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Nursing Faculty Needed
February 16, 2009
There is a shortage of registered nurses. Yet, tens of thousands of candidates want these secure and well-paying jobs. The prescription to alleviate this national problem is simple: Encourage more experienced nurses to become teachers, so there will be a new generation of nurses ready to take care of an aging population with a long life expectancy.
The economic downturn is causing a flood of applications to college nursing programs. By last month's deadline, Stony Brook University had 800 applicants for the 120 seats available in the fall 2009 semester. It's one of the few professions with clear and strong job growth that pays well – starting salaries are at least $50,000. But schools such as Suffolk Community College, which runs the largest nurse-training program in the state, are constrained from graduating more nurses because older faculty are retiring and there aren't enough new professors to hire, since most experienced nurses don't have the advanced teaching degrees required.
Learn More About Nursing Degrees
Last summer, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed a massive higher education bill that tries to get at the root causes of the shortage, including a pilot program advocated by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), who is a nurse. Among its provisions is one that would give scholarships to nurses pursuing advanced teaching degrees, on the condition that they agree to join the faculty of an accredited school.
Congress, however, needs to get busy and provide funding for all these programs. Our workforce of registered nurses is nearing retirement age, along with a good chunk of the population that will need more health care services. The vital signs of the nursing profession need attention.
© YellowBrix 2009

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No. 86,147
Criminal statutes are to be strictly construed, which includes giving ordinary words their ordinary meaning.
Under Kansas law, the defendant can properly be charged and convicted of burglary for entering a motor vehicle without authority with the intent to commit a theft of that motor vehicle.
Without proof of improper and undue coercion, the fact that a juror contends that he or she was obligated to vote against his or her better judgment demonstrates only that that particular juror is having second thoughts about the verdict. This is not a sufficient basis to order a new trial.
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; CARLOS MURGUIA, judge. Opinion filed November 9, 2001. Affirmed.
Shawn Minihan, assistant appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for appellant.
Bridget Schell, assistant district attorney, Nick A. Tomasic, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., GREEN, J., and PADDOCK, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Defendant Alfonzal Jones appeals his conviction for burglary, arguing that the prosecution presented insufficient evidence to support his conviction and that juror misconduct deprived him of a fair trial. We affirm.
The essential facts are undisputed and are as follows:
Returning home during the early morning hours of February 22, 1997, Rogelio Villanueva and his wife observed a stranger leaving their driveway. They noticed the stranger was looking into cars that were parked on the street; then Mrs. Villanueva noticed that the window of their Cadillac, parked in the driveway, was shattered. Rogelio asked his wife to call the police while he grabbed his handgun to confront the stranger.
By the time Rogelio emerged from the house, the stranger could no longer be seen, so Rogelio began to drive around the neighborhood looking for him. Rogelio found the stranger, who was subsequently identified as the defendant, a short distance from Rogelio's home, still looking into parked cars. Rogelio confronted the defendant, demanding that the defendant pay for his broken window. The defendant offered $50, which Rogelio refused. Eventually, Rogelio transported the defendant back to Rogelio's home and awaited the arrival of the police.
When interviewed by the police, the defendant consistently maintained that he did not break into the Cadillac. A screwdriver was found in his possession. Police theorized that the screwdriver may have been used to scratch the steering column of the Villanuevas' car.
The State charged the defendant with burglary, in violation of K.S.A. 21-3715(c), of which charge the defendant was subsequently convicted.
The defendant contends that he cannot be convicted of burglary of a motor vehicle under K.S.A. 21-3715(c) when the theft intended was of the same motor vehicle.
As charged in this case, burglary involves "knowingly and without authority entering into or remaining within any: . . . (C) motor vehicle . . . with intent to commit a felony, theft or sexual battery therein." K.S.A. 21-3715(c).
The defendant argues that by including "therein" within the statutory definition of the offense, the legislature distinguished an intent to commit a theft of a vehicle from the intent to enter a vehicle with the intent to commit some other crime. Essentially, the defendant contends that, because the entry of the vehicle was a necessary part of the theft of the vehicle, the "burglary" of the vehicle merges with the ultimate intent to commit a theft of the vehicle.
Whether a person may be convicted for burglary of a vehicle when the underlying crime supporting an essential element of the offense is the theft of the vehicle has not been addressed in Kansas.
Criminal statutes are to be strictly construed, which includes giving ordinary words their ordinary meaning. See Matjasich v. State Dept. of Human Resources, 271 Kan. __, ___, 21 P.3d 985 (2001); State v. Vega-Fuentes, 264 Kan. 10, 14, 955 P.2d 1235 (1998). "[T]herein" means simply "in that place" or "in that circumstance or respect." Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary 1200 (1988).
K.S.A. 21-3107 provides, in pertinent part:
"(1) When the same conduct of a defendant may establish the commission of more than one crime under the laws of this state, the defendant may be prosecuted for each of such crimes. Each of such crimes may be alleged as a separate count in a single complaint, information or indictment.
"(2) Upon prosecution for a crime, the defendant may be convicted of either the crime charged or an included crime, but not both. An included crime may be any of the following:
(a) A lesser degree of the same crime;
(b) an attempt to commit the crime charged;
(c) an attempt to commit a lesser degree of the crime charged; or
(d) a crime necessarily proved if the crime charged were proved."
While distinguishable from the present case, State v. Hill, 10 Kan. App. 2d 607, 610, 706 P.2d 472 (1985), provides a useful insight into the particular question presented on this appeal. In Hill, the defendant was charged with burglary of a vehicle with the intent to steal the T-tops from the vehicle and with the theft of those T-tops. Rejecting the defendant's argument that proof of the theft necessarily proved the commission of the burglary, and therefore the charges were multiplicitous, this court held:
"Proof of an unlawful entry was required to establish a burglary but no such proof was required to show a theft. While it may be true that someone had to enter the car before the T-tops could be stolen, the prosecution did not have to establish that the defendant was the person who did so in order to establish that he committed the charged theft. Similarly, it was not incumbent upon the State to show that defendant took actual control over the T-tops in order to establish the commission of a burglary. Thus, the separate charges for both burglary and theft were not multiplicitous and the trial court did not err in refusing to dismiss one of the charged offenses." Hill, 10 Kan. App. 2d at 610-11.
Again, Hill is distinguishable because the defendant was taking a part of the car and not the entire car. However, the reasoning of the opinion is instructive because of this court's focus upon what the prosecution was required to prove. As in Hill, here, the evidence demonstrated that the defendant was required to enter the vehicle to effect the intended crime. The Hill court did not focus upon what the evidence demonstrated, but what the prosecution was required to prove for each offense.
As a practical matter, the defendant in Hill, as well as the defendant here, was required to enter the vehicle without authority in order to effect his intent to steal a vehicle, in whole or in part. Yet, the nature of the defendant's entry into the vehicle was not an essential element the prosecution was required to prove to convict the defendant of theft or attempted theft. Burglary and theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle are complete and distinct crimes, and the fact that one necessarily precedes the other does not demonstrate a merger of the offenses any more than a burglary of a house, although necessary to the completion of some offense inside the house, merges with that offense upon its completion.
We conclude, under Kansas law, that the defendant can properly be charged and convicted of burglary for entering a motor vehicle without authority with the intent to commit a theft of that motor vehicle. The jury's verdict was supported by sufficient evidence, and the conviction should be affirmed.
The defendant further contends he was deprived a fair trial due to juror misconduct in exerting undue pressure upon members of the jury who were in favor of acquittal. Upon review of a trial court's failure to grant the defendant a new trial based upon juror misconduct, the defendant bears the burden of proving that the misconduct substantially prejudiced his or her right to a fair trial. See State v. Hammon, 245 Kan. 450, 456, 781 P.2d 1063 (1989).
The alleged misconduct in this case pertained to a letter from a juror which claimed that members of the jury had coerced her into changing her vote and finding the defendant guilty of the charged offense.
As an initial matter, testimony concerning a juror's mental processes is inadmissible to attack a verdict under K.S.A. 60-441. See State v. Franklin, 264 Kan. 496, 498-99, 958 P.2d 611 (1998). The letter introduced by defense counsel and read into the record by the district court contains nothing but statements concerning a particular juror's mental processes. The juror in essence complains that she found the evidence inadequate to convict the defendant. Importantly, the juror does not complain that other members of the jury used improper or undue methods of persuading her to change her opinion.
Undoubtedly, when a juror is in the minority, the majority will attempt to convince the minority to change its opinion. An attempt to persuade a person to vote differently than he or she feels may seem somewhat coercive, but an attempt to convince a minority member of the jury of the error of a position, while perhaps uncomfortable for the minority member, does not constitute juror misconduct.
Without proof of improper and undue coercion, the fact that a juror contends that he or she was obligated to vote against his or her better judgment demonstrates only that that particular juror is having second thoughts about the verdict. This is not a sufficient basis to order a new trial. See State v. Johnson, 27 Kan. App. 2d 921, 929, 11 P.3d 67, rev. denied 270 Kan. ___ (2000).
The defendant did not prove that he was prejudiced by juror misconduct, and the district court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial.


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People diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to commit crimes when they are not receiving medication, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Numerous studies have shown that ADHD is associated with an increase in criminal behavior, but it has remained unclear how medication use influences this equation after adolescence.
The study, which followed 25,656 Swedish people diagnosed with ADHD from 2006 to 2009, is the largest such analysis of the long-term effects of ADHD treatment. The researchers, led by Paul Lichtenstein of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, compared periods in which their subjects were on medication with periods in which they were not. By doing so, they were able to do many comparisons of the same subjects at different points in time, reducing the possibility that confounding factors -- such as socioeconomic status -- would cloud any associations they uncovered (they used statistical methods to control for such factors as well).
A decent number of the subjects committed crimes at some point during the study: 36.6% of men were convicted of a crime, and 15.4% of women.


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As the cyber threat environment evolves, threat protection must evolve as well. With the emergence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats, it is clear that a new approach to cyber security is required. Traditional techniques are simply no longer adequate to secure data against cyber attacks.
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks have proven their ability to penetrate standard security defenses and remain undetected for months while siphoning valuable data or carrying out destructive actions. And the companies you rely on most are some of the most likely targets – financial institutions, healthcare organizations, major retailers and others.
PC World reported an 81% increase in 2011 of advanced, targeted computer hacking attacks, and according to Verizon's 2012 research findings, there were a staggering 855 cyber security incidents and 174 million compromised records.
According to the 2012 Ponemon study on the costs of cybercrime in the US for 56 large organizations, there are 1.8 successful attacks per organization per week, with the median cybercrime cost of $8.9M per organization.
These cyber attacks are:
With this cyber-criminal activity rapidly on the rise, how can you take effective cyber security measures?
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It runs suspect code in a safe, controlled environment that can be optimized for performance and configured to evade hacker techniques that are on the lookout for sandboxing solutions.
It enables you to profile the risk, origin, and characteristics of the attack, and uniquely delivers actionable intelligence to help you contain and remediate the attack, then adapt and strengthen your protection against further cyber attacks.
Our solution is the only one which provides a complete lifecycle for dealing with targeted threats and APTs:


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My visit to Central Milling
I'm a compulsive baker. When I'm in a grocery store, sometimes I walk down the baking ingredients aisle, even if I don't need anything, just to look. Pulling a freshly baked apple pie or loaf of bread from the oven, with its aroma wafting through the house with the promise of deliciousness to come, is one of the most enjoyable experiences in life, in my opinion.
I'm also an engineer who needs to understand how things work. Baking fascinates me. The transformation of simple ingredients - flour, water, yeast and salt - into a living piece of dough, and then nourishing loaf of bread that feeds the soul as well as the body is the fascinating intersection of science, the senses, and the spiritual.
Lest anyone think I'm an expert baker, let me assure you I've had plenty of duds: gloppy underdone pies, bricks for bread, sourdough cinnamon rolls that were so sour they made my mouth pucker - and not in a good way.
So I'm here, and you're probably reading this, because I want to understand and apply the secrets of good baking, one of which is quality ingredients. Now you can make a decent loaf a bread from store bought flour; I've used King Arthur and Gold Medal Better for Bread in the past. But in an effort to bake healthier breads, I wanted to find a full-flavored whole wheat flour that wasn't bitter. That's challenging since whole wheat flour is more perishable due to the oil in the germ. References from the Fresh Loaf and from Artisan I and Artisan II classes at SFBI point to Central Milling, who produces Whole Foods' 365 Organic Unbleached All Purpose flour. They also sell unbleached white flour at Costco, under the Central Milling label.
I contacted Nicky Giusto at Central Milling to ask about ordering whole wheat flour directly from the Utah mill. To my surprise, he said I could swing by Petaluma (in the SF bay area) and buy directly from their warehouse! I met Nicky yesterday just after he returned from delivering some flour to the Culinary Institute of America in Napa.
Nicky, 4th generation in the flour/baking business, set up and is running this west coast warehouse, which has been in existence for less than a year. Nicky was very helpful, freely sharing information about the different flours and which ones to use for what you want to bake. We talked about the business, the wheat market, and the quality of their flour, starting from the seeds they supply to the farmers.
Although the Petaluma warehouse doesn't stock every type of Central Milling flour, they still have quite a selection. This picture shows a depleted supply, deliveries having been made throughout the week.
It was good to hear how Central Milling keeps a close connection to the farmers who grow the grain. In fact, the photo in the Central Milling logo is of Farmer Brown, the great great grandfather of the Washington farmer who now grows grain for their Organic Whole Wheat Acme Hi-Pro Fine flour.
And they do sell a lot of flour to Acme:
I ended up w/ 2 50lb bags of flour plus a little extra:
- 50 lbs Organic Whole Wheat Acme Hi-Pro Fine: High protein, especially good for pan breads. Although you can make a 100% whole wheat loaf with it, Nicky suggested mixing it with some white flour, I think for some softness.
- 50 lbs Artisan Bakers Craft white flour w/ malted barley flour. This bag he threw in for free, since the bag had gotten a tear (which they taped up) and so couldn't be sold commercially.
- 2 bags of pancake mix, regular buttermilk and whole wheat buttermilk, just to try. You may notice that the pictures used on these packages of pancake mix are the same pictures to be found on Whole Foods 365 brand of pancake mix.
In the future, I'll probably be coordinating with others to split 50 lb bags of flour.
If you are interested in buying flour from the Petaluma warehouse, contact Nicky via phone - his number is shown at the top of the Central Milling products webpage - to arrange your visit. Although they aren't set up to sell to a high volume of people, Nicky is quite happy to sell to enthusiasts on an occasional basis. Just be prepared to take your flour in 50 lb increments. If there's a bag already opened, he is willing to sell a smaller quantity. Working on the website is on Nicky's To Do list.
I have no affiliation with Central Milling - just an enthusiast looking for quality flour.


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Excerpted from the current issue of Plant Healer Magazine!
What Herbalists Really Want:
Manifesting Calling & Purpose, Competency & Excellence, Acknowledgment & Income…
& Avoiding Being Average!
by Jesse Wolf Hardin
It seems that at some point in every generation, articles and posters pop up titled something like "What Women (or Men) Really Want," checklists with which the so-called "opposite sex" can measure and then hopefully improve their desirability. The language and priorities change some over time, with versions from the 19th and early 20th centuries often sounding ridiculous to modern ears. That said, many of the same themes tend to appear again and again from one era to the next. Women, it is claimed, want a man of strong physique and fine health, good moral character and an unsullied reputation, who is thoughtful, generous, and able to provide income security because of his devout industriousness. While this oversimplification may hold true in our society more often than I would like, the lists are nearly always errant in their failure to include a woman's desire for sensitivity and empathy, sensuality and sexuality, maturity and playfulness in a man, and a man's hunger for a woman that is strong and determined, intelligent and clever… let alone for a shared vision of how to live or, better yet, a shared purpose. And even if the herbalists in our community were typical of men and women in general in any ways, what we most want would still encompass so much more than a suitable partner or mate.
It amuses me to picture the various herbalists we know and imagine their possible additions to such a list, both substantial and peripheral: Kids and teens, eager and even insistent on learning the craft and continuing the tradition. Getting fairly paid for herbal work that is so often under-compensated or freely given. The ultimate herbal library, preferably copies signed by the authors. Positive results worthy of a case study, every time one makes an assessment and recommends herbs. An ability to learn the scientific names of plants without so darn much pain, and an end to misidentifications when we're trying so hard to key something out. Not to mention steamy sex out-of-doors, in wild places or fecund gardens in the company of flowers and vines.
Much of what we want is entirely personal, depending on our individual characters and needs, propensities and dreams. Other desires, we tend to share in common with others of our kind, with similar wants that are shaped by our motivations, experiences, and priorities as healers. First and foremost, herbalists and other folk healers usually want to help. To remedy and assist, comfort and nourish. And many among us, by virtue of this practice, can't help but want an end to hardship and suffering even when the strengthening value of difficulty and empowering lessons of trauma are fully acknowledged. Many, by extension, also desire and hope or pray for the eradication of all violence on the planet, for everyone living upon it to be amicable with other life forms as well as with other people, wish for all of government to be reformed, representative and just… even if such hopes are at times unreasonable or impractical.
Often, too, we may feel uncomfortable about admitting publicly our needs and desires. We may think it best to reassure our clients, family and friends with the appearance of having, and thus "having it together." We may worry that by admitting there are things we need to learn, those we are wont to help might think us less able to diagnose and treat, and that by speaking of what we want, people might see us as insufficiently equipped. However, what we want in the deepest parts of our natural beings can be a crucial aide in our understanding of ourselves. Our wants can help define and identify to others who we really are and what matters to us, as well as helping us to determine for ourselves the most meaningful, powerful, effective and satisfying direction to take.
What follows is what I observe to be at the heart of the healer's needs, desires, and work… some apparently obvious but ultimately defining, some that are seldom either recognized or admitted.
Purpose, Mission & Calling
Herbalists want, have, and need, purpose. We often work best when viewing our most meaningful purpose as a mission to be devoted to and carried through to fruition, or when we sense a specific and insistent call to heal that is specifically ours to hear and heed.
Purpose is one of the drastically missing components of a healthy human psychology, and of a healthy society. Millions and millions of people work at jobs that they not only don't enjoy, but that hold no meaning for them beyond their weekly or monthly paycheck. In these cases, the only purpose for one's existence and exertions may be to generate the money needed to feed and house one's family. When students get to the part in the Anima "Practitioner's Journey" course where it asks what we feel could be our most meaningful purpose, many feel stuck, denigrate their selves for not knowing, or assert that their purpose is simply "being a mother" or "taking care of my spouse"… with a hint of resignation indicating the person senses or wishes that their could be something else, something additional that tending a family could be a part of rather than preventing or supplanting.
In contrast, when a practicing or budding herbalist answers the question, they almost always write that their purpose is "healing" or "helping to heal." To emphasize the point, you are likely to cite the events in your lives that first made you aware of this penchant, your extreme compassion for the ill or maybe an unhealthy condition that you have had to deal with much of your life, perhaps an inordinate affinity for things natural and for plants of all kinds, shapes and properties. You might mention having already paid a price by dropping out of college or changing your major, by losing the support of pragmatic parents or struggling because of greatly reduced income. If so, you likely see these costs not as reasons for switching to a new purpose, but as irrefutable evidence that your healing purpose is something more: A mission. Maybe even a calling.
Everything in nature has a purpose – a service to the ecosystem outside its narrowly defined self – though they seldom have awareness of the processes of gifting and reciprocity they participate in. Similarly, a person can serve a special individualized purpose, sometimes even a service of great import and consequence, without ever being conscious of the fact or means. A mission, in contrast, is this sort of special service undertaken consciously, voluntarily, deliberately, intentionally, for a purpose or cause larger and more consequential than simply our own personal well-being and comfort. You might reject the word because of its association with zealous proselytizing, but a mission is what herbalism is. Unlike white blood cells and oil-gobbling bacteria, nature has not preassigned our species with the job of healing. Not all people are born with the tendency or temperament for it. Not all who have the temperament and interest choose to take the time to learn and apply. Only a relatively small percentage of those who do study and use herbs will choose to make the role and work of being an herbalist central to their lives.
A calling differs from a mission not by feeling more important, necessary or even intense, but by feeling as if the compulsion, passion and drive to devote ourself to a particular purpose is our response to an imploring necessity, a beckoning destiny that nevertheless still requires our active participation and focused effort, a role and responsibility magically awaiting our active assumption, commitment and fulfillment.
To Fill A Role
Every species has a general role to play in the ecosystem, and every living thing has a special role to play within its species, community, herd, pack and family, and we cannot be truly psychologically healthy without recognizing and filling one ourselves. Our role is not determined simply by what is needed from us, but by what we are most naturally drawn to, capable of, have the character for, and have the potential to do exceedingly well. Herbalists want to find and fill a role as healers, the specialized practitioners on the edges of the accepted institutional medical system, allied with plants and the natural world of which they and we are an integral and dynamic component, treating not ailments and conditions so much as whole people and their overall wellness. We want and feel determined to fill a role in bettering the world, and choose herbalism and teaching, writing or art, cultivation or conservation, as our natural and preferred means of doing just that.
Knowledge & Understanding
Even with a mission enjoined, or when answering a call, we know we cannot proceed effectively without a foundation of useful knowledge that is substantial and increasing, integrative and interconnective. Even the most intuitive of healers benefit from a base of studied knowledge that can test, contradict, affirm or augment our impressions. We seek knowledge that not only helps provide the how and why of things, but that also suggests the means for best applying and utilizing what we know.
Knowledge is information, facts, ideas and skills gained by any means, though not necessarily developed through or tested by our own experience. While people in this society often seem ill informed, unaware of historical events as well as current context, there is actually a glut of information available in books, in documentaries, and at the click of a computer mouse or trackpad. And even those who are in some ways the most informed often lack essential understanding.
Herbalists want to have greater understanding, by which we mean greater recognition of the components, nature and significance of a thing or action. Such understanding is far more than mere comprehension, because it includes recognition of those forces and elements that cause it or make something possible, the complexities of context and relationship, and a thing or act's potential effects, results and ramifications.
The herbalist – other than a few rare exceptions equipped with an excess of arrogance – never stops wanting to learn new things. Even those of us with years of teaching experience tend to consider ourselves as lifelong students of not only the healing arts, but of life itself.
To Be Competent
Herbalists want to be, at the very least, increasingly competent at what they do… meaning sufficiently effective and efficient to inspire confidence in our work in those we strive to help.
In medical terms, competency means only that an organ adequately performs a normal function. In the science of communication, it refers to an intuitive knowledge of how language is constructed and used, which is closer to what we mean when we talk about whether we or someone else is a competent herbalist.
They say a judge has to determine if a criminal defendant is "competent" or not to stand trial, meaning not too mentally impaired or emotionally unbalanced to comprehend the charges filed against them. We don't just want to be competent, we want to reach another level of performance, measurable in other ways.
To Make An Income
We want to produce an income that can support our existence and family, and that can help further our work. Optimally, we accomplish this by getting paid a reasonable amount for our herbal advice or products, or alternatively, by doing whatever non-herbal related work we can find in order to sponsor and fund herbal studies and practice.
It is important that we remember an income is an important form of compensation for our knowledge, abilities and time, and that it can be harmful to think in terms of us "earning" an income with the healing arts. To "earn" implies to "deserve," and by the very act of trying to help others you are deserving of material or nonmaterial rewards, regardless of whether one is well paid, poorly paid, or working for free.
To Be Valued & Acknowledged
What herbalists want at an even deeper level than just money to subsist on is to be recognized, valued and acknowledged. To be recognized, means to be seen for who we are, to have our intentions as well as methods and effects noticed. To be valued, means that what you know and do is regarded as valuable by folks, even if not always by the people you actually help, and that what you are and give are not trivialized, discounted, or demanded and then taken for granted by the oblivious or entitled. Acknowledgment goes beyond recognition, in being an active giving back. A cash payment can be an expression of acknowledgment and gratitude, as well as a client speaking well of our work to third parties. We are so honored when we see our words quoted and credited in articles or online, making even our most difficult of tasks feel so entirely worth doing.
To Avoid Being Average
While herbalists tend to be way too compassionate and egalitarian to say so in public, I've found that many – at least the majority who attend our Traditions In Western Herbalism Conference, or write for or subscribe to our Plant Healer Magazine – very strongly want to avoid feeling average, middling, only passably effective in efforts to treat and advise. This we can accomplish, beginning by honestly assessing our gifts and challenges, weaknesses and strengths, intentions and goals, then focusing our energy, learning, testing, practicing and sharing accordingly, making sure we are doing what we love, passionately engaging our work, and always doing our utmost best even when in the most relaxed and paced ways.
To Become Distinguished & Fill a Niche
We almost all want to distinguish ourselves in some way or another, whether by exceptional accomplishment or making ourselves broadly accessible, through our personal eclectic recombining of methods and teachings or especially tight focus on a particular clientele or condition, by getting degrees and doing stellar research or by being self taught, by being one of the minority who are paid well for their work or the relatively few who go to extremes to fund and manage free clinics for grateful indigents.
This we accomplish by identifying and developing a personal angle, individual style, and/or a particular niche. Let your personal set of knowledge and experiences set your unique angle of approach and delivery. Allow your intentions and preferences, your style, to color and shape your interface with the world. All herbalists, and all people, are unique, even in cases where they strive to be the same. To the degree that you are really yourself, you can have a unique gift to offer.
We might want more than a way, but also a place, a place all your own within the larger community of practices. A niche is a home within a role, a specific appointment or service within the larger generalized role of herbalist or healer. We can distinguish ourselves by delving extra deeply into a specialty we're obsessed with, such as a particular physiological system like the endocrine or digestive, or a certain family of treatments. In the mercados of Mexico, one's niche is the specific place – be it a booth, street stall or corner of a building – where they have staked out their space for selling their fruit, other goods or services, and it is thus where repeat customers or clients expect to be able to go to find their certain collection and style of offerings. Each vendor or practitioner is expected to individualize, so that no two provide exactly the same things, in the same way.
In the science of ecology, a specially evolved species inhabits a particular place in an ecosystem, providing a specialized service to its healthy composition and interspecies, inter-elemental function. It is where and how they give best to their world, as well as where and how they best flourish. So it is with many herbalists who seek or have already found their niche, their nexus, the venue for optimal reciprocity, the place where gifts for us are received, and where and from which we can most effectively and most notably serve.
Excellence or Greatness
We may say that we want to excel at herbalism, but that may not be the most accurate expression of what we really mean.
The root of the word "excellent" is the Latin excellere, often defined as meaning "to surpass." This we do indeed want, although not to surpass the abilities or notoriety of other practitioners so much as to surpass our own previous levels and accomplishments, imagined limitations, disempowering fears and too conservative of hopes. Unfortunately, excellere also denotes something "out of" and "beyond," with one of the roots, celsus, meaning "lofty"… when what most of our ilk long for and aspire to is something more connective than separative, more grounded than elevated. Our intention is not to be better than others, but to be at least a little better at all the things we do, each and every year of our finite lives.
A more accurate term would actually be greatness, as presumptuous and politically incorrect as that might sound. There's a lot of negative association with the word, at least for those of us uncomfortable with the historical hierarchy of "great men" and "commoners." And of the thousands of plant healers that we connect with, I can actually only think of one now who has no qualms about identifying him-or-her-self as a great herbalist. Be that as it may, we also come across darn few practitioners who do not deeply desire to be outstanding practitioners, a person about whom people might say "She does such great work," or "I recommend him, he's great at what he does," or "She's really great, I can trust her advice."
"Greatness" is a good word, and a worthy state to desire. It is an ability, quality, extremeness or eminence in being and doing: to do or be great as in exceptionally full, deep, developed, effective, intense or far reaching. To be great is not to be ascendant but to be continuously further: ever further along in our studies and practices, further past our own less-inspired performances, further in our hopes and efforts.
Fulfillment, Satisfaction & Contentment
Herbalists want to eat scrumptious wild or home grown foods that give them strength and clarity, meet wonderful people and exchange stimulating or caring thoughts, to enjoy wild love affairs or loving lifetime-partners, dance under the stars and submerge in a cold river on a hot Summer day. Like many non-herbalists, we may want to find and reinhabit a true and permanent home plus visit other areas to see the plant species that grow there. Bear and raise empowered plant-loving children or stir the hearts and open the minds of the offspring of others. Peculiar to our purpose and role, we want to contribute to the well being of at least other humans, and almost always all being on this planet with which we share a common body.
And along with all the rest of the human and healer desires and hopes, we want to experience the sated satisfaction that ought to naturally attend such purpose and efforts as ours – maximizing our abilities, absorbing knowledge, developing understanding, improving skills, tasting competence, feeling responsible for and good about our results. Through our caring work, through the act of doing best, through our great helping and giving we seek and can find fulfillment. With a purpose fulfilled, and life wholly felt, we may find the satisfaction that we desire. And through all our heartfelt, effort-filled missions and means, we obtain, realize, and savor the precious contentment we want and need.
So be it.
One Response to "What Herbalists Really Want"
About a year and a half ago I walked into an open house at Althea Northage Orr's herbal school.
My connection was instantaneous …Never befor had I been so drawn to something…Presently, as
I wander my way through the endless path of studies in herbal medicine, I must say thanks to the entire herbal community I have been blessed to become a part of …Thank you for your encouraging words.
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When Disney announced in January that J.J. Abrams would direct "Star Wars: Episode VII," the news had major implications for the geek faithful.
While some rejoiced at the prospect of Hollywood's A-list nerd-auteur shepherding the next entry in the beloved sci-fi franchise, many fans of that other beloved sci-fi franchise, "Star Trek," wondered what Abrams' new gig would mean for them.
After all, Abrams had successfully revived "Star Trek" with his 2009 Paramount film, casting Chris Pine as a young James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, and crafting a movie that managed to win over both "Trek" die-hards and newcomers to the series.
He had already shot "Star Trek Into Darkness," which opens May 17, and was on track to make a third movie.
It turns out it wasn't just fans wondering what Abrams taking on "Star Wars" meant for Kirk and Spock — Kirk and Spock were wondering too.
"As a friend to a friend I was ecstatic for him," Pine said, of learning that Abrams had taken the "Star Wars" gig. "If there's one person specifically designed to take care of a project that big, it's J.J., just seeing how he operates on a $200-something-million project like 'Star Trek.' I would only be unhappy if he didn't come back and direct the third ['Star Trek' movie]. I don't know what it means for that."
In an interview in March, Pine and Quinto said they always knew Abrams considered himself more of a "Star Wars" fan than a "Star Trek" one.
"Knowing J.J., this makes perfect sense," Quinto said. "Knowing the legacy he's building for himself, as one of the most accomplished directors of his time, it wasn't surprising. It made me really happy to know that he loves it so much. He's the 'Star Wars' guy. He's got all his bases covered. It's the ultimate dream fulfillment."
While some "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" partisans see the two franchises as competitive, Pine is much more ecumenical in his sci-fi taste.
"The 'Star Wars' franchise for many of us was profoundly important," Pine said. "It was a big experience in the history of cinema. So to be given the keys to that franchise, to be asked to reinvent it, I can completely understand why he jumped at the opportunity."
Pine and Quinto are both committed to make a third "Star Trek" movie, and Abrams will be aboard as a producer — whether he'll direct or handpick someone else to do so has not been determined, however.
"J.J. has impeccable taste," Quinto said. "If he comes to us and says, 'I can't do it,' I believe that process …"
"He's too much of an Oz," Pine interrupted. "His presence will be felt. Whoever he taps without a doubt will be someone that he trusts."
"But it would be great if we could have the experience of the trilogy to remain intact," Quinto said. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
–Rebecca Keegan| @thatrebecca
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Toronto FC irate at ref in loss to Sporting KC
Substitute Jacob Peterson scores winner in 80th minute
With a salary of $6.5 million US, Michael Bradley can afford a fine. And the Toronto FC star midfielder will likely be digging into his wallet after Saturday's 2-1 loss to Sporting Kansas City.
"It's by no means an excuse, it was the same for both teams, but the referee was absolutely awful," Bradley said after carefully choosing his words. "The people at the MLS (head) office in New York, when they talk about wanting to improve the league, the first thing that needs to be improved is the refereeing, bottom line.
"That shouldn't come across as sour grapes because that's just the reality. And it was bad for both teams and I'm sure they're sitting in their locker-room saying the same thing to themselves but they've got three points with them and that certainly makes it a little easier to swallow."
Referee Ted Unkel issued eight yellow cards, including five to Toronto. Kansas City was reduced to 10 men in the 75th minute when captain/defender Matt Besler got a second yellow.
Despite that, substitute Jacob Peterson's goal five minutes later completed the comeback for the MLS champions.
Bradley's criticism will not go unnoticed at Major League Soccer's head office. He is one of U.S. Soccer's glamour boys and is no whiner.
Foremost on Toronto's list of complaints was a no-call in the 23rd minute when Unkel waved play on after Kansas City defender Aurelien Collin, chasing Brazilian striker Gilberto after a deft through ball from Bradley, appeared to clip the Brazilian's leg.
Gilberto, who had a clear path on goal, went down and Bradley went after the referee imploring for a call, which should have garnered Collin a red card. The French defender went unpunished and Toronto got the first four yellows of the night.
Toronto manager Ryan Nelsen, who would have taken off if he had flapped his arms any harder on the sideline, was appalled by the no-call.
"Collin should have been sent off. I mean an under-12 ref can pick that one," Nelsen said with disgust. "That's pretty basic."
Nelsen left wondering
Nelsen said he was left wondering what was going on with the referee, whose decisions he said had mystified his players.
"You tell them to forget about all the decisions that went against you, forget about all that, forget about the ridiculous yellow cards that we got and they got nothing. Just try and focus on the game. But they're human."
Kansas City coach Peter Vermes had a different view of the officiating.
"I thought the referee did a good job tonight, that is my personal opinion," he said. "I don't think it was an easy game to ref.
"I really liked his management of the game, the things that you can control the ball going out of bounds and the guy trying to steal 15 yards. Those are the things that drive us nuts as coaches, the little calls you might miss or might get, but those things he did a good job of and kept the game going on both sides.
But Gilberto, who normally glides through life with a huge smile, was stony-faced after the game.
Goals have been hard to come by for the Brazilian, who is being paid handsomely (US$1.25 million) to find the net. He has just two goals and was clearly irked at not getting any action from the referee when he was denied a shot at his third.
Quizzed by reporters, he launched into a lengthy diatribe in Portuguese.
He wondered if MLS officials were trying to force him "to learn how to play in the MLS."
"I want them (the referees) to know that I'm not just going to roll over, that I'm going to play my game and I'm going to play strong and I'm going to play hard," he said through an interpreter. "I'm not somebody that's going to be a pushover. I want to be treated fairly, just like any other player."
A reporter remarked it was the most the 25-year-old Gilberto had ever said to reporters. Was he angry?
"Yes, I'm a little upset," he said, his face drawn.
"I'm going to have a play a little harder then," he added. "I'm going to show people I came here to play."
An upset Nelsen, frustrated for his team, lamented the loss of points at home before a tough four-game road trip with games against D.C. United, Montreal, Columbus and Kansas City.
And while saying his team was clearly the better outfit on the night, he rued missed chances.
Despite a good run of late, Toronto has conceded soft goals and Saturday night was no exception.
"We were spectators. In a time where we had to be urgent and our intensity had to be focused, we just hoped that somebody would do their job. And that was unfortunate."
Nelsen was left wondering what pieces are needed for the team to regain its hard edge.
"We haven't got our balance right yet in that midfield," he said.
Cross and poked
Peterson, a former Toronto midfielder, took advantage of the home side's inability to clear a deflected cross and poked the ball past goalie Joe Bendik for the winner. Graham Zusi had tied the game for the defending MLS champions in the 48th minute.
Toronto (7-6-5) saw its three-game unbeaten streak snapped.
Kansas City (11-5-5) has won four straight, is unbeaten in seven league games (6-0-1) and has gone 6-1-3 since back-to-back losses to Philadelphia and Chicago in May. The defending champions also extended their club-record win streak on the road to five games.
The seven-game unbeaten streak is its longest since the club's 12-game unbeaten streak to end the 2012 regular season.
Jackson scored for Toronto and could have had a hat trick on the night if his finishing had been better before the BMO Field sellout crowd of 22,591.
Oduro, who set up the Jackson goal, terrorized the left side of the Kansas City defence for much of the night. Bradley was also influential in the middle of the park, carving open the K.C. defence with his passes.
Toronto was without star striker Jermain Defoe, who was sitting out a one-match ban due to an accumulation of yellows. Captain Steven Caldwell (quad) and fellow defender Mark Bloom (knee) were also out.
The home side's injury concerns on defence were not helped by a yellow card in first-half stoppage time to Doneil Henry, who will miss the next game as a result.
Kansas City was missing goalie Erik Kronberg (hand) and midfielder Paulo Nagamura (ankle).
Oduro made the opening goal, retrieving the ball from an errant K.C. header and beating Besler before slicing open the defence with a pass to Jackson. The Brazilian winger rounded goalie Andy Gruenebaum and scored his third of the season into the empty net.
Nick Hagglund and Oduro both hit the goalpost in the first half.
The tying goal came early in the second half after a pinball-like scramble in front of Bendik saw four Kansas City players try to get to the ball. It came back to Zusi at the edge of the box and he curled the ball into the top right corner with Bendik out of position in the 48th minute.
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Friendly Super Bowl bets, office pools are illegal
Super Bowl Sunday is just a few days away, and with that, the state of New Mexico is warning football fans that gambling of any kind is illegal.
Unless it is authorized by the New Mexico Gaming Control Board, betting, office pools and friendly wagers of any kind are banned.
Bars and restaurants are not allowed to offer bets or pools either, and could risk losing their liquor license if they are caught.
The New Mexico Gaming Control Board told Action 7 News that most of their complaints come in via tips but said they also have patrols going on throughout the weekend.
Most offenses end with misdemeanor charges. If there is any profit involved, an individual could face felony charges and jail time.


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11/16/2012 Closing Price: 126.49
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: FLAT
Current Downside Targets = 124.26 – 123.54
Projected Weekly Range: 1.38
Trading 50,000 Shares
- FXE total trade profits since 07/25/2012 equal $425,500 or 0.85%.
- FXE seeks to track the movement of the Euro currency.
- The bearish price action of the previous week resulted in a lower high and lower low last week. Trading volume was nearly identical yet still well below average. This part of the reason why a second consecutive VRCB formed, an equalization of buyers and sellers also contributed. Price action was slightly bearish with Friday closing slightly below the weekly midrange. The combination of two VRCBs in a row normally indicates a reversal in directional price movement and the formation of a support zone. We believe the euro has further to fall before finding a true support zone and forming a rally. The I.T. trend suggests that trading should be flat to slightly lower this week.
IShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM):
11/16/2012 Closing Price: 40.41
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: FLAT
Current Upside Target = 48.19 – 49.23
Projected Weekly Range: 1.27
Trading 135,000 Shares
- EEM total trade losses since 07/25/2012 equal $7,560 or 0.02%.
- EEM seeks to replicate the performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by investing in the underlying international securities.
- Price action finally obtained last week, trading lower following the bearish OVB of the previous week. For eight consecutive weeks, EEM reversed the weekly close, showing instability and unpredictable trading patterns. Last week marks the first time where trading clearly followed the direction of the previous week's close. This could mean directional trading will begin to resume. Price action was bearish and confirmed by Friday closing below the open, below the midrange and below the previous open. Volatility and unreliable I.T. trading continues to make placing trades very risky; we therefore maintain our flat position.
11/16/2012 Closing Price: 136.37
Intermediate Term Trend is bullish.
Current Position: FLAT
Current Downside Target: 133.83
Projected Weekly Range: 4.52
Trading 39,000 Shares
- SPY total trade profits since 07/25/2012 equal $71,799 or 0.14%.
- SPY seeks to track the movement of the S&P 500 Index.
- SPY continued to fall on bearish investor sentiment last week, plummeting to new sixteen week lows. Friday's close marks just the third time this year a weekly bar closed below the 200-day moving average. Currently near our downside price target of 133.83, SPY should begin to find support and potentially begin a rally. Many different indicators have accumulated around this price point, a positive sign of things to come. Daily price action formed an OVB on Friday, closing in the upper quartile of the daily range, bouncing off the weekly low of 134.70. I.T. term price action was bearish though, and confirmed by Friday's close. Although trading should be slightly lower this week, we believe falling prices should begin to find support in the coming weeks. Over the last seventeen weeks, ETF analysis and trading has resulted in $1,433,614 (2.87%) in total profits, all of which are closed and locked-in.
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South Korean singer-actor Rain has been given a dressing down for going out with South Korea's sweetheart, Kim Tae-hee, while on compulsory military service - but without his army hat.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday that Rain, 30, one of South Korea's best known stars, had admitted the uniform violation. His punishment will be decided next week.
No one at Rain's agency or his record company was available for comment. South Korean men have to do about two years' military service.
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The singer, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon and whose 2004 album "It's Raining" sold a million copies, has also faced complaints over his days off.
During the 450 days of military service he has served so far, the ministry said Rain had taken 94 off while ordinary soldiers would get 50 at most.
Thousands of people, most of them men, have signed an online complaint after seeing pictures of Rain out and about with Kim, 32, billed as South Korea's most beautiful woman, demanding to know whether he was getting special treatment.
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Rain is not the first South Korean singer to run into trouble over his military service. Psy, whose "Gangnam Style" dance shot to global fame in 2012, had to do his military service twice after being accused of neglecting his duties.
Rain debuted in 2002 as a singer and also appeared in Hollywood movies like "Ninja Assassin" and "Speed Racer". His army conscription ends on July 10.


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[edit] What's the goal?
The goal of this page is to teach you how to take an application that you've coded (or the sample app) and properly get it included in your rootfs. This article is a bit of an aggregate page, it's going to take information from MokoMakefile, Using a local overlay, Building a hello world application, and Create a package from existing sources. So as you can see the goal is for it to be a very thorough introduction, and will take you from "Idea to Inclusion" of your application.
[edit] Setting Up the Openmoko Environment
|*If you already have the environment set up then it is imperative that you update your Makefile.
Do this by running:
make update-makefile
This part of the tutorial is going to be pretty basic. I absolutely love MokoMakefile -- it's fantastic. The creator has done and continues to do a fantastic job with this. I see absolutely no reason not to use it. I put my Openmoko development directory in /home/bryce/mokodev/ and it works great for me. You can feel free to do the same or put it anywhere else in your user directory (or anywhere on your system if you're feeling daring and a little nutty).
To get your environment set up, please get it set up according to MokoMakefile. However, if you do have the build environment set up manually and you're sure you know what you're doing, then feel free to go forward with this.
[edit] Setting Up a Local Overlay
If you're at the point of setting up a local overlay, this means a couple things. First: you've had a brilliant idea for an application that you just need to have on the Openmoko platform. Second: you realize that this killer app of yours needs to be done properly and you're not going to do anything silly like include it in the actual tree for the Openmoko distro because it would probably end up just getting overwritten eventually, or you just realize that it's bad practice!
If you're wondering why and what a local overlay is then let me take this time to explain it to you. A local overlay is where you, as a developer, keep your local files in an OE style setup so that you can simply pull your updated code into the tree. You add your overlay tree into the bitbake setup so that when you call bitbake it will pull your own or your customized packages before going to the OE or Openmoko trees. This keeps everything nice and organized for you and also allows you to build/rebuild/include your apps by using the MokoMakefile
Thank you to User:CesarB for this part of the wiki.
To create a local overlay:
- Create a "local" directory and its subdirectories (in your root moko directory, where $OMDIR points)
mkdir local local/conf local/classes local/packages local/packages/images local/packages/tasks -p
- Copy
site.conffrom the openmoko tree to
cp build/conf/site.conf local/conf/site.conf
- Edit the local/conf/site.conf you copied to add the new tree as a source for bitbake recipes.
| NOTE: I had to edit the build/conf/site.conf file instead to avoid "no provider of build target" errors.
I'm guessing it's a problem with export BBPATH in a later step-Flerchjj
Change the current
BBFILES to look like this:
BBFILES := "${OMDIR}/openembedded/packages/*/*.bb ${OMDIR}/oe/packages/*/*.bb ${OMDIR}/local/packages/*/*.bb"
Change your
BBFILE_COLLECTIONS line to look like this:
BBFILE_COLLECTIONS = "upstream local overlay"
Add this line:
BBFILE_PATTERN_overlay = "^${OMDIR}/local/"
Add this line:
BBFILE_PRIORITY_overlay = "20"
BBFILE_PRIORITY should be greater than all the other
BBFILE_PRIORITY variables on the same file.
Make sure there is a BBFILE_PRIORITY_* and a BBFILE_PATTERN_* for each name given in BBFILE_COLLECTIONS. For examle, if you only define the entries above, reduce BBFILE_COLLECTIONS to "overlay".
- Change your
BBPATHenvironment variable to add the new tree before the two others in your
setup-envfile. Bitbake only seems to use the first site.conf file it finds.
setup-envis created by MokoMakefile automatically and is located in your
export BBPATH="${OMDIR}/local:${OMDIR}/build:${OMDIR}/oe:${OMDIR}/openembedded"
[edit] Using Your New Local Overlay
[edit] Changing files in conf/
To change a file in conf/, just copy the file to the overlay tree (preserving the directory structure) and edit it.
[edit] Changing files in classes/
To change a file in classes/, just copy the file to the overlay tree and edit it.
[edit] Changing packages
Changing a package's recipe is a bit more complex. You have to copy over (or symlink) not only the .bb file for the package, but also all the files it includes with
require, and the
FILESDIR directories (all directories referred to by
FILESDIR, usually named either package-version or
files). If you forget one of them, the build will give an error (either when parsing the recipe in the case of
require, or when trying to build in the case of the
FILESDIR directories).
[edit] Adding a new package
You can add a new package (or a recipe for a new version of a package) to the overlay tree simply by creating it on the overlay tree.
[edit] Creating your own images
To create you own images we'll use the base openmoko .bb files and modify them to suit. Where you see scaredycat replace this with something to identify your own images.
edit local/packages/images/scaredycat-openmoko-devel-image.bb and paste this:
require scaredycat-openmoko-image.bb IMAGE_INSTALL += "task-openmoko-debug"
then edit local/packages/images/scaredycat-openmoko-image.bb
#------------------------------------------------------ # Openmoko Image Recipe #------------------------------------------------------ export IMAGE_BASENAME = "${PN}" export IMAGE_LINGUAS = "" export IMAGE_INSTALL = "\ ${MACHINE_TASK_PROVIDER} \ task-openmoko-linux \ task-openmoko-net \ task-openmoko-ui \ task-openmoko-base \ task-openmoko-phone \ task-openmoko-games \ task-openmoko-pim \ task-openmoko-scaredycat \ " inherit image LICENSE = MIT ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += 'date "+%m%d%H%M%Y" >${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/timestamp'
edit local/packages/tasks/task-openmoko-scaredycat.bb - this is where we put the things we want to include in our image, above and beyond the standard image. This example includes Scummvm and kbdd. If you modify this file, make sure you update the PR by incrementing the number each time.
DESCRIPTION = "Openmoko: Scaredycat Additions" SECTION = "openmoko/base" LICENSE = "original" PR = "r2" inherit task RDEPENDS_task-openmoko-scaredycat = "\ scummvm \ kbdd \ "
[edit] Actually building your image
To build you image, which will be located with your other images, do the following:
# cd build ; . ../setup-env ; bitbake scaredycat-openmoko-devel-image
[edit] Your First Application
I know that I said I'd have a GDK application in here, however, I'd really like to get this whole course done first and have you guys starting to code instead of just looking at what I've written!
This will be a very simple CLI hello world.
[edit] Before We Code
Like a good coder you want to make sure that you're not just doing things, but that you're doing them the right way!
Now change directories into your
local/packages directory.The following commands expect you'll be in that directory so don't change unless you know what you're doing!
You'll want to make a directory with the name of your application, and a subdirectory called files.
mkdir myhelloworld myhelloworld/files
Now you'll want to create two files in the
files directory
touch myhelloworld/files/README.txt myhelloworld/files/myhelloworld.c
And finally you'll want to create a bitbake file.
touch myhelloworld/myhelloworld.bb
Alrighty now all your necessary files are created so lets go over this real quick.
$HOME +- $OMDIR (contains the official openmoko tree) | +- local/ | +- packages/ | +- myhelloworld/ | +- myhelloworld.bb | +- files/ | +- myhelloworld.c | +- README.txt
That should be your structure, if it's not you should go and fix it up.
[edit] Filling the Files
So you've got your sample files all laid out now it's time to make them actually do something.
#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { printf("Ello Poppet!\n"); return 0; }
This is a command line application. It prints a simple Hello World! To stdout.
DESCRIPTION = "A killer hello world application" AUTHOR = "Bryce Leo" HOMEPAGE = "" SECTION = "console/applications" PRIORITY = "optional" LICENSE = "MIT" #DEPENDS = "" #RDEPENDS = "" #RRECOMMENDS = "" #RCONFLICTS = "" #SRCDATE = "20070729" #PV = "0.1" #PR = "r0" SRC_URI = "file://myhelloworld.c \ file://README.txt " S = "${WORKDIR}/myhelloworld/" do_compile() { ${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} ${WORKDIR}/myhelloworld.c -o myhelloworld } do_install() { install -m 0755 -d ${D}${bindir} ${D}${docdir}/myhelloworld install -m 0755 ${S}/myhelloworld ${D}${bindir} install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/README.txt ${D}${docdir}/myhelloworld }
[edit] Your First Compilation
This is where the MokoMakefile comes in very very handy. Change to your ${OMDIR} directory, You'll know it by the fact that it is where
Makefile resides.
make build-package-myhelloworld
(make sure you run make openmoko-devel-image at least once before building your own packages)
This should all come back and not return any error messages, The output should end in something similar to
NOTE: package myhelloworld-1.0: completed NOTE: build 200707291926: completed Build statistics: Attempted builds: 1
Now that no errors were thrown we are happily done!
[edit] Adding Your Application to the Image
So you've had an idea, you've setup the build environment, you've setup your local overlay, you've laid out your application tree, you've put code into those fantastic files of yours and now it compiles.There's only one thing left to do. Add that application to your image.
Now lets go over in words and whys what we're about to do. First we need to make modify the
${OMDIR}/build/conf/local.conf. We add in the variable
DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS and set its value to include
myhelloworld. If you'd like to include other packages from your own overlay or the OM tree just add them inseparated by spaces. After this gets added as a dependency to build the Distro (in this case Openmoko). Now we have to re-build the task-base package. This essentially just generates an ipk file that will "Merge machine and distro options to create a basic machine task/package." It pretty much builds a file with a list of packages to be installed that are required for the distro to work correctly. So then you just go through and make
openmoko-devel-image, build-qemu, flash-qemu-local, and
run-qemu. Then calibrate your stylus, head over to the terminal, and run your application!
[edit] Modifying Your local.conf
Now, go into your build config directory
${OMDIR}/build/conf/ and now you'll be editing
Add this line to you
DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "myhelloworld"
With this line you can also include other applications from the OE tree. For instance my
local.conf looks like this.
MACHINE = "fic-gta01" DISTRO = "openmoko" BUILD_ARCH = "i686" SRCDATE_eds-dbus = "now" DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "lua dillo myhelloworld"
Now that you've fixed your
local.conf it's time to go through all the necessary tasks to add and re-build you image and have your sweet package included.
[edit] Building
Now come the easy part thanks to MokoMakefile.
make rebuild-package-task-base make openmoko-devel-image make build-qemu make flash-qemu-local
Now all you have to do is run qemu.
make run-qemu
From here after you calibrate your stylus, you click on the Menu in the top right, click down to terminal, then just run your program.
root@fic-gta02:/$ myhelloworld Ello Poppet!
[edit] Adding Python scripts as applications
This is for adding python scripts/packages to the image for your own use.
[edit] First steps
First, you need to modify the
local.conf file as described above. You need to modify
DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "myhelloworld"
DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "myhelloworld python"
--xkr47 18:21, 11 August 2007 (CEST) Hmm surely the new line should be DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "pyhelloworld python" instead since the package we create below is pyhelloworld..
This is because python is not included by default in the openmoko image. Or you can use
python-pygtk2 if you wish.
Next, you need to perform these actions from the
$OMDIR/local directory.
mkdir packages/pyhelloworld packages/pyhelloworld/files
touch packages/pyhelloworld/files/pyhello packages/pyhelloworld/README.txt
touch packages/pyhelloworld/pyhelloworld.bb
[edit] Filling in the files
Now, edit
packages/pyhelloworld/files/pyhello to contain:
#!/usr/bin/python print "hello world!" print "shutting down now. Farewell oh cruel, cruel world!"
Next up, is editing
packages/pyhelloworld/files/README.txt to say:
This is the most awesome helloworld application ever. Know why? It has SNAKES!
Kidding aside, next is the all important
DESCRIPTION = "A pythonic hello world application" AUTHOR = "Tyler Laing" HOMEPAGE = "" SECTION = "console/applications" PRIORITY = "optional" LICENSE = "MIT" #DEPENDS = "" #RDEPENDS = "" #RRECOMMENDS = "" #RCONFLICTS = "" #SRCDATE = "20070729" #PV = "0.1" #PR = "r0" SRC_URI = "file://pyhello \ file://README.txt " S = "${WORKDIR}/pyhelloworld/" do_install() { install -m 0755 -d ${D}${bindir} ${D}${docdir}/pyhelloworld install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/pyhello ${D}${bindir} install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/README.txt ${D}${docdir}/pyhelloworld }
I'll explain each of the parts right here, for future reference.
[edit] Meanings of variables in .bb files
$WORKDIR = $OMDIR/local/packages/<application directory> $bindir = $OMDIR/build/tmp/work/armv4t-linux/<application directory>/image/usr/bin $docir = $OMDIR/build/tmp/work/armv4t-linux/<application directory>/image/usr/share/doc $D = $OMDIR/build/
[edit] Final steps
Complete the last steps as per the above instructions, from the point of altering
And you're done!
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2010 Grants - Sambamurti
Dietary Modification of Alzheimer Biomarkers
Kumar Sambamurti, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
2010 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant
One risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is elevated blood levels of the chemical homocysteine, which is produced as a by-product of certain biochemical pathways. Consistent with its role as a risk factor, elevated homocysteine levels also increase brain levels of beta-amyloid, a protein fragment at the focus of research into the causes of Alzheimer pathology.
Kumar Sambamurti, Ph.D., and colleagues are studying whether treatments to reduce homocysteine levels also reduce the development of Alzheimer-like pathology. Using mice that have been genetically altered to express Alzheimer-like pathology and have abnormally high homocysteine levels, the researchers plan to study whether dietary restrictions to lower homocysteine levels slow the progression of Alzheimer-like pathology. These studies will improve our understanding of the link between elevated homocysteine levels and Alzheimer's disease, and they may provide initial evidence for a potential treatment for persons with elevated homocysteine levels.


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With Josh Byrnes set to take over as general manager, the Padres' front office makeover is best understood by residents of Pacific Beach, La Jolla and Del Mar.
The Zonies are taking over.
Just as Arizonans flood San Diego's coastal neighborhoods every summer, former Diamondbacks executives have over-run Padres HQ.
At this rate, we might see cactus in the bullpens.
Don't sweat it, Padres fans -- it's a dry heat.
Joking aside, the overhaul up top, which dates to 2009, is more about human nature than a desire to escape searing temperatures. Power brokers in baseball, like those in other industries, often place "their people" in key positions. It doesn't always happen immediately, but it usually happens.
First to follow CEO Jeff Moorad from Phoenix on the westbound Interstate 8 was his former president, Tom Garfinkel.
That two key members of Moorad's inner circle, Josh Byrnes and A.J. Hinch, remained in Phoenix owed likely to the hefty contracts that bound them to the team. Arizona's last-place finish in 2009 began to loosen those ties. When a miserable first half to the 2010 season cost Byrnes and Hinch their jobs, they were as destined for San Diego as the summer tourists. Byrnes, in fact, was at Petco Park one week after his dismissal. Jobs with the Padres were created within a few months for him and Hinch, Arizona's former farm director whom Byrnes had thrust into the manager's job. Promotions into vice-presidencies soon followed.
The same habit of a baseball boss acting to reunite with "his guys" created the GM vacancy that Byrnes will soon fill. Jed Hoyer, several reports indicate, will join his former mentor and boss with the Red Sox, Theo Epstein, the presumptive head of baseball operations for the Cubs. A scouting overseer will also be needed if Hoyer's assistant GM, Jason McLeod, departs, as expected by this blog, to work for his friend Epstein. Whether Hinch fills that role or not, he seems assured of residency in Moorad's inner circle. Byrnes is known to also admire scout Tom Allison, who ran his drafts in Arizona.
Now that Moorad has put the band back together with help from Epstein, what kind of music should we expect to hear?
The Dbacks of Moorad/Byrnes were one-hit wonders, winning the National League West in 2007. As Byrnes told this blog last month, Arizona's teams in 2009-10 "stunk," yet Byrnes's deeds and Moorad's investments also contributed to the NL West title won this year by the Snakes.
Byrnes won't have as many payroll dollars to spend as he did in Phoenix. (UDPATE) As to whether the Padres will get compensation from the Cubs for the loss of Hoyer, Moorad declined to say today. "We're still working on things," he told me.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Arizona West
Posted by Tom Krasovic at 2:11 PM
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This is why we can't have nice things.ReplyDelete
What a mess! Given Byrnes track record in Arizona, why wouldn't they at least cast the net and try to interview interested parties?ReplyDelete
I guess one good thing about the Moorad/Byrnes relationship is that Brynes presumably won't be using the Padres job as a stepping stone.
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I'm going to take a slight detour from the Mobile BI posts and provide you some insight into PowerPivot for Excel and what exactly makes it tick…
Above is B.I. Voyage's first online PowerPivot demo for retail analysis…
PowerPivot for Excel Trace
PowerPivot Trace is an optional setting for diagnosing problems with PowerPivot for Excel workbooks. If you are familiar with SQL Server Profiler and Trace this is going to feel very familiar to you (a nice benefit for us SQL/BI folks). To start off, I click on the PowerPivot ribbon menu and then click Settings (as shown above). This event displays the PowerPivot Options & Diagnostics window. Next, I click on the 'Client tracing is enabled' checkbox and I then select the Ok button.
Immediately before doing anything else if I go and open the trace file PowerPivot for Excel created (using SQL Server Profiler 2008 R2) I see a basic trace start collection of events.
I'll go back to the PowerPivot Options screen and click on the 'Take snapshot' button. Going back to the trace file we now see a collection of Server State Discover Data events.
If I then go back to our PowerPivot demo for Retail dashboard and begin clicking on slicers we see a collection of Query Cube events in the corresponding trace file.
Finally, if I right-click on any of the events listed in SQL Server Profiler and select Properties I can now see the exact SQL Server Profiler Trace Provider Type: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services.
Manually Restoring a PowerPivot Cube
Another neat way to show that PowerPivot for Excel really is Analysis Services is by manually restoring the database that resides within a PowerPivot for Excel workbook. This exercise requires you to have access to a PowerPivot Pilot (all-in-one) server configuration. To do this I perform the following tasks:
Note This is not a Microsoft supported procedure but it is a good exercise for learning purposes
1. Rename the workbook's file extension to .zip
2. Open the new.zip file and navigate to the xl/customData directory
3. Copy and paste the file labeled "Item1.data" to your local PowerPivot for SharePoint SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 R2 instance's backup directory. In my case this is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSAS10_50.POWERPIVOT\OLAP\Backup\Sandboxes
4. Rename the .data file's extension to .abf (Analysis Services backup file extension)
5. Start SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio and connect to the Analysis Services 2008 R2 PowerPivot for SharePoint Instance
6. In Object Explorer, underneath the analysis services powerpivot instance right-click on the Databases node and select Restore.
7. In the Analysis Services Restore screen browse to the .abf file you previously pasted into the instance's backup directory and click the OK button to restore the backup file
8. You should now see the new multidimensional database restored and if you navigate down into the Cubes node in Object Explorer you will in fact see a cube labeled 'Sandbox'.
Finally, you can Browse your new cube in Management Studio and begin to see how PowerPivot for Excel internally creates it's cubes. Every table of data you import into the PowerPivot for Excel client window becomes a Dimension and a Measure Group with a default measure created for COUNT. Additional measures are added into the cube as you create them.
So, now you fully see what PowerPivot for Excel is doing underneath the business user friendly canvas of Excel 2010. Microsoft truly is bringing OLAP (BI) to the masses with PowerPivot for Excel.


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posted by Eugenia Loli on Wed 23rd Jan 2008 22:05 UTC, submitted by koki
The OpenJDK Porters Group approved by a unanimous vote the proposal submitted by the recently formed Haiku Java Team to port OpenJDK to Haiku. This makes Haiku the first OS platform to be sponsored by the Porters Group, and it means that the port is now officially part of the OpenJDK family of projects endorsed by Sun. The team already has a mailing list and a project home page; a mercurial repository is also on its way. Team lead Bryan Varner gives his latest update here on his blog.


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CHESTER, PA - In their second away match of the 2012 Major League Soccer season, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (2W-0L-2D) claimed a second-straight goalless draw after a hard-fought 0-0 result at Eastern Conference side Philadelphia Union (0W-3L-1D) on Saturday afternoon.
Though no goals were registered by either side in front of 17,189 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, the 'Caps and the Union contributed to an intriguing contest, with both sides creating several chances. Once again, the story for Whitecaps FC will be an extension of two club records in their MLS era. The drawn result extends Vancouver's unbeaten streak to four matches, while they remain the only MLS club not to concede a goal this season, taking their shutout streak in the league to the 360-minute mark.
"I think it was a good, solid performance, and I think that we did pass the ball well at times," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "But it doesn't matter how far you travel or how you get here, there's no excuses when you get to the game. And we do think we could've done a little bit more today. I think that shows some progress with the club, that there's not satisfaction with a point on the road, even though it's a long trip. Four clean sheets in a row, those are all positive things, but to build the kind of team we want to build, we've got to have higher expectations than that, and we didn't quite do it today."
With injuries to three senior players, Rennie made three changes to the starting XI that faced D.C. United last week. Former Union defender Jordan Harvey replaced Alain Rochat at left fullback, while a fit-again John Thorrington earned his first start of the season in midfield, as he replaced Camilo Sanvezzo. In attack, Atiba Harris replaced Eric Hassli for his first competitive start in nearly a year, as he partnered former Philadelphia favourite Sebastien Le Toux up front. Harris' last MLS appearance came during Vancouver's 3-1 defeat at Houston Dynamo on April 10, 2011.
On a wet and windy day in Delaware County, the first half was a battling affair, with Whitecaps FC looking comfortable in possession through large parts of the opening 45 minutes. Chances were exchanged inside the first quarter of an hour, with Union defender Carlos Valdes forcing Whitecaps FC captain Jay DeMerit to block his cross-shot away in Vancouver's six-yard box before Harris neatly sent Le Toux through on the home side's goal, but Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath did well to clear the danger after rushing out of the Philadelphia box.
Like last weekend, the 'Caps did well to get into dangerous positions. On 27 minutes, Harris nearly freed Le Toux again with a ball over the top of the Union backline, while midfielder Matt Watson was unlucky to find the target with a central run and shot from the left flank two minutes later. It resulted in a scoreless stalemate at halftime.
With the Union attacking the River End of PPL Park for the second half, Peter Nowak's squad showed the urgency to make a breakthrough shortly after the restart. Valdes hit the far post from a Keon Daniel corner on 47 minutes before Brian Carroll rolled a shot into the hands of Whitecaps FC goalkeeper Joe Cannon two minutes later. Cannon had a fine second half, as he made important saves to earn a third clean sheet of the season. On 55 minutes, the experienced shot-stopper denied Daniel before Union striker Lionard Pajoy struck the rebound wide of the target.
While winless Philadelphia were looking increasingly frustrated with proceedings, the Blue and White created chances in the final half-hour through DeMerit and Harris, who forced MacMath into an important clearance of a dangerous cross by Budweiser Man of the Match Young-Pyo Lee on 67 minutes. Then on 83 minutes, Le Toux was presented with the opportunity of a storybook ending against his former club. The Frenchman breached Philadelphia's defence to get on the end of Davide Chiumiento's fine through ball into the Union box. However, good pressure from MacMath resulted in Le Toux putting his shot high and wide of goal.
The visitors finished the match strongly, with Vancouver substitutes Gershon Koffie and Long Tan striking at goal. In the end, a 0-0 draw had to settled for by both clubs.
Whitecaps FC will return home and prepare for another away match, as they visit Western Conference rivals San Jose Earthquakes next Saturday afternoon. After earning their first point of the season on Saturday, the Union will take two weeks off before hosting Eastern Conference rivals Columbus Crew on Saturday, April 14.
Budweiser Man of the Match: Young-Pyo Lee
Scoring Summary:
Match Stats:
Shots: Philadelphia 9 - Vancouver 9
Shots on Goal: Philadelphia 2 - Vancouver 0
Saves: Philadelphia 0 - Vancouver 2
Fouls: Philadelphia 20 - Vancouver 13
Offsides: Philadelphia 3 - Vancouver 2
Corners: Philadelphia 5 - Vancouver 4
43' - PHI - Gabriel Gomez
56' - PHI - Brian Carroll
65' - VAN - Atiba Harris
77' - PHI - Michael Farfan
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1.Joe Cannon; 12.Young-Pyo Lee, 15.Martin Bonjour, 6.Jay DeMerit, 3.Jordan Harvey; 11.John Thorrington (28.Gershon Koffie 59'), 27.Jun Marques Davidson, 20.Davide Chiumiento, 16.Matt Watson; 7.Sebastien Le Toux, 9.Atiba Harris (23.Long Tan 70')
Substitutes not used: 18.Brad Knighton, 17.Omar Salgado, 19.Carlyle Mitchell, 26.Floyd Franks, 32.Greg Klazura
Philadelphia Union
18.Zac MacMath; 25.Sheanon Williams, 4.Danny Califf, 2.Carlos Valdes, 24.Porfirio Lopez (21.Michael Farfan 45'); 6.Gabriel Gomez, 7.Brian Carroll, 26.Keon Daniel (10.Danny Mwanga 86'); 15.Gabriel Farfan, 23.Lionard Pajoy, 12.Chandler Hoffman (9.Jack McInerney 51')
Substitutes not used: 32.Chase Harrison, 3.Chris Albright, 14.Amobi Okugo, 17.Josue Martinez


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