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LinuxWorld Summit: Linux Lowers TCO
"The Only Really Valid TCO Data Is Your TCO Data"
Organizations are finding that Linux lowers TCO (total cost of ownership) on both the desktop and server sides, but specific results vary according to the situation, said John Dobbs, principal strategist for Novell, speaking at LinuxWorld Summit in New York City.
IT administrators can use data from published studies to help gain internal backing for their own Linux deployments, suggested Dobbs, who pointed to studies by major analyst groups, as well as white papers by Linux users.
Yet it's also important to realize the limitations of some of this information, and to conduct your own TCO analyses in readying a Linux roadmap, the Novell strategist told attendees at the Linux show last week.
"Linux and open source are now in the mainstream. Have you defined your organization's strategy, business case and roadmap for open source adoption?" he asked. "The only really valid TCO data is your (own) TCO data."
Generally speaking, Linux offers a number of advantages over other operating environments, including flexibility, reliability, security, and "control and agility," according to Dobbs.
But cost savings are almost always the chief driver for implementation. Software solutions are more affordable, the same OS image can be run on a variety of hardware, and there are "fewer distinct OS to support" in a Linux environment, he maintained.
In one of the analyst studies described by Dobbs, Forrester Research asked companies, �What benefits do you get or expect to get from Linux and open source software?"
A total of 86 percent of respondents answered "low acquisition cost," while 77 percent replied, "low total cost of ownership." Other responses included "hardware choices" (49 per cent); "software choices" (41 percent); "better security" (31 percent);" "familiar to our developers" (24 percent); "higher quality" (24 percent); and "other benefit, not mentioned here" (16 percent).
In the desktop arena, one major medical practice has arrived at substantial TCO for desktop Linux in categories that include yearly operating costs along with "costs first year, including conversion," Dobbs said.
In the report, the medical practice weighed the costs of Microsoft upgrades and expansion vs. use of "thick" and "thin" Linux clients.
First-year costs amounted to $736,825 for Windows desktops, $644,000 for Linux thick clients, and $501,500 for Linux thin clients.
Yearly operating costs, on the other hand, came to $523,500 for Windows, $479,500 for Linux thick clients, and $359,500 for Linux thin clients.
In another study, Novell worked with the State of Indiana to determine the TCO of deploying 1:1 desktop Linux to 300,000 students and teachers statewide.
In the conclusions drawn, Linux would reduce computer acquisition costs by 40 to 60 percent, and support and maintenance costs by 66 percent.
Indiana has now decided to make Linux desktops available to all high schools throughout the state, although deployment won't be on a mandatory basis, Dobbs noted, in a follow-up interview with LinuxPlanet. [In that state, individual school corporations are free to choose their own IT systems, those Indiana officials are beginning to strongly advocate Linux for cost savings. -ed.]
Meanwhile, an analyst study from Gartner has shown greater cost advantages for "locked" desktop Linux than for its unlocked counterpart. For a 2,500-user environment with a mixed user base, TCO was $4,556 for locked Linux--and $5,481 for unlocked Linux--in comparison to $5,319 for Windows XP, $5,335 for Windows 2000, and $6,136 for Windows 95, for instance.
Gartner based its numbers on "unmanaged, fat-client desktops," with the following user base: 1 percent high performance users; 20 percent knowledge workers; 74 percent structured task workers; and five percent data entry workers. Migration costs for the OS and Office weren't included in the result.
TCO numbers can differ dramatically, though, from one study to the next, Dobbs said during his LinuxWorld Summit presentation, referring to a slide quoting IDC analyst Al Gillen.
"A wide variety of factors affect any TCO calculation: what function you're using Linux for, what kind of hardware (and how much of it) you're using, etc.," according to the IDC analyst.
"Variables - such as what distribution is in play and the version of Windows or Unix it's being compared with - make it impossible to plug numbers into a preset formula."
As part of its own study, IDC figured out TCO between Linux and RISC/Unix, in terms of US dollars per year, per user, for 1,000 supported users.
For RISC/Unix, TCO turned out to be $1,407 for collaborative applications and $684 for Internet/intranet/extranet. In contrast, TCO for Linux amounted to just $255 for collaborative applications and $377 for Internet/intranet/extranet.
In another study, Soreon Research came up with an overall TCO advantage of 29 percent for open source Linux vs. Microsoft Windows. According to this report, however, the savings came mainly in the areas of license/procurement and administration.
Conversely, Windows actually evidenced some cost advantages over Linux, in terms of support, training, and installation.
But in yet another report cited by Dobbs, the Robert Francis Group discovered that although initial costs of Linux can be higher at certain points, the ability to "massively scale Linux horizontally, without paying additional licensing fees," can yield significant cost savings over time.
In figuring TCO for a Web server implementation, RFG arrived at first-year figures of $49,931 for Debian Linux, $91,724 for Windows Enterprise Server, and $421,718 for Sun Solaris.
By year three, the numbers jumped to $74,475 for Linux, but they soared to $190,662 for Windows and to $561,520 for Solaris.
Costs considered included downtime; software licenses, maintenance and support; training; systems administrators, and discounts, if purchases were made in high volume. The study also accounted for 12 percent cost of capital and hardware depreciation over three years.
But many organizations haven't even embarked yet on Linux TCO studies. "Most companies today are using Linux somewhere. But lots of them don't really know what they're spending," Dobbs said, during the interview with LinuxPlanet.
In the Forrester Research study, for instance, fewer than half of the participating companies had a formal process in place to measure the financial impact of their open source choices, and merely five of the 14 had kept detailed metrics.
Dobbs also told LinuxPlanet that, even when organizations do implement Linux TCO studies, they sometimes inadvertently leave out areas of savings that could yield substantially lower TCO results.


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How to use the render kit testing framework
1. Description
The render kit testing framework lets Trinidad developers write unit tests for renderers. It cannot test that your renderers are truly "correct": that requires visual and behavioral inspection. It is not intended to test the component-level processing of our components; that is the responsibility of other unit tests. What it can do is test the following:
- Verify that output does not change from checkin to checkin when not intended.
Verify that when output does change, that it changes only in precisely the expected way. (It is crucially important to note that we are not in any way guaranteeing that our HTML will not vary from release to release, sometimes massively so; the testing framework is designed to catch unintentional changes. Application developers, therefore, cannot rely on the stability of our HTML to perform regression testing.)
- Verify that attributes that are supposed to have an effect on the output are not ignored
- Conversely, verify that default values for attributes have no effect on the output
- Verify that the proper UIComponent is passed to startElement() (necessary both for visual editing and for PPR to function)
Verify that exactly the same calls are made to ExternalContext and ViewHandler APIs for encoding URLs, even where those APIs often are no-ops at runtime. (These calls are never no-ops in the testing framework. Note that this cannot test that you're making the right calls - just that changes to renderer code doesn't add or remove calls unexpectedly.)
- Verify some common output errors don't happen: unbalanced output, duplicate attributes
These set of tests let us catch two common sources of bugs: PPR failures related to a failure to passing the UIComponent to startElement() directly, and many, many attributes that are exposed on our tags yet not actually rendered in any way! (Javascript attributes and shortDesc appear to be the worst offenders).
In addition, by not requiring the JSP engine to be present, the testcases avoid pulling in unnecessary dependencies and testing "too much". The testing framework finally gives us a chance to make core changes in the framework, and even entirely rewrite renderers, with a high degree of confidence that our results are entirely as intended.
Test scripts are stored as simple XML files in trinidad-impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadinternal/renderkit/testScripts. The scripts are designed to be extremely simple, nearly trivial, to write, to ensure that we have coverage as wide as possible.
The desired output of the testcases is stored as golden files in trinidad-impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadinternal/renderkit/golden. These files are source-controlled. The output of the script is always compared against this golden file. Any diffs are considered a test failure, as are failures to meet with the other verifications listed above.
The output of these golden files is output in a special manner to make diffing easy. All attributes are listed on separate lines, and attributes are always sorted alphabetically. This means that we are not testing the order in which attributes are written, which we shouldn't be testing, since order doesn't mean anything. (Note that these files are written out in XML, not HTML, and this means that boolean attributes show up as disabled="disabled", not just disabled.)
1.1 Tested combinations
We currently test a fairly large set of skin/agent combinations. However, we only actually verify all the assertions listed above for the minimal skin on Gecko; this is to avoid generating a large number of errors. For all other combinations, we're only checking that the visualization has not changed from one checkin to the next.
The full list of combinations:
- Gecko, minimal
- IE, minimal
- IE, minimal, right-to-left
- Gecko, minimal, inaccessible mode
- Gecko, minimal, screen-reader mode
- Safari, minimal
- PocketPC PDA, minimal
This is missing some combinations: we aren't testing any multibyte languages (these generate very, very few diffs for our output), nor are we testing Palm, or our "printable" output mode, but it does give us a very wide coverage of all critical output paths.
1.2 When you get a failure or an error
When you get a failure or an error, you must take the following steps:
If it is an error (duplicate attributes, tests that should diff but don't, etc.), you must:
Determine if it is a bug in the RenderKit test framework or a bug in the actual rendering code.
- Comment out the testcase
- File a bug against the problem and explicitly note the testcase that is commented out
- And, if it all possible, fix the bug now.
If it is a test failure caused by a golden file diff, you must:
- Diff each failure file against the corresponding golden file
- Note each difference
- Verify that each and every difference is exactly what you expect
- If and only if all differences are expected, move the failure file into the golden directory
2. How To
The tests are run by the org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.renderkit.CoreRenderKitTest test case, in the trinidad-impl project (NOT from the top level):
mvn -Dtest=CoreRenderKitTest test
To add a testcase, add a new .xml file into the trinidad-impl/src/test/resources/org/apache/myfaces/trinidadinternal/renderkit/testScripts directory. (Syntax of those testcases discussed below.) When a diff fails, or if there is no golden file at all, its output will be written into the trinidad-impl/target/test-failures directory. After diffing the "test-failures" and "golden" directories and determining that all diffs are expected, move the failures into the "golden" directory and be sure to check in the golden file along with the test script (or any fixes).
Other command-line switches are:
-Dtrinidad.renderkit.fulltests=no will block the full test suite from running; instead, we'll only run the tests in the minimal skin for Gecko. Useful if you've made major changes and want a quick sanity.
-Dtrinidad.renderkit.script=table.xml will only run the "table.xml" script (or, obviously, any other script you choose). Useful if you've made major changes to one renderer and want a faster test.
2.1. Testcase syntax
Just to get started, here's an example:
<test xmlns="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/test" xmlns:tr="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad"> <base-component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreOutputText" value="Text"/> <js-test/> <attribute-test name="styleClass" value="OraErrorText"/> </test>
This is the basic structure all test scripts follow.
A root <test> element
- A base-component element defining the "base" component
- A series of test elements defining extra tests to apply on top of the component
2.1.1 Building components
The type of the component is defined by tr:type, which must match a componentType value. (NOTE: javax.faces componentTypes are not supported!)
Attributes can be set directly as attributes on the element.
A limited subset of EL can be used in attributes:
- Only dot syntax is supported (foo.bar.baz)
The VariableResolver only supports values stored in "request scope", and a hardcoded list of names in org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.renderkit.MVariableResolver. To add a new special type of object needed by your renderer, write some code in MVariableResolver!
To add a child, just add a <component> element (NOT <base-component>) inside your component.
To make that child a facet, set the "tr:facet" attribute.
An example of most of this:
<base-component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreTable" value="#{simpleList}" var="row" rows="5"> <component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreColumn"> <component tr:facet="header" tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreOutputText" value="StringHeader"/> <component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreOutputText" value="#{row.string}"/> </component> <component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreColumn"> <component tr:facet="header" tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreOutputText" value="IntHeader"/> <component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreOutputText" value="#{row.int}"/> </component> </base-component>
2.1.2 attribute-test
<attribute-test> supports three attributes: "name", "value", and "matchesBase". Type-conversion is supported; EL is not. If "value" is ommitted, <attribute-test> will assume its a string, and will use "test-[name]" as the value. e.g., <attribute-test name="onclick"> tests onclick with the value test-onclick. This is usually fine because with most strings, you just care that the value is used, not how its used (since that's just about impossible to test anyway.)
If "matchesBase" is set to true, then the test is required to be unchanged from the base test. This is useful for testing default values.
An attribute-test can contain other attribute-test elements, in which case the test will consist of setting all the attributes; this is important for attributes that have no effect unless others are also set (e.g., bandingInterval is ignored if banding is not set).
2.1.3 js-test
<js-test> is a convenience element that is like adding <attribute-test> for every attribute beginning with "on" (e.g., onclick, ondblclick, etc.)
2.1.4 enum-test
For enumerated types, <enum-test> lets you test all values of the enumeration with one element. An example from panelGroup:
<enum-test name="type" default="default"/>
We've specified "default" here only because, for some reason, panelGroup is not currently defining a default value for this attribute (which is basically a bug in panelGroup).
2.1.5 boolean-test
<boolean-test> lets you test both true and false values for a boolean property. Of course, it verifies that the "default" produces no changes, and that the non-default does. However, it adds an additional feature. You can put additional tests inside of <boolean-test>, and it'll run those tests with both values of the boolean property also set. This is very useful for testing boolean properties that have widespread effects on our components. For example, "simple" on our input components massively changes output, so here's a snippet of a test for inputText:
<test ...> <base-component tr:type="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.CoreInputText" value="Text"/> <boolean-test name="simple"> <attribute-test name="onclick"/> <attribute-test name="styleClass" value="OraErrorText"/> <attribute-test name="fooBar" matchesBase="true"/> <boolean-test name="disabled"/> <boolean-test name="readOnly"/> </boolean-test> </test>
<boolean-test> does not support matchesBase! It supports "default", and the default has to match the base.
2.1.6 Other tests
If you'd like to add another test, please do! Add code to TestScript to define the new test type, add code to TestScriptParser to define how to parse it, and document it here.
2.2 What not to test
There's been a lot of confusion about what should or should not be tested.
Tests should not try to test every property of a component. Specifically, they should not test:
- Attributes that necessarily have no effect on client-side rendering, but only affect server-side processing. For example, none of the following attributes should be tested: "partialTriggers", "useDialog", "actionListener".
- Most component properties that are not be renderer-specific. For example, do not test "rendered". (However, do test "id".)
3. Gotchas
Renderers that generate randomized output will break the renderkit testing framework; randomized output must be avoided.
Also, if a Renderer defaults some property differently from run to run - for example, chooseDate defaults its value to the current date - then you'd better set that property on base-component.
"id" is automatically set to "mainId" on the base component, and that ID is reused for every test. However, all tests render from inside of the same UIViewRoot in one pass. Therefore, any sort of auto-incrementing output will make all tests differ from the base, whether they should or not, which can both hide problems and make other non-issues look like problems.
3. Issues
We currently surround all components inside a CoreDocument and CoreForm (both with hardcoded IDs), and ignore the output generated by those two tags. This does mean that we can't actually test CoreForm itself or CoreDocument; we should enhance the framework to detect at least these two scenarios.
The component hierarchy is currently fixed for all tests in a single test script, and there's no way to set attributes on anything but the root component or add children or facets. More test scripts would help.


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"Home 4 the Holidays," now in its 15th year, is the biggest pet adoption drive in the world. This three-month adoption promotion saves the lives of shelter pets and raises awareness about the importance of pet adoption during the holiday season. Seasonal success has grown exponentially. "Home 4 the Holidays" began in 1999 when the Helen Woodward Animal Center organized 14 San Diego area shelters, finding homes for 2,563 orphaned pets. Each pet "went home" with a holiday meal of pet food. Then the media got behind the event. In 2000, "Home 4 the Holidays" grew to include 130 groups in five states. That holiday season 19,998 homeless pets were matched with their new families. Last year nearly 1.3 million orphan pets were placed in forever homes between Oct. 1, 2012 and Jan. 2, 2013 as a result of this expanding program.
Creators of "Home 4 the Holidays" at the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, CA strive to educate the public about the importance of choosing pet adoption, as opposed to supporting puppy mills. Through a collaboration of over 3,500 pet adoption agencies, facilities and rescue-groups, this has become the largest pet adoption campaign on record, saving over 8 million pets since its inception in 1999.
"Home 4 the Holidays" is the brainchild of Mike Arms, the president and CEO of the Helen Woodward Animal Center. Previously Arms worked at the ASPCA in Manhattan and North Shore Animal League. An expert in finance, marketing and animal shelter innovations, Arms became an incredible agent for change in the animal welfare world shortly after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats while rescuing a hit-by-car puppy from a NYC street. He made a vow that day to do all in his power to protect homeless animals if he were to survive such a brutal attack.
More families bring pets into their homes during the holidays than at any other time of year. What better gift can any of us give during the holiday season than to save the life of an orphan? In the past, some shelters and rescue organizations have actually gone so far as to discourage families from adopting pets during the holidays – uncomfortable with the idea of a pet as a "gift."
This did not stop families from getting new pets. It just took away the adoption option and forced them to support the pet store and puppy mill industry. Participating "Home 4 the Holidays" rescue workers know that educating families about the value of orphan pets, and working with these families to match the perfect family with the ideal pet, means a better success for everyone involved. Everyone wins.
At the onset Mike Arms noticed that a majority of rescue facilities were closing their doors during the holiday season – a primary time of year for family pet additions. With shelter doors closed, prospective adopters were resorting to shopping pet stores or puppy mills for holiday pet purchases. Not only did this increase the business of non-reputable stores and breeders, but Arms was aware that the workers at these businesses were rarely trained to scrutinize the likelihood of a successful animal/family match, thus increasing the number of pets sent to shelters once the season was over.
Many individuals are unaware that in many parts of the country (not LI) once the shelters close for the holidays, the animals that are left over are euthanized so that the agencies do not have to pay anyone to come in to feed and clean up after the animals once the organization is shut down. Many wonderful animals do not live to find their forever, loving homes because of this.
The "Home 4 the Holidays" campaign with its current sponsor, Blue Buffalo, request that shelters keep their doors open throughout the holiday months. They provide participating partners with the marketing tools to spread the word. A counter on the "Home 4 the Holidays" website registers over 790,000 adoptions so far during this campaign.
There is a huge difference between people who want a dog or cat as an unsolicited present under the tree for someone on their gift list, and people committed to bringing a new furry companion into the family fold for keeps. Saturday we had a woman come to a rescue facility who insisted on a small white dog. Why white? She said that was what she wanted, and then argued that rescues were denying her what she wanted and forcing her to go to a pet store. She was ready to settle for our brown one after looking at him a minute (over my dead body) as long as she and her unruly sons could have the dog right away before Christmas. She didn't want to be disappointed or her friends bothered with reference checking unless she was assured she was getting the dog. Won't be happening with brown, white or any other color scheme. Unfortunately a pet store will sell her a dog no questions asked, but there is a good chance that this poor pup will be surrendered for not being picture perfect.
Some shelters like Hempstead Town Shelter are registered participants in "Home 4 the Holidays" while most are promoting the concept. Babylon Town Shelter worked hard to find homes for long timers and special needs cases. "Nakita," the mature Akita that had a malignant mass removed, went to a breed-savvy lady who plans to cherish her the rest of her days. "Winnie," the calico with the facial deformity, has been adopted. We will be driving the Mama Devon Rex cat to NJ to meet up with my Afghan rescue friend from Philadelphia who adopted her son months ago. She couldn't stand the thought of her kitten's mother remaining in the shelter over six months.
Two special cases at Last Hope, 3300 Beltagh Ave., Wantagh (firstname.lastname@example.com) still resonate a need for "Home 4 the Holidays." Three sweet cats -"Joplynn, Potter and Dobby"- had a loving home and a devoted owner who was tragically killed in a car accident. We would love to place them together, but they can be adopted separately. "Drake," a patient and bubbly brindle Pit, spent over three years at Babylon Shelter before coming to Last Hope. It's time that "Drake" found his special somebody. Drake has earned his home for the holidays.


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The New Ballet Flat You Can Wear From Work to Play
Click through our slideshow to see how several tastemakers have been wearing this ladylike accessory while out and about. Plus don't forget to shop our favorites, ranging from elegant, pointy-toe flats to more playful, round-toe renditions.
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While arriving at the Los Angeles Airport last month, Alba's Sigerson Morrison Holli2 Flats ($280) offered a ladylike counterpoint to her tough-girl essentials, like a Simone leather jacket and Salvatore Ferragamo purse.
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At Chanel's Artists Dinner at the Tribeca Film Festival, Chung wore the label from head-to-toe, combining a refined tweed dress from the S/S 13 collection with a quilted bag and cap-toe shoes. The result is incredibly sophisticated, but still youthful.
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The model's outfit, which includes Ann Demeulemeester's Blazer ($680) and Sophie Hulme's structured Large Tote Bag ($910), is unquestionably fashion-forward, but ankle-strap flats keep her look grounded.
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To add a dose of eclectic charm to your outfit, we suggest Pierre Hardy's polka-dot Ballet Flats ($438) with your favorite cutoffs and graphic t-shirt.
We love see-through accessories, which is why Deena & Ozzy's Clear Panel Pointy-Toe Skimmers ($34) immediately caught our eye. Step into these futuristic shoes with a neon dress to make a sartorial statement.
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Two-tone Chanel flats instantly elevate the singer's Ray-Ban Classic Wayfarer Sunglasses ($150), Karl Lagerfeld t-shirt, and laid-back denim shorts.
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College names search committee
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May 29, 2012
On Friday, the College announced 14 members of the Dartmouth community, including trustees, alumni, current faculty members and one student representative, as members of the Presidential Search Committee that will assist Committee Chair Bill Helman '80 and Vice Chair Diana Taylor '77 in the search for the College's 18th president, according to Helman. The College also announced that Isaacson, Miller, an executive search firm, will assist in the process.
Six committee members are members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, including Jim Coulter '82, Denise Dupre '80, Annette Gordon-Reed '81, John Rich '80, Helman and Taylor. Chairman of the Board Stephen Mandel '78 will serve as an ex-officio member of the committee. The trustees are joined by seven Dartmouth faculty members, including Tuck School of Business professor Ron Adner, Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professor Alan Green, biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot, environmental studies professor Anne Kapuscinski, Dean of Graduate Studies and Thayer School of Engineering professor Brian Pogue, music professor Steven Swayne and government professor William Wohlforth.
Emily Bakemeier '82, deputy provost for the arts and humanities at Yale University, Dean of Libraries Jeffrey Horrell and Student Body President Suril Kantaria '13 will also serve on the committee.


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Even as its economic growth appears stunted, France's demographic growth seems full of vitality - French women boast the European Union's second-highest fertility rate. Across Europe as a whole, where recent years have seen declining birth rates, the numbers of births are stabilising. This in turn is allaying fears of a diminishing future work force.


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My favorite part of this segment is that Jim came prepared to make Jimmy and John exactly what they like (G&T) before getting into the nerdy cocktails. Some of the talk about town lately about refusing to serve Cosmos or rum & Cokes has irked me… The business is hospitality. Even privately, I make sure I keep around fixings for my good friends' go-to drinks whenever we get together.
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Long Lane Honey Bee Farms is a family beekeeping business designed to encourage, assist and educate others in the wonderful experience of beekeeping. We are the one stop beekeeping shop, providing classes and beekeeping and beekeeping equipment. We also provide an individual mentorship program by David Burns, EAS certified Master Beekeeper. Visit Our Website at: www.honeybeesonline.com Call Us At: 217-427-2678 Our photos and materials cannot be used without our permission.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Lesson 123: How To Keep Healthy Bees www.honeybeesonline.com 217-427-2678
Hello from Long Lane Honey Bee Farms in east central Illinois. I'm so glad you found us so that you can learn more about the honey bee and how important honey bees are to our food supply through pollination.
If this is your first time to meet us, we are a beekeeping farm family and have been playing with bees since 1994. Our hobby went wild and became Long Lane Honey Bee Farms, first selling honey, then selling equipment that we manufacture. Next we started adding to our business things like beginner classes, queen rearing classes, advance beekeeping. Finally we grew into becoming queen producers also. So anything to do with honey bees we do it!
We even remove bees from structures. This has kept us really busy this year. We remove one a week, sometimes two. Last week we removed a colony from a FRAT house at the University of Illinois. Click on this link to see us on the news. It was in a large wooden column about 20 feet high. We have three more scheduled to do right away.
LESSON 123: How To Keep Healthy Colonies
The Eastern Apicultural Society was the best I've attended. It's always great to listen to new findings and work that Tom Seeley, Marla Spivak and others are doing. Hearing experts speak about their recent discoveries either points me in a new way or confirms my own way of doing things. I'm amazed at how much information is coming forth on how to keep healthy colonies. I spend thousands of dollars each year attending conferences and subscribing to various journals to stay up to date so you don't have to.
Still the number one effort that we must all be focusing on is reducing varroa mites. We removed a colony from an apartment building in Hoopeston, Illinois and in this photo we tore the comb exposing a drone pupa with four varroa mites. A carefree, oblivious approach to mites may eventually lead to a colony's death. There are more and more chemical free methods to reduce mites. First there was powder sugar dustings, then came screen bottom boards, then came green drone comb, and then I wrote about a powerful blow to mites a few lessons ago by breaking the bee's brood cycle.
Now new studies show that by keeping hives further away from each other there is less drifting of bees, thus reduces drifting of mites. Not everyone has the space to do this, but during the cold days of winter, you should consider moving your hives at least 30 feet apart. This work was recently done by Tom Seeley.
During Tom's presentation he showed a graph comparing mite infestations among colonies that did and did not swarm. Of the ones that swarmed the mite count was significantly lower. Again, this was probably due to a break in the brood cycle. When a colony swarms, the old queen leaves shortly after the new queen cells are sealed, producing a break in the colony's brood cycle. See my recent article on breaking the brood cycle.
I cannot stress enough that to keep healthy colonies long term, we must reduce the number of varroa mites in a hive. Varroa mites spread viruses and these viruses shorten the lives of bees.
Throw every non-chemical weapon you can at the varroa mite. Do not give up. Have your mite level as low as possible going in to winter!
September is a good time to replace your queen. So many beekeepers mistakenly think all is well with their queen, but she may die during the winter. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to obtain a good, early queen in March or early April when you need her most to build up the over wintered colony. Why take that risk? Replacing your queen in September ensures you will have a strong laying queen for next spring. To break the brood cycle, you can remove your old queen this week but be sure you can receive a new queen the second or third week in September. This will give you a 2-3 week break in the brood cycle to reduce varroa mites. Then introduce your new queen. This makes for a healthier colony going into winter.
Now that it is September there are several things you must do to keep a healthy hive. Once you've harvest your honey, you must remove your honey supers unless they are full and you have chosen to leave them on for the bees to enjoy over winter. That's fine, but REMOVE THE QUEEN EXCLUDER! Never leave a queen excluder on a hive during the winter.
Mouse proof your hive. Seal up broken corners and holes big enough for mice to enter. Restrict the opening of the hive with the entrance reducer or some sort of mouse guard. Mice can kill your colony during the winter. I seal my colonies from mice no later than September 15.
Provide winter venting. The internal heat of the colony contrasts with the outside cold temperature and causes excessive condensation to accumulate inside the hive. This cold, dripping water can kill bees. Upper ventilation is essential for over wintering colonies. Our Winter-B-Kinds provide upper ventilation.
Check to see if your bees need fed during the fall or winter. You must make sure your bees have plenty of winter food, both pollen (protein) and honey or sugar (carbohydrate). Hopefully the bees have stored surplus amounts of honey and pollen within the hive. If you need to feed your bees DO NOT use an entrance feeder. Bees rob other hives during the fall, and an entrance feeder will usually attract robber bees. Use a top feeder or frame feeder and use 2 parts sugar to 1 part water. The heavier syrup can be store more quickly by the bees prior to cold weather. There is less water for the bees to dry out of the syrup as with a 1:1 mixture.
If your bees have failed to store adequate amounts of pollen and honey to make it through the winter, you should consider placing one of our Winter-B-Kinds on your hive. Our Winter-B-Kinds provide needed upper ventilation as well as top insulation and sugar and pollen for winter food in one piece. Click here for more details on our Winter-B-Kinds or go to: http://www.honeybeesonline.com/servlet/Detail?no=145
Wind protection. Is wind protection necessary? Why not! Honey bees have much to contend with so let's do all we can to give them a better fighting chance. Certainly it is not necessary for a large, healthy hive. But not every beekeeper's hive is large and healthy so wrapping up a hive will not hurt. However, we strongly recommend upper ventilation because the added wrap may cause increased moisture in the hive in real cold weather.
Another way to block the wind is to place some sort of barrier around the hive. Do not place straw or hay bales right against the hive. The bales will draw and retain moisture and could cause too much moisture near the hive. Place straw bales three feet away from the hive. But you can use any type of material to block the wind. Be creative.
Work carefully now to implement these important steps in keeping a healthy colony. Thanks for joining us today!
Check out some of our more popular lessons:
-How to harvest honey
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That's all for now and thank you for joining us for another beekeeping lesson! Please let others know about these lessons and our business. We appreciate you spreading the word! Your donations helps us continue our work and research on the honey bee, such as our recent development of our Winter-Bee-Kind. These lessons are free and will provide you with as much if not more information than you would find in a $30 book. So consider making a $30 donation so that we might continue these lessons, CLICK HERE TO DONATE $30 or go to:
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- September 6, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- Gary Fawcett said...
Thanks guys for the new post, always great to hear how you are all going.
I agree the upper ventilation is a great idea, we tested that idea over our winter and the hive with extra ventilation seems to have less varroa mites. Any idea why the extra ventilation would help reduce varroa mites?
Our thoughts are with your son with his new career in the army.
See ya...Gary and Margaret
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Best wishes to Seth as he starts his service with the US Marine Corps. Semper Fi! God bless every young man who puts his life on the line to protect his country.
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I must admit I wept a little when I saw this website. My best friend Greymalkin was diagnosed with CRF 2 months ago and I'm in the thick of things testing different foods to see what he will and will not eat. I've sat up with him at night pleading that he would atleast finish a 1/2 a mini can of K/d... this whole thing is heroing.
That said, Grey is taking it like a champ, he's perfectly happy. As far as he is concerned mommy is just a nut job. He also likes all the extra attention.
On the talk about water intake I found a great article on making flavored waters :
" While you are working toward getting your cat to eat canned food, you can increase their water intake by using flavored waters such as tuna water, beef or chicken broth, clam juice, lactose-free cat milk, etc.You can make you own tuna water by adding 3 cups of water to a can of tuna. Mash it up and let it sit for ~15 minutes then pour the water into covered (to help maintain freshness) ice cube trays. 3 cups of water will fill two 16-cube trays. The ice cube trays can be used for other flavored liquids as well."
I've given him the lactose-free catsip to boost his caloric intake and he loves it but the tuna slurry is in the freezer now so I can try it. It sounds disgusting but if it works
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mammothmix.com is a site catering to many different customers with varying sportswear and apparel products. With several different brands available, the website will carry product for men and women, carrying tops, bottoms, outerwear, and accessories. "Mammoth"=vast selection, huge discounts, etc.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Recent reports that Saudi Arabia (KSA) will shoot down any Iran-bound Israeli jets that violate the kingdom's airspace were not surprising, given the Saudi's previous experience with Israeli fighters.
In 1981, a squadron of Israeli jets, bearing Jordanian markings, crossed the country undetected and destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor. But this time Saudi Arabia is more likely than ever to follow up on its threat, especially because now it has more means to do so.
Over the years, Saudi Arabia has acquired a wide range of offensive and defensive weapons provided by the kingdom's American and European (primarily French and British) allies.
US-Saudi military cooperation started during World War II, when Washington offered to protect the kingdom in exchange for oil, which was crucial to the war effort. Yet, loyalty to another regional ally, Israel, prevented the White House from upsetting the balance of power by selling advanced weapons to the Arab states. The situation changed under the then-President Jimmy Carter, who in 1978 authorized the transfer of 60 F-15s to Saudi Arabia and 50 F-5Es to Egypt (compared with a combination of 90 F-15s and F-16s to Israel).
But it wasn't until 1981 that Saudi Arabia began to acquire some of America's most sophisticated weapons, including Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance planes able to intercept any aircraft within a 450,000km2 area while remaining hidden from ground radar.
In October 2010, US President Barack Obama gave the green light to the largest arms sale in US history, approving $60.5 billion worth of equipment and services to Saudi Arabia.
For years, such sales have been justified on the grounds that the kingdom had to defend itself from a number of internal and external threats (like the spread of communism and terror). Israel, on the other hand, was asked not to panic, with US officials alluding to Saudi military incompetence to calm nerves in Jerusalem.
The Jewish Virtual Library, for example, cites a former US diplomat based in Riyadh in the 1990s as saying that "the US Military and Training Mission had difficulty getting the 30,000-man Saudi National Guard to appear where they were supposed to or carry out maneuvers effectively…"
The diplomat further revealed that Saudi naval war vessels "could not be pried from their port berths," and that during exercises with the US Navy the commanders would refuse to allow their ships to go out of sight of land and required that the crews be able to return before dark.
The lack of Saudi professionalism was also evident during the first Gulf War from 1990-1991. Despite the possession of advanced US weapons, the Saudis asked the US to defend the country from Iraqi invaders. Washington replied by sending 500,000 American troops and launching "Operation Desert Storm".
Nevertheless, arsenals of heavy artillery at the doorsteps of Israel could spell trouble. As Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, once put it: "It was hypocritical to suggest that the arms could be effective against the Red Army but pose[d] no threat to Israel".
The situation became particularly alarming in the early 2000's, when Saudi Arabia reportedly transferred much of its advanced F-15 fleet to its Tabuk air base, despite numerous US pleas to return the planes to their original bases. From there, the jets could reach Israel's southern border in about six minutes.
Apart from proximity to Israel, Saudi Arabia presents another challenge. Regarded as the leader of the Muslim world, it is able to unite the masses in anti-Jewish sentiment. Saudis participated in previous Arab-Israeli wars mainly through embargoing countries that supported Israel or funding Arab armies and supplying them with ammunition. Could the Saudi's now take the next step, considering that their weapons now matching Israel's state-of-the-art arsenal? Experts doubt it.
"One of the reasons why Israel has put up with the Saudis accumulating sophisticated weapons over the years was because the ammunition was quite useless in their hands," said Dr. Mitchell Bard, an expert on US-Middle East policy and author of "The Arab Lobby".
"Saudis lack any well-trained professionals to operate the equipment as well as skills to maintain these arms," he added, stressing that Washington continues to pour arms into the kingdom in exchange for stable oil flow, big revenues and expansion of the labor market.
A similar point of view was voiced by Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, a leading expert on modern Middle Eastern history and a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. "The US has always asked for the consent of Israel before going ahead with any arms deals with the KSA," he told Israel Today, suggesting a Saudi-led military campaign was unlikely.
"Except for a few instances, the Saudis have never been directly involved in attacks against Israeli targets," Teitelbaum noted.
Another internationally recognized scholar, Dr. F. Gregory Gause, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Institute saw a Saudi attack on Israel as "extremely uncharacteristic". "The Saudis have been very cautious in terms of foreign policy for most of their history, and loathe to confront Israel directly. I doubt that the Saudi leadership has plans to try to mobilize the Arab world against Israel".
An interesting approach was taken by Caryle Murphy, a Pulitzer Prize winning independent journalist, who has worked in various Arab states including Saudi Arabia. The author of "Passion for Islam" – detailing the roots of religious terrorism and Middle Eastern strife – argued Saudis would not attack Israel because they have never been the aggressors: "The worst thing Saudis have ever done against Israel was the oil embargo, but it affected Saudi allies as well," she said, referring to the two oil embargoes imposed by the then-King Faisal following the defeat of the Arab armies in the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973).
"Accumulation of weapons was done for defensive purposes only. Saudi leaders have never threatened to use their arsenal against any other state," she added, charging that the kingdom preferred to use oil to achieve its aims.
Consensus is thus that the Jewish state has nothing to worry about, especially given the fact that Saudis -- just like Israelis -- have another headache: Iran.
Saudi relations with the Islamic Republic were dealt a severe blow by Iran's revolution of 1979, when hardline Islamists overthrew the ruling royal family.
The US-backed demise of long-time Iranian foe Saddam Hussein in 2003 exacerbated tension in Saudi Arabia. As Tehran continued to "bare its teeth" to Riyadh and Jerusalem, Saudis and Israelis found themselves in the same boat, prompting some to speculate that the two countries could unite in the face of a common challenge.
In June 2010, the Jerusalem Post cited a number of unconfirmed reports as saying that Israel's Air Force had dropped off large quantities of military equipment at Tabuk, preparing for a potential strike on Iran.
The claim followed a report in the London Times Magazine suggesting that Saudi Arabia had given Israel "a green light" to fly through a narrow corridor of airspace in the northern part of the country to shorten the flight time to reach Iran.
Naturally, Saudi officials rebutted the allegations.
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So there seems to be some question on whether imprisoned former Bronco Maurice Clarett is actually writing his own blog. Is he using a ghost writer? What's the WiFi access situation in cell block D?
Clarett, who is serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence on a variety of charges, is currently at the Toledo Correctional Institution, from which he has been writing a blog since October. Only as we find out from The Columbus Dispatch, there is no computer access from that facility. From Bob Hunter's column in the Dispatch:
Inmates don't have computer access; his mother, Michelle Clarett, confirmed yesterday that he calls his blog entries to family members who post them for him. The entries — a mixture of philosophy, advice, famous quotations and humor — started last October.
And so the question is raised, is Clarett actually writing his own blog? Writing a blog post by calling it in to a second party seems like an unlikely, laborious process; unless, like me, you were a journalist before the days of email. Calling in a story to someone who transcribes it actually was pretty routine. Our protagonist (presumably) addresses the situation:
Ghost writer, huh? Thanks for the "backhanded compliment." It is ALL Maurice Clarett, one letter at a time, one word at a time, one sentence at a time. One conscious thought and one inspirational quote at a time. I study from the best. I only inquire about the greats that overcame great obstacles. Reading from world leaders, dictators, plutocrats, and even tyrants helps me keep my situation in perspective.
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I just recently had a member of prison administration question me about the authenticity of my blog. They also came to verify that I am in school. In the midst of all that, I also detected that the person was phishing to see if I was going to talk about the prison in any way. My answer to that is, "No." I have no interest in discussing prison's day to day operations. That serves no purpose in my life. I created this site for other reasons. There are too many young men and women that need hope and inspiration. To a large degree, prison doesn't exist to me anymore. I'm mentally removed, on certain levels. My mental sentence expired when I decided to educate myself. I spend all of the hours of my days developing my life's vision. I don't have the time to think about prison. I'm just waiting for my physical sentence to expire.
I guess this isn't the controversy of the decade; really, who cares if the words are actually his? And what purpose would be served by Clarett farming out the writing duties to a blog no one knew existed for the first three months of its existence? It's not like it's going to get him out of prison any sooner. And he can't be angling for a book deal: No one is going to want a prison story that doesn't include any actual details about being in prison. Clarett's posts are rambling takes on philosophy and history; just the kind of thing you'd study all day if you had nothing to do but peruse the prison library book cart.
Some close to the situation believe that the blog author definitely is Clarett. Reaction to Hunter's Dispatch column:
"That was a niece piece you wrote on Maurice in the Dispatch today. It was fair and balanced. Most importantly, it was right on point. Indeed, "The Mind of Maurice Clarett" is a sincere expression of his inner most thoughts, beliefs and life's experiences. Dominic Mango and I were Maurice's attorneys on his criminal case and I have stayed in close contact with him ever since. I am pleased to report that Maurice is doing extremely well. He has been a model inmate throughout. Now that his course materials have finally arrived from OU, he is thrilled to be back working towards his college degree from The Ohio State University."
Get busy bloggin', or get busy dyin', I guess.
Maurice Clarett On Blog Comments [The Mind Of Maurice Clarett]
Clarett Can Still Get A Reaction — Both Good And Bad [The Columbus Dispatch]
Clarett Blog Reveals A Man Working To — As Well As For — Change [The Columbus Dispatch]


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The American economy under Trump
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed at a record high at least 16 times since Donald Trump was elected president, and some experts believe it could reach 20,000 - which would be a 120-year record high.
"The stock market is essentially a barometer of what people expect future corporate profits to look like. And the Trump presidency could be pretty good for corporate profits," said Josh Bivens with the Economic Policy Institute.
That confidence is showing its face a long way off Wall Street as well, with holiday shoppers willing to spend much more than usual this time of year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), which predicts sales in November and December could jump 3.6 percent to nearly $656 billion, a larger growth spurt than in years past.
"In all of our surveys that we've done for the holiday season, every single one of them have said the economy is in a really good state. Therefore, they're willing to shop more," said NRF's Ana Serafin Smith.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
- Richard Dawkins
By itself, this quote by Dawkins is entirely rational. However, it is many times used to attack Dawkins and New Atheists on the basis that as humans, we (atheists included) often have faith in things outside of religion. While this is entirely true, such other examples of faith when compared to religious faith are at best apples to oranges comparisons, and at worst apples to dump trucks comparisons.
For instance, to have faith that you will make it to work on time because there will not be an accident on the expressway this morning is devoid of evidence, but for it to turn out to be untrue would not be shocking, or defy any laws of nature, or negatively impact yourself beyond being late for work. It is harmless positive thinking.
To have faith that when you go to sleep at night, your cat walks around the house on its two hind legs and recites poetry, is baseless and delusional, but still harmless.
To have faith that the universe began in a moment of singularity, whereby the most violent of eruptions unleashed matter and energy that took billions of years to dissipate, cool and evolve into what we witness today, may sound as unlikely the cat analogy to some, but nonetheless this is a popular concept, and the fact that it is proposed is as harmless to the individual and society as the cat analogy.
To have faith that there is order and design in the universe, and because we are all ultimately composed of recycled bits and pieces of the universe, we are each a tiny piece of the governing intelligence of the universe, might sound equally unlikely as the cat analogy, but is still equally harmless to the individual and society.
To have faith that an infallible, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, anthropomorphic, judgmental, non-communicative, invisible, and humanly impossible to understand god is the reason we and the rest of the universe exist, and that it personally cares deeply about everything you and every other human past, present and future does, and that the unfathomably immense universe that exists outside of our miniscule planet is superfluous to the mundane circumstances of our own earthly existence, and that your eternal fate in an afterlife involves either extreme suffering or absolute peace depending on the strength of your faith and your devotion to said god and its followers during the course of your lifetime – this is the pinnacle of absurdity and profoundly harmful not only to the mentality of the individual, but to society on a global level. The fact that there is not one, but thousands of such obtuse and carelessly cavalier faith systems overlapping and competing with one another, makes this kind of faith the most dangerous threat that humanity will ever know.
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I don't have faith or faith in anything.
Other than the Big Bang, I can't say as I do either. I do have reasonable expectations, and occasionally even mildly unreasonable ones. However, I do realize that most non-religiously affiliated examples of faith are relatively innocuous. Religious faith is a whole different animal.
I MIGHT have faith that I won't keel over in the next half-second ... there, see, I made it!
OR ... I have a reason to believe that something untoward will not happen because of previous patterns or performance which SUGGEST that my trip to work today will be little different from today's commute. Some of that is based on my own actions, like looking for traffic before making a turn and not following too closely behind the car in front, and so on. Some things I don't have control over, like the driver behind me who IS following too close and might just rear-end me if I brake too fast. There are thousands of variables to these equations, but mostly, we can live with them and fairly successfully.
As for "faith" in the Big Bang ... I know a bit about the BB, and if I trust in people like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lawrence Krauss when they assert that that's how this shootin' match began 13.7 billion years ago, it's because they have the evidence behind them as well as the scrutiny of thousands of other scientists who have also looked at the background radiation and the movements of the stars and verified those calculations themselves. It's also worth noting that the BBT is supported by physical fact and theory which predates the fooforaw which disqualified the steady-state universe hypothesis and put the BBT in the driver's seat.
If I trust in any particular concept or proposition, it is on the basis of fact and experience which is consistent with that concept or proposition. For instance, if a friend tells me there's a faster way to get to a customer's site, I might be skeptical, but I can listen to his idea, test it and either accept it, saying, "Yeah, that shaved a good 10 minutes off of my travel time," or "No, the time difference wasn't worth the change in route," or whatever, but regardless, I have a means to TEST the proposal. This is where the big guy with the beard runs into trouble every time, because there is no fact, evidence or experience I can tie exclusively to the dude. Worse, the holy books which are supposed to describe who he/she/it is and what he/she/it is about are so little in common between them and are so frequently self-contradictory that I have no reason to give them any credence whatsoever ... and I don't.
Unfortunately, I live in one of the worst traffic areas of the country and my daily commute is about 60 miles each way. There are tens of thousands of decisions being made by drivers downstream of me and outside of my vision that could ultimately impact the timeliness of my commute. About the only word that could adequately describe a positive feeling that I will not be delayed by a traffic accident is "faith". I guess my point is that "faith" is a relatively benign word when it is used to describe anticipation for events in the real world. When it is used in anticipation for supposed supernatural entities and events, it takes on a whole new meaning. When it is used in reference to the demands of organized religion it becomes a downright ugly word.
For the record, I too trust the brilliance of those responsible for sythesizing the BBT and related matters of science. The beauty of that trust is that it cannot harm me or anyone else, and if a better theory comes along I am free to change my mind.
I'm not an expert on this subject but I liken the type of faith we athiests have to statistical probability. We (not just us, but everybody) have a very fast processor in our head that evaluates evidence and situations to determine the best way to proceed. I may continue full speed into a red light, knowing it will change to green just as I enter the interesection. Why? Because I've seen it do just that a thousand times as I drive home from work. Could it do otherwise, causing me to crash into oncoming traffic? Sure, but the odds of this happening are extraordinarily low and even I would not do it if cross traffic were near. Before someone jumps in to contest this as foolish, we do the same thing everyday with all kinds of dangerous situations. How many people would think it reasonable to get into a contraption that is rocketed at 600mph through the air? Yet, how many of us have flown a commercial flight lately?
My old roommate, on the other hand, would say the light turned green because god loves her (that banging noise is my head hitting my desk). The devil is responsible for the next light being red, although it may be gods mysterious will (more banging).
So yes, I do think there are degrees of faith. Unfortunately, "faith" is not the right word for someone who lives their life without belief in the supernatural. I'd say a more correct word would be something along the lines of "confidence" or "trust". To say we have "faith" would imply we trust in what is unseen. I think that's a distortion of our reliance upon empirical knowledge. I suppose someone might step in to say that actions directed by mathematical models, based on rigorously demonstrated proof would not be considered empirical knowledge. That's beyond my understanding right now.
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- MKL said...
The protesters are assuming if you are not Taiwanese, you cannot read (or speak) Chinese. That is misguided because it shows prejudice -- a judgment we pass on another without first knowing them -- and ethnocentric behavior.
So you would rather see, that they think, that everybody, who is not Taiwanese, can read (or speak) Chinese? That's in my opinion in heavy conflict with reality.
If you ask me, they are right. It would be better to have another English version next to the Chinese, it's common sense. How many non-Taiwanese (which here probably equals Westerners) can really read traditional Chinese well? A few do maybe.. a few. Having a bilingual warning is what bridges the gap between Chinese speaking and English speaking students, it should be embraced, not frowned upon.
And I think it goes too far to insert "skin color" here, I personally can not understand, why would you go that far. There are Singaporeans, who are Han Chinese, but only speak English.
I for a fact know it's ethnocentric behavior because I just went down to Greater Kaohsiung this morning and interviewed the same students as the Taipei Times.
This I don't believe, it's anecdotal evidence. In Taipei Times no student's name is mentioned, how could you have talked to the same one? And how many of them have you spoken with? Do they represent the majority of the students?
I'm not excluding the possibility, that someone said:
only Chinese and Taiwanese people (like them) were smart enough to learn it.
But seriously, I don't believe, that this is the opinion of the majority of the students of that college. I will believe it, when I hear it.
- 9/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
"So you would rather see, that they think, that everybody, who is not Taiwanese, can read (or speak) Chinese? That's in my opinion in heavy conflict with reality."
I don't know about that. Assuming that foreign students who study Chinese aren't able to understand Chinese is problematic for the couple of reasons I go into. I for one know lots of foreign students who do understand Chinese. That is why they study, and what they learn in their classes: how to read and speak Chinese. The college makes the claim that its foreign students have this capability on their website.
"This I don't believe, it's anecdotal evidence. In Taipei Times no student's name is mentioned, how could you have talked to the same one? And how many of them have you spoken with? Do they represent the majority of the students?"
It's a joke, a hyperbole if you will; I don't think that this is too hard to grasp in the tone of my post. The Taipei Times obviously did not talk to anyone; that is why not a single student's name was mentioned. I didn't talk to anyone either. In fact, I didn't even go to Greater Kaohsiung. I was just mimicking their crappy reporting to make a point.
- 10/4/12
- MJ Klein said...
so, how intelligent does one have to be to learn a language as a baby? geesh.
- 10/4/12
- Anonymous said...
Middle people
I like to mention I read somewhere it's the SECOND hardest language in the world. They say wha...???!?! I say there are African languages that are tonal as well as using clicks. Whoever thought up a language where liver and frack are the same sound...sheesh?! I dunno know about you, I don't mind being middle class, but I don't like to be middle (mediocre?) people.
- 11/4/12
- MARC SCOTT said...
Love your articles Patric...keep on-em.
- 12/4/12
- Anonymous said...
"What should be important is that students do their homework, participate in classes, show respect for their teachers and peers, etc. Who gives a crap if they're wearing flip-flops or hot-pants? If anything, the school is showing disrespect to them by questioning their fashion sense and making a statement about their attitude."
I'm far from supporting the school here, but it probably helps to know though that Wenzao is in nature a catholic school (the school's name is a dedication to a missionary by that same name) and in many ways even more conservative than the average educational environment in Taiwan. Also, let's not forget, the full English name is "Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages."
Besides from having a chapel on campus, a lot of (catholic) missionaries from all sorts of countries study Chinese there for free (AFAIK) or at least get discounts that other students do not.
Having been there for quite a while myself, I find it rather ridiculous to blame possible violations of any dress code on the foreign students there, who really aren't that many. I would even go so far as to say that most of them are missionaries or come from Southeast Asian countries.
Ironically, due to the conservativeness of the environment, girls being enrolled in the under-university levels at Wenzao (like at many other schools in Taiwan) are usually required to wear skirt-based school uniforms, which, I guess is one of the most sexist/male-oriented biases as to how young women are supposed to dress, sorry, I meant *reasonable* clothing requirements of the world.
- 14/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
"Having been there for quite a while myself, I find it rather ridiculous to blame possible violations of any dress code on the foreign students there, who really aren't that many."
Thanks for the insight. It's interesting to hear from someone who actually goes to the school. It is ridiculous.
Taiwan's media to a certain degree has been race baiting a lot recently; the US & Them stuff, especially when it has sexual connotations, must sell papers because it is occurring on a regular basis.
- 14/4/12
- Terry J. Benzie said...
Dress codes have their place in certain institutions and, if the school has one in place, they should enforce it. However, anybody who has been on any campus in Taiwan can tell you that it's not a "foreign student" issue if, for no other reason than the percentage of them are rather low in comparison to the general population.
A university campus is the one place that you can expect a high number of foreigners to read Chinese well. (If students are in the first year of their language programme, the programme should help them to understand in the same way that second language programmes do in other countries).
However, does this school routinely post notices in two (or more) languages? Are they demanding that all flyers be bilingual? If not, they can generally be disregarded as saber rattling and race baiting as opposed to actually pushing for lasting change.
- 22/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
"However, does this school routinely post notices in two (or more) languages? Are they demanding that all flyers be bilingual?"
Good points. I suspect it does not. I should look into this.
- 23/4/12
- Anonymous said...
They don't need to read chinese as those restrictions on clothes are SIGNS, it's 3 photographs with the forbidden red sign on it so...it does concern everyone. You should have seen those sign at the 2 main entrance if you went there.
And you said who cares about students dress? i mean it's good to have dress code sometimes for school especially because in Wenzao there are university student AND highschool ones. I guess a 16yu student might not need to see hotpants or tiny top on the campus ;-)
- 21/7/13
- Patrick Cowsill said...
People need to take it easy. What is the problem with young adults in "hot pants?" Young people express themselves in what they wear. And what's the matter with them expressing their sexuality while they are at it, if that is what they want to do?
- 3/9/13