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Mozilla platform development cheat sheet
Last modified: Thursday, October 06, 2011
Introducing: The Mozilla Platform Development Cheat Sheet.
Working on Firefox can be daunting when you first start as a developer.
There is an amazing amount of Mozilla specific technology you need to learn; in addition you may not have had the opportunity to work with things like mercurial patch queues (MQ).
On one hand: Mozilla has a massive collection of awesome Mozilla development specific documentation on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN).
On the other hand: There is a massive collection of documentation that you have to keep looking up.
When I started as a platform developer at Mozilla 3 months ago, I started making a cheat sheet of common information I would have to frequently look up. I will continue to update this page as I continue to learn every day at Mozilla.
I highly encourage anyone looking to contribute to an open source project to look into contributing to Mozilla.
Not only will you be helping an open source non-profit organization, but you will also connect with extremely smart peers, have extra resume flair, and learn a ton. The experience of contributing (or working) for Mozilla will forever change you as a developer.
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Joshua Kehn on
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (03:10:34) says: Very nice, that looks handy. |
Neil Rashbrook on
Thursday, October 06, 2011 (10:10:49) says: A few inaccuracies and typos: XUL, XLB should probably say XUL, XBL Since the switch to Mercurial, client.mk no longer pulls the tree, so just make -f client.mk suffices. Even with comm-central trunk I think you would need to explicitly use the checkout target. Don't cd mozilla when building from comm-central! --disable-static is not supported since Gecko 5. Tip: use make -C ../toolkit/library to avoid cd |
Brian R. Bondy on
Thursday, October 06, 2011 (01:10:16) says: Neil, thanks! I fixed the build typos and made the other changes. |
Mozilla Firefox and silent updates
Last modified: Monday, March 26, 2012
Mozilla's rapid release process allows us to deliver features, speed optimizations, memory reductions, and much more... faster. Keeping up to date fast is an essential need for the ever changing web.
There is a new release of Firefox every 6 weeks instead of every year. Even with this shortened release cycle, these releases still include major enhancements. These faster updates are possible because Mozilla is growing significantly, and the community of Mozillians at large is growing month over month.
The rapid release process has some very positive side effects, like delivering new web technologies faster, and attracting world class developers who like to see their code ship fast. But rapid releases also have some negative side effects.
One of the negative side effects is that minor annoyances with software updates suddenly become much more noticeable. Most users don't want to think about software updates nor version numbers and now they are being forced to do so every six weeks.
One such minor annoyance is User Account Control (UAC):
Starting with Windows Vista Microsoft introduced UAC, and with it users across the world see this familiar dialog when doing any operation that requires administrative access:
UAC in particular makes every process run with limited permissions, and if you want to do something like write into Program Files
, then the user has to give permissions to the application to do this.
This makes things like automated software updates hard to do without user interaction. If we don't have access to write into Program Files
to perform an update, then we have to ask for elevated permissions. We ask for elevated permissions today when applying updates.
If a user with administrative access gives permissions to Firefox one time via a UAC prompt, and that user has automatic updates on, then there is no reason we should continue to ask them to elevate the permissions each and every time we want to apply an update. The user has already explicitly given permission to do it.
If this worries you, just remember that you can change your mind at any time by configuring silent updates on the Options > Advanced > Update
The feature page for this task is located here: Remove requirement for the Windows UAC dialog when applying an update. I am the lead developer on this UAC task and the estimated target is the first quarter of 2012.
What's being done to solve the UAC annoyance:
There are several ways to tackle this issue. For example, some browsers that offer silent software updates will install into the user's application data folder and hence do not have this problem. We could do the same, but we chose not to because it can be an administrative headache for some people who manage updates themselves and have to maintain an installation for every user.
We are currently experimenting with a Windows service approach.
This means that an optional component will be installed that automates the software update process better without giving UAC prompts.
Only one Firefox service:
There are four different Firefox development channels you can use. At any time there is a Firefox Release channel, Beta channel, Aurora channel, and Nightly builds channel. These channels give you access to Firefox releases at different stages of the development cycle.
A user can have multiple installations across channels, but only one Firefox service will exist in Windows Services.
Firefox service as an optional component:
The Firefox service will be an optional component. It doesn't need to be installed, and if it is stopped or disabled, updates will work as they did before in every other recent Firefox release.
A user can also uninstall the Firefox service at any time. Updates will continue to occur using the old method.
Other uses of the Firefox service:
Having a Windows service installed means that we can investigate other integration and maintenance points. The possibilities are very exciting.
The Windows service may be used later on for a wider selection of maintenance related things including faster browser startup via prefetching, but initially will be only for software updates.
High level overview of other new Silent update features
Above I mostly talked about silent updates on Windows, but there are other update issues being addressed in several new features across all platforms. This section was originally written by Robert Strong with help from Chris Lee, and Lawrence Mandel and describes these features.
All of the silent update work can be tracked on the wiki.
Lessen how often the "What's New" page is shown
Estimated target: fourth quarter of 2011.
Every six weeks Firefox informs you of what is new in the release. The feedback from our users is that the information is not required and is actually an irritant. We are looking at ways of displaying information only when it provides benefit. The ability to control if the "What's New" page should be displayed after an update was added to Firefox 4. The server side capability should be completed soon. -
Lessen how often the update user interface is displayed
Estimated target: first quarter of 2012.
After an update is downloaded in the background Firefox waits 12 hours before notifying the user to restart to apply the update and since this can interrupt tasks the wait time is being increased to 24 hours. More details including how we decided upon 24 hours are available on this feature page and the bugs referenced on that page. -
Add-ons Default to Compatible
Estimated target: first quarter of 2012.
By default, Firefox requires consent to update if there are add-ons that are enabled and compatible with the current version of Firefox and are incompatible with the update's version. With this feature there should be significantly fewer cases where consent is required to update Firefox while keeping your add-ons installed and up-to-date as well. -
Apply updates on shutdown
Estimated target: to be determined.
After an update is downloaded users notice that it takes longer to start up Firefox on the next run. This wait time is due to the installation of the software update. To eliminate the wait time on startup to apply an update the majority of an update's operations will be performed prior to shutdown and the few remaining operations will be performed after Firefox has exited. This applies to all desktop platforms though on Windows the service that will remove the requirement for the Windows UAC dialog will typically apply the update. -
Improved process flow for updating when there are incompatible add-ons
Estimated target: to be determined.
If an update is declined when there are incompatible add-ons the time to wait until next notification will be increased. This feature is in the planning stage and the amount of time to wait until the next notification hasn't been decided as of yet.
Other Mozilla products:
Other Mozilla products may use the service described above. We currently plan to have only one Windows service across all products. All supported architectures are also planned to share the same Windows service.
Every feature described in this post either applies to or can be done for other Mozilla based applications such as SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, and SongBird.
Platform Integration team:
Mozilla started a new Platform Integration team which focuses on issues which need Operating System specific solutions.
I am a member of this new team led by Robert Strong. Some of the tasks being worked on by this team are described above.
Tags: uac windows mozilla firefox silent-update
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Robert on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (10:10:08) says: The service is a good solution, but an small advice, Windows permit to add services with different ACLs, for example you can define that it can be started by any user. I did a long time ago an application updater, that worked this way. 1) The application executable downloaded the update files this way the Updater Service is not a long running process, It only runs when the update is being applied |
David Naylor on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (10:10:53) says: Thanks for the detailed post. It's a shame these things couldn't be taken care of earlier, but I'm very glad to se it happening now. |
Fred on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (10:10:03) says: Can I ask why the service is always running? Could it not be demand start? |
jalf on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (11:10:28) says: Faster launch via prefetching? That sounds suspiciously like those processes Java, Open Office and a million other applications sneakily install to slow down your OS boot (because no one will ever notice that, right, and if they do, they'll just blame Microsoft instead of us), in order to marginally speed up "our" software. Please think thrice before embarking on something like that. It's possible that it could be pulled off without actually slowing down other parts of the OS, but on the surface of it, it sounds like a great way to get binned with Java and all the other crapware that stealthily makes Windows suck just to make their own software load marginally faster. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (11:10:02) says: Thanks for the excellent ideas and comments. Re: Starting the service on demand. That sounds like a great idea and I'll look into doing this. Re jalf on prefetch bloat: Other uses of the service is purely speculative right now and slowing down the system is the absolute last thing we'd ever let ship in the product. Thanks for the insight though, it's appreciated. The thing I wanted to try in particular was loading the DLLs that we're already loading for the service via memory from the app instead of from disk. So a custom built LoadLibrary that works from memory instead of disk. |
sieciobywatel on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (12:10:35) says: Actually I've never saw this mechanism behaving like described when I boot into Windows 7. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (12:10:53) says: We will only ask for elevation right now when the user installs into a protected directory that requires elevated permissions like Program Files. Most users install into Program Files today, but if you don't you will not see those prompts. |
sysKin on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:57) says: Update prompts are also worse because of another bug: it will warn you not only if addons *become* incompatible, but also when they *remain* incompatible. So most users will see a warning that several Java Console extensions are incompatible, even though they've been incompatible for ages. |
Walter K on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:35) says: You can also look into what Chrome currently does. They use Windows Scheduler to schedule their update app to run at predefined periods of time. Though it's not ideal either, it's still better than a constantly running service. With sneaky changes like running services and requiring special permissions on mobile(*), FF is rapidly charging into the spayware land. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:06) says: Thanks for the suggestion Walter, but I don't think it will apply to Firefox. Chrome was mentioned above about how other software does software updates, but it does not apply to us because we install by default into Program Files unlike Chrome. I wouldn't call this a sneaky change as it is a public change, and it is optional. Our intent is only to not annoy users, Mozilla is non-profit organization and the one web browser on the Internet that you can trust above all others. |
Mook on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:47) says: You've probably already thought of this, but for the update-on-shutdown bit it might be worth it to see if you get any notifications if the whole session is going away (i.e. logout / reboot / poweroff) and avoid it in that case. Having to wait for things as you leave is probably more aggravating... |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:41) says: Mook: Absolutely, good eye. That's on the list already and probably one of the harder parts of that task. |
Justin Dolske on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (08:10:10) says: Looks like a great slate of work -- I'm happy to see the UAC prompt finally go away! Random comment on updating on shutdown... It might be interesting to look at ways of applying most of the update _while_ you're running (eg to an inactive staging directory), so that there's just minimal work left to actually apply the update. Then it doesn't really matter if that's done on launch or shutdown, because it would be extremely fast. |
paulo995 on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (09:10:49) says: Hello. Do you know why Firefox is installed into %userprofile%\Documents\ if the user has no admin-rights (example: on machines at works, the users are no admin)? Is it normal? What about this behaviour and the new Windows service feature? |
McGuire on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (10:10:58) says: As always, take care of security issues. Having a new service running is a new door for attackers. |
Nofun on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (10:10:41) says: Yeah, faster updates, new releases, new this and that .... sounds great, but .... f.e what about good testings ? What about bugs and why is it necessary to speed up the development ? I´ve enough to work, so i won´t have a new (or only updated) software every few weeks to install, learn what´s new and so on and so on. If every company speed up their release cycles, where shall it go ? More and more things, that changes in shorter and shorter times ? And if the peoples = users can´t get through, sometimes they need to sleep :-), what then ? Speed up things isn´t a good solution. regards |
piecu on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (11:10:42) says: If you are thinking about other uses of this service, try to name it differently. |
Henri Sivonen on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (11:10:28) says: It's great news that the UAC dialog is finally going away. Thank you! Is there already a project under way for fixing the analogous problem for Mac? Updates don't work smoothly on Mac due to file permissions if Firefox is run by a user who isn't the user who installed Firefox. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (11:10:18) says: > "It might be interesting to look at ways of applying most of the update _while_ you're running" Yup we're talking about this already, thanks for the suggestion. > "Do you know why Firefox is installed into %userprofile%\Documents" I think it will apply there if you install as a limited user account. > "As always, take care of security issues." We will be scheduling a security review this week on the project to ensure we're on the right track and that we're thinking of everything. > what about good testing ? ... I personally believe that the new development channels that we have will ensure a more stable product. More users are using the pre-releases for longer periods of time now who accept that it's not a final release and may have some issues. |
0xA3 on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (02:10:48) says: > The Windows scheduler cannot be used to automatically gain elevated permissions. This is not correct from what I understand. Scheduled tasks may run with elevation, see http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/run-programs-elevated-without-getting-the-uac-prompt/ for an example or the description of the "Run with highest privileges" option in TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722152.aspx) If you made your decision to implement an update service based on the assumption that this was the only way to bypass the UAC prompt, then I'd be glad if you reconsider that decision. Anything that does not rely on yet another update service permanently up and running with full privileges will be much better. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (03:10:19) says: > If you are thinking about other uses of this service, try to name it differently. The name is very much an open question still and won't be as I mentioned above. > Is there already a project under way for fixing the analogous problem for Mac? Please post to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit in the component Application Update to ensure. > ... Scheduled tasks may run with elevation ... Right I didn't say they can't run elevated, just that they can't be used as a trick to run elevated for unelevated processes. > Anything that does not rely on yet another update service permanently up and running with full privileges will be much better. I think we'll only start it when needed and shut it down again right, so it will have no overhead on system performance. |
paulo995 on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (03:10:07) says: >> "I think it will apply there if you install as a limited user account." Thanks for replying. Don't you think it's a "largesse" that takes Firefox with the limited Windows user account? Does not Firefox stop the install in such a case? |
Jan on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (03:10:49) says: Concerning starting the Update service on demand (via Task Scheduler): that is how Google's Update Service does it, and it works really well. I would very much prefer this solution over a prcoess running all the time. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 (03:10:18) says: > Does not Firefox stop the install in such a case I have never tried it myself but I've heard that it's allowed. |
Ralf_Ger on
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (06:10:46) says: I wonder if and how you ever will make firefox fit into a company's infrastructure. AFAIK there is no real support to deploy FF in an ADS-environment. Same being true for centralized management via GPO. Till some point we were ready to accept all this, but re-installing/patching every 6 weeks in a managed network (i. e. no user ever has an account with admin privs) is simply a waste of time and money. My boss is thinking of switching to chrome, because in his view chrome suits the needs of our it budget. If somehow, someday MS is to make an reasonable secure browser, company it stuff will gladly skip any third party browser. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (11:10:00) says: > I wonder if and how you ever will make firefox fit into a company's infrastructure I think this article may be of interest to you: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal |
EdWood on
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (07:10:02) says: If there is one thing that would get me to drop Fire Fox completely, it would be forced updates. I like fire Fox but I detest the every 6 week updates and the resulting loss of crucial add-ons. I updated to FF 7.1 and lost the ability to reach several websites. Luckily. I still had the 6.0 DMG and was able to reinstall. I will not accept forced updates. |
Levis3 on
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (07:10:53) says: Please enable this as soon as possible. It will protect the majority of layman users and more technical have a option to turn it off so it is a win win situation. |
Mantas on
Thursday, October 06, 2011 (12:10:33) says: Ahh, not one more boot service please. Would it be possible to integrate with, for example, Google Update Service instead? |
Brian R. Bondy on
Thursday, October 06, 2011 (01:10:33) says: > I will not accept forced updates. You can configure updates in the Options. > Ahh, not one more boot service please It will not be a boot service, it will be an on demand service. |
Mele20 on
Friday, October 07, 2011 (11:10:55) says: Will the enterprise version be available to consumers? I really detest this rapid update cycle. I think once a year is plenty often for Fx to upgrade to a new version. I've been using Mozilla browser from 2001 and then Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox and this is the worst change I have seen in all these years. I very much want to use the Enterprise version. I want to be able to use the Enterprise version although even with it the upgrades are too frequent but a lot more sensible than with the consumer version. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Friday, October 07, 2011 (01:10:26) says: > Mele20: The updates tab in Options is probably your best bet you can turn off checking for updates there. |
gld on
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 (09:10:26) says: Yes! A service-based update model will allow co-existence of updating and sandboxing on end-user machines. I prefer to set up friends' WinXP computers with Firefox (because XP does not have the half-decent IE9) and Thunderbird (to avoid migration issues between some of the MS email clients), but also with Sandboxie. At the moment this means having to turn off automatic updates, and give the end-users precise instructions for manual updates (shut down the sandboxed programs, open them normally, and manually trigger the updates). Roll on Q1 2012. |
Nigelle on
Monday, October 17, 2011 (05:10:19) says: I absolutely needs some extensions (not in AMO) and do not accept to update if they are not compatible to the new release. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Monday, October 17, 2011 (05:10:04) says: > So I don't wish to have an automatic update without my control ! You can configure this to do everything you want already, and in the future via the preferences. |
laszlo on
Saturday, October 22, 2011 (01:10:40) says: >> ... Scheduled tasks may run with elevation ... > Right I didn't say they can't run elevated, just that they can't be used as a trick to run elevated for unelevated processes. It's not a way for a process to auto-elevate itself, that's right. But nonetheless you should take a look at the schtasks.exe utility coming with Windows Vista and 7. It's able to start a previously defined elevated task from an unelevated process. |
ccaporale on
Friday, November 04, 2011 (02:11:11) says: Brian- |
mrgreen on
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 (12:03:53) says: I wanted to mention this to the developers of the silent update service - if the service ever attempts to connect to the internet, firewalls will block it and it will be unreliable. If the download is done by the browser and then the updating is done by the background service that should work much better. |
Brian R. Bondy on
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 (12:03:13) says: The browser will do the download, the service will use the already downloaded update. A signature check is done on the downloaded file to ensure it has not been tampered with by the service before applying the update. |
Windows 8 and Thunderbird first looks
Last modified: Thursday, September 15, 2011
I just wanted to post a quick follow up to my Firefox on Windows 8 post on how Thunderbird works with screenshots.
As with Firefox and other applications, as soon as you install Thunderbird it shows up as a Tile in the metro interface.
Clicking on it exits the tablet metro interface and goes into the old interface and launches Thunderbird.
One important thing is that if you click on a mailto:
link in Internet Explorer it won't launch the default mail client. Instead it prompts with this error:
Windows Internet Explorer
Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed.
Here's a screenshot of that error message:
I assume once this registration problem is fixed it'll launch the Desktop mode and then launch the email client. It would be nice to have a metro interface for Thunderbird as well.
Perhaps even a metro style compose email window application only for when a user is browsing in tablet full screen mode and they click to send an email with their default email client.
Related Bug:
- Bug 686836 - Launching default email client in Windows 8 results in error
Tags: thunderbird windows mozilla windows8
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Efakdeadea on
Saturday, March 24, 2012 (04:03:53) says: You write so honetlsy about this. Thanks for sharing! |
Fabian on
Friday, October 19, 2012 (10:10:22) says: thats it. Im still wondering if there will be a "real" win8 version of thunderbird. would be pretty sad if they would forget about that. it's all about comfort, isn't it? :) |
Windows 8 and Firefox first looks
Last modified: Thursday, September 15, 2011
As you probably already know, Windows 8 introduces the new default Tablet interface, and the old normal Desktop interface. It uses the new tablet interface as the startup interface even on Desktops though. For a good rundown on all of the new features, see here.
When you first boot up into Windows 8, it takes you briefly for about 1/2 of a second to the desktop interface and then switches directly to the tablet interface. I had read previously that the desktop/explorer process was only loaded into memory if you clicked it, but it seems to not be the case for this early pre-beta release.
The next thing you notice is that once in the Desktop interface, the start menu button no longer brings up a menu. It brings you back to the tablet interface. Pressing the Start/Windows keyboard button will take you between the 2 interfaces.
Firefox on Windows 8:
The first thing I did was install Firefox.
After installing Firefox, Windows will ask you which web browser you would like to use by default. It shows you a picture of Firefox and IE and lets you pick. Nice interface. It shows you this dialog even before our process starts. If you change focus to another tab or application though, the dialog goes away forever unless you uninstall and reinstall Firefox.
After installing we show automatically into the tablet interface as a new tile.
But when you click on the Firefox icon in the tablet interface, it takes you directly to the old Desktop environment and loads the Firefox process as normal. I think it'll be possible for integration like IE does into the tablet interface direclty. Although the solution may have to be 'creative'.
Full screen mode in Firefox works the same as previous versions currently. If you start in full screen it will switch you first to the Desktop mode, and then launch full screen. Exiting full screen leaves you at the Desktop interface.
Internet Explorer Tablet Mode:
If you start Internet Explorer from the tablet mode you'll see a full screen app with no switch to Desktop. It has a nice interface and allows you to pin any web page to your Tablet interface as a tile.
The problem with this is that even know I set Firefox as my default browser, through the Windows interface, it still launches IE for these shortcut tiles.
Here is a tile created on the far left from a pinned page in IE of the mozilla.org page:
Work to be done for Firefox on Windows 8:
There's probably a ton, but here are a few things that come to mind:
- We need to support the VS2011 developer tools for MozillaBuild
- It would be nice to not need to switch to Desktop to launch the browser.
- Platform integration for apps seems very important. We should be showing up as tiles for web applications that launch Firefox full screen.
- The Firefox tile can be leveraged to have more functionality built into it.
Related bugs:
- Bug 686835 - Investigate using XPCOM in a metro style application, and providing Firefox as a Metro app
- Bug 686837 - Add VS2011 support for mozilla-build
- Bug 686839 - Investigate Windows 8 metro tile integration
- Bug 686840 - Investigate the ability to toggle between a metro app and a native app
Tags: windows firefox mozilla windows8
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pzo on
Monday, September 19, 2011 (01:09:32) says: firefox not working as in current win 8. Ucant access options panel by touch, also drop down list not working by touch. |
andre viana on
Monday, October 03, 2011 (12:10:28) says: i am using windows 8 |
Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston
Last modified: Monday, August 08, 2011
★★★★★ (5 stars out of 5)
When I previously thought about CSS I would only think about:
- selectors, or selector hierarchies, and
- properties related to those selectors
Although both are covered in detail in this book, the book really helped me discover things I had no idea I didn't know about CSS. The book does a great job of not explaining fundamentals of CSS and focuses instead on what's new in CSS3.
Media queries in particular was great to know about for making your website capable on mobile devices.
After reading its chapter I immediately implemented media queries on my blog.
I really liked how this book was organized, the first part deals with the CSS3 features that are already implemented in major browsers, followed by the parts which are partially implemented, and finally the things which are not yet implemented or agreed upon and are likely to change.
Every chapter ends with each major browser and the support it has for the features discussed in the chapter.
Other features like opacity, RGBA & HSL & HSLA colors, drop shadows, rounded corners, and much more were great to know about.
Several tips are provided for working with older browsers in a sane manner throughout the book for just about each section.
My only criticism in this book is that it would have been ideal to know not what is expected in IE9 but what is actually in IE9. IE9 was released March 14th,2011 this book was released in April, 2011. I can understand though that this would have delayed the release of the book.
Update: The author Peter Gasston has up-to-date information on the website which supports the book.
Peter Gasston on
Monday, August 08, 2011 (09:08:14) says: Thanks for your very kind review, Brian. I too would have liked to have included the final release of IE9 in my book, but every delay could mean that another part of the book would become slightly outdated. If it were up to me I would have kept on revising it, but the publisher insisted we set a cut-off point! I've got more up-to-date information on the website which supports the book, http://thebookofcss3.com, which I hope is an acceptable compromise. |


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"I say, 'Look, there's only one Steelers tent.'"
Mom's enchiladas
Burgers and dogs may be tailgate stars, but John Nunez of Omaha says his mom's beef enchiladas can't be beat.
Jackie Nunez makes 150 enchiladas for the family's party and brings them, warm from the oven, on the first day of the CWS. She got the recipe from her mother and says it's been in the family for at least 60 years.
John Nunez says the sauce, made from fresh ancho chili pods, is the key.
His family's CWS menu also includes quesadillas, pork steaks and beef brisket, plus margaritas in plastic glasses with salted rims.
His sister-in-law's oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookies are a hit for dessert. Tailgaters at his party will nibble through 40 dozen during the series.
Nunez, who tailgates every day of the CWS, says his brother started the tradition more than 15 years ago.
There were only six or eight people in those days, but now at least a couple dozen turn out.
His family even has a planning meeting to figure out the menu about a week before the tournament.
Part of his family's tradition is welcoming back friends from around the country.
"It's hospitality," he says.
"They've grown up with it"
Chuck Dorwart first pulled out the food and started tailgating at the series in 1991, and the party is still going strong.
That was the first and only year Creighton University played in the CWS, making it special for Dorwart, a Creighton graduate.
That year it was just 10 family members. But now friends and neighbors have stretched the guest list to as many as 40. His crew still tailgates every day of the series.
You'll always find some burgers from Omaha Steaks sizzling on the grill, plus Stoysich sausage, says Dorwart, who lives in Bellevue and attends every game.
They've also added new dishes over the years — fajitas and guacamole, for example.
Friends always bring food and treats. This year, someone brought s'mores, which were a hit.
Kids stay busy playing catch with tennis balls.
Dorwart says tailgating at the CWS is an important tradition for his family, including his four children, who are now ages 19 to 25.
"They've grown up with it,'' he says.
Grab an Omaha dog ... and a napkin
You've heard of chili dogs and corn dogs, but what about an Omaha dog?
Doug Hokenstad of Omaha serves them at his tailgate party. He tailgates most days of the series, but offers the dogs only once.
His dog packs a sweet-sour taste his tailgaters love. It's piled with sweet sauerkraut, pickles, sauteed onion, cheese and mustard.
Keep a napkin handy.
He also poaches and sears Italian sausages, then slow cooks them in his own marinara sauce with sliced red bell peppers and onions. His guests love it.
Marinated turkey tenderloins are another tradition, says Hokenstad, who soaks the tenderloins eight hours in a marinade that includes canola oil, soy sauce and lime juice.
Hokenstad also likes to offer something new each year.
For this CWS, it's homemade mango and black bean salsa, says Hokenstad, who attends most CWS games.
Between games, he loves playing cribbage with his son.
Hokenstad's tailgaters also play ladder ball. Players toss small balls joined by a cord and try to hang them on the rungs of a short plastic ladder.
Hokenstad started tailgating about 20 years ago. He says one of the best parts is making great food for his family and sharing it with folks at nearby parties.
"I haven't heard anyone complain,'' he said.
An early start
Omaha's Gail Rosenbaugh started tailgating at the CWS when his son Scott was 2 weeks old.
Scott now is 29, and brings his own son, 2-year-old Jack.
Rosenbaugh's tailgate party started with lunch meat sandwiches.
Now you'll find such dishes as lemon-chicken kabobs and grilled pineapple drizzled with lime juice and honey.
Sure, it's a fruit, but Rosenbaugh says it tastes more like candy.
If you arrive early enough, you'll also enjoy breakfast that includes eggs and French toast.
He tailgates most days of the series and sets up his tent by about 9 a.m., providing plenty of time for fun before the first game.
His party draws as many as 50 people.
Rosenbaugh says his four grown kids handle the work. He did it all the years they were growing up and now gets to kick back in a lawn chair under his red Husker tent.
"Now they're doing it for me,'' he says.
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Marinated Turkey Tenderloins
� cup canola oil
� cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
� cup reduced-sodium teriyaki sauce
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons coarsely ground pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 � teaspoon dried parsley flakes
1 � teaspoon dried basil
� teaspoon onion powder
2 pounds of turkey tenderloins (he uses Honeysuckle White Turkey Breasts Tenderloins) Usually come two in a package.
In a 2-cup measuring cup, combine the first 11 ingredients. Pour 2/3 cup into a large resealable plastic bag; add turkey. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for eight hours or overnight. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade. Before starting the grill, coat grill rack with nonstick cooking spray. Drain and discard marinade from turkey. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 7-9 minutes; baste with reserved marinade. Turn and grill 7-9 minutes longer or until juices run clear. If using a digital thermometer, take off when reaching 165 degrees. Serves 8.
— Doug Hokenstad
Mango Black Bean Salsa
1 mango
15 ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
7 ounce can whole kernel corn with peppers, drained
� cup onion, finely chopped
� cup fresh cilantro, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 teaspoon garlic salt
� teaspoon ground cumin
Cut mango into �-inch cubes. In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate until ready to use. Serve with tortilla chips.
— Doug Hokenstad
Beef Enchiladas
2 pounds dried chili ancho pods
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon cumin
� cup water
10 pounds ground beef
1/3 cup flour
5 tablespoons salt
5 tablespoons chili powder
3 tablespoons cumin
2 cups water
1/3 cup white vinegar
4 cups shortening
50-60 tortillas
8 cups shredded cheddar cheese
3 onions, chopped
Remove stems and seeds from chili pods and rinse pods in cold water. Place pods in pot and soak in very hot water from the tap for 45 minutes. Then place five of the pods in blender to make a sauce, adding 1/2 cup water so the pods liquefy. Pour chili sauce through a sieve to remove skins. Add salt and cumin to sauce, then heat in pan until hot.
Brown ground beef until half cooked, add flour and stir. Finish browning, add salt, cumin, chili powder, water and vinegar. Heat to boiling, then reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, then drain.
Add shortening to deep fryer and heat to 350 degrees. Dip tortillas individually in the fryer for 30 seconds, remove and let oil drip off. Then dip each tortilla in chili sauce. Spread ground beef on tortillas, garnish with shredded cheese and chopped onion, and roll them up.
— Jackie Nunez
Play Ball Cake
� cup shortening
1� cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2� cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
� teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
� cup shortening
� cup butter, softened
3 cups confectioners' sugar
4 tablespoons milk, divided
� teaspoon vanilla extract
� teaspoon almond extract
Dash salt
� cup baking cocoa
Shoestring red licorice
In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add alternately with milk to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Pour 1 1/2 cups batter into a greased and floured 3-cup ovenproof bowl.
Pour remaining batter into a greased and floured 9-inch round baking pan. Bake both cakes at 325 for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
For frosting, in a large bowl, beat the shortening, butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Beat in 3 tablespoons milk, extracts and salt until smooth. Set aside 1 cup.
To remaining frosting, beat in cocoa and remaining milk. Cut a 3-inch x 1-inch oval for the thumb opening from an edge of the 9-inch cake. Place cake on a 11-inch covered board. Frost with chocolate frosting.
With four pieces of licorice, form two crosses over thumb opening for laces in mitt. Frost the rounded cake with white frosting. Use licorice pieces to form laces of ball. Place on mitt cake opposite the thumb opening. Yield: 8-10 servings.
— Taste of Home
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I was already sweaty; putting on hot, dirty gear was not helping. Wetness was building up underneath my eyes, it was sweat. I walk onto the field, but not for long. I hear my name get called… I walk confused off the field.
My dad starts taking off my gear eagerly. The faint rattling noise of my gear caused by my dad's shaking hands fills my ears. I pull off my helmet and start helping my dad because it was obvious that i wasn't playing anymore. I didn't ask why he was doing this because at that moment a single tear ran down my dad's eye. That tear was from a loss, a loss of his mother, my grandma.
My heart melted like butter on a hot plate. I didn't understand why this was happening. But it wasn't a sudden death, I saw it coming… just never under stood it. My grandma had many cancers, bone, breast, skin, lung and brain. I felt wetness building up underneath my eyes. But this time it wasn't sweat.
I walk to the car, my stomach full of depression and sadness. My grandma was my everything. She was the pop to my tart the fruit to my loop, the rock to my roll and the star to my burst. But most of all she was the best to my friend.
We start driving home, the weather started going bad … like my feelings. thunderclouds rolling in, thick mist drifted around the car. I started thinking that no one would understand. I wanted to be sad and depressed. We got home and i went to the top of the stairs…I looked down at my front door; I waited and waited and waited for her to walk through my front door. sometimes I say "grandma….. are you there?" She doesn't talk back but I know she is there. Even though she is long gone, and in a better place, I still want her to come back and bake cookies like we used to. I still want her to come back and make those surprise visits with goodies galore! I want her to kiss me goodnight and tuck me in and comfort me by saying she'll never leave. I still want her to whisper in my ear "I love you, I love you, I love you to the moon and back". I still want her to walk through that door.


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Friday, February 12, 2010
Snow Storm, Flu, and Liquid Silver
8 comments:
- Lauren said...
Look at that smarty pants! She is going to Harvard, I tell ya! :)
Glad you are feeling better, love. Interesting stuff.. they say crohn's comes from a previous illness. I wasn't sick growing up or before I got crohn's so it baffles me. Anytime I see holistic docs they ask if I had a lot of earaches growing up.. I didn't but, funny how it all goes. Have a nice weekend (I am sure we will be texting over it)! Get better!! XO! - February 12, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Gabriela said...
Looks like you got the same snow we did in PA! Addie looks too cute :) Sorry to hear about all the sickness- glad you're feeling better, at least!
I've heard so many negative things about the pill since joining the blogosphere, but at the same time I haven't heard of any alternatives besides natural planning, which just doesn't work for me at this point. Any suggestions/advice on other options? Thanks :) - February 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Mary Liselle Davenport said...
Hi Maria, sorry to hear about the flu, eek!! But SO glad you are feeling much better. If you have the time, do you mind talking more about your adrenal fatigue experience? Like - how did they test you, sublingual or blood? Are you taking cortisol in pill form? Are you taking other hormones in pill form? Which other hormones? (I think you mentioned progesterone) Are you taking adaptogens or glandulars too? (I am just starting to learn about this).
I know you have a lot on your plate and I don't want you to feel like we are making too many requests. As always, thank you for your willingness to share your experiences and help others. You have been such a godsend in my life!! - February 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM
- Eco Mama said...
Aww... Sorry you were so sick. Hope the silver works for you.
Eco Mama - February 12, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Tough Cookie said...
Mary, you know what I will do? I'll make a vlog about all of my meds, supplements, pills, and potions so you can see them and how they are ingested or put on the skin -- like a tutorial. Sound good? Thank you so much for reading!
- February 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- theemptynutjar said...
Hope you feel better maria...u are so strong.
happy v-day. - February 14, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Join the Gossip said...
Oh man, so sorry to hear you all had the flu. That stinks! The pics look beautiful, we are far from anything remotely winter like in LA.
- February 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Herrien said...
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SIBERIAN SURPRISE: DNA retrieved from a fossil found in Denisova Cave, located in the Altai Mountains, belongs to a previously unknown form of human. The excavation field camp is visible in this view from above the cave.
Image: Johannes Krause
For much of the past five million to seven million years over which humans have been evolving, multiple species of our forebears co-existed. But eventually the other lineages went extinct, leaving only our own, Homo sapiens, to rule Earth. Scientists long thought that by 40,000 years ago H. sapiens shared the planet with only one other human species, or hominin: the Neandertals. In recent years, however, evidence of a more happening hominin scene at that time has emerged. Indications that H. erectus might have persisted on the Indonesian island of Java until 25,000 years ago have surfaced. And then there's H. floresiensis—the mini human species commonly referred to as the hobbits—which lived on Flores, another island in the Indonesian archipelago, as recently as 17,000 years ago.
Now researchers writing in the journal Nature report that they have found a fifth kind of hominin that may have overlapped with these species. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) But unlike all the other known members of the human family, which investigators have described on the basis of the morphological characteristics of their bones, the new hominin has been identified solely on the basis of its DNA.
Johannes Krause and Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and their colleagues obtained the DNA from a fossilized pinky finger bone found at Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The species was impossible to determine from the shape and size of the bone—it simply did not contain any diagnostic morphological traits. But there were good reasons to believe it came from a Neandertal or an early modern human. For one, the bone was recovered from a stratigraphic layer of the cave dated to between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago that contained artifacts belonging to the so-called Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic industries associated with these two groups. For another, Neandertals and modern humans were the only hominins known to have lived in this region during that time period. But the DNA the team extracted from the Denisova pinky bone turned out to be markedly different from DNA sequences previously obtained from early modern humans and Neandertals.
The researchers focused on a type of DNA known as mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, and they have their own DNA that is separate from that housed in the cell nucleus and is passed down from mother to offspring. Because each cell has thousands of mitochondria, but only a single nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is much more abundant than nuclear DNA and is therefore more likely than the latter to be preserved in fossilized bone. To date, scientists have sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of both Neandertal and early modern human individuals, and the sequences for the two groups are quite distinctive.
Comparing the order of the genetic "letters"—or base-pairs, as they are termed—making up the Denisova mtDNA with the sequences of modern day humans and an early modern human, Krause and his collaborators found that the Denisova mtDNA differed from humans today in nearly twice as many letter positions as Neandertal mtDNAs do. Further analysis indicated that the most recent common mtDNA ancestor of the Denisova individual, Neandertals and modern humans dates to around a million years ago (making it twice as old as the most recent common mtDNA ancestor of Neandertals and moderns). This divergence date, the team says, indicates that the Denisova mtDNA is distinct from that of the H. erectus population that left Africa 1.9 million years ago, and also from that of the Neandertal ancestor H. heidelbergensis, which branched off from the lineage leading to modern humans around 466,000 years ago. As such, the researchers contend the Denisova mtDNA reveals a previously unrecognized migration out of Africa by a hitherto unknown group of hominins. (The team is holding off on giving the creature a formal name for now, but informally they refer to it as X-woman.)


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Here is the info on my old Dobro from my website, plus an artsy picture I took of it in my drive with a suitcase of about the same vintage! Thanks for your interest Ted!
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Year: 1936
Description: This guitar was a gift from the original owner's son, who had had it in storage for about 25 years. Although I offered to purchase it from him, he said that he didn't play and would rather give it to me since I would play it. Although the original case was literally falling apart, in the storage compartment inside I found his father's steel slide and metal fingerpicks. The instrument is in very good, all original, condition, especially for an instrument currently 72 years old. There is a repaired crack in the slotted headstock. The original tuning keys work great. The "moons & stars" cover plate is rare, and I have only seen it in a photograph on one other guitar, and on a Regal brand resonator banjo (page 7 of the Gruhen's Guide to Vintage Guitars"). It has round-neck construction and good action, low enough to be played Spanish style, yet high enough for slide work.
Here's a tune I'd like to share with you all.. This is one of my tunes called Rama P. Jama. I think of it as a "Bill Monroe meets the Maharishi" type of tune. Sort of an international number. At least that's what I was shooting for when I started messing around with it. It's a modal tune - I believe it's a phrygian mode.
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Obamacare and the Coming (Not Again?) Wealth Transfer
Permalink +Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 10:05 am // Dick Conoboy
It is called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (short form: "Obamacare"). As with most laws nowadays, you can be sure that the effect of the law will be the polar opposite of the language in the legislation's title. In this case Obamacare will be neither protective nor affordable.
Predictably, the cruel joke is on the American public who, for the most part, has swallowed the hype and thinks Obamacare will work. As long as our current medical industry is dishing out the care, medical insurance of the type required by the law will be next to useless against the obscene costs. But by then, medical insurers will be raking in billions in insurance premiums from the nearly 50 million now uninsured, many of whom are poor or nearly poor. It won't matter whether the money is wrenched from their pockets or the coffers of the U.S. Treasury in the form of subsidies. The ultimate effect will be an enormous Obama-initiated transfer of wealth from these citizens [and from the government in the way of subsidies] to the grotesquely bloated medical care industry. It will amount to unarmed robbery of the public, but nobody in the health care industry will go to jail.
The salt in the wound is that insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket to pay for ballooning medical costs that have no justification in reality. These costs are yet another factor over which Obamacare will have no effect. An extensive article that appeared recently in Time Magazine tells the horrific story of medical charges. The piece, written by Steven Brill is entitled "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us". In the article, Brill takes apart actual hospital bills with the fury of a wild dog on a carcass, and exposes the insanity behind the often incomprehensible charges.
Brill's partial assessment: "Unless you are protected by Medicare, the health care market is not a market at all. It's a crapshoot. People fare differently according to circumstances they can neither control nor predict. They may have no insurance. They may have insurance, but their employer chooses their insurance plan and it may have a payout limit or not cover a drug or treatment they need. They may or may not be old enough to be on Medicare or, given the different standards of the 50 states, be poor enough to be on Medicaid. If they're not protected by Medicare or they're protected only partly by private insurance with high co-pays, they have little visibility into pricing, let alone control of it. They have little choice of hospitals or the services they are billed for, even if they somehow know the prices before they get billed for the services. They have no idea what their bills mean, and those who maintain the chargemasters [every hospital has its own internal price list called a "chargemaster"] couldn't explain them if they wanted to."
He goes on. "How much of the bills they end up paying may depend on the generosity of the hospital or on whether they happen to get the help of a billing advocate. They have no choice of the drugs that they have to buy or the lab tests or CT scans that they have to get, and they would not know what to do if they did have a choice. They are powerless buyers in a seller's market where the only sure thing is the profit of the sellers."
Obamacare will not cure this. There will be no single payer system to stand up to this pricing farce. Obama already negotiated with himself in his head and turned his "health" bill over to the insurance companies. It is corporate welfare at its finest. This, then, is the double whammy: unaffordable mandatory insurance coupled with unspeakably high medical costs.
According to another article, (Obmacare: Devils in the Details) on the website of Paul Craig Roberts of the Institute for Political Economy, "… [T]he cost of using the mandated policies will be prohibitive because of the large deductibles and co-pays. Many Americans will find themselves not only with a policy they can't afford, but also with one they cannot afford to use. Those who cannot afford the insurance, even with a subsidy, will be faced with a costly penalty, and in many cases, this, too, will be difficult, if not impossible, to pay. As each year's subsidy is based on last year's income, there will be a substantial year-end tax liability for those who must repay the subsidy in whole or part because their income increased during the year. The stress alone from such a regressive scheme is, without a doubt, not conducive to good health and well-being."
Roberts predicts, "Obama will rue the day that his name was put on this special interest legislation, and most Americans, once they realize what has been done to them, will be angry that special interests again prevailed over the health of the nation."
I urge you to read both articles at the links above. Send copies to members of your family and, especially, provide them to your children or grandchildren, upon whom the burden of this travesty will fall. This horrendous legislation will affect every one of us in some way, shape or form. Mostly, it will bring terrible costs and confusion to those who can least afford it. It is a rip-off destined to fatten the health insurance companies, a fact most of the legislators knew the moment it was passed. But they held their noses lest the stench overwhelm them.
Bill Black // Thu, Mar 07, 2013, 8:59 pm
I went to Olympia for the introduction of HB 1085 on February 1st. 25 people testified….24 in support, and 1 opposed. Very compelling testimony from physicians, business people and ordinary people.
Dial up Health Care For All Washington for a look at where we need to go.
Leeches and blood letting had their day…..hoping to be able to say the same someday in regards to our current evil system of health care in this country.
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Dick Conoboy // Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 9:50 am
Thanks. I had not been following the particular efforts here in the state. Will take a look at the HB.
Alex McLean // Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 2:27 pm
Thanks for posting this.
I have scanned through the article, as it keeps gumming up the social sites, and must confess that my computer-age attention span and reluctance to read electronic book-form has handicapped my ability to get through all 20+ pages of it.
I don't have read every page, however, since all of the gut instincts I have ("gut instincts" are NOT covered by Obamacare) tell me the story rings true. I hope the author, Steven Brill, wins the Pulitzer for this important effort.
It is likely that I am treading on familiar ground, covered in the article, but it seems to me the crux of this conundrum comes from the inordinate lobbying power—from the medical industry, insurance companies, big pharma, etc.—which leveraged this absurdity upon the American public. Obama may have wanted a good bill. Citizens certainly hoped for one. Congress may have been energized enough to tackle the challenge. But, due to the influence and power of these massive financial interests, we got reamed.
It is interesting to me that Republicans, who loathe the bill for forcing a Health Care "System" upon America, never once direct their attacks toward the insurance companies, hospitals, or big pharma which have made the Affordable Care Act such an obdurate farce. If the true grist and corruption of the special interests—the corporate powers that Republicans fawn over and bow to—were directly addressed, then they would be attacking "costs" of this bill from a consumer perspective or, at least, targeting the freakish over-charging that this Act and these corporate players allow and condone. They don't do this, however, and it makes me ponder how much worse it would be if they were to rewrite this legislation.
As the root of the problems come from corporate greed, and since this corporate source is THE power behind this legislation, it will likely be up to citizens to march and petition in front of office towers and factories rather than wasting a minute of time in Washington DC. As disorganized and dumb as much of the "we are the 99-percent!" rallies were, this tactic, combined with an appeal that spreads across (nearly) every spectrum of our society, would likely instill enough shame amongst the shameless to inflict some change.
This article, also, explains how this whole nation is being crippled financially as we allow corporate interests to extort money from us while holding our physical health and well-being hostage.
I don't follow this sort of thing too carefully.
So here is a question for the cyber-trust:
Is the current debate over a merger between Peace Health and Catholic Health Initiatives going to help, or exacerbate, our local rendition of this industrial/medical complex?
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Dick Conoboy // Fri, Apr 05, 2013, 12:17 pm
Thank you for your well-considered reply that I did not read until today since I was travelling recently. Of course, we all know now the result of the attempt of Peace Health/Catholic Health to join forces. I do not see that the current decision is anything resembling a final decision on such a merger. The drumbeat for consolidation of these church-related entities across the nation has not ceased.
I would however change industrial/medical complex to faith-based/medical complex. That any particular religious entity be essentially the sole provider of medical services in an area is unacceptable to me.
Obamacare and the Coming (Not Again?) Wealth Transfer
Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 10:05 am // Dick Conoboy
You are not likely to escape the coming transfer of $billions from your pocket to the health insurance industry. You will get little, if anything, in return.4 comments; last on Apr 05, 2013
PeaceHealth Merger Threatens Women's Health in Whatcom County
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Price, Volume, Mix
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The health care debate seems to center on fixing two important problems. The first is the people who do not have any insurance, and the second is the…2 comments; last on Aug 11, 2009
Dear White House,
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The Public Health Care Option
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Thanksgiving wishes from Lois Garlick
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We want pure clean water
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Everyone on here needs to respect that people are proud of their gifs pictures, ideas and what not, it's something they have worked hard on and want to share with the world. We share it with the world, because whatever the topic may be it's something we love, and something we want to love and fangirl with other people who have that same passion. We spend our time working on gifs and etc., we don't do it for a job we do it for ourselves. We go out there and put our work on the internet not for money, not for recognition but to share something we love with others who are similar to ourselves.
Most of us watermark, not all do. I don't because I haven't quite worked out how, but that is still no excuse. It still belongs to someone. Someone spent time and effort working on it, and taking it because there is no significant mention of the maker is no excuse. It is disrespectful to the person who has made the item in question, and it is simply selfish and rude. No one would mind if you asked, or correctly recognised the maker of it. But to go out and take the work of another person is not okay.
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Length: 13.5 km
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