text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Journalism Anyone ? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Journalism Anyone ? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15288 Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:44 pm Post subject: Journalism Anyone ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20705535 Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject: "Rupert Murdoch said: "James has been a distinguished editor for the Times, attracting talented staff to the paper and leading it through difficult times. "I have great respect for him as a colleague and friend, and truly hope we can work together again." What a crock- full of BS. I'd like to see them both working together again in the nearest penitentiary. Regards, Fed-up John Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15288 Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: chain gang now ! Time for us to emulate those states in the US that utilise the Chain Gang ! Back to top QaaolchouraJoined: 10 Oct 2008Posts: 539Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: chain gang now ! scot47 wrote: Time for us to emulate those states in the US that utilise the Chain Gang ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH22W4W3zIo Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Boston Public Library launched its pilot SeedShare program this past summer, debuting at the the Mattapan, Grove Hall, and East Boston branches. Over the course of the summer, Boston Natural Areas Network held workshops on gardening basics and most recently, saving and storing seeds for future use. In total, 300 seed packets were borrowed and more than 100 people attended the gardening workshops. The most popular seeds at Grove Hall were were cucumber, basil, and greens of all kinds. Seed packets were also available via the Bibliocycle that made its debut this summer as well.
The Mattapan Branch has four garden beds in the back of the building and over the course of many months, library users cleared, prepped, planted, maintained, and harvested vegetables to take home. "Families and teens come back and tell me all about their mini gardens; some are dying, some are thriving, but it is all about doing something new and learning," said Caren Rosales, Teen Librarian at the Mattapan Branch.
The program is a partnership between the City of Boston Office of Food Initiatives, Greenovate Boston, Boston Natural Areas Network, and Boston Public Library. The library encourages all who borrowed seeds to return a few for next season; and of course, happy harvesting.
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"TWO NIGHTS IN TEXAS - Remembering the Music" is Now Available in our Online Store!
Del Castillo's "Two Nights In Texas" has just been released to our online store and is NOW AVAILABLE for purchase through our website! We are working on getting it into stores and other online retailers as well!
We are also currently working on booking a few select DVD Release Parties in a few Texas cities to celebrate this release!
"Del Castillo exploded out of the Austin, Texas music scene in late 2001, to win over 18 Austin Music Awards (including Band of the Year & Best Live Band) & redefine the Latin genre. They went on to take the world by storm, sharing stages with such diverse artists and fans such as Willie Nelson, Gipsy Kings, Styx, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos, Buddy Guy, & many, many others. Their music has been featured in soundtracks to movies by Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino as well as various network TV shows. Filled with commentary from many of the peers they have worked with over the course of their career, this concert film captures their final two performances & truly shows the positive effect Del Castillo had on the music world."


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Running a managed service provider business these days requires a leader to be quick, flexible, and ready to scale programs up and down to meet market demands -- qualities not unlike the technologies and services MSPs are now offering customers.
These solution providers are trying to succeed in a market undergoing breathtaking changes, as cloud computing compels them to transform their business from installing legacy systems to providing hosted services.
As a result, new partnerships need to be made, new technologies mastered and new services developed, all while keeping the day-to-day business running.
In addition, solution providers are being snapped up as a consolidation craze is sweeping the industry. Large MSPs are seeing a clear field to expand their customer base and geographic reach through acquisitions of smaller companies. Smaller solution providers are easy prey, but at least the payout can be good.
In this market, Paul Hilbert, co-founder and owner of Network Doctor, has his hands full.
Hilbert, along with partners David Birk and Rafi Moskowitz, started the Englewood, N.J., company 10 years ago in Hilbert's basement. The partners started offering in-home installations and repair services, much like Geek Squad, which they initially imitated.
The company has evolved to provide hourly services, time-block services and, most recently, recurring revenue services. Since 2009, Network Doctor has offered cloud services over VPNs hosted in its own data center.
The company has expanded its services to become a full-service MSP, supporting technology partners such as Microsoft, Google, Citrix, VMware, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco. Network Doctor now employs 35 people and in 2012 saw revenue reach $5 million.
Hilbert is now betting that the cloud will change everything, and he plans to ride that to success.
But as the cloud is disrupting business models, Hilbert is disrupting his own business. He's constantly scaling up his company's services to offer new applications as well as hosting services, in addition to his traditional duties.
The result is steady growth but incredible demands to juggle his clients' needs with rapidly changing technologies. On any given day, Hilbert is performing a score of duties to keep his company ahead of the curve.
CRN followed Hilbert for three months to see how he was managing his business challenges. Hilbert showed he is at once a technologist brimming with new ideas, but also a businessman constantly tending to his growing flock of customers.
What follows is an up-close account of Hilbert's activities.
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LAHAINA - A contingent of Lahaina weightlifters exploded to breakthrough performances at Sonny's WADBL Powerlifting state competition on July 7 at the Honolulu Convention Center.
Elizabeth Cabe, Darnell Cristie, Colleen Loo and Siu Whitehead represented the West Maui Powerlifters team at the event that attracted some 200 competitors from all around the state to Honolulu.
Craig DeSoto is the coach of the team that trains at Valley Isle Fitness Center in Kaanapali.
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DeSoto, Elizabeth Cabe and Colleen Loo, as well as Darnell Cristie (not pictured), traveled to compete at Sonny's WADBL Powerlifting state competition.
Cabe competed at 97 pounds, Loo at 105, Whitehead at 114 and Cristie at 148, and all of the Lahaina team had breakthrough performances at the competition.
Whitehead led the way with a state record deadlift of 265 pounds for the mark in the Women's Open and Women's Masters categories for the 114-pound weight class.
Next up for the Lahaina team will be the World Powerlifting Championships at Reno, Nevada, on Nov. 5-12.
All or part of the team will attempt to set world marks in their respective weight and age classes at this top-rated event.
"Our thanks goes out to Coach Craig for all he does for us as a team and as individual competitors. He is always there for us and goes out of his way to train us. He works the practice schedule into our schedules, and even came in once on his own birthday to train us. He is a world champion himself and is really a great coach," said Whitehead.


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This hurts alot this is reason i wanted to draft franklin. Cause even if one of them got hurt our depth was limited.
Mcknight,Powell,Griffin After Ivory.
I dont see how you cannot cut Goodson between the Pr Hit and the fact that he is facing jail time cause of the gun .
So who's roster can we poach from? Bradshaw is still out there..


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As the franchise quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning has more to worry about than Colts defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis chasing little brother Eli Manning with malicious intent.
"It evens out," Peyton said Wednesday, "because Tuck and Osi, those guys certainly get their chance as well."
Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiori are defensive ends who will chase Peyton for the New York Giants, who meet the Colts on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
With Peyton, 34, and Eli, 29, playing quarterback, it's Manning Bowl II. The Colts prevailed when the same teams and quarterbacks met in 2006.
Eli likes the timing of this meeting better.
"Four years ago, it was the opening game of the year and once the schedule came out in April, we had almost five months of talking about it and getting questions about it, answering the same questions over and over," Eli said.
"I think it was just hard on Peyton and I because it became a bigger deal the fact that we were playing and not the game."
Under the current scheduling format, the Mannings won't meet again until 2014 unless it's in a Super Bowl. The interconference rotation matches the AFC South Colts and the NFC East Giants every four years.
"I hope to make it to that 2014 game," Peyton said. "I'll probably be out of eligibility by the time 2018 comes around."
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Cornerback Justin Tryon signed with the Colts on Sept. 4. Eight days later, he played nickel back in the opener at Houston. He also made three of their four special teams tackles, including a touchdown-saver on Jacoby Jones' 39-yard punt return.
Tryon even distinguished himself when things didn't go right.
As a punt team gunner, he got downfield and was in position to down a punt at the Houston 1. When he glanced down to gather his feet to the goal line, he lost sight the ball. It bounced into the end zone for a touchback.
On another punt, Tryon downed the ball at the Texans 1. Oops. An "illegal touch" penalty was called. Tryon had been bumped out of bounds, so he couldn't be the first player to touch the ball. Houston took possession at the 20.
"I didn't see any (other Colts) by the ball and I thought the referee might have missed it," Tryon said. "So I was taking a chance."
It was a fairly impressive debut on short reps for Tryon, a third-year player the Colts acquired in a trade with Washington for an undisclosed draft choice.
Collie keeps busy
Manning threw 12 passes intended for second-year wide receiver Austin Collie in the 34-24 loss at Houston. Give Manning high marks for accuracy. Give Collie high marks for efficiency. He caught 11 of them for 163 yards and a touchdown.
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Give him high marks for accountability, too. Collie fumbled when he was hit hard by Texans safety Bernard Pollard after a 32-yard gain to the Houston 9.
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I found someone willing to sell me her 2 season tickets for $810, but I really only have interest in the OSU/UM game. (Only have budget for that as well)
Is anyone looking for tickets to the other games? We could split up her season tickets if so... She has all the home games available.
I would of course be willing to chip in more for the OSU tickets than others would need to for the MAC/etc games...
Thinking some break down like this might be fair??
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What is wrong with XFCE, LXDE etc? Why can't we just make 1 environment that is really good, rather than 110 mostly complete ones?
I'm not even going to link to the xkcd comic, we all know it.
Besides, one of the awesome things about open source is anyone can attempt to build a better mousetrap for any reason they damn please. Yes it leads to fragmentation and a lot of duplicate effort, but it also leads to people trying out new ideas and having fun. This guy wants to make yet another window manager, all the power to him. Maybe it'll be awesome. Maybe it'll have some clever thing that gets used elsewhere. Maybe he'll get bored in a month or so. It's his time to waste regardless.
When being asked, why re-invent the wheel, the best reply is because just maybe the wheel isn't good enough.
I can think of numerous times where people tore everything down and started over and found some flaws in designs that wouldn't have been seen otherwise.
Okay, but when you've torn everything down and started over from scratch twenty-plus times already, maybe that stops being the right development methodology?
What does "development methodology" have to do with it? Sometimes you just want to start from scratch rather than hauling along someone else's baggage. I guess your complaint just falls into the category of "dissatisfaction with how others spend their own time."
You realise that when Linux came about, there had already been more than twenty UNIX derivatives, right?
You realise that when Linux came about, there had already been more than twenty UNIX derivatives, right?
And you do realize that Linux was not better in anyway to any of them? It was the licensing that was different, right?
You realise that when Linux came about, there had already been more than twenty UNIX derivatives, right?
And you do realize that Linux was not better in anyway to any of them? It was the licensing that was different, right?
Ok. I'll bite. Perhaps when Linux was new (1.x timeframe) it was no better than the rest, however, by the time the kernel reached version 2.0, linux had already surpassed many other unix-like systems. How do I know? Well, let me tell ya about a time before google... In 1997, I had a quad-boot system including a BSD variant, Solaris X86, Slackware Linux, and Windows 95 (yeah I know). By that time, Linux had surpassed the rest for my uses. Maybe it wasn't faster or more stable, but it was eminently
Not better in ANY WAY to ANY of them? Really? Have you never had to relink your kernel to add a tape drive? Had a tar archive corrupt because you had files paths over a hundred characters? Hit tab to auto complete on a bourne shell? Shelled out a grand for a basic ANSI C compiler? Had to explain to a client that the OS doesn't include a TCP/IP stack?
Okay, but when you've torn everything down and started over from scratch twenty-plus times already, maybe that stops being the right development methodology?
Yes, computers should only run Windows 8, and nothing else. I've done a number of things with computers that others find odd - just last week, bought a Chromebook, installed Linux on it then run Windows programs on the Linux side.
Can you imagine just how frigging stupid that is? Why the heck would anyone do that when there are plenty computers that will run that Windows program? Tough titty. I do it because I can - I'm having fun, and I'm learning. Then again, learning today is bad, berry, berry bad.
Well excuse me! I merely read the fucking summary and somehow thought just because it said that "the ultimate goal is to replace KDE as the default desktop of PC-BSD" and that "Lumina aims to be lightweight, stable, fast-running, and FreeDesktop.org/XDG compliant," that meant the point was to make something better for the public, not merely to "have fun" or "learn" something.
Clearly, your reading comprehension skills are so far beyond mine that you were able to determine the "real" ultimate goal of the pro
I'm so goddamn sorry I deigned to participate in the conversation, when my ideas so pale in comparison to your obvious brilliance!
Holy cannoli, man! Sit back, relax, maybe have a brewski. This thread is not worth getting that worked up about.
This is Slashdot. This is what we do here.
Hey, you know what they say: if something's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!
(Also, in retrospect, the tongue-in-cheek didn't translate to text as successfully as the sarcasm.)
I think it really depends on whether or not the first twenty times go things wrong.
I'd agree, there's not much point in starting from scratch when things are working exactly how you'd want. However, if there's nothing that does things correctly, you might need to start over. Or even if everything else works well enough, it still might be that you have other needs, different from the intended audience for the previous solutions.
When being asked, why re-invent the wheel, the best reply is because maybe the wheel isn't good enough [kickstarter.com].
Then again, we also got this [youtube.com]
Then again, we also got this [youtube.com]
So that's where the inspiration for Windows 8 came from!
But what are they going to change that will make the effort worth it? When I look at the variety of desktops, the majority (perhaps all) of them seem to be tinkering with the same basic concept. It would be much more interesting if this splitting was leading to a drastically different desktop concepts, but it's not.
We got tiling WMs.
I'm not a fan of them, but it's kinda different.
Probably: BSD license and guaranteed support for BSD unixes. The former occasionally matters to the people working on the BSDs, the latter definitely does. (And is notably lacking in many of the current desktop environments - even if they do work on BSDs, they are often missing features and poorly maintained, with no interest in providing better support.)
At some point you are simply drowning in wheels, and cant move.
Why indeed. The BSD license will ensure that if it ever does gain traction (i.e. is adopted by an Apple or Samsung or Microsoft for some product) that the community will never see any of that effort.
GPL is true freedom for your code. BSD is a corporate handout.
GPL code is why we can't have nice things like ffmpeg/libav producing good-quality AAC. You see, there are open source libraries but we can't link them against ffmpeg and redistribute a binary that's capable of using the shared object, because GPL says so.
That's because you're trying to reuse a library that has a proprietary license. What did you expect? I don't see how a BSD-licensed project could include a proprietary-licensed library either.
Not necessarily.
While parts will be vendor locked in, these companies can support back for other components.
In many ways the boring/non marketable stuff is sent back in help improving the product. As if they choose to fork, that means they will need to fully support that fork continuing on. Vs. supporting back changes and being able to keep your product consistent with the core project.
Maybe it'll be awesome.
No, it won't be awesome [naquadah.org].
The flip side of that is the old adage "divide and conquer", the OSS community is almost self-defeating at times. Long before the mouse trap is the kind of smooth experience users want the core developers have moved to their new and even more grand mouse trap refactoring/redesign/remake that'll fix all the fundamental issues they discovered in the last design. Not that it's really different from proprietary software, at work it's exactly the same I'd love to get rid of the old and in with the new because ev
Maybe it'll be awesome.
Nah, awesome [wikipedia.org] has already been made.
Wouldn't razor-qt meet their goals?
(Except it's GPL2 and so we're back to the holy wars)
Terrible name. Now I can associate it with junk cars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Lumina [wikipedia.org]
This is a good point. The only way they could have screwed up worse would have been to name it "Pinto", "Gremlin", or "Aztek". (The latter has been said to have been the worst car in all of history, responsible for the downfall of Pontiac.)
From what I understand the Aztek was actually a good car, It was just butt ugly so no one really wanted it.
I have no idea if the Lumina was mechanically sound or crashworthy, and for all I know, it was. I didn't matter, because it's also butt-ugly (though not nearly as bad as the Aztek).
Being butt-ugly is sufficient for a car to be considered "bad". No one wants an ugly car (at least, not enough to make the car profitable to sell). The Aztek's lesson is clear: make a car ugly enough, and you can kiss your company good-bye.
I've google it and find it not so ugly, and it has a smart form factor. Hatchback, that's good for putting stuff in esp. when you fold the rear seats down.
For a really ugly car look at BMW i3, it's vomit worthy.
BTW, nobody outside of the US has heard of Chevrolet Lumina.
Interestingly there's kind of a weird interest in the Aztek right now due to it being featured on Breaking Bad.
ok had to look it up -- but honestly It looks like a car to me. People are strange.
I didn't think the Aztek was butt ugly at all. I thought it was interesting.
It is funny but I still see a good number of them running around. They might have been pretty good cars/SUVs/CUVs after all.
This is a good point. The only way they could have screwed up worse would have been to name it "Pinto", "Gremlin", or "Aztek". (The latter has been said to have been the worst car in all of history, responsible for the downfall of Pontiac.)
Now now, those were at least profitable cars. How about an unprofitable car for a name: Project Edsel [wikipedia.org]. This car cost Ford millions of $$ in 1950s money. How's that for a bad project name?
Last I heard, the Aztek was not profitable at all, which is part of why Pontiac ended up on the chopping block.
No man that was a four door Monte Carlo. A real street machine.
The summary contains several mistakes.
1. Lumina is not yet available in the ports tree, searches for it do not return anything.
2. The project is not trying to become the PC-BSD desktop, at least not yet. Right now it is in the early/experimental stages to see if making a PC-BSD only desktop is feasible.
3. There is no default desktop on PC-BSD. KDE is one of the install-time options, which include MATE, LXDE, Cinnamon and many others.
Once upon a time, in a Slashdot epoch of heroes and myths and CowboyNeal and editors who would actually edit, you could work with the editor that accepted your submission and get an update to TFS.
Alas, the time of the Gods is gone, and all we have is Beta and today's "editors".
But I still find myself wishing for heroes, as foolish as it seems.
Thank you for owning up to your mistakes in the article, that's more than the editors around here seem to do.
My apologies.
Let that be a lesson to you: never post Phoronix stuff here verbatim. They are typically only linking to the real content, while 95% of their own article is just water leading to the link.
Razor-Qt and LXDE is supposed to become LXDE-Qt or something such.
But so far I haven't actually run it (now I can't say that I so far haven't seen any actual release of it because currently I'm running Fedora and they didn't seemed to have Razor-Qt packages or whatever (at least I don't have it installed, you don't have to tell me "but there is Fedora packages on this and that page" because it would make sense in some being available but I would kinda had expected it to be in the regular repositories (if th
Razor-qt is GPL2. They can't fork it and make something that's BSD-licensed out of it. I imagine that's the motivation, whether you agree with the motivation or not. FreeBSD (and by extension PC-BSD) has gone to a lot of trouble to expunge GPL'ed pieces, including binning gcc in favor of clang for the build process and the shipped core system.
but I have to admit, my desktop is something I look at very very often and since I have only modern machines running as desktops, I'd like the option to put on all the bells and whistles I want, even if it's only for vanity and nothing to do with functionality.
It seems there is this interesting trend to keep targeting mobile/low powered PCs which I've found to be kind of funny considering how much progress we've made with our desktops. This course of "mobile first desktop second" is annoying.
I have a modern-ish machine but no SSD. So I won't use the heavy desktops like Gnome 3, Cinnamon, KDE, Windows 7 because waiting for a terminal or file manager to show up whereas it was instant on Windows 3.1 or 98SE is not fun. I'm all for a "bells and whistles" desktop that would stay lightweight on I/O. Software rendering has to stay as an option as well in case I have driver or GPU crashes.
I just opened up Windows Explorer on Windows 7 and it took less than 1 second. And this is on a laptop I bought 6 years ago. Maybe you need to ditch the Pentium 3 shitbox you're running?
Maybe not. You can transfer all you want, but you can't make your priorities and preferences everybody's.
I doubt his machine is as weak as you fantasize. Maybe he just wonders why we should accept less absolute performance of the desktop over what we had 15-20 years ago even though the hardware is incomparably faster and has incomparably more resources.
The problem with xfce, gnome, and most of the other desktop environments is that they tend to focus on Linux and most of them have actually removed *BSD compatibility recently in favor of the latest trends in the Linux community.
XFCE famously dropped FreeBSD support for some functions in their file manager for example. Gnome told us to FSCK off entirely.
We have to fight back.
LXDE is a great asset btw, it has a good and real philosophy of components independant from each other. Pcmanfm is impressive, a nautilus/thunar clone with the strengthes of both (ignoring the nautilus 3.x feature depletion).
You can use everything LXDE and a different file manager, or pcmanfm and everything different if you wish. Had a fluxbox + pcmanfm + audacious with xmms/winamp skin for music playback on a 1999 computer and it was brilliant.
Lumina could just use pcmanfm-qt, give some minimal input as we
> Gnome told us to FSCK off entirely.
Why not? They already tell Linux users to fuck off when feedback is provided to them. Welcome to the club, BSD!
XFCE famously dropped FreeBSD support for some functions in their file manager for example. Gnome told us to FSCK off entirely.
This is true.
Since then, I've been searching for window managers (I've already given up with full desktop environments, because they install much crap I never need and are slow). I used OpenBox quite long, because it was easy to manage.
One day being bored not trying out anything new, I installed Xmonad for fun. It was a good laugh because of the simplicity... I could not write Haskell code. I found some interesting configurations online and began to learn Haskell. After learning some basics about the f
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http://blog.martin-graesslin.c... [martin-graesslin.com]
I can't add much to Martin's sage words, but basically the term doesn't have much meaning in and of itself. Its the tech equivilent of stamping a "Natural" label on a box. What does that mean? Almost anything.
That's just doublespeak to cloud the issue of KDE not being lightweight... He mentions all the right factors himself: low memory, low cpu use, fast, not too many features. His complaint seems to be that there is no definition of a cutoff point from where something ceases to be lightweight. That's like saying you can't call an airplane fast transportation, because there is no fixed definition of 'fast'. However, most people who say an airplane is fast are comparing it to cars, walking, boats, etc. They are n
But KDE isn't a single program or even a set group of programs, its a community of people that develops those things in a highly customizable way.
So *my* "KDE" might not use much resources at all, while yours might consume more than CERN. It depends.
Both of our KDE's use much more resources than XFCE or LXDE. And it's worth it. But that's still the facts.
And if you want to use name KDE SC for the set of programs everyone has always called KDE, be my guest. I will keep using the term KDE, thank you very much.
Well, we'll just have to disagree.
I try to use the names authors give to their products, just like I try to use the names people would be preferred to be called, out of respect for them. If Bradly want's to be called Chelsea, well, KDE can be called KDE Plasma Workspaces, Platform, and Applications.
He mentions all the right factors himself: low memory, low cpu use, fast, not too many features.
But all those things are highly subjective and vague. How low is low enough CPU usage and memory usage? What CPU are you basing this off of? On my octo-core desktop "low cpu usage" is going to be "high cpu usage" on something less powerful. What is the baseline minimum RAM? Again, on my desktop with 24 GB of RAM percentage-wise "low memory use" will obviously differ. How are you objectively benchmarking "fast"? What is the objectively-defined cut off point of "too many features"? What you may think has too
This is great and all, but I really don't see any reason to reinvent the wheel besides anal-retentiveness about licenses and Not Invented Here. KDE's libs (and the Qt they're using) are LGPL.
KDE license requirements (a partial list)
LGPL version 2.1 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.LIB or later
LGPL version 2.1, or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
BSD license as listed below.
Ensure that the BSD license does not contain the so called 'advertisement clause'.
Qt license for free soft
Lumina aims to be lightweight, stable, fast-running, and FreeDesktop.org/XDG compliant.
I have no doubt that it will start out that way. And then after a few years of development to achieve feature-parity with other window managers, it will likely become just as bloated, buggy, and sluggish as the rest of the window managers.
The PC-BSD project is developing a new open source (BSD license) desktop environment from scratch. The name of the project is Lumina and it will be based around the Qt toolkit
OK, so they're developing a BSD-licensed desktop environment atop a GPL v3/LGPL v2.1-licensed toolkit [qt-project.org], right?
I thought that Qt is available under a BSD license as well
Nope. [qt-project.org]
Has anybody actually tried to take the KDE and trim the rarely used and niche functions?
Knowing the KDE people, if somebody found a usable subset of functionality, sufficient for a larger chunk of applications, they would be probably happy to merge it as an option.
Has anybody actually tried to take the KDE and trim the rarely used and niche functions?
Yep, in fact one such effort was started by some KDE devs:
https://blogs.kde.org/2013/04/... [kde.org]
Sure an end user only sees that part, but something like KDE is far more than that and there is a whole lot of stuff going on underneath.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein


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Skip to comments.Trampled Walmart shoppers say lack of security is to blame for injuries (Michigan)
Posted on 11/25/2005 2:30:39 PM PST by Shermy
It was a dangerous morning on Black Friday at a West Michigan Wal-Mart.
An impatient crowd stormed the doors in the mad rush to get to those door-buster deals inside.
It was an ugly scene when the doors opened at the Cascade Township Wal-Mart. Hundreds of shoppers pushed and shoved their way into the store, trampling a number of customers, sending two to the hospital.
At 5:00 a.m. the doors opened, holiday shoppers rushed in, and immediately one customer is pushed to the ground.
"This is ridiculous. I do not want my life in danger for this," said shopper Karen Dietstra. "This is not worth it. This has been a tradition for years. I don't think that I have to get beat up to try to get a sale."
Two shoppers from Grand Rapids did. One of them, 13-year-old Deja McHerron, had to be taken away by ambulance.
"They stumbled over a pregnant lady and Deja was trying to help her get up. And they stumbled over her and they stepped on her back. And now she's going to the hospital," said McHerron's mother, Deborah.
Duretha Arnold-Youngblood, 37, was also taken to the hospital, complaining of an injured knee. Her husband, Johnny Youngblood, took issue with what he calls a lack of security. Youngblood believes Wal-Mart should hire trained uniformed security guards to help bring order to the early-morning holiday crowd and not leave those duties to Wal-Mart associates.
"They didn't have no security at all," said McHerron's sister, Sierra.
"Wal-Mart did not do enough to protect us," Dietstra said.
What went wrong? Managers at the Cascade Wal-Mart are not commenting at this time.
24 Hour News 8 phoned Wal-Mart's corporate offices seeking an answer, but nobody has returned our call.
Calling Geoffrey Fieger. Calling Geoffrey Fieger. Frivolous lawsuit in aisle #6.
There'll be a similar story from Los Altos, CA in tomorrow's papers too. jiggygirl reports that a lady got trampled and had to be taken out in an ambulance, others in another part of the store were taken out in handcuffs, people were jumping over counters to get to merchandise, etc. At one point there were at least 15 additional city police in the place trying to restore order, clean up the bloody people, etc.
that is why I live on the coast. Spend a little more, make a little less, avoid the savages of the cities.
There is a segment of Terry Southern's The Magic Christian that has a wealthy instigator opening stores that are "going out of business" so as to induce panic buying.
I don't think it was portrayed as a "scam" (he could afford to take the loss) as much as it was one of a number of stunts he would do to measures people's greed.
I've only seen the film version (staring Peter Sellers) and it ends with people diving into a tank containing human waste/sewage to retreive cash.
I'm pretty sure that it WAS Bush who pushed that poor old woman to the ground...but i saw it on CNN...hard to tell if it was him or someone else...that X on his face really didnt help either i guess...who knows, i could be wrong.
FIRST IN LINE>>>YAY, I WAS FIRST IN LINE!!!!...to the emergency room
Bush's Fault
This is not much different than the morning rush hour drive, except people have 2000lbs of metal in front of them instead of a shopping cart, driving 70 miles an hour inches away from the rear bumper of the person in front of them, yelling for them to go faster or get out of the way.
"Greedy" doesn't begin to describe the state of society today. People are just in too much of a hurry, expect things instantly, hate waiting. I have never seen so many grumpy looking, unhappy, impatient people shopping as I did this morning.
Would they dare?: "Ironically, the improved economy means that more customers have more money to spend this holiday season [they won't say Christmas] than last year, which could explain the higher number of these kind of incidents than last year..."
"If people behaved themselves there wouldn't be any need for security."
Good point. I wonder why the headline is never "Acting like animals, shoppers trample each other and then blame others."
Local Shoppers Injured During Mob-Like Behavior - Black Friday Deals Turn Ugly
The 'Lady' with the wig is setting herself up for some kind of suit. No matter she was there on her own accord, obviously obese and unable to cope with the situation and placed herself in harms way. I say give her a TV set and good riddance.
it's wal-mart's fault that morons are running over people?
somehow I am not surprised....
never again for me. I went through the same thing out here in Los Angeles about 3 years ago, in a local electronics store (FRYS)with the mob craziness. folks goin crazy just to save a hundred bucks on a DVD player.
(If you're a Three Stooges fan you know what I mean.)
The last couple years I've done most of my shopping online. Of course, living 30 miles from any shopping centers helps.
It's proof that evolution is a failed theory. De-volution is clearly evident, people turn into animals.
One word comes to mind;
Well it is reckless of the store to announce "we have 5 veeblefitzers at only 30% of the retail price!"
Might as well throw open the doors to the store saying that "at the back of the building on random shelves are bundles of $20 bills. Good luck!"
A "lottery" to buy merchandise at a reduded price would be illegal.
Bait and switch ads are normally considered a disreputable business practice, EXCEPT at Christmastime.
I mean REALLY. Why do we put up with this? Do shareholders really think that it is a good business plan to "make up" for a year of poor sales with a mad rush in the fourth quarter, selling merchandise at little or no mark up to draw customers into the store?
I stayed in today. And I WON'T be shopping at the major chains until after this "season" is over. I WILL be giving gifts but I won't be setting foot in overcrowded stores and won't be fighting over parking places.
The same thing happened here in Washington State. Honestly, the way people behave just to save a few bucks on material stuff amazes me.
The six figure settlement should surprise no one..
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The PSGI/Plack interface is unbelievably good to develop for, but I feel ashamed every time I have to tell our sysadmins that "I run this stuff as nohup twiggy --listen :1234 app.psgi & from my home directory, oh and it must be up 24x7 on production".
So I'd like to write an init script for my PSGI apps once and for all.
Previous searches suggest using Ubic::Service::Plack but I fear our admins would object, as they already have init for running/stopping and zabbix for monitoring. I believe there are other people in the Perl community who have their reasons to stick to sys v init.
Now, there's Daemon::Control so I only have to reinvent a wheel of minimal diameter. Looks like there's some prior art, but I'd like to generalize a bit.
In my ideal world with unicorns and pegasi, the workflow should look like:
The main config should contain: app files relocation (like /etc/plack/apps.d), sane defaults for apps, and probably more. Upon loading the config it should be checked for sanity, consistency, port/name/pidfile intersections, etc.
An app config may contain:
Now some questions I'd like to ask before doing any serious development.
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The CCI also is effective as an overbought and oversold indicator. It oscillates between two extremes. High readings imply an overbought condition (shorts can be taken) and low readings imply an oversold condition (longs can be taken). However, identifying overbought and oversold levels can be tricky with the CCI because of the following reasons:
- The CCI technically has no high or low limit as per the traditional calculation.
- Markets can remain overbought or oversold for extended periods of time.
Regarding the level to use, typically +100 and –100 work when trading a stock in a trading range, while higher levels, such as +200 and –200, are necessary during trending moves.
Using overbought/oversold levels effectively also depends on the volatility of the underlying security. For example, the CCI range for ETFs generally is lower when compared to individual stocks such as Apple and Google. Here are some trading rules for overbought/oversold readings during a trending market:
- Buy when the CCI turns up from below –200 with a stop loss as the previous day's low. Profit should be booked on a break of the subsequent three-day low.
- Sell when the CCI turns down from above 200 with a stop loss as the previous day's high. Profit should be booked on a break of the subsequent three-day high.
"Trading at extremes" (below) shows Alcoa Inc. (AA) with a 20-day CCI on a daily time frame. On Sept. 14, 2012, Alcoa closed at $9.84 after making a high of $9.93 and a low of $9.78, with the CCI at 259.65. On Sept. 17, the stock opened at $9.72 and the CCI moved below 200, giving us a signal to initiate the trade with a stop loss of $9.93. The stock started its correction and made a low of $8.65. As per our profit-taking rule, we exit the stock on a break of the three-day low, which was triggered on Sept. 26 when $8.81 was broken.


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Abby Larson, founder of Boston-based Style Me Pretty, hosted an event for Gilt City Boston at GrettaCole in Back Bay recently to talk about her new book and her humble blogging beginnings. Larson founded her well-curated wedding site with her husband and "tech guru," Tait, in 2007, and since then her readership has exploded, becoming a respected online resource for all things bridal. Before she answered questions from an audience brimming with brides-to-be, wedding professionals, and just plain fans, Larson stepped aside in her sparkly silver pumps to chat.
Rachel Raczka
Rachel Raczka
Q. You were on the forefront of the wedding blogs. You're like the "Pioneer Woman" of the wedding blogging community.
A. I would say there were only two or three when I first started and none of them were focusing on the editorial side of weddings. They were focused on the practical, hands-on details of planning a wedding. I thought: Why aren't we talking about what's being put in magazines but in an online format? I read Martha Stewart Weddings religiously, but there are three months in between issues and typically only six weddings get into each issue so there is all this cutting-room-floor inventory that is so beautiful you would cry. But there's simply no room in the magazine. So I thought why not take those photos and put them online so brides didn't have to wait at newsstands. That's where we started and eventually readers started sending in photos of their own.
Q. What was the moment that you knew there was a future in your blog?
A. Well today, wedding blogging is an industry of itself. We got lucky because we got into the community really fast. My husband [who works alongside Larson as the site's technical expert] is in software development and he knew there was value in this before we really started.
Q. Do you have any advice for young bloggers who are frustrated by a lack of readers?
A. When I started I had three readers: my husband, my mom, and my sister, literally. I remember reading a statistics page of another design blogger who said she had 5,000 page views per month and I remember sitting with my husband saying, "If only I could get to that point." And now we get 20 million. If you keep writing and putting out really good curated content and people talk it will develop."
Q. Style Me Pretty is big on promoting vendors with each wedding you feature — any reason for that?
A. Every party that I've thrown, I've gone straight to our vendors on our website. That's our goal, we want to highlight local, small vendors that can sit pretty alongside big vendors that are blowing it up and they can share a face and a voice and get fair game in getting their voice out there.
Q. How does a wedding catch your eye?
A. I'm a pink girl. I always gravitate toward corals and pinks so any wedding that comes in with pink hues, I'm much more personally inclined to want to publish it. What I love about weddings now is that people aren't subscribing to any rules anymore. There's a sense of tradition but there's a lot more spunk and personality in colors and moments built into the day. I like weddings that are beautiful but really, really approachable. They're not stuffy or ostentatious.
Q. What is your best tip for brides-to-be?
A. My favorite tip is to hire a wedding planner, which sounds really cliché, but they will keep you on track and possibly save you thousands upon thousands of dollars in mistakes that women and men make when trying to plan their wedding. Planning is an industry and there's rules and resources that you can leverage if you know how to do it right. Two is to just sit down as a couple and have that date night to figure out what you want from your wedding. It may not be what your mom wants or your grandma wants, but you need to figure out what are the most important details to you, as a couple, are — whether it's the most amazing food ever or a band that only plays a certain type of music. Then budget to make those details sparkle.
Q. Are there any wedding trends that you're sick of?
A. It's all about the execution. You can see something so cliché — cupcakes, the dessert table, ombre — but if you execute correctly it's no longer a trend: It's a staple. It's a design element that is going to make your wedding look beautiful. It's all about taking those trends and putting your own style stamp on them and making them cohesively fit into your wedding.
Q. Have you seen any trends from your readers and submissions that are specific to the Boston area?
A. Boston weddings are different than the rest of the country. They're a little bit more traditional and preppy but the brides tend to have this Kate Spade whimsy about them. It's traditional but with spunk. It's interesting to see how these New England brides execute.Abby Larson's book, "Style Me Pretty Weddings,'' published by Potter Style, is available on Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble store locations. Rachel Raczka can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Funeral services for lifelong area resident Ruth M. Crowley were on Saturday, April 5 at the Eastland Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Interment followed at the Mountain View Cemetery in Eastland. Raymond Boyd officiated.
Ruth was born on May 29, 1916 near Vici, OK, the daughter of Tom and Emma Moss. She passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at the Valley Inn Nursing Home at the age of 91.
Ruth was one of eight children and she spent her childhood and attended school in the Vici area. Her family moved from their farm in Oklahoma to Pleasant View, CO when she was 20 years old to escape the dust bowl.
On July 2, 1938, Ruth married Jamie Crowley, the love of her life. They remained in the Yellow Jacket area until April 1, 1939. From there they moved to a farm in Utah near what is now called Eastland, between Dove Creek, Colo. and Monticello, UT.
She continued to live there until last August when she went to live at a nursing facility in Mancos. She and Jamie raised their four children on the farm. Ruth loved cooking and entertaining her family and friends by serving wonderful meals, and then a game of cards or a board game.
She taught all of her grandchildren how to play many different kinds of games. Large groups of family would come for hunting season and that was the highlight of her year. She enjoyed every minute of all the excitement of their company and going through the woods "dogging" for deer.
She was a wonderful hostess, and made sure everyone enjoyed their stay whether it was a day or a week.
Nobody ever left without having a meal and usually taking some baked goodie home with them. Her smile was a delight to those around her.
Ruth and Jamie had a winter home in Mesa, AZ for many years and they made friends with all of their neighbors and the people in the little Baptist church they attended.
They looked forward to spending time there and then returning home to Utah in the spring to start farming and planting a garden, and possibly a motor home trip.
Ruth was a member of the Followers of Christ Church in Pleasant View. She loved Jesus and appreciated all the blessings God had given her throughout her life.
Surviving Ruth are her children, Janice Bobo of Durango, CO; Gary Crowley and wife, Phyllis of Eastland, UT; Lavon Harkendorff and husband, Jim of Cortez, CO; and Marsha Ashburn and husband, Steve of Durango, CO; grandchildren Rene' Bobo; Camla Schultz and husband, Mike; Christopher Crowley and wife, Nikki; Karen Herrera and husband, Omar; Carli Harkendorff; Haley Harkendorff; Matt Ashburn and wife, Kelsey; and Dan Ashburn and wife, Tami; five great-grandchildren; her sister, Dorothy Koehler of Albuquerque, NM.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband Jamie Crowley on December 30, 2002; three brothers; and three sisters.
Memorial contributions may be made in Ruth's name to Hospice of Montezuma, P.O. Box 740, Cortez, Colo. 81321.
Services were under the direction of the Ertel Funeral Home.
Card of thanks
The family of Ruth Crowley would like to thank all our lovely friends and neighbors for their love and caring for our dear Ruth all these years. Your visits and friendship meant the world to her. You were so kind and generous to all of us as we said our goodbyes and there is no way to express our gratitude adequately. We will just say a simple thank you. May God Bless each of you and may you have your kindnesses returned to you.
Gary & Phyllis Crowley
Lavon & Jim Harkendorff
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Don't worry! The world isn't out of jump-scare games for people to create YouTube videos of themselves playing and shrieking at, not just yet. Slender: The Arrival, Parsec and Blue Isle's official expanded remake of the most famous Slender 'em up, has now opened pre-orders with a 50% discount and instant beta access as bonuses. Godspeed, bad Let's Players everywhere.
You can pre-order now for $5. If you pay $15 you'll receive the soundtrack thrown in; $25 gets you downloadable artwork too; and for $60 you receive a thanks in the credits. Slender: The Arrival arrives on PC on March 26, with a Mac version shortly after. The beta version is only for Windows right now, though.
Here's one YouTuber's playthrough of the beta (via Rock, Paper, Shotgun), though the silly goose forgot to include a picture-in-picture scarecam of their terrified face:


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Jeff Mangum (better known as Neutral Milk Hotel) coming to Liberty Hall in January
I'm willing to bet that more than one Lawrence indie music lover had a bit of a joy-conniption (I count myself) over the huge news Monday that Liberty Hall will host not only Morrissey but also the lesser-known-but-highly-influential Jeff Mangum. They're both great gets for Lawrence. Mangum plays Jan. 18.
Mangum is the singer-songwriter behind Neutral Milk Hotel and its coming-to-be-iconic, highly cryptic and highly praised 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Tickets go on sale via Tickmaster online at 1 p.m. Thursday, a time that was reportedly moved up from Friday to prevent an overload of Mangum and Morrissey fans. For the extra anxious, Liberty, 644 Mass., will start selling in-person at 10 a.m. Prices there are $27.50 for general admission and $35.50 for reserved balcony. (With Ticketmaster's fees, they're charging $34.30/$43.55, but note that Liberty is cash-only.)
A portion of the ticket sales ($1 per ticket) is set to go to Children of the Blue Sky, a charity that aims to help street children in Mongolia.
Mangum doesn't tour often, though he has sporadically played larger festivals (and Occupy Wall Street) in the past year or so.


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Who is Tannebaum?
Under the heading of "Well, duh," or "No, you know what, Sherlock" former New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum said Thursday on NFL AM (via NFL.com here) that the contract he gave quarterback Mark Sanchez might have played a role in his firing after last season.
Tannenbaum was let go by the Jets after Sanchez received a $58.25 million extension from the club last March. That contract not only has hurt the club cap-wise, but Sanchez threw 18 interceptions and lost eight fumbles last year as the Jets dropped to 6-10.
"I don't think I would have signed a quarterback to an extension knowing that he'd have 26 turnovers," Tannenbaum said. "That might be one of the reasons I'm right sitting here with you guys. Not that this is not a great place to spend Valentine's Day."
Tannenbaum also brought Tim Tebow to New York, which not only created a media circus, but also proved to be a distraction as the floundering Jets barely used the former Heisman Trophy winner for anything on offense in 2012.
Who is Tannebaum?
If I was Woody Johnson that was probably the final straw than M Sanchez contract.
He missed on too many draft picks, not enough difference makers on the team. Sanchez is just one of many problems the Jets have. It's easy to see when you try to imagine how many of our players would start for Baltimore or San Fran. Probably between 2-4 on either.
The thing he said that was most hilarious was "I don't think I would have given him an extension knowing that he would have 26 turnovers." when Sanchez had 26 turnovers in 2011, too.


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Boyd's late leveller denies County
A controversial equalisier from Kris Boyd a minute into injury time gave Kilmarnock a share of the points after a gruelling match on a glue pot of a pitch.
Two first half goals from Yoann Arquin and Yann Songo'o should have put County comfortably on course for their fourth win in their last six games.
But after Boyd grabbed his 14th goal of the season two minutes into the second half, County were left hanging on with 10 men for the final 13 minutes after Filip Kliss was shown a second yellow, and Boyd took advantage at the death as County players screamed for a foul.
Kilmarnock were keen to extend their impressive home run to four wins from their last five games and pressed Michael Fraser's goal from the kick-off.
The first chance, though, fell to Jordan Slew, one of County's seven signings in January, but he curled his shot wide.
After 13 minutes Killie finally worked Fraser, when Rory McKenzie twisted at the corner of the six-yard box before driving the ball against the goalkeeper's legs.
A minute later quick footwork from Robbie Muirhead gave the teenager a shooting chance but his drive across goal carried the ball just beyond the far post.
In the 20th minute Craig Samson made a fine double save. Richard Brittain's clever free kick across the 18-yard line set up Michael Tidser and when his shot was parried by the goalkeeper, Brittain followed up with an angled drive which Samson reacted well to block.
For all Killie's neat passing in middle of the park the Highlanders looked the more dangerous around goal, and duly opened the scoring on the half-hour mark.
A swift move down the right found Filip Kliss racing onto Brittain's pass and when the Slovakian swept the ball across goal Arquin smartly tucked it into the corner of the net beyond the helpless Samson.
Six minutes later, and before the home side could react to the opening goal, County grabbed a second to put them in the driving seat.
A well worked corner found Graham Carey outside the box. And although his left foot volley was fired into the ground the ball rebounded high into the packed box where Songo'o, on loan from Blackburn Rovers, with a neat flick carried the ball into the net to put the visitors two up.
Kilmarnock looked a beaten side at the interval but within two minutes of the restart had pulled back a goal. Sammy Clingan's corner found Boyd challenging with Brian McLean. But as the ball fell between them the ex-Rangers' striker reacted to sweep the ball high into the net and spark some life into the home side.
Three minutes later the Ayrshire men came within inches of the equaliser. McKenzie broke from the middle of the County half and from 20 yards hammered a left foot shot which rebounded off the foot of the post.
Boyd had mis-hit from 12 yards before Muirhead's low 20-yard drive was pushed beyond his post by Fraser at full stretch.
By the time Alexei Eremenko came off the bench after 70 minutes to make his second debut for Killie, the incessant rain and sleet had left the pitch sodden with a lot of surface water making passing difficult.
Thirteen minutes from time Kliss picked up his second yellow card for persistent fouling.
The home side made the most of having the extra man and had the bulk of the play around Fraser's goal.
And after some sustained pressure Killie grabbed the equaliser in injury time. Chris Johnston swept in a cross and Boyd out-muscled McLean to head home from 12 yards with County players and officials appealing for a foul.
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STERLING – Joseph Ortiz, 71, of Sterling, died Friday, May 3, 2013, at his home.
Joseph was born Nov. 3, 1941, in Sterling, the son of Milton and Maria (Trujillo) Ortiz. He was employed for several years with Woods Manufacturing in Oregon. He served in the Navy. He was a member of Living Bread Fellowship Church in Sterling.
Survivors include three sisters, Rosie (Arthur) Rodriguez of San Antonio, and Mary Jimenez and Dora Thibado, both of Sterling; and one brother, Clifford (Susan) of Sterling.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, and three sisters.
Cremation rites have been accorded. Private memorial service will be at a later date. McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls is handling arrangements.


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Cubs President Theo Epstein condensed his two major moves Tuesday night as the simple transaction of "trading" mercurial infielder Starlin Castro for two-time American League All-Star Ben Zobrist and pitcher Adam Warren.
But it took some juggling for Epstein and his staff to address several significant needs for the Cubs.
The Cubs cleared $38 million in trading Castro to the Yankees for Warren, 28, who could help the pitching staff in a variety of roles and isn't eligible for free agency until after the 2018 season, and a player to be named.
In moving the contract of Castro, 25, a three-time National League All-Star shortstop who moved to second base and excelled in...


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Jockey Pedro Solano was taken
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Branch after being unseated by his mount
Love Scat during the running of the
second race at Monmouth
Park on Friday.
"He has a possible broken left elbow," said Dr. Angelo
Chinnici, medical director for the racetrack.
"To determine the extent of the injury, I sent him for further
evaluation and X-rays."
The 28-year-old Solano was between horses going into the
turn of the five furlong turf race when the jockey was unseated. No other riders or horses were injured during
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Rehabilitation counselors work to help people with physical, mental, emotional and other disabilities live full, productive, independent lives.
The profession demands a specialized expertise with a broad understanding of the medical and psychosocial effects of a disability in professional, social and family environments. In this program, you will examine human behavior, study assessment and diagnosis strategies, and learn counseling techniques for various types of rehabilitation cases.
Graduates of the program are eligible for national certification as a rehabilitation counselor (CRC) and state licensure as a professional counselor (LPC). You could work in a state or federal agencies, rehabilitation center, residential care facilities, hospitals, corrections facilities, community mental health clinics, substance abuse program, or private practice.


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Oil Rig Count Drops Slightly [AUDIO]
The Wyoming Secretary of State's office has certified a referendum which would repeal a new state law that changed the duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Amy Richards reports. Oilfield services company Baker Hughes says the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. last week dropped by five. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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Story highlights
- Indie artist Jonathan Coulton says 'Glee' used his cover song
- Lawyer: For a cover song, the copyright remains with the original artist, not the cover artist
- Coulton is exploring whether his actual audio was used by 'Glee'
- Many Coulton fans are expressing anger on Twitter
That was a pretty catchy, sing-songy version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's rap hit "Baby Got Back" in Thursday night's episode of "Glee." It was also very familiar to fans of indie singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton.
As angry Coulton fans are clamoring on Twitter, Coulton arranged and recorded an eerily similar "Baby Got Back" cover. So similar, in fact, that the "Glee" version included Coulton's line "Johnny C's in trouble," replacing the lyric "Mix-A-Lot's in trouble" in the original song.
Coulton said he was not informed beforehand, nor was he given any credit or compensation for having arranged the melody of the cover song. What's more, he says, Fox Broadcasting representatives told Coulton's representatives that "they're within their legal rights to do this, and that I should be happy for the exposure," he wrote on his blog, "even though they do not credit me, and have not even publicly acknowledged that it's my version -- so you know, it's kind of SECRET exposure."
A representative from 20th Century Fox Television told CNN Friday the network is not commenting on the matter.
Coulton, known for nerdy and humorous songs such as "Code Monkey," said Friday that he is "mystified" about why the show went about using the cover song in this way.
"Glee has a reputation for being a show that celebrates the underdog," he said, before catching a plane to San Francisco. "It's the anti-bullying show. But this is a bullying way to approach this."
When it comes to copyright protection, however, there's a distinction between what might seem ethical and what is legal, lawyers say.
The rights to "Baby Got Back" belong with songwriter Anthony L. Ray, also known as Sir Mix-A-Lot, and his music publisher, Universal, who have apparently given proper licenses to Fox and "Glee," said Kevin Parks, a copyright attorney with the Leydig law firm in Chicago who does not represent any party involved in what Twitter users are calling #JoCoGleeGate.
Because Coulton's cover is derivative of the original work by Sir Mix-A-Lot, Coulton does not have a copyright claim against "Glee" for using the Coulton version, Parks said.
Covers don't get their own copyright protection as far as the underlying musical composition, Parks said. But Coulton might have legal footing if the show used Coulton's audio track.
"If 'Glee' used parts of Coulton's actual recording, there would be a copyright claim for him to pursue," Parks said. "If not, Coulton's gripe may have moral weight, but not the force of law."
Fans of Coulton are not taking this lightly. Some are undertaking sophisticated audio analyses of both song versions, Coulton said. One called "alacrion" created a side-by-side comparison of the two songs on SoundCloud, demonstrating a remarkable resemblance. A fan named Paul Potts posted his own investigation into the similarities of the audio, which he called "pretty convincing."
"Hilariously, for me, it comes down to the sound of a duck quacking, which is a sound effect that was in my version, used as a bleep noise to cover up an expletive," Coulton said. "While it is very hard to hear, if I at home mess with the equalizer settings and some filters, I can actually hear that quack is in that mix."
From this, Coulton believes at least some of his audio was used by the show, although he is unsure how much. Potts explored this quack issue as well, but wrote on his blog that he identified the "ghost of the quack."
There have been infringement cases involving rap songs that sampled even four to eight seconds of other songs, and that was deemed illegal, said Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford University program in law, science & technology who is also not representing anyone in this controversy.
It may seem like an artist should get paid if his song, whether a cover or something else, is imitated elsewhere, but this is "one of those holes in the law that just doesn't end up giving the owner of the sound recording copyright much in the way of rights," Lemley said.
Coulton said his lawyer is in touch with "the people at 'Glee.'"
Geek celebrities such as the band They Might Be Giants and podcaster Chris Hardwick came out in support of Coulton on Twitter.
Astronomer Phil Plait, author of Slate's "Bad Astronomy" column, tweeted with a link to another story about the debacle: "I'll admit it: I used to watch and enjoy Glee. Not any more. It's dead to me."
As of this writing, Sir Mix-a-Lot has not responded on his own Twitter account.


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Microsoft's Bing to slurp Facebook users' data and likes
Scrappy upstart teams with incumbent
Microsoft and Facebook are partnering on Bing, folding in information from 500 million Facebookers into Microsoft's search engine — but claiming they'll respect your privacy.
The companies rolled out a feature Wednesday that will search through your Facebook contacts' Likes and fire recommendations into Bing trawled from your peeps' Facebook posts to supplement Bing searches.
Also, Bing will slurp your friends' profiles to help Bing users when they're searching for specific individuals — contacts, long-lost school friends — or just
Googling Binging around on a wet Friday afternoon waiting for the clock to run down. Returns in both cases are pulled into the Bing results page using a Facebook module for Bing.
The features are live now, with deeper integration planned. Microsoft and Facebook want to bring in your friends across different pages in the "near term". The ability to supplement Bing with returns from Facebook users considered domain experts is "further out".
Microsoft called this the initial step in harnessing the "tremendous potential" of social networks and the Facebook platform, "taking today's search experience to the next level."
Unveiling the features on Microsoft's Mountain View, California, campus, Microsoft and Facebook were at pains to stress the new features' privacy aspects when grilled by the press.
Speaking were Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and vice president of partnerships and platform marketing Dan Rose, along with the president of Microsoft's online services business Qi Lu and senior vice president of online audiences Yusuf Mehdi.
They flagged up two features they claim will protect people's privacy.
One is a pop-up window that will detect whether you're in a Facebook session or have a live Facebook cookie on your machine. That pop-up, Mehdi said, would explain the "improvements" in Bing — i.e., integration with Facebook. It will appear four times, giving you the opportunity to allow or block it. Ignore the fourth occurrence, and slurp-access rights will be granted
After that, you have to go into your Facebook account's settings to prevent the great slurp.
Zuckerberg, meanwhile, said only data that Facebook users have volunteered to make public to other sites through Instant Personalization would be slurped.
Facebook's CEO reckoned that there are a lot of "misconceptions" around Instant Personalization that it would be good to clear up. "Bing can see no other information about you that the other 500 million people using Facebook couldn't see," he said.
Good luck trying to navigate Instant Personalization and your privacy settings.
"People seem to have this notion that you go this site and Facebook sends all this information to that site — but that's not true," Zuckerberg said.
He added that Bing is not sending the search engine user's information back to Facebook.
It's clear what Microsoft gets from the work announced Wednesday: access to Facebook's billions of users who provide context around search, and a move away from URLs and simple web page returns and tons of unsorted videos that you, the searcher, have to wade through to find what you're after.
For example, you can search "Stephen Colbert Bing" and — potentially, at least — find the specific video clip you want using a link from the page of friend on Facebook who may have posted the exact video, instead of having to wade through other clips or mashups that mention Stephen Colbert and Bing.
Lu said Bing pulls back results by looking at the linguistic head of a query, and through the algorithms' ability to understand the intent of the query.
It's unclear, though, what Facebook gets from Bing apart from the pride of flipping a middle finger at Google. Asked about revenue split and business model, Rose said he wouldn't get into details. Rose said Facebook has a four-year relationship with Microsoft.
Why has Facebook partnered with Bing? Zuckerberg likes to team up with "underdogs" because their lowly status is an "incentive to really go deep and do things that other companies aren't doing."
The companies also have a partnership going back to 2006 for injecting search, ads, and Microsoft's maps into Facebook's pages, which might have something to do with it.
"They really are the underdog here, so they are in a structural position to go all-out and innovate. When you are an incumbent, there's a tension to protect what you have and push new things," the Facebook CEO said.
Did you get that, Microsoft? Just in case your not clear, Mr World's Largest Software Company, you're the scrappy underdog in this scenario, according to the start-up's CEO.
In answer to a question from The Reg, Facebook's CEO made it clear this is not an exclusive, long-term marriage and Facebook is open to working with search partners other than Microsoft. "We are trying to build a platform, so for us this isn't about working with just a single company. Over the long term we would love to work with everyone," he said.
Rose added that the extensions will be rolled out with more partners over time.
Microsoft, for its part, dodged the question of whether it would integrate other social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, or Orkut from Google, into Bing's personal search returns.
"Facebook is really the fantastic opportunity today. The work we've done here is where our time and focus is," Mehdi said, sticking faithfully to the prepared script.
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Ethel Pauline Spalding
Monroe City, Mo.
Ethel Pauline Spalding died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, December 30, 2012, at the Salt River Community Care, in Shelbina, Mo. She was born February 28, 1912, in Batchtown, IL to John Clarence and Anna Maria Sackman Delonay.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at Holy Rosary Catholic Church on Saturday, January 5, 2013, at noon with interment to follow at Holy Rosary Cemetery, Monroe City, MO. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until time of Mass at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Yager Kendrick Funeral Home in Monroe City.
Ethel's parents moved during her lifetime, living in Clarksville and Louisiana, Mo. before moving to Monroe City so their children could receive a Catholic education. J.C. and Anna owned and operated the Joy Theater in Monroe City and eventually purchased the New Janus Theater in Shelbina. Ethel frequently took the train from Monroe City to open the theater in Shelbina. She sold tickets then closed up taking the train back home, arriving at midnight with the receipts. Her father met her at the train station. Ethel was fourteen years old.
In 1929, she graduated Valedictorian of her class from Holy Rosary High School. She credits her education, working at the picture show where documentaries were the norm as well as strict guidance from the Dominican Nuns at Holy Rosary School.
On November 10, 1938, Ethel married David Alfred Spalding at Holy Rosary Catholic Church. They had nine children: Dolores Ann (Danny) Hill, Maryland Heights, MO; Rosemary (Jim) Duesterhaus, Quincy, IL; Elizabeth Jeanne Johnson, Monroe City; Michael (Sharon Lawrence) Spalding, O'Fallon, MO; Richard Wayne Spalding (Deceased July 27, 1952); Vincent (Karon Sellers) Spalding, St. Charles, MO; James (Paula Harris) Spalding, St. Peters, MO; Teresa (Vern) Reece, Stockton, MO; and Nancy Spalding, St. Peters, MO. Ethel and Dave were the grandparents of JoAnne (Hill) Kearney and husband John of O'Fallon, MO; Ronald Hill and wife Debbie, O'Fallon, MO; Julie (Hill) Aydt and husband Joseph of Chesterfield, MO; Ed Duesterhaus and wife Terry, Quincy, IL; Susan Duesterhaus and fiance Vern Utters, Quincy, IL; Aaron Eugene Spalding (Deceased January 18, 2005); Laura (Shore) Gramlich and husband Jody, Boonville, MO; Sarah Spalding, St. Peters, MO; Debbie (Spalding) Landis, Arnold, MO; Dawn (Spalding) Gross and husband Terry, St. Charles, MO; Heather (Spalding) Tulk and husband Terry of O'Fallon, MO; Patrick Spalding and wife Julie, St. Charles, MO; Brian Spalding and wife Windy of O'Fallon, MO; David Spalding, St. Charles, MO; Kelly (Spalding) Christen and husband Shannon, St. Peters, MO; Robyn Spalding and fiancé Michael Pelz, Chicago, IL; and Lloyd D. Reece, St. Peters, MO. Ethel is survived by 21 great-grandchildren, one nephew, Tom Miskell and wife Regina, Monroe City; and one niece, Susan Wachter and husband John, Lawrence, KS. She is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins of Dave Spalding, many residing in the Monroe City area.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents, J.C. and Anna Delonay; her husband, David in 1995; her son, Richard Wayne; her son-in-law, James S. Johnson; her grandson, Aaron Eugene; one grandson-in-law, Randall Lee Ernst; her brother John Albert Delonay; her sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Joseph Miskell, Monroe City; her sister Irma and Jasper W. Smith, Pittsburg, KS; and her nephew John J. Miskell, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ethel was a very gracious lady, loved by all her and Dave's family. She never sent a greeting card without a handwritten note inside. She enjoyed reading, working crossword puzzles, listening to the radio and watching television. She was notorious in St. Charles for making homemade soup, bread and pies for her elderly and not so elderly neighbors.
Memorials may be made to Holy Rosary School Building Fund, Monroe City Sheltered Workshop or Salt River Community Care Special Programs, in care of Yager-Kendrick Funeral Home, 545 Stoddard Street, Monroe City, MO 63456.
Online condolences may be left at www.yagerkendrickfh.com
Ethel Pauline Spalding
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Rockies Recap: Rockies 5, Indians 0
Rockies 5, Indians 0
At Goodyear Ballpark
At the plate:The emphasis on quality at-bats paid off again Wednesday during the Rockies' fifth straight win. The Rockies' scored three of their first four runs with groundouts to second base by Christian Colonel, Sal Fasano and Ryan Spilborghs. Quality outs and productive at-bats have been the mantra all spring. Indians pitcher Cliff Lee, the reigning American League Cy Young award winner, said he pitched differently against the Rockies than he would during the regular season. "I threw a lot more fastballs than normal, regardless of the situation. I am not real happy with the results, but I was concentrating on locating that pitch.''
On the mound:Aaron Cook continues to miss bats. This isn't his strategy – he pitches to contact with his heavy sinker — but it's evidence that he's becoming less predictable. He struck out seven, one short of his career high, in five innings. He has fanned 13 overall in his last nine innings. He was unaware that teammate/No. 2 starter Ubaldo Jimenez struck out a WBC-record 10 last night. So it was quite a 24 hours for the Rockies' two most important arms. "I was able to mix in my slider, curveball and changeup more. Usually, I will give up a hit on those pitches and go right back to my sinker. I had a good feel for the secondary pitches today," Cook said.
Manuel Corpas, inching ahead in the closer's battle, pitched a scoreless sixth inning. He said his stuff is as good this spring as it has been at any point during his career. Huston Street, battling leg injuries, would have to stage one heck of a push to unseat Corpas at this point. Jhouyls Chacin continues to make a case to start the season in Triple-A. He worked two scoreless, projecting confidence that matched his stuff.
In the field:First baseman Dan Ortmeier dropped jaws with a full horizontal spear of Asdrubal Cabrera's line drive in the first inning. Manager Clint Hurdle had the least graceful play, falling down the dugout steps onto his bottom. He laughed and walked it off.
Up next:The Rockies travel to Tempe to face the Angels for the third time this spring. Franklin Morales can create distance in the fifth-starter derby with a strong five-inning outing. He threw four scoreless last time out against the Giants' everyday lineup, save for Fred Lewis. Scheduled pitchers include: Jason Hirsh, Huston Street and Matt Belisle. John Lackey will start for the Angels.


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ESTHERVILLE - Funeral services for Evelyn Origer, 83, of Estherville will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Estherville. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Sunday at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel in Estherville with Vigil Service at 7 p.m. Interment will be at East Side Cemetery in Estherville.
She died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Avera Holy Family Hospital in Estherville.
Henry-Olson Funeral Home of Estherville is in charge of arrangements.


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AUSTIN, TX -- One dad proved that he has what it takes to be the very best like no one ever was at parenting.
18-year-old Dylan Olivo recently graduated from high school and was surprised when his dad showed up to his graduation wearing a present he had given his father in first grade.
Fast forward eleven years, Dylan's dad, Robert surprised him by wearing his son's homemade Pokemon necktie and it has now gone viral.
Courtesy of Dylan 🎐 @themindofd's Twitter.
For more on the sweet gesture and to see some of the reactions from social media, check out the Buzzfeed article.
I made this tie for my dad when I was in 1st grade. 11 years later he wears it to my graduation :') pic.twitter.com/VNqEXpxTc3— Dylan🎐 (@themindofd) June 1, 2017


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Women Who Risk: Making Women in Technology Visibleby Tara Hunt
Tara Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities.
In the tech community, the questions about females abound: Where are the women in the industry? What about female speakers? Founders? Tech bloggers? And if they aren't present, why not? Are women really not interested in technology? Do we discourage our daughters from pursuing careers in technology? Does the nerdy stereotype discourage young women from becoming geeks themselves? Are women just built differently? Is it nature or nurture? I believe that part of the answer to the question "Why aren't women in technology?" lies in our mistaking the answer to the former question, "Where are the women?".
Women are present and in droves. On a trip out to an internal Yahoo! Hack Day about a year ago, I was surprised to enter the final presentation room and find that over one third of the presenters were female. Not only were there a surprising number of females presenting, the winning team also happened to be made up of two females. The winning hack was the ability to transfer your Yahoo! Travel data to your iPod for easy portability. A geeky answer to a very human problem. About two weeks later, my partner and I went out to the SuperHappyDevHouse all-night hacker fest to find a houseful of males with a smattering of females cycling through, most of them not developers and mainly there to socialize. There isn't anything wrong with coming to a hacker fest to socialize—many of the attendees do this—but I had to wonder, "Where are all of those awesome hacker women I witnessed at Yahoo! Hack Day?"
Those grassroots hackers who come up with their brilliant new startup ideas at the all-night hacker fests are celebrated highly; they grace the covers of BusinessWeek Magazine, headline the Web 2.0 conferences, and are elevated to folk hero status for other developers in the industry. But very rarely do we hear about an individual engineer within Google or Yahoo! who has come up with a something new. In a culture that celebrates the individual (even though none of us works in a bubble), the female geeks are being absorbed into teams. So, it seems that I've located the women: they are mostly at the big companies doing all sorts of cool and innovative things. They are in excellent, prestigious positions. But that isn't the entire picture either. There are quite a few, individual women who are risk takers. These are women who leave the comforts of salaried, benefited work at the big companies to go and lead startups.
My favorite example to use for this is Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems. Yes, THE Cisco systems. Sandra, known as Sandy to her friends, holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford and co-founded Cisco with her then-husband in 1984. Interestingly, as her next venture in the 1990s, she went on to co-found Urban Decay Cosmetics, a popular and subversive makeup brand. Sandra Lerner is a woman in technology (she has now returned to the tech industry as an investor) who has taken risks for years in a big way. Yet, when I talk about her, it is very rare that anyone has heard of her.
If you look around, you'll see that there are many Sandras. Some of the hottest companies of early Web 2.0 (and before) have been co-founded by women: Flickr (Caterina Fake), Blogger (Meg Hourihan), SixApart (Mena Trott), Mozilla (Mitchell Baker), Guidewire Group (Chris Shipley), and Adaptive Path (Janice Fraser). An overview of current startups shows a seemingly endless list of women founders (and co-founders) including:
- Mary Hodder: Dabble
- Gina Bianchi: Ning
- Ann Crady: Maya's Mom
- Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry: Meebo
- Emily Chang: eHub/IdeaCodes
- Xochi Birch: Bebo
- Joyce Park: Renkoo
- Jessica Hardwick: SwapThing
- Margarita Irizarry and Monica Heitlauf: Scrapblog
- Yael Elish: eSnips
- Halley Suitt: Top Ten Sources
- Elisa Camahort, Lisa Stone, and Jory DesJardins: Blogher
- Ryanne Hodson: Node101
- Ariel Kleckner Ford: CareSquare
- Carla Morton and Cathleen Wang: BrandHabit
- Sharra Chan: OrangeDoor
- Erica Douglass: Simpli.biz
- Lisa Sugar: PopSugar
- Louise Wannier: MyShape
- Beatrice Tarka: Mobissimo
- Emily Boyd: Remember the Milk
- Andra Davidson: Mothersclick
- Eileen Gittins: Blurb
- Rashmi Sinha: SlideShare
- Julie Davidson: 30Boxes
- Laura Scott and Katherine Lawrence: pingVision
- Kathy Sierra: Head First Books
- Gillian Carson: Carson Systems
- Alex Vikati: CastTV
- Vanessa Williams and Leigh Himel: Oponia
- Dina Kaplan: Blip.tv
- Rachel Cook: Minti
- Amy Muller: Ruby Red Labs
- D Millack: Zazzle
- Ellen Miller: Sunlight Foundation
- Linda Furrier: Podtech
- Elizabeth Souther Tarbell: VivaPop
- Maggie Fox: Social Media Group
- Maggie Tsai: Diigo
- Susan DeFife: Backfence
- DiAnn Eisnor: Platial
- Kim Polese: Spikesource
- Angela Beesley: Wikia
- Arianna Huffington: Huffington Post
- Kelly Goto: Gotomedia
- Merci Hammon: PMOG
...and the list goes on. This is only representative of a small number of women who, right now, are out on their own; some of them are up all night coding and many of them are knocking on venture capitalists' doors. So, why is it that—if we clearly already exist—the question of where we are is still being asked? I have a few theories on this, too:
I must choose family first. For as far as we've come, women are still the main caretakers of our families. I recently rode the elevator with a couple of super-smart businesswomen at BlogHer. One woman was telling the other one that she just got off of the phone with her husband who had spent the weekend with the kids. Through this experience, her husband apparently realized that all of his own business travel must have had an effect on his wife's work. "He promised to cut back on his own travel, so I could get my own work done," she proclaimed. The other woman mused that she looks forward to the day her husband has the same revelation, as her consultancy suffers because it has to take a backseat to childcare.
I'd like to think that we can have our babies and our careers, too. If this is what we want, though, we need to train those around us early on to share the workload (or we need to hire help) and stop taking all the burden on ourselves. I have a teenage son and I have always leaned heavily on other family members to make both being a mother and having a career possible for me. Sure, there are times when I've let balls drop, but I'm happier and further ahead for it. It is important for us to value our own careers and leisure time as highly as we do those of our partners.
I am invisible. There is a perpetual cycle of assumptions that lead to women becoming invisible. In the media. At conferences. In general discussion. There have been multiple occasions in which both my partner and I have been interviewed for an article on a project we are working on together, but my name has disappeared from reference upon printing. My partner and I have been tracking business and technology reporting and have created our own game wherein we collect the articles written about hotshot women starting cool new companies. So far we have one (Gina Bianchini of Ning in Business 2.0). We understand that this doesn't happen in malice, but it is damaging nonetheless. For every new magazine on the newsstands filled with young, white males talking about their latest startup, the invisibility of women becomes even more deeply ingrained.
The situation of the lack of women as conference speakers has become so dire that BlogHer put together a Women in Technology list that, among other things, watches for new conferences being announced, then swoops in with a long list of very qualified speakers to offer the conference organizers. Lucky for us, our efforts are being recognized by many conference organizers and they are beginning to come to this list for suggestions before the conference has even been announced.
The lack of role models in public view also makes it incredibly difficult for a young woman who is asking herself if she wants to enter the Computer Science field. I get several emails per week from young women who want advice on how to make themselves more visible and see me (and I'm not a developer) as a role model.
I am not successful. We need to re-examine the way we measure success in this industry. We tend to celebrate "masculine" successes, represented by the more logical, linear, quantitative statistics (such as raw numbers and dollars), rather than feminine measurements that are more anecdotal, relational, and qualitative. Of course, we need a balance of the two, but many of the magazine articles, conference brochures and the way we even blog about companies point to their prowess on numbers of users, money in the bank, size of acquisition rather than the depth of the relationships and connections. We appear to care more about size than substance when we report this way.
There is also a very aggressive attitude in venture capital. We have specific expectations set on how to conduct business and interact with that world. I've worked with several startups, some with venture capital and some without. Those without are much easier to work with as there is no pressure to grow raw numbers for the sake of pleasing the investors. The self-funded or the angel funded companies grow smart, not just grow large as they have less pressure. This matters to the barriers to entry for those with different approaches to growing a company, and, quite often, it is women who find this barrier antithetical to their goals. Many of the female entrepreneurs I've worked with have a much more personal approach to growth.
Online communities for women are growing in positive directions because of the personal interaction they have with each of their customers. For one such online community, Maya's Mom, it is essential that its community of mothers has trust among its members. With the wrong investor, Founder Ann Crady would get pressure to become more efficient and aggressively increase numbers (to look more attractive to potential advertisers) and that trust ecosystem would be compromised. Ann is lucky because she has good investors who understand her need for slow, positive growth, but those types of investors are a rare breed in the Valley. The pressure on growth for the sake of growth is extreme. This is also the most ingrained cultural practice and will take generations to unravel.
Of course, these are only my observations. Personally, I have chosen to ignore all of the standard measurements to create my own path. I've found what I consider to be great success by finding my own way. If there is anything that the grassroots, collaborative modeling of Web 2.0 has taught me it is that for anything that was once thought to be a best practice, you can find better alternatives just by looking deeper. More and more people are doing this and realizing that the old ways of doing business inherited from Web 1.0 are just not cutting it in the more community-based, connected world of social networks. The more feminine values, such as relationship building, openness, and cooperation, are growing in popularity for everyone, not just the female entrepreneurs. Many of these values come from the egalitarian outlook of open source, but I also believe they are highly influenced by the diversity of customers.
Now when someone around me asks, "Where are the women in technology?" I have a ready-made list to rattle off. Then I take the second part of that question and start to unravel the reason why we've been rendered so invisible. I hope this article gives more people the tools to do the same.
Series creator and editor Tatiana Apandi Recommends: a visit to the Women Founders Collective, which is a global movement of women founders of nonprofit organizations. For more resources for women internet entrepreneurs, go to: http://www.dotcomdivas.net.
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