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Talk:VCS package guidelines
https:// vs git://
Could we consider a guideline to use firewall-friendly protocols when possible (e.g. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git instead of git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git)?
--Mitch feaster 14:34, 15 November 2011 (EST)
- It shouldn't be too hard to just mention that. As I haven't heard of anybody else ever bringing it up, it'd probably be enough.
- --Det (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Updating a CVS repo
I don't use cvs. How can you describe the pkgver for cvs (for pacman 4.1)?
-- Dracorp (talk) 09:31, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- CVS is not supported in pacman 4.1 like the other VCS tools. You will need to update pkgver manually until CVS support is added.
- -- Jstjohn (talk) 22:44, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
- The download example can still be found in
/usr/share/pacman/. The next version of the ABS package should update it a bit so the download happens in the prepare function where it belongs. As for pkgver, I think the generic example using date covers that, as there's not a way to get a version number from a CVS repo. Maybe a note to that effect?
- -- Scimmia (talk) 07:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
- The download example can still be found in
- That makes the most sense, but it might also be a good idea to rename the "Fallback" section to something like "Fallback / CVS" to make it more obvious even when you're just checking out the table of contents.
- Hmm, there were a number of patches submitted last month for cleaning up the prototypes, looks like none have been committed yet. I do remember a discussion (IRC maybe?) questioning the proper place for the prototypes, so maybe that's why? Looking at the patches, I was mistaken anyway; they didn't update the darcs or cvs prototypes. Simple enough, I'll send in a patch myself.
- --Scimmia (talk) 08:22, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
- I use this dirty hack:
cvs history -c -a | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort -u | tail -n 1 | sed 's|-||g"; could probably be improved.
- --Buhman (talk) 18:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
More on git pkgver()'s
I would also like to see packages use
pkgver functions like this:
git describe --always --long | sed -E 's/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
so they are more friendly to
Current behaviour using git-git as an example:
current ver:
next ver:
vercmp 220.127.116.11.g123abc 126.96.36.199.50.g123abc 1 # the first is greater than the second
Right now, the current version is actually greater than the new version, causing a downgrade. If
r is appended to the patch level (the numbers just before the
g<hex> bit), then
vercmp would order the versions correctly.
current ver:
next ver:
vercmp 1.8.2.r210.g123abc 220.127.116.11.r50.g123abc -1 # the first is less than the second
KaiSforza (talk) 20:42, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
- What about using following sed
sed 's/-/.r/; s/-g/./'it is shorter than what you proposed and seems work the same way.
- Anatolik (talk) 03:53, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
- From my experience most of the tags do not contain any dashes and simpler sed expression can be used. There are some projects that use dashes e.g.
1.2-alphaand in this case you are right - the more complicated sed expression should be used to handle it correctly.
- Anatolik (talk) 20:19, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
- From my experience most of the tags do not contain any dashes and simpler sed expression can be used. There are some projects that use dashes e.g.
- So Git makes some projects jump down from
x.x.x.x.50? Is that really intended behavior?
- --Det (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- I have the same issue with tup-gitAUR package that bumped its version from
0.6.5. previously generated version was
0.6.350.gfoobarnow it became
0.6.5that is smaller than previous. Generated version should split upstream version from
git describeversion. My vote is goes to
~delimiter proposed above. Or maybe we can use
-as delimiter?
- --Anatolik (talk) 11:43, 17 Jun 2013 (UTC)
I recent came across a way with hg to show the most recent tag, as well as the number of commits from this tag (similar to the output of
git describe.)
pkgver() { cd local_repo hg log -r . --template '{latesttag}.{latesttagdistance}.{node|short}\n' }
Please could this be included in the page.
Garyvdm (talk) 09:03, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
git pkgver: Date of last commit at the beginning of the version number for compatibility with older PKGBUILDs from AUR?
We have quite a bunch of older PKGBUILDs for -git packages in AUR which still work but which do not have a pkgver function yet. Many of these actually carry a date as version number (mostly the date of the last git commit at the time when the PKGBUILD was last updated).
When you update these scripts to use one of the two pkgver functions suggested on the wiki page, AUR helpers like packer will (in most cases) suggest that there is a newer version in AUR on every system update. My proposal to solve this problem is a pkgver function which precedes the generated version number with the date of the last git commit:
pkgver() { cd "${_pkgname}" echo $(git log -n 1 --date=short | sed -nr 's|^Date:\s+([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})$|\1\2\3|p').$(git rev-list --count HEAD).$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) }
This function is *not* intended to go into PKGBUILDs in AUR, but could be proposed as a temporary "local" fix in the wiki for the period of time until the package maintainer has found time to update his PKGBUILD in AUR.
--Hardfalcon (talk) 21:22, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
- Since it's just a local workaround, why not just hardcode a larger number in there? If you want the date of the last commit, I would suggest awk as being easier to use and to read/understand
git log -n 1 --date=short | awk '/Date/ {gsub ("-",""); print $2}'
shorten hg version
To prevent long package file name, It is proper to use this format
pkgver() { cd $_repo _id=$(hg identify -i) echo $(hg identify -n).${_id:0:4} }
--Dlin (talk) 05:30, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
pkgver() { cd local_repo _id=$(cat manifest.uuid 2>/dev/null) echo ${_id:0:4} }


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Last Sunday I made a visit to some new neighbors down the block. No specific purpose in mind, just an opportunity to touch base, sit at the kitchen table, have some tea, and chat. As I did so, it occurred to me how rare the Sunday visit has become.
When I was a kid in the New Jersey of the 1960s, Sunday visits were routine. Most stores were closed, almost nobody worked, and the highways, as a result, were not the desperate steeplechases they have become today. My family normally traveled eight city blocks to the home of my grandmother – the same house my father was raised in – where the adults would sit on the front porch in lawn chairs while we children played stickball or hide-and-seek. Every so often I'd take a breather on the stoop, where I'd pick up fragments of adult palaver and articles of wisdom.
Everything under the sun was fodder for conversation. The weather, taxes, the state of the world, the weather, food prices, the wild nature of the current crop of children, the weather. But there was also the esoteric, like the time my great-uncle Stanley, remarking upon the legacy of John F. Kennedy, noted that President McKinley's funeral had also been sad. McKinley! That one sent me scurrying to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
There were other destinations for our Sunday visits. My great-aunt Hattie, who lived in an apartment above a fruit-and-vegetable store and had a dancing parakeet named Peetie; our relatives just over the border in Pennsylvania, a clan that included 12 – count 'em, 12 – cousins; my great-grandparents who lived in a tenement near the Jersey City waterfront and spoke only Polish; and last, the holy grail of Sunday visits – my uncle Gene, the only member of our extended family who had managed to accumulate significant material wealth. He had a palatial home on a New Jersey lake – the antithesis of our small brick house scrunched in between two other small brick houses on our densely packed Jersey City street. Sunday visits to Uncle Gene meant unlimited swimming, fishing, and toad-hunting – nirvana for a city kid.
The Sunday visit was something to aspire to. It was the encore to church, our reward for an hour of piety, an opportunity to take advantage of the fact that Dad was not at work, we were not in school, and there were no chores or errands that couldn't wait until Monday. Sunday was, indeed, different from all the other days of the week, because everyone seemed to be on the same schedule, which means that there was one day when everyone seemed to have time for everybody else.
Sunday as a day of rest is, or was, so deeply rooted in the culture that it's astounding to consider that, in a short span of time, it has almost entirely lost this association. In my childhood, it was assumed that everyone would either be home or visiting someone else's home on Sunday. But now the operative question is, "What do you plan to DO this Sunday?" The answer can range from going to the mall to participating in a road race to jetting to Montreal for lunch. If one were to respond, "I'm making a Sunday visit to family," such an answer would feel sepia-toned, an echo from another era.
I suppose I should be grateful to live in Maine, a state of small towns, abundant land, and tight relationships. Even though folks work as hard here as they do anywhere else, the state's powerfully rural cast still harbors at least remnants of the ethic of yesterday's America, where people had to depend on one another in the face of economic vagaries and a challenging environment.
How important is the Sunday visit here in Maine? Let me illustrate by way of example. A while back a few of us adults with our children traveled to the small-town home of an elderly woman – the mother of one of the parents in our group – who had lived in that house her whole life. We had tea and cupcakes while the kids did somersaults in the front yard. Our hostess seemed genuinely thrilled to have us. So thrilled, in fact, that it made the morning paper, under COMMUNITY COMMENTS: "M__ had Bangor guests for a Sunday visit. They had tea and cupcakes, and chatted."
I clipped that little statement, but have since lost it. But I know how to get another one. I just have to wait until Sunday to make my move.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — "The perfect time to tell this story is after we win the Super Bowl this year."
Instead, Peyton Manning was telling it after a training camp practice. Uncertainty visited his career for the first time last season, the faint scar on the back of his neck mapping the detour from the smooth path he had followed since high school, the one that made him the biggest, most surreal free agent in football history earlier this year. He has landed here, in the unfamiliar shadows of mountains he has no time to appreciate, in a new offense whose terminology he is still learning, making jokes about how he feels a little like a rookie but is not allowed to play like one. He does not know what to expect when the Denver Broncos open the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday, let alone four months from now.
So Manning wants to tell his Denver story now, the one that — if the Broncos wind up in New Orleans in February as Manning hopes — will wrap his own recovery, and the Broncos' big bet on it, in a neat bow.
"The first pass I threw in Denver was to Helton," Manning said of his former college teammate, Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton. Helton had invited Manning to use the Rockies' facilities during the N.F.L. lockout last year, when Manning was without access to the kind of equipment and guidance he needed after such a serious injury.
Manning was not just frustrated that he had been cut off from the people in Indianapolis who knew his body best. He was also craving privacy. His arm had lost strength, his grip was soft, his triceps had withered after one of his earlier neck operations. It had all left him oddly vulnerable and isolated.Continue reading the main story
"I did not want people seeing me," he said. "It becomes a private, sensitive deal."
So last summer, before the Colts could finally get a look at him — before even they fully realized his condition — Manning worked in secret with Rockies trainers, in hopes of avoiding the September operation that ultimately cost him the 2011 season. In June, he, a trainer and Helton went to the indoor batting cages at Coors Field. Millions of people have marveled over Manning's passes. This one to Helton, though, Manning wanted hidden from view.
"It was not good; he actually thought I was joking when I threw it to him," Manning said. "The ball nose-dived. He was like 'That's funny.' I was like 'You don't understand. I'm telling you.' "
Manning was leaning against a fence, still wiping away the sweat from his latest practice. He can laugh about that pass to Helton now, just as he did a few months later when, after a throwing session in which he tried to convince the Colts and himself that he was healthy enough to play in the season opener last September, he was told he looked like Chad Pennington, the former Jets and Dolphins quarterback whose lack of arm strength was often dissected.
A few days later, a magnetic resonance imaging test revealed that Manning would need spinal fusion surgery. The doctors told him then that at his age, they could not guarantee he would be able to return to playing football. That is the moment that set in motion the collapse of the Colts' season, Manning's wrenching departure from Indianapolis, the whirlwind free agency, the still-startling sight of him in a different jersey.
For all the upheaval, much about Manning has not changed. His new coaches and teammates attest to his exacting nature, to his famous attention to detail, to how all players raise their games around him.
He spent time at a recent practice working on the side with Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas, the Broncos' top receivers. They ran the same route over and over, with Manning directing them, so they could learn one another's idiosyncrasies, just as he used to do with receivers in Indianapolis.
Manning is careful, though, not to refer to the Colts or the teammates he had in Indianapolis by name, saying he has stopped using comparisons. And he bristles at the remarkable scrutiny, the charting of seven-on-seven periods, he has attracted during practices. He is still using practice to figure out the contours of what he is able to do again, before he has to do it in a game, he explains.
But Manning is not obtuse. He knows everybody in the N.F.L. is looking for markers of his progress. Manning was looking for it, too.
The Broncos are convinced they have seen enough. The offensive coordinator Mike McCoy said that from the day Manning arrived in Denver, other than monitoring the number of throws he makes, the Broncos have not held him back from anything. McCoy has never even asked Manning the one question all the armchair quarterbacks want answered: what percentage are you?
John Elway, the Broncos' executive vice president for football operations, who wooed Manning to Denver, said he looked at film of Manning in 2009 and 2010 and did not see much of a difference from the way he threw then to how he throws now. Elway was satisfied with the Manning he first saw at Duke, where Manning worked out after he was released by the Colts, and the Manning he sees now has improved tremendously from then, much faster than Elway expected.
Elway looks at the throws Manning makes when his feet are not set. Those are the ones that convince him Manning's arm is back.
"I didn't know what 100 percent of Peyton Manning was," Elway said. "I just know, knowing what I've seen, he can win a world championship."
Maybe so. Manning was watching film one day in Denver, and finally found what he was looking for. It was a long pass, a comebacker from Manning on the right hash mark to Decker on the left side. It was, Manning recalls, "a pretty healthy throw."
He took a video of the play with his cellphone and sent it off, a digital thank you note — "Hey, I just want to thank you for all your help," he added — to the doctors in Indianapolis, to the former Colts coach Jim Caldwell and the team's former general manager Bill Polian and a handful of others.
There were many people who saw Manning at his lowest physical state — he threw with his wife, Ashley, at one point, and with his brother Eli last summer in New Orleans, when Eli could see that Peyton could not complete his throwing motion. The video went to David Cutcliffe, Manning's coach at Tennessee who now runs the Duke program.
Manning stayed at Cutcliffe's home, and worked with him at Duke consistently after the spinal fusion surgery. It went to the trainers in Indianapolis, one of whom Manning turned into a makeshift quarterback coach.
That was an awkward time that Manning describes as being in "no man's world" — with the Colts coaches having to work on their game plans and Manning unable to practice. Manning could not lift weights for months, and most of his rehabilitation took place on the field, not in the training room.
"I'm yelling at him, 'No, you're not doing it right, this is what a quarterback coach is supposed to do,' " Manning said. "He's like, 'I'm a physical therapist.' "
Manning thinks that even his current coaches and teammates do not realize how significant it was for him to take the field against the Chicago Bears in the first preseason game. It was a small step of success in a season in which personal success may be difficult to quantify. He smiles when he mentions that Ashley was able to take their son, Marshall, now almost 18 months old, to the game to see him play for the first time. And he was touched when he received a text message after the Chicago game from Steve Spagnuolo, the Saints' defensive coordinator who held the same role with the Giants: "Nice to see you back out on the field."
Manning wanted to send the video right away to the community of people who helped him because he does not know how good he or the Broncos will be against the Steelers.
"It doesn't mean by any means that I'm back," Manning said. "I really defend against people saying 'He's back.' I feel like I've got to right that wrong. I still have work to do. I'm not sure if I'll ever be, if I'll ever know the answer. It might be when I stop playing, I'll say 'You know what, this is where I got to.' "
That looks to be plenty far. During a recent practice, Manning easily completed short touch passes into the left corner of the end zone and 25-yard go routes down the right sideline.
Tom Moore, Manning's offensive coordinator, visited him at Duke and again in Denver, observing him in the no-huddle offense and a two-minute drill, and noted that he played with his usual rhythm and speed. Polian has watched tape of him and sees none of the shortcomings in velocity or accuracy to his right side that others have divined.
Much has been made about whether Manning has lost the top-end velocity off his throws. That may be irrelevant because his game was never about having the biggest arm. In the days before the Colts played the Saints in the 2010 Super Bowl, Manning said that he developed his well-documented thirst for film study because he knew early on that he would not be able to run away from defenders "or throw through three guys." His goal was to know where everyone else on the field would be.
Manning's accuracy was particularly unerring in the third preseason game against San Francisco, when the first-team offense scored 17 points in less than one quarter. He completed 10 of 12 passes for 122 yards and took the kind of hit he will undoubtedly take during the season — a hard one to his upper chest near his right shoulder — as he put the perfect touch on a 38-yard completion down the right sideline. He drilled a 10-yard touchdown pass to Decker.
He looked very much like the Manning of Indianapolis vintage. Asked afterward if it was ridiculous for anyone to now question his ability coming off the surgery, he replied flatly, "Yes."
"To me, it's like he hasn't missed a beat," said Brandon Stokley, who played four seasons with Manning in Indianapolis and worked out with him at Duke before joining the Broncos. "Not his attitude or his drive or his will. That's why he's been able to play so well for so long. It's always full speed ahead when it comes to football. I've never seen him not do that. That's workouts, off-season, on the football field, in practice.
"In that aspect, I knew that would always be there. I knew from throwing with him early in the off-season. It seemed like every time we threw, he got better."
With little doubt remaining about his physical readiness, a question that lingers is how quickly Manning and his new team can come together. The Colts operated largely out of a no-huddle with Manning directing plays at the line of scrimmage. The Broncos are likely to huddle more often. But the backbone of the Colts' offensive success was Manning's ability to play fast, to know that the receivers knew where to go, that the offensive line coach had told his unit the correct thing to do. That came from years of having the same coaches and players together.
Polian expects that it will take about half the season for Manning and his receivers to be entirely in sync — a half of a season that includes six of the first eight games against playoff teams.
Manning has compared being sidelined to punishment, like watching other children go to recess while he had to stay inside and write "I will not interrupt the teacher" 50 times on the chalkboard. He was excited just to be able to go on the field with no restrictions. But even Manning concedes that he is not as prepared for the start of the season as he was in Indianapolis.
"Absolutely not," he said. "No way it's possible when you have new coaches, new players, a new offense. It's been energizing to be back on the field, but it's very challenging with all the changes. It's not comfortable all the time."
That may not matter, given that it is coming from the game's most obsessive preparer. After one practice this summer, Decker said he had never seen anyone else demand so much of himself or his teammates, and that has raised expectations within a team that made the playoffs at 8-8 last season.
Manning is reminded every day that he is not where he wants to be. He continues to rehabilitate, and he does not expect that to end any time soon, especially because he is now 36. The player who, until last September, had missed just one professional snap because of injury — a broken jaw, and he was not happy about missing that one play either — is now in the business of maintaining a body that has already betrayed him once. His contract is structured so if his health deteriorates by the end of the season, he could be cut loose after only one year.
"I'd like to be the player that everybody thinks they are used to seeing," he said. "I want to be the player that they're used to seeing. Is that possible? I'm going to work hard to be best player I can be. You've got to fight carrying that burden."
Still, Manning and the Broncos have already won in at least one important way. More than a year of grueling work and crushing disappointment removed from the first pass he threw in Denver, nobody would want to hide the next one he throws.
"I'm not sure if the release is the same; I'm not sure where I am," Manning said. "I still have work to do. But I know I can throw it a lot better than that day."Continue reading the main story


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Hi guys, i just got a new to me cb650 in a cb500 frame for the princely sum of 750 dollars! I am not currently located with the bike as I am away with work for a bit longer. Currently I know the rough year of the motor 79-82 due tothe engine number (RC031 or 'I'-1000683) if anyone has any more info on the year that would be greatly appreciated. It is also running the comstar wheels with a dual front disc, which I understand is only available on the sc?
The bike is going to be my project to turn into a simple tracker/brat.
I have a new wiring loom ready to go in once I have checked my reg/rec and charging system. I want to put in an antigravity battery as I want something small and reliable because hopefully this will be my daily so reliable is a must.
New handle bars, indicators, front brake rebuild on inspection, bar ends,grips and tyres. Hopefully this should take the bike to a registerable level on the addition of a 4-1 exhaust.
So here are the questions. Beyond carb cleaning, checking valves and generall cleaning up the bike are there are other things I should look at that I am forgetting, any pitfalls I might not be aware of? and is a 4-1 system from Cone engineering a good option or are there comparable systems for less moneys?
I will post pics as soon as I can in a thread on the build board. Thanks guys.
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Outlook good for U.S. rice to Cuba
Feb 3, 2009 9:58 AM, By Bruce Shultz
LSU AgCenter
The Obama administration could restore full trade with Cuba, the
president of the USA Rice Federation said at the annual joint meeting of
the Louisiana Rice Council and the Louisiana Rice Growers Association.
"The stars are finally aligned in favor of Cuba," said Betsy Ward. She
said efforts are under way to change payment requirements for Cuban rice
purchases. Free trade agreements are also pending for Colombia, Panama
and Korea and those could work in favor of U.S. rice producers.
Jim Guinn, USA Rice vice president for trade, said Cuba has the
potential to purchase 600,000 metric tons of rice. The largest sale of
rice to Cuba in recent years under restrictive trade terms totaled
175,000 tons in 2004. However, Cuba has yet to recover after a series of
devastating hurricanes last year, and that has limited the island
nation's spending ability.
Guinn also said the Jazzman rice variety developed by the LSU AgCenter's
Rice Research Station will provide competition for imported Thai Jasmine
rice which makes up 65 percent of the rice imported into the United
States. "This new variety is an important development," Guinn said.
Daryll Ray, director of the Agriculture Policy Analysis Center at the
University of Tennessee, said overproduction should be expected from
farmers worldwide in the next few years. Brazil has tremendous capacity
to increase farm acreage by as much as 300 million acres and Ukraine
could return to its earlier production levels.
"Expecting trade to deliver U.S. agriculture to the promised land of
unending prosperity with no government intervention is asking too much,"
Ray said.
Also at the meeting, Mike Strain, commissioner of the Louisiana
Department of Agriculture and Forestry, claimed pending state budget
cuts could cripple the LSU AgCenter. "We must make sure we find the
money for the AgCenter," Strain said. "Research and Extension allow us
to continue farming."
Strain also said the federal stimulus bill has a provision for $54
million in community development block grants. Most of that would be for
low-interest loans for farm production. "The whole idea is to get our
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Earlier this year, the German manufacturer announced plans to build a factory in Ontario following a contract with developer WPD Canada. The plant will enable Repower to meet the 50% local content requirement under the province's feed-in tariff (FIT) programme.
WPD Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's WPD, has FIT contracts for six wind projects in Ontario totalling 105MW.
Repower's Ontario manufacturing facility will initially employ 175 people, the company said, with the potential for that to increase as the business grows.
However, the announcment comes as the company is set to make job cuts throughout the remainder of its operations. Last week, Repower said it would be cutting 750 jobs by the end of the year.


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UNESCO and Media
UNESCO believes that the access to information and the comprehension of facts are fundamental for social transformations to happen. It is not enough to act, but also to show how the action happened and what its consequences were. The broad dissemination of studies and documents has always been considered fundamental to the Organization as a way to act and to position itself in its work in favour of peace among populations of the world.
Objective and transparent information dissemination of UNESCO actions in Brazil constitute the main ax of work developed by Communication Unit in the office. The Unit's strategy is simple: to disseminate the actions in the most detailed way as possible in order to reach the involved actors and decision makers. It also intends to answer to all media professionals the most promptly as possible.
Know more about UNESCO actions in Brazil through detailed dissemination of information: news, press releases, interviews, articles, and newsletter, as well as public manifestations of UNESCO Brasilia Office director.
Media Advisory Contacts in Brazil
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- Journalist
- Unit of Communications, Public Information and Publications
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This video features residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, plus environmental journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and scientist John Holdren, exploring the human impacts of global climate change.
In this hands-on activity, students examine how the orientation of a photovoltaic (PV) panel -- relative to the position of the sun -- affects the energy-efficiency of the panel.
Students investigate how sea levels might rise when ice sheets and ice caps melt. By constructing a pair of models, students can observe the effects of ice melt in two different situations.
This video profiles glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and his research into tropical mountain glaciers as a way to understand climate history. Beginning in the 1970s, Thompson recognized that tropical ice cores contain information relating to tropical climate phenomena, including El NiÃo events and monsoons. These phenomena are not archived in ice from polar regions. Thompson explains that his archive of ice cores is full of clues that, taken together with records collected from around the world, can help scientists create a timeline that tells Earth's climate story.
This multi-part activity introduces users to normal seasonal sea surface temperature (SST) variation as well as extreme variation, as in the case of El NiÃo and La NiÃa events, in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Via a THREDDS server, users learn how to download seasonal SST data for the years 1982 to 1998. Using a geographic information system (GIS), they visualize and analyze that data, looking for the tell-tale SST signature of El NiÃo and La NiÃa events that occurred during that time period. At the end, students analyze a season of their own choosing to determine if an El NiÃo or La NiÃa SST pattern emerged in that year's data.
This poster, viewable online, highlights some of the impacts of a global-average temperature rise of 4 degrees C above the pre-industrial age climate.
Learners research the effects of melting sea ice in the Bering Sea Ecosystem. They create research proposals to earn a place on the scientific research vessel Healy and present their findings and proposals to a Research Board committee.
This activity uses a mix of multimedia resources and hands-on activities to support a storyline of investigation into melting sea and land ice.
In this activity, students compare countries and nation states with high- and low-energy consumption rates within a specific region of the world. Students are encouraged to draw linkages between a country's energy culture and its position in multilateral climate negotiations.
This short video clip summarizes NOAA's annual State of the Climate Report for 2009. It presents a comprehensive summary of Earth's climate in 2009 and establishes the last decade as the warmest on record. Reduced extent of Arctic sea ice, glacier volume, and snow cover reflect the effects of rising global temperature.


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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Foreign Ministry says it has contacted U.S. authorities over their decision to deny a German author entry to the United States.
Ilija Trojanow says he was refused permission to board a flight from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, to Miami on Monday without explanation. He told the Spiegel Online website that the denial of entry might be linked to his criticism of the U.S. National Security Agency.
Trojanow was one of several prominent German authors who signed an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to take a firm stance against the mass online surveillance allegedly conducted by the NSA.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said Wednesday that German diplomats had contacted their American counterparts "to resolve this issue."
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City launches online survey about technology use
Survey covers Internet, cable, mobile, computer skills and city services
SEATTLE - The City of Seattle is asking residents to visit www.seattle.gov/tech before April 19 to fill out a survey about their use of technology and preferences in receiving City information and engaging with local government and community.
The survey, available in English and Spanish, covers Internet, cable TV customer satisfaction, social media, and cell phones. For the first time, the City is also asking about interest in high speed Internet services. Internet users are also encouraged to help their non-Internet friends and family complete the survey, which also asks about cost and other barriers to using computers and the Internet. For those without a computer at home, the City offers public access to computers at libraries, Neighborhood Service Centers and some community centers (See www.seattle.gov/tech/freeaccess.htm or call 206-386-9759).
"We want to ensure all residents have access to next generation technologies and the skills to use them," said Mayor Mike McGinn. "This survey provides us with current data on how residents use the Internet and social media. The results will help us offer more choices for residents wanting to communicate with government."
"The technology survey helps the City develop inclusive and forward thinking policies to help bridge the digital divide. We want to make sure all residents have access to tools to increase their technology skills in the job market, all socio-economic backgrounds are able to communicate with the City, and a world-class high-speed Internet infrastructure to meet the needs of our residents and businesses," said Councilmember Bruce Harrell, chair of the Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology committee.
Answers from the Technology Indicators Survey will help shape City strategies on digital inclusion, cable refranchising, the city web site, Seattle Channel and public outreach and engagement. The online survey results will add to a random telephone phone survey currently underway and a series of focus groups in multiple languages. The City expects to publish the results of the surveys this summer. Past results have been used in decisions about the Technology Matching Fund grant program, and in outreach for neighborhood planning, utility assistance and health education programs.
The Information Technology Indicators Project is part of the City's larger effort to increase broadband deployment and adoption, and to ensure that residents have the technology access and training needed for full participation (see more at www.seattle.gov/tech).
Since 2000, the Indicators Project has been measuring residents' use of computers, broadband, electronic government services and online civic participation, as well as cable customer needs and concerns about using technology. It is managed by the Community Technology Program in the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) with assistance from the City's Citizens Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB).
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Study questions benefit of vitamin D for asthma sufferers
Giving people with asthma and low vitamin D levels extra doses of the vitamin doesn't do much to help their lungs, a new study suggests.
Previous research had linked low vitamin D levels to more asthma-related problems, like weaker lungs and more asthma exacerbations.
But it wasn't clear if vitamin deficiencies were causing those problems, or if giving patients extra vitamin D was the answer.
Lead author Dr. Mario Castro from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, said as many as two-thirds of his asthma patients are lacking in vitamin D.
"Our thought was that vitamin D would potentially make . . . the standard therapy, inhaled corticosteroids, work better in these patients, and that it would reduce their asthma exacerbations," he told Reuters Health.
To test that theory, the researchers studied just over 400 adults with asthma and low vitamin D levels. They randomly assigned half of the participants to take vitamin D3 supplements every day, and the other half to take a vitamin-free placebo pill.
All of the patients also took corticosteroids to help keep their asthma in check.
Over the next six months, Castro and his team tracked so-called treatment failures - the times patients were sent to the emergency room or hospitalized for asthma, had declines in lung function or had to increase their use of asthma medication.
They found between one-quarter and one-third of participants in both the vitamin D and placebo groups had a treatment failure during the study. The only benefit linked to vitamin D was that patients in the vitamin group needed slightly lower doses of corticosteroids to control their asthma.
When the researchers looked only at patients whose vitamin D levels significantly improved from the supplements, they found benefits in some areas compared to the placebo group - such as fewer patients with an asthma exacerbation - but not in other areas.
The findings don't support using vitamin D as a general treatment strategy for people struggling with asthma symptoms, the authors write in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They also presented their results Sunday at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego.
Castro said he thinks it is still appropriate to treat some asthma patients with vitamin D while more research is being conducted. He prescribes it to people with low vitamin D levels who also have uncontrolled asthma symptoms, and monitors them to make sure their levels come up.
"I think there may be some benefit, and vitamin D is inexpensive and has (minimal) side effects," he said.
Vitamin D3 supplements cost a few dollars per month for the dose used for most of the study, about 4,000 international units.
Dr. Ken Kunisaki from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis said there are still some questions, such as what is a big enough dose of vitamin D to give people who are deficient.
But he said that in general, the new findings were "disappointing."
Regarding the role of vitamin D in asthma, "It's been a fairly consistent story from the observational studies," Kunisaki, who specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine, told Reuters Health.
Those studies relied on measuring people's vitamin D levels and asthma symptoms, rather than instructing some patients to take extra vitamin D. In observational studies, it's possible another underlying factor could explain the link between low vitamin D and asthma-related problems, he said.
"It goes to show why we do randomized clinical trials," said Kunisaki, who wasn't involved in the new research.
"This study would say that at least in this population, there's no role for routinely looking at vitamin D levels, at least for asthma-control purposes," he concluded.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the asthma medications used were provided free of charge by their manufacturer, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals.


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'Onion' debacle is just one example of bad-taste tweets
A tweet aimed at Quevenzhane Wallis, 9, at the Oscars was just wrong. Here's a roundup of some other tweets that have caused a fuss.
The temptation of Twitter can at times bring out the worst in people, and Sunday night was no exception, when satirical publication The Onion posted a profane tweet aimed at 9-year-old Oscar hopeful Quevenzhané Wallis.
The Onion has since issued an apology, but here's a roundup of some other tweets that have riled and raised eyebrows — remember, there is no accounting for taste:
"You already own you. Now go… Earn the power. Earn the Truth. Earn the most important component in this entire dimension, your self c" — @charliesheen weighs in from the annals of the nonsensical.
"All impacted by #Sandy, stay safe! We'll be doing lots of Gap.com shopping today. How about you? — @Gap puts on the hard sell as Hurricane Sandy prepared to wreak devastation on the East Coast late last year.
"WHY is everyone in SUCH a panic about hurricane (I'm calling it Sally)..? Stop projecting negativity! Think positive and pray for peace." @lindsaylohan,before the storm. Superstorm Sandy eventually cost the state of New York billions to recover.
"Good morning shooters. Happy Friday! Weekend plans?" @NRA_Rifleman the morning after the fatal mass shooting in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last summer.
"How did fat lady who fell thru street get to 400 lbs? Welfare, stamps etc? Then leave us all with 20 yrs immense health bills. — @rupertmurdoch, CEO of News Corp., shows his social conscience in response to an article about a woman who fell through a sidewalk in New York City. He later apologized, kind of.
"Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo-KC" — @KennethCole gets political about events in Egypt. The firm later said it was sorry and had not intended to make light of events.
(Cole also has the non-Twitter distinction of saying to the New York Daily News after 9/11: "Important moments like this are a time to reflect ... To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.")
Facebook, too, has hosted plenty of gaffes, including this:
"May is Mental Health Month ... or so the SHADOWY CONSPIRATORS WHO CONTROL THE WORLD would have you believe. — from 7-Eleven's in 2011.
What are some of your favorite instances of complete and utter Twitter fail? Tell us at @usatoday or @khjelmgaard


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Altobridge conjures up instant GSM networking
Get me GSM in here: stat
Need a GSM network in a hurry? Altobridge can provide a GSM cell, for use with standard handsets and connected over satellite, within five minutes.
The Remote Contiguous Communications Unit is designed for emergency deployment in disaster areas. It's a suitcase-sized base station that can be powered from a vehicle or small generator, and connect up to 7 simultaneous users for voice and GPRS; multiple units can be deployed for greater connectivity or coverage.
The coverage area is not extensive, stretching a hundred yards at best. A folding tripod antenna can be added to increase the range to a kilometre or two, and careful placement could increase that further.
But this is intended as a first-responder emergency system: providing connectivity using standard GSM handsets in situations where good civilian communications might be a matter of life and death.
Requiring no special skills to set up or configure it can literally be up and running within five minutes, providing connectivity to the disconnected. ®


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Let's Celebrate
by Mandy Coe
the moments
where nothing happens
The moments
that fill our lives.
Not the field bright with poppies, but
the times you walked, seeing
no leaves, no sky, only one foot
after another.
We are sleeping
(it's not midnight and
there is no dream).
We enter a room - no one is in it.
We run a tap,
queue to buy a stamp.
These are the straw moments
that give substance
to our astonishments;
moments the homesick dream of;
the bereaved, the diagnosed.
These days I spend a lot of time thinking about this concept of the moments before; the moments before tremendous loss or some unforeseen, forever kind of change - the moments before our stories, our lives, are irreversibly altered. One moment we're living our normal, quiet lives - tucking our kids into bed, answering a phone call from a friend, cleaning up from a long, busy day, and the next moment we're staring at impossible, heartbreaking change.
In the past two months our family has experienced a lot of changes. Sela was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes the week before Christmas, and we also learned that our new baby (a girl!) will most likely be born with club feet. Our life looks and feels so very different than it did just a few short weeks ago, and we are all different people than we were in those moments before. As awful as it was to learn of Sela's diagnosis and to spend 3 days in Primary Children's Hospital, there were so many tender, sweet moments that I will never forget. Curling my pregnant body around her tiny body as we shared a hospital bed, I marveled at the strength of her spirit and the bravery and insight she showed during those early, difficult days. Given the chance to better know my daughter and see her ability to accept and do hard, hard things, is a gift - a gift I couldn't have received in any other way.
I think the greatest gift we have is knowing that Sela will live a happy, healthy, and normal life, and that our baby girl will have perfect, fully functioning feet with just a little extra attention, planning, and the right medical care. I saw many families in the time we spent at the hospital whose stories and journeys are far more difficult and lengthy than ours will ever be, fingers crossed.
I guess the reason behind sharing this with all of you is that I am looking for people to talk to about these new changes in our lives. I would love to hear or read real-life stories of babies born with club feet, and to have a chance to talk to moms who have made it through. Also, if any of you know a cute, diabetic, five year-old girl, could you send her our way? Sela is desperate for a diabetes buddy to talk and play with. :)
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- January 13, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Tawny said...
I have a lovely friend named Becca whose son was born with 2 club feet. He is almost 3 and you would never know. I will send her here and have her drop you a line.
I don't know any 5 year olds, but I have a really cool, Diabetic, 14 year old student who would, I bet, be a super awesome pen-pal!
- January 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- *rOcKiN rIcHiNs* said...
Those are some major changes. It must feel heavy. I truly feel for you. Your words are perfect.
I agree, Primary Children's has this way of putting things in perspective, doesn't it :) I never leave feeling sorry for myself...
- January 13, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Candace said...
Darn it Rachel, I had no idea all this was going on. Good luck with everything. Candacde
- January 16, 2012 at 1:35 PM
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Hi this is Becca damron tawny's friend. My son was born with club feet and I would love to talk to you. My email is email@example.com or just give me a call. It will all be ok though! 435-201-1738! It's hard but totally fixable and it's over before you know it.
- January 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Just wanted to check in on you.Life is full these days. What an opportunity to grow when you didn't even know that you needed to! Today is the 9 month mark. I had a day with Bri last week and we drove all around after an Endowment session at the temple. WE ate choc croissants at Pain de Quotidien and drank dark hot chocolate. WE window shopped at all her favorite haunts. Then I had to say goodbye and busy my life with the usual things. It felt great to be with her again.It just takes time to find a new rhythm.Beth
- January 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- kaelee said...
You are a strong woman.
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- Freehand sketch a largish heart lightly in pencil. Slightly wonky is charming. Lightly sketch initials and hearts inside. Or you can use your computer to draw it/type it, but print it backwards on your paper since you won't be able to erase your sketch lines.
- Use Xacto blade to cut out letterforms and hearts. Keep any counters you cut out (like those pieces in the middles of Os and As).
- Erase your sketch lines if you did it in pencil.
- Use hole punches to add interest. I used 1/4 and 1/8 inch in clusters.
- Cut out large heart with scallop scissors and glue to a colored piece of cardstock. Glue on the missing counters, or leave them off for a more Rob Ryan feel.
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valentiney things, a retrospective
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The 'You'll Do' card is still my all-time favorite valentine. Thanks for that. :)ReplyDelete
I agree with Xenia. I can just imagine your facial expression when saying it, too. Guess I should start thinking about Valentine's day.ReplyDelete
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- See the Advancement Policies and Category:Boy Scout requirements for much more.
- Boy Scout Joining Requirements (Scout Award)
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- Lifesaving and Meritorious Action Awards
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Golden State Coach Mark Jackson Fined $25,000
OAKLAND, Calif. - Golden State coach Mark Jackson was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for making public comments in an attempt to influence the officiating in the Warriors' playoff series with Denver.
After Golden State's 107-100 loss at Denver on Tuesday night, Jackson repeatedly mentioned Kenneth Faried's foul in the first half, when the Denver forward stuck out his right leg and moved his body while Warriors star Stephen Curry ran through traffic.
"They tried to send hit men at Steph," Jackson said. "There were some dirty plays early."
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The knives are out for Apple now.
Actually, it's more like the chainsaws are out for Apple.
David Sobotta, a former Apple sales executive, is unloading on CEO Tim Cook, tearing him apart in an interview with ReadWrite.
"Well, for starters, Cook is not a people person," Sobotta writes to RW's Dan Lyons. "He certainly will not stand behind someone if the going gets rough. He is not that kind of guy. I sense no personal loyalty in him, and I suspect employees already understand that."
It gets worse: "Technology-wise, I think Tim Cook is a lightweight. I never felt passion for technology from Tim like I did from Steve and some of the great engineers."
This is all pretty brutal, but we have to consider the source on it. Sobotta stopped working at Apple in 2004. He never reported directly to Cook.
And, while Lyons says Sobotta doesn't have an axe to grind, he also reports Sobotta recently had a nasty interaction with Apple. Sobotta wrote a memoir about his twenty years at Apple. Before publishing the memoir, he gave Apple a heads up. Apple sent him a legal letter that, according to Lyons, made him "extremely upset."
On the other hand, Sobotta seems to be positive on Cook at his blog, Applepeels. In April, he wrote, "Tim Cook might be the person who finally turns Apple into an adult company," and, "My experience with Tim Cook showed me someone who is willing to tinker with things until he gets them right."
That's a far cry from quotes like this that he sent to Lyons: "I don't think he relates well to people. Based on some of the people he has stuck with, I think he is poor judge of character," and "He is not a warm guy nor is he the type to go wandering the halls or Caffe Mac to find out what is happening. His preference is to tinker with spreadsheets and numbers. He is not a natural leader. He's a manager."
Again, this guy has been removed from Apple for eight years. And it's been an incredible eight years for Apple. So, clearly Tim Cook knows how to do some things right.
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Toward Integrative Science: Organizing Biodiversity and Neuroscience Data
Melissa H. Cragin is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820. She can be reached at 217-244-0866 or by e-mail: email@example.com.
The 1999 OECD report on biological informatics brought the biodiversity and neuroscience fields together into a single framework to describe needs and barriers to global information access. These two fields share a common orientation, focused on finding and identifying objects, naming new organisms and structures, and discovering and describing the relationships between them. The need for integrative science in the biodiversity and neuroscience fields has real consequences, and many important questions will only be addressed by integrating data from many and varied sources. Often such integration will mean connecting data derived from different levels of analysis, different species, even different fields. This paper presents some of the challenges researchers face in bringing data sets together for retrieval and use, including the creation of data collections, collection interoperability, and access and use.
Both fields are entering a stage of development where new discoveries will be made by learning how systems and subsystems behave. Without an integrative approach to biodiversity data, political and economic policy decisions are made with very little information about the big picture. That is, understanding biodiversity on a global scale will require research beyond the organismal level. It will require an understanding of the land itself, as well as weather and other phenomena. Data collected for very different purposes, like rainfall data, will need to be included in retrieval systems for analysis along with species data. Similarly, in neuroscience, advances are made daily that support our understanding of individual cells and subsystems of the brain, but developing a complete picture of the brain will require methods that can support evaluation of processes which are themselves integrative. To understand the processes of normal nervous system function and disease states, scientists will need to synthesize findings from different levels of study and determine their interactions and relationships.
There are also key differences between biodiversity and neuroscience, such as the structures of the fields, the management of data and the traditions of interaction with other (or sub) disciplines. Biologists and systematists, for instance, recognize the need for communication and collaboration with other fields such as ecology. They have come to value wide access to biodiversity databases that will connect with data sets created by a variety of owners. Neuroscientists, however, do not have a tradition of sharing raw data (Chicurel, 2000; Koslow, 2000); there are no projects to digitize legacy data for future use. Also, although neuroscience may be more interdisciplinary in practice than the field of biodiversity, it is a very fractured science in which subspecialties have developed along several dimensions (Toga, 2002). Specialties such as neuroimaging, electrophysiology, morphometrics and computational modeling each shape practices resulting in an array of preferred instrumentation and methods.
In order to take advantage of informatics developments scientists will need to change some of their research practices. The most prominent concerns identified in the literature of both fields are about data quality and trust, data sharing, communications with external groups or disciplines and rights management. Just as important but less discussed are the ways that researchers think about future uses of their data, including the following:
Gathering Data Together into Collections
Successful integrative science will require more open scientific practices in which scientists are cognizant of possible use of their data in the future, and institutions value and reward activities beyond traditional publication (Amari, et al, 2002). For the scientists such practices will include documenting the processes of data production and submitting that data and documentation to a repository or building a new shared database. For institutions this will require recognizing these new kinds of contributions in tenure and promotion processes. For long-term use databases and repositories will need curatorial management and archiving expertise to preserve the contents. Considerations of sustainability should be a mandatory part of these large-scale projects, and this will require addressing issues like funding, control and access. First, however, there needs to be consideration of what data should be included in shared databases and repositories.
Legacy Data. Legacy data are those that result from research conducted in the past that are not yet stored digitally. In biodiversity these data include museum data, conservation data and data found in individual labs. Some biodiversity data are simple and relatively homogenous. Such data generally consist of label data from biological specimens, including the scientific name of the specimen, where and when the specimen was found and who found it. However, as noted elsewhere, knowledge about the species that inhabit the planet will depend on the integration of data from other fields. If label data from many collections over a 100-year period are pooled and combined with forest fire data, it would be possible to evaluate the role of fire in species distribution, which could help set burn and forest clearing policy.
Integrating Scales of Analysis. A primary goal of biological informatics is to shift the focus from research on discrete pieces of a biological puzzle to whole sections of the puzzle. Sometimes this work involves the integration and analysis of data at different scales. Some of the most vivid examples of this can be seen in the work conducted at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) where informatics researchers are designing tools for scientists to literally see microscopic structures in degrees. Scientists use these tools to locate and render images of very small parts that actually vary in size, from spine to dendrite, synapse to neuron to cell cluster. Scientists are creating images of materials that scale with a factor of ten or more. The complexity of merging such different units of analysis is uniquely challenging, and will require new visualization and classification tools.
Developing Collections of Tools. The collection of analysis and visualization tools is already an important aspect of biological data systems. For access to the tools at the NCMIR, scientists may either come to the center or utilize telecomputing. This serves the research interests of both the scientists, who may not otherwise have access to these tools, and the center that is fostering collaborative research. Neuroscience has traditionally been a local activity data systems and tools have been developed by or for the specific labs in which they are used. This practice continues, though now tools are also developed by those building the common databases and repositories with the intention that anyone can use the tools when they access the data. However, some scientists still want to be able to use their own locally developed tools on this shared data. To address this desire, some initiatives such as the Biomedical Informatics Research Network are collecting locally developed tools and making them centrally available to users, while protecting the ownership rights of the developers. Still, proprietary issues and concerns about standardization persist in the field, and these issues point to the kinds of theoretical problems described by Bowker (2001a, 2001b) on the integration of biodiversity data.
Accumulating and Mobilizing Literatures. Neuroscience is a very broad field, with subdisciplines spanning anatomy, molecular biology, neurochemistry, electrophysiology, neuroimaging and behavior. As noted, research has become highly specialized, and increasing fragmentation results in a large scatter factor. Researchers acknowledge that they have difficulty keeping up, even in their own areas of expertise. An early goal of the Human Brain Project was the development of an atlas of the human brain to be used as a framework to index and link to databases for other types of brain data, including those not necessarily captured by neuroimaging (e.g., histological data, models of function of particular brain structures, directories of scientists studying certain brain structures, and bibliographic data) (Huerta & Koslow, 1996, p. S 5). Although such a unified atlas has not been developed, there are several atlas projects underway that will link to other kinds of data click on a particular label and launch a query.
Collection Interoperability Databases and Repositories
There are a variety of technological and social barriers to the creation of large-scale interoperable systems. Successful implementation of these systems depends upon social agreements about (discipline-specific or specialized) standards for conducting (and thus describing) research activities, standards of validity and controlled vocabularies. Groups in most scientific communities are grappling with these issues and the processes of enacting their subsequent arrangements. Understanding how different disciplines communicate, interact with information resources and share data sets will help systems and metadata developers meet users needs. However, it is likely that the following technological challenges may be less difficult to solve than many of the present social barriers.
Volume. The trend in the mid-90s was to try to build centralized databases for accumulation of research data. However, tools and methods have facilitated increasingly larger sets of data geospatial data and brain imaging data can easily reach the terabyte level. Informaticists, computer scientists and domain experts have realized that centralized databases were not a viable approach to meet these scientific needs. Although computer storage devices continue to increase in capacity, they will not be able to hold everything. Further, disparate sets of data require different kinds of organization for management and querying. Distributed, federated systems will support long-term maintenance and allow faster and more flexible information retrieval (Jones, et al, 2001; Van Horn, et al, 2001).
Heterogeneity and Complexity. Biological data in its entirety represents concepts and structures from multiple domains that study the earth and its creatures along several dimensions. In addition, biodiversity researchers will need to use data from multiple new sources to develop future interpretations of species data. These disparate data types include data on land formations, climate changes, ecologies, animal and plant physiology and anatomy, biological systems, molecular and chemical biology, and behavior. Much of this data, collected by researchers and scientists in other fields such as climatology, was recorded for different purposes than to meet the analytic needs of biologists. Such variety presents a range of integration and re-use problems. By contrast in neuroscience, there is a singular purpose to the research to make discoveries about the structure and function of the central nervous system, particularly the brain. However, the range of disciplines and research methods produce many forms of data, including numeric, textual, image and time-series. The resulting heterogeneity is not trivial, and this presents additional challenges to informatics researchers.
Item-Level Metadata. In the context of biological informatics, metadata is an interoperability issue. It is common to require metadata be submitted to databases along with research results, where it is tied to the validity and value of the scientific data itself. To preserve legacy data and increase the value of findings from current research, describing the experiments and data from that research is a necessity. The fMRI Data Center at Dartmouth, for example, has established four areas of metadata that depositors must include protocol (about technique), human subject information, scan session information and experimental protocol (Van Horn, et al, 2001). This is a specific area where library and information scientists can contribute to the development of biological data collections, as our field is actively engaged in creating and testing solutions for metadata systems.
Access and Use
There is now consensus within biodiversity and neuroscience informatics fields that a distributed architecture with federation will best support the scale and complexity of the data. This approach will address the frequent concern about data control by keeping the location and control of these databases at their local institutions and countries.
Nomenclature. There are problems of nomenclature that will need to be solved. In biodiversity there are examples of multiple naming, where new discoveries of previously named species are given different names. In addition, millions of species remain unnamed. To name these new species we must sift through the tens of millions of named species to insure they were not previously named. Electronic systems support annotations and current rules for addressing this problem by making the different specimen types distinguishable. However, more will need to be done to support ongoing disambiguation, and there is a general lack of funds to support the basic taxonomy. Better global access to data sources like electronic flora and fauna will facilitate the information work that is required to verify either novelty or accurate identification of a specimen.
In neuroscience, there are at least two distinct problems with nomenclature. First, many regions of the brain do not have inherently or anatomically distinct boundaries. What Dr. Smith calls cell cluster A, Dr. Jones includes in his identification of cell cluster T. The second type of problem is related to synonyms; there may be multiple terms representing a single action or concept. Current IR systems are not very good at returning results across the range of terms. Calls for standardization have been met with resistance, as scientists are hesitant to give up the meaning that attaches to their particular terms. Library and information scientists specialize in these sorts of problems and could contribute here by helping to develop powerful thesauri and new retrieval tools.
Federating Data and Queries. Building collection-level metadata repositories will also help to support global research. These repositories will allow queries to be returned faster, as they will first find the collections from which the query might be answered. Query-time federation is being developed using at least two models one that steers queries through a central metadata repository which then directs the query to (appropriate) databases for retrieval and the other using a mediating protocol such as Z39.50 where the client queries each of the repositories when the user executes a query.
Quality Assurance. Scientists and researchers want to have some trust in the reliability and specific application of their data and tools. Informatics projects are testing ways to support data quality, using variations of peer-review, annotation systems and cross-referencing, data weighting and others (Amari, et al, 2002; Chicurel, 2000). These systems have not yet seen systematic measurement, so it is too early to know which approaches will provide the best way to meet the needs of the various user groups. In biodiversity, the very act of digitizing museum specimens opens up the possibility of data validation. For example, scientists and others worldwide will be able to evaluate the validity of the name of the specimen using its location information and general knowledge of taxonomic revisions.
There are economical, political, social and technological challenges to bringing biological data together in a way that will permit new kinds of integrative analysis (see other articles in this issue). Technological and intellectual challenges include the lack of standards, developing and testing novel integration and retrieval techniques, and building thesauri and vocabulary systems. Information science can help solve the problems of managing and analyzing growing amounts of heterogeneous data. The movement in biological sciences toward global and systems level knowledge will require the sharing and integration of disparate data and tools that will support testing new kinds of questions. Finally, expanded study is needed to refine systems development, to illuminate triggers of collaboration and describe the implications for scientific practice and scholarly/scientific communication.
For Further Reading
Amari, S-I., Beltrame, F., Bjaalie, J.G., et al. (The OECD Neuroinformatics Working Group). (2002). Neuroinformatics: The integration of shared databases and tools towards integrative neuroscience. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 1 (2), 117-128.
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN). Available at http://www.nbirn.net/
Bowker, G. (2001a). Biodiversity, datadiversity. Social Studies of Science, 30 (5), 643-683.
Bowker, G. (2001b). Mapping Biodiversity. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14 (8), 739-754.
Chicurel, M. (2000). Databasing the brain. Nature, 406, (6798), 822-825.
Huerta, M. F., & Koslow, S. H. (1996). Neuroinformatics: Opportunities across disciplinary and national borders. Neuroimage, 4 (3), S4-S6.
Jones, M. B., Berkley, C., Bojilva, J., & Schildhauer, M. (2001). Managing scientific metadata. IEEE Internet Computing, 5 (5), 59-68.
Koslow, S. K. (2000). Should the neuroscience community make a paradigm shift to sharing primary data? Nature Neuroscience, 3 (9), 863-865.
OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Biological Informatics. (1999). Final report of the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Biological Informatics. Available at www.gbif.org/GBIF_org/facility/BIrepfin.pdf.
Toga, A. W. (2002). Neuroimaging databases: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3 (4), 302-309.
Van Horn, J. D., Grethe, J.S., Kostelec, P., Woodward, J. B., Aslam, J. A., Rus, D., Rockmore, D., & Gazzaniga, M. (2001). The Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Center (fMRIDC): The challenges and rewards of large-scale databasing of neuroimaging studies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 356 (1412), 1323-1339.
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With all the stuff in the news over the past year and change, about the kneeling in the NFL, and the like. How do those in the mil feel, when they are asked (or voluntold) to go do an honor guard type extra duty at a sporting event, whether holding out the flag, or the like?
The most important six inches on the battlefield ... is between your ears.
I don't see how it would have any effect or impact whatsoever. I honestly don't even see how they would be related.
The truth, however, is that it's their right to protest an injustice in this country that they feel affects them, and it has nothing to do with disrespecting the flag or veterans. Rational, logical thinking veterans realize that they serve in order to preserve that right, and not to cherry-pick protests or rights that only they agree with.
Besides, it was originally an AD soldier who initially proposed the idea for Kaepernick to kneel during the anthem. It's funny how Trump and Fox keep forgetting to mention that.
Because of the whole 'take a knee' issue, being seen by many to disrespect the flag. A flag the mil fights under.
I don't think there is any shortage of volunteers for these type of events, though I don't doubt there are some that won't.
Did you know that the military pays the NFL to hold those 'honor ceremonies'? It's part of the recruiting budget. AT least until recently.
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Even though Prime Minister Singh and Mrs Kaur would have rather stayed at home with the Obamas and enjoy Michelle's world-famous Pecan Pie after playing a game of charades, President Obama threw together a fancy-schmancy dinner party for the leader of the ghee world along with 400 other distinguished guests and Joe Biden.
The toast given by both were short and sweet. Obama quoted Nehru and Singh quoted Lincoln. Even though everyone knew that both of them got some underpaid assistant to copy that from Wikipedia, both were applauded for their knowledge of each other's culture. Although, Obama won this competition because he welcomed everybody in hindi. And you know how we macacaz simply go all crazy when someone foreign speaks in one of our languages. You could almost hear the Prime Minister mumbling in his head "Oh Barack, you complete me!!".
After the speeches were over the guests dug into scrumptious potato and eggplant salad (ugh) and roasted potato dumplings in tomato chutney (double ugh. Although, CHUTNEY!). There was this weird moment when they announced that they would be serving Pumpkin Pie Tart which made everyone look towards the stage because they thought it was the cue for Sarah Palin to do some dramatic reading from her new book which has replaced the bible as the biggest selling book of all time. Which did not happen because Sarah Palin went rogue and was stuffing her face with good ol' American turkey in some good ol' city in the "real" America. No self-respecting hockey mom would be caught dead in a elitist state dinner full of stuffy east coast liberals eating hippie food like chickpeas and okra.
Everyone was dressed in their elegant best and supposedly the flower arrangements around the tables were a homage to the Indian peacock. Which begs the question, what happened to the Indian peacock?
The guests were an eclectic mix of people from the fields of politics, business and entertainment, none of whom would be caught dead in a reality show.
There were many Indian-Americans and Indian-Indians among the guests. There was Obama's weed czar, Kal "Kumar" Penn, America's favourite sweetheart surgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Louisiana Governor and spelling bee champion Bobby Jindal, who was regaling everyone with his unintentional impression of Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock. While Fareed Zakaria and Rajiv Chandershakeran were making Zardari jokes, Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani were probably eyeing each other suspiciously. Also spotted was Jhumpa Lahri, making furious notes on a napkin about a new story in which the son of a Bengali immigrant in America gets elected to the highest office in the world, as the host of the Oprah Winfrey show. Nobel laureate Amratya Sen was heard explaining his idea of justice for millions of downtrodden people to Deepak Chopra. Deepak then explained to Amratya that hunger is a man-made desire which can easily be overcome by subscribing to the new (& improved) patented personal program, The Deepak Chopra 12 New Yoga Positions to Eliminate Hunger. M. Night Shayamalam and his wife were eating the PB & J sandwiches they brought from home because Night doesn't trust anyone. Anyone. Airtel honcho Sunil Mittal was seen going out of the tent to take a call, because his phone wasn't getting any signals inside. He then kept asking the caller whether they could hear him now! Steven Spielberg, who is now an honorary Indian-American because he is property of Anil Ambani, was also there, probably discussing with Pepsi honcho Indira Nooyi about making a bi-lingual biopic about her life.
There were also a lot of distinguished American-Americans present at the dinner. There was Colin Powell, telling anyone who would lend him an ear about how he was tricked into lying at the UN. All three of the Pelosis were also in attendance. Nancy, Paul and Nancy's face were just like a family. Uber-producer David Geffen was also there, with his partner, Jeffery Katzenberg. Although Mrs. Kaur kept referring to Jeffery as David's "roommate", accompanied by a wink. And since Oprah could not make it, she sent her "roommate" *wink, wink*, Gayle King.
It was not all fun & games. There was also important state business conducted at the dinner. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was heard teaching National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on how to intimidate your subordinates by alternating between starving them and calling them MoFo's. External affairs minister SM Krishna and Secretary Clinton both agreed that if newly sworn in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai wants to be taken seriously, he has to ditch that damn Harlem pimp coat he never leaves home without.
The entertainment was provided by Jennifer Hudson and AR Rahman, among others. Adam Lambert's appearance was cancelled at the last minute because having more then two gay people in attendance would alienate one of Obama's core constituency, rednecks & retards.
It was a fun evening for those attending although some people were disappointed that Katie Couric didn't get drunk enough to start doing her thang. There was just one awkward moment when Joe Biden asked Prime Minister Singh to help him with those pesky pop-ups he gets everytime he tries to send an email. To shut Joe up, President Obama kneed him on the "Bidens" and he was taken away by the secret service to be put back into his cage. Obama then reassured a visibly shaken Dr. Singh not to worry because that was just Joe being Joe.
As they say, all's well that ends with Joe Biden shooting his mouth.
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Top-seeded Florida used all three facets of its game Friday to advance to the semifinals of the SEC baseball tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium by defeating fifth-seeded Mississippi State 5-1.
HOOVER, Ala. — Top-seeded Florida used all three facets of its game Friday to advance to the semifinals of the SEC baseball tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium by defeating fifth-seeded Mississippi State 5-1.
The Gators (39-20), ranked No. 7 in the nation by Baseball America, will play ninth-seeded Kentucky (35-22) in one semifinal late this afternoon (about 4:30 p.m.). Today's other semifinal pits seventh-seeded Arkansas (38-22) against third-seeded Louisiana State (42-14-1) at 1 p.m. (both semis will be televised on ESPNews). Today's winners meet for the tournament title at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Razorbacks eliminated second-seeded Ole Miss 8-7 earlier Friday. Ole Miss dropped to 41-18.
UF had 10 hits, including a triple and double, to help produce its runs and the Gators kept the Bulldogs (37-22) off the scoreboard through seven innings behind stellar defense and the pitching of starter Danny Young, who went 4.1-scoreless innings, and reliever Justin Shafer (1-0). Shafer earned the win after pitching the final 4.2 innings, giving up one hit, one earned run and striking out three.
"It's one of those deals where you just try to play your best and hang on to play another day," UF coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "I thought tonight was an all-around really good game. We had some really at-bats.
"The pitching was outstanding. Danny gave us a really good start and Shafer I think had his longest outing of the year. He threw the ball really, really well against a really tough lineup with a lot of left-handed hitters. We didn't walk anybody and didn't make any errors. When we do that we usually end up playing pretty good and it ends up being a pretty good game for us."
The Gators scored two runs in the second inning thanks to an error at shortstop on a ball hit by designated hitter Peter Alonso.
Alonso gave UF a 3-0 lead when he singled to drive in Braden Mattson, who opened the fourth inning with a triple.
Josh Tobias made it 4-0 with an RBI single in the sixth.
A Taylor Gushue groundout scored Richie Martin in the seventh inning for a 5-0 lead.
MSU scored its run in the eighth inning after a couple of singles and a sacrifice fly.
"I'm really pleased with how we're playing and that's a mark of maturity for these young players," O'Sullivan said. "Sometimes their bats don't quite go the way they want to but they play good defense. We made some really good plays tonight and I'm really pleased with how we played tonight defensively."
Note: Left fielder Buddy Reed made a highlight play for UF, diving for a catch to end the bottom of the third. … Harrison Bader had three hits for the Gators.