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Join UD Alumni and Friends for a celebration of William Shakespeare. The day begins with dynamic lectures by two eminent Shakespearean scholars who will talk about Hamlet and the history of Shakespeare's popularization in America. These sessions will be followed by a catered lunch and then a visit to the UD Morris Library for an up-close look at the library's collection of rare Shakespearean books, spanning 400 years of publication history. The day concludes with a matinee performance of Hamlet by the University's Resident Ensemble Players. The cost of the program is $25, which covers the coffee/pastries, catered lunch and theater ticket.
Following coffee and pastries in the morning, participants will first hear Don-John Dugas, Associate Professor of English and a Fellow of the Institute for Bibliography and Editing at Kent State University, speak on "Shakespeare for Everyman".
The second speaker will be Thomas Clayton, Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, speak on "To be or not to be the best of three Hamlets, that is the question".
Following the two morning sessions, a buffet lunch will be served. Participants will then visit the University Library, Department of Special Collections, Class of 1941 Lecture Room and view "Shakespeare Publication through the Ages".
The group will finish the day with a walk to the Roselle Center for the Arts to witness murder, melancholy, and madness in the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in the Thompson Theatre.
This fifth Saturday Symposium has been made possible through the generosity of Charlotte Orth '64 and Kenneth J. Reckford and the Charlotte Orth Shakespeare Fund.
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Don-John Dugas is an Associate Professor of English and a Fellow of the Institute for Bibliography and Editing at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the author of articles on several medieval and early modern writers as well as on the London print trade. His book, Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660–1740 was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. A passionate and engaging educator, he is the recipient of Kent State's three most prestigious teaching accolades: the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teacher Award, the Honors College Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, and the Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher Award. His research into the career of Sir Philip Ben Greet developed out of his interest in the ways commercial forces shape Shakespeare's popularity.
Tom Clayton, Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of numerous books and articles on Shakespeare. Versed in many aspects of Shakespearean scholarship and criticism and an excellent speaker, he has edited The Hamlet First Published, a collection of essays published by the University of Delaware Press on the First Quarto version of the play. He is also the author of a book on Hand D, which many consider our only example of Shakespeare's holograph, in "The Book of Sir Thomas More."
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The Dillingham Renovation
Some interesting things are happening on the way to $500,000.
The campaign to give Dillingham Center its first renovation since the facility opened in 1969 requires $10 million. New York State has already awarded $2.3 million through its Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program. The College will commit $7.2 million. The remaining $500,000 will come, not from the kindness of strangers, but from alumni, parents, and friends who have special places in their hearts for one of the country's foremost theater programs. As of March 2010, $227,500 has been raised.
"As far as I'm concerned, acting in a professional theater company began the first semester of my freshman year," says campaign cochair Larry Hirschhorn '80. "Having had the chance to immerse myself in that atmosphere for four years was a remarkable gift. But things weren't perfect. I remember a lot of makeshift stuff in Dillingham and having to share space with other departments—and that was almost 30 years ago. The time has come to technologically update the place for a new century. One of the most respected theater departments in the country deserves a state-of-the-art building."
Two recent gifts—one from a private donor and one from an appreciative group of alumni — show how a gift to Dillingham can enhance the programs in both performance and production.
Loren Klausner Colbert '78 Names the Ticket Office
Loren Klausner Colbert's love of the theater was engendered by her parents, who often took her to shows in New York as a child. To commemorate her own appreciation of high-quality performance and production, Loren '78, a former president of the Friends of Ithaca College, has elected to name the ticket and house management office in the newly renovated Dillingham Center for the Performing Arts.
The Dr. John Bracewell Sound Laboratory and Studio
Dave Misner '84, Steve Monsey '84, Paula M. Cole '87, Richard Manfredi '84, and Joe Bly '84 — all former students of John "Doc" Bracewell, professor emeritus of theater arts — are putting out a call to raise $25,000 to name a sound laboratory and studio in honor of their former mentor.
"We know money is tight, especially for those of us in theater," says Misner, speaking for alumni and friends involved in the "Honoring Dr. John" effort. "But if we can make our gifts of whatever amount in easy-to-afford installments, we can, for the monthly cost of a couple of cappuccinos, make an impact and honor the man who taught us to perform miracles on a tight schedule and no budget."
For more on "Honoring Dr. John," and to read shared recollections from his former students, many of which involved near-miss (and some not-so-near-miss) collisions backstage, visit site.honordrjohn.com.
Naming opportunities for the Dillingham renovation are available at all levels and include
• dressing room and hallway lockers ($500)
• tribute on the wall of honor ($3,000)
• two piano vocal rooms ($25,000 each)
• library ($25,000) — named
• costume shop ($75,000)
• ticket office ($50,000) — named
• scene shop ($50,000)
• two "smart" classrooms ($75,000 each)
• design studio ($100,000)
• lobby ($500,000)
For a complete list of giving opportunities, and to follow the progress of the campaign, visit ithaca.edu/dillingham. The Dillingham renovation will culminate in October with the first-ever on-campus reunion of theater alumni.
"The reunion and the campaign to give Dillingham a needed facelift are chances to make the bonds between theater alums even stronger," says drama major and campaign cochair Caroleen Feeney '86. "No matter what amount you can give — whether it's $10 or whether it's more — what's important is to become part of a whole. Connecting is the gift we give ourselves. Connecting and celebrating are wonderful things."


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Here's a Small C... I can never remember the rest ... it's an example of something that caught me out just now on another project. I'm initialising a static member with some code that throws Exceptions. I was at first surprised that the compiler demanded a return statement after the System.exit(), but then again it's a bit much to expect the compiler to know which methods never, ever return. Maybe in Java 8 there'll be an 'exit int' statement? I should be careful what I wish for.
Anyways, here's a contrived example that demonstrates the issue, I'd be interested to know how other Java coders handle the failed static initialiser, and how I can avoid the bogus return statement javac demands.
package com.javaprogrammingforums.domyhomework; public class MissingReturnValue { private final static int THE_ANSWER = theAnswer(); private static int theAnswer() { try { /* imagine an exception here is a show-stopping disaster */ return Integer.parseInt("42"); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } System.exit(1); /* bogus return statement would go here */ } public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("The answer is " + THE_ANSWER); } }
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Ah okay, I've just reaped the benefits of the SC... (still can't remember. Any chance of a link? Say for example to the right of Java Careers? It's an important idea I hadn't seen in Initials until I came to JPFs) and re-arranged my code so that I have a variable declared outside the try..catch block, assign it in the try clause and return that at the end of the method. The System.exit() goes inside the catch clause. It still seems slightly nasty, so I'll leave this as-is in the hope that someone else might have a superior technique.compiling...
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There's this attitude in this country that any man who is interested in or talking to children is a child molester. I think that this is as dangerous an idea as the idea that all women are objects/sluts/etc. It is as destructive as the idea that all Arabs are terrorists. It is not a prejudice that I think should be taken lightly.
(if you're reading this on Facebook, there's a video here - go to http://prettybabies.blogspot.com to see it. If you don't click through, you'll probably also miss the funny pictures coming up)
The implication in the video is that only perverts talk to kids, right? And Leonard is socially aware enough to know that other people (or security cameras!), seeing Sheldon talking to Rebecca, will think he's a pervert. Sheldon, blissfully unaware of most social rules and mores (if you haven't watched the show, he is one of those brilliant scientists who is clueless when it comes to social interaction, and hilarity ensues - you should watch it, it's a good show) doesn't see anything wrong with "making friends" with a little kid.
My husband is a great father. He genuinely enjoys getting down on the floor and playing with the kids - building Lego projects and ramps for Matchbox cars all morning on a weekend. Yet I have seen him totally shut down when the neighborhood kids (mostly girls) come over. He has told me for years, since before we had kids, that he feels like he has to be very careful in his interactions with kids, because he doesn't want to be accused of anything improper. So, for example, if a kid I've never seen falls on his bike in front of my house (true story) I'll run out and help him without a second thought, I'll bring him inside and clean him up, give him a bandaid and a hug, and call his folks for him. My husband will not. (He'd probably call me to come help, honestly, or one of the other female neighbors. He's not just going to leave the kid out there bleeding).
How sad that all the kids of the world are missing out on everything they could learn from him, because our paranoid society that teaches kids that all men have uncontrollable sexual urges. How sad that he has to be so reserved, when he could really have meaningful, mutually beneficial connections with kids.
I thought we believed in the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" in this country! "Oh," the helicopter parents cry, "but what about the chilllllddrrrreeennn?"
(I sent him those paragraphs for approval, because I try not to write about him without permission, and he said, That's very nice of you to say. I would not necessarily call for you or another neighbor, but I would certainly not bring a child (boy or girl that I did not know the parents well) into our house without another adult around. I would help the child up, pick up the bike, and help the kid home. If it were an emergency or if the kid lived a ways away, I'd certainly do first aid and call the parents as appropriate but that would all be done from the porch or front yard, unless another adult was right there. So there you go, I was mostly right.)
I'm glad I didn't grow up in this era. When I was a kid I fell on the way to school on my bike, and a man who lived in that neighborhood - someone I had never seen - stopped, took me to his house, patched me up, gave me a cookie, and called my mom. I was scared and hurt (I still have the scars from that accident on my knees), and he helped me. It never occurred to me that he could be a threat. He was just a nice, middle aged guy, helping a kid in need.
I had a long friendship with a middle aged, unmarried, childless man who lived in my neighborhood (I wonder whatever happened to him...). I remember going to his house to play marbles. He wasn't a particular friend of my parents - just someone who lived in our neighborhood and liked kids (or tolerated me, anyway). He never hurt me. I can only imagine what people would say if I let Mary Grace have a relationship like that with one of the men in our neighborhood. "Well, have you run a criminal background check?"
Oh sure, when I was a kid I heard the "stranger danger" message in school, just like we all did in the 80s, but I also saw that my mom talked to people in the store, and that my extended family did too, and that 99.999% of those interactions were between neutral and friendly, and it overwrote the message I got at school.
So, I don't teach my kids "stranger danger" because I think it's destructive to our society (quite literally). What DO I teach them?
- I've been teaching them since they were about two and a half that they have a "private body" that is not for anyone else to touch. No one is allowed to touch them between their legs unless they're helping them in the bathroom (because they're still at the age where they need help wiping). Because they're not afraid to talk to strangers, they're not afraid to say, "NO! Don't do that!" to strangers, either.
- I've taught them that if something happens, they need to tell, regardless of what the person says.
- I've taught them that we do not keep secrets in our family (unless they're happy secrets, like presents).
- I've taught them that they are not to go inside neighbors' houses without permission (mainly so I know where they are when they're playing, and I don't have to go door to door looking for them).
- I've taught them not to take food from anyone (mainly because I don't want them to spoil their dinner, or to constantly be begging the neighbors for treats!).
- I've taught them to stay out of the street, no matter what (that's kind of a no brainer).
I let my kids, at ages 3 and 4.5, play alone with the other neighborhood children in the front yard on our block. We know all the neighbors nearby, and we know that parents are peeking out of doors and windows constantly to keep an eye on all the kids (mainly to keep them from doing anything stupid - not out of fear). I'm fortunate to live in one of the safest cities in Indiana, one of the safest states.
I hear you - "But even safe cities have child molesters, Amy!!!" you're screaming at your monitor. Yeah, I know. One lived directly across the street from me. And after my head initially flew off (I was pregnant with MG when I found out), I realized that everyone has to live somewhere. As long as we knew, and he knew that we knew, I didn't have any real fear that he would do anything to any of the kids in the neighborhood. (He was a flasher - he had flashed his junk at three 8 year old girls in Toys R Us).
And, as far as I know (and I know pretty well) he didn't. And he moved away after a year.
Free Range Kids (one of my favorite blogs). I suggested that teaching children to be afraid of everyone as children will impede their ability to be successful adults.
She basically came back and told me that my kids weren't ever going to be successful adults because they were going to get kidnapped and molested and killed and then molested again because I'm a horrible mother. Nice.
The competitive mothering aspect of the whole discussion was clear even before I jumped in and called 'em all a bunch of lunatics. "I yelled at these kids and scared the forklift driver, I'm such a good mother!" Another said, "Oh, I don't even let my 3 year old say hello to strangers in stores, and I don't care if people think my kids are rude, because I'm such a good mother!" It's ridiculous. Competitive mothering is the primary cause of all of this hysteria. I was just waiting for someone to jump in and say, "I don't even allow my kids to go outside - they haven't seen sunlight since we brought them home from the hospital, because I'm such a good mother!" And they don't even care that it's done at the expense of all men in this country, and at the expense of their own kids' feeling of security and safety in the world, and at the expense of kids' ability to do normal kid things, like play in the yard!
We all like to brag about our kids, and it feels good to have our opinion of ourselves as "good mothers" reinforced. I just wish people would see the larger picture - the positive interactions they deprive their children of, the erosion of respect for men in our culture ("Everybody Loves Raymond" and other bumbling dad shows, "Law and Order - SVU" which would lead you to believe that it's only a matter of time before everyone is the victim of a serial rapist) - when they teach "stranger danger."
CNN and Fox News have an infinite amount of air time to fill, and they fill it with scaring the snot out of parents. Nancy Grace... Don't even get me going on Nancy Grace. I turned off the news shortly after 9/11/01, and I haven't really turned it back on since. I will occasionally watch a bit here or there, and it'll ominously say, "What household chemical is going to kill us all? Find out at 11!" and I'll turn it back off again. (I read the news - all the information, without the hysteria. Oh, and I watch Jon Stewart, because he's da man).
Most kids are going to survive their childhood just fine. All of us did! I never knew anyone who was kidnapped by a stranger and killed - did you? (I knew plenty of people who were hurt by people they knew, but "stranger danger" doesn't address that!)
Let's start parenting from a point of logic and sanity, instead of parenting out of fear.
I'm particularly interested in what YOU have to say. Do you teach "Stranger Danger" in your house? Jen, am I remembering correctly that the Body Safety classes you teach have moved away from the Stranger Danger mentality? Cate, I'll bet it's a LOT different in Alaska. Rob and Rebe - how do you approach the issue in the major metropolitan areas you live in?
Let's talk about it here, because the people I was talking to on Facebook ended the conversation. Not that I was surprised...


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New Tiles Taking Over Home Design
Tiles are leaving the bathroom and kitchen back splash and finding their way into bedrooms, living rooms, halls and ornamental spaces. Leslie Yazel and Koko Architecture partner Adam Weintraub discuss on Lunch Break. Photo: Moris Moreno.
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African Art: Secular and Supernatural
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Compare ritual and royal objects from the Yoruba and Edo peoples of Nigeria to learn how their rulers maintain worldly authority with the assistance of supernatural forces. Students will delight in examining a colorful beaded crown that empowers a Yoruba ruler and a 300-year-old bronze sculpture that establishes legitimacy for an Edo king. These and other stunning objects introduce divination, mythology, and communication with ancestors to your class.
Program Format:
- Open with discussion on difference between supernatural and secular power.
- Introduce sculptures and explain historical/cultural significance.
- Compare and contrast Yoruba and Benin cultures.
- Ask students how Americans honor historical figures.
- Answer remaining questions.
- Students will learn the similarities as well as differences among the Yoruba and Benin peoples-particularly in regards to attaining political power-which are reflected in their works of art.
- Students will understand that secular power in both the Yoruba and Benin cultures is acquired and maintained through access to supernatural power.
- Students will create a chart during the program which illustrates how Yoruba and Benin art relate to one of six categories: politics, religion, celebrations, trade, roles/representations of women, artistic styles, or materials.


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Rock 'n' roll icon Chubby Checker's lawyers have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against bosses at technology giant Hewlett-Packard over a software application that estimates the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size.
The singer, real name Ernest Evans, is far from amused by The Chubby Checker app, and he filed suit in Florida on Monday.
The application boasts: "Any of you ladies out there just start seeing someone new and wondering what the size of there (sic) member is? All you need to do is find out the man's shoe size and plug it in… Now with the Chubby Checker there is no need for disappointment or surprise…"
The singer's attorneys claim Hewlett-Packard's marketing men have done "irreparable damage and harm" to their client.
According to Business Insider, the Chubby Checker was removed from all official Palm and Hewlett-Packard listings in September 2012.


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Prior to a May 14 mark-up of a new farm bill, the Senate Agriculture Committee released a draft of the legislation. (Read the draft at http://www.ag.senate.gov/issues/farm-bill.)
Included in the draft are target prices for rice ($13.30 per hundredweight) and peanuts ($523.77 per ton) and the Agricultural Risk Coverage program favored by corn producers.
Among reactions:
National Association of Wheat Growers
"We commend the committee for producing a bill that will provide wheat farmers with a strong safety net through Title I programs and crop insurance and that addresses important provisions with regards to conservation, research, food aid, marketing and nutrition," said NAWG president Bing Von Bergen, a wheat farmer from Moccasin, Mont.
"The bill would also reduce our country's deficit by roughly $23 billion over 10 years while supporting millions of jobs throughout the economy.
"NAWG believes it is vital for wheat farmers and our economy to finish a long-term farm bill this year, before the existing farm bill extension expires. We look forward to working with committee members as they prepare for their mark-up next week and urge quick consideration of the (agriculture) committee's product on the Senate floor."
American Soybean Association
"Importantly, the draft released by the committee would protect and strengthen crop insurance as well as ensure that a target price program to protect growers from low prices remains decoupled from current planting decisions, thus avoiding the possibility of production distortions," said ASA president and Canton, Miss., soybean farmer Danny Murphy.
"Combined with a revenue protection program similar to that included in last year's Senate bill, the proposed legislation takes significant steps to provide farmers with effective risk management programs while protecting planting flexibility and avoiding planting distortions.
"While ASA is still studying details of the 1,102-page bill, our initial review also notes that the draft reflects other ASA priorities including reauthorization and funding of the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program and Market Access Program, funding for conservation programs applied to working lands, reauthorization and funding for important bio-based and bioenergy programs, and support for agricultural research, to name just a few."
National Farmers Union
"We are pleased to see that target price protection was added to the bill," said NFU president Roger Johnson. "However, in order to be substantial, target prices need to be increased and balanced in a meaningful way. We urge the inclusion of stronger protection against long-term price collapse for all commodities in all regions. It is also promising that some important programs left out of the one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill, like the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, have been reauthorized and funded.
"Crop insurance remains a strong part of the safety net to help producers survive difficult times. In the bipartisan, collaborative style typical of the agriculture community, a compromise was reached to link conservation compliance requirements to crop insurance, which was strongly supported across the industry.
"We are encouraged that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) remains virtually unchanged from last year's bill in both program and funding. It is crucial that we continue to provide a safety net to those who are food insecure in our own country.
CRP acreage cap gradually reduced
"In the mark, the Conservation Reserve Program acreage cap is gradually reduced from 30 million acres to 25 million acres due to budget constraints, and the conservation title remains essentially the same from last year's Senate farm bill.
"NFU is very pleased to see a strong energy title that includes $800 million in mandatory funding for programs such as the Rural Energy for America Program, Biomass Crop Assistance Program, Biobased Markets Program and Biorefinery Assistance Program.
"Following conversations with (Oklahoma Rep. Frank) Lucas, we expect the House Committee on Agriculture to follow suit very soon and are pleased to see movement in both chambers because Sept. 30, 2013, is rapidly approaching."
National Milk Producers Federation
"We are pleased that the dairy title of the farm bill released by the Senate Agriculture Committee contains the Dairy Security Act (DSA), just as it was included in last year's Senate farm bill," said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of NMPF. "The DSA is the best approach for providing a cost-effective safety net for dairy farmers. … The DSA provides the right combination of effective risk management for dairy farmers while minimizing program costs to the taxpayer.
"NMPF is part of a coalition … that has been working since 2009 on replacing outdated dairy programs that don't work, with a new safety net that reflects that realities of dairy farming in (this) century. Dairy farmers throughout the U.S. support the proposal that the Agriculture Committee will be reviewing next week, and urge members of the committee — and their counterparts in the House Agriculture Committee, which will also review the DSA next week — to pass this critical legislation."
Among critics of the draft is Oxfam America.
"Leaders of the Senate Agriculture committee must respond to growing momentum for food aid reform to increase the effectiveness of the program and save more lives," said Eric Munoz, policy advisor for Oxfam America.
"While retaining the modest proposal from last year's version to cut waste and modernize America's international food aid programs, the bill fails to rise to the opportunity of wider reform, as proposed by President Obama in his budget request.
"Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee must seize the opportunity presented by this unique moment to adopt real reform to improve the effectiveness of food aid.
"The rest of the farm bill leaves a lot to be desired. Our elected members of Congress should do more to make our farm bill serve a diverse, fair, and resilient global agriculture system, not just respond to a handful of entrenched interests."


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A Scholarship Program for Engineering and Medical Students
The History of the Foundation
The Orazio DiMauro Foundation located in Fairfield, Connecticut is now accepting applications for scholarships for students studying engineering or medicine. The terms of the Foundation, as amended by the Directors now require that all scholarship recipients be residents of Bridgeport and the surrounding towns: Fairfield, Trumbull, Easton, Monroe, Milford and Stratford, and the Valley towns of Ansonia, Derby Seymour and Shelton.
A graduating high school senior or a full-time student with an engineering major at an accredited four year college.
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In the past decade, approximately 200-300 million people have been seriously affected by natural disasters or technological accidents each year, a staggering figure that is bound to only increase in the coming decades. It is becoming clear that a failure to make political systems pay attention to climate challenges might lead to massive population displacements. In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, the Worldwatch Institute discusses the imperative to prepare for such disasters and outlines how we can move forward on the path toward resiliency.
Building up a globalized and industrialized market economy and growing our food in globe-spanning monocultures may increase efficiency, but such practices also decrease resiliency. Many societies are now at risk of either short-term or permanent displacement due to both environmental and non-environmental disasters.
"Of course, disasters of all kinds are nothing new," remarks Laurie Mazur, contributing author and nonprofit consultant. "But the current era may be one in which their frequency, scale, and impact are greater than anything our species has previously confronted."
In State of the World 2013, contributing authors discuss an array of strategies and case studies that offer lessons for surviving and coping with the coming calamities that may result from climate and other ecological changes.
Recipe for resilience.In order for societies to be truly resilient—able to mitigate and withstand disturbances and recover afterward—socioeconomic practices should include redundancies, so that the failure of one component does not impact the entire system. Modularity is also critical, in that individual units retains some self-sufficiency when disconnected from the larger networks. Other characteristics of resilient systems include diversity, inclusiveness, tight feedbacks, and the capacity for innovation.
Adjusting and adapting.We must consider how the physical changes that take place on Earth will translate into social and economic changes. Adaptation can help reduce vulnerability by way of disaster and famine early-warning systems, livelihood diversification, drought-tolerant crops, restoration of ecosystems, flood-defense infrastructure, and crop insurance.
Cultivating social capital.Social capital, the sum total of resources, knowledge, and goodwill possessed by everyone in a network, provides a web of connections that communities can use to obtain relief and reconstruction aid. Members in well-functioning communities are best able to organize support, articulate their needs, and work together to rebuild and stabilize.
The Cuban Experiment.Over the past two decades, Cuba has moved to the forefront of sustainability. In 2006, it was the only country in the world rated as having achieved "sustainable development" in WWF's Living Planet Report. Although it is materialistically poor, it has First World education, literacy, and health care. The Cuban example proves what many wealthy nations are hesitant to even consider: that high material consumption does not necessarily equal human well-being. Cuba represents an alternative where material success as measured by energy consumption is secondary, while other quality-of-life issues are given priority.
A global paradigm shift is in order. We must not only alter our outlook on consumption and realign our consciousness with sustainability, but also begin to integrate policies and practices that diversify and strengthen our social, political, and economic domains.
Worldwatch'sState of the World 2013, released in April 2013, addresses how "sustainability" should be measured, how we can attain it, and how we can prepare if we fall short.
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The Twisted Pixel bundle is now available through Xbox Live. Announced last month, it includes: The Maw, 'Splosion Man, Ms. 'Splosion Man and Comic Jumper. It will run you 800 Microsoft Points. Hit up the XBL Marketplace to check availability in your region.
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This great summertime visor is called "Love Birds"... The brim features two parrots side-by-side on perches, wearing sunglasses and/or cute hats, others have cameras or a backpack. In between are postcards and vacation snapshots of the two. So cute! The black background has the words "LOVE BIRDS" in grey.
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text: The core is the key - The Province September 30, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Veterans carry team into semifinal Marc Weber The Freddy and Eddie show was long forgotten by Sunday's final whistle. It was overshadowed by a final 30 minutes of soccer that qualified as the most grotesque sight in Minnesota since the wood-chipper scene in Fargo. But the performance of Alfredo Valente and Eduardo Sebrango in the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Thunder is worth revisiting for two reasons. First, their play was largely responsible for Vancouver's 3-1 lead (5-1 on aggregate) that proved padding enough to clinch the two-game quarterfinal series 5-4. And combined with the contributions of fellow veterans Martin Nash, Jeff Clarke, Steve Kindel and Geordie Lyall -- in stark contrast to the debacle that ensued after substitutions were made -- it illuminated the fact that the so-called old men are still the engine of this rapidly changing team. "Where would we be in that game without Freddy?" Clarke pondered after. Indeed. Valente not only opened the scoring three minutes in to put the Thunder in a huge hole, he also cleared a sure goal off the line in the 29th minute, and in the 55th, slipped a pretty pass through his defender's legs to spring Sebrango for the 3-1 goal. Sebrango, meanwhile, showed up on the score sheet with his tally, but the best play of the night was a dummy that didn't display in the stat report. On the opening goal, Sebrango let Charles Gbeke's pass slip between his legs to set the table for a charging Valente. It was a deft, intelligent move. "Huge," Valente said of that play. "It's all the little things that Eddie's done -- all his hard work, not all the goals he's scored -- that shows how big a player he is for us. "Just that little play there, he heard me calling. A lot of other strikers will try to get some glory themselves, but Eddie's just that type of player. "There's a good core group that's been here for a while, and their leadership throughout the year has been big. We're excited for this time of the year. We can say we've been there, done that, we have a championship under our belt [in 2006] and we know what to expect." Head coach Teitur Thordarson was complimentary of his veterans -- Nash also scored and picked out Valente on Sebrango's goal -- but he stood by his decision to use all five subs midway through the second half. It's hard to argue, based on how many minutes guys like Nash and Sebrango have logged, and with the score at the time 5-1 on aggregate. Even Thordarson admitted he thought the win was sealed. "Guys played like [the game] was over, and I actually thought that too when we did these changes," he said. "The substitutions have worked quite well all season, [and] at home against Minnesota [a 2-0 win Friday where subs Gbeke and Jason Jordan combined to set up another sub in Justin Moose for the final goal] they were absolutely vital." True enough. But with the stakes higher and the opponent tougher in this weekend's semifinal against the Montreal Impact, a stretcher might be the only way the core group is leaving the field. © The Vancouver Province 2008 Previous Next


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By Julia Willis
WASHINGTON (CNS) – A group of students recently arrived in the U.S. from Bethlehem University in Palestine in order to participate in a one-of-a kind program with Catholic Charities.
Fostered by a two-year partnership between the Catholic university and Catholic Charities USA, selected students travel to America every year and participate in a six-week summer internship program that allows them to use the skills they have developed within their prospective majors in Catholic Charities agencies nationwide.
By learning how the organization combats the problem of poverty within the United States and developing a newfound understanding of the cultural and religious diversity of the U.S., participants are encouraged to use everything they learn throughout the experience in order to enact social change after returning home.
As many of the interns have never left Palestine before this trip, the participants were excited to experience a new culture, grow in knowledge, and gain a new form of insight into the problems that plague our world today.
One of this year's 10 participants, Sarah Hasanat, Sarah Hasanat, described how the program will benefit many of the students.
"Many of us … have never been to the U.S. or even traveled outside of our home country so this is an amazing opportunity to learn about another culture."
Dina Rishmawi explained that all 10 students escort tourists or visiting students around Palestine as part of an ambassador program through the university and being able to come to America allows them to continue serving as ambassadors who represent their own country. "It's an amazing opportunity for us to not only work in the field we study but also to continue to serve as ambassadors of our country in another place."
Amjaad Musleh, who will be working at the Catholic Charities agency in Camden, N.J., elaborated on how this experience will allow her to promote the culture of Palestine throughout the U.S. "Some people do not have a clue where Palestine is or even if it exists so this is an opportunity for us to share information regarding our country and our culture."
Although the students were still unsure exactly what to expect out of the program during their initial four-day orientation in Washington, almost all of them recognized that they would be changed in some way by the experience.
Hasanat said, "A lot of people are poor and are in need and I think that, to experience that, to live with them and try to help them, will teach and help all of us as well. I know this program will definitely change my perspective."
The program has already inspired new ways of thinking for Mariana Bahnan Nazi, who described how she was affected by a trip the students took to visit the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
"After going to the PLO yesterday, I really loved the idea of serving my country as an ambassador for Palestine in the United States or in another country," she said. "I began thinking more about how I can represent the Palestinian people and help others around the world."
I am sure that these students will find new ways to serve those in need throughout the rest of their time in the U.S. and look forward to seeing what they are able to accomplish in the future.


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an auto accident. Many people have heard of carpal-tunnel syndrome, a condition of the wrist that is painful
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Auto accidents can also injure your musculoskeletal system, causing things that range from fractures, to ligament tears,
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In many cases, accidents can result in more severe injuries that may require surgical intervention. In such cases,
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text: Sports analysts are known for making controversial comments, but it's doubtful anyone expected such potentially contentious remarks to come out of the mouth of one of the Jacksonville Jaguars' most beloved players of all time. During an appearance on ESPN's "Mike & Mike" show, former Jaguars quarterback and team ambassador Mark Brunell said he wouldn't be surprised if the team moved to London. "It's not good for Jacksonville," he said. "You don't hear a lot of that talk in Jacksonville right now, but everywhere else … " Many Jags fans were outraged by his comments, which were perceived as ignorant and borderline blasphemous. To make matters worse, Brunell started backpedalling as soon as he got wind of fans' anger, mostly via Twitter. He took to the airwaves again, this time on local sports radio station 1010 XL, apologizing for his "poor choice of words" and sympathizing with fans for his failure to "defend Jacksonville." Brunell will soon find out if fans have accepted his mea culpa: During the Dec. 15 Jaguars-Bills game, he becomes the third player inducted into the Pride of the Jaguars. It might be difficult to discern if they're cheering "Bru!" or "Boo!"


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Lindsay Lohan is desperate to take her obsession with Marilyn Monroe to the big screen and star in a remake of movie classic "Some Like It Hot."
The actress has posed for two Monroe-themed photoshoots, in Spanish Vogue and New York magazine, and famously has a quote from "Some Like it Hot" tattooed on her wrist.
Sources close to Lohan claims she sees real parallels between her life and that of the Monroe and is pitching a remake to Hollywood bosses.
According to OK! magazine, director Brett Ratner has already rejected the idea, but Lohan isn't giving up.
An insider tells the tabloid, "Lindsay is pinning her hopes on getting a remake of 'Some Like It Hot' off the ground.
"She's undaunted, but there's no script and there's no money. The only thing Lindsay has to sell is herself.
"She sees herself as the second coming of Marilyn Monroe — misunderstood, talented and in desperate need of an incredible film vehicle that will truly showcase her talents."


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In recent weeks, I've been occupied with putting myself out there (via print, radio & cable news) to share the message that even those charged with the most heinous offenses are still human beings, that we are each more than the very worst thing we have done, and that execution is morally wrong.
In my last life, I worked as a federal public defender in Boston and had the occasion to represent Richard Reid, the failed, or would-be, shoe-bomber. This wasn't a role I sought out, and in fact, when the case was initially assigned to me, I felt apprehensive about taking it on. It so happened, however, that I was "on call" during the last week of December 2001, meaning that any new cases appointed to the office were mine; so, when Reid's American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris was diverted to Boston's Logan Airport and he was arrested and charged with acts of terrorism, I knew that this 28-year-old bin Laden adherent of British and Jamaican descent would become my client.
The timing was not at all ideal — as though there are ever ideal conditions under which to take on a case/client like this one. My husband was in graduate school, we had an 18 month old daughter, and I was five months pregnant with our second child. In other words, not much "work-life balance" or "leaning in" was happening for me right then. We lived on the top floor of a Dorchester triple decker (ask someone from Boston to explain), with a wanna-be white rapper from the suburbs, his cranky girlfriend and three snarling pit bulls below us. Needless to say, I was regularly giving people on the T (Boston's subway) the evil eye when they wouldn't make room for me on the bench, as my belly was rapidly expanding and my patience was wearing thin.
Much of my representation of Reid remains somewhat of a blur, coming back in sharp flashes of memories — incessant calls from the press, countless boxes of discovery from the U.S. Attorney's Office, special security clearances and long trips to MCI-Plymouth to see Richard. Also, it was winter in Boston, and it was cold. Very cold.
I recall fraught meetings with Richard's mother, Leslie Hughes, a polite, soft-spoken English woman who worked as a librarian, then remarried and had a second son with a local town planner. She suggested that Richard had first become estranged and angry at age 11 after his parents' divorce and her remarriage, as he never fit in with the "new" family configuration — he withdrew from his step-father and didn't bond with his half-brother.
At 16, Richard dropped out of school and drifted about in search of another community. He ended up in jail — as had his father — and converted to Islam, eventually finding the London mosque led by an anti-American cleric known for his extremist views and purported ties to al Qaeda. Trips followed to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As we geared up for a trial, learning about plastic explosives, litigating various pretrial motions, strategizing and working with experts, it became clear that Richard did not want to engage in any meaningful way with the American criminal justice system, which he considered to be illegitimate and a sham. He wanted merely to go to court and "admit what [he] had done." And so, on Jan. 31, 2003, he did just that.
Richard Reid is now serving a life sentence at the notorious "supermax" prison in Florence, Colo. As I am no longer a federal public defender, I have had no contact with him since 2004. I do think of Richard and the case, however, whenever I go through airport security and remove my shoes — which may be his only concrete legacy.
Fast forward 12 years and I'm the mother of two middle schoolers, living in balmy North Carolina and teaching eager law students the nuts and bolts of representing poor people charged with crimes. There are explosions set off during the Boston Marathon, and I watch in horror as three spectators are killed and 261 are grievously maimed. I lived in the Boston area for 15 years (everywhere from Somerville and Cambridge to Jamaica Plain and Newton) and still have close friends and former colleagues there; I frantically send out texts and emails, hoping that they are safe.
Then a reporter Googles "lawyers for terrorists" and my name comes up. He calls, and I happen to answer the phone in my office at the law school. He wants to know what it was like to represent Reid and to work with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Boston federal defender, Miriam Conrad, and he poses the oft-asked question, how can you defend those people …?
I talk and I listen, as I patiently try to explain what motivates me — and perhaps others — to do this work. I think of 19 year old Dzhokhar, a college sophomore and Russian immigrant, who likely helped his older brother bring about the destruction and loss of life resulting from the bombings in Boston. He is young, with a still-developing brain. He has friends, a roommate, a Twitter account and many of the other trappings of ordinary kids in America. His brother is dead, his parents remain in Russia, and he is held at the federal medical center at Ft. Devens, recovering from gunshot wounds to his throat. If Dzhokhar escapes execution, he will likely spend the remainder of his life, 70 or more years, in federal prison. Perhaps he will be housed with Reid at the supermax.
I think of the victims — particularly 8-year-old Richard Martin and his bright, wide-eyed expression that represents nothing short of pure innocence. I think of his parents and the devastation from which they will never, ever recover.
In the weeks and months (and perhaps years) to follow, we will search for answers — why did the Tsarnaevs do it? What did they hope to accomplish? What is a just penalty for a 19 year old who has committed such atrocities? Attorneys Miriam Conrad, Judy Clarke and their colleagues will do yeoman's service to save Dzhokhar's life. They will review discovery, file motions, interview witnesses, negotiate with the government and appear in court. They will try to make a connection with their client, form a bond, and help him achieve the best possible resolution of the case.
It is a grueling, seemingly thankless task, but it is also a privilege to serve the role of defender — particularly that of public defender. For some of us it is a calling, a mission. We see the humanity in our clients, regardless of what they have done, and we do all we can to reveal that humanity to everyone else.


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Article No :736 | September 29, 2011 | by Peter Eckert
A May 2011 study shows that 78 percent of business and IT executives plan to officially deploy tablets by the end of 2013, yet only 51 percent have adopted a strategy for tablet use. The majority (83 percent) plans to deploy iPads, primarily because of its widespread popularity. As a result, Android-based tablets have begun to tout that they are designed for enterprise deployment in an attempt to differentiate their platform.
This choice of the iPad for business use remains consumer-driven. So far, most employees using iPads as part of their job are just trying them out; there is still a certain sense of novelty in this highly portable device. The great appeal of the iPad is its intuitive, user-friendly interface. A two-year-old can quickly learn to play iPad games and navigate the device.
The conventional computing paradigm for businesses, as well as for most homes, is a desktop computer, maybe a laptop for mobility, and a smartphone. To fully take advantage of the emerging paradigm that places tablets (primarily iPads) in the office, new software strategies are required. The fundamentally complex software served up on desktops and laptops is far too cumbersome in a tablet environment. Successful tablet deployment in the enterprise will require smaller, more specific touch-enabled solutions and tablet-tailored applications.
Not a Hardware Problem
Currently, any function where mobility is a requirement is a potential fit for tablet adoption. Reporting and information facilitation are obvious targets. The entire media industry is keen on monetizing this new platform. Newspapers have struggled online because of the click-through model rather than premium advertisement placement, and they are eager to change that.
Other industries see the tablet as just an extension to their current offering. There's nothing wrong with that—until one of their competitors shows off a tablet-specific solution. Then you'll see panic ensue.
Current tablet technology only allows for a subset of the computing power used in high-end desktops. For example, image processing of the kind professional UX designers work with is not possible yet on tablets. Other industries cannot switch to a tablet environment any time soon; for example, industries dependent on ERP or heavy data input, or purchasing and HR, must rely on keyboards or other input devices. The touch-based UI, which lets users perform tasks with just their fingertips, is the great appeal of tablets, but it would be too cumbersome for these data entry applications. Voice technology might bridge the gap some day.
Hardware, however, is not the primary problem keeping tablets from widespread adoption in the enterprise. A bigger obstacle is that most business software solutions (think Oracle) are simply too complex. The power of tablet computing is that it is simple and intuitive. Yet many enterprise solutions are so overloaded with features—some of them unnecessary or seldom used—that they cannot be easily ported to a tablet.
In short, blindly trying to adopt existing products and software to the tablet space will not succeed. Tablet technology will continue to be disruptive until feature-reduced solutions are widely available.
How to Spur Enterprise Adoption
In the same study mentioned earlier, 42 percent of IT respondents said that business stakeholders do not understand the need for additional development in order to successfully enable enterprise applications on iPads and tablets. This is where high-quality UX design could play a major role in boosting enterprise adoption of tablets.
Beginning in Q1 of 2011, Gartner added iPads and other tablets to its computing hardware spending estimates. Analysts forecast a spending increase on media tablets of an annual average rate of 52 percent through 2015.
The form factor of a tablet and the usage patterns of end users require a very tailored user experience, one that showcases just a fraction of the functionality of a rich desktop application or Web application. That makes them a powerful option because people already understand the applications and can easily adapt to a new format of an old solution. Again, it all comes back to good UX design.
Evaluate the types of tools you are using. If the productivity software or any other package you are using will be "just" ported and launched in a web browser, then you might want to stay away from adopting that application for tablet usage. So if you are in purchasing and you have an order entry system that relies on the user to enter orders through keyboard input, that will not work on the tablet efficiently.
But any type of software that has been specifically designed for tablet space will be a good fit for enterprise adoption. We will soon see an increase in workflows that are perfectly suited for the tablet environment—ones that are simple, intuitive and have only a few features per solution.


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Dear Ms. Malu Fernandez,
In your article entitled "The Problem With Blogging", I noted your sweeping statements against bloggers in general, punctuated by your usage of the infantile "get a life" card, as well as your self-aggrandizing statement that you started a "trend" of eliciting nasty comments because nasty comments existed long, long ago. You weren't the first, you sure as Hades wouldn't be the last.
In case you're wondering who on God's green Earth I am, then allow me to briefly introduce myself.
My name is Marcelle Fabie, 24 years old, currently taking up Masters in Philosophy in Ateneo de Manila University. I specialize in ethics, and I have been a blogger since 2002. I am not hiding behind a pseudonym. I have been recognized as the Philippine's best blogger in 2003 by the Flying Chair Asian Blog Awards. Unlike most other "big name bloggers", as you term them, however; I am far from a professional blogger. I blog solely as a hobby, and I am going to (respectfully) respond to your assertions point by point here, without having to resort to sophomoric insults regarding your looks or your atrocious grammar.
It is my hope that somehow, through this civilized response, you will learn to be a little less hasty to make the comments you have made recently. Quite frankly, I find your sweeping statements to be extremely incendiary, almost as if you were just trying to bait violent reactions from the blogging community. While I recognize that this puts your name high up on searches by dint of the sheer volume of reactions to your writing, it does make me wonder what motivations are behind this act. Surely, a journalist of your stature is not in need of attention again? I'm sure you are such an esteemed individual that you have better things to do than deliberately incite ire just so you would feel relevant to the world again, right?
.:The Article In Italics, My Responses In Blue:.
Just this morning I got a text telling me to check out some blog with juicy gossip about the so called "Gucci Gang" curiously enough I logged on and read all the gossip and juicy details. Whether or not the stories were true I didn't really care to find out nor do I care to be involved. It makes no difference in my life who did what to whom it was just a leisure gossip read and I was just one of the many people who read the blog but halfway through I became quite disturbed as it made me reminiscent of the numerous blogs I was once the hot topic of.
The blog in question, of course, is the now-closed Brian Gorrell blog that blasted Tim Yap, Celine Lopez, and DJ Montano. I never really wrote about that because I personally found it petty, but I can understand why it generated so much discussion the past week. Of this much, I find myself in agreement with Ms. Fernandez on, although I never bothered reading the blog in question because descriptions of it alone turned me off already.
Unfortunately, here, we see the beginnings of a persecution complex, as Ms. Fernandez quickly changes topics and recalls the time she earned the ire of bloggers at large due to her irresponsible comments against OFW's. From the first paragraph alone, I was already apprehensive, because it was clear that she was already going to get on her soapbox to take some swipes at the bloggers who didn't like what she had to say the last time. This seemed like a chance to grab some attention, and admittedly, counting this reaction and all the others, if that was her intent, she hit it right out of the park.
I always believe that you have to be able to take it as well as you dish it out, but I'll be damned if I wasn't reminded of this when I read her opening paragraph.
Before I go any further I must stress the point that this is not about my previous issue, but simply the point of view of someone who has been a victim of vicious blogging and blogging as a new communication medium. To those of you who are mass/volume or dense (that's the physics formula for density to those who are clueless) again, I repeat this is not a reaction toward my past actions.
For every "vicious" blogger, there was a level-headed one who was merely questioning the necessity of the vitriol Ms. Fernandez leveled against OFW's in general. I had some choice words for OFW's, but it was tempered by the fact that it wasn't a sweeping statement. I am by no means a journalist, but when I know certain groups could be angered, I know better than to lump everyone into one homogenous category.
The cute attempt at wittiness by calling "clueless" people "mass/volume" doesn't go unnoticed. Normally, after an apology, people take the high road and just avoid getting into trouble. But not when it's good for publicity, of course! I'm sure he would agree.
Yes, I refuse to correct her grammar. What am I, an English teacher? ;) Besides, other people have already done that, so I'd only be repeating what's already been said about her command of the language.
So let me continue, first of all I believe in the freedom of speech. By all means say what you need to say. Unfortunately for most of the bloggers without advertising you get paid nothing. If in fact you do get paid then hooray for you. But blogging, aside from Perez Hilton and the other big time bloggers (you know who you are) is for me a slacker job or a medium and pastime for lonely people to connect. Unless you're in bloody Siberia or in a Gulag prison, try stepping outside your comfort zone and turn off the laptop or pc, you just might find some real live people to talk to instead of typing away in cyber space.
It's the dreaded "get a life" card! Oh noez! It's the standard comeback eight-year olds use when they're on the losing side of an argument on the net.
No, not everyone who blogs is "lonely". No, not everyone who blogs and gets paid for it is a "slacker". As a "journalist", a little more discretion when it comes to research would be very helpful, because you pretty much just called thousands of bloggers "lonely slackers".
You are in no position to give unsolicited advice to bloggers about stepping out of their comfort zones. By sheer dint of their anonymity (the very anonymity you blast them for), you can't judge who they are. For all you know, they could be very happy people who just decide to cut loose whenever they're in their own little nook online. How many bloggers are married? You'd be surprised how few of the bloggers out there actually fit the "geek" stereotype.
On the flipside blogging can be a good source of information and a great way to exchange ideas. This I strongly encourage whether it is about politics, fashion, food or whatever topic you may choose. Friendly and healthy discussions are always great.
But that doesn't negate calling bloggers "lonely slackers"! If I were to translate what you said, it's "you may all be lazy and lonely people, but you're *smart* lazy and lonely people." Pardon me for pointing out the obvious, but you won't win any fans when you talk like that. This "flipside" business is just a way of softening the blow of your insults, ala Kris Aquino's "in fairness" schtick.
Blogging has its good and bad side. It's inevitable, but nothing about what you said applies exclusively to bloggers. Online forums achieve the same thing, as do focus group discussions. Furthermore, you aren't saying anything right now that encourages "friendly and healthy discussions," in case you haven't noticed.
The difference between a journalist and a blogger is that journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines that govern the freedom of speech. And whatever a journalist chooses to write about—be it popular or unpopular—we do not hide behind an anonymous name and are resigned to the fact that we have to take as much as we dish out. However, I simply detest people who place vicious comments and slanderous statements in blogs yet sign their messages as 'anonymous.' If you have something to say, don't hide behind a false name. It's just plain cowardice of you to do so. I have more of a deep sense of respect for those—however unpopular or vicious their statements are—who post their views with their real names and make no bones about it. At least they stand for something; I would rather take it from them than the cowards that hide behind false names.
So, from one person who doesn't hide behind a screen name to another, Ms. Fernandez: with all due respect, screw you.
Not hiding behind a pseudonym does not excuse you for making irresponsible comments.
Not hiding behind a pseudonym does not excuse you for behaving like a petulant child who wants to get back at the other kids for leaving her out of the swings.
Perhaps it is the Filipino culture to foster backstabbing because they never mean what they say face to face. Just how many times have you dealt with co-workers who will smile in your face when you ask them to perform a task or engage in just plain conversation, when in fact they are quite uncomfortable with the situation and are forced to do what they absolutely detest with a smiling face. I guess it's the kind of culture brought about by 300 years of Spanish colonization. To one particular blogger of Spanish descent but with an Indio face, don't act like a peninsulares and quote Spanish words from the generation of your abuelita... jeez and they call me elitist. The Spanish rule is over, get over yourself and your Español relatives who used to have power... but I digress (oops, my bad...) Let's move forward.
Ummm... huh? Backstabbing is not endemic to Filipinos alone. It happens everywhere. It's got little to do with backstabbing, even. Chances are, these are people you would never meet anyways, and it's not like they'd be falling at your feet and praising you for your brilliant writing if they met you in real life.
It's just like all this hullabaloo about ousting GMA. You deposed ERAP in Edsa Dos. Now you're unhappy with his replacement. Make up your minds. (For the record I'm not pro anybody I'm pro whatever lesser evil is out there). You can't overthrow one president then decide you made a mistake with your second choice. I's not like buying a green Hermes bag and suddenly deciding, oops I should have gotten the black one instead. Unfortunately that's the kind of nation we have become, a bunch of wishy-washy whiners who whine about everything under the sun and found the blog sphere to be the new medium for whining. Yes we do what we have to do as a nation to get things done and stop corruption and evil (I'm all for that) but we never seem to be happy with what we have, hence the complaining and whining. It just never stops.
You started with blogging, and then went on a tirade against the wishy-washiness of Filipinos. I really don't understand what you're trying to achieve: pissing bloggers off, or pissing Filipinos off. Well, if it gets you attention, I guess it works for you, then.
Maybe if the country were in better shape, there'd be much less to complain about. In an ideal world, we have no room for activists, but we are not living in an ideal world at all. People will complain if there's something wrong, and there's a world of wrong in our country right now. Are you telling everyone to just be quiet sheep and let everything slide? It's easy to say when you're living a life of privilege, of course. But if you were a middle-class worker whose taxes keep getting higher while your bosses keep getting richer, don't you think you'd have valid grievances?
It's easy to rail against people who complain because you personally don't feel the effects of everything that's wrong. Try being in their shoes sometime soon. Maybe you'll know how it feels, and you'd have more worthwhile things to complain about than how OFW's smell like.
I suppose I started some kind of trend by eliciting nasty comments and reactions via blog because of my indiscretion. But it seems to be a comfortable medium for people to vent their anger on just about everything they disagree with. I have been called an irresponsible journalist so what does that make you? It is easy to hide under the guise of anonymity you can say just about anything you want because you have no repercussions to deal with. It's easy to hide behind a false moniker isn't it?
Don't flatter yourself. It's not a trend, it's the way things are. If you say something irresponsible, you will get called out for it. No matter how disagreeable some of the more vicious comments leveled at you may have been, the least you could've done is learn from them and know better than to make blanket statements en masse.
Clearly, you don't let things like propriety get in the way of your arguments.
Just a thought to ponder on... Maybe I should start an anonymous blog and really let go... but then again I don't want to be responsible for World War Three and I would sleep much better being brutally honest in your face than hide behind an anonymous name. Wouldn't it be hilarious if I started a blog just to shake things up and got a ton of money in advertising? If I do decide to do that I thank you all in advance for inspiring me… I'm always a glass half full kinda girl anyway...
Again, don't flatter yourself. We've had your kind on our blogs in the past. Some of us still do.
They're called trolls.
And if anyone ever deserved to be told to "get a life", it'd be those types.
Congratulations, Ms. Ferndandez. You have successfully identified yourself as a troll. Here, have your prize.
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Cool! I like your levelheaded commentary on everything Malu wrote. Kind of tempts me to do the same thing, and I would've done so if Malu is indeed someone worth my brain cells.
I guess she's so ignorant and limited in her knowledge on blogging. She needs to go out more and meet more bloggers for her to generalize statements.
I loved your civilized response.
I hope Malu Fernandez gets to read this post. Very well written!
She calls what we do a slacker job. Doesn't she know we also earn from our blogs?? hehe.
Yep, I think that's her problem. She's generalizing. And she's bitter. And she doesn't know what she's talking about.
I'm also not anonymous!
- Kel Fabie said...
@Ade: I wouldn't wish *that* on my worst enemy. Delightfully cruel, but it doesn't achieve the ideal. The ideal is Malu apologizes not because she's terrified that bloggers would lynch her, but because she realizes she's wrong, and she judged us all too hastily.
@Nightdreamer: I'm bored to tears here at work after finishing deliberations. I honestly had nothing better to do to pass my hour.
@Noemi: I'm more surprised she's still writing for the Standard. Didn't she say she resigned already?
@Joni: Ms. Fernandez doesn't let silly things like "facts" get in the way of her thought process.
@marcelle: Wait, wait, you're surprised that Manila Standard hasn't fired Malu? Well, you should take a look at how it advertises itself, based on the "About Us" of its website:
Who reads Manila Standard Today?
A July 2005 survey of subscribers shows our typical reader:
• Is a college graduate
• Is 45 years or older (25-44 is second largest group)
• Is a corporate officer, professional or employee
• Owns his or her house
• Travels by air once or twice a year
• Dines out five times a month
• Owns one or two cars
• Has one or two memberships in exclusive clubs
So they're clearly aiming for the "elite" demographic. It's like Malu Fernandez compiled that survey, and thought that was worth frontin'. I'll be very sad if I learn that rich people are the dumb demographic that appreciate Manila Standard's articles. Surely rich people should be smarter, noh? hehehe
And in all honesty, I've read Manila Standard and thought it was the most unremarkable non-tabloid (O RLY LOL!) journal, next to Manila Bulletin.
- Kel Fabie said...
I'm not surprised that she didn't get fired. It's more like I'm surprised she's *still* with the company, because in her "apology", she stated that she already sent resignation letters to the Standard and the other thing she used to write for.
Apparently, like a certain senator I know, it was an "I lied! Hahahahaa!!!" moment...
- Unknown said...
I'm both a journalist and a blogger. Needless to say I'm personally offended by all this. She may have noticed that her OFW fiasco got her the audience, earning her hits across the Web, so she's back and now it seems she's just after the attention. Yes, she's deliberately riling on for the infamy, and when people toss back her shit, she's gonna end up with a "notoriously-brandishing-the-truth" kind of misrepresentation. That's not journalism. And Perez Hilton???
I'd have to say that she's the bane to Manila Standard's credibility. Journ ethics be damned indeed!
And I think I may have said this before in a blogpost somewhere, but I think she's a writer hooked on pretense (and I cringe at the idea of calling her a "writer" as it's a disservice to actual responsible journalists) who condescendingly speaks about everything and everyone outside her egocentric bubble. And now, she proven that it's true.
Oh nice, stomp and spit on the bloggers with a blog-like writeup. So yeah, screw her. I'm offended by all these.
*insert appropriate invective here*
So thanks for the intelligent and level-headed commentary Marcelle.
sir, haha. :) if you thought she was bad check THIS one out.
It's hilarious and very VERY mean at the same time.
follow up: you should especially check this one out. :))
- Kel Fabie said...
@greyweed: Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. I'm glad to see Ms. Fernandez is the exception, not the rule.
@gaita: Be that as it may, the link you gave me is the link of a blog, and a self-conscious tongue-in-cheek blog at that.
Malu Fernandez, in contrast, is a writer for a newspaper. She's supposed to be a "journalist", and "journalists" supposedly have this thing called "journalistic ethics", that should mean they are very much accountable for the things that they put out there.
If I've taught you guys one thing through your interviews, it's that you can't get away with drivel like that in journalism. That's why your oral interview was graded differently from your written interview. ;)
This is certainly one of the best reaction to Malu's latest foray into attention whore-dom. You can clearly see the difference between her juvenile writing and your mature response.
Isn't it just so ironic that the paper she writes for is called the Manila Standard? I don't read their paper, but if Malu is an example of their standard...
- Kel Fabie said...
It's an incomplete title, you see.
It's the Manila Standard (for Tactlessness).


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* Maker of the controller: [http://www.dynamiccontrols.com]
* Maker of the controller: [http://www.dynamiccontrols.com]
* Wheel chair parts list, including Dynamic controller parts: [http://www.invacare.com/doc_files/04_051.pdf]
* Wheel chair parts list, including Dynamic controller parts: [http://www.invacare.com/doc_files/04_051.pdf]
=== Dolphin after-market joystick made for our wheelchair series ===
=== Dolphin after-market joystick made for our wheelchair series ===
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Our electric wheel chair appears to use a derivative of the CAN bus for it's control network, we need some tools for working on this. There are some different ways to go, however on something like this we need known-good tools to start out with. If anyone wants to go in on a CANUSB cable we can begin hacking on this wheel chair controller. From what I've read this cable essentially gives you a serial interface to the CAN bus, use minicom/hyperterminal/etc. to read data off the bus and to inject commands into it. In theory we could watch the joystick issue commands to the controller and then write some arduino code to mimic the joystick.
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We need $150 to buy this, who wants to go in?
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- Jay - $40
- Jenett - $40
CAN Interfaces
USA reseller appears to be imagecraft again, appears to be the RS232 device on the above page.
- SJA1000 IC used by the CANDIP-M162 board:
- DX key - parallel port DXBUS interface sold by Dynamic Controls (no longer sold):
Documents relating to our wheel chair, controller, and the DX Bus protocol
- Ours is the Alante 202: [4]
- Maker of the controller: [5]
- Wheel chair parts list, including Dynamic controller parts: [6]
- Document including pinouts (see p. 36) from Invacare [7]
Dolphin after-market joystick made for our wheelchair series
Raptor PS servicemanual_Vedlegg 1_dolphin-installation-manual.pdf [8]
- page 22:
The DX Hand Held Programmer (HHP) is the normal programming tool used by dealers, allowing easy adjustment of all commonly adjusted Drive Program parameters.
Warning : The DX HHP is for use only by wheelchair manufacturers, their authorised dealers and support personnel. It is not intended for use by the wheelchair user.
The DX HHP Manual should be read and understood before attempting to use it.
Fault codes: [9]
Other peoples tribulations on this same subject
Make: [10]
Engineering project using DXBUS protocol, they used a DX hardware interface to control the chair via a laptop: [11]
A Smart Electric Wheelchair Using UPnP They used some parallel port interface to insert their laptop into the system to issue commands: [12]
Others asking about reversing the DX Bus protocol: [13]
Interfacing to DXBUS with a PIC
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[14] ... Google this --- Dynamic DX Joystick Controller schematic -- and you will get a rather larger [93 page PDF file] that explains the whole specification. This is suppose to be THE 1101 joystick module. ...
- DXBUS info (SLM integration):
- from the manual:
... Programmable parameters relating to the SLM are contained in the DX Remote (UCM Remote) and the SLM programs. These programs can be modified using the PCD (Programming Configuration Diagnostic) tool. ...
Verification that DXBUS is based on CAN
DXBUS appears to be partially or fully based on the CAN bus based on several references. This is from the Dolphin joystick manual (page 50): [16]
CAN short fault Cause:
1. Short between CANL and CANH.
Action: < The short may be within a module or within a DX Cable, or the exposed DXBUS contacts may be shorted by foreign material. Ensure that all DXBUS contacts are clean.
CAN L fault Cause:
CANL failure.
Action < Check for a short from CANH to another DXBUS wire, or a short


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