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November marks National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, an ideal time to increase education and awareness about one of the most fatal types of cancer and provide new information about potentially life-saving screening methods, said an expert from Baylor College of Medicine.
"Lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined," said Dr. Donald Lazarus, an assistant professor of medicine - pulmonary and a member of the NCI-designated Dan L Duncan Cancer Center at BCM. "It may not be the most common cancer, but the most likely to be lethal."
Conducting research on the causes of the disease and developing screening methods are critically important, Lazarus said.
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"The good news is this year we have even more new data that shows a benefit to screening in high-risk populations, which could contribute to a decrease in lung cancer mortalities," said Lazarus.
The high-risk group includes people aged 55 to 79 who have a smoking history of 30 pack-years or greater. A pack-year means that someone has smoked an average of one pack of cigarettes per day for a year; one pack smoked a day for 30 years equates to a 30 pack-year history or two packs smoked a day for 15 years).
Major groups such as the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force support recommendations for screening in this group with a low dose CT scan.
If a positive screen comes back from a suspicious nodule, it's important to see an expert in lung cancer, such as a pulmonologist or medical oncologist, to help you move forward appropriately, said Lazarus.
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"Depending on what the screen shows, where the nodule is, how it is shaped and how easy it is to biopsy, the expert will help you decide the next course," said Lazarus. "It could mean just follow up to note any changes or rule out any false positives."
Identifying cancer early on in the lungs could prevent spread of the disease and death, he said.
While smoking represents the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, 10 to 15 percent of people who develop the disease are non-smokers.
Other risk factors include occupational and environmental exposures, such as second-hand smoke, which increases risk by 20 to 30 percent, and exposure to radiation such as radon gas, pollution, asbestos, arsenic, nickel, tar, soot and heavy metals.

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Striker Kevin Doyle has ended his six-year stay with Wolves after agreeing an early settlement on his contract.
The Republic of Ireland international joined from Reading for £6.5million in the summer of 2009 and has made 179 appearances, scoring 33 goals.
Doyle, whose deal was due to expire on June 30, will now be linking up with MLS side Colorado Rapids earlier than expected.
The club said on their official website: "Everyone at Wolves would like to thank Kevin for his service at Molineux and wish him all the best for the future."
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"Leon scored a couple of important goals for us this season before finishing the campaign on loan with Wigan while Jake has been out on loan with Notts County and Southend United this season.
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Friends are involved, as they are in most social games, giving you the ability to help each other out along the way. Hopefully the social mechanic won't be too intrusive — there are some roads a man must walk alone.
Atlas Raider is due out soon on both Facebook and Zynga.com. Here's to the clatter of rolling dice on a virtual coffee table.


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Abū al-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī (Chorasmian/Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی Abū Rayḥān Bērōnī;[3][4] New Persian: Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī[5]) (4/5 September 973 – 13 December 1048), known as Al-Biruni (Arabic: البيروني) in English,[6] was a Khwarezmian Iranian[7][8][9] scholar and polymath.
Al-Biruni is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the medieval Islamic era and was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist.[9] He was conversant in Khwarezmian, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and also knew Greek, Hebrew and Syriac. He spent a large part of his life in Ghazni in modern-day Afghanistan, capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty which was based in what is now central-eastern Afghanistan. In 1017 he traveled to the Indian subcontinent and authored "Tarikh Al-Hind" (History of India) after exploring the Hindu faith practised in India. He is given the titles the "founder of Indology". He was an impartial writer on custom and creeds of various nations, and was given the title al-Ustadh ("The Master") for his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.[9] He also made contributions to Earth sciences, and is regarded as the "father of geodesy" for his important contributions to that field, along with his significant contributions to geography.
He was born in the outer district of Kath, the capital of the Afrighid dynasty of Khwarezm (now in Uzbekistan)[10] (or Chorasmia).[11] The word Biruni means "from the outer-district" in Persian, and so this became his nisba: "al-Bīrūnī" = "the Birunian".[11] His first twenty-five years were spent in Khwarezm where he studied Islamic jurisprudence, theology, grammar, mathematics, astronomy, medics and other sciences.[11] The Iranian Khwarezmian language, which was the language of Biruni,[12][13] survived for several centuries after Islam until the Turkification of the region, and so must some at least of the culture and lore of ancient Khwarezm, for it is hard to see the commanding figure of Biruni, a repository of so much knowledge, appearing in a cultural vacuum.[14] He was sympathetic to the Afrighids, who were overthrown by the rival dynasty of Ma'munids in 995. Leaving his homeland, he left for Bukhara, then under the Samanid ruler Mansur II the son of Nuh. There he also corresponded with Avicenna[15] and there are extant exchanges of views between these two scholars.
In 998, he went to the court of the Ziyarid amir of Tabaristan, Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir. There he wrote his first important work, al-Athar al-Baqqiya 'an al-Qorun al-Khaliyya (literally: "The remaining traces of past centuries" and translated as "Chronology of ancient nations" or "Vestiges of the Past") on historical and scientific chronology, probably around 1000 A.D., though he later made some amendments to the book. He also visited the court of the Bavandid ruler Al-Marzuban. Accepting the definite demise of the Afrighids at the hands of the Ma'munids, he made peace with the latter who then ruled Khwarezm. Their court at Gorganj (also in Khwarezm) was gaining fame for its gathering of brilliant scientists.
In 1017, Mahmud of Ghazni took Rey. Most scholars, including al-Biruni, were taken to Ghazni, the capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty.[1] Biruni was made court astrologer[16] and accompanied Mahmud on his invasions into India, living there for a few years. Biruni became acquainted with all things related to India. He may even have learned some Sanskrit.[17] During this time he wrote the Kitab ta'rikh al-Hind, finishing it around 1030.[18]
Mathematics and astronomy
Ninety-five of 146 books known to have been written by Bīrūnī, were devoted to astronomy, mathematics, and related subjects like mathematical geography.[19] Biruni's major work on astrology[20] is primarily an astronomical and mathematical text, only the last chapter concerns astrological prognostication. His endorsement of astrology is limited, in so far as he condemns horary astrology[21] as 'sorcery'.
In discussing speculation by other Muslim writers on the possible motion of the Earth, Biruni acknowledged that he could neither prove nor disprove it, but commented favourably on the idea that the Earth rotates.[22] He wrote an extensive commentary on Indian astronomy in the Kitab ta'rikh al-Hind, in which he claims to have resolved the matter of Earth's rotation in a work on astronomy that is no longer extant, his Miftah-ilm-alhai'a (Key to Astronomy):
[T]he rotation of the earth does in no way impair the value of astronomy, as all appearances of an astronomic character can quite as well be explained according to this theory as to the other. There are, however, other reasons which make it impossible. This question is most difficult to solve. The most prominent of both modern and ancient astronomers have deeply studied the question of the moving of the earth, and tried to refute it. We, too, have composed a book on the subject called Miftah-ilm-alhai'a (Key to Astronomy), in which we think we have surpassed our predecessors, if not in the words, at all events in the matter.[23]
In his description of Sijzi's astrolabe he hints at contemporary debates over the movement of the earth. He carried on a lengthy correspondence and sometimes heated debate with Ibn Sina, in which Biruni repeatedly attacks Aristotle's celestial physics: he argues by simple experiment that vacuum must exist;[24] he is "amazed" by the weakness of Aristotle's argument against elliptical orbits on the basis that they would create vacuum;[25] he attacks the immutability of the celestial spheres;[26] and so on.
In his major extant astronomical work, the Mas'ud Canon, Biruni utilizes his observational data to disprove Ptolemy's immobile solar apogee.[27] More recently, Biruni's eclipse data was used by Dunthorne in 1749 to help determine the acceleration of the moon[28] and his observational data has entered the larger astronomical historical record and is still used today[29] in geophysics and astronomy.
Al-Biruni contributed to the introduction of the experimental scientific method to mechanics, unified statics and dynamics into the science of mechanics, and combined the fields of hydrostatics with dynamics to create hydrodynamics.[citation needed]
Bīrūnī also devised his own method of determining the radius of the earth by means of the observation of the height of a mountain and carried it out at Nandana in Pind Dadan Khan (present-day Pakistan).[30]
Pharmacology and mineralogy
Due to an apparatus he constructed himself, he succeeded in determining the specific gravity of a certain number of metals and minerals with remarkable precision.[31]
History and chronology
Biruni's main essay on political history, Kitāb al-musāmara fī aḵbār Ḵᵛārazm (Book of nightly conversation concerning the affairs of Ḵᵛārazm) is now known only from quotations in Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-e masʿūdī. In addition to this various discussions of historical events and methodology are found in connection with the lists of kings in his al-Āthār al-bāqiya and in the Qānūn as well as elsewhere in the Āthār, in India, and scattered throughout his other works.[32]
History of Religions
Bīrūnī is one of the most important Muslim authorities on the history of religion.[33] Al-Biruni was a pioneer in the study of comparative religion. He studied Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and other religions. He treated religions objectively, striving to understand them on their own terms rather than trying to prove them wrong. His underlying concept was that all cultures are at least distant relatives of all other cultures because they are all human constructs. "What al-Biruni seems to be arguing is that there is a common human element in every culture that makes all cultures distant relatives, however foreign they might seem to one another." (Rosenthal, 1976, p. 10). Al-Biruni was disgusted by scholars who failed to engage primary sources in their treatment of Hindu religion. He found existing sources on Hinduism to be both insufficient and dishonest. Guided by a sense of ethics and a desire to learn, he sought to explain the religious behavior of different groups.
Al-Biruni divides Hindus into an educated and an uneducated class. He describes the educated as monotheistic, believing that God is one, eternal, and omnipotent and eschewing all forms of idol worship. He recognizes that uneducated Hindus worshipped a multiplicity of idols yet points out that even some Muslims (such as the Jabiriyya) have adopted anthropomorphic concepts of God. (Ataman, 2005)
Bīrūnī's fame as an Indologist rests primarily on two texts.[34] Al-Biruni wrote an encyclopedic work on India called "Tarikh Al-Hind" (History of India) in which he explored nearly every aspect of Indian life, including religion, history, geography, geology, science, and mathematics. He explores religion within a rich cultural context. He expresses his objective with simple eloquence: I shall not produce the arguments of our antagonists in order to refute such of them, as I believe to be in the wrong. My book is nothing but a simple historic record of facts. I shall place before the reader the theories of the Hindus exactly as they are, and I shall mention in connection with them similar theories of the Greeks in order to show the relationship existing between them.(1910, Vol. 1, p. 7;1958, p. 5)
An example of Al-Biruni's analysis is his summary of why many Hindus hate Muslims. He explains that Hinduism and Islam are totally different from each other. Moreover, Hindus in 11th century India had suffered through waves of destructive attacks on many of its cities, and Islamic armies had taken numerous Hindu slaves to Persia which, claimed Al-Biruni, contributed to Hindus becoming suspicious of all foreigners, not just Muslims. Hindus considered Muslims violent and impure, and did not want to share anything with him. Over time, Al-Biruni won the welcome of Hindu scholars. Al-Biruni collected books and studied with these Hindu scholars to become fluent in Sanskrit, discover and translate into Arabic the mathematics, science, medicine, astronomy and other fields of arts as practiced in 11th century India. He was inspired by the arguments offered by Indian scholars who believed earth must be ellipsoid shape, with yet to be discovered continent at earth's south pole, and earth's rotation around the sun is the only way to fully explain the difference in daylight hours by latitude, seasons and earth's relative positions with moon and stars.[35] Al-Biruni was also critical of Indian scribes who he believed carelessly corrupted Indian documents while making copies of older documents.[36] Al-Biruni's translations as well as his own original contributions reached Europe in 12th and 13th century, where they were actively sought.
While others were killing each other over religious differences, Al-Biruni had a remarkable ability to engage Hindus in peaceful dialogue. Mohammad Yasin puts this dramatically when he says, "The Indica is like a magic island of quiet, impartial research in the midst of a world of clashing swords, burning towns, and burned temples." (Indica is another name for Al-Biruni's history of India). (Yasin, 1975, p. 212).
Most of the works of Al-Biruni are in Arabic although he wrote one of his masterpieces, the Kitab al-Tafhim apparently in both Persian and Arabic, showing his mastery over both languages.[37] Bīrūnī's catalogue of his own literary production up to his 65th lunar/63rd solar year (the end of 427/1036) lists 103 titles divided into 12 categories: astronomy, mathematical geography, mathematics, astrological aspects and transits, astronomical instruments, chronology, comets, an untitled category, astrology, anecdotes, religion, and books of which he no longer possesses copies.[38] His extant works include:
- Critical study of what India says, whether accepted by reason or refused (Arabic تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة معقولة في العقل أم مرذولة), also known as the Indica – a compendium of India's religion and philosophy
- The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (Kitab al-tafhim li-awa'il sina'at al-tanjim).
- The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (Arabic الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية) – a comparative study of calendars of different cultures and civilizations, interlaced with mathematical, astronomical, and historical information.
- The Mas'udi Canon (Persian قانون مسعودي) – an extensive encyclopedia on astronomy, geography, and engineering, named after Mas'ud, son of Mahmud of Ghazni, to whom he dedicated.
- Understanding Astrology (Arabic التفهيم لصناعة التنجيم) – a question and answer style book about mathematics and astronomy, in Arabic and Persian.
- Pharmacy – about drugs and medicines.
- Gems (Arabic الجماهر في معرفة الجواهر) about geology, minerals, and gems, dedicated to Mawdud son of Mas'ud.
- Astrolabe.
- A historical summary book.
- History of Mahmud of Ghazni and his father.
- History of Khawarezm.
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Although he preferred Arabic to Persian in scientific writing, his Persian version of the Al-Tafhim[37] is one of the most important of the early works of science in the Persian language, and is a rich source for Persian prose and lexicography.[37] The book covers the Quadrivium in a detailed and skilled fashion.[37]
The lunar crater Al-Biruni and the asteroid 9936 Al-Biruni were named in his honour.
In June 2009 Iran donated a scholar pavilion to United Nations Office in Vienna which is placed in the central Memorial Plaza of the Vienna International Center.[39] The Persian Scholars Pavilion at United Nations in Vienna, Austria is featuring the statues of four prominent Iranian figures. Highlighting the Iranian architectural features, the pavilion is adorned with Persian art forms and includes the statues of renowned Iranian scientists Avicenna, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Zakariya Razi (Rhazes) and Omar Khayyam.[40][41]
Notes and references
- Notes
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Exact Sciences, E.S.Kennedy, The Cambridge History of Iran: The period from the Arab invasion to the Saljuqs, Ed. Richard Nelson Frye, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 394.
- ↑ Kemal Ataman, Understanding other religions: al-Biruni's and Gadamer's "fusion of horizons", (CRVP, 2008), 58.
- ↑ Sachau, E. (1879). The chronology of ancient nations; an english version of the Arabic text of the Athâr-ul-Bâkiya of Albîrûnî, or "Vestiges of the past", (p. Vii). London: Pub. for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain & Ireland by W.H. Allen.
" In our time the word is pronounced Biruni (or Beerooni), e.g. in Teheran. but the vowel of the first syllable is majhul, which means that in more ancient times it was pronounced Beron (or Bayroon)... That the name was pronounced in this way in Central Asia about the author's time, we learn from indisputable statement regarding our author from the pen of Alsam'ani, a philologist and biographer of high repute. "
- ↑ MAcKENZIE, D. (1971). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 18). OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ↑ BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN. Encyclopædia Iranica, (1989, December 15). Retrieved August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, al-Biruni (Persian scholar and scientist) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia, Britannica.com, retrieved 2010-02-28<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑
- Bosworth, C. E. (1968), "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)", J.A. Boyle (ed.), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, Cambridge University Press: 1–202. [45]. Excerpt from page 7:"The Iranian scholar al-BIruni says that the Khwarazmian era began when the region was first settled and cultivated, this date being placed in the early 13th-century BC) "
- Richard Frye: "The contribution of Iranians to Islamic mathematics is overwhelming. ..The name of Abu Raihan Al-Biruni, from Khwarazm, must be mentioned since he was one of the greatest scientists in World History"(R.N. Frye, "The Golden age of Persia", 2000, Phoenix Press. pg 162)
- M. A. Saleem Khan, "Al-Biruni's discovery of India: an interpretative study", iAcademicBooks, 2001. pg 11: "It is generally accepted that he was Persian by origin, and spoke the Khwarizmian dialect" [1]
- Rahman, H. U. (1995), A Chronology of Islamic History : 570 – 1000 CE, London: Mansell Publishing, p. 167, ISBN 1-897940-32-7,
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- Biruni (2007). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 April 2007;
- David C. Lindberg, Science in the Middle Ages, University of Chicago Press, p. 18:
"A Persian by birth, a rationalist in disposition, this contemporary of Avicenna and Alhazen not only studied history, philosophy, and geography in depth, but wrote one of the most comprehensive Muslim astronomical treatises, the Qanun Al-Masu'di."
- L. Massignon, "Al-Biruni et la valuer internationale de la science arabe" in Al-Biruni Commemoration Volume, (Calcutta, 1951). pp 217–219.
" In a celebrated preface to the book of Drugs, Biruni says: And if it is true that in all nations one likes to adorn oneself by using the language to which one has remained loyal, having become accustomed to using it with friends and companions according to need, I must judge for myself that in my native Khwarezmian, science has as much as chance of becoming perpetuated as a camel has of facing Kaaba. "
- Gotthard Strohmaier, "Biruni" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index: Vol. 1 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, 2006. excerpt from page 112: "Although his native Khwarezmian was also an Iranian language, he rejected the emerging neo-Persian literature of his time (Firdawsi), preferring Arabic instead as the only adequate medium of science.";
- D. N. MacKenzie, Encyclopaedia Iranica, "CHORASMIA iii. The Chorasmian Language". Excerpt: "Chorasmian, the original Iranian language of Chorasmia, is attested at two stages of its development..The earliest examples have been left by the great Chorasmian scholar Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī.";
- A.L.Samian, "Al-Biruni" in Helaine Selin (ed.), "Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures ", Springer, 1997. excerpt from page 157: "his native language was the Khwarizmian dialect"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 D.J. Boilot, "Al-Biruni (Beruni), Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden), New Ed., vol.1:1236–1238. Excerpt 1: "He was born of an Iranian family in 362/973 (according to al-Ghadanfar, on 3 Dhu'l-Hididja/ 4 September — see E. Sachau, Chronology, xivxvi), in the suburb (birun) of Kath, capital of Khwarizm". Excerpt 2:"was one of the greatest scholars of mediaeval Islam, and certainly the most original and profound. He was equally well versed in the mathematical, astronomic, physical and natural sciences and also distinguished himself as a geographer and historian, chronologist and linguist and as an impartial observer of customs and creeds. He is known as al-Ustdadh, "the Master".
- ↑ Al-Biruni, D.J. Boilet, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. I, ed. H.A.R. Gibb, J.H. Kramers, E. Levi-Provencal, J. Schacht, (Brill, 1986), 1236.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 C. Edmund Bosworth, "BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN i. Life" in Encyclopedia Iranica. Access date April 2011 at [2]
- ↑ Gotthard Strohmaier, "Biruni" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index: Vol. 1 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, 2006. excerpt from page 112: "Although his native Khwarezmian was also an Iranian language, he rejected the emerging neo-Persian literature of his time (Firdawsi), preferring Arabic instead as the only adequate medium of science.";
- ↑ D. N. MacKenzie, Encyclopaedia Iranica, "CHORASMIA iii. The Chorasmian Language" [3] "Chorasmian, the original Iranian language of Chorasmia, is attested at two stages of its development..The earliest examples have been left by the great Chorasmian scholar Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī.
- ↑ Bosworth, C.E. "Ḵh̲ W Ārazm." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007. Brill Online. Accessed at 10 November 2007 <http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=islam_SIM-4205>
- ↑ Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Beyond death: the mystical teachings of ʻAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī, (Brill, 2010), 111.
- ↑ Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vol.3, (University of Chicago Press, 1958), 168.
- ↑ Jean Jacques Waardenburg, Muslim Perceptions of other Religions: A Historical Survey, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 27.
- ↑ Jean Jacques Waardenburg, 27.
- ↑ George Saliba, "BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN iii. Mathematics and Astronomy" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ Biruni, 'Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology', c.1027
- ↑ George C. Noonan, 'Classical Scientific Astrology'
- ↑ Douglas (1973, p.210)
- ↑ Al-Biruni, trans. by Edward C. Sachau (1888), Alberuni's India: an account of the religion, philosophy, and literature, p.277
- ↑ c.f. questions six and seven; Rafik Berjak, Muzaffar Iqbal 'Ibn Sinaal-Biruni correspondence pt.V', Islam and Science, Summer, 2005
- ↑ Rafik Berjak & Muzaffar Iqbal, 'Ibn SinaAl-Biruni correspondence pt.III', Islam & Science / Summer, 2004
- ↑ Rafik Berjak & Muzaffar Iqbal, 'Ibn SinaAl-Biruni correspondence pt.III', Islam & Science / Summer, 2003
- ↑ Rosenfeld, B. (1974), Review of Zhizn' i trudy Beruni, 'Biruni', Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 5, p.135
- ↑ M. Th. Houtsma, 'E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936', p.681
- ↑ Francis Stephenson (1995), 'Historical eclipses and earth's rotation', pp.45,457,488–499
- ↑ David Pingree,"BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN iv. Geography" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ Georges C. Anawati, BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN v. Pharmacology and Mineralogy, in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ David Pingree, "BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN vi. History and Chronology" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ François de Blois,"BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN vii. History of Religions" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ Bruce B. Lawerence, "BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN viii. Indology" in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ↑ Al Biruni's India (Columbia University Archives) (Biruni, 1910, Vol. 1, Chapter 26.); (Ataman, 2005).
- ↑ Al Biruni's India (Columbia University Archives) (Biruni, 1910, Vol. 1, p. 17); see also Vol 2 of Al-Biruni's India; (Ataman, 2005).
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 S.H. Nasr, "An introduction to Islamic cosmological doctrines: conceptions of nature and methods used for its study by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, al-Bīrūnī, and Ibn Sīnā", 2nd edition, Revised. SUNY press, 1993. pp 111: "Al-Biruni wrote one of the masterpieces of medieval science, Kitab al-Tafhim, apparently in both Arabic and Persian, demonstrating how conversant he was in both tongues. The Kitab al-Tafhim is without doubt the most important of the early works of science in Persian and serves as a rich source for Persian prose and lexicography as well as for the knowledge of the Quadrivium whose subjects it covers in a masterly fashion"
- ↑ David Pingree, BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN ii. Bibliography, in Encyclopaedia Iranica. [4]
- ↑ http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2009/unisvic167.html
- ↑ http://en.viennaun.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=207&pageid=28858
- ↑ http://parseed.ir/?ez=8002
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- BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN in Encyclopaedia Iranica
- Gomez, A. G. (2010) Biruni's Measurement of the Earth [online], http://www.academia.edu/8166456/Birunis_measurement_of_the_Earth
- Gomez, A. G. (2012) Biruni's Measurement of the Earth Geogebra interactive illustration.
- Richard Covington, Rediscovering Arabic Science, 2007, Saudi Aramco World
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Works of Al-Biruni online
- Hogendijk, Jan: The works of al-Bīrūnī – manuscripts, critical editions, translations and online links
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I guess the Explorer is my perennial fave, but lately I've had frequent use for the small philips bits in the Cybertool, for opening electronic stuff.
I guess the Explorer is my perennial fave, but lately I've had frequent use for the small philips bits in the Cybertool, for opening electronic stuff.
Well, the only one i have is the SwissChamp,
but admittedly, it's kinda' big.
These certainly are incredibly useful gizmos, aren't they !
Almost as handy as a Flashlight !
Update September 2011:
I recently purchased 2 additional Victorinox models . . . .
a Farmer in silver alox
- and -
a Tinker with translucent blue scales (plastic handles).
Both of these were Very reasonable in price. (bought 'em on Amazon, with free shipping)
They are both Wonderful, well-made, easily carried in my pocket, and Incredibly Handy & Useful !
BTW -- i can sure see how these cute little things could quickly become Addictive.
BTW2 -- also got a Victorinox Cadet silver alox, for my Father.
To replace the totally junkie, useless, piece of crap which he HAD been carrying.
He loves his new pocketknife.
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If you haven't already - you should consider joining SOSAK -
visit its parent forum THE SECRET ORDER OF THE SAK and post a request to join.
My favorite?
my EDC since Feb/1993 -
previous to this customized Scientist - I carried a plain model from Feb/1988.
The Victorinox Scientist has been discontinued for some years now.
Please see:
My EDC Story - Victorinox Combo Tool Story
Minimalist SAKs
Another that I like is this the maximal Minimalist SAK (linked)
this is a 91mm "Waiter Plus" - I think this was a limited run and probably also pretty rare now.
Hi all, found myself looking for a new SAK to replace my heavy leatherman wave for my EDC bag (I never use the pliers). So I was just wondering:
What is your favorite Vic Swiss Army Knife?
I think I'm going for the classic valox farmer...
...as for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me, in a fine state, fat and flourishing, a true hog of Epicurus' herd...
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I usually carry this or alox Farmer.
It depends on what I am doing...
Right now I have a Cadet in my pocket, which can be swapped for a Soldier or Spartan when out and about if needed, and when camping I carry a Huntsman and OH Sentinel...
Can you guess that I am a fellow SOSAK'er?
SwissTool, hands down.
I believe the model is called the "Waiter"--it has a corkscrew, a bottle opener and a blade size between the largest model and the istsy-bitsy, damned near useless little bugger blade size. It fits into my pocket in my dress pants (for work) and my jeans (for the rest of my life) without creating any comotion in either environment. Larger knives with corresponding larger blades are OK in the field but don't seem to go over very well in the office with---"Why do you carry a knife"?--questions.
Tinker. Same as Spartan except that a phillips screwdriver replaces the corkscrew.
I tend to flit between my Explorer & Handyman.
I find the Philips-head screwdriver useful on the Explorer but I like the pliers & "chunkier" feel of the Handyman.
Whichever one Im EDC'ing, I have a fauxton, spycapsule of vseline/cotton & a small flint rod attached to the split ring.
Oh yeah, theres a Minichamp on my keyring & a Swisscard in my wallet, too.
One of this two:
Tinker. Phillips head is a must have.
To me, a corkscrew on a pocketknife is as useless as SOS mode is on an EDC. If I carry wine out in the field it is in a skin or flask anyway, at home I use a real corkscrew/cork lifter that works better.
TCW60: That knife on top looks great, I love the nice saw blade. Do you know which model it is?
I've really come to appreciate the Alox Farmer (that's the top knife in TCW60's post). I I love that the awl is on the end, like a knife blade, instead of in the middle of the backstrap like it is on most other models...much more useful to me there, and probably the thing I use most off of it.
I think the only other thing I'd really like on it is the scissors - but then it starts to become a bigger tool.
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I've had the corkscrew come in handy a few times, when I happen to meet someone who has some wine with them in a regular corked bottle, e.g. while travelling.
German Army version of the one hand opening Trekker.
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Currently I'm very fond of my alox Cadet. I'm completely sold on the Alox models and have concluded that the width of the knife makes a big difference when carrying it on a daily basis in business attire.
That being said, the Minichamp is a pretty darn useful little knife as well. I miss a larger blade and hence it's been relegated to key ring duty.
I have to ask this, however, what does everyone use the awl for? It seems popular and yet I don't think I've ever used it on any of my SAKs....
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
The Compact for sure. Large blade, large scissors, can/bottle opener, corkscrew, eyeglass screwdriver, toothpick, tweezers and pen.
For ME, it is the best version they make hands down. Of course, for other people that may not apply....which is the great thing about SAKs, they make one for virtually everybody.
The compact. I use many different saks but the compact has everything a man needs and small/light enough to edc.
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Since I only have a Recruit (sold as a Driver), I'd have to say that one....for now
I have a rambler on my keychain EVERYWHERE I go!!!
I prefer Wengers but I do like the Swiss card and the one that is like the classic only it has a bottleopener/phillips screwdriver instead of scissors.
Victorinox Manager.
Small, keychain-sized, with Philipps Screwdriver, Scissors, Bottle opener, Pen, Tweezers, and of course a Blade
And yes, the bottle opener does come in handy. There would have been no wine at the party I was last weekend without my SAcKmesser. Did I already tell that I often carry TWO at weekends?
The Victorinox Soldier.
Alox scales, large (and thicker) blade, can opener/screwdriver, bottle opener/wirestripper/screwdriver and an awl. I've found that it usually has everything I usually need, and nothing I don't.
I like how it doesn't have a little lanyard tab and that the logo is the Swiss national logo instead of the Victorinox shield. I hope this model doesn't get discontinued due the Swiss Army adopting the Trekker model to replace it.
To another poster who asked about the awl, it's useful for poking or prodding, and as a beater knife blade for when you don't want to mess up the main blade. I've used it to scrap dirty electrical contacts, bore pilot holes for screws, and even as an eyeglass screwdriver.
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Victorinox "Tinker" and especially the older version that is somewhat shorter than the version currently being produced. I've been carrying one for 30+ years, and it is incredibly versatile!
Soldier for sure. Ended up giving mine to my father who was impressed by the robust feel , his EDC now. Pricing new ones but can't find red!
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
Alox Cadet 2.
I got it largely because of the can opener but I really enjoy the large and small blades. Between the two of them I've made out alright.
I've updated my post # 2.
If anybody is interested.


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Kelly T necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
KELLY TEEGARDEN ORGANICS, with the slogan Health is Choices, LOGO KTO
After going through cancer and using alternative medicine to be cured completely, I have made it my mission to produce products that are certified organic and chemical free. I learned the hard way that we are truly what we eat and are exposed to.
I am a lover of elegance and a sophisticated look. I have attached a word document of logo ideas that I love. It should make it easy for someone to run with.
I want to appeal to anyone that wants to make the effort to eat healthy and make smarter chemical free choices.
Healthy Minded people, people that are looking for organic alternatives.
I would like the name spelled out KELLY TEEGARDEN ORGANICS
I would like a logo of KTO that can stand on its own
I would like my slogan Health is Choices
I'm not stuck on anything, in need the KTO to be legible and have a natural feel, with perhaps a vine on it
or even the word organics spelled out with the KT. I'm open to someones ingenuity.
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SAN CARLOS — Local family-owned grocer Bianchini's Market on Tuesday will start delivering through Instacart, a San Francisco-based startup that brings groceries from store to home in as little as an hour.
The partnership with Instacart allows Bianchini's to offer for the first time in its 73-year history a large-scale home delivery service. Through the Instacart website or mobile app, customers in parts of the South Bay and Peninsula can order any item from Bianchini's and have it delivered in one or two hours, or at a scheduled time that day. Instacart will deliver from both the San Carlos and Portola Valley stores.
"The potential for us to pick up new customers with Instacart is tremendous," said Kevin Bianchini, owner of Bianchini's Market.
Currently, most shoppers are local residents, and Bianchini's — a local institution and the first full-service grocery store in San Carlos — doesn't have a far reach. The market does deliver food to seniors who are ill.
The partnership with Bianchini's is one of the few formal agreements Instacart has with a grocer to deliver from its stores, and signals that food retailers may be more willing to outsource delivery than try to tackle it themselves. Instacart also has agreements to deliver from Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San Francisco, Green Aisle Grocery in Philadelphia and Yes Organic Market in Washington, D.C. Founder Apoorva Mehta said more agreements are in the works. With these formal partnerships, Instacart gets special access such as bypassing store checkout lines, and retailers can offer special promotions on the Instacart website.
Instacart drivers shop and pay for customer orders at stores such as Whole Foods just like any other shopper. However, not all grocers have welcomed Instacart — Trader Joe's gave Instacart the boot from its stores and Berkeley Bowl has distanced itself from the startup.
"In the early days of Instacart we didn't necessarily need those relationships with those retailers," Mehta said. But now "retailers are seeing the value (because) customers are spending more" on Instacart.
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Today's To Do List
2. Remind doorman that firemen do not need to be buzzed in
3. Remember to replace gin flask with fire extinguisher inside box marked "open in case of emergency"
4. Remove all incendiary devices from apt including stoves and back issues of New York magazine.
5. Pitch calendar idea "hunky guys who come when you call"
6. Renew Zagat's subscription
57 comments:
- Feisty said...
You had a fire?
- 8/31/2006
- Sue said...
Egads, I hope that post was metaphor. If not, hope you are fine and that it was only a "query from hell" that spontaneously combusted.
- 8/31/2006
- Kara Lennox said...
I'm sensing a pattern here.
You must be okay because you are typing. Hope it wasn't TOO awful.
- 8/31/2006
- M. G. Tarquini said...
This doesn't sound good.
- 8/31/2006
- litagent said...
Yikes! I'm sitting here reading a partial with a fire theme. How creepy is that? Hope you're ok.
- 8/31/2006
- jude calvert-toulmin said...
You had firemen for breakfast? Swoon :)
> If not, hope you are fine and that it was only a "query from hell" that spontaneously combusted.
He he. Yeah my sentiments too, Sue :)
- 8/31/2006
- Bernita said...
The suspense...
Kitchen fire?
- 8/31/2006
- MBT said...
Isn't gin incendiary?
- 8/31/2006
- Miss Snark said...
apparantly, so is New York magazine.
- 8/31/2006
A fire! Hope you and KY are okay.
- 8/31/2006
- Precie said...
Oh dear. Hate mail? Hope you and KY are both ok.
- 8/31/2006
- Kelly said...
Glad you're okay, Miss Snark! Whatever would we do without you?
Hope there's no lasting damage.
- 8/31/2006
- December Quinn said...
Oh, dear! I assume you're okay?!
- 8/31/2006
I'm so glad you are well enough to blog. I'm impressed that you've maintained your sense of humor (and dedication to your snarklings) throughout your ordeal.
Admirable grace under fire!
- 8/31/2006
My guess:
1. Pan frying
2. Oil dancing
3. Flame lords a-leaping
4. Killer Yapp a-squeaking
5. Snark snarling -- wrong bottle in hot spot
6. Fingers flying to 9-1-1
7. Doorman enquiring
8. Snark snarling -- "Let those goddamn hunky men up here! It isn't THAT goddamn unusual."
9. Hunky men admiring incendiary artistry
10. Miss Snark passing out (contracts for anything the hunky gentlemen care to scribble)
11. Killer Yapp swooning
12. Hunky men frolicking
13. Miss Snark gazing at pan-fried coal
14. Miss Snark contemplating Zagat for non-incendiary chef's delight
15. Miss Snark considering three-course deal at Mannie's School of Delectable Commestibles, "How to Fry in 10 Easy Lessons"
16. Miss Snark changing New York magazine subscription to Special Nitwits with Fire edition
- 8/31/2006
Oh no! Miss Snark, I'm glad you and KY are both okay (I assume you wouldn't be posting otherwise), but I hope the apartment damage was minimal.
mzaoof - what KY said upon spotting the flames
- 8/31/2006
- Elektra said...
Oh, no. Miss Snark in the slush+fire. some nitwit finally passed the line, and she really did set her hair on fire.
I hope all is okay, and that no books were harmed in the making of this fire.
- 8/31/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
Do you still have a place in which to live? You must tell us more.
I would like to read, "I'm safe, the kids, husband, janitor, neighbours, my cookies, and KY are all safe."
Or, alternately, strike out kids and husband, but I would be worried about the janitor. They're under-appreciated.
I knew some of the firemen here. The two cutest, a fire-guy and a fire-gal, married each other and moved to the wilds of the Seattle Area. I do hear from them. Nice couple. Except for the snake.
I met them for a grade school project. They let my oldest daughter sit in the fire truck. She still emails them.
I'm rambling, aren't I? No matter. The point is, not all of them are hunks or brains, but I respect them.
Smack the doorman. Just smack him. Put a brick in your purse and smack him.
I'm glad you're ok, but this must be very stressful, and for that you have my sympathies.
On the fire insurance, just call the company, they'll have a copy of the policy.
- 8/31/2006
- Elektra said...
P.S.--I may get lynched for saying this, but definitely feel free to postpone the COM if personal de-firing time is required.
- 8/31/2006
- delilah said...
Poor Miss Snark. That's terrible.
Please confirm for all of us that you and the puppy are okay.
xoxo The Snarklings
- 8/31/2006
- Miss Snark said...
everyone is fine.
No damage...well, other than to a great hulking kitchen appliance which Miss Snark NOW discovers is intended for something called "cooking" and not "storage".
Who knew.
No need to make Bill E. share his lodging with homeless bipeds.
- 8/31/2006
- Kim said...
Glad to hear you and KY are doing ok!
As for Bozo the Doorman - if you don't happen to have a brick lying about - an orange in a sock will do the trick as well. Plus, you can eat the evidence :)
- 8/31/2006
- Harry Connolly said...
I'm glad you're okay.
- 8/31/2006
- BuffySquirrel said...
Ok, I know what happened here...
Miss Snark set her copy of the New Yorker down on the stove, then turned the ring on under it by mistake.
No, you may not ask HOW I know.
- 8/31/2006
Glad to read all is well.
- 8/31/2006
- Pepper Smith said...
Glad you're all right. It's nice to have a little excitement every now and then, but geez! Not my idea of fun.
- 8/31/2006
- Bugwit Homilies said...
Hot time at the old Snark place last night?
- 8/31/2006
Oh, dear. Doesn't sound like you've had a very fun day. And yeah, once you've folded the tea-towels, they need to go in the drawer, not on the stove. And no drying out of magazines in the oven after they fall into the bathtub, either.
- 8/31/2006
You sound like my friend. Seems she used her oven so infrequently that she decided to use it for storage of tupperware-like containers...
Then one day she decided to pre-heat the oven to make, well, something, and you can guess the rest.
- 8/31/2006
I thought it was a really smokin' query, or perhaps you accidentally tossed a lit cigarette into your gin pail. Poof!
- 8/31/2006
- Susan Boyer said...
Clearly, the landlord (or previous owner),is responsible for leaving such hazardous equipment sitting around in your kitchen! Have the offending appliance replaced with an extra liquor cabinet.
- 8/31/2006
- Andrea said...
I'm glad you're okay. Yes, those pesky cooking things can be a pain. I wish you quick and speedy appliance and damage recovery. In the meantime, enjoy the take out.
- 8/31/2006
- Bernita said...
Miss Snark Dear...you DIDN'T!!!
And forgot?
That place is about the only place in my place that doesn't have reading material on it or in it.
I learned.
- 8/31/2006
- Sue said...
Ah. A friend had a similar problem. She was sitting in her kitchen and starting hearing "pop pop pop" and discovered it was coming from her oven (which was cooking dinner.) Apparently it was also popping pop corn. She had a bag sitting on the stove top and was unaware that the heat venting from the rear of the stove top was enough to melt the bag. Pop corn poured down vent and into oven. Popped.
Glad you have escaped major calamity. Hope all is back to normal.
- 8/31/2006
- B. Dagger Lee said...
I've always thought that storing things in one's oven is the first step on the slippery slope to a Collyer Brothers Apartment, as the firemen call them.
I saw a fireman knock a door down with one blow, a mere five seconds after he'd already knocked mine down. Even as I stood there with my mouth hanging open I felt the most intense admiration. No Hamletish indecision there.
But fires are super super scary. I'm sorry. Is your hair still the right color?
yrs, B. Dagger Lee
- 8/31/2006
- Steorling said...
oh, my. Is the crapometer to blame? You were testing it weren't you, and there was residue stuck in the gears from last time around? Oh the horror, the sheer humanity, or in Yapps case the caninanity...wait, is that a word?
Anyway, so sorry.
*looking to see what she has in that little box marked for emergencies*
uh, yeah, I think a few of us could do with the reminder...nothing but BoDog's retrieving dummy and a really out-of-date can of Dt. Pepsi.
- 8/31/2006
- Maria said...
Well, at least you are prepared for the crapometer and your slush pile. If you start anything on fire (including your hair or the slush pile), the firemen know where you live. The doorman knows to let them in. KY is prepared (I assume he has been fitted for a parachute so that he can safely leap out the window) and you not only have Gin, you have an extinguisher.
The only thing you need now is...well, food. Precooked, hopefully. :>)
Be safe. We're glad everyone is okay.
- 8/31/2006
- Dave said...
You roasted a box or a pan or something that wasn't intended for ovenware.
I did that, welcome to the "I really hate this kitchen club" ...
I can introduce you to the "tasty dog food club" with my meat loaf diasasters.
Or how about the "what's that red spot on your ceiling?" It's from the tomato paste can that bulged only slightly.
Or how about the scorch marks on my dining room ceiling from that Flambe' with just a touch too much alcohol?
Well, someday, you'll look back and laugh.
- 8/31/2006
Damn! Foyled again. I would've gotten you if it wouldn't have been for those meddling kids.
- 8/31/2006
- Marlo said...
And you thought you were being overprotective, making sure KY's Tam was fire-retardant...
Glad to here the family is fine.
Cooking is dangerous, so you should never do it. You shouldn't even have the appliances to do it, just in case. Especially in New York, where space is bent is such a way that your stove, bed, and toilet are only an inch a part. Although you *can* throw that toilet water on anything but a grease fire....
- 8/31/2006
- Craig Steffen said...
I'm glad everyone's Ok!
One assumes that the root cause was storing something (New York magazine, I gather) in the oven or on top of the stove, which which a sufficiently small apartment you might end up doing.
However, one also wonders...what was the...spark that set off the catastrophe? Someone either turning on the stove or pre-heating the oven?
Since this is the first post today, I will fondly hope that it was Mr. Clooney (or someone else, for that matter) who, after spending a very long night making Miss Snark forget all about her slush pile, was up and making her breakfast. In his rush (it's always difficult to make breakfast in someone else's kitchen) he turned on the wrong burner and set the New York magazine stack on fire.
- 8/31/2006
- Scottie McBruiser said...
I doan s'pose the wee lit'ul toilet scrubbah that passes fer yer canine burst inta hauwt flamin' Brie, didhe?
Ah'least yah couldda et Clooney's pig if'n 'e'd been reduceda crispy bacon.
- 8/31/2006
I'd loan you my hubby as he's an ex-fireman but he set fire to his bath robe so mebbe not such a good idea. Oh, have him anyway! Glad you're okay and I echo Elektra.
- 8/31/2006
- LJCohen said...
Miss Snark--glad to know you and the four legged one are both fine.
Scary stuff.
Add "test and replace smoke detector batteries as needed" to your list.
- 8/31/2006
- Stephanie Blake, Colorado Writer said...
If you had a small snark of your own, you would get to see beautiful firefighters at the fire station visit every year. Or when you need to make sure the car seat is in nice and tight. Whenever we visit, I take a lot of pictures, but my child is not always in them.
- 8/31/2006
- Corn Dog said...
Dang. Fire in the hole. Doorman acting an ass. Too much excitement. I'm very glad you and KY are okay. My condolences to the "great hulking kitchen appliance." (Moment of silence here)
- 8/31/2006
- Jim Oglethorpe said...
Did you fall asleep holding your Opera Length Slimline cigarette holder? Be careful!
I would take FDNY hottie over George Clooney any day of the week. But I love a man in uniform. Even the UPS man.
- 8/31/2006
- lizzie26 said...
Glad you and KY are okay. I guess those really bad queries burn fast, huh.
- 8/31/2006
- Malia said...
Close one there, MS. Just a hint, the "low" "medium" and "high" settings on that there metallic filing cabinet really weren't priority settings.
My oven blinks "FO" all the time and beeps constantly. The book says "FO" stands for faulty oven .... I disagree.
We are in the middle of renovations, so soon the fuckin' oven will be beepin' no more.
- 8/31/2006
And here I thought you were merely taking precautionary measures before the Crapometer entries start arriving! (Glad everyone's okay!)
- 8/31/2006
Oh, dear. Were some ultra-hot romances smoldering in the slush pile? Or was it deliberate reduction of slush like with the email questions, and just got out of control?
"Miss Snark set her copy of the New Yorker down on the stove, then turned the ring on under it by mistake. No, you may not ask HOW I know."
You should see my copy of 'Joy of Cooking' :(
(word ver: srttsb = warning sound made by that old plastic mixing bowl melting onto a rapidly warming burner; immediately precedes the 'whoompf')
- 8/31/2006
Glad you're okay.
Reminds me of a case I saw on Judge Judy: one friend had another friend house sit. The house sitter turned on the oven, burned up all the stuff stored in it and killed the oven. The house sitter (the defendant) said he wanted to use the oven and that's what an oven's for. The plaintiff told the judge that that's not what her oven was for: "You should understand. I'm Jewish. I don't use my oven. I don't cook."
The house sitter lost because he didn't look first to see if there was something inside. He also failed to shut it off when he should have known something, (the odor), wasn't right.
- 8/31/2006
Forget the New Yorker.
Did any queries/partials/manuscripts get lost?!!!
- 8/31/2006
- McKoala said...
Ouch. Glad you are unscathed, apart from the stove and NY mag.
I once had a fire inside my oven. Every time we opened the door flames flew out, every time we closed it the the fire went out completely. A clever friend started muttering about oxygen feed until a less clever, but more beefy bloke pushed him out of the way, soaked a cloth in water and put out the fire with that.
We did not eat well that night. But I did date the human fire extinguisher for a while.
- 8/31/2006
- M. G. Tarquini said...
This is the reason Dog created Take Out, Miss Snark.
Consolatory Gin is on way. Have arranged for off-duty hunk to deliver it.
- 8/31/2006
Silver lining: Miss Snark again experiences transcendent gratitude at living in New York City, where residents live under the vigilant protection of NYFD, the slam-dunk finest looking public servants on the planet.
- 8/31/2006
My mom has the habit of turning on wrong burners. Good thing her landlord who lives upstairs is a firefighter. I can sleep at night.
My sister in law and her husband decided to take a shower together, but beforehand he turned on the kettle for some tea. Well, he thought it was the tea kettle. It was actually the pot of oil on the back burner. They had to replace the whole kitchen.
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Max resolution n/a in Slacko, Precise (solved,superficially)
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On Precise retro 571 and Slacko 5.6, both distros fail to report the max resolution with the xrandr command. This is running on a P3 driving a new 1080p, 60Hz display via vga. The max reported is usually 1600x900, or sometimes 1680x1050 after some creative editing of xorg.conf. An old version of parted magic automatically detects the correct display resolution and outputs a video signal of 1920x1080@60Hz, so there is no hardware limitation. Does anyone have an idea of how to output the right video mode in the distros I mentioned?
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Make sure that it is in the tables it uses.
I haven't looked for long time so I can't remember where they are, but I know I used to have to modify the supplied tables.
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FWIW, which video card and monitor?
Sounds like a similar problem I had with an ATI video card.
Edit: Maybe check out if parted magic has an xorg.conf that you can reference
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Well, I tried the addmode option in xrandr pretty early on, but it insists on maintaining the 1600x900 maximum as it reports when running xrandr. I assume the addmode option is what is meant by changing the tables - the mode tables, that is.
I am using an old pentium with 810xx integrated graphics on an hp 27es display over vga. I looked through parted magic for an Xorg.conf file but could not find one...odd, I know. There is a log file associated with Xorg starting up, but it would be inconsiderate to put here as it is too long.
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I think?? I modified xorg.conf to include the settings I needed.
But as I said, that was many years ago and on a different machine that I no longer have.
You need to find where the tables are and change them and make sure you pick up the changes.
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Interesting update, all...
I was tinkering with using some old pups on a flash drive. It was the first time in many weeks that I have run a pup other than the precise retro 571 and slacko 5.6 mentioned above. This was mainly due to my hard drive having space for only those two, and my flash drive installs were inaccessible due to wireless keyboard weirdness with grub4dos.
Anyway, I happened to choose puprescue precise 2.5, and I ran xorgwizard per the usual approach to startup. The menus were different and reminiscent of somewhat older puppies - the first set of options included probing the hardware, among other things. Then a fairly full list of video modes was presented, including 1920x1080x16 and 1920x1080x24. I picked the former which produced a pixel perfect display. Later, I tried the latter which caused a spontaneous reversion to some weird resolution or a crash to the virtual terminal. Presumably there is a memory limitation on that second video mode. I am running on 256 megs here!
The xorgwizard in slacko 5.6 presents a different set of menus to the user. It asks first to choose a driver - intel, modesetting, or kms. Then, on choosing intel, a rather limited choice of video modes is given with no color depth options. In this instance, it seems that some wizards produce a better xorg.conf file. I simply copied the the puprescue file to the slacko install and got the pixel perfect result.
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Tyro, you left out until the very last what is probably the most important information: that you only have 256 MB of RAM. Have you added any swap memory?
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Maybe I should have mentioned the memory limitation earlier, but I thought I gave a fair amount of detail at the time. It was my guess that the resolution to the problem lay in the thicket of how the xorg.conf file is constructed and the content of the file itself. Clearly, though, the low memory problem was a central issue here.
As to swap space, I don't have any. My hard drive is almost full and likely couldn't take much thrashing anyway, as it is the original hard drive on this 2000 vintage computer. Besides, swap is so very slow; it seems much slower than in other operating systems. I really do appreciate the suggestion, but I consider this little issue sufficiently resolved. It is no big deal at any rate. My display looks pretty good now, and I plan on junking this computer rather soon in favor of a new, casual-use machine. I am picking through pcpartpicker a lot these days.
The only reason for the follow-up is that I just hoped that maybe this might help someone, if but a little bit, down the road.
And for you environment hawks out there, I am not actually going to junk my computer...it has sentimental value. It is on "permanent loan" from my former girlfriend.
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Hi Tyro.
Do you have a xrandrindex file in /etc? It should be one line with screen
res. at the beginning plus the Hertz rate at the end, without spaces.
I have in mine: email@example.com
I use it to activate a wide screen connected to my laptop. On boot-up
the regular laptop screen is used, but when X kicks in, the wide screen
lights up with the Puppy desktop, and the laptop screen is deactivated.
I turn my wide screen on when the boot-up gets to choosing the pupsave
I created a dummy pupsave file so the process can stop at this choice. I
then turn my wide screen on, press the number of the pupsave file to use
and hit Return, and the boot-up continues.
This works for me on the Slim-6 and Puduan-6 32-bit Pups.
Note: Untested on the Puppies you mention.
If not, you may want to create one such file:
echo "1920x1080" > /etc/xrandrindex
The Hertz rate is added automatically, IIRC.
Then restart X.
As to the swap partition, you could create one 750 Mb or 1 Gb in size on
a USB stick that you insert just before boot. It doesn't matter where this
swap partition is, as long as you have one: Puppy will detect it.
Keep us posted? IHTH.
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Hey, I found my message....
Well, I have not deliberately created an xrandrindex file...I doubt I ever had one in either distro. A month ago, I played with xrandr on the command line and tried to add video modes in that way. I also tried doing similar things with direct editing of the xorg.conf file, but none of this helped. These things seem similar to what you suggest.
The (older, I think) xorgwizard in puprescue served well in guiding me to the right choice by providing a more detailed list of video modes. It also produced a cleaner, more uniform xorg.conf file. Surely the most important point here is that the reduced bit depth demands less video memory, which of course comes out of system ram. There is no video card here!
As stated above, the display is working fine now...getting a signal in its native resolution, so no problems.
I don't think I am going to run a swap file or partition as this computer is on its way out and for other reasons already mentioned. As slow as hard drive swap is, I can scarcely fathom running swap space on a flash drive. Those damn things are slow enough when writing ordinary files, unless you want to pay a premium of perhaps fifty cents a gig or so. The final nail here is that I am using an ancient computer...with a USB 1.1 controller. Imagine the hell of that!
But, to my mind, all is well on this topic. I am reasonably satisfied. Thanks for the ideas and advice.
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Meningitis victim shares painful story
Woman sickened by drugs from Framingham compounding pharmacy
Twice a day, Trish Schmiedeknecht hooks medication from an IV bag to her right arm and sits for an hour.
She's been doing this since the middle of November on the day she turned 40 years old.
"I need to live no matter what," Trish told NewsCenter 5 in her first interview since being diagnosed with fungal meningitis.
She's one of three people from Rhode Island sickened by the outbreak linked to the New England Compounding Center in Framingham.
"The constant headache became a nightmare headache," she said about the first time she knew she was critically ill. "It became the biggest pounding headache of all."
The Cranston mother thought she was going to die, and she will likely spend the rest of her life wondering if the fungus will return.
She and her husband, Wayne, also check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web site every day. They look at the number of people killed by the meningitis outbreak, and it keeps climbing. As of early April the total is 53 dead and 733 sickened.
Trish is a 6th-grade social studies teacher at Nathan Bishop Middle School in Providence, R.I. Painful, disorienting symptoms and treatment have kept her out of work since October, and medical bills are piling up.
"I can't afford my medical bills. I didn't plan on this, and no, I can't afford them," she said.
Every lawsuit against NECC and its owners are tied up in bankruptcy proceedings.
NECC officials do not comment on cases while litigation is pending.
Trish and her family have no idea how long the process will take.
"I had to call the bill companies, and they hear me, but they're knocking on my door, though," she said.
Her close friends are holding a fundraiser for her on Friday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at The Parlour bar on North Main Street in Providence.
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text: A panoramic image from the Jakopič promende (Jakopičevo sprehajališče) in Ljubljana's largest park Tivoli. The park was designed by the famous Slovenian architect Plečnik, while the promenade is named after one of the most important Slovenian painters, Rihard Jakopič. In the last few years, the promenade is used as an open air gallery (some of the pictures can be seen at the sides of the promenade). The promenade stretches from the central part of Ljubljana to the castle Tivoli.


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Congressional aides are beginning to wonder if the Navy should buy the carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter, in light of the program's rising price tag and its higher flight costs.
"I'm growing more and more convinced that the Navy variant of the F-35 might not be worth buying. The program is sliding further and further to the right, as costs increase. When we have an 80 percent solution in active production, and significantly cheaper, the F-35C looks like a great candidate for cancellation," said one congressional aide. "Gates has talked about choosing 75 percent solutions over expensive 'exquisite' systems and this is a perfect candidate."
For its part, the Navy, already worried it won't have enough planes for its carrier fleet, has briefed senior Pentagon leaders that the Joint Strike Fighter program "will have a significant impact on naval aviation affordability in the FYDP and beyond."
A source who follows JSF closely quoted portions of the NavAir study, "Joint Programs TOC Affordability." A congressional aide who has seen the report confirmed the information. The study was briefed to DoD leaders earlier this month;
The source said that the study finds "the cost to operate and support the F-35 (all variants) will be $442 billion or more depending on additional costs for integration on ships and currently unforeseen development costs. This estimate is in FY 2002 program baseline dollars; the current dollar cost will be significantly higher. The production and development costs are cited, by the JET II, to be $217 and $46 billion respectively (2002 $), thereby making total program ownership cost to be $704 billion, or more, in 2002 dollars,:" according to this source.
That would put operating costs of the F-35 B and C versions some 40 percent higher "than the cost to operate the existing (larger) fleet of F-18A-Ds and AV-8s. Cost per flight hour of the combined F-18A-D and AV-8 fleets is estimated to be about $19,000 per hour; F-35B/C cost per flight hour is estimated to be about $31,000," the source said. "These higher and growing operating costs are certainly typical for a new generation aircraft, but the revelation of these estimates at this relatively early point in the program would seem to demonstrate some real and growing concern that the highly complex F-35 is anything but 'affordable.'"
An industry source noted that the chief of Naval operations "has been very interested across the force in terms of total operating costs. It is significant that this study addresses this." The industry source said that Super Hornet flying hour costs are about $5,000 an hour.
A second congressional aide raised some questions about the study's methodology, saying that "the worker level people, when asked about the assumptions by an assistant secretary in the Navy, didn't have real good answers to that question. So while some of the numbers are very specific, the assumptions are not." But this aide, who follows both programs, agreed that the NavAir study was a good argument for the F-18. "But yes, if they are looking for tails versus presumed better capability for more money and given the budget crunch and need for more ships they have HUGE problems," the aide said.
The source who provided the study results noted that it "shows nothing for F-18E/F flight hour costs, which makes me suspicious."
While Congress may not be ready to cancel the carrier version of the F-35, the industry source noted that support for the F-18 "has been gaining momentum in the Congress really over the last three years," largely to address what has been identified as a shortfall in the number of planes available. "Each year more and more language has been written noting Congress' concern with the shortfall as well as questioning what the Navy and DoD are going to do about it."
Most interestingly, this source said the Navy is looking over the long term for a sixth generation aircraft, one with "increased range, increased persistence, increased speed and increased payload." The F-35 is, of course, a fifth generation fighter.


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Saturday, September 24, 2005
Blythe Creek Baptist Church
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