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That giant hissing sound we all heard Wednesday was the deflation of the rhetorical crime-out-of-control-in-New London balloon that had been blown up by critics of the mayor.
The city police union, in contract talks with the mayor's administration, has been fanning a public relations campaign this summer, suggesting that the city police force is understaffed and under police dogged.
One police union official even stood on the steps of City Hall to complain in front of a camera from a Hartford television station that the situation is not safe.
City Councilor Marie Friess-McSparran, a police union cheerleader and lead critic of the mayor, wrote a letter to the editor of The Day about crime saying, incredibly: "New London is in crisis!"
Never mind that the city's own statistics show crime is down. Never let the facts get in the way of a good slick scare campaign.
The balloon really got big after reports of an unsolved rape downtown in July.
City police, apparently leery from the start about the rape report, went ahead and investigated professionally. When asked by a reporter, they acknowledged the investigation, but also, wisely, chose not to alarm the public.
This week, police said their investigation concluded that a rape never happened. The woman reporting the crime recanted her statements and admitted she had consensual sex.
Conspiracists are clinging to the notion that a random, violent rape did indeed occur and that somehow the mayor is responsible. But most reasonable people this week got a clearer look at what's been going on and heard the hissing.
Watch now, too, for the results of an internal police investigation into leaks from the police department about details of the rape investigation. Evidently, while administrators were overseeing the rape investigation, others were busy leaking salacious and alarmist details about what turned out to be a big lie.
The biggest dupes for the rape story were the local hosts of a conservative Ledyard talk radio station, 94.9-FM News Now, who reported the details of the crime as a scoop.
Host Lee Elci actually played a tape of a loud siren on the air over and over one morning, warning listeners to stay out of New London.
J.B., the afternoon host and a former state policeman, shouted many of his long and frequent rants about the rape, saying the crime wave was going to leach out of New London into surrounding communities.
It is interesting to note the same radio station, pushing familiar conservative talking points, suggested people boycott advertisers in Rolling Stone because the magazine had published on its cover what they said was a flattering picture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
If I were a station advertiser, I would worry that people who care about New London and who resent inaccurate and alarmist attacks on the city's reputation might take the station up on its boycott advertisers idea.
Meanwhile, city voters should pay close attention to who has been pushing the high-crime agenda, one that does great harm to the city and its businesses.
Councilor Friess-McSparran, in the letter in which she railed about a rapist at large, making people scared, did get one thing right.
"New London must address these problems damaging its image," she wrote.
Yes indeed. And an election is coming.
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The Road to KDE 4: SVG Rendering in Applications
Since KDE 4 development is in full swing with plans for a KDE 4.0
Since many features are covered in personal blogs via the KDE Planet, I'll try to cover those that receive less public coverage, or need more public coverage.
The first thing I'd like to point out is that KDE 4 builds, installs, and runs well enough that I can test many of the ported KDE 3.x applications, and most of them are pretty stable. The real joys come when you look more closely at those improvements that are afforded by the changes in the base technologies. Today, I'll talk about one of the eyecandy features provided by Qt 4: SVG rendering in applications.
There are many other KDE applications reaping the benefits of SVG drawing to make them more pleasing, and more scalable. Check out some of these posts:
Today I'm going to focus on a handful of apps, providing before and after screenshots to compare the KDE 4 development version (pre-alpha stuff) to the existing KDE 3.5.5 equivalents.
To begin, I'll look at the KDE System Guard, a useful utility packed into KDE that you can pull up as 'ksysguard'. It does all sorts of neat things like display charts of memory and CPU usage, and a process table (also accessible via the Ctrl-Esc keyboard shortcut).
Here's how it looked in KDE 3.5.5:
And now, in the KDE 4 development series (the lines are antialiased, the graphs are translucent and the backgrounds are SVG):
As you can see, it is visually much improved from its current and very functional form.
Next we'll look at some of the diversions shipped in the kdegames package. KAtomic is a puzzle game. It's fun, semi-educational, and could definitely have used an image overhaul. Here it is in it's spartan KDE 3.5.5 glory:
And now, with much improved oxygen-style graphics in the development series:
KMahjongg ships in the kdegames package, and is a staple of puzzle gaming. Here it is from KDE 3.5.5 looking like a game that escaped from the
And now, with a much-improved SVG-powered tileset in the
And last but not least, is one of the more frequently used parts of KDE: the "Run Command" dialog (Alt-F2). Previously this:
Now, thanks to desktop interface guru Aaron Seigo, it's a SVG themable, really slick element of the Plasma desktop. Still a work in progress, but you'll get the idea from this screenshot.
Until next time folks, when I reveal yet another KDE 4 feature under development. Cheers.
Looks like the important Apps are ported first
Why browse and tag your Files when you can play a nice round mahjong :)
Lets add more games :) kate/konqueror/okular/plasma , who needs this :>>
seriously : The ksysguard and mahjong look awsome , alt-f2 and atomic need much more work/love :)
By chri at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Looks like the important Apps are ported first
Well, krunner (the new run dialog) is only a few weeks old... it works well enough, and we'll probably see it mature in the next few weeks (as it's really a very simple app anyway).
As for KAtomic, it'll get some love too... the SVG graphics are just preliminary at this point anyway. Notice how there's still shadows under the arrows there... it's because the arrows are just stolen toolbar icons so far.
The beauty of SVG though is that it can be very easily changed, themed, etc. without having to do much work (IE: no recompilations to fix a pixel).
By Troy Unrau at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Looks like the important Apps are ported first
yes, krunner is about 4-5 hours of work altogether so far including me sitting down and thinking about what i wanted it to do.. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Looks like the important Apps are ported first
i really liked the music when atomic came out on the Amiga.
that would be soo great
By chri at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks like the important Apps are ported first
scratch your itch :-)
By pascal at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks like the important Apps are ported first
I'm sure the KDE game devs would be very grateful if you would. Half the problem is getting in contact with the people authorized to make such a decision.
By Stephan Sokolow at Wed, 2007/02/07 - 6:00am
Video Shots ?
as kde gets more and more animations - What about Video-Shots , instead of Screenshots? Would be a nice addition for KSnapshot !
By chri at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Video Shots ?
Now, that's an _excellent_ idea. Talk about innovation!
By KubuntuUser at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Video Shots ?
Try wink
By gerd at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Oh wow, the new KMahJongg looks almost as good as the Gnome version....
By Caesar Tjalbo at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Mahjong
From the looks of it, they took the svgs from the gnome version. Im sure it will be improved further later on. I hope they make the two compatible though, so the two apps can continue to borrow tile sets from each other.
By drizek at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Mahjong
Actually the SVG tilesets used by Kmahjongg (and shared with KShisen) in KDE4 are original, contributed by Raquel Ravanini and Robert Buchholz. Due to our needs (angle switching) we needed to compose tile backgrounds and faces at runtime and have all elements separated in the SVG file, so these were drawn specifically to match what our games needed.
By Mauricio Piacentini at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Mahjong
I admit that the current GNOME Mahjongg looks better than the current KDE 3.5.5 Mahjongg. However, the KDE 4 Mahjonng with the SVG graphics makes the GNOME version look cartoonish. Take some screen clips, and compare the three side by side.
After seeing some of this stuff, I now believe that KDE 4 is going to be stunningly beautiful.
By gfranken at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Mahjong
nice thing is, the KDE version can change the orientation of the tiles with the g and h keys (if i'm not mistaken), and do that incredibly fast.
By superstoned at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Looks good, but...
...the question is: Does it render quickly enough, not to flicker, when the system is under load and you're resizing the window (without keeping a (in "advance" filled) cache, eating a large amount of memory)? Or do the minimal GPU requirements match Vista?
Hopefully there's at least a compatibility mode for people who don't want exchange a fast working system for 'bells and whistles' or feel forced to buy new hardware (or to choose another desktop)...
The minicli above looks much better.
By Carlo at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
SVG's can take a while to rerender when you resize the window.
I was thinking for ksysguard to just resize the cached image, with a, say, 500ms timer to rerender the svg once the user stops resizing. But I didn't think it was worth the effort. If people do care, then I could perhaps do that.
By John Tapsell at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
That (at X, Y, Z size prerendered) bitmaps of the SVG's would be scaled down (at best on GPU level) was the premise I had in mind. Just that you quickly run into the problem of large cache sizes, which are a PITA.
Hopefully everyone is keeping this in mind (rather a lot of small elements that get reused and are already cached, than each application "its" fat svg costume; prerendering and caching, incl. storing the cache on disk: Nothing is more annoying than having slow starting applications, because of svg elements being rendered - large bitmap loading might be slower though; aggregating multiple svg's in one file avoids seek times,...)
Scalable graphics are nice at development time, but at runtime with users noticing artifacts and slowdowns in milliseconds, there's no way to go without very smart bitmap caching.
>(At the moment it rerenders as you resize. This means it feels jerky as you resize.)
At the moment it doesn't matter. A 4.0 release with such a "feature" would be catastrophic.
By Carlo at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
Remains the question, why Xorg doesn't care about application provided vector graphics - especially when you think about remote desktops. But that's way off topic, I suppose. :)
By Carlo at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
xorg just lacks good SVG rendering acceleration. we'll have to wait a (long) while for that... it would solve the speed problem, tough.
btw here it's definitely not jerky, but outright slow. it takes approx a sec to resize the window. but imho that's better than being jerky, tough, it takes some time but doesn't flicker or something.
By superstoned at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
> btw here it's definitely not jerky, but outright slow. it takes approx a sec to resize the window. but imho that's better than being jerky, tough, it takes some time but doesn't flicker or something.
Well, even if Qt 4 does draw off-screen, avoiding flickering, and isn't as retard...err...90's with regards to threading as Qt 3.x - any user interface "stalling" is nowadays outright unacceptable, would be a very bad user experience and bad PR for KDE 4. Such "little" things count more, than a long feature list.
By Carlo at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
> SVG's can take a while to rerender when you resize the window.
That would totally s**k.
I have a similar problem with Beryl, I'm back to outline resizing because Beryl is too slow with resizes.
Would it be possible to precompile the SVG into something more efficient? This could be done on the fly when a SVG is changed.
Microsoft seams to be something something like that with their XAML format (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language). They compile it into BAML before it's used as resource. Like SVG, their XAML files can be created by a designer and used 1-on-1 by developers as application interface.
By Diederik at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
Parsing the XML is not the problem with resizing. I presume that Qt is sensible enough to only do that when the SVG is first loaded (although processing large quantities of XML is expensive to do and can adversely affect startup times which is presumably why Microsoft compiles XAML into another binary format).
The expensive part when resizing (I think) is drawing the complex polygons which were described by the SVG file and then filling them with all manner of gradients and transparencies.
Qt 4.3 includes some hefty improvements for rendering complex polygons, including making better use of OpenGL to cut down some of the work considerably. Zack Rusin's blog provides more details.
By Robert Knight at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
Qt reads in the xml and makes a kind of dom tree.
By John Tapsell at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
A strategy I used in scaling images like that before was using a bitmap of, say, max 200 pixels wide and scaling that up to give instantaneous feedback while scaling. A background thread would then render the svg in its full resolution and when its done it will be shown on screen.
Lets see if we can get that into kdelibs somehow ;)
By Thomas Zander at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
You want to know, but talk like you already know the answer (of course the answer is negative).
By Phase II at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: Looks good, but...
Are you serious?
By Kirk at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
krunner and options
I'm not convinced krunner really needs any options. The current run command dialog has:
(i) is practically never done, and (ii) should never have to be. Any app that requires root privs should launch with them. (iii) obviously doesn't need to be there; if you want it to run in the terminal, then run it in one. (iv) and (v) are [rarely-used] power-user features and I don't think they should be there.
By apokryphos at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
You use the word "should" three times. Developers: Please don't remove useful functionality based on how things "should" be!
Should not the "Cancel" button be removed? If the user does not intend to run a program, she should not press Alt-F2 in the first place.
That said, you do have a point that these options are probably rarely used, but that is IMHO already taken care of by hiding them under the "Options" button.
By crc at Tue, 2007/01/02 - 6:00am
"should" additional options go away? NO!!
I'm using each of the enumerated options no more than 4-5 times a year. I'm using [alt]+[f2] about 20 times a day *without* any options. That means, 99.7% of occurrences when ${me} is using [alt]+[f2] I'm happy with the most simplistic "dialog" you can ever imagine (I don't even notice the "Options >>", "Run" and "Cancel" buttons then -- I just hit [enter]... )
Do I therefore want the listed features go away? No, most certainly NO!, 'cause I still need and *use* one of them once a month or so....
Would I strongly oppose any move to scrap the "Options >>" button (or an obvious way to invoke a more feature-rich krunner) altogether? Hell, YES!, you can bet on that for sure.
Those new SVG capabilities do open a whole new universe of implementing lots of eyecandy as well as new usability features. (Though I expect no-one, developers or artists, to be able to find the correct balance in his first approach playing with his new SVG tools... be prepared to see also quite some creations that you do only like a week or a month and then be saturated...) I think this is a premier opportunity for KDE to draw a whole new layer of artists into its ranks, who will be excited to see what huge play- and creation-ground these things do offer to them.
By confused reader... at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should" additional options go away? NO!!
Indeed, as we are KDE and not GNOME
I like power user options to be accessible, not to be completely hidden from the (not so powerful) user.
By otherAC at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should" additional options go away? NO!!
Forgot to mention that I *did* notice the (very unobtrusive) "Options" link (not a button) in the screenshot of the new krunner above, and I'm happy to see it is still there.
I just did want to let a voice be heared that opposes these "fascist GUI purgers" (Linus Torvalds' expression) who do want to dictate users what they ought to have and what they ought to forego.
Of course, I'm not opposed to cleanse "cluttered" and "bloated" UI elements from the default views -- but please let me continue to get easy access to all of them should I so desire.
By confused reader... at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
That's a bit of a ridiculous argument. "Should" is simply an imperative, and even if you don't think or know it, it's used ALL the time. Should all our window decorations be red? No, they shouldn't.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore the configurability and extensibility of KDE, and I in no way want that to change. And re-organising things is certainly not that. And none of what you've said addresses the point.
You should *never* have to use the "run as root" option, and in fact that's even dangerous to new users. If the "run as new user" is actually being used then we should find a way to incorporate that, but there's no reason for why it should be in the very basic "run application" dialogue.
By apokryphos at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
"You should *never* have to use the "run as root" option, and in fact that's even dangerous to new users. If the "run as new user" is actually being used then we should find a way to incorporate that, but there's no reason for why it should be in the very basic "run application" dialogue."
No. You simply don't see a reason to use it, while I can imagine a lot of occasions in which I want to run application X sometimes as root, sometimes not, and *I* want to decide it (not the application).
Who are you to decide what I should have and don't have to use?
By devicerandom at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
I hate "facist GUI purgers" too.
purging GUIs is as stupid as swapping Ok/Cancel buttons to differenciate from windows forgetting in the meantime that some users may required to run both windows and gnome and thus leading to many mistakes.
This to illustrate that when the programmer decides for the end-user he can never think to the whole impact of his decision and thus, this always lead to reduced ergonomy.
Emacs succeeded because it was flexible and feature rich. Think about that when removing features.
By Olivier. at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
By all means, no one dictates how you should use Linux. That's freedom for you ;-). If you want to decide for *yourself* then write your own software.
"I hate GUIs that requires a registry editor..."
"as stupid as swapping Ok/Cancel"
As for "when the programmer decides for the end-user" -- the programmer is always deciding for the end user when they write their program. Simple as. You have to draw the line somewhere.
By Cerulean at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
>If you want a more powerful way of executing applications you're most probably a power user
"GUI fascists" see users black and white , i. e. either completely stupid and scared or so advanced as to work with registry/command line. But you excluded! a whole lot of users who are not at all afraid about extra 30 options in configuration dialogs, but either cannot edit registries/cmdline or have no time to find out what/where/how to do it.
As for swapping the OK/Cancel buttons - nobody thought that you saved little mouse movement, but overloaded my user brain with thinking much more about what button to press, as users you know have habits, and you broke them. It seems to me that some stupid manager/designer decided this, and other people don't see, that king is naked..
By Sergey at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
well, it is really a lot easier to press ok in GNOME, when one gets acustomed to it.
By pilpilon at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
people may switch back to Windows long before the time will come,
By Sergey at Fri, 2007/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
It is hilarious how commenters accuse people of "GUI fascists" while at the same time making incredibly harsh generalisations themselves.
There are tradeoffs. Sometimes less is more and sometimes less is just less. Gnome doesn't always get things right but no one ever claimed KDE was perfect.
Gnome and KDE will continue to improve and bounce in and out from the happy medium.
I wont go into the button order thing but it isn't an arbitrary decision and Apple did it long before Gnome. QT 4.2 makes it even easier for developers to integrate applications with whichever button order users prefer, hopefully GTK will also improve the work they have done so far to allow alternative button ordering.
By Lessismoreisless at Fri, 2007/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
I think the best way to address mentioned tradeoffs is to make in applications menu two choices "Options" and "Advanced Options"(which would have "set all to default" button). Clueless users won't go to "Advanced options" . Those who shooted themselves in the foot will just press "set all default" in "advanced options".
By Sergey at Sun, 2007/01/07 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
"Emacs succeeded because it was flexible and feature rich."
Yes and no. Read about Emacs
Emacs was forked and replaced by the more user friendly X-Emacs which succeeded because it was more user friendly and gave more people what they wanted (although you could chose to interpret that user friendliness as "more features" if you wanted).
Dont underestimate the power of broader appeal and I think the parent post was pointing at that with better defaults and asking the right questions in the right places for less options would be needed. If the user was prompted for root passwords when needed then wouldn't it be possible to combine both run as root and run as other user?
By Lessismoreisless at Fri, 2007/01/05 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
All very nice and vague until you back up an actual use-case. Which X application do you need to run as root; and, do you know of a user that doesn't know about kdesu who runs these applications as root?
If there's a case, then tell me; I'd genuinely like to know. I actually started off just wondering if we really do need them. See my first post; I only said that I'm not yet convinced. I think the argument raised here that running an application as a different user (with the example of kmail) is a valid use-case, and perhaps makes the option quite worthy.
> Who are you to decide what I should have and don't have to use?
I'm not a KDE developer but, believe it or not, users can still have opinions on how an application should function. There's nothing controversial in this; see bugs.kde.org -- they're all cases of users proposing that an application doesn't function in the appropriate way. Do you think that's unreasonable?
By apokryphos at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
There are cases where the application does not have the ability to prompt the user for a root password.
Just because a user want to run a program as root doesn't mean the program always should run in root. There for its not a good idea for the program to automatically prompt the user.
How often does one have to do this, perhaps not too often. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't have that ability. having that ability doesn't clutter up anything nor does it make it run slower or not do a good job at what it does.
By Stephen at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
> There are cases where the application does not have the ability to prompt the user for a root password.
Very wrong, in fact. It's the distribution's fault if it ships with an application that requires root privs and yet still doesn't open with kdesu or gksu when being launched.
> Lets say I wanted to edit a text file. I don't want to open the file using kate or kwrite, as with a different user as it could take longer to open and if they are not configured it could create a backup file which I don't want. I want to use a console based text editor, and the file I need to edit isn't owned by me.
Again, wrong. Right-click -> edit as root is a very valid option. See my other post for why I think this is the method that a new user would choose.
By apokryphos at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
But in that case, the RMB gets duplicated entries for each app able to edit that kind of file. That causes uglyness.
By Roberto Alsina at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
Exactly, good point.
And not to mention you have to open Konqueror, navigate to /path/to/ and then RMB on the file. Which is rather different to the whole concept of using alt+f2 in the first place.
By Morty at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
So you check if the user can write to the file.
(and you could then name just them both 'edit')
By David at Mon, 2007/01/29 - 6:00am
Re: "should"
>Very wrong, in fact. It's the distribution's fault if it ships with an
No, it's you thats wrong. This is not a thing for the distribution or developers to decide, it's for the user to decide if root privs is needed when running the application. You use it for applications you sometimes run as root, but mostly don't. The deleopers or distributions have no way to decide if the user want's it with kdsu or not.
In a menu they can do it, like with kfm(Konqi in filamnager mode) where you have one entry for normal and one for starting it as root. But this does not fit in the concept and use of alt+F2. The whole point is to *not* use a menu and *not* right clik on files etc.
By Morty at Thu, 2007/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: krunner and options
>>I'm not convinced krunner really needs any options.
Then stay away from the [options] button in krunner :o)
(i) i use that to start the e-mail application of my SO
By otherAC at Wed, 2007/01/03 - 6:00am
Re: krunner and options
(i) granted, but this doesn't suggest that the application couldn't be perhaps put elsewhere. I'm not sure where yet myself. A strong point against my argument, sure. But to address a few of the others:
(ii) please give me an example of the said application.
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Today, the natural resources on Hardangervidda are very valuable for the surrounding villages.
Hardangervidda National Park was established in 1981. It differs from other Norwegian national parks because it has been used a great deal by local people, has many buildings and much privately owned land. Consequently, people use motorized vehicles to harvest resources like fish and game, to upkeep buildings and to run lodges and huts for hikers and skiers. Large flocks of sheep graze Hardangervidda each summer. Both locals and tourists come to Hardangervidda to fish and hunt, as a source of food or recreation.
Hardangervidda is a barren, treeless mountain plateau at 1100-1200 metres (3600-3900 feet) elevation, with lakes, moors, rivers and streams. There are significant differences between the west side, which is dominated by rocky terrain and expanses of bare rock, and the east side, which is much flatter and more heavily vegetated. The prominent peak of Hårteigen 1,690 m (5,545 ft) is visible across much of the plateau.
About 550 million years ago, the plateau was submerged. Gradually a sheet of rock drifted over the seabed, was compressed, folded and rose from the sea. What is now Western Norway rose the most, and greater erosion created deeper valleys, fjords and steeper mountains than in the east. Glaciers and melting ice at the end of the last ice age chiselled out the landscape we see today.
Flora and fauna[edit]
The whole of the Hardangervidda is above the tree line. Its alpine climate enables the presence of many species of arctic animals and plants further south than anywhere else in Europe.
Norway is, for all intents and purposes, the only country in Europe with remaining vestigial populations of the original wild mountain reindeer. Wild reindeer need Hardangervidda. The 9000 wild reindeer (2009) here make up more than a quarter of all the wild reindeer in Norway. The large, continuous unspoiled area makes Hardangervidda particularly attractive to wild reindeer. Because the herds migrate between seasonal pastures and calving areas over the course of the year, they need a wide area. Wild reindeer are at their most vulnerable on the winter pasture and in the calving season in May.
The flat landscape with its numerous lakes and wetlands distinguishes Hardangervidda from other mountainous areas in southern Norway. Trout is the most common fish. The largest populations of many kinds of ducks and other wetland species in southern Norway, live here. The breeding populations of black-throated divers, scaups, velvet scoters, common scoters, dotterels, Temminck's stints, great snipes and shore larks are particularly valuable.
The climate is considerably wetter on the west side than on the east. At any time of year, be prepared for sudden changes. The weather in Hardangervidda National Park can change very rapidly from sunny and warm to cold and rainy or even snowy, so it's important to bring along extra layers of clothing, like wool underwear and wind- and waterproof outerwear. For most people, late spring, summer and fall are the best times of year to visit Hardangervidda. Easter skiing across Hardangervidda is also popluar, but is recommended for experienced skiers only. The winter storms can be challenging even for polar explorers like Amundsen. Many of the villages and cities surrounding Hardangervidda are popular all year round destinations.
Get in[edit]
There are a lot of gateways to Hardangervidda national park. Gateway cities and villages are Odda and Eidfjord in the Hardanger region and the mountain destinations Geilo, Uvdal, Rjukan, Rauland, Haukelifjell and Røldal.
By air[edit]
Hardangervidda is a 2-3 hours drive from the major airports. The closest major airports are Bergen Airport (2 1/2 hours drive to Eidfjord), Oslo Airport Gardermoen [1] (3 1/2 hours drive to Rjukan), Oslo Airport Torp in Sandefjord (3 hours drive to Rauland), and Haugesund Airport (2 hours drive to Odda).
By car[edit]
From Oslo to Hardangervidda by car 1) E 18 from Oslo to Drammen. From Drammen, follow E134 to Notodden. From here you can follow rv. 361 and rv. 37 to Rjukan, or continue on E134 to Åmot in Telemark and then take rv. 37 to Rauland. 2) E18 from Oslo to Sandvika. From Sandvika you take E16 to Hønefoss and from Hønefoss you follow rv. 7 to Geilo.
From Bergen to Hardangervidda by car E16 to Voss and then rv. 13 to Granvin. You then continue on rv. 7 to Eidfjord and then drive to Geilo. You can also start exploring Hardangervidda from Ulvik and Kinsarvik/Ullensvang.
You can drive to the gateways and see the mountain plateau from your car, but there are no public roads for driving inside the national park border.
By train[edit]
From Oslo to Hardangervidda by train You can take the train from Oslo to Bø in Telemark. From there you can catch "Haukeliekspressen" to Rauland. You can also take the Bergen Railway from Oslo to a number of places that are great starting points for exploring Hardangervidda – Myrdal, Finse, Haugastøl, Ustaoset and Geilo.
From Bergen to Hardangervidda by train The Bergen Railway stops at number of places that are great starting points for exploring Hardangervidda – Myrdal, Finse, Haugastøl, Ustaoset and Geilo. You can also take the train to Voss and a bus from Voss to Eidfjord.
For train timetables, see [2]
By bus[edit]
From Oslo to Hardangervidda by bus Take "Haukeliekspressen" to Haukeli or take the bus to Geilo or Rjukan – both good starting points for exploring Hardangervidda.
From Bergen to Hardangervidda by bus Take the bus from Bergen to Voss. From Voss catch a bus to Eidfjord.
For bus timetables, see [3]
There are no public roads for driving inside the national park border, and no entrance fees to get in to the national park.
You need to buy permits to go fishing or hunting on Hardangervidda. Children under 16 years fish for free. Because more than half of Hardangervidda is owned by private land owners, there is no common fishing permit for all the lakes on Hardangervidda. But there are some common fishing permits for larger areas, like the Hardangervidda west, the Hardangervidda east, Vinjes part of Hardangervidda, Ullensvang, and Møsvatn permits. A 24hour fishing permit ranges from 50 to 70 NOK, and a week permit from 100 to 300 NOK (2010). You can buy the permits at the tourist information offices, cabins, hotels and lodges in the area close to your favourite lake, or go to [4](this site is in Norwegian).
Get around[edit]
By car[edit]
Driving Hardangervidda National Park Route [5] is a great way to experience the scenery around Hardangervidda. Drive further, from fjell to fjord on E 134 over Haukelifjell and continue on rv 13 to Hardanger with Odda, Eidfjord and further on rv 7 over Hardangervidda to Geilo, along the national tourist route [6]. This must be the ultimate Hardangervidda driving experience with fjords, Vøringfossen and mountains in 2-3 days.
You can drive to the gateways and see the mountain plateau from your car, but there are no public roads for driving inside the national park border. This is where you can get close to the national park by car: - Route 7 across Hardangervidda; several convenient stops and branch roads to the national park. - Route 40 from Nore and Uvdal to Geilo, several stopping places and branch roads to the national park. - Route 364 to Tinn Austbygd, branch off to Breisetdalen and park at Stegaros or Synken; boat across Mårvatnet from Synken to Mårbu. - Route 37 to Skinnarbu by Møsvatn and continue on the boat Fjellvåken to the lodge at Mogen. - E 134 from Haukeli to Jøsendal, several stops and branch roads to the national park. - The route from Jøsendal to Brimnes, several stops and branch roads to the national park.
On foot[edit]
Once you get out of your car and set your feet on the great mountain plains, the best way of getting around is hiking, skiing, cycling and horsebackriding. You have to hike some hours to get into the national park, depending on which gateway you choose. Try the extensive network of hiking trails and cabins offered by The Norwgian Trekking Association [7]. Cycling is only allowed on a few tractor roads inside the national park, but you can still experience Hardangervidda on bicycle. Try the famous Rallarvegen [8], or cycling from Rjukan to Kalhovd [9]
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East: Geilo and Uvdal[edit]
South: Rjukan, Rauland, Haukelifjell and Røldal[edit]
Austbygde, (38 km northeast of Rjukan). Austbygde is a small, charming village with a beautiful rural landscape and great views of lake Tinnsjøen. edit
Rjukan, (175 km northwest of Oslo). In the early 20th century, the Norsk Hydro and the industry arrived and changed life in Vestfjorddalen dramatically. Between 1907 and 1920, the farms of Bøen and Saaheim were transformed into the town of Rjukan. The population increased from 369 to over 9,000 in 20 years.Norsk Hydro commissioned Norway's leading engineers and architects to design the entire town. Rjukan is home to Vemork, where famous saboteurs destroyed 500 kg of heavy water during 2nd world war. Today, about 3300 people live in the small town, which is applying for UESCO World Heritage status. edit
Gaustatoppen, (15 km from Rjukan). Gaustatoppen is 1883 m elevation and one of Norway's most majestetic mountains. You can admire it from a distance on your way to Rjukan or one of the villages nearby. You can also do like 25 000 others do each year: Climb it. It will take you about 5 hours both ways. You will get your reward on the top, where you can see one fith of Norway on a sunny day. edit
Krossobanen, (2,5 km from Rjukan town centre). In the depths of the valley, Rjukan is overshadowed by Gaustatoppen throughout the winter. Since 1925 the townsfolk have celebrated the sun's return in March with Solfesten, a lively carnival. Why shouldn't these sunstarved people enjoy easy access to some winter sun? In 1928, Norsk Hydro granted them their wish, opening the Krossobanen, a 5-minute aerial tramway ride into the mountains. Today, you can ride the "sunshine car" up to Hardangervidda daily all year round, and enjoy the magnificent view of the valley and Gaustatoppen. edit
West: Hardanger with Odda, Ullensvang and Eidfjord[edit]
North: rv 7 over Hardangervidda[edit]
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Fagerheim Fjellstugu, (in the middle of Hardangervidda, next to road 7). Has road access throughout the year. 1,170 m, you can gaze across a glittering mountain lake and enjoy fantastic views in all directions – not least towards the impressive Hardangerjøkulen glacier. Recently restored mountain lodge with pleasant common rooms, a fireplace and bedrooms with a touch of nostalgia. No en suite rooms, and no whirlpool baths! Separate showers for men and women. 20 rooms/55 beds. You will not have to share with people you do not know. If you have a dog, it is welcome to stay in your room. Weekly rentals of brand new luxury apartments with panoramic views of Hardangerjøkulen. Mountain café during the Easter holidays and over the summer. You will be served decent, hearty, well-made food, with no frills. We made good use of what nature has to offer and our meals include trout from the surrounding waters, as well as game, mushrooms and berries from nature's larder. You may not be able to choose from a ten-course menu, but a good filling meal of traditional food. Fully licensed. edit
East: Geilo and Uvdal[edit]
South: Rjukan, Rauland, Haukelifjell and Røldal[edit]
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text: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Team-based Care Improves Patient Control of Blood Pressure Patients' control of blood pressure improved when their care was provided by a team of health care professionals—a primary care provider supported by a pharmacist, nurse, dietitian, social worker, or community health worker—rather than by a single physician, says the Community Preventive Services Task Force following a review of 77 studies on team-based care. The task force is an independent, nonfederal, uncompensated body of public health and prevention experts, whose members are appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The collection of studies showed that team-based care helped increase the proportion of patients with controlled blood pressure, led to a decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and improved outcomes in patients who had diabetes and elevated blood lipids. Team members supplemented the activities of the primary care provider by providing support and sharing responsibility for hypertension care. Support and responsibility included medication management, patient follow-up, and helping the patient adhere to his or her blood pressure control plan, including monitoring blood pressure routinely, taking medications as prescribed, reducing sodium in the diet, and increasing physical activity, says the task force. Team-based care is a central pillar of the Million Hearts initiative, launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in September 2011. Million Hearts is a national, public-private initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over 5 years. The initiative is aligned with the Healthy People 2020 goal to reduce the number of people in the US with high blood pressure. Blood pressure control is 1 of 4 health behaviors targeted by the initiative—the others are aspirin as appropriate, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation. Many opportunities and challenges are on the horizon for physical therapists as organizations attempt to eliminate health care silos and integrate patient care. In an effort to prepare physical therapists for health care integration, APTA has produced a video series that highlights innovative clinical practice models and the roles that physical therapists can play in today's health care environment. The videos and accompanying handouts can help physical therapists gain insight and inspiration as they look for ways to become involved in new models of care delivery.


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Stanczyk mused recently upon a few of the NAMEs in my genealogy:
Bębel, Elijasz, Guła, Leszczyński, Kędzierski, Wątroba, Wleciał, Biechów, Pacanów, Żabiec
If you want to write Elijasz (or any of its variants) you are golden. But each of the other names require a diacritic (aka diacritical mark). Early on, I had to drop the diacritics, because I did not have computer software to generate these characters (aka glyphs). So my genealogy research and my family tree were recorded in ASCII characters. For the most part that is not a concern unless you are like John Rys and trying to find all of the possibly ways your Slavic name can be spelled/misspelled/transliterated and eventually recorded in some document and/or database that you will need to search for. Then the import becomes very clear. Also letters with an accent character (aka diacritic) sort differently than letters without the diacritic mark. For years, I thought Żabiec was not in a particular Gazetteer I use, until I realized there was a dot above the Z and the dotted-Z named villages came after all of the plain Z (no dot) villages and there was Żabiec many pages later! The dot was not recorded in the Ship Manifest, nor in a Declaration of Intent document. So I might not have found the parish so easily that Żabiec belongs to. I hope you are beginning to see the import of recording diacritics in your family tree.
The rest of my article today teaches you how to do this. Mostly we are in a browser, surfing the 'net, in all its www glory. After my "liberal indoctrination" (aka #RootsTech 2012), I have switched browsers to Google's Chrome (from Mozilla Firefox) browser. Now I did this to await the promised "microdata" technology that will improve my genealogical search experience. I am still waiting, Mr Google !!! But while I am waiting, I did find a new browser extension that I am rather fond of that solves my diacritical problem: Virtual Keyboard Interface 1.45. I just double-click in a text field and a keyboard pops-up:
Just double-click on a text field, say at Ancestry.com . Notice the virtual keyboard has a drop down (see "Polski"), so I could have picked Русский (for Russian) if I was entering Cyrillic characters into my family tree.
But I want to keep using my browser … OK! Now I used to prepare an MS Word document or maybe a Wordpad document with just the diacriticals I need (say Polish, Russian, and Hebrew) then I can cut & paste them from that editor into my browser or computer application as needed — a bit tedious and how did I create those diacritical characters anyway?
I use Character Map in Windows and Character Palette -or- Keyboard Viewer on the MAC:
Now if I use one of these Apps, then I can forgo the Wordpad document ( of special chars. ) altogether and just copy / paste from these to generate my diacritical characters.
What I would like to see from web 2.0 pages and websites is what Logan Kleinwaks did on his WONDERFUL GenealogyIndexer.org website. Give us a keyboard widget like Logan's, please ! What does a near perfect solution look like …
Logan has thoughtfully provided ENglish, HEbrew, POlish, HUngarian, ROmanian, DEutsche (German), Slavic, and RUssian characters. Why is it only nearly perfect? Logan, may I please have a SHIFT (CAPITAL) key on the BKSP / ENTER line for uppercase characters? That's it [I know it is probably a tedious bit of work to this].
Beyond ASCII ?
The title said beyond Ascii. So is everything we have spoken about. Ascii is a standard that is essentially a typewriter keyboard, plus the extra keys (ex. Backspace, Enter, Ctrl-F, etc.) that do special things on a computer. So what is beyond Ascii? Hebrew characters (ℵ), Chinese/Japanese glyphs (串), Cyrillic (Я), Polish slashed-L (Ł), or Dingbats (❦ – Floral Heart). You can now enter of these beyond ascii characters (UNICODE) in any program with the above suggestions.
Programmer Jargon – others proceed with caution …
The above are all UNICODE character sets. UTF-8 can encode all of the UNICODE characters (1.1 Million so far) in nice and easy 8bit bytes (called octets — this is why UTF-8 is not concerned with big/little endianess). In fact, UTF-8's first 128 characters is an exact 1:1 mapping of ASCII making ascii a valid UNICODE characters set. In fact, more than half of all web pages out on the WWW ('Net) are encoded with UTF-8. Makes sense that our gedcom files are too! In fact UTF-8 can have that byte-order-mark (BOM) at the front of our gedcom or not and it is still UTF-8. In fact the UTF-8 standard prefers there be no byte order mark [see Chapter 2 of UNICODE] at the beginning of a file. So please FamilySearch remove the BOM from the GEDCOM standard.
If FamilySearch properly defines the newline character in the gedcom grammar [see Chapter 5, specifically 5.8 of UNICODE] then there is nothing in the HEAD tag that would be unreadable to a program written in say Java (which is UTF-16 capable to represent any character U+0000 to U+FFFF) unless there is an invalid character which then makes the gedcom invalid. Every character in the HEAD tag is actually defined within 8bit ascii which can be read by UTF-8 and since UTF-8 can read all UNICODE encodings you could use any computer language that is at least UTF-8 compliant to read/parse the HEAD tag (which has the CHAR tag and its value that defines the character set). Everything in the HEAD tag, with the exception of the BOM is within the 8bit ascii character set. Using UTF-8 as a default encoding to read the HEAD will work even if there is a BOM.


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The Environmental Working Group is a popular site for research into ingredients and skin care products. They maintain a database called Skin Deep that ranks products and ingredients with a health score. 0 is safest. However, there are known problems with the submission process and rankings of products. For example, at time of writing, a search on "Clove" returns a huge number of clove based ingredients with health rankings from 0 to 8. EUGENOL, which is 85% of clove oil gets a 7-8 rank, whereas EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLUS (CLOVE) ESSENTIAL OIL is ranked a 0.
Inconsistencies exist for product rankings as well – a Walgreens sunscreen lotion with ingredient scores ranging from 0 thru 9 is give an overall 3 ranking. A Dr Hauschka all natural sunscreen with 1 ingredient ranking 8 (Fragrance – from essential oils), is ranked 7 overall. In light of these issues, Lavera is only selectively, and slowly submitting products.
Despite these issues, EWG & Skin Deep still provide an excellent resource for those wanting to learn more about skin care related health issues and ingredient concerns. In addition, the EWG is an excellent advocate for consumer health and safety.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics was founded by the EWG, the Breast Cancer Fund and others as an advocacy for women's health. It has conducted a number of great studies and does an excellent job to raise awareness and effect change in the skin care industry. A read of their press releases is extremely educational! Also check out some of the studies they produced – for example "A Poison Kiss: The Problem of Lead in Lipstick".
Lavera is one of the early signors of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.


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Programming Without Variables
Last week, I discussed two different philosophies of programming-language design. One philosophy is that programming languages exist in order to grant convenient access to computer hardware; the other is that a programming language should make it easy to write programs, and that the computer's job is then to execute those programs.
I used mathematical notation as an example. In general, mathematicians use a particular name to denote a single value in a particular context. The common notion in programming that a name denotes a "variable," which might have one value at one time and another value at another time, is generally absent from mathematical notation.
As an example, I posed a problem: Rewrite the following C function so that a name denotes only a single value at any given time:
unsigned collatz(unsigned n) { assert(n != 0); unsigned count = 0; while (n != 1) { if (n % 2 == 0) n /= 2; else n = 3 * n + 1; ++count; } return count; }
Several readers proposed solutions; the most straightforward of which is the one by reader Nons:
unsigned rcollatz(unsigned n) { assert(n != 0); if (n == 1) return 0; else if (n % 2 == 0) return 1 + rcollatz(n / 2); else return 1 + rcollatz(3 * n + 1); }
This is an example of replacing an iterative strategy by a divide-and-conquer strategy. The general idea of the latter is that you solve a simple case of the problem, and then you solve the more complicated cases by finding a way to reduce that more complicated case to one or more simpler cases.
Although the idea of replacing iteration by divide-and-conquer is straightforward to explain, it has a pragmatic disadvantage: Programming languages typically have to store in memory the chain of function calls currently being executed, which means that each trip through this "loop" consumes memory to keep track of those calls. In other words,
rcollatz needs an amount of memory proportional to its result in order to run.
There is an alternate, somewhat more complicated, technique to translate a function with a loop into a recursive function that does not change any variables. It takes advantage of the fact that it is usually possible for a compiler to translate a tail recursion into a jump instruction. A tail recursion is a recursive call that is used immediately as the function's result. So, for example, the statement
return 1 + rcollatz(n / 2);
does not involve a tail recursion because after
rcollatz returns, its result is used as an operand of +. If, on the other hand, we were to write
return rcollatz(n / 2);
that call would be a tail recursion.
Here is how to replace a loop by a function that uses only tail recursion:
- Identify every variable with a value that changes during the loop.
- Define an auxiliary function with one parameter for each of the variables identified in (1).
- Replace the loop with a tail-recursive call that uses the new values of the variables.
- Replace the original function with a call to the auxiliary function with the appropriate initial values for the variables.
In the case of
collatz, step (1) should identify the variables
n and
count. Steps (2) and (3) yield the following auxiliary function:
unsigned collatz_aux(unsigned n, unsigned count) { if (n == 1) return count; else if (n % 2 == 0) return collatz_aux(n / 2, count + 1); else return collatz_aux(3 * n + 1, count + 1); }
Step (4) then gives us the following tail-recursive version of
unsigned trcollatz(unsigned n) { assert(n != 0); return collatz_aux(n, 0); }
What we have learned so far is that, at least for this function, it is possible to rewrite it so that its "variables" never actually vary, and with a little effort and a reasonable compiler, it is possible to do so while maintaining the program's speed.
However, there's a problem, which we can see if we change the original program specification: Instead of returning the number of steps needed to reach 1 from a given input, suppose we want to return the entire sequence of values reached during the Collatz process. We can write that program iteratively as follows:
vector<unsigned> collatz_vec(unsigned n) { assert(n != 0); vector<unsigned> result; while (n != 1) { result.push_back(n); if (n % 2 == 0) n /= 2; else n = 3 * n + 1; } return result; }
If we try to write this program recursively using the technique we mentioned earlier, we find that each recursive call passes the entire
result array as an argument. As a result, the program's runtime will be quadratic in the number of iterations — hardly a happy state of affairs. In effect, the whole idea of an array is built on being able to change part of it, and if we intend to avoid changing memory once we have put values into it, we need another kind of data structure entirely. Next week, we'll look at what such a data structure might be.


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For the large majority of Chubb customers who insure their art collections with us, art is a passion, and those who love art buy what they like. Still, more people are looking to art and other collectibles as a relatively stable place to invest their money.
While Chubb does not offer investment advice, we will advise customers about how they can protect their collections, whether it is art, jewelry, fine furniture, classic cars or whatever they have a passion for. That, of course, goes beyond the insurance policy, but I will touch on some key loss-prevention tips later in this blog.
The emotional aspect of buying art still ranks as the most important motivation for collecting, according to a 2011 Deloitte/ArtTactic Report, with 97% of the collectors surveyed mentioning this as one of their primary motivations. However, 49% of art collectors are also strongly driven by investment returns, and a further 39% see art as a key component in their portfolio diversification strategy, according to the report.
Insurance broker Sandra Berlin has witnessed this firsthand. A senior VP at Willis in Chicago, Berlin has been working in the personal and commercial art insurance world for more than 20 years and has helped place insurance for individuals who own hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art.
"A certain percentage of art collectors do it for investment," she admits. "But for most, they purchase art as a passion. They enjoy both the aesthetic and intellectual aspects of their art collections. Often collectors build a great deal of knowledge about the art that they collect."
Still, she adds, those who have the means to afford a sizeable fine art collection are not foolhardy with their money. "No one wants to collect art at a high level and lose money on their investment."
The Ups and Downs of the Art Market
The art market, like the stock market, has experienced cycles of boom and bust. There was a boom in the mid-1980s, when Impressionist and post-Impressionist works soared in value, then a meltdown between 1990 and 1992, when prices fell more than 44%. The market did not return to sustained growth until 1998. The global art market, including auctions and private sales, grew 95% between 2002 and 2006, from $25.3 million to $54.9 million. The art market peaked in 2007, but the collapse of the financial markets in 2008 precipitated a sharp decline. From October 2008 through September 2009, art sales declined by more than $30 billion.
As the financial markets gradually solidified in 2010, art buyers started coming back. In February 2010, Giacometti's Walking Man sold at Sotheby's for $104.3 million, a record price for art sold at auction. Three months later, Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, sold at Christie's for $106.5 million. Last spring the record for the most expensive work sold at auction was broken when Edvard Munch's The Scream sold at Sotheby's for $119.9 million.
In addition to auction houses, the private art market has been growing in recent years largely because of the rising number of art fairs and auction houses increasing their private sales. The growing popularity of art websites like Paddle8 and Artsy, which make middle-market art widely accessible, may drive growth in this sector.
Art as a Value Investment
Berlin said one of the keys to insuring and protecting an art collection is understanding the value of the art and how those values can change over time. Berlin was an English major in college with a minor in art history and worked as an appraiser before starting her career in insurance.
Several factors help determine the value of a piece of art, including rarity, condition, medium and supply, among others.
If an artist has a small body of work and his pieces don't come to auction frequently, this can drive up prices. The condition of a piece can significantly affect value, which is why collectors need to get appraisals done in person rather than through a photograph.
Oil paintings are generally the most expensive medium, and limited edition prints can have greater value. A limited supply also drives up value. There are not as many top quality Impressionist and Old Master works on the market, because most are now in museum collections. Finally, a strong provenance—the history of the ownership of a piece—can increase prices.
Protecting the Collection
Those starting an art collection, especially if they view it as an investment, need to be vigilant about protecting and insuring their art.
Although breakage is the most obvious form of damage, fingerprints etched into highly polished metal surfaces, smudged pigments, torn canvases, and pulled or torn textile fibers can all reduce the value of art. Theft is another concern for art collectors. The FBI estimates that $6 billion worth of art is stolen each year, and 90% of stolen works are never recovered.
I won't go into details about protecting art—we have people at Chubb who have far greater expertise than me on the subject and, besides, we list a number of useful tips online. If you're wondering if your art is well protected, call your insurance agent today and request an assessment from your insurer.
Berlin said many of her art insurance customers have curators who will help manage their collections, and others experts who catalogue the works. Even those with smaller collections often rely on the advice of the dealers they've worked with, she said.
One advantage to investing in the art market, unlike the stock market, is that you can insure your investment. Selecting an insurer that specializes in insuring art is critical. To make sure you have enough insurance to protect your collection, you should have the art appraised regularly.
Whether you view your art as a passion or an investment, it is important to make sure it is protected.


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Cut grocery bills with these 15 tips
Keep money in your pocket, food in your cart
A grocery budget can get out of control fast, so it pays to be frugal. Without proper planning, an extra $100 or more can disappear from a monthly budget very quickly.
Here are some tips to help save some cash, along with some sanity, at the grocery store.
1. Don't shop for groceries when you are hungry.
It's just common sense, right? And yet, it's the most important thing when it comes to saving money and staying under budget at the grocery store. Going to the grocery store hungry will make everything look good, and therefore a necessity, causing you to spend more money than you should. Have a snack before you go, and your budget will be happier.
2. Always make a list.
Creating lists will not only help ensure that you don't find yourself back at the grocery store three days later because you forgot to get some eggs, but they will also lead you to exact points of the grocery store for the items that you need and help you to bypass the impulse items that you really don't need. Focus on the list and try not to diverge from it.
Along the same lines, try to cut the number of visits you make to the grocery store. Instead of shopping twice a week, shop for two weeks' worth of groceries at a time.
Why? One study says the average U.S. consumer spends more than $10 on impulse buys every trip to the supermarket. By cutting trips from twice a week to once every two weeks, you can save more than $500 a year on your bill and still get every item on your list.
3. See what's on sale.
Visit your favorite supermarket online before you head out and see what's on sale. You can often get great deals on items like low-sodium chicken broth. The American Dietetic Association suggests that since these have a long shelf life, you might as well stock up. Every week, check the frozen vegetable section and buy what's on sale so you always have a variety of mixed vegetables in the freezer.
4. Take a calculator.
Having a calculator allows you to keep a running count on how much you have left in your grocery budget. Remember to account for sales tax. Rounding up the prices to the nearest $.50, $.75 or $1 should help with this so you don't have to be too precise.
Also, remember that just because something is less expensive, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a better deal. For example, two boxes of pancake mix sit side by side, one is $2.50 and the other is $3. Don't just thoughtlessly grab the $2.50 one. Check the volume and use your calculator to determine the best value for your dollar.
5. Make a menu for the week.
A menu for the week serves a similar purpose to a list. Pick meals for the week that all incorporate similar ingredients so that you don't have to buy a lot of different items.
6. Stretch your menu.
Plan your meals in a way that will allow for leftovers to be used for various meals throughout the week. There are 21 meals in a week, and by stretching menus with leftovers, you can reduce the number of meals you have to start from scratch.
7. Don't waste food.
If you buy it, eat it. Be creative. Similar to the "stretch your menu" step above, don't waste money on prepared foods. Instead, prepare meals ahead of time and freeze them, or double a recipe when cooking and freeze the second half for a hectic day coming up.
One recent study said the average family throws away 14 percent of the food it buys. On a $150 weekly bill, that is more than $1,000 back into your pocket every year.
When meal planning falls short and the meat in the fridge will go bad before you have time to eat it, freeze it as soon as possible to enjoy later. Make sure the meat or other food product is packaged properly; it's generally safer, and will make the end product better, if the product is placed in an airtight bag or other packaging.
8. Grocery shop backward.
The cheapest items in the grocery store (produce) are the first items that you see. Start from the other end and work your way back. You'll be purchasing the most expensive items first and will know how much you have remaining for the fruits and vegetables.
Also, make sure your veggies and fruit are dry before you put them on the scale. If they have just been sprayed with water, they will weigh more and cost more.
9. Make use of ads and coupons.
Watch for store newspaper ads and coupons. Take advantage of coupons and sale items, but be sure your family will use a "bargain." If they won't, it's no saving.
10. Shop alone.
Shop by yourself, if it's at all possible. It you go without your kids or spouse or friends, you won't be led astray by anything they want to buy. If the children have to come along, provide a book or handheld video game to occupy them.
11. Compare brands.
Look at the cost and the quantity. Usually the store's own brand is cheaper, but not always.
12. Compare stores.
Look at prices in several stores, if you have a choice. If you find one store is generally less expensive, stick with it.
13. Compare forms of food.
Buy a lower-cost form of a product if there's no major difference between them. For example, try the day-old bread, if it is to be eaten soon. Also, take time to compare frozen, fresh and canned products.
14. Look down.
Here's a tip you may not have heard of before: Look down while shopping at the grocery store. In many grocery stores, the best bargains are closer to the floor. The pricier items are often at eye level.
15. Skip specialty items grouped together.
Things like chips and dips together can result in impulse buying, according to Quick and Simple magazine. And seeking out the bargain bins can save money, too.
Copyright 2014 by KSAT - All rights reserved.


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Keffria wrote:Perhaps we should just wipe the slate clean - forget all these chains of placeholders and just start with whoever's posted last?
netpoet wrote:
Instead of doing that...
http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.p ... 432#884432
Edit : forgot this one
http://forums.keenspace.com/viewtopic.p ... 436#884436
Shows who's due the most urgently
I've marked who all's been done, who's due reviews, and where we're at in the list.
... yes, I'm *THAT* anal retentative. Run in fear! :p
MrEff wrote:And nicely done at that..... I think we can get it back on track people just need to realize exactly what's up.... it's not a review for the person above you, but a review for the person above you who has done a review
That was my mistake before....
Oh and many Thanx to Levi-chan for the review!
corgan_dane wrote:I'll have Dawg's up later today, by god!
...and the review of Scarecrow was incredible. Thanks, AnywhereButHere, you made my day/week/month/century.
(Also, off topic, but I'm going to seriously get my half of that fifty first dates strip to you soon. I feel like such a slacker lately.)
Spriteville, USA wrote:Remus said he was leaving, I wonder if he'll do my review first?
Keffria wrote:Perhaps we should just wipe the slate clean - forget all these chains of placeholders and just start with whoever's posted last?
RemusShepherd wrote:Rpin, I've never heard of this 'game' before, and I expect I'm not alone. It might have helped if you had, ya know, posted the rules first?
PinDummy wrote:Keff was the one who started the thread and she posted as much information as it contained in the previous reincarnations. Maybe you are right, but for me I guess it's you guys that have less common sense than past reviewers had.
Plus, too much rules can suck up the fun, and I don't think what I said would be necessary IF people knew what to expect from this game and what their roles in it are.
RPin wrote:A thread for discussion of Webcomic Above is not necessary at all if people follow my guidelines. It's either that or have the thread die prematurely due to mess and confusion.
Now, if you really want to know what I think, here's the deal:
Webcomic Above is a fun game, but should be taken seriously. It's an exercise for those who know not to review and criticize just as it is a way to get a nice review so you can know what works about our comic and what doesn't. Having other people read the review you passed instead of just only the reviewee is also crucial, because this is also a way to get word about your comic out.
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WARNING: video heavy. it is advised you open this in a new tab or something so you don't crash your computer. just sit back and enjoy 2012 rewind
... and the biggest award of the night, ladies and gentlemen ...
... who was the biggest artist of 2012???
a huge thank you to everyone who voted! 1607 of you guys voted!!!! THAT'S HUGE! congrats to everyone who won. tweet this out to all your favs so they know about omonatheydidnt. you can see the results for yourself here. i have that shit saved so even if you vote now, it won't affect the end results. sorry. byeeee
did your picks win? what was your favorite thing about 2012? what are you looking forward to in 2013? did you notice a typo somewhere in this post and if so, can you not post them in the comments because ignorance is bliss thanks ilu? yay!


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Two and a half years ago, in discussing JavaScript's ubiquity, I projected that this trait alone would make the language the continued target of new languages and compilers. And, in fact, this has happened. Many languages now offer the ability to compile to JavaScript in addition to their original, principal targets. For example, among those that also compile to native code, there are: Nimrod, which we discussed last month, Fantom, and the gaming language Haxe. In addition to these, there are many standalone tools that translate code from your favorite language to JavaScript. Of these, the most famous by far is the under-appreciated Google Web Toolkit (GWT), which converts Java code to JavaScript. (I say "under-appreciated" because the tool definitely has magical aspects to it. For example, you can live debug Java code, which is mapped behind the scenes to the actually executing JavaScript.)
There is another segment of the industry, though, where a lot of action is taking place. Entrants here aim to correct the perceived shortcomings of JavaScript by either extending or improving the language and offering code-to-JavaScript compilation. The most widely known players are CoffeeScript, Google's Dart, and Microsoft's TypeScript. Their approaches are rather different, but are all aimed at enabling JavaScript to be used in larger projects than it was ever intended for.
The first of these languages to come to market (in 2010), CoffeeScript is probably also the most established. It borrows concepts from both Ruby and Python to reduce clutter and remove some ragged aspects of JavaScript syntax. To be comfortable with CoffeeScript, you must be willing to forgo traditional mainstream programming constructs curly braces, semicolons, etc. and adopt new syntactical elements like meaningful white space. Users of Python and Ruby already have partially adopted those conventions, and so it's no wonder they in particular have embraced CoffeeScript. For example, it's now part of Ruby on Rails (as of v. 3.1). And at GitHub, it's the recommended language for doing Web development.
The overarching goal of Dart is to obtain the best possible performance for Web apps. Hence, I sense that the VM will be as important a center for continued refinement as the JavaScript generation. If not the VM itself, then certainly the tools that support its use. To this end, the team has built remarkably extensive tooling for writing, testing, and debugging Dart.
TypeScript is Microsoft's entrant into the fray. It has a somewhat different tack on the question of syntax improvement. Its entire focus is to fix the things in JavaScript that make writing large programs (100K+ LOCs) difficult, if not impossible. It does this by adding types, classes, and namespaces, while retaining much of the basic JavaScript syntax. In this regard, it is carefully tracking features that are certain to be delivered in the ECMAscript 6 specification, which defines the language. This long-delayed document is set for ratification and public release later this year.
To be fair, both Microsoft and Google are hugely invested in making the Web experience as fast as possible on their respective platforms, so it seems unlikely that they will ever abandon tweaking and perfecting JavaScript language features and performance. So, I think that while the vendor factor can never be dismissed outright, it can be accorded a secondary place, with the choice of language made primarily on the basis of features, the supporting tool ecosystem, and (especially) the community size and tone.
Andrew Binstock
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"Stand for Stan" Campaign
In 2010, the St. Louis Cardinals launched a campaign to convince President Barack Obama to award Stan Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, for his lifetime of achievement and service.
Thanks to Cardinals fans who took a Stand for Stan, Musial was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 2011 in a ceremony at the White House.
Flat Stan the Man: Fans showed their continued support by taking part in the Flat Stan the Man Project, in cooperation with Dale Hubert's Flat Stanley Project.


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Thanks to all my visitors!
Wow... when I first got the idea for this website in the year 2001 I did not expect it to become so famous and a big part of my life for over 10 years. The first version was released in May 2002 on my South Park fanpage http://www.planearium.de. Unfortunately I do not remember the exact date. So let's celebrate the whole month! I plan to release some special updates.
I am not telling more right now, but keep an eye on this topic and you won't miss anything :).
The first thing related to the birthday month is the new contest 10 YEARS SP-STUDIO.