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Lindsay Lohan Getting HANDS ON with Max from The Wanted
Lindsay Lohan staked her claim to new beau Max George from The Wanted ... throwing her arm around him at a club in New York City last night following their show at Madison Square Garden.
As TMZ first reported, Lindsay has been by Max's side the last few days, even riding with the band on their tour bus. We're told Max has been the aggressor in the "relationship" from the start, but that Lindsay isn't looking for anything serious right now.
Which is probably for the best ... she might be a little busy for the next 8-12 months.


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Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto issued a decree revoking the building permit for the Christian Church of Indonesia (GKI) in Yasmin Park on March 11, citing unrest among local Muslims and charging the church with having lied about obtaining area residents' approval when the permit was originally processed. Bogor city officials have also decided to try purchasing the land where the church meets.
Church leaders and rights groups scoffed at the city's claims and its attempt to remove the church from the area after years of protests from Islamic groups. At a press conference last month, Bona Sigalingging, spokesperson for the GKI Yasmin church, read a statement in which the church and 12 interfaith and rights organizations rejected the mayor's decree.
"The mayor of Bogor has publically lied and twisted the facts, which are both crimes and public moral failures," Sigalingging said.
When GKI Yasmin representatives checked the city's claims of a document with false signatures of area residents approving the church, they found such a document had never been submitted; it did not appear in the application file.
"The entire building permit file had been submitted in 2005, and there have never been any additions," Sigalingging said, adding that the mayor was rash in issuing the baseless decree. "The reasons [for revoking the church permit] are clearly contrived and unfactual."
He said the decree not only contravened the 1945 Constitution but was also a violation of law.
"The mayoral decree was [directly] opposed to the court decision that the building permit was legal and binding," he said. "We also request that the mayor rescind Mayoral Decree No. 645.45-137/2011 regarding the revocation of the GKI Yasmin building permit and recognize the court decision that the building permit is legal and binding."
Supporting the GKI Yasmin church were 12 interfaith organizations: The Wahid Institute, the Human Right Working Group (HRWG), the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) Jakarta, the Commission on the Lost and Victims of Oppression, the Fellowship of Indonesian Churches, Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace, the Sinode of the Christian Church of West Java, the Indonesia Legal Research Center, the National Diversity Alliance, the Legal Aid Foundation of Indonesia and the Gusdurian Forum.
Church lawyers today filed a complaint on the Bogor mayor with the National Police detective unit in response to a statement Budiarto made yesterday (March 31) to newspaper Radar Bogor that attorney Jayadi Damanik described as a threat, The Jakarta Post reported.
Citing a report from kompas.com, the Post quoted Damanik as saying, "We believe Diani Budiarto has committed unpleasant conduct, issuing threats of violence. We think the police need to deal with this."
The mayor had called for action against the church if it insisted on standing by the Supreme Court ruling granting its building permit, according to the Post. It also reported that Damanik said the church had sent a legal representative to the Home Ministry to report the Bogor mayor for overstepping his duties.
Budiarto was not immediately available for comment.
On March 13, some 200 police officers blockaded the church, lining each side of KH Abdullah Bin Nuh Street in Bogor under the pretext that they were preventing clashes with about 20 Muslim protestors, church leaders said.
Authorities set up barricades and questioned every person who wished to go to the church location. Compass observed them turning away several GKI members carrying Bibles and heading toward the worship venue. Police parked nine cars and trucks along the fence in front of worship site – the congregation has been worshipping on a strip of land between the road and a fence–in order to keep the congregation out. A vehicle with a water cannon was parked about 500 meters from the site.
Eventually the congregation realized that they could not worship there and left.
The previous Sunday, March 6, the congregation had been able to open the lock that the city had placed on its church building on April 10, 2010. After pushing and shoving between police and church members, the congregation was able to enter and hold a one-hour service led by GKI Yasmin Pastor Ujang Tanusuputra.
As the service was taking place, Bogor Police Chief Nugroho Slamet Wibowo ordered GKI Yasmin church lawyer Damanik and the congregation to stop the service. Wibowo suggested they shift to the Harmony Building, some 500 meters away, in order to avoid clashes with 2,000 Muslim demonstrators outside the mayor's office whom Wibowo said would be arriving.
Citing the court ruling that declared the congregation could worship at the church site, Damanik declined.
The worship service finished peacefully, and the congregation happily departed. The predicted 2,000 Muslim protestors failed to materialize.
The next day, Bogor city officials invited GKI leaders to discuss the conflict, and the church representatives were accompanied by the LBH Jakarta, the HRWG, a representative of the Wahid Institute, the Interfaith Society and others. In the meeting, Bogor officials announced that the city was revoking the building permit and buying the disputed land.
"Upon hearing this, the GKI rejected the sale and reminded the Bogor government to obey the Supreme Court's decision," said Fatmawati Hugo, a member of the GKI legal team.
On March 12, GKI representatives met with police at the Giant Shopping Mall in Yasmin Park, where authorities ordered the church not to take unilateral action.
The police also guaranteed that firm action would be taken against anyone who tried to lock the GKI Yasmin site, but, ironically, that night at 11:30, policemen accompanied members of the Public Order Agency as they padlocked the gate to the GKI Yasmin church, Hugo said.
About 20 church members, mostly women, could only look on with sadness, he said.
"It's odd that the police accompanied those who locked [the gate] rather than obeying the law and stopping the sealing," Hugo said.
A few minutes later, at 12:05 a.m., police issued an ultimatum: All persons and vehicles were to clear the area in front of the church. A tow truck arrived and approached a member's car parked in front of the gate.
"The church members chose to stay and sang several Christian songs," said Hugo.
Police officers advanced and tried to take congregation members by force. The women were prepared to be arrested, but efforts to detain them ended when a GKI lawyer asked for reasons for the arrests and for arrest warrants. Church members stayed and unrolled mats so that they could hold a part of the roadside strip for the 8 a.m. worship service. About 15 prayed and sang songs through the night.
Around 4:30 a.m., more police arrived. A mobile brigade commanded by West Bogor Police Chief Hida mobilized to force out those on the side of the road; the crowd dispersed in the face of fully armed police.
"Because they were terrorized, they abandoned the roadside strip," Hugo said.
After clearing the area, police blockaded 500 meters of KH Abdullah Bin Nuh Street at about 7 a.m., using six truckloads of mobile police and an armored car. They had used the same tactic on Dec. 26, 2010, to prevent the congregation from a Christmas service.
At 7:30 a.m., about 20 Muslims unrolled banners at a corner near the Giant Shopping Mall charging the GKI Yasmin church with deception. "Hard-heads, want to build an illegal church here? Step over our dead bodies first," read one banner.
The congregation held a short worship service at 8:30 a.m. in the home of a nearby member.


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Ha, of course they'll say that! And if by "immediate" you mean no change between now and the end of the World Series, you're probably right. This sale has been lining up for some time separate from Mr. Yamauchi's passing. The TV deal is in place, there are few long term contracts, they have a zombie GM and head coach in place waiting to be canned, and an ostensibly younger ball club "with potential". You can debate the last point, but the time is ripe for a new group to come in and make the old ownership a BIG offer, taking control with maximum flexibility on the club's future and a sweet revenue stream.
If they get a new managing partner or President that comes out in favor of Seattle Arena in SoDo, I might actually come back next year. Might….
What sale?
Just because Mariner fans want the team to be sold doesn't mean Nintendo is considering it. The Mariners are a billion dollar asset in their portfolio and they do have to contemplate how diverging itself of such an asset would affect their stocks. They do after all, have shareholders to be accountable to as well as baseball fans. In the bigger scheme of the business world the overall healthiness of the business takes precedent over a smaller slice of the pie.
Just because you want it won't make it happen.


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The government has just announced that there is a 48 hour extension on submissions to the copyright consultation. While the discussion forum has closed, Canadians now have until Tuesday night to submit their views on copyright. If you missed last night's deadline, there is still time to craft your own submission, use a form letter, or send out a quick email. There were many new submissions of note posted online over the weekend. They include:
- Laura Murray
- Sam Trosow
- Privacy submission
- Appropriation Art
- Parker Donham on crown copyright
- Laurel Russwurm with a writer's perspective
- isoHunt
An op-ed in The Mark from Queen's University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Daniel Woolf is also a must-read. Woolf focuses on four key issues:
1. Digital locks, though they may be used to stop piracy, must not impede users' rights.
2. Fair dealing ought to be clarified and amplified.
3. Specialized exceptions ought to be used sparingly because they likely wouldn't be able to keep up with technological change or accommodate a range of reasonable educational practices.
4. Licensing mechanisms must not be seen as a substitute for users' rights.
The absence of an educational exemption for the Internet – as advocated by the AUCC – suggests that more of the educational community is (rightly) shifting toward fair dealing and DRM as the critical issues.


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Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he will return to his home state and "assess the results" of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, after getting just 10 percent of the vote.
"With the voters' decision tonight in Iowa, I decided to return to Texas, assess the results of tonight's caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race," Perry said.
He was originally scheduled to campaign in South Carolina on Wednesday, but those plans were put on hold after his distant fifth-place finish.
The Associated Press adds:
Before Perry spoke, his advisers tried to paint the first contest in the South as the real start to his strategy and braced for a lackluster performance in the Iowa caucuses, which typically winnows the field of presidential hopefuls.
Ben Philpott, senior political reporter for NPR member station KUT, has been in Iowa, traveling with the Perry campaign. He reports for member station WOI that Perry surprised Texans during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
"It's been especially interesting to see, you know, the kind of famous stumbles that he's made early on in the campaign. That's not the candidate that we're used to seeing in Texas at all," Philpott said. "He didn't make those mistakes when running ... for governor three times in Texas."
Perry entered the Republican field in August and surged to the lead before tumbling after some high-profile gaffes in the presidential debates.
"The votes are the votes, and we're still early in the night so we'll wait and see in the morning what it looks like," he told Fox News late Tuesday.
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He made a last-minute push Tuesday to avoid an embarrassing finish. At his first town hall-style meeting, he offered a sometimes rambling 25-minute speech and opened the floor to questions.
No one in the audience rushed to ask him questions. To fill the gap, Perry awkwardly hummed the theme song from the game show Jeopardy!
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them.
It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Closer to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday's flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.
"The world is a big place," said Michael Smart, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia. "If it happens to come down in the middle of the ocean and it's not near a shipping lane or something, who knows how long it could take them to find?"
Amid the confusion, officials involved in the search say the Malaysian jet may have made a U-turn, adding one more level of uncertainty to the effort to find it. They even suggest that the plane could be hundreds of kilometers from where it was last detected.
Aviation experts say the plane will be found — eventually. Since the start of the jet age in 1958, only a handful of jets have gone missing and not been found.
"I'm absolutely confident that we will find this airplane," Capt. John M. Cox, who spent 25 years flying for US Airways and is now CEO of Safety Operating Systems, said Monday. The modern pace of communications, where GPS features in our cars and smartphones tell us our location at any given moment, has set unreal expectations. "This is not the first time we have had to wait a few days to find the wreckage."
Based on what he's heard, Cox believes it's increasingly clear that the plane somehow veered from its normal flight path. He said that after the plane disappeared from radar, it must have been "intact and flew for some period of time. Beyond that, it's all speculation." If it had exploded mid-air along its normal flight path, "we would have found it by now."
Malaysian civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, whose agency is leading a multinational effort to find the Boeing 777, said more than 1,000 people and at least 34 planes and 40 ships were searching a radius of 100 nautical miles (115 miles; 185 kilometers) around the last known location of Flight MH370. No signal has been detected since early Saturday morning, when the plane was at its cruising altitude and showed no sign of trouble.
Azharuddin said the search includes northern parts of the Malacca Strait, on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula and far west of the plane's last known location. Azharuddin would not explain why crews were searching there, saying, "There are some things that I can tell you and some things that I can't."
Some aviation experts are already calling for airlines to update their cockpit technology to provide a constant stream of data — via satellites — back to the ground. Information about key system operations is already recorded on the flight data and voice recorders — the so-called black boxes — but as this crash shows is not immediately available. Such satellite uplinks would be costly and the benefit is debated.
Just about every major jet to disappear in the modern era has eventually been found. The rare exceptions didn't involve passengers.
In September 1990, a Boeing 727 owned by Faucett Airlines of Peru was ditched into the North Atlantic after running out of fuel on its way to Miami. The accident was attributed to poor pilot planning and the wreck was never recovered.
More mysterious was the disappearance of another 727 in Africa. It was being used to transport diesel fuel to diamond mines. The owners had numerous financial problems and one day, just before sunset, the plane took off without clearance and with its transponder turned off. It is believed to have crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. One theory, never proven, is that it was stolen so the owner could collect insurance.
"I can't think of a water crash in the jet age that hasn't been solved ," said Scott Hamilton, managing director of aviation consultancy Leeham Co.
The Malaysia Airlines jet had been headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 239 people aboard were mostly from China. In Beijing, passengers' relatives have complained that the airline has not been forthcoming with information, and that they've had to rely on news reports.
Some of those reports, however, have led to dead ends. Those false alarms appeared to leave searchers with little to go on.
The flight "was very high up in the air early in the morning, when it was still dark," Azharuddin said. "We have no witnesses on the ground and nobody on the plane can be contacted. The area is over the sea, so it's not as easy as that. There are a lot of constraints."
Whether the plane broke up in mid-air or crashed into the water, there would be some debris.
If the plane broke up "for some aerodynamic reason, like the wing fell off or there was a depressurization, there'd be big chunks of wing and fuselage all over the place. So it'd be very unlikely that it would just be destroyed and turned to dust," said Smart, the aerospace engineering professor.
He added that much of the wreckage may be at the bottom of the sea, which is 50 to 60 meters (165 to 195 feet) deep in the area where the plane was last detected.
The size of the debris field will be one of the first indicators of what happened, aviation experts say. A large, widespread field would signal the plane likely broke apart at a high elevation, perhaps because of a bomb or a massive airframe failure. A smaller field would indicate the plane probably fell intact, breaking up upon impact with the water.
Discovering the debris can take days.
A week after an Adam Air flight carrying 102 people vanished over Indonesian waters on Jan. 1, 2007, an Indonesian navy ship detected metal on the ocean floor. But it would take another two weeks for the U.S. Navy to pick up signals from the flight data and cockpit recorders, and seven months for the boxes to be recovered. The fuselage remains on the ocean floor, and Adam Air is now defunct.
The Malaysian Airlines jet could be less of a challenge than the Adam Air crash in one respect: It was last tracked over much shallower water.
But for now, the mystery is overwhelming.
"It's hard to imagine what could have caused it with these modern planes," Smart said.
Gelineau reported from Sydney. Mayerowitz reported from New York. Chris Brummitt in Kuala Lumpur and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.


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As team lead in user experience for SAP's Mobile Design Center, I recently spent time familiarizing myself with Apple's latest release of iOS 7 in order to gain better insight into how this new mobile operating system will affect users.
iOS 7 is being touted as the first major update to the look and feel of Apple products since the passing of Steve Jobs, who was known for his love of "skeuemorphic" design, in which user interface elements are designed to mimic real life.
Think of the cheap pine bookcase background in the iBooks library, the stitching on the edge of the calendar app, the notes app that looks like an old-fashioned legal pad, or the green felt background of the Game Center app. All of these design elements speak to the user in a language distinctly Apple, telling them that this is not only a genuine Apple experience but a reflection of the imagination, care, and meticulous attention to detail in design that the company is so famous for.
iOS creator and former lead design thinker Scott Forestall was also a long-time champion of skeuomorphic design. However, Apple design chief Jony Ive, who stepped forward last year to take the role of lead design thinker for product hardware as well as software environment, has long been a critic of skeuomorphic design.
With iOS 7, his vision for a simplified "flat" design that eschews all things skeuomorphic has been realized. Apple's new operating system is more than a just facelift, revision, or update—it's a direction-setting blueprint that gives us insight into the future of mobility.
It's Not Just an Operating System—It's an Experience
The changes to the graphic interface are immediately apparent: a thin-serifed global font, Helvetica Neue, combines with thin line icons and bright, primary colors to create a look that clearly distinguishes iOS 7 from its predecessors. The colorful, flat icons use the retina display to high advantage by creating a sparkling, eye-catching home screen. The changes aren't just cosmetic: the new gesture-controlled functions represent an advance in a gesture-based behavior that didn't exist a few short years ago and allow easier access to controls, like Notifications Center or Control Center, and faster content searching with a single swipe down on any screen.
iOS 7 … a light and playful experience, perfectly in tune with the content it is designed to support
In a keynote speech at Apple's last Worldwide Developer's Conference, Ives said: "True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornamentation, it's about bringing order to complexity."
When you look at all the new iOS 7 screens in together in a side-by-side view, you get a clear sense of what he means. The simplified design removes mental associations that might complicate one's ability to process the experience. At the same time the OS introduces dimension into the experience. Everything has been flattened into a two-dimensional layer but there are added translucent layers of functionality on top of each other, making it easy to move from one layer to the next.
The result is a light and playful experience, perfectly in tune with the content it is designed to support. The operating system minimizes the number of background brain cells required to process what you are seeing in order to allow you to more richly experience what you are feeling, substantiating Apple's claims that it's in the "experience-creating business."
And why should we expect anything less? This is the company that created the iProduct family of iTunes, iPods, iMovies, Garage Band, etc. and pioneered the concept of creating a compelling complete multi-media entertainment system for your computer.
In the same way, iOS 7 isn't supposed to be seen as another product offering but rather a way to perceive something already familiar from a different angle. It's a unique language that is easily understood and repeatable across multiple devices with varying screen resolutions and screen sizes and, above all, representative of Apple's unique brand values.
Elevating the Experience While Remaining True to the Brand
Compare iOS 7 to Microsoft's 2012 release of the Metro user interface. There are arguable similarities found in the color palettes, font, and icon styling of the two different user interfaces. And yet there's a huge difference in how these two releases were executed on a brand level. Microsoft spent countless millions on advertising to create anticipation for Metro, which it tried to brand as a revolutionary game-changer.
It reminded me of a friend who tries to look younger then his years by wearing a baseball cap backwards on his head. Unless you can name three current pop songs that are topping the charts, have Tweeted at least 20 times that day and really know what "WWAG do," your hat had better face forwards. No matter how revolutionary and cool Metro tried to be, it was hamstrung by the fact that it lived side by side with a Windows browsing experience. And ultimately, "hip and cool" just aren't descriptors that reflect Window's long-time brand identity.
Apple, on the other hand, isn't trying to be the ultimate game changer here. Instead, they want to be the cilantro in the omelet: the ingredient that adds freshness and flavor when least expected. They don't want to dominate the experience: they want to surprise and delight you. One surprise I discovered was the new feature of a moving background image, which moves ever so slightly when you tilt your iPhone up and down. The effect makes it look like your pictures are nearly 3D, but if you want to really be impressed, set your iPhone homescreen picture as a panorama and spin around.
Get Ready tor More Exciting Experiences Coming Down the Pipe
That's what iOS 7 is telling me: that there are new and interesting experiences coming my way from the guys who made the iPhone and iPad. At the very least, I expect to see new advances in translucent user interfaces that communicate dimension in a nontraditional manner.
The new operating system also encourages users to stop unconsciously focusing on how they're making something happen and instead to enjoy what they're making happen. And this makes me excited about the other great leaps we'll see as the mobile landscape continues to evolve.


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Run Gramps40 for Windows from source using Python 2.7.3
Work in progress!! Nobody guarantees anything at all! |
This page provides information how to run Gramps 4.0.x to 4.1.x from source on a Microsoft Windows system with a 32 bit Python 2.7.6 (and Python 3.2 or greater).
The principles are still OK. For a time without an AIO package that was a good way to have a running Gramps for Windows using Python 2.7.3. But the now available AIO package has a better usability. To prevent two different versions no further actions where done since the beginning of 2014.
Please note: Gramps 4.2.x and newer only work with Python 3.2 or greater.
There are some parts marked as:
- "TODO ISSUE" because of known issues.
- "TODO WORK" because it's not done yet done (work in progress).
Windows operating system
- Win Vista: no information available
- Win7.x: no special installations are known (all test done using Win7 Professional SP1 64bit German)
- Win8.x: no information available
- Win10.x: no information available
- Win XP since April 8th 2014 is no longer supported by Microsoft and it is recommended you upgrade (How about upgrading to Linux :) )
- If you would still like to use Win XP these additional installations are strongly required (all tests done using WinXP Home 32 bit German)
- SP3 (http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/confirmation.aspx?id=25129)
- "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)" (http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=29)
- "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)" (http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=5555)
- If you would still like to use Win XP these additional installations are strongly required (all tests done using WinXP Home 32 bit German)
Requirements from the Gramps README:
- Python 2.7 or greater, Python 3.2 or greater (python version cannot be mixed)
- We use: Python 2.7.6 32 bit from https://www.python.org/downloads/ (python-2.7.6.msi) for all examples assumed to be installed into "C:\Python27".
- Comment: It's also possible to use Python 2.7.3 or 2.7.5 but always 32 bit (no experiences for 64 bit versions)
- Comment: For Win7 user it's easier to not use "C:\Program Files (x86)\..." because for every change somewhere in this folder one has to activate the administrator's rights again and again.
PyGI AIO Package
With the help of an open source programmer we get this package (here again the authors personally thank for his good job supporting Gramps in this way - see there to know more about of his other work: http://opensourcepack.blogspot.de/2013/01/mypaint-and-pygi.html):
- 19.01.2014: Download pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe or newer as a complete installer from:
- The PyGI AIO Package includes the following libraries for Gramps that should be selected during the installation process (you may choose libraries other for additional usages):
- gdk-pixbuf (version 2.30.2 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- libgexiv2 (version 0.7.0 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- goocanvas (version 2.0.2 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- gtk+ (version 3.10.6 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- gtkspell (version 3.0.3 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- osm-gps-map (version 1.0.1 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- pango (version 1.36.1 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- webkitgtk (version 1.10.2 in pygi-aio-3.10.2-win32_rev15-setup.exe)
- To run Gramps there is no need for pygi-aio's optionally provided developer tools.
- Don't use the older GTK 3.8.6 (Select "No" as answer at the additional question dialogue!)
- Deprecated versions before 15.12.2013 see history
Comments (19.01.2014):
- All gtk binaries are included in the pygi-aio installer package and correctly placed.
- The pygi-aio package has no need for processors having an SSSE3 instruction set.
Gtk, pyobject
Requirements from README:
- GTK 3.8.7+ or greater
- pygobject 3.3.2 or greater
- cairo, pango, pangocairo with introspection bindings (the gi packages)
- librsvg2 (svg icon view)
- xdg-utils
Checking the state of the pygi-aio package can be confirmed by:
- starting Python (e. g.: C:\Python27>python)
- and than call the functions as follows. There should be the same results.
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from gi.repository import Gtk >>> Gtk.get_major_version() 3L >>> Gtk.get_minor_version() 10L >>> Gtk.get_micro_version() 6L >>> from gi.repository import GObject >>> GObject.pygobject_version (3, 10, 2)
Requirements from README (*STRONGLY RECOMMENDED*):
- Translation of GTK elements to your language, with xx your language code eg for Dutch you need language-pack-gnome-nl. The translation of the Gramps strings is included with the source code.
The necessary package related to our GTK package will be provided also by the programmer of the GTK package (see above).
- 19.01.2014: No further actions necessary, because this GTK package contains also these components.
- Deprecated versions before 11.03.2013 see history
Requirements from README (*STRONGLY RECOMMENDED*):
- Used to show maps in the geography view. Without this the GeoView will not be active, see Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Geography_Category
- The package is named osmgpsmap, osm-gps-map or python-osmgpsmap. Or obtain it from: http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ (Comment: There is no direct download from this web page)
==> osmgpsmap is an optional package even the README requires "strongly recommended".
Add this package:
- 19.01.2014: osmgpsmap is integrated part of the GTK package.
- If you don't have osmgpsmap there will be no message during the start-up of Gramps about a missing osmgpsmap. The only thing is the missing Geographic view in Gramps.
- There is a warning from the provider of this package: "window resizing crashed". But it seems this doesn't happens for Gramps - may be in rare cases only.
Is an optional package. 19.01.2014: GExiv2 is integrated part of the GTK package.
Because the EditExifMetadata add-on isn't currently available this package is tested for reading exif data only using the "image metadata" gramplet.
Requirements from README (optional package):
- Enable spell checking in the notes.
- Gtkspell depends on enchant.
- A version of gtkspell with gobject introspection is needed, so minimally version 3.0.0.
19.01.2014: The basics to use a spell are already included in the here used GTK package.
The only missed things may be special myspell dictionaries (comment: Gramps uses myspell only!) . These can be found here:
- from http://extensions.openoffice.org/ download the language packages of your choice. Included in the there provided .oxt files one can extract by using a program like 7-Zip the necessary .aff and .dic files.
- alternate extensions.libreoffice.org/
- Or you may find these files (.aff and .dic) as part of any GrampsAIO installation in "..\share\enchant\myspell"
For our example all files *.aff *.dic have to be stored into "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\gnome\share\enchant\myspell".
TODO ISSUE/WORK There are still some issues using spell (as per 019.01.2014):
- Open the note editor having spell activated slows down the os extremely as longer as larger the text. This may cost more than 45 seconds for a text having 400 lines and 17000 characters. So it's strongly suggested to don't global activate "Enable spelling checker" in Preferences!
- Up to Gramps 4.0.2 there is a spell related issue #7339 which has to be prevented by the there provided patch!
Information from README:
- GObject introspection data of WebKit is required for the hidden view 'Htmlview', which allows websites to be opened in Gramps.
- Users can unhide the view in the plugin manager.
- A html renderer must be installed to use the view.
- !! PACKAGERS, Test if on your distribution webkit and Gramps is stable. If you obtain crashes, patch src/plugins/view/htmlrenderer.py and src/plugins/view/geoview.gpr.py, so as to remove: from gi.repository import WebKit as webkit
19.01.2014: Webkit is an integrated part of the GTK package.
Information from README:
- Required for the Graphview plugin
19.01.2014: It's is part of the current GTK package
Not Provided by GTK-AIO package
Requirements from README (*STRONGLY RECOMMENDED*):
19.01.2014: Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81888101/Gramps/PYICU_py27_win32.zip (This zip provides ICU/PyICU version 1.5 (for current version information see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU )
- Copy all files from PYICU_py27_win32.zip\lib\site-packages to "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages"
- Now we have to place the binaries from PYICU_py27_win32.zip\bin to a folder found by Python / Gramps:
- First Option: Somewhere on hard disc e.g. "C:\icu". In this case we have to add this path to the environment variable PATH.
- Second Option: Into the same folder as python.exe. That's a good solution for a package, because we don't need any changes for the environment variable PATH. If you don't know, where to put dll (you get an "ImportError: DLL load failed" error), put a *.dll in a "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages" (without a bin subfolder).
To check ICU/PyICU just try it in Python (don't forget the environment variable PATH):
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import icu >>> print icu.ICU_VERSION 50.1.2 >>> print icu.VERSION 1.5
Comment (19.01.2014): There are other unofficial PyICU versions available some where in the web. But be careful to use other than the one above. Unexpected issues may be caused.
Requirements from README (*STRONGLY RECOMMENDED*):
- Enable creation of graphs using GraphViz engine.
- Without this no beautiful graphs can be created.
- Obtain it from: http://www.graphviz.org
19.01.2014: Following the information on http://www.graphviz.org we get the current package from http://www.graphviz.org/Download_windows.php: graphviz-2.36.zip
For the examples we copy the complete content to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.36\".
To give Gramps the access to this software we have to add the directory of the related binaries to the PATH environment variable. But to prevent trouble with the used dll versions between GraphViz and Gramps it's strongly recommended to add this at the end of PATH
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.30\bin\
Using "Graph View" GraphViz 2.34 or higher forces an error (#7109 Fixed in Gramps 4.2.0). At #7109 you will find a patch to solve the issue for older versions of Gramps. Without this patch and a still unsolved issue one should use graphviz-2.30.1.zip from http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/stable/windows/. The handling is the same as above |
Comments: GraphViz will be used e. g. for any report in Reports --> Graphs. Without GraphViz there is only one output format "Graphvi File". If all is OK there are several output formats available (e. g. "PDF (Graphviz)", "JPEG image" etc.).
- alternate http://portableapps.com/node/38245 GVEdit (Graphviz) Portable
24.02.2013: Will not be used any more, replaced by GExiv2
ghostscript ghostview
Optional packages
- From http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html download the "Ghostscript GPL Release" for "Ghostscript 9.10 for Windows (32 bit)" and run the downloaded file gs910w32.exe. For the example we again use the default installation.
- Python / Gramps needs to know the folder where the binaries are stored (default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin") by defining the environment variable PATH.
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin\
- As option it's possible to place the content of the binary folder (default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin") into the same folder as python.exe to prevent any changes of the environment variable PATH.
- Python / Gramps needs to know the folder where the binaries are stored (default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin") by defining the environment variable PATH.
- From http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get50.htm download and run gsv50w32.exe (e. g. into the default install folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Ghostgum).
- Python / Gramps needs to know the folder where the binaries are stored (default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ghostgum\gsview") by defining the environment variable PATH.
Comment: This tool will be used to display .ps files as optional result of reports. So at least it's like e.g. any a .pdf viewer or .rtf viewer. It would be possible to include it into any Gramps package. But as normally nobody would include a .pdf viewer or .rtf viewer into a Gramps package I won't suggest to do that for a .ps viewer. - alternate http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/ghostscript_portable
- Python / Gramps needs to know the folder where the binaries are stored (default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ghostgum\gsview") by defining the environment variable PATH.
Requirements from README (optional package):
- The GNU Revision Control System (RCS) can be used to manage multiple revisions of your family trees.
- See info at Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees#Archiving_a_Family_Tree
- Only rcs is needed, NO python bindings are required
--> will not be used There is still the same issue as in Gramps 3.0.1 and later 3124. Currently there is no special code like 'if win(): DON'T USE RCS'. It seems to be working but the reload from an archived database doesn't run. Finally it doesn't matter to install rcs.
Requirements from README (optional package):
- Python Image Library is needed to convert non jpg images to jpg so as to include them in LaTeX output
From http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ download PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe. Run this installation to add PIL to the used Python version.
- alternate: http://python-pillow.github.io/
Information from README: More font support in the reports
07.03.2013 TODO WORK: How to use for the Windows environment. It's assumed that the fonts should be added to the Graphviz environment, but not yet tested.
Debug Environment
TODO WORK: description
TODO WORK: description
dependency viewer
TODO WORK: description
Start Gramps 4.0.x
Get Gramps sources
For all examples it's assumed that the Gramps source (e.g. from the GIT repository https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps or the .tar.gz from from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/../) will be stored into "C:\Gramps4.0".
It's helpful to use a special client for Windows to get these sources. Also if one gets sources only such a tool provides the possibility of history search and or compare and also to mark differences between the current version on the computer and the repository.
There are good experiences using TortoiseGIT from http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/.
Prepare Setup
[Changed 03.12.2013] To run setup.py we need the translation tool msgfmt.exe having a proper version. The installer for poedit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/poedit/files/poedit/1.5/poedit-1.5.7-setup.exe/download) provides msgfmt.exe in version 0.18.1.0.
Latest version of poedit available from https://poedit.net/download
For all examples we assume poedit to be installed to: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Poedit" (The default path of the installer).
Run Setup Build
Running "setup.py build" generates necessary translation files (*.mo) and the const.py from const.py.in
Here is an example batch file to run this:
C: cd C:\Gramps4.0 set path=C:\Python27;C:\Program Files (x86)\Poedit\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Poedit\GettextTools\bin;%path% C:\Python27\python setup.py build pause
The result should look like this:
running build Compiling po\bg.po >> share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\ca.po >> share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\cs.po >> share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\da.po >> share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\de.po >> share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\el.po >> share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\en_GB.po >> share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\es.po >> share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\fi.po >> share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\fr.po >> share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\he.po >> share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\hr.po >> share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\hu.po >> share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\it.po >> share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\ja.po >> share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\lt.po >> share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\nb.po >> share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\nl.po >> share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\nn.po >> share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\pl.po >> share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\pt_BR.po >> share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\pt_PT.po >> share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\ru.po >> share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\sk.po >> share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\sl.po >> share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\sq.po >> share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\sv.po >> share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\uk.po >> share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\vi.po >> share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES. Compiling po\zh_CN.po >> share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES. running build_py .... copying gramps\gen\const.py -> build\lib\gramps\gen copying gramps\gui\glade\updateaddons.glade -> build\lib\gramps\gui\glade running build_scripts creating build\scripts-2.7 copying and adjusting scripts\gramps -> build\scripts-2.7 C:\Gramps4.0>pause Hit any key . . .
Possible exception:
- setup.py stops because of a missing "intltool-merge".
- setup.py assumes for Windows to have either non installed "intltools" or complete installed "intltools". In some rare situations it could be possible to have an incomplete installation of these tools. But because we don't need these tools to run Gramps itself it's necessary to edit setup.py in such cases: Insert "return (0, 0, 0)" direct behind "if sys.platform == 'win32':" in "def intltool_version():".
... def intltool_version(): ''' Return the version of intltool as a tuple. ''' if sys.platform == 'win32': return (0, 0, 0) cmd = ["perl", "-e print qx(intltool-update --version) =~ m/(\d+.\d+.\d+)/;"] ...
- After running this it would be possible to run Gramps from "C:\Gramps4.0" or from some where "C:\Gramps4.0\build\...".
- For easy handling of sources from the repository the author prefers to run it from "C:\Gramps4.0".
- It's also possible to generate .mo files by command line jobs. (TODO WORK: description)
- It's also possible to manipulate const.py manually. (TODO WORK: description)
Work arounds
TODO ISSUE: Each work around to be removed if not necessary any more
19.01.2014: To get the license information within the Help-About dialogue one has to copy the file COPYING from the Gramps sources root (e.g. C:\Gramps4.0) into the to be generated folder <gramps root>\build\data (e.g.: C:\Gramps4.0\build\data).
Overall appearance
A short description 'How to control the general view of Gramps using GTK themes':
- For our example theme packages have to be stored in "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\gnome\share\themes". Per default with the here used GTK package there are three packages available:
- Adwaita
- Bluebird
- Default
- Emacs
- Evolve
- Greybird
- HighContrast
- Orion
To select one of these themes one has to manipulate the a special settings.ini file. For our example it's placed there:
- C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\gnome\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini
- This example for settings.ini defines the theme "Adwaita" and the font "Segoe UI" having the font size 10:
[Settings] gtk-theme-name = HighContrast gtk-font-name = Segoe UI 10
More information and links regarding GTK3 themes may be found in the web (e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Overall_appearance)
Start Gramps
At this point we have a basically running Gramps.
Because we didn't add all packages suggested by the README we didn't have the full functionality. Especially some output formats are not available yet (TODO WORK: Add the missing packages having a usable version.)
For Gramps 4.1 development there may still be issues etc (see bug tracker: http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view_all_bug_page.php). It's strongly recommended to use test data for validation only!
To run Gramps a batch seems to be helpful:
set LANG=de_DE @rem may be some time we need an other language @rem set LANG=de_DE @rem it's a good idea to have a own GRAMPSHOME set GRAMPSHOME=C:\Gramps40 @rem we need the path of the Gtk binaries set path=C:\Goocanvas;C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin;C:\icu;%path%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.36\bin @rem let's jump to Python binaries C: cd C:\Python27 @rem call for all version information (e.g. as background for any issue) python "C:\Gramps4.0\gramps.py" -v @rem let's start Gramps python "C:\Gramps4.0\gramps.py" pause
"Gramps -v" should show this information now if one uses the gramps-4.0.2.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/:
Gramps Settings: ---------------- python : 2.7.6 gramps : 4.0.2 gtk++ : 3.10.6 pygobject : 3.10.2 pango : 1.36.1 Not using bsddb3 bsddb : 5.3.0 bsddb.db : 4.7.25 cairo : 1.12.16 pycairo : 1.10.0 osmgpsmap : 1.0 GExiv2 : 0.4 ICU : 50.1.2 PyICU : 1.5 o.s. : win32 Environment settings: --------------------- LANG : de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE : de_DE GRAMPSI18N: not set GRAMPSHOME: C:\Gramps40 GRAMPSDIR : not set PYTHONPATH: C:\Python27\python27.zip C:\Python27\DLLs C:\Python27\lib C:\Python27\lib\plat-win C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk C:\Python27 C:\Python27\lib\site-packages C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL Non-python dependencies: ------------------------ Graphviz : 2.36 Ghostscr. : 9.10 System PATH env variable: ------------------------- C:\Goocanvas C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.10\bin C:\icu ...
Known Major Issues
As known per 2013-12-16
- GraphViz 2.34 and later causes an error in Graph View:
see 7277 for more details(It's solved with the AIO for Gramps 4.1.1) - no Django
- gtkspell:
- Opening the note editor having spell activated or activating the spell within the note editor blocks Python / the application for a while (as longer as larger the text). Therefore it's suggested to deactivate the spell checker in Preferences. But it's the same if one toggles this feature or changes the spell language interactive using the right mouse context menu in the Note Editor.
- The spell settings will not be stored.
- The Geographic view and other gtk parts may generate warnings without any other known effect
- WinXP (26.12.13): see information above


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Somewhere, deep in the sawgrass blazing green under the summer sun, a killer lurked.
Moments before, school teachers Michelle Hill and Amber Koney crunched ashore a salt-marsh island in New Jersey's Barnegat Bay in a fiberglass skiff with a handful of other educators-turned-summer researchers. They toted stakes and a wire cage, excited to protect the eggs they had watched a diamondback terrapin — a near-threatened turtle species — lay the day before in a slightly raised bare patch of dry sand.
Now the 13-inch-deep hole was empty. Around it, scratches in the sand and tracks from something much bigger than a turtle. As Koney inspected the hole, Hill, hands on her hips, looked out over the marsh, but only the wind moved, making white ripples in the sawgrass.
Experiences such as this are the essence of the QUEST program run by Princeton University's Program in Teacher Preparation in collaboration with the departments of geosciences and of ecology and evolutionary biology. Each summer, select K-12 science teachers from New Jersey such as Hill and Koney become the students, spending a week with university-level researchers in the lab experimenting, or in the field observing and collecting evidence for self-designed research projects.
This summer QUEST included a program based at the state-owned Lighthouse Center for Natural Resource Education in Waretown, N.J., where teachers carried out research related to diamondback-terrapin conservation (see video). A second, experiment-based program held on Princeton's campus and led by Princeton Assistant Professor of Geosciences David Medvigy focused on human impacts on local climate.
In keeping with its long-form name — Questioning Underlies Effective Science Teaching — the program is intended to help participants become more effective teachers by becoming more inquisitive scientists, said Anne Catena, the Teacher Prep Program's director of professional development. Like any researcher, the teachers must think through, adjust to and even pursue the uncertainties of research. The teachers take back to their students the importance of learning through active and open thinking.
"This program is built on the importance of being able to pose and ask questions, and gather evidence from the data to discover or learn something," Catena said. "That gets the learner more involved in the process instead of just being a receptacle of information."
For the July 8-12 Lighthouse Center session, the teachers were provided with everything they needed for a week in New Jersey's coastal pine forest — except answers, said Koney, a third-grade teacher at Dutch Neck Elementary School in West Windsor. "They don't answer our questions and we have to figure out everything for ourselves," she said. "As a teacher you also don't want to give kids the answer — they need to find the path themselves. It can be tempting to just tell the answers, but that's not allowing the kids to figure things out."
Staying connected to nature also is important, said Hill, a seventh-grade science teacher at Hillsborough Middle School, who aims to foster a respect for the natural world in her students. Fond of turtles since she was little, Hill hopes to have turtles in the classroom, and what she learns at QUEST will help her make it more educational.
"I want them to have that experience not only for teaching responsibility, but also for teaching them respect for living things other than humans because the age group I teach struggles with that sometimes. They're very much an indoor generation," Hill said.
The pillaged nest gave Koney and Hill a lot to try to figure out. For their project, the two teachers explored whether predators of terrapin nests can be identified by scratch and dig patterns as well as by droppings, or scat. A camera set up to monitor the nest had captured the culprit — a red fox!
With the predator identified, Koney and Hill searched for evidence unique to a fox. Because all the eggs were gone, they wanted to know if that means foxes eat them whole, and if that differs from the habits of other turtle-egg scavengers such as raccoons. There was only one way to know.
"Actually, the daring raid helped us," said Hill as she and Koney combed the ground nearby for egg-laden fox feces. When the teams presented their results at the end of the week, Hill and Koney reported that foxes and raccoons ravage nests in distinct ways. Thus predators can indeed be identified by footprints and scat, which may sometimes be better than other methods for documenting past nest violations.
Don't get too comfortable: Teachers become the students
Being in the role of the student keeps teachers mindful of the learner's perspective, said Steve Carson, a facilitator for QUEST and a seventh-grade science teacher at John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton. Carson, who once worked at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on Princeton's Forrestal Campus, has been an instructor with QUEST for 16 years. This year, Carson helped lead the July 8-12 session based on Medvigy's research. The teachers learned about and conducted numerous experiments related to water cycles, watersheds, precipitation and other climate topics.
"We have people who are very motivated, very interested and have a sense of purpose for learning this stuff. They're all very eager to learn, try new things and take away new ideas," Carson said. "One comment that always comes up is that it reminds them of how it feels to be a student. That helps them think more about what their students are thinking. They know that discomfort level [of not having all the answers] and it may change how they engage with the student."
A discomfort familiar to Peter Martens, a trained engineer who teaches 11th- and 12th-grade physics at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, as he saturated a paint tray of bare dirt with a spray bottle and recorded the amount of runoff during Medvigy's session. Some teachers around him did the same experiment, while others worked with a paint tray of dirt with grass growing from it. The idea — drawn from the effects of deforestation — was to test how vegetation influences the uptake of water into soil.
"It's basically applying physics under a normal setting, but it's throwing a curveball at me because it's not the usual," said Martens, who has no earth-science background. "This whole program gets me out of my comfort zone. This new kind of thinking tweaks something in the mind so that you have a different tool in your toolbox. In your mind, you then mix and match that with what you already have."
Jules Winters, lead scientist and facilitator of the QUEST program at Barnegat Bay, knows the island "up and down," she said. As a doctoral candidate at Drexel University, Winters has spent five years studying diamondback terrapins in New Jersey coastal marshes. But her knowledge was off limits to the teachers in QUEST. The island is like a classroom, Winters said. She can either read from the "textbook" of her experiences, or have the teachers learn (often prompted by questions from Winters) through their own observations and analyses.
"I'd rather 'close' that book and have them make their own experiences through their own eyes," Winters said. "They get really frustrated and sometimes want to kill me, but I don't really get an urge to break. I really want them to figure it out on their own."
No project is an island: Real research with real results
The teachers' original ideas can result in discoveries that help scientists studying diamondback terrapins better understand the pressures the species faces, Winters and Catena said. For instance, the 2012 group learned that crows, which are not native to the island, regularly ransack nests for fresh eggs. This year, the projects specifically examined the impact of Hurricane Sandy on terrapin nesting and survival.
"This is real research they're contributing to," Catena said, adding that more fieldwork programs are being developed for the QUEST repertoire. "This is not made up so that they have an activity. This is research that scientists don't have time or money to do. It's not contrived."
"This group is the only one collecting data on terrapins this calendar year, so they're really important," Winters said. "The idea of their projects is that the work has to be reciprocal. The teachers are gaining experience and the researchers are getting real data."
That real data relates to a species feeling pressure on many sides, both natural and manmade. Diamondback terrapins inhabit swamps and marshes along almost the entire east coast of the United States. Despite their wide distribution, they are threatened by pollution, abandoned crab traps, poachers, roads and a variety of other ills.
In many cases, the turtles fall victim to the tenacity of their own habits, Winters said. In her research, she found that bulkheading, or seawalls, have little effect on the diamondback terrapin's determination when it comes to laying eggs. They scramble around bulkheading, and over roads and docks, often to their peril. Yet research shows the turtles are entirely cognizant of these things. "They have all the ability to respond to the human world — they just don't," Winters said.
Strengthening lessons, learning from colleagues
By experimenting and working in the field, teachers in QUEST make connections between science and teaching they might not otherwise.
In the campus session, Princeton Charter School teacher Sabina Khachatrian simulated the stress bulldozers inflict on forest soil by pounding her paint tray of dirt with a rubber mallet. These lessons appealed to Khachatrian as an environmentalist but had seemingly little connection to her work as a fifth- through eighth-grade mathematics teacher. Or so she thought. The previous day, she built a rain gauge and realized that it couples earth science and math, making for a practical and relevant class experiment.
"I always talk to my students about preserving the environment," Khachatrian said. "I am really looking forward to connecting life to mathematics to teach students to connect any kind of math to real-life situations. The first thing students ask is, why are we learning equations, why are we learning this or that? I think this program is the best way to enrich math class."
At Barnegat Bay, another group of teachers examined the plants around terrapin nests. The idea was that the turtles might avoid plants with larger roots because the roots pull moisture away from the eggs, explained Ginny Gallagher, a sixth-grade teacher at Hillsborough Middle School. The group counted succulent plants around nests they found, thumbing through a guide to tidal vegetation. The nests varied in position — some were in full sun, others surrounded by as many as 50 plants. But there was a pattern, Gallagher said.
"From looking at the nests, the area is clearer where they decide to lay," Gallagher said. "They're not in deep brush, and the nest area is open with plants around it."
Gallagher worked alongside David Jungblut, a ninth-grade science, environmental science and research science teacher at Oakcrest High School in Mays Landing. Jungblut often incorporated research and fieldwork into his classroom, including research he undertook in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina to help homeowners determine if damage resulted from wind or water. What he wanted from QUEST was more time to learn from his fellow educators, he said.
"I've worked a lot with my kids, but I want to work more with teachers to strengthen my techniques," Jungblut said. "A person can always get stronger at what they do and this program helps very well."


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I'm pain, I'm hope, I'm suffer
Ain't no mercy there for me
Do you bury me when I'm gone
Do you teach me when I'm here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
10th place male.
11th over-all. Tina Lewis is a bad-ass!
1st Leadman/ new course record.
My pacer, Tim Long's, race report.
This picture could easily be all I need to post.
This was taken heading out of Twin Lakes inbound at mile 60 by Rob Timko. At this point in the race I had lost the Leadman... something that I had worked for since last November. The reason that my bib number was 101 is that I was the very first person to enter Leadman. I paid the entry fee just seconds after registration opened. Then I woke up the next morning and headed out in the dark with a headlamp and I got to work.
The first race was the marathon. I was fit and I wanted to put a point on my Leadman bid. I ran well and finished ~25:00 ahead of the next Leadman. I Googled the second place guy, Troy Howard, and I got a slap in the face. When I thought about doing Leadman I looked at the past results and arrogantly thought that I would easily crush it and take the record with little effort. My ego was knocked down a few thousand notches when I saw that Troy had not only beaten me at last years Leadville 100 bike... but he is a far more accomplished ultrarunner than me! At the Silver Rush 50 he put time in to me. At the 100 bike he crushed me and took back all the time and took the lead.
The 10k on the Sunday before the 100 run was certainly a pivotal point. I hate racing with passion... but when I'm motivated to race, I race with passion. I took a huge risk and ran very hard to take back the lead by just over 3 minutes heading in to a 100 mile run where 3 minutes isn't even counted. But I needed this 10k, and the lead, for my head. I was still sore in my calves and hamstrings when the gun went off for the 100 run... but my mind was in a great place which will always trump the physical.
Saturday 3:00am.
I woke up a few minutes before the alarm and had my coffee. No food, no calories. My stomach was in knots as usual and I tried to just relax. I walked down to the start in the dark with visions of the Hawaii Ironman in my head. Visions of walking by the big Banyon Tree on Alii Drive in balmy, humid air were replaced with pine trees and a cold chill. I felt amazing and was ready to get going.
My hydration sponsor... a random dumpster and Duct Tape. Photo: Rob Timko |
Photo: Rob Timko |
I started up front (white shorts) wanting to place myself well early.
Photo Rob TImko |
Photo: Rob Timko |
Up Hagerman... whatever.
Down Powerline I started to feel sharp twinges in my quads and hips which freaked me out. Begin the self doubt. By the bottom of Powerline I was definitely limping. I caught my friend Scott Jaime which definitely lifted my spirits. Scott is as solid as they come, if I was with him then I was doing well.
I'm in white in the back |
Scott with his usual big smile! Me in white just behind. Photo: Megan Hicks of irunfar |
Walking in to Twin Lakes |
With my eventual pacer Tim. Photo credit: Luke Crespin |
Talking to Ben and Liv at mile 40. I got so much energy from seeing my boys, enough to fight some more for sure. |
My awesome wife and kids. |
I picked up my pacer Tim Long at Winfield. I had been looking forward to this moment. Tim is just amazing on every front. A solid person and a solid runner... and I'm very hard to impress. I knew that my day would turn around the second he joined me... I was wrong. We headed back up out of Winfield and saw my danger man Troy coming in about ~6:00 back. Tim and I got chatty and completely missed the turn up the trail, a very well, overly marked turn! We ran for nearly a half mile before we realized that we were off course. Tim had never seen this part of the course but I had JUST RUN IT! Totally stupid mistake on my part. We turned around and ran for what seemed forever back to the turn... it ended up being a 9:00 loss and although we couldn't be certain we thought that now Troy was in the lead. This was only the beginning of the worst.
Up from Winfield to the top of Hope Pass absolutely demoralized me. I was dizzy, stumbling, taking breaks every chance I could. I told Tim that I was done. The thought of being able to run another ~45 miles was unimaginable. And Tims response? Laughter. Laughing AT me. This is something that I will never forget... he actually thought it was funny that I thought I couldn't still win because he so completely knew that I could. This was amazing to me and it wouldn't hit me until later.
Near the top I looked back and saw Tina Lewis running like a goat up Hope Pass... amazing! I got to meet her before the race and she's just awesome. Tina went on to crush the field (guys included!) to one of the fastest times ever at Leadville.
I made it over Hope and down to the Hopeless aid station where it's impossible to feel bad. The Hopeless aid station is a surreal, fairy-tale place.
The volunteers are so happy and enthusiastic to help. Tim and I spent a fairly long time here stretching and getting in much needed fuel. The Ramen soup was so good and the feel of the place made me want to stay and just hang out. We started down very slowly. I was hobbling along and at times Tim was walking as fast as I was running. Every single step shot pain through my quads and hips... EVERY step. People were blowing by us like we were standing still. Down Hope in to Twin lakes...
Twin Lakes Mile 60
We got word that Troy had put 24:00 in to me over just 10 miles of Hope Pass. Ouch. 24:00 isn't a huge amount of time with 40 miles remaining, but this was Troy Howard. It was very difficult to stay positive about winning Leadman, and to be honest I was very happy for Troy. The guy didn't just half-ass Leadman and he's a crazy solid athlete. If I lost then I wanted to lose to someone that I respect tremendously.
As we headed out of Twin Lakes Tim suggested we sprint up the ridiculous 40% grade to "make it look good". Laughter was my response as he
Fish Hatchery Mile 77:
Sir Howard... bad-ass. |
It was really cool to meet up with these guys, with out a doubt the greatest moment in this entire series. Here we are out on a completely desolate stretch of track, exhausted, fighting just to move, coming face to face with an incredible competitor. Troy just gave me a huge grin and extended a hand and said "Nice work! Congratulations." I'll never forget that.
We moved past and tried to be conservative. It would have been so easy to hammer as we were both jacked up from the pass, but at this point we still had over 20 miles to go. Jog on the flats and downs and fast hike on the ups. At this point we all had our head lamps on so we were able see anyone behind us. Dropping down on to Hagerman Pass road we had ~5:00 on the next headlamp.
Mayqueen Mile 87:
The last time I had seen my wife was at Fish Hatchery and I was ~7:00 behind Troy... running in to Mayqueen I was super excited to let her see where I was. My wife is the most amazing support and me doing well, or bad, affects her tremendously. I wanted to get to Mayqueen mostly to put her mind at ease.
Mayqueen in 2010 was my undoing. I foolishly denied warm clothes and it cost me over 1:30 in time due to hypothermia. This time I made sure to almost overdress and it worked out perfectly. Tim and I ran very well for the remaining 13 miles, fast hiking the ups and running everything else. We had been yo-yoing with Liza Howard since Mayqueen and we had her lights behind us much of the time, but then they disappeared for a while. Once we hit the Boulevard there were lights behind us again and I was paranoid that Troy had come back, not really an unrealistic scenario, so I pushed every chance I could just to make sure... even though those lights were over a mile behind... my mind had lost the ability to rationalize. Tim was solid for me here as he's great with numbers. His maths had it as a near impossibility that Troy could come back here.
On to 6th Street and the final mile. We had rented a house near the finish line, so my mom was waiting by the side of the road and I stopped to hug her and tell her how much I love her. Then Tim and I ran down the final stretch reveling in what we accomplished. The past ~10 months of training, focus and sacrifice were coming to an end and I made extra, extra sure to feel this. What I felt was a bit of pride, a bit of joy, and a TON of satisfaction. Satisfied. That word kind of sums it all up. You could not have scripted the way the Leadman played out. Back and forth with basically a dead tie heading in to a 100 mile run. Then on the day neither Troy nor I truly melted down. We were both nearly equal and strong (considering the fatigue of the previous weekend) with the main difference being the timing of our bad patches happening at different times. Mine was early... his was late which made the difference.
Thank you SOOOO much to my amazing wife for putting up with my selfishness and sacrificing for me. Jo has been my rock for over 12 years now... there's a reason I have my wedding band tattooed on my finger.
My sister drove 12 hours to be part of the crew (again) and it was great to see her out on the course and she did so much to make the day happen.
My kids. Although they don't get it... they sacrificed with out a choice. All the days I got up at 3:00am to run, that took away energy that I could have spent on them instead. Never again.
And my pacer, Tim Long. I can't thank him enough. The guy is just so solid across the board. I have avoided even considering what the result would have been had he not paced me, certainly it would not have been as good. Huge thanks to you Tim!
And of course thank you to YOU. The support and good words I get from you guys really does come in to play. I appreciate very much my followers and your comments give me good energy!
That's all I have to say about that.


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And since we could all use a reminder from time to time that "polite is always right," I've prepared a few handy tips.
Civility Tip #1 - Always precede a negative comment with a positive one:
Civility Tip #2 - Practice an attitude of gratitude:
Civility Tip #3 - Instead of rudely pointing out the birthday girl's faults, try focusing on her accomplishments:
Or, if s/he has no accomplishments to speak of, then try complimenting a physical feature.
Now, you try!
Ok, well, that's not so much a compliment as it is a reminder of old age - which is never polite. Why not try opening up, instead? You know, tell her how you really feel?
Well, while I applaud your honesty, that's...not very positive.
Ok, new tactic: Is there anything you can congratulate her on? Something worth complimenting?
Don't ask me why; it just does.
Thanks to Wreckporters Whitney M., Birdy, Susan K., Heather R., Andrea F., Gina G., & Janet S., who, for the record, have never had frosted cheesecake.


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In mammals such as rodents that raise their young as a group, infants will nurse from their mother as well as other females, a dynamic known as allosuckling. Ecologists have long hypothesized that allosuckling lets newborns stockpile antibodies to various diseases, but the experimental proof has been lacking until now.
An in-press report in the journal Mammalian Biology found that infant Mongolian gerbils that suckled from females given separate vaccines for two different diseases wound up with antibodies for both illnesses.
The findings not only demonstrate the potential purpose of allosuckling, but also provide the first framework for further studying it in the wild by using traceable antibodies, said first author Romain Garnier, a postdoctoral researcher in Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Garnier conducted the research with Sylvain Gandon and Thierry Boulinier of the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in France, and with Yannick Chaval and Nathalie Charbonnel at the Center for Biology and Management of Populations in France.
Garnier and his coauthors administered an influenza vaccine to one group of female gerbils, and a vaccine for Borrelia burgdorferi — the bacterial agent of Lyme disease — to another group. Once impregnated, female gerbils from each vaccine group were paired and, as the gerbils do in nature, kept separate from the male gerbils to birth and rear their young. In the wild, females can choose which young to nurse and infant gerbils can likewise choose which female to suckle. In the typical lab, however, one male, one female and their young are housed together, the researchers wrote.
When screened upon birth, all the infant gerbils had no detectable antibodies against influenza while one had antibodies against B. burgdorferi, according to the paper. But after eight days of nursing, all the infants contained high levels of antibodies for both influenza and B. burgdorferi, suggesting that the females nursed the young — their own and those of the other female — evenly. These results suggest that allosuckling is indeed intended to expose newborn animals to a host of antibodies.
This benefit sheds light on a peculiar arrangement in cooperative mammals that ecologists have puzzled over, the authors wrote. In social species, females usually fall into dominant or subordinate groups with the subordinate females typically involved in tending to the young produced by dominant females. Yet, in many cases, subordinate females are "allowed" to breed. Garnier and his colleagues suggest that the potentially larger antibody pool available through nursing might be one of the reasons why.
Citation: Garnier, R., et al., Evidence of cross-transfer of maternal antibodies through allosuckling in a mammal: Potential importance for behavioral ecology. Mammal. Biol. (2012).


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The Visual Learning Lab began its work as a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in March 2005. These pages celebrate some of the work it has initiated and look at key outcomes for research, teaching and learning, and the student experience at the University and beyond. They also offer practical advice through case studies and 'How to' guides for staff and students interested in using visual technology in their work, and provide information on the research currently being undertaken by the VLL Core Team.
Lord Dearing Award for Teaching and Learning 2010
The Visual Learning Lab team has been awarded a Lord Dearing Award for Teaching and Learning. The Lord Dearing Award Scheme recognises the outstanding achievements of University of Nottingham individuals or teams in enhancing the student learning experience. A Lord Dearing Award is highly valued within the University of Nottingham and formally recognises the contribution the Visual Learning Lab team has made to the student learning environment.
Watch our submission video in which Professor Roger Murphy, Director of the Visual Learning Lab, provides a brief overview of some VLL activities.
Five Years of Hard Work Pays Off!
The VLL has recently published its Showcase of Innovations in Visual Learning. Order a hard copy by emailing Marian Anderton or or download a copy here (PDF). Read more
Visual Learning Lab after 31 July 2010
The HEFCE funding for the Visual Learning Lab officially comes to an end on 31 July 2010. Read more
CP-TLO work published in Nurse Education in Practice
The VLL's CP-TLO project publishes an academic article. Read more
Visual Learning Lab Celebration Lunch
The VLL has held a celebration lunch to recognise the achievements of its projects. Read more
Visual Learning Lab Student Interns
The inside story on interns by Professor Roger Murphy, Director of the Visual Learning Lab, appears in Exchange magazine. Read more
To see videos of the interns speaking about their experiences, please visit our Interns page.
Katharina Lorenz on YouTube
Katharina Lorenz discusses What's the point of studying paintings in Pompeii? on YouTube. Read more
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From the window of my room at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Pittsburgh, I can see a sliver of the hotel fitness center. This morning I looked down there and saw a guy with an earpiece. Secret Service.
So I wasn't entirely surprised to walk into the tiny exercise room a little after 7 a.m. and find the Republican vice presidential candidate working out. There was a row of about half a dozen elliptical machines and treadmills, one workout bench, a small rack of dumbbells, an inflatable exercise ball, and a folding workout mat.
Paul Ryan had staked out a spot between the workout bench and the weights. He wore a red Wisconsin Badgers baseball cap, a green short-sleeved workout shirt, gray running shorts, and Asics running shoes. The only sign that he was part of the biggest political story in America right now was a lone Secret Service agent, who spent most of his time standing outside the door to the fitness center.
I couldn't immediately tell whether Ryan was doing P90X, the extreme workout routine that he reportedly prefers. All I could see was a lot of pushups (T pushups, one-handed pushups, clapping pushups) and a lot of crunches. It seemed way more intense than Mitt Romney's workout, which usually includes nothing more than a stint on an elliptical machine. Then again, at 42, Ryan is the age of Romney's oldest son.
As I ran on the treadmill, a woman in a baseball cap came up and started chatting with Ryan. She asked for a photo, and he took one with her iPhone. He explained that if they tilted their heads up, the baseball caps wouldn't obscure their faces in the photo. After one shot with his arm in the photo, he tried again. She thanked him and left.
At this point he was doing weights along with the pushups and sit-ups. Triceps, shoulders, chest. There was some deep breathing but no embarrassing grunting. He took regular water breaks from a cup on the workout bench.
Another woman walked up, requested a photo, and asked about his routine. He showed her the P90X app on his iPad, which he'd balanced on the workout bench. From the tone of her questions, it sounded as though she was familiar with the routine.
At one point he laughed and told her he doesn't do the "Insanity" workouts in a hotel fitness center. "If I did, I'd look like that guy," Ryan said, pointing at me, in a tank top, drenched from a sprint on the treadmill.
When I left the gym at 8 a.m., Ryan was still going.
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- With SAP Fiori 2.0, the SAP Fiori Launchpad is your central and role-based entry point to access all apps.
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- The SAP Fiori 2.0 concept also includes new SAP Fiori elements – Overview Pages, List Reports, and Object Pages – which can be easily developed using SAP Web IDE.