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Q: Murakami sometimes directly incorporates English phrases into his novel. Does that fit well in your translation? For example, in "Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru" (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle), he used the phrase, "Kojinteki ni toranaide kure," which is obviously from "Don't take it personally."
A: The problem is to translate it "back" into English that is as unusual as the Japanese, but often I lazily go for the "original" English expression. This way, the batakusasa (Western air) of Murakami's style is lost. Sorry.
So let's get this out of the way: I am not Japanese. Most of what I have to say in this post could be explained away by saying "You just don't understand how to make a sentence like a real Japanese person does."
Fair enough.
Right then.
The number one problem I have in co-authoring an all Japanese blog with my Japanese wife is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the exact same problem I had co-teaching English with Japanese teachers. They spend all their time addressing the slowest person in the room.
I have an easier time accepting this in the classroom (especially the public one). Sure it ensures that your smart kids only learn as much as the dumb ones, and often turns them off of school altogether. But yeah, everyone has the right to be in school, and 子供1人も置いて行かれないように, and all that.
But when I'm writing my blog, for my imagined audience, who are all as smart as, if not smarter than you, dear reader, I like to think that I'm allowed to set the bar.
Most of the time, when Yuri reads a blog post I've published, and suggests a change here or there, I capitulate. She is the Japanese person, after all.
But a handful of times, I've raised objections. Often I don't want to change something that I wrote deliberately for effect (humorous or otherwise)... and yesterday's blog was just a train-wreck of differing opinions. Here are some examples:
In a post all about going to see what is billed as THE WORLD'S GREATEST sun set ("evening sun" is in the title, and mentioned once again before the sentence in question), I wrote 「落ちる前に 奇麗なレストランを探し、そこでゆっくり見よう。」 "Before it goes down, let's find a nice restaurant and watch it at our leisure."
Now you see why I stopped posting English translations with every post. It sounds pretty vapid in English.
But the point here was, Yuri thought the sentence would be easier to understand if I said explicitly, "Before the SUN goes down." Okay... fair enough. But is it really necessary?
When I wrote about buying two Heinekens, ハイネケン2本、I was advised to say Heineken beers, because some people might not know about Heineken. I think it's safe to assume most of my audience knowns beer. Or that the Japanese audience for a world travel blog knows about Heineken. And even if they don't, they know we bought two bottles of something with dinner, and they won't really be missing out on that much information if that's as far as they get.
The Heineken info was part of an explanation that, as we awaited this beautiful sunset and had dinner, we started to feel less enthused about it. I wrote "As we ate, though, our tension started to drop."
My editor said: "Why?"
For me, when I want to find out the reason behind something written on the page... I keep reading. But, and this isn't just Yuri's opinion, Japanese writing doesn't really make you look that far ahead to get answers. Some might argue it's built into the sentence structure. Get the Where-What-How-Why-Who out in front, before you even get to your verb.
And then finally, I compared this top ranking sunset, which we didn't even end up staying for, with another one that we had watched from a beach days before. The latter was much more... us. It was quiet, we didn't have to put up with an enormous crowd, we didn't have to pay anything to sit on the sand. I wrote "I bet (The beach we watched from) isn't listed anywhere on any kind of ranking. But it was nice (literally: good)."
I'm not winning any awards for prose anytime soon, but sometimes I like saying "It was nice." I like the understatement, the smallness of it... because it matches the mood, the calm, and the much smaller scale (in terms of world-fame, not sun-size) of the viewing experience that we preferred.
But a Japanese person would understand it better if it said "But it was amazingly, superlatively, lovely."
Fine... but that's not HOW I wanted to say it.
This post is hard for me to make, cause it feels a little like a laundry list of complaints about my wife's writing style. But it's not. I've had corrections from professional editors, teachers, translating clients that all speak to the same three issues:
1) Japanese prefers all the information as soon as possible, and outside of a mystery novel, it's wise not to expect people to just keep reading to get the answers.
2) Very little is made of the idea of understanding by context, or looking up stuff you don't know. Someone out there is gonna go "Before it goes down? Wait, before WHAT goes down?" Someone won't like that they had to open a new tab and google Heineken.
3) And last but not last... the same need to declare everything the BEST, the MOST... the squealing "Oishii" and "Kawaii"until we all die phenomenon applies to writing too.
Maybe it's really just a cultural difference. But to me, it feels like dumbing down my writing at best... churning out something generic at worst. "We went. It was really beautiful. We ate. It was really delicious."
I find it harder to take pride in my ability to write and to speak in English these days. I used to consider it my strong suit.
I wouldn't trade in my Japanese to go back, of course, but... man. Man.


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Millions of Americans went to the polls Tuesday to select our leaders, again fulfilling the promise of democracy our Founding Fathers envisioned 225 years ago. In places like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, various problems arose for people trying to exercise their "constitutional" right to vote. Yet remarkably, the U.S. Constitution, our most important document, does not actually grant citizens the "right to vote." This needs to change, either through a constitutional amendment or a better adherence to state constitutional provisions on voting rights.
The U.S. Constitution is not silent about voting rights: It mentions the right to vote seven times. But the provisions either point to state rules on voting qualifications or declare when states may not take the right away. For example, states may not abridge the right to vote on the account of race, sex, ability to pay a poll tax or age. But none of the amendments setting out these restrictions actually grant to citizens the right to vote.
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In fact, under federal law, the right to vote is best understood as emanating from the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, which simply requires states to treat all voters the same. Under this principle, the Supreme Court has upheld "reasonable" restrictions on the right to vote, so long as the state applies those restrictions "evenly" to all voters. This was the basis of the court's 2008 decision upholding Indiana's strict voter identification requirement. The law applied equally to all voters, and there was not enough evidence that the law actually took away the right to vote from an identifiable group of citizens.
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Deadline reports that with The Three Stooges wrapped, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are looking at working on a sequel to the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber. Sean Anders and John Morris have been hired to write the script, which is hoped next on deck for the Farrelly brothers to direct. Ideally, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels would return to reprise their big-hearted, dim-witted characters Harry and Lloyd. As Deadline points out, Carrey isn't usually big on sequels, but he apparently made hints about the D&D sequel while promoting Mr. Popper's Penguins.
The original film wasn't just funny because it was about two dumb guys doing and saying dumb things. If that were the case, I suspect the prequel, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, which was not directed by the Farrelly brothers, would've been better received. Much like the Farrelly's other films, there's a balance between silliness, funniness, and heart in Dumb and Dumber that made us laugh, left us feeling good and gave us a lot of silly lines to quote for years to come ("Uh, what is the soup du jour?"). The only way I'd want to see a Dumb and Dumber sequel is if the four key ingredients are on board (Farrelly, Farrelly, Carrey and Daniels). We'll have to wait and see if there's confirmation that Carrey and Daniels are available and up for it.


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WillieSea wrote:I run steem engine v3.2 (Oct 22, 2004) (Steem.exe) TOS: v1.06US with 4096Kb, 4 active drives with Pasti support.
WillieSea wrote:Do you have .net installed on your computer? I am guessing that you need Windows 2000 or XP for it to work. I have tried to get some stuff to work on my W98 machine, copying all the files it needs, but it still would not work. This may be an issue of "You need W2000 or WXP for it to work".
Since WXP is an NT architecture and W98 is not, that would explain the last NT error you got.
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WillieSea wrote:Do you have .net installed on your computer? I am guessing that you need Windows 2000 or XP for it to work.
WillieSea wrote:Now if I could just find out 'how' you are reading memory. In one of your screen shots, I saw "AccessMemory" but I can't find any info on it... Oh well. I will stick with the memory snapshot editors..
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DragonsLover wrote:Yes I have .NET installed. No I don't have Windows 2000/XP. But on my computer (which is not connected to Internet), I have WinXP. I'll transfer the game and the program soon and make them works together
Lyverbe wrote:Well, have you tried the new version I made just for you?! It should work!
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Remember, it is base zero. Mission 5 would contain a x'04' in this field.
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Check Point Software Technologies Tuesday announced a cloud-based threat-detection service that can help to identify botnets in real time and block them from wreaking havoc on enterprise networks.
Check Point's ThreatCloud relies on an Internet-based sensor network, along with information resources such as industry malware feeds, to pinpoint the ever-changing landscape of IP addresses of botnets and similar threats. This threat-detection information can be shared with Check Point security gateways that use a new security blade called Anti-Bot to detect if computers behind them have become infected and compromised so that they can reach out to the botnet command-and-control point. The Check Point gateways could then block outbound communications attempts and flag the security problem for remediation.
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Another new technology Check Point is making available this week is the Antivirus Software Blade, which enables its gateways to receive ThreatCloud information in real time.
Also announced at the company's Experience 2012 event in Orlando this week is that Check Point's unified operating system, Gaia, is available through software blade release R75.40. It has added security features, such as DLP watermarking and Web proxy configuration.
Check Point has supported two separate OS platforms since its acquisition of the Nokia security appliance business about two years ago. But the new 64-bit Gaia operating system supports all Check Point appliances, open servers and virtualized gateways, including on IPv4 and IPv6 networks, with up to 70 million concurrent connections.
Check Point release R75.40 also includes SmartLog, a log analyzer to turn raw data into security information that can be obtained through a keyword search capability.
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Mayoral candidate Ralph Clark, left, makes his opening statements, while John Marks, center, and B.J. Murphy listen at the mayoral forum Tuesday at community television station TACC-9 on Queen Street.
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Kinston's three candidates for mayor each had their lone opportunity to address viewers on the issues of the city on Tuesday evening.
Ralph Clark, John Marks and B.J. Murphy spoke at the TACC-9 community television station for a mayoral forum, as the three are looking to be appointed into office by the people after the Nov. 5 election.
Clark, who has spent 32 years in public office, including eight as the former city manager of Kinston, believes his extensive experience and knowledge would be vital in helping the community he has called home since 1999.
"Kinston has been great to me as a city manager and a citizen," Clark said. "I have a lot to give, and hope (the city) allow(s) me to be the mayor."
Clark also talked about education in his opening statement, acknowledging that the city council would not be able to intervene in the decision-making process.
"I would be remiss not to mention something about education," Clark said. "Even though the city has nothing to do with the education in the community, it has to be supported."
Marks, the pastor and founder of Increasing the Faith Ministries, believes Kinston needs to move in an alternate direction in fixing some of the issues in the community.
"We do need change," Marks said. "Everybody that I ask or come in contact with, they are always saying that the city needs to be changed. I'm just grateful that our city and the leadership that is present are still doing things, but we still need solutions to a lot of problems. I just want to be an improvement on assets to the city of Kinston."
Murphy, the incumbent seeking his second term in office, used his opening statement to speak on some of the positives he has seen in Kinston since he became the mayor in 2009.
"I have never been more excited about the opportunities before our community than I am right now," Murphy said. "Our community is growing, and there are a lot of positive things happening. Just over the past four years, we have had a major focus on redeveloping our community, on making sure we have better streets, and we've had a more accountable government than ever before."
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A start-up company called Stryd launched a Kickstarter campaign this week to fund the world's first wearable power meter for runners.
Cyclists have long been using power meters to guide and target their training more efficiently. Soon power will be available to runners as well.
"The data runners use in training hasn't changed much in 30 years. There has never been an accurate or easy way to show training intensity and efficiency, and athletes and coaches have repeatedly told us that holds them back," said Robert Dick, Ph.D. and CEO of Stryd. "Our goal was to provide one number that can consistently help anyone run better, and today Stryd does exactly that.
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Stryd is a small device that you wear on your waist. It uses first-of-its-kind sensing technology to calculate run power, measured in watts. With power it is possible to analyze every key aspect of running from performance and running form to efficiency. Power also helps pace running in challenging terrain and in variable conditions.
Stryd power meter is fully compatible with Suunto Ambit2 and Ambit3 watches. To get started with a Stryd power meter add a pod to search ("Power pod") for your Ambit and a power data field in the watch's running mode.
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text: Despite falling behind early, Pittsburgh eked out a 3-2 Game Five win over the Flyers last night, extending the series and forcing a Game Six in Philadelphia tomorrow. Marc-Andre Fleury—whose previous play in the net thus far has been an Open Door Policy—was stellar, and we'll guess this fan at a Philadelphia watch party was sending his nonverbal message in Fleury's direction. [CSN Philadelphia]


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Seeking out international art and antiques from around the world and vintage objects from across the U.S.
Welcome to Found, which markets quality art, artifacts, and antiques from around the world. Owners Ann and Keith Graber Miller travel to Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa, purchasing hand-woven, hand-painted, and hand-crafted works directly from artists, artisan cooperatives, galleries, and market vendors. We also are the venue for Graber family art: Ann's original watercolors as well as pottery, paintings, and books by 12 additional Graber family members – both of Ann's parents, three of her sisters (including renowned miniaturist Jane Graber), our daughter, four nieces, and a nephew. In addition, Ann does interior and exterior design consulting for homes and businesses.
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The Midnighters
- Henry Booth
- Billy Davis
- Cal Green
- Arthur Porter
- Lawson Smith
- Charles Sutton
- Norman Thrasher
- Sonny Woods
Stirring up trouble with bawdy, frantic party songs.
The Midnighters backed Hank Ballard on such risqué hits as "Work With Me Annie." Together they scored hits on both pop and R&B charts, delighting audiences and themselves with their daring.
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters were one of the greatest R&B vocal groups of the Fifties, setting solid harmonies and sly, risqué lyrics to lively beats.
As testimony to their crossover appeal, they scored almost as impressively on the pop chart (fifteen hits) as they did on the R&B chart (twenty hits). Moreover, they topped the R&B chart three times over a six-year period with "Work With Me Annie," "Annie Had a Baby" and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go." The Midnighters' intricate, full-bodied vocal arrangements complemented Ballard's forceful leads, and an unbridled electric guitar frequently added to the frenzied party atmosphere.
Ballard was adamant that he and the Midnighters were a group. In fact, he joined them when they were known as the Royals. Formed in 1950, the Detroit-based Royals—all of whom worked at automobile factories in the Motor City—included founder and bass singer Ardra "Sonny" Woods, tenor Henry Booth, baritones Charles Sutton and Freddie Pride and guitarist/arranger Alonzo Tucker. Lawson Smith replaced Pride, who was drafted. Hank Ballard then replaced Smith, who was himself drafted.
Before the arrival of Ballard, the Royals sang slow ballads in the lush style of vocal groups like Sonny Til and the Orioles. They were discovered in 1952 at an amateur singing competition held by Johnny Otis, who was scouting talent for King Records. They released ten singles as the Royals before changing their name to the Midnighters (in 1954) and then Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (in 1959).
At first Ballard was a background singer, but gradually he began singing leads. His first was "Get It," released in 1953. In addition to Ballard's untamed lead, it included a recited passage by bass voice Sonny Woods on the bridge. "Get It" became the Royals' breakthrough, reaching Number Six on the R&B chart, and it set the tone for the more ribald and uptempo style that would make them popular.
The group's biggest hit was "Work With Me Annie," whose blatantly sexual lyrics caused controversy. The song was deemed too obscene for airplay by the FCC, which further fueled its popularity. It was a Number One R&B hit for seven weeks in 1954 and remained on the R&B chart for nearly half a year. However, it didn't even crack Billboard's pop chart.
As "Work With Me Annie" (originally written as "Sock It to Me Mary") was moving up the charts, the Royals were re-christened the Midnighters. Syd Nathan—the head of King Records—ordered the name change to avoid confusion with the "5" Royales, another popular R&B group. Early copies of the single list the Royals on the label, while later pressings list "The Midnighters (Formerly known as the Royals)."
"Work With Me Annie" generated the sequels "Annie Had a Baby" and "Annie's Aunt Fannie," which were both banned as well. While denied radio play, all three songs were huge jukebox hits and big sellers. Ballard wrote and sang "Sexy Ways" (Number Two R&B) and "It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)" (Number Ten R&B) in a similarly suggestive style. Despite the raunchy subject matter, Ballard always contended that his biggest influences were gospel groups like the Dixie Hummingbirds and the Sensational Nightingales.
Over the course of a sixteen-month period in 1954 and 1955, the Midnighters racked up half a dozen sizable R&B hits. Yet three-and-a-half years passed before they made the charts again. There were more personnel changes during this period. Guitarist Arthur Porter, who first appeared on "Work With Me Annie," took over from Alonzo Tucker in early 1954. Later that year, Porter was replaced by Cal Green, who remained through 1958 and was instrumental in guiding the arrangement of "The Twist." He was replaced by Billy Davis. Charles Sutton left in late 1954 and was replaced by Lawson Smith, who had returned from military service. Norman Thrasher joined as well.
The Midnighters' first run of hits ended in 1955 and resumed in 1959 with "Teardrops on Your Letter." While the group's early success often came with controversial material like "Work With Me Annie," the hits in their second successful run at the turn of the decade were frequently dance records. Ballard not only recorded the original version of "The Twist" but also introduced the world to the "The Continental Walk," "The Hoochi Coochi Coo" (Number Three R&B; Number Twenty-Three pop), "The Switch-A-Roo" (Number Three R&B, Number Twenty-Six pop), "The Coffee Grind" and "The Float."
"The Twist," of course, was the biggest of them all, but ironically Ballard was not its main popularizer. Initially released as the B side of "Teardrops On Your Letter," the Midnighters' version became a minor R&B hit in 1959. Sixteen months later, in September 1960, Chubby Checker's nearly identical cover version topped the pop and R&B charts, igniting the twist craze. A re-issue of the Midnighters' version at the same time fared somewhat better the second time round, reaching Number Six R&B and Number Twenty-Eight pop. Checker's version itself was re-released in 1962, hitting Number One for a second time—a feat in chart history that to this day has not been repeated—at the peak of the twist phenomenon.
As a piece of music, "The Twist" had a complex and fascinating gestation. While sole authorship is given to Ballard, the song's initial source was the Sensational Nightingales. Two of its members wrote an original song called "The Twist" and wound up giving it to the Midnighters, as being a spiritual group prevented them from singing secular material. Ballard and guitarist Cal Green reworked the song, adapting it to music that resembled the Drifters' "What'Cha Gonna Do" whose authorship was attributed to "Nugetre," a pseudonym for Ahmet Ertegun).
Ballard cut an unreleased version for Vee-Jay Records in March 1958, during a brief period away from King Records, and then recorded the song for King, to which he re-signed, that November.
One of the most high-spirited and party-minded acts of the R&B era, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters had two of their biggest hits in 1960 with "Finger Poppin' Time" (Number Two R&B, Number Seven pop) and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (Number One R&B, Number Six pop). The latter was the second biggest hit of their career, after "Work With Me Annie." At this point in their career, the Midnighters were performing up to three hundred shows a year. They recorded prolifically for King, releasing numerous albums in the late Fifties and early Sixties, including three long players that appeared in 1961 alone. However, further personnel changes began taking a toll, and Ballard disbanded the group in 1962 to go solo.
With a resurgence of interest in their work, Ballard re-formed the Midnighters in the Eighties, and they performed and recorded into the Nineties. Ballard succumbed to throat cancer in 2003. Among the inducted members of the Midnighters, Henry Booth, Cal Green, Arthur Porter and Sonny Woods are deceased as well.
Inductees: Henry Booth (vocals; born March 7, 1934, died 1978), Billy Davis (guitar), Cal Green (guitar; born June 22, 1935, died July 4, 2004), Arthur Porter (guitar), Lawson Smith (vocals), Charles Sutton (vocals), Norman Thrasher (vocals), Sonny Woods (vocals; born March 6, 1935, died 1984)


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designed to help active Cubs earn their Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scout ranks by February.
Wouldn't it be great if the past Den Leaders had left you their notes?
What if they had given you meeting plans with ideas for activities and games?
That's what the Fast Tracks are!
den meeting plans (two den meetings per month) designed to be used in conjunction with the youth handbooks. By following the these plans, active Scouts can earn their Tiger, Wolf, Bear, or Webelos rank by February, usually in time for the Blue & Gold Banquet. After these meetings, Scouts continue to meet to work on other electives, Belt Loops and Pins, and other Cub Scout Awards through the rest of the year. All Cub Scouts must first earn their Bobcat Badge.
Use the Fast Tracks as-is or as a resource for your own meeting plans. MeritBadge.Org offers a wealth of other resources to get you started, Belt Loop and Pin Worksheets and Cub Scout Monthly Themes with Program Helps! Also see the Fast Tracks FAQ.
Fast Tracks Den Meeting plans by rank
- Fast Tracks for Tiger Cub Scouts (1st grade)
- Fast Tracks for Wolf Cub Scouts (2nd grade)
- Fast Tracks for Bear Cub Scouts (3rd grade)
- Fast Tracks for 4th grade Webelos Scouts - Also see: Webelos Scout Program
- Fast Tracks for 5th grade Webelos Scouts - Only for Scouts who completed the 4th grade Fast Track
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- Do I have to use the Fast Tracks as written?
- No, you don't have to use the Fast Tracks at all. You can use them as-is, as a starting point, for ideas, or not at all.
- I thought we were supposed to meet every week. Why are there only two Fast Tracks per month?
- The Fast Tracks can be two of your meetings for the month. A typical monthly routine might be two weekly Fast Track Den Meetings, a field trip (Go and See It), and a Pack Meeting.
- Can we still do Belt Loops?
- Yes, "All boys may earn belt loops... In fact many requirements naturally lead into Belt Loops & Pins:
- When will the boys earn their rank each year?
- Cub Scouts is a fast-paced, active program. "By following the prescribed den meeting plans as written, the boys will fulfill the requirements necessary to earn the badge of rank by the end of February."
- If the Fast Tracks finish the rank by February, what do you do the rest of the year?
- Earning your rank is just the first part of your program each year. Then you complete electives, arrow points, Belt Loops & Pins, and other Cub Scout Awards.
- How long have Fast Track been around?
- A number of local councils have had similar home-grown programs for years. The official "Fast Tracks" program has been available on scouting.org since the late spring of 2008.
- Will there still be Program Helps?
- Yes! You can buy the Program Helps #34409 book or download the modules. The Program Helps provide great resources for the Fast Tracks. See the Cub Scout Monthly Themes.
NOTE: According to the 2010-2011 Roundtable Planning Guide, Monthly Themes will not be used beginning in 2010. [[1]] This does not neccesarily mean that Program Helps will dissapear, only that they will not incorporate the monthly themes in the same format they did before.
- With Fast Tracks, do Den Leaders take on more of what the families should do?
- No. For Tiger, Wolf, and Bear, it is still Akela (a parent) who signs off on each requirement. Requirements that are to be done at home are still done at home.
- Can we still share leadership?
- Yes. No where does it say you can't. If the Den Leader can't make a meeting, you have great notes to give to your assistant or another parent so that the show can still go on!
- Can we still have Denners?
- Yes! Denners are specifically included and are important to your success. Ask adult partners (parents) to take turns coordinating the meetings. Ask who has contacts with the fire or police departments, local parks, etc. When a family coordinates a meeting, their boy gets to be Denner! The Denner gets gold cords and to help with the Pledge of Allegiance, treats, setup, and cleanup.
- Can I print out all 16 Fast Tracks at once?
- Yes! The first link for each level's Fast Tracks is to print all 36-40 pages at once. Or, you can print just the modules you want.
- What other resources are available for new Den Leaders?
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See also
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- Den Leader Getting Started Guide - offers dozens of other resources to help you.


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|This website is organized by members of the ILWU Local 30 (and their families) who work at the US Borax/Rio Tinto mine in Boron, where we operate the largest open-pit mine in California and process borates that are used around the world to make glass, preserve wood, fight fires, fertilize plants, and a host of other products. Our goal is to keep everyone - including our customers - informed about our efforts to secure good jobs and protect the communities where we live, which include Boron, Tehachapi, Lancaster, Bakersfield, California City, Mojave, North Edwards, Rosamond, Adelanto, Victorville, just to name a few.
UPDATE FEBRUARY 2012 Rio Tinto is doing the same thing in Canada, here is the AFLCIO action flyer click here to read it!
Workers finally returning to U.S. Borax for first shift, May 24, 2010
The picture of the scab vans below tells the story...
We would like to thank all who stood by us, supported us, worked hard for us, rallied, donated, communicated, displayed signs, volunteered, sacrificed, and showed that they care. It was very comforting and uplifting to know we were not alone.
Click Here For Press Release May 14, 2010
Vote results: 275 yes; 95 no ...and a new struggle begins.
We made the Australian news with the rally in London, click here for news story
Wow, what a production they had for us in Australia! Thanks for the support, you guys are awesome!
L.A. Federation of Labor/Dodgers radio ad here.
Media advisory for radio ad: here.
Read ussue #10 of the Sagebrush Telegraph here.
Read ussue #9 of the Sagebrush Telegraph here.
Read ussue #8 of the Sagebrush Telegraph here.
I'd like to give a shout out to my old schoolmate Robert who lost his crew in the Tesoro Refinery incident in April. Visit their facebook page to see how things are going here
ILWU Locked Out
Rio Tinto locked-out almost 600 from our jobs at the Borax mine and processing plant on Sunday morning, January 31, 2010 at 7am. Hundreds of us showed-up Sunday morning to make a powerful statement by appearing with our families at the gate, wearing our work clothes, carrying lunchboxes in one hand and American flags in the other. We marched up to the gate, proud and determined.
When we got there, we told the company: "We're here to work; we have families and communities that depend on us, so open the gate and let us go to work. The company officials didn't know how to respond and just slinked away. The TV cameras and newspaper reporters watched the drama unfold, and then interviewed many of us who work at the mine, along with family members and community supporters for more than two hours. When we finished, we went to our union hall where we signed-up to join committees that will help us get through the hard times ahead – and let everyone know what Rio Tinto is doing to destroy good jobs and communities in our high-desert home.
On Saturday, the day before Rio Tinto locked us out; we held an open union meeting that was attended by 500 workers. Almost everyone who wasn't at work was there. We spent hours going over the company's demands in detail. We asked questions and looked at it carefully, but when we were done, every single person in the room agreed to reject the company's demands.
While Rio Tinto has shown that they don't care for us and our communities, we're more determined than ever to stand up and see this thing through. Too many people in America are losing good jobs and working harder, while big companies make billions and don't play by the rules. That's why we're taking a stand in Boron, not just for ourselves and our communities, but for everyone in America who's fed up with corporate greed and a system that doesn't protect hard-working families.
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I think Kacey Musgraves is too humble. She is a brand new country singer, and her very first release made it onto Rolling Stone's 50 Best Songs of 2012 list . So she has definitely earned the right to toot her own horn. And yet she told CMT Radio that the song "Merry Go 'Round" came naturally. "You know, some you really deliberate over and really work on. But this one — once we wrapped our brains around the idea of the song — it seemed to literally write itself. It was one of the quickest songs I've ever been a part of writing, and I want to say it was maybe an hour and a-half, and we were done," she said of writing with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally. "I was crying and singing the work tape. We thought we had stumbled upon something really cool." And now Rolling Stone calls the tune "a bleak-but-clever take on small-town inertia and ennui" and "gorgeous." And they call Musgraves country's "next big thing."


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Forum Post: The World needs Occupy Wall Street...now
Posted 6 years ago on July 7, 2013, 11:57 p.m. EST by windyacres
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Karen Hudes has been discussed on this forum for over a month. She continues to try to tell the world that while working at the World Bank, she discovered a cover-up of corruption. This is not Ho-Hum corruption, it is a World Mafia.
I have been waiting for Karen Hudes story to be debunked, or denials of any kind, but instead there are more interviews from alternate media. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine and The Guardian newspaper have publicly ignored her along with all of the MSM.
Karen Hudes is FOR online protests but believes physical marches will allow the government to justify martial law.
Occupy should be leading the way for this online protest. Here is a second interview with this radio program, only a week ago.


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- Michigan has the highest student-to-school nurse ratio in the country, at 4,411 to 1
- Nurses are handling bigger caseloads as students' medical needs become more complex
- Parents should ask who is in charge of their kid's health while at school, expert says
As a school nurse in Rochester, Michigan, Ronda Harrison has more than 15,000 students in 23 buildings under her care. She works out of the district's administrative offices and spends her days giving PowerPoint presentations to educators and communicating with parents over the phone.
"[It is] scary the fact that I'm responsible for so many schools," Harrison said. "I miss being 'Nurse Ronda.' "
The 16-year veteran has seen a lot of changes during her career as a nationally certified school nurse, but most notable is the shrinking ranks of her colleagues. Michigan has the highest student-to-school nurse ratio in the country at 4,411 to 1, according to the National Association of School Nurses. Utah isn't far behind, with a ratio of 3,637 to 1.
This means nurses are handling bigger caseloads, Harrison said, while students' medical needs are becoming more complex. And educators are now the ones doling out daily medication.
It's not all bad news, said Linda Davis-Alldritt, president of the National Association of School Nurses. Overall, there has been an increase in funded school nurse positions in the U.S. in the last decade. But the numbers vary significantly by state, and some districts have no school nurses at all.
The bottom line, Davis-Alldritt said, is that the school nurse's job tends to be at risk during budget cut time.
"The big question for parents to ask when they drop their child off at school is, 'Who's going to be taking care of my kid's health care needs?' " Davis-Alldritt said. " 'What if my child gets sick? Who's going to take care of them? What are their qualifications?' That's an important question for parents to ask, and the school needs to have the answers."
It was certainly a question Wendy Rose asked when she and her husband moved their three children to Peoria, Arizona. Their 8-year-old daughter, Adalyne, has type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. The first requires constant monitoring of Adalyne's blood glucose levels; the second a gluten-free diet.
"Our school nurse has been invaluable," Rose said. "Insulin is a really tricky hormone -- a little in either direction can have drastic results. In reality, it could kill her. I would be very, very nervous sending her to a school environment for a large chunk of her day [with] no one there to monitor her."
Ever year before school starts, Rose meets with Adalyne's nurse, a member of the administration and all the educators she will be encountering -- from the art teacher to the librarian. A registered nurse herself, Rose had no qualms about putting up fliers around the school with her daughter's photo that said, "My name is Adalyne. I have diabetes" to alert staff if they noticed her wandering around looking confused because of low blood sugar.
Adalyne is not alone. One in every 400 children has type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and children are more frequently developing type 2 diabetes, normally an adult disease linked to obesity.
In addition, the prevalence of reported food allergies in children increased 18% between 1997 and 2007. That's not to mention children with asthma or mental health issues.
Often, the people administering medication in schools are secretaries, principals or teachers. They're given instructions by parents or the district's supervising nurse but have little understanding of what the results should be, Davis-Alldritt said.
"Yes, they can give the medication -- that's not really hard," she said. "But it is really difficult to teach someone how to assess how that medication is working, or how it's not working."
Anecdotally, Davis-Alldritt has heard about mistakes made by untrained staff: the child who got ADHD medication twice from a busy principal; the secretary who didn't know how to properly work an insulin pen and ended up giving none; the child in Washington who died because no one knew to reach for her allergy autoinjector.
She recommends that parents advocate for more school nurses in their district and check in with the staff that handles any health needs.
"Parents have a strong, powerful voice, and they want to make sure their child goes to school and comes home and in the interim is protected and safe."


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USA Today: Buccaneers great Ronde Barber calls it a career
Mike Garafolo, USA TODAY Sports
After 16 NFL seasons, five Pro Bowl selections, a Super Bowl title and 47 career interceptions, Ronde Barber has decided to call it a career.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback-turned-safety will retire Wednesday, according to his broadcast and marketing agent, Mark Lepselter, president of Maxx Sports and Entertainment. Lepselter added that Ronde "is at peace with his decision."
"I've had a better run than I ever could've dreamed of having," Barber said earlier in the day.
It's an end to what many think will wind up being a Hall of Fame career that began when he was drafted in the third round in 1997 — one round later than his twin brother Tiki, who was selected by the New York Giants.
"No doubt about it, Ronde's a Hall of Famer,'' Barber's former Tampa Bay Bucs teammate Derrick Brooks told USA TODAY Sports. "If anyone wants to listen, I'd make a case for him. He's transcended time and his size at that position and what he's been able to do from the cornerback position (28 sacks, 47 interceptions) whether from the slot or outside."
Barber is the only player in league history with 40 or more interceptions and 20 or more sacks. Barber's 14 non-offensive touchdowns rank him fourth on the all-time list behind Deion Sanders (19), Devin Hester (18) and Rod Woodson (17).
"I wish him well. And I consider it an extreme honor to have had the opportunity to play with Ronde," Brooks added. "Ronde's the type when he made that decision that he was done, I don't see anyone changing his mind to think otherwise. I talked to him a few times about playing golf the last few weeks. Now he has no excuses."
Barber, 38, is walking away despite the Bucs' being open to his return in 2013. The team signed safety Dashon Goldson as a free agent and acquired cornerback Darrelle Revis in a trade with the New York Jets.
Barber officially made the move from corner to safety before last season and had four interceptions, including one he returned 78 yards for a touchdown in a blowout victory against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Barber's most famous interception return for a touchdown, though, was his 92-yarder to seal the NFC Championship Game victory against the Philadelphia Eagles in January 2003. The Bucs went on to beat the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in Super Bowl XXXVII.
As for the future, Lepselter said, "I fully expect Ronde to be in NFL broadcasting this season," but he did not specify a role or which network, saying those details will be provided in the coming days.


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Happy Thanksgiving folks! For turkey day I thought I'd put the blog crosshairs on an obscure little arcade game called Turkey Shoot. A pretty predictable seasonal choice I suppose but the game is pretty rare - reportedly 450 were made and apparently very few of those still exist - so I'm guessing most folks out there haven't played it.
Turkey Shoot was released by former arcade and pinball giant (and one of my favorite developers) Williams back in 1984. Like most game developers of the mid-80's, Williams' dystopian view of the future involved a mysterious plague transforming humanity into turkeys with a penchant for crime. The game provides the backstory:
The year is 1989, one year after the great gobble blight which plagued the world. One third of earth's populace was transformed into turkeys by the ailment. The side effect of turkey transformation is a tendency toward violence and comradery between these turkeys to organize for rabble-rousing in the urban areas. In February of '89, a group of specially trained agents (the Turkey Terminators) was formed for the sole task of destroying the turkey menace. As a Terminator you must be mentally and physically prepared for a series of missions complimentary to your skills. Good luck and strength to you!
The game has a gun mounted to the cabinet like on an Operation Wolf or Terminator 2 Judgement Day but the gun operates as an optical/light gun to move your reticle around the screen. The criminal turkeys scurry about in all directions committing various crimes and your job of course is to shoot them to turn them into cooked turkey dinners. In addition to your gunfire once per mission/level you can hurl a grenade at the turkeys to take out several in one blast. Also, once per mission, you can hit your GOBBLE button which clucks out a turkey call that freezes the turkeys in place for a couple of seconds, allowing you to try and pick them off before they start running again.
Each mission is a little different - in the first one thug turkeys are robbing the theater box office and trying to make off with the bags of loot. In the second mission you guard against multiple thefts by thug turkeys and boss turkeys. In the third mission pilot turkeys fly suicide missions into a helicopter and you have to shoot them before they hit it - and so on. Every 8th mission there is a bonus round where you have 15 seconds of rapid-fire shooting and unlimited grenades to blow away as many turkeys as possible without harming an innocent bystander.
Later on cops start making the scene to help but just get in the way because you have to avoid shooting them, cyborg mechano-turkeys show up that can only be taken out with a headshot, turkeys disguise themselves as businessmen and start grabbing hostages so that you have to shoot the turkeys without hitting the hostages and so forth. When a turkey escapes with the loot, dive bombs the helicopter, or an innocent bystander is injured you have "fowled up" and you are only allowed 3 fowl ups at which point the game is over. It gets very difficult very fast playing it on the real cab so the games don't last long at all - which is of course by design. The Turkey Shoot manual even states that "...thorough field and factory research has shown that two-minute games both satisfy players and also keep the quarters flowing." So don't plan on playing for much longer than a couple of minutes.
And my favorite part - at the end of each level a fan blows a bunch of real feathers all around inside the glass in front of the monitor! Those kinds of offbeat physical features always make a cab stand out in my mind. So. even though the gameplay is fairly routine, the wacky nature of the game and the unique feather feature of the cab bump it up to pretty cool in my book. I wish I had taken a video of the feathers flying to post when I used to play it at Joystix because they eventually sold it off and now I suspect I might not ever see another one.
If you can make your way through 100 missions you have defeated all the turkeys and the game is over, but accomplishing that on the real arcade cab seems impossible to me. Unfortunately, given the nature of the gun and the feathers feature, Turkey Shoot is one of those games that is nowhere near as fun to play on MAME as it is to play on the real thing, but someone did upload a MAME video of the game onto YouTube so check it out below. They made it look much easier than it really is because they cheated by enabling rapid-fire on all levels, but they did complete all 100 missions of the game which is still impressive. Now I'm off to eat some ham and dressing (don't really care much for turkey). Later gents!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Turkey Shoot - The Day They Took Over
Happy Thanksgiving folks! For turkey day I thought I'd put the blog crosshairs on an obscure little arcade game called Turkey Shoot. A pretty predictable seasonal choice I suppose but the game is pretty rare - reportedly 450 were made and apparently very few of those still exist - so I'm guessing most folks out there haven't played it.
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Labels: Arcade, Turkey Shoot
Friday, November 18, 2011
Another Year Another HAAG Arcade Expo
Well, almost a month since my last post. Too much work lately interfering with my playtime and of course with my chit chat time here on the Gameroom too. I have finished several games in the past month both modern and retro and am just getting way too far behind in my little online gaming journal here so I am taking a break from work to drop a few words and pics about my visit this last weekend to the Houston Area Arcade Group's Arcade Expo.
This was the 10th installment of the annual event here in Houston, Texas and as always a good time was had by all. Over 200 arcade, pinball and console games all on free play, after the initial purchase of the tickets of course. $20 per day or $30 for both days. Entering the hotel and looking around I saw the usual oddball mix of folks with the occasional stormtrooper from the 501st Legion, X-wing pilot from the Rebel Legion, and ghostbuster from the Houston Area Ghostbusters thrown in for flavor. My favorite? The stormtroopers of course!
The first room room is where they have all the vendors, the REALLY old arcade games (e.g. bat and ball games, flipperless pinballs and shooting galleries), an XBox 360 hooked up to a Kinect and projected onto a giant screen, the tournament games, and a large collection of various old consoles and computers set up with individual monitors and games just waiting for you to sit down and play. I played a little Apple IIe, VIC-20, Odyssey 2, Intellivision - pretty good stuff.
As in previous events Atari Age had a nice presence at the show with several homebrew carts available to play - and maybe buy which is what I intended to do but completely forgot to go back and look into it. Last year's homebrew cart that caught my eye was Halo 2600 - the Atari's version of the modern Xbox classic (that you can try online here). This year's prize was Juno First.
Juno First is a pretty obscure arcade game released by Konami in 1983 but if you've never tried it you should pull it up on MAME because it's pretty cool - think Defender mixed with Beamrider. And this Atari 2600 port by Chris Walton of Glasgow, UK is an excellent translation. Assuming you don't have a copy of the cartridge you can download the game here and give it a go on Stella. The author himself posted the file for download so I'm assuming he won't mind.
As I walked into the main arcade I recalled the noise. But unlike Joystix which assails you with music to the point where you often can't even hear the game you are playing, the HAAG Expo hits a much happier balance between arcade sounds and 80's music pumping through the sound system. So although it is still very loud, I find the HAAG arcade sound levels to be much more tolerable and historically accurate than Joystix.
All my favorites from the last show were there again like Quantum, Track & Field and Varkon. As always I discovered a few new ones that I quite liked - this time the honor fell to Sega's pinball Apollo 13 and the Terminator 3 pinball. The unique thing about the Apollo 13 pin was the multiball when 13 pinballs flooded down on your flippers at once. It was pretty wild!
Oh, and it's not game-related but I came home with a bag full of goodies too. I won a VHS tape of the Doctor Who episode Warriors of the Deep (points off for starring Peter Davison instead of Tom Baker but still free is free), and I bought a big stack of comics for 25 cents each, a marquee for the old obscure arcade game Shark Attack for $5 and a little spinning/exploding death star toy for $1.
If you are in the Houston area this time next year I highly recommend you check out the Expo. Never hurts to plan ahead you know. See you there!
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KDE and Distributions: ALT Linux Interview
As part of our KDE and Distributions series (1, 2, 3, 4) KDE Dot News spoke to representatives from Alt Linux. Russia recently announced plans to include GNU/Linux in every school in the country, and ALT Linux hopes to be the chosen distribution. Below CEO Alexey Smirnov and Andrey Cherepanov answer our questions about their relationship with KDE.
Can you tell us about the history of ALT Linux? What
ALT Linux was established in 2001 as a result of merger between IP Labs
Why did you choose KDE and which version of KDE did you first implement?
Our first distribution included KDE 2.1. At that time we inherited
How did you find initial support for a new distro? Is ALT Linux based
ALT Linux started with tailoring of Mandrake Linux for the Russian
What could KDE have done better to help new distros use KDE?
KDE was (and still stays) an attractive environment for both newcomers
What were your first impressions about KDE's documentation and community?
KDE had decent documentation, and its community treated companies and
It is an exciting time for ALT Linux. Can you share your opportunities
In mid-2007 we launched a new 4.0 branch of ALT Linux distributions. The
Now we are working on ALT Linux 4.0 Desktop Lite, a distribution for
Since 2003 we release distributions targeted at schools and are now
Russian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information Technology and
Do you feel that you have a good relationship with the KDE community?
Yes, we maintain a close relationship with the KDE community, particularly
What are things that KDE can do to help ALT Linux with all of this
We believe that KDE team should pay more attention to the quality of
Do you have any user feedback mechanism? If so, what feedback do they
Our users communicate with developers directly by means of mailing
In what ways do you customise KDE? Any changes that are moved back
We do not change KDE deeply as Novell/SUSE does -- it is nice enough in
What KDE applications are the most popular among your users?
Konqueror, Kontact, Kopete, Amarok.
What challenges does ALT Linux have with all of these opportunities?
We will continue developing quality GNU/Linux distributions for servers
What are your thoughts on KDE 4.0 and how it pertains to ALT Linux' goals?
We hope that KDE 4.0 will increase users' productivity and will offer
Any other plans for your distro in the future?
We plan to take an active part in the programme of deployment of GNU/Linux
We need more
This is what users need. Get more GNU/Linux to schools and companies, we need free world where no one is there to tell users what they can use or what they can do.
All what we need is that users can select any computer part what they want and they know it will work with GNU/Linux too. They know that they can go and buy ANY OEM PC with or without OS.
I'm very happy about this Russian choise and i hope ALT will be chosen (and not *buntu ;-)) so free world can come true. And after all, this will be very big impact to Microsoft market share after 7-15 years...
By Fri13 at Wed, 2007/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: We need more
Really, look at Alt and SXDE installed and compare them. KDE in Alt and Gnome in SXDE, financial accounter Ananas in Alt (is it really necessary for schools?) and Netbeans in SXDE, ay, some winmodems supported by Alt. Russian docs available in Alt that are partly outdated, partly inconsistent with current version. Slangy and inconsistent localization in Alt and less slangy, more classic Debian one in SXDE, both equally incomplete. AND THESE SEEM TO BE ALL DIFFERENCES EXISTING from the point of view of GUI-based user. Can we call it "convergence"? Maybe. But not competition, I think. Simply MS is aside -- and ALL other systems are alike, be it Alt, Hurd, MacOS or Solaris (ay, REactOS is free but like MS:) ).
By worrabay at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
More attention to KDE Education project
This is why all these Linux and open source educational projects, like KDE Education, deserve as much attention as possible. If they are made the best and teachers know about them then there will be a higher chance that they will use them and at the same time see that they don't have to spend so much money for proprietary solutions. And the more young people come in touch with Linux and open source and their principles (which also have high educational value) the higher the chance they will also keep it in mind when they buy computers at later time. So do help FLOSS educational projects as much as you can. Test the software, write articles about it, translate them into your native language, tell other parents and teachers about it...
By Neja at Wed, 2007/10/24 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
It's nice to see FOSS software in schools however when 99 percent of the desktops run Windows or OSX, what will these kids do when they leave school and look for careers? Knowledge of Windows is pretty much a job requirement for any position these days.
By Gizmo at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
> Knowledge of Windows is pretty much a job requirement for any position
So all the elementary schools running OSX are dooming our kids to a life of unemployment?
Look at how much Linux adoption has increased in the last 5 years alone. By the time today's schoolkids will be looking for a job, do you really believe that desktops will be only 1% Linux? Or that Windows-then will look like Windows-now, more so than the differences between Windows-now and KDE-now? Even if Linux stays in the minority, do you think there aren't "niches" in the computer ecosystem? Finally, if a bunch of kids grow up on Linux, don't you think the world might start to change once they start making the decisions?
By T at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
Linux has been around for what, 15 years? In that time Microsoft has released some real bombs, up to and including Vista, yet Linux still hovers around 1 percent of desktop market share. I've been hearing for years how 'this is the year of Linux on the desktop" and in truth it has not happened.
So if schools wish to save money, Linux might be a good choice.
By zip at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
"I've been hearing for years how 'this is the year of Linux on the desktop" and in truth it has not happened."
What does "Year of Linux on the desktop" really mean? Does it mean that in that year, 50% of windows users switch to GNU/Linux? Does it mean that 50% of commercial software makers starts making applications to GNU/Linux?
"Linux still hovers around 1 percent of desktop market share."
Then that 1% desktop market share must come from our country (Finland) alone... because GNU/Linux is in media everyday, it gets installed everyday to new users in big installation rate, you can go to PC store and get GNU/Linux distro. You can almoust go any school (any level) and ask how many use GNU/Linux at home on PC and you get 30% hands getting up.
And it's just bulls't that GNU/Linux has only 1% marketshare. By tought estimate it is now over 5-7%
By Fri13 at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
Get a life. Your fud machine is getting rusty.
Look, revolutions in IT are evolutionary tales whose real impact is only felt after the fact and with a lot of hindsight. If you cannot look back to the mid 1996-1997 when kde started and say that what has happened is revolutionary, you are blind.
In a decade we have built an amazing desktop that is localized into hundreds of languages and created the foundations for the future.
The proprietary applications will come. SPSS just released a Linux version and makes it possible to deploy Linux in our sociology department.
You can choose to see what you want, but your brand of bullshit is getting old.
By Anonimos Anonimos at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
Well, when I was at scool, there were no lesson on computer, but if it had been, I would have been teached comand line mono task things.
And now, I am geting ready to work, what am I likely to work on ?
And last but not least : How long dit it take me to swich from WinXP to KDE the first time ? About one week to get used to it. Yay, so about 3% of my traineeship I may be a little disapointed by the new UI.
By David at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
Please read the following as a disagreement on what schools teach, not as a Microsoft vs Linux flame:
The purpose of computers in most public schools isn't to train kids to be Quickbooks gurus or Microsoft Access gurus, it is usually to teach them to type, read, or do math. The only general software *most* kids learn in school is word processing and spreadsheets, and they only do basic stuff which is the same regardless of system. The more advance computing in schools is usually done in programming classes...and for that, they probably should be using Linux.
By Henry S. at Fri, 2007/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: More attention to KDE Education project
Knowledge of MS is vital?
Really, the basic things someone does there is just click-click
What kind of difficult knowledge is that???
By she at Fri, 2007/10/26 - 5:00am
ALT is not for schools yet
ALT Linux was my second Linux distro (the first was RedHat 7.1 from LinuxInk), and I used several releases of it for a fairly long time. What distinguished ALT in my opinion from others was the "just works" factor - they ensured that most of the hardware worked out of the box and distributed non-free drivers and plugins with their CD for seamless experience.
However, on modern desktop Linux distribution standards, I wouldn't rate ALT Linux so high. I actually bought ALT Linux Desktop 4.0 (as I did with most of the previous versions), and it failed to displace Ubuntu Gutsy (dual-booted with Windows XP) on my laptop. I didn't even try to install it, just ran it in the LiveCD mode and it discouraged me from proceeding further. What I encountered was bloated, multi-level application menu with inconsistent, geeky localization, differences in font display (hinting) between GTK+ and Qt apps, sluggish, ugly and somewhat buggy (in its network-related part) ALT Linux Control Center, a sound of glass being smashed (ouch!) used as a system error sound, and the inability to connect to WiFi network (neither automatic connection nor a discoverable means to manually establish a connection was present). The documentation that come in the form of a brochure with the DVD was rather comprehensive, but written by techies for techies. That is not the kind of documentation that is usable at schools.
Therefore, instead of going with ALT Linux, I would take some other prominent distro and have it localized by a team of paid professional (!) technical translators and writers - not some volunteer geeks. (The current Russian localizations in all distros I tried leave much to be desired.) OpenSUSE and Kubuntu are strong candidates here, but Pardus is IMHO the most clean and consistent KDE distribution out there - if you prefer KDE.
By Artem at Sat, 2007/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: ALT is not for schools yet
Well, if you ever supported any noticeable Linux deployment then you must know already that both initial package base (and overall distro) quality are very important, but being able to fix what comes out broken in yet another particular situation is even more important. That, in its turn, depends on the level of competence (or profanity) of those who would typically know the distro nearby and can provide the support needed.
So far I personally have varied experience with varied distro users with ALT users being mostly competent (or at least curious) and Ubuntaries (sorry!) tend to be dummies, way too often aggressively pushing their dummy agenda on others (just like sectants) but being unable to solve real-world problems. Of course it's just my own observation but I communicate with hundreds of different people weekly.
BTW your rants are partly OK (our menu currently sucks; wifi needs some serious work as well), partly invalid (I'd argue Ubuntu localization is way worse regarding consistency) and partly a matter of personal taste (like sound theme).
Those that are OK are known bugs in work ;-)
PS: I've done mid-sized migrations and projects (typically involving one to a few hundred systems), just in case you wonder. I also participate in ALT since 2001 and seriously considered Ubuntu in 2005 but had to reject it for they were *much* worse than ALT, technically, back then -- and they still generate more noise than result till now. I tend to avoid projects with bad SNR and faulty PR.
By gvy at Sun, 2007/10/28 - 5:00am
MS will dump price close to 0 to win that tender!
"Russian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information Technology and Communications will soon announce a public tender for development and deployment of a GNU/Linux distribution for Russian schools. According to the government plans, this distribution will be installed on all the school computers in 65,000 schools in Russia (up to 675,000 computers). We will certainly take part in this tender."
That's nice to know. However, your Big $$$ Opponent will pull all strings against you, and use their accumulated wealth to "sell" their software dirt-cheap, for pennies and cents, when it comes to that tender.
See what a ZDnet blog has to report: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1655
See what happened to Mandriva in Nigeria.
(Update: now one high official apparently is going to stop that turnaround. He's going to make sure he'll get some money too. This is what ComputerworldUK says:
[quote from http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/n...
"We are sticking with that platform," said the official, who would not give his name.
The organisation reserves the right to choose whichever platform is best for Nigerian students, which could also include Microsoft's software in the future, said the official."
This sounds like he was overlooked when it came to the bribes, and now he makes sure that Microsoft will go make him an offer as well...)
By Kurt Pfeifle at Fri, 2007/11/09 - 6:00am