pop song or a moving ballad to cling on to.
The risk when reviewing an album by a band like Jimmy Eat World at this stage in their career is that it can be hard not to sound as though you're trying to hold onto some kind of smug nostalgia. The reality is that it's more complicated than simply saying 'I preferred their early stuff', because all bands have to change. The fact is though, it's impossible to forget that Jimmy Eat World can, and have, done so much better.
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text: Hi, make sure you use phenol with a pH >7 or your DNA will end up in your organic phase Neil "Aaron Engelhart" <aaron.engelhart at gmail.com> wrote in message news:afd496b4.0408230123.33877bd6 at posting.google.com... > We do some work with calf thymus DNA at high concentrations (3-7 > millimolar) in milliliter quantities for spectrophotometry/transient > absorption spectroscopy purposes. One problem is that it seems to be > fairly cloudy above the millimolar level. This is the cheapest source > of DNA, so I like to use it for obvious reasons before doing > experiments on synthetic oligos or polyG-polyC, etc, but the > cloudiness is a problem. I have done some work with phenol extraction, > which seems to help a bit, but with significant product loss. Every > time I do a phenol extraction, there is a bit of whitish gunk at the > interface. I don't understand the mechanics of this completely, or > exactly what it is. There's some obvious product loss from leaving a > bit of the supernatant behind to avoid taking up the impurity, but my > understanding is that the dsDNA stays in the aqeuous phase and the > proteins go into the organic phase. A260/280 ratio looks fine (and > unchanged!) before and after extraction. Does anyone have a good way > to clear up CTDNA/know what this is? TIA, > > Aaron


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Well, first of all "Happy New Year." It's 2019 and from what I learned in school, so many years ago, among other things by now we should all be flying around in our own personal helicopter instead of driving cars.
For some reason this is one of the times of year that fast food restaurants add new menu items or bring back old ones to re-test the market. Maybe it is because the kids are out of school, or maybe not. I have never tried to figure out this industry.
First on my list this year is an attempt by Carl's Jr. to open up a new pathway to the vegetarian market with a burger called the "Beyond Famous Star."
No, this is not the burger that the actress is messily eating in the latest commercials, that is their iconic Famous Star which I believe is one of the better fast food burgers around. This new burger is made with a patty that contains no meat and is rated vegan. However, it can't be called vegan in this case because it is cooked and assembled in a restaurant that serves meat.
The Beyond Famous Star is a plant-based version of the Famous Star. It's quarter-pound Beyond Burger patty is cooked top-to-bottom on an open flame in Carl's Jr.'s unique char broiler, giving it that familiar burger flavor. It has the same build as the regular Famous Star and comes topped with melted American cheese, lettuce, tomato, sliced onions, dill pickles, special sauce and mayonnaise on a seeded bun. If you want a fully plant-based option, simply ask for it without cheese and mayo.
The patty contains 20 grams of protein primarily from peas, but also from mung bean and rice. That is about the same as their regular patty. And, it is soy, gluten and GMO free.
So, last week I tried one, expecting to experience the taste I usually find in "veggie burgers" and was quite surprised…no, shocked and very impressed. It didn't taste like beans or grains, it looked and tasted like meat. It even had a slightly pink color which is derived from beets. The texture was way better than many fast food meat patties and more like the hamburger you might cook at home: moister and softer than the sometimes rubbery patties that are often a result of beef being overcooked.
I was so impressed by this burger that I had to make sure that I hadn't been given the wrong order.
Carl's Jr. will replace the meat or chicken patty on any of their sandwiches with this new patty for an additional price. That is one of the drawbacks. It costs more, about $2 more per patty.
The other drawback is that it has about the same amount of fat and calories as the regular burger, not from beef fat but vegetable oil. Remember, fat is flavor and without it food would be pretty bland.
Beyond Meat Co., the producer of this product, has it in patties, crumbles or "chicken" strips for sale at local markets for use at home. They also make sausages, but I have not seen them yet.
In other news:
For a limited time, pastrami is back at Wienerschnitzel. You can get it as a sandwich on rye with cheese, pickles and mustard (sauerkraut extra), as a Pastrami Dog (all beef dog) or on Pastrami Chile Cheese Fries. I like their pastrami because, unlike most of the overly processed lean pastrami now common at delis, it has enough fat to give it a real pastrami flavor.
Jack in the Box has temporarily brought back their Pannidos, those long, thin sandwiches on a toasted Ciabatta baguette that are now available in Turkey, Bacon and Cheddar or a Deli Trio with Smoked Turkey, Ham and Salami.
I tried them in 2004, when they were first released, and really liked them. I looked back in my notes and they were "delicious, crunchy and different."
Taco Bell, the restaurant with the most rapidly changing menu around, now has $1 Grande Burritos in two varieties: Chicken Enchilada and Three Cheese Nacho. They are available by separately or in a $5 Grande Burrito Box with Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco, a Crunchy Taco, Cinnamon Twists and a medium drink. They also have a new $5 Chalupa Cravings Box that contains a Chalupa Supreme, Beefy 5-layer Burrito, Crunchy Taco, Cinnamon Twists and a medium drink.
I tried both of the new Grande Burritos and they were good, although nachos in a burrito is a bit "different," but does add some texture.
By the way, in introducing their new "Beyond Burger," the good folks at Carl's Jr. coined a new word: "flexitarians," people who are looking for options in what they eat. Now, wouldn't that also describe people who go to a gym or yoga class to increase their flexibility? Maybe I can put these two together and stop for a burger on the way to the gym. Or, on second thought, maybe not.


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Multi-port switch
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The Multi-Port Switch block chooses between a number of inputs. The first (top) input is called the control input, while the rest of the inputs are called data inputs. The value of the control input determines which data input is passed through to the output port.
number of inputs
Specify the number of data inputs to the block.
Properties : Type 'vec' of size 1
zero base indexing
If selected, the block uses zero-based indexing. Otherwise, the block uses one-based indexing.
Properties : Type 'vec' of size 1
rounding rule: int
Select the rounding mode for the output.
Properties : Type 'vec' of size 1
Default properties
always active: no
direct-feedthrough: yes
zero-crossing: no
mode: no
regular inputs:
- port 1 : size [1,1] / type 1
- port 2 : size [-1,1] / type 0
- port 3 : size [-1,1] / type 1
regular outputs:
- port 1 : size [-1,1] / type 1
number/sizes of activation inputs: 0
number/sizes of activation outputs: 0
continuous-time state: no
discrete-time state: no
object discrete-time state: no
name of computational function: mswitch
Example 1
This sample model demonstrates signal selection with different parameters : with a 0 or 1 indexation and with different rounding modes.
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spider smash cake
- vegetable oil, for greasing
- 700g dark chocolate, melted
- mixed lollies
chocolate cream cheese icing
- 50g butter, softened
- 250g cream cheese
- 1 cup (160g) icing (confectioner's) sugar mixture, sifted
- ¼ cup (25g) cocoa, sifted
to decorate
- 200g store-bought ready-to-roll black fondant icing+
- 100g store-bought ready-to-roll red fondant icing+
- 8 black bendy drinking straws
- To make the spider's head and body, lightly grease a 3.5-litre capacity and 375ml-capacity glass bowl with the oil. Pour the melted chocolate into both bowls and rotate to coat the bowls evenly, using a pastry brush to help evenly coat (see making the dome). Refrigerate for 1 hour or until set. Turn the bowl upside down and cover with a warm tea towel. Slide the chocolate dome from the bowl and set aside in a cool place.
- To make the chocolate cream cheese icing, place the butter and cream cheese in an electric mixer and beat for 6–8 minutes or until pale and creamy. Add the icing sugar and cocoa and beat for a further 6–8 minutes or until light and fluffy.
- To assemble, trim the edges of the chocolate bowls to form a clean edge. Place the mixed lollies on a cake board and cover with the two bowls. Using a 1cm plain nozzle, pipe rounds of the icing around the base of the big bowl and all over the small bowl. Knead the black fondant on a clean surface until pliable. Roll out between 2 sheets of non-stick baking paper to 3mm-thick.
- Using round cutters, cut out an 11cm and a 3cm round from the black fondant for the spider's back. Cut 6 x 1.5cm-long pieces for the mouth. Cut 2 x 2cm rounds and stretch them to create ovals for the eyes. Roll 8 x 1 teaspoonful balls from the black fondant to make the base for the legs.
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folder. - ENHANCEMENT: Added a pmpromc_user_data filter to filter user data taht is sent to Mailchimp.
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- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Added CSS class for checkbox labels.
- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Now passing a valid user object when generating CSV export file headers.
- BUG FIX: Fixed undefined variable in pmpromc_user_register() (Thanks, x140l31 on GitHub).
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- ENHANCEMENT: Now using checkboxes to select audiences instead of fields
2.3 – 2020-03-25
- FEATURE: Subscriptions/unsubscriptions in Mailchimp now carry over to PMPro for opt-in audiences
- ENHANCEMENT: Added setting to update contact in Mailchimp whenever profile is saved
- ENHANCEMENT: Included audience names in debug logs and improved error reporting
- BUG FIX: Fixed issue where contacts may be created in an unsubscribed status in opt-in audiences they had not subscribed to
- BUG FIX: Fixed issue where contacts would not be removed from non-member audiences when they are given a level
- BUG FIX: Fixed strings using the incorrect text domain
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- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Contacts in Mailchimp are now updated when a user's email is changed instead of being replaced
- REFACTOR: Organized code into different files
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- BUG FIX: Fixed email address updates via profile.
- BUG FIX: Fixed «Invalid API Key» error that would sometimes occur with newer API keys.
- ENHANCEMENT: Using «Audience» instead of «List» in strings throughout the plugin for consistency with Mailchimp's name changes.
- ENHANCEMENT: Using «Mailchimp» instead of «MailChimp» in strings throughout the plugin for consistency with Mailchimp's name changes.
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- ENHANCEMENT: Users are now unsubscribed from all opt-in audiences when they cancel membership.
- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Mailchimp subscriber updates are processed using the /lists/ API endpoint to prevent rate limiting by Mailchimp. This fixes issues that would sometime occur when many members were expired on the same day.
- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Users who cancel are now unsubscibed from audiences instead of being deleted from Mailchimp.
- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Now using the Mailchimp member «status» property when unsubscribing members instead of deleting them.
- BUG FIX: Checking for 204 status when unsubscribing. We were checking for 200 before and throwing an error incorrectly.
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- BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: The «All Users» label was changed to «Non-member Users» to match how the setting is actually used.
- BUG FIX: Fixed issues with error handling and the display of error messages. Specifically, entering an incorrect API key will no longer crash the settings page. (Thanks, Hugh Brock)
- BUG: Fixed a variety of bugs related to the MailChimp API, including a bug introduced in v2.0.3 that sometimes kept the plugin from subscribing users to lists.
- BUG/ENHANCEMENT: Doing a better job of limiting the number of API requests made to avoid API limits.
- ENHANCEMENT: Supports the pmpro-multiple-memberships-per-user Add On.
- ENHANCEMENT: Added localization support. (Now should be able to create language files via GlotPress)
- BUG: Fixed issue with updating email addresses in MailChimp when email addresses are updated in WordPress.
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- BUG: Fixed issue where the wrong subscriber id was being used for subsequent API calls when calls were made for more than one subscriber (e.g. when importing, bulk updating, or members are expiring).
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- BUG: Removed add_settings_error call to avoid fatal error on front end. Wasn't using it.
- BUG: Better error handling when invalid API keys are entered.
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- Now using Mailchimp v2.0 API.
- Updated code to make sure that when checking out, sub adds run on pmpro_after_checkout instead of pmpro_after_change_membership_level.
- Fixed some warnings that would show up if the plugin was not connected to the API yet.
- Now 3 options for the «Unsubscribe on Level Change» option. No, Yes (Only old level lists.), and Yes (All other lists.).
- Fixed possibly issues introduced in the .3.5 version.
- Added the «Opt-in Lists» that will show up on the PMPro checkout page as checkboxes allowing the member to opt into one or more lists.
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- Fixing SQL warning when running PMPro Mailchimp without PMPro. (Thanks, kateM82)
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- Updated pmpro_mailchimp_listsubscribe_fields filter to pass the $list_user object along as well.
- Updating email addresses in MailChimp lists if a user's email address is changed.
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- Changed some things to make sure that the user cache is clean and the listSubscribe call happens late enough so that first and last name are populated.
- First logged release with a readme.
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I had never seen Curt Witcher make a presentation before. I want to see more, and I urge my readers to attend any presentation he makes in your area, at a conference or on the Internet.
His talk today at RootsTech was titled "The Changing Face of Genealogy" and it was excellent. I hope that it will be available on the Internet in the near future.
I did not take notes, but there are some helpful tweets from attendees and watchers about some of the points:
ClueWagon Curt Witcher is about to speak at #Rootstech. The last talk I heard about from him was on how computers threaten genealogy, so we'll see.
savingstories "We all have a story to tell." Curt Witcher #RootsTech
Luxegen Witcher: The best of times for genealogy #rootstech
cuwac1 Curt Witcher, Allen County library: "good old days" really meant more time & effort finding docs, less time analyzing & applying #rootstech
rjseaver Witcher at #rootstech. "The more often a wiki page is edited, the more accurate it is." exactly right. #genealogy
randywhited #rootstech Witcher: "Life is lived in the little places." I love that quote
rjseaver Witcher: "is it better to have a photo archivally preserved in a vertical file, or online where people can find it?" #rootstech #genealogy
savingstories Millions of books you can download and search online! (Curt Witcher) #RootsTech His fav TV is Roots Television
rkoelz We need to show Witcher's presentation to local genealogy meetings #rootstech
findmyancestor "A changing environment... changes the face of genealogy..." #genealogy #RootsTech
jimmyzimmerman Technology allows us to spend less time searching and more time telling the story #RootsTech
MMBCommunity 13 mil active researchers #rootstech
MMBCommunity 1.6 million hobby genealogists online between ages of 18-44 #rootstech
randywhited #rootstech genealogy enthusiasts numbers have exploded 20-100x in a single generation
ClueWagon People don't join societies because there's no ROI. Societies aren't embracing technology. EXACTLY. #rootstech
ACoffin Is Witcher's 21st century genealogist profile on par? What say you? #rootstech
timshadel "21st century genealogists *expect* Moore's law" (Curt Witcher) #rootstech
rjseaver Witcher: it's about the experience, it';s about fun and success. Amen!!! #genealogy #rootstech
baysideresearch Witcher: #genealogy is abt the experience, not matching citations to Evidence Explained format. #RootsTech
dustyr #rootstech genealogy needs to be fun and people need success. People don't keep doing things that make them miserable.
ClueWagon The white gloves debate. Omigawd. I feel another drinking-game post coming on. #rootstech
footnoteMaven #rootstech Favorite Curt Witcher quote: "Change is opportunity." #genealogy
cuwac1 Witcher: There are a lot of online-only non-traditional genealogists (more than trad. folks) & it's all about the experience. #rootstech
findmyancestor The Face of Genealogy - Witcher is talking about all the YOUNG people. THEY are the future of #genealogy!! #RootsTech
ACoffin Witcher won me over with his "lighten up" speech. That exactly how I feel. Get 'em in the sandbox. They'll stay and play. #rootstech
TamuraJones #genealogy #rootstech Witcher has seen the light? No more "dark age" talk, but "I like technology now and you should too" instead.
travis_jordan Give them a good experience FIRST...right on....then learn the skill. "Get them in the sandbox or they will not want to play!" #rootstech
MMBCommunity Fun and success is how family history should be NOT frustrating! Get them in the sandbox! #rootstech
Famlyhstryalive Witcher-take the honey approach and get people in the sandbox. Don't focus on doing #genealogy the 'right way'. #rootstech
ClueWagon I'm shocked to hear this from an establishment guy. We should stop beating people over the head...this is a huge shift. #rootstech
savingstories Are we going to beat them over the head with 'You gotta do it this way?" Good Point #RootsTech Curt Witcher
savingstories "There is so much living history that dies everyday" #RootsTech Curt Witcher
LorineMS Keynote Speaker Curt Witcher -New technology gives power to tell our stories. Best of times for genealogists #RootsTech
LynnPal Curt Witcher "less looking, more researching, more storytelling" thank you for a great online presentation at #RootsTech#genealogy
I heartily agree - this Curt Witcher presentation should be shown to genealogical societies all over the country. And to their Boards of Directors before hand!
Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2024.
Friday, February 11, 2011
2 comments:
- Lynn Palermo said...
I actually got out of armchair and cheered! Thank You Curt!
- Friday, February 11, 2011 at 10:51:00 AM PST
- Kathryn Doyle said...
Darn, I missed this one too. Curt is an amazing speaker – and I see he has the Steve Jobs black turtleneck thing going. Perfect for #rootstech!
- Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:41:00 AM PST
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With their red, white and blue striped poles, dark Naugahyde chairs and straight razor shaves, barbershops hold a special place in American culture.
But numbers show that barbershops are dwindling. According to census data, from 1992 to 2012 we saw a 23 percent decrease in barbershops in the United States (with a slight uptick in 2013).
As a sociologist, I find barbershops fascinating because they've also traditionally been places where men spend time with other men, forming close relationships with one another in the absence of women. Many patrons will even stop by daily to simply chat with their barbers, discuss the news or play chess. A real community is created in these places, and community is important to health and well-being.
So how should we interpret the decline of the barbershop? Is it yet another sign that, according to Robert Putnam in "Bowling Alone," our community ties are crumbling? Or should we really be looking at just what sort of men are no longer getting haircuts at a barbershop – and what sort of men still go there?
Men with a Professional Bent
At the same time barbershops are closing, men's salons are popping up across the country. They cater to men, providing them with high-end services that include hot towel facials and hand-detailing (a euphemism for a manicure). They're more expensive than the average barbershop or chain store, have sleek contemporary decor and aren't exactly conducive to hanging out and socializing.
In my book on these men's salons, "Styling Masculinity," hairstylists described the barbershop as a vanishing place. They explained that men are seeking out a pampered grooming experience that the barbershop – with its dusty TV, linoleum floor and stack of auto magazines – doesn't offer.
The young licensed barbers working in these salons also seemed disenchanted with the old school barbershop. They saw these newer men's salons as a "resurgence" of "a men-only place" that provides more "care" to clients than the "dirty little barbershop." And those barbershops that are sticking around, one barber told me, are "trying to be a little more upscale" by repainting and adding flat screen TVs.
When I asked clients of one men's salon, The Executive, if they'd ever get their hair cut at a barbershop, they explained that they didn't fit the demographic. Barbershops, they said, are for old men with little hair to worry about or young boys who don't have anyone to impress. As professional white-collar men, they generally saw themselves as having outgrown the barbershop.
A salon, on the other hand, with its focus on detailed haircuts and other services – manicures, pedicures, hair coloring and body waxing – help these men to obtain what they consider to be a "professional" appearance.
As a salon client named Gill explained:
"Professional men…they know that if they look successful, that will create connotations to their clients or customers or others that they work with – that they are smart, that they know what they're doing."
Barbershops Still Important – For Some
But the salon patrons I interviewed were generally white, well-to-do men. They offered only one point of view for what a barbershop is, what it can offer and who can go there. For example, in my earlier research on a small women's salon, one male client told me the barbershop is a place for the mechanic, or "grease-monkey," who doesn't care how he looks, and for "machismo" men who prefer a pile of Playboy magazines rather than the finery of a salon.
These attitudes about the barbershop as a place of yore, as a fading institution offering outdated fads, are both classist and racist.
With all the nostalgia for the barbershop in American culture, there's surprisingly little academic writing about it. But it's telling that research considering the importance of the barbershop in men's lives generally tends to focus on black barbershops. The corner barbershop is alive and well in black communities, and it serves a key role in the lives of black men.
In her book "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET," political scientist and TV host Melissa Harris-Perry wrote about how everyday barbershop talk is an important place for black political thought. Scholars have also shown that the black barbershop can strengthen community ties and improve the economy in black neighborhoods, while acting as a place to socialize young black boys.
Paying a Premium for Nostalgia
So instead of asking if the barbershop is vanishing, we should really be asking: Where are they disappearing, what is replacing them and what are the social relations underpinning the emergence of the new men's salon?
For example, in some white gentrifying neighborhoods, the barbershop is actually making a comeback. In his article, "What the Barbershop Renaissance Says about Men," journalist Thomas Page McBee writes that these new barbershops primarily act as places where men can channel a form of masculinity that supposedly existed unfettered in the "good old days." Sensory pleasures are central to the experience: The smell of talcum powder, the cool burn of aftershave and the site of shaving mugs help men to grapple with what it means to be a man at a time when traditional definitions of masculinity are in flux.
But these new, repackaged barbershops come at a cost, charging much more than the usual US$12 for a haircut – a price point that will exclude a huge swath of male consumers.
And so, in a place that engages tensions between ideas of nostalgic masculinity and a new sort of progressive man, we may very well see opportunities for social equality fall by the wayside. The hipster phenomenon, after all, is a largely white one that appropriates symbols of white working-class masculinity (think white tank tops with tattoos or the plaid shirts of lumbersexuals) without really giving up class privilege.
What Can the Men's Salon Mean?
When we return to neighborhoods where barbershops are actually disappearing – replaced by high-end men's salons like those featured in my book – it's important to put these shifts into context.
They're not signs of a disintegrating bygone culture of manhood. Rather, they signify a transformation of white, well-to-do masculinity. In the past, the barbershop was a place for these men. Today, while the old model may thrive in black or up-and-coming neighborhoods, white professional men are seeking a pampered experience elsewhere.
And they're creating intimate relationships in these new men's salons. But instead of immersing themselves in single-sex communities of men, they're often building one-on-one confidential relationships with women hair stylists. Stylists often explained this intimacy as part of their jobs. For white men with financial means, though, the men's salon becomes an important place where they can purchase the sense of connection they may otherwise be missing in their lives.
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Octave, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, was about 65 miles west-southwest of Cabo San Lazaro, Mexico, traveling north-northeast at p mph, the National Hurricane center said in its 5 p.m. PDT advisory
A tropical storm warning was in effect for Santa Fe to Punta Abreojos.
Octave was expected to lose some forward speed over the next 24 hours. On its forecast track, Octave's center was expected to approach the west coast of Baja California Sur state.
Forecasters said Octave should become a tropical depression Tuesday by the time it nears the Baja California peninsula.
Octave is expected to produce between 3 and 6 inches of rain over much of the peninsula, with up to 8 inches possible, forecasters said.
Priscilla, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, was about 630 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, moving north at 9 mph, the hurricane center said.
No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.
Priscilla was expected to decrease in forward speed and turn northwestward Tuesday and Wednesday.


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Ideas: Google Summer of Code 2011
Applications for desktop end users
These are coding projects that benefit end users of the Linux desktop.
Wubi like application for Fedora
Summary of idea: https://launchpad.net/wubi is a great tool that lets one install Linux from a windows OS. It would be nice to have something like this for Fedora as well.
Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Locations
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: The system should use an appropriate networking profile (e.g. Proxy settings) for each network location.
Currently, Gnome does have a concept of network locations in its Network Proxy configuration window. However, user should select the appropriate location whenever he moves between networks. This idea is about providing an integration between NetworkManager and Desktop environments so that a user can create network profiles for each network location providing appropriate settings like proxy settings which is the main proposed setting here. NetworkManager can have a "Network Location" concept: for wireless networks, usually the name of the network (ESSID) is usually enough. For wired connections, DHCP servers can and usually do provide network's domain name, which can be used as the name of the location. It is nice if a user can associate each network location with a network settings profile which will be used whenever the user is connected to that network automatically. So, when you connect to a network, a corresponding network settings profile is activated automatically.
Contacts: Hedayat Vatankhah
Fill in some of the Missing nVidia and Radeon API pieces
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Add some of the missing 3d APIs for at least one of the major card types, considerably helping out the beleagured Radeon and Nvidia reverse-engineering efforts. There is enough currently (F14) missing that most 3d games do not function correctly, many of the underpinnings of FireFox 4 acceleration are blacklisted under Linux, and many other visual and other components cannot make correct use of the gpu(s) under Linux. Progress is abysmal for many reasons.
Notes: Requires good integration with the existing Radeon and nVidia teams and their testsuites
SPICE as a replacement for VNC and LTSP
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: SPICE is a virtual desktop interaction protocol that would be an ideal replacement for VNC and current X based LTSP implementations. Using SPICE would improve the user experience by implementing some missing capabilities such as sound in VNC, and making LTSP more efficient than using raw X. A common protocol for all types of remote displays would also simplify the client setup. More information on SPICE can be found here:
Applications for programmers
Other programmers benefit most from these coding project ideas.
Better Erlang support
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: There is one major issue with Erlang RPM packaging now. A dependencies between Erlang packages still must be calculated by hand. There was an initial attempt to create list of Provides and Requires automatically during build stage but it wasn't finished. Another interesting task is to tightly integrate Erlang/OTP essential feature of live application upgrades with RPM upgrade process thus allowing really smooth upgrades of running Erlang applications.
Contacts: Peter Lemenkov
Mentor(s): Peter Lemenkov
Notes: Requires average knowledge of RPM building process and installation procedure. Also basic Erlang knowledge is required.
Infrastructure for Fedora contributors and users
Other contributors and users of the Fedora Project's infrastructure benefit most from these coding projects.
Port Infrastructure TurboGears apps to TG2
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Several Fedora Infrastructure applications are written in TurboGears 1.0, and for longevity need to be ported to TG2. These include bodhi, mirrormanager, packagedb, elections, fas, smolt.
Contacts: Matt Domsch, Toshio Kuratomi
Mentor(s): mdomsch
MirrorManager enhancements
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: MirrorManager provides the mirror lists to all Fedora systems. In addition to porting to TG2 (see above), several enhancements would be welcome:
Simplify creation of new MirrorManager instances (non-Fedora users, such as CentOS)
Simplify selection of mirrors within Cloud Providers on granularity other than netblocks and ASNs
Other items on the TODO list
Contacts: Matt Domsch
Mentor(s): mdomsch
Create a Fedora Events System
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: The idea is to create a website which would allow displaying events, divided by region, list attendance, topics discussed and other points. For reference, see Ubuntu Loco Events.
Roadmap (Work in progress. Tasks are defined, but dates aren't yet)
Mentor(s): Nushio develops webapps as a dayjob and wouldn't mind making it a summer job too.
Notes: giallu the Ubuntu site is a django application, code available as GPLv3 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~loco-directory-dev/loco-directory If they do not require copyright assignment I'd consider using it
Self Manage Buildroot overrides
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: when users need a buildroot override they can manage it all themselves.
For this I see 2 parts: cli integration into fedpkg i.e. "fedpkg override" and a server to talk to, track overrides, and do the actual tagging and untagging -possible work flow: allow developer to specify a life for the override, defaulting to 24 hours: the server would then do the tag in koji and at the end of its life untag it I could see having a web app to see the current overrides, allow requests, extensions etc
Contacts: Dennis Gilmore
Mentor(s): Dennis Gilmore
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: mw is a command-line program that pretends to be a version control system. It should eventually help people who are console nuts (like me) edit MediaWiki-based wikis without having to shout at their web browser.
Contacts: Ian Weller
Mentor(s): Ian Weller
Notes: Here are some ideas for students: User:Ianweller/mw thoughts
Complete implementation and deployment of Copr
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: Finalize and deploy the personal repositories concept initiated by http://repos.fedorapeople.org
Copr (Cool Other Package Repo) is a Fedora project to help make building and managing third party package repositories easy. The instance to be installed within Fedora Infrastructure provides Fedora maintainers with the ability to create repos of packages to build against and share with others.
As a Fedora user and Ambassador, I'm asked a lot about this feature in Fedora.
Integrating Fuzzing-based instruments in quality assurance tools
Summary of idea: Generate fuzzing testcases from the existing "make test", which is generally only as good as the package maintainer placed effort into this Extending the range of testcases in a generic way contributes to an enhanced scope of quality and security testing of software. Key implementation technique is providing mock "fuzzing" devices and transparent in-process instrumentation (fuzzing loops) the turn-around time and bug discovery rate will improve. Transparent integration in build tools (like rpm-build macros) lower the entry hurdle for developers and maintainers.
Key components:
-Fuzzing devices: By this we mean user space devices that manipulate given original data based on a given fuzzing strategy, the strategy chosen depends on the nature of the file type, implemented by plugins (for a start provide comprehensive plugin source for image types, gif png, multimedia, midi).
-Package QA process: We think that a prototypical integration in rpm-build (macro, pre-waive certain results ) will help (Fedora) developers package maintainers to transparently gain from these functionality during package build.
Target: It is expected that all posix variants can benefit from wrapping fuzzing algorithms behind devices, however due to the rpm-build macro support, we expect most benefit for rpm-based distros.
Contacts: Marc Schoenefeld , firstname.lastname@example.com
Mentor(s): Marc Schoenefeld , email@example.com
Linux system services
These coding projects are lower-level services that benefit Fedora and other Linux distributions.
support in SSSD
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Currently, the System Security Services Daemon supports only LDAP for network user identity. Support for NIS identities has been requested several times by end-users.
Contacts: Stephen Gallagher
Mentor(s): Stephen Gallagher
support in SSSD
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Sudo 1.8.0 will support a plugin interface for sudo authorization decisions. It would be excellent for SSSD to provide such a plugin to provide cached access to sudo information stored in the sudo LDAP schema. This would make it easier to maintain centralized sudo rules that also function while offline.
Contacts: Stephen Gallagher
Mentor(s): Stephen Gallagher
Improving Fedora packaging
The heart of Fedora are the packages and the applications that manage them; these coding projects help improve the package experience for users and contributors.
Maven and PackageKit integration
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Currently when building with maven locally, all spec files need to specify build dependencies manually. Java libraries and maven plugins should have something like "Provide(groupId:artifactId:version:format)" so that "yum install org.apache.velocity:velocity" will correctly find and install velocity package. Second part of this project can be creating maven plugin asking you to install via PackageKit the package that provides the dependency.
Contacts: Stanislav Ochotnicky or Alexander Kurtakov
Notes: Basic knowledge of maven and rpm is required.
KDE Plasma and PackageKit integration
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Add automatically-generated rpm dependencies for kde/plasma related services (see also blog entry on the topic), and add packagekit hooks to use them (one concrete example would be for plasma dataengines (see also blog entry on the topic).
Contacts: Rex Dieter
Notes: Intermediate knowledge of rpm and/or kde plasma coding
Avahi yum repositories
Status: Proposed
Summary of idea: Add a yum plugin that will use avahi to find local mirrors of canonical repositories, and tools/scripts for local http/nfs servers to advertise what they have. It would also be nice to include proper nfs repository support in yum or a plugin, so the advertised repositories can be on NFS filesystems that are not already mounted locally on clients. The use on the clients should be transparent without any local yum repo config changes except perhaps for installing/enabling the plugin. Later anaconda could also be taught to use avahi to find repositories for installation.
Contacts: Roland McGrath
Notes: Divisible into various separate pieces that are worthwhile on their own.
Improve critical dependency management in Yum
Status: Proposed (please review)
Summary of idea: The idea (roughly) is that Yum could detect when a package update is going to break some important functionality of the system because is a dependency of another package that won't be updated (for example: Yum is not detecting that when a kernel is updated, because the previous kernel is not deleted, and the dependency isn't broken). This happens once in a while with kernel and third party packages that provide support for devices that aren't supported by Fedora directly because of licensing restrictions: ie. Fedora updates the kernel, and RPM Fusion packages related to Broadcom wireless usually need 2-4 days to be updated, resulting in a non working wireless.
Notes: I don't feel qualified to be mentor.
Masking packages
Mixing stable and unstable packages (ie from different repositories) is quite tiresome and hardly manageable for more than a few packets. What is missing is something like the Gentoo approach where you can unmask (or mask) certain unstable packages so that they will be pulled and installed into your otherwise stable-only environment. The user has to resolve any conflicts that may arise.
Apart from the luxury of more bleeding-edge packages available, this could also really get more people into testing of unstable packages. With changed policies regarding only stable updates / backports to a stable Fedora release, this would make Fedora still attractive for users that like to work with latest packages but refrain from rawhide for whatever reasons.
Smarter Yum Metadata
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: Share yum metadata among users of a system and also fetch them faster instead of downloading the whole chunk each time.
A git-based metadata store was proposed but objected to by yum maintainers. There could be other ways of doing this, as suggested in the bug report or by going ahead with the git idea — I believe it can be done.
Turn smock into a real program
Summary of idea: smock is a hack that Dan and I wrote a few years ago that lets you build a chain of RPMs in mock. It works out all the dependencies and builds the packages in the right order, using the result from an earlier build to satisfy dependencies in a later build, and being almost completely automated. What really needs to happen is that mock is extended to support this as a native feature.
Fedora Spins and remixes
Remixing and making new Fedora Spins is an important part of the community's freedoms, and these coding projects support that.
Fedora Medical
Status: In progress.
Summary of idea: Here, we are looking for a couple students who have some experience in RPM packaging, python, and bash. This would be a good opportunity to learn in depth packaging and fedora contributor ecosystem.
This is a work in progress and details can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMedical
We are looking forward to do mainly packaging and getting them published to fedora repo. However, we will also be doing some tooling and associated works. So, python and bash will be required.
Understanding fedora package maintainer guideline is required. Having existing packages in fedora will be a plus. Also, the student should be interested in maintaining some of those packages after SOC.
Contacts: Susmit Shannigrahi
Mentor(s): Susmit and Mario Ceresa
Create a spin to aid students in education and to help them understand Linux and Fedora better
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: The idea is to create a spin which would be more student friendly. It should have some graph plotting tools, some circuit simulator, maybe an equation solving application, IDE for some basic coding and a few compilers which are taught in colleges and other relevant stuff. It should consist of extensive documentation to help students use these tools and Linux in general. A few interesting games and music player would be a plus.
Additionally, if possible, one can imagine to throw up a screen during install which would help in picking the age group of the student. The applications can be installed accordingly. For example, I would like to have a scrabble game for a small kid then a circuit simulator.
Contacts: Ryan Rix
Mentor(s): Ryan Rix (Maybe)
Educational Application for Fedora Robotics Suite
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: Create an educational app introducing software from Fedora Robotics Suite
The Fedora Robotics SIG is creating a Robotics Suite consisting of many packages useful in robotics. We want to develop a demonstration application introducing new users step by step to core packages like Fawkes and Player/Stage. It would feature multiple game-like levels with increasing complexity. The general task would be to instruct the robot to fulfill a specific task in a simulation environment.
Developing this requires a strong background in C++, a background in robotics is preferred but not necessary. You should be able to familiarize yourself with new software quickly. User visible parts will require GUI programming using Gtkmm.
Contacts: Tim Niemueller
Mentor(s): Tim Niemueller
Dorrie - A Web interface to create Fedora Remixes
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: Contribute to Dorrie, and make it more usable, tested and deployable.
More at Dorrie, code at https://github.com/shreyankg/Dorrie, fork and send pull request, if you are interested to contribute.
Contacts: Shreyank Gupta
Mentor(s): Shreyank Gupta
Aeolus Packaging
Status: Proposed
Summary of Idea: Contribute to the Aeolus family of projects (http://aeolusproject.org), starting with packaging of dependencies not yet in Fedora (http://www.aeolusproject.org/page/Packages_Missing_From_Fedora)
Contacts: Chris Lalancette <email@example.com>
Mentor(s): Chris Lalancette <email@example.com>
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Lohan due back in court on misdemeanor charges
Published 12:00 am Monday, March 18, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan is returning to court for a hearing that will determine whether the actress goes to jail or averts a trial on charges that she lied to police.
It appears the actress is headed to trial over a June car crash that briefly sent her to the hospital and returned her to a courthouse she could have avoided if she stayed out of trouble.
Lohan has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor charges filed after the accident — reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers from performing their duties.
Even if she isn't convicted, the "Liz & Dick" star faces up to 245 days in jail if a judge determines she violated her probation in a 2011 theft case.
The actress is due in court Monday for a hearing that will determine when she goes to trial on the new charges. A judge has previously refused to delay a trial, which would place Lohan in front of a jury for the first time.
Lohan reportedly missed her original Sunday night flight from New York to Los Angeles, instead traveling on a private plane provided by a Los Angeles-based energy drink company for which she has made promotional appearances.
"Thanks Mr. Pink for the private jet see you all in a few hours in LA," she tweeted early Monday.
Since a pair of arrests for driving under the influence in 2007, Lohan has resolved her numerous court problems without ever going to trial. Instead she has faced numerous judges who have sentenced her to jail, rehab and counseling, which even her current attorney acknowledges have not completely helped the troubled actress.
Attorney Mark Jay Heller's proposal to allow Lohan time to pursue gigs as an inspirational speaker at hospitals and schools has not yet been formally considered by a judge.
Lohan enters Monday's hearing with a lawyer whose competence has been questioned by a judge, and another set of attorneys waiting in the wings to take over.
She will not however have her longtime advocate, Shawn Holley, present. Holley left the case this year after keeping the actress out of jail for significant periods of time on probation violations and allegations in 2011 that she took a $2,500 necklace without permission from an upscale jeweler.
In her current case, Lohan and Heller, her New York-based attorney, have apparently been unable to broker a plea deal. Heller has said that his client does not need rehab, but should be allowed to continue to undergo psychotherapy to address issues raised by her turbulent upbringing.
The former Disney star has been under some form of probation since she was arrested twice in 2007 for driving under the influence, and her court troubles have stifled a once-promising career.
Lohan's return to acting last year in the Lifetime movie "Liz & Dick" was widely panned by critics and viewers. Her upcoming film by Bret Easton Ellis, "The Canyons," co-starring porn star James Deen, is yet to be released.
A law firm in Orange County, Calif., will be waiting in the wings during Monday's hearing to assist Heller if necessary in Lohan's case. Heller has sought a delay in the trial, but was rebuked last year by Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney, who said Lohan's misdemeanor case should be resolved quickly.
Attorney Paul Wallin wrote in an email last week that he and other lawyers from his firm will be available to assist if necessary during the trial. He wrote that Lohan would have to approve their involvement in the case, but Wallin's firm had not formally signed on to the case as of Friday afternoon.


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Governments around the world have long sought access to personal information about individuals for many purposes, including to deliver social services, to support regulatory regimes, and for law enforcement and national security. Government appetite for information about individuals has intensified in the 21st century, fed by concerns about crime, terrorism and cybersecurity. At the same time, there has been an explosion in the volume of digital data routinely generated, collected, and stored about individuals. Most of this data is collected and stored by businesses in the course of providing services.
Worldwide, similar questions are being asked: What are the standards under which governments claim access to such data? What are the legal rules for private sector compliance with such requests? When can governments demand that corporate systems affirmatively facilitate access?
In this resource, funded by The Privacy Projects, we present comparative information on these questions from a cross-section of countries. Some common themes emerge, as well as interesting differences.
Compares the basic framework for access to communications in each country.
Outlines the basic framework for access to other business records, country by country.
Describes the standards for government access by law enforcement agencies.
Describes the standards for government access by national security agencies.