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Sunday, March 22, 2009
My Brand New Baby Blog!
Back? The site is getting a lot of press lately. Obviously it's meant to be funny and outrageous – people send in their craziest junk-food creations and we all groan and laugh. Bacon-topped Krispy Kremes for everyone!
I think the blog is brilliant. Honestly, it IS funny. But in the past few weeks I've noticed that a lot of people talking about the site are saying the same thing:
"It's so gross, but now I want some."
"Eeeew! Oh, I bet that tastes good."
"That's a heart attack waiting to...mmmm, bacon."
Isn't that interesting? At the same time that we're appalled, these images are sinking into our little monkey minds and triggering cravings for these kinds of foods. (Who doesn't love a deep-fried somethin' on a stick?) Perhaps we even feel a sense of community and warped pride in this type of county-fair, deep-fried, all-American garbage.
(It reminds me of my favorite Bill Bryson quote: "Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher." America, hurrah!)
So I started thinking, what if, instead of looking at images of junk food every day, we served ourselves up a daily helping of healthy images instead? Can healthy images trigger the same reaction but in reverse? Can they inspire us to better health, make us crave a colorful salad, or help us get to the gym?
That's why I created a new blog called This Is Why You're Thin!
The goal of the site will be to encourage exercise and the consumption of healthy plant-based foods through fun, intriguing, and beautiful images that will inspire us all. I'm looking for inspiring photos or video links of the things you do for health: pictures of fresh fruits and vegetables...beautiful bean soups or hearty wholegrain bread...people running, climbing, swimming, stretching...smiling kids drinking smoothies and picking strawberries. Find out how to contribute by clicking here.
I welcome submissions from vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, flexitarians, and omnivores, but I do ask that your submissions emphasize plant-based foods: vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds, etc. (If you want meat and cheese you can visit "This Is Why You're Fat". They got plenty.)
Please contribute and help spread the word!
51 comments:
- Kelly said...
Brilliant idea! *Subscribing now*
- Gina said...
This is a fantastic idea! I did check out the site....and I have to tell you that deep fried avocado is fantastic, haha. And the loco moco is a really popular breakfast in Hawaii...it never appealed to me while I was living there though.
- Laci said...
You are such a genius Jennifer- I can't wait to contribute! :D Haha I laughed out loud at the "this is why you're fat" blog- those pics didn't actually make me drool but cringe. I remain on the "EW! Yuck!" side :)
EXCELLENT! Can't wait to submit a pic!
"This is Why You're Fat" grosses me out!!! I am excited about your new site though, great idea!!
- Liz M said...
I go through healthy food drooling and cravings every time I read an issue of Vegetarian Times or the recipes in Yoga Journal. Oh man, and tell me a good smoothie recipe and I'll be your friend.
I'd love if your blog told how to make some of the things pictured, if they should be prepared food. - 5:18 PM
- Stephanie Cawley said...
I have been an avid follower of veganlunchbox since its beginning because of my interest in vegan and healthy foods, specifically foods that are easy to pack as lunch/dinner for my busy college lifestyle.
But I am really disappointed in this new blog. I am all for healthy eating, but--though I understand the name is just meant to be an opposite of the This is Why You're Fat blog--the title of your blog implies a correlation between health/fitness and size that is just not true. Plenty of people are overweight and healthy (or eat healthily) just as plenty of "thin" people eat really unhealthily. Also, the title and the encouragement of sending in pictures to promote thinness (even by way of healthy eating) sounds too close to the anorexia craze of "thinspiration" that is rampant on the internet. As a recovered anorexic I find the idea behind this site triggering and as such really unhealthy for me or anyone else with eating issues trying to focus on eating healthily regardless of weight. I may be the only one but I feel really strongly about these issues so felt the need to speak up. - 5:39 PM
- Jamie said...
This is a brilliant idea. Thank you for doing this! I can't wait to see it unfold.
- Heather J. Chin said...
Oh my gosh, that original site is disgusting.
But I completely agree with your observation, have been noticing the effect of all my obsessive vegetarian/vegan recipe/blog reading lately (all I want to do now is shop at Trader Joe's and farmer's markets to find quinoa and berries and cook it!), and think your idea is brilliant!
Perhaps you can link to fellow healthy food bloggers, as well. =)
Although I'm not sure implying that eating healthy will automatically equate to being thin (some people just don't get super thin; they're not built that way metabolically), the idea behind your blog is fantastic!
I look forward to reading it and contributing! - 8:21 PM
- olivia h said...
I know your intentions were good, but I agree with Stephi. It's upsetting to hear the skinny=healthy message from within the vegan blogosphere. I wouldn't call myself 'thin'- does it mean i can't contribute a picture of myself to the blog? Just some things to think about.
- s-j said...
I agree with Stephi and Olivia - I'm a great admirer of your work, Jennifer but there are lots of vegos and vegans who are fat and
1) don't see it as an issue
2) are tired of the constant correlation and reinforcement of "fat=bad, thin=good"
3) feeling completely rejected by the veg community because fat people can't be/aren't being proper vegos.
The original blog is incredibly fatphobic and hurtful and, personally, I think that you are perpetuating that hurt with your new blog. - 1:05 AM
- Vegan Chubosaurus said...
I could not agree with Stephi, olivia, & s-j more - this makes me feel excluded, undesirable, and sad.
- Unknown said...
Brilliant concept...thank you, Jennifer! We all need this kind of inspiration in our lives.
- Unknown said...
It may not have quite the same 'ring' to it, but you could call your blog something like "This Is Why You're Healthy!" instead of using the word "Thin." Either way, I think it's a great idea :)
- Sarah said...
Wonderful idea!
- Laura said...
Great idea! I'm moving to a veggie (maybe even vegan) diet and will try and submit some food pics! :)
- Kara said...
Brilliant! I'm sharing with friends.
- Kara said...
Jennifer has been following Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live program. If anyone adheres to this diet, he or she be thin - a healthy way! There is nothing wrong with the title of the new blog, IMO.
- Crystal said...
What a great idea!! I'm adding this to my feeds right now.
- Unknown said...
I'm with Stephi, Olivia, Sarra, s-j et al. I for sure know too many veg*n folks who've dealt or are dealing with eating disorder issues and/or shame around around their size for the implied meaning chain "vegan = healthy = thin = good" to not set off alarms in my head.
I love your blog and deeply appreciate all of the hard work that you put in to it, and I very happily bought your cookbook, but this isn't cool; every one of those "=" in the meaning chain above represents an assumption about food and bodies that is both hurtful and simply untrue. - 11:16 AM
- Anju said...
Love it!! Your new site is phat (LOL). I like that (unlike the other site) you are using pictures of being active and not just photos of food. Now that the weather is warming up, I'm hoping to get some yoga and/or meditation photos while being outside with nature.
- Jennifershmoo said...
>>I'm hoping to get some yoga and/or meditation photos while being outside with nature.
Yes, please! :-) - 12:15 PM
- Alice said...
Feeling saddened and exlcuded by the name, a shame as it appears to be otherwise a good idea for a blog. Why not 'This Is Why You're Healthy' if that's the intention of the blog anyway? Why add to the assumption that thin=healthy and fat=unhealthy if that's not what you believe?
- J Kessell said...
I am also deeply disappointed by the inclusion of the word "thin." Before I met him, my husband literally just lived off of fast food and frozen dinners, and he's very thin! Thin does not mean healthy, and it can be very damaging to many to pretend that it does.
- DinosaurCake said...
I have also been a reader of VLB for years, and I love the idea of the new blog, but the name of it really bothers me. People should eat more plant based foods for healthy and the environment, not to strive to be thin. Even if the title is just a play on the original website title, I am pretty disappointed. Projecting a correlation between being vegan and being skinny is not very good for our image and it can be triggering for people who struggle with eating disorders.
I liked the suggestion, "This is Why You're Healthy"
or even the elitist "This is Why We're Better" since the beautiful pictures of plant based foods will be far superior to the ones from Why You're Fat website. - 8:47 PM
- Virpukka said...
It just doesn't "can" be triggering it is triggering if you have suffered or you struggle now with eating disorder. Vegan diet (and other lifestyle too) has been one way to me to get my eating disorder under control and I really don't want to get any pressure to be thin to be a good vegan and I'm sorry but that name gives that impression that your not healthy and good person if you're not thin. The idea is great and someone said that don't let all the negative comments bother you but the thing is that to me (and I think to others with ED)the name is the thing what gives me quite negative feeling about whole blog. But to me thin inspiration is same as all eating disorders.
It's funny and sad how big power some words have over us and to me anything that is labeled with words how to be thin are places that I need to stay away if I don't want to find myself again in that trap with eating problems. I wanted to be thin so long but now I just want to eat healthy and learn that without caring about my weight.
But I still keep reading this blog and I hope that you still keep updating stuff in here too. This has been one of my favorite blog after I turned vegan. It also made that change much easier. - 9:33 PM
- Rie Selavy said...
I agree with the other readers--"This is Why You're Healthy!" would have been a more life-affirming title.
- Jennifershmoo said...
>>"This is Why We're Better"
Better!!??? Really? Isn't "better" just the kind of value judgment that you are all applying to the word thin? At the core of things no one here is any "better" than anyone submitting pictures to "This Is Why You're Fat", and healthy people are not "better" than unhealthy people. We're all the same, and those people are just as much my friends, my family, and myself. (In fact I think there's a few pictures of me at the county fair a few years ago eating beer batter spuds dipped in tartar sauce...yeehaw.)
The word "thin" is the opposite of "fat". As part of my goal was to lampoon their website, it was the appropriate choice. You can see from my subtitle, explanation, and the mission statement on my submissions page that the focus is good health and everyone is welcome.
End of story. - 10:35 AM
- Stephanie Cawley said...
Choosing a name that turns out to be offensive and hurtful to others is one thing, and I can understand that maybe you were not aware of how sensitive and very serious and real these issues are for some people.
But you have been informed, at length, and (from most of us) without hostility about why the name really and truly bothers/upsets/offends some people because of its connotations, and you have responded by refusing to even consider changing the name to one of the many appropriate substitutes others have thought up.
Your deliberate refusal to care about your readers' input and your obvious annoyance that some of us care about "the politics of language" spells the end of my readership here. You don't seem to care about losing me or the other handful of readers but I am truly disappointed because you were one of my favorite bloggers before this and now I cannot in good conscience support your new blog (which, by the way, I LOVE the idea of) because of your demonstrated lack of sensitivity; you've basically ignored and dismissed an issue that is very serious, and close to the heart for some people and that is just not acceptable behavior in my book. - 11:36 AM
- Bariatric Foodie said...
Hi Jennifer. Love your blog. But I'm a thin meat eater. Not all meat included diets are laden with fat. I would hope that even if you don't eat meat you wouldn't make it out to seem like eating meat, in and of itself, is a path to getting fat. Still love your blog, but kind of disappointed by that assumption.
- DinosaurCake said...
I don't think that This is Why We're Better is a good title. I pointed out that it was elitist. I was pointing out that your chosen title was so hurtful to some people that even a judgmental one would do less harm. Saying we are better is obviously a joke. Saying we are thin, and that thin is better is a very serious thing for some people.
It's sad that your new blog, which was a great concept, has become such a controversy. I understand you had innocent intentions, but your response has been insensitive. You just don't get it. A title may seem like a silly thing to lose readers over, but for people who have personal experiences or loved ones who have suffered from eating disorders, it is not silly at all. - 1:32 PM
- s-j said...
Jennifer, your unwillingness to actually talk to us about this does you a disservice and as a fat vego, I don't feel welcome at a blog called 'This Is Why You're Thin'. I'm not thin and I won't be thin unless it is at the expense of my mental health which was something that I was happy to sacrifice in the past to be thin but no longer.
I am saddened by this whole situation and I feel that the only answer is for me to no longer read any of your blogs because I personally don't feel welcome at any of them. - 4:48 PM
- Summers' mommy said...
Speaking as a Jennifers fat meat eating sister, I have to say that I do not, nor have i ever felt judged, or unwelcome on her blog or in her home, and the fact that people say she is insensitive and excluding you just proves how very little you really know about her. If someone really has a problem about this, go BUY the URL to "This is why you're healthy" or whatever and then maybe people can go there and bash you too.
I love you sis. - 9:57 PM
- Jennifershmoo said...
>>Not all meat included diets are laden with fat...I would hope that even if you don't eat meat you wouldn't make it out to seem like eating meat, in and of itself, is a path to getting fat.
Sorry, but there's no such assumption on my part. I follow a plant-based nutrient-dense diet via Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live plan. In his books, Dr. Fuhrman acknowledges that including a certain (small) percentage of animal products in your diet will not impact your health, and I'm pretty sure that's true and I'm fine with that.
However, Westerners don't need any encouragement to eat meat and dairy, and most of them are eating too much meat, dairy, and processed foods.
What Westerners need encouragement on is cutting back on other foods and adding more plants to their diets -- veggies, fruits, beans, etc. That's why I asked that submissions *emphasize* plant-based foods while welcoming submissions from everyone. I was trying to be inclusive of various eating styles and not leave anyone out, while still focusing on what we ALL should be eating more of and would be inspired by seeing pictures of -- plants and exercise!
(And although that's not the focus of my new site, I have to add that from an ethical and green perspective, plant-based eating is also healthiest for animals and for the planet. :-) - 8:35 AM
- Jennifershmoo said...
Aw, thanks Summer's mommy! I'm making Summer shmoo her very own lunch box this weekend!
- Unknown said...
This has spiralled completely out of control. Obviously there are some contentious issues here but how about everybody takes a step back and tries to put a little perspective on things.
Eating disorders (be it under or overeating) are an incredibly sensitive issue and deserve to be discussed in an open and supportive environment. A vegan recipe blog is not such an environment; it was never intended to be. Obviously it is a very personal issue to the individual, and many of the readers here will not understand the complexities of the issues involved because they haven't been there themselves.
Bottom line however - Jennifer is trying to do a good thing here, which has been overlooked by the subsequent emotional fallout. She obviously didn't realise the impact the word 'thin' would have on some of her loyal readers. She is only human, she can't predict everything, and if this caring mother, environmentalist and animal-lover is therefore insensitive and unwelcoming, then people's expectations need to be adjusted or this world is going to pieces.
The beauty of free speech is that everyone has been able to express their opinion here - and I genuinely have found it fascinating to read all the different (and equally valuable) discussions on here. The passion behind it all actually made me forget for a second that we live in an increasingly apathetic society. However, Jennifer has exactly the same right to express her opinion. If you don't want to read her blogs, then don't - it's absolutely your choice. And it's her choice to keep her title and stick to her guns - she knows what the blog's about and if some people have misinterpreted it then I guess it's their loss and not hers. - 10:58 AM
- Courtney Suzanne said...
This reminds me of the controversy O Magazine encountered when they published the often quoted statement "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." I didn't think too much of it until people said it encouraged anorexia.
I remember when saying someone was "thin" wasn't a compliment...it was usually followed with saying the person needs to eat more. I'm amazed at how charged certain words have become these days.
The last time I checked, there's a little something called the first amendment in this country, so go and name the darn blog whatever you want! :) You can't please everyone. - 12:58 PM
- R.B. said...
There has already been discussion over the original site's name (that it's kind of offensive and not quite correct health-wise) so it's just unfortunate that you did not read any of that before you made the opposite site. I like "This is why you're healthy!" a lot better. Not only does it not sound judgemental, it also rectifies what's wrong with the original name.
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- Unknown said...
The last time I checked, there's a little something called the first amendment in this country, so go and name the darn blog whatever you want! :) You can't please everyone.
1) The Internet is not America- did you know other countries use the net now too? Yes, they let us. We were a bit confused at first, because not being wonderful all knowing Americans, we thought a computer was something you ate, but we finally got the hang of it.
2) The first amendment relates only to the government, not someone's private blog
3) Aren't we exercising our right to say what we want?
I'm not even American, and I know your first amendment better than you do. How stupid must you be to assume that a law that doesn't even relate to private postings and only relates to one country can possibly relate to the internet. How stupid must you be to not realise there are other countries other than the US? And how stupid must you be not to realise that the right to free speech also SHOCK includes the right for others to disagree with you? - 4:54 AM
- R.B. said...
Rachel, I'm not sure if you are directing that comment at me or the poster. Either way, it's incredibly hostile.
- Bariatric Foodie said...
"Sorry, but there's no such assumption on my part. I follow a plant-based nutrient-dense diet via Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live plan. In his books, Dr. Fuhrman acknowledges that including a certain (small) percentage of animal products in your diet will not impact your health, and I'm pretty sure that's true and I'm fine with that.
However, Westerners don't need any encouragement to eat meat and dairy, and most of them are eating too much meat, dairy, and processed foods.
What Westerners need encouragement on is cutting back on other foods and adding more plants to their diets -- veggies, fruits, beans, etc. That's why I asked that submissions *emphasize* plant-based foods while welcoming submissions from everyone. I was trying to be inclusive of various eating styles and not leave anyone out, while still focusing on what we ALL should be eating more of and would be inspired by seeing pictures of -- plants and exercise!"
So the phrase "if you want to see meat dishes...go look at 'This is Why You're Fat' they have plenty" was NOT a connotation that meat=unhealthy living? Riiiight.
There is such a suggestion on your part. Even if you don't want to admit it. Call your blog what you want. I will probably peek in on it every now and again because, like I said, I eat both meat and plant-based dishes but most important to me is feeling like I make the best nutritional choices for me. But I wouldn't be being true to me if I didn't point out that THAT particular sentence carried with it a STRONG connotation of bigotry.
That's my last word on it. Thank you for your recipes and thoughts. I enjoy you even if I don't agree with you 100% on things. - 10:23 AM
- Jennifershmoo said...
>>So the phrase "if you want to see meat dishes...go look at 'This is Why You're Fat' they have plenty" was NOT a connotation that meat=unhealthy living? Riiiight.
I've done my best to answer you and everyone else politely and emphasize that I welcome everyone, regardless of their size or eating style; I don't think you need to be so hateful.
Yes, I'll admit that I did make that joke at the end, and it was a smart-ass joke at that (and if I were allowed one smart-ass comment for every time I've heard a smart-ass comment about *my* food, I'd have a lot more coming).
But my snarky comment has a basis in truth: if you eat meat the way most of us in the West eat meat, you raise your risks of obesity, some forms of cancer, high blood pressure, and heart disease. People should be thinking about how much meat they eat and most of them should be cutting back. If my comment and my choice to focus on images of plant-based foods influences people in that direction, so much the better -- better for their health, better for the animals, and better for the planet. Sounds like a win, win, win to me. - 5:05 PM
- Jennifershmoo said...
Gee, according to Godwin's Law someone should be calling me a Nazi soon ...
Godwin's Law - 5:09 PM
Well, I feel like I need to say something here. I'm an outsider. I have never read your blog before. I just recently checked out your book "Vegan Lunch Box" from the local library. I love the book! My family likes the lunches I have made using your ideas and recipes. I have tried to come up with vegan recipes of my own, but it's hard. So I appreicate people like you who does it for me.
I don't understand why people get so upset over a name of a blog? If they like the blog, why can't they just ignore the name. I have struggled with all sorts of eating-disorders most of my life, but it never occurred to me that "This is Why You Are Thin" could be offensive. People are just so eager to find reasons to get upset. And I feel bad for you, Jennifer. I for one will come back to both of your blogs. Thanks! - 9:35 PM
- Thom said...
It amazes me how so many people on the Internet feel that consuming free content entitles them to pressure the provider. If you're not paying for it, don't expect to have any leverage. It's a simple concept. You get what you pay for. If you're paying nothing you can expect nothing.
So if you claim you're getting something of value from this site you should be thanking Jennifer, not getting mad at her because not everything she does lives up to your expectations. If you want editorial control of this blog consider becoming a paying sponsor.
And don't bother with claiming "But I bought her book!" Yes, you bought the book, but I'm assuming there was something in it. If that wasn't worth the cost then why did you buy it?
This is a different product, one you get for free. What I'm hearing here is people claiming that they'd rather give up access to this free content than allow the provider to choose the name of a completely separate website. That's your choice, but don't get self-righteous about it. You got what you paid for.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't communicate their opinions. There are many here who did so, and in a positive manner. You are good people who contribute positively to the Internet. Thank you.
But those who are getting bent out of shape now that the decision is made are not doing yourselves any favors. The time for offering your opinion is past. To continue to beat the dead horse just undermines your own influence the next time Jennifer is open to input on something. Since you're paying her nothing, all you have is the influence of your input. If your input is no longer valued because of your behavior you have no influence. Even in a cashless environment economics still holds true. - 11:34 AM
- Kara said...
I'm not sure what you mean by "the first amendment relates only to the government." As an American who has extensively studied the first amendment, I take offense to your comments. It relates to freedom of speech in every form whether it be the media (including the Internet) or expressing beliefs by wearing a certain t-shirt. Oh, it also grants Americans the right to "peaceably assemble" for protest or to practice any religion they please.
Since blogging is a form of public speech, and this blog is written in America, I'm pretty sure Jen is covered by the first amendment. It is only a private blog or post if you control who reads it!
So, please, before you criticize Courtney Suzanne for not knowing her own nation's constitution, check the facts.
Also, never once did she say that America owns the Internet. I agree that some of us are quite ignorant, but I don't know anyone that dumb. - 11:58 AM
For goodness' sake. JennShmoo is not saying that you need to be thin! She is using a play on words! She's already explained why she chose the name and I think opposers to her site need not come over then. Leave it for people who enjoy it. No one is telling you that you have to come. Just relax.
- Jennifershmoo said...
Thank you, Bohem. That is exactly what I am doing, using a play on words to poke fun at "This Is Why You're Fat". The word "thin" is the opposite of the word "fat", that's all. I was playfully responding to the original site and using that as a launching pad to show examples of healthy plant foods and fun exercise.
- Jennifershmoo said...
Please, before writing me another "I hate you / get help / you're disgusting" post, please take a breath. I'm just a housewife in eastern Washington with a blog -- I'm not the evil empire.
If you write a hateful, ranting, angry, or threatening post, I will scan it briefly and delete it. Is it really worth your time and emotional energy?
Really, I am sorry that "thin" is such a terrible, emotionally-charged word for some of you, and that some of you think I'm not vegan enough, and that others think I'm too vegan. But by this time I've heard it all before and I simply can't make everyone happy.
If it's not fun or inspiring for you to visit my blogs, please don't. It's a big world and I'm sure there are bigger things you could be doing with your time than raging against me. How about raging against corporate polluters, or the fur industry, or industrial agriculture and giant factory farms? Really, if you're going to raise your blood pressure and stress level and project hatred into the world, at least choose to do so over something that really matters, like global warming or human rights violations. - 12:20 PM
And that's exactly what I saw when I first read this post several weeks ago. It didn't even OCCUR to me to think of it in any other way.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."
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To avoid publishing measurements which could be unfairly improved by noise reduction processing on RAW, we check every camera's autocorrelation function for each ISO along the entire sensor dynamic range. (For further information, see the dxomark Insight, "Half-Cooked Raw")
No noise reduction was detected for the Pentax Km from ISO 100 to ISO 400, per Figure 1 below. The autocorrelation function shows a single peak, which denotes white noise only.
But for ISOs higher than 400, the autocorrelation shows a wider base (Figure 2), which means noise reduction filtering. As explained in the above-linked Insight, such filtering implies not just that measured noise decreases, but that details can be lost.
The autocorrelation function at ISO 1600 and ISO 3200 shows the same wider base, indicating that noise processing reduction is still turned on.
The Lowlight ISO score for the Pentax Km is extrapolated from the non-filtered ISOs to allow fair comparison with other cameras.
We have updated the DxO Mark Sensor database for most Pentax cameras in order to better account for noise reduction. All measurements impacted by noise filtering processing have been flagged by a white dot (as on, for example, the SNR chart for the Pentax Km below).
Noise filtering processing is present on the Pentax K10D (ISO 800 and ISO 1600), the Pentax K20D (ISO 3200 and ISO 6400), the Pentax K200D (ISO 800 and ISO 3200), the Pentax K7 (ISO 3200 and ISO6400) and the Pentax Kx (ISO 3200, ISO 6400 and ISO 12800).
As the Low-Light ISO scores for the Pentax K10D and Pentax K200D changed slightly after taking noise filtering into account, their global dxomark.com rankings changed as well. However, Pentax K20D Low-Light ISO scores were not impacted by noise filtering.
We want to emphasize that this kind of processing on RAW data files decreases noise but leads to a permanent loss of detail. We recommend, whenever possible, to turn off sensor noise reduction, and let the RAW converter fully process the image.
However, while most other cameras have an interface that permits turning off internal noise filtering and thus providing unprocessed RAW data files, Pentax cameras still apply some noise reduction even when the noise reduction option is supposedly switched off.
Disclaimer: This dxomark review evaluates only the selected camera's RAW sensor performance metrics (i.e., Color Depth, Dynamic Range, and Low-Light ISO), and should not be construed as a review of the camera's overall performance, as it does not address such other important criteria as image signal processing, mechanical robustness, ease of use, flexibility, optics, value for money, etc. While RAW sensor performance is critically important, it is not the only factor that should be taken into consideration when choosing a digital camera.


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SEATTLE — President Obama's health care reforms will be a huge boost to the working poor but are likely to make life more expensive for Aaron Brethorst and others like him.
The Seattle software developer and consultant doesn't have a problem with that because he figures he'll be able to afford quality insurance. He says his annual income is in the low six-figures, and he expects to receive better coverage once the Affordable Care Act kicks in.
The 31-year-old says the ability to buy his own health insurance, because he is relatively young and healthy, has given him the creative freedom to start his own companies and explore new ideas.
He spends a little more than $300 a month on catastrophic coverage with a high deductible. He recently got an email from his health insurance company informing him that the plan he bought on the individual market is going to be cancelled.
Brethorst said he does not know whether he will buy his next policy from the same company — a local version of Blue Cross — or through the state insurance exchange, the Washington HealthPlan finder. He does expect to add a better dental and vision plan in the new year, however.
"I'm not worried about it, quite frankly," Brethorst said. "My income today is more than enough to pay for health insurance."
That outlook is not likely to be universal among those who are self-employed.
The income threshold for a government subsidy offered on the state exchanges varies based on a number of factors, but generally tops out at $46,000 a year for an individual.
Depending on their health, age, family circumstances and income, the cost of insurance could become a burden for those who make too much money for government subsidies but not enough to be considered well-off.
Insurance companies say the cost of their polices will have to reflect the new government mandates under the Affordable Care Act, including the requirement to cover all people, regardless of their medical condition, and to provide coverage for 10 new essential benefits that include mental health treatment and maternity care.
Glen Melnick, a health economist at the University of Southern California, said he believes many younger singles who are self-employed will decide against buying health insurance despite the government mandate, opting instead to pay the fine.
"They're going to decide not to play. They are risk-takers to begin with," he said.
Yet the additional benefits under the law could outweigh the added costs for some, said Dylan Roby, assistant professor and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research. Another positive of the federal reforms is the ability to more easily comparison-shop between insurance companies and policies, he said.
Brethorst said the Affordable Care Act is likely to provide freedom to those who currently cannot afford to escape employer-based coverage to pursue their own dreams.
The iPhone app developer and business consultant cites as an example a friend and colleague with asthma. They started a new company together a few years ago while his friend was buying his insurance from a former employer through the federal COBRA plan.
When the venture capital funding they were seeking fell through before his access to company health insurance ran out, Brethorst's friend left for another company job where he could get health insurance as an employee.
"We've been talking about working together again at some point," Brethorst said. "Once these provisions go into effect, it's going to be significantly easier to go off and pursue his entrepreneurial dreams."
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School bells back to normal on Friday
The long days of school are over for Alexandria City Public School students starting tomorrow.
The extra 30 minutes of class time, added back in March to make up for time lost during the historicly snowy winter, come to an end tomorrow. It was an unprecedented measure taken rather than tacking days on to the end of the school year or cutting vacation time to account for an unprecedented amount of snowfall and related school closures.
Now, back to normal, elementary schools will convene at 8 a.m. and let out at 2:35 p.m. Middle schools begin again at 8:30 a.m. and end the day at 3:15 p.m. and T.C. Williams High School will start the day at 8:35 a.m. and close at 3:15 p.m.
Stevenson picked for state education project
Kyle Stevenson, a T.C. Williams junior, has been selected to take part in the Virginia Department of Educations Im Determined project. The project includes a three-day Youth Summer Summit, in conjunction with the Partnership for People with Disabilities, in Washington from July 31 through August 2.
At the summit, youth with disabilities from across the state meet to identify ways to be better advocates and lead more self-determined lives. In addition, the delegates will visit Capitol Hill, meet with legislators and network with each other.
T.C. alum named VCU scholar
Benjamin Cohen, a T.C. Williams alumnus and Virginia Commonwealth University senior majoring in mass communications, has been awarded the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship, a grant that allows students to spend a year abroad studying the languages and cultures of a foreign country.
Cohen said he plans to use the Boren scholarship to study in China during the upcoming academic year. The time in Asia will allow him to improve his reading, writing and speaking skills in Mandarin Chinese. He was one of two VCU Honors College students to earn the scholarship this year.
The Boren scholarships are funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and provide up to $20,000 of support for each student.
T.C. junior earns youth service award
Volunteer Alexandria nominated Elnahas for her continued work and dedication to their youth program initiatives, which included organizing a donation effort that produced close to 50 bicycles to Bikes for the World.
Elnahas also took on the challenge of serving as vice president of Volunteer Alexandrias Big Event Youth Committee. Under her leadership, more than 100 young people logged more than 600 hours of work at 16 nonprofits during the 2009 Big Event. She also helped write a grant application for funds to support the effort.
Elnahas received her award on Wednesday at the Alexandria Regional Council of the United Way of the Capital Area annual breakfast and community awards celebration. The Perkins award goes to an individual, age 18 or younger, who has demonstrated outstanding volunteer service to the community in the fields of health, welfare or recreation.


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BAIER: You have said at least four times in the past two weeks: "the United States Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote on health care." So do you support the use of this Slaughter rule? The deem and pass rule, so that Democrats avoid a straight up or down vote on the Senate bill?So far, nothing but nonresponsive filler.
OBAMA: Here's what I think is going to happen and what should happen. You now have a proposal from me that will be in legislation, that has the toughest insurance reforms in history, makes sure that people are able to get insurance even if they've got preexisting conditions, makes sure that we are reducing costs for families and small businesses, by allowing them to buy into a pool, the same kind of pool that members of Congress have.
We know that this is going to reduce the deficit by over a trillion dollars. So you've got a good package, in terms of substance. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or the Senate.I don't care how much time he spends on it or whether the time he spends is spent worrying (or dithering or fretting or musing or calmly analyzing). The question is: Does he support it? If he means to say I have no position on the proposed procedural moves, then that's the answer. Say it!
(CROSS TALK)Let you finish obfuscating? This is all very Anne Elk ("Well, you may well ask what is my theory... you may well ask what it is, this theory of mine, well, this theory, that I have, that is to say, which is mine,... is mine.") So there will be a vote, but what kind of vote? Obama falls back on assertions that the bill will pass. Based on the current whip count, it looks like it won't, but he boldly characterizes those who are predicting failure as the pretenders. (He is The Great Pretender.)
OBAMA: What I can tell you is that the vote that's taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don't think we should pretend otherwise.
OBAMA: Bret, let me finish.
If they don't, if they vote against, then they're going to be voting against health care reform and they're going to be voting in favor of the status quo. So Washington gets very concerned about these procedural issues in Congress. This is always an issue that's — whether Republicans are in charge or Democrats in charge — when Republicans are in charge, Democrats constantly complain that the majority was not giving them an opportunity, et cetera.Yeah. Et cetera, indeed. As if procedure is a frivolous sidetrack that only trivial or devious people care about. Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor. Much of constitutional law is about procedural rights and structural safeguards that check power. Justice Felix Frankfurter famously wrote: "The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure." Law professors are seriously engaging with the constitutionality of the "deem and pass," and our erstwhile law professor Barack Obama would imperiously wave procedure aside as a distraction not worthy of his time. Let's concentrate on the end and pay no attention to the means. When the most powerful man in the world says that, we should feel revulsion and alarm.
BAIER: Let me insert this. We asked our viewers to e-mail in suggested questions. More than 18,000 people took time to e-mail us questions. These are regular people from all over the country. Lee Johnson, from Spring Valley, California: "If the bill is so good for all of us, why all the intimidation, arm twisting, seedy deals, and parliamentary trickery necessary to pass a bill, when you have an overwhelming majority in both houses and the presidency?"Ha! He won't answer the people's questions, because there are just so darned many people, and the questions they ask are so annoying. And Bret got 18,000 emails but Obama got 40,000 pieces of mail a day, so Obama's
Sandy Moody in Chesterfield, Missouri: "If the health care bill is so wonderful, why do you have to bribe Congress to pass it?"
OBAMA: Bret, I get 40,000 letters or e-mails a day.
BAIER: I know.Good short jab by Baier.
OBAMA: I could read the exact same e-mail —
BAIER: These are people. It's not just Washington punditry.
OBAMA: I've got the exact same e-mails, that I could show you, that talk about why haven't we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good a deal as members of Congress are getting, and don't have my insurance rates jacked up 40 percent? Why is it that I, a mother with a child with a preexisting condition, still can't get insurance?Yes, the question is the procedural device (and why you need it if the bill is as good as you say).
So the issue that I'm concerned about is whether not we're fixing a broken system.
BAIER: OK, back to the original question.
OBAMA: The key is to make sure that we vote — we have a vote on whether or not we're going to maintain the status quo, or whether we're going to reform the system.Why not a straight vote — a normal vote — a transparent vote — a vote people can understand? Why make it seem that you are pulling a fast one? And right now, in this interview, you seem to be pulling a fast one about pulling a fast one.
BAIER: So you support the deem and pass rule?And so Bret Baier never gets an answer to that question. Barack Obama — who acted like he didn't want to waste his time on the deem and pass — wasted our time evading the questions about the deem and pass. His aim is to put us to sleep. We may be asking questions about the procedure now, but eventually we'll let it go and ultimately we will look at the substance what we got and decide whether we like it. So quiet down and wait, the most powerful man in the world tells us. He knows what's good for us. Don't look while he prepares the medicine that will make you very very happy.
OBAMA: I am not —
BAIER: You're saying that's that vote.
OBAMA: What I'm saying is whatever they end up voting on — and I hope it's going to be sometime this week — that it is going to be a vote for or against my health care proposal. That's what matters. That's what ultimately people are going to judge this on.


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Mozilla's Web-centric Boot2Gecko (B2G) mobile platform is maturing at a rapid pace. As we reported earlier this month, the operating system has already attracted hardware partners and will be demoed at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event. Mozilla is also planning to unveil its new application storefront, called the Mozilla Marketplace, which will allow third-party developers to sell applications that are built with standards-based Web technologies.
A new report from ExtremeTech cites anonymous sources who say that LG is one of Mozilla's hardware partners. The company is said to be working towards the launch of a developer-focused smartphone that will ship with an early version of the B2G operating system.
The initial developer product will give B2G contributors and application developers a real-world hardware environment for testing their work. Mozilla's road-map indicates that B2G will be ready for actual consumers in the second half of 2012. At that point, it will compete with Android and other mobile operating systems.
As we explained in our previous coverage, B2G pairs Mozilla's Gecko HTML rendering engine with the Linux kernel. The platform's application stack is built entirely with standards-based HTML and JavaScript. Hardware capabilities and other platform features are made accessible through JavaScript with a new set of APIs that Mozilla is working to standardize.
Mozilla's long-term goal is to see those APIs widely supported in browsers on other platforms so that mobile Web applications will be able to do all of the things that are possible today with native software. The Mozilla Marketplace will be a platform-neutral distribution channel for applications built with those APIs and other standards-based Web technologies. Mozilla will begin accepting applications in the store when it opens next week during Mobile World Congress.
"We are enabling the Web to be the marketplace, giving developers the opportunity to play on the biggest playing field imaginable," said Mozilla innovation chief Todd Simpson in a statement. "By building the missing pieces, Mozilla is now unlocking the potential of the Web to be the platform for creating and consuming content everywhere."
Unlike Android, which is developed largely behind closed doors with periodic code drops, the B2G platform is being created entirely in the open. The latest code is hosted in public version control repositories and independent contributors can easily participate. The openness of the platform and the inherent potential for customization in an HTML-based user interface could make the platform appealing to hardware vendors who are looking for ways to make more heavily differentiated mobile experiences.


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Officials: Dead bomber name in terrorism database
Published 12:00 pm Friday, April 26, 2013
The federal government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The CIA made the request to add Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name to the terrorist database after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that he had become a follower of radical Islam. About six months earlier, the FBI had separately investigated Tsarnaev, also at Russia's request, but the FBI found no ties to terrorism, officials said.
The new disclosure that Tsarnaev was included within a huge, classified database of known and suspected terrorists before the attacks was expected to drive congressional inquiries in coming weeks about whether the Obama administration adequately investigated tips from Russia that Tsarnaev had posed a security threat. Shortly after the bombings, U.S. officials said the intelligence community had no information about threats to the marathon before the April 15 explosions.
Tsarnaev died Friday in a police shootout hours before his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was discovered hiding in a boat in a suburban back yard.
The terrorist database is called TIDE, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. Analysts at the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center submit names and even partial names into TIDE. About a year ago, there were some 745,000 people listed in the database. Intelligence analysts scour TIDE, trying to establish connections and update files as new intelligence is uncovered.
For entries with a full name, date of birth and intelligence indicating a reasonable suspicion that a person is a terrorist or has terror ties, the person's name is sent to a terror watch list, which feeds into lists like the one that bans known or suspected terrorists from traveling on planes.
Officials say they never found the type of derogatory information on Tsarnaev that would have elevated his profile among counterterrorism investigators and placed him on the terror watch list.
Five days after the U.S. determined who was allegedly behind the deadly Boston marathon terror attacks, Washington is piecing together what happened and whether there were any unconnected dots buried in U.S. government files that, if connected, could have prevented the bombings.
Lawmakers who were briefed by the FBI said they have more questions than answers about the investigation of Tsarnaev. U.S. officials were expected to brief the Senate on the investigation Thursday.
"The review is just beginning, but I haven't seen any red flags thus far," said Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee and was briefed on the investigation Wednesday. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., however, said lawmakers intend to pursue whether there was a breakdown in information-sharing.
U.S. officials described to the AP what the government knew about Tsarnaev since he was first placed on the intelligence community's radar 18 months ago. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation.
Russia's internal security service, the FSB, sent information to the FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnaev on March 4, 2011. The Russians told the FBI that Tsarnaev, an ethnically Chechen Russian immigrant living in the Boston area, was a follower of radical Islam and had changed drastically since 2010. Because of the subsequent FBI inquiry, Tsarnaev's name was added to a Homeland Security Department database used by U.S. officials at the border to help screen people coming in and out of the U.S. That database is called the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, or TECS.
The FBI's Boston office opened a preliminary review of Tsarnaev and searched government databases for potentially terror-related communications. Investigators looked into whether Tsarnaev used online sites that promoted radical activity. They interviewed Tsarnaev and his family members but found nothing connecting him to terror activity. The FBI shared that information with Russia and also asked for more information on Tsarnaev, but never heard back. The FBI's review into Tsarnaev was closed in June 2011.
Then, in late September 2011, Russia separately contacted the CIA with nearly identical concerns about Tsarnaev. The Russians provided two possible birthdates for him and a variation of how his name might be spelled, as well as the spelling in the Russian-style Cyrillic alphabet.
The CIA determined that Tsarnaev should be included in TIDE, and the National Counterterrorism Center added it into the database. The spelling of Tsarnaev's name in TIDE was not the same as the spelling the FBI used in its investigation. The CIA also shared this information with other federal agencies in October.
In January 2012, Tsarnaev traveled to Russia and returned to the U.S. in July. Three days before he left for Russia, the TECS database generated an alert on Tsarnaev. That alert was shared with a Customs and Border Protection officer who is a member of the FBI's Boston joint terrorism task force. By that time, the FBI's investigation into Tsarnaev had been closed for nearly six months because the FBI uncovered no evidence that he was tied to terror groups.
On Jan. 21, 2012, the airline on which Tsarnaev was traveling misspelled his name when it submitted its list of passengers to the U.S. government for security screening. Airlines are required to provide the list of passengers on international flights so the U.S. can check their names through government databases, including the terrorist watch list. Because his name was misspelled, there was not another alert like there was three days earlier.
In July 2012, Tsarnaev returned to the U.S., and another alert was generated in TECS. This information was again shared with the Customs and Border Protection officer on the FBI's Boston joint terrorism task force. But because the FBI had closed its investigation into Tsarnaev a year earlier, there was no reason to be suspicious of his travels to Russia.
"Later on, these agencies will be judged," said Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "But right now, it's way too soon to criticize or to start making political arguments or who failed or whatever."


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Intel is an innovator in the computer market and has been for years, despite issues with anticompetitive practices around the world. Intel currently supports USB 2.0 and other connectivity like FireWire and eSATA in its mobile chipsets.
However, Intel has not offered support for the new USB 3.0 interface in its chipsets and the few machines on the market with USB 3.0 support are doing so using third-party chipsets. On-chip support for USB 3.0 from Intel is thought to be as far out as 2012. Intel is talking up its own much faster competing standard to USB 3.0 known as Light Peak. Light Peak first surfaced earlier this year and was thought to be coming in late 2010.
That date was later pushed and CNET News reports that Light Peak is now ready to hit the market by the middle of 2011. One industry source cited by CNET claims that support will come in the first part of the year, not the later part meaning it could be right around the corner.
Light Peak is much faster than USB 3.0 with speeds up to 10Gbps. Industry heavyweight Apple is not supporting USB 3.0 on its computers, but it is expected to fully support Light Peak and the thought is that Apple may even be the first computer maker to offer the tech on a computer. Intel has already stated when Light Peak was first unveiled that "Apple is an innovating force in the industry."
Officially Intel still has plans to support USB 3.0 reports CNET. An Intel spokesperson said, "We are absolutely committed to USB 3.0 and beyond that." Exactly when that commitment will start is the big question and it appears the start will be after Light Peak has time to take hold in the market.
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A great choice for almost any room within a home due to its warm, comforting and quiet qualities.
Types of Carpet
Level Loop
Loop carpet consists of yarns that are looped and uncut on the carpet surface. The pile height can vary from low, tightly constructed to a more luxurious high-level pile. Loop carpet has strength and inherent soil hiding capabilities. Its shadings also resist traffic patterns, while making colors appear rich. This carpet type is ideal for heavy traffic areas.
A combination of high cut tufts and lower loops create a variety of sculpted patterns. Patterned carpet is often tough and durable, offering good performance in areas that see a lot of activity. Patterned carpet also adds a dimension of texture within a room and hides traffic patterns.
Friezes are often called 'Twists' and include Shags and Cables; which are extreme versions of a Frieze. Highly twisted yarns give frieze carpets a contemporary look and make them a smart choice for any active part of your home. Best of all, they're less likely to show vacuum marks or footprints than other cut pile styles.
Plush carpet is sometimes called velvet because of the velvet or velour appearance usually obtained by using high-density construction. This type of carpet provides a more formal appearance than other cut pile constructions. A plush carpet has a dense, deep pile. They are subject to revealing vacuum cleaner sweeper marks and footprints due to light reflection. Delustred (non-shiny) yarns may reduce this shade variation.
Textured cut piles also may be called "trackless" or "foot-print free". These names describe the tendency of this construction to show fewer footprints and sweeper marks than other cut pile constructions. These constructions are obtained by a kinked or curled yarn. This curling of the fiber reduces light reflectance, thus reducing the appearance of footprints.


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Ian Turner, Age 8, Sea Lion Graduate
EVO Swim School is pleased to announce that Ian Turner, Age 8, has graduated from the Sea Lion class level. He can now display the ability to swim a basic freestyle stroke (otherwise known as "big arms") while taking a breath on his back. He is prepared for the Porpoise class where he will learn the freestyle side breathing technique and backstroke. On behalf of Ian's instructor, Lindsay, and the entire EVO Swim School staff, we say…CONGRATULATIONS!


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And so, I made another real-life moodboard (others I've done here & here) on the desk in my room based around this necklace contraption that the folks at Proenza Schouler recently sent my way. Summer camp/friendship bracelets/bike lock/bungee chord/backyard streams/geology vibes. I really wish it was summer.
So about this necklace, which is a bit too clunky for the delicate connotations that the word necklace implies -- it is beautiful summer camp perfection. Usually when I wear it I just stare at the rocks and zone out. And probably the best part about the non-necklace-ness is that I don't have to be really careful when wearing it. A complain I'd like to file, however, is that the size isn't adjustable. You'd think that when half of it is made out of bike lock/bungee chord material there would be some clever and simple way to adjust it. I've taken to latching the large loops onto the smaller ones sticking out of the side. Maybe that's what you're supposed to do, actually? Hmph.
The necklace is displayed here against a record I bought at the Salvation Army because for some reason it seemed really necessary to own a record of a high school band from an Illinois suburb in the 70's.
Lizard bracelet is from a watch I bought at Target in like 5th grade and the other bracelets my friend made. Meagan gave me this Risto skirt and, like her with her eyebrow glasses, I got extremely Double Rainbow over it. Which would be appropriate, considering the Proenza necklace is from their stoner collection.
Top also sent to me by Proenza.


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Born Ruffians
Say It
A rather energetic follow-up to Red, Yellow & Blue, Toronto's Born Ruffians are even more on the pulse with this time. With undertones of the Strokes, it's a honed and complete sound. Vocally and instrumentally it's a compelling soundscape, imbued with itchy lyrics, there's a certain personality emerging.
Opening with Oh Man, somehow it feels like you're driving with the top down somewhere like the American West, and the sun is shinning on your face, and you couldn't think of a better place to be at that moment in time. It's a full sound with quirky drums and generous backbeats. The Ballad of Moose Bruce has tension and complexity; it would be amazing to see it performed live.
Having completed a tour with Franz Ferdinand in 2009, times have been good for the Ruffians. Although they quit university to become full-time musicians, you must admire the pursuit of their dreams albeit a bit reckless. With Zane Lowe and Colin Murray cited as fans, they are full of passion, energy and colour. www.bornruffians.com
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text: SAP::Rfc XS Package Copyright (c) 1999 - 2006 Piers Harding. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one. You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License, my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is my interpretation of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding my intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that. One last thing - The SAP RFCSDK is a prerequisite for this perl package to work. The RFCSDK is proprietrary software owned by SAP AG. For this reason I will not supply ANY component part of the RFCSDK with this perl package, and further more you must obtain it through the normal channels with SAP AG - ie. you must have a licensed SAP R/3 installation at your disposal. After all the legal stuff - Hello! Welcome to the SAP::Rfc perl package. This package is intended to facilitate RFC calls to an SAP R/3 system of release 3.1x and above. It may work for earlier versions but it hasn't been tested. The fundamental purpose of the production of this package, is to provide a clean object oriented interface to RFC calls from within perl. This will hopefully have a number of effects: (1) make it really easy to do RFC calls to SAP from perl in an object oriented fashion (Doh!) (2) promote perl as the interface/scripting/glue language of choice for interaction with SAP R/3. (3) make the combination of Linux, Apache, and perl the killer app for internet connectivity with SAP. (4) Establish a small fun open source project that people are more than welcome to contribute to, if they so wish. As of April 2003 (VERSION 1.11), SAP::Rfc has had another large chunk of functionality added. The ability to perform registered RFC calls where ABAP code in SAP can call out to your Perl code. See the description of accept() in perldoc SAP::Rfc. With this in mind - this package has been developed under Linux, so the installation is therefore focused on this. This does not mean that it will not work on other UNIX like flavours - to the contrary it probably will, it just hasn't been tested. The package has been compiled and run under Win32 - special attention needs to be paid to the options found in the Makefile.PL file. Failing this - for Win32 people Olivier Boudry has kindly supplied me (so every win32 slave out there, should be very grateful to him) with a PPD based install package from Version 1.17 onwards - these can be found at http://www.piersharding.com/download/win32/ . Furthermore - if you still need to build your own win32 version then Olivier has given additional instructions on doing this with the "free" Visual Studio version called VS Express 2005. This can be found at: http://www.piersharding.com/download/win32/Build_SAP-Rfc_with_VSE2005.pdf Many thanks go to Olivier. As VSE 2005 and above MS compilers require that a MANIFEST be embedded in the compiled binary, the build process is slightly modified - you must add a command line parameter: perl Makefile.PL EMBED_MANIFEST=yes After the fundamental RFC interface has been developed, the intention is then to extend this to add interface discovery, and a BAPI abstraction layer - but this is down the track. SAP have kindly provided the RFCSDK for Linux on the OSS ftp service. This can be retrieved from sapserv3, currently in the "unsupported directory" - this should change before the end of 1999 to being fully supported. See OSS note 53459 for details. *Note: 29.11.2002 - this is old info from circa 1999 - I am currently using RedHat 8.0 and either the librfc or librfccm from R3 4.6C. This must be installed before you continue. I use Redhat 6.1 or Slackware 7.0 - other distributions will probably work, but take heed of the instructions provided with the rfcsdk rpm files. Once you have the rfcsdk installed carry on! Make sure that the LIBS and INC directive in the Makefile.PL points to the correct location of your OS's version of the rfcsdk -without this linking correctly nothing is going to work. Thanks to Achim Grolms who supplied the following information :- - where to get the required SAP files for the RFCSDK: Archive program needed to exratct the archives Dynamic libraries and headers -This is how to extract (Like ./SAPCAR -xvf librfc_mt_so_dbg.CAR) -and where to put them (libs to $RFCSDKHOME/lib and headers to $RFCSDKHOME/include) where RFCSDK should be /usr/sap/rfcsdk as a standard After you have unpacked The SAP::Rfc module, you should have all the files listed in MANIFEST. Installation In brief, the following should work on most systems: perl Makefile.PL make make test << provide all your host routing information. make install Help on the build process is available by doing: perl Makefile.PL --help and it says: The whole trouble with the build process is one of determining what your OS is, and which RFC library needs to be linked in, and where that library lives. To help with this there are two command line options that you can use to point me in the right direction: (1) --source /usr/sap/rfcsdk This tells me where to look for your installed RFCSDK. This must be the directory that contains the ./lib and ./include directories of the RFCSDK In the include directory must be saprfc.h etc. By default, this looks in /usr/sap/rfcsdk (2) --addlibs ' -lm -ldl -lpthread ' This tells me what additional libraries need to be passed in at link time - this can be anything that you would put in LDFLAGS. By default this is ' -lm -ldl -lpthread ' (3) --unicode This tells me that you want to compile in unicode support - to do this you must have the unicode version of the RFC library specifically librfcum.xx or librfcu.a and the libsapu16 library. (good luck!!). Example: perl Makefile.PL --source /opt/rfcsdk --addlibs '-lsomethingwacky' UNICODE ======== If you really really really need it - unicode support can be built BUT it must be done using the librfcum eg. the special unicode version of the RFCSDK. Get the latest as provided by service.sap.com/connectors => see OSS note 413708. This has only ever been tested on Linux, and is only ever likely to work on systems that have iconv and are Little Endian in its current form. To build it you need something like: perl Makefile.PL --source=/usr/sap/rfcsdk-640-unicode --unicode Please email directly if you have problems, and are willing to help with testing (especially for other platforms) => firstname.lastname@example.com. VERSION Info supplied by Others ================================ Mark Förster writes: On HP-UX (11.X) use the ANSI C compiler or gcc, extract the RFCSDK 4.6C 32bit e.g. to /usr/sap/rfcsdk. If you get error messages like: /usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't shl_load() a library containing Thread Local Storage: /usr/lib/libcl.2 then try the following solution: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libcl.2 Glenn Jackman writes: FYI, the sysadmin sent me this info about compiling on Solaris: I added -lrfc and /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1 to EXTRALIBS and LDLOADLIBS. I also used gcc as opposed to the workshop compiler. I've had better luck with this compiler compiling Open Source software. Cheers - Piers Harding - R/2 R/3 BASIS, IFACE, JAPH, whatever ... email: email@example.com


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At the heart of NATO's strategy to turn over security to Afghanistan, is the joint patrol: Afghan and international troops training and fighting shoulder-to-shoulder. Now faced with a rash of insider attacks - Afghans in uniform turning their guns on international troops - NATO is suspending most of those joint operations.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 50 NATO troops have died at the hands of Afghan security forces, or people posing as them. Added to the threat this week is the rising tension from a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. For the latest, we go to NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, who is in Kabul. Good morning.
SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON, BYLINE: Good morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: What exactly does this mean, in terms of how U.S. and other NATO forces will interact with Afghan security forces?
NELSON: Well, considering that 80 percent of the missions here - or the operations here are joint operations, this has a huge impact. What the directive from Lt. Gen. General James Terry - he's the head of the NATO-led coalition's joint command here - what he's basically ordered is that the only cooperation that go on occur at the battalion levels. You're talking about meetings of high-level officers perhaps at a secure base, rather than being out in the field. I mean, right now, you have troops who not only train Afghan forces, but they go out with them on joint patrols; they assist them if they're under attack. Those sorts of things go away, and it creates a huge problem for the next 27 months, while the NATO-led coalition is still here. This directive could last several days - or much longer than that. It's unclear yet.
MONTAGNE: And does mean, effectively, that international forces will be in their bases, rather than out in the field with Afghan forces?
NELSON: That seems to be the case. I mean, again, there may be some instances where the regional commanders will approve something different. But it is very much going to be a restricted movement-type thing. And this, of course, comes in addition to a lot of other steps that have been going on, including requiring the troops to carry loaded weapons at all times; having troops monitoring joint meetings - so keeping an eye on the Afghans, if you will, so that they can attack - or hopefully, prevent an attack.
So yeah, it's very restrictive. And it seems to put a damper on plans for turning over the security responsibilities to Afghan forces, as these months roll on to the end of the NATO-led coalition's mission - which, as you mentioned, is the end of 2014.
MONTAGNE: Now, in Beijing today, the defense secretary, Leon Panetta, said this was not a sign that the insurgency is getting stronger. What's the view where you are?
NELSON: Well, certainly, on the ground here, the coalition troops don't feel - or the coalition troop commanders, I should say, don't feel this is something that's being done by the Taliban. They blame about a quarter of these cases, of these attacks, on Taliban infiltration. But there seems to be something else going on here; with the troops not just understanding each other. I mean, part of it is because they're trying to grow the forces so quickly. We're talking about 350,000 Afghan troops - this is both soldiers and police, at this point - who are, you know, supposed to be working with the coalition in some way. So the fact that the risk has gone up is - I guess - perhaps in some ways, expected. But having said that, I mean, they are trying to figure out a way to curb this because it just can't go on.
MONTAGNE: And separately, there was a suicide bombing in Kabul this morning, that killed at least eight foreigners. It was aimed at foreigners, apparently. Tell us about that.
NELSON: From what we've been able to piece together, there was a caravan of three minivans, basically, moving towards Kabul airport. They were using a back road. So they were moving on that road when apparently - at least, according to the group claiming responsibility - says they sent a woman suicide bomber to basically intercept this caravan.
It struck the first bus. And inside the first bus, there was an Afghan driver, an Afghan government official and some foreigners, eight from South Africa. One of them is from Kyrgyzstan. But the details are still somewhat shady because the bodies were not retrieved for many, many hours. They were left laying out on the street, with French troops securing them - or helping secure them. But you know, the Afghans didn't want to touch the scene, if you will, until somebody with some responsibility came and took the bodies away. So it's been a very chaotic morning; still a lot of questions about this case.
MONTAGNE: NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, speaking to us from Kabul. Thanks very much.
NELSON: You're welcome, Renee. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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