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Monday, January 31, 2011
5 Bodacious Bookends
Books play a big part in many of our homes - which is why I alternate between providing advice on how to dispose of those you no longer need, and providing information on how to store the keepers.
For now, let's look at those keepers - and some bookends that might help. The balloon dog bookends were designed by Imm Living and are sold by Park Life, among others. They are also the subject of a legal controversy involving Jeff Kooms, as explained in The Bay Citizen. The bookend is made of cast resin and weighd 6 pounds; it's available in perkwinkle and orange.
These stacked brick bookends come from Gluekit; they are also sold by Supermarket, where I first found them.
Those of us who grew up reading Nancy Drew books might like these Nancy Drew Silhouette Bookends. Update on Nov. 20, 2105: The site that sold these no longer does so, and I haven't found another source.
If you want bookends with a lot of heft - and you don't mind spending a lot of money - you can get these mid-century solid steel rail track bookends. Update on June 8, 2011: The site that was selling these no longer carries them, although I found what looks to be the same thing on an auction site.
And finally, take a look at these reclaimed stiletto bookends!
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Treat Your Books to Some Nice Bookends: The Elephant Edition
Bookends for Those Who Haven't Totally Converted to the Kindle, Nook or iPad
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Labels: organizing products, organizing the books
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Cubes, Boxes and Other Modular Storage
Our organizing needs change over time - so modular storage that provides flexibility in the configuration can be a real help. And sometimes we have to fit storage into a strangely-shaped space - and modular options can help with that, too.
Let's start our tour of some options with one of the more amazing ones: More, from Studio Caporaso. Take a look at the Caporaso web site to see some of the many ways the basic cubes can be combined - you don't have to send them off at weird angles!
It's often hard to figure out how to buy items like this, from Italian design companies, so I wrote to Caporaso for information. I got back a lovely note from I'Ki Art & Design (e-mail email@example.com), which said that the "MORE bookcase is available in different materials and finishing. ... If you are interested in buying MORE you can do it answering to this mail; price for public starts from euro 2860,00 (the one in the photo, in lacquered wood with satin masks in methacrylate, has got a price for public of 3930 euro). [via the Bookshelf blog]
From Nonah, a French company, we get the Salamandre bookcase, made in Latvia. Nonah bills itself as selling "ecological furniture for children." [also via the Bookshelf blog]
Another neat option - but, for now, only if you live in France or Spain - is the BrickBox. [via Furniture Fashion]
And from Europe, yet again, there's the Stacked shelf system from Muuto. [via Apartment Therapy]
If you live in the U.S., I have options for you, too. Here are the Suzy Cubes from Hardwood Artisans - available in a single wood, or in this striped look.
Levenger has its BookBoxes. Update on Aug. 31, 2013: Levenger doesn't see these any more.
Boltz has modular steel bookcases.
Reform has its Ferris Shelving, also made of steel. Each cube is available in one of eight colors, and your choice of perforated backs or not. Glass doors are also available.
And I just realized that while I've mentioned Smart Furniture before, I've never specifically mentioned its Smart Shelves. I'm very fond of Smart Furniture, because I recently bought my Herman Miller Scooter Stand there - and got amazing customer service.
Related Posts:
10 Options for Modular Shelving
10 More Options for Modular Shelving and Storage
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Monday, January 24, 2011
January 2011 Organizing Tips and More
My December 2010 / January 2011 newsletter is now available.
Tip of the Month: Decluttering as a Treasure Hunt
Update on My Own Decluttering: the file cabinets
Product of the Month: P'Kolino Play Kits, sold (among other places) at The Shelving Store.
Also: Organizing Quotes of the Month
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Reader Question: Locking Mailboxes
I'm wondering if you've done any research on mailboxes. I'm looking for something large enough to hold a few days mail, but that's also attractive and not a custom order. So many of the ones I've seen are ugly. Now to push it a little further, I'd love to find a box that works on a fence or a gate so that the public/street side is a mail slot and the private side has a secure box to hold the mail with the ability to take the mail out on the private side of the fence.
This message arrived a couple days after I read about the issue of "protecting mail from identity thieves." [Thanks to Naomi Seldin] So let's look at mailboxes that are secure and at least somewhat attractive - including some that might work for the reader.
The Bobi mailbox shown above can be wall-mounted or curbside mounted. It comes in six colors - a bunch of neutrals, and red. But two models (the Classic-B and the Grande-B) have rear doors, and they are shown mounted to a gate. They are made of "stainless steel or zincplated steel which is covered with a polyester coating." The mailboxes are made in Finland, but they're available in at least 15 countries: much of Europe, as well as the U.S., Canada and Japan.
Another option is the Janzer thru-fence mailbox - but unfortunately, this is the only picture on the Janzer web site. The mailbox is made of aluminum. Update on Sept. 8, 2018: It seems that Janzer no longer makes this mailbox.
If you're looking for a curbside product rather than one on a gate, there are a few options with front slots and rear doors. You could consider the CurbVault. It looks a bit odd to me, but it has lots of useful features. This one is made of steel, and it comes in four colors. [photo from Gardecor, one of many sites selling this product.]
And then there's House Box, from Ready Steady Co., made of stainless steel. [via Apartment Therapy; see the comments there about getting postmaster approval]
The MailCase is a more traditional post-mounted option - and doesn't have a rear door.
And for those of us who need a simple wall-mounted option, the Peninsula locking mailbox from Architectural Mailboxes is quite nice; it's stainless steel. The company also makes other locking mailboxes, including post-mounted ones.
And if you have a sheltered location for your mailbox (and a lot of money to spend), you could get this teak mailbox from Semigood Design, handcrafted in Seattle. Both locking and non-locking versions are available.
Finally, this cow mailbox is not a locking one - but I just had to share it. [via Stacked Books]
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Labels: identity theft
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Reader Question: Key Cabinets
Have you blogged about fancy key cabinets?
No, but I'm glad to do so now!
Many of the nicest ones I found came from Europe, including this avainkaapit from Veico, in Finland. (I'm so thankful for online translation tools!) There are 10 different designs, including one with an elk.
Moving over to Denmark, we've got the nautic key box from Skagerak, also sold by Salcombe Trading in the U.K.
Over in France, Derrière la porte provides this armoire à clés - and here's another design.
The Schlüsselkasten from HAKU isn't fancy - but it you want something simple with a bit of color, it's ideal. You can also find it in the U.K.
Speaking of the U.K., I've already blogged about the amazing key cabinet from the Edward Barnsley Workshop. Here's a very different one - the Union Jack key box.
Blomus is a German company, but its products - including this key box - are widely available.
And finally, here's the Help! key cabinet, from Wrapables in the U.S.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Feng Shui Your Life
You cannot be successful in the way you have dreamed of if you are stuck in the quicksand of clutter. — Jayme Barrett, Feng Shui Your Life
I'm not a feng shui expert - I call one in when I need one. But I'm aware of the general principles - at least those of one school - having read (and enjoyed) The Western Guide to Feng Shui by Terah Kathryn Collins, and Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, by Karen Kingston.
And now I have another book I'm enjoying. Author Jayme Barrett first mentions clutter right at the start, under Feng Shui Essentials, saying, "Clutter is one of the biggest deterrents to creating good feng shui in your life."
In her chapter dedicated to clutter and space clearing, she goes on to identify four types of clutter:
Common Clutter: You have too much unused, unloved, unnecessary, and messy stuff littering your space. Examples include junk mail, broken objects, old newspapers and magazines.The chapter goes on to talk about the importance of a clutter-free life, reasons that clutter builds up, and steps for getting rid of that clutter.
Symbolic Clutter: You have objects that consciously or unconsciously affect your emotions and thoughts in a negative way. Examples include unsuccessful projects, gloomy artwork, and disheartening books.
Energy Clutter: ... Examples include photos of people who disapprove of you, gifts from past relationship, and inherited furniture you've kept out of guilt.
Mental and Emotional Clutter: These are unresolved emotional issues, tasks you've been avoiding, and draining relationships.
Another section of the book deals with the bagua - a map of nine energy centers that you "superimpose on the layout of a house, apartment, guest home, office, or room." As Jayme writes about each center, she again stresses the importance of eliminating clutter; it's in her list of "no-no's" for each one. The book then goes on to provide suggestions for each room in your home: bedroom, bathroom, foyer, home office, etc.
One of the many things I like about this book is that it doesn't try to dictate one right way of doing things. A number of suggestions are provided for each space, and Jayme also says, "It's better for you to love your space than to have absolutely perfect feng shui everywhere."
I got this book from my library, and found I kept wanting to highlight things - so this is one of the few library books I'm going to wind up purchasing.
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Labels: books
Monday, January 17, 2011
Shelving: Using Under-the-Window Space
Rooms with lots of windows can be delightful, with all that natural light, and often some inspiring views: a cityscape, a lovely yard, etc. But sometimes those rooms present storage challenges - and that's when under-window bookcases can come in handy. Low shelves can also be good for storing things you want younger children to be able to reach.
Let's look at some options - there are many styles available - going from the shortest to the tallest. All of these would fit under the window in my home office.
We'll start with the Offi bench box, at only 22 inches tall - 23.5 inches with the optional casters.
Then there's the Mission under-window bookshelf from L.L.Bean, at 24 inches tall. A very similar (if not identical) product is the under-window bookcase sold by Manchester Wood.
Levenger's No-Room-for-a-Bookcase Bookcase is also just 24 inches tall. Update on April 15, 2014: Levenger no longer sells this bookcase.
If you have a bit more room, there's this window bookcase from Rush Industries, which is 26 inches tall.
Lilly and Lolly, in Australia, is the source for this bookcase; it's 69 cm (about 27.2 inches) tall.
The Curvee shelf, available in seven different colors, is a bit taller at 27.6 inches. [via Apartment Therapy]
The TrueModern low bookcase is quite a bit taller - 30 inches. The backing comes in your choice of three colors.
Scandinavian Designs also has a bookshelf that's 30 inches tall, available in three different wood finishes.
Land of Nod has a six-cube bookcase that's 31.25 inches tall.
And here's a solid oak bookcase that's 800mm - about 31.5 inches - tall.
Modular shelving units might also work - more on them soon!
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
A Small Luxury: Really Nice Sticky Notes
What's more boring than a plain yellow Post-it note?
That's what Michelle Brusegaard asks, as she offers this alternative. She has a couple other options, too - neither of them the slightest bit boring.
These Smock note cubes are made from 100% post-consumer recycled paper. They are "made with love in upstate New York" and there are eight patterns to choose from.
Snow & Graham is another company with interesting sticky note cubes - this one is called Tweets.
And these sticky note cubes from RSH can be personalized with your name or monogram. Update on July 24, 2013: These are Clairbella sticky note cubes — available from many sites, not just RSH.
For Moleskine fans, there's now the Moleskine Stick Notes Pocket.
And while these Zip Notes don't have the gorgeous design of others, they have another advantage - you can create them in whatever length you want. They're sold through Amazon.com. [via organizer Sara Wiggins, writing in the newsletter published by the Institute for Challenging Disorganization.]
Related Posts:
The Ubiquitous Sticky Note
Sticky Notes: Post-it Notes and Much More
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Labels: green alternatives, organizing products
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Travel Planning: Guidebooks and More
I love to travel, and I travel independently - not on a tour. And I book my own reservations; I tend to stay at less-expensive places not handled by travel agents. So how do those of us who travel this way decide where to go?
I'm pretty organized about this - big surprise, huh? I do a lot of research, and plan out my days at a high level - how many days in each city, things I want to see there. (And then I sometimes throw this all away, as I did when people I met on a trip invited me to visit them in their home.)
Where do I look for information?
1. Guidebooks
Rick Steves wrote: "Guidebooks are $15 tools for $3,000 experiences. Many otherwise smart people base the trip of a lifetime on a borrowed copy of a three-year-old guidebook." Sure, he sells guidebooks and he's a bit biased - but the point is still well-taken. I always get the most recent copy of whatever guidebooks I'm using.
And for future trips, I'm looking at electronic versions of those guidebooks, when available, which I can put on my iPad. Lonely Planet has taken the smart step of selling individual chapters of its books - so if I'm going to the northwestern part of England, for example, I can buy just that part. The site also kindly tells you when the next edition of the guidebook is due.
But, by themselves, guidebooks are far from a perfect answer. Read Dawn MacKeen's article, The Truth about Guidebooks, and you'll know you want other sources of information. Here's how the article begins:
Seven days after graduating from college, I boarded a plane and landed in the middle of Greece, with little knowledge of the language, the culture or the geography. I had two months from that moment to become an expert on the country for the now-defunct Berkeley Guides; to travel to, research and write about 15 islands and nine cities and towns. ... I had to find the best hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, museums, archaeological sites, beaches and bars, as well as the prices and schedules of the ferries, trains and buses.So where else do I look?
2. Online Sources
When I traveled to India, before we had all the web resources we have today, I got some of my best tips by posting my planned itinerary to the Usenet group (now Google Group) soc.culture.indian. Those groups are still available - but now I might also pose a question on Ask MetaFilter or Twitter or Quora. Benji Lanyado, writing for The Guardian, has taken "TwiTrips" - most recently to Liverpool - where he arrives with no plans and relies on the people of Twitter to guide him, step by step, to places to eat and things to see. That's not how I would use Twitter - but he does get some great advice!
And then of course there are all the online review sites, such as TripAdvisor.
Many guidebook sites have discussion forums: Rick Steves, Fodor's, Frommer's, etc.
There are all sort of travel blogs out there, too. If I have an idea where I might want to go next, I might start reading a few blogs related to that place. Or I might follow selected travel writers on Twitter.
I get inspired by photos, so I'll search the web - or Flickr - for pictures of places I'm considering going. I know another trip to Paris is in my future, so I always look at Paris Daily Photo - one of a series of such City Daily Photo sites from around the world.
And just plain searches, using Google or whatever your preferred search engine might be, can turn up some great things, too.
When I stumble upon a web site talking about a place I might want to visit, I add it to my bookmarks. For example, I would never have visited the small Statue of Liberty in Paris if Anthony's site hadn't directed me there; I bookmarked it years before I went there. And here's a place I may well want to visit the next time I'm in Paris.
One final thing: If I want to visit a museum or some such place, I'll check the web site of that specific place to ensure I have the latest information on its hours and any special exhibits - or notice of any closures. (Sometimes museums send their art out on loan or remove it for renovation.)
3. Personal Recommendations
And then, of course, there's the advice from people I know: people who have visited the place, or people who live there. Those people often provide the best tips of all!
Do I check all these resources for every trip? No - but it's sure nice to have so many good options available.
Do you have any favorite travel planning resources? If so, please share!
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Organizing for Travel: The Packing List
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Cleaning Out My File Cabinet
See this lovely file cabinet? It's mine - and until yesterday, it was entirely filled with travel-related files. All four drawers.
Well, I do enjoy traveling, and at one point - before we had such easy access to information on the web - it even made some sense.
But now? Almost anything I want to know I can find online. And some things I can't find online can be scanned, so I don't need to save the paper.
I knew this was an area needing some attention - but it didn't bother me until recently, when I really wanted to use that filing space for something else. So yesterday I began the clearing out.
The old train schedules from England, the old restaurant recommendations for places around the world, the glossy promotional literature from Singapore and Spain and Thailand - that's all in the recycling bins now, along with much more.
And I have a free drawer - with more space to come, because this project isn't yet finished.
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Introduction | Getting Started | Installing | Extras | Troubleshooting | Conclusion
The easiest way to install MythTV is to follow a how-to. The following how-to is geared towards Mandrake 10.1 Official (download), but most of the steps will be similar for other linux distributions. The locations of some files may be slightly different, and instead of using urpmi to install updates, you will need a different tool depending on your distribution. So, you should first figure out what packaging tool is used on your linux distribution, and whenever commands involving urpmi arrive, use your tool instead. Examples of tools used on other command-line tools are apt-get, and emerge (used on Gentoo). There are also graphical tools, such as grpmi (graphical version of urpmi), rpmdrake (for Mandrake), Synaptic, etc.
If you're using another distribution and need to find a particular file, you can always use the find command. For instance:
# find / -name "file*"
will find everything that starts with "file." (Note that searching starting at the root level, "/", will take a long time, so you should limit your search if you can.) This can be a great way to figure out where a file has been placed in your distribution. You can also use
$ which command_name
To find out where a given command or script is located. (The "whereis" command is also useful.) If the command does not exist on any defined path, this will let you know (so that you can either install the required software, or add it to the path appropriately). This is useful when a how-to asks you to run a command that you seemingly don't have. Also, before running any commands you should probably do
$ man command_name
to get some information on what the command does and how to use it. Many times the answer to your question is hidden inside a manual page.
Example installation: MythTV 0.17 on Mandrake 10.1 with a Hauppauge PVR-350 Edit
Download and install Mandrake Edit
You can download the latest Mandrake ISO images from the official download page, or from any number of mirrors. You then burn these ISO images to CD, and perform the installation by booting off the CD. There are many other ways to install linux of course. What you install of course depends on what you want. You should install all the multimedia options, and development tools (so that you'll be able to compile things later). It's probably a good idea to install network client functions, and if you want to access your MythTV remotely, you should install some server packages (web server and ssh server especially). Having your MythTV running an SSH server can be handy if you have another computer at your disposal, because then you can have your MythTV hooked up to your television, but configure it via command line of another computer (this is good because your MythTV, when hooked up to a television, doesn't have very good resolution, and it can be aggravating to use it as a computer). You need to install some sort of window manager. KDE is a good choice if you have no other preference.
In terms of partitioning your disk, it makes good sense to have your linux OS on one partition, and keep another partition for storing your MythTV data. That way you can reinstall linux without deleting your videos. Linux doesn't need very much space (5 or 10 Gb is sufficient). Be sure to make your swap partition (512 Mb is pretty typical, but you can make it bigger if you like). And of course the bulk of your space (100+ Gb hopefully) is allocated for mythTV. You can set the mount point of this partition as "/data/" or "/home/mythtv/data/" or "/home/" or whatever you like.
During installation, you may aswell create an account called 'mythtv'. Once the installation is complete, create the directory where you will store your MythTV data (make sure it is inside your big partition!). So, for example, if you wanted to create /data you would type 'su' to become root, and:
# cd / # mkdir /data # chown mythtv:mythtv /data # mkdir /data/mythtv
You'll also want to have your kernel source installed (for compiling drivers, later). To install software on Mandrake, we use a convenient tool called "urpmi" that downloads, installs, and configures automatically. Often, you can just type:
# urpmi kernel-source
and your source will be installed. However, this won't always install the correct kernel source. You must make sure that your kernel source version matches the version of the kernel you're using. To determine your current kernel version, type:
$ uname -r 188.8.131.52-12mdk
In this example, a 2.6 kernel is running. To install the right 2.6 source:
# urpmi kernel-source-2.6-22.214.171.124-12mdk
Of course modify this command depending on what source you're looking for. You can also use "urpmq" to query your urpmi sources, and find out what different kernel sources are available, and what the package names are called (be warned: packages like "kernel-source-2.6" might not be the exact kernel version you have, so look for something that matches exactly). If you can't find the right source, you can try configuring some urpmi sources (refer to the next section), and then use "urpmq" again to find a source that matches your kernel.
Once you have your kernel source installed, it's a good idea to double check that it's the right one:
$ cd /usr/src $ ls -lF lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May 28 20:50 linux -> linux-184.108.40.206-12mdk/ drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 May 28 20:50 linux-184.108.40.206-12mdk/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 21 13:09 RPM/
Thus, make sure that the "linux-*" directory matches what uname returned. If not, you should uninstall the current kernel source (by typing something like "# urpme kernel-source") and then install the correct source. Also, make sure that you have the above symbolic link. If you don't have one, then make it:
# ln -s /usr/src/linux-126.96.36.199-12mdk /usr/src/linux
There is another symbolic link that is often missing, which you should create if it isn't there. Check:
$ cd /lib/modules/188.8.131.52-12mdk $ ls -lF lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 28 20:07 build -> /usr/src/linux/ ...
And make it if it is missing:
# ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/126.96.36.199-12mdk/build
Get urpmi sources Edit
Mandrake uses urpmi to download and install all sorts of software. After installing Mandrake from CD, you probably have three CDs listed as sources inside urpmi. When you tell urpmi to install something, it checks all of its sources, finds the package you want, and installs it. For our purposes, it's best to add some online repositories of Mandrake packages to urpmi. That way, all the dependencies will be automatically downloaded and installed as needed. So that we always get the newest packages, we can remove the current sources (which are the installation CDs):
# urpmi.removemedia -a
Now we need to find some good, trustworthy, and fast online package sources. There is a great online tool called Easy Urpmi. You pick your distribution, pick a trustworthy local package source, and it prints out the command you must enter to add the designated source properly. Nothing could be easier! There are numerous mirrors of Easy Urpmi:
- Easy Urpmi official
- Mandriva users
- urpmi-addmedia
- Linux for dummies
- Linux for dummies
- Linux for newbies
- notix
Be sure to pick the right Mandrake version and architecture. If you're not sure what you're using, try this:
$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586
An example of what Easy Urpmi outputs, which you then type in a console as root:
# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz # urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz # urpmi.addmedia jpackage ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/jpackage with media_info/hdlist.cz # urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/free/10.1 with hdlist.cz # urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.1 with hdlist.cz # urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/ with media_info/hdlist.cz
Downloading all the package information will take a little while (depending on your internet connection speed). Finally, we must add a source for the Mandrake MythTV RPM. Luckily, Thac's RPMs have what we need:
# urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz
Download MythTV Edit
With our sources defined, a single command will download, install, and configure MythTV, including all missing dependencies (MySQL, QT, etc.):
# urpmi mythtv-suite
The installer will prompt you for which package to select. You may notice three options, one with "nvidia" in the name, one with "via" and one that is generic. If you specifically have nvidia or via hardware, you can go that route, but the generic packages should work in most cases. When presented with the (long) list of packages to install, say "yes" and wait for it to finish (may take 30 minutes to several hours).
Install ivtv Edit
Now we need to install the ivtv driver, which is an open-source driver written to enable linux compatibility with Hauppauge WinTV PVR capture cards. The example below should work for the PVR-150, 250, 350, and 500. With a little imagination, you can also adapt these instructions to your own capture card. First off, let's avoid any hardware conflicts by getting rid of the default ivtv driver provided in most Mandrake installs:
# find /lib -name "*ivtv*" /lib/modules/220.127.116.11-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ivtv /lib/modules/188.8.131.52-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ivtv/ivtv-fb.ko.gz /lib/modules/22.214.171.124-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ivtv/ivtv.ko.gz # rm -rf /lib/modules/220.127.116.11-12mdk/kernel/3rdparty/ivtv
The msp3400 module will be replaced too:
# find /lib -name "msp3400*" /lib/modules/22.214.171.124-12mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko.gz # rm /lib/modules/22.214.171.124-12mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko.gz
If you're nervous about all this, then you can move the implicated files somewhere else for safe keeping. Just make sure you put them out of the modules directory, so that they are not loaded (use the "mv" command and put them in /home/mythtv/tmp for example). Now download the source code for ivtv. Go to the ivtv project page and select download. You'll then have the option to download various versions. As of the writing of this document, the 0.2 drivers are stable, whereas the 0.3 are beta and unstable. A safe bet is to pick the latest 0.2 release (ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j as of this writing). If you have problems with the driver, you can try different versions (or even try a 0.1.9 or a 0.3 driver).
$ cd /home/mythtv $ lynx http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz $ tar -zxvf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a.tgz $ cd ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver $ make # make install
Those last two commands will compile the driver and put all the required files in the right places. Many users experience errors during the make operations. If you have permission errors, try switching to root and make again. Sometimes the problem is fixed by trying a different driver version. Often the problem is simply that your kernel source version does not match your running kernel (see elsewhere in this document). In extreme cases you may have to change to a different kernel. Try searching the internet (and elsewhere in this document) for the error messages you're seeing. Someone else may already have figured out the solution to your problem.
The next step is to extract the firmware for the capture card. This is binary driver information that we need to communicate with the capture card properly. For this next step to work, g++ must be installed, so let's check:
$ which g++ /usr/bin/g++
If it's not on your system, install it with urpmi:
# urpmi gcc-g++
Now let's compile the firmware-extraction utility:
$ pwd /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver $ cd ../utils $ make # make install
So far so good. Now we need to get the capture card driver binary and extract out the part we need. Depending on whether you have a new or old Hauppauge card, these files will be located in slightly different places on the installation CD-ROM that came with your card. The ivtv wiki has lots of helpful information. For older cards, expect a file called "pvr48wdm_1.8.22035.exe" (or something similar) but for newer cards it will be "pvr_126.96.36.19901_inf.zip" or "hcwPVRP2.sys." You can also simply download the appropriate file from the ivtv firmware page. For example:
$ cd /home/mythtv $ lynx ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_250-350/inf/pvr_126.96.36.19901_inf.zip
Then extract the firmware:
# cd /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/utils # ./ivtvfwextract.pl /home/mythtv/pvr_18.104.22.16801_inf.zip
This should have placed two new files in the "/lib/modules" directory, 'ivtv-fw-dec.bin' and 'ivtv-fw-enc.bin'. You can go check:
$ cd /lib/modules $ ls -lF drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 29 12:14 18.104.22.168-12mdk/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 28 21:14 184.108.40.206-12mdkcustom/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 May 28 20:09 ivtv-fw-dec.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 May 28 20:09 ivtv-fw-enc.bin
The installer has also placed our new modules into the "/lib/modules/18.104.22.168-12mdkcustom/extra", but our kernel won't see these. Instead, let's put them in the right place:
# cp /lib/modules/22.214.171.124-12mdkcustom/extra/*.ko /lib/modules/18.104.22.168-12mdk/misc
Now let's reload the module list. You can reboot too, just to make sure everything gets loaded:
# /sbin/depmod -a # /sbin/reboot
After rebooting, we can try loading our new ivtv module and see if it actually works. A few modules have to be loaded in the proper order:
# /sbin/modprobe i2c-core # /sbin/modprobe i2c-algo-bit # /sbin/modprobe tuner type=2 # /sbin/modprobe msp3400 # /sbin/modprobe videodev # /sbin/modprobe saa7115 # /sbin/modprobe ivtv
Note that the "tuner type=2" varies depending on your capture card's tuner type. You can find a list of the tuner types in the "tuner.h" file in your ivtv driver directory:
$ cd /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver $ emacs tuner.h
(Note: to exit emacs use "Ctrl-x Ctrl-c".) For North American users, "tuner type=2" (Philips NTSC) will probably work. If the module loaded properly, we can run a quick test. Hook up a video input to your card, and type:
# /bin/cat /dev/video > test.mpg
Let this run for awhile (10 seconds maybe) then hit Ctrl-C to stop it. This should have captured a bit of video and saved it to the file "test.mpg". Try playing the file:
# /usr/bin/mplayer test.mpg
If everything is working, you should see some video. If you see snow or even black, that's actually a good sign. It means the driver is probably working, but you'll need to play with settings to get it to capture on the right channel. If you instead get an error message and no video is captured, then you should start looking for solutions. Maybe your tuner type is wrong. Maybe you forgot to remove conflicting ivtv modules. Maybe a different driver version would work. Play around, search for answers.
If everything is working, then you can create a script to load these modules. Let's call it "/usr/local/bin/start-ivtv". Open a text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite, etc.) and put this in:
#!/bin/bash # a script to load modules for MythTV /sbin/modprobe i2c-core /sbin/modprobe i2c-algo-bit /sbin/modprobe tuner type=2 /sbin/modprobe msp3400 /sbin/modprobe videodev /sbin/modprobe saa7115 /sbin/modprobe ivtv
Save and exit (in emacs "Ctrl-x Ctrl-s" does this, in vi use "ESC, :x"). Remember to make the script executable:
# chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/start-ivtv
Now if you type "start-ivtv" (as root) everything will be loaded. Later you can modify this script to start MythTV automatically when the computer boots.
Configure MySQL Edit
First set the MySQL service to automatically load during boot, and start it manually for now:
# /sbin/chkconfig mysql on # /etc/init.d/mysql start
And now change the database permissions so that MySQL can do what it needs to. Note that you should replace "root_password" with your root password.
# mysql -u root mysql mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('root_password') WHERE user='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit
Now update the database:
$ mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.16/database/mc.sql
MySQL should be ready to go.
Configure MythTV Edit
Before configuring MythTV, set up an account with a service that will give you XMLTV listings. In North America, this means setting up an account with zap2it DataDirect. Now we can setup our MythTV using a graphical configuration tool:
$ mythtvsetup
The options in this program are fairly self-explanatory. Set everything up consistent with your hardware and preferences.
- 1. General:
- For "IP address for localhost" and "Master Server IP address", you can enter your IP address, or leave it with the defaults if you're running the frontend and backend on the same computer
- For the "recordings" and "Live-TV buffers" directories, enter the directories you've chosen. For example, "/home/mythtv/data" or "/data/mythtv" or whatever.
- For the "TV format" selected "NTSC" (or whatever your local setting is).
- For "VBI format" you probably want "NTSC Closed Caption". Depending on your driver, closed captioning might not be supported.
- For "Channel frequency table" most North Americans should select "us-cable".
- 2. Capture cards:
- Create a new capture card, set the "Card type" to "MPEG-2 Encoder card", and set "Default input" to whatever you're using (tuner, S-video, etc.).
- 3. Video sources:
- Create a new video source.
- Set "XMLTV listings grabber" to "North America (DataDirect)".
- Enter your User ID and password for zap2it
- Select "retrieve lineups".
- Check that the "Data Direct Lineup" is consistent with your zap2it subscription.
- 4. Input connections:
- Set the "S-video0" (or whatever you're using) "Video source" to the name of your defined video source.
Now you can fill the MythTV database with your listing of TV channels:
$ mythfilldatabase
This operation will take awhile, as MythTV downloads all the program data (for the next few weeks). Once it's done, start MythTV:
# /etc/init.d/mythbackend start $ mythfrontend
Use the keyboard to move around and see if things are working. If everything is good, then you can update your "start-ivtv" script to include "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start":
#!/bin/bash # a script to start MythTV /sbin/modprobe i2c-core /sbin/modprobe i2c-algo-bit /sbin/modprobe tuner type=2 /sbin/modprobe msp3400 /sbin/modprobe videodev /sbin/modprobe saa7115 /sbin/modprobe ivtv /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
If everything is working, then you may aswell set your "start-ivtv" script to start automatically at boot time. To do this, edit your "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file, by adding "/usr/local/bin/start-ivtv" to the end:
# echo "/usr/local/bin/start-ivtv" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Configure remote control Edit
We'll be using LIRC to read the signals from the Hauppauge remote. Refer to the mailing list archive when searching for answers to problems. First get rid of any other version of LIRC that MythTV may have installed:
# rpm -e --nodeps liblirc0 # rpm -e --nodeps liblirc0-devel
Go to the LIRC page and download the latest release, then untar it and start the configure script:
$ cd /home/mythtv $ lynx http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lirc/lirc-0.7.1.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf lirc-0.7.1.tar.gz $ cd lirc-0.7.1 $ ./setup.sh
What to do is pretty obvious. Select item 1, then item 5 "TV Card", then select "Hauppauge TV card". Then select "Save configuration & run configure". Now make and install everything, and link it up:
$ make # make install # ln -s /usr/local/lib/liblirc_client.so.0 /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0
Open up the file "/etc/ld.so.conf" and add "/usr/local/lib" to the end. Or just type:
# echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
Then run ldconfig (which updates the run-time link libraries):
# ldconfig
Copy the configuration file from MythTV documents to your lircrc directory, and add a symbolic link:
$ cd /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.17/configfiles $ cp hauppauge-lircrc-nativelirc /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc $ ln -s /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc /home/mythtv/.lircrc
Copy the appropriate remote config file:
$ cd /home/mythtv/lirc-0.7.0/remotes/hauppauge # cp ./lircd.conf.hauppauge /etc/lircd.conf
You could now update your "start-ivtv" script to load the remote (lirc_i2c) modules:
#!/bin/bash # a script to start MythTV /sbin/modprobe i2c-core /sbin/modprobe i2c-algo-bit /sbin/modprobe tuner type=2 /sbin/modprobe msp3400 /sbin/modprobe videodev /sbin/modprobe saa7115 /sbin/modprobe ivtv /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c /usr/local/sbin/lircd -d /dev/lirc0 --permission=666 /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
Now you should restart everything:
# /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop # /usr/local/bin/start-ivtv $ mythtvfrontend
See if the remote works. It might be a good time to reboot, and see if everything starts up:
# /sbin/reboot
Once its booted, you should be able to run "mythfrontend" and use your MythTV. You can open the "/home/mythtv/.lircrc" file and edit it to map your remote properly (more on this later). For the moment, if you're using a Hauppauge silver remote, then you should change "Rew" to "Rewind" and "FFW" to "Forward".
Configure TV-out Edit
The configuration of your TV-out depends on your hardware. If you're using a video card with a TV-out, then it may simply be a matter of having a TV connected to that output during boot, and the card may output everything (the console, the GUI, and MythTV) to the TV. This is an easy solution. For other cards, you may have to edit your X server configuration file. On older versions of linux, this file would be "/etc/X11/XFree86Config" (there are many similar locations where it may be found). In a modern Mandrake distribution, the file that is used is "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (which may just be a symlink to another config file mind you). Before going any further, make a copy of your old xorg.conf, and then you can try editing it and see if that helps. After making a change to xorg.conf, you can use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit and restart the X server (and thus your window manager, KDE). If your new settings worked, then you may see output to your TV. If not, you can get back to a console by using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and switch back to your old xorg.conf or try something else. Some extra help can be found here and here.
To use the TV-out on the Hauppauge 350 in particular is a good idea, since the 350 has hardware MPEG decoding, which means that it will do the work of decoding the video stream, thereby taking the strain off of your processor. To enable it, there is an option in MythTV that says "use hardware MPEG decoder", which will just use the 350 to output TV. Although this will output recorded playback to the 350's TV-out, you won't have your MythTV menus on that same graphics output. To get everything to work together smoothly, we need our entire X environment (including the desktop and MythTV frontend) to output using the 350's TV-out. Here's what you do:
First, modify your "/usr/local/bin/start-ivtv" script to load "ivtv-fb" also, by adding a line "/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb":
#!/bin/bash # a script to start MythTV /sbin/modprobe i2c-core /sbin/modprobe i2c-algo-bit /sbin/modprobe tuner type=2 /sbin/modprobe msp3400 /sbin/modprobe videodev /sbin/modprobe saa7115 /sbin/modprobe ivtv /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c /usr/local/sbin/lircd -d /dev/lirc0 --permission=666 /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
Now let's get the ivtv driver right. Essentially, X needs a driver to use the 350's TV output. What you want is for the "ivtvdev_drv.o" driver to end up in "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers". As usual, there are a couple of options. You can build the appropriate driver from the ivtv source you have. The source is here:
$ find /home/mythtv -name "ivtvdev*" /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/utils/ivtvdev_drv_o cd /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/utils
The instructions to install are in "/home/mythtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/utils/README.X11". So essentially you should be able to run install, which will make everything. The second way (which might be easier) is to download a binary version from somewhere, and then just copy it:
$ cd /home/mythtv $ lynx http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz $ tar -xvzf ivtvdev_drv.o.gz $ cp ivtvdev_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
Now we need to determine the PCI settings of your card. There are three different ways of getting this info:
# /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -scanpci
# lspci
# scanpci
What you will get will be information about the PCI address of devices. Find the one corresponding to your desired TV-out (the Hauppauge 350 card in our running example). The address is usually given in the order "bus", "card number", "function". Pay attention to whether the numbers are decimal or hexadecimal (preceeded by 0x). The lspci and scanpci tools report in hexadecimal, whereas Xorg outputs decimal. Keep in mind that the xorg.conf file expects things to be in decimal, although you can explicitly denote hexadecimal by preceeding a value with "0x" (or just convert them to decimal).
The output of lspci will look something like:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25) 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: STMicroelectronics STG4000 [3D Prophet Kyro Series] (rev 07)
The "iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder" is the capture card, which we'll use for TV-out. This card would thus be given the bus designation:
BusID "PCI:0:11:0"
(Remember that 0x0b is 11 in decimal.) Now we need to know what linux device this maps to. The 350 is essentially a special kind of framebuffer device. There are many ways to do this. Let's check "/var/log/messages" and see what "ivtv-fb.o" is mapped to:
grep fb /var/log/messages ... Jun 6 20:42:30 localhost kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device ...
You could also use "fbset" and go device by device ("fbset -fb /dev/fb0" then "fbset -fb /dev/fb1" etc.) and see which one corresponds to your required card. In our current example, the output we want is "/dev/fb1" (for video-card TV-out, it may end up being a /dev/fb or a /dev/video).
Now we need to reconfigure xorg.conf, armed with our new information (namely that our card is /dev/fb1 at BusID "PCI:0:11:0" using ivtvdev_drv.o). As usual, be warned: improperly configuring your video settings could damage your video card and/or monitor. These instructions are provided as examples. Use them at your own risk and be sure to double-check that they make sense for your hardware. Now to start, let's add a monitor:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card" # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x480" DotClock 34.564 HTimings 720 752 840 928 VTimings 480 484 488 504 Flags "-Hsync" "-Vsync" EndMode EndSection
That should work for NTSC. For PAL, it would be something like:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "PAL Television" HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x576" # D: 41.475 MHz, H: 44.693 kHz, V: 74.488 Hz DotClock 41.476 HTimings 720 752 840 928 VTimings 576 580 584 600 Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode EndSection
Note that the Identifier in all xorg.conf sections is arbitrary. You can set it to whatever you like. However, once you decide on a name, remember to stick to it. Elsewhere in your file you must refer to the sections by name exactly. Any little typo will break your configuration. Now add a device:
Section "Device" Identifier "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350" # Driver "fbdev" Driver "ivtvdev" # Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" BusID "PCI:0:11:0" EndSection
Again the identifier is arbitrary, but remember what you pick. Above we are using the "ivtvdev" driver and the "fbdev" option. The commented-out lines are alternate options that you could try using: they may be better for your particular setup (in that case, be sure to comment-out the other line to avoid conflict). Remember to update the "/dev/fb1" as needed by your device, and change the BusID to whatever you determined before. This is critical! Now we define a screen (this again would be slightly different for PAL):
Section "Screen" Identifier "Hauppauge Screen" Device "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350" Monitor "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card" DefaultDepth 24 DefaultFbbpp 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes "720x480" EndSubsection EndSection
Lastly we switch the ServerLayout to use our new output. Just by changing this one section, you can control what input and output devices (defined above) are going to be used. This will let you switch between different configurations easily. You can have multiple ServerLayouts defined if you like. For your new ServerLayout, it's best to copy the existing one and just modify it as needed. It will end up being something like:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "TVLayout" Screen "Hauppauge Screen" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" EndSection
Save the file, restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace if you are inside the GUI), and hopefully it will begin to output to the TV-out you wanted. Note that for some cards this won't work unless there is a device hooked to that output when X starts up. So make sure the TV is hooked up and turned on before trying to switch to/boot into your new X setting. If it didn't work, you can go back to your older settings or try something else.
Test everything Edit
So now everything should be working. Upon booting, the drivers should load, and "mythbackend" should have started. If you use "pgrep" you should get a process ID number (PID) for that process:
$ pgrep mythbackend 5166
MythTV should start when you invoke:
$ mythfrontend
Once MythTV is running, you should be able to select "Live TV" and watch TV. Using the keyboard, you can pause ('p' key), rewind and fast-forward (arrow keys) and so forth. You should be able to go into the program guide and select a particular show, and then select "Record" and then wait for it to record that show. There are many options that you can adjust to suit your preferences. You may want to increase the font size or even select an entirely different theme. If the basics of MythTV are working, you can start using it, and over the next while you can continue customizing it, and getting other functions and plugins working properly.

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WILSON, ERASTUS WILLIAM, businessman and officer; b. 1 July 1860 in Belleville, Upper Canada, son of James Wilson, an iron founder, and Mary Ann Dowser; m. 1887 Sara Etta L. Bricker of Berlin (Kitchener), Ont., and they had two sons and one daughter; d. 15 May 1922 in Montreal.
Erastus William Wilson received his early schooling in Belleville and then went on to secondary school in Oshawa. He chose to enter the business world rather than to attend the University of Toronto, where his application had been accepted.
Wilson moved to Montreal in 1882. Two years later he began working for the Manufacturers' Life Insurance Company [see George Gooderham*], and he would serve as manager of its Montreal office until 1911. After transferring then to the Canada Life Assurance Company, again as manager, he would later be in charge of its operations for the province of Quebec, and he continued in this position for the rest of his life. He would also be a director of Crown Trust Company as well as of Peter Lyall and Sons Construction Company.
In the course of his career, in addition to playing an effective role in the Montreal Board of Trade, Wilson was honoured by appointment as a member for life to the board of directors of the Montreal General Hospital and the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. He also participated as a mason in the activities of Royal Victoria Lodge No.57, of which he would become a past master. In 1895 he rose to the position of provincial grand director of ceremonies. He belonged to several organizations in the Montreal region: the prestigious St James Club and Mount Royal Club, as well as the Forest and Stream Club. In 1917 the king made him a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He would live in Westmount and have a summer residence in Dorval.
Wilson's interest in the military life was evident from the time he came to Montreal in 1882, the year he enlisted as a private in the 3rd Battalion of Rifles (Victoria Rifles of Canada). Probably as a result of the quality of his performance and leadership, he rose through the ranks and obtained an officer's commission in January 1892. He assumed command of the regiment on 25 Sept. 1903, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and he relinquished it four years later.
Wilson was promoted colonel on 1 June 1914 with his appointment as acting commander of Military District No.4 (Montreal). When World War I broke out on 4 Aug. 1914, he joined the staff of the minister of militia and defence, Samuel Hughes, in Valcartier, and in October he accompanied him to England as his orderly officer. On 20 November he took command of Military District No.4. He was made a brigadier-general on 1 Sept. 1915. The following year he was given command of the camp at Valcartier, and in June he was promoted major-general. He resumed command of Military District No.4 in 1917. In the summer of 1918 he went to England and inspected Canadian troops on the front lines with Prime Minister Sir Robert Laird Borden* and the minister of the overseas military forces, Sir Albert Edward Kemp. He returned to Canada in August. When the war ended he asked to be relieved of his duties, but the military authorities persuaded him to remain at his post until the repatriation of the troops had been completed. He finally gave up command of Military District No.4 in October 1919. He died less than three years later, on 15 May 1922, at the age of 61. His two sons had both taken part in World War I. Erastus William had enlisted in the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade and served on its headquarters staff. Bradley Alexander had also joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Wilson made a success of his business and military careers. He even managed to attend to each of them during the war. This was no small task, and he accomplished it at the cost of his health. He performed his wartime duties to the satisfaction of the authorities, as his successive promotions demonstrate. As commander of District No.4, he played a significant role in recruitment. But like many other Montreal businessmen of the time, Wilson did not speak French, and his cultural and social world was an English-speaking one. His lack of sensitivity towards French Canadians hampered his work. He did indeed help Olivar Asselin* in recruiting the 163rd Infantry Battalion, as Rodolphe Lemieux* acknowledged in the House of Commons. On the other hand, on 12 July 1915 he supported the imposition of conscription.
Wilson tried, but failed, to create a strong, vigorous, and active civilian organization in the Montreal area for recruiting French Canadians. For this purpose he got in touch with three soldiers and with three French Canadian civilians, Senator Frédéric-Ligori Béïque*, Sir Alexander Lacoste, and especially Senator Raoul Dandurand*, but they were unable to respond favourably to his request for assistance. They did not find a francophone priest prepared to take charge of recruiting French-speaking volunteers, as Wilson had hoped, nor were they able to establish a fund similar to that of the Citizen's Recruiting League, an English-language organization set up to promote the recruitment of men willing to enlist in the anglophone battalions operating in Military District No.4. On 14 March 1916 Wilson appointed a Methodist clergyman, the Reverend Charles A. Williams, as chief recruiting agent for his district, claiming that he had been unable to find a French-speaking priest to hold this position. Nonetheless, he might have chosen an officer or a layman instead, as was done in Military District No.5, based at Quebec. Lemieux referred to this ill-considered appointment the following year in the course of the debates on the Military Service Act in the House of Commons. During his time as head of the camp at Valcartier, Wilson could not understand the difficult position of the French Canadian commanders of battalions, who were reduced to the role of recruiting officers. This incomprehension became clear in 1916 in his evaluation of the work of Lieutenant-Colonel Hercule Barré, commander of the 150th Infantry Battalion, and his criticism of Lieutenant-Colonel René-Arthur de La Bruère Girouard, commander of the 178th Infantry Battalion.
In spite of these reservations, it must be acknowledged that Erastus William Wilson was a staunch high-ranking officer, dedicated to the cause of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and, as Lemieux said, in his daily life "a real gentleman."
LAC, RG 31, C1, 1861, Belleville, [Ont.], dist.1, Sampson Ward: 14; 1871, Oshawa, Ont., div.2: 65–66; RG 150, Acc. 1992–93/166, box 10442-23. Le Devoir, 16 mai 1922. J.-P. Gagnon, Le 22e bataillon (canadien-français), 1914–1919; étude socio-militaire (Québec et Ottawa, 1986). Nicholson, CEF. The storied province of Quebec; past and present, ed. W. [C. H.] Wood et al. (5v., Toronto, 1931–32), 3.
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BiographyPhilip Jourdain's mother was Emily Clay and his father was Francis Jourdain, who was the vicar of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Philip was born into a large family in the vicarage at Ashbourne. He suffered from severe disabilities all his life caused by Friedreich's ataxia. As a young boy he showed a marked aptitude for both mathematics and mechanical inventions. He attended Cheltenham College where he was already finding it difficult to walk and was essentially a cripple by the time he went up to Cambridge in 1898. It was clear that he would struggle to cope with life at university with this illness which was progressive but only slowly so. His undergraduate years were very difficult and he had great successes and great disappointments. One of the highlights was a course on mathematical logic given by Russell which strongly influenced Jourdain. However, he did very poorly in his degree and, unable to take part two of the Mathematical Tripos due to illness, had to settle for only a pass degree. However he received an honourable mention in the competition for the Smith's prizes and he was awarded the Allen studentship for research in 1904.
Inspired by Russell, Jourdain worked mainly in mathematical logic. He wrote a number of articles, between 1906 and 1913, explaining and evaluating Cantor's set theory under the title Development of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers. In his work he clarified a remark by Russell and formulated precisely the paradox of the largest ordinal. In 1913 Jourdain proposed the card paradox. This was a card on one side of which was printed:-
The sentence on the other side of this card is TRUE.On the other side of the card the sentence read:-
The sentence on the other side of this card is FALSE.Other papers which he wrote on mathematical logic and the foundations of set theory include On the question of the existence of transfinite numbers which was published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 1907.
Jourdain also applied logic to physics in papers such as On some Points in the Foundation of Mathematical Physics which was published in The Monist in 1908. In this paper he applied results from his earlier work On the general theory of functions to study causality in physics. Other papers relating to physics include On those principles of mechanics which depend upon processes of variation (1908), The principle of least action (1913), and The influence of Fourier's theory on the conduction of heat on the development of pure mathematics (1917).
We quote from [6] a description of Jourdain's many other contributions to mathematics:-
His disinterested and efficient work in abstracting mathematical papers for the "Revue Semestrielle", and in writing the "Recent advances" in Science Progress, are examples of his labours for the advancement of mathematics. His extensive correspondence on mathematical subjects with eminent mathematicians of all nationalities shows that he was in touch with mathematical thought all over the world. The plans which he was lately elaborating for the advancement of science were to ensure the translation of all scientific papers and articles into English and French. As another example of his activities, we may refer to his attempts to republish the works of Newton. Jourdain was recognised as the leading authority on Newton, and had done a large amount of research, with a view to publication of a new edition. This is hardly the place to describe in detail his other activities, such as his editorship of "The Monist" and the International Journal of Ethics, his many researches into the history of science, and his important work on induction and probability, which was in course of publication in "Mind". We must, however, mention that Jourdain had in preparation a large work on "The History of Mathematical Thought". It is quite evident that, with his intimate knowledge of foreign languages, and his keen interest in the evolution of abstract ideas, he was the ideal author of such a book.Jourdain married Laura Insull on 26 June 1915. He continued to work despite his severe disabilities and his wife now acted as a secretary to him. Many sufferers of Friedreich's ataxia do not survive past their twenties so, given his condition, Jourdain did remarkably well to live until he was only days short of his 40th birthday. However he spent his final years in increasing difficult circumstances as the paralysis became increasingly severe. He died at his home in Crookham.
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- Biography by I.] Grattan-Guinness, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). See THIS LINK.
- I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Philip E B Jourdain : Selected essays on the history of set theory and logics (1906-1918) (Bologna, 1991).
- I Grattan-Guinness, Dear Russell - dear Jourdain. A commentary on Russell's logic, based on his correspondence with Philip Jourdain (New York, 1977).
- Bibliography of Philip Jourdain (1879-1919), mathematician and historian (Spanish), Mathesis. Mathesis 1 (2) (1985), 159-171.
- I Grattan-Guinness, The correspondence between Georg Cantor and Philip Jourdain, Jber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 73 (1) (1971/72), 111-130.
- Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain, Proc. London Math. Soc. 19 (1921), 59-60.
- G Loria, Philip E B Jourdain : matematico e storico della scienza, 1879-1919, Archivio di Storia della Scienza 2 (1921-2), 167-184.
- G Sarton and L Jourdain, Philip E B Jourdain, 1879-1919, Isis 5 (1922-3), 126-136.
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as the previouly posted version of this function doesn't handle UTF-8 characters, I simply tried to replace ucfirst to mb_convert_case, but then any previous case foldings were lost while looping through delimiters.
So I decided to do an mb_convert_case on the input string (it also deals with words is uppercase wich may also be problematic when doing case-sensitive search), and do the rest of checking after that.
As with mb_convert_case, words are capitalized, I also added lowercase convertion for the exceptions, but, for the above mentioned reason, I left ucfirst unchanged.
Now it works fine for utf-8 strings as well, except for string delimiters followed by an UTF-8 character ("Mcádám" is unchanged, while "mcdunno's" is converted to "McDunno's" and "ökrös-TÓTH éDUa" in also put in the correct form)
I use it for checking user input on names and addresses, so exceptions list contains some hungarian words too.
function titleCase($string, $delimiters = array(" ", "-", ".", "'", "O'", "Mc"), $exceptions = array("út", "u", "s", "és", "utca", "tér", "krt", "körút", "sétány", "I", "II", "III", "IV", "V", "VI", "VII", "VIII", "IX", "X", "XI", "XII", "XIII", "XIV", "XV", "XVI", "XVII", "XVIII", "XIX", "XX", "XXI", "XXII", "XXIII", "XXIV", "XXV", "XXVI", "XXVII", "XXVIII", "XXIX", "XXX" )) {
* Exceptions in lower case are words you don't want converted
* Exceptions all in upper case are any words you don't want converted to title case
* but should be converted to upper case, e.g.:
* king henry viii or king henry Viii should be King Henry VIII
$string = mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
foreach ($delimiters as $dlnr => $delimiter){
$words = explode($delimiter, $string);
$newwords = array();
foreach ($words as $wordnr => $word){
if (in_array(mb_strtoupper($word, "UTF-8"), $exceptions)){
// check exceptions list for any words that should be in upper case
$word = mb_strtoupper($word, "UTF-8");
elseif (in_array(mb_strtolower($word, "UTF-8"), $exceptions)){
// check exceptions list for any words that should be in upper case
$word = mb_strtolower($word, "UTF-8");
elseif (!in_array($word, $exceptions) ){
// convert to uppercase (non-utf8 only)
$word = ucfirst($word);
array_push($newwords, $word);
$string = join($delimiter, $newwords);
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Finance Books to Learn and Manage Your Money
Personal finance is hard enough as it is. It's absolutely daunting to doing the whole thing by ourselves, especially if we're not very well-versed in keeping logs of earnings and expenses, calculating our own net worth, reducing debts, and managing our finances by ourselves We could all use a little input from experts, especially when it gets really confusing and we don't know where to start. Here are several finance book recommends:
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Dave Ramsey is a great material for looking up information about personal finance. There are hundreds if not thousands of people who are inspired to get their finances straight all because of the Total Money Makeover book.
The book also tackles debt reduction by giving great advice on how best to approach this problem and gradually take shed off the ball and chains to their finances. It is especially for those who are just starting out.
The unique thing about Dave Ramsey's book is that it includes Christian thinking and values, as well as bible teachings that he relates to money. If you're the person who isn't bothered by religious thinking seeping inside a finance book then this book is for you. There are Dave Ramsey fans accumulated over the years, sticking by to what they learned from the publications to help them get over their financial difficulties.
Five Years to Financial Freedom by Morris Kaplan
The book is unlike any other because it presents a somewhat clearer and more defined rule on how to
fix your finances over time.
It helps you answer the questions you ask when you find yourself in a financial constraint. It tackles how people spend more than they earn, how to change jobs, how money affects your relationships. This book helps you realize several aspects of your life that money plays a part of.
It doesn't promise that you'll get rich overnight, but what it does is give you a huge resource of information on how to clear all bad debts, paying for mortgage, start investing, branching out, looking into tax benefits and saving money.
The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
Some people have noticed that this book is one of the most well-loved finance books of all time. The Wealthy Barber provides sensible advice, deep insights into finances how it affects our lives. It is incredibly easy to take in as the book is written like a story or a short, light novel.
The book is always recommended for those who are venturing out in understanding personal money management, because even if you don't have much background on finance and accounting, it will not be difficult for you to understand.
The Wealthy barber guides the reader to implement the steps in managing their money by thinking of what we truly want in life and how we can get it. It also has a great chapter on getting rid of materialistic thinking, getting spending under our control and minimizing our debts.
For the Young, Broke and Fabulous by Suze Orman
Suze "Suzy" Orman is a famous household name. You can see her in the news, hear her name on the radio, and her face is plastered on countless publications. She is famous for her personal finance books that are sold worldwide and known for her straight-talking and no-nonsense approach to money and debt.
The book "For the Young, Broke and Fabulous" has garnered a lot of following because the message hits the younger generation, targeting their lifestyle and giving out advice on getting started in the workforce, making the best out of your first few years on the corporate ladder, and following your dreams without sacrificing your future. Suze Orman discusses how the young generation has so much potential in them and how they can save, eliminate debt, and have enough to experience life at its fullest.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
The book has changed thousands of its reader's outlook on how they lead their life. Rich Dad, Poor Dad is all about acquiring financial knowledge and know-how. It illustrates to us how our perspectives about what it takes to be successful in our own rights. It provides practical guidelines including how to build wealth and buy assets, avoid debt and liabilities, planning for the future while living your life today, and how to go rich by living within your means.


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Lots of bills? Too much debt? Not enough money? Lots of people struggle financially at some point in their lives. Unexpected events such as hospitalisation, losing a job, and even divorce, can seriously transform your financial condition. Yet, when there is no other way to adequately cope with your debts, some folks are forced to file for bankruptcy.
Going bankrupt is never simple. It's complicated, demanding, and emotional. Consequently, lots of people dig themselves a deeper hole before even filing for personal bankruptcy. It is essential that you seek professional advice pertaining to your bankruptcy options. There are certain financial decisions that should be avoided at all costs to avoid wreaking havoc on your bankruptcy case. This article will offer some tips on things you should never do before going bankrupt.
Using Credit Cards
The first thing you should do when you're experiencing financial troubles is to stop using your credit cards. While it is tempting to make small purchases like food and fuel, the truth is that credit cards have outrageous fees which only get compounded when you're incapable to make repayments. Alongside this, making big purchases with the understanding that you will shortly be going bankrupt is considered fraud. Obviously, small purchases are fine, but if you purposely max out your credit cards before filing for bankruptcy, creditors will investigate and you'll find yourself in a considerably worse position.
Repay Favoured Creditors
When you have uncontrolled debt, do not repay any creditors before you file for bankruptcy. Even though it may appear to be reasonable to settle as much debt as possible, the reality is that it can land you in a lot of trouble! If one creditor is treated favourably over another, it is called 'preferential transfer' and will attract legal actions which will inevitably delay your bankruptcy filing and discharge. Each and every creditor holds the same weight under Australian Law, so if you completely repay one over another, the bankruptcy trustee will take legal action against the creditor in what's called a clawback lawsuit. This is carried out to recoup the money that was paid to the favoured creditor to ensure it can be spread equally between all creditors.
Lie or Conceal any Information
Whatever you do, do not lie or conceal any information relating to your financial situation. When you file for bankruptcy, you are required by Law to provide complete and detailed information pertaining to your assets, income, debts, and expenses. Failing to acknowledge an asset, for example, is regarded as misrepresentation and you will be liable to criminal prosecution. If you're not sure of anything, speak to your lawyer and spend the time to investigate to guarantee you're supplying the correct information. When it concerns money, there are digital trails everywhere, so don't think you can hide anything. You might get away with it in the first instance, but it can haunt you and your case later down the track.
Transfer or Move Assets
Transferring or moving assets to a relative's name to preserve those assets from bankruptcy is a myth. As a matter of fact, transferring assets will not shelter those assets in any way, and may be construed as fraudulent activity which involves criminal repercussions. Selling assets to settle your debts is, obviously, a common reaction to try to alleviate the financial burden. It's imperative to keep in mind that your Statement of Financial Affairs is a lawful document, so you must be honest with your financial history or face the probable repercussions of getting caught. You will be asked by the trustee if you sold, transferred or gave away any assets, normally for a period of one year prior to filing for bankruptcy. You'll likewise be asked what you did with the money you received from those transfers, so be wary of a preferential transfer, especially with friends and family members.
Deposit Non-Income Earning Money Into Your Bank Account
Friends and family are there to assist in times of distress. If you are experiencing financial challenges, it's typical for family and friends to offer money to you to mitigate the burden. Do not deposit any money from friends or relatives into your bank account, or any money that is not specifically income related such as work or dividends. It's also imperative to keep work related money and personal money totally separate from each other. All of these activities can produce a considerable amount of confusion and can lead to claims of fraud when filing for bankruptcy.
As you can see, there are some significant consequences for relatively trivial financial decisions when you go bankrupt. To ensure you have the best bankruptcy case possible without any legal hiccups, seek professional advice from the experts. For additional information or to talk to somebody about your situation, contact Bankruptcy Experts on 1300 795 575 or visit https://bankruptcy-brisbane.net.au


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Marker of Ewing sarcoma: Potential new drug target?
Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is a bone tumor of unknown cellular origin that affects children and young adults.
The protein CD99 is highly expressed in most cases of EWS, but its function in the disease is unknown. Now, Katia Scotlandi and colleagues, at SSN Emilia Romagna Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli IRCCS, Bologna, Italy, have identified a crucial role for CD99 in the development of EWS and suggest that targeting CD99 or its downstream molecular pathway may be a new therapeutic approach for EWS.
In the study, decreasing CD99 expression in human EWS cell lines reduced their ability to form tumors xenografted into mice. In vitro, it increased expression of H-neurofilament, a marker of neuronal differentiation. Consistent with this, an inverse correlation between CD99 expression and H-neurofilament expression, neural differentiation, and oncogenic transformation was observed in patient-derived EWS cells.
The authors therefore conclude that CD99 prevents neural differentiation and suggest that blocking it might provide a new approach to treating EWS.
More information: CD99 inhibits neural differentiation of human Ewing sarcoma cells and thereby contributes to oncogenesis. View this article at: www.jci.org/articles/view/3666 … 24e370e9a7cd8f56b36b


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Ryan is back to school and the Agriculture Proud Banditas are back to hijacking this blog! Today's post is by Megan Brown a commercial cattle rancher from California. Meg loves agriculture, food and cooking and in addition to the ranch works a job as a paralegal. You can read more about Megan and her ranch on her blog. TheBeefJar.com
I am a commercial cattle rancher in Northern California. When most people think of California, they tend to think of beaches and movie stars instead of food and fiber. However, California is the biggest, in terms of cash farm receipts, and most diversified agricultural state in our union.
Despite living in a rural area of a state that producers nearly half of our countries fruit, vegetables and nuts, I have found most of my peers have no experience with commercial ranching or farming. Many people in this area had grandparents or parents that spent time living or working on a farm, but have since sold the family farm and moved to town.
This has created a generation who grew up listening to extraordinary stories of farm life from older generations. As a result, many young people are hungry to have the same hands-on experiences that member of their family previously had. Those feelings are creating opportunity for those of us in production agriculture, if we choose to see it that way.
Unless you are a child with access to 4-H, FFA or other agricultural related group, a checkbook seems to be the best way to get hands-on knowledge about agriculture, and some specialized farmers are capitalizing on this opportunity. Workshops and classes are popping up, charging anywhere from several hundred to several thousands of dollars to live and work on a farm.
Since we all eat, I think we all should have access and knowledge about our food supply, and it should not be an exclusive or expensive lesson. Since I am in the unique position of living on a commercial cattle ranch, I've made a huge effort to open my barn door to anyone who wants to learn about what I do. This has paid huge dividends, not necessarily financially, but in arguably more satisfying ways.
From adults to children, the look on people's faces when they first see a calf nursing from its mother, or a chicken eat a bug, or when they touch a pig for the first time, is priceless to me. Often they share memories that have been passed down from when their family farmed, and in that instant, they get to walk a mile in my shoes. I am grateful for the opportunity.
By giving the public the access to their food as I have, I take away the fear of the unknown. I take away their trust in animal activists that claim our animals are mistreated. I reconnect them to part of their heritage and sometimes inspire them to start a garden or enroll their kids in 4-H. In turn they share their experience on my commercial ranch with their urban friends, often on their social media profiles or, like my most recent visitor Jenny, on their own blogs
I urge other farmers and ranchers to take some time out of your busy schedule and offer to take your urban and non-ag friends around your ranch. For those of you not in production agriculture, I urge you to visit some farms and ranches. In my experience, opening up not just our barns, but our way of life to the people who ultimately consume the food we grow, benefits both agriculture and society as a whole.


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The Key To Male Vitality: Naturally Increasing Testosterone
With its important role of helping to maintain bone density, fat distribution, muscle strength and mass, red blood cell production and sex drive, it's no secret that testosterone in men is a vital hormone. In that, the overwhelming realization of this hormone decreasing with age — about one percent every year after 30 — causes many to look for alternatives to finding the key to male vitality.
With the hunt of finding the key to male vitality, there are certain things one can do to take preventative steps to help slow down this decreasing hormone.
With advice from local urologist Dr. Al Borhan, the key to male vitality can be answered with one short simple rule: "All the things that mother told you to do best, are the things that help with your testosterone."
Natural vs. Unnatural Methods
While some choose the route of artificial hormones and supplements — including those who have significantly lower levels of testosterone — others should consider taking preventative steps at an earlier age to help reduce the need of artificial supplements later in life.
Why? After prolonged consumption of artificial hormones, you've decided to stop taking them, the body faces the possibility of no longer being able to naturally produce the necessary hormones. "As nothing you take in life is free, everything you do to the body has its own side effects," adds Dr. Borhan.
For those choosing the natural route, Dr. Borhan stands firm with his "mother knows best" key to success, suggesting five things to keep in mind:
|1. Get a good night's rest.
|2. Practice good nutrition with foods that naturally include testosterone hormone builders such as fish, peanuts and olive oil.
|3. Practice healthy dieting, banning the yo-yo type diets.
|4. Monitor alcohol use to no more than two to three drinks daily.
|5. Get up and exercise, particularly the larger muscles that increase testosterone and decrease fat content.
Taking Dr. Borhan's advice, the importance of practicing preventative steps at an early age can prove to have positive long-term effects. All things considered, we must also keep in mind the changing elements of our surroundings — no regarding climate, but more so technology and its effects on one's body.
The Effects of Wi-Fi
With many of us glued to some form of electrical device such as a cell phone, laptop, desktop or tablet, it is important to realize that such advances in technology can perhaps play a role in altering our hormone production.
In a study done by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., Wi-Fi connections were tested to examine the possible harmful attributes to the male's reproductive organs. With two cups of semen placed under two laptops, one with an Ethernet connection and the other with a Wi-Fi connection, research showed that the sperm placed under the Wi-Fi connection experienced mobility issues and some DNA damage.
In response to the study,Dr. Borhan says the study is still premature. Although differences between the two sperms were noticed, the results should not send us all into a wide-struck panic but rather to proceed with caution.
"More importantly, the investigation should be focused more on what is happening inside the body," Dr. Borhan says.
As for the idea that the heat output of laptops can potentially hurt the quality of one's sperm due to scrotal hyperthermia, Dr. Bornham says to keep the laptop off your lap. Heat decreases sperms function, so allowing anything like a hot laptop or even a heating pad near the males reproductive organs can cause unnatural changes to the body.
Dr. Borhan's last bit advice? "Consume everything in moderation."


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The Swift™ font family was designed by Gerard Unger and released by the German firm Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH in 1987 after a three year design period. The lines of the characters follow the sweeping motions of the similarly named bird; the typeface is presently available in twenty-four variants.
As a young man, Dutch typographer Gerard Unger studied graphic design, typography and type design, graduating in 1967 before taking a position at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. However, Unger subsequently decided to take an independent route, establishing himself as a freelancer in 1975.
It was after this exit from the mainstream design world that Unger's type creation began to flourish. Working with the German company Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH (often referred to simply as "Hell"), Unger released the Swift typeface in the mid eighties, partially to cater to the newspaper industry. In the earlier half of the nineteen-eighties, newspaper production was much less refined than later on, produced on rotary presses at very high speed, leading to a loss of legibility.
Swift addressed this early problem with its robust contours, rendering the printed word much more clearly. By 1995, Unger was publishing his fonts online and re-released Swift as the Swift 2.0™ font family, using a completely new set of characters rendered in Postscript. In 2009, Unger worked with Linotype to create an extended character set and the Neue Swift™ font family was born. The newly refined font family also introduced many new glyphs per letter, allowing the publication of an expanded number of languages.
When the Swift font family was released, it found widespread success in the printing industry. Its clarity on the high speed presses of the day made it a formidable force to be reckoned with in the typographic world. Almost immediately after its release, the Italian newspaper il manifesto began using the typeface for headlining purposes. Later, the Belgian newspaper De Morgen also started using Swift in its publications. Before being redesigned in 2000, How magazine used Swift extensively.
Swift has found itself widely used in book publishing as well; one example is the well known Type and Typography by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam. In the former case, the font was modified as an example of the process of utilizing a typeface for printing purposes.


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OG Sock is our Original yarn. It's truly amazing - a soft, durable, beautiful in the hand yarn that makes us proud.
Candy Cane Sock
Sock yarn is 80/20 Merino/nylon superwash super-soft hand-dyed fingering weight yarn with a tight twist. Perfect for socks and next to skin projects that will take a lot of wear. Length/weight are approximate.
- 420 yards/115 grams
- Hand wash with wool wash, lay flat to dry.
- Recommend 7-9 st/inch on 2.25mm - 3.25mm needle [2.25mm for socks, 3mm and up for shawls/sweaters].
All of our smooshie soft yarn is hand dyed in small batches. This can cause variances in colourways, so please consider the project you're working on - I recommend alternating skeins every 2 rows on projects using more than one skein. Monitors can make colours look different than true. Some colours are very saturated and have a tendancy to release small amounts of dye into the wash water. Even small amounts can be absorbed into lighter colours. Reds are notorious for this and using warm or hot water will make it worse. Please don't soak items of multi-colours - hand wash and change water if water becomes discoloured.
We are happy to produce more of any colourway you need - give us a bit of time and we'll make it happen.