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Tonight's the big night—you don't have to be a Washington fat cat or DC insider to get some face time with the Commander in Chief. Barack Obama is hosting a "cool" Google+ hangout, and we're covering it live.
Will he talk about the issues? Will he talk about the election? Will he lay out America's plan to colonize the moon, treaties be damned? Will a penis be flashed? I can't wait to answer these questions—the hanging out begins at 5:30 EST. USA! USA! USA! [THE WHITE HOUSE]
Update: I'm trying to hang out with Barack Obama and so far I only see Gizmodo's Mat Honan.
Update 2: A pressing question on everyone's mind: will this revitalize Google+? No.
Update 3: Am I doing this right?
Update 4: THE HANGING OUT HAS BEGUN. I HEAR BARACK OBAMA ON THE INTERNET.
Update 5: I don't see any "hanging out" so far. How do I videochat with the president?
Update 6: OK, we're basically watching other people "hang out" with Obama.
Update 7: It's pretty neat to be seeing the president live on the internet, even if this whole "hangout" is kind of a fraud.
Update 8: Guest named Ramone: loves "technology" and "putting on puppet shows for poor children." Truly a melting pot.
Update 9: Obama's streaming video quality is unbelievably good. This looks rigged. I grew up in DC, and no net connection is that fast.
Update 10: "Hangout" member "Jennifer" does not have a very good webcam.
Update 11: Jennifer just interrupted the president! Is that against "hangout" protocol? The voice recognition camera shifting worked flawlessly!
Update 12: This guy should have cleaned up his bedroom before the presidential "hangout"
Update 13: Not sure what's going on with this rainy lady here.
Update 14: Good to see El Presidente taking this seriously, despite the fact that it's a little silly and I doubt many people are watching. Thoughtful answers though. He offered to get Jennifer's husband a job!
Update 15: "Christine" has her computer in a strange place. Right by the front door?
Update 16: I don't believe that we're seeing an actual streaming video feed from Obama. There, I said it.
Update 17: The people in the "hangout" are raising their hands. Democracy.
Update 18: Bearded Brooklynite asks Obama why he uses drones so much.
Update 19: This fraudulent hangout is mostly a Google advertisement.
Update 20: This guy has concerns about SOPA/PIPA and is astoundingly creepy.


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DANBURY -- A Newtown man, whose wife found photos and videos on his computer showing young girls getting out of a shower at the family's cottage in Massachusetts, was arrested after police discovered it also contained "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of images of children as young as 3 years old being sexually abused, authorities said.
David Anderson, 44, of Lafayette Trail, pleaded not guilty in state Superior Court Thursday to possession of child pornography.
Police said the wife had picked up the computer at a repair shop, where her sister worked, earlier this month and opened some of the files because she feared they might contain his plans to harm her, according to court documents.
The couple had been experiencing what police said were serious marital difficulties, and the wife had previously told them that Anderson made statements indicating he intended to harm her and himself. She also found a folder on his desk that contained numerous still photos of women who had been disfigured, police said.
Police said the wife told them Anderson dropped off the computer where her sister worked, asked her to hold it and said he would be back for it shortly. When he failed to return, the sister contacted the wife and she picked it up, police said.
After opening a computer file titled, "Friends and family," the wife found numerous images of young girls either naked or partially clothed that appeared to have been taken surreptitiously in the bathroom of the couple's cottage in Salisbury, Mass., according to the arrest warrant affidavit.
The wife identified four of the girls, who were 11 and 12 years old. She was unable to identify some of the other girls, police said.
Anderson is due back in court Nov. 29.

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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Winning the Peace
Israel has been engaged in a long drawn out struggle for the moral high ground. The moral high ground is to the modern Israel what the land of Israel was to their pioneer ancestors who drained swamps, built roads and shot bandits; some of whom were later discovered to be the oppressed peoples of the region, fresh from Syria or Jordan, and protesting the settlements built on that stretch of swamp that had been set aside in their revisionist history as belonging to their great-grandparents, complete with oversized house keys to some of the choicer logs in the swamp.
Sadly the only way to win the moral high ground is by losing. Just look at the massive Arab armies who repeatedly invaded Israel, did their best to overwhelm it with the best Soviet iron that the frozen factories of the Ural could turn out, and lost the bid to drive the Jews into the sea, but won the moral high ground. Then their terrorist catspaws spent decades winning the moral high ground by hijacking airplanes full of civilians, murdering Olympic athletes and pushing old men in wheelchairs from the decks of cruise ships.
All these killing sprees accomplished absolutely nothing useful, aside from the killing of Jews, which to a certain sort of mind is a useful thing in and of itself, but that failure won the terrorist catspaws the moral high ground. Their failure to win a war by hijacking buses full of women and taking the children of a school hostage conclusively established their moral superiority and nobility of spirit.
The world was deeply moved when Arafat waddled up to the UN podium, with his gun, wearing a mismatched cotton rag on his head that would decades hence become the modish apparel of every third hipster standing in line with a can of 20 dollar fair trade Lima beans at Whole Foods, because his commitment to killing people in a failed cause that even he didn't believe in exchange for money from his backers in the Muslim world showed his deep commitment to the moral high ground.
In the seventies, after Israel had ton a few too many wars, Henry "Woodcutter" Kissinger, suggested that it lose a war to gain the sympathy of the world. Golda wasn't too enthusiastic about the idea, but with the old woodcutter in charge of handing out the axes, there wasn't much choice about it. Israel came close to being destroyed in '73, but just when it might have won the sympathy of the world, its armies of young men dashing from synagogues into overcrowded taxis to get to the front lines, turned the tide. Israel won. The woodcutter of Washington lost and Israeli scrapyards filled up with piles of Soviet steel, which was good news for the big sweaty guys who ran them, but bad news for those pining for the lofty fjords of the moral high ground.
In '91 the Israelis went nuclear and decided to beat Arafat at his own game. Rabin and Peres talked the old terrorist out of retirement and down to Washington D.C. where they surrendered to him in an official ceremony at the Rose Garden overseen by a beaming Bill Clinton. Finally Israel had won the moral high ground. And the United States had carved off a chunk of that delicious moral high ground, even though Clinton was forced to fidget in his chair at Oslo when his Nobel Peace Prize went to the greasy terrorist, though perhaps he should have considered that defeat to be another victory of the moral high ground.
Peace was the last best hope of the new Israeli Hatikvah, not to be a free people in their own land, but to be a moral people in a land that didn't really belong to anyone in particular, but that they were optimistic everyone could live in harmony in. But peace with terrorists meant not fighting back and there was a limit to what the 70 percent of the country that didn't go to sleep fantasizing about peace would accept in the name of peace.
And so, terrorists killed Israelis, Israelis killed terrorists, that part of the world located in an ugly modernist building overlooking Turtle Bay, which the turtles would like to have back, condemned Israel and demanded that it resolve things peacefully by surrendering more land to the terrorists in order to build up their confidence in Israel's commitment to a peaceful solution.
The terrorists were not expected to reciprocate and build up Israel's confidence in their commitment to a peaceful solution because they already had the moral high ground by way of losing the last thirty engagements with the IDF, including the battle of the school they set up snipers in, the church they took over and the hospital that they used as an ammo dump.
The great quandary for Israeli leaders is how to win a war without losing the moral high ground. This is a tricky matter because it requires winning the war and winning the peace. And you can't do both at the same time.
Israel's solution has been to fight limited wars while remaining absolutely committed to peace. No sooner does a war begin, then it is pressed to accept a ceasefire. To show its commitment to peace, Israel is expected to accept the ceasefire. At which point Hamas will begin shooting rockets again and the whole dance will begin all over again. But Israel has trouble refusing a ceasefire because its leaders still believe that they can get at the moral high ground by showing that they are more committed to peace than the other side.
The peace is however unwinnable. It's not even survivable in the long term. Peace either exists as a given condition or it is maintained by strong armies and ready deterrence. Peace cannot be found on the moral high ground, only the mountains of the graves of the dead.
Refining its warfighting with the object of fighting a truly moral war leads to refined techniques that kill terrorists but still cause some collateral damage, and to soldiers that are more afraid of shooting than of being shot at. And all this painstaking effort goes for naught since it really makes very little difference to Israel's enemies whether they have one photo of a dead Muslim civilian to brandish or a thousand. Either one makes for the same manner of indictment. In aiming to win the peace, Israel instead, like all modern states, loses the war.
The father of an Israeli soldier told his son after he was called up for duty that he would rather visit him in prison than visit him in the cemetery. "If you are fired on, fire back." That is good advice not just for that young man, but for his entire country, and for the civilized world. It is better to fire than be fired upon. It is better to be thought a criminal, than mourned in Holocaust museums. It is better to leave the moral high ground to those who worship the romance of endless bloodshed and defeat. It is better to lose the peace and win the war.
19 comments:
- Anonymous said...
And according to the law of the bully, should Israel win the next war, won't the bully nations then recruit even more buddy nations in 'righteous indignation' to put an end to 'this miserable trickster Israel' once and for all?
It seems they long for the peace of Tacitus: "They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."
Bill K.
- 11/8/13
- Anonymous said...
And it came to pass when the ark set forward, Moshe would say "Arise O Lord, and may your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee from before you!!" Numbers 10:35
Great piece as usual Daniel.
- 11/8/13
- mindRider said...
Being the creator of the greatest moral system for man to live by and it simultaneously seriously endangering ones own survival by living up to it is a paradox.
- 11/8/13
- Daniel Greenfield said...
if a moral system is unlivable can it really be considered great?
- 11/8/13
- Confronting antisemitism and Israel hatred said...
You said:
"The father of an Israeli soldier told his son after he was called up for duty that he would rather visit him in prison than visit him in the cemetery. "If you are fired on, fire back." That is good advice not just for that young man, but for his entire country"
The problem is that, even since the last Gaza 'war', the Israeli army has changed its rules of engagement to ensure next time round there will be many unnecessary cemetary visits. This, of course, extends to not being able to defend themselves against rock-throwers in the West Bank. In an interesting spin on your quote an Israeli 'commander' in the West Bank recently said that he would much rather see his soldiers in a hospital than in a court.
- 11/8/13
- Anonymous said...
You sad, "Wars cannot be fought without hurting someone ..."
Israel is going to have kill a lot of people, not hurt them, if they want relief from their implacable enemy.
They cannot do so under the present geopolitical circumstances, but must be prepared to do so when conditions give them let.
- 11/8/13
- Common "tater said...
Daniel, this would be funny if it was not true. You cannot make this stuff up. Perhaps you could be a stand up (or sit down a la "Tonight") comedian by simply trying to explain this gross stupidity by our moronic leadership (US and Israeli). However, that would work only if your audience had enough brains to see how illogical and counterproductive our approach to these terrorist states really is. But then, I feel I must defend our political leadership, for they are obviously the best politicians that (OPEC) money can buy.
- 11/8/13
- Elisheva Hannah Levin said...
In all of history, has there ever been a time before when a country was expected to win the moral high ground but lose the war? It seems only Israel is expected to commit suicide as a grisly sacrifice on the altar of of the moral high ground for others. And yet those others--including the US--will soon be visiting their sons and daughters in cemeteries. What a strange, twisted morality is this.
- 11/8/13
- Anonymous said...
Rules for Radicals
The fourth rule is:
Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
You can kill them with this,
for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
-- Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals"
The primary enemy of Israel is the Left, the secondary enemy is Islam as represented by the Palestinians and their Muslim allies.
- 12/8/13
- Empress Trudy said...
Assuming of course one need worry about these things. If terrorism, aka asymmetrical war, aka sub-political war, is what works then so be it. Defense and deterrence can only take you so far. Iron Dome batteries can only shoot down so many rockets. On the ground intelligence gathering can only infiltrate so many cells. Drones can only locate so many launch pads. If they want a dirty war, I for one am fine with it replete with truck bombs, blowing up hospitals, decapitating people on YouTube, and such. The next time a rocket flies into Israel, blow up an apartment building in Gaza City. The next time there's a rock attack that kills someone, hang a prisoner.
- 12/8/13
- Anonymous said...
The basic tactic in warfare against the Haves is a mass political jujitsu:
the Have-Nots do not rigidly oppose the Haves,
but yield in such planned and skilled ways hat the superior strength of the Haves becomes their own undoing.
For example, since the Haves publicly pose as the custodians of responsibility, morality, law, and justice (which are frequently strangers to each other), they can be constantly pushed to live up to their own book of morality and regulations.
No organization, ncluding organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book.
You can club them to death with their "book" of rules and regulations.
This is what that great revolutionary, Paul of Tarsus, knew when he wrote to the Corinthians:
"Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth."
-- Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals"
The enemies of Israel are all those who have absorbed Saul Alinsky's ideology of the Left, the community organizer President being one of the foremost amongst them. The Left uses Islam and Alinskite tactics as a battering ram to demolish any fortress of Western Civilization. Today the battle of Israel rages, yesterday it was the battle of Rhodesia, but the West lost the battle of Rhodesia and now Rhodesia lies a smoking ruin, a shameful monument in the graveyard of the West.
- 12/8/13
- wreed said...
I admire the Jews greatly. Always have. I find contentment in the fact that the low self esteem and self loathing of the Arab World is no match for the IDF and IAF.
Mid East Arabs are the Hillbillies of the world. They hate the Jews because Israel started on a postage stamp sized parcel of land and have built a modern society.
The Arabs are still talking about their really great culture a 1000 years ago.
- 12/8/13
- Jerry G said...
Israel, the USA and other Western countries are suffering the effects of left/liberalism which insists that everything be made equal. Cultures are all equally good, wealth must be redistributed so that everyone has the same and in war no combatant be stronger than the other. So Israel must be cut down in size to fight on equal terms with the Arabs.
- 12/8/13
- Shlomo ben Shmuel said...
The trouble is that the west (including the US & EU as well as Israel) are fighting(?) or reacting according to the rules of the west, while are enemies are reacting according to their own rules. They never lose, they just lie to explain why they really won. The only real "win" is if one side obliterates the enemy (us) so that it is only a colony of the victors. If we act "morally" to their aggression, we are just showing our weakness. We must fight the next war (and it is coming) so as to destroy our arab enemies.
- 12/8/13
- marty_p said...
The Arabs respect strength and exploit weakness.
The current Israeli strategy of continually surrendering territory to solicit peace is doomed to failure. You can't make peace with an adversary who does not even acknowledge your right to exist.
As far as world opinion goes - Germany dragged the civilized world into two world wars, yet German crimes are now all forgiven and the marketplace is full of German products that consumers seem quite happy to purchase and the Germans are embraced as part of the "Civilized World".
As far as world opinion goes - Japan committed horrendous crimes during the Second World War and all seems forgiven and the marketplace is full of Japanese products that consumers seem quite happy to purchase and the Japanese are embraced as part of the "Civilized World".
The North Vietnamese conquered all of Vietnam and the label on my shirt says "Made in Vietnam".
Nobody is protesting the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and their continuing occupation of the northern part of the island.
Nobody is protesting the continuing British occupation of the Falklands (save for the Argentinians).
How many times did the Israelis conquer the Sinai in response to Arab aggression only to return it for the sake of peace only to have to conquer it again in the next war?
Public opinion be dammed. The Israelis have to do what they have to do.
- 12/8/13
- SabaShimon said...
Writing as an Israeli veteran, whose kids all served and who has a grandson in uniform today, thank you Daniel for this beautifully penned, and perfect piece. I only wish we had a leader who remembered what he wrote 20 years ago
- 12/8/13
- Daniel Greenfield said...
sadly, power blinds the eyes
- 12/8/13
- Anonymous said...
"i will not drink the kool-aide" (repeat)
as long as the kool-aide of the left permeates israeli media, there
will be this problem. we hope and pray that G-d will hear our cries and prayers and make these people do serious teshuvah and very soon.
- 14/8/13
- George J. said...
Daniel, brilliant article like usual, and also brilliant comments from the readers. I especially agree with marty_p in that if world opinion had forgiven even the horrendous crimes of Japan and Germany a mere few decades after the fact, then why the hell are the Israeli's and collaborator Jews so damn worried that the world will hate them for the grave crime of defending themselves from terrorist garbage?
It really is a mind-boggling situation.
- 14/8/13


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Based solely on the vast number of clever puns available to play off the last name of Senegalese midfielder Niouky Desire, headline writers around Major League Soccer must be licking their chops with the Revolution's latest signing. The Revs can only hope that they'll be equally as thrilled with the 23-year-old's production on the field.
Desire, who will occupy one of the Revolution's eight international roster spots, has spent his entire playing career in his home country of Senegal. Prior to spending the last four years with Dakar-based Port Autonome, he played four seasons with ASC Diaraf, also based in Dakar. With limited information available about the Senegalese soccer league – combined with the fact that he has yet to arrive in the U.S. to begin training with the Revs – Desire is a bit of a mystery.
Luckily for the Revolution, the only person who has seen Desire play firsthand is a man who knows a thing or two about scouting soccer talent. Head coach Steve Nicol unearthed Desire on an offseason scouting trip to Senegal, and was sufficiently impressed to offer the central midfielder a contract.
Described as a traditional central midfielder – providing a balance between both offensive and defensive capabilities – Nicol is hoping that Desire's biggest contribution will be his ability to help the Revs maintain consistent possession, which would subsequently allow the Revolution to control the tempo rather than react to their opponents.
"He likes to keep the ball and pass the ball," Nicol said. "That's the main thing. He likes to get the ball at his feet and he likes to keep it."
Nicol also mentioned Desire's age as one of his most attractive characteristics, as the 23-year-old is old enough to have multiple years of professional experience, but young enough that the majority of his career still lays ahead of him.
While Nicol was conventionally coy in his description of Desire, the time will soon come when everyone will get a look at the young midfielder. Having already received his International Transfer Certificate, Desire will be able to enter the United States upon receipt of his U.S. P-1 Visa.
Unfortunately, there's no set timetable on how long it will take to acquire the Visa. An appointment must be arranged at the U.S. Embassy in Dakar in order to receive the necessary paperwork, literally leaving the process in the hands of the government.
Because it could be weeks before Desire is allowed to meet up with the Revolution in Foxborough, it's possible that he'll be joining the club shortly before the season opener against the LA Galaxy on March 27. Factor in an adjustment period, and Desire could be hitting his stride with his teammates just as the season is getting underway.
How quickly he'll adjust – or if he'll need to adjust at all – remains to be seen.
"You always hope that they're going to come in and compete straight away," said Nicol. "Some guys, you can drop them in anywhere and they're good to go, but other guys take time. There are no real hard and fast rules about how long it might take. It's on an individual basis."
A best-case scenario would have Desire adapt in much the same way that Ghanaian defender Emmanuel Osei did in 2009. After arriving in the United States on April 30 and joining the Revs for his first training session on May 1, Osei paired up with Darrius Barnes in the middle of the Revolution's backline just eight days later, on May 9 against Chicago. He then proceeded to start every game for which he was available for the rest of the season.
While it's unclear whether Desire will adapt as quickly as Osei, Nicol is confident that he'll create healthy competition for places in the center of the Revolution's midfield.
With the offseason departures of veterans Steve Ralston and Jeff Larentowicz, the Revs will be relying more heavily on the development of younger players like Pat Phelan and Mike Videira, both of whom are likely to see increased playing time this season. It's essentially a given that 2009 MVP finalist Shalrie Joseph has locked down one of the central midfield roles, and Nicol envisions Desire, Phelan and Videira in a battle for the second spot.
Only time will tell if Desire will win that battle, but with the regular season set to kick off in just about one month on March 27 in Los Angeles, we won't have to wait long to find out.


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This year I want to walk the path of entrepreneurship.
An interesting article Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test by Daniel Isenberg got me thinking.
Life as a carbon-based life form; a journey of building on success and learning from mistakes.
This year I want to walk the path of entrepreneurship.
An interesting article Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test by Daniel Isenberg got me thinking.
After reviewing the Deutsche Bank Research paper, Understanding Vietnam: A look beyond the facts and figures by Tamara Trinh, as part of my on going research for insight on Vietnam's economy. It got me started thinking on an idea.
I code name this project PSS . Each week I will set myself an agenda to investigate on a given topic that will part of the project roadmap.
The conversation over lunch was an interesting one.
A friend noted that the American way of running business is to outsource everything. So obligation is shifted to the service provider responsibility. Case study: Walmart, Amazon, etc
TCS, India largest outsourcing company. The business model for TCS is each three cycle, they hire fresh graduates and use internal key people in the company to train these cadets. They are innovative, energetic, work long hours and highly commited to their work. However, if they wish to leave earlier that the three terms they will have to payback the training cost.
In Australia, because Labour Goverment favouring the lower class, laws are created to prevent entrepreneurship, making it very difficult to get funding to startup businesses. Tax is one of the highest in any developed country. So most people choose the safe passage by running a self employed or cash business. Investing into property is also highl rewarding, Australian goverment is giving tax breaks for depreciated investment properties.
I'm very impressed at Virgin Blue Airline service for Gold members. I accidentially cancelled a flight and they were able to reinstate my booking at now extra cost.
A visionary disussion on intellectual ideas can help to steer Vietnam partnership with China and the US.
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In this lesson, students read the book ¡Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A., and discuss unions, strikes, and organizing for change. Students then develop questions and interview a staff member in their school to learn about their daily work life. Students determine the criteria for effective letters and write letters to the editor advocating for fair wages and working environments (or another local, contemporary work-related issue). Students draft their letters, then peer review and revise them. Finally, they publish their letters using an online tool, and mail a copy to the newspaper, if desired.
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In their article "Critical Literacy," Leland and Harste argue: "Teachers who want to reimagine [the read-aloud] as an opportunity to engage children in critical conversations about power and social justice can help them begin to understand that every text is written from someone's perspective." (468) The use of picture books, which are a quick read, allows students to explore multiple perspectives around the theme of social bridges and barriers. Picture books can invite students to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender. They "show how people can begin to take action on important social issues . . . and help us question why certain groups are positioned as 'others'" (Harste, 2000, p. 507). Read alouds enable students to engage in dialogue as they consider the narratives in terms of historical contexts, the nature of the implied barriers, and how individuals can take action to promote social justice and equity.
Further Reading
Leland, Christine H. and Jerome Harste. 2000. "Critical Literacy." In K. M. Pierce (Ed.) Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K-Grade 6 (pp. 465-487). Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Harste, Jerome. 2000. "Supporting Critical Conversation in Classrooms." Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K-Grade 6. K. M. Pierce (Ed). Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Moss, Joy. 2002. Literary Discussion in the Elementary School. Urbana, IL: NCTE.


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German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting Report
The German Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für
Shaheed Haque and
Erlangen was the first opportunity for the many of the new KOffice
First, KWord frame handling was improved and floating frame support
Second, the MS Word filter now supports basic text styles such as bold,
Third, the MS ExcelTM import filter continued to evolve.
Fourth, the current KWord implementation will benefit from a
Finally, KSpread benefitted from serious improvements to i18n support. As
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I love KOffice. Now is a Beta, but I use this for my personal use.
By Manuel Román at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
Can't wail to get rid of MS Office on my machine. As soon as the MS Word import filter can import tables and images nicely StarOffice and Word are coming off my machine.
Thanks Guys, and keep up the great work
By Rick at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
Give up. KOffice sux! StarOffice 6.0 will be out and much more functional than any other office package. You only need wait <2 weeks for it. It is a real MS Office killer, not a wanna be like Krap Office.
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
StarOffice is bloatware
By jf at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
Gee. Now that it will be GPL'd, any bloat will likey be evaluated and removed. Make sense? I think so. How much would you care to wager that it will become the premier cross-platform office suite?
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
Now that it will be GPL'd, any bloat will likey be evaluated and removed. Make sense? I think so.
KOffice is GPL too and very nicely integrated into KDE2, SO isnt. KOffice makes sense ? I think so.
By Lenny at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
I dont use KDE all the time. Choice. I don't want an office suite tied to a desktop. That's what we are stuck with now in M$-land. Can you use M$ Office in Linux, Solaris... No. It is tied to Winders. It is crap. StarOffice may have some faults, but it is not tied directly to any platform, much less a particular desktop on a platform.
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
StarOffice will be tied to gnome eventually. Anyway, you say you want choice... well you have choice. KOffice, StarOffice, Applix. StarOffice isn't all bad, you are right. It has decent filters. But I suspect they will not be GPL'd :( The rest of StarOffice is OK at best. We have the chance with KOffice to make a real good job of an office suite; to get StarOffice so that it is fast, stable etc it'll take a long time. Think mozilla, only StarOffice is bigger and more complicated.
By ac at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
Don't you know that cross-platform comes at a price?
By Carlos at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: StarOffice
Yes, it does come at a price. Think about the benefit of open formats and the ability to work effectively with M$ formats, though. How long before M$ will be forced to support StarOffice formats in it's products? Not long. KOffice? Much longer. This gives the world a choice of suites to use and be productive. There is no way that my users could be productive with KOffice for the forseeable future, but they could with StarOffice. Not only that, but the better import filters in StarOffice provide a direct path away from M$ bloat on ANY platform. Get users using SO on M$ boxen and soon I will be able to start switching OS's to Linux and they wont know or care. Tell me you can do that with Koffice. You can't! I see that these people need something to do, so contribute to a real M$ Killer and leave the toys behind. No troll, just looking at it from a logical business perspective. :-)
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
Please go directly to alt.troll. Thanks!
By mk at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
Whatever, you turd. If you can't participate in a reasonable discussion without calling someone a troll because you don't like what they say, then butt out.
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
You call this a reasonable discussion?
> KOffice sux!
Mind your language, idiot. Fuck you!
By Malte at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I guess you have never used SO then? It is one of the *worst* pieces of software I have ever used. SO version 6 is coming out? If it's anything like the previous versions it will be crap. Bloated and crap. And when it's moved over to gnome... geez, it'll suck even more. Thankfully we have Koffice. Much nicer.
By ME sux at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
You will wait a lot longer than 2 weeks.
According to comments from Sun employees on openoffice.org, the version of code that sun will relase on the 13^th of october will be alpha at best. What they have done is to rip out all the third party software in the current staroffice codebase and made sure that it still compiles. The target release date for Staroffice 6.0 is at least 6 months away, and not before the release of Gnome 2.0.
By Magnus Pym at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: You will wait a lot longer than 2 weeks.
...and not much less to compile this beast. According to www.openorifice.org, it takes approximately 20 hours for a full build on a PIII with 256 MB RAM running Linux. 3MB spare HD space is recommended also.
Can anyone spare a few GB for a hungry gnome?
By Francis Sedgemo... at Thu, 2000/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I don't know whether KOffice sux or not. I have used StarOffice 5.1, and I discarded it because it was truly awful. It has a pretty face, but many of those decorations are just stubs. The newsreader is non-functional alpha-code, but I could not figure out how to use the word processor without having that non-functional news reader loaded along with it. That desktop thing is an awful nuisense when you already have the KDE or GNOME desktop.
By Arcturas at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
what is this with you???
so many people also want to choose their office suite. some people will choose koffice, some staroffice, some gnumeric/abiword and some will
I think koffice is a great effort by great programmers. if you do not like it, do not use
in the end, everybody will profit because one can
By markus jais at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
No flame. Like I said in another post, we are up against M$. They are a force and will be for some time to come. In order to combat that, we should align ourselves and pooll the efforts behind the best and most mature code there is and right now that is StarOffice. That makes the community stronger in providing choices. Choice doesn't necessarily mean that I need or want 15 different word processors or spreadsheet apps to choose from! I want to get the best there is and not have to do research on the damn things just to figure out if it has the features that I want. Pooling the effort behind a M$ killer gives an immediate choice that none of the others provide. Pooling the effort puts more features in right off, provided that it is done in such a way that the features are not adding to bloat. Yes, the code base would increase, but that doesn't have to mean bloat. If properly componentized, features could be installed based on need easily and not increase memory footprint. Sensible, eh?
By ME at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
Just read the postings about StarOffice on Slashdot etc. and you will find out that a lot of people don't like StarOffice at all. There is not much difference between StarOffice and M$ office: both are huge packages, overloaded with functions nobody wants and full of bugs.
Think about it: there are A LOT of people who like KOffice because it is not like StarOffice/M$ Office. IMHO the fact that StarOffice is now GPLed will not change that at all, at least not within the next two years. If you know something about programming you would know that it is not that easy to break something down in smaller pieces. All the bla bla about StarOffice now GPLed is IMHO bloatware: we will have to wait a loooong time before StarOffice is leaner at better than the old one ... and meanwhile KOffice is already there. Think about it.
ciao, Marco
By mk at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I understand ME's point of view regarding the pooling of resources to provide a solid alternative to M$ products, a true "choice" in the *real* world. Imagine how quickly we could produce high quality office products and rid ourselves of the M$ stranglehold if all of our talented minds and energies were channeled toward a common goal (management issues aside :-). In this respect I agree with ME completely, but I won't get into the argument of whether that common goal ought to be StarOffice or KOffice. (Heck, I'd throw a vote in for gnumeric and abiword! I've always thought the concept of a "suite" of products was silly. I'd rather pick and choose the best available in each category from any vendor. Let the desktop people impress with me with killer integration API's to allow the best of the best to integrate if they so choose.)
I can also see point that ME alludes to regarding the transition from M$ technologies. It isn't going to happen overnight. No one will want to be retrained. No will want to discover 'nix on their desk one morning when they left good ol' Winders the night before. I think ME is trying to say that in his world he can ease his users onto StarOffice on Winders in one step, and then (after a comfort level is reached) take the next step and run StarOffice on 'nix. Not a bad approach towards transition.
So I hear what ME is saying, and the points others have made are completely valid as well. And absolutely none of these comments detract from the good work that the KOffice folks are doing. I guess the bottom line is that we are all _right_ in different ways. I only encourage each of us to keep looking far into the future, trying to see the big picture, and focusing on the greatest benefit to our fellow man. It's just too easy to get caught up in personal successes and egos only to let the Grand Ambition fade. I personally feel that was the M$ went.
By LaSarde at Sun, 2000/10/01 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
In order to
Do you have any idea what the StarOffice code looks like? Can you assure it's not a convoluted codebase that would take months of learning to even begin to make constructive contributions (something virtually no open source developer will do). Do you know how the API calls are tied into the code -- as a separate layer or sprinked throughout?
If you have these facts, I'd like to hear the answers, as I don't know. If you don't, try to refrain from making statements when you don't know what you're talking about.
By Direct at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
It's great to hear that there will be a real alternative to StarOffice on the Linux platform.
However I do hope that both StarOffice, Abiword and KOffice really try to work together on MSOffice
By CP at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Why is the print quality bad in Koffice?
In the version of Koffice that came with kde-1.94, I found that the quality of printed equations is too bad for words. The equations look OK on the screen, but when printed, the characters look awful. They look like boldface fixed-width characters, oddly placed and disproportionate. Does anyone in the know have comments on whether this is due to user error, or because printing support is not quite there yet?
By Magnus Pym at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: Why is the print quality bad in Koffice?
I don't know for sure, but it sounds like a problem with true-type-fonts. Seems like it uses scaled fonts. They get ugly when you print them a bit larger than they are really: they don't get larger without loosing quality.
Jonathan Brugge
By Jonathan Brugge at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I have read the comments above and I must admit that I am pretty surprised to see that most have missed the point. LaSarde mentioned the following as a comment to ME's rambling:
"Imagine how quickly we could produce high quality office products and rid ourselves of the M$ stranglehold if all of our talented minds and energies were channeled toward a common goal"
My question is, what would the result be? We would probably end up with another M$ wannabe that everyone would learn to hate. That is a great way to solve the problem :-(
In my opinion, only CP has hit close to the truth and that is that the fight should be to try and get a unified format for saving documents, be it XML or something else. In that way we can use whatever product that is out there to create that document. Only in that way will be benefit from choice. I have absolutely no interest in being forced to use Staroffice no more than I like the idea of having to use M$ Word because it is "standard".
The mindless chat about "Koffice Sux" or "StarOffice is bloatware" is counterproductive and should be left out of the GPL/Linux way of life.
By DTT at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: German-Sponsored KOffice Meeting -- Report
I've installed the final Beta of KDE 2.0, KOffice included. I've tried KWord, KPresenter and KSpread and my fist conclusions are:
- KWord and KSpread are very useful tools that can compete with the MS counterparts, although a lot of small improvements in the near future are necessary
- KPresenter should not be called a alpha version. Compared to Powerpoint it lacks roughly all features that makes the difference between putting some text frames on a slide and a real presentation program. I'll tried to remake an existing Powerpoint presentation (19 slides) using KPresenter and it took me more than 3 times as long.
My understanding is that most programmers uses text processing and a spreadsheet but hardly make presentations. As such, the presentation package lags really behind in functionality and user friendliness. The fact that in the report about KOffice hackers meeting nothing was said about KPresenter is another indication in this direction.
I hope that a few of the hackers spend some extra time on KPresenter. Without that, the chances that KOffice will be success are severly limited
By Ruben Decrop at Thu, 2000/10/05 - 5:00am


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On average, one child dies every two weeks due to tipovers
WASHINGTON, DC - Many parents and caregivers may not be aware that one of the top hidden hazards in the homes where young children live or visit is unsecured and unstable TVs, furniture and appliances. Today, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging families to take a moment to inspect and secure these items to prevent any more tragedies.
Between 2000 and 2008, CPSC staff received reports of nearly 200 tipover related deaths involving children eight years old and younger. Nearly all of these fatalities (93%) involved children five years old and younger.
More than 16,000 children five years old and younger were treated in emergency rooms because of injuries associated with TVs, furniture, and appliance tipovers according to CPSC staff's most recent estimates from 2006.
"Large TVs and unstable furniture can be a deadly combination. Taking simple, low-cost steps to secure furniture and TVs can save lives," said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "Parents need to know about this hidden danger and take action now."
Typically, injuries and deaths occur when children climb onto, fall against or pull themselves up on television stands, shelves, bookcases, dressers, desks, chests and appliances. In some cases, televisions placed on top of furniture will tip over and cause a child to suffer traumatic and sometimes fatal injuries.
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- Furniture should be stable on its own. For added security, anchor chests, dressers, TV stands, bookcases and entertainment units to the floor or attach them to a wall.
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Model of efficiency: From the runway to the fairway
Holly Finley is a transplanted Wisconsinite who seems to have a knack for finding her niche. Her profession is modeling. Her passion is disc golf. They coexist perfectly.
"With modeling I don't have to work every day so I'm lucky," said Finley. "It's just whenever people want to hire me, so I do have a lot of free time. When I'm not working, I'm golfing from sunrise to sunset and sometimes even in the dark."
Finley sashays from the runway to the fairway and excels in both worlds with a home base in Cambridge, southeast of Madison. Last summer, when the Tennessee native decided commuting to Chicago for most of her modeling gigs was a chore, she explored and embraced the surrounding area of Madison, deciding to hunker down in a small town environment that would provide serenity and proximity.
Unsure if she was in this relocation for the long haul, Finley rented out her home back in Nashville, where a return visit prompted her tenants to suggest she join them in hitting the links.
"I thought it sounded strange, I wasn't very good and I really didn't think much about it after that," said Finley. "In Wisconsin when the weather warmed up, I thought, 'What can I do by myself that is fun because I don't know anybody here?' Disc golf is fun and it takes several hours, it's free to play, so I went out and bought some used discs, went out to the course and started playing alone."
Her solo act didn't last long. Finley attracted other golfers who followed her form and asked her to join in. She morphed into playing in a weekly league and struck up friendships and mentors to improve her game.
"What's amazing about this sport is the people are really willing to share the knowledge," said Finley. "It's amazing when someone tells you something ever so slightly, like point your foot a certain way and turn your wrist another way, the next thing I know, I can throw the disc 100 feet farther than before.
"It's industry secrets, and some people are willing to share."
After her first four-month taste, Finley was hooked. But a business trip to South Africa temporarily stunted her growth in the sport. With no courses handy in and around Cape Town, Finley trekked four miles a day to throw in an abandoned field. Back in the States this past February, Finley played in her first tournament and began gobbling up first place hardware during her travels.
"It really takes practice and I hear professionals who are some of the top-rated players in the world out there all day, every day, playing golf," said Finley. "They'll be in their backyard two to four hours a day doing nothing, repetitive motions over and over until it becomes muscle memory and becomes automatic.
"That's what I'm trying to do and I'm also trying to play with really seasoned golfers who have a tight game with skills I can learn from."
Listed as an amateur but turning some heads on the Professional Disc Golfers Association rankings, Finley hopes her lightning-quick learning curve leads to a place among the sports elite.
"I'm still progressing really quickly and would hope within three years I could become a world champion," said Finley. "That might sound a bit unrealistic but that's what I'm going to work for. All it takes is practice, dedication, believing in yourself and support. I feel like I have all of those things and it's the perfect combination to make me a world champion someday."
Finley's drive to succeed was never in question, but her drive to kick start each hole wasn't up to par. After some tinkering and discussion with fellow players, it's the best aspect of Finley's repertoire.
"My drives went from 100 feet a few months ago to 300 feet," said Finley. "It's been a lot of fun watching myself progress in that department, and I'll go to the same courses I did last summer and throw it past my bench mark.
"It's just an amazing feeling knowing I have come so far so quickly. It's so easy to just pick up the sport and become good and even become great which is something you really can't say for a lot of other sports. People can play a sport on a recreational level but you really don't have an opportunity to become a world champion in five to ten years."
Finley now tours the United States seeking out her next challenge, squeezing in tournaments while she jet sets around the world modeling for designers like Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, Donna Karen and Louis Vuitton, to name a handful. If the back story on how she stumbled into playing disc golf isn't coincidental enough, try to grasp the karma of how Finley launched her international modeling career. Page 1 of 2 (view all on one page)
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For the discriminating diarist, journalist, field notes taker or part-time poet—one who's also a Pac-Man fan—Namco Bandai and Moleskine have partnered to release top-tier, retro-themed stationery.
Coming this October, Moleskine's licensed Pac-Man Volant set (pictured) packs in the quality that white people expect from their branded notebooks, now with more colorful retro 8-bit flair. Moleskine has more Pac-Man stamped stuff for snobs to write in on the way, including the Large Plain Notebook version and a pricey, but classy, gift set for more serious jotting down of ideas.
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We didn't get into this yesterday, but all told, we find it pretty amazing that Mr. Mexico has decided to check into jail three weeks early. We understand that it's a plan to look contrite in front of the judge ... but it's still taking quite a risk, wethinks.
That is to say: Vick is in jail right now, but there's no guarantee that he'll receive any leniency for the early booking. It's possible that he gave up three weeks of freedom for nothing.
The sentencing is expected to be within 12 and 18 months, and, all told, if we were facing that much time, we might take time to enjoy our last three weeks of freedom. In a few months, he might wish he had those three weeks back. Of course, maybe he just didn't want to watch Byron Leftwich again. Tough to blame him there.
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Testing and reporting company Telerik is now offering its object relational mapping tool free of charge across a range of database platforms. OpenAccess ORM will now be priced at no cost "beyond" Microsoft databases to all 12 database platforms it supports including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and IDMDB2.
This move appears to have been taken in the classic commercial open source sense; i.e., the company will continue to enhance OpenAccess ORM with regular releases, and will still offer dedicated support via Premium and Ultimate Collection bundles.
NOTE: OpenAccess ORM is a framework for mapping the objects in an object-oriented domain model to relational database tables, views, and/or stored procedures and vice versa. Mapping is done within Visual Studio and is independent from source code and database. Operating as a datastore-agnostic virtual layer, OpenAccess ORM can be used from within the programming language to access and manipulate data.
The Telerik ORM tool works in all .NET platforms: ASP.NET, AJAX, MVC, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, and Azure. The enterprise-grade ORM for .NET (still free of charge, but unsupported in the "enterprise" sense unless additional payment is made) was recently updated to include a new Web Services Wizard that exposes the application data to client applications using various web services, without having developers write a single line of code.
"Telerik OpenAccess ORM takes over the tasks of generating the data access code for an application, effectively relieving users from a portion of their relational data persistence tasks. The generated code has been tested by Telerik and conforms to the latest object-oriented development standards. By doing the heavy lifting for customers, OpenAccess ORM can save users between 20% and 85% of development and testing time," said the company.


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Learn how to get started with using MATLAB® and Simulink® products for designing control systems. This session focuses on how you can easily tune simpler, single-input single-output PID controllers, as well as more complex arbitrary multivariable controllers. You will also learn about the latest features for control design.


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One criticism of the LA Times series evaluating individual teachers using a data method known as value added: that it is wrong for the paper, or anyone else, to evaluate public school teachers with their names attached. One prominent education author, Diane Ravitch, foolishly suggested on Twitter this morning that the Times was wrong to publish data on individual teachers because it would be like publishing mortality rates for heart surgeons.
That couldn't be more wrong. First, data for individual doctors might be a useful tool, and considerable amounts of data on individual physicians is available to the public. Second, teachers, unlike most surgeons, are public employees. They are hired by governments. They are paid by taxpayers. And they perform a profoundly public function. They are public figures, who deserve and require public scrutiny. The Times, by making public its data on teachers, is doing a public service.
Some critics of the Times, including the United Teachers Los Angeles, which has launched a foolish boycott of the newspaper, point to laws that protect the privacy of educational records. But those laws are designed to protect students, who are minors and who are required by law to attend school in this country. To teach is profoundly a public act, and a public trust. Public trusts require verification.
Teachers have tough jobs. They deserve more support. They deserve better funding for their schools, particularly in this state. But they don't deserve protection from public scrutiny. If teachers don't want to be evaluated in public, they should choose other professions.
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chambert necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
We are an independent guide to hotels and travel around the world - all destinations, all hotels, simple!
A worldwide audience - page images should default to local regions where possible.
(for example, if visitor is from Australia, then local images would be better)
I am looking for a clean simple design for our homepage - http://www.huno.com.
Number one requirement is a simple, easy to use design. Not confusing for the visitor.
All existing links are to remain on the page - however can be positioned differently.
Logo should not be changed.
Search form should remain, however I am also looking to include our hotel search box on the top left of the page -
Images should default to destinations that are close to the visitors region.
Relevent images of world wide destinations should feature to inspire the traveller.
Require html code of design.
Page needs to be search engine friendly and in keeping with the rest of the site.
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Work-Study is a federally funded program that provides jobs for degree-seeking undergraduate students who need financial aid to help pay educational expenses. Students are paid bi-weekly, at least at the current federal minimum wage, and are encouraged to put their earnings toward their account balance.To apply for Work-Study, complete the FAFSA and submit any documents that may be requested by the Carlow Financial Aid Office. Funding is limited, so file your FAFSA as early as possible. If you're a Carlow student and would like more information, please visit Work-Study on MyPortal [Carlow login required].
In order to participate in the Federal Work-Study Program (CWSP) at Carlow University, Federal Work-Study must appear on your current Financial Aid Award Letter for the current academic year. An application and pertinent federal forms must be completed in order to participate in this federal program. Employment opportunities and descriptions are available for your review. If you have any questions regarding the CWSP, please contact Judi Halterlein at the Carlow Student HUB, 412.578.6389.
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One of my favorite sayings is, "Life is as big or as little as your courage allows." This saying has meant more to me lately as I have been reflecting on life due to the new year and a milestone birthday next month.
One of my greatest moments of courage occurred many years ago when I worked as managing editor on another magazine. A writer position opened on that publication. I dreamed of doing more writing, as that is my first love, so I gathered my courage, went into my boss's office and asked for the job—and he gave it to me. I felt triumphant and exhilarated that I went after what I wanted, and I was rewarded for it. That act of courage changed the course of my career and proved to be one of the best moves I ever made. That moment changed the way I thought of myself. It instilled confidence and a greater sense of courage in me.
Often, personal courage and courage in business go hand-in-hand. Fear can hold you back in both places, but being courageous can open so many possibilities. During a difficult economic period, fear often takes over, but being courageous is even more important to the success of your business at this time.
If you have been contemplating opening a new club, renovating one of your existing clubs, changing your operating model or adding aquatics programming, what has been holding you back? If the business plan is sound, then perhaps it is just fear. Fear of change, fear of failure, fear of success. Every act of courage in business takes some planning; then it takes a giant leap.
Courage is an act. It is something you do or say, not simply something you wish.
Courage opens doors and opportunities. When you have the courage to express your dreams and lay out your plans to others, you involve others in those dreams and plans. That can only help you in the long run. People want to help others, especially if they believe in your dream and you are courageous enough to offer them a role in your plan.
Courage gives you control. When you worry and fret about something to the point that it leads to inaction, you have given control to someone or something else. Instead of worrying about the new competitor down the street, be courageous and step up your marketing, rework your business model or renovate your facility. This action gives you control of your business's future instead of leaving it in the hands of your competitor.
Courage begets courage, and fear begets fear. A one-time act of courage will not suffice if you want to be successful in business or life. You must start with one act of courage, then another and another. It takes practice, but it becomes easier over time to take those leaps. It must become your new way of thinking and acting for courage to truly change your life and business.
Courage is contagious. Being courageous in business can inspire others to be courageous and follow their dreams. Support that, even if it takes those people away from you. Their dreams are as important as yours.
Most importantly, courage starts with a dream that you cultivate, plan, then act upon. So, sweet dreams, everyone.


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Cal Evans has started up a new series of posts to his blog today, flipping things over from the usual developer-centric perspective most people take and looking at the client instead. In this first part of the series he looks at the first of six ways you can be a better client to your freelance developer.
You and you alone are the vision keeper for your project. You have to convey the problem that needs to be solved without specifying how it is to be solved. Work with your developer to make sure they understand you as you describe the problem. [...] Don't assume that the developer will understand industry jargon or acronyms. Just because it's clear to you doesn't mean that it is clear to them.
Communication is a huge key when dealing with any developers, freelance or not and Cal's suggests that not only is everything laid out clearly, but there's also no stone unturned on things like features and goals for the project.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
AsiaCoin (AC) is created for Asia, helping investors and miners in Asia through these hard times. 150 Million is the total of coins in the POW stage, 210 Million coins after 10 years through PoS. Two weeks of mining, AsiaCoin will have block reward for only two weeks or approximately 20000 blocks. Adopts a variable PoS rate with the following annual interest rate:First year stake interest is 100%, then starting Year 2, it will have an annual PoS interest of 2%.
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Block Explorer / Crawler
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Source Code
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Jack Erickson, MathWorks
MATLAB® is a powerful language for manipulating large data sets, exploring mathematics, and visualizing data. But targeting a MATLAB algorithm to FPGA or ASIC hardware requires additional implementation detail and modifications to be able to process a stream of bits. Simulink® is the best environment to add this information due to: the ability to design parallel architectures, built-in notion of timing, and visualization of data types propagating through operations.
Use a popular production-proven path to take a MATLAB DSP algorithm through Simulink, Fixed-Point Designer™, and HDL Coder™ and target an FPGA or ASIC. This workflow includes verification of each step versus the golden reference in MATLAB, and uses MATLAB as a test and visualization environment.


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It's been nearly 5 years since I started my blog and while it's grown a lot in that time over the past year I've definitely not been obsessing over tending to my blog as much as I used to. It's not that I don't have topics that I want to write about, but that I've been focusing more on myself personally lately instead of blogging like a fiend writing as much as I'd like to.
For those of you who've been around for a while, those of you who are brand new to my blog or those of you who fall somewhere in between, I'd like to know what would YOU like to see happen with this blog? What types of posts do you enjoy the most – parenting, green living, personal posts about my life, childbirth, mental health, pics of my adorable kids (LOL had to throw that in there), current events, food, gardening, photography (oh yeah, I used to take pictures, didn't I?), other topics that I haven't yet addressed on my blog, etc.? What do you enjoy the least (please don't say pics of my kids)? 😛 What do you like or want to read about on Crunchy Domestic Goddess?
Also, at times I've mulled over the idea of taking on a couple other writers for my blog, simply because there's no way I alone can possibly write about all of the things that are happening in all of these topics. I've hesitated to do this because I think I may lose readers or my street cred or something like that. It also may be because I'm a bit of a control freak and that would mean I have to relinquish some of my control. What are your thoughts about having a few other writers than myself for this blog? Would you read their posts? Would you want to be a contributor? Would you think I'm "selling out?" Would you delete me from your feed reader? 😉
Talk to me my amazing, smart, gorgeous, talented readers. Tell me what you'd like to see happen with this blog. I won't say I'll leave it all up to you ('cuz I'm a control freak, remember?), but I'd love to get some feedback and constructive criticism. Thank you! I truly appreciate it. 🙂
I plan to get another post up tomorrow reflecting on the past year and stating some of my goals for 2010, but if I don't ('cuz ya just never know), then thank you for sticking with me through the thick and thin and HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! 🙂
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In 1919, Herb Tautz started Delta Manufacturing Company in his garage. In 1923 he started manufacturing a small scrollsaw based on a design licensed from its inventor, Carl Moberg. The saws were sold through a subsidiary, Delta Specialty Co., and wore the "Delta Specialty Co." name.
In the late 1920s and into the early '30s, Delta rebadged a 12" bandsaw made by Heston & Anderson. Beginning in 1929, Tautz started identifying Delta Specialty Co. as "a subsidiary of Delta Manufacturing Co." In early 1932 the "Delta Specialty Co." name was dropped.
In 1939, Tautz sold the company to a partnership consisting of Marshall Field, Charles G. Cushing, and H. Campbell Stuckeman; Tautz went on to run TAUCO Export Corp., which rebadged and sold Delta products overseas. The Delta name was difficult to trademark in other jursidictions so the Tauco name was used instead. We are uncertain of the ownership of Tauco and it is possible that it existed before the 1939 Marshall Field buyout.
Tauco label from a scroll saw that was exported to South Africa
In 1942, Marshall Field and partners sold it to Timken Detroit Axle Co., part of an early conglomerate controlled by Willard Rockwell. In 1945, Delta was sold to Rockwell Manufacturing Co., which had until very recently been known as the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Co., and which had just purchased Crescent Machine Co. In late 1945 or early '46, Rockwell bought Arcade Manufacturing Co.; although both Arcade and Rockwell/Delta had a "Homecraft" line of machinery, none of Arcade's Homecraft designs were ever sold by Rockwell/Delta; they did, however, use Arcade's foundry and machining facilities.
Label from a Delta Homecraft machine.
In 1948, Rockwell/Delta bought Red Star Products, Inc., makers of a line of turret-arm radial arm saws that competed well against DeWalt radial arm saws. It appears that the saws and their motors were manufactured for Rockwell by A. O. Smith Corp., which had already been making motors for Rockwell, and possibly for Delta before the purchase by Rockwell.
In 1953 Rockwell/Delta purchased the Callander Foundry and Manufacturing Co., a Canadian company that made the Beaver Power Tools line that dominated the Canadian hobbyist market. In 1960 they bought Porter-Cable Machine Co., maker of handheld power tools. In 1963 they bought Buckeye Tool Co., maker of pneumatic tools.
In the early 1970s, Delta manufactured the Penncraft machines for department store chain J. C. Penney.
In 1973, Rockwell Manufacturing Co. merged with North American Rockwell Corp., and the resulting operation was Rockwell International Corp. The former Callander Foundry continued to operated as Rockwell International of Canada, Ltd.
The Rockwell International era was marked by an emphasis on corporate financial performance and quality suffered on some products. In 1981, the line of handheld power tools was sold to Pentair Corp., which operated it as the Porter-Cable line—a name that had disappeared shortly after Rockwell had bought the Porter-Cable Machine Co. In 1984, Rockwell International sold the "machine tool" (woodworking and metalworking machinery) division to Pentair. Pentair operated it as the Delta International Machinery Corp., which included the Canadian operations.
In the early '90s, Delta bough the Acme National subsidiary of R. A. Ness & Co.; their main product was an edge sander that remains the basis for Delta's edge sander. Also beginning in the early 1990s, Lindquist Machine corp. of Green Bay, Wisconsin, manufactured all of Delta's American-made drill presses, an arrangement that continued for about fifteen years. In 1995, Delta bought rip-fence maker Biesemeyer Manufacturing Corp. In the late 1990s, Pentair merged Delta's and Porter-Cable's manufacturing operations in Jackson, Tennessee. In 2000, the two divisions were formally merged.
On July 19, 2004, Black & Decker Corp. announced that it would purchase Pentair's power tools group, including the Porter-Cable, Delta, DeVilbiss Air Power, Oldham Saw, and FLEX brands. B&D already owned the DeWalt brand.
In January 2011, Stanley Black & Decker sold the Delta brand to a Taiwanese power tool manufacturer, Chang Type Industrial Co., Ltd., that was already manufacturing benchtop tools for them. The new company is Delta Power Equipment Corp. The CEO has said that the Delta products currently manufactured in the United States will continue to be made there.
Keith Bohn's 1939 Unisaw, S/N A-100—the earliest Unisaw known
Delta provides owners manuals and parts lists for a variety of machines, including many of those from the Rockwell and Homecraft lines. Check the Delta website first; some manuals are available there for free download. To request a manual and/or parts list, call the Delta Hot Line at (800) 223-7278. Be sure to have either a model number or serial number handy. If you are calling from Canada and need information regarding Rockwell/Beaver machines, you can call Delta in Canada toll-free at (800)463-3582. There is a small fee for manuals sent by mail.
Be sure to check out the "Publication Reprints" tab, above, where you will find a list of over 500 manuals and catalogs covering the entire history of Delta, from the 1920s to the present. Well, there isn't much information past the mid-1980s but Delta can provide information on those more recent machines.
Delta mostly made their own products, but especially in the early years they sometimes OEM'd machines from other makers. For example, Delta's No. 385 12" bandsaw was manufactured by Heston & Anderson/Blue Star Products for Delta back in the late 1920s to early 1930s. And the Model 23-600 6" old-style bench grinder was made by Doerr Electric Corp.


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Optimum Plastics is now Charter NEX
Charter NEX Films, Inc., a leading producer of high-performance polyethylene films, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Optimum Plastics, combining two innovative pioneers in specialty films.
Our 3-Layer and 9-Layer blown film production facility is one of the most technologically advanced in the world. That's what it takes when you deliver film solutions throughout the world. It took great minds to develop this manufacturing technology, but that was only the beginning. Those same minds are behind Optimum Plastics' commitment to material science and the dozens of resin combinations that serve as the foundation for your next customized packaging film solution.
It's no wonder you can find Optimum Plastics' cast film solutions all over the world. That's because we're known as the leader in customized polyolefin (polyethylene, polypropylene and nylon) film solutions for diverse markets. Our focus is on custom solutions that are specifically engineered to meet our clients exacting needs. Our Innovation Process for up to 5-layer film solutions stands at the forefront of the plastics industry, as does our unparalleled level of service.
A Commitment to Customization
At Optimum Plastics, we know who we are. We're a blown and cast plastics manufacturer who specializes in product solutions that most often require customization and highly skilled engineering. In a world dominated by standardization, we are plastics customization leaders in mono-layer all the way to 9-Layer technology. And it's not just our products that are custom; our service teams provide the highest level of custom and individualized support to our clients across the country.
An Investment in Innovation
The power of innovation isn't just a catchphrase for us. It's a philosophy, a mission, a business approach, and an all-encompassing commitment to invention and ingenuity that drives Optimum Plastics. Our Innovation Process guides customers through a six-part proprietary program that ensures that a final product solution will fulfill designated needs, be rigorously tested to the most exact specifications, and will clearly demonstrate our custom engineering film capabilities that we have become renowned for.