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'Skyfall' sets Bond franchise record
James Bond may be 50, but he still knows how to shake up the box office.
Skyfall, the 23rd installment of a film franchise that has been spying theaters since Dr. No hit screens in 1962, opened to a franchise record $87.8 million, according to studio estimates from Hollywood.com
Riding strong reviews from critics and fans, Skyfall shattered the record set in 2008 by Quantum of Solace, which opened to $68 million.
Already, the $200 million film has racked up more than $346 million worldwide, and its U.S. debut all but ensures the film will eclipse 2006's Casino Royale as the highest-grossing Bond film worldwide. That movie did $594 million worldwide.
Skyfall's opening goes "a long way in determining the relevance of James Bond after a four-year absence," says David Mumpower, analyst for Boxofficeprophets.com. He says the opening "removed all doubt about the drawing power of 007."
Reviewers were sold. Skyfall garnered some of the best reviews of any film in 2012, earning a thumbs-up from 92% of critics, says survey site Rottentomatoes.com.
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REVIEW:'Skyfall' sends Bond franchise soaring again
The movie's critical and commercial reception will help invigorate the franchise, which took a hit with Solace. Though the movie did big numbers, it was pummeled by critics.
"It was imperative that Skyfall be an international blockbuster," Mumpower says. "Despite the global box office, the perception of Quantum of Solace was that it was a huge step backward."
The Disney cartoon Wreck-It Ralph was second with $33.1 million, followed by Denzel Washington's Flight with $15.1 million. The political thriller Argo took fourth with $6.8 million, while Taken 2 rounded out the top 5 with $4 million.
The only other major newcomer, Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln, opened strongly on 11 screens, taking in $900,000. It opens nationwide Friday.
While Skyfall's debut eclipsed projections, no one doubted a No. 1 opening. The film accounted for more than 65% of ticket sales for Fandango, the online ticket retailer says.
Much of the spy fever was fueled by singer Adele, Fandango says. According to the firm's poll of 1,000 moviegoers, 54% of respondents said her single, Skyfall, increased their interest and awareness of the film, which stars Daniel Craig.
Next on Fandango's list: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, which opens Friday and is accounting for 17% of online sales.

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Three Kansas State Parks Make "Top 36 Stunning State Parks" List
Out of more than 7,500 U.S. state parks, Kansas makes the list three times
While compiling a list of some of our country's best state parks, The Active Times couldn't ignore the state ofKansas; in fact, they couldn't ignore the sunflower state three times. Out of more than 7,500 U.S. state parks to choose from, three Kansas state parks made the media group's "36 Stunning U.S. State Parks" list. KanopolisState Park was listed No. 14, Lake Scott State Park No. 23, and Wilson State Park No. 34.
The following write-ups accompanied a photo of each park in the publication:
Kanapolis State Park
This state park is situated amidst the striking Smoky Hills region of Kansas and is treasured for its many miles of hiking trails that meander through canyons, prairies, and wooded creek bottoms. The sublime Dakota sandstone bluffs and craggy HorsethiefCanyon decorate the park and its surrounding area presenting pristine views of what's considered some ofKansas' most stunning scenery.
Lake ScottState Park
Named to National Geographic's list of the country's 50 must-see state parks, this aptly named "stunning oasis" has everything you could want in a park. Spanning 1,020 acres, the natural features include wooded canyons, rugged bluffs and fresh springs. LakeScott is large enough to accommodate boating and fishing and the extensive trail system allows horseback riding. With more than 26 archeological sites in the area, the remarkable features are more than just aesthetically pleasing.
Wilson State Park
This 945-acre park is tucked away in the center of the Smoky Hills and is well attended for the scenery its location affords. Hiking trails offer unrivaled views of native Kansas prairie and the Wilson Reservoir. Camping accommodations and cabins are available throughout the park and land is dedicated to mountain biking, fishing and hunting (in season only).
The next time you plan a family outing or a weekend on the lake, consider checking out one of Kansas' many list-worthy state parks before crossing state lines. You just might find something stunning right here at home.
To view the complete list of The Active Times' "36 Stunning U.S. State Parks," visit


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Happy Birthday Chase!
Happy Birthday Chase!
"And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave. Only a void remains. From deep within the void arrives Corbenik."
We shoud've bought him a present.
"People die when they get killed."
happy late birthday dude and i guess you can consider me the newbie to your fanclub....hope there is no initiation...
Happy birthday chase, I hope you have a good one, eat blue bell ice cream for me .
edit : wish there was a way to say happy birthday to him.
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Open Sound System
zh-CN:Open Sound System The Open Sound System (or OSS) is an alternative sound architecture for Unix-like and POSIX-compatible systems. OSS version 3 was the original sound system for Linux and is in the kernel but was superseded by ALSA in 2002 when OSS version 4 became proprietary software. OSSv4 became free software again in 2007 when 4Front Technologies released its source code and provided it under the GPL license.
- 1 Comparisons with ALSA
- 2 Install
- 3 Testing
- 4 Volume Control Mixer
- 5 Configuring Applications for OSS
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 Tips and tricks
- 7.1 Using multimedia keys with OSS
- 7.2 ossvol troubleshooting
- 7.3 Changing the Sample Rate
- 7.4 Changing the Default Sound Output
- 7.5 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 SB1090 USB
- 7.6 A simple systray applet
- 7.7 Start ossxmix docked to systray on startup
- 7.8 Record sound output from a program
- 7.9 Suspend and Hibernation
- 7.10 ALSA emulation
- 7.11 Settings for specific driver
- 8 Experimental packages
Comparisons with ALSA
Some advantages and disadvantages compared to using the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
OSS Advantages (users)
- Per-application volume control.
- Some legacy cards are supported better.
- Initial response time in sound applications is usually better.
- Better support for applications that use the OSS API and do not support ALSA's native API. Many applications still use this API, and do not require an emulation layer like ALSA uses.
OSS Advantages (developers)
- Cleaner and easier to use API, and better API documentation.
- Support for drivers in userspace.
- Cross-platform. OSS runs on BSDs and Solaris.
ALSA advantages over OSS
- Better support for USB audio devices. With OSS output is experimental, input is not implemented.
- Support for Bluetooth audio devices.
- Support for AC'97 and HDAudio dial-up soft-modems such as Si3055.
- Better support for MIDI devices. With OSS you will have to use a software synthesizer such as Timidity or FluidSynth.
- Support for suspend. OSS and associated programs will need to be closed first.
- Better support for jack detection. On some HD motherboards users will need to turn down the speaker volume when plugging in their earphones.
- Better support for applications that use the ALSA API and do not support the OSS API.
Install OSS by running:
# pacman -S oss
This will install the OSS files and run the OSS install script that will temporarily disable the ALSA modules, and install the OSS kernel modules. Since ALSA is enabled by default in the boot scripts, you need to disable it for it not to conflict with OSS when booting. You can do this blacklisting the module:
blacklist soundcore
Start the oss daemon and add oss to your DAEMONS array so it starts automatically on boot.
If your user is not part of the audio group, add your user by:
# gpasswd -a username audio
In the case OSS is not able to detect your card when starting it, run:
# ossdetect -v
Then reactivate it:
# soundoff && soundon
Beware the default volume is very loud, avoid using earphones and physically lower the volume of your speakers (if possible) before running the test.
Test OSS by running:
$ osstest
You should be able to hear music during the test process. If there is no audio, try to adjust the volume or refer to the troubleshooting section.
If you want to hear sounds from more than one application simultaneously, you need vmix, OSS's software mixer.
Check that vmix is enabled by running:
$ ossmix -a | grep -i vmix
You should see a line like 'vmix0-enable ON|OFF (currently ON)'. If you do not see any lines beginning with 'vmix', it probably means that vmix has not been attached to your sound device. To attach vmix, issue the command
$ vmixctl attach device
where device is your sound device, eg., /dev/oss/oss_envy240/pcm0 .
To avoid having to issue this command manually in the future, you can add it to /usr/lib/oss/soundon.user, as suggested at http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Tips_And_Tricks#Changing_the_default_sound_output .
If you get "Device or resource busy" error, you need to add "vmix_no_autoattach=1" in /usr/lib/oss/conf/osscore.conf, and then reboot.
See which devices are detected by running:
$ ossinfo
You should be able to see your devices listed under Device objects or Audio Devices. If the device that you want to use is not at the top on Audio devices or Device objects sections, /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers needs to be edited. The driver for the device that needs to be used should be at the very top. A soundoff, soundon is probably required. If this does not work, comment all drivers listed that are not your preferred device.
Volume Control Mixer
To control the volume of various devices, mixers levels will need to be set. There are two mixers. One is a command line mixer called
$ ossmix
This one is very like the BSD audio mixer (mixerctl). The second mixer is a graphical mixer called
$ ossxmix
and will require gtk2 to be installed to run it.
The basic
ossxmix controls:
/ High Definition Audio ALC262 \ --------------------------------> 1 /________________________________\________________________________ | \ | [x] vmix0-enable [vmix0-rate: 48.000kHz] vmix0-channels |--> 2 | [ Stereo [v] ] | | | | __codec1______________________________________________________ | | | _jack______________________________________________________ ||--> 3 | | | _int-speaker_________________ _green_________________ ||| | | | | | | | ||| | | | | _mode_____ | | | | _mode_____ | | | ||| | | | | [ mix [v] ] o o [x] [ ]mute | | [ mix [v] ] o o [x] | ||| | | | | | | | | | | | ||| | | | |_____________________________| |_______________________| ||| | | |___________________________________________________________||| | |______________________________________________________________|| | ___vmix0______________________________________________________ | | | __mocp___ O O _firefox_ O O __pcm7___ O O | |--> 4 | | | | O O | | x x | | O O | | | | | | | | x O | | | | x x | | | | O O | | | | | o o [x] | x x | o o [x] | x x | o o [x] | O O | | | | | | | | x x | | | | x x | | | | O O | | | | |_________| x x |_________| x x |_________| O O | | | |_____________________________________________________________| | |_________________________________________________________________|
- One tab for each sound card
- The vmix (virtual mixer) special configurations appear at the top. These include sampling rate and mixer priority.
- These are your sound card jack configurations (input and output). Every mixer control that is shown here is provided by your sound card.
- Application vmix mixer controls and sound meters. If the application is not actively playing a sound it will be labeled pcm08, pcm09..., when the application is playing the application name will be shown.
Color Definitions
For high definition (HD) audio,
ossxmix will color jack configurations by their pre-defined jack colors:
|front channels (stereo output)
|3.5mm TRS
|rear channels (stereo output)
|3.5mm TRS
|side channels (stereo output)
|3.5mm TRS
|center and subwoofer (dual output)
|3.5mm TRS
|line level (stereo input)
|3.5mm TRS
|microphone (mono input)
|3.5mm TS
Saving Mixer Levels
Mixer levels are saved when you shut off your computer. If you want to save the mixer level immediately, as root:
# savemixer
savemixer can be used to write mixer levels to a file with the
-f switch and restore by the
-L switch.
Other Mixers
Other mixers that have support for OSS:
- GNOME - Gnome volume control
- KDE - Kmix - OSS support is being developed.
- LXDE - volwheel
sudo pacman -S volwheel echo "volwheel" >> ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart volwheel &
than you will need to right-click applet set preferences:
- driver: OSS
- default channel: vmix0-outvol (in my case or any you see in ossxmix)
- default mixer: ossxmix
- tab MiniMixer (optional): put in vmix0-outvol and others ...
Configuring Applications for OSS
The skype package only includes support for ALSA. To get an OSS-capable Skype, install the
skype-oss package:
# pacman -S skype-oss
If you are using x86_64, you can get the bin32-skype-ossAUR package from AUR.
- Run
$ winecfg
- Go to the
- Select
OSS Driver.
By default Gajim uses
aplay -q to play a sound. To change this go in Advanced Settings and search for the
soundplayer variable. The ossplay program included in the oss package is a good replacement:
ossplay -qq
To use MOC with OSS v4.1 you must change OSSMixerDevice to
/dev/ossmix in your config (located in
And now MOC should work with OSS v4.1.
Or you can compile moc-svn package from AUR (it has support for the new vmix).
For issues with the interface try changing the OSSMixerChannel; press 'w' in mocp (change to sofware mixer).
Applications that use Gstreamer
Remove pulseaudio and gstreamer*-pulse programs and libraries.
To change the gstreamer setting to output the sound to OSS instead of the default ALSA, run:
Change the Default Output plugin to custom and the change the pipeline to:
For the input:
If you are using phonon with the gstreamer backend you will need to set the environmental variable. To add to your current user:
export PHONON_GST_AUDIOSINK=oss4sink
Add this to your
~/.bashrc to be loaded on login.
If you are using gui (smplayer etc.) you will find the oss output at the audio settings. Using on cli you should specify the sound output:
mplayer -ao oss /some/file/to/play.mkv If you do not want to bother typing it over and over again add "ao=oss" to your config file. (
Music Player Daemon
MPD is configured through /etc/mpd.conf or ~/.mpdconf. Check both of these files, looking for something that looks like:
audio_output { type "alsa" name "Some Device Name" }
If you find an uncommented (the lines do not begin with #'s) ALSA configuration like the one above, comment all of it out, or delete it, and add the following:
audio_output { type "oss" name "My OSS Device" }
Further configuration might not be necessary for all users. However, if you experience issues (in that MPD does not work properly after it has been restarted), or if you like having specific (i.e. more user-configured, less auto-configured) config files, the audio output for OSS can be more specifically configured as follows: First, run:
ossinfo | grep /dev/dsp
Look for the line that says something similar to
/dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/<SOME_CARD_IDENTIFIER>/pcm0. Take note of what your <SOME_CARD_IDENTIFIER> is, and add bolded lines to your OSS audio output in your mpd config file:
audio_output { type "oss" name "My OSS Device" device "/dev/oss/<SOME_CARD_IDENTIFIER>/pcm0" mixer_device "/dev/oss/<SOME_CARD_IDENTIFIER>/mix0" }
If audacity will start but either complains that it cannot open the device or simply doesn't play anything, then you may be using vmix. Audacity expects exclusive access to your sound device. To fix this, before running audacity, run:
ossmix vmix0-enable OFF
You can restore vmix after ending audacity with
ossmix vmix0-enable ON
Other applications
- If you can not get sound from an application not listed here, try looking at the Configuring Applications for OSSv4 page.
- Search OSS specific packages by using
pacman -Ss -- -ossand in AUR.
Troubleshooting HDAudio devices
Understanding why problems arise
If you have a HDAudio sound device, it is very likely that you will have to adjust some mixer settings before your sound works.
HDAudio devices are very powerful in the sense that they can contain a lot of small circuits (called widgets) that can be adjusted by software at any time. These controls are exposed to the mixer, and they can be used, for example, to turn the earphone jack into a sound input jack instead of a sound output jack.
However, there is a side effect, mainly because the HDAudio standard is more flexible than it perhaps should be, and because the vendors often only care to get their official drivers working.
Then, when using HDAudio devices, you often find disorganized mixer controls, that does not work at all by default, and you are forced to try every mixer control combination, until it works.
How to solve
ossxmix and try to change every mixer control in the middle area, that contains the sound card specific controls, as explained in the previous "Volume Control" section.
You will probably want to setup a program to record/play continously in the background (e.g.
ossrecord - | ossplay - for recording or
osstest -lV for playing), while changing mixer settings in ossxmix in the foreground.
- Raise every volume control slider.
- In each option box, try to change the selected option, trying all the possible combinations.
- If you get noise, try to lower and/or mute some volume controls, until you find the source of the noise.
Please note again that you do not need to change any controls in the top area nor in the bottom area, as they are virtual
vmix-related mixer controls.
- Editing
/usr/lib/oss/conf/oss_hdaudio.confuncommenting and changing hdaudio_noskip=0 to a value from 0-7 can give you more jack options in ossxmix
I had to edit mine to hdaudio_noskip=7 for my sub/rear speaker to work on my laptop, restart oss for the changes to take effect
/etc/rc.d/oss restart
MMS sound cracking in totem
If your stream sounds with cracks or strange noise in totem like it did with me then you could try to play it with another backend like ffmpeg (mplayer). That "fixed" the issue for me. This will not fix the issue that somehow pops up in gstreamer when playing MMS streams but it will give you the option to play it with good sound quality. Playing it in mplayer is simple:
# mplayer mmsh://yourstreamurl
Microphone playing through output channels
OSS by default plays back the microphone through the speakers. To disable this in ossxmix find the misc section. Check off every "input-mix-mute" to disable this.
Troubleshooting other issues
- If you get distorted sound, try lowering some volume control sliders.
- If you need to change the default sound card, look at here.
- If you have another issues, try searching or asking for help at the 4front forums.
Tips and tricks
Using multimedia keys with OSS
An easy way to mute/unmute and increase/decrease the volume is to use the
ossvol script available in AUR.
Once you installed it try to toggle the sound:
$ ossvol -t
ossvol -h for the other commands.
If you do not know how to assign commands to your multimedia keys, see Extra Keyboard Keys.
ossvol troubleshooting
If you get an error like:
Bad mixer control name(987) 'vol'
you need to edit the script (
/usr/bin/ossvol) and change the value of the
CHANNEL variable which is at the beginning of the script. For example mine is
- Note if you are using xbindkeys for your multimedia keys adding this
"if ossmix misc.speaker-mute|grep OFF;then ossmix misc.speaker-mute on;else ossmix misc.speaker-mute off;fi;"
toggle the sound
"ossmix vmix0-outvol -- +1"
raise volume
"ossmix vmix0-outvol -- -1"
lower volume
to the raise/lower volume section of your .xbindkeysrc file is an easy way to adjust the volume
Changing the Sample Rate
Changing the output sample rate is not obvious at first. Sample rates can only be changed by the superuser and vmix must be unused by any programs when a change is requested. Before you follow any of these steps, ensure you are going through a receiver/amplifier and using quality speakers and not simply computer speakers. If you are only using computer speakers, do not bother changing anything here as you will not notice a difference.
By default the sample rate is 48000hz. There are several conditions in which you may want to change this. This all depends on your usage patterns. You want the sample rate you are using to match the media you use the most. If your computer has to change the sampling rate of the media to suit the hardware it is likely, though not guaranteed that you will have a loss in audio quality. This is most noticable in downsampling (ie. 96000hz → 48000hz). There is an article about this issue in "Stereophile" which was discussed on Apple's "CoreAudio API" mailing list if you wish to learn more about this issue.
Some example sample rates:
- 44100hz - Sample rate of standard Red Book audio cds.
- 88000hz - Sample rate of SACD high definition audio discs/downloads. It is rare that your motherboard will support this sample rate.
- 96000hz - Sample rate of most high definition audio downloads. If your motherboard is an AC'97 motherboard, this is likely to be your highest bitrate.
- 192000hz - Sample rate of BluRay, and some (very few) high definition downloads. Support for external audio reciever equipment is limited to high end audio. Not all motherboards support this. An example of a motherboard chipset that would support this includes Intel HDA audio.
To check what your sample rate is currently set to:
- Run
"ossmix | grep rate".
You are likely to see
"vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)".
If you do not see a "vmix0-rate" (or "vmix1-rate", etc.) being outputted, than it probably means that vmix is disabled. In that case, OSS will use the rate requested by the program which uses the device, so this section does not apply. Exception: envy24(ht) cards have a setting envy24.rate which has a similiar function (see "oss_envy24" manpage). You can follow these steps, but at step 2, change with ossmix the value of "envy24.rate" as well.
Steps to affect the change:
- First, make sure your card is able to use the new rate. Run "ossinfo -v2" and see if the wanted rate is in the "Native sample rates" output.
- As root, run
"/usr/lib/oss/scripts/killprocs.sh". Be aware, this will close any program that currently has an open sound channel (examples being media players, Firefox as of 3.5 if you have xulrunner-oss installed, and the gnome volume control).
- After all programs occupying vmix are terminated, run as root:
"vmixctl rate /dev/dsp 96000"replacing the rate with your desired sample rate.
- Run
"ossmix | grep rate"and check for
"vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 96000) (Read-only)"to see if you were successful.
- Make changes permanent use the soundon.user file to set the rate for every soundon
"vmixctl rate /dev/dsp 96000" in the file /usr/lib/oss/soundon.user and make it executable.
Changing the Default Sound Output
When running osstest, the first test passes for the first channel, but not for the stereo or right channel, it sounds distorted/hisses. If this is what your sound is like, then it is set to the wrong output.
*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 *** /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play front - Performing audio playback test... <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47991.00 Hz (-0.02%)>
The left sounded good, the right and stereo were the distorted ones.
Let the test continue until you get a working output:
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 (audio engine 5): HD Audio play spdif-out - Performing audio playback test... <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47991.00 Hz (-0.02%)>
If this passed the test on all left, right and stereo, proceed to next step.
So from here: Changing_the_default_sound_output you get the command to change the default output; change according to what works for you
sudo ln -sf /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 /dev/dsp_multich
With 5.1 surround, chose dsp_multichannel; with 2 channel, dsp should work.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 SB1090 USB
This information is completely from 4front-tech.com ; courtesy of kristian and Maxa. Thanks!!
It is surprising to learn that the external card does not work just because of a missing true return value in the function write_control_value(...) in ossusb_audio.c.
To fix this, a recompile of oss is nessasary, for now.
1. Grab the latest oss from the Arch Repo
2. Extract it
3. cd to the folder, I renamed the folder to oss
4. run makepkg --nobuild
5. cd to src/kernel/drv/oss_usb/ ; edit the ossusb_audio.c ; add a Return 1 ; should look like so and SAVE
static int write_control_value (ossusb_devc * devc, udi_endpoint_handle_t * endpoint, int ctl, int l, unsigned int v) { return 1;
6. cd to src/kernel/setup and edit srcconf_linux.inc, search for -Werror and remove it, otherwise OSS will not compile.
7. do a makepkg --noextract
Now you must install the package with pacman -U ; remove oss first if already installed (pacman -Rd oss)
A simple systray applet
Want a applet to control volume like in GNOME? From here I got a usable oneTemplate:Linkrot.
Download thisTemplate:Linkrot script and rename whatever you want, e.g.: ossvolctl. run the following command:
$ chmod +x ossvolctl # cp ossvolctl /usr/bin/ossvolctl
# install -Dm755 ossvolctl /usr/bin/ossvolctl
There's also the volwheel package.
Start ossxmix docked to systray on startup
Create an application launcher file named
ossxmix.desktop in you local application launchers directory (
~/.local/share/applications/ then enter:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Open Sound System Mixer GenericName=Audio Mixer Exec=ossxmix -b Icon=audio-card Categories=Application;GTK;AudioVideo;Player; Terminal=false Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8
To add it to autostart when loading the desktop environment:
System Settings > Advanced tab > Autostart. Then click add program and choose it from the 'Multimedia' list.
- As Root create a file /usr/local/bin/ossxmix_bg with the following content:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/ossxmix -b
Goto System > Preferences > Start Up Applications
- Click Add, Type OSSMIX in Name field and
/usr/local/bin/ossxmix_bgin Command field then click Add button.
- Login and Logout to see the changes.
Record sound output from a program
Suspend and Hibernation
OSS does not automatically support suspend meaning that OSS must be manually stopped prior to suspending or hibernating.
OSS provides
soundon and
soundoff to enable and disable OSS, although any processes that use sound must be terminated first.
The following script is a rather basic method of automatically unloading OSS prior to suspending and reloading afterwards.
#!/bin/sh . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}" suspend_osssound() { /usr/lib/oss/scripts/killprocs.sh /usr/sbin/soundoff } resume_osssound() { /usr/sbin/soundon } case "$1" in hibernate|suspend) suspend_osssound ;; thaw|resume) resume_osssound ;; *) exit $NA ;; esac
Save the contents of the script (as root) into
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50ossound and make it executable.
chmod a+x /etc/pm/sleep.d/50ossound
OSS does not support suspending but we do not care or better s2ram works fine without stopping OSS. Just create a nice suspend script to /sbin/suspend and make it executable.
#!/bin/sh ## Checking if you are a root or not if ! [ -w / ]; then echo >&2 "This script must be run as root" exit 1 fi s2ram -f sleep 2 /etc/rc.d/oss restart 2>/tmp/oss.txt || echo "OSS restart failed, check /tmp/oss.txt for advice"
That is all your apps are fine and suspend works. \o/
ALSA emulation
You can instruct
alsa-lib to use OSS as its audio output system. This works as a sort of ALSA emulation.
Note, however, that this method may introduce additional latency in your sound output, and that the emulation is not complete and does not work with all applications. It does not work, for example, with programs that try to detect devices using ALSA.
So, as most applications support OSS directly, use this method only as a last resort.
In the future, more complete methods may be available for emulating ALSA, such as
libsalsa and
- Install the
# pacman -S alsa-plugins
- Edit
/etc/asound.confas follows.
pcm.oss { type oss device /dev/dsp } pcm.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp } ctl.oss { type oss device /dev/mixer } ctl.!default { type oss device /dev/mixer }
Settings for specific driver
If something is not working, there is a possibility, that there are specific settings for specific driver (this way I have enabled jack-sense on my laptop)
- Find out which driver is used
$ lspci -vnn | grep -i -A 15 audio
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NX6110/NC6120 [103c:099c] Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21 I/O ports at 2100 [size=256] I/O ports at 2200 [size=64] Memory at d0581000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at d0582000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: *oss_ich* Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
- Locate configuration file for device in:
# cd /usr/lib/oss/conf/
- Try changing defaults. There are only few settings, and they are self explanatory
ich_jacksense = 1
in oss_ich.conf turned on jack-sense on my laptop (now plugged headphones are recognized, and speaker muted).
- Restart oss for changes take effects.
# /etc/rc.d/oss restart
- oss_hdaudio.conf has hdaudio_jacksens too. Maybe it will work for you. Unfortunately not for everyone.
Experimental packages
Mercurial repository version
There is a oss-hg package in AUR. This package compiles and installs the latest OSS development version direcly from the Mercurial repository.
You can try this package if you want to contribute code to OSS or if only a very recent change in OSS code introduced support to your sound device.


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When turning James Franco's book of short stories "Palo Alto" into a film, first-time director Gia Coppola said she decided to choose the stories that were "easiest to do cinematically and were a bit longer."
The result? What actor Keegan Allen called the "high school story."
The film, which held its Los Angeles premiere at the Directors Guild of America on Monday, follows three high school students: April, played by Emma Roberts, Teddy, played by Jack Kilmer, and Fred, Teddy's unpredictable best friend played by Nat Wolff. Like many high schoolers, they are forced to face teenage ennui and the challenge of impending adulthood
"I liked writing about teens because a lot of things are new … it's one of the most transformative periods of one's life," Franco, who also stars in the film, said on the red carpet Monday. "A lot of time their emotions on the surface more, so there's inherent drama in situations that when you are older aren't so dramatic."
Allen, known for his role as Toby on ABC Family's hit show "Pretty Little Liars," said the film has a kind of universal appeal because "everybody has their own version of the high school story."
"What Gia did that is so brilliant is take the stories that James wrote and translate that into a voice of a generation," he said.
Roberts echoed Allen's comments, noting the film resonates with audiences because of its authenticity.
"I think this is the most honest portrayal of youth I've seen in a really long time," she said. "And I love that Gia let the characters be real ... she wasn't afraid to let those awkward moments hang there."
In the film, April, who is confused about Teddy's feelings for her and anxious about the future, ends up having an affair with her flirty soccer coach, Mr. B (played by Franco), whom she also babysits for.
Though the film shows the underside of that romance, some of the stars noted more harmless versions of it in their own lives.
"I used to love a music teacher of mine," said Chris Messina, who plays Fred's father. "She had to know. I was probably in the fifth or sixth grade. Obviously I had no shot with her whatsoever. But I loved her."
Allen added that it was his Spanish teacher that caught his eye. "[The crush] never came to fruition, obviously … but I was just totally in love."
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Hollywood has lost a beloved 'Scream Queen'.
Actress Marilyn Burns, who starred in the 1974 horror classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' died yesterday, August 5, E! News reports. She was 65 years old.
"She was found unresponsive by a family member this morning in her Houston, TX, home," Burns' rep tells E!, adding: "Her family asks for privacy at this time. Further details will be released later."
Burns was well-known for her role as Sally Hardesty in 'Texas Chainsaw,' the film's heroine and sole survivor of the chainsaw-weilding killer Leatherface. Though she acted intermittently since (with roles in other horror films such as the TV movie 'Helter Skelter' and 'Eaten Alive'), the actress was fond of the 'Chainsaw' franchise and later made appearances in the 1994 and 2013 reboots. According to IMDB, her last role was in the upcoming film, 'In a Madman's World'.
Last year, Burns spoke out about her experiences in the 'Chainsaw' films in an interview which you can watch here.
"I mean, what were we thinking having somebody chase me through the woods with a chainsaw? We were a bunch of kids playing with a chainsaw and hoping we got it on camera," she revealed about filming the original. "Thank goodness some of our accidents didn't happen off-camera."
The actress also delighted in working on 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D,' the 2013 reboot of the film.
"For me to say I enjoyed a script and was so genuinely surprised with how clever it was written and delighted because this hasn't been done before … that in itself made it really exciting," Burns explained with an infectious smile.
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Lycos Mail, Tripod Death--Not So Fast
Michael Arrington speaks and the world seems to listen. Early this morning he announced "Lycos To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15¹." Not knowing anyone who still maintains a Tripod site (as I did back in the days of the steam powered Internet) or Lycos mail I wasn't surprised. Neither was the Twitter community.
redwall_hp: Whoa, Lycos is closing down Tripod. http://is.gd/gjZK (expand) Enjoy your old '90s-era pages while you still can. ;)
karlus: xii... Lycos is shutting down Tripod, one of the first places where I had a homepage (that's so 90s)
But something was wrong. As I scanned the Twitter traffic one tweet caught my eye. It was DAS6894 writing to Lycos' Kathy O'Reilly. I am surprised, though happy, this was tweeted in the open!
"@kathyoreilly can't we release a statement clearing up this issue, or ask Lycos Europe to put one out?"
Kathy O'Reilly is the PR Director for Lycos. There was much more to the story than Michael Arrington was reporting and as it turned out Arrington was mostly wrong. O'Reilly replied to DAS6894
"@das6894 yes, we'r issuing a statement shortly on our Lycos Buzz blog, also posting clarification in Tripod & Mail communities"
At 1:31 PM EST Lycos posted this to their Lycos Buzz blog.
"Lycos is not shutting down it's Tripod and Mail Services
In an article appearing this morning, TechCrunch erroneously reported that Lycos will be closing its Tripod and Lycos Mail services on Feb. 15. The information contained in the blog posting pertains to Lycos Europe products and services and affects Lycos Europe users only.
The closing of these two products by Lycos Europe does not impact Lycos users in the U.S. Lycos, Inc. and Lycos Europe are two completely separate entities and business units. Lycos, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daum Communications, Corp., while Lycos Europe is owned by Telefonica. Late last year, Lycos Europe's parent company announced it would be shutting down its operations and seeking a sale of its remaining assetts.
Lycos Inc. (www.lycos.com) continues to operate social media, publishing and search services including both Tripod and Lycos Mail. Currently, Tripod is the #17 social networking site worldwide (comScore MM Dec. 2008), with millions of member pages hosted, published and visited each month.
A message has been posted to the Tripod Community assuring all Tripod members that Tripod is not shutting down and all free and paid member sites are just fine.
Lycos has reached out to Mr. Arrington directly, requesting an immediate correction to the erroneous posting."
Amazingly Arrington changed the incorrect entry on TechCrunch without acknowledging the original error. Considering the small Sunday morning firestorm he's started this seems like a less than responsible way to handle an error which has injured Lycos.
Sorry Michael. I screencapped your page before I wrote this!
¹ - Though the 'permalink' remains unchanged what you get now is not what was originally posted at this URL.


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(Apologies in advance to all my vegetarian reader out there) Introducing Burger King's $200 burger! Yes, you read that correctly, BURGER KING has a $200 burger!
"Wagyu beef, white truffles, pata negra ham slices, cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot-infused mayonnaise all served up on an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun."
Pfff What? No Tyrannosaurus egg on there?
This work of art will be on sale once per week in London and there is a happy ending to the story – proceeds go to the Help a London Child charity. You could always save yourself the heart-attack and just donate $200 straight to the charity but that's just my craaaaazy opinion.
This burger does not win the biggest burger award though… Who here is a fan of In & Out? You know the double-double? The 4×4 animal style? The mythical 8 by 8. You know what I'm sayin'? I know a girl who even attempted a 16 patty burger. But my friends that is nothing… what I am about to show you will change your life…
And then there's…
Hahahaha life-changing!
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A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 20
This article appeared on TownHall.com on Thursday, April 11, 2002.
Have you heard? Retired federal employees cannot get full Social Security benefits even if they worked sufficient quarters and make enough income outside of federal employment to qualify. Yes, it's true, and it's all because some left-leaning politicians decided it was just not fair for these one-time public servants to double-dip.
People live much longer these days, so its logical that many people have back-to-back careers, as I have, first with Uncle Sam then moving on to something else. OK, I wont complain. You got me fair and square. Ill not act selfish and insensitive even though food is being taken out of the mouths of my children to feed somebody elses children. Ill wave goodbye to righteously earned benefits from jobs I had before and after my employment in the federal government in the name of Political Correctness.
Will folks who have benefited from Affirmative Action live within the same rules, using the same logic? So many have been hired, promoted, retained and have enjoyed all the benefits of a federal government system thats bending over backward to help those who have real or perceived grievances due to their race, creed, gender or nationality.
Lets get an agreement from all those federal, state and local employees, and all the government contractors and consultants and paid advisors and vendors whoever has obtained a helping hand because maybe, at some point, they have been held back because of somebody elses discrimination.
There are literally millions currently employed because of affirmative action, and probably fall within groups who consider themselves to be long-term victims, currently seeking reparations through legislation or civil lawsuit. Seriously, one of the issues here is whether the citizens of this country have already helped those who have suffered slavery and discrimination. I think the answer is yes.
I am not happy with what my fathers generation did to groups such as the Blacks, Hispanics, women and Asians. But, they had the power and the generational tradition to back them up. So for a period of time, folks were discriminated against. Maybe they were tied up and distracted by The Great Depression, World War II, and the Korean War, not to mention the Vietnam War. But, whatever the case, that was a bad thing and a shame on that generation.
However, the Boomer generation, my generation, changed all that, and we should get the credit. As much as I loath the politics of the New-Left, it was their activism and their radical politics that finally tripped the wire and caused much needed change. The New-Left did it for the wrong reason to increase political power. We should never allow a political group to enjoy power from the misery of any group of set-upon citizens.
But the wrong was righted, and we poured five trillion dollars into a welfare system to make up for the damage done. Not only that, we overhauled all the laws of the land, federal, state and local, to open the doors of opportunity, and in most cases, bump folks ahead in the lines at our universities and places of work. We also made it easier to buy a home and achieve that American Dream. I say, "Bravo!"
But the resulting upheaval was no small matter, no walk in the park. Millions of families were traumatized and uprooted with the process of busing, again, another dramatic way to try to set things right. That didnt work, but we tried it anyway. Our inner city schools are terrible and we somehow put up with that. If I were president for a day I sure would change that!
Regardless of what we have done most of us gladly and willingly some in the Black leadership say it's not enough. They want money and lots of it. They say that is the only thing that will set things right. Some of us recognize a political agenda when we see it. It's an issue sure to divide us and cause us to continue to feel uncomfortable with each other. At a time when America really needs to pull together, we now have a lawsuit seeking damages for matters that were out of our control and happened hundreds of years ago.
Well, some would say, these are corporations that are being sued, and they benefited from the slavery. Maybe they did, and maybe they didnt, but corporations have stockholders, and stockholders are people just like you and me. Stockholders are also taxpayers, and I guess the greedy Black leaders who dont speak for the majority of Black people think that if they cant go directly to the taxpayer with legislated reparations, then maybe theyll do it indirectly with activist jurists or sympathetic juries.
In any case, I think the federal government should move today to get signed waivers from every employee hired if there is any hint of affirmative action involved in their hiring, education, promotions, or in any other way they may have benefited directly, or indirectly. While we are at it, perhaps we should establish a national data base to keep track of every single dollar given to a member of any aggrieved group for any purpose, so that if they ever do win such a ridiculous lawsuit, they wont be paid twice.
Retired federal employees cannot double dip. Lets prevent anybody else from enjoying extra benefits on the backs of the hardworking taxpayers many of whom are in the same group of victims who would benefit from such a lawsuit.
Someday the various races and genders and groups will find peace with each other. But I guess not during the time of the Baby Boomers. Some of us are too busy being selfish to remember to get along with each other. Others dont care, as long as they line their pockets with your cash.


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Let the finite group G act linearly on two vector spaces V and M over an arbitrary field k. The invariant ring k[V]G has as module (k[V]Äk M)G, called the module of covariants of type M. We study some of the properties of these modules, extending classical results form the non-modular situation to the general. As application, we get results on extensions of invariant rings.
For example, we give a generalization of a theorem of Serre's, saying that if k[V] is free over k[V]G, then G is generated by reflections. Put W for the (normal) subgroup of reflections in G on V and suppose H < G is a subgroup such that k[V]G Ì k[V]H is a free extension. Then G=WH, i.e., G is generated by H and the reflections in G. Furthermore, multiplication induces an isomorphism
This is a report on joint work with Jianjun Chuai.
Let G Í GL(V) be a finite linear group over a field F and let W Í V be an FG-submodule. In this paper, we study the relationship between the invariant rings F[V]G and F[W]G. In particular, we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the natural map F[V]G ® F[W]G to be surjective.
This is joint work with Eddy Campbell.
The study of separating invariants has become quite popular in the recent years. For finite groups, a separating algebra is a subalgebra which separates the orbits. In this talk, we prove that there can exist polynomial separating algebras only when the group is generated by reflections. We thus generalize the classical result of Serre that only reflection groups may have a polynomial ring of invariants. We also show that separating algebras can be complete intersection only when the groups is generated by bireflections. We end with results on the Cohen-Macaulay property of separating algebras.
The essential dimension of an algebraic group is a numerical invariant which, loosely speaking, measures the number of parameters required to describe any of its actions. I will discuss essential dimension and the related concept of versal varieties. The classification of all finite groups of essential dimension 2 over the complex numbers is made possible by studying Manin and Iskovskikh's classification of minimal rational G-surfaces.
Let G be a finite group and k a field. If the characteristic of k divides the order of G, then the ring of invariants k[V]G is usually not Cohen-Macaulay. One can often learn much about the structure of k[V]G by studying the annihilator ideals in the k[V]G-modules Hi(G,k[V]) for i > 0. In this talk we will show how detection conditions on Hi(G,k[V]) give upper bounds for the depth of k[V]G. We will also give necessary and sufficient conditions, based on cohomology, for the depth of k[V]G to be as small as possible.
One of the main interests in Modular Invariant Theory of Finite Groups is to determine presentations of the invariant ring in terms of generators and relations. In this talk we will show how to construct a presentation for the invariant ring of the Sylow p-subgroups of the unitary groups GU(3,Fq2) and GU(4,Fq2). We will also discuss how one might generalize these results.
Let k be a field and let G be a finite group. We study ungraded, commutative k-algebras R on which G acts by k-algebra automorphisms rendering R a projective kG-module. Such projective k-G-algebras and their invariants have a beautiful structure theory and they arise in invariant theory in the study of certain localisations.
In the case of p-groups in characteristic p, we describe the algebra Dk, which is a generator in the category of commutative, projective k-P-algebras, and we give explicit generators and relations for the invariant ring DkP. We also define and describe simple cyclic projective k-P-algebras, which include the Galois extensions of k, and universal projective k-P-algebras, from which all the others can be constructed by forming quotients and "extending invariants".
This is joint work with my colleague C. F. Woodcock (Kent).
This talk features a simple family of locally nilpotent R-derivations of R[X,Y,Z] with a slice, where R = C[a,b]. Equivalently, this is a family of Ga-actions on A5 such that A5 = V×A, where V is the variety defined by the algebra of invariants, and Ga acts by translation. We show that V is an A2-fibration over A2, but it is unknown whether this is a trivial fibration. Note that V has the form Spec(B/sB), where B = R[X,Y,Z] and s Î B is the corresponding slice. We give a method for finding f Î B of degree smaller than s such that B/fB and B/sB are isomorphic as fibrations. However, it is not known whether f is a slice for any locally nilpotent derivation of B. These examples are motivated by the Vénéreau polynomials v Î L = C[x,y,z,u]. It was shown by the author that, if K = C[x,v], then L[t] = K[X,Y,Z]. The main idea is to study d/dt as a K-derivation of K[X,Y,Z].
Patching techniques originally used in inverse Galois theory are based on factorization theorems for invertible matrices. This talk generalizes these factorization results from Gln to rational linear algebraic groups. As a consequence, one obtains a local global principle for homogeneous spaces under such groups. One application is a new proof of the recent result of Parimala and Suresh on the maximal dimension of anisotropic quadratic forms over p-adic function fields (u-invariant). The same approach yields results on the period-index problem for central simple algebras.
We define a sparsity pattern over a field F as a map s: [n]×[n] ® P(F) \{Æ} where P(F) is the power set consisting of all subsets of F. We show that all matrices in GL(n,F) subordinate to the pattern s form a group
The talk presents an algorithm for the computation of invariant fields that applies to a surprisingly general situation: it works for every action, given by a morphism, of an algebraic group on an irreducible variety. The ideas also lead to a constructive version of a theorem of Rosenlicht, which says that almost all orbits can be separated by rational invariants.
The depth of invariant rings K[V]G of finite groups has been a topic in invariant theory for almost 30 years now. The depth is bounded above by the dimension of the invariant ring, and the difference between both numbers is called the Cohen-Macaulay defect. This is the minimal length of a free resolution of K[V]G over a subalgebra A generated by a homogeneous system of parameters. Thus, the Cohen-Macaulay defect is a measure for the structural complexity of K[V]G. So far, almost nothing has been known about the depth of invariants of (infinite) algebraic groups. Our main result is, that for any reductive group G, which is not linearly reductive, there exists a faithful G-module V such that the Cohen-Macaulay defect of the vector invariants K[VÅk]G is at least k-2 for all k.
In joint work with Ajneet Dhillon, we find upper bounds for the essential dimension of various moduli stacks of SLn bundles over a curve. When n is a prime power, our calculation gives the precise value of the essential dimension of the stack of stable bundles.
Let r: G\hookrightarrow GL(V) be a representation of a finite group G over a finite field, F. The main object of study is the invariant ring F[V]G where the action of G on V* is induced by the representation. Describing F[V]G is of fundamental importance and when |G| Ï F× only a little is known. There is no analog of Noether bound, depending only on the group order where Noether bound gives the maximum degree of a polynomial in a minimal generating set.
Invariants of upper triangular unipotent groups are known to be polynomials. Since any p-group is contained in some Sylow p-subgroup, without loss of generality (up to a change of basis), any p-groups can be assumed to be a subgroup of upper triangular unipotent matrices. Hence, understanding invariants of p-groups will enable us to understand modular invariants in detail. Cyclic groups of prime power order pa are studied in the literature, but only a little is known for nonabelian groups.
In this study, we will restrict our attention to finding invariants of a nonabelian p-group of order p3 and of exponent p. The first such nontrivial representation occurs in dimension 4. The underlying field will be the prime field and p > 3.
It is an open question which finite groups occur as Galois groups over function fields over finite fields. So-called Frobenius modules have proved useful to study this question in the case of finite groups of Lie type. The method makes use of upper and lower bound criteria for the Galois group of a Frobenius module due to Matzat, and it deploys the structure of the underlying linear algebraic group. So far, all classical groups and the exceptional groups of small rank have been realized as Galois groups in this way. It is also possible to derive polynomials for the Galois extension which are in most cases of a particularly simple form.
Consider a finite dimensional modular representation V of a cyclic group of prime order p. Two points in V that are in different orbits can be separated by an homogeneous invariant polynomial that has degree one or p and that involves variables from at most two summands in the dual representation. I will also talk about some lexsegment and Gotzmann ideals in invariant theory.
I will describe an explicit finite generating set for the ring of invariants for the third symmetric power representation of SL(2,p). The proof that the described invariants generate relies on the construction of an infinite SAGBI basis and a Hilbert series computation.
The presentation will be based on work with my PhD student, Ashley Hobson.
We sketch a proof of the conjecture that the invariants of a finite group G acting on a polynomial ring in n variables over a finite field are generated in degrees at most n(|G|-1) (for n, |G| > 1).
I will describe a proof of the first main theorem for two-dimensional modular representations of the cyclic group of order p. I will explain how this result may be used to construct a generating set for the ring of vector invariants F [mV]SL2(F), where F is any field of characteristic p and V is the defining representation of SL2(F).
This is joint work with Eddy Campbell (Memorial University) and Jim Shank (University of Kent).


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Apple has released an update to the Mac OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion Beta that is seeded to developers. The new build, version 12D44, comes just two days after build number 12D43.
That build was said to fix no known issues or new features, but Apple has asked developers to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers and Safari.
It's not clear why Apple has seeded a second update so quickly, as people familiar with the two builds say that developers are being asked to focus on the same area. The release notes are said to be identical. As far as anybody seems to be able to tell they are the same, but Apple must have made some change.
There's speculation that the first test build had a security flaw, or some oversight. The build is in Beta so Apple will clearly be introducing new features, fixes, and enhancements as it goes.
Apple seeds software builds early to registered developers so they can test their software on upcoming versions of Apple products. Apple recently introduced the iOS 6.1 Beta 4 build to the Apple Developer Connection.
These beta updates have been made available to developers as the public have been given an iOS 6.0.2 update for iPhone and iPad mini that is said to fix a WiFi bug.
Also this week, Apple posted updates to the WiFi and EFI firmware for almost all of the Macs it released in 2012.
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text: Nintendo Co., Ltd. has just released its financial statement for Q1 FY3/09. And yes, Nintendo still prints money. Oh yes. Lots. In fact, both sales and profits are up from last year's numbers Nintendo states. Net sales were ¥423,380,000,000 (US$3.9 billion) for the quarter with a net income of ¥107,000,000,000 ($992 million). Compare to last year's Q1 figures: ¥340,439,000,000 ($3.2 billion) in net sales and ¥80,251,000,000 ($744 million) in net income. Looking towards the future, Nintendo expects a 7.6 percent increase in net sales and a 26.3 percent jump in net income by March 2009.


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Artist Noelle Stevenson has never played a Pokémon game first-hand. She has, however, accepted the challenge of drawing several of the combative pocket monsters, based solely on physical descriptions provided to her by friends and blog readers.
It turns out, accurately describing a creature that looks a lot, but not quite, like a duck wearing a sombrero is harder than it seems.
Some, like Vulpix, are relatively easy to re-create. The description, "Vulpix: A reddish-brown fox-like creature with six curly tails. It has curly bangs on it's forehead backwards, and shaggy bangs forwards. It has two pointed ears and sock-markings on it's feet. It also has big sparkly eyes" yields:
But then there are greater challenges, like Gardevoir, described to Stevenson as, "humanoid but you can only see the eyes, looks like it's wearing a helmet that turns into hair in the back. Red triangle sticking through chest. Ribbons for arms. Waist down instead of legs it kind of has a dress."
The whole project is worth a look. In some cases, the descriptions are even funnier than the resulting drawings.
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"Becoming Buddhist When Jesus Isn't Enough: A Third Wave Womanist Negotiation of Race, Gender and Religion": The 2014 Mahle Lecture at the Wesley Center for Spirituality, Service, and Social Justice at Hamline University features the absolutely fantastic Black womanist process theologian Dr. Monica Coleman. Dr. Coleman will be giving a lecture entitled: "Becoming Buddhist When Jesus Isn't Enough: A Third Wave Womanist Negotiation of Race, Gender and Religion"This lecture examines the transformative ways of negotiating race, gender and religion when African American religious identification departs from the "standard black narrative" (William D. Hart) of Protestant Christianity.Dr. Coleman will offer a third wave womanist reading of Jan Willis' narrative Dreaming Me where she describes her journey through the civil rights movement to Tibetan Buddhism. Variously denoted as both a conversion from Christianity and as belonging to both Buddhism and Baptist Christianity, Willis must navigate among her racial/cultural commitments, gendered location and spiritual yearnings.Such activity (1) reveals how African American cultural consciousness facilitates complex religious identification, (2) embraces the ambiguous, hybrid and multiple dimensions that are characteristic of third wave womanism, and (3) stretches progressive Christianity's commitment to religious pluralism. A womanist reading of Willis' narrative demonstrates that such negotiation may be increasingly commonplace in the contemporary landscape of non-traditional religious identification and the decline of mainline Protestantism."
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I'd go for:
S or S + singular verb
S or P + plural verb
P or P + plural verb.
I would avoid using P + S, though if for some reason it occurred, I'd go for the plural form of the verb.
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I have a question:
If 2 subjects are connected with 'or', a verb is set for singular or plural?
For example,
They or he have or has? to take responsibility.
Thanks in advance.
I'd go for:
S or S + singular verb
S or P + plural verb
P or P + plural verb.
I would avoid using P + S, though if for some reason it occurred, I'd go for the plural form of the verb.
Thanks for your advice!mi
In English, according to the principle of proximity, the verb form wholly depends on the noun nearest to the verb, when OR is used in the subjects, so in the example given by the thread starter, you can only say
They or he has to take responsibility.
But grammar and naturality sometimes can be divorced.
In English-speaking countries, you can often hear:
XYZ and me are going to....
If you replace ME with I, for certain native English speakers will say it's strange, but in the sentence, the two persons are the subjects, so I is the only grammatical form.
You are comparing two different things. The majority of at least moderately educated speakers of English consider 'XYZ and me are going to' be substandard. (This may not be true soon, but that's the situation at present). To the majority, 'They or me has' or 'they or I am' sound unnatural. Artificial grammar rules can't make an unnatural thing natural. The 'principle of proximity' is an observation, not a law.
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Martin Hewings would disagree with your "rule". Perhaps the following extract may shed some more light on this matter:
When a subject is made up of two or more items joined by (either)...or... or (neither)...nor... we use a singular verb if the last item is singular (although a plural verb is sometimes used in informal English), and a plural verb if the last item is plural:
- Either the station or the cinema is a good place to meet, (or ...are... in informal English)
- The President or his representatives are to attend the meeting.
If the last item is singular and previous item plural, we can use a singular or plural verb:
- Either the teachers or the principal is to blame for the accident. (or ...are to blame...)
(Advanced Grammar in Use - Martin Hewings, p. 82)
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Many speakers, however, ignore the rule once they leave school, and revert to their natural form. With heroes from the world of music, sport, soaps and reality shows as role models for many, the use of the 'sub-standard' form appears to be increasing. It is commonly seen in print in magazines aimed at lower socio-economic classes, and it is practically standard in some chatrooms. I would not be too surprised if the 'correct' form went the way of 'whom' and 'shall' one day.
not only.....but also..
==> the subject and verb agreement could be found on the subject close to or, nor, but also.
* S1 ,as well as ,
* S1,together with ,
* S1, accompanied by ,
==> the subject and verb agreement could be found on the subject 1


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They are busting us right and left. There are only twenty men left. The captain, 1st and 2nd Lieuts are gone and the Lord only knows what is to become of the rest of us. Im writing this to stop you from sending any mail until I find out just where Im going. I might go to Maine, N.H., Conn., R.I. or any place they happen to send me. The 8th Regiment is no more. Ill write soon and tell you more.
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>After the acute effects of the transplant operation have passed, your wound has healed and you can tolerate your average level of exercise, you, the liver donor, should be able to return to normal scuba diving.
>Under similar conditions, your wife, the recipient, should also be able to dive. However, she should take a few precautions. Immunosuppressive drugs such as tacrolimus and prednisone can decrease an individual's ability to fight infection.
>These drugs can cause high blood pressure in some individuals; tracrolimus and other medications used in transplant recipients can impair kidney function. These effects can be short-term or permanent. If such complications occur, your wife may need to reassess whether she can dive safely. Immunosuppression will also predispose her to infections: for example, mild ear or sinus barotrauma, otherwise tolerated by most divers, could lead to serious ear or sinus infections.
>In addition, some recreational divers without health complications have experienced mild elevations of liver enzyme levels after repetitive dives. The use of ultrasound has detected bubbles in the hepatic vein -- the large vein draining blood from the liver -- after decompression.
>While these elevated enzyme levels always return to normal, it is conceivable that local bubble formation can cause a slight leakage of enzymes from liver cells. There is no evidence that the liver is "damaged" in any way by diving. Thus far it is unknown whether these observations have any added significance for people after liver transplant.
>However, we suggest that your wife dive conservatively: avoid diving deeper than 60-70 feet / 18-21 meters, limit herself to two dives per day, and take a day off in the middle of a diving week.
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text: President-elect Donald Trump's avowed opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership will work in China's favour. Jason Lee/Reuters 15 novembre 2016 After Trump's win, can China dislodge Asian nations from the US orbit? Oliver Stuenkel, Fundação Getúlio Vargas If Beijing can bring its neighbours to accept its regional leadership, China would have successfully achieved a dramatic reduction of US influence.


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I picked up the book "Spice and Ice" by Kara Newman last summer. It was an amusing purchase because the book was not on the regular shelf but was set up in a display with other drink books, pitchers, glasses, and party games. Actually, the pitcher that is on the cover of this book was directly beside the book. As if to say 'Hey you - buy this pitcher! Oh you don't know what to put in a pitcher? Why here's an idea! Actually here is a book full of ideas!" It was set up for the very unimaginative!
Anyways, this drink was way to spicy for me to consume and because the resident spice lover in my family was away sadly the drink was dumped. SCANDAL!
I did want to mention a unique technique used in this drink. The vodka is directly infused with tea by immersing a tea bag in hot water for 10 seconds, then removing the tea bag and placing it in the vodka. Allow this to steep for 5 minutes.
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Tuesday Morning QB: Young guns have nothing on Manning and Brees
Amazing, isn't it? All these young guns. Andrew Luck. RG III. Colin Kaepernick. Cam Newton. None of them anywhere close to playing with Peyton Manning and Drew Brees. Russell Wilson is maybe in the neighborhood, although let's see what happens when the Seahawks ask him to start throwing for 300 yards a game.
The QB rankings entering week 11:
Quarterback ……………….. (Last week's ranking)
1. Peyton Manning, Broncos (1)
Threw for 330 yards, 4 TDs, 0 interceptions and 135.2 passer rating in rough, tough divisional road win.


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Meredith Edwards loves examining the human mind.
Meredith Edwards loves examining the human mind.
A director, actor and producer on the stage and in film, Edwards said she has always been attracted to stories that look into why people do what they do.
�I really enjoy stories that dig into the gray areas, that invite you to challenge your perspective on things,� Edwards said.
Her newest project, Imagine I�m Beautiful, a feature film, does just that.
�I�ve always been attracted to psychological drama, and Imagine I�m Beautiful is a psychological drama, though you probably wouldn�t know this while you�re watching it,� she said.
Imagine I�m Beautiful has been screening in film festivals across the country, and will play at the Cape Fear Independent Film Festival at 7:30 p.m. May 3 at the Browncoat Theatre in Downtown Wilmington. Tickets cost $8 and Edwards recommends they are purchased in advance.
The film has already received critical acclaim, with a 2014 Rising Star Award from the Canada International Film Festival and the Best Actress award from RXSM festival at South by Southwest in Austin. It has also screened at the Arizona International Film Festival and after Wilmington, will screen in Aspen and New York. In Wilmington, she said they are up for the Don Award � best independently produced screenplay.
Edwards got her start in the performing arts at a young age.
She was born and grew up in Jacksonville, where she was involved with plays in school; show choir and honors chorus, and where she took dance lessons.
Her senior year of high school, she played a lead role in Will Rogers Follies at White Oak High School.
Edwards then went on to study theatre at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she graduated in 2007 and first really learned �theater and film�s ability to express and inspire collectively.� During her studies, she went to London for a semester to further develop her skills at Roehampton University.
After graduation, Edwards spent a year in Los Angeles, but found it was not her �cup of tea,� so she moved to New York City where she joined The Complete Theatre Company.
Since then, Edwards has been involved in several projects, including her those of her own conception.
�New York is good for self-produced projects,� Edwards said. �It encourages that kind of innovation.�
For three years, Edwards worked on Degeneration X, a full-length multimedia play which �wove together� live performance, film, and other mediums.
In 2010, she co-founded with three other women Perf Productions as an avenue to create her own work.
�Both of my projects are women driven, which is great because we need more of that,� Edwards said. �As women we need to keep stepping up and keep making films, show the world what it is for interesting women to make interesting films about other interesting women.�
Edwards said the industry is still very much male-dominated, and she feels women should continue to fill roles usually taken up by men to help women coming into the industry behind them.
In 2012, Perf Productions debuted Degeneration X which ran more than a month at the Living Theatre in Manhattan�s Lower East Side.
�Degeneration X was also a psychological drama,� Edwards said. �About a guy who�s searching deep down for why we do what we do.�
The project, which she directed, starred in and produced, helped her discover her affinity for being behind the camera and love of directing.
Edwards said she also loved working with the actors.
�Actors are some of the most brave, interesting people,� she said. �My whole life I have just loved the study of human behavior, and through acting this is what you�re doing.�
It was during Degeneration X that Edwards first read the script for Imagine I�m Beautiful.
�I thought, �I think I�m meant to help tell this story,�� Edwards said. �The film explores the lengths we go to fulfill the core needs we all share. It deals with love, loss, identity, and the spectrum of mental illness. My hope is to shed light on and de-stigmatize mental illness; to open a channel around the issue, bringing us closer to a more understanding and compassionate view on a seemingly misunderstood and uncomfortable topic.�
The film tells the story of Lana, a young woman who moves to New York to start over after her mother�s suicide.
She moves in with a stranger, Kate, and they form a strong friendship. As they become more dependent on one another, Kate learns Lana will go to great lengths to keep her new life and �family� safe. The story ends with a twist which Edwards said will take audiences on an adventure.
�This story takes you on a deep and wild ride without even realizing it until the ride is over,� Edwards said. �It will encourage you to question your own truth and perspective on a deeper level.�
Edwards said her youth and life experiences all influence her art.
�I feel like that comes out in all of my art forms: experiences growing up with family, with my friends, embarrassing moments, times when I felt like I could never do this and then overcoming that,� she said.
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This brief fact sheet describes how cancer affects minority women.
Native men can have an important role in preventing FASD.They can encourage women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy.
Review Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
This brief fact sheet describes how heart disease affects minority women. Additional resources on heart health are provided at the site.
Find links to a variety of financial and support resources available for families, refugees, Native Americans, individuals with developmental disabilities, youth and more.
Review Date: Friday, December 21, 2012
Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families
The goal of the HP/DP program is to create healthier American Indian and Alaska Native communities by developing, coordinating, implementing, and disseminating effective health promotion and chronic disease prevention programs. Find health and fitness resources in your area.
Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Find hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, dialysis centers, dental clinics and other healthcare facilities administered by the Indian Health Service.
Review Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The purpose of the Indian Health Service's (IHS) Community Suicide Prevention Website is to provide American Indian and Alaska Native communities with culturally appropriate information about best and promising practices regarding suicide prevention and intervention.
Review Date: Friday, October 31, 2014
The Native American Cancer Education for Survivors (NACES) program is designed to help improve the quality of life for Native American breast cancer survivors and those who care for them.
Review Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2011
National Indian Women's Health Resource Center
Search the directory to find a culturally sensitive substance abuse treatment program in your area.
Review Date: Monday, July 14, 2014
One Sky Center
This program offers job training for older adults, part-time work experience in community services, and opportunities to transition to unsubsidized jobs in private industry or the public sectors.
Review Date: Tuesday, December 01, 2015
National Indian Council on Aging
This brochure for Native adolescents explains what fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) is and how preventing it can make a community stronger. It encourages adolescents to learn more about FASD and share information with others in their community.
This page highlights several resources related to violence against women in American Indian/Native American & Alaska Native communities. The organizations listed here provide information, services, and advocacy.
Review Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
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