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Civilization (or civilisation) comes from the Latin word civis meaning someone who lives in a town. When people are civilised, they live in large well-organized groups like towns, not in small tribes or isolated family groups.
However, a civilisation is something more than a town. It is an advanced stage of organisation. That means it has laws, culture, a regular way of getting food and protecting the people. Most civlisations have agriculture, and a system of government like monarchs or elections. They speak a common language, and usually have a religion of some kind. They teach their young the knowledge they need. All civilisations since the Sumerians and the Egyptians have some kind of writing. Writing lets people store and build up knowledge.
The Roman Empire is an example of a large civilization. It was governed from Rome. This empire once stretched from the Scottish borders to North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. They had their own language, Latin.
Latin became the preferred method of communication among educated people until long after their civilization had vanished. Today lawyers and politicians, doctors and scientists, scholars and others still use Latin in the course of their everyday work, even though the Roman civilization died out more than 1,500 years ago. It is said that William Shakespeare excelled at Latin. Latin is still taught in some schools. We still admire and copy Roman architecture, use Roman numerals to count certain things, use the names of Roman gods to mark the days and months of our calendars, name the constellations in the sky by the same names that the Romans used and we model our Western political constitutions and structures on Roman models (Senate, Governor, election, tribunal, justice, vote, census, even the word Constitution, are all Latin words, their meaning unchanged in thousands of years).
The Roman civilization lasted almost 1000 years, but the Ancient Egyptian civilization was older and lasted longer. The Romans and Egyptians fought each other in the Battle of Actium. Rome won, and Egypt became part of the Roman Empire.
Dictionary definitions
- An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, an advanced state of moral conduct, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.
- The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch: Maya civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome.
- The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state.
- Cultural or intellectual refinement; good taste.
- Modern society with its conveniences: "We returned to civilization after camping in the mountains".


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It's strange to think that the same show that was cancelled for a lack of viewers six years ago is now having to field eager paparazzi interested in snapping shots of the actors on set. Nevertheless, the first images from the set of the fourth season of Arrested Development have hit the interwebs. They're not much, but for those of us obsessed with finding out what the Bluth family has been up to all this time, shots of David Cross characteristically wrapped up in a body sheet are pretty damn tantalizing. Moreover, it looks like Workaholics stars Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine and Anders Holm make an appearance in an early episode.
Hit the jump to check out the images. Cross, Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter and Jeffrey Tambor all return for the new season of Arrested Development, which will premiere on Netflix sometime next year.
Images via Jason Bateman's Twitter, J.Dub, and Buzzfeed.

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'Setting The Default To Open': The Next Ten Years Of Open Access
from the tomorrow,-the-world dept
As Techdirt has reported, open access (OA) is scoring more and more major wins currently. But the battle to gain free access to academic research has been a long one. One of the key moments was the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) ten years ago, which saw the term "open access" being defined for the first time:
By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
To mark that first decade, the BOAI site has published a series of further recommendations for the next ten years, with the aim of making "open" the default for peer-reviewed research literature.
The first is that:
Every institution of higher education should have a policy assuring that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by faculty members are deposited in the institution's designated repository.
This is to ensure that copies of research, including theses and dissertations, are always available from some independent online collection or database of articles, and not just from publishers, for example. The first guideline also comes out against
the use of journal impact factors as surrogates for the quality of journals, articles, or authors. We encourage the development of alternative metrics for impact and quality which are less simplistic, more reliable, and entirely open for use and reuse.
The question of whether to pay attention to impact factors -- an attempt to gauge influence in the academic world -- is a vexed one: most people agree it's a dreadful way to measure someone's achievements, but institutions keep on using them anyway when handing out jobs and money. It would be a real achievement if the new BOAI guidelines helped bring in better ways of measuring academic quality.
The second recommendation is that "the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work" is CC-BY – that is, attribution. It's a bold move, since CC-BY gives users a lot of freedom that authors are sometimes reluctant to grant. Here's a good explanation of why that's a sensible position to take; it's from a blog post about the new recommendations by Peter Suber, one of the key figures in the open access movement:
The purpose of OA is to remove barriers to the scholarly uses of scholarly literature, without harming scholars. There's no legitimate scholarly need to suppress attribution to the texts we use. And in any case, suppressing attribution would hurt authors. If they don't get paid for their articles, at least they should get credit. Their impact and careers depend on that.
The third recommendation picks up on the first, and goes into some detail about how institutional repositories should work. That's a reflection of the fact that such repositories are widely accepted now, so the issue is more a question of optimizing their use.
Finally, there is a recommendation on advocacy and coordination that includes the following:
The worldwide campaign for OA to research articles should work more closely with the worldwide campaigns for OA to books, theses and dissertations, research data, government data, educational resources, and source code.
That clearly touches on many of the key issues covered here on Techdirt, and represents a radical and welcome extension of ambitions by proponents of open access. That they feel in a position to make this move is a measure of just how much they have already achieved in the ten years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative was announced.
We should coordinate with kindred efforts less directly concerned with access to research, such as copyright reform, orphan works, digital preservation, digitizing print literature, evidence-based policy-making, the freedom of speech, and the evolution of libraries, publishing, peer review, and social media.
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Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my brow;
But out, alack, he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.
Sonnet 33: Translation to modern English
I've seen so many glorious mornings when the royal sun lights up the mountaintops, kisses the green meadows with its golden face and makes streams shine with its celestial magic. But then it allows the blackest clouds to ride across its heavenly face with ugly gloom, and hides that face from the dull world, sneaking off to the west with the disgrace of it. In just that way my sun shone on my brow early one morning with that same triumphant splendour. But alas, he was mine for only one hour: the dark clouds have hidden him from me now. Yet, my love doesn't condemn him in the least. The suns of humanity may show their faults if the sun of heaven does.
Along side the above explanation of sonnet 33, the Centuries of SummerDays project put Shakespeare's sonnets into modern, singer/songwriter-inspired music. Below is their take on sonnet 33:


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Bioinformatics: Ensembl API Workshops Prerequisites
Tue 1 Apr - Fri 4 Apr 2014
- This workshop is aimed at researchers and developers interested in exploring Ensembl beyond the website.
- The workshop covers the Core (Day 1), Variation (Day 2), Functional Genomics (Regulation) (Day3), and Compara (Day4) databases and APIs.
- Each database schema and API design will be presented in association with practical sessions in which the participants will write their own Perl scripts.
- Further information concerning course content is available.
- This course is comprised of 4 one day sessions.
- The first Core API session (or equivalent experience) is a mandatory prerequisite to the other 3 sessions.
- Please specify which of the optional sessions you wish to attend when booking. The default is "all three of them".
- Participants are requested to give us a little information about their background & requirements by registering here.
- The course fee, for those participants required to pay, will be £100 independent of the number of sessions attended.
- The course timetable can be viewed here.
Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
Target audience
- Our courses are open to all who might benefit
- Booking priority is given to people from Cambridge University and Collaborating Institutes
- Individual Course fees are required only from External participants not from Collaborating Institutes
- A good grasp of programming concepts
- Experience in coding in PERL
- Familiarity with basic Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Familiarity with the Ensembl would be advantageous
- The Core API session is required to fully benefit from any of the other three sessions.
Number of sessions: 4
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- Day 2: Variation Database & API
- Day 3: Functional Genomics (Regulation) Database & API
- Day 4: Compara Database & API - Gene Trees
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- To enable those with some experience in both Molecular Biology and Programming to use the Ensembl APIs competently
- Presentations and practicals
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A recent version of this course has been recorded and is available for viewing, in part or in its entirety, from here.
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THE ABC is investigating claims that one of its websites was hacked by Russian cybercriminals in 2011.
Information security analyst Patrick Gray first published the claim on his blog, risky.biz, saying cybercrooks obtained information from an ABC database, including an encrypted staff password, around October 2011.
An ABC spokesman told AAP on Thursday that the corporation is investigating the allegation.
It comes after one of the ABC's program sites was hacked on Wednesday and the personal details of almost 50,000 users were published online.
A European activist has claimed responsibility for the incident and said it was in retaliation for the ABC airing an interview with Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders on February 13, ahead of his Australian tour.
Passwords, usernames and email addresses of 46,651 people who'd registered on an externally hosted site, relating to the 2010 ABC reality-style program Making Australia Happy, were posted online by the hacker, called Phr0zenmyst.
Mr Gray believes two of the encrypted passwords revealed in Wednesday's attack match two encrypted passwords posted on a Russian online cybercrime forum in 2011, and they also came from the Making Australia Happy site.
He claims the information could have been used to perpetrate a more significant cyber attack on ABC IT infrastructure, although it appears no such breach took place.
"I'd suggest that there's been multiple attackers who've actually gained access to this database," Mr Gray told the ABC's 7.30 program.
"I'd suggest criminally motivated attackers had access sometime in 2011, but now someone with political motivations has accessed that same database."
The corporation on Thursday vowed to step up its cyber security arrangements.
"The ABC is taking immediate steps to check all of our external websites that are developed and hosted outside of the ABC to asses security," ABC head of corporate communications Sally Cray said in a statement.
"The ongoing monitoring of our internal ABC systems continues in order to strengthen our defences against future cyber-attacks.
"The ABC is in touch with external security agencies to ensure we are doing everything possible to prevent further breaches."
The corporation has written to all those affected by Wednesday's breach, apologised and urged them to change their passwords.
Federal privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has said his office won't investigate Wednesday's attack, saying the ABC's response was sufficient.
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Youths' Monitor
Youths' Monitor was an 8-page 7.5 x 10.5 in. illustrated religious magazine published by Daniel Brenneman at Goshen, IN, monthly, 1883-85, "in the interest of the young people and children, adapted especially for the home circle and Sabbath school." It contained articles, stories, and poems, mostly written by a group of "special contributors" and letters written by the readers and occasionally by the special contributors. For the first seven months the list of special contributors included Mennonites of other groups as well as Evangelical United Mennonites, the group of which Daniel Brenneman was a leader. Later the contributors seem to have been exclusively Evangelical United Mennonites (later a part of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ (MBritish Columbia, Canada)). (Goshen College Library has the first volume.)
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Springer, Nelson P. "Youths' Monitor." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 9 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Youths%E2%80%99_Monitor&oldid=78953.
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Springer, Nelson P. (1959). Youths' Monitor. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 9 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Youths%E2%80%99_Monitor&oldid=78953.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1011. All rights reserved.
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Marjorie Magner, a member of Accenture's board of directors since February 2006, is a founding member and partner of Brysam Global Partners.
Prior to the formation of Brysam, Ms. Magner served as chairman and CEO of the Global Consumer Group at Citigroup from 2003 to October 2005. In this position she was responsible for the company's operations serving consumers through retail banking, cards and consumer finance, as well as for finance, credit and other staff functions. During this time, Ms. Magner was named to the Fortune magazine list of Most Powerful Women in Business from 2001-2004, Forbes magazine list of World's Most Powerful Women (No. 19), and U.S. Banker's list of the Most Powerful Women in Banking (No. 1), among others.
In addition to her achievements in business and banking, Ms. Magner is a passionate advocate on issues affecting consumers, women and youth globally.
From starting community development and microfinance business units at Citigroup to championing issues such as alleviating global poverty, microfinance and aiding children, Ms. Magner helps to bring a more integrated, innovative business approach to the philanthropic world.
Ms. Magner serves as a member of the Brooklyn College Foundation and is on the Dean's Advisory Council for the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. She is non-executive chairman of Gannett Co., and also serves on the board of Ally Financial Inc.
Ms. Magner holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Brooklyn College and an MSIA degree from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.


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Source: Mary K. LeMaster, death certificate Book H-8, page 144 (1927), Jay County Health Department, Portland, Indiana
Jay County Indiana
Geneology Death Record
Jay County Indiana
Geneology Death Record
Name: Lemaster, Mary K.
Date of Death: 2/22/1927 Time: 4:20 Sex: F
Age: 80 Months: 0 Days: 9 Hours: 0 Minutes: 0
Birthdate: 2/13/1847 Place: New Jersey
Death Address: Madison Township
Residence : Salamonia, Indiana
Death Address: Madison Township
Residence : Salamonia, Indiana
County : Jay County
Marital Status: Married Spouse: Laman Lemaster
Race: White Occupation: Housewife
Father: Dr. E.C. Chew Birth: New Jersey
Mother: Caroline Woolston Birth: New Jersey
Burial Place: Salamonia, Indiana
Father: Dr. E.C. Chew Birth: New Jersey
Mother: Caroline Woolston Birth: New Jersey
Burial Place: Salamonia, Indiana
Burial Date: 2/25/1927
Funeral Home: N.R. Williamson & Son
Funeral Home: N.R. Williamson & Son
Address: Portland, Indiana
File Date: 2/28/1927 Book No.: H-8 Page No. 144 Local No. [blank]
Physician : J.J. Kidder
Physician : J.J. Kidder
Manner of Death : Natural
Cause of Death : Arteriosclrosis
The above death certificate is for my paternal 2nd-great grandmother, Mary Keziah (Chew) LeMaster (1847-1927). I obtained this record on my recent research trip to Jay County.
Right off the bat, the interesting fact is the spelling of the name. The surname keeps fluctuating in the records with and without a final 's'.
Facts that I already knew were her birthdate and birthplace. The certificate lists her birthplace as February 13, 1847 in New Jersey. Other sources have indicated that her birthplace was Mt. Holly in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Mary was married, and the certificate lists her husband as Laman. Whether or not this is a typographical error and a misreading of the name of her husband, Luman, I do not know as I wasn't allowed to examine the original record.
The certificate lists here father as Dr. E.C. Chew born in New Jersey and her mother as Caroline Woolston born in New Jersey. This correlates with other information I have, though her father's full name was Ezekial Cooper Chew.
Her date of burial in Salamonia, Indiana was February 25, 1927 and the funeral home was the N.R. Williamson & Son funeral home of Portland.
The physician on file was J.J. Kidder and Mary's cause of death was listed as arteriosclerosis. This agrees with her obituary, which mentions that she had suffered from heart trouble for some time. Dr. John J. Kidder was a physician in Salamonia, who began practicing there in 1896, according to the 1922 county history.


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High-end audio is its own rarefied world, a community so self-contained that new arrivals are barely noticed, although welcome. It is a club whose access, though democratic, still somehow smacks of initiation, usually with a price tag that can cause gasps.
So why bother? The answer comes not from the audio folks, but from the poet e.e. cummings: "Listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go." That's it in a poetic nutshell. All of your life you've been listening to recorded music--rock, classical, soul, R&B--and there's a hell of a universe right next door that you've never heard. It's as simple and unbelievable as that.
My journey began during a visit to one of the better stereo shops in town, a conventional sort of place that sells at least a few brands that we've all heard of. The object was simple--a new compact disc player and an amplifier. I am not an audiophile, as the initiates call themselves. I was, and still am, just a guy who has always liked listening to music. I was prepared to spend some money, but I most definitely did not want to be bothered by my stereo setup. I wanted to play my compact discs and enjoy my music. I did not want to be--nor have I become--what audiophiles call a "tweak."
After doing a bit of research in the audiophile press, I concluded that Rotel was the brand of choice. An English company using Japanese parts, Rotel is a producer of moderately priced gear that even the audiophiles concede offers a lot of bang for the buck. You can pick up a Rotel compact disc player for about $450, which is peanuts by audiophile standards. I also was interested in Rotel's RB980 amplifier, which lists for about $600 but is available for less ("Excellent value for the money," says Stereophile magazine).
Within hours, a loaner unit was in my living room, and I discovered that it sounded great, but it didn't fit in my space. The spot where my wife and I have to put all of our stereo stuff is a deep, but extremely narrow, niche. The amplifier was no problem: I just stood it on its side. But there was no way that the compact disc player, which has to be flat on its feet, would fit. Still, I sat it on a table and strung a long wire (an "interconnect" in audio lingo) to rig it to the amplifier and preamp (a separate box that has the volume controls) so I could listen to it. The sound was great. The new amp made a difference, but it was the new compact disc player that really stood out. Who could have imagined a compact disc player could make such a difference?
But I needed something smaller. When I called the store, the salesperson noted that the Rotel job was one of the smaller ones. No help there. So I went to another store that mixed a little high-end equipment with more mainstream stuff. Feeling like a pervert confessing an intimate problem, I told the salesperson about my embarrassing space limitation. Did he have anything that sounds as good as the Rotel (which his store didn't carry) but would somehow fit into a foot-wide space?
To his credit, he didn't laugh out loud. He agreed that the Rotel was a good-value CD player. He had others that would equal it, but they, too, were of a similar size. "I do have one item, though, that would fit easily," he said. "But it's a lot more money." I was getting desperate. There was no going back. I had to find something. "Let me show it to you," he said, all choirboy innocence. Without my knowing it, I was about to step across the threshold into audiophilia. He lead me to a compact disc player of a sort I had never seen before: It was in two pieces. And it was wonderfully tiny. "This is a compact disc player?" I asked incredulously. "Why is it in two pieces?"
"This," he said, pointing to one small box, "is a California Audio Labs Alpha DAC (digital-to-analog converter). And that," he added, pointing to the other tiny box, "is a California Audio Labs Delta Transport." The "Transport" is the machine that spins and reads the disc; the DAC is the electronic guts of the gizmo that unscrambles the digital code. Every compact disc player, no matter what the price, has both. But usually they are enclosed in one box. This, I discovered, is not the high-end way.
I goggled at the two units. "Boy, those will fit in my space with no problem," I enthused. "How much is this CD player? And is it as good as the Rotel job?" Here, he finally allowed a small, faintly smug smile. Yes, he confirmed, it was as good as the Rotel--better, in fact. As to the price, he did warn me that it was significantly more expensive. "But how much more expensive could it be?" I riposted in my best swaggering, Diamond Jim Brady voice. He replied briskly: "The CAL Alpha DAC is $1,495 and the CAL Delta Transport is $895."
Math was never my strong suit, but by my calculations that was more than two thousand bucks! "$2,390 to be precise," he suavely replied. "But the Rotel job was $450," I protested. "You're showing me something that's five times as expensive." He conceded the point happily and then suggested that I take the two units home for a spin. "Look," I said firmly, "there's no way I'm going to spend two grand on a compact disc player."
"No problem," he replied, with the same breezy self-assurance Satan uses in finding new recruits.
What happened next is what moralists call a cautionary tale. I still had the Rotel CD player and amplifier. And now I had this California Audio Labs Transport and DAC. Here was a rare chance to see, or rather, hear whether anything could possibly justify such an exorbitant price difference--and for a compact disc player, no less. After all, isn't it just a matter of zeroes and ones being read by a laser beam bouncing off microscopic pits in the disc? It's all abstract wizardry, not the easily imagined effects of a needle furrowing its way in a vinyl groove.
Since the Rotel CD player was already hooked up, I played a track on it first. Then I switched the interconnect wires to the California Audio Labs setup and played the same track on it. Everything else was the same--the amp and preamp, the speakers, etc.
I couldn't believe what I heard. It simply wasn't possible. It was like seeing a night sky in the desert. Who could ever have imagined there were so many stars? The music simply came alive on the high-end CD player. It wasn't just a matter of a little more bass or treble. Instead, there was a whole new depth and dimension to the sound. I called to my wife and asked her to go into the living room, where she couldn't see the equipment. I repeated the comparison. "The second one was really something," she reported. "Let's get that one," she said happily. I couldn't bring myself to tell her the price. Still, I was uneasy. I guess I could find the money, but jeez, $2,390 for a CD player?
That evening, I was conducting a wine-tasting class. The group trooped in and spied all the audio gear arrayed in the kitchen, wires trailing everywhere. "What's this?" they asked. I told them the story--leaving out the price difference. "Nonsense," said one. "Ridiculous," said another. "Bits is bits," said a third, who is computer-savvy.
"OK," I replied. "Go into the living room and I'll play you the same track on each CD player. And you tell me if there's any difference."
Keep in mind that this group of wine tasters was a pack of Burgundy junkies, the sort who ponder such lunacies as whether a producer's plot is on the upper or lower slope of a five-acre vineyard. The sort who long ago became inured to the idea of a wine selling for 200 bucks a bottle.
I ran the comparison and then walked into the living room to hear their reactions. The response was as close to a stunned silence as that opinionated bunch of Burgundy hounds had ever gotten. "Whatever the second one was, get it," opined one. This was echoed by everyone present. "I can't believe it," said another. Unprintable expletives were voiced, followed by the word "incredible." They were right. And I was hooked.
If you detect in this saga a sense of pleasure mingled with pain, you are correct. A really great stereo system is a joy beyond most of our imaginings. I suggest you pursue it if you have any interest in music. But I cannot tell a lie: Getting a really good system takes time and trustworthy advice. And keep an eye on your wallet. It is possible to get a stellar system for a price that most of us would consider reasonable--for something of dramatic quality. Of course, you can also spend more money than most people make in a year. Then again, look at how much money we plunk down for the likes of a Lexus, BMW or Mercedes-Benz. Their quality is enduring and enlightening. A great stereo system has those same possibilities.
But remember whom you're dealing with. Audiophiles are not really into music--no matter how much they protest to the contrary. Their real passion is sound reproduction. Music is just a vehicle for testing the sound reproduction capabilities of their components.
Once you get to a certain level of performance, the differences are minor--or even imaginary. The quality gap between mainstream stuff and audiophile is huge and real. But once you leap across the divide and land on the audiophile side, the steps you take afterwards are relatively small. Audiophiles are into these differences, but musically they are minor at best after a certain level of performance. As a buyer, all you want is to hit a home run. How far out of the park the ball goes is of interest only to baseball nuts. Do you really need to buy the Mark Levinson No. 30.5 digital audio processor for $15,950 (with a separate No. 31 transport at $8,495)? Not a chance. The difference between it and another home run hitter of a CD player at a fraction of that absurd price is marginal--and of no interest except to audio nuts.
Because I write about wine for a living, however, I long ago learned that to get the good stuff, you can't ignore the crazies--you must consult them. Wine is esoteric enough, but audio gear is a world of madness unto itself. A good rule of thumb: If you've heard of it, it isn't any good. High-end audio, like estate-bottled Burgundies, is composed of hundreds of small producers that--until you drop down the rabbit hole--you will never see advertised. Your friends will never have heard of any of the brands. But then again, nobody ever told you just what a world of pleasure awaits those who venture in.
"Consulting the crazies" in any field is tricky. Crazies aren't stupid. They're just, well, a little nuts. They push the boundaries and--here's their value--they bring us a level of quality and refinement that we wouldn't otherwise ever see. Consulting the crazies means reading their publications. Two stand out: the previously mentioned Stereophile, which is the biggest and best; and The Absolute Sound, which is the wackier of the two. The trick in consulting crazies is separating plausibility from lunacy. For example, do we really need pure, stranded silver speaker wire that sells for $100 a foot? ("The Kimber 4AG is an expensive hyper-pure silver cable that can offer a glimpse of audio heaven," reports Stereophile.) Nevertheless, the audiophiles are on to something.
All right, how do you begin? For starters, never make a purchasing decision until you've heard the equipment in your home. You don't listen to music in a vacuum. The size of your room, its furnishings, how loud or soft you'll be playing and what kind of music you most listen to will all affect your decision. Listening in a store, no matter how well set up, is unenlightening. That's why all good audio shops will let you take equipment home. If any shop is reluctant, walk out.
When shopping for components, the first thing to remember is that in really good audio, the hip bone is always connected to the leg bone. This is to say that buying a great pair of speakers and hooking them up to a mediocre CD player, or powering them with a mediocre amplifier, is wasted money. This is why the madness sets in so quickly among audiophiles. They are forever trying to "tweak" the weak link. And there are plenty of links.
You would think that, if money were no object, someone like Bill Gates of Microsoft would simply go out and buy the so-called "best" and--voila!--he'd have the perfect system. Yet it doesn't work that way. Different speakers work best with different amplifiers. And the shape, size and "liveliness" of a room can make huge differences in sound. But unless you have a huge amount of money, you've got to prioritize, which means investing more money in certain items and less in others.
Put most of your money in the CD player and the speakers. The computer sorts long ago warned us about garbage in/garbage out. The same applies to audio. To a stereo system, music is just a set of signals. If they are garbled or muted from the start, that is, because of a mediocre CD player, then it doesn't matter how good the speakers are, does it? Even the greatest speakers are mere messengers. If what the CD player has to say isn't much, well then, having such terrific speakers will not help.
Choosing a CD player that really delivers the goods is easier than selecting speakers (more on those in a minute). A multitude of producers now create CD players that truly can be described as audiophile quality--and that won't cost more than a car. Remember though, that each has its particular "sound": some are brighter-sounding, others emphasize smoothness. Don't choose the first one you hear. Take home several and compare, in combination with several different speakers.
There's a new development, by the way, that you should pay attention to. A tiny California company called Pacific Microsonics, Inc., has come out with a silicon chip, which it has trademarked, called High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD. In effect, it does for compact discs what the Dolby noise reduction system does for tape players: It makes the music sound more real. It's an authentic advance.
What's more, like Dolby, HDCD can be used both in the recording process at the studio and in your home playback system. Even compact discs not encoded with HDCD (which is only just being introduced) sound better when played on a CD player with the HDCD "decoder." A number of audiophile CD player manufacturers have incorporated the HDCD chip into their digital-to-analog converters. Others are offering inexpensive upgrades on their older equipment, where feasible.
We certainly shall see mainstream CD players proclaiming HDCD capability in the next few years. But keep in mind that it's no panacea. An HDCD chip in a mediocre machine still results only in slightly better mediocre music. Anyone buying a brand-new, high-end CD player is well-advised to get HDCD. Within a year, we'll see a lot of high-end manufacturers adding it to their products, either through aftermarket upgrade or right out of the box.
If you are looking for CD players (either in one box or with separate transports and DACs) that offer high performance at plausible prices, check out the following manufacturers: Audio Alchemy, California Audio Labs, Enlightened Audio Designs, Micromega and Sonic Frontiers. Each of these, as well as others, offers several levels at escalating prices. Sometimes the differences are noticeable, sometimes not. An honest dealer will steer you to the best value for money within a particular line.
Nothing is simultaneously more pleasing and vexing than selecting speakers. There is no single speaker design that absolutely is better than another. Here, art triumphs over science. Some noticeably "color" the music; others are very "bright." Some sound terrific at first and then their brightness begins to fatigue the listener. First impressions, this once, do not count. Listen to them in your own home to know what they'll really sound like.
So now that you have begun, what do you do next? First, round up several potential candidates for CD players. Then make a decision about just how big a set of speakers you're prepared to live with. This may seem trivial, but knowing what you need makes life easier. Many people equate speaker size with quality. Twenty years ago that may have been true, but today some of the finest speakers are astonishingly small. Sure, there are still plenty of hulking speakers out there, but they're not necessary for top-quality sound. Neither I nor my wife wanted to feel as if we were living on top of a set of speakers. Besides, our rooms are small and sparsely furnished, so they are quite "live."
The speakers I suggest you use as baseline reference are the Totem Model 1. Physically, they are very handsome and amazingly small (12 and a half inches high, nine inches deep and six and a half inches wide) for the amazing quality of sound they deliver. They've been acclaimed by nearly everyone, so if you use Totems as a reference point, you won't have to calibrate other speakers from one extreme of the design or taste spectrum. At $1,595 a pair, they will convince you of the legitimacy of spending what seems to be a lot of money on what seems to be not much speaker. (They also sound great on bookshelves, although audiophiles recoil at the idea.) What is more, they are not amplifier-sensitive, which means that they work well with a lot of amplifiers; this is not true of many speaker designs.
Speaker designs, sizes and prices are all over the map. Many speaker companies offer several sizes and prices of speakers that have the same design. And some speakers do sound better with certain kinds of music (vocal or instrumental, rock or symphonic). With these caveats in mind, you might listen to speakers from these producers, most of whom make speakers in several sizes (including surprisingly tiny ones): Audio Physic, Celestion, Dunlavy, Martin-Logan, Paradigm, NHT, Quad, Snell and Thiel, Sonus Faber and Totem. There are hundreds of speaker makers. These are just a few of the better ones.
As mentioned, your choice of amplifier and preamplifier all depends upon your choice of speaker. Here, your dealer is critical. Small speakers do not need vast amounts of power. Some speaker designs work better with some amplifiers than others. An "integrated" amplifier has both the amp and the preamp in one box. Although most audiophile gear is in separate boxes, there's no technical reason why integrated amps can't be as good as separate components.
Although amplifiers (especially) and preamplifiers are important components, the general level of amplifier technology today is impressively high. If you bought a top-quality CD player and terrific speakers, you can get amazing sound from amplifiers that are at a less exalted level than those other components. This is the place to save money relative to other components.
A word of warning: The audiophile world is divided between those who prefer solid-state electronics and those in love with tubes (which they call "valves"). To outsiders, the idea of using old-fashioned tube technology in 1995 seems silly bordering on absurdity. Yet tube proponents are impassioned, insisting that the "tube sound"--which they characterize as warmer, rounder, smoother--is unequaled. Others are less convinced, suggesting that although tubes are attractive, solid-state electronics deliver better bass and more "snap" and are every bit as good.
To this outsider, the whole tube business is classic audiophile madness. Not only do you get to play with your toy (by changing the tubes you can modify the sound), but some tube equipment looks like nothing else you've ever laid eyes on. And yes, the sound can be distinctive. But the equipment requires more attention, warm-up time and other things that are near and dear to the audiophile passion. Tube amps are worth a listen, but unless you're really committed to playing with your system, leave them to the audiophiles.
Among producers of solid-state amplifiers, I would suggest using a Rotel amplifier and preamplifier as baseline equipment. Their prices are at the low end for components of audiophile quality. If the more expensive amps you use for comparison don't make the speakers you choose sound significantly better, well, why spend any more money than you have to? With that in mind, you might investigate such solid-state producers as: Aragon and Arcurus (two makes by Mondial Designs), McCormack, NAD, Rotel and Sonic Frontiers.
About wiring: Nothing in the audiophile world is goofier than wire. (And that's really saying something.) Does the quality of your wiring make a difference? It does. How much of a difference depends upon your setup. The more "transparent," that is, pure of sound, your system is the more difference wiring can make. Usually, it's most apparent in the bass. But even on the high end, the difference between one good-quality speaker wire (they call them "cables") and another is minor indeed. Yes, spend the money. But don't get carried away. The same applies to interconnects, the wires that connect the various electronic components. Buy the lowest-priced wire of producers such as Audioquest, Kimber Kable, Tara or Wireworld, and you'll be in great sonic shape.
Regarding multiple speakers, keep in mind that audiophiles don't live in what might be called the real world. For example, most music lovers like to have speakers in more than one room. Many amplifiers have more than enough power to serve several sets of small, efficient speakers. To do that, though, you need a speaker switch box. It addresses electronic problems such as impedance, which is the electrical equivalent of water backing up in a pipe. No problem, you say? But there is.
Audiophiles believe in what's called a "dedicated" system, an electronic version of the one person/one vote school. (Some even run separate power lines into their homes dedicated only to the stereo system, as they consider its electricity to be "cleaner.") Speaker switch boxes degrade the sound. So there must be nothing between the electronics and the speakers--never mind that the amp could handle more than one pair if allowed.
I can tell you first-hand that this is a problem. When you get audiophile-quality gear, you really do get a transparent system. That's why the music sounds so good. But even the best switch boxes noticeably degrade the sound. Couldn't someone make an audiophile-grade switch box that didn't degrade the sound? I'm sure they could. But they don't care about such real-world concerns. Theirs is a pursuit of the absolute.
What did I finally do? After having tested every switch box out there, I came to the solution of last resort: I bought two Rotel amplifiers. Both are wired to one Rotel preamp, which runs both sets of Totem Model 1 speakers. Oddly, a good-quality volume control (anathema to audiophiles) wired to one pair of speakers made no audible difference, even though it "interferes" with the desired straight-line configuration. So there.
When installing your system, hire a professional. High-end audio wiring and equipment can be much more complicated than anything you set up back in your college days. You can save yourself a lot of frustration by having a pro set up everything.
About prices: Nobody pays full retail for high-end audio. The jacked-up prices are designed to allow dealers considerable leeway in closing a deal. Your best deal will come if you buy more than one component from the same dealer. Although hard-core audiophiles often buy by mail, this is an unwise route for the rest of us. You really need dealer backup, as systems sometimes fail for no apparent reason. Whichever shop you choose, make sure that the dealer will let you return equipment, no questions asked, at least 30 days after purchase. Ask if the store offers an upgrade program, which can give you a generous allowance on your equipment if you decide to improve your system down the line. Keep your receipts forever.
Also, consider buying used equipment. Many audiophile dealers have used gear, as the crazies are constantly changing their systems, forever pursuing a mythical audio Nirvana. Their castoffs can be golden bargains. Audiophiles rarely abuse their equipment, so used high-end gear is generally a safe bet.
Matt Kramer is a contributing columnist to Wine Spectator.


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Title: A crowd
Date: 2017
(Limited Edition of 5 prints)
'Status Symbols'
Status symbols are a visible expression of social standing. Luxury goods including Art are often seen in this manner. Limited edition prints play with the idea of the multiple and are by their very nature collector's items.
A toothbrush however, is apparently not something one normally thinks of to describe a life. Usually we see someone's new single status on Facebook or follow a car laden with bumper stickers proclaiming the owner has a family that consists of a man, a woman, three kids and a chicken.
This series came in reaction to the shiny projections of self. Inspired instead from the banal and everyday lived experience. As one day I was struck by the sheer number of untidy toothbrushes I now live with and how that represented my family.
I was transported back to a time where keeping my pristine toothbrush alongside someone else's was a personal big deal. This series uses toothbrushes to examine stages of my relationship evolution and hopefully opens you to think of yours.
There is no perfect arrangement, like us they belong to their environment and evolve to take on a life of their own.
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Volubilis, Moulay Idriss, Morocco
Volubilis Roman ruins, inbetween Meknes and Moulay Idriss, Middle Atlas, Morocco, 2016-04-11.
Volubilis (or Walili in Moroccan Arabic) is an ancient settlement which has been occupied by Amazigh and Roman ancestors. UNESCO protected Roman ruins remain to dominate the site and are an exceptionally well preserved example of a Roman colonial town in North Africa. A visit to the ruins are best incorporated with an overnight stay in Moulay Idriss; Morocco's most sacred medina, only 3km from the ruins.
The back road leading from Meknes to Chefchaouen and Tetouan takes you past the ancient Roman ruins of Volubilis and the historic Medina of Moulay Idriss, with other picturesque Berber towns (like Ouazzane) and villages set back into the mountains all along the route. Winding through stunning changes in landscape as the Middle Atlas mountains become the Rif mountains, it is one of Morocco's most stunning scenic drives. Wild flowers appear in abundance in the spring after the winter rains, making it the best season to be journeying this particular route.
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Frédéric Bastiat introduced one of the most important concepts in political economy: "legal plunder," the government's forcible extraction of wealth from the populace for the benefit of the ruling class. French monarchs in Bastiat's time sent out tax collectors to plunder the people, most of whom understood perfectly that the king was robbing them to pay for his extravagances and follies.
As Bastiat well knew, democratic governments also engage in legal plunder, although it is obscured by the myth that elected representatives do whatever is in the "public interest." Under democracy the people supposedly are the government and therefore all its actions are justified. You certainly can't steal from yourself.
Not so, declares Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in his book Stealing You Blind. Democracy is rife with legal plunder, Murray writes, and it's no more justified than if a gang of thugs were to rob you at gunpoint. Politicians long ago figured out how to use government power to line their pockets, and special interest groups long ago figured out that by backing the right politicians, they could get far more wealth out of the public treasury than they could get through production and trade. As a result, Americans are heavily taxed to support "a new leisure class" that produces little or no value. It's like having a huge tapeworm in your gut, feeding parasitically off the food you work to buy.
Much of the book consists of recent and infuriating instances of legal plunder, and that is why it is so effective. The stories Murray tells are memorable because they make you angry. For example, consider Bell, California: The city manager of this small, poor town, along with his cronies, managed to stack the city council with their friends, who voted to give them astronomical salaries. The city manager, Robert Rizzo, was pulling in a salary of nearly $800,000 per year. Did he produce that much in value for the taxpayers? Of course not. He probably couldn't have earned a tenth of that in voluntary exchange with people in Bell, but his ability to manipulate democracy enabled him to live like a king.
Murray quotes the defensive statements he and his highly paid subordinates made when they were caught. The arrogance will make you see red. After years of living it up at public expense, Rizzo and his comrades were arrested and charged with crimes including fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. No matter how that litigation turns out, the taxpayers won't get much if any of their money back, although Rizzo's city pension was reduced to a mere $100,000 annually.
Is Bell an anomaly? No. Murray shows that such plunder is widespread, although often less blatant. Some of the worst legal plunder is done by government employee unions. Union officials have mastered the art of electing compliant politicians who are indebted to them for their campaign support. So when it comes to bargaining over the terms of the contract, they are in effect in control of both sides of the table. As a result compensation for government workers is now significantly higher than for comparable workers in the private sector. That is contrary to the cultivated myth that when people go into "public service" they're making a financial sacrifice.
Moreover the lofty compensation for government employees is only half the problem. As Murray shows, discipline is often lax in government work, so "workers" can get away with a lot of loafing.
Murray devotes considerable space to documenting how we are plundered by the government's education establishment. Teachers are paid handsomely whether or not their students make any academic progress, and the gigantic mass of administrative personnel drives the cost far higher. Murray correctly says that "an astonishing amount of money in public education budgets doesn't go to educators, it goes to turf-protecting bureaucrats. . . ." Decades of government profligacy have driven city and state budgets into the red, but administrators can be counted on to cut spending on things that have some actual educational benefit (music classes, libraries, and so on) while preserving every dollar for the bloated administration.
By the time you've gotten to Murray's final chapter, you'll be convinced that taxpayers are in fact being robbed blind. What is to be done? Murray offers a number of sensible, if well-known ideas, including abolishing many federal departments that are havens for legal plunder (Education, Labor, Energy), ending labor union privileges and corporate welfare, and privatizing government functions wherever possible. He also suggests some that aren't so familiar, such as ending government research grants (many of which involve enormous waste) and instead offering prizes for results, though of course these would be tax-financed.
Nothing will happen, however, until the taxpayers realize how badly they're being plundered and get angry. This book will do much in that regard.


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LATEST | FEATURES | INTERVIEWS | NEWS | FRIGHTFEST | REVIEWS Cronenberg All Dayer Sunday 8th March at Stockport Plaza
By James Whittington, Saturday 7th March 2020
Grimmfest and Horror Channel pay tribute to a true icon of horror Sunday 8th March, David Cronenberg which is the second event from this year's Legend's of Horror celebration.
Doors open 12.30pm at the suitably elegant, art-deco surroundings of Stockport Plaza where you can experience on the big screen four of David Cronenberg's best:
1.00pm Rabid 15 Cert
In the wake of the Soska Twins' recent remake, a chance to revisit the stark, bleak original; the film in which Marilyn Chambers truly is insatiable.
3.10pm Videodrome 18 Cert "Long live the new flesh!" Remember the whole "video nasties" hysteria of the 1980s? Fear of what exposure to such things might be doing to the young? It could have been a lot worse.
5.10pm The Fly 18 Cert "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why. Perhaps she'll die..." One of the genre's greatest ever love stories. Yes, seriously.
7.15pm Crash 18 Cert Cronenberg's cinematic reimagining of J.G Ballard's novel was described as "beyond the bounds of depravity" by critic Alexander Walker. The perfect combination of filmmaker and source material, in other words.
Ticket prices and full information at the Grimmfest site.
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Thursday, September 5, 20192:30PM - Thursday, September 5, 20193:30PM
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Are you interested in photography, art, or history? Then come to the Art in the Archives Interest meetings on September 4th OR 5th at 2:30 pm in Greenwood Library room 148. The Art in the Archives contest is a semester-long project where students can select photos from Longwood's Archives to create new pieces of art. Winners will be selected from the participants. This is a fun way to learn a little about Longwood's history and create new artwork for your fellow students to see and enjoy. If you want to learn more come to one of the interest meetings or contact Jamie Krogh at 434-395-2432 or email@example.com.


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Pit Bulls No Longer Vicious Dogs In Garden City
KSCB News - February 6, 2014 7:29 pm
Pit bulls and similar breeds are no longer considered vicious dogs in Garden City.
The city commission voted Tuesday to remove the breed from its vicious dog ordinance. The decision includes any American Pit Bull Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier or American Staffordshire Terrier, or any mixed animal that appears to be predominantly one of those breeds.
The decision means owners of those types of dogs no longer have to post signs or maintain pens or structures unless their animals are declared vicious in municipal court. Owners also can walk their dogs without muzzles.
City Attorney Randy Grisell says decisions on whether a dog is vicious now will be based solely on the animal's conduct.


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WEATHER: Warm and sunny and delightful — 72 degrees and not humid.
WHERE TO: Back into Mojo-land.
MOOD: Cautiously optimistic.
First, let me say that I HAVE MY MOJO BACK! Did I do 23 miles yesterday? Yes. Did I receive several facefuls/eyefuls of gnats? Yes. Is my chest slightly abraded from carrying Gu packets in my sports bra? Oh, you better believe it. Is life back to normal? <punches air> Helllls yes!
Anyway. On to the important stuff: getting over your injury. You've cross-trained, you feel yourself getting stronger, etc., and yet — and yet.
And yet.
The injury isn't better-better. It's just sort of half-assed improving. And you, as the world's greatest super happy fun time run run runnerperson ever, do not do anything that isn't at the very least 90-percent-assed. But you also don't need no stinking doctor. Also, you were sick that day in college where they taught you how to be an adult and how health insurance works, so words like "deductible" and "copay" and "HMO" and "doctor" are still a little mystifying to you.


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A Natural, Fall Wedding at Shenandoah River State Park in Bentonville, Virginia
Josh Widmer (26 and a forestry technician) proposed to Amanda Eakins (25 and a biology teacher) on her birthday. He took her camping at the beach, since she had never been to the beach before. As they were watching the sunset, he handed her a Precious Moments figurine of a boy proposing to a girl, but before he could ask for her hand she began shouting, "Yes!" The couple decided to get married at the Raymond Andy Guest Jr. Shenandoah River State Park in Bentonville, Virginia, where Josh's father is the park manager and where they had spent innumerable hours hiking, fishing and canoeing. Their natural, fall wedding was vibrant and rustic. Amanda and Josh's ceremony took place outdoors, with stunning views of Massanutten Mountain and Shenandoah Valley's autumn leaves. Its colorful aisle decorations of purple, red and orange flower arrangements were echoed in the bridal party's bouquets, which consisted of dahlias, calla lilies and gerbera daisies. The following reception took place in the nearby Bowling Green Country Club in Front Royal, Virginia. Guests feasted on the pumpkin spice, buttercream wedding cake and received leaf shaped bottles of maple syrup as favors. Amanda and Josh's wedding was beautiful in its simplicity, and they let the park's natural beauty speak for itself.
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Holiday Earth Girl - Redhead Invitations
Go Green! As you're being festive during the holiday season, remember to keep the earth GREEN with this flat white invitation which features a lime green background screened with circle dots. A redhead girl wearing a peace sign t-shirt stands in front of the earth on the left side of the card. Includes white unlined envelopes.
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Sine Mora is an upcoming shmup from No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture and Imperium Galactica studio Digital Reality.
It's an unlikely couple, but as Grasshopper honcho Goichi Suda said last August, "We think we can strongly benefit from having an ally such as Digital Reality in the digital publishing realm, who can provide long term online publishing services for their partners, and to gamers."
The game is headed to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live this winter. Above is the game's debut trailer.
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It was perfect timing for Doug Crockford, the legendary Ajax curmudgeon, to come to Google to discuss Gears and the mashup problem. The same week that he chatted about the issues that we face, we saw some innovation and fun mashups abound (for example, this Campaign Trails mashup created with the Google Mashup Editor).
Just a few days after we released the ability to do authenticated, cross domain mashups with Google Calendar the JupiterIT folk created Traffik, a mashup that combines your Google Calendar with a Google Map, allowing you to login to view private events and create news ones. It is great to see early experiments with the API such as the Digg Oracle's use of WorkerPool that we went into more detail on.
Vortex is another library that sits on top of Google Gears to add functionality through a nice layer of abstraction. The library will detect if you are online or offline, and have a system to handle one use case for sync issues. Brian Dunnington liked what he saw with the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and took a lot of the ideas from there, giving us a version that isn't coupled to a particular Ajax library. Libraries like this are exactly what we want to see. Gears is aiming to give the community rock solid, low level components, and we expect to see interesting abstractions on top. XMLHttpRequest is to Prototype/Dojo/GWT as Gears it to [insert your cool new offline framework here].
After the GWT 1.4 launch / coming out of beta was announced, Bob Vawter of the GWT team was able to let his hair down and he created a GWT application for the iPhone to see what the experience was like. His take-away was:
The Google Web Toolkit can be used to create applications that, in the same code base, work well on an iPhone and a traditional desktop browser.
You can read more about the development of the GWT Feed Reader.
In other GWT news we interviewed folks from Queplix, an open source CRM company, about their experience building their products which use a lot of GWT, various Google APIs, and even the Google Mini!
Sticking to JavaScript for just a touch more, the Google Maps API team have added a new Local Search Control which makes it simple to search the map that you are on. You can add this control to your Maps mashup with a line of JavaScript.
In other API news, Jeff Scudder announced a new release of the GData Python client library which gives you access to various new releases and a refactored codebase.
What else?
- T.V. Raman kindly stopped by for a podcast interview on accessibility which may have some data and thoughts that surprise you.
- The Joomla! team updated us on their Summer of Code experience
- And, for those of you who write test code, you may recognize the battle cry of: But it works on my machine!. John Thomas talks about the stability of your tests.
As always, check out the latest tech talks, subscribe to the Google Developer Podcast and visit the Google Code YouTube channel.


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Bio::Event::EventGeneratorI - This interface describes the basic event generator class.
# Do not use this object directly # This object has the basic methods for describing an event generator
This object describes the basic event generator system. It basically allows one to attach one or many event handlers.
Mailing Lists User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing list. Your participation is much appreciated. email@example.com - General discussion http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists Support Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: email@example.com rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible. Reporting Bugs Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web: https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
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The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _ attach_EventHandler Title : attach_EventHandler Usage : $parser->attatch_EventHandler($handler) Function: Adds an event handler to listen for events Returns : none Args : Bio::Event::EventHandlerI


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Yin Yang Huo (Horny Goat Weed)
Other Names:
Barrenwort, Épimède, Épimède à Grandes Fleurs, Épimède du Japon, Epimedium, Epimedium acuminatum, Epimedium brevicornum, Epimedium grandiflorum, Epimedium Grandiflorum Radix, Epimedium koreanum, Epimedium macranthum, Epimedium pubescens, Epimedium sagittatum, Epimedium violaceum, Epimedium wushanese, Herba Epimedii, Herbe Cornée de Chèvre, Hierba de Cabra en Celo, Japanese Epimedium, Xian Ling Pi, Yin Yang Huo.
Horny goat weed is an herb. The leaves are used to make medicine. As many as 15 horny goat weed species are known as "yin yang huo" in Chinese medicine.
Horny goat weed is used for weak back and knees, joint pain, osteoarthritis, mental and physical fatigue, memory loss, high blood pressure, heart disease, bronchitis, liver disease, HIV/AIDS, polio, a blood disorder called chronic leucopenia, viral infections of the heart, bone loss after menopause, weak bones (osteoporosis), and as a tonic.
Some men use horny goat weed for sexual performance problems including erectile dysfunction (ED) and involuntary ejaculation. It is also used to arouse sexual desire.
Horny goat weed contains chemicals which might help increase blood flow and improve sexual function. It also contains phytoestrogens, chemicals that act somewhat like the female hormone estrogen, that might reduce bone loss in postmenopausal women.
Insufficient Evidence for:
Weak bones (osteoporosis). Developing research shows that taking a specific extract of horny goat weed for 24 months seems to decrease bone loss of the spine and hip in women who have passed menopause. This particular extract, made by Tong Ji Tang Pharmacal Company in China, contains phytoestrogens (specifically containing 60 mg of icariin, 15 mg of daidzein, and 3 mg of genistein), chemicals in horny goat weed that act somewhat like the hormone estrogen.
Erectile dysfunction (ED).
Ejaculation problems.
Sexual problems.
Memory loss.
High blood pressure.
Heart disease.
Liver disease.
Joint pain.
Other conditions.
More evidence is needed to rate horny goat weed for these uses.
A specific extract of horny goat weed containing phytoestrogens is POSSIBLY SAFE when used for up to 2 years.
However, some types of horny goat weed are POSSIBLY UNSAFE when used for a long period of time or in high doses. Long-term use of these other forms of horny goat weed might cause dizziness, vomiting, dry mouth, thirst, and nosebleed. Taking large amounts of horny goat weed might cause spasms and severe breathing problems.
A heart arrhythmia has also been reported in a man who took horny goat weed in a commercial product used for sexual enhancement. Research also shows that a specific multi-ingredient commercial product (Enzyte, Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals) that contains horny goat weed might cause abnormal heart beats when measured by an electrocardiogram. These changes might increase the chance of having a heart arrhythmia. However, since these products contain multiple ingredients, it is not clear if these effects are caused by horny goat weed or other ingredients.
Special Precautions & Warnings:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Horny goat weed is POSSIBLY UNSAFE when used during pregnancy. There is a concern that it might harm the developing fetus. Avoid using it. Not enough it known about the safety of using horny goat weed during breast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid using.
Low blood pressure: Horny goat weed might lower blood pressure. In people who already have low blood pressure, using horny goat weed might drop blood pressure too low and increase the risk of fainting.
Moderate Interaction. Be cautious with this combination:
Medications for high blood pressure (Antihypertensive drugs) interacts with HORNY GOAT WEED
Horny goat weed seems to decrease blood pressure. Taking horny goat weed along with medications for high blood pressure might cause your blood pressure to go too low.
Some medications for high blood pressure include captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), losartan (Cozaar), valsartan (Diovan), diltiazem (Cardizem), Amlodipine (Norvasc), hydrochlorothiazide (HydroDiuril), furosemide (Lasix), and many others.
Medications that slow blood clotting (Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drugs) interacts with HORNY GOAT WEED
Horny goat weed might slow blood clotting. Taking horny goat weed along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.
Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others.


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Brewster as to the habitability of the planets. The new arguments are not yet generally accepted. Lowell believes he has, with the spectroscope, proved the existence of water on Mars.
One of the most unexpected and interesting of all telescopic discoveries took place in the opposition of 1877, when Mars was unusually near to the earth. The Washington Observatory had acquired the fine 26-inch refractor, and Asaph Hall searched for satellites, concealing the planet's disc to avoid the glare. On August 11th he had a suspicion of a satellite. This was confirmed on the 16th, and on the following night a second one was added. They are exceedingly faint, and can be seen only by the most powerful telescopes, and only at the times of opposition. Their diameters are estimated at six or seven miles. It was soon found that the first, Deimos, completes its orbit in 3oh. 18m. But the other, Phobos, at first was a puzzle, owing to its incredible velocity being unsuspected. Later it was found that the period of revolution was only 7h. 39m. 22s. Since the Martian day is twentyfour and a half hours, this leads to remarkable results. Obviously the easterly motion of the satellite overwhelms the diurnal rotation of the planet, and Phobos must appear to the inhabitants, if they exist, to rise in the west and set in the east, showing two or even three full moons in a day, so that, sufficiently well for the ordinary purposes of life, the hour of the day can be told by its phases. The discovery of these two satellites is, perhaps, the most interesting telescopic visual discovery made with the large telescopes of the last , half century; photography having been the means of discovering all the other new satellites except Jupiter's fifth (in order of discovery). Jupiter. — Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's satellites was followed by the discovery of his belts. Zucchi and Torricelli seem to have seen them. Fontana, in 1633, reported three belts. In 1648 Grimaldi saw but two, and noticed that they lay parallel to the ecliptic. Dusky spots were also noticed as transient. Hooke' measured the motion of one in 1664. In 1665 Cassini, with a fine telescope, 35 feet focal length, observed many spots moving from east to west, whence he concluded that Jupiter rotates on an axis like the earth. He watched an unusually permanent spot during twenty-nine rotations, and fixed the period at 9h. 56m. Later he inferred that spots near the equator rotate quicker than those in higher latitudes (the same as Carrington found for the sun); and W. Herschel confirmed this in 1778–9. Jupiter's rapid rotation ought, according to Newton's theory, to be accompanied by a great flattening at the poles. Cassini had noted an
oval form in 1691. This was confirmed by La Hire, Römer, and Picard. Pound measured the ellipticity = ra's 5.
From a drawing by E. M. Antoniadi, showing transit of a satellite's shadow, the belts, and the "great red spot" (Monthly Motices, R. A. S., vol. lix., pl. x.).
W. Herschel supposed the spots to be masses of cloud in the atmosphere — an opinion still accepted. Many of them were very permanent. Cassini's great spot vanished and reappeared nine times between 1665 and 1713. It was close to the northern margin of the southern belt. Herschel supposed the belts to be the body of the planet, and the lighter parts to be clouds confined to certain latitudes. In 1665 Cassini observed transits of the four satellites, and also saw their shadows on the planet, and worked out a lunar theory for Jupiter. Mathematical astronomers have taken great interest in the perturbations of the satellites, because their relative periods introduce peculiar effects. Airy, in his delightful book, Gravitation, has reduced these investigations to simple geometrical explanations. In 1707 and 17 13 Miraldi noticed that the fourth satellite varies much in brightness. W. Herschel found this variation to depend upon its position in its orbit, and concluded that in the positions of feebleness it is always presenting to us a portion of its surface, which does not well reflect the sun's light; proving that it always turns the same face to Jupiter, as is the case with our moon. This fact had also been established for Saturn's fifth satellite, and may be true for all satellites. In 1826 Stower measured the diameters of the four satellites, and found them to be 2,429, 2, 18o, 3,561, and 3,046 miles. In modern times much interest has been taken in watching a rival to Cassini's famous spot. The "great red spot" was first observed by Niesten, Pritchett, and Tempel, in 1878, as a rosy cloud attached to a whitish zone beneath the dark southern equatorial band, shaped like the new war balloons, 30,000 miles long and 7,000 miles across. The next year it was brick-red. A white spot beside it completed a rotation in less time by 5% minutes than the red spot — a difference of 260 miles an hour. Thus they came together again every six weeks, but the motions did not continue uniform. The spot was feeble in 1882–4, brightened in 1886, and, after many changes, is still visible.
Galileo's great discovery of Jupiter's four moons was the last word in this connection until September 9th, 1892, when Barnard, using the 36-inch refractor of the Lick Observatory, detected a tiny spot of light closely following the planet. This proved to be a new satellite (fifth), nearer to the planet than any other, and revolving round it in 11h. 57m. 23s. Between its rising and setting there must be an interval of 23 Jovian days, and two or three full moons. The sixth and seventh satellites were found by the examination of photographic plates at the Lick Observatory in 1905, since which time they have been continuously photographed, and their orbits traced, at Greenwich. On examining these plates in 1908 Mr. Melotte


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International contributions programs are a great way to improve your response to the communities in which you operate globally. Now you can find out what works and what doesn't with this much needed and hard to find guidance on developing effective international contributions programs. Learn from the experiences of 24 global corporations in this 1995 study of their domestic and international contributions programs. Based on a study conducted by The Conference Board in conjunction with LBG Associates, this report provides concrete solutions in an area not widely covered by any other source.


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Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Chad Smith Sickened by CIA Torture Reports
The names of several harder-edged bands have surfaced over the years as having music being used by the CIA to break down terror suspects, but it was a little bit surprising last week when a new report revealed that Red Hot Chili Peppers music was used on loop as a tactic by the CIA.
TMZ caught up with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith on the street, who appeared to be surprised when told of the information by the interviewer. Smith, visibly taken aback, struggled for words before the interviewer asked if he approved. "No, of course not," exclaims Smith. "Our music's positive man. It makes people feel good and that's just very upsetting to me. I don't like that at all."
Smith adds, "Maybe some people think our music's annoying, I don't care. But that's a poor use of … they shouldn't be doing that, they shouldn't be that s---. It's horrible. Yeah, I just hate it. I want to throw up."
According to the report, one specific segment of the Senate Intelligence Committee stated that a suspect named Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubayadah was subjected bo the music technique while at a black site prison out of Guantanamo Bay between May and July of 2002. During his torture, he was reportedly stuffed into a pet crate, shackled by his wrists to the ceiling and subjected to the Chili Peppers music on loop.


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Transcript: Obama's Commencement Speech at Morehouse College
President Barack Obama gave the commencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college in Atlanta, on May 19.
Below is the transcript of the speech:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Hello, Morehouse! (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Please be seated.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I love you!
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I love you back. (Laughter.) That is why I am here.
I have to say that it is one of the great honors of my life to be able to address this gathering here today. I want to thank Dr. Wilson for his outstanding leadership, and the Board of Trustees. We have Congressman Cedric Richmond and Sanford Bishop — both proud alumni of this school, as well as Congressman Hank Johnson. And one of my dear friends and a great inspiration to us all — the great John Lewis is here. (Applause.) We have your outstanding Mayor, Mr. Kasim Reed, in the house. (Applause.)
To all the members of the Morehouse family. And most of all, congratulations to this distinguished group of Morehouse Men — the Class of 2013. (Applause.)
I have to say that it's a little hard to follow — not Dr. Wilson, but a skinny guy with a funny name. (Laughter.) Betsegaw Tadele — he's going to be doing something.
I also have to say that you all are going to get wet. (Laughter.) And I'd be out there with you if I could. (Laughter.) But Secret Service gets nervous. (Laughter.) So I'm going to have to stay here, dry. (Laughter.) But know that I'm there with you in spirit. (Laughter.)