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A consortium of European researchers is designing a robotic octopus they say will be the first entirely soft robot. A prototype can now manipulate its flexible tentacles to shoot itself through water in a movement that's known as sculling, as well as grasp objects and move via gaits not possible for the real animal.
The European Commission-funded OCTOPUS project is building a robotic octopus body and brain that will be able to propel itself through water, elongate its arms, and use them to reach and grasp items. The research team is studying how all eight arms interact with each other and with the body to achieve locomotion and manipulation of objects.
Real octopi can crawl on the ocean's bottom as well as swim. They propel themselves through water, sometimes at very fast speeds, by combining an internal organic waterjet with coordinated movements of their eight tentacles. Using all eight at once in a certain pattern is called sculling. The prototype octopus, however, can also move its tentacles independently.
A research team at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, an OCTOPUS partner, presented a paper describing its experiments with robotic octopus gaits at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Karlsruhe, Germany. In the abstract of the paper, "Octopus-inspired Eight-arm Robotic Swimming by Sculling Movements," the team said it looked at several different swimming gaits and their effects on propulsion. Results of experiments conducted inside a water tank by a robotic prototype with eight arms confirmed previous experiments, which were done with simulations examining the contributions of fluid drag using a dynamic model of the robot.
The in-tank experiments demonstrated that the gaits using sculling-only movements let the robot reach a maximum speed of 0.2 body lengths per second. You can watch a video here that shows simulated gaits, as well as one prototype with rigid arms and its movements, followed by one with soft, compliant arms that move more realistically. The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas team that presented the paper includes Michael Sfakiotakis, Asimina Kazakidi, Nikolaos Pateromichelakis, and Dimitris P. Tsakiris.
As we've previously reported, soft robots have several advantages over rigid ones, including changing the shape of their bodies to maneuver through tight spaces. DARPA is investigating some soft robot designs by way of researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the university's department of chemistry and chemical biology.
In that R&D project, fluids and air are pumped through a tether into a network of microfluidic channels inside a soft, starfished-shaped robot. This changes the robot's surface temperature, color, luminescence, and apparent shape. These changes make it capable of either blending with its environment, or glowing. Pumped air and fluid also govern its movements. Applications include search-and-rescue operations, or medical applications such as prosthetics technology and simulating fluid vessels and muscle motion to help doctors plan surgeries.
Like DARPA's starfish-shaped soft robot, the EC-funded robotic octopus is also being developed because of its ability to change its form, letting it squeeze into very small spaces and then get out of them again. Interestingly, some of the same researchers in the DARPA-funded project developed the first soft, silicone robots by modeling them after squid and other cephalopods.
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I thought that toothpaste caused it, but later ruled it out.
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I can see clearly now...thanks to Henry
As you know, we lost our little pug Henry a week before Christmas. While we still think of that guy on a daily basis, I've come to realize yet another thing he taught me about life with lupus. I know, I know - I've blogged about Henry's little lessons before - but this time, I'm reminded of one if not the primary reason why I took the steps to write my book, and why I continue to keep this blog. My motivation? Because I want others to know what I didn't know when I was struggling with my disease.
I can think of dozens of things that I wish I knew when I was first diagnosed, dozens of things I wish I understood when it came to balancing work and my disease, dozens of things I wish I had uncovered about myself and the way I approached the disease. These and dozens of other epiphanies are exactly what I've attempted to notate in my book. It's the issues I address on this blog that I wish someone had told me years ago. And as I've said many times before, much of the information I impart did come from other people - the members of my support group, my family and friends, and my co-workers were all instrumental in helping me figure out the best way to live well, despite lupus. But I wanted it all in one neat, little package - with, I suppose, a front and back cover.
I've thought about this fact before - but since losing little Henry, I've been able to reflect on the things I wish I'd known about raising Mr. Hendo, too: that weight gain, lethargy, drinking more water, and slowing down can be signs of old age...but they can also indicate something else like diabetes; that his reluctance to take walks, jump up on the ottoman, get off the bed in the dark, or do steps could just be him being stubborn...or they could indicate something else like loss of vision. Of course, now that we know all that we do about diabetes, blindness, etc. Darwin's got it made. His brother Hen was just paving the way, taking one for the team, and bringing light to the world, one paw at a time.
If I can help even one person with lupus find their way more clearly, I can join Henry is knowing that my mission has been accomplished.


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My first borodinsky, and Pastry #8
I have finally bought a Pullman pan! two, actually. For bread, my first natural choice was a Rye; my first Borodinsky from Andrew's book: (Bread matters).
I've all but given up on finding a Pullman pan in Dubai, until I overheard a discussion among my Pastry class peers and the Chef about commercial sources of the ingredients and tools used in the institute. Alarmed by the possibility of finding the pan, I took the address from the Chef and headed down to the warehouse. The two story warehouse sells different hospitality and catering equipments at somewhat reasonable prices. I've found two sizes for Pullman pans, all from the Italian brand Paderno, I was so excited. The one I bought for us$ 27 each, was an 11.75 *4 inch pan. There is a much longer version, but it was too much for domestic use. The pan had a sticker that says: blue steel ..etc. The pan was properly washed with detergent and warm water, but it had a slight oily layer, and a distinctive rusty aroma. I searched though google, and learned that blue steel is a steel that has undergone a deliberate oxidation prior to the final non stick coating. I shrugged my shoulders and wiped them clean.
For borodinsky, I mixed my ripe rye sour with rye flour molasses and salt with a fork, scooped the lot into my greased pan sprinkeled with cracked coriander seeds. I had no barley malt syrup, so I skipped this ingredient. I wanted to try Andrew's advocated method of no bulk fermentation for rye bread, and the bread rose in 2 hours. Total dough weight was 1346g which was more than twice the recipe's yield. After two hours, the dough has risen to almost the top rim of the pan, and started to crack. I slid the pan's cover on, and baked the bread for 10 min. at 420F and 30 minutes at 400F.
My regretful mistake was to bake it according to Andew's recipe, which is to a total of 40 minutes, failing to remember that an extended bake is needed for larger dough. After 40 minutes, the dough was unmolded and steam escaped from the loaf. The loaf's crust was very tender and the color was lighter than a rye should be. I didn't take a hint, Ugh! I guess I was too captivated by the square-ish cross section that the Pullman pan was capable of producing.
When cooled , the loaf was wrapped with a cloth, and left for 12 hours. Next day, I couldn't resist having a peek and I sliced a few squares. The loaf was moist and gummy. Ops, I've underbaked it!
I wrapped it once more, and left it to rest for another day. Today, I've sliced it, and it was still moist and slightly gummy (cutting shreds still evident). The flavor is typically rye with a faint sweetness, and a good dose of spice that complements the overall flavor. The crust was soft, and the crumb was softer. There is a subtle mouthfeel of rust at the end, but generally tolerable. I don't know how to deal with blue steel rust mouthfeel, but I'll wait to see whether the pan becomes seasoned as I bake on. Overall, the bread was really good, and improved when slightly toasted.
As for Pastry, I've skipped my two day marathon class of Chocolate. By the end of last week, I was completely worn out. My Pastry class 8 of the week before went well, though. We made frozen desserts, such as ice gateaux, cheese cake, tiramisu, fried ice cream.


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Death is still inevitable, but perhaps at some time in the future, our good science will solve the problem by transferring a persons 'being' into a massively redundant array of electronic synapses so that we can live on inside a new reality, but if that trans-humanist escape hatch from the sinking ship of our physical body and this life ever comes to fruition I think it will be some time from now, so Hitch is likely fucked for the short term.
He has had a good life, and lived more, and done more good for humanity and helped more people to break free from the mind forged manacles than any given thousand people you are likely to meet combined. If anyone deserves to be uploaded into his own dedicated penthouse in virtual space it is Hitchens, and I hereby donate several of my presumably alotted future yottabytes to his account should the keepers balk that he does not have enough credits to fit his whole intellect in.
A mind such as his surely needs and rightly deserves all the drive-space synaptic headroom he can get whereas I myself can do with merely a little disused corner somewhere out of the way in that potentially great infinite multiverse of engrams. Hitch is dying, just like all of us are dying, and it could be that any one of us may beat him too the grave by being hit by a bus tomorrow or slip in the shower.
Dying is a given, but to go out with dignity and grace, not whining like a sniveling groveling little pathetic shadow of your former self begging the gods to let you live a few minutes more is an art. I suspect Htchens will die as he lived. He will spit in deaths eye and die on his terms like the giant among men that I regard him to be. Anyone who claims that Hitch begged or pleaded with gods before he died will be a goddam liar.


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Camgirlsproject was created by former fashion student Vanessa Omoregie who began the ongoing series about a year ago. The project seeks to investigate the female image within the context of the internet by presenting images of classic paintings that feature webcam selfies in the place of the painted nude female form. All images are user-submitted and present the viewer with a reappropriation or reclamation of female nudity as something to be celebrated and not shamed for.
The term – camgirl – originally applied to anyone who recorded themselves via webcam doing anything, not just sexual acts, but has been more currently associated most strongly with sexual behavior. Omoregie says, "The name has connotations of its own.The project hopefully makes people rethink what they know about the term and how they view girls who choose to be in front of a camera -sexual or not."
Something you may notice about the submissions is that these modern-day nudes overwhelmingly represent lean, white, hairless bodies, almost a complete reflection of the bodies in the classic paintings. As a black woman, Omoregie is disappointed that more women of color and varying body types have not submitted to the project, although she has herself participated and tries to encourage more women to submit. Her hope was that women who are not typically represented by the media would feel more comfortable presenting their bodies in this sort of space, but so far, submissions of more variance have been few and far between.
While not currently taking submissions, Omoregie will be inviting followers to contribute to future projects of hers through this project's site. She has also suggested that people follow her personal blog in order to keep up with forthcoming projects. (via telegraph and animal)


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The school system in Wayne County has evolved from a beginning as insignificant as the proverbal mustard seed into its present status which, to continue the comparison, more nearly represents a full grown tree.
From puncheon floors to hardwood; from greased paper to window glass; from two and three months to nine months terms; from no text books to a system of study which compares well with that in any part of the country; from the "babbling school" and the "subscription " school to the modern, efficiently organized educational system; in short, from nothing to something. Thus has the school system in this county been developed into its present usefulness.
Only a little over a century has elapsed since civilization first darted a ray of light into the wilderness of what is now Wayne County, and that light has been shining brighter and brighter as years have passed.
By virtue of a decree of King George of England, Wayne was once a part of Fincastle County, Virginia, but later under the Virginia government, it became a part of Cabell County until the Virginia Assembly, by an Act passed June 18, 1842, made it Wayne County.
Here amid the hills and valleys freedom was sought and found in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Among the pioneers who settled here were the names of Spurlock, Hatton, Newman, Wellman, Ferguson, Perry, Artrip, Lycans, Wilson, Damron, Adkins, Watts, Booton, Plymale, Crockett, Napier, Bartram, Thompson, Lambert, and Stephens. The decendants of those old pioneers are at the present time legion.
Although typical mountaineers, they did not permit education to be burried (sic) with their fathers, for we learn how they brought with them the old time school masters. They devised means as best they could whereby their children could be instructed in the rudiments of an English education.
Thomas Napier, who settled in what is now Stonewall District; Stephen Bean, who settled in Butler District; and John Deering were the first school teachers.
The first schools in the county were taught in Butler District. A school house was built in 1805 near Fort Gay and Thomas Napier taught there, the first school in Wayne County. Napier taught another term at Tabors Creek the same year. John Deering also taught a term on Whites Crk. near the town of that name in 1805. Ceredo claims a term taught at Krouts Creek, 1813, by a man named Charley Walker, but the first building for school purposes was mid-way between Ceredo and Sandy River. Union is next in order. Thomas Napier taught a term on Beech Fork in 1818, but Buffalo Shoals claims the first school building in 1823 where Napier was also the first to teach. Lincoln and Stonewall divide honors in primitive school history. A school was taught by Henry Hampton on the banks of Mill Creek, 1820, but the first school building was built on the banks of Joes Fork, 1822, while Stonewall comes in with a term at Lick Creek, 1820, taught by Napier.
Stephen Bean taught on Mill Creek about the year 1810. It can not be learned where the first school was taught in Grant District.
Establishing a school in those days was a simple matter. After securing a sufficient number of pupils, the parents met together and erected a structure of round logs, generally of the five corner model. This plan was followed for several years until a more perfect plan of architecture was worked out. The new plan was to build houses with only four sides.
One entire side was taken up by the fireplace where the great logs burned to heat the room. Seats were made by splitting logs of the desired length and inserting legs in the round side, the split flat side being used for the seat. On one side of the house was an opening over which was a sheet of paper, greased with hogs' lard to make it semi-transparent. This served for a window. Under the window was a writing desk which was made by boring holes in the wall in which pins were inserted. A puncheon was then placed upon the pins and fastened. The floors were also puncheon (when they had such).
Near the end of the room sat the grim old "master," generally close to the fire. He was "monarch of all he surveyed". Nothing escaped his watchful eye.
Those pedagogs of primitive Wayne County read their Bibles as well as their text books--when such books were to be had. They believed that the sparing of the rod meant the spoiling of the child; the rod of correction, therefore, was always to be found near the teacher's desk on in a special rack, and as Irving describes it in his Sleepy Hollow Legend, "a passerby might at any hour of the day behold the master" urging some urchin along the pathway of knowledge and hear the stern command, "Get to saying that lesson." For, in those days they "said" their lessons instead of reciting them. The schools were known as "loud" or "babbling" schools, each pupil "saying" or repeating his lesson in an audible voice that resembled the approach of a swarming bee hive.
The schools taught by Napier and his co-workers were of the babbling kind, but about the year 1865 they gave way to the more modern "silent" school.
Some of those now living who remember the babbling schools are Rev. William Jarrell and M. D. Jarrell, of Effie; W. S. Napier, of East Lynn; and Judge P. H. Napier of Wayne.
First under the old "subscription" method, no examination was required of a teacher. He simply announced that he was prepared to teach and proceeded to "make up a school."
After the formation of the State of West Virginia and at the first session of the Legislature, a bill introduced by Z. D. Ramsdall of Ceredo, which passed the Legislature, created our first school system. Under this system teachers were required to pass a written examination, but in many instances the law was abused, the superintendent sometimes meeting an applicant in the field, proceeded to grant him a certificate.
This abuse of our free school system continued, more or less, until a few years ago, when our present uniform examination law was passed. Under this system of testing an applicant's proficiency, the standard has been raised considerably. Although this may not be a perfect plan for the examination of teachers, still under the new provision, requiring teachers to attend Normal Schools, it is thought conditions will be further improved.
We have at the present 231 teachers of all grades employed in this county, quite a number of them being Normal School graduates, one County Superintendent and two District Supervisors. Two hundred buildings adorn the mountains and valleys, among them 35 graded schools, two High Schools, and three Junior High schools.
The amount spent in the running of our schools has passed the $100,000 mark, the total expended last year being $112,117.67.
Farmers in this section are busy gathering in the crops and making molasses.
Rev. J. S. Puckett has returned from Huntington, where he served on the federal grand jury.
Burnie Osborn, who had a bad cut on his leg some time ago, is improving.
Delbert Huff has returned from Kansas City, Mo., where he has been attending an auto school.
Our Sunday school at Greenbrier is progressing nicely with Freelin Bartram as superintendent.
Gordon Osborn, James Johnson, Trida Osborn, and Volhe Ellis attended the ice cream social at Patrick Saturday night.
Anthony Plymale had the misfortune to back his car over a high bank at Christian hill last week. No one was hurt.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hooser a fine baby boy, Oct 10.
James and John Johnson have returned from Mingo Junction, Ohio, where they have been employed.
Andy Lycan, who is working at Akron, Ohio, was home on a short visit last week.
Evan Ball has returned home from Williamson to help his father gather crops.
The Camp Creek School which is taught by L. B. Tabor is progressing nicely although the whooping cough has cut down the attendance.
Elmer Tabor and Asa Morrison are on Beech Fork very often.
The champion boxers of Camp Creek meet every Saturday night at the Butterick school house for a few bouts.
Our Sunday School is progressing nicely with W. W. Tabor as superintendent.
Our Children's Day, October 11, was a grand success. The main feature of the program was the music furnished by Monroe Frye, a returned soldier.
Prof. J. N. Tabor, who has been on the sick list, is recovering nicely.
Mr. Wayne Osburn is seen on our creek very often.
Mr. Burgess Adkins, a member of the East Lynn Sunday school has become a great helper in the Camp Creek Choir.
Mr. Floyd Richards, of this creek, who was injured in the East Lynn mines, is recovering rapidly.
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Having a desktop like those we see in our most organized House Tours means it's clean, organized and free of all clutter. Ever wonder how those people manage to create those works of arts on their desks and if they can actually keep up that appearance? Turns out it's not that difficult if you just do some creative cord control.
• OneLessDrop: This classy looking "H" sits on your desk and either keeps your cord in place by its weight, or sticks it in a channel to keep it still when you don't need it.
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• Leaf Tie: Lufdesign makes these little babies, which are really just prettied up zip ties. If you have to keep your cords out in the open, you might as well decorate them, right?
• Cord Cuffs: One option for keeping wires out of the way is with the Cord Cuff, a sticker that wraps around your wire and then adheres to whatever surface you like.
• Fork & Cream: Lufdesign does it again with a different take on keeping wires clean. Just wrap the offending piece through the tines on the fork then stick it into the simulated cream spill which will have your guests wonder what's going on.
• IKEA Signum:Sure, these have been around for a bit, but that's because they're an easy way to hide wiring, power bricks and power strips from your eyes, plus keep them off the floor.
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Ultimate Edition (UE) 1.8 is a remaster of Ubuntu Hardy Heron with custom software repositories and a distinctive theme. Its claim to fame over pure Ubuntu is convenience, due to preloaded updates and software. While the name might suggest that it is a huge upgrade over its progenitor, in reality its developers have not made many improvements besides application install scripts. Due to a distracting theme, a poorly built user interface, and an incredible lack of the convenience it claims to have, Ultimate Edition falls painfully short of ultimate.
I downloaded the 1.3GB UE DVD image, burned it, and booted up to the live DVD environment. It pleased me to see that the 1440x900 native resolution of my monitor was used correctly, and initially UE's theme of white on black with some blue seemed to work well. However, a few minutes of use was enough to show me how wrong my first impression of the theme really was.
I ran the installation shortcut on the desktop, which was Ubuntu's hard drive installer right down to the logos. The installation went smoothly. The only thing that really made it unpleasant was the theme. Even though I'm a fan of dark colors and often design Web sites with black backgrounds, ivory text, and blue links similar in color to the UE theme, this theme just doesn't seem to work. In most places text is white, but some places (such as disabled buttons) have black text. This alone wouldn't be a problem, but there is a gradient going through the blue background that makes it dark in the middle, which makes black text here much more difficult to read. The background color for the paper in OpenOffice.org was a relatively light gray, which made the white text unpleasant to read for long periods. The borders were also white, even though the backgrounds for both the paper and the application window were gray, and would have been better suited by a black border.
While a lot of effort may have been put into creating this theme, it is very hard on the eyes. The worst viewing experience was Web sites designed with white backgrounds. Firefox was themed black and blue like the rest of the desktop. Form items like checkboxes and textareas matched the black, but were ugly and out of place in most Web sites, which had different color schemes. Some applications, such as Amarok, didn't follow the system scheme and were still skinned for a white background, causing them to contrast with everything else on screen.
When the installation was complete, I rebooted into my new system. After a moment, notifications in the system tray popped up informing me that I had software updates and restricted drivers available. I installed the restricted drivers first -- namely Nvidia drivers for my graphics card. After this, another icon appeared in the system tray and told me I needed to reboot to complete the installation. As if Windows weren't bad enough with its "Let's restart needlessly" attitude, I was now being asked to restart the whole system instead of simply restarting xorg. I decided to avoid a possible second restart request and ran the software updates before rebooting. After the first restart with the graphics drivers installed, I noticed that Compiz was running. Another notification of new software updates popped up too, which I installed and which required another restart.
After this bout of upgrades and reboots, I figured everything should be ready to go. However, the distribution's Web site recommends users run the upgrade shortcut on the desktop to get additional software from the repositories that couldn't be included on the disc due to licensing issues. Upon running this I was asked if I wanted to hear music during the upgrade. Given that Amarok and Rhythmbox were already installed, I assumed that the music would come from there when I said OK. Instead, I spent the next 10 minutes watching as the Timidity MIDI player was installed, a little animated graphic indicating activity repeating over and over my only indication that anything was happening. There was no status bar showing how far along the process might be, or an estimated time. The music was, as you might expect, low quality MIDIs. The first box to pop up on screen after Timidity installed was a warning telling me "Even if it appears nothing is happening please be patient. Cancelling while script is downloading or installing may have very negative and perhaps irr-reversible [sic] results, please do not close the terminal window it will be closed at the end of the upgrade process for you." How very friendly. I clicked OK.
The next window gave me three options for upgrading: Ubuntu Ultimate Gamer's Edition, Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, or Custom. The Ubuntu Ultimate Edition option confused me, as I thought I was already running Ubuntu Ultimate Edition. I gather now that it simply means it will install the software restricted by licensing issues. Initially I chose Custom, as was recommended on the Web site. However, while looking through the applications it listed, I noticed that some of the applications that were selected by default already seemed to be installed, while others weren't. I couldn't figure out if the installed ones already being checked meant the update would ignore them, or if I should go through and uncheck them, so instead of bothering with that I canceled the process and chose the Ubuntu Ultimate Edition option. Another box popped up and asked me if I wanted to "grab the default packages for the selected distribution." I still wasn't quite sure what that meant, but I clicked OK anyway.
What followed this was a glorious example of a bad user interface. The way this upgrade script is designed, each new application being installed results in a new window (the same kind as was displayed while installing Timidity). The window for each previous application closes, thankfully, but the new window pops up on top of anything else you are doing. It was a fight to try to use my computer at all during the update. Every time I tried to type something a window would pop up and take focus away from my other applications. I almost canceled by accident once when I was trying to click something else and a window popped up under the mouse. Along with this problem, there was also the issue of there being no indication whatsoever of the overall status of the upgrade -- no approximate time remaining, no indication of how many packages have been done, and no indication of how many are yet left to go.
About 10 minutes into the upgrade I ran into another usability issue. Those who have worked with Debian-based systems know that when doing an upgrade, all the packages are downloaded at one time and then installed in the proper order. That is not how UE's update worked. Instead, it downloaded and installed each application one at a time. Because of this, at several times through the upgrade process I was asked to address different license agreements, installation confirmations, and setup questions. In a regular Debian upgrade, all of these questions are asked at once. The confirmation is done before you start, and the setup questions are asked during the installation at the end. This allows the user to do something else while the upgrade is taking place. Instead, I was forced to stay at the computer and answer questions as they popped up at unpredictable intervals. This, coupled with the new windows popping up over other application I tried to use, made the update a very painful process, which lasted about 45 minutes.
After the required reboot from the upgrade, I still had to manually install the Adobe Flash player, as per Web site instructions. I spent so much time "upgrading" by installing multitudes of applications I didn't need that to have to install one of the main features I use almost every day manually was unbelievable. Having three different peer-to-peer clients installed at the same time, as UE does, doesn't help me; Flash does. So would a working spellchecker in OpenOffice.org, but that was also missing by default. For a distribution that aims to include programs to be convenient, it was sure lacking in the convenience department. In fact, it took more time and effort to install all those applications I'd never use "automatically" through the Ultimate Edition scripts than it would have taken me to manually install the ones I do use.
With all the initial upgrades taken care of, I decided to ease the pain by listening to some music. Since only XMMS handles my massive MP3 collection without lag, I tried to launch XMMS first -- but it wasn't on the menu. I brought up a terminal and typed xmms -- no luck. It wasn't installed. At this point I wondered on what basis programs are included in the Ultimate Edition upgrade scripts. Is it simply personal preference on the part of the creator?
I tried installing XMMS through APT, but it wasn't in the custom software repository that UE points to by default. Next I tried installing XMMS through the Custom selection on the Upgrade shortcut on the desktop. However, not only was it not in the list of custom applications, but when I clicked the Cancel button, the script proceeded to claim it was running Distribution Upgrade Script and popped up several new windows to that effect. Since when does Cancel mean OK? Frustrated, I downloaded the source to XMMS. However, even when I installed the required libraries through APT, the XMMS configure script claimed they weren't installed. In the end, I had to follow a tutorial online to get XMMS to compile on Ubuntu.
So what was installed, you might ask, that made Ultimate Edition so convenient? Six interactive development environments, three BitTorrent clients, three IM clients, two IRC clients, and here's the best one: Notepad! Yes, Windows Notepad is available through Wine. I know that's always essential for me when I'm using my computer -- much more important than Flash, Java, or a spellchecker. Speaking of spellchecker, I did discover the problem: It was set to use the Canadian dictionary, which doesn't exist. I'd think having it use the available dictionary by default would make the most sense, but apparently not everyone agrees with me.
One thing that is abundantly available in UE is games. Most of the available applications in the custom upgrade scripts are games. Someone who is interested in Linux gaming may appreciate the huge selection. WThere are far too many to list here, but a few of the more prominent examples are America's Army, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Open Arena (OSS content package for Quake III Arena), Nexuiz, Glest and Legends.
If you are just starting to use Linux and don't know how to install anything else manually, perhaps you might find the vast multitude of install scripts handy. For most of you, simply running pure Ubuntu and adding the custom repositories to your apt sources is probably a better solution than downloading the so-called Ultimate Edition.


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1. A contact lens is designed to rest on the cornea, the clear outer surface of the eye.
2. Contacts are held in place mainly by adhering to the tear film that covers the front of the eye and, to a lesser extent, by pressure from the eyelids.
3. As the eyelid blinks, it glides over the surface of the contact lens and causes it to move slightly. This movement allows the tears to provide necessary lubrication to the cornea and helps flush away debris between the cornea and the contact lens.
4. A contact is an optical medical device, primarily used to correct myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and reading problems. In these conditions, light is not focused properly on the retina, the layer of nerve endings in the back of the eye that converts light to electrochemical impulses. When light is not focused properly on the retina, the result is blurred or imperfect vision.
5. When in place on the cornea, the contact lens functions as the initial optical element of the eye. The optics combine with the optics of the eye to properly focus light on the retina. The result is clear vision.
6. What causes farsightedness? Hypermetropia most commonly occurs because the eyeball is too short; that is, shorter from front to back than is normal. In some cases, hypermetropia may be caused by the cornea having too little curvature.
7. Replacing contact lenses frequently usually means better eye health. Other obvious advantages are having spare ones immediately available should one get torn or lost.
8. Be sure you wear your back up eyeglasses at least once a week to give your eyes and cornea a chance to reoxygenate.
9. Symptoms of overwear include burning eyes, dryness, blurred vision and seeing halos around lights. This can lead to serious corneal problems and infections. Consult your eye doctor regularly for eye examinations and follow up care.
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Saranac Lake, Ny — North Country (NY) Community College (NCCC) and the Lake Placid (NY) Health and Fitness club have reached a mutual agreement in which the club's trainers will help train NCCC's athletes while NCCC will offer Lake Placid members access to its facilities, according to the Adirondack (NY) Daily Enterprise.
The agreement goes into effect this month.
"It's going to allow us to expand the number and types of classes and offerings we currently bring our membership," Hal Schmidt, owner of Lake Placid Health and Fitness, told the newspaper.
Ed Trathen, vice president of enrollment and student affairs at NCCC, told the newspaper that Lake Placid's trainers will help minimize the number of sports-related injuries of NCCC student-athletes. The agreement comes at the same time the school was accepted into a more competitive conference, Trathen says.
"It would be unfair for us to put our student-athletes in a more competitive conference without all the resources their fellow athletes at other colleges would have access to," Trathen told the newspaper.
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As we age, several functions of the body begin to decline, particularly the function of the reproductive organs. This is due to a slowing in the production of the hormone testosterone, which decreases at a rate of approximately one to two percent per year beginning at age forty. With decreased testosterone production, libido begins to wane, erectile problems start and overall endurance diminishes.
These problems used to be considered a sign of aging and something all men have to deal with. However, over the last couple decades, several herbal supplements have gained in popularity. These herbs have been used around the world for centuries. Now you too can take advantage of these powerful supplements.
Muira puama is a tree native to the Amazon rainforest, mostly in Brazil. The herb has a long history of use as treatment for sexual difficulties. It has been listed in the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia for over fifty years. The herb is well-known for its aphrodisiac powers, as well as its effectiveness at treating impotence.
In the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, a book by the British Herbal Medical Association, muira puama's use as a treatment for impotence and infertility is indicated. Scientific studies back the use of the herb for improving sexual function. Researchers have stated that the herb increased libido levels substantially in test subjects, as well as decreased the incidence of erectile dysfunction. Users have also reported that this supplement eases fatigue and acts a general tonic for the male reproductive system.
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Ayurvedic Medicine practitioners have been prescribing ashwagandha to treat sexual problems for over three thousand years. Even with the advent of modern medicine, you can still find the hill tribes of India using the shrub for aphrodisiac purposes. According to the Indian Materia Medica, the herb is indicated for treatment of fatigue, impotence, exhaustion, low sperm count and several other health issues.
Studies have shown that ashwagandha contains steroid lactones, which may be the reason for the herb's amazing powers. Researchers have hypothesized that these compounds, while slightly different from the naturally occurring steroids of the body, are similar enough to trick the body into providing the results found with the true steroids.
Tongkat ali is highly regarded as a sexual enhancing herb is its native Malaysia and Indonesia. It aids testosterone production, reversing the effects of low hormone levels. This enables the herb to treat erectile dysfunction and improve erection power, revive a flagging libido and enhance performance.
Animal studies back up the traditional use of this herb. Researchers found that when test subjects were supplement with tongkat ali, testosterone levels increased three to four times above the starting point. Sex-hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) was also inhibited, which freed up hormones. Finally, the animals exhibited higher levels of energy and sexual behavior.


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– Despite bashing by conservatives, the 50-year-old Miranda warning for crime suspects serves us well.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak with me?"
Those words are uttered thousands of times a day in this country, and one hardly needs to have been arrested to recognize them. They are a staple of police dramas from "Dragnet" to "CSI." They are a ubiquitous part of American culture, as familiar as the Pledge of Allegiance. They are, of course, the Miranda warning, which suspects have been read ever since the United States Supreme Court in 1966 mandated it.
Written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who began his public career as a prosecutor in Northern California, Miranda recognized the coercive nature of police interrogations and sought to ensure that the constitutional rights of suspects in custody were protected. Moreover, it was an expression of the court's egalitarianism: Sophisticated suspects already knew to ask for a lawyer or to remain silent, so those who tended to incriminate themselves under police questioning were more likely to be poor and uneducated.
Since its inception, Miranda has stood as a hallmark of judicial overreach in the minds of conservatives. They like to note that the warning does not appear in the Constitution. And even though the rights it enumerates are explicitly mentioned — the right to remain silent is guaranteed by the 5th Amendment, the right to counsel is protected by the 6th — critics complained at the time of Miranda that informing suspects of those rights would cause them to clam up and thwart law enforcement. It would, the claim went, empty the prisons.
Well, it didn't. Miranda is now nearly 50 years old, and the prisons are full of criminals who were convicted despite it. Some were read the warning and talked anyway; others got the warning, demanded lawyers and were convicted on the evidence. Indeed, one of the striking things about Miranda today is that the law enforcement establishment no longer objects to it. The warning is simple and easy for officers to deliver. It gives them clarity, and it rarely interferes with an investigation. When Miranda faced a direct challenge in 2000, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who criticized the original ruling, voted to uphold it, in part because of that clarity and in part because it had become such an established piece of police practice.
Yet Miranda continues to agitate. Just last week, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Texas man who was being questioned by police before his arrest but who then refused to answer when police asked whether shells from his gun would match those found at the scene of a homicide. Rather than respond, he looked at the floor, clenched his hands and bit his lip. Prosecutors told the jury those details, and Genevevo Salinas was convicted of murder. A divided court concluded that because it was his actions, not words, that were presented to the jury — and because the exchange occurred before his arrest — his Miranda rights were not violated even though he had not been issued the warning.
And it was just two months ago that the surviving brother of the two Boston bombing suspects was taken into custody, and conservatives loudly argued that he should somehow be treated differently from any other criminal suspect and denied a reading of his Miranda rights. The shoddy reasoning in that instance is that somehow terrorism is different — as if planting a bomb is a crime outside constitutional law while shooting a gun would not be. He was eventually read his rights and stopped talking, but no one seems to have much doubt about the strength of the evidence against him.
The strange state of Miranda as it approaches 50, then, is that it no longer poses the threat that police and others once feared it would, but it remains a source of political irritation to conservatives. That's hardly the only example of people putting ideology over common sense in today's America, but it's a particularly noxious one. Today's conservatives would be wise to follow Rehnquist's lead and acknowledge Miranda for what it is: an intelligent, workable doctrine that helps police and protects the rights of those in custody.
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The United Kingdom based retail outlet, GAME, has verified that the price of next-gen titles from Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 4 (and presumably the Xbox One) will be raised from £39.99 to £54.99. Development costs and all that jazz.
The news comes courtesy of GAME themselves in a Q&A about the next generation of home console gaming. Tech Radar caught wind of the Q&A, where GAME rolls out the pricing of next-gen titles, stating...
At present, the only publisher to confirm costs of their next generation games are EA, attaching a price of £54.99. No other game prices have been confirmed. We will of course update our listings as and when this happens. And if the price changes before release day, you will always pay the lowest price.
Oh bother me bad and color me blind; that's a blimey high price.
In American speak we're looking at games from Electronic Arts costing $80 a pop. Can you believe that? Actually, it's not hard to believe at all.
Keep in mind that EA is always scheming for ways to raise the cost of the initial purchase. Remember how proud EA was of getting people to lay down $80 a pop for Mass Effect 3 last year? Remember how excited they were to cancel the Online Pass when Microsoft unveiled their unbelievably daft digital rights management system for the Xbox One? Now remember how coy EA became at E3 when Sony dropped the pro-consumer hammer of righteous justice and put all the top dog publishers in their place when they said the PS4 wasn't going to be carrying the venereal disease of interactive entertainment known as disc-based DRM?
Well, there's a reason Peter Moore didn't have an answer for the Dorito Pope at this year's E3 when he was asked about how they would approach the DRM situation following Sony's DRM ban-hammer. It's because they had to find a way to double-dip in the honey pot, especially following Microsoft's Xbox 180 maneuver.
At this junction, however, it's become rather obvious how one of the biggest players on the field will try to re-adjust for the costs and expenses: They're simply going to hike up the price of entry, development costs be damned.
Now it's easy to say "Inflation this" and "Inflation that", but realistically Sony had already outlined that prices on their end weren't changing for the PS4, with games either being free or priced between $0.99 and $60 as a cap. It's not like wages have gone up to match the living expenses and Sony seems to understand that.
I imagine EA's excuse will be their Ignite Engine and Frostbite 3... even though, technically, we've been seeing this kind of technology on high-end PC games for the last couple of years. But, bringing it to consoles obviously raises prices, right?
What's more is that the AAA methodology of blow-out-our-budget-on-a-Hollywood-wannabe-game needs to go away. The Cliffy B mindset needs to go extinct right now. We're just not in a climate where publishers need to be throwing money around at silly ideas and expecting consumers to pick up the tab in poorly produced products. THQ learned that the hard way.
Even more than that, budgets need to be curtailed to the experience. No one is necessarily asking for "bigger" games with lesser gameplay, people just want want fun games. And last I checked, you don't need $100 million to make a fun game -cough-Minecraft-cough-.
More than anything, I suspect smart core gamers will rally their funds and only spend it where it deserves to go, as opposed to forking over cash they don't have just so a company can keep spending money into bankruptcy like Enron, Worldcom and the auto industry before the bailout.


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Babe of the Day: Diana Ochoa
Meet Diana Ochoa, a model from Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Diana is part Native American, part Filipino, and part Hispanic. You may have seen her on Playboy TV, where she's appeared on the morning show, or, if you're lucky, you may have see her lounging around hotel pools, or the Playboy mansion, in California looking like this:
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More than a year ago, we found out that The Walking Dead: The Game was coming, but developer Telltale Games never said what systems it was coming to. Today, Telltale confirmed that the five-episode adventure game is coming to Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, PC, Mac and iOS. The first episode will arrive in April with the next four to follow "regularly."
That's pretty much what everyone expected. If you want to know what The Walking Dead's gameplay looks like, you'll have to check out Up at Noon on YouTube this Monday, March 19th. At noon Pacific, we'll post the episode and in it will be the reveal of the gameplay, a new trailer and an interview with Walking Dead story consultant Gary Whitta.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Any number of political analysts have tried to write off the electoral gains by Islamist parties in Egypt, insisting that once in power, groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist al-Nour Party will take a pragmatic approach to governing.
It is the same nonsense that was spouted as the Nazis rose to power in Germany, when the Ayatollah Khomeini made his triumphant return to Iran, when Yasser Arafat's PLO terrorist organization was elevated to the status of a national government, and when Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election.
On December 17, an Egyptian mob - presumably of the type that has been voting for the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Nour - demonstrated that they have no intention of "modernizing" or adopting Western-style pragmatism when they torched the Institute of Egypt in Cairo.
Among the casualties of the Islamist assault were some 192,000 rare books and manuscripts.
The Institute of Egypt was established by Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt in the late 18th century. For centuries the Institute of Egypt housed priceless chronicles of the nation's history, as well as the findings of hundreds of top scholars and scientists.
The Institute of Egypt symbolized Egypt's connection to the West, and for many its establishment was the start of the "modern era" in Egypt. And that is why it had to go. Because Egypt's Islamists have no intention of modernizing, not on Western terms, at any rate. Like the Ayatollahs in Iran and Hamas in Gaza, their ultimate goal is to return Egypt to a medieval form of life where a strict interpretation of Sharia Law governs the actions of all.
The first to suffer will be Egypt's Christians. They are suffering already.
But most of this is being ignored by an international community determined to paint the "Arab Spring" as a positive phenomenon. It is certainly a positive thing to throw off the yoke of a repressive dictatorship. But it is a negative thing to replace that repressive dictatorship with oppressive theocratic rule.
That the world is championing this change in Egypt when just 30 years ago the same scenario played out in Iran with devastating results just goes to show that mankind is doomed to never learn from his mistakes.
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'72 Polara
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Some people strive to leave their work behind when they retire for the day, but Daniel Benoit of Quebec, Canada, just can't do it. Since he was 15 years old, he's had 53 different cars. Can you guess what he is? He's a specialty used car salesman. It's like working in a candy store, you're bound to find yourself bringing pocketfuls home with you. Even his boss has the same problem, and brought a '72 Road Runner home.
Long before this job, Daniel started collecting. He grew up loving muscle cars and has had most of the popular models from the '60s and '70s. His house even reflects his priorities. He has a two-car garage with an equal-sized apartment atop it. Daniel's previous car was a '69 Fairlane, but working 60-hour weeks, he just didn't have time for a non-running project. Rather than storing the car for years fooling himself into thinking he would be able to get to it soon, he came to terms with the idea of losing the car.
His buddy was in the market for a Polara, and had terrible luck locating one. After months of searching, he found the '72 you see here. The only way he scored this one was because the owner had died, and there were no successors. His friend wanted a Polara only because he couldn't afford the car he really wanted, a Challenger. Ironically, he wanted to get rid of it because he found
a Challenger in his budget!
Daniel bought the car because it was good looking, running, and it drove. He needed something he could work on piece by piece, rather than a full restoration at once. He's got it looking good, but has plans for more power. (The sub-200hp pull isn't quite enough).
By The Numbers
1972 Dodge Polara Custom
Daniel Benoit, 34 • Rawdon, Quebec, Canada
Performance: 190 hp
|400ci big-block wedge
|Rotating assembly:
|cast crank and pistons
|Cylinder heads:
|cast iron
|hydraulic flat-tappet
|cast-iron intake, Carter two-barrel carb
|single exhaust, cast iron
|727 column shift
|Rear axle:
|8¾-inch, 2.80 gears
|Front suspension:
|stock torsion bar
|Rear suspension:
|stock leaf spring
|Brakes: disc/drum
|vinyl top
|red re-spray
|15×7 Magnum 500
|BFGoodrich Radial TA
|245/60R15 and 275/60R15
'64 Fury
For those who have the misconception that all of California is densely populated and riddled with the drama of soap-opera stars, Willows, California, is a great representation of what the majority of California is like. It's a town in Northern California with a population of 6,300 with neighboring towns miles and miles away. With Thunder Hill Raceway Park just down the road, muscle cars are at home in this small town.
Alan Rutter, collector and seller of Mopars and their parts, has had a lot of Mopar projects over the years. On his to-do list was a Fury, but the nose-heavy 116-inch wheelbase two-doors didn't appeal when the four-doors could be bought for so much less. He was planning on cutting it to pieces no matter what, so why not start with a cheaper base? A couple of saw blades after the car came home, it was in two pieces. Customers who came by his shop were shocked to see the cut up car in the back. "There is nothing that a Sawzall, welder, body panel adhesive, and Bondo can't fix!" Alan says.
He wanted to build a car that was radical, but stock-looking at the same time. Most people who see it don't even notice that there has been something done to it. He has even fooled some die-hard Mopar fans. He enjoys watching people try to figure it out. Though he wants it to look good, he doesn't think of it as a show car. Alan calls it a "street freak" instead. It never sits on a trailer and gets driven a lot, and that's how it should be.
By The Numbers
1964 Plymouth Fury
Alan Rutter, 30 • Willows, CA
|Chrysler 440
|high-volume pump
|Cylinder heads:
|516 closed-chamber iron
|COMP .525-inch lift
|factory adjustable
|Edelbrock RPM intake, 800-cfm carb
|Mopar ignition
|homemade 2.5-inch tubing
|727 automatic, B&M Pro ratchet shifter
|Rear axle:
|8¾-inch Mopar with 3.91 gears and posi
|Front suspension:
|'67 K-frame, shortenedwheelbase
|factory drum
|by the owner
|Contreras Auto Body
|Mag 14×6 front, steel 15×7 rear
'66 Comet
Jeff Adelsberger's only motivation to get a job in high school was to be able to afford a car. Before he could start saving, he would peek over his father's shoulder absorbing all of the knowledge he could about cars as his father worked. He watched everything from tuning a carburetor, to how wax is applied and removed. He wanted to be able do all these things himself when the time came for him to have a ride of his own. He worked hard, and had enough money to buy his first car when he was 15. It was a '73 Mustang with a poor running 351 Cleveland that caught his eye. It was for sale for $500 and he quickly handed over the cash. The heads needed to be rebuilt before he could drive it, but when that was done, the Mustang didn't captivate him as much as he thought it would. The idea of selling it came up, and a dealer wanted to show it to a couple of clients he had in mind. Jeff entertained this idea by bringing it down to the dealer. This is where he met his '66 Comet Caliente. With only 65,000 miles on the clock, the price tag shocked Jeff at $2,000. His hope faded about as quickly as his excitement had climbed. Luckily, Jeff didn't know how badly the dealer wanted his Mustang, and with some negotiating, they agreed to trade the cars straight up.
This was almost 20 years ago, and Jeff has no regrets on this swap. In that time, he's kept the red interior and all of the factory brightwork, but has made substantial changes. Thanks to Booze Brothers Racing, the factory 289 was removed, and a 347 stroker took its place. It's backed by a big-boned
C-4 automatic with a TCI converter that helps give it the skip in its step.
He plans on keeping this muscle car in the family so that when his now 9-year-old son is old enough for a car of his own, he can have the Comet. This car meant so much to Jeff over the years; he looks forward to handing it down to his son. Maybe Jeff will build himself another one to cruise alongside him.
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1966 Mercury Comet
Jeff Adelsberger, 37 • Hagerstown, MD
Performance: 425 hp
|small-block 347ci Ford Windsor
|Melling high-volume pump, Canton pan
|Rotating assembly:
|Diamond forged pistons,
|Scat forged crank and I-beam rods
|Cylinder heads:
|ported factory iron '69 Windsor
|COMP custom hydraulic roller
|COMP roller rocker arms
|and pushrods, 1.90/1.60-inch valves
|Edelbrock Air-Gap intake,
|Quick Fuel 650-cfm carb
|MSD 6AL ignition box,
|Pro-Billet distributor,
|and 8.5mm Super Conductor wires
|Griffin aluminum three-core radiator
|Hedman shorty headers,
|3-inch X-pipe exhaust system
|with Bassani stainless mufflers
|TCI 10-inch, 2,500-rpm stall converter,
|Performance Automatic Competition C-4
|Dynoteck 3½-inch 6061 aluminum
|Rear axle:
|Strange 9-inch housing with bracing, 4.11 gears,
|Detroit Locker, Strange 31-spline axles
|Front suspension:
|Santhuff springs
|Rear suspension:
|Calvert Racing leaf springs, Cal-Trac bars
|'66 Cyclone fiberglass hood, bodywork by
|Dietrich's Auto Body, Hagerstown, MD
|PPG Wimbledon White
|Weld Pro-Star aluminum, 15×8 and 15×15
|P205/70R15 Firestone, 275/60R15
|Mickey Thompson ET Street Radials
Mothers Picture Perfect Award
This is the place to show off your pride and joy to the rest of mankind, so we figure those readers who took the time to capture a really cool shot of their hot rod should get a little bonus. Mothers agreed, and decided to come to the party with some freebies for the best picture submitted to PHR.
Each month, the editors at PHR will sift through the images and pick the one with the best composition, lighting, and overall quality. The winner will get a cool assortment of Mothers products to keep his or her ride looking nice and shiny. Mail us a photograph or, if you're a modern guy, email us a digital image. Remember that digital images need to be 300 dpi, and the bigger the image, the larger it can run. Also, be sure to include info on the car, along with your name and address. Good luck!