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Founded in 1969, a division of N-Stock Box, Argrov Box manufacturers and distributes corrugated boxes and packaging supplies providing Combo Packaging Solutions™. Our products include foam for packaging applications like insulating, separating and holding products in place. We offer Indentation ILD rated polyethylene foam and polyurethane foam in standard white and pink anti-static.
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Founded in 1934, Components has been leading in contract packaging. We offer product fulfillment services as well as custom packaging and point of purchase packaging. Our company is very proud of the custom packaging services we offer and the multitude of products that we package for our customers.
For more than 40 years, Consolidated Strategy Group has been a leader in packaging solutions through stock packaging and contract manufacturing. With our expert team, we are able to provide high-quality products and build long-lasting relationships with our customers.
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Established in 1976, Food Sciences Corporation remains committed to researching, designing and manufacturing functional nutrition products and developing comprehensive programs to combat the disease of obesity and its related chronic conditions.
Established in 1987, Gamer Packaging provides customized packaging solutions for companies in the food, beverage, cosmetic, and chemical industries. Our process includes custom designs, engineering support, prototyping, and sampling. We ensure our clients are equipped for success.
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Legacy Pharma Solutions is a full-service contract packager that serves the branded, generic, government, wholesale and major retail markets. Our services include Blistering, Unit-of-Use bottling solutions, Ecoslide compliance, secondary packaging services, and sterilization.
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Since 1969, Pouches, Inc. has been a leader in the contract packaging services industry, manufacturing towelettes and flexible packaging pouches. Using our integrity, experience and product variety, we give our customers the best value in pouching, contract packaging and custom packaging services.
R.A Jones is a global leader in the design and manufacturer of primary and secondary packaging machinery for the food, pharmaceutical, dairy, and consumer goods industries. Our primary packaging abilities range from aerosol cans and bottles to filling and sealing pouches and bags. We also offer multi-packing and cartoning machines. To top it off we offer training, field service, and refurbishments. With R.A. Jones, you can expect precision quality machinery.
At Ruspak, devotion to contract packaging, blister packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, medical packaging, cosmetics packaging and consumer product packaging is taken to new levels. Taking great care, we design a package to meet the high standards of all our customers.
Saddle Creek is a third-party logistics company providing warehousing, transportation, packaging and fulfillment services. We leverage our broad array of capabilities to deliver integrated solutions that support our customers' business objectives. For more information, visit sclogistics.com.
Let us be your contract packaging choice. We are a packaging company offering contract manufacturing and distribution as well. Since 1984 we have been a leader for fulfillment services, blister packaging, shrink wrapping, labeling and assembly. Our high volume services include cartoning and bagging.
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Visual Pak offers high-volume, custom contract packaging for a variety of products, such as home and personal care, household products and secondary food packaging. Our services include shrink packaging, thermoforming and blister packaging. Call us today for your packaging needs.
Since our inception in 1964 we have been providing exceptional contract packaging to customers around the world! Our dependable staff will work with you from design to delivery in order to ensure that we are providing you with a top of the line product that will fit your every need. We have over fifty years of experience and we want to put that experience to work for you! Visit our website today or get in touch via telephone to learn more!
Versatile Packagers currently provides a wide array of contract packaging services including, but not limited to, high speed blister packaging, high speed shrink-wrapping, clam shell packaging and other services such as labeling, UPC bar coding, gift set assembly, ink jet coding and more. Whatever product you need packaged, contact us today and allow our expertise bring success to your business.
For over 25 years, custom packaging and contract packaging services have been our number one priority. We are recognized for high-volume finishing and custom packaging, shrink packaging, labeling, blister packaging, specialty packaging and fulfillment services. ISO 9001-2000 certified.
WePackItAll has over 25 years experience in the packaging industry providing cost-effective packaging solutions for the nutrition, food and candy industries. We will do your job the way you want it by providing blister, bottling, secondary wrapping, 3 and 4 fin pack, pillow pack and liquid pack services.
We are a leading contract packaging company that has a wide range of experiences. We design protective foam packaging, presenting different cost alternatives for different degrees of protection for anything from toasters and circuit boards to the crating of MRI and cancer radiation machines. If you have any questions then please give one of our representatives a call today!


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text: Back Clostridium Difficile Toxin (Stool) Does this test have other names? C. diff, C. difficile What is this test? This is a test to look at your stool for toxins produced by Clostridium difficile bacteria. Your gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to many healthy bacteria, and sometimes C. difficile is one of them. But in some cases, taking broad-spectrum antibiotics can upset the balance of healthy bacteria in your gut and cause new or antibiotic-resistant strains of C. difficile to grow out of control. These germs can then release toxins into your GI tract, inflaming the colon and causing continuing diarrhea. The resulting illness can be serious, even life-threatening, if you have a weak immune system. Even if they are not taking antibiotics, people with a weak immune system often have an overabundance of C. difficile bacteria. Why do I need this test? Your doctor might order this test if you have any of these symptoms, especially if you are in the hospital or were recently taking antibiotics: Diarrhea that lasts longer than a few days Persistent watery diarrhea Blood or mucus in your stool Stomach pain, nausea, or fever, particularly if you have persistent diarrhea What other tests might I have along with this test? Your doctor might order other stool tests to look for C. difficile infection, such as a glutamate dehydrogenase, or GDH, test and a stool culture test. If your stool tests are negative, but your doctor still strongly suspects C. difficile infection, you may have a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy to help make a diagnosis. In this procedure, a doctor examines your colon with a very thin, flexible lighted tube that is equipped with a tiny video camera on the end. This infection is a major cause of illness and death among older adults who are in the hospital, so doctors are likely to test people in this group who develop persistent diarrhea after taking antibiotics. What do my test results mean? Many things may affect your lab test results. These include the method each lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your health care provider. A normal result for this stool test is negative, which means you had no C. difficile toxins in your sample. But this test result is not accurate all of the time. A small portion of people might have the infection even if the result is negative. If your doctor still suspects infection, he or she may do other tests. If your stool tests positive for C. difficile toxins, your doctor may decide that you have antibiotic-associated colitis, or inflammation of the colon. How is this test done? This test requires a stool sample. Your doctor will instruct you how to collect a sample into a disposable specimen container with a lid. Do not collect fecal material from the toilet bowl or put toilet paper into the specimen container. Does this test pose any risks? This test poses no known risks. What might affect my test results? Contaminating the stool sample with toilet water, urine, or other substances can make it unfit for testing or skew the results. How do I get ready for this test? You don't need to prepare for this test.


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So, remember when I posted all those episodes of Simon Singh's Five Numbers radio series on Pownce so that they'd have permanent URLs? Yeah, well, so much for that.
Fortunately Brian had saved all the MP3s. I've posted them on S3 and huffduffed them all. I can be fairly confident that Huffduffer won't be going the way of Pownce, Magnolia, Geocities, and so many more.
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|10-70 Bottles/min
|PLC Control
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|Filling Volume:
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Automatic Ejuice Filling Capping Labeling Machine For V3 Gorilla Bottle 60ml 100ml
Performance Feature
1. Workflow: bottle unscrambling→bottle washing (optional)→filling→adding dropper/(adding plug, adding cap)→screw capping→self adhesive labeling→ribbon printing (optional)→shrink sleeve labeling (optional)→inkjet printing (optional)→bottle collecting (optional)→cartoning (optional).
2. This machine use a mechanical arm to screw caps, equipped with automatic sliding device, to prevent damage to the cap.
3. Peristaltic pump or piston pump measuring, (if use piston pump, when the filling volume difference is large, the corresponding pump body needs to be replaced), accurate measurement, easy to control.
If use Peristaltic pump, machine can adjust filling volume on the touch screen, and when bottle is not enough, machine will stop filling automatically, avoid waste.
4. Filling system has suction / anti-drip device.
5. Color touch screen display, PLC control system, no bottle no filling (only peristaltic pump)/ no adding plug/ no capping.
6. The whole line is compact, high speed, high degree of automation, save the manpower cost.
7. Main electrical elements adopt foreign well-known brands.
8. Machine shell is made of 304 stainless steel, easy to clean, machine, meets GMP requirements.
This production line is mainly used for electronic cigarette oil, eye drop, essential oil, nail polish, eye shadow and other products fully automatic filling production.
|Filing head number
|Adding tips head
|Capping head number
|Filling volume
|10-120ml (Can be customized)
|10-70 bottles/min
|Filling accuracy
|≤ ±1% (depends on product)
|Pass rate
|≥ 98%
|Power supply
|1 Ph. 220V / 3ph. 380V 50/60Hz
|Total power
|Net weight
|About 1000kg
|Overall dimension
|L4600 × W4800 × H1600mm
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The spike in crop prices this year may be an early glimpse into a chronic food crisis that could unfold over the next forty years, says well-known money manager Jeremy Grantham.
We are "about five years into a chronic global food crisis that is unlikely to fade for many decades, at least until the global population has considerably declined from its likely peak of over nine billion in 2050," wrote GMO's Grantham in his recent quarterly letter to investors.
"It will threaten poor countries with increased malnutrition and starvation and even collapse," he added. "Resource squabbles and waves of food-induced migration will threaten global stability and global growth."
In the last three months alone, wheat prices are up 41 percent, corn is up 29 percent and prices for soybeans are up 17 percent.
The latest surge has been caused by horrific droughtconditions in the Midwest of the United States. But Grantham believes bigger forces than drought are at work here and these price increases are only the beginning.
Along with surging demand for food from a rapidly increasing global middle class, Grantham cites falling grain productivity, tainted water, rising costs of fertilizer and fuel, as well as climate change, as reasons for the seismic move to come.
"The ramifications of a global food crisis have already begun and were a key component of the Arab spring revolutions," said James Iuorio of TJM Institutional Services in response to the letter.
The assumption out there is that food production needs to jump by 60 to 100 percent by 2050 to adequately feed caloric intake of the 9 billion-plus people that will be around at that time, according to Grantham.
Grantham oversees one of the largest and notable money management firms in the world and has also started philanthropic organizations devoted to the environment. But since his main focus is investing, what does he suggest one do about this crisis from an investment standpoint?
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NEW YORK -- Madison Keys completed the clean sweep for American women, giving the host country all four U.S. Open semifinal spots for the first time in 36 years.
The 15th-seeded Keys served impeccably, controlled groundstroke exchanges from the baseline and was never in trouble during a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 418th-ranked qualifier Kaia Kanepi of Estonia that lasted only 69 minutes Wednesday night.
That came several hours after 20th-seeded CoCo Vandeweghe's 7-6 (4), 6-3 elimination of 2016 runner-up and top-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic. Pliskova's loss means she will be replaced at No. 1 in the rankings by Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza.
On Thursday, Keys faces Vandeweghe - with the winner reaching her first Grand Slam final - and No. 9 seed Venus Williams meets 83rd-ranked Sloane Stephens.
"Oh, my God, it feels so good. We have so many Americans to talk about in the last days of the U.S. Open," Keys said. "I can't tell you how many times I have sat in this chair and had to hear, you know, how horrible tennis is in America."
Williams, whose seven major championships include the 2000 and 2001 U.S. Opens, and Stephens won quarterfinals Tuesday.
"American tennis," said Stephens, seeking her debut in a major final, "is headed in the right direction."
Not since 1981 have there been four American women in the final four at the U.S. Open, when the quartet was champion Tracy Austin, runner-up Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Barbara Potter. It hadn't happened at any Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon four years after that.
While Williams is 37, the oldest semifinalist in tournament history, the other members of the remaining trio are all in their 20s.
Keys, 22, had a rough start to 2017, missing the first two months after offseason surgery on her left wrist, and then had another procedure in June because of lingering pain. She was terrific against Kanepi, who sat with a white towel over her head during changeovers and dropped to 0-6 in Grand Slam quarterfinals.
Keys set the tone in the opening game: ace at 108 mph, ace at 105 mph, service winner at 117 mph, service winner at 112 mph. She wound up with eight aces, part of a 23-8 in total winners.
"This means the world to me," said Keys, also a semifinalist at the 2015 Australian Open. "If someone told me this is where I would be, right before Wimbledon, I wouldn't have believed you."
The 25-year-old Vandeweghe, a niece of former NBA player and current league executive Kiki Vandeweghe, reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at the Australian Open in January. She was the junior champion in New York in 2008, but never had success in the main draw until now: Of her previous eight appearances, half ended in the first round, half in the second.
One difference this time at the U.S. Open: Vandeweghe switched coaches midway through the season, teaming up in June with 1987 Wimbledon champion Pat Cash, who was nominated Tuesday for the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The biggest way in which he's helped, Vandeweghe said, "is channeling my intensity and tenacity out onto the court and putting it into a singular focus."
"You will have to ask him how he's been able to do that. I don't really know. Maybe it's like some Jedi mind trick," said Vandeweghe, who still did not hide her emotions on court, such as when she cracked a racket against the ground after a second consecutive double-fault in the opening set.
Regardless, pretty much everything Vandeweghe did worked against Pliskova, who leads the tour in aces in 2017 but found her top means of attacking opponents neutralized Wednesday.
Vandeweghe wound up with more aces, 5-2, and even produced three service winners.
"My best asset today was making her continually play on her service games. Whether it was not a great return that just got over the net, I know as a big server it's really annoying when your serve keeps coming back," Vandeweghe said. "I know that's what my main focus was - just to get it back, not have her have a free point too easily."
Pliskova did not exactly heap praise on her opponent afterward.
"Now I can say I was not playing my best tennis this tournament," she said. "She can play much worse than she was playing today. I can play much better than I was playing today. I didn't feel the best."
Pliskova, who is from the Czech Republic, also offered this assessment of Vandeweghe: "She just (has) one plan, so either it's working or it's not."


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There were four offers on it but one of them was ahead of mine. I was the backup buyer, but it didn't fall out of escrow for me to buy it. If I had bought that house in Sunny Glen, I probably wouldn't have gotten involved in city politics or started writing the San Ramon Observer, but I'll save that story for later blog.
The house I eventually bought isn't in Sunny Glen but it is in San Ramon and not in Dublin, or Pleasanton, or Castro Valley, where I also looked. I could have bought a comparable house in Dublin for less money, but despite what some of my critics have accused me of, I prefer living in San Ramon (but I like shopping in Dublin). I briefly looked in Danville, and yes, I could have bought a townhouse or duet there for about the same amount as my house, but I still preferred living in San Ramon.
Many people would love to live in San Ramon but are not able to afford it, especially seniors on fixed incomes. A few years ago the City Council approved a senior development at the Church on the Hill on San Ramon Valley Blvd. for low income seniors. The builder is accepting applications now until February 25th. Five hundred applicants will be selected by lottery and then that pool will be considered for the 105 apartments available.
Another senior housing project is planned for the abandoned bank building on Alcosta. That building has been vacant for many years and is scheduled to be torn down soon to make way for low cost senior housing. Neighbors would like to see the old building gone for good.
Affordable housing for seniors is rarely controversial, but workforce housing has a different image. Questions have been raised at public hearings and on these blogs about why the city wants to add so much housing to the updated General Plan 2030. One reason frequently mentioned is the legal requirement for workforce housing by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and/or the San Francisco Bay area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). See story on Bay Area housing in Saturday's Contra Costa Times.
The goal of these laws is to cut the amount of traffic on freeways by requiring cities to have housing for jobs in the city. The rationale is that people who work in a city would be able to afford to live there and wouldn't commute long distances to work, clogging up the freeways and causing air pollution. The people who passed these laws (our esteemed State Assembly), must be living in an idealistic dream world. They clearly don't live in California, which was built on freeways.
The San Ramon City Council is planning up to 1500 housing units in the North Camino Ramon Specific Plan. Some residents and business owners object to putting residential units downtown. I'm against using the Toyota property for this, but there are other office buildings and strip malls that could include housing in a second or third story. Existing buildings would have to be built up or torn down, but the new buildings would be more modern, efficient, and LEED certified with apartments, condominiums, or townhouses incorporated into a mixed use neighborhood.
If there's a furniture store on the first floor, the sales clerks and cashiers could live on the second or third floor. Their units would be affordable, and not require driving to work. That's the goal of this kind of planning, which has worked in other places. Infill development makes it easier for people to live where they work and to be able to afford it. What's wrong with that?
Tuesday night the City Council will consider reactivating the City's Housing Authority program. This will take the place of the Redevelopment Agency, which has been used to revitalize older neighborhoods for the last 14 years. Governor Brown wants the State to take over redevelopment agencies, so the City Council is looking elsewhere to keep control over affordable housing in San Ramon.
The Planning Commission will also be holding two more Public Hearings on the update to the 2020 General Plan, which still includes zoning the North Camino Ramon area for up to 1500 new housing units.
The checker at Lucky's, the waitress at Max's Diner, and your aging mother or father need somewhere to live that's convenient to where they work and people they want to visit. So those of you for or against these plans should try to attend one or more of these meetings to let the City Council and/or Planning Commissioners know whether you want affordable housing downtown or out of town.


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Jillian + Blaine wedding
We interrupt our regular 2018 recaps pt 3 and 4 to bring you the wedding of Jillian + Blaine! In actuality, we're not even half way through 2018 blog posts as we're so behind. Thanks for staying tuned into our wedding photography adventures in Edmonton, Alberta and around the world! The wedding of Jillian + Blaine was such an amazing fun event. The theme was Disney related - Beauty and the Beast? A crazy fun wedding party, horse drawn carriage, hand crafted decor to suit the theme, and some of the most amazing venues including the Grand Ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, and the Fantasyland Hotel!Read More


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How to Be Awesome at Networking
People can smell a networking play a mile away. Here's how to build meaningful connections over time and let them pay off in the long run.
Reach out when someone is down. When a coworker or work contact gets let go or demoted, get in touch with her right away, and continue to check in every few months. Tell her how much you miss her, and ask what you can do to help. These people will be back, and they'll forever remember your kindness. That's good karma that may turn into a professional opportunity.
Stay in touch with former colleagues. Keep on the radar of people you've worked with—bosses, cube-mates, etc. You can do this without being pushy by sending a nonintrusive "just touching base" e-mail or an "I thought you'd like this article" e-mail.
Say thank you often. People love getting credit—including for your successes. Scored a new job? Send a former boss or your internship supervisor an e-mail or note: "Thank you for helping me develop the skills that allowed me to get to this point." A genuine thank you makes a powerful impression.
Help your coworkers and contacts. I call it following through on being a great person. Whenever you can, do a non-work-related favor for someone, like offering to chat with your boss's kid about your alma mater as she decides where to apply to college or connecting people who have a career interest in common.
Have coffee with a competitor. Meet often with other people in your field, peers as well as managers and HR offices. As long as you're not passing on proprietary info or gossip about your company or coworkers (major no-nos), meeting someone who works at a different company is not "cheating" on your employer. It makes you more valuable because you're connecting with what's fresh, buzzy, and relevant in your industry. Plus, the new contact will see how smart and amazing you are and think of you for future openings at her company.
Talk to strangers. Everyone you meet is a potential contact. The friend of a friend you meet at your cousin's holiday party could have a great lead for you. Even if she's on a different career path, she could introduce you to technology your company could use or give you an idea for solving a problem at work or even tell you about a job opening you'd never have heard about otherwise.
Be blunt. If you're hitting up a contact for some job help, don't dance around what you want out of the interaction. Be transparent. Hopefully, you've laid the groundwork and they'll move the moon for you.


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02/11/2019 / By Mike Adams
In a series of shocking "demand" emails containing screen captures showing lists of Natural News articles, Apple has demanded Natural News stop publishing articles critical of abortions or Satanism, threatening to block the Natural News app from all Apple devices if Apple's demands are not met.
This is the first time that a dominant tech company has overtly come out in defense of Satanism while threatening to censor a prominent publisher that exposes the evils of Satanic influence. Many people will see this as yet more proof that Apple, along with other tech giants, is literally aligned with Satan and is exploiting its power of censorship to silence those who criticize Satanism.
With Democrats now openly pushing infanticide and the legalization of the serial killing of infants, tech giants like Apple are serving as the censorship "speech police" to silence all criticism of the gruesome practice. In threatening Natural News over our coverage of infanticide and abortions, Apple is staking out the position of being pro-infanticide, and anyone who dares to speak up for innocent children is deemed by Apple to be engaged in "hate speech."
Yes, you read that correctly: Speaking out to stop the mass murder of newborns is now "hate speech" according to the deranged, mentally ill Leftists who run Apple, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Facebook and Snapchat. Techno-fascism has now become a movement of mass infanticide that demands the silencing of those who oppose it. "Hate speech" means standing up for the innocent and demanding an end to the murder of children.
Here's one of the many screen shots sent to Natural News by Apple, along with a warning that these stories would result in our app being blocked:
Apple claims all these articles are "objectionable content" that people might find "offensive."
Some of the headlines named by Apple as "objectionable" include these important reports on Satanism, vampirism and blood harvesting from children, vaccines, cannabis, freedom of speech, the failed war on drugs, anti-Semitism and much more:
Left-wing media run by actual demon-possessed anti-human EVIL entities… watch this stunning mini-documentary
You can now buy blood harvested from young people in America … "Young blood" for sale in San Francisco
Covington Catholic student caught up in bogus "racist" incident with Native American provocateur BEGS local media to print the truth
Bill Gates and the World's Elite DO NOT VACCINATE their own children… and for good reason
How California totally screwed up a potential windfall of tax revenues on legalized cannabis
America's "War on Drugs" declared a total failure as flow of deadly drugs across the open border continues to worsen
Mandatory vaccination is something that Hitler would have happily pushed as compatible with the Third Reich
The Left is trying to destroy free-speech social media platform Gab following Pittsburgh synagogue shootings
Brighteon.com declares video platform no place for Jew haters and those who espouse violence against people of faith
Google Chrome browser gives "Critical Error" notice when you play Project Veritas videos EXPOSING crooked deep-state "Democratic" communists
Top 5 harmful health narratives the U.S. government and the chronic sick-care industrial complex will NEVER abandon
Racist New York Times was a holocaust denier, covered up mass genocide of Jews
Tech giants' censorship is an online ETHNIC CLEANSING campaign, equivalent to intellectual genocide
Here's another screen shot sent to Natural News by Apple, along with demands to remove all this content or face the consequences:
There are more screen shots, too, sent to Natural News by Apple, indicating that Apple is trolling all Natural News content and trying to find examples of stories to be "offended" about. Some of the other content the Apple says is "offensive" includes articles about abortion, infanticide, censorship, the LGBT agenda and illegal migration.
We must all fight back against Apple censorship. There are several ways you can help us do that. We need your help to take action now and let Apple know that we will not be silent in the face of techno-fascism and censorship:
First, fill out this Apple feedback form for the iPhone, and tell them you don't want Apple censoring the Natural News app:
You can also Tweet to the official Apple account (assuming you haven't yet been banned by Twitter, another evil tech giant). The official accounts of interest include:
When you tweet Apple, tell them to stop trying to control Natural News and stop censoring our app.
Finally, watch and share my full explanation here:
Like all the tech giants, Apple has been consumed by truly demonic forces and now demands the silencing of all those who oppose evil, murder or tyranny.
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Recently, we—like, quite possibly, you—became aware that there were some rumors working their way around the internet suggesting that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is gay. While not in any way convincing, the rumors were intriguing enough that we did a bit of reporting on them. That reporting quite strongly suggested that the story was a dry well.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to get anyone willing to talk about it on the record, which we'd have liked to do if just because the online economy is set up so that a false story, if it goes unaddressed long enough, will become true through sheer repetition, as the vitality of stories about how Barack Obama is a Kenyan usurper demonstrates. Fortunately, Rodgers went on the radio today and addressed the rumors directly.
And that's pretty much that. Aaron Rodgers is a much better authority on whether Aaron Rodgers is gay than that one guy you know whose brother lives in Green Bay, and he says Aaron Rodgers isn't gay. It would be really great if the first out NFL player were a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who ranks among the best players of his generation, but it looks not to be so. Alas.
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A Jewish father was concerned about his son who was about a
year away from his Bar Mitzvah but was sorely lacking in his
knowledge of the Jewish faith.
To remedy this, he sent his son to Israel to experience his
heritage. A year later the young man returned home.
"Father, thank you for sending me to the land of our Fathers,"
the son said. "It was wonderful and enlightening, however, I
must confess that while in Israel I converted to Christianity."
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friend and sought his advice and solace.
"It is amazing that you should come to me," stated his friend,
"I too sent my son to Israel and he returned a Christian."
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"I too sent my son to Israel and he returned a Christian. What
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Are You Really Ready for Love? The Capacity to Receive Love
- Dr. David B. Hawkins The Relationship Doctor
- 2007 2 Feb
We are well on our way to discovering, and hopefully developing, the traits needed to really be ready for love. How are you faring so far? Are you letting go of the desire to influence, control, manipulate or even coerce your mate into being that exact specimen of loveliness you had originally imagined? Are you ready to accept and love him or her for who they are? Are you able to express love freely in word and action? If so, you may be ready for the next task on your way to readiness for love: the capacity to receive love.
Some of you may be surprised at this one. How did it get on the list? Isn't everyone ready and able to receive love? Aren't we all self-centered individuals constantly seeking someone to love us? Yes, and no.
The truth of the matter is that many have not developed the skill to openly discuss their "love languages" – what is hoped for and expected as far as expressions of love – and so do not know how to even really ask for love. While it may seem simple, helping someone to know how to offer us love can be quite complex. It requires skill and practice to inform your mate on the specifics of how you prefer to be loved. Let me offer an example.
Stan and Mary have been dating for nearly two years and came to see me after being referred by their pastor. They were both in their late twenties and were ready for a serious relationship leading to marriage.
In the past few months, however, in discussing marriage and what that means for them, they have discovered a communication problem regarding expressing affection. Mary feels as though she often gives more than she receives, while Stan is frustrated because he is unclear about what she wants and needs. This has created tension in their relationship.
"We love each other," Mary began. "I can't imagine being without him. But, I'm not getting what I need lately."
"And what is that?" I questioned.
At that point Stan jumped in.
"This is the thing that frustrates me. Sometimes I come over in the evening and ask her what she needs, and she just pouts. It drives me nuts."
"I don't know exactly what I need. All I know is that when we met it seemed to happen naturally. I hate even having to ask for affection."
In talking with Stan and Mary, they admitted to slacking off in showing each other affection and were now unsure as to what each expected from the relationship. I suggested we talk about not only how they show love, but their capacity to receive love.
As we explored their love languages, both were surprised at how little each really knew about the other. Mary, particularly, discovered that she had difficulty in sharing how she preferred to be loved, always assuming that expressions of love would simply come to her automatically. She found it was hard to ask for what she needed or desired. She shared how, because of rejection early in her life, she had always had a tough time fully permitting herself to be loved. If it came naturally, she could usually accept it, but she was afraid to verbalize what she really wanted. We explored these issues in their counseling and the impact on their relationship.
There are two broad reasons why some people cannot easily allow themselves to ask for, or let love in: they are afraid of it, or they feel they don't deserve it. Consider the possibility that you may fear intimacy. You may feel unsafe and so deprive yourself of the gift of closeness.
If you have a deficiency in your capacity to receive love, there are several questions you should ask yourself:
- Am I afraid to let love in? To acknowledge receiving it? Why? What is the danger?
- What happened in my childhood experiences with love that made it dangerous
- Were my needs for love ignored? Were my efforts to get love somehow punished?
- Have later experiences with romantic love been so disappointing or traumatic that I have shut down my receptors and responsiveness to another person's love?
- Have I become wary and cynical about the possibility of being genuinely loved?
- Am I ashamed to show another person that I would like his or her love?
To receive love, obviously, we must be open about our desire for love – and our love language. Do you let your needs for love be known? When feeling hurt or rejected, how easy is it to share your feelings? Do you respond passive-aggressively by withdrawing, pouting, putting up a wall? Try to catch your relationship-destroying ways of blocking the other person's love and to understand the reasons why you play such dirty tricks on yourself.
The scriptures talk about loving your neighbor as you love yourself. But we forget this. Many of us find it easier to love others than we do to love ourselves, or to ask for love. Brennan Manning, in his wonderful book, "The Ragamuffin Gospel," surmised that perhaps the scripture that talks about "in as much as you have done it unto the least of these" could really be talking about you and me. We are often the needy ones who block others from getting too close to us.
Here is an exercise I would like you to try with your mate.
- Tell your mate the qualities you would like to be lovingly recognized and appreciated for – .i.e. preparing meals for dinners together;
- State how you would like that love to be shown – i.e. words of affirmation,
- Tell them exactly what is your love language – i.e. to be hugged often in a loving way;
- Share with your mate how any childhood issues get in the way of receiving love – i.e. you fear rejection if you ask for what you desire;
- Notice the feelings of shame or embarrassment you have in completing this exercise.
We all need love. And lots of it. Are you ready to talk about your need for it, and even share the specific ways you would like it? Are you actively healing from any difficulties in childhood that may sabotage your openness to love? If so, you may really be ready for love.
David Hawkins, PhD., has worked with couples and families to improve the quality of their lives by resolving personal issues for the last 30 years.
He is the author of over 18 books, including "Love Lost: Living Beyond a Broken Marriage," "Saying It So He'll Listen," and "When Pleasing Others Is Hurting You." His newest book, "When the Man in Your Life Can't Commit," releases February 2006. Dr. Hawkins grew up in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and lives on the South Puget Sound where he enjoys sailing, biking, and skiing. He has active practices in two Washington cities.


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(visited by Jim Wilcox)
31-Mar-2002 -- On a trip out to the Nullarbor with the Subaru club our second night out from Perth was camping at Cocklebiddy Cave.
The track to the cave passes within about 4km of the confluence and the country is very flat with little tall vegetation so we drove across to the confluence. We found a survey point about 200m from the confluence. We built a small cairn of stones to mark the spot.


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So much myth and mystique surrounds the topic of "white Indians" that it's often difficult to tell fact from fiction. In this article, I address those individuals who made the transition to adoptive status. Documented cases exist of white children being raised by Native tribes, but those who never rejoined European life rarely wrote memoirs. I have already written about the ten-year-old boy discovered by George Percy in 1607. There is no other historical record of him, and we can only speculate as to who he was, but most likely he was born within the Arrohatec tribe and one of his parents had been from said tribe.
Life was extremely harsh for the Europeans when settling the North American continent, and some preferred to take their chances with the Indians, rather than starve to death among their kinsmen. George Percy wrote in Trewe Relacyon that "many" ran off to join the Indians. The fact that such an act became punishable by death suggests that it was more commonplace than historians care to admit.
Not many records remain from 17th-century Virginia, except for a few individuals who returned to English society. One woman was shipped back to England in fear that she would run off again to rejoin her Indian family.
Few tribal people willingly joined European society, but why did so many Europeans remain living with their "captors" even when given opportunities to return? Was the draw simply due to survival, or was something more at work? Survival was certainly a large issue. The indigenous people knew the land, where to find food and how to gather it. More importantly, they usually shared food equally.
In spite of all of the stories the colonists spread about the indigenous people being "savages," women were rarely raped by Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries. The tribes that the first Europeans encountered had strict incest taboos. A warrior simply did not violate his future kin, or he would have been disgraced.
Captives went through various adoption rituals that included dressing like a member of the tribe, and being introduced to their new families. In some tribes, men were required to run the gauntlet or some other act of bravery in order to survive. Women and children were taken in more frequently, and in time, those who were adopted, regardless of gender, were given equality within the tribe. Some captives even attained the level of chiefs.
Mary Jemison, a late-18th-century captive had this to say, "They were strictly honest; they despised deception and falsehoods...," and another 18th-century captive, John Brickell said, "The Delawares are the best people to train up children I ever was with. They never whip, and scarce ever scold them." J. Hector de Crevecoeur, an outside observer in Letters from an American Farmer, probably says it best why many of the captives remained,
"...there must be in their social bond something singularly captivating, and far superior boasted of among us; for thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those Aborigines having choice become Europeans! There must be something more congenial to our native dispositions, than the fictitious society in which we live; or else why should children, and even grown persons, become in a short time so invincibly attached to it?"
In the mid-18th century, peace treaties came into existence that all white "captives" were required to be returned. Many only responded to Indian names, spoke Native languages, and preferred the less restrictive clothing. Some had to be tied or jailed in order to keep them from returning to their Native families. While most captives didn't try to escape, they were outcasts in the culture that had "saved" them, especially the women who had married Native men and given birth to "mixed" children.
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SVLK – Indonesia's timber legality assurance system
What is SVLK?
SVLK (Sistem Verificasi Legalitas Kayu) is the acronym of Indonesia's national timber legality assurance system, which is a mandatory legality and sustainability certification system built on a national multistakeholder consensus.
Is SVLK enough to prove the legality of the wood?
Yes. Under Indonesian law, SVLK certification and related documents (SVLK certificates and export licences called V-Legal Documents) constitute proof of legality for Indonesian timber products. Until the start of FLEGT licensing, Indonesian products with a V-Legal Document that are exported to the EU will have to go through the normal due diligence process under the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR). Once FLEGT licensing starts, FLEGT-licensed products will be considered comply with the EUTR requirements, meaning that no due diligence is required.


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Gavin McLaughlin, Solutions Development Director, X-IO Technologies
As Solutions Development Director for X-IO Technologies, Gavin McLaughlin has over 25 years of experience in the IT business. He has held senior positions at EMC, Sun Microsystems and HP where he focused on helping organisations bridge the gap between storage architectures and business solutions.
Now driving X-IO Technologies focus in the EMEA marketplace, Gavin has become a regular speaker on solid state storage and the need for high performance data management.


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The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of iDevices under Arch Linux.
Required Packages[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
To interact with iOS devices with thunar or GNOME Files, install gvfs-afc包 and usbmuxd包. Remember restart X afterwards. Now iOS devices should show up in thunar or Files. Not tested with KDE file managers.
Changing iPod Mountpoint[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Traditional iPods are accessed just like a normal USB storage device containing a vfat file system (in rare cases
hfsplus), and can be accessed as such. See the USB storage devices article for detailed instructions.
If udisks2 is running, it will mount an attached iPod to
/run/media/$USER/iPod name (the older udisks will use
/media/<iPod name>).
If the volume label of your iPod is long, or contains a mixture of spaces, and/or lower-case and capital letters, it may present an inconvenience. You may easily change the volume label for more expedient access using
dosfslabel from the dosfstools包 package:
- Get and confirm the current volume label:
# dosfslabel /dev/sdXY
- Set the new volume label:
# dosfslabel /dev/sdXY ArchPod
- Unmount the device:
$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdXY
- Mount it again:
$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdXY
/dev/sdxx is the current device node of your iPod.
Importing videos and pictures[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Both videos and photos can be found in typically in
HTML5 videos[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Typically you want to convert MOV files to a HTML5 video format like OGV using ffmpeg2theora. Note that the creation date metadata is not in the converted video, so you need to use a script like:
#!/usr/bin/sh find -name "*.MOV" | while read mov do d=$(gst-discoverer-0.10 -v $mov | awk '/datetime:/{print $2}' | tr -d \") base=${mov%.*} if test -f $base.ogv then touch -d${d} $base.ogv ls -l $base.ogv else echo $base.ogv missing fi done
And use
cp -a or
rsync -t in order to preserve the file's date & time.
Importing pictures and deleting them[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
You can move photos and videos out of
<mountpoint>/DCIM/100APPLE, however you need to trigger a rebuild of the "Camera Roll" database by deleting the old databases.
# rm Photos* com.apple.photos.caches_metadata.plist
Converting video for iPod[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Gen 5/5.5[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Handbrake[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Handbrake is a nifty tool with presets for a variety of iPod versions. CLI and GTK versions are available from pacman as handbrake-cli包 and handbrake包 respectively.
If you do decide to take the CLI way, a good guide is available at http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide[失效链接 2020-08-02 ⓘ].
DVD to iPod[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Get from: podencoderAUR[损坏的链接:package not found]
Depends on: aur/gpac mplayer
Has detailed help, and is fairly self explanatory.
An alternative is to use a method suggested at DVD Ripping then use one of the programs listed below to convert that to an iPod-friendly format.
Video File to iPod[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Get from: http://thomer.com/howtos/mp4ize[失效链接 2020-12-27 ⓘ]
Depends on: mplayer包
This is a Ruby script to convert video files to an mp4 suitable for an iPod or iPhone.
More Advanced/Configurable Methods[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Avidemux[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Install avidemux-gtk包[损坏的链接:replaced by avidemux-qt包] or avidemux-qt包 from the official repositories.
This can convert to mp4 files. If you enforce a hard max of bit rate @ 700ish and keep the video size to 720x480 or 320x240 than it works fine for video file exporting.
Mencoder[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Install the mplayer包 package from the official repositories.
Has extremely comprehensive configuration support, which will be able to spit out iPod-compatible video files. Check out mencoder(1); a lot of MPlayer opts will also affect encoding.
A basic guide is also available at MEncoder.
An example command to encode iPhone/iPod Touch-compatible video:
mencoder INPUT -o output.mp4 \ -vf scale=480:-10,harddup \ -oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:object=2:raw:br=128 \ -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 \ -ovc x264 -x264encopts nocabac:level_idc=30:bframes=0
FFMpeg[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Install the ffmpeg包 package from the official repositories.
Another encoder with comprehensive configuration support. Example command to encode for 5G iPod:
$ ffmpeg -vcodec xvid -b 300 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 \ -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 96 -i INPUT -s 320x240 \ -aspect 4:3 output.mp4
or iPod Touch/iPhone compatible video output:
$ ffmpeg -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -maxrate 1000 -b 700 -qmin 3 -qmax 5\ -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 192 -s 480×320 -aspect 4:3 -i INPUT output.mp4
iPhone/iPod Touch[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Introduction[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
By default, neither the iPhone nor the iPod Touch present mass storage capability over USB, though there exist two solutions for accessing your files.
The first is to mount your device through the FUSE file system SSHFS. This requires jailbreaking, which can be done on any major OS using e.g. Absinthe for recent iOS versions. After jailbreaking, an SSH server will also need to be installed on the device, which can be done through the Cydia program, installed on the device during the jailbreak process.
The second is to use a FUSE file system called ifuse包, which allows you to mount your device through USB, as you normally would. After installing ifuse, for instance, you should see your iPhone appear in the left navigation of Gnome Files and other supporting file managers. This method requires no hacking and is in general the better solution, though be aware that the software is still under heavy development. As of late, however, it has proven to be rather reliable and stable.
Refer to this page:[1]
Making Friends with the Device[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
The SSHFS Way[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
After this the easiest way to properly initialise a few things on the device's side is with the iPod convenience script. This is available in the AUR as ipod-convenienceAUR[损坏的链接:package not found]
Next do
modprobe fuse to actually load the fuse module. You may also want to add it to your MODULES array in
/etc/rc.conf to have it loaded on boot.
A few things may need changing in the script, depending on your setup. If you do not use sudo, replace:
sudo lsusb -v -d 05ac: | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}' | cut -b1-16 | xargs printf "FirewireGuid: 0x%s" >> $MOUNTPOINT/iTunes_Control/Device/SysInfo
su -c "lsusb -v -d 05ac: | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}' | cut -b1-16 | xargs printf \"FirewireGuid: 0x%s\" >> $MOUNTPOINT/iTunes_Control/Device/SysInfo"
in the file /usr/share/ipod-convenience/mount-umount. You may also need to replace:
PROCESS=`ssh root@$IPADDRESS ps x | grep MobileMusicPlayer | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
PROCESS=`ssh root@$IPADDRESS ps ax | grep MobileMusicPlayer | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
(I'm not sure under what circumstances this is necessary; it was on my iPod Touch running 2.2.1, and it will not have any adverse affect under other firmware version)
After that, edit the
/etc/default/ipod-convenience file with details of your device's IP address, and create the mount point, which is
/media/ipod by default (make sure to set the permissions correctly if you want it accessible by a regular user)
To actually mount the device, run
ipod-touch-mount or
iphone-mount (they both do exactly the same thing so it does not matter which). This should prompt for the root password of the device twice, which is 'alpine' by default in firmware versions 1.1 and up. This will need to be done every time you want to sync. (This can be done without having to type the password each time by using SSH keys - see Using SSH Keys for more information)
The iFuse Way[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
You will need to install usbmuxd, libplist, libimobiledevice, ifuse. As libimobiledevice is required by ifuse and usbmuxd, you can pull in all four with:
# pacman -S ifuse usbmuxd libplist
Now make sure that you have the fuse module loaded by doing
modprobe fuse, assuming that you do not have it in
/etc/modules-load.d/ already.
You can now mount your device. Make sure it is unlocked before you plug it in, or it will not be recognized.
# ifuse <mountpoint>
The mountpoint field is where you want to have it mounted.
And you are done! You should be able to point your syncing software of choice to the mount point and be able to transfer files.
To unmount your device:
# umount <mountpoint>
Generating HashInfo file[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
If you have not previously synced your device using iTunes specifically, you will get error messages telling you that the HashInfo file is missing. This can be fixed by making an iTunes installation on MacOS or Windows create it (by plugging in the iPod there). Alternatively you can create this file yourself, instructions can be found on this website.
Unobfuscating the Database[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Since firmware version 2.0, Apple has obfuscated the music database. If you are using recent firmware, the file
/System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml can be modified to enable use of the older, non-obfuscated database. Replace:
<key>DBVersion</key> <integer>4</integer>
<key>DBVersion</key> <integer>2</integer>
Then reboot your device.
If syncing fails with "ERROR: Unsupported checksum type '0' in cbk file generation!", you may need to leave this at 4. libgpod seems to expect a hashed database.[失效链接 2020-08-02 ⓘ]
Syncing[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Use your favourite iPod-compatible program. Individual configuration will vary, but in general, pointing your program to your specified mount point should yield good results.
After you have synced, run
ipod-touch-umount (or
iphone-umount, depending on your taste) to unmount the SSHFS file system and restart the
MobileMusicPlayer process on the device, so that the new music database is read.
If you used iFuse, simply type:
# umount <mountpoint>
You will still need to reload the MobileMusicPlayer process. If your device is not jailbroken, then you are stuck restarting it.
The iFuse Way - iPhone OS 3.x and 4.x[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Warning: this software is considered unstable and should probably not be used in a productive environment
Make sure you already installed base-devel, which contains several programs needed to compile your new components. If you did not, just run:
# pacman -S base-devel
which will install everything you will need.
You will need to install libplist包, libimobiledevice包, libgpod包, usbmuxd包 and ifuse包.
Now make sure that you have the fuse module loaded by doing
modprobe fuse, assuming that you do not have it in /etc/rc.conf already.
Check if the group "usbmux" has been created and add your user using
# gpasswd -a <user> usbmux
To make sure the new rules apply, execute
$ udevadm control --reload-rules
and plug in your iPod/iPhone.
Run as ROOT:
# usbmuxd
Now you should the be able to mount your device by running
$ ifuse ~/ipod
or similar. Make sure the directory used exists and is accessible to your user.
Mount the device and create the iTunes_Control/Device directory. Then, get your UUID. It should be in the syslog from usbmuxd, or you can find it by running
$ lsusb -v | egrep "iSerial.*[a-f0-9]{40}"
It should be 40 characters long. Then, run
$ ipod-read-sysinfo-extended <uuid> <mountpoint>.
This should generate a file named
Now, start up your favourite app, it should detect the device via libgpod. I recommend using gtkpod-git for the time being, as that is what the libgpod developers seem to be using for debugging purposes.
~/.gtkpod folder and retry. Note that gtkpod will forget your preferences.
Rhythmbox[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Rhythmbox uses the Gnome Virtual File System to detect mobile devices. If using the iFuse way, gvfs-afc needs to be installed:
# pacman -S gvfs-afc
iPod Classic/Nano3g[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
You need to set up the iPod to make libgpod able to find its FireWire ID. For this, you will need to get your FireWire ID manually
1) Mount the iPod as a rw mount point. In the following example, I will use
2 ) Find the serial number by typing
# lsusb -v | grep -i Serial
this should print a 16 character long string like 00A1234567891231 (it will have no colons or hyphens)
3) Once you have that number, create or edit
/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo. Add to that file the line below:
FirewireGuid: 0xffffffffffffffff
(replace ffffffffffffffff with the 16 digit string you obtained at the previous step and do not forget the leading 0x before the string)
Your iPod can now be managed with Amarok or gtkpod.
iPod Shuffle 1st and 2nd generation[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
Due to the simple structure of the Shuffle (compared to the "big" iPods), it is possible to use the player almost like any other USB flash MP3 player. What is necessary is rebuild_db.py file stored in the iPod's root directory. Simply copy MP3 files onto the iPod Shuffle (sub-folders are allowed too) and run:
$ python2 /path/to/rebuild_db.py
iPod management apps[编辑 | 编辑源代码]
- Rhythmbox
- GTK interface (GNOME)
- Is part of the official GNOME projects.
- Fast, light interface.
- Manage music on your computer and iPod
- Download or stream podcasts and video podcasts
- Queue up songs and podcasts
- Last.fm integration
- Live radio stations
- Jamendo and Magnatune support
- Audio CD burning
- Album cover display
- Song lyrics display
- DAAP sharing
- Banshee
- GTK interface (GNOME)
- Uses Mono so it is slower and more resource hogging than rhythmbox
- Device Sync: Sync your music and videos to your Android, iPod, or other device - or import its media
- Podcasts: Download or stream podcasts and video podcasts
- Play Queue: Queue up songs, videos, and podcasts, or let the Auto DJ take over
- Shuffle Modes: Shuffle (or Auto DJ) by artist, album, rating, or even songs' acoustic similarity
- Album Art: Artwork is automatically fetched as you listen
- Powerful Search, Smart Playlists: Find exactly what you want, fast
- Video Support: All the power of Banshee, now for your videos
- Yamipod
- GTK interface (GNOME)
- super lightweight application for managing ONLY music on your iPod (not on your computer)
- easy ratings edit
- PC to iPod synchronization
- News RSS and podcasts to iPod upload
- Last.fm support
- playlist support
- gtkpod
- GTK interface (GNOME)
- Read your existing iTunesDB (i.e. import the existing contents of your iPod including play counts, ratings and on-the-go playlists).
- Add MP3, WAV, M4A (non-protected AAC), M4B (audio book), podcasts, and various video files (single files, directories or existing playlists) to the **iPod. You need a third party product to download podcasts, like 'bashpodder' or 'gpodder'
- View, add and modify Cover Art
- Browse the contents of your local hard disk by album/artist/genre by adding all your songs to the 'local' database. From there the tracks can be **dragged over to the iPod/Shuffle easily.
- Create and modify playlists, including smart playlists.
- You can choose the charset the ID3 tags are encoded in from within gtkpod. The default is the charset currently used by your locale setting.
- Extract tag information (artist, album, title...) from the filename if you supply a template.
- Detect duplicates when adding songs (optional).
- Remove and export tracks from your iPod.
- Modify ID3 tags -- changes are also updated in the original file (optional).
- Refresh ID3 tags from file (if you have changed the tags in the original file).
- Sync directories.
- Normalize the volume of your tracks (uses mp3gain or the replay-gain tag)
- Write the updated iTunesDB and added songs to your iPod.
- Work offline and synchronize your new playlists / songs with the iPod at a later time.
- Export your korganizer/kaddressbook/Thunderbird/evocalendar/evolution/webcalendar... data to the iPod (scripts for other programs can be added).
- Floola
- GTK interface (GNOME)
- Amarok
- KDE/qt interface
- qPod
- KDE/qt interface
- front-end for GNUpod
- GNUpod
- command-line only
- jakpod


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With winter finally winding down (go team spring!), what better time to announce the winners to the "I <3 Snow" Photo Contest? From the hundreds of entries we received, we chose winners that not only motivated us to bundle up and get outside, but reminded us why we work so hard to build the next generation of conservation leaders--because nothing inspires like nature's wonders, and we must ensure that they remain in good hands.
Grand Prize winner: After seeing Prusik Peak featured in some magazines,grand prize winner Paul Raymaker decided he had to see it for himself. Doing so turned out to require an 18 mile uphill hike into Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Obviously Paul was undeterred. "This hike was one of the hardest that I have done, but I was rewarded with some of the most gorgeous scenery I have ever seen. Prusik Peak is just one icon of an area with endless beauty…"
2nd place winner: For Ethan Duffany, SCA membership brought a special opportunity to explore the frozen waterfalls on Thacher State Park's Indian Ladder Trail, which is closed to public each winter. Luckily for everyone, he brought along his camera.
3rd place winner: When graduate research took SCA alumna Ellen George out onto frozen Lake Ontario with The Nature Conservancy, she brought along her camera and a great sense of humor.
People's Choice winner: Caitlin Brennan was right to suspect that the people loveRocky Mountain National Park. Who wouldn't??
Thank you so much to all who participated, and to everyone who makes SCA's mission a part of their own. It's your support that makes it possible for us to keep working hard on behalf of the planet and all who inhabit it.
Special thanks to SCA national supporter Domtar for making this year's contest possible!


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Northern California is finally getting wet weather after some areas have gone without measurable rain for weeks. But the precipitation won't help much to ease the drought that plagued the region.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website predicted just 0.1 inch of rain in San Francisco on Wednesday and Thursday. But more than 2 inches were expected in parts of Sacramento and as much as 2 feet of snow at higher elevations in the northern Sierra, where snow was falling on Thursday morning and drivers were required to have chains on their vehicles.
The San Francisco Bay Area has had only about 10-20 percent of the precipitation that it usually gets this time of year, said National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson.
San Francisco International Airport normally has 11.35 inches by this point in the season, but it has had only 1.5 inches.
Santa Rosa Airport normally gets 20.71, but has had only 2.10 this season.
"So far, it's been a very dry year. The last time we had measurable rain around the Bay Area was Dec. 7," she said. "That is not what we think of as typical."
More than 21 inches must fall by the end of the rainy season on June 30 — an unlikely prospect — for the region to get back to its normal levels, Henderson said.
"It would be nice if we got it," she added, "but hopefully not all at once."
Despite the storms expected to bring some snow to higher elevations this week, the Department of Water Resources expects to find far less snow than normal when it conducts it second survey of the winter Thursday.
Brown, who declared a drought emergency on Jan. 17, will meet in Los Angeles with officials from throughout the state to discuss ways that Californians can conserve water.
Because of the drought, 17 rural California communities are now in danger of a severe water shortage within four months, according to a list compiled by state officials.
Residents of urban areas for the most part have not felt the effects of the drought so far, but the percentage of Californians expressing concern about water shortages and the drought is at a record high, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Seven percent said water and the drought should be the top concern of the governor and state Legislature, but that sentiment was highest in the Central Valley, where 18 percent of respondents listed the drought as the top issue.
The economy, education and the state budget dominated the priorities of survey respondents, as they usually do.
Other areas on the state list of vulnerable communities include small water districts in Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Kern, Amador, Mendocino, Nevada and Placer counties.
Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com