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The one thing Pam Stenzel heard the most from young girls in her nine years working at a crisis pregnancy center in Minnesota was, "Pam, I didn't know."
Stenzel is now a speaker and author, and has traveled around the world for years talking about the consequences of sex outside of marriage. She has a wealth of information from teenagers, she said, not only from her counseling experience, but from the more than 500,000 teens she presents to each year.
Stenzel, whose DVDs include "The High Cost of Free Love," and "Take a Look in the Mirror," was in Silverthorne Monday night to speak to local teens and parents. The talk was sponsored by Women's Resource Center of the Rockies, an organization serving Summit and Eagle Counties offering free support and education. Some 25-30 local parents and teens showed up for the event.
"God created sex, but he created it with a boundary,'" Stenzel told the crowd. "In that boundary, it's awesome. Outside, it's destructive."
That rule doesn't just apply to teens, she said. "If you are not married, don't do it ... absolutely no one has ever had more than one partner and not paid."
Stenzel's argument: consequences of sex outside marriage are both physical and emotional.
Most teens worry about pregnancy, but they forget about diseases, she said.
"You have a four-time greater risk of contracting a disease than becoming pregnant," Stenzel said. Teens tend to think diseases won't happen to them or their friends, but that's because people aren't prone to telling others when they do. Or, it could be that the individual just doesn't know they have one, she said. There are over 30 different sexually transmitted diseases, and of those, 30 percent aren't curable, Stenzel told the crowd.
If a teen does accidentally become pregnant, there's "no easy way out." Teen moms are the number one indicator of poverty in the United States, she said, adding that having a baby "is not a game, this is not a new puppy."
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Stenzel got personal with the crowd, telling them she was adopted - she has never met her birth mother, who was raped at the age of 15 before she decided to carry Stenzel to term - and that she and her husband were both virgins at marriage. Stenzel's 26-year-old daughter was also a virgin for her wedding last summer, as was her new husband.
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Dr. Bill Stuart, associate professor and interim chair of communication studies, died late Sunday, Sept. 9, at his home in Richmond. Affectionately known to students as "Dr. B," Stuart was a well-known professor on campus. [See information on visitation and memorial services]
Stuart came to Longwood in August 2000 as an assistant professor of communication studies. He was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and became interim chair of the newly formed communications studies department in July.
Longwood President Marge Connelly said Stuart's intellect and positive energy were evident around campus.
"Bill's passion for his students extended beyond the classroom to include personal attention and mentoring ... encouraging them in every way to be the best they could be," Connelly said.
At Longwood, Stuart served as a member of the Faculty Senate in 2010-11. He also sat on a number of committees, including the budget and planning committee and the 2011 search committee for an associate vice president for marketing and communications. In addition, he was instrumental in developing the Academic Strategic Plan. Before communication studies became a separate department, Stuart served as interim chair of the Department of Art in 2011-12.
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Dr. Ramesh Rao, professor of communication studies: "Bill was the life of the department. He was a compassionate, thoughtful leader who was excited about the potential of this department."
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Stuart received a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1990, a master's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1992 and a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Kansas in 2000.
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(A) Misquotation, manipulation, and discounting of reliable evidence to fit a preconceived argument: the Goebbels diary
1. The pogrom of 9-10 November, obviously, eventually came to a halt. Once again, in his account of the ending of the pogrom and its aftermath, Irving is determined to manipulate and falsify the historical evidence to make it appear as if Hitler was opposed to the whole pogrom from the outset. The first piece of evidence which he treats in this way is the inevitable Goebbels diary.
2. In his account of the events of 10 November 1938, Goebbels wrote: 'New reports rain down the whole morning. I consider with the Führer what measures should be taken now. Let the beatings continue or stop them? That is now the question.103 On page 277 of Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving paraphrases this entry as follows: 'As more ugly bulletins rained down on him the next morning, November 10, 1938, Goebbels went to see Hitler to discuss "what to do next" - there is surely an involuntary hint of apprehension in the phrase.'104 The claim - and the use of the word 'surely' rather than, say, 'possibly' or 'perhaps' makes it a claim rather than a supposition or speculation - that Goebbels was apprehensive has no basis in the source whatsoever, but is Irving's own invention. The effect is to suggest to the uninformed reader that Goebbels was worried about Hitler's reaction. There is no evidence anywhere in the diary entry for any sense of worry or apprehension on Goebbels's part whatsoever.
3. When Hitler and Goebbels talked on the morning of 10 November as reported in this diary entry, therefore, no decision had yet been taken. It was already clear, however, that other Nazi leaders were unhappy about the pogrom. As the head of the Four-Year Economic Plan, Hermann Göring was particularly concerned about the damage it was causing to economically valuable property and assets.
4. Following this first conversation with Hitler on the morning of 10 November, Goebbels drafted an order to bring the pogrom to a halt. 'Yesterday', he wrote on 11 November in his diary, 'Berlin. There, all proceeded fantastically. One fire after another. It is good that way. I prepare an order to put an end to the actions. It is now just enough.....In the whole country the synagogues have burned down. I report to the Führer at the Osteria.'105 The fact that Goebbels had not drafted any order or indeed come to any view about whether or not the actions should be ended before he met Hitler to consider 'what measures should be taken now', and that he had drafted an order before he met Hitler in the Osteria, a Munich restaurant, makes it clear that, contrary to what Irving claims, these were two separate meetings.
5. At the Osteria, Goebbels presented Hitler with his draft order to stop the pogrom. His diary entry continued:
I report to the Führer in the Osteria. He agrees with everything. His views are totally radical and aggressive. The action itself has taken place without any problems. 17 dead. But no German property damaged. The Führer approves my decree concerning the ending of the actions, with small amendments. I announce it via the press and radio. The Führer wants to take very sharp measures against the Jews. They must themselves put their businesses in order again. The insurance companies will not pay them a thing. Then the Führer wants a gradual expropriation of Jewish businesses.106
6. This entry makes it clear, first, that Hitler approved the pogrom, and second, that it was Hitler who devised the economic measures taken against the Jews at the subsequent meeting chaired by Göring on 12 November 1938.
7. Other evidence supports the diary on these points. On the afternoon of 10 November, after he had reported to Hitler, Goebbels informed the Nazi Party chief of Munich-Upper Bavaria that the pogrom was to be terminated, and added: 'The Führer sanctions the measures taken so far and declares that he does not disapprove of them.'107 In another circular sent out the same day to Gau propaganda officials, quoted in Irving's own book on Goebbels, and quite clearly reporting Hitler's views at the meeting in the Osteria, Goebbels added: 'An order is to be expected according to which the (cost of the) damage resulting from the anti-Jewish actions is not to be met by insurance companies but by the Jews concerned themselves. Furthermore, a series of measures against the Jews will very shortly be implemented through the promulgation of laws or decrees.'108 This point also echoes Goebbels's diary entry, cited above, in which the Propaganda Minister noted that Hitler wanted 'to take very sharp measures against the Jews'.
8. How does Irving deal with this particularly incriminating diary entry? In 1992, when Irving first read the Goebbels diary entries for the period 9-10 November 1938, he was convinced that it showed that Hitler approved of the pogrom:
According to his diary [Goebbels], and I can't emphasise those words enough, according to his diaries, Hitler was closely implicated with those outrages. And that's a matter of some dismay to me because it means I have to revise my own opinion. But a historian should always be willing to revise his opinion.109
9. A year later, he was sounding a slightly more sceptical note. Goebbels's diary, Irving said,
describes how Hitler thoroughly endorses what he, Goebbels, has done, namely starting that outrage that night. This was a deep shock for me and I immediately announced it to the world's newspapers that I had discovered this material, although it appeared to go against what I had written in my own book Hitler's War. But even there you have to add a rider and say, 'Wait a minute this is Dr. Goebbels writing this.' Dr. Goebbels who took all the blame for what was done. So did he have perhaps a motive for writing in his private diaries subsequently that Hitler endorsed what he had done? You can't entirely close that file.110
10. By the time of the publication in 1996 of Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' , this slightly sceptical note by Irving had been transformed into total conviction that Goebbels was lying. One should stress here that Irving's change of mind was not influenced by any further discoveries of new documentary material. As we have seen, in Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' Irving claimed (as he had done in Hitler's War) that Hitler did not know about the pogrom, was furious when he was informed about it, and sharply attacked Goebbels for his involvement. Thus, the essence of Irving's account of the pogrom in his written work has remained totally unchanged by the discovery of vital new evidence, the Goebbels diary, even though Irving himself at first accepted this evidence as destroying his previous theories.
11. Unable to manipulate the diary's clear statement that Hitler took an extreme antisemitic line, Irving tries to explain it away by suggesting that Goebbels was falsely claiming that Hitler approved of his action and was 'radical' and 'aggressive' in his attitude towards the Jews, in order to give anyone who read the diary the misleading impression that Goebbels had merely been carrying out the wishes of the 'Führer' when in fact he had been acting against them. But what grounds does Irving have for claiming that this entry is 'perhaps slanted'? The fact that it 'stands alone, and in direct contradicion to the evidence of Hitler's entire immediate entourage'!111 But we have already seen that far from standing alone, it ties in well with a mass of other contemporary evidence. And we have also seen that the evidence of Hitler's entourage (von Below, Schallermeier, Schaub, Wiedemann, Wolff) is either manipulated by Irving to say something it does not in fact say, distorted, invented, suspect on any one of a number of grounds, or a combination of these things. The overwhelming likelihood in the light of the available archival evidence is that Goebbels's report of Hitler's radical views at the meeting in the Osteria restaurant was accurate and truthful. There is, on the other hand, no evidence at all to suggest that was not.
12. One further important point needs to be made here. It emerges from the Goebbels diary that on the morning of 10 November 1938 no decision had yet been taken by the Nazi leadership regarding the continuation of the pogrom. As Goebbels had noted: 'Let the beatings continue or stop them? That is now the question'. Only after his conversation with Hitler did Goebbels draft an order to end to pogrom which was then approved by Hitler at the meeting in the Osteria and then passed on the press and radio by Goebbels. Various contemporary documents support this course of events and show that this order by Goebbels went out in the afternoon of 10 November 1938, probably between 4 pm and 5 pm.112 Irving accepts that this order went out on 10 November 1938, even though he falsely claims that it was broadcast at 10 a.m.113
13. This order by Goebbels demonstrates once more that Irving's version of events is simply untrue. As will be remembered, Irving claimed that after Hitler was informed of the pogrom (after 1 am on 10 November 1938), he was furious and condemned it, that Goebbels spent most of the night trying to stop 'the most violent excesses', that Heydrich ordered the police at 1.20 am to 'halt any ongoing incidents' and that Rudolf Hess's staff instructed the Gauleiters and the police at 2.56 am to 'halt the madness'.114 So if all these attempts to stop the pogrom were going on in the early hours of 10 November 1938, why was the official directive that the pogrom was to be stopped only announced in the afternoon of 10 November 1938? Clearly, the factual evidence once more contradicts Irving's version of events.
103. Fröhlich (ed.), op. cited, p. 181.
104. Whether or not the word 'next' in the phrase 'what to do next' is a proper translation of the original German nunmehrige is quite irrelevant to the issues at hand. Literally 'now-more', it means precisely 'from now on, in the immediate future', and either 'now' or 'next' would be a reasonably satisfactory English equivalent in the context.
105. 'Gestern: Müller erstattet Bericht über die Vorgänge in Berlin. Dort ist es ganz toll hergegangen. Brand über Brand. Aber das ist gut so. Ich setze eine Verordnung auf Abschluß der Aktionen auf. Es ist nun gerade genug... Im ganzen Land sind die Synagogen abgebrannt. DiesenToten [vom Rath] muß das Judentum teuer bezahlen. In der Osteria erstatte ich dem Führer Bericht'; E. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebucher von Joseph Goebbels, Vol. 1/6 (Munich, 1998), p. 182.
106. 'In der Osteria erstatte ich dem Führer Bericht. Er ist mit allem einverstanden. Seine Ansichten sind ganz radikal und aggressiv. Die Aktion selbst ist tadellos verlaufen. 17 Tote. Aber kein deutsches Eigentum beschädigt. Mit kleinen Aenderungen billigt der Führer meinen Erlaß betr. Abbruch der Aktionen. Ich gebe ihn gleich durch Presse und Rundfunk heraus. Der Führer will zu sehr scharfen Maßnahmen gegen die Juden schreiten. Sie müssen ihre Geschäfte selbst wieder in Ordnung bringen. Die Versicherungen zahlen ihnen nichts. Dann will der Führer die jüdischen Geschäfte allmählich enteignen...'; E. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Vol. I/6 (Munich, 1998), p. 182.
107. Schreiben des Adjutanten des Gauleiters Adolf Wagner an den bayrischen Ministerpräsidenten, 11 Nov. 1938, in Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, MA 106412, cited in Obst, "Reichskristallnacht", p. 93.
108. Irving, Goebbels, p. 279, my translation. 'Weiterhim werden in kurzer Frist noch eine Reihe von Maßnahmen gegen die Juden auf dem Gesetzes- oder Verordnungswege durchgefüuhrt werden'.
109. 'Videotape 199: Irving interviewed by Kurt Franz on the serialization of the Goebbels diaries, CBC Newsworld, 10 July 1992.
110. Irving, tape 200: Irving, "The Search forTruth in History-Banned!" 1993.
111. Ibid., p. 278.
112. IfZ, G 01/71:SD-Unterabschnitt Wien an den SD-Führer des SS-Oberabschnittes Donau, 10.11.1938; IfZ, G 01/91: Der SD-Führer des SS-Oberabschnittes Donau an das Sicherheitshauptsamt, 21.11.1938; Rundruf des Deutschen Nachrichtenbüros; Rundruf des Deutschen Nachrichtenbüros in Berlin vom 10. November nachmittags, in W.-A. Kropat, 'Reichskristallnacht' (Wiesbaden, 1997), p. 233; Obst,op. cited, p. 93.
113. Irving, Goebbels, p. 277.
114. Irving, Goebbels, p. 276-7.
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The Michigan State football team is set to play Boise State University on Friday with kickoff scheduled for 8 p.m.
Chris Taylor is a MSU senior. He has a season ticket and is ready to again be part of the sea of green and white.
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(NEWSER) – Tracy Barnes won a spot on the US Olympic biathlon team Sunday, but she's not taking it. She gave up her place so her twin sister, Lanny, could go instead. Lanny had been too sick to compete in all the selection races, but Tracy believes her sister had a better year and would have made the team if not for the awful timing of her illness. "She had a stellar year," Tracy tells USA Today. "She just had a bit of bad luck getting sick. I would have loved the opportunity to represent my country but it means more to me to give Lanny that chance."


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Bouncing, Number Line, Heavy Things, If I Could.
The first word that comes to mind is bliss. The second is cohesive.
The criminally underrated Bouncing, one of- hell-THE best actual songy song that Phish ever wrote has a little history with Mikes and feels great right here. Following that up with Number Line feels so ecstatic as Trey once again pours his heart into a song that seems to be appreciated less with each rendition. Probably not as cathartic as the San Fran version that rocketed out of that wooly Simple jam, but so sweet nonetheless. Then Heavy Things drops and you can feel the joy emanating from the band as again they make this song gut wrenchingly gorgeous.
Following these two up with the quietly resurgent If I Could is almost an unfair bounty of riches for those who want to share in the joyous groove.
There is a lot of chatter. Most of it stems from a mistaken belief that there are thousands of teenage top 40 radio fans flocking to see Phish play some songs that may have been on the radio once or twice. While I understand the sentiment, and while I sympathize with those who feel that the middle of second sets are a needlessly improvisation free wasteland, I'm kind of in awe of Phish for pushing these concerns aside and playing 24 minutes of beautiful uplifting music without worrying about the peanut galleries siren call requests of 73 minute Lushingtons. You will be hard pressed to find a recent second set that crafts a singular narrative without hiccups the way that this one does. Will it be remembered over the ages? Perhaps for the only appearance of the word "rape" in show note history and nothing else. But when your politicians are preaching hatred and doom and you're curious as to where you can find an ACME safe to Drop on their head like an erstwhile Wil E. Coyote, you may want to dip into this 24 minutes of Phish and let Trey soothe your soul with 3 timelessly heartwarming solos that are engineered to sweep away the complex emotional webs that can trap us in a never ending coral maze of malaise.


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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Creamy Noodle, Potato and Mushroom Soup
That's the excuse I gave my daughter when I told her that we were going to have her favorite, milk noodle soup, when she came for dinner last night and I'd changed up the recipe from what she was used to. (Quick thinking on my part, eh?)
Milk noodle soup was a comfort food for me when I was growing up and I must have passed on that comfort gene to her because it remains her favorite soup. My mother fed eleven of us on a concoction of her homemade noodles, home-grown potatoes, homemade chicken stock and a touch of heavy cream. Pennies per serving, I'm sure, but delicious nonetheless. Through the years, I've reinvented it too many times to count. The following is just another adaptation of my mother's milk noodle soup recipe (as seen through the eyes of a self-proclaimed culinary artist. When I go on tour, I'll autograph your soup bowl.)
Creamy Noodle, Potato and Mushroom Soup (for lack of better description)
1 TBSP olive oil
1 TBSP butter
1 leek, white and light green parts only, cleaned well and diced
2 stalks of celery, leaves included, diced
kosher salt and pepper
dash of crushed red pepper flakes
6 ounces white mushrooms, coarsely chopped
2 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 TBSP all-purpose flour
1/3 cup dry white wine (optional)
2 quarts chicken stock
2 medium-large potatoes, peeled, small cubed
8 ounces egg noodles
1 cup half & half
In a large soup pot, heat olive oil and butter over medium-medium high heat. Add leeks and celery. Season with salt, pepper and crushed red pepper flakes. Saute until leeks and celery have softened, 6-7 minutes. Add the mushrooms and thyme and saute until mushrooms have given up their moisture, 5-6 minutes. Add the garlic and saute for another minute or two. Sprinkle the flour over all and cook for 2 minutes, stirring to prevent the flour from burning. Add the wine and chicken broth. Bring to a boil and add potatoes and noodles. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or until potatoes and noodles are tender. Remove from heat and stir in the half & half.
*The Other Side of 50 will be on vacation (yes again) until sometime next week. You see, hubby has decided to repeat his faux pas of last year and invited 16 of his "closest" friends to stay at our home for the Buckeyes/Illinois game this weekend. I'm leaving town to avoid the chaos and the possibility that this time I might injure him in some way for doing this to me AGAIN.
27 comments:
- Pascal said...
This looks quite tasty. I wonder if this would work with heavy cream instead of half and half...
- September 30, 2010 at 1:32 AM
- Sonia (Nasi Lemak Lover) said...
this look so comfort, I will serve this with bagel, must be very yummy!
- September 30, 2010 at 4:17 AM
- Haden News said...
We love soup at my house! This looks like it would be great on a cold night!
- September 30, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Moogie said...
Yeah!!! It's soup season and this looks especially yummy.
- September 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- June said...
Mags - this soup looks wonderful! BTW, is your guy NUTS??? Have a great vacation (wish you were coming here!)
- September 30, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Arnold said...
For me there is no perfect soup time. I eat soup, winter or summer. This really looks good and it has been bookmarked. Thanks.
- September 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- stephchows said...
oo mags this looks so delicious! and have a wonderful vacation!
- September 30, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- SeattleDee said...
The soup looks delicious and your post is a treasure. Thanks for a new addition to the comfort food/soup list.
- September 30, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Nanan said...
This would sooth my soul in a heartbeat!
- September 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Becky said...
Hey Marge -
I am needing some comfort food--and will be making this tonight. Thanks for posting this recipe and the dilemma of what do I make for dinner tonight?? Love ya!
- September 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Co Irker said...
We shall miss you terribly here at the hubs work.
Please take care of yourself and have a blast!
I think you have all of our sympathy on the upcoming weekend. And you show admirable restraint by removing yourself from the chaos.
Until next week.
- September 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- Julie said...
This soup looks delicious! My favorites, noodles potatoes and mushrooms. I will be giving this a try.
Seriously, I can't believe your husband did that TWO years in a row! Hopefully he booked a spa weekend for you in exchange.
- September 30, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Pretty. Good. Food. said...
Sounds absolutely delicious!!! :)
- September 30, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Barbara @ Modern Comfort Food said...
This looks SO delicious, Mags, and is just the thing for a warming soup dinner on a cool night. I'm still waiting for fall weather to arrive where I live and wish it would hurry up!
- October 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- Leslie said...
Yum yum! I hope you have an enjoyable weekend away (and your house is still standing when you get back!)
- October 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM
- Sherylyn said...
Potatoes and noodles, together?! Craziness, delicious craziness. Add mushrooms and leeks and homemade chicken stock and this may be the best comfort soup EVER! Yum. Yum. And more yum.
- October 1, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Lyndsey said...
Mmmm...so scrumptious! My daughter would love this! I really need to make more soups.
- October 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM
- Suzanne aka vivisue said...
Ooooooo Mags! You had me at "Creamy Noodle . . . ." Fabulous!
- October 1, 2010 at 10:39 PM
- Lana @ Never Enough Thyme said...
Yum. Pure comfort in a bowl.
- October 2, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Barbara said...
I love your recipe title, Mags! Your soup looks warm and comforting! It's not something I've ever had (my mom was stuck on egg drop soup) and would really like to try.
- October 2, 2010 at 6:53 AM
- Ms. Meanie said...
Spending the last 5 years in California has deluded me. Now I;m in the midwest and freezing. I had no idea October was this cold! Soup sounds perfect right about now. I'm loving all the veggies and of course the wine in this. Yum!
- October 2, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
We're finally having some soup weather here- this looks delicious!
- October 2, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- Debbie said...
That is just perfect with the weather we are having here. Finally autumn has arrived!!!
- October 3, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Sue said...
Mags, You had me at "Creamy..":)
Have a fun getaway!
- October 4, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
That looks like a tasty soup! I don't like really brothy soups, but I think the creamy base for this soup would be one that I'd really love!
- October 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Hanaâ said...
This looks wonderful. I love creamy soups and mushrooms!
- October 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Mrs. L said...
I love all the parts to this, the cream, the noodles, potatoes, perfect for a cold winters day!
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This story, Why technical writers aren't using FOSS, appeared in on Newsforge in April, and I have to take issue with some of the assumptions.
First of all, I am technical writer, and I do use FOSS—in fact, I'm a technical writer that documents FOSS technology using FOSS tools.
At MySQL, where I am a member of the documentation team, we use DocBook XML to build the documentation that you see on the website, or that's available through the PDFs that can be downloaded. In fact, you can even download the XML source we use.
The XML is formatted using standard tools, and we use Apache FOP to translate the output into the various formats.
For many of my other writings—see MCslp.com—I use FOSS software when available or appropriate for the client or target in question. Here at Free Software Magazine, submissions are in XML, and what tool you use for that is entirely up to you.
I use emacs a lot, although for most XML work, including MySQL, FSM, ServerWatch and some IBM work I'll use the <oXygen/> XML editor. It's not FOSS, but it is a very good piece of XML editing software. Most of my book publishers, however, still use Word. I could use OpenOffice.org, but as a Mac user, I prefer to ensure that the application I'm using is 100% compatible with the publisher's systems, and I see no reason to use FOSS software when I own licenses for the same applications my publisher uses.
As to the comment from the original article:
Another point that may be difficult for members of the FOSS communities to understand is that, although tech writers often keep typically long corporate hours and may work alongside FOSS programmers, few express any inclination to learn more about computing or to gain more control over how they spend most of their days.
I really have to take issue. I do not remotely believe that the majority of technical writers are technically ignorant. Many of them are writing on technical topics and—certainly in the case of the majority of people I work with inside and outside of MySQL—we all come from a heavy computing or programming background. In fact, I've spent my life trying to get away from programming, even though for the last seven years, I've spent 100% of my life writing about programming, or simply writing software like Cheffy.
I really can't agree with the article, if taken on the title and some spots of content. In reality though, if you read the full article through, it seems to be more of a "Why aren't FOSS tools as good as commercial ones", using us technical writers as justification for why that might be the case.
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I start from latex, and transform that as needed to html, pdf, etc. But it is a pain to edit and maintain that way, although xml is not immediately a perfect solution on it's own either, as it is designed for machine parsing more so than human reading :). I would love to start from an editor that produces transformable xml for feeding to other formats, and with the backend transformation tools. I have this starting from tex today.


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Roy Eugene Youker passed away Oct. 10, 2012, in Oklahoma City after living for 83 years.
Visitation will be at Resthaven Funeral Home from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12.
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Foodfacts.com likes to provide followers with consistent updates on GMO production. We recently came across this article that we think will help educate those unfamiliar with genetic modification; and also update others on the labeling issue still going on.
Silk Soymilk and some of its other beverages recently completed the verification process of the Non-GMO Project. Why the careful wording? Given the ubiquity of genetically modified organisms in some U.S. commodity crops — 93 percent of soybeans grown in the United State are genetically modified according to Craig Shiesley of Silk — no product is able to call itself completely free of GMOs. However, Silk and some other companies, such as Whole Foods with its 365 products, have sought to do is to get as close as possible, using a certification process from the non-profit Non-GMO Project, which holds products to a standard of 99.1 percent GMO free.
Shiesley, general manager of the Silk business, says the verification process for the company's soymilk, coconut milk and almond milk took 12 to 14 months, a surprise for the company, which had always sourced non-GMO ingredients.
"The reason (the verification process) elevates this to another level if that it goes from verifying the ingredient to verifying the entire process," Shiesley says. "For example, (it verifies) that there's no cross contamination in the dehullers."
GMO in the food supply
Currently labeling for GMOs is not required in the United States, as it is in European Union countries and Japan. The percentage of U.S. processed foods that include at least one genetically engineered food is estimated at about 60 to 70 percent, according to a 2010 fact sheet from Colorado State University. Even foods labeled as natural, a term that has no legal meaning, may contain genetically engineered crops; however, USDA certified organic foods forbid GMOs.
Do GMOs matter?
The answer depends on whom you talk to. Companies such as Monsanto, DuPont and Bayer that supply genetically engineered seed, say the crops, often engineered to be resistant to herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup, are nutritionally identical to non-modified crops. The U.S Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration agree with this position. They say the engineering allows them to grow crops more efficiently and with fewer, less toxic pesticides.
Opponents say the effects on human health and the environment have not been fully tested. They fear genetic modification may be involved in an increase in food allergies and other problems, and they say weeds may become resistant to herbicides, requiring more toxic herbicides to kill them.
In addition, they argue that a U.S. decision not to require products with GMOs to be labeled has kept consumers in the dark about how deeply genetically-engineered crops reach into the food chain. Surveys have shown that many consumers don't know that they regularly consume genetically engineered foods. For retailers with a consciousness about food and how it's produced, the lack of labeling means they have no way to verify GMOs in products unless the items are certified organic.
Mark Retzloff, president and chairman of Alfalfa's, says the grocery has worked hard to verify that the canola and other oils in its bulk dispensers are not from made from genetically modified seed crops. The store has verified that the dairy products it stocks are from cows not dosed with hormones. However, unless the product is certified organic or has the new Non-GMO label, the store can't verify if cows have been fed genetically-modifed grain. He is particularly concerned about genetically modified alfalfa, which the U.S. approved for use earlier this year. While certified organic milk producers won't use it, the possibility of contamination through the cross-pollination of organic and GMO crops, as has happened with corn and soy is concerning, he says. In addition, as the genetically engineered seed becomes available, farmers may have a hard time buying non-GMO seed.
"From my own experience at Aurora Dairy, we buy about 40,000 to 50,000 tons of alfalfa hay. It's all organic. If we start having trouble doing that, it restricts our ability to produce organic milk," he says, adding that milk is a gateway product into organics for many consumers.
Whole Foods is currently putting its 365 brand products through Non-GMO verification. The products don't currently carry the label. However, customers can go to Whole Food website and click to find Non-GMO certified products.
"It's a significant focus of the company right now to work on verification," says Ben Friedland, regional marketing coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Region.
Asked about the company's position on GMOs, Friedland says: "We believe in farmers' right to farm non-GMO crops and our customers' right to choose whether they want GMOs. We work to provide opportunities for both our stakeholders," Friedland says.
Shiesley of Silk says the Non-GMO verification is extremely valuable to his company. For the Silk products that are not organic — the company switched some of its Silk line from organic to natural in 2009, Shiesley says because the company wanted to source soybeans domestically — the non-GMO verification offers assurances.
Shiesley says he also believes the label will raise awareness.
"I hope we're at a tipping point with consumer understanding toward Non-GMO," he says. "Unlike organic labeling which went through legislation and took eight-plus years, the industry can self-regulate … I don't think we can wait five years plus with this."
He points to consumer awareness on trans-fat and many companies' subsequent reformulations of their products as an example of how awareness can change push industry to make changes.
"We bring 40 million consumers along with us when we go to Non-GMO (labeling)," he says.
Carol Carlson, chair of Slow Food Boulder County approves of voluntary labeling, but would also like to see mandatory standards.
"I think GMO contamination is a huge concern for all of us," she says. "Anything that can be done to bring awareness to what we're eating and whether it contains GMOs is a very good thing."
She also urges Boulder Countians who disapprove of GMOs to become involved in county policy on Boulder County Open Space agricultural land.


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Definition of zoogeography in English:
The branch of zoology that deals with the geographical distribution of animals.
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Sen. Alan Bates filed his candidacy papers late Thursday, vowing to continue the transformation of Oregon's health care program if re-elected.
Bates, D-Medford, said his priority will be to continue to work on a new method of delivering health care to Medicaid patients while opening up a health care exchange, which is Oregon's response to the Affordable Care Act.
Dave Dotterrer, R-Ashland, also filed his candidacy papers this week, running unopposed in the Republican primary. If he wins the primary, Dotterrer would challenge opponents from other parties. So far only Bates and Dotterrer have filed.
Dotterrer, a legislative aid who worked with Rep. Dennis Richardson and a retired Marine Corps officer, narrowly lost to Bates in the 2010 election.
Bates, a Medford doctor who served in the U.S. Army, said he's been working on health care reform in the state for the past eight years and hopes voters will get a chance to see that the new programs are working well over the next year.
"My expectation is this plan will work reasonably well," said Bates, who became senator in 2005.
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Thousands of people have signed a petition urging the government to deport CNN's Piers Morgan over his gun control views.
The British host has been vocal in taking a stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting earlier this month. Last week, he called a gun advocate appearing on his "Piers Morgan Tonight" show an "unbelievably stupid man."
Is it such a good idea to insult people with guns?
According to MSN.com, a petition created Dec. 21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan of engaging in a "hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution" by targeting the Second Amendment. It demands he be deported immediately for "exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens."
That's right. How much more American can you get than threatening to throw someone out of America for having an opinion?
By Monday, the petition had more than 31,000 signatures -- well beyond the 25,000 necessary to get a White House response.
Morgan seemed amused by the movement.
Via a set of Twitter messages, he urged his followers to sign the petition, and in response to one article about the petition, he said "bring it on."
"If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?" he wrote.
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BARSTOW — The Burroughs girls soccer team is 1-0 in the Desert Sky League.
The Burros (2-4, 1-0 DSL) beat Barstow 3-0 Wednesday in Barstow by playing fundamentally sound and consistently challenging the Aztecs' defense.
"It all came together," BHS Coach Kelly Blake said. "We were connecting passes, reading the defense really well and making nice runs, which led to goals."
The Burros got goals from Joelle Steichen, Meagan Schiller and Brianna Malone. Two of those goals were assisted. Zaylee Armstrong had one assist, while Marissa Morales had the other in getting the Burros off to a fast start in league play.
Goalkeeper Sarah McDonald had four saves in the Burros' win.
"This win is definitely significant for us," Blake said. "It's important that we keep this momentum going into our next tournament."
The Burros move on to play in their next tournament starting Friday.
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Fueling the Golden State's gun-control debate, a new statewide poll says a wide margin of California voters favor beefing up what already are among the country's toughest gun laws.
They back tighter controls and taxes on ammunition sales and outright bans on more weapons, according to the new Field Poll, and strongly reject training teachers to carry concealed weapons at schools.
In record numbers, California voters now say it's more important to put new controls on gun ownership than to protect Americans' rights to own guns, the poll says.
The findings amplify resurgent national support for gun control in the wake of last year's mass shootings in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater and a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. While the country debates adopting measures already on the books in California, most voters here are looking to Sacramento for even tighter restrictions.
"California compared to the rest of the nation is much more supportive of the gun control side," poll director Mark DiCamillo said Monday. "And it's not just that we have more Democrats in California. ... It's that the Democrats, Republicans and nonpartisans are all somewhat more supportive on the gun control side than they are nationally."
The poll, conducted Feb. 5-17, found California voters strongly support several specific gun-control measures proposed by the state Legislature and Congress. An overwhelming 83 percent of voters support providing more money for efforts to take guns away from convicted felons; 75 percent support requiring anyone buying ammunition to first get a permit and undergo a background check, none of which is required now; and 61 percent support putting higher taxes on ammunition, with proceeds going to violence prevention programs.
The 61 percent of California voters favoring more gun controls to the 34 percent more concerned with Second Amendment rights is a wider margin than the Field Poll has found in three previous surveys dating back to 1999.
Poll respondent Christine Williams said she favors "background checks on the front end but also not allowing people to stockpile things that lead to the potential for some kind of great tragedy."
"Think about what happened in Newtown, Conn., what happened at the movie theater in Colorado -- none of these things would've happened if we had much stricter gun laws across the country," said Williams, 28, an administrative assistant and Democrat from Palo Alto.
California already requires background checks for all firearms purchases and has banned the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and detachable magazines that hold more than 10 bullets -- all measures that some in Congress now want to impose nationwide.
Majorities of Californians still support these bans, the poll found: 58 percent support a ban on possessing large-capacity magazines, which goes further than the current ban on their manufacture and sale in the state. And 57 percent support a new bill in Sacramento that would add all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines to the state's assault weapons ban.
Significantly larger majorities of women than men support the proposed reforms. The partisan divide is sizeable, too: 80 percent of Democrats prioritize imposing greater controls on gun ownership, while 65 percent of Republicans feel it's more important to protect gun owners' rights.
Voters by a more than 2-1 margin rejected a Republican-authored proposal to let specially trained teachers or other personnel carry concealed weapons in school; women oppose that idea almost 4-1.
Chuck Michel, a civil rights attorney and California Rifle and Pistol Association spokesman, said the poll shows "a distinct preference for criminal control over gun control," in that proposals such as taking guns away from felons score high while banning certain kinds of guns has less support.
He also noted the poll lacked any questions testing the public's understanding of recent Supreme Court decisions protecting Second Amendment rights or about existing state and national laws.
"What 'controls' are they talking about 'adding' if they don't know what we have?" Michel asked, also noting support for gun control tends to spike after calamities and then declines as people start to see the disconnect between proposed laws and their intended goals.
Devina Deo, a 28-year-old Democrat, said her desire for new gun controls is rooted not in recent mass shootings but in her own Hayward childhood, where "wannabe gangsters" with firearms were all too common in and around her high school.
"It's always been something I thought was kind of strange, that there aren't more controls," said Deo, now a small-business owner pursuing a master's degree in advertising. "We're not in a war zone, so why do kids have guns?"
Robert Lewis of Oakland said he's OK with raising taxes on bullets if the money is spent on stricter enforcement of gun laws we already have, but he prioritizes Second Amendment rights above any new gun controls.
"You can't penalize the honest people for what the dishonest people are doing," said Lewis, 67, a retired security guard and sheet metal worker who's also a military police veteran. "That's what these gun controls would be doing.''
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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It's an excellent idea, but has opened the floodgates ofcriticism on other news and technology sites, stemming from a few keyareas. The first is that alternatives are not completelyequivalent. Fundamentally, they're not the same as theoriginal. Arguments can be made that the alternative is asgood, if not better, than what it's replacing, but one should not makethe mistake of saying that the alternative is an exact duplicate ofevery function unless it truly is. The author of the site hasaddressed this in his site blog, stating that "alternatives" or"replacements" would have been a better way of phrasing the site titleand purpose.
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One possible solution to this issue is to have a basic votingsystem where people can express how closely the products match, andanother where they can rate the product itself. On the otherhand, it complicates the site and will allow the possibility of publicabuse of the rating system. There is an elegance in itssimplicity, which should not be ignored.
A third issue is that the list isn't comprehensiveenough. It's a fine line; if you list every single piece ofalternative software, then the site will become bloated andunusable. On the other hand, if you're missing somethingimportant, then you'll lose the interest of the public. Todeal with this problem, the site author has published a submission formto collect suggestions from the public.
The Linux Equivalent Project is not the only site of its type;there are dozens of other sites. For example, Ubuntuguide.com hasa very long wiki topic, LinuxRSPoffers a larger, yet infrequently updated table with hundreds ofpackages, and Linux.ie offersa comprehensive list of descriptions of software in addition to justnaming them.
I'm glad to see a new information resource such as the LinuxEquivalent Project get public attention and continue to grow and evolvein the face of criticism. If anything, more eyes on theseproducts will lead to more adoption, criticisms and comments, whichshould lead to improvement and growth for all the projects involved.
Open Source Alternative - great site for people new to OSS
You mention a couple of different open source (linux) software portal. But You missed my favorite Open Source Altnerative http://www.osalt.com.
It lets the users search for well-known commercial software - and lists primeraly high quality open source alternatives for these products. A really great resource.
I think there is a
I think there is a fundamental problem with this type of exercise. If the message you send out to people is, "Use Linux! You can recreate all the good bits of your Windows experience without difficulty!" then you are setting people up to become majorly disillusioned.
We need to be honest with people, and admit that there are gains and losses with moving from Windows to Linux, but that any losses in convenience are more than made up for by freedom and flexibility. People need to know they are moving to something that is *different* from Windows and that isn't trying to *be* Windows.
You see this so often on forums: people saying, "Unless you Linux people can sort this out, you'll never beat Windows!" Since when was "beating Windows" - rather than providing a free-as-in-freedom means of using a PC - the aim?
I think that, in the end, people are not going to stick with desktop Linux unless they have an understanding of, and commitment to, software freedom. Only then can they understand why it is not *Linux's* fault that their ATI graphics card is a pain to configure, or why it takes so much work to get multimedia working properly.
Where is the *other* list?
Is there a list of most wanted but with no Linux replacement software?
This list would be a nice starting point for a new open source project.
There is once more
There is once more comparative table which located here:
The Switch
The switch is beautifully painful but the freedom given by GNU/Linux is bliss!
Right now I'm not dual booting -removed MS from my computers;
but at work is XP Pro; so having information like "The Linux Equivalent Project" is top resource for me.
Even better
Is to provide an alternative to a Windows only program that has Linux AND Windows versions.
I.e. for Office read OpenOffice as opposed to (say) KOffice
An important topic
Finding equivalent or alternative solutions is an important topic. What people do will not change if people replace Windows by Linux.
For example, I do a lot of writing and many translations bewteen french an english. OpenOffice works well for me, but I am still looking for dictionnaries running on Linux. I need both monlingual (french and english) and bilingual (french to english and english to french) dictionnaries. I haven't found them yet under linux. And the dictionnaries available with OpenOffice (or with MS Office) are far from enough for this task. They weill not give the subtleties of the meaning of a given word, nor the expression to use in a given case, and so on.
I looked at all the sites mentionned by the author. These sites are interesting, but I did not yet find a dictionnary.
Marie-Noëlle Baechler
Belmont-sur-lausanne / Suisse
List and dictionaries are built in to Linux
Dictionaries are built in to Linux. You don't need to search for one as a separate application. That is true for a number of applications you must find and add to Windows.
Also, for a list, try GrokDoc's Application Crossover Chart and its Switching to Linux page.


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