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Interview, Open ComponentAugust 19, 2003
DMXZone publishes an interview with yours truly (goofy head shot and all), and thoughts on rich-text web-based editors.
All things considered, I think my photo came out okay. That's right, I got the DMXZone treatment that we're all coming to know and love.
Bruce Lawson asked some great questions, and I think I managed to give some rather thoughtful answers in my interview. Go read a few scattered thoughts on coding CSS, the on-going success of the Zen Garden, and Comic Sans MS. Meanwhile, Molly may be over-doing it just a tad, but colour me flattered. §
A recurring thought of mine that might be worth consideration, if you're a coder: there exists a graphical, rich-text editing component by a certain software giant out of Redmond that comes bundled with its flagship browser. This component has caught on like wildfire thanks to its price and universality. Many large-scale content management systems, weblog tools, and other web-based applications use the component to allow a familiar Word-like editor for their, well, less-than-technical clientele.
The problem with this component is that no matter how well-intentioned a page author is, they are shackled by the markup that it spits out. And it's ugly. Oh, is it ugly. <FONT> tags, unquoted attributes, the whole nine yards.
Alternatives exist that allow customization of the code, but they're pricey and can't compete with a free component in this space. A CMS vendor already charges a certain price; adding an extra $159 per license just for an editor is not an option.
It occurs to me that an open-source, hackable version of this component would be an incredibly Good Thing for broader standards adoption. Offering it free for commercial purposes would ensure consideration, and if it were easily hackable for custom purposes, it might be integrated in a heartbeat by a huge number of very expensive and well-deployed software systems.
I can't give you any leads for Google. I don't know what the component is called, and I can't remember who provides alternatives. I'm sure someone reading this site knows what I'm talking about and can fill in that gap. My point however is to say that if an open alternative existed, a lot of people would be very happy, and the creator might see a very large amount of indirect benefit as a result. It's just a thought. §
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I've got a structural XHTML editor for IE using the built-in editing, tried and tested, with a nice interface and modular features… but it was developed at my day job so I can't give it away. Bah.
One thing we've found is that document structure can be clearly & unambiguously displayed with careful use of borders and backgrounds. For example, blockquotes have a border and a quotes 'watermark' background, a level 2 heading has a background tint and a subtle '2' in the top-right.
The biggest training challenge is getting people to let go of control over presentation, Word has encouraged bodging for years now and some users struggle to grasp even the idea of headings.
Just to throw in my two cents on htmlArea mentioned above, in IE it spits out ugly markup, although I haven't tried hacking at it to change that. A run through tidy (http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/), followed by a few server-side regular expressions might do the trick. Version 3.0 (beta right now) will work in the latest Firebird, and *that* generates code that I can best describe as "leaps and bounds above IE's editor but still in need of a good scrubbing".
I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, but Textism has a semi-solution. It's not too user-friendly I guess, but a ton of people use it apparently: http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.html
And Dave, please don't check the site at the end of my email address…it looks horrible and I'm redesigning it. :)
will the shea shutter in the limelight? ;0)
I wanted to try to be helpful and post some links, but I've pondered the same question.
Are there open WYSIWYG editors? - yes.
Do they spit out prettier source than our friends in Redmond? - sort of.
Daniel Glazman is developing a stand-alone version of Mozilla Composer, and he is also responsible for the CaScadeS style sheet editor that is currently part of composer.
The generated markup is better here, but still, you may have occassions when editing is necessary.
Then, there is TopStyle for nice CSS editing with previewing, etc that you can use for free (the Lite version).
Macromedia Homesite integrates well with TopStyle.
But as for an open editor that does a good job, I'd be interested as well to see if anyone comes up with something here.
As for me, I used to write all my sites in vim before I switched to movable type. This crazy template stuff is a little frustrating. Rebuilding all the time is a pain.
Hope some of that was useful.
on a web where people do a lot of talking about stuff, mr. dave is actually throwing out these new ideas, whether or not they are adopted by others. that's cool. i wish more people had that sort of passion right now. my fellow design students don't even have that kind of passion. where can i pick up some of that?
In fact, I partially blame rebuilding movabletype for my sluggish-ness in getting my website looking cool again. The front page is a little better now, but I still want to do so much more.
Let me clarify a little - I'm not talking stand-alone apps, but an embeddable component that can live on a web server. If you've got a Hotmail account, log in with IE (important that you run it in IE) and compose a new message. From the drop-down, turn on the Rich-Text editor. That's the component; it's a front-end for a built-in IE-only ActiveX control.
It's that kind of embeddability (if that's even a word) that I have in mind.
There is some work being done for Mozilla ActiveX support. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm ironically enough.
But, if you're looking for something a little more cross-platform than ActiveX, a little project called netWindows http://www.netwindows.org/ (they are currently redesigning the site) has a widget library that perhaps could be extended to do something like this. They may even have the beginnings of an editor by now. It's been a while since I was involved with the project.
I've also seen some editors like what you're talking about somewhere, but I unfortunately don't remember where.
Drop what you're doing and go check out http://www.dynarch.com/htmlarea/ . It's free, has some kickass features, and generates decent markup. The spell checker is incredibly useful too. :) We're considering adapting this tool for WordPress, basically taking out some of the options that wouldn't be useful to most blog posts and cleaning up small things like changing <b> to <strong>, etc. Let me know what you think.
Matt - yes, exactly! I think I've even seen this one before. Now how's the hackability? By default it's spitting out bad code.
Kevin - I believe the Mozilla ActiveX control is also similar. The Hotmail example I gave relies on the IE API, but I believe the editing components sit on top of it separately. So once Mozilla has the control, the extra editing features will need to be built (or ported from an existing IE editor)
there are a few cross-browser DHTML attempts at a WYSIWYG component (Moz/IE), but i havent come across one that's OSS, free, and spits out nicely formatted (X)HTML code… and i'll be damned if i drop $200(+) on a dhtml/wysiwyg editor,
like eWebEditPro: http://www.ektron.com/ewebeditpro.cfm
many have complained about Moz's lack of "contentEditable" or "designMode" support for years, but Mozilla 1.4+ and now Firebird 0.6.1 support a version of it, entitled Midas:
personally, i think it's awesome to read this here on mezzoblue ;)
Sorry to keep posting so much, but you've got me intrigued.
There's a few interesting things.
oh sweet, forgot about HTMLArea!
/bookmarks it… again :)
Maybe this is the cross-browser rich text editor with nice markup that you're looking for?
Works great using vanilla firebird 6.
Since I'm not doing anything better with my homepage, I thought I might put up an example of the "modified" HTMLAREA that I've hacking up.
It works in IE5.5+ and Mozilla (1.3+ I think). It'll turn out pretty decent xhtml, but it does have issues, like the FONT tag (you can limit what a user is actually allowed to do by modifying the javascript). The image uploading and file management is my own little ASP modification/add-on.
For a guy wearning a red and black cape, you actually manage to look half decent.
"you know, it's good to be intimidated by other people's work. It gives you something to shoot for." - Personally, I find this statement ironic comming from YOU.
thx Lloyd! that's a great link, man :)
/bookmarks that one, too
bryan, are you planning on making your changes publically available? looks awesome, man
Just as a note, there is a COM version of HTMLTidy, which can be used to clean up the output of the MS ActiveX component, pretty much automatically, and spit out validating XHTML. I was using this for a while, and while the object appears to no longer be in development, it will at least clean up font tags, lowercase the tags and attributes, etc, etc.
For those true super-geeks, writing some Regular Expressions to clean up HTML is actually fairly straight forward - again, the less HTML to deal with, the easier it is, but for most CMS systems using the MS ActiveX box, it spits out highly predictable garbage, which makes it easy enough to clean up, leaving beautiful code behind.
Of course, it still doesn't sold the cross-browser issue, but it looks like previous posters have that covered.
I guess I could make it available. Never really thought anyone would have a use for it. I guess I should comment the code before I start zipping…
These guys show you how to build your own…
This example is IE only though.
Free (as in speech) web browser-based HTML editors? There's lots of those on SourceForge, in various stages of usability.
Go to http://sourceforge.net/search/ , enter "HTML editor" in the text box, select "Require All Words" and hit "Search". You'll get a bunch of stand-alone programs too, but also many a browser-based editor, ranging from DHTML to IE and Java solutions.
http://www.editize.com - not free, but cheap enough (and spits out clean xhtml, fully customisable, with APIs for various server-side languages + one for JS)
on the free side, i've had decent enough results with Ekit http://sourceforge.net/projects/ekit/
Someone else mentioned this but I want to give it another plug.
Version 3.0 is being developed by Mihai Bazon (Mishoo) and will be cross platform well, IE and Mozilla anyway.
Sponsor: http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/
Demo: http://dynarch.com/mishoo/htmlarea.epl
Dev Site: http://dynarch.com/htmlarea/
The Dev Site has a list of features which include:
+ Customisable toolbar (ie disable font/colours etc)
+ Plugin API
- Spellchecker plugin (requires server side support)
- Table Plugin
From reading Mishoo's blog http://dynarch.com/mishoo/ I get the feeling that he works with standards in mind. Look at the DHTML calendar widget on his site for a flavour of his work
DShea, You mention in the interview that you've got something against Vietnamese coffee? It can't be that it's not strong enough, cause the stuff's potent. What's the story?
Lloyd and foo,
The kevin roth example is really good and easy to implement and customize (toolbar wise)…however it is still based soley off the M$ API, resulting in horrific code.
But as suggested, I would assume most of the developers implementing these editors have easily created "Clean up code" that would change the tags available to the users and ensure proper xhtml markup (or at least as close as possible).
Adam - the link in the interview explains it far better than I ever could, but short summary is that Vietnamese robusta has flooded the market. It's garbage coffee that sells at incredibly low prices, so the coffee farmers in Africa and South America producing good beans (arabica) can't compete. They're starving as a result.
Basically, I support Fair Trade coffee, and despise the trade practices of the Big Four mentioned.
It's a political thing, but also a quality thing. If the situation continues, in 5 to 10 years coffee quality worldwide is going to be incredibly poor thanks to bankrupt farmers.


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A 6-year-old boy was suspended from an elementary school in Maryland for forming his fingers into a gun and saying "pow," according to UPI.
In a disciplinary letter to the parents, the boy's actions were described as a threat "to shoot a student."
The unnamed boy was suspended from Roscoe Nix Elementary School for one day, Dec. 21, and his parents are taking legal action against Montgomery County School District.
Robin Ficker, the attorney hired by the family, told the Washington Post that the boy "had no intention to shoot anyone," She added that the boy is "skinny and meek. In his words, he was playing."
Ficker suspects the suspension is a reaction to the tragic Newtown shooting as schools across the country are questioning their policies, tightening rules and asking how they can prevent similar situations from happening on their grounds. But Ficker feels that the school's decision was unfair and that their interpretation of the incident will harm the boy's reputation.
"They took the worst possible interpretation of this little child's actions, and five years from now, if he gets into a tussle, they're going to look back and say, 'This is one bad little kid,' " Ficker told the Washington Post.
Montgomery schools spokesman Dana Tofig said in a statement that the suspension "the suspension "was not a knee-jerk reaction to a single incident," according to the Washington Post.
In the school's letter to the parents assistant principal Renee Garraway wrote that the boy had demonstrated similar behavior in the past and the school had spoken to him about it.
Was this young boy unfairly suspended from school?
We can't have a strong opinion because we don't have all the facts and we don't know about the boy's past behavior, which the school can't legally reveal. But considering the details revealed by the lawyer, it seems like the school might be overreacting.
Most any parent of a boy has witnessed their sweet, cherub-faced son turn a pencil into a machine gun, a chopstick into a sword, a tennis ball into a hand grenade. For a 6-year-old boy, hands are for throwing balls, scooping up mac and cheese and shooting imaginary bad guys, and sometimes little sisters and moms.
Boys seem to be "hard-wired" with the XY chromosome that allows them to see a stick as an M60. Yes, this is gender stereotyping, but a survey of 98 female preschool teachers found that 4-year-old boys play superhero or enact mock fights much more frequently than girls, who seem to favor house or family themes for playtime.
This behavior can be unsettling for those unfamiliar with it. I certainly was alarmed when my innocent little preschool-aged boy first grabbed his fork at the dinner table, aimed it at his sister and made shooting sounds. I initially created all sorts of rules around gun play: You can pretend to shoot water or bursts of love and happiness but no bullets and you're not allowed to point your finger guns at people, only at imaginary bad buys.
I quickly realized that my rules were ridiculous and my kind-hearted son who was thrown into tears when he saw that our cat killed a mouse wasn't violent when he turned his fingers into a gun. He was simply playing.
Most child psychologists will tell you that gun play is normal, even healthy, for a boy. "Since the beginning of recorded time, little boys have enjoyed games in which they project their power into the world, and that means playing with 'weapons,'" says Michael Thompson, coauthor of The New York Times bestseller Raising Cane: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. "I have no doubt that 'cave' boys pointed sticks at each other in threatening ways, or chucked rocks at one another, or imitated the spear-throwing actions of their fathers."
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Yesterday, September 21, 2013, I gave a presentation for the New Mexico Genealogical Society on one of my ancestors, Petronila Garcia Jurado. She was the only daughter of Ramon Garcia Jurado and Juana Antonia de Espindola y de las Heras. She married Juan Antonio Baca, the son of Manuel Baca and Maria de Salazar.
Her life history is interesting. After her husband died, she became part of a months long battle over her husband's estate. I'm not going to give the details - I'll do that when I finally publish the article - but I will tell you that it is fascinating. As part of my presentation, I handed out a list of Petronila's descendants. That list is in the PDF file below.
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Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization
Book review by Edna Boardman, Bismarck, North Dakota
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russia Village after Collectivization. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The term "Stalin's Peasants" in the title of this book is patronizing, but not on author Fitzpatrick's part. It was an aspect of the Uncle Joe's image Stalin liked to use as his public persona while authorizing monstrous acts. Fitzpatrick, a scholar based at the University of Chicago, who has had access to Russian archives, has searched through recently available records to open the experience of the rural people of Russia--including many ethnic Germans--across the 1930s. This was the period of collectivization, a messy process that happened fast, at least on paper.
Stalin and other communist leaders worked from a view centered in a primal hatred of the prosperous peasants they called kulaks, a grating word that meant fist. They sent out callous city gangs whose mission was to force collectivization onto the countryside, beginning with the destruction of the livelihoods and often the lives of Russia's best food producers. Their method was to steal every last kernel of grain, including seed grain, lead away livestock to the collective farms, where many of the now-neglected animals died, requisition horses for military use, lock up the churches, cart off bells and metal in the icons for recycling, and deport the best workers to the north. Stalin had a general disdain of peasants as being backward even as he saw them as a threatening, recalcitrant lot, best dealt with by coercion of the harshest kind. This included, in addition to the above, starvation, deportation, summary execution, and (at least initially) deprivation of the passports given to city workers. Communism's twisted philosophy had a relative view of wealth that demanded production while it found the producer threatening.
The survivors of the first onslaught (usually bedniaks, lower-class peasants) were forced onto collective farms where life often seemed little better than the serfdom that had been abolished in 1861. Called kolkhozes, these were at first mostly coterminous with the old villages, which had always been communal in nature. Each kolkhoz was arm-twisted into formally accepting production quotas. (The communists always insisted on outward democratic forms, though the reason is not clear.) Later, villages were clumped together. Then committees redrew lines, often without bothering to look at the land itself. Sometimes land boundaries were redrawn repeatedly until nobody knew which land was theirs. Workers in one kolkhoz complained that they had to cross several ravines to get to their assigned land. Agricultural machinery was housed in a central facility called a Machine-Tractor Station, which was also a center of political influence in the countryside, so was not readily available when it was needed.
A second type of agricultural setup was the state farm, a variation on the collective, in which people were hired in the same way as factory workers. Working and living conditions on the state farms were dismal, food, eaten in a single hall, was terrible, and the workers had no individual plots or ownership in the outcome of the harvest.
A third kind of farmer, who existed for awhile, was the independent farmer, who was assessed individual quotas. Persons in this category had freedoms the others did not have but were often required to deliver specified amounts of milk and meat even when they did not own animals.
Just when collectivization seemed a done deal, Stalin wrote an article titled "Dizzy with Success," in which he accused the collectivizers of being overzealous (a common tactic of his). Thousands of peasants withdrew from the collectives and became independent farmers again. Nomadic peoples, who had been forced to settle on collective farms, simply packed up and moved, as they had always done.
Stalin and his fellow ideologues focused on the wellbeing of the workers in the cities, believing it most expedient that the peasants be forced to pay for his first five year plan, begun in 1929/1930, which called for rapid industrialization. With a slight shift in thinking, he could have dubbed the peasants Workers, along with the city folk, honored producers of the huge amounts of grain, meat, and other foods needed by those laboring in industry. Even while they had little regard for the lives of the peasants, the communist leaders believed that there was a huge surplus population in the countryside which could be siphoned off to work in the mines, factories, and the military. Young men left and heavy work increasingly fell to women.
Part of the fuzzy policy-making, Fitzpatrick believes, was a test to see what the system could bear. When real famine occurred in 1932-33, the communists took little interest in it. They reacted by limiting migration to the cities where starving peasants sought food, publishing articles about distress in every part of the world but their own, and generally explaining away the dying that roamed the countryside. They would monitor every commune that seemed to be functioning well for evidence that the inhabitants were reverting to the old mir system, governing themselves as before.
But Fitzpatrick does not see just communist bad guys and peasant good guys. She recognizes human nature and notes that the peasants exacted the common revenge of the powerless. Some saw the opportunity to get even for old grudges. She observes that the peasants had always been ambivalent about their churches, even while they supported the clergy far better than they ever supported schools and teachers. (The peasants may have, in effect, taught the communists how to behave against the clergy.) Peasants wrangled endlessly, stole from the communes, destroyed equipment, butchered livestock about to be taken, terrorized the new leaders and teachers, hid grain from the requisitioners, and disrupted meetings by creating disturbances, especially just before a vote was to be taken (more communist insistence on outwardly democratic forms). They dragged their feet and refused to produce the food that, they reasoned, would be wrested from them with only token payment anyhow. They learned from the communists who lectured them at endless meetings. Most who gained even a modicum of education, such as training as a tractor driver, fled the villages to seek work in industry. They informed on and denounced each other and hid their kulak origins as long as they could. Many realized that, if they were to survive, they had to act aggressively in the midst of what was for them a state of siege.
An unexpected and interesting part of this pushing-back process was the letter-writing. Peasants wrote tens of thousands of letters to government officials, complaining of what was happening and making demands and suggestions. Someone had been incorrectly classified; a local official had abused a worker; a neighbor was hiding grain. Fitzpatrick was able to read many of these letters, and she occasionally quotes from them. They provide insight into the thinking and experiences of the persons caught up in the turmoil in the countryside. More often than one would think, the letters were read in Moscow and individual peasants received redress of wrongs.
Fitzpatrick does not mention the ethnic identification of peasants very often, but again and again, areas that, she says, were most troublesome to the communists were the parts of the country where the largest number of German villages existed. These areas were where the largest amounts of grain had been initially requisitioned and which now produced little; the areas in which the largest percentage of the villagers were kulaks.
Very often, whole histories of the 1930s describe the experiences of the rural people of Russia in generalities, dismissing their plight in a sentence or a few paragraphs at most. Now, thanks to the work of scholars such as Robert Conquest Sheila Fitzpatrick, Ingeborg Fleischhauer, and others, we know more than scattered anecdotes. "Stalin's Peasants," which included many Germans with their traditional faiths and work ethic, had one heck of a time of it.


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text: « Return to Search 1999 Press Releases January 01, 1999 1999 Press Releases May - August, 1999 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Offers Free Lecture on Diabetes and Vision Loss September 13 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Co-Sponsors National Vision Rehabilitation Day: September 15, 1999 North Reading Resident Promoted to Senior VP of Patient Services Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Honors Philanthropist Norman Knight for HBO Support Physician Receives Rosenthal Award Local Cochlear Implant Recipient Completes Study at Berklee College of Music; Performs at Recital January - April, 1999 The Coolidge Clinical Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Eye Infirmary Receives Accreditation From College of American Pathologists Kenyan Children Injured in Blast Travel to the U.S. for Specialized Eye Care Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Researcher Issued Patent Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Elects New Board Members and Trustees Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Offers Free Lecture on Diabetes and Vision Loss September 13, 1999 Contact: Public Affairs 617-573-3341 August 30, 1999 -- The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary will offer a free lecture entitled "Diet and Exercise Roles in Managing Diabetes" on Monday, September 13, at 10:00 a.m., in the Sloane Teaching Room, 3rd. Floor, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston. The talk is part of the Infirmary's Diabetes and Vision Loss Lecture Series. Seating is limited. Please call 617 573-4177 to make reservations. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Co-Sponsors National Vision Rehabilitation Day: September 15, 1999 Contact: Public Affairs 617-573-3341 August 25, 1999 -- Do you have trouble reading the paper -- even when you are wearing your glasses? You're not alone. Nearly ten million Americans experience the same difficulty and far too many have come to accept it. But help is available from the staff of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's Vision Rehabilitation Service. They can prescribe and show you how to use optical devices so you can overcome vision loss and stay on top of the news. On National Vision Rehabilitation Day -- September 15th -- and throughout the year, no one with vision loss should go without help. Call: 617 573-4177. North Reading Resident Promoted to Senior VP of Patient Services Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-4170 August 6, 1999 -- Carol A. Covell, R.N., M.S., a resident of North Reading, was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of Patient Services of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. The announcement was made by F. Curtis Smith, Infirmary President. Ms. Covell joined the Infirmary in 1972 as a staff nurse in the operating room. Through the years, she was promoted to various positions, which included: Operating Room Head Nurse, Coordinator of Utilization Review, Assistant Director of Nursing, Assistant Vice President for Nursing, Vice President for Nursing, and Vice President for Patient Services. She is the only senior vice president at the Infirmary and the highest-ranking woman. A graduate of the Wharton Business School Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives, Ms. Covell also holds an M.S. from Lesley College, a B.S. from Emmanuel College, and an R.N. from the Somerville Hospital School of Nursing. Ms. Covell is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Organization of Nurse Executives, the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives, the Association of Operating Room Nurses, the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, the Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Nurses, and the Society of Ambulatory Care Professionals. She has published several articles in her specialty. Now celebrating its 175th year, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. For more information call 617 523-7900 or TDD 617 523-5498 or visit the Infirmary's website at www.meei.harvard.edu. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Honors Philanthropist Norman Knight for HBO Support Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-3341 July 15, 1999 -- The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary recently held a dedication ceremony in honor of philanthropist Norman Knight, who made the Infirmary's hyperbaric medicine therapy program possible by funding three large-bore hyperbaric oxygen chambers. The unit has been named The Norman Knight Hyperbaric Medicine Center. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Knight, a Boston resident, the Center has now grown, both in size and number of chambers, to accommodate the increased use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) in treating a wide range of medical conditions. The chambers cost approximately $120,000 each. Mr. Knight has given and pledged more than $1 million dollars to hyperbaric oxygen medicine-related causes at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The Center opened in February of 1995 as the first unit of its kind in Massachusetts. The Infirmary is very proud to be the initial hospital in the Commonwealth to offer hyperbaric oxygen treatment. It currently houses the most chambers in Massachusetts. Since its opening, the HBO nurses and doctors have treated more than 600 patients and administered nearly 6,000 treatments. This usage reflects both the demand and importance of HBO therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides the most advanced treatment available for problems with wound healing, radiation-treatment related bone loss, burns, scuba diving injuries and carbon monoxide poisoning. One of the most important roles of HBO therapy is its use as an adjunctive therapy in the surgical treatment for cancers of the head and neck. The Infirmary is the leading center in the Northeast for treatment of these cancers. The Center is available on a 24-hour basis for emergency and is open during normal business hours for scheduled treatments. "The Center is a reality because of the vision of one man, Norman Knight. His generosity has enabled us to extend the Infirmary's mission -- providing the best possible care to our patients with a new and exciting therapy," said Infirmary President F. Curtis Smith. Founded in 1824 and celebrating it 175th anniversary, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research, and the principal teaching hospital in its specialties of Harvard Medical School. Please visit the Infirmary on the World Wide Web at http://www.meei.harvard.edu. Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary Physician Receives Rosenthal Award Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-3341 June 15, 1999 -- Joan W. Miller, M.D., retina specialist and president of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary medical staff, recently received the 1999 Rosenthal Award in the Visual Sciences. The award, given by the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation through the Macula Society, is given annually to individuals under 45 years of age whose work gives high promise of a notable advance in the clinical treatment of diseases of the retina. Dr. Miller is the first woman to receive the award and the second ophthalmologist from the Infirmary to receive the award since its inception in 1991. Thaddeus Dryja, M.D., of the Infirmary, received the award in 1993. A resident of Winchester, Mass., Dr. Miller joined the full time staff of the Infirmary's Retina Service in 1991. She is currently an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Miller's research interests are focused on ocular neovascularization, particularly as it relates to macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, including the role of growth factors, the development of anti-angiogenic therapy, and photodynamic therapy. She, along with Evangelos Gragoudas, M.D., of the Infirmary, pioneered the development of photodynamic therapy for neovascular macular degeneration, for which they hold two U.S. patents. Dr. Miller is on the Study Advisory Group for the Treatment of AMD with Photodynamic Therapy. Clinicians hope that photodynamic therapy will offer an effective therapy for neovascular macular degeneration, with 2000,000 new cases diagnosed yearly in the United States alone. Dr. Miller has received numerous awards and has presented papers at more than 45 national and international conferences and has published more than 28 original peer-reviewed papers, 18 book chapters and review articles. Now celebrating its 175th year, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. For more information, call 617 523-7900 or TDD 617 523-5498. Local Cochlear Implant Recipient Completes Study at Berklee College of Music; Performs at Recital June 17th Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-3341 June 11, 1999 -- For local resident and pianist Cydnie Breazeale-Davis, 24, the hour-long recital scheduled for Thursday, June 17, at 7 p.m. in the Berklee College of Music's Genko Uchida Building marks much more than the culmination of her formal jazz music education. Blind since birth, this musician lost total hearing in 1996, an incident that derailed her life plan and threatened to end the aspiring pianist's career. But less than one year later, this remarkable young woman resumed her studies after a Clarion Cochlear Implant, or "bionic ear," was surgically implanted into her inner ear at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The cochlear implant is one of the most advanced medical devices ever implanted in human beings and provides useful hearing to children and adults with profound "nerve" deafness. It works by delivering electrical stimulation directly to the hearing nerve and is used by children who are born deaf and others who have lost their hearing. It is estimated that two million Americans and millions more worldwide could benefit from this alternative to deafness. Initially, Breazeale-Davis struggled to adjust as her auditory system was reawakened from its dormant state. Yet, she was yet determined to reclaim her music. "Today I hear better because of the implant," said Breazeale-Davis. "I love it! I use the implant for my music. At my recital, I get to do what I love--play my music. It will be a great day for me." "The cochlear implant is a wonderful option for adults with acquired deafness who are unable to achieve significant benefit from hearing aids. Though the implant does not restore 'normal hearing,' it restores sound reception in nearly all individuals. This is an aid to speech reading and environmental sound awareness," said Breazeale-Davis' surgeon, Steven Rauch, M.D., an otolaryngologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Rauch has performed cochlear implant surgery since 1985. "As a speech pathologist, I can attest to the amazing progress Cydnie has made in such a short time," said T.C. Breazeale. "As her mother, I am incredibly proud and thrilled that the cochlear implant has enabled Cydnie to regain her ability to hear, perform, and enjoy music." The recital will also feature Berklee alumnus and drummer Mark Greenburg and vocalist Havivah Zeltzer, who along with Breazeale-Davis is affiliated with Gateway, an organization that supports the work of physically and mentally challenged fine and performance artists. The recital will be held in David Friend Hall, located in Berklee's Genko Uchida Building at 921 Boylston St. The $20 per person suggested donation will go to the It Can Happen Fund at Berklee, which supports adaptive technology for the school's physically challenged students. The evening is sponsored by Advanced Bionics, a Southern California-based leader in cochlear implant technology. Founded in 1945, Berklee College of Music, the world's largest independent music college and the premier institution for the study of contemporary music, enrolls 3,000 students and employs 375 faculty. Among the college's accomplished alumni are producer/arranger Quincy Jones '51, Joey Kraner '70 and Brad Whitford '71 of Aerosmith, rock singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge '80, jazz saxophonist/composer Branford Marsalis '80, and Natalie Maines '95 of the Dixie Chicks. Celebrating its 175th anniversary, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. For more information, please visits its website at www.meei.harvard.edu. To contact Cydnie Breazeale-Davis, call 617 924-7144. To speak with Breazeale-Davis' surgeon, Dr. Steven Rauch, call 617 573-3341. To obtain information about the Berklee College of Music, contact Rob Hayes at 617 747-2566. To learn more about the Clarion Cochlear Implant, contact Doug Lynch at 800 678-2575. The Coolidge Clinical Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Eye Infirmary Receives Accreditation From College of American Pathologists Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-3341 March 12, 1999 -- The Coolidge Clinical Laboratory of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has recently been awarded a two-year accreditation by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), based on the results of a recent on-site inspection. Inspectors examined the records and quality control of the laboratory for the preceding two years, as well as the education and qualification of the total staff, the adequacy of the facilities, the equipment, laboratory safety, and laboratory management to determine how well the laboratory is serving the patient. CAP is the world's largest association composed exclusively of pathologists and is widely considered the leader in laboratory quality assurance. Kenyan Children Injured in Blast Travel to the U.S. for Specialized Eye Care Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-4170 February 2, 1999 -- Three Kenyan children, victims of the August 7 bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, are receiving specialized medical treatment at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for eye injuries sustained during the blast. The children are beneficiaries of the Nairobi Children's Initiative, a broad-based, private-sector-led program in which communities and organizations both in Kenya and in the United States donated financial and in-kind resources for their treatment. According to Maria Stephens, program coordinator who is affiliated with the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, the children are members of a tight-knit Asian/Kenyan community who attend a school near the Embassy. "The boys were traveling on a bus from their school to their homes and were near the Embassy when the blast occurred," she said. Distracted by a grenade explosion, the children looked out the bus window just prior to the blast and were injured when the windows in the bus shattered and glass shards flew into their eyes, Stephens added. The children were selected for the Nairobi Children's Initiative by a team of American and Kenyan doctors after extensive post-operative assessments were made on those individuals who sustained both eye and ear injuries from the bombing. Physicians at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary worked with Kenyan doctors Henry Adala, A.K. Shah, Harish Rupani, M.M. Bhaiji and Mr. R. Gohil to determine which patients would benefit most from treatment at the Infirmary. Dr. Adala played a lead role in overseeing the centralized needs assessment, which took place in November at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, and screened for prospective patients through this assessment as well. The three boys, ranging in age from 7 to 17 years old, arrived in the United States on January 30 with their parents and Ms. Stephens. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary physicians Drs. Dimitri Azar and Claes Dohlman have examined two of the children to determine follow-up treatment. The third child will be examined by Dr. Anthony Adamis later in the week. The Nairobi Children's Initiative is a model of collaboration between several organizations. Free housing (an entire house), food staples and transportation are provided by the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown and the National Association of Parents of the Visually Impaired. KLM/NW Airlines have donated free roundtrip airline tickets to the children and their accompanying parents. Members of the diplomatic and business communities in Kenya provided financial support. Ms. Stephens, who is originally from the Boston area, contacted the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary after the bombing to ask for assistance. Founded in 1824 and celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. For more information, call 617 523-7900 or TDD 617 523-5498. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Researcher Issued Patent Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-4170 Walter P. Carney, Ph.D. President Director, Public Affairs, Oncogene Science Diagnostics, Inc. 617 492-7289 email: firstname.lastname@example.com Matthew D. Haines Director, Corporate Communications, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 516 222-0023 email: email@example.com January 25, 1999 --Oncogene Science Diagnostics, Inc. (OSDI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIP), and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary today announced the issuance to the Infirmary of a U.S. patent, No. 5,853,988, which pertains to the use of DNA probes for the diagnosis and treatment of retinoblastoma as well as methods of detecting defective retinoblastoma (Rb) genes in patients with other types of solid tumor cancers. The announcement highlights significant work carried out at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary by Thaddeus P. Dryja, M.D, and at the Whitehead Institute by Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D. OSDI holds an exclusive license to this patent as well as others that have been granted to the Infirmary in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. "This invention could eventually lead to significantly improved medical care for patients suffering from retinoblastoma, a sometimes fatal eye cancer that primarily afflicts children from birth through 5 years of age," stated Dr. Dryja. "With effective DNA diagnosis, children in high-risk families can be identified before they develop the disease, allowing the cancer to be diagnosed and treated promptly, potentially saving both the life and vision of the child." The Rb gene is an important tumor suppressor gene that is necessary for controlling cell proliferation. Numerous studies suggest that there is clinical value in detecting either mutations or deletions of the Rb gene. The mutation or deletion of Rb results in a loss of Rb function that contributes to the development of certain solid tumor cancers, such as head and neck squamous carcinomas, breast cancer, osteosarcomas, soft tissue sarcomas, small cell lung cancer, and esophageal cancer. Walter P. Carney, President of Oncogene Science Diagnostics, Inc., commented, "The addition of this latest patent to OSDI's broad diagnostics patent estate, which includes patents for HER-2/neu, ras, and PAI-1 as well as the use of DNA probes, including OSDI's FDA-approved TransProbe-1Æ for the diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia, potentially strengthens our competitive position in the global cancer testing marketplace and further differentiates Oncogene Science Diagnostics from its competitors." Oncogene Science Diagnostics, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, develops, manufactures and sells high quality, ready-to-use, manual cancer reagent systems to commercial and clinical research customers worldwide. Information on OSDI's products and services is available on OSDI's web site at www.oncogene.com, or by contacting Jeff Whitaker, General Sales Manager, by phone at 888-OSI-DIAG or by e-mail at email@example.com. Founded in 1824, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research, and a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Infirmary researchers, in collaboration with researchers at the Whitehead Institute, discovered the first hereditary cancer gene--the retinoblastoma gene--which provided fundamental insight into the most basic workings of cancer and opened a promising field of cancer study. OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., based in Uniondale, New York, is a leading drug discovery company with a substantial pipeline of product opportunities for commercialization with the pharmaceutical industry. Additional information on OSI Pharmaceuticals is available on OSI's web site at www.osip.com. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Elects New Board Members and Trustees Contact: Public Affairs 617 573-3341 January 12, 1999--The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary recently elected three individuals for three-year terms as board members: • Lily H. Bentas, President, CEO and chairperson of Cumberland Farms, Inc. • Herb W. Pollack, chairman and founder of Parlex Corporation • David W. Scudder, a partner in the investment firm of Wellington Management Company The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has also recently elected three individuals for five-year terms as trustees: • Richard J. Chaffin of R/C Consulting in Needham • Cheryl L. Clarkson, President and CEO of M.D. Partners America • Christopher E. Nolin, a partner at Warner & Stackpole Founded in 1824, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is an international center for treatment and research, and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Return to Top of Page


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My countdown to my debut novel's release and a chronicle of my attempt to not go stir crazy while waiting. (I post here on Mondays and Fridays. See you then!)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
First Lines and Last Thoughts
13 comments:
- C.M. Villani said...
Good opener, Sam. :)
I always tell my husband I love him when the feeling strikes - even if I just said it five seconds before hand. One day when we were younger he asked me why I did that. I told him if something ever happened I wanted to make sure I didn't regret not telling him more often. :D
- February 1, 2011 at 8:04 AM
I think you really have to put thought into this so that you remember it when it does come down to your last thought.
I fainted 2x in my life and my last thought before fainting, on both occasions, was "Oh crap."
So, I need to practice thinking last thoughts. Thanks for reminding me. =)
- February 1, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Alice Loweecey said...
I once spun out on an icy highway and crashed sideways into a guardrail. If I'd shuffled off this mortal coil that morning as my rigid arms gripped the steering wheel, my last word would've been: "S***!" Not exactly how you want to greet your Maker. :P
I try to remember often to tell my husband and kids that I love them. That way, if I'm not near them when The Moment comes, they'll know. :)
- February 1, 2011 at 8:42 AM
- Denise said...
My husband and I always kiss each other goodbye and say "I love you." If something happens to one of us, we each feel it should be the last thing we heard the other say. The best part is that, after 15 years, we still mean it.
What would I leave behind besides a very cool car? I like to think the most important things immortalize me: kindness, compassion, and fond memories full of laughter.
- February 1, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Catherine Stine said...
ocmom's comment gave me a laugh. I think I might say, "Oh, crap!" too!
Um, wow. I'd like to leave behind some really solid published novels, and some amazing oil paintings, and feel certain that my 2 boys have their acts together and have love in their lives. Oh, and hubby? I always tell him that I love him.
- February 1, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- EQ said...
"Oh no!,did I update my list of passwords on our bank account and the on-line stock trading last night?"
Funny,I worry more about the updated passwords than the afterlife.Lol.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Scrollwork said...
Just today I was thinking, "Would it be Mission Impossible to train the hubby to log onto my etsy shop and be sure to ship any orders that come in after I die? So that my work doesn't get donated back to the thrift store?"
I see EQ's point: if your soul is secure about eternity in heaven, the afterlife isn't a worry.
- February 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
C.M. - "I love you" is definitely something that can never be said too often :)
OCMom - Okay, you owe me a laptop. I just spurted coffee out of my nose. ;)
Alice - LOL! A similar thing happened to me. (I lost control of my car (there was sand on the road and I wound up in the opposite lane!) I remember thinking - "At least I shaved my legs today."
Denise - That's so sweet! (And now I'm curious about that cool car of yours!)
Catherine - I have a feeling you won't have any trouble leaving that legacy :)
EQ -Echoing what Scrollwork said. Where you are going after this life is not something you'd like to worry about at the last minute. Good for you! :)
Scrollwork - I would think that your problem would be keeping up customer demand for your products :)
(Oh, and guys, if you haven't checked out Scrollwork's creations at her etsy shop, you're missing out on adding a touch of whimsy to your day :) http://www.etsy.com/shop/scrollwork)
- February 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Jennifer Hillier said...
I'm sure my last thoughts would be REALLY sappy, and I'm so not a sappy person. I'd be wondering if I've told everyone I loved that I loved them, because that's the one thing I'd want them to know.
Wow, now you've really got me thinking...!
- February 2, 2011 at 5:43 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Jennifer - It makes you wonder about all those "famous last words" quotes, right? Did these guys write a draft first or what? ;-)
- February 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Brandie Lagarde said...
I actually almost hemorrhaged to death once and my mom later told me that I told her to take care of my babies and clean up. I passed out and woke up later in the hospital, where the nurse told me that I briefly came to and asked her why she was poking me with needles. So sometimes you just don't know what you will say! Now I make sure all six of my kids and wonderful husband know how much they mean to me!
- February 2, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Cat said...
So far, when I've been really terrified, my last thoughts have either been "Oh God!" (prayerfully) or the first part of the Act of Contrition.
- February 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Brandie - Yikes! That sounds scary - but leave it to an awesome mom to think of her kids in her hour of need :)
Cat - You're blessed to have that kind of faith and presence of mind :)
- February 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM


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Knitter and blogger extraordinaire Kristi recently published Masala, a gorgeous slipper pattern that looks to have a somewhat similar shape (I think -- this is just judging from the photos, as I haven't purchased the pattern yet). Masala has the most eye-catching colorwork pattern, and she has knit them up in beautiful color combinations that really POP! Most definitely going to the top of my to-knit list once I've finished up a few more WIPs.
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly spray a 13x9 baking dish with cooking spray (or lightly coat with olive oil).
2. In a medium bowl, mix 1/3 C. Parmesan, ricotta, nutmeg, freshly ground pepper, garlic, and egg. Mix in parsley and spinach.
3. Spread 1/2 C. sauce on bottom of baking dish. Top with 4 lasagne noodles; top with half of the ricotta/spinach mixture, another 1/2 C. sauce, and 3/4 C. mozzarella. Repeat layers one more time. Do another layer of 4 noodles. Pour remaining sauce over lasagne; sprinkle with the rest of the mozzarella and 1/3 C. Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil; bake 45 minutes. Remove from oven, and let it stand for 10 min. before cutting into it and serving.
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The full version of this article will appear in the Sept. 23 edition of the Michigan Chronicle.
On Sept. 26, Carole Jasper Quarterman, former executive director of the Child Care Coordinating Council of Detroit/Wayne County, Inc. (4C), will be honored by the 4C board of directors and friends of 4C for her 30 years of service at the Fairlane Club, 5000 Fairlane Woods Drive in Dearborn.
All proceeds from the first annual Benefit Reception and Dinner will benefit the newly established Carole Jasper Quarterman Education and Training Fund. Quarterman said the nonprofit 4C has a training institute where it offers classes and workshops for parents and other adults who are working with children.
She said one core service is training and skills development and educational services.
"In addition, we do family support," she said. "We have an emergency child care assistance fund to make sure children are cared for during a time of crisis. We do resource and referral where we link individuals— sometimes parents, but often times our colleagues— to resources to serve the families that we're working with."
Quarterman also said 4C's mission is to advocate and empower adults to help children grow to their full potential and well being. Its educational efforts are targeted towards helping adults understand how children develop; how to best meet children's needs; and how to best promote their development to their full potential and well being.
Quarterman emphasized that no one person at an organization like 4C does it all. She said 4C has had wonderful volunteer leadership from its board of directors.
She also said the Sept. 26 event is really to bring attention to the work and the importance of 4C to the community.
She would like to raise $40,000, citing the agency's 40th anniversary next year.
Current Executive Director Donna Snowden, who has known Quarterman for 40 years and worked with her for the past 11, said the best word to describe Quarterman is "inspirational."
Snowden said Quarterman is casting a very long shadow, but tried not to make the imprint of 4C that of herself. She also said Quarterman has put 4C in such a position that it can go on without her.
"We will always be able to call upon her if we need her, and I think she'd be willing to anything for 4C," Snowden said.
A VIP reception will begin at 6 p.m. Dinner will be at 7 p.m. For more information, call Katrina Dixon 313-333-7797 and/ Ronda Bozeman at 313-259-4411 ext. 322


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KDE 4.2.1 provides the "Cream" on top of KDE
It has been a little more than a month since you were able to install the latest and greatest KDE on release day. Today is another one of those with KDE 4.2.1 (codenamed "Cream") hitting the shelves.
Today, the KDE team announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.2.1, which is a recommended update for everyone running KDE. (If you are still on 3.5, do consider again upgrading to KDE 4.) 4.2.1 has a nice changelog for those that want to read something while packages are being downloaded.
As usual, this release does not contain exciting new features but stabilizes the 4.2.0 release further. A month worth of feedback and bug fixing surely pays off. Also, those dot-releases bring updated translations for the 50-odd languages KDE desktop and applications are shipping in.
If you are running this release with Qt 4.5 and you're encountering problems, please let the developers know by means of bugs.kde.org so those kinks can be worked out for everyone (including yourself).
The KDE team wishes you a lot of fun and productivity with this release and goes back to hacking on the next KDE coming this summer. In the meantime, roughly once a month we'll keep pushing out the latest bug fixes and updates through this kind of dot-releases to the user.
By Shade at Wed, 2009/03/04 - 8:23pm
Eternally appreciated
Speaking only for myself, I want to congratulate Kopete team for their dedication and hard-work on keeping pushing out great products for us. This release fixed tons of bugs, and some were really frustrating me at times - so this alone made the upgrade worthwhile for everyone.
By Jerry Wancaster at Sun, 2009/05/24 - 7:50pm
Thanks for all the fixes
additional links matching to this article; Release Announcement and Info Page
p.s. the "all SVN changes" links in the Changelog are not correct ;-o
By Sebastian Sauer at Wed, 2009/03/04 - 9:14pm
Great job!
Maybe in next version some other software could replace Gwenview. Its appearance is awful.
By jigger at Wed, 2009/03/04 - 9:39pm
Qt 4.5
"If you're running this release with Qt 4.5 and you're encountering problems, please let the developers know by means of bugs.kde.org so those kinks can be worked out for everyone (including yourself)."Does this mean that running on Qt 4.5.0 is now supported (especially for plasma), and that there should be no problems in doing so? In any case, nice work everyone :)
By ianjo at Wed, 2009/03/04 - 9:48pm
qt 4.5 and kde 4.2
In Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04, KDE 4.2 is compiled with qt 4.5rc1 (and now updated to 4.5). there doesn't seem to be any apparant issue with the kde+qt4.5 combo. :)
And congrats to all..
well written announcement, kudos to the writer :)
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 2:25am
qt 4.5 and kde 4.2
it depends. Jaunty also uses latest X-driver. And kde 4.2.1 + Qt 4.5 + radeon + composite on shows here sometimes heavy rectangular noise especially in menu+window area.
And Kubuntu seems to start again to cripple KDE packages: Konqi in Jaunty does not show the standard "about:" content: No home folder, no network folder. Still hope, that they stop this "downsizing"
But over all Jaunty alpha of Kubuntu looks quite promising.
By schnebeck at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 6:12am
Well seems like Qt 4.5.0 does have issues with filenames using Unicode characters like accentuated ones.
After moving to Qt 4.5 with KDE 4.2.0 in openSUSE 10.3 my panel dock also stopped working properly. KDE 3 application icons are displayed correctly on the dock, but icons of KDE 4 applications are not displayed at all. The dock also does not display skype's icon. I know people for whom this is working fine though.
By Jorge Adriano at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 3:25pm
I have issues using Unicode
I have issues using Unicode characters too.. The problem is that all of my folder/file names are in Greek Languages... I can see them, but i cannot access them with the KDE 4.2.1 apps...
But there is no problem with the dock icons.
Kubuntu Jaunty + KDE 4.2.1 + QT 4.5
By Menacius Polites at Fri, 2009/03/06 - 11:43am
The unicode bug should be
The unicode bug should be fixed with the next round of updates that should be due in the next hour or so.
By JontheEchidna at Fri, 2009/03/06 - 3:05pm
Bugs what were fixed!
Ah, they got fixed the Tab completion bug on konqueror addressbar. I was getting mad with it! I do not like at all the stupid "Opera" way how it worked, needed to use "arrow down" -button to use list.
And more speed is gained, what is nice. Altought I am not so sure because so far I have got great speed with ATI (not with NVIDIA, until 4.2 :-()
And one bug is at least fixed on plasma. That "Quick Access" Widget does not crash Plasma anymore. At least on Mandriva Cooker 4.2.1 version.
Well, so far great 4.2.x series. Keep it up and make 4.3 even better! So far best desktop environment IMHO (vs GNOME, Windows Vista/7 and even Mac OS X!)
Can not wait 4.2.2 version to fix more bugs, what can be found etc.
By Fri13 at Wed, 2009/03/04 - 11:14pm
Typo: "exiting" -> "exciting"
"exiting" should be "exciting"
By vicT at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 7:04am
Okular and .lit
Is there any chance that Okular will ever add support for .lit files? The format was explored enough that someone wrote a script to convert .lit books to .html files, but it would be nice if Okular can just open them.
By enderandrew at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 7:20am
Please, don't do this
Please, don't do this. This is the announcement of a new maintenance version of KDE, so no new features will be included, so it's completely off-topic asking about new features in some application. If there is already a bug report with the feature request filled, then it's done what should be done.
If you want more users being aware of this bug report so they can vote or provide more feedback, do this in the forums or the mailing lists, not a random news entry on the dot.
By suy at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 11:18am
Well, .lit support is not even planned but if you can get your books in different format then you may be interested that Okular will support mobipocket in KDE 4.3 (code is already in trunk)
By qbast at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 2:20pm
Only one Plasma bug fixed?
I hope this is just because developers are just lazy to write the changelog, because I can't believe a so important part of KDE (currently the whole desktop experience) received just one bug fix :)
Anyway, I want to congratulate Kopete team, they fixed a lot of bugs, and some that really were annoying me, so this alone made the upgrade worth.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 12:06pm
"all svn changes" still 404
I suppose there are more bug fixes, or at least a bug report I made some time ago got fixed (with a backport available) but it is not listed in the changelog.
I still get a 404 in any of the "all svn changes" urls
By mootchie at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 5:27pm
This is great
with Qt-4.5.0 and kde-4.2.1 releases back to back. To bad konqueror still barfs on flash with the nsplugin viewer. Yes I am aware of the jiggles you can do with kmplayer+mplayer to get konqueror to play flash. But, erm, why make me jump through those hoops when the nsplugin viewer is already provided by kdebase? It seems like the further down the road kde4 travels, the more konqueror is relegated to the bit heap. Please don't tell me to write some code. Programmer I not, just an avid user and long for konqueror to be treated in the fashion we were lead to believe before kde4 ever came about.
And what happened to the extragear like there was in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/src/extragear .
By stumbles at Thu, 2009/03/05 - 3:06pm
There's an interesting point with flash, in that the Linux plugin is basically created to work with Gecko... And nothing else. Yup, it really is that bad - the kinds of hoops the kde devs have to jump through to get the thing working even to the level it is now are horrendous. Adobe, please wake up and smell the hummus - there's more to the internet than Firefox!
By Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen at Fri, 2009/03/06 - 8:28am
I understand
what you are saying. Frankly I think flash is a proprietary pox. But do have to give a nod to them for the release of an x86_64 version, that does run very well in a pure 64 bit environment, with Firefox of course.
Bare in mind my unfamiliarity of the complexities you suggest that are involved, but I can't really buy the reasoning, if only for a dollar. How is getting flash to work that much more "horrendous" than creating a new file manager, basically from scratch, ala Dolphin? Probably not the best example, but when it comes to konqueror, I can only fantasize just how wonderful it *could* have been had all the Dolphin efforts been put into konqueror.
By stumbles at Fri, 2009/03/06 - 1:05pm
Flash 10
I really find such comments to be useless. It would be nice if there was a well defined API for NS plugins, but in reality, it is Gecko
I realize that Flash 9 had serious issues. However Flash 10 works OK with KDE-3.5. Yes, the: "nspluginviewer" crashes occasionally, but there are probably specific bugs that need to be fixed, or the website code is at fault. However, these sites work fine:
so, I see no reason that these shouldn't be working just as well on KDE-4.2.1.
By James Tyrer at Sat, 2009/03/07 - 9:35pm
comment or comments do you find useless? If if really is Gecko, then how about changing how nspluginviewer deals with flash? Just a suggestion.
My comments are directed solely at KDE-4.x.x and I have never been able to get flash working in said versions from 4.0 to 4.2.1. Unless I use the kmplayer hack. Like I said, why make me use a hack when kdebase already provides a method to view flash?
As for your links, they do not work in konqueror of the 4.2.1 flavor.
By stumbles at Sat, 2009/03/07 - 10:33pm
The comments I found useless were the ones about how hard it was to write the code. Some APIs are not the best design (understatement! :-)) -- developers simply need to get used to it.
I have those two sites running in 4.2.1. I found a slight quirk in KDE-4 which is probably a bug. It will not run flash with a link. You must enter the actual directory where: "libflashplayer.so" is installed in the: "Folders" window in the Konqueror KCM.
If you installed the Adobe RPM, this would be:
By James Tyrer at Sat, 2009/03/07 - 11:30pm
If I understand correctly
you think there may be a symlink related bug in on this issue? If so, I wish that was the problem, unfortunately I have it in; /opt/lunar/plugins/ and that is the actual directory where libflashplayer.so is living.
I do not know how difficult modifying the pluginviewer APIs would be.
By stumbles at Sun, 2009/03/08 - 12:38am
there *is* no flash api
I think you missed the part about flash being closed source. There is no API. No debug symbols, line numbers, nothing.
So yes, it is a little bit hard to write code that involves it.
By A. L. Spehr at Fri, 2009/04/17 - 1:34am
debian sid
Now that Debian Unstable is again unlocked after the release of Lenny, is anyone in the know when KDE4 will migrate down from Experimental?
Believing in the "really soon" after the release of Lenny, I wanted to stay with Unstable, and now I am waiting, and waiting, and ... :-(
The current KDE looks absolutely great, and I'd really love to leave 3.5.10 behind :-)
By icekiss at Fri, 2009/03/06 - 8:50pm
within weeks (probably)
Per this post on the debian-kde list from last week, KDE4 should reach sid on the order of weeks (rather than months). In the meantime, KDE4 in experimental is rather usable.
By Jeffrey M. Smith at Sun, 2009/03/08 - 6:43am
Printing, ARGH!!!
So, I thought that it was time to switch to KDE-4. Then I got to printing. It is a usability disaster. Yes, it is possible to print, but the usability is less than 0 when compared to KDE-3.5.
I find that the problem is simple, there is no KPrinter in KDE-4.
I had hoped to see improvements in printing in KDE-4, and instead printing is totally relying on Qt and to put it mildly, that needs a lot of work.
IMHO I don't see how we are going to have satisfactory printing unless we have KPrinter in KDE-4.
Specifically, I would like to be able to fully control the printer from the Print Dialog (set resolution, mode [photo/text], etc) as well as save per application defaults and use a PPD file to define the settings available (like is hard coded for PDFs ONLY in KDE-3).
I find this comment to the point:
So, we need some real software engineers that are willing to do a job that might not be fun, but which is very necessary if we are going to have a complete desktop system.
Yes, I will volunteer to help.
By James Tyrer at Sat, 2009/03/07 - 10:36pm


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Greetings, once again!
As I mentioned in last week's post, I was in Ars, France, where I participated in the International Priests Retreat held to mark the Year for Priests.
At Logan Airport, as I was about the take the plane to France, I was invited by the kitchen workers there to bless their kitchen. Of course, I was very happy to do it.
The retreat in Ars was attended by about 1,500 priests, both young and old, from about 75 different countries.
The confessional of St. John Vianney
The room where he died
As you might suppose, the largest group of attendees was from France. The second largest group was from the United States and there were priests from Africa, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe there, as well.
Those who travelled the farthest to attend were a group of priests and a bishop from Samoa. It took them three days to get there. Unfortunately, the bishop had to return home early because of the tsunami that struck the islands.
We had a very nice group of about 20 priests from Boston and the New England area. Father Bill Kelly, our director of the Office for Clergy Support and Ongoing Formation, organized the trip for us.
Father Bill Kelly
The venue for the retreat talks was a very large underground church built near St. John Vianney's Parish Church and Basilica.
For our meals, the organizers put up a big tent in a field near the basilica
Many priests stayed in hotels in the area. I stayed at the Le Foyer Sacerdotale, a retreat house that is very close to the basilica.
The retreat was preached by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, so he gave most of the talks. Cardinal Schönborn spoke in French. I gave four talks during the retreat, though I delivered mine in English.
Cardinal Schönborn
One of the talks was given by Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche communities, on the theme of Jesus' washing the feet of his disciples.
The retreat opened with a video of the Holy Father greeting the priests. You can read the text of his speech here.
One night there was a beautiful Eucharistic procession through the streets of Ars.
In one of the liturgies, we renewed our priestly vows from the Holy Thursday Mass. That was a very moving experience as well.
There was also a large penance service for the priests
When I celebrated Mass for the group on Wednesday, we used the Cure of Ars' chalices and his vestments. We used his monstrance during the Eucharistic Adoration.
One of the Masses was celebrated by Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, the Archbishop of Paris. Then, Cardinal Christian Tumi, the Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon, arrived and celebrated Mass towards the end of the retreat.
The Community of the Beatitudes was in charge of the music and they did a terrific job.
I had the opportunity to meet again Cathy Brenti who came to Boston together with her bishop in 2006 with the relic of the heart of the Cure D'Ars. She was one of the coordinators of this priests retreat.
It was a wonderful way to mark the Year for Priests. In fact, this event was planned even before the Year for Priests was announced, particularly with the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, but it was very fitting in this context.
It was a grace-filled experience for all those who were able to be a part of it.
I had never been to Ars before. It is a very beautiful town in the rural agricultural part of France. It is in the southeastern part of the country, an area with many important religious shrines. It is not far from Taizé, Cluny, Paray-le-Monial, which are all in that area. LaSalette is also not terribly far away.
While in Ars, my priest secretary Father Jonathan tried a new video camera and created the following short videos.
First a beautiful story on the arrival of Father Jean-Marie Vianney to Ars
Then, with the help of Father Marcel Taillon, a tour of the home of the Cure D'Ars and of the museum.
He also taped me as I was at the original church where St. Jean Marie Vianney served the people.
And we asked Cardinal Schönborn and Jean Vanier to greet our blog readers.
While in France, I was also able to visit some other parts of the country as well. I had the opportunity to visit the nearby town of Paray-le-Monial where Our Lord appeared to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the 17th century. In the visions, Christ asked for greater devotion to the Eucharist and also for the celebration of the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
On our way back, we came through Paris. We arrived there on October 2. I had always heard that there were certain days when they venerated the relic of the Crown of Thorns at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Knowing this, I checked the browser on my phone to see when the veneration would be taking place.
Sure enough, there it was. I saw that veneration was to happen within two hours! We went right to Notre Dame. Though we just showed up, they were very kind to us.
The Knights of the Holy Sepulcher take care of the relics.
I was able to hold the crown of thorns for veneration by the people
The church was packed with people for the veneration. Many Russian Orthodox faithful came to be a part of it as well.
This is a reliquary that hosts the crown of thorns. I believe it was made by Napoleon
Another reliquary
This is the tunic that belonged to St. Louis, the King of France
These are medallions of all the popes, down to Benedict XVI. They are cameos, carved out on sea shells
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Following the retreat, I flew directly from Paris to Washington, D.C., for the annual meeting of the National Catholic Education Association on Monday, October 5.
The NCEA is the professional association for the 200,000 people who work in Catholic education at all levels — primary schools, secondary schools, universities, seminaries.
Each year, they honor people from throughout the country for their contributions to Catholic education.
Two President's awards and six Ann Seton awards were presented this year, one of them to Jack and Eileen Connors.
Each of the honorees was able to name one person who would receive a scholarship. The Connors named a young man, Addison Atanga, an eighth grader at Holy Trinity in Brockton, as the beneficiary of the scholarship.
It was very enlightening to see what is happening throughout the country and how people are stepping forward to support Catholic education and to work for the renewal of our Catholic schools. We are very proud that among the people who were singled out for their philanthropy and dedication to Catholic schools was Jack and Eileen Connors.
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By Tuesday, I was back home in Boston. On Tuesday night, I went to Stonehill College for a celebration to honor Father Mark Cregan. He was given the Thomas and Mary Shields Awards for all of his support of Trinity Catholic Academy in Brockton. The event was held at the college's new science hall, which was named in honor of the Shields.
The children from Trinity Academy sang a number of songs and the band played a number of pieces. The children did a fantastic job.
Three or four students read essays that they had submitted for a contest. It was just amazing to listen to the caliber of these essays because it sounded more like high school material. Everyone was so impressed with what they are doing.
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Finally, don't forget about our Social Justice Convocation on Saturday, Oct. 17 at Boston College High School, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. I invite you all to attend what will help you bring to the world Christ's compassion and love for all. I am looking forward to seeing you there.
Until next week,
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Photographs including the NSPCC Iconic Images Sale
Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London, UK
17th May, 2012
This week's blog post is dedicated to leading charity the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's sale of 10 iconic photographs, donated by photographers and private collectors. The event is being hosted by international auction house, Bonhams, as part of their Photographs sale on 17th May. Funds raised from the 10 prints on offer will go to the NSPCC's Rebuilding Childhoods Appeal, which provides therapy for children and young people who have suffered abuse.
Lot 74 Above
Nadav Kander (Israeli, born 1961) Florence Welch I, 2011
Archival pigment print, mounted. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '2/5' in ink on a label on reverse of mount. Number 2 in an edition of 5. Framed. Paper 76 x 61.5cm, image 66 x 51.5cm. £1500-2000
Lot 70
Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) (British, born 1966) Untitled, from 'Snog', July 2000
C-type print, flush-mounted to board. Signed, dated and numbered '1/3' in ink on the reverse. Number 1 in an edition of 3.122.3 x 122.3cm. £2,000-3,000
Lot 73
David Bailey (British, born 1938) Damien Hirst, 2006
Inkjet print, the reverse signed, dated and annotated in pencil, and with the photographer's copyright stamp. Framed. Paper 33 x 48.3cm, image 29.4 x 39.2cm. £1,000-1,500
Lot 65
Alistair Morrison (British, born 1956) Oliver Reed, London, 1985
Silver bromide print, signed in ink in the margin and with the photographer's blindstamp. Titled, dated and numbered '24/25' on the reverse. Number 24 in an edition of 25. Printed later. Framed. Image 42.5 x 40cm. £2,000-3,000
Lot 72
Patrick Demarchelier (French, born 1943) Christy Turlington, New York, 1986
Digital print, mounted on foam board. Signed on a label on reverse of mount. Also on the mount a copyright label bearing print details and catalogue number 1066, and 'Exposing Elegance' exhibition stamp dated December 1997 – March 1998. Framed. Paper 94 x 89cm , image 77 x 76.5cm. £5,000-7,000
Lot 69
Martin Schoeller (German/American, born 1968) Valentino, 2005
C-type print, signed on a label on reverse of mount. Number 4 in an edition of 7. Framed. 109.2 x 88.9cm. £4,000-6,000
Lot 68
Barry Lategan (British, born 1935) Twiggy, 1966
Platinum-palladium print, signed, titled and dated in pencil in the margin and with the photographer's studio blindstamp. Artist's proof aside from the edition of 35. Printed later. Framed. Paper 83.2 x 64.1cm, image 60.4 x 50.6cm. £4,000-6,000
Lot 67
Terence Donovan (British, 1936-1996) Celia Hammond, c. 1966
Gelatin silver print, the reverse with the photographer's copyright stamp and estate stamp signed by Diana Donovan in pencil and bearing print details. Number 6 in an edition of 50. Printed later. Framed. Paper 24 x 20cm , image 18 x 18cm. £1,500-2,000
Lot 66
Terry O'Neill (British, born 1938) Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery on the set of Shalako, 1968
Gelatin silver print, signed and numbered '3/50' in ink in the margin. Number 3 in an edition of 50. Printed later. Framed. Image 30.5 x 45.3cm. £2,000-3,000
Lot 71
Miles Aldridge (British, born 1964) Extravagant, Sophisticated Lady #12, 2011
Lambda print, mounted on aluminium. Signed in ink on studio label on reverse of mount, which also bears print details. Reverse of mount also with Hamiltons Gallery label bearing print details. Number 2 in an edition of 6. Framed. Sight area 151 x 113.5cm. £3,000-5,000
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