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iSyncIt is a simple application to make syncing with iSync easier. The latest version no longer requires bluetooth and includes scheduled syncing, great if you sync by cable, but if you do use bluetooth iSyncIt allows you more control over it.
Before running the software for the first time you must make sure that all of your devices have already been set up in iSync and have been synced for the first time.
It may also be useful to add iSyncIt to your login items so it is always there when you need it.
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: sparkle , utility , productivity , automatic , bluetooth , sync , menu
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jarosia: Thanks for your suggestion, I'm glad you like the software and a better scheduling system is my next port of call.
The Developer
wow this came just in time! just started syncing my mobile to my macbook pro - how did i ever live without this.. i didnt! i was dead inside all these years but now im alive!
some suggestions - I dont need to sync my mobile every 120mins, but i would like it to schedule it for every day or something so it will work without me having to press sync now
Just a note to everyone using a desktop Mac. I don't believe that bluetooth power can be controlled on desktops, it remains permenantly on. The syncing will still work but I recommend turning bluetooth control off in 'Preferences'.
The same may also be true of portables using bluetooth dongles but I cannot be sure as I have no suitable test candidate.
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Skim is a free PDF reading and note-taking app for Mac OS X that is designed to make reading research papers and manuals better.
Just like in Preview, you can search, scan, and zoom through PDFs, but you also get some custom features for your workflow, like:
- Adding and editing notes
- Highlighting important text
- Making "snapshots" for reference
- Reading in full screen
- Giving presentations
and more.
Required OS: 10.6
Tags: pdf , reader , notes , free , documents
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Skim is a very useful app, as previously documented here.
The only reason I still use preview is one bug in Skim when printing with the "reduce file size" quartz filter - instead of changeing the resolution, Skim changes the visible portion of the page, so you see only half of the slide :-(.
BTW current version should be 1.2 (38)
After I upgraded to Leopard, Preview began behaving very strangely, opening on my secondary (laptop) display instead of my main (external) display, which was a real drag literally. So I've found a solution in Skim for pdfs and ViewIt for most other image files. (Actually ViewIt will open pdfs also, but I like Skim's annotation features etc.
Looks interesting, but highlights don't work correctly for me: highlights on text in Skim doesn't show in Preview, nor in Acrobat Pro 8. :(
However, highlights done with Acrobat Pro 8, are displayed correctly, both in Skim and in Preview.
Skim is very useful for those who use Apple's Keynote on Leopard.
By cropping region in your pdf file using Skim, you can paste the region into Keynote. This very useful function that was unfortunately disabled on Preview.app on Leopard.
Such a loveable app.
Hah, I like to see all the people who use this the same way I do. I have a professor this semester who provides almost all course material by PDF and I desperately needed a highlight feature. That and a plethora of other useful features makes Skim wonderful for me.
It's replaced Preview on my Mac. Has everything I need as a college student and probably has more. [Wish they'd make cross-platform versions... my university only uses PCs, bah.]
An awesome program. I just used it to go through all the journal articles I'd downloaded for an essay I was writing, and it just made the process of going through the articles on the computer painless. I am usually very much a pen and paper man, but this really made things simple.
Being disappointed with Preview I was looking for a decent PDF reader. I found Skim, which even exceeded my expectations. It is both powerful and easy to use application with many useful features. Some of my favorites are: predictable maximization (Preview always does strange things when I maximize), auto-refresh when file changes on disk (a must when generating PDFs from LaTeX), presentation mode (for my Beamer slides), but there are many other features (like bookmarks and notes) that may be useful to you!
Simply unrivaled
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MIAMI (AP) -- A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for the Florida Panhandle as a newly formed depression swirled off the coast and threatened to bring rain and possible flooding to the area.
The warning was issued for areas east of the Alabama state line to the Suwanee River. Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches was forecast, with isolated showers of up to 10 inches in northwest Florida, forecasters said. The area likely will see tropical storm conditions within the next 24 hours.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said the depression was expected to be near Florida's northern Gulf Coast by late Sunday afternoon. It was moving to the north-northwest at about 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds around 35 mph. At 8 a.m. EDT on Sunday, it was about 125 miles from south-southeast of Apalachicola.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Guillermo was swirling in the Pacific as a Category 2 storm, and tropical storms Ana and Bill were moving over open waters in the Atlantic.
Guillermo had weakened slightly, with maximum sustained winds dropping to 100 mph. It was expected to lose more steam and dwindle to a tropical storm in the next day or two. Guillermo was moving west at 15 mph, about 1,150 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii.
Tropical Storm Bill had winds of up to 45 mph. It was expected to build momentum and become a hurricane in the next few days, but it was still far out in the Atlantic, moving west at 13 mph about 1,640 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
The U.S. and British Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands were keeping a close eye on Ana. The storm was expected to make landfall in the Leeward Islands early Monday.
A tropical storm watch remained in effect for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. Tropical storm conditions were possible within the next 36 hours.
Ana was moving west near 20 mph. At 8 a.m. EDT, the storm was about 470 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands.
For the latest on Tropical Depression Four, Tropical Storm Ana, and Tropical Storm Bill, visit our Hurricane Web Channel.


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Leopard Terminal Commands
Version: 1.2 || Release Date: 2008-02-18 || License: Freeware
Developer: MacTipper Blog |
App Owner: macosxleopard
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I have updated the application to fix the problems.
Download it here:
People who look here are lucky. I made my own fix for the Time Machine Go Back button issue.
Great little AppleScript, but the Time Machine options dialog's "Go Back" button doesn't seem to actually be going back for me.


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metacognition wrote: BTW, I noticed your MBTI of INFP. I am an INTJ. Intuitive introverts unite! :)
INFP7 wrote: Any suggestions on how to ... make friends?
Jack wrote: Maybe you should move, change jobs, go to school, etc. All can be very scary yet really rewarding adventures. Also, places where you spend a lot of your time is the easiest place to make friends haha.


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Alimony Reform
Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.
In response to the article "Stargel Proposes Alimony Reform Away From Lifetime Payments," Jan. 19, I would like to address the misconception surrounding "lifetime" or "permanent" alimony. Generally, awards of this type of alimony are made only in long-term marriages where the requesting party needs support and the other party has the ability to pay.
Contrary to its name, lifetime or permanent alimony is often not permanent at all. The courts may reduce or terminate a permanent alimony award based upon substantial changes in circumstances including retirement, the existence of a supportive relationship, an increase in the income of a recipient spouse and a reduction in the income of the payor spouse. It also terminates automatically if the recipient spouse remarries or upon the death of either spouse.
Florida statutes require the courts to base the amount of an alimony award on a number of factors, including the needs and necessities of life as established during the parties' marriage. As a Florida Bar Board Certified Marital and Family Law attorney, I can attest that the current alimony statutes are flexible, for good reason. The uniform alimony guidelines proposed in the legislation would eliminate the discretion the courts need to properly address the relevant factors on a case-by-case basis.
Because the vast majority of cases settle before going to trial, family attorneys are able to use the flexibility of the statute to help create a settlement that both sides can live with. The proposed legislation is significantly favorable to alimony payors and detrimental to recipients of alimony, and would deprive many economically dependent spouses of much needed support in Florida divorces.
Family Law Section of The Florida Bar
Fort Lauderdale
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'It's not a death sentence.' It's patient-centered care.
With three outpatient palliative care physicians, Gifford Medical Center is already offering palliative care to outpatients early in their illness. To understand the discussion, however, you must understand the meaning of palliative care.
Gifford internal medicine provider Dr. Cristine Maloney of Randolph completed a year-long palliative medicine fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. In the article below from Gifford, she explains the difference between palliative medicine and hospice medicine and why more of us may benefit from palliative care than we think.
One day last fall, David Wark of West Topsham awoke barely able to breath. "I thought I was going to die. I got up and I couldn't catch my breath."
Besides emergency care for a truck accident in the mid-'90s, the 58-year-old hadn't been to a doctor in well over 20 years. But after that 2011 incident, and at the urging of his ex-wife and good friend, he called for an appointment.
A construction worker, Wark was helping with the remodel of Randolph's Cumberland Farms, so he called nearby Gifford Medical Center.
He got in right away, undergoing pulmonary function testing, X-rays and blood work and then sitting down with internal medicine physician Dr. Cristine Maloney.
"'Don't bull#@*# me. Just tell me the truth,'" Wark remembers telling the doctor.
The truth was worse than he expected. Wark, who had struggled with shortness of breath for years, suffered from tuberculosis as a child, experienced asbestos exposure and smoked since his teens, had late stage emphysema, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
He didn't know it at the time, but the diagnosis meant Wark was now a palliative care patient.
"Palliative medicine is designed for anyone who has a serious illness," says Dr. Maloney. She lists cancer, dementia, heart failure, COPD, liver disease, renal failure, stroke, cystic fibrosis, congenital malformations and extreme prematurity as examples. "It's any illness that has the potential to shorten your life."
For those patients, palliative medicine focuses on providing relief from symptoms, pain and
the stress associated with having a serious illness. It involves listening to patients so their treatment is aligned with what is important to them. It works to enhance the patient's, as well as their family's or caregiver's, quality of life through symptom management. And it includes an interdisciplinary team of caregivers helping to care for the patient's diverse needs, not just treating his or her disease.
Palliative care is often confused with hospice care.
Hospice medicine is subset of palliative medicine, but is for patients nearing the end of life. Medicare defines hospice care as for a patient who two doctors have determined has six months or less to live and who understands that care going forward will be palliative, not curative, Dr. Maloney explains. Most private insurers have similar definitions, although sometimes allow patients to pursue both symptom management and life prolonging treatments.
Palliative care is offered early and throughout an illness. It doesn't mean foregoing curative treatments. And it doesn't mean giving up your primary care provider to meet with a palliative care physician like Dr. Maloney.
Instead it is an extra layer of care, where a doctor spends time with patients to determine their wishes, help them understand their options and navigate the health care system, and answer their questions so they have better control over their disease and their care.
Long-time internal medicine physician Dr. Milt Fowler has referred patients to Dr. Maloney and Gifford's other palliative care physicians. "My referrals to Dr. Maloney are to have her join forces with me in caring for patients with serious illnesses that would be helped by a team approach," Dr. Fowler said.
"The palliative care specialty is young, but very useful. Patients who I have referred have felt our team approach has offered them more options and more availability. We have used this team approach both in office consults as well as with a number of home visits, which we often make together," he said.
Research also backs what Gifford physicians have found anecdotally to be true.
"Many, many guidelines say this is the way to go. If you get patients onboard sooner, they do better," Dr. Maloney says, citing studies from Massachusetts General Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center that found cancer patients undergoing palliative care had a better quality of life and improved mood, and, in the case of the Mass General study of metastatic lung cancer patients, slightly longer lives with less aggressive care.
This type of care also often produces less confusion and conflict with family or friends about a patient's treatment goals, says Dr. Maloney.
Over a longer appointment than the average doctor's visit or over several appointments if the patient isn't yet ready to discuss certain topics, Dr. Maloney determines a patient's wishes by asking questions – without judgment – about treatment wishes; their home and financial resources, including family support and worries or concerns about their illness; their spiritual beliefs; if they want to know more about their prognosis; and their wishes should they be unable to speak for themselves.
"No one asks people what they want. They make the assumption they want the most care possible, which may not be the best care possible," says Dr. Maloney, who often hears "I want to be home," "I don't want to travel to get treatment," "I want to play with my grandkids" or even "I want to putter in my woodshed."
Based on a patient's wishes, Dr. Maloney then provides help achieving the patient's goals to the best extent possible. That help might include referrals to a massage or music therapist, a visit with a chaplain or social worker, or help completing an Advance Directive and expressing wishes to family.
In Wark's case, Dr. Maloney prescribed breathing medications and recommended both that he quit smoking and participate in the medical center's pulmonary rehabilitation program. He's chosen not to pursue pulmonary rehabilitation yet, but has cut back on his smoking and says the medications have greatly improved his life.
"It's a lifesaver. I can walk up my hill now," says Wark, who is staying active with yard work and walking his Siberian husky dogs.
He knows "there's going to come a time eventually that I'll have to have oxygen."
He's OK with that. But he has also discussed that he doesn't want the kind of aggressive care his own mother, for example, received for cancer. "I'd rather live a shorter life, but be more comfortable than receive very aggressive medications. I don't like it. I don't want it," says Wark, who has signed a "do not resuscitate" order, which he's shared with his ex-wife and keeps on his fridge.
And he remains upbeat about this illness.
"I'm not going to sit around and feel sorry for myself," says Wark, who should have years to live. "It's not a death sentence. You just have to deal with it and let the doctor help you."
In addition to Dr. Maloney, Gifford's palliative care physicians who can help are Drs. David Pattison, an internal medicine provider and pediatrician, and Jonna Goulding, a family physician. All three palliative care physicians serve on Gifford's multidisciplinary Advanced Illness Care Team, which aims to promote and provide patient-focused palliative and hospice care both in the outpatient and inpatient settings.


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A very special and unexpected honor for a local Vietnam veteran today.
Lamar Jackson was one of many who felt that no one cared about him and his comrades who served in Vietnam.
But Friday in Augusta, he found out that some people are willing to do a lot to say thank you.
"It was a very moving ceremony," says attendee Quin Herlik, retired U.S. Army colonel. "All I can say is God bless him and the other Vietnam vets."
It's been nearly forty years since Augustan Lamar Jackson was SPC4 Lamar Jackson of the First Cavalry Division of the US Army.
Sometime during his tour of duty in Vietnam, he was separated from his dog tags.
Today, thanks to the mother of a US senator, he has that piece of his past back with him.
"I didn't expect to receive them at all," Jackson says. "It's been so long and I had forgotten about them."
Martha Roskam found the dog tags, along with those of more than 20 other soldiers, while she was shopping for old coins in a Saigon marketplace.
With the help of her son, Illinois senator Peter Roskam, she and her husband are crisscrossing the country, finding the veterans, returning the tags...and saying "thank you".
"It's a privilege for us, it really is," Mrs. Roskam says. "We just feel called to this, and this is our 20th return."
For Lamar Jackson, the ceremony meant a lot.
And he wants us all to remember those soldiers who were not as fortunate.
"It brought back some memories. I'm fortunate. I've got a loving family and good support. There're a lot of guys right now that don't have anything," Jackson says.
If the Roskams have their way, every veteran they can find will get his dog tags back, and hear again that our country is grateful.
Mr. Jackson says the ceremony was more than he was expecting. He thought he would just be handed the dog tags without any fanfare.
Mrs. Roskam and her husband are headed to Florida next, as their patriotic mission continues.


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When he started the Classic Car Wash chain 50 years ago, owner Frank Dorsa actually posted a sheet at his Lark Avenue location in Los Gatos, bragging about all the raw materials customers were getting for their $1.25.
"The more soap, more horsepower, more water, more everything you got blasted at your car," Dorsa says, recalling the reasoning that prevailed then:, "the more you got your money's worth. Ecology wasn't invented yet."
The first time he ever heard anyone use that word was during a meeting at the San Jose Art League, where he and other water profligates -- accustomed to subjecting cars to a liquid fusillade worthy of Esther Williams -- got their first taste of recycled wash water.
"We thought the guy was crazy," Dorsa says. "In 1964, we just couldn't believe there would be shortages of anything."
The current California drought is about to make believers of just about everybody, not least of all carwash operators, who are urgently trying to figure out how they can control their water use -- in ways ranging from recycling to reinventing what a carwash is. Lathering up your Hyundai has become a surprisingly entrepreneurial activity, in one instance even attracting interest from Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
As water became an increasingly precious resource, carwashes like Classic's chain of four South Bay locations began implementing rigorous recycling systems in the early 1970s.
Even those efficiencies, which have reduced the industry's water usage to a comparative drop in the water bucket -- an estimated one-tenth of 1 percent of the 350 billion gallons of fresh water used daily by Americans -- pale by comparison to the plans of a scrappy startup to use California's worst drought in 150 years as a marketing tool for its "waterless carwash ."
A number of car cleaning solvents and sprays that function as "quick detailers" -- using much less water than traditional detergents -- have come to market in recent years. And conventional tunnel carwashes have been recapturing as much as 85 percent of their runoff, making them far more efficient than their driveway counterparts, which sometimes squander up to 100 gallons of fresh water, all the while sending soap and other residues down storm drains and into the bay.
Classic, for instance, began recycling water in 1970 and while it definitely reduces usage at the chain's four locations, Dorsa doesn't know by how much or even what his monthly fresh-water bill is. Cars are rinsed in pure water, then the runoff from that is reclaimed, filtered in a large tank and reused in the wash cycle.
"We watch that all the time to make sure the reclaimed water is clean," says Dorsa.
But until a carwash with no hoses, no spray nozzles and no water opened last year on El Camino Real in Redwood City, no one had attempted to galvanize a rheumy revolution, Silicon Valley startup style. "My mission is to save a lot of water," Dinesh Gauba, co-owner of Eco Green Auto Clean, says dryly. "In the U.S., we're using 100 billion gallons of water a year just on car washing."
Google and Tesla both use Eco Green, according to co-founders Guaba and Anton Van Happen. The two companies declined to confirm that, though one of Google's former facility managers enthusiastically endorsed the waterless cleaner after setting it up as an employee perk on the tech giant's Mountain View campus.
"I would challenge any car detailing service to top what Eco Green Auto Clean can do," Leanne Martin wrote in 2012, concluding that her two personal vehicles had "never looked so showroom perfect."
Hertz recently switched to waterless washing at 220 non-airport locations in the United States, using a nontoxic, biodegradable solution. The car rental giant expects to save 130 million gallons of water this year. It plans to expand the service to 3,700 facilities in the U.S. and Europe in 2014.
When Club Sportiva, which rents exotic cars in San Jose and Menlo Park, had to give up washing its Ferraris and Lamborghinis with soap and water to comply with waste water ordinances, it switched to Optimum No Rinse Wash & Shine, one of Eco Green's competitors. "So far, so good," says the club's co-owner, Sia Bani. Despite initial concerns that a nearly waterless spray-on sounded too good to be true and might leave swirls in the paint jobs of its $300,000 McLaren supercar, Bani says the technology works perfectly.
Eco Green's spray -- and competing products such as Meguiar's Ultimate Quik Detailer and Optimum -- essentially surround dirt molecules, break them down through a process of emulsification, then lift the whole mess from the car's painted surface before it's wiped away with a microfiber towel.
If this sounds like just the sort of thing that might be supported by local water agencies -- which have already begun urging the public to take shorter showers and collect water in rain barrels -- they have made little or no effort to test them as an alternative to the conventional 40- to 50-gallon tunnel wash.
A spokeswoman for the Zone 7 Water Agency, which covers Pleasanton, Livermore and Dublin, had to have the term "waterless carwash" explained to her three times and said no one at Zone 7 had anything to say about it.
Marty Grimes, spokesman for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, wouldn't say if anyone there was familiar with the waterless wash.
"While we support innovative ideas to use water more efficiently, we have seen that the consumer feedback on these products is a mixed bag," he said in a statement. "We continue to recommend people go to commercial carwashes, which are required to recirculate their water."
Actually, as long as high-quality waterless washes are done with clean towels, the car's finish is not harmed. People who wash their own cars using a bucket and sponge are far likelier to create swirls in the paint.
The public's lack of familiarity with the idea is what prompted the Eco Green guys to open a demonstration showroom carwash a year and a half ago on El Camino Real, almost directly across the street from Silicon Valley Ferrari.
"No one's ever heard of it," says Gauba. "It's like somebody telling somebody they can have a shower with no water. It's a mind-blowing concept. Once people see it, there's a mental shift that occurs."
Van Happen had been washing cars for money since he was 10 and had tried other waterless products while working in Europe. "Some were actually scratching the car," he says. Others had so much of the wax that protects the car's surface that they took forever to dry.
He worked with a chemist to develop a formula that used plant-derived surfactants to clean and wax the car, but could be wiped away instantly.
Eco Green expects to open four new locations this year, including one in San Jose and another in Los Gatos that will compete head-to-head with Classic. Possibly because of its location, across the street from Ferrari of Silicon Valley, the dry wash in Redwood City has attracted a number of customers who work at nearby venture capital firms -- and have inquired about funding the company if it attempts to scale up its business.
If the drought continues, and particularly if water restrictions are imposed, the waterless carwash could move from novelty to the mainstream.
"We don't hope for a drought," Gauba says, "but it's not a bad thing for us."
Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004. Follow him at twitter.com/BruceNewmanTwit
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Eco Green Auto Clean carwash is located at 2801 El Camino Real, Redwood City. For information, call 650-216-6600 or go to www.ecogreenautoclean.com. For information on Classic Car Wash locations, go to www.classiccarwash.com.


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Definition of channel in English:
- The bay includes saltmarsh, shallow and open water, tidal channels, mudflats and numerous islands, and a freshwater pond.
- The ocean swell presses a thick plankton soup into the fjords and channels in the area, forming a base for an impressive array of underwater life forms.
- You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world.
- By our English law there is a public right of passage through our navigable channels, whether in a port or the approaches to it.
- The Port Authority has stated that it was looking at undertaking some dredging to widen the shipping channel so that vessels including the Irish ferry would be able to pass the jetty at a further distance.
- Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
- As is illustrated by Lake Nokomis, some drainages have been altered by the construction of dams and artificial channels.
- Meandering is a very common feature of natural river channels, but the morphology and stability of meanders varies.
- The city is crossed from east to west by the Rio Mapocho, which passes through an artificial stone channel 40m wide spanned by several bridges.
- Sometimes, it happens because the blood vessels or lymphatic channels are missing to carry fluid away from the soft tissues.
- It works in a different way than the other medications so far developed and it works on stretch channels in the heart.
- The lymphatic system comprises the spleen, thymus gland, lymph nodes, and lymphatic vessels or channels.
- The signal channel must be void of electron traps induced by flaws in the design, processing, or even the silicon itself.
- It operates as a typical effects plug-in: insert it on an audio channel and send it some signal.
- The unit's Digital Signal Processing offers two channels for optimal performance and clarity.
- This is defined by the voltage on which drain current begins to flow through the channel of the transistor at an ON state.
- The metal gate on a current transistor sits above the channel and silicon material.
- A conductive gate electrode is formed over a second dielectric layer overlying the channel region.
- Under this concept, multiple antennas simultaneously transmit different flows of data over one and the same radio channel and frequency band.
- For example, it is able to handle several radio frequency channels so it can be used by customers in different countries.
- In addition, television-station allocation is skewed toward lower frequency channels that offer superior transmission.
- There was the sense that the programme had simply stepped out of line with the channel's public service broadcasting remit.
- I linger on stuff that I wouldn't normally choose - greyhound racing, charismatic religious stations, shopping channels, and so on.
- The shopping channels actively encourage viewers to feel close to the hosts.
- Now banks can offer wider and quicker channels of distribution and communication.
- With proper distribution channels in place, the guide is now famous throughout the UK and Europe.
- You need to follow proper channels of communication.
verb (channels, channeling, channeled ; British channels, channelling, channelled)[with object]
- Some clinicians believe the money should be channelled towards improving the state of the nation's hospitals.
- He's got some serious proposals about channeling money towards anti-malaria medication, transportation infrastructure, clean water wells and the like.
- Mr Rouse is chief executive of the Housing Corporation, which channels public money into social housing schemes.
- Heavy-duty vehicles moving hazardous substances and goods are to be channelled along specific corridors.
- Although the heavy through traffic will not now be channelled along the narrow residential roads of Marina Meadows where children will be playing this summer, light local traffic will be diverted there.
- But we have short-circuited this natural process by constructing hundreds of miles of levees along the river and channeling the rushing water into the Gulf of Mexico, where essential sediment is dumped.
- I think I'll channel her spirit, let her ask me a few questions that I know she would ask if she could.
- He also goes on to infer that he is channeling the spirit of Charlie Chaplin with the use of digital production.
- The film's nadir is an interview with 'Ramtha,' a 35,000-year-old spirit channeled by a woman named JZ Knight.
- Auto plant workers in east Ohio heard Hillary Clinton seemingly channel John Edwards.
- However, a few times, I could hear Kareem channeling Roger Murdock.
- I'm not going to be channeling my husband.
- The channelled whelk is almost as big, and may be distinguished by the deep, channelled grooves which follow the whorls of the shell.
- The new version has a double-headlight arrangement and a deeply channelled bonnet which looks pretty bizarre, muscular flanks at the rear and a rather dull rear-end marred by a protruding skirt.
- Take care to swim towards the exit point from the east (keep the exit on your right) so as to avoid the heavily channelled bedrock to the west of the exit.
Middle English: from Old French chanel, from Latin canalis 'pipe, groove, channel', from canna 'reed' (see cane). Compare with canal.
cannon from Late Middle English:
This large heavy piece of artillery derives its name from French canon, from Italian cannone 'large tube', from canna 'cane, reed, tube'. Soldiers have been called cannon fodder, no more than material to be used up in war, since the late 19th century—the expression is a translation of German Kanonenfutter. Shakespeare did encapsulate a similar idea much earlier, with his phrase 'food for powder' in Henry IV Part 1. Canna or its Greek equivalent kanna is the base of a number of other words in English, as well as giving us the name of the canna lily (mid 17th century), which gets its name from the shape of its leaves. Some reflect the use of the plants for making things, some their hollow stems. Canes (Middle English) are basically the same plant. Canister (Late Middle English) was originally a basket from Latin canistrum 'basket for bread, fruit, or flowers', from Greek kanastron 'wicker basket', from kanna. Canal (Late Middle English) and channel (Middle English) both come via French from Latin canalis 'pipe, groove, channel' from canna, and share a source with the Italian pasta cannelloni (mid 19th century). The medical cannula (late 17th century) was originally a 'small reed'; a canyon (mid 19th century) is from Spanish cañón 'tube' from canna.
Words that rhyme with channelannal, flannel, impanel, multichannel, panel
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Published: Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 6:49 p.m.
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The Sixth Annual Mutt Derby was held at the Sarasota Kennel Club Sunday in Sarasota. Owners entered their pets in races for dogs of all sizes, breeds and mixes to raise money for Fast Friends Greyhound Adoption and All Faiths Food Bank.
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Brooklyn Eryn-Dawn Gregg was born at 7:49 a.m., July 1, 2013, to Phillip and Amber Gregg of Shawnee.
Brooklyn was born in Norman and weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Grandparents are Ellis and Linda Gregg of Shawnee, Randy and Maggie Sorrell of Shawnee, and Mike and Debbie Garner of Konawa.
Great-grandparents are the late Kenneth and Mary Matthews of Konawa and Irlene Matthews of Konawa.
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Ernst: Taking the parties out of Sarasota elections
Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 4:24 p.m.
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When it comes to politics in Sarasota County, a real game-changer looms: Nonpartisan elections; no "Democrat," no "Republican."
Ballot title: Non-Partisan Election of County Officers
Ballot summary: Amend the Sarasota County Charter to provide for nonpartisan election, rather than partisan primaries and a general election, of the Board of County Commissioners, Charter Review Board, clerk of circuit court, property appraiser, tax collector, supervisor of elections and sheriff, with candidates for such offices listed on the ballot without party affiliation. The term nonpartisan shall be as defined by state law without impairing constitutional freedom of speech, press and association.
Sponsor of petition drive: Public Interest Coalition, an association of civic and environmental organizations.
Political Action Committee: Open Our Elections, 4411 Bee Ridge Road, #622, Sarasota, FL 34233.
Contact: openourelections.com; email@example.com.
Existing nonpartisan offices: Judges, School Board and the governing bodies of Sarasota, North Port, Venice and Longboat Key.
This article has been modified from its original version, first published online May 14, 2013, as follows:
The address originally noted for the Open Our Elections political action committee was incorrect. The correct address is 4411 Bee Ridge Road, #622, Sarasota, FL 34233.
Just names of candidates will appear on the ballots for almost all county races if an organization called the Public Interest Coalition has its way.
The group intends to collect about 14,000 signatures for a special election in early 2014. If voters approve the change, it will amend the county charter and take effect immediately.
This is big news, because the coalition will get the signatures, and voters in Sarasota County will embrace nonpartisan elections.
No doubt about it. People are so fed up with the political parties, corruption and manipulation of the voting process that they're ready to try anything different.
Supporters predict nonpartisan races will lead to more and better candidates, and that they'll take the nastiness out of the campaigns.
Those are not sure things.
However, one sure thing is that everyone will be able to vote for a candidate in every race, and that's not happening now.
Voters thought they had solved that problem in 1998 when they passed a Florida constitutional amendment that stated, "If all candidates for an office have the same party affiliation and the winner will have no opposition in the general election, all qualified electors, regardless of party affiliation, may vote in the primary elections for that office."
It sounded straightforward enough until the Legislature inserted a loophole by defining write-in candidates as "opposition." Write-in candidates have to do nothing but file some paperwork, and voila! a primary is closed.
A good example, and reportedly the catalyst for this petition drive, occurred in the 2012 supervisor of elections race in Sarasota County. County Commissioner Jon Thaxton challenged incumbent Kathy Dent, both Republicans. The Democrats fielded no candidates, so the primary was open until Victoria Brill, with family and philosophical connections to the Republican Party, filed as a write-in.
Brill's entry precluded Democrats and independents from voting in the supervisor of elections race, essentially disenfranchising nearly 57 percent of the county's voters.
"If that had happened in a Third World country, it would have been on the prime time news, and we'd be saying 'What corruption!' " says Sue Lang, a former Venice city councilwoman who leads the reform effort.
She's right.
The political parties, Democrat or Republican, should be ashamed of themselves for exploiting this loophole, practically mocking the intention of the constitutional amendment.
Apparently, there's no shame in politics.
County GOP Chairman Joe Gruters says the Democrats should recruit candidates if they want to vote. Good point.
But what if one party doesn't, or can't, recruit candidates? Do we forgo government that represents all the people? That only encourages a narrow mindset designed to win elections rather than govern.
Nonpartisan elections will force candidates to listen and talk to everyone, even those outside their comfort zones.
Nonpartisanship might not work so well in state and national elections, where voters may need the political shorthand of Republican and Democratic labels.
At the county level, people have a greater chance to interact with candidates and officeholders, to question them directly and keep tabs on what they say and do.
This slightly oversimplifies it, but when it comes to filling potholes, it does not matter whether county commissioners are Democrats or Republicans.
Democrats and Republicans will still run for office, and their parties will tout their affiliations to avid partisans. The party labels simply will not appear on the ballot for county commissioner, sheriff, tax collector, clerk of courts, property appraiser, supervisor of election or charter review board.
But if the D's and R's want to battle it out the old-fashioned way, they'll still have a chance in races for the Hospital Board, which does not fall under county charter jurisdiction.
There, if they closed a primary, no one would even notice.
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Monadnock Ledger Transcript: LGC should give back what's owed
The LGC previously said it planned to return surpluses just to its current members, but a new executive director seems to be open to negotiations.
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It's Election Day, 2016. Circling overhead, a fleet of chartered passenger jets awaits the results of the 4 p.m. exit polls to determine which swing state most needs their cargo of committed voters. It looks like the Granite State is going to be too close to call, and if the campaign can get these few hundred volunteers to the polls by 7, they can register as New Hampshire voters.
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STOCKTON - Authorities announced Thursday that they have arrested a man in connection with a deadly shooting last month in a north Stockton neighborhood.
Detectives from the Stockton Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service located suspect Kalom McCoy, 33, in Patterson, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.
According to jail records, McCoy was arrested on suspicion of murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime. He is being held without bail at the San Joaquin County Jail and is scheduled to be arraigned today.
Investigators believe McCoy was responsible for a shooting that killed Phi Canh Vong, 38, of Elk Grove, Silva said. Vong was shot about 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16 in the 9200 block of Lariat Lane, a residential street near McNair High School, about a mile north of East Hammer Lane.
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Rousing the Dreamliner from its nightmare
By Shamus Angkrom, Raghu Gopal, Joseph Hake, Jacquelyn Hunter and Matt Williamson
All people with any interest in flight, from the casual passenger to the industry analyst, will no doubt have been exposed to the recent buzz regarding the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. In the United States all eyes have been set firmly on the production of the 787, as both regional and long-haul service providers plan to utilize the 787 in a manner that will create a great deal of competition for the A380. You would be hard-pressed to reference commercial air travel or U.S.-based defense without the inclusion of Boeing or its various subsidiaries.
Several years ago, one could scarcely mention Boeing without alluding to its former claim-to-fame, the 747 "jumbo jet." Those of us fortunate enough to have traveled overseas for business or pleasure have undoubtedly experienced the enjoyment of being a passenger on one of these airborne behemoths. Nowadays, when discussing the premiere platform for wide-body, long-haul commercial air travel, most would reference the Airbus A380 instead of the "dated" 747.


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One Queue to Rule them All
By Antony Reynolds-Oracle on Mar 28, 2014
Using a Single Queue for Multiple Message Types with SOA Suite
Problem StatementYou use a single JMS queue for sending multiple message types / service requests. You use a single JMS queue for receiving multiple message types / service requests. You have multiple SOA JMS Adapter interfaces for reading and writing these queues. In a composite it is random which interface gets a message from the JMS queue. It is not a problem having multiple adapter instances writing to a single queue, the problem is only with having multiple readers because each reader gets the first message on the queue.
The JMS Adapter is unaware of who receives the messages. Each adapter instance just takes the message from the queue and delivers it to its own configured interface, one interface per adapter instance. The SOA infrastructure is then responsible for routing that message, usually via a database table and an in memory notification message, to a component within a composite. Each message will create a new composite but the BPEL engine and Mediator engine will attempt to match callback messages to the appropriate Mediator or BPEL instance.
Note that message type, including XML document type, has nothing to do with the preceding statements.
The net result is that if you have a sequence of two receives from the same queue using different adapters then the messages will be split equally between the two adapters, meaning that half the time the wrong adapter will receive the message. This blog entry looks at how to resolve this issue.
Note that the same problem occurs whenever you have more than 1 adapter listening to the same queue, whether they are in the same composite or different composites. The solution in this blog entry is also relevant to this use case.
SolutionsIn order to correctly deliver the messages to the correct interface we need to identify the interface they should be delivered to. This can be done by using JMS properties. For example the JMSType property can be used to identify the type of the message. A message selector can be added to the JMS inbound adapter that will cause the adapter to filter out messages intended for other interfaces. For example if we need to call three services that are implemented in a single application:
- Service 1 receives messages on the single outbound queue from SOA, it send responses back on the single inbound queue.
- Similarly Service 2 and Service 3 also receive messages on the single outbound queue from SOA, they send responses back on the single inbound queue.
- aThe inbound JMS adapter is configured with a JMS message selector. The message selector might be "JMSType='Service1'" for responses from Service 1. Similarly the selector would be "JMSType='Service2'" for the adapter waiting on a response from Service 2. The message selector ensures that each adapter instance will retrieve the first message from the queue that matches its selector.
- The sending service needs to set the JMS property (JMSType in our example) that is used in the message selector.
- We can do manual correlation with a correlation set, identifying parts of the outbound message that uniquely identify our instance and matching them with parts of the inbound message to make the correlation.
- We can use a Request-Reply JMS adapter which by default expects the response to contain a JMSCorrelationID equal to the outgoing JMSMessageID. Although no configuration is required for this on the SOA client side, the service needs to copy the incoming JMSMessageID to the outgoing JMSCorrelationID.
Special Case - Request-Reply Synchronous JMS Adapter
When using a synchronous Request-Reply JMS adapter we can omit to specify the message selector because the Request-Reply JMS adapter will immediately do a listen with a message selector for the correlation ID rather than processing the incoming message asynchronously.
The synchronous request-reply will block the BPEL process thread and hold open the BPEL transaction until a response is received, so this should only be used when you expect the request to be completed in a few seconds.
The JCA Connection Factory used must point to a non-XA JMS Connection Factory and must have the isTransacted property set to "false". See the documentation for more details.
I developed a JDeveloper SOA project that demonstrates using a single queue for multiple incoming adapters. The overall process flow is shown in the picture below. The BPEL process on the left receives messages from the jms/TestQueue2 and sends messages to the jms/Test Queue1. A Mediator is used to simulate multiple services and also provide a web interface to initiate the process. The correct adapter is identified by using JMS message properties and a selector.
The flow above shows that the process is initiated from EM using a web service binding on mediator. The mediator, acting as a client, posts the request to the inbound queue with a JMSType property set to "Initiate".
|Inbound Request
|Client receives web service request and posts the request to the inbound queue with JMSType='Initiate'
|The JMS adapter with a message selector "JMSType='Initiate'" receives the message and causes a composite to be created. The composite in turn causes the BPEL process to start executing.
The BPEL process then sends a request to Service 1 on the outbound queue.
Key Points
|Service 1 receives the request and sends a response on the inbound queue with JMSType='Service1' and JMSCorrelationID= incoming JMS Message ID.
|Separate Request and Reply Adapters
|The JMS adapter with a message selector "JMSType='Service1'" receives the message and causes a composite to be created. The composite uses a correlation set to in turn deliver the message to BPEL which correlates it with the existing BPEL process.
The BPEL process then sends a request to Service 2 on the outbound queue.
Key Points
|Service 2 receives the request and sends a response on the inbound queue with JMSType='Service2' and JMSCorrelationID= incoming JMS Message ID.
|Asynchronous Request-Reply Adapter
|The JMS adapter with a message selector "JMSType='Service2'" receives the message and causes a composite to be created. The composite in turn delivers the message to the existing BPEL process using native JMS correlation.
Key Point
|The BPEL process then sends a request to Service 3 on the outbound queue using a synchronous request-reply.
Service 3 receives the request and sends a response on the inbound queue with JMSType='Service2' and JMSCorrelationID= incoming JMS Message ID.
|Synchronous Request-Reply Adapter
|The synchronous JMS adapter receives the response without a message selector and correlates it to the BPEL process using native JMS correlation and sends the overall response to the outbound queue.
Key Points
|Outbound Response
|Client receives the response on an outbound queue.
When using a single JMS queue for multiple purposes bear in mind the following:
- If multiple receives use the same queue then you need to have a message selector. The corollary to this is that the message sender must add a JMS property to the message that can be used in the message selector.
- When using a request-reply JMS adapter then there is no need for a correlation set, correlation is done in the adapter by matching the outbound JMS message ID to the inbound JMS correlation ID. The corollary to this is that the message sender must copy the JMS request message ID to the JMS response correlation ID.
- When using a synchronous request-reply JMS adapter then there is no need for the message selector because the message selection is done based on the JMS correlation ID.
- Synchronous request-reply adapter requires a non-XA connection factory to be used so that the request part of the interaction can be committed separately to the receive part of the interaction.
- Synchronous request-reply JMS adapter should only be used when the reply is expected to take just a few seconds. If the reply is expected to take longer then the asynchronous request-reply JMS adapter should be used.
Deploying the Sample
The sample is available to download here and makes use of the following JMS resources:
|Outbound queue from the BPEL process
|Inbound queue to the BPEL process
|JMS Adapter Connector Factory
|This can point to an XA or non-XA JMS Connection Factory such as weblogic.jms.XAConnectionFactory
|None-XA JMS Adapter Connector Factory
|This must point to a non-XA JMS Connection Factory such as weblogic.jms.ConnectionFactory and must have isTransacted set to "false"
To run the sample then just use the test facility in the EM console or the soa-infra application.


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Sun-powered airplane flies at record altitude!
The Helios Prototype airplane weighs less than most cars and carries no people.
Flying at low altitudes, it is quite slow. You can ride your bicycle almost as fast!
And forget loop-de-loops! It takes a minute to climb the height of a 30 story building. (Most elevators climb faster!)
But the Helios Prototype airplane can do some very useful things no other airplane can do.
On August 13, 2001, remote-control pilots on the ground used a computer to fly the Helios Prototype to an altitude of 96,863 feet. That's over 18 miles straight up! Before the Helios Prototype, the highest recorded flight of any aircraft was about 85,000 feet. This was done in 1976 by the SR-71 spy plane, the fastest jet in the world. Only rockets and rocket-powered airplanes have gone higher.
The air we breathe on Earth's surface is almost 100 times thicker than the air up where the Helios Prototype flew. Earth's atmosphere at this altitude is about as thin as the atmosphere on Mars. This altitude above Earth is so close to space that the sky is almost black, stars shine in the daytime, and the horizon looks curved.
How did Helios do it? Airplane wings must have air under them to work. What is so special about Helios' wings that they can work with so little air?
First, Helios' wings—or rather wing, since it is really just one flying wing—is 247 feet long, about a classroom width longer than a Boeing 747. But Helios is very lightweight, so this huge wing doesn't have to lift very much. How can this plane be so light? Because it is made of very lightweight materials, doesn't carry any people or fuel.


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CHARLESTON, SC — Joshua Owen Terry, of Barrington, was recently honored for outstanding academic achievement at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, during the fall semester of the 2012-13 academic year.
Terry earned one of the college's top academic honors, a Gold Star. Gold Stars are presented to students who achieve a 3.7 grade point average or higher during a semester's course work. Gold Stars are worn on the collar of the cadet full dress and dress uniforms and the summer leave uniform.
Terry is a cadet seeking a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at The Citadel.
Gold Star recipients will be recognized during a military dress parade on Jan. 25.
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BRETTON WOODS, N.H. (AP) — At least two New Hampshire ski resorts are opening for business.
Bretton Woods and Loon Mountain are opening Friday for the season.
The resorts reported good conditions for making snow.
Waterville Valley Resort is projected to open Saturday. Cannon Mountain, Cranmore Mountain, Mount Sunapee and Ragged Mountain are projected to open next week.
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きょう|わたし|はレストランに|ついて|はなしました。 今日|私|はレストランに|着いて|話しました。
Today we presented the results of our restaurant trip. I told my classmates about going around Yokohama by myself and the dialogue I had with the clerk at the restaurant. They understood and laughed. It looks like I'm not the only one who will order warm soba instead of cold soba next time!
We also had a fun debate about choosing between chatting on the Internet and playing sports, particularly during our AOTS training. My group was assigned to the sports side. It was easy to come up with arguments. Here are a few I thought up:
- き と からだ お つけなければ なりません。 - ともだち は あなた を わすれて しまったら、ほんとう に ともだち でわ ありません。 - スポーツするとき、にほんご を れんしゅう が できます。そして
I was particularly amused by a reason my groupmate came up with:
- スポーツ しなければ、おなか が おおきく なります。
(If you don't play sports, your stomach will grow.)
Incidentally, I played ping pong today. ^_^ My hand-eye coordination and control still suck, but I'll work on that.
Tomorrow, we'll go to Yokohama again and work on our field survey. I've already covered most of the spots, but look forward to helping my group find their way around. If they've figured the place out (or they get bored with the museums), we can, well, just split up and then meet again in the evening.
I was thinking of going to the shopping district just to see what curio shops they have. I doubt that I'll be able to bring my groupmates shopping, though, as they're all guys...
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SANTA CLARA -- The San Diego Chargers are expecting Levi's Stadium's new turf to be installed in time and ready for action by Sunday's 1 p.m. exhibition against the 49ers.
"They assured us the field will be fine and ready to go at the scheduled time," Chargers coach Mike McCoy told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The 49ers only public comment thus far on the turf was Wednesday night's declaration that it will be remedied in a way that Sunday's game can go on as planned.
"We take a look at every field when we go on the road," McCoy added. "The players bring a number of pairs of shoes every time we go on the road.
"So we are going to have our normal pregame routine, have everybody walking through the field to make sure they have their right cleats on. It's not different than any other game we are playing."
The 49ers began tearing up the 4-month-old Bermuda Bandera sod after Wednesday's practice, which coach Jim Harbaugh stopped after about an hour on the maligned turf. Some players slipped and several divots came up when players planted their feet, especially in pass-rushing drills.
While groundskeepers began the sod's extreme makeover Thursday, 49ers players had the day off.
Chargers kicker Nick Novak didn't sound concerned about the surface, telling the AP: "I'm sure it will be fine when we get there. We're just going to play ball. It doesn't matter what the field is like."
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Marcella Thompson, 80
Published: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 9:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 9:15 a.m.
HENDERSONVILLE — Marcella Metcalfe Thompson, 80, of Hendersonville died Wednesday, November 7, 2012, at her home.
She is survived by a son, Johnny Metcalfe; a daughter, Kim Haney, and their spouses; four grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
No services are planned at this time.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to: Susan G. Komen Foundation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, Texas 75265.
An online register book is available for family and friends by visiting www. shulerfuneralhome.com.
Shuler Funeral Home is assisting the family.
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The techo-resistant person in my life is my own spouse. See, my wife loves to work with her hands. Her favorite activities involve knitting or crocheting. She takes balls of yarn and converts them into items of beauty. So, her instinctive reaction to computers and software was "why do I need that" and "what would I have to show for my time".
However, in the last few years, I converted her into a bona-fide computer user just as I converted her to Chinese food. She is now a frequent user of free software, primarily Edubuntu 6.10 and Firefox 2.0.
So how did I activate her latent geek genes? By following this four step program:
Step #1: Make the most of an opening—The chink in my wife's armor wasn't opened with free software, but with a PDA. She had been a faithful user of a Franklin Covey organizer. One year I pointed out that given the cost of the yearly calendar update, she would pay off a PDA in about two years. Her natural frugality led to purchasing a Sony PDA and a weekend lesson on Palm OS. The "repeat" function on calendar events would be my friend all weekend. Thus, the first tentative steps into the Digital Age were taken.
Now onto widening the breach in her defenses where both free software and Microsoft would be my allies.
Step #2: Make it work—The next stage occurred when my wife wanted to research a few knitting patterns on the internet. Using IE6, led to a series of frustrations around how often IE6 shut down with no warning or failed to load a web-page. Throw in a few Blue-Screens of Death and the situation was ripe for change.
Fortunately, a friend had pointed me in the direction of Firefox. With Firefox loaded, she could pull up knitting patterns with minimal browser crashes. Soon multiple bookmarks were saved for knitting websites (and suspiciously for house plan websites too).
Step #3: Make it faster—Patience is not a virtue in ample supply around here. So Microsoft gave me the next conversion opportunity. Waiting for Windows XP's excruciatingly slow boot up times or waiting for the security software to load or waiting for the security software to check/download updates or waiting for Windows to check/download updates, or, or, or. Simply too much waiting for this household.
I had taken my own next step into free software by setting up our computer to dual-boot Edubuntu (beginning with 6.06 and upgraded to 6.10) and Windows XP. After she started using Edubuntu, my wife responded with a "Wow! This is fast!!" With faster boot times, availability to use the desktop when shown, increased speeds on loading web-pages and faster downloads on email, there is a lot to like on the speedometer.
Step #4: Make some space—This step really meant me shutting up unless asked a question. Then, answering the question without embellishment. If asked how to bold the font in OpenOffice.org, I'd show her the bold button and nothing else. At this point she didn't care how to set up the document as a brochure. Yes, I walked out of the room a few times, but patience and a quiet tongue were the best approach. I had to allow my wife the space and time to explore the new software on her own.
The end result is my wife primarily uses Edubuntu instead of Windows. She regularly checks her favorite knitting websites and blogs. Print-outs of knitting patterns and house plans seemingly appear out of no-where. She smiles and says "I'm sorry" at the few times I use Windows XP. Sometimes, I even have to wait before using the computer (oh, what webs we weave).
So, you may ask, what areas has my wife converted me? Let's just say that long list is outside the scope of this article. My question to you is, who do you plan to convert to free software? Pick someone and try. They may be more open to change than you think.
How I converted my sister to Linux
This was a few years ago now. My sister is a sucker for a good game of solitaire, so I left the excellent KDE Solitaire open on my laptop one day where she would see it. Like a moth to a flame.... "This is heaps cooler than Windows Solitaire, can I have it???". Linux installed the next day, and she was regularly rebooting just to play. That was the hook. The line was Digikam for her photos which had her staying in Linux for longer. The sinker was getting all her web-mail accounts downloading into KMail, she's in for life now :-)
I like PySol
I like PySol, which includes a number of "hanafuda" games, which are a nice twist when you get bored with the standard Western card deck!
Pagoda is nice and easy, albeit slightly mind-numbing. I think it's virtually impossible to get an insoluable game (I personally find "no win" games very frustrating).
On the other hand, Onsou is much more challenging. So far as I can tell, it has fewer soluable hands than Klondike, but that could just be my skill level with it. Four Winds is similar.
How I got my whole family...
We've always been a multi-computer household, and I prefer to pick up used hardware and make new boxes from it rather than buy a new machine. My steps were about like those given in the article. The holdout of the household was my wife as well, while the kids breezed onto Linux and loved it.
I made the only machine in the house that was still running Windows into a dual-booter, showed everybody how to switch between Windows and Red Hat, then gently stood back. This allowed my wife to gradually get familiar with Linux at her own pace, and she now swears by her Firefox in Mandriva running not in Gnome or KDE - but Window Maker!
When I checked the uptime on Linux, and found out it had been running continuously for six months, I asked around one last time and got indifferent shrugs when I asked if we were ready to say goodbye to Windows. We were, and my life has since had 14% more free time, now that I don't have to sit down once a week and scrape malware and viruses out of a computer to get it running again.
By all means, get the youngest people in the household onto Linux first. They will convert the older ones for you!
How i converted my wife to Gnu/Linux:)
Well after repeated attempts of duel booting xp and slackware my wife was just not getting the point so i figured that the only way to get her to convert was to remove a pc from the equation so one night while i was "upgrading her pc" i left the case open i told her that i had to leave the case open because of possible heat issues with the new hardware and she bought it well to make a long stories short she woke up the next morning to a long haired tuxedo cat sleeping in the case and a dead computer :) she was mad but being an animal lover would never blame the poor kitty she asked me to install xp on my pc and i laughed and told her that would never happen and that she would just have to get use to the idea of learning to use Gnu/Linux.
4 years later
She now loves Gnu/Linux hates windows which she has to use at work every day.
see here for tuxedo cat.
Great Story.
I was expecting a huge article detailing the whole process. The story got straight to the point; this was quite refreshing.
To lie won't help linux
How can you pretend that linux boot is faster than Windows ? The whole process of starting my computer to a fully working operating system takes less than 25s with my Windows XP, the fastest linux I have tried (dual boot on the same computer) takes at least one minute !
Now linux has other advantages, but don't lie about its drawbacks, you'll only get disappointed people...
Boot speed is one area XP definitely wins hands down. Assuming you don't have buttloads of software launching at startup, but even that can be fixed with the freeware Autoruns: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Autoruns.mspx
I think you'll find...
most Windows users wouldn't have a clue how to prevent all of those applications that on install default themselves onto launching at startup. Linux is the other way round. You have to force a lot of apps to launch at start up (if you want them to).
Yeah, but...
The catch is, we don't really remember how long it takes to reboot Linux, because we hardly ever have to do it!
It could take 10 minutes, for all I care. :-)
IT Evangelism
article was okay: easy to read, not too long, witty, understood what the point was, gentle encouragement, maybe (maybe) inspirational.
The article certainly WASN'T a RANT or UNOBJECTIVE, DIATRIBE, or telling everyone how EVIL MS is.
Just a simple story of how the author influenced his wife to try something new, and how she prefered the new!...
So why are there so many Windows JUNKIES screeming about this?!? They complain about "Linux Geeks" being obsesive, but they appear to be equally so.
I agree that Linux enthusiasts can loose their cool sometimes, but this wasn't one of those times, and it has exposed that windows enthusiasts can be equally zealous!
I also would say before going further that all OSes are made by human beings, andso are not perfect and will crash, and will do funny things, and be difficult to use in one way or another. This includes Windows, Linux, MacOS, BeOs, NextStep, and whatever else. What you prefere out of these imperfect OS's depends on your experiences, values and ideals.
The interesting point that this raises in my mind is:
I can understand why people become Linux Evangelists for the simplest of reasons- competition is good,(monopolies are ALWAYS bad for Citizens), therefore increasing awareness of "fringe" products to reduce a monopoly and increase awareness of an alternative.
There are other Ideological arguments: Open source = freedom = choice & can be as robust and functional as proprietary software, blah blah blah.. (sorry, just meant I don't want to use this to stand on my "soap box", just I understand the arguments)
What I can't understand is what MS People get so hot about? Why do they care so much about what a fringe of IT Enthusiasts want to put on their (and their family's) boxes? Why are they SOOoo offended by someone sujesting you have a choice, and there are good reasons for exercising that choice in an informed way? Do they have any conceptual or Ideological arguments to disparage Linux, and the call towards Linux? The only points that I hear is that Windows is "better" and Linux is S**T and Linux users are A**H***S. Do they even realise they are also being Evangelists? These peeps just come across agressive and closed to any choices or differences and think everyone should be like them, and like what they like, and think how they think...
please remember that competition from Linux can also be good for passionate windows users! MS will have to respond to Linux as a serious competitor and up their game, provide better service or offer more "value for money". Why would anyone resist a possible change like that?
sorry for going on (and on)
Look forward to reading your thoughts. (no flames please, I'm British) ;)
This post was really meant for the digg site, where alot of peeps appear to be getting HOT about this article, but maybe they'll read it here anyway.
I've been thinking the same thing lately
"What I can't understand is what MS People get so hot about?"
What I can't understand is why there are "MS people" at all.
Windows is just an OS. Linux is not. Linux is the flagship of the free software movement. Linux, in representing free software, means so much: "freedom", "openness", "community", "honesty", "trust", "non-zero-sum gameness".
If you try to find other meanings in Windows you find the opposites.
It's easy to understand how people can be so enthusiastic about Linux and free software. But, on the flip-side, why do people get so enthusiastic about using an OS that everyone else uses. When I used to use Windows and other proprietary products, I never saw any reason to be enthusiastic about it. What makes people become MS zealots? I just don't get it.
Resistance to change
Nobody likes having their assumptions challenged. Windows users like to assume that Windows is "the standard" and the O/S for "end users" and "novices".
When you promote GNU/Linux as a viable alternative, you are threatening those people's preconceived notions, and they are reacting against that. Nobody likes to find themselves in the wrong, and many people will fight tooth and nail against that kind of attitude adjustment.
In fact, in many cases, the people who will be the most outspoken are the ones who, deep down, know you're right. That's why it bothers them so much. They're basically externalizing an internal conflict.
Mind you, some people just post to be contrary to anything, and some people probably are projecting retaliation against a specific person onto you.
But most people are just being conservative.
That's the reply I was looking for
After I wrote that comment, I started thinking and came to pretty much the same conclusions that you have offered.
However, they weren't anywhere near as well formed as yours. And I hadn't yet reached the point where I could express them without using terms that Windows users wouldn't like.
Thanks for that Terry.
Functionality in computer software
The key to resistance against technology especially in reference to computer use is functionality.
What does this item or software do to help me in a big way in an easy to use manner that is not threatening is key.
Look at the current Microsoft Vista product as the exact opposite.
The only thing that users and testers of Vista can point to as a use of the product is the "cool colors " .
MS fans
'It's easy to understand how people can be so enthusiastic about Linux and free software. But, on the flip-side, why do people get so enthusiastic about using an OS that everyone else uses. When I used to use Windows and other proprietary products, I never saw any reason to be enthusiastic about it. What makes people become MS zealots? I just don't get it.'
The reason you don't get it is because there aren't any. There aren't any people that we would describe as Windows 'fans'. Sure, there are people that use Windows (quite a lot of them actually). There are even people who have compared Windows to the alternatives (not so many of them!) and decided that it is still the most appropriate OS for their needs. But I cannot think of one single person (who isn't a Microsoft employee being paid to spout soundbites) who actually likes Windows (as opposed to 'I use it because I need Device A or Program B', which is my situation)
Go look at digg
There are a ton of people on digg who HATE free software. They act as though Windows should be the only OS ever.
RE: IT Evangelism
Ben Davis wrote: "What I can't understand is what MS People get so hot about?"
Here are a few reasons:
1.) Richard Stallman and his free software movement wasn't diplomatic from the start. They seem to think all software should follow their definition of software freedom. Note, they do not argue in terms of "competition == good, monopolies == bad". Otherwise their conclusions and their methods would be different. They argue that free software is good, and proprietary software is evil. It's not a funny thing to find yourself in the (moral) company of killers and drug dealers, you know? What's worse, they seem to have no valid arguments for their position.
2.) Users are usually not trained to sell stuff diplomatically. When they started preaching to other people, they sometimes did so in a rude manner. They called Windows users clueless, for example. The attitude spread by Richard Stallman wasn't helpful either. Some Linux users were calling Windows users "unethical" and how could they know about the differences between a Linux user and a free software activist? They just attributed impolite behavior to Linux users, and responded in a similar way. As a result, there's a history of not being nice to each other.
3.) The sales force of a usual company is bad enough, but when your friends and family starts selling stuff, this is sometimes even worse. Did you ever get a call from somebody you know who tried to sell you insurances or other stuff at home? Then you get the idea why most people don't like a certain sort of selling.
However, you may like to check your own view, too: Out of 80 comments on Digg.com right now, only 2 comments from Microsoft users had a negative number of diggs. At least two other comments from Microsoft users were voted up. Given how much Microsoft users are out there, maybe your impression about them getting hot is not quite accurate?
Note also: The very first comment on the story was a user accusing 90% of Digg users to have no open mind -- is that OK?
You haven't read that right.
"Note also: The very first comment on the story was a user accusing 90% of Digg users to have no open mind -- is that OK?"
Read that comment again:
"Conversion doesn't work if they don't have an open mind, which 90% of the Digg users reading this will be up against."
cr125er was saying quite clearly that 90% of digg users will be up against closed-minded people when they try to convert their loved ones.
But just like most people on digg you haven't bothered to read what you are then about to complain about. Digg is full of nasty childish "haters". Haters are people who seem to live to tear people down in any way they can.
BTW, I agree with points 2 and 3 from your comment. However, free software's strongest form of marketing is word of mouth so those are always going to be problems.
On point 1: the free software movement may have been started by RMS but that doesn't make it his. He may be very wise but he is not very charismatic. We need a new leader for free software. I think Mark Shuttleworth may be the one to do it. He's young, pleasant looking, and is far more charismatic.
Correct. Sorry.
Missed that one. So the guy was "just" accusing 90% of the friends, wifes, and relatives of Digg users -- that is: their loved ones -- to have no open mind? Is that right? And you think this is somehow better than my earlier misinterpretation? This is interesting.
Additionally, you try to impress me by accusing "most people on digg" to not trying to read comments correctly. Of course, when Digg is "full of nasty childish haters", it's an evil place. I understand that everybody not sharing your opinion just wants to "tear people down in any way they can". It's absolutely impossible that this was just a misunderstanding due to a non-native speaker or the late hours, isn't it?
I see.
interesting you mention Sony/Palm
I own a sony clie. Well, Sony gave up on the clie and then Palm pretty much gave up on its OS. And i realized that if I had a free open OS for my clie, I would still be able to keep up with it. Now I'm locked in to memory stick and old apps.
That's why I tend to support free open software. I'm not ready to go all the way like dump Windows for linux. But I go where I can, like Firefox. The most important thing is not to let your software lock you in so that it's hard to switch to something better down the line.
Linux should be a victory in the smartphone area
I'm surprised IE crashed so much
Something must have been wrong with their Windows install, because IE doesn't crash that much. It can, for sure, but it's rare that IE would repeatedly crash when just opening normal web pages.
Other than that, this was a great article. As a long time user of both Linux and Windows, I enjoy perspectives that show Linux as a viable alternative without the "MS is the devil" type rants.
How I converted my friend to Blender
I became friends with Eric in the Fall of 2000, when I started college. We hit it off pretty quickly once we found out we were both into 3D graphics design. I first told to him about POV-Ray (www.povray.org) back then, but the lack of interface kept him on his pirated version of Maya. Sometime over the years, I had told him about Blender but he didn't budge.
Fast forward to last Friday. I finally remembered to check out the latest release changes to Blender that occurred back in June or July and sent him an email about them, remarking, "pretty damn good for free, don't you think?" Eric's reply consisted of a lot of "Wow"s and a "Can I run Blender in WinXP? I think you've finally sold me. Is it still free?" Hopefully he really does try it, but for now I'm still cheesin.


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LOS ANGELES -- No one is more excited than Cal that a new college football season is at hand.
"I can't stress how happy we are to have last year in the past and to be where we are now," sophomore quarterback Jared Goff said Wednesday at Pac-12 media day. "We can see the growth -- mentally, physically. It's a different team. It's not even remotely the same team as last year."
Coming off a 1-11 season, the Bears open Aug. 30 at Northwestern. Coach Sonny Dykes said fans will have no trouble seeing the difference in his squad.
"We were so bad last year, I think the improvement's going to be pretty obvious," Dykes said. "We weren't very competitive last year in a lot of games. That's going to be the biggest difference, competing in games, giving ourselves an opportunity to win.
"What happened so often last year is midway through the first quarter you'd look up and we were down by 21 points. I think it's going to be obvious to everybody -- our fans, our opponents -- that we're going to be a much-improved football team."
The Bears were winless against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents and their defense allowed nearly 46 points per game.
Goff, who passed for a school-record 3,508 yards as a true freshman, said the 2013 fiasco was an offseason motivator, but that players are no longer dwelling on the past.
"It's behind us. We're no longer thinking about last season," he said. "We're excited to move forward, make a new brand for ourselves."
For more on Cal sports, see the Bear Talk blog at ibabuzz.com/beartalk. Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at twitter.com/JeffFaraudo.
Stanford takes the podium in Day 2 of Pac-12 media day


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From staff reports
JACKSON - The Warren Warriors demolished Southeastern Ohio Athletic League foe Jackson 85-23 Friday night.
Warren improved to 10-1 overall and 5-0 in the SEOAL, while Jackson remains winless at 0-12.
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JAY W. BENNETT Special to The Times
Williamstown's Dakota Watson (20) guards Parkersburg Catholic's Payton Sturm, right, in a boys basketball game Friday night.
Warren held the Ironmen to under double digit scoring in every quarter of the game, including a single point in the third quarter.
The game was never close, as the Blaine Maddox-coached Warriors were up 24-8 after one quarter and 49 to 13 at halftime.
Adam Lang and Michael Hall each notched 16 points to lead Warren, while Evan French (13), Matt Drayer (11) and Reece Patton all hit double digits as well.
Casey Walker was Jackson's top scorer with six points on the night.
Warren is scheduled to be back in action Tuesday at Marietta at 7:30 p.m..
Parkersburg Catholic 48, Williamstown 33
WILLIAMSTOWN - The beat went on for sixth-ranked Class A Parkersburg Catholic here Friday night as the Crusaders got a game-high 21 points from Jake Ullman and extended their winning streak to eight games by dispatching host Williamstown, 48-33, in a battle of Little Kanawha Conference North Division rivals.
The Yellowjackets led by as many as five points in the second quarter, but head coach Scott Sauro's club, now losers of seven straight, scored their final field goal with 22 seconds left in the third period and didn't have enough against the PCHS defense.
Jarric Hoskins led WHS (3-7, 2-3) with 13 points while teammate Hunter Neely tallied 10.
Belpre 75, Easterm 43
BELPRE - Host Belpre got rolling offensively in the second half while clamping down defensively on Eastern as the Golden Eagles squared
their record at 6-6 with a 75-43 triumph over a TVC Hocking Division rival Friday night.
Belpre turned a three-point halftime lead, 32-29, into a 32-point blowout with a strong second-half performance, tallying 43 points while limiting the visiting Eagles (3-9) to just a pair of seven-point periods.
Nick Therriault led the Golden Eagle offensive assault with a game-high 19 points as well as 18 rebounds. Austin Forshey followed with 17 points, including 12 on four treys, while Dakota Hoffman netted 16 and Ryan Leasure, in a return from a knee injury suffered exactly a month ago in the third game of the season, finished with 10. Brennen Ferrell added eight for Belpre, now 5-2 in the TVC Hocking, which plays next at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Federal Hocking.
Kirk Pullins' 14 points paced Eastern, while Max Carnahan collected 10 and Troy Gantt scored seven.
Buckeye Trail 82, Monroe Central 73
LORE?CITY - Monroe Central suffered its first PVC loss of the season Friday night as the Seminoles were defeated 82-73 by Buckeye Trail.
The loss put Monroe Central at 8-2 overall and 5-1 in the PVC while Buckeye Trail improved to 6-3 overall and 4-2 in the PVC.
"We didn't control them defensively and when they got through us, they made some shots," offered Monroe Central coach Lou "Scooter" Tolzda. "We had some young kids in there and we got a little bit tired. We usually play 8-10 kids and we weren't able to do that successfully tonight."
Monroe Central shot well, going 28-for-63 (44 percent) from the floor, but Trail did not miss, hitting 32-of-53 (60 percent) of its shots.
"They looked real comfortable shooting on their floor and their big kid (Toland) hurt us at times," Tolzda said.
Zach Roe had a game-high 21 points while Josh Toland played well with 20 markers.
Levi Brown's 22 points led the Seminoles while Josh Guiler (15) and Kordell Antill (11) also hit double digits.
Tolzda believes these teams will be seeing plenty of each other before the season is over.
Shenandoah 76, Frontier 34
SARAHSVILLE - Shenandoah was all over Frontier Friday night as the Zeps defeated the Cougars 76-34 in Sarahsville. The Zeps made an early statement by outscoring Frontier 27-7 in the first quarter. Shenandoah led 45-14 at halftime.
Eli Hurst led everyone in scoring with 27 points. Brandon Farnsworth and Levi Reed each hit double digits with 14 and 11, respectively.
Jordan Jefferson paced the Cougars with eight makers of his own.
Frontier (2-9) shot just 13-of-51 (25 percent) from the floor compared to 30-for-61 (49 percent) for Shenandoah.
With the win, the Zeps improved to 6-5 overall and 3-2 in the PVC.


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Now in her second term as a state representative, Millie Hamner misses Eagle County.
"Losing Eagle County in the House District change was a big disappointment for me," she said during a recent interview from her statehouse office.
Eagle County is where Hamner started her teaching career, which ultimately led to her political career when she was appointed to HD56 in 2010. At that time, HD56 included Eagle County. Then all the districts changed at the end of 2011. Eagle County is now in HD26 and Hamner represents HD61, which encompasses Summit - where she lives - and Lake, Pitkin, Gunnison and Delta counties.
"I found out about the house district change in November 2011 and I had a very short window of time to get familiar with my new constituents before the January legislative session," she said.
Apparently she became familiar enough with the new district, as she beat four competitors in last November's election. It could be said that it was her initial success in Eagle County that got her there in the first place - her time as a local teacher, her leadership at the school district administration or maybe even her time with the band Soft Touch.
When Hamner came to Vail in 1978, she never imagined herself as a politician. She didn't even have a job.
"We came out from Ohio to stay with my (then) husband's brother, who lived in Vail," she said. "I ended up getting a job at Red Cliff Elementary and then at Red Sandstone Elementary."
That was between 1978 and 1990.
"I saw education was more than a job to me, so I started working on my masters and Ph.D.," she said.
She taught a computer class at Minturn Middle and eventually moved to Eagle in 1998 when she became the school district's director of curriculum. She worked at the district office until 2000.
"There were so many wonderful mentors in the school district," she said, listing several people. "They believed in me and were very encouraging and motivating."
She wanted to find a new job in Eagle County but was disappointed.
"That was a real turning point," she said. "I applied for a job in Vail and didn't get it."
So she took a job offer as assistant superintendent in Summit County.
"It was hard to leave a good job and friends in Eagle County," Hamner said.
In 2004, she became superintendent of Summit County schools, which led to her next big change.
"In December 2010, I announced I was going to retire," she said. "At that time there was a vacancy in HD56 and people approached me to fill it."
The vacancy opened when Democrat Christine Scanlan was tapped for a job in Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration.
Hamner was surprised to get the job.
"I was selected for an interview and I hoped they would pick someone else," she said. "I wasn't sure I could do it. A day in the life of the legislature was unknown to me. I learned quickly, though - how to be effective - and started loving it."
It was during Hamner's time in Eagle County that she developed a stage presence, which is a good quality for any politician.
"I got a part in the Vail Community Theater production of 'Pippin,'" she said. "That was around 1984. I tried out just for fun and ended up getting a lead role. It helped me get comfortable singing and dancing in front of people."
That came in handy when Hamner's second husband got her involved with his band - Soft Touch.
"He is a wonderful musician," she said. "Soft Touch was really him, on guitar, and our saxophone player. We would bring in others to fill out the rest of the band."
After some prodding, Hamner related her role in the band. "I sang and I picked up the keyboard to round out the sound - I was never very good."
They were good enough to play a variety of gigs over the years, however, and she and her husband still perform occasionally.
"Apparently we are a popular silent-auction item," she said. "For some reason, people bid on it. Last time, we were part of a package offered at a Democratic fund-raiser in Boulder."
"I don't know what I'll be doing at any moment when I'm working in the Capitol," Hamner said. "I learned to be adaptable and informed. There's so many moving parts and pieces moving at the same time."
Between June 1 and January, Hamner recorded more than 20,000 miles on a new car.
"The best part about this job is feeling that I can have an impact on so many but it's also overwhelming at times," she said. "The hardest part of the job is juggling so many impacts on my time. It's hard to think sometimes. I try to stay positive and present myself well."
She plans to serve in her current office as long as she can.
"If I continue to thrive and my constituents approve of the job I'm doing, I'll try to serve the full eight-year term limit," she said. "Afterward, I have no idea. I know my husband would like me to retire but I don't know if it's in the cards."
Hamner's top issue has naturally been education. She chairs the state's education committee and is also involved with transportation issues surrounding the Interstate 70 corridor and biomass energy.
"I am working closely to incentivize the use of biomass energy," she said. "We have the fuel supply. The main issue seems to be getting the material to the plant."
In January, she met with members of Eagle Valley Clean Energy LLC, the company that is building an 11.5-megawatt biomass plant in Gypsum.
"I'm surprised more hasn't been done to address the pine beetle problem," she said.
The Gypsum biomass plant has been touted for the fact that it will be using wood killed by pine beetles, among other wood material. Some Gypsum residents have said that the plant will cause health issues and pollution. Hamner said she hasn't heard much opposition against biomass energy.
"There hasn't been any resistance, really," she said.
Regarding education, she said Colorado has a long way to go.
"Colorado is one of the leaders in education reform and I would say it will continue to be," she said. "The schools would like a chance to catch up and slow down with the unfunded mandates, but there is still work to be done."
When asked if there was one thing the legislature could do immediately to help schools, besides increasing the budget, she didn't have an alternative.
"We have lots of ideas but we need money to implement them," she said. "Schools need more resources to keep class sizes small and give extra help to kids who need it."
As far as guns in school, such as allowing teachers to carry weapons and increasing armed security?
"I have a hard time believing it's the right thing to do," she said. "I get the Second Amendment, but if we're committed to safety, reducing violence and the message we send to children, that's not the way to go, in my opinion."