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book 1
We ought to connive at the faults of our friends, and all offenses are not to be ranked in the catalogue of crimes.
He apologizes for the liberties taken by satiric poets in general, and particularly by himself
He describes a certain journey of his from Rome to Brundusium with great pleasantry.
book 2
He supposes himself to consult with Trebatius, whether he should desist from writing satires, or not.
Damasippus, in a conversation with Horace , proves this paradox of the Stoic philosophy, that most men are actually mad.
He ridicules the absurdity of one Catius, who placed the summit of human felicity in the culinary art.
In a humorous dialogue between Ulysses and Tiresias, he exposes those arts which the fortune hunters make use of, in order to be appointed the heirs of rich old men.
He sets the conveniences of a country retirement in opposition to the troubles of a life in town.
One of Horace's slaves, making use of that freedom which was allowed them at the Saturnalia, rates his master in a droll and severe manner.
Villius, the son-in-law of Sylla [65] (by this title alone he was misled), suffered [for his commerce] with Fausta an adequate and more than adequate punishment, by being drubbed and stabbed, while he was shut out, that Longarenus might enjoy her within. Suppose this [young man's] mind had addressed him in the words of his appetite, perceiving such evil consequences: "What would you have? [70] Did I ever, when, my ardor was at the highest, demand a woman descended from a great consul, and covered with robes of quality?" What could he answer? Why, "the girl was sprung from an illustrious father." But how much better things, and how different from this, does nature, abounding in stores of her own, recommend; [75] if you would only make a proper use of them, and not confound what is to be avoided with that which is desirable! Do you think it is of no consequence, whether your distresses arise from your own fault or from [a real deficiency] of things? Wherefore, that you may not repent [when it is too late], put a stop to your pursuit after matrons; whence more trouble is derived, than you can obtain of enjoyment from success. [80] Nor has [this particular matron], amid her pearls and emeralds, a softer thigh, or limbs more delicate than yours, Cerinthus; nay, the prostitutes are frequently preferable. Add to this, that [the prostitute] bears about her merchandize without any varnish, and openly shows what she has to dispose of; nor, if she has aught more comely than ordinary, [85] does she boast and make an ostentation of it, while she is industrious to conceal that which is offensive. This is the custom with men of fortune: when they buy horses, thy inspect them covered: that, if a beautiful forehand (as often) be supported by a tender hoof, it may not take in the buyer, eager for the bargain, because the back is handsome, the head little, and the neck stately. [90] This they do judiciously. Do not you, [therefore, in the same manner] contemplate the perfections of each [fair one's] person with the eyes of Lynceus; but be blinder than Hypsaea, when you survey such parts as are deformed. [You may cry out,] "0 what a leg! O, what delicate arms!" But [you suppress] that she is low-hipped, short-waisted, with a long nose, and a splay foot. A man can see nothing but the face of a matron, [95] who carefully conceals her other charms, unless it be a Catia. But if you will seek after forbidden charms (for the [circumstance of their being forbidden] makes you mad after them), surrounded as they are with a fortification, many obstacles will then be in your way: such as guardians, the sedan, dressers, parasites, the long robe hanging down to the ankles, and covered with an upper garment; [100] a multiplicity of circumstances, which will hinder you from having a fair view. The other throws no obstacle in your way; through the silken vest you may discern her, almost as well as if she was naked; that she has neither a bad leg, nor a disagreeable foot, you may survey her form perfectly with your eye. Or would you choose to have a trick put upon you, and your money extorted, before the goods are shown you? [105] [But perhaps you will sing to me these verses out of Callimachus.] As the huntsman pursues the hare in the deep snow, but disdains to touch it when it is placed before him: thus sings the rake, and applies it to himself; my love is like to this, for it passes over an easy prey, and pursues what flies from it. [110] Do you hope that grief, and uneasiness, and bitter anxieties, will be expelled from your breast by such verses as these? Would it not be more profitable to inquire what boundary nature has affixed to the appetites, what she can patiently do without, and what she would lament the deprivation of, and to separate what is solid from what is vain? What! when thirst parches your jaws, are you solicitous for golden cups to drink out of? [115] What! when you are hungry, do you despise every thing but peacock and turbot? When your passions are inflamed, and a common gratification is at hand, would you rather be consumed with desire than possess it? I would not: for I love such pleasures as are of easiest attainment. [120] But she whose language is, "By and by," "But for a small matter more," "If my husband should be out of the way," [is only] for petitmaitres: and for himself, Philodemus says, he chooses her, who neither stands for a great price, nor delays to come when she is ordered. Let her be fair, and straight, and so far decent as not to appear desirous of seeming fairer than nature has made her. [125] When I am in the company of such an one, she is my Ilia and Aegeria; I give her any name. Nor am I apprehensive, while I am in her company, lest her husband should return from the country; the door should be broken open; the dog should bark; the house, shaken, should resound on all sides with a great noise; [130] the woman, pale [with fear] should bound away from me; lest the maid, conscious [of guilt], should cry out, she is undone; lest she should be in apprehension for her limbs, the detected wife for her portion, I for myself; lest I must run away with my clothes all loose, and bare-footed, for fear my money, or my person, or, finally my character should be demolished. It is a dreadful thing to be caught: I could prove this, even if Fabius were the judge.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jordan Spieth went for it. It just turned out not to be his week to make golf history.
The 24-year-old Spieth walked away from the third round of the PGA Championship with his head held high, knowing he'll have many, many more chances to complete golf's prestigious career Grand Slam.
It just won't happen on Sunday.
"I didn't have it written in a diary from when I was young that I need to win a career Grand Slam as the youngest player ever — that wasn't the goal," Spieth said after an even par 71 left him at 3 over for the tournament and out of contention entering the final round.
The goal, he said, was to get on the PGA Tour and "see what happens from there."
Spieth acknowledged that the PGA Championship is the toughest for him to win. It is the one major that doesn't particularly play to his strengths perhaps because it typically favours longer hitters.
"If we look historically back on my career, I think I will play this tournament worse than the three majors just in the way that it's set up," Spieth said. "I feel like my game truly suits the other three majors more than the PGA Championship."
That said, Spieth still believes he can win it someday.
"It's just a matter of having everything in sync at the right time," Spieth said.
Spieth never got in sync at Quail Hollow.
He hasn't shot a round in the 60s and never got the putter going until late in the round Saturday when he strung together three birdies.
A lengthy uphill birdie putt on No. 16 briefly got him to within single digits of then-leader Kevin Kisner and sent a buzz through the crowd. But after saving par on 17, Spieth put his drive on 18th hole into the bunker on the right side of the fairway. He hit his approach shot was a little fat out of the sand and his ball failed to make the green, hit a hill and bounced back into a creek that runs along the left side of the green.
The result was a double bogey.
But Spieth said even had he closed strong he doesn't think he would have been back in contention.
"My goal was to try to work our way into a backdoor top 10 finish," Spieth said.
Instead, he walked of the green tied for 38th place.
Spieth joked on Friday that he would have to shoot "probably 54" to get back in the hunt. But that never happened.
After conceding on Friday that making up 11 strokes would be almost impossible, Spieth decided to go for broke and start shooting for pins in the third round.
"I was trying to play aggressive and see how many birdies I could make," Spieth said.
That isn't always the best approach to play a difficult course like Quail Hollow, especially where the rough is long. Spieth bogeyed three of the first seven holes. He played the next 10 holes in 5 under after his putter got hot, but the double bogey at 18 left him right where he started the round — at 3 over for the tournament.
Spieth said it was a disappointing he didn't at least put himself in position to win.
But he wouldn't describe the entire tournament as a disappointment, saying he did some good things.
"Disappointing would have been going home after two days," Spieth said. "I think I saw some highlights today."


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It's graduation season, and we all know what that means: lots of pictures! Pictures with your friends, pictures with your parents, pictures with that professor you love but whose name you still can't quite pronounce.
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A presentation by Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer, Advertising and Online, Microsoft UK
I have seen Dave present before. This was new material, engagingly and thought provokingly delivered. The near term future will, it seems, see an amplification of the trends and buzzwords that we are already seeing played with – mobile, big data, apps: the web of things, people and places, blurring the distinction between the real and digital worlds. Reality augmented.
For this to work, we need ever more powerful processing and a better understanding of identity. This is the crux of things – personalisation not just on a 'once searched for dog food, quick deliver more dog related stuff', but split into four domains of context: emotional state (happiness, sadness, anger); social context (who you are with); environmental context (place and time of day); and reaction to current states of the World.
And of course, the mobile is at the heart of all of this. Personalised computing in a small, pocket sized package. All of our friends, contacts, preferences in one small package.
This ability to tap into, and react to, identity in the moment raises some important questions.
As humans, we cope best with small, incremental changes – advances on where we are already rather than complete shifts. (Dave references the QWERTY keyboard in this context – a keyboard designed to slow us up, yet familiar and therefore currently used.)
And, of course, privacy. And so, argues Coplin, it is incumbent upon those of us concerned with the development of the web to make sure that consumers who trust us with their information get value in return; that when we ask for data we are clear about how it will be used and what the benefit is for the user. Privacy, he points out, is highly personal, and people's expectations change as we deliver value.
His analogies extend into all kinds of areas – once we set an expectation with children, for example, that things will be voice controlled, they expect it of ever more devices.
So his challenge to us is this: empower others. Take the user on a journey that delights, that raises the bar, that sets their expectations higher. Ask what value you bring – think human and be human. The technology can develop around it.
Post presentation questions
I caught up with Coplin after his presentation.
My first question was from a user perspective. If what is delivered is always perfectly tailored to a narrow set of 'knowns' about an individual, what happens to serendipity? For our search experience, will it mean a less rich journey, with a more highly filtered result?
Coplin has evidently been asked this before. We never be able to predict perfectly, all of the time. There is he notes, always a need for an element of randomness. It's what we do with it, how we relate to it, the intelligence we apply to it that creates the serendipity.
My second question was from the point of view of the information provider on the web. If we have to guess when and why people are looking, if the search result is ever narrower, should we providing information in ever more specific formats, playing to each possible user scenario?
For the answers to this, we must look at where Microsoft is playing. Whilst Google has set out to create its own identity network, it is learning all the while from Facebook. It is trying to answer the user intent problem. Combine this with Windows IDs and Outlook identities (Coplin refers to 'federated identities), and it's hard to bet against Microsoft making at least some partial inroads into delivering a more personalised user experience.
If the rest of Microsoft is as conscious as Coplin of the potential to freak the user out, if it can deliver this experience in a useful and meaningful way, it's hard not to see them as genuine contenders for a growing piece of Google's search pie.


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I think I spotted some eggs in my pond, do I need to do anything with them?
Kathie- Walnut, CA
If you have koi fish in your pond, there's a distinct possibility you may be right. If you don't, we may have a mystery on our hands.
For the purposes of identification, koi eggs are about the size of small beads – or small pinheads. Their color can range from milky white to greenish brown, and you'll often be able to see black dots – which are developing koi eyes – inside them.
Fortunately, by the time you've identified the eggs, Mother Nature is already on the job. But, as a good steward to the future koi of America, you might consider adding some Aquatic Plants to the pond to provide good hiding spots for the fry. With everything from floating plants to pond flowers to submerged oxygenating plants, we have plenty of choices to keep your kiddie koi safe from predators – until they're ready to make it on their own. For an added measure of protection, consider our Koi Shelters, which provide safe havens for koi of all sizes.
Koi eggs generally hatch within a week. So, within a few days from your first sighting, you'll be graced with an abundance of koi fry. When they're first hatched, koi fry can't swim – so they attach themselves to the sides of the pond to grow. Within three or four days, your koi fry will begin to swim.
While it might be tempting to give your fry a welcome feast, there's no need. During the first stages of their development, your koi will find sufficient natural food in the pond. By the time they're approximately three to four weeks old, the koi fry should be between ¼" and ½' long – and they'll still be capable of finding sufficient natural food in the pond.
After two to three months, your fry will have reached between 2" and 3" in length. They'll continue to grow until they're between fifteen and twenty years old – so they're just getting started. And with an average lifespan of approximately fifty years, you'll have plenty of time to appreciate your koi, and the generations of offspring they're sure to produce.
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In my family, if someone is a patient in the hospital, someone else stays with them most of the time. When my daughter had her colon resection I camped out on the chaise lounge next to her bed for two weeks. I felt it was imperative to advocate for her, constantly monitor her care and keep her as safe as possible. It was always a challenge when the doctors did rounds at 6:00 am. After a far from comfy night's sleep, I felt as if I was just drifting off when the troupe would come marching in. One day I literally woke up to hear: "She probably needs an exploratory colonoscopy to figure out the problem". I sat up in my chair, looked straight into the eyes of this young-looking, "can't possibly be too experienced" doctor of unknown level (their name tags simply say MD, was he an MD for a month, a year, or 10?) and said: "You will not touch my daughter until I discuss it with her surgeon. I want him to be called immediately." They were all taken aback – you could see the guy's expression turn a bit nasty and he stormed out of the room. That was eight years ago. I always knew I was ahead of my time.
I recently read a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about a boy who took a turn for the worse after undergoing surgery and even though the mother begged for him to be seen by a senior doctor they only brought in a resident and nurses. His symptoms were misdiagnosed and, according to the mother "My son was in the care of people who didn't know what they were doing and didn't have the training, and he died for no reason." Out of this tragedy came the Lewis Blackman Safety Act passed in South Carolina which requires nurses to call an attending physician at the patient's or family's request or provide them with direct contact information for the doctor. It also requires hospitals to provide written information describing the training that various caregivers have, and it requires staff to wear badges noting their level of training. I think that part is particularly useful; as they all look alike once they put on that white coat.
Several hospitals throughout the country are developing similar initiatives that empower patients and their families to demand immediate medical attention from senior medical professionals if they believe the patient's condition is rapidly deteriorating. The issue here is that nurses are often overworked and understaffed and do not have the time to provide constant monitoring of a single patient. Medical interns often do not have enough training to recognize subtle changes. On nights and weekends, staffing is often lower than usual and the staff that is on duty may be hesitant to "bother" senior physicians.
The Empowered Patient Coalition, started by several mothers who lost their children to medical errors in the hospital, lists several warning signs that may call for immediate attention. These include:
- High or low body temperature
- Changes in breathing rate
- Drop in blood pressure
- Changes in urinary output
- Confusion or change in mental state
- Patient says something is wrong with them or you think he doesn't look right
- Shortness of breath or chest tightness
- Acute pain, especially in the abdomen
- Paleness or cold sweats
So the next time you are sitting by the bedside, remember to put down that novel you are engrossed with, and check on "your patient." That's the real reason you are there. The staff has hundreds of people to care for, and you only have to worry about one!
Share with us some of your hospital stories, any tips you have for keeping your loved one safe???


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1. Sgt. Doallyn (Skiff and Palace variants)3. ReeYees re-sculpt
That is clearly at the front of the skiff the Sarge...The dude getting pushed down the steps in the palace has always also been known as the Sarge as well.
OK, I'll go with mine here now... (And in no particular order)
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If I'm not mistaken you have started translating a page by copying the English, then changing each paragraph. This doesn't work with the Translate system. The system tracks changes in the English page and alerts the translator when he needs to update his pages, so it's important to do it using the system.
The first step is to use the link in the navigation panel "Get a Translator Account". Once that is activated you will see that some pages have "Translate this page" in blue above the title - if you need to translate a page that doesn't yet have that, please ask for it to be prepared.
Using that link you can see a list of messages (paragraphs) for translation. It is not necessary to do a whole page at once - you can quit at any time and come back to the page. I hope that helps. The system automatically creates the page for the language, in this case "Getting_Started/tr" - and you can use the first translatable message to create a Display Title, "Başlangıç_İçin". Please ask if there is anything you don't understand.
I'm sorry for that inconvenience and thanks for the notification. Since I was away for a while I forgot that I should use the translation tool. Again, thanks for the notification.
Hi! I, in advance apologize if I disturb you. However, I need to request some kind of help for a problem similar to the one you mentioned in your previous private message. If it does not make any trouble, would you mind to reset ALL Turkish pages I arbitraily created or edited/translated on-page without using the translation tool?
I would appreciate if you help me do the translation as required by the procedures.
Yes! I'll re-translate them not to confuse the readers of Turkish langauge :) Even I'm confused when I returned to go on translating.
If I'm not mistaken, I created a redirection page also, in order that the page titles such as "Welcome to KDETechbase", "Getting started", etc. could be in Turkish too. I'll be glad if you remove those.
And before you carry out the removal, I shall also get a confirmation. This removal process will not have effect on my translation account, will it? I mean can i continue translating, using the translation tool?
Don't worry about it - I'll sort it out, hopefully tomorrow, but Monday at the latest. I think you will get a message that they have been removed, rather than before they are removed, though it's always possible to pull them back if I make a mistake.
Your translation account will not be affected at all. Just use the "Translate this page" links and you'll be fine.
I've removed the three redirect pages, http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development_(tr) http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started_(tr) http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_KDE_TechBase_(tr)
I think it remains to remove http://techbase.kde.org/Ba%C5%9Flang%C4%B1%C3%A7_%C4%B0%C3%A7in http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_TechBase_Geli%C5%9Ftirici_%C3%9Css%C3%BCne_Ho%C5%9Fgeldiniz
Is that correct? (Sorry, I can't persuade the wiki to let me copy the names as they appear
I note that you have used the same naming scheme for the templates Warning and Note. Could you change these (and references to them) to the compliant naming scheme, i.e. Warning/tr and Note/tr ?


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Laid-back Masterson unfazed by spring contract talks
Right-hander, Indians face arbitration hearing if they can't agree on one-year deal
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- There is just something about Justin Masterson that makes people want to smile. It is to the point that Indians manager Terry Francona occasionally has to look away when the pitcher heads off the mound and down the dugout steps during a game.
"I have to kind of reel myself in," Francona said. "I catch myself smiling at him. I just can't help it, man."
It stems from Masterson's easygoing way of navigating through life. The leader of Cleveland's rotation is built like a bear, but acts like a cub, and it takes a lot to strip away the grin that is almost always present on the pitcher's face. It's usually still there even in the wake of bad outings.
Maybe it's Masterson's Jamaican roots, or his upbringing as the son of a preacher. Whatever factors may have helped mold his personality, Masterson might be better equipped than others to handle the kind of contractual distractions that have accompanied him to camp this spring.
Like everything else, Masterson just shrugs it off.
"It doesn't bother me at all," he said.
You believe him when he says it. And, of course, he says it with a smile.
More importantly, the Indians believe it.
Cleveland engaged in long-term contract talks with Masterson over the offseason, but the sides tabled that discussion when it became clear that the middle ground was still at the center of a canyon. For the time being, the Indians and the pitcher's agent, Randy Rowley, are concentrating on hammering out a one-year contract for the upcoming season through the arbitration process.
Masterson, meanwhile, is concentrating on pitching.
"It's not even close to being an issue," Francona said. "He's fine."
The Indians are hoping to avoid an arbitration hearing with Masterson on Thursday, but Cleveland has shown a willingness to go that route twice already this month. The right-hander has asked for $11.8 million and the Indians have offered $8.05 million. If an agreement is not reached before the hearing doors open, an arbitration panel would need to choose between those two proposals.
Negotiating a contract extension for Masterson -- eligible for free agency next winter -- is a trickier matter.
The current climate for free-agent pitching has been clouded by Draft-pick compensation. Two of the top available arms this past offseason -- Ervin Santana and Ubaldo Jimenez -- remain unsigned after declining one-year qualifying offers from Kansas City and Cleveland, respectively. Once such an offer is declined, if the team loses the free agent, it receives a compensatory Draft pick from whichever team he signs with.
Once upon a time, arms like Santana or Jimenez would have seemed like virtual locks for a four or five-year contract. The new landscape has instead left them twisting in the wind, leading to a reduction in asking price or term, while camps around baseball are already open. Without an extension, Masterson could find himself in a similar boat next winter.
"It's just the economics of the game," Francona said. "That's a side of it that's difficult, and I'm glad I don't have to deal with it."
Masterson and his agent have maintained that their only interest is finding a fair deal -- in comparison to the pitcher's peers and the marketplace -- in order to keep him in Cleveland.
"It's a difficult, challenging and yet a fun part of the game," Masterson said. "It's different. We're working with the businessmen and having some fun with that. You're trying not to be too stubborn in your own right, but know that you're trying to work for something fair and true."
Cleveland knows what it has in Masterson, who will turn 29 years old in March.
With his lower arm angle and heavy sinker, Masterson has developed into one of the game's top groundball specialists, but he has the four-seamer and slider to also pile up strikeouts. The 6-foot-6, 250-pound righty is a workhorse, logging at least 190 innings in each of the past three seasons. It might have been three straight 200-inning seasons if not for an oblique injury last September.
That injury provided a look into Masterson's team-first approach, though. Rather than insist on returning as a starter for Cleveland's postseason run -- which might have meant that he didn't return at all -- the right-hander embraced a late-inning relief role down the stretch. He threw the first pitch on Opening Day, the last pitch of the season to clinch a playoff berth, and he appeared in the Tribe's Wild Card Game.
"He told me in the offseason, when I went to visit him last year, that he was ready to lead," Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway said. "A leader's got to be ready to lead before they do. I think in the past, he's led by example. Last year, he led by example and also was ready to lead as far as being outspoken and taking charge."
When the smoke cleared on Masterson's season, he had 14 wins to go along with a 3.45 ERA, three shutouts and 195 strikeouts in 193 innings. The right-hander was named to his first All-Star team and recieved the Indians' Roberto Clemente Award.
Over the offseason, Masterson went on mission trips to Africa and the Dominican Republic. A couple weeks before Spring Training opened, he and his wife welcomed twins, a boy and a girl. Getting enough sleep and helping out with diapers are two of his top priorities right now.
"He has that anchor away from the field that keeps him the same person," Callaway said. "He doesn't define himself by his outing on the field. It's really refreshing to see, and it's hard to do."
Once Masterson and the Indians move beyond his arbitration case, the plan is to revisit long-term contract talks at some point this spring. That said, the pitcher has made it known that -- if it makes more sense, or the sides need a break -- he is willing to talk about the extension in the regular season, too.
"I enjoy it here," Masterson said. "I have fun, especially with [Francona], and there are a few guys that are here for another couple years at least. It's a great spot to be, leading this potentially young staff and having some fun with it, and going out and last year making the playoffs like no one thought we could. This year, whether or not people think we can, I think we have a great shot to do it again."
Asked if he hopes to have Masterson in the rotation beyond this season, Francona smiled.
"For however long I'm here, I hope he's here," said the manager. "I think everybody feels that way."


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JEFFREY BROWN: Well, explain the other part of the equation. The -- at the same time the filings are down new foreclosures are up.
GUY CECALA: Yes.
JEFFREY BROWN: What does that mean?
GUY CECALA: That pretty much means that lenders, particularly in what we call judicial foreclosure states, the ones they have to get -- go through court, are working through a backlog that built up last year due to pending litigation.
The attorney generals in the United States were all banding together to go after some of the major servicers, and basically a lot of foreclosures were put on hold, or at least the final step of trying to sell off the property.
JEFFREY BROWN: Bring us up to date on that, because we watched it carefully. There was that -- there was that -- the backlog, as you say, and a kind of stoppage, right, and then the settlement.
So where does all that stand?
GUY CECALA: Well, theoretically, it's opened the door for servicers to proceed, but somewhat cautiously, in pursuing foreclosures now. And in some of the states, the ones with judicious foreclosures -- judicial foreclosures, we're starting to see action pick up, meaning more foreclosures. They are trying to work through the backlog.
That's a watch, listen or read link. They also had this story on the US women's soccer team.
Every four years, in the summer, I find myself thinking the Olympics don't have anything to say to me and wondering when they'll be over?
Mainly that's a pose. I am glued when women's soccer starts. And afraid the US women's team will lose. That's because their wins have meant so much to me.
They really are the first women's sports that the whole country has gotten behind.
I'm no fool, I know that's because they grabbed the gold. And the interest only stays as long as they continue to perform well.
They did today, winning the gold for the third consecutive Olympics.
I was so happy. I had my granddaughter watching with me and, for a bit, I thought Japan was going to win. So I was explaining that it really does just matter that you make it to the Olympics, that anything after you get to compete is just gravy.
Well when they won, that was some gravy. More than enough for a thousand gravy boats.
I was in school back in the day where the ideal female athlete was a cheerleader. I'm not joking. We had a women's tennis team and that was tolerated. But if you went for something more than that and it wasn't track, they looked at you strange.
I had no natural skills. I couldn't even throw a ball until I had kids. With 8 kids, you learn to throw a ball. Mike even thinks I can pitch good. (That's because he's the 7th child. If he'd been the first or second, he'd feel differently but I got a lot of practice in.) I was a cheerleader and really wished I'd been something else. I got to be part of the 'game experience' but I didn't compete.
And from there I grew up being the eternal cheerleader. In fact, I sometimes think that's woman's role in this sexist society.
So I cooked and cleaned and served for guests at football games we caught on TV or baseball or you name the sport. And it was always loud cheers for the home team.
And the home team was always men.
No one wanted to watch tennis with me so Billie Jean King and Chris Everett were lost on my family. By the 80s, I gave up and just watched women compete by myself.
But then along came the '00s and women's soccer and for the first time ever our living room was filled with screaming adults -- men and women -- cheering and rooting for a team made up of women.
And it was great to watch today with my granddaughter and for us to see the US women's soccer team continue their streak.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for today:
Thursday, August 9, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, the Iraqi government wastes money on luxury trucks, a woman whose husband was kidnapped in 2006 appeals to the International Olympic Committee for help, birth defects resulting from chemical war is recognized somewhat, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein decries "the politics of fear [which] have brought us everything that we are afraid of," Peace and Freedom vice presidential candidate Cindy Sheehan gets arrested, and more.
Today, as Jeff Carlisle (ESPN) reports, the US women's soccer team won the gold medal, as NBC noted, it was their third Summer Olympics in a row to take home the gold in that event.
With three more days left for the London Summer Olympics, Ahmed al-Samarrai gets a little of the press attention. Who? In 2004 ESPN reported on Ahmed noting that he was in charge of Iraq's Olympics and had "survived an assassination attempt when attackers threw grenades and fired automatic weapons at his care in Baghdad after a roadside bomb failed to kill him." In February 2004, Sinomania noted on the election the month before of "63 year old former athlete Ahmed al-Samarrai" as president of the Iraq National Olympics Committee. Two years later, he would be in the news for a different reason. Alan Abrahamson (Los Angeles Times) reported Jully 19, 2006:
Al-Samarrai was kidnapped Saturday. He and his colleagues had been at a sports meeting at a cultural center in downtown Baghdad. In all, dozens were seized. Reports say they were taken by heavily armed men dressed in camouflage and police uniforms.
In May, meanwhile, 17 members of an Iraqi taekwondo squad, including four on the national team, were kidnapped on their way to Jordan, where they had hoped to obtain visas for a tournament in Las Vegas -- all 17 disappeared into the desert, with no word since. It remains unclear whether Rasheed was among them.
The head of the Iraqi taekwondo association, Jamal Abdul Karim, was among those kidnapped Saturday.
The abductions Saturday followed the killing Thursday of the Iraqi wrestling team's Sunni coach, shot dead in a Shiite district of Baghdad.
Of the dozens, 13 would eventually be released. Ahmed was not one of the ones released. In August 2008, Kim Gamel (AP) reported that Ahmed remained missing and that his "wife, Niran, who claims her Sunni husband was kidnapped at a time of sectarian violence and high-level government officials took little action. She alleges her husband was targeted because he resisted attempts to use the committee as a political forum." Niran spoke of the need for closure and for justice, for her husband and for the others who were kidnapped as well. Gamel observed that Niran "faults the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for failing to investigate the attack or to arrest any of the kidnappers." Niran stated, "They were abducting within al-Maliki's era. He is the prime minister. He's supposed to look after the people."
Today she tells Andrew Warshaw (Inside The Games), "Since 2006 not a single person from the Iraqi Government has helped me, the same Government who are still in power. It's simply obscene. I believe they know who was behind this. They couldn't push my husband out legally [Nouri wanted to remove Ahmed from the committee and the kidnappers told Ahmed he was an embarrassment to Nouri] so they did it by force. I have to believe Ahmed is still alive though maybe he has been tortured. I'm tired and scared with not knowing his fate after this savage crime. Somebody has to give us some hope. Some of the families of those kidnapped with my husband had new-born babies who have never seen their fathers. The IOC represents my last chance." She wants, as the BBC explains, for the International Olympic Committee to ask serious questions of Nouri's government about the kidnappings. If that is to happen, it will require public pressure. In 2010, Jacquelin Magnay (Telegraph of London) explained the official position by quoting the Association of National Olympic Committees President Mario Vasquez who declared that they were not interested in finding out what happened to Ahmad and the others, "It's not that we forget this issue, it's that we intentially do not want to deal with it. We deliberately do not want to discuss these matters or mention this to the ministers. They don't want to deal with this either, we come here to discuss sports matter and not matters related to violence. They are regrettable, of course."
On the issue of the Olympics, Saturday, KUNA noted that Tunisia's Oussam Mellouli (swimmer) and Iraq's Dana Abdul Razak (pictured above, competes in the 100 meter track event) were the only Arabs to make it through the heats and qualify for the first rounds in their competitions. And from there? Jim Caple (ESPN) reported the Friday first round,"Dana Abdul Razak lined up in Lane 2 at Olympic Stadium for Heat 5 in the first round of the women's 100-meter dash. Two lanes over, Allyson Felix planted her feet in the starting blocks. The starter's gun went off and the Iraqi runner burst down the track alongside America's most famous female sprinter. Abdul Razak finished last in the heat, losing to Felix by eight-tenths of a second, but that didn't matter much. Earlier in the day, the Iraqi had won her heat. She had raced with some of the world's best and she had advanced women's sports in her country." John Canzano (Oregonian) observed, "It wasn't lost on me that many of the sprinters around Abdul Razak in the mixed zone didn't grow up in a nation where being able to compete would even be a question. Also, with Allyson Felix of the U.S. coming through moments later after winning the heat and wearing the finest track and field gear to go with the best training/nutrition to go with a USA Track and Field handler who escorted her, I wondered about the vast disparity in resources available to athletes here." She now holds the record for Iraq in the 100-meter dash (11.91).
When Dana Abdul Razak first competed in the Summer Olympics it was 2008 and she was the only athlete from Iraq. This year she was one of eight at the Summer Olympics. She's part of a group of Iraqi athletes making steady progress. The other seven Iraqis competing in London were Ahmed Abdulkareem, Adnan Taess Akkar, Noor Amer al-Ameri, Mohanad Ahmed Dheyaa al-Azzawi, Safaa al-Jumaili, Rand al-Mashhadani and Ali Nadhim Salman Salman.
From London to Vietnam, on The Takeaway (PRI) today, environmental destruction was addressed.
John Hockenberry: Today the US started a clean up effort to deal with the effects of spraying millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant known as Agent Orange over jungle areas to destory enemy cover during the Vietnam War. In the almost 40 years since the war ended, Vietnam says several million people have been affected with up to 150,000 children born with severe birth defects because Agent Orange seeped into the water and soils.
US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear [audio clip]: The dixon in the ground here is a legacy of the painful past we share. But the project we undertake here today hand-in-hand with the Vietnamese is, as Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton said, "a sign of the hopeful future we are building together."
John Hockenberry: Speaking there that's US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear. He was at a ceremony today here in Danang where all of this is being kicked off. Joining us now is Susan Hammond Director of the War Legacies Project, joins us from Chester, Vermont. Susan Hammond, thank you for joining us.
Susan Hammond: Thank you for having me.
John Hockenberry: How much unfinished business do you say is here? It's more than just a clean up that begins today, yes?
Susan Hammond: It is. Well this is the first part of a multi-part problem. The fact that there is still dixon in several hot spots throughout Vietnam -- It's significant that the US is finally getting around to helping the Vietnamese clean this dioxin up. But there's also the longterm health effects in Vietnam that still need to be addressed.
John Hockenberry: And how would those be addressed? Separate treaties or is that a part of this agreement, it's just in a different stage?
Susan Hammond: No. At this point, it's -- the US has provided some limited funding for programs within the Danang area to provide services for children with disabilities though they do not say it's directly related to Agent Orange.
John Hockenberry: How much political interest is there on Capitol Hill to pursuing, you know, programs of recompense like this? As we know, there's a very, very strong lobby on the POW - MIA issue. I'm wondering if they go together on this or if they are opposed to this?
Susan Hammond: Uhm, most are not opposed. There are veterans with their own issues with Agent Orange, that they're labeling Congress but even many of the veterans are supportive of addressing this issue in Vietnam because they're facing it themselves in their own human health and their children's to some extent.
We'll note some of Ambassador David Shear's remarks:
Xin chao.
This morning we celebrate a historic milestone for our bilateral relationship.
Today's ceremony marks the start of a project between Vietnam's Ministry of National Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, to clean up dioxin contaminated soil and sediment at the airport left from the Vietnam War. Over the next few years, workers will dig up the contaminated soil and sediment and place it in a stockpile, where it will be treated using thermal desorption technology. This process uses high temperatures to break down the dioxin in the contaminated soil and make it safe by Vietnamese and U.S. standards for the many men, women, and children who live and work in this area.
We have worked together closely over many years in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation to reach this point. With Presidential and Congressional support from Washington, my Embassy has cooperated with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's Office 33 since its establishment in 1999 to coordinate Vietnam's policies and programs on Agent Orange. We've used annual meetings of the Joint Advisory Committee under the leadership of Office 33 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to seek science-based solutions to complex environmental and health issues related to Agent Orange.
As part of Vietnam's contribution to the cleanup, the Ministry of National Defense cleared unexploded ordinance from the airport site and will construct a power substation to supply electricity for the remediation process. We also greatly appreciate the strong commitment of other partners, including the Danang People's Committee and Airport Authorities, to the success of this project.
It is a historic moment. And it's several decades after the end of that conflict. What of Iraq?
Dropping back to the October 13, 2010 snapshot:
Alsumaria TV reported yesterday that the Adan school in northern Baghdad was one of the areas where cancer is breaking out at alarming rates and that the cancer is traced "to Dijla water pollution caused by wastes." Today they report that breast cancer cases remain high. Wastes in water again? Breast Cancer Society of Iraq [PDF format warning] surveyed Iraqi women and found that only 21% of conducted a self-exam for lumps. Last July, Democracy Now! (link has text, audio and video) addressed the rising cases of cancer in Falluja:
JUAN GONZALEZ: Patrick, I'd like to ask you about this whole other issue of the report on -- by Chris Busby and some other epidemiologists about the situation in Fallujah and the enormous increases in leukemias and cancers in Fallujah after
the US soldiers' attack on that city. Could you talk about that?
PATRICK COCKBURN: Sure. I think what's significant, very significant, about this study is that it confirms lots of anecdotal evidence that there had been a serious increase in cancer, in babies being born deformed, I mean, sometimes with --grotesquely so, babies -- you know, a baby girl born with two heads, you know, people born without limbs, then a whole range of cancers increased enormously. That this was -- when I was in Fallujah, doctors would talk about this, but, you know one couldn't -- one could write about this, but one couldn't really prove it from anecdotal evidence. Now this is a study, a scientific study, based on interviews with 4,800 people, which gives -- proves that this was in fact happening and is happening. And, of course, it took -- you know, it has taken
place so much later than the siege of Fallujah, when it was heavily
bombarded in 2004 by the US military, because previously, you know, Fallujah
is such a dangerous place to this day, difficult to carry out a survey, but it's
been finally done, and the results are pretty extraordinary.
AMY GOODMAN: What were the various weapons that were used in the
bombing of Fallujah in 2004?
PATRICK COCKBURN: Well, primarily, it was sort of, you know, artillery and bombing. Initially it was denied that white phosphorus had been used, but later this was confirmed. I think one shouldn't lose sight of the fact, in this case, that before one thinks about was depleted uranium used and other things, that just simply the use of high -- large quantities of high explosives in a city filled with civilians and people packed into houses -- often you find, you know, whole
families living in one room -- was, in itself, going to create, lead to very, very
high civilian casualties. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're
talking about the increase in cancers and so forth, and the suspicion that maybe depleted uranium, maybe some other weapon, which we don't know about -- this is not my speculation, but of one of the professors who carried out the study -- might have been employed in Fallujah, and that would be an explanation for results which parallel, in fact exceed, the illnesses subsequently suffered by survivors of Hiroshima.
The study referred to is by Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi and is [PDF format warning] entitled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009" (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health).
The damage caused by the US government's decision to use harmful chemicals in Vietnam gets some US government recognition today. When does that same recognition arrive for Iraq?
Prashant Rao (AFP) reported yesterday on Falluja General Hospital where, last month, 4 American nurses and 2 American doctors helped with the opening of a cardiac catheterisation lab nearly eight years after the November 2004 assault on the city in which various weapons -- some banned -- were used resulting in birth defects -- continued birth defects in Iraq. He notes:
Medics and officials in Fallujah, however, including hospital director Lawas, have no doubt the defects have been caused by the US forces' alleged use of depleted uranium rounds in 2004.
"Fallujah has seen many wars, and it was attacked twice by American troops, and many weapons were used in this city," said Lawas. "We think that there is a link between those weapons and the diseases."
Al Rafidayn reports Nouri's spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh states that the political blocs met with Nouri yesterday but there was no agreement reached. al-Dabbagh also attempted to justify to the press Iraq's lousy treatment of the Syrian refugees (the refugees are apparently treated well in the KRG -- the UN has visited those camps and reported to the Security Council on those camps, I'm not referring to the KRG treatment, I'm referring to Baghad housing the refugees in abandoned buildings and refusing to allow them mobility). And he yet again denied that there were any secret prisons in Iraq.
Ayad al-Tamimi (Al Mada) reports that the election law is still bottled up in Parliament with no forward movement. State of Law Mp Abbas al-Bayati states that they are a long way off from resolving various issues about the proposed law. AKnews notes Martin Kobler, UN Secertary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy to Iraq, expressed dismay at the start of the week over this delay that he dubbed a "threat to democracy."
July 19th, Kobler appeared before the UN Security Council and stated:
As we speak, my political deputy, Mr. [Gyorgy Busztin], is engaged in facilitation efforts to bring about the formation of a new, Independent High Election Commission which is representative of the main components of Iraq -- including women and children and minorities. The urgent selection of the commissioners is essential for ensuring that the provincial council elections due to take place in March 2013 can be conducted on time. I'm concerned that the ongoing political stalemate is hindering the process however. In recent days, I have discussed with political leaders -- including Prime Minister al-Maliki -- the need for a swfit conclusion of this political process and the need for an adequate representation of women and minorities in the commission. Today, I would like to re-iterate my appeal to all political blocs to expedite the selection of professional commissioners. UNAMI stands here ready to actively assist.
Tuesday came news that Parliament thought they'd arrived at a stop-gap measure: they'd tack on 35 days to the current Electoral Commission. AK News quotes the Chair of the Electoral Commission Faraj al-Haidari stating, "A new board of commissioners was supposed to be formed because the delay creates confusion. The required period to complete the commission's procedures after the ratification of the election law and the budget according to international standards is six months. Until now the law is not published in the official newspaper and the budget hasn't yet arrived."
On electoral laws, Mustafa Habib (niqash) reports:
Last week, the Iraqi parliament approved a law that many, including the country's highest court, say is unconstitutional.
What MPs did was approve amendments to a law regulating how provincial elections are decided. Provincial elections are due to be held in April 2013. They will be governed by the provincial election law 36, passed in 2008 and upon which the 2009 provincial elections were based.
But in 2009 there were conflicts about electoral districts and minority representation and this was what led to calls for a revision of the law. A parliamentary committee was formed to look into the matter.
"The law contains many violations and irregularities," Ziad al-Thari, a member of the committee tasked with amending the law, says. "These affected the 2009 elections and that's why we needed to amend this law. However all the efforts made by the regions and provinces committee to introduce major amendments to the law over the last year have failed. And mainly this has been because of the conflicts between the different political blocs."
As a result, an amended version of the electoral law was only passed into law by the Iraqi parliament on August 2.
And what is causing conflict now is a part of the revised electoral law which says that if some parties don't get enough votes to make any difference to them, the votes they did get will be given to bigger parties. In 2009 this led to a lack of representation for many smaller Iraqi parties.
Well it would appear Barack Obama and Bully Boy Bush conveyed the importance of eliminating other parties to ensure dominance and corruption. In the US there are many third party and independent candidates making a run for the presidency. We're following two. Jill Stein has the Green Party's presidential nomination and her running mate is Cheri Honkala. Roseanne Barr has the nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party and her running mate is Cindy Sheehan. Rob Kall (OpEdNews) interviewed Dr. Jill Stein yesterday and we'll again note that audio interview:
Jill Stein: It is very important, I think, that we stand up and we vote with our feet and we vote with our votes and we not bow to the disinformation campaigns and the propaganda that tells us that we better just be good little boys and girls and let them call the shots and that silence is the best political strategy. You know, this is the time to reject that politics of fear and to recognize he politics of fear which has told us to be quiet, that we've got to just vote for the lesser evil. The politics of fear have brough us everything that we are afraid of: The massive bailouts for Wall Street, the expanding war for oil, the declining wages for workers, the offshoring of our jobs. This president is negotiating the latest free trade agreement which is like NAFTA on steroids -- the attack on our civil liberties in which President Obama co-signed all the violations of George W. Bush and then took it further to where he can not only throw anybody in jail for whatever his pleasure is, you know, he doesn't have to justify it or even tell anybody, need not accuse you of any crime or try you before a jury. You know, he has the power of indefinite detention including the power of assassination. So it's just staggering how our civil liberties are being stripped from us. We cannot afford to sit back and let this happen. He sabotaged the international accord on climate so that there will not be an agreement until after 2020 when it is too late. The science is telling us now that it was too optimistic. It's going to be far worse. It is far worse already than the worst models predicted. And that - that model said if we haven't made substantial progress before 2020, we're basically going up into flames. It's not like the climate goes through some limited change and then it's in a new, steady state. It never gets to a steady state. It moves into temperature acceleration. That's not okay. That's not compatible with life, let alone compatible with an economy or civilization as we know it. The politics of fear have brought us everything that we are afraid of. It is time to reject that propaganda campaign -- bought and paid for by Wall Street and corporate America. It's time to reject the politics of fear and stand up with the politics of courage and move forward now with the solutions that will actually fix this problem, that will provide the jobs that will stabilize the climate, that can create health care and education, for that matter, as a human right, that will downsize the military and rightsize the military, that will tax the rich and ensure that we have the resources to do it. We do have the resources. We're just running out of time. The clock is ticking. So be afraid of passivity, be afraid of being co-opted, be afraid of being betrayed. But do not be afraid of yourself and that we are the ones we have been waiting for and we need to move this forward in a hurry.
16 people were arrested yesterday as they protested the nuclear Bangor Trident Sub Base. One of the sixteen was Cindy Sheehan:
Peace activists lined the roadside with anti-nuke signs, banners and a full-scale inflatable Trident II D-5 ballistic missile. Around 7:00 am Peacekeepers from Ground Zero entered the road to safely stop incoming traffic. Three activists entered the roadway carrying a banner with the message "Abolish Nuclear Weapons." Washington State Patrol officers escorted the protestors to the median for processing.
Almost immediately, another group of activists entered the roadway with a banner bearing the message "Give Peace a Chance. No, Seriously." As they were being removed from the roadway two more groups carried banners calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons onto the roadway in the same sequence and were subsequently removed. Traffic entering the base was stopped continuously until all protestors were cleared from the roadway.
A total of 16 persons engaged in the blockade. All were issued citations at the scene for "Walking on roadway where prohibited" and released. Those cited were Tom Rogers, Poulsbo, WA; Cindy Sheehan, Vacaville, CA; Marion Ward, Vancouver, WA; Michael Siptroth, Belfair, WA; Mal Chaddock, Portland, OR; Ann Havill, Bend, OR; Betsy Lamb, Bend, OR; Bernie Meyer, Olympia, WA; Leonard Eiger, North Bend, WA; Constance Mears, Poulsbo, WA; Gordon Sturrock, Eugene, OR; Brenda McMillan, Port Townsend, WA; Mack Johnson, Silverdale, WA; Gilberto Z Perez, Bainbridge Island, WA; George W Rodkey, Tacoma, WA and Elizabeth Murray, Bellingham, WA.
There are many candidates running for the Oval Office. We're noting Jill and Cheri and Roseanne and Cindy. Why? They're independent runs and they're peace candidates. In addition, they are women. One of the saddest things about 2008 is how so many women and feminist outlets silenced themselves -- politics of fear! -- and refused to cover the women in the race (Cynthia McKinney was running for president on the Green Party ticket, Rosa Clemente was her running mate; Sarah Palin was John McCain's running mate on the Republican Party ticket). You didn't have to like them, you didn't have to say you'd vote for one of them but if you are, for example, Feminist Wire Daily, I think we have the right to expect that you will cover runs for the presidency by women. Your failure to do so not only embarrassed and shamed you in 2008, it continues to and that will always be the case. 100 years from now, someone will ask, "Well did Feminist Majority Foundation or Women's Media Center at least have one kind word for Sarah Palin on some area? The woman wasn't Adolf Hitler. Surely a feminist could be counted on to say at least one thing nice even if they weren't going to vote for her. I mean Ralph Nader even noted she was the only candidate with executive branch experience so surely feminist outlets were able to disagree with her on some issues but to find one positive statement about her, right?" Wrong. And on disagree, Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr are both strong women. They want votes. I'm not going to hold them to a different standard than I would male politicians. Meaning, if they hit hard, even at each other, that's politics. It's great that we've got four women on two tickets this year. That's something to celebrate. And all four are strong women. I can't imagine the kind of internal shame of your gender you'd have to have in order to be silent on these four women and their campaigns.


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Many of you that frequent this area will recognize me as the newest, but perhaps lately most active moderator of this forum. You may have also noticed that there hasn't been much movement around here for a little while. That has been due to the transition that has been underway in the leadership of this site. In case you haven't heard, you can find out about that here.
I wanted to thank all of you active contributors for helping us shape and refine the suggestions that are currently going through the long and sometimes disheartening suggestions process. The users that contribute ideas, critique those ideas, and (more mundanely) help me sort through all of the suggestions and find similar previous topics have made my time here enjoyable and easier. Thank you.
For those of you that have discovered this forum as a result of the Revolution post linked to above, I say: Welcome! Site improvements do not always go through this process, but if you look at hundreds of suggestions that have been IMPLEMENTED, you will see that many, many site improvements do come from here.
But ... the process does certainly have its problems, as many users have pointed out in the past. I will address some of those, but first, I'd like to give folks an idea of what happens here in an ideal situation.
First, a user stops by either to make a suggestion. The "advanced search" function in the upper right corner of the screen can usually lead you to a discussion of some of the more commonly suggested features. New users may also want to briefly check out the Stickies, the Submitted Suggestions and the Stickies in the Archived Rejected Suggestions for some of the more commonly suggested ideas.
If an idea is truly novel, the user posts their idea using the New Topic button and following the form that is provided. If the idea turns out not to be as novel, usually someone will point it out and it ends up getting merged with a like topic where the relevant discussion can be found.
From there, other users comment on and critique the idea. Sometimes folks just stop by to say that they like or dislike the idea. While everyone appreciates a little bit of a glimpse into the reasoning behind the like/dislike, these short posts do help gauge how desirable the feature is. Other users will point out flaws or improvements.
It is not required that the original poster (OP) stick around to keep the topic alive, but it certainly helps. In my time here, I've asked that at least one user be able to keep on top of the idea and hone it into a better form before it moves very far. I figure if we can't find one person who is willing to stay on top of the discussion, then the feature probably isn't a big deal for the rest of the 15,000 users that are out there. The moderators, like myself, are able to edit the first post of a topic with new information, but most likely won't take the time to do all that work ourselves if there aren't many people that really want something implemented. In the best situation, the OP sticks around and incorporates improvements and fixes flaws over the course of the suggestion.
If a suggestion starts to receive a groundswell of support, then it is usually STICKIED to draw more attention to the idea. From there, if it can be further refined and continues to receive support it gets SUBMITTED. Finally, if it is feasible and the site Administrators are willing, the suggestion will get IMPLEMENTED.
This process can take a lot of time, unfortunately. My goals for this section of the site under the new leadership are:
- To streamline this process
- To increase communication between users and admin via the moderators here
- To organize the old suggestions to make it easier for users to find relevant material regarding their suggestions
I figure it would be a good idea to let you all comment on what you'd like to see done around the Suggestions forum. So, this is an open thread to all of you frequent and new visitors to this section of the site. On behalf of the suggestions team, we welcome your feedback and look forward to playing our part in improving your experience on Conquer Club.
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Late last week, Oracle announced it would no longer be developing the Ruby on Rails (RoR) plugin for the NetBeans IDE. To be explicit, Ruby and RoR will no longer be included in the upcoming v. 7 release of NetBeans. There are two ways to look at this: It's overdue, or it's another symptom of Oracle's cavalier view of open-source projects. I tend to lean more towards the former.
I've closely followed the Java IDE market for years. Not only as a Jolt judge, but as a reviewer. During the last six years, I have written several long, comparative reviews of the major Java IDEs, including one just a few months ago. In these reviews, my consistent perception was that NetBeans was the best of the free OSS products. It was faster and more friendly than Eclipse and Oracle's JDeveloper, and it had good support for a broad range of languages. I also liked Sun's commitment to the product. After badly neglecting the Java IDE space, five years ago, Sun decided to get back into the game and convert NetBeans from an also-ran into a contender. It rewrote the editing module and then added a whole array of features. One of those was support for Ruby and RoR. If I recall correctly, it was the first of the Java IDEs to support Ruby. And it did so quite well. (At the time, I was surprised that Sun chose Ruby, rather than Groovy. The product-marketing manager at that time made it clear the decision was based solely on popularity — RoR was really taking off then.)
Today, however, Ruby enjoys several excellent IDEs, some of which(say, JetBrain's RubyMine) are dedicated Ruby environments. While NetBeans still has very good RoR v. 2.x support, it seems increasingly unlikely that someone would opt to use a Java IDE to do Ruby development. (This argument is undermined somewhat by JRuby, which is best served by precisely such a hybrid platform.) Moreover, the Ruby community inside NetBeans has been steadily dwindling. Prior to the announcement, only 15 threads were posted to the mailing list this month, of which roughly half did not receive an answer. One query was the deadly "Is this project still alive?" post.
Part of the problem is that one of the lead programmers behind the Ruby support is Erno Mononen, a Finn programmer (recall NetBeans' core team is Czech) who, after working at Sun and Oracle, has moved to a Finnish IT consultancy. None of this augured well for the IDE.
The breaking point came when NetBeans v. 6.9 could not run RoR 3.0 correctly. At this point, I believe, Oracle declined to tie up one or more developers to learn the plugin's codebase and make the fixes that would keep RoR on NetBeans moving forward. In light of the decreasing usage, this seems like a reasonable decision. Further contributing to the decision may be the fact that RoR is hardly a target market for Oracle, so there was no strategic goal under which such an expenditure could be justified.
The question that disturbs me more, however, is what other parts of NetBeans might be sheared off in the future? The question is hard to answer. Oracle's minimally forthcoming attitude about OSS plans makes it difficult to assess. However, the company did keep NetBeans going, even though it has its own IDE in JDeveloper and maintains a separate Eclipse package. And, indeed, Oracle is underwriting the upcoming v. 7.0 release of NetBeans. So, it has certainly not been resistant to the project's progress.
But there is a cost to the decision beyond loss of the Ruby aficionados. This is not the first time NetBeans has lost an important feature. Last year, support for UML modeling was removed. Now Ruby. The question of what else might be excised is important along one central vector: adoption by new users. Committing to a new IDE is a significant undertaking — from learning how the environment views projects and components, to muscle memory of new keystroke combinations. To induce developers to make this commitment to a new product, they must believe that features that attracted them will remain in the product, if not improved in subsequent releases. Without this, an IDE risks slipping progressively into irrelevance.
(Update: This story originally reported incorrectly that Erno Mononen was Czech.)


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The Council's Water Resources Policy Plan is intended to help
ensure the "coordinated, orderly and economical development" of the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minn. Stat. Sec 473.851).
The Council's commitment to environmental stewardship is translated from the Water Policy Plan through Surface Water Management implementation strategies:
Reduce "nonpoint" and "point" source pollution into receiving waters.
Decrease stormwater runoff.
Partner with state, federal, and local units of government.
Work with stakeholders to promote protection of water bodies.
Decrease adverse impact on water quality in the region.
Develop target pollution loads for the major watershed basins.
Progress toward achieving any water quality goal cannot be assessed without good data that measures change. The Council conducts special studies that look at aspects of water quality management and has an active database (Environmental Monitoring Data, known as EIMS) available to provide reports, condition assessments and trending. The Council:
"The quality of the water leaving the metropolitan area is as good as the water quality entering the metropolitan area, and in compliance with federal and state regulations."
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Abstract: This dissertation examines dynamic processes between human actors and technology that encourage institutional change displayed as the emergence of new work practices. The research design is a micro-level analysis of a case study, conducted in 2002 in London at Financial Times under the headline of the co-evolution of institutions and technology. The study seeks to contribute to neo-institutional theory with a more profound understanding of how institutional embedded actors generate new institutional work practices when they interact with new technology. Two work practices have been studied; the work practice of surveillance and the work practice of publishing. These have been observed and studied as they were unfolding themselves at ft.com at Financial Times. The actions of journalists working at ft.com has been the empirical locus of the micro dynamic processes of changes of otherwise well defined and taken-for-granted institutionalized work practices The findings specify how the micro-dynamic mechanisms of change of work practices is related to the interaction of human actors with new technology. The study of how individual human actors institute changes to established work practices through a process of endogenization of technology is the basis for a better understanding of institutional change and its relation to human actors and their use of new technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7740
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Arrozcaldo is derived from the spanish word "Arroz" which means rice and "Caldo" which means soup. In the Philippines you can find it almost everywhere, it's nice to have it for breakfast and in a cold rainy afternoon.
Onboard, I always try my best to serve it during bad and nasty weather. When the sea is so rough and our ship is rolling and pitching like the "Anchor's Away Ride" on the theme parks. It is really hard to prefer a meal on a rocky weather and not every crew can digest normal food at this situation. Arrozcaldo is the best food to serve on this kind of day, it is easy to digest and a complete meal in a single bowl. Eating onboard a ship on a bad weather needs extra skill. You need to hold your plate/bowl and clip it on the table and on the other hand is your spoon or fork, while both of your feet are holding tightly on the floor and your body swaying like tree branches in the breeze.
Now on with the cooking…
Prep. time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Makes 5 liters of soup
Good for 12 crew
You will need;
200 grms. (1 cup) sticky "glutinous" rice {Malagkit}
200 grms. (1 cup) white rice
water enough to soak the rice.
500 grms. chicken, cut into bite pieces
4 Tbsp. cooking oil or olive oil
8 cloves garlic, crushed and finely chopped
2 thumbsize (@100 grms.) ginger, peeled and finely chopped
1 med. (150 grms.) onion, finely chopped
4 Tbsp. fish sauce {Patis} or 2 chicken cubes
5 ltrs. soup stock {boiled chicken,pork and vegetable trimmings}
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste or #Seasonin
1/2 cup freshly chopped spring onions
12 cloves garlic, crushed and finely chopped then fried until golden brown.
Boiled eggs (optional) {Learn how to boil eggs HERE!}
Wash and soak the sticky rice and white rice together for 15 minutes.
While the rice is soaking, prepare all the required ingredients.
Heat a large soup pot on a very high heat. Saute garlic, ginger and onions in oil until fragrant and onion is translucent. Add the chicken and stir, pour in the fish sauce. Stir and cover the soup pot for a minute. Drain the water of the soaked rice and add to the soup pot. Stir for a couple of minutes, avoiding the rice to stick to the bottom of the pot. Pour in the "Caldo" soup stock. Bring the soup to boil, Cover the pot and lower heat to simmer for 30 minutes or until chicken and rice are cooked. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper to taste or #Seasonin. Keep the soup warm until serving.
Prepare the garnishing. Add the freshly chopped spring onions. Fry the garlic until golden brown, add to the Arrozcaldo. Top with sliced boiled eggs.
Enjoy your meal!!! 😉
Here's how I do it;
While the rice is soaking, prepare all the required ingredients.
Prepare the garnishing.
Thanks alot for spending your precious time on my blog and hope this recipe encourage
you to try cooking some Arrozcaldo at home or onboard.
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It has been some time since I last did an update about this amazing, highly (scarily) intelligent boy. Loki's followers get thier updates on his FB page: I hope you will follow him there.
Summer has finally arrived in the Northwest Territories and of course we are all enjoying this long awaited time. Longer day,s higher temps and hours upon hours of daylight. The birds are singing, the wild roses are in bloom, the Boreal Forest is thick and lush and the skies, the most amazing and the clearest of blue.
Winters here are too long, too cold and too harsh. Temperatures are brutal, the winds off the Great Slave Lake are fierce and chilling. One thing, if it is extremely cold, we do not get that much snow. A small gift of the heavens to compensate for the extreme and lengthy hours of darkness we experience during winter.
LOKI has been in the family now since September 27, 2013 and this amazing fellow, and I must again stress his high intelligence, has settled into his new family and home life. I did not have to housebreak him, leash train him or go through the normal training exercises associated with adding a new family member. He did all of this totally on his own. What we, mom and I, as his new family did do was give to him a great deal of love, patience, respect and trust. From the moment he entered my home he was and still continues to be the perfect gentleman.
This recent video:
shows this happy boy enjoying one of our many evening walks, just look at that tail folks!!
Here you can see us sitting by the river, enjoying the daylight, this pic was taken around 9:30 p.m.
I invite all of you to become his followers, so that you can keep up on his photos, videos and his Blog. Just go to his FB page. Feel free to submit photos of your furballs so I can add to the growing Friends of Loki album.
This is a picture of Bonnie C and China, China is the love of Loki's life and he "oofs" every time he sees her, China in turn "yodels".
Always the perfect gentleman in the house.
From the once skittish pup:
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Yes, I have a muffin top addiction. Excuse me while I continue to eat these with my coffee. See, this is what happens when a new piece of baking equipment enters your life. At least when it enters MY life. I get addicted to using it.
But, you all get to reap the benefits too! You get to drool over these muffin tops and get inspired to make your own. Right?
Swim season started back up this week for us. Which means these muffins get gobbled up day and night. And just so you know, they freeze very very well! Triple the batch and stick the extras in the freezer. It will be worth the extra little bit of effort. Honest.
Blueberry Muffin Tops
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup blueberries
- 2 Tbsp coarse sugar (I used sugar in the raw)
- In large mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar until fluffy (about 3 minutes). Add eggs, one at a time. Add in vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Add buttermilk.
- Fold in blueberries.
- Fill cavities of muffin top pan 1/2 full (DO NOT OVERFILL). Bake in a 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes. Remove, cool, and enjoy.


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Solutions for Creating and Scrapbooking Panoramic Photos
If you have scenic photos from the beautiful places you've been but aren't sure how to include them in your scrapbooks, we have some ideas to help.
Scenic photos are integral to telling the complete story of our travels. Although a photo can't completely capture the wonder and awe of actually experiencing the scenery, we can come a little closer to capturing the breathtaking view with a panoramic photo.
Panaramics offer a wider view in a more dramatic composition. Whether your camera has a panoramic mode or you take separate photos and stitch them together, using panoramic photos on your scrapbook pages is an easy way to preserve those amazing scenic views.
Vistas of Sedona by Lisa VanderVeen. Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup and Karen Foster Design; Trim: Making Memories; Stickers: My Mind's Eye and Pink Paislee; Die cuts and journaling spots: Studio Calico; Rub-on: Studio Calico; Punch: Fiskars Americas; Pen: Bic; Other: Adhesive.
Tape photos together to create a panoramic
While using software to digitally stitch individual photos together is ideal, it isn't the only way to create beautiful panoramic images, as Lisa VanderVeen shows us. Lisa simply printed her photos, lined up the images, and taped them together.
Caption: Original series of photos.
To include more photos on a page, create panoramics with just two photos, or after you create your panoramic with three or more photos, simply crop the length. Lisa used this technique and was able to include two panoramic photos on her page, which gives the viewer a more complete view of the beautiful rock formations.
Panoramic Photo Tip: For more seamless panoramic photos, use photo editing software to adjust the color and lighting in each photo so that they match before you print them.
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