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Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.48 have many small changes including 39 bugfixes. A new issue of World Wine News is also available: #395 The few most interesting features introduced in this release:

Fleshed out OpenMP implementation.

I/O stream support in the MSVCIRT C++ runtime.

Support for pixel snapping in DirectWrite.

More support for OpenGL core contexts.

Various bug fixes.

To learn more about this release pleas visit this announcement. The source code for this release is available here: http://ift.tt/1U4qjAe http://ift.tt/1IqBizU To get the most recent changes, a git repository is a good starting point. Binary packages should be available for a download as soon as the build process is finished. Check out Page 2 for the list of fixed bugs! Page 2 Bugs fixed in this release:

Number Description 11059 Sid Meier’s Railroads Demo crashes on startup 16519 EssentialPIM: Bold text not rendering correctly 17506 Achtung die Kurve: Game doesn’t start 18191 Notepad corrupts files saved as utf-8 without a byte order mark (BOM) 19289 Gtk+/Pango based applications have ugly font rendering or crash on startup 19666 Multiple applications start wrong executable if whitespace present in name (‘ShellExecute’ doesn’t quote executable name)(FoxitReader 3.0, GTA2 Manager) 22399 Quake III Arena installer: Text area is scrolled at the bottom, and all text is selected 26439 Chernobyl terrorist attack demo crashes on start 27238 Tesla: The Weather Man demo: movement keys not working (GetKeyState should fallback to GetAsyncKeyState for threads without message queue) 31063 Crash bug after finishing conversion in FormatFactory 31643 Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function vcomp.dll._vcomp_fork (Gothic 3 demo, NeXTA) 31984 Multiple games need d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXComputeTangentFrameEx (Starlaxis, Chernobyl Terrorist Attack Demo, The Endless Forest 3) 32227 P2kCommander v6.0.0 crashes on startup (Wine’s ungif reports app .gif image as broken) 33153 DirectX11 games need d3d11.dll.D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain (ARMA III Alpha, Strike Suit Zero, Stalker CoP, Perspective) 33989 iexplore.exe crash when logging in to www.roblox.com 34356 Multiple applications fail to install or crash on startup due gdiplus enumeration/query failure for GIF encoder support (Magnus 2011 translation dictionaries, Collectorz.com Movie Collector v9.x) 34939 Dragon NaturallySpeaking does not run in 64-bit version 34947 Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 4.0 InstallShield based installer shows oversized 'installation completed’ setup wizard window 35493 IMVU shows loading bar, but will not start. 35534 Oblivion: very loud/distorted/horrible collision sounds 36336 NaturallySpeaking doesn’t work with alsa or pasuspender 36966 Turkey - Europe/Istanbul timezone is not detected 37129 Clang Static Analyzer: Buffer overflow 37281 Lord of The Rings Online: Crashes 37449 Lexware Quicken 2014 Deluxe reports error 0x0000054f on startup (Promon Shield DRM needs RtlDecompressBuffer with COMPRESSION_FORMAT_LZNT1 support) 38027 HyperStudio 5 (.NET 4.0 app) fails to start, reports 'tiff_get_decode_info unhandled grayscale sample count 2’ 38697 wineconsole: Cannot enable or disable Insert Mode through user dialog 38712 win-key press incorrectly recognized 38735 Windows Performance Analyzer from Windows SDK 8.1 Windows Performance Toolkit crashes due to 'IDWriteFontFace::GetGdiCompatibleGlyphMetrics’ stub 38806 Starcraft Campaign Editor does not scroll to bottom after copying a trigger 38848 valgrind shows several uninitialized values in dmime/tests/dmime.c:test_track() 38895 Multiple applications fail to load or crash due to incorrect security cookie randomization by loader (IrfanView WebP plugin, Word Viewer 2007) 38904 Ufo Aftermath launcher hangs on start (missing 'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers’ registry key) 38908 PlanetSide 2 v5.2.4.x launcher process exit causes wineserver crash 38913 valgrind shows some definite leaks in d3drm/tests/d3drm.c: 38914 valgrind shows uninitialized memory in dlls/dwrite/tests/layout.c 38925 ipstats.c:1992 runtime error: index 32 out of bounds for type 'char [32]’ 38937 Bully: Scholarship Edition crashes on starting a new game (needs vcomp.dll._vcomp_for_static_simple_init implementation) 38952 PDF-Xchange Viewer crashes when we launch OCR

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Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.

TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.

Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

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I like how everyone assumes that people who recieve public assistance are low life druggies. they do the test, they find only 37 out of 16,000 people tested positive for drugs.  then you fund out the guy who wanted to make them get tested does coke 

wow. just. wow.

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The Bamboula and Calinda Slave Dance

The African-American influences on jazz have been taken more seriously during the 1990s than any preceding it. Influences from elements such as work songs, field hollers, and traditional dances have been examined closely; elements such as melodic shape, the use of “blue” notes, and rhythmic structure have been traced to early and modern jazz. The “blue” notes in jazz—the flatted third, fifth and seventh scale degrees—are a direct attempt by the earliest jazz musicians to reconcile the western diatonic scale to a more traditional African pentatonic scale. Rhythmic qualities of African music, especially those related to dance, were preserved in New Orleans due to cultural tolerance. This tolerance helped to keep quasi-African rituals and traditions alive. Where South Carolina and Georgia had banned the use of drums by slaves, an after effect of the Stono Rebellion of 1739, New Orleans in 1817 established an official site [Congo Square] for the Sunday slave dances.1 The music that was performed at these dances, which continued up until the 1870s (with a brief hiatus during the Civil war), helped to preserve and develop an element that would become a key component to jazz.

1. Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 7.

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- via Jazz origins Dixieland Series - BrianThacker blog

- Also see:  Jeff Marshal — Melodic Shapes demonstration

- Also see: via NYTimes review — The History of Jazz — The Prehistory of Jazz The Africanization of American Music

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Alnwick Poison Gardens. The gardens were established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland who’s affinity for the apothecary gardens inspired the collection of nearly 100 deadly and hallucinogenic plants.

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Hidden Human Computers

Dozens of African American women worked for NASA as expert mathematicians from the 1940s to the 1960s and almost no one knows about it. Segregated within NASA facilities in Hampton, Va., well-educated Black women used slide rules and pencils to do the calculations for flights by astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepherd.

Image: Melba Roy, NASA Mathematician, at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 1964. Credit: NASA/Corbis

That this history is little known makes it ripe for research by collaborators Lucy Short ’15 (St. Louis) and American studies professor Duchess Harris, whose grandmother, Miriam Daniel Mann, was one of these extraordinary women.

Their collaboration began when Professor Harris invited Short, an American studies major, to join her in researching the human “computers,” as these women and their White women counterparts were known.

Professor Harris found this project compelling not solely because of her grandmother’s work, but because, “I am the descendant of enslaved Africans who became the first free Blacks in America. Because of them, I am here.”

They applied for and received a student-faculty research grant that supported travel to Hampton, home of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, now known as NASA’s Langley Research Center. There they met with local collaborator Margot Lee Shetterly (a Black descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and daughter of retired NASA engineer Robert B. Lee) as well as historians at the Hampton History Museum and at NASA. They also visited the archaeological site of the Great Contraband Camp, a community of freed Blacks.

In 1831, Virginia enacted anti-literacy legislation to prevent the education of slaves and freedmen. But in the 1860s, thanks to the efforts of educator Mary Smith Peake and sympathetic generals at nearby Fort Monroe, former slaves had their first opportunities to obtain an education, culminating in the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University), which became the alma mater of Booker T. Washington and scores of other Black educators and leaders. The Black women who became the computers at NASA were required to first take a course at Hampton.

“While we were touring NASA, Mary Gainer, the center’s historic preservation officer, pointed out a building used by the computers,” says Short.  Professor Harris asked, ‘Is that where my grandmother would have worked?’

“‘No,’ she said. ‘That’s where the White women worked. The Black women were in another building about a mile away, on the other side of the gate.’” These were women calculating the trajectories for America’s first manned space flights—segregated in a building with few amenities at a research center built on the site of the former Chesterville plantation.

The interconnections of the computers, the plantation, pioneering educational efforts, and a community of freedmen interested the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which provided a grant for Shetterly, Short, and Harris to expand their study. This grant was followed by a sustainability grant from Macalester, which allows further exploration of this unsustainable, segregated way of life.

Short is continuing the research as part of her senior honors project, which focuses on Black feminism. Another product of this work is a digital archive, Human Computers at NASA, developed in collaboration with the Macalester Library.

“The project has been a wonderful culmination of my American studies major,” says Short. “After being onsite at [the former] Chesterville Plantation, now part of NASA, the honors thesis chapter essentially wrote itself with the emergence of uncanny connections to slavery. I feel so lucky to have support from Macalester to pursue research on a microcosm of the invisibility of Black women’s bodies.”

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Dissidia Final Fantasy

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He appears quiet and docile, but this behavior is actually a “profound ruse.”

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The Aperture Science Lab is just full of assholes.

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Cavalry sword and scabbard

Dated: 1782 - 1787

Culture: British

Measurements: overall lenght 109.0 cm

Provenance: acquired from sword-cutler Bland

The sword has a burnished steel hilt-vase shaped pommel, acorn-shaped tang button and C-scroll guards. The white rayskin covered barrel-shaped wooden grip features silver gilt foil. The one-edged wooden blade has giltand blued panels, with trellis, scrolls, and trophies.

Source: Copyright © 2014 Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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was it too harsh