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Port Adelaide vs St. Kilda
Scoreboard | Match report | Match statistics
Round: 19 Venue: Adelaide Oval Date: Sat, 29-07-2017 4:05 pm Crowd: 30,335
Port Adelaide 2.3.15 3.5.23 5.7.37 9.9.63 C: Ken Hinkley
St. Kilda 1.3.9 2.8.20 3.12.30 8.13.61 C: Alan Richardson
PORT by 6 PORT by 3 PORT by 7 PORT by 2
15.4°C 21.8°C
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Brownlow Medal 3 Robbie Gray (PORT) 2 Jared Polec (PORT) 1 Jake Carlisle (STK)
In a thrilling contest at the Adelaide Oval, Port Adelaide has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to overcome St Kilda by two points with virtually the last kick of the day. Trailing by four points with only 19 seconds on the clock, a boundary throw-in on Port's half-forward line saw Patrick Ryder find a running Robbie Gray with a beautiful over-the-back tap-out. Without breaking stride ran in towards goal and from 49 metres, kicked truly to put the Power in front. There were seven seconds remaining when the ball was bounced in the centre, but the Saints were unable to get a clearance, and Port hung on for a memorable win.
Despite the fact that Port snatched the win, the Power had in fact led for a large part of the match, and it was only a run of four consecutive goals that saw the Saints grab the lead late in the final quarter. However, one of the main reasons St Kilda had indeed trailed for much of the game was due to poor kicking in front of goal, something the Saints only rectified in the final term. Ultimately, a case could be made for both sides as being deserving winners.
The game began with rain falling heavily, and as a result the first term - and indeed much of the match - was a low-scoring affair. After 10 minutes had elapsed, each side only had 0.1 on the board, St Kilda's behind kicked by Josh Bruce and Port's rushed. Jack Lonie broke through for the first goal of the match at the 12-minute mark, his major giving the Saints a six-point lead after he received a free kick for a high tackle. That looked like being the only goal of the quarter until the Power kicked two in a minute through Justin Westhoff and Karl Amon to grab a six-point quarter-time lead.
Goals were even rarer in the second term than they had been in the first. The only score in the first 12 minutes of the quarter was a behind to the Power's Jackson Trengove, with a snap from his teammate Jarman Impey the first goal of the quarter giving Port a lead of 13 points at the 13-minute mark. The Saints then wasted several chances in front of goal, kicking four behinds in a row. Port responded with a behind of their own, St Kilda then adding another minor score before Tim Membrey gave the visitors their only major of the quarter at the 28-minute mark, the Power ahead by three points at the long break.
An early third-quarter goal to Jared Polec gave Port a nine-point advantage and also hope of a higher-scoring term but that hope proved to be false, mainly because St Kilda's inaccuracy continued. Jade Gresham missed two shots and Seb Ross and Bruce one each while the Power added two behinds of their own, and at the 24-minute mark, the Power led 4.7 to 2.12. A crumbing goal to Trengove extended Port's lead to 13 points after 25 minutes but the Saints finally broke through for a goal to Blake Acres right on the three-quarter time siren and they were back in touch, trailing by only seven points at the final break.
Port looked to have the match in its keeping when Charlie Dixon took a string mark and goaled at the five-minute mark but a mark and goal to Membrey kept St Kilda in touch, seven points adrift after seven minutes. A turnover from the Saints saw Brad Ebert kick his first to increase the Power's lead to 14 points after 12 minutes but a goal to Gresham two minutes later after a great long run from teammate Shane Savage sparked a sudden turnaround. Over the next 14 minutes St Kilda added three more goals - as many as it had kicked in the first three terms - through Jack Sinclair, Luke Dunstan and Membrey to suddenly lead by 10 points.
The Saints held that lead and looked winners until Aaron Young snapped a goal to bring the margin back to four points with 56 seconds left on the clock. From there the Power attacked again, the final boundary-line throw in providing the climactic finish featuring Ryder's masterful tap-out and Gray's goal to give the home side victory in the most dramatic of circumstances - a win for the ages, and one that could be the difference between making and missing the top four.
The last-minute match-winning manoeuvre from Ryder and Gray capped off great games for both of them, Ryder having 45 hitouts to go with 15 disposals and Gray collecting 27 disposals and taking five marks. Jared Polec (30 possessions, six marks) also played a fine match for Port. The Saints were well served in the narrow defeat by Luke Dunstan (27 touches, eight tackles) and Membrey, who finished with three of his side's eight goals.
Port remains a top-four chance on the back of the narrow win, and a win over crosstown rivals Adelaide, in what promises to be another enthralling showdown on Sunday, could see the Power sneak back into the top four as early as next weekend. For St Kilda, the heartbreaking loss could prove extremely costly. The Saints are now a game plus nine percentage points out of the eight with four games remaining. The first of those will be a home encounter against the eighth team - West Coast - at Docklands on Sunday. A win for the Saints would see the two sides level on 10 wins, the percentage gap potentially greatly narrowed depending on the size of the victory.
Port Adelaide: Westhoff, Amon, Impey, Polec, Trengove, Dixon, Ebert, Young, R Gray
St. Kilda: Membrey 3; Lonie, Acres, Gresham, Sinclair, Dunstan
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Port Adelaide: R Gray, Wines, Hartlett, Ryder, Byrne-Jones, Jonas
St. Kilda: Dunstan, Carlisle, Ross, Roberton, Acres
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Port Adelaide: Ryder, Polec, R Gray, Byrne-Jones, Wines, Pittard
St Kilda: Membrey, Roberton,White. Ross, Dunstan, Webster
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UMPIRES: Stephens, Kamolins, Findlay
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Match Report by Andrew Gigacz
15 Amon, Karl 17 6 3 20 1 0 0 0 1 0 21y 344d 31 20
1 Boak, Travis 6 3 7 13 0 0 0 2 0 1 28y 362d 216 139
5 Broadbent, Matthew 8 2 4 12 0 0 0 1 1 2 26y 362d 161 52
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy 13 7 2 15 0 0 0 5 2 0 21y 312d 38 4
17 Clurey, Tom 8 5 3 11 0 0 0 2 0 2 23y 128d 36 0
22 Dixon, Charlie 9 7 5 14 1 1 0 3 1 3 26y 309d 101 159
7 Ebert, Brad 10 2 4 14 1 0 0 5 1 0 27y 118d 208 107
9 Gray, Robbie 15 5 12 27 1 1 0 3 1 2 29y 121d 173 252
46 Gray, Sam 12 3 2 14 0 0 0 2 2 0 25y 178d 52 31
8 Hartlett, Hamish 12 7 7 19 0 0 0 3 0 2 26y 349d 143 73
36 Hombsch, Jack 7 2 2 9 0 0 0 3 3 0 24y 144d 83 0
24 Impey, Jarman 8 5 1 9 1 1 0 4 2 1 22y 20d 72 33
42 Jonas, Tom 12 5 2 14 0 0 0 3 0 0 26y 201d 100 1
29 Pittard, Jasper 15 5 9 24 0 0 0 3 1 0 26y 119d 111 11
21 Polec, Jared 18 6 12 30 1 0 0 3 0 2 24y 290d 79 43
2 Powell-Pepper, Sam 7 1 3 10 0 0 0 9 0 4 19y 202d 18 15
4 Ryder, Paddy 11 4 4 15 0 0 45 0 0 1 29y 137d 205 143
12 Trengove, Jackson 9 2 5 14 1 1 6 2 0 4 26y 269d 152 30
39 Westhoff, Justin 6 1 5 11 1 1 0 4 1 2 30y 301d 221 265
19 White, Matthew 4 2 5 9 0 0 0 3 1 0 30y 105d 153 98
16 Wines, Ollie 15 1 8 23 0 1 0 6 2 2 22y 295d 102 48
11 Young, Aaron 8 2 4 12 1 0 0 6 0 0 24y 235d 75 62
Totals 230 83 109 339 9 9 51 72 19 28 25y 289d 2530 1586
8 Acres, Blake 7 2 15 22 1 0 0 2 0 1 21y 295d 40 17
15 Billings, Jack 9 2 10 19 0 2 0 6 3 0 21y 345d 60 44
22 Brown, Nathan 1 0 3 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 28y 224d 148 7
27 Bruce, Josh 7 6 4 11 0 3 1 1 2 2 25y 51d 84 124
2 Carlisle, Jake 10 8 6 16 0 0 0 2 0 0 25y 301d 103 59
7 Dunstan, Luke 18 4 9 27 1 0 0 8 0 2 22y 181d 65 33
14 Geary, Jarryn 7 1 5 12 0 0 0 0 1 0 29y 36d 159 25
4 Gresham, Jade 6 1 1 7 1 2 0 5 1 1 19y 339d 36 33
18 Longer, Billy 0 0 5 5 0 0 32 8 3 1 24y 78d 56 3
13 Lonie, Jack 6 1 2 8 1 1 0 4 5 1 20y 350d 38 28
36 McKenzie, Daniel 7 0 6 13 0 0 0 2 1 2 21y 73d 21 2
28 Membrey, Tim 7 4 3 10 3 0 0 0 2 0 23y 64d 46 82
16 Newnes, Jack 7 3 12 19 0 0 0 5 4 1 24y 155d 109 31
17 Roberton, Dylan 18 4 6 24 0 0 0 0 1 1 26y 38d 120 19
6 Ross, Sebastian 16 3 15 31 0 1 0 6 0 1 24y 83d 77 12
5 Savage, Shane 16 3 5 21 0 0 0 0 1 0 26y 205d 119 55
35 Sinclair, Jack 13 5 8 21 1 1 0 6 1 0 22y 167d 40 26
9 Steele, Jack 9 2 13 22 0 1 0 7 0 3 21y 228d 33 12
3 Steven, Jack 9 3 13 22 0 0 0 5 0 0 27y 123d 150 94
29 Webster, Jimmy 10 4 12 22 0 0 0 3 1 0 24y 31d 64 2
44 Weller, Maverick 5 2 5 10 0 0 0 2 1 1 25y 166d 104 51
31 White, Brandon 10 4 3 13 0 0 0 0 1 0 20y 197d 2 1
Totals 198 62 161 359 8 13 33 75 28 19 23y 353d 1674 760
Paddy Ryder had 45 hitouts for Port Adelaide vs. St. Kilda (AFL, Premiership Season, R19)
Tom Jonas played his 100th V/AFL game: Port Adelaide vs. St. Kilda (AFL, Premiership Season, R19)
Jack Steven played his 150th V/AFL game: St. Kilda vs. Port Adelaide (AFL, Premiership Season, R19)


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Concept: Period
How jet lag impairs Major League Baseball performance
Published almost 4 years ago
Laboratory studies have demonstrated that circadian clocks align physiology and behavior to 24-h environmental cycles. Examination of athletic performance has been used to discern the functions of these clocks in humans outside of controlled settings. Here, we examined the effects of jet lag, that is, travel that shifts the alignment of 24-h environmental cycles relative to the endogenous circadian clock, on specific performance metrics in Major League Baseball. Accounting for potential differences in home and away performance, travel direction, and team confounding variables, we observed that jet-lag effects were largely evident after eastward travel with very limited effects after westward travel, consistent with the >24-h period length of the human circadian clock. Surprisingly, we found that jet lag impaired major parameters of home-team offensive performance, for example, slugging percentage, but did not similarly affect away-team offensive performance. On the other hand, jet lag impacted both home and away defensive performance. Remarkably, the vast majority of these effects for both home and away teams could be explained by a single measure, home runs allowed. Rather than uniform effects, these results reveal surprisingly specific effects of circadian misalignment on athletic performance under natural conditions.
Concepts: Circadian rhythm, Period, Baseball, Jet lag, Major League Baseball, National League, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds
Meal Timing Regulates the Human Circadian System
Circadian rhythms, metabolism, and nutrition are intimately linked [1, 2], although effects of meal timing on the human circadian system are poorly understood. We investigated the effect of a 5-hr delay in meals on markers of the human master clock and multiple peripheral circadian rhythms. Ten healthy young men undertook a 13-day laboratory protocol. Three meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) were given at 5-hr intervals, beginning either 0.5 (early) or 5.5 (late) hr after wake. Participants were acclimated to early meals and then switched to late meals for 6 days. After each meal schedule, participants' circadian rhythms were measured in a 37-hr constant routine that removes sleep and environmental rhythms while replacing meals with hourly isocaloric snacks. Meal timing did not alter actigraphic sleep parameters before circadian rhythm measurement. In constant routines, meal timing did not affect rhythms of subjective hunger and sleepiness, master clock markers (plasma melatonin and cortisol), plasma triglycerides, or clock gene expression in whole blood. Following late meals, however, plasma glucose rhythms were delayed by 5.69 ± 1.29 hr (p < 0.001), and average glucose concentration decreased by 0.27 ± 0.05 mM (p < 0.001). In adipose tissue, PER2 mRNA rhythms were delayed by 0.97 ± 0.29 hr (p < 0.01), indicating that human molecular clocks may be regulated by feeding time and could underpin plasma glucose changes. Timed meals therefore play a role in synchronizing peripheral circadian rhythms in humans and may have particular relevance for patients with circadian rhythm disorders, shift workers, and transmeridian travelers.
Concepts: Sleep, Circadian rhythm, Period, ARNTL, Circadian rhythm sleep disorder, Melatonin, Dinner
Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths
Published about 3 years ago
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a "cooling off" period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, exploiting all changes to state-level policies in the Unites States since 1970. We find that waiting periods reduce gun homicides by roughly 17%. We provide further support for the causal impact of waiting periods on homicides by exploiting a natural experiment resulting from a federal law in 1994 that imposed a temporary waiting period on a subset of states.
Concepts: Mathematics, United States, Experiment, Period, Law of the United States, Firearm, Gun, Handgun
Brain-specific rescue of Clock reveals system-driven transcriptional rhythms in peripheral tissue.
The circadian regulatory network is organized in a hierarchical fashion, with a central oscillator in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) orchestrating circadian oscillations in peripheral tissues. The nature of the relationship between central and peripheral oscillators, however, is poorly understood. We used the tetOFF expression system to specifically restore Clock function in the brains of Clock(Δ19) mice, which have compromised circadian clocks. Rescued mice showed normal locomotor rhythms in constant darkness, with activity period lengths approximating wildtype controls. We used microarray analysis to assess whether brain-specific rescue of circadian rhythmicity was sufficient to restore circadian transcriptional output in the liver. Compared to Clock mutants, Clock-rescue mice showed significantly larger numbers of cycling transcripts with appropriate phase and period lengths, including many components of the core circadian oscillator. This indicates that the SCN oscillator overcomes local circadian defects and signals directly to the molecular clock. Interestingly, the vast majority of core clock genes in liver were responsive to Clock expression in the SCN, suggesting that core clock genes in peripheral tissues are intrinsically sensitive to SCN cues. Nevertheless, most circadian output in the liver was absent or severely low-amplitude in Clock-rescue animals, demonstrating that the majority of peripheral transcriptional rhythms depend on a fully functional local circadian oscillator. We identified several new system-driven rhythmic genes in the liver, including Alas1 and Mfsd2. Finally, we show that 12-hour transcriptional rhythms (i.e., circadian "harmonics") are disrupted by Clock loss-of-function. Brain-specific rescue of Clock converted 12-hour rhythms into 24-hour rhythms, suggesting that signaling via the central circadian oscillator is required to generate one of the two daily peaks of expression. Based on these data, we conclude that 12-hour rhythms are driven by interactions between central and peripheral circadian oscillators.
Concepts: DNA, Gene, Gene expression, Oscillation, Circadian rhythm, Period, Periodic function, CLOCK
Tropospheric Warming Over The Past Two Decades
Satellite temperature measurements do not support the recent claim of a "leveling off of warming" over the past two decades. Tropospheric warming trends over recent 20-year periods are always significantly larger (at the 10% level or better) than model estimates of 20-year trends arising from natural internal variability. Over the full 38-year period of the satellite record, the separation between observed warming and internal variability estimates is even clearer. In two out of three recent satellite datasets, the tropospheric warming from 1979 to 2016 is unprecedented relative to internally generated temperature trends on the 38-year timescale.
Concepts: Menstrual cycle, Period, Nature, Satellite temperature measurements
A mechanism for robust circadian timekeeping via stoichiometric balance.
Molecular systems biology
Circadian (∼24 h) timekeeping is essential for the lives of many organisms. To understand the biochemical mechanisms of this timekeeping, we have developed a detailed mathematical model of the mammalian circadian clock. Our model can accurately predict diverse experimental data including the phenotypes of mutations or knockdown of clock genes as well as the time courses and relative expression of clock transcripts and proteins. Using this model, we show how a universal motif of circadian timekeeping, where repressors tightly bind activators rather than directly binding to DNA, can generate oscillations when activators and repressors are in stoichiometric balance. Furthermore, we find that an additional slow negative feedback loop preserves this stoichiometric balance and maintains timekeeping with a fixed period. The role of this mechanism in generating robust rhythms is validated by analysis of a simple and general model and a previous model of the Drosophila circadian clock. We propose a double-negative feedback loop design for biological clocks whose period needs to be tightly regulated even with large changes in gene dosage.
Concepts: DNA, Gene, Biology, Control theory, Feedback, Negative feedback, Period, CLOCK
Triggerable tough hydrogels for gastric resident dosage forms
Systems capable of residing for prolonged periods of time in the gastric cavity have transformed our ability to diagnose and treat patients. Gastric resident systems for drug delivery, ideally need to be: ingestible, be able to change shape or swell to ensure prolonged gastric residence, have the mechanical integrity to withstand the forces associated with gastrointestinal motility, be triggerable to address any side effects, and be drug loadable and release drug over a prolonged period of time. Materials that have been primarily utilized for these applications have been largely restricted to thermoplastics and thermosets. Here we describe a novel set of materials, triggerable tough hydrogels, meeting all these requirement, supported by evaluation in a large animal model and ultimately demonstrate the potential of triggerable tough hydrogels to serve as prolonged gastric resident drug depots. Triggerable tough hydrogels may be applied in myriad of applications, including bariatric interventions, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.The use of drug delivery systems for the gastrointestinal tract has been faced with a number of drawbacks related to their prolonged use. Here, the authors develop a drug-loaded hydrogel with high strength to withstand long-term gastrointestinal motility and can be triggered to dissolve on demand.
Concepts: Time, Pharmacology, Digestive system, Animal, Human gastrointestinal tract, Abdomen, Period, Digestion
Remembering the Leaders of China
In two studies, we examined Chinese students' memory for the names of the leaders of China. In Study 1, subjects were cued with the names of periods from China's history. Subjects listed as many leaders as possible from each period and put them in the correct ordinal position when they could (see Roediger and DeSoto, 2014). Results showed that within each period, a primacy effect and sometimes a recency effect emerged. Moreover, the average recall probability for leaders within a specific period was a function of the ordinal position of the period. In Study 2, we asked another group of subjects to identify the sources through which they were able to recall each leader. We found that most subjects remembered leaders due to class and coursework. We also found a relation between a leader's recall probability and the amount of information available on that leader on the Internet. Our findings further imply that the serial position function captures the form of collective memory.
Concepts: Sociology, Learning, Leadership, Period, Internet, Serial position effect
Bmal1 function in skeletal muscle regulates sleep
Sleep loss can severely impair the ability to perform, yet the ability to recover from sleep loss is not well understood. Sleep regulatory processes are assumed to lie exclusively within the brain mainly due to the strong behavioral manifestations of sleep. Whole-body knockout of the circadian clock gene Bmal1 in mice affects several aspects of sleep, however, the cells/tissues responsible are unknown. We found that restoring Bmal1 expression in the brains of Bmal1-knockout mice did not rescue Bmal1-dependent sleep phenotypes. Surprisingly, most sleep-amount, but not sleep-timing, phenotypes could be reproduced or rescued by knocking out or restoring BMAL1 exclusively in skeletal muscle, respectively. We also found that overexpression of skeletal-muscle Bmal1 reduced the recovery response to sleep loss. Together, these findings demonstrate that Bmal1 expression in skeletal muscle is both necessary and sufficient to regulate total sleep amount and reveal that critical components of normal sleep regulation occur in muscle.
Concepts: Gene, Sleep, Regulation, Circadian rhythm, Period, ARNTL, Necessary and sufficient condition, Chronotype
Are two spaces better than one? The effect of spacing following periods and commas during reading
Attention, perception & psychophysics
The most recent edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Manual states that two spaces should follow the punctuation at the end of a sentence. This is in contrast to the one-space requirement from previous editions. However, to date, there has been no empirical support for either convention. In the current study, participants performed (1) a typing task to assess spacing usage and (2) an eye-tracking experiment to assess the effect that punctuation spacing has on reading performance. Although comprehension was not affected by punctuation spacing, the eye movement record suggested that initial processing of the text was facilitated when periods were followed by two spaces, supporting the change made to the APA Manual. Individuals' typing usage also influenced these effects such that those who use two spaces following a period showed the greatest overall facilitation from reading with two spaces.
Concepts: Effect, Affect, Eye, Typography, Period, American Psychological Association, Edition, Punctuation

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Jimmy Dennis: Free at last!
By JOHN LESLIE
On May 13, Jimmy Dennis was released after more than 25 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
The crime and the frame-up
On Oct. 22, 1991, Chedell Williams and her friend, Zahra Howard, went to the Fern Rock Transportation Center in Philadelphia to buy a transpass. Outside of the station, they were accosted by two men who demanded Williams' gold earrings. As the two young women tried to flee, one of the men shot Williams, killing her, and took her earrings. The men fled in a car driven by a third person.
Police soon focused their investigation on a young aspiring gospel and R&B singer, James "Jimmy" Dennis. After hearing that he was a suspect, Jimmy went to the police station, and was turned away. On Nov. 23, Jimmy was arrested. No witnesses could identify Jimmy from photo arrays, but he was charged, tried, and convicted, and sent to Pennsylvania's death row.
Jimmy's' conviction was won by the prosecution on the basis of five witnesses. There was no physical evidence tying him to the crime. No gun was ever recovered and Jimmy was never found to be in possession of a firearm. There were no forensic tests for gunshot residue on Jimmy's clothing. No fingerprint evidence was found linking him to the crime, and the earrings were never recovered. The car used in the crime was never found; in spite of the fact that several witnesses gave descriptions of the vehicle and at least one provided a partial license plate number. Jimmy Dennis never owned a car and had no driver's license.
The appeal and Judge Brody
In 2013, Federal Appeals Court Judge Anita Brody heard Jimmy's case. In her decision, the judge gave the District Attorney's office 180 days to either set Jimmy free or retry him. The resulting appeal delayed justice for Jimmy for years.
Brody ruled that "James Dennis was wrongly convicted and sentenced to die…there can be no question that the Commonwealth violated his right to due process…" The judge upheld Jimmy's petition "on the basis of exculpatory and impeachment evidence that the Commonwealth improperly withheld from the defense at the time of the trial, in violation of Brady v Maryland."
Brody wrote: "Dennis' conviction was based solely on shaky eyewitness identifications, the testimony of a man (Thompson) who said he saw Dennis with a gun the night of the murder, and a description of clothing seized from the house of Dennis' father that the police subsequently lost before police photographed or catalogued it. In short, Dennis' prosecution was based on scant evidence at best. In the process, the Commonwealth covered up evidence that pointed away from Dennis."
This withheld evidence was a failure to reveal the existence of a witness who identified others as the real killers (Frazier), the failure to reveal to the defense a receipt in the possession of cops that would have confirmed Jimmy's alibi (Cason), and the failure of police to follow up on the allegation that a witness, Zahra Howard, had said she knew the shooter from high school. Prosecutors also concealed credible evidence of the identities of the real killers.
"Police and prosecutors also failed to turn over a series of documents relating to the statement of William Frazier with detailed, credible information about the murder—even though police turned over numerous tips and statements relaying neighborhood rumors. Frazier, an inmate in the Montgomery County Jail, gave a statement … relaying a phone call he had had with two friends who told him that they and a third friend had committed the Williams murder. … Police failed to investigate fully Frazier's claims and the defense never learned of Frazier's statement until a decade after trial."
Further, "shortly after the murder, that she recognized the shooter from her high school, and that two people she knew, 'Kim' and 'Quinton,' were there." A "police activity sheet" relating to these statements "was never turned over to the defense. There is no question that this statement was helpful to the defense and that it was suppressed by the Commonwealth" (all quotes in the above are from the Judge's decision, unless otherwise noted).
It is unconscionable that District Attorney Seth Williams chose to appeal rather than admit that the DA's office had perpetrated a miscarriage of justice. Williams, once touted as a "progressive," delayed justice for Jimmy for years. Now, Williams himself faces numerous charges of corruption and malfeasance.
Jimmy is not the only one. The criminal justice system is rife with corruption and prosecutorial misconduct. The Philadelphia DA's office is famous for the exclusion of people of color from juries and sending a disproportionate number of people to Pennsylvania's death row. The city of Philadelphia has sent 11 times more people to death row than Pittsburgh and has sentenced more people to die than 28 out of 38 states with the death penalty.*
Police and prosecutors are key to the maintenance of the regime of mass incarceration that targets and imprisons Black and Brown people at a disproportional rate. More than six million people, more than were enslaved in the pre-Civil War South, are either in prison or under the supervision of the criminal "justice" system. One in 10 Black men in their 30s are in prison or jail every day.
It's time to abolish the current prison system. All non-violent offenders should be released immediately, their records expunged, and alternatives to incarceration put in place—alternatives that emphasize treatment, education, and rehabilitation. Crime under capitalism is primarily the result of a system that distributes wealth to the richest and leaves the poor and oppressed to scramble to survive. Under capitalism, the state serves to keep the oppressed and exploited in check by any necessary. This includes police violence and the threat of prison and jail.
*"Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal," by Daniel R Williams, p 202.
This article is reprinted with permission from resistancemarxistjournal.com.
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Abu-Jamal's defense petition included newly discovered evidence that had been buried in the prosecutor's own files showing key witnesses receiving promises of money for their testimony and evidence of favorable treatment in pending criminal cases, as well as prosecutors striking Black jurors during Mumia's original trial.
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Venicemyfuture: 6 sestieri, 6 meetings in 6 months.
On Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, Venicemyfuture conducted the first of 6 meetings to be held in each of Venice's 6 sestieri in 6 months. The first meeting was held in Castello, and involved speakers from nine different citizens' organizations as well as representatives of the local government.
The first meeting was very well attended. The next meeting date and time will be announced in the near future.
2015 Venice Annual Tourism Report: visitors up 6.5%. New Public debate on Tourism announced.


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The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport will host their annual Women Coaches Symposium on Friday, April 19, 2019.
Since its inception, the Tucker Center has provided centralization, organization, scientific excellence, and national leadership on issues of great national and local significance. Through its direction and leadership, it encourages researchers, policy makers, educators, parents and practitioners to work together to better the lives of girls and women in ways that go far beyond the playing fields. The 2019 Women Coaches Symposium marks the sixth annual event for the Tucker Center; learn more about past Sympoisa here.
Read more on the complete 2019 WCS Program & Schedule found at this link. In addition, note that a limited number of Women Coaches Symposium Scholarships were created for the 2019 event. To access the application CLICK THIS LINK to be directed to the Scholarship Application.
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The 2018-19 athletic year in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference has been - and continues to be - a leader in the NJCAA women's sport athletic environment.
The MCAC was proud to report on this story the fact that all of the MCAC Volleyball programs were led by women in the 2018 season. Read more here.
Darlene Palmer, a pioneering coach and athletic administrator at Brainerd Community College (now Central Lakes College) was honored at the 2019 Minnesota Girls & Women in Sport Day celebration. Palmer earned the Special Merit Award for her role in the advancement of women's athletics at BCC. Her trailblazing work lives on today in the form of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference.
Talyn McClaflin, a softball student-athlete at Itasca Community College was highlighted this spring as the top returning statistical sophomore in NJCAA Division III softball.
Earlier this winter, former Gopher women's basketball standout Shannon Nelson earned her 200th win as head coach at Northland Community & Technical College in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. One of her student-athletes, Carly Mekash earned All-America honors in Volleyball for coach Courtney Norby and was All-State in basketball for the Pioneers. Women's basketball All-America teams shall be announced later this month.
The Minnesota College Athletic Conference and USA Clay Target collaborated to produce the first varsity, two-year college Clay Target season and Championships. The MCAC Clay Target League featured over 35 female athletes participating in 2019. Also in the fall, Anoka-Ramsey Community College soccer player earned All-America honors after a highlight-reel season. See below for more on women in sport in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference.
Read on for more on women in coaching and student-athlete success stories across the MCAC in 2018-19.
all 136 student-athletes (male and female) at the MCAC Clay Target Fall Championships and was the top female finisher in the event.


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Inspired by design found in Mayan symbology, 1970's Tarot Card illustrations, Egyptian talismans. Two shapes merge to form this solid brass pendant on a 24" chain.
Each piece was cast in brass from an original handmade wax model, then polished by hand to a mirror finish.


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Basically someone gave me the task to print out 42 different flyers (1000x copies/document). The flyers were made by them in A5 format . What I try to accomplish here is to merge two of these documents into one document and print two A5 docs on a single A4 sheet in duplex and later cut them in two . Is there any easier aproach to this ?
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1957 BMW Isetta
BMW Isetta
The BMW Isetta
This 1957 BMW Isetta was previously owned by Duane Saunders, a Kansas State graduate, U.S. Army colonel, clinical physical therapist, author, inventor, and car enthusiast. Duane is the author of The Truth Is Good Enough, a book about his eclectic life and experiences. His 1957 BMW Isetta is a beautifully restored classic and is featured in K-State purple and silver. This isn't an original color, but it was painted in recognition of his alma mater. The car was in terrible condition when found, but meticulous restoration has brought it back to near-perfect condition.
The BMW Isetta is an Italian-designed vehicle that's considered a "micro car." Isetta was originally produced by Iso of Italy, an independent entity that was licensed to automobile manufacturers in a number of different companies and countries worldwide. It was eventually picked up by BMW as a small European car, but with some tweaks and revisions. In 1955 it was unveiled as a BMW with a new 247-cc one-cylinder motorcycle engine. The power plant produced a total of 13 horsepower. For 1956, the Isetta was revised in response to regulations in Germany, which pushed them to add a 300-cc engine (it remained a one-cylinder).
The car was legally drivable with only a motorcycle license, which was part of the appeal of micro cars in Europe in the 50s and 60s. Because it only has a single front door, the sunroof was added, not only for driving but as an emergency exit in the event of a front-end collision. The steering wheel is actually attached to the front door as well (for easier access to the driver's seat), so it hinges and comes out as the door opens.
This is not a 3-wheel car (with a few exceptions). It actually has four wheels, but the two in the rear are significantly closer than those the front. The engine is located on the passenger side, in a small compartment toward the rear.
The total weight of the Isetta is almost 770 pounds, and it's 89 inches in length, making it exceptionally maneuverable (because extremely small). The gear shifter is on the left-side wall, and the turn signal is on the right side of the steering column. Amazingly, the Isetta also has a heater (which uses a single, floor-mounted vent).
The BMW 600
The BMW 600 is similar to the Isetta but enlarged to fit the whole family. The expanded wheelbase and body allow for a four-seat configuration and a rear door. However, this makes the car larger and heavier, so a new power plant is needed to compensate. The name "600" was chosen because of the 582-cc twin engine (derived from the R67 Motorcycle), which had a top speed of 62 miles per hour.
A direct competitor to the successful Volkswagen Beetle, the 600 lasted only two model years (production ran from 1957 to 1959). It was BMW's first postwar four-seat economy car. Though unsuccessful, it led to the creation of the BMW 700, which eventually launched BMW into the car market.
Duane Saunders said this about his BMW 600 cork car: "About a year after I finished corking the Isetta and halfway through corking my map of Europe, my 1958 restored BMW 600 was calling out to be corked. I decided to dust off the Dremel tool and get to work on corking the 600. I must have improved my corking technique, because I completed my second corked classic in only seven months! The 600 used about 3,000 corks, and I enjoyed the creative challenge. I have displayed my corked 600, along with the corked Isetta, at several car shows, art shows, and wine festivals over the last few years."
We are fortunate to have the opportunity to display two of Duane's cars here at the Midwest Dream Car Collection. He said:
"I am often asked if I would ever sell one of my restored BMWs, or any of my classic cars for that matter. I certainly have a different feeling about the cars I've restored versus the ones I've purchased already completed. When I would walk through the warehouse to decide which car to choose next, I could almost feel the cars trying to send me a message to pick them next to be restored. Imagine they have been abandoned in a barn or left out in a pasture for 40 to 50 years in a terrible condition. I feel an attachment to the cars I rescued, and I know how happy each one of them must be now that I have restored all of them to their former glory.
The favorites in my collection are the corked cars, for obvious reasons. The terrible state they were in when we started, and the time, care, and attention spent on them, makes them the front runners. Not only the exterior's unique beauty, but the interior quality and mechanics as well turned out better than I imagined. The blue and green BMW 600's are the latest ones we've restored, and I think we did our best work on them, as we had more experience. All of the restored cars in my collection I'm proud of and are very well done."
*Much of this information has been provided by the previous owner and restorer, Duane Saunders. A link to his website is listed below.
http://www.woiweb.com/index.php/Isetta
http://www.saundersclassics.com/


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The year was 1865, and Denver's leaders had lost the battle to have the transcontinental railroad routed over the mountains and through their city. The Union Pacific Railroad understandably took the easier course through Cheyenne, Wyoming. Denver's economy, already adversely affected by the Civil War and the stagnation of gold mining, plunged into what could have been a death spiral. Population declined, business dwindled. The dire economic times forced the Colorado Seminary, forerunner of the University of Denver – which had opened with high hopes in 1864 – to close its doors.
The first incarnation of the Denver Union Station opened in 1881 – described as an Italianate structure with two stories and an 180-foot tower. The center section burned in 1894, and the entire structure was razed in 1914 to make room for the new neoclassical station which opened in 1917.
1 Jaffe, Mark, "Denver's renovated Union Station has been a 30-year barn-raising," Denver Post, Business Section, pg 1 Sunday, July 13, 2014.
4 Sternberg, Barbara E. with Jennifer Boone and Evelyn Waldron. Anne Evans – A Pioneer in Colorado's Cultural History: THE THINGS THAT LAST WHEN GOLD IS GONE. Evergreen: Buffalo Park Press with Center for Colorado and the West Auraria Library. 2011. pg 77.
I did not know that John Evans made any positive contributions to Denver and our state after his role in the Sand Creek Massacre. Now I do, thanks to your blog.
Dear Linda: Thank you for your comment. I suspect you are not the only Denverite who thinks that John Evans' contributions to this City and to Colorado ceased after he lost the Governorship. But that is far from the truth. For example – in addition to his business ventures, which included participation in the expansion of railroads throughout the state and investments in real estate – he almost singelehandedly saved Denver University from extinction. After its earlier incarnation as the Colorado Seminary had to shut down for economic reasons in 1867, he acquired and conserved its assets for years, and tendered them back to the Methodist Conference so the University could reopen in 1880.


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One of the strengths of Unix-like systems such as Linux is the ability to easily customize them and automate tasks using scripts. However, shell scripts usually need to run in a terminal window and thus don't integrate well with the modern desktop environments most people use. Kommander tries to remove this burden by allowing users to easily create graphical applications using any scripting language of their choice.
Kommander consists of two main parts: the Executor and the Editor. The Editor provides a development environment that makes creating graphical user interfaces easy. Visual programming is the paradigm and Kommander makes it possible to create applications using the mouse more than the keyboard. You can drag widgets such as push buttons, labels, and checkboxes from tool palettes and place them in the edited dialog box. You can establish connections between objects with the mouse using a mechanism known as signals and slots, so in many cases there is very little need to write actual code. Kommander provides only a few simple language constructs by itself and resorts to using other scripting languages to perform much of the real work. This means among other things that you can equip existing shell scripts with graphical user interfaces easily using Kommander.
Kommander is a relatively new tool and under intense development, so features are added and bugs get fixed often. If you want to try it, download the latest version, since it may be well ahead of the version shipped even with the latest KDE release. If you want to use the version that came with your KDE distribution, you will have to install the kdewebdev package, since that's where Kommander can be found. This article was written for Kommander 1.1development1 and newer. Thus, it will not work with the version that comes with KDE 3.3.2 (some parts might work if you skip others). If you have problems with running the newest Kommander development version (there were many reports of people being unable to get 1.1develoment2 to work), try an older one. Version 1.1development1 is guaranteed to work with this tutorial. All releases, old and new, can be downloaded from this page.
At this time documentation for the project is somewhat sparse, although that is to change soon. There are examples located in the kommander/examples/ subdirectory of the source tree, and kommander/working/ subdirectory contains notes on adding internationalization support to your Kommander apps. A number of useful utilities for Kommander as well as programs written using Kommander can be found on kde-apps.org. There is also a mailing list for Kommander users, where you can ask questions and report bugs.
In this tutorial, we'll create a simple application for changing your KDE wallpaper. We'll build the application step by step, to introduce basic concepts of Kommander first and gradually move to more advanced ones. We will also show how Kommander uses DCOP to communicate and integrate with other KDE applications.
Let's begin creating our application now. Start Kommander Editor, located in the Development section of your K menu (or run kmdr-editor from the command line if you can't find the program in your K menu). From the File menu, choose New..., select the Dialog icon, and click OK. A new empty window (referred to as a form in Kommander) will be created in the workspace. Note that in some older versions of Kommander, if you choose anything other than Dialog, you will be unable to edit some of the window's properties.
In the toolbar, there are icons with widgets you can add to your dialog. Click on the Exec Button icon, then click anywhere in the form to add a button. After you select the button by clicking on it, you can resize it and move it around in the window. You can also resize the dialog box.
In your workspace there is a window called the Property editor that allows you to change properties of your widgets. Click on any empty place in the form to select the main window of your app, and in the property editor find the property named "caption". Edit it so it reads "Set wallpaper"; this text will appear as the dialog box's caption. In a similar manner, you can select the button you added to the form and change its "text" property to "&View". The ampersand means that the next letter is to be underlined and used as a keyboard shortcut, so that pressing Alt+V in the dialog box will produce the same result as clicking the button. You can also simply double-click the button to edit its title. Now add another widget, namely a Close Button, and set that button's text to "&Cancel".
One very important property that each widget has is the "name" property, which is the name used to reference a widget in the program. Give all widgets descriptive names, so they can be easily distinguished, except perhaps for labels whose text is never changed, since there's no need to reference such static objects in program code. Set the two buttons' names to viewButton and cancelButton, respectively.
Now it's time to make the buttons perform some actions when clicked. Both the Exec Button and Close Button objects execute a script when clicked; a Close Button also closes the dialog box afterwards. Thus, we don't need to do anything more to make the Cancel button behave as expected. To edit code for the View button, right-click it and select "Edit Kommander Text" from the context menu.
You now should see a dialog box for editing code. Use the combo box in the upper left corner for selecting the widget whose code you want to edit. In the upper right corner is a combo box labeled "Text for:", which lists so-called slots for the selected widget. We'll explain how slots and signals work later on; for now it should suffice that code associated with the default slot is the script executed when the button is clicked. The bottom part of the dialog box displays controls for inserting function calls. We'll make use of them later in the course of this tutorial.
You use the central part of the dialog box to edit code. As we mentioned before, Kommander can use any scripting language for adding actions to its widgets, but the default scripting language is sh or bash on Linux systems. Thus, the code you enter in the code window can be anything you would normally put in a shell script.
Close the code editor and run the Kommander script by selecting "Run dialog" from the Run menu or by using the Ctrl-R keyboard shortcut. You will be asked to save the script if you haven't done so yet. Your dialog should now appear and you can check that clicking the Cancel button actually closes the dialog box, while clicking View executes kuickshow. The View button will be disabled until kuickshow exits; this behavior can be changed by modifying the button's blockGUI property.
You can download the complete script to this point here.
Now it's time to add a few new widgets and to create some interactions between them. Have a look at the screenshot of the completed application to roughly position your controls, but do not spend too much time tweaking their positions; once all widgets are there, we will use layouts to automatically position widgets in the optimal way.
Now add a File Selector widget and a text label to describe it. The file selector consists of a text field and a button that displays an "Open File" dialog box when clicked. We will use it for choosing the desktop's background image. Give the File Selector the name fileSelector. Change its selectionCaption property to something like "Choose background image" (this text will be displayed in the file dialog's title bar) and selectionFilter to "*.jpg *.png|Images (*.jpg *.png)" (this is the pattern for file names which are to be shown by default in the file dialog, separated from its textual description with a pipe character). As for the label, set its text to "Image file:" and resize it as necessary to display the whole text.
You can now run the dialog and check that once you open a file using the file selector, clicking on the View button opens that very file in kuickshow. What exactly happens here? The at-sign (@) is used to mark Kommander's special functions. When a script is executed, Kommander first parses it and executes all functions starting with @. Many functions return a value, which is then substituted for the original @function text. The resulting processed text is then executed as a regular shell script.
The fact that executing the script actually happens in two steps is not important now, but at some point you'll see that it becomes significant, with conditional statements and in some other more complicated situations.
is executed. The quotes are there so that sh can avoid confusion if the filename contains spaces.
Kommander offers many functions to choose from for each widget, but you don't have to remember them all. The lower part of Kommander Text editor's window offers a lot of help here. When you click the Function... button, you open a new dialog box where you can browse the available functions. These are divided into several groups, which you can select using the Group combo box.
DCOP is the group that contains functions used for communication between your program's different widgets. After choosing a widget using the Widget combo box, you will see all the functions that you can call for that widget. Select a function and a brief description will appear to the right. If there are any required parameters, you can enter them into appropriate fields and press the button with an arrow pointing down in order for the corresponding function call to be inserted into the edit box at the bottom. On closing the dialog box with OK, Kommander will insert this code into your program. Other groups are: Array, used for array functions (we'll see an example of using them later); File, for file operations (these are more often performed with shell commands, though); String, for dealing with character strings; and Kommander, for generic Kommander language constructs such as loops and functions that don't fit into any other category.
Later in this tutorial we'll have complete code fragments for you to copy into the example program. In practice, when developing your own applications, you would probably want to use the function browser instead to find the necessary functions easily.
The complete script at this stage can be downloaded here.
Now we will employ the mechanism known as "Signals and Slots" to add even more interaction between elements of the GUI. First, add the elements that are going to be involved. These are: a text label called "information" with the text "Information: " and a pixmap label called "preview". We are going to make these two elements display a short textual information block about the current image and a graphical preview of it. Again, position these elements only roughly in the window. Set the pixmap label's scaledContents property to "true" in order for it to scale the image it will display to the widget's size. In order to be able to see where the widget is, even if there is no image displayed inside, you can change frameShape to groupBoxPanel (or any other value you find visually appealing).
Signals and slots are an effective mechanism for widgets to talk to each other. A widget emits a signal when it wants other elements of the GUI to know that some event took place. By default, most signals are ignored, but we can tell widgets to listen for a particular signal and perform an action when it is emitted. This action is called a slot and the process described above is known as connecting a signal to a slot.
Some signals don't carry any information about the event that caused them to be emitted other than that an event of this particular type took place. Others contain additional data, which can be passed to the slot as parameters (a slot is really a special kind of function). Since the signal's parameters don't have names, a signal with some set of parameters can only be connected to a slot which either takes exactly the same number of parameters of the same types in the same order, or to one which has less parameters, but whose parameters are of the same type in the same order as the beginning parameters of the signal.
For example, a button emits the clicked() signal when it is clicked. As you see, the parameter list in parentheses is empty, so this signal can only be connected to a slot without any parameters. We could, for example, connect it to the pixmap's clear() slot. This would cause our button to clear the contents of the pixmap when clicked.
In contrast, a checkbox emits the toggled(bool) signal when its check state changes. This signal has one parameter of type bool, which can take one of two values: true or false. Since it has one parameter, we can connect it to a slot with 0 parameters and also to a slot with one parameter of the same type. A useful example would be connecting it to some widget's setEnabled(bool) slot. This way that widget would only be enabled if the checkbox were on and disabled if it were off. To get the opposite behavior, we could use the setDisabled(bool) slot.
As we'll see, Kommander eases the task of making signal-slot connections so you don't have to know what signals and slots each particular widget offers. Widgets usually have many slots associated with them and Kommander offers you a list of what's available and compatible with the signal you choose. Some of these are built-in and always execute predefined actions, while others can be user-defined and execute user code that is entered using the Kommander Text editor. Note that you can have many signals connected to the same slot and also one signal connected to many slots. This allows many actions to be taken when a single event triggers them (however, note that the order in which these multiple actions are executed is random). The beauty of signals and slots is that usually we can achieve quite a lot by using only the predefined slots -- thus adding functionality to our dialog box without writing a single line of code.
To create connections between signals and slots, we use the Connector tool. First we will make the preview pixmap label display a preview of the image whose name is entered in the file selector. After clicking on the Connector icon, press the mouse button with the cursor over the file selector widget and drag the mouse over to the pixmap label. You should see frames around the two widgets and a line connecting them. Let the mouse button go and a dialog box appears. On the left is a list of signals the file selector widget emits, and on the right, a list of slots of the pixmap label that can be connected to the signal selected in the left pane. Notice how the list on the right changes to show only slots with compatible parameter lists when you select different signals on the left.
To achieve the desired result, select the widgetTextChanged(const QString &) signal and then click on the setWidgetText(const QString &) slot. A new connection will appear in the connection list at the bottom. Click OK to close the window. If you ever need to remove a connection or otherwise modify it, you can find an option to open the editor in each widget's context menu.
Now, connect the file selector's widgetTextChanged(const QString &) signal to one more slot, namely the information text label's populate() slot. This is a slot that all widgets have and whose meaning you can define. As the name implies, it is usually used to populate a widget -- that is, to fill it with data.
As you probably guessed, this sets the label's text to the word Information followed by the result of calling file on the file currently entered in the fileSelector when populate() is called. You can now close the code editor and test the program. It should display a preview of the image and some information about it. That's quite impressive, given that we have written exactly two lines of code so far.
Now we'll make use of Kommander's array features to extend the GUI a little. Let's add a combo box to allow users to view the selected image not only with kuickshow but also with several other applications.
Add a combo box called viewingApplication and a text label to accompany it. Since this combo box is going to contain a static list of programs, we can simply edit it by right-clicking on it and selecting Edit... from the context menu, or by double-clicking on it. Add three program names: Kuickshow, KView, and The GIMP.
Kommander's arrays are so-called associative arrays -- they map text strings onto other strings. In our example, we will use an array to map item indexes in the combo box into program names as they need to be entered at the console (for example in order to run "The GIMP" we have to type "gimp" at the console). We use numbers as keys because it's convenient here, but keys could be arbitrary strings as well and need not be numeric.
As you see, we replaced the constant "kuickshow" text with a call to Kommander's @viewingApplication.currentItem function, which returns the viewingApplication combo box's selected item number (counting from 0). @Array.value reads the mapping of that number (which is really treated as a string) from our programs array. Our application now uses the program selected in a combo box for viewing images.
Our example application is growing in functionality fast, so now we'll add almost all the remaining widgets to the window. First, add a CloseButton called okButton and labeled "&OK", setting its "default" property to true. This will cause the button to become the default one, which is activated when Enter is pressed in the dialog box. Next, add an ExecButton called applyButton and set its text to "&Apply". Then, add a checkbox called "showIcons" with the text "Show icons on desktop", followed by a combo box called "position" and a text label with the text "Wallpaper position:" to accompany it. Double-click the position combo box to edit its contents and enter the following items: None, Centered, Tiled, Centered tiled, Centered maxpect, Tiled maxpect, Scaled, Centered auto fit. Preserve the order, as we will treat this combo box in a way similar to the viewingApplication combo box -- each item's position corresponds to a magic number that KDE uses to identify a particular wallpaper position.
We are now going to implement the functionality of changing desktop wallpapers. The key to this is the Desktop Communications Protocol (DCOP), which KDE applications use to communicate with each other. By issuing DCOP calls you can for example control your music player, enter text into an open KWrite window, or tell the KDE screensaver to lock your session. You can also get and set information related to the desktop background. General information about using DCOP and related tools can be found elsewhere, but there are two useful things to know. Firstly, you can check what DCOP calls are available for running applications using the program kdcop, which displays each application's interfaces in a nice tree. This program is a part of KDE itself and is not directly related to Kommander, though it is quite useful for people writing Kommander applications. As an exercise, after we enter our code into Kommander, you can try to navigate through kdcop in order to find the calls we used. Secondly, there is a command line tool, dcop, which makes it possible to issue DCOP calls from the command line. In some situations, you must use this instead of Kommander's built-in DCOP functions.
Clearly, the @dcop function is used to make DCOP calls. In the first call, we ask the application kdesktop to execute its currentWallpaper function available through its KBackgroundIface interface. This function takes one integer parameter (the virtual desktop number), which we pass as the last parameter to @dcop. The result of this DCOP call is used to set the file selector's text. In a similar way, we ask kdesktop whether desktop icons are currently enabled. By the way, your application can also issue DCOP calls to itself. Just use the special @dcopid identifier as the first parameter to @dcop.
As you see, we have to work around a small inconsistency, namely that setChecked function expects either true or false while the DCOP call returns 1 or 0. In Kommander versions newer than 1.1development2, we can use both the 1/0 and the true/false notation, so the much more obvious call @showIcons.setChecked(@dcop(kdesktop,KDesktopIface,"isIconsEnabled()")) can be used instead. On the other hand, thanks to this inconsistency in older versions, we get a chance to see an example of Kommander's switch/case instruction. Another possible workaround, which requires less code, is to use an array to map 1 to true and 0 to false.
Kommander offers an interesting way of getting the state of checkboxes and radio buttons. We will now use the value provided by the showIcons checkbox in a DCOP call. The @dcop function expects parameters of type bool to be either "true" or "false". When you open the Kommander Text editor for our showIcons checkbox, you will see that it has three special slots: checked, unchecked, and semichecked. The last one is for three-state checkboxes, which we will not discuss at the moment. The other two are quite interesting, however. When you enter a @showIcons function call somewhere, the text entered for one of these slots is returned, depending on the checkbox's state. So, just enter "true" for the checked slot and "false" for the unchecked slot, since that's convenient in our situation. In other situations, other values may be more appropriate. Imagine, for instance, that you have a button that executes ls in order to list a directory's contents (you would have to run the program from the command line to see the result). You can create a checkbox called longFormat and assign the text "-l" to its checked slot and the text "@null" to its unchecked slot. The latter one is a Kommander special function which simply returns an empty string. Now if your button's default slot has the script "ls @longFormat", "ls -l" will be executed if the checkbox is on and "ls" if it is off.
Now let's consider the OK and Apply buttons. They are both supposed to perform the same action, and the only difference is that OK closes our program afterwards (which is done automatically anyway, since it's a CloseButton). It would be nice to not have to enter the same code twice in two different places (and have to correct it in both places, too, when an error is found). Script objects serve this very purpose for us. They are objects that don't appear in running window and only serve as containers for scripts. We will now use one to make both Apply and OK perform the same action when clicked.
This will cause the script contained in applySettings to be executed when these buttons are clicked. We could also use the longer form @applySettings.execute for the same effect.
Notice how it now pays off that we conveniently made showIcons return directly "true" or "false" instead of some other values which we would have to convert to the desired format now.
Since we want the dialog box to be usable even without a mouse, we should set the correct tab order for the widgets. First, we will need to make the file selector selectable through tabbing since by default it isn't. In order to do that, change its focusPolicy property to StrongFocus, which allows the widget to be given input focus both using the mouse and using the Tab key. Next, select the tab order tool and click on widgets until the displayed numbers reflect a sensible order. Users will now be able to navigate the dialog easily using the Tab key. After you're done, choose the Selection tool again to return to previous mode.
Our application has now got all the functionality we want it to have. The only thing that's not quite as good as it should be is the widgets' positions and sizes, which are rather random at the moment. Using layouts, we'll get this fixed in no time.
Layouts provide a way of automatically placing and resizing a window's widgets in a reasonable way. Generally, a layout is like a box in which a number of widgets reside. Layouts can contain not only widgets but also other layouts, which makes arranging large sets of widgets possible. There are three types of layouts in Kommander: horizontal (where items are placed side by side), vertical (items placed one over another in a column), and grid, where widgets are placed in the cells of an imaginary table.
We will now add some layouts to our dialog box. You can have a look at another tutorial for a better description of all the different layout types (it is based on Qt Designer, which was used as a basis for Kommander Editor, and as such it is very similar).
The way widgets will behave once packed into layouts depends on some of their properties. The sizePolicy property has two important subproperties: hSizeType and vSizeType, which control how the widget's horizontal and vertical sizes change inside the layout. Some of the most often used values are: Fixed (the size cannot change), Preferred (the widget stays at its optimal size if it can, but it can also shrink or stretch to fill empty space if necessary) and Expanding (the widget can shrink but it prefers to stretch and is very willing to do so). Other values are explained here. Widgets also have minimumSize and maximumSize properties, using which you can restrict them from growing too large or shrinking too small. An extra tool used with layouts is spacers, which are widgets that aren't visible in the running application, but which are used to push other widgets into appropriate positions (in the editor, they are represented by objects resembling springs). There are two types of spacers: horizontal and vertical. Spacers have a sizeType property using which you can control how they affect other widgets. "Expanding" is the most often used type, and we will not discuss other modes in this article.
The best way to learn about layouts is through hands-on experience, so let's lay out our sample dialog. First, we will line up the four push buttons. We want them to always stay aligned with the dialog box's right edge, so add a horizontal spacer just left of all the buttons. Now, select the spacer and the four buttons and from the context menu select "Lay Out Horizontally" (or click the horizontal layout icon in the toolbar). The objects are now surrounded by a red frame indicating that a layout is controlling their sizes and positions. You will notice that you can't resize or move widgets that are inside a layout, even though you can change their other properties. To be able to manually change the widgets' sizes and positions, you have to right-click the layout and select "Break Layout" from the context menu. You can move the whole layout around and resize it. You will notice that when the layout is resized, widgets inside are moved and resized too, according to their sizeType properties. You will also notice that the spacer actually works, pushing buttons to the right side of the layout regardless of how we scale and move it.
In the next step, create a grid layout using the wallpaper position and viewing application combo boxes and their labels, using the technique outlined above. By default, combo boxes' horizontal size type is set to Minimum, which means that the widget can't shrink below a certain size (this will be the size it was at the moment it was added to a layout). When you horizontally stretch the newly created layout, you will notice how the labels and the combo boxes expand equally. This is because both Preferred and Minimum allow the widget to grow and are, so to say, equally strong. In contrast, Expanding indicates that a widget is more willing to grow than one using Preferred size type and that it will try to take up as much space as possible. When you now change both combo boxes' horizontal size type to Expanding, you will notice that now resizing the layout causes labels to stay the same size all the time, while combo boxes take up all the remaining horizontal space.
To exercise using spacers a bit more, we will align the checkbox to the right window margin, too. Put a horizontal spacer between the layout created in the previous step and the checkbox. Select that layout, the spacer, and the checkbox, and from the context menu choose "Align Horizontally". This again proves that we can put one layout inside another. You can resize the outer layout to check how the different widgets inside it behave now. In order to make the file selector and its label play nicely together, put them both in a horizontal layout, too.
Now comes the tricky part -- positioning the image preview and the script object. In theory, a script object is completely invisible in the window. However, in some older Kommander versions, while it is transparent, it can influence layouts and appear as empty space in the window. Thus, to make sure the window will look good in all versions, we will create a layout which prevents the script object from messing up the rest of the widgets.
First, we will change the image preview's minimumSize and maximumSize properties to 40x30 and 400x300, respectively. This is to prevent the window from becoming excessively large when a large wallpaper is opened. Now, surround the image preview with four spacers laid out in a cross pattern: one vertical spacer above and one below the image, and one horizontal spacer to the left and one to the right of it. Now, make sure that the script object is located to the right of and above the image. Select the image, the four spacers, and the script object and lay them out in a grid. Since we placed the script object in the upper right corner of our 3x3 grid whose center is occupied by the image preview, it can't distort the layout of other widgets very much (in worst case it adds a little margin around the image). To reduce its destructive effect, set both its size types to Ignored, which will basically let it expand and shrink to any size.
Our dialog is almost finished now. The complete script at this stage can be downloaded here.
The last step to perform is to create a layout which will take care of positioning the layouts we have already created. First, resize the layout containing the image preview to be large enough to contain the 400x300 maximum size we assigned to the preview (when you resize an object you can see its current size in a tooltip). Resize the form as needed, too. Once all objects in the window are roughly positioned, right-click on an empty place in the form and select "Lay Out Vertically". This way you create a layout that encompasses all the top-level objects the window contains. You can now resize the window and see all the widgets nicely move and resize to fill the window's contents. In a similar way, you could lay out objects located inside a group box by choosing the appropriate layout option from that group box's context menu.
The application is now complete. You can use all the widgets' functionality and resize the window to put the layouts at work.
The complete script for the finished application can be downloaded here.
Kommander programs are not compiled into binary form, but a special program, Kommander Executor, reads the source files and executes them in a way similar to how shell scripts are run. This makes distributing software simple, since most projects need only this single source file to be distributed. This eliminates problems with binary incompatibility or package management systems. If you plan to create and distribute Kommander apps, you may also want to have a look at Kommander Project Tools, which simplify this task.
For often-used Kommander programs, it is convenient to put the above statement inside a shell script.
In the course of this tutorial, we have created a working Kommander application without writing much code. Kommander makes rapid development of small GUI applications easy and often frees the user from having to use more heavyweight languages like C++. Superb integration with existing command-line tools and shell scripts puts the power to create graphical applications for KDE in the hands of people with little or no programming experience. Finally, thanks to DCOP bindings, integration with KDE is a breeze. We are certainly going to hear more about Kommander soon.


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Apple was the Christmas 2017 smartphone winner
Chris Davies - Dec 27, 2017, 1:14pm CST
Apple was the Christmas 2017 smartphone and tablet winner, new activations research suggests, comfortably out-pacing Samsung while Google remains in the weeds. Smartphone-makers are generally fairly coy about disclosing sales figures, particularly for individual devices or specific retail periods. However, that doesn't mean the stats can't be fathomed out by roundabout ways.
In the case of Flurry Analytics, for example, that means a module integrated into around a million apps. That gives the research company "insight into 2.1 billion devices worldwide" it claims, and allows it to figure out how many phones and tablets were activated in the week leading up to Christmas Day 2017, December 25.
According to those numbers, the overwhelming majority of devices activated were running iOS. Indeed, 44-percent of all the new activations were iPhones or iPads, Flurry says, roughly on a par with the proportion observed in 2016. What's particularly interesting is which iOS devices specifically were popular between 12/19 and 12/25.
The iPhone X, Apple's new flagship, saw 14.7-percent of Apple's total activations, for example. That made it significantly more popular than the iPhone 8 (with 8.1-percent) and iPhone 8 Plus (with 8.7-percent), but lagging behind last year's iPhone 7. That may be more than a year old at this point, but according to the research it was, at over 15-percent of Apple's activations, the most popular of Apple's devices.
The iPhone 6, from 2014, was the second most popular. Although not currently sold as new in the US, the iPhone 6 remains on sale in some international markets as a more affordable point of entry into iOS ownership.
Over on the Android side, Samsung took second place in overall Christmas 2017 activations. Nonetheless, it was noticeably behind Apple, with 26-percent of the overall count. Huawei takes a distant third place, with 5-percent, while Xiaomi, Motorola, LG, and Oppo each come in at 3-percent apiece.
Conspicuous by its absence in the rankings is Google. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL may have been the subject of no small degree of controversy at their launch, given questions around OLED screen performance, but the general consensus about the two "pure" Android phones – particularly their cameras – has been positive. That, though, apparently hasn't translated to sales success.
Finally, there's some unsurprising news on screen size popularity. Larger devices – which Flurry categorizes as between 5- and 6.9-inches – are now the overwhelming majority of activations, as small tablet and medium phone (3.5- to 4.9-inches) interest dwindles. That, the company suggests, explains tablet stagnation, as users discover that their larger smartphones are probably sufficient for doing the tasks that once were consider the remit of tablets, or certainly smaller tablets.
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