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GTK's rc File Format
The format of the GTK file is illustrated in the example below. This is the testgtkrc file from the GTK distribution, but I've added a few comments and things. You may wish to include this explanation in your application to allow the user to fine tune his application.
There are several directives to change the attributes of a widget.
fg - Sets the foreground color of a widget.
bg - Sets the background color of a widget.
bg_pixmap - Sets the background of a widget to a tiled pixmap.
font - Sets the font to be used with the given widget.
In addition to this, there are several states a widget can be in, and you can set different colors, pixmaps and fonts for each state. These states are:
NORMAL - The normal state of a widget, without the mouse over top of it, and not being pressed, etc.
PRELIGHT - When the mouse is over top of the widget, colors defined using this state will be in effect.
ACTIVE - When the widget is pressed or clicked it will be active, and the attributes assigned by this tag will be in effect.
INSENSITIVE - When a widget is set insensitive, and cannot be activated, it will take these attributes.
SELECTED - When an object is selected, it takes these attributes.
When using the "fg" and "bg" keywords to set the colors of widgets, the format is:
fg[<STATE>] = { Red, Green, Blue }
Where STATE is one of the above states (PRELIGHT, ACTIVE, etc), and the Red, Green and Blue are values in the range of 0 - 1.0, { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 } being white. They must be in float form, or they will register as 0, so a straight "1" will not work, it must be "1.0". A straight "0" is fine because it doesn't matter if it's not recognized. Unrecognized values are set to 0.
bg_pixmap is very similar to the above, except the colors are replaced by a filename.
pixmap_path is a list of paths separated by ":"'s. These paths will be searched for any pixmap you specify.
The font directive is simply:
font = "<font name>"
The only hard part is figuring out the font string. Using xfontsel or a similar utility should help.
The "widget_class" sets the style of a class of widgets. These classes are listed in the widget overview on the class hierarchy.
The "widget" directive sets a specifically named set of widgets to a given style, overriding any style set for the given widget class. These widgets are registered inside the application using the gtk_widget_set_name() call. This allows you to specify the attributes of a widget on a per widget basis, rather than setting the attributes of an entire widget class. I urge you to document any of these special widgets so users may customize them.
When the keyword parent is used as an attribute, the widget will take on the attributes of its parent in the application.
When defining a style, you may assign the attributes of a previously defined style to this new one.
style "main_button" = "button" { font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" bg[PRELIGHT] = { 0.75, 0, 0 } }
This example takes the "button" style, and creates a new "main_button" style simply by changing the font and prelight background color of the "button" style.
Of course, many of these attributes don't apply to all widgets. It's a simple matter of common sense really. Anything that could apply, should.
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How To Change The World Through Music (A User's Guide)
So you want to change the world through music. First off, congratulations and thank you. You've decided to do something with your music beyond just entertain people, and this is an important and charitable deed. Not that entertaining people in itself is an ignoble call and can't change the world in its own right. Music is the salve of the soul, and can change people's hearts and minds simply by its presence in their lives. Since the very beginning of mankind and civilization, music has been used to inspire and uplift, to be a siren song to action, and used to tell stories that ultimately stimulate great change in the hearts of man, and the actions of leaders.
Whether you are attempting to stop the scourge of human war, honor and remember the soldiers who fought in such wars, stop the oppression of people by governments or big corporations, or simply shine a light on a local problem, music has the unique ability and history of being an agent of change. Some music has a deeper history championing social causes than others. For example, folk music and its founders like Woody Guthrie often took on causes of the common man. Some music was specifically born out of the need to speak up like reggae and certain elements of gospel, while other types of music tend to avoid championing certain causes due to the messiness it can cause in the political realm, like pop or mainstream country, which attempts to cast a wide net to attract as many listeners as possible.
But often the law of unintended consequences gets in the way when trying to change the world through music, just like it often does in the political world. Sometimes trying to bring people together for a common cause actually polarizes them. Sometimes trying to solve a problem through music actually exacerbates it. Sometimes the message of music flies right over the head of the audience, or even worse, could be misinterpreted to mean the opposite of what's intended. And since it takes a certain level of appeal for a piece of music to be receptive to an audience—especially the audience that most needs to heed the message—it takes cunning, and an understanding of human behavior for it to be effective.
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Politics is fashion, just like music often is, and so is the championing of certain social causes in many instances. Sometimes taking up certain issues or causes can come across as obsequious, opportunistic, or even exploitative, especially if certain subjects are not broached with a delicate touch and a delegative understanding.
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Guidelines and HOWTOs/Code Checking
Code Checking
There are a lot of ways to find bugs in KDE code. Increasingly, KDE developers have started to use automated tools. You can use some of those tools to improve your own code.
The KDE 'Krazy' Checker
KDE developers have a simple set of tests that are collectively known as "Krazy". These tests were originally developed to be run as part of a larger set of tests on a machine known as http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org, or EBN for short. You can see the results of running the various tests on EBN (at http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/).
You can also run the tests yourself. To do this, you need to obtain a copy of the code (from the kdesdk module, in ebn/krazy) and install them. You can then test either a single file (using the krazy application) or a whole tree, including subdirectories (using the krazyall application).
How Krazy works
The Krazy tests are essentially a form of static analysis - they check the source code, but not how it runs.
Krazy exists as a framework comprising a number of different test runners, and a set of plugins.
Suppressing false-positives
The Krazy tests are designed to minimise false positives (that is, alerts that do not represent real problems). However because most of the tests are conducted on a single line, there are some tests that might produce such a false positive. For example, code that does something like:
QString mystring;
mystring += "/";
will be flagged by the doublequote_chars checker, because it is more efficient to add a single char, as shown below:
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That same checker will produce a false positive for code that looks like:
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You can suppress these false positives using a special comment format. To exclude a particular plugin from being run on a line of code, simply add a C++ comment containing the string "krazy:exclude=<plugin_name>".
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All the specific challenges that differentiate offshore wind in Europe were examined at the Brussels event - from financing to permitting, supply chain, logistics and implementation.
Another theme to emerge was that transforming offshore wind's crucible, the North Sea, from a series of disparate projects individually linked to client states to an integrated system of European low-carbon power with connected infrastructure, trading and support mechanisms requires a great deal of joined-up thinking.
Power Cluster, an EU-supported international group set up to integrate North Sea projects, used the event to launch its report, Offshore Wind Industry in Northern Europe. Mathias Grabs, Power Cluster's lead partner, said: "Here is a tremendous opportunity for the development of a major industry, with associated added value for the economy and the potential for exports of leading technology to other regions".
But if Europe's North Sea is to become the global engine room for offshore wind energy, he said, investment is needed to develop the infrastructure, facilitate communication among stakeholders and provide stable policy drivers. Having observed the emergence of new hubs for manufacturing, technology and construction in northern Europe, he added: "Such steps will help kick-start a virtuous spiral of cost reduction and efficiency, allowing further growth."
Integrating large volumes of wind into the existing grid will require major upgrades both on northern Europe's coastlines and from the shore to the largest load centres. The issue is more acute in certain countries depending on the age of the grid and the location of planned offshore plants.
The Danish, Belgian, Dutch and Swedish transmission system operators appear to be relatively confident that the required grid upgrades will be implemented on time, even though major investment is needed. But there are problems in Germany and the UK, where the largest developments are planned. Grabs said Germany presented the biggest bottleneck, with 17GW of generation planned for the North Sea and 850 kilometres of cable needed to accommodate expected capacity in 2020 according to a recent study.
The Windspeed project, supported by the EU's Intelligent Energy Europe programme, showcased its work on how to make space for offshore wind power, with space needed not just for generation assets but also the linkages to integrate them. Windspeed is delivering a tool to show the spatial footprint of offshore wind farms and grids in relation to non-wind functions in the North Sea, such as shipping, which should enable players to evaluate trade-offs between generation costs from offshore wind and constraints due to non-wind functions.
The Windspeed project is building an inventory of potential and related infrastructure alongside other activities but also exploring how these could interact. Unveiling a vision for an offshore grid for 2030, Windspeed showed a web linking six countries with eight offshore connection hubs providing two-way electricity flows enabling the North Sea to circumvent variable wind flows and electricity-generation capabilities.
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The second phase would be a move to a transnational interconnected grid. Long-distance lines dedicated to offshore wind projects would be put in place and locations of future wind installations would, if possible, be adapted to fit the new infrastructure.
The third phase would involve linking up the six major North Sea countries - Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway - between 2020 and 2030, under the aegis of the European Commission and the European Network of Transmission System Operators (Entso-e). Entso-e has a North Sea and a Baltic working group, as well as groups looking at 2050 and the so-called supergrid with continent-wide remit.
Perhaps the most visionary picture of a joined-up low-carbon-energy Europe came from EWEA's EU Energy Policy to 2050 document released at the event. By 2050, it foresees wind power meeting 50% of Europe's electricity demand. What emerged clearly was that a coordinated grid policy within an integrated European market was a pre-requisite for this goal.
Without it, massive offshore development will amount to no more than a collection of disparate projects.


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Inspired by the current polling going on at Wonders in the Dark (which for my money is the best movie blog site on the web right now) concerning the Best Films of the 1970's, I decided to catch up on some of the great films from that decade I had yet to see. One thing led to another, and there I was with the obscure Edvard Munch sitting atop my Netflix queue. Directed by renowned forefather of the docudrama, Britian's Peter Watkins, this complex and nearly four hour long biopic of Norwegian post-Impressionist painter Edvard Munch was originally made as a miniseries for Norwegian/Swedish TV in 1974. It was released theatrically around the world in 1976 and was recently done up as a two-disc special edition on DVD. I watched it in those two parts over the course of two nights and was completely transfixed.
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Nadal to meet Tsonga in Monte Carlo Masters semi-finals
Spaniard looked uncomfortable when winning quarter-final in three sets
Rafael Nadal plays a forehand against Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria in their quarter-final match of the ATP Monte Carlo Masters. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Eight-times champion Rafael Nadal was taken to the brink by improving Bulgarian prospect Grigor Dimitrov before completing a 6-2 2-6 6-4 victory oyetsertday to reach the Monte Carlo Masters semi-finals.
Nadal, who made an unusual number of errors and looked uncomfortable throughout against his 21-year-old opponent, slowly ground him down and fired an ace to clinch his 45th successive victory at the first big claycourt event of the season.
The Spaniard now has a 47-1 win-loss record at the glamorous venue and will next face Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6 6-3 6-4 on the picturesque Centre Court to reach the last four for the first time.
World number one Novak Djokovic was not bothered by his sprained ankle as he moved past Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-4 6-3 to clinch a meeting with Fabio Fognini. The 32nd-ranked Italian made his first significant breakthrough in a Masters Series event by stunning seventh seed Richard Gasquet 7-6 6-2.
The straight-laced crowd, for once reluctant to support Nadal with Dimitrov threatening to pull off a shock win, stood up to cheer the 34th-ranked Bulgarian as he left the court after a thrilling performance.
Nadal had his share of applause after keeping his bid for a ninth consecutive crown alive by the Mediterranean, where he is coming back from a month-long break after winning three titles including the Indian Wells Masters following seven months out with injury.
"I had a fantastic first set and that's important. That means my level is here," Nadal told a news conference. "I am losing a bit of intensity at some moments. That's normal after a long time out of competition," added the Spaniard.
Tsonga had opened the chilly grey day, with the sun hidden by the clouds and a cool breeze refreshing the sparse crowd, by winning a fierce battle against Wawrinka. Both players started brightly, with a solid Wawrinka looking on course to repeat the superb third-round performance which knocked out world number two Andy Murray.
However, Tsonga's aggression paid off with the Swiss-based Frenchman making the most of his break chances to overcome his occasional training partner.
Tsonga, who had not reached the last four in a Masters series event since his 2011 home triumph at the Paris Open, saw himself as the underdog ahead of the semi-final with Nadal.
"It's a incredible challenge. If I win, I'll be a hero. If I lose, I'll just go back home like everybody else," he said.
Italian Fognini, who lives just across the border and said he felt "at home" in Monaco, produced a fine performance with his dropshots and deep spinning forehands troubling France's Gasquet.
The stands started to empty after he secured his victory and he will need his status as a fans' favourite when he faces Djokovic, who moved far better on the clay than he did in the first two rounds when he had to recover from a set down.
Last year's runner-up Djokovic, who picked up a ankle injury while on Davis Cup duty with Serbia less than two weeks ago, was pleased by his physical improvement.
"It's a great step forward for me," he said. "I did not have the feeling that the ankle was bothering me, I was very solid. I elevated the level of my game in the past two matches, definitely," he added while a rainbow shone in the light rain falling over Centre Court.


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The Morenci Board of Education is seeking letters of interest from any district resident willing to serve on the school board until the May election in 2009.
A new board member will be selected at a special meeting June 9 to replace Merton Easler who resigned because he's no longer living in the district.
To be eligible for the position, a candidate must be a registered voter in the school district and a resident for at least 30 days prior to the date of appointment to the board.
A letter must be submitted to the board of education office by 4 p.m. June 2. Candidates must attend the June 9 meeting for an interview.
For additional information, call the board office at 517/458-7501.


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Great! It's both funny and sad, but unfortunately this is reality; Nowdays the American dream has spread throught the whole world. By American dream I mean to get rich not spiritually but physically; that money can buy love and happiness. A wonderful example of this( get rich not spiritually but physically) is in the novel "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald. So it is clear why this word f#ck has become more used than the word God.
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Big idea: So what if it's yours?
Your success at work is dependent on your accomplishments, not your ideas. So can everyone please stop being so petty about whose ideas are whose?
A very small number of you are strategists and inventors. For you, your ideas make or break your career. So don't bother reading the rest of this column. For the rest of you, face the music: You are not paid to come up with ideas. You are paid to execute them.
So let's say you're a marketing manager and you have a great idea to spam the whole world to get them to buy soap. Spamming is not an innovation, and selling soap has been done before, too. The person who is a genius will be the person who can make a spam campaign work. That would require direct mail expertise, figuring out which product is most likely to sell, setting up fulfillment capabilities.
Let's say the spam campaign is a success. Who's the genius? The person with the idea to spam, or the person who actually increases soap sales? Let me tell you something, in this economy, few companies can afford an "ideas guy." Companies are hiring people who generate revenue: executors.
I'm not saying the world doesn't need ideas. Ideas are great. And in the perfect world, everyone gets credit for the ideas they have. But the world isn't perfect, and people steal ideas at work. And while we fight off large imperfections like fake (Enron) companies, race discrimination, and massive layoffs, getting credit for an idea is pretty small peanuts.
Yet still I hear people complain about a stolen idea as if it was their first-born child. And sometimes I think maybe it was. Maybe the people who worry about a stolen idea the most are the people who have the fewest ideas. Ask yourself if your problem is scarcity rather than thievery. If you don't have a lot of ideas to begin with, then you shouldn't bother trying to be known for your ideas. It's not who you are.
Most people who complain about stolen ideas peg their boss as the culprit. If you're in this category, ask yourself this question: Is your job in jeopardy because your boss thinks you have no good ideas? In that case, you probably need to start documenting your ideas on paper. But I have news for you: Your boss probably doesn't like you if she recognizes you so little as to steal your brilliance and accuse you of lacking ideas. In that case, you can grovel for credit, but you should probably try to find another job, working for someone else.
And here's a tip for when you're looking for that next job: Don't bother listing your great ideas on your resumé. No one cares. Employers want to see resumés with quantified accomplishments. Replace "thought of opening a new sales channel" to "opened a sales channel and increased revenue x."
Maybe your boss steals a few ideas but is otherwise a good boss. In that case, ignore her ethical transgression. You have a limited number of times you can tell your boss she's bothering you. Use those times for instances when you will make more money. If your bonus is tied to having an original idea, then by all means point out the idea that your boss stole so that you can collect your money. But if the only thing that a stolen idea harms is your ego, then get over it.
Besides, the best way to get a promotion is to make your boss love you. And you can make your boss love you by making her feel smart. If your boss feels smart, it doesn't mean that she thinks you're not smart. Don't be so insecure. It should be enough that you know that you have good ideas.


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Bartram's Garden, the Wharton Esherick Museum, the Concord Township Historical Society, and the Friends of the Japanese House and Garden are among the honorees for the first annual History in Pennsylvania "HIP" Awards. The awards will be presented at the History Affiliates Luncheon on October 19, 2012.
This is the inaugural year for the History Affiliates Luncheon, which will recognize excellence and innovation in the history and heritage community in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Union League of Philadelphia. The keynote speaker will be the First Lady of Pennsylvania Susan M. Corbett. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at www.hsp.org/hipawards.
Awards honor exceptional educational and public programs, community partnership projects, and stewardship and collections care. The 2012 honorees are:
- The Wharton Esherick Museum for its exhibit "Poplar Culture: the Celebration of a Tree"
- Concord Township Historical Society for "Legacies & Lessons: Western Delaware County Presents the Civil War at 150"
- Friends of the Japanese House and Garden for the historic preservation of Sakura Pavilion
- Bartram's Garden for its Community Farm and Food Resource Center
Two individuals will be honored as volunteers of the year. They are:
- Louis M. Iatarola, Historical Society of Tacony
- Nancy Roan, Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc.
Bank of America will be honored with the "Leadership by a Corporation in Support of Southeastern Pennsylvania's History and Heritage Community Award" and History Making Productions will be presented with the "Leadership by a For-Profit Organization for Effective Heritage Tourism and Marketing Award."
The awards honor volunteer-run, small, and mid-sized history and heritage organizations in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. "History and heritage organizations are a central part of the contemporary community and landscape," says Prudence Haines, director of History Affiliates. "We need to support their efforts to provide us with accurate history and preserve the past."
The HIP Awards are presented by History Affiliates, a program created by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and funded by the Barra Foundation. Among its goals, History Affiliates aims to support history and heritage organizations by developing a sense of community in the field; lowering the barriers of participation in terms of money, time, and location; aggregating information and resources that support heritage organizations; and creating a central "voice" representing the interests of the sector. History Affiliates offers its members a monthly e-newsletter, capacity-building programs and workshops, and advocacy for the history and heritage sector, and is developing a robust website with a variety of resources and an online members directory.
For more information about History Affiliates, visit www.hsp.org/historyaffiliates.
About the Honorees
Wharton Eshrick Museum
Recipient of the Educational and Public Programs Award (Mid-sized Organization)
Winning program: "Poplar Culture: The Celebration of a Tree"
Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood, readily extending his unique forms to furniture, furnishings, utensils, interiors and buildings, creating sculptural environments. His hilltop studio and residence in Malvern, with more than 200 of his works on exhibition, has been preserved much as it was when the artist lived and worked there, and is open to the public.In the late 1970s, a very large poplar tree that stood next to Esherick's studio was struck by lightning and seriously damaged. The tree's presence was so important to the landscape and history of Wharton's studio that the museum staff decided to create something positive from this monumental loss.
Wood from the tree was distributed to professionals and hobbyists, sculptors and furniture makers, in an effort to include all who had been influenced by Esherick's work. The museum staff wanted to show the continuity between past and present, as well as raise funds and the visibility of the museum. Seventy artists of high caliber agreed to participate and donate their work to support the museum. More than 75 pieces were produced and shown at the gallery at Historic Yellow Springs in Chester County from May 20 through June 10, 2012. More than 1,500 visitors attended the show and many more viewed online. Seventy-four percent of the pieces were sold, and the exhibition raised a total of $39,000 for the Wharton Esherick Museum and Historic Yellow Springs. To learn more about the Wharton Esherick Museum, visit http://www.whartonesherickmuseum.org.
Concord Township Historical Society
Recipient of the Educational and Public Programs Award (All Volunteer Organization)
Winning program: "Legacies and Lessons: Western Delaware County presents the Civil War at 150"
The Concord Township Historical Society in Delaware County is a non-profit volunteer organization, whose purpose is to stimulate interest in Concord Township history through historic document, artifact, and property preservation, research, public and education programs. In 2009, the Concord Township Historical Society began planning an almost year-long commemoration of the 2011 sesquicentennial of American Civil War. By working together with a variety of organizations, the Historical Society hoped to increase program audiences and encourage the participating organizations to collectively undertake more ambitious programming.
A group of 11 organizations met monthly for more than two years and planned a series of programs commemorating the Civil War, including four book reading/discussion programs at the library (funded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council); five lectures by historians; a visit by the Pennsylvania Civil War Road Show; and "An Evening with Abraham Lincoln."
Seed money for programs was raised through dues from the 11 participating organizations, Concord Township, as well as local businesses and individuals. Publicity for the programs was frequent and varied. Hundreds of people attended the programs, with the average audience ranging from 35 to 160 people, more than double the number of attendees at previous programs.
"Legacies and Lessons" was a highly positive collaborative working relationship among 11 organizations whose missions are to serve their communities. Community residents who had not participated in history and heritage programs in the past were introduced to Western Delaware County's rich heritage and became familiar with their local history. For more information about the Concord Township Historical Society, visit www.concordhist.org.
Friends of the Japanese House and Garden
Recipient of The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts Award for Excellence in Stewardship and Collections Care (Mid-sized Organization)
Winning program: Sakura Pavilion at the Centennial Buildings Historic Preservation
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden is a traditional-style Japanese house and nationally-ranked garden in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park that reflects the history of Japanese culture in Philadelphia. The Friends of the Japanese House and Garden (FJHG) partnered with the City of Philadelphia in the historic preservation and adaptive reuse of two Centennial buildings that stand near the Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. During the restoration process, two Centennial era brick buildings were turned into a program space and storage building.
These structures are two of only four buildings remaining in situ from the 1876 Centennial exposition; the other two are Memorial Hall, the home of the Please Touch Museum, and the Ohio House, occupied by the privately owned Centennial Café. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Friends of the Japanese House and Garden used them for storage. These buildings have been renamed Sakura (cherry blossom) Pavilion and they stand 60 yards away from the entrance to the Japanese House.
A partnership for this restoration was forged between the City of Philadelphia, the Friends of the Japanese House and Garden, and the Pew Center for Arts and Culture. These newly restored buildings increase the ability of the FJHG to serve targeted audiences, increase audience diversity, and expand attendance and outreach. For more information about the Japanese House and Garden, visit www.shofuso.com.
Bartram's Garden
Recipient of Community Partnership Projects Award (Mid-sized Organization)
Winning program: Community Farm and Food Resource Center
The Community Farm and Food Resource Center at Bartram's Garden, the 18th-century home of John Bartram, has transformed and underutilized recreational space in this Southwest Philadelphia community. This partnership included four organizations: John Bartram Association, Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI) of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), and the Philadelphia Deptartment of Parks and Recreation.
The centerpiece of the farm is a two-acre vegetable farm managed by youth from a local high school. There is a 30-plot community garden, a 2,500-square-foot greenhouse, and the first orchard at Bartram's Garden since the 1850s that features more than 90 trees. The goal of the farm is to directly model healthy food choices and inspire a love of nature in a community that typically does not have access to the outdoors.
Future plans for the farm include an educational workshop space with a kitchen and community seed bank, which will involve 50 University of Pennsylvania college students who will volunteer to assist the high school interns with the implementation of the project. This collaboration has improved the capacity of the John Bartram Association to be effective stewards of our mission to provide a direct, tangible connection to the natural world. The Farm reflects a fundamental shift in interpretation at Bartram's Garden from one that is primarily "show and tell" to one that is full of active use and broad community support. For more information about Bartram's Garden, visit www.bartramsgarden.org.
Volunteers of the Year
Louis M. Iatarola, Historical Society of Tacony
Lou M. Iatarola has been a community leader, local historian, and preservation activist for more than 20 years in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia. He is a board member and longtime active member of the Historical Society of Tacony; he has chaired both the Society's annual History Day Parade and the Arboretum at Disston Park program since their inceptions. Mr. Iatarola spearheaded the development of a Preservation Plan for Tacony with a University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program and a grant-funded project to install plaques on historic houses in Tacony. Mr. Iatarola is currently working on the Tacony portion of the Philadelphia 2035 comprehensive plan and nominating Tacony for the National Register of Historic Places.
Nancy Roan, Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc.
Nancy Roan has volunteered and made significant contributions of time, energy, and creativity in encouraging interest in and support of the history of the Pennsylvania Dutch for more than 45 years. Ms. Roan serves as an interpreter and guest curator and writes newsletter articles as well as finding, organizing, and cataloging the textile part of the GH Folklife and Country Store Museum. Much of her work has been in the food and textile traditions of the Pennsylvania Germans. She has served as a food consultant to the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival and taught hearth cooking classes at the Henry Antes House, the Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Goschenhoppen Historians.


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Barnes & Noble Throws in the Towel on Tablets
Barnes & Noble is retreating from the intensely competitive tablet wars, after sustaining heavy losses. Jeffrey Trachtenberg joins digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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Orange-Cream Pavlovas Recipe
These pavlovas make the best of winter citrus by being topped with an orange and lemon custard that's folded with segments of orange and a cloud of whipped cream.
You will need three oranges for this recipe: two for zest and juice, and one for segments.
Read more: Serious Sweets: Orange-Cream Pavlovas
- Yield:6
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:2 hours, 30 minutes
- 3 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 3 large egg yolks, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons zest and 1/2 cup juice from 2 oranges (See Notes)
- 1 teaspoon zest and 2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 orange (See Notes)
- 1 cup heavy cream, chilled
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 200°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and spray lightly with baking spray.
Beat whites, vinegar, and 1/8 teaspoon salt on medium-low speed until loosened, about 30 seconds. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until soft peaks form, 2 to 3 minutes. Combine 3/4 cup sugar and cornstarch and, with mixer running, slowly add to bowl 1 tablespoon at a time. Once all the sugar mixture has been added, continue mixing until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 2 minutes longer. Add vanilla and beat just until combined.
Spoon 6 meringues about 1 inch apart onto prepared baking sheet, using the back of the spoon to make an indentation—meringues should resemble nests.
Bake until firm and dry, about 1 1/2 hours. Turn oven off, prop oven door open with a wooden spoon, and allow meringues to cool in oven about 1 hour. Meringues may be stored in an airtight container up to 24 hours.
Meanwhile, whisk the eggs, egg yolks, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, and remaining 3/8 teaspoon salt together in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons orange zest, lemon zest, orange juice, and lemon juice and cook over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, until thickened and the consistency of pudding, 8 to 10 minutes.
Strain curd into medium bowl. Add butter and stir until completely incorporated. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the custard and chill completely. Alternatively, place bowl in ice bath and stir constantly until custard is completely cooled, about 10 minutes.
To make segments, cut off about 1/2-inch from to and bottom of orange. Using a sharp knife, cut the skin and pith off the orange, leaving the flesh exposed.
Cut between the membranes to obtain segments. Cut each segment into 3 or 4 pieces.
Whisk cream in a chilled bowl until stiff peaks form, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir 1/3 of the cream into the chilled custard, then, fold in the remaining cream, remaining 1 tablespoon orange zest, and orange segments.
To serve, top each pavlova with orange-cream custard.
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I'm a retired librarian living in Glasgow. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I was little, I always said "an author". I filled notebooks with stories and poems which I was sometimes asked to read to the class in primary school. Writing essays in secondary school and university seemed to knock that creativity out of me and I modified my bookish ambitions to becoming a librarian (sorry to say, I was under the impression I could read all day). Now, in the wonderful era of the world-wide web, anyone can be an author and here I am writing again.
I'm not a native Glaswegian, but I've been here since 1986 and can't imagine living anywhere else now – it's a great city with lots going on. Edinburgh might have the biggest festival but we seem to have one every month or so, my favourites being Celtic Connections (music) and Aye, write! (books). Eating out is excellent, especially if you like curries as I do. I've been a vegetarian since 1983, and this can have an impact on travelling, so this is a big advantage as an Indian restaurant is often one of the more reliable places to find good vegetarian meals (although I admit my first Glasgow curry brought tears to my eyes and I couldn't speak for some time).
Another feature of Glasgow is that it's a very green place with a high number of parks which we enjoy visiting, and we're also really well placed for getting into the hills, both up to the Highlands and down to the English Lake District.
My travelling companion is nearly always John, my husband of almost 40 years. I do most of the planning before we go, but he's much more practical once we get there, finding his way around with ease while I trail in his wake without a clue how to get to where I want to be (no sense of direction). We make a great team.


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I try every time. Every time there's a Taylor Swift news item, I try very, very hard to take the pro. Sometimes I can do it, and you yell at me. And sometimes I can't. Because, well, sometimes she's indefensible. You cannot defend this. You CANNOT defend someone who voluntarily chooses to NOT speak for herself.
Have you read the Vanity Fair excerpt yet? Click here if no. As mentioned in the previous post about Swift's comments re: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Nancy Jo Sales, a veteran journalist who knows her sh-t, interviewed Taylor Swift for the magazine. Swift tells Sales that reports of her romances have been greatly exaggerated. Translation: she's chaste and doesn't sleep around and in the last three years she's only been with Conor Kennedy and Harry Styles:
Specifically of her dating life, Swift says that "if you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people," meaning Conor Kennedy and One Direction's Harry Styles. Though she has gone out with some of the entertainment world's most notorious bachelors, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Lautner, Joe Jonas, and John Mayer, Swift says, "[t]he fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with. . . it's just kind of ridiculous." As she sits drinking lavender lemonade in her "Tim Burton–Alice in Wonderland–pirate ship–Peter Pan" apartment, Swift continues, "It's why I have to avoid the tabloid part of our culture, because they turn you into a fictional character." When Sales asks Swift if she's boy-crazy, Swift smiles. "For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated—a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way—that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist."
As a standalone? That quote? Fine. You can definitely take the pro on that one. Easy.
But then...
Then we go from sexist to this -- refusing to discuss her personal life but instead granting permission to a friend, called a "source" in the article", to explain her personal life for her, including why she broke up with Harry Styles. Answer: according to the Official Taylor Swift Source, because he was an unfaithful prick:
Although one of Swift's rules is that she doesn't go into the personal details of any of her relationships, she authorized someone to discuss them with Sales. "He wore her down," the source says of Styles, who allegedly "chased" Swift for a year. "He was all, like, 'You're amazing—I want to be with you. I want to do this.'" The relationship fell apart after he texted Swift to alert her of a picture on the Internet of him kissing a friend good-bye. They were "making out like with their hands all up in each other's hair," says the source. After Swift ended the relationship, he pursued her for the better part of a year until she finally took him back. "But the whole time she says she feels like he's looking at every girl," the source continues. And then when they were in London together he "disappears one night and after that it was like he just didn't want to keep going." Styles's rep, Benny Tarantini at Columbia Records, said that all of Swift's source's claims are "undeniably false."
"It was like a pendulum for her, swinging back and forth," the source says of Swift's exes, with all of whom age has been a problem. Conor Kennedy, 17 at the time, was "just like a two-month thing," the source continues, and Swift "says he was awesome." The source says, "She dated Jake [Gyllenhaal] and John [Mayer] when she was really young and they were in their 30s, and she got really hurt. So it was like 'That hurt—this won't. But then it did.'"
That right there? You can't take the pro on that. You can't defend that. Because you can't in one breath advocate for power and in the next muzzle yourself or worse, declare it beneath you to explain yourself, and instead assign the lowly task to someone inferior.
Those are your two choices then.
In allowing someone else to speak for her, Taylor Swift is either:
2.The kind of girl who makes her bitch do her dirty work.
Pick one. Because, in this case, there's nothing else available.
Oh, and she might also be a liar because she told Nancy Jo Sales (in a very roundabout way) that she didn't buy the house next to the Kennedys' in Hyannis Port even though Nancy J Sales's research (I really like the name Nancy Jo Sales) suggests that she did. The lesson here: Ask her Yes/No questions.
Is Taylor Swift a f-cking politician now?


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Icarus - Monday 03/12/2012, 18:42
Titan - E X C A L I B U R
This is new elo. 2006 style with the way they're giving out cr's
0 Mario Gomez from guild Les fous alliés won Kiki Cr. (1451 elo)
KAMICAZE ONE from guild ® CVM LAVDE ™ won Lyse Teria Cr. (1442 elo)
El Shaarawy- from guild Guardia de la Noche won Manon Cr. (1424 elo)
Adam Richman from guild TrAitorzZz won Shawoman Cr. (1420 elo)
-Paspar2- from guild NOVA won Lao Cr. (1413 elo)
W4dner from guild Fuzz¥on won NDololo Cr. (1412 elo)
1F - SyD from guild Fairplay won Ambrose Cr. (1410 elo)
UoS_Immortal from guild UNION OF THE SUPREMES won Elya Cr. (1410 elo)
ablam1ngo_BB from guild The Big Bang won Reine Cr. (1408 elo)
hay, mods and staff please respect my opinion but we do know this is not the elo we used to have before,
big 5 cr's where 1470-1490 range
manon cr, scarlett etc are at 1450-1460
and look what I just saw...
Elo needs a reformation
P.S. an Old elo player
ghelas - Monday 03/12/2012, 19:08
Titan - E X C A L I B U R
So what you're saying is, ELO is shameful now because it used to take 2-3 more wins for a big Cr? Hmm...
I think what you're seeing is just supply and demand. Less people are playing ELO, the competition is a little less stiff than it used to be...
maki_mUR - Monday 03/12/2012, 19:52
Novice - Dragons Cro Clan
There should be more of those given, the prices have gone way up... no-one can afford them anymore
misterjones - Monday 03/12/2012, 22:15
Titan - Limit Break
I think it was the opposite, ghelas-- the competition was rather stiff last week, as evidenced by nobody making the top 100 without a rating of 1400-- I assume that more players were actively trying for Kiki and Lyse Teria. I would suggest that many of the top players who are there every week, regardless of prizes, may have had a tougher road than normal, which is why the winners didn't have as high ratings as they normally do.
@Icarus: Get with the new, or find a new game
Sicba - Tuesday 04/12/2012, 00:40
Titan - Open Casket
"1 Collector card(s) for 12 random players from the ELO Tournament Top 100 "
Simple as that, nowhere is it stated that better cards (or to be precise, more expensive ones) are for 1470 or more, so I dont get what you want? A free CR? We all would want that, thats where the "random" part kicks in...
ghelas - Tuesday 04/12/2012, 02:42
Titan - E X C A L I B U R
That's entirely possible, too. Although the low end is lower than it used to be (I remember when 1420 was what you needed to feel secure in sneaking into t100) the high end is still high -- there have been recent 1500+ scores, and scores close to that.
slav.georgiev.3 - Tuesday 04/12/2012, 08:24
As a new player, I must say the current ELO makes very little sense to me. ELO is a week long tournament. In order to be successful you need the funds for a good deck, a lot of time and effort dedicated consistently, and in the end you barely get anything. ELO is supposed to be the Super Bowl or the Champions League of UR, the big tournament that beats out all little DT's and Survivor bouts by reward and prestige. I get more clintz and more credits by participating in one DT a day, it's ridiculous. There's no stimulus to play ELO where once a week if I've been good I get as many clintz and credits as I get if I score one lucky streak on Survivor just once, or if I dedicate 50 minutes of game time on one DT.
There are several problems that I see in ELO right away, even if I'm a new player.
1. Metagame is a vital part of every CCG but in UR most clans have around 20 useful cards, a handful of overpowered ones and a bunch of underpowered cards, so there's a finite number of combinations that perform consistently, and it is heavily influenced by what OP cards are not banned this week. UR already has the artwork, why not rework some of the less useful cards, give them a little boost to add variety and competition for deck spots in each clan?
2. Up the prices, make it worth the weekly dedication.
3. Add tournament format - Groups, Playoffs, Elimination? It is doable despite the time zone differences. Make it an event.
wasteroftime - Tuesday 04/12/2012, 09:58
Titan - Open Casket
Adding Crs to Dt is what makes ELO prizes seem small
ELO is still the easiest 10 creds you can get
the low elo scores needed for top 100 is due to the lower number of players
1420 was no guarantee for top 100. now 1420 gets you in comfortably
subclavianHoA - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 02:49
Two big 5s were offered, and only 9300 players and a 1873712 Clintz jackpot
ghelas - Wednesday 05/12/2012, 08:01
Titan - E X C A L I B U R
DT = 70 Crs per week
ELO = 12 Crs per week
However, ELO offers more control over your odds of winning, and if you are a regular t100 player, you can really cash in. The odds of winning one of the Big 5 through DT is very low, while winning at least one of them if you're a consistent top 20 ELO player is pretty much eventually guaranteed.
My theory is that ELO has become a mode for the skilled minority, with people who strive for consistently high scores through streaks instead of grinding. About 20% of ELO players who have always wanted Crs, but couldn't make t100, migrated to DTs.


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New York Jets planned to use Tim Tebow as running back
- The New York Jets originally had designs on using Tim Tebow as a traditional running back
- Recently fired offensive coordinator Tony Sparano opted not to use Tebow as a tailback
- Tebow has stated he wants to be a quarterback
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – The New York Jets had a vision of Tim Tebow being a versatile offensive player for them in 2012, and they surely tried to make it happen by lining him up at quarterback, H-back, personal punt protector and blocking back on shotgun passes.
There was one more spot they wanted to place Tebow but never got around to doing so: tailback.
The Jets had visions of lining up Tebow at running back in traditional sets when they acquired him via trade from the Denver Broncos last March, according to a person with knowledge of the team's plans at the time of the trade. The person, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because the Jets didn't divulge that plan, said it involved more than the shotgun look and was intended to "give (Tebow) the ball and play at times just like (Shonn) Greene and (Bilal) Powell" were used.
Jets coach Rex Ryan mentioned using Tebow as a running back only once, and that was in late October when Powell was injured and backup running back Joe McKnight was dealing with a high-ankle sprain. Ryan said Tebow could get some looks in the backfield, though McKnight wound up playing that Sunday. Tebow never lined up at running back.
The Jets' original vision to use Tebow as a running back was for more than just an emergency situation. They believed Tebow could be an integral part of their game plans as a running back.
The first question this revelation raises is, why did it never occur? Ryan was the one talking up Tebow as the ultimate weapon who could play a variety of roles. Offensive coordinator Tony Sparano didn't make it happen. Sparano was fired Monday.
Lots of things change with Jets, but not Rex's bluster
The other question, then, is whether this means Tebow is definitely on his way out, as many have anticipated. The Jets will hire a new offensive coordinator and are in the process of hiring a new general manager. It's unclear at this point what those two men will think about the possibility of trying to hold on to Tebow and expanding his role to, among other things, running back.
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Likely gone? Sure. Definitely? Who knows?
Ryan and owner Woody Johnson would not speculate on Tebow's future during their press conference on Tuesday.
Tebow has stated he wants to be a quarterback and, according to a report from ESPNNewYork.com late last month, asked out of Wildcat packages because he'd been passed over at quarterback. Tebow denied the report, though he said he told Ryan he wants to be a "regular quarterback."
Perhaps his best shot to remain in the NFL will be the Jets' vision of him as a regular running back.


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Friday, December 14, 2012
One of the things about undergound utilities
So to know where things are, so you don't put holes in things that are down there, we call for line locates.
The utilities involved -who don't want their lines broken and have to fix them- come out and throw colored paint on the ground where the lines are:
Orange for COMM.
Red for ELECTRIC
Blue for WATER
Green for SEWER
Yellow for GAS
The way you're supposed to find them is to pothole where the paint is, to be sure the operator knows where they are.
That being said, the guys doing the potholing are supposed to stop when the FIND the utility they're looking for. That doesn't happen when you have three guys who give less than a f*ck.
I was told "Ya boss- that gas line is alor deeper than were digging."
Except that I know how deep gas lines are on this part of the base.
Except that I know the phone lines aren't encased in 'crete here, either.
We came on the orange sand about 2 feet below where they stopped.
Then we uncovered a second phone line that wasn't marked and called base comm guy -who didn't know it was there either.
Notice the way the pothole trench is going parallel with the marks instead of the more useful across the marking hole? If you go across where the line is supposed to be, you won't miss the gas line by 4" like we see in the last picture.
My spotter/co-operator asked why I didn't make them redo them. I told him I just wanted the stupid f*cks out of my way.
Their foreman didn't like it much when I called him out on it with the Super standing right on top of the most obvious miss (the top pic).
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- AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 5:46 PM
I hear ya bro..18 yrs with a gas co.ReplyDelete
I ran across a two inch, doped and wrapped, steel pipe a few years ago, while placing some culverts. It wasn't located by all involved, so we went through the process of finding the owner, since it prevented us from placing the culvert.ReplyDelete
After a day, a man appeared that suspected it was an abandoned pipe from an oil well that was removed years before. He wanted us to cut it with a chop saw, which I declined. If it was his, he could cut it; I even offered our saw, but told him to give us time to get a few thousand feet away.
He went to his truck and retrieved a chisel, with a brass hammer. Within a few seconds, he was in the process of making a hole in the pipe.
After thirty minutes, he punched a hole and clear water ran from the pipe. I gave him the chop saw, he cut enough pipe for our culverts and we completed the location.
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Mailing lists
There are three Linux/MIPS-oriented mailing lists:
- email@example.com
This mailing list currently has the most traffic. It is especially of interest as a good number of active developers are subscribed to this list.
- email@example.com
This is an announcement only mailing list to which a message for every CVS commit into linux-mips.org's, CVS archive of the Linux/MIPS community, is being sent. This allows following the development as it happens.
- email@example.com
This is an announcement only mailing list. The content is the same as on linux-cvs except that emails contain the full patch commited into CVS. If you subscribe to this list be prepared to receive huge emails of upto 30MB and beyond. Most people are better of by reading patches in the HTML archive.
Due to the conversion of the kernel SCM from cvs to git the email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com no longer receive postings. The lists will stay archives in the HTML archive and the plan is to convert them to a future linux-git and linux-git-patches mailing lists that will receive the same kind of notifications but for git commits.
Subscription to this lists is handled via Ecartis (email@example.com), just send an email with the words subscribe <list-name>. In order to unsubscribe, send unsubscribe linux-mips. Sending the word help will reveal further secrets about the advanced use of Ecartis. There's also a web-based interface to Ecartis.
Note linux-mips.org is using the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) TCP extension as described in RFC 3168. The bug is known for years yet still defective firewalls that are dropping TCP SYN packets with ECN bits set are in use. If you can reach linux-mips.org yet don't receive any email from any of the linux-mips.org mailing lists you may have this problem.
The majority of subscribers doesn't seem to like HTML email, so please disable HTML for postings.
There are archives for these two lists in UNIX mbox format and a searchable web archive. The web archive is re-indexed every few hours, so usually it's a good idea to try it first when searching for anything that might be archived on one of the lists. Archives are also maintained for a few historic mailing lists.
Privacy: linux-mips.org will not use the subscriber list for any other purpose than operation of the mailing lists and in rare cases for other administrative purposes of linux-mips.org. Postings to the public mailing lists will be archived and possibly mirrored on other sites. If you don't like this don't post.
Verizon users
Since a little while Verizon is blocking email from Britain, France, Germany and Russia. According to the company this is due to spam - even though the USA are clear leader in global spam. Anyway, if you're a Verizon user don't mail us about this problem. It's Verizon's fault and we don't do anything to workaround this problem and frankly we couldn't care less than about an ISP patronizing it's customers this way.
Related articles can be found at:
- http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19225/1.html (German)
- http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,66226,00.html (English)
There is an IRC channel named #mipslinux for Linux/MIPS which may be found on irc.freenode.net.
Weekly Snapshots
There are some snapshots of Linux/MIPS CVS ('linux' module only) available here. (Note, this is hosted on 512/128kBit ADSL -- so go easy :-)
There are another snapshots of "linux" at ftp.dfpost.ru(user mips without password).