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Purpose of the project:
This is basically developed as a product for all the retail super markets. here the developers put themselves as a retailer
User authetication screen
The main purpose of this screen is to provide security for the users. here every user will go through the authentication process to perform related task. according to the user, the main menu will be displayed. users are categorized into.,
The Project Supermarket Management System deals with the automation of supermarket. It includes both sales and purchase of items. The project Supermarket Management System is developed with the objective of making the system reliable, easier, fast, and more informative. There is a lot of reason for the introduction of this project. In the manual System, there are number of inefficiencies that a salesperson faces. Large records-books have to be maintained where relevant and irrelevant information has to be stored which is very untidy and clumsy process. But our System reduces paper works. On the other hand, there are many inherent problems that exist in any manual system. Usually, they lack efficiency. Less efficiency has a great impact on the productivity of any human being keeping the data up-to-date.
The different modules included in our project are administrative module, employee module, purchase module, sales module and billing module. Administrator allocates unique username and password to the employees. Each employee can login with the help of his/her unique id and password. Purchase and Sales module contains all the purchase and sales details. All the payment details will be shown in the Billing module.
VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language which evolved from the earlier DOS version called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is a very easy programming language to learn. The code look a lot like English Language. Different software companies produced different versions of BASIC, such as Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA and so on. However, people prefer to use Microsoft Visual Basic today, as it is a well developed programming language and supporting resources are available everywhere. Now, there are many versions of VB exist in the market, the most popular one and still widely used by many VB programmers is none other than Visual Basic 6. We also have VB.net, VB2005 and the latest VB2008, which is a fully object oriented programming (OOP) language. It is more powerful than VB6 but looks more complicated to master.
VISUAL BASIC is a VISUAL and events driven Programming Language. These are the main divergence from the old BASIC. In BASIC, programming is done in a text-only environment and the program is executed sequentially. In VB, programming is done in a graphical environment. In the old BASIC, you have to write program code for each graphical object you wish to display it on screen, including its position and its color. However, In VB , you just need to drag and drop any graphical object anywhere on the form, and you can change its color any time using the properties windows.
On the other hand, because the user may click on a certain object randomly, so each object has to be programmed independently to be able to response to those actions (events). Therefore, a VB Program is made up of many subprograms, each has its own program code, and each can be executed independently and at the same time each can be linked together in one way or another.
What programs can you create with Visual Basic 6?
With VB 6, you can create any program depending on your objective. For example, if you are a college or university lecturer, you can create educational programs to teach business, economics, engineering, computer science, accountancy , financial management, information system and more to make teaching more effective and interesting. If you are in business, you can also create business programs such as inventory management system , point-of-sale system, payroll system, financial program as well as accounting program to help manage your business and increase productivity. For those of you who like games and working as games programmer, you can create those programs as well. Indeed, there is no limit to what program you can create ! There are many such programs in this tutorial, so you must spend more time on the tutorial in order to learn how to create those programs. If you wish to see some of the sample programs, you can take a look at the link below:
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Visual Basic (VB) is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. Visual Basic is relatively easy to learn and use.
Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript are syntactically similar to Visual Basic, but perform differently.
A programmer can put together an application using the components provided with Visual Basic itself. Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function declarations.
The final release was version 6 in 1998. Microsoft's extended support ended in March 2008 and the designated successor was Visual Basic .NET (now known simply as Visual Basic).
Dot net is a collection of technologies, which is used to integrate many small technologies to a single large technology such that a powerful application can be, designed which can be used from anywhere anytime.
CLS: - it is a set of rules, which is given by .net technology, which has to be followed by any .net language.
It is not mandatory for any lang. To support all the rules supported by the CLS.
But the language has to support the features provided by the CTS, which will be used by the CLS for its verification.
Common Type system: - it is a collection of type definitions provided by the .net framework, which has to be used by the languages, which targets .net
Note: all the languages have to support the CTS type definitions.
If any language supports a data type, which is not supported by, the CTS type definitions then that language should not use that data type if the application targets to .net
Windows forms: - they are used to design desktop applications
Asp.net: - asp.net is used to design 2 types of applications
Web forms -> used to design web applications
Web services -> it is a set of instructions or a code which can be placed on the web which can be accessed by any applications written using any language for any platform or device.
Mobile forms -> used to design the device independent applications.
ADO.Net -> it is a new database connectivity model based on the namespaces to interact with any databases or XML.
Base Class Libraries -> it is a rich class libraries provided by the .net framework which can be used by any language which targets .net
This is like header file in C.
In java u have more than 2000 packages in .net you have more than 4000 packages and the advantage is can be used by any language.
Base Class Library support -> it is a resource used by the CLR in order to load the class definitions of the assemblies used by the application.
Type definitions: it is a resource used by the CLR in order to verify the type definitions used by the application
To achieve this CLR will take the support of the CLS
CLS: is a specification provided by the .net framework, which has to be supported or implemented by any language if it targets to the .net tech.
Note it is not mandatory for any lang. Which targets the .net Tech to support all the rules given by the CLS.
In order to verify the type definitions the CLS will take support of CTS.
CTS: is a collection of type definitions provided by the .net tech.
COM Marshalling: - it is a resource used by the CLR whenever the COM interoperability takes place.
This means that using the COM components in .net or .net components in COM type application.
Debug manager : It is a resource used by the CLR if any runtime error occurs to invoke the debugger such that code can be modified as per the requirement which allows to continue the processing of the application without terminating it.
Exception Manager : it is a resource used by the CLR to handle exceptions raised by the application. Provided we write the exception handling statements ie defined .if they r not handled then this resource is used to terminate the process of the application abruptly.
Security Engine: it is a resource used by the CLR to provide the access controllers to verify the security of the application.
Thread Support: Whenever the .net application uses multi-threading concept then the resources for those threads and handling of those threads will be taken care by this.
IL to native :- it is a just in time compilation process which converts the MSIL instructions to the native code of the OS.
Standard JIT: it is used to compile the entire MSIL instructions to the native code of the OS.
Echo Jit: when ever a method is been invoked then the relevant MSIL instruction will be converted into the native code of the OS.
Pre JIT: it is a process of identifying the system resource to invoke the relevant JIT compiler as per the requirement.
Code Manager: it is a resource used by the CLR to manage the code present in the application like threading, exceptions.
Garbage collector: - It is a resource used by the CLR in order to destroy the unused objects on a periodical basis such that the resources occupied by the unused objects will be released.
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5'7 Films • 2018 • 85min
In the late 80's/early 90's North America's favorite pastime was collecting baseball cards. People would invest millions, in this game of pirates treasure, by putting their mint condition gold in plastic sleeves, locking it away and hoping it's value would continue to rise year after year. Unfortunately, this house of cards would soon collapse, leaving the pieces of cardboard along with the hopes and dreams of fathers and sons worthless. Stu Stone was one of those sons, and his relationship with his father Jack, who was in the card business, would crumble with the industry. 25 years later, Stu is on a mission to discover why his beloved baseball cards are worth nothing more than the memories they hold of a happy childhood. What he didn't plan on finding though, was the most elusive card of them all, his father Jack
Directed by: Harvey Glazer, Stuart Stone
Written by: Stuart Stone
Produced by: Harvey Glazer, Adam Rodness, Stuart Stone
Edited by: Igal Hecht
Cinematography: Simon Shohet

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Doctors plan to let Zsa Zsa Gabor return home Friday, about three weeks after the 93-year-old actress was hospitalized with a broken hip.
Gabor's publicist, John Blanchette, said Saturday that she would spend the rest of the week receiving physical therapy.
Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, told Blanchette that the actress was joking with nurses but that she appeared depressed. He hoped the return home would restore her spirit.
Blanchette says Gabor broke her hip July 17 as she was lifting herself from bed into a wheel chair that tipped over. The Hungarian-born actress' condition began to deteriorate after hip-replacement surgery days later.
Blanchette says von Anhalt bought the actress a hospital bed and was arranging for home care.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Chase Utley and Ryan Howard hit back-to-back home runs for the second consecutive day, but rookie Jackie Bradley Jr. and the Boston Red Sox roughed up Cliff Lee in a 7-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
Bradley hit a three-run homer in the second inning and finished with four RBIs. He had a sacrifice fly in the third as Boston scored three more times off Lee, who was making his final start in Florida before the Phillies break camp later this week.
The ace left-hander allowed six runs — four earned — and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings. He struck out seven and didn't walk a batter.
The 40th overall pick in the 2011 draft, Bradley is batting .423 (22 for 52) with two homers, four doubles and nine RBIs in 23 games this spring, his first in major league camp.


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September 5, 2007
Reading Reactor (or a Google Reader Update)
A Google Reader update, released to a select number of users, solved a weird annoyance and added a long-existing feature to the interface. (Update: The new release is live and it also includes the most requested feature - search.)
Apparently, Google Reader learned to count to 1,000, which is a major improvement if we consider that Google Reader was only able to count to 100. More exactly, all the feeds, folders and other views showed 100+ if you had more than 99 unread items. I wonder if this is a technical limitation or Google is afraid we're not able to handle the information overload.
The other feature lets you hide the sidebar by clicking on a small arrow, like in Google Maps. You can already do this by typing u, but who's going to remember all the keyboard shortcuts? (You don't have to remember them. Google Reader is probably the only major web applications that makes it a piece of cake to see the available shortcuts: just type ?)
Like any grown-up Google product, Reader will also add support for multiple languages and remove all the icons reminiscent of Google Labs. Google Reader is now more than a feed reader, it's responsible for almost anything related to feeds at Google: from iGoogle to the feed API. After all, it started as an Atom parser in JavaScript that became a 20% project.
"[Aaron Boodman] let me know (I'm paraphrasing) that I was missing the big picture and that a reading tool would be more useful if its model started with the item (not the source) as a building block and allowed items to be interleaved and maybe even ranked and recommended to other people. Our conversation meandered into comparing certain views to television as TV channels are important but not as important to viewers as the shows themselves," describes Chris Wetherell the initial vision.
Hopefully, this vision will continue to guide Google Reader. Ranking, filtering, recommending help you see the most important information and obtain a personalized view for your feeds. Google Reader could truly become a reactor by reacting to your signals and to external signals (Reactor is Google Reader's codename).
{ Screenshot licensed as Creative Commons by Dan Ox. Tip from Tom Schenk Jr. Special thanks to Justin Blanton. }
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Darn -- I really love this exact count. Yesterday I had this new feature for about an hour, then it disappeared again.ReplyDelete
I had the exact same thing as newspaperman happen. The new feature showed up last night, and was gone by this morning.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 8:12 PM
It would appear that this update broke reader in Opera. How difficult is it to test in multiple browsers?!?ReplyDelete
No way! I have search up top as well today! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 9:23 PM
I confirm Search - it's great! - we've been waiting for so long..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Yep, I can see all three of these features. I also noticed yesterday that the "Loading..." message had moved to a little yellow box at the top.ReplyDelete
Got em all here too. Search! Finally! Been wanting search feature soo bad.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, the updated Google Reader does not play friendly with the lovely Google Reader Theme by Jon Hicks (http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/google-reader-theme) which I have been taking for granted.ReplyDelete
From what I can see, it is merely a few misalignments of various elements (I think mostly because of the introduction of the search field and the minimize-sidebar button), so I hope it won't be long before the theme is adjusted too!
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2007 at 11:03 PM
I'm ecstatic about search finally being here. Good news.ReplyDelete
Apenas ví esta mañana el Reader, me llamaron la atención esas mejoras… Muy bien por Google!ReplyDelete
Ahora se necesitan un par de cosas más…
1- Poder renombrar los tags (y esconderlos a todos con un más (+) en el panel derecho).
2- Que haya una papelera.
3- Que haya distintos destacados con estrella (add star), puede ser estrellas de distintos colores o cambiar estrellas por números.
4- Más opciones de compartidos (share) por si hay varios blogs en los cuales compartir.
5- Posibilidad de hacer backup (podría usarse el protocolo POP3).
6- Que esté también en español.


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By Bim Adewunmi
April 22, 2013
"My body belongs to me and is not the source of anyone's honour."
The words of Tunisian activist Amina Ahmed, scrawled across her naked chest in Arabic and posted on Femen's Facebook page are true, and right. Women should have the choice to dress how they want, when they want, without fear of reprisal and safe from harm. As too many women in all corners of the can attest, this is not the reality.
From war to politics to art, shock tactics can be useful, powerful tools. They force the opposed to take notice, to hopefully retreat, to surrender their advantage. In the arena of human and women's rights, they are a staple -- from the burning of draft cards during the anti-Vietnam war protests of the 1960s to bra burning (myth or no) to Mohamed Bouazizi, the street vendor who set himself on fire and inadvertently roused the Tunisian Revolution -- shock tactics can, and do work.
They work across cultures too: I first learned of the Women's War which took place in eastern Nigeria in 1929 (an anti-taxation and anti-colonialist protest which ended with reports of up to 100 Igbo casualties), when I was at school in Lagos. I learned that some of these women stripped naked to make their case -- an admirably thought out and executed case of naked protest, in a non-Western culture, from more than 80 years ago. It was effective, too-- administrative reforms were carried out, bringing an end to the Warrant Chief system (introduced by British colonialists) and women were appointed in local courts.
So my issue with Femen, and any other such organizations, is less to do with the mode of protest, and more the gaze and rhetoric behind it. Femen purports to know, in an almost patriarchal way, what is "best" for these poor, oppressed women in Africa and the Middle East. Their problem is religion, and their naked protest is there to "help" free them from the "tyranny" therein. Yes -- there are huge chasms between the rights of men and women all over the world, and perhaps more visibly in these communities. But there are also women (and men) in those communities working to remedy this, using different tools, (some more blunt than others) and in all likelihood just as effective or even I would argue, more so, than Femen's methods.
I am Nigerian-British and a Muslim, now living in the geographical West. I know that my experiences do not match that of a woman my age in a small town in Mali, or Pakistan. I don't wear a Hijab; never have done, unlikely ever to. I don't care one way or another about the Hijab, but I do care about choice. In electing not to wear a headscarf, I have exercised that right, and not all of the women who wear scarves have the luxury of that choice. But there are also millions of women who choose, very happily and deliberately, to wear the hijab. Is it "liberating" to ban the Hijab for these women? Femen's intent may be honorable, but the implementation seems wrong-headed to me.
A lot of us in brown and black bodies have become used to the neo-colonial lens through which the rest of the world views us. We are there to be "helped", to be "liberated". There exists a powerful and deliberate narrative around Africa and the Middle East: "we must go there and free them!" If you are only viewing people as hapless, helpless children -- which is how I see a lot of Femen's rhetoric as applied to Africa and the Middle East -- you rob them of agency. It is not up to Femen to go and "free" these women. We cannot export tactics that simply don't work, in the name of sisterhood.
What kind of sisterhood insists that an attitude of "this works here and will therefore work over there" is the way forward? Is there no nuance to be found, if the objective is to free women of the patriarchy that governs their lives? It is naive and somewhat foolish at best, and at worst dangerous and stupid. It is looking at a health problem and deciding that their prescription is the only drug that will clear up the rash, when locally sourced medicines may work just as well, if not better. At the very least, work with organizations already at the coalface day after day, collaborate with and listen to them. If the aim is genuinely to make a fairer society, not to merely impose benevolent condescension, it's a necessary step.
The Femen message, with a core belief in self-determination and equality, unshackled from damaging patriarchy, is good and true. But their methods leave much to be desired.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/22/opinion/opinion-bim-adewumni-femen/
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/sexualized-femen-protest-naive-foolish/d/11336


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May 21, 2011
Google Business Profiles?
Another interesting thing is that Google has a new subdomain: https://plusone.google.com, which redirects to Google Profiles. There's already a Web page about the +1 button, so it's not clear why Google has a new address for Google +1. Maybe profiles will be a feature of Google +1.
{ Thanks, Florian. }
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Well, a profile is required for +1 to work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 22, 2011 at 3:00 AM
Interesting, I believe that Google most show something soon. The key to sucess is to evolve the important areas of development. I also believe that a Google branded social network would need Chrome OS and vice verse. Right now they are on track to release netbooks with quick boot times but I can see a market for powerful computers like desktops running Chrome OS. Imagine a desktop with a boot time of 3-4 seconds that can run through hd-videos like butter and have lightning speed all over the system.ReplyDelete
They could also make Chrome OS more fun with folders for applications, widgets etc. Right now the browser is the OS but you have all that extra space in the background. Why not use it? This would attract consumers to the operating system and the social network.
The next big part is to evolve Gtalk so it connects with MobileMe users. The difference between Google and Apple can you summarize in a couple of words.
Google make software that make themself more productive. They make products that they want to use. Apple make product that the consumers want to use. One example here is Google docs. A very complicated product that have a high initial learning curve to understand for consumers. Google docs lack for example the beautiful templates that Pages have on the mac. They could add spell checking for more languages. Picasa Web albums is great but the MobileMe gallery is easier to understand.
A great product is like the human brain. Simple at first glance but with great power within. Product should suprise you, not overwhelm you with links, icons etc. The only Google products that I really love is Maps and Gmail. Gtalk is also great but could use some polish.
- AnonymousMay 22, 2011 at 5:54 AM
google products are used by 1.5 billion plus people, next time you try to spin that apple is more loved by google, better provide proof.ReplyDelete
I think this is a smart move by Google. Given the myriad of different services they provide businesses giving them a single place to control all that information makes sense.ReplyDelete
well if you substitude the missing part for "a/DOMAIN" domain being the google apps domainReplyDelete
so something like: http://www.google.com/a/google.com/managepages it just redirects to the dashboard: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/google.com/Dashboard
Okay now this is excellent. Probably more a threat to LinkeIn than to FB thoughReplyDelete
Well maybe Google Apps users will finally be able to have... a profile ...at last !ReplyDelete


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Awards for Outstanding High Performance Computing Achievements Presented at SC12
Salt Lake City, UTAH – November 26, 2012 - SC12, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, concluded Friday, Nov. 16, following the recognition of achievements by members of the supercomputing community. Among the honors presented during the conference were the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, ACM/IEEE Computer Society George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Award, several competitive challenges, best paper and best poster awards.
Held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, this year's conference set an all-time record for technical program submissions. The technical program included 100 papers, 35 tutorials, 22 workshops and was attended by 4360 registrants. Overall conference attendance was over 9,700 with almost 2400 international attendees representing over 54 countries. In addition, 338 exhibitors filled the conference's 365,000 square feet of exhibit hall space in the convention center.
"This year's SC continued in the long tradition of providing HPC researchers and scientists a forum for discovery," said Jeff Hollingsworth, SC12 general chair. "The discussions and collaborations sparked at SC12 will lead to new ideas and innovations for years to come. My special thanks to all the volunteers who contributed to SC12 and my congratulations to those honored for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the community."
The following individuals and organizations were recognized with awards:
ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner (for scalability and sustained performance)
"4.45 Pflops Astrophysical N-Body Simulation on K computer - The Gravitational Trillion Body Problem" by Tomoaki Ishiyama (University of Tsukuba), Keigo Nitadori (University of Tsukuba), Junichiro Makino (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship
Fellowship Winners: Amanda Peters Randles (Harvard University) and Ryan Gabrys (University of California Los Angeles)
Honorable Mention: Gagan Gupta (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Yanhua Sun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Best Paper
"A Framework for Low-Communication 1-D FFT" by Ping Tak Peter Tang (Intel), Jongsoo Park (Intel), Daehyun Kim (Intel), Vladimir Petrov (Intel)
Best Student Paper (for original work primarily by students)
"Characterizing and Mitigating Work Time Inflation in Task Parallel Programs" by Stephen L. Olivier (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Bronis R. de Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and Jan F. Prins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Best Poster
"Visualization for High-Resolution Ocean General Circulation Model via Multi-Dimensional Transfer Function and Multivariate Analysis" by Daisuke Matsuoka (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Fumiaki Araki (Japan Agency for Marine-Eary Science and Technology), Shinichiro Kida (Japan Agency for Marine-Eary Science and Technology), Hideharu Sasaki (Japan Agency for Marine-Eary Science and Technology), and Bunmei Taguchi (Japan Agency for Marine-Eary Science and Technology)
ACM Graduate Student Research Competition
Gold: "Optimus: A Parallel Optimization Framework with Topology Aware PSO and Applications" by Sarat Sreepathi (North Carolina State University)
Silver: "Performing Cloud Computation on a Parallel File System" by Ellis Wilson (Pennsylvania State University)
Bronze: "Norm-Coarsened Ordering for Parallel Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioning" by Joshua Booth (Pennsylvania State University)
ACM Undergraduate Student Research Competition
Gold: "Pay as You Go in the Cloud: One Watt at a Time" by Kayo Teramoto (Yale University)
Silver: "On the Cost of a General GPU Framework - The Strange Case of CUDA 4.0 vs. CUDA 5.0" by Matthew Wezowicz (University of Delaware)
Student Cluster Competition
Standard Track Overall Winner - University of Texas at Austin with vendor partner Dell
Student Cluster Competition, Standard Track Highest LINPACK Performance - National University of Defense Technology, China with vendor partner Inspur
Student Cluster Competition, Pilot Track Overall Winner - University of Utah


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A group of world political leaders, intellectuals, and businessman Richard Branson have formed a Global Commission on Drug Policies in a bid to boost the effort to achieve more humane and rational drug laws. The commission is headed by former Brazilian President Henrique Cardoso and builds on the work Cardoso and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria did with the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy.
The commission will examine the current international drug control regime, conduct a global overview of drug policies and laws, examine the drug production and supply chain, address criminal justice challenges, study the lessons learned from harm reduction, treatment, and prevention campaigns, and examine the economic and political ramifications of the massive illicit global drug trade.
In addition to the three Latin American ex-presidents, commission members include former US Secretary of State George Schulz, writers Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, former European Union official Javier Solana, former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Thorvald Stoltenberg.
"There is a growing perception that the "war on drugs" approach has failed," the commission said in a statement as it announced its existence in Geneva this week. "Eradication of production and criminalization of consumption did not reduce drug traffic and drug use," the commission said.
The harm from corruption and violence resulting from prohibition "largely exceeds the harm caused by drugs," the statement says.
We will be looking forward to seeing the commission's report this summer. The report from the Latin American Commission helped stir debate and advance the cause of reform, and this should, too.


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Imagine if we could go back
Actually talk to the motherfuckers that persevered (hehehe)
I mean the first motherfuckers that came in the slave ships
(Hey, excuse me, excuse me) Y'know? (Look)
We back for everything you owe, no longer oppressed
cause now we overthrow those that placed us in this rotten mess
But let's agree on strategy and pick out enemies right
Who stands accused of the abuse my own, kind do right
Pardon, not disregardin what you thinkin but you musta been the ship
cause once I rip your whole shit is sinkin
Supreme ideology, you claim to hold
Claimin that we all drug dealers with empty souls
That used to tempt me to roll, commit to violence
In the midst of an act of war, witnesses left silent
Shatter, black talon style, thoughts I throw
It remains in your brain then of course it grows
Maybe, even your babies can produce and rise
Picture a life where black babies can survive past five
But we must have hope, quotin the reverand from the pulpit
Refuse to turn the other cheek we must defeat the evil culprit
Lace me with words of destruction and I'll explode
but supply me with the will to survive, and watch the world grow
This ain't bout talkin bout problems, I bring solutions
Where's the restitution, stipulated through the constitution
You violated, now I'm back to haunt your nights
Listen to the screams, of the lives you sacrificed
And in case you don't know, ghetto born black seeds still grow
We comin back, for everything you owe
[Chorus: sung]
I'm comin collectin the shit that belong to me
Motherfuckers are runnin and duckin
I'm a crazy nigga on a mission wit a bad mentality
Armed with missiles guns grenades
Pull out the pin, free I'm comin
[2Pac over Chorus]
How do you plead Mr. Shakur, how do you plead?
How do I plead?
Yes sir, how do you plead?
Shit, you know how I plead
Not guilty on the grounds of insanity it was them or me
Bustin at my innocent family, say they lookin for ki's
I was home alone, blind to the prelude
Bust in, talkin bout, "Where is the quaaludes?" What you say fool?
Where in the hell is the search warrant?
No feedback is what he uttered, before he screamed "Nigga motherfucker"
Dropped me to my knees I proceed to bleed
Sufferin a rain of blows to my hands and knees
Will I survive, is God watchin?
I grab his gat and bust in self-defense, my only option, God damn
Now they got me goin to the county jail
And my family can't pay this outrageous bail
Try to offer me a deal, they told me if I squeal
move me, and my people, to a mansion in Brazil
Not me, so this is how it ends, no friends
I'll be stressed and they just, reposessed my Benz
Told the judge it was self-defense, he won't listen
So I'm bumpin this in federal prison, givin everything I owe
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My Wild Camping
Saturday, 3 May 2014
I've moved this blog to WordPress!
You can now find me at My Wild Camping.
Monday, 10 February 2014
Are our hills really safe in their hands?
Follow this link for another good read from Tracksterman.
Thursday, 2 January 2014
AAC Kincraig Meet.
Early May saw us in the Cairngorms, the weather prospects did not look good, with high winds and sleet forecast on the tops.
The first morning dawned cold, wet and windy. Not being prepared to spend the day following a compass bearing in unpleasant conditions, we decided on low level walk to Ryvoen Bothy.
It turned out to be a good choice, we took an early lunch in the spotlessly clean bothy, then spent a pleasant afternoon ambling along the track towards Nethy Bridge.
The weather continued to be stormy so the next couple of days were spent biking in Glen Feshie, hoping that the weather would improve.
After what was to be the final outing of the trip, we returned to the hut feeling somewhat down hearted, our visit to Ruigh Aiteachain Bothy had been cut short by a rising Allt Garbhlach.
But all was not lost!
We entered the hut to find that good weather was forecast for the next day good, and our trusty meet leader had managed to extend our stay by one more night, which meant that at long last we might be able to visit the tops and get a view.
And what a day it was!
Sgor Gaoith was our objective, its been on my peaks to do list for years, but I had determined that I would only climb it on a clear day, and today hopefully was the day.
Blue sky over Glen Feshie.
The start of the path to Carn Ban Mor.
The path crossed a steep snow slope where a fall would have meant a slide of hundreds of feet. .
Having decided it wasn't worth carrying our ice axes we had to take the safe but steep grassy slopes to the left of the track, these eventually spat us out near the summit of Carn Ban Mor to be greeted with this fabulous view.
Braeriach, Sgor an Lochain Uagaine (Angels Peak) and Cairn Toul.
Sgor Gaoith in the distance.
Loch Einich, Monach Mor and Beinn Bhrotain.
After a leisurely lunch on the summit soaking up the view in warm sunshine, we retraced our route back to the car.
It had been one of those special days, well worth waiting for.
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Happy Christmas Everyone.
Friday, 15 March 2013
How many windfarms does it take to power a light bulb?
This Civitas Comment recommended by Douga; Quixote makes an interesting read.
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She has charmed the world. In London, on June 21, Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi melted one of the toughest audiences of all, drawing applause from journalists gathered at 10 Downing Street for her press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Later she addressed a joint session of the Houses of Parliament, making her one of only four foreign dignitaries to be given this privilege since World War II and only the second woman to do so (Queen Elizabeth II was the other). Such a welcome might have induced euphoria, but Suu Kyi used her platform to warn against assuming that her freedom to travel signaled an end to Burma's problems. "So many hills remain to be climbed, chasms to be bridged, obstacles to be reached," she said.
The historic speech capped a week of high-profile globetrotting by Suu Kyi, who until May had not left Burma for 24 years, spending most of the intervening time under house arrest at the behest of the country's ruling junta. After traveling to Thailand in May to attend an economic conference and meet with Burmese refugees and migrants, Suu Kyi visited Oslo to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize she was unable to collect when it was awarded to her 21 years ago. In Ireland, she hobnobbed with socially conscious rock star Bono, who looked gleeful just to share a stage with such an adored activist. On June 19, in London, Suu Kyi met with fellow Nobel Peace laureate, the Dalai Lama, who is one of the few other untainted exemplars of nonviolent resistance in our times. Described as a private meeting, the confab between the two famous Buddhists was a summit of dazzling smiles that left millions across the globe enchanted.
(PHOTOS: Aung San Suu Kyi's World Tour)
The next day, which happened to be her 67th birthday, Suu Kyi visited Oxford, where she was granted an honorary degree. The trip was bittersweet: Suu Kyi was revisiting the place where she had lived with her British academic husband and their two children before she embarked on her unexpected career as a Burmese democratic hero. It was only upon returning to Burma to care for her sick mother in 1988 that Suu Kyi, the daughter of independence hero Aung San, was suddenly thrust into politics and cast in a new role as the voice for one of the world's most oppressed populaces. When her husband was dying of cancer in 1999, he was rejected for a visa to visit her in Burma, where she was between spells of house arrest. Suu Kyi dared not leave Burma for fear that the military regime would not allow her back home. She missed much of her sons' childhoods and has told me on two occasions that they paid a "sacrifice" for their mother's political activism.
Meanwhile, back in Burma, which is known officially as Myanmar, President Thein Sein was making news too. On June 19, in a landmark televised speech, he vowed to undertake a "second wave" of economic reforms that will triple GDP by 2016. In recent days, Burma has been hosting a slew of conferences to lure foreign investment to a desperately poor country that is rich in natural resources. Sanctions had limited many Western companies from investing in Burma, but most governments have begun lifting, or at least suspending, these financial restrictions because of the Burmese regime's apparent commitment to reforms. On Tuesday, Thein Sein promised to undertake reform in various closed industries, from telecommunications to logging, through which military cronies have profited handsomely even as one-third of the nation lives in poverty. The Burmese President also committed himself to poverty alleviation in one of Asia's most indigent nations.
The leader of a quasi-civilian government that took power last year after flawed elections, the former general has surprised critics by steering a course away from the policies of the junta that ruled Burma so brutally for nearly half a century. So far, Thein Sein has overseen the release of hundreds of political prisoners and signed cease-fires — albeit tenuous ones — with some of Burma's fractious ethnic minorities, who were long oppressed by the ethnically Bamar majority in the military regime. He has approved currency reforms that are crucial to attracting foreign investment; a law guiding such incoming investments will be signed soon, according to the President's televised address. Thein Sein has also met with Suu Kyi, long regarded the military's nemesis. He presided over critical by-elections in April, in which the overwhelming victory by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was upheld. (The last time the NLD participated in polls, back in 1990, the party also won by a landslide but the then ruling junta ignored the results.) Suu Kyi is now a member of parliament, the first time the veteran opposition leader has held a government role.
(PHOTOS: Sectarian Unrest in Burma Sees Dozens Dead, Thousands Fleeing)
But even as representatives of global mining firms and other businesses dedicated to operating in frontier economies joined a conference in Burma's commercial capital, Rangoon, on Wednesday, Suu Kyi was rehearsing the message that she delivered from her podium in London — against premature rejoicing. Throughout her global tour, Suu Kyi has called for ethical foreign investment that will not just enrich members of the military or their business cronies. Burma certainly has the potential to become yet another emerging economy where natural-resource riches don't trickle down to the population at large.
Britain has called for sanctions to be suspended against Burma and on the day of Suu Kyi's visit confirmed that the government has invited Thein Sein to visit. In June, the U.S., which has suspended some of the economic sanctions that were imposed because of Burma's poor human-rights record, dropped the country from its list of nations with the worst records of human trafficking. The International Labour Organization, whose Geneva headquarters Suu Kyi visited earlier this month, also relaxed some punitive measures on Burma after an investigative mission convinced the U.N. body that the government is committed to decreasing the incidence of forced labor. Rights groups that track Burma, however, are counseling caution, arguing that far more needs to be done.
There's also the serious matter of continuing ethnic violence in a country that has over the decades proved a communal tinderbox. In the country's far western Arakan (or Rakhine) state, at least 80 people have been killed this month in riots between the Buddhist Arakanese population and a stateless group of Muslims known as the Rohingya. The latest outbreak of violence occurred on Tuesday, when around a dozen fatalities occurred, according to reports in exile media. Some 90,000 people on both sides of the ethnic divide have been displaced by the sectarian strife and are in desperate need of immediate food and shelter, according to the U.N.
(MORE: Will Ethnic Violence Kill Burma's Reforms?)
Separately, in the country's north, fighting between government forces and an ethnic Kachin militia continues to claim lives and has sent tens of thousands of Kachin, many of whom are Christian (unlike the Buddhist Bamar), into dire refugee camps. A deadline on June 20 for a cease-fire passed without any resolution, one of many failed attempts at brokering a truce since a 17-year armistice was broken a year ago.
Back home, all these problems and more await Suu Kyi. Yet she is not a head of state able to push through wide-ranging economic and political reforms. Those are the responsibilities of Thein Sein, and he must be careful not to overreach or give military hard-liners an opportunity to turn against his liberalizing agenda. For now, Suu Kyi's role as inspirational icon is rightly being celebrated across the globe. She is, after all, one of the most eloquent advocates for democracy and human rights we have today. For Burma's future, it can only be hoped that the momentum Suu Kyi has been able to garner overseas will extend to the strange crew of retired generals, avid businessmen and callow lawmakers who will guide the country after her stirring words fade from the week's headlines.


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Talk:Callisto Coordinated Update Sites
My comments (Kim Moir platform-releng) :-)
(1)There is a problem with the url http://update.eclipse.org/updates/callisto/
Currently, the platform team stores all its updates in this directory
and subdirectories such as these
http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.0 http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.1
So I don't know that this is the best url for Callisto
given that
[dmw: agreed, we should have 'callisto' first in the URL, and keep it "parallel" other Eclipse projects]
[denis: I can't host this on update.eclipse.org/callisto. How about download.eclipse.org/callisto?]
[nickb] How about: http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.2/callisto.xml (in the same folder as site.xml) ? [dmw] I think we're leaning toward http://download.eclipse.org/callisto, but wanted to comment on the comment ... I think we should avoid having version numbers in (any) directory ... isn't the long term goal to have a constant update site for all time, and just keep putting new plugins and features in there, as needed, so to speak? ... and, hopefully, there may start to be more and more that don't actually change, say from 3.2 to 3.3?]
[kmoir]Until the code to resolve this bug is implemented, we can't ensure that we can just reuse the same update site from release to release. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123162
(2)Providing Callisto as a single download comprising all 10 projects provides better exposure to the newer projects. By the same token, it also forces people to download stuff that they may not necessarily want or ever use, thus significantly increasing the strain on the distribution infrastructure. It is also rather overwhelming for a new eclipse user. My point is, perhaps there is a better way to educate users and provide choice while simultaneously exposing the full breadth of functionality available with Callisto.
[dmw: yep, this is the question to be answered empiracally and via community feedback ... but if we get one packaging working ... a few others should be easy --- though, I'd never want to get to the point of a Callisto user having more than, say, 4 or 5 choices ... those users that want more fine grained control than that will have to use project update URLs]
[nickb] I agree that making people download EVERYTHING is both overkill and will overtax the infrastructure. However, as David points out, "enabling" projects like EMF and GEF are required for the more newb-friendly projects, so could we have a set of screenshots just showing people how to use UM and the various requirements they need to check off in order to get the projects they want? I like what WTP has done for their UM site, for example.
By the way, I'm working on a tool to track download stats for EMF (and later, other projects who want to implement it), which combines
- a PHP script which runs SQL queries at the eclipse.org download stats database,
- a set of 3 cronjobs (actually, one shell script w/ three different options) for nightly/weekly/monthly querying using that interface, and
- a web UI to display those results for trending and overall results (eg., combining monthly data across a year or weekly data across a quarter; or comparing 4 consecutive weeks to see if downloads increase or decrease over time)
The purpose for us is:
- to track how many hits we get in a day/week/month (survey says: over 2 million EMF jar downloads and 80,000 zip downloads in Dec & Jan)
- to track how those hits change overtime
- to determine which files are more popular than others (ie., should the Callisto UM site include XSD? survey says: "*xsd*"&&!"*emf*" to "*emf*" =~ 20:1 (zips), which means EMF-only and EMF SDK (incl. XSD) zip downloads are 20x more downloaded than XSD-only zips)
- to compare UM installs vs. zip downloads, to see which is more prominently used (survey says: jars to zips =~ 19:1)
If you feel these tools/stats would be of value to other projects, I'd be happy to volunteer the code (and time to help set it up) for any other Callisto projects you'd like to track. See /cvsroot/org.eclipse/www/emf/downloads/
Sizes involved with Calisto
Nick, thanks. I'm writing this mostly to experiment with "talking" to "talk" :)
Not sure how it will be displayed.
First, your tool does sound very interesting ... I personally won't have time to investigate it much for a while, but I'd think we'd want these sorts of stats for all Eclipse projects!
Since several have voiced concerned over size of Callisto, I guess we should start to estimate its size.
Here's my off hand estimates of "runtime" sizes of several components (in MegaBytes). These are mostly guesses at this point (but a few I'm "updated" recently), but if enough people provide estimate, we'll get a little better idea of what tradeoffs are.
[Callisto meisters: feel free to update your portions of table to be accurate ... using current milestones, or previous release milestones as estimates. Any rough estimate will do.]
[nickb] You can get numbers for your most recent builds like this:
- ssh email@example.com
- cd /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/downloads/drops/2.2.0/I200602020000
- find . -name "*.zip" -exec du -sh {} \;
If we literally included each (sub) project as a choice, that would be 15 choices ... which I think is too many for what I've thought Callisto was for. Perhaps someone could propose some concrete "groupings" that would satisfy majority of users (though, I'm pessimistic if we could reach much agreement?)
If we go that route, though, I don't think we would need to do anything, except maybe to get the platform plugin to provide all 10 "discovery sites"?
Also, maybe our friendly webmaster could comment on if these "increases in size" are of the size to be of concern .... such as is 75 Megs, say, that much different than 150? Is 150 that much different that 300? (I know "twice as big" sounds like a lot ... but .. its not like 10 times as much). And with our improved "nearest mirror" support, maybe it wouldn't matter?).
[denis: also consider that the bigger it is, the longer it will take to reach all our mirrors. The good news is that Mike okay'd an extra 200Mb (!!) of bandwidth for (but not limited to) Callisto, in addition to and separate of the 100Mb for eclipse.org, so we'll be in good shape for actual distribution.]
|Runtime Size
|SDK Size
|Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
|Data Tools Platform (DTP)
|Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF, SDO, XSD)
|Eclipse Project (Platform only)
|Eclipse Project (PDE, JDT)
|Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
|Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)
|Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP)
|Visual Editor (VE, JEM)
|Web Tools Platform (WTP, WST, JST)
Page talks
I believe the little "+" symbol should be used for these talks. --Denis Roy 16:50, 6 February 2006 (EST)
Concurrent Builds & Releases
Release Train Cascade / RSS Notification & Response
[nickb] There's been a fair amount of discussion about getting the Callisto projects to align in terms of their releases (before the subject of UM was broached). Should this be a page by itself, rather than a footnote here, by all means please do. The link above shows what's been done so far in terms of building a build cascade automation scheme, along with some comments from the community. Please post comments about this plan into that bug so that I can integrate your requests into it, in order to make this solution more portable across all Callisto projects.


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It strikes me that all the photographers I have heard of are one-man bands. I don't know of any famous partnerships or teams in photography.
Other areas of human endeavour have plenty of partnerships, from Lewis and Clark to Morecambe and Wise, but I don't know of any like this in photography.
Is this just my perception? Are there famous photographic partnerships? If not, what is it about photography that encourages this solitary behaviour?
I realise that many photographers have a team supporting them, but that's not quite the same thing. Or is it? Let me know.


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Wednesday, August 15
Weekly Wears: Fall Preview
Sadly, Mother Nature realized it's still August and that (amazing) weather is a little crazy for the season. That just means I have the rest of Summer to enjoy, and Fall to look forward to. Right? That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. We won't talk about the suede cape, long sleeved button up, or cozy sweater I bought at a vintage shop that day. ;) My brain was tricked... TRICKED I TELL YOU.
Tulle; Shoes: Seychelles (borrowed from Elsie); Belt: ModCloth; Necklace: c/o Poshlocket; Sunglasses: UO
Today we are picking up the keys to the new place and doing some major painting. I am so, SO excited. I'll share more about our new home soon. :)
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Oooh! I love this dress on you, it really flatters you and your hair color :) super cuteReplyDelete
ps. I live in sw missouri and i feel you, long pants one day and shorts and a tank the next... ready for autumn!!
Pretty dress! And so exciting that you can start on your new place! xoReplyDelete
that dress is mighty lovely!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, Katie, this is such a stunning look and you look absolutely beautiful in these photos!! Luckily, for us summer has been pretty mild... so I've had lots of days filled with sweater wearing - ah, but fall sure is magical!! Hope your week is fab! xoReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 12:03 AM
The weather shenanigans were happening here in the Hoosier State as well - blast! I'm longing for Autumn and all it brings.ReplyDelete
I'm going to come steal your shoes, okay?
That dress is so cute!ReplyDelete
xoxo Sarah
Is a lovely print, I prefer this in another color, but the blue looks good with your hair colorReplyDelete
the place of the photo session is very cool.
I think this is my favorite outfit of yours yet! Something even I would wear :) Goes awesome with your hair color, as Ruzu said!ReplyDelete
xo Nicole
Today was the same way for us here! It even smelled like Fall, but somehow I'm doubting that it will stay around. One can hope though! You look gorgeous and congrats on finding a new home!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 1:45 AM
LOVE the vintage flower print on the dress! You have to wear summer dresses as long as you can, the time will be over soon! :)ReplyDelete
Love both the shoes and the dress - very pretty!ReplyDelete
Every once in a while we get a whiff of fall up here too, & its killing me! I utterly covet those shoes btw-- too adorable~*ReplyDelete
You look stunning.ReplyDelete
Cool about the keys & the painting! :)
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 7:22 AM
The dress is so pretty, and it looks even better with your red hair, just stunning ^^ReplyDelete
this is a perfect outfit. i love tulle! and the shoes are lovely too!!!ReplyDelete
oh my goodness, this dress is gorgeous, those colours and retro print?! perfection! im longing for autumn now, we seemed to have skipped summer in the uk, but its still grey and warm, im looking forward to wooly sweaters and layers! and coloured tights.. i love tights!:)xxReplyDelete
this dress reminds me of the blue dress from elsie's red velvet collection. you look amazing, and i looooove those shoes!ReplyDelete
This dress is so pretty!ReplyDelete
Hope picking up the keys goes smoothly. What an exciting time for you!
I love the print of this dress + your darling shoes!!ReplyDelete
you can't imagine how much I love those shoes! oh, wait, you're wearing them, so you can probably imagine :)ReplyDelete
So cute! I have been trying not to wish summer away, but yesterday I broke down and bought some cords and a cider candle. I just love fall way too much.ReplyDelete
Absolutely adorable! Congrats on the new house! Hope that you have fun painting. :)ReplyDelete
LOVE those shoes!! Yeah, my mind was tricked too. I was looking up recipes for pumpkin spice lattes.ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous print.ReplyDelete
Your dress is so, so pretty! But I am always most impressed by your ever-perfect hair. =)ReplyDelete
I'm pretending it's fall by wearing scarves despite the heat. And I freaking LOVE your shoes.ReplyDelete
You look so pretty! :3ReplyDelete
I cant wait to see what new autumal things you got from the vintage shop!
I want to see that sweater!ReplyDelete
I'm definitely an autumn girl at heart, too. Your vintage cape sounds absolutely amazing. Can't wait to see the fall wardrobe!
Here's to looking forward to: crisp breezes, pumpkin spice lattes, scarves + boots, pumpkin patches, brightly colored leaves...this list could go on and on. :)
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM
You're gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
Oh! That shoes!! 8)ReplyDelete
Merrily Merrily,
cool shoes!ReplyDelete
Love this post!
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2012 at 12:25 PM
LOVE those shoes!ReplyDelete
Oh how I love the fall and winter! I can't wait and have been sewing up a storm of cute collared 3/4 sleeve dresses in lovely browns and mustards, to wear with thights and cardigans...but of course after a nonexistent summer here in San Diego we are getting a heatwave just now :(ReplyDelete
I'm loving the colors on this dress!
this dress was made for you! from the fit to the colors --- just suits you so well!ReplyDelete
those shoes and dress, love! Have fun painting, no better way to spruce up a new place.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to hear more about your new home. You look lovely! And I know exactly what you mean about Autumn. Absolutely cannot wait. The weekend is going to be utterly beautiful here though with temps in the 70's during the day and 60's/50's at night. It is heavenly.ReplyDelete
Cute outfit ! I love the necklace. <3ReplyDelete
Cutest shoes of life!
PS: I am totally smitten with your style. Awesome blog.
Lovely dress, lovely shoes! Lovely lovely lovely. I'm nearly convinced to revert to red tresses, your hair is awwwwwesome.ReplyDelete
the shoes the shoes the shoes!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2012 at 4:12 PM
What a very cute place and dress!!!ReplyDelete
I look so forward to Autumn as well. It seems to be getting a little cooler out. just a little less than a month until it comes!!
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In case you thought graphical digitizing of characters en symbols started after the introduction of computers, you're wrong.
Cross stitch embroidery showing the digitized characters or fonts of the Latin alphabet and often the digits 0 till 9, along with other decorations and was once a popular pastime for teenage girls.
This custom probably started in the 18th century. Usually the initials of the creator are to be found somewhere on the cloth.
Below are two examples which my mother's got from her ancestors, along with the character set of one of the first commercial available computer.
It's interesting to see how the way of digitizing alphabetic characters and numbers has changed during the centuries:
|An example from 1800 with initials D.F.
|An example from 1845
|An example of the Commodore Pet C64 character set called Petscii from 1976


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Mod Podge — long used for decoupage crafts — has morphed in recent years.
Now there's a glue-and-sealer product for virtually every surface, from fabric and wood to glass and metals.
Other decoupage brands exist, as well. And decoupage crafts? Projects run the gamut, including purses, high-heeled shoes, backpacks, scratched furniture, glass vases, dishware, canvases, planters, even bicycles.
Recognizable for its retro label, Mod Podge has been made by Plaid Enterprises Inc., of Norcross, Ga., for more than 40 years. During the product's infancy in the 1960s and '70s, it was popular to decoupage wood furniture, cigar boxes and serving trays with magazine clippings.
"They liked to do a lot of wood items," said Amy Anderson, who blogs full-time for Plaid Enterprises at Mod Podge Rocks and has written a similarly titled book by Lark Crafts.
"Now it's a lot different because people will Mod Podge anything to anything — junk mail, fabric scraps."
Anderson has received queries from people wanting to decoupage snakeskin, kitchen appliances and car dashboards.
(Her answers: Test the snakeskin on a small project. Decoupage only the front door of the fridge or washer/dryer, not the entire appliance. And please don't decoupage your car interior. Appliances and car interiors can heat up, melting the Mod Podge. "Your dashboard could get really sticky," Anderson said.)
Plaid Enterprises now makes nearly two dozen varieties of Mod Podge, according to design director Jackie Wynia, from the original matte and gloss to three-dimensional, dishwasher-safe and glow-in-the-dark formulas.
Plaid also manufacturers the Martha Stewart Crafts line of decoupage finishes and accessories.
Other decoupage brands include DecoArt Decoupage Glue and Aleene's Collage Pauge Instant Decoupage.
A perfectly useful decoupage medium also can be made at home, says Bethany Kohoutek, editor of Better Homes &Garden's Do It Yourself magazine.
However, a homemade product, such as a mixture of white glue and water, may be less reliable and could yellow or decay over time. Kohoutek suggests using it only for kids' crafts that aren't meant to be saved.
"Making ornaments with kids that I want to have for posterity? Then I definitely want to buy the product that was made for that finish," Kohoutek said.
Some of her favorite decoupaging ideas in Do It Yourself magazine include a cheap dresser covered in marbled paper; accent walls; lampshades.
Hannah Milman, executive editorial director of crafts and holiday for Martha Stewart Living, suggests decoupaging leather handbags, backpacks, canvas shoes, bangles and other jewelry, phone covers, eyeglass cases, glass tumblers, notebooks, clothing, pencils, furniture knobs and headboards.
From Anderson, the blogger: Mason jars, large and small canvases, small decor items, suitcases and bicycle helmets.
Decoupaging is simple: Cut out items, if necessary; glue them to the surface of your choice; cover everything with another coat of decoupage glue; let it dry. Nearly any surface, except some plastics, can be decoupaged.
Wynia thinks Mod Podge has remained popular because it appeals to all creative levels. "You can work with it as a beginner and be satisfied, and you can take that product with you as you grow as a creative person," she said.
"I think what it touches on are some fine art skills," she said. "That's what we (as artists) want to do — we want to draw and paint and color."
Here's one project, the Black and White Mod Podge Shoes from Plaid Enterprises Inc.:
Mod Podge shoes
- Mod Podge Sparkle, 8 oz.
- Pair of women's shoes
- 1/2-inch flat brush
- Black and white paper
- napkins, attractively designed with three layers
- Scissors
Peel apart each napkin into the three layers. Cut the middle layer into squares, generally about an inch in size. You may need a few smaller and some rectangular pieces to fit your shoes.
Working a small section at a time, apply Mod Podge Sparkle to the shoe, and then adhere square napkin pieces one at a time to the wet Mod Podge. After each shoe is covered, allow them to dry.
Using other napkins, cut around the printed napkin design (such as a grouping of flowers). Glue these designs to the shoes. Allow to dry completely.
Apply Mod Podge Sparkle over each shoe to seal and protect. The more you add, the more sparkle you will get.
Tip: When gluing napkin pieces to the shoes, try picking up each square with your wet brush. This will keep your hands from getting sticky.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Somali-born student who went on a car-and-knife rampage at Ohio State University railed on Facebook against U.S. interference in Muslim lands. He warned, "If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace" with the Islamic State group, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.
The posts from Abdul Razak Ali Artan's account came to light after Monday's violence, which left 11 people injured.
Artan drove a car up onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of pedestrians shortly before 10 a.m. He then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was shot to death by a campus police officer.
Most of the victims were hurt by the car, and two had been stabbed, officials said. One had a fractured skull. Four remained hospitalized Tuesday.
Investigators are looking into whether it was a terrorist attack.
"America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that," he wrote, using the Arabic term for the world's Muslim community.
The posts were recounted by a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation but wasn't authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
"Every single Muslim who disapproves of my actions is a sleeper cell, waiting for a signal. I am warning you Oh America!" Artan also said.
Dozens of FBI agents began searching Artan's apartment for clues to what set off the rampage.
Artan was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.
A law enforcement official said Artan came to the United States in 2014 as the child of a refugee. He had been living in Pakistan from 2007 to 2014. It is not uncommon for refugees to go to a third-party country before being permanently resettled.
Upon arriving in the U.S., Artan was referred for a secondary Customs and Border Protection inspection, but nothing abnormal was found, according to a U.S. official who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to discuss it and spoke on condition of anonymity. A secondary inspection is often routine and based on someone's travel history and length of stay in certain countries.
Artan started college that fall and graduated with honors from Columbus State Community College last May, earning an associate of arts degree. A video of his graduation ceremony shows him jumping and spinning on stage and smiling broadly, drawing laughs, cheers and smiles from graduates and faculty members.
Classes for the 60,000 students at Ohio State, where Artan began taking classes this fall, were canceled after the attack but resumed Tuesday. The school planned a vigil for Tuesday night.
Students said they were nervous about returning and planned to take precautions such as not walking alone.
"It's kind of nerve-wracking going back to class right after it," said Kaitlin Conner, 18, of Cleveland, who said she had a midterm exam to take.
Ohio State's student newspaper, The Lantern, ran an interview in August with Artan in which he criticized the media's portrayal of Muslims and expressed concern about how he would be received on campus.
"I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what media portrays me to be," he told the newspaper. "If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the act bore the hallmarks of an attack carried out by someone who may have been self-radicalized.
In recent months, federal law enforcement officials have raised concerns about online extremist propaganda that encourages car or knife attacks, which are easier to pull off than bombings. The Islamic State group has urged sympathizers online to carry out lone-wolf attacks in their home countries with whatever weapons are available.
Artan was not known to the FBI before Monday's attack, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neighbors said he was always polite and attended daily prayers at a mosque on the city's west side.
Leaders of Muslim organizations and mosques in the Columbus area condemned the attacks while cautioning people against jumping to conclusions or blaming a religion or an ethnic group.
Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved, police said.


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Abrazo Medical Group announced today the launch of ZocDoc, a new service for patients that enables them to book appointments online with primary care and family physicians.
The service is available at some Abrazo Medical Group facilities throughout the Valley. Additional ones will be added in coming months.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder's long heritage with NASA planetary missions will continue Jan. 17 with the launch of a student space dust instrument on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
As the first student-built instrument ever selected by the space agency to fly on a planetary mission, the CU-Boulder Student Dust Counter, or SDC, will monitor the density of dust grains in space as New Horizons buzzes to Pluto and beyond. The dust grains are of high interest to researchers because they are the building blocks of the solar system's planets, said Research Associate Mihaly Horanyi of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, principal investigator for the student instrument.
The student team hopes to identify as-yet-undetected clumps of dust in the dust disk of the solar system caused by the gravity of the outer planets, said Horanyi, who is also a professor in the physics department. "This will help us to understand the formation of our own planets, as well as those seen in dust disks around other stars," he said.
"Just as importantly, this effort will provide students with an important role in a pioneering space mission for years to come," said Horanyi.
Instruments and experiments designed and built for NASA missions by CU-Boulder's LASP since the 1970s have visited Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In addition, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, now en route to Mercury, is carrying a $7 million device designed and built by CU-Boulder's LASP.
The SDC detector is a thin, plastic film resting on a honeycombed aluminum structure the size of a cake pan mounted on the outside of the spacecraft, said Horanyi. A small electronic box inside the spacecraft will function as the instrument's "brain" to assess each individual dust particle that strikes the detector during the mission.
The researchers are particularly interested in the dust that New Horizons will encounter in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains thousands of ancient, icy objects, said Horanyi. Kuiper Belt objects are thought to contain samples of ancient material formed in the solar system billions of years ago.
Microscopic-sized dust grains hitting the SDC will create unique electrical signals, allowing the CU-Boulder students to infer the mass of each particle, said CU-Boulder doctoral student David James, who has been working on the electronics of the dust detection system on SDC for the past two years. While the spacecraft will be in "sleep mode" for much of the cruise to Pluto, CU-Boulder's dust detector will remain turned on to catch space dust during the journey, James said.
The SDC team is comprised of CU-Boulder students from electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, journalism and business who designed and fabricated the instrument under the supervision of LASP faculty and staff. The students will share their findings and mission experiences with students and the public around the world via the Internet and public presentations.
"I never dreamed I would get the chance to actually work on a space mission as an undergraduate student," said Elizabeth Grogan, who began working on the SDC as software engineer while a senior at CU-Boulder. She now works at LASP as a research assistant on the New Horizons effort. "I got much more hands-on experience on this project than I could have ever gotten in a classroom," Grogan said.
The National Academy of Sciences has ranked the exploration of Pluto, its moon, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt among the highest priorities for space exploration, citing their importance in advancing the understanding of the solar system.
"We expect that several generations of CU-Boulder students will be involved in the mission during the next two decades," Horanyi said.
The New Horizons mission is led by the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies in Boulder under the direction of Alan Stern. New Horizons was designed and built at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., which will operate the spacecraft for NASA. The piano-sized probe will launch on a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Kennedy to begin its 10-year journey to Pluto.
The 1,000-pound probe, which will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, will approach Pluto and Charon as early as summer 2015. In addition to the dust counter, the instrument suite includes two cameras, two imaging spectrometers and two particle spectrometers to gather data on the surfaces, atmospheres and temperatures of Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt objects.
Horanyi said a group of current and former CU-Boulder students who worked on SDC are going to the Florida launch, many paying their own way from around the world. "Many of these students have moved on to other institutions and careers, but they are excited to see this mission finally launch," he said. "If all goes well, we will be having another reunion in 10 years when the spacecraft reaches Pluto."
For more information on CU-Boulder's SDC effort, visit the Web at http://lasp.colorado.edu/programs_missions/present/off_site/sdc.html. For information about New Horizons visit: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Websites that run annoying ads such as pop-ups may find all ads blocked by Google's Chrome browser starting next year.
The digital-ad giant's announcement comes as hundreds of millions of internet users have already installed ad blockers on their desktop computers and phones to combat ads that track them and make browsing sites difficult.
These blockers threaten websites that rely on digital ads for revenue. Google's version will allow ads as long as websites follow industry-created guidelines and minimize certain types of ads that consumers really hate. That includes pop-up ads, huge ads that don't go away when visitors scroll down a page and video ads that start playing automatically with the sound on.
Google says the feature will be turned on by default, and users can turn it off. It'll work on both the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome.
Google says that even ads it sells will be blocked on websites that don't get rid of annoying types of ads.
But there might not be vast changes online triggered by the popular browser's efforts. It's a "small number of websites that are disproportionately responsible for annoying user experiences," Google spokeswoman Suzanne Blackburn said.
"I'm sure there are some publishers who will get hurt," said Brian Wieser, an ad analyst with Pivotal Research Group. But in the long term, he says, cracking down on irritating ads should make the internet experience better, encouraging people to visit sites and click on links. That, in turn, benefits Google.
The company is also starting a program that could help publishers deal with users who have downloaded popular ad blockers. Some individual websites have come up with their own countermeasures. Forbes.com, for example, won't let you read stories without disabling your ad blocker or logging in with Facebook or Google accounts, so the site can track you.
Google would work with websites to set up messages telling users to disable their blockers for the site or pay for a version of it with no ads. It'll take a 10 percent cut of those payments.
To protect its ad business, Google has tried to improve user experiences in other ways. It launched a way for websites to load faster on phones. And it used its sway as the dominant search engine to push companies to make their sites mobile-friendly. Such sites show up higher in mobile searches.
Google also has tried to address advertisers' concerns about their ads running next to offensive content by banning its ads from some objectionable videos on YouTube, like those that promote discrimination or advocate illegal drug use. Google also won't place its ads on web pages with objectionable content — porn, for example, and or sites that promote suicide or violence.
Facebook, too, is trying to make links from inside its universe less spammy for users. It says it's trying to cut down on posts and ads in the news feed that lead to junky pages with "little substantive content" and "disruptive, shocking or malicious ads."


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DK Science: Medical Research
Huge resources are poured each year into studying diseases and finding new treatments. Some of the main focuses of research today are new drugs (including drugs to treat cancer and heart disease), improved artificial parts, the production of new vaccines, and the role of genes in disease. Another growing area is stem cell research. Stem cells are body cells from which all other types of cells form. Potentially, they could be laboratory-grown into a variety of human tissues, for use in body repair.
One day, it may be possible to introduce tiny robots, called nanorobots, into the body to carry out treatment missions. Medical treatments are just one possible application of the futuristic area of research known as nanotechnology.
An artificial hand works by means of sensors that can detect signals in the wearer's forearm muscles. A built-in microprocessor analyses the signals and orders the mechanical parts of the hand to open or close. A challenge in producing devices such as theseF is to get living tissue and nonliving material to work together. One focus is to find better ways of passing signals between human nerves and electronic devices.
Modern researchers often use computers to help design new medicines. For example, a scientist can use a computer model of a drug molecule and study how it interacts with a model of a target site in the body. The researcher can then make improvements to the molecule, allowing a virtual drug to be developed on computer before it is made and tested for real.
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