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Ancient Skeleton In Mexico Sheds Light On Americas Settlement
The nearly complete skeleton of a teenage girl who died some 12,000 to 13,000 years ago in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula, has yielded DNA clues linking her to Native Americans living today.
The connection bolsters the prevailing theory that the sole route of human migration into North America took place over a Siberia-Alaska land bridge known as Beringia, starting 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.
NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca says the skeleton of the girl, who died at age 15 to 16, was discovered in 2007 amid a complex of flooded caverns in Mexico known as Hoyo Negro, or "Black Hole."
Scientific American says, "She lies in a collapsed chamber together with the remains of 26 other large mammals, including a saber-toothed tiger, 600 meters from the nearest sinkhole. Most of the mammals became extinct around 13,000 years ago."
"It was impossible to safely recover the body from the cave location, so the research team dove to the cave and made bone measurements in situ. They placed Naia's skull on a rotating tripod, and set a camera on a second tripod next to it. Turning the skull slowly, they snapped pictures every 20 degrees. Later the team used the photographs to reconstruct a three-dimensional image."
James Chatters of Applied Paleoscience in Bothell, Wash., led the study and published the results in the journal Science.
Chatters says the skeleton, known as Naia after the water nymphs of Greek mythology, doesn't look much like modern Native Americans who have narrower faces, different teeth and a different palate.
"I could tell from the shape of the palette and some other aspects of the skull that she was similar to some of the other earliest Americans I'd seen," Chatters says. "So many differences that it seemed they must come from somewhere else."
But the DNA told a different story.
The University of Texas at Austin's Deborah Bolnick, an expert in extracting ancient DNA from fossilized teeth and bones got a sample of Naia's mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited exclusively from the mother.
Bolnick found a lineage known as D-1 that's found in Northeast Asia (including Siberia) and also very common in Native Americans.
What that suggests, Bolnick says, is that the girl is indeed descended from the first humans to cross the land bridge and not some later migration from somewhere else.
That means the physical differences between the first "Paleoamericans" and Native Americans of today are the result of evolution since the great migration out of Asia.
One day, about 12,000 years ago, a girl was walking around in cave. This was on the Yucatan Peninsula in what we now know as Mexico. She fell into a deep pit, fractured several bones in her pelvis and died. Today, that cave is underwater but the girl's remains were found by divers. And now her DNA is helping scientists understand where the earliest Americans came from.
NPR science correspondent Joe Palca has the story.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: A few years ago, archeologist and paleontologist James Chatters was at a scientific meeting when a colleague showed him a picture. It was taken by divers at the bottom of cave on the Yucatan Peninsula. The cave had flooded sometime in the last 12,000 years or so. In the picture there was a human skull.
JAMES CHATTERS: I could tell from the shape of the palette and some other aspects of the skull that she was similar to the other earliest Americans I'd seen.
PALCA: Along with a variety of colleagues from around the United States and Mexico, Chatters began an intensive investigation of the girl's skull and other bones. The first fruits of their labors appear in today's edition of the journal Science. They estimate the girl was 15 or 16 years old when she died and that she'd been dead for between 12 and 13,000 years.
But it's the girl's DNA that proved most intriguing. That's because there's been a big debate about whether modern Native Americans are related to the very first people who came to the Americas, like the young girl, or to people who came in a more recent migration. The reason there's a question about that is the first people who came to the Americas, like this young girl, don't look very much like modern Native Americans. Chatters says modern Native Americans have narrower faces, different teeth, different palette
CHATTERS: Oh, so many differences, that it seem like they must come from somewhere else.
PALCA: But girl's DNA tells a different story. Deborah Bolnick is from the University of Texas Austin. She's an expert in extracting ancient DNA from fossilized teeth and bones.
DEBORAH BOLNICK: A lot of my work is focused on trying to using genetics to help us understand more recent population history in the Americas.
PALCA: Bolnick studied the girl's mitochondrial DNA, a type of DNA you inherit exclusively from your mother. What she found was the girl had a mitochondrial DNA inheritance pattern that's quite common in Native Americans alive today. So despite the differences in appearance Bolnick says the new results suggests that modern Native Americans are, indeed, descended from the very first humans to reach the Americas and not some more recent migration.
By studying more of the girl's DNA, scientists are hoping to get clues about which genes were responsible for the changes in appearance.
Joe Palca, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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BIZD's rules-based index intends to track the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies, rather than the companies they invest in. Market Vectors' fact sheet for the ETF touts its "high income potential" as the only ETF offering pure-play exposure to BDCs.
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He argued that the new Market Vectors ETF offered broad diversity within a range of companies, and added that Fifth Street Finance Corp. is rated triple B minus by Fitch and Standard & Poor's, and the leader, Ares, is rated triple B by Fitch and S&P.
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All of us have a protocol we use when meeting a prospective client for the first time. Perhaps it's a series of well-thought-out questions. Perhaps we just go with the flow and let our conscience be our guide. Whatever the case, I have a greater appreciation of the importance of setting the right tone and expectations during the initial interview. With this as a backdrop, I will share a few thoughts on the subject.
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After suffering through another facepalm-worthy quote (this time from Richard Petty) about Danica Patrick only getting attention because she's a woman, it seemed like a good time to go over the most successful women drivers in auto racing history.
I would be happy to point out that Richard Petty, King that he is, has never won any race in a Formula One car. Desiré Wilson, on the other hand, won the Evening News Trophy at Brands Hatch in 1980. It wasn't an F1 race, but it was open to F1 cars and she did win fair and square.
I'd be surprised if Desiré Wilson was the most successful woman driver in auto racing history, and I'm sure you can think of a woman with an even more impressive record than hers.
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Pipes, piping, pipelines… whatever you call them, are very powerful – in fact, they are one of the core tenets of the philosophy behind UNIX (and therefore Linux). They are also, really, very simple, once you understand them. The way to understand them, is by playing with them, but if you don't know what they do, you don't know where to start… Catch-22!
So, here are some simple examples of how the pipe works.
Let's see the code
$ grep steve /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f 6
What did this do? There are two UNIX commands there:
grep and
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grep steve /etc/passwd" finds all lines in the file
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steve:x:1000:1000:Steve Parker,,,:/home/steve:/bin/bash
The second command, "
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:"), and gets field (-f) number 6. This is, in the
/etc/passwd file, the home directory of the user.
So what? Show me some more
This is the main point of this article; once you've seen a few examples, it normally all becomes clear.
$ find . -type f -ls | cut -c14- | sort -n -k 5 rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 28 Jul 22 01:41 ./hello.txt rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 6500 Jul 22 01:41 ./a/filefrag rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 8828 Jul 22 01:42 ./c/hostname rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 30848 Jul 22 01:42 ./c/ping rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 77652 Jul 22 01:42 ./b/find rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 77844 Jul 22 01:41 ./large rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 93944 Jul 22 01:41 ./a/cpio rwxr-xr-x 1 steve steve 96228 Jul 22 01:42 ./b/grep $
What I did here, was three commands: "
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cut -c14-" cuts out the first 14 characters, which mess up the formatting on this website (!), and aren't very interesting.
sort -n -k 5" does a numeric (-n) sort, on field 5 (-k5), which is the size of the file.
So this gives me a list of the files in this directory (and subdirectories), ordered by file size. That's much more useful than "
ls -lS", which restricts itself to the current directory, but not subdirectories.
(As an aside, I have to admit that I only concocted this by trying to think of an example; it actually seems really useful, and worth making into an alias… I must do a post about "
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So how does it work?
This seems pretty straightforward: get lines containing "steve" from the input file ("
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How does it really work?
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There are some gotchas when you start to look at the plumbing. Because we're using the analogy of a pipe (think of water flowing through a pipe), the OS actually sets up the commands in the reverse order. It calls
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What actually happens is this:
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cutis called, and its input is set to be the "pipe".
grepis called, and its output is set to be the "pipe".
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EG2 Explained
For EG2, "
sort" is called first, which ties to the second (rightmost) pipe for its input. Then "
cut" is called, which ties to the second pipe for its output, and the first (leftmost) pipe for its input. Then, "
find" is called, which ties to the first pipe for its output.
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find" is piped into "
cut", which strips off the first 14 characters of the "
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sort", which sorts on field 5 (of what it receives as input), so the output of the entire pipeline, is a numerically sorted list of files, ordered by size.


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text: Friday, March 29, 2013 Awareness of Prediabetes Remains Low Authors of a report published March 22 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report say that just over 11% of US adults with prediabetes were told during 2009-2010 that they have the condition. The report also indicates awareness of prediabetes was low (<14%) across all population subgroups and different levels of health care access or use and other factors. The report is based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an ongoing, stratified, multistage probability sample of the noninstitutionalized US civilian population. This analysis was conducted using data from 3 sampling cycles of NHANES, with examination response rates of approximately 77% for 2005-2006, 75% for 2007-2008, and 77% for 2009-2010. During 2005-2010, the percentage of persons aged ≥20 years with prediabetes who were aware of their prediabetes remained low but was slightly higher during 2009-2010 (11.1%) than during 2005-2006 (7.7) During 2005-2010, prevalence of prediabetes awareness was lower among those aged 20-44 years (5.1%) compared with persons aged 45-64 years (10.0%) and those aged ≥65 years (11.95). Age-adjusted prevalence of prediabetes awareness was lower among persons with less than a high school education (4.9%) compared with those with greater than a high school education (8.7%). Prevalence was higher among overweight (7.9%) and obese (9.9%) individuals compared with those of normal weight (4.3%). Also, it was higher among those with a family history of diabetes compared with those without (10.4% vs 6.2%). Because the vast majority of people with prediabetes are unaware of their condition, identification and improved awareness of prediabetes are critical first steps to encourage them to make healthy lifestyle changes or to enroll in evidence-based, lifestyle-change programs aimed at preventing type 2 diabetes, say the authors.


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KDE 3.4 Beta 1 Screenshots
KDE 3.4 Beta 1, christened Krokodile, was released not too long ago. For those of you who have not yet taken the plunge, Eudpytula Minor has announced some Krokodile screenshots for your viewing pleasure.
A new control center
Settings:/ is nice, but it is not new and not especially convenient. Is there any effort underway to replace the myriad tree in KControl center with a search-based system? I've seen screenshots of such a design (kcontrol3) but would like to see them implemented... While we're at it is there any plan to get rid of the horrible Konqueror settings dialog and replace with a tree view?
By LuckySandal at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
*Search* for settings? Using a textbox and a 'search' button? That sounds genuinely insane.
By foo at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
yeah, open the control center, and click the middle tab (top left, three tabs: index, SEARCH, help).
type your search term...
maybe this could be done better, but well, it works, doesn't it?
By superstoned at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Maybe if you read kde-usability you would know that trees and hierarchies are not suitable interfaces. New users don't know where the hell in the tree to find their setting anyway. We could still have a tree, but it's just not going to be usable by homo sapiens.
And yes, there is already a search tab, but it is not readily noticable, it should be on the front page. Also the most often used KCMs should be on that front page. We need something like a box that says "Enter a setting you would like to change or a task you'd like to perform" and then list tasks corresponding to those words. Not just an alphabetical list like we have now.
By LuckySandal at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
That might have been handy for me a couple of days ago.
I thought my keyboard was broken because it wasn't pressing any keys. Then 10 minutes later, I realised it worked when I held the keys down longer. Switched keyboards and the same thing happened, so I knew it was in software.
If only I could have gone into KControl and searched for "slow keyboard", I might have found the option which turned itself on without hunting through the entire control panel thanks to keyboard settings being under Accessibility instead of Peripherals, where it SHOULD be.
Score minus one to obscure gestures which are turned on by default and make life a living hell when activated accidentally.
By Trejkaz at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Slow keyboard is accessibility feature, I would always expect it to be locaetd under Accessibility. Maybe the modules should specify more than one group they belong to but that is also unintuitive, unless you somehow make it obvious that these things are the same so that users don't become too confused what the difference might be.
Anyway, if I go to KControl, click on "Search" and type in "Pomalé klávesy" (that is Slow keyboard in Czech), it does return what I need. What else do you need?
By Lada at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
I dunno. Part of the problem is that I didn't _know_ there was such a feature, so I wouldn't have even thought I could turn such a thing on.
Such an option really should be off by default.
By Trejkaz at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Typically that feature is off by default. I know it's never been turned on for me.
By Dolio at Mon, 2005/01/24 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
The gestures were definitely on by default in the 3.4 beta. They may have been on in 3.3 as well but I might just have never been unlucky enough to trigger them by accident.
By Trejkaz at Mon, 2005/01/24 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Well, Settings:/ looks VERY VERY nice!!! finally.
Of course, you still have KControl as a "Tweak UI".
KControl3 is this ?!
Sincerely yours,
By fprog26 at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
> Well, Settings:/ looks VERY VERY nice!!! finally.
Finally? As in "already in KDE 3.3"?
> Would be nice to see the internal screenshots of every icons.
What? Clicking the icons starts the normal kcontrol modules.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
I have never seen those screenshots before. That is the most awesome
And I have a Computer Science degree from MIT...I can't imagine how
KDE is very logical, but a tad convoluted. Those screenshots do seem
By Henry Izurieta at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
This is very true. Round here we like to bash the KDE Control Center a lot, but if you compare it to the Windows Control Center, it's a breeze to use!
Recently I got to use a Windows computer computer again, the experience with the system settings was just horrifying. I had forgotten how bad it really is.
By Mark Kretschmann at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
>This is very true. Round here we like to bash the KDE Control Center a lot, but if you compare it to the Windows Control Center, it's a breeze to use!
It certainly isn't bad. I work in a Mac (OS X) environment however, and I have to admit that Apple is certainly worth looking at in terms of usability design. Their system preferences solution is simple - just right for the "typical" user.
KDE control panel stumps even me from time to time.
By Marek Wawrzyczny at Tue, 2005/01/25 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Yes, that's KControl3 which can be obtained from kdenonbeta/kcontrol3
By tpr at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Kcontrol 3 and KDE 3.4?
Why won't this be in 3.4? It looks really good!
By Tom at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kcontrol 3 and KDE 3.4?
I have no idea.
By tpr at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kcontrol 3 and KDE 3.4?
Well then, thank you for the helpful reply :p
By Tom at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kcontrol 3 and KDE 3.4?
Dig through the kde-usability archives and you'll find the answer (basically: too big change for a 3.x release)
By Davide Ferrari at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kcontrol 3 and KDE 3.4?
> Why won't this be in 3.4? It looks really good!
That was my question that started this thread!
By LuckySandal at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Do you know how I can grab the CVS source through a firewall that wont normally allow ssh access? I cannot reconfigure the firewall because that's not on my machine.
By Kanwar at Tue, 2005/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Hmm, as far as I know anonymous cvs doesn't use ssh, so what's the problem? Here's a documentation how to use anoncvs, if you didn't know already: http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html
By tpr at Wed, 2005/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Thanks but I have already tried that. Thing is I cannot do this behind my office proxy/firewall. Is there a way to use cvs behind firewall/proxy? I tried cvsgrab that does it but does not work with webcvs.kde.org although www.kde.org is listed as working with it.
CVSGrab: http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/
By Kanwar at Wed, 2005/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Actually setttings:/ is still a little cryptic for average users who wonder why the :/ has to be added there. The only commands with colon and other characters most users know are the smileys in chat sessions :-)
Better would be to show a list of all kio-slaves in the location bar by default, like Explorer if you wish, so that settings:/ can appear as Settings and media:/ probably can be masked as Computer etc ...
Also see my reply titled "A user-friendly suggestion" to the main article.
By Kanwar at Tue, 2005/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: A new control center
Worst idea ever. Was one reason for me to leave Gnome when 2.0 came out.
You enter one subsection - you don't see the other sections anymore.
Please KDE devs stay away from this crap or at least make it an *option*, not a replacement.
By Dexter Filmore at Mon, 2005/01/31 - 6:00am
xorg composite
Don't forget, kwin from kde-3.4pre supports xorgs composite extention. So you get real opacity, real menu shadows and this looks really cool :-)
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
Wow, that's extremely slow on my machine. AMD Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550, Suse 9.2 with x.org 6.8.2rc2. As soon as I start xcompmgr to get drop shadows, moving windows will become annoyingly slow.
I thought the composite extension used hardware acceleration?
By Erik Hensema at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
Well, it depends if you have drivers installed that can do hardware acceleration, like nVidia's. Hardware acceleration doesn't just come out of nowhere :).
By David at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
Just the standaard mga driver in x.org which is AFAIK accelerated.
By Erik Hensema at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
I'm using a G550 on Suse 9.2 as well. Using only the mga driver doesn't give acceleration. You would have to use DRI support, but this does freeze the machine when closing the X session. So you better don't try to activate it. It's sad to see the quality of mga support going down. My next card will be a NVidea or ATI.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
nvidia and ati dont support linux very good either. I'd say buy the open graphics card (google it if you don't know what it is, or check www.kerneltrap.org).
By superstoned at Wed, 2005/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
It is most likely not accelerated for the things that xcompmgr needs for good performance.
xcompmgr does all its drawing through the render extension, so if you want good xcompmgr performance, the drivers must provide render acceleration (accelerating image composition may be enough, if memory serves; we don't do any transforms or anything yet).
The current X acceleration architecture (XAA) isn't well set up to provide such acceleration, so things are generally slow with it. Off hand, the only cards I'm sure have any acceleration are Radeons. The nv driver doesn't, and I don't know about any Matrox or Intel stuff.
The nVidia proprietary drivers use their own X server and acceleration architecture, I believe, which is why they do a much better job accelerating xcompmgr (although it's only image composition performance that's good; I tried hacking xcompmgr to do transforms on the windows and it ground my machine to a halt).
If/When Xorg switches over to Keith Packard's server/drivers, the situation will likely improve. KAA is much better set up to provide render acceleration, which can be seen by the fact that people were running xcompmgr on his experimental xserver without performance problems.
By Dolio at Mon, 2005/01/24 - 6:00am
Re: xorg composite
I've got some problems with xcomposite in KDE. Firstly, when I start xcompmgr up (with any settings- this happens in every case) my desktop background disappears and turns to black. Starting this from Konsole, my original Konsole window leaves an 'imprint' on the desktop behind it and the text disappears, from Konsole. If I move the window about that original imprint of the window is left on the desktop with full opacity and I can still not see any text in Konsole. Furthermore, any menus seem to loose their background colour and become transparent and gain it again if I move my cursor over the menu. The menu regains background on the whole menu except for directly behind the text. Apart from all these (major) problems, the drop shadows seem to work fine. I'm using the latest ATI drivers and have a Radeon 9600 XT. In my console that I have started X from I see a *lot* of the following:
QPixmap::resize: TODO: resize alpha data
Also, transset does not work at all.
By Michael Findlater at Wed, 2005/04/27 - 5:00am
Re: xorg composite
Why do you use xcompmgr instead of kompmgr?
By Anonymous at Wed, 2005/04/27 - 5:00am
Re: xorg composite
I don't seem to have kompmgr.. :o
By Michael Findlater at Thu, 2005/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: xorg composite
It's part of the KDE 3.4 release.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2005/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: xorg composite
I have KDE 3.4, yet do not have it :S
By Michael Findlater at Thu, 2005/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: xorg composite
Actually, neg on that- it's kde 3.3.2, looks like it's time to upgrade.
By Michael Findlater at Thu, 2005/04/28 - 5:00am
Looks Great
Finally a good image browser in Konqueror. I've been trying to find something like that for ages!
Continuous view and table-of-contents support in a PDF reader! Exclamation point! I like! Yay!
Kontact looks great, as usual. But, what's with the weird alignment underneath the headers? Appointments and Anniversaries & Birthdays are centered, To-dos are one tab left of centered, Special Dates are one tab right of centered, and Inbox is left aligned.
Also, Kontact looks to be getting a little cluttered. It looks like one of those apps where they're adding everything everyone needs. I just hope I can remove the things I don't want. I've been considering using a calendar and e-mail app for a while, it's nice to have a contact's list, and I might even use the to-do list (but I wouldn't bet on it), but I definitely don't need a journal, a note keeper, RSS support, or syncronization support. Can that stuff be turned off?
By jameth at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Looks Great
>Can that stuff be turned off?
By Morty at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Looks Great
All this stuff can be turned off, of course.
See that in the summary screenshot, there are just the default settings (no appointments, no to-do, etc.).
Re: Looks Great
By Markus Heller at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Tools for bloggers
Where is this?
I'm recompiling kdeaddons to see if it appears, but I don't see in konq-plugins something that seems related to this...
On a side note: I don't understand why something like kdeaddons exists. Why aren't this plugins merged with it's application? I mean, I understand that they are optional, so a packager will split them. But why the source is in another place?
Re: Tools for bloggers
I've already found it. It's in kdeaddons, in the rellinks directory.
Re: Tools for bloggers
Rellinks is not a blogger tool. This plugin just give access to all the "link" tag in the top of the document throw a new toolbar.
By Shift at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
I wish the icons on Konqueror get hidden by default? I wonder why anyone would want to "cut", "paste" or even increase/decrease fonts by default. I hope the Konqueror widow that is shown is not the default one. Firefox does not seem to be less functional by having fewer items on the menu bar. Konqueor as shown has the disabled icons whose purpose I do not understand. This does not help.
By kb at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
I agree
Couldn't agree more. If some icons were removed, there would be more real estate enabling the "location" and "google" bar to be moved to a position just beside the "stop" button.
By joe at Sat, 2005/01/22 - 6:00am
Hide automatically unused (toolbar,menu..) items!
Oh, so not only we'll not get a less crawded toolbar in konqueror, but that we're adding one toolbar more on it showed by default hehe :-). Maybe it was added only so that people test it more than they would if it were not showed by default or something?
Anyway, I really feel that the solution to the "KDE clutter problem" is just to be slicker. We already have a fairly good framework for customzing in KDE, dcop can do marvelous things!.
My proposition is to just hide automatically unused items in toolbars and menus. It's not a perfect solution of course, but it's far better than actual one. You could always click in the bottom item ">>" and show the rest. If you are curious, you can read more about it in my wish/bug report. The rest of the post will only add some ideas to what I mentinoed in that report!
Note that you could apply my idea in some other places where it could be handy. Where? In KDE Control Center, for example! You rate most used settings. Then you can do many handy things with that information:
and.. what not!!
Maybe when I finish my exams I'll try to write a proof of concept so that people understand better my approach. I've used very little C++ and never for toolkits but I'm willing to learn and already develop in C, php, bash, etc.
Thanks for your time,
By edulix at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Hide automatically unused (toolbar,menu..) items!
Or maybe that's the worst thing one could to.
The problem is not just that too many items are visible but that too many items are _there_.
The main problem with that is that icons and context elements or whatever will have different locations - this is bad. There is a reason why unusded context menu items are only greyed out, but still there - it adds a huge amount of time if you have to look for the option you want all the time because it shifts location depending on what you're doing.
The other issue I have is that this might just be used as an "excuse" to add yet more options and items in places where they aren't really needed.
Like so many people (actual developers, not just stupid users like me) have said before what is needed is more thought as to what option goes where and if it is really needed there.
By Christoph Wiesen at Sun, 2005/01/23 - 6:00am
Re: Hide automatically unused (toolbar,menu..) items!
Microsoft uses this for menus, and while I'm not going to trot out any sort of usability theories as to why, it pisses me the hell off. It's always the second thing I disable, right after 'hide extensions of known file types'.
By Gábor Lehel at Mon, 2005/01/24 - 6:00am


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The co-owner of a controversial sports supplements company claims that more than 20 University of Alabama football players on the 2009 national championship team and others on the 2011 national title team used his company's products, at least one of which — deer antler extract — contains a substance that has been banned by the NCAA.
TUSCALOOSA | The co-owner of a controversial sports supplements company claims that more than 20 University of Alabama football players on the 2009 national championship team and others on the 2011 national title team used his company's products, at least one of which — deer antler extract — contains a substance that has been banned by the NCAA.
No UA players, however, failed NCAA-mandated testing for performance-enhancing substances after the 2011 team's Bowl Championship Series title victory over LSU, The Tuscaloosa News has learned.
The only player who failed an NCAA drug test after UA's 2009 national championship victory over Texas failed the test for marijuana and not for performance-enhancing drugs.
Sports Illustrated reported Tuesday in an online story that Alabama players, along with players at Auburn University and several notable professional athletes, were clients of Fultondale-based Sports With Alternatives to Steroids.
In an interview Wednesday with The Tuscaloosa News, Christopher Key, co-owner of the company, declined to name the Alabama players he claims used SWATS' products, including deer antler extract, in 2009.
As for 2011, the SI story described a video of UA players, including defensive players Quinton Dial, Adrian Hubbard and Alex Watkins, meeting with Key, reportedly recorded in the team's New Orleans hotel two nights before UA's national championship game against LSU.
The SI story says the video shows Key distributing products to the players for free but does not specify if his handouts included the deer antler product.
According to the story, Key tells the players that he will deny that they were provided for free and say that players paid for them.
"I went to the hotel and was there a couple days," Key told The Tuscaloosa News. "Ballplayers would come in before practice, after practice, hang out, chit chat, drink the water, sit under the light and just go in and out."
Watkins later provided a video testimonial for the company — after his eligibility at UA expired — that was posted on YouTube. Watkins claims on the video that he and other players used deer antler extract provided by SWATS during the 2011 season.
Key said no Alabama players from the 2012 team, which also won a BCS National Championship earlier this month, used SWATS' products.
The company's most controversial product is deer antler extract spray and pills, which contain IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor). IGF-1 is among the NCAA's banned substances.
The company also produces modified water, light therapy and hologram chips that are attached to the skin with adhesive — none of which contain IGF-1 — with claims of performance enhancement.
The Alabama athletic department's trouble with SWATS dates back several years. UA released two cease and desist letters on Tuesday, one dated 2009 and the other 2012, which were sent to Key (2012) and SWATS co-owner Mitch Ross (2009). Those letters requested that SWATS not use Alabama players' names or likenesses in promotions or advertising, which could jeopardize a player's NCAA eligibility.
The Tuscaloosa News has learned that SWATS representatives stayed in the same hotel as the UA team several times in recent years before football games but were removed at the behest of UA officials when they were discovered.
The letters also asked that SWATS owners approach UA's athletic training staff with their products, rather than going directly to players with them.
"You can't keep me from selling a product to one of your ball- players. You don't own them," Key said. "If they want to buy a product, they can buy a product. You can't keep me from doing business. We still live in a free country last time I checked, I thought."
Key said SWATS has never used any college athletes' names or likenesses for promotional purposes until after their playing eligibility had expired.
"UA has been aware of this situation for some time, and we have monitored this company for several years," UA spokesperson Deborah Lane said in a prepared statement released Tuesday. "They have twice ignored cease and desist letters sent by our compliance office. We have maintained consistent education of our student-athletes regarding the substances in question and will continue to do so."
NCAA bylaws prohibit extra benefits for players, and a promise of a future endorsement for such a benefit could be deemed an NCAA violation. According to NCAA bylaw 16.02.3, an extra benefit is "any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete's relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation."
According to Key, who is a UA graduate, players on Alabama's 2009 and 2011 teams who used SWATS products paid full price for them.
Key also claimed that he showed SWATS products to
Alabama strength coach Scott
Cochran and trainer Jeff Allen in the summer of 2009 but was unable to convince them of their benefits.
"They said they tried (a holographic chip product) on a few of their athletes, but were not interested," Key said. "What they didn't realize was, there were several athletes I'd already been working with on the team and they were using the products, and they continued to use the products all the way through the 2009 national championship run."
Key said he now wishes he had not shown the video of his meeting with UA players before the Alabama-LSU game for the BCS title, which was taped with a pen camera, to SI.
Key declined to replay the video for The Tuscaloosa News.
According to Key, several players from the 2008 team, including center Antoine Caldwell, tackle Andre Smith, running back Glen Coffee and linebacker Rolando McClain, were given SWATS products for use that season in exchange for a promise of endorsement after the players' college careers had ended.
"This goes back to 2008, me and my partner worked with Alabama (players) who had promised to give an endorsement at the end of the season. When the end of the season came in '08, every one of them said, 'Look, I talked to my agent, and we have to get paid,' " Key said. "They used the product, but then when the time came, they'd promised to give us an endorsement and then chose not to."
Calls placed to Coffee and Caldwell for comment were not returned. Messages were left for agents representing McClain and Smith and also were not returned.
The fact that no UA players tested positive for PEDs after the 2011 championship game, however, is of no surprise to Key.
"IGF-1 synthetic is a no-no, but you can't ban natural IGF-1," Key said. "You'd have to keep every one of those athletes away from milk and meat. Can you do that? Can you enforce that? No, you can't. That's why the NCAA needs to educate
itself on the difference between synthetic and natural. ... These ballplayers have done nothing wrong. They have found a good supplement that is natural and will never cause them to fail a drug test and perform at a high level. What is wrong with that?"
While Alabama players' PED testing was clean, Key's claim that no SWATS product can produce a positive test has been disputed in court. According to the SI story, former St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora sued SWATS over a positive test for a different substance — methyltestosterone — and was awarded $5.4 million in a default judgment in 2011. According to Vobora's lawsuit, his
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For lake locals, one lake festival is a must-see each year. The Dogwood Festival began in 1950 and has now become a tradition.
Each year a grand marshal is chosen for the coveted role to lead the Dogwood parade throughout downtown Camdenton. This year, retiring mayor Dennis North was chosen for the job.
North has been mayor for four years and has fond memories of the Dogwood Festival.
"I think I went to everyone of them," he said. North recalls even going to the first Dogwood Festival held in 1950 when he was a child.
North has lived in Camden County most of his life and has participated in the Dogwood Festival in various ways. He and his wife have ridden horses in the parade in past years and his youngest daughter was crowned Miss Dogwood one year.
North will continue his role as mayor until the next alderman meeting when John McNabb will be sworn into office.
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- Joel at Blackbird has some fantastic porteur photos (as on the right). Note the great chaincases.
- Speedplay has a cool museum of pedals.
- Yvon Chouinard is one of the most innovative businesspeople ever and founder of Patagonia. Here is wonderful talk he gave explaining some of his business philosophies. These are ideas that I very much share. In fact I was a serious rock climber and alpinist in my early days and ran into him a few times, so I've followed his progress since. (Thanks for the tip Ethan.)
- The sideways bike! What can I say?
- Is anyone else interested in economics? Economist's View is on my must-read blogs list.
- And a few of the requisite Japanese bike sites: Revolve makes some lovely frames is a pure and elegant style. This site is a basic guide to bike touring. Cyclecafe is, well, you figure it out.
- Umm, those 650B Velo Orange fenders I said would be here in a few weeks won't. Why? I forgot to send the purchase order. Duh!
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Recently, as VO continues to grow, we've been air freighting some products from Asia to keep them in stock. Air freight is the most environmentally damaging way to move goods, and expensive. Transport by ship is the best way, followed by train and truck. So I'm thinking of making it a VO policy to only use ship and, train, truck transport, except for samples and , occasionally, very light goods. This would mean a longer wait when we run out, but a much lower environmental impact. It might also help keep our prices a bit lower. Plus, I'm getting better about ordering stuff far in advance. What do you think? Would you be willing to wait longer knowing the goods were being transported in a more responsible way?


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You've probably heard of Lyme disease. It's most common in the northeastern United States, the Pacific Northwest, and the northern midwestern states.
People get Lyme disease through tick bites. The disease is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that's usually found in animals like mice and deer.
Ixodes ticks (also called black-legged or deer ticks) are a kind of tick that feeds on mice, deer, and other animals that carry Borrelia burgdorferi. When the tick feeds on infected animals, then bites someone, it can pass the bacterium on to that person.
You probably won't see it happening. Deer ticks are tiny, so it's very hard to see them. Immature ticks (called "nymphs") are about the size of a poppy seed. Adult ticks are about the size of a sesame seed.
It's easy to overlook a tick bite. Many people who get Lyme disease don't remember being bitten. The good news is that most tick bites don't lead to Lyme disease. But it still helps to know the signs of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease can affect different body systems, such as the nervous system, joints, skin, and heart. The symptoms of Lyme disease are often described as happening in three stages. Not everyone experiences all of these stages, though:
The rash sometimes has a characteristic "bull's-eye" appearance, with a central red spot surrounded by clear skin that is ringed by an expanding red rash. It also can appear as an expanding ring of solid redness. It's usually flat and painless, but sometimes can be warm to the touch, itchy, scaly, burning, or prickling. The rash may appear and feel very different from one person to the next, and it might be more difficult to see on people with darker skin tones, where it can look like a bruise. It expands over the course of days to weeks, and eventually disappears on its own. Along with the rash, a person may have flu-like symptoms such as fever, fatigue, headache, and muscle aches.
Having such a wide range of symptoms can make Lyme disease difficult for doctors to diagnose. Fortunately, there's a blood test that looks for evidence of the body's reaction to Lyme disease.
If you think you may be at risk for Lyme disease or a tick has bitten you, contact your doctor. Although conditions other than Lyme disease can cause similar symptoms, it's always a good idea to discuss them with your doctor. That way you can get further evaluation and treatment if necessary, before the disease progresses. This is especially true if you develop a red-ringed rash, prolonged flu-like symptoms, joint pain or a swollen joint, or facial paralysis.
There's no surefire way to avoid getting Lyme disease. But you can minimize your risk. Be aware of ticks when you are in high-risk areas. If you work outdoors or spend time gardening, fishing, hunting, or camping, take precautions:
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No vaccine for Lyme disease is currently on the market in the United States.
Lyme disease is usually treated with a 2- to 4-week course of antibiotics. Cases of Lyme disease that are diagnosed quickly and treated with antibiotics almost always have a good outcome. A person should be feeling back to normal within several weeks after beginning treatment.
Lyme disease is not contagious, so you can't catch it from another person. But you can get it more than once from ticks that live on deer, in the woods, or travel on your pets. So continue to practice caution even if you've already had Lyme disease.
You should know how to remove a tick just in case one lands on you or a friend. First, don't panic. Your risk of developing Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick is only about 1% to 2%. On top of that, it takes at least 24 to 48 hours for the tick to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. (To be safe, though, you'll want to remove the tick as soon as possible.) This is why a daily tick check is a good idea for people who live in high-risk areas.
If you find a tick:
Tick bites don't usually hurt. That's part of the difficulty in knowing whether someone has Lyme disease. So be on the lookout for ticks and rashes, and call your doctor if you think a tick bit you.
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The 2013 Morningstar Ibbotson Conference, set for Thursday and Friday in Hollywood, Fla., is not for the faint of heart. It squeezes in an intense series of finance talks delivered by academically talented and quantitatively focused professionals.
Organizers say it also offers attendees lots of chances to chat in person with Morningstar and other experts about financial theory and practice. And, for better or worse, the event takes place near the warm, sunny beach and pool area of the Westin Diplomat hotel.
"This is Morningstar's premier conference geared to sophisticated professionals and institutional investors, and its content is very different from the yearly advisor-focused conference most of the industry is familiar with," scheduled for June in Chicago, said Thomas Idzorek, CFA, president of Morningstar Investment Management, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
Idzorek compares Morningstar's February confab to the CFA Institute's annual conference. "It's a mix of leading academics and leading professionals in the industry, with general sessions and a large number of breakout sessions," he explained. "It's hosted by Morningstar speakers."
The conference is "really intimate," he notes, and usually has about 350 attendees. "This means that those attending can interact directly with Morningstar experts," Idzorek said.
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Joe Mansueto, chairman and CEO of Morningstar, will kick off the event early on Thursday. He'll also introduce Roger Ibbotson, now chairman and chief investment officer of Zebra Capital Management.
Ibbotson will speak about which types of fundamental market characteristic drive stock returns over the long term, including risk-based factors, liquidity and earnings.
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Marvin Zonis, a professor emeritus from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, will lay out his views on successful global investing. "He's a fantastic speaker on global risk and extremely entertaining," said Idzorek.
In addition, Kevin Kliesen of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will discuss U.S. economic outlook and the issue of whether or not there is a "new normal."
The event's keynote speak will give attendees a break from the markets: Jamie Clark, extreme adventurer, is set to speak on living a life of passion "on your own terms."
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Figs are food for the gods.
Fresh figs have a preciously short season (typically from August-October), so now is the time to indulge. Though the vast majority of figs are produced here in
These captivating tear-drop shaped fruit are singular in appearance, flavor, and texture. First they lure you in with their sweet perfume. Then they tempt you with delicate skin that is lush with ripeness, revealing droplets of golden honeyed nectar. One bite reveals an irresistibly attractive pink flesh that is second only to its swoon-worthy soft, cool, creamy flesh.
Fresh figs are not at all like dried figs (which I also love), so there are few things to know about them.
Here's how to select fresh figs:
- Look for richly colored, plump, unblemished fruits with the stems intact. The skins of figs often have a powdery finish, which is normal. They should be tender to the touch, but not squishy. Fully ripe figs often ooze a clear, syrupy substance clear which is a good indicator of its sweetness.
- If you're not too embarrassed, then take a good whiff. Ripe fresh figs usually emit a delicately sweet fragrance.
- Since figs do not ripen once they're picked, it's best to eat them as soon as possible. Otherwise, place unwashed figs in an air-tight container and cover with a piece of paper towel; they should last 1-2 days.
- Bring figs to room temperature prior to eating, which will enhance their flavor. Wash them gently, remove the stem, and enjoy.
Some fig purists wouldn't dream of adulterating fresh figs with any condiments and will only eat them out of hand. However, like vine-ripened, succulent strawberries, their sweetness is magnified when balanced by salty, bitter, or sour flavors. That's why figs get along so beautifully with salty cured meats like prosciutto, bitter greens like arugula, and sour flavors like vinegar. I needn't tell you that they are divine in desserts ranging from delicate pastries to homey crisps.
This Fig and Mascarpone Bruschetta is a simple yet stylish appetizer. You really don't need a recipe for it. Just follow my basic outline, and feel free to improv. Don't skip the lemon though; it has an amazing ability to counterbalance the fig's sweetness. For a variation, try fresh ricotta cheese instead of mascarpone or add some prosciutto slices.
So, tell me, how do you like to eat fresh figs?
Fresh Fig, Arugula, and Mascarpone Bruschetta
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Select a hard, crusty bread of your choice, such as ciabatta. Make thick slices, and brush with extra virgin olive oil. Broil or toast until golden and crisp.
Quarter the fresh figs. In a medium skillet over medium heat, warm 1 teaspoon of olive oil per 1 quartered fig. Saute for 2 minutes, or until lightly browned and caramelized.
Spread about 2 teaspoonfuls of mascarpone cheese on each toasted bread slice. Top each slice with some fresh arugula, 2 fig quarters, a splash of aged balsamic vinegar, a splash of lemon juice, some kosher salt crystals and freshly ground black pepper, and several thin slices of fresh basil. Garnish with lemon zest curls if desired, and serve immediately.
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Fresh Fig and Fennel Pizza
Goat Cheese and Poblano Quesadillas with Pineapple-Mango Habanero Salsa
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Spinach, Nutmeg, and Ricotta Pie
My friend Chris over at Melecotte has been basking in figgy goodness lately. Be sure to check out her Upside Down Fresh Fig Cake, Figgy Fig Chicken Pockets and more fig recipes.
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"The 21-year-old British star proved beyond a doubt the pure-gold quality of his sonic imagination and his ability to realise it. He can transport his listeners to new dimensions."
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". . . Grosvenor is the most mesmerising young pianist Britain has produced for decades . . . what fascinates his fans is his exquisite touch and the sense that, as he matures, he will unleash the turbulent emotions that can be sensed just beneath his placid surface."
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Benjamin Grosvenor – Biography
British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor first achieved prominence in 2004 as the 11-year-old, youngest-ever winner of the Keyboard section of the BBC's Young Musician of the Year Competition. He has since taken his place as one of today's most exceptional musicians, receiving such accolades as "a master pianist" (Gramophone), "one in a million . . . several million" (The Independent), and "a keyboard visionary" (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
The youngest of five brothers, Benjamin was born in 1992 and began lessons with his mother, a piano teacher, at the age of 6. He has studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and Daniel-Ben Pienaar, where he graduated in 2012 with the Queen's Commendation for Excellence.
Benjamin Grosvenor's 2009 sold-out Royal Festival Hall debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra was hailed as "a performance that took its expressive and dramatic cues from the very heart of the music" (The Daily Telegraph). It followed concerto debuts at the age of 13 at New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall and underscored a career that has subsequently seen concerto appearances around the world. In 2011, he opened the BBC Proms with a performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto no. 2 – the youngest-ever soloist to perform on the "First Night".
A regular guest at London's Wigmore Hall, Grosvenor is also in demand as a recitalist in Europe, North America and the Far East. He is also committed to chamber music, including performances with the Elias String Quartet, Escher String Quartet and Endellion String Quartet. He was a member of the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists scheme during 2010-2012 and has been featured in two BBC television documentaries. His performances have been broadcast widely in the UK, Europe and North America.
Grosvenor's 2012 schedule featured a highly successful North American recital tour, appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Andrey Boreyko, the Minnesota Orchestra under Andrew Litton and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Dutoit at the BBC Proms, as well as recital debuts in Sydney and Berlin and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and London's South Bank Centre. 2013 included the Britten Piano Concerto in Great Britain, Germany, Poland and with the Detroit Symphony, the Schumann Piano Concerto in Canada, Denmark and on tour in the UK as well as numerous recitals in North America and throughout Europe.
Coinciding with the "Dances" release, Grosvenor has two BBC Proms appearances this summer, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations with the BBC Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall on 8 August and his debut Proms recital on the 1 September at Cadogan Hall, which will include the premiere of Judith Weir's composition Day Break Shadows Flee.
The 2014-2015 season will be taking Grosvenor on multiple extensive recital tours of North America, Europe, the UK, Australia and the Far East, including appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Barbican Centre and the Vienna Konzerthaus. Scheduled among his numerous concerto engagements during this period are performances with The Cleveland and Hallé orchestras, San Francisco, Houston, Melbourne, and Singapore Symphony orchestras, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London Philharmonic and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
In 2011, Benjamin Grosvenor became the youngest British musician ever signed by Decca and the first British pianist to join the label in almost 60 years. His first Decca recording, including the four Chopin Scherzi and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, has had critics marvelling: "Grosvenor, you can tell, is a Romantic pianist, almost from another age. He doesn't deconstruct, or stand at a distance. He jumps inside the music's soul" (The Times) and "Grosvenor's balance of oratory and ornament, gesture and poetry . . . are moving as well as impressive" (The Observer). In September 2012, in a unique double honour, not only did his Decca debut CD win the coveted Gramophone Award for "Best Instrumental Recording" of 2012 but the pianist himself was also named "Young Artist of the Year", thus becoming Gramophone's youngest-ever double award-winner. And just a few days later, Grosvenor went on to win the prestigious "Critics' Choice" Award at the annual Classic Brits ceremony and the Diapason d'or Award as "Best Revelation of the Year". His recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and concertos by Saint-Saëns and Ravel was released internationally in January 2013. August 2014 will bring the appearance of his latest Decca album, "Dances" by composers including Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados.