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Dave Thomas is a coauthor of the legendary Pragmatic Programmer book, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, a publisher, speaker, and the man who brought Ruby to the masses. I caught up with him at the Erlang Factory Conference in San Francisco to discuss why he hasn't attended an Agile event since he signed the manifesto, why he thinks Elixir is the next important language, and many other, well, pragmatic programming topics.
The Pragmatic Book
AB: The Pragmatic Programmer book is probably the first place folks saw your name.
DT: I think that's right.
AB: That book confirmed for me that all the things I was sloppy about were things I was truly doing wrong. It also showed me how many other things I needed to improve to be more than a journeyman.
DT: That book contained no original information whatsoever, but it did manage to distill what was commonly held information.
AB: Many of the things you recommended there are now standard practice. It's amazing how much of the industry, in terms of the discipline, has moved forward. Now things are much more about getting people to buy into continuous integration, for example, than it is about getting them to check their code in.
DT: Yes, the stunning thing to me is that if you look back to that time 1999 the fact that we felt it necessary to say "check in your code" is that prior to that, people weren't following that practice. I know intellectually that's true, but it's still stunning to me that that was the case.
AB: Cowboy programming was much more common then than it is today. It was about finding corners to cut, rather than using tools properly. What would you include today if you were writing that book now?
DT: A lot of the practices today are commonplace. What I would do with many of those would be to examine them because many of the things that are now commonplace are done through rote and not because they are understood. My classic example of that is testing. It's gone from being "if you tested, you were unusual and a saint" to now "if you don't test, you're the devil incarnate." And the reality is that testing is not universal and it shouldn't be universal. And to be someone who's doctrinaire about it is to misunderstand the point just as much as someone who doesn't test at all.
The whole point, to my mind, of the Agile Manifesto is that it's a set of personal practices that may scale to team level. You do not need a consultant to show you how to do that…And yet immediately what happened was that everyone and their dog hung out an Agile shingle and the whole thing turned into a branding exercise.
AB: There are a lot of doctrinaire views on that particular topic.
DT: Oh, absolutely! Yes, sometimes it doesn't make sense: "We won't accept your code unless we see the tests." Well, who are you to say? The tests are a tool. They're not a ticket. I'm not saying that testing is bad necessarily, but I am saying that the attitude towards many of these practices has gone past the point of intelligence to becoming just rote.
In addition, some of the vocabulary would change because our book predated the Agile Manifesto. And although I'm not a big fan of the way Agility has gone, I'd probably still update the book to be in line with the vocabulary people use. Some of the things would stay very much the same. Some of the techniques, such as Don't Repeat Yourself. It blows me away that that's become a standard acronym. I would like to re-emphasize: A lot of people view that as being "don't cut and paste." And I need to explain again that that's not the case.
The Corruption of Agile
AB: Let me move to the Agile Manifesto. You were one of the original signatories…
DT: Yes, yes. There were 17 of us that met in Snowbird in Utah in February 2001; and we came up with the four values and the common ground and practices. The way we came up with it was not something I'd ever experienced before. There were 17 people and everyone had their own ax to grind and their own particular viewpoint on what was best. And within a couple of hours, we'd come up with a way of working that let us discuss the principles behind what we were doing without going into the details.
So the framework itself, the actual four values, came out in half a day. It just kind of came. I think everyone kind of knew what they wanted to say. I think it was actually Martin Fowler and I everyone else was having lunch we were kind of sitting at a whiteboard just chatting through things and we came up with the "we value A over B" formulation, which as it turns out, has worked out really well.
AB: I think that perhaps a limitation is that a lot of people have interpreted it as "no B whatsoever."
DT: Indeed! And, in fact, we recognized that might happen at the time, and we put in the little phrase at the bottom: "whereas we value B, we value A more." So, we thought that would happen and we tried to stop it, but, of course, we…
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What better place is there to look for ghosts than a ghost town?
The tiny town of Wayne in Alberta's Badlands is not exactly a ghost town, but it's not far off. Before the coal mine shut down, the town boasted a population of nearly 2,500 souls. Today, there are only 27 or, to be more accurate, 27 1/2 , as one of the town's residents is pregnant. That's big news in a community that has been in decline for decades.
Most of Wayne's residents picked up and left when the mine closed during the Great Depression. Building supplies were at a premium in the Badlands, since there aren't many trees around, so most folks literally picked up their shacks and relocated to nearby communities where other mines were still operating, places like nearby Drumheller. As a result, there aren't many buildings left to remind visitors of Wayne's glory days, but there is one place, the storied Rosedeer Hotel.
The beige, false-fronted building of the Rosedeer, sitting by the rusted railway tracks that once served this populous place, looks like something from a western, which is probably why it's been featured in a film or two, not to mention some TV shows and music videos.
Today, it's a popular stop for road-trippers searching for remnants of the old West — and for ghost hunters. Not ghost-town hunters, but ghost hunters. That's because the Rosedeer Hotel is haunted.
The hotel has three floors, but the third floor is closed. Legend has it, it's off limits because a ghost lives there. The story goes that goons from the Ku Klux Klan were hired by the mine to mingle with the clientele in the hotel's saloon to be on the lookout for Communists, which was what anyone who dared try to organize the miners into a union would be called.
On occasion, they would take undesirables up to one of the hotel rooms and give them a good beating, burn them with cigarette butts or tar and feather them — whatever it took to deliver the message that they weren't welcome in Wayne. At least one time, it's said, the roughs went too far with their victim. Something bad happened on the third floor, which remains closed to this day.
The proprietor of the Rosedeer, Fred Dayman, whose family has operated the hotel since it opened in 1913, says he's never seen the ghost, but has heard it and felt its presence and reports that visitors have told him about strange happenings there.
A group of us spent the night in the hotel, not so much to find the ghost, but to enjoy the atmosphere of the colourful Last Chance Saloon, which is attached, and to enjoy the quiet of Wayne.
It was late September, and the season was winding down. It was also a weeknight, so it was quiet. A few curious travellers stopped by for food, which is excellent, and the occasional local would step in for a drink or two. Since it was Wednesday, our drinks were served in quart sealers, jars normally used for making preserves.
The saloon is as colourful a place as you can imagine. The original upright piano sits in the corner. The walls are festooned with memorabilia and bric-a-brac accumulated over the hotel's history. There are even bullet holes in the wall from the time an argument got a bit overheated.
The highlight of the antiques on display is probably the band box, which is an old mechanical contraption from the 1940s that would sit on the top of a jukebox. It featured a bandstand with a number of foot-high, metal musicians that would light up and play along with the song selected on the jukebox. Dayman says there are only two in Canada, and the other is in a private collection.
After a pleasant evening of food, drink and conversation, we settled into our rooms for the night. The rooms are plainly furnished and decorated with eclectic folk art, but are comfortable enough.
I didn't know if I'd see or hear any sign of the hotel's infamous ghost, but I lay in bed thinking about it. I heard the sounds of footsteps on the creaking wooden floorboards in the hall outside my door. It was simply someone heading down the hall to the shared bathroom.
I slowly drifted off to sleep with no further sign of a spectre. All I heard was the faint sound of the wind outside my window and the howl of coyotes in the distance. The ghost would be silent that night, but that's the way spirits are. You can't predict when they'll show.
To contact the hotel for reservations or other information, call (403) 823-9189.
The author's trip to Wayne was made possible with the assistance of Travel Alberta and the Canadian Tourism Commission.


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An Albuquerque, New Mexico, man is facing charges after police say he drove a stolen electric shopping cart to meet with his probation officer.
KOAT-TV reports that court papers say 18-year-old Michael Johnson rode the electric shopping cart this week to make his scheduled visit. When the probation officer asked Johnson where he got the cart, court documents say Johnson admitted taking it from an Albuquerque Wal-Mart.
Johnson was arrested and charged with larceny and receiving stolen property. He also violated his probation when he was arrested and was ordered held on a $500 bond.
Albuquerque police spokesman Tanner Tixier says the cart is worth more than $1,800.
It was not known if Johnson had an attorney…
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How does listening to Warren Ellis speak under an avocado tree in Hollywood sound to you?
Transmetropolitan, Red, and Iron Man fans in the greater Los Angeles area have the chance to witness this come Sunday, January 26 from 6pm to 9pm. Tickets range between $20-$50, which includes some light drinks and snacks - not a bad deal at all! The British author is expected to "tell stories about the world we live in now (and where we're going in the future)." Get tickets soon, as the event is fairly intimate, capping at around 40 people.
In addition to penning the aforementioned comics, Ellis has written for Vice, Wired UK, and Reuters.
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"Time and time again we see events like what happened today with Glen Mazzara. They continue to disrespect writers, s*** on their audience and bury their network. Mazzara took the work-in-progress that was Walking Dead and turned it into a viable TV show with a future. Without him, that future is dim. Showrunners are not development executives, we're not cookie-cutter douchebags that you plug into a preexisting model. TWD will suffer. Even zombies need consistency."
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Quote Of The Day: Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead
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"As we were crafting this season, we realized that there was a lot to do with Rick and Carl after that event, so the moment kept moving closer to the beginning of the season until it was in Episode 4. This is the kind of episode that most people would save for the finale, but to have it so early in the season, it's like, 'What comes next?!' It really gives this season a pretty intense drive. It was really jarring, which I think is pretty cool."
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The Walking Dead: Season 3 So Far!
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Of all the great horror icons - Frankenstein's monster, vampires, mummies and Black Lagoon creatures - my favorites are zombies.
I was a kid when I discovered that comics were forbidden to use the word "zombie" if they wanted the Comics Code Authority's Seal of Approval (so Marvel revived an old Robert E. Howard word "Zuvembie" as a workaround). So it should be no surprise that I've loved me some Walking Dead ever since the first comic appeared on the stands. I'm a sucker for horror comics and it hit me at just the right time. Also, Kirkman was telling his horrific story in a very intriguing way - bad stuff was happening, characters you liked were going to die, and it was hard to peg just where it was all going.
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The Situation: Top 10
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The Impossible Juggling Act: Motherhood And Work
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Anne-Marie Slaughter used to tell her woman college students that they can have it all: motherhood and a high-powered job. Then she got the high-powered job she dreamed of, the State Department's director of policy planning. She was the first woman to hold the job.
After two years, she left because she found it was unexpectedly hard to do the kind of job she wanted to as a high government official, and be the kind of parent she wanted to be when her sons were 12 and 14; especially since her sons, and her husband, had remained at home in Princeton, while she spent her weekdays in Washington.
So she left the State Department and returned to her tenured position as a professor at Princeton University, where she previously had been the dean of the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Slaughter's new article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," is the cover story of the July-August edition of The Atlantic. She writes that if we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, which she certainly does, there are things in the workplace, and the larger society, that have to change.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, welcome to FRESH AIR. It sounds like you were almost afraid to write this article; afraid that women like you would see you as betraying feminist ideals. What ideals were you afraid they'd see you as betraying?
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER: It's hard to articulate exactly, that sense of taboo. But effectively, in my generation, when we're in public, we say women can have it all, and we don't acknowledge difference between men and women. So we would not talk about differential pressures in terms of having kids - much less, different feelings about work and children.
But when the doors are shut, there's a tremendous amount of discussion of the difficulties. When I say the doors are shut, I mean without men present. Then, a very different conversation goes on. And I felt very strongly that the last thing I wanted to do, as someone who has pursued a career my whole life and is enormously grateful to the women ahead of me - I didn't want to be the poster child for anyone saying women should stay home; women aren't the same as men; women can't cut it - none of that.
At the same time, I felt like there are issues that need to be discussed, and cannot be discussed unless we open up the space.
GROSS: Well, and the other thing I would be afraid of, if I was you, would be that, you know, I'm sending a message to men: Don't hire women in high - you know, in high-stress, high-work, high-powered situations because if they have children, they're just not going to be able to manage it.
SLAUGHTER: Yes, that too. Definitely. And again, when I say when you're kind of breaking the taboo, that can be used by men; it can be used by women who really reject the idea that women should be working outside the home; it can be used in all sorts of ways. And frankly, it can also be interpreted against me. It can be read as well, she couldn't cut it, and so now she's writing an article about why.
GROSS: So give us a sense of what your work schedule was like and how - you know, when you were in the State Department. And again, like, you were living in Washington, D.C., five days a week, working in the State Department. Your family was in Princeton. You'd go back to Princeton for the weekend. So give us a sense of what your daily and weekly schedule looked like.
SLAUGHTER: Well, my week would start at 4:20 every Monday morning, when the alarm would go off. And I would wake up and think: Why am I doing this? And I would, you know, leave the house at 5. I'd kiss all three men goodbye - or my two sons, and my husband - and head off to the 5:30 train; get down to Washington by 8:15, in time for the first meeting at 8:45.
And then from Monday through Friday, often late - sometimes midafternoon, but I would be working - pretty much, I would leave the house between 7 and 8 in the morning; often getting up earlier and working in my apartment, but then leaving the house between 7 and 8; and then working all day in the State Department - often so much, you never came outside and saw the daylight - and rarely got home before 10 or 11 at night and when things got truly intense, much later than that.
GROSS: Um - and...
SLAUGHTER: And then, I'd go home on Fridays.
GROSS: And what were your weekends like?
SLAUGHTER: Well, I explain to people that I only - I never left the State Department early enough to go to any store other than an all-night - you know, 24-hour store, which meant my weekends were everything that needed to be done with the kids, all - any games, any lessons, any recitals, any of that; any family time, trying to have a couple of meals together.
But of course, also anything I needed to do personally, like get my hair done every week - or any kind of personal care. I gave up on doctors because they don't meet on the weekends. But all that you would normally do - that is not work - during your week, had to happen in two days on the weekend. And we had an incredibly wonderful housekeeper, but it also meant a tremendous amount of - you know, writing notes, and figuring out household stuff that I could try to get done when I was home.
GROSS: So your sons were 14 and 12 - when you started the job, or when you left the job?
SLAUGHTER: When I left the job. They were 10 and 12 when I started.
GROSS: So your oldest son started to have problems while you were working at the State Department and commuting there for the week. Do you think he was angry with you for not being around more?
SLAUGHTER: I do. He was wonderfully responsible when I first said I was going to go. In fact, he - you know - as the older son, sort of stepped up and said - you know - Mom, I'll take on various things that you normally do in the mornings. And I think he felt proud of me.
And at one point, early on, when I said - you know - that I was so frustrated, the job was very hard, he said - you know - Mom, you can't quit; you're a role model. So on the one hand, he really felt proud of me. On the other hand - and that is the nature of being 12 to 13, you know - there was still a little boy there. And that part of him, I think, felt quite abandoned - and quite angry.
GROSS: But it sounds, so much, of the division you had. Yes, you're a role model; you're doing great work for the country; you're a powerful woman. And at the same time, you're leaving your family five days a week.
SLAUGHTER: Exactly.
GROSS: I mean, you had that same division he did, in a lot of ways.
SLAUGHTER: Well, that's part of what the article came out of. I never expected to have that division because I have always been able to integrate work and family. I've always worked a tremendous amount. And I've always traveled a lot, as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School and even as a law professor before that. But I'd always managed to make it work. And so I didn't realize that I would feel torn in two. I didn't expect to feel torn, but I truly did.
GROSS: Well, how come you didn't expect to be torn, because the difference here is that you were actually not only working really hard, but living away from your family five days a week - which you didn't have to do when you were teaching. And even if you were traveling, they're like, they're trips. You're going to be home afterward.
SLAUGHTER: Well, in retrospect, I think of course I should have foreseen that. But that was part of the revelation - was, I thought to myself, well, I'm going to work really hard, but I'll be home on weekends, and we can talk on the phone and, you know, we can manage this. I did not anticipate the problems of adolescence - and again, what the parents of any teenager will tell you. I spent two years with monosyllabic cellphone conversations. You know, how was school? Fine. Anything going on? No. How are you doing? Fine.
SLAUGHTER: You know, just - so that there was - and that, I did not anticipate. In some ways, I think had they been littler, it would have been much easier to do because it was much more predictable. And I should have - you know, I knew that I would be away more but again, I didn't anticipate the relentlessness of it. And frankly, I didn't anticipate what it was to have a boss.
I'm very fortunate, as an academic, that until age 50, I managed to work in a way that I was always in charge of my own time. And I had a boss - you know - I would walk through fire for. You know, I have tremendous respect and admiration for Hillary Clinton but she, of course, was still my boss, and she needed things done. So I was, of course, not on my own time. And that made for stress that I did not anticipate.
GROSS: You say something interesting about Hillary Clinton, which is that she tried to be - she tried to limit her time in the office when possible, so her staff could spend time at home. So she'd come in around 7 in the morning and leave around 8 at night - do I have that right?
SLAUGHTER: No, actually, she would come in between 8 and 8:15, although she would have been up and working, and often had breakfast meetings. But she would come into the office around 8:15, and she would leave the office around - between 6:30 and 7:30 but really, very conscious of not only her chief of staff, who had twins, but many of the people around her who had children.
So she actually, by Washington standards, had a short workday in the office. Again, as I said, she - herself - was working both before she came in, and after she went home. But she allowed - that meant her staff could go home and work from home during those periods, too, which is absolutely critical.
GROSS: Were there other women in the State Department, in your predicament of having trouble balancing parenting with the schedule - with the work schedule; or other women in your position at national security meetings; or other men in your position?
SLAUGHTER: There were. And indeed, in the article, I describe that Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn both had young children, and both stepped down after two-plus years. And I should say here that I served my full term as director of policy planning - which is to say, two years is kind of the minimum term.
And for academics, two years is the normal term because after that, you lose your tenure if you don't go back. So these are not cases of stepping down early, but it's cases of people - myself included - not taking a possible promotion, and going home after a two-year-plus term.
But there were a number of people who made the same choices I did. And there were many women whom I talked to in the State Department, many of whom were commuting - because it is much harder for a woman who is working in government, who is based elsewhere, to move her whole family to Washington when her husband's working - and her kids are in school, and have doctors and play dates - than it is for a man who has a woman - who has a wife who is not working outside the home, to move the household to Washington.
It's not easy, in any case. But when the woman is the one who is moving to Washington, there's just nobody - there's nobody else to move the family. So many of these women are commuting, and all of them that I knew, had the same kinds of stresses I did.
I mean, in fact, we got together at one point, and people were saying how difficult this was. And finally someone said: Why are we doing this? And someone else said: Well, because we're role models, and it's important for other people to do it. And I think we all believed that, but we also recognized that something had to give.
GROSS: So in a way - I mean, would it be fair to say that you took this position in the first place knowing that if you did it for two years, you would have done your job. And in fact, if you did it for more than that, you would have lost tenure at Princeton University. So in some ways, maybe you set out just to do it for two years, and it wasn't such a shock when you resigned after that.
SLAUGHTER: Well, so that's - in some ways. But this was a dream job for me. This was a job that even in college, if you'd asked me, what would you love to be doing 20 or 30 years down the road? I would have said being director of policy planning. It's just a fabulous job. It's a big-think foreign policy job. Secretary Clinton very much wanted a woman in the job because there'd never been a woman in that job. And she wanted there to be, you know, a woman who could do the sort of big, strategic thinking.
I loved the work. I'm very proud of the work we did. And although yes, I had a two-year period, and that's what I anticipated, what I never would have anticipated was that if I was doing well - and I think I did do very well - and if I had a chance of promotion, I think I would have told you, I'm going to make it work. I'm going to make it work with my family because this is the work that I, you know, am passionate about doing, and it's an incredibly important time.
So what was really revelatory to me was that after two years, I very much wanted to go home. And I felt very strongly that no matter how much I loved the work, I would not go back to it while my children were still at home, because it was not allowing me to be the kind of mother I wanted to be. And I really thought it was inflicting harm on my children.
GROSS: I want to point out that in some ways, you have had it very easy, in the sense that you were a tenured professor at Princeton University. You have two years to go off and do something. You took those two years, and then you came home. So you were guaranteed a safety net if you wanted to come home.
SLAUGHTER: Yeah.
GROSS: Most women who leave for a higher stress, higher powered position, no one's holding their former position open to them if they want to return. They don't have that option.
SLAUGHTER: No, that is certainly true. And believe me, I have been - you know, day-in, day-out in the State Department, I was aware of just how privileged and blessed, really, I am to be a tenured professor. I will say, though, in some ways, that's deeply connected to where I am now because I did not start trying to have children until after I got tenure.
And this is one of the big differences between my generation of women and the women coming after me - and the pioneering women who were ahead of me because many of them had kids in their 20s. So by their mid-40s, their kids were out of the house. And they could then take up professional opportunities that were, in many cases, just opening up to them - as judges, if they'd been lawyers or partners; or even, in many cases, starting careers.
My generation of women knew we wanted to be career women. We went to graduate school. And then many of us faced, are you going to try to make partner? Are you going to try to be a, you know, a board-certified physician? Are you going to try to be a tenured professor? Are you going to do that first? If so, it's going to be very hard to have kids then.
So delayed childbearing - I had my second child at 40. And that - as I said, I got tenure when I was 35, and then started trying to have children. It took awhile. So the result is that in my mid-50s, when in many cases you would think - you know - I'd be free to take the best, biggest job I possibly could, that's exactly when my kids are teenagers. So I'm very privileged to be in academia but in part, I worked very hard to get to a tenured position before I had kids.
GROSS: So looking back on your life, do you think you made the right choice about the timing of your children - you know, consciously trying to time it till after you had tenure?
SLAUGHTER: I think I did. But that's because I was fortunate enough, in the end, to have children. I spent three years trying to have children - as many, many, many women I know did. And in the end, you know, we had children. Now, maybe if at that point, if we hadn't been able to have biological children, we could have adopted. And that could have worked very well also.
But what was clear to me, at some point in my - you know, around 36, 37, when I was a tenured professor but it didn't look like we were going to be able to conceive, I really worried about whether I'd made the right choices. And at that point, I would have said look, this is so important to me. As much as I care about my job, maybe I really should have done this in the reverse order.
And I talk to - I offer some advice, and I often talk to young women whom I mentor, and teach at Princeton, about those kinds of choices. I don't think there's one path. I think every woman, you know, faces different choices. But it's tough because biologically, you know, there's a range where women can have biological children. And if that's what you want to do, then you are going to probably have to make some tradeoffs - either then or later.
GROSS: So your husband isn't here to speak for himself. But how did he feel being left alone to be a single parent five days a week, while you were at the State Department?
SLAUGHTER: Well, he's a fabulous husband. He's a professor also. Again, the two of have always worked like crazy, but been able to control our own time. And he knew that at some point, I was going to want to do this. And he was not excited to do it, but he knew it was going to happen. And nobody in the family thought it would be a good idea for us all to move to Washington.
So he, essentially, gritted his teeth and was a single parent five days a week. Both of us came out of this with just incredible respect for single parents and the challenges they face. And, you know, now that I'm home, I have two years of getting the boys up and out for breakfast - breakfast and school every single day because that's, of course, what he did for two straight years.
And he did the very best he could, but I think neither of us expected, again, the challenges of teenagers because, you know, we'd never had teenagers before. Now with our second son, we're a whole lot more experienced, and we know - sort of what to worry about, and what not to worry about.
GROSS: You reach the conclusion, in your article, that women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are either superhuman, rich or self-employed.
GROSS: Or maybe all of them. And you say - you know - if we want women to be able to be ambitious and have high-powered positions and be mothers, if they choose, things have to change, and there's things we can change. So your article isn't saying to women, give up...
SLAUGHTER: No. Definitely not.
GROSS: ...it's not possible unless you're superhuman. Your article is arguing for certain changes in the way we handle parenthood as a society, and in the workplace. So let's start with maternity leave. I think we're doing - and paternity leave. I think we're doing much better with that as a culture, than we used to be. I'm not saying we're there, but I think there's been improvements. What's your take on that, and what's your take on how much that affects the equation of being able to be a working mother?
SLAUGHTER: I think, in general, we are getting better, in terms of recognizing the needs of parents when our children are first born. You know, we - I don't think we still recognize what it is to be equal caregivers. But I think the real problems set in after that initial period. And they are much more cultural problems of assuming A, that the worker who works longest is most committed; and second, that that time has to be spent at the office.
And those two things mean that the parent who is the primary caregiver - still, mostly the woman - is constantly facing a choice between being seen as less professional if she goes home early; or, you know, unable to get the work done because she's supposed to be doing it at the office. Whereas, if you let women work at their - you know, when they need to get the work done so they can leave the office, but then go back to their computers later - if they're in that kind of work - they'll get the job done. But they'll do it when they need to do it; juggling, you know, what's most important. You know, kids play games at a specific time. They eat dinner at a specific time, and they go to bed at a specific time. And you need to be able to work around that.
GROSS: So you want to caution against making all these exceptions for working women...
SLAUGHTER: I do.
GROSS: ...because that kind of penalizes the women, in a way. It means if you hire a woman, this is the kind of stuff you have to put up with.
GROSS: You know, so what's the way around that?
SLAUGHTER: Well, again, the first thing I would suggest is that's an assumption about what you have to put up with. But if you started to say look, what I want is to - privilege time-management. So I'm going to look at my employees not in terms of who logs the most hours in the office, but I'm going to look at who gets the most work done in the shortest amount of time; the most, and highest-quality work, done in the shortest amount of time.
I think you'd be very surprised, in terms of who's actually doing the best work. So I think the - a lot of this needs to shift in terms not of well, gee, I shouldn't be hiring women. But I should be thinking about, you know, what are the norms of this office, and how can I allow people to lead the lives they need to lead, and do the best and highest-quality work?
GROSS: Do you think that all the needs you're describing women as having, for parenting, should be applied to men as well; both to encourage men to have an equal share in parenting, but also to enable men who want that equal share - as many men do now - to be able to have it?
SLAUGHTER: Absolutely. Absolutely. And interestingly, I say in the article that Martha Minow, who's the dean of the Harvard Law School, says that over 30 years of thinking about these issues, and teaching young men and women at Harvard Law School, the only change she's really seeing is that young men are starting to ask these questions of the firms that they go to. I think many of them would love to have these changes, but they don't dare ask.
If these pressures are on women, you know, not to do anything that could look like special treatment, men feel even more inhibited, in many ways. But we would be much better off as a society, if all caregivers could benefit from a number of these changes.
GROSS: So you always saw yourself as something of a role model - dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University; the first woman to be the director of policy planning at the State Department. Then you left that position, you know, after two years, to be back with your family, and resumed your position as a professor at Princeton University. You write: Only recently, have I begun to appreciate the extent to which many young professional women feel under assault by women my age and older. And what you're saying there is that instead of being like, a role model to younger women, you think you were kind of misdirecting them. So what's your change of thinking there?
SLAUGHTER: Well, that may be a little too strong. And I - many, many younger women tell me all the time, that I'm a role model, as I'm - as a woman in foreign policy. Foreign policy, particularly national security, has very few women in it, and I'm one of them. And many younger women who want to go into that field, look to me.
But I think what I realized was that when I would give a lecture - and younger women would always ask about work and family. And I would say, well, you know, you can just make it work. You can make it work. I've made it work. You can make it work. Other women have made it work.
What I've realized after going to Washington, was that just wasn't good enough. And in fact, that is not going to be true for, I think, the considerable majority - even of very talented young women with lots of professional opportunities, because I was ignoring the fact that I've been able to make it work because I can control my own time. I think if I could wave a magic wand and allow all working parents to control their own time, they could make it work, too. But that's just not the reality for the vast majority of people - which, of course, I knew intellectually, but I didn't know it in the way I know it now.
And now what I want to say to these younger women - and they know it, because they were looking back at me and saying, that's not really good enough; that really doesn't track with the experience of so many women I am seeing, who either never see their families - and that's not a choice I'm prepared to make - or who are having to step out and take time to be with their families, but then can't get back on the career track.
And so what I say to them - what has changed is what's in this article - which is to say, actually, we need to have a conversation about what you can do, and what's realistic when you - you know, over the 20 years you may be having children. And particularly - importantly, how do we think about the arc of a successful career?
And what - the other thing, I think, that needs to change so dramatically is, we need to stop assuming that, you know, your career has to go straight up, as fast as possible. And we should be thinking about a career that has stair steps and plateaus, and that allows you to sort of take a pause when you need to; and then pick back up, and still have every bit as much of ambition as you did when you started.
GROSS: You write that the proposition that women can have high-powered careers, as long as their husbands or partners are willing to share parenting equally, assumes that most women will feel as comfortable as men do about being away from their children, as long as their partners are home with them. And you question whether that's true or not. And I'm trying to decide whether questioning that is conforming to gender stereotype, or whether you're getting to something that's really there. So tell me what your reservations are.
SLAUGHTER: Oh. This was - this is treacherous ground. And I say, you know, this is very hard to generalize about. And everybody listening will be thinking, no way. You know, I know a man, or my husband or my father, changed jobs or - you know, spent - so he could spend more time at home, you know, when needed.
But in my experience, I - there are many women I know, even when they have husbands who are sharing the load, who say: I refused a promotion because it would've meant that I had to travel all the time; or, I - simply, the job was too big; I would not have time to be at home with my kids - even when, you know, the kids are being cared for and e.g., you know, the other spouse is there. Whereas, I think in most of those cases, the man takes the promotion.
And a lot of that has to be socialization. Men are socialized that they have to provide for their families. That's, you know, their kind of primary function, traditionally. Women were socialized to be caregivers, and men were socialized to be material providers. Men are also much more rewarded for ambition. So the idea that you wouldn't take that kind of a promotion would be - really would be questioned.
I'm not, you know, I'm not about to make biological or even social generalizations, but in my experience - and that's certainly true for me personally - there's a sense that even if I could do it, I don't want to do it. I want to be home with my children. It isn't just about somebody taking care of them. It's about, you know, being that person, being close to them, being - you know, being a mother.
GROSS: Well, Anne-Marie Slaughter, thank you so much for talking with us.
SLAUGHTER: It's my pleasure.
GROSS: Anne-Marie Slaughter's essay "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" is the cover story of the July/August edition of The Atlantic. You'll find a link on our website, freshair.npr.org. Slaughter is a professor at Princeton University.
Coming up, we listen back to a 1990 interview with film critic Andrew Sarris. He died yesterday at the age of 83.
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Glomerulonephritis (pronounced: gluh-mare-you-low-neh-FRY-tis) is a problem with tiny filtering units in the kidneys called glomeruli. When someone has glomerulonephritis, the glomeruli become inflamed (swollen and irritated) and the kidneys stop working properly. This can lead to problems like too much fluid in the body, which can cause swelling in places like the face, feet, ankles, or legs. Glomerulonephritis also can cause kidney failure and kidney disease, but that's rare.
Glomerulonephritis can be acute (meaning it comes on suddenly) or chronic (developing over several years). Treatments can be different depending on which type a person has. The good news about glomerulonephritis is that most of the time it gets better on its own — and, if it doesn't, there's a lot that doctors can do.
Kidneys are fist-sized organs in a person's back that are shaped like kidney beans. They work a lot like a garbage collection and disposal system. Our bodies can't use everything we eat or drink, so some of it ends up in our blood as waste, along with other waste products that our bodies produce naturally. The kidneys filter blood and remove these waste products and excess fluid, which then leave the body as urine (pee).
The blood filtering happens in tiny structures called nephrons. Each kidney has about a million nephrons. Each nephron has a glomerulus (the singular of glomeruli). This ball of tiny blood vessels is where the process of removing waste products and fluids from the blood begins. If the glomeruli aren't doing their job properly, it can lead to health problems.
Things that might cause acute glomerulonephritis include:
Although doctors know these things can cause acute glomerulonephritis, a lot of the time they don't know why people get chronic glomerulonephritis.
Early signs of glomerulonephritis include:
With acute glomerulonephritis, these symptoms might come on suddenly, possibly after a skin infection or a case of strep throat. Chronic glomerulonephritis can take several years to develop, and a person might not notice it right away (unless a doctor tests for it).
If glomerulonephritis isn't caught early and treated, there's a chance of kidney damage or failure. Symptoms of kidney failure are:
Someone who has these symptoms might not have kidney failure — many other things can cause them. But if you notice any of these problems, see a doctor right away to find out what's going on.
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Sometimes, acute glomerulonephritis goes away on its own. When treatment is needed, it's best to start as soon as possible. That way there's less chance that glomerulonephritis will damage the kidneys. If the kidneys aren't working properly and can't clean the blood of toxins and fluids, the person may need to get kidney dialysis.
How doctors treat acute glomerulonephritis in teens depends on what's causing it, what tests (like a kidney biopsy) show, how severe any kidney damage is, and how healthy the patient is.
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Chronic glomerulonephritis means one of two things:
Since there's no specific way to treat chronic glomerulonephritis, a doctor may recommend lifestyle changes to minimize further damage or slow down progression of the kidney disease.
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MIT Technology Review explores NEPOMUK, the Social Semantic Desktop in KDE
KDE 4 saw the introduction of NEPOMUK, the foundations for the "Social Semantic Desktop". The idea behind Semantic desktops is to make it possible for computers to identify meaningful relations between files and real-world
NEPOMUK offers a combination of automatically created metadata (such as document modification dates and music file tags) with user-created comments and more complex relationships such as that between an email attachment and the sender and recipients of an email. Files can then be found by using a search combining several items of metadata rather than relying only on keywords. NEPOMUK aims to go a step further than other similar projects by making it easy for members of a community to share their accumulated metadata and to transfer files with the collected metadata intact.
Yeah, NEPOMUK is nice and stuff. Too bad that Mandriva made its employee Sebastian Trueg neglect his other project K3b and concentrate on NEPOMUK instead. For some insane reason the people at Mandriva think that tagging files is somehow more important than the possibility to back them up. K3b is dormant since months.
By The Devil at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
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I burned a DVD of OpenSuse 11.0 with K3B a few nights ago. *shrug*
Nepomuk is also a lot more than "tagging files". It also covers things everyone does (work with information on their computer), while K3B covers things a lot of people do (make CDs and DVDs). It's really hard to compare the two in a meaningful way and say "this one is more important" since they are both rather important.
So my question to you (the "royal you") is why aren't others working on K3B if it's so important? =)
By Aaron Seigo at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
I don't know why others don't work on K3b 2.0. Maybe they are too busy working on one of those GNOME CD writing apps (GNOME Baker, X-CD Roast, Brasero, Nautilus' recording feature,...)? ;-)
By The Devil at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
And the KDE3 version of K3b works as flawlessly as ever under KDE4, no need for luck.
By Morty at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Why should I pollute my system with outdated KDE 3 libraries? I need to have some GNOME stuff installed anyway, so Brasero doesn't result in additionally installed dependencies,
By The Devil at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
yeah, i'm pretty surprised that no one has taken over k3b code till now. I heard months ago that Sebastian don't have time any more to work on this project, i thought that someone will continue it.
It really is a surprise for me that "burning pillar" of KDE isn't ported to KDE4.
By Koko at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
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It really doesn't bother me that K3B hasn't been ported to KDE 4. KDE 4 is still not ready for real people, as opposed to developers, so I won't be using it, and I won't be installing it for my clients.
By tracyanne at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
While that is or might be considered true,
By Mark Hannessen at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
even my mom uses kde 4.2beta2 now, as it is stable enough, fulfills her needs pretty well and she can learn to use kdenlive in its kde 4 incarnation. big up to anyone who worked on this, good work folks!
By Jay Remaly at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
even my mom uses kde 4.2beta2 now, as it is stable enough, fulfills her needs pretty well and she can learn to use kdenlive in its kde 4 incarnation. big up to anyone who worked on this, good work folks!
By Jay Remaly at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
> t really doesn't bother me that K3B hasn't been ported to KDE 4.
Well considering that a port might take a half year to a year to complete, it would be useful if work was already underway :p So at the time KDE 4 Is Ready (TM) a new stable K3B version is also available at that time.
By Diederik van de... at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Unfortunately it's not really ready for developers either. It was about a year after 4.0 that python-kde4 became available. I still don't think it supports everything that KDE4's C++ api supports. Likewise, key KDE4 technologies like Nepomuk and Plasma have been slow to solidify. Developers haven't ported stuff because the infrastructure wasn't there. Personally, I gave up after a long love affair with KDE 3.2-3.5, and moved back to GNOME -- even after a long hate affair with the 2.x series. I'd love to stick with KDE, which is why I'm here looking at the news to see if anything sensible has happened, but the whole idea of releasing alpha-quality (YES, alpha) regressive code in 4.x as the replacement (regardless of the official line) for a very good and stable 3.x is just insane.
By Lee at Mon, 2008/12/29 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Call us crazy then :-)
Some of the best results started off as crazy ideas. So I think we're in the right track.
In any case, I don't understand why some people had to remove the system that worked for them... If KDE 3 works, use it.
By Thiago Macieira at Mon, 2008/12/29 - 6:00am
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Sorry, my initial comment there was a little too harsh, but this is an incredibly frustrating issue, that KDE core devs/release managers seem intransigent about. I simply don't get why KDE devs would spend years developing a great reputation with KDE 3.2--3.7, and then throw it all away by calling alpha code 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2.
It's frustrating as a KDE user, because I've recommended KDE to people over GNOME, on the basis of its professionalism and serious feature set, only to see half-baked stuff presented with a stable version number.
I **KNOW** the official line is that early 4.x releases are for developers and early adopters, but there is no sane reason for that policy, since it goes against everything that other projects' releases do.
More importantly, it's frustrating as a developer. KDE 4 isn't ready, yet people are using it. Worse, it's not ready for developers, yet people are expecting user-facing apps to be ready.
More importantly still... KDE 4 still needs tons of manpower to finish it. Yet, most of us thought things were going well, until we saw the state of 4.x! If only the status had been clear at 4.0alpha1, we might have pitched in and gotten the 4.0 release looking good.
Another issue is that I contributed ideas to KDE 4, years ago, when there was a forum for ideas (on KDE-Artists, I think). Seemingly, those ideas were taken on board and mentioned in plans, despite the credit for the ideas being dropped along with the forum. BUT, those ideas have not yet materialised fully. I might have worked on them myself, if APIs for my chosen language had been developed properly, along side the core C++ stuff (which I was also assured would happen, years ago).
Basically, the whole process has been unprofessional. I never got why groups like Ubuntu chose to back GNOME instead of KDE's superior, object-oriented, more featureful C++ technology. Now it's very clear to me though: no matter how good KDE was/is/will be, no organisation in its right mind can back KDE while it's getting fundamental cooperative and planning stuff so wrong.
This really needs to be sorted out. I'm not sure KDE will come through 4.x as a desktop much more popular than enlightenment, much less one of the two major desktops. If 5.x is the same regression from 4.5+ that 4.x was from 3.5+, then I'd bet good money that KDE will die, inasmuch as any free software can ever die.
By Lee at Tue, 2008/12/30 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Why not simply call yourself a KDE 3 ecosystem fan and recommend that to your friend and don't drop it for something else? All you wrote is how you're disappointed how slow the KDE 4 ecosystem is getting up to your personal standards, but all you seem to do (according to what you wrote) is drop both KDE 3 and 4. What's the sense in that?
By anon at Wed, 2008/12/31 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
That's a bit like asking, if Windows 95 is so bad, why don't you stick with DOS? For their times, I liked OS X 10.0, OpenLook, MGR, AmigaOS, BeOS, and others. Doesn't mean I still want to use them when the world is moving on.
By Lee at Sun, 2009/01/04 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Burning pillard of KDE? K3b is "Burning pillard" of Linux!
Almost every computer has CD/DVD burner on these days and what happens... one of the TOP 5 applications gets abandoned because of technology what can't be used at all... yet...
By Fri13 at Thu, 2009/01/01 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
By jack at Fri, 2009/01/02 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Now that things have settled down a little bit in the libs it would be nice if some core developers (N.B.: just some of them) would switch their focus for a slice of time (maybe just for a release, e.g. from 4.2 to 4.3, and then just do basic maintenance until a new maintainer steps up) on some user apps that need love.
Sorry for the OT.
By Diego at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
>KGRUBEditor (I heard time ago that Kubuntu wanted to integrate it)
It's usable and lays in kubuntu systemsettings already.
By anon at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
What would be even better is if some new blood would chip in to help - it often baffles me how we can have almost one new contributor being granted SVN access every day (over 300 a year!), yet nobody works on the beloved apps that everyone uses, like K3B, KControl, Konqueror etc. Very strange indeed.
By anon at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
This is mostly because those apps have a huge codebase that is quite hard to understand for somebody new. Working on stuff like plasma is much easier for example
By Beat Wolf at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Add Kaffeine to the list. I am still forced to use the KDE 3 version on Kaffeine. Yes it works fine but it's still a bit sad that we still have to use an "old" version on a new desktop.
Re: K3b
the problem is that phonon (at least what is written on the kaffeine site) is nowhere near powerful enough for them to make it proper. I've pretty much given up on kaffeine or having a decent phonon based video app any time soon. I just use smplayer (awesome, but lacking kdelibs integration with nice stuff like common shortcuts and kio).
Nobody else seems to mind (or even discuss) this situation so I guess it really isn't important enough.
By txf at Mon, 2008/12/29 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
It seems like there are more techies here than normal users, that's why these things are not discussed more often.
Re: K3b
true...never was that much of a fan of kaffeine, more likely because of xine's hideous subtitle/osd rendering
By txf at Tue, 2008/12/30 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
KMess... well, let's wait instead for this. The best MSN client for Linux, aMSN, is switching from TCL/Tk to... QT4!
By Ernesto Manríquez at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
For the unbeliever, I can see aMSN looking beautiful in Oxygen colors ;).
By Ernesto Manríquez at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
Which version of K3B did you use? I couldn't burn the SUSE DDVD with the KDE 4 version.
Re: K3b
I am not The Devil, but I think he has some point. I think K3B is one of the best apps within the KDE world (there are many others too of course), and for me I really do not see any use for Nepomuk as such, whereas I think a graphical tool to burn DVDs is nifty. I dont have a problem with Seb working on something else in the least way, this is his decision of course etc... however I really think the main issue is whether something is important or not.
Maybe in some months we can review and could get a registered user base to vote on issues. I am also not implying that those votes _should_ have an influence, but I am suggesting that these votes could provide a meaningful point what users value.
For me, I wouldnt vote for Nepomuk, and for you it would probably be that nepomuk is more important. So the interesting thing is how many different people share one's point of view.
Re: K3b
Let me elaborate - I dont need Nepomuk because I already have a system where I find everything that I want. (I wrote a pseudo shell in ruby where everything I work with is already identified properly. I dont need tags for any other apps to identify for me because I and "my shell" know where things are to be put. In a way it is a content management system already. Just to explain why I have no need for file finders and the like, and I agree that other people could well need this. Just I wont need these things.)
Re: K3b
Nepumuk is a great idea of course but it's really sad that a very important app like K3b has to suffer for it's development.
By Bobby at Tue, 2008/12/30 - 6:00am
application porting status (Re: K3b)
According to http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/Application_Porting_Status there are quite a few applications that have not been ported yet.
By testerus at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: K3b
You're jumping to conclusions.
I don't think Mandriva "made its employee [...] neglect" anything. Project such as NEPOMUK work quite differently actually. The EU contract companies to work on specific parts of a research project. Those companies put a verfiable effort in terms of man hours into the project in question, contributing to the project's goals. Often, companies contract or hire people to conduct this work. In the case of Mandriva, I suppose they hired Sebastian because of his knowledge of KDE and probably other qualities to work on NEPOMUK. So Mandriva simply got contracted to put work into NEPOMUK. I'm sure it would be pretty daft to tell the EU auditors "Well, that guy on the Dot said we should port k3b instead, so we didn't fulfill our contractual obligations".
That's where reality strikes: It often happens though that people that are starting a job find less time to put into their hobby projects (which I understand k3b has been for Sebastian).
So instead of blaming Mandriva for K3b not being ready yet, I'm happy that Sebastian found a way to be paid to work on KDE software, and pretty cool new technology that has the potential to set KDE apart from Windows and Mac, and surpass it in terms of innovative new technology.
Re: K3b
"pretty cool new technology that has the potential to set KDE apart from Windows and Mac, and surpass it in terms of innovative new technology."
But you yourself are jumping to conclusions. Noone can say what the future holds. For so many years we heard the propaganda of "this year will be the linux desktop year" and hardly anything happened.
Now, KDE is a great project with smart people working on it, and I think he is incorrect in blaming Mandriva, but the fact remains that GREAT APPLICATIONS like K3B is what I believe were the key strengths of KDE.
Years ago i felt that Gnome looked nicer than KDE, and I was using only fluxbox. But I used more and more of the KDE apps and this is why I like KDE more than Gnome today. So what is the point if we do features that "set KDE apart from Windows and Mac", but we would lose focus on GOOD applications?
The whole move to KDE 4 was not without pain. Take cmake - it still is not a 100% replacement for the ancient autoconfigure. Take the move from dcop to dbus - the syntax for the named programs url's really sucks in dbus. Take the switch to plasma - I am sure plasmoids will be awesome and hopefully as lively as kde-apps.org, but right now the activity is really not that high.
One problem is that with big moves, too many times lose out on the details that make something great. And without attention to the good details, what advantage would I really have? The fancy GUI effects are cool, but I really want to do work faster than before - that would be a critical feature for me.
Re: K3b
I can't see what all the fuss is about
I just used the KDE4 port of K3b, and have been using it for quite some time now. Works like a charm.
Dormant? Well someone must be working on it, because there are always updates for it on opensuse.
By R. J. at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
the killer app
would be the ability to look at a file and have it tell me where I downloaded it from. can it do that yet?
By Gábor Lehel at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: the killer app
"Killer app" suggests an outstanding feature, nowhere else to be found.
By The Devil at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: the killer app
You repeatedly seem to be missing the point that in a Free Software project, you cannot direct people to one task (not even your pet peeve one), except if you pay them.
I'm personally not really impressed by people trying to push their own agenda or opinions onto someone else (or a group in this case), unless these people actually chip in and put some weight behind their words.
The fact that you find the metadata storage (which is of course only one of NEPOMUK's features) not so important probably says more about you than anything else.
And in case it isn't clear, you're not alone. There are more people preferring to burn a CD yet over pushing the vision of the semantic desktop ahead. Reality though is that most of them just use existing tools without whining and accept other people's choices as they go.
Really, what's the problem with k3b port not being ready for release yet?
Re: the killer app
To be fair, you chose the one person who "gets it" to pick on. He's one of the few in this thread who /do/ realize that. Didn't you catch his final sentence?
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2008/12/30 - 6:00am
How do I use it?
"NEPOMUK offers a combination of automatically created metadata (such as document modification dates and music file tags) with user-created comments and more complex relationships such as that between an email attachment and the sender and recipients of an email."
I have asked this before, but... How do I actually use NEPOMUK? I mean, looking at the quote above: What would I have to do if I wanted to find all files sent as email-attachments by certain person? As the quote above shows, it should be doable. But how do I actually do it?
By Janne at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: How do I use it?
I don't think that KMail tags any saved files, yet. All involved apps need to support NEPOMUK.
By The Devil at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: How do I use it?
Yep - my understanding (which may be wrong) is that this is more the ultimate aim use case example. There is more nepomuk integration in 4.2 with rating and tagging of files from dolphin for example. As for emails and the quoted example, I think that depends on the abilities of applications like strigi to grab that data and maybe also on kmail etc too.
The interesting bit imho that MIT picked up on is that the integration in KDE (although still quite early) is being used to help sort out how exactly these things are going to work and how real users are going to interact with it.
Re: How do I use it?
PS - sorry if the distinction between what nepomuk offers/will offer and what is actually easily accessible in KDE right now was not clear
Re: How do I use it?
And see also sebas comment below which has some useful info. Note in my distro (fedora) strigi indexing seems to be disabled by default but can be switched on using the desktop search control module in system-settings advanced panel
Strigi Reloaded?
Question; will "Strigi Reloaded" be a part of KDE 4.2? For more information about Strigi Reloaded see http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3573.
Unfortunately for me Strigi in KDE 4.1.3 is crashing during initial indexing, but more unfortunately for me Strigi can't continue after the crash so it needs to completely restart the indexing.
I'm really looking forward a good search tool in KDE 4.2.
Which leaves me at one more question; how to use (a working) Strigi and Nepomuk? I can't find a user interface for both. I think indexing and tagging is very useful, but how to extract the information?
By LB at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: Strigi Reloaded?
Good question, I would like to know also.
I assume it is a plugin for KRunner but I have only got crashes out of it yet so 'SOL' I guess although so many seem to be promoting it I guess I have done something wrong.
As a stop gap measure both Google's desktop search function (pressing ctrl twice when installed) works well although updates slowly and Gnome's tracker is a delight to use but the only real client is nautilus which I don't like. Beagle was quite good but that just failed to recognise some files. So use Google's desktop as it is the better of two weevils (as a bonus it indexes your emails if you use GMail, Appointments (through Google Calendar) and I think chat conversation if you use their jabber servers and I don't think the rest do unless you use their designated applications but I haven't got a great deal of ram and Gmail is better anyway as I can search through my entire catalogue of emails and if I let Kmail keep my All Folders open then it takes forever to search for new mail (Outlook seems to do that right though - can't think why it works so well), Korganizer doesn't write back to Google Calendar and Kontact doesn't sync with my Google contacts - I could move completely over but I can use the web based equiv's anywhere so 'SOL' again).
Sorry to sound negative again but I have pointed out the problems and workable solutions so it can be considered fair.
Oooh, If you have ever touched spotlight on the Mac then you'll be left wanting every time you touch any other desktop - V V Good.
By Dave Taylor at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: Strigi Reloaded?
Desktop Search actually works for me in KDE 4.2 trunk, albeit the UI needs work. For example, when using it from KRunner, I often get too many hits, the KRunner UI is not suitable to handle all that. On the one hand, we're working on improving the KRunner UI, but I'm also thinking of a dedicated app or plasmoid specific to desktop search. Developers can use the classes in kdebase/workspace/libs/nepomukquery to integrate search in their apps.
As to the question "How do I use it?", assuming you have your files indexed, you can use the nepomuksearch IO slave (for example nepomuksearch:/hastag:KDE from any app). Enabling the KRunner plugin called "Desktop Search" will search directly whatever you type into the KRunner window (but as I said, the UI there needs improvements.)
For 4.3, we're looking into integrating this functionality into the file open dialog, which is IMO the natural place for it.


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text: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Sites Selected for First Phase of Physical Therapist Education Study APTA researchers Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Jan Gwyer, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Laurita M. Hack, PT, DPT, MBA, PhD, FAPTA, Elizabeth Mostrom, PT, PhD, and Terry Nordstrom, PT, EdD, recently selected 2 academic and 2 clinical sites for the first phase of their project Physical Therapist Education for the 21st Century (PTE-21). MGH Institute of Health Professions, in Boston, and the University of Delaware, in Newark, will serve as the project's academic sites. Good Shepherd Penn Partners, in Philadelphia, and Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, in Lincoln, Nebraska, will serve as the clinical sites for the project. "We received excellent nominations from multiple academic programs and clinical sites," said Jensen, who is the project's lead investigator. "The 4 sites selected will serve as foundational qualitative case studies that uncover and examine the crucial dimensions of excellence in physical therapist education across academic and clinical settings." Jensen is faculty associate in the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University. She also is dean of the university's graduate school, associate vice president of academic affairs, and professor of physical therapy, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Research team visits to the sites will be made over the next 9 months. These visits will include individual and focus group interviews, observations, and document review focused on the teaching and learning that lead to effective preparation of physical therapists. These case findings will be used for a larger Delphi survey of academic and clinical education leaders that explores the feasibility of implementing specific changes consistent with excellence. The study also builds on the findings of the Carnegie Foundation's comparative study, Preparation for the Professions, involving 5 professions (clergy, engineering, law, medicine and nursing). The group will issue a final report on the first phase of the study in the fall of 2013. Also in 2013, Jensen and colleagues will begin fundraising for the second phase of the study that will include an additional 6 sites. Phase I of the study is funded by a 2-year APTA award of $50,000. The funding is the result of a request for proposal (RFP) for "Innovation and Excellence in Academic and Clinical Education Funding" developed by APTA and announced in November 2010. The RFP was targeted at stakeholder groups throughout the profession. Gwyer is professor and vice chief of education in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Division at Duke University; Hack is professor emeritus, Temple University; Mostrom is professor and director of clinical education at Central Michigan University; and Nordstrom is chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at Samuel Merritt University.


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Hey Seahawks fans,
I'm from the 49ers message board, and I just wanted to stop by and give my opinion on things. You will see I am level headed not some ignorant punk who became a 49er fan yesterday.
So, out of every team we faced this season, the Seahawks have scared me the most. A lot of people don't realize that Lynch and crew can take a good defense and run all over them, you already did that against us, now with more prep no reason to not do it again.
The one thing I would be on the look-out for is something I call pride. Two games in a row of you guys scoring 50+, this ain't madden baby. When a team just blows out another team, they take a sense of pride on it and bank on it. It isn't until a good team steps in and brings them back down to earth. Am I saying the 49ers are going to come away with the win? Well, yes because I am biased, but like I said before the Seahawks scare me, and I could see you guys coming away with the win even though it pains me to say.
What you guys have going on offense is astounding, on defense your front 7 is one step behind the 49ers front 7. Unfortunately, you guys are losing your two DB's which may hurt you overall. But hey you guys have the BEST depth at DB, it is crazy.
Seeing what Kaep can do will be fun to watch, I feel the way to beat him is to get pressure in his face and make him run. Remember this is a night game and the 49ers are great on premier games. So I'm looking forward to a fun one.
BTW, how is Winston Guy doing I havent been following him, but he was my favorite Saftey coming out of the draft.


text: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 New Podcasts Address Physical Therapy and the Role of Hospice and Palliative Care Two new APTA podcasts provide guidance to physical therapists (PTs) regarding the distinct approaches of hospice and palliative care services and the role that physical therapy plays in treating individuals in those situations. The first podcast clarifies the 2 terms "hospice" and "palliative" based on Medicare's conditions of participation guidance published June 5, 2008, in the Federal Register. It also highlights APTA's position The Role of Physical Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care, which was adopted by the 2011 House of Delegates. In the second podcast, Chris Wilson, PT, DPT, GCS, describes how patients in acute care can experience rapid changes in the ability to perform activities of daily living and why regular monitoring and intervention by PTs may be required. Wilson, who provides acute care physical therapy service in the Hospice and Oncology Unit and outpatient oncology services at Beaumont Health System near Detroit, Michigan, also explains the role PTs may play in determining when less-aggressive measures, such as hospice or palliative care, may be appropriate for patients. Additionally, he addresses the need for PTs to consider the big picture and respect a patient's autonomous decision to decide what care is best—particularly when a patient opts to come off hospice care in order to qualify for a nursing home stay or rehabilitate to improve his or her strength to be able to return home. Find more information on this topic on APTA's Hospice and Palliative Care webpage.


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Last year at this time, we were talking about all the upcoming movies that have numbers after the titles: 2011 was going to be a year of sequels.
Well, looking over the 2012 slate, what do we find but a lot of movies with numbers after the titles, including Wanted, Journey, Scary Movie, Men in Black, Madagascar, Step Up, G.I. Joe, Clash of the Titans, Hitman, The Expendables, Paranormal Activity, Taken, and The Twilight Saga. And that's not counting the new Ghost Rider, Resident Evil and Die Hard movies.
Yes, it's deja vu all over again, a sequel of sequels, but what are you going to do? In Hollywood, familiarity breeds content.
Fortunately, we don't have to travel that road. There is much to look forward to next year: a Spider-Man reboot, a new Batman, another Bourne, and the return of Jay Gatsby. Coincidentally, there are also a lot of films with zombies in them, because the dead walk.
Anyway, here, in the order they will open, are 12 to look forward to in 2012:
• Jeff, Who Lives at Home: I've been haunted by this odd little comedy since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival. Jason Segel stars as a sweet-natured slacker, a pothead who lives in his mother's basement and believes in some kind of mystical connection of all things. A wrong number sends him out on an 83-minute adventure that's awkward, uneasy and strangely gratifying. It's from by the Duplass brothers, who made the similarly unclassifiable Cyrus. (March 2)
• The Three Stooges: Once upon a time, Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro were going to star in this Farrelly brothers film version of the slapstick comedy trio. Well (nyuck nyuck), it now looks like a somewhat diminished cast - Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso - will be bopping each other on the head with monkey wrenches instead. The Farrellys haven't been on the cutting edge of comedy since There's Something About Mary, but if this material isn't right up their alley, why I oughta . . . (April 13)
• The Dictator: We're stepping out on a limb a bit on this one, but we've been seduced by the filmmaker (Larry Charles), the cast (Sacha Baron Cohen, Megan Fox, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly and Ben Kingsley) and the film's tagline: "The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed." (May 11)
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Fiasco or brilliant re-invention? Tobey Maguire, who's 36, quit the series, reportedly because he didn't like a script that sent his character back to high school. In stepped Andrew Garfield, who's only (ahem) 28, and a new love interest in Emma Stone. Well, we have to have something to anticipate, and besides, director Marc Webb made 500 Days of Summer. (July 3)
• The Dark Knight Rises: This is more like it: Christopher Nolan directs Christian Bale, who brought just the right combination of brooding and pecs to The Dark Knight in 2008. This time, Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy are the villains, and several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team will make cameo appearances. Well, you can't have everything. (July 20)
• The Bourne Legacy: Maybe it's just leftover affection for the Bourne trilogy of Matt Damon films, but we have high hopes for this followup with Jeremy Renner as a new CIA agent (Damon said he wouldn't return without director Paul Greengrass). The project is slightly second-hand - it's based on a novel by Eric Van Lustbader, using Robert Ludlum's characters - but it's being directed by Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote the other movies and directed Michael Clayton. Plus, Edward Norton plays the villain, and Rachel Weisz is in it. (Aug. 3)
• Cloud Atlas: Based on an ingenious novel by David Mitchell, this film tells six intertwined stories, starting in the South Pacific in 1850 and moving to a post-apocalyptic future, then back again. The cast includes Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant and it's directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix films). How many sleeps? (Oct. 26)
• Gangster Squad: We're a sucker for this kind of thing: Sean Penn plays Mickey Cohen, a real-life hoodlum who ran things in Los Angeles in 1949 - the gambling, the prostitutes, the cops - until a squad of uncorrupted police, led by Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, set out to clean things up. Homework: Go re-watch Bugsy to prepare yourself. (Oct. 19)
• Skyfall: Daniel Craig returns as James Bond. That's probably enough, even without Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes and - a special 007 treat - Ola Rapace, who's the father of Noomi Rapace, who was Salander in the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Where were we? Oh yes, Bond must destroy enemies attacking MI6 or something. As long as he has some gadgets, we're happy. (Nov. 9)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Funny title for a movie we're been awaiting for the better part of a decade, but there you go. Just to reiterate: Peter Jackson directs many of your Lord of the Rings favourites, including Elijah Wood's Frodo, Hugo Weaving's Elrond, Orlando Bloom's Legolas, Ian McKellen's Gandalf, and, of course, Andy Serkis's Gollum. The story: We lose our precious, and a nasty Hobbit finds it. (Dec. 14)
• The Great Gatsby: In this quintessential American story of the self-made man, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Gatsby (less stiffly, we trust, than Robert Redford in the 1974 version), with Carey Mulligan as his Daisy and Tobey Maguire, too old for Spider-Man but just right for Nick, the outsider who narrates their glittery story. We look for big things from director Baz Luhrmann: Moulin Rouge! big. (Dec. 25)
• Lincoln: Tall American president presides over Civil War. Steven Spielberg directs, Daniel Day-Lewis stars. Anything else you need to know? (December)
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