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Standing out in Wrigley Field's right field Thursday (Oct. 18), talking to Jason Aldean about his show slated there for next summer, I was kind of lost in the moment. I mean, that is legendary ground. And it was an honor to be standing close enough to the ivy-covered outfield wall to touch it. There is just so much about Chicago's Wrigley Field that makes it epic. Those walls, for example, covered still in the ivy planted in 1937. The hand-turned scoreboard that overlooks center field. And the lights that went up, reluctantly, in 1988.
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< Features
Systemtap Static Probes
Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted. This allows for tracing specifics of an application on a higher level that is meaningful to the application user so they don't have to know the exact source code details for tracing what is happening. Language runtimes can benefit from this by exposing events that make sense to users of those languages/runtimes.
- Name: Mark Wielaard
- email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 13
- Last updated: 24 Mar 2009
- Percentage of completion: 100%.
- systemtap 1.2-1 is now available.
- java (since 1:1.6.0-21.b16 and since 34.b17 also jni and jstack support), postgresql (since 8.3.6-4) and python (2.6.4-19) have had static probes enabled.
- Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546295
- See under scope for individual package status.
- Add examples for java, postgresql and tcl below, like done for python.
- Identified deficiencies upstream:
* [PR10013] support ENABLED sdt probe macro - Fixed in 1.1 * [PR10601] user-space deref/registers in loc2c (i386 mainly, but could affect x86_64 and other arches also) - Fixed in 1.1
- elfutils cfi reading bugs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563528 - Fixed, new package pushed
Detailed Description
By packaging a new version of systemtap, that enables programs that already have static dtrace probe markers in their sources and by making those packages build depend on the new systemtap-sdt-devel package and recompiling them with probe points enabled, users of those packages will be able to trace any high level events that these packages provide.
Benefit to Fedora
It will be easier for developers and users to observe what is really happening on their system on a higher (application or language) level.
- Work with upstream to identify any issues with the new capabilities while we activate probes in packages.
- Package new version of Systemtap (including new subpackage systemtap-sdt-devel).
- Identify packages that already include static user probes (see below)
- Work with package maintainer to enable them in the Fedora build spec file.
- Add documentation on enabled probes and how to use them with a systemtap tapset.
Currently identified packages:
Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488941 Already able to build something that works with current rpm. Documentation: upstream docs Example: example trace Screencast: video presentation
Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498109
- upstream docs
- Static probes ready, plus hotspot tapset, jni tapset and java backtraces all done..
Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489017
- tcl-8.4.16+: Has a single generic/tclDTrace.d file.
- upstream docs
- Needs implementation of probe_ENABLED(), which has been implemented. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10013
We're tracking our Python work in our downstream bugzilla as bug 545179.
- DONE: Our Python 2 and Python 3 builds contain: (from python-2.6.4-19.fc13 and python3-3.1.1-25.fc13 onwards)
- a tapset providing these probepoints:
- built with systemtap patches that add the static markers that implement the above to the libpython2.6 and libpython3.1 shared libraries
- contains an example of usage added to docs in the python-libs and python3-libs subpackages, logging all Python function calls/return hierarchically across the whole system or for one process
- dmalcolm has tested the example script on a rawhide box and verified that it works on i686 for both Python runtimes.
- dmalcolm has done initial testing of the performance of the python 2 patch using the Unladen Swallow benchmark suite, initial indications suggest the patch we're using imposes negligible performance cost for the case when the probe points are compiled in but aren't in active use
- dmalcolm has added another example script "pyfuntop.stp" which is a top-like view of python function calls (not yet tested in rpm context)
- a tapset providing these probepoints:
- Double-check generated machine code
- Test with and without probes, on both architectures, with both python 2 and python 3, and with multilib installs on 64-bit
- Test "pyfuntop.stp"
- More documentation
- Send this work upstream (we have taken an out-of-tree patch to the core adding DTrace static markers (upstream RFE 4111), reworked the patch to enable it to work with SystemTap, fixed a performance issue, added a tapset to make the markers easy to use, and written an example script that uses the resulting probe points, and ported the patch to python 3).
- Address error handling within the Python 3 probe.
- Ideas for additional probe points:
- function calls/returns (this is what the dtrace probe has)
- GIL events: instrument the raw function to claim/release of the lock, then capture the times at which it happens, then render stats
- threads starting/stopping
- bytecode execution metrics: e.g. trace individual bytecodes; how often does LOAD_GLOBAL get invoked
- exceptions being thrown
- exceptions being handled (e.g. for tracking down exactly where code is "swallowing" an error)
- unhandled exceptions
- arenas being claimed/freed
- dictionaries switching to inefficient form: http://lewk.org/blog/python-dictionary-optimizations
- _warnings.c: do_warn() (e.g. whole-system python3 warnings for all python 2 running on your system)
- py-level backtraces
See also Mark's blog post about our initial work on Python/SystemTap at FUDCon Toronto
It seems as if several of the above were dtrace-instrumented in code that was never merged into the upstream versions of the package, but instead represented as run-time add-ons or private patches for Solaris distributions. Disappointing, but perhaps we can do better and engage the respective upstream teams. This will of course take time and panache.
At least the patches tend to be very small so we have some freedom to choose between approaches (adding STAP_PROBE/whatever hooks directly to the core upstream code; or fedora local patches; or add-on shared libraries like for php/httpd).
Another approach worth considering is adding tapsets that map process.mark() events to process.function/statement() to approximate the dtrace out-of-tree patches.
How To Test
Whether systemtap and static markers are working in general can be tested by installing systemtap, kernel-debuginfo and the systemtap-testsuite. Running sudo make installcheck in /usr/share/systemtap/testsuite
When applications get static markers enabled we should add them to a testing page listing:
- Package install instructions.
- Setup and sample run of the application
- A reference to the probe names.
- And an simple example stap invocation listing markers that can be enabled.
Question: Is there a convention/template for adding such test pages for test days?
Answer: QA/Test_Days/Create
User Experience
For packages that have static probes enabled users will be able to trace high-level events, like for example database transactions, or method tracing in virtual machines through stap.
- A new version of systemtap with the systemtap-sdt-devel subpackage.
- A new version of elfutils that provides access to the new gcc debuginfo, in particular the new cfi encodings.
- Any package wishing to expose existing probes in its (upstream) sources depending on systemtap-sdt-devel and adding an --enable-dtrace or equivalent to its spec file.
- Not required for this feature, but since systemtap uses debuginfo, this feature is enhanced by the Debug Info Revamp Feature.
Contingency Plan
Even if all the tracing will not work, packages that are converted to provide static probes will not be impacted since the probe points have (near) zero overhead, so in the worse case some packages were recompiled to enable the feature, but users will still not be able to use it.
The upstream wiki is the best description for now http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UsingStaticUserMarkers the systemtap list has an example on converting a package http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2009-q1/msg00140.html
While working on this feature this section will be expanded to list packages that have probe points enabled and pointers to (upstream) package documentation on the probe names and semantics like for postgresql http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/dynamic-trace.html
The following Systemtap probe points have been added to Fedora 13's Python 2 and Python 3 packages:
|Probe point
|Example of usage
|Indicates that execution of a Python function has begun
stap \ -e'probe python.function.entry {log(filename);}' \ -c yum help
|Indicates that the Python runtime has returned from a function
|Probing modules visited as the python runtime starts up:
stap \ -e'probe python.function.return {log(filename);}' \ -c "python -c 'pass'"
Sample scripts that use these probe points have been added to the
python-libs and
python3-libs subpackages.
Tracing the hierarchy of Python function calls
systemtap-example.stp shows the hierarchy of function calls and returns within a python process (or across the whole system)
Here's an example of running it (in verbose mode) to trace what happens during the invocation of a python script (the
yum tool, as it happens).
# stap -v /usr/share/doc/python-libs-2.6.4/systemtap-example.stp -c yum help Pass 1: parsed user script and 66 library script(s) using 20224virt/12248res/2040shr kb, in 150usr/10sys/160real ms. Pass 2: analyzed script: 2 probe(s), 14 function(s), 2 embed(s), 2 global(s) using 25184virt/14572res/3380shr kb, in 20usr/0sys/14real ms. Pass 3: using cached /root/.systemtap/cache/5a/stap_5a80297603ac4434b77b22e6f4127f00_5903.c Pass 4: using cached /root/.systemtap/cache/5a/stap_5a80297603ac4434b77b22e6f4127f00_5903.ko Pass 5: starting run. 0 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/site.py:59 439 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/os.py:22 1021 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py:11 1146 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/stat.py:4 1163 yum(23287): <= <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/stat.py:94 1272 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py:5 1292 yum(23287): <= <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py:85 1483 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/warnings.py:1 1677 yum(23287): => <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/linecache.py:6 1698 yum(23287): <= <module> in /usr/lib/python2.6/linecache.py:68 (etc)
The Python 3 version of the probe point sends the strings back to SystemTap in UTF-8 encoding. For example, if you create a python script with an "interesting" name:
# echo 'print("Yaarrr!")' > ☠.py # cat ☠.py print("Yarrrrr!") # stap -v /usr/share/doc/python3-libs-3.1.1/systemtap-example.stp -c "python3 ☠.py" (copious output snipped) 0 python3(28262): => <module> in ☠.py:1 22 python3(28262): <= <module> in ☠.py:1
"top" for Python function calls
pyfuntop.stp gives a "top"-like view of Python function calls per second, either across the whole system, or for a given python process.
Here's an example of running it:
[david@fedora13 ~]$ stap /usr/share/doc/python3-libs-3.1.2/pyfuntop.stp
and the output at one instant (as it happens, showing PackageKit reading update information from a yum .xml file, I believe):
PID FILENAME LINE FUNCTION CALLS 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1156 _fixname 5831 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1149 _fixtext 5468 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 749 _encode 5468 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1046 _flush 4050 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/string.py 308 join 3687 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1184 _data 3686 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1064 data 3686 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1075 start 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 190 __init__ 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 285 append 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 726 iselement 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1187 _end 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1091 end 2025 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1175 _start_list 2024 10802 /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py 1244 feed 4
Release Notes
Systemtap has been extended to support user space tracing, and in particular to support static (dtrace compatible) markers enabled in various programs in Fedora 12. This enables users, developers and administrators a high level overview of what is going on with their system or deep down in a specific program or subsystem.
Systemtap comes with a tutorial, a language reference manual, a tapsets reference and an examples directory under /usr/share/doc/systemtap-?.?/
- TODO: Should have a list of which packages were enabled with markers when finished.


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Story Transcript
After years of an Israeli blockade, decades of occupation and seemingly endless war, Gaza is now at the heart of a geopolitical pull in the region. Powerhouse countries like Turkey and Qatar are using their influence in the region to align Gaza's ruling Hamas government with what some consider a more moderate stance.
Signs of Qatari support and solidarity are evident throughout Gaza. Qatar, a country that has seemingly become the "Good Arab" state to the western world has played a major role in funneling money to Gaza. In the past 2 years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in Gaza by the tiny Gulf state. Following the high profile visit of the Qatari Amir before the recent Israeli attack, the Qatar office opened up in Gaza
{A big Qatari delegation has arrived in Gaza to show solidarity with the people here and also to inaugurate a number of projects across the territory}
Projects include school building construction, protection for fishermen constantly under threat by the Israeli navy, as well as development and education programs.
For their part, Hamas officials have welcomed support from Arab and Islamic states especially Qatar, saying that whatever the goal maybe, the intentions to assist fellow Arab Palestinians in need and under prolonged Israeli occupation is welcome
Mr Yousef told Real News that Iran remains a key alley, regardless of reports that there has been a rift between the two.
I asked him if Qatar's diplomatic moves and humanitarian help to Gaza aims to distance Hamas from the resistance camp and Iran ?
The largest Qatari delegation to visit Gaza coincided with the historic visit of Hamas leader Khalid Meshal arriving in the besieged territory. Addressing tens of thousands, Meshal praised Palestinian armed resistance and said that to liberate occupied Palestine is Hamas's strategic choice.
During his speech, he also praised and thanked Arab and Islamic countries contributing to the resistance and its efforts
{Although, Israel, the US and the EU consider Hamas a terrorist organization, it still enjoys support in Gaza and in many parts in the world and feels it is gaining regional political influence after the Arab uprisings brought new Islamist governments to power}
However, according to political analysts, Hamas is very slowly but surely moving into the mainstream moderate camp, suggesting a divide within Hamas movement.
Mr Eid is skeptical of Qatar's motives in Gaza and suspects Qatar's role aims to domesticate Hamas into accepting the so-called peace process and neutralizing Hamas' armed wing
Last month, Egypt brokered a truce between Hamas and Israel, an indication that Hamas which does not recognize Israel's right to exist, is compromising on its typically hard-line stance.
Yousef Al-Helou for the Real News, Gaza.


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For whatever reason, David Ortiz hates it when you bring up that he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 (a fact confirmed by the union). The latest target of his ire: MLB Network hosts who declared he has received a "free pass" for his transgression.
It started over the weekend, when Baltimore's Nelson Cruz—now an all-star starter, less than a year after serving a 50-game suspension for a failed PED test—went 3-for-3 off of John Lackey. Lackey made reference to Cruz's doping, but without explicitly mentioning Cruz.
"I'm not even going to comment on him. I've got nothing to say about him. There's things I would like to say but I'm not going to. You guys [in the media] forget pretty conveniently about stuff."
OK. Step two: Orioles manager Buck Showalter fired back at Lackey, taking him to task for forgetting about a certain beloved Red Sox slugger—again, casting shade without explicitly mentioning Ortiz. (Notice the pattern here?)
"We need to all make sure we check our own backyard before we start looking at someone else's."
Well, MLB Network doesn't mind getting dirty. In a Monday afternoon segment that Ortiz happened to watch, one host (the Globe says it was former pitcher and current color commentator Joe Magrane) said Ortiz has received a "free pass" from fans and media for PED use, while Cruz still gets hammered for his suspension stemming from the Biogenesis scandal.
Without being prompted, Ortiz went off to WEEI.com.
"What pisses me off is the whole thing about, why does my name got to be mentioned in that? What did I have to do with that? I saw on MLB the guys talking about it, and then they brought my name up, and one of the guys said that I got a free pass on that. It was the Lackey and Showalter thing, going back and forth. Showalter didn't say anything about me.
"But then, when they are commenting about what Showalter said, they brought my name up. Then one of the guys wanted to say that I got a free pass. And to be honest with you, in this country, nobody gets a free pass. He wants to make it sound like I got a free pass because nobody can point fingers at me directly. But the reason why I got that fake [expletive] free pass that he's saying is because they pointed fingers at me with no proof. It's easier to do it that way than having something that they can say, 'Yes, you did this, you did that.' My [expletive], I call straight up bull. Let me tell you. You don't get no free pass here, especially a guy like me. I don't get no free pass. That free pass B.S. that they want to talk about over there, they can shove it up their [expletive].
"That's reality. You don't use the words that I get a free pass. You don't get a free pass on this. MLB don't play that B.S. MLB don't play that. There's a reason why I've been drug-tested like eight times and we're not even at the break. Is that a free pass? There's a reason why I've been tested like 40 times since they approved the policy, the drug policy. Is that a free pass? They can get that free pass and shove it up their [expletive]."
In their own particular ways, both Ortiz and Cruz have been done wrong by steroid hysteria. Ortiz's name popped up (retroactively, six years later) on 2003 survey testing agreed to by MLB and the union to determine the level of PED use in baseball. The results were supposed to remain confidential, and for most of the names on the list, they did, so Ortiz got screwed there. But more fundamentally, there were no PED penalties for those 2003 tests. If Ortiz was using that year, he was doing so completely legally. He hasn't flunked a test that counts, so he has, both de jure and de facto, done nothing wrong.
Cruz, meanwhile, has never failed a drug test. His name was all over the Biogenesis documents, but MLB had to stretch its Joint Drug Agreement pretty damn hard to justify a suspension. But Cruz accepted 50 games, backed into a corner by the timing of the plea (with exactly 50 games left in the season) and the lack of support from a toothless and reeling MLBPA.
So no one's getting a free pass here. Both guys are forever tainted by something for which they've served the prescribed punishment (in Ortiz's case, none). But Ortiz, who's managed to be especially dickish lately, is probably just blowing off steam at getting dragged into a conversation he didn't start and wishes would end. Even though Ortiz is not naming names—that wouldn't be polite—maybe John Lackey will get the message and bite his tongue next time.


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Half Pint is head over heels! As Us Weekly exclusively revealed, Melissa Gilbert is set to wed Timothy Busfield. (A rep for the Little House on the Prairie star, 48, first confirmed the news to Us on Tuesday,saying they "are both incredibly happy.") And although few were aware that Gilbert and the thirtysomething actor, 55, were even dating, it was extremely apparent to onlookers at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills on Monday Jan. 29.
"They were arm-in-arm the whole time," the witness says of the affectionate pair, who are both twice-divorced. After the romantic meal, the couple exited the eatery and "put their arms around each other waiting on the valet," the observer continues. "She was really sweet."
Hollywood friends for two decades, the pair quietly got engaged over the holidays, according to a source. Indeed, although they kept their romance under wraps, Gilbert and Busfield spent Christmas Eve 2012 together — serving lunch to the homeless at the Los Angeles Mission Christmas Eve lunch and coyly posing for one of their first joint snapshots.
Flash forward to Monday at Mr. Chow's, where the future spouses were more than happy to share their mutual affection in public. They looked really in love, really cute," the observer says. "Like teenagers or something!"
A mother of two, Gilbert's previous husbands are Bo Brinkman (they divorced in 1992) and Bruce Boxleitner (their split was finalized in 2011). West Wing actor Busfield, meanwhile, has three children, and has previously been been married to Radha Delmarter and Jenny Meriwin.


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Federal and state law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about violence breaking out in the final two weeks of the long and bitter presidential campaign, and well beyond that if Donald Trump loses and refuses to accept the vote as legitimate, NBC News reported.
Trump supporters held up Clinton "target practice" posters at a rally in Florida Monday, with a bulls-eye framing her face.
Two days earlier in Virginia Beach, one Trump backer hoisted a plastic Hillary Clinton head on a stick, while others waved target signs. And several weeks ago, two armed Trump supporters protested outside the congressional campaign office of a rural Virginia Democrat, in what they said was a gesture of solidarity with closet supporters of Trump.
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Anyone remember that moldy-oldy disco hit by Diana Ross? I had a 45 single of it as a kid (wow, that really dates me, doesn't it?) Anyway, this song kept playing in my head while I was knitting this reversible cowl. It drove me crazy, but I love the results.
What a satisfying way to use up a lone skein of pretty yarn.
My first attempt on 5mm needles yielded a flabby fabric, and I didn't like how messy the knit columns looked in the Mistake Rib stitch pattern. So in my second go, I changed to 4mm needles, and I worked all the knit stitches in the back loop, which created a tidy, reversible fabric.
And round...
And round...
Here's what I did, in case you'd like to make your own:
Yarn: Handmaiden Casbah, 325 metres (I used about 2/3 of a skein)
Needles: Addi Turbo 4mm/40cm circs
Gauge: 22 stitches per 10cm (precision is not crucial here, just create a fabric that has a density that you find pleasing)
Cast on 110 stitches (more or less, as long as it's an even number).
Join in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches. Place marker at the beginning of the round.
Row 1: knit
Row 2: purl
(Repeat these two rows twice more)
Row 7: knit in back loop
Row 8: knit 1 in back loop, purl 1, repeat till end
(Repeat rows 7 and 8, working till desired length. Mine is 20 cm long.)
End tube with same garter border as beginning. Cast-off loosely, neatly darning in ends.
By the way, I realize that knitting in the back loop is a bit of a pain. You don't have to be as persnickity as I am, just go ahead and knit the knit stitches the ordinary way. I just have a thing for twisted stitches.
I may try and create a PDF and post it on Ravelry. I just have to figure out how to do it. Anyone have tips?
Happy knitting.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Inside-Out (and round and round)
Anyone remember that moldy-oldy disco hit by Diana Ross? I had a 45 single of it as a kid (wow, that really dates me, doesn't it?) Anyway, this song kept playing in my head while I was knitting this reversible cowl. It drove me crazy, but I love the results.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Resistance is futile
I give in to the relentless attack of the pretty cowl. A girl can only withstand so much before she gives in to beauty, finesse, style, and grace. (Don't you know that linking to a bunch of cowls is almost as trendy as the cowls themselves?)
This yarn was way to pretty to be socks anyway.
Handmaiden Casbah (80% Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon)
I've unvented a pattern of my own. I'm using broken rib, but in reverse. I may actually write it up when it's done. Let's see how it turns out first.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
New friend, new wool
What more could a girl ask for?
Last weekend I got to meet one of my favourite bloggers, Ingrid. She was vacationing in these parts, and so we arranged to meet. I wanted to take her on an epic yarn crawl, but I didn't have the car that day, and the better lys's are in the burbs.
We met downtown for a lovely Japanese lunch, where we talked for hours. You know you're having a great conversation when the waitress has to come 4 times to take your order and you haven't even looked at the menu yet! We then went on an unsuccessful croissant hunt (Ah merde, all sold out!)
Our combined fiber radar eventually guided us to a quirky little yarn shop, Knitknackers, where we found some good stuff:
I continue my neutral-love with this random ball of Peru Naturals from a sale bin. I don't think I have enough to make anything with it (90m = wah???). I just love the combo of pale blue and soft browns.
It kinda looks handspun to me.
Ingrid and I pounced on the Noro Kureyon sock yarn (and I learned that "Kureyon" is pronounced "crayon"). We were so excited to see it in "real" life, it was a given that we would both walk away with some.
Colour # 150, soft greys, blues, greens, lilacs.
And no visit to Knitknackers is complete without a thorough molesting of the Malabrigo. I contained myself, while Ingrid bought some gorgeous orange worsted.
Thanks Ingrid for such a wonderful day. You're a delight!
I can't wait to visit you in Nova Scotia!
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Tennis at Harper College! Hiking in the Northwest Suburbs! Exercise is the staff of life and doing it with people you like makes it all the more enjoyable. Even better is doing these things with a group of active, friendly people. Come on out, we'll be happy to greet you and meet you. Many people have asked about skill levels to play tennis with the group. Well here they are:
1- Know the rules of the game
2- Be able to serve the ball
3- Be able to return the ball
We do not just hit the ball. We play competitive games with all levels of play. So if you have never played then a tennis class first would be advised.
Rules for hiking - Be able to walk the distance we plan to hike
And now we have added bowling, bocce, trivia night and social events, with more to come!
And if you like what you see, we simply ask for a $5.00 a year fee to help support the meetup.
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MCAD Modeling Methods--File Translation Options28 Feb, 2006 By: IDSA ,Mike Hudspeth
New feature-based capabilities can translate your design intent where it's needed.
We Work Hard on our designs. We take great pains with accuracy. We agonize over our Class A surfaces to make sure they look their best. We build parametric models so changes occur easily down the road. We do all we can to produce models of exacting quality. That's how we maintain our place in the market. But unless we make every part of our product in-house, something rarely done today, we must pass our data to an outside vendor or bring in outside data.
Online file translation services
One CAD program usually won't read data from a different application. CAD vendors do that for a variety of reasons, but it boils down to two: they don't want us seamlessly transferring our data to a competitor's software, and they don't want someone to tell them how to do things. The first is a legitimate business practice as well as a bit of plain old paranoia. Although CAD vendors would never admit it, they all seem to have a secret desire to corner the market. At the very least, they don't want to see competitors benefitting from their hard and expensive work. So they write their software using proprietary code and their own formats. If no one can read it, no one can steal it. As inconvenient as that can make things sometimes, you can hardly fault them for it. We have a patent process for the very same reasons.
Software vendors tend to start out because they want to do things differently, which is often a good thing. Some branch off from companies or universities because they have a great idea and the company they work for doesn't want to do it that way. However they start, they have a right to go their own route. That's essentially how we got into the mess we're in today.
A fillet is a smooth transition from one surface to another, particularly at a joint. If you were educated on the drafting board, that was the end of it. But now fillets mean 2D representations on a drawing. When one line on a page meets another, the fillet is the arc that joins them.
In the 3D world, things get a little more complicated. Many edges may come together at the joint; you may have multiple radii. All that geometry does the same thing as the fillet, but different CAD vendors call it different things. Some call them blends. Others call them rounds. Who's right (figure 1)? No one's wrong. It's the same with other entities. Some vendors call circles circles, others call them arcs, still others call them curves. Some vendors refer to both lines and arcs as curves and let what they do define their shape. It can become very confusing, especially for translation software. So how do you get from one proprietary CAD format to another?
Figure 1. What is this—a fillet, a round or a blend? It depends on who you talk to.
If you don't speak German, you can't read a Munich newspaper. If you're lucky, you can find someone to tell you what it says. Instead of going from the printed page straight to you, it must first go through someone else. The trouble comes when the other person chooses his or her words. If you ask five people to translate something, you'll end up with five slightly different versions, all technically correct.
In the CAD world, the consequences of this are pretty serious. Back in the early days, we didn't have nearly as many modeling programs. Companies would write a proprietary translator between, for example, Unigraphics and AutoCAD.
As the number of CAD programs multiplied, it became too burdensome for developers to do that, so they've turned to intermediaries. IGES, DXF and STEP are file formats that were set up as independent go-betweens. Each software vendor needs to translate its proprietary format into and out of one of these formats only. But there are limitations. We'll talk about those in a minute.
What do you do if you want to make your data definite? Some software programs use a modeling kernel licensed from another developer. Theoretically, any program that uses the same modeling kernel can import your data. Parasolid and ACIS are two of the most widely used modeling kernels available. SolidWorks can read in Unigraphics files directly because both programs use the Parasolid modeling kernel.
Software or Services
Most modern modelers integrate translators because users are likely to encounter files from many sources. In programs like SolidWorks, you open the file and choose from the list of what it can handle (figure 2). You can bring in only what the software can recognize, so if a file isn't on the list, you have to look elsewhere for translation. My company originally bought its first license of SolidWorks to use as a translator. It had many more import and export formats than our software did. That was actually a good thing for SolidWorks because it got us to look at them for the first time. Now we have several licenses.
Figure 2. SolidWorks lets you open files it can translate. If you don t see your file type on the list, you ll need to find another way to translate it.
Many services on the Internet will translate your files (figure 3 and box). Some are better than others. When an outside vendor handles your translations, you should specify the deliverables clearly. Make sure the vendor can handle what you need. If you need a parametric model, make sure it can provide one. If you just need the shape of the model for general fit, don't pay for a fully parametric model. If you need a solid model, make sure you get one. Sewing a complicated model into a solid can be frustrating and time consuming.
Figure 3. Outside companies can do translations for you. Pay attention to their location if your files are particularly sensitive.
What You Get
The upside to file translation is that you can pull data into and out of your software with far less effort than if you had to remodel it. Many Web sites offer catalogs of parts that you can use in your designs. You just download what you want. Most of the time it's even free!
In the past, if you used a parametric software package, you weren't able to translate your parameters. Today, translation programs are beginning to maintain quite a bit more of your design intent. Programs such as Acc-u-trans from Translation Technologies (figure 4) and Elysium's CAD-Feature are feature-based translators. That means they look deep inside your models and translate on a feature-by-feature basis. Extrudes, blends and even sketches can transfer intact. What they cannot translate, they convert to boundary representations. This process will save hundreds of hours of work.
Figure 4. Acc-u-trans is a feature-based translator that rebuilds your data one feature at a time. You end up with actual design intent, not just a geometric representation or "dumb" solid.
But file translation has a dark side. Depending on the data, its ultimate source, the type of translation format and other factors, you could end up with quite a mess. IGES files are notorious for not handling trimmed surfaces well. You will usually get good data, but every so often you can end up with surfaces that lose their trims and fly out all over the place. Also, because of little differences among software packages, you often see surfaces that don't quite meet where they should. Gaps open up where one program rounds to four decimal places and the other rounds to more. You can fix these problems. Some modeling packages, such as VX CAD/CAM, include healing capabilities. Depending on how you set it up, the program interactively or automatically examines the model and fixes problems by adding patches to cover holes or by altering surfaces to stretch them together (figure 5).
Figure 5. VX CAD/CAM is known for its powerful model-fixing capabilities. VX CAD/CAM identifies problematic areas and then manipulates the surrounding surfaces to seal the gap.
Bottom line
More than ever, excellent options for file translation are out there. With the new feature-based capabilities some programs employ, your design intent can go where it's needed. Whether you do it yourself or hire someone to translate for you, the process is getting more and more reliable. That's a very good thing indeed.
Mike Hudspeth, IDSA, is an industrial designer, artist and author based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Egyptian Film "Ein Shams – Eye of the Sun"Between Humanist Fiction and Raw Reality
One of Cairo's oldest neighbourhoods goes by the name of "Ein Shams", meaning "eye of the sun". Outsiders know this part of the labyrinthine city as "Heliopolis" – but people who don't know anyone here rarely find their way into the neighbourhood.
This less well-off part of Cairo is far removed from the attractions in glossy tourist brochures.
"Ein Shams – Eye of the Sun" is also the title of a feature film now showing in Egyptian cinemas. The film is remarkable for various reasons – including the fact that it was made independently, without the approval of the Egyptian authorities.
No shooting without permission
Egyptian films always have to be approved by the state censorship board. Even the screenplay is usually checked in advance, although in this case that was difficult as the film works with a great deal of improvisation.
Films are still only officially Egyptian productions if the script is approved in advance, location shootings are permitted by the interior ministry, and the completed movie is released for the cinema by the censorship authorities. And even then the trade unions have to grant their "blessings".
Even the first requirement was difficult for El Batout and his scriptwriter Tamer El Said to fulfil, as the screenplay was written during the actual filming.
Official permission for the wealth of location shootings was equally impossible, as it would never have been granted in the first place, without previous approval by the censors.
Documentaries from war and crisis regions
The production is only the second feature film made by the Egyptian director Ibrahim El Batout, who has a number of award-winning documentaries under his belt. He has a penchant for shooting in crisis-ridden and war-torn regions, including Iraq, Sudan and Kosovo.
His films depict successful military operations and their devastating effects on civilians. Although this carefully balanced approach is not absolutely unique, it is certainly an exception for Egypt's contemporary cinema.
It was El Batout's colleague Mohamed Abdel Fatah who prompted him to make a film about the people of "Ein Shams". The narrative, which El Batout drew up along with the scriptwriter Tamer El Said, centres not only on a number of kaleidoscopically linked protagonists. The film also focuses on the neighbourhood itself.
One of the many characters is eleven-year-old Shams (Hanan Adel). Although she loves to escape into fantasy worlds, she is inspired above all by her wish to leave her neighbourhood behind her, to make it downtown into Cairo's centre around Tahrir Square – a world that she knows exists only a few miles away, but which remains out of her reach.
Shams is dying of leukaemia. She is a victim of high radioactivity levels resulting from the mass deployment of bunker-busting bombs in Iraq. There is scientific evidence for this link – and against it. This is one of the film's themes, though not the only one. The tragedy of the dying girl is aligned directly with the birth of another child.
Narrative strands mirror fiction and reality
At the beginning of the film, once the taxi driver Ramadan (played by Ramadan Khater) has introduced the neighbourhood, the doctor Mariam (Mariam Albodouma) travels to Iraq to find out more about possible effects of radioactivity.
The film shows documentary material made by El Batout, interviews held in a hospital and remainders of the civilian infrastructure. Then a young GI holds a photo of his girlfriend up to the camera. He looks tired and frightened. The Iraq war only specifically enters into the film on one other occasion, yet it remains present as a kind of backdrop of the larger context.
Making "Ein Shams – Eye of the Sun", the filmmaker El Batout also returned to the place where the cameraman El Batout had been shot at by the police during rioting two decades previously.
The documentary material shows one of the major anti-war demonstrations in the centre of Cairo, where extreme violence broke out. These documents intertwine the humanist tone of the film's fictional elements with raw reality.
Instead of steamrollering irreconcilable contradictions, the film accentuates the possibility of change. The taxi-driver Ramadan, initially uninterested in politics and burdened with financial problems, drives an injured demonstrator to hospital, but when the neighbourhood later elects a representative, it is he who speaks out about people's real concerns and worries.
Beyond commercial entertainment
Other strands depict everyday life in the neighbourhood, portraying a wealth of sights and sounds in a calm and unexcited tone.
Egyptian cinema has a strong comedy tradition but otherwise produces almost exclusively imitations of Hollywood genre movies, usually set among the upper middle class. So the film's wedding scene in a poor neighbourhood is a virtually revolutionary novelty.
Yet there is another side to Egyptian film, with outstanding proponents such as Dawoud Abd El Sayed and Ousama Fwazi. Young directors are making a name for themselves, including Sherif El Bendary, who won a number of awards for the short film "At Day's End".
Ahmed Magdi's first works portray Cairo's rag-collectors and street children with neo-realistic intensity. Yet this other cinema is almost invisible in Egypt. Cinemagoers love the stars and their glittering unreal world.
"Ein Shams", however, features a star of its own with Boutros Boutros-Ghali in the role of a businessman in major debt.
The fact that the film is even showing in cinemas is a major success and signal for the future. The seven copies available for screenings will only reach people who are genuinely interested. But these people are well networked via Facebook and other channels. So there is reason to hope that the film will find an audience.
Even more important, however, is that Ibrahim El Batout and Sherif Mandour have paved a way for their art and its political background, against all the bureaucratic resistance Egypt has to offer.
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Ibrahim El Batout, born in Port Said in 1963, studied at the American University of Cairo and spent two decades working as a cameraman and director of documentaries. He has reported from various war and crisis regions, including for the arte, ZDF and BBC television channels. His 2005 debut feature film "Ithaki" was the first time he combined fictional and documentary material.
Interview with Wahid Hamed
The Egyptian Film "The Yacoubian Building" Breaks Every Taboo
It has been years since an Egyptian film aroused as wide-ranging public interest as "The Yacoubian Building". In this interview, screenwriter Wahid Hamed talks about the legal proceedings threatening the film, its sex scenes, and freedom of opinion in Egypt
Ahmed Khaled's "The Fifth Pound"
A Bus Named Desire
Egyptian filmmaker Ahmed Khaled has produced a courageous film about sexuality in the Egypt. But the film can't be shown. Sonja Zekri reports
Interview with Youssef Chahine
"Tenderness Has Dissapeared"
Youssef Chahine is the grand old man and the enfant terrible of Arabian cinema. Moritz Behrendt and Christian Meier met the 80-year-old director in Cairo, who on the occasion certified his reputation as one of the most vociferous critics of Egyptian politics


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Joe Wereszynski is an International Trade Specialist in the International Trade Administration's Office of Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.
Russia is an evolving market and its World Trade Organization (WTO) membership is positively influencing bilateral cooperation and business opportunities. We at the International Trade Administration's (ITA) Office of Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia have been working hard to help American businesses navigate Russia's business climate. On May 30, under the auspices of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, we partnered with U.S. and Russian experts to hold a widely attended forum in Moscow on standards and conformity assessment.
Standards and conformity assessment barriers represent the largest trade barrier by volume in the world. With Russia's newly inked WTO membership, we saw clear value in cooperating with Russia early in the nation's implementation period to prevent barriers from arising.
The forum was co-led by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the World Trade Center Moscow. It attracted more than 300 participants and featured presentations by standards and policy experts from the public and private sectors including the U.S. Department of Commerce, the American National Standards Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Underwriters Laboratories, the International Medical Device Manufacturers Association, the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the Russia's Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Federal Agency on Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart).
Matthew Murray, the U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia, stressed the importance of standards in global markets, and highlighted the benefits that cooperation on standards can have to U.S.-Russian economic relations. He announced that the Commission's working group on Business Development and Economic Relations adopted a plan that, "identifies areas in which the United States and Russia envision a new chapter of economic cooperation, including capitalizing on new trade opportunities presented by Russia's accession into the WTO.
"We are developing a common language, mutual understanding and consensus on appropriate commercial standards for regulating our products and services… while ensuring the right business conditions are in place to create fair, and predictable globally competitive markets for both U.S. and Russian companies to thrive."
The forum brought together U.S. and Russian standardization bodies to foster greater understanding of each other's systems and facilitate cooperation. As a result, both countries may increase cooperation to improve transparency and interoperability, by developing regulatory guides and creating a standards portal to help companies better understand market conditions and standards requirements.
Director General Vladimir Salamatov of the World Trade Center Moscow commented on this cooperation, saying, "developments in innovation in our two countries, and the world as a whole, have reached a level where it is necessary to devise common strategies and solutions in order for the economy to develop more effectively and to support the growth of production.
"We can confidently say that we have reached a mutual understanding on all the questions and also have made big plans for collaboration on future projects."
A major theme of the forum was ensuring regulatory conditions do not unnecessarily hamper trade. Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin set out the goal of improving Russia's rating on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Report from 120 to 20 by 2018.
U.S. Department of Commerce trade agreement expert Bryan O'Byrne explained that the principles of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (TBT) can improve Russia's ease-of-doing-business outlook by increasing transparency through notice-and-comment of new regulations to the WTO. Notice-and-comment provides companies with an advanced warning on regulatory changes and allows companies to provide feedback to regulators on implementing less trade restrictive measures, while meeting the same level of safety or higher.
Another key TBT Agreement principle is the need to use globally relevant standards in regulation, which are more commonly used by companies around the world. This provides greater market access, and can help domestic companies become more competitive. During sector-focused panel discussions, Russian regulators responded positively to a U.S. private sector recommendation to consider adopting a globally relevant standard to increase fire safety for the petroleum industry.
For more information on the event and our partner organizations, go to: http://wto.wtcmoscow.ru/en/novosti/1004


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IMHIFI Move How I Feel
For example, if someone asks you whether or not they should do something, your response is MHYF "move how you feel." Or if a person asks you how long until you can or will do something, your response can be IMHIF "I move how I feel."
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Microsoft Offers a First Peek at Feature-Complete Office 2010
Microsoft this week made the Beta version of its Office 2010 productivity suite available to IT pros via MSDN and TechNet, but fear not if you're not a member: This release will soon be issued to the public as well. The Office 2010 Beta is notable for two reasons. In addition to its broad availability--the previous public release, a Technical Preview, saw only limited distribution--the Beta is also essentially feature-complete. So it offers a near-complete preview of the final product.
From a broad perspective, Office 2010 touches on the same themes Microsoft has been touting for some time. It tackles today's needs--what Microsoft calls fundamentals, or things we take for granted like Undo, formatting, cut/copy and paste, and so on--as well as the expectations users will have in the future. These include high-definition content (pictures and video), advanced visualizations, real-time collaboration, and the ability to work anywhere at anytime.
That last bit refers to a piece of the Office puzzle that will not be made available in newer form with the Beta. That is, the web-based Office Web Applications (OWA) and an upcoming revision to Office Mobile (for Windows Mobile smart phones) are not being made available as part of the Beta. We can expect updates to those products later, Microsoft says.
What we do see in the Beta, however, is pretty impressive, though this will be less dramatic to those who have already moved to Office 2007. In Office 2010, Microsoft takes the logical step of adding the controversial but efficient ribbon user interface to all of its Office applications--and to related products, like SharePoint 2010 and OWA--creating a more consistent and discoverable user experience across a wide range of solutions.
Most of the traditional Office applications see only a minor bump in Office 2010. Word, for example, is the non-browser application I probably send the most time in each day, and the differences between Word 2007 and Word 2010 are disappointingly minimal. Excel 2010, however, benefits greatly from new features and, with an x64 version, huge scalability gains.
The most dramatically improved application this time around, however, is Outlook. Love it or hate it (I trend more towards the latter), no one can deny that Outlook sits at the center of many users' days, acting like a front-end to the business and personal lives. While I would have preferred a complete do-over for this complex and top-heavy application, Microsoft's improvements this time around are nonetheless impressive. Yes, Outlook gets the ribbon of course, and while it's among the more ill-fitting ribbon UIs I've seen, it does bring with it the same productivity and discoverability benefits it does elsewhere. Outlook also includes important new features like Conversation View, automated multi-step task with Quick Steps, the ability to access (finally) multiple Exchange accounts, and more.
Looked at from a higher view, Microsoft is also consolidating the way it presents Office to customers, both from a product lineup standpoint and across the board in each application. The Office 2010 product editions have been further streamlined with an interesting emphasis this time around on individual sales, which makes sense given that the mix of corporate and consumer sales is skewing towards retail. A new Starter edition, including bare-bones, ad-supported versions of just Word and Excel, will be available only with new computers. (And will replace Works.) A new Home and Business edition adds Outlook to the mix of apps (Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint) provided by Home and Student.
On the business side, you're going to see Professional and Professional Plus editions only, so Ultimate is gone. Microsoft's note taking application, OneNote, is a new addition to each, and Professional Plus picks up the Groove-based SharePoint Workspace client which, yes, works with SharePoint, of course, but can also be used to create peer-to-peer SharePoint-like collaborative environments, all without the need for a server.
Office 2010 also introduces a cleaner, new Office logo, new icons for each application, a new BackStage view that replaces the old options dialogs, and a revised Office button that looks and works more like the old File menu. Also, the pale blue color scheme from Office 2007 is gone, replaced with a more translucent and neutral color scheme that doesn't detract from the content you're working on.
I have a lot more to say about the Office 2010 Beta, but I'm out of space. Stay tuned for Windows for a more in-depth write-up about this important release when the Beta release is made available more broadly to the public.


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About Hans M Hirschi
Website: Hirschi.se
Blog: Hans Hirschi's Blog
Hans M Hirschi has been writing stories since childhood. As an adult, the demands of corporate life put an end to his fiction for more than twenty years. A global executive in training, he has traveled the world and published several non-fiction titles as well as four well-received novels. The birth of his son provided him with the opportunity to rekindle his love of creative writing, where he expresses his deep passion for a better world through love and tolerance. Hans lives with his husband and son on a small island off the west coast of Sweden.


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Ashton Kutcher was one of Twitter's first break-through celebrities. But he thinks the social media platform is broken.
"For lack of a better verb, the media came and @&$#%! [expletive deleted] it up," Kutcher said at the CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday. "When I first got on, it felt like the democratization of media. Now it just feels like media."
Kutcher became the first person to have 1 million followers on Twitter. He now has 14.5 million and remains an avid tweeter. But he said he feels the experience of using Twitter has become less personal.
"The bigger vision for Twitter when Jack [Dorsey] created it was to empower communication to happen as things were taking place," Kutcher said. "Now it's just a bunch of companies and people constantly pitching crap."
Kutcher said he believes the social network will improve over time, however. He thinks the next phase of Twitter will be smart, connected appliances that tweet. For example, coffee machines could tweet to let users know when their coffee is done.
Related story: JLo's new gig is a Verizon retailer
In a wide-ranging discussion, Kutcher, who has invested in several tech firms, offered his insight into the future of mobility, the Internet and social media.
When asked about Internet television, Kutcher said content creators that talk about smartphones and tablets as "second screens" were wrong.
"The mobile device is the first screen," Kutcher said. "Content should be interactive."
He thinks that the National Football League and Major League Baseball have begun to understand the importance of offering interactive elements on mobile devices at sporting events. But he was surprised that similar experiences don't widely exist for movies or television, enabling viewers to interact with the programming as they watch.
Kutcher also noted that television broadcasters should be wary of Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and other tech upstarts. But he also said that the networks have time to figure out a strategy to defeat them.
"The reason TV continues to beat Internet TV is that their content is better, and that's because that's where the advertising money is," he said. "But [CBS (CBS) CEO] Les Moonves told me four years ago that when the Internet is matching TV advertising dollar for dollar, we have a problem." (Kutcher currently stars on the CBS sitcom hit "Two and a Half Men.')
Kutcher also briefly touched on some of the companies he has invested in, including the controversial Airbnb service, which allows people to rent out their homes temporarily to strangers.
The company has hit some snags lately. Recent court cases have called into question the legality of people renting out their homes in certain locations, such as New York. And Airbnb it has been a lightning rod for criticism as some people have returned to find their homes ransacked or items stolen. But Kutcher defended Airbnb.
"We've had less crime at Airbnb than at most hotels around the world -- by far," he said.


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Opera is a secure web browser that is both fast and rich in features. It has a slick interface that embraces a modern, minimalist look, coupled with stacks of tools to make browsing more enjoyable. These include such tools as Speed Dial, which houses your favorites and Opera Turbo mode, which compresses pages to give you quicker navigation, (even when you have a bad connection).
Opera has everything you need to browse the web via a great interface. From startup it offers a Discover page that brings fresh content to you directly; it displays the news you want by topic, country and language. The Speed dial and bookmarks pages are also available to you at launch, which gives you easy access to the sites you use the most and those you've added to your favorite list.
Key features include:
- Sleek interface.
- Download manager.
- Customizable themes.
- Extensions.
- Speed dial.
- Private browsing mode.
- Discover provides fresh news content.
Opera provides an integrated search and navigation function, which is a common sight among its other, well known, adversaries. Opera utilizes a single bar for both search and navigation, instead of having two text fields at the top of the screen. This feature obviously keeps the browser window uncluttered, whilst providing you with top functionality.
Opera also includes a download manager, and a private browsing mode that allows you to navigate without leaving a trace. Opera allows you to install an array of extensions too, so you can customize your browser as you see fit. Although the catalog is significantly smaller than more popular browsers' you'll find versions of Adblock Plus, Feedly, and Pinterest.
Opera is a great browser for the modern web. In terms of numbers of users, it is behind Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. However, it is bang up to date with cutting edge technology and remains a strong contender in the browser wars.
Overall, Opera has an excellent design coupled with top performance; it is both simple and practical. The keyboard shortcuts are similar to other browsers, the available options are varied and the Speed Dial interface is pleasant to use. You can also customize Opera with themes and make you browsing experience even more personal. So, if you are thinking of trying something different than your usual browser, Opera could be the choice for you.


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Recently millions of protesters in Egypt, some supportive of and some against Morsi, have staged protests on the streets of Egypt. Things escalated and clashes broke out between the pro-Morsi protesters and the army. It was reported that the army opened fire on protesters especially in the city of Alexandria. Most interestingly, there are still some who claim that this is not an actual 'military coup'.
Needless to say, Adnan Oktar provided one of the most thought-provoking insights into the developments and explained what really is going on:
Adnan Oktar: They say "We haven't staged a military coup, this is not a military coup'. If that's the case, he should have talked to the government and agreed on a reasonable, sensible, rational solution [before doing something like this]. However they went on and gave the government a deadline of 48 hours. Why 48 hours? Why not one week, why not ten days? What's the rush? Just sit down and talk it out. Just say, 'Let's solve this, what do you think we should do?' How can you expect him to solve anything in 48 hours? And he is going to panic too, what's the rush? I would understand if a person's life was depending on it, that would justify the urgency. [He didn't do that because] he was set on staging a coup all along.
Some say 'that wasn't a coup'. If it wasn't a coup, would innocent people have been arrested, or would innocent people be fired upon?
"In the last six days, 72 people lost their lives in Egypt, there are more than 1,000 injured. There are curfews in certain parts of the country. Among the casualties, there are victims who were shot directly in the head or other parts of the body. In addition, recent footage surfaced, showing pro-Morsi supporters performing prayers in an open area in North Sina, being fired upon. 20 people were injured in the crowd which had women and children as well.'
Adnan Oktar: "What does he say? "This was a sweet coup, it won't hurt, this is not a real coup." Then explain these things. You are firing with machine guns into people praying? If they adopt a policy based on shooting and call it a justified act, and make it a 'fighting arena', then things will get extremely dangerous. That would be very foolish.
They should immediately release the arrested leaders. Such a thing cannot be accepted. If they are arresting people, this is definitely a coup. You cannot change the fact by denying it, by saying 'This is not a military coup'.
They should stop trying to sugar coat the military coups. There can be no sweeter version of a coup. A coup is what it is.
Europeans say 'This is a harmless, sweet coup, very well done'. Saudi Arabia says 'Very well done, it is superb'. If it is that superb, would you like it for your own country? You wouldn't. Then why do you support tyranny when it is in someone else's country?
Look, they are killing Muslims as they were performing prayers. And then they say 'It's all ok, nothing's happened, this is not a coup'. The numbers they are giving as to the casualties have got nothing to do with the real numbers; they don't actually know the number of casualties or the number of injured people. They keep asking for urgent help, they write to everyone and say 'Send medical aid'. [The military] disconnected them from the rest of the world, there are no television broadcasts. No one knows the number of people in the morgues. [The military] is now in complete control of all Egypt.
"Muslims strongly react to military coups now"
In the past, when there was a military coup, no matter how harsh or brutal it was, many Muslims in Islamic countries just bowed to pressure and kept quiet. Now it is not like that. They are seriously opposing it, showing their stance against it, they don't accept it. For instance the military coup in Egypt is not getting the results it was hoping for. A coup was staged, but people are in the streets showing their opposition. Normally, there would be curfews in a coup and no one would go out but now they cannot apply a curfew because Muslims are able to speak up." (July 6th and 13th, 2013, Adnan Oktar: A9 TV)
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If we are in a boxing match, Fat in one corner, and Lungs in
another, Fat wins every time.
Fat takes up the chest room Lungs need to expand and for lung patients, fat compromises our ability to breathe.
The fat v lungs slammed home to me a couple weeks ago when a granddaughter, taking a new class on her way to becoming an RN, told me she just learned that each pound of excess fat is fed by SEVEN MILES of blood vessels.
I went online that night and found an airport-scanned photo (Digg) of a 250-pound woman next to a 120-pound woman. Fat filled her stomach and chest crowding her lungs and heart. Heaven knows what all that fat is doing as it surrounds and crowds the kidneys, bladder and other organs….it cannot be good!
Look, fellow Tubby'ettes and join me. To date, I have lost 133
miles of excess blood vessels supporting nineteen pounds of excess
Regular Tubby'ettes is lucky if their health is not yet compromised.
Lung patients, easing the fat surrounding our lungs will not change the PFT numbers, but we are bound to feel a sigh of relief from our lungs as the fat around them retreats and they can finally expand to capacity and add to our quality of life.
Obesity and the lung: 5 • Obesity and COPD
Thorax 20 08;63:1110-1117 doi:10.1136/thx.2007.086827
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obesity are common and disabling chronic health conditions with increasing prevalence worldwide. A relationship between COPD and obesity is increasingly recognized, although the nature of this association remains unknown. This review focuses on the epidemiology of obesity in COPD and the impact of excessive fat mass on lung function, exercise capacity and prognosis. The evidence for altered adipose tissue functions in obesity—including reduced lipid storage capacity, altered expression and secretion of inflammatory factors, adipose tissue hypoxia and macrophage infiltration in adipose tissue—is also reviewed. The interrelationship between these factors and their contribution to the development of insulin resistance in obesity is considered. It is proposed that, in patients with COPD, reduced oxidative capacity and systemic hypoxia may amplify these disturbances, not only in obese patients but also in subjects with hidden loss of fat-free mass. The potential interaction between abnormal adipose tissue function, systemic inflammation and COPD may provide more insight into the pathogenesis and reversibility of systemic pathology in this disease."
• Review series
1. F M E Franssen1,
2. D E O'Donnell2,
3. G H Goossens3,
4. E E Blaak3,
5. A M W J Schols1
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Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1. Dr A M W J Schols, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, P O Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands; a.schols{at}pul.unimaas.nl
• Received 15 February 2008
• Accepted 30 April 2008
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• http://digg.com/health/Body_Scans_of_a_250_lbs_Woman_vs_120_lbs_Woman
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I think I know what you're thinking: Game of the Year 2013? Already? That's crazy talk.
You're thinking that 2013 is only three days old. You're thinking that a racing game fueled by the blood of its players could be 2013 game of the year right now, if said racing game was released some time between January 1 and January 3. All a game would have to do was exist and be released some time after Jan 1 to be the current 2013 GOTY.
Ah, but if a racing game powered by the blood of its player was released in 2013, it would have to spar with the extraordinary Hundreds for top honors. Hundreds, for iPhone and iPad is a game that actually did come out in 2013... a game that is not just worth your attention because it is one of the first games of the new year...a game that will not take your blood but is so good that it will definitely take some of your life.
Level 1: There is a circle on the screen of your iPhone or iPad. Touch it with your finger. It will grow. The number inside it will tick up. Keep holding your finger there. The circle will swell and the number will reach 100. Fine work! You passed the first level.
Level 2: There are now three circles you can touch to make them grow. Their sizes must total 100. If you let one of them bump into the other as they grow, you fail.
Level 3: There are five circles and now they are moving.
Level 32: There are nine moving circles you can try to grow, one static non-growing circle that you can move, three that are locked in place and three buzzsaws that, should they come in contact with your growing circles, will chop them down to their starter zero-point size.
Level 100: Who the hell knows what's in level 100. This game gets tough fast.
Watch a trailer. You'll get it in a jiffy.
Play it and you'll know why this image...
...is the image of pain.
You can try a web version of the game's basic concept here, though the web game won't show you even a smidgeon of the twisted ideas that show up to make each level of the game a challenge of planning and reflexes (a game for your brain and your fingers!).
Also, if you play this game, maybe you can crack the secret codes that show up after you finish a batch of levels. I'm having trouble with the cipher. I think we need to throw a crowd at it.
Anyway, yeah, Game of the Year 2013 so far. Hundreds, which comes from the makers of such excellent mobile games as Canabalt and Gasketball looks good, sounds good, controls well, plays well in short bursts, has good iPhone-iPad cross-platform cloud-saving, vexes your mind, challenges your fingers. Hell, they even do something smart with the added screen space if you're playing it on an iPhone 5, though the game is way better on iPad if you have fingers bigger than a toddler. I'll let you know when I find a fatal flaw. But there may not be one. It's a gem and a must-have.
Hundreds [iTunes, $2.99 (sale price before it goes to $4.99 later this month]