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Crosman Introduces The Revolutionary Benjamin Rogue .357 Big Bore ePCP Air Rifle
New Electronic Valve And Multi-Shot Clip.
Promises Hunters Versatility, Power and Quiet Accuracy
ROCHESTER, NY –-(Ammoland.com)- Crosman Corporation, long known for innovation and quality in the shooting sports industry, has introduced a ground-breaking new, electronic, precharged pneumatic (ePCP) air rifle created for hunters.
According to professional hunter Jim Shockey, "The .357 caliber Benjamin Rogue™ air rifle offers more knock-down power than any .22 cal rimfire."
The Rogue .357 is a multi-shot repeater equipped with an innovative, micro-processor controlled valve that extends the firing distance and provides "accuracy and lethality out to 100 yards," says Shockey.
Ken D'Arcy, Crosman President and CEO, said that the pioneering technologies in this air rifle will "combine to change the course and perception of airgun hunting in the same way Samuel Colt changed shooting with the first repeater. Encroaching development and increasing predator encounters have helped with the acceptance of using big bore airguns for urban animal control as well as hunting," he said. "This venture into big bore hunting airguns is a natural progression for us as we continue to focus our product development on the hunting category."
The new Benjamin Rogue .357 ePCP hunting air rifle is "different than traditional compressed air PCP or CO2 airguns because of its innovative, patent-pending eVALVE," said D'Arcy. "The electronically driven power furnished by the eVALVE promises dramatic changes to the way we are used to hunting with airguns. No other airgun provides as many as 20 shots per fill and shoots at a consistent rate of 150 foot pounds of energy, and certainly not at this price range," he said.
"The Benjamin Rogue's flexibility adds further distinction," said D'Arcy. "By adjusting the electronically controlled settings, the Rogue .357 is capable of short and long distance shooting, making it appropriate for both small and larger game hunting," he said. "The Rogue's velocity ranges from 700 to 1000 feet per second with knock-down power from 100 foot pounds of energy (fpe) to an astounding 250 fpe. The limitations of traditional close range airgun hunting are all but eliminated with the Rogue. You can now hunt with an airgun that ethically harvests game at considerably longer ranges," stated D'Arcy.
Equipped with a single air reservoir, the Rogue fills to 3000 psi.
"Thanks to the patent pending eVALVE, the remaining pressure is monitored in the reservoir and maintains constant velocity," said Terry Neumaster, Crosman product manager.
"It solves the problem other big bore PCP guns have of decreasing shot count and reduced knockdown power as the psi decreases. Unlike our more expensive competition, the Benjamin Rogue .357 continues to deliver powerful shots even with pressure as low as 1000 psi. This feature makes for remarkably efficient use of the remaining air in the reservoir, resulting in an increased shot count," he said.
All the information a hunter needs for a day in the field is available on the Rogue's built-in EPiC™, LCD screen.
"Accurately displaying the remaining pressure in the air chamber helps hunters determine how many shots are left before the gun needs to be re-filled," says Neumaster.
The EPiC screen reports other variables controlled by the micro-processor, including the controls for the e-VALVE.
"By controlling the open time of the valve via the EPiC controls, you have the option of adjusting your shot velocity. In addition, by making adjustments to the settings for the grain weight of your ammunition, you literally 'dial in' your preferred power," according to Neumaster. A heavier load means more knock-down power and, although a heavier load reduces the quantity of shots per fill, it produces heavier impact on larger game. "The most exceptional aspect of the Rogue .357 is its variability. No other airgun lets you choose what kind of game you want to hunt, in one package with only a few easy adjustments," he said.
"There is enough power in this air rifle to take a boar-sized animal and, while I like airgun hunting for the challenge of close range pursuit, having one gun that offers both short and long range options is a hunter's dream," says Shockey. "The Rogue brings airgun hunting beyond pest control and into trophy hunting territory."
Benjamin has introduced three new .357 bullets designed for the Rogue rifle. The Benjamin eXTREME™ Bullet by Nosler features Nosler's famous Ballistic Tip technology. Weighing in at 145 grains, it is a versatile bullet with "superb hunting accuracy and deep penetration," according to President, Bob Nosler. There are also two new .357 Benjamin Pursuit™ bullets for use with the Rogue rifle, the Pursuit Hollow Point at 90 grains and the Pursuit Round Nose at 175 grains. Both are softer than traditional lead bullets and form effectively to the barrel of the rifle, due to their stepped band design.
The Rogue rifle's innovatively designed stock is shaped for hunters. The magazine holds an impressive six shots. It has a 2-stage, electronic, adjustable trigger with dual electronic switches that significantly reduces lock time. The air rifle is outfitted with sling studs and a fill adaptor.
For further information on the new Benjamin Rogue .357 ePCP caliber air rifle or on any Crosman, Benjamin, CenterPoint Hunting and Outdoors Precision Optics and Archery, or Game Face Airsoft products, visit the company's websites at www.crosman.com, www.centerpointhunting.com, www.gamefaceairsoft.com, or write to Laura Evans, marketing coordinator, Crosman Corporation, 7629 Routes 5 & 20, Bloomfield, NY 14469, email her at [email protected], or call her at (800) 7–AIRGUN (724-7486).
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New TDC members get an earful about their duties
OKALOOSA ISLAND — The newly appointed Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council held its first meeting Thursday, focusing on a renewed commitment to transparency and rigorous attention to state law.
The council delved into its duties with help from Tallahassee attorneys Greg Stewart and Lynn Hoshihara, who serve as special counsels to the county.
Stewart told the TDC members at their meeting at the Emerald Coast Convention Center that they have "a very important job" and emphasized their advisory role.
"You are not the final decision makers of anything," he said. "You make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners."
Stewart briefed the council on the importance of the Sunshine Law, public records and ethics.
"It is incredibly important that we follow them to the letter," he said. "There are criminal sanctions if we don't."
Stewart also urged the new members to educate themselves and ask questions.
"When in doubt, ask us. That's the rule of thumb," he said.
The council elected Dale E. Peterson as chairman and Tom Rice as vice chairman.
Peterson and TDC member Daniel Empson did not attend the meeting.
The meeting was the council's first since late January, when most of the TDC members resigned at the request of the county commissioners. The resignations were part of the fallout from the fraud scheme concocted by former TDC director Mark Bellinger.
Bellinger's misuse of millions of dollars in bed tax money and BP oil spill funds prompted an audit by the Florida Auditor General and scrutiny from the state's Joint Legislative Auditing Committee.
In response to many of the auditor general's findings, the county has overhauled its tourist development policies and procedures. It also updated the county ordinance that authorizes the TDC as a nine-member advisory board to the county commissioners.
Dan O'Byrne, director of the tourist development department, told the new members that they will be expected to develop a proposed budget to be submitted to commissioners and to oversee his department's finances on a quarterly basis.
O'Byrne said the previous TDC operated with "nowhere near the rigor" that will be required by the new council.
One of the most significant changes is the elimination of advance payments, he said.
"We no longer pay for any goods or services until they are received," O'Byrne said.
During Bellinger's tenure, the funding of tourism-related events often was haphazard, with little or no accounting of how the money was spent.
The county's new policies require individuals and groups seeking money for a sponsorship or special event to apply at least 60 days beforehand. They also must provide a detailed report of the event's past results, such as the number of participants and room nights it generated.
And for at least one year, the amount of bed tax money that can be awarded to groups for events or sponsorships will be capped at $20,000. Also under the revamped policy, all expenditures up to $25,000 must be approved by O'Byrne, and the county's purchasing director.
That means the TDC won't make recommendations on special events or sponsorships.
O'Byrne said commissioners might consider removing the $20,000 cap in the future.
"That's something I think we'll have to grow to," he said. "Right now that's the cap."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari C. Barlow at 850-315-4438 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.

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Focussing on the text, structure, and emotion of the letter, she removes every trace of white space, in an elaborate investigation into the characteristics of writing and expression, penmanship and form.
Vought explains that despite their apparent fragility, the finished sheets are in fact quite strong, supported by the handwriting and lines that are "quite strong and sculptural." [Colossal]
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Helping Others Breathe More Easily
Our Respiratory Care Technology program will teach you the skills you need to become a respiratory therapist. You will learn how to assess a patient's condition, develop an appropriate care plan, handle technical equipment, make scientific calculations, and work independently to assist physicians in diagnosing and treating patients. Our program also offers lab training, classroom study and supervised experience in hospitals and health care settings, as well as preparation to take the national board exams for licensure required to fill a job in this field. Upon completing the program, you will be eligible to take the entry-level Certified Respiratory Therapist exam, as well as additional credentials, including Registered Respiratory Therapist, Neonatal/Pediatric Specialist, Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist, and Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist.
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Even before design of
began in 1996, it was evident that one of the major problems to be
encountered in building parallel databases would be communication
between the nodes in the network. For this reason,
NDBCLUSTER was designed from the very
beginning to permit the use of a number of different data
transport mechanisms. In this Manual, we use the term
transporter for these.
The NDB Cluster codebase provides for four different transporters:
TCP/IP using 100 Mbps or gigabit Ethernet, as discussed in Section 126.96.36.199, "NDB Cluster TCP/IP Connections".
Direct (machine-to-machine) TCP/IP; although this transporter uses the same TCP/IP protocol as mentioned in the previous item, it requires setting up the hardware differently and is configured differently as well. For this reason, it is considered a separate transport mechanism for NDB Cluster. See Section 126.96.36.199, "NDB Cluster TCP/IP Connections Using Direct Connections", for details.
Shared memory (SHM). Supported in production in NDB 7.6. For more information about SHM, see Section 22.214.171.124, "NDB Cluster Shared Memory Connections".
Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI).Note
Using SCI transporters in NDB Cluster requires specialized hardware, software, and MySQL binaries not available using an NDB 7.5 or 7.6 distribution.
Most users today employ TCP/IP over Ethernet because it is ubiquitous. TCP/IP is also by far the best-tested transporter for use with NDB Cluster.
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attempts to make sure that communication with data node processes
is done using chunks that are as large as possible since this
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Volvo Penta D13 has now further been developed to meet EPA Tier 3 – the new marine environmental emission standard. The new version of D13 offers improved environmental properties with basically unchanged low fuel consumption.
The D13 is a diesel engine that has been developed within the Volvo Group. It is among the world's most proven and is currently in operation in more than 450,000 heavy-duty applications, including buses, trucks and construction equipment. At Volvo Penta, this engine is further developed for use in industrial applications for both off-road and electricity production and in unique custom marine applications.
Environment performance and fuel efficiency
The full range of Volvo Penta D13 marine engines is now upgraded to meet the requirements of EPA Tier 3, which will take effect from 1 January 2014. EPA Tier 3 involves a 40% reduction in particulate matter in the exhaust gases and a 20% reduction in NOx and hydrocarbon.
These high standards are met by the new D13 with the same power and basically identical fuel consumption. It is world-class fuel efficiency together with less environmental impact.
The upgrading of the environmental characteristics will neither change the performance, nor the fuel efficiency. Nor does it imply any changes in terms of design, size or installation − in these respects will there be no difference to the boat builder, owner or operator.
Volvo Penta D13 is available both as a propulsion engine (D13 MH) or as a marine genset (D13 MG) equipped with different cooling systems as an option.
For further information, please contact Martin Jufors, AB Volvo Penta, +46 31 3236411 or by e-mail: email@example.com


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April 28th, 2013
When religious beliefs become evil: 4 signs
By John Blake, CNN
(CNN) - An angry outburst at a mosque. The posting of a suspicious YouTube video. A friendship with a shadowy imam.
Those were just some of the signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused of masterminding the Boston Marathon bombings, had adopted a virulent strain of Islam that led to the deaths of four people and injury of more than 260.
But how else can you tell that someone's religious beliefs have crossed the line? The answer may not be as simple you think, according to scholars who study all brands of religious extremism. The line between good and evil religion is thin, they say, and it's easy to make self-righteous assumptions.
"When it's something we like, we say it's commitment to an idea; when it's something we don't like, we say it's blind obedience," said Douglas Jacobsen, a theology professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.
Yet there are ways to tell that a person's faith has drifted into fanaticism if you know what to look and listen for, say scholars who have studied some of history's most horrific cases of religious violence.
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"There are a lot of warning signs all around us, but we usually learn about them after a Jim Jones or a David Koresh," said Charles Kimball, author of "When Religion Becomes Evil."
Here are four warning signs:
1. I know the truth, and you don't.
On the morning of July 29, 1994, the Rev. Paul Hill walked up to John Britton outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida, and shot the doctor to death. Hill was part of a Christian extremist group called the Army of God, which taught that abortion was legalized murder.
Hill's actions were motivated by a claim that virtually all religions espouse: We have the truth that others lack.
Those claims can turn deadly when they become absolute and there is no room for interpretation, Kimball says.
"Absolute claims can quickly move into a justification of violence against someone who rejects that claim," Kimball said. "It's often a short step."
Healthy religions acknowledge that sincere people can disagree about even basic truths, Kimball says.
The history of religion is filled with examples of truths that were once considered beyond questioning but are no longer accepted by all followers: inerrancy of sacred scripture, for example, or the subjugation of women and sanctioning of slavery.
If someone like Hall believes that they know God's truth and they cannot be wrong, watch out, Kimball says.
"Authentic religious truth claims are never as inflexible as zealous adherents insist," he writes in "When Religion Becomes Evil."
Yet there's a flip side to warnings about claiming absolute truth: Much of religion couldn't exist without them, scholars say.
Many of history's greatest religious figures – Moses, Jesus, the Prophet Mohammed – all believed that they had discovered some truth, scholars say.
Ordinary people inflamed with a sense of self-righteousness have made the same claim and done good throughout history, says Carl Raschke, a theology professor at the University of Denver in Colorado.
The Protestant Reformation was sparked by an angry German monk who thought he had the truth, Raschke says.
"Martin Luther's disgust at the worldliness of the papacy in the early 1500s inspired him to become a radical revolutionary whose ideas overturned the entire political structure in Europe," Raschke said.
So how do you tell the difference between the healthy claims of absolute truth and the deadly? Scholars say to look at the results: When people start hurting others in the name of their religious truth, they've crossed the line.
2. Beware the charismatic leader.
It was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Japanese history. In March 1995, a religious sect called Aum Shinrikyo released a deadly nerve gas in a Tokyo subway station, leaving 12 people dead and 5,000 injured.
Two months later, Japanese police found Shoko Asahara, the sect's founder, hiding in a room filled with cash and gold bars. Kimball, who tells the story of the sect in "When Religion Becomes Evil," says Asahara had poisoned the minds of his followers years before.
Asahara demanded unquestioned devotion from members of his sect and isolated followers in communities where they were told that they no longer needed to think for themselves, Kimball says.
Any religion that limits the intellectual freedom of its followers, he says, has become dangerous. "When you start to get individuals who are the sole interpreters of truth, you get people who follow them blindly."
Charismatic leaders, though, often don't start off being cruel. Jim Jones, who led the mass suicide of his followers in South America, was a gifted speaker who built an interracial church in San Francisco that did much good in the community. Few people at the beginning of his ministry could predict what he would become.
As time went on, though, his charisma turned cruel as he tolerated no questions to his authority and became delusional.
"Charismatic leadership is important, but in healthy religions, there's always a process where questions are encouraged," Kimball said.
Weaning followers away from corrupt charismatic leaders and bad religion can take years, but it can be done if one knows how to speak their language, says Ed Husain, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt will often deploy imams to reach out to young men in prison who have adopted "Islamism," or extreme forms of Islam sanctioning violence against civilians, says Husain, who has written about Muslim extremism.
These Muslim clerics know the Quran better than the extremists and can use their knowledge to reach extremists in a place that logic and outsiders cannot penetrate, Husain said.
"The antidote to extremism is religion itself," Husain said. "The problem is not to take Islam out of the debate but to use Islam to counter Islamism."
3. The end is near.
In 1970, an unknown pastor from Texas wrote a book called "The Late, Great Planet Earth." The book, which linked biblical prophecy with political events like Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, predicted the imminent return of an antichrist and the end of the world.
Author Hal Lindsey's book has sold an estimated 15 million copies and spawned a genre of books like the "Left Behind" series. Many people are fascinated by the idea that the heavens will open soon because the end is near.
That end-times theology can turn lethal, though, when a follower decides that he or she will speed up that end-time by conducting some dramatic or violent act, says John Alverson, chairman of the theology department at Carlow University in Pittsburgh.
"A religious terrorist mistakenly believes that God has ordained or called him or her to establish the will of God on Earth now, not gradually and not according to the slow and finicky free will of other humans," Alverson said.
Yet this impulse to see God's intervention in human affairs now and not in some distant future can also be good, he says.
There are vibrant religious communities that teach that political and economic injustice must be addressed now. Liberation theology, for example, was a movement among pastors and theologians in Latin America that called for justice for the poor now, not in some future apocalyptic event, Alverson says.
"Hope is a good breakfast but not much of a supper," Alverson said. "We can't just live on the hope that justice will happen; we have to actually experience justice from time to time so that our hope can continue."
4. The end justifies the means.
It was one of the biggest scandals the Roman Catholic Church ever faced, and the repercussions are still being felt today.
In January 2002, the Boston Globe published a story about Father John Geoghan, a priest who had been moved around various parishes after Catholic leaders learned that he had abused children. It was later revealed that Catholic officials had quietly paid at least $10 million to settle lawsuits against Geoghan.
Kimball says the Catholic scandal revealed another sign that a faith has turned toxic: Religious figures start justifying doing something wrong for a higher good.
"The common theme was trying to protect the integrity of the church," Kimball said of some Catholic leaders who covered up the crimes. "You get all of these rationalizations that we can't let this scandal bring the whole church down, so we have to pay off this family and send the priests off to rehab."
Religion is supposed to be a force for good. Still, it's common that everyone from suicide bombers to venal church figures finds ways to justify their behavior in the name of some higher good.
Those rationalizations are so pervasive that religious movements that avoid them stand out, scholars say.
Jacobsen, the theology professor from Messiah College, cited the civil rights movement. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists renounced violence, even as they were attacked and sometimes murdered.
"They were willing to lay down their lives for what they believed in, but what's incredible is, they practiced not retaliating when they suffered violence," he said. "Those people really believed that God created everyone equal, and they were committed to the point of death."
In some ways, it's easy to say we would never adopt a form of religion that's evil. But when we use the word "evil" to describe those who kill in the name of their faith, we're already mimicking what we condemn, Jacobsen says.
In his new book, "No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education," Jacobson writes that calling a religion evil is dangerous because "bad or wrong actions can be corrected, but typically evil needs to be destroyed."
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"To label someone or something as evil is to demonize it, putting it in a category of otherness where the rules of normal life do not apply, where the end often justifies almost any means," Jacobson writes.
And when we do that, we don't have to read about radical imams or look at angry YouTube videos to see how easy it is for someone to drift toward religious extremism, he says.
We need only look at ourselves.
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This past Friday, I mentioned that I was trying to get the new Twitter web client. My colleague and noted internet deviant Mat Honan graciously offered to pop in the workaround for me if I'd send him my password. I was in a rush to get to a meeting, so unaccountably, I agreed. Big mistake.
Here are some of the highlights to the twisted horror show that follows when you give your Twitter password to a terrible internet troll—and then remind him that he hasn't changed your password just yet.
And the worst part? I still don't have newnew Twitter.


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fluxbox-apps - per-window attribute configuration for fluxbox(1)
Variable parameters are shown in emphasis: argument All other characters shown are required verbatim. Whitespace is only required to delimit words, but it is fine to add more whitespace.
It is possible to force an application to always have the same dimensions, position, and other settings when it is first launched. These settings are saved in the 'apps' file. Most simple settings can be saved using the "Remember..." submenu of the window menu, which can usually be opened with a right-click on the titlebar. More advanced features require manually editing the 'apps' file. This may include using GROUP SECTIONS to set up automatic window tab groups. You do not need to "reload" fluxbox after editing the apps file, the changes should be rescanned when the next window is opened. The file is made up of two main types of sections, apps and groups, detailed below.
[app] sections provide settings for individual application windows. These sections begin with a line of the format [app] (pattern) {count} The pattern can be one or more patterns which match windows. For more details, see CLIENT PATTERNS. If you specify more than one pattern, they must ALL match for the settings to be applied. The {count} is optional. If specified, then the entry will only match at most that many windows at any time. If omitted, the default is to apply the settings to all matching windows. This opening [apps] line is followed by any number of settings for the application. See SETTINGS for more details. Each of these sections ends with the single line [end]
The primary purpose of [group] sections is to group windows together. All windows in a group will be tabbed together automatically. These sections begin with a line of the format [group] (pattern) Where the pattern item is optional. If specified, this pattern must match for the group to take effect. It is common to use non-window-specific patterns such as (workspace) here. See CLIENT PATTERNS for more details. This is followed by any number of [app] lines. These have a similar format to the [app] section detailed above in APP SECTIONS, but do not contain any settings and do not have an associated [end] line. Like this [app] (pattern) This section may also contain settings that are applied to every window in the group. See the SETTINGS section for details. As with [app] sections, each of these sections ends with the single line [end]
These settings may be stored in the 'apps' file. A settings line must appear inside either an [app] or [group] section. The general format is [setting] {value} All allowed values are described below, except for bool which can simply have the value yes or no, which enables or disables the associated setting, respectively. [Workspace] {number} Forces the application to open on the number workspace specified. Workspaces are set by number, beginning with 0. [Jump] {bool} Changes the active workspace to the remembered one when the application is opened. This is only useful when used in conjunction with [Workspace]. See EXAMPLES. [Head] {number} Forces the application to open on the number head specified (Xinerama only). [Layer] {number} Specify the layer to open the window on (by number). Each layer has a number. The named ones are: 2-AboveDock, 4-Dock, 6-Top, 8-Normal, 10-Bottom, 12-Desktop. [Dimensions] {width[%] height[%]} Opens the application with the specified width and height, in pixels. If the value is given in percent, then the window size will be based on the current screen's size. [Position] (anchor) {X[%] Y[%]} Position the application at a particular spot. By default the upper-left corner is placed at screen coordinates (X,Y). If you specify an anchor, say BottomRight, then the lower-right corner of the window is positioned (X,Y) pixels from the lower-right corner of the screen. If the value is given in percent, then the coordinates will be based on the current screen's size. anchor may be set to one of: TopLeft Left BottomLeft Top Center Bottom TopRight Right BottomRight [Deco] {value} Specify the decoration state. There are several predefined value sets: NORMAL Standard decorations NONE No decorations BORDER Like NONE except keep the X window border TAB Like BORDER except keep external tabs (if enabled) TINY Titlebar with only an iconify button TOOL Titlebar only The value may also be a bitmask for finer-grained control. The bits are, from (1<<0) to (1<<10): Titlebar, Handle/Grips, Border, Iconify Button, Maximize Button, Close Button, Menu Button, Sticky Button, Shade Button, External Tabs, Focus Enabled. [Shaded] {bool} Whether the window is Shaded (rolled-up) or not. [Tab] {bool} Whether the window has tabs enabled. [FocusNewWindow] {bool} If enabled, a new window will grab X focus as soon as it is opened. If disabled, a new window will not grab X focus as soon as it is opened. [FocusHidden] {bool} If enabled, the window will not appear in NextWindow/PrevWindow lists. [IconHidden] {bool} If enabled, the window will not appear in the icon area of the toolbar. [Hidden] {bool} A shortcut for setting both FocusHidden and IconHidden at the same time. [Sticky] {bool} Specify if an application should be sticky (shown on all workspaces) or not. [Minimized] {bool} Application should start minimized [Maximized] {value} Application should start maximized. value may be: yes Fully maximized horz Horizontally maximized vert Vertically maximized no Not maximized [Fullscreen] {bool} Application should start in fullscreen mode (fully maximized without any decorations). [Close] {bool} Save settings on close. By default, application settings are not updated when a window is closed. [Alpha] {value [value]} Set the alpha value for this window. If two values are given, they correspond to the focused and unfocused transparency, respectively. One number only will be used for both values. value is an integer between 0 and 255.
A pattern looks like this ([propertyname[!]=]regexp) ... Match definitions are enclosed in parentheses (...), and if no propertyname is given then Name is assumed. The regexp can contain any regular expression, or the special value [current], which matches the corresponding value of the currently focused window. See regex(7) for more information on acceptable regular expressions. propertyname is not case sensitive, whereas the regexp is. If you specify multiple (pattern) arguments, this implies an AND condition - All specified patterns must match. You can use = to test for equality or != to test for inequality. The following values are accepted for propertyname Name A string, corresponding to the CLASSNAME property (The first field of WM_CLASS from the output of the xprop(1) utility). Class A string, corresponding to the CLASSCLASS property (The second field of WM_CLASS from the output of the xprop(1) utility). Title A string, corresponding to the window title (WM_NAME from xprop(1)). Role A string, corresponding to the ROLE property (WM_WINDOW_ROLE from xprop(1)). Transient Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is transient (typically, a popup dialog) or not. Maximized Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is maximized or not. MaximizedHorizontal Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is maximized horizontally or not. MaximizedVertical Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is maximized vertically or not. Minimized Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is minimized (iconified) or not. Fullscreen Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is fullscreen or not. Shaded Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is shaded or not. Stuck Either yes or no, depending on whether the window is sticky (on all workspaces) or not. FocusHidden Either yes or no, depending on whether the window has asked to be left off the focus list (or, the alt-tab list), or not. IconHidden Either yes or no, depending on whether the window has asked to be left off the icon list (or, the taskbar), or not. Urgent Either yes or no, depending on whether the window has the urgent hint set. Workspace A number corresponding to the workspace number to which the window is attached. The first workspace here is 0. You may also use [current] to match the currently visible workspace. WorkspaceName A string corresponding to the name of the workspace to which the window is attached. Head The number of the display head to which the window is attached. You may match this against the special value [mouse] which refers to the head where the mouse pointer currently resides. Layer The string name of the window's layer, which is one of AboveDock, Dock, Top, Normal, Bottom, Desktop Screen The number of the currently used screen. If the setup of the running xserver involves independent screens (not Xinerama), the $DISPLAY environment contains something like :0.1 or :1.0. The part after the dot (.) is the number of the screen. @XPROP A string, corresponding to any xproperty (Use either the xprop(1) utility or the SetXProp command to set a xproperty to a window) Matches any windows with the CLASSNAME of "xterm". (xterm) Matches any windows with the same CLASSNAME as the currently focused window. (Name=[current]) Matches any windows on the same head as the mouse but on a different layer than the currently focused window. (Head=[mouse]) (Layer!=[current]) Matches any windows having a xproperty named FOO with "bar" in it. (@FOO=.*bar.*)
~/.fluxbox/apps This is the default location for the application settings.
session.appsFile: location This may be set to override the location of the application settings.
Here are some interesting and/or useful examples you can do with your apps file. # Put the first two windows which end with 'term' on workspace 1 [app] (name=.*[tT]erm) {2} [Workspace] {1} [end] # Center kate with a specific size, and update these values when the window is # closed. [app] (name=kate) [Dimensions] {1022 747} [Position] (CENTER) {0 0} [Close] {yes} [end] # When starting konqueror, jump to workspace 1 first and start it there. [app] (name=konqueror) [Workspace] {1} [Jump] {yes} [end] # start all aterm without decorations [app] (name=aterm) [Deco] {NONE} [end] # a group with the gimp dock and toolbox # appears on layer 4 (bottom) [group] [app] (name=gimp) (role=gimp-dock) [app] (name=gimp) (role=gimp-toolbox) [Layer] {4} [end]
• Jim Ramsay <i.am at jimramsay com> (>fluxbox-1.0.0) • Curt Micol <asenchi at asenchi com> (>fluxbox-0.9.11) • Tobias Klausmann <klausman at users sourceforge net> (⟨fluxbox-0.9.11) • Grubert <grubert at users sourceforge net> (fluxbox) • Matthew Hawkins <matt at mh dropbear id au> (blackbox) • Wilbert Berendsen <wbsoft at xs4all nl> (blackbox)
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How bigoted does one have to be to be for Fox News to distance itself from you? Let's ask Jeanine Pirro.
President Barack Obama once said that if he watched Fox News all day, then he'd probably be an Obama hater too. If you want to know what he's talking about, just watch one of their star commentators, Pirro.
Pirro is angry. She delivers her commentary like a constipated conservative who just found out a bunch of gay, black Muslim flag burners had just moved into her neighborhood. On Saturday night, she was pissed at Muslim representative Ilhan Omar and questioned if her religious beliefs undermined her loyalty to the United States.
Pirro barked, "Think about it: Omar wears a hijab. Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Shariah law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?" Islam isn't any more antithetical to the United States Constitution than Christianity. Yeah, I said it.
Fox News producer, Hufsa Kamal tweeted at Pirro, "can you stop spreading this false narrative that somehow Muslims hate America or women who wear a hijab aren't American enough? You have Muslims working at the same network you do, including myself." I'm not too sure how effective the please-stop-being-a-bigot technique is going to work on Pirro or any other Fox News talking head.
Fox News issued a statement 24 hours after her remarks, saying, "We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro's comments about Representative Ilhan Omar. They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly."
But, as much as Fox News may insist they don't support her comments, they were not off the cuff or spontaneous banter. They were scripted and loaded into a teleprompter.
Since narcissism is a trait shared among conservatives, Pirro didn't apologize or admit a mistake, much like Trump can't admit he said "Tim Apple" instead of "Tim Cook." Pirro said, "I've seen a lot of comments about my opening statement from Saturday night's show and I did not call Representative Omar un-American. My intention was to ask a question and start a debate, but of course because one is Muslim does not mean you don't support the Constitution." That's true. She didn't call her un-American. She just questioned her loyalty to the country because of her religion and her wearing of a hijab. How can anyone find bigotry in that?
Tucker Carlson hasn't apologized or admitted a mistake either regarding comments he made between 2006 and 2011. Media Matters published posts and recordings of Carlson that were sexist and racist. Carlson issued a statement saying, "Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago. Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I'm on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why."
Carlson needs someone to explain to him why it's wrong to defend rapists? He also complained about the "liberal mob" trying to "kill his show."
Some of Carlson's "naughty" comments were about Alexis Stewart, Martha Stewart's daughter who he described as "cunty" and said, "I just wanted to give her the spanking she so desperately needs." He also said Britney Spears and Paris Hilton were, "two of the biggest white whores in America."
In 2006, Tucker called into the Bubba the Love Sponge show (yeah, that's a real thing) and said, "arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her." He said of one individual who married a child, "The rapist, in this case, has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person." He also called for the elimination of rape shield laws.
He once said that a female teacher who had sex with a 13-year-old male student was, "doing a service to all 13-year-old girls by taking the pressure off." Basically, he came off as being a really big fan of rape or at least protecting rapists.
In 2006, he said of Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, "How is he black, for one thing? He has one white parent, one black parent." In 2008, he called in again and described Iraq as, "a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys — that's why it wasn't worth invading," and also claimed Iraqis didn't use toilet paper.
There's a lot more he said, but I don't want it to take you all day to read this blog. If you're that interested to see them all, scroll up and click the Media Matters link. Warning; after reading the comments you'll feel like you just watched an hour of Jeanine Pirro and you may need to shower with a Brillo pad.
I took a little creative license with this cartoon because, according to Tucker, he stopped wearing the bow tie around 2006 because, in New York City, people were screaming and cursing at him on the subways about it. Sure, New York City is a place that doesn't do unconventional or weird, and they'll scream at you for wearing a bow tie.
You look at Tucker's track record with his racist and misogynistic comments and what kind of guy he truly is, and I don't think it's the bow tie they were screaming and cursing about on the subway.
Creative note: Thanks to my friends Hilary and Quannah who provided the words "shrill" and "harpy."
I've been meaning to post about this, but each day gave me a new article to share on social media and I was kinda getting sick of myself.
I am the Finalist for the Herblock Prize, coming in second to winner Matt Davies. If you told me I was your second-favorite cartoonist behind Matt, I'd be flattered. Being honored by the Herblock Foundation in this way is truly amazing. It hasn't sunk in yet.
This is the first time I've placed in one of the big national contests. I started my career in 1990, so I've been waiting nearly 30 years to hear my name mentioned. To everyone who's offered congratulations and positive comments on my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, thank you.
To all those other cartoonists out there, let this be a lesson to you. Sleep and having a social life is overrated.
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Turn a basic watermelon into a super-cool melon cocktail keg by carving it out and adding a tapper. This is a simple, fun and creative way to serve all of your summer drinks.
Want a super-cool way to serve up drinks at your next summer get-together? With a few simple tools, you can use this step-by-step guide to transform that boring melon into a super-cool drink dispenser! Add the watermelon punch spiked with Seagrams Brazilian rum and wow everyone by serving it up in your very own melon cocktail keg!
What you need:
- 1 large watermelon
- A sharp knife
- A large spoon
- A large bowl
- A pen or marker
- Power drill with a 3/4-inch drill bit
- 1 beer shank kit
Step one
Look at the watermelon and determine which side is the best to place the faucet. If your watermelon is a bit unsteady when standing it up, cut off just a small portion of the bottom to help it stay balanced. With the knife, cut a circle on the top to form a "lid" with the same method as if you were going to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. Remove the "lid" from the watermelon and set aside as you will use this later.
Step two
With the large spoon begin to scoop out all of the watermelon and its juice and place it all into the large bowl. (Be careful to only scoop out the fruit and not the rind.)
Step three
With the pen, mark the area you want to drill the hole for the faucet. With the power drill very gently and slowly start to drill the hole into the base of the melon.
Step four
Carefully insert the long neck of the shank into the melon. Do not try to jam the shank into the melon as this can lead to breaking or cracking. If you need to widen the hole slightly, use the tip of a sharp knife. The shank needs to fit very snuggly in order to not leak.
Step five
Once the shank is in place, slide the O-ring on along with the adapter. Make sure that everything is tight and check for any leaks. Once you confirm that it is in working condition, add the beverage to the melon. Top with the "lid" and serve your drink!
Spiked watermelon punch recipe
Serves 12 to 15
- 1 whole watermelon, pureed
- 3 cups coconut rum
- 1/2 cup watermelon schnapps, or any flavor
- 1-1/2 cups pineapple juice
- 1-1/2 cups peach, guava or strawberry nectar
- 12 cups crushed Ice
- Lime wedges for garnish
- In a large bowl add the watermelon puree, the liquors, pineapple juice and the fruit nectar, mixing very well.
- Add the mixture to the watermelon "keg," adding the ice and then the "lid" of the melon.
- Add a lime wedge to each glass and serve the drink icy cold.


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Jersey Devil Captured on Video?
Today NJ.com published a story claiming that an Little Egg Harbor resident name Dave Black may have captured the Jersey Devil in a photograph taken in Galloway Township. Today Weird NJ received the following letter from a reader named Emily telling us that she believe she has caught Ol' JD on video! Is it real, or a Halloween season hoax? Here's Emily's message and video––you be the judge…
"I realize this sounds crazy but I saw a red animal with a long neck and horns. I swear on my mother's grave, this is not a joke. I pulled over to take a video and as I started filming it got on its hind legs and flew away. I am an middle school teacher but moonlight tutoring algebra for high school students. Was driving home from an appointment on Old Port Republic Rd in Leeds Point when I took this video. So excited, had to share with someone. I searched online and a few others have similar stories. Channel 12 posted a photo online of it."
Source: Weird NJ
Renters in Los Angeles and San Francisco are Paying $1200 a Month for a Bunk Bed in a Shared Space
Would you pay $1200 a month for a bunk bed in a shared space? Renters in Los Angeles and San Francisco are opting for pods in communal home with a desk, locker and personal TV
With the cost of rent continuing to rise, some Americans are taking unusual measures to find a place to sleep.
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, where prices are particularly exorbitant, people have taken to renting bunk beds in communal homes.
PodShare, which provides 10 to 15 co-ed bunkbeds in six locations across California, is hoping to help solve the affordable housing crisis.
The beds can be rented from $35 to $50 a night, which amounts to between $1,050 and $1500 for one month.
It's no secret that housing prices have rapidly spiked over the last decade and incomes have not kept up
One 2018 study published found that only about one-third of millennials currently own homes.
This is fewer than the number of Generation Xers and baby boomers who owned homes when they were the same age.
And a study conducted by Harvard University this year found that one-in-three Americans can't afford to pay rent.
It's unsurprising considering that, in cities such as San Francisco, the average rent for an apartment is about $3,900.
But for $1,200, if you rent with PodShare everyone gets a bed that turns into a desk, individual power outlets, a locker, a shelf and a personal TV.
Each location also provides a communal living room, food such as cereal, toiletries such as toilet paper, laundry machines and WiFi access, reported CNN.
Tenants are known as 'pod-estrians'.
Although the set-up may seem like an adult dormitory or a hostel, the company uses the term 'co-living'.
'PodShare makes life more affordable because there is no security deposit or cost of furnishings and we provide flexible living,' co-founder Elvina Beck told Vice in 2016.
'Pod life is the future for singles which are not looking to settle down, but focus on their startups and experience something new.'
There are no curtains to close off the beds, and the only doors are to the bathroom, reported Time Out Los Angeles.
Although there's no privacy, pod-residents are willing to exchange that for affordability or a reduced travel time to work.
Beck, 34, told CNN that she founded the company in 2012 because she wanted to meet new people and provide housing security to others.
'Maybe they don't have two months' rent to put down or they don't have proof of income,' she said.
'Whether it's from a divorce or their family kicked them out for being gay or because they're in a different country or a different city.'
She told CNN that, when she began PodShare, most residents were between ages 24 and 30. Today, however, most 'tenants' are in their late 20s or early 30s.
Additionally, many of the early residents were young adults who had just moved to a new city. But many new residents are older adults and even those traveling on business.
However, there some rules that people are required to follow. Lights have to be off by 10pm, no guests are allowed and tenants can't have sex.
'You can't invite any friends over,' Beck told CNN. 'Sorry. Just make new ones here.'
Caretaker Ties a Wheelchair-Bound Pensioner to a Tree by The Neck
Shocking footage of a wheelchair-bound pensioner being tied to a tree by the neck by a caretaker has sparked controversy in China.
The caretaker claimed to have no other way but to bind her frail client with a rope because she had to rush back home to deal with family emergency.
Furious onlookers demanded the caretaker free the pensioner immediately. The domestic worker defended her act by calling the incident 'no big deal'.
The video was reportedly shot in Beijing recently, according to local news outlet Btime.com.
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The pensioner appeared extremely distressed throughout the video and could not speak clearly.
One angry male passer-by accused the caretaker: 'How would you feel if your daughter treated you like this?'
He criticised the caretaker and said she should bring the pensioner with her.
The caretaker replied: '[If I had] pushed her back, she would tell [on me].'
Another female bystander pointed out that the pensioner neck had turned red because of the rough treatment.
After being lambasted by eyewitnesses, the caretaker untied the pensioner and pushed her away.
Authority said the clip had been uploaded onto the social media by residents in a neighbourhood called Nanyuan on the outskirts of southern Beijing.
But they had not been able to identify the exact location of the incident or track down the individuals involved.
Police have been alerted of the video and launched an investigation, according to Beijing Evening News.
Comforting Shelter Dogs During Fireworks Is The New Independence Day Tradition
"Calming the Canines," at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control (MCACC), is a new Independence Day tradition.
Last year, over 300 people from the community showed up at the shelter's two locations around Phoenix, Arizona.
It was overwhelming to see how the community responded. It really helped spread our message that MCACC is here to help.
Amy Engel, who attended Calming the Canines last year said that she definitely plans on attending this year, too.
Engel wrote about her experience last year
Some people sang to them, some people read to them, some people just sat there and gave treats! It was so, so awesome because the dogs absolutely love the attention and were focused on the people and not the fireworks going on outside.
MCACC wrote:
Many participants developed lasting relationships with the shelter, returning to provide foster care, adopt a pet or volunteer.
The shelter suggests people to bring blankets to sit on, or folding chairs, and to let the dog or cat approach them to sit calmly and quietly.
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Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days when the very name New York City was associated with crimes so brutal they entered the American lexicon. The Central Park Jogger. The Diana Ross concert. The March of Dimes Walkathon. Yet the past month saw shootings, assaults, and rapes shocking enough to provoke nine different articles in newspapers and magazines citing New York City's bad old days. A grandmother was shot on her way home from church, a young girl was raped in the elevator of her apartment building, a five-year old child was shot in the cheek while standing with her mother. After noting the reminiscent ugliness, most of the articles argued that we were not back in the bad old days yet.
All the papers covered the story of the young engineer, Kirill Nekrasov, who was walking on April 13 with his girlfriend on West Houston Street, when he was accosted by muggers. They demanded his money; he refused and pushed one of them; they shot him in the face. He is in critical condition in intensive care, and has not awakened from a coma. The young men since arrested are said by the police to be members of the Bloods street gang.
Nekrasov's carefree attitude, noted the New York Daily News, had been "shared by a growing legion of New Yorkers and tourists" and "reflected how far the city had come from the early 1990s, when there were an average of six murders per day."
During last November's mayoral election, many New Yorkers listened apprehensively for any unguarded phrase or gesture that might indicate a candidate wasn't that serious about keeping crime down. Michael Bloomberg was elected in part because he made no mis-step on crime. But if violent crime goes up--or if the random violent assaults New Yorkers most fear continue--he will be held accountable, fair or not. Answering a press conference question about rising violence, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "When you get eight million people together you're going to have crimes of violence and robberies--these sorts of tragedies--no question about it."
Pointing out the overall seven percent decline in crime and the steep 25 percent drop in the murder rate from last year, he added, "So things are certainly moving in the right direction. It doesn't mean we're not going to have crime and it doesn't mean we're not going to have instances of violence like this." Kelly has a point. After all, savage crimes have always been a part of big city life, even during the crime-fighting heyday of the Giuliani administration. Two sets of murder that will long be remembered for their depravity occurred in Giuliani's second term--the May 2000 murder of a Chinese deliveryman by teenagers who wanted free food, and the May 2001 Carnegie Deli slayings of three friends by a disgruntled small-time dealer.
Nonetheless, after listening to Commissioner Kelly one New Yorker muttered, "You know, I'd feel better if the police commissioner talked tough like one of those old sheriffs in the West. I want to hear him say that this is my town, and that nobody gets away with bad stuff in my town."
The fact is, for whatever reason--and some blame the dismantling of the Street Crime Unit--people are getting away with more shootings than before. Murders through mid-April were a record low at 128, but shootings are way up. Since January the city has seen a 27 percent jump to 463 shooting victims or 405 incidents. The same period last year, which may have been a record low, saw 366 shooting victims and 341 incidents. The first week of April this year was particularly bad, with 41 people wounded by gunfire, up from 12 during the same period in 2001. The most troubled areas are Manhattan North, Brooklyn South, and the Bronx.
City Hall and Commissioner Kelly announced a doubling in the reward--to $1,000--that Operation Gun-Stop gives to tipsters turning in anyone who is successfully arrested for carrying an illegal gun. Kelly also said the police are making record numbers of gun arrests--some 1,200 arrests this year, up about 25 percent from last year.
So why is Kelly dismantling the elite Street Crime Unit that had been widely credited with reducing crime, drugs, and guns in once violent neighborhoods? Some conservatives think he's giving into community agitators; it was Street Crime Unit cops that killed the unarmed Amadou Diallo in February 1999. But Kelly offered legitimate reasons for this reorganization. For one thing, the department is low on officers. Kelly has only 37,680 police officers, down from 40,710 in late 2000. The number of detectives in neighborhood squads is the lowest it has been since 1997.
Further, his redeployment of the unit's remaining 180 detectives to precinct-run plainclothes anticrime teams and to understaffed neighborhood detective squads throughout the five boroughs is part of his strategy to return authority to precinct commanders. Some two-thirds of the detectives will be doing the same intensive, anti-drug and anti-gun work, but they will be doing it under precinct command instead of the centralized Street Unit's command.
The police department always suffers from tension between the police commissioner's downtown vision and the implementation of-- or resistance to--that vision by the department's 76 precincts. As George Kelling pointed out in a recent report for the Manhattan Institute, Commissioner William Bratton invested enormous authority in precinct commanders, devolving both resources and decision-making to the precinct level. Bratton used mandated weekly planning meetings to force precinct commanders to identify problems and discuss their plans for dealing with them. Once occupied with traditional bureaucratic politics at central headquarters, precinct commanders were reoriented by Bratton to focus on their precincts. These changes also reoriented borough chiefs and top commanders. As Kelling wrote, "If precinct commanders looked bad, it reflected on the borough chiefs, and so on up the line."
But centralized departmental politics--and the clout of elite central units--were gradually regaining an upper hand over the precincts. Kelly is signaling that his administration will be one of precinct command. And that's good.
He is also moving 150 detectives from the department's warrant division and nearly 100 police officers (one from each of the 76 precincts and 20 from the housing and transit bureau commands) into neighborhood detective squads.
Of course, for many civil libertarians, the bad old days were during the Giuliani administration, when the city refused to release records under the Freedom of Information Act, routinely strip-searched people arrested for misdemeanors, jailed protestors overnight instead of issuing desk appearance tickets, and set up check-points to stop all people entering certain neighborhood, even low-crime neighborhoods. The city has been sued on all of these policies.
So civil libertarians welcomed the recent news that the Bloomberg administration is quietly settling contentious suits with the citizenry. The New York Times reported that the settling of lawsuits over city policies fulfills a pledge Mayor Bloomberg made shortly after he was elected. Last year the city paid out a stunning $582 million in lawsuit settlements and court awards, mostly for civil cases, an unspecified chunk of which were for police brutality.
Julia Vitullo-Martin, a long-time editor and writer on urban affairs, is the former director of the Citizens Jury Project at the Vera Institute of Justice. She is now writing a book entitled The Conscience of the American Jury.


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Need A Light-Weight Artist Or Band Website? Look No Further!
We've written about Flavors.me before, the service that lets you create a light-weight artist or band website in literally less than 5 minutes. Really, it's super easy.
They recently added support of SoundCloud accounts so we thought it might be worth having a more detailed look at the service.
These days, artists and bands manage several presences on the web, be it SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or YouTube accounts. Building a website to have this one place on the web where you aggregate the content from these different services in fact adds some additional tasks to your list.
Enter Flavors.me: no need to be a website programming wizzard or WordPress expert. Flavors makes it really easy for you to set up and customize a page with a background picture and some design settings like font, size, column views and colors before connecting your different social media accounts with your page. Here's an example from Dutch producer and SoundCloud user Inofaith. Hit 'Sounds' and you're able to stream the latest SoundCloud Sets right on the page.
You can then connect the different accounts you have on the web by simply authorizing Flavors to access the data of your accounts via oAuth. The same settings panel also lets you easily access the different customization settings like layouts, backgrounds, colors and fonts. It literally took me 5 minutes to set up my own Flavors page.
They recently also added a first set of Premium features: you can now use your own custom domain (and actually buy one straight during the sign up process if you don't have one) and get access to more detailed statistics about the traffic and visitors to your page.
Watch the demo below, read more about the latest news on their blog http://blog.flavors.me or check out the Directory for some inspiration.
Give it a go and let us and the Flavors team know what you think in the comments below.


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Why KISS Rocker Paul Stanley Didn't Invite Gene Simmons to His Wedding
Kiss's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have been rocking out on stage for over 40 years together, and, surprisingly, they are still close friends. But the friendship hasn't been without some drama. "The Insider" correspondent Keltie Knight chatted with Paul, aka the Starchild, and he revealed why he didn't invite Gene to his 2005 wedding to Erin Sutton.
"Gene had been very, very vocal about not only dismissing the idea of marriage, but really have a very disrespectful and demeaning attitude towards people who did." he said. "So for me, it really came down to you don't belong at my wedding. It would taint it. It would do something, it would be contradictory, and for me, that would be offensive. He understood. Lo and behold, he got married, too."
Even though the Kiss front-man didn't attend Paul's wedding, it doesn't seem to have affected their friendship. The friends even live close to each other. Paul explained, "Gene lives literally 2 minutes down the road. I always tell people that I can see his ego from here. We've never gotten along better."
Not only has their personal-professional relationship survived all these years, but Paul also believes that the band's success relies on one another.
"Gene's and my successes seem to be hand-in-hand, and neither one of us on our own will ever do what we've done as a team." Paul explained. "I often say that we see each other as brothers. We just seem to have a difference of opinion of how you treat your brother. But we've been together forty-plus years, so it's fine."
Well we hope that they continue performing together for more years to come. Check out this video for more candid comments from Paul Stanley, and tune in to "The Insider With Yahoo" for the latest in entertainment news.


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Table of Contents:
A European strategy for nanotechnology
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about A European strategy for nanotechnology
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Research and innovation > Research in support of other policies
A European strategy for nanotechnology
Nanotechnology means the manipulation of atoms or molecules to produce materials, devices and new technologies. It is the building of nanomaterials at nanoscale, atom by atom and molecule by molecule. The principle underlying nanotechnology is simple: instead of reducing matter to work down to the smallest possible particle, the smallest possible particle is extracted from matter. Nanotechnologies ("nano" is derived from the Greek "nannos" meaning "dwarf") demand enormous effort in terms of basic and applied multidisciplinary research involving a wide variety of specialisations: genomics and biotechnologies, sustainable development, food safety, aeronautics, health, etc.
Communication from the Commission "Towards a European strategy for nanotechnology" [COM(2004) 338 final – Not published in the Official Journal]
Materials have always been extracted from the ground, modified, heated, subjected to pressure, assembled, etc. All these procedures use a great deal of energy and, at the same time, generate a great deal of waste. Current industrial production is based on this manufacturing principle.
Nanotechnology, however, uses the individual atoms directly. It manipulates them and applies assembly processes to form groups of atoms with a view to manufacturing nanomaterials or nanomachines. With the prospect of obtaining greater performance with fewer raw materials, in particular via "bottom-up" manufacturing, nanotechnology has the potential to reduce waste across the whole life-cycle of products.
In this way, nanotechnology or nanoscience can contribute to sustainable development and the goals addressed in "Agenda 21" and the Environmental Technology Action Plan.
Nanoscience is often referred to as "horizontal", as it frequently brings together different areas of science and draws on an interdisciplinary approach. It may lead to progress in areas such as:
- healthcare, thanks to miniaturised diagnostics that could be used for early diagnosis of illness;
- information technologies, through data storage media and innovative displays;
- energy production and storage, with novel fuel cells or lightweight nanostructured solids that have the potential for efficient hydrogen storage;
- manufacturing, thanks to the miniaturisation of existing micro-systems and the imitation of nature through the building of structures starting at atomic and molecular level;
- research into food, water and the environment. In this field, nanotechnologies could be used to repair and clean-up environmental damage and remove pollution from contaminated areas;
- security, through novel detection systems with a high specificity that can provide early warning against biological or chemical agents.
Five dynamics are identified in the context of nanotechnology: research and development, infrastructure, education and training, innovation and the societal dimension. Joint action is needed at Community level in all of these interdependent areas in order to harness the potential of the European Research Area.
- Research and development: building the momentum. It is necessary not only to maintain excellence in research and development but also to strengthen investment in research relevant to industry, while reinforcing Community level research and coordinating national policies more closely to build up a critical mass.
- Infrastructure: European "poles of excellence". State-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation is increasingly crucial for the development of nanotechnology, and also to demonstrate whether research can be turned into potential products and processes. To accelerate the development of nanosciences, investment in a wide range of advanced facilities, instruments and equipment is essential.
- Investing in human resources. To harness the potential of nanotechnology, the EU needs an interdisciplinary population of researchers and engineers who can generate knowledge and ensure that this, in turn, is transferred to industry. Post-graduate and life-long training should therefore be encouraged.
- Industrial innovation, from knowledge to technology. European innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of nanotechnology must be stimulated. Nanotechnology depends on three additional factors: patenting of fundamental knowledge, regulation and metrology.
- Integrating the societal dimension. The aim is to adopt a proactive stance and fully integrate societal considerations into the research process, exploring its benefits, risks and deeper implications for society. In this context, a dialogue with citizens and consumers on research into nanotechnology is strongly encouraged.
Building upon the experience from the 6th Research Framework Programme, closer international cooperation in nanosciences and nanotechnologies is needed both with economically advanced countries, in order to share knowledge and reap the benefits of a critical mass, and with those that are less economically advanced, in order to give them access to knowledge and new technologies.
Related Acts
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee of 17 June 2008, Regulatory aspects of nanomaterials [COM(2008) 366 final – not published in the Official Journal].
The current legislation generally covers the risks to health, safety and the environment which may result from the use of nanotechnologies. However, the existing legislative framework could be improved by enhanced implementation, better sharing of the available information, more in-depth knowledge about the characteristics of nanomaterials and their dangers, as well as risk assessment and management at national and international level. The authorities and agencies responsible for the implementation of the legislation must continue to monitor the market and to use the Community intervention mechanisms in cases where products already on the market represent a risk. Three years after this Communication, the Commission will write a report on the progress made.
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee of 6 September 2007: Nanosciences and nanotechnologies – An action plan for Europe 2005-2009. First Implementation Report 2005-2007 [COM(2007) 505 final – not published in the Official Journal].
This report reviews the implementation of the 2005 Nanotechnology Action Plan at the halfway stage. It highlights the strategic importance of these technologies for Europe, which is leading the world in this field, but also the ways in which these technologies can improve the quality of life and economic welfare of Europeans by making significant contributions to health, the environment and safety, in particular.
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee of 7 July 2005: Nanosciences and nanotechnologies – An action plan for Europe 2005-2009 [COM(2005) 243 final – not published in the Official Journal].
The European Commission has drawn up an action plan with measures to be taken at national and European levels to step up nanotechnology research and develop useful products and services.
Measures in the action plan include:
- increasing financial support for nanotechnology in the seventh framework programme;
- developing world-class competitive infrastructure for research and poles of excellence;
- ensuring that ethical principles are always respected and citizens' concerns taken into account;
- addressing public health, safety and environmental risks;
- promoting the interdisciplinary education & training of researchers and engineers;
- strengthening international dialogue on common issues.
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament of 28 January 2004: Stimulating technologies for sustainable development: An environmental technologies action plan for the European Union [COM(2004) 38 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament of 18 July 2003: Researchers in the European Research Area: one profession, multiple careers [COM(2003) 436 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 4 June 2003: Investing in research: an action plan for Europe [COM(2003) 226 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 16 October 2002: The European Research Area: Providing new momentum – Strengthening – Reorienting – Opening up new perspectives [COM(2002) 565 final – not published in the Official Journal].
Communication from the Commission of 11 September 2002: More Research for Europe – Towards 3 % of GDP [COM(2002) 499 final – not published in the Official Journal].


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Authors are always very happy when their paper is accepted for publication in a journal, as this shows that their work was deemed important but editors and referees. But they also want to make sure that their work gets read and does not disappear behind a subscription wall. There are several steps an author can take here.
Retain copyright
The author is the copyright holder until this is transfered to someone else. Publishers asks very soon after a paper is accepted for publication that the copyright be transfered to them. Typically, the form asks for all rights, which implies that the author cannot use her own work in other publication or in presentations, even in her own classroom. There are two ways to avoid this: 1) ask for the "other" copyright form, which publishers provides upon request only. This form allows the author to retain certain rights. 2) amend the copyright form. SPARC has developed a standard form that is available here [pdf]. See further details regarding this procedure.
Keep pre-prints online
In many cases, a paper was previously made available online as a working paper. Do not remove it. Indeed, you are the copyright holder and do not have to relinquish this. Even if you did not follow the steps above, in most cases, you can still keep your working paper online. Many publishers have made public that they tolerate, to various degrees, that these pre-prints remain in place. You can check this at SHERPA/RoMEO.
Provide post-prints
You can even archive so-called post-prints. These are accepted versions on your article. Many universities and research funders actually require that post-prints be publicly archived, for example in an institutional repository. In Economics, it is also common to publish an accepted work in a working paper series. Again, to see what publishers officially allow in this respect, see SHERPA/RoMEO. You have more rights, of course, if you took steps to retain them.


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Skype: Microsoft's $8.5 Billion Mobile Bet
Microsoft built its empire on the PC. Its two cash cows, Windows and Office, are hard-core, old-school PC businesses.
But the PC business has grown stagnant. Microsoft's revenues from Windows have actually been falling lately.
The growth now is in smartphones and tablets — where Microsoft is getting clobbered by Apple (obviously) and Google (whose Android mobile operating system is wildly popular).
This, as much as anything, explains why Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion for Skype, a company that lost money last year, and that most people use for free.
Skype is available on all of the big mobile operating systems. But a particularly tight, elegant integration with Microsoft's struggling Windows Phone operating system could be a big boost.
As Om Malik, who broke the story yesterday, writes in a post this morning:
* It would give [Microsoft] a must-have application/service that can help with the adoption of the future versions of Windows Mobile operating system.
* However, the biggest reason for Microsoft to buy Skype is Windows Phone 7 (Mobile OS) ... The software giant needs a competitive offering to Google Voice and Apple's emerging communication platform, Facetime.
A few other points from around the Web:
* Skype is also a natural complement to Microsoft's Xbox Kinect, the popular motion-capture game system. "With its camera, microphone and internet connection, Kinect is already set up for living-room videoconferencing," FT's Tech Hub notes
* The WSJ says Skype is Microsoft's biggest acquisition ever. Did the company pay too much? "Hell yes," according to TechCrunch, which reports that the second highest offer for Skype came from Google — and was only $4 billion.
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Romantic feud is behind terror scare
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man angry about a compromising Facebook photo of his girlfriend took revenge against the ex-boyfriend who posted it, making a hoax call to police that set off a terrorism scare and got the former beau taken off an airliner at gunpoint, authorities say.
The new boyfriend, Kenneth W. Smith Jr., was arrested yesterday on charges of making a false threat to Philadelphia police, who recalled a Dallas-bound flight and marched the ex-beau, Christopher Shell, off the plane Thursday.
The episode led to Shell's own arrest on drug warrants after he finally reached Texas to celebrate his 29th birthday.
Yesterday, both Shell and Smith posted bond. Shell declined to comment. Smith's lawyer, Bill Brennan, described his client as "embarrassed" by the consequences of the alleged threat.
"My client is very, very sobered by the amount of attention this has received," Brennan said after Smith's initial appearance in federal court in Philadelphia. "He's not very happy about it."
Passengers weren't very happy about the scare that rerouted US Airways Flight 1267 on Thursday morning. They were about 90 miles into their trip when the aircraft turned around.
After landing at Philadelphia International Airport, heavily armed law enforcement officers boarded the plane and removed Shell. During questioning, he told authorities of the romantic feud, which involved hostile text messages with his ex and encounters with Smith, according to a federal affidavit.
Shell also gave officers the name of Smith's workplace. Authorities visited Smith, and he acknowledged calling airport police from a payphone to say that Shell was carrying liquid explosives.
Smith said he did it to "avenge" his new girlfriend, because Shell had posted a compromising picture of her on Facebook, the affidavit said.
"It is the kind of photo that would incense a boyfriend," said Brennan, Smith's lawyer.
Smith, 26, of Philadelphia, was charged with conveying false information that interfered with aviation and using an instrument of commerce — the phone — to do so. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and possible restitution.
Philadelphia police on Thursday had stressed that Shell was blameless for the airplane scare. He continued his travel later in the day to Texas, where he planned to celebrate his birthday.


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American swimmer and 2012 Paralympic medal-winner Victoria Arlen spoke out about a ruling that barred her from competing at the World Championships this past August in Montreal. The International Paralympic Committee ruled the young athlete ineligible because she "failed to provide conclusive evidence of a permanent eligible impairment."
Arlen said the committee penalized her for having hope, "which is very sad, because without hope I wouldn't be here today."
Arlen explained the ruling on AC360. "I asked the doctor if I would ever have full function in my arms and legs again, and he said with all the medical research on the spinal cord there's hope, but it would be a miracle if you could walk again. They twisted the doctors words around and therefore it wasn't considered a 'permanent' impairment."
She said it was heartbreaking and devastating because the I.P.C. didn't give her, "an explanation or logical reason why this was happening ... It was based on the chance that I might walk again and basically didn't think I was eligible. Nothing has changed in the last 7 years and it's not going to change any time soon."
The swimmer wants to move on and not dwell on the ruling. She explained, "I've been though too much to let this break me. I'm here today and that's a blessing."
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This is an absolute travesty of any kind of justice. For years and years we have given our money to Jerry Lewis and MDA for on reason ....Hope.... That little 4 letter word helps so many get through the devastation caused by so many physically restrictive diseases and for this committee to take this away from this young lady because there is "hope" is the very worst kind of wrong they could ever do to not only her but to every other person living with a paralysing disease. We should all stand up and demand this wrong be righted.
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An omnibus collection of short films held together by a location-based theme, Revolución initially brings to mind such recent collaborative projects as Paris, Je T'aime, New York, I Love You, and Tokyo! Instead of just love of a city, however, the stories of Revolución share much more specific themes. They're held together by producer Pablo Cruz's loose conceptual question: "What does the Mexican Revolution mean to you today?" Inspired by the centennial celebration of the uprising-turned-civil-war and eventual establishment of what has since been the political system of Mexico, each filmmaker who contributed a piece took a unique approach, but it's perhaps more interesting to explore what these pieces have in common than the ways in which they differ.
In addition to Helmer Cruz, directors Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Fernando Eimbcke, Mariana Chenillo, and Patricia Riggen took the stage for a Q&A after the film's New York Film Festival screening, to an audience peopled with a significant proportion of often-elderly Spanish-speakers. According to the filmmakers on hand, the centennial celebrations are so ubiquitous in Mexico right now that it's like a year-round holiday, although it's doubtful most people know exactly what they're celebrating. This skepticism of blind patriotism is one common thread in many of the shorts, particularly encouraging in light of the fact that this project was in large part funded by the Mexican government. The filmmakers were clear that the government had no creative input on the project, which in their words criticizes it openly, telling the story of the spirit and promise of a revolution which may not have been completely delivered upon.
Another common thread among several of the ten-minutes-or-less shorts is the idea of diaspora. In Patricia Riggen's "Beautiful and Beloved", an American-born young woman is reluctantly forced to retrace her revolutionary grandfather's steps back to his Mexican hometown upon his death, learning about familial pride in a rural town for what looks like the first time. Later, present-day Los Angeles Latinos clash with their forefathers in Rodrigo Garcia's mood piece "7th and Alvarado", a slow-motion visual stunner shot in a California neighborhood which is intruded upon by the incongruous and anachronistic specter of the cavalry of the Mexican Revolution themselves.
The order in which these short films are presented (or what on an album would be called "sequencing") was done thoughtfully, and to great effect. Beginning with a few personal stories from the points of view of children in small towns (Fernando Eimbcke's "The Welcome Ceremony" opening the set and Gael Garcia Bernal's "Lucio" coming up third), the segments trace a variety of experience and perspective to end up in Garcia's aforementioned "7th and Alvarado", drawing the a through-line of setting from a rural Mexico that has barely changed since 1910 through to urban Los Angeles and then bringing the two crashing together. Modern life is always clashing with the past in these short films, as young people struggle to reconcile evolving identities and often mobile or progressive lifestyles with familial, religious or community obligation and tradition.
The shorts range from the fairly straightforward and personal narrative, as in Diego Luna's "Pacifico" (in which a man contemplates building on his beachfront property while trying to convince his estranged partner to let him see their young daughter), to the abstract, such as Amat Escalante's "The Hanging Priest" (in which children are confronted with the title character in a surreal black-and-white Jodorowsky-like scene), as well as the set's arguably most interesting piece, Carlos Reygadas's "This Is My Kingdom". Here, a group of community members gather for a party, which starts out civil and congenial as a picnic in the park, but slowly devolves, spinning into a hysterical Harmony Korine-like out-of-control revel in which men in lucha libre masks dance as children set fire to cars. Reygadas was unavailable, unfortunately, for this screening's Q&A, but the other filmmakers present did not deny its possible intended significance as a metaphor for the long-term effects of the Revolution.
I don't think it makes me an atypical American to admit that a lot of the information I get regarding international events and movements comes from fictionalized sources like film. Thus, even though I could drive myself there in about one day, and have plenty of friends who claim some degree of Mexican heritage, much of what I truly "know" about contemporary Mexico has come my way via the likes of Alejandro Iñárritu and Carlos and Alfonso Cuarón. I suppose there's some potential critique of the failings of the US public school system to be found here, not to mention a disappointing failure in my own intellectual curiosity, but the truth is that I didn't know much about the Mexican Revolution before this film, let alone about how Mexicans today feel about its lasting repercussions.
As embarrassing as that is to admit as a person who likes to consider herself fairly engaged and culturally sensitive, I know I can't be the only one. So here's hoping this film finds wide enough distribution to not only give native Mexicans something representative of their diverse experience with which they can connect, but also gives this film the opportunity to fill in some of the blanks in the knowledge and empathy base of an international audience.


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Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas in Austin
Durante o ONA, Alfred Hermida pegou no seu N95 e perguntou as professores presentes o que é que eles precisam de ensinar para formar novos jornalistas.
Robert Scoble, Rosental Alves – o orientador do workshop de Jornalismo Online a que assisti em Junho (sim, eu vou continuar a falar disto porque foi mesmo bom) – e outros deixam a sua opinião sobre o que é necessário que os estudantes de Jornalismo sejam e aprendam.
During ONA, Alfred Hermida took his N95 and asked around to the teachers present at the event about what they have to teach to grad journo students.
Robert Scoble, Rosental Alves – the professor at the Online Journalism workshop i attended last June (yes, i'll keep on referring to it because it was really damn good)- and others leave their opinion about what journalism students need to learn and to be.
The advice for graduates was that they need journalism plus a new set of skills. The basics of journalism — curiosity, passion, accuracy, serving the public interest — were still important. But journalist students also need to learn about how the digital revolution has changed, and continues to change, the media.
This involves understanding how people are consuming media and how content flows online, as well as being aware of the importance of community and the conversation taking place online. Teaching journalism has become "journalism…plus" as Robert Scoble says below.
Journalism Grads Need Basic Skills Plus Openness, Flexibility by Alfred Hermida
Continue a ler 'Os professores de jornalismo dizem o que os alunos precisam de saber | Journalism teachers tell what students need to know'


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Currently I am using MagickWand to create a DLL which can convert image files from one format to anther.
Therefore, all functions I use is just as below:
Now I build ImageMagick as a static library(MT settings). My DLL is then built with ImageMagick, MFC and CRT all statically to prevent deliver other dependency DLLs. However, the problem is that the final built DLL is more than 13MB, rather large.
Is it possible to reduce the size of the final DLL since my DLL does not use any image manipluation functions at all.
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So far in 2014 we are way ahead of where we were last year
Grass growth
The weather may have improved recently with some sunny and warmer days but it's worth remembering that it's still only March and it may be a while before we see any consistent growth on the courses here at the Home of Golf.
This can be a difficult time for greenkeepers in the UK as golfers often watch PGA Tour events from the likes of Florida and wonder why, when they arrive at their local golf course for the first time since October, it doesn't look and play the same as the ones they've seen on TV!
Many of the grass types which make up or courses need a consistent soil temperature of 8 degrees Celsius before we see reasonable growth. This will also help to fill any blemishes or gaps caused by winter play, pitchmarks or disease scars. At the moment the temperature in the soil is still around 4 or 5 degrees Celsius at night.
Some grass types require even higher temperatures and due to this we experience inconsistent growth which can lead to the ball bobbling a little as it rolls across the surface. This is a time for patience as no amount of cutting, fertilising or watering will improve the situation. In fact, watering makes the situation worse as a wet soil takes longer to warm up than if it's dry. It is important, however, to make sure the grass has adequate moisture to keep it alive.
What's required is frequent, lightweight rolling and regular, light topdressing to help smooth out the imperfections and protect the plant from the cold winds and low evening temperatures we are still liable to experience.
These types of operations keep the surfaces dry and firm which leads to less footprints and, in turn, smoother greens until temperatures warm up.
So far in 2014 we are way ahead of where we were last year. In 2013, constant cold, easterly, gale force winds really held everything back. This desiccated the grass and many other plants around the Links like gorse; some of which still hasn't recovered.
Let's hope the good weather continues and we don't experience a repeat of last spring!
Words by Gordon Moir, Director of Greenkeeping
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