Policy makers, governments and international organizations increasingly recognize the urgent need for the forestry sector to improve its communication capacity and activity across countries and regions.
More than 35 communication workers, resource mobilizers, natural-resources managers and foresters from ten countries in the Asia-Pacific region met on 25 February 2016 in Clark, Pampanga, Philippines to learn about Participatory Development Communications (PDC) approaches in working with local communities.
Facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC: The Center for People and Forests, the fourth gathering of the Asia-Pacific Forest Communication Network (APFCN) was divided into three sessions: 1) capacity-building workshop on a PDC strategy that would enable local communities to identify their own development needs and the specific actions that could help improve their livelihoods; 2) training in how to work effectively with the media; and 3) an explanation of the purpose of APFCN.
Through role plays during the first session, participants learned how to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a PDC strategy; and identify and work with local and international media (such as, whether to go through popular or specialist media).
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The second session was led by Maria de Cristofaro, FAO communications officer on building relations with the media. Some tips shared included how to make contact with media, to identify a story, to create and send a pitch, run a press conference, handle media requests and deal with television interviews.
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Military Madness
New Internationalist 344 April 2002
West Papua / THE MILITARY
One terrible day in the highlands revealed what's at stake
for West Papuans – and the strategy of violent strife being
fermented by the Indonesian military, whose local commander
tried it out first in nearby East Timor.
As the Morning Star was still on the horizon on 6 October 2000, the Indonesian police in Wamena were using chain saws to fell every flag bearing its name. Two Papuans who got in the way were killed. Word travelled quickly. By the end of the afternoon, 40,000 highland men and women swept into town – naked and grease-painted, ready for a fight.
Imagine – wave upon wave of highland men in nothing but feathered head-dresses and long thin penis sheaths made from gourds; highland women with nothing but small grass skirts covering their crotch. They had walked and driven for hours to get there, carrying the only weapons they possessed – bows and arrows, spears and machetes. By the next day at least 37 were dead and 89 seriously injured.
All this is hard to imagine as I walk down the streets of Wamena now. This small highland town is the stepping-off point for tourists who want to visit the Baliem Valley, which my Lonely Planet guide describes as 'one of the last truly fascinating traditional areas in the world'. There were less than three thousand tourists in 2000 – but they are making this town into something it was never meant to be. I have arrived in November – the off-season. Cycle-driven rickshaws (becaks) race up and down the streets without passengers. Men, naked but for their penis gourds, travel into town with woven bracelets and cowry-shell necklaces, setting out their wares in front of empty hostels and hotels. Mounds of uncollected garbage dot the street. A barefoot child wants to hold my hand, befriending me before asking for rupiah. Then an open truck drives by carrying eight armed soldiers.
In a town touting for tourists it is impossible to avoid the military and police. The police are the first to greet you at the airport. They question what you're doing, then try to corner some of the tourist dollars. 'Would you like to buy this map? I have a friend who can rent you a motorcycle.' You cannot travel here without a permit. I had lied to get mine in Jayapura. If I'd told the police why I really wanted to come to Wamena – to talk about 6 October – they would have thrown me out of the country.
Thirteen Papuans were killed that day, adding to the widely accepted death toll of 100,000 indigenous people already killed by the Indonesian armed forces. Unofficially, West Papuans will tell you that the death toll is much higher: that more than 800,000 have died. There are presently 15 to 20,000 police and military in West Papua. So, what is the threat posed by Papuans in Wamena?
'It's the raising of our flag – the Morning Star,' says Amelia Jigibalom. 'All countries in the world have freedom when their flag is flying high.' If the spirit of independence in the hearts of West Papuans is the greatest – and unseen – enemy of the Indonesians, the most obvious outward sign of their resistance to Indonesian rule is the raising of the West Papuan flag. Amelia and four other local leaders – Reverend Obed Komba, Murjono Murib, Yafet Yelemaken and Reverend Yudas Meage – have gathered together to tell me about what took place here on 6 October. Obed is one of the 31 Presidium (Executive) members of the Papua Council. The other four are part of the broader decision-making body: panel members of the Papua Council. It's this that has made them the latest military target. Obed starts with the background.
When the Papua Council was formed to unite all West Papuan independence groups in June 2000, Indonesia's then President Wahid said Morning Star flags could be raised until 19 October 2000. But on 1 October in Wamena the head of police in the region, Daniel Suripati, came to Obed's house and told him that he would bring down the flags before then. He showed Obed a letter from Indonesia's police chief, Suroyo Bimantoro, giving the order. Obed told him this would cause conflict. So Obed arranged for another round of negotiations with police to take place on 6 October in Jayapura. Just before that meeting was scheduled to begin, Suripati gave orders for Wamena's flags to be taken down.
Obed's story confirms what I feared: that any independence the Indonesian Government gives may be clawed back by the armed forces. The Government has just passed much-publicized laws to give West Papua greater autonomy. These laws purport to give Papuans more say in government, but they allow the military to remain unregulated and police to be governed at a national level.
In Indonesia, the military are multi-functional. They are supposed to do what all armies do: protect the country from external threats. But they have also had a long-standing place in the social and economic life of the country. So the Generals sit in 38 national parliamentary seats. And the military has extensive corporate interests across Indonesia. West Papua is rich in natural resources. It has the biggest gold mine in the world, rainforests ripe for logging and oil so pure it needs little refining. These industries have proved lucrative sources of legal and illegal profit for the military. From just one entity – Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg gold and copper mine – the military has successfully demanded a one-off payment of $35 million, supplemented by an agreement to pay an annual contribution of $11 million. Most of this has been used to bolster the inadequate military budget for the region, so military accommodation and equipment are better here than elsewhere in Indonesia. But up to a third of this amount has gone straight into the pockets of a select group of officers and their subordinates.1 To protect their lucrative income stream, the Generals have stationed in West Papua at least one member of the armed forces (soldiers and police)for every 170 citizens. To justify this, they support conflicts that only they can quell.
The anger caused by the downing of the flags in Wamena was entirely predictable. When the 40,000 highlanders arrived, community leaders knew that blood would be shed. They jumped on to motorcycles and into cars and sped around the town cajoling, imploring, begging for peace. Slowly but surely, the highlanders put down their weapons – in the east, the south and the north. But not in the west.
I'm in the western neighbourhood of Woma – where much of the violence took place – the night after talking with the five leaders. Tonight there is no violence. Only a feast. Galile has come home from university, and a pig is cooked with coals in a 44-gallon drum to celebrate, with sweet-potato trimmings. It is a rare change from the usual vegetable fare. Thirty people eat in the back yard. They talk earnestly about the latest family 'fight'. Two of Galile's cousins want to marry – a brother and his sister. The family is divided about whether this should be allowed. Then the group starts laughing. The brother wants to pay five pigs as a bride-price. But he has no-one to give the pigs to – his father and the bride's father are one.
Galile is an English student. At the hospital on 6 October, when the doctors had fled, he helped sew up his friends and neighbours. I doubt if he'd ever used a needle before then. After the feast, Galile takes me down a narrow lane to the house next door. We sit on the floor and are shown picture after picture of the slaughter of 'Bloody Wamena' – bodies missing a head or a limb, machete cuts across faces and torsos, heads blown apart by gunshot wounds, charred human remains in burnt-out houses ... a child whose lifeless body is rolled into a ball, as if in hiding.
The dead faces in the pictures tell of an emerging division that will strengthen military strategy. While 13 of the 37 killed on 6 October were West Papuan, the others were non-Papuans – Indonesian migrants whom the locals call 'Javanese'. That day in October, a racial line was clearly and deliberately drawn across the community. After cutting down the flags, the police ran into 18 Javanese homes for cover. Once there, they started shooting people in the streets and markets. The West Papuans' response was immediate. They searched Javanese homes with bows, arrows and machetes raised, killing the few police they found and anyone who'd harboured them.
The deaths of West Papuans were never likely to excite official attention in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. The deaths of the Javanese were another thing. No accusing finger has ever been pointed at the Indonesian police, who started the riots. Instead, 80 Papuans were arrested, including a group of school children. Most were kicked and beaten with rifle butts and canes. Some were forced to drink urine and had rifles pointed into their mouths. One died in police custody. Seventeen faced trial. They were convicted of rebellion. For this, and other lesser charges, they were given prison sentences ranging from one to three-and-a-half years. Their appeals to the courts, to common sense and to decency have failed.
Then, on 11 October, the five leaders were arrested. Two of them were told in custody that they had incited Bloody Wamena. Not because they pulled a trigger or shot an arrow. But because they had helped form the Papua Council. This, the arresting police told them, created an expectation of independence in the community that led to the unfurling of the flags. They, too, have now been convicted of rebellion. Their sentences range from four to four-and-a-half years. Their appeals have yet to be heard.
But in the eyes of the armed forces the people of Wamena had still not paid a high enough price. Two months later, hundreds of kilometers away, Jayapura police conducted a retaliatory raid on hostels accommodating students and school children from the Wamena region. More than 100 were taken into police custody. Two were killed. The brutality meted out to the others has since been described by Oswald Iten, a Swiss journalist who was awaiting deportation in the same cell complex as the students. 'Blood sprayed the walls all the way up to the ceiling.'
West Papuans know that the legal system is being used against them. They are used to it. But, until Bloody Wamena, Papuans and non-Papuans had always lived peacefully together. Not any more. More than 13,500 non-Papuans have now fled the town. Already the military are exploiting the division. In fear for the safety of themselves and their families, 365 Javanese in Wamena now pay the military 500,000 rupiah ($50) per day to be trained to use a gun. It is the West Papuans at whom their guns are meant to take aim.
A new arrival in West Papua means that this strategy could soon set like cement. Major-General Mahidin Simbolon is the head of the Trikora military command in Jayapura. In 1999 he helped to oversee the operation to create, recruit and finance the local militia units that turned on East Timorese separatists. It didn't stop the independence of East Timor. But it may have more of a chance in West Papua, where the UN is not acting and the international community – distracted by Afghanistan and the aftermath of 11 September 2001 – is not watching.
The Morning Star flag no longer flies over Wamena. The armed forces have won the present battle. Now what about the war?
1 Lesley McCulloch 'Trifungsi: the role of the Indonesian Military in Business' (Bonn International Centre for Conversion, 2000) page 29 http://www.bicc.de/budget/events/milbus/confpapers/mcculloch.pdf
This article is from the April 2002 issue of New Internationalist.
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Monoclonal Antibody - Vitamin D3 Receptor (D2K6W) Rabbit mAb, UniProt ID P11473, Entrez ID 7421 #12550
Human, Mouse
Application Methods: Chromatin IP, Immunohistochemistry (Paraffin), Immunoprecipitation, Western Blotting
Background: Although originally identified based on their roles in calcium and bone homeostasis, the vitamin D3 receptor (VDR/NR1I1) and its ligand 1-α, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol [1α, 25(OH)2D3] are now recognized to exert biological effects in almost every tissue of the human body. Targets for vitamin D signaling include the central nervous system, skin, immune system, endocrine glands, kidney, and colon. At the cellular level, vitamin D signaling affects proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis of both normal and transformed cells. Within the steroid receptor gene family, VDR belongs to the NR1I subfamily that also includes NR1I2/PXR and NR1I3/CAR. The human VDR gene is composed of 11 exons that encode six domains (A-F) of the full length VDR protein, which includes an N-terminal dual zinc finger DNA binding domain, a C-terminal ligand-binding activity domain, and an extensive unstructured region that links the two functional domains together (1). Upon 1α, 25(OH)2D3 binding to the hormone ligand-binding domain, VDR is stabilized by the phosphorylation of Ser51 in the DNA-binding domain by PKC (2), and Ser208 in the hinge region by casein kinase II (3). VDR associates with the retinoic acid receptor (RXR) through dimerization domains. The 1α, 25(OH)2D3-VDR-RXR complex binds to the vitamin D response elements (VDREs) in the promoters of target genes through the DNA-binding domain. Ligand-induced conformation changes in VDR results in the dissociation of the co-repressor, silencing-mediator for retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT), and allows interaction of the VDR activation function (AF2) transactivation domain with transcriptional coactivators (1).Studies have shown that variable VDR expression is associated with different forms or stages of cancer and likely results from tissue-type variation in 1α, 25(OH)2D3 signaling. In the case of colon cancer, research indicates that VDR expression is relatively higher in hyperplastic colon polyps and during early tumorigenesis but diminishes in later stage, poorly differentiated tumors. Multiple studies suggest that 1α, 25(OH)2D3 may be an attractive target for development as a therapeutic anticancer agent (4,5) .
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Marriage on Mount Bonnell
Here's an excerpt from Where Love Once Lived near the beginning of the scene on Mount Bonnell in Austin, Texas.
Rain covered the mountain and the whole city, and it wasn't going to blow over in a matter of minutes, or even hours. Dark clouds hovered over their cars and blocked the sun and sky, covering them with an ominous darkness.
"Why do they have to get married out here, anyway?" Ron asked. "This is what happens when you don't get married in church."
"That's silly," Susan said. "They want to marry here because it's special to them. It's where they first kissed. That's what Josh told me."
"Really?" Liz said as she turned to face Ron and Susan. "Now, everything is beginning to make sense. Being new to Austin, I studied up on this place because of the wedding. Know what I found out? There's a legend that says a couple who climbs to the top together will fall in love."
"I never heard that," Brian said. He'd hiked to the top with Karen once or twice back when they were in college.
"There's more," Liz said. "A second trip to the top together, so says the legend, means they'll get engaged." Liz's voice got louder as she talked, and Brian knew she was getting excited. "A third time up that mountain, the story says, and there's a surefire chance for wedding bells. Does anybody know how many times Josh and Cindy were on that magic mountain together?"
"Well, it must have been at least three times," Susan said.
"Hogwash," Ron said.
The weather prevents the couple from getting married on Mount Bonnell, so Brian comes up with the idea of having the ceremony in the bookmobile parked at the base of the mountain. The bride loved the idea. Here is an excerpt that follows the wedding just after they get to the cabin for the reception:
Once inside, Cindy grabbed Brian's arm. "It was perfect, Uncle Brian. Getting married in the bookmobile was better than what we'd planned. Thank you so much."
Brian looked at Cindy and realized how much she'd matured in the past few months. It may have been the makeup and wedding dress, but it could have been because she was married and going out on her own and saying goodbye soon to her husband as he went into the marines.
The look on her face turned serious. "When I say perfect," she added, "you know I wish Dad had been here."
While a student at the University of Texas, I climbed to the top of Mount Bonnell many times. Usually with my buddies, the Combine, but sometimes with a special girlfriend. We felt safe there back then. If you go today, you'll see a sign saying to beware of crime in the area. I'm sure Mount Bonnell has a special place in the hearts of many Austinites. In Kit Frazier's Dead Copy , there is a scene on Mount Bonnell that describes the area perfectly.
Have you been to Mount Bonnell lately? Here is a photo I took of the steps leading to the top: http://sidneywfrost.com/StepsToMtBonnell.htm.
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Třída Al Jubail je třída korvet objednaných saúdským královským námořnictvem. Korvety patří do typové řady AVANTE španělské loděnice Navantia. Jejich příbuznými jsou venezuelské hlídkové lodě třídy Guaiquerí. Celkem bylo objednáno pět jednotek této třídy. Jejich hlavním úkolem jsou bojové operace, průzkum, ochrana výlučné ekonomické zóny, nebo mise SAR.

Stavba
Kontrakt na stavbu korvet byl projednáván od roku 2015. Stavbu pěti jednotek saúdská vláda objednala v červenci 2018 u španělské loděnice Navantia. Cena kontraktu dosahuje výše 1,8 miliardy euro. Zahájení stavby je plánováno na konec roku 2018 a jejich dodání do roku 2022. Plavidla postaví loděnice společnosti Navantia ve Ferrolu a Cádizu. V souvislosti se saúdskou intervencí v Jemenu prodej korvet kritizovaly organizace Amnesty International, Peace Foundation (FundiPau), Greenpeace a Oxfam. Slavnostní první řezání oceli na prototypovou jednotku Al Jubail proběhlo v San Fernandu 15. ledna 2019. Její kýl byl založen v říjnu 2019. Do služby byla přijata 31. března 2022.

Jednotky třídy Al Jubail:

Konstrukce
Korveta bude vybavena integrovaným můstkem MINERVA, ponese bojový řídící systém CATIZ, střelecký systém DORNA, komunikační systém HERMESYS, 3D vyhledávací radar, navigační radar, sonar a systém elektronického boje. Ponese kajuty pro až 111 osob. Na zveřejněných vizualizacích plavidlo nese 76mm kanón Leonardo Super Rapid ve dělové věži na přídi, 35mm kanón Oerlikon Millennium, dvě menší dálkově ovládané zbraňové stanice, 16násobné vertikální vypouštěcí silo pro střely ESSM, osm pprotilodních střel Harpoon a dva trojhlavňové 324mm protiponorkové torpédomety. Je vybaveno 5,5metrovým rychlým člunem RHIB. Na zádi se nachází přistávací plocha s hangárem pro vrtulník do hmotnosti 10 t. Pohonný systém je koncepce CODAD. Tvoří jej čtyři diesely MTU 12V 1163 TB93 o výkonu 4440 kW, pohánějící prostřednictvím dva převodovek RENK dva lodní šrouby se stavitelnými lopatkami Wärtsilä 5C11 CP. Nejvyšší rychlost dosahuje 25 uzlů. Dosah je 5000 námořních mil a vytrvalost 21 dnů.

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Fifty-one years ago, The Beatles arrived in America for the very first time to a sea of adoring fans with a serious case of Beatlemania.
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More than 400 pieces of Beatles relics, from records and photographs to rare pieces like the drum head Ringo Starr played during the band's famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. According to a press release, the exhibition even includes "an oral history booth where visitors can leave their own impressions of the timeless group."
The exhibition is curated by the Grammy Museum and Fab Four Exhibits and purported to be the largest private collection of Beatles memorabilia in the world.
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AM vysílače v Česku

RKS Moravské Budějovice je středovlnný vysílač sloužící k rozhlasovému vysílání, sestávající ze dvou stožárů umístěných na vrchu Velký Radvan nad Domamilí u Moravských Budějovic. Nejvyšší z nich měří 107,5 metru, menší pak 85,5 metru.

Výstavba vysílače proběhla v letech 1952–1954. Na vrcholu se nejprve objevil asi 50 metrů vysoký, trubkový stožár. V roce 1954 bylo zahájeno pravidelné vysílání. O rok později byl na vrcholu vybudován současný příhradový stožár a trubkový převezen do střediska Svinov. Za socialismu bylo primárním úkolem těchto stožárů rušit vysílání západního rozhlasu. Domamil rušila západní rozhlasy nejvíce do roku 1964. Pak nastalo uvolnění: rušily se jen některé frekvence, později pouze mluvené slovo či vybrané pořady. Po 21. srpnu 1968 vysílač obsadili ruští vojáci. Na konci 80. let vysílač stále méně rušil a více vysílal. Po roce 1989 už vlny z Domamile šířily i signál Svobodné Evropy. V roce 1988 byl do střediska instalován nový stožár typu UNIPOL. Roku 2002 byl vysílač modernizován, a díky tomu mohl být dálkově ovládán.

K vysílání z Domamile slouží stožáry vysoké 85,5 a 107,5 metru. Z vyššího šířila na frekvenci 1332 kHz své vysílání stanice ČRo Dvojka. Ve všední dny od 4:00 do půlnoci, o víkendu od 5:00. Vysílání bylo ukončeno 31. prosince 2021 ve 23:59:59. Byla odtud šířena také stanice Český Impuls, která zde vysílala od roku 2015 do 31. prosince 2021, kdy ukončila vysílání společně s Českým rozhlasem. Budoucnost vysílačů je zatím neznámá.

Dříve vysílané rozhlasové stanice

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In nanomedicine, physicochemical properties of the nanocarrier affect the nanoparticle's pharmacokinetics and biodistribution, which are also decisive for the passive targeting and nonspecific cellular uptake of nanoparticles. Size and surface charge are, consequently, two main determining factors in nanomedicine applications. Another important parameter which has received much less attention is the morphology (shape) of the nanocarrier. In order to investigate the morphology effect on the extent of cellular internalization, two similarly sized but differently shaped rod-like and spherical mesoporous silica nanoparticles were synthesized, characterized and functionalized to yield different surface charges. The uptake in two different cancer cell lines was investigated as a function of particle shape, coating (organic modification), surface charge and dose. According to the presented results, particle morphology is a decisive property regardless of both the different surface charges and doses tested, whereby rod-like particles internalized more efficiently in both cell lines. At lower doses whereby the shape-induced advantage is less dominant, charge-induced effects can, however, be used to fine-tune the cellular uptake as a prospective 'secondary' uptake regulator for tight dose control in nanoparticle-based drug formulations.


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Does Real Locality Exist?
After the post on computational locality, it is interesting to examine our understanding of physical locality. There is a fascinating storyline in the history of physics.
Einstein is one of the greatest physicists. However, he was always troubled by quantum mechanics whose results, unlike Newton mechanics, are inherently probabilistic rather than deterministic. For example, his quote "God does not play dice with the universe" was actually a direct criticism.
The discovery of two-particle quantum entanglement gave him a chance to formulate his objection precisely. In 1935, Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen distributed the so-called EPR paradox. They laid out four premises of a physics theory:
[Greenberger et al. 1990] state in EPR's words.
(i) Perfect correlation: If the spins of particles 1 and 2 are measured along the same direction, then with certainty the outcomes will be found to be opposite.
(ii) Locality: "Since at the time the two systems no longer interact, no real change can take place in the second system in consequence of anything that may be done to the first system."
(iii) Reality: "If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding to this physical quantity."
(iv) Completeness: "Every element of the physical reality must have a counterpart in the [complete] physical theory."
For a two-particle entanglement, the measurement of particle 1 can cause no real change in particle 2. Until the measurement, the states of particles 1 and 2 have no definite values from the theory of quantum mechanics. Therefore, as a theory quantum mechanics is incomplete.
These objections were unresolved (and largely ignored) by physicists in the next fifty years. A series of studies on Bell Inequality were made, but the experimental setups were open to criticism.
In late 1980s, researchers at University of Rochester especially Leonard Mandel, Professor of Physics and Optics, and his students followed on their studies on the quantum properties of light and invented a technique called parametric down-conversion to produce entangled photons.
Daniel Greenberger, while visitingVienna with Anton Zeilinger, found that a perfect correlation among three particles was enough to disprove EPR. Michael Horne, back at Boston, discovered Mandel's two-particle interference design based on a "folded diamond. "
The paper by Greenberger et al. was published in 1990. It shows that for 3 or more particle entanglement, the four EPR premises would derive contradictory results. No theory that meets these four premises can explain the perfect correlation in such entanglements. In the proof by Greenberger et al., (Section III, slightly more than 1 page), "the manipulation of an additional degree of freedom is essential to the exhibition of a contradiction."
The contradiction shows that either locality or reality assumptions do not hold. The combination of the two is now called "local realism."
Scully et al. wrote that "In an ingenious experiment with [Zhe-Yu] Ou, Leonard utilized polarization entanglement for photon pairs produced in down conversion to achieve a violation of Bell's inequality (i.e., local realism)."
I first heard about the story from the book by Aczel and taught the 1990 paper in the opening lecture of a graduate seminar in Spring 2005 on Modeling and Improving Large-Scale Program Behavior.
Greenberger, Daniel M., et al. "Bell's theorem without inequalities." Am. J. Phys 58.12 (1990): 1131-1143.
ROBERT J. SCULLY, MARLAN O. SCULLY, AND H. JEFF KIMBLE, "Leonard Mandel," Biographical Memoirs: Volume 87, The National Academies Press (2005)
Zhe-Yu Ou and Leonard Mandel. Violation of Bell's inequality and classical probability in a two-photon correlation experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett.61(1988):50.
Amir D. Aczel, Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics. Random House, Inc. (2002)
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In case your invitation got lost in the mail, our royal wedding TV guide will show you the best places to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. Whether you plan on having a watch party or are just planning on watching it in your PJs (live coverage starts around 3 a.m.), be in the know with our royal wedding guide.
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The royal wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton is this Friday, April 29th, 2011. The festivities begin at 9 a.m. in London – which means 3 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Set your alarms, auto-set the coffee and get ready to wach the extravagant $32 million royal wedding! But what channel should you tune into on TV?
The BBC is planning on two days of royal wedding coverage, while TLC is hosting a party in New York's Times Square with giant billboards telecasting the wedding.
If you are not in NYC, here is a round-up of where you can watch the Royal Wedding on TV this Friday. Please note that all times are in EDT and are subject to change:
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MSNBC and BBC America: Coverage starts at 3 a.m. EDT; BBC coverage lasts until 7p.m.
ABC: Coverage runs from 4 a.m.-10 a.m.; Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters anchoring, as well as India Hicks who was a bridesmaid for Princess Diana
NBC: Coverage runs from 4 a.m. – 10 a.m.; Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry, Al Roker and Brian Williams anchoring
Fox News: Coverage runs from 4 a.m.- 9 a.m.; Shepard Smith and Joan Lunden and royal butler Paul Burrell
CNN: Coverage runs from 4 a.m.-10 a.m.; anchored by Anderson Cooper, Morgan Piers and Cat Deeley
CBS:Coverage runs from 5 a.m.-11 a.m.; Katie Couric and Erica Hill anchoring
TLC : Coverage runs from 4 a.m.-11 a.m.; anchored by Clinton Kelly and Randy Fenoli
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Thread: Google Safe Search ?!?!
Ok my homepage is google.com of course , so i open firefox and it takes me to http://www.google.com/xhtml Google Safe Search ? What is this? I do have google desktop search and gmail notifier installed ? does it have anything to do with those ?
I just recently came across that in Mozilla. So I check it in IE and the regular google page came up. Refreshed a few times in Mozilla, and the mobile page still came up (and had me worried since I don't like its looks). I clicked around, and then decided to exit Mozilla and tried again and after that it worked normally.
Works fine today, i didn't change any options at all, returned to normal by itself, weird !


I am beginning to think that Google's business plan is to troll the blogosphere, read about something nifty that someone else is already doing, copy it and hope someone with an actual product to sell will by an ad on it. I guess the fact that approach worked out so well for search has imbedded it in Google's corporate brain.
That, or this is the lamest attempt yet to attract users to Google Talk.
C|Net reports that Google is now offering to track the music you listen to on your computer and display it for all the world to see. Excuse me, but Last.fm and probably scads of other services do that already. Want to be anonymous, then sign up at Last.fm under the user name Antigone Tellya.
Google calls this service Google Music Trends. What's next, Google Potty Trends (surely Charmin would advertise)? I bet Sealy Posturpedic is anxiously awaiting Google Sleeping Trends.
Of course in order to use this latest head scratcher, you have to install Google Talk. And taking a page from the Real Network book, opting in to the Google Music Trends setting on Google Talk automatically enables Google Personalized Search.
One thing I'll say about Google- it is consistent.
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July 27th is the birthday of Captain Samuel Whittemore (born in 1694, died February 3, 1793). He was an English-born American farmer and soldier. He was eighty years of age when he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American War of Independence. Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By …
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Regular visitors to SurvivalBlog no doubt share the desire for greater independence and are assisted by the virtues of frugality and common sense. Like many of you, I search for alternative products and services that fit my budget, lifestyle, and values. One line item that proved difficult to match my requirements but was a necessary evil for years was health insurance. I have a family with young children and as much as I admire pioneers and the old ways of doing things, I could not responsibly choose to forgo coverage altogether. Thankfully about six years ago I researched Christian health …
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Q: Spring / Hibernate access different database in same mySQL I'm attempting to access two databases simultaneously from the same Java class in Spring/hibernate. They are identical in terms of structure. and they both reside in the same mySql instance. I'll call them "myDatabaseA" and "myDatabaseB".
My plan is to replicate the DAO and Entity classes into different packages, for example "com.entities.packageA" and "com.entities.packageB".  In the entities, I'll use the "catalog" keyword of the table annotation to disambiguate the databases, e.g.
@Entity
@Table(catalog="myDatabaseB", name = "myTable1")

Finally, in the Session Factory bean, I will attempt to specify the entities for both databases in the "basePackages" property as follows:
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<b:bean id="sessionFactory" class="com.mycompany.spring.ExtendedAnnotationSessionFactoryBean"">
    <b:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <b:property name="configurationClass" value="org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration" />
    <b:property name="hibernateProperties" ref="hibernateProperties" />
    <b:property name="entityInterceptor" ref="baseEntityInterceptor" />
    <b:property name="basePackages">
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            <b:value>com.entities.myPackageA</b:value>
            <b:value>com.entities.myPackageB</b:value>
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</b:bean>

In the code, when accessing myDatabaseA, I'll use the entities and daos from "myPackageA", and myPackageB when accessing myDatabaseB.
Does this make sense? I'm kind of new to Spring/Hibernate, so this could be way off base.

A: If the tables are identical you don't have to replicate the classes. Just have two dataSource and two sessionFactories.  While configuring the dataSource the jdbcUrl can specifiy the database name.
If different databases need to be used based on some parameter like user who is accessing it you can look at using a dynamic routing datasource

A: Define two different sessionFactories in your application-config file, both pointing to different databases.
When you are autowiring  these two sessionFactories in your application, use @Qualifier annotation to load both of them.In this way, you will get access to both the databases in your application by using corresponding sessionFactory.

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It's been about 10 months since the world has heard the angelic voice of actual prince Zayn Malik. But thanks to a higher power that's all changed.
After announcing his new single earlier this week, the former One Direction member finally released his new music video for "Pillowtalk". The video is very dark and artsy, and while I don't understand the symbolism behind the flashy lights and the flowers, it's still pretty sensual and sexy. Malik cast real life girlfriend Gigi Hadid as his love interest in the video which makes it that much better.
Now with a song called "Pillowtalk" I was expecting something a little more sexual. I was thinking less clothes and more pillows. But nevertheless the video was still nice. I was expecting more from the song though. I imagined Zayn going for more of The Weeknd sound. But that being said, the more I listen to it the more I enjoy it. To be honest I'm just glad to have my brown prince back and making sweet music.
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OH MY ZAYN!
The day is finally here. The day we have all been eagerly waiting for. No, it's not the second coming of Jesus Christ, even though this is equally as important. It's the day that former One Direction band member and regulation hottie Zayn Malik announced his first solo song.
7 Reasons Why The Little Mermaid is the most LGBT Friendly Movie Ever.
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If you know me then you know that I am a huge Disney freak. Even at the prime age of 24 I still relish my old Disney movies. Who needs to go out in public when I can stay in with Cinderella, Mulan, and Tarzan? But out of all the great Disney movies out there my favourite Disney movie, perhaps my favourite movie of all time, is The Little Mermaid. I don't even know how to put into words my love of this movie. Ever since I watched it when I was a toddler, I was mesmerized. Even my parents couldn't understand why I was so infatuated by a mermaid princess. Well, after watching Ariel turn into a human for the 723523452459 time I think I finally figured why I was so drawn to this movie. The Little Mermaid is actually LGBT friendly. Growing up as a young closeted gay The Little Mermaid was probably my first foray into the gay community.
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As part of my whole "new year, new me" resolution, I've decided to revive my love of reading. Reading is something I've always enjoyed as a kid. I mean every millennial kid completely devoured young adult novels like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Gossip Girl. But over the years I've noticed myself putting down the books and picking up my television remote. Now don't get me wrong, I'm still going to watch copious amounts of TV, but one of my new year's resolutions is to Netflix less and read more. So for my first book of the new year I chose none other than the Queen Bey's biography, or as I like to call it: her Bey-ography.
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Had a BBQ by the beach with my girlz and guys from secondary school friend at PD on New Year's Eve. Food was amazing but the whole thing was really tiring. Initial plan for drinks and games at our apartment was cancelled as most of us were very tired after a long day of packing and getting there and drinks shopping. It was all worth it as the food was amazing. My first time grilling the special BBQ items. Thank you to Deane and Guy for providing liquor which we consumed only 10%. Hahaha. Shall save it for next time ya!!
I would like to take this opportunity to list out me and Calvin's top 10 favourite food for year 2010. It was indeed a great year for food to both of us. Amazing findings, here and there!! Let's begin, shall we.
1. Warm chocolate pudding cake from Café Café.
Calvin found this place for our post Valentine's dinner. This will be our first time celebrating Valentine's day together. Valentine's day actually fell on the first day of Chinese New Year. I went back to Ipoh while he stayed at KL. So we celebrated Valentine's day once I got back from Ipoh. The dinner experience was amazing and romantic. Love the ambience of the restaurant. The best part of the dinner will be our dessert. I remembered clearly that both of us were actually very full after our main dishes. But we definitely don't want to waste this piece of heaven. Aww…. I miss this very much. Definitely will be back for more and more and more. Hehe.
I am always a big fan of steamboat. Dad introduced us to this yummy steamboat at Taman Connaught. I love their soup very much because it was very appetizing. Not too spicy for Calvin, which is just perfect for me. It was also through this dish that I started to like steamboat with fried yam. Absolutely yummy. Hehe.
I am not a big fan of bread but I will never ever say no to a meal at Subway. I can finish a 6 inch sandwich all by myself. When The Sun has vouchers for Buy 1 Free 1, it was like striking lottery for both me and Calvin. I love it that I got to choose what I want and don't want to be on my sandwich, and also what type of sauce. I also started to accept white bread more compared to last time. Ever since my parents started on the whole meal bread, I find white bread very yucky and milky. Not anymore, thanks to Subway. Hehe.
This has been my favourite BKT of all time ever since I was small. When I introduced it to Calvin when he was still working in Times Square, he love it as much as I do. I was surprised at times when he suggested to have TTK for dinner after work. But ever since he moved back to Dataran Sunway, we have not been to this place for quite some time. When I mentioned it to him that day, he was feeling it as well. Awww…..
Whenever I am staying overnight at Calvin's place, I will try to beg him for Snowflake dessert at night. Everytime we went there, this is the only thing that we will order to be shared. Other combination don't look appetizing at all. I love the taro balls, chewy and yummy. Calvin preferred to eat the dessert together with the fresh milk but I totally hate it. So he will pour bit by bit of the milk onto his own spoon before consuming it. However you eat it, this will still be one of the thirst quencher dessert of the year. Hehe.
Calvin found this place all by himself. This is the place where we celebrated our first year anniversary and also my last day working at AAN. A lot of mixed feeling but then the surprise and all the effort that he made to plan for the dinner blown me away. All of the food that we ordered that night were amazingly good. Not to mention that we have the whole evening in the restaurant by ourselves. Really an unforgettable evening for me *shy* This just proves that what an amazing guy Calvin is and that I am right for my decision in choosing him. Hehe. Ohh, someone should be blushing by the time he reads this. Hehe.
Up until now, I still haven't found out the name of this restaurant. Pui See first introduced this place to me few years ago and I brought Calvin back to this place for dinner. Even though just the two of us, we managed to finish up to 95% of the food on the big wok. Although a little bit spicy for Calvin, but he enjoyed the food as well. The smartest decision that we made was adding nissin noddle to the dish. The noodle went extremely well together with the chicken meat, cabbage and Korean nin gou. Ahhh… I want somemore!!! Hehe.
Since we have yet to try the Unagi from Jyu Ryuku, Tomoe's Unagi Don is still at the top position for the best unagi!!. Congrats!! With no stale taste at all, the unagi was served warm with not too salty/sweet sauce on top of a layer of Japanese rice. Both of us love the unagi very much and Calvin did not even leave one rice in the container at the end of the meal. That is a sign that he really love the unagi very much. Hehe.
9. Kissaten's mushroom spaghetti with half boiled egg.
I was not a big fan of half boiled egg but this spaghetti abolished that phrase once and for all. Calvin is a big fan of half boiled egg, in fact he's a big fan of egg dishes. Haha. But when you mix the half boiled egg evenly with the spaghetti and mushroom, it's really yummy. Kissaten is a fusion japanese restaurant at Jaya One. Their char siew pizza is amazing as well but I don't have a photograph of it. I also choose this place to be my farewell dinner with my ex-colleagues. Hehe.
I love this place very much because it reminds me of the amazing charcoal grilled buffet dinner that I had in Taiwan. It was the best meal for my Taiwan trip. Hope to be back again some time in the future with Calvin. I know he will enjoy that place as much as I do. But I forgot the name of the place…. wuu wuu wuu. But there's a similar shop at Pandan Indah. I read about it from other blog and insist to try this place out with Calvin. The grilled pork and taufu pok are my favourite. They have chicken, meat and beef as well. It's really worth all the sweat and heat and even at the end of the day, we left the restaurant with bbq as our new perfume. Haha.
There, our top 10 favourite food of year 2010. Actually I have a full photo album in my laptop for our favourite food, but it's too much to list out. So I only select the top 10 of the best, and we even went back for 2nd and 3rd visits already for some of the restaurant.
Happy New Year once again. More good food for everyone!!! WOoohooooo!!
Ohhh..... hehe. Actually I was referring to the restaurant in Taiwan, not the one in Pandan Indah. Hehe.


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Q: FeathersJS REST return records with specific value I have a MySQL database with a table named 'posts' I'm reading from via FeathersJS and feathers-sequelize. Currently I have a working prototype with the following code which returns the desired result but only to the console, and also the entire contents of the posts table to the /posts route, however I only want to return a specific set of records from the table to /posts.
The table has a column called post_status, in which a post could be 'published' or 'draft'. I only want to return the 'published' records to /posts, but want to achieve this serverside as opposed to /posts?status=published. How can this be achieved?
See below code:

const path = require('path');
const feathers = require('@feathersjs/feathers');
const express = require('@feathersjs/express');
const socketio = require('@feathersjs/socketio');

const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const service = require('feathers-sequelize');

const sequelize = new Sequelize('sandbox', 'sandbox', 'secretpassword', {
  host: 'localhost',
  dialect: 'mysql',

  pool: {
    max: 5,
    min: 0,
    acquire: 30000,
    idle: 10000
  },

  operatorsAliases: false
});

const Post = sequelize.define('posts', {
  post_title: Sequelize.STRING
},
{
  timestamps: false,
  underscored: true,
});

// Create an Express compatible Feathers application instance.
const app = express(feathers());

// Turn on JSON parser for REST services
app.use(express.json());
// Turn on URL-encoded parser for REST services
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
// Enable REST services
app.configure(express.rest());
// Enable Socket.io services
app.configure(socketio());

app.use(express.errorHandler());

//This works fine to return to the console but not to /posts
Post.findAll({
where: {
  post_status: 'published'
}
}) .then(posts => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(posts));
  });

//This returns the entire contents of the posts table to /posts
app.use('/posts', service({
  Model: Post,
  paginate: {
    default: 10,
    max: 100
  },
}));

// Start the server
const port = 3030;

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Feathers server listening on port ${port}`);
});

I tried the 'where' from the findAll method in the service but this did not change the output, or produce any error.

A: I resolved this by using a where clause in the find method on the service, see below complete code:

const path = require('path');
const feathers = require('@feathersjs/feathers');
const express = require('@feathersjs/express');
const socketio = require('@feathersjs/socketio');

const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const service = require('feathers-sequelize');

const sequelize = new Sequelize('sandbox', 'sandbox', 'secretpassword', {
  host: 'localhost',
  dialect: 'mysql',

  pool: {
    max: 5,
    min: 0,
    acquire: 30000,
    idle: 10000
  },

  operatorsAliases: false
});

const Post = sequelize.define('posts', {
  post_title: Sequelize.STRING,
  post_status: Sequelize.STRING

},
{
  timestamps: false,
  underscored: true,
});

// Create an Express compatible Feathers application instance.
const app = express(feathers());

// Turn on JSON parser for REST services
app.use(express.json());
// Turn on URL-encoded parser for REST services
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
// Enable REST services
app.configure(express.rest());
// Enable Socket.io services
app.configure(socketio());

app.use(express.errorHandler());

const myService = {
  find(params) {
    let posts = Post.findAll({
      where: {
        post_status: 'published'
      }
    });

    return Promise.resolve(posts);
  },
  get(id, params) {},
  create(data, params) {},
  update(id, data, params) {},
  patch(id, data, params) {},
  remove(id, params) {},
  setup(app, path) {}
}

app.use('/posts', myService);

// Start the server
const port = 3030;

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Feathers server listening on port ${port}`);
});


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Odd Lots
German model train manufacturer Marklin has filed for bankruptcy, though there is still some hope that the 150-year-old firm will remain in business. Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.
Scientific American has an interesting retrospective on the infamous nuclear-powered B-36 that actually flew back in the late 1950s, with a live, air-cooled fission reactor in its rear bomb bay. I'm less twitchy about nuclear than almost anyone I know, and that item still gives me pause. (I do think that the stock B-36 was the coolest military aircraft of the transition period between props and jets, and one of the coolest of all time, period.)
From Rich Rostrom comes an aerial photo of the Fovant Badges, which are a group of military insignia cut into the Wiltshire chalk downs in southern England. They date back to WWI, and have been laboriously maintained since then–a job and a half, considering that some are over 200 feet wide.
When I first heard Cher's uber-irritating hit "Believe" years ago I wanted to know what sort of processing was going on with her audio. I didn't want to know enough to search too deeply, but it recently turned up on Slashdot. The gadget is called Auto-Tune. And Cher can actually sing when she wants to; one wonders what it could do for no-voicers like Bob Dylan.
I've never paid much attention to KDE's Kate editor, but discovered today to my delight that it has syntax highlighting for NASM. I'd basically given up trying to find a lightweight Linux assembly language IDE to describe in my book, but half an hour of lightweight fooling around with it makes me think that Kate might be the one. Now all I have to do is become an expert in the next couple of weeks. Are there any books on it, print or e? I looked around and have found nothing so far.
From the Words I Didn't Know Until Yesterday Department: interpunct, which is a small dot used originally in Latin to unambiguously mark the spaces between words. It's still used today to show you where the invisible characters are on your screen, and I recognized the concept immediately, but never knew what it was called.
From ditto: A placket is a flap of cloth that hides a button on fancy clothes. I have a pair of pants with one, and again, never knew what it was called until very recently.
Pete Albrecht pointed out a source of very nice cast aluminum house numbers in the Craftsman style–though at prices like these, I'm glad I have only a 3-digit address.
From the Painting the Devil on the Wall Department: One of the nation's leading promotors of monster truck shows was run over and killed by a monster truck at one of his own shows. (Again, thanks to Pete for the link.)
From Ed Keefe comes a pointer to a stunt kite fitted out with a microcontroller, an accelerometer, and LEDs so that it could be flown at night and turn different colors depending on how fast it's going and which way it's pointing. I flew a kite at night in 1965 and only knew what it was doing by the crackle noise it made and how hard it pulled on the string. Technology advances…
The Yard's All Out of 3 X 4s…
I've gotten far enough into the revision of Assembly language Step By Step that I need to have a Linux machine running up here in my office all the time. I often spend hours in Ubuntu on this dual-boot machine, but there are still some things I need to do in Windows, and booting in and out to bounce from one to the other is time wasted, and pointless when I have old PCs stacked like cordwood in the basement.
I have one of the very cool SX270 stainless-steel all-in-one brackets that combines a 10cm VESA monitor mount with a couple of tangs to hold an SX270 mini-PC behind the monitor. It makes for a very compact system, and in fact it was the integration of the SX270 and the monitor on the bracket that first brought the SX270 to my attention some years back, when I saw a couple of them at our optometrist's office. So I took my spare SX270, parked it on the bracket, dug a Dell keyboard and a mouse out of the odd lots box, and realized that I did not have a VESA monitor to hang on it. So off we went to Best Buy, where I learned from the earnest young woman in the computer department that they had not sold 4:3 monitors for almost a year now. Every single one in the long line on display was 16:9.
I know why this is the case (home theater) and whereas it wouldn't be my first choice, I'm willing to use that form factor, and really needed a monitor. I was apprehensive for a simple reason: The SX270 was made in 2003, and I don't recall the machine supporting the 1600 X 900 resolution of the smaller 16:9 LCDs. I took a chance, figuring (or at least hoping) that I could rummage around online and come up with a newer driver for the Intel 82865G graphics chipset.
What I bought was a Samsung SyncMaster 2033SW. It's VESA-compliant, and I bolted it to the stainless steel bracket without difficulty. It was on sale for $179. The machine itself cost me less than that; I think $150 on eBay some time last summer. 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, with XP Pro–used and used hard, and ugly up close, but completely functional. I went up to Dell's site to see if newer video drivers were available, but what they had was what I had. The closest that Windows could come to 1600 X 900 was 1280 X 768. The monitor centered the smaller raster in the middle of its screen, with the surrounding pixels dark. There was a "stretch" option that spread the raster out to the full extent of the screen, but it looked hideous.
Fortunately, Windows wasn't the goal here. I booted the Ubuntu Intrepid installer CD in LiveCD mode to see what the OS would detect and how it would respond, considering that the machine dates back to 2003. Without a grunt of complaint, it detected the graphics hardware and loaded a 1600 X 900 driver. I tried a few things, pronounced it good, and told the OS to go install itself in earnest. Twenty minutes later, I was downloading NASM, Kdbg, the Bless Hex Editor, Nemiver, ddd, and a few other things through the Synaptic Package Manager. Not once did I have to face a command line. Everything Just Worked. The age of the machine (apparent from its collection of dents and inventory-tag stickum) didn't seem to matter at all.
The display is gorgeous; it's easily the brightest LCD I've ever seen. The whole gadget takes up about as little space as anything with a 20″ monitor possibly could. And after spending an afternoon with it, I realize that a long horizontal aspect can be handy: Editor on the right, Kdbg on the left, and just enough of a terminal peeking out under the editor to run make as needed.
I've been fooling with Linux intermittently for well over ten years, and the craziness of today's events still boggles me: It installed much faster and way more easily than Windows generally does, and on old hardware to boot. This was not the case in 1999, let me tell you. If MS isn't in trouble by now, it's nobody's fault but our own.
The United States has overtaken Germany as the world's lead producer of wind energy, measured in total kilowatts. Way to go–keeping in mind that Germany still beats us all hollow with kilowatts per capita. I'm a big believer in NWS, in that order, and part of the reason N comes before W is that over the past few years, when Carol and I have passed giant wind turbines along I-80 on our way to and from Chicago, they were only turning about a third of the time. Wind energy is great, but it does not stand alone.
Small children should be allowed to get dirty as a way of building their immune systems. I was digging in the back yard since before I can remember, and never had much trouble with allergies. There may be a downside to our dirt- and germ-averse culture that has nothing to do with the risk of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. (With Gretchen's approval, I think I'm going to buy our nieces a couple of garden trowels next Christmas…)
Few people today remember that Apple Computer was once a Pascal shop, and had a promo poster in the late 70s incorporating a classic "railroad" diagram of Pascal language syntax. Yes, the 70s really did look like that. (At least it wasn't all done in Harvest Gold.) Thanks to Paul Santa-Maria for the link. Paul created his own version of the poster in black and white, which I hope he makes available at some point. The Waite Group sold (or gave away; not sure if it was a boom promo) a similar card in the same era, but it's long since vanished from my collection.
Has anyone here ever read any of the Very Short Introduction books from Oxford University Press? Are they useful? I just ordered several, and I'm curious as to the quality of the series. I'll report here once the books show up and I've had a chance to read them. There are many subjects I'm interested in sufficiently to read 150 pages on, but not 600 pages.
A German publisher wrote an article claiming that cheaper ebooks will put them out of business. (The article is in German; take what you can from the English summary or if you know the language, click through to the original.) The gist is that there are special costs associated with e-publishing that more than balance the special costs associated with print publishing. My take: If true, it's only until we get up to speed. (I also think it may be true that many publishers don't really understand all the forces that bear on how they make their money. Many things lead up to the cash-register's beep, not all of them obvious.
I'm a lot less sanguine about the OLPC than I used to be, but the recent unveiling of future designs intrigues me: The next-gen OLPC will have two displays, and can be held and read portrait-style, like a book. When a keyboard is needed, rotate the device 90, and one of the two displays becomes a keyboard. Very cool, and something like that should be sold worldwide by every electronics retailer. (Their peculiar distribution mechanism will eventually be the end of them.)
Cleaning Up 21-Year-Old Writing
Context changes are expensive, whether you're a writer or an operating system. That's why I like long, uninterrupted days to write. Writing in small chunks on large projects never worked well for me; I'd rather pull three ten-hour days than find thirty disjointed hours in the course of a week and waste half of each of them trying to recover my train of thought.
So it's been with the fourth edition of Assembly Language Step By Step. I've spent most of the last four days blasting away at it, and if I haven't returned to the Carb Wars here, that's the reason. All in good time.
This is a big project, probably the biggest I've attempted since Drive-by Wi-Fi Guide, and it's likely to be eating my life until June. There's a great deal of new material to be written, and a lot of concepts to be covered that just weren't issues under DOS. For example, when you work at the assembly level under Linux, endianness comes into play and needs to be explained, even though 85% of the world's desktop hardware is little-endian.
That's actually been fun; as I've said many times, the very best way to make sure you understand something is to explain it to somebody else. What's been humbling is running into writing bad enough to make me wince. Every so often, I have to push back in my chair, heave a deep sigh, and ask myself the purely rhetorical question: "Geez. Did I write that?" (I did. 21 years ago. Practice helps…)
No problem; this is what editors do, though I am very glad that we're not using typewriters anymore. And unlike certain other projects I've worked on, the author in this case takes criticism well.


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Gallery: 2010 New York International Auto Show
by Driving | March 31, 2010
The new Subaru Impreza WRX STI is seen on April 1, 2010 at the New York Auto Show in New York. The auto show runs April 2-11.
Stan Honda, AFP/Getty Images
The new Hyundai Equus luxury car is introduced at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
In this handout photo provided by Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi's all-new Crossover Utility Vehicle (CUV) sits on display during Mitsubishi's press event at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Emile Wamsteker, Mitsubishi via Getty Images
In this handout photo provided by Mitsubishi, President and CEO of Mitsubishi N.A., Shinichi Kurihara, introduces Mitsubishi's all-new Crossover Utility Vehicle (CUV) during Mitsubishi's press event at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 at the Javits Center in New York City.
A model holds open the door to a Chrysler Delta concept car on the showroom floor at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
Workmen remove the mock-up of a large, boxy car, which Mini gave the impression they would introduced as an April Fools Joke at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York. Instead, they introduced the Mini Cooper S Countryman car.
A Smart ForTwo vehicles on display at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
The Mini Cooper S Countryman introduced at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
A Chrysler Challenger R/T on the showroom floor at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
The newly introduced BMW 535i at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
A Saab 95 on display at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
The Bentley Supersports Convertible, introduced at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
Detail of front end of the new Hyundai Equus luxury car, introduced at the New York International Auto Show April 1, 2010 in New York.
The Infiniti Essence concept car, introduced at the New York International Auto Show March 31, 2010 in New York.
Infiniti Essence concept.
Patricia Cancilla, Canwest News Service
Detail of the front of the Infiniti Essence concept car, introduced at the New York International Auto Show March 31, 2010 in New York.
The new Kia Optima is unveiled on April 1, 2010 at the New York Auto Show in New York. The auto show runs April 2-11.
The World Car of the Year, the Volkswagen Polo on display on April 1, 2010 at the New York Auto Show in New York. The auto show runs April 2-11.
The rear wing on the new Subaru Impreza WRX STI is seen on April 1, 2010 at the New York Auto Show in New York. The auto show runs April 2-11.
Audi R8 Spyder.
Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid.
Mazda2.
2010 Porsche Boxster Spyder.
Rolls-Royce Ghost.
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Electrical Switch and Connector Manufacturing
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By Anne Ashford
Israel and Palestine: Questions of Leadership
Two events in the last week of October threw the contradictory relationship between the Palestinian and Israeli leaderships into sharp relief.
On 26 October the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted in favour of Ariel Sharon's plan for unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. A day later doctors advised Yasser Arafat to leave the government buildings in Ramallah where he has been besieged by Israeli forces for the past two years. His departure for urgent medical treatment prompted speculation over a struggle to succeed him among the Palestinian leadership.
For his part, Ariel Sharon needs the spectre of an 'intransigent' Arafat – in other words a Palestinian leader who is not yet prepared to sign a final surrender – to sell the idea of disengagement to the Israeli public. Yet the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, and in particular the leaders of the mainstream nationalist movement, Fatah, are still desperate to find a way back to meaningful negotiations over the creation of a Palestinian state in the Occupied Territories. The two figures likely to dominate the Palestinian leadership during Arafat's illness, Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmed Qurei, are both committed to this strategy. Their problem lies in the fact that Ariel Sharon's policies – the invasions of Palestinian towns, regular assassinations of Palestinian leaders, and the construction of the wall around the West Bank – are designed to make the emergence of a viable Palestinian state impossible.
Disengagement must be understood in this context. Presented in the international press as a generous gesture by Israel, in reality disengagement aims at strengthening Israeli control of the West Bank. Gaza has never been as important to Israel as the West Bank. The strip lacks the water and rich farmland of the Jordan Valley. The proposed dismantling of 17 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, which has provoked controversy among the right wing inside Israel, demonstrates that the Israeli army has proved it can control Gaza from its heavily fortified borders. In addition, among the scenarios discussed over the summer was the proposal that the Egyptian security services help the Palestinian Authority in policing Gaza, effectively a return to the era of Egyptian control of the area during the 1950s.
Disengagement may still fall victim to the struggles within Sharon's own party, the Likud, which rejected the proposal earlier this year. Former prime minister Binjamin Netanyahu sees the controversy as a convenient vehicle for the revival of his claim to the Likud leadership, and has threatened to resign from the cabinet unless the disengagement plans are put to the public in a referendum.
Meanwhile, Arafat's illness raises the possibility of a power struggle over the nomination of his successor. Mahmoud Abbas and Ahmad Qurei may be promoted as 'moderates' outside Palestine, but they lack popular support. It is the parties outside the historic leadership of the PLO, in particular the Islamist movement Hamas, which have benefited from the long-term decline of Palestine's 'ruling party' Fatah, which Arafat leads. Preparations were already under way for elections before the latest crisis, with 76 percent of eligible Palestinian voters registered. If the Islamists take part, Fatah's strength is likely to decline further. One potential outcome of disengagement – and no doubt one which Sharon would be keen to promote – would be a violent struggle for power in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is strong, leading to the consolidation of rival Palestinian leaderships controlling the two separate parts of the Occupied Territories.
Yet while the state of Arafat's health remains unclear, his potential successors may well pull together for the sake of national unity. One thing remains certain, however: Israel's attacks on Palestinian towns and camps will continue to take a bloody toll in lost lives and wrecked homes.
No rest for the people of Gaza
Palestine: A Return to Mass Struggle?
How can Palestine be free?


For a variety of reasons, I've created a new 4096 bit GnuPG key. My old key will remain valid for some time, but I'd like to start using the new key for all correspondence. This message is signed by both keys.