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LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. – November 2, 2009 – Data generated using microdroplet PCR technology as an enrichment method is particularly well suited for performing sequence-based association studies, according to a paper published today by researchers at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and RainDance Technologies, Inc.
The study, led by Kelly A. Frazer, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Genome Information Sciences, UC San Diego Department of Pediatrics, evaluated microdroplet PCR's advantages in performing sequence enrichment for targeted sequencing over the gold-standard traditional PCR approach. "These benefits translated into a much higher efficiency of sequencing and a much more cost-effective way to do population studies," Frazer said, in commenting about the paper.
Entitled "Microdroplet-based PCR Enrichment for Large-Scale Targeted Sequencing," the paper was published today on Nature Biotechnology's Web site at Microdroplet-based PCR enrichment for large-scale targeted sequencing : Abstract : Nature Biotechnology (www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt.1583.html) and will appear in the November issue of the magazine.
"I believe this new technology will be used to study the basic underpinnings of diseases and to understand their root causes," said Eric J. Topol, M.D., Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and a co-author. "For instance, we're now using it to understand the causes of anorexia nervosa. We also can use the technology to comprehend a disease's response to a therapy or to determine a drug's side effects. We even can employ it to study the healthy aging process. These are all applications for microdroplet PCR that will help us understand the vital aspects of human health and disease," said Dr. Topol, in commenting on the paper.
The paper said that to efficiently perform population-based sequencing studies using next-generation sequencing platforms, it is important to be able to simultaneously examine large numbers of targeted sequences. "These results indicate that even when simultaneously amplifying 3,976 targeted sequences, microdroplet PCR generates a high ratio of target sequence to background sequence," the authors said. The study concluded that data quality is independent of the number of amplicons. A path to scale to 20,000 amplicons while maintaining high performance was also demonstrated.
The paper's authors said the microdroplet PCR process proved to be extremely efficient, with more than 99.6% of all amplicons being successful and with highly reproducible amplification of targeted sequences between samples. The data also showed that equivalently accurate SNP calling can be performed using microdroplet PCR whether the DNA is unamplified or whole-genome amplified from nanogram quantities. The allelic bias error rate of approximately 0.1% resulted in few known variants to be incorrectly called, further attesting to the robustness of the process.
"We were impressed with how well the technology worked," said Dr. Frazer. "Compared to other types of sequence enrichment, we were able to generate greater uniform coverage of targeted sequences. In addition, the problems we typically encounter with standard PCR, such as difficult primer design and high allelic bias, were not observed with the microdroplet-based PCR workflow."
"Efficient targeted sequencing will be critical as researchers study genetic variation in large populations to determine the causes of cancer and other complex diseases," said Christopher McNary, President and Chief Executive Officer, RainDance Technologies. "This study confirms that our innovative RDT 1000 microdroplet-based platform is able to detect substantially higher numbers of variants in the targeted sequences than either solution-based hybridization or molecular inversion probes. This platform provides scientists with an exciting and highly effective new technology that accelerates research into the causes of these devastating diseases," said McNary.
To view the paper, visit Microdroplet-based PCR enrichment for large-scale targeted sequencing : Abstract : Nature Biotechnology (www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt.1583.html) or see the November 2009 issue of Nature Biotechnology: "Microdroplet-based PCR Enrichment for Large-Scale Targeted Sequencing." Authors: Ryan Tewhey1,2, Jason Warner3, Masakazu Nakano1,4, Brian Libby3, Martina Medkova3, Patricia David3, Steve Kotsopoulos3, Michael Samuels3, J. Brian Hutchinson3, Jonathan W. Larson3, Eric J. Topol1, Michael P. Weiner3, Olivier Harismendy1,4, Jeff Olson3, Darren R. Link3, and Kelly A. Frazer1,4. DOI:10.1038/nbt.1583.
About RainDance Technologies
RainDance Technologies is pioneering the use of high-throughput microdroplet-based analysis in human health and life science research. The company's core RainStorm™ technology generates millions of discrete droplets that can encapsulate a single molecule, cell or reaction and be digitally analyzed and sorted one at a time. The power, precision and simplicity of microdroplets enable researchers to answer complex questions with unprecedented sensitivity and quantitation. The complete RainDance solution includes automated instrumentation, customizable bioinformatics and high-value consumables and reagents for applications including targeted next-generation DNA sequencing, methylation, digital PCR and single cell analysis. Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, the company supports scientists around the world through its international sales and support operations and a global network of distributors and service providers. For more information, please visit www.RainDanceTech.com.
RainDance, RainStorm, ThunderStorm, Digital Biology are trademarks of RainDance Technologies, Inc. All other brands may be trademarks of their respective holders.
1 – Scripps Genomic Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
2 – Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
3 – RainDance Technologies, Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
4 – Present address: Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.


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Japanese telecom giant Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) (OTCMKTS:SFTBF) announced Tuesday it will acquire a majority stake in the Finnish game developer Supercell. The deal values the Finnish online gaming company at about $3 billion. Supercell, founded in 2010, makes two of the most popular online games Clash of Clans and Hay Day. Supercell focuses primarily on iOS and Android games, reports The Financial Times.
Softbank hungry for acquisitions
Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) (OTCMKTS:SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son said his company will put in 80% of the total $1.53 billion. The remaining 20% or $300 million will come from GungHo Online Entertainment, in which Softbank already owns a partial stake. Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen said in a blog post today that Softbank's investment will help his company expand into Asian markets.
Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) (OTCMKTS:SFTBF) is aggressively making acquisitions in North America and Europe. The Japanese company is trying to lower its dependence on the domestic market as Japan's population continues to shrink. Earlier this year, the company acquired Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) for $21.6 billion. The Tokyo-based company owns stakes in about 1,000 Internet firms including Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)'s Japanese arm. It owns about a 35% stake in Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., which plans to go public next year.
Softbank's aim
The companies expect to complete the transaction by next month. Supercell has 130 employees. It reported a revenue of $179 million and profits of $106 million during the first quarter this year. According to company CEO Ilkka Paananen, its games hit 10 million downloads every day. Market research firm Newzoo said that global revenues from gaming will soar to $86.1 billion by 2016. The number of gamers across all platforms will grow to 1.55 billion. Mobile gaming, which currently makes up just 17% of total gaming revenues, will account for 30% of the total in 2016.
Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984) (OTCMKTS:SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday that the deal will help his company expand into rapidly growing mobile gaming business. He said Softbank aims to become the world's largest mobile Internet company. Son said he will keep exploring interesting opportunities.

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It can sometimes be a bit of a struggle to find good eateries which tailor to vegetarian and vegan diets. In Edinburgh, there is a tasty selection of restaurants, independent bistros and cafés which cater to a meat-free lifestyle.
At This Is Edinburgh, we've done a bit of digging to come up with our Top Places to Eat for Vegans and Vegetarians within our city.
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At Earthy, they believe that if you eat well, you will live well. Using the freshest ingredients and a strict attention to detail, their food offering is hand-crafted with a whole lot of love! From breakfast to dinner, hungry or peckish, Earthy has a number of vegan and vegetarian options to tuck into.
Is meat served in this venue? Yes
Veggie Pick: Roasted Peppers, Goats Cheese & Cherry Tomatoes with Rocket Pesto.
1-6 Canonmills Bridge, Edinburgh, EH3 5LF (website)
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Helping to protect our earth as well as creating delicious food are two things high on Flip's list. Eco-friendly packaging, along with well-sourced ingredients, combined with fast service, makes for a great stop-off for any vegans or vegetarians!
Is meat served in this venue? Yes
Veggie/Vegan Pick: With a wide variety of vegan and vegetarian fillings, their Triple Gourmet Toastie is the perfect lunch-time sandwich!
54 Clerk Street, Edinburgh EH8 9JB (website)
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Arguably Edinburgh's oldest vegetarian venue, Henderson's has been doing vegetarian cooking right for 53 years. A family business at heart, Henderson's offers you the warmest welcomes and the friendliest of service - you may never want to leave! There is also a bakery, bistro and deli for those who just can't get enough of the Henderson's magic.
Don't forget to visit the most recent additions to the Henderson's family, Henderson's Vegan on Thistle Street and Henderson's Cafe & Deli Holyrood on Holyrood Road.
Is meat served in this venue? No
Vegan Pick: Their vegan cauliflower and chickpea curry with coconut, chilli and coriander, served with basmati rice makes our bellies growl!
94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DR (website)
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Lovecrumbs is one of Edinburgh's staples on the cake and a cuppa scene. Its quirky interior and cake wardrobe display area make for a great talking point over a nice big slice. By selling only cake, there is ample choice for any vegetarian to satisfy their sweet-tooth and there are even some vegan options too. There is definitely a space in your diary for the Lovecrumbs café.
Is meat served in this venue? On occasion
Vegan Pick: The Chocolate Rose Cake (pictured above) is enough to set any vegan's heart racing!
155 West Port, Edinburgh, EH3 9DP (website)
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The self-confessed hottest tattie in town, The Baked Potato Shop cemented its place on Cockburn Street in 1983. The queue is often out the doorwith loyal customers due to its commitment to provide the best produce around. Full to the brim with vegetarian and vegan options, head down to Cockburn Street and try this tattie treat!
Is meat served in this venue? No
Veggie Pick: The Baked Potato Shop has a wide range of fillings, however their fresh egg mayonnaise made with soya mayo is a great alternative to the original.
56 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB (website)
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A family-run restaurant with an excellent atmosphere, Kalpna has been making high quality vegetarian and vegan food for over a quarter of a century. Much loved Indian classics feature on this menu, along with the modern day dishes. Whether you like it hot or relatively mild, Kalpna has a menu to suit all.
Is meat served in this venue? No
Veggie/Vegan Pick: Their traditional Dam Aloo Gabi, a spiced potato and cauliflower cooked in a tomato gravy is a winner for us!
2-3 St Patrick Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9EZ (website)
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Operating out of a disused police box, this quirky eatery offers handmade soup and fresh artisan coffee (soya milk is available). Their tasty panini menu is completely meat-free too! Head to this wee gem at any point in the day for a purse friendly coffee or a warm soup! They even give you the option to pre-order if you are having lunch on the run.
Is meat served at this venue? No
Vegan Pick: Their soup changes daily, however their vegan Pea & Mint soup sounds particularly heavenly!
22A St Patrick Square, Edinburgh EH8 9EZ (website)
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David Bann is one of the busiest vegetarian restaurants in Edinburgh, however the restaurant certainly does not skimp on good service with a friendly smile. With a warm atmosphere, a selection of vegan wine and beer paired with delicious food, it is definitely a good place to go on a first date. Their vegan jelly is a must-try!
Is meat served at this venue? No
Vegan Pick: David Bann caters well for vegans, and the stir fried vegetables with udon noodles and smoked tofu is a mouth-waterer!
56-58 Saint Mary's Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SX (website)
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The Forest is a volunteer-run, collectively-owned, free art and event project, which also runs a vegetarian café. Have a nibble and get involved in the many daily events that take place in this quirky multi-use space.
Is meat served at this venue? No
Veggie Pick: Everything is vegetarian, and there are vegan options a plenty too. Their falafel meal is a real belly filler.
141 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9JN (website)
On the first Monday of every month head to Bread Street Brasserie for a Vegan feast. Their dedicated Vegan Evening features a three course Vegan Menu with one of three delicious options to choose from in each course. The brasserie showcases the finest of Scotland's larder with a special emphasis on catering to dietary requirements.
Is meat served at this venue? Yes
Veggie/Vegan Pick: Even when it's not Vegan Evening, Bread Street Brasserie strive to include vegetarian and vegan options on their regular a la carte menu so if you can't make it on the first Monday of the month it's still worth checking out their menus on the website which change regularly.
34 Bread Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AF (website)
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Ryan's keen on Mai and she strings him along. However, when he asks her out she turns him down flat. Hurt and embarrassed, Ryan rationalises that her rebuff must be because she's gay. When Ryan confides this to Charlie the rumour starts and slowly spreads. Mai tolerates the situation for a while but when it threatens to get out of hand she fronts Ryan and exacts her own brand of retribution when the misunderstandings are finally cleared up Ryan has the effrontery to ask Mai out again.
Les hands out an environmental project which pairs Melanie with Mai and Anita with Drazic. Anita can't imagine anything worse. She unsuccessfully tries to get out of the arrangement after first insulting Drazic and then having to fend him off when he tries to sleaze onto her.
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Mai and Melanie are paired together for the environmental project. They approach the task from opposite angles. Mai seeking out the easiest solution while Melanie shoots for top marks.
Mai fills a bottle with outfall water and gets it analysed for pollutants while Melanie investigates why the local seagulls are dying around the outfall pipe. The water analysis shows up little abnormality while Melanie is shocked to find it's a local lad who's shooting the birds. Mai scores the better mark much to Melanies' chagrin.
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Join us for this unique one day event in May, and get '2020 Ready' with the top 12 strategies used by the world's leading entrepreneurs and fastest growing companies.REGISTER NOWIT'S TIME FOR YOUR UPGRADE!
Your success in the coming year and decade needs a new level of thinking
You've upgraded your laptop and phone. You've upgraded your systems and strategy. In today's fast changing times, that's no longer enough.
It's time for an upgrade in your mindset. Join Cape Town's Entrepreneurs in this powerful one day event that will give you an insight into how the world's leading entrepreneurs have shifted their thinking to prepare for 2020 and beyond. It will transform the value of your company, your customers, your team and your time.
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Renowned futurist and social entrepreneur, Roger James Hamilton
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Dear Entrepreneur,
Soon it will be the year 2020. Are you ready for the year and decade ahead?
Imagine you were in the same place you are right now in 1999. With the same lifestyle, job, company and earnings that you have today. If you got an insight as to how much the world would change in the next decade, would you have acted differently? From 2000 to 2009, we saw the explosion of the Internet, smartphones and social media. Companies like Facebook, Youtube, Google and Amazon became billion dollar businesses out of nowhere.
Now imagine you missed the first wave, and you were in the same place as you are right now in 2009. It was the middle of the Global Financial Crisis and everyone was struggling. If you had a second chance to discover the disruptions coming in the decade ahead, would you have acted differently? From 2010 to 2019, we have seen the explosion of co-working, ride-sharing, crowdfunding and online video.
Companies like Netflix, AirBnB and Uber have become giants out of nowhere.
It's 2019. At 'Entrepreneur 5.0' I'm going to be sharing how the coming decade will be far bigger in disruption and opportunity than any decade before. Be third time lucky and join me. You'll learn how the way you market, sell, create products, attract partners, keep customers and build teams is all going to need to change. You won't need to wait. You can change today.
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2020 Business Strategies in Action
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Kia has announced a recall for their 2006-2012 Sedona minivans, for an issue that could cause the steering to fail. In all, nearly 80,000 vehicles that were manufactured from June 15, 2005, through August 14, 2012 will be affected.
The cause of the Kia recall was determined to be the front control arms, which could rust over time and possibly break, due to the salt that is commonly used on roads in the northern states. If the control arms were to break, it could increase the risk of the driver to lose control of the vehicle and be involved in an accident.
Although there were no accidents or injuries reported as a result of the defect to the Korean automaker, several owners have filed complaints with the NHTSA stating that they had lost control of their vehicle, because of the defective control arm. One owner described the vehicle as being "unsteerable". The geographic recall primarily covers vehicles that were originally sold or registered in the following states:
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- District of Columbia
The latest Kia recall will have dealership technician inspect and replace the front control arms at no charge. If more information, or to determine if your Sedona minivan is affected, owners can contact their local Kia dealership and provide them with the vehicle identification number (VIN), located on either the driver's side doorjamb, or the lower right corner of the windshield.
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Winter 2010, Vol.
12, No. 3
Quick Links:
Spiritual Politics blog
Articles in this issue:
Table of Contents
An Army of One
From the Editor:
The End of the Christian Right
The Open and Affirming Lutherans
Angling for Anglicans
The Fighting Atheists
Not in My
China's Lama Obsession
Scientology's Terrible, Horrible,
No Good, Very Bad Year
Letter to the Editor
New books
An Army of One
Andrew Walsh
shooting lasted only about four minutes. But in that brief span, a lone
gunman killed 13 and wounded 29 others, before he himself was shot down by
base police officers. The shock, grief, and outrage that followed were
magnified by the fact that the alleged killer was an Army officer and it
appeared that the Army failed to act on solid information that he was an
unstable loner who was also a bitter critic of the wars in Iraq and
That's about the only
common ground that can be found in journalistic reports—and especially
interpretations—of the mass killing at Fort Hood November 5. To an unusual
degree, attitudes about Major Nidal Malik Hasan's alleged rampage skewed in
two directions, with a great deal of scoffing displayed about those who held
alternative views.
Interpretation A was that
"the Army psychiatrist accused in the shootings acted out under a welter of
emotional, ideological, and religious pressures" but was not "part of a
terrorist plot," as a story by David Johnston and Eric Schmitt put it in the
November 8 New York Times. It was, in the words of many, "a workplace
Interpretation B focused
on Hasan's Muslim identity and demanded that he be labeled a terrorist.
Newsweek quoted conservative columnist Laura Ingraham to this effect on
November 10: "What is hard to ignore, now, is the growing derangement on all
matters involving terrorism and Muslim sensitivities. Its chief symptoms: a
palpitating fear of discomfiting facts and a willingness to discard those
facts and embrace the richest possible variety of ludicrous theories as the
motives hind an act of Islamic terrorism."
Stories in the first few
days after the shootings tended to stress that Hasan was believed to have
acted alone.
"Investigators have not
ruled out the possibility that Major Hasan believed he was carrying out an
extremist's suicide mission," reported a New York Times story on
November 8 that carried the headline, "Little Evidence of Terror Plot in
Base Killings." Rather, the story reported, "investigators, working with
behavioral experts, suggested that he might have suffered from emotional
problems that were exacerbated by the tensions of his work with veterans of
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who returned home with serious psychiatric
Conservative commentators
were particularly inflamed by remarks made by U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen.
George Casey on weekend television news talk shows. Casey expressed concern
on CNN's "State of the Union" November 8, for example, that "speculation
about the religious beliefs of Hasan could cause a backlash against some of
our Muslim soldiers."
But at this early stage
of the story, political leaders, even Republicans, were also urging caution
about over-reacting against Muslims. "I mean, does every soldier who shows
discontent with the war and every soldier that had had a bad performance
report—what are we going to do about these folks," Sen. Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina said the same day on CBS' "Meet the Press." "At the end of
the day, maybe this is just about him. It's certainly not about his
religion, Islam."
Understandably, not much
was known about Hasan in early November. Many news outlets reported that he
was born in the United States to recent immigrants from what is now the West
Bank but was then part of Jordan. The family moved in the 1980s to Roanoke,
Virginia—a working class, Appalachian city in the western mountains of
Virginia. There they ran a beer hall and then a chain of restaurants and
convenience stores.
After high school, Hasan
apparently served a term in the Army as an enlisted man, where he began his
higher education at a California community college. He returned to Roanoke
for more community college before attending Virginia Tech. An outstanding
student, Hasan then reenlisted in the Army and was sent to medical school at
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences outside Washington.
Subsequently, he received training as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, becoming one of a number of desperately needed psychiatric
specialists in treating soldiers with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
In search of information
about Hasan, journalists swarmed over Walter Reed. Several also interviewed
residents of the shabby apartment complex in Killeen, Texas, where he lived
after being re-assigned to Ft. Hood last summer. The Washington Post's
Philip Rucker, for one, reported on November 9 that Hasan was often derided
by other residents. Rucker quoted one neighbor as saying residents often
laughed at Hasan when he came home from work or the local mosque.
"Everyone else just sat
down there and laughed and drunk their beer and looked at him and giggled,"
the woman said. "They just would laugh at him when he walked down with his
Muslim clothes….He was mistreated. He didn't have nobody. He went to his
apartment there and was all alone." Rucker reported other harassments: In
mid August, a drunk soldier who lived down the hall from Hasan scraped a car
key down the full length of Hasan's car and ripped a bumper sticker that
read "Allah is Love" off the car.
In Virginia, the
Roanoke Times reported on November 7 that few remembered Hasan in the
city or at the colleges he attended. Those who did, described him as
"studious and withdrawn."
About the same time,
Julian Barnes and Andrew Zajac of the Los Angeles Times reported that
working with soldiers dealing with post-traumatic stress syndrome in recent
years had turned him against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and
intensified his Muslim beliefs. Hasan also told relatives in recent years
that he was harassed by others in the military for being a Muslim, James Dao
reported on November 6 in the New York Times.
None of this journalism
provided insight from people with more than a passing acquaintance with
Hasan. But while it did not paint an unequivocal portrait, by mid-November a
coherent analysis was emerging from "the left."
Despite his ethnicity and
religion, and even reports of his having shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he began
shooting, Hasan's rampage was "not terrorism," James Alan Fox and Jack
Levin, two criminologists at Northeastern University, wrote in an op-ed
column in the November 11 USA Today.
"Hasan's murder spree appears…to be much more about seeking vengeance for
personal mistreatment than spreading terror to advance a political agenda.
In many respects, the Fort Hood massacre stands as a textbook case of
workplace murder," they wrote. "Fort Hood is indeed a workplace, the U.S.
Army an employer, and Hasan a disgruntled worker attempting to avenge
perceived unfair treatment on the job. His rampage was selective, not
indiscriminate. He chose the location—his workplace—and then apparently
singled out certain co-workers for death."
The Fox-Levin analysis
turned on Hasan's alienation in the Army and his failed attempts to leave
military service to avoid serving in a war that he perceived as targeting
Muslims. "Calling the Ft. Hood ambush an act of terror would only compound
the tragedy by reinforcing the kind of intolerance toward American Muslims
that appears to have contributed to Hasan's despair."
This line of reasoning
infuriated conservative commentators. Charles Krauthammer took to Fox News
to denounce liberals "who want to medicalize Major Hasan's crime—call it an
act of insanity rather than crime." Jonah Goldberg sneered in the November
12 Chicago Tribune that "for many people, the idea of a Muslim
fanatic motivated by other Muslim fanatics was at least initially—too
terrible to contemplate."
"How much longer will we
tolerate fighting this war as if it were a minor crime wave? Our enemies are
fighting to win and they are fighting everywhere, including within our
border," columnist Cal Thomas thundered in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
on November 10. "It is irrelevant that some have put the number of
radicalized Muslims worldwide at 10 percent. Even if that figure is
accurate, 100 million jihadists can cause a lot of damage."
Writing in the November
10 National Post, Colby Cosh offered the view that "the expectation
that Nidal Hasan's story will fall into one of two bins marked 'terrorist'
or 'nutcase' is, frankly, pretty stupid." Instead, Cosh offered a both-and
"It may be that the Army
bungled its handling of Hasan and that hysterical institutional anti-racism
might have gotten 13 people killed," he wrote. On the other hand, "suicidal
terrorists are always troubled misfits….It will almost certainly turn out
that Hasan was a quirky loner, that he had social and cognitive problems in
school, that he had early and unfixable problems with girls and women." But
"non-Muslims shoot up schools, malls and post offices all the time and it
should not be surprising that when a Muslim goes looking for an external
locus of blame or rage, his pathology takes a specifically Muslim form."
By the middle of the
month, it was the conservative position that began to look more plausible,
as scraps of troubling information about the government's handling of Hasan
began to accumulate.
One cluster involved
official reluctance to take action to address Hasan's behavior during his
time at Walter Reed. Stories began to appear about November 10 with
headlines like, "The siren call of Shariah: Ignored warning signs of a
radical pathology" (Washington Times); and "Non-believers should have
their heads cut off, said army killer. The 'red flags' missed before Ford
Hood massacre" (London Telegraph); and "In plain sight: Unheeded red
flags surround Maj. Nidal M. Hasan" (Washington Post).
Stories reported that
Hasan had been reprimanded for attempting to convert patients to Islam, that
he repeatedly told military colleagues in Washington that he was a Muslim
first and an American second, and, most famously, that in 2007 he had given
colleagues a startling lecture on the "American war against Islam" during
grand rounds at Walter Reed.
Usually anonymous sources reported to journalists that fellow officers at
Walter Reed had a "fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim
soldier" and so didn't file formal complaints. Lt. Col. Val Finnell, who
studied at the Uniformed Services University with Hasan in 2007, did
complain to superiors. "The system is not doing what it's supposed to do. He
should at least have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and
desist, and to shape up or ship out. I really questioned his loyalty,"
Finnell told the London Telegraph on November 9.
The mid-November
journalistic narrative was also shaped by the revelation that American
intelligence officials had known as early as December 2008 that Hasan was
carrying on an email correspondence with an Al Qaeda-connected imam in
Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Summarizing information that was appearing in many
places, Scott Shane and David Johnston of the New York Times wrote on
November 12 that Hasan had sent a dozen or so emails to Awlaki, who had
responded several times. The men had known each other, apparently slightly,
before 2001, when Awlaki served as imam at a suburban Washington mosque. The
imam may have been involved in Hasan's mother's funeral in 2001, but left
the United States after 9/11.
"The emails were largely
questions about Islam, not expressions of militancy or hints of a plot,"
government officials told Shane and Johnston. "The messages were quickly
passed to a Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington, where a Defense
Department investigator pulled the personnel files of Major Hasan," the
Times reported. "Those files, however, did not reflect the concerns of
some colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center about Major Hasans's
outspoken opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his strong
feeling that Muslims should not be sent to fight other Muslims."
The Joint Task Force
apparently decided that the email correspondence was a legitimate part of
Hasan's academic research and did not pursue the matter by investigating at
Walter Reed. The Times then quoted Georgetown University terrorism
expert Bruce Hoffman as saying that "any contact with Mr. Awlaki should have
raised red flags. There is no doubt that Awlaki is a vessel for the message
of Al Qaeda whose goal is radicalizing others. Any contact should have
generated serious concerns."
Liberals were reluctant
to give up their interpretation, however. Andy Ostroy blogged on the
Huffington Post November 16 that it had been "a great week for
Republicans—that is if you consider raging hypocrisy and shameless
propaganda successful virtues." A few days later, Robert Wright began an
op-ed column in the New York Times with the sarcastic statement that
"the verdict had come in" on the liberal media's coverage of the Hasan case:
"The liberal news media have been found guilty—by the conservative news
media—of coddling Major Hasan's religion, Islam."
It was, Wright noted, a
continuation of the way the American right and left had reacted to 9/11.
"Their respective responses were, to oversimplify a bit: 'kill the
terrorists' and 'kill the terrorist meme.'" Not, he continued, that
Islamists didn't have their own caricatures of 9/11 and beyond.
In a November 29 column,
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times described what he called "The
Narrative"—a "cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about
America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11. Propagated
by jihadist Web sites, mosque preachers, Arab intellectuals, satellite news
stations, and books—and tacitly endorsed by some Arab regimes—this narrative
posits that America has declared war on Islam, as part of a grand
'American-Crusader-Zionist conspiracy' to keep Muslims down."
"What is scary is that
even though he was born, raised, and educated in America, The Narrative
still got to Hasan," Friedman wrote.
was thinking along similar lines on November 23, asking in a headline "Are
lone wolves who don't need an al-Qaeda training camp the new threat to
homeland security?"
"I used to argue it was
only terrorism if it were part of some identifiable, organized conspiracy,"
Georgetown's Hoffman told Time. "This new strategy of al-Qaeda is to
empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely
outside of any chain of command."
Sebastian Rotella of the
Los Angeles Times added a third piece to this emerging analysis on
December 7, noting that the United States is facing "a rising threat from
homegrown extremists."
radicalization—especially among converts and newcomers," Zeyno Baran of the
Hudson Institute told Rotella. "I think young U.S. Muslims today are as
prone to radicalization as Muslims in Europe."
And with that, coverage
of the Fort Hood shootings pretty much dropped off the radar screen. In
part, this was because the "Islamic terror" spotlight turned to the December
25 "underpants bomber" episode, in part because new information about Hasan
stopped appearing, and in part because many people were waiting for the
report of an investigation of the Army's handling of Hasan.
That report, co-written
by former Chief of Naval Operations Vern Clark and former Army Secretary
Togo West and released on January 15, concluded that the military displayed
systemic failures, missing the warning signs given by Hasan and failing to
share information among its various parts.
"It is clear that as a
department, we have not done enough to adapt to the evolving domestic
internal security threat to American troops and military facilities that has
emerged over the past decade," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a press
conference. "In this area, as in so many others, this department is burdened
by 20th century processes and attitudes rooted mostly in the cold war."
"[T]he military," Gates
went on to say, "does not seem alert to signs of radicalization in its own
ranks, to be able to detect its symptoms or to understand its causes." The
report suggested that senior officers, especially at Walter Reed, would face
disciplinary action.
Yet reaction in the
press, and especially in the commentariat, was surprisingly restrained. A
Washington Post editorial on February 6 emphasized the importance of
both taking action to address the problems uncovered in the report and the
need "not to go too far."
The Weekly Standard
attempted to revive the conservative onslaught with a diatribe on February 1
headlined "See No Evil: The Pentagon's Fort Hood investigation is a pathetic
whitewash." Penned by Thomas Joscelyn of the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, the piece stressed the report's failure to call Hasan out as a
violent jihadist: "The problem is that while many were aware of Hasan's
violent ideological worldview, no one in the military acted on the
information because no one wanted to be labeled a bigot."
But that was the loudest
outcry from conservatives, whose enthusiasm for criticism of the armed
forces tends to be limited. For the liberals, after Fort Hood it seemed
harder to insist that radical Islam poses no real threat in the United
States, or that the challenge of balancing security and civil liberties in
an era of "self-radicalization" is less than daunting.


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Wanship to Echo - 30 miles
By Cheryl Soshnik
| It was great to get our "Back Side Friday" group going again this year. This was our first Friday ride, and who ever would believe we'd get started in MARCH.
Looking forward to a great biking season in 2007!


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In round two of the House Judiciary Committee's gun votes this week, two contentious, party-splitting decisions were each decided by a single vote.
A bump stock ban passed out of committee, but universal background checks failed to garner a majority.
Governor Tom Wolf reiterated his support for bills increasing gun control in the state Monday as elected officials weigh how best to reduce gun deaths.
A major target of Wolf's encouragement was SB 501, the first major gun policy bill since the Parkland School shooting — which has brought the gun debate to blistering new levels — to pass a chamber.
Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York)
Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington)
Sen. Robert Tomlinson (R-Bucks)
Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh)


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While writing software over a period of weeks or months, various components of the software get completed at various times. You've tested and you're satisfied they work, and you move on to develop another feature. Or you might check in the source code and somebody else on your team might break your code accidentally with another checkin. This break might not be discovered for days or months.
Checking in test code for the feature alongside the feature code can help prevent such scenarios. These "unit" tests must be simple to run, easy to develop and maintain, and enable you to test your code well. Running the tests might take a minute, but give you the peace of mind that the change you made didn't break other features. (Or if they did, they might be intentional feature changes, so the tests can be updated)
Software originates at the developer and passes through various stages, like through testing, building, customer installation, Discovering the bug closer to the developer and the time of development is very valuable: waiting til after the tester or customer gets the application is way too late!
Start VS 2008 (I believe it has to be VS Team Server edition or VS Test edition or something like that: See VS 2008 Team System Test Edition)
From the menus, choose File->New->Project Test Documents->Test Project. If you don't see the option, you probably don't have the right version of VS. You can even open your existing VS solution, right click on the solution at the top of the Solution Explorer, then choose Add->New->Project. This way, your test code can be in the same solution as your target code.
You can change the default test language (VB or C#) from Tools->Options->Test Tools->Test Project
From the menus, choose Test->Windows->Test List Editor. I like to have that window dockable: right click on the tab and choose Dockable, then dock it where you like.
Open UnitTest1.vb from the solution explorer and you'll see this code:
<TestMethod()> Public Sub TestMethod1()
' TODO: Add test logic here
End Sub
Add some code that does something. In your first example, just use this sample code that creates an instance of Excel and my favorite VFP COM Object "t1.c1"
The code manipulates Excel via VB and indirectly via the Fox server. It validates that setting and retrieving Excel cell values works.
If you don't have Fox, then you can remove the Fox parts
<TestMethod()> Public Sub TestMethod1()
Dim oFox = CreateObject("t1.c1") ' no references needed: use late binding
Dim y = oFox.MyEval("_vfp.servername")
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("y = " + y)
Dim oExcel = CreateObject("excel.application") ' no references needed: use late binding
Dim oxlName = oExcel.name
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Excel name = " + oxlName + oExcel.version.ToString)
oExcel.visible = True
oExcel.Cells(1, 1).value = "Hi there!"
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Excel cell=" + oExcel.Cells(1, 1).value)
Assert.AreEqual("Hi there!", oExcel.Cells(1, 1).value)
Const nRows As Integer = 30
Const nCols As Integer = 10
Dim nSum(nCols) As Integer ' the sum of the cols
For i = 2 To nRows
For j = 1 To nCols
Dim nVal = i * 100 + j ' "(" + i.ToString + "," + j.ToString + ")"
nSum(j - 1) += nVal
If i < nRows / 2 Then ' half the vals are filled directly, other half through Fox
oExcel.Cells(i, j).value = nVal
oFox.mydocmd("p2.Cells(" + CStr(i) + "," + CStr(j) + ").value=p3", oExcel, nVal)
End If
Assert.AreEqual(nVal, CInt(oExcel.Cells(i, j).value))
For j = 1 To nCols
oExcel.Cells(nRows + 1, j).Value = _
"=Sum(" + Chr(j + 64) + "2:" + Chr(j + 64) + nRows.ToString + ")" '"=SUM(A2:A22)"
Assert.AreEqual(nSum(j - 1), CInt(oExcel.Cells(nRows + 1, j).value))
oExcel.visible = False
End Sub
Notice that the test code looks like normal code, except for the Assert.AreEqual calls. These Assert calls will throw an exception if the values aren't equal, causing the test to fail.
You can remove the manual test from the project by deleting it from the solution. You can add more tests by just adding more Subs with the "TestMethod()" attribute.
You can run and debug/trace/set breakpoints in the test by hitting F5. Or you can run/debug the tests from the Test List Editor window, in which case you can still run other projects from within the same solution. For example, add the Test project to the same solution as the project under test and you can debug your target project while the tests are still running!
Try inserting this code before the line that closes the workbook:
For i = 2 To 40
For j = 1 To 30
Dim cval = "(" + i.ToString + "," + j.ToString + ")"
If i < 20 Then
cval = "VB " + cval
oExcel.Cells(i, j).value = cval
cval = "Fox" + cval
oFox.mydocmd("p2.Cells(" + CStr(i) + "," + CStr(j) + ").value=p3", oExcel, cval)
End If
Assert.AreEqual(cval, oExcel.Cells(i, j).value)
It sets the Excel spreadsheet values via calling Excel directly from the test using late binding,and via calling the Fox server to set the value. The C1 class of T1.C1 has a method MyDoCmd defined like so:
proc MyDoCmd(cCmd as string,p2 as Variant,p3 as Variant,p4 as Variant,p5 as Variant) ;
helpstring 'Execute a command|%2'
The "&" just means it takes the string command passed in and executes it. The parameters are called "p2", "p3", which are the passed in as the values oExcel and cval
After the test runs, the Test Results pane will show the results. Double-click on one to see the details. If it failed, the results even show you a call stack with hyperlinks of the failure, so you can just click on a stack entry to be taken to the line of code that failed. The failure could be either in the test code or the target code, but you can debug into the scenario to understand what's going on.
You can make your test assembly be a Friend assembly (using InternalsVisibleTo) to your target project so that you can create instances of various test target classes in your test project.
See also
How to create the general purpose "T1.c1" server: Blogs get 300 hits per hour: Visual FoxPro can count


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ONWARD '11 Japan
Though ONWARD '11 is no longer on the gallery walls at Project Basho in Philadelphia, the show continues on elsewhere! Over the course of the past few weeks we have been busy preparing to ship the entire exhibition of 70 works to Ricoh's Ring Cube gallery in Tokyo. We are excited to say the exhibition opened today, May 4th and will be up through May 22nd!
Project Basho's Program Director Tsuyoshi Ito will be flying to Japan this weekend to attend the show and we are looking forward to seeing how it looks installed in its new temporary home at Ring Cube. Located in the famous Ginza 4-chome intersection, Ricoh's building is a giant cylindrical tower which gives the gallery an unusual floor plan consisting of two concentric circles. Viewers move along the curving space as new pieces continue to present themselves.
If you are in Japan, look for a few write-ups of the exhibition in Commercial Photo and Nippon Camera. And if you happen to be in Tokyo and are planning on seeing the exhibition, let us know. We would love to hear your thoughts and see your pictures.
We are very happy to be able to share this exceptional collection of work with the world through our fantastic collaboration with Ricoh. In addition to bringing the entire exhibition to their gallery, Ricoh is giving a GXR digital camera to each of the two recipients of the ONWARD '11 Juror Awards, Sandy Alpert and Mary Beth Meehan. Take a look at their websites to see the excellent projects they have been working on. And if you have not been able to see the works in person, you can view all of the images from ONWARD '11 in our online web gallery.
Stay connected for more info as ONWARD progresses.
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Mirror Printing: A Unicode DTP Problem in FLOSS
Let me first state the problem that was nagging us for around four years or so. I was first aware of the problem when in 2005 my Bangla book on GNU-Linux was getting published. All the chapters were in PDF, with page setup and graphics and layout complete. And now to proceed into Offset printing the next step was to take 'tracing', as they call it, that is, mirror print of the pages on tracing paper. From these tracing-s, the blocks or something are created, which are then used in printing.
This is an apparently small problem, but, in OOo, it is not possible, at least within my knowledge, to take a mirror print. Manoj De, the publisher of the book, came up with the solution. He had a postscript printer, and so, the printer on its own gave us mirror prints of the pages.
Some time after that, Arnab Sengupta and Dibakar Sarkar, when they took some texts from me in soft copy, written in Unicode Bangla, the usual thing in any FLOSS distribution, to publish them in their little magazine 'Akshar-Jatra', and reported me the same problem, in a more difficult version. The added difficulty came from this that in Calcutta (or, in the decolonized version, Kolkata) printing industry has some particular custom, that is fitting with economy of printing. They set two pages side by side on some page, usually A4 sized, and then the blocks are created fitting with this A4 sized physical pages. So, two logical pages are kept side by side on one physical A4 sized page. This leads to optimum use of paper, the major component of cost in printing industry. This problem was not there in my Bangla book on GNU-Linux, because, for writing them, from the very start, for the sake getting space for elaborate diagrams, or things like that, I used A4 sized page layout. And so, each A4 size physical piece of paper was holding only one logical page, and this made the whole thing easier.
Now, to do this positing of two logical pages on one physical page, they use some page-layout software like Pagemaker. The problem is here, that for any word-processor like OOo-Writer or MS-Word or something, a page means a physical page and a logical page both together. So, even if someone makes columns appropriately to look like two logical pages side by side on the same A4 sized page layout, the word-processor would still consider these two together as one page, and number them accordingly. But, page-layout packages like Pagemaker can do this. They take the whole text as a flow, and go on dividing them into page-units, indifferent to the size of physical piece of paper, and number them accordingly.
In FLOSS, or, Free-Libré-Opensource-Software, the page layout package is Scribus. But, the problem with Scribus is that, it cannot handle Indic complex text layouts, and so, all the vowel marks and all get mangled when the Unicode Bangla text is imported into Scribus. So, now their added difficulty was bringing two logical pages into one physical page, as we elaborated above, to the original problem of taking mirror prints. Let us number these two problems:
1. Mirror print
2. Logical layout
Over the last three years or so, I had repeated conversations with my younger (and hence brighter) friends in FLOSS, about these two problems, and engaged in many hours of search on the Net about some solution. But nothing came up.
And another problem got added about this doing DTP on FLOSS, that was page number in Indic. In Hindi books, a lot of which are printed in Unicode Hindi, this problem is not there. The usual custom for a lot of books in Hindi is using page numbers in Roman. And so, the third problem was adding page numbers in Bangla, which we never could do, however hard we tried it in OOo. And we did not try things like Abiword or Kword as a word-processor because, we were so used to OOo, and everything about Bangla text can be done so easily with that. So, we list here another problem.
3. Page numbering in Bangla.
The package pdfjam, and a component of it, pdfnup solved the problem of bringing two logical pages into one physical page. But, problem 1, printing in mirror, and problem 3, page number in Bangla, remained. In fact, solving the problem 2 actually made problem 1 harder. Because till now, Arnab was importing page by page into some graphics package as a picture, and then flipping them horizontally. And this could not be done any more.
When we are making two pages side by side, and importing them into graphics software, the mirror flipping is being done with a pair and hence the order of the pages is changing. The order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is becoming 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5. And so, this did not work. We tried hard. We tried with transferring the whole page into graphics, and flipping that with Inkscape or Gimp or something. But none of them worked.
And at last, at late night, two days back, I came up with a solution, that solves both 1 and 2, though 3 remains, and Arnab or Dibakar are inserting them manually. I have a feeling that somewhere I have heard that 3 can be done in OOo, but none of us could find it out in help documents on OOo.
For this solution we are going to use OOo in the first place in creating the documents, and then applying pdfjam and 'convert' on that document. 'Convert' is a binary that is a part of the package ImageMagick.
Let me elaborate the process step by step, if it helps anybody doing it.
Step 1. Ensuring if the packages are available in the system.
OOo and ImageMagick and pdfjam were all available in Fedora repository, and I just installed them with yum. OOo is an omnipresent package in GNU-Linux distributions these days, so it is no problem. One will need to install ImageMagick and pdfjam on the system. 'Pdfjam' is small in itself but it uses 'pdflatex' in its backend, and so, this becomes a bit heavy an installation. 'ImageMagick' is also usually a regular part of a GNU-Linux distro.
Step 2. Creating and formatting the pages in OOo.
You will need to measure the physical sizes of a page, as it will happen in the book and provide this to OOo Format–>Page… window. Lke in our case, where we measured a similar book page with a scale and provided the measurements:
Paper format: User
Width: 14 cm.
Height: 21 cm.
Left, Right, Top, Bottom: 1.5 cm. each
Then we went to Header and Footer flap and set the measurements there.
Header: On
Header Spacing and Height: 0.3 cm. each
Footer: On
Footer Spacing and Height: 0.3 cm. each
So, now we got each page measuring 14×21cm. We now use the File –> Export to PDF… dialog to export this into a PDF, say test.pdf.
Step 3. Using 'convert' to transform the pages into images.
We issue the command 'convert test.pdf test.jpg' to do this. In this case it was an eleven page document. And so, we get eleven JPG images of the individual pages.
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
[dd@mamdo x]$ convert test.pdf test.jpg
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
test-0.jpg test-11.jpg test-2.jpg test-4.jpg test-6.jpg test-8.jpg test.pdf
test-10.jpg test-1.jpg test-3.jpg test-5.jpg test-7.jpg test-9.jpg
Now, we have to rename the images. 'Convert' names them from 0 to 11, but it will create problems later. Because it does not use two digits for the images from 0 to 9, this disturbs the order. As we can see in the list, images 1 to 9 are listed after images 10 and 11. But to renumber them, first we have to get rid of the 'test-' part before the number. And so, we do the usual bash thing to do this.
[dd@mamdo x]$ for i in *.jpg ; do mv $i ${i##test-}; done
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
0.jpg 10.jpg 11.jpg 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg 7.jpg 8.jpg 9.jpg test.pdf
So, now they are all just named in numbers, followed by the JPG suffix. Because they are numbered this way, with a wrong order among them, later, when we recompose them into a PDF, they will have a wrong order. So, to correct the order we have to add a 0 before all the single digit numbers. This we do with bash.
[dd@mamdo x]$ for i in ?.jpg ; do mv $i 0$i ; done
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
00.jpg 01.jpg 02.jpg 03.jpg 04.jpg 05.jpg 06.jpg 07.jpg 08.jpg 09.jpg 10.jpg 11.jpg test.pdf
Now, see, the order is restored among the files. They are listed in the regular number system way. This step is complete. Our PDF is now a series of page-pictures numbered properly.
Step 4. Getting the mirror images of the page-pictures.
For this we use 'convert' again. We employ bash again to pick every page-image individually and convert them into mirror image. 'Convert' does this with the '-flop' option. 'Convert' can also flip vertically, for that we use '-flip' option. Here we don't need that. Read 'man convert' for all the details. Now we tell bash to convert the images and name the mirror images with a 'mirror-' prefix added to their name.
[dd@mamdo x]$ for i in *.jpg ; do convert -flop $i mirror-$i ; done
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
00.jpg 03.jpg 06.jpg 09.jpg mirror-00.jpg mirror-03.jpg mirror-06.jpg mirror-09.jpg test.pdf
01.jpg 04.jpg 07.jpg 10.jpg mirror-01.jpg mirror-04.jpg mirror-07.jpg mirror-10.jpg
02.jpg 05.jpg 08.jpg 11.jpg mirror-02.jpg mirror-05.jpg mirror-08.jpg mirror-11.jpg
As we can see in the list, eleven mirror-images are there, created from the eleven page images. So, this step is complete. Now we get back our PDF from the mirror-images.
Step 5. Recomposing the page-images into a PDF
To do this we use 'convert' and bash shell. And we needed the naming order among the files for this step. If the order is not proper among the names of the files, then pages in the PDF will have a wrong order.
[dd@mamdo x]$ convert mirror-*.jpg mirror-test.pdf
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
00.jpg 03.jpg 06.jpg 09.jpg mirror-00.jpg mirror-03.jpg mirror-06.jpg mirror-09.jpg mirror-test.pdf
01.jpg 04.jpg 07.jpg 10.jpg mirror-01.jpg mirror-04.jpg mirror-07.jpg mirror-10.jpg test.pdf
02.jpg 05.jpg 08.jpg 11.jpg mirror-02.jpg mirror-05.jpg mirror-08.jpg mirror-11.jpg
All the mirror images had the 'mirror-' prefix added to them, and now used all the files with 'mirror-' prefix to create a new PDF with a 'mirror-' prefix. The difference between the original test.pdf and mirror-test.pdf is that, here all the pages will be in their respective mirror images.
Step 6. Bringing two logical pages into a single page.
Here we come to the final step. We use 'pdfnup' here, which is a part of the 'pdfjam' package to do this. But, first let us get rid of all the images in the directory, we don't need them any more.
[dd@mamdo x]$ rm *jpg
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
mirror-test.pdf test.pdf
[dd@mamdo x]$
So, we are now left with just the two PDF files. So we run 'pdfnup' now. We use some options with 'pdfnup'. They are quite easy to understand. Read 'pdfnup –help' for farther clarifications and other options.
[dd@mamdo x]$ pdfnup –nup 2×1 –frame false –paper a4paper –landscape mirror-test.pdf
pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.07.
pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults…
(none found)
pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam:
/usr/bin/pdfjam –suffix nup –nup '2×1′ –landscape –nup '2×1′ –frame 'false' –paper a4paper –landscape — mirror-test.pdf -
pdfjam: Calling pdflatex…
pdfjam: Finished. Output was to '/home/dd/Desktop/mirror/x/mirror-test-nup.pdf'.
[dd@mamdo x]$ ls
mirror-test-nup.pdf mirror-test.pdf test.pdf
The lines displayed by 'pdfnup' shows 'pdflatex' working in the background. So, now, the file that was created by 'pdfnup' and named as 'mirror-test-nup.pdf' is finally there that contains all the mirror images of the individual pages, in proper order, and two pages ready to be printed in a single physical piece of paper. Now check this new PDF with any reader like 'evince' or 'xpdf' to ensure that it's page number is half of the original. In this case it was six, while there were eleven pages in test.pdf.
So, our problems 1 and 2 are solved. But, still Arnab or Dibakar or I have to insert the Bangla page numbers manually. I call for help here from everyone concerned.


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Step one, grab a pair of dumbbells. Step two, crush this workout. Step 3, feel satisfied. At UFC GYM, we encourage you to come in for one of our awesome full-body workout classes any chance you get, but we also understand that sometimes we don't have enough time in the day to make it to the gym. But that's not an excuse to not workout. Stop making excuses, and start getting results by conquering this at-home, dumbbell only workout!
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