Steampunk Magazine » What freedom to assemble?
Right now in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, marked and unmarked police cars are raiding private homes and buildings (and cars and garages) on a witchhunt for anarchists. [more from Bruce Sterling's blog] Next week, the Republican National Convention is taking place in St. Paul, and the police are intent on preventing protestors their say. Of note is that they're mostly confiscating media—zines, books, CDs, computers, mp3 players—, and gathering peoples identities. Of course, they are looking for "bombs" and of course, they won't find any. This isn't the 19th century; today, anarchists organize under the banner "food not bombs" as often as not.
Why does this matter to you? Because, if you live in the USA, it matters when the government makes preemptive strikes against dissidents. It matters when they are gathering names and taking literature. Anarchists have long been the canary in the birdcage. That canary is choking and coughing and spitting, and it behooves all of us to make this public, to not let people suffer behind closed doors. Oh, and as for what is "anarchist literature"? Well, everything in your house by infamous anarchists Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock, for starters. Plus that copy of SteamPunk Magazine #1 you've got sitting around your house/harddrive.
When anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti waited on death row for a crime they didn't commit, HG Wells and many other non-anarchist literary folk stood by them publicly. Because back in the day (you know, back in the day that we steampunks interest ourselves so greatly in), the literary world wasn't afraid of getting mired in politics. We shouldn't be either. It's our world and those are our freedoms they're trampling.
I find this absolutely disgraceful in the past decade the amount of things that have happened under the banner of "freedom" is obscene. My American friends have my deepest sympathies and support against a government whose sanity must be called into question.
Our government has been moving toward this for years. It is a result of a different loyalty base. The people who become president are part of a political party. This is the only way they can become president. The problem is that they then serve the party first and the country second or third behind themselves.
I've been finding more stories in the United States with this same plot… recently. I remember the America I grew up in not being like this. Something has gone terribly wrong.
Do we live in a facist country now, where women are being shoved around roughly by riot police because someone acted like a prick during a protest? Is our country living in so much fear that the very idea of radical, outside thinking is a threat to national security now?
We don't live in Ireland where Catholics and Protestants are blowing each other up at funerals, or in the middle east where people are blowing themselves up because of their belief of 72 virgins waiting at the gates of eternity for them.
When was the last time an American protest became so insane, during the anti-war protest and racial protests of the 60's? Does our government really fear us this much? Are we people in a country that is starting to lose sight of it's roots? We're a country born of the blood of Anarchists, how so easily we forget that.
It's disgraceful! Thomas Jefferson must be turning in his grave. The American revolution is long since dead and gone, and supplanted by reactionary forces that ate it away from within.
What a horrid world we live in. Expect to see me at the RNC with a bandana over my face, waving a red and black flag. They can try to hide the anarchists over there, but what do they plan to do about the ones from out of state?
Horrifying to know that this is the kind of world we are living in. I read from one of the comments before mine saying sometihng along the lines of "does the government really fear us that much?" If they are doing this- then yes. I believe they do fear us because they know that if people become one group with one movement and they believe in that, we can become a threat. But they should know that if they do this to us, others will hear and they won't be happy about it because they know, it is possible that it could happen to them to. with that, if things continue as it is everyone's going to have to notice the elephant in the room because it's going to trumpet out that constipated sound (not that it is…or sounds like it…maybe it is constipated…I mean, we're not constipated- no). Am I making any sense?
Freedoms in America have been slowly eroding for the last 8 years in large part to the Cheney-Bush team of Fear and Hysteria. To all my friends who laugh when I say I want to move to Canada, looks like I'll have the last laugh when the US gets 8 years of the McCainnites.
sad to say but the people in power were just waiting for an excuse and 9/11 gave it to them. They can eliminate freedoms, dissonance, free speech, protests and anything else they want, all in the name of the "war on terror" and all of the soccer-moms and the "why do I have to worry, I have nothing to hide" and the "if it catches one terrorist it will have all been worth it" people will someday dream of the days they gave their freedoms away.
Its just a disgusting downward spiral. NSPD-50 became law a year ago and virtually noone knows about it. Basically the law states that when the country is in a state of "Crisis" (which they left vague and undefined in the bill itself) the president gains control of all branches of government. In other words, a literal dictator. Also, keep in mind we're due to receive the National IDs with the GPS tracking chips inbedded in them this December. Nothing says Nationalist Police State quite like being constantly monitored by the "authorities." I wonder if I refuse and they lock me up, if when I try to move to Norway they'll consider it political asylum. If so that cuts the citizenship wait time in half!
It is also evident that whatever we are going to do about it, its got to be more than a culture of showing dissent, its got to be making it with our bare hands.
As a first time visitor to this site i thought this was going to be a really cool and interesting site i would enjoy reading…..then i see this liberal piece of crap. bye. I wont cya later.
BTW the reason people protesting the RNC had police on their backs is because they were rioting, marching and getting inside the convention and interrupting, did you see republicans doing that? No. We protest respectfully.
Thanks Gary. Interestingly, the post I wrote was -before- any of the scheduled protests, and referred to a pre-emptive strike by the police. Secondly, I'd like to draw your attention to right-wing protesters who are not quite as respectful as you'd claim: GodHatesFags, a group that pickets the funerals of gays, come to mind quite readily. Then perhaps the radical pro-life movement, which all over the country assembles to harass, intimidate, and block abortion clinics, targeting some of the poorest and most dis-enfranchised people in the country. And occasionally they bomb the places or shoot the doctors.
This isn't about one side or another having a higher moral ground. Actually, this isn't about a world with two sides, liberal vs. conservative (yay for dualistic thinking!). Rather, a repressive government that is choosing to crack down on certain dissent while allowing other dissent.
I can't say I'm sorry that you won't be reading the magazine anymore.
Wow. I'm a bit shocked that I'm writing this–and even more shocked that I should need to–but somebody needs to play the devil's advocate.
Since Gary probably won't be coming back, I'll speak on his behalf. His point, which he tried inelloquently to make, is that he found the link to this site and came here to share in the thoughts and opinions of others on Steampunk topics. Instead, he found splashed across the front page political invective which ran contrary to his beliefs.
It's your site and you can print here what you wish, but you are only depriving yourself of readers. If your response is to think "I neither need nor want readers like Gary, and I'm better off without them," then you're as divisive as any of the protesters or "dualistic thinkers" you mentioned above; and in that case you should consider changing your format from Sci-Fi to politics. People of all sorts come to "Steampunk Magazine" for Steampunk, not politics. Many of your readers may happen to think like you, but your site, and Steampunk in general, would benefit by divesting itself of politics and focusing on the escapism Steampunk is meant to provide.
Again, it's your site, and if you choose to make it a political pulpit then so be it. Just be aware that in so doing, you will in effect be closing ranks with like-minded thinkers and contradicting the diversity you claim to endorse.
The hardest part was to sit through all the news programs, all the politicians, all the pundits, listening to them call the protesters Anarchists. No one seems to really understand that anarchy is not chaos, not destructive, violent behavior. Anarchy is not hedonistic, anarchy is civil responsibility in its truest, most fundamental expression.
Anarchy is the belief that participatory governance is superior to representative government. That any and all issues that can be decided locally SHOULD be decided locally, and that issues that cannot be decided locally should be decided collaboratively with confederations of local groups.
This is not to say that I am against the protests that happened in the Twin Cities. I firmly believe that protest and civil disobedience are very important and necessary to bring about social justice. However, when using protest and civil disobedience one needs to make certain that one isn't providing a justification for the "righteous indignation" that resulted last month. Think Gandhi and salt production. Think MLK, Jr. and the Bus Boycott or the sit-ins.
Don't give your enemies weapons to use against you. Be smarter than that.
The gov'nt, Wealthy, however you want to identify "THEM" will always remain in power, "WE", will always say that it is fucked up, and it always will be fucked up…but we can always make it uncomfortable for "THEM"and thats kinda fun, eh?
Odd that there was no response from the admin based on JC's post. Frankly, I couldn't agree more.
I see this world slowly slipping away and moving on to something superficial and indifferent… but I don't see it as the boogey man coming to take my children. It's a "progressive" trend towards immorality, vanishing of rights, expansion of personal pleasures and further seperation between the classes. It's not the evil republicans at the RNC. It's not the current administration, or the new one on November 7th. It's not the military, the police, or the gangs.
It's all of them, in a way. And it's you and me. The world is dying, and as much as I'd like to think there's a head at the end of the snake that's controlling it all… the further you take your hands and run it down the snake's body, the more you realize that you're just going in circles. There is no "One World" agenda. There is no plot by the republicans to take over the world. Underneath that devil's mask is another mask that looks like my face, and under that… is one that looks like yours, etc.
I don't believe for a second that the US Government is doing what these conspiracy theorists are doing. Simply, because this site is here. You can wake up, type out a blog slandering the government… and go on to live another day. You haven't been silenced. Nobody's knocking on your door and stealing your thoughts. In a way, this country is more anti-government than it ever has been… even in the most prosperous times we've ever seen (minus the last year, of course) and people STILL think big brother is coming for them.
Back in the '60's, the public saw the police use fire hoses and attack dogs on peaceful marchers in Selma, AL the public was shocked and they turned in favor of the marchers. But when Anarchist riot in the streets and the public sees them throwing stones at the police the public side with the police. So why shouldn't I find it ironic, when I read about Anarchist complaining that their civil rights are not being respected under the law?
Another response to JC, respectfully, in regards to what steampunk is. It is a combination of two words. If you came here looking for the 'steam' part, there is plenty of that to find in articles about gadgets, gizmos, and gaslights. But there is also that 'punk' word. Punk is politics, among other things. For example, Punk rock isn't just rock, it's politically charged. The politics of steampunk may not be your politics, and that is fine. Everyone has the capacity to read something, even if they disagree with it, and then to choose what to retain. Just like you can listen to punk rock because you like the guitar solos, even if you disagree with the message. If you want to retain just the steam part of steampunk, that's fine. But this is a steampunk magazine, so there will be punk politics.
I don't think Admin was trying to alienate Gary, but I do think they were frustrated with his lack of an attempt to understand the issue and subsequent brush off of the magazine. They did not actually say "I neither need nor want readers like Gary, and I'm better off without them," they said they wouldn't be sorry he wasn't reading anymore. They aren't garnering for people to buy the magazine, so they don't need to taylor to an audience. They write what they write, and if people don't want to read it, they don't have to. What they're saying is they won't lose any sleep at night for losing a Gary or two here and there.
That said, I'm glad you took the time to play devil's advocate, JC, it shows you're willing to think about the issue and present your argument in a way that Gary did not. I hope you keep reading the magazine.
having just heard of steampunk yesterday (literally) and having been on many sides of many political debates (also at many levels of "society") i hope that the editors? of the magazine do not shortsightedly discourage some possibly misguided or misinformed people from being readers. Ignorance, though not a social value is a fact in everybody's lives, and no one needs to make enemies or unfortunate distinctions based on thinking that some people must be more ignorant than others just because of their overt political alignment. If steam -era culture or a reimagination of it is to provide a guide to surviving these days, then i for one prefer not to prejudge anyone for being mistaken in one aspect, because they may be vital and inspiring and non-destructive in others. Let's keep the possibilities endless. You never know what direction will prove helpful as the surveillance/security state(s) reformulate themselves.
STEAM: hot air applied to make life better for ALL. That's proper Victorian (steam) utopianism .
Maybe the Minnesota Police over-reacted because of the demonstrations in Colorado and at the previous Conventions?
Maybe we can all breath a bit easier no and get back to Steampunk fiction, not the political hyperbole?


Product Review – Accord Foods Inc.
While I often get free product samples and requests for product reviews, in order to stick to my motto of "Real Food & Real Opinions", I blog very seldom about the products I receive. The simple reason for this is that I want to keep my independence and that I don't want to review products I don't like and cannot endorse wholeheartedly.
which I am happy to write about and inform you of my tasting experience.
I tasted the sauces first by itself, then with plain pasta, then with plain rice. I believe this set-up allows me to judge each item as close as possible to its actual use.
I then tasted the soup first without added chili oil, then with chili oil.
These items are by far the best of its kind I have encountered, both in appearance and, most important, in flavor. The soup base is the very best I have encountered of any soup base, beef, chicken or vegetable – not salty, with no artificial taste and with perfect color.
"Accord Foods Inc." will definitely be a staple of my pantry if I am able to purchase them in my area (Hint/hint, "Accord Foods Inc." :-).
I am also looking forward to review the rest of their product line in the near future.


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Main → Musicians → Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current lineup consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, keyboardist Dizzy Reed, guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardist Melissa Reese. Guns N' Roses' debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), reached number one on the Billboard 200 a year after its release, on the strength of the Top 10 singles "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", and "Sweet Child o' Mine", the band's only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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      end do
      return
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Home » ThedaCare Advances Use of Health IT as it Makes 16th Consecutive Appearance
ThedaCare Advances Use of Health IT as it Makes 16th Consecutive Appearance
Most Wired health system in Appleton, Wis., increasing its presence in telehealth care
Rebecca Vesely
ThedaCare, an Appleton, Wis.-based health system, has made the Most Wired list for 16 years in a row, and continues to up its game in technology adoption and innovation.
Take e-visits — the ability of patients to gain medical advice through a secure video network in a HIPAA-compliant fashion. In 2016, ThedaCare began offering e-visits to patients through its secure online patient portal for nonurgent medical needs.
E-visit functionality is gaining adoption year over year, according to the Most Wired survey results. In 2017, adoption rates jumped by 10 percent over 2016 for both Most Wired and all survey respondents. Some 37 percent of Most Wired respondents and 27 percent of all survey respondents offer e-visits.
The way it works at ThedaCare is that patients who are already in the electronic health record system can book video appointments online with their own providers, for a flat rate of $35.
Adoption rates have grown steadily month over month since the health system began offering the service, says Jodie Ausloos, R.N., interim chief information officer and clinical nursing information officer at Thedacare (pictured). Year-to-date volume in e-visits is up 30 percent over the same time last year, she says.
"If we can use our providers' time wisely to provide care, it frees us up to focus in-person time on more complex cases," Ausloos says.
The turnaround time between the patient request for an e-visit and e-visit completion is around 40 minutes, she adds.
ThedaCare monitors patient and provider satisfaction, which are both near perfect, and conducts chart reviews on symptoms presented and treatments given to ensure that providers are not over- or undertreating patients via remote care. So far, no evidence of that has been shown, Ausloos says.
The most common conditions treated via e-visits are sinus infections and urinary tract infections, followed by other mild ailments like pink eye, acne, lice, allergies and ringworm, she says.
ThedaCare built credit card-payment functionality into the patient portal interface to collect point-of-care patient payments. But so far, e-visits are not covered by health plans in the region, though that might change, Ausloos says.
Not having to implement medical coding or billing functionality simplified the rollout of e-visits, Ausloos says. "That entails a whole other set of complexities to figure out," she says of third-party billing functionality. "It's when to bill and who to bill and for what services."
While some hospitals and health systems use a vendor to supplement in-person care with e-visits, ThedaCare and its providers wanted to keep control over total patient care while expanding access, Ausloos says.
ThedaCare is betting big on mobile. Next up: The system is working on expanding clinician use of smartphones at the bedside. By the end of 2017, the goal is to have secure smartphones in the hands of all inpatient clinicians for documenting, secure messaging and tracking patients and their total care experience. For instance, the system is integrating bar-code scanning for smart IV pumps in the total supply chain through provider ordering and administration of the drug. The smartphones also will be able to take clinical photos, which will be uploaded automatically instead of being stored on the phone, for security reasons, Ausloos explains.
"At end of the day, it is about supporting our clinicians who do their very best work, and providing the best care to our patients," she says.
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Kawasaki Ninja H2 with Team 38 sets World Record at Bonneville
Avin Richards
Team 38, an independent racing team comprising Kawasaki engineers and test riders, were in America to compete in this year's Bonneville Speed Week motorsports event held at the Bonneville Salt Flats from August 11th to 17th on the Ninja H2. Entering the P-PB 1000 class, for production models with supercharged engines up to 1000 cc, the team succeeded in establishing a world speed record of 209.442 mph (337.064 km/h) on the Kawasaki flagship Ninja H2.
Bonneville Speed Week, where motorcars and motorcycles gather to challenge world land speed records, is held each year in August at the Bonneville Salt Flats, the largest of many salt flats located west of Utah's Great Salt Lake. The well-recognised land speed event has a history stretching back more than 100 years. Riding on the salt is challenging; the surface is very slippery, so simply preparing a bike to go as fast as possible will not automatically result in a record-setting speed. Finding a way to suppress rear wheel spin, and the rider's skill at keeping the bike on track are both necessary components for success. And since allowable modifications are severely limited in P-PB 1000 class contested this year, the base performance of the bike is also extremely important.
On August 14, the Ninja H2 prepared by Team 38 clocked a speed of 211.621 mph (340.571 km/h). This was followed on August 15 by a return run of 207.263 mph (333.557 km/h). The average speed of the two runs 209.442 mph (337.064 km/h) was recognised as a world speed record in its class, illustrating the considerable performance of the Ninja H2.
Kawasaki Ninja H2 with Team 38 Bonneville
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Jefferson, England, and the Embargo : Trading Wealth and Republican Value in the Shaping of American Diplomacy, 1804-1809
Spivak, Burton, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Graebner, Norman A., Department of History, University of Virginia
Peterson, Merrill, Department of History, University of Virginia
The major focus of this dissertation is Jefferson's response to the Anglo-American crisis. This study argues that Jefferson's idea of England led him to consider seriously the need for war with England after the Chesapeake attack in June 1807; that his image of the American people led him to expect popular support for the embargo; and that his understanding of the importance of law to a republican society, of the duties and oblig3tions of American citizenship, and of the nature of organized Federalism, its social roots and political goals, led him to demand total obedience or total enforcement for reasons largely unconnected to the foreign policy needs that brought the embargo into existence. The crisis
in British affairs the plagued the Republicans was partially self-created. It grew from an unsettling contradiction between economic aspiration and Republican ideology and attitude toward labor. The Republican vision of American economic development was grounded in the soil and rivers of the American domain, and in the economic skills of the American producing classes. The value and place that commerce had in this scheme rested on the need to market the bounty of the producer. The wealth the European wars and the carrying trade opened to America, however, clouded this vision. The protection of the carrying trade became the chief goal of Jefferson's economic diplomacy, and saddled that diplomacy with an unattainable demand.
Diplomacy struggled against this demand from 1804 to 1807. The girth of American expectation and the misuse of economic coercion contributed to the failure of Monroe's and Pinkney's efforts. But during this phase of Jefferson's diplomacy, economic coercion conformed to its historic antecedents: the threat or actual loss of the American market to foreign ships and manufactures.
After the attack on the Chesapeake, the issue for Jefferson ceased to be trade and became instead besieged American nationality and bloated British ambition. This dialectic involved Jefferson in the need for war against England. Jefferson's acceptance of the historical need for war, and war's potential for quick success and national vindication separated him from the opinions of much of his cabinet, the majority of Congress, and most of the American people.
In late autumn 1807, indications that both France and England planned more assaults on American commerce obscured in the larger gloom of a sick Europe Jefferson's image of a malevolent Great Britain. They also resolved the tension in Jefferson's economic thinking in favor of internal development and native production. The embargo recommendation, coming suddenly in mid-December 1807, both announced this resolution and confessed past error. In its largest sense, it placed the dynamic of national economic growth in the energies and aspirations of the American producers.
Looking to future liberation, the embargo could not escape present predicaments. Always potentially coercive, the measure at first aimed more at precaution, defense, and the purchase of time for military preparation and diplomatic initiative. At Jefferson's suggestion, the Administration pursued in much of 1808 a diplomatic strategy bottomed on the realization that the people would not support the embargo for more than a year, and on the resulting need to use that time to resolve all differences with Europe, or to isolate one enemy and provide the nation with a manageable war. The failure of diplomacy, known to the Jeffersonians by November 1808, found the president near retirement and unable to face the harsh logic and timetable he had previously charted.
Throughout the last half of 1808, coercion ascended in the purposes of the embargo and, with diplomacy's summer failure, dominated them. This study also analyzes that process, the types and scope of embargo violations, and the Jeffersonian struggle, especially Gallatin's efforts, to exact obedience to unpopular law. Mounting evasions and the need for policy led Congress to enact the oppressive final embargo law. Almost simultaneously, political needs and fears of social unrest forced a Congressional abandonment of the measure. Since Federalists opposed both developments and the approaching succession weakened the executive branch, the strange history of the embargo from November 1808 to February 1809 is located in the perceptions and actions of the congressional Republican majority.
1743-1826, Embargo, 1807-1809, Jefferson, Thomas
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Is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The text, representing a kind of internal monologue, is deliberately written in a form of broken English.

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```rb
  gem 'dogert'
```

And then execute:
```rb
  $ bundle
```
Or install it yourself as:
```rb
  $ gem install dogert
```
## Usage

```rb
$ Dogert.new.process('pay me a beer')
=> "so pay. such beer. wow."
```

## Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/<my-github-username>/dogert/fork )
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Designers at both companies spent years building a typeface that contains 450,000 separate glyphs.
Twenty-three years ago, Ken Lunde stood onstage at the Unicode conference–a gathering of people concerned with how every language is presented across the internet, from Swahili to Bengali. Amid a room full of fellow typographical scholars, he outlined a problem faced by a fifth of the world's population–a fifth that his industry had overlooked. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean–commonly referred to as "Pan-CJK" languages–were all represented by separate fonts.
Maybe that doesn't sound like a big deal, but that's only because this article is being typed and read in lovingly supported Latin characters. I can shift between English, Spanish, and German words with brainless efficiency. If I know how to spell the word, it will simply appear as I type it, rendered perfectly on this screen like any other.
Pan-CJK languages are different. Their glyphs stand not as their own letters but their own words. These languages share history but have vastly different visual identities, so each was built as a separate font in a series of events that began in the 1950s with the standardization that led into the computer age. That meant if you were typing in Japanese (kanji) and wanted to reference a word from traditional Chinese characters, you'd have to pull the equivalent of switching from Times New Roman to Helvetica in mid-sentence. It would break spacing on the page and disturb the reader's flow. It also required installing and switching between multiple fonts when typing, it hurt typographic reliability in web browsers, and, frankly, in the austere world of digital typeface design, it just looked pretty tacky, too.
Fifteen years would pass between Lunde describing this problem onstage and the second time he would call it out–yet again, at the Unicode conference, this time in 2009. No one had successfully fixed it in a fully featured font.
But by this time, Lunde had built a lot of clout at Adobe–he was now a senior computer scientist. And this time, someone in the audience from Google was listening. And an idea was already fermenting in Mountain View: to build one free font to unite all languages on earth.
Over the next two years, Google and Adobe let their lawyers figure out how the deal could work. Together, the companies would develop the ultimate universal pan-CJK typeface. In 2014, they released the first joint effort, Source Han Sans and Noto Sans CJK, by Adobe and Google, respectively. These were the sans serif versions of the fonts, intended for screens and more modern applications. And this month, they released the second chapter: the serif versions of the fonts, Source Han Serif and Noto Serif CJK, for print and more conventional uses.
The design, which forms an addendum to the original work in 2014, is almost unfathomable in scope: 30,000 ideographs (the complex shapes that make up CJK words) manifesting into 450,000 separate glyphs had to be produced, which would allow Source Han Serif to be presented in seven weights, giving it the sort of real flexibility we've come to expect in fonts.
To build the system, the team started with Japanese glyphs. That might sound backwards, as Japanese writing actually stems from Chinese forms. The decision, however, was one of pure practicality. Adobe's most expansive eastern font was Japanese, which offered the team a baseline to build its other characters with minimal manpower.
Now, thanks to Adobe and Google's joint efforts, the core problems of pan-CJK fonts have finally been solved in an effortful piece of history most people will never even recognize. You can find the fonts on Typekit, Github, Google's Noto site, and soon Windows.
In turn, one would think that the problem that has haunted Lunde for over two decades has come to a close. However, as he tells Co.Design, that's not the case. While over "99 point something percent" of commonly used pan-CJK glyphs are covered, he'd like to increase support for Hong Kong-based Chinese, and he imagines that regional written dialects–with their own distinct styles–could stand for more support, too.
But these are academic quibbles to a far bigger hole in the font. While this project covers 30,000 ideographs inside CJK, that's only a small dent of what's possible. Unicode has placeholders for 90,000 ideographs–or in other words, Unicode says that there are still 60,000 words missing for CJK to be truly complete. For modern usage, those ideographs are not much of a concern, in the same way that most of us don't use words like "thou" in colloquial speech. But when it comes to digitizing historic documents of eastern history, for instance, it's an inevitable necessity: 60,000 new ideographs need to be made by someone.


Kilauea Volcano is the most active volcano Hawaii has known in the modern era and one of the most active volcanoes in the world. While three of the five Hawaii Island volcanoes are active, no volcano on earth has erupted as consistently in the past century as Kilauea.
Hawaii legend says that Kilauea Volcano is home to Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes. A well known and highly respected deity in Hawaiian mythology, Pele is also called Ka wahine 'ai honua, "the woman who devours the land". Her home is said to be on the summit of Kilauea in the Halema'uma'u crater.
But more than legend, this Big Island volcano is one of the most famous on the planet due to its frequent activity. Kilauea has been erupting continuously for more than 30 years. In the last 1100 years, this Hawaiian eruption has covered more than 500 square miles (1,300 square km) of the Big Island with lava.
This Kilauea eruption has been adding new land to the Big Island continuously since 1983. There have been very few interruptions in its activity over the past two centuries. In fact over the last 100 years, Kilauea has been erupting almost half the time. Read more about how the Hawaiian Islands were formed.
Most of the eruptions on Kilauea are occurring along the eastern flank of the volcano, the east rift zone. A rift zone is a feature that is characteristic of shield volcanoes, where a long series of cracks or fissures in the lava allow eruptions from the side of a volcano rather than its summit.
The current Kilauea eruption is called the Pu'u 'Ō'ō eruption, named for the vent along the east rift zone from which lava is spewing. Since the Pu'u 'Ō'ō Crater began erupting on January 3, 1983, its lava flows have destroyed over 180 structures (mostly homes, but also churches and native temples [heiau]).
While most of Kilauea's eruptions have flowed southeast toward the ocean, on June 27, 2014 a new outbreak along the northeast flank of Pu'u 'Ō'ō began flowing northeast. By late October, 2014 the flow had entered the town of Pahoa. The lava continued to advance slowly, and on November 11, 2014 the first home was destroyed. That flow has currently stopped.
Much of the information that follows predates the 2018 Kilauea eruption. Extreme earthquake activity in the spring signaled an impending change when Kilauea's Halema'uma'u summit crater collapsed and lava vents began bursting open in new areas on the east side of the Big Island. In June, Kapoho Village, Kapoho Tide Pools, and Ahalanui Beach Park were buried under heavy lava flow that has now extended the coastline. Heavy earthquake activity closed Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for four months in May, 2018.
For those wishing to see the dramatic spectacle as lava meets the ocean, there had been no active lava ocean entry on the Big Island between August, 2013 and July, 2016. Then on July 26, 2016, lava that had been flowing southeast of Pu'u 'O'o crossed the southern emergency road and entered the ocean at Kamokuna, near Kalapana.
New land is being added to the Big island for the first time in nearly three years. There is no way of knowing how long the lava ocean entry will last, but for now volcano goddess Pele is putting on quite a show!
Use extreme caution if you hike out to witness the impressive display. The easiest access is from the east side of the flow, south of Hilo at the end of Highway 130, near Kalapana. Drive to the end of Hwy 130, park your car and plan to hike about 4 miles each way (6+ kilometers). Bicycle rentals are also available.
Wear closed-toe sandals, running shoes, or boots, NOT slippers (flip-flops). Be sure to bring plenty of water, sunscreen, and a headlamp if you plan to arrive before daylight or stay after sunset.
Visit the National Park Service Kilauea current conditions for today's most current information on Kilauea's active lava flow.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is a great starting point for exploring Kilauea and the entire area around the Kilauea volcano. The Kilauea Visitor Center is located roughly 45 minutes south of Hilo and just over two hours from Kailua-Kona along Highway 11. Stop here to familiarize yourself with the amazing sights of the park.
On Crater Rim Drive, drive west a couple of miles from the Visitor Center to the Kilauea volcano overlook and Jaggar Museum, adjacent to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The museum offers fascinating information on not only Hawaiian volcanoes, but also volcanoes around the world, as well as seismology, history, and Hawaiian legend.
During the day, the dry lake-bed of what was once an enormous reservoir of molten lava is visible spreading out below you. This is the Kilauea Caldera. A caldera is a bowl-shaped depression that is formed when an erupting volcano empties a sub-surface chamber of magma. The structure above the now empty chamber collapses, forming a steep valley. The Kilauea Caldera is 2.5 miles (4k) long and 400 feet (122 meters) deep.
A plume of sulphur dioxide gas billows out of the center of the Halema'uma'u crater within the Kilauea Caldera. Halema'uma'u represents what remains of the magma chamber that, when emptied, formed the Kilauea Caldera. The Halema'uma'u Crater is 3000 feet (914 meters) across and nearly 300 feet (91 meters) deep. Recent eruptions have filled the crater floor with lava, steadily decreasing its depth.
What is the source of the smoke and gas? Just out of sight over the edge of the crater lies the lava lake, a bubbling, oozing mass of fiery hot liquid emanating from the earth's core. Imagine: you are standing atop perhaps the most active volcano Hawaii will ever know.
The lava level inside Halema'uma'u Crater is typically 100 to 200 feet (30-60 meters) below the floor of the crater. In April, 2015 the level of the lava lake had risen high enough to spill onto the floor of the crater.
When Kilauea's sulfur dioxide emissions mix with air, dust and water particles, the result is what is known as vog, or volcanic fog. Winds can push the vog more than 50 miles, accounting for the frequent haze in and around Kona. Part of Crater Rim Drive within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is often closed due to dangerous sulphur dioxide emissions.
At night the show inside Halema'uma'u is even more spectacular! The Kilauea eruption is most evident when the sky is dark, as an orange glow emanates from the fiery furnace within Halema'uma'u Crater, easily visible from the overlook at the Jaggar Museum.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is open 24 hours a day, so if you happen to be in the area in the evening we recommend an after-dark trip to the overlook.
In addition to her persistence, one thing that makes Kilauea so fascinating is the ease of access. Consider that you can literally drive to the edge of the summit crater or hike to the bottom of the Kilauea Iki Crater to the east!
Speaking of hikes, there are many in the vicinity of the Kilauea volcano. Our favorite hike in the area is the Kilauea Iki loop. This hike has it all, from lush rainforest thick with tropical flowers and gargantuan tree ferns, to the mysterious ancient floor of the Kilauea Iki Crater.
If you prefer to travel with a guide, sign up for our private Kilauea Volcano tour, offered daily from both sides of the island. The full-day tour includes pick up at your hotel or local address in our luxury SUV, a fun day exploring all the sites in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, snacks and cold drinks. We can include hikes and additional stops according to your interest and offer suggestions for a lunch stop (lunch not included in tour price). We will customize your tour based on what you'd like to see and how adventurous you are. Starting at just $295 for two people out of Hilo, $325 for two out of Kona (only $50 each additional traveler). Sign Up Now to secure your preferred travel date.
Expect variable weather on this part of the island. It can change quickly from hot and sticky to cool and damp. You may be bundled in a rain jacket one moment, wearing only a t-shirt in the hot sun a few minutes later.
Mauna Loa is of course another active volcano Hawaii is known for. Because of the difficult access, recording the actual eruptions has been historically challenging. That mammoth Hawaii volcano last erupted for three weeks in 1984.


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(Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co on Wednesday said it has hired top Spotify lawyer Horacio Gutierrez to succeed longtime Disney executive and general counsel Alan Braverman, who this summer announced plans to retire after nearly two decades leading the media conglomerate's legal department.
Gutierrez will take up his new position as senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary on Feb. 1, reporting directly to Disney CEO Bob Chapek, the company said.
He joins Disney after about six years at Spotify, where he most recently served as head of global affairs and chief legal officer for the podcast and music streaming platform.
Gutierrez will oversee Disney's legal team and legal affairs worldwide and act as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and the board of directors, the company said.
Chapek in a statement cited Gutierrez's "extensive understanding of the complex legal questions that come with technological disruption and rapid industry change."
Prior to joining Spotify, Gutierrez spent 17 and a half years at Microsoft, rising through the ranks to corporate vice president and general counsel. Before that, he practiced as an international consultant at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, according to his Linkedin profile.
Disney earlier this month elected Susan Arnold to succeed Bog Iger as chair of the company's board. Iger, who had stepped down as Disney's chief executive officer last year after 15 years in the role, will leave the company by the end of this month.
Braverman is also due to retire at the end of the year along with other Disney executives. According to a January regulatory filing, his total compensation fell about 33% year-over-year to $9.1 million in the company's fiscal year 2020.
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Valve has opened a Linux blog to document its efforts to get the gaming platform onto the open source operating system and potentially bring franchises like Half Life, Portal and Team Fortress with it.
An experiment to port zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 to Ubuntu was successful enough to pique Valve's interest in Linux as a platform and work has continued to optimise the game and bring Steam across to the OS.
"The goal of the Steam client project is a fully-featured Steam client running on Ubuntu 12.04," wrote the Valve Linux team on the blog.
"We've made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available.
"We're still giving attention and effort to minor features but it's a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing.
"Since the Steam client isn't much [good] without a game, we're also porting L4D2 to Ubuntu.
"We're working hard to improve the performance and have made good progress…our goal is to have L4D2 performing under Linux as well as it performs under Windows."
The Linux community it certainly a passionate one and Ubuntu has proven to be a popular flavour of the OS.
Valve's Steam has been a massive hit on both PC and Mac and the company is clearly looking to roll that success further.
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The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star also has plans to throw a party amongst the siblings.
Amid reports of rifts between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt over reconciliation rumours with Jennifer Aniston, there seems to be some relief. Recently it was reported that the duo has sorted things out. In fact, their 'cordial' relation currently is the best phase ever since the ugly divorce. Now, it looks like Brangelina are coming together for a very special reason.
For the unversed, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie share 6 children together – Shiloh, Maddox, Vivienne, Knox, Pax and Zahara. Shiloh is going to turn 14 this 27th May and the parents are leaving no stones unturned to make it really very special for their daughter, Amid the ongoing lockdown, clearly, a grand celebration won't be possible. But when you have as many as 5 siblings, do you need anybody else?
A report by Hollywood Life reveals all about their plans as, "Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie live so close to each other it'll be easy for Shiloh to spend time with both of them on her birthday. What she really wants is a party with her friends but unfortunately, that will have to be put off until lockdown is over."
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But it's sure that the baby girl won't be disappointed as, "But both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will make the day special for her, regardless and it will be totally up to Shiloh how she wants to divide her time. Brad has a tradition of making Shiloh breakfast on her birthday so she may start the day there and then have dinner with her mom, it is really going to be left up to her to choose. She's a teenager now so they are trying to give her as much autonomy as they can."
The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star also has plans to throw a party amongst the siblings. "Brad has been really thinking of what he can do that would be special for Shiloh and the rest of his kids. As much as he has ideas for them, he also wants them to be able to do what they want to do and be together as a family and do simple things like eat and just talk and hangout. It's not going to be one of those turns on the TV and look at your phone type days. He wants to celebrate and show them all that they can have as much fun as possible, even in quarantine."
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Deadline for applications 31 July 2018 (536 days ago)
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The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, offers
2 Research Positions for a PhD Candidate
in the second phase of the Computer Science Research Training Group "SCARE -- System Correctness under Adverse Conditions" http://scare.uni-oldenburg.de funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG GRK 1765/2). The positions are available from October 1, 2018, and for a duration of three years.
SCARE addresses computerized systems cooperating with their environment. System correctness requires that this cooperation satisfies desired behavioral properties. SCARE investigates system correctness under adverse, only partially predictable conditions, which can influence the behavior of the system, the system context, and the assumptions made for verifying correctness. SCARE considers three aspects of adverse conditions, both individually and in their combination: limited knowledge, unpredictable behavior, changing system environment and system structure. SCARE aims at notions of system correctness that guarantee robustness of the system behavior under such adverse conditions.
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We invite applications for two research positions. An application must comprise a CV, a detailed statement of interest in SCARE referring explicitly to one or two PhD topics proposed for SCARE-2 on the web page http://scare.uni-oldenburg.de, transcripts of the records summarizing the candidate's academic performance, and names of two references as four separate PDF documents and should be emailed to scare@uni-oldenburg.de by July 31, 2018.
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Unsung Heroes: Localization — Finding A Way To Take On The Whole World
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For Neil Lai, a developer based in Taiwan, partnering an Egyptian developer was a first step in going global. But the struggle for the Asian/African team was understanding how Americans and Europeans play.
Neil's company Keiti and Amidos Games from Egypt developed Number Game. It is a simple, play-anywhere puzzler. If the background goes blue, players have to find the largest number on the screen. If it goes red, they have to find the smallest.
"Asia is a unique market," says Neil. "Things are very different in America and in Europe."
The reason the Neil travelled all the way to Amsterdam to be at Casual Connect was so he could figure out how European's think and see how they reacted to his game.
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"That's the hardest part for us," says Neil. "We want to know what Europeans think. We need to find ways to connect with the whole world."
Neil is himself a hardcore gamer. So he has a head start in understanding what audiences want. His strategy with Number Game was to make a puzzle that could be played anywhere.
From an Asian perspective, this makes sense. People play games while they're waiting for a bus, or picking their kids up from school. They want a game that is easy to pick up and put down, is challenging, and keeps them thinking.
But like many other developers in our Unsung Heroes campaign, Neil hasn't seen the success his game deserves and he believes that's because it doesn't have a global reach. He realises it isn't enough to be great at creating games.
"My parents don't understand what I'm doing this for," says Neil ruefully. "I can make a game. But we are based in Taiwan and we don't have the resources to take on the whole world."


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Boeing delays first 787 delivery
A new Boeing 787 Dreamliner prepares for take-off at the Farnborough, England, Airshow on July 20.Dan Kitwood / Getty Images file
Aug. 27, 2010, 5:58 AM UTC / Source: msnbc.com and NBC News
The Boeing Co. said Friday that it would push the expected delivery of its first 787 Dreamliner to the middle of the first quarter of 2011.
The Chicago-based airliner maker blamed the delay on not being able to get a Rolls-Royce engine needed for the final phases of a flight test this fall.
"While Boeing works closely with Rolls-Royce to expedite engine availability, flight testing across the test fleet continues as planned," the company said in a statement released early Friday.
Having already missed its goal to deliver a composite-skin Dreamliner in 2008, Boeing earlier had predicted All Nippon Airways would get the first 787 in December. The company has more than 800 orders for the plane.
Boeing said in its statement that the cumulative impact of a series of issues, including supplier workmanship issues related to the horizontal stabilizer and instrumentation delays, could push first delivery of the 787 a few weeks into 2011.
The delay in engine availability has extended that estimate to mid-first quarter of 2011, it said.
Rolls-Royce closed a test facility in Derby, England, for what it called minor repairs earlier this month after a $17 million Trent 1000 engine set to power the 787 failed on a test bed and sent out debris. The same engine is planned for use in the Airbus SAS A350.
Boeing is using Rolls-Royce engines in four of its six flight test aircraft, according to the Herald of Everett, Wash. General Electric supplies its GEnX engines for the remaining two 787 flight test aircraft, the Herald said.
"Given the success of the flight test program so far, it is regrettable to hear of the delay," said All Nippon spokeswoman Megumi Tezuka.
The Japanese carrier did not include revenue from the 787 in its business plan this year so there will be no change to its profit outlook for the year ending March 31, Tezuka added.
A spokesman for Australia's Qantas Airways said it was too early to say what the impact would be.
"We are seeking more clarification from Boeing," the spokesman said.
Qantas in July brought forward its 787 delivery schedule, saying it would receive the first 50 of the aircraft it has on order in mid-2012.
Boeing said the delivery delay will not affect its own financial guidance.


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MiLB to donate $50 to 5000 Role Models of Excellence project for every Jumbo Shrimp home run
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Minor League Baseball has created a charitable component to the Triple-A Final Stretch of games that will benefit 501(c)3 charities in each Triple-A city. The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp will join the "Homers That Help" campaign to benefit 5000 Models of Excellence. The 5000 Role Models of Excellence
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Minor League Baseball has created a charitable component to the Triple-A Final Stretch of games that will benefit 501(c)3 charities in each Triple-A city.
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp will join the "Homers That Help" campaign to benefit 5000 Models of Excellence. The 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project aims to intervene in the lives of minority male youth in an effort to provide them with both positive role models and experiences in order to empower making good choices and encouraging healthy living, responsibility, respect and achievement.
"We are excited to be able to continue to find ways to better the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community," said Jumbo Shrimp Executive Vice President/General Manager Harold Craw. "5000 Models of Excellence does extraordinary work for youth through the state of Florida and Duval County. It is an honor for the Jumbo Shrimp to support their organization."
For each home run hit by the Jumbo Shrimp during the 10-game Triple-A Final Stretch, Minor League Baseball will donate $50 to 5000 Models of Excellence. The Triple-A club that hits the most home runs during the Final Stretch will also generate an extra $5,000 donation for their charity. Minor League Baseball is also donating to charities of choice for the other 29 Triple-A teams.
Through five games of the Triple-A Final Stretch, the Jumbo Shrimp have hit four home runs. Jacksonville's 4-1 record is 1.0 game behind both Durham and Nashville in the overall Triple-A East standings. The Jumbo Shrimp begin a five-game set at Gwinnett on Wednesday, which marks their final series of the 2021 season presented by FIS.
"Minor League Baseball teams have long been great community partners, and we are pleased to make a donation to each of these local charities on behalf of our Triple-A teams for their performance during the Triple-A Final Stretch," said Major League Baseball's Vice President, Minor League Operations and Development, Peter Woodfork. "These charities provide a variety of valuable services to their community, and it is our honor to recognize their efforts."
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US Air Force has a fix for two major KC-46 problems
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WASHINGTON — Two of the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker's major technical problems may be in the rearview mirror.
The U.S. Air Force on Feb. 1 announced it closed one of the Boeing-made aircraft's six category 1 deficiencies — which indicate problems that impact operations or pose a safety risk — and downgraded another to the lesser category 2 status.
The two issues both revolve around components for the KC-46′s Auxiliary Power Unit, or APU, which is manufactured by Honeywell. The first deficiency was logged after the Air Force documented APU duct clamps, which are located inside the tail of the aircraft, were becoming loose or cracking, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost said during a roundtable with reporters.
The second problem involves the APU drain mast, which Van Ovost characterized as "a small metal piece that's outside of the back of the airplane" that was not properly welded and would come loose during flight.
Ultimately, Boeing developed a new riveted duct clamp design similar to those used in the Boeing 777 fleet, the service said in a statement. After the Federal Aviation Administration certified the new part, the Air Force began retrofitting its KC-46s with the new duct clamps in October. Boeing has also started producing KC-46s with the new clamps on its line in Everett, Washington.
"We worked with Boeing, they had an engineering fix, and they not only found the fix [and] tested it but about 70 percent of the fielded fleet have already been retrofitted, and the rest will be done very shortly," Van Ovost said.
The Air Force in a statement said that the issue is no longer driving aircraft downtime or additional maintenance, and Van Ovost added that she is confident the new clamps will solve the problem.
Boeing has also come up with an improved version of the drain mast, which is currently going through testing.
"They are working through the retrofit option right now," Van Ovost said. "All of the airplanes that are flying right now and doing our testing, they all have that modification. And everything seems to be going well. So … our engineering team has authorized to take that one off the list."
The KC-46 has four remaining category 1 deficiencies: two involving the Remote Vision System that are expected to be resolved when a new version of the system is rolled out in 2023; a problem with the stiffness of the air refueling boom that keeps it from being able to refuel some of the planes in the service's inventory; and an issue with fuel leaks.
Boeing is locked into paying for all technical problems that cause it to exceed the $4.9 billion ceiling on the firm, fixed-price contract it signed in 2011. Thus, the company is financially responsible for fixing all deficiencies except for the boom issue, which is a change in the Air Force's requirements. So far, Boeing has racked up more than $5 billion in charges.
The Air Force intends to buy 179 KC-46s and has amassed 42 so far. However, because the KC-46 is unable to fly in an operational capacity due to the number of deficiencies, the Air Force has opted to slow the transition of aircrews from legacy tankers to the KC-46, and is only accepting two aircraft from Boeing per month.
"It's not just about iron. To get full operational capacity, it is about aircrew training, it's about maintenance crew training, our logistics support training and equipment. It's about our global supply chain around the world where we're going to be supporting these airplanes as they land. And it's about our facilities and our depot maintenance," Van Ovost said. "For right now, I don't need to be in a hurry to take them at a faster rate than about two a month."
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Days After Implant figure 1-33 Regulation of receptor performance, the Kd (A), and receptor concentration via either up-regulation (B) or down-regulation (C). In A, three saturation curves for a receptor are shown; the Kd's for binding curves K, L, and M are 10~10, 10"9, and 10~8 M, respectively. If the prevailing hormone concentration bathing the target cell is 10"® M, then depending upon the affinity of the receptor for its ligand, the level of receptor occupancy can vary from 80% (curve K) to 50% (curve L) to 20% (curve M). In B, homologous down-regulation of the insulin receptor is displayed; cultured lymphocytes were exposed to various concentrations of hormone, and total insulin receptor levels were determined. Gavin, J. R., Roth, J., Neville, D. M., De Meyts, P., and Buelle, D. N. (1974). Insulin-dependent regulation of insulin receptor concentration: A direct demonstration in cell culture. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 71 (84-88). In C homologous up-regulation of the prolactin receptor (PRL) is displayed. Hypophysectomized rats were implanted with pituitaries under the kidney capsule. The increase of the hormone in serum preceded the increase of the receptor in liver. (Posner, B. I., Kelly, P. A., and Friesen, H. G. (1975). Prolactin receptors in rat liver: Possible induction by prolactin. Science 188, 57-59.
free hormone and measuring the amount bound with some convenient assay. The half-maximal value of a plot of receptor-bound hormone (ordinate) versus total free hormone concentration (abscissa) approximates the dissociation constant, which will have a specific hormone concentration in molarity as its value. Hormone bound to receptor is corrected for nonspecific binding of the hormone to membranes. This can be measured conveniently if the hormone is radiolabeled by measuring receptor plus labeled hormone (radioactive) and receptor plus radioactive hormone after the addition of an excess (100-1000 times) of unlabeled hormone. The excess unlabeled hormone will displace the high-affinity hormone-binding sites but not the low-affinity nonspecific binding sites. Thus, when the "radioactive plus nonradioactive" curve is subtracted from the "radioactive" curve (Figure 1-30), an intermediate curve will represent specific binding to receptor. This is of critical importance when the receptor is measured in a system containing other proteins. As an approximation, 20 times the Kd value of hormone is usually enough to saturate the receptor.


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Q: How to set different log levels in Eclipse Scout framework? I'm having some trouble configuring proper logging in Eclipse Scout framework. My claims aren't that high as I only want to be able to set different log levels for different parts of my program in a configuration/properties/XML file.
The logging configuration in the config.ini of my Scout server plugin currently looks like this:
eclipse.consoleLog=true
org.eclipse.scout.log=eclipse
org.eclipse.scout.log.level=INFO

So as you can see this is the default logging configuration using Eclipse logging. It works fine for logging at a global level. The only thing I would like to do is to write something like this to set the different log levels:
packagename.ClassName=LOGLEVEL

As this is a very basic logging use case I think there must be some easy way to do this in Scout. Otherwise I would appreciate some help how to configure log4j, JUL or others for the use with Scout. The Eclipse Scout Wiki hasn't helped me so far. I created the example logger fragment to the host plugin 'org.eclipse.scout.commons' and removed the logging configuration lines from my config.ini but nothing happens. I'm also not sure where to put the log4j.poperties or how this is done otherwise.
I'm a bit ashamed for being unable to figure out such a basic problem, but would be very happy about some quick help.

A: I can tell you how to configure the logging if you choose the java logger (config.ini: org.eclipse.scout.log=java).
For the eclipse logger, I barely found any information at all.
Now, to configure the java (JUL) logging: You can do this in a file called logging.properties.
You can configure the logging by specifying the configuration file in your product:

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*Create your configuration file - say logging.properties inside the folder where your product file (for server or client respectively) is located. Typically this is in a folder named 'products'.

*Open your product file and go to the "Launching" tab and specify your logging configuration file in the "VM Arguments" tab. Use the "java.util.logging.config.file" system property to do so:

-Djava.util.logging.config.file="${resource_loc:/com.yourapp.server/products/logging.properties}"
Now, you should be able to specify the log levels in your new logging.properties file:
### Root level of your application, all below are ignored
.level=INFO
### Handlers
handlers=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
### Handler properties
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=FINEST
### Override the logging level for certain classes
com.yourapp.server.SomeService.level=FINE

Alternatively, you can also use a class to initialize the logging with the java.util.logging.config.class option. See this wiki page for a detailed example.
Also, when building a WAR file, you might be interested in this answer.