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Hey everyone, this will be a rather brief tutorial on customizing Conky, a lightweight, highly extensible system monitor available for X. It runs on flavors of Linux, and BSD.
If you want to check out some configurations others have used, look at the screenshots from the official site, and the massive 1200+ page thread on Ubuntu Forums, here
Are you excited yet? Good! Go ahead and install it with your distro's package manager. (sudo apt-get install conky for Debian, pacman -S conky on Arch, etc.) Or, if you want, grab the source, and install it from there.
Make sure you have a file named .conkyrc in your home directory (this is the configuration file) if you don't, simply create one.
Alright, now let's fire up your favorite text editor, and see what we can do.
I suggest modifying someone else's theme first rather than writing one entirely from scratch, just so you can get a feel for it first. Here is a very simple config, which will just write out "Hello, World!" to the top right corner of the screen.
background yes update_interval 1 #update every 1 second use_xft yes #use pretty fonts own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent yes #window has no background, see right through to the desktop own_window_hints undecorated # doesn't draw title bars, just a window minimum_size 200 5 #sets a min size for the conky window (200x5) maximum_width 200 #max size double_buffer yes #prevents flickering alignment top_right #places in top right corner TEXT Hello, World! #And hello to you, Conky!
A # designates a line comment. Everything above the "TEXT" line is settings, changing the window type, background colors, and all that good stuff. There are way more settings, but this is just an example afterall. Everything after the "TEXT" line is placed on the window. Anything that isn't recognized as a variable (which we'll get to in just a bit) is placed onto the window verbatim.
Let's say we wanted to center our message, rather than having it off to the left. We would use the variable alignc, which will align all the text on that line (or until another alignment is specified (you can have multiple alignments in a single line)) to the center.
Just so there's no confusion: although they are called variables, things like alignc behave like functions in other languages, in that they do something, rather than store something
So there are two ways to use variables in Conky:
$alignc Hello, World! #or ${alignc}Hello, World!
In this case, these two forms will produce the same results, but if you wanted to pass an argument to them, you would have to use the second form:
#${color someColor} sets the color of the text to someColor #$color (same variable, but with no arguments) sets the color back #to the default color (specified in the configuration section) ${color blue}I'm feeling rather blue :-( $color Now I'm better! #same as ${color}Now I'm better!
That's basically it for the syntax. Easy stuff, right?
Now let's move on to making our config file a bit more descriptive.
Check out the Variable Documentation for the list of every available variable you can use to add information to your conky bar.
NOTE: if you see something like this: addr (interface) it means that the interface argument is optional. Anything in parentheses can be omitted, and default options for the variable will be used. Read the description, as that will usually provide useful information on the usage, and the parameters.
Now, let's add a simple CPU monitor and graph to our config.
Check the documentation for the variables cpu, and cpubar
Here is the TEXT section:
TEXT CPU Usage: $alignr $cpu % $cpubar
Here's what it should look like:
If you have a multicore CPU, use the optional parameter cpuN to specify which CPU to measure
For example:
#on a dual core CPU TEXT CPU Usage: Core 1: $alignr ${cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0} Core 2: $alignr ${cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
Alright,so that about wraps up the tutorial. You (hopefully) now know how to customize a Conky configuration. I obviously didn't include how to do everything, but hopefully with the syntax down, you'll be able to create some masterpieces!
If you need more help with usage, you could either leave a comment here, or hop on the #conky channel on freenode, where you'll get help from people much more experienced than I
If you want to see what a full Conky config looks like (disclaimer: I suck at designing things, picking colors, and being creative), here is what my current configuration looks like:
And here's the .conkyrc file
use_xft yes xftfont HandelGotD:size=9 xftalpha 1 update_interval 1 total_run_times 0 own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent no own_window_colour 222222 own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager double_buffer yes minimum_size 200 5 maximum_width 200 draw_shades yes draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders no default_color white default_shade_color black default_outline_color black alignment top_right gap_x 12 gap_y 48 no_buffers yes uppercase no cpu_avg_samples 2 override_utf8_locale no TEXT $sysname $kernel on $machine ${color red} Uptime $alignr $color $uptime ${color red} Load $alignr $color $loadavg ${color red} Hostname $alignr $color $nodename ${color red} wlan0 $alignr $color ${addr wlan0} ${color red} Inbound $alignr $color ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${downspeedgraph wlan0}${color red} Outbound $alignr $color ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${upspeedgraph wlan0} ${color red} Total Upload $alignc: $alignr $color ${totalup wlan0} ${color red} Total Download $alignc: $alignr $color ${totaldown wlan0} ${color red} $processes ${color}processes (${color red}$running_processes ${color}running) ${color red} Process Name $alignr CPU % $alignr Mem% ${color yellow} ${top name 1} $alignr ${top cpu 1} $alignr ${top mem 1} ${color orange} ${top name 2} $alignr ${top cpu 2} $alignr ${top mem 2} ${color brown} ${top name 3} $alignr ${top cpu 3} $alignr ${top mem 3} ${color green} ${top name 4} $alignr ${top cpu 4} $alignr ${top mem 4} ${color purple} ${top name 5} $alignr ${top cpu 5} $alignr ${top mem 5} ${color pink} ${color red} CPU $alignr ${color}${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0} ${color red} MEM $color $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc% $membar ${color red} / $color $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar /} ${color red} swap $color $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc% ${swapbar} ${color red} Disk IO: $color $alignc $diskio Read : $diskio_read $alignc ${diskiograph_read /dev/sda 00FF00 FF0000 0 -t } Write: $diskio_write $alignc ${diskiograph_write /dev/sda 00FF00 FF0000 0 -t } As of ${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN last_update}: ${font 100}${color red}$alignc${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN weather} $font $color - - ${color red} Temperature $color $alignc : $alignr${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN temperature}C - - ${color red} Pressure $color $alignc : $alignr${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN pressure}MB - - ${color red} Wind Speed $color $alignc : $alignr${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN temperature}km/h - - ${color red} Humidity $color $alignc : $alignr${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN humidity}% - - ${color red} Cloud Cover $color $alignc : $alignr${weather http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ KFWN cloud_cover}
Unless you want the weather for a town near where I live, you'll have to change that to suit your needs
Extra Credit: Making Conky Partially Opaque
With Conky, you can either have it fully transparent, or specify a solid background color; you can't have it partially transparent. An easy fix for this is to specify a solid background (I like using #22222, a dark gray) and then go through the CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm)
Go to Accessibility > Opacity, Brightness, And Saturation > Add a window specific setting.
For the name, type in class=Conky, and set the slider to the opacity you want.
Here's the original:
And here it is at about 80% opacity, through ccsm:
Have fun!


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The time is now.
Those words have been reverberating in the wake of Friday's shootings in Newtown, Conn. There's at last a sense that the moment has come for some serious action on gun control.
Even some of the most reliable 2nd Amendment hawks are easing up. "The ideologies of my past career are no longer relevant," Joe Scarborough — father of young children, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and former conservative congressman — told his audience in a 10-minute speech, because Newtown "changed everything."
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a pro-gun-rights Democrat, said Monday that "every idea should be on the table" when it came to a "meaningful conversation and thoughtful debate about how to change laws and culture that allow this violence to continue to grow." This from the same man who, in July, showed little interest in talking about gun policy following the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting in which 12 people died and dozens more were wounded.
But things are different now, more urgent, and for all sorts of reasons. There's been an uptick in the accumulation of mass shootings over the last several years. We have a second-term president who may have the political capital to stand up to the gun lobby. And viscerally, as terrifying as it has been to contemplate shootings in malls and movie theaters and on high school and college campuses, the slaying of 20 first-graders, in their bright and cheery elementary school, represents a brand of horror unimaginable to most Americans.
These reasons grab attention in the media and roll nicely off the tongues of politicians and pundits. But there may be a deeper, more unsettling reason for the shift on gun control, something that doesn't make for quite as fluent a talking point. It's a reason illustrated by remarks like those of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, a longtime NRA supporter who explained his sudden openness to change by saying, "We've never been in these waters before.... Never have we seen so many of our babies put in harm's way."
Our babies. Could that mean mostly white, middle- and upper-middle-class babies with bright futures? Babies with educated, professional parents? Babies in whose faces men like Scarborough and Manchin can see their own children and grandchildren? Scarborough even put it in so many words: "For the sake of my four children . . . I choose change," he said.
Talk about coming late to the party. The truth is we have been in these waters before; we've been drowning in them for a long time. In the poorest and most disenfranchised parts of America, many, many babies have been put in harm's way by lax gun control every hour of every day.
Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that child deaths from gun violence are hardly unheard of — even children as young as the Newtown students. In 2009, the latest year for which complete CDC data are available, 85 preschoolers died from gun violence. They were killed in their homes and on the streets and as bullets passed through their parents' cars. They died without moving the needle on gun control a fraction of an inch.
And those are just the kids killed from gun violence. Include accidents and you get numbers like this: In 2008, 2,947 youngsters (ages 0-19) in the U.S. died from guns. In 2009, 2,793. That means over a two-year period, 55 children or teens died every week, eight every day, one every three hours. Since 1979, the first year that gun data by age were collected, firearms have killed 116,385 children and teens. And yet, the time has come only now.
Only now that the problem has hit our leaders in the kind of leafy, upper-middle-class white enclave where most of them live (psychologically and culturally if not geographically) has the violence been granted "watershed event" status. Mass shootings in other places didn't quite qualify. Small children being killed one by one in neighborhoods where daily violence is endemic didn't quite qualify. What it took was the slaughter of 20 kids who, by so many measures, could have belonged to those who hold the reins of power. What it took were children who were supposedly the beneficiaries of the best America had to offer.
So, yes, the time is now, but only by default. A better time would have been decades ago.


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Eight years ago this week, a European mission went where no probe had gone before — Saturn's huge moon Titan — and a new video animation is recounting that historic landing by the Huygens spacecraft.
The European Space Agency's unmanned Huygens probe dropped onto the surface of Titan on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from its parent Cassini spacecraft. The new animation, which was created by ESA using real Huygens data, captures the last portion of the lander's 2 1/2-hour descent through Titan's thick, nitrogen-based atmosphere.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
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The new Huygens landing video, which runs for 1 minute and 40 seconds, shows the touchdown from a variety of angles and ends with a real photo Huygens took of Titan's surface.
Though Huygens stopped sending data home to Earth 90 minutes after touching down, the landing continues to teach researchers about Titan.
An analysis of Huygens data published late last year, for example, determined that the 400-pound (181 kilograms) probe bounced, slid and wobbled to a stop 10 seconds after first contacting the moon. The study suggests that Titan's surface at the time had the consistency of soft, wet sand with a fragile crust on top, researchers said.
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, and the second-largest moon in the entire solar system (only the Jupiter satellite Ganymede is bigger). With a diameter of 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers), Titan is nearly 50 percent wider than Earth's moon.
Titan is the only object in the solar system besides Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface. But Titan's lakes and seas contain methane and ethane rather than water, as the huge moon has a weather cycle based on hydrocarbons.
Complex carbon-containing molecules are known to swirl about in Titan's atmosphere, further intriguing scientists who regard the moon as one of the best places in the solar system to look for alien life.
The $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint effort involving NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency, launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004. While Huygens is now a feature of the Titan landscape, the Cassini spacecraft continues to study the ringed planet and its many moons. Its mission has been extended through at least 2017.
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It appears that the 2010 Mountain Bike World Cup Final in Windham, New York state, has been confirmed. There were concerns as late as two weeks ago that the event would be cancelled, with the UCI only saying that they would make a final decision on the status of the event by December 1st. Canadian Cyclist has learned that the UCI has now confirmed that the event and location will continue to be Windham, NY. The event will take place one week before the World Championships in Mont Ste Anne, Quebec.
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Benefits of Exercise During Pregnancy
DISCLAIMER: The information contained on this site is not meant to replace the advice and recommendations of your doctor and/or midwife. Please consult your caregiver before beginning any exercise program.
Most every study relating to pregnancy and exercise concludes that exercise is not only safe during pregnancy, but that it is actually better for both the mother and baby to engage in physical activity throughout pregnancy. (Sarah Kooperman with Susan Brokenbrough)
James F. Clapp II is a professor of reproductive biology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Clapp is one of the most noteworthy researchers on the topic of pregnancy and exercise. In a 1990 study he concludes "Moderate exercise during pregnancy leads to better weight regulation and fewer backaches and other discomforts."
In the same study, Dr. Clapp documented "shorter, easier labors (on average 2 hours less of labor time) with less medical intervention (24%less C-sections and 14% less usage of forceps), higher neo-natal Apgar scores and quicker recoveries" for exercising pregnant women.
In a subsequent article which appeared in the Journal of Pediatrics, December 1996, Dr. Clapp traced the development of children of exercising mothers. Clapp set out to test the hypothisis that regular exercise throughout pregnancy had an adverse effect on the children by the time they reached five years of age. The offspring of exercising mothers measured about 10% less in skinfold and weight measures than those of the non-exercising mothers. Lean muscle mass was higher, particularly in the boys, and percentage of fat was lower. According to national statistics, the children at five years of age of the exercising mothers measured in the 50th percentile for age and skinfold thickness. As Clapp noted, "... it is not that the offspring of exercising women are unduly lean at age 5 years, rather that the offspring of the control subjects are a bit on the fat side" (Clapp, 861). Clapp's study also suggests that women who exercised during pregnancy experience an average of 21% less weight gain than women who are sedentary (858).
Postpartum Aerobic Exercise for Breast Feeding Mothers.Researchers studied 33 sedentary women who breast fed their babies. They participated in aerobic exercise 45 minutes daily, 5 days a week for 12 weeks. The researchers concluded that aerobic exercise performed 4 or 5 times per week beginning 6-8 weeks postpartum had no adverse effect on lactation and significantly improved the mother's cardiovascular fitness (ALCA News, Vol 6:2).


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DOOCE stayed at the Inn.
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We still can't wrap our heads around the fact that Heather Armstrong of dooce.com, the Oprah of mommy bloggers, stayed at the Snapdragon Inn over Valentine's weekend. Uh, yeah and it was her first time in Vermont. We were her first ;) She was one of the people we day dreamed of hosting at the Inn back when we were stripping wall paper from every square inch of the place. In fact, it may have been this very night when Michelle (having just had her third baby and full into Heather's book) had that thought. (I day dreamed that it would be Design Mom and she did give us this amazing shout out right after we opened. How kind is that? Hollah for supporting small businesses.)
So It was hard not acting like we had a celebrity in the house because, to us and sooooo many others, we DID! We fully expected to check them in and they'd hide away but no, they came down and chatted with us in the library for over an hour about the Inn, life, everything. We kept looking for cues that they wanted out and we didn't sense any (or at least we didn't think we did) so we chatted away. Later I apologized for talking so much and she said that was part of the experience staying at a place like this--getting to know the owners. Love her perspective.
Later she posted a picture on instagram saying that she had a "spectacular" evening. Not just lovely or wonderful but spectacular! No doubt, this was aided by what sounds like an amazing time at our local restaurant, The Windsor Station Restaurant & Barrooom. We looooooved this little convo too:
And as if that wasn't all cool enough...she posted on her blog and gave us a shout out by name (giddy jumps). "Intimate" and "Cozy" are definitely two words we are beyond happy to have describe us. Plus, the rest of her post is hilarious, as always.
We met Heather at Alt Summit and went right up to her and invited her to the Inn and two weeks later she contacted us to book! We thought it was a pipe dream but we've been dooced. She likes us, she really likes us! Be on the outlook for other awesome happenings at the Inn. We are going for it!


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Hi, I've just noticed that since I've been on here my views have changed - in reaction to the heavy Americanisation of the site. I don't have anything against American per sa, but it has caused me to think more about the integrity of our own culture and maintaining that. We are heavily exposed to American culture already - especially due to our own smaller populations. I think it's important that we band together and preserve some of our own ideas and foster our own thinking and persepctives. I've met many atheists locally in Melbourne, who don't like the strong anti christian persepctives of American atheists and also writters such as Dawkins and Dennett and Harris. They are all great authors with great things to say, think and contribution to our understanding of truth and life as we currently know it to be according to science - but again I've noticed a sharp change in Dawkins work over the years, that is in direct reaction to American culture. This is in part to do with globalisation but also I think to American dominance generally.
I wonder if it is useful to aim to highlight these differences - so as to be more aware of them as a way of maintaining cultural identity as seperate. I don't want to loose my cultural identity to a homogenised culture dominated by the US.
I wonder if American culture generally sees itself as great and wonderful and a completely desirable influence on the rest of the world, in all it's forms - christian, atheist, cultural, scientific, social etc.
I personally am very impressed with countires such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Holland also. For their social policies. The Germans have gone a long way since their greens in power in the 70's with their green revolution and are pinoniring green technology. (forgive spelling - I've lost my spell checker and had a very poor education in northern england...)
I can think of many good things about many countries - but what my children are being exposed to on TV and internet is mostly american content with the same myths and scripts over and over - it's quite tedious and boring for me - as well as homoginased culture that lacks depth. I'm sure 'real' americans have lots of depth, and I've heard stories that they can be very welcoming and other such stories - but that's not the impact of their media exports.
It's interesting because we are all brought together in the name of not believing in God and in a way we end up talking about god an awful lot - in the same way I'm bringing up the idea that I'd like to foster an independant non american culture - only because I didn't think the way I do now, after strong american influence - so what I'm proposing isn't a long conversation about american - but what we are in contrast to that, and what we have that is unique and not nessisarily about not believing in God - but in what we do believe in - what we do value and what we do want to foster for our selves and our society.
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Mike - well thanks for busting my urban myth re porn - it's embarrassing being caught red handed pushing one! But I'm grateful that I'm told, rather than ridiculed.
It is tough with stats though, because you can't know about those that weren't reported and also people's ideas change about what constitutes sex crime also - in terms of what's acceptable or not and also what's popular... But I think it very useful to study this stuff and find enough facts that can lead to some greater understanding and meaning being made from it.
I think child sex abuse in catholic church became cultural - in that it probably attracted pedophiles.
I am responding my impressions of the original issues Alice seemed to be bringing up. The conversation which ensued seems to have taken a different tack, which I'm not so involved in.
Alice appears to be contrasting two sorts of atheism - one more like Dawkins concerned with taking on aggressive Christianity - the second kind of atheism is one that somewhat rejects the first and seeks a different focus, (although they may vary on what that focus should be). The second camp might be called accommodationists.
I'm not sure if Alice is saying the first is American, and the second is Australian but if she is, I would point out that there are plenty of Americans in the second camp and plenty of Australians in the first one.
Some in the second camp are quite vitriolically critical of Dawkins and such, and some seem to say that they have no personal negative experiences of (some, all, or most) religious people and so can't see why anyone else has a right/need to be hostile.
Some in the first camp might see those in the second camp as selfish, naive, complacent etc. Vice versa might say first camp is angry, paranoid etc.
Alice are you aware of the tensions between these camps?
Anyway you're welcome to think and discuss as you please, but please don't characterise one kind of atheism as more Australian than another.
Are you aware of the Humanist movement which could be said to have tried to focus on "what we do value and what we do want to foster for our selves and our society"?
Sadly the Humanist movement is not prospering in Australia at present and has had little interest from young people.
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Thanks for replying. You did start out talking about 'maintaining'..'the integrity of our own culture' so I guess my interpretation was coloured by that. And some would see complacency in an attitude based on 'because it's not attacking me'. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, just trying to show you the impressions your own words might create for some of us.
By all means give the Humanists a go. They are, in principle, concerned about, as you said, 'what we do value and what we do want to foster for our selves and our society'. They haven't been getting support from many young people so if you can get some rejuvenation going that would be great.
I would just say that some of us do listen to what the Christians are actually saying, and live in suburbs and towns where they predominate, and at workplaces & schools (public as well as private) where they're in charge, and in religious families, and some 'think globally' about theocratic aggression of all forms. And it takes all types to make a movement.
Your point is reasonable. But maybe it's like a b horror movie where it seemed the monster was dead and buried but somehow he's back and pounding at the door. Decades ago we thought god was dead and religion was terminally ill. But the bloody beast came back. So people have had to turn their efforts to battling it, boring or not. I'm sure some of the authors would rather be writing about other things. Yes some people enjoy wars, but most people are dragged into them by necessity. You can't just wish bad things away.
There are millions of books out there, but it is hard to find the good ones. I tried running an atheist book club in Sydney but it collapsed for lack of interest, despite hundreds being in the Meetup group. There ARE lots of bookish atheists out there but they don't tend to join groups I suppose. I've no real idea what you've already read, so even though I work in a library I couldn't make useful suggestions. I'd hate to get someone to buy a book they didn't end up liking. Finding goods books is hard work sometimes.
I haven't seen Grayling's 'The Good Book' yet. Is it what you're looking for? There are books on philosophical naturalism around, written by atheists. Amazon works hard at linking together similar books, and has reader reviews which are useful. If you want to be able to read books that other people you know read and can talk about them too, that is hard to arrange sometimes.
Yes if you want others to talk about books you should explicitly make that your discussion point on nexus. You didn't make that clear before.
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There's no harm in asking. I haven't read 'breaking the spell' yet. There's arguments for and against finishing it if you're stalled, so you may be allowed to use gut feeling on that. :) I like Dennett.
I also found Greatest Show interesting, but a better-structured complete-idiots-guide type work on evolution is needed - it may already exist. Greatest Show wasn't something you could hand over and expect to convert creationists. It was a bit rambly, and he should have newer computer experiments to show us.
I'm off for a little holiday now, so bye
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A prominent Iranian novelist and writer, Hushang Golshiri, has died in hospital in Tehran at the age of 63, reported BBC.online Monday.
Golshiri, who is widely regarded as Iran's greatest contemporary novelist, had been suffering a series of illnesses.
He wrote his first collection of short stories in the late 1960s, said BBC.
His most famous novel, "Prince Ehtejab", was published in 1969 and critics have hailed it as one of the best contemporary literary works in Iran.
Golshiri was one of the first Iranian writers to apply modern literary techniques in his book to depict the demise of the Iranian aristocracy. Later the novel was turned into a successful film, the BBC added.
In his other novels and short stories, Golshiri also focused on social and political issues.
His short stories have been translated into English and other European languages.
In his last visit to Britain in October, he told the BBC Persian Service that he had been trying to understand the complexities of human beings in his works.
Golshiri was also a prominent campaigner for the freedom of expression in Iran.
He was active in organizing Iranian writers to fight censorship imposed by both the former regime of the Shah and the Islamic government, according to the BBC.
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Two new studies advance that argument and demonstrate how shielding lung cancer cells from opiates reduces cell proliferation, invasion and migration in both cell-culture and mouse models.
The reports–to be presented November 18, 2009, at "Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics," a joint meeting in Boston of the American Association for Cancer Research, the National Cancer Institute, and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer–highlight the mu opiate receptor, where morphine works, as a potential therapeutic target.
"If confirmed clinically, this could change how we do surgical anesthesia for our cancer patients," said Patrick A. Singleton, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center and principal author of both studies. "It also suggests potential new applications for this novel class of drugs which should be explored."
The proposition that opiates influence cancer recurrence, prompted by several unrelated clinical and laboratory studies, has gradually gained support. It started with a 2002 palliative-care trial in which patients who received spinal rather than systemic pain relief survived longer. Soon after that, Singleton's colleague, anesthesiologist Jonathan Moss, noticed that several cancer patients receiving a selective opiate blocker in a compassionate-use protocol lived longer than expected. Two recent retrospective studies found that breast and prostate cancer patients who received regional rather than general anesthesia had fewer recurrences. In February, 2009, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation highlighted the issue.
Moss's palliative-care patients were taking methylnaltrexone (MNTX), developed in the 1980s for opiate-induced constipation by the late University of Chicago pharmacologist Leon Goldberg. Goldberg modified an established drug that blocks morphine so that it could no longer cross the protective barrier that surrounds the brain. So MNTX blocks morphine's peripheral side effects but does not interfere with its effect on pain, which is centered in the brain. It won FDA approval in 2008.
"These were patients with advanced cancer and a life expectancy of one to two months," Moss recalled, "yet several lived for another five or six. It made us wonder whether this was just a consequence of better GI function or could there possibly be an effect on the tumors."
So Singleton, Moss and colleagues, including Joe G.N. Garcia, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, began a series of studies looking at the many peripheral effects of opiates and the potential benefits of blocking those effects.
In laboratory studies, morphine can directly boost tumor-cell proliferation and inhibit the immune response. The researchers found that opiates also promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, and decrease barrier function–effects that may exacerbate diseases involving vascular leakiness including acute lung injury in experimental models. In a surgical setting, decreased barrier function may make it easier for tumors to invade tissue and spread to distant sites. Increased angiogenesis helps cancers thrive in a new site.
In the studies to be presented Nov. 18, Singleton and colleagues focus on the mu opiate receptor as a regulator of tumor growth and metastasis and examine the ability of methylnaltrexone to attenuate these effects.
Using two different models of non-small cell lung cancer, the research teams showed that MNTX inhibited the tumor-promoting effects of opiates. In one study, using bronchioloalveolar carcinoma cells, MNTX blocked oncogenic signaling and prevented tumor-cell proliferation and migration.
In the other study, using Lewis lung carcinoma cells, mice without the mu opiate receptor did not develop the tumors that normal mice did when injected with cancer cells. The researchers further showed that MNTX reduced proliferation of cancer cells by 90 percent in normal mice. It also prevented invasion in cell culture and tumor growth and metastasis in mice.
The opioid receptor promotes Lewis lung cancer tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis, the authors conclude in a summary of the second study. "Methylnaltrexone attenuates these oncogenic effects."
"In conjunction with previous studies on opiate-induced angiogenesis by our laboratory and others, these experimental data suggest a plausible explanation for the epidemiologic observations," notes Moss, professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Chicago. "If these laboratory studies are confirmed clinically, the selection of anesthetic technique used during the operative procedure and the possible use of opiate antagonists in the perioperative period may be important."
Additional contributors to the project include Frances Lennon, PhD, Biji Mathew, PhD, and Ravi Salgia, MD, all of the University of Chicago.
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Longtime Vicon customer, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), evolves their use of Vicon motion capture technology beyond VFX.
Vicon motion capture systems were used by VFX powerhouse ILM to create visual effects for box office hit, The Avengers. The superhero-themed blockbuster features digital characters driven by Vicon motion-captured performances for scenes that showcase the Hulk, Iron Man, foot soldiers and virtual crowds.
ILM is one of Vicon's longest standing customers in the entertainment market and has used its motion capture systems on films including the Academy Award-winning Rango, as well as all of the films in the Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Iron Man franchises and many others.
ILM Digital Supervisor Mike Sanders has been working with Vicon systems for almost fifteen years at the company. "One of the first things we did on The Avengers was bring actor Mark Ruffalo in for a shoot on our mocap stage to do what we call 'rapid prototyping'. We applied his performance captured by the Vicon cameras onto a 3D model of the Hulk to give him live performance feedback in real time. This allowed Ruffalo to explore his posture, motion and timing of actions as the Hulk, and was an exciting way for the director [Joss Whedon] and actor to engage with the digital character in a very interactive way.
"Sometimes studios will hire us for pitch viz, to rapidly prototype characters and very quickly produce a cut scene of a movie that's at 80-90% render quality to help convince IP stakeholders whether or not they should move forward with developing that property.
We've also used mocap to capture virtual camera moves, actors in character exploration or motion study sessions during casting, to help studios evaluate a director's ability to develop certain projects and for location scouting in digital environments using a tracked virtual camera."
ILM also uses Blade, Vicon's motion capture software, to reproduce an actor's skeletal motion from a 3D point cloud. The point cloud is created using 2D data collected from the cameras during a performance. ILM's proprietary animation system, Zeno, allows them to automatically retarget performance data from the mocap stage onto animator's character rigs in real time.
Over the course of a year, ILM completed approximately 24 motion capture shoots for The Avengers, both as front-loaded sequences for character motion libraries and fine-tuned shot-specific performances. Animation driven by the Vicon mocap data for the Hulk, Iron Man, foot soldiers and digital crowds was used throughout the film. Full body performance of the Hulk was captured with the Vicon system both on the mocap stage and on location during principle shooting, where Ruffalo was often performing in one of ILM's Imocap suits alongside the film's other cast members.
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As retailers prepare for the traditional start of the holiday season this coming week, some of the nation's biggest chains plan to pre-empt Black Friday with shopping hours and special events on Thanksgiving Day — a move that has triggered a spate of online protests.
Toys "R" Us will open stores at 9 p.m. and Walmart will follow at 10 p.m., meaning that shoppers may be lining up for bargains soon after their turkey dinners. Target, Best Buy and Kohl's are shifting from their usual pre-dawn Friday openings, welcoming shoppers at midnight. And a growing number of malls and mall stores are promoting openings at midnight or earlier.
Some retailers also will usher in the season with events designed to attract shoppers before the sales begin. Best Buy is offering free screenings of the final Harry Potter movie at some stores. Bass Pro Shops, which has a store at Arundel Mills, is inviting shoppers to sit around bonfires, sip hot chocolate and compete for prizes, including a leased Toyota Camry.
For retailers, it's all about getting to that crucial holiday shopper first, in a year when a troubled economy means any misstep will be costly, experts say. And this year more than ever, the lines between Thanksgiving and the post-holiday shopping period appear to have permanently blurred.
"The economic climate clearly is not wonderful," said Barry Berman, a marketing and retail professor at Hofstra University. "And retailers are very concerned about inventories, about meeting sales goals, and very much concerned about having markdowns late in the season."
So retailers are trying to broaden Black Friday opportunities, and for most people, "9 p.m. is more rational than 4 in the morning," Berman said. But he also worries that such trends have bigger implications. "Too many of the national holidays have lost their significance."
Retailers say they're simply satisfying consumer demand, which this year will mean catering to as many as 152 million Americans who plan to shop over the holiday weekend, according to an industry survey released last week. That includes 77 million people who say they will hit the stores only if bargains make it worthwhile.
"Retailers continue to open earlier and earlier every year, and consumers continue to show up," said Casey Chroust, an executive vice president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association. "Consumers vote with their feet and their wallets. If they weren't showing up, retailers wouldn't do this. If they can get that shopper in their store first, they're more likely to spend money."
Walmart, the nation's biggest retail chain, said the Thanksgiving hours are a response to consumer demand. "Our customers told us they would rather stay up late to shop than get up early," chief merchandising officer Duncan Mac Naughton said in a statement.
Analysts say it's too soon to tell how successful the Thanksgiving sales campaigns will be. About a third of consumers expect to shop on Black Friday, a slight increase over last year, according to an analysis by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs. But only 16 percent said they would take advantage of the limited Thanksgiving Day hours.
It's also unclear whether growing opposition to the ever-earlier sales will dampen shoppers' enthusiasm.
While anti-Black Friday movements have sprung up in the past, a new wave has gained momentum over the past week. Some retail employees, consumers and even store competitors are calling the Thanksgiving hours and midnight openings unnecessary and too burdensome for workers.
Several dozen online petitions on the change.org website have attracted tens of thousands of supporters. Meanwhile, some retailers, including Sears, have sought to distance themselves from competitors.
"There seems to be a pack mentality right now with retailers following each other," Tom Aiello, divisional vice president tor Sears Holdings, said in a statement, adding that its customers have indicated "they didn't want to be forced to get up at midnight to get the best deals."
Sears will open at 4 a.m. Friday, as will JCPenney.
Abe Bonowitz of Cheverly is among the more than 180,000 people nationally who signed a change.org petition protesting Target's move to a midnight opening, which will require employees to report to work on Thanksgiving night. The petition — dubbed "Tell Target to Save Thanksgiving" — was started Nov. 11 by Target parking lot attendant Anthony Hardwick of Omaha, Neb., and has quickly gained supporters. It has also inspired as many as 30 separate petitions on the online platform, which was recently used to protest Bank of America debit card fees.
"Thanksgiving is about being together with your family," said Bonowitz, 44. "And nobody needs to be shopping at 3 in the morning. There's just no reason for that."
He also feels it's unfair that retail workers must come to work after Thanksgiving earlier and earlier each year.
Others disagree, saying it's no longer realistic to expect the retailing world to shut down on holidays. Some say employees should realize what they're signing up for when they take the job.
"Employee morale is something [retailers] have to weigh in making decisions," Chroust said. "Many retailers made the decision that the potential for extra sales is worth it. It's such a tough environment out there, it's something retailers feel they need to do."
He says retailers have received some good news recently, with year-over-year increases in October same-store sales. But a lack of improvement nationwide in employment and the housing market, as well as tight credit markets, have kept expectations low for the holiday season.
Still, because retailers have focused on keeping expenses in check, they should be able to offer attractive deals for shoppers, Chroust said. "We are going to see another year of aggressive promotions and discounts."
And shoppers are seeking bargains more than anything else, according to the latest surveys by the International Council of Shopping Centers.
At Best Buy in Towson last week, some of the smaller "door-buster" items — computers, laptops and small TVs — were stored on shelves out of reach of customers. Five more truckloads of goods were still on the way, among them a limited quantity of deeply discounted Sharp 42-inch LCD high-definition TVs and Toshiba Smart Blu-ray Players.
Like Best Buy, most chains are counting on the deep discounts, early-bird specials and prize giveaways to drive Black Friday traffic.
For Sports Authority, which will open at 5 a.m. Friday, the must-have item will be footballs, basketballs and any other kind of ball — they're all half-off for the day as part of a campaign to promote an active lifestyle.
At Westfield Annapolis mall in Annapolis , which will open at midnight on Black Friday for the first time, the first 500 shoppers will get $10 gift cards, and Secret Santas will roam the corridors handing out prizes. Mall stores opening at midnight include Aerie, Eddie Bauer and Children's Place, all offering discounts of 30 percent to 40 percent.
Local Best Buy store managers learned earlier this month about the electronics and appliance chain's plan to open at midnight for the first time. The chain hopes to create a signature Thanksgiving event, with free 9 p.m. screenings of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II" in the parking lot of 100 stores. (In Maryland, the movie will be shown only at the Wheaton store.)
At the Towson Best Buy, employees will hand out tickets for door-buster specials — one per person, per item — at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving. No one knows how many shoppers will spend part of Thanksgiving camped out at the store to compete for the coveted items, said Matt Dawson, the store's customer experience manager.
"It's kind of hard for us to gauge this year," he said. "This is a new venture for us."
As retailers prepare for the traditional start of the holiday season this coming week, some of the nation's biggest chains plan to pre-empt Black Friday with shopping hours and special events on Thanksgiving Day — a move that has triggered a spate of online protests.


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Someone is especially lucky, fortunate, or successful; good things tend to happen to someone. I hear that Jenny just won some major award, so soon after her huge promotion. It seems that fortune smiles on her at the moment! If you're going into business for yourself, just remember that fortune smiles upon those who are willing to take risks.


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Duana doesn't get why I'm so into it. It's standard head-wear at an English wedding, especially when the guest list reads of royals. Sure. I know. But I still find it fascinating, this fascinator business. Maybe because I've never worn one.
Here are Chelsy Davy and Pippa Middleton at a wedding the other day wearing them. LOVE the name Pippa. If I were 16 again f-cking around with my girls and giving fake names to guys, my fake name of choice would totally be Pippa.
As for Chelsy, obviously, she's made her way back into the Circle, and has been seen again with Hot Harry on a Horse on several occasions. Totally going to the wedding. She played that perfectly.
Back on the subject of fascinators though, it looks like I'll be going to cover the Wedding in some form… so here's my question: do you wear a fascinator even if you're just reporting on the Wedding and not actually going to it?
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1. Ol-Oolo-lo
2. The Lapaich
3. Vatnajökull
The weather has created and shaped all our habitats. Clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. The three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within by a form of time compression.
This is Chris's first foray into composition using his location recordings of wildlife and habitats - previously he has been concerned with describing and revealing the special atmosphere of a place by site specific, untreated location recordings. For the first time here he constructs collages of sounds, which evolve from a series of recordings made at the specific locations over varying periods of time.
Ol-Olool-O -18' 00"
A fourteen hour drama in Kenya's Masai Mara from 0500h - 1900h on Thursday 17th Oct. 2002
The Lapaich -18' 00"
The music of a Scottish highland glen through autumn and into winter during the four months of September to December
Vatnajkull -18' 00"
The 10,000 year climatic journey of ice formed deep within this Icelandic glacier and it's lingering flow into the Norwegian Sea.
Chris has released two previous solo albums for Touch, Outside the Circle of Fire [1998] and Stepping into the Dark [1996], as well as contributions for samplers and compilations for Ash International. His work was also used as source material for the compilation Star Switch On [2002], with contributions from AER, Biosphere, Fennesz, Hazard, Philip Jeck & Mika Vainio, as well as two tracks from Chris himself.
Chris is possibly best known for his sound recordings for BBC TV, particularly the "Life of..." series written and hosted by Sir David Attenborough. But his preferred media are cds and the radio. He has presented several programmes; "A Small Slice of Tranquillity", "NightTime is the Right Time", "Sound Advice" and "Tyneside Dawn", all broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His work has been described as "the freakiest all natural techno disc ever" by City Newspaper [USA].
Chris was previously a member of the popular beat trio Cabaret Voltaire.
As Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in Time Out, New York, in 1999: "Listen to your world. It may be more interesting than all the things you buy to escape from it."
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On his most ambitious work to date, Chris Watson takes the raw materials of his documentary recordings and goes one step further, by assembling and layering related recordings together in these three, powerful, 18-minute suites. This CD creates a profound, almost-panoramic experience thereby, surveying in sound the geophysical state of the globe today. First comes 'Ol-Olool-O', a collection of recordings brought back from Africa. We have the usual vivid recordings of animals, people, weather, and the sundry activity of scattered places, but sequenced together in ways that we couldn't normally hear. Things are up close, then suddenly distant; several related sound events happen simultaneously, and do it in full stereo too. As though we were a 'privileged' ear moving freely through the wonders of the world and gathering in sensory information in abundance. Dans la nuit Africaine, la vie bouillonne et palpite. Here we enter the cauldron of primordial soup, communing with life in all its diverse and wondrous forms. Everything is bound in by the dramatic weather conditions, most noticeably the gathering storms whose darkening skies are all but visible, so utterly present are the sound recordings of it. Around index point 6:00, the lion's roar ushers in the thunderstorm; it's but one of many underplayed juxtapositions, coincidences and confluences of sound events that make this work all the stronger. 14 hours of life in the Masai Mara condensed into 18 minutes; without a doubt this track alone qualifies as the aural equivalent to Peter Kubelka's famous micro-structured single-frame based film, Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa).
'The Laipach' is a hymn to wind and water, gathered from the 'music of a Scottish highland glen' over a four-month period. The layered sounds are all totally in sympathy with each other, and with nature, bringing home the roaring energy of these waters. Clean air and clean waters are the abiding impression in this corner of an environmental paradise. The 'mixage' and editing technique again brings impossible, miraculous events to life...birdsong audible over the top of roaring waters. The drama of this work is, at times, almost terrifying; the implacable and awesome powers of nature are uncovered, and with great clarity.
'Vatnajökull' is the recording of ice floes from an Icelandic glacier, as it flows into the Norwegian sea. Here's the most 'alien' sounds on the entire disc, mainly because they're so unfamiliar; once again our privileged ear is witness to things we don't normally encounter. A rare event; strange groaning, cracking and heaving over a constant hissing sound. It's not overstating the case to say you can feel the physical properties of this huge mass of icy matter, its considerable volume amply conveyed and expressed by the in-depth, precise sound recording. A deep and mysterious experience will be thine, just through listening. The most eerie aspect of it is the strange 'singing' events which occur throughout, especially by the end of the piece when we're tossing about on the ocean and an unidentifiable spectral singing hovers over the surface of the sea, causing you to believe in sirens.
With this exceptionally important release, Chris Watson confirms his unassailable position as one of the greatest sound artists alive in the world today. Clearly a man who so deeply loves our home planet that, like a latter-day 19th century explorer, he will go to tremendous lengths to seek out and bear witness to its most outlandish beauties, and bring back the materials necessary to assemble this - a detailed, living portrait of our planet's weather, its life and eco-systems, its geography. The music he makes is always the result of a lengthy, painstaking process, one that involves travelling, listening, looking and learning, and a deep sensitivity to the mysteries of terra firma. His work benefits one hundredfold from this new compressed and layered, impressionistic story-telling approach; never has it sounded so utterly compelling, bringing the magic to life in your living room. A truly essential purchase. [Ed Pinsent]
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I recently learn that one of our employees has filed a law suit against the company because of comments a supervisor made during a performance evaluation. This is an unfortunate event that could have been prevented. Here is a list of tips that you should share with all managers.
1. Before you can accurately evaluate an employees performance, you need to establish a system to measure that performance. You, therefore, need to develop performance standards and goals for each employee. Remember to remain sensitive to the employees needs, plan on sharing these standards and goals in writing with the employee.
2. Monitor the performance of each employee throughout the year. Keeps a log for each worker and note memorable incidents or projects involving that worker. Although many managers are understandably averse to placing negative comments in files, such comments must also be included as part of the evaluation process. Any employee who does something exceptional should be given immediate feed back. If you give this feedback orally, make a written note of the conversation for the employees personnel file.
3. At least once a year, formally evaluate the worker by writing a performance appraisal and by meeting with the worker. At the meeting, let your employee know what you think that they did well, and which areas the employee may be able to improve. Be sure to discuss the standards and goals you set earlier. Listen carefully to your employees comments and take good notes.
Giving evaluations can be difficult; however, careful planning and preparing are necessary to make the process go smoothly. Be specific, give deadlines, be honest, and be realistic. Following these steps is an excellent way to help the company avoid legal problems. Please e-mail me with any questions.
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Dear Ms. Pretzel:
Mr. Martin A. Anderson whom is applying for the position of the manger of manufacturing support at your organization requested that I write this confidential letter of recommendation. Mr. Anderson has worked under my supervision as a manufacturing support supervisor for three years at Briggs Mills Inc.
As a supervisor of manufacturing support, Mr. Anderson helped to hire, evaluate and supervise a team of four machine technicians. Him and his team was responsible for the preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of machines on three production lines. Because of his strong interpersonal skills Mr. Anderson expected and obtained high performance from each of his machine technicians. Each technician whom was evaluated by Mr. Anderson ranked in the upper two levels of performance for the past three years. In addition to Mr. Anderson's own performance was evaluated at our highest performance level for the last two years.
Mr. Anderson's team developed a highly-effective maintenance and calibration program; that reduced line shutdowns by 10 percent. Furthermore, in addition to his supervisory work, Mr. Anderson initiated improvements in the creation, organization, and production of machine documentation.
These changes enabled support personally to repair machines without relying on production engineers. Although documentation changes were cumbersome for our engineers, Mr. Anderson brings about needed change without alienating engineers or technicians. His enthusiastic upbeat personality has had a positive effect on the entire organization.
I am sorry that Mr. Andersen may leave Briggs Mills, but I am confident that his technical, interpersonal and leadership skills will serve you well in your organization. I recommend him highly, and would be happy to have him return to us in the future.


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MarineTraffic position self-reporting
Use your smart phone on board to report the positions of your vessel to MarineTraffic without the need for an AIS transponder
mAIS is a mobile application which enables you to use your mobile device as a means of reporting the positions of a vessel to MarineTraffic.
GPS-enabled devices (iPhone/iPad and Android) can be used to report the position, details and status of a vessel in case an AIS transponder is not available or the vessel is not within the range of the MarineTraffic AIS-receiving Network.
mAIS is not AIS
mAIS simulates the data transmitted by AIS transponders. However, it only transmits data through the Internet and not through AIS radio-frequencies. It is clear that the information transmitted by mAIS is not visible by the AIS receivers of other vessels. It will only be displayed on the MarineTraffic website and apps. As such, mAIS is only a vessel's self-reporting tool that does not substitute real AIS transmissions and it is not, by any means, related to the safety and navigation equipment of a vessel.
Intended mAIS Use
Provided that Internet connectivity is available, the vessel's positions will start getting reported once the mAIS application is started on your mobile device. Note that the position reporting will continue even if the app is running in the background! This application is intended to be used only as a vessel's reporting tool and not as a personal location reporting tool. Therefore, it is important to be used only when the device is on board a vessel and it must be switched off whenever the device leaves the vessel!
How to Use mAIS
An active MarineTraffic account is required in order to start position reporting using the mAIS application.
The registration process is easy and completely free
After creating your MarineTraffic account, the app must be configured to use the registered email and password, as well as all valid details of the reporting vessel. Thus, a valid MMSI number together with other vessel details (such as the vessel's name, call-sign, dimensions, destination, ETA, etc) must also be configured.
What if my vessel does have a valid MMSI number?
The MMSI number is the key value for position reporting. A valid MMSI number (configured in the mAIS app) is required in order to send position reports to MarineTraffic. However, smaller vessels may not be assigned with a MMSI number. In such a case, you are still able to use mAIS, after having registered your vessel for a unique vessel ID using this form.
Note that the unique vessel ID number we will provide you with is not an official MMSI number and it is only used for position reporting purposes on MarineTraffic. This number is NOT to be programmed into any radio equipment such as AIS transponders or DSC radio.
mAIS is recommended to be used on GPS-enabled devices
mAIS will work on GPS-enabled devices such as iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or later, iPad 3G and all GPS-enabled Android devices, as long as the "Location Services" are enabled. It may not work properly on devices that do not have built-in GPS (i.e. iPod or iPad WiFi) and the position reports may not be accurate.
Types/Frequency of mAIS-reported Messages
There are two types of messages that the mAIS application sends to the MarineTraffic servers: Dynamic data (coordinates, speed, course) are sent frequently (default time interval is 1 minute). Static and voyage-related data (vessel's name, dimensions, destination, eta, etc.) are sent periodically (default time interval is 10 minutes). Both time intervals are configurable. Note that the amount of data sent over the Internet (thus, using your connection's bandwidth) is rather negligible in size.
Bandwidth Consumption
The bandwidth consumed by mAIS is minimal. Even if mAIS is configured to send position reports at the highest frequency possible, it will use about 150 bytes/minute, which translates to 210KB in one day or 6MB for a whole month of continuous use.
Battery Consumption
The mAIS app is regularly reporting your vessel's positions while making use of your device's GPS. In most cases, this is a power-intensive operation that will exhaust the battery of your device in a few hours. It is recommended to have your device plugged-in whenever you are using mAIS.
E-mail Notifications
In order to avoid unwanted position reporting, MarineTraffic will send e-mail notifications to your registered e-mail address, whenever your app is active. This also serves as a reminder that position reporting should only be active when you are at sea and must be turned off when at land.
Data is provided for informational reasons only and is not to be related by any means to the safety of navigation. MarineTraffic provides the collected information via the mAIS application on mobile devices "as is". MarineTraffic does not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the collected information nor commits to ensuring that the service remains available or that the material on the MarineTraffic website is kept up-to-date. Under these terms and conditions, MarineTraffic will not be liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage or in connection with the information provided by the mAIS application or by the MarineTraffic website. Consequently, the Provider, the administrators of mAIS and MarineTraffic Services and their partners cannot provide any type of guarantee neither are responsible for the correctness, validity, thoroughness and accuracy of the published information, nor for the suitability of its usage for purposes other than informational.
Make sure you have read the MarineTraffic Terms of Use


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Eureka, California - Seeking an experienced Allergy Nurse Practitioner to see mainly adult patients within the outpatient clinic alongside a dedicated group of caregivers at St. Joseph Health Medical Group's growing Allergy and Asthma clinic. Enjoy outstanding quality of life in the beautiful and welcoming community of Eureka, right in the heart of northern California.
Where You'll Work
St. Joseph Health Medical Group provides quality health care for Sonoma, Napa, Humboldt and surrounding communities. With over 225 providers, the St. Joseph tradition of excellence extends to all aspects of care, from routine check-ups to leading-edge surgical procedures. Its dedicated team of providers take the time to get to know each patient's individual needs and answer questions with compassion. Multiple offices throughout the region provide access to convenient care.
Where You'll Live
Set among redwood trees on the shore of the pristine Humboldt Bay, Eureka is a family-friendly enclave with two major universities and daily flights to/from San Francisco and Los Angeles. The seat of Humboldt County (pop 135,000), Eureka is a designated California Cultural Site for its commitment to arts, culture and historical preservation. Travel authority Lonely Planet named this seaside city its top recommended destination in 2018. If you love surfing, ocean kayaking, fishing, biking and hiking, you'll thrive here.
Who You'll Work For
St. Joseph Health (SJH) is an integrated Catholic health care system providing a full range of care within a network of 16 acute care hospitals and numerous home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities and community clinics. Headquartered in Irvine, California, SJH serves 10 distinct communities within three general regions: Northern California, Southern California, and Texas/New Mexico. SJH is a partner organization of the Providence St. Joseph Health family.
Job ID Number: 10465
Facility Name: St. Joseph Health Medical Group
Location Name: Eureka, CA
Brand Name: St. Joseph Health
Provider Profession: Nurse Practitioner
Medical Specialty: Allergy and Immunology
Job Setting: Medical Clinic
Type of Role: Clinical
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Phone Number: (707) 603-3810
Schedule: Full Time
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Energy-Efficient Home Improvements That Might Help Sell Your House – Allstate Homeowners Insurance from John Closterides.
While updated kitchens, open floor spaces and beautiful backyards remain at the top of home buyers' wish lists, eco-friendly home features are beginning to make an appearance.
We polled Coldwell Banker Real Estate Facebook fans, who are primarily real estate agents, with the question: "Has a buyer ever asked you about any 'green features' a prospective home may have?" 20 percent responded yes. On coldwellbanker.com, there are currently 129 homes with the term "eco friendly" in the listing description.
Clearly, green living is something buyers and sellers are talking about, and we expect that it will continue to grow with time.
However, to some homeowners, the idea of going green is fraught with concerns about spending more as first thoughts often turn to the installation of expensive items like solar panels. And, in some cases, they are correct; not all green updates make sense.
What buyers will pay for
Before making any improvements, it is important to understand what prospective buyers want and, even more so, what they are willing to spend more on.
Buyers value green improvements that make a home healthier, more comfortable and—here's the kicker—they're highly interested in upgrades that will save on operating costs.
While the average U.S. household spends nearly $1,900 a year on utility bills, water and energy-efficiency are tangible benefits that are easy to measure. In fact, the U.S. Department of Energy says a green home can cut consumers' bills by 25 percent!
Buyers might be more willing to spend on an energy-efficient home because they know that they'll be saving money on operating costs in the long run.
Where to start
Energystar.gov is a valuable resource for homeowners and sellers looking to make a start. This website suggests ways of making a home more energy efficient with products and appliances that can help to reduce high energy bills, improve comfort and lessen the environmental impact.
Big ticket upgrades, big impact
As much as half of the energy used in your home goes to heating and cooling. An inefficient heating system not only leaves your pockets empty, it leaves your family shaking during the winter months. If a heating system is 25 years or older, it's time to replace it. And while a high-efficiency furnace with installation could run upwards of $3,000, it's an update that buyers will appreciate as it isn't generally a favorite on their "to do" list when they first move in.
Small improvements, still important
There are many other smaller green improvements that, over time, can make a big difference. For instance, installing a programmable thermostat is an inexpensive green improvement that can save up to $150 annually.
Another competitive edge a seller can give their home against other homes on the market is upgrading showerheads, toilets and sinks that are 20 years or older. According to Frontdoor.com, federal standards now require that these fixtures use less water. An upgrade to a low-flow toilet can also trim about $90 a year off a water bill.
Energy audit
Prior to putting a home on the market, you might also consider getting your home audited by the HERS Index, a rating system that verifies a building's energy performance and is recognized by the federal government for tax incentives, mortgage loans and investor certifications. Having a good score on the HERS index can improve the value of your home to green-minded buyers.
Of course, there are many other energy-efficient improvements to consider:
- Plant trees near windows to provide shade, reduce the need for interior cooling
- Replace old light bulbs with ENERGY STAR-qualified bulbs (this can save more than $40 over each bulb's lifetime)
- Seal air leaks around windows and doors to prevent energy losses
If your home is currently on the market, or if you're getting ready to put it on the market, it is important to do everything you can to give it a competitive edge. Selecting some, or all, of these eco-friendly home improvements can give buyers peace of mind knowing they won't have to invest time and money in putting together and operating a more efficient, lower impact, more comfortable home.


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Thinking Fans pay their respects to Mr. Carey: Dale says, "There's a big hole in Llanview these days named Asa Buchanan. His presence is still very much felt, but it's never going to be the same" … and Steve recalls, "What made Asa so real was that he truly did love his family, even if he showed that love in the wrong way" … while James adds, "I hope Phil and Bucky are up in Heaven having a good ol' time" … and more. See Comments below.
By Marlena De Lacroix
Any executive producer of today's desperate-for-ratings soaps would pay a ransom in gold and maybe sell his/her soul, too, for an actor like Phil Carey. An actor who, on his debut, instantly grabs the viewer's attention; is immediately talked about everywhere by all soap fans; is charismatic, funny and charming, and has both sex appeal and a real edge.
So it was that great ladies who ran ABC Daytime back in 1979 (Jackie Smith, Jozie Emmerich) knew exactly what they were doing when they cast veteran movie and primetime actor Carey in the role of Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live. One of the
We longtime One Life To Live fans almost don't need the old tapes. We can practically see Phil Carey's scenes in our minds.
first things they had fifty-something Asa do was parachute from an airplane into the birthday party of his barely twenty-something new beloved, Samanatha Vernon. How's that for a grand entrance?
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Two of the five men accused of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in New Delhi last month will plead not guilty to all charges, a lawyer says.
"They will plead not guilty to all charges," ML Sharma, who says he represents Mukesh Singh and Akshay Thakur, told AFP. "Nothing has been proven yet."
Mukesh Singh, who is the brother of the alleged bus driver Ram Singh, and labourer Thakur are two of the five charged with rape and murder over the December 16 attack on the young student, which has fuelled protest demonstrations across India.
A sixth accused, who is 17, is to be tried in a separate court for juveniles.
Officials at Tihar jail, the maximum security prison where the accused are held, confirmed that Sharma had met the two defendants on Tuesday.
Prosecutors have said they have evidence of bloodstains linking the men to the attack. But the advocate said he would challenge the police over their handling of evidence, while refusing to give details.
The next hearing, to be held behind closed doors, has been scheduled for Thursday when a magistrate is expected to transfer the case for trial in a special fast-track court.
It is not yet clear who will represent the three other defendants, all residents of New Delhi slums aged from 19 to 35.
A legal officer working at Delhi's Juvenile Justice Board, who declined to give his name, told AFP that the case of the sixth suspect would be heard on 15 January, when his age would be clarified.
"The age of the accused is not in proper order so the court asked the principal of (the) teenage accused's school to come along with age-related documents of the minor," he said.
The brutal attack on a medical student and her boyfriend has stirred nationwide anger in India, with politicians and the victim's family calling for the death penalty for the culprits.
The pair had been to watch a film when they were lured onto a bus. The gang are accused of repeatedly raping and violating the woman with an iron bar, causing horrific internal injuries.
Although gang-rapes are commonplace in India, the case has touched a nerve, leading to three weeks of sweeping introspection on the country's attitudes to women, its often insensitive police force and dysfunctional justice system.
In a series of protests across Indian cities, demonstrators condemned the recent surge in violence against women and the apparent lack of political will to address the country's growing rape crisis.


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Foxtel and Microsoft have today announced more details of a new service that will provide Xbox 360 users with access to live and on-demand Foxtel TV via their consoles. The new service will be launched at the start of November.
The Foxtel on Xbox 360 service, which operates without a Foxtel set-top box, is accessed via Xbox Live and includes a package of live channels that are streamed through a user's Internet connection. The standard package, which includes channels such as FOX8, MTV, Nickelodeon, National Geographic Channel and CNN, is set to cost under $20 a month. The service is only available for Xbox Live Gold membership subscribers in Foxtel-serviced areas. Additional packages covering entertainment, sports and movies are also available for an extra $10 a month each.
Foxtel's CEO, Kim Williams, said that the company "is moving beyond the set-top-box and we are delighted to be joining forces with Microsoft on the Xbox platform to allow a new generation of customers — who traditionally may not have been able to get Foxtel."
A Foxtel video-on-demand service will also be made available on Xbox 360 in November, allowing users to rent new release movies, archived movies and TV series. New releases will cost $5.95 each to rent, while library movies and TV Series episodes will cost $3.95 and $2.95 respectively.
Subscribers to the Foxtel live TV service can also access a selection of catch-up TV programming at no extra cost.


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SAS AppDev Studio is an application development product that supports the creation of Java applications that leverage the back-end business intelligence and analytics power of the SAS server.
It offers a uniquely broad range of capabilities for quickly and cost-effectively developing applications in a variety of languages and platform choices
Develop intelligence applications cost-effectively, without risk.
Using SAS AppDev Studio, developers don't risk hindering production because they don't need to involve production systems in the development cycle. Nor do they require expensive hardware to mimic production. Instead, they can build and test applications on their desktop PCs or laptops.
Develop intelligence applications faster.
SAS AppDev Studio includes a rich set of ready-to-use Java components and APIs that can be leveraged from SAS AppDev Studio Eclipse Plug-ins (which are included with the software) or from a third-party Java IDE. These powerful conveniences help reduce development time.
- Standalone application development environment
- Flexibility to develop multiple types of applications
- Java components to use SAS and facilitate development
- Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Powerful set of quick-start templates