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Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters
Today is Labor Day, and I think that holidays are mostly a waste of time. I think that workers would be better off if they got another week or two of vacation time is stead of holidays.
Another problem with holidays is that they are dedicated to something, and not everyone likes that something or wants to honor it. Some holidays are dedicated to religious holidays, and here in the U.S.A. things that tend toward the establishment of religion are forbidden in the Constitution. That would throw
For many people holidays are days off with pay, but to people who dont work in a place that gives paid holidays they are a pain, and the owners and managers of the businesses that gives paid holidays is one who thinks they are a pain. They are also pains to many people who get paid holidays, but that varies with the individual and the holiday.
To start with, just look at the holidays, and to keep it simple, Ill just consider the days that the feds give off. New Years Day is the
I suppose that there are reasons for holidays existing, but they cant be very good reasons, because holidays mostly just get in the way, and yesterday I heard someone ask why Columbus Day was a holiday. If thats the kind of respect that Columbus gets these days, then he probably would agree that there should not be a holiday for him, even though thats one of better reasons for a holiday.
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The Jaguars said Wednesday that coach Urban Meyer and general manager Trent Baalke were subpoenaed as part of a lawsuit filed by lawyers for Black former Iowa football players alleging discrimination by some members of the school's coaching staff.
The team said Meyer and Baalke submitted a written response to the subpoena, which is seeking information about the Jaguars' decision to hire and then fire former Iowa strength coach Chris Doyle in January.
"We respect and will cooperate with the legal process as required," the team said. "However, the Jaguars have no information that would be relevant to the lawsuit between student-athletes and the University of Iowa."
The federal lawsuit, filed in Iowa, accuses Hawkeyes staff of demeaning Black players with racial slurs, forcing them to abandon Black hairstyles, fashion and culture to fit the "Iowa Way" promoted by head coach Kirk Ferentz, and retaliating against them for speaking out.
The university agreed to pay Doyle $1.1 million in a resignation agreement in June 2020 after scores of former players said on social media that he had bullied and discriminated against them. Doyle has denied the allegations.
An investigation by an outside law firm found the program's rules "perpetuated racial and culture biases and diminished the value of cultural diversity" and allowed coaches to demean players without consequence.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose earlier released athletic director Gary Barta and current strength coach Raimond Braithwaite as defendants. Also dismissed were allegations that Iowa created and maintained a systemic pattern and practice of unlawful race discrimination and that Ferentz failed to train and supervise his staff.
The former players were allowed to pursue claims of intentional discrimination by offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, Kirk's son, and Doyle.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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AT&T plans to extend its dual-personality software for mobile devices, called Toggle, to provide a walled-off and encrypted work environment within PCs and Macs as well as mobile devices.
That new capability is still under development for an unspecified date on AT&T's road map. But, along with other enhancements announced on Wednesday with Version 2.0 of Toggle, it could make the service into a broader platform for remote work. Toggle 1.0 was announced last October for Android devices. Now it is set to ship for Apple iOS in the next few weeks and for BlackBerry and Windows Phone by the end of the year.
Toggle combines a service for enterprises with an app for downloading to consumers' own phones, tablets and other clients. The app divides a mobile device into a personal mode for the usual consumer apps and a secure, encrypted "work mode" just for apps and content approved by an enterprise. Employees can switch to the work mode while on the job and go back when the day is done. It's designed to help companies implement BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policies while protecting themselves.
The new version transforms Toggle from a system built around pushing corporate resources out to employees' devices to one that lets users go to a customized site and download approved apps and content. AT&T even went to a different mobile-device-management software partner, OpenPeak, to develop the new version. Its Toggle 1.0 technology, which the carrier developed with Enterproid, is still available and supported.
AT&T will be moving toward a resale relationship with Enterproid, which offers the Toggle 1.0 technology under the name Divide, said Chris Hill, AT&T's vice president of advanced mobility solutions. AT&T is the exclusive carrier provider of the OpenPeak technology underlying Toggle 2.0.
While the addition of iOS support is a major step in the mobile arena, porting Toggle to PCs and Macs could bring it into another large pool of workers at home and on the road. Those users could access their work applications securely on a personal machine without using any mobile network because the software works on any Internet connection type.
AT&T also plans to add a feature in the fourth quarter that might simplify how the business use of mobile is paid for: It will allow users to put one device on two different plans, one for personal use and one for business. Enterprises will be able to assign all activity carried out by the "work persona" of the device onto a corporate rate plan, Hill said.
"As we move away from the unlimited plans, employees are not going to want to come into the enterprise and …. do corporate work on their own dime," Hill said.
The feature could effectively allow enterprises to recreate the traditional employer-paid mobile account without having to buy and manage devices or worry about personal versus business use.
AT&T can only actually do that account-splitting for its own subscribers, but it's working on ways to let other carriers do the same thing for Toggle users. Toggle's dual device personalities already work on devices from any carrier. To make split plans possible, AT&T is studying how it might share usage data for the corporate portion of a phone with other service providers, Hill said. It already delivers that information to its enterprise customers. Other carriers could use the same data to put together a bill for their subscribers.
Toggle can be useful beyond the classic corporate office environment, Hill said. For example, grade schools could build special profiles for each grade level, with different materials and assignments, and have the right profile pop up on a shared tablet when a student from that grade logged into it. For workers in the field who share a company vehicle, each could customize a device to his or her own preferences and needs and get those by logging in, Hill said.
"Where we're headed is … profiles being driven out of the cloud," Hill said.
Toggle could save a lot of work and worry for enterprise IT departments, where concern about data security continues to grow, said Tolaga Research analyst Phil Marshall. And the idea of personalization could extend to many other areas, such as using multiple personas with different social-networking services, he said. "We're just hitting the tip of the iceberg on what can be done," Marshall said.


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Yes, the planet is still warming
It's a good thing I remembered where I stored all my old ski gear, including the thermal underwear that I hadn't worn in years. I've needed it during a season in which even the Deep South has seen an epidemic of frozen pipes, single-digit temperatures and school cancellations without snow. School kids were allowed to stay home for a day or two because, according to administrators, the weather was too doggone cold.
The deep freeze might have forced most of us into a shoulder-hunching slouch, but it prompted an Easter Parade-like promenade by a crew of familiar climate change skeptics, who trotted out their usual arguments: See, we told you. They're making it all up. The planet isn't getting warmer.
Because the northeast corridor has suffered through severe winters of late, the backlash has become a ritual. But it's nothing more than posturing, akin to positing that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around the earth. Climate change is real — a serious threat to the economy, to the food supply, to the ecosystem.
"This time of year, people will take a cold spell and try to say, 'We told you climate change is not real'," said Dr. Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological Society and head of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia. But, he added, "We'll still have winter in the year 2080, when the climate is likely to be much warmer."
Shepherd, a former NASA climate scientist, likes to explain the cold spurts to laymen with the following analogy: "Weather is your mood, but climate is your personality. Just because you're in a bad mood today doesn't mean that's your entire personality."
On the fact of a warming planet, the scientific consensus is clear: It is. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2013 ties with 2003 as the fourth-warmest year for the planet since records started being kept in 1880. Indeed, 2013 was the 37th consecutive year that global temperatures have been above average. And nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred in this century.
The consequences could be catastrophic. While scientists disagree about some of them, there is broad agreement about drought, heat waves and rising sea levels.
Currently, a "mega-drought" — 13 years long and counting — is afflicting the western United States, disrupting agriculture, destroying forest habitat and sparking fights over the water supply. While climate scientists are reluctant to blame any one drought on climate change, they predict that droughts will become more commonplace.
Then there was Hurricane Sandy, which was so damaging because of extensive flooding along the coasts of New York and New Jersey —the result of sea levels that are higher than they used to be. One of Shepherd's doctoral students will soon publish a paper showing an increase in extreme weather events, tied to climate change, in and around Atlanta, he said.
Even if conservative politicians refuse to concede the evidence for climate change, insurance companies have already done so. Last year, Peter Hoppe, who heads Geo Risks Research at a huge reinsurance firm called Munich Re, told The New York Times: "Numerous studies assume a rise in summer drought periods in North America in the future and an increasing probability of severe cyclones relatively far north along the U.S. East Coast in the long term. The rise in sea level caused by climate change will further increase the risk of storm surge."
The vast majority of Americans accept the evidence — 67 percent, according to the Pew Research Center — but that masks a deeper divide within the Republican Party. Only 23 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents believe that global warming is caused by human activity, while 19 percent say the warming is due to natural patterns. Another 20 percent say they want more evidence, while 25 percent say they don't believe the planet is warming at all — a belief that is especially popular among tea partiers.
Their certainty is cold comfort.


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(CNN) -- Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action. The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets. Just give them a computer and an Internet connection and watch what they can do.
Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi protest in Tehran on June 13, 2009.
At the height of the protests and disorder in Tehran on Saturday and Sunday, Twitter was used to give graphic accounts to a worldwide audience - even if they were a maximum of 140 characters.
Tweets from "Change for Iran" were among several that offered real time updates: "...my friend saying more than 100 students arrested, I can't confirm this but the numbers are high. bastards just attacked us for no reason, I lost count of how much tear gas they launched at us! ...we have now some students with urgent need of medical attention I'm calling out to all ppl who can come here don't leave us."
Some Iranians are already veterans on social networking sites with loyal followings. They offer the world a unique voice: free, unfiltered and very different from what the Islamic Republic of Iran's media propaganda offers viewers and readers.
Internet service is available in Iran but it is still in its infancy. Available in homes, on hand-held devices and in select cafes, the Internet is slow and unreliable at times, says blogger and aspiring journalist Ali from Tehran, a supporter of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mossavi. This makes services such as Skype almost impossible to operate. Watch the role technology has had in the election »
Still, it provides users with an outlet to the outside world as the country waits for broadband and wider wireless coverage. With the absence of text messaging and mobile services -- both were cut off across the country on and around election day and were still blocked on Sunday -- Twitter proved to be the most reliable communication technique between people inside Iran and millions of others on the outside thirsty for any update.
Twitter has enabled people to express to the world their hopes for the elections, excitement at the chance of exercising their right to vote, jubilation in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's camp and shock and disappointment among Mossavi's supporters.
Now they're keeping the Twitterverse ablaze with information about Moussavi, his challenge to the election results and his intent to request their annulment. Moussavi's supporters comfortably outnumber Ahmadinejad's on Twitter but both are represented.
Facebook is also very popular in Iran, says Ali. He wholeheartedly believes that Facebook was the reason behind what he describes as a successful campaign by President Ahmadinejad's main rival.
Ali says Moussavi campaign managers organized supporters, planned gatherings and garnered support through Facebook pages dedicated to the Reformist candidate. "His Facebook page got huge amount of fans on it, pictures spread extremely fast," says Ali. It was used on Saturday and Sunday to organize and announce street protests, to send out warnings about police activity, but especially to keep followers abreast of his whereabouts. They were the first to talk about his forced house arrest.
President Ahmadinejad also jumped on the social networking bandwagon ahead of the race. However, his popularity there pales in comparison to that of Moussavi. Both candidates' pages remain a main source of information for updates and breaking news. In fact we've seen many cases of news breaking on Facebook first while confirmation came later, including Moussavi's house arrest and Ahmadinejad's planned addresses.
According to Iranian bloggers, website filtering falls under the oversight of the Intelligence Ministry in conjunction with the Ministry of Information and Iran's judiciary. Bloggers complain that at times the ministry filters words like "violence," "unrest" and "democracy."
Recently, Ali believes the censors were filtering content based on a candidate's name. Moussavi supporters claim filtering particularly targeted their candidate after his popularity soared and authorities feared he would pose a serious challenge to Ahmadinejad.
Another challenge for Iranians comes from the U.S. Because of its sanctions against Iran, some services like video conversations are not allowed. So, it's a tap dance sometimes to figure out the best way to talk to someone in Iran.
People don't like to use landlines or mobile phones for fear of their calls being traced. They don't like e-mails as they can leave a trace. They do however feel comfortable with services like Google Talk. They find it safe, as no one can see what they look like and with common Iranian first names like "Ali" and "Shahrzad", as my main contacts are named, they find a way to communicate with the world as few Iranians have done before.
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As the longtime publisher of this news-paper, it is my duty and unrestrained pleasure to inform you spittle-soaked readers that I have sold The Onion and all of its various holdings to a syndicate of industrious China-men from the deepest heart of the Orient. One of their representatives oozed and crawled from his dank hut to visit me in person at my bedside last week, and make known his superiors' desire to expand their clammy clutch into the Western world. After subjecting me to a good 20 minutes of infernal bowing and other assorted chinky-dinkery, he offered to pay me what I've been assured is an appropriately absurd parcel of riches to take this tiresome publication off my feeble hands for good.
Naturally, I accepted his heathen bargain without the slightest twinge of regret, and why on earth not? When my ancestor Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel founded The Mercantile-Onion in 1756, he did so with the express purpose of fleecing its porridge-brained readers out of as much precious capital as could be wrung from their grubby, desperately toiling fingers, and I say bully and bully again to that. I may be a news-paper-man through and through, but I still have enough sense in my 141-year-old skull to abandon some silly centuries-old loyalty to the periodical page when there are spacious coffers to be stocked.
Oh, how heavenly it shall be to never again hear the ungodly shriek of a printing press, or breathe the insufferable stench of a news-room full of unwashed scribes churning out mindless pap on the subject of photo-play actresses and their adopted African brood. And as far as the whimpering clods who have the temerity to call themselves "readers" are concerned, I do not suppose I shall miss their ilk in the slightest. Why, just imagining their pallid, toothless faces fills me with such colossal rage that at this very moment my nurse-maid is administering to me a near-lethal dose of laudanum just so I may find the composure to reach the end of this missive.
Any-way, I wish you all the best of luck making sense of the dis-jointed drivel contained in this inaugural issue of the Chinese Onion. If the new owner-ship does not suck the very blood from your veins, they'll surely dizzy you into stupefied obedience with their unnatural black Orient arts. Oh, and in accordance with the contractual terms of the buy-out, let me remind you all that Yu Wan Mei Fish Time is the best Fish Time, perfect eating for you and me and so delicious. That is all.鱼
T. Herman Zweibel, the great grandson of Onion founder Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, was born in 1868, became editor of The Onion at age 20, and persisted in various editorial posts until his launching into space in 2001. Zweibel's name became synonymous with American business success in the 20th century. Many consider him the "Father Of American Journalism," also the title of his well-known 1943 biography, written by Norman Rombauer.


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The Climate Action Tracker
The combination of Government climate action plans, if implemented, would bring global warming down to 2.7˚C, according to an analysis released today by the Climate Action Tracker (CAT).
On the day of the October 1 UN deadline for governments to submit their emission reduction targets, or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for 2025 and 2030, the CAT's estimate of their impact on warming shows that, if fully implemented, they would bring warming down to 2.7˚C – an improvement of 0.4˚C since the last assessment of pledges at the Lima talks in December.
This is the first time since 2009, when the CAT began calculating temperature estimates from climate action pledges, that projected warming has dipped below 3˚C.
"Our December update included pledges and informal announcements by China, the US and the EU, and we estimated an average global warming level of 3.1˚C. The biggest contributing factors to the change in our temperature estimate since Lima have been China and India," said Dr Louise Jeffery of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
China's INDC and related policies would result in a peaking of China's carbon dioxide emissions in the late 2020s, and which will have substantial consequences for post-2030 emissions, resulting in lower overall global warming.
The assessment includes an estimate of India's INDC, due out tomorrow, where significant elements - such as its renewable energy target - are in the public domain, along with recent steps India has taken that reduce its emissions pathway.
However, the CAT's current policy projection (which estimates warming from the policies Governments have in place now) would still see a warming of 3.6°C (3.3 to 3.8°C) by 2100. The INDCs would reduce warming by about 0.6 to 1.1°C from that pathway.
The emissions gap is still set to grow rapidly towards 2030, and there is a major risk that if the INDCs are locked in to 2030, without review, the achievement of the 1.5°C goal called for by the most vulnerable countries may be locked out, and achievement of the 2°C goal fundamentally threatened.
"The INDC process has clearly led to progress, but it is clear that in Paris governments must consider formally acknowledging that their first round of climate plans for 2025 and 2030 will not hold warming below 2˚C," said Bill Hare of Climate Analytics.
"They need to rapidly review these plans by no later than 2020, and revise commitments for the post 2025 period. Based on the INDCs submitted to date, locking in targets for 2030 could be catastrophic for efforts to limit warming below 2oC, so the agreement had better focus on 2025."
The CAT has now analysed 19 INDCs with a combined total of around 71% of global emissions, but have found many of them to be inadequate. With India, the total will be 77% of global emissions.
"All big emitters should seriously reconsider improving their INDCs between now and Paris, or soon after. That only two Governments have climate commitments rated sufficient is not ideal, only two months before Paris," said Professor Kornelis Blok of Ecofys.
"The need to fill the gap between the projected INDC emissions levels in 2025 and the levels necessary to hold warming to below 2°C means significantly more rapid, and costly, action compared to a situation where more ambitious targets for 2025 were adopted and where governments took immediate action now to achieve them," said Niklas Höhne of NewClimate Institute.
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Dr Bill Hare, Climate Analytics: +49-160-908-62463
Dr. Louise Jeffery, Potsdam Institute +49 331 288 2482
Dr. Niklas Höhne, NewClimate Institute +49 173 715 2279
Prof Kornelis Blok, Ecofys, +31 30 662 3399
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent, science-based assessment that tracks government action on climate, meaasuring it against the globally-agreed warming limit of 2˚C. It is a joint project of the following organisations:


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[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.]
Ever wondered what some of the bigger vendors do in response to vulnerability Disclosure? Federico Biancuzzi has written an article on his Disclosure survey which may answer the question for you. Apple, Computer Associates, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo all answered to one degree or another. As always, some of the vendors are a bit weak in the description. Take Oracle for example, who says they want researchers to wait for their patch before disclosing. Next he asks the two big vulnerability purchasing shops iDefense and TippingPoint's ZeroDayInitiative (ZDI) their thoughts. Finally, he asks three prominent researchers; David Litchfield, H D Moore and Michal Zalewski.


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MIT researchers print solar cell on paper
The Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center is experimenting with nanomaterials for solar cells that can be coated onto paper and other flexible substrates.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs.
Susan Hockfield, MIT's president, and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of Italian oil company Eni, on Tuesday officially dedicated the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center. Eni invested $5 million into the center, which is also receiving a $2 million National Science Foundation grant, said Vladimir Bulovic, the center's director.
The printed solar cells, which Bulovic showed at a press conference Tuesday, are still in the research phase and are years from being commercialized.
However, the technique, in which paper is coated with organic semiconductor material using a process similar to an inkjet printer, is a promising way to lower the weight of solar panels. "If you could use a staple gun to install a solar panel, there could be a lot of value," Bulovic said.
The materials MIT researchers used are carbon-based dyes and the cells are about 1.5 percent to 2 percent efficient at converting sunlight to electricity. But any material could be used if it can be deposited at room temperature, Bulovic said. "Absolutely, the trick was coming up with ways to use paper," he said.
MIT professor Karen Gleason headed the research and has submitted a paper for scientific review but it has not yet been published. MIT and Eni said this is the first time a solar cell has been printed on paper.
During the press conference, Scaroni said that Eni is funding the center because the company understands that hydrocarbons will eventually run out and believes that solar can be a replacement. At the same time, he said, current technologies are not sufficient.
"We are not very active (in alternative energy) today because we don't believe today's technologies are the answer of our problems," he said.
Quantum dots
The paper solar cells are one of many avenues being pursued around nanoscale materials at the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. Layers of these materials could essentially be sprayed using different manufacturing techniques to make a thin-film solar cell on a plastic, paper, or metal foils.
Silicon, the predominant material for solar cells, is durable and is made from abundant materials. Many companies sell or are developing thin-film solar cells, which are less efficient but are cheaper to manufacture.
Exploring nanomaterials for a solar breakthrough (photos)See all photos
During a tour, Bulovic showed one of the center's labs, where researchers use a laser to blast light at nanomaterials for picoseconds. A picosecond is one trillionth of a second. The laser provides data on how the light excites electrons in the material, which will provide clues as to whether it will make a good solar cell material, he explained.
MIT is focusing much of its effort on quantum dots, or tiny crystals that are only a few nanometers in size. A human hair is about 50,000 to 100,000 nanometers thick.
By using different materials and sizes, researchers can fine-tune the colors of light that quantum dots can absorb, a way of isolating good candidates for quantum dot solar cells.
Researchers at the center are also looking at different molecules or biological elements which can act as solar cell material. These cheap thin-film materials can be used on their own or added to silicon-based solar panels to enhance the efficiency, Bulovic said.
If 0.3 percent of the U.S. were covered with photovoltaics with 10 percent efficiency, solar power could produce three times the country's needs, including a transition to electric vehicles, Bulovic said. For example, the easement strip on highways could be coated with material that could capture energy from the sun.
But don't expect a revolution in solar power tomorrow.
"I'm giving you a whole bunch of hype," Bulovic said while explaining solar's potential during the tour. "It usually takes 10 years from the time between when you invent something and you commercialize it." He estimated that many of the technologies in the labs were in the first three years of a five-to-seven-year development cycle.


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Sarah Silverman is planing to hold a comedy show in Texas, the home state of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. And she plans to call it "Live From Niggerhead: Stripping The Paint Off Of Good Ol' Fashioned Racism." Take a deep breath. Let it out.
My initial reaction when I heard that Perry's hunting ground in Texas was formerly called "Niggerhead" and that the name was painted on a rock at the entrance for years? Shock, swiftly replaced by a cool, knowing disappointment. Of course it was. This is our American history. Rick Perry's family has been in Texas since before the Texan Revolution. Texas was the last state where slavery was abolished, in 1865. Perry was born in 1950, which means he was 15 before Jim Crow laws were overruled. He grew up in a segregated United States, and in a Texas county that began observing Martin Luther King Day two years ago. A place where a County Judge told the Washington Post: "[Niggerhead] is just a name. Like those are vertical blinds. It's just what it was called." (Perry has said it's an "offensive name that has no place in the modern world.")
Silverman is using the word "Niggerhead" as part of her show title for shock value, but also as a reminder. She tells Entertainment Weekly:
"This is a never-forget moment. The show's provocative name holds a mirror up to an ugliness that seems to have become yesterday's news without having barely even made news."
Good point.
But is Sarah Silverman the best person to hold the mirror? She made headlines ten years ago, when describing getting out of jury duty. She joked that a friend suggested writing "I hate chinks" on her paperwork. "I wanted to do it, but then, I'm like, I don't want people to think I'm racist. You know, I just want to get out of jury duty. So I filled out the form and I wrote I love chinks. And who doesn't? "
Many people — including the president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans — found the joke, and its language, offensive. Obviously Silverman is not the first comedian to use an ethnic slur, or talk about race in a way that makes people uncomfortable. Some folks think that because something is taboo, it's also edgy. But if you are actually oppressed and discriminated against, you probably don't find insulting racist language amusing. The unspoken rule these days seems to be that you should not use slurs — but if you do, you'd better be in the race you're mocking. Chris Rock has used "nigga" to make a point; Margaret Cho has joked, "I was walking down the street the other day and this man actually called me a chink… I was so mad! Chinks are Chinese." In general, though, I'm of the opinion that if you need to rely on jarring, abominable and offensive words, you're probably not that funny.
That said, it is worthwhile to confront Americans with Rick Perry's family history. And even if you don't like that, at the very least, know this:
Silverman plans to donate all proceeds to the NAACP.
Sarah Silverman Plans 'N*****head' Live Show In Rick Perry's Home State — EXCLUSIVE [EW]


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Yosemite National Park is not Disneyland.
That doesn't stop people from doing stupid things.
Nor does it deter them from suing when things go wrong.
It is why the biggest threat to the public accessing national treasures such as Yosemite might be the ferocious species known as class action lawsuit lawyers.
Back in June, deer mice triggered a hantavirus outbreak in Curry Village. When the extent of the problem became known by September three park visitors had died and others were sickened. Also in September, the website www.YouHaveALawyer.com started trolling for clients for a potential class action lawsuit. A blog entry contended "it appears that Yosemite officials may have known or should have known, about the risk of problems at the park, but failed to protect campers."
Whoa. The "park" isn't a Hilton resort. It's nature. It's not the park rangers' job to go around exterminating rodents. Actually they're supposed to protect the rodents as much as possible against the intrusion of man. Yosemite is the turf of the deer mice, not man's domain.
It doesn't matter to lawyers and those who need to blame someone else for their predicament.
That is why it is no surprise the first lawsuit was filed by a Southern California woman by the name of Cathy Carrillo. She insists she got sick with the virus while staying in Curry Village in June. She wants $3.25 million for the ill effects of semi-communing with nature. She contends she has $1 million in medical bills and suffers from diminished lung capacity and low energy.
Her lawyers put the blame on deer mice being allowed to nest in the walls of the newer insulated tents at Curry Village. The mice apparently were drawn by food that guests brought with them.
Carrillo, to her credit, isn't suing Yosemite National Park per se. Instead the lawsuit is aimed at DNC Parks and Resorts that operates Curry Village concession including the tent rentals.
It is an interesting lawsuit in that by renting tents the concessionaire is essentially running a hotel operation. One wouldn't tolerate mice in a Best Western. And if as a guest you got sick from some virus they were carrying while staying in the room you certainly should be entitled to seeking financial damages.
It may sound warped but if Carrillo prevails it will play into the hands of those environmentalists who want all of the tent cabins to disappear. It would effectively wipe out the majority of affordable quarters for those visiting Yosemite who want to stay overnight and don't have their own camping equipment, an RV, or can't get a room in the Yosemite Lodge or the pricey Ahwahnee Hotel.
And while you don't expect to go to a national park and get sick or die, it is still the wild.
Ever see people head to the Mist Trail who aren't even prepared for what is arguably one of the easiest hikes in the park that isn't on the valley floor? They go out in the heat of summer without water. They wear flip flops. They let little kids wander off to the edge of the rushing Merced River.
And they feed the squirrels, often having them eat out of their own hands, despite repeated warnings not to do so. Why? Squirrels — like other rodents — carry diseases and can have rabies. Should visitors have to restrain their behavior or should it be expected that rangers cull wildlife for those that are diseased or carry viruses?
Fourteen people died last year in Yosemite who essentially didn't heed warnings. Most of them got too close to the Merced River sitting or walking on smooth, slippery rocks. Still others actually climbed over rails installed and posted with warning signs not to cross. There are only a handful of such rails located in the 761,268 acres that make up Yosemite National Park.
One hates to see people hurt and killed by bad judgment or because they are emboldened by the fact that walking on rocks looks 90 times safer than some of the stuff that makes its way onto MTV programs such as "Ridiculousness." That's the show where people are captured mostly by cell phone videos getting hurt in bonehead stunts.
If you go to Disneyland you should expect to get off rides such as the Matterhorn safely and not contract some deadly disease before leaving the park.
When you go out into nature, it is at your own risk. The fact the tent cabins are operated as a hotel concession muddies the water a bit but the bottom line is it's nature. As such by venturing into Yosemite you should willingly accept things that can kill you whether it's a virus carried by wild animals or slipping off the edge of a trail.
If you can't accept that risk, vacation in Disneyland's Frontierland and stay out of the real wilderness.
This column is the opinion of Dennis Wyatt and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Journal or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 249-3519.


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After last week's blow to the stock market, investors will be looking for a recovery this week.
All three major U.S. stock market indexes ended lower last week, as investors were spooked when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank might wind down its U.S. economic stimulus program later this year.
The simple mention was enough to drag the Dow Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq down between 1.8% and 2.1% for the week.
Investors might return to taking guidance from the economic narrative. This week, there will be data from the housing market, consumers, GDP and some corporate news to contend with.
The government will release on Wednesday its third estimate of the gross domestic product for the first three months of the year. The second estimate for GDP, the broadest measure of the U.S. economy, rose 2.4% in the quarter. Economists from Briefing.com expect it to stay the same.
Reports on the housing market, which has been soaring as of late, will provide a pulse for a key segment of the economy. New home sales, the Case-Shiller 20-city index and FFHA housing price index are due out throughout the week.
How the consumer is faring will also be on view via personal income and spending, consumer confidence and Michigan sentiment.
On the corporate front, several companies will report earnings this week, including Carnival Cruises (CCL), Barnes & Noble (BKS), Nike (NKE), General Mills (GIS) and Blackberry (BBRY).
The Microsoft (MSFT) Build event is expected to preview the new Windows operating system, codenamed 'Blue,' in San Francisco, from Wednesday through Friday.


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All Weather Bangles (AWB) are the force at BuDhaGirl. These amazing bangles are weightless, soundless, waterproof and TSA proof. Each of the nine bangles in the set is meant to represent an intention for your day. As you put them on, affirm your intentions in the morning, and when you remove them in the evening, fill yourself with thoughts of gratefulness. This daily ritual will settle your mind at the beginning and end of each day. AWB are made of flexible, polyvinyl carbonate rings that are filled with gold dust filament and sealed with our exclusive BuDhaGirl Serenity Prayer bead. This unique, non-metal material allows you to go from the pool, to the office, and through the airport all without needing to take them off.
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Deputies say a 5-week-old north Florida baby is dead after his mother fell asleep with him on her chest and rolled over on him during the night.
A man told deputies his girlfriend went to the living room to wake up her daughter Monday morning and didn't see the baby.
The Ocala Star-Banner reports the baby was under the woman, wedged in some cushions. They immediately called 911 and a paramedic pronounced the baby dead at 6:46 a.m.
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As Microsoft prepares to launch Office 2010, the latest version of its venerable productivity suite, Google is persuading longtime Office users to ditch Redmond's apps and upgrade to Google Docs instead.
A pitch posted Tuesday on the Official Google Enterprise Blog outlines the alleged advantages of Google Docs, a Web-based office suite with word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools that has been around for four years. Google Docs offers strong collaboration features, an important component for enterprise customers, but its browser-based productivity apps can't match the features and polish of the two-decade-old MS Office.
Try Us Anyway
Google's blog post acknowledges that enterprise users may already be running an earlier version of MS Office, be it the 2007, 2003, or even the (ancient) 2000 edition. But rather than uninstall Office, Google recommends that users simply migrate over to the cloud-oriented Docs, which makes Office 2007 and 2003 "better," the company claims.
"For example, you can store any file - including Microsoft Office documents - in Google's cloud and share them in their original format," writes Google Enterprise Product Management Director Matthew Glotzbach. He adds that his company's recently acquired DocVerse technology will enable real-time collaboration directly in Office 2007 and 2003.
Here's a Google chart of Docs' alleged advantages over Office. Yes, it's one-sided, but that's to be expected. Note the cost advantages of Google Docs, which may be its strongest selling point in today's economy. Recently both the Oregon Department of Education and the City of Los Angeles--two cash-strapped government agencies--announced plans to migrate to Google Docs.
Redmond Attacks
Microsoft isn't taking Google's marketing blitz lightly. To counter the cloud-based threat, the company is preparing to launch a new suite of Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. However, as PC World's Yardena Arar notes in her review of Office 2010, Microsoft's online apps offer limited collaboration when compared with Google Docs and other cloud-based suites.
Redmond has also lowered the price of Office 2010. For instance, Office 2007 Standard Edition, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, originally cost $399. By comparison, Office 2010 Home and Business, which includes those four apps plus OneNote, is priced as low as $199.
Google's argument, which centers on cost savings and the convenience of cloud-based collaboration, is a compelling one. Question is, will Docs manage to grab a sizable chunk of Office's enterprise market?
Contact Jeff Bertolucci via Twitter (@jbertolucci) or at jbertolucci.blogspot.com.


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The new iPad's Retina display is stunning for photo exhibition. If you want to maximize this special hardware's photographic potential and manage how much space your images occupy, here are a few ideas for preparing the photos on your Mac before transferring them to the iPad. The result: Major Wow for whomever you show them to.
The basic steps to do this are: prepare your pictures so they look good using your favorite image editor, move them to the iPad, view, and enjoy. You could use the standard workflow of syncing images from an Aperture library via iTunes to transfer them to the iPad. And if all the variables are set correctly, such as using a large enough preview size in Aperture, this can work OK.
But what if you switch Aperture libraries, use Lightroom, or a variety of other exceptions? The following approach tackles this process differently. You prepare the images in any photo application, export them to a folder, then upload them to the iPad using a transfer app such as PhotoSync. This method provides more flexibility and more control. You can set the exact resolution and file size instead of leaving it up to iTunes to make those decisions for you. Let's take a look at it to see if this technique might work for you.
Oh, what size?
The high definition display on the new iPad packs more pixels into the 9.5-inch screen than its predecessors. The resolution is 2048-by-1536 pixels at 264 pixels per inch (ppi). That's higher density than the iPad 2 that weighed in at 1024-by-768 pixels at 132 ppi. To take advantage of the new iPad's increased resolution, consider preparing your images with 2048 pixels on the longest side.
You can use practically any image editing app to get your pictures ready for the new iPad. We'll focus on iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom because of their popularity.
iPhoto vs. Aperture or Lightroom
The bottom line here is that Aperture and Lightroom are better tools than iPhoto for exporting pictures. They offer more control over the process itself, especially concerning the pixels-per-inch setting. In our testing, both color and detail were noticeably better from Aperture and Lightroom output, than from iPhoto.
To export from Aperture, begin by going to File -> Export -> Version. Then, in the Export dialog box, click on the Export Preset popup menu. You're going to create a new preset specifically designed for iPad output. Go all the way to the bottom of the menu and choose Edit. The dialog box that follows will allow you to create the new preset.
Click on the + symbol in the lower left corner and give your new preset a logical name, such as JPEG-2048×2048 for iPad. Then use these settings:
Image Format: JPEG; Image Quality: 9; Size To: Fit Within (Pixels); Width: 2048 Height; 2048 DPI: 264 Color Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Check the box for Black Point Compensation
Click OK to exit the setup and return you to the normal Export dialog box. Make sure that your new settings are selected in the Export Preset pop-up menu. Once you're ready to go, click the Export Versions button in the lower right corner to begin the process. Aperture will create files to your specifications that will look beautiful on the new iPad.
Once you've selected the image in Lightroom, go to File -> Export. The areas you want to navigate to in the Export dialog are File Settings, Width & Height, and Output Sharpening. Use the same settings here that you did in Aperture, except for JPEG Quality amount, which is 80 for Lightroom. This gives you approximately the same quality and file size as 9 does for Aperture.
If you don't have access to Aperture or Lightroom and must depend on iPhoto, then use these settings. First, go to File -> Export. In the dialog box that appears, make sure your are in the File Export tab. Then choose these parameters:
Kind: JPEG; JPEG Quality: High; Size: Custom Max: dimension of 2048 pixels.
Click the Export button. Since you don't have any control over output resolution in this dialog box, the files will most likely have the default 72 ppi setting.
Transfer from the Mac to your iPad
You now have a set of images carefully crafted to your specifications. My favorite app for moving them to the iPad is PhotoSync ($1.99 in the iTunes App Store). It wirelessly receives images sent from the Mac to the iPad. (There's a free companion Mac version in the Mac App Store that you use to send the pictures.) Your pictures appear unaltered in the Photos app on the iPad and in its Camera Roll. They can now be accessed by other applications on the iPad, such as your favorite portfolio app or iPhoto for iOS.
Here are some display options for your beautiful pictures.
Apps to show off your pictures
The basic Photos app does a fine job of displaying your pictures. You can look at the images one by one, or use the slideshow player. There are five transitions to choose from. And you can select a song from your iTunes library to accompany the presentation. It's free and comes loaded on every iPad.
iPhoto for iOS ($4.99) has a good slideshow function that allows for more customization than the Photos app. Tap the Share button on the top right side of the interface, then tap the Slideshow icon. First select the images you want in the presentation via the four options: Selected, Flagged, All, or Choose.
Next you have eight cinematic themes ranging from Ken Burns to Sliding Panels. They come with their own musical theme also, or you can pick a song from your iTunes library. The total impact can be very effective.
Photo Manager Pro ($2.99) for the iPad can handle both file transfer and the image presentation (although I think PhotoSync is easier for transfer). You can swipe from picture to picture and pinch to enlarge. Or you can set up a slideshow that provides options for slide duration, transition style, music, caption, repeat, and shuffle. It's a great all around organizer and presentation tool for the iPad.
Portfolio Pro ($9.99) is a full-fledged presentation app that provides many options for organizing groups of photos and showing them. You can create unique galleries, add your own branding, choose from a variety of customizable themes, and of course show slideshows. Great for photographers who need a flexible, powerful app for client presentations.
Beyond the basics
If you like to "pinch-zoom" your images for a closer look at the details, you might want to add a few pixels to your images while preparing them on your Mac. I had good luck doubling the resolution numbers from 2048-by-1536 to 4096-by-3072 pixels. This allowed me to magnify the image more on the new iPad for a closer look. But keep in mind that the file size goes up too.
My begonia image at 2048-by-1526 (3.1 megapixels) took up 662.6KB on the iPad. When I increased the image resolution to 4123-by-3072 (12.7 megapixels), the file size rose to 2.3MB. That's a fairly high price to pay for a little extra zooming capability.
By the way, files at the older 1024-by-763 resolution won't zoom at all. But they look remarkably good at 100 percent on the new iPad. Like I said, the display is pretty good.
So it really comes down to how important subtle detail is to you, how much you want to zoom in, and how much storage space you're willing to sacrifice to do so. My recommendation is to take advantage of the Retina display's packed pixels and start importing your images at the 2048-pixel width. And unless you have special needs for extended zooming, I see no need to go beyond that resolution.
[Senior Contributor Derrick Story teaches digital photography on Lynda.com and runs a virtual camera club at The Digital Story.]
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By Ricky C. – Product Specialist
When browsing through available products at Sonic Electronix it's a common thought to believe that you're looking at the lowest prices. In some cases, the savings are even better in other sections of the website. If you're looking to stretch your dollar to its fullest, check the Liquidation Station! Here, you can find an entire selection of close out goods which are refurbished or open box. The best part about this section is the products are always changing, so you can find whatever specific product it is you're looking for at an exceptional price.
So what exactly does Refurbished and Open Box mean? Well, when a product is found defective by a manufacturer they will remanufacture the item by reusing its parts, testing it for defect, and certifying the item as Remanufactured, or Factory Refurbished. Since buying brand new electronics also has its risks of defect rates, this process may decrease the rate of defect depending on the reputability of the company that remanufactured the goods. The product refurbished status basically states that the manufacturer has recognized defect at one time, and now has deemed this item as a working product.
When a product is returned to Sonic Electronix within 30 days for whatever reason, if the product is tested in as non-defective and still in good condition the item will be restocked as an Open Box good. If there are any cosmetic defects or missing items from the process this will be factored into the price and also described on the products listing.
The Liquidation Station at Sonic Electronix is definitely a great way to start saving for the Holidays coming up. When searching for great electronics and the best possible deals the Liquidation Station has you covered. Check out the selection of current refurbished or open box goods available and start saving today!


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Roy Jones Jr. to Anderson Silva -- HELL YEAH, I'LL FIGHT YOU
Roy Jones Jr. to Anderson Silva: HELL YEAH, I'LL FIGHT YOU!
If Anderson Silva WANTS Roy Jones Jr., he's gonna GET Roy Jones Jr. -- 'cause RJJ tells TMZ he'll accept Spider's challenge to a boxing match ... but the clock's tickin'.
We spoke to the 44-year-old former boxing champ in L.A. this week ... who says he heard Silva loud and clear when Anderson told the New York Post about his dream to fight a "great champion" like Jones.
38-year-old Silva is currently under contract with the UFC ... but suggested that UFC honcho Dana White should strike a deal to make the fight happen.
As for Roy -- once considered the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet -- he tells TMZ, "I would love it ... Call me and we'll make that happen."
But Roy is concerned about his age -- and says if the fight is gonna happen, it's gotta happen ASAP -- in fact, Jones suggested the two get in the ring right after Silva fights Chris Weidman at UFC 162 on July 6.


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Der Dämonenmacher (Gespenster Geschichten Spezial #94)
Demetrio Sánchez Gómez was born in Pilar de la Horadada, Murcia, and began his career working for the children's supplement Idealidad. He has worked as the inker of Jordi Franch and of Fuentes Man on 'El Hijo de Tarzán'. In the 1960s he furthermore made series like 'La Conquista de la Luna' in Información and 'Grago' in La Verdad. He was also present at publishers like Bernabéu and Dalmau Socias with comics like 'Agente Secreto del CIA' and 'Tumac'.
He has worked extensively for the foreign market. For the American publisher Charlton he has illustrated romance, war, ghost and western stories through the Union Studio. His work has also appeared in Gespenster Geschichten in Germany (Bastei Verlag). From the 1990s he has mainly worked for the British market.


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Report: Jackson tipped off to probe
Federal investigators believe that former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was tipped off to the existence of a criminal probe into his financial activities before he took a leave of absence from Congress in June, according to a report.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the feds don't necessarily believe an investigator leaked word of the probe, which focused in part on the use of campaign funds to decorate Jackson's house but that it possibly came from a person who had been subpoenaed.
( PHOTOS: Jesse Jackson Jr.'s career)
Jackson disappeared from Congress on June 10.
While Jackson disclosed his health problems months ago — the Mayo Clinic eventually diagnosed him with bipolar depression — he did not acknowledge the federal investigation until his resignation letter, sent last week to House Speaker John Boehner.
Recordings from 2008 indicate Jackson also knew of the investigation into now-disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich's handling of President Barack Obama's former Senate seat before the investigation was made public, according to the Sun Times.
A primary election — which should determine Jackson's successor in the heavily Democratic area — has been set for Feb. 26.


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The Spiti Valley and Kinnaur
On the way from Manali to the Rothang pass (elevation 3,978 m).
Going down from the Kunzum pass (4,590 m). Spiti.
Ki/Kye Gompa (Monastery) and village (Spiti).
Ki/Kye village (Spiti).
The Ki/Kye monastery (Spiti).
Kalachakra camp just below the Ki/Kye monastery (Spiti).
Listening to the Dalai Lama. Kalachakra at the Ki/Kye monastery (Spiti).
Reading the scriptures. Kalachakra at the Ki/Kye monastery (Spiti).
After listening to the Dalai Lama. Kalachakra at the Ki/Kye monastery (Spiti).
Langza village (Spiti).
Getting the animals back in the evening. Langza village (Spiti).
Grandmother and grandchild, Langza village (Spiti).
Letting the animals out in the morning. Langza village (Spiti).
Dhankar monastery and village (Spiti).
Village school. Dhankar village school (Spiti).
Blind lady. Dhankar village (Spiti).
Above Dhankar village (Spiti).
Father and daughter. Dhankar monastery and village (Spiti).
Dhankar village (Spiti).
Lalung village (not far from Dhankar) (Spiti).
Girl. Dhankar village (Spiti).
Dhankar monastery (Spiti).
Tabo monastery and village (Spiti).
Nako village at night (Kinnaur).
Kalpa village (Kinnaur).
Near Kalpa village (Kinnaur).
View from the road to Kalpa village (Kinnaur).
Foggy night. Shimla.
Foggy night. Shimla


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== Custom pop-up menus ==
== Custom pop-up menus ==
Revision as of 18:57, 14 August 2019
This section intends to collect material by some users that may be useful to other users.
Feel free to add your material!
- Websites Using J(S)mol
- J(S)mol in the Classroom
- Journals Using J(S)mol
- J(S)mol Literature
- Articles Using J(S)mol
- Books Using J(S)mol
- Wikis Using J(S)mol
- Blogs Using J(S)mol
- CMS Using J(S)mol (Moodle and others)
Course Management Systems, Learning Management Systems, Virtual Learning Environments, e-Learning Platforms
- Applications Embedding Jmol
- Distributions Including Jmol
- Blue Obelisk
For example:
- 1 Jmol logos, banners, icons
- 2 Templates for creating Jmol webpages
- 3 Reusable scripts
- 3.1 Molecule color picker
- 3.2 "Basic" spin toggle
- 3.3 "Foolproof" spin toggle
- 3.4 Slider controls for Jmol
- 3.5 Echoing PDB "Title" to the applet window
- 3.6 Providing a 'please wait' notice while the applet loads
- 3.7 Exporting an image from the applet
- 3.8 Opening a duplicate of the model in a resizable pop-up window
- 3.9 Style transitions
- 3.10 Replacing applet with signed applet upon demand
- 3.11 Including special characters in echo
- 3.12 Center of mass
- 3.13 RIBOZOME - an Alpha Helix Generator script
- 3.14 POLYMERAZE - an DNA Double Helix Generator script
- 3.15 Drawing objects
- 3.16 Element legend
- 3.17 Test if a file exists before displaying it
- 4 Custom pop-up menus
New 2013 Jmol icon and logos
Icon, png:
Windows icon; .ico files cannot be shown on this webpage, but you can download them.
for more icon formats, visit Angel's webpage
Logos and banners:
'Made with Jmol' banners, in several languages: Jmol_Images
Older versions
Templates for creating Jmol webpages
Jonathan Gutow has written a Java program that automates generation of webpages that include Jmol. The two templates below are among the types of web pages that can be generated. When using Jmol_Web_Page_Maker for the templates below, you can choose the view(s) to be displayed inside the Jmol application and have the necessary scripts, images plus .html code generated and saved automatically. Visit his website.
This is now superceeded by the "export to web page" ability included within recent versions of Jmol application (11.3.x).
Easy assignments for students or quick building of a simple page!
SChiSM2 is a program running in a web server that lets you easily create a web page that includes interactive molecular models using JmolApplet.
- SChiSM2 home page
- A description has been published:
- S. Cammer (2007) SChiSM2: creating interactive web page annotations of molecular structure models using Jmol. Bioinformatics 23:383-384. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl603 [1]
Jmol "pop-up" and "pop-in"
Delays the appearance of Jmol panel until the user requests it. An image or caption is shown and upon user's choice it is replaced by the applet.
No more waiting for Java and Jmol to load if you are not interested in the 3D model!
Two methods have been developed:
- Method A - versatile: The user clicks to see the 3D model, and chooses whether it will be opened inline within the page (âpop-inâ), or in a common pop-up window, or in separate pop-up windows for each model. (Uses <iframe>.)
- Method B - simpler: The user clicks to see the 3D model, always inline within the page (âpop-inâ). (Uses <div>.) (A similar method is used on Jmol home webpage.)
You can find more details, demo pages and downloadable templates for both methods at Biomodel website.
For an alternative method, see Bill Reusch's page that uses innerHTML.
For other pop-up solutions, see also below.
Dynamically resized panels layout
Six templates for dividing the screen into two or more panels, either for Jmol or for content, all sized in percent relative to window size, using the whole window space, and automatically resized when the window is resized; no scrollbars in Jmol section, scrollbars in content if needed, no duplicate parallel scrollbars.
No more guessing the user's screen resolution, browser chrome, default font size!
You can find more details, demo pages and downloadable templates at Biomodel website.
Reusable scripts
Molecule color picker
The code below was used to create the palettes shown above. It's a pure javascript color picker that can be used for changing color of selected part of molecule, applet background, or any feature of the model (cartoons, surfaces, etc.).
Sample of use, JavaScript code needed, example page: Recycling_Corner/Molecule_color_picker
"Basic" spin toggle
Quite trivial, but compact and useful. However, if other scripts, controls, or the user change the spin status, the checkbox will need to be reset accordingly using javascript. (To avoid this limitation, see the "foolproof" solution below)
It will work with any version of Jmol (as long as
Jmol.js is being used in the web page).
jmolCheckbox("spin on", "spin off", "spin", false)
if the model is initially not spinning (the default);
jmolCheckbox("spin on", "spin off", "spin", true)
if the model is initially spinning (due to another script).
(The word "spin" above can be changed to any other text you like.)
"Foolproof" spin toggle
Reads the current spin status from the applet and changes it, so it can cope with any other previous change via script, popup menu, page controls, etc.
The best and simplest trick:
Valid for recent versions of Jmol:
jmolButton("if(_spinning);spin off;else;spin on;endif","toggle spin")
Or even more compact:
jmolButton("spin @{!_spinning}","toggle spin")
(If you prefer
jmolLink, it can be used in the same manner. If you don't use
Jmol.js, and you have a good reason for not using it, you will know how to modify this code.)
(The words "toggle spin" above can be changed to any other text you like.)
The old trick:
Only compatible with Jmol 11.x (as long as
Jmol.js is being used in the web page).
jmolButton("show spin", "toggle spin")
(If you prefer
jmolLink, it can be used in the same manner.)
(The words "toggle spin" above can be changed to any other text you like.)
You must include these additional pieces of code:
Somewhere between
<script> tags (recommended: within the
head section):
function messageProcess(a_,b_) { // Convert both parameters from Java strings to JavaScript strings: var a = (""+a_).substring("jmolApplet".length) var b = ""+b_ // a_ will start with "jmolApplet": strip and leave just the ID part /* SPIN DETECTION AND TOGGLE */ if ( b.indexOf("set spin") != -1 ) { if ( b.indexOf("spin on") != -1 ) //was spinning { jmolScript("spin off", a) } else //was not spinning { jmolScript("spin on", a) } } /* END of SPIN DETECTION AND TOGGLE */ }
and somewhere between
<script> tags, after the call to
jmolInitialize() and before the call to
jmolSetCallback("messageCallback", "messageProcess")
(The word "messageProcess" above can be changed to any other text you like, as long as it is the same in the above two sections of code.)
Slider controls for Jmol
See Recycling_Corner/Slider controls
Echoing PDB "Title" to the applet window
The following JavaScript code snippet will report the title of a PDB entry to the applet window when a PDB file is loaded. This should be included within a JavaScript portion of the html file that loads the applet and the PDB file. One caveat: the "TITLE" in a PDB file is depositor-generated and may or may not be "useful" to the end user! :)
var headerInfo = jmolGetPropertyAsString("fileHeader"); var cutUp = headerInfo.split("\n"); var headerstring=""; for (l=0;l<cutUp.length;l++) { var regexp = new RegExp("TITLE.{5}(.*)\s*"); var temp = cutUp[l]; if (temp.search(regexp) == 0) { temp2 = RegExp.$1; temp2.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "").replace(/\s+/g, " "); temp2 = temp2 + "|"; headerstring += temp2; } } } headerstring.replace(/TITLE/, ""); jmolScript("set echo depth 0; set echo headerecho 2% 2%; font echo 12 sanserif bolditalic; color echo green"); jmolScript('echo "' + headerstring + '"');
Bob Hanson has also contributed this much more elegant way to accomplish the same thing all within JmolScript:
function getHeader() var titleLines = getProperty("fileHeader").split().find("TITLE").split() for (var i = 1; i <= titleLines.size;i = i + 1) titleLines[i] = (titleLines[i])[11][0].trim() end for return titleLines.join("|") end function set echo bottom left echo @{getheader()}
Providing a 'please wait' notice while the applet loads
in a separate page
Exporting an image from the applet
An image of the current view may be exported from the Jmol applet, either
- in a pop-up window, also compatible with JSO and JSmol.
- inserted into the same web page
Opening a duplicate of the model in a resizable pop-up window
The model, with is current state, is duplicated or cloned into a new (pop-up) window so it may be displayed at a larger size (and the user may resize that window at will).
See Recycling_Corner/Duplicate_Pop-up
Style transitions
Smooth transitions from one rendering style to another.
Spacefill to ball & stick
for (var i=0;i<=9;i++) { s=100-80*i/9; spacefill @s%; w=0.9-0.75*i/9; wireframe @w; delay 0.2; }
Can be given in a single line:
for(var i=0;i<=9;i++){s=100-80*i/9;spacefill @s%;w=0.9-0.75*i/9;wireframe @w;delay 0.2;}
Replacing applet with signed applet upon demand
The signed applet has certain capabilities that the unsigned applet lacks, but using the signed applet will raise some dialogs with security warnings that the general user may find scary and, if permission is denied, the expanded features will not be available and hence the page will fail to do what is expected.
This may lead to a situation where webpage authors wish to use the unsigned applet by default and make the switch to the signed applet if and when the users requests a certain capability (like saving a model to disk). The code here will do that.
The rationale is:
- Store the current state of the model in the applet so that it can be restored after the applet switch.
- Destroy the applet object.
- Insert the signed applet in the same place.
- Load back the model and state.
Latest Jmol.js (post-26 Sep 2011, Jmol_12.2.RC8 or later) includes a new
jmolSwitchToSignedApplet() function to do this replacement easier:
The code (html + JavaScript, relying on Jmol.js):
<script type="text/javascript"> jmolInitialize("."); jmolApplet(400, 'load example.mol;', 'ABC'); </script> <br> <input type="button" value="make the switch" onClick="jmolSwitchToSignedApplet('ABC')">
That's all! Note that 'ABC' is an example of an applet suffix ID, and if omitted will default to '0' (zero) in both
jmolApplet() and
- This method has not been thoroughly tested and might fail or break the page; particularly, testing under different browsers and OS's is needed.
Including special characters in echo
Non-keyboard characters may be included in echo texts using their Unicode character number, like this:
echo "\u03B1 is the alpha letter"; echo "\u2192 is an arrow pointing right"; echo "\u00B2 is the superscript two, or square power";
Note that, in these cases, the use of quotes surrounding the echoed text is compulsory.
Center of mass
Jmol centers the model around its geometric center, i.e. the center of the boundbox. If you are interested in the mass center of the molecule:
See Recycling_Corner/Center_Of_Mass
RIBOZOME - an Alpha Helix Generator script
Creates an alpha helix from a user input string.
A script for the Jmol Application and also applied to a webpage with a J(S)mol object.
See Recycling_Corner/Alpha_Helix_Generator
POLYMERAZE - an DNA Double Helix Generator script
Creates a DNA or RNA single or double helix from a user input string.
See Recycling_Corner/DNA_Generator
Drawing objects
To draw a cylinder, you need this information:
- two points that define the axis of the cylinder and its length
- each of these may be an XYZ coordinate, an atom, the center of an atom set, or a reference to another previously drawn object
- the diameter of the cylinder (in Angstroms)
Examples (with two XYZ points):
// open cylinder (tube): draw myCyl diameter 6.0 color translucent cyan cylinder {13 1.58 9.3} {15 1.21 15} mesh nofill; // closed at both ends: draw myCyl diameter 6.0 color translucent cyan cylinder {13 1.58 9.3} {15 1.21 15} fill; // closed at one end: draw myCyl diameter 6.0 color translucent cyan cylinder {13 1.58 9.3} {15 1.21 15} fill; draw myCap diameter 6.0 color opaque cyan circle {13 1.58 9.3} {15 1.21 15};
For options, see documentation for the draw command.
Starting from these:
- two points that define the main axis of the ellipsoid and its length
- each of these may be an XYZ coordinate, an atom, the center of an atom set
Example, with two atoms (numbers 3 and 7) at the ends of the ellipsoid:
atA = {atomNo=3}; atB = {atomNo=7}; dC = {(atA,atB)}; // defines the center, midpoint between both atoms dE = 0.5; // eccentricity (<1 for cigar-shaped, 1 for a sphere, >1 for disk-shaped) dR = 7; // resolution of the mesh or surface dX = {atA}.x - {atB}.x; // for defining the orientation dY = {atA}.y - {atB}.y; dZ = {atA}.z - {atB}.z; dL = {atA}.xyz.distance({atB}.xyz) /2; // length of the main ellipsoid axis isosurface myEllipA color blueTint scale @dL resolution @dR center @dC ellipsoid {@dX @dY @dZ @dE} mesh nofill; isosurface myEllipB color translucent 0.7 lime scale @dL resolution @dR center @dC ellipsoid {@dx @dy @dz @dE} fill;
Resolution and eccentricity will need to be adjusted depending on your case.
Element legend
This will work with any loaded molecule (it automatically reads the list of elements present).
It requires Jmol 14.6.0 or later.
Use either with
color echo black; background white;
or with
color echo white; background black;
function createElementKey() { var y = 90; for (var e in {*}.element.pivot) { var c = {element=@e}.color; draw id @{"d_"+ e} diameter 2 [90 @y %] color @c; set echo id @{"e_" + e} [91 @{y-1} %]; echo @e; font echo 24 bold sans; y -= 5; } } createElementKey;
Test if a file exists before displaying it
Using HTML, Javascript and Jmol scripting:
A Javascript function:
function loadFile(x) { var s = 'filedat = load("' + x + '"); exists = true; '+ 'if ( filedat.find("NetworkError") != 0 ) { exists = false; } '+ 'elseif ( filedat.find("Not Found") != 0 ) { exists = false; } '+ 'if ( exists ) { load var filedat; } else { zap; set echo e0 50% 50%; set echo e0 center; echo "This file cannot be found"; }'; Jmol.script(myJmol, s); }
And the HTML element calling it:
<input type="button" onClick="loadFile('test.mol')" value="load it">
Using only Jmol scripting:
[... to do ...]
Using an AJAX call:
[... to do ...]
Jmol (both application and applet) allows a customized pop-up menu instead of the standard default menu. Their definition and use are explained in Custom Menus.
Users, if you design a new menu, please, share it here.
This is devised to ease the handling of the menu by inexperienced users with only basic tasks, in tutorial pages of simple biomolecules.
It includes just these entries:
- Style - with simplified contents.
- Color - compacted to have less submenu nesting.
- Spin - just with on/off, no axes or speed options.
- Select - a bit simplified.
- Advanced (*) - a new entry including:
- Choose menu (*) - that allows to revert to the standard full menu.
- Language
- Console
- About
(*) These are new entries, and so will not be localized; you may wish to edit them for your intended language.
You can get this custom menu here.
This is devised to ease the handling of the menu by inexperienced users with only basic tasks, in tutorial pages of organic/inorganic molecules (no crystallography, symmetry, vibration or animation, no pdb-related options).
It includes just these entries:
- Style - with simplified contents.
- Color - simplified.
- Spin - just with on/off, no axes or speed options.
- Select - a bit simplified.
- Measurements
- Advanced (*) - a new entry including:
- Choose menu (*) - that allows to revert to the standard full menu.
- Language
- Console
- About
(*) These are new entries, and so will not be localized; you may wish to edit them for your intended language.
You can get this custom menu here.
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Pre-Race Rambles
2 am. I roll over and peek at my watch to see the time. I still have just over an hour until my alarm is supposed to go off. All of a sudden my brain says, "I'm doing Ironman today!" And that is it. My brain starts whirring and there is no going back to sleep now. Instead I lie in bed until the alarm goes, then I jump out and get in the shower. I realize the shower is a bit of a moot point, but I like to start my races fresh and clean. I put on the clothes I plan to wear for the first two segments of the day – my Zoot cycling shorts and my Team Tri Life top. I throw on some warm clothes that will eventually go into my dry clothes bag, grab my stuff and go. My friend Tara was staying with me at my parents' place in Kelowna so we head off in the car together, with the Boyfriend driving us to the start. My parents will arrive a bit later. The roads are dark and quiet and the drive goes by quickly. I manage to eat my peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich along the way and drink some coffee. Boy the coffee tastes good!
We find a parking spot along a residential street, fairly close to transition but away from the road closures. We arrived at Main Street pretty quickly and I had to say goodbye to the Boyfriend as we entered the athlete only area. I expected it to be harder, but we just said goodbye and perhaps "I'll see you soon." As I walked away I realized I could still see clearly and I had forgotten to give him my glasses! Oops! Luckily he wasn't too far away and I passed them off to him. I'd mostly need my prescription sunglasses during the day and I didn't want to risk losing my regular glasses. Luckily I can see well enough without them that I can make do.
We dropped off our special needs bike and run bags into the appropriate cardboard boxes, then made our way to transition. I found my bike and started loading nutrition on it – one bottle of regular strength Infinit in my aero bottle, one four hour bottle of concentrate in a bottle cage. Peanut butter wraps and pretzels in the bento box. I gave the tires a squeeze and they felt fine so I didn't bother taking them over to bike support to have them pumped. Tara's tires hadn't lost any pressure overnight so I was sure that mine were fine too. After that it was time to start the porta-potty dance! I kept finding friends and teammates in transition. I also ate a banana and sipped on a bit of Infinit to make sure I would be properly fuelled. After all, it would be a long time between my peanut butter sandwich and when I'd first be able to eat on the bike. Pretty soon it was 6:15 and it was time to get the wetsuit on. My friend Kelly and I made our way onto the beach together and right away I spotted the Boyfriend, right up by the railing. I ran over and gave him a hug and then I was almost ready to cry. I got in the water, got wet, checked the goggles were working and then the pros were off at 6:45. The final 15 minutes until the age groupers were to go flew by. All of sudden it was 7 am and it was go time!!
Swim (2.4 miles)
I walked through the water and underneath the flags signalling the start line. A lot of people were still walking so I followed suit as I didn't want to swim into a bunch of legs. Finally more and more people ahead were swimming so I started swimming too.
I quickly found a rhythm, bilateral breathing. I kept repeating in my head, "slow is smooth, smooth is fast" over and over again. I just needed to focus on swimming and nothing else. I started around the middle of beach and I wound up swimming quite close to the buoys. Inevitably folks would reach the buoys, pop their heads up and start breast stroking. I had to be careful not to get kicked in the face. A couple people were a bit aggressive out there, pulling arms and legs, but as we spaced out it got better.
The buoys were all numbered…13 out to the first house boat I think? At the house boat there were all kinds of folks on board cheering and it was awesome!! I turned the corner and swam to the second house boat with more people cheering. It went by so quickly. It looked like the folks on the house boat were having a BBQ? I bet it was yummy. As I turned the corner I spotted a diver below. I tried to wave at him or her but I don't think they saw me. At this point I decided to take a peak at my watch. I was floored, it was way earlier than I anticipated. On the way back I was having trouble sighting and found myself veering of course a bit. Luckily it wasn't too bad, I'd just notice from time to time that there wasn't anyone beside me. Finally I was past the last few buoys and the water was getting shallow. I could touch the bottom, but the bottom consisted of big huge rocks. People around me were walking but I didn't want to walk over big, uncomfortable rocks so I just kept swimming until the last possible moment. I stood up, stumbled over the rocky bottom and made my way up the beach. As I walked out of the water I unzipped my suit and had it down over my arms and at my waist to make things easier on the wetsuit strippers ahead. The crowd was amazing! People were standing in the water, cheering us on and it was so loud. Steve King said my name as I crossed over the timing mat. Ironman swim done – check!
3800 m swim – 1:33:56 – a good 10 minutes faster than I figured it would take!
I had checked my prescription sunglasses in at the table right at the swim exit. They had marked my left cheek with green zinc sunscreen and as soon as the volunteers saw me they had my glasses out and handed to me. I pointed at two wetsuit strippers and they had my wetsuit off quickly. They helped me up, handed me back my suit and I ran to find my bag. Luckily I was very near the front of my row for bags so I grabbed it quickly and ran into the change tent. A volunteer came over right away, told me where to sit and proceeded to go through all of the gear in my bag. Helmet, socks, bike shoes, Garmin. I had a wet washcloth in a Ziploc bag to rub my face with (and to make sure I could rub that green zinc off). I had a small towel in there to dry my feet and get rid of any grass before I put my socks on. I decided to forgo my arm warmers. I sprayed my face and shoulders with a small bottle of sunscreen, then I was outta there! Luckily my bike was super easy to find as it was at the very end of its rack (and well, let's not kid, a lot of the bikes around mine were already gone). I turned my Garmin on, grabbed the bike and walked out. Overall a pretty efficient transition I think!
Up next…the bike!


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DSA-2998-1 openssl -- security update
- Date Reported:
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- Affected Packages:
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- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3505, CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512, CVE-2014-5139.
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