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King family wants input on Georgia's MLK monument
ATLANTA – The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has warned Georgia's governor it wants input on any monument to the slain civil rights icon that might be erected on the grounds of the state Capitol.
A state bill with bipartisan support calls for a monument to King to be placed on the grounds of the Capitol or another prominent location. Gov. Nathan Deal in January told a congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, that he'd work with the Legislature to secure a prominent place at the Capitol for a monument to the Atlanta native.
Eric Tidwell, managing director of Intellectual Properties Management, an entity run by the King family, sent a letter to the governor's office this week reminding him that the estate owns all rights to King's "name, image, likeness, words, rights of publicity, copyrighted works, recorded voice, and trademark interests," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Tidwell also said the estate was surprised not to have heard from the governor about any plans for a monument.
"When the media reported that the governor referenced this initiative in remarks he made on the King Holiday, we expected to hear from your office and the appropriate parties seeking the estate's input and approval," Tidwell wrote, adding that no formal request for permission to use any of King's intellectual property had been received.
The governor's chief of staff, Chris Riley, responded by email, saying they were monitoring the legislation.
"Please do not assume the governor would ever try to financially capitalize on the legacy of Dr. King. He is simply ... trying to honor a great Georgian," Riley wrote.
Tidwell wrote back that he didn't imagine that the governor wanted to monetize King's image, and said licenses to use King's image have been issued to governments at no cost. But he said the family wants to be included in any process of determining how King will be honored.
The King family has actively used the courts over the years to assert its rights over King's written word and image.
State Rep. Calvin Smyre, R-Columbus, is one of the sponsors of the legislation seeking to honor King. He told the newspaper the King family would be consulted if a monument is built.
"My job is shepherding this bill through the legislative process," Smyre said. "Thereafter, the right people will be assembled and the right meeting will be held."
The legislation does not specify how King would be honored, but it sets the process in motion and says any project would be privately funded.


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You can use Jetty with external logging frameworks, or you can use default Jetty logging.
With any logging framework, all events have a name and a level. The name is a Fully Qualified Class Name (FQCN). The logging framework you choose determines the level. While the meaning of the levels is pretty much the same across logging frameworks, the descriptive identifiers for those levels are different.
Jetty Logging with External Frameworks
You can use a logging framework other than the default Jetty Log. You use SLF4J as a façade for a logging framework such as logback, java.util.logging, or log4j, and all logging events stream to that framework. The way you configure the framework determines what you see. If, for example, you want to ignore all events below WARN level, or turn on FINE/DEBUG level on org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio?, now you can.
The jetty-util module now houses org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.LOG, which is a Log façade for a logging implementation. By default, Jetty first looks for org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder in the server classpath to configure an external logging framework. If it is not present, Jetty uses the internal logging mechanism, org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog.
For more information, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty#Javadoc_and_Source. For an example of a custom Logger, see http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-7/xref/org/eclipse/jetty/util/log/JavaUtilLog.html
Default Jetty Logging–org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog
The default Jetty log has one name for all logs, using a system property that turns on DEBUG and reports on predefined events that write to STDERR. You configure logging at startup.
Jetty logging includes some system properties that you can use to control filtering. For example, org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.stderr.DEBUG sets the level filter to DEBUG and higher, with the possible levels being IGNORE, DEBUG, INFO, and WARN. By default, Jetty filters from INFO and above, showing only INFO and WARN logs.
- With StdErrLog you always see INFO and WARN logs. You can add DEBUG and/or IGNORE logs.
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A Rare Cold Month
In a Year of Extremes
December and Annual 2010 Overview
New Jersey State Climatologist
Center for Environmental Prediction, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences/NJAES, Rutgers University
January 3, 2011
December Overview
The last month of 2010 reminded us that temperatures can fall below average and snow can fly across the Garden State. Not that residents will soon forget this past snowy February, however the bulk of the year featured well above average temperatures and an extend period of drought. More on the year is found later in this narrative, however first a look at December.
Cold temperatures prevailed throughout most of the month, with approximately 80% of the days averaging below the long-term mean. The statewide monthly average of 30.7° was 4.7° below average. This tied with 1943 as the 22nd coldest December since records commenced in 1895.
The warmest day was the 1st when Hammonton (Atlantic County), Bethel Mill Park (Gloucester) and Cherry Hill (Camden) topped out at 66°. Most other locations in NJ were in the low 60°s. The 11th-13th was the only other time when some locations exceeded the 50° mark, with West Cape May at 50° on the 11th, the three warmest stations on the 1st also leading the way with 60° on the 12th, and Woodbine (Cumberland) and Toms River (Ocean) reaching 50° on the 13th.
A powerful cold front caused temperatures to quickly plummet, with the warmest locations in south Jersey only reaching 27° on the 14th while High Point Monument (Sussex) maxed out at 14°. All of NJ remained below freezing on the 15th and 16th. On eleven days in December temperatures bottomed out in the single digits in at least one location. The 9th saw Berkeley Township (Ocean) at 7°, and both Pequest (Warren) and High Point (Sussex) at 9°. These stations fell to 6°, 7°, and 8°, respectively, on the 10th, with 8° also observed at Basking Ridge (Somerset). High Point Monument dipped to 8° or 9° on the 13th, 14th and 15th. Pequest took low honors from the 17th-20th, with lows from 6° to 9°. Hope (Warren) fell to 9° on the 17th and Berkeley Township reached 9° on the 18th.
With a deep fresh snow cover and a calm atmosphere, Berkeley Township fell to 9° late in the evening on the 29th, dropping further to 0° on the morning of the 30th. The 30th was the coldest morning of the month statewide, with single digit lows observed in eight counties, and the warmest low of 24° found at the Atlantic City Marina (Atlantic).
Three storms impacted New Jersey during December, depositing the vast majority of the month's precipitation. The statewide average of rain and melted snow was 3.31". At 0.39" below normal, this ranks as the 60th wettest or 56th driest December on record. The most precipitation fell in the north central Highlands, with 7.40" at West Milford (Passaic), 5.89" in Mine Hill Township (Morris), 5.71" in Hardyston Township (Sussex) and 5.57" at Jefferson Township (Morris). In the northwest corner of the state, the least amount fell, with 2.52" and 2.77" observed at two locations in Wantage (Sussex) and 2.93" at Washington (Warren). The southwest area came in on the lower side too, with 2.88" in Upper Deerfield (Cumberland).
The 1st brought the wettest system of the month to NJ. Totals (some of which included minor amounts that fell on November 30th) included 3.70" and 3.01" at two West Milford (Passaic) locations and 3.08" in Mine Hill Township (Morris). 1.00-3.00" fell in all but the far southern portions of the state, where 0.75"-1.00" was measured. A second storm beginning late on the 11th and ending early on the 13th brought a similar pattern of precipitation, with the far south and portions of the southwest receiving 0.75"-1.00" and the remainder of the state from 1.00" to just over 2.00". Top totals included 2.29" at Little Falls (Passaic), 2.22" and 2.18" at the West Milford stations, and 2.14" and 2.09" at two Oakland (Bergen) locations.
Snow squalls dusted portions of central NJ on the 6th and 15th, only amounting to a maximum of 0.3" in Greenwich Township (Warren) on the 6th and 0.5" at Bethlehem Township (Hunterdon) on the 15th. These totals paled in comparison to what fell in just minutes during the major blizzard that impacted the state from the morning of the 26th into the early morning of the 27th. A combination of heavy snowfall and strong winds crippled the eastern half of the state. Some locations received from 24.0"-31.0", ranking amongst the top several heaviest snowfalls on record. Meanwhile, a sharp precipitation gradient saw some western portions only receiving single digit totals of wind-driven flakes.
It was a difficult snowfall to measure and equally difficult to extract a liquid total by melting a core of snow taken from an area with a depth representative of the snow that fell. This was the only manner in which a reasonably accurate total could be obtained. Those observers who did so found approximately a 14:1 ratio of snowfall to liquid. Using what many consider a traditional 10:1 ratio gave too high a precipitation total. Meanwhile, those attempting to catch and melt snowfall in a mounted gauge caught far less snow in the gauge than actually fell, due to the wind and, of course in many areas, the gauge overfilling with snow.
An impressive 213 snowfall reports were submitted by volunteer observers from the NJ CoCoRaHS, National Weather Service spotter networks, and NWS Cooperative and first order stations and were deemed reasonable ("accurate" is a difficult word to use when measuring blizzard totals) by the state climate office. Of these, totals ranged from a low of 2.7" in Belvidere Bridge (Warren) to 32.0" at Rahway (Union). The table below shows the range of totals received from stations in each NJ county. Variations within counties down the center of the state are impressive, due to the sharp cut off of the heaviest snow bands across this region. Totals to the west and east differ in part due to banding, but also illustrate some of the difficulties in coming up with a representative snow depth for the windy storm.
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Table 1. Minimum and Maximum snowfall totals at observing sites in the 21 NJ counties. See a complete listing of snowfall reports here.
The highest atmospheric pressure of the month was approximately 30.45" on the 10th, while the second storm of the month saw pressures across NJ drop to 29.10"-29.15" on the 13th. Pressures during the blizzard fell to 29.15"-29.20" on the 27th.
With three major storms and lots of cold air pouring in from the Arctic, wind was a major factor throughout December. On 17 days, at least one location received a gust exceeding 40 mph, while on nine of these days gusts topped 50 mph. The storm on the 1st saw winds gust to 54 mph at Wantage (Sussex) and Bivalve (Cumberland). The 6th-8th was a gusty period at High Point Monument and nearby Wantage, with gusts of 53 mph and 51 mph, respectively, on the 6th and gusts in the 40s mph the other two days. The mid-month storm brought gusty winds from the 12th-15th, first with a 46 mph gust at Bivalve and then Wantage and High Point Monument dominating the scene. This included gusts to 58 mph and 54 mph, respectively, on the 13th, and a 53 mph gust at Wantage on the 14th. These two perennially windy locations saw another interval of persistent gusts from the 20th-24th, including three days with gusts between 51 mph and 58 mph.
The blizzard brought a gust to 55 mph at High Point Monument on the 26th, however even when the snow stopped falling, ground blizzard conditions prevailed at times on the 27th, the windiest day of the month. Gusts that day reached 58 mph at Seaside Heights (Ocean), 57 mph at High Point Monument, 55 mph in Harvey Cedars (Ocean), and 50 mph at Sea Girt (Monmouth), while topping 40 mph at a number of other locations. Fittingly, High Point Monument had the last 40 mph gust of the month on the 28th, topping out at 46 mph.
Winds associated with the storm on the 1st toppled trees and utility poles throughout the state. A motorist was killed by a falling tree in West Milford (Passaic) and 18,000 utility customers lost power. The wind and rain also led to major airport and rail delays.
The blizzard was the most impactful event of the month and resulted in a state of emergency being declared by the acting governor. Transportation by road, rail and air was brought to a halt, especially over eastern portions of the state. This included hundreds if not thousands of vehicles stranded on local, state and interstate roads, leading to rescue operations and the opening of several shelters. It took several days to bring the transportation system back to full operation, especially in hard-hit Monmouth and Ocean counties. There were scattered power outages over the course of the storm. Several lives were lost (the number yet to be fully determined) as a result of prolonged exposure to the elements, automobile accidents and snow shoveling.
Annual 2010 Overview
Mother Nature pulled no punches when it came to the extreme weather/climate conditions that impacted the Garden State throughout 2010. Before presenting the state climate office's top ten events of the past year, an examination of annual temperature and precipitation is in order.
We entered December tied with 1998 for the warmest first eleven months of the year on record. However the cold conditions experienced during the last month of the year dropped 2010 into a tie for the third warmest year on record (Table 2). Note that eight of the warmest ten years have occurred since 1990.
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Table 2. Warmest years in New Jersey since statewide records commenced in 1895 (116 years).
The wet start to the year combined with a dry spring and summer resulted in a statewide annual precipitation total of 45.59". This is only 1.61" below average, and ranks as the 52nd wettest of the past 116 years.
Top ten lists are always subject to debate, be it due to those items included OR excluded, along with the order of the ranking. We would love to hear your comments on the list that follows (or feel free to agree!) at email@example.com. Remember, we were looking for events with widespread impacts. You may have experienced a severe storm at some point that was mainly localized, leaving a memory for you, but perhaps not many others. Also, when considering statewide records, they extend back to 1895.
1. March 12th-14th storm: rain, flooding, wind (part of a record wet March)
2. Snowiest February (record snowiest winter in southern half of state)
3. Every month from March through September ranked in the top ten for warmth (3rd warmest year)
4. December 26th-27th blizzard
5. Dry April through September with an end of summer statewide Drought Watch
The next five are mostly associated with one of the top five events:
6. Back-to-back February 5-6 and 9-10 snow storms
7. Driest summer since 1966 (8th driest overall)
8. July 4-7 heat wave (record number of maximum temperatures greater than or equal to 90° for the season at some locations)
9. Beneficial "drought busting" rainfall (August 22nd and September 30th - October 1st), though in some locations too excessive
10. Absence of a major cold wave (a mid-December outbreak came closest to achieving such a designation)
For those seeking more detailed information on hourly, daily and monthly conditions, please visit the following Office of the NJ State Climatologist's websites:
NJ Weather and Climate Network
NJ Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
NJ Snow Event Reports
Interested in receiving our monthly summaries at the end of each month? Send us your e-mail address here to join the mailing list.
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Illuminated Manuscripts
Over 3,000 stunning images from key manuscripts of the 8th to 15th centuries, casting light on art and culture across Britain and Ireland.
You can see more in our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.
Curator's introduction
Manuscripts from the 8th to the 15th century
Before the introduction of printing to Western Europe during the mid-15th century, all books were written by hand. The Latin for hand, 'manus', and for writing, 'scriptum', give us the word manuscript. Making a manuscript was slow and demanding: sometimes routinely laborious, sometimes creatively glorious, and always expensive.
The most luxurious manuscripts were illuminated: lit up by decorations and pictures in brightly-coloured pigments and burnished gold leaf. They are among the most dazzling and intriguing objects ever created, and the British Library's collection is one of the finest in the world. More than 3,000 images have been selected here from manuscripts associated with particular places or regions across the British Isles. They reflect almost 1,000 years of history, from around 600 to 1600.
Curator's choice
Curator's introduction highlights personal favourite items from the collection
The opening of St Luke's Gospel in the Lindisfarne Gospels
This beautifully decorated copy of the four Gospels was made by a single artist-scribe (perhaps B...
Lord Lovell Presenting The Lectionary To A Canon of Salisbury Cathedral (?), In 'The Lovell Lectionary'
John, Lord Lovell, of Titchmarsh (near Thrapston in Northamptonshire) died in 1408. This lectiona...
The Meeting Of Sir Lancelot And Queen Guinevere, In 'The Romance Of Lancelot Du Lac''
Originally written and illuminated in France, c. 1300, this manuscript had reached England by the...
Historiated initial with a signed self-portrait of William de Brailes in 'The de Brailes Hours' f.43r
William de Brailes is the only 13th-century English non-monastic illuminator known to have signed...
St Bartholomew giving a scourge to Guthlac as he is tormented by demons in 'The Guthlac Roll'
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Protest rally sets stage for Pa. voter ID hearing
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Hundreds of demonstrators descended on Pennsylvania's Capitol on Tuesday to protest a tough new voter ID law, launching a daylong political drama that set the stage for a state court hearing on a lawsuit seeking to prevent the law from taking effect this year.
The protesters — civil-rights activists, union members and others — chanted, waved signs and cheered as speakers portrayed the mandatory photo ID requirement as part of a cynical effort by Republicans to suppress voters turnout and gain an advantage in a presidential election year.
"They know that, when people don't vote, they win. ... We're going to stop it and stand at the borders of Pennsylvania and say 'everybody in America has a right to vote,'" said Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale.
Hilary O. Shelton, senior vice president for advocacy at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, noted that even supporters of the law — one of the toughest in the nation — cannot cite any cases of voter impersonation in Pennsylvania.
"It is a solution looking for a problem," Shelton told the crowd gathered on the Capitol steps around a 25-foot inflatable replica of the Liberty Bell.
Similar protests are scheduled Wednesday in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Allentown.
The rally came one day before the state Commonwealth Court is set to open a hearing in Harrisburg on a lawsuit seeking to block the law from taking effect on Nov. 6, Election Day.
Civil-rights groups representing the 10 Pennsylvania voters who are the plaintiffs contend that the law is unconstitutional and would disenfranchise many poor people, senior citizens and minorities, who are less than likely to have the required photo IDs.
Supporters say the law is simply an extra layer of protection against voter fraud, although the state attorney general's office joined the plaintiffs in signing a stipulation that says neither side is aware of any incidents of in-person fraud.
The law was passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled Legislature with no Democratic votes and signed in March by GOP Gov. Tom Corbett.
Secretary of State Carol Aichele, the state's top elections official, sought to quietly schedule a post-rally news conference while the protest was in progress, but word leaked out and a leader of the rally announced it over the public-address system.
About two dozen protesters tried to attend the news conference in a Senate meeting room, only to be blocked by Capitol police. Instead, they chanted and sang outside the room, nearly drowning out Aichele at times as she answered reporters' questions.
Inside the room, Aichele listed steps that her department has taken to ease difficulties facing some voters who lack a Pennsylvania driver's license or one of several other forms of ID that are acceptable under the law. They include a special State Department photo ID that will be made available to voters who have trouble obtaining birth certificate copies.
She expressed confidence that such initiatives and an intensive voter-education effort will ensure that all eligible voters can get valid IDs. The plaintiffs in the court case estimate at least 1 million of the 8.3 million registered voters currently lack them.
Several Democratic legislators who took part in the rally and were permitted to sit in on Aichele's news conference, followed up with one of their own.
They criticized authorities for limiting public access to the news conference and called for the law to be postponed, if not repealed.
"This is a process that's clearly not ready for implementation" this year, said Sen. Vincent Hughes, D-Philadelphia. "There's still too many kinks in this process."


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This plugin adds support for Instant Articles for Facebook, which is a new way for publishers to distribute fast, interactive stories on Facebook. Instant Articles are preloaded in the Facebook mobile app so they load instantly.
With the plugin active, a new menu will be available for you to connect to your Facebook Page and start publishing your Instant Articles. You'll also see the status of each Instant Articles submission on the edit page of your posts.
A best effort is made to generate valid Instant Article markup from your posts' content/metadata and publish it to Facebook. The plugin knows how to transform your posts' markup from a set of rules which forms a mapping between elements in you source markup and the valid Instant Article components. We refer to this "glue" between the two as the Transformer Rules.
Built-in to the plugin are many pre-defined transformer rules which aims to cover standard WordPress installations. If your WordPress content contains elements which are not covered by the built-in ruleset, you can define your own additional rules to extend or override the defaults in the Settings of this plugin, under: Plugin Configuration > Publishing Settings > Custom transformer rules.
Support for this plugin is provided for PHP 8 migrations, but both Automattic/WPVIP and Facebook/Meta have stopped all active development. At this point in the product lifecycle, publishers should be advised to stop using this plugin, and instead, use direct site traffic for Facebook content.
Meta have announced that Instant Articles will have all support dropped at April 2023.
Access to Instant Articles
The current criteria for access to Instant Articles are:
– your Facebook Page must have an established presence of at least 90 days
– your content adheres to the Instant Article Policies
Before your Instant Articles can be published on Facebook, your feed must undergo an initial review and approval. Facebook requires a minimum number of 10 articles in your feed before being eligible for review. The review process checks that your draft Instant Articles are properly formatted, have content consistency with their mobile web counterparts, and adhere to the community standards and content policies.
It's important to note that if you use meta fields to add extra text, images or videos to your Posts, Facebook will expect you to add these to your Instant Articles output too. This plugin includes hooks to help you do that.
See Facebook's documentation for full details of the submission process.
Once your feed has been approved, new posts will automatically be taken live on Instant Articles, and existing posts will be taken live once you update them. In order to stay in the Instant Articles program, you must remain active by creating new content and maintaining a minimal readership.
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit 'Plugins > Add New'
- Search for 'Facebook Instant Articles for WP'
- Activate the plugin on your Plugins page
From WordPress.org
- Download Facebook Instant Articles for WP
- Upload the uncompressed directory to '/wp-content/plugins/'
- Activate the plugin on your Plugins page
Once Activated
- Click on the 'Instant Articles' menu and follow the instructions to activate the plugin
Why is there content from my post missing in the generated Instant Article?
More likely than not, this is because there is markup in the body of your post that is not mapped to a recognized Instant Article component. On the "Edit Post" screen for your post, look for additional information about the transformed output shown within the Facebook Instant Articles module located at the bottom of the screen.
In the Instant Articles module for my post, what does the "This post was transformed into an Instant Article with some warnings" message mean?
When transforming your post into an Instant Article, this plugin will show warnings when it encounters content which might not be valid when published to Facebook. When you see this message, it is recommended to resolve each warning individually.
What does the "No rules defined for ____ in the context of ____" warning mean?
This plugin transforms your post into an Instant Article by matching markup in your content to one of the components available in Instant Articles markup. Although the plugin contains many built-in rules to handle common cases, there may be markup in your post which is not recognized by these existing rules. In this case, you may be required to define some of your own rules. See below for more details about where and how.
How do I define my own transformer rules so that content from my site is rendered appropriately in an Instant Article?
Your custom rules can be defined in the Settings of this plugin, under: Plugin Configuration > Publishing Settings > Custom transformer rules. More detailed instructions about all the options available is documented in the Custom Transformer Rules section of the Facebook Instant Articles SDK.
I know of a custom transformer rule which is pretty common in the community. How can it be included by default in the plugin?
You can propose popular transformer rules to be included in the plugin by suggesting it on GitHub.
How do I post articles to Instant Articles after plugin is installed?
You can re-publish existing articles (simply edit + save) or post new articles in order to submit them to Instant Articles. After you have 10 articles added, you will be able to submit them for review.
How do I change the feed slug/URL if I'm using the RSS integration?
To change the feed slug, set the constant INSTANT_ARTICLES_SLUG to whatever you like. If you do, remember to flush the rewrite rules afterwards.
By default it is set to
instant-articleswhich usually will give you a feed URL set to
How do I flush the rewrite rules after changing the feed slug?
Usually simply visiting the permalinks settings page in the WordPress dashboard will do the trick (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php)
Contributors & Developers
"Instant Articles for WP" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.Contributors
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5.0.2 – 2022-10-29
- Fix: Make
Instant_Articles_Post::$instant_articleproperty public.
5.0.1 – 2022-10-18
- Refresh dependency that handles fixing of transformer encodings.
5.0.0 – 2022-10-18
Minimum PHP requirement is increased from PHP 5.4 to PHP 7.1.
Minimum WordPress requirement is increased from WP 4.3.0 to WP 4.7.0.
- #683 Fix wizard option dynamic properties for PHP 8.2.
- #831 Fix the way filters are applied in get_cover_media().
- #1025 Support for installing as Composer Package.
- #1058 Allow post content caching to be disabled.
- #1073 Update release.sh.
- #1076 Reduce plugin's cache burden for remote requests.
- #1082 Fix: pass the missing $post param to the get_the_excerpt filter.
- #1092 Add support for PHP 8.
- #1095 Add GitHub workflow to mark issues and PR as stale.
- #1097 Actions: Remove separate PHP 8.2 composer install.
- #1098 Improve tests.
- #1099 Basic code maintenance improvements.
4.2.1 – 2020-06-10
- #1049 Add support for new guttenberg layout elements (@diegoquinteiro)
- #1012 update composer modules (@paulschreiber)
- #1001 Load functions which rely on
plugins_loadedaction hook in VIP Go environment (@paulschreiber)
- #990 avoid undefined index error in $display_warning_column (@paulschreiber)
- #1002 add Comscore plugin (@paulschreiber)
- #1007 Update Facebook SDK versions (@paulschreiber)
4.2.0 – 2018-11-29
- #997 Removed fields from deprecated feature to enable comments/likes/share from media content (@everton-rosario)
4.1.1 – 2018-07-17
- #962 Updating description for the plugin on website (@Blakomen)
- #1 Merging into local (@diegoquinteiro, @everton-rosario, @algmelo)
- #957 Delete current transient with autoload=yes. (@everton-rosario, @algmelo)
4.1.0 2018-07-02
- #937 Add token-less re-scrape with request signature (@diegoquinteiro)
- #952 Updating description for the plugin (@Blakomen)
- #910 Add PassThroughRule for Grammarly (@robbiet480)
- #941 Add support for GTM4WP (@robbiet480)
- #898 Added tranformation warning indicator column (@Kluny)
- #904 Enables setup for updating/invalidating articles cache from Facebook scraper (@everton-rosario, @diegoquinteiro)
- #896 feat(playbuzz): support for the next major playbuzz plugin version (@playbuzz)
- #740 (wizard) Update wording about AMP markup gen (@Djiit)
- #870 [bugfix] calling get_article_style to apply the style filter (@vkama)
4.0.6 – 2017-12-04
- #814 Add default rule for Twitter blockquote (@pestevez)
- #806 Clarify requirement of site connection in README (@pestevez)
- #798 remove article rescrape code (@timjacobi)
- #777 update instructions (@timjacobi)
- #778 Add label definitions (@timjacobi)
- #792 Change meta box and readme so user doesn't think IAs are actually submitted to Facebook (@timjacobi)
- #797 Display error message if meta box can't be loaded (@timjacobi)
- #775 Adds caching to instant_articles_embed_oembed_html (@emrikol)
4.0.5 – 2017-08-24
- #750 Fix query limit and escaping on AMP generation (@diegoquinteiro)
4.0.4 – 2017-07-27
- #738 Add changelog to script (@diegoquinteiro)
- #737 Updates IA SDK to 1.6.2 and dependencies (@diegoquinteiro)
4.0.3 – 2017-07-20
- #725 Restore the $current_blog global and fix the post ID reference (@kasparsd)
4.0.2 – 2017-06-30
- #708 Do not process non-post pages. Fixes #707 (@diegoquinteiro)
- #709 Add cache layer for avoiding transforming the article at page render (@diegoquinteiro)
4.0.1 – 2017-06-28
- #706 Check for array index before using it (@diegoquinteiro)
- #705 Enable deletion of JSON AMP Style and removes an undef index (@vkama)
- #704 Fixed several php notices. Also fixed a bug in should_subit_post() (@vkama)
4.0.0 – 2017-06-27
- #702 V4.0 (@vkama, @diegoquinteiro, @everton-rosario, @sakatam, @abdusfauzi)
- #647 Fix "Empty string supplied as input" bug (@abdusfauzi)
- #680 Adding support to IA->AMP conversion (@vkama)
- #649 allow markups in footer/copyright (@sakatam)
- #643 Open Graph Ingestion Flow (@diegoquinteiro, @everton-rosario)
- #629 Update Google Analytics compat (@dlackty)
3.3.4 – 2017-05-10
- #602 Add post ID to
instant_articles_contentfilter (@carlalexander)
- #622 Adds ver= to invalidate plugin resource files (@everton-rosario)
- #645 Fix wp_is_post_autosave() parameter value (@abdusfauzi)
- #623 Allow for alternative file path for json rules (@andykillen)
- #624 fix merge damage (@sakatam)
- #616 Extracted anonymous inline function (@everton-rosario)
- #609 Apester plugin support (@oraricha)
- #617 Switch on/off configuration for enabling comments/likes by default (@everton-rosario)
- #612 Add an option to set a footer (@sakatam)
3.3.2 – 2017-02-13
- #418 Call instant_articles_post_published hook to determine published status (@apeschar)
- #611 capability to toggle RTL option (@sakatam)
- #604 Fix typo for $provider_url at L42, L44 and L46 (@abdusfauzi)
3.3.1 – 2017-01-31
- #598 Fix typo on script (@diegoquinteiro)
- #595 Add transformer rule for cite element (@davebonds)
- #59 add vimeo.com into oEmbed $provider_name (@abdusfauzi)
- #597 Don't try to load embeds compat unless we're in Instant Articles context (@diegoquinteiro, @rinatkhaziev)
- #568 Add
is_transforming_instant_article()conditional (@goldenapples)
- #287 Ad de_DE (@swissky)
- #578 Change save_post priority (@cmjaimet)
- #592 Add missing information to composer.json (@onnimonni)
- #562 Add release script (@diegoquinteiro)
3.3 – 2016-12-16
- #560 Remove deprecated rules and add rules for imgs inside links (@diegoquinteiro)
- #525 Update WordPress.com stats code to use FBIA SDK. (@Automattic)
- #535 Fixes #515 – Enables Playbuzz plugin out of the box (@everton-rosario)
3.2.2 – 2016-11-29
- #543 Fix variable name (@diegoquinteiro)
3.2.1 – 2016-11-25
- #538 Show message on meta-box when post is filtered out (@diegoquinteiro)
- #504 Add instant_articles_should_submit_post filter hook to allow developers control of whether the post should be submitted to IA (@rinatkhaziev)
- #498 Release v3.2 (@Automattic)
- #437 Blocks publishing of articles with transformation warnings (@diegoquinteiro, @everton-rosario)
- #423 Fixes #205 – Caption in
p> tag (@everton-rosario)
– #435 Setup Wizard copy updates (@demoive)
– #497 Getter was renamed on SDK, updating here too (@diegoquinteiro)
– #417 Support for Playbuzz plugin (@everton-rosario)
– #416 Use the instant_articles_post_types filter when registering metaboxes (@technosailor)
3.2 – 2016-10-05
- #484 Apply the second argument to
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- #462 Migration from old fb sdk (@evertonsario)
- #436 Wp tests migration (@everton-rosario)
- #421 Fixes #408 adding rules for gallery (@everton-rosario)
- #376 Added rule configuration for Instagram embed (@everton-rosario)
- #316 Add development mode support to status meta box (@simonengelhardt)
3.1.3 – 2016-09-19
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- #450 Do not block page selection if URL is not claimed (@diegoquinteiro)
- #464 Fixes #452 – Use of empty() on PHP prior to v5.5 (@demoive)
- #465 Relative CSS to fix missing icons (@everton-rosario)
- #458 Fix expiring token blocking users on page selection state (@diegoquinteiro)
- #403 fix travis.ci build (@sakatam)
- #425 Final release of v3.1 (@Automattic)
- #385 Implemented compat for the get-the-image plugin (@everton-rosario)
- #392 Load functions which rely on
plugins_loadedaction hook in wp.com e… (@nprasath002)
- #402 Properly implemented the get_cover_media function. (@menzow)
- #420 Article with password protection (@everton-rosario)
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3.1 – 2016-08-17
- #413 Fix lingering reference to the old settings page on meta-box (@diegoquinteiro)
- #412 Content update (@diegoquinteiro)
- #400 New flow (@diegoquinteiro, @everton-rosario)
- #399 Revert "Redirect settings" (@philipjohn)
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- #387 Fix loadHTML warning (@gemedet)
- #378 Added rules for jetpack carousel component (@everton-rosario)
- #379 Don't call wpautop directly when trying to prepare content for transformation. (@rinatkhaziev)
- #383 Fix updating published posts result in error (@chrisadas)
- #375 Commit blocker option – No warnings in transformer to publish (@everton-rosario)
- #374 Jetpack plugin compatibility – Transformation rules (@everton-rosario)
- #371 Migrated take_live parameter to the published (@everton-rosario)
- #366 InteractiveInsideParagraphRule support and configuration (@everton-rosario)
- #367 Add subtitle to $header when rendering post to IA (@jacobarriola)
- #360 Improve rules for Images inside Paragraphs and Interactive elements (@everton-rosario)
- #356 Ensure that relative URL checking has a host and a path. (@srtfisher)
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3.0 – 2016-07-12
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- #354 Remove to avoid breaking elements. See #331 (@Automattic)
- #353 Store and use submission ID when available to fetch the status (@diegoquinteiro)
- #329 always use HTTPS to load JavaScript SDK; update to 2.6 (@paulschreiber)
- #327 use v2.6 of Facebook API (@paulschreiber)
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- #290 Fix relative URL issue with oembeds not using absolute URLs (@stuartshields)
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- #90 Change readme.txt to reflect changes in 2.0 (@diegoquinteiro)
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Back to sanity...the only course
By William Westmiller
After your disbelief in reality succumbs to the horror of what has actually happened, the first instinct is fear. As we learn that the immediate threats have passed, the fear slowly dissolves into anger. Our first numb thought is to immediately retaliate against anyone and everyone who has wished us harm or celebrated our injury. Revenge, swift and certain and complete.
The only wisdom that can seep through the misery and sorrow and anger is to see justice done. Those who have caused this enormous pain must be identified and destroyed. Our distress is only multiplied when we realize that those who were directly responsible for this horror are already dead. Apparently, a few dozen Taliban fanatics who were both well trained, coordinated and committed to suicide missions against the heart of America's wealth and power.
It seems certain that all of our nation's destructive power will be focused against those who are complicit in this crazed attack on tens of thousands of innocent people. The only issue is how wide the retaliation can be applied and still fall within the province of justice. Retribution can be measured, but there are no bounds to the craving for revenge. An eye for an eye isn't enough.
Individually, beyond the grief, we can only commit ourselves to continue our lives. If the objective was to crush our will and destroy our achievements, we must resume whatever normality is possible and apply our efforts toward preserving and improving the lives we lead. We can never concede to them the victory of abandoning our pursuit of achievement and success.
The best we can do is show the flag. Every home, every business, every institution, should fly the stars and stripes as a symbol of our pride and resolve.
For the coming days and weeks, we will all be disabled by our anger and horror at the dimensions of this atrocity. It won't be easy to recover, much less resume our lives, much less make reasonable appraisals of the causes. Our national agents will respond, we hope with a deliberate and conscientious application of force. It will take much longer to identify the measures that may be required to avoid such a catastrophe in the future. Many will find it heartless and cold to appraise those measures so soon after such a malicious, epic and historic tragedy. The only answer is that it must be done and the first voices set the tone for future discussion and thought.
There is no doubt that these were terrorist attacks. The intent was terror and the means were incidental. The objective was to attack the most prominent symbols of American wealth and power. The purpose was to instill fear and damage our will to continue the pursuit of personal happiness and the expansion of our ideas and ideals around the world. Fear for our security can cripple our productive efforts and promote self-destructive instincts to prevent risk by abandoning our ideals. It is essential that we avoid any new restrictions on our liberties, the primary power that makes our success possible. We cannot abandon our basic principles in pursuit of safety. We will lose both and our enemies will have won.
We know that the tools of one of our most important freedoms, the liberty to move around the world, were converted to weapons of massive destruction. In spite of extreme measures to prevent it, major airliners were commandeered by a few people with small arms. We may never know for certain, but it seems likely that they were armed with weapons that passed through the metal detectors at several airports. Plastic knives would be sufficient, given the absence of any means of self-defense for any of those aboard the plane. Some will speculate that the weapons used were firearms, and their answer will be tighter restrictions on airline access and more comprehensive metal detection. They would be badly misguided.
The problem is not that weapons were brought on board by terrorists. The problem is that no weapons were allowed to the pilots, stewards or passengers on board; a fact that has been broadly advertised to every terrorist everywhere in the world. Rather than attempt the impossible guarantee of no risk, we must facilitate self-defense. Nothing could be more disruptive of airline hijacking than to have armed operators and passengers. Rather than trying to prevent small arms on airliners, we would be better to require them. No airliner should leave the terminal without a minimum of three armed crew members. Tear down all the detectors and welcome all passengers with concealed weapons on board as guardians of our transportation liberties.
This measure would preclude more extreme responses, which should nevertheless be considered. At least one of the airliners flew for almost a half hour after the hijacking, changing its heading directly for New York City. Under those circumstances, it would certainly have been better to destroy the airliner than to allow it to proceed. Every person on board every airliner should know that an aircraft that has been commandeered and aimed at a populated area will be destroyed.
If any of those on board the hijacked planes had been given the choice, they would have readily agreed. Whether that extreme response is implemented by self-destruct devices on board or the tactical placement of antiaircraft weapons is secondary. At the very least, one would assume that this risk would be known and anticipated by those assigned to defend the Pentagon. It is equally -- even more -- important to provide similar defenses for any populated metropolis. Airliners are now potential weapons and the only possible defense is destruction.
Every government agency assigned the duty of knowing about imminent threats did not know. The billions of dollars expended over decades to anticipate threats that were well known to everyone accomplished nothing. The vaunted wisdom of our intelligence community couldn't even prevent an assault on their own cradle of military operations. This is absolute and utter failure. It's time to reevaluate our entire method of gaining and employing defense intelligence. The cold-war bureaucracy should be closed down and all of our resources applied to the recruitment and support of traitors to tyranny, who will risk their lives against zealous and oppressive governments everywhere in the world. Let's offer public rewards and huge bonuses to any individual who betrays a named tyrant. It's time for a guerilla war, on the ground and close to the homes of those who flaunt their autocratic power. It's time to get out of the slick offices, to get down and dirty, with the scum of the earth.
Finally, we can no longer ignore the declarations of war by religious fanatics and their accomplices. This is a Jihad - a holy war - against all secular power and material wealth. It is the final, barbaric act of a culture that uses the force and power of governments to destroy their own people and any "satanic" culture that discards their bloodthirsty and righteous fervor.
When nations adopt religious rules which encourage or allow any form of violent "apostasy", their institutions and leaders should be immediately condemned, quarantined and excluded from any interaction with the civilized world. Individuals and governments ought to foster, support and encourage the civil members of that society to destroy the autocrats and their dedicated agents. This is one of those occasions in the course of human events that require all human beings to assist in throwing off the yokes of oppression, if not for their own sake, then for the sake of all civil humanity. We can no longer turn our back on those anywhere in the world that are victims of tyranny and fanaticism. Our objective should always be liberty and our methods should always be measured to protect the innocent and helpless. What this tragedy teaches is that our nation is no longer an island, safe from the insane extremes of zealots around the world. We are all humans who must defend the rights of every human, in every nation, to be free of tyranny and theocratic oppression. There is no other course.
William Westmiller is a member of the Republican Liberty Caucus Executive Committee and Executive Director of the RLCUSA-PAC. His commentaries have been published by a wide range of internet and print publications. His web site can be found at www.westmiller.com/comment/
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Martins Ferry, Ohio is a little town nestled close to the Ohio River. For decades it was a steel town, built up and brought low by the rise and fall of Wheeling Steel. When the smoke cleared and the barges left, my grandmother and grandfather built a little house on North 8th Street and settled in, raising my dad, and, later, making our holidays there just about the most magical times of my life.
I remember the blue-grey haze of Christmases in the Alleghany foothills: the hum of my grandfather's television in the kitchen, the smell of cookies cooling on the formica counters, the happy hum of a family in repose.
There are actions that we remember, events that when repeated gained totemic significance. I remember my father turning off the radio as we approached Cambridge, outside of Ferry. We'd drive the last few miles in silence.
I remember getting out to pull open grandma's garage door, the rumble turning into an echo of springs, the warm/sharp scent of the basement waking us up out of our reverie. I remember pounding up her old wooden steps and into her kitchen. I remember her face.
One Christmas I got an NES. I'd play it non-stop. I also got an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons book set. I read it from cover to cover. I watched too much TV, ate too much, spent most mornings and afternoons in pajamas. To be young, then, as they say, was very heaven.
It wasn't all gingersnaps and joy. I grew up in the 1980s. We had good enough jobs, all my relatives, but there was little success. I didn't know that times were hard, but they were. And I know age has blunted these memories, made them as soft-edged as sea stones. That's fine.
The one thing that stands out is the quiet of those blue-grey memories. The love, the quiet discussions in the kitchen about nothing, the hiss of a football game on my grandfather's old AM radio.
I miss a lot of that. I miss the feeling of disconnection that brought, the anticipation of future fun, the quiet evenings spent in my Uncle's basement while the adults drank and the kids played bumper pool or read on rec room couches. I don't want those days to come back, but I certainly am trying to build a similar world for my kids. We have a rec room, now, with scrap carpet on the floor and all their toys against the wall. We're trying to keep TV and games to a minimum. We watched Elf recently. That's about it.
I know it's almost impossible to get those days back. Short of going somewhere with no Wi-Fi, no cellular connection, no Internet, there's really no way to grab that feeling of contentment. We can try, in our own small way, but it's hard.
But I think we have to try.
I remember a feeling I used to get as a boy. I'd be curled up on the floor and I'd imagine I was shrinking, like Alice. I'd get smaller and smaller, a thumb-sized being on an expanse of carpet. I don't want that feeling back. Instead, I want the world around me to shrink down, to become more understandable, less jarring. I want to go five minutes without an email or a tweet or a plea by my son for a few minutes of play time on the iPad.
I want a world where the news is a dull buzz in the kitchen. I want a world where no one is paying attention to the newscaster because they're all so happy and, after all, it's the holidays. Nothing bad ever happens during the holidays and everything is quiet and still. I want that back.
That world is long gone. I know that. I wouldn't trade it for this new one. But sometimes, when the light is right and the street outside is quiet and the blue LEDs flashing on a hundred devices are just out of sight, I can lie on the couch with a paperback and try to bring back that feeling of being cold and warm at the same time, of a morning full of promise and an afternoon full of fun. My hope, this holiday season, is that you feel that same way too, a way that brings what is gone back to you if only for a moment. That, I think, is the best gift of all.


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By Freddie Allen
NNPA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama's proposal to make colleges more affordable has some good points, but could disproportionately harm Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), many of whom are already reeling from changes in the college student loan program that is causing fewer students to remain enrolled in Black colleges, according to education experts.
President Obama recently outlined his college affordability plan during a two-day tour of Buffalo, Syracuse, and Binghamton, N.Y.
The president wants to send more student financial aid to colleges that make efforts to lower costs while raising graduation rates. The college ratings system will track a number of metrics, including tuition costs, graduation rates, student debt and earnings of recent graduates. The information will be readily available for parents and students online.
According to the White House, the average tuition at a public four-year college has recently increased by 250 percent, eclipsing the rise in median family income that only increased 16 percent.
"The average student who borrows for college now graduates owing more than $26,000," Obama said in Buffalo. "Some owe a lot more than that."
Lezli Baskerville, president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher education, a non-profit umbrella organization of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), said: "Measuring dollars as some indication of success of a college or university would be terribly misplaced."
Julianne Malveaux, an economist and immediate past president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C., agrees, saying because HBCUs service a different population than predominately White institutions (PWIs), it would be difficult to design a national ratings system that would be fair and equitable to those distinct bodies.
"We have a culture of service in the Black community," said Malveaux. "What if you want to go work as a social worker, but you would make more money as a corporate lawyer? Some of those metrics are counter-cultural."
Higher education groups agree that providing families with transparent and accurate information that will assist them in making critical decisions about which college to choose, while pushing colleges to control costs and admit more low-income students are crucial steps in the right direction.
"The obvious goal of the program is something you can't argue with," said Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. "Objective good solid information can only be good for the community."
But for Taylor and many other higher education advocates, the devil is in the details. He argues that the higher education landscape is too complicated for a solution that doesn't take into account the diversity of the student population that it serves.
Taylor also said that in order to be effective, the ratings system must recognize the heavy-lifting that HBCUs undertake in educating many students who are ill-prepared for the rigors of college courses.
"Schools that take students with an 8th, 9th or 10th grade reading level and get those kids to and through college should be rewarded more than a school that brings in a student that has a good chance of making it through college," Taylor explained.
A study conducted by the Center on Education and the Workforce at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, in Washington, D.C., found that, "Many African Americans and Hispanics are unprepared for college, but whites who are equally unprepared still get more postsecondary opportunities."
The study also reported that Blacks and Latinos who are college-ready are steered into "crowded and underfunded two-year colleges and open-access four-year colleges" at higher rates than their White peers.
"To say schools that graduate 70 percent of their students should get a higher [ratings] number than schools that have a lower graduation rate is going to hurt schools that have a less prepared population of entering students," said Taylor. "It's no surprise to me that Harvard University is going to have a higher graduation rate than [Florida A & M University]."
If the graduation rate is coupled with a factor that accounts for the effort that is required to graduate a certain type of student, that measurement could actually help HBCUs and community colleges, Taylor believes.
Of particular concern to Taylor was a system that might compare graduate earnings for a school that does a phenomenal job graduating K-12 classroom teachers versus a school that does a phenomenal job graduating engineers.
"Well, guess which graduates are going to have higher salaries and better jobs?" he said. "I want to make sure that the Department of Education looks at the impact that different majors and careers have on society and a broad classification of people. If they do that, we'll be okay."
Measuring the earnings of graduates in a labor market with lingering issues of race and gender discrimination offers yet another challenge.
"It can't just be about how fast you can grow a dollar," said Baskerville. "Many HBCUs are founded on ecumenical principles. We encourage students to go into public service, we encourage students to volunteer and to give their time, and if they're entrepreneurs, we encourage them to be good entrepreneurs. We encourage our male college graduates to be mentors to young Black boys. How do you quantify those things?"
Malveaux said that the Department of Education needs to acknowledge that Black graduates experience unique challenges in the labor market.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. based think tank that studies low- and middle-income families, "The unemployment rate of young black college graduates was 8.5 percent in 2007, rose to 21.9 percent by 2010, and improved to 11.9 percent over the last year (March 2012–February 2013)."
The unemployment rate for young, White college graduates was 8 percent during the same time period.
Even as the president moves to pressure colleges and universities to curb runaway tuition costs, the Department of Education ignored pleas from education groups that represent historically Black colleges and Universities to reverse measures that sidelined thousands of Black students that were eligible for Parent PLUS Loans a few semesters ago.
William R. Harvey, president of Hampton University and the chair of President Obama's Board of Advisors on HBCUs, said that the changes in the Parent PLUS program resulted in a loss of 28,000 HBCU students and $154 million in revenue to HBCUs.
Harvey said that the president's goal to have the highest college graduation rates in the world coupled with changes to the PLUS program were "irreconcilable."
Harvey added that the Department of Education should immediately return to the pre-2011 interpretation of "adverse credit history. This could be done by the Department of Education issuing a guidance document which states that 'adverse credit history' is to be interpreted and defined just as it was prior to 2011," said Harvey.
Malveaux called for an effective HBCU lobbying group, comprised of parents, students and policy people that could work to mitigate any potential damage caused by the president's college affordability plan.
Taylor remains optimistic about the president's goals and recent proposal for a college ratings system. He said that the ratings system needs to compare schools that have similar missions and similar student populations and look at which schools have the greatest impact on the largest number of students.
"If they do that, I think HBCU's are going to be fine, other minority-serving institutions are going to be fine," said Taylor. "But if they take an overly-simplified kind of approach to a very complex problem, then this is going to be a disaster."


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Hieroglyphs were developed in Ancient Egypt as a way to write the Egyptian language. Other cultures, most notably the Maya civilization also used similar writing systems, though Maya hieroglyphs were an entirely independent development, taking place several thousand years later, and were much more restricted in use. Whilst Egyptian hieroglyphs were first deciphered in the 19th century by Jean Francois Champollion, Mayan hieroglyphs have only recently begun to be understood, and much work remains to be done.
Note: This article only deals with Egyptian Hieroglpyhs.
- 1 Basic Concepts
- 2 Development
- 3 Pre and Early Dynastic
- 4 Relationship with Hieratic, Demotic and Coptic
- 5 Sign Usage
- 6 Gardiner Classification
- 7 Transliteration and Electronic Reproduction
- 8 Bibliography
Basic Concepts
Contrary to popular belief, Egyptian hieroglyphs are not generally pictograms or logograms. Like the Latin and Greek alphabets, hieroglyphs are primarily phonograms. Unlike these alphabets however, one sign can convey up to three consonants, whilst some words also feature an additional silent sign at the end (a determinative) that helps convey the meaning of the word, and avoid confusion between words that would otherwise be spelt with exactly the same signs. This is especially important as, like in modern Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, vowels are not included in the text. Only consonants are recorded.
Pre and Early Dynastic
Classical (Middle) Egyptian
Ptolemaic Era and Cryptographic Inscriptions
During the Ptolemaic era the number of signs was increased dramatically, from around 800 to several thousand, many of which were ligatures of existing signs. The rise in the complexity coincided with the rise of so-called cryptographic texts in temple inscriptions that aimed to deliberately obscure and challenge the reader. The reasons for this are unknown, and various reasons from xenophobia, cultural pride and nationalism (see also: Great Egyptian Revolt) to marginalization and isolation of traditional religion and the rise of Hellenic and syncretic cults have all been suggested.
Decline, Loss and Rediscovery
The Roman era sees the decline of the hieroglyphic system of writing. The last surviving knowledgeable and literate hieroglyphic inscription in ancient times dates from August 24, 396 AD and was inscribed in the temple complex of Philae, five years after Theodosius I forced the closure of all non-Christian places of worship in Roman territory. The inscription, the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom is catalogued as Philae 436 (picture).
Even before this some Greco-Roman writers had written elaborate and wholly inaccurate works on the "mystical" or "symbolic" interpretations of the signs, and such works continued into the Islamic era. These works inadvertently frustrated attempts at translation into the modern era.
The French invasion of Egypt in 1798 focused European scholarly and academic attention on Egypt for the first time. The discovery of the Rosetta Stonein 1799 was recognized immediately as the "key" to correct interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, having the same text recorded in Greek and in hieroglyphs, as well as another unknown script.
The British captured the stone in 1801 amid events that are still unclear and controversial. However, the French scholars had taken casts of the stone, with which they returned to Paris. The British believed a method of mathematical deduction would eventually allow the text to be translated, given sufficient time. However, John Francois Champollion, a brilliant linguist familiar with 24 languages, realized both that hieroglyphs had to be phonogrammatic in nature, and also that translating the language was as important as the alphabet.
Champollion was familiar with the Coptic language, and he correctly realized that this was the final evolution of the Egyptian language written in hieroglyphs. By applying his knowledge of Coptic, and the works of the Thomas Young, his British counterpart, Champollion successfully transliterated the first hieroglyphs and translated the first Egyptian words in 1822. His work, however, was constantly thwarted by the religious-political situation in France during the reign of Charles X. In return for part-funding mission to Egypt by the state to test his theories, he was forbidden to publish anything contravening the Biblical account of history. As such, many of his dairies, containing details of monuments and tombs pre-dating the supposed date of the "Great Flood" were only published after his death.
Despite this, his mission was successful. However, in recent times his reputation has been damaged due to the looting of artefacts undertaken during the mission, including cutting of scenes from tomb walls, even Royal tombs. It should be noted that this was standard practice at the time, and Champollion was expected to return with treasures as a "return" on the "investment" the state made in his mission.
Relationship with Hieratic, Demotic and Coptic
Hieratic is a cursive form of the hieroglyphic writing system (though different to cursive hieroglyphs) that was suited to working with a reed brush/pen. Hieratic does not replace hieroglyphs, but rather complements them, with hieroglyphs serving mostly in monumental inscriptions in stone and ritual use, and hieratic for administrative and lesser religious documents. It is attested from the end of the Early Dynastic period onwards and is written in ink primarily on papyrus and ostraca. Over time increasingly cursive forms of hieratic appear, eventually formalising as Demotic. Originally intended for administrative purposes, Hieratic was used mainly for religious papyri following the development of Demotic. Use of Hieratic declined along with Egyptian religion, and ceased to be used during the Roman era.
During the 26th Dynasty, an additional cursive writing system appears, Demotic. Essentially a more cursive form of Hieratic, demotic makes extensive use of ligatures. Demotic also differs from Hieratic in that it was occasionally also deployed as a monumental script, though it does not replace hieroglyphs, and Demotic is only rarely employed monumentally. Demotic began to replaced by the Greek and Coptic writing systems in the third century AD. The last known Demotic inscription was from Philae in 452AD, just 56 years after the last known literate use of hieroglyphs.
The Coptic script is entirely different to the other three written forms of Egyptian. For the most part it is not related to hieroglyphs, but to the Greek alphabet, except for the six "additional" letters which reproduce sounds not used in Greek, which are taken from Demotic, and thus hieroglyphs. Coptic also records vowels as well as consonants, but does not use determinatives or any equivalent. Coptic script first appears third century AD, and is still used in the Coptic church. The language it represents is a late form of Egyptian many Greek loan words included.
Sign Usage
The number of Hieroglyphic signs is much larger than in the Latin or Greek alphabets. This is due to the number of different uses signs can have, to represent a single, two or three consonants (monoliteral, biliteral and triliteral signs), and as a non-sounded determinative. In total, the classical Egyptian sign set features approximately 800 signs. In the Ptolemaic era, thousands of new signs were added, which are not included in most dictionaries and classifications of the written script, many of which were effectively ligatures of existing signs.
Hieroglyphic inscriptions are always read "into the face" of the signs, which can either be left to right or right to left, depending on the inscription. Text may be arranged in columns or in lines. Text and art are inseparable in Egyptian writing, and so the layout of text is (except in administrative documents) dictated by aesthetics.
Monoliteral Signs
These are the easiest part of the system for most western students to learn. The set of 24 monoliteral signs function in the same way as the Latin or Greek alphabets do, with a single sign representing a single sound. Words are produced by placing the signs in order one after the other. The example below is the cartouche of Khufu:
When tourists in Egypt often have their name spelt in hieroglyphs on jewellery or papyrus, it is commonly done with monoliteral signs. These signs are also used in the first stage of teaching Egyptology students to read Egyptian texts, even if their ultimate aim is to learn one of the other scripts (hieratic or demotic).
Biliteral and Triliteral Signs
Biliteral and Triliteral signs are single hieroglyphs that convey two or three consonantal sounds, for example the well known ankh sign that conveys the sounds a-n-x (pronounced "Ankh") and commonly used for the complete Egyptian work "anx" (or "life"), though it may be used in any situation where the a-n-x sound is needed, such as in the name of Tutankhamun, shown below.
Many words in Egyptian are spelt with the addition of one, and occasionally more, determinatives. These are signs added to the end of a word but have no sound value, and are not pronounced. They are used to aid the reader and in clarifying between homophones. The use of distinctive or rare two or three consonant signs, some extremely specialised, also aid in this. As hieroglyphic inscriptions do not include spaces between words, determinatives can also help the reader in separating words. They also serve an important artistic and aesthetic role.
Logogrammatic Usage
Although used only occasionally, it is possible for certain signs to be used to directly represent an object. This is indicated in the text by the addition of a single vertical stroke under the sign to indicate to the reader that the sign should be read in the way, rather than as part of a phonogram.
Grammatical Signs
Strokes and points are additional signs that, like determinatives, are not pronounced They serve to represent the grammar of the text.
Gardiner Classification
Sir Alan Gardiner developed a classification system for hieroglyphs, cataloguing signs by type or what they depict, i.e. birds, man and his occupations etc. Signs that do not depict particular items are classified by shape, i.e. tall, flat etc. Groups are identified by letter, A to Z, and Aa for unclassified signs.
In addition each sign is assigned a code based on its group. A list of signs under the Gardiner classification can be found here.
Transliteration and Electronic Reproduction
The 24 consonantal sounds represented by hieroglyphs can be transliterated into a Latin-based alphabet. This alphabet is available as a font that can be added to a computer system for use in any modern word processing software, as well as in dedicated software for handling hieroglyphs.
This transliteration script is unable to record exactly what signs were used in the original text. Should this be required, it is possible to either refer to the Gardiner assigned codes, or, as is far more common, reproduce the original signs either by hand (as in the Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, one of the few modern hand written publications) or digitally.
Both commercial and open source software is available for producing hieroglyphs on modern computer systems. The most established commercial application is InScribe, used on Windows based PC's and MacOS systems. In recent years, an open source alternative, JSesh has been adopted, particularly by Egyptology students, and is available for Windows and Linux platforms. WikiHiero is another modern development, aimed at online deployment.
However, prior to the development of such programs and particularly before the deployment of Unicode in operating systems, the transcription font and reproduction of hieroglyphs digitally was restriction to complex and unwieldy deployment of imported images into documents. As such, for effective transcription the Manual de Codage (MdC) system was developed, using a mixture of uppercase and substitute letters to depict the 24 characters of the transcription "alphabet".
- Allen, J P (2000), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and culture of Hieroglyphs, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Collider, M and Manley, B (1998), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Gardiner, A H (1957), Egyptian Grammar (3rd. Ed.), Griffith Institute, Oxford
- Shaw, I and Nicholson, P (2008), Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, London
- Yousef, A A H (2003), From Pharaoh's Lips: Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today, AUC Press, Cairo


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No . . I've been tied up with spring cleaning . . . really. But the blog needs to break out. Here's Davis Sea pushing up the Rondout past Petersburg and Hackensack.
And all the rest here from Paul Strubeck's lens/flickr account, and all take between 60 and 110 miles north of the sixth boro. Cheyenne,
and a government boat, Wire.
And as I post this, here downriver, it FEELS like a thaw, like a hint of spring in January.
Many thanks to Paul Strubeck for these fotos. Paul works on Cornell.
The google map below has two points marked; all fotos above were taken between those points.


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An Interview With Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford
The Motley Fool recently sat down with Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Company for a quick chat that touched on several important topics. In the video below, we discuss Ford's strategy in China, how it views Japanese competitors and the weak yen, how Ford looks at Tesla and the future of the electric vehicle, and a few other topics.
A full transcript follows the video.
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Brendan Byrnes: Hey, Fools. I'm Brendan Byrnes, and I'm joined today by Alan Mulally, who is, of course, the CEO of Ford. Thank you so much for your time.
Alan Mulally: Glad to see you.
Brendan: So, I wanted to ask you first about Tesla, which has obviously had a nice run over the past four months or so, and some people are wondering, "Is the electric vehicle the vehicle of the future?" What are Ford's thoughts on that, and how do you see this space evolving over the next decade or so?
Alan: Well, clearly, Tesla has done a very good job with a luxury version of the all-electric vehicle, and, of course, in Ford's case, we really do believe that we'll see more electrification going forward.
In our case, especially on the vehicles that go to large numbers of people, we see, first of all, the penetration for hybrid electric vehicles, then plug in hybrids, and then all electric vehicles, but the most economical fuel-efficiency benefit is with the hybrids today.
Brendan: I wanted to ask you about Toyota cutting prices on the Camry. Have you seen any impact on that on the Fusion? Going forward I know you're kind of constrained by production, and, kind of a related question, on the weak yen, can you see any progress on that and do you anticipate anything happening with that?
Alan: Well, clearly, everybody is concerned about currency manipulation, especially the yen, because we believe, and most everybody, that the market should set the currency rates.
We haven't seen manifestations of that yet in the United States in a big way, but clearly we're concerned, because a number of our Japanese competitors, their leadership has mentioned that they want to take advantage of this currency manipulation, so I'm just very pleased that the government leaders around the world are addressing this as part of the Free Trade Agreement, as you know, because it is just so important that we let the markets set the currencies.
Brendan: I wanted to ask you about China also, and the mix that we have there: small cars, it's mostly small cars being sold there right now, especially in the less affluent areas. How does Ford view that with your plant in Chongqing, and how do you see that playing out with the areas that have more affluence on the coast versus in the inland, which is a little bit less affluent. How do you see that mix and how does it affect your margins?
Alan: Oh, well, absolutely. Well, clearly, our plan around the world, Ford's plan is to offer our customers in every market segment around the world a complete family of vehicles, so small, and medium, and large; and cars, utilities, and trucks; all the way from the Fiesta all the way up, of course, to the popular F series.
And so it is no different in China. They love the smaller vehicles, but they also like the medium and the larger ones, also. We have great operations in Chongqing, as you mentioned, also in Nanjing, and also Nanchang. And we'll continue to expand our operations there and also expand our product line to be able to support that full line up of vehicles.
Brendan: So, finally, I think we talked about this last time, but Millenials is obviously a big thing for all automakers right now. We're seeing less millennials buying cars, also less millennials getting their licences. How does Ford attack that? Do you do anything actively to go seek them out or do you say, "When they come to the market, that's when we're really going to focus on that?" And how do you see that playing out long term? Is this a big deal?
Alan: Well, I think it is a big deal, because clearly it's going to be a very important part of our market going forward, and we really have spent a lot of time understanding what they want and what they value.
And it's interesting because at the most fundamental level, they want the finest quality, they want the best fuel efficiency, they want the latest safety features, but they also want a really smart design that allows them to be seamlessly connected to the Internet, which why you've seen us with our Sync, for example, with voice activation, hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, but also being seamlessly connected to the Internet using your own smart device, to be a really important part of our technology plan for the young generation, younger generation, and the response we've got is phenomenal, because you can get all that capability into the smaller sized vehicles: so the Fiesta, and the Focus, and the Fusion, and the response we've been getting from those customers is just fantastic.
Brendan: Great. My last question is just the future of manufacturing. I know you guys are doing a lot of innovative things, especially with the F series, with aluminum. How do you guys see that playing out longer term, and is 3-D printing something that Ford can use heavily in this space?
Alan: Well, just about 3-D printing, I think absolutely. Everything associated with being able to make products and use less time and less resources is going to be always very, very important for manufacturing and the car industry in particular.
I think that manufacturing is so important, and as we've talked about, it's important to every country around the world, it's the foundation for economic development, for energy independence and security, but also for environmental sustainability.
I'm just so pleased that in the United States, but also in our operations around the world, the public-private partnership, to be able to continue improve each country's competitiveness, and also manufacturing be a foundation of economic development, it's really gratifying to see the leaders' appreciation of that today.
Brendan: Great. Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford, thank you so much for your time.
Alan: You're welcome. Thank you.
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Dear Jess,
I've had the same group of friends for a long time. Some people might even consider me one of the popular kids, but I feel like I'm different from them. I care about my looks and how I'm perceived, but the other girls in my group only care about these things. Sometimes I wonder if they even know what is going on in the world. Hanging out with them can lower my self-esteem because they're always trying to keep up with everyone else, compete to look the best, and hook up with the hottest guys. It's not that I don't want to be friends with them—I just don't want to talk about makeup, Facebook, and boys all the time. I'm scared that if I distance myself then I will be alone. What should I do?
Hi Johannah,
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Having to choose between your friends and yourself can be hard. You should always go with what feels right in your heart. If you honestly don't enjoy spending time with these girls and are not growing as a person, you might need to make other friends who share common interests. What are you passionate about? See if there are any clubs at school or in your neighborhood for people who share your passion.
If you truly enjoy your current friends, but want deeper connections, try taking the lead. Start talking about issues besides boys and Facebook. See if they will join you in an activity that has a big more value, like volunteering in your community or going through your closets to donate clothes (trying on outfits while doing good—now that's a compromise!). Ask them about their dreams and goals in life; sometimes people just need a chance to express themselves. Most of all, stay true to who you are and don't give up on what you want in a real friend!


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On the QaFoo blog today there's a post for those using the Behat testing tool showing a way to collect code coverage metrics based on your tests using the PHP_CodeCoverage library and phpcov.
There is generally no point in having code coverage for Behat test cases because of their nature: The purpose of an acceptance test is to assert a certain behavior of an application, not to technically test a piece of code. Therefore, there is no point in checking for uncovered code pieces in order to write a Behat test for it. That said, there is still a scenario where you want to peek at code coverage of Behat tests: When creating them as wide-coverage tests before starting to refactor legacy code. Behat in combination with Mink provides you with a great tool for such tests.
They help you get the tools installed and show the code you'll need to add to the application itself to collect the coverage data as the tests execute. It keys off of a file existing/not existing to know if it should execute the coverage or not. The phpcov tool can then be used to generate the HTML output of the coverage information for easy viewing.