HOBBIES - A.SATHISH KUMAR( IX STD STUDENT)
Hobbies are leisure time activities. Everybody has one interesting hobby or another. Some are
interested in writing stories or poems. Stamp collecting is my interesting hobby.
During leisure, I collect stamps.As soon as I get a post cover I remove the stamps from it.
I have a special album for posting stamps. I paste the stamps on the album. I have collected
hundreds of postal stamps. Some of them belong to foreign countries.
Some stamps bear the pictures of national animals as birds. A large number of Indian stamps bear
the national emblem.Foreign stamps like those of the Gulf countries bear the portraits of
their kings. Stamps give us this valuable information about foreign countries as well as our own.


As the development intern for NewPathVR I was responsible for creating a VR application from scratch. To do this I used Unity and the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch controllers. I had to model a few objects for the simulation but most of my work was in the programming of the simulation. I was given an environment model of a house for one part of the application. The rest I had to create my self, this included a small wooded area to help the user to relax as well as an area where the user had to customize their experience. I used the 6DOF of the Oculus Touch controllers to allow the user select multiple options by physically moving objects. One example is I had a set of two boxes on a table to serve as buttons. When the user pushes one button down it stays and the other button rises. This works to visually inform the user they can only pick one option. I also had a miniature of their choice on the table that would change based on which button was down. Another interaction that I created was creating small figures that stood around and then they could be picked up and placed on a table to be counted. The simulation would then save the number of figures on the table for later. A fun feedback system I included an animation controller so that when the figures were lifted they would fail about like they were being held. Another important aspect of this application was that I had originally developed it to be usable on the Samsung Gear or Oculus Go headsets but then pivoted later. Before pivoting, I had developed multiple methods to control the scene and input needed information mostly using the Gear Controller and where the user is looking with their head.


NUMACTL
Section: Linux Administrator's Manual (8)Updated: Nov 2004
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NAME
numastat - Print statistics about NUMA memory allocationSYNOPSIS
numastatDESCRIPTION
numastat displays NUMA allocations statistics from the kernel memory allocator. Each process has NUMA policies that specifies on which node pages are allocated. See set_mempolicy(2) or numactl(8) on details of the available policies. The numastat counters keep track on what nodes memory is finally allocated.The counters are separated for each node. Each count event is the allocation of a page of memory.
numa_hit is the number of allocations where an allocation was intended for that node and succeeded there.
numa_miss shows how often an allocation was intended for this node, but ended up on another node due to low memory.
numa_foreign is the number of allocations that were intended for another node, but ended up on this node. Each numa_foreign event has a numa_miss on another node.
interleave_hit is the number of interleave policy allocations that were intended for a specific node and succeeded there.
local_node is incremented when a process running on the node allocated memory on the same node.
other_node is incremented when a process running on another node allocated memory on that node.
SEE ALSO
numactl(8) set_mempolicy(2) numa(3)NOTES
numastat output is only available on NUMA systems.numastat assumes the output terminal has a width of 80 characters and tries to format the output accordingly.
EXAMPLES
watch -n1 numastatwatch -n1 --differences=accumulative numastat
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DARK CITY (1998)
A film review by Steve Kong Edited by Cher Johnson Copyright 1998 Steve Kong
Some movies create two different worlds: one for the trailer and one for the actual movie. The trailer for Dark City was mysterious. It induced a feeling of awe for what the movie is about. The visuals, the loud audio, and the mysterious text all worked together to create this feeling of awe. Does the movie live up to the trailer? And does Dark City carry through with the incredible world that we glimpsed in the trailer?
Alex Proyas is best known for the dark world and mood that he created for Brandon Lee's last film, The Crow. But, his work was overshadowed by the tragic death of Lee. This time with Dark City, Proyas is let loose to work and create a world that truly lives up to its name. Dark City is a luscious looking film-and even that is an understatement. The world that Proyas puts up on the screen is a strange mix of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Tim Burton's Batman world. Though not set in a technological wonder like Blade Runner the world does overshadow Batman's world. I think that this is what Burton was aiming for with his original Batman but was unable to create it.
The movie is not all visuals, though. It opens with a dreary monologue by a Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) which explains about "The Strangers." It seems that The Strangers are a group of aliens who have taken beings from a world-though never specified as the Earth-and offloaded them onto the Strangers' world. Here on the Strangers' world the humans become specimens for the Strangers' experiments. The Strangers are a slowly dying race and that are looking to beat their mortality and they think that they can find it in the human soul. We then are introduced to the main character of the film, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), who wakes up in a motel room with a dead prostitute next to his bed. Murdoch looks around the room for clues to what happened and finds a few things.
Murdoch,though, has had a complete loss of memory and is unsure if he is a killer or not. Inspector Bumstead (William Hurt) is assigned to the case and is on the trailer of Murdoch. Murdoch tries to find out who he really is and follows a trail of clues which leads him to many things, including his wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly). We question if Murdoch is really the killer as we discover more about how Dark City really operates.
It seems that in the Dark City there is no day time; it's a continuous night, and for a good reason.
The script for Dark City comes from a story by Proyas and is written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer. It introduces a lot of interesting ideas for the audience to think about. Dark City questions one's real identity and one's reality. Who are we really? What makes us who we are? Is this all real? The problem with the script is that it tries overly hard to explain every idea introduced and leaves nothing for the audience to think about. Every time something mysterious, awe inspiring, or interesting is introduced a character stops everything and gives a long monologue explaining what it is about. The characters are too talky. I'm a big X-Files fan and for a good reason, the writers for The X-Files know that not everything needs to be explained, that some things are best left to the audience's imagination and left for the audience to chew over. It is this ambiguity of The X-Files that makes it so enjoyable. Had Proyas, Dobbs, and Goyer watched a few more episodes of The X-Files they would have learned the same. Proyas, Dobbs, and Goyer leave nothing to the audience's imagination- everything is clearly explained and nothing is left in the dark.
Dark City's visuals are stunning. The city that these characters live in is incredible with its tall skyline, the dark ominous buildings, the retro look of everything, and the clear lack of lighting. It creates an atmosphere for the movie that comes very close to overshadowing the story itself. The one thing, and this could be seen as a bad thing, that subdues the overly large presence of the city is Proyas' editing. Proyas edits the film like a music video or a movie trailer. Everything comes in quick flashes and there are little or no steady shots for us to really see how characters are reacting. Also there are no shots that let us fully take in the city and atmosphere that Proyas created for the movie. The editing of the film feels like a comic book-flashing from one panel to the next, not taking anytime to slow down and let the audience look at the visuals.
The performances by the cast are all about equal. They come close to being a bit too bland, though they never slip into that territory. Rufus Sewell, who you can also catch in the current Dangerous Beauty, fares a little better than the rest of the cast.
Dark City is one of those films that draws you in even though it has some outstanding flaws. I enjoyed Dark City and all the ideas that it generates, but I enjoyed the visuals the most. Dark City is not a "style over substance" film. Actually, it can be argued that Dark City has a little more substance than it really needs. I recommend the film, though it doesn't create enough to warrant a Don't Miss nod.
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Your questions answered if you’d attended yesterday’s meet, Dr Wan Azizah tells sacked PKR man
by BY JERRY CHOONGKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — Zakaria Abdul Hamid should have attended yesterday’s PKR central leadership council meeting if he wanted a chance to defend himself before his expulsion, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said today.
The party’s advisory council chairman said the recently sacked PKR man would have known the details behind his removal then.
“This should have been the case, if he was at the meeting then all his questions would have been answered,” said Dr Wan Azizah, who is also deputy prime minister and Women, Family and Community Development minister, after officiating the Malaysian Family Declaration at the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre here.
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When I say bagel, you say Jewish.
Bagel.
Jewish.

Like peanut butter and jelly or flannel and Hootie and the Blowfish fans.
Its also hard to make an argument against this association when they’ve been served at literally almost every Jewish function I’ve been to from my own bris to a brunch at my family’s house.
Which would explain why I’ve been I’ve been to a Noah’s Bagels but never a Chang’s.
So if the two are in fact synonymous, then I’m an awfully bad Jew.
You see, even Jews who skip high holidays love cream cheese.
Not me.
Can’t stand the stuff.
While I’m coming clean I might as well express my distaste for smoked whitefish, capers, kugel, gefilte fish, falafel, cole slaw, charoset, any kind of salad dressing or mayonnaise, matzo balls, tahini sauce, horse radish and anything pickled.
I’ll understand if you need a minute to compose yourself.
So the next time you’re at an oneg and you see a waifish man in the corner eating a plain bagel and a black and white cookie by himself, come say hi.


Luis Enrique will be presented as Spain coach again on Nov. 27
The former Barcelona coach will speak to the media next week
by sport.esThe Royal Spanish Football Federation have announced that Luis Enrique will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 27 (11.30h) after returning as Spain coach this week.
Luis Enrique was forced to step down due to personal reasons earlier this year, with his daughter seriously ill. She sadly passed away in the summer and, following a period of mourning, the former Barcelona coach has decided to return to the Spain post.
Robert Moreno, Lucho's former No.2, had been promoted to head coach in the meantime, but he will now leave the national team's coaching staff completely after helping La Roja qualify for Euro 2020.
RFEF chief Luis Rubiales confirmed the news in a press conference on Tuesday and Luis Enrique will have his second presentation on Nov. 27, three days before the draw for the Euro 2020 finals (Nov. 30 in Bucharest).


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Changes only begin at the end of your comfort zone.
My name is Yii Choong Kaw and I am from Malaysia. I major in computer science and currently study in California State University, Fresno. I love to watch movies and tv shows in different genres.
I watched a lot of sci-fi movies growing up which is part of the reason why I am very interested in technology. I want to know every what's behind every machine and how they work. Realistically, I cannot absorb that much of information so I try my best to learn whatever I can.
This was my high school where I actively participated in events and even organized events with my friends. I had a lot of fun during my high school years and certainly try as well as learn a lot of new things.
This is where I first stepped out my comfort zone. I moved out of my house and lived near the campus. I also met some new friends. It was a stressful time for me as there were a lot of things I needed to adapt to. During these two years, I joined a club and hosted two large events.
This was the first time I traveled alone to the other side of the world. I was very excited to start another chapter of my life.
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Dictionaries, in their physical form, are like typewriters and baby blue 1970 Ford pickups. The hum, the purr, the movement, the tactility of these analog devices engenders an ineffable satisfaction.
Last week, I drove with my dad to Barnes & Noble. Normally, I’d prefer a hole-in-the-wall, independent bookstore, but I was craving a well-edited, cleanly bound, beautifully printed dictionary. I wanted something to hold, to own, to flip through for years or decades. I wanted something trustworthy that wasn’t on a screen. So I bought myself a newly printed Concise Oxford American Dictionary (COAD). What a work of lexicography!
This article is a guide to buying a dictionary. I’ll mention some characteristics which differentiate dictionaries, and weigh in with my opinion and my rationale. I’m hoping it will help any young person who wants to feel those feathery light pages flip around and the unparalleled satisfaction of homing in on a word like it’s a lost treasure.
I doubt any previous generation was told how to buy a dictionary. Yet, many grew up with one, used one at school, or even saw them in pop culture. When they needed a dictionary, traditional or intuition probably got them most of the way. Us youngin’s didn’t get this experience, instead we got cellphones and iPods; which isn’t a terrible trade-off.
In alphabetical order:
Definitions
Coincidentally, the most important characteristic of a dictionary is first on our list. A dictionary is just a list of words in a language, plus their meanings. It’s important that the list of words is good, but it’d just be a list without those meaty definitions.
What makes a good definition? This is probably a question people make careers out of, but one reliable measure I have is, how many words in any definition must you subsequently look up? A good definition should be easy to read and easy to understand. It’s not a good dictionary if you don’t understand one, two, half of the words used within the definitions.
Dialect of English
You might remember I bought myself an Oxford American Dictionary. There are dictionaries for British, Australian, and even Canadian English. Having traveled to Canada a few times, I can’t think of a good reason why Canadian English has its own dictionary, yet cowboys from the south don’t have theirs.
Etymology
It is sometimes helpful to know where a word comes from. Is it Latin? Greek? French? What are the roots of the word? This wasn’t a top priority for me, but it might be for you. Some dictionaries offer none of this information; others are in fact, etymological dictionaries with nothing but roots. Find your balance.
Examples
Most dictionaries that aren’t squeezed for size contain example sentences for meanings. In the COAD, perhaps every third or fourth word has a brief example sentence to demonstrate how the word is used in context. Consider how much this would help you learn and understand.
Number of Entries
Would you prefer a dictionary of only the 20,000 most common words? Or, a 20 volume, 500,000 entry tome? Most of us fall somewhere in between. The COAD contains about 180,000 entries and so far that has been more than enough.
Pictures
Are you a visual learner? If so, consider the breadth of pictures and illustrations in your dictionary. They can be helpful to visualize, for example, a fez or a wimple.
Pronunciation Method
Odds are, when you find, or just stumble onto, a word, you’ll want to know how to pronounce it. There is a spectrum of ways editorial teams convey this information. On the one side, there’s the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a highly unadulterated linguistic method. On the other, there are respelling methods that only use our recognizable English characters. In between, there are hybrid methods that join the precision and the usability of both.
Publishing Date
How much do you care about language drift and contemporary terms? Some amazing dictionaries stopped publication in the 80s or 90s. Despite them being great tools and companions, you might miss out on more up-to-date definitions if you choose to use one of them.
Reference Material
At the back of the COAD, there are a few sections of reference. They include commonly misspelled words, clichés to avoid, punctuation guides, and even a list of U.S. states, capitals, and presidents. Do handy guides and language usage advice spark your interest?
Sequence of Meanings
Lastly, it is worth noting that some editorial teams list entry meanings in different orders. Some put the most common meanings first. Others, the first recorded meaning. This is a minor point, but may impact how easy you find the dictionary to use.
The unique properties of dictionaries are by no means a contentious topic, and the number of readers offended by my list is likely zero. Nonetheless, I surely didn’t include one thing or another. What would make me happy though is if I did offend someone through this lapse and they kindly informed me of what I left off.
  When you’re choosing a dictionary, ask yourself, does it contain those words you wrote down? Put another way, had you bought this dictionary in the past, would it have proved itself useful?
For me, a word I had recently looked up was caftan (a North African or Near Eastern tunic or robe, usually for men). As it turned out, Webster’s Dictionary didn’t contain the word; the COAD did.
If you just simply can’t decide what dictionary to choose, I recommend buying your top two choices. Over the course of a few days or weeks, sit down in front of your crackling fireplace and explore the depths and treasures in each. By the time you decide which one truly speaks to your soul, you can gently place the runner-up in your fireplace and continue to enjoy your new favorite dictionary beside a colorful and rejuvenated fire.


Design a new feature for Twitch
Our project started with the brief to design a new feature for Twitch, a leading platform for live-streaming games. The two of us came to this project with little-to-no knowledge of gaming or live streaming, but we were excited to dive deep into this subculture.
Diving into streaming culture
We were really surprised, not only by how many interesting nuances there were around gaming and live streaming, but by how mainstream these behaviours actually were. With every conversation, we left a with insights that inspired, validated and rejected certain early ideas.
“I kind of got tired of sitting in my room streaming everyday. That’s why I took my break from Twitch. I wanted to go out and meet people again.”
Szeki, a female streamer mentioned how not having enough real-world interactions pulled her away from the platform, and upon probing, we learned that she enjoyed meeting up with her fans. She also told us that there was a huge dropoff when it came to converting viewers to follow them on other social platforms, and so this made us look into how we could create tools for streamers to organize in-person events.
“I usually place a huge order of fast food in the morning, and then just eat the leftovers throughout the day. Every second I leave the stream I lose viewers. The time I spend answering the door is killing me.”
A high-level streamer from LA talked about how critical it was to stay on stream, especially in the upper-echelons of streaming. These are also the top revenue producers for Twitch, which lead to us thinking about them building a physical camera that could detach from their computer and act as a vlog-camera when needed.
“Twitch chat is famous for being the worst kinds of people. Oh god. It’s like this collective of people that just follow each other instantly.”
 This made us start to reconsider an idea we had around community tagging of videos through hashtags in a chat.
“Usually I come home and open up Youtube, Facebook, and Twitch. I usually leave Twitch on in the background. It’s like leaving the TV on in the background. I’ll switch back to it when something interesting is happening.”
We started to learn that live streaming wasn’t always about active viewing. Switching between passive and active viewing was a common habit, and this got us to start exploring this area more.
How do viewers use Twitch on Mobile?
As we talked to people, our preconceptions around Twitch started to change dramatically, and so we started being more careful to test our ideas before latching on to them. As we started to think about creating an experience around passive watching in the mobile app, we decided it would be important to do some research around how people currently use the Twitch mobile app vs the desktop version.
We created a survey and posted it to a Vancouver Community Meetup Group, Powered by Twitch on Facebook. From their responses we uncovered that most people who watch streams on desktop also watched on mobile. Viewers answered that they use it mostly when they are away from their desktop, like during commutes, at their friend’s house, and when they’re at school. More importantly, viewers will watch while doing other things such as, browse the internet, do homework, and play games.
A shared understanding of our persona
Having worked together before, the two of us remember a project where a mistake we had made, in our group of 6, was not having a solid shared understanding of our persona. This lead to a lot miscommunication and time wasted.
With this being such a unique group to us both, we wanted to make sure we were on the same page, and so we developed a persona to help guide our design decisions.
Some guiding principles
From our research emerged a couple key insights that guided our
design process.
Passive to active, and back again.
Too often people design interfaces that assume the user is completely engaged. From our research it was clear that Twitch viewers would constantly switch between passive and active viewing, so it was important to design for these distinct type of moments.

You should never assume too much about your user, but this project really pushed us as designers to adhere to this idea. We were constantly having ideas rejected and new trains of thought formed in our head with every conversation we had. We made sure to use some level of research at every stage of the process.
The bottom line.
At the end of the day, Twitch is a platform which need to make money, especially with its recent acquisition by Amazon. We knew our ideas had to account for how they would impact revenue, which meant understanding the nuances of its advertising ecosystem and its stakeholders. We also reached out to a Sr. UX Designer at Twitch who focused on monetization for critique throughout the project.
The ideas that didn’t make it.
At the beginning of our project we did a lot of exercises to explore high-level concepts.
We took some of these ideas and fleshed them out a bit further before we settled on designing the passive watching experience for the always-on player. Below are some of those explorations.
1. Meet Ups
Meetups is a section on Twitch that allows streamers to create events on the platform to facilitate in-person events with their fans.
2. Indicators
Indicators are a way to make streams more understandable before you click into them. We explored two ways of doing this, one using machine intelligence, and another that relied on community-generated tags. Each provided an infrastructure of data that allowed for unique applications throughout the platform
3. Twitch Cam
This was our more blue-sky idea which focused on how Twitch could partner up with Amazon Lab126 to create a physical camera that could be clipped to your computer or taken off, and would allow for numerous applications like seamless setup, more “IRL” streams, and group-syncing of Twitch Cams. We also explored how this could work through your existing mobile phone.
Feedback from a Sr. UX Designer @ Twitch
We wanted to really put our ideas through some rigor, not only from a user perspective, but also from a business perspective. During our project we regularly got critique from Adam, a SR. UX Designer at Twitch focussed on monetization. He helped us understand Twitch’s strategic goals and challenged us to make more real world considerations.
After considering Adam’s feedback we realized we needed to investigate how and when people are watching streams. We looked to Twitch communities on Facebook to get some feedback, and through our research it helped us get a better understanding of how viewers were watching in different contexts than we expected.
Mapping out the flow and answering questions
Early on we decided to map out potential flows for this feature, and in doing so we uncovered both questions around the UX and opportunities for the feature. We used rapid sketching as a way to get our ideas our and worked together to make decisions.
Early user testing to work through roadblocks
As we went through and fleshed out parts of the flow, we came across questions where we had differing assumptions. We’d encountered a situation like this in a project we’d worked on before, and had learned that in times like these, a quick and dirty user test helped provide an additional perspective that could move things forward.
We spent 10 minutes making a quick mockup in illustrator and made a simple click-through prototype in InVision. We then set out to show it to some people nearby.
We made some mistakes
While testing with users at this stage helped identify some initial feelings around the interface, we ended up learning some more interesting lessons around our process.
First of all, you need to be careful with how “quick and dirty” your prototype really is. While it was fine that the prototype was not completely interactive, we had designed it so quickly that not enough clarity was given around basic hierarchy of elements, which made things confusing for the people we tested with, and served as a distraction from the overall experiment.
We also learned to try as much as possible to not test with designers. While critique sessions are great, we often found that a designer’s natural inclination is to inject their larger opinions around design into their responses, rather than giving their gut reactions to things. While it’s easy as a designer to find people around you (other designers) to test with, it really makes a difference to make the effort to test with the type of people who are likely to use your product, even if it means simply approaching people in a different department at your workplace.
Diving into Prototyping with Framer.js
We decided to dive into learning Framer to prototype our feature. With little previous experience, we ended up learning a ton about programming with coffeescript, and actually made revisions to our design as we played around with it and understand how interactions felt.
You can play with our prototype here.
These are some of our takeaways from diving into Framer:
How Do We Advertise To The Passive Viewer?
Twitch viewers are tech savvy and we found a lot of articles online of them complaining about disruptive techniques advertisers have used on the platform. In response, streamers have took the approach of being very honest and direct with their fans, letting them know when they will play an advertisement, and asking them to watch as a way to support.
So our approach with the passive viewer is not to try and disrupt them over the other app they are using at that moment, instead it is to provide simple and direct call to actions that they can choose to interact with, similar to the existing ways they interact with the player. We also considered how ad placement can respond to what they are doing in the other apps they are multitasking with.
Finally, we think that strategically the always-on player will increase overall watch time for the platform as a whole, which will make for a greater viewership for advertisers.
Below are two possible approaches to the UX of ads on the always-on player.
What does this mean for the future of live streaming?
The idea of a pop-out player is nothing new. However, taking care to design a thought-through experience for the passive viewer, we believe, is an important consideration that we currently don’t see in existing products. Passive viewing is a very real behaviour that is increasing in the digital space with the influx of live streaming.
This project was our attempt to address this in 4 weeks, but as this relatively new viewing habit increases, so will the decisions that will need to be made around the interface.
Hopefully some of the ideas presented can serve as inspiration for other platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, or any others that wish to enter the live streaming space.


WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
FOR:
Setliff, Aaron Director of Policy (The Texas Council on Family Violence), Austin, TX
Toothman, Emily Program Specialist (Texas Council on Family Violence), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, Donald (Self), Austin, TX
Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation), Austin, TX
Camp, Torie Deputy Director (Self; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault), Austin,
TX
Craft, Lon Director of Legislative Affairs (Texas Municipal Police Association), Austin,
TX
Daniels, Katrina Assistant Criminal District Attorney (Bexar County District Attorney
Susan D. Reed), San Antonio, TX
Hart, Brad Assistant District Attorney (Harris County District Attorneys Office), Houston,
TX
Martinez, Diana Director of Policy (TexProtects, The Texas Association for the Protection
of Children), Dallas, TX
Sylvester, Jim Chief Deputy (Travis County Sheriff's Office), Austin, TX
On:
Edmonds, Shannon (Texas District And County Attorneys Association), Austin, TX
FOR:
Chatman, Charles (Self), Frisco, TX
Giles, James (Self), Lufkin, TX
Owen, Robert (Self), Austin, TX
Retzel, Natalie Chief Staff Attorney (Innocence Project of Texas), Dallas, TX
Robinson, Douglas (Self), Washington, DC
Session, Cory (Innocence Project of Texas), Fort Worth, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Henson, Scott (Innocence Project), Austin, TX
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact), Austin, TX
Keilen, Andrea Director (Texas Defender Service), Austin, TX
Leete, Travis Policy Analyst (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition), Austin, TX
Rivas, Andrew Executive Director (Texas Catholic Conference), Austin, TX
Rountree, Mereditih (Self), Austin, TX
Thompson, Sean Legislative Intern (ACLU), Austin, TX
Ware, Michael Assistant District Attorney Dallas County (Dallas County District
Attorney), Fort Worth, TX
1
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
FOR:
Kowal, John Senior Police Officer (Houston Police Department), Houston, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Chancellor, John Chief (Texas Police Chiefs Association), Shenandoah, TX
Crockett, Krista Executive Director (Texas Pain Society), Austin, TX
Daniels, Katrina Assistant Criminal District Attorney (Bexar County District Attorney
Susan D. Reed), San Antonio, TX
Hart, Brad Assistant District Attorney (Harris County District Attorneys Office), Houston,
TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Chancellor, John Chief (Texas Police Chiefs Association), Shenandoah, TX
Daniels, Katrina Assistant Criminal District Attorney (Bexar County District Attorney
Susan D. Reed), San Antonio, TX
Hatcher, Johnny Manager (Texas Department of Public Safety), Austin, TX
ON:
Hendricks, Lavelle (Self), TX
Kane, Colin Doctor (UT Southwestern), Dallas, TX
Walterscheid, Jeff Doctor, Forensic Toxicologist (Harris County Institute of Forensic
Sciences), Houston, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, Donald Commander (Texas Police Chiefs Association), Austin, TX
Chancellor, John Chief (Texas Police Chiefs Association), Shenandoah, TX
Drain, Ed Assistant Chief of Police (City of Plano), Plano, TX
Gay, Clifford (Self), Buda, TX
Gayiez, Erin (Texas Parent Teacher Association), Austin, TX
Patterson, T.J. (City of Fort Worth), Fort Worth, TX
Stanley, Shirley Poison Program Coordinator (Commission on State Emergency
Communications), Austin, TX
Sturzl, Frank Consultant (City of Abilene), Austin, TX
Tittle, Gary (North Texas Crime Commission), Dallas, TX
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League), Austin, TX
Against:
Thompson, Sean Legislative Intern (ACLU), Austin, TX
On:
Edmonds, Shannon (Texas District And County Attorneys Association), Austin, TX
2
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
FOR:
Burch, Jack (Self), Kerville, TX
Cargill, Michael (National Rifle Association, Texas Sate Rifle Association), Austin, TX
Chambless, Dallas (Self), Victoria, TX
Clardy, Anna-Marie (Self), Austin, TX
Gottleber, Tim Professor (Self), Keller, TX
Greene, James (Self), Austin, TX
Jones, Alexander (Self), Houston, TX
Kossack, Jordan (Self), Houston, TX
Lamberton, Eric (Self), Leander, TX
Lewis, Wesley Texas Legislative Director (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus),
Austin, TX
McDonald, Tony Senior Vice Chairman (Young Conservatives of Texas), Austin, TX
Mica, Tara State Liaison (National Rifle Association), Austin, TX
Schwab, Jeremy (Self), Dallas, TX
Schwartz, Melanie Political Director (Texas College Republicans), Austin, TX
Thompson, Karl (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus), The Woodlands, TX
Wagenschein, Shaun (Self), Humble, TX
AGAINST:
Acevedo, Art Chief of Police (Austin Police Department), Austin, TX
Barker, Matthew (Self), Houston, TX
Barker, Paul (Self), Kingwood, TX
Barrish, Phillip (Self), Austin, TX
Blumberg, Elizabeth (Self), Houston, TX
Bond, Bill (Self), Groesbeck, TX
Bryce, Jim (Self), Austin, TX
Butler, Natalie University of Texas student (Self; Student Body President-Elect), Austin,
TX
Cummings, Molly (Self), Austin, TX
De Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn (Self), Austin, TX
Dugan, Laura (Self), Austin, TX
Eaves, Caitlin Student (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Eisenberg, Rebecca (Self), Lockhart, TX
Etheredge, Ian (Self), Austin, TX
Frye, Zach (Susan Turner), Austin, TX
Garcia, Kayla (Self), Austin, TX
Garrison, Mark (Self), Austin, TX
Gering, Eben (Self), Austin, TX
Gongora, Samantha (Liberal Austin Democrats), Houston, TX
Gonzalez, Enrique (Self), Austin, TX
3
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
Holda, William President, Kilgore College (Texas Association of Community Colleges),
Kilgore, TX
Hurta, Michael (Self), Austin, TX
Jarmon, Cody (Self), Austin, TX
Just, Thomas Mark (Self), Austin, TX
Kandle, Laura (Students for Gun Free Campus), Austin, TX
Keller, Renata (Self), Austin, TX
Kenney, Amanda Graduate Student (Self), Austin, TX
Knabe, Tortsten (Self), Dallas, TX
Lucio, Laura Vanessa (Self), Universal City, TX
Maldonado, Jesus (Students Against Concealed Carry), Austin, TX
McCartney, Marsha (Texas Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence),
Coppell, TX
Morrison, Ginnie (Self), Austin, TX
Olinde, Lindsay (Self), Austin, TX
Partney, Trevor (Self), Austin, TX
Richards, Joanne (Self), Austin, TX
Schlegel, Erich (Self), Lakeway, TX
Schupper, Eric Attorney (Self), Austin, TX
Sharpe, Cole (Self), Austin, TX
Shelton, Kyle (Graduate Student Assemble, UT Austin, Students for Gun Free Schools),
Austin, TX
Sieverman, Kathryn (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Switzer, Gyl Public Policy Director (Mental Health America of Texas), Austin, TX
Tulley, William Professor, Chair of the History Department UT Austin (Self), Austin, TX
Twombly, Robert (Self), Austin, TX
Vickery, Kate (Self), Austin, TX
Vo, Lily-Diem (Self), Austin, TX
Wallace, Robin Professor, Baylor University (Self), Woodway, TX
Wilson, Sandra (Self), Little Rock, AK
Woods, John UT Graduate Student (Self), Austin, TX
ON:
Carrington, Ben Professor (UT Faculty Council), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Butler, Robert (Libertarian Party of Texas), Round Rock, TX
Crocker, Daniel (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus), College Station, TX
Fields, Geoffrey (Self), Austin, TX
Kelly, Sarah (UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus), Austin, TX
Lamberton, Jenee (Self), Leander, TX
Osborne, Cody (Students for Concealed Carry on Campus), Huntsville, TX
Portillo, Matthew (Self), Austin, TX
4
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
Shi, Jeff (UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus), Austin, TX
Sylvester, Jim Chief Deputy (Travis County Sheriff's Office), Austin, TX
Taylor, Ryan (Self), Harper, TX
Thompson, Katie (Self), Austin, TX
Thompson, Kristin (UT-Austin/Black Student Alliance), Austin, TX
Tripp, Alice Lobbyist (Texas State Rifle Association), Paige, TX
Welch, Madison (Self), Bryan, TX
Wolfe, Thomas (Texas Conservative Coalition), Austin, TX
Against:
Afandor, Maria Jose (Self), Austin, TX
Alexander, Sheri Student (Self), Austin, TX
Alonso, Felipe (Self), Austin, TX
Aluma, Sofia (Self), Austin, TX
Attrinson, Reiley (Self), San Antonio, TX
Avery Tabrizi, Dana (Self), Austin, TX
Baker, Amanda (Self), Austin, TX
Bunch, Nathan Administrative Director (University of Texas Student Government),
Austin, TX
Calve, Willaim (Self), Dickinson, TX
Campos, Loren (Self), Katy, TX
Carter, Ellison (Self), Austin, TX
Carton, Evan (Self), Austin, TX
Chen, Emily (Self), Houston, TX
Crockett, Anna (Self), Plano, TX
Cullingford, Elizabeth Professor (Self), Austin, TX
Davila, Samantha (Self), Austin, TX
Del Real, Rodrigo Alejandro (Self), Austin, TX
Diaz, Maria Paloma (Self), Austin, TX
Diaz, Paloma (Self), Austin, TX
Dowdy, Mary Margaret (Self), Austin, TX
Dwyer, Doris (Self), Austin, TX
Engelman, Lindsey (Self), Austin, TX
Ennis, Arielle (Students for Gun Free Schools), Dallas, TX
Ferraro, Alex (Self), Austin, TX
Freed, Ben (Self), Austin, TX
Gandee, Debbie (Self), Austin, TX
Gandhi, Mira (Self), Kingsville, TX
Garci, Matthew (Self), Austin, TX
Garrard-Burnett, Virginia (Self), Austin, TX
Garza, Gustavo (Career Education Corporation), Austin, TX
Glecker, Milly (Self), Austin, TX
5
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
Gould, Jackson (Self), Austin, TX
Hamilton, Lisa (Self), Austin, TX
Heinrich, Holly (Self), Austin, TX
Hempstead, Chuck Executive Director (Texas Association of College Teachers), Austin,
TX
Henkel, Jacqueline Associate Professor, University of Texas (Self), Austin, TX
Henning, Dana (University Democrats), Dallas, TX
Hogan, Kristen Dr. (Self), Austin, TX
Hutchinson, Sarah (Self), College Station, TX
Johnson, Danea (Self), Austin, TX
Karltloff, Wendy (Liberal Austin Democrats and Students for Gun Free Campus), Austin,
TX
Kevorkian, Martin (Self), Austin, TX
Kirkpatrick, Maris (Self), Austin, TX
Kreisberg, Jeffrey (Self), Coppell, TX
Kroll, Carrie Director of Advocacy (Texas Pediatric Society), Austin, TX
Kropf, Olivia (Self), Austin, TX
Kruger-Robbins, Ben (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Liu, David (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Long, Reid (Self), Sulphur Springs, TX
Long, Walter (Self), Austin, TX
Macdonell, Scott (Self), Austin, TX
Maple, Courtney (University of Texas Student Government), Austin, TX
Marteleto, Leticia (Self), Austin, TX
Martin Rountree, Meredith (Self), Austin, TX
Martinez, Janette (Self), Austin, TX
Matysik, Tracie (Self), Austin, TX
McCoy, Christina (Self), Austin, TX
McTavish, Emily Jane (Self), Austin, TX
Messer, Laura (Self), Austin, TX
Miculka, Cameron (Self), Weimer, TX
Milano, Elizabeth (Self), Austin, TX
Miller, Lanie (Self), Austin, TX
Miller, Robert (Richard Schechter, Chairman of the Board, Houston Community College),
Austin, TX
Mousigrli, Cameron (Self), Houston, TX
Nietsche, Carisa (Self), La Grange, TX
Olson, Antonella (Self), Austin, TX
Olson, Daniel (Self), Austin, TX
Olwell, Robert Associate Professor- UT Austin (Self), Austin, TX
Pierce, Kelly (Self), Austin, TX
Ramirez, Jorge (Self), Austin, TX
6
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
Randall, D'Arcy (Self), Austin, TX
Rockowitz, Leora (Self), Austin, TX
Russell, Joshua University of Texas graduate student (Self), Austin, TX
Sanchez, Karin (Self), Austin, TX
Santillan, Eugenio Graduate Student, UT Austin (Self), Austin, TX
Serrano, Samantha (Self), Austin, TX
Sessa, Anna (Self), Austin, TX
Singleton, Betsy (Self), San Marcos, TX
Singleton, Don (Self), San Marcos, TX
Smaby, Jonathan (Self), Dallas, TX
Smith, Allie (Senate of College Councils, University of Texas), Austin, TX
Smith, Cheri (Self), Burnett, TX
Smith, Valerie (Self), Carrollton, TX
Stevens, Jeffrey (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Sullivan, Mary Esther UT Graduate student (Self), Austin, TX
Tamayo, Fransisco (Self), Austin, TX
Thobald, Paul Student (Self), Austin, TX
Tilerina, Gabriela (Self), Austin, TX
Treadnay, Dan (Self), Austin, TX
Twu, Lisa (Self), Coppel, TX
Van Epps, Amanda (Self), Austin, TX
Verdin, Jacklyn (Students for Gun Free Schools), Austin, TX
Villarreal, Celeste Legislative Director (Mexican American Bar Association of Texas),
Austin, TX
Wahlstrom, Sydney (Self), Austin, TX
Waters, Katherine (Invest in Texas (University of Texas Austin)), Austin, TX
Whittwagon, Sara (Self), Austin, TX
Williams, Wesley (Self), San Antonio, TX
Wilson, Andrew (University of Texas Liberal Arts Council), Canton, TX
Wiseman, Philip (Self), Point Comfort, TX
Wright, April (Self), Austin, TX
Wright, Laura (Self), Austin, TX
Wuerrero, Rafael (Self), Austin, TX
Yager, Jeremy (Self), Austin, TX
Zucker, Charles (Texas Faculty Association), Austin, TX
On:
Hicks, Matt (Self), Austin, TX
Rose, Mary (UT Faculty Council), Austin, TX
Wilson James, Claire (Self), Texarkana, TX
7
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
FOR:
Lewis, Bill Public Policy Liaison (Mother Against Drunk Driving), Austin, TX
McCluskey, John President (Professional Bondsmen of Texas), Houston, TX
AGAINST:
Perrine, Kenneth (Self), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Sylvester, Jim Chief Deputy (Travis County Sheriff's Office), Austin, TX
Against:
Desai, Yaman (University of Texas Austin, Student Government), Austin, TX
On:
Kendall, Angie Deputy Administrator (Texas Department of Public Safety), Austin, TX
FOR:
Hart, Brad Assistant District Attorney (Harris County District Attorneys Office), Houston,
TX
AGAINST:
Brown, Jan (Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation), Houston, TX
Houle, Kristin Executive Director (Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty), Austin,
TX
Rivas, Andrew Executive Director (Texas Catholic Conference), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, Donald Commander (Austin Police Department), Austin, TX
Craft, Lon Director of Legislative Affairs (Texas Municipal Police Association), Austin,
TX
Daniels, Katrina Assistant Criminal District Attorney (Bexar County District Attorney
Susan D. Reed), San Antonio, TX
Jones, Jim Sargent (San Antonio Police Department), San Antonio, TX
Martinez, Diana Director of Policy (TexProtects, The Texas Association for the Protection
of Children), Dallas, TX
Sparks, Andrea Director of Public Policy (Texas CASA), Austin, TX
Tittle, Gary (Dallas Police Department), Dallas, TX
Against:
Bernhardt, Rebecca (Texas Defender Service), Austin, TX
Castillo, James Texas Organizer (Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation), Beaumont,
TX
Van Steenburg, Robert (Self), Austin, TX
AGAINST:
Gandee, Debbie (Responsible Pet Owners Alliance), Austin, TX
8
WITNESS LIST
Criminal Justice
March 22, 2011 1:30 PM - or upon adjournment
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Nordyke, Pat Executive Director (Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies), Austin, TX
Against:
Lewis, Gib (Self), Austin, TX
Whittington, Sara (Self), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Walstad, Scott (Self), Frisco, TX
FOR:
Shinn, Ted Sargent (Dallas Police Department), Dallas, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Baker, Donald (Texas Major Cities Chiefs), Austin, TX
Chancellor, John Chief (Texas Police Chiefs Association), Shenandoah, TX
Craft, Lon Director of Legislative Affairs (Texas Municipal Police Association), Austin,
TX
Gibson, Stephanie Vice President of Government Affairs (Texas Retailers Association),
Austin, TX
Jones, James Captain (Houston Police Department), Houston, TX
Jones, Jim Sargent (San Antonio Police Department), San Antonio, TX
Tittle, Gary (North Texas Crime Commission), Dallas, TX
Ware, Michael Assistant District Attorney Dallas County (Dallas County District
Attorney), Fort Worth, TX
9


Drug-using cop disappears
by Gemi FormaranLUCENA CITY— The Quezon Police Provincial Office is now tracking down a police Sergeant who reportedly went AWOL (absent without official leave) after he was tested positive for shabu.
Quezon police director Col. Audie Madrideo said he has ordered his operatives from Provincial Intelligence Branch and Lucena City police station to locate PSSG Mark Reil Canilon, assigned at the City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) and resident of Rizal province.
Madrideo said he issued the order in consonance with the instruction of Calabarzon police director Beig. Gen. Vicente Danao, Jr. to find Canilon and have him disarmed.
“Once accounted and disarmed of his service pistol, Canilon will also be asked to explain why he did not report to duty shortly after undergoing a surprise drug test on Wednesday”, said Madrideo.
He said the on the spot drug test of 24 police non- commisioned officers — most of them members of CDEU and Intelligence Section of the City police station — was ordered by Danao on Wednesday after the regional director received reports that some of them are in cahoots with drug syndicates.
There are also reports that some of the cops even recycle confiscated shabu, Madrideo said.


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The OpenJade MIF backend
Created by Kathleen
Marszalek and Paul Prescod
Sponsored by ISOGEN International Corp
Contents
Supported Flow Objects
|
character
|
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- font-weight
- font-posture
- font-name
- font-size
- input-whitespace-treatment
- position-point-shift
- language
- country
- color
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| display-group
|
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
| |
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
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| rule |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- line-cap
- line-thickness
- line-repeat
- line-sep
- position-point-shift
- display-alignment (start, end, center)
- start-indent
- end-indent
- span (spans all columns if > 1)
- color
|
- orientation (horizontal, escapement)
- length
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
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| score |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- line-repeat (1 for type of before and
through, 1 or 2 for after)
|
- type (before, through, after)
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| line-field* |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
|
|
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| *
At the beginning of paragraph only. |
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| leader* |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
| |
|
| *
On the last line of paragraph only. The principal
port (the leader string itself) can contain
characters only.
The content of the flow object is ignored:
a dotted leader will always be used. The specified length is ignored:
it always fills out the line. |
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| link |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
| |
- destination [#f, objects returned by (idref-address
...) and (current-node-address ...)]
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| index-entry |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
| |
- components
- page-number?
- sort-string
- starts-page-range?
- ends-page-range?
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- components
- is a list of strings that represent index
entry levels. This characteristic is not
inherited and shall be specified.
- page-number?
- is a boolean specifying whether this
index entry should contain page number
information. This characteristic is not
inherited. The default is #t.
- sort-string
- is either #f, specifying that this index
entry's components should be used for
sorting the index, or a string that
should be used for sorting. This
characteristic is not inherited. The
default is #f.
- starts-page-range?
- is a boolean specifying whether the index
entry starts a page range. This
characteristic is not inherited. The
default is #f.
- ends-page-range?
- is a boolean specifying whether the index
entry starts a page range. This
characteristic is not inherited. The
default is #f.
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Here's how to
enable the above extension:
(declare-flow-object-class index-entry
"UNREGISTERED::ISOGEN//Flow
Object Class::index-entry")
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| external-graphic |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
|
|
- display?
- scale (max)
- max-width
- max-height
- entity-system-id
- display-alignment
- start-indent
- end-indent
- span (spans all columns if > 1)
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
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| paragraph |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- lines (wrap, asis-wrap)
- hyphenation-ladder-count
- hyphenation-remain-char-count
- hyphenation-push-char-count
- font-weight
- font-posture
- font-name
- font-size
- quadding
- widow-count
- orphan-count
- language
- country
|
- span (spans all columns if > 1)
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
- line-spacing
- min-leading (#f or 0 for proportional
line spacing)
- first-line-start-indent
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| simple-page-sequence |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- page-width
- page-height
- left-margin
- right-margin
- top-margin
- bottom-margin
- header-margin
- footer-margin
|
- left-header
- center-header
- right-header
- left-footer
- center-footer
- right-footer
|
- (page-number-sosofo)
- (current-node-page-number-sosofo)
- "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Procedure::if-first-page"
- This can be used only in the
specification of the value of one of the
header/footer characteristics of simple-page-sequence.
It returns a sosofo that will display as
sosofo1 if the page is the first page of
the simple-page-sequence and as sosofo2
otherwise.
- "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Procedure::if-front-page"
- This can be used only in the
specification of the value of one of the
header/footer characteristics of simple-page-sequence.
It returns a sosofo that will display as
sosofo1 if the page is a front (ie recto,
odd-numbered) page and as sosofo2 if it
is a back (i.e. verso, even-numbered)
page.
- "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::page-n-columns"
- Value is a strictly positive integer,
specifying the number of columns. The
initial value is 1.
- "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::page-column-sep"
- Value is a length, specifying the
separation between columns. The initial
value is .5in.
- "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::page-balance-columns?"
- Value is a boolean. If true, the columns
on the final page of the page-sequence
should be balanced. The initial value is
#f.
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Here's how to
enable the above extensions:
(define if-first-page (external-procedure
"UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Procedure::if-first-page"))
(define if-front-page (external-procedure
"UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Procedure::if-front-page"))
(declare-characteristic page-n-columns
"UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Characteristic::page-n-columns" 1)
(declare-characteristic page-n-columns
"UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Characteristic::page-column-gap" (*
36 1pt))
(declare-characteristic page-balance-columns?
"UNREGISTERED::James
Clark//Characteristic::page-balance-columns?"
#f)
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| table |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- table-border
- display-alignment
- start-indent
- end-indent
|
- table-width
- before-row-border
- after-row-border
- before-column-border
- after-column-border
- span (spans all columns if > 1)
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
|
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| table-part |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
| |
- space-before
- space-after
- keep-with-previous?
- keep-with-next?
- break-before (#f, page)
- break-after (#f, page)
- keep (#f, page)
- may-violate-keep-before?
- may-violate-keep-after?
|
|
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| table-column |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
|
|
- column-number
- n-columns-spanned
- width
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| table-cell |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- cell-before-row-margin
- cell-after-row-margin
- cell-before-column-margin
- cell-after-column-margin
- cell-row-alignment
- cell-before-row-border
- cell-after-row-border
- cell-before-column-border
- cell-after-column-border
- cell-background?
- background-color
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- column-number
- n-columns-spanned
- n-rows-spanned
- starts-row?
- ends-row?
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| table-border |
| Inherited
characteristics |
Non-inherited
characteristics |
- border-present?
- line-thickness
- line-repeat (0, 1, or 2)
- line-sep
- color
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Problems & Limitations
Table border resolution
It's not clear how to predictably enforce cell borders
that have mixed line styles. I've posted a question about
this to comp.text.frame, but there were no responses so
far.
External graphic width and height
In order to place external graphics inside a text flow
one must use an anchored frame containing the <ImportObject...>
statement. The ImportObject within the frame can shrink-wrap
the referenced graphics, however the anchored frame
itself cannot - in general the size of an anchored frame
has to be specified explicitly. I've asked about this in
comp.text.frame, but the only solutions involved using
external programs to read the graphic size from graphic
files.
Space before non-paragraph displayed objects
Flow objects like external-graphic need to be anchored
to empty paragraphs so that that frame can determine
their position on the page automatically. Since the
smallest paragraph height is 2pt (smallest font size that
can be used), the total space before such objects should
be larger than that. This does not apply to the paragraph
flow objects themselves, and to the rule flow object. The
rule flow object has the placement direction display size
of 0 and it's possible to use negative PgfLeading to let
the next paragraph move up if necessary.
The vertical positioning of the displayed rule
flow object
Since the rule is position using inlined anchored
frame, the placement is relative to the font baseline. It's
assumed that the baseline is 1/3 the font size from the
bottom.
The box flow object
Not sure how to implement it since anchored frames
must have fixed height. Maybe using tables would work
here(?)
Tips
Creating hypertext documents
You must decide on the filename extension you'll use
at the stage when you run jade. If you don't want the .mif
extension for your final document, feel free to use other
extension when specifying the file name using the -o
option.
- Open the book file.
- While holding SHIFT, select File->Open
All Files in Book from the menu.
- Save each file using View Only format -
make sure you use original filenames.
Updating page numbering
- Open the book file.
- While holding SHIFT, select File->Open
All Files in Book from the menu.
- Select File->Generate/Update... and
then press Update.
Specifying colors
OpenJade supports all color spaces specified in DSSSL.
The following example uses the RGB color space to create
a red rule:
(make rule
color: (color (color-space
"ISO/IEC 10179:1996//Color-Space Family::Device
RGB")
1 0 0)
...
) |
|


#include <btGImpactShape.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| virtual void | setLocalScaling (const btVector3 &scaling) |
| virtual void | postUpdate () |
| Tells to this object that is needed to refit all the meshes. | |
|
virtual const btPrimitiveManagerBase * | getPrimitiveManager () const |
| Obtains the primitive manager. | |
| virtual int | getNumChildShapes () const |
| Gets the number of children. | |
| virtual bool | childrenHasTransform () const |
| if true, then its children must get transforms. | |
| virtual bool | needsRetrieveTriangles () const |
| Determines if this shape has triangles. | |
| virtual bool | needsRetrieveTetrahedrons () const |
| Determines if this shape has tetrahedrons. | |
| virtual void | lockChildShapes () const |
| call when reading child shapes | |
| virtual void | getChildAabb (int child_index, const btTransform &t, btVector3 &aabbMin, btVector3 &aabbMax) const |
| Retrieves the bound from a child. | |
| virtual btCollisionShape * | getChildShape (int index) |
| Gets the children. | |
| virtual const btCollisionShape * | getChildShape (int index) const |
| Gets the child. | |
| virtual btTransform | getChildTransform (int index) const |
| Gets the children transform. | |
| virtual void | setChildTransform (int index, const btTransform &transform) |
| Sets the children transform. | |
| virtual eGIMPACT_SHAPE_TYPE | getGImpactShapeType () const |
| Base method for determinig which kind of GIMPACT shape we get. | |
| virtual void | rayTest (const btVector3 &rayFrom, const btVector3 &rayTo, btCollisionWorld::RayResultCallback &resultCallback) const |
| virtual method for ray collision | |
| virtual void | processAllTriangles (btTriangleCallback *callback, const btVector3 &aabbMin, const btVector3 &aabbMax) const |
| Function for retrieve triangles. | |
| virtual void | processAllTrianglesRay (btTriangleCallback *callback, const btVector3 &rayFrom, const btVector3 &rayTo) const |
| Function for retrieve triangles. | |
| virtual const char * | serialize (void *dataBuffer, btSerializer *serializer) const |
| fills the dataBuffer and returns the struct name (and 0 on failure) | |
Protected Member Functions | |
| virtual void | calcLocalAABB () |
| use this function for perfofm refit in bounding boxes |
Set of btGImpactMeshShapePart parts
Definition at line 890 of file btGImpactShape.h.
| virtual void btGImpactMeshShape::setLocalScaling | ( | const btVector3 & | scaling | ) | [inline, virtual] |
Reimplemented from btGImpactShapeInterface.
Definition at line 964 of file btGImpactShape.h.
References btGImpactMeshShapePart::setLocalScaling(), and btAlignedObjectArray< T >::size().
00965 { 00966 localScaling = scaling; 00967 00968 int i = m_mesh_parts.size(); 00969 while(i--) 00970 { 00971 btGImpactMeshShapePart * part = m_mesh_parts[i]; 00972 part->setLocalScaling(scaling); 00973 } 00974 00975 m_needs_update = true; 00976 }
| virtual void btGImpactMeshShape::setChildTransform | ( | int | index, | |
| const btTransform & | transform | |||
| ) | [inline, virtual] |
Sets the children transform.
Implements btGImpactShapeInterface.
Definition at line 1109 of file btGImpactShape.h.
| virtual eGIMPACT_SHAPE_TYPE btGImpactMeshShape::getGImpactShapeType | ( | ) | const [inline, virtual] |
Base method for determinig which kind of GIMPACT shape we get.
Subshape member functions
Implements btGImpactShapeInterface.
Definition at line 1116 of file btGImpactShape.h.
Referenced by serialize().
| void btGImpactMeshShape::processAllTriangles | ( | btTriangleCallback * | callback, | |
| const btVector3 & | aabbMin, | |||
| const btVector3 & | aabbMax | |||
| ) | const [virtual] |
Function for retrieve triangles.
It gives the triangles in local space
Reimplemented from btGImpactShapeInterface.
Definition at line 255 of file btGImpactShape.cpp.
References btAlignedObjectArray< T >::size().
00256 { 00257 int i = m_mesh_parts.size(); 00258 while(i--) 00259 { 00260 m_mesh_parts[i]->processAllTriangles(callback,aabbMin,aabbMax); 00261 } 00262 }
| void btGImpactMeshShape::processAllTrianglesRay | ( | btTriangleCallback * | , | |
| const btVector3 & | , | |||
| const btVector3 & | ||||
| ) | const [virtual] |
Function for retrieve triangles.
It gives the triangles in local space
Reimplemented from btGImpactShapeInterface.
Definition at line 264 of file btGImpactShape.cpp.
References btAlignedObjectArray< T >::size().
00265 { 00266 int i = m_mesh_parts.size(); 00267 while(i--) 00268 { 00269 m_mesh_parts[i]->processAllTrianglesRay(callback, rayFrom, rayTo); 00270 } 00271 }


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The self taught electronic polyglot. Charles spends his time working on the Juju data center modeling language, writing charms. In his spare time he enjoys electronic music, DJ'ing, amateur video editing, podcasting, and hacking on various appliances voiding warranties.


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This Day in History: Nov. 7
by Fox NewsOn this day, Nov. 7 …
1991: Los Angeles Lakers’ star Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for HIV, and is retiring. (Johnson later returned to the NBA and played until 1996. Despite his HIV status, the now 60-year-old Johnson has been able to sustain himself with medication and the best doctors to this day.)
Also on this day:
- 1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaces Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
- 1874: The Republican Party is symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
- 1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution takes place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
- 1940: Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapses into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic.
- 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
- 1962: Richard M. Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, holds what he calls his “last press conference,” telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”
- 1967: Carl Stokes is elected the first black mayor of a major city — Cleveland.
- 1972: President Richard Nixon is re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
- 1980: Actor Steve McQueen dies in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.
- 2013: Shares of Twitter go on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the microblogging site is valued at $31 billion.
- 2017: Former MLB All-Star pitcher Roy Halladay dies when the small private plane he was flying crashes into the Gulf of Mexico.


Compute various quantitative genetics parameters from a Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) estimates. Especially, it yields the observed phenotypic mean, phenotypic variance and additive genetic variance.
| Version: | 0.7.2 |
| Imports: | cubature (≥ 1.4) |
| Published: | 2018-11-12 |
| Author: | Pierre de Villemereuil |
| Maintainer: | Pierre de Villemereuil <bonamy at horus.ens.fr> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/devillemereuil/qgglmm/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | QGglmm citation info |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | QGglmm results |
| Reference manual: | QGglmm.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
How to use QGglmm |
| Package source: | QGglmm_0.7.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: QGglmm_0.7.2.zip, r-release: QGglmm_0.7.2.zip, r-oldrel: QGglmm_0.7.2.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: QGglmm_0.7.2.tgz, r-oldrel: QGglmm_0.7.2.tgz |
| Old sources: | QGglmm archive |
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It’s a little late for new years resolutions, but I have some promises to myself for this year strongly connected to this blog and my life as a developer. One of my biggest goals for the year is to take the next step in being a more active contributor to the groovy and grails community. To put the pressure on myself I decided to share those goals here, so here they are:
Be active on the grails mailing list
Up until now I haven’t been that active on the mailing list, and I really don’t know why that is. I’m a frequent reader and it has been of great help many times. From now on I will try to answer at least one question everyother week and ask questions for all problems I can’t find a quick answer for.
Blog and tweet more
I’ve started a couple of blogs during the years but I have never really got up to speed with blogging any time. This is something I really would like to change. So, my promise is to write at least one blog post every month about something related to Groovy/Grails.
Speaking at conferences
In december last year gave my first presentation ever on a conference at the Groovy and Grails exchange. I think I did ok and learned a lot from the experience. I feel that I have a lot to share and I’m not short of ideas for presentations. My goal is to speak at at least 2 conferences 2012 about at least 2 topics. The gr8conf call for papers is open and I have at least two talk proposals in the making for it.
Advocating Groovy more active in Sweden
3 years ago me and Leonard Axelsson founded SweGUG and we’ve had a handful of meetings since with between 8 and 20 attendees. Leonard has done a great job doing most work with organizing thoose meetings. For 2012 I will try to take a more active part in that again. I also hope that we will find someone more who would like to take an active part in this. My personal goal for SweGUG is that we should have at least 5 meeting during the year with one meeting with at least 30 attendees.
With the help of my employer FindOut Technologies I will try to give a free seminar about grails.
Contributing
I’ve written a few grails plugins for internal use during the years, but besides doing the CSS for the navigation plugin I’ve never contributed anything that’s been made public. This year I will try to write one public plugin.
I will also try to contribute to the grails documentation whenever I find something wrong or missing.
Personal
While doing all the above I will also try to spend more time off the computer. 2011 has been a great year when it comes to work and I hope that 2012 will be an equally great year but with one big difference, not that much overtime but instead spending more time with my lovely family without a macbook pro in my lap.


By default, the dump command will use the rsh command and
protocol to backup to other servers. However, this field can be used to select
a different command such as ssh, which is more secure and more
commonly used.
On Linux and BSD systems, you can also select the FTP option, which will
use Webmin's built-in FTP client program to transfer the backup to or from
the remote server.


Triangle checker
Check if sides you input can make a triangle
First number
Second number
Third number
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So there I was, sitting at home on a Saturday night, bored out of my mind. It was around 8pm when my friend called me and told me she got shrooms and lots of weed, and that I should go to her place to hang out for the night. I got there at around 9pm, and noticed a few other friends there. Pretty much as soon as I walked through the door, I was handed some E. They had all already done some so I figured I may as well. I've done E a few times before so it wasn't really that big of a deal.
About half an hour later, she goes to her room and brings out the shrooms. I've never done shrooms before so I was pretty excited. One of my friends (who is also my dealer) told me I should only do 1 gram because it's my first time and I'm pretty small. I trust him, so I took his advice. It took about half an hour to start feeling it. My body felt incredible. I could feel everything in my body working. Every cell, every organ, everything. Not long after that, my blood felt really heavy and I could feel it flowing through my veins and it felt like it was pulling my body down towards the ground because it was so heavy.
It felt like I was starting to come down a bit from the shrooms when we decided to do a few lines of cocaine. I've only done cocaine once before, and I have to say, it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I was absolutely miserable when I was coming down, though. The cocaine hit me pretty fast and the shrooms were kicking in again. I was feeling the psychological euphoria of the cocaine, the physical euphoria of the shrooms, and the ecstasy of, well, ecstasy. It was so intense. I've never felt anything like it before. I was spewing out every thought that came into my mind. I can't believe how much I talked. I usually get really philosophical when I'm high, but this was way more than I usually get. We smoked a bowl of weed from my friend's bong, then ordered pizza. I couldn't eat a single bite.
I was looking at one of my friends because we were talking, and right behind him was this cord coming from the ceiling and going down the wall. It was right next to the door frame and when I looked directly at it, the cord and the door frame started swirling and morphing together. I realized what was happening and shook my head and looked at it again, only to see the cord and the door frame perfectly straight.
Not long after my little hallucination, we decided to do even more lines of cocaine. This just pushed me right to the edge. I felt like I was beyond everything. It's so hard to explain. Everyone was so beautiful and I was so happy. I think that night was the happiest I've ever been in my life. The only thing that makes me sad about that is the fact that it was artificial. It was the drugs that were making me feel that way.
There was a bit of shrooms left so we figured we may as well split them up and eat the rest. Right after that, we smoked a joint. By this time, it was around 12am. It felt like so much later. I can't believe how bad our sense of time was thrown off. We were switching back and forth to reggae and ambient music. At that point, it was the ambient music playing, and it couldn't have been more perfect. I was letting my hand flow to the music and I started seeing multiple hands. My hand also looked slurred. Kind of like smeared paint but in the air. I was doing that for about 20 minutes.
After that, we each did two bumps of cocaine and passed around the pipe. I was a little hesitant to do more cocaine because I didn't really want to push this feeling any more. I did it anyways. I decided to have a cigarette after we finished the pipe. It felt so weird when I put the cigarette out. Like something was missing. I just had to smoke. I was lighting one cigarette right after the other. I smoked an entire pack to myself that night.
My friend wanted to dim the lights but I couldn't even deal with it. I would freak out and I have no idea why. There was a light on in some other room behind me and when my friend got up and turned it off, I begged him to put it back on. There just had to be light. I couldn't deal with it being any darker.
I put out my cigarette and looked at my pack. At that point, cigarettes were the most repulsive thing on the planet to me. I realized how selfish smoking is. I went on this huge rant about how when people smoke, then only do it for themselves. They only have themselves in mind when they light up a cigarette. No good at all comes from smoking. It harms everyone and everything. At that point, I decided I'm going to quit smoking. I have no reason to smoke. I don't want to be selfish anymore.
The night was sort of dying down by around 2am.  For the longest time, I couldn't stop thinking about myself, and who I am to people and what I mean to them. I also felt really spiritually connected with everyone, even though we weren't really talking much anymore. A few people were pretty tired but I was still completely wired. At around 3am we all decided we should go to bed. The last time I looked at my watch before I think I fell asleep, was at 6:30am. I couldn't tell if I was sleeping or not. All I know is that I was dead tired the next day.
I learned a few things that night. Never again am I doing that many drugs in one night. I pumped my body with so many drugs this weekend. I'm going to lay back for about a month. I also quit smoking. There's one more thing I learned. My experience, along with everyone else's, is just another good story.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Sodium
Element Name:
Sodium
Latin Name:
Natrium
Atomic Number:
11
Atomic Weight:
22.9897 u
Is a:
Alkali-Metal
State of the element:
Solid
About:
Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin natrium) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table, because it has a single electron in its outer shell, which it readily donates, creating a positively charged ion—the Na+ cation. Its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur in nature, and must be prepared from compounds. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and rock salt (NaCl). Many salts of sodium are highly water-soluble: sodium ions have been leached by the action of water from the Earth's minerals over eons, and thus sodium and chlorine are the most common dissolved elements by weight in the oceans.
Electrons
11
Protons
11
Neutrons
12
Discoverer:
Humphry Davy
Discovered in:
1807


mod_perl Related Software
Applications running under mod_perl
These application give you an idea of the range of products
available for use with mod_perl, which are granted extra speed and/or
functionality by taking advantage of the Apache API.
Content Management Systems
- Krang is an Open
Source web-publisher / content-management system designed for
large-scale magazine-style websites. It is a 100% Perl application
using Apache/mod_perl and MySQL, as well as numerous CPAN modules.
Krang provides a powerful and easy to use story and media editing
environment for magazine editors, as well as a complete template
development environment for web designers. On the back-end, Perl
programmers can customize Krang to control the data entered in the
story editor and add code to drive the templates to build output.
Krang can be enhanced with add-ons containing new skins and other new
features. Krang easily handles large data sets and can manage
multiple websites in a single installation.
- Bricolage is a
full-featured, open-source, enterprise-class content management
system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a
full-fledged templating system with complete programming language
support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates in an
Apache/mod_perl environment, and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its
repository.
- Slashcode is the codebase
behind the highly popular Slashdot site. It provides content
management and discussion possiblities for its users, and can support
a high load of users, with self-moderation because of the high number
of comments.
- Everything is an
information management system, using a combination MySQL and Perl to
create a flexible system of entering, linking, and retrieving
information. Its codebase is for example used to run Perl Monks, a Perl community
site.
- Scoop is a
"collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a
content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a
weblog. Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a
community. It empowers your visitors to be the producers of the site,
contributing news and discussion, and making sure that the signal
remains high. Was written originally for Kuro5hin.org, which is still the
biggest Scoop site.
- The WYPUG website is powered
by a CMS called Shapeshifter that is written entirely in Perl and
designed to run under mod_perl (in Registry mode). It's a
template-based, database-driven CMS with some unique features. It's
not finished yet, hence the lack of documentation or an advocacy
website - but it's not far away. The system will be a commercial
product once finished, but it'll be released under an Open Source
license. Inquiries should go to Digital Word.
- Movable Type is a
web-based personal publishing system. It is designed to ease
maintenance of regularly-updated news or journal sites, like
weblogs. The Movable Type system runs on your own webserver, giving
you complete control over your site.
- Metadot provides secure,
web-based collaboration and content management software that allows
non-technical users to build and manage intranets, extranets, and
project spaces.
- WebGUI
(pronounced web-gooey) is one of the most popular open source content
management systems (CMS) available today. It is a platform built to
allow average business users to build and maintain complex web
sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was
designed to allow the people who create the content, to manage it
online, rather than content management taking up the time of the busy
IT Staff.
- Callisto CMS is an
XML/XSL Web-based Content Management System built on AxKit. It
supports WYSIWYG XML content editing, transactional site deployment to
multiple target webservers, multiple users, virtual hosting support
and other features.
- EplSite WorkFlow System and
Portal Web based on EmbPerl and MYSQL database.
- Mason-CM is a web
content management system for arbitrary file based web productions,
based on Mason. It's optimized to manage multiple sites of SMB's,
together with multiple graphic designer companies or professional
content contributors. Mason-CM has all the basic needs of web content
management as versioning, rollback, staging and productive area,
trashcan, locking and search. Files, ASCII and binaries, can be viewed
or downloaded. It supports remote filesystems and more.
- Spine is a web based Content
Management System, implemented in mod_perl and released under the GPL
(GNU Public License). It requires Apache version 1 or 2, a mod_perl
installation to match and a database (PostgreSQL or MySQL). It
features mixed static/dynamic content, separated template and content
administration, granular privileges, user-friendly URLs, file manager,
plugins, ...
Forum Software
See above too, many of the CMSes above feature very good
discussion capabilities.
- mwForum is an open-source,
Web-based discussion forum system. mwForum is based on Perl CGI
scripts, uses a MySQL database and is compatible with mod_perl for
optimal performance. mwForum's design goals are comfortable operation
and administration, stability, security and speed, a professional and
consistent look, and lean and clean code to make customization
easy.
- WebBoard
is the number-one selling message board software in the marketplace
with over one million sites using it as their primary means for
communication. The software has long served as a highly reputable
online education tool that can run both as a stand-alone product and
as an integrated element within other learning management
systems. Many installations of WebBoard are also used for customer
service and corporate intranet communication.
Webmail servers
- acmemail is a
multiuser IMAP/POP3 to Web gateway (or webmail program). It reads mail
from a mail server and displays it using HTML on a web server. It is
written in Perl, has full support for MIME (and mod_perl) and is quite
pretty.
@Mail is a fully
featured Web Mail server that allows you to set up Web Mail at your
domain or server existing POP3 accounts. Including full source code,
under a commercial license.
@Mail Includes auto-account creation via Sendmail/Exim/Qmail ,
scheduler, SQL mailbox support, spell check, group address-book, user
preferences, multiple accounts, migration scripts from other
mail-servers, attractive DHTML interface, Anti-Virus integration, User
Payment service and in-depth Web-based administration of
accounts.
- WING is an
Open Source Apache/mod_perl based system which allows users to access
email held on an IMAP server via any web browser.
Calendars
- Chronos is a Web
agenda/calendar for Intranets (but it can be used from anywhere). It
can send reminders by email. It can schedule multi-user events. It is
fast and light on resources. It is not proprietary, ugly nor
buggy.
- CyberCalendar
is a calendar of events program for the web and PDAs written entirely
in Perl.
- WebCalendar
is a powerful group calendaring and scheduling system. It is a web
based application that makes it easy to publish and manage calendar
events on the internet. WebCalendar includes an impressive set of
business class features. Its easy to use interface, rich
functionality, and sophisticated scheduling system makes it one of the
best calendar applications on the internet.
Other
Of course, not every application running under mod_perl is a
Content Management System or a Forum!
- Loggerithim is
monitoring package for Linux and Solaris (with early support for OS X
and Win32). It allows you to collect metrics from your hosts and
analyze them with graphs and whatnot. You can also set thresholds for
proactively spotting problems. Modules can be written to supplement
the stock data collection.
- DnsZone is a fully functional
application for Apache/mod_perl. It implements a web based interface
for managing zones with a nameserver running BIND.
- DAD is a comprehensive
website ad management system. It is a mod_perl application with
advanced targeting capabilities, a comprehensive administrative
interface, and automatic client reporting. Because it uses mod_perl,
DAD can take advantage of Apache API elements like subrequests and
notes, and it can rely on persistent database connections through
DBI. These features allow DAD to efficiently implement advanced
targeting rules that would be impossible under CGI.
- Ringlink is a Perl program
that provides the tools you need to run one or more rings of web
sites, i.e. systems of links between web sites of a similar topic,
content, or interest.
- Request Tracker (RT)
is an industrial-grade ticketing system. It lets a group of people
intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community
of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support
staffs, NOCs, developers and even marketing departments at over a
thousand sites around the world. It can run under mod_perl for
performance benefits, and is the software behind rt.cpan.org.
- OTRS is an open source Ticket
Request System and email management system with many features to
manage customer telephone calls and email. The system is built to
allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk,
etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. It is useful
for people who receive many emails and want to answer them with a team
of agents. It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, and Mac OS 10.x.
- Namp! is Not Another
Music Player. In combination with the Apache web server and mod_perl,
Namp! lets you create a virtual jukebox of your MP3, WAV and Ogg
Vorbis music files, browse them over the web, create playlists, and
stream them.
- Mod_Survey is
a web questionnaire system implemented as a mod_perl module for
Apache. It is used as a content-handler for ".survey" files, or in
other words for files containing surveys described in an XML-based tag
notation defined in the Survey v3.0.0 DTD. The system targets an
audience consisting of people who need powerful questionnaire and data
handling features.
The Mason project also has a
list of
applications running under mod_perl and HTML::Mason
.
Toolkits for use with mod_perl
See the Apache/Perl module list
and Application Servers and Toolkits based
on mod_perl for a list of modules and toolkits running allowing
you to tackle web development more easily under mod_perl.
Compatible products
Freeware:
... and many more. Most of the modules for Apache should be
able to be used more or less integrated with mod_perl.
Commercial:
- RedHat's Stronghold, which
embeds a number of Apache modules, including SSL support and Matt
Sergeant's AxKit, which is an XML
Application Server running under mod_perl.
Products allowing fast web programming and integration with web servers
Freeware, source code distribution:
Perl
Other software solutions exist to run Perl faster than with CGI
for web application development. You may want to try these if mod_perl
isn't what you need.
- SpeedyCGI is a way
to run CGI perl scripts persistently, which usually makes them run
much more quickly.
- FastCGI is a language
independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high
performance without the limitations of server specific APIs.
- PPerl
turns ordinary perl scripts into long running daemons, making
subsequent executions extremely fast. It forks several processes for
each script, allowing many proceses to call the script at once.
- Ben Sugars' nsapi_perl
(Perl plugin for Netscape - not actively developed anymore)
Other Languages
Many other languages feature Apache modules to facilitate web
development, many being inspired by mod_perl.
- The Tcl-Apache integration
project, providing similar functionality to mod_perl but with the
Tcl programming language.
- Mod_python is an Apache
module that embeds the Python
interpreter within the server.
- mod_ruby embeds the Ruby interpreter into the
Apache web server, allowing Ruby CGI scripts to be executed natively.
- PHP is a widely-used
general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web
development and can be embedded into HTML.
- Tomcat
is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
technologies.
Commercial, binary distribution:
- ActiveState's PerlEx (Perl
plugins for O'Reilly WebSite, Netscape and IIS)
If you know of other mod_perl related software products, please send a
description to the docs-dev mailing list.


Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida
by Kirk Munroe
Mark and Ruth’s parents sell their plantation and move to Florida. The children have many adventures in their new home state.
Source: Munroe, K. (1886). Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida. New York: Harper.
- "Preparing to Leave the Old Home"
- Mark and Ruth’s parents sell their plantation and move to Florida.
- "The Schooner ‘Nancy Bell’"
- The Elmers board a train for the first time and then board a schooner called the Nancy Bell. They offer Jan Jensen a job.
- "‘Captain Li’s’ Story"
- The Elmers talk to a superstitious captain. He talks about the death of a captain.
- "A Wreck on the Florida Reef"
- The Nancy Bell comes upon a wreck. The captain and the Elmers tow the wrecked ship to Key West.
- "Mark and Ruth Attend an Auction"
- Ruth writes a letter to her friend Edna. Ruth and Mark go to the auction. The court awarded the Nancy Bell five thousand dollars.
- "A Queer Christmas Day"
- The Elmers and the ship’s crew set up camp.
- "Arrival at the New Home"
- The Elmers prepare their new house and make it fit to live in
- "The Sunday School, and More Mysteries"
- Mark and Ruth find an organ. A wounded dog enters the kitchen. They meet the Bevils. Mr. Elmer is made superintendent of the Sunday School.
- "Mark Discovers the Ghost and Finds Him in a Trying Position"
- Mark kills an alligator that has attacked a young boy. Mark brings the boy back to their home. Later, Mark and the men go back for the alligator.
- "A Runaway’s Story, and its Happy Ending"
- Mr. Elmer comes home with Mr. March. Mr. March sees Frank again for the first time in awhile.
- "The Elmer Mill and Ferry Company"
- The town establishes a mill association and names its board.
- "The Great Mill Picnic"
- There was a picnic with much merriment and dancing.
- "Fighting a Forest Fire"
- A bonfire is started at the picnic and the next morning becomes a wildfire. It catches the house on fire. Mr. Elmer goes to Tallahassee to buy cattle.
- "How the Boys Caught an Alligator"
- Mark and Frank become best friends. They try to capture an alligator.
- "A Fire Hunt, and Mark’s Disappearance"
- Mr. March and Mr. Elmer go looking for the boys.
- "Buried in an Underground River"
- Mark falls into a sink hole. His father gets to him in time and brings him home to revive him.
- "Two Letters and a Journey"
- The Elmers send Mark away to his uncle’s house to recover. They send Ruth along to keep him company on his journey and to visit with her friend Edna May. Mark plans to travel to New York with Captain Bill in the Wildfire.
- "The Burning of the ‘Wildfire’"
- Mark and Ruth sailed on the Wildfire. The ship catches fire and all must escape on pilot boats. They watch the Wildfire’s destruction. The kids go to New York and see their uncle.
- "Uncle Christopher’s ‘Great Scheme’"
- Mark and Ruth spend time with Uncle Christopher. Mark attends mill school. In October, Mark, Ruth, Edna May, and Uncle Christopher take a voyage to Wakulla.
- "Edna May March"
- Mark and Ruth return home. Mr. March discovers that Edna May looks like his dead wife. They realize that Edna is Frank’s lost sister.