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Play Recordings On Windows From MythWeb
Below are instructions on how users can browse the recordings via Mythweb on a Windows machine and with one click, have it play in VideoLan (VLC). Videos can also be played with one click from the MythWeb video listing, but it is necessary to modify code.
- These instructions will not work through a firewall or over a slow < 5Mbps connection and assumes the computers are on the same LAN.
- It just uses VLC to play the files, not the VLC server to stream the recordings.
- These instructions only work on MythTV 0.20 (or greater)
- These instructions won't work for slave backends (because of limitations with MythWeb) but the recordings can be shared.
- Assumes Fedora Core
The instructions consist of three parts, first install and configure the necessary Windows applications, share the recordings directory via Samba, then modify Mythweb.
Time to implement
- 1/2 hour for recordings and assumes access to MYSQL and setting up Samba via command line
- or an hour for both recordings and videos and familiarity with symbolic links, editing php files
Installing Required Window Applications
First get and install these two applications on your Windows machine:
- VideoLan (VLC) - http://www.videolan.org/
- The "MythTV Filters" or DSMyth - http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net/
Now, with DSMyth, under the Start Menu -> MythTV Filters, run the "Configuration" program. It will bring up a screen called "MythTV DirectShow filter settings" which has a sidebar that has three tabs "MySQL database", "File associations" and "Network".
- Note: The settings under "MySQL database" are not necessary for viewing recordings in Windows.
Under the "File Associations" tab, change the bottom "MythTV Urls:" to VLC by hitting "browse" finding the VLC executable or, if you installed it in the default directory, just paste in everything below:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "%1"
You can also place the same link in the two slots above, but it is not necessary. Then hit OK.
- Note: You can use the pre-defined mplayer2.exe, but it really sucks because it can't seek with out crashing, takes a long time to come-up and VLC has much better seek hotkeys (try CTRL-right arrow or ALT-right arrow or the forward/backward buttons on your mouse!)
DSMyth is used as a bridge application, when "myth:\\" links are clicked in a browser, DSmyth takes it and passes it along to VLC.
On your MythTV backend we are going to add a Samba share which will allow any Windows machine on the network to see all the recordings in the recordings directory on a read-only basis. First make sure the Samba and Lisa daemons are running and will start automatically on bootup:
# /sbin/chkconfig lisa on # /sbin/service lisa start # /sbin/chkconfig smb on # /sbin/service smb start
Now, you could edit "/etc/exports" file and add a line to it like "/video/recordings/ *(r,async,all_squash)" (and restart samba) but it is easier to use the graphical interface of KDE. From the start menu, go to Control Panel -> Internet & Network -> Samba Configuration. You can then click the "Administrator Mode", enter the Root password, and setup the "Base Settings", i.e. Workgroup, Netbios name (leave as default) and the description. Then click on "File Sharing" above in the sidebar and go into "Administrator Mode" again, and "Add" the directory that contains all the MythTV recordings, for example "/video/recordings". Set the share to "visible" but not "writable" to avoid having recordings deleted.
- Note: If you can't see anything under the "Samba Configuration" or "File Sharing", check if the processes are running:
# ps -A | grep lisa # ps -A | grep smb
You should also have set the hostname for the machine at this point by
# hostname MyMythBackend
and replace "MyMythBackend" with whatever you want.
- Note: One of the benefits of having Samba running is that you can now access MythWeb with the hostname, for example http://MyMythBackend/mythweb
Now check if your Windows machine can see the recordings directory because there is little point in continuing if it can't. (Give it a few minutes, finding new shares can be slow as it discovers clients, figures out who is the master, etc.)
Modifying Mythweb to View Recordings
The next step is to pass to VLC a URL from Mythweb that it can then use to play the recording off the samba share.
This would have been dead easy through the MythWeb interface because you can modify the value needed under the MythWeb settings page (Click the icon next to the weather icon) -> "MythTV global defaults" -> "Video URL", but it doesn't work (as of v0.20). Once you hit "Save" any required backward slashes "\" are replaced with "/" forward slashes which windows and VLC won't recognize. In other words, what you need is something like:
but hitting save changes it to
The only way is to modify the field directly in the database from a terminal window:
# mysql -u root mythconverg (enter the password) mysql> UPDATE `settings` SET `data` = 'myth:\\\\MyMythBackend/recordings/', `hostname` = NULL WHERE `value` = 'WebVideo_URL' AND `data` = AND `hostname` IS NULL LIMIT 1 ;
- Note the multiple backslashes are required, and yes there are forward and back slashes in there but VLC figures it out.
Now if you go back into MythWeb settings page -> MythTV global defaults, you should see the value you modified directly. If you hit the recordings page and hold you mouse over a thumbnail, you should see in the status bar a link like:
and if you click on it, it should bring up VLC and start playing the recording.
There are lots of things that can go wrong and the best way to fix it is to track backwards.
- Can you see the samba share on your windows machine?
- Is the directory and file in the place you expect, i.e. \\MyMythbackend\recordings\<etc>
- Can you open that file over the share manually with VLC?
- Is the path being generated by MythWeb correct?
Modifying MythWeb to View Videos
If you have videos you want to view directly through MythWeb, you can also share it via samba and modify MythWeb to create the correct links, but it requires modifying two files (assuming you use the default skin): First, modify
- /mythweb/modules/video/handler.php
Change the line at the very bottom which starts with:
$this-url = root . implode (...)
$this->url = root . preg_replace('#^'.$mythvideo_dir.'/?#', , $this->filename);
Then modify
- /mythweb/modules/video/tmpl/default/video.php
around line 80, change both links from:
echo 'url.'"> (...)
and a few lines down:
<?php echo 'url.'"> (...)
Then in your videos directory create a symbolic link called MythWeb back to the videos directory, i.e.
#cd /mymedia/videos #ln -s /mymedia/videos mythweb
Now when you visit the video section of MythWeb, the link should be correct and bring up the movie in VLC when clicked on. The link should look something like this:
(I'm sure there is a way to modify handler.php to get rid of "mythweb", but it was simpler just to put in a symbolic link.)
- Again, make sure you can get to the video share directly first.
- Then make sure the URL you put in the video.php file is correct.
- Check the symbolic link, it's a bit of a hack.


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I was checking list posts on sites like freelance folder and found that they link to external and internal articles weekly. You can check freelanceswitch site for example of their weekly linkswitch post. So my point is -
- too many link posts have any bad impact on site ?
- How google or any other search engine measures the value of such posts?
- Also how value of link is passed ?
- or all values to links in the posts are passed equally ?

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MONTREAL — I was once invited into the home of a Los Angeles doctor, who couldn't wait to demonstrate his latest acquisition: a quadraphonic sound system, with four speakers to flood the living room with "state-of-the-art" sound. The only trouble was he owned but a handful of records adapted for this eighth wonder of the world. In other words: Pink Floyd 24/7. Rock was here to stay but not, alas, quadraphonics.
Gareth Murray's Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry (St. Martin's Press, 400 pages, $27.99), tackles a fascinating subject and is packed with interesting facts, yet comes up short in the terribly human "epic" department. This is an industry that has given us the soundtrack of our lives since the dawn of the 20th century, yet has usually been dominated by producers' and programmers' ad hoc "hunches" about the worth of a song and public tastes.
This is an industry in which some dimwits hesitated supplying radio stations with "free" records rather than think of the free publicity.
Murphy, an Irish writer who, the dust jacket informs, has "worked at various record companies and produced 30 electronic compilations," has a gift for distilling complicated schemes and machinations, yet they and the scammers behind them beg for more detail. This is an industry of monumental egos.
He describes John Hammond — who "discovered" Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan — as "probably the greatest-ever" record man. The tweedy, educated man — part of the Vanderbilt family with a trust fund to live on — built his mystique based on his ability to find "quality" artistes.
Yet the industry was largely built on dubious talents like Bryan Hyland (Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini), Herman's Hermits and, today, Miley Cyrus. Never underestimate the power of novelty; the Beatles with the kooky hairdos were initially regarded as a novelty act until their sheer talent became their real image. Indeed, the "quality" industry honchos, like Jerry Wexler of Atlantic, which released many of the R & B songs the Beatles covered, dismissed them as "derivative."
The industry has been dominated by the likes of crooked sharpies like Irving Mills, who made a made a fortune skimming profits from Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, the two leading big bands of the early '30s. Mills "symbolized the caricature of the cigar-puffing entertainment impresario." There's an amusing interaction between Mills and Hammond, polar opposites in social standing, making you wish you were a fly on the wall at that moment.
The industry's earliest years should make for great reading — this was breathtaking new territory — yet we get to 1930 (after 40 years filled with trial and error) by Page 56.
There's not nearly enough on payola (pay for airplay), which in one form or another has been the guiding principle of the record and radio industries. Thankfully, the 1990 book Hit Men, by Fredric Dannen, covers this sordid but — human nature as it is — necessary part of the business.
There are juicy bits: one advantage of Gold Star, a Los Angeles studio where Phil "Wall of Sound" Spector recorded, was its small radio transmitter, allowing producers to hear their mixes on any car radio parked outside.
The '60s, Murphy maintains (quoting Dylan), really began around 1963. He says this was when the baby boom started growing up: "Never before did pop music fit so neatly into age strata. Viewed from the demographic angle, it's easy to see why early-'60s pop was so juvenile and why it matured so rapidly throughout the decade. The sacred cow of the postwar era, the '60s was in fact the diary of a lucky generation — growing up and taking over." Nicely said but overly generalized. The devil is in the details, and there aren't enough of them in this book. I wished that Tom Wolfe of the '70s had written it, for the industry is as much about misjudgment and failure as it is about success.
The '70s were dominated by cocaine, the great ego-inflator for people whose egos were puffed seemingly from the day they were born. However, more biographical detail is needed of people like Warner head Mo Ostin, Columbia's Walter Yetnikoff, ex-Columbia and now Arista founder Clive Davis, and the Hollywood wonder boy David Geffen, a "screamer" who founded the aptly named Asylum Records for the likes of the Eagles.
The book zips along with cliché-filled prose. In one sentence, John Hammond discovered "a skyline full of stars" but "his happiest years were in the rear-view mirror." Murphy has a habit of describing successful acts with the adjective "happening," a '60s word that's clearly out of time referring to the '30s or '40s.
The last part of the book concentrates on the more scaled-down, realistic modus operandi of smaller British labels, like Island and Rough Trade, who collectively accounted for a huge portion of England's playlists. With that came problems: Island came upon the embarrassment of some difficulty paying U2.
Still, if you want a cursory and selective outline of the recording industry, Cowboys and Indies is a worthwhile read. If only the book was twice the size and the portraits of the industry's boss men were more fleshed out, it might truly be termed "epic."


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Ueli Steck, 4.10.1976–30.4.2017
We were privileged to be by Ueli's side since 2005. We saw him grow from a speed climber in the Alps to one of the best mountaineers of his time and an exceptional endurance athlete.
Ever since Ueli's 2008 record-breaking solo speed ascent of the north face of the Eiger Ueli Steck was regarded as one of climbing's most spectacular talents. In 2013 he was in the limelight after making an incredibly bold solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna (8,091 m) in 28 hours – a new record. The ascent won him the Piolet d'Or, one of climbing's most prestigious awards.
"I was at the limits of my physical and mental ability. To go to such limits changes your consciousness," Ueli said after the expedition. Climbers regard it as one of the most significant climbs in the Himalayas in a generation.
Ueli did not do things the traditional way. He wanted to climb light to be able to move fast. To him fast meant less time spent at altitude which increased safety. But Ueli was also a purist. "It's out of the question for me to use bottled oxygen," he said. "I either make the summit without it or I turn back, go home and train more."
And train he did. He was preparing for his climbs like an Olympic endurance athlete. Climbing was just one part of getting faster, being better. In fact, Ueli really fell in love with trail running and believed endurance training could be the best way for him to become even better as a mountaineer: the gains he could get by training climbing were marginal compared to the gains he could get by being in the best possible shape.
When preparing for his Everest Lhotse Traverse Ueli travelled to Khumbu Valley for high-altitude training this February. He wanted to spend time and train in high altitude to be ready for his big Himalayan challenge this spring.
And he was ready. We have never seen Ueli as confident and relaxed as he was before his travel to Everest in April. He felt that he was in the shape of his life and was really looking forward to the climbs in the highest mountains of the world.
"Working with Ueli all these years has been an inspiration; his way to see the sport, his pure way to approach the mountains and his determination in his projects pushed also us to do things better. Our long talks were filled with energy and inspiration. We have not only lost an athlete, but a friend who will always be remembered," says Joan Sola, sport and community manager at Suunto.
It was in the mountains that Ueli felt most at home. To him the north face of Eiger was as casual as a trail in the local park is for us. That is where he felt most at home.
But no matter what the route or the mountain, Steck's inspiration remained the same. "It's the challenge of moving on in life," he says. "I always want to try something I have not done before."
And that attitude of moving forward, of making progress, is what inspired us the most in Ueli. He showed us all that dreams can come true with determination and hard work.
Ueli, may your spirit forever guard others who live their dreams on the mountains. We will miss you – and your broad smile.


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John Groh was born and raised in Bergen County, NJ, in the suburbs of New York City. After two decades of dreadful Northeast winters and with a desire to experience life in a different part of the country, he moved to San Diego, CA, in the mid-1980s and attended the University of San Diego, where he majored in English.
While at USD, he developed an interest in oceanography and remained at the university after graduation, working as a researcher on a variety of projects in the field of geological oceanography, including tracking past El Niño weather occurrences and identifying marine organisms that live in and around the hydrothermal vents in the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley.
In 1992, John loaded his worldly possessions into his 1972 VW Bug convertible and embarked on his final cross-country journey back east. Soon after his return to New Jersey, he landed a job at a local newspaper as a sports editor and beat writer for the New York Giants of the National Football League. The following year, he joined insurance industry publisher A.M. Best Co. in Whitehouse Station, NJ, as an editor and writer for a number of titles.
Realizing that writing about loss control and risk management was far from his dream job, John responded to an ad about an opening for an assistant editor at The Produce News. As a vegetarian, he was intrigued at the prospect of writing about fruits and vegetables and was excited to join the company in 1995.Among the early challenges of his tenure was helping to implement an electronic desktop publishing system for the newspaper, while at the same time learning the nuances of the produce industry.
In 1997, John was promoted to managing editor of The Produce News, and with that took over the design of the front page of the newspaper, as well as the responsibility of assigning news stories and features. In 2000, he was appointed editor and associate publisher of The Produce News, and his duties were expanded to include day-to-day operations at the company. In July 2006, John was promoted to publisher of the newspaper. He retained his title and responsibilities of editor of the publication, but he now has oversight of all operations of the company.
John and his wife, Mary Anne, an attorney, live in the New York City suburb of Haworth, NJ, with their son, Zane, 16, and daughter, Skyler, 14. Most mornings have John up before the sun to get to the gym or enjoy some solitude before the mayhem of the day begins.


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Given the need to enhance or transform a large existing ABL application, one is often hampered in the task by limited or out of date documentation. This project seeks to create a tool set that will read existing ABL code and the corresponding database to build a UML model of the application. This model can then be used for analysis and potentially can serve as the basis for future changes.
This project will consist of three stages:
1. Defining a UML "Profile" for ABL so that there are appropriate UML stereotypes to express the structural realities and relationships of ABL code and the corresponding dictionary.
2. Creating a tool for loading Progress dictionary information into a UML modeling tool using these stereotypes.
3. Creating a tool which will read and analyze ABL code and then load this information into a UML modeling tool using the stereotypes of the Profile.
This work is now in production and is described in the presentation attached below which was given at the 2008 Progress Exchange conference.
The model created will be a Platform-Specific Model (PSM) in UML terms, i.e., one that is very closely tied to the specifics of the implementation and language. Once this has been accomplished, we will move on to five additional stages:
4. Creating tools to generate ABL code from the PSM so that the model can be changed and revised code generated without having to modify the source by hand.
5. Creating tools to create Platform-Independent Models (PIM) and Computation Independent Models (CIM) from the PSM so that the model can be analyzed and worked on at greater levels of abstraction.
6. Creating tools for transforming various aspects of the models to modernize the structure.
7. Creating tools for generating new PSM models with a revised architecture from the transformed CIMs and PIMs.
8. Generating code with modernized architecture from the transformed models.
These latter stages will evolve over a period of time providing immediate benefit for analysis.
See the Open Source project at The OpenEdge Hive.
See my presentation on this subject from Exchange 2008.
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Croatia is situated between the far East corners of the Alps on the North-West and the Panonian plain and the shores of Dunav on the East. The mountain chain of Dinara covers the central part of Croatia and its southern part ends on the coast of the Adriatic sea. The land is rich with natural treasures with eight National parks and eleven Nature parks.
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2. Forest-mountain region consists of Gorski kotar and Lika, characterized by high limestone hills with limestone fields and river valleys. It is the least populated part of Croatia. Mountain chains of Velebit, Kapela and Pljesevica divide this region from the coastal and Panonian region. This part of Croatia is characterized by mountain and fresh climate. Some of the larger rivers are Dobra, Gacka, Lika, Kupa and the largest lake group in Croatia – the Plitvice lakes.
3. The largest and the most populated region in Croatia is Panonia. Half of the region is made of fertile land which makes is the most important agricultural part of Croatia. This region is the key part of the country, considering its traffic and economic value, and it also comprises Zagreb-the capital. The climate is mildly continental.
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"Glee" is gaining a rival not only on TV, but also in the music department.
NBC's upcoming new series, "Smash," has inked an agreement with Columbia Records to release a soundtrack for the show, Entertainment Weekly reported. One of the show's stars, former "American Idol" contestant Katharine McPhee, is also getting a solo recording deal.
Ironically, Columbia is also the label that has put out the "Glee" albums. Rob Stringer, Columbia/Epic Label Group chairman, said in a statement: "Music is at the heart of "Smash," and with our wonderfully creative broadcast partners, we will develop innovative strategies to present this music to a huge audience."
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
According to the EW story, the "Smash" soundtrack will feature original music by Broadway talents Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman along with renditions of popular tunes. The premise of the TV show is a Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe. Co-starring with McPhee are Debra Messing and Angelica Houston.
McPhee had previously recorded several albums—her debut record went to Number Two on the Billboard charts four years ago.
Selected Readings: Entertainment Weekly, Variety


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We believe that it's better to get a few amazing recommendations than a thousand identical-looking wines, with no good way to know what you'll like.
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Our river in court
A lot of rain fell in the lower
Missouri River Basin this spring. At the same time, the upper basin states
(the Dakotas and Montana) endure a multi-year drought. They had
little snow this winter so there was no run off to fill their near-empty
reservoirs. In addition, their normal spring rains never came. Their drought
Managing river flows from the
source of the Missouri River in Montana to the Mississippi above St. Louis
and down to the Gulf of Mexico is a tricky business. About the time we
think we have a river management plan that will suit everyone, something
extraordinary happens.
Take this year for example.
After managing drought on the upper river and floods on the lower basin,
it was announced that El Niño is expected to revisit us this winter.
Its a lead pipe cinch that river flows wont be normal again
next spring.
The upper basin earthen dams
and reservoirs built 50 years ago brought great economic growth to the
Plains states. The benefits of flood control, recreation, hydroelectricity
and irrigation were instant and continuing.
Marinas sprang up on the lakes.
Fish hatcheries expanded and families came from afar to enjoy fishing
and recreation. Environmentally clean hydroelectricity spurred economic
development. Flood control saved billions in avoided damage. Irrigation
and a pure source for community water systems are considered priceless.
In addition to all that, taxpayers across the country benefit when annual
revenues from these projects flow into the federal treasury annually.
The environmental and ecological
interests as well as the agricultural, recreational, power production,
flood control and navigational interests must be fairly weighed in a comprehensive
river management plan. Through continual annual struggles, we never seem
to accomplish that.
Public meetings to discuss
and mollify the needs and wants of the varied interest groups become shouting
matches. Governors stake out positions to garner positive headlines for
themselves. Their individual state lawsuits and public statements become
self-serving. They choose not to offer their leadership to work out a
comprehensive management plan.
A recent Nebraska news story
reported that the fight over managing the flow of the Missouri River broadened
this spring when the governor of that state filed a lawsuit asking the
Corps of Engineers to release water from Montanas Fort Peck reservoir
for navigation. The governor of South Dakota filed an earlier federal
lawsuit seeking to prevent the Corps from lowering water levels on the
upper river basin until after the fish eggs have hatched!
Mark Twain wrote, The
river is a wonderful book with a new story every day. Author Twain
would probably want the folks of the Missouri River Basin to write a new
story for our book. The latest chapter would be about a comprehensive
management plan that everyone would support. The constant maligning of
our great river by the governors and the courts would mercifully end.
Will Rogers might suggest that
such an achievement was pure common sense.
Stork was executive
vice president of the Association of Missouri
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So what's the significance of having a fly-controlled robot? Apparently, the technique could be used to help track micro and nano robots, which are difficult to follow due to their high relative velocities. Although the Cyborg Fly Project is not the only bug "flight simulator", it has a unique high-speed vision component that could translate into both future biology research and industrial applications like keeping tabs on a production line. [IEEE Spectrum via Boing Boing]


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At Ravensburger Spieleland, little ones can whizz along the Fix & Foxi toboggan run at lightning speed, have a go at the giant puzzle or hurtle down the 60m waterslide in Professor Knox's turbo boats. Grown-ups can join the kids on the 400m wildwater Alpine-rafting ride in the Land of Discovery, or watch their adventures with the Bluebear Fleet in Captain Bluebear's Wonderland. The galley serves delicious food – perfect for hungry little pirates! At the circus and magic school, it's all about getting hands on. The Ravensburger company is famous for its puzzles and board games, and you can enjoy some of these in supersize format at the Kaleidoscope of Fun and Games: only here can visitors explore the aMAZEing labyrinth and enjoy splashtastic, fast-paced fun on the hippo ride. At the driving school, kids can practise the rules of the road in slow-speed electric cars and even take their 'driving test'! As well as being home to the Spieleland lake, the Interactive Land has an unmissable water park with rivers, locks, paddle wheels, pumps, spray nozzles and a real weir. A wall-less bouncy castle and the Ravensburger Puzzle Centre are recent additions. Ravensburger Spieleland has seven theme worlds in all, with more than 60 fun-packed rides and attractions!
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First IRC meeting wrapup
Work on the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 is starting to wrap up. The feedback we've received has helped us understand which issues in the license are confusing for readers. I don't think the license itself is going to see much change as a result—it would be impossible to hammer down every single one of these issues, and it's generally counterproductive to try—but we are going to try to address those concerns through other means, such as our FAQ.
As part of that process, last Thursday night the FSF Compliance Lab held an IRC meeting to discuss all things related to the GNU AGPLv3. We discussed various different issues surrounding the upcoming license—in addition to clearing up some of that confusion and answering specific questions about what the license requires, we also talked about how various groups have reacted to it, possible business models, and more. Here are a couple of excerpts:
<bcs> fjl asked: <fjl> One of the comments/questions on the posted draft was why does the AGPL not take the approach of requiring source if the program is "Performed" for the public. That seems the obvious approach to both the writer and myself. Is it because that would somehow turn it into a contract and not copyright issue?
<bcs> The issue with talking about Performance is, quite simply, that nobody has any idea what it means to "perform" a piece of software.
<bcs> I'm not sure, but I doubt that even Eben would venture a guess.
<bcs> It is appealing, because it does provide a clean solution. But it's tough to conclude that it's legally sound. We'd rather go with something that's a little more complicated, that we know works, than something that's clean but functionally ambiguous.
<thd> Eben has also said in the past that performance has little conformity of treatment in copyright law internationally.
<bcs> I'd forgotten about that, but you're right, yes, thanks.
<fjl> I had assumed it was running it, analagously to performing music from a script or libretto or whatever it's called. I thought this was somewhat legally established interpretation (IANAL, of course)
<bcs> fjl: That interpretation would make sense to me -- but I've been told that there is no legally established interpretation.
<johnsu01> NZHeretic asked, Is part of the problem that the Business sector recognize the business model usage for GPL/LGPL but not for the AGPL. Might it not be a good idea to produce some study to show where the AGPL would be truly useful to Businesses ( Keeping a commons open )?
<bcs> I doubt we need to do that. I think a few companies are going to do that for us.
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<bcs> For all we were slagging on companies earlier, there are a few who are very interested in the AGPL. Like all the companies who sell SaaS to other companies.
<_ivan> that's me :)
<bcs> Like _ivan's company, yes. :)
<bcs> And companies like SugarCRM, and Alfresco, and Zimbra. I'm not saying they're all going to adopt AGPLv3, or have even noticed it, but they are looking at this issue.
<bcs> And they have a lot of voice in today's Web 2.0 bubble. So when they start talking about how important the AGPL, or something like it, is to them, others will take notice.
Thanks to everybody who came by and participated. It went so well that we're going to go ahead and do it again, this time at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 24, in #gplv3-meeting on freenode. This will be a general question and answer session; feel free to drop by and ask any question about any GNU license, past, present, or future. We hope to see you there.


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Lenovo might be demonstrating its continued commitment to Microsoft Windows with a slate of new products scheduled to ship around Windows 8, but the China-based PC maker isn't totally closing the door on Google's Android.
In an interview yesterday with AllThingsD, Jay Parker, vice president and general manager of the company's North American consumer and small business unit, said consumers can expect to see more Lenovo devices running Google's Android operating system in the first quarter of next year.
And unlike the current Android devices Lenovo has out on the market, these products will run on the newest flavor of Android, Jelly Bean 4.1.
"We plan to continue with Android devices in the foreseeable future. We believe there's a place in the market for those kinds of devices," Parker said.
He went on to say that the Android-based products Lenovo offers generally have smaller screen sizes and start at a lower price point. "We see them as pure media-based devices, where people are going to be surfing the Internet, reading books or watching a movie and really not a heck of a lot else."
Parker declined to offer more specific details about the upcoming devices, but if Lenovo's most recent Android product launches are any indication — specifically the IdeaPad S2110, the IdeaPad A2109 and the IdeaPad A2107 — they'll likely be convertibles, with tablet-like touchscreens and tactile keyboard or dock options. The IdeaPad S2110, which I reviewed here, starts at $399 and comes with a $150 battery-packed keyboard.
For Lenovo, the Android devices have been a deviation from its usual, Windows-based PCs. Earlier today the company showed off four new convertible PCs running the upcoming Windows 8 OS: The consumer-oriented IdeaPad Yoga 13 and Yoga 11, the IdeaTab Lynx, which comes with an optional keyboard, and the business-focused ThinkPad Twist, which has a display that lifts and twists out of the keyboard, as its name would seem to imply.


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Google+ Chrome Extensions: 5 More Handy Tools
When we brought you our initial list of five useful Chrome extensions for Google+, we asked which tools you, the Mashable reader, were finding valuable on the new social networking service.
Thanks to all your comments and suggestions, both on the post itself and on Google+, we've narrowed down five more Chrome extensions that we think are worth a look.
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Yuri Diomin ([email protected]) is a president of Yuri Software, Inc., a software development firm in San Diego, California. He builds applications for several vertical industries, including address correction and geocoding tools.
"Hello World" Geocoder
To begin with, let's try to build our own, basic geocoder and figure out what it might look like. In the tradition of "Hello World" programs, it will be a bare-minimum tool, made just for the purpose of illustrating the principles.
On the input, our geocoder will take a postal address in the form of character strings. Let's say it will be Line 1 and Line 2 of a common address format, such as:
506 4th Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
On the output, it will return latitude and longitude of the location as floating point numbers. (In real life, geocoders often return a plethora of other information about the address, but we will limit ourselves to just coordinates in this example.)
The first step in implementing our geocoder is to build a database of reference addresses and their locations, usually known as the "street network dataset." In our Hello World case, the street network dataset will conveniently consist of just one record:
506 4th Ave,
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
The execution flow in our geocoder is then obvious. We simply:
- Receive the input address.
- Perform a database lookup by direct string comparison and find the corresponding reference record.
- Return the latitude and longitude from the record as the output.
Mission accomplished!
Address Matching
In real life, the process is much more complicated. As the very first obstacle, we will come across the issue of address matching.
Let's say that our input address is not in the neat form of:
506 4th Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
but rather:
506 Fourth Avenue Apt 1
Asbury Prk, New Jersey
Note the multitude of character differences between the two addresses.
Since addresses come from all sorts of sources, such as customer filled-out forms, dictation over the phone, etc., we cannot expect them to always be neatly formatted and standardized. A human looking at the two addresses above will easily see that they are one and the same. If we out either of them as a "mail to" address on a letter, we will expect the letter to be delivered without any problems. But if the computer performs a simple string comparison of the two addresses, they will not match and our geocoder will get a "miss" instead of a "hit."


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Food security linked to peace in the Sahel - FAO Director-General / Famine in the region averted but more efforts needed
ROME, Italy, December 7, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today that improving food security in the Sahel will contribute to peace and stability in the region.
He was addressing a meeting on the Sahel situation called by the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on the Sahel who is former Italian Prime Minister and EU Commission President Romano Prodi.
"Investing in food security in the Sahel is also an investment in a peaceful and more stable future," Graziano da Silva said. "There is a clear linkage between hunger and conflict; food security and peace in Africa. In the Sahel, we are seeing how food insecurity, hunger, and the dispute over natural resources causes conflicts. Hunger can both trigger conflicts and be a result of conflict. So we cannot treat food security as being separated from security and development as a whole."
Famine averted
The Director-General noted that over one billion euro has been mobilized for the Sahel by the international community this year, "and we are glad to see that famine has been averted."
But more needed to be done, he continued, adding: "It is essential to step up support and also combine short-term humanitarian responses with longer-term development actions. We need to make livelihoods more resilient. And we need to ensure that our interventions in different areas - food security and nutrition, agriculture, health, education and security - are as integrated as possible. FAO is committed to working more closely and better with you under African leadership, to promote sustainable development in the Sahel."
Graziano da Silva said he believes there is the political will to end hunger in the Sahel. "I recently returned from a trip to Niger. What I saw was encouraging. It convinced me that there is hope; that there is political will to reverse the negative trends leading to food insecurity in the region, he declared.
The Director-General welcomed Mr Prodi and his team, who met today with Special Envoys, mediators and Senior UN Officials dealing directly with the crisis in the Sahel in order to review the situation in the region and discuss how efforts in support of peace and security can be enhanced.
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The first commercial fishing openers on Yukon River salmon will come around mid-June, and with a forecast of average to above average runs of both summer and fall chums, Kwik'Pak Fisheries is optimistic about a good season.
"It looks very good for chum runs," said Jack Schultheis, general manager of Kwik'Pak Fisheries LLC, a subsidiary of the Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association, in an interview in early May. "Our markets with Yukon fish are very stable. We have preseason contracts going into the year.
Buyers in the UK (United Kingdom) take up about half of Kwik'Pak's production, so there has been some concern over who is certifying those salmon for sustainability, he noted. One of the chain stores insists that its fish must be Marine Stewardship Council certified, but the other stores will take the RFM (Responsible Fisheries Management) fish certified under the state of Alaska's sustainable fisheries management certification program, via the Alaska seafood Marketing Institute, he said. Schultheis said he was told by one buyer that for the most part the state's RFM certification is being accepted in European markets.
Kwik'Pak Fisheries, essentially a community based business formed by six local villages, employed 542 people in the region for the 2012 fisheries and had deliveries from 442 active fishing permits, Schultheis said. For the 2013 season they expect about the same, he said.
Income from the commercial fisheries allows people in this predominantly Yupik Eskimo region to continue to have the traditional lifestyle they have led for thousands of years, hunting and fishing and living off the land.
Kwik'Pak is also continuing its youth employment project, in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, which has provided some grant funding and been very supportive of the program.
Last year Alaska Commissioner of Labor Dianne Blumer attended a job fair at Emmonak, where Kwik'Pak processing facilities are based, and gave an address to youth in attendance. "It was the first time a commissioner of labor has ever been anywhere near the Lower Yukon," Schultheis said. "I was surprised someone would take that much time to come down and show the concern. The kids even commented that it wasn't a 'hurry up I have a plane to catch' event," he said.
Last year, 220 youths in the Emmonak area of the Lower Yukon found employment at Kwik'Pak during the salmon harvest season, a successful effort for all, he said. "The kids get employment and we get some really decent workers."
Kwik'Pak keeps track of these young workers, even after they've graduated from high school, he said. "I think we have 32 of them in college this year, and we go out of the way to recruit them to come back in the summer. We try to find them a job in their field of study. It's a big part of what we do out here, working with the kids."
While there is optimism for the oil-rich Yukon summer and fall chum harvests, the outlook is bleak again for the famed Yukon kings. State fisheries officials said that the Chinook salmon projection is for a run size range of 96,000 to 142,000 fish. The lower end of this range is below the run size observed in 2012.
Given a forecast of poor to below average returns of king salmon for yet another year, no commercial Chinook fishery is anticipated. Subsistence fishing on the first pulse of king salmon will be closed and based on preseason projects of a weak run, biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said that closure is likely to be extended to protect the second pulse of kings, for a closure of about 10 days.
For the 2013 season, the US/Canada Yukon River Panel agreed to continue interim management escapement goals of 42,500-55,000 Chinook salmon and 70,000-104,000 fall chum salmon, based on the Eagle sonar program. In addition, some 5,000 kings and a minimum of 10,000 fall chum salmon must cross the border to Canada to fulfill harvest-sharing commitments specified in the US/Canada Yukon River Agreement.


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FOXBOROUGH - It was great while it lasted, but even a pigheaded Patriots pigskin buff must acknowledge that the dynasty is over.
There was a time, not long ago, when there was a Patriot Way. Now the Patriots have lost their way. They are just another one-and-out playoff team, and not a likable one at that.
That black night in the desert in Glendale, Ariz., two years ago? That was it. Since the pursuit of perfection fell short in Super Bowl XLII, the Patriots have been outside the circle of NFL royalty. This is the way the late commissioner Pete Rozelle envisioned things when he pushed for parity at the exclusion of excellence. The once-great Patriots are now first-round playoff fodder.
The sixth-seeded Baltimore Ravens came to Gillette Stadium yesterday and demolished the once-unbeatable-at-home Patriots, 33-14. Foxborough's frozen fans booed with gusto as the Ravens steamrolled to a 24-0 first-quarter lead.
"I'd have been booing us, too, the way we played,'' said quarterback Tom Brady, the man who best knows that this was not a team of nobility, effort, and hard work like the teams he led in the last decade.
This was bad. It was the Winter Un-Classic. Through the golden years at Gillette the motto has been "do your job,'' but yesterday it appeared the only guys who'd done their job were the Guatemalan snow shovelers who'd been hired to de-ice the stadium. Baltimore's Ray Rice went 83 yards up the gut on the first play from scrimmage. Rice could have motored up the ramp and onto Route 1, Gump-like, before anyone touched him. The carnage was on. The Patriots succumbed to a hail of interceptions, strip sacks, misplays, and blown coverages.
Proud Vince Wilfork (13 tackles), a mountain of a man who was here in the golden days of '04, said, "They [Ravens] came in and wanted it more than us, and it showed. We got beat up and it don't feel good. We didn't come to play. We didn't play like it was a playoff game. For them to come in here and do what they did, they could basically have been playing out there with a JV football team and they probably would have given a better effort than we did.
"You saw one team come in here and play it like it was a playoff game and then you seen another club that just went out there going through the motions.''
Wilfork played with Tedy Bruschi, Richard Seymour, Mike Vrabel, Rodney Harrison, Ty Law, and Ted Johnson - true Patriots who would have shared his embarrassment had they been part of this debacle.
"We just had a different team this year,'' Brady said. "We had a lot of problems over the course of the year.''
Bingo. Things got off to a rotten start when Bill Belichick arrogantly dealt Seymour on the eve of the first game. The trade made the Patriots weaker for 2009, but fans got on board anyway because, well, there was a great draft pick coming in 2011.
The Patriots squeaked by the Bills in the opener, but it was never right. Road losses in New York and Denver brought out red flags. Then came the blown game against the Colts when Belichick went for it on fourth and 2. The Patriots never recovered. They could not beat good teams. They were blown out in New Orleans on "Monday Night Football.'' Horrible losses in Miami and Houston marked the stretch run. They coughed up big fourth-quarter leads. Team MVP Wes Welker blew out his knee in the final game of the season (Welker watched yesterday from the owner's box and probably had trouble seeing since Robert and Jonathan Kraft were in the row in front of him in their traditional lifeguard chairs). It was clear Brady was hurting all along.
Brady soldiered on, but he knew the mystique was gone. Without calling out his teammates by name, he spoke of the seismic shift. He spoke of the important elements of past champions - "mental toughness and leadership and discipline and commitment'' - and said those were things "we displayed at times and certainly didn't display at other times. I think that's something that we all reflect on, and individually, that's what we have to make more of a commitment to each other.''
It's all right there, folks. In Patriots code. From the consummate leader of this team.
Making matters worse, Rex Ryan and the hated Jets are still alive. The Patriots had hoped to be in San Diego for Round 2 next week, but now it is the Jets who'll play that game. Ouch. Wonder if the Patriots still can hire Pete Carroll before he agrees to terms with the Seahawks.
Only kidding. But this was a horrible season for the once-infallible Belichick. He shed too many defensive veterans at once. He acquired too many guys who failed to buy into the system. He triggered an international debate on the merits of punting when he curiously went for it against the Colts. He operated without any discernible plan in the finale in Houston. And yesterday, by his own admission, he was outcoached by John Harbaugh.
A raft of absolutes was shattered. Belichick and Brady had never lost a home playoff game (8-0). The Patriots were 11-1 lifetime in the playoffs at home and hadn't lost a home playoff game since 1978, when they were beaten by Wade Phillips's father. Brady had won 23 consecutive starts at Gillette. The Patriots never had lost to the Ravens (5-0).
Now all those streaks are gone. The Patriots of 2009-10 were just another 10-7 team. They were three seeds who turned into first-round frauds.
Pitchers and catchers report Feb. 18.
Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Well, friends, we made it: Tomorrow is the longest day of the year. That's right, it's all downhill from here. But there's also one important byproduct of the start of summer: Tonight is also the shortest night of the year, which opens the door for an entirely different level of revelry and indulgence.
As you're planning your wild solstice celebrations, some ideas. You can watch the World Cup or learn about its many balls and that white stuff they spray on the field. Perhaps you'll spend the weekend making new Ikea furniture from the site Ikea doesn't want to you see. You could ponder the fate of Apple TV and the future of Amazon's Fire Phone. Or perhaps even build a real fire. Wherever you are tomorrow, just don't forget to take a photo. What better way to celebrate the summertime, yo?


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As Republicans position themselves in their wrestling match with President Barack Obama on how to avert the year-end tax increases and spending cuts, their refrain has been that the president must be the one to propose cost-cutting reforms to the government's entitlement programs -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- which now account for 42 percent of all federal spending.
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US President Barack Obama (C) speaks as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta (R) listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2012.
Despite Republican protestations however, the president has not only made past proposals to curb Medicare spending but has even enacted some measures designed to do so – just not in the context of this current negotiation.
"We all know what drives federal spending is the entitlement programs and so far we've seen no proposal from the president – no meaningful proposal – when it comes to reforming entitlement programs and getting putting them on a sustainable path," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the third-ranking Senate Republican.
In a statement after meeting Thursday with Obama's fiscal cliff negotiator, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said, "To date, the administration has remained focused on raising taxes and attending campaign-style events, with no specific plans to protect Medicare and Social Security or reduce our national debt in a meaningful way."
Republican leaders say they've put revenues on the table, but are waiting on President Barack Obama to give, and offer something up on ballooning federal retirement programs like Medicare. Fortune Magazine's Carol Loomis discusses.
House Speaker John Boehner isn't insisting on specific entitlement cuts before Dec. 31. What he wants, he told reporters Thursday, is Obama's agreement on "setting up a process for entitlement reform next year."
He said that "we're willing to put revenue on the table" that is, an increase in federal tax revenues, perhaps as a result of limiting tax deductions, but "revenue was only on the table if there were serious spending cuts as part of this agreement."
To demonstrate how large the fiscal challenge is, by the end of the Congressional Budget Office's 10-year budget forecasting period in 2022, Medicare outlays will be more than $1 trillion a year. For the entire ten-year period, 2013-2022, Medicare will cost taxpayers $7.7 trillion.
But Obama has already signed into law the 2010 Affordable Care Act which includes some devices intended to curb Medicare's cost growth.
Politico Playbook: Domestic spending cuts and some cuts to Medicare north of $400B are what Republicans want in exchange for an increase in revenues, Politico's Jim VandeHei says during a discussion on a fiscal framework emerging between Democrats and Republicans.
Even though the Medicare cost-cutting mechanisms in that law are unproven so far and might have damaging effects on hospitals and thus on Medicare recipients, they are at least an effort at cost containment.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "Obamacare," includes measures to curb payments to hospitals, hospices and other providers by using a productivity benchmark, in other words by assuming that medical care providers can match productivity improvements in the broader economy.
But chief Medicare actuary Richard Foster said in 2011 that "it's doubtful that many health care providers can match or have their own productivity increased at the same rate as in the economy at-large, where you have manufacturing and other high-productivity sectors." That's because health care, Foster said, is so labor intensive.
Despite Republican demands that Obama come up with new entitlement cost-cutting ideas, the Republicans were successful in the 2010 campaign by crusading against Obamacare and especially against its Independent Payment Advisory Board, the 15-member Obama-appointed panel of outside experts. IPAB's job is to recommend ways of cutting Medicare spending which then would get fast-track consideration by Congress. The GOP attacks on IPAB were one reason Boehner has his House majority.
Since signing the ACA into law Obama has proposed another entitlement cost-curbing idea: make more affluent Medicare recipients pay more. In his Fiscal Year 2013 budget blueprint Obama proposed higher premiums and co-payments for higher-income Medicare recipients, cutting $28 billion in federal spending over ten years.
But liberal Democrats such as Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa. and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., oppose this idea, saying it would undermine popular support for Medicare among the upper-come people and lead them to opt out of the program.
"This will end Medicare as we know it," said Schwartz last spring when Republicans adopted Obama's higher premium and co-pays idea as part of the negotiations over how to offset the cost of cutting the Social Security payroll tax.
Cardin pointed out that the Medicare payroll tax applies to all earned income, unlike the Social Security payroll tax which applies only to the first $110,000 of earned income. "We ask those who make more money to pay more -- for the same benefits," Cardin explained. "Medicare benefits are comparable for all seniors, but we ask those who…have higher income to contribute more" by paying higher Medicare taxes while they're working.
Cardin argued that higher-income Americans are already paying enough for their Medicare benefits. "The more that we put these types of payment structures in place, the more that people who are well off will choose to not enter the Medicare Part B system," Cardin said. This would be "a dangerous path for us to go down."
So what Medicare cost-curbing ideas are left?
- One idea: forcing manufacturers of brand-name prescriptions drugs purchased by lower-income Medicare recipients to pay rebates to the Treasury. This idea would cut Medicare spending by about $112 billion over ten years, according to the CBO, which has warned that this might reduce drug makers' investment in research and development of new drugs.
- Another idea: Raise the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67, an idea which the CBO says would cut spending by $125 billion over 10 years, which is about one quarter of what Medicare spends in one year.
But Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warn that if the Medicare eligibility age is increased, then lower-income people would need to be protected. "Any time you talk about just raising the age... how would you deal with those individuals...who are having a great deal of difficulty even reaching the age of eligibility as it stands now," Wyden told the publication Inside Health Policy.
Then there's the Paul Ryan approach: federally subsidized insurance premiums for older people, with greater subsidies to sicker and older people. Democrats, of course, reject this and they might regard the election outcome as a repudiation of the idea.


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SHIBPUR, Bangladesh, AFP
At least 47 people were killed in a fire overnight at a towel factory in Bangladesh after the owners locked up to 900 workers inside, police and doctors said Sunday.
Up to 100 workers were reportedly being treated for burns and other injuries after the blaze in the eastern town of Shibpur, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the capital Dhaka.
Doctor Atiqur Rahman, at a hospital in the nearby town of Narsingdi, confirmed registering 47 bodies at the morgue and said another 15 injured were rushed in for treatment Saturday night.
Rahman said seven of the injured were released overnight after primary treatment and five with serious injuries were sent to a hospital in Dhaka. Only three were still at the hospital receiving medication for minor injuries, he said.
Senior district officials have gone to the scene to assess the damage and were unavailable for comment.
Police cordoned off the four-story building as hundreds of residents and wailing relatives of the victims watched firemen dampen down the gutted top floor where the fire originated, a photographer at the scene said.
The factory is one of scores at the government-run BISIC industrial park in Shibpur.
Local residents said the locked gates were forced opened immediately by rescuers to allow hundreds of screaming workers to flee.
Without the firemen's action, casualties would have been higher, they said.
Forty of the dead were women, police spokesman Mujibur Rahman told AFP, adding an investigation into the cause was underway.
In August, at least 12 people were killed in a pre-dawn fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka.
A rash of fires at the hundreds of readymade garment factories in Bangladesh recently forced the authorities to tighten workplace safety, including mandating wide staircases and emergency exits.
The garment industry, which employs more than 1.5 million people in Bangladesh, mostly female workers from poor rural families, is the country's second largest export earner.
This week the owner and manager of a South African chemicals factory where 11 workers burnt to death last week — also apparently after being locked in — appeared in court on charges of culpable homicide.


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"Saturday Night Live" opened by mocking President Obama doing whatever he can to make people sign up for Obamacare, like appearing on web show, "Between To Ferns."
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A classic British Christmas Dish , Mince pies made up of a mincemeat filling ( without the meat! ) and a soft pastry outside dusted with sugar. This version has an additional twist—a bit of cocoa for a deep, rich flavor. Try adding 2 clementines to the mincemeat ingredients to add a bit of tang!
For the pastry
- 280g plain flour
- 25g ground almonds
- 175g butter
- 85g golden caster sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tbsp whole milk
For the mincemeat
- 100g sultanas
- 100g raisins
- 100g currants
- 100g semi-dried apricots
- 50g cacao, finely grated
- 3 apples, such as russet or cox, peeled and grated
- 1 tbsp each light brown and dark brown muscovado sugar
- 1/2 tsp each ground cinnamon, grated nutmeg and mixed spice
- Zest and juice of 2 lemons or oranges
- 5 tbsp rum or Calvados or Grand Marnier or cognac
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Icing sugar, to finish
How to make Willie's chocolate mince pies
1. Prepare the pastry by putting the flour and almonds into the bowl of a food processor. Add the butter and pulse until it looks like very fine breadcrumbs.
2. Sprinkle in the sugar and add the lemon zest, egg yolk and milk and pulse until the mixture starts to clump together. Tip the mixture onto a board and gently squeeze the pastry until it comes together into a ball – add water if it feels dry. Wrap the pastry in cling film and chill for 30 minutes.
3. Heat oven to 190°C. Roll the pastry on a lightly floured surface to the thickness of few millimetres. Using a 7cm fluted cutter, cut out 24 discs and line 2 x 12 hole bun tin with them. Use a 6cm fluted cutter to cut 24 discs for the lids.
4. Make the mincemeat by putting the sultanas, raisons, currants and apricots in a food processor. Blitz until evenly chopped. Stir in the remaining ingredients.
5. Spoon 2 tsp of mincemeat into each tart, dampen the edge of the pastry bottom with water and sit a smaller pastry disc on top. Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown and cool on a wire rack. Finish with a dusting of icing sugar.