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The collection assembled by H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, and presented to the Library by Mrs. Henry Draper in 1911, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, from many sources, mounted in 762 scrapbooks. (The digital presentation will ultimately include them all.) The collection is remarkably diverse, depicting costume as various as the rough wool garments of Bronze age Etruscan warriors, the robes of Ottoman Turk court officials, and the elaborate uniforms of the preening armies of 19th-century Europe, the collection's special strength.
The aesthetic quality of the images varies. There are prints seemingly cut from 17th-century festival books along with 19th-century chromolithographs, original watercolor compositions of some artistic merit, crude pencil drawings, and occasional photographs. Dr. Vinkhuijzen's usual strategy was to extract plates from illustrated books and magazines. He colored some of the printed images, and when printed images were lacking, drew others by hand. Some of the unsigned watercolors found in the collection may also be by him. He arranged his collection as loose images in boxes according to his own classification system; this organization is retained for browsing the digital collection. (Mounting the plates in scrapbooks was apparently accomplished by others after Dr. Vinkhuijzen's death.)
In general, the pictures are organized by country and time period, although there are inconsistencies (for instance, those Etruscans are included in volumes for the Roman Empire). The many scrapbooks devoted to Germany and Italy include separate designations for pre-unification states and principalities. Thus the elegantly attired soldieries of Anhalt, Prussia, Westphalia, Genoa, and Modena, among others, are depicted in great specificity and detail. Although Mexico and some other Latin American countries are represented, there is, surprisingly, no coverage at all for the United States.
There are challenges and drawbacks to consider when using this collection for scholarly research. Its organization is idiosyncratic. Source notes for many of the images are lacking, although relatively reliable source attributions, compiled in the 1960s by the Brown University Company of Military Historians, exist for volumes 1 through 269; these provide information on the uniforms of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Byzantium, Chile, Egypt, France, and part of Germany. Another concern is that some of the hand-applied colors may be inaccurate. However, the fact that the collection includes unique images that have not been extensively examined by contemporary scholars is reason enough to make the collection widely accessible.
The New York Public Library welcomes any information or scholarship pertaining to this collection. If a user of NYPL Digital Gallery has additional authoritative information about individual images or their sources, or if there is a mistake in the attribution, please inform us by contacting Elizabeth Diefendorf, Chief Librarian, General Research Division (email@example.com).
The following biographical sketch of Dr. Vinkhuijzen is based on typescript documents bound with a slender printed inventory entitled Uniformes de toutes les nations et de toutes les epoques formée M. le Dr. H. J. Vinkhuyzen (Amsterdam ... 1910). The information these sources provide is slight, and not verifiable, as no articles on Dr. Vinkhuijzen appear in either of the authoritative national biographical dictionaries published in the Netherlands. [A note on spelling: Various forms of the name occur. "Vinkhuijzen" is the use authenticated by the Library of Congress.]
Dr. Vinkhuijzen led an eventful life, traveling throughout Europe as a physician associated with various armies and with the Dutch royal court. He apparently earned a doctor of medicine degree in the mid -1860s; and although the available sources indicate that in 1866 he stayed for a semester at the University of Vienna, they are silent on which Dutch University granted his degree. The 1860s also saw the appearance of his four known professional publications, treating, respectively, Dutch medicine, leprosy, syphilis, and the compound eyes of insects).
He began his career as a medical officer with the Corps Koninklijke Scherpschutters (Royal Sharpshooters Corps) in The Hague. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71), he served in France on an ambulance with the newly founded (1864) Red Cross; and in an unrecorded year he traveled to Russia, where he stayed in Moscow studying "the fight against pestilence." In his later life, he was the official court physician to Prince Alexander of the Netherlands. His father had performed in the same role for King Willem III. Dr. Vinkhuijzen treated many other patients as well, including charity patients.
A concluding quote from one of the typescript documents:
"Of course he was highly thought of in spite of his curious hobbies, one of which was his collecting plates of military uniforms for which he ruined even the most wonderful and expensive works."
Geneeskundige opmerkingen op eene reis door het Noorden ... (1865)
De melaatschheid, vooral met betrakking tot hare oorzaken en verhouding in de maatschappij. (1868)
Over de ontwikkeling der zamengestelde oogen insecten. (1865)
Zur medicinsichen Lage Niederlands ...(1864)
Citations for the works listed above were found in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) and The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints. The author of this biographical sketch has not examined the works themselves.
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Like most people, you probably think that strokes only happen in adults — especially older adults. But kids can have strokes, too. Although they're less common in kids, strokes occur in children of all ages, even those who haven't been born yet.
A stroke is a biological event (sometimes called a "brain attack") that happens when blood flow to the brain stops, even for a brief second.
Blood carries oxygen and other nourishing substances to the body's cells and organs, including the brain. When an ischemic stroke occurs, these important substances can't get to the brain and brain cells die. This can permanently damage the brain and cause a person's body to no longer function normally.
Strokes also can happen when a blood vessel in the brain breaks, flooding the brain with blood and damaging brain cells. This type of stroke, known as hemorrhagic, is uncommon in children.
Strokes in children most often happen between the 28th week of pregnancy, before a child is born, and 1 month after birth. Because they occur during the time surrounding birth, they're sometimes called perinatal strokes. Perinatal strokes usually occur during delivery or right after delivery because the baby doesn't get enough oxygen while traveling through the birth canal.
Strokes also can occur in older kids but are usually caused by another condition that stops the flow of blood to the brain or causes bleeding in the brain.
Determining the cause of a stroke in a child can be difficult. If your child has had a stroke, the doctor might not have definite answers for you, but can tell that a stroke occurred by using medical tests. About one third of all childhood strokes aren't related to any disease, condition, or injury that's known to increase the risk of stroke.
Ischemic strokes, the most common type in children, are usually related to:
Certain problems that affect a mother during pregnancy can also cause a baby to have an ischemic stroke before or after birth. Examples include:
Hemorrhagic strokes can be caused by:
Signs of stroke in children are often similar to signs in adults, which can include sudden weakness, slurred speech, or blurred vision. These effects vary widely depending on a child's age and the amount of damage to brain cells.
Children who experience a perinatal stroke often don't show any signs of the stroke until months or years later. In some cases, they develop normally, but at a much slower pace than other kids. They also might tend to use one hand more than the other when engaging in activities. Children who have more serious perinatal strokes, which cause more brain injury, might also experience seizures. The severity of seizures can vary, ranging from the child simply staring into space to violent shaking of only one arm or leg.
Signs of a strokein infants:
A seizure may be the first sign that an older child or adolescent has had a stroke. These children might also experience sudden paralysis (inability to move) or weakness on one side of the body, depending on the area of the brain that's affected and the amount of damage the stroke causes. More likely, a parent first notices changes in the child's behavior, concentration, memory, or speech.
Common signs of strokein kids and teens:
If your child experiences any of these symptoms, see a doctor right away, or dial 911. In kids who are actively having a stroke, medicine can be given to potentially reduce the severity of the stroke and the brain damage it can cause.
Perinatal and early childhood strokes can sometimes be hard to diagnose, especially if a child has no obvious signs or symptoms. In some cases, a stroke is found to be the cause of seizures or developmental delays only after many other conditions have been ruled out. This might mean that a child will undergo several tests before the doctor even mentions the word "stroke."
If stroke is suspected, a doctor will probably want the child to undergo one or more of these medical tests:
Treatment for a stroke is determined by how old the child is, what signs and symptoms he or she experiences, which area of the brain is affected, how much brain tissue was damaged, and whether another ongoing condition was the cause of the stroke.
Many different treatments are possible. For example, a child who is having seizures may require anti-seizure medications, whereas a child with a heart defect might need medication to thin the blood. For most kids, treatment also involves age-appropriate rehabilitation and therapy.
The brain damage that occurs during a stroke can cause a number of other problems that could affect a child throughout life, including:
Kids who've had a stroke will see doctors who specialize in helping people cope with these problems. These specialists might include occupational, physical, and speech therapists. A child's care might be overseen by a neurorehabilitation specialist, a doctor who uses many different types of therapy to help children recover from stroke.
At this time, no treatment exists that will fix brain cells that have died. However, one amazing thing about the brain is that undamaged brain cells can learn to perform the jobs of cells that have died, especially in young people.
In many cases after a stroke, kids can be taught to use their arms and legs and speak again through brain retraining. Although this process is usually slow and difficult, children have an edge over adults because their young brains are still developing. Most kids who have had strokes are able to function normally in society and grow to be productive members of their communities.
Don't be afraid to ask questions about your child's condition or treatment or to ask for help when you need it. You aren't facing your child's stroke, rehabilitation, and future care alone. In addition to the doctors and therapists who will be working with your child, look for support groups for parents of kids who have had strokes and for those who have a risk of additional strokes or permanent disabilities. It can be helpful to seek support from other parents facing the same challenges.
Reviewed by: Harry S. Abram, MD
Date reviewed: June 2013
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The idea of following one's dream pervades California culture.
This is the state of sunshine and opportunities; the state where people have arrived for decades in hopes of finding gold, fame or fortune and striking it big.
It's no surprise, then, that when people dream about of an ideal sunny vacation, California often comes to mind.
The city of Anaheim and the surrounding area of Orange County are particularly ripe with opportunities for fulfilling one's vacation dreams.
You'll find every kind of holiday experience here, whether your wish is for a vacation filled with star-studded pampering, gourmet food, magical moments in nature or just the opportunity to unleash the kid inside.
Amuse your inner child
The Anaheim-Orange County area is where the dream of the amusement/theme park really began when Walt Disney bought a fragrant orchard of orange trees and transformed it into Disneyland 56 years ago.
Disneyland is the grand-daddy of theme parks. It has something for everyone, from the much-loved offerings of Fantasyland and Main Street USA to the newer experiences of the 10-year-old California Adventure park across the plaza.
While Disneyland is a "must-do," a variety of other parks also attract the young and young at heart.
Knott's Berry Farm, with its 10 roller coasters, provides thrills and chills, along with great samples of its famous boysenberry preserves.
Even more roller coasters – 18 in total – can be found just north of Los Angeles at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Heading south to San Diego, you'll find SeaWorld, with its famous whale exhibit and marine-themed shows and rides. Nearby Belmont Park offers an artificial surfing wave and an old-fashioned wooden roller coast from 1925.
For the younger set, a visit to Legoland might be in order, or a stop at Adventure City in Anaheim, featuring rides for tots, kid-friendly shows and a petting zoo.
One more mega-park experience that will have your inner child jumping for joy can be found at Universal Studios Hollywood, just an hour away from Disneyland, complete with attractions based on The Simpsons, Shrek, King Kong and Jurassic Park.
Go barefoot at the beach
With a seemingly endless coastline, it's easy to find a beach to swim, surf, beachcomb or just take in some rays.
Try a beach tour that highlights the best vistas of the coast and some intriguing stars of the animal kingdom, including sea lions, seals and the strange, colourful creatures residing in tiny tidal pools.
Or, take a stroll at Newport Beach, which is also an upscale residential area. To get a view from the water, rent a kayak or even a yacht. Actor John Wayne loved this place and so did actors from the hit TV show The OC, which regularly shot here. You can even get an OC map to visit locales made popular by the show.
Newport Beach is also home to the picturesque "largest small yacht harbour" in the world, with about 16,000 vessels docking here. It also proudly notes that it hosts the longest-running Christmas boat parade in the United States.
For a beach adventure, visit one of the many surfing schools at Huntington Beach, also known as Surf City USA. You'll also find a museum here dedicated to the sport and a surfing walk of fame.
For those who love our four-legged friends, don't miss Dog Beach, one of the few beaches in the state where dogs rule. It's hilarious to watch these pets play, dig, swim and cavort. For canine owners, visit the dog bakeries, specialty shops for pups and pet-pampering hotels.
Masquerade as a movie star
If you have stars in your eyes, hit Hollywood and let the dreaming begin.
Make your way to Grauman's Chinese Theatre along Hollywood Boulevard and take a gander at the impressive array of celebrities' foot- and handprints in cement. Slip your feet into the prints left behind by everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Brad Pitt.
From there, head to Universal Studios for a backlot tour, where you'll travel through the sets used for TV shows like Desperate Housewives and movies including When Harry Met Sally and Back to the Future.
Like any celebrity, you may want to consider spending the afternoon at the spa. There's no shortage of places to be pampered in the area, but an Italian grape seed scrub and private yoga session may be the perfect choice at the award-winning Kelly's Spa at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, near Orange County.
At the end of the day, party it up at Sutra, which Maxim magazine once named a top-10 club in the U.S. Or kick back surfer-style at Baja Sharkeez, where fruity drinks and Jell-O shots rule.
Sip, savour and snack
Downtown Los Angeles is packed with hip restaurants, but there are plenty of mouth-watering dining options in Orange County, too.
For an all-the-meat-you-can-eat experience, amble over to the Brazilian steak house Agora Churrascaria.
Be cool and casual at Tortilla Flats, where you can sit outside, people-watch and try one of the restaurant's 30 amazing and affordable tacos.
For a gourmet take on seasonal and regional ingredients, head to Studio Restaurant at Montage Resort.
One of the most memorable fine dining experiences in the area remains Napa Rose Restaurant in the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland. It was awarded a best new restaurant award in 2002 by the Zagat dining guide and still offers splendid meals and wine pairings.
Search out serenity
California is renowned for wondrous natural sites ideal for a holiday dream that includes spending a few quiet moments alone with Mother Nature.
You can spend the day hiking in San Bernardino National Forest, at the restored Bolsa Chica Wetlands or at Big Bear Lake. Here, an eight-kilometre hike leads to Bertha Peak, which offers an astounding 360-degree view of valleys and the Mojave Desert.
More natural beauty awaits at the Sherman Library & Gardens. Plants from around the world are grown in a tropical conservancy. Orchids are often in bloom, rare cacti are on display and a serene Japanese garden soothes away the stress of your day.
Another of nature's marvels can be found at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Thousands of swallows nest here, and in a resplendent and strange act of nature, they leave and return on almost the same days every year.
Put Oct. 23 and March 19 in your calendar if you want to catch the birds' arrival or departure. It's just one of many vacation ideas that make California an ideal spot for fulfilling vacation dreams.
Walt Disney used to say that the theme park he created would never be finished.
Truer words were never spoken. After 56 years, Disneyland continues to grow and glow. If you haven't been to the Disneyland Resort lately, here are a few recent changes and additions:
• Star Tours: The Adventure Continues is revamped and reopened as of June. It's now in 3-D and features more than 60 new storylines.
• Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln has been reworked with new animatronics. It's a Small World has also been renovated.
• The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage is a high-tech attraction that has replaced the old submarine ride.
• If you haven't been on Pirates of the Caribbean lately, you haven't seen the Jack Sparrow character that now graces its waters.
• Disney is using the motto of "high-tech, high-touch" in its Innoventions Dream Home. This is where you'll find displays of the latest computers, mobile phones and games.
• Not to be missed, the night show at Disney's California Adventure park called World of Color is dazzling. With a host of Disney characters, 36 fire cannons, almost 1,200 fountains and 30 musical numbers, the show is a nightly extravaganza.
• A relatively gentle roller coaster at California Adventure has been re-themed as Goofy's Sky School.
• A family-friendly attraction called The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure is drawing strongly positive responses from the public.
• A new Cars Land is being constructed at California Adventure, with an opening date in 2012.
• Updates have also occurred at the Disneyland Hotel, where you'll find two new dining spots and new themed suites, including the Adventureland Suite – a two-bedroom hideaway complete with grotto in the master bathroom.
If you go
• For more info on Anaheim and Orange County, go to www.visittheoc.com or www.anaheimoc.org. California's official website for tourism — www.visitcalifornia.com — is also packed with useful and interesting data.
• Details on visiting Disneyland are available at Disneyland.com.
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Titan H1800GR 1800 litre single skin oil tanks are designed for storing heating oil/kerosene to fuel boilers, AGA's and other oil fuelled appliances. Complete with 1" BSP bottom outlet.
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H1800GR: 1800 Litre Titan Single Skin Heating Oil Tank
1800 Litre (Approx 400 Gallons) single skin kerosene storage tank.
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Manufactured from high grade polyethylene this Irish made Titan tank is corrosion resistant, has high impact strength and is UV stabilised. All Titan tanks are CE marked.
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The U.S. equity markets are reaching highs not seen since 2007, and while such strength is a good thing, all that market heat is also driving poor trading behavior due to news reports and the pump-and-dump world of social media, warns the behavioral economics consultancy MarketPsych.
While price forecasts in the news media can create outsize profitability patterns in the markets, social media creates a "primal" form of influence over market prices, says MarketPsych Managing Director Richard Peterson in a March 16 blog post, "New Highs! Stock Promoters, Media Manipulation and Timing Price Reversals."
"We see that investors who follow predictions in both the news and social media lose significant amounts of money," writes Peterson, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based medical doctor and psychiatrist with expertise in behavioral finance. "Inversely, those who play against the media do much better."
Peterson, who quantified and backtested media price forecasts using the Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indices, said in a phone interview on Monday that advisors should keep these primal emotions in mind when their clients come to them with a sudden urge to buy or sell an investment. A big part of an advisor's job is to communicate with clients and help them make sound long-term decisions by managing their short-term emotional impulses, he said.
"When clients come to their financial advisor with an urgent request to buy or sell, their timing is usually poor," Peterson said. "I often hear advisors say their clients are contrarian indicators. So if they get a lot of calls from clients requesting a specific investment, like buying bonds or selling stock, they know that those days are a peak in the market because clients are buying high and selling low. Clients destroy their wealth by following their impulses to buy or sell."
In his blog post, Peterson references Liar's Poker writer Michael Lewis' New York Times story about 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed, who back in 2000 posted 200 separate pitches on Yahoo! Finance stock message boards touting penny stocks until the Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed him.
(Today, Lebed continues to tout stocks from his Twitter handle @LebedBiz. One post from Feb. 1, 2012, states: "$BVSN—There is ABSOLUTELY no doubt about it. I am BY FAR the #1 most accurate and successful stock picker IN THE WORLD today!" Stock of Broadvision Inc. (BVSN), a software technology firm, reached highs near $40 per share in early 2012 and has since plummeted to about $8 per share.)
Perhaps more troubling is Peterson's assertion that sensational forecasts about investments in the news media also may destroy readers' wealth. "Consider this research by our incredibly talented chief of analytics, Changjie Liu," Peterson writes, citing two studies, one on commodity prices, including oil, and one on exchange-traded funds using the Thomson Reuters MarketPsych indices and Thomson Reuters Tick History price data. "When the news media focuses on positive (or negative) price movement in an industry or commodity, there is likely to be a short-term mean-reversion over a week to a month."
In other words, Peterson's advice to advisors and their clients is to do the opposite of what's reported in the news.
"The news media reports on price increases near the top and price declines near the bottom," he writes. "If the investing public could be trained to 'fade the news,' maybe they would be all right, but it's not so simple. Despite the negative outcomes for the investing public, price forecasts—including incorrect ones—drive more news sales and reader/viewership to the news outlets themselves. Consider the success of Jim Cramer's 'Mad Money' on CNBC, which is loaded with buy and sell recommendations."
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TestPlant has used its appearance at IBM Innovate to launch of two new tools for desktop and mobile testing functions. With Beatlesque and dairy-themed naming conventions, the eggMan and eggBox products extend the eggPlant range to include a manual testing tool and an appliance to create an "instant testing lab", or testing center of excellence.
So what are these products? First, eggMan is a free tool for manual test engineers that will connect with any system, locally or remotely. It is compatible with eggCloud, which provides secure and scheduled connection to devices anywhere on a private cloud.
eggMan includes a free test automation tutorial with access to online documentation and videos.
Second, eggBox delivers a new iOS Gateway in an appliance, which also contains a switchable option list of eggCloud, eggPlant Manager, and eggIntegration.
"It is a test lab in a box and responds to the need for instant, robust, and enterprise controlled testing tools. eggBox works in all operating system environments, is designed both for desktop and mobile testing, and deploys tools available to in-house or offshore test resources," said Antony Edwards, TestPlant CTO.
Not afraid of sticking his neck on the line with an emphatic publicity statement upon, which he should be subsequently judged with granular levels of analysis should it prove to be untrue, is TestPlant CEO George Mackintosh.
"These products will change the test tools industry," said Mackintosh.
Moving outward from his promotional stance only slightly, Mackintosh also added, "Manual testers can assess the productivity gains of test automation for free. Enterprises, network operators, and software developers can quickly and affordably buy a test environment literally in a box! With these new tools, TestPlant is responding to Agile development, to the move to mobile, to DevOps, and to the Internet of Things."


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If stocks are mispriced and it is possible to determine, generally, which ones are underpriced, why don't more investors try to take advantage of this? And how can investors go about doing this?
Those are the questions addressed in a new paper from Dr. Vitali Kalesnik, head of equity research for Rob Arnott's Research Affilliates, known for its fundamental indexing strategies.
The answer to the second question, in short, is to own a fundamental index, but the explanation makes this technical paper, titled "Smart Beta and the Pendulum of Mispricing," worth reading.
Kalesnik states two important assumptions about stock prices: that they are "noisy," that is, they are either overpriced or underpriced; and that they are mean-reverting, meaning that they head back to average values from high or low swings.
Just as in the swing of a pendulum, momentum determines the price's short-term location, and long-term investors can tune out this noise and capture the value the pendulum's mean reversion promises.
"If prices were moving in one direction in the past, they are likely to move in the opposite direction in the future," Kalesnik writes. "Moreover, the greater the swing in one direction, the stronger is the reverse movement."
One classic empirical study he cites shows the power behind this mean reversion. In 1985, Werner De Bondt and Richard Thaler divided a group of stocks between winners and losers over a three-year period and then traced the performance of the two groups over the subsequent three years. They found that the losers beat the market, while the winners underperformed the market — and the losers bested the winners by nearly 25 percentage points.
One might have expected higher risk as an explanation for the loser portfolio's outperformance, yet De Bondt and Thaler found significantly higher average market betas in the winner portfolio, leading them to reject a risk-based model to explain the return difference.
Instead, they proposed mispricing as key, with market participants ("noise traders") driving these stocks' prices lower because of their years of underperformance.
However, the momentum that created this loser portfolio eventually gives way to the corrective action of the pendulum's mean reversion, and the farther the distance from the mean the greater the pendulum's gravitational pull, writes Kalesnik:
"The degree to which stocks are mispriced can vary over time, and when there is more mispricing there are greater opportunities for generating profits."
But why, one may ask (and fortunately, Kalesnik does), doesn't arbitrage eliminate this profit potential, as textbook finance might suggest?
He cites another classic study that quotes John Maynard Keynes' answer to this question: "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."
In other words, a clever asset manager may be buying undervalued assets and selling overvalued assets, but investors may at the same time be "withdrawing their capital from the losing manager and placing it with someone who appears to be more competent," he writes.
Kalesnik cites the dot-com bubble as a classic instance of the irony that value-based managers become constrained at exactly the time mispricing opportunities increase.
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A rules-based Smart Beta strategy such as a fundamentals-weighted index can take advantage of the force of mean reversion by selling winners and buying losers — stripping the emotion out of this approach through a "transparent algorithmic rebalancing strategy."
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"The pay is absolutely terrible," he said, as he waited in the Belden Village Transit Center for a Stark Area Regional Transit Authority bus. "I have no discretionary income whatsoever. I get my paycheck and it goes to bills."
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Arnott fears that if the minimum wage goes up, businesses will raise prices to compensate for the increased costs of their workers. And the purchasing power of his new wage won't be any higher.
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President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and labor groups are pushing for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour over two years, the New York Times reported late last month. After that, the rate would go up each year with the consumer price index, similar to how an Ohio constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2006 requires a state minimum wage increase each year if the cost of living rises.
The current Ohio minimum wage is $7.95 an hour following a 10-cent increase on Jan. 1. Democrats hope their efforts will turn out more of their supporters in this year's congressional elections.
But so far, there's no indication yet that the Ohio Democratic Party and Ohio unions will push for a higher state minimum wage in statewide races in 2014.
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Voters in the city of SeaTac, Wash. south of Seattle garnered national headlines in November when they approved an increase in its minimum wage to $15 an hour, well above Washington state's minimum of $9.32. San Francisco has a minimum wage of $10.74 an hour, well above California's minimum, which is scheduled to rise to $10 from $8 by 2016.
Mariol wants Canton city council at the very least to require any company doing business with the city or getting tax abatements pay a higher minimum wage. He has not yet proposed a specific new minimum wage, but he thinks something around $10 per hour would be not too overly burdensome for businesses.
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Canton Council President Allen Schulman, a Democrat, supports an increase in the minimum wage whether it's done by Congress or council.
He said someone earning Ohio's minimum wage now on a full-time basis earns roughly $16,000 a year.
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He said the bulk of minimum wage earners aren't students but head of households with children, and economic studies show that arguments that a higher minimum wage will hurt businesses and hiring have no basis.
Arnott, the fast food cook, agrees that living on $7.95 wouldn't be possible for him if he hadn't found very inexpensive housing. And he says the recent 10-cent an-hour increase is "not even noticeable."
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Arnott said he worked as a contractor for a sewer and drain service for $20 an hour before the business went under three years ago. He said he exhausted his unemployment benefits after 18 months. He had to scrap his car after it broke down, and he couldn't afford to replace it. What would be a 15-minute ride can take an hour to get to work on three buses and two hours to get home.
"It's incredibly depressing because you know you're just stuck," he said.
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"The price of everything just goes up more," he said. "I make less money effectively. It doesn't help."
Also waiting for the bus was Buddy Carnes, 25, of Canton. He said he earns about $9.23 an hour as a dishwasher at a Belden Village restaurant. He said he started the job about three weeks ago after about three years of being unemployed and living with his grandfather. He favors the proposal that would raise his pay to more than $10 an hour.
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While she so far has been able to keep up with the annual state-mandated minimum wage increases, a new $10.10 rate would mean she would have to lay off most of her eight employees, who earn minimum wage, at Volkert's and Hills and Dales Beverage Drive-Thru, she said. Volkert said state law doesn't allow her to raise the prices of cigarettes and beer or lottery tickets, and customers would balk if she increased the price of snack food and sodas.
"It gets rid of the small business people because you wouldn't be able to afford to have a small business," she said.
Mariol said he would look at exempting small businesses like Volkert's from a higher minimum wage, and he stressed that he would get businesses' feedback before advancing legislation.
Sean Chichelli, director of labor and human resources policy for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, said if each Ohio city can impose its own minimum wage, it would become increasingly difficult for a business to comply with different minimum wages in cities.
He argued that a higher minimum wage also doesn't address that many workers don't have the skills that employers are looking for. Chichelli said if the minimum wage jumps higher than $10, businesses will be even more selective about whom they hire, resulting in fewer openings and fewer hours.
"This isn't a panacea like people want to be," he said, adding that voters already approved a higher minimum wage in 2006 but labor advocates will never be satisfied. "Their argument is it's not enough .. that's an argument that can never end."
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How Ohio compares on minimum wage
Ohio is one of 21 states whose basic minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Ohio's minimum wage is $7.95 an hour for employers that gross more than $292,000 a year. A dozen states and the District of Columbia have minimum wages greater than Ohio's.
The states and their hourly minimum wage rates that exceed $7.25 an hour are:
Alaska $7.75
Arizona $7.90
California $8
(will rise to $10 by 2016)
Colorado $8
Connecticut $8.70
Florida $7.93
Illinois $8.25
Maine $7.50
Massachusetts $8.00
Michigan $7.40
Missouri $7.50
Montana $7.90
Nevada $8.25
(if an employer does not
provide insurance benefits)
New Jersey $8.25
New Mexico $7.50
New York $8.00
Rhode Island $8.00
Oregon $9.10
Vermont $8.73
Washington state $9.32
Note: The District of Columbia's minimum wage is $8.25 an hour.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor


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Sunday, February 10, 2008
A Real "Tool"
Some years ago I saw a 20ish year old guy who's CC was "penile problem". When I pulled back the covers this "dickhead" (pun intended) had placed a 10lb cast iron weight upon his erection to, uhh, work it out and build strength. Well, its on the base of his pecker and he had a semi-erect penis that was still too engorged to allow manual removal!
He had to go to the OR for removal of the plate from his tool. It took 4 saws to get thru the plate and he had no permanent damage(unfortunately)..
Oh, and he was uninsured. What a fucking IDIOT!!
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Sorry Fart! I didn't know we were boring you with the serious stuff.ReplyDelete
The most amusing part of this whole story (for me) is that YOU looked at another guy's dick!!!
how did they cut through the plate without burning the thing to a crisp? had a guy two years ago that got a piston ring stuck on his johnson-rod. a real puzzler because the heat transfer with a powered saw etc... had one of our ortho guys happen thru the ED and he got it off with some bolt cutters as the ER doc carefully kept the important parts away from the jaws of the cutters with a couple of tongue depressors. we gave him the 'consultant of the quarter award' for operating on a differnt kind of bone.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:50 PM, February 10, 2008
Stupid-Stupid-Stupid People!ReplyDelete
I don't know which is funnier, OF's story or 911's story!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:20 PM, February 10, 2008
I just have to ask, what kind of medical termonology is used in the medical chart of someone in his, uh predicament?ReplyDelete
And if he did have insurance, what code would be used to have them pay for the ER visit?
Anon: how do you like "circumfrential extra-penile foreign body with secondary vascular engorgement"?ReplyDelete
hee hee, you said "bone."
Speaking of which, I had a patient with a 24-hour boner.
You'd think he would have known to come in when it lasted more than a few hours, since this had happened before--about five times.
Best line of the night? "Lady, is it gonna turn green and fall off or what?"
- Anonymous6:57 AM, February 11, 2008
24 hour boner? Is that unusual? When I was 10 I heard someone say masturbation would make you go blind. Thats me with the -6.5 coke bottle lenses, haven't got LASIK yet cause Dr. Evil has the only Laser big enough.ReplyDelete
had a guy, doesn't really matter what his sexual orientation was but from the following you might guess... took some of his friend's 'caverject'... a super high potency boner-producing medicine. you actually have to inject a bit into the corpus cavernosum at the base of the penis. turns out that this stuff works for people with absolutely dead willies, his wasn't dead and sprang right to attention. i think he had a blast for about 6 hours then it began to hurt and 24 hours later he was in the ER, the urologist and i had two butterfly needles in the base of his rigid manhood, in one side went normal saline and neosynephrine and out the other we pulled blood. didn't work. packed it in ice. didn't work. to the OR for a shunt. good idea dude. hope it was worth it.ReplyDelete
why couldn't he just service himself to get the thing off? or would that just be too easy?ReplyDelete
dear frylime,ReplyDelete
a great question! it wont work. the venous drainage of the penis is mostly peripheral so if the penis becomes engorged and there is a ring blocking venous return then the boner won't go away. hence the need for removal or the johnson-rod necroses and falls off.
with the chemical called caverject there's just no way to cure the priapism, which is a medical emergency for the reasons above, if the 'easy' stuff fails. surgery.
The "servicing" wouldn't have worked for this kid. We think it had to do with his sickle cell trait.ReplyDelete
We tried the neo-synephrine and saline, and it went down...but then it came right back up. We packed it in ice. Nope. Poor dude. He was being a real asshole to all the nurses, too, so it was very hard to feel sorry for him but heck, his weiner was turning black.
just a question...ReplyDelete
if he had sickle cell wasn't it already black?
Hee hee hee but nope.ReplyDelete
He only has the trait--his brothers have the full deal. They have different fathers. He's Latino.
- Anonymous1:45 PM, February 11, 2008
Thank you, now I must email a medical transcriptionist friend.
- Anonymous1:57 PM, February 11, 2008
Speaking of Peni, I fondly remember my cadaver, "Dr. Funk", a powerfully built, well endowed, African-American gentleman in his 50's when he left this mortal coil. The embalming staff had outdone themselves with Dr. Funk who appeared to be peacefully napping on the dissecting table. Mary Ellen was a classmate, a petite blonde graduate of an elite southern university, and former sorority president. When it came time to study Dr. Funks male areas, a disgusted look came over her face, excentuating her already perpetually turned up nose, as she said "Are they all this big"ReplyDelete
He had to go to the OR for removal of the plate from his tool.ReplyDelete
Aw, why didn't you just tell the guy you slipped and he is now a eunich? Think about it; you want this guy breeding? Just saynin'...
the new religion of diversity forbids such value judgements. we, under the new religion, actually value people like this more than 'normal' people as 'normal' people do not contribute to diversity. in fact, 'normal' people should be sterilized... then, of course, normal becomes fucked-up, and fucked-up becomes normal. hmmmmm. puzzling.ReplyDelete
Geez, 911, so I don't know if I'm normal or fucked up. Best not ask any of my authors...ReplyDelete
Dear MDOD administrators,ReplyDelete
Please invite Frank Drackman to post here despite his smelling like ass.
Nurse K
PS I saw swollen, cellulitic and necrotic balls on a diabetic the other day. That was lovely. He waited in the waiting room 3 hours then got back, and about 2 hours later was tubed with no blood pressure. Always come in BEFORE your balls turn black.
85, I was so traumatized by looking at it, I almost went "Heath Ledger" :-)ReplyDelete
I believe the Urologist had to in the Orthopedist because he did'nt know what type of "tool" to use to cut thru the 1/2" solid steel plate!
I agree with Nurse K.ReplyDelete
OldFart! I KNEW that would be the worst part for you! LOL! Does your new fancy ER have one of those eye-wash stations? Maybe you can wash out the image?!?!?!ReplyDelete
I bought a house today that I can't WAIT to show you! More on that later.
Frylime said: "why couldn't he just service himself to get the thing off?" Maybe he's not as flexible as the rest of us? Just sayin'.
IMHO, I believe Frank has had some very solid posts!
thanks for the explanation!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:18 AM, February 12, 2008
Has anyone ever pulled the "Mike Hunt" prank? It has to be a busy clinic, or office setting where patients/customers are called by their names. You ask the habitat for humanity chick to go see if Mike Hunt is out there for his methadone prescription/etc. I had it pulled on me as a student.ReplyDelete
Ok, maybe it's sleep deprivtion or I'm just really stupid...but I don't get the Mike Hunt thing...Will you please explain?ReplyDelete
Say it out loud (a little fast), E.ReplyDelete
Alright, I get it.
Dear EE,ReplyDelete
Just for laughs, walk into a bar and yell, hey, has anyone here seen Mike Hunt? I think you will understand at that point.
I'll do it for 20 bucks.ReplyDelete
Reminds me of when we pulled the "Seymore Butz" on a foreign exchange student back in college. Good times.ReplyDelete
Here's a good one, I'd be surprised if you haven't already heard it.ReplyDelete
Write the following down on a piece of paper and hand it to someone who can take a joke and ask them to read it out loud. An anaesthesiologist once had us howling with laughter cause it took him so long to get it we thought, he must be kidding. He wasn't.
I am sofa king.
We Todd did.
We actually have a Dr. Butt at our hospital. It's awesome. "Who paged Dr. Butt? I have Dr. Butt on the line!"ReplyDelete
Also, last year we had two Dr. Bhatts--brothers. Between Butt and the Bhatt boys, oh boy! It was a party.
"Phil McCrevace" signed in at triage one night....only after calling his name 3 or 4 times did the nurse get the joke.ReplyDelete
Man she was pissed at me, but the folks in the waiting room got a good chuckle!
must... try... not... to...ReplyDelete
and his brother phil mcckraken,
and a guy from africa, haywood d'jiblomi,
and the two irish homosexuals, hugh fitzpatrick and patrick fitzhugh,
and dick hertz,
and miles long,
and.... shit, back in 7th grade again.
All very funny! Last thing I am reading as I am going to bed now. This should make for some interesting dreams or nightmares. ;)
We have a gynecologist near here who's name is Seymour Weiner. LOL!
We have all kinds Dr. Butts, a Dr. Hand and a Dr. Dimple. My fave is Dang Ho, MD. Also know of an M4 named Tim Doctor, can't wait til he graduates.ReplyDelete
Oh and in the penile vein, best pt teaching ever: Don't masturbate if you have chicken pox. It isn't pretty.
- Anonymous7:00 AM, February 13, 2008
Speaking of Pranks, the attendings on the 3rd year Psych rotation were big on demanding complete physicals on new patients, I guess to prove they were real doctors. Of course they sort of showed they weren't real doctors by insisting we do every possible test. The Hemmocult cards were kept behind the Nursing station. One morning, a student came out of a room, apparently with a smidgen of stool on his gloved finger, in search of the hemmocult card he had neglected to take in the room. Not being to find the card, he turned to a fellow student, a particularly frigid female, and asked if she thought it looked heme positive. When she failed to answer he stuck the finger in his mouth and said, "negative" as she scurried away horrified. Of course, it was chocolate, not stool. I see her occasionally, still a frigid bitch, just older. She still thinks my friend ate shit to freak her out.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:16 PM, February 13, 2008
I rotated at a hospital with a Neurosurgeon named Charles Manson.ReplyDelete
I rotated at a hospital with a Neurosurgeon named Charles Manson.ReplyDelete
I had a diabetic with necrotic "tools" and all was basically removed...pt was back from surgery like 2 hrs when I came onshift and checked him...he was bleeding ... perfusely!@!!! I called the doc...and he said apply pressure...and I'm like "where???" since basically it looked like innards and was horrifically painful!!!! The doc didn't want to come in, but 15 minutes later he was there and the guy was back down to surgery...again.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:31 PM, March 20, 2008
We used to call the funeral home and ask for Myra MainsReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:07 AM, May 30, 2010
Okay I know this is more than 2 years after this was posted, but I had to say that this is hilarious! You guys are great!!ReplyDelete
My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous12:53 PM, February 11, 2012
I see these posts are pretty old, but I must say you docs are sure immature.ReplyDelete
Although, I am LMAO, so I guess I am too. :)
From: The Unruly Of LawReplyDelete
Minn. High Court Dumps Doc's 'Tool' Libel Claim
In his 13-page decision in David McKee, M.D. v. Dennis K. Laurion (Docket No. A11-1154), Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page reversed a court of appeals ruling and sided with the trial court that originally dismissed a neurologist's defamation claim against the son of a stroke patient he treated who had posted negative remarks about the plaintiff on a rate-your-physician Web site.
The Minnesota High Court heard oral arguments four months ago (see "TUOL" post 9/5/12) in the case brought by Dr. McKee of Northland Neurology & Myology in Duluth against the son of a 65-year-old stroke patient he treated concerning a half-dozen allegedly actionable statements reflecting the son's dissatisfaction with the medical care provided and his belief that Dr. McKee was rude and insensitive.
The lightning rod among the allegedly offensive statements was a post by the defendant that said: "When I mentioned Dr. McKee's name to a friend who is a nurse, she said, 'Dr. McKee is a real tool!'" "Referring to someone as 'a real tool' falls into the category of pure opinion," Justice Page wrote, "because the term 'real tool' cannot be reasonably interpreted as stating a fact and it cannot be proven true or false." Characterizing the remark as "rhetorical hyperbole" and "mere vituperation or abuse," Justice Page said it could not support a defamation action as a matter of law.
The devoted "TUOL" staff supports the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision and the principle that pure opinion is not susceptible to a defamatory meaning, but questions whether bringing a lawsuit such as the one at issue in the first place is sufficient proof of "tooldom" in and of itself.


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TechCentral on KDE and Novell/SUSE Acquisition
With the KDE development and user communities flourishing more than ever, some people are anxious to drum up panic and drama surrounding corporate plays such as the acquisition of SUSE by Novell. As you might know, SUSE has thus far been a huge KDE believer and by using KDE has benefited from a loyal and enthusiastic Linux desktop userbase of its own. Last year, Richard Seibt CEO of SUSE confirmed this sentiment and pledged to maintain SUSE's strong support for KDE. A recent investigation by TechCentral reveals the same: "SuSE will continue (to operate) as a business unit of its own." said John Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region. "We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux."
With the number of incredible KDE Enterprise features available now and planned for the near future, the robustness and vitality of the KDE community, we can remain confident KDE will be an incontrovertible choice for Novell in the long term as well.
thats a great thing
I guess it whouldn't be a good thing if SUSE whouldn't support KDE anymore...
By superstoned at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
ok, then what
What happens when they are in a money crunch or their stock is down and something needs to be cut?
By frizzo at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
They cut the expensive Gnome support. Supporting KDE is cheap. The community does almost everithing. See how uch money Gnome companies spent over the years...
By AC at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
indeed.. Eazel burned through $50 million dollars making Nautilus, and went bankrupt soon after.
By anon at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Well, sorry to piss on your parade
By Yellowboy at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Hey, hey, don't get mad. Notice that the comment was _not_ an attack on Gnome, but only a response to some smart guy trying to put KDE down.
Cool man!
By Carlos Leonhard Woelz at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
> Eazel went bust because of other things not because of making nautilus.
And to think their press releases made it sound like they were finally bringing a GUI to Linux. IIRC they had something like 30 or so developers and 30 or 40 usability people. This was a big time proprietary model writing GPL'd code. Most interesting was their interview answers about how they were going to make money. They had several ideas. Where I come from we call that "What do you mean you don't have a business plan?" Because they were Apple guys who "invented" the GUI after a field trip to Xerox the press treated them like the coming of a messiah.
All I know is that I can't imagine anyone dumping millions in my lap without a business plan. Konqueror seemed to come out with similar features before Nautilus with less developers. I have actually spent money developing Quanta. We use users on CVS for usability testing. I can't begin to imagine what I'd do with $13 million. Given that Quanta has cost a tiny fraction of a percent of that to develop I would guess KDE would have the most formidable application suite in the world within a few years.
I don't use Nautilus so I can't judge their knowledge of software. What Eazel clearly did lack was a business plan or a desire to use common open source methodologies. They did in fact burn money. However a friend of mine who is a financial planner has told me that creatively burning venture capital can leave you set for life, so it's possible I'm missing the real objective. It's difficult for me to imagine the Eazel team being a real hero to anyone who didn't think pro wrestling was real.
By Eric Laffoon at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Developing software is cheap and getting cheaper.
Now, the guys that can manage U$S13M... those cost a fortune!
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
By Anonymous at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Very very funny. And probably not far from the truth.
The challenge of getting into the desktop market is how to survive while the software grows and matures (years). There is an established competitor who knows full well that it can kill any newcomer by cutting off the cash supply. Can Novell bankroll the whole thing? No way. They are depending on the goodwill and contributions of all the desktop developers. The developers decide where they put their energies.
Maybe Perens has done some inadvertent consulting for Novell with the Userlinux desktop controversy. File under "Mistakes to Avoid".
By Derek Kite at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
How the fuck is it "probably not far from the truth"?
By Yellowboy at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Because it shows just how expensive it is to develop apps for Gnome. All that money for a file manager and a PIM application? Look at Konqueror, Kroupware and the Kontact suite? How much did that little lot cost in non-existent venture capital funding? Some people on the Gnome side really are living in a fantasy world.
By David at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
But be honest, Konqueror get support from SuSE and Mandrake, Kroupware was manly payed for by the German government. I guess that it didn't cost those millions but it did have some corporate support.
By Expensive at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Yeah, I guess what they're trying to say is that there haven't been any big venture capital backed KDE companies. Ximian, Easel and Redhat all rode that wave (for good or bad).
However this basically has nothing to do with their toolkits or whatever. Management quality is not a feature of the toolkit. ;-) So the Easel guys didn't know how to run a for profit company -- this is somehow connected to them using GTK and we're supposed take from this that GTK costs more to develop for?
Where'd I set my bat-o-logic?
By Scott Wheeler at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Not so hard to grok, Scott. The contention is that developing for GTK+ is *hard* compared to Qt, thus (at least on average) it requires more development hours spent for features produced. Someone upthread said that Easel burned through capital primarily through developer salaries and all they had to show was Nautilus.
By manyoso at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
No, what I showed was that they were paying their developers handsomely.
It has *nothing* to do with how hard or easy one toolkit is to use over another.
IMO Eazel's main flaw to to assume that they were going to succeed with no problems at all and expanded too far too quickly. But as Scott said, management competency isn't a feature of either QT or GTK
By Yellowboy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Qt is a heck of a lot more than a graphical toolkit, like GTK is. There is no comparison.
By David at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Don't forget Corel and Caldera as well. They played crucial rules in early KDE 2.x development. Although they aren't around much anymore in terms of KDE (Corel->Xandros, Caldera->SCO)
By anon at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Corel? I think they contributed a fair chunk of Ark, and a code review.
Can´t remember anything else coming from them.
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Well, using the above logic -- of course Corel didn't contribute anything when Qt is sooooo expensive and hard to use..
By mill at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Yer, it's expensive to a kid on Slashdot. To a corporate - no. Hard to use? Yer. right.
By David at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
By mill at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Whatch your language. Are you trying to discuss something or are you here to call names?
Answering your quastion:
It seems easier to develop to KDE. The development tools are better, the base library is more documented (Qt), the translation tools are excelent (and even used by other desktops), kdevelop rocks, the components (kparts) are easy to implement and easy to use, the XMLUI makes it easy to adapt the existing applications to a specific function.
But I could be wrong.
By Carlos Leonhard Woelz at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
I didn't call anyone names did I?
Sometimes, use of strong language adds emphasis to a point.
And ummm, your answer didn't answer my question.
By Yellowboy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Language Issue.
Howdy Navindra.
By a.c. at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Well, lets see who actually lives off what they write.
KDE now has a very good foundation of a groupware solution because someone went out and sold a solution, got money for it, stuck their neck out in promising something, then did it. They built on what was there before, and they and others are putting time and resources into finishing the whole thing. We all benefit. Novell can improve and sell it too.
Call it reality. When I see FOSS people doing the industry fluff, vapor and scam stuff, I get disgusted.
Funny, it is just fine and logical to suggest that KDE disappear, but the instance Gnome and their rich fanboys get criticised, the language gets bad real quick.
By Derek Kite at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Yeah, cos the KDE boys didn't get annoyed over the UserLinux thing at all.
And the rest of your comment is completely unrelated to anything I posted and is really just a strawman you've set up.
And for what its worth...
When I see FOSS people doing the "lets talk shit about stuff we don't know" stuff, I get disgusted.
By Yellowboy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
"I don't get paid to work on GNOME so I'm definelty not a "rich fan boy"..."
He probably wasn't talking about you. You can talk in the third person you know.
"When I see FOSS people doing the "lets talk shit about stuff we don't know" stuff, I get disgusted."
Yer it's called common sense. Hurts doesn't it?
By David at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
> He probably wasn't talking about you. You can talk in the third person you know.
No-one else was jumping in to defend GNOME, so... I guess he was talking about me.
By Yellowboy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
"No-one else was jumping in to defend GNOME, so... I guess he was talking about me.
Go away then.
By David at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: ok, then what
Indeed, the KDE people (me included) got annoyed with the Userlinux thing. For very good reason, just like you were annoyed and moved to swear when someone had the temerity to suggest that Gnome could be the loser in some decision.
So let's put the shoe on that foot. Does Gnome pay it's way? Does it cover anyone's cash flow requirements? Maybe it does. I know, and I used one example, where it does cover someones cash flow, someone sold a solution based on KDE, were paid for development work that then was put back into the project. This isn't some flakey 'well, if we scam some investors with some grandiose promises...' thing, this is real money for real solutions.
And no, I wasn't referring to you. I don't know who you are.
It isn't KDE people who are saying that there should be one desktop to rule us all. It isn't KDE people who are saying, and I quote "it will take us two years to catch up to KDE in functionality", and suggesting that it would be best if KDE was marginalized, or better, went away. It wasn't the KDE people who were saying that Novell will naturally use their desktop.
KDE people are saying that there are two desktops, will be two desktops, lets make them both work together where it makes sense. And Gnome developers are saying the same things as far as I can tell. There are certain interests and prominent people in the FOSS community that somehow think they can take charge of something that they don't own. So far, it belongs to whoever writes the code. Both KDE and Gnome have active communities, churning out copious amounts of code. And both have growing, enthusiastic user communities. It's not a zero sum game.
By Derek Kite at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
openexchange future?
This story is very thin on details only suggesting that ultimately Novell will make changes. Anybody have a clue what the thinking is with regard to OpenExchange server? Is it going to get canned in favor of GroupWise? (I hope not!)
By jdell at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: openexchange future?
The sales of SLOX4.1 are going very well. It has a WebDAV interface which you can easily use from your own applications (see http://devel.slox.info/ ) to access ALL data on SLOX. Together with iSLOX and oSLOX (plugins for Outlook) it allows much over 90% of all Exchange users to switch from Exchange to SLOX without losing functionality while using Outlook as their groupware client. SLOX is really an Exchange killer and Novell would be dumb to throw this away.
By Anonymous Coward at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
SuSE CEO Seibt's Statement to KDE Core Developers
Here is a full quote of what he wrote to kde-core-devel list, for all those
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List: kde-core-devel
Dear KDE developers,
since I joined SUSE in January 2003, I learned that KDE is one of the most
KDE is the defacto standard for Linux desktops in Europe. Without KDE, I do
Please be clear: SUSE LINUX will continue to strongly support KDE.
Both the Ximian and SUSE LINUX acquisitions reaffirm Novell's strong belief in
Together with our Ximian colleagues at Novell, we will also enable our
The integration capabilities SUSE LINUX brings will continue to help
Today and tomorrow, we must be strongly committed to deliver what our
So I really love to stay with you in an ongoing and fruitful dialog.
------------------- unquote ------------------------------------------------
By kdeFan at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: SuSE CEO Seibt's Statement to KDE Core Develop
That is all well and good, but it may not be his decision at the end of the day.
Long term it doesn't make sense to have Suse supporting KDE and Ximian doing Gnome. Either Suse switches over to Gnome or Ximian switches to KDE (wouldn't that be cool!)
By Anony Guy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: SuSE CEO Seibt's Statement to KDE Core Develop
Why doesn't it make sense? IBM for example, sells and supports AIX, AS400, the big iron, Windows (alot) and Linux. Why? because the have customers who want one or all of the above.
Right now, Ximian and gnome have valuable elements. KDE has valuable elements. This won't change.
The reason this won't change is because developers that aren't working for Novell will work on, improve, extend, innovate on whatever they feel like. It isn't Novell's to control. Right now if you limit your clients to one desktop, they are missing the strengths of the other. That won't change. KDE will improve to match Gnome where it may lack, and visa-versa. At the same time each advances elsewhere. They will never be equal, or equally suited to all purposes.
The only way the linux desktop can be viable for Novell or SUSE or anyone is to use the work of hundreds of other developers not in your employ. Yes, improve, contribute, finish, maybe gently push in a direction or other. No-one could afford to do it all.
By Derek Kite at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: SuSE CEO Seibt's Statement to KDE Core Develop
You are talking as if all the decisions on the linux desktop front were already made. Neither gnome nor kde have a clear advantage over each other.
So we may expect that Novell will decide what is best to its business. Companies may try to shape the market, but usually it's the market who shapes the companies! Novell will support either gnome and/or kde if that makes a profit for the company, that's all.
By hgg at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
"Why not open Linux for Apple's desktop"
Richard Seibt:
...or why not the other way round? Bring KDE applications to Apple's Mac OS Desktop?
Oh, wait.... they are doing this already! They are even nearly there!! (Ignoring the rough edges which may still be there -- but hey, our two Benjamins working on it say the port is still Beta).
Screenshots here:
--> http://ranger.befunk.com/screenshots/ <-- # names starting with "qt-mac-..."
Downloads here:
--> http://kde.opendarwin.org/
The fact that they were able to do most of the work during X-Mas holiday season is a tremendous tribute to the Qt and KDE cross platform capabilities.
A Win32 port is also going forward ("http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/"). More problems there to solve, but it is a living and kicking project, also with already working KDE programs....
By Kurt Pfeifle at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
How many KDE people does SUSE employ?
I read somewhere that it was about 4. It does not sound so much, and I definitely think they could continue to pay for that, no matter what. For Novell, especially.
By claes at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: How many KDE people does SUSE employ?
According to http://www.kde.org/support/thanks.php :
SuSE pays KDE developers Waldo Bastian and Lubos Lunak to work on KDE development. SuSE also employs around 10 KDE developers which are free to work on KDE during their work time.
By Erik Hensema at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Might be worse for Ximian
All the Gnomeistas are automatically assuming that its the end for KDE on SuSE, but the opposite is more logical. Heres my thinking:
1. KDE is established on SuSE (counter: Why acquire Ximian then?)
Of course the biggest argument against this is that the Ximian honchos are in the Desktop side of Novell distribution so reason might be trumped by ideology... Hasn't been the first time.
By Bruce at Mon, 2004/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Novell bought ximian because it bets on mono becoming .net on linux. I agree they will dump ximian gnome.
By - at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Looking at http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3056338289.html doesn't sound like Novell is about to dump gnome...
By birdy at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Only 7 of the 45 bounties were solved in the given time frame. Either they are missing enough developers or it's too difficult to develop for Gtk/GNOME.
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Wow. That is some pretty bad PR.
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
+++ "Only 7 of the 45 bounties were solved in the given +++
If that's true, it is a really bad sign for GNOME. First tease the developers to
But, maybe, it is just a webmaster being on vacation not having updated the table?
Anyone here who is lurking on GNOME mailing lists knowing what's going on?
By anon at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
It's true. Check gnomedesktop.com.
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
It could _still_ be the webmaster being on holiday...
By anon at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Wow -- I haven't visited the dot in a while, and I'm horried at the attitudes around here. I thought Slashdot was bad ...
Anyways, yes, only 7 bounties were claimed IN TIME for the deadline. The whole contest was only about a month long, and involved a lot of non-GNOME people learning a new development environment.
If you actually look through the bugzilla entries, lurk on the mailing lists, or listen in on irc.gnome.org, you'll see that ALMOST ALL of the bounties are being worked on. Only 7 were finished ahead of time. Others are on the doorstep. Others are still coming in the second round.
While many people are working on the bounties, the people running the contest are holding the highest of standards for the entries. No cheap hacks here.
By anony at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Might be worse for Ximian
Other possible reasons:
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