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KDE Commit-Digest for 18th June 2006
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: work begins on 3D molecule visualisation features for Kalzium. More progress in the Kopete "OSCAR (AIM) File Transfer" and "KDevelop C# Parser" Summer Of Code projects. An enhanced version of the custom iconset developed during the 1.4 phase is re-enabled as the default option in Amarok. Following the brand clarifications of last week, oKular is now known as okular. Kitten is renamed Strigi. Two security issues are addressed.
Osnews article
KDE criticism
Most points mentioned have nothing to do with KDE
By gerd at Sun, 2006/06/18 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Where is this mentioned, or was it just offtopic? ;-)
By pascal at Sun, 2006/06/18 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Talking about Kopete, what I really miss in kopete is a "Cybercafe" mode, where the app just got the contact list from the server, deleting it after logout. No sync with adressbook, nor any other fancy integration things, just connect, chat, gone.
In its current state, Kopete is a great IM client for personal use, but it's useless for deploying at public places or just for someone trying to ocassionally connect from someone else's machine.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Agree on this.
The workaround in older version is to set contactlist.xml as read-only.
By Me at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
this seems a serious issue
By Anonymous at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Well, I've just filed a feature request; it's here:
Now you can vote for it. ;)
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Seriously, I think this is a lot of duplicated effort.
Internet café operators use KDE's kiosk mode with a locked-down profile anyway, and upon logout, this profile will be deleted (most of the time, along with the complete home directory contents). Including, of course, all Kopete settings.
If that is not enough, you are always free to use the diverse online Flash/Java based messenger app(let)s that exist ...
I would rather the Kopete developers invest this time to get file transfer done correctly. I know this is a terrible amount of work with all the issues and different protocols it has :-) but IMHO that's a lot more important.
By Jens at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Well, seriously, I think it is not.
a) Saying it can't be done. A lie, but a practical one. (Once I let a friend connect using Kopete and when he left the machine *I* was left with something like 50 new MSN contacts! He didn't realised of that, but I bet if he did he would be very uncomfortable with leaving all his personal contacts in another machine, inadvertedly! Besides that, I was also very annoyed, because I had to go through all the contact list checking to see what contact was mine and deleting all the others. A blast!)
b) The other alternative is rebooting my machine with Windows just to let him connect to MSN. Well... enough said. Do you want to be forced out of KDE just because you don't have the right application in Linux? Me not. :-|
So, I think it is something to think about, for future versions of Kopete.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Er... How about quickly creating a new user for your friend?
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2006/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
A new user? You mean creating a whole Operating System user for every friend that comes to my house? You got to be kidding!
Come on! Kopete is really great, but it lacks that function. Period.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Mon, 2006/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
>>A new user? You mean creating a whole Operating System user
Yes and no, you are not thinking it through.
You simply create one guest user, only one for all your friends to use, and simply delete all account data when they log out. The brute force approach would be removing the .kde dir, but a smarter solution would be only to remove things like Kopete information and browser cache/history. In any case it would only require a simple script running at logout.
By Morty at Mon, 2006/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
I am not kidding. A user account isn't something heavy-weight or important. It's something you can create in half a minute and throw away even faster. And it would mean your friends don't have access to all the other stuff in your home directory, too. Or you can just do what someone else suggested: create a single guest account (with a good password, of course, if your machine is reachable from the internet or through wifi) and use a .logout that
I do the first: it works for me, and has worked fine for me since I started using Linux in 1994.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2006/06/27 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Excuse me, I know you're trying to give me the best workarounds you can think of to solve the problem. That's fine and I really appreciate your kindness.
Yeah... Kopete is great for all its integration with the rest of KDE, but people need more than that; they need to be able to move to another place and still log in and chat easily, effortlessly. Today Kopete don't offer this to these users.
I'd wish the Kopete team would put some effort in this direction, it's really needed and will have a great impact on KDE's future.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Thu, 2006/06/29 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Well... I'm fairly sure that, no matter the operating system, it's a bad idea to give even the best of friends access to your user account. They could sent mail that appears to be signed by _you_, for one thing. Of course, it's not perfect, but well, nothing made by humans is, but this is a practical work-around. And since there's a real-life analogy to different operating system users (viz. different bodies for different souls), it shouldn't be too hard to teach non-technical people to make different users for different purposes.
To instance an anecdote: my father, who is non-technical to the extreme (for years, his bosses when confronted with sales-critters trying to sell some unbreakable piece of tech sent the said critters to my father, who usually succeeded in breaking the piece of tech by just picking it up)... Er... My father, he's created two users on his windows computer: one for his images & general browsing, and another, more private user for his taxes and book-keeping. He has grasped the idea of separating users according to tasks.
And that gives me the confidence to say "people who say ordinary non-technical computer users cannot grasp the concept of users to differentiate tasks and promote privacy are people who are steeped into computer usage themselves and have lost touch with the ordinary people they like to instance".
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2006/06/29 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
ok, I see you really don't get it.
Of course these machines have a user specifically created for student access only. But since there's no real work to protect there and because of other practical reasons (users change not always sit at the same machine every day), there's not one user per student but only one "student" user.
With regard to the example you give of your father, may I remind you you are still talking about what I call a "sedentary" user (one that is on *his* machine, the one that uses everyday), but I am talking about needs of "nomad" users (users not using his machine, but any machine they get temporary access to). This kind of user just need to be able to satisfy their need, quickly and easily and is not interested nor inclined at that time to learn anything new or complicated to be able to do so. If they can't do it, they will just complain and quit.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Fri, 2006/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
You were, originally, talking about your personal machine, not about an institutional setting. For those cases, where there's competent system administration, kiosk is an option, as are remote home dirs.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Fri, 2006/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
You didn't read right, I ended my original message this way:
"In its current state, Kopete is a great IM client for personal use, but it's useless for deploying at public places or just for someone trying to ocassionally connect from someone else's machine."
I talked about my personal machine only as a concrete example, but not by any means as an example covering all possible cases of use.
I really don't get why is so difficult to assume that there are people with different needs. All solutions kindly provided by you and others here are simply not what some users expect, no matter how logical or suited to your way of thinking this solutions could seem to you at this moment.
By Gabriel Gazzán at Sat, 2006/07/01 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
That was the worst written criticism article I have ever read. He opens with complaining about some 'coherency' issue he can't even explain, and closes with a point that he doesn't want coherency by saying he wants icons here to behave differently then they do over there.
Just in case the author of it sees this, people mailing you asking 'what in gods name are you talking about, what do you mean," is not a sign of success, it's a sign you failed to present your points.
By sean at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Please re-read what he wrote. He says he wants more coherency. The point you mention about icon size is about consistency, not coherency. He explained the difference in the article.
By oliv at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
That is just a rant of a 22 year old geek who thinks he has usability knowledge...
I think he should get a life first before becoming a GUI expert, then he would be able to write constructive critisism about GUI's, in stead of rants like this..
But lets start commenting on his rant:
the coherency part: it's a large rant about kde not being coherent, without coming with real examples.
With Amarok he completely misses the fact that Amarok is not part of KDE, it's a KDE application (like Winamp is not part of Windows, it's a Windows-application)
Then the KDE root password dialog.
Then klaptop: no explanation what's wrong with it.
Adept: well, like Amarok, that is not a kde application
Setting the icons size in konqueror seperate from the desktop: you actually can do that, by defining it in the .directory file of e.g. ~/
Accidently dragging toolbars: never happened to me :)
Naming scheme: ok, we probably should have called KDE iDE, and use names like iMail, iWord, iMusic, etc :)
By AC at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Actually being able to lock the toolbars is the only point I agree with. Not because I move them by accident, but because the application looks tighter without the toolbar handles.
By carewolf at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
most styles offer an option to not show these handles... but yeah, the ability to hide them would be cool.
By superstoned at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
To be honest, I believe KDE is perfect (yeah, kinternet is a mess but...). It is better than windows, at least.
What is the problem then?
It is not KDE which needs to get improved. The problem lies on the distributor level but I am sure KDE can help the integration.
What do I mean?
i installed Suse 10.1 but
All these issues have nothing todo with KDE. The joke is, something works with Kubuntu, something works with SuSe. Murphy II: An upgrade will reverse the problem. Sound will not work anymore. Your mouse is not detected anymore etc.
Whether KDE feels usable ot not depends on these issues. Usability engineers tend to compare a working installation a with a working installation b but the problem is: non-working installation.
I wonder how many Linux installations work 100% out of the box as they were intended.
The real problem for a user is then how to find out what goes wrong and why it goes wrong and find a way to fix the problem. KDE's error screens are often not helpful.
By Jim Der at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
looks like your installation corrupted somehow...
By AC at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
>> - don't get internet connection, played around with the settings. Magically it works or not
That's not related to KDE
>> - don't get sound, before I used alsaconf, no really good solution
>> - applications sometimes die when started (memory issue?)
>> - Mouse wheel does not work, so I cannot use the scrollbar
try selecting a different protocol in SaX2 or YaST.
>> - when using the bar in konqueror I am informed about non-working protocols; drives etc.
By AC at Thu, 2006/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
"With Amarok he completely misses the fact that Amarok is not part of KDE, it's a KDE application (like Winamp is not part of Windows, it's a Windows-application)"
Wrong comparison.
Amarok web site is amarok.kde.org
So I do not think the relation between amarok and KDE is comparable to the relation between Windows and Winamp (IOW, winamp website is not at microsoft.com, and the CVS/SVN of winamp is not hosted by MS either).
By oliv at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
The fact that something is developed in kde's SVN does not mean that it is actually part of KDE itself.
Amarok does not ship with KDE, it is a seperate project, that could have been hosted on sourceforge etc..
So Amarok is a kde-application, but not a kde-application, just like winamp is a windows-application, but not a microsoft-application.
By AC at Thu, 2006/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
No, not "just like". Microsoft does not host winamp website in their domain, Microsoft does not host winamp SVN/CVS. There is absolutely _NO_ link between MS and winamp.
By oliv at Thu, 2006/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Your missing the point :o)
Besides, the fact that kde provides hosting for other applications does not imply that the developers of those applications are in any way involved in KDE itself. They follow their own plan, and not KDE's plan.
By AC at Thu, 2006/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
By Sotux at Sun, 2006/06/25 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
That guy is a complete moron. Like his predecessor, Eugenia Lopez Queru, he has no formal qualifications as either a journalist, software developer or usability professional.
He spends the day reposting articles at other sites and then "delights" everyone on Sunday's (they must be his day off from kindergarten) with a poorly written editorial that lacks any sense of cogency.
I really cannot stand people like this guy. In previous times, this guy would have shouted in his hometown about how the end of the world was near or some other nonsense. Today, the web makes his steeple a lot bigger.
There is no point in even attempting to reply to something as poorly written or thought out as what he wrote. If he wanted to effect any change on KDE, filing a reproduceable bug would have been the way to go.
By Fuck OSNEWS! at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Just wow.
KDE has many weaknesses but I think he ended up addressing Kubuntu's weaknesses instead. People already pointed out the kdesu is Kubuntu's design flaw, not KDE's. Adept is buggy and ugly, but it's not a KDE app (that would be Kpackage, which is rather sticky in its own way is not as bad as Adept).
He doesn't even bother critiquing Klaptop properly. I don't understand his gripes about Kopete and I don't use it. It integrates pretty well with KDEPim when I used it. To be fair, my main gripe against Kopete is probably minor. I want to save my logs in plaintext or have the ability to export them as plaintext. Silly and nitpicky? Yes, but it's a quirk I have so GAIM until then.
Probably the oddest thing he went on about was coherence. KDE is probably one of the most coherent DEs I ever used. It and OSX are the only ones that implement spellcheck properly: system-wide in the browser, email app, etc. I don't remember passwords for anything anymore because of KWallet. Klipper and Kontact, while not perfect, are hardly incoherent.
By sundher at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Just wow.
Personally I like adept. Sure I wish it would remember that I hid the tags because I never use them, and I wish it was a bit faster sometimes, but in general it is excellent for what it was designed for: finding and installing applications.
By Leo S at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
The problem is not really the article itself, but the way that it was presented.
So, let me explain what his trying to say in a constructive way.
First of all, this article talks about deficiencies found in the KDE 3.x series,
What is not told in this article is that many of those critism are being addressed in the future KDE 4.x series. More importantly the work being made by Aaron Seigo, who seemed to have introduce the idea in the first place, and the rest of the KDE4 elite on projects such as: Phonon, Solid, Plasma, Oxygen, Dashboard and Akonadi. Also, notice the lacks of K in the new names.
This is what this guy is talking about when he's mentionning "coherence".
This is one of the stated goal in KDE4 and while it was not really "put together" in KDE3, the issue is being addressed and personnally, I do not think that bashing the nail on KDE3 defects will help motivate those hard working developpers, artists, translators, designers and other specialists on solving these issues for KDE4.
One of the other problem mentionned is the comparision with MacOS and Windows,
Finally, the amaroK live cd seems to be just a sarcastic way of showing that the KDE3 emphasis is more application-oriented instead of being abstraction-layer-oriented like it seems to be with KDE4.
Point 2. kdesu dialog needs love. I think everyone agree, the main problem is that it is too technical and not really non-geek friendly. While the technical information is useful, the main information should be "extremely user friendly".
The command being executed is "kdesu adept".
Basically, it misses a [?] icon.
Personnally, I didn't know what adept was, prior to this article and I still don't even know:
"Run as root" gives a major clue, but it's still geek speak, for the average person.
Point 3. Never used it, so I cannot comment.
Point 4. adept is horrible and I think that "Klik" is personnally the way to go,
Point 5. I found personnally that configuring hard stuff is easy,
I think that KControlPanel is some advance mix of RegEdit and Power Tweak,
- Monitor size, angle, colors
Some other stuff that are classic:
Any other options is rarely changed by the majority of people.
In conclusion, I think that if people start explaining in a constructive way,
As a last word, be constructive, be positive and keep up the good work!
By fp26 at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
>>The command being executed is "kdesu adept".
Tha is an error in kubuntu, not in KDE.
>> Something like "Please enter your administrator password to install some new application using adept, the Kubuntu installer" would be of great help!
The default kdesu would do that.
>> It should be written "root password" or "administrator password".
it does in the default kdesu
>> Obviously, those description should be "PGP signed".
no idea why
>> Since you could have "kdesu trojan" with the same help sentence:
kdesu shows the command it wants to execute, surelly you can trust that.
>> What is the difference between "Cancel" and "Ignore" ?
The default kdesu would have told you.
>> What does Ignore do?
>> What does Cancel do?
By AC at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
>> kdesu shows the command it wants to execute, surelly you can trust that.
By Wrawrat at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
I personnally never used kdesu, ever.
If the error was made by Kubuntu then someone should contact them to fix the problem, in the first place.
By fp26 at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
For example kubuntu's kdesu: there is only 1 password that can be filled in, and that is of the user (like the dialog states: 'Enter your password'). So it's not the password of root, administrator or god-mode: it is the password of the user that installed kubuntu in the first place...
By AC at Thu, 2006/06/22 - 5:00am
Re: Control Panel
(please excuse me for by bad english)
The "Configuration Panel" criticism against KDE is very common (almost every troll i had with GNOME users ended up speaking about "the dirty all-in-one panel").
I personnaly have an idea of how this could be made easier _for my personal use_ (i don't pretend to know what other people like), but i never told that because it seemed me it someone likely already had this idea :
If that was done "coherently" :p , I think this could make the configuration thing a lot easier.
By bluestorm at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Control Panel
Just compare it to the windows control panel....
The fact is: control panels are obsolete.
1. hide functionality
Control panel criticism is often KDE control panel as provided and translated by distributor XY.
By Jim Der at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Re: Control Panel
Configuration levels have been brought in the past, and the idea always gets shot down because:
1a) You're asking the user to self-evaluate their level of expertise and
2) Options don't necessarily map easily to experience levels. You may be able to rank configuration options in order of how often they are used, but "the fewest number of users fiddle with option X" doesn't necessarily translate to "only 'experts' will want to fiddle with option X."
3) It doesn't really solve any clutter problems. Even experts don't necessarily want all possible options to be presented to them at once. There might be some truth to the idea that a beginning computer user might be flustered when presented with too many options, but that doesn't imply that advanced users *want* to be presented with many, many options. However, user levels, as they are usually presented, correlate "experience with a computer" with "willing to put up with cluttered interfaces."
I've been playing around with gnome for a few days, and I have to admit, I don't find the decision to throw seldom used options into gconf-editor *that* bad. The main problem I have with it is that when you put them there, it's difficult to find them, and to be sure that you're changing the options for the correct app. Perhaps there's a way to rectify that, or perhaps there's an altogether better solution, but user configuration levels seems to be generally agreed upon by people allegedly in-the-know as not the way to go.
By Dolio at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Control Panel
I'm an expert and personnally, user-level sucks.
Like I said before, the problem is that we have a PowerTweak called Control Panel and no "real control panel".
Let me say this straight, I don't want or wish to modify control panel
The problem is we need something else to fit "another need", which is "simple common task".
In other words, it's like tools. If I want a Nuke to kill some advance current setting needs, I want the current solution. But if I just want a hammer, to change the resolution, sounds or rotate the screen 20x a day, since I don't want to fiddle with zillion other choices...
So like other people says it's not really "user level", it's more a question of having the right tool for the right task with the right GUI.
Maybe the solution is just to create some applet:
To right click on background to get the background image, screen savers, settings.
These are very common task.
It's not like changing the accelerator of X application
The other option is to put the remaining stuff in an "advanced >" tab.
By fp26 at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
Man, I like your opinions. KDE team needs people like you.
By jose marin at Mon, 2006/06/19 - 5:00am
Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
I am a rather novice user of KDE but please do allow me to say a few words on the things that I feel are quite undesirable during my use of KDE so far. (Disclaimer: I am using KDE in FC5, installing whatever updates of KDE that are in the repos)
Firstly, I have an issue with the windows displaying in a 800X600 screen. The configuration windows usually are too big to fit into the screen size and the OK and Cancel buttons go out of screen. Initially I thought there might be a scroller bar at the side but I found none. It took me quite a while to know I can move the window by moving the mouse while holding down the Alt key and left mouse button. It will be great to have the ability to resize the config windows and have a scroll bar.
Secondly, I always get the sense of an information overload whenever I open the system config apps. I am presented with too many options yet those options I play around with (those which a normal user will use to customize the look-and-feel of the desktop) aren't visibly noticeable at a glance, often buried by the rest.
Thirdly, a point which closely follows the second point, is that I find the default desktop layout too cluttered. I am not working for Google but I kinda like the Google concept whereby everything on the screen is presented 'cleanly' with the icons, buttons and texts unobtrusive (as oppose to Yahoo!).
My preference is of a plain desktop that upon first-time login, introduce the user to the various aspects which he/she can customize the desktop.
Just my two-cents worth...
By james at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
>>Firstly, I have an issue with the windows displaying in a 800X600 screen.
i don't have that problem over here.
>>Secondly, I always get the sense of an information overload whenever I open the system config apps.
Well, that's the problem with configuration dialogs, you can't present them all without allowing a lot of options.
>> Thirdly, a point which closely follows the second point, is that I find the default desktop layout too cluttered.
That's up to you distribution: they decide what's on the desktop and what not, KDE has no influence on that.
>> My preference is of a plain desktop that upon first-time login, introduce the user to the various aspects which he/she can customize the desktop.
KDE has a first run wizard, which helps you to configure KDE without the need to dig into kcontrol. This first run wizard should start the first time you start KDE, but again, that depends on your distribution.
By AC at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
>> Perhaps you need to choose a smaller font, so the dialog windows will appear smaller
The reason I am displaying in 800x600 is to have the fonts easy on the eyes so making the fonts smaller defeats the purpose. I will rather have the vertical scroll but again, that is only my preference.
By james at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
You should run x-windows with standard size for your monitor and card and rather change the fonts to a larger size if they are to small for your eyes.
By Dragen at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
Sory but this is a *typical* Windows user failure due to severe usability problems of the incredible dumb Windows preferences dialogs.
On Windows you are not able changing the fontsize for *all* GUI elements at once (and after you have done it for all GUI elements the result looks still rather strange) while on KDE this is one of the easiest things you can imagine (and globally choosing larger icons is also a very easy thing in KDE).
Please if you really want to do your eyes something good choose the highest physical resolution provided by your screen mask (but by any circumstance no higher, even if your computer setting suggests it). Thus you will have on Linux (KDE) a sharp interface and big GUI elements at the same time. Look into your monitor data sheet for the physical monitor resolution. It is most times given in milimeter per pixel (called dotsize) or the other way round in DPI = dots per inch (be aware of the differences between inch and milimeter). With these values and the width and hight of your monitor you can compute what resolution your monitor is really able to display.
As a rule of thumb a 17 inch cathode ray tube can display 1152x864 pixel but not more (if you choose more you fake a resolution that does not exist and will lead to bluring).
I really hope that Bill Gates himself will one time fix Windows settings so that I don't need to explain anylonger to the people that 800x600 is the worst thing they can do to their eyes.
By Arnomane at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Some usablility issues (personal prefs)
>>Secondly, I always get the sense of an information overload whenever I open the system config apps.
>Well, that's the problem with configuration dialogs,
But that's fine, like Larry Wall at one point said.
Like in any design, it's a trade-off.
Also, I don't know if any of you folks have look into commercial solutions
It contains everything someone needs to configure Linux and perform
Notice the logical grouping and that the number of icons per grouping
By fp26 at Wed, 2006/06/21 - 5:00am
Re: Osnews article
He did say that the rant is about Kubuntu's KDE. So yes, criticisms about kdesu or Adept are valid. What I don't understand is the "coherency" thing. By the comments to his rant, it seems he didn't explain that part well at all.
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O'Hara Hall is a co-ed apartment building home to 162 students living on three floors. Housing priority is provided based on class year. The building contains 3 five-bedroom apartments, 36 four-bedroom apartments, and 1 two bedroom (three-person) ADA apartment. Each apartment has its own kitchen, two bathrooms, living room, and each occupant has their own bedroom. The building has laundry facilities and two lounges (one for socializing and one for studying) on each floor. Students have the option of signing a 10-month (August-May) housing contract, or a 12-month housing contract. The building also houses the King's College Education Department, a day care center, and the Leo's on Mane restaurant.
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Asaaj Ventress: Chapter 3 - Minikits
Asaaj Ventress: Chapter 3 - Minikits
Chapter 3 - Blue Shadow Virus
There are five proximity detectors in the swamp and they'll call for droid reinforcements when you get close to them. Destroy all five and you'll be awarded a Minikit.
There are five large carrots planted in the swamp. Lift them up from the ground with the Force and cut them up. You'll be given a Minikit after you've diced the last one.
If you check one of the swamp's cubbies to the north, you'll find a large gold-plated brick. Use your Minigun Clone to break it up and then use the Force to build it into a lawnmower. Hop in and mow the new grass that pops up to collect your third Minikit.
In the swamp, you'll find six large items hidden in the various ponds. Use the Dark Side to lift each one out of the pond and destroy them to collect Minikit #4.
Immediately when you drop down the hole, you'll notice droids spawning from the open gates on the left and right. Use the Force to take the lock off, which should close the door. Then, place the lock back on the door after it's closed. After doing this for these two doors, you'll have two more doors to worry about a little later on in the level. Do the same with those two to collect the Minikit.
When you take control of the Republic Battle Cruiser outside, switch to R2 and activate the console on the left. This will extend a net below the ship which should, in time, snag the sixth Minikit.
After entering the large room with two consoles in the back, switch to your battle droid character and interact with them. Keep messing with the consoles until you see a picture of a Minikit show up above both and you'll grab Minikit #7.
When you enter the next hallway and pass both sets of Destroyer Droids, you'll come up to a fork in your path. Take the left path and interact with the console using C-3PO. After the blast door opens, head through the door on the right.
Your task will be to make a drink for one a MagnaGuard. Use the Force to move the object behind the counter onto the bar against the north-most wall. Then, use the Force to take the cup in front of the Bodyguard and place it below the drink-dispenser. After it's full, hand it to the Bodyguard. He'll run to the bathroom and give you a Minikit when he exits.
Move on until you find the droid who hides in the six bushes. After "defeating" him, follow him into the next room. You'll notice a small crawl-hole on the left. Go through and wall jump up the checkerboard walls with a Jedi/Sith to collect Minikit #9.
During the boss fight in the elevator, use both of your character to grapple onto the large ship. You'll be rewarded with the final Minikit for this level.


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Investors to Sun: We've Got Another Place for You to Put the Dot You Put in Dot-com
The market today continues to have its say on Sun's rejection of IBM's acquisition offer. The consensus: IBM threw Sun a rope and the company used it to make a noose. Shares of Sun–which fell nearly 27 percent Monday following the collapse this weekend of merger talks with IBM–are slipping again today on fears that the company has bollixed up what may have been its only chance at salvation.
And that may well be the case. IBM (IBM) was reportedly offering $9.40 a share for Sun (JAVA), nearly double Sun's share price before investors caught wind of talks between the two companies. Seems a good price for Sun given its current situation. Certainly, there are no other offers on the horizon. Nor are there likely to be. "Others have already passed over Sun–given that, we're unsure who would step up to the plate," Edward Jones analyst Bill Kreher told Bloomberg. "We are unsure if the company can execute a successful turnaround on its own. Their future is very uncertain." Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein, agreed. "A collapse in the talks has considerably weakened Sun's hand, as we see no other likely suitors," he said in a research note.
If that's the case and discussions with IBM are truly finished–and there's a chance that they might not be–Sun could be left facing some unpleasant options. "Sun will have to take alternatives by either splitting up or downsizing," said George Weiss, a Sun analyst at Gartner. "Sun still has several options, since there are parts of the company that could bring value to one or several companies on the market. But those companies probably won't want to acquire Sun as an entire entity."


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What to Do After You Find Out You're Pregnant
You're Pregnant! Now What? 8 Must-Dos After Your Big-Fat Positive!
You're Pregnant! Now What? 8 Must-Dos After Your Big-Fat Positive!
Whether you've been trying for years, months, or not at all, that first positive pregnancy test is sure to rock your world. Suddenly, everything changes . . . even if, from the outside, nothing really has. So now what? Early pregnancy can be a frustrating waiting game, as most doctors won't even schedule a first appointment until you're around eight weeks pregnant. That can be as much as four-plus weeks after your positive test, a lifetime in pregnancy days, which you'll soon find out, move much slower than your pre-prego ones since all you can think about is the tiny bean growing in your belly! So what can you do to make sure both you and that developing embryo are as healthy, both mentally and physically, as possible. We have eight must-dos for any new mama-to-be!


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The blue-and-gold macaw is not a species of bird which is native to the Australian country side. This macaw is very easily recognised by its stunning golden chest, large white cheek patch and a beautiful blue back and tail. One of seven species inhabiting the Amazon Basin, the blue and gold macaw is definitely one of the worlds more stunning parrots.
Belonging to the parrot family, the blue-and-gold macaw will quite often be seen in very large flocks, even mixing with a range of other species without any conflict occurring. Each individual macaw has a unique pattern of feathers on the bare patch of skin on its face. This can almost be used as a fingerprint to identify individual birds. Their very long and colourful tail they use as a rudder and a brake when flying through the forest canopy.
Like all of the macaws this particular species can be found inhabiting a vast range of the forests in and around the central northern regions of South America.
This particular species is very adept at utilising its rather large beak to break into even the toughest nut, yet it can also delicately remove fruits and berries to eat as well.
Bird Size
Of the sixteen species of macaws found throughout South America, the blue-and-gold macaw is definitely up there in regards to parrot size. Averaging between 900 and 1200 grams and with a body length of almost two feet, this particular species belongs to one of the most well recognised group of birds any where in the world.
Blue And Gold Macaw Profiles
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Bubbles joined the Wandering Wildlife crew in January 2009. He was donated to Australia Zoo when he was around 12 years old, along with his friend Cuddles, a scarlet macaw. As his name suggests, Bubbles is a very friendly, bubbly bird who loves to say hello to everyone he meets. Bubbles is very popular amongst all the animal rovers and visitors to the zoo because of his lovely nature. In his spare time, Bubbles enjoys ripping up cardboard boxes, chewing on toys and snuggling up to Cuddles.
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Being a macaw, Queto is not a species that you would find in the wilds of Australia. Queto is still only pretty young, considering macaws can live to around 70 years of age. He is probably the quietest of all the macaws here at the zoo and has a very laid back nature.


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A Social Network for You and Your Neighborhood
Social networks can connect you with the world but what about your actual, physical neighborhood? Nextdoor, which connects you with your neighborhood - and only your neighborhood - has immense networking potential, says WSJ's Katherine Boehret.
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I ... a drag out the Wall Street Journal ... is seeking to collect at the social network not just another social network and a half to sign up for it ... this is a neighborhood the social network called next door ... to start has been around for little while but recently they've got a lot more neighborhoods involved in you might even have them out ready in your existing neighborhood ... this is different in that it asks for your real name ... identifies you but your real name and in verifies your addresses so you can use the social network unless you actually live in a neighborhood that means ... if you don't live there you can see anything in the network it's all private ... and it also means that you know the way he will no longer be a part of the neighborhood ... it's a lesson to close a different content because this is more private so this is stuff that she wouldn't put on Facebook ... it's more along the lines that I haven't told us to sell does anyone want to buy an ... already looking for any any Sherry T wanted going on it with me ... or has anyone tried that new restaurant on E Street did you really like it ... and a lot of people participated in this network in my experience I had an existing neighborhood in Washington DC at where I went ... I also tested it with a colleague who use it in his suburban neighborhood of Maryland ... where he created a new app next door neighbor ... why my favorite things about next or is that it is not a lists there so if you've ever been involved in listeners ... new email Hagger beating they can be VP new every time someone emails ... and they feel like mad keen and fresh trading late cycle on and on and never and so ... is this Marvin and I am and that really resembles the likes of Facebook ... are more friendly social network people close photos which is taxed and others can comment on that information whatever's has said ... there are some negatives of course I found that in my particular neighbor I didn't think the boundaries for dry and a great way ... an outfit that my neighborhood was labeled a little strangely it was called something and it's really not stands as they could talk to believe that that neighborhood he's the one who's in charge of the whole thing ... and respect the boundaries that I wanted to light says that ... focus on experiencing next door and I'm getting into boundary battles with him ... another downside was that my particular block is the conduit fifty standing and there are several new nets about a hundred or so units ... in my case of a bunch of these are all locked into winding in and which is not the case of the thing is difficult for me to invite ... some of my next or neighbors ... who I only know by their address I don't even know their last name I just now ... as the guy who is on the corner that's the woman who has the dogs so ... physical addresses are really important and next are knows this they've ... they've really is decides to focus on the map aspect of this and now the improving ... they'll be coming out with an ILS as the next couple weeks and they plan and can trade gap sometime this summer ... so if you are interested in flooding into your next door and the various in additional way not a physical way ... you might be interested in testing out next or like I did ... and can interact at the Wall Street your


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Rehabbing Turner throws off mound
MIAMI -- Jacob Turner is moving closer to game action.
The Marlins right-hander, on the disabled list with a right shoulder sprain, threw roughly 45 pitches off the mound on Friday afternoon at Marlins Park. Next up is another bullpen session on Sunday, the last day of Miami's homestand.
If that goes smoothly, Turner will head to the Roger Dean Stadium complex in Jupiter, Fla., early next week. The Marlins will be going on the road to Atlanta while Turner moves closer to a return from the DL.
"If everything goes well, he will go up to Jupiter," manager Mike Redmond said. "He will go to Jupiter while we're on the road and pitch."
No firm date is set, but Turner could begin a rehab assignment perhaps sometime next week.
In the meantime, Kevin Slowey is filling Turner's rotation spot, and the veteran will pitch in the series finale against the Mariners on Sunday.
Also on the injury front, Rafael Furcal is scheduled to continue his rehab assignment with the Hammerheads. The second baseman, on the DL with a strained left hamstring, was given Thursday off after he had played several games in a row.
Early next week, Furcal is expected to continue his rehab assignment at Double-A Jacksonville. The Marlins anticipate he will take close to the full 20 days allowed for a rehab assignment.
Once the second baseman gets to playing nine innings over successive games, that will be an indicator that he is close to being reinstated.


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Cano keeps swing sharp with unique bean routine
Mariners' new star lifts spring average to .600 in return from surprise root canal
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Anyone wondering what Robinson Cano was up to while sidelined following a recent root canal need wonder no more: He was hitting black beans with a broomstick, of course.
With Mariners trainers keeping the prized offseason acquisition out of baseball activities as he recovered from the dental procedure, Cano couldn't handle being out of baseball mode very long. So while at his spring home, he went to his drill of taking a few swings with a broom handle and working on keeping his eye on the … bean.
"You have to always keep your eye on the beans because they're little, too," Cano explained. "You have to follow it all the way. … That's what you want in the game. You have to follow it all the way."
Not that he needed any fine-tuning; Cano's swing with a bat continued to work wonders connecting with baseballs Monday. In his first game back after missing four days following the unscheduled root canal, Cano went 3-for-3 with singles to all three fields in the Mariners' 8-2 loss to the Royals.
And perhaps the Mariners -- and baseball coaches everywhere -- should be placing orders for brooms and beans about now.
"That's a pretty good one," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said when told of Cano's bean routine. "Maybe I ought to have all the rest of the players do the same thing."
Cano, signed to a 10-year, $240 million deal this winter, was just glad he was on the real field again Monday, back with his new teammates. After an infected tooth was detected during a normal cleaning last week, he underwent the root canal last Wednesday afternoon and had been out of action since.
"Good thing it happened here," Cano said. "Now I won't have to miss any games in the season."
The first day back on the Cactus League field featured plenty of action for the team's new superstar, starting with a slick start of a double play to end the first inning and continuing into the bottom half of the frame with a sharp single to right-center off Royals starter James Shields.
After his second hit of the day in the fourth, Cano's day got even more interesting when Shields pulled off a rare pickoff at third, using a move that left Cano standing several feet off the bag as third baseman Mike Moustakas applied the tag.
"You don't want to look bad, but he got everybody, even the third-base coach," Cano said. "At least we know now."
Picking up some information about Shields' sly move was just one thing Cano accomplished in his first game back. He played into the sixth inning, replaced by a pinch-runner to the applause of the Mariners' faithful after his third single. Along the way, he continued to display leadership, taking some time to discuss positioning with Minor League first baseman Jeff Zimmerman during a pitching change.
But the thing that stood out most was just how locked in his famously smooth swing continues to be this spring. He now has nine singles in 15 at-bats for a tidy .600 average, and his Monday showing proved that a few days off the field didn't exactly affect his stroke.
"I guess not," Cano said, playfully. "It feels good at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much. In Spring Training, I like to work on my swing, middle-away, not trying to pull or get out front of it. Like I always say, I'm not a home run guy."
McClendon was clearly glad to see that Cano was not only back in action, but back in action with a purpose.
"He swung the bat pretty good," McClendon said. "Robby's a very talented player. He really cares. It showed today. He played with some passion, and I thought he swung the bat pretty good."
When Cano went to the dentist last week, he didn't expect to undergo a serious procedure. But once the diagnosis came in, he and the Mariners' medical staff agreed it would be better to address the situation now than have it create a problem during the regular season.
He wasn't allowed to take real batting practice until Sunday, leaving him to swing his broomstick at beans -- doing something, anything to keep his baseball mind and body active.
"I love this game," Cano said. "This is what I know how to do. It's not easy for me to sit at home all day not doing anything."


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MDOT: Existing rail safety guidelines are adequate
Review prompted by Lac-Megantic train disaster
A rail safety review ordered by Maine Gov. Paul LePage following a train disaster that claimed 47 lives in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, has determined that existing practices are adequate.
The Maine Department of Transportation said the scenario of a runaway train wouldn't happen in the state if railroads follow their own guidelines and those of federal regulators.
A train operated by Maine-based Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway with 72 oil tankers began rolling while unattended and derailed with a fiery explosion in the small town of Lac-Megantic.
The company's chairman blamed the train's operator for failing to set enough hand brakes.
LePage says that the survey results are "encouraging." He says operators of all forms of transportation must "put safety first for themselves and for all Mainers."


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- (adj) possessing or showing courage or determination; "she made a valiant effort to hold her anger in check"
Valiant (वैल्यन्ट) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
- दिलेर, पराक्रमी, बहादुर, विक्रांत, वीर, शूर, शूरवीर, साहसी, बहादुराना, वीरतापूर्ण
Valiant Origin
- Middle English (also in the sense 'robust, well-built'): from Old French vailant, based on Latin valere 'be strong'.
Valiant in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
- His valiant knock comprised 12 fours and three sixes.
- A valiant fight put up by two groups of soldiers helped avoid a major hostage crisis as the three terrorists stormed into an Army installation.
- Playing in his 14th Test, the right-handed batsman scored a valiant 103 against the dominant visitors to help draw the fourth Test in Nagpur.
- Bitburger Open: Despite valiant effort, Sourabh Verma loses in final.
- No stone would be left unturned to help these valiant sons of the soil, he added.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of valiant
- Valiant –> great effort by 'ant' in the 'valley'
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You might not know this because you are not a famous person, but the Giants and Redskins are your Monday Night Football game this week.
The last time these two teams met, it went down to the wire, with the Redskins taking a 23-20 lead with under two minutes remaining. Then this happened.
Washington will presumably look to prevent that from happening again and Robert Griffin III thinks they have a shot, thanks to some secret weapons the offense has installed.
"The things they faced the last time with the running game are still there, but we've added elements in the passing game that make us more dangerous."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
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Google is going to spend around $500 million to market Motorola Mobility's new Moto X, the first handset made since its acquisition by the tech titan.
All four major national carriers are expected to have the phone this fall and it's supposed to come with minimal bloatware, or unnecessary apps or software, according to the Wall Street Journal. Users will also be able to choose their phones in different colors and engravings. The cost is expected to be $199 with a wireless contract or $599 without one. Motorola declined to comment.
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The first ad for the Moto X emphasized that it's built in the United States, perhaps a jab at Apple's primarily Chinese manufacturing plants.
Analysts hope that Motorola's new device can break the stranglehold that Samsung and Apple have had on the mobile industry. Both account for half of all smartphones shipped worldwide and the numbers are higher for tablets. So far, Motorola has about a 1 percent share of the global market.
"The industry is certainly rooting for Motorola as well as the other [manufacturers] to be successful" and break up the "duopoly" of Samsung and Apple, Rajeev Chand, a managing director at boutique investment bank Rutberg & Co, told the WSJ. However, he admitted there's likely little can be done to beat Samsung.
That might change with Google's $500 million budget. Both Apple and Samsung spent under that amount, $333 million and $401 million respectively, to market in the United States. Likely the advertising will be highlighting the Moto X's long battery life and "contextually aware" ability that helps the user and adjusts to the surroundings.
Despite the budget, the Moto X is still a relative unknown in the smartphone market. It may take a few tries before it takes off like the Samsung Galaxy S3.


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A New Era of Responsibility
Thank you, everybody. Please, have a seat. Thank you very much. Thank you to Mark and Bob and to Peter. It is wonderful to see the Speaker here. And we've got our -- I don't see Harry here, but we've got Dick Durbin in his stead. Mitch, thank you for being here. John Boehner, to all the congressional leadership, thank you.
My administration came into office one month ago in the depths of an economic crisis unlike any that we've seen in generations. And we recognized that we needed to act boldly, decisively and quickly -- and that is precisely what we did.
Within our first 30 days in office, we passed the most sweeping economic recovery package in history to create or save 3.5 million new jobs, provide relief to struggling families, and lay the foundation for long-term growth and prosperity. And I had an opportunity to talk to the nation's governors today -- both Republicans and Democrats have ideas about how they are going to use that money to make sure that people are put back to work and that we can stem some of the job loss that's taking place.
I also laid out my housing plan to break the cycle of falling home values and rising foreclosures that has devastated so many communities. And we put forth a Financial Stability Plan to start shoring up our banks, so we can free up credit and jumpstart lending and restore confidence in our financial system.
These are all extraordinary -- but necessary -- measures to address this economic emergency, and as has already been noted, they will come at a cost. This administration has inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit -- the largest in our nation's history -- and our investments to rescue our economy will add to that deficit in the short term. We also have long-term challenges -- health care, energy, education and others -- that we can no longer afford to ignore.
But I want to be very clear, if the message was not effectively delivered by the three previous speakers: We cannot, and will not, sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration, or the next generation.
We are paying the price for these deficits right now. In 2008 alone, we paid $250 billion in interest on our debt -- one in every 10 taxpayer dollars. That is more than three times what we spent on education that year; more than seven times what we spent on VA health care.
So if we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road as our interest payments rise, our obligations come due, confidence in our economy erodes, and our children and our grandchildren are unable to pursue their dreams because they're saddled with our debts.
And that's why today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay -- and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.
We'll start by being honest with ourselves about the magnitude of our deficits. For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception -- a series of accounting tricks to hide the extent of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue and hope that the American people won't notice: budgeting certain expenditures for just one year, when we know we'll incur them every year for five or 10; budgeting zero dollars for the Iraq war -- zero -- for future years, even when we knew the war would continue; budgeting no money for natural disasters, as if we would ever go 12 months without a single flood, fire, hurricane or earthquake.
We do ourselves no favors by hiding the truth about what we spend. In order to address our fiscal crisis, we're going to have to be candid about its scope. And that's why the budget I will introduce later this week will look ahead 10 years, and will include a full and honest accounting of the money we plan to spend and the deficits we will likely incur.
To start reducing these deficits, I've committed to going through our budget line by line to root out waste and inefficiency -- a process that Peter and our administration, our team, has already begun. And I'll soon be instructing each member of my Cabinet to go through every item in their budgets, as well. And already we've seen how much money we can save, just in the last 30 days.
Take one example -- the Department of Agriculture has moved some of its training programs online, saving an estimated $1.3 million a year. They're modernizing their financial management system, saving an estimated $17.5 million. They're saving tens of thousands of dollars by cutting back on conferences and travel and other small expenses that add up over time.
So we will replicate these efforts throughout the federal government, eliminating programs that don't work to make room for ones that do -- and making the ones that we keep work better. We'll end the payments to agribusiness that don't need them and eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq. We'll end the tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas and we'll stop the fraud and abuse in our Medicare program.
And we will reinstate the pay-as-you-go rule that we followed during the 1990s -- the rule that helped us start this new century with a $236 billion surplus. In recent years, we've strayed from this rule -- and the results speak for themselves. The pay-go approach is based on a very simple concept: You don't spend what you don't have. So if we want to spend, we'll need to find somewhere else to cut. This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day -- and there's no reason why their government shouldn't do the same.
Now, I want to be very clear: While we are making important progress towards fiscal responsibility this year in this budget, this is just the beginning. In the coming years, we'll be forced to make more tough choices and do much more to address our long-term challenges, from the rising cost of health care that Peter described, which is the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far, to the long-term solvency of Social Security.
In the end, however, if we want to rebuild our economy and restore discipline and honesty to our budget, we will need to change the way we do business here in Washington. We're not going to be able to fall back into the same old habits, and make the same inexcusable mistakes: the repeated failure to act as our economy spiraled deeper into crisis; the casual dishonesty of hiding irresponsible spending with clever accounting tricks; the costly overruns, the fraud and abuse, the endless excuses. This is exactly what the American people rejected when they went to the polls.
They sent us here to usher in a new era of responsibility in Washington -- to start living within our means again, and being straight with them about where their tax dollars are going, and empowering them with the information they need to hold all of us, their representatives, accountable.
So that's why I have called this summit today, and why I have invited leaders from both sides of the aisle -- because we all have a role to play in this work. I believe it is time for a frank conversation about the fiscal challenges we face. They're challenges that concern every single one of us, no matter where we are on this political spectrum.
So today I want to -- I hope that all of you will start talking with each other and exchanging ideas. I want you to question each other, challenge each other, question me and my team, challenge us, and work together not just to identify problems but to identify solutions.
And that's the purpose of the breakout sessions that are starting right now. I know that each of you bring a wealth of experience and expertise on a broad range of topics. I appreciate your willingness to participate in these sessions. I expect that this process will be engaging and productive, and I look forward to hearing the results when you report back later this afternoon.
So thank you very much, all of you, for participating.
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~ Baroness Pauline de Rothschild, 1973
On March 26, 2011, the de Young Museum in San Francisco opens Balenciaga and Spain, an exhibition curated by Hamish Bowles, European editor at large of Vogue, featuring 120 haute couture garments, hats, and headdresses designed by Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972). The exhibition illustrates Balenciaga's expansive creative vision, which incorporated references to Spanish art - with the iconic 1939 Infanta dress, a modernist interpretation of the dresses worn by the Infanta Margarita in Velazquez's celebrated portraits - bullfighting, dance, regional costume, and the pageantry of the royal court and religious ceremonies.
As legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland described him, "Balenciaga was the true son of a strong country filled with style, vibrant color, and a fine history,"who" remained forever a Spaniard....
You can feel the pulse of Spain beat in every garment in Balenciaga and Spain. A dress ruffle and polka-dot patterns inspired by the flamenco dancers; sumptuous embroidery and embellishments that glitters on a bolero jacket worn by a matador; clean and simple lines that extrapolate the minimalist rhythms and volumes of the vestments of Spanish nuns and priests; a velvet-trimmed evening gown aesthetically indebted to the farthingale robe of a Velazquez Infanta.
Cecil Beaton hailed him as " Fashion's Picasso." " In his work Balenciaga shows the refinement of France and the strengh of Spain. He uses fabric like a sculptor working in marble."
Cristobal Balenciaga. Detail of cocktail dress of fuchsia silk shantung and black lace with black silk satin ribbons, summer 1966. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Eleanor Christensen de Guigne Collection (Mrs. Christian de Guigne III), gift of Ronna and Eric Hoffman. Photo by Joe McDonald/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.


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Grenade Pouch
Posted 26 December 2006 - 03:47 AM
Then I could remember something alike in an old MCF topic (reference section) and I found Charlie Flick posted a pic of this pouch hanging from a BAR belt.
Is this a coincidence or this pouch go married well with the BAR belt?
Posted 26 December 2006 - 04:05 AM
2 x first aid tins perfectly per pouch
1 x smoke grenade perfectly per pouch
BUT one thing it is NOT is a grenade pouch, although they do fit it but are loose in the pouch.
Perhaps someone will come up with the 100% definition of it, but this pouch first surfaces in pictures around August or September 1944.
Posted 26 December 2006 - 06:04 AM
Posted 26 December 2006 - 09:00 AM
There is also a series of pics for experimental bags and pouches to carry grenades that is shown on MCF. They are the property of "army junk". I hesitate to post them without his permission and I'm not sure if he is a member here. The 3 pocket pouch with one LTD is shown in that group. You can do a search by his name and find them.
Posted 26 December 2006 - 09:24 AM
Anyway I think Robin's suggestion would be the right one without tripping too much with the mind: fragmentation grenade pouch. Maybe, from the collector point of view, a bit scarcer than the bigger one with two LTD.
Posted 26 December 2006 - 10:59 AM
Posted 26 December 2006 - 09:44 PM
Posted 26 December 2006 - 10:30 PM
Posted 27 December 2006 - 05:32 AM
Posted 27 December 2006 - 06:52 AM
Posted 27 December 2006 - 10:04 AM
Fact is I think I have just cracked what it is, an experimental pouch for holding additional "ammo" of various sorts or a combination of all.
Posted 22 January 2007 - 03:02 PM
Well, that still hasn't changed. However, I have discovered a new pic---in color no less---showing a soldier in WW2 using the pouch with fragmentation grenades. The pic is below. The caption to the photo reads "Private demonstrates the use of the M2 hand fragmentation grenades and the bag that holds six of these types of grenades" (Credit: The photo is in the public domain and was located at www.historylink101.com.)
While this pic is not enough to put this debate to bed for good, I think the weight of evidence now indicates this pouch to be for frag grenades, and not for carlisle bandages, smoke grenades or the other suggested uses that have come up from time to time.
What do you guys think? Can we now proclaim this a fragmentation grenade pouch?
Posted 22 January 2007 - 03:34 PM
Edited by craig_pickrall, 27 March 2007 - 07:52 AM.
Posted 22 January 2007 - 03:34 PM
Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:50 PM
It is not the same pouch as the triple grenade one featured above.
Edited by craig_pickrall, 27 March 2007 - 07:52 AM.
Posted 23 January 2007 - 12:25 AM
The smaller 3 cell pouches were intended to be used as ammopouches for the half moon clips for the M17 S & W revolver, according to the revised version of "From Doughboy to GI", but the smaller 3 cell pouches were also used by individual medics as first aid pouches...
Posted 23 January 2007 - 01:02 AM
Posted 23 January 2007 - 01:24 AM
The USMC used their own double (not triple) pocket grenade pouch in the PTO by the way. This pouch has the USMC style belt hook on it.
Peter, you're mixing up two different pouches there - the S&W ammo pouch is not the same one as the triple first aid pouch (the S&W one is much smaller and fits onto the belt like a .45 auto magazine pouch).
Here's another pic of the triple "first aid" pouch in use that I've got on my website:
CG-4A Glider chalk no. 49, nicknamed Hump II, before Operation Market Garden. The two men in front of the glider are probably the C-47 Pilot and the Glider Pilot. The Gilder Pilot is wearing M43's, has flying goggles on his helmet and a Gas Arm Brassard on his left arm. He is also wearing a Triple First Aid Pouch on his left hip.
Edited by craig_pickrall, 27 March 2007 - 07:56 AM.
Posted 23 January 2007 - 02:02 AM
<img src="http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1369/doublepocketgrenadepoch8au.jpg border="0" class="linked-image" />
Note the typical USMC wire hook
Posted 23 January 2007 - 02:29 AM
Hi Charlie Flick, Thanks for opening this particular can of worms. So far I dont think that anyone has turned up any conclusive written proof either way, as to the use of the single lift dot three pocket pouch. There's is no argument by anyone on the larger two lift-dot three pocket pouch, it's for grenades. The two variations of the three pocket pouches are totally different in size, width, depth and pocket shape ( i.e. Cadillac and Ford Pinto ).
The small three pocket pouch in ' Doughboy to G.I. ' was given to the author by a medical corpman who related that that is what he used it for, which was anecdotal evidence. The two different pouches are displayed here. On the flip side of this question, on this forum in a different section there is a post about Marines in early WWII using left over WWI corpsmans bandage belts to carry grenades, again I believe he states anecdotal veteran statement. How many anecdotal statements do you get about the helmet, headwear, cooking-pot, digging foxholes, washing bowl, etc, etc.
In 1979 I attended an Airborne reunion in Nijmegen Holland, I questioned a vet as to what he was wearing by 1944 in that area. He stated this large bag with lots of straps, I suggested the M-1928 pack. He was adament it was not that, I sensed I was pushing too hard so stopped questioning. five years later I turn up a photo, they were using ' jungle' packs, so do we say he was wrong that they were only used in Jungles, because that's what they are called, and he could not have used it, as he was ' Airborne' Cheers ( Lewis )
Posted 23 January 2007 - 02:33 AM
Posted 23 January 2007 - 02:43 AM
Hello everyone again, I have heard several statements that the three pocket/ two lift dot grenade pouches were never used in Europe. In other posts one of our members has used the phrase ' Never say never' several times. Here is the front cover of ' American Rifleman July 1944 ', it shows a soldier in Italy 1944, and on his right hip can be seen the three pocket pouch.
The blurb inside says that the soldier is Sergeant Donald P. Hamilton from Oklahoma. it states that he has worn the American armband twice before, once Sicily and again at Salerno. I have seen this exact same photo in another wartime publication, it was taken at exactly the same time in the identical pose, but his armband had been slipped off. so at the same photo shoot they had photographed him with and without the armband for some reason. Cheers ( Lewis )
Posted 23 January 2007 - 04:24 AM
That pouch looks to me like it is the single LTD pointed flap one - you can see the corners of the pointed flaps in the colour photo.
Posted 23 January 2007 - 04:49 AM
Posted 23 January 2007 - 10:08 AM
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