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How to Select, Store, and Cook with Asparagus
It's May 10th, and asparagus season is nearly over here in Southern California. While the majority of the country enjoys asparagus from April to June, our season usually stretches from late February to early May.
I'm not sad though -- this season's asparagus has been superb. The smooth, svelte green stalks with delicate purple tinged tips have had a mildly earthy flavor and deliciously tender texture. Since I've been buying two bunches of asparagus nearly every week for the last two months, I've learned a few things, So here are some tips on how to select, store, and cook with asparagus.
How to select asparagus: What's better, thin or thick stalks of asparagus?
Both. No, that's not a typo. Every spring there is an endless debate over which is better, thin or thick stalks. Most people swear thick asparagus stalks are tough. I disagree. I have eaten many tender and flavorful thick stalks of asparagus. What' really important is the quality of the stalk: look for straight, firm green stalks with light purple tinged tips. Look at the bottoms of the stalks. If they're white, dry, and woody, then they're probably old. Also avoid shriveled, overly dry, or pitted stalks.
How do you store asparagus? Here are three ways:
1. Trim the bottoms of the stalks and stand them upright in an inch or two of cold water in the refrigerator; loosely cover the stalks with a plastic bag. Asparagus should last 3-4 days, unless it's fresh from the farmers' market, in which case, it could last up to 6 days.
2. Wrap the bunch of asparagus with a damp paper towel and place in the vegetable bin for 3-4 days.
3. Par-boil the stalks for 1 1/2-2 minutes, then plunge in a bowl of ice water for 2-3 minutes. Drain, pat dry, and store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
How do you trim asparagus?
Does the famous snapping of the stalk work? Yeah, it does. Hold the asparagus stalk with two hands and bend it. You'll feel a natural pull toward the bottom third of the stalk, where it feel like it wants to snap. Give it a quick snap, and the bottom will pop right off. If the stalks are really tender, this part isn't even necessary. Alternatively, you can use a vegetable peeler and shave off the thick, woody parts on the bottom.
How do you cook asparagus?
Very lightly. Nothing ruins asparagus more than overcooking it. You can boil, steam, roast, bake, grill, saute, or nuke it. You decide. Just keep it al dente, so it still has some crispness when you bite into it.
What are the health benefits of eating asparagus?
Asparagus is rich in vitamins A, C, and K as well as folate and dietary fiber. It's also low in calories and is a natural diuretic.
What can you do with asparagus?
A lot. In addition to making a great side dish to meats and seafood, try asparagus in soups, salads, egg dishes, pastas, risottos, and stir-fries. For an elegant yet easy appetizer, wrap asparagus with prosciutto; drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and broil for 1-2 minutes; serve on rounds of toasted Italian bread. Asparagus is delicious on sandwiches and makes a unique pizza topping, especially when paired with caramelized onions, sauteed mushrooms, and smoky Gouda cheese.
Here are two of my favorite ways to eat asparagus. Both recipes are deliciously easy to make and simply delicious. They pair well with everything from chicken and pork to seafood and tofu.
Citrus Spiked Asparagus
Serves 4-6
Print recipe only here.
1 teaspoon lemon juice, preferably Meyer lemon
1/4 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons honey
1/4 teaspoon orange zest
1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
salt and 7-8 cranks of freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 bunches asparagus (about 40 stalks), trimmed
1 tablespoon toasted pine nuts, optional
orange and lemon zest curls for garnish
In a small bowl whisk all ingredients from lemon juice through black pepper. Set aside.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, warm 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add asparagus stalks. Saute for 5 minutes, or until just tender. Alternatively, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add asparagus stalks, and boil for 2 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Pour juice mixture over cooked asparagus, and cook until just heated through. Place asparagus on a serving platter, and drizzle with remaining juice. Sprinkle with toasted pine nuts, if using, and garnish with orange and lemon zest curls.
Roasted Asparagus with Bread Crumbs and Parmesan
Serves 4-6
Print recipe only here.
2 bunches (about 40 stalks), trimmed
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
salt, to taste
7-8 cranks of freshly ground black pepper
3 tablespoons plain bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil.
Lay asparagus stalks in a straight line across the middle of the sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and using your hands, gently turn the asparagus until well coated. Roast for 12-15 minutes, or until just tender. Top with bread crumbs and cheese; cook 1-2 minutes, or until just golden brown. Serve immediately.
You might also like:
Italian Asparagus, Mushroom, and Parmesan Frittata
Baby Artichoke and Asparagus Risotto
Healthy Tofu and Vegetables with a Honey-Orange-Ginger Glaze
More wonderful ways with asparagus:
Asparagus Scallion Salad at A Veggie Venture
Wasbi Roasted Asparagus at FatFree Vegan Kitchen
Roasted Asparagus with Orange-Ginger Glaze at Andrea's Recipes
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26 comments:
I've been ga-ga over asparagus lately. I love omelets with asparagus, grape tomato and goat cheese, asparagus grilled, roasted and steamed too.
The woody ends of asparagus stalks that you bust off are awesome as garden compost; they make beneficial nematodes when they break down so toss 'em on your flower beds!
- May 10, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
What beautiful photos of my favorite stalks! If I had to choose one vegetable to live on, it would be asparagus. Your recipe for roasted asparagus with parmesan sounds excellent!
- May 10, 2009 at 9:03 PM
- Rita said...
I LOVE asparagus! I normally grilled them. Loved the parmesan and bread crumbs recipe, thanks for sharing!
- May 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Thanks for the info and useful tips! Both dishes look fantastic!
- May 10, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Jude said...
This is an ingredient I use all the time but I've never really looked into the details of handling it properly. Thanks for putting such an informative post together!
- May 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM
- Manggy said...
Thanks for all the asparagus "tips!" (Er, did the pun work? :) I love the thick ones-- too bad they're a little harder to find here!
- May 11, 2009 at 12:31 AM
- debra said...
I love love love asparagus! In NE Ohio, it is the harbinger of spring.
I just built an asparagus bed next to my strawberries and rhubarb. In the next few years, I will be able to harvest it here!
- May 11, 2009 at 5:39 AM
- Alanna Kellogg said...
Excellent post, Susan! Just FYI, after experimenting with -- um maybe 20-something? ways to cook asparagus, I've learned that fat asparagus are best for roasting, thin ones for steaming.
The other big question is whether to peel or not: I don't always, it's not always necessary, but when I do, those asparagus are always particularly unctuous.
- May 11, 2009 at 5:40 AM
- elly said...
I absolute LOVE asparagus. I often make it with a lemon vinaigrette but this extra citrus flavor sounds even better. I'll have to give it a try.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:24 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Susan,
I was at the grocery store the other day and saw some purple asparagus next to the white and green types. Have you ever cooked with purple asparagus before? I've never had it, but I'm kind of curious as to what it tastes like and if there's any real difference between the green and purple kinds. Thanks for the informative post!
- May 11, 2009 at 6:34 AM
- The Italian Dish said...
Lots of useful information, Susan! We are right in the middle of our season, here in Michigan. Eating it every day now!
- May 11, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- Kelly @ Love Well said...
The first time I had roasted asparagus, my life was forever changed.
For what it's worth, I store asparagus standing up in an inch of water, and it lasts a LONG time that way. I know I've had it in my fridge for more than a week and it hasn't suffered greatly for it. It just has to stay in contact with that water.
- May 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Simona Carini said...
Thanks for the informative post, Susan. I am enjoying asparagus season as long as it lasts. Have a great week!
- May 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
- La Cuisine d'Helene said...
This is great info. I have asparagus in the frige now. I was thinking of cooking a crème of asparagus.
- May 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM
What I didn't see was how to CLEAN asparagus. The local produce I buy is extremely sandy.
Even after peeling, there was sand in the tips. What to do??
- May 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Culinary Wannabe said...
I am putting the roasted asparagus recipe aside to make this weekend when my in-laws are in town. What a great recipe!
- May 11, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Treehouse Chef said...
Thanks for the excellent info!
- May 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Heather said...
great post! my favorite way to do asparagus is in a little mirin, but i'm definitely gonna try them with breadcrumbs and parmesan.
- May 11, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- sabi said...
I heard on the market report for Good Food on KCRW that the fat stalks were from young plants and the thin ones were from older plants. This was from a grower that should know...It certainly changed my mind about thick and thin. I did notice that there was a lighter crisper snap to the fat young stalks and have therefore consumed more of that variety this spring. Thanks for the post.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Ivy said...
Great tips. I love asparagus.
- May 11, 2009 at 11:11 PM
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Like you say - easy does it is the watchword with asparagus. With really fresh, young asparagus, I like to have it as simply as it comes - lightly steamed, with lots of butter and black pepper. It really is one of the great joys of the early summer.
- May 12, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- Laura said...
Asparagus season is just starting out here in New York so your post couldn't have come at a more perfect time! I adore asparagus with citrus, but also have been known to drizzle a good syrupy balsamic vinegar over roasted spears. Delicious!
- May 13, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- Sean said...
I recently had, and then mimicked, a great salad at Incanto here in SF: Jumbo-thick asparagus and radishes, both shaved into ribbons with a peeler, along with baby arugula and pecorino, all very lightly dressed. A revelation! I also love the thin stalks tossed with oil and roasted, simply.
- May 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
kate-garden compost --what a great idea!
tw-It's my personal favorite way to eat asparagus.
rita-You're welcome!
rosa-I'm glad you like it.
jude-Glad to be of assistance then.
mark-Cute. ;)
debra-Ah, in between two of my other springtime delights.
alanna-Thanks, Alanna. I appreciate it.
elly-Why, thank you!
stephanie-I don't notice much difference in the flavor, to be honest. I just like the color. :)
italiandish-That's what I like to hear.
kelly-It does work well. Thanks for sharing that with us. :)
simona-And it's beautiful while it lasts.
anonymous-That's because it's always so clean! I would submerge it in a bowl of cool water, then drain it and rinse if necessary. Don't do it until you're ready to cook it though; otherwise it will turn moldy or mushy in the fridge.
ashley-Great! Enjoy them!
treehouschef-You're welcome!
Heather-Mmm, I've gotta try the mirin now.
sabina-Thanks for sharing the insider info! I'll have to ask next time I'm at the farmers' market now too.
afos-There is something so wonderful about fresh cracked black pepper on asparagus.
laura-I'm so happy to hear that. Thanks.
sean-A revelation, indeed! I may have to steal it now too. ;)
- May 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Great informative post as I love asparagus!
- May 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Pille said...
The asparagus season has finally arrived in Estonia, too, and I've enjoyed quite a few good green asparagus dishes already. Going to make asparagus risotto tonight, I think.
And of course - thank you for an informative post, Susan!
- May 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM


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Nokia Acquiring Trolltech
Today, Nokia and Trolltech announced that Nokia will be purchasing Trolltech. Nokia will continue with Qt's dual license model, which was updated to GPL 3 only last week. In an open letter to KDE, the chief Trolls and Nokia VP asked for ideas and comments on improving their relationship with the open source community. Nokia will be applying to become a patron of KDE e.V. and the FreeQt foundation is being maintained to guarantee the continued freedom of the toolkit KDE depends upon. This change should help ensure both the continued longevity of Qt and KDE as well as give the platform a boost in industry, particularly in the consumer electronics industry.
That was a major WTF news to me. Ages ago I read the majority of Trolltech shares were owned by current and former employees, so I'm surprised at the reported easiness Nokia was able to get the majority of Trolltech's shares. Nokia has a long history of heavy pro software patent lobbying. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) lists several worrying points related to Nokia at http://www.swpat.ffii.org/gasnu/kamni/index.en.html
-Software Patents in Finnland: Between 1998 and 2003 the Finnish Patent Office (FiPO/FiPRH) did not follow the European Patent Office's (EPO) decisions to grant literal claims to information objects such as "computer program product, characterised by ...". In 2003 the FiPO suddenly rushed to grant such claims, although both the European Commission and the European Parliament had proposed not to allow them and the existing laws clearly forbid them. (...) Nokia owns about 70-80% of the finnish software patents at the EPO and is said to wield overwhelming influence on Finnland's politics. Nokia's patent department has been intensively lobbying for software patentability in Helsinki, Brussels and Strasburg.
-Nokia und Software-Patente: Tim Frain, head of Nokia's patent department, is a "permanent resident" of the European parliament and has used every opportunity to ask politicians in Brussels and in Finland to support the European Commission's software patentability directive. He is present at conferences everywhere. He argues that small companies badly need software patents because otherwise their ideas might be stolen by large companies.
-International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Software Patents: ICC's "Intellectual Property Committee", consisting of 240 corporate "IP professionals" from around the world, headed by Urho Ilmonen, Vice-President Legal of Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd, has vigorously defended the interests of the patent community in Europe. Their letters and statements are characterised by "strong belief" in the beneficiality of patents and disregard for the opinions not only of most ICC member companies but also of national member organisations such as the German Chamber of Commerce, which has pronounced itself against software patents and against the directive proposal.
Trolltech putting all version of Qt under GPL v3 is a good sign, but I sure hope they are aware of Nokia's activity in the patent area and put in their merger contract that such activity no longer happens at Nokia (likely wishful thinking, especially considering Trolltech doesn't bother to mention the issue of software patent once in their numerous merger related articles/letters/FAQs linked).
By Datschge at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
It's over
KDE already in the shit and now QT going there. It was nice while it lasted, but now it's gone.
By Me at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: It's over
So what is your plan? Are you going back to Windows? GNOME? Sell your computer?
By christoph at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: It's over
hihiihihi, good point
By djouallah mimoune at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: It's over
I don't know about him, but forking Qt, removing all not-used features and building a very light desktop over it (think about not having kdelibs, just a bunch of qt programs) seems like a nice idea to me :)
I would call it QuanTum 95 and be happy ;)
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2008/01/30 - 6:00am
Re: It's over
One and a half of the above.
By AS at Thu, 2008/01/31 - 6:00am
Bad taste in the mouth
This leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Particularly for people who are not paid for working on KDE. Who controlls the future of their toolkit and who benefits from testing, reporting bugs, writing applications...? That's quite important. KDE adds a lot of value to Qt. The fact that a single company is privileged in "chanalizing" this value might not be motivating.
BSD'ing and LGPL'ing would help.
By wtf123 at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Message from Eirik Chambe-Eng and Haavard Nord
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By Stephen at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
This news really sucks.
I can no longer depend on nokia for supporting the next gen linux desktop.
In few months all lead developers of QT will leave Nokia...
By ano at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
The good news
now we are certainly going to have native DRM support for KDE 4.2!!!
By Stephen at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Google wasn't available??!!??
Google wasn't available?
You guys sold out!!!
Hope your conscience eats you. Seriously! The whole open source world is watching and we will ridicule you once Nokia starts wrestling power and jobs away from you, one at a time..
Let's see if development still continues at this great pace, or will slow down. Wonder if this will even cost you programmers, that don't approve of this merger.
By Richard Lionhard at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Google wasn't available??!!??
Of course it is 'open source' - it is Free Software available under both the GPL2 and GPL3 licenses. If the Trolltech engineers didn't approve of the change I doubt very much if the takeover/merger would have gone ahead. In fact I'm certain it wouldn't have.
Anyway, what gives you the right to think you speak for 'the whole open source world' with this silly scare mongering?
By Richard Dale at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Google wasn't available??!!??
I'm not worried about Nokia taking any already developed software/ip away. That won't happen because of GPL.
I'm worried about
a) Nokia firing a big chunk of Qt developers (you know open source does not work for free either..)
This will cause:
Just cause open source software is free, doesn't mean there aren't programmers working on these project full time. Those are usually employed by commercial enterprises, and they have to eat too. You cannot make existing code proprietory but you can effectively stop active development. In the computer world, code that isn't maintained/actively developed/improved, dies off. Remember the computer world is chasing a moving target!!
I hope in the end Nokia will be a good thing though...
By Richard Lionhard at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Google wasn't available??!!??
"a) Nokia firing a big chunk of Qt developers (you know open source does not work for free either..)"
Trolltech employ large numbers of the very best C++ programmers in the world and there is no way Nokia will just fire some of them as that would be just throwing money away.
"b) Nokia essentially freezing development on the corporate side of Qt."
Nokia doesn't just develop mobile phone software. The desktop side of Qt helps the development of the mobile version anyway as they are the same source. So it would make no sense to freeze development.
"c) if you're wondering look to Novell and what SuSE turned into. Novell fired tons of employees from SuSE."
I don't agree this is a comparable situation. It won't happen because Trolltech's engineers are very valuable for further development of Qt, and for possibly building a complete dual licensed mobile phone stack based on Qt.
By Richard Dale at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
Re: Google wasn't available??!!??
I agree with you.
I just hope we're both right.
Hopefully Nokia will pour more money into the KDE project. (E$ 10,000 for Patronage is not a whole lot of money to a big company. Heck it's a tax write off. I hope Nokia donates more money than that. THey should also pay for travel expenses and webcast keynote presentations by Aaron Seigo.)
By Max at Thu, 2008/01/31 - 6:00am
Congrats to Trolltech for making a product that was worthy of such a large purchase!
Congrats to the KDE community for testing (and, in some cases, fixing) such a great toolkit!
And, of course, congrats to the future -- only Good Things will come of this.
By Chris H at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Congrats!
"...large purchase!"
TrollTech bought for 155 Millons
By Max at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Be realistic
After all that bitterness maybe something realistic. Announcement like that was inevitable. TT was just a small fish. Some surprise is buyer. But all that badmouthing of Nokia is an overreaction. Not that they don't deserve it but ALL corporations are behaving like that. For all big names in IT world you could tell ugly stories.
About future: someone already wrote that. Nokia really needs crossplatform tool like Qt. With UMPCs, top boxes, more and more complicated smartphones demands of desktop and mobile world aren't so different. *If* Nokia will not put special effort to crippling desktop version of Qt + laying off several hackers working on KDE nothing should really change. Maybe Aaron will quit PR role and spend more time on coding :)
By m. at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Nokia will push Qtopia (if they're going to use it on some of their mobile devices), but at the same time stop any further development of Qt (to harm Google or others which started to built their apps on top of Qt). Trolltechs manpower will be directed towards Qtopia or other software projects inside Nokia and shifted away from Qt. Some of the core Qt developers will eventually start to feel sad about this direction at some point and leave the company.
Yeah, Nokia is great.. big company... big money.. and unbeatable instinct how to ruin peoples motivation and failing all over with forward-looking projects. Selling the usual devices and being aggressive at making contracts with providers. That's their job, that's what these guys are used to... and that's it.
By thomas at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
"Nokia will push Qtopia (if they're going to use it on some of their mobile devices), but at the same time stop any further development of Qt (to harm Google or others which started to built their apps on top of Qt)."
This is some of the lamest speculation so far. Google has only a couple of apps using Qt and, quite frankly, they could probably stick with the already excellent Qt4.3 and not be fazed in the slightest. The damages your suggested move would cause to "others" (are you seriously suggesting that Nokia would deliberately piss off all Qt users indiscriminately, including the ones that are industry partners?) are so trivial they would probably be dwarfed by the meagre license fees they'd get from continuing to deliver a top-notch, cross-platform toolkit. They'd also annoy all the customers who don't want to have to re-write their apps for every platform they deploy on. Also, QTopia and stock Qt4 share a gigantic amount of code, so stopping development on Qt4 while developing QTopia would be quite a balancing act.
This kind of thoughtless pessimism and frankly bizarre dystopian imaginings are even more annoying than the Pollyanna-ish blind optimism.
By anon at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Your point of view is based on sound reasons. If there's one thing, Nokias management is _not_ capable of, than it's basing decisions on reason.
By thomas at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Yeah ... sure ... because acting solely without reason is what makes a small producer of rubber boots a big tech company with Gigadollars of profit.
By Carsten at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
no, don't take nowadays management for the past one some 50 years ago. The poeple being in the leader position now have good knowledge how to optimize sales and squeeze the maximal out of existing markets.
If they would have been the decision makers 50 years ago, Nokia would still be selling rubber boots, but probably with 40% market share... Still they would complain about prices for rubber boots falling by 35% in the last decade whereas production costs have gone up.
By thomas at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
you're setting a strawman here...
By Martin F. at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
I don't think they will intentionally hurt Qt desktop versions - it doesn't make any sense (first of all, they develop desktop applications - second, they'll want to push Qt as a standard, and you don't do that by crippling it) - but it is true that they will probably shift a lot of focus to Qtopia.
That may be a bad thing, but it could also turn out to be the best thing to happen to Linux for years.
X11, at its core, is 20 years old and it shows -- the Xlib API sucks pretty badly, and the attempts to overcome that (xcb) are just not that much better, they're still a pile of fairly ugly plain C code.
Qtopia on the other hand is relatively clean code and was designed with a great API in mind from the beginning. The only thing that is holding up Qtopia Core+KDE on the desktop is the lack of decent framebuffer drivers.
Compatibility with non-Qt applications could be solved the way OSX supports X11 applications -- launching an X server on top of Qtopia that handles legacy applications and displays their graphics inside Qtopia would work.
By bero at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Is Qtopia client-server like X11 is? because say what you like about 20 year old code, that's a very nice feature to have.
By ben at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Yes, but I haven't tried out to what extent this works so far (not sure if network transparency is there yet for example, but I've run 2 qtopia sessions on 1 machine -- the mechanism is similar to X11 there -- export QWS_DISPLAY=whatever).
Either way the basic infrastructure is there and if anything is missing it can be added.
By bero at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
You do know that Qtopia is built on top of Qt and actually depends on Qt?
By anon at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Qtopia vs. traditional Qt
Funny thing is that afaik since Qt 4, Qtopia and Qt form one codebase... So they would actively have to strip stuff from Qtopia to make Qt any worse. Big companies are harder to keep decent, but they're still people, they still have smaller departments doing their thing. I don't believe this HAS to lead to trouble for Qt and KDE.
By Jos Poortvliet at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
This notion that going BSD license will help is just plain rubbish.
Rubbish, rubbish, and more rubbish. The dual license model allows TT to have some income, and to pay for development. never underestimate that. The BSD license would mean that rivals can steal code and offer nothing back, and on top of that, the BSD license would prevent including GPL code.
While it might seem that BSD is less restrictive, from a certain sense, going BSD would pigeon-hole QT development.
I must say I'm wary of the Nokia deal, but going BSD is not the solution.
By T. J. Brumfield at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: BSD'ing
If the poison pill is triggered, it wouldn't automatically go to BSD. They could license as LGPL instead.
By Ian Monroe at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: BSD'ing
In the event of a "release condition" (i.e., when the foundation gets to re-license Qt), the FreeQt Foundation Board can select the BSD License *AND* one or more other open source licenses.
By Sage at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
OSS commitment of Nokia
I'm really undecided if I should cheer or cry.
I *really* hope not only TT shareholders will profit from this.
On the positive side:
Anyway, let's hope the best because otherwise we all have to cry ;-)
By Little fish at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
gobble gobble!
munch munch and gobble gobble,
By ninja at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
I can't understand you...
Why are you bashing on Nokia? Don't you think Nokia will read all these posts and perhapse decide on something like that, if they will continue development of Qt? Nokia is the most important partner of KDE, now. You cannot know what Nokia's aim is. But if you start bashing it will be much easier for them not to support Qt any longer and to focus on Qtopia. Be friendly to the companies you rely on!
What is the worst that could happen? Qt to be released under an BSD licence because of FreeQt agreement? KDE has to fork from current development of Qt 4.4? Well if it happens KDE has to do more work. That would be bad. But it would also offer other possibilities for KDE. I could imagine that Google would start helping KDE to develop Qt, so that they can use it for their (few) apps. Or Opera, or Skype. There are so many companies who need Qt and would probably support a BSD licenced Qt hosted at KDE. So don't worry.
Personally I think Nokia bought TT for two reasons. First of all they want Qtopia. I don't think they want to hurt Motorola. Motorola is a partner of Android. That's a threat. Nokia needs Qtopia to compete with Android.
The second thing is Qt and KDE. KDE 4 is so powerful. I could imagine that Nokia wants to have Plasma on their smartphones. And that would be the best that could happen to the KDE community. Perhaps Nokia would start to develop apps in an Open Source model for KDE?
Give them a chance. Now Nokia has the possibility to prove that they really support Open Source.
Personally I was not very happy with Nokia during the last week because of Bochum. But today my feelings towards Nokia became better again. This can be a great chance for KDE. If Nokia becomes a Patron and supports the development of KDE there will only be winners. So please stop bashing.
By Martin at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: I can't understand you...
after doing what they just did in Bochum without any second thoughts whatsoever, I'd say they'll support our community as long as they can extract something from us.
The same guys lobbying for software patentability will now decide over QT. In a couple of years we will have a QT library where most of the features are only available for Windows, or some other problems like that.
It's 1997 all over again :(
By George at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
This seems a very rational position to me ! I think that only time will tell. As for now, just keep up the good job !
By OdyX at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: I can't understand you...
Pfff... Patron of KDE just doesn't mean anything. Think of Mark Shuttleworth and his great dedication to KDE - 9 Ubuntu/Gnome dev's vs 1 Kubuntu/KDE dev.
By blueget at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: I can't understand you...
Please do not mix. Mark Shuttleworth is Patron - not Canonical. For most this seems not to be a difference. But I think it is. Canonical probably thinks that Gnome is better for business. Mark thinks that KDE is the better desktop (at least he uses it). This probably explains some differences. And do you know how much the 9 developers work on Gnome? Or do they work on Ubuntu? For me Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE and Ubuntu is Ubuntu with Gnome. Only the desktop environment is different. Most of it is simply the same. So you could say that probably most of the work done by the 9 Ubuntu developers is also for Kubuntu as it is work on the basics: Linux, xorg, apache, etc. etc.
By Martin at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: I can't understand you...
I know what Tim Frain did in the name of Nokia against European independent software developers
By gerd at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: I can't understand you...
> Be friendly to the companies you rely on!
By Erik at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
Think Positive? But can't help thinking negative
Lets think positive:
But I can't stop thinking negative:
Only time will tell, I can only pray for good things for Qt, KDE, Trolltech and Nokia. Good luck for us all!!
By fred at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Think Positive? But can't help thinking negative
Errrh... Novell *made* SuSE Open Source. The renamed it to openSUSE and GPL-ed all source code (especially YaST).
By whatever at Wed, 2008/01/30 - 6:00am
a link worth to read
i just find this article in zdnet, i think it make the situation more clear.
By djouallah mimoune at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: a link worth to read
Doesn't make sense. Why would they spend that much for TT and continue to use GNOME as their DeskTop?
By JRT at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: a link worth to read
Agreed. If your going to spend so much on a company, and then not go all the way, you spit yourself in half. The people from TT are not going to be very familiar with GTK/GNOME.
By Riddle at Thu, 2008/02/07 - 6:00am
I am just saying "Tim Frain", Nokia's anti-software tool for ruthless software patent promotion at the expense of European creators. Tim Frain, the radical proponent behind so much Intellect.UK and EICTA policy proposals in Europe that put SMEs and independent software development at risk.
Sure he also had his say on the acquisition. Which makes me think about the possible real forces behind the deal. Novell taking Suse made MS-Novell possible. What safeguards does Nokia provide?
By andy at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
This seems like a logical business move. Nokia needs a GUI for its products and TT currently develops a GUI toolkit and is not currently a profitable company.
There is also the webbrowsing issue. IIUC, Nokia currently currently uses WebKit and TT is going to adopt WebKit as part of Qt.
I hope that Nokia is also doing this because they intend to use KDE for their products (as Sun uses GNOME). If that is the case, it looks like all of this will lead to a beneficial synergy and it will insure that TT will continue in business since they will no longer need to be profitable to survive.
Possible benefit for KDE is that Nokia will have their software developers working on KDE. They will probably be more interested in fixing the bugs which KDE really needs.
By JRT at Mon, 2008/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: IWFM
I don't see any logic in Nokia using KDE.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Tue, 2008/01/29 - 6:00am
Re: IWFM
Actually, I see plenty of reasons Nokia would want to use KDE. Picture KDE as an extension to Qt, with technology such as libPlasma, KParts, etc. KParts may prove particularly useful if Nokia wants to view a bunch of different file formats...
By Riddle at Thu, 2008/02/07 - 6:00am


text:
kdetv 0.8.0 Released!
After more than two years of development, the long anticipated successor of
Features of kdetv include three view modes, a channel scanner, the ability to import the channel files of three other TV programs, teletext and closed
kdetv requires KDE libraries version 3.1 or above, a TV tuner card with
Screenshots, more information and most important of all, installation
looks good!
looks very nice!
does it support DVB Satalite tv card?
By Mark Hannessen at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: looks good!
Not yet, but it's easy to add support. kdetv is fully plugin driven, so we just need someone to write the appropriate plugin and the devices will automatically show up in the GUI and be accessible!
By George Staikos at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Is it possible to use the DScaler deinterlacing algorythm with kdetv, like with tvtime? Deinterlacing is quite critical to image quality.
By Eike Hein at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Deinterlacing
The plan is to add this soon, but we just haven't found anyone with the time and motivation to implement it. I think it's a good project to do as a branch of the v4l plugin. I think this integration has to be done for each plugin individually, though right now it only applies to the V4L plugin. We also want to implement "filters", but I'm not sure if that's a good choice for dscaler. It may not be efficient enough.
Meanwhile the video quality really isn't so bad, at least for me. I am able to watch sporting events and watch scrolling tickers without problems. Clearly it can be improved though.
By George Staikos at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Deinterlacing
Sounds good. How about a donate button on kwintv.org, or the upcoming kdetv.org?
By Eike Hein at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Deinterlacing
I must have missed something.
This software shows the picture on your computer's monitor, right.
It uses your video card's frame buffer to do that, right.
So, just exactly what is "deinterlacing"?
By James Richard Tyrer at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Deinterlacing
Combining two half-pictures such that you don't see "comb artifacts" on fast horizontal motion, e.g. scroll text.
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Configuration: "GUI"
A rather unfortunate choice in this otherwise nice program. "GUI" is not a term the usual user is familiar with, "General Usage", "User Interface" or something to that effect would be better.
By Anno at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
vdr support and filters like in tv-time?
vdr support will be very nice for my dvb-card, because my monitor is my tv-screen.
Thx for this kde-apps. I'm trying it this week.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Oh BTW
has anyoen else tried TVTIME? It totally blows the other TV programs I tried away. It looks so much better, simple to use, ACTUALLY GOES FULLSCREEN, the quality is excellent and it is not resource hungry. It's only weakness is that it does not yet support as many cards.
IMO, all the other TV programs for Linux should be abandoned or focused on this program, because the quality doesn't even stand comparrison. Why does nobody make a better interface for TVTIME?
Re: Oh BTW
Sorry, if I'm being mean. But after trying TV Time it LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER and ACTUALLY GOES FULLSCREEN and I don't see why the project is ignored so much when it seems the technology is so good. Xandros is among the only distribution that even has TVTIME available.
Re: Oh BTW
Oh also. If I'm talking bullshit based on the previous version, it's because I haven't tried it yet.
Re: Oh BTW
What's wrong about the way that kdetv goes fullscreen?
By cm at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Oh BTW
It goes fullscreen? Last tiem I tried KwinTV it would only black out most of the screen and show a small image 640x480 or soemthing liek that. When TVTIME goes fullscreen it coveres the WHOLE screen and still manages to have significantly better image quality. Has this changed?
Re: Oh BTW
Funny thing about "complete rewrites" - they don't have anything to do with previous versions. You might as well compare a rock to a tree - KWinTV and KDETV are different apps. It's like me criticising TVTIME because last time I tried lynx, it didn't do graphics. The two are not connected.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Oh BTW
It looks good, yes. But there is no nice way to configure the channels, it's quite unstable for me (freezes from time to time) but most of all, beside the very good de-interlace algorithms (which were it's main focus as it seems) it does not have any features. No live pause, no recording... it's pretty 90s.
By AC at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Oh BTW
> has anyone else tried TVTIME? It totally blows the other TV
I tried it, and it blew itself away. Segfaults like it was built for Windows.
By Artie at Tue, 2004/04/20 - 5:00am
KDETV and Qtvision?
Has Qtvision been renamed to KDETV or is this a different program?
Re: KDETV and Qtvision?
Yes, it's been renamed. QtVision was always a development name.
By Richard Moore at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Really Good
I've pulled down the SuSE 8.2 rpms, and this is an awesome improvement to the kwintv. It still has the same problems with leaving artifacts in normal mode (the mode with the sidebar), but full screen and tv mode are fantastic. Thank you very much.
By sphere at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
why is KDE 3.2.2 on hold ?
Hi, I'm just curious, not angry or disappoined at all: does anybody know why KDE 3.2.2 takes so long ? I read it was tagged in CVS around 3rd of april ?!
Thanks to all the people who made KDE what it is now! And I'm refering to version 2-3.x! ;-)
By yep at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: why is KDE 3.2.2 on hold ?
Because you're not using Debian ;-)
By Spy Hunter at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: why is KDE 3.2.2 on hold ?
I do use Debian - but I use stable. So why is KDE 3.2.2 in Debian unstable but not listed on www.kde.org ?
By yep at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: why is KDE 3.2.2 on hold ?
Because KDE likes to wait for packages to be released for as many distros as possible before announcing a release so everyone isn't disappointed when they can't have it right away. Apparently Debian was fast this time, while others are slow. It may also be that the Debian packages are an experimental pre-release and bugs are still being fixed. Having Debian unstable packages is a great way to instantly get hundreds if not thousands of willing beta testers :-)
By Spy Hunter at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Some errors here, but...
I am unable to get through to your e-mail due to sending from cable based home system (damn spammers).
1) during the compile on Mandrake 9.2
vi +25 ./kdetv/libkdetv/channelwidget.cpp
was :
(2'nd const unneed on array, but you knew that)
needs to be:
2) I had problems with getting the wizard to correctly assign the frequencies. I ended up taking qtvision's apps/channel.xml, copying it to apps/kdetv, and moding to ntsc.
Good stuff overall.
A couple of thoughts for what it is worth.
Good stuff, though. I do know that it is a lot of work to get it to this point.
By a.c. at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Some errors here, but...
1) This file is generated by uic... It's an uic bug:
2) I use the xawtv freq lists, which should be the most stable available...
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Some errors here, but...
>However, I'll try to work around it.
By a.c. at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Some thoughts
after apt-getting it:
1. I like it, and hopefully I can ditch xawtv soon (as I ditched xmms for juk)
2. There should be a possibility, in the application, to set it "always on top"
3. it should go away from the taskbar, and stay exclusively in the systemtray
4. the "Elegant on screen Display plugin" shows the channel always as fontsize
5. The preferences dialog does not seem to remember it's last position
6. When I "zap" between channels with the mousewheel, juk gets interrupted
Looking forward to see it in kde3.3 (which is due in august 2004 IIRC) ;-)
By ac at Sun, 2004/04/18 - 5:00am
Re: Some thoughts
I still haven't tried it yet. I will tomamrow, but always on top anyway is a Kwin feature and needs not be implemented by KDETV itself. I think that it should have a system tray option jsut like JUks, but not exclusive. Also, are you using kernel 2.6?
By Alex at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Some thoughts
> 3. it should go away from the taskbar,
I would prefer if it didn't. Maybe have both choices as a configuration option?
By Rune Kristian Viken at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Some thoughts
1) Hope you can ;-)
Don't think it'll be in kde3.3. We are in kdeextragear-3 at the moment since we want to be independent of KDE's release cycle.
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Some thoughts
5. Window Menu: Advanced->Store Window settings.
PS: I wrote a detailed answer, but it got lost. But Dirk had the same answers. ;-)
By Andras Mantia at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
A great program
This is a great program, recently I switched from xawtv to kdetv because it's more integrated in the desktop and I can see in fullscreen (real fullscreen). The plugins system it's a very promising project to add new features easily.
Go on with this great aplication
By Pedro Jurado Maqueda at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
can KDETV do record?
I have been trying to find a program that would do high quality t.v record, but so far no luck. Does anyone know of any high quality recording programs?
thanx in advance
By Someone at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Colour inversion?
Is there support for colour inversion on-the-fly? That will allow me to watch cable TV on my computer (yes, I'm a paying subscriber). If so, how CPU-intensive is it?
By Yama at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: Colour inversion?
No, kdetv is not able to do this.
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Mon, 2004/04/19 - 5:00am
xml stuff?
Forgive me if I don't know the terminology, but can kdetv decode xml channel program listings and display them the way tvtime can? I switched from xawtv to tvtime because tvtime had closed captions, and now I'm hooked on the program listings, but since I switched to 2.6 kernel tvtime spontaneously 'forgets' the color and hue settings and goes back to 50% (which gives a horrible pink image) every couple of seconds, making it unwatchable, so I'd love to switch to something else..
By Tom at Wed, 2004/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: xml stuff?
I guess you are referring to xmltv. No kdetv cannot decode/display them, but a plugin could be written for it (it's on the ideas/wishes list since more than a year, but noone has the time for it).
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Fri, 2004/04/23 - 5:00am
Unable to hear AUDIO!
I've got a Kworld SAA7134(it's just a Philips), that works properly with the kernel module saa7130.
So I think there is a volume that I can't control directly on the PCI-CARD something like Line-in1 on /dev/mixer
If I open Kradio (my TV-CARD doesn't support the radio signals), clicking on "Power" finally I hear the typical sound, when I start kdetv, the sound stops!
I tried even other software!
PLEASE HELP ME! My distro is a SuSE Linux 9.1 with 2.6 Kernel and KDE 3.2.1
By Pinco at Wed, 2004/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: Unable to hear AUDIO!
So? No one can help me???
By Pinco at Tue, 2004/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: Unable to hear AUDIO!
Use the latest snapshot (http://dziegel.free.fr/snapshots). This is a known problem of kdetv on Kernel 2.6.X and saa driver.
By Dirk Ziegelmeier at Fri, 2004/06/04 - 5:00am
Re: Unable to hear AUDIO!
Nothing... I can't resolve this bug! What a shit... I'be been searching for the solution, for many times! PLEEEEEAAAAAASSEE! -.-'
By Pinco at Mon, 2004/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Unable to hear AUDIO!
With later versions of kdetv everthing runs fine for me now.
By Grothesk at Sat, 2004/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: Unable to hear AUDIO!
Same problem in ubuntu. Only i dont have radio in my card...no singal from my line out....
By Dane at Fri, 2006/01/13 - 6:00am
Same problem: no sound
I have a Pinnacle PCTV TV-card and I have the same problem as Pinco: no sound.
By sw0rdmaster at Thu, 2004/06/03 - 5:00am
Country not found
I am unable to tune the channels using kde.
By Abhilash at Tue, 2004/08/24 - 5:00am
Re: Country not found
Me too. I am from India and i am not able to tune it for my req.ment.
By Santhosh G. Kini at Mon, 2005/10/10 - 5:00am


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Today Baseball America released their Top 10 prospects in the Phillies System. Since the scouting reports are behind the pay wall I will keep the scouting reports to quick paraphrases of Baseball America's reports.
If you have further questions and are a BA subscriber please go to the chat later today or submit your questions now.
1. Jesse Biddle – LHP – Age 21 -Biddle has drawn comparisons to Andy Pettitte for his strong left handed frame. Biddle's fastball sits 88-93, he follows it up with a curveball which profiles as plus, an average change up, and a added a two-seamer and slider in 2012. Biddle has a great work ethic and he physically profiles as a workhorse with a clean smooth delivery. Biddle has a very good chance to be a #3 starter but there is a chance that he could profile better if one of his pitches takes a step forward.
2. Roman Quinn – SS – Age 19 – Quinn's best tool is 80 speed, at the plate he has taken to switch hitting full time and he has a good quick swing which has a good amount of power for his small frame, though he will never be a huge power threat. In the field Quinn is still learning shortstop and has problem positioning and with his footwork, but he has an elite first step and excellent range as well as a plus arm. Quinn has drawn comparisons to Jimmy Rollins but has more arm and speed than Rollins did at the same age.
3. Tommy Joseph – C – Age 21 – Joseph's calling card is his bat, he has plus raw power and he has a nice direct swing. There have been some questions about whether Joseph can stick defensively, but the Phillies like what they see. Joseph has good soft hands and a quick release to go with a plus arm that allows him to shut down the running game. There are still some problems with his footwork and blocking balls in the dirt.
4. Jonathan Pettibone – RHP – Age 22 – Pettibone likely has the highest floor of any player in the Phillies minor league system. His fastball sits 90-94 and has good sink, to go with an average slider and a plus change up, additionally Pettibone started to add a cutter which flashed has a nice weapon against LH hitters. The biggest weakness for Pettibone is his lack of a true swing and miss pitch. Pettibone's ceiling is as a mid-rotation starter but he could be ready by the middle of 2013.
5. Adam Morgan – LHP – Age 22 – Morgan's stuff actually ticked up in professional ball with his fastball sitting 91-94, a slider that profiles as plus, and a change up that was rated the best in the FSL. Morgan has above average control and a smooth delivery, both of which have drawn some comparisons to Cliff Lee. Morgan profiles as a #3 starter but there is some potential to be better than that if the secondary pitches continue to improve.
6. Ethan Martin – RHP – Age 23 – Martin was a lost prospect as of a few years ago but in 2012 he really improved. Martin's fastball sits 91-97 to go with a change up and curveball that are inconsistent but both flash plus at times giving Martin three plus pitches. Martin still has slight below average control to go with shaky command. If he can continue to improve the command he could be a mid-rotation starter, if not he is a solid bullpen piece.
7. Cody Asche – 3B – Age 22 – At the plate Asche has a short quick stroke that gives him good contact and line drive power to all fields. Their are questions though as to whether he will ever have prototypical power for third base. In the field he has good hands and a solid arm, his footwork and positioning still need work but are improving. He is not a prototypical third baseman but there is a major league role for him, perhaps as a regular if it all comes together.
8. Maikel Franco – 3B – Age 20 – At the plate Franco has quick hands and above average raw power. Franco is a 20 runner, a fact that scared away teams looking to sign him out of the DR. In the field has a strong arm and soft hands which will allow him to stick at third base long term. If Franco improve, especially in recognizing off-speed pitches, he will profile as a solid power hitting third baseman.
9. Darin Ruf – 1B/OF – Age 26 – Ruf had a huge breakout 2012 when he finally tapped into his good raw power. He is good against fastballs and has shown some success at dealing with major league breaking balls. In the field he is a well below average runner and is fringy defensively at first base, in the outfield he is a poor defender but has enough arm for left field. Ruf could stick as a lose to everyday LF, and is floor is as a power bench bat.
9. Carlos Tocci – CF – Age 17 – The first thing about Tocci is his great instincts especially for his young age. Physically he is very slight and he has shown almost no power to this point. In the field he is a plus plus runner who has great range in center to go with a plus arm, giving him the chance to be a top defensive player there. At the plate he has good strike zone awareness and can drive the ball to all fields, he projects as an above average hitter but the power will depend on how much muscle he can add to his frame. Tocci is still far away and could handle the promotion to Lakewood but the Phillies might hold him back in Extended before sending him to Williamsport.


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A pundits' panel of chief strategists who are regularly quoted in broadcast, online and print media joined star bloggers Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown on Tuesday to bemoan the insanity of the 24-7 financial news cycle.
At his fifth annual Big Picture Conference in New York, Ritholtz welcomed his new Ritholtz Wealth Management partner, Brown of Reformed Broker blog fame, to moderate a "View from the Chief Strategist's Chair" panel that focused largely on modern-day media's effects on market volatility.
"The reason I do as much tweeting as I do is because I retweet every eighth tweet of Josh's tweets," Ritholtz quipped as he introduced Brown. (Ritholtz is no stranger to social media – TED Talks credits his Big Picture blog as one of "100 websites you should know and use," while Matt Miller of Bloomberg says Ritholtz "consistently makes more sense than anyone else in media" and Randall Forsyth of Barron's calls The Big Picture "a must-read blog.")
With that media-savvy opener, Brown introduced himself as "the Mohamed El-Erian to Barry's Bill Gross if they were really into carbs," then launched the panel with this self-critical question: "We're awash in information. With all the tweeting and blogging out there, it's hard to keep up with what's going on. Is there too much noise?"
Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Lazard Capital who appears on Larry Kudlow's CNBC "The Kudlow Report," volunteered that the biggest change in technology, social media and the 24-7 media cycle is that "you can exaggerate points that don't matter that much because it's the only piece of economic data that day and there's not that much going on."
Hogan, who acknowledged that he was the oldest panelist, recalled that market participants "used to talk about three-month moving averages, but now you've got people asking, 'What's going on today?' and half of your job is talking to newspeople."
Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at independent broker-dealer LPL Financial, who often gets quoted on CNBC and Bloomberg, noticed that markets in the 24-7 news climate can get obsessed about one thing briefly before moving on to the next obsession.
"Remember Syria? Or the Italian elections?" Kleintop said. "The key thing is to keep in perspective what the markets have forgotten about."
Kleintop added that he travels across the country and meets with LPL's 17,000 affiliated advisors, who are all reading the news and paying attention to issues such as the debt ceiling and the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) program.
"You have to seriously consider data points, because when you talk to advisors you don't want to sound out of touch," Kleintop said, noting that the anecdotes he hears around the country create a psychological mosaic of where advisors think the U.S. economy and markets are headed.
But panelist Daniel Greenhaus, chief global strategist at institutional trading brokerage BTIG, who makes appearances on Bloomberg TV and works with clients in the hedge fund world, said that hedgies take a longer view and avoid the noise in the blogosphere: "If you talk to George Soros, all he wants is the big picture view of QE tapering: 'When will the Fed stop buying back bonds? Next spring? OK, now let's talk about something else.' None of those guys at hedge funds have a clue what Dave Camp is doing as chairman as the House Ways and Means Committee. They literally don't care. They simply want to know what cash flows will be. The big guys stay laser-focused on individual stocks."
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It's that time of year again, when Southern Californians get themselves all in a tizzy over springtime wildflowers (or colorful weeds, as this New England native calls them).
The mecca of Southern California's wildflowers is Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California's largest state park and home to some of the most spectacular wildflowers around.
We recently took a road trip to Anza-Borrego to admire the wildflowers, and even I was impressed. So pack up your car and head over to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park soon before the flowers are gone. Go mid-week if you can to avoid the heavy weekend traffic.
Here are 10 reasons why you should visit Anza-Borrego Desert State Park:
1. On the drive to the desert valley, you'll pass idyllic pastures with scores of roaming cows, many of whom will moo personally for you.
2. You'll spot flowering cacti so intensely colored that they look neon. You'll also take an absurd number of pictures as you roam through the desert collecting sand in your shoes.
3. Along the way, you'll stop to smell the flowers. And if you're (un)lucky like my mother-in-law, you'll have someone (like your son, Jeff) there to capture the moment with a picture of you, and a daughter-in-law (Susan), who will post it on her blog.
4. You'll forget all about the picture when you spot a great, little roadside stand in the heart of the valley selling fresh fruit. You'll buy a box of plump, sweet, fresh Medjool dates, half of which will be eaten by the passengers in your car on the ride home.
5. You'll buy enough citrus to feed a scurvy-stricken militia. (A 15-pound bag of freshly picked pink grapefruit is $4!)
6. You'll stop in the quaint town of Julian, where you can roam historic buildings and do some antique shopping.
7. You'll treat yourself to a piece 'o pie at the famous Julian Pie Company. Just be sure to call first, because the last thing you want to see after you've spent the entire day anticipating a big slab of warm Dutch apple pie with cinnamon ice cream is this sign:
8. You'll end the day by having your picture taken among a sea of yellow daffodils.
9. When you get home with your 15 pounds of pink grapefruit, 10 pounds of navel oranges, 5 pounds of blood oranges, 3 pounds of lemons, and 1 pound of kumquats, you'll start searching for recipes online to use them all. Save yourself some time, and try these recipes featuring citrus:
Chili-Lime Fruit Salad
Honeyed Orange Ginger Muffins (Quat, optional)
Orange, Walnut, and Chocolate Chip Muffins
Glazed Meyer Lemon and Blueberry Cream Scones
Camembert and Kumquat Chutney Toasts
Wild Arugula and Blood Orange Salad with Prosciutto
Warm Bulgur Salad with Beets, Fennel, and Oranges
Tilapia with Zesty Blood Orange and Mango Salsa
Shrimp Tacos with Citrus-Avocado Salsa
Orange Delight Cookies
Italian Almond and Orange Torte with Blood Orange Compote
10. If you've got some soft or bruised oranges, don't discard them. Juice them and make a blood orange vodkatini or this lovely Italian Blood Orange and Olive Oil Cake with Rosemary.
The olive oil in this cake makes it exceptionally moist, while the rosemary and blood orange juice and zest add earthiness and tang. It makes a simple yet sophisticated mid-afternoon snack with a glass of wine and some fine cheese.


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The Road to KDE 4: New KOffice Technologies
In this week's edition of the Road to KDE 4, we'll take a look at
KWord is part of the KOffice suite of applications which, with a few exceptions such as Kexi, has been visible thus far as a KDE-only application living under the shadow of the much larger OpenOffice.org suite. But this won't always be so, as the new KDE 4 technologies allow KOffice to exist as a native application on other platforms such as Windows and Mac OSX. Look out for more details on KDE support for these platforms in a future article.
One of the biggest assets of KOffice and KWord is its native support for the OASIS OpenDocument standard, which is shared by many office applications these days (including OpenOffice.org, Google Docs and others). Expect improved ODF document compatibility for KWord in the future as the developers strive for complete specification support.
Lets take a look at some screenshots from the development version of KWord. Notice the nice anti-aliasing of every element of the UI. On my system, it doesn't appear noticeably slower than KOffice 1.6.1. One of the most improved areas in KWord 2 is the text formatting and layouting, which definitely deserves some more exposure. It's not yet complete, but as you can see below, it's definitely much improved from previous versions. You really have to experience it yourself to appreciate how smooth moving, resizing and rotating Flake shapes is in this new version.
All manner of objects are being converted to the new Flake library, for instance KFormula elements, so you can insert nicely rendered math into your documents without any trouble. This support could make KWord as exciting to use for page layouts as KPresenter, as you are no longer restricted to dull, square document shapes. These changes should enable KWord 2 to behave as a respectable basic desktop publishing application.
Also noticeable in this early preview version is the lack of spell checking support, as this is being reworked for the upcoming Sonnet architecture for spelling and grammar corrections. (Which word did I misspell in my screenshot?)
But this is not the only improvement new to KOffice 2. Also in the works is scripting support for applications through the new and extensible scripting framework dubbed Kross. It has received a lot of work and looks to be one of the killer features of KOffice 2.
The following screenshot shows the new scripts menus in KWord:
Also notice how I moved the tear-off toolbars from the previous screenshot. I placed them by drag-and-drop, and they automatically tabbed up. This is all done very smoothly by Qt with no noticeable interface flickering.
Of course, the same scripting and rendering features have made their way into other KOffice apps as well. KSpread and scripting are a perfect fit, and there is a lot of power exposed to the advanced user.
For people interested in more details about Kross, check out this article on the development and usage of Kross in KSpread.
These are just some of the many improvements in the works for KWord and KOffice when the KDE 4 platform rolls out. Of course, these screenshots are of the development versions, which are quite unstable at the moment, but jugding by the level of activity today in the developer channels (like #koffice on irc.freenode.org) there is a large amount of momentum behind this release.
KOffice has a separate release schedule from KDE 4, so they may or may not release concurrently.
Looking forward to it...
I'm really looking forward to the next KDE and associated programs. And I'm really glad to see these articles about the progress.
With KOffice my biggest concern is ODF compatiblility not so much the UI, just read an articlen in Linux Magazine about it and the compliance in the different tested office suites were somewhat depressing (they did the test on an older version 1.5, so most have improved since).
By Morten Sjøgren at Mon, 2007/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
Linux Magazine was, well, less than thorough and the author didn't quite understand the issues involved. I was a bit unimpressed with the articles. Thomas has got my copy now, so I cannot look back and give definite criticisms.
Still, it's clear that we're all working towards ODF support, haven't reached it fully yet. Not OpenOffice, not KOffice, nor anybody else. That said, it's encouraging to read things like:http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/01/bidirectional_m.html.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Mon, 2007/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
KOffice allready is looking very nice, but I have to agree with ODF compatibility problems. I recently switched to Koffice from OO.org, but switched back, after exchanging documents turned out to be a nightmare. This is not necessarily have to be a Koffice-problem, could also be a problem of OO.org. But how can the user figure out where the problem lies and has to be reported to? Since OO.org is more used, I now use OO.org again.
By Samba at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
The user could check the same document in different viewers, but in the end he can't be sure which one is right. The devs have to look into the ODF spec. In some cases the incompatibility might also be caused through inaccuracy of the spec.
By ac at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: ODF compatibility
I tried to reproduce our masthead, which we have in openoffice and M$Word, in KWord and in Abiword recently. It was a nightmare. The OpenOffice version is attached to this posting.
In Kword, I was able to create something which at least looked similar. In Abiword I wasn't even able to create something similar. Once I got close, but then closing and reopening the file (native Abiword format) messed everything up again.
Opening the odt file in another ODF compliant application is a different matter though. Try to open the attached masthead with KWord, and it will be all messed up. In Abiword it's the same.
My recreation of the masthead in KWord will also not open correctly in OpenOffice, not to mention Abiword...
ODF standard - that sometimes sounds more like wishful thinking.
By Andreas Speck at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: ODF compatibility
Your masthead doesn't look very complex, but you did choose to use some items that are not well supported in OOo (frames).
Anchored content in 2.0 are in design right now, but they really look like they will be awesome!
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
Even better; there is a testsuite.
The tests are written based on the spec, not on the implementation of one application. There you can see how well or bad each app behaves in each section. (people willing to make screenshots of the tests in different versions of the applications, please report to; http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org/~testsuite/ )
Do note that ODF is pretty new; its expected to see compatibility grow over time as applications find bugs and fix them.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
i can agree 100% to the persons complaint, i use koffice on my freebsd machines and openoffice in my girlfriends laptop and interoperability is hell.
a plain text with two pictures created in openoffice and opened in koffice is a mess! the pictures are in wrong places, the fonts are bigger in kofffice, certain pngs dont load at all...
i am not saying its koffice's fault, but you really need to work with ooo on interoperability!!!
By hannes hauswedell at Sat, 2007/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
There's still work to be done, but already there are benefits from a common format - as KOffice has improved greatly in the recent releases I've been using it more and more on documents I created in OOo without having to think about doing a conversion first
By Simon at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
I'm a KDE user all-around, but still I need to use OpenOffice if I need
Sorry but this isn't the way to go, peek into OpenOffice, do what you want
By matte at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
Feel free to be the umpteenth person who tries to mooch the MS file format code from OpenOffice... Unless you've tried you don't realize just how impossible a task it is.
As for us, we're going for OpenDocument. Even Microsoft will soon be forced to support it.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Looking forward to it...
By AC at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
misspelled word
You misspelled 'definitely' as 'definately'. :-)
Now send me my cookie!
By Pram at Mon, 2007/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: misspelled word
Okay, I'll send it via an HTTP Header :P I hope you find it tasty.
But yeah, the KOffice people caught that mistake during proof reading, but since I didn't want to bother creating a new screenshot (being lazy as I am), I managed to turn it into a positive mention for the upcoming Sonnet spelling and grammar engine. :)
By Troy Unrau at Mon, 2007/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: misspelled word
Hmm, but they didn't catch the extra 'to' in 'comes to time to print'? :)
Maybe the grammar checker will!
By Martin Fick at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: misspelled word
What's wrong with 'when it comes to time to print'? It's a bit clumsy but not grammatically incorrect as far as I can see.
By Tim at Thu, 2007/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: misspelled word
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Thanks for this!
I'm really liking this series, Troy - it's providing a great deal of interesting tidbits, and providing some nice visibility into the KDE4 development process. Thanks for putting it together! (And thanks for all the KOffice guys, too, for their excellent work in providing some a comprehensive, lightweight and well-integrated suite!)
By anon at Mon, 2007/01/08 - 6:00am
Re: Thanks for this!
By Joergen Ramskov at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Great stuff, but...
...will it support changing the background colour away from the KDE UI settings? That's the reason I don't use KOffice, because I like my dark grey colour scheme, but I don't like document backgrounds being dark grey.
By Steve at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Great stuff, but...
AFAIK you can define a color scheme per application
By otherAC at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Great stuff, but...
You're kidding, right? Are you seriously claiming that you don't use an office application because you don't like the background colour behind the documents? I find that really hard to believe.
By Andre at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Great stuff, but...
I dont use Koffice by two reason, sheet color what changes as neutral-gray what i need to use because editing pictures, and i would like to have sheet paper as white so i can see what it would look like on paper with pictures and other objects.
second reason is that sheet papers dont have any space between them. It's more like toilet paper what you are writing and it just dont look good. I made few wishes for middle sheet and those were taked to use so paper is on middle but there is no space still between sheets... when it comes, koffice will go over OOo.
By Fri13 at Sat, 2007/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Great stuff, but...
Both these issues are already done in svn. You'll be able to switch when 2.0 comes out :)
In case you wonder; the page fully in view is a 'pagespread' which means its one page that will be printed to be 2 pages. Some people need that. The direct effect is that you don't see a split in that page. But the other pages lower will have the spacing.
By Spacing. at Sat, 2007/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Great stuff, but...
Currently that feature you don't like is not implemented; the background is always the paper color :)
This is a controversial feature indeed; I'm sure that if we re-add it we will do so with a config setting.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Killer apps...
I believe KWord and co. could become killer applications for people moving to KDE.
By person dude at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
On text layout and dancing characters
With Scribe, the new text layouting engine, these issues should be fixed with KOffice 2, and most text in the first screenshot looks good so far with regard to this.
What's the reason for this? Is this what you mean by "not complete", so does this get addressed with time, so it's not like this can't be fixed like in KOffice 1.x?
By Phase II at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
Yeah, I'm concerned as well. Text appearance has always been my major problem with KDE apps, and everything I've read about Scribe indicates that this will fix all of those problems.
...so screenshots that still have these problems make me nervous. This'll be fixed in the final version, right guys? Anyone?
By ac at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
let's hope so. at least it got better already, and this is so much a work in progress i find it hard to believe they won't spend time on it. even if you do daily SVN updates, the progress on Koffice is amazing - they easily change over 60 files each day, frequently adding more than 10 or 20 files... it's a very active KDE module.
By superstoned at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
Ops... it really looks bad, just the same type of problems that were plaguing 1.x. Hmmmm, I really, really hope that this is due to not using more advanced text rendering features that *will* be turned on later during development (anybody can confirm / decline ?). BTW - it seems to me that with such text rendering KOffice can be only treated as a toy, not a real tool ;-)
By Gawron at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
I'm personally already quite impressed with the way that things look a magnitude better than KOffice1.x
Not all issues have been solved even in the bugreport issue, but they are solvable. And we aim to solve all of them in time for the release.
This is a coordinated effort between the KWord + Qt + Pango guys.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
I followed your link, and it seems to be saying that the remaining rendering problems aren't due to issues with KOffice 2.0 code but rather issuess with the fonts that were used. I'm I correct in this understanding? If so, does this mean that only fonts that have been optimised for KDE/KOffice use will display correctly? That could be an issue.
By cirehawk at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
Correct it's issues with the font used. But it's not about beeing optimized for KDE/KOffice, it's about fonts having good/correct hinting. The bad font's will render just as crappy all places that use FreeType.
Anyway I think KOffice should default to a better font than the one used in these screenshots. Using that particular(crappy) font gives a bad impression of KOffice. It's about first impressions and using a better font will help a lot.
By Morty at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: On text layout and dancing characters
By renox at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
I just wonder, instead of what happened with the kerning: where did the hinting of the fonts go?
The UI has nicely hinted letters (Vera Sans most likely, and using the hinting instructions in the font), but for some reason it produces awful fuzzy blobs in the document itself, even though it seems that the same font is used there. If this is really Vera Sans there, then either the font rendering in the document is broken or the person who made the screenshots has some weird settings.
I should install kde4 and koffice2 myself once to see how it looks like, the screenshots posted here don't really tell enough to see what's going wrong.
By Selene at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
This is a pre-pre-pre alpha release, guys.
Please take it like that and don't burn something that actually is quite is step up from the previous release because its not perfect yet.
Celebrate progress, be patient for perfection.
Well, unless you want to submit patches ;)
By Thomas Zander at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
Oh I wasn't burning, I was trying to understand your comment. I am excited about the upcoming 2.0 version of KOffice.
By cirehawk at Wed, 2007/01/10 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
It isn't burning either, but if the issue is just with some fonts as said above, then you'd better use fonts which render correctly to really show-off your work: even when trying, it's hard to overcome the 'ugly font rendering' first impression to appreciate your work..
By renox at Thu, 2007/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
> then you'd better use fonts which render correctly to really
You are right. I'll correct that right here and now.
The one attached to this post better?
By Thomas Zander at Thu, 2007/01/11 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
Not really, this font is really weird: the 'u' is bigger than the 'm'..
By renox at Fri, 2007/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
I wouldn't say "not really" I'd say "yes!" Because it *is* better. It's not perfect, as you noted the 'u' is taller. Assuming that's not intended by the font, then it's less than perfect, but without the kerning issues.
Thanks Thomas and all the other KOffice devs, we really do appreciate your hard work!
By mactalla at Fri, 2007/01/12 - 6:00am
Re: Hinting?
This font doesn't look *that* good. 'b' and 's' seem to have more space around them than some other letters.
By ruben at Sat, 2007/02/10 - 6:00am
A great series!
Thanks a lot for these articles!
They provide exactly the information, I long to get.
And someone beat me on definately ;)
Best wishes, and keep it up!
By Arne Babenhause... at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Qt-Only Version?
Glad to see that OOo might be getting some tougher competition! Does anyone know if it is possible or if it will be possible to create a Qt-only version of Koffice, which does not require all the KDE deps? I ask this because a low-resource office suite is desperately needed in the Linux world, and I imagine that most users who are using an old computer aren't going to be running KDE.
By Rahim at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
a few kde libraries wont really do much damage, a full loaded kde desktop isnt required.
By redeeman at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
So, on Debian, it would require kdelibs or something like that? It's just I remember when I used to use XFCE on an old computer, if I opened even something little like Kcalc, it took ages to load. But I suppose with DCOP being gone, that will help the initial overhead quite a bit?
By Rahim at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
it's not dcop, it's loading all the libs and starting necessary support daemons such as kded and what not.
you're probably not saving as much with xfce as you think if you're running kde apps in it.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
Yes, I agree. I guess that's sort of my point, is there any way to make Koffice compile as Qt-only or something?
By Rahim at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
No, but you could try AbiWord perhaps?
By Robert Knight at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt-Only Version?
The simple answer is no.
The long answer is due to all the functionality that KOffice pulls in from kdelibs so it doesn't have to do all that work itself. Like the file dialogs, config dialogs, toolbars, printing, auto-saving, config backend, kparts, and so forth... removing the kdelibs dependency would cause KOffice to re-implement this all in-house, so you really wouldn't be saving anything.
By Troy Unrau at Tue, 2007/01/09 - 6:00am


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McObject has announced eXtremeDB's immediate availability on Apple's iOS mobile platform. The In-Memory Database System (IMDS) and related product family now boasts "specialized" features such as support for efficient location-based lookups and a tiny "footprint" that avoids monopolizing on-device hardware resources.
"Adoption of iPhones, iPads, and related Apple devices has soared past the half billion mark, driven to a large extent by consumers' delight with the increasingly sophisticated available software. The eXtremeDB embedded database system meets the need for fast, highly efficient data management to support advanced features in iOS mobile apps," McObject CEO Steve Graves said.
McObject points out that while iOS developers write their code in the Objective super-set language, most data management in iOS apps is accomplished in SQL, a database programming language with "inherent performance" limitations.
McObject says its eXtremeDB enables iOS developers to move beyond SQL. This software is used in millions of media players and set-top boxes worldwide to index, sort, and retrieve stored content. "Consumer electronics manufacturers choose eXtremeDB in part for its fast, native C/C++ API," says the firm.
NOTE: This interface is navigational; that is, it consists of C functions embedded in the code work on the database one record at a time, navigating from record-to-record and between related record types through application logic.
"In contrast, SQL provides a higher level of abstraction to programmers by separating the database access language from the physical database implementation. SQL's abstraction is convenient, but comes at the cost of more processing overhead, plus reliance on an optimizer that will consider different ways to carry out a given command. eXtremeDB's native API stores data in exactly the form used by the application — C/C++ data structures — eliminating conversion to SQL format for storage in SQL tables," said Graves.


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After showcasing songs from the upcoming album in the UK, Europe, and Ireland, War was released in March 1983. In the UK, a special picture disc of War was released which featured the black and white Peter Rowan cover. In August 1991, the album was re-issued with red lettering on the cover instead of the pink colour that was on the original issue - part of the Island Master series. Elsewhere in the world, a Japanese release of the album contained a comic book-style insert.
In the UK, the album entered the charts at No. 1. War entered the US album charts in the Top 20 and eventually climbed as high as No. 12. War also reached No. 23 on the Top Pop Catalog album chart and became U2's first Gold album in the US, eventually being certified multi-platinum by the RIAA with 4 million units sold. It also earned a Gold record in Switzerland and Silver record in the UK. In the Hot Press Reader's Poll, it was voted No. 1 best album and best LP sleeve. UK magazine New Musical Express voted both the album and sleeve as No. 3 in its annual poll. And in the New Zealand Rip It Up Poll, War was voted the No. 1 album.
'More than any other record, 'War' is right for its time. It is a slap in the face against the snap, crackle and pop. Everyone else is getting more and more style-orientated, more and more slick. John Lennon was right about that kind of music; he called it 'wallpaper music.' Very pretty, very well designed, music to eat your breakfast to. Music can be more. Its possibilities are great. Music has changed me. It has the ability to change a generation. Look at what happened with Vietnam. Music changed a whole generation's attitude towards war.'
Bono, June 1983.
'We had to leave the studio at seven in the morning 'cause there was this other band that were starting then. It was incredible - Bono was singing '40' with this other band waiting outside! We'd not even started mixing it yet. Bono was doing the vocal while we were doing the mixing, and we got out by seven. 'New Year's Day' was mixed in ten minutes.'
Steve Lillywhite, producer
17 February, 2013
'war album ' to me is .....'40'!we are young and we are carrying a baggage, an heavy one. We have inherited the war. 'Sunday bloody Sunday' starts with a fast foot , beat beating hard the drums and guitar keeps the run. Voice and bass guitar are sublime in ' New year's day'. ' A generation without name, ripped and torn nothing to lose,nothing to gain',nothing at all , album reveals pleasure in searching new sounds in ' Like a song' and reverberating choirs. And we go a bit far from social world to meet inner world in ' Drowning man',but lyrics take back to common good sense . Musically I find this album very realistic in its ups and downs, tight to the evolution of the band. And dance we can' Two hearts beat as one'!
06 November, 2011
This album got no. 6......at my favorite U2-album list! 1. Achtung Baby // 2. Zooropa // 3. All That You Can't Leave Behind // 4. How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb // 5. The Joshua Tree // 6. War // 7. The Unforgettable Fire
10 August, 2011
Awesome!Another album I love! I love "40" and Sunday Bloody Sunday!


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In a stinging rebuke of the military's efforts to curb sexual assault, members of a Senate panel hammered Defense Department officials on Wednesday for making too little progress in combating the crimes and failing to improve a military justice system that victims described as slow and uncaring.
During a two-part hearing, the panel heard harrowing testimony from several victims, who said military justice is broken and pushed for Congress to take action to stem the rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment that they said are pervasive in all the service branches.
Pentagon officials said they are taking the problem seriously. "Sexual assault in the military is not only an abhorrent crime that does enormous harm to the victim, but it is also a virulent attack on the discipline and good order on which military cohesion depends," said Robert Taylor, the Pentagon's acting general counsel.
"The Air Force has zero tolerance for this offense," added Lt. Gen. Richard Harding, the judge advocate general of the Air Force.
But lawmakers pointed to a decision by Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin to reverse a guilty verdict in a sexual assault case as evidence of how the military fails the victims who come forward to report the crimes. Under military law, a commander who convenes a court martial is known as the convening authority and has the sole discretion to reduce or set aside guilty verdicts and sentences or to reverse a jury's verdict.
Her voice rising, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said all the promises of "zero tolerance" from the witnesses amount to nothing if a convening authority is the only individual who can decide whether to overturn a case. Gillibrand is the chairwoman of the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee.
"I appreciate the work you're doing, but it's not enough," she told the military officers arrayed at a long witness table.
Gillibrand then directed her frustration at Harding, demanding to know whether justice was done when Franklin overturned a military jury's conviction. Harding responded that Franklin reviewed the facts and made an independent decision with integrity. Gillibrand then asked whether justice was erved when the five senior officers who made up the jury rendered a guilty verdict. Harding said he could not say.
"The jury and the convening authority did their duty," he said.
Pointing out that they came to opposite decisions, Gillibrand pressed Harding on whether justice was done.
"I'm not going to conclude that justice was or was not done. All parties did what they were asked to do," he said.
"One of the parties was wrong," Gillibrand told him, adding that the female victim in the case does not believe justice was done.
Rebekah Havrilla, a former Army sergeant, told the panel that she encountered a "broken" military criminal justice system after she was raped by another service member while serving in Afghanistan. Havrilla described suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and described how her case was eventually closed after senior commanders decided not to pursue charges.
"What we need is a military with a fair and impartial criminal justice system, one that is run by professional and legal experts, not unit commanders," Havrilla said.
BriGette McCoy, a former Army specialist and a Persian Gulf war veteran, said she was raped when she was 18 and at her first duty station. But she did not report it. Three years later, she reported being sexually harassed and asked for an apology and to be removed from working directly with the offender.
"They did remove me from his team and his formal apology consisted of him driving by me on base and saying `sorry' out of his open car door window," McCoy told the subcommittee.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a review of Franklin's decision to reverse the sexual assault conviction against Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy. But Hagel has told members of Congress that neither he nor the Air Force secretary is empowered to overrule Franklin, who is the commander of the 3rd Air Force at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
The case is generating support for legislation that would prevent commanding officers from overturning rulings made by judges and juries at courts-martial proceedings.
"It appears to me that the Aviano general has really failed," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., referring to Franklin.
"This decision has turned the military on its ear," said McCaskill, who added that Franklin's decision sets the Air Force "all the way back to Tailhook." The 1991 Tailhook scandal rocked the military as Navy pilots were accused of sexually abusing female officers at a Las Vegas convention.
Anu Bhagwati of the Service Women's Action Network told the panel that commanders are unable to make impartial decisions because they usually have a professional relationship with the accused and, often times, with the victim as well. Bhagwati, a former Marine Corps captain, said court-martial cases should be left in the hands of "trained, professional, disinterested prosecutors."
Gillibrand called the Wilkerson case "shocking" and promised to take a hard look at the military justice system. Nearly 2,500 sexual violence cases in the military services were reported in 2011, but only 240 made it to trial, Gillibrand said. About 70 percent of the reports were for rape, aggravated sexual assault or nonconsensual sodomy.
But most cases of unwanted sexual contact go unreported. If more victims came forward, the Defense Department estimates the actual number of cases would have been closer to 19,000, Gillibrand said.
Wilkerson was found guilty on Nov. 2 by a jury of military officers on charges of abusive sexual contact, aggravated sexual assault and three instances of conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. The victim was a civilian employee. Wilkerson was sentenced to a year in prison and dismissal from the service.
Wilkerson was at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., until Feb. 26, when Franklin exercised his discretion as the convening authority. Franklin reviewed the case over a three-week period and concluded "that the entire body of evidence was insufficient to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt," Hagel wrote in a March 7 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Boxer said during testimony before the subcommittee that "immediate steps must be taken to prevent senior commanders from having the ability to unilaterally overturn a decision or sentence by a military court."
Taylor, the acting general counsel, said the Defense Department is examining the role the convening authority plays, including a commander's power to set aside a court-martial's findings. But Taylor also stressed that commanders have long held this authority and it is directly tied to the need for the "portability" of military justice throughout the world and the need for senior officers to maintain discipline in the ranks.
In the wake of Franklin's decision, Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, and Patrick Meehan, R-Pa., introduced legislation Tuesday in the House that would strip military commanders of the power to overturn legal decisions or lessen sentences.
McCaskill also plans to introduce legislation that would change the Uniform Code of Military Justice by preventing a convening authority from overturning a decision reached by a jury. The legislation also would require the convening authority to issue a written justification for any action.
Brian Lewis, a former Navy petty officer, told the subcommittee not to forget that many victims of sexual assault and harassment in the military are male. Lewis said he was raped in 2000 by a noncommissioned officer who outranked him. His commanders ordered him not to report the crime to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Lewis said he was later misdiagnosed with having a personality disorder, and he was discharged from the service in 2001.
"I carry my discharge as an official and permanent symbol of shame, on top of the trauma of the physical attack, the retaliation and its aftermath," Lewis said.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, asked whether the culture would change if the laws were overhauled. Lewis described the limitations of military law, arguing that it was unconscionable that punishment is solely at the discretion of a single individual and the offense of sexual assault is merely a year in prison.
"The military does not value what happened to the victim," Lewis said.