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Yes , cat101 , N.O. and Detroit both looked to the feds to clean up the mess they made . But over in Miss. , hit just as bad as N.O. ,they cleaned up the mess made by Katrina on their own . What makes Miss. different than the other two ?? Enquiring minds want to know .
Detroit, like New Orleans, looked to government to solve their problems.. how sad. It won't happen.
Our Republic was established to protect our country and to protect the citizen's from abuse thru laws. Every socialist leaning democracy has failed, failed under the weight of unbearable taxes and corrupt politics. Resulting in abject poverty of its citizens.
Detroit, and our country, needs to study history, learn what works and what doesn't. If Detroit wants to rebuild, I suggest: cut income tax to 2%, cut unemployment tax to 1%, cut property tax to 1%, eliminate all other taxes and cut minimum wage in half and open the flood gates of development. Will it hurt government? Yes but only for three to five years. But isn't better than watching the city & citizens hurt for 30 years? Will this bring in low paying jobs? Yes, but as demand and competition grows, so will the wages. Isn't that better than the city going bankrupt and people staving?
Or they can try the same old failed policies and watch Detroit rot.
The article underlines the fact that Detroit is failing at far too rapid a pace and may very well outpace even the most noble efforts to save it. As a DoD employee directed to relocate to the Detroit Arsenal and Warren MI by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) legislation, I made the decision early on to take ANY other alternative other than relocate to the Detroit metro area. The numbers simply don't add up. Obviously, services are and will continue to be cut. State and local taxes will have to increase as the Detroit-area continues to hemorrhage skilled workers but fails to make those service and city payroll cuts fast enough to offset the pace of population loss. Folks in "beautiful SE Michigan" need to be realistic - Detroit is no more - do in large part to greedy unions and the Democratic party that worked together to drive it into the ground.
Detroit needs a good fire.
One more note about urban development in Michigan:
Sterling Heights needs to sit down and offer Sterling, Michigan some money in exchange for the rights to drop the "Heights" from its name. You have one of America's 100 largest cities and nobody outside of Michigan even knows it exists. Since there are no big cities called "Sterling" in the U.S. it would be a much more marketable name (sort of like buying a shorter internet domain name).
Michigan's leaders really need to sit down and figure out how to put Sterling Heights, Lansing, Flint, Warren, Troy, Dearborn, etc. on the national map, and in a positive way.
Decades of union / democrat rule has brought this once great city to ruin. Bad tax policy and government interference in housing has caused wealth to flee. Schools run by unionized employees turn out kids unprepared for 2010 America. More money is not the answer, it would just be good money chasing bad.
This city can be revitalized but, they can't continue with decades of failed political and economic policies. First they need to breakup the power of all unions. Michigan needs to become a right-to-work (open shop) state. They need to break the back of the teachers union and start putting children first and union bosses last. They need to reform tax laws and become more business friendly. They need to become the first choice of any company planning to open a new factory instead of the last. Finally the need to adapt more free market principles and get the government out of the way. If they stick to the polcy of more of the same they will get more of the same.
Why are people trying to waste their reserves on failure? There is only so much (tax payer) money to go around and you want to spend it on bulldozing Detroit or building up government there? We need to slash state and federal state spending in Detroit and reinforce success elsewhere in Michigan and the rest of the country. It's Economics 101.
Heck, the area could be a unique resource for Hollywood. Hollywood loves showing American cities getting destroyed and Americans living in dilapidated environments. Even old ships provide value in their destruction. Trying to build them and bring up them up to standards though is an entire waste.
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As with just about any ageing big city (over 1 million pop., even if this is no longer Detroit) the city's problems are beyond its own resources and those of the State's. It requires federal development assistance - and more importantly a good development project.
Detroit needs a new industry, cleaner and with a brighter, non-polluting image. Creating new parks and farms where neighbourhoods once stood (perhaps with federal money, sorry to say it) will not re-launch the city economically, but could re-fashion Detroit's negative image: trees and flowers are always better than burnt-out and abandoned buildings.
Sergio Marchionne is under attack from unions in Italy, being accused of wanting to transfer auto production from Europe to the U.S. It's time for city and state leaders to sit down and encourage that process - Turin was once known as the "Italian Detroit" and the city still has a certain prestige factor there. Detroit could do much worse than become "Fiat" city - given that the Fords have (always had) little to do with the city and GM seems in long-term retreat (but then, they too were always bigger employers in Flint, Pontiac, etc. Few people outside Michigan know that Chrysler was long the number one private employer in the city (as opposed to the Metropolitan Area).
Finally, there is public transportation. How about re-launching the city as a production center for hi-tech trains, subways and buses - starting with a new subway/train system for Metro Detroit?
One more note: Michiganders, especially older Michiganders, want nothing to do with racial integration. Fine. But I too have travelled much, and I know of no other state in the world of 10 million population whose largest city does not even reach 800,000. As usual, racism is blinding Michiganders to a wider problem: ALL of the state's cities (say 50,000-800,000 population) are either in decline or not growing. And Grand Rapids, the most dynamic before this crisis, has hardly kept pace with growing urban centers in other parts of America.
If Michiganders sat down with their elected leaders and sought to develop their CITIES (over 100,000 pop.) they might come up with better projects for the states impressive Congressional delegation to find funding for in Washington. This game has been played by just about every other state in the union for decades, especially down South, and never by Michiganders. You want our votes? Great, I need more funding to renew my local university research center. I need a new stadium. I need a new public hospital. I need a new highway, etc. The state is now 33rd (!!) in per capita income, and has been a net contributor to Washington for decades. Enough.
Detroit's solution must be a regional solution. Reduce Detroit's size by distributing its outer-ring neighborhoods to surrounding suburbs, supply those cities with the state money needed to help those neighborhoods recover on a micro level.
Detroit, the city, should be reduced to a core of about 300,000 people, including the downtown, and that's where its resources should be focused.
The state should step in with cash for these municipalities and the legal power to revoke charters (why does Highland Park still exist as an enclave?) and privatize or license out some but not all city services.
Reimagining Detroit requires imagination, not business as usual.
tjefferson - You fail to understand the geographic area that Detroit encompasses. This is not like trying to revitalize a Cleveland or Pittsburgh. Detroit is something like 100 square miles. They can't bring in enough people to fill the voids left by decay. They need to take a unique approach and the term revitalization is a misnomer for this city. The areas that could be returned to green land are so vast that they really could get away with this sort of plan.
The "parks" that could be created could just as easily be 1000 acre farms. The physical size of this city can't be understood by comparing it to any other major city in the country. I grew up in Detroit and have traveled extensively. Because of how rich Detroit was during the automotive boom, people wanted their own yards and they could afford the land. Detroit expanded because of it. Today with less than half the population around from the golden days, you can't revitalize. Detroit needs a rebirth, and razing square miles of the city are going to be required to do it.
Everything is grid like so you could completely bypass large areas and still have plenty of roadway around the area so as not to impeded travel. This can be done, and it should be done. I hope this idea gains traction because this city is a one of a kind and could become the greenest city in North America.
Give the city back to the French, Americans are by and large old fashioned and conservative with the occasional derring-do's they are ultimately uncomfortable with. It's not the size and shrinking it is not going to help alleviate the abysmal state it is in. Erstwhile motown requires a radical overhaul (as with most American cities), dramatic changes and new ideas but not from within and success can then only be achieved by incessant intellectual labour.
Give the city back to the French, Americans are by and large old fashioned and conservative with the occasional derring-do's they are ultimately uncomfortable with. It's not the size and shrinking it is not going to help alleviate the abysmal state it is in. Erstwhile motown requires a radical overhaul (as with most American cities), dramatic changes and new ideas but not from within and success can then only be achieved by incessant intellectual labour.
In India, too, many cities have seen decline of the kind Detroit has seen. Examples are Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Coimbatore. The first two turned all the "ghost" textile manufacturing units into prosperous, spanking new real estate developments -- both, residential and commercial. In doing so, they have changes the skyline of these two cities.
Coimbatore, or Kovai as it is locally called, traversed another road. Its textile units today have been re-developed into several -- maybe over a hundred -- graduate and post-graduate colleges and educational institutions set up on sprawling campuses. It draws students from all over India. There are probably more post-graduate students studying out of Coimbatore than any of India's large metros. Several of Coimbatore's textile magnates have now become education barons. This might be partly explained by the strong cultural affinity of upper-caste South Indians to higher education.
Be that as it may, Coimbatore represents a beautiful model for revival of a dying city.
Downsizing government services and axing departments is fine in the short term, but this strategy of saving some neighborhoods and abandoning others is doomed to failure.
First, the cost savings are dubious. The city can close schools in certain neighborhoods,sure. But what else can it do? Stop maintaining water pipes that run though the abandoned zones to the habitable ones? Stop maintaining roads that connect these habited zones by traversing the abandoned ones?
Will it stop policing these zones? Stop answering fire calls in these zones? This would simply create little Somalias-Sur-Rouge whose chaos would spillover to the nicer parts of the city and deter investment.
Sure it could bulldoze these neighborhoods and turn them into parks. But even just razing everything would cost money, and would decrease tax revenue to boot.
Detroit's problems aren't caused by an overambitious, unrealistic vison of recovery. It's due precisely to a lack of ambition, caused by poor (or zero) coordination between Detroit, its suburbs, and the rest of the state. The stark racial divide in the state is largely to blame, which is curiously unmentioned in this article.
Any solution to Detroit's decline must include the creation of a regional government where tax revenues are pooled and the development of the entire metropolis has one single coherent strategy.
It must also include state and federal incentives that create an unprecedented low-tax, low-regulation, free trade zone to foster a monumental flow of capital into the city. (no payroll tax for 20 years for jobs domiciled in the city, zero capital gains on Detroit real estate, all federal income tax and corporate tax collected in city goes directly to the new regional government - so they get a share too -, etc.)
Reviving industrial cities has been done before. In Manchester, Lille, Cleveland, Pittsburgh....
None of these cities prospered by conserving their chips when they were down. In each and every case of rust belt revival, great cities have been revived because they went all-in with one grand, Pharonic strategic play. (Lille with the Eurostar, Cleveland with Gateway, etc.)
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Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce have joined Warner and Faulk for pre-game coverage!
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just saw that! How great was that! Wow.......
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RamNation! lets go
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greatest show sitting at the desks
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Whole pregame show thus far about niners
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Nobody on the 2013 Rams is anywhere near the league of those 4 guys. Not even close.
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They should suit up at half time, we'd probably have a shot at a come back.
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Miguel - Girls Like You
Artist: Miguel
Producer: Fisticuffs
Album: All I Want Is You
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When you're in the midst of a romantic dry spell, attractive members of the opposite sex can come to seem so distant and unattainable that it makes you hate them just a little bit—and want them all the more. Of course, a gentleman as suave and dapper as Miguel wouldn't know anything about that, would he? Evidently he does. The latest single off the RCA crooner's 2010 debut (co-written with Mac Robinson and Brian Warfield) finds him rolling solo dolo, cursing the beautiful women who call to mind memories of the romantic bliss that lies just outside his grasp: "Girls Like You remind me that I'm lonely." Quickie producer Fisticuffs reprises his role behind the boards, crafting a catchy blend of stop-start percussion and atmospheric synth chords to back the singer as he pines for someone to occupy the other side of his bed—and the other side of the Connect 4 board. Sure to elicit plenty of offers from potential bedmates and game partners (that is, if the artist hasn't sorted that out already), Girls Like You is just one of many R&B bangers to be found on Miguel's All I Want Is You LP, available now from record stores and online retailers.
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Gingerly, U.S. reaches out to Sharif in Pakistan
With elections there postponed until Feb. 18, and turmoil unabated, the Bush administration evaluates its options for spurring its war-on-terror ally toward greater democracy.
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With Pakistan's elections postponed and turmoil there continuing, the United States is reviewing its options – including a warming toward former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the top opposition leader in the absence of the slain Benazir Bhutto.
Ms. Bhutto, not Mr. Sharif, had been the Bush administration's preferred candidate for nudging Pakistan, a key war-on-terror ally, toward democratization. Bhutto was thought to be open to a power-sharing arrangement with President Pervez Musharraf, while Sharif was not.
But recognizing that President Musharraf is weakened and increasingly isolated, the US is taking the pragmatic step of cautiously reaching out to other possible winners in Pakistan's political strife.
The US action "recognizes that, very likely if there is going to be a viable and acceptable leader of the opposition in the near future, it's going to be Nawaz Sharif," says Marvin Weinbaum, a former Pakistan analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence.
Sharif, a conservative Islamic politician never accused of pro-Americanism in a country sensitive to that charge, is a close ally of Saudi Arabia – his country of exile until his return to Pakistan in November.
If Sharif were to rise in Pakistan, it could advance Saudi Arabia's goal of becoming a weightier force in regional and Muslim–world affairs – a scenario the US would not be disposed to fight. A key reason is the Bush administration's interest in containing the Saudi rival, Iran – which is a Pakistan neighbor.
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A pedestrian walks down Pennsylvania Ave near the White House Wednesday. Schools, businesses and the federal government closed in anticipation of a snow storm expected to blanket the region but the nation's capital was largely spared. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A winter storm marched into the Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places and knocking out power to nearly 200,000 homes and businesses. The severe weather largely spared the nation's capital, yet the typically bustling city had all but shut down because officials didn't want a repeat of 2011, when a rush-hour snowstorm stranded commuters for hours.
The storm pummeled the nation's midsection on Tuesday, killing at least three people in weather-related traffic accidents. It was forecast to turn to the northeast on Thursday, bringing strong winds, more snow and the possibility of coastal flooding to New England.
In Washington, the storm dubbed the "snowquester" - after the wonky "sequester" term for $85 billion in federal budget cuts - did little harm as falling snowflakes rapidly melted amid warmer-than-expected temperatures.
"They just say that it might snow and the whole city shuts down," said Sheri Sable, who was out walking her two dogs in light rain and marveled at how even the dog park she frequents failed to open at 7 a.m.
There were worse problems elsewhere in the region, though.
Lashing winds blew off part of the roof of a Stone Harbor, N.J., condominium complex and Ocean City officials advised residents to move their cars to higher ground in preparation of possible flooding. Maryland's Bay Bridge, which connects Maryland's Eastern shore with the Baltimore-Washington region closed in both directions, because of high winds. A tractor-trailer overturned on the bridge.
In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency and directed state agencies to let employees work from home, while about 50 National Guard soldiers were sent out to help clear roads. Utilities scrambled to restore power after fierce wind and heavy, wet snow snapped tree limbs and knocked out electricity to 170,000 customers in that state alone. Hundreds of car wrecks were reported.
In Richmond, most commuters appeared to be headed home by midday with the exception of Clint Davis, an attorney who was needed in in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
"Unless they canceled court, I had to be here," said Davis, who was wearing a hooded slicker over his suit to shield himself from gobs of snow blown from trees. "I'll be here for two or three hours and come out to a snow-covered car."
Virginia's western suburbs, especially Loudoun County, saw accumulations of 9 inches. In Sterling, a glaze of slush and snow coated major roads and side streets, but traffic was relatively light and plow trucks came through repeatedly.
Many retailers were closed. Only a handful of customers patronized the Glory Days Grill. Carolyn Donahue was working from home and trekked out with her husband, Tom, for a lunch break without any trouble on slushy but passable roads.
"I don't consider this a big storm," he said.
Downtown Washington was unusually quiet. Officials eager to avoid a repeat of 2011 pre-emptively shut down federal offices and canceled public schools as forecasters projected snowfall totals of up to 10 inches. The roughly 300,000 federal employees inside the Beltway and in surrounding counties were treated to paid snow day.
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Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is the Microsoft document collaboration standard. As many organizations do, Microsoft leverages SharePoint as the platform for its portal site as well. Lured by SharePoint's simple site configuration and intuitive interface, many companies have placed their human resources and financial reporting information on multiple SharePoint sites for anyone in their organizations to access.
With SharePoint, building Web sites is now a possibility for any user, and users have taken advantage of this capability in a big way. This has brought about a new dilemma: how to manage all of the information on tens or hundreds of SharePoint sites. Making users aware of new or changed content is a good first step.
SharePoint does have subscription features for notifying users when changes occur. The notifications require active intervention by the user, and they send a separate email for each change. How do you make users aware without inundating them with email every time a document on the site changes? Oftentimes, a user simply requires a periodic summary of the changes.
This article demonstrates how you can leverage the SharePoint SDK classes to build a tool that collects all the changes to a site. (The tool is called a Newsletter Generator because it presents the collected changes in a Newsletter format.) It begins with a summary of the application and then discusses its implementation.
Figure 1 shows a screen capture of the Newsletter application.
Figure 1: The Newsletter Application Newsletter also allows the user to start on any site on the SharePoint server. Recurse instructs the application to include subsites of the current site.
Newsletter information in HTML format is generated at the bottom of the application. Generated information can be edited and emailed.
It's time to look at some of the changes to SharePoint that the solution's implementation requires.
The "Add Columns" feature inside the "Modify Settings and Columns" option in the Document library allows adding or removing document properties. Figure 2 shows the properties added to the Documents that this example includes in the newsletter.
Figure 2: Properties Added to the Documents Figure 3: Dropdown Menu to Modify Properties
Keep in mind that Site Collection refers to the SharePoint Site Collection and not a collection object you normally access in the .NET Framework.
The following three classes are critical for navigating SharePoint and manipulating files in SharePoint:
In a moment you'll dive into some C# code, but first review how to use the class objects to access SharePoint. To access the Web site containing the Site Collection, along with all the document libraries on the site, start by opening a SPSite class using the URL for the site. SPSite includes an OpenWeb() method for accessing the site containing the collection. OpenWeb() returns a SPWeb object. SPWeb contains a folders collection for accessing document libraries.
You can access the SharePoint classes in two ways: a Web service and a .NET assembly (Microsoft.SharePoint). This example opts for the .NET assembly because of its increased speed and functionality.
Now that you're familiar with the SharePoint objects, you can move on to the implementation details.
GetWebDetails first collects the newsletter information from the root site. Next, if the "Recurse" option has been selected, the application proceeds to visit all of the subsites and the subsites of the subsites. The subroutine GetWebDetails is invoked continuously until all subsites have been visited.
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To download the accompanying source code for the example, click here. Jeffrey Juday is a software developer with Crowe Chizek in South Bend, Indiana. He has been developing software with Microsoft tools for more than 12 years in a variety of industries. Jeff currently builds solutions using BizTalk 2004, ASP.NET, SharePoint, and SQL Server 2000. You can reach Jeff at email@example.com.
Build a SharePoint Newsletter Generator That Alerts Users to Changes
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The Newsletter Application
This example uses the SharePoint SDK to implement the demonstration as an ASP.NET application. An ASP.NET solution is appropriate for the following reasons:
Click here for a larger image. SharePoint Changes
In a typical newsletter, each news item contains a title followed by a blurb that summarizes the content. This newsletter demonstration ignores some documents. To implement both requirements, some additional properties must be added to the documents contained in SharePoint.
Click here for a larger image. The SharePoint SDK Classes
SharePoint is logically partitioned in a hierarchal fashion. At the top of the hierarchy are Virtual Servers. Virtual Servers handle things like authentication configuration and IIS Application Pool. Each Virtual Server contains groups of Web sites called Site Collections. Site Collections allow you to manage multiple SharePoint Web sites.
Applying the SharePoint SDK
The GetWebDetails function utilizes the classes discussed in the previous section to generate the newsletter. The following snippet of code is from the GetWebDetails function: private void GetWebDetails(SPWeb web)
// enumerate over all the folders on the web
foreach(SPFolder folder in web.Folders)
// Do the same for all subwebs
foreach(SPWeb subWeb in web.Webs)
Security Considerations
When you set up the example, you must remember to configure proper security. The demonstration opted for an ASP.NET Web site instead of a Web Part, which had some security ramifications. For instance, you would access the SharePoint sites using the account set up with the Application Pool assigned to the ASP.NET Newsletter application. Be sure the account has proper access to the SharePoint sites you will be accessing.
Extending the Newsletter
Consider the following suggestions for extending the demonstration in this article:
Keep Your SharePoint Users Updated
Using the SPWeb, SPSite, and SPFolder classes built into the SharePoint SDK, you can build a newsletter application to keep your users abreast of changes to your SharePoint sites.
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Five candidates are vying for three seats on the Youngstown Board of Education — and none is an incumbent.
Candidates for nonpartisan positions on the Nov. 5 general-election ballot had to file nominating petitions with their county's board of elections by Wednesday.
The three Youngstown school board incumbents — Lock P. Beachum Sr., a 16-year member, along with Rachel I. Hanni and Andrea Mahone, both finishing their first terms — opted not to seek re-election.
Youngstown is the only school district in Mahoning County to not have an incumbent file for re-election this year.
But some have only one incumbent seeking re-election.
In Sebring, 10 candidates are running for three seats: two are for full four-year terms and one is for an unexpired two-year term. The o nly incumbent for those seats is Cindy Christani, appointed to the unexpired term.
In Canfield and Lowellville, there are three candidates for three school-board positions with one incumbent in each race.
It's wide open in the Austintown school board race with 10 candidates, including two incumbents and two former members, running for three seats.
The elections board must certify the validity of all candidates' petitions before they can appear on the ballot.
There are competitive trustee races in 11 of the county's 14 townships. Only candidates, who happen to be incumbents, in Coitsville, Green and Milton are running unopposed.
The most trustee candidates in a county township is Springfield with six, including a pair of incumbents, running for two seats.
There are five candidates running for two trustee seats in Austintown, Canfield and Ellsworth.
The last person to file Wednesday at the county board of elections was Ronald G. McDonald for a seat on the Sebring school board.
Among the more-interesting candidates to file is Bernard J. Kosar Sr., father of former pro football quarterback, Bernie Kosar Jr., for Canfield mayor. The older Kosar is the only candidate to file for that city's mayoral position.
It's the worst school system in Ohio and a teacher's strike is looming. I guess they figure they've done all the damage they can.
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A spokesman for the department, Peter Boogaard, said earlier this week that the government was working to fix the problem, which allowed Tazhayakov to be admitted into the country when he returned to the U.S.
Under existing procedures, border agents could verify a student's status in SEVIS only when the person was referred to a second officer for additional inspection or questioning. Tazhayakov was not sent to a second officer when he arrived, because, Boogaard said, there was no information to indicate Tazhayakov was a national security threat. Under the new procedures, all border agents were expected to be able to access SEVIS by next week.
The government for years has recognized as a problem the inability of border agents at primary inspection stations to directly review student-visa information. The Homeland Security Department was working before the bombings to resolve the problem, but the new memo outlined interim procedures until the situation was corrected.
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Note: Before you say ANYTHING about Birdo being male, then know I WILL block you from my account. Birdo should be female and should always be female! Birdo being male would mean that Yoshi would have to be female and EVERYONE knows Yoshi is male. So Birdo being female would make the most sense. And I do NOT support same sex marriage
considering if Birdo and Yoshi WOULD get married.
My name is Laxion Smithy, decedent of Smithy Smithy, I have followed in my father's footsteps to create a world of weapons. But little did I know, that I would be changing my view in just a matter of minutes
Oh excuse me, I'm getting ahead of myself again. I should start at the very beginning.
It all began that mid-summer day, I was out to look for ways to destroy Mario and his friends! I just needed to find a good method of transportation. Soon, I saw a green dinosaur that had a saddle on it's back. I thought Dinosaurs were extinct. Aw well, what did it matter, I wanted a ride, so this dinosaur was the best method for right now
unfortunately, it bucked me off and I landed in a puddle of pink goo. "Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi!" The dinosaur said. I couldn't even understand it. "You, why did you do this to me? I will have your head now!" I yelled at it. I didn't notice my arms where turning pink. "What's happening to you?" Someone asked. I froze when I realized where the voice was coming from. It was coming from the Yoshi. "You
you can talk?" I asked, still not knowing that my skin was turning pink
at least not until I looked at myself and saw that I was turning pink. "You can understand me? How?" The Yoshi asked placing a hand on my chest as it expanded, giving me J cup breasts. I realized then what I was becoming
HOLY MOTHER OF GENO [Pun intended]! I was transforming into a Birdo! Suddenly, I felt some of my mind slip, being replaced by the thoughts of a Birdo. I still remembered some of my human characteristics, but I knew I was female for some reason. When the Yoshi too realized this, he offered a hand to help me out of the liquid. "You can't fight it, it's not with you in your current mind state
" The Yoshi said. This was the same Yoshi that had bucked me off of him and knocked me into this cursed liquid. And he was all of a sudden giving me a hand. But then something in my mind clicked. I didn't see him as an enemy anymore, I saw him as a friend
or rather a mate, a husband. I couldn't resist it, like he said, I was slowly being consumed by this Pink Liqu. I had no choice but to let him help me out of this liquid. "Thanks, but just what are you? And why does seeing you make me blush?" I asked when we both realized my voice had changed. "I'm a Yoshi, and as for why seeing me makes you blush, it's because Yoshis and Birdos like each other. They would do anything for the other. We are just one family." The Yoshi said. My mouth and nose pushed outwards together. Soon, the rest of the transformation took place, my manhood shrinked away, I was no longer a "he" but a "she"; a tail soon followed and my belly turned white. I grew spikes down my back and finally, a bow popped up on my head, finishing the changes before my insides changed into that of a female's. The transformation was complete: I was now a Birdo.
Impressed at my new eyesight, the Yoshi now proved to be even more handsome then when I first saw him. It was if the purple liquid had also changed my mind (which it had). "Come with me, I'll show you to your new home
" The Yoshi said. I knew then that a new life was waiting for me around the corner.


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xmotd: Writing Free Software
Lucy: "What happens if you practice the piano for 20 years and then end up not being rich and famous?"
Schroeder: "The joy is in the playing."
xmotd is a message-of-the-day browser that runs under the X Window System. It was written to ease the burden of the local systems administrator in making day-to-day announcements of general interest to students and faculty using the computer network in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada. This is a chronicle of my experiences developing a program that started as a trivial, single purpose tool and evolved into one with numerous features suggested by its users.
It was a late August afternoon in 1993 when Nick Colonello, the department's system administrator, and I were discussing the past school year and how it would have been nice to be able to let students logging in to the system know important information. With the following school year less than a month away, I boasted that I could write a simple message browser in about 10 minutes that could be run automatically by xdm (the X display manager) when students logged in. He agreed that it was a good idea and I proceeded to complete version 0.1 in under 30 minutes; it was called xbanner.(1) Visually, it consisted of a text widget where the message would be displayed, and a "dismiss" button, in the top-left corner of the window, used to close the window. For a brief moment, it looked supremely functional. But I was not satisfied—it looked utilitarian and ugly. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. xmotd 0.1 Screen Dump
In another half hour, version 0.2 was completed with an aesthetic re-fit consisting of a label widget that displayed a title, a separator widget (purely decorative) to separate the title from the text and another label widget to display a bitmap (a logo of our computer network). This was the version that was first installed on our system.
A few weeks later, Luis Lopes, the systems administrator in the Computer Science department dropped by for a visit and expressed interest in installing xbanner on his system. I was duly impressed that someone I knew would actually find something I wrote useful.
In March of the following year I read a post in comp.windows.x asking how a message of the day could be displayed when running X and xdm. Not knowing where it would be taking me, I innocently followed up saying that I had hacked together such a program and was willing to share it. Within a few hours I received two e-mail messages, and the next morning had another asking for a copy of xbanner. Now I was truly impressed.
Its popularity was never anticipated. It was as if no one had thought the world needed such a program. Indeed, a cursory investigation, prior to beginning work on xbanner, would have revealed the existence of a similar tool that, with minor modifications, could easily fit whatever new specifications were demanded. However, at this time the Web was in its infancy and archie was the de facto, parochially-minded, search tool of choice. Obscurity and ignorance condemned useful software to languish on ftp sites around the world.
I first learned of xmessage's existence when Vivek Khera e-mailed me a shell-script that used xmessage, in conjunction with other Unix programs, as a message-of-the-day browser. xmessage, written by Stephen Glidea of the eX Consortium (2), is a generic tool that can be used to browse a text file or display a message. It consists of a widget in which the text is displayed and an "okay" button in the bottom left corner of the window. (See Figure 2.)
Notice the remarkable aesthetic similarities between xmotd 0.1 and xmessage. In a market with several similar, feature-rich tools, aesthetics are often the deciding factor for a user. In a recent interview, the late Seymour Cray noted the importance of aesthetics: "I've enjoyed the aesthetics part of building computers because it's any extra little thing you add that is clearly your own personality being projected in the product."
In addition to aesthetics, flexibility also plays a major role in selection. Experience has shown that users have a preference for application software that allows them to solve their problems, rather than overpowers by solving the programmer's problems. Usually, a programmer writes a program to solve a particular problem, then gives it away with the hope that others will benefit from it. Typical end-users do not find much use for this kind of software because it was written "by programmers, for programmers". It performs a single job—nothing more, nothing less. Common shortcomings of this type of software include:
idiosyncratic interfaces, with little thought put into design (the principle of least astonishment does not apply)
poorly chosen default configurations giving the software an ugly appearance
a lack of customization (an aspect that emphasizes the idiosyncrasies even further because the user cannot replace the settings with something more suitable)
Software that allows infinite customization (3) endears itself to users dedicated enough to read the documentation because it gives them complete power—the same sense of creative power the developer felt when designing the software.
For example, xmotd's customizable bitmap was a relatively minor coding burden (an additional 10 lines of code to read in and validate a bitmap file) that affords the end-user a personal touch to what would otherwise be very bland software. The EE department's logo was originally hard-coded as the default image in the internal version of xmotd (now suitably renamed). When I uploaded xmotd to the eX Consortium's archive, I hard-coded in the X logo. One of the first requests I received was for the ability to change the logo. A less-than -optimal (and therefore temporary) solution I implemented was to amend the README with instructions on modifying the source code so a different bitmap could be compiled in. However, I found that people were very reluctant to modify code; they preferred something simpler. It then occurred to me to use the X logo as the default image and add a -bitmap option to allow the user to override the logo with one of his choice.
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