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Moments ago, at LinuxWorld Expo being hosted in San Francisco, CA, the KDE Project was honored as the winner in the "Best Open Source Project" category. On hand to accept the Open Source Product Excellence Award on behalf of the KDE development community were KDE developers Charles Samuels and Rob Kaper, as well as yours truly. Congratulations to the KDE developers, and thanks to IDG for recognizing the excellence of the KDE desktop! Update, Thursday August 30, @1:15AM: Rob Kaper has posted pictures of the award.
Can you call something "really free" if it depends on something, that isn't?
I _do_ watch out what I'm stating. Mostly. :)
> Who knows ? Not in the same way, not in the same
> time... GNU has not the monopoly of freedom...
> It does not use freedom when it tries to enslave
> Linux with the word GNU...
Oh sure, just because RMS has an opinion, suddenly the entire GNU project is guilty.
If Torvalds disagrees with RMS and calls the entire system just "Linux", RMS will sue him, remove his right to use the GPL, and threaten him to call it "GNU/Linux".
Does that sound stupid? Of course it does.
How can GNU "enslave" Linux just because of one man's opinion?
> I cannot say "I work on GNU" or "I work on
> GNU/Linux", it is false. Directly, I don't use
> any GNU programs, excepted bash, sometimes...
Then that is YOUR opinion, seperated from RMS'.
Perhaps RMS don't use KDE, but use GNOME or no desktop at all.
Perhaps he only use GNU software. If that's true, then he has every right to call his system GNU/Linux.
And you have every right to call your system whatever you want.
Get it?
> Oh sure, just because RMS has an opinion, suddenly the entire GNU project is guilty.
I did not say such a thing. And I do not think it, of course.
> And you have every right to call your system whatever you want.
> Get it?
Some ones want that anybody call it GNU/Linux. But the problem is not at first about my rights, it is about the fact that many medias now speak of KDE as a desktop of the "GNU/Linux OS", because some integrists (it's not "just one man opinion") try to impose GNU by the speech. Here is the agression, the wish to enslave the word Linux.
1. There are people who try to enforce the term "GNU/Linux" and bash the term "Linux".
2. There are people who try to enforce the term "Linux" and bash the term "GNU/Linux".
Looks more like civil war to me...
You wrote..."Last year I said that KDE was good but still inferior to Win 98 desktop. Now I think it is superior, even superior to Windows XP desktop in terms of functionnalities. Konqueror, Kmail/KNode, Kicker, KWord are the leaders, Explorer/IE, Outlook Express, Wordpad are behind... And KDE has much more parameters to be adapted in different ways... And it is free..."
This is of course utter nonsense. KDE is significantly slower than NT4. Konq is significantly slower than Opera and IE. NT4 is significantly easier to upgrade (I have trashed two Linux installs now because of installation dependancies (I'm a newbie). With MS, at least you get a Windows Update, and with Gnome you get Red Carpet (which is excellent also). Open Office is at least WYSIWYG unlike KOffice. Outlook express is miles ahead of KMail...
But anyway, keep up the good work guys. I'm looking forward to KDE 3.0.
> KDE is significantly slower than NT4. Konq is significantly slower than Opera and IE
On an old PC with few memory, it is significant. It is less important in many config, for example 350 Mhz, 128 Mo.
A Windows upgrade is esier than a Linux upgrade, yes, but I spoke about the desktop, not the distros upfates.
And, sorry I was a long time a user of Outlook Express and Kmail/Knode is better. Some examples : automatic wrap while typing text, the hierarchy in the mail messsages, a non-proprietary file format, marks for answered mails, the colors in the >, > >... sentences, better tooolbar management and so...
Good job guys! Major rewliness!
PS Looks like we need an awards category. :-)
This is wonderful. But i hope the following features would be implemented.
- WINE support
Well, wouldn't it be nice to hover a .exe made for windows icon in konqi and right click it, select "Windows application" and it would open in WINE from that day onwards in Konqi, KMenu and Kicker and ofcourse, the desktop!
- Better GNOME and Motif support
There is a lot of GTK and Motif apps around. I don't use GNOME, so possibly KDE can apply themes on GTK and Motif (on user demand). This is because my Netscape window (not the title bar :) look different than my GIMP window which looks different from the rest of the desktop.
- Use Gecko in Konqueror.
Yes i know there is KMozilla, but i want to use Gecko in my fave file manager. So Konqi team should put an option for users to choice between Gecko and KHTML. At least Konqi users don't have to suffer from KHTML setbacks.
Best of luck to you guys. Wish you all developers good health and God bless!
I thought that Codeweaver's WINE bundle already did what you're asking for.
Just define new application shortcut (.desktop file) which executes wine, than (if not defined) define mime type for .exe files and than let newly created application for wine (you may call it Windows Application.desctop) to be default application for the .exe mimetype.
That's all you need to make konqui to open .exe with wind :) (ofcorse the distro could do it for your self)
Also about the KDE support for wine, I must tell ya that wine supports kde :) because the windows icons of apps appear correctly in kicker, even apps that use systray icons appear in kicker system tray :)
About the shortcuts in KDE start menu you can simly create .desctop file and place it in your users home or global KDE menu dir. The shortcut command line should be comething like:
wine fullpath_of_windows_app
wine /mnt/win_C/Windows/notepad.exe
enjoy :)
- WINE support
Well, wouldn't it be nice to hover a .exe made for windows icon in konqi and right click it, select "Windows application" and it would open in WINE from that day onwards in Konqi, KMenu and Kicker and ofcourse, the desktop!
Well I have it in 2.2. RMB on a .exe shows a "Wine" entry
that runs the app through wine
... just where are we going to keep that lovely shiny piece of glass? Can we take turns at keeping it perched atop our monitors? Let's see, if everyone gets to hold it for a day, that will take at least how many decades to get around everyone???
just make sure KDE get's another one next year...
KDE rocks my world, for the past eight months I've been continually amazed by the functionality and constant blitzkreig (sp?) development.
Good job! Now where's KDE 3 wishlist site.. i wanna make wish :P
go to each projects web page, find a email, and emails galore!
> ... and emails galore
and of course with patches included :-)
Wishes can be send through the bug reporting system. All you have to do is go to http://bugs.kde.org and send a bug with severity Wishlist.
Kongrats to the pointed glassy thingie and to the nice blue ribbon for Konqi.
I knew this was coming when I first saw KDE 1 beta in SuSE 5.2.
Wonderful, folks@KDE - well deserved, I must say.
Now if only someone took the initiative and made a KDE port of vim (like the current GTK version, gvim)...
Or KEmacs, rewritten from scratch in a real programming language (and least one with types :-)), with all the features (especially indenting/completion) and binary modules (no guys, elc is just bytecode).
Where's a project page ? I am willing to join !
Would be really cool to have! I've heard that a gtk+ version will be built by the XEmacs gang. It would give the KDE project a lot of status if KEmacs can be completed before gtkEmacs :)
Yes, I had a look at these, but
1) it does not use an OO tk
2) it was just about binding Xemacs to Gtk while keeping the lisp monolith
So a KDE Emacs rewritten from scratch (with the actual KDE Text component) could be a real winner. If I had the time, I would love to start this project myself but all I can offer yet is participation if such a thing actually begins...
I just read in the kdevelop mailing list that Gideon has a Emacs KPart :-)
That's an interesting suggestion. Personally I don't find the lisp source code to be such a bad thing.. You've gotta admit lisp is a cool language! .. and, I believe it's what's made emacs so customizable and extendable.
This is not to say things couldn't be "better". Certainly your "monolith" argument is *right* on the money. If "they" (I hate it when people use that word!) could decouple the interface (I'm visualizing a generic lisp frontend to various gui toolkits and/or curses, sure, easier said than done), the elisp interpreter, the, uh, doctor, and all the other kitchen sink bits, it would rock. And we'd get several nice programs/libraries for the price of one.
(as I understand it the reason it wasn't originally built this way was the tight memory/disk space requirements 20 years ago .. too bad emacs is still a pig today.)
I don't know how far the xemacs team is going with this kindof thing; personally, if they can redo the customization buffers so they behave like one single other interface on earth, I'll be impressed.
While I'm dreaming, I wish the fsf would finally run info2html on their helpfiles and forget they ever invented the 'info' format. Sometimes oldschool is nice, and sometimes it's just painful..
The amazing thing about emacs is how it's still better than anyting else :-)
just f.y.i. (i'm not trying to suggest that anyone in particular was ignorant of this fact) but lisp is a very efficient language. most untyped langages are interpereted scripting languages like perl and ruby. recursion also has a bad name in performance, since other languages' compilers do not optimize for tail-recursion (this is one big reason why 'compilers' that turn new languages into C or JVM bytecode are never that good.) lisp and its compiler are very efficient. a well written lisp program will run as fast and sometimes faster than an equivalent C program.
the only problem that lisp has is its lack of familiarity to programmers. but there's a very good reason RMS chose lisp for emacs: functional programming is awesome for text manipulation. ruby's strong and elegant fp implementation is a very big part of its sudden popularity.
i would suggest keeping as much of the lisp code as possible (total rewrites are almost always a recipe for endless project delays, look at what happened to netscape 5.0) and refactor the display code to be independant of the backend and scripting implementation.
there are a lot of libraries out there for making C/C++ get along well with lisp. if this project happens, i'd suggest a restructure & reimplementation of the display, rather than a complete rewrite.
p.s. a complete rewrite would almost certainly break compatibility with at least some of the enormous plethora of plugins out there.
gvim is nice and all, especially if you have a PDP-11 keyboard. If any editor needs to get a real hard look at for a native KDE port, it's jEdit.
Proper syntax high-lighting that's actually configurable. Ability to install plug-ins on the fly to handle all kinds of stuff. Gobs of features to boot.
Only down side is the memory usage due to running under the Java VM. The reason I'm mentioning all this isn't so much to plug jEdit, but to encourage those folks working on editors for KDE to give the UI on this thing a really hard look.
Have you suggested it to the vim people? The gtk version of gvim was done internally, not as a port by the gtk people, afaik.
A port of vim to KDE is underway. It can be found in kdenonbeta/kvim. It's not finished yet though.
I HATE the Gtk version of Vim! In fact, the main reason I like vim over emacs is because vim, is well, less "graphical" for lack of a better word.
:) Insanity can be a beautiful thing.
i agree. however it would be nice to have vim integegrated seemlessly into kde? like to type out a message in kmail. or even enter text into a text box in konqueror / mozilla ... ?
Well deserved recognition for the great work you have all done on KDE. I am new to KDE (used to use gnome) and i was mortified when i first installed it to find a well integrated desktop environment. Konqueror and KMail are fantastic apps and fast unlike Mozilla. What is really cool is that at work :< i use win2000 which looks outdated compared to KDE. There is no going back, the future is bright and it's KDE.
I really like KDE and the main reason why I cannot use it more is the lack of support for S/MIME email and good IMAP support. I know Netscape 4 does it but I have always found that rather inferior to the smooth interface and comparatively good functions of Outlook Express.
Does anyone know if S/MIME is going to be more widely supported? I believe Mozilla are going to do something but do not think they have got very far. Unfortunately PGP is not an option because that is not what is used by all the people I have to correspond with.
Look forward to the days when I can justify working all day on a Linux machine with a KDE Desktop.
Congratulations on what has been achieved so far.
in this week's KC KDE (not available yet) there is a section on S/MIME development that is going on as we speak for KDE3.
It's nice to see that KDE is always improving.
OK, anybody don't always may use some programs, because he finds a lack for his personnal usage. But he knows it will come, he tries new versions, he prepares himself to use it. And then the function comes, he is ready... And when he uses the program regularly, he finds some little annoyances, he still does not retrieve a good comfort. And then improving continues, annoyances disappear and some little great things come...
Today what I need about Kmail or KNode ? Nothing, it is perfect for my usage. About Konqueror, still some annoyances, they decrease while great things continue... About KWord, first usage, still some difficulties, already some goodies... KSpread, no, still not ready for me, it will come with next version, and so...
And thank you Aaron for the KC KDE, it is precious to have a good visibility...
KDE _is_ fantastic; but Mozilla is doing some real progress right now; I used yeterday to browse the web with Mozilla 0.9.4 pre "Nightly" 010909-05/Gecko 010909 compiled for i686 Linux; in my opinion it´s the by far best "non IE" browser yet, and now it's _fast_, very fast, too. And stable :-) Whatch out for the final Mozilla 0.9.4(not to mention the upcoming 1.0):) could be that the code now is so functional; that the team have started doing some real optimizations ? Anyway; as far as webbrowsing is concerned, in my opinion; even KDE would, from now on, benefit by incorparating gecko as default html renderer :-)
Yes, KDE bits win9.x/win2000 a lot where it comes to look & feel, but don't forget about XP.. in general it's a rip of Mac but you must agree it looks cool...
I've created few themes for KDE (when kde.themes.org will allow to upload new themes again??? grr) and what I've noticed was lack of possibility to control kicker layout via ktheme/kstyle manager. In KDE 2.1, you could at least set the background image, now even this is not possible anymore. :/
Kicker is very important part of KDE, after all most of us look at it all the time, so it should be possible to control its look via new "Kicker styles/themes" like you can do for whole KDE now.
Kicker should have independed style/theme support. Imagine you want to have kicker menu in blue while the rest of the KDE menus are red...
Don't getting the idea? Look at some M$ XP screenshots and you will know what I mean...
What do you think about such idea?
Anyways KDE ROX and congratulations to you, guys!!!
Let the Big Pinguin bless ya all!
I think that it would be best if we could select different themes for each individual application. Who wants a wordprocessor that looks like a CD-player or a CD-player that looks like a CAD program? In a world where all windows do not look the same you can find the right window much faster... but it might look a bit ugly - maybe it's enough to have different colour-settings for different apps, but always the same theme...
> it's enough to have different colour-settings for different apps, but always the same theme...
It already exists on many programs : you only have to change the background colour. So Konsole, Kmail, KNode, KEdit, Kate, Quanta Plus and some others have different colours.
Also, some programs, like KCalc have some nice coloured parameters... Yo, such things are rare in MS Windows, KDE has a very good look, also with nice readable icons and the lovely favicons of Konqueror...
As it is said elsewhere, I think that the first look & feel lack is now a blank or coloured cursor...
KCalc is also a nice example of a program that gets screwed up by many new, oh so beautiful styles/themes. Using Aqua-ish button style wastes an enormous amount of desktop space when you have 20-30 "small" buttons!
Maybe we should introduce the concept of thin-edge buttons to stop thick-edge-themes from wasting space in specific situations? It's wonderful to have large, nice OK / Cancel buttons, but the 20-30 calculator buttons should really be kept just big enough to do their job. But they still have to look good and fit in with the rest, so it's really the theme/style's job to provide these "cheap buttons".
Uhm, sorry but your comment's totally wrong. If you've done any checking you'd see that KCalc uses the same sized buttons no matter if your using old styles like the default or new styles like Liquid. Try it and see for yourself. I honestly don't know why people make such comments when it's visibly incorrect...
It uses the same amount of space on the desktop, but it loses more space from the buttons. Either way it's kinda bad. I wouldn't mind if KCalc used rows of rounded buttons with squarer sides, instead of them all being the bulgy things.
The GIMP suffers from this exact problem too if you use the Geramik theme. The buttons all squish up and don't always look right.
I congratulate the creators of KDE 2.2 as a programmer I can relate to the enormeous effort you have put into the system. I hope it is great fun for you.
As a regular user of KDE 2.2, I have noticed the following which needs to be adressed in the style/theming department of KDE3.X.
1) Kicker's menus, toolbar, applet backgrounds, systray and extensions need a unified style engine model like the rest of the KDE desktop. It needs to allow proper plugins and backgrounds. Right now the image theming of kicker is very bad because of the default border color schemes (try setting any non white-to-white gradient picture as the background and be scared by the pure ugliness of the new look). And the menu's aren't themable at all (at least to a GUI user).
2) The entire control of the look and feel is messy and all over the place. They should be split into Look and Feel. The styling of widgets, windows, fonts, menus, backgrounds and possible kicker should be in one submenu by themselves. In fact the Control Panel could do with a clean up and maybe some kind of user sophistication setting so that simple users like my mother, don't get thrown thousand terms in the face, which they don't need to see at all. Gnome's UI studies shows this clearly and it applies here as well.
3) Kicker from a UI point of view is a little messy. The combination of grips (on the different parts of the GUI), insets on both the systray, clock and taskbar create a lot of visual noise, look to the new Mac OS X bar and the WinXP one as well to see how this is done best, less is more.
On another note:
If I understand correctly Actions, such as Save, Copy, Paste and so on, are signals send to applications in KDE. If that is so, then it could also be possible that the accelerator keys for these action are per-user configured from a KControl Module, so that all supporting applications suddenly are able to share and respect each users wishes for keyboard accelerators. Would that be possible?
All entries in the KMenu of Kicker should be editable by drag and drop just like in Windows (i.e. all entries are just files). It boggles my mind how this major usuability feature could be missed. It should however be User and Group respecting, so that people like the city of Largo, could install programs onto a central location and if the file is in the right place, the next time a user logs on or the menu cache updates the program appears on their menu...
These things will be entered into bugs.kde.org as wishlist items soon, and I might even find the time to code some stuff myself.
Best regards ya all
Mikael Helbo Kjær
I understand that good things may be more good, but here, I don't understand :
> 3) Kicker from a UI point of view is a little messy. The combination of grips (on the different parts of the GUI), insets on both the systray, clock and taskbar create a lot of visual noise,
?? You manage the systray and taskbar as you want. Did you tried the launch bar and task bar applets ? They are very fine.
But, yes, the clock may have more parameter (I think the LED style is not the most readable). Also there are some bugs to memorize applets when Kicker is vertical (+ clock too small)).
> All entries in the KMenu of Kicker should be editable by drag and drop just like in Windows
Yes, here it is an advantage of Windows, the menu management is heavy, and also we have no menu in the right click, so it is not possible to manage files in, the K Menu (but how many Windows users do it ?).
I hope you will code, but, please, carefully, without adding some dysfunction ;-)...
>Yes, here it is an advantage of Windows, the menu management is heavy, and also we have no menu in the right click, so it is not possible to manage files in, the K Menu (but how many Windows users do it ?).
Most Windows users I know that manage the system them self.
The whole Desktop needs to use Drag'n Drop consequent if users are to rely on it and use it.
It should be always possible to turn off such drag'n'drop. I often happens to me to drag some incons out of kicker. It is also much harder to manage other people desktops if they can screw their desktop with a one click !
On the matter of the taskbar and systray (well mostly the taskbar) the size and look of the grips are a tad too big, and the border within the taskbar I think needs to configurable (so that I could make it go away like I want it to).
On the matter of the drag'n'drop management of the K Menu entries (or any other entries) I know many Windows user, who expect this functionality (I had forgotten about the right click menus, but they can't be too hard to add).
And if I code I most likely will start with something small, but then again I might not. And I always code carefully I have been doing programming (Java and C++) work professionally five years now.
> On the matter of the taskbar and systray (well mostly the taskbar) the size and look of the grips are a tad too big,
Perhaps, it is not obvious for me.
> and the border within the taskbar I think needs to configurable (so that I could make it go away like I want it to).
Here I prefer the KDE way (with position left, top...), it offers the same abilities than in Windows and it is less dangerous. I have seen too many persons on Windows changing the place of the bar by an error of mouse moving and unable to put it on the usual place.
> On the matter of the drag'n'drop management of the K Menu entries (or any other entries) I know many Windows user, who expect this functionality
> (I had forgotten about the right click menus, but they can't be too hard to add)
The right menu is important, and a "Move" function may be added (as in kicker) to change the place of the program in the menus. It would be better that the moving by direct mouse drag in Windows (which may be done by error).
I think that on Windows it is too easy to change the menu configuration by a bad mouse moving, I hope that such errors would be less easy on KDE.
Good luck !
> then it could also be possible that the
> accelerator keys for these action are per-user
> configured from a KControl Module, so that all
> supporting applications suddenly are able to
> share and respect each users wishes for
> keyboard accelerators. Would that be possible?
kcontrol -> look 'n feel -> key bindings -> application shortcuts tab
as for the style stuf, well, Qt3 introduces a new style engine and this change seems to be bringing about larger changes to KDE's theming capabilities. will be interesting to see what KDE3 holds in the look dpt.
Thank you for the tip. A load of my mind and all that. Good I didn't post the wishlist stuff yet.


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"Enough is enough! I have had it with these blankety-blank snakes on this blankety-blank, um…ARM…Cortex-M0, ah, microcontroller."
Ahem, right. Anyway.
Apologies are now due to hardworking Hack a Day writer Mike Szczys for reducing his latest tasty MCU project to a perfunctory SamJack joke.
In point of fact, the name of the game is just Snake, with no s at the end, and though it's about as old as personal computing, itself, Snake really made its mark in 1998, when Nokia started bundling it as the default videogame on its then-new ARM-based cellphones. Which is why it's doubly cool that Mike is playing the game on a chopped-off screen from an old Nokia 3595: He's built a handheld Nokia Snake machine, circa 2002, without all those annoying phone functions that really just distracted from the game, anyway.
Circuit, source code, and more details are available at Mike's personal site, linked below. [Thanks, Mike!]
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2nd Democratic debate is make-or-break before field narrows — here's what to expect on night 1
DETROIT - Last month's presidential debate offered voters an introduction to the Democratic field. Round two in Detroit promises to be more like an episode of the TV reality show "Survivor."
Spread over back-to-back nights, 20 White House hopefuls will take the stage at a crucial point in the Democratic primary.
For well-known candidates like Beto O'Rourke and Joe Biden, it offers a do-over following widely panned performances in Miami. But for struggling White House hopefuls, it could be a last chance to breathe life into a campaign before tougher debate qualification rules kick in that are all but certain to thin the field.
This could be the last debate for roughly half of the candidates, who are at risk of not clearing the higher bar set by the Democratic National Committee for the next round in September. To qualify for the next debates in September, candidates must raise money from more donors and hit higher polling thresholds — a bar more than half of the candidates are at risk of missing.
But a breakout moment could go a long way toward reversing those fortunes.
"Everything's at stake," said Jill Alper, a Democratic strategist who has worked on seven presidential campaigns.
Expect plenty of attacks. The strategy worked last month for California Sen. Kamala Harris and ex-Obama Housing Secretary Julián Castro.
Harris raked in donations and rose in the polls thanks to her searing critique of Biden's past stances on busing, while Castro's low-polling campaign got a boost at the expense of O'Rourke, a fellow Texan.
But it can flop, too. California Rep. Eric Swalwell aggressively went after Biden yet failed to leave a mark. Days later, he dropped out.
Interjections received annoyed looks and reprimands during the last debate on NBC News. This time, CNN says frequent interrupters will have their time reduced.
Not only will Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts be standing at center stage, but it's also likely their progressive politics will be at the center of the debate, too.
Warren's campaign has gained ground in recent weeks, partially at the expense of Sanders. The debate could offer a high-profile chance for Warren to prove to Sanders' supporters that she's worthy of their consideration.
The two are vying for many of the same voters, but they are closely aligned on policy, leaving limited ground to attack each other.
Instead, look for attacks from centrists on the stage who are thirsting for a breakout moment, like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, or former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who has repeatedly railed against socialism.
In fact, Hickenlooper, who has struggled with fundraising and in the polls, has already indicated that he intends to draw a contrast with Warren.
Warren "has some big ideas that have an even bigger cost," he tweeted Monday. "We proved in Colorado that you don't need big, expensive government programs to achieve progressive goals."
The night will provide more moderate candidates, such as South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, another opportunity to position themselves as alternatives to the progressive platforms of Warren and Sanders.
Speaking of Sanders, just because he is onstage doesn't mean he's happy about it — at least according to a senior aide.
"I'm going to make a radical comment. This isn't a criticism of CNN. It's really a criticism of the media environment," campaign manager Faiz Shakir told CNN during a segment that aired Sunday. "I believe these debates tend to make the American people stupider. They are performative theater. And we don't end up having the conversations that affect people's lives."
Shakir added that Sanders would "try to go through it and answer the questions, respond to Donald Trump's tweets and all those kinds of things. But at the end of the day, this isn't, I think, how you win a campaign."
Pete Buttigieg will be the youngest candidate onstage. But he'll probably try to come across as the adult in the room.
The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, strives to be a postpartisan voice in a field dominated by partisan fights. He speaks eloquently about religion, being the first gay candidate to run a major presidential campaign, his military service and the need for generational change.
Often left out, though, are the specifics. That's given his critics plenty of ammunition in a primary where nitty-gritty policy differences have drawn an unlikely spotlight.
"He needs to put some meat on the bone," said David Axelrod, once a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. "We'll see if he has a second act. This debate will go a long way toward showing if he does."
O'Rourke had a rough outing last month, when Castro repeatedly attacked him over his signature issue — immigration. Looking for a comeback, O'Rourke has hinted that he will go after Buttigieg, who raked in $24.8 million and led the field in fundraising last quarter.
O'Rourke already took an apparent poke at Buttigieg for spending nearly $300,000 on charter flights last quarter.
"No private planes for this campaign," the former Texas congressman said in a video last week that was filmed while O'Rourke was aboard a commercial plane waiting for takeoff. "We're putting your $5, $10, $15 to use and making sure we make the most out of every penny that's committed to this campaign."
His campaign has also chided Buttigieg for holding paid "grassroots" fundraising events, noting people pay nothing to hear O'Rourke speak.
Also on stage will be Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, author Marianne Williamson and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who joined the race after the other candidates and did not qualify for last month's debate in Miami.
Associated Press writers Errin Haines Whack in Philadelphia, David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan, and Thomas Beaumont in Detroit contributed to this report.


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Helpful tips for family caregivers
July/August 2017
The mind is a very powerful influence. In this month's issue we look at ways you can leverage your thoughts to identify problems but not get swamped by them. We provide tips for buying medications safely online. We also look at ways to prevent falls with five simple changes in just one room of the house.
Curb your negative thinking
As humans, we are hard wired to pay more attention to what's not working or dangerous than what is going well. For instance, dwelling on a parent's growing weakness and instability rather than on his or her uncomplaining attitude.
This tendency to notice the negative can help us learn from mistakes and avoid preventable problems. But it's also easy to get stuck spinning your wheels in negativity and become mired in depression and anxiety.
What are negative thoughts? There are several types of thinking that are more destructive than helpful.
- All-or-nothing thinking. It's all good or all bad. "If I don't get Dad to do all his exercises, the doctor will think I don't even try."
- Catastrophizing. "I just know she's going to break her hip."
- Trash-talking yourself. "I can never make Mom comfortable like my sister can."
How can you turn your negative thoughts around?
- Don't try to stop them. It's odd, but trying to suppress them actually gives them more power.
- Recognize and accept you are in a funk. Take a step outside yourself and notice that you are being negative: "Oh, I'm in my negative thinking mode again."
- Ask yourself if your thoughts are helping. Are you actually moving toward an action plan to change something?
- Challenge the thoughts. Put them to the "truth test." Are you truly incompetent? Have you never done something well? Strive for a balanced view of the situation.
- Schedule time to recharge your own batteries. Have lunch with a friend, take a walk around town, explore something that interests you locally.
- What would you tell a friend? We are often kinder to others than we are to ourselves. Any reason you don't deserve the advice you'd give a friend?
If your negativity is taking over, talk to a counselor. Such practical support helps us learn to loosen the grip of negative thinking.
Return to topBeware rogue pharmacies
We're all buying products via the Internet these days. Even medications. It's easy, and online merchants frequently offer bargain prices. Many of us are trying this route for relief from high drug costs. Unfortunately, a study by the National Association of Pharmacy Boards revealed that more than 60% of medicines purchased online are fake or substandard.
Buyer beware! If a drug costs less, it may be because the pill has less of the active ingredient. Or no active ingredient. Medical counterfeiters do not care about consumer health or safety. If your loved one is purchasing medicines online, he or she could actually be going without treatment! Or getting a fake drug with a different but related active ingredient. It may appear to help. But it was not the drug the doctor prescribed. And it could result in unanticipated side effects.
Serious consequences. Worse yet, counterfeit drugs may include harmful chemicals. These can be extremely dangerous. Some consumers have ended up in the emergency room needing treatment for ingesting chemicals they weren't aware they were taking!
How to spot a rogue pharmacy
Here are signs of a faker:
- The pharmacy is not based in the United States. (China and India are the worst offenders.)
- The price is significantly lower than standard cost in the United States.
- A prescription from a doctor is not needed. (Many rogue pharmacies will provide medicine on the basis of an Internet questionnaire.)
- They sell controlled substances (e.g., opioids).
- There is no published telephone number.
- There is no pharmacist to talk with.
Check before you buy
There are legitimate Internet pharmacies. The National Association of Pharmacy Boards has created the www.VIPPS.info website (Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites). It lists only fully licensed U.S. pharmacies. There is a similar Canadian website at www.cipa.com.
Return to topIs your bathroom "senior-friendly"?
Falls due to environmental causes are the most preventable of all threats to older adults. And in that regard, the bathroom is one of the most dangerous rooms in the house.
Eighty percent of all falls occur in the bathroom. Slippery floors, hard surfaces, and unforgiving edges are just some of the hazards.
Getting up and down from the toilet and in and out of the shower are the top two activities most associated with falls.
Here's what you can do:
- Install grab bars. Use grab bars by the toilet and shower that bolt into the wall, at a stud. A tension pole (extending from floor to ceiling) is a reasonable alternative. Avoid counting on towel bars or suction-based grab bars. They are not reliable.
- Purchase a shower chair or bench. Use a shower chair in a walk-in shower to eliminate the need for standing. A shower bench bridges the side of a tub. It allows your loved one to sit on the bench at chair height, with feet outside the tub, and then pivot 90° to put feet in the tub and then scoot over for washing.
- Get a hand–held showerhead. With this device your relative can stay seated on the chair or bench throughout bathing. Make sure it can be easily hung from something in the shower while your relative is soaping up. An on/off button on the handle is also a nice feature.
- Add nonskid rugs and mats. Remedy slippery surfaces in the shower or tub with a nonskid mat or decals. In the bathroom, use only rubber-bottomed rugs. A towel on the floor to sop up water is a slip-and-fall waiting to happen.
- Raise the height of the toilet. In addition to a grab bar, install a taller toilet or add a raised seat. A 1.5″–3″ boost can make getting up a lot easier!


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Question 1: Are there any deeper applications (in any field of mathematics) of polynomials (with possibly more than one variable) over the real numbers whose coefficients are non-negative? So far I have found only some vague mentions of control theory and maybe some approximations of functions, but don't know the details (e.g. www.math.ttu.edu/~barnard/poly.pdf).
Question 2: There is a similar notion, namely "positive polynomials", but they are defined as "polynomial functions that are non-negative". Does anybody know some connection between these two kinds of polynomials? Thanks.
All comments and suggested answers here (thanks for them:)) have certainly something to do with the mentioned type of polynomials. To specify more what was my intention - a desired answer (to Question 1) should fullfil the following: "Is the application in you proposed area of such a kind that it forces an (independent) research of polynomials with non-negative coefficients on themselves?"


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Connecticut's Ratification
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Connecticut, January 9,
1788. Connecticut was the fifth state to do so. Connecticut's ratification
message was short and to the point. The following text is taken from the
Library of Congress's copy of Elliot's Debates.
In the Name of the People of the State of Connecticut.
We, the delegates of the people of said state, in general Convention
assembled, pursuant to an act of the legislature in October last, have assented
to, and ratified, and by these presents do assent to, on the 17th day of
September, A. D. 1787, for the United States of America.
Done in Convention, this 9th day of January, A. D. 1788.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.
MATTHEW GRISWOLD, President.
Jeremiah Wadsworth,
Jesse Root,
Isaac Lee,
Selah Hart,
Zebulon Peck, Jun.,
Elisha Pitkin,
Erastur Wolcott,
John Watson,
John Treadwell,
William Judd,
Nathaniel Minor,
Jonathan Sturges,
Thaddeus Burr,
Elisha Whittlesey,
Joseph Moss White,
Amos Mead,
Jabez Fitch,
Nehemiah Beardsley,
James Potter,
John Chandler,
Issac Burnham,
John Wilder,
Mark Prindle,
Jedediah Hubbel,
Aaron Austin,
Samuel Canfield,
Daniel Everitt,
Hezekiah Fitch,
Joshua Porter,
Benjamin Hinma,
Joseph Mosely,
Wait Goodrich,
John Curtiss,
Asa Barns,
Stephen Mix Mitchell,
John Chester,
Oliver Ellsworth,
Roger Newberry,
Roger Sherman,
Pierpont Edwards,
Samuel Beach,
Daniel Holbrook,
John Holbrook,
Gideon Buckingham,
Lewis Mallet, Jun.
Joseph Hopkins,
John Welton,
Richard Law,
Amasa Learned,
Samuel Huntington,
Jedediah Huntington,
Isaac Huntington,
Robert Robbins,
Daniel Foot,
Eli Hyde,
Joseph Woodbridge,
Stephen Billings,
Andrew Lee,
William Noyes,
Joshua Raymond, Jun.,
Jeremiah Halsey,
Wheeler Coit,
Charles Phelps,
John Beach,
Hezekiah Rogers,
Lemuel Sandford,
William Heron,
Philip Burr Bradley,
Nathan Danchy,
James Davenport,
John Davenport, Jun.,
Wm. Samuel Johnson,
Elisha Mills,
Eliphalet Dyer,
Jedediah Elderkin,
Simeon Smith,
Hendrick Dow,
Seth Paine,
Asa Witter,
Moses Cleveland,
Samson Howe,
William Danielson,
William Williams,
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Daniel Learned,
Moses Campbell,
Benjamin Dow,
Oliver Wolcott,
Jedediah Strong,
Moses Hawley,
Charles Burrall,
Nathan Hale,
Daniel Miles,
Asaph Hall,
Epaphras Sheldon,
Eleazer Curtiss,
John Whittlesey,
Dan. Nath. Brinsmade,
Thomas Fenn,
David Smith,
Robert M'Cune,
Daniel Sherman,
Samuel Orton,
Asher Miller,
Samuel H. Parsons,
Ebenezer White,
Hezekiah Goodrich,
Dyer Throop,
Jabez Chapman,
Cornelius Higgins,
Hezekiah Brainard,
Theophilus Morgan,
Hezekiah Lane,
William Hart,
Samuel Shipman,
Jeremiah West,
Samuel Chapman,
Ichabod Warner,
Samuel Carver,
Jeremiah Ripley,
Ephraim Root,
John Phelps,
Isaac Foot,
Abijah Sessions,
Caleb Holt,
Seth Crocker.
State of Connecticut, ss. Hartford, January Ninth, Anno Domini, 1788.
— The foregoing ratification was agreed to, and signed as above, by one
hundred and twenty-eight, and dissented to by forty delegates in convention,
which is a majority of eighty-eight.
Certified by MATTHEW GRISWOLD, President.
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Sewage treatment plants fail to remove artificial sweeteners completely from waste water. What's more, these pollutants contaminate waters downstream and may still be present in our drinking water. Thanks to their new robust analytical method, which simultaneously extracts and analyses seven commonly used artificial sweeteners, Marco Scheurer, Heinz-Jürgen Brauch and Frank Thomas Lange from the Water Technology Center in Karlsruhe, Germany, were able to demonstrate the presence of several artificial sweeteners in waste water. Their findings(1) are published online this week in Springer's journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
A range of artificial sweeteners are commonly used in food and drinks, as well as drugs and sanitary products. The potential health risks of artificial sweeteners have been debated for some time. Until now, only sucralose has been detected in aquatic environments. Through the use of a new analytical method, the researchers were able to look for seven different artificial sweeteners (cyclamate, acesulfame, saccharin, aspartame, neotame, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone and sucralose) simultaneously, and show, for the first time, that a number of commonly used artificial sweeteners are present in German waste and surface water.
Scheurer and colleagues collected water samples from two sewage treatment plants in Germany — Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen and Karlsruhe — as well as from a soil aquifer treatment site located in a Mediterranean country that treats secondary effluent from a sewage treatment plant.
They tested the water samples using their new analytical method and detected four (acesulfame, saccharin, cyclamate, and sucralose) of seven artificial sweeteners in the waters from the two German sewage treatment plants, indicating incomplete elimination during waste water treatment. Their analyses also showed that these pollutants contaminate rivers and streams receiving water from the sewage treatment plants.
The authors then compared the conventional waste water treatment by sewage treatment plants with advanced waste water treatment by soil aquifer treatment. Traces of artificial sweeteners were present in both cases, proof that water purification was incomplete.
Marco Scheurer concludes: "Due to the use of artificial sweeteners as food additives, the occurrence of artificial sweetener traces in the aquatic environment might become a primary issue for consumer acceptance."
1. Scheurer M, Brauch H-J, Lange FT. (2009). Analysis and occurrence of seven artificial sweeteners in German waste water and surface water and in soil aquifer treatment (SAT). Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry; DOI 10.1007/s00216-009-2881-y


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Cutting and burning tropical forests releases the atmospheric carbon they store, contributing significantly to global climate change. The "high forest cover and low rates of deforestation" (HFLD) countries contain 20 percent of Earth's remaining tropical forest, including some of the richest ecosystems.
But 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of the emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change.
A study published Tuesday warns that the HFLD nations could become the most vulnerable targets for deforestation if the Kyoto Protocol and upcoming negotiations on carbon trading fail to include intact standing forest.
From: No Forest Left Behind da Fonseca GAB, Rodriguez CM, Midgley G, Busch J, Hannah L, et al. PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 8, e216 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050216
The study by scientists from Conservation International (CI), the South African National Biodiversity Institute, and the University of California-Santa Barbara calls for the HFLD countries to receive "preventive credits" under any carbon trading mechanism to provide incentive for them to protect their intact tropical forest. Otherwise, the same market and economic forces that cause deforestation elsewhere will quickly descend on regions that so far have avoided significant loss, the authors say.
"Given the very large – and likely still underestimated – role of tropical deforestation in causing climate change, these forest-rich countries should be at the forefront of worldwide efforts to sequester carbon, rather than being left out entirely," said CI President Russell A. Mittermeier, an author of the study. "With this paper, we hope to highlight this critical issue and put it on the table for future negotiations."
Until now, the Kyoto Protocol and subsequent discussions have focused on carbon credits for new or replanted forests that replace the carbon storage services of destroyed forests. New rules being discussed by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change for implementation subsequent to Kyoto are likely to create a carbon market for countries that reduce their deforestation from levels of recent years.
That would cover countries that have lost large portions of their original tropical forest, as well as those that still have more than half their forest cover but face current high rates of deforestation. In contrast, 11 HFLD countries with more than half their original forest intact and low rates of current deforestation would receive no credits for standing forests.
"The minute that you exclude those countries, their forests lose economic value in the global carbon market, leaving governments with little reason to protect them," said study co-author Gustavo Fonseca of CI and Brazil's Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
The HFLD countries are Panama, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with French Guiana, which is a French territory. Three of them – Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana – comprise much of the Guayana Shield region of the northern Amazon that is the largest intact tract of tropical forest on Earth. In addition, portions of other large non-HFLD countries are in the same situation. For example, although Brazil has four other major ecosystems, the Brazilian Amazon faces a similar circumstance as HFLD countries.
According to the study, preventive credits for HFLD countries at a conservative carbon price of U.S. $10 per ton would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, providing governments with significant economic incentive to protect tropical forests that store atmospheric carbon and supply essential natural benefits for local populations such as clean water, food, medicines and natural resources.
CI believes any carbon credit mechanism should include full representation, participation and consultation by indigenous and local communities of tropical forest regions to ensure that conservation and development programs proceed in accordance with their rights and traditional ways of life as stewards of the crucial ecosystems in which they live.
Along with Fonseca and Mittermeier, the study's other authors are Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and Lee Hannah of CI, Guy Midgley of the Kirstenbosch Research Center at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, and Jonah Busch of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC-Santa Barbara.
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Turns Out Carrie Underwood Has 'Savage' Dance Moves [Watch]
Carrie Underwood is a savage. No, she's not literally savage, but she can dance to "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion with the best of them.
Underwood — who is new to the social media platform TikTok, but adapting quickly — along with her makeup and hair artist Melissa Schleicher, lets loose to the viral hit song by the Houston rapper while mimicking TikTok's specific routine for "Savage." (The dance originated on the platform and launched 'challenge' for others to learn the original choreography by Keara Wilson, spread wide by Megan Thee Stallion.)
Underwood proves that a mama of two can still roll those hips, swinging along to the lyrics: "I'm a savage (yeah) / Classy, bougie, ratchet."
With a mask covering the lower half of her face, Schleicher doesn't seem to pick up the dance moves as fast as Underwood, but she makes the perfect backup dancer.
The singer, 37, knows she much older than the teenagers who are the majority of TikTok users — but that's okay.
"We know we are not, in fact, savage," Underwood writes on top of the video, poking fun at herself and acknowledging that she may not be as hip and cool as she once was.
Carrie Underwood Has Joined TikTok and She's Showing No Mercy!
In addition to her "Savage" routine, the "Cry Pretty" singer shared an adorable throwback video on TikTok — a 'glow up,' if you will — showing pictures from when she was younger, leading up to her American Idol win and throughout her booming career.
"I was a little girl in Checotah, Oklahoma with a big dream of being a country singer," Underwood writes on the video. It's a sweet reminder of not only where she came from, but also an encouragement to anyone else out there chasing a dream.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Jim Beam Is Up 11%, Single Oak Project Has 6th Release, And The KDA Has New Digs.
Beam Inc. has reported its second quarter results. Sales are up and bourbon is why. In worldwide sales, Jim Beam itself is up 11 percent for the year, Knob Creek is up 9 percent, and Maker's Mark is up 29 percent. That's pretty incredible, but there is another Beam bourbon that is doing even better: Basil Hayden, up 33 percent.
Almost everything in Beam's portfolio is up. Effen Vodka is one notable exception. When Beam bought Effen Vodka from Sazerac three years ago, I said it was a mistake. Sure enough, Effen sales are down 14 percent, probably because Beam has lost interest in it since Beam now has Pinnacle Vodka, a much bigger brand and one that is not based on a vulgarity.
This month, Sazerac's Buffalo Trace Distillery will releases the sixth round of Single Oak Project bourbons. Twelve of these experimental bourbons are released each quarter. With release six, therefore, the score is 72 released, 120 to go.
Each release has a theme. This time, all twelve bourbons in the set are from Warehouse L, a masonry warehouse with concrete floors that many Tracians consider their best. The other common feature is low barrel entry proof (52.5% ABV). Since most bourbons go into the barrel at close to the legal maximum of 62.5% ABV, low entry proof is of great interest to distillers and aficionados.
The Kentucky Distiller's Association (KDA), of which Sazerac is not a member, is 132 years old but never has had a physical home. It now occupies a portion of Frankfort Barracks, a 141-year-old building that housed federal troops stationed in Frankfort between 1871 and 1876. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The address is 614 Shelby Street, Frankfort, KY 40601.
In addition to offices for KDA's staff, which has ballooned to three people, it will also serve as information center and gift shop for the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour.
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Basil Hayden up 33%??
That must mean that instead of selling 100 bottles of this watered down Old Grandad last year, they sold 133 this year. Go figure. - August 2, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Fist of all, BH is good stuff. Second, I was curious to know if the growth is coming from the domestic market or the export market.
- August 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Can't tell from what they reported. They didn't break it down, except to say that both domestic and export sales are up. I haven't heard much about BH in export, so I suspect it's domestic, but I can't say for sure. I know BH has become very popular with mixologists, who like its age and high-rye spice.
- August 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM
- Jordan said...
Odd. Given the mixological predilection for BiB whiskeys (Rittenhouse topping that list), I'm surprised they wouldn't go for OGD BiB or 114 instead. That'd certainly help keep the overhead down as well. Though unfortunately OGD BiB is going to look pretty terrible anywhere other than the well rack.
- August 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM


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The word friendship is perhaps one of the words with more interpretations that exist. More than literal interpretations, I mean how it feel each one of us. Some understand friendship in terms of duty, others of submission, of interest, of sacrifice, of love, of brotherhood, of popularity, of weakness, of quantity and thus we could relate a few more. For you what is the meaning of the word friendship? My interpretation of friendship matches almost at the foot of the letter with which makes the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy) that says: pure, selfless, and personal affection shared with another person, who was born and is strengthened by the treatment. I would leave it as: selfless, and personal affection shared with another person, and that is strengthened by the continued treatment..
Already on the way I have pointed out the key words of the definition of my sense of friendship: selfless, shared and continued treatment with affection. However there will be who put in doubt that friendship can exist without a desire to get a benefit from it (NLP says that all behavior has a positive intention), but I think that what at least is possible is that this supposed interest is not the first reason. Friendship, as I understand it, is a path of two directions: one is given and another receives. Do not take this last comment in the literal, since neither give nor receive has to happen consciously. When we have a relationship of friendship, well understood, we are constantly receiving information, feelings, thoughts of quality, since it comes from a trusted source, and the same is true in the opposite direction. I be right if I say that this two-way flow impact decisively on our self-esteem and personal motivation. On the other hand, that friendship will allow us to socialize us in an easy and non-traumatic way. In my view, the great risk of friendship lies in the unit.
Friendship can be a reference and a complement, but should never be a substitute for our desires, our will. Our life must be governed (guided and directed) by each of us, based on our beliefs, values or thoughts. Our personal development can be influenced by our friends, but not directed by them. The ability to make friends that will complement and join you is one of your better social skills. Your friends, not discriminate instead learn from them; sometimes will be things that will help you to go on the good path, and others will help you to know the real dangers that you face; in both cases you will learn. As that famous phrase said, ask yourself what can I do for my friends? Be generous, because everything you do for them what you're doing for you also. A greeting.


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Talk To Yourself
"When you talk to yourself in your mind, which self do you address? And how? Usually people do not talk to their divinity, but to the most superficial aspects of their everyday personality. And often its a stream of fears, complaints and mindless repetition of old things. If we talked that way to another human being, we would have to apologize. Learning to talk properly to the self is a spiritual endeavor. Thoughts from the past and worries about the future do not create good conversation. Instead learn to talk to your mind as if it were a child. Talk to it with love. If you just force a child to sit down, he won't. A good mother knows how to prompt her child into doing what she wants. Be a good mother to your mind, teach it good, positive thoughts so that when you tell it to sit quietly, it will. Love your mind. Stay happy." ~Author Unknown


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During my time as a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow and a J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow within the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), I was able to work on the Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding that was jointly sponsored by the NAE and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
I am happy to report that the NAE and the USIP just release the Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding report this month.
I am so glad that I was able to contribute some chapter introductions for Kenya and Haiti within this report.
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Protest Camp, Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona #acampadabcn, a set on Flickr.
I had the chance to spend a little time in the protest camp in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona today. I'm no good at estimating the size of crowds but there were many more people around today than there were yesterday. Here are some snaps I took with my phone.


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by Georgi Stankov, October 9, 2013
In late May, 2010 Washington DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen (Wayne Medison Report, WMR, May 24, 2010) had a bombshell revelation about Obama's membership in a Chicago gay club, Man's Country. Madsen also reported on Obama's sexual relationships with other men, including named D.C. politicians and Donald Young, the openly gay choir-director of the church in Chicago of which Obama was a member for some 20 years — Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ black liberation theology. Obama's relationship with Young was confirmed by Larry Sinclair, who claims to have had two sex-cocaine trysts with Obama.
There were two other openly gay men in Wright's church: Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. In late 2007, as Obama began his ascent to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, in a span of 1½ months, all three men "conveniently" died:
- Bland was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007;
- Young was murdered execution-style on December 24, 2007;
- Spencer reportedly died of septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV on December 26, 2007. (Death certificates of Bland and Young, HERE.)
In July 2010, Young's elderly mother spoke publicly out about her suspicions that her son was murdered to protect Obama's reputation and assure his political future as President.
This suspicion of Young's mother was confirmed by Wayne Madsen in an exclusive-to-subscribers report on Jan. 19, 2012:
"WMR has learned from a source who is an official of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) in Chicago, President Obama's former church, that congregants are afraid of discussing the brutal execution-style murders of two of the church's members.
The church's choir director Donald Young was murdered on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2007, at the beginning of the presidential campaign. Although the Chicago Police Department indicated there was a "person of interest" in the Young case, no one has been charged with Young's murder. Another church member, Larry Bland, was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007. […]
When TUCC pastor Jeremiah Wright retired as pastor in early 2008, several church members left the predominantly African-American mega-church along with him, according to our TUCC source. The new pastor, Otis Moss III, has shown no interest in trying to find out the killers of Young and Bland, although the church is active in several community action programs, including those dealing with violence.
The TUCC source says there has been a "stand down" at TUCC in dealing with the Young and Bland murders. Although a service was held for Young at TUCC, the church, according to the source, "ignored the two murders," adding, "there is no interest in pursuing the murderers."
I have published below the original report of Wayne Madsen that is very informative and well documented. I can confirm personally from my memory that most of the broader events and news summarized in this report are correct as reported by MSM at that time, although these media are known for their perennial and ubiquitous fraud.
In addition I was urged by my HS yesterday and today to highlight one more time the criminal background of Obama during his time in Chicago as it may play an important part in his impending demise (impeachment, murder, etc) as US president by the dark cabal on the eve of the Big Events and our Ascension. The perverse sexual background of Obama gains now a new dimension after I discovered with the help of my HS that his wife Michelle Obama is a transsexual male. That the other suspect Rahm Emanuel is a homosexual is beyond any doubt – one only has to see any of his numerous interviews on TV to find out this fact for himself.
After all, we have now entered the New Earth of Truth where nothing can be hidden anymore, as the new crystalline grids of the ascended Gaia do not allow for this kind of past Orion fraud and deceit (for further information see GaiaPortal)
Obama & Emanuel – Members
Of Same Chicago Gay Bath House By Wayne Madsen First Published 5-24-10 5-13-12 |
President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago's gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.
The bath house, Man's Country, caters to older white men and it has been in business for some 30 years and is known as one of uptown Chicago's "grand old bathhouses." WMR was told by sources who are familiar with the bath house that it provides one-year "lifetime" memberships to paying customers and that the club's computerized files and pre-computer paper files, include membership information for both Obama and Emanuel. The data is as anonymized as possible for confidentiality purposes. However, sources close to "Man's Country" believe the U.S. Secret Service has purged the computer and filing cabinet files of the membership data on Obama and Emanuel.Members of Man's Country are also issued club identification cards. WMR learned that Obama and Emanuel possessed the ID cards, which were required for entry.Obama began frequenting Man's Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Emanuel, reportedly joined Man's Country after he left the Clinton White Hosue and moved back to Chicago in 1998, joining the investment firm of Wasserstein Perella and maintaining his membership during his 2002 campaign for the U.S. 5th District House seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich, who was elected governor.Man's Country appears to be a "one stop shopping" center for gay men. The club's website advertises steam rooms, "fantasy rooms," bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers.However, Man's Country was not the only location for Obama's predatory gay sex activities. The Chicago gay community is aware that Obama often made contacts with younger men at his famous "pick-up basketball" games. It was at these "pick up" matches where Obama first met Emanuel and a young Democratic campaign worker and senior bank vice president named Alexi Giannoulias. Currently running for Obama's old U.S. Senate seat now occupied by Roland Burris, Giannoulias successfully ran for Illinois Treasurer in 2006 after being drafted for the run by Chicago's Democratic machine.The Blagojevich trial: "Sex, Lies, and Audio tapes" — Fitzgerald's US Attorney's Office part of White House cover-up of gay sex in the Second CityGiannoulias was a vice president and senior loan officer for his father's bank, Broadway Bank, from 2002 to 2006. Broadway Bank made real estate loans to Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the chief of Rezmar Corporation. On May 13, 2008, Rezko was found guilty, after being indicted by a grand jury at the behest of the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick J. Fitzgerald, of six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering. Rezko has been in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center at Van Buren and Clark in Chicago since June 2008. However, Rezko has not yet been officially sentenced to a federal prison. A Syrian-American, Rezko is considered to be a flight risk, even though his one-time fortune of $50 million has been reduced to zero. One Republican politician in Chicago told WMR that Rezko will be a prime witness for Blagojevich's defense. "Figure it this way, Rezko's been in solitary confinement in the city jail since June 0f 2008 . . . if he is released to appear at Blagojevich's trial as the primary witness, everyone expects him to squeal like a pig," said the Republican politico. In 2005, Rezko reportedly engaged in a complicated real estate "flip" through which his wife Rita and Obama agreed to split an empty lot adjoining a home that Obama bought in Chicago's Kenwood district. The deal saw Obama buy the home for $1.65 million, which was $300,00 below market value. Obama then bought a strip of the adjoining property from Mrs. Rezko, a speculative deal that stood to make Obama a handsome profit. Since Rezko's conviction, the property has reportedly gone into bankruptcy. Giannoulias's Broadway Bank was seized by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation on April 23, 2010, reportedly as Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner was on his way to Chicago to present the bank with a bailout check. Geithner quickly changed his plans. Giannoulias, Broadway's then-senior loan officer, has denied being involved in the decision to loan money to Rezko. Last month, Blagojevich's trial judge, U.S. District Court judge James Zagel, a crony of former Illinois Republican Governor Jim Thompson, ruled that all 500 hours of phone calls intercepted and taped by Fitzgerald could not be played during Blagojevich's trial as demanded by Blagojevich and his defense lawyers. Blagojevich demanded that Fitzgerald "show up in court and explain to everybody . . . why you don't want those tapes that you made played in court." WMR has learned that the tapes may contain salty references Obama's and Emanuel's private lives. WMR attempted to interview Blagojevich's senior defense lawyer Sam Adam to no avail but other informed sources told us that the tapes, if played, would highlight the corruption of not only Obama, Emanuel, and other member of Obama's Chicago "brain trust" but also Fitzgerald himself. WMR was told that Fitzgerald's tactics have included providing sex and drugs to imprisoned felons to get them to provide perjured testimony at federal trials. It is exactly the type of federal prosecutorial misconduct by Fitzgerald that former Republican Governor said was used by state prosecutors when he commuted the death sentences of Illinois's death row population. Ryan was indicted by Fitzgerald for fraud and he is currently serving out a federal prison sentence. Blagojevich's trial is scheduled to begin on June 3 and Fitzgerald's main interest is to keep the trial focused on Blagojevich, especially after he managed to "flip" Blagojevich's former chief of staff John Harris to testify against the impeached and ousted governor. WMR learned from informed sources that one lawyer on Harris's defense team is involved in a gay partner scandal that was discovered by the attorney's wife. Some of the wiretaps may reveal that it was not Valerie Jarrett, Obama's longtime friend and current White House policy adviser who was Obama's top candidate to fill his U.S. Senate seat, but the young 32-year old "pick up basketball" friend of Obama, Giannoulias, then serving his second year as state Treasurer. However, Obama has avoided campaigning for Giannoulias in Illinois and there are indications that the president has "thrown Giannoulias under the bus," according to some Democratic political circles in Chicago. Mutiple Chicago sources report that Republicans who see Giannoulias's Obama connections as providing an edge in his Senate race this year should not celebrate prematurely. Giannoulias's GOP opponent, U.S. Representative Mark Kirk, a Naval Reserve intelligence officer, has also been identified as a closeted gay man. Kirk divorced his wife last year after an eight-year marriage. They had no children. In addition, U.S. Representative Aaron Shock, who took over the House seat vacated by Obama's Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is, according to Chicago Boy's Town sources, a habitué of Minibar, a noted gay bar in Chicago's gay district. For an extremely young first term member of the House, observers were surprised when GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia named Shock as a Deputy Minority Whip. Man's Country, one of Chicago's "grand old bathhouses" and located at 5015 North Clark Street in Chicago's "Boystown," was a frequent hangout for State Senator Obama and Rahm Emanuel Sources in Chicago's gay community report that Obama was attracted to Man's Country's older white clientele because he generally enjoys being fellated by older white men. Obama would regularly be seen at Man's Country on Wednesdays. Obama reportedly has never engaged in reciprocal activity. The sources also confirm the allegations made during the 2008 campaign by Larry Sinclair, a Chicago visitor who revealed that in 1999 he engaged in such oral sex activity and crack cocaine use with then-State senator Obama on two occasions, once in the back of a Chicago limousine operated by Five Star Limousine Service, and the other at a Chicago area motel, the Comfort Suites in Gurnee, Illinois. After revealing details of the encounter at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Sinclair was arrested by Washington Metropolitan Police on a fugitive warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Obama's vice presidential running mate, Senator Joe Biden. Sinclair was charged with a misdemeanor count of theft of money orders, however, the state of Delaware declined prosecution. Beau Biden later declined to run for his father's old Senate seat because of his duties to prosecute a major pedophilia case involving Lewes, Delaware pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley. There are reports that Biden's office helped to cover up Bradley's activities, including failing to authorize search warants for Bradley's office and computer. Chicago's "DLC" — not the Democratic Leadership Council but the "Down Low Club" — a gay matchmaking service WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama's former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago's south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the "Down Low Club" but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase "DLC." The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC. The gay DLC's services were intended to keep ensure TUCC's gay members avoided posting solicitations on web services like Craig's List and refrain from cruising gay bars. The strategy was to protect them from getting busted and being "outed." Among the members of the gay "DLC" were Obama and TUCC's choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: "septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV." "DLC" members often went on camping trips arranged by TUCC. Wright reportedly was the head of the "DLC" matchmaking services and ensured that its members protected each other. The "DLC's" clientele included Obama and other gay members of TUCC, including, reportedly Young, Bland, and Spencer. Fox 32 Chicago reported that Bland's mother, Josephine Bland, was so upset at her son inviting men into their home as a result of contacting them through gay web sites like "Adam4Adam," she moved out. The gay community in Chicago knows to keep away from the TUCC and "DLC" stories because of the "creepiness" of the operation and the suspicious deaths of the three TUCC gay black men. Although Obama protected his alternate life style through the secretiveness of the "DLC," he was not so careful when he proclaimed he was a state senator while frolicking at Man's Country in uptown Chicago. Love: Obama's personal trainer Reggie Love, a former Duke basketball and football player and unsuccessful National Basketball hopeful, currently serves as Obama's personal trainer and White House "special assistant" — he has been called Obama's "body man" — who receives a salary of $104,000 a year. Love is also reportedly one of Obama's regular gay sex partners. Love joined Obama's Senate staff in a senior staff position in 2006. Media General's tabloid, the National Enquirer, proffered a story last year about Michelle Obama being furious about the relationship between her husband and his "body man." TheEnquirer's sister tabloid, The Globe, later floated a story about Obama having a relationship with a Democratic campaign official named Vera Baker. WMR has been told that this relationship was a clever ruse to throw off speculation about Obama's actual past sex partners. Baker has apparently left the United States for relatively more obscurity in Martinique. Media General's tabloids have scooped the mainstream media on sex scandals involving Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, Tiger Woods, and John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. WMR's Chicago sources believe the Secret Service records of presidential candidate Obama's activities in Chicago would show that Obama regularly arrived at Love's Chicago residence at 9:00 am and departed at 9:15 am. Sources told WMR that while 15 minutes is much too short for a personal training exercise, it is ample time for fellatio. Bill Frist, "Brokeback Mountain," and Obama In 2006, after Obama became the junior senator from Illinois, WMR's sources in the Congressional Black Caucus reported that there were persistent rumors of gay trysts between Obama and then-GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. The allegations at the time seemed unbelievable. However, based on Obama's penchant for receiving fellatio from older white men, a column written by The Washington Post's "In the Loop" columnist Al Kamen on April 7, 2006, some four months into Obama's Senate term, may have expanded relevance. Kamen reported he received an invitation to attend Frist's "5th Annual VOLPAC '06 Weekend" in Nashville from April 21st to 23rd and that the invitation card required one to "unbuckle the cowboy's pants and look inside to see what this was all about." Kamen opined that the invitation seemed "a bit too 'Brokeback Mountain.'" The invitation advertised that the shindig would feature "one-of-a-kind music and special friends," although Kamen said there was no indication what made the "friends" so "special." Kamen then wrote, "The back of the card shows the cowboy from behind with a red flowered handkerchief sticking out of his right pocket. Wait a minute — wasn't there something about how this used to be some kind of code in the gay community years ago? A way to signal each other in crowded, noisy bars? So we checked the GayCityUSA.com's Hanky Codes. Sure enough, there it was in the chart explaining what they mean: red hanky in right pocket. Oh, dear." Rumors about Obama and Frist ran amok in Congressional Black Caucus circles in 2006. Although Frist ran on the pledge of only serving two terms, he became Senate Majority Leader with all the perks of the office. WMR's sources in Chicago's gay community revealed that Frist's Majority Leader predecessor, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, was also known to seek the services of male prostitutes. Frist, who said he planned to run for President in 2006, decided against a run for the White House and also declined a run for Tennessee governor in 2010. With the rumor mill running at full speed in 2006, it is obvious why Frist abandoned politics so quickly for the medical business. Frist later endorsed Obama's health care proposals. A year later, when GOP Senator Larry Craig was arrested while soliciting for sex in a men's toilet stall at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, he changed his mind about immediately resigning his Senate seat. Knowing about his colleagues' behavior, he dug in his heels and completed his term in January 2009. Rahm the "Sugar Daddy" Obama's chief of staff Emanuel, who won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet but turned it down to attend college, is married and, like Obama, has children, in Emanuel's case, a son and two daughters. However, Emanuel, who is 50, also travel frequently with a male companion, a wealthy Chicago real estate developer, some five to six years his senior. WMR has learned from Chicago's gay community as well as political sources that Emanuel and his friend have gone together on a trip to India, skiing vacations, and soon plan a vacation in Florida, sans Mrs. Emanuel and the kids. In Chicago's gay community, Emanuel is known as "sugar daddy," promising young men with perks and lucrative positions if they sleep with him. On occasion, Emanuel has been with older men, such as his travel companion, but his preference is young, according to WMR's sources. Emanuel also often uses bicycling and basketball venues to make his approaches. Being an Emanuel "basketball buddy" is a key to professional success. WMR spoke to one member of the gay community in Chicago who had first hand knowledge of one of Emanuel's bed partners, an older man who runs a non-profit symphony organization. Obama's other sex partners WMR has previously reported on Obama's past trysts with Alabama Democratic U.S. Representative Artur Davis, a current primary candidate for governor of Alabama. Although not in the same class, Obama and Davis attended Harvard Law School during an overlap of their attendance at the law school. The information on Davis and Obama was gathered by opposition researchers for former Alabama Representative Earl Hilliard, who Davis defeated in the 2002 Democratic primary. Recently, WMR was informed by sources in Alabama that Attorney General Eric Holder traveled three days ago to Alabama to inform Davis that if he loses his primary race, he would be nominated by Obama to fill the job of U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, a position still held by Bush-appointee Leura Canary, one of the main prosecutors of convicted and jailed former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman. Chicago sources also informed WMR of another past gay partner of Obama, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Deval Patrick. Men who have reportedly had sexual relations with Barack Obama Leading secret alternate life styles, Obama and his chief of staff provide classic blackmail threats. Considering Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, who is reputedly a semi-open lesbian, the question must be posed how much Obama's and Emanuel's own covert life styles led to the decision to nominate Kagan, someone with no experience on a judicial bench. Similarly, the fact that so much is known about Obama's and Emanuel's trysts in Chicago begs another important question. If politicians, gay community activists, and journalists in the Windy City are aware of Obama's and Emanuel's highly blackmailable gay life styles, the same can certainly hold true for the executives of one of Chicago's corporate headquarters — that of BP America's Production Operations. Throw in the intelligence agencies of America's allies, friends, enemies, and the situation becomes a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. |