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The Dragon and the Stars nominated for the Aurora Award!
I got news today from Eric Choi that The Dragon and the Stars (Daw Science Fiction) has been nominated for the Aurora Award. Kudos again to Derwin and Eric for doing such a fantastic job with this anthology. Since it was published, they've worked hard to garner sales and get onto the radar of critics and award organizations.
I'd love it if this anthology won. Eric has posted an exerpt of his story, The Son of Heaven, and Derwin Mak has posted details about the award. Please go and vote for us if you like our stories.
For those who haven't read it, I'm going to post an exerpt from my story, Across the Sea. To read the whole story and others from the Chinese diaspora, buy the book :-)
Across the Sea
by Emily Mah
Chopsticks made from bone or ivory, a piece of jade carved into the face of a dragon, and a piece of a lacquered bowl. The objects were laid out on a weathered plastic tray set on an unsteady card table at one end of the dig site. Kate Hu stared at them, her stomach churning.
"We'd put these at about six hundred years old," one of the archaeologists said. "So, beginning of the fifteenth century."
"Right," Kate replied. "So you called --"
The sentence was cut short by the arrival of a shiny black Hummer that pulled up to the dig site and stopped short enough to spray everyone with gravel.
"-- Michael Scott," Kate finished.
"Well, yeah," said the archaeologist, a pencil thin grad student with thick spectacles perched on the bridge of his nose. Kenderson was his name, Doug Kenderson. "He's been talking about writing another book."
The Hummer door swung open, and out stepped a man in his early forties with silvered hair and a perfectly tailored sport jacket over jeans. Kate wished she could turn away, but her traitorous eyes stared at him openly.
He caught sight of her at once and blinked. "Kate?" At least he remembered her name.
"Mr. Scott," she replied.
"Dr. Scott," Kenderson whispered. Then, louder, "You know Kate Hu, then?"
"We have met." Dr. Scott chuckled as he sauntered over. "What brings you out here?" he asked her.
"I'm the Deputy Manager of Cultural Affairs."
"Really? For the Tlingowa?"
No, she thought in her mind, I joined some other tribe and just decided to show up at this dig on Tlingowa land out of nosiness. She turned her gaze towards the beach, half a mile away. The sun was setting over the ocean, painting the sky with pale peach light and turning the clouds molten gold. The weather had been beautiful all week -- not something that could always be counted on along the Oregon coast.
"How's your aunt?" Dr. Scott asked.
Kate didn't respond to that, just turned and started hiking towards her beat up old jeep.
Michael Scott had shown up at her father's apartment fifteen years ago, when Kate was nine. It had been a rainy day in Eugene, and her father had answered the door to reveal a chubby, pimple faced grad student with a nervous air about him.
"I'm a linguistic anthropologist," Mr. Scott had explained, "and I'd like to do my field work with the Tlingowa."
Kate had stood behind her father's legs, peering out.
"You've got to be kidding," said her father. "The tribe's got three hundred members, most of whom live in the city, and two fluent speakers."
"Rumor has it there are three fluent speakers," said Mr. Scott. "I'm looking for Bess Jenkins?"
Kate gripped her father's belt loop. Great Aunt Bess was sitting in the kitchen, rambling to herself as was her wont. Kate felt her father hesitate before he stepped back. She scampered out of his way.
"She's here," said her father. "I'll introduce you."
Even though Kate was only nine, she understood that her father expected this grad student to take one look at Bess and then politely take his leave. Bess rambled and ranted and was never more than half aware of where she was or whom she was with. When her father led Mr. Scott to the breakfast nook, Bess was sitting at the table muttering something about people on television trying to steal her glasses.
Her skin was fair, her eyes light gray. Like most of the Tlingowa, she had very little native blood. The tribe had been assimilated long ago.
"Bess?" snapped Kate's father. "Someone here to see you."
Usually Bess didn't even acknowledge that she'd been spoken to, but this time she turned, blinked, and looked up at Mr. Scott. "Hello," she said.
"Hello, I'm --"
"A giant canoe, one driven by the wind pushing against its great cloth wings, was dashed upon the rocks near the mouth of the river," Bess said. "Long ago, long before any whites came to our land. These men were from across our sea, the only sea my people knew."
She was speaking half in English, half in Tlingowa. Mr. Scott sat down in the chair across from her, rapt.
Kate slipped into another chair and listened. She couldn't tell if Mr. Scott understood what her aunt said.
"Five men survived, and swam to shore clinging to pieces of their canoe. Their skin was paler than ours, their hair jet black. Their eyes were tilted and dark brown, and they sang to each other rather than spoke.
"Our people helped them ashore, pressed the water from their bellies, and lit fires to warm them. They welcomed them as friends, putting beaded shell necklaces around their necks and frying them a feast of fishes. Three of the men were thin, one was very fat, and the fifth was round with a very round face, like the moon."
It was rare for Bess to string so many coherent sentences together. Kate listened eagerly and didn't notice when Mr. Scott got out his tape recorder.
"Something wrong, Kate?" Randall McGinty asked[E1] . He was the Manager of Cultural Affairs for the Tlingowa, a job that he did in the evenings and weekends. The rest of the time he was an attorney at a small real estate practice. Kate worked as the receptionist. The fact that they were both registered Tlingowa was almost laughable, as neither of them looked native, nor did they participate in any cultural events. None of the Tlingowa did. The last of their fluent speakers had died years ago.
"Kate?" Randy prompted.
Kate blinked. "Um, Michael Scott --"
"I hear you got to see him. I have his book. He said he'd sign it for me." Randy looked downright giddy. He even bounced on the balls of his feet.
"Oh," said Kate. "That's nice. I was just wondering if we wanted him here on the dig. I mean, as Manager of Cultural --"
"Can you imagine the publicity this'll net?" Randy said. "I bet we get hundreds of archaeologists here next summer. Here --" he dug into his briefcase and came up with a hardcover book "-- will you sign this too? You're Bess's closest surviving relative."
Kate stared down at the glossy dustcover for a moment, then shut her eyes. Michael Scott had recorded all of Aunt Bess's story and written a paper on "The Emerging Tlingowa-English Creole" using her tale to illustrate when and how a fluent Tlingowa speaker used English. It was a dry enough topic, but with the oddness of Bess's story, it became one of the most popular papers of its time.
It was so popular in the world of anthropology that Dr. Scott had fleshed it out into a book. It was supposed to be a textbook on how linguistic anthropologists cataloged and quantified language shift. Again, he used Bess's story in its entirety, and the book shot up the New York Times Bestseller list, making the Tlingowa one of the most well known Athabaskan tribes in the country, and exposing Bess to universal ridicule.
To make matters worse, Kate's father, who had been the Manager of Cultural Affairs at the time, had blurbed the book, calling it "hilarious" and "absorbing."
"I'm not signing this," Kate told Randy. She pushed the book back towards him.
"What? You don't like it?" he said.
"No," she replied. "I don't."
"I'm not sure if there's another book here or not," Dr. Scott was saying as Kate arrived at the dig site that evening. "There's the beginning of one. I mean, these Chinese artifacts are most likely the product of trade along the coast. There's a lot of evidence that there was a small Chinese community in northern California in the 1400's, people who got left behind when one of the junks dropped them off and never returned."
"Right," said Kenderson, the same archaeologist who'd done all the talking the day before. "So you write about how these artifacts could support Old Bess's story, but then give the more scientific explanation."
"Sure, that's the idea," said Dr. Scott. "But I've got to do some more looking into all this." He turned to Kate as she approached the table. "Evening," he said to her.
She just stared back in reply.
Dr. Scott's smile faltered, but only for a split second. "I need one of you to help look for documentation of a wrecked junk along the coast near here. A wreck so bad that only five people would survive."
"There is one," said Kenderson. "I already looked it up. See, if you let me use your laptop there, I can show it to you on Google Earth. It's here, where the river runs into the sea, or thereabouts."
Kate clenched and unclenched her teeth. "Look," she said, "you're here with permission from the Tlingowa people. You can't just --"
"Randy already gave us permission to let Dr. Scott take over the dig," said Kenderson. "If he wants to."
"We'll see, we'll see," said Dr. Scott. "Huh, there was a junk wrecked just a mile out from the beach. Interesting." He squinted at the computer screen.
"The pale men wanted to go home, that was clear. They sang to each other in forlorn tones and stared off across the sea. Although our people fed them and gave them space in our huts to live, the men preferred to sleep under the stars.
"While four of them just wept and despaired, the moon faced man started to take long walks. He came back every evening with rocks that he would grind into powder, and he'd mix the powders together.
"One night, he added ash from the fire pit to his rock powder, then held a flaming brand to his mixture, and it flared up. The rocks themselves burned."
"He says it's too early to know if there'll be a second book," Randy was saying into his phone when Kate arrived at work the next day.
Kate wished she had her own office. She would have shut the door and locked it. As it was, she had to sit out in the open, at the receptionist's desk, while Randy blabbed away with his office door open.
"Here she is!" Randy said. "Kate Hu. Her great aunt was the one who told the story, and her father was Chinese-American. She's got a double interest in all this, what with the archaeologists finding actual Chinese artifacts. I'll ask if she wants to speak to -- whoops, she's gone."
Kate had gotten up and made for the bathroom. Once there, she shut herself into a stall and sat on the toilet lid, knees pulled up to her chest, forehead resting on her folded arms. It was all too much. While the cold porcelain seeped the warmth from her body, she struggled to suppress the memories that were bubbling up in her mind.
Bess had always ranted insanity for as long as Kate had known her. That story she related to Mr. Scott was the only coherent story she'd ever told, and ridiculous as it was, Kate treasured it. She wished she knew its origins, whether it had been a Tlingowa legend or just the product of Bess's addled brain.
That story and the broken Tlingowa that Kate could speak were the only relics of her native heritage that she possessed. Her mother had died in a car accident when Kate was four. Her father had used his position as Manager of Cultural Affairs to accompany Dr. Scott on a signing and lecture tour, and then when the limelight faded, he remarried and moved to Des Moines. Kate had lived with him for a few years, then moved back to Oregon at age eighteen. It was, after all, her ancestral home.
Even though Kate was only one eighth Tlingowa and seven eighths a mix of Chinese and Danish, Bess had nurtured her cultural ties to this tiny tribe of three hundred souls who lived and worked in southwest Oregon and owned a minuscule stretch of the[E2] coast.
Their language had died out in her lifetime, and now archaeologists with no ties to their people were on their land to dig up their history and tell their story. It wasn't right.
"Kate?" Randy called out. He knocked on the women's bathroom door. "Hey, Kate? Mike found what looks like an ancient saltpeter mine. Can you believe it?"
"The moon faced man hollowed out a stick and packed it full of powder. He carved the outside of the stick just so and bound it with a length of twine. One evening, he lit the twine and our people watched as the hollow stick shot up into the air leaving a trail of sparks."
Kate's father placed a peanut butter sandwich in front of her and turned to Mr. Scott. "You hungry?" he asked.
Mr. Scott looked up from his hastily scratched notes and shook his head.
Bess continued on, heedless. "The moon faced man knew only a little Tlingowa, but he pointed at the flying stick and said, 'We go home like this.'"
-END SAMPLE-
the rest is in the anthology!
Posted by Emily Mah at 6:21 PM
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Steph Burgis July 23, 2011 at 6:10 AM
I really, really love that story excerpt! I definitely want to read more. Thanks for sharing it!
Emily Mah July 23, 2011 at 6:32 AM
Thanks, Steph! Susan Ee's also in the antho (and Samantha Ling also subbed a great story that ended up not being what they needed, so I await news on where that one will be published.)
Melanie Goldmund July 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Congratulations! And the excerpt was great -- really left me wanting more. Must see about getting the book now. :-)
Emily Mah July 23, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Just posted the Kindle link for the antho! It's there at the bottom of the post. I can of course get you a copy of my story, but to entice you to buy the antho, may I point out that Susan Ee, author of Angelfall, has a short story in there too, along with a bunch of other people way more talented than me :-)
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May the Fourth has become in recent years a fun date to look forward to. I've been a fan of the Star Wars franchise since I was a child, having burned out my family's VHS tapes of the original trilogy in frequent viewings over the years. I remember looking forward to the return of Star Wars to the big screen with the Special Edition re-release and the Prequels, and with even greater anticipation for the recent Disney-made trilogy, which closes out the 9-episode saga this year.
Instead of simple anticipation, however, this particular "May the Fourth" is given a more somber note with the passing of Peter Mayhews, the actor who portrayed Chewbacca in the original trilogy. The actor joins the sadly growing list of deceased Star Wars cast and crew, the biggest names recently being Carrie Fisher and Kenny Baker (R2-D2).
It is difficult figuring out what words to say, especially for people who I've only known from their work on the big screen. What I can think of is that these people have become a part of history – their performances and efforts have helped to create vast communities that span generations. The universe of Star Wars, which they have contributed to, has given countless hours of enjoyment and inspiration to countless people, of whom I am one.
The effect of their lives has rippled throughout society over the decades since the first movie came out in 1977, bringing countless of fans into a galaxy far, far away – into a story of good versus evil, freedom versus tyranny. It told a story of a simpler time, of simple heroism and drama. Icons of popular culture were born when Darth Vader stalked down the hallway of the Tantive IV to the pale legions of Stormtroopers fighting against the likes of Luke, Leia, Chewie, and Han. The mystique of the Jedi was given form with Obi-Wan and Yoda, and levity carried on the metal shoulders of C3PO and R2D2.
May the Fourth, which became an unofficial-cum-official fandom holiday since it kicked off for the first time in 2011, has been a celebration of joy for Star Wars. And that joy is made all the more meaningful with remembering the people whose lives have been put into creating it for us all. Indeed, May the Fourth be with you.
We remember those that have gone on a different journey in this year's May the Fourth, because we are reminded also that there are still people who work behind the scenes to bring us this universe in whatever shape or form.
While we acknowledge every single one of those who shaped the whole Star Wars universe. I decided to commemorate, to remember that dates back to only the 2015. The year where the resurgence of the new chapters of Star Wars were seen once again on the big screen. I see that this is the fitting year that we started the commemoration as while we remember the end of the journey of these people, 2015 marked the year where Star Wars is seen again as a beginning of a new journey in this universe that we all fell in love with.
Khan Bonfils, who portrayed Saesee Tiin in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, passed away from collapsing during rehearsals for a theater production of Dante's Inferno at age 42 on January 5, 2015.
Keith Swaden, a stuntman who played rebels and stormtroopers in all three films of the original trilogy, passed away at age 75 on January 18, 2015.
Richard Bonehill, noted for playing a snowtrooper, a stormtrooper, and Rebel officer Palo Torshan in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back; and a stormtrooper, a Mon Calamari, an X-wing pilot, a TIE pilot, and named characters Nien Nunb, Ree-Yees, and Mosep Binneed in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi passed away on February 4, 2015.
David Esch, who voiced Han Solo in the video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, passed away at age 65 on April 2, 2015.
Sir Christopher Lee, who played Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film, passed away at age 93 on June 7, 2015.
George Coe, who voiced Tee Watt Kaa in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, passed away at age 86 on July 18, 2015.
Jason Wingreen was the original voice of Boba Fett before it was replaced by Temuera Morrison's in the Special Edition DVD of The Empire Strikes Back. He passed away at the age of 95 on December 25, 2015.
Bill E. Martin, who voiced several characters in video games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace video game, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, passed away at age 70 on January 27, 2016.
Joe Alaskey, who voiced the Important Merchant, the Interpreter and Watto's flunky in the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace video game, passed away at age 63 on February 3, 2016.
Alethea McGrath, who portrayed Jocasta Nu on Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, passed away at age 96 on February 9, 2016.
Drewe Henley, the actor who portrayed Garven Dreis on Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and later phostumously through archive footage on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, passed away at age 75 on February 14, 2016.
Ray West, the Oscar award winning sound editor who was credited as being a Re-Recording Mixer on Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away at age 90 on February 17, 2016.
Erik Bauersfeld—the original voice of Gial Ackbar in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, and in the video game Star Wars: X-Wing; and of Bib Fortuna in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi—passed away at age 93 on April 3, 2016.
Ian Watkin, who voiced COO-2180 in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, passed away at age 76 on May 18, 2016.
Ronald Falk, the voice of Dexter Jettster on Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, passed away in Australia on June 27, 2016.
Kenny Baker was the man inside R2-D2 in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi; he also portrayed Paploo in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. He passed away at age 81 on August 13, 2016.
Ian Liston, who played Wes Janson and an AT-AT gunner in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, passed away at age 68 on October 1, 2016.
Peter Sumner, who played Lieutenant Pol Treidum in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away from a long illness on November 22, 2016.
Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia Organa throughout the original trilogy and in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, passed away at age 60 on December 27, 2016.
Chris Wiggins, who voiced Mon Julpa in Star Wars: Droids, passed away from complications of Alzheimer's disease at age 86 on February 19, 2017.
John Forgeham, who portrayed Bolvan in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away from internal bleeding at age 75 on March 10, 2017.
Margaret Towner, who portrayed Jira in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, passed away at age 96 on April 10, 2017.
John Cygan, who voiced several Star Wars characters such Dash Rendar, Rand Talor, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Canderous Ordo and Ulic Qel-Droma, passed away from cancer at age 63 on May 13, 2017.
Andy Cunningham, who was the mime artist and puppeteer for Ephant Mon in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, passed away from cancer at the age of 69 on June 5, 2017.
William Hoyland, who portrayed Commander Igar in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, passed away from stomach cancer at the age of 73 on July 15, 2017.
Barry Dennen, who voiced King Ramsis Dendup in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, passed away at age 76 on September 26, 2017.
John Mollo, the costume designer for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, passed away at the age of 86 on October 25, 2017.
Alfie Curtis, who portrayed Doctor Cornelius Evazan in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away at the age of 87 on November 30, 2017.
Jim Baikie, a comic-book artist who inked, pecilled and colored Empire's End, passed away at the age of 77 on December 29, 2017.
Allison Shearmur, the executive producer of both Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Solo: A Star Wars Story, passed away from lung cancer at the age of 54 on January 19, 2018.
Debbie Lee Carrington, a stuntwoman who portrayed Romba the Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi and Weechee Warrick in Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, passed away at the age of 58 on March 23, 2018.
Michael Ford, the set decorator of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, passed away at age 90 on May 31, 2018.
Bong Dazo, a comic-book artist who penciled many Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comics and the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic-book adaptation, passed away at age 56 on June 29, 2018.
Marie Severin, the comic book colorist who worked on several issues of Star Wars, Droids and Ewoks, passed away at the age of 89 on August 30, 2018.
Gary Kurtz, the producer for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, passed away from cancer at the age of 78 on September 23, 2018.
Marty Balin, lead singer of Jefferson Starship (as the holographic band) in The Star Wars Holiday Special, passed away at age 76 on September 27, 2018.
Carlos Ezquerra, the comic book artist who pencilled and inkered the comic book series Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand and the short comic Boba Fett ½: Salvage, passed away at age 70 on October 1, 2018.
Stan Lee, editor of Marvel Comics and writer of the introduction of The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of Star Wars, passed away from pneumonia at age 95 on November 12, 2018.
Gloria Katz, who served as script doctor for the first draft of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away from ovarian cancer at age 76 on November 25, 2018.
John Wreford, who portrayed Hija in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away at age 75 on December 11, 2018.
William Morgan Sheppard, who voiced the Heavy Gun Trooper and the Ruulian Strip Miner in Star Wars: Force Commander, passed away at age 86 on January 6, 2019.
Bronco McLoughlin, a stuntman who played a stormtrooper in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away on March 26, 2019.
Shane Rimmer, who played the Rebel Crew Chief in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, passed away at age 89 on March 29, 2019.
Vonda N. McIntyre, the author of The Crystal Star, passed away at age 70 on April 1, 2019.
Frank Hensen, a stuntman who played a stormtrooper, a skiff guard and a rebel guard in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, passed away from a short illness at age 83 on April 25, 2019.
Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars original trilogy, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, passed away at age 74 on April 30, 2019.
For the complete list of those who worked in the Star Wars Universe predating 2016, you can head here.
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Department of Justice Statement on Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Encryption Case
On May 6, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco issued a decision in a case involving government controls on encryption exports. The Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice are currently reviewing the Ninth Circuit's decision in Daniel...
US Export Control Laws on Encryption Ruled Unconstitutional
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the federal government's restrictions on encryption are unconstitutional, affirming a lower court's ruling that export control over cryptographic "software and related devices and technology are in violation of the First Amendment on the grounds of prior restraint." "The Court understood the...
Statement of Rep. Anna Eshoo on Bernstein vs. the Justice Department Ruling
"I'm pleased the federal appeals court has affirmed Federal District Court Judge Marilyn Patel's original decision that in the name of national defense, the U.S. government should not restrict the very liberties it is supposed to be defending. This decision demonstrates the judicial branch's understanding of the encryption debate. Now...
Press Release | March 30, 1999
EFF Offers Cooperative Computing Prizes
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is sponsoring cooperative computing awards, with over half a million dollars in prize money, to encourage ordinary Internet users to contribute to solving huge scientific problems. "We're providing incentives to stretch the computational capabilities of the Internet," said Tara Lemmey, EFF's Executive...
Court Allows Unlicensed Crypto Export
Yesterday a federal judge here denied a government motion to silence mathematician Daniel Bernstein. On August 25, District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel declared the Commerce Department's cryptography regulations unconstitutional. Judge Patel also issued an injunction to prohibit prosecution of Prof. Bernstein and others who publish Prof. Bernstein's work. In...


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Q: Android: Unable to start Activity, Resource is not a drawable My error:

01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.ximxim.fifteen_puzzle/com.ximxim.fifteen_puzzle.MenuActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #2: Error inflating class
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:513)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:56)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:563)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:385)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at com.ximxim.fifteen_puzzle.MenuActivity.onCreate(MenuActivity.java:60)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     ... 11 more
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.widget.LinearLayout.(LinearLayout.java:115)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:446)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:500)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     ... 21 more
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x1/d=0x7f020053 a=-1 r=0x7f020053}
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1681)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.View.(View.java:1885)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.View.(View.java:1834)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     at android.view.ViewGroup.(ViewGroup.java:285)
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255):     ... 25 more

??? What does it means and how to fix it:
01-06 03:25:28.999: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2255): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x1/d=0x7f020053 a=-1 r=0x7f020053}

A: Your android R.java file got messed up or was not regenerated. In Eclipse on the top bar just click Project -> Clean... and select your project.
If it still does not work try to manually delete the R.java file located in gen/mypckg.com.R.java .

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These fold-out books are a delight to make as they include both illustrations and hand-calligraphed text in various scripts. Carol adds a little linen slip cover, sewn on her ancient Singer at the kitchen table, plus a vintage label.
These unique and gorgeous books can be commissioned as gifts or for special occasions, with a text or paintings which have special meaning for you. They can be neatly closed or displayed open.
The new "Peekaboo Books" are also unique tiny books, but a simpler version; single sheets of paper with a twist. Cut-out windows reveal receding images, while the text can be any length. These fold very small and make original pocket-sized presents . They also come in a little cloth cover.


Commissioned for the wedding service of Paul and Natalie Johnson-Hyde, this piece was first sung by a choir of their friends. The cover images are by Chris Hyde.
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Suitable for summer occasions and as a wedding anthem.
For eight-part unaccompanied choir, with tenor soloist.


A field of one's own : gender and land rights in South Asia / Bina Agarwal.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 1996Other title: Field of one's own : gender and land rights in South Asia /.Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 323.460959 AGA 000910] (1).
The Karnataka land reforms act, 1961 / edited by Sathpal Puliani.
by Puliani, Sathpal [editor of compilation.] | Karnataka Law Journal.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Bangalore : Karnataka Law Journal Publications, 2009Other title: Karnataka Land Revenue Act.Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.5487044 KAR 008016] (3).
The state and poverty in India : the politics of reform / Atul Kohli.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987Other title: State and poverty in India : the politics of reform /.Online access: Publisher description Availability: No items available Checked out (1).
Agricultural land redistribution : toward greater consensus / editors, Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon, Rogier van den Brink.
by Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P, 1943- | Bourguignon, Camille, 1979- | Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius van den, 1958-.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009Online access: Table of contents only Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.31091724 AGR 000510] (1).
Disabling globalization : places of power in post-apartheid South Africa / Gillian Hart.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Scottsville, South Africa : University of Natal Press, c2002Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 330.9684 HAR 000565] (1).
by Datta, Manjira [Producer, Director, Camera.] | Chatterjee, Bablu [Editor.].
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : Magic Lantern Foundation ; distributed by Under Construction, 1998Other title: Samakal /.Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: A00257] (1).
Karnataka : promises kept and missed / edited by Abdul Aziz, Sudhir Krishna.
by Aziz, Abdul [editor of compilation. ] | Krishna, Sudhir [editor of compilation. ].
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : London : Sage, 1997Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.3154 KAR 004000] (1).
Performance and challenges in Gujarat and Maharashtra / edited by Ghanshyam Shah, D. C. Sah.
by Shah, Ghanshyam | Sah, D. C.
Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2002Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.3 PER 004169] (1).
Tamil Nadu : an unfinished task / edited by M. Thangaraj.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.315482 TAM 004170] (1).
by Yogandhar, B. N | Iyer, K. Gopal | Dutta, P. S.
Publisher: New Delhi ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, <1993-c2001 >Online access: Table of contents only Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.3154 LAN 006266] (2).
Guide to right to fair compensation & transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement act, 2013 / Anupam Srivastava & Monika Srivastava.
by Srivastava, Anupam | Srivastava, Monika.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : CCH India, 2014Other title: Right to Fair Compensation, Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.3154 SRI 010789] (2).
Land policies for equity and growth : transforming the agrarian structure in Uttar Pradesh / edited by Ajit Kumar Singh, Santosh Mehrotra.
by Singh, Ajit Kumar, 1944- [(editor.) ] | Mehrotra, Santosh K [(editor.)].
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : SAGE Publications India, 2014Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.31542 LAN 005239] (2).
Land, water, language, and politics in Andhra : regional evolution in India since 1850 / Brian Stoddart.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : Routledge, 2011Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 954.84 STO 005240] (1).
The land laws in Karnataka : along with urban laws / edited by P.S. Narayana, Sathpal Puliani.
by Karnataka (India) [enacting jurisdiction.] | Narayana, P. S [editor of compilation.] | Puliani, Sathpal [editor of compilation.].
Edition: Third edition.Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Bangalore : Karnataka Law Journal Publications, 2012Other title: Land laws in karnataka.Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.54870432 LAN 005410] (5). Checked out (1).
The Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 / edited by Sathpal Puliani.
Edition: Thirteenth edition.Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Bangalore : Karnataka Law Journal Publications, 2014Other title: Karnataka Land Revenue Act.Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.54870432 KAR 008017] (2).
The Right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement act, 2013 / edited by Sathpal Puliani.
by Karnataka (India) | Puliani, Sathpal [editor of compilation.] | Karnataka Law Journal.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Bangalore : Karnataka Law Journal Publications, 2014Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.54870432 RIG 008038] (2).
The land acquisition Manual : new law relating to land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement / edited by Sathpal Puliani.
Edition: 5th ed.Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Bangalore : Karnataka Law Journal Publications, 2014Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.54870432 LAN 005421] (1).
Peri urban livelihoods : opportunities and challenges / Shahab Fazal.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company, 2014Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 333.771309542 FAZ 005243] (1).
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New Delhi : Universal Law Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2014Other title: Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act, 1976 bare act .Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 346.54045 CON 008022] (1).
India : social development report, 2010 : the land question and the marginalized / Council for Social Development ; edited by Manoranjan Mohanty.
by Mohanty, Manoranjan [editor.] | Council for Social Development (India).
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: General; New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2011Online access: Table of contents Availability: Items available for loan: Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore [Call number: 305.560954 IND 009764] (1).


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Cisco has developed many different QoS mechanisms, such as queuing, policing, and traffic shaping, to enable network operators to manage and prioritize the traffic flowing on a network. Applications that are delay sensitive, such as VoIP, require special treatment to ensure proper application functionality.
Classification and Marking
For a flow to have priority, it must be classified and marked. Classification is the process of identifying the type of traffic. Marking is the process of setting a value in the IP header based on the classification. The following are examples of technologies that support classification:
Network-based application recognition (NBAR): This technology uses deep packet content inspection to identify network applications. An advantage of NBAR is that it can recognize applications even when they do not use standard network ports. Furthermore, it matches fields at the application layer. Before NBAR, classification was limited to Layer 4 TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port numbers.
Committed access rate (CAR): CAR uses a rate limit to set precedence and allows customization of the precedence assignment by user, source or destination IP address, and application type.
Traffic shaping and policing are mechanisms that inspect traffic and take action based on the traffic's characteristics, such as DSCP or IP precedence bits set in the IP header.
Traffic shaping involves slowing down the rate at which packets are sent out an interface (egress) by matching certain criteria. Traffic shaping uses a token bucket technique to release the packets into the output queue at a preconfigured rate. Traffic shaping helps eliminate potential bottlenecks by throttling back the traffic rate at the source. In enterprise environments, traffic shaping is used to smooth the flow of traffic going out to the provider. This is desirable for several reasons. For example, in provider networks, it prevents the provider from dropping traffic that exceeds the contracted rate.
Policing involves tagging or dropping traffic, depending on the match criteria. Generally, policing is used to set the limit of traffic coming into an interface (ingress) and uses a "leaky bucket mechanism." Policing can be used to forward traffic based on conforming traffic and to drop traffic that violates the policy. Policing is also referred to as committed access rate (CAR). One example of using policing is giving preferential treatment to critical application traffic by elevating to a higher class and reducing best-effort traffic to a lower-priority class.
When you contrast traffic shaping with policing, remember that traffic shaping buffers packets, while policing can be configured to drop packets. In addition, policing propagates bursts, but traffic shaping does not.
Queuing refers to the buffering process used by routers and switches when they receive traffic faster than it can be transmitted. Different queuing mechanisms can be implemented to influence the order in which the different queues are serviced (that is, how different types of traffic are emptied from the queues).
QoS is an effective tool for managing a WAN's available bandwidth. Keep in mind that QoS does not add bandwidth; it only helps you make better use of the existing bandwidth. For chronic congestion problems, QoS is not the answer; in such situations, you need to add more bandwidth. However, by prioritizing traffic, you can make sure that your most critical traffic gets the best treatment and available bandwidth in times of congestion. One popular QoS technique is to classify your traffic based on a protocol type or a matching access control list (ACL) and then give policy treatment to the class. You can define many classes to match or identify your most important traffic classes. The remaining unmatched traffic then uses a default class in which the traffic can be treated as best-effort.
Table 9-7 describes QoS options for optimizing bandwidth.
Table 9-7 QoS Options
QoS Category
Identifies and marks flows
Handles traffic overflow using a queuing algorithm
Reduce latency and jitter for network traffic on low-speed links
Traffic shaping and policing
Prevent congestion by policing ingress and egress flows
Two types of output queues are available on routers: the hardware queue and the software queue. The hardware queue uses the first-in, first-out (FIFO) strategy. The software queue schedules packets first and then places them in the hardware queue. Keep in mind that the software queue is used only during periods of congestion. The software queue uses QoS techniques such as priority queuing, custom queuing, weighted fair queuing, class-based weighted fair queuing, low-latency queuing, and traffic shaping and policing.
Priority Queuing
Priority queuing (PQ) is a queuing method that establishes four interface output queues that serve different priority levels: high, medium, default, and low. Unfortunately, PQ can starve other queues if too much data is in one queue because higher-priority queues must be emptied before lower-priority queues.
Custom Queuing
Custom queuing (CQ) uses up to 16 individual output queues. Byte size limits are assigned to each queue so that when the limit is reached, CQ proceeds to the next queue. The network operator can customize these byte size limits. CQ is fairer than PQ because it allows some level of service to all traffic. This queuing method is considered legacy due to improvements in the other queuing methods.
Weighted Fair Queuing
Weighted fair queuing (WFQ) ensures that traffic is separated into individual flows or sessions without requiring that you define ACLs. WFQ uses two categories to group sessions: high bandwidth and low bandwidth. Low-bandwidth traffic has priority over high-bandwidth traffic. High-bandwidth traffic shares the service according to assigned weight values. WFQ is the default QoS mechanism on interfaces below 2.0 Mbps.
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing
Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ) extends WFQ capabilities by providing support for modular user-defined traffic classes. CBWFQ lets you define traffic classes that correspond to match criteria, including ACLs, protocols, and input interfaces. Traffic that matches the class criteria belongs to that specific class. Each class has a defined queue that corresponds to an output interface.
After traffic has been matched and belongs to a specific class, you can modify its characteristics, such as by assigning bandwidth and specifying the maximum queue limit and weight. During periods of congestion, the bandwidth assigned to the class is the guaranteed bandwidth that is delivered to the class.
One of the key advantages of CBWFQ is its modular nature, which makes it extremely flexible for most situations. It is often referred to as Modular QoS CLI (MQC), which is the framework for building QoS policies. Many classes can be defined to separate network traffic as needed in the MQC.
Low-Latency Queuing
Low-latency queuing (LLQ) adds a strict priority queue to CBWFQ. The strict priority queue allows delay-sensitive traffic such as voice to be sent first, before other queues are serviced. That gives voice preferential treatment over the other traffic types. Unlike PQ, LLQ provides for a maximum threshold on the priority queue to prevent lower-priority traffic from being starved by the priority queue.
Without LLQ, CBWFQ would not have a priority queue for real-time traffic. The additional classification of other traffic classes is done using the same CBWFQ techniques. LLQ is the standard QoS method for many VoIP networks.
Link Efficiency
With Cisco IOS, several link-efficiency mechanisms are available. Link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI), Multilink PPP (MLP), and Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) header compression can provide for more efficient use of bandwidth.
Table 9-8 describes Cisco IOS link-efficiency mechanisms.
Table 9-8 Link-Efficiency Mechanisms
Link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI)
Reduces delay and jitter on slower-speed links by breaking up large packet flows and inserting smaller data packets (Telnet, VoIP) in between them.
Multilink PPP (MLP)
Bonds multiple links between two nodes, which increases the available bandwidth. MLP can be used on analog or digital links and is based on RFC 1990.
Real-Time Transport (RTP) header compression
Provides increased efficiency for applications that take advantage of RTP on slow links. Compresses RTP/UDP/IP headers from 40 bytes down to 2–5 bytes.
The window size defines the upper limit of frames that can be transmitted without getting a return acknowledgment. Transport protocols such as TCP rely on acknowledgments to provide connection-oriented reliable transport of data segments. For example, if the TCP window size is set to 8192, the source stops sending data after 8192 bytes if no acknowledgment has been received from the destination host. In some cases, the window size might need to be modified because of unacceptable delay for larger WAN links. If the window size is not adjusted to coincide with the delay factor, retransmissions can occur, which affects throughput significantly. It is recommended that you adjust the window size to achieve better connectivity conditions.
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Previously known as the Engineers Mobility Forum (EMF), the International Professional Engineers Agreement (IPEA), is a multi-national agreement between engineering organisations in the member jurisdictions which creates the framework for the establishment of an international standard of competence for professional engineering, and then empowers each member organization to establish a section of the International Professional Engineers Register.
The standard of competence applied is the same as for the APEC Engineer agreement. Most of the APEC agreement members are also members of the IPEA agreement, but the latter is truly global so that countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa have become members of IPEA even though they cannot join the APEC agreement.


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The Dashing White Cowboy (Lucky Luke #14)
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Some strange burglaries take place at each performance of the play "The Dashing White Cowboy" given by the company of W. Baltimore. Simply coincidence? Suspicious, Lucky Luke follows them. Unfortunately, it's he who is accused of theft in every city the actors pass through. After all, he's also a stranger. But despite this series of arrests, Lucky Luke won't let Baltimore and his troupe leave him behind, and he'll clear his name.
The character of Lucky Luke became a legend thanks to Morris (his creator) and Goscinny. These two giants of the 9th art collaborated with passion for more than 20 years until the death of the famous scriptwriter. Rene Goscinny (Lucky Luke, Asterix, Iznogoud, le Petit Nicolas) is one of the most-read French authors in the world. Approximately 500 million copies of his books have been sold.In 1992, Morris received the "Grand Prix Special 20eme Anniversaire" from the international comics show at Angouleme, and in 1998, the French Minister of Culture decorated him with the rank of "Officier des Arts et des Lettres."
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Q: How to make Pylons work in Google App Engine? I am new to Pylons and GAE and was wondering if any team has had success with this combination. I have followed this howto that is available on the web and have got it to work. But after I have everything working I cannot even create a controller. I have also gone through this but still no results.
Also I want to able to put it in source control and allow other developers to work with it. So far it seems everything is tied to the location where I have my pylons application. Has a TEAM developed using Pylons + GAE?

A: I've tried the steps described here and got it to work without a problem.


Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), Self Portrait at the Age of 34, 1640. Oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm © The National Gallery, London.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents an installation of Rembrandt's striking Self-Portrait from 1640, on loan from The National Gallery, London this winter season. Titled Self Portrait at the Age of 34, the painting captures the image of the artist in his middle age: affluent, self-confident and wise. Its installation at the Norton Simon Museum marks the first time the painting has been on view in the U.S. and is part of a loan exchange program between the Norton Simon Museum and the National Gallery that began earlier this year, with the London installation of the Museum's The Repentant Magdalene, after 1660, by Guido Cagnacci. Self Portrait at the Age of 34 has been installed in the Museum's 17th-century art galleries, alongside the Simon's own collection of Rembrandt paintings: Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat from 1633, Portrait of a Boy, ca. 1655–60, and the artist's Self-Portrait, ca. 1636–38, executed only a few years earlier than the National Gallery's. The painting is on view from Dec. 8, 2017, through March 5, 2018.
The presence of Raphael's stunning 1515 Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (now at the Louvre) in the April 1639 sale of property owned by the wealthy Flemish merchant Lucas van Uffelen was certainly not the first instance of a work by an Italian master in the Netherlands. Rembrandt himself came to own artworks attributed to Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Palma Vecchio and Raphael. But the Van Uffelen sale is notable as being one of the most well-attended auctions in the first half of the 17th century, drawing locals and foreigners alike to bid exceptionally high prices for the high-quality contents of the auction. We assume that it was on this occasion that Rembrandt made his now-famous sketch of Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione that was on the auction block, annotating his drawing with not only the record price at which the painting was eventually sold (3,500 guilders), but also the enormous sum for the total proceeds of the estate sale (59,456 guilders). By this date, the highest figure paid to Rembrandt for one of his single-figure pictures was about 600 guilders, so witnessing the sale of a 125-year-old painting by one of the most treasured Italian Renaissance artists must have made an impression on the already-successful 33-year-old. His attention to this sale, and the Raphael portrait in it, is one of several instances that show that he was looking back to classical roots and seeking out the successful formulas of his predecessors.
Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), 1515. Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm. © Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier.
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam), Drawing after the portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael, 1639. Pen in brown, white cover color, 16.3 x 20.7 cm © Albertina, Vienna.
During its residency at the Norton Simon Museum, Self Portrait at the Age of 34 is being viewed from the vantage point of Rembrandt's works executed between 1630 and 1640 from the Simon collection. Hanging alongside earlier and later examples of Rembrandt's paintings, as well as a number of his students' works, the breadth of the artist's painterly technique even within this decade can be examined.
Such is the case of the Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat from 1633, now thought to depict Pieter Sijen (1592–1652), a wealthy Mennonite merchant. This is a pure portrait, not a tronie (or anonymous figure/type), but one depicting the stark, undecorated rigors of this religious group. The bearded man's kindly stare and regard for the artist/viewer is consistent with Rembrandt's other male portraits of the period, most of them directly addressing the viewer and revealing the depth of the sitter's personality. Compare this with the Simon's tronie by Jan Lievens, Rembrandt's studio partner in Leiden: Young Man with Red Beret, ca. 1629–1630, is a character study that is magical and mysterious, underscored by the feather and the exotic, diaphanous shawl draped over his shoulders. But the Lievens is clearly not meant to be a pure portrait and is set apart from the mature, soul-searching meditations that Rembrandt produces in the later 1630s.
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669), Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat, 1633. Oil on panel, 69.9 x 54.6 cm, Norton Simon Art Foundation © Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674), Young Man with Red Beret, ca. 1629–1630. Oil on panel, 69.9 x 53.3 cm, Norton Simon Art Foundation © Norton Simon Art Foundation.


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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center NEON
Field Site
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center NEON / SERC
Gradient Terrestrial, MD, D02:
About Field Sites
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is a terrestrial NEON field site located in Anne Arundel county, Maryland on the Rhode River, a sub-estuary of the Chesapeake Bay. The 10.7 km2 (2650 acre) site is encompassed within and hosted by The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, a research and educational center run by the Smithsonian Institution. This site is located within NEON's Mid-Atlantic Domain (D02), a densely populated region bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and stretching down the Eastern Seaboard from southern New Jersey to northern Georgia. The Mid-Atlantic Domain includes two other terrestrial sites and two aquatic sites. [1] [2] [3]
The climate here is temperate and humid, with annual average minimum temperatures of 5-10°C (41-50°F) and average annual maximum temperatures of 16-21°C (61-70°F). Temperatures can often reach 32-35°C (90-95°F) during the hot and humid summer months. In winter, temperatures routinely fall below freezing. The average annual temperature is 13.6°C (56.5°F). On average, this location gets a total of 1075mm (42 in.) of precipitation annually. [7] [10]
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center is located on the Nanjemoy Formation, consisting of sand, clay, and mud. The parent material at SERC is primarily fluvial marine deposits associated with a near-shore environment of the late Cretaceous seas, but there are some areas of alluvium and loess that overlie some of the fluvial marine deposits. Glauconite is a common mineral found at the site. [3] [4]
The major soil series found at SERC include Adelphia, Dodon, Cumberstone, Sassafras, Mattapex, Donlonton, Collington, Holmdel, Annapolis, Wist, Sharptown, Marr, Woodstown, and Hurlock. The parent material at SERC is primarily fluvial marine deposits with some areas of overlying alluvium and loess. Landforms at SERC include backslopes, footslopes, shoulders, summits, and toeslopes, which are consistent with uplands and hills. [3]
Anne Arundel County, Maryland is partially included in the larger Patuxent watershed which flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The other part of the county belongs to smaller watersheds that drain directly into the Chesapeake Bay. These watersheds are the South River, Rhode, and West River watersheds. [5] [6]
The SERC site's land is dominated by coastal hardwood forests, encompassing varying habitat types including terrestrial, estuarine, and wetland habitats. Dominant vegetation within the hardwood forests include tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), and American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Cropland also covers a large portion of the landscape. [2]
Fauna native to the Mid-Atlantic region that encompasses SERC includes red fox (Vulpes vulpes), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), raccoon (Procyon lotor), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), and American beaver (Castor canadensis). [8]
Past Land Management and Use
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center has a complex history that spans over 50 years. In 1962, a Maryland dairy farmer named Robert Lee Forest left his 368-acre farm and other holdings to the Smithsonian Institution in his will. The old farm and holdings along the Rhode river were converted into a biological field site and, in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology was established. With an influx of grant money, in 1969 the Smithsonian purchased even more land, bringing the total acreage of the site to 933. Soon after, the center converted an old cow barn from Forest's original farm into laboratories and a dormitory, establishing the center's first on-site facilities. In 1970, the center's name was changed to the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES) and research activities began to expand. The Smithsonian acquired even more land, increasing the size of the site to a total of 1800 acres, then began building new onsite facilities to support their work. In the 1980s, in addition to their research, the center officially established educational programs for both scientists and the public. In 1985, the center was renamed the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). SERC continued diversifying and expanding its research activities and now works both locally and globally on important conservation issues. Today, the SERC site is 2650 acres, is home to numerous labs and state-of-the-art facilities, and continues to support a wide array of research and educational programs. [9]
Current Land Management and Use
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is a research and educational institution based in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. Established in 1965, the center conducts research in a variety of different areas, with an emphasis on understanding and conserving coastal ecosystems. SERC works both locally and globally on issues such as fisheries conservation, water quality, land use, and invasive species. In addition to its research, SERC provides environmental educational programs for K-12 students. [1]
NEON Site Establishment
Plot establishment for NEON's SERC site was completed in April 2015. The site's Initial Operations Capability/Capacity Review (IOCR), or when operations were officially approved to start, was June 2015 for terrestrial sampling. The site's IOCR for tower operations was February 2016.
[1] Minogue, K. (2014, November 13). About Us. Retrieved from https://serc.si.edu/about-us.
[2] Terrestrial Observation System (TOS) Site Characterization Report: Domain 02. (NEON Doc. #: NEON.DOC.003886)
[3] Taylor, G., Marshall, B., Verdone, D. (2016) NEON Site-Level Plot Summary Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). Retrieved from https://data.neonscience.org/documents/10179/2361410/SERC_Soil_Site+Sum…
[4] U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, Mineral Resources Data System: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. Retrieved from https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/
[5] Blair, Ryan. (n.d.). Watershed Studies. Retrieved from https://www.aacounty.org/departments/public-works/wprp/watershed-assess…
[6] Chesapeake Bay Foundation. (n.d.). Major River Watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay. Retrieved from https://www.cbf.org/about-the-bay/maps/geography/major-river-watersheds….
[7] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (n.d.). U.S. Climate Atlas, National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Retrieved from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climateatlas/.
[8] Maryland Department of Natural Resources. (n.d.) Mammals. Retrieved from https://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/plants_wildlife/Mammals.aspx.
[9] Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. (2014, June 10). History. Retrieved from https://serc.si.edu/history
[10] PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, http://prism.oregonstate.edu, created 4 Feb 2004.
Field Site Information
Geodetic Datum
Mean: 33m
Minimum: 0m
Maximum: 43m
Mean Annual Temperature
Dominant Wind Direction
Mean Canopy Height
Dominant NLCD Classes
Cultivated Crops, Deciduous Forest
Field Operations Office
1500 Remount Road
MRC 5560, Bldg 90
Non-NEON research activities are allowed in this area. Researchers must obtain their own permits with the site host(s).
Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data.
Meteorological Measurements
This site has a flux/meteorological tower that is 62 m (203 ft) tall with six measurement levels. The tower top extends above the vegetation canopy to allow sensors mounted at the top and along the tower to capture the full profile of atmospheric conditions from the top of the vegetation canopy to the ground. The tower collects physical and chemical properties of atmosphere-related processes, such as humidity, wind, and net ecosystem gas exchange. Precipitation data are collected by a tipping bucket at the top of the tower and a series of throughfalls located in the soil array.
Tower top|Tower bottom
Soil Sensor Measurements
This site has five soil plots placed in an array within the airshed of the flux tower. Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) at soil surface, soil heat flux, solar radiation, and throughfall are measured at the soil surface in each soil plot. Soil moisture, soil temperature, and CO2 concentration are measured at multiple depths in each soil plot.
At terrestrial sites, field ecologists observe birds and plants, and sample ground beetles, mosquitoes, small mammals, soil microbes, and ticks. Lab analyses are carried out to provide further data on DNA sequences, pathogens, soils, sediments, and biogeochemistry. Learn more about terrestrial observations or explore this site's data products.
Field Site Data
Site Host
Site Access Allowed
https://serc.si.edu/opportunities
Site Access Details
Some areas of the site have pre-existing experiments and a high density of markers, equipment, sensors etc. Care should be taken to coordinate and avoid impacting on-going work at the site. All researchers must be accompanied while on-site by at least one individual with an approved Visiting Scientist Agreement. Annual hunting activities may render this area completely inaccessible for short periods of time (1 or 2 days) over the course of the season.
NEON Field Operations Office
Domain 02 Support Facility
NEON Field Operations Address
NEON Field Operations Phone
UTM Northing
4305735.30m
UTM Easting
364703.66m
UTM Zone
Mean Elevation
Minimum Elevation
Maximum Elevation
Mean Annual Precipitation
Average number of green days
Average first greenness increase date
80 DOY
Average peak green date
155 DOY
Average first greenness decrease date
Average minimum greenness date
Tower Height
Number of Tower Levels
USGS Geology Unit
MDTn;5
USGS Geology Name
Pamunkey Group; Nanjemoy Formation
USGS Lithologic Constituents
Dark green to gray, argillaceous, glauconitic, fine- to medium-grained sand; minor gray to pale brown clay; total thickness 0 to 125 feet; Marlboro Clay member at base: Pink to gray, homogeneous plastic clay with local lenses of very fine-grained white sand; thickness 0 to 30 feet; present west of Chesapeake Bay only; total thickness 0 to 125 feet.
USGS Geology Age
Megapit Soil Family
Fine, loamy, mixed, active, mesic. Aquic Hapludults.
Soil Subgroup
Aquic Hapludults
Related Field Sites
Other Domain D02 Field Sites
Blandy Experimental Farm NEON
Gradient Terrestrial
Lewis Run NEON
Gradient Aquatic
Posey Creek NEON
Core Aquatic
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute NEON
Core Terrestrial


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