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-Rain forecast for Philly tomorrow. Game 3 might be postponed. I have no problem with that because there's Ohio State v. Penn State. Go Bucks. If everything is pushed back, Phillies say Cole Hamels will pitch Monday regardless. No word on what the Rays will do.
-It's ironic as we brace for a rainout Commissioner Bud Selig is talking about shortening the World Series by two or three days by eliminating the off days. MLB added off-days when it opted to start the Series on Wednesday instead of the weekend. Eliminating off days won't seem like such a good idea if there's a coast-to-coast Series.
-Jake Peavy is available from the Padres. Early speculation has the Braves a contender, but GM Frank Wren said the club isn't going to part with its best prospects.


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Arrive in Baltra, your first stop in the Galapagos Islands. Transfer to the ship and continue on to North Seymour. North Seymour may very well be the perfect introduction to the Galapagos Islands. Although the island is characterized by arid vegetation, fauna abounds and you will soon find yourself surrounded by sea lions, blue-footed boobies, marine iguanas, frigates and more. With some luck, you may even get to see land iguanas as well. Enjoy a briefing on the next day's program, welcome cocktail and dinner after your first day exploring North Seymour.
South Plaza Island, although quite small, is actually home to a large Opuntia cacti forest, land iguanas and one of the largest sea lion colonies in the central region of the archipelago. An endemic plant, Sesuvium, inhabits this island and is a great climate indicator as its color is greenish-yellowish during the rainy season and a bright red during the dry season. You will also be able to see Nazca boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, as well as different types of finches.
After lunch, make a wet landing for an excursion at Santa Fe Island. Formed by uplifting, rather than by a volcano, Santa Fe is known for having one of the most beautiful coves in all the Galapagos. Some of the island's endemic species include the Galapagos Hawk, Galapagos Snake, different types of finches, and the Galapagos mockingbird. The visit includes a hike on a trail past salt bushes where Galapagos hawks, as well as the Santa Fe land iguanas tend to roam. Playful sea lions will usually accompany swimmers and snorkelers during beach time.
Punta Pitt is composed of volcanic bluff substrate and is located on the eastern tip of San Cristóbal Island. This is the only site in Galapagos where one may have the opportunity to see all three species of boobies and both species of frigates. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled as the red-footed booby is not as easy to spot because they prefer to nest in areas of thick brush. You can also enjoy kayaking, snorkeling and panga rides at Punta Pitt.
After lunch aboard the Eclipse, disembark for activities at Cerro Brujo. Located on the north coast of San Cristóbal Island, this eroding tough cone offers a fantastic landscape, as well as wonderful swimming, snorkeling and panga ride experiences. Cerro Brujo's gorgeous beach is home to many sea lions and it's also the first coast where Charles Darwin first stepped foot on in the Archipelago! See a beautiful lagoon used by the locals of Baquerizo Moreno Port for salt mining, as well as two different species of halophytes (rare plants that grow in soils with a high salt content).
Floreana is one of the Galapagos most famous, or shall we say, "infamous" of islands due to many strange stories regarding past settlers. There are many wonderful and diverse sites to visit, including Post Office Bay and the "Baroness's Viewing Point." Marine life abounds in Floreana's coastal regions making it a fantastic site for snorkeling. Flamingos also populate the island and may be seen during your visit.
The Baroness's Viewing Point is the perfect place to take in the special environment that defines Floreana, and a great spot to talk and ponder regarding the intriguing history of the Baroness and her three lovers! In the 18th century whalers passing through the islands placed a wooden barrel on Floreana Island for use as an unofficial mail box. The tradition continues today as visitors leave addressed postcards in the barrel and sort through left mail to deliver at home. This is one of the archipelago's most famous spots. Don't forget to look in your logbook for your postcards! Also, visit a a great site for bird-watching, Cormorant Point, which has a large lagoon where everything from Flamingos to stilts and pintail ducks can be observed.
Elizabeth Bay is one of the furthest points of the Galapagos that to visit on your cruise. Enter a sheltered cove – a wonderful mangrove ecosystem that is a refuge for sea turtles, rays, blue-footed boobies, penguins, herons and more.
Land at Moreno Point after lunch, located just southwest of Elizabeth Bay on the west coast of Isabela Island and is known for large populations of sea birds, which can be appreciated during a panga ride along the striking rocky shores or a hike along a path through lava rock leading to tide pools and mangroves. In the tide pools, green sea turtles or white-tip sharks can be spotted.
The small town of Puerto Ayora is the economic center of the archipelago. Stroll along the streets to see how Galapagueños live in this magical paradise. You may also visit the Charles Darwin Research Station where conservation is conducted by scientists, park rangers and park managers, among others, who make huge efforts to preserve this extraordinary place. The Station is a tortoise breeding and rearing center, where tortoises of different subspecies are prepared for reintroduction to their natural habitats.
After visiting the Charles Darwin Research Station, take a bus to the highlands. The lush greenery of the Santa Cruz Highlands is a welcome contrast with the arid scenery of the smaller, lower islands. You can see giant tortoises and perhaps the famed lava tunnels.
Gardner Bay on Española Island offers the chance to enjoy a wonderful white sandy beach. It is home to one of the most important colonies of sea lions, and it is also a nesting site for sea turtles. Throughout the morning there are opportunities for swimming, snorkeling and kayaking.
Visit Punta Suárez in the afternoon, which is one of the most popular and attractive sites in the Galapagos. Due to its isolation from other islands, it has a high proportion of endemic fauna. A few steps inland from the landing site, groups of Española marine iguanas bask in the sun. The trail continues towards a blowhole, which is a fissure in the lava where water spurts high into the air like a geyser. The cracks in the cliffs are home to swallow-tailed gulls and red-billed tropicbirds. Further up the cliff in an area of low-lying trees you will find waved albatrosses nesting. The 15,000 to 17,000 pairs of albatrosses on Española represent almost the entire population of this species on the planet. Enjoy a departure briefing, farewell cocktail and dinner in the evening.
Mosquera Islet: This tiny islet is home to a huge population of sea lions and is also home to many shorebirds. While at Mosquera, keep your eyes peeled as there are occasional reports of dolphins and orcas. You will be transferred from the Eclipse to Baltra airport in time to catch your return flights.
This itinerary is subject to change. ExpeditionTrips.com is not responsible for itinerary changes.
Ship Dry Dock Dates: Aug 31 - Sep 28, 2013
Family Departures: 12/14/2013, 12/28/2013
Guides will organize separate activities such as faster but educational walks, beach games, onboard activities, special briefings for children, and special menus and mealtimes. Specialist guides can be assigned to educate and entertain your children throughout the day (group minimum of 10 children), while you enjoy the cruise at your own pace. However, if parents wish to take their children with them in their group, they may do so. Note: On family departures, minimum child age is 4 years. On non-family departures, minimum child age is 8 years.
Cabin accommodations aboard ship; meals aboard ship; all shore activities and excursions; all soft drinks and juices on board; complimentary one-time fully stocked mini-bar in deluxe staterooms; naturalist guide service; onboard star gazing with a naturalist guide; use of snorkeling gear and wetsuits; VIP lounge on outbound flight from Galapagos; onboard complimentary refillable sports water bottle (purified water stations are available throughout vessel); complimentary use of robes in all cabins; sharing transfers between the airport in Baltra and the dock.
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Hotel nights before/after cruise; transfers in Quito or Guayaquil; Galapagos National Park entrance fee, USD$100 (children under 12 subtract $50), subject to change without notice; Galapagos Transit Card ($10 per person); Puerto Villamil tax ($20 per person); international airfare; airfare to/from Galapagos Islands; alcoholic beverages onboard; gratuities to ship crew and naturalists are left to the discretion of the passenger; travel insurance; passport expenses; fuel surcharge $260 (subject to change).
We are happy to add hotels, air and land arrangements as requested, and you will be quoted for services.
Airfare between Quito/Guayaquil and the Galapagos Islands:
The flights between mainland Ecuador (Quito or Guayaquil) and the Galapagos Islands are an additional cost. To secure your seats on often overbooked flights, ExpeditionTrips must reserve these flights for you at the time of cruise booking. Approximate cost (including service fee): $450-$550 per adult; $250-$325 per child under 12 (copy of passport required).
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|2013-04-06, 09:53
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|2013-04-06, 09:56
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Well, Uno is a clone of Jail, she's an exception, I think.
and, really, I don't think that, despite being Type Zeroes, that they were activated first.
Really, I wonder if there aren't other type Zero cyborgs that were made and Subaru and Ginga were the only ones that were truly successful.
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Mastermind Rational
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|2013-05-04, 13:05
|Link #4326
Join Date: May 2007
Location: United States
I know that there are multiple dimensions, and that dimensional ships are necessary to travel through dimensional space between them.
What I'd like is some clarification on the 'dimension' aspect:
Is it actually a single plane of reality? This would mean dimensional space travel is basically a means of FTL transportation to travel between planets within space.
Or alternatively, are dimensions are actually multiple realities (i.e. alternate worlds theory)? This would potentially mean there countless worlds in different planes of reality, and possibly even multiple Earths.
I'm kinda leaning towards the former.
|2013-05-04, 13:10
|Link #4327
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
This is one of many things that the franchise never clarifies, though we can be pretty sure that there are no "alternate Earths" even if there ARE alternate dimensions.
The idea that dimensional space-ship travel is merely Faster Than Light transport to other star systems in the same universe IS consistent with what we see.
Aside from the Wolkenritter, no one is ever seen teleporting to a planet in another star system without the aid of a TSAB patrol ships assistance.
The Wolkenritter themselves were servants of the Book of Darkness, a device which can teleport between the stars even after being totally physically destroyed. It's easy to interpret things such that the Wolkenritter can no longer teleport like that, since the Book is now truly gone and unable to assist them in that.
I bother to explain all of that, because if it's really a multi-versal setting instead of a singular universe, then Dimensional Teleport could be interpreted as being possible for a mage to cast unassisted -- merely side-stepping from one universe's habitable planet to another, rather than traveling through space in the same universe.
|2013-05-04, 14:15
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I'd be shocked if the Garden of Time didn't have teleporters.
Fate and Arf would have had access to the codes and proper authorization to contact and enlist those machines.
Presea didn't strike Arf off the authorization list because she believed the familiar was dead or gone for good. Or else that she simply wasn't any threat.
And she wasn't; look how easily Presea took her down.
|2013-05-04, 14:43
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The Flame Crussader
Join Date: Aug 2009
Furtherly demonstrated during Gears of Destiny where Signum utterly destroyed the Evil mother by virtue of being faster and a more skilled fighter than her ....then told DP Precia that Fate will surpass her while she was dissapearing ...ouch xDU
|2013-05-04, 16:17
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
So it's easy to say that each of these "bubbles" is a completely different plane of reality.
|2013-06-23, 17:56
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pekanbaru (UTC+07:00)
Age: 32
The easiest (and fanon, unfortunately) explanation is that power sources are jewel-shaped in nanohaverse. Or at least, Jail makes them jewel-shaped after realizing from analyzing the Jewel Seeds that jewel-shapes are [INSERT MAGITECHBABLE EXPLANATION HERE]
|2013-07-30, 07:59
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Join Date: Jul 2013
You know something that has been bugging me. Why didn't the counsel look into the wolkeinriter. They are magical programs and their curse of servitude while under the book of darkness seems more ideal than clones or cyborgs, and probably is more ethical, not that any of it was, and cheaper to, more guarantee that you get what you want, and the agelessness issue, something that Subaru and ginga and the numbers have to worry about.
In short is there any thing on the wolkeinriters origins how the book was corupted and if they were added later.
|2013-07-30, 11:30
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I agree on the plus of having used Wolkenritter-like corps in the past but now is too late to take that direction seeing the original Wolks themselves are largely inefficient against modern threats all based around some form of anti-magic. They managed to get some usefulness back with a lot of help from add ons but i think that would go against the purpouse of having a reliable and cost saving attack force. So far the cyborg-based raptors seem to be the more plausible step in the evolution of infantry due to the wake of mage-killer weaponry all over the universe.
|2013-07-31, 16:06
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True, forgot about raptors, but we don't know anything about the technology that made the wolkientriter anyway since it is both lost logia and likely dead. THe raptors are the mos ethical thing since well imagine a hundred hayates, Scaglati's Sette's and more being produced would be madness.
Now I have another question. I stirkers it shows that Sein can't fly. Being the modle for mass production shouldn't she be able to fly as a basic ability and have basic magic capabilities, after all what is the point of artificial mages if they can't do the basics, fly sheild, bind, and shoot.
Also I want to know where it is mentions that Nanoha is on Medical leave during the four years before Vivid and not on maternity leave being officially a single parent. Nad by where I mean states that it will take years or during the vivid time line she is still crippled.
Sorry about bluntness its just that there are somethings that almost every fan assumes and is actually not true, nor proof of how true it is.
|2013-07-31, 17:02
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The Flame Crussader
Join Date: Aug 2009
Don't have any official source but as far as i know Nanoha was put out of comission for a while sometime after StrikerS in order to recover from the stress her linker core suffered for abusing the Blaster system during the fight in the Cradle.
She still does mostly well in mock fights and by FORCE she looks plenty recovered.
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|Cocaine-Related Disorders Heroin Dependence Opioid-Related Disorders Substance Abuse, Intravenous
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|Johns Hopkins University
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A U.S. warship arrived before dawn Thursday near a 28-foot lifeboat holding four pirates and the kidnapped captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, officials said.
Also nearby was the Maersk Alabama -- which had been seized early Wednesday off the Horn of Africa. All 20 of its remaining crew members were in good physical shape, said Ken Quinn, second officer of the ship, in a satellite call placed by CNN.
Quinn said the pirates were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, while the freighter's crew carried no weapons. The crew -- apparently minus the captain -- locked themselves in the compartment that contains the ship's steering gear, where they remained for about 12 hours with their captive, whom Quinn said they had tied up. The three other pirates "got frustrated because they couldn't find us," he said.
I will keep you updated as this situation develops.
Some important lessons we can learn from this are:
1. The U.S. Department of Defense needs to re-tailor its competencies to make more sense in a 21st century world. In my essay entitled "A Republic, Not an Empire: A Radical Re-envisioning of American Military Policy," I argued that our Department of Defense maintains a large standing army that is still focused on fighting conventional, 20th century wars against other nation states, and that the threat of such a war today is very small. Instead, the safety of Americans is most threatened by terrorism and acts of piracy on the high seas. We should streamline and retool our Department of Defense to act as a super efficient counter-terrorism force along with a Navy that effectively patrols the sea lanes to keep international commerce safe for Americans. Our Navy should actively hunt and strike known pirates in potentially dangerous waters.
2. The distances at sea are vast and the U.S. Navy cannot be in all places at all times. For that reason, it is important that commercial ships are able and permitted to arm themselves. A well armed crew of 20 Americans should be able to intimidate and hopefully prevent attack by a handful of a half-dozen pirates on a rundown dhow. Unfortunately, in this case, the Americans were unarmed and the pirates had AK-47s. This is another reason not to reinstate the assault weapons ban. Attorney General Eric Holder may think Americans have no legitimate use for these weapons, but it should be apparent that on the high seas, it makes perfect sense for Americans to carry high-powered assault weapons for their defense. Statistics in America show that less restrictive gun laws correspond to fewer violent crimes in their respective states and localities. Criminals are less likely to attack someone who may be well armed. For the same reason, just letting pirates know that most American civilian vessels are heavily armed would predictably have the same effect.
3. Last of all, notice that these U.S. cargo vessels were carrying food aid to East Africa. This is an eloquent picture of why foreign aid is ineffective. It often does not help its intended beneficiaries. There are a dozen reasons that people offer for why developed nations are affluent and why third world countries are poor. Some take the essentially racist approach and believe it is a result of genetics or culture. They ignore the prosperity of populations as genetically and culturally diverse as the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Ireland, and Japan. Others such as Pulitzer Prize Winner Jared Diamond, seem to think it has something to do with the axial tilt of the continents and the availability of certain kinds of livestock. I submit that the affluent societies have been those that are civil societies- peaceful, stable countries with strong governments, well-enforced private property systems, low levels of corruption, and low levels of government intervention in markets. It is the lack of these things that make a country poor, and it is because of their lack that foreign aid is essentially wasted. It pours wealthy nations' resources down a drain of corruption, war, government waste, crime, and even piracy. The real solution to these countries' problems is to help them develop into strong, thriving, civil societies with fewer threats from endless wars, corrupt politicians, and rogue pirates.


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Kernel Cousin KDE #30 Is Out
Aaron J. Seigo delivers again with Kernel Cousin KDE #30. This week the summaries of the development mailing-lists include talk about KDE 3.1 features, Debian package maintainance, KDE artwork, GCC3 and the new KDE::Enterprise Forum. Enjoy!
Faster startup with GCC3?
Hi all,
Is it true that GCC3 has a kind of objprelink capability, so the startup time of the applications are going to be more faster than the actual ones?
Thank you for any info.
By Juan Ignacio at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Faster startup with GCC3?
It's false. But recent versions of ld have a -z combreloc option (which is enabled by default) which helps to improve startup performance.
By Anonymous at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Focus on speed now
Wouldn't it really be nice if all the KDE hackers, before rushing out
We know that khtml got some tuneups recently, but khtml is one thing
The biggest thing might still be the poor startup performance.
Following the kde-cvs and kde-devel Mailing lists, recently there were some
See this poll where "Speed" is the biggest wish of currently 50% of all
I love KDE, it is what made me quit using windows
Anonymous Coward
By Anonymous Coward at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
've no experience of KDE code, but I know C++, and virtual functions are a pretty core part of what makes C++ such a powerful language. It is possible you could conceive an alternative using templates, but that would bloat the size of libraries and apps trememdously. Then you'd have performance problems 'cause it would take up too much memory! It's basically not something you can simply scrap for speed.
In response to the first comment on GCC3 speed ups, it's got better support for C++ generally, and does a better job with the linker, but from what I've heard we won't see any real improvement till GCC 3.1.
By Bryan Feeney at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
Here are the details (read the whole thread) :
(I've only recently started C++, sorry for being not precise)
By Anonymous Coward at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
Ok, hi. I'm a windows user. Yeah, bring on the flames. I also use KDE (unsurprising, really, I didn't end up here by random IE clicks). Let me address the point above. I'm a C++ coder, nothing under linux it's all 'doze based, but the principles are the same.
Virtual functions are gonna give you code overhead. They do reduce the speed of your code, because you're trying to maintain a vtable of functions (strictly "class methods") that have been derived from a different source. It is incredibly easy not to use virtual functions. Want to know how easy? Its the difference between this:
virtual void woot(int a);
void woot(int a);
Not much difference eh. I have no freakin idea why this guy is recommending you use template classes instead of virtual functions - hello? they are 2 different things. Go hit yourself with a copy of C++ for Dummies. For those of you who find that book too confusing, it's as simple as this - put a virtual function in a base class, and you are forced to include it in all the classes you derive it from.
Anyways, aside from that. KDE is nice, but it's way too slow. Put comparitively, installing RedHat or Debian with KDE2, and Win2k with MS Office for eg on the same box (p2-400), and Windows blows KDE away for speed. KDE is so slow it becomes unusable. I dont want to have to wait 30 seconds just for my freakin file manager to appear. I'd rather open a shell and do it manually than wait - but then whats the point of KDE.
Sure, I thought linux was meant to be faster/more stable than windows. Not in my world.
By dB at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
Okay, now you're just flipping. 30 seconds to start Konqueror on a P2-400? Please. My konqueror appears almost instantaneous on my computer which is much less beefy than a PII. Its only a Celeron, and KDE is just heaven on it.
Don't blame KDE for something *you* are doing wrong please.
Quite obviously you don't understand the importance of virtual functions either, do you. Can you say super-casting? Maybe reading books meant for dummies isn't such a good thing, huh?
By ac at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
MFC... is that really C++?
At any rate virtual tables add some overhead, just like funcitons add overhead to C. Really it is the compilers job to make the code run faster. I would study some more, maby even take a class in compilers, it is interesting stuff, and would help you look less foolish.
So in short yes inheritance makes overhead, but then again, if we all wanted to run blindingly fast we would all write raw opcodes, Assemblers add too much overhead ;)
Oh btw, you will, on takeing a class on compilers find out why C++ is better than writeing all in raw assmembly... it scales better. All of the code duplication would invite situations for bugs, and bloat the size even more.
-ian reinhart geiser
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
The whole "virtual functions are slow" thing is misleading. Yes, virtual functions are slower
The only common alternative is the use of switch statements.. But those are less
The overhead is also not at all that signficiant -- a few
By A Sad Person at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
Is Linux faster then the Windows kernel? I would think so.
You say that it takes 30 seconds to bring up the file manager and you're still using KDE! With that kind of performance I would wipe it off my harddrive right away.
By zank at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
>Virtual functions are gonna give you code overhead. They do reduce the speed
You're violating the good old 90/10 principle (10% of the code spents 90% of the time). Rewriting methods that are called once won't get you anywhere. Like all other low-level optimizations you are only wasting time (and obfuscate the code) unless you concentrate on the hotspots. And even there it is rather unlikely that virtual methods are the cause, unless you have tight-innerloops that frequently invoke them. Especially the startup delay won't change by doing any optimizations in KDE, it's a problem of runtime-linking.
By Tim Jansen at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
if you are really a C++ coder you should look into a career change. or at least start using a language you understand better.
in the email thread that was referenced they were talking about classes that use copy-on-write ref counted memory to make passing objects by value cheap. it is not as cheap as passing pointers since you will still have the overhead of the ctor and refcounting, but try assigning a QString to another QString several thousand times and see how quick it is. however, as fast as it is, it isn't quite as fast as using plain pointers.
that is what they were talking about. nothing about virtual methods.
and what is this shit about "put a virtual method in a base class and you are forced to include it in all the classes you derive it from"? i suppose you meant "derive from it", and i also think you were confused and thinking about pure virtual methods. virtual methods don't give you any more overhead than regular methods (which also get inherited. shock, shock!) when the linking can be done at compile time. it is only when you take advantage of features such as polymorphism that force run time linkage that you incur a performance penalty (beyond what is normal for a function/method call), and even that isn't a huge issue. vtables aren't exactly memory intensive either.
no, it isn't the use of virtual methods that cause horrible slow downs, though they do have a small cost.
on that note, it is often quite practical to use a virtual method as that often saves development time and, used correctly, can even streamline your runtime operations.
as for konq taking 30s to start, please try a properly built set of KDE binaries from a recent release. i would suggest something like 2.2.2 by SuSe, Redhat or Debian. they all do quite good with their builds (as does fbsd, apparently). also note that virtual methods or no, the start up time issues have to do with the linker and shared libraries.
i'm still wondering if you are a really clever troll or just a moron who thinks he's a coder.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
Templates and inheritance combined can give you the same flexibility as virtual functions and no extra overhead. What you loose is object polymorphism.
It's a tradeoff:
1) can give you a tremendous flexibility and extensibility at runtime. The price is speed. But who, cares, buy a bigger machine. If you have a smaller machine, then run a simple window manager or checkout KDE 1.0/Gnome 1.0 or something from CVS and run that.
2) can give you blistering execution speeds which is in some cases faster than C. The price you'll have to pay is memory usage. But then again, buy some more ram sticks. You always have the KDE/Gnome 1.0 option.
Software is in symbiosis with hardware. When hardware gets better, then software tend to utilize the extra boost to do something useful. It's a fact of life. Deal with it.
I suggest that you should probably read up on C++ before starting to bash out on people. Obviously, the guy you bashed, probably read a couple of more books than you have...
By Jörgen S at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Microsoft has taught a whole generation of very bad concepts.
MSFT has built lousy software for such a long time, that ppl are buying into it.
By a.c. at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Virtual Functions
Virtual functions are useful for many reasons. I guess your C++ for Dummies book doesn't really cover OOP. To tell you the truth, I have a hard time with some of the more advanced parts of it. But at least I am aware of where I'm ignorant.
I can see, however, where virtual functions make coding easier. This leads to less bug-prone and easier to maintain code. It is a constant trade off. KDE would probably be easier to maintain if it was say, written in Python. But that wouldn't be a good idea (though in 5 years from now when computers are unimaginably fast - who knows?). KDE could have been written in assembly, but that would also be a bad idea.
By eean at Sun, 2002/01/20 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
1) the developers have not been rushing kde3 out the door
2) many of the developers have been concentrating on performance issues
3) start up performance is due to the gnu linker. gnu ld is not part of the kde project. the kde team can not do much about it, though they have helped out the gcc team wherever possible. stop blaming the kde hackers for a weakness in gcc.
4) the speed up bero talked about was not based on any sort of actual benchmarking, it was just a number he pulled out of the air based on an educated guess.
5) bero wasn't talking about virtual method usage, he was talking about things like copy-on-write shared memory based classes being passed about
6) polls of users are nice, but they rarely tell the developers things they didn't know, nor do they often result in one of those users going, "hey, you know what, i'm going to help make something happen."
perhaps i'm just bitter tonight. or perhaps seeing the same wrong-headed things said over and over again (though i understand how people arive at those concepts) just gets exasperating after a while?
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
I totally agree. This discussion is *old*, and a certain percentage in a certain poll doesn't make something happen.
By Johnny Andersson at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
I am not a KDE developer. I wouldn't like to critizise the job of the KDE developers but I found sad that you blamed gcc. Why? It's simple: You developed a product (call it A) using some other (call it B). When developing A you should know the weekness of B. If A is bad due to B it's your fault for having used it. Remember KDE 1. This was fast! Maybe you should have use C instead? Ok, let's say that C++ is nicer than C. Then just accept that KDE is slow because you decided it to be but not because of the gnu linker. Don't critisize gcc the same way you don't like KDE being critisized.
By lanbo at Tue, 2002/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
I am a developer (albiet not a KDE developer). There are two problems with what you are saying.
When you design a project, you use tools. When you then profile the project, you find where the slow spots are. It is perfectly reasonable to honestly say: "A big slowdown in launch speed is due to this tool".
The second problem is that the KDE project does not deliver anything but source. Any C++ compiler on any POSIX/X based system should be able to compile the entire environment. Effort has been made to make it work with the Solaris compilers from Sun, and on many OSes like AIX, BSD, Linux and Solaris.
So it's more like: "Hey, we built this blueprint for a widget. You can use wood or steel. If you use wood, we've noticed it can catch on fire." GCC is not the only compiler used to compile KDE, but pointing out (and trying to fix) it's weaknesses is perfectly reasonable.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2002/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
> certain C++ features that have huge overhead. (Virtual functions IIRC)
The overhead of virtual functions is barely measurable (check "The C++ Object Model", by S. Lippman).
By Guillaume Laurent at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
>The overhead of virtual functions is barely measurable (check "The C++ Object Model", by S. Lippman)
oh now you did it, you actually sited an actual source containing valid facts... just for that you should be kicked off of the dot ;)
I think the largest problem with C++ is the fact that old school ignorant C and VBasic developers try to code with it. You cannot write efficent C++ with a C style. I have seen this in numerous clients code bases. The only thing C++ about them is the compiler. OOD and C++ are like any tool, they can be made to suck if you do not understand them.
Either way, I have seen how well KDE/QT scales, and how well motif scaled. This is a reason why I reccomend QT over MFC and Motif now.
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Focus on speed now
> Wouldn't it really be nice if all the KDE hackers, before rushing out
Working on performance issues is an extremely tedious work. It requires a lot of knowledge about the overall architecture, it requires huge amounts of time, preferably a really fast machine to make gprof enabled builds in reasonable time and a certain amount of knowledge about code generation and how C++ code gets translated.
Most KDE hackers work on KDE in their free time. They do it because it is fun,
It is certainly not fun to sit down, make a gprof build, run applications, make profiling test cases to find out where performance issues are, study other peoples code, etc. It is not something you can enforce (that's how I read your statement) on people. You have to motivate themm to do it. If it's not combined with fun few people are going to do it in their free time, no matter how many polls are being made and how many users complain on lists. They better get down and dig into the code to help out!
By Anonymous at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
I think it's a mistake to include tabbed browsing support in Konqueror. Don't get me wrong -- tabbed browsing is great, but it is not the kind of task that individual applications should handle. Currently Konqueror windows are summarized in the taskbar -- the taskbar could just as well create a repositionable list of Konqueror windows that becomes visible as soon as you click the Konqueror main task in the taskbar (which would be the last window selected, or the first window in the order). This way, any application with many windows (e.g. multi-windowed e-mail, news, FTP, IRC ..) would be able to utilize this feature if the user wants it to, whereas the application developers would save a lot of time. Certainly it would also be possible to do this in a "tab-like" fashion, although this may be trickier than using an additional taskbar the content of which changes when you select an application that has multiple windows.
I've submitted this as a wishlist item:
By Eloquence at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Personally, I would disagree. I sed galeon for awhile (though currently I am using Konqi), and the one feature I desperately miss from Galeon is the tabbed interface. Since Galeon and Mozilla both have tab support, I think that Konqi should have this too -- and that, if you don't want it, or want it in a different way, this is something that should be "yet another option".
By Matthew Kay at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
I like tabbed browser!
please hack it for us!:)
By Mauro at Fri, 2002/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
So you want something like PWM?
PWM is a tabbed window manager - each window can have lots of clients running in it. See
By Jon at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Wow, someone actually understood what I wrote :-). Thanks for the link, PWM is interesting.
By Eloquence at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
why would it be a mistake if it is configurable abd you can turn it off? in fact, it will probably be off by default. if you don't like it, it won't get in your way. some people really DO like it though (i'm not one of them) and so will be happy to have the option to take advantage of tabbed browsing/file management.
so don't worry, be happy.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
He's not saying he doesn't want it, he's specifically saying that he just wants it implemented in a way that allows for expandability and use in multiple applications.
By Carbon at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
aaah... i just reread it again and i think i see what he's asking for: extending the taskbar so it can be configured to just show one "tab" for each window of the active application ... this is already pretty much how i use the taskbar with task grouping turned on (though of course it also shows all the other windows too). i think one of the strengths of tabbed browsing is that it puts this interface directly inside the application's UI so it is within easy reach of the menus, toolbars, etc ... it also means you don't need to switch the whole window nor move your mouse very far from the application itself, which can be a big win if you don't run the app maximized or have a taskbar at the top of your screen. *shrug*
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
I love that idea, and have been wanting something like that for quite some time. I recently read an old article on OS/2's Workplace Shell, which had a similar feature, and it got me thinking about it again.
By Rakko at Mon, 2002/01/21 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
I think the main points in tabbed browsing are:
Your suggestion (which looks very much like the already available task grouping!) doesn't address either of those requests.
By David Faure at Mon, 2002/01/21 - 6:00am
For a common tabbing approach
I think that tabbed sub-windows are very interesting for Konqueror, but it is also interesting for each multi-sheet program. For Kate (already here), KWord, KSpread (already here) and so... even KMail, KNode... And it would be possible to create in the same way these tabbed sub-windows... It would be very innovating and powerful...
What would be also very powerful is the ability to create taskbars in every app in the same way, creating buttons from ANY command of the menus. It was made by a fantastic program in Windows 3.1, a shareware called Superbar (buttons had one icon or one text or icon + +ext).
Perhaps it would have been a good idea for KDE 2, now I fear it is too late...
By Alain at Tue, 2002/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
I believe another benefit of tabbed-browsing really becomes evident when on a slow or error-prone connection. For example, when doing queries in a search engine, I can quickly scan through and load all the pages I might want to investigate more deeply into. While I'm reading the first, the rest are loading. The best part is it can be configured not to focus/raise the windows.
But I see the point in doing this at the window manager level. Sawfish is the closest thing I can find, so far, which does just what I explained. If I want a window to have focus, I want to tell it to do so. Even certain dialog boxes annoy the hell out of me when I'm typing and they pop up.
Two features I'd like using:
1. Window doesn't get focus unless I tell it to.
Gnome consolidates windows into one icon when it sees fit, I'm happy with its judgement. I'd hope that multiple windows of the same application share resources. Unless they're all running java... I don't forsee a problem with having more than 100 or so open. Perhaps you could run many more in a tabbed environment, but who cares at that point?
By hank at Mon, 2002/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Please, don't do this to Konquerer. UI developers have been arguing over MDI for years now, and the conclusion has _always_ been (Read Alan Cooper's work. Read Nielsen's surveys. Read any UI expert's comment on MDI) that MDI is a broken concept, and that users can't handle it properly. Beyond that, it adds navigational and operational complexity. There is no need for us to main Konq's interface by adding a feature that _should be provided by the WM_.
The _window manager_ is responsible for handling window placement. If you think accessing windows in a tabbed fashion is convenient (and it is, of course), look for a window manager that supports this feature. Ion and PWM are two great examples of WMs that do. Oh, sure they lack features. Probably a lot _more_ good would be done spending time working on getting them up to speed than hurting Konq.
Mozilla suffers from tabs (though not horribly, yet, because we don't have an end-user market share), and we are only beginning to see problems caused by the confusion it creates. It's just a sticky pit of UI hacks now that it's in.
Want an example?
Horrible. Don't let this happen to you.
By Christian Reis at Wed, 2002/07/03 - 5:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Your example is broken. The bug is about being able to lose all tabs in a window by a simply keystroke or click. The comment is about a strange suggestion as solution. Just because ridicilous solutions for a simple bug are discussed does not mean the behaviour is too complex. The simple solution is to pop up a window and ask for confirmation (which is the main suggestion in this bug).
Image KDE had a method to quit by a click (it has). Imagine that it would quit without asking beforehand (it does not, it asks you how to proceed). You could lose all the state of all your windows on your desktop. Image somebody suggests a ridicilous solution for that. Does that make the concept of Windows in KDE overly complicated? No. So doesn't the example you posted for Tabs.
Even if tabs would be complicated, there is no reason for users to suffer as you like to say. All people I know which don't like tabs, just don't use them. Easy as that.
That said, yes, tabs should be handled by the window manager, presumed I can still have all the comfort that direct support by the applications gives me (easy keyboard switching, drag and drop, creating new tabs, and so on).
By Benjamin Nelson at Fri, 2003/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Hmmm... I'm not sure how old this thread is, as it doesn't give yearly timestamps, and the one gentleman mentioned KDE2, which is now being replaced.
However, I have an opinion on the matter.
I LIKE tabbed browsing. I LIKE tabbed Konsole. The ability to add another window, within the current window, and switch between said windows with a keystroke is very useful and efficient.
I hate how the current setup works on window architectures. Windows never seem to open up the same size, and there is little hierarchy between windows of the same application. (ALT-TAB just doesn't do it for me...) (although I admit that KDE attempts to change this with the current taskbar)
Isn't UNIX all about efficiency anyway? I mean, honestly, if I wanted to point and click all the time, I'd run a Microsoft box. (And what's up with everyone assuming KDE only runs on Linux?)
As for issues regarding implementation: (window manager vs. application)
Again, this may be a really really old thread, but I just thought I would chime in with my two cents.
By Matthias Trevarthan at Fri, 2002/08/02 - 5:00am
Re: Tabbed browsing is the wrong approach
Don't you feel stupid now.
By Gnome User at Sat, 2003/01/04 - 6:00am
Outdated information about Debian KDE packages...
Last time I talked to Chris Cheney, the future KDE3 maintainer for Debian, he informed me that due to lack of time, Daniel Stone will not be able to maintain the KDE2 packages. It appears that for now Chris will be maintaining both.
By Kamil Kisiel at Sat, 2002/01/19 - 6:00am
Document/File Menu entry: send document
Here's a good feature I saw when looking over by boss's shoulder (he uses windows):
Why don't we implement this feature in all KDE applications which process singular files? I imagine all of the KOffice applications could increase usability with such a feature.
Let's say, KWord links to KMail, registering the KWord-document as an attachment to an Email.
This functionality would be applicable to KPim-related tools and many more...
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I've been cruising along very nicely thank you for the last few months. I made the mistake of getting used to it I think … Great, I feel fine … let's get on with stuff then. Well, you only live once, people to see, things to do, natural history surveys to complete, courses to go on, friends to see … Spanish to learn, embroidery competitions to enter.
Next time I see my rheumatologist, I thought, perhaps we can talk about reducing the MTX.
When will I learn?!
It started a couple of weeks ago with sudden, severe pain in my right thumb. Then it went away. I didn't see it as a warning sign – I'd got too used to being footloose and flare free. Then it came back … and then other bits started to hurt too … ooooooooh-k, maybe this is a flare, I thought.
And it was.
Fortunately not a terrible one – one of my flare-ettes/aka fizzles, but bad enough to act as a little reminder. It's over now … I think … but I'm back to being careful …
Well, apart from botanical drawing class an hour's drive away on Saturday, more natural history recording on Sunday, interviewing tomorrow …
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Iraq needs to purchase 86,000 metric tons of rice per month to meet consumer demand in the beleaguered country, the director general of the Iraqi Grain Board told members of the USA Rice Federation and its staff.
The statement by Khalil Assi during a meeting in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Feb. 23 could mean an increase in the amount of rice being shipped by U.S. merchants to the Middle East, according to Rice Federation leaders.
Iraq began to purchase U.S. rice in April 2005 and, by the end of the year, had bought more than 300,000 metric tons, making it the third largest importer of U.S. rice in terms of value and the fourth largest in terms of quantity. U.S rice gained roughly 35 percent of Iraq's total rice imports in 2005.
"In December 2004, the USA Rice Federation made the resumption of U.S. rice sales to Iraq our No. 1 goal," said USA Rice Chairman Lee Adams. "This goal has been accomplished with resounding success, and yet there appears to be room for additional growth for U.S. rice exports to Iraq."
USA Rice has been meeting with Iraqi officials since February 2004 to make Iraq more knowledgeable about the U.S. rice industry and a more efficient purchaser of U.S. rice.
ADM, Riceland Foods, The Rice Co., and USA Rice staff met with the Iraqi Grain Board for an educational meeting to provide its members with detailed information on U.S. rice quality, purchasing and tendering specifications. The group also discussed the possibility of future educational efforts and promotional activities.
"Much work remains to be done, and it is clear that this is an evolutionary process," said USA Rice President and CEO Stuart Proctor.
"U.S. rice doesn't have the 80 percent market share that it had during the 1980s, however, with additional informational efforts and promotion activities, U.S. rice exports will continue to grow making it possible for Iraq to resume its position as the No. 1 import market for U.S. rice."
U.S. rice exports to Iraq topped 500,000 metric tons in 1988 prior to the U.S. government-imposed embargo on exports to that market.
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Danson, Bailey,Gaulter, Cookson, Brownbill, Cardwell. Do you have a Lancahsire connections with these surnames? If so I would love to hear from you, as we may be connected through my great great grandparents Henry Danson (1806-1881) and Elizabeth Calvert ( 1811 -1879)
When I started to find out about their family, I only knew of my great grandfather James and a family story about a younger brother Peter buried in St. Chad's Churchyard, Poulton-le-Fylde.
|James Danson, my great grandfather
A search through census returns found that the family was far more extensive than I had ever thought with nine children born. Information on James' brothers and sisters came largely from parochial records, census returns and monumental inscriptions. Then one edition of the Lancshire Family History and Heraldry Magazine gave, in the listing of member's interests, three separate entries for the surnames Cardwell, Cookson, and Gaulter - all married names of the Danson sisters. I made contact and amazingly all proved to be connections, adding more information to my family story.
Further evidence of the extended family came from a page in the Mannex Directory of 1851. The list of professions and trades in Poulton included:
Inns & Taverns
Golden Ball, Ball Street. Wm Gaulter,
King's Arms, Market Pla. Cornelius Cardwell,
Golden Ball, Ball Street. Wm Gaulter,
King's Arms, Market Pla. Cornelius Cardwell,
Brownbill, Jas., Market Place
Henry and Elizabeth Danson had 9 children and 37 known grandchildren, with the tradition of naming children after family members very evident. By the turn of the century, this practice began to lapse, and new names appeared amongst the new generations. - Lily, Florence, Edith, May, Hannah, Dorothy, Ethel.
This was an age of great social change, from rural to urban life. The period saw the rise of nearby
Blackpool and Fleetwood and the impact of the railway. New occupations appeared in the census entries for the family. Henry himself moved from being a yeoman farmer to a toll collector over the new Shard Bridge over the River Wyre. New occupations were appearing in the census - pointsman, railway telegraph clerk, railway porter, railway coach examiner, and railway labourer. The lives of the Danson children illustrated the hazards and changes in Victorian life.
Elizabeth Bailey (1831-1885)
When my great grandfather James was born in 1852, his eldest sister Elizabeth was already married to Thomas Bailey. They had six children - the eldest William born a few weeks before his uncle James Danson. In the 1861 census, Elizabeth and her husband were at her parents - something that recurred with other daughters in later censuses. Elizabeth died at the age of 53, leaving a young family that included daughters Margaret Ellen and Mary Jane (the four names of Elizabeth's sisters) aged only 11 and 9. The family must have rallied round, as Margaret went to live with her elder sister Elizabeth and family, whilst Mary Ellen joined the household of her older brother Henry.
Grace Cookson (c.1832-1891)
Grace Cookson (c.1832-1891)
Grace, named after her paternal grandmother, married joiner John Cookson, They had three sons and one daughter Elizabeth. Grace died aged 58 on 28 December 1891. By the time of the 1901 census her husband had remarried, with his wife Elizabeth "keeper of a sweet shop, working on own account at home" and a daughter Alice, aged 7. Sadly Alice died in 1915 aged 22 with the touching epitaph "She lived respected and died lamented". Grace's name lived on in her granddaughter and great granddaughter who married Joshua Mahadevan - thus linking the Danson line with
Mary Gaulter (1837-1864)
Mary Gaulter (1837-1864)
Jane Caldwell (1849-?)
Ellen Longshaw (1841-?) Fifth born and fifth daughter, Ellen at 25 years old had an illegitimate daughter, Mary - very likely named after her sister Mary who had died two years earlier following childbirth. In the 1871 census, Ellen was described as an unmarried daughter and unemployed housekeeper, living with her parents. www.familysearch.org. provided new information on Ellen with the fact she married James Longshaw in 1872 and had a son John on 16th October 1872 - information provided by a descendant in
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Mary married William Gaulter in 1859 and in the 1861 census they were living with her parents, with Mary described as a laundress. Their life together was unfortunately short. A son John Robert was baptised in 1862 Two years later William Henry (named after both grandfathers) was born, and baptised, on 30th May 1864 - the same day as his mother Mary was buried at St.
's Churchyard at the young age of 26. Chad
Margaret Hornby and Brownbill (1839-?)
At the age of 18, Margaret married Richard Hornby in 1857. The marriage was short and following the death of Richard, 24 year old Margaret married again in 1864 James Brownbill, a Poulton watchmaker. But within eight years, Margaret became a childless widow for the second time by the age of 33, with James buried at St. Chad's Churchyard in 1872 at the young age of 37.
Ellen Longshaw (1841-?) Fifth born and fifth daughter, Ellen at 25 years old had an illegitimate daughter, Mary - very likely named after her sister Mary who had died two years earlier following childbirth. In the 1871 census, Ellen was described as an unmarried daughter and unemployed housekeeper, living with her parents. www.familysearch.org. provided new information on Ellen with the fact she married James Longshaw in 1872 and had a son John on 16th October 1872 - information provided by a descendant in
Jane married groom Thomas Caldwell, who himself came from a large family of 1 brother and 8 sisters. In the 1871 census, the couple with their young daughter Ellen were at Jane's parents' house, making a large household of nine, By 1891 Thomas was in the nearby fishing port of Fleetwood with his daughter Ellen, and young son Thomas aged 10, with 13 year old Cornelius at his aunt's. Thomas' status was given as "married" but there was no sign of his wife Jane. An online search traced a Jane Cardwell, described as a 42 year old nurse at the home of 82 year old William Rowcroft and his much younger wife Margaret aged 58. Margaret was a distant relation, like Jane, a great granddaughter of John Danson and Margaret Fayle. Jane was not back with her husband in 1901, with Thomas in the same house with his daughter and two grandchildren. Had the marriage broken down? More research needed here!
It proved more difficult to identify the whereabouts in the later censuses of James' two brothers, John and Henry, until an internet contact on www.genesreunited.co.uk, proved to be the descendant of John and had in her possession a family bible, which included three pages of scrawled writing, largely relating to Henry Danson. (See the posting "Danson Bible Scribbles" - 6th March 2011) and also a detailed listing of John's family which indicated the day that his children were born. (below). John became a coachman and was listed as from Clitheroe in the family mourners in the newspaper report on his brother James funeral in 1906.
Brother Henry remains am enigma - in 1881 he was unmarried and a railway porter, and I need to do more work to trace him.
As for the youngest of the Danson children James (my great grandfather), he is the subject of many of my blogs postings. And as for "brother" Peter, mentioned at the start of this account, that is another story!
See Also:
Danson Discoveries - 4th Feb. 2011
Grandfather William Danson - 17th Feb. 2011
Great Grandfather James Danson - 25th Feb 2011
Great Grandfather James Danson - 25th Feb 2011
Great Grandfather's 11 Children - 10th March 2011
Great Great Grandfather Henry Danson - 2nd April 2011
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Arlene Withers was elected Chair of the Board October 2013 after serving two three-years terms of service, spending one year as Vice Chair.
Withers has served the Heifer Board for seven years in various roles including as Board Vice Chair and Chair of the Audit Committee. She has experienced Heifer's work on the ground in several countries including Cambodia, Viet Nam, Rwanda, Nepal and the United States.
Professionally, Withers currently serves as the National Director of Organizational and Employee Development for SAG-AFTRA, the union representing 165,000 performers and broadcasters in the entertainment industry. In that capacity, she is responsible for employee engagement, training and development, employee communications, performance management, and executive coaching. Withers is a certified mediator and holds coaching certifications from California State University–Long Beach and Fielding Graduate University, and is a Professional Certified Coach, or PCC, as designated by the International Coach Federation.
Withers' interest in Heifer started with a study tour to Asia a decade ago. The primarily women-run projects were a big draw for her. Through her work on a variety of boards, Withers has realized progress in social issues specifically those that affect women and children such as health care and economic empowerment. She is past vice president of California Women Lawyers Association and served for many years on the boards of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Fielding Graduate University and the Partners in Care Foundation. Withers belongs to the Organization of Women Executives, the International Coach Federation and the California State Bar Association.
Withers received a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with highest honors from the University of Connecticut and a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law. She has also pursued doctoral studies in anthropology on full fellowships from Yale University and the University of Rochester.


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TWO weeks ago, Boy Scout Troop 98 and I ventured out into a rainy Saturday afternoon on a mountainside not far from Seattle. The hike was muddy and at times difficult, but everyone had a good time. This is what scouting is all about.
I won't be leading any more hikes. Two days later, I learned that the Boy Scouts of America revoked my membership, and with it my ability to be a scoutmaster, for the simple reason that I affirmed when asked that I am gay.
The opportunity to give back to an organization that has given me so much and to pay forward the cheerful service of scouting to a new generation means everything to me.
As anyone who has been involved with the Boy Scouts knows, starting new units is difficult. It requires time, resources and energy to contend with youths, to coordinate with their parents and to develop a working team of adult leaders. I started this unit in the summer of 2013 and it was officially chartered in November.
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Rainier Beach, where my scout troop was based, is a collection of neighborhoods in South Seattle. It is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United States of America. It is an underserved community. The opportunity to provide the scouting experience in a community where Boy Scouts' values are needed is a quintessential example of the Scouts' slogan in action — the charge to "do a good turn daily."
I came out in 1988, when being a gay man was difficult. I worried how it would impact my family, education and employment opportunities. I worried about my personal safety.
But life has gotten better. I haven't felt the sting of discrimination in years. Not until now.
Rather than express its concern to me, Boy Scouts of America issued a news statement: "We don't believe the topic of sexual orientation has a role in Scouting and it is not discussed unless it is deliberately injected into Scouting," the statement said, according to a Seattle Times news story.
Does this mean if a straight scoutmaster tells his troop that his wife made cookies for everyone, he has injected his heterosexuality into scouting? Of course not.
But what if I brought in cookies made by my husband? The Boy Scouts of America's position is an excuse for a discriminatory double standard.
The Boy Scouts started to accept members who are openly gay this year but it continues to exclude them from leadership positions. Knowing the policy, I never made a point of my sexual orientation.
When someone asked if I was married I said "yes" and didn't say more.
When someone asked if I had kids, I said, "No, but we have a spoiled cat, and a bunch of nieces and nephews who we are fond of."
The subject of my husband came up after NBC News asked me a question point-blank while profiling our units, and I answered the reporter's question plainly and completely.
After all, the first point of the Scout Law is that "a Scout is trustworthy." The difficulty of this policy, like the U.S. military's former "don't ask, don't tell" stance, is that communication becomes incredibly difficult.
My identity as a gay man has been known to my neighbors, my church congregation and my Facebook friends. It is known to anyone who knows me or searches for my name on the Internet.
It was known by the scouting professionals who accepted the application to form a troop.
For all of the respect I have for the local Scouts organization, the Chief Seattle Council, and the national Boy Scouts of America, the Scouts are obviously behind the times on this issue of equality.
I expect them to exercise judgment and leadership — two virtues central to being a Scout — to finish what was started with the vote last May, when the organization stopped discriminating against gay youths. Working together, we will get this done.
Geoffrey McGrath is an Eagle Scout who lives in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood. He has a master's degree in social work from the University of Washington.


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I have an eMachines PC from 2005 that came with Win-XP and 512mb of ram. I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and Windows-xp still ran like it was a 4 cylinder instead of a turbocharged V8. I discovered Puppy and burned a Live CD, installed to a USB drive and started using Puppy. It didn't take me long to use GParted to re-size my Windows NTFS partition and create one for a full install of Puppy Lucid 5.2.8. I did a "full" install and used Grub4Dos to boot it.....I love puppy as it FAST on my PC and I can customize it to what I want/need. I installed some games and Firefox/Flash; IceWm, and assorted Wallpapers I like. The built in utilities are great, and Puppy is the best distro i have tried. I tried Ubuntu and all it's "cousins" and did not like them. I converted my high school buddy David to Lucid Puppy and he used it to revive a couple of old Win-98 PCs laying around his shop, and amazed the "techie" where he works. Their company builds and markets bar code reading systems. I like the fact that I can take puppy with me on a usb stick.
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I found my old 512MB Ram stick yesterday and Monday when I am off I plan on pulling the 2GB of RAM and going back to 512MB just to see how Puppy Runs on 512MB of RAM...on my PC...not a permanent change just an experiment...
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I have a HP Pentium 4, 2.8ghz cpu, originally had 512mb memory bios dated February 23, 2005
I am currently running Lucid 528-002 on ext4 partition, full install and
luci-529 on ext4 partition, full install
Both boot in less that 45 seconds and are very fast.
I still have another computer with windows xp that i use couple of times a year for application that I have not mastered in puppy, i.e. Excel Spreadsheet graphs
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My daughter got a new laptop and I picked up her old Averatec laptop, 512 MB RAM, 2.2 GHz processor, 60 GB HD, Win XP. For a while I booted Puppy from CD and saved to USB when I used the laptop (it wouldn't boot from USB), but it turned out I never had any use for XP. So, I wiped the NTFS partition, substituted a little swap partition and a big ext3 partition, and did a frugal install of Lucid 5.2.8 to the HD. Works great--I don't miss XP a bit!
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Well boys and girls...I pulled both my 1GB sticks of RAM and put my 512MB stick back in to see how Puppy would run on 512MB of RAM...it's unbelievably FAST compared to Windows XP. Running Firefox 8 on Star Trek web site playing a Video, Gmail and Forum open and using less then 310MB of RAM...[img] I have a friend with an old Compact with 512 MB of RAM...going to try to "convert" him over to Puppy...he wants a faster PC...LOL [/img]
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Isn't "better than Windows XP" a little like saying "better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish"?
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Moose On The Loose wrote:
Isn't "better than Windows XP" a little like saying "better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish"?
No, because XP is actually a comparatively
version of Windows. Compare Vista, or Win ME, for example . . .
If I did really need to use Windows on an older machine, I'd want XP. Fortunately, though, I don't!
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The mud-elephant, wading thru the sea, leaves no tracks..
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Yes, Puppy is a lovely runner just a pity that things eg. many printers do not run along because of lack of drivers. Windws XP is slower and heavier but everything works.
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And....the two characters in the header..
Ahh, yes...
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Good catch; I totally missed that.
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I have WinXP, Rex Bang and 5.28 triple booting, both puppies frugal installed. I use one of the 2 puppies most of the time. Both are incredibly fast. WinXP is OK, but seems to lag a little and doesn't seem as snappy. It's an older desktop that I bought used cheap. It's an Athlon XP+ 3200 2.2 GHz with 1 GB RAM. The only thing that I have problems with on Puppy is that I can't get the Xscan utility to recognize my printer/scanner. It will recognize the printer on CUPS. Also, it would be nice to have a sleep/hibernate function on Puppy. Finally, I love using dual monitors. On 2 of my laptops, one with Vista and the other XP, I have dual monitor setup, which makes things more productive.
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Windows XP is NOT a bad OS.
The only cons I have with it mostly is WPA and WGA.
I find XP SP3 to use roughly the same amount of RAM as most Linux distros.
I'm afraid it includes Ubuntu and default Debian.
Hibernate and resume are phenomenally fast! (I'm afraid it beats Puppy)
This is coming from a person that's mostly a Linux person now.
And Xubuntu is real slow at coming back from hibernation.
Hibernation still seems to be a WIP in Linux distros.
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