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Greeting from Chrome 18 Stable. It works for me, you will probably not crash. I am trying to find out why the page with morphing cubes shows nothing now - some graphical switches at about:flags may fix it.
that morphing cubes link works fine for me. beta channel - mac/lion
Happy to see R18 finally out. I am looking forward to the Uber Page.
I hope M18 fixes the flash video CPU overload issues I have been having for the last few weeks on R17. Anyone else have those problems?
I have a problem with the videos on youtube everything is blue, i disabled the chrome flash and used my systems. i operate on linux ubuntu 11.10 x32
I installed this and now when a site I have to work with daily opens a new window the size is drawn very small and I have to resize the window manually. This is on a Mac running 10.6.8. Very disappointing because Chrome runs the site so much faster then other browsers, but with this flaw I will not be able to continue to use Chrome.
Anyone else getting a sign-in/Sync error with this version?
XP32,Catalyst 11.8
There's really one thing not working for me (The rest is perfect) and that's the "GPU compositing on all pages" ! IF AND ONLY IF this FLAG is enabled ,I always have the two same problems:
And this corruption is erratic.Sometimes the transparency works and sometimes not.I tried with "Override software rendering list" but no changes.
2)This is more difficult to describe:
when several tabs are open,and when I click on a tab,I have a blue rectangle of the size of the "Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language I read" checkbox.It's displayed at the top of the page, very quickly and disappears.No screen caps yet because it never freezes.
Enabling or disabling the option doesn't change anything.It's exactly the same colour than the blue page phenomenon that I described earlier (This has completely disappeared)
I wonder if you would mind looking into this one once for all.Thank you.
PS: found this in the Flags:gpu (FULL LOG HERE: http://pastebin.com/FFKGjTgC)
Starts lke this:
Log Messages
[2400:5356:434977968:INFO:gpu_child_thread.cc(110)] : gpu_info_collector::CollectGraphicsInfo complete. success = 1
[2400:5356:434978234:ERROR:gl_surface.cc(87)] : NOT IMPLEMENTED
[2400:5356:435016640:ERROR:gl_surface.cc(87)] : NOT IMPLEMENTED
[2400:5356:435016703:ERROR:gl_surface.cc(87)] : NOT IMPLEMENTED
[2400:5356:435019390:ERROR:gl_surface.cc(87)] : NOT IMPLEMENTED
[2400:5356:435029890:ERROR:gl_surface.cc(87)] : NOT IMPLEMENTED
Is it all right ?
@ Louis - I agree and can confirm - same here regarding "GPU compositing on all pages"
Otherwise, an excellent release.
Good job, Chrome Team!
@ Steve: Very glad (So to speak) that somebody could reproduce my problems.Thank you ever so much for your feedback.Could you just tell us which OS and which GPU driver you are using and maybe paste also what is shown at chrome://gpu/ ?
I finally nailed the blue bar!
This wasn't captured on a web-page but while watching a.mp4:
I was able to see it by pressing F11 (Full screen,back and forth).Disappeared if I moved the mouse.
I closed the browser and tried again but I couldn't get the blue bar to freeze this time.Still,I could see it flashing when pressing F11.The latter is exactly what I can observe on a web-page (Erratic too,I'm afraid)
So happy ! :)
using http://c5bench.com/ for benchmarking, i got 2180 score with chrome 17 and 1800 score with chrome 18, what's going on??
I think that the grey color I see on the "morphing cubes" linked at the top is the same one that Louis or others see when they enable compositing on all pages.
The GPU acceleration just doesn't allow things to be seen in their proper color. Moreover, I think that the bug has to be something rather trivial, choosing transparency or color of something, because the morphing cubes are still running although one can't see them. But one can copy-and-paste the numbers 1,2...12 on the cubes into the clipboard. :-)
I have Radeon HD 7670M 1gb on my PackardBell Easynote LS44HR laptop.
Some fonts now are horribly bolded to the point that they show blurry. Did not happen in 17.
I'm getting a major font problem that was not here yesterday. all the fonts look like a version of dingbats.
Monaco Font is not rendering at all.
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What's going on with Google Chrome? I just do not understand since the launch of the first stable version of Google Chrome the browser crashes while loading the pages in the roll fails, and among many other things. It was not like that and not my computer, but Google Chrome as it did several tests with other browsers eg Safari, Opera, Firefox, and these problems just do not happen only happen while I'm using Google Chrome. What is happening?
I hope this fixed the flash crashing issues.
@ Luboš Motl
It seems to be a bug with laptops with AMD Radeon and Catalyst Switchable graphics. Many web sites are displaying black screens even when Chrome is configured to use the build-in Intel HD GPU and GPU compositing on all pages is disabled. Bug 119685
Thanks, Unknown, I have already seen similar options and fixed the problem.
Open Catalyst Center, go to power, and switch Chrome to "power-saving" (internal Intel HD card, I guess) regime...
There are other bug reports with the same content. I will cross-link them with yours...
I also get crashing every 5 minutes or so while editing at physics.stackexchange.com - site with constantly updated MathJax.
did you guys fix the font-rendering in windows chrome?
fonts don't have any aliasing applied to them...
There seems to be a bug with the resizeTo function on a new window.
If the new window calls resizeTo onload or if the opener tries to resize the new window after opening it, then the new window gets shrunk down to nothing.
To see the window, you would have to right-click it in the taskbar and choose maximize.
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Can't access the pages that have SSL Error....
I am getting a lot of insecure content warnings.
WTF ? WTF, google!
The new tab button seems to be practically invisible. First you take away the plus, now you take away the outline? Whats next? Get rid of it completely?
What is your guys problems?
Keeps crashing like donkey, all I did was to enable encryption for all outgoing synchronization traffic.
What is worse, it cannot be disabled. The option is now grayed out.
I managed to "fix" the constant crashing, by disabling the synchronization all together.
Just wanting to add a "me, too" on the font issues in OS X. Using UTC 3.0.1 from Extensis, through v17 Chrome was fine for a certain user, now it's not. Fonts are in good condition, caches were cleared and a reboot was forced, still problems in Chrome. Looks like "webdings" in a square for each character on the screen, MOST websites (though apple.com looks fine, and Chrome's preference page is OK).
Other users are fine, but they had the 'quote marks' font issues on certain sites like lifehacker.com prior to v18; now, those are fixed!
Oh, OS X 10.6.8...
One of the best release till date ... No issue whatsoever.
The newest version 18.025.142 is significantly slower in some areas. I ran http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v7/run.html
On my macbook 2,1.The results for the old version of chrome 17.0.963.79 are
Richards: 9620
DeltaBlue: 12238
Crypto: 11309
RayTrace: 8584
EarleyBoyer: 15607
RegExp: 1515
Splay: 2143
NavierStokes: 662
and on the update 18.025.142 they are
Richards: 9348
DeltaBlue: 13600
Crypto: 11020
RayTrace: 11277
EarleyBoyer: 15200
RegExp: 1603
Splay: 2730
NavierStokes: 10694
Notice the Navier Stokes test is about 16 time slower. why? A lot of the js1k.com entries don't even run anymore.
Has any body else had a problem with the Group Policy template for 18? We get an error in the GPEditor: An error has occurred while collecting data for Administrative Templates.
The following errors were encountered:
Found duplicate definition of element category with name 'google'. File \\[ServerName].corp.[Domain].com\sysvol\corp.[Domain].com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\chrome.admx, line 18, column 60
This is similar to the error encountered with a corrupt GP template last fall.
Yep, group policy templates are munged again. Great QA they're doing.
Getting SSL certificate errors with Websense proxy after the update. This results in a "The site's security certificate is signed using a weak signature algorithm!" message.
Suspect it has to do with work done on [116398] Medium CVE-2011-3061: SPDY proxy certificate checking error.
I'm having trouble with pages loading. It seems to be on pages where a video needs to load or some type of java or basically anything that isn't html. I keep getting the "Page(s) Unresponsive" dialogue box. Regardless of how many times I hit "Wait", the box keeps popping up. Killing the page and reloading it brings me back into the same unresponsive cycle. This wasn't happening before the new version was updated.
Google Chrome freezes when I visit Facebook.
Unstable and slower!!!
If a Websense is involved then this article would seem to be applicable.
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I'd like to run the simulation 5 times, 30 steps each; so I added a for loop.
the code above will run the simulation 5 times. Let's call them simulation #0 #1 ... #4
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print ('Program started')
vrep.simxFinish(-1) # just in case, close all opened connections
clientID=vrep.simxStart('127.0.0.1',19997,True,True,5000,1) # Connect to V-REP
if clientID!=-1:
print ('Connected to remote API server')
# enable the synchronous mode on the client:
for j in range(5):
time.sleep(.5) # magic delay
# start the simulation:
e = vrep.simxStartSimulation(clientID,vrep.simx_opmode_blocking)
# Now step a few times:
for i in range(30):
e = vrep.simxSynchronousTrigger(clientID)
# wait till simulation step finish
e = vrep.simxGetPingTime(clientID)
# stop the simulation:
# Now close the connection to V-REP:
However, if I comment out the 'magic delay' of 0.5 second, the simulation #0 will run as usual, but simulation #1, #2, #3, and sometimes #4, will not. It behaved like I forgot to call simxStartSimulation(), because all subsequent calls to simxSynchronousTrigger() returned error code 8.
There seems to be a period of time after simxStopSimulation() when simxStartSimulation() returns code 0 but the simulation won't actually start.
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora has to date 175 Parties. These countries act by banning commercial international trade in an agreed list of endangered species and by regulating and monitoring trade in others that might become endangered.
Subject(s): Global Strategy for Plant Conservation; Forest Biodiversity; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Global Taxonomy Initiative; Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Article 8(j)
Environment Canada
Environment Canada's mandate is to preserve and enhance the quality of the natural environment; conserve Canada's renewable resources; conserve and protect Canada's water resources; forecast weather and environmental change; enforce rules relating to boundary waters; and coordinate environmental policies and programs for the federal government.
Subject(s): Endangered Species; Exchange of Information; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity; Tourism and Biodiversity; Climate Change and Biodiversity; Health and Biodiversity; Research and Science
Environmental Integration in EC development cooperation
This project is a service provided by the European Commission to raise awareness and build capacities of staff to integrate the environmental dimension in EC development cooperation and into partner countries' sector policies and programmes
Subject(s): Forest Biodiversity; Governance, Law and Policy; Agricultural Biodiversity; Dry and Sub-Humid Lands Biodiversity; Chemicals and Pollution; Ecosystem Approach; Climate Change and Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Development / Millenium Development Goals; Biodiversity for Development; Communication, Education and Public Awareness; Inland Waters Biodiversity
European Commission Development Directorate General
Directorate General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States is responsible for the Commission's input to EU external relations with more than half of the countries of the world. Furthermore, it sets Commission development policy and federates European development policy across the globe. As such it also aims to demonstrate the added value of Europe working together to tackle the major challenges facing the world. Our mission is also to help to reduce and ultimately eradicate poverty in the developing countries through the promotion of sustainable development, democracy, peace and security.
Subject(s): Biodiversity for Development; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Sustainable Development / Millenium Development Goals; Governance, Law and Policy; Cooperation and Partnerships
Federal Environment Agency - Germany
The objectives are : to provide scientific support to the Federal Government (e.g.. the Federal Ministries for Environment; Health; Research; Transport, Building and Urban Affairs); - the mplementation of environmental laws (e.g. emissions trading, authorisation of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and plant protection agents) - and information of the public about environmental protection.
Subject(s): Agricultural Biodiversity; Chemicals and Pollution; Climate Change and Biodiversity; Health and Biodiversity; Governance, Law and Policy; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Transfer of Technology and Cooperation; United Nations
Global Water System Project – Digital Water Atlas
The purpose and intent of the 'Digital Water Atlas' is to describe the basic elements of the Global Water System, the interlinkages of the elements and changes in the state of the Global Water System by creating a consistent set of annotated maps. The project will especially promote the collection, analysis and consideration of social science data on the global basis.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity
International Institute for Sustainable Development Reporting Services - Water, Oceans, Wetlands
The International Institute for Sustainable Development – Reporting Services Division – provides a variety of multimedia informational resources for environment and sustainable development policymakers, including daily coverage of international negotiations, analyses and photos. As the publisher of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, IISD RS is recognized for its objectivity and issue expertise in the field of international environment and sustainable development policy.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity; Communication, Education and Public Awareness; Governance, Law and Policy
International Water Association
IWA is comprised of leading water professionals in science, research, technology and practice. There are 10,000 individual and 400 corporate members, spread across 130 countries.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity
International Water Management Institute
IWMI's mission is to improve the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and nature. Research is the core activity of IWMI. The research agenda is organized around four priority Themes including Water Availability and Access; Productive Water Use; Water Quality, Health and Environment; and Water and Society. Cross cutting activities in all themes include, assessment of land and water productivity and their relationship to poverty, identification of interventions that improve productivity as well as access to and sustainability of natural resources, assessment of the impacts of interventions on productivity, livelihoods, health and environmental sustainability.
Subject(s): Agricultural Biodiversity; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Health and Biodiversity; Sustainable Development / Millenium Development Goals; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity; Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Article 8(j); Cooperation and Partnerships
Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs - Ireland
Ireland's development cooperation policy is an integral part of Ireland's wider foreign policy. Their aid philosophy is rooted in their foreign policy, in particular its objectives of peace and justice. Their development cooperation policy and programme reflect their longstanding commitment to human rights and fairness in international relations and are inseparable from Irish foreign policy as a whole. Poverty reduction, to reduce vulnerability and increase opportunity, is the overarching objective if Irish Aid.
Subject(s): Biodiversity for Development; Cooperation and Partnerships; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity; Agricultural Biodiversity; Communication, Education and Public Awareness; Governance, Law and Policy; Health and Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Gender and Biodiversity; Inland Waters Biodiversity
Living River Siam
Living River Siam is a campaign-based organization, working to support local community rights to their rivers, and to oppose threats to rivers and riverine ecosystems in Thailand, the Mekong, and Salween River Basins, such as large dams and water diversion projects.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity
Mekong River Commission
The MRC is an international, country-driven river basin organisation that provides the institutional framework to promote regional cooperation in order to implement the 1995 Agreement. The MRC serves its member states by supporting decisions and promoting action on sustainable development and poverty alleviation as a contribution to the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity; Cooperation and Partnerships
Ministry for the Environment - New Zealand
On this website you can find out about issues that affect the environment, environmental laws and treaties and environmental reporting. There's also information on what you can do for the environment, copies of publications and information about the organisation.
Subject(s): Endangered Species; Governance, Law and Policy; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Chemicals and Pollution; Climate Change and Biodiversity; Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation
Ministry of Environment - Lebanon
Ministry of Environment - Lebanon.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development - Latvia
The Ministry of Environment is a central executive institution in the area of environmental protection which includes protection of environment and nature, maintenance and rational utilization of natural resources, as well as sub-sectors of hydrometeorology and use of subsoil.
Subject(s): Climate Change and Biodiversity; Chemicals and Pollution; Endangered Species; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Governance, Law and Policy; National Reports; National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP)
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) - Uganda
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is a semi-autonomous institution that was established by an Act of parliament in May 1995 and became operational in December 1995. NEMA is therefore specifically mandated by the National Environment Act (NEA), Cap. 153 as the principal agency in Uganda charged with the responsibility of coordinating, monitoring, supervising and regulating all environmental management matters in the country.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity; Forest Biodiversity; Genetic Use Restriction Technologies; Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing; Communication, Education and Public Awareness; Governance, Law and Policy
NatureWatch (NGO)
The aims of NatureWatch are: - to fight for the preservation of Iceland's highland regions. - to strive to increase knowledge and awareness of Icelandic nature. -to strive to establish better laws to underpin the protection of nature. - to strengthen collaboration between associations for the protection of nature both in Iceland and abroad. - to strive for democratic decisions relating to environmental issues.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity; Convention on Biological Diversity; National Reports; Tourism and Biodiversity; Agricultural Biodiversity
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
There are 56 members of staff, who form a unique team of internationally recognised specialists and dedicated support staff working in a variety of fields of importance to the water and sanitation sector. IRC staff work primarily as facilitators, guiding partners in coming to grips with sector problems, and jointly identifying and testing solutions. IRC also draws on staff from partner institutions in both the North and the South who have complementary skills.
Subject(s): Governance, Law and Policy; Inland Waters Biodiversity; Health and Biodiversity; Gender and Biodiversity; Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Article 8(j); Financial Resources and Mechanism
St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences
The St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences is a research centre located in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Its mandate is research, education and community action relating to large river systems, with a focus on the St. Lawrence River ecosystem. A non-governmental organization, the River Institute works with a wide variety of individuals, groups, agencies and communities to fulfill its environmental mission.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity
The Development Gateway - Australia
The Development Gateway is a knowledge-sharing website, supporting people working in Asia Pacific countries to reduce poverty and promote sustainability. It is a mechanism for Australians and others in the Asia Pacific region to contribute knowledge and to engage in vigorous discussion.
Subject(s): Inland Waters Biodiversity; Sustainable Development / Millenium Development Goals; Clearing-House Mechanism; Scientific and Technical Cooperation
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Some things bear repeating: Plant vegetables.
The tastes of fresh-picked beans, lettuce, and tomatoes, grown from seeds of varieties bred for flavor rather than commercial appeal, will knock your socks off. Not to mention the satisfaction of doing "work" that puts food directly into your belly.
Planned correctly, the most basic vegetable garden takes little time or effort. Here's how to plan and plant this most basic garden.
First, the site. For the plants' sake, full sun — at least six hours daily — and well-drained soil are a must. If water stays puddled on the ground more than a few hours after rain has stopped, roots will suffocate.
For your sake, locate the garden as close to your house as possible — ideally, no farther from your door than you can throw the kitchen sink. With the garden close by, you'll have no qualms about running out to grab another pepper for roasting or snipping some basil for a salad. And while you're there, you might even stop to pull a weed or two.
The traditional way to create the garden is to till the soil a couple of times, wait a couple of weeks, till again, wait again, and then plant in rows, between which you till or hoe through the season. All that takes time and effort.
The quickest and easiest way to start a garden is to merely smother the existing lawn or weeds. One reason most gardeners till is to aerate the soil, but your soil won't need aeration if you lay it out in permanent planting beds, each 36 inches wide, and paths, each 18 inches wide. Make a plan on paper, and keep the beds and paths in the same place year after year. Walk only on the paths; never set foot in a bed.
If your garden is to be fenced (which is necessary if rabbits or deer roam nearby), extend the garden's boundary about a foot outside the fence. This gets the garden edge away from under the fence, where weeds would become tangled and too hard to pull.
After you have mapped out your garden, search the Internet or Yellow Pages for local "Compost" and "Arborists." You want compost for the planting beds, and wood chips from an arborist for the paths between the beds. (Some recycling centers give these valuable materials away free for the hauling.) Plan on spreading a 3-inch depth of either of these materials, which works out to about a cubic yard for every 100 square feet needed.
Before you lay down the chips and compost, mow or knock down existing weeds or lawn, then smother them beneath paper. Use newspaper — black-and-white pages four sheets thick — or commercially available paper mulch, such as Horto Paper. Wet the paper as you lay it down to soften it and keep it from blowing, and overlap the edges. Before the end of the season, the grass or weeds will be dead, and your plants' roots will have grown into and though the nearly decomposed paper.
The paper is needed only to start your garden, not in future years.
Now plant, right into the compost. When planting in beds, space the plants closer together than usually recommended. You can crowd 3 or 4 rows down each bed because you'll be doing all your weeding and harvesting from the paths, rather than having to walk between the rows.
As soon as you lay down your compost, while the weather is cool, plant pea, radish and spinach seeds, onion sets, and small plants of broccoli, lettuce and parsley. When the weather turns reliably warm, about when honeysuckle, wild cherry and locust trees bloom, set out tomato and pepper plants, and plant seeds of cucumbers and bush green beans. In early summer, make another planting of green beans and cucumbers, and in late summer, plan for fall by sowing lettuce again, along with beets and turnips.
Following this season's successes, you may be prompted to improve your garden next year, perhaps installing automatic, drip irrigation, perhaps starting some of your own transplants. This year, though, vow to weed. Just a few minutes a week is all the time needed, as long as you do it regularly.
More details about easily beginning and maintaining a vegetable garden are in my book "Weedless Gardening" (Workman Publishing, 2001).
Growing vegetables can be easy; how to get started
Some things bear repeating: Plant vegetables.


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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) � Marking the eve of the centennial of the beginning of World War I in their own way, Bosnian Serbs yesterday unveiled a monument in their part of Sarajevo to the man who ignited the war by assassinating the Austro-Hungarian crown prince on June 28, 1914.
At the other end of the city, the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra was rehearsing for today�s grand EU-sponsored performance, planned as a symbolic start of a new century of peace at the place where the century of wars in Europe started 100 years ago.
The two separate events testify to the depth of lingering divisions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where one side performed works of Austrian, German and French composers in a salute to European integration while the other celebrated the man who assassinated the emperor�s heir as a national hero.
Today�s concert aims to emphasize the transformation Europe has gone through, said Clemens Hellsberg, the President of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. �We feel obliged to do things in a better way than it was done in the past,� the Austrian said, adding the orchestra is delivering a message of humanity to those who want to listen.
It will start with the Bosnian anthem and finish with Beethoven�s �Ode to Joy� � the official European anthem � which symbolizes where Europe sees Bosnia�s future, he said.
In the Bosnian Serb East Sarajevo they have a different view of Bosnia�s future: To divide the country so that the Serb part can join neighboring Serbia.
During the unveiling ceremony yesterday, a young actor dressed as shooter Gavrilo Pricip ran on the stage and fired two shots in the air. He then cited a poem Princip wrote in captivity which was followed by a Serbian folk dance. Later the actor pointed his gun into the air while posing in front of Princip�s statue as people in the crowd shouted he should �shoot at NATO� or �shoot at the EU.�
�Gavrilo Princip was a freedom fighter and the Austro Hungarian empire was an occupier here,� said the president of the Bosnian Serb half of the country, Milorad Dodik, after he unveiled the 2-meters-high bronze statue.
�People who live here have never been on the same side of history and are still divided. We are sending different messages and that says it all about this country which is being held together by international violence,� he said.
A century ago Austria accused Serbia of masterminding the assassination and attacked the country with backing from Germany.
Serbia�s allies, Russia and France, were quickly drawn in and later Britain, its sprawling
Commonwealth empire and the United States also joined the fighting.
When the mass slaughter known as the Great War ended in 1918, it had claimed some 14 million lives.
For the Bosnian Serbs Princip�s shots on St. Vitus Day � a sacred Serb holiday of June 28 � announced the liberation from Austro-Hungarian rule and a chance for including Bosnia into the neighboring Serbian kingdom.
That same idea inspired the Serbs in 1992 to fight the decision by Muslim Bosnians and Catholic Croats to declare the former republic of Bosnia independent when Serb-dominated Yugoslavia fell apart.
A peace agreement ended the 1992-95 war without a winner by recognizing Bosnia as a sovereign state but divided in two parts � one for the Serbs and the other shared by Muslim Bosniaks and Roman Catholic Croats. The Serb leadership sees the current division only as a step toward a final dissolution and inclusion of their half into Serbia.
�St. Vitus day is an inspiration for all of us,� said Nebojsa Radmanovic, the Serb member of Bosnia�s joint three-member presidency. �It�s an inspiration in the fight for our freedom, in a fight for our sacrifice and in our joint battle for a joint country, which we haven�t managed yet to create,� he said referring to a Greater Serbia.
Serbs refused to take part in the commemoration in Sarajevo today, where the EU has financed various international cultural events to mark the centennial.
�Sarajevo is now a symbol of a century of wars in Europe but we are here to talk about peace and reconciliation,� said Joseph Zimet, Sarajevo director general of the �Mission du centenaire� � a French-led partnership program managing the WWI commemorations. He added that it �was a pity� Serbs from Serbia and Bosnia have �not joined us.�
Sarajevo mayor Ivo Komsic said those who refused to come �demonstrated not their attitude toward the past but toward the future of this region.�
Maestro Franz Welser-Most said the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra came to Sarajevo �with a historical burden� and with the intention to �send a clear message: Never again!�


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it's a little confusing at first. You don't need to worry about the output voltage of 14-16v except when you are choosing which driver and batteries you use. When you are working out how to drive led's it's the current that you need to control. Current = brightness. You are choosing a drive current of 1 amp. So you set the driver to always supply 1 amp by adjusting the trimpot (this adjusts the output current).
The driver will then always supply 1 amp. So, in your example you'd wire the Ostar up to the driver and it will supply 1 amp which means that it will be giving a supply voltage of whatever the led need in order to draw one amp - say 15 volts (which reduces as the led warms up). If you then wired another Ostar in series with the one you've already got, the driver will still try to supply 1 amp to both, which would mean it will automatically up the output voltage to c. 30 volts.
If you then hooked it up instead to 5 led's that needed 18 volts to draw 1 amp, it would give them 18 volts. It will give the led's exactly the voltage they need in order to draw 1 amp. This is very important because as led's heat up, the voltage they "drop" reduces for the same current. eg I have a Cree MC-E. If I drive it at 1 amp it will "drop" around 14 volts at first, but as it gets hotter it only needs around 13.2 volts to draw 1 amp. So, if I feed it a constant 14 volts, it will start off drawing 1 amp but as it gets warmer it will be receiving more voltage than it needs so it will draw more current, probably enough to burn it out because it will continue to get hotter and hotter.
You need to consider your battery voltage also because a boost driver needs an input supply voltage that is less than the voltage it is churning out. In your example the Ostar needs 14 - 16v so you must keep your battery voltage below 14v. You'll need to attach your Shark to a heatsink to get rid of the heat that it will produce. The lower your battery voltage drops, the harder the Shark will have to work to supply the 14-16v, so the more current it will draw from the battery, and the hotter it will get.
It sounds very complicated - probably because of my crap explanation. I'll PM you my email address and we can go through it all offline if you like. All the info is on here in various places if you do a search anyway.


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Organic Voices
We're building a movement of concerned citizens – moms, health care workers, small business owners, farmers, and more – who care about what's in the food we eat. On October 15, 2011, the Just Label It campaign was formed when the Center for Food Safety filed a petition with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to require the labeling of all foods produced using genetic engineering. We knew the FDA wouldn't listen to us alone, so days later, we asked citizens from around the country to join us and tell the FDA to "Just Label It." By our latest count, over 1.2 million sent their own comments to the FDA urging them to label genetically engineered foods. Join us at www.JustLabelIt.org/takeaction.


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Summer Reading Program app!
May 20, 2014 in TeenSpace by SCLSAdmin
This summer we are introducing our Summer Reading Program App! You can complete the program using the app or the paper log.
REGISTER: If you are choosing to log your hours through the app, please register this way. You will be sent an email confirmation.
LOG READING HOURS: You can log anywhere from 1-5 hours, but only in hourly increments. You will be sent an email confirmation.
EARN BADGES: You will be given tasks to complete. After you have completed a task, click on the box. You can save and come back later to complete other tasks. When all are completed, you will be shown a page with a medal. Print this page, or bring in your device to show us that you have earned all the badges. You will be given a special prize.
BOOKSHELF: The Bookshelf part of the app is connected to Goodreads. You will need to download another app to scan books and add them to the summer reading list on Goodreads. You will also need a Goodreads account. More directions are available here http://h.fanapp.mobi/modules/custom_content/custom_content.php?fid=235416
GAMES: See if you can help Spark the Scientist and then defeat the monsters!
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Durham County
One Night Only: Triangle's drag divas carry on fierce tradition
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in The Durham News in 2014.
If you want to see Vivica C. Coxx perform, you normally have to catch her late-night show in downtown Durham.
If you wanted to see her perform at the Durham County Library last week, you just had to be one of the first 176 people in before they closed the doors, leaving another 40 people in the lobby.
It was standing room only for "The History and the Art of Drag." The lecture by Michelle Robinson, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor, and four drag performances drew a record crowd to the library.
Not that organizers didn't expect some critics.
"We had security close by," said Gina Rozier, the library's marketing and development manager. But, despite a complaint that day, no protesters showed up.
"When the first group of senior citizens walked in, the officer said, 'Are those the protesters?'" Rozier said.
"I said, 'No, those are our fans.'"
'Mom's closet'
Justin Clapp, 30, has finished his day at Duke, where he works with first-generation and low-income college students, and returned to the Elizabeth Street home he shares with husband Joseph Lee. The couple, together six years, got married in New Mexico in May.
He sits at his dining room table, a battery of blushes, powders and lipsticks spread out in front of a small square mirror.
"I played in my mom's closet; I really did," he says as he pulls a black wig cap over his red tufted hair.
He's dressed up ever since.
He dabs his eyebrows with spirit gum. It gets sticky as it dries and lets him apply eyebrow plastic, which he can then layer with foundation to conceal his natural brows.
Behind him, the lace appliqué mermaid dress he had custom made hangs from the top of a door. His shoes, black and silver sequin peep-toe pumps, will add three inches to his 5-foot, 11-inch frame.
It took time to create Vivica, he says and adds, "I don't think she's done being created."
He still remembers the advice he got early on.
"The first thing I did was listen to what the more-seasoned drag queen that was performing that night said, which was "Don't be afraid, find comfortable shoes and learn how to sew."
He already knew how to sew.
Doing drag
'The difference between a drag queen and a female impersonator is a tricky one," Robinson tells the library crowd.
"The female impersonator, we might say, is doing drag," she explains. "But the drag queen is doing more. A drag queen can be larger than life, can be spellbinding .... an extraordinary person with an extraordinary life."
Robinson, an assistant professor of American studies, gives a brief history of drag in the 20th and 21st centuries. The word "drag" comes from the literal drag on a gown as it sweeps across the floor.
In the 1860s, minstrel performer Rollin Howard became famous for female blackface impersonations. At the end of the shows, the performers removed their wigs to reveal their true gender, she says, "restoring order."
In the early 1900s, Bert Savoy became a huge burlesque star, performing as a red-haired harlot. Mae West borrowed heavily, turning his line "You must come over" into her signature, "Come up and see me sometime."
The 1950s challenged drag queens. Laws in some cities dictated men's club attire and police raids rounded up offenders.
By the end of the decade, though, drag had gone Hollywood, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis donning dresses in "Some Like It Hot," while the '60s made a star of Divine, in director John Waters' cult classics "Pink Flamingos" and "Female Trouble" (and as Ricki Lake's mother Edna Turnblad in the 1988 version of Waters' "Hairspray.")
And then came RuPaul, Robinson says, the recording artist, reality show host ("RuPaul's Drag Race") and LGBT activist, who has said, 'You're born naked, and all the rest is drag."
But famous or not, because they create their persona, drag queens pose a provocative question, she explains:
"What would the world be like if every individual had the prerogative to determine how the world saw them?"
Taking the stage
Vivica takes the library stage, but the lights aren't working.
"You don't need to see me to love me," she ad libs. "But when you do see me, you will love me." The audience laughs.
"This is absolutely amazing," she continues, as the lights come up. "It's not often as a drag performer you get to walk into a library."
The performance briefly stumbles again, however, when drag queen Vivian Vaughn from Carrboro starts to perform. This time it's the audio and she has to lip sync through a rock number with the sound fading in and out.
"So we just learned one of the important things about being a drag queen," Vivica says as she retakes the stage.
"When someone throws you a lemon – throw it back harder!"
She takes questions to fill time.
"Tell us about your jewels!" someone shouts.
"Honey, I bought them," she says, and waits for some in the crowd to get the joke.
"No, seriously," she continues. "I saw them. I liked them. I paid. There are some drag queens that won't pay, but my momma raised me right."
More laughter.
The sound gets fixed and Durham drag king Spray J., in purple coat and ruffled shirt, kills a Prince medley. Jazmine Brooks of Raleigh follows, lip syncing Patti Labelle's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" complete with little bird wing flaps.
And, to show a faulty sound system can't keep a good diva down, Vaughn returns with a second number, slinking up the center aisle in skin-tight leopard skin.
Then the room darkens and Vivica re-emerges in a red and black plaid 50s rockabilly swing dress and new blonde wig, bangs swooping over inch-long lashes.
The voice is Jennifer Hudson's, but it's as if it's coming out of Vivica, whose lip quiver mimics Hudson's vibrato. A stunned audience applauds.
The song builds. Vivica, who's already run up and down the aisle half a dozen times, climbs back on stage and, as the music peaks, lands a full split.
The crowd goes wild.
'Durham is different'
"Durham loves its drag queens," Clapp says, "because I think Durham is different."
"(For a long time) we didn't really have gay clubs. We didn't have any LGBT spaces in downtown, but gay people still existed, and we still felt welcome in a lot of places."
Clapp hadn't told his boss about Vivica until the day of the library performance. Her response? "Oh, can I come see your show?"
Drag queens are larger than life, Clapp agrees, but it's more than that.
"I think Vivica gives me license to say things in public I wouldn't say as myself," he explains. "Vivica is political in that she believes everyone deserves a place, and she will sometimes take a stand on that."
But what happens to drag queens when gay goes mainstream?
"I do think being gay has become less subversive," Clapp says, "which I think is interesting, sad and awesome."
But Vivica is pretty awesome too, he says, and drag queens can perform as long as they apply their foundation.
"I think Vivica is limitless," he says. "But I do not know where we're going yet."
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Judges, 14-2, break into national hoop rankings
Chicago, Washington U. defeated on Midwest road trip
The men's basketball team has cracked the Top 25 in the d3hoops.com national poll of NCAA Div. III teams. The Judges, who defeated the University of Chicago and then-13th-ranked Washington University on the road last weekend, check in at No. 19 in their first appearance in the poll since 2011.
With a record of 14-2, the Judges already have surpassed their win total from that season.
The successful Midwest road trip improved the team's University Athletic Association(UAA) record to 5-0.
Brandeis defeated Chicago, 59-55, on Friday night and Washington U., 69-62, on Sunday afternoon to complete just the sixth road sweep of those two teams in UAA history. In both contests, Brandeis rallied from a halftime deficit – 10 points against the Maroons and four points against the Bears.
Against Chicago, junior guard Gabriel Moton, a transfer from Boston College, scored seven of his game-high 14 points in the first 5:21 of the second half as the Judges closed to within one point. Classmate forward Alex Stoyle scored eight of his 12 points in the final five minutes, including the go-ahead bucket on a fast-break with 4:30 remaining. Moton also had eight rebounds and five assists against UC.
In the win over Washington University, Moton and junior guard Derek Retos were the stars. The Judges handed the Bears just their seventh loss in the last 100 games when they were leading at halftime and just their 13th home loss in the previous 13 seasons. Retos scored all of his game-high 23 points in the second half, hitting seven of 10 overall and six of nine from 3-point range, becoming the seventh player in Brandeis history with 150 career 3-pointers. Moton added 14 second-half points, including the game-winning three-pointer with 1:19 left in the contest and the shot clock winding down.
Overall this season, Moton leads the Judges in scoring, averaging 15.3 points per game, seventh in the UAA. He also tops the team in rebounds with 6.4 per game, sixth in the UAA) and in assists with 3.9 per game, also 6th in the UAA. Retos's 11.1 points per game are second on the team and 17th in the UAA.
The Judges' calling card this season has been their defense. They lead the conference in scoring defense with 60.9 points per game allowed, field goal percentage defense (38.6 percent) and 3-point field goal percentage defense (31.4 percent).
The Judges return to UAA road action this weekend, traveling to Emory University in Atlanta Friday night, Jan. 25, then to New York State for showdown with the University of Rochester, ranked No. 2 in the latest d3hoops.com poll, Sunday at noon. Brandeis' next home games with be Feb. 1 versus Emory and Feb. 3 versus Rochester.
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Every other Thursday, we bring you Nicholas Day -- on cooking for children, and with children, and despite children. Also, occasionally, on top of.
Today: Nicholas wants to know how you plan dinner, and offers a solution of his own.
I have no faith in New Year's resolutions. (We have talked about this before.) I have little faith in resolutions of any kind. I change my life at the speed of a highly distracted tortoise. But I am still a child at heart: I still believe that when I move, everything will be different.
We have just moved from Chicago to Buffalo. (We are only a century late.) I have modest expectations. That the day will be thirty hours long. That the children will take up silent meditation. That the snow will taste like freshly shaved ice, with hints of maple syrup that wafted over from Canada.
More: The many ways tofu can save dinner.
And that dinner will materialize on the table every night with zero forethought, like manna from heaven, like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, except without the apocalyptic ending in which we all barely escape death by pancake and are forced to flee on stale-bread sailboats.
Every time I sit down to plan dinner for our compact car-sized family -- a no-goodnik father, a carnivorous mother, a translucently thin four-year-old, and a toddler who eats like a goat -- I think, Surely this could be easier. Surely there's another way to do this. Surely I don't have to sit here and think, I know we've eaten things in the past. But what were those things?
I have meager strengths: I'm OK at shopping. I'm OK at improvising. I'm OK at getting something vaguely dinner-like on the table. But I'm horrible at planning: car-crash, naked-dream, end-of-the-semester-and-you-forgot-you-were-even-registered horrible.
I should emulate Dinner: A Love Story's Jenny Rosenstrach, who's famously kept a dinner diary for a decade and some. But that's a muscle you have to stretch. We write things down for a week -- and then five weeks later we find the diary again and discover that we apparently haven't eaten for the last month. But to predict the future, I need to at least remember the past. (August 3: cereal.) So I've resolved to try the diary again -- because in Buffalo, after all, everything will be different.
That's part of the problem, but not the entirety of it. And the other part is why I bring this up, because I suspect I'm not alone here: we live in an embarrassment of recipes. Whether from this site, or elsewhere on the groaningly overstuffed interwebs, or the renaissance of cookbook publishing, there's a surfeit of dinner ideas. It's too much of a good thing -- and yes, I've mentioned this before. I'm sort of obsessed with it. Making non-problems into problems is my thing. It's charming.
Think of it this way: if you've ever cooked through a single book -- and not, like, Alinea -- you know how liberating it feels. Weirdly, the confinement is what's liberating. But most of us, me included, and especially our resident small humans, don't want to always cook like this. So the question is how to take the current embarrassment of recipes and confine it, rope it off, make it more manageable. (Of course, if you only cook from Food52 recipes -- pro tip, people -- your problem is solved.)
This is where I'm turning to you for help. How do you do it? When you sit down to plan out the week, what does that process look like? What's your system? Is it online or on paper? Do you have paper files for recipes in cookbooks and virtual files for recipes online? Or do you just scribble favorites or to-dos in the back of books? Any apps to recommend?
Alternately, if I should just bury my ambitions and spend the rest of my days cooking in quiet, predictable contentment from Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, tell me that too.
The recipe below is for Food52er enbe's grilled peanut tofu because: 1) I don't want to forget it again; and 2) even if you failed to plan anything for dinner, even if you have no milk for cereal, you can still make it. It is shopping-proof. (You already bought the tofu three weeks ago. Go check.) I swapped half the peanut butter for roasted tahini and grilled the tofu in long slabs, rather than on sticks. We scavenged for the assorted vegetables. Then we ate it all on the porch, and not just with our hands, and watched the sun fall down and let the baby play spin-the-bottle with the empties and tried to remember the particular feeling we were feeling. The day, it turns out, is 30 hours long here.
Grilled Peanut Tofu
Serves 4 as a main dish
Two 12-ounce packages of extra firm tofu2 cloves garlic1 handful cilantro1/4 cup soy sauce3 tablespoons peanut butter (smooth works best if making by hand, otherwise chunky is fine)2 tablespoons honey1 tablepoon dry sherry1 tablespoon peanut oilChili garlic sauceSugar snap peas, onions, asparagus, peppers, or any other vegetable you have on hand
See the full recipe (and save and print) here.
Photos by James Ransom
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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The Senkaku/Diaoyu island territorial dispute is the greatest crisis in Japan-Chinarelations in 60 years.
Second only to nuclear weapons development on North Korea and Iran, it is the most dangerous potential casus belli in the world today, and it likely to remain so indefinitely.
It is a crisis between and among the Japan, China, and—because of the U.S.-Japan security alliance—the United States, world's three largest economies, possessing among them the world's most formidable military arsenals.
The gravity and danger of the Japan-China Senkaku/Diaoyu territorial dispute are such that we would expect all parties concerned to have striven to prevent it escalating into a potentially hostile conflict
Why then, we must ask, did they not? More to the most critical point, why did the United States—which could have vetoed Japanese 'nationalization' of the islands, the action that guaranteed a full blown crisis—not do so?
Let me repeat: it was U.S. acquiescence in (if not encouragement of) the Noda government's decision to nationalize the disputed islands—creating a direct and immediate challenge to China's claim to sovereignty—that enabled this crisis.
If I may be a bit insensitive, aside from the tragic loss of life, against the enormity of the blunder in this case, the failures of U.S. policies and negligence in Benghazi, or even the naive wrong-footed dealing with the Arab Spring, are as superficial pinpricks against a gaping, life-sapping self-inflicted wound.
But, unlike toward Benghazi, there have been no congressional hearings on this egregious policy blunder. Rather, John Kerry, the erstwhile chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee—where such hearings might have taken place—now occupies the office of U.S, Secretary of State, taking over from Hillary Clinton, who would bear the greatest culpability, ensuring—with the complicity of a Democratic Senate and ever-compliant pro-Obama foreign policy press--a continued cover-up.
There should be no doubt that the U.S. did in fact sanction Japan's nationalization of the islands in September last year. In an interview with Asahi Shimbun published on October 31, 2012, the current Japanese ambassador to the U.S. Sasae Kenichiro states that before even approaching and seeking to mollify China, Japan solicited the position of the United States on nationalization and was told that the U.S. "did not oppose."
Make no mistake: If the U.S. had signaled to Japan that U.S. policy "opposed" nationalization, the Noda government would have immediately dropped the initiative and found a way to prevent Tokyo governor Ishihara Shintaro from implementing his scheme to buy the islands.
We should expect that the "no opposition" policy message was delivered through diplomatic channels, i.e. through Hillary's State Department, though the policy was almost certainly a product of the normal, often drawn-out and contentious inter-agency "clearing" process, in which—we must assume in this case—the input of the Department of Defense was heavily weighted. But DoD's position should not have been—and I would guess was not—uncontested. And if it had been strongly contested by the State Department (i.e., in the official position adopted through State's own internal "clearing" process), I doubt that the "no opposition" policy would have emerged.
The policy must have been violently controversial and contentious within State—pitting, at minimum, the "Chrysanthemum Club" on the Japan Desk against the heralds of the G2 world on the China Desk--for two reasons: 1. It was a sharp break with and effective change in long established U.S. policy toward the sovereignty of the islands; and, 2. There could have been no doubt about the furious reaction and sense of U.S. treachery and betrayal that the policy would engender in Beijing.
As to long-standing U.S. policy, from the end of WWII, and more explicitly from the return to Japan of sovereignty over Okinawa in 1971, the U.S. position had been unambiguous: while the U.S. "acknowledged" Japanese administrative control over the islands, the U.S. "takes no position on the ultimate sovereignty" of the islands. (Until recently the islands were referred to in U.S. diplomatic documents by both Senkaku and Diaoyu in a way that underlined that the U.S. was siding neither with Japanese nor Chinese—or Taiwanese—sovereign claims.)
After a hopeful start in U.S.-China relations, the pinnacle of which may have been the second U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue held in Beijing in May 2010. Then riding high, Secretary of State Clinton headed a U.S. delegation comprising over a dozen U.S. cabinet members and agency heads including Treasury Secretary Geithner, Fed Chairman Bernanke, Council of Economic Advisors Chairwoman Romer, USTR Kirk, and Commerce Secretary (now ambassador) Gary Locke. Jon Huntsman was then U.S. ambassador.
The relationship has seemed to cascade downhill from there, taking an increasingly militaristic, and confrontational tone, as the U.S. announced its defense structure "pivot" to Asia and WWII and Cold War legacy "alliances" emboldened the Philippines—and, indeed, Japan—to push back against or further press their own claims in territorial disputes with China, with Hillary in public fora often offering moral support.
Relations between nations, especially great nations, should be and usually are based on cool calculations of national interests, not on personal feelings or personalities. I cannot help but suspect, however, that China's leaders' refusal to be included among Hillary Clinton's admirers served to harden and bias her attitude toward China in a way that redounded in favor of hard line nationalists in Tokyo.
How else to explain her acceptance—in approving Japan's nationalization of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands--of a clearly provocative and unnecessary change in U.S. policy that has served the interests of none of the parties, least of all perhaps the United States?


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Jack Wallen recants his original take on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu Unity. See what happened to make him so drastically change his mind about the upcoming release from Canonical.
For the last few months, on nearly every site I blog for, I have been saying that Ubuntu 11.04 was going to be a big setback for Ubuntu. This "setback" was mostly due to Canonical's decision to use Unity as the default desktop. This decision sidestepped GNOME and GNOME 3 all together. Well, after using Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 for a few weeks now, I have to say I was wrong. Although there are a few weak spots in the release, this beta release has gone a long way to showing me that Ubuntu hasn't fallen off the tracks, jumped the shark, or is about to lose its way. In fact, Ubuntu 11.04 will remain king of Linux for new users as far as I can see.
Ubuntu Unity
Once I made that leap of logic, I decided to just install beta 1 and use it. No more concern with how much I can tweak the desktop or make it do exactly what I wanted it to do. This time around it was all about "just using it, just experiencing it."
With that intent in mind, the Unity desktop just disappeared. I was shocked to find out the intent of both the GNOME 3 and the Unity desktop worked wonders. The more the desktop "disappeared" the more efficient my work became. No longer was I focused on how the desktop was working, but focusing on how I was working on the desktop.
That doesn't mean it's perfect. Not yet. There are small bits and pieces that Unity needs to put in place. One such piece is the "Connect to Server" tool that was so much a part of GNOME. Without this wizard, a user will have to rely on shared network directories (thank you Samba) or will need to know to open up Nautilus and enter smb://ip_address/share in the location bar, instead of just opening the Connect to Server wizard.
Another issue is the OS X-like menu system. Now, when a window is open, the menu for the application is not trapped within the application window, but in the panel at the top of the screen. Although far from a deal-breaker, this will take some getting used to. I really noticed this when using The GIMP. In fact, The GIMP takes this one step further. When this application is opened, the menus seem to be no where in site. It wasn't until I right-clicked The GIMP's main window that the menu finally made itself known. A bit of inconsistency, but again -- not a deal breaker.
Surprising hits
There are a lot of nice little touches built into Ubuntu 11.04. For example, the Applications search window. This search system is not only linked to the installed applications, but also the Ubuntu Software Center. So if an application is searched and found, but not installed, upon clicking on the search results, the Ubuntu Software Center will open so the application can be installed.
Final thoughts
I was taken by surprise at just how much I liked Ubuntu 11.04. Even with a few little glitches and/or changes that seemed counter-intuitive, the Unity desktop is amazingly transparent, so the focus becomes the work, not the desktop. And, with little surprise, the underlying system is one of the fastest and reliable systems I have used to date. And Ubuntu is putting out a beta release that puts many other final releases to shame, so you have to at least give Natty Narwhal a try. Even for skeptics like myself, Ubuntu Unity came a long, long way from it's last release to now. It works. I'm sold. I bet you will be as well.


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- Italian Grand Prix
Alonso thrills home crowd with victory
- News:
Whitmarsh defends Hamilton's mistake
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Ferrari ready to focus on title charge - Domenicali
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Vettel suffered brake, not engine, problem at Monza
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Slow pit stop prevented Ferrari one-two - Massa
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Post-race driver rundown
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Alguersuari surprised at penalty
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Mercedes happy with double points haul
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Alonso hails 'special moment'
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'We underperformed' - Webber
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Button says finishing second was a 'great result'
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Driver and team reaction after the Italian Grand Prix
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Fernando Alonso sent the Tifosi wild by winning his first Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari from Jenson Button and team-mate Felipe Massa after taking the lead in the pit stops.
Alonso had to bide his time after losing his pole advantage to Button into the first corner, the McLaren driver making a fantastic start from second on the grid. If Button was delighted with his start, the same could not be said of team-mate Lewis Hamilton who got it all wrong in an ambitious move on Felipe Massa, contact with the Ferrari leading to a broken steering arm and his immediate retirement.
Behind the leaders, the Red Bull duo of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber also lost ground at the start, dropping to sixth and ninth respectively as Nico Rosberg jumped up to fourth following Hamilton's retirement.
Alonso continued to press Button hard during the early stages, the Ferrari swarming all over the back of the McLaren gearbox. But with his higher downforce configuration working well through the corners and his tyres starting to come in, so Button began to look more comfortable.
Button was the first of the leaders to stop on lap 37, quickly followed by the Ferrari duo a lap later. And it was Alonso who gained the advantage, squeezing out of the pits just ahead of Button and he held his position to take victory for Ferrari to the delight of an adoring home crowd.
Massa rounded off a good day for Ferrari but it was a case of damage limitation for Red Bull drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who finished fourth and sixth respectively. Vettel had looked close to retirement early in the race when his engine sounded rough and he dropped behind his team-mate.
However, by staying out on the same set of soft tyres until the last lap, Vettel managed to pump in two dozen fast laps, which were enough to ensure he leapfrogged four cars and take fourth position ahead of Nico Rosberg. Webber also had a challenging race and had to bully his way past Robert Kubica after his pit stop before attempting pass Nico Hulkenberg in the Williams.
The German rookie put up a good fight but at one point skipped the first chicane in his haste. Red Bull appealed to the stewards on Webber's behalf but the incident was dismissed and Webber was left to take matters into his own hands. He eventually passed Hulkenberg at the second chicane after a lap-long battle as the Williams continued to make mistakes and look a little wild.
Behind that action, Kubica finished eighth with a healthy 10 second margin over Michael Schumacher in the second Mercedes. Rubens Barrichello secured the final point for Williams in tenth.
Neither Force India scored points after Adrian Sutil was forced to pit early with damage and then spent the rest of the race fighting back through the field to 16th. Tonio Liuzzi overcame his car difficulties in qualifying to progress from 19th on the grid to 12th and finished behind Sebastien Buemi's Toro Rosso.
At the back of the field, Timo Glock won the battle of the new teams after a tight fight with the Lotus of Heikki Kovalainen.
The result means that Mark Webber once again leads the drivers' standings by five points from Lewis Hamilton with Fernando Alonso jumping to third, a point ahead of Jenson Button.


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Lion experts: Intern's death was avoidable
As officials investigate the death of an intern killed by a lion at a zoo in California, wildlife experts say humans should never come into contact with big cats.
After a lion killed an intern at an animal sanctuary in California, experts are saying it never should have happened.
"People should have zero access to big cats, even when they are cubs," says Patty Finch, executive director of the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. "There is no safe way to be inside of an enclosure with a lion that is conscious."
Since 1990, there have been at least 22 people killed by captive cats and more than 248 people have been mauled, according to Big Cat Rescue, an animal sanctuary in Florida.
Dianna Hanson 24, an intern at the Project Survival's Cat Haven, was killed by a 4-year-old male lion on Wednesday. The African lion, named Cous Cous, was shot and killed by a deputy after the attack.
An autopsy showed that Hanson died quickly from a broken neck, possibly from a paw swipe, the Fresno County coroner said Thursday. Several bites and scratches she suffered came after she was dead.
Investigators are trying to determine why Hanson entered the lion's space.
"It is a huge problem that there aren't any federal regulations that prohibit the people who keep these big, giant carnivores from allowing their workers, volunteers and interns into the adult lion pens," says Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin. "Laws protect the public, but not the workers."
STORY: Dad mourns daughter
Baskin says many people are misled when they see pictures of people cuddling with cubs or petting the big cats. Ellen DeGeneres had Cous Cous on her television show when he was about 3 months old. DeGeneres fed him from a bottle.
"Its just a matter of time before the next person is killed," Baskin says. "These animals are hardwired to be predators. Something will trigger that instinct."
No one at the Big Cat Rescue is ever allowed to come into direct contact with the 100 cats at the sanctuary in Tampa.
"I am the founder, and even I do not touch these cats unless they have been knocked out for medical purposes," Baskin says.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Janice Mackey said there are no state regulations that would prohibit an employee from entering a big cat's enclosure.
"When we permit a facility we do an inspection and look for enclosure spacing issues and make sure it is clear for public safety," she says.
Mackey says the Project Survival's Cat Haven's permits were up to date and the facility has had no violations.
"Cats are incredibly dangerous animals and they are very unpredictable. In any setting these animals can turn," says Nicole Paquette, vice president of wildlife protection at the Humane Society of the United States.
"Safety precautions need to be in place to make sure that no one is ever in the same space as a dangerous wild animal," she says. "This never should have happened."


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Anybody know this brand of sound desk? I've got a show in a fortnight that has one built-in - they say it's much like a Soundcraft (which I know well...), and may be UK made.
I'd love a Link where I can read some manuals, or see the general layout.
Anybody know anything about these?
Always planning...


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BlueChipCustEng necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Blue Chip Customer Engineering
Data Centre Services, Hosting, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery
http://www.apple.com Good, clean look and feel. We like the 2 tier navigation menu.
Page Descriptions
Every page must keep the same header/navigation/footer
The main navigation bar should include:
• Data Centre Services
• Data Availability Solutions
• Business Continuity
• Hardware Maintenance Services
• Hardware & Software Solutions
• News
• About
• Contact Us
These top level categories should present additional options immediately below when clicked (for example http://www.apple.com to http://www.apple.com/ipad/).
This secondary menu will work exactly as that of http://www.apple.com/ipad/ including heading to left and 'contact now' button to right, with clear presentation and spacing being vital. A similar menu that might be considered is http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/
The colour scheme should focus on white, blue and a sparing use of red.
The header should include the Blue Chip Logo, Phone Number and Search Box
The footer should include details of all office locations including address, phone number and email (firstname.lastname@example.com) as well as Blue Chips accreditations (see http://www.bluechip.co.uk/about/accreditation).
The footer must also include the content:
Sitemap (link)
Accessibility (link)
Some images are Courtesy of IBM Corp. Unauthorized use not permitted.
© Copyright of Blue Chip Group, 2011. All rights reserved.
1. Homepage
The homepage should be clean and uncluttered; however the main promotional space should be above the fold of the page, for example http://www.apple.com/
The main functionality of the page should be a graphic of our service areas that can be used as a snapshot of services. This should be designed with 'Cloud Computing Services' at the centre and 5 distinct sub service areas:
• Data Centre Services
• Data Availability Solutions
• Business Continuity
• Hardware Maintenance Services
• Hardware & Software Solutions
Below this should be a scroller of Blue Chips collection of videos (http://www.bluechip.co.uk/films), providing a scroller of the different films that can be clicked to play. A preferred design is http://99designs.com/web-design/con…entries/64, however other ideas might be a horizontal scroller that spans the width of the browser.
Below the fold of the homepage will be icons for each of the 5 service areas an example of which is as follows:
http://99designs.com/web-design/con…entries/20 . Another design that may be used is the content below the fold of the page on http://www.apple.com.
2. Service Page
Top level service pages will all use the same template, covering the areas of:
• Data Centre Services
• Data Availability Solutions
• Business Continuity
• Hardware Maintenance Services
• Hardware & Software Solutions
The template of each page will follow the same clean design as the homepage, removing the 'Cloud Computing Services' image and adding a bread crumb trail, page header (to be used consistently throughout the site as an <h1>) and click to play single video styled similarly to the video scroller on the homepage, but with only click to play functionality.
Below the video and above the fold of the page will be icons for sub services. These icons will generic and allow text to be changed easily, providing further information when hovered over (e.g. when hovering over a service, some text pops out describing that service, see menu at http://www.investec.co.uk for design idea).
Below the fold of the page will be a header for each sub service (this header is to be the <h2> consistently used throughout the site) with room for 2 – 3 paragraphs of text for each service.
On all pages except the homepage and 'contact us' page will be a sidebar.
This sidebar can be within the frame of the page, however it would be ideal to see ideas for floating this sidebar outside of the frame of the page, possibly fixed to the side of the browser (similar to the feedback button on http://just-ping.com). This sidebar should not however encroach on the content and clutter the design.
This sidebar will contain a quick contact form.
Please do not base your design on our current design.