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And they're off! More than 72,000 signatures have been collected and delivered to the National Chicken Council urging the trade association to incorporate slower-growing birds and better living conditions into their chicken welfare guidelines.
"Our goal was to reach 50,000 signatures, and we've far surpassed that," says Suzanne McMillan, the ASPCA's Director of Farm Animal Welfare. "This sends a clear message that people care about the way chickens are treated, and they are standing with us to demand change."
It's no surprise that with all this support we've been ruffling a few feathers. Just last month the National Chicken Council and the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association created a website that looks just like our Truth About Chicken site—minus much of the truth!
"The chicken industry needs to take animal welfare as seriously as Americans do," says McMillan. "We're proud to have such dedicated supporters who understand that chickens deserve better!"
To learn more about the way modern chickens are raised, visit The Truth About Chicken!
Jennifer B. and her husband visited the ASPCA Adoption Center to adopt a pair of kittens, but kept an open mind and ended up with a two special adult cats with lots of love to give. Jennifer shared her adoption story with us:
We came to the ASPCA looking for kittens and were determined to let the cats choose us. The kittens we met were not a perfect fit for us, so the Adoptions staff asked if we'd like to see some adult cats. We ended up finding our babies in the last cat room—a room full of kitties that had been rescued from a hoarding situation in Brooklyn.
We sat down and waited to see if any of the cats would show interest in us. Phoebe was a little skittish but came right up and started pawing at me for attention. Hurley woke up from a nap and took a minute before claiming a spot on my husband's lap. We thought: This must be them. They chose us.
I was a little worried that visiting the ASPCA might break my heart when I realized I couldn't take them all home. But my anxiety subsided when I saw how nice the Adoption Center is and how well the animals are cared for.
Phoebe and Hurley are two of the most affectionate cats I have ever been around. They love attention and are very social with guests. Phoebe has turned into a little lap cat, while Hurley loves to snuggle. They have fans all over Astoria, and across the country, for that matter. We love them more than words can say.
Have you adopted a pet from the ASPCA? Email us your story at email@example.com, and we might feature it on the blog!
Want to receive more stories like Phoebe and Hurley's?
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter, ASPCA News Alert - you'll receive important updates on what's going on and how you can make an impact to save animals' lives!
Dream is a cuddly and playful pup who'd love to be your best friend. He's a low-key dog who enjoys going for walks and would love to spend quality time at home on the couch with you.
Dream has special needs, and he needs a patient adopter to love and take care of him. He has diabetes, and requires injections twice daily. We know that adopting Dream is a significant financial and time commitment, but this little dog has so much love to give in return. He'd do best in a teens-and-up home with experienced adopters and without other dogs around. Adopt Dream today!
Dream is available for adoption at the ASPCA Adoption Center. If you are interested in adopting please call our Adoptions department in New York City at (212) 876-7700, ext. 4900. To learn more about Dream, please visit his page.
Wish you could adopt them all? There are other ways to help. This holiday season, do the next best thing for homeless animals by making a gift to the ASPCA.
In just two months, more than 100,000 people have signed the ASPCA's petition calling on the chicken industry to slow growth rates and provide better living conditions! Kudos to you. We are so happy to see the public embracing this issue.
But a funny thing happened in response to this effort. The National Chicken Council—the industry's trade group—and the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association created a website too, and it sure looks familiar! The big difference between their site and our Truth About Chicken website is that they replaced our statements about chicken welfare with their own.
While we're flattered that these groups took the time and energy to build a website that looks just like ours, we took the liberty of providing some edits. Click on the thumbnail below to take a closer look:
Most of the almost 9 billion chickens raised in this country each year for meat are suffering enormously due to unnaturally fast growth rates and inhumane, unsanitary living conditions. This is bad for chickens and bad for us. With oversight by government almost nonexistent, it's up to us to push for better treatment of chickens.
That's why today we delivered our recommendations [PDF] to the National Chicken Council. We're urging them to incorporate slower growth and better living conditions into their chicken welfare guidelines, which are expected to be released before the end of the year and essentially set the standards for the industry. Please join us by asking the NCC to take this step. Show your support for the ASPCA's recommendations by visiting The Truth About Chicken and telling the National Chicken Council to get serious about welfare!
Creamsicle (pictured right)
Selecting a veterinarian can be a daunting process for some. From convenience and price to competency and compassion, there are a number of factors that you may consider when deciding on a doctor for your pet.
Barbara Glover had many reasons to select the ASPCA Animal Hospital (AAH) as her veterinary practice of choice. She has been an ASPCA adopter and a volunteer for more than 10 years. She has been coming to the ASPCA hospital since 2006 because she trusts the doctors and staff to provide the best care for her special-needs animals.
In 2008, Barbara's cat Leo had already received treatment for hyperthyroidism and was several months into treatment for small cell lymphoma when Barbara learned that Jazz, the love of her life, had cancer. She began a rigorous course of chemotherapy treatments for him, but knew that it was time to say goodbye a few months later when his mass continued to grow. Barbara says that when the time had come for Jazz, everyone at the ASPCA was so wonderful and so compassionate that saying goodbye to Jazz was one of the most memorable and touching experiences she ever had at the hospital.
Dr. Janice Fenichel, who has been treating Barbara's cats for years, says Barbara is an amazing client. "She is always right on top of things," Dr. Fenichel notes. "She is very aware and conscientious and follows through." She also says that Barbara will go the extra mile for her pets, but knows when to make the hard call.
Barbara has had kitties with a wide range of special needs, including socialization issues, neurological conditions, hip laxity, heart conditions and blindness. Her current kitties—Serena (born with no eyes), Creamsicle (heart disease and a neurological disorder) and Pumpernickel (rear-limb weakness)—all receive buckets of attention from AAH's staff on every visit, and it's one of the reasons that Barbara keeps coming back.
When all is said and done, your choice of veterinarian simply needs to "feel right." Whether it's the way the staff greets you, or the way the nurse carries your pet into the exam room, or even the way the doctor is able to explain something frightening in a reassuring way, your veterinarian should not only be a medical expert, but a trusted partner in the care of your pets.
Looking for a trusted vet? To make an appointment at the ASPCA Animal Hospital, please fill out this form or contact us at (646) 259-4080.
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"Scream the truth at the world, so the world may know all," Dawid Gruber, 19, wrote in his final testament. The place was the Warsaw Ghetto, the time August 1942, and Gruber placed his testament with thousands of other papers and documents on daily life under Nazi rule into 10 tin boxes and buried them in the cellar of the Borochow School.

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10 Years After 9/11: Islam in America — A Changing World for Muslims
For American Muslims, the decade since 9/11 has been one long struggle for identity. Take a look at this exclusive series by the Denver Post examining Islam in America. This is the first part in a three-part series.
PART I: A diverse Muslim population confronts a choice: step forward or retreat
The attacks carried out by men who claimed to be acting in the name of Islam happened as the majority of U.S. Muslims were quietly living their lives and comfortably assimilating.
Then came the aftershocks: the Muslim condemnations of extremism, the complaints that that wasn't enough, the evangelist who called Islam an evil and wicked religion, the Patriot Act, two wars.
Yet in the years since 9/11, surveys of American Muslims have portrayed not an isolated community but one that is loyal to the U.S., happy and hopeful for the future — although concerned about discrimination, dubious about the FBI and irrevocably changed by that dark morning.
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Name: gnome-settings-daemon | Distribution: openSUSE 11.2 |
Version: 2.28.1 | Vendor: openSUSE |
Release: 1.1.1 | Build date: Thu Jan 21 18:52:08 2010 |
Group: System/GUI/GNOME | Build host: build36 |
Size: 1912805 | Source RPM: gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.1-1.1.1.src.rpm |
Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org | |
Url: http://www.gnome.org | |
Summary: Settings daemon for the GNOME desktop |
gnome-settings-daemon provides a daemon run by all GNOME sessions to provide live access to configuration settings and the changes done to them as well as basic services like a clipboard manager, controlling the startup of the screensaver, etc. This module was previously part of GNOME Control Center, but has been splitted from it for a more general use.
* Thu Dec 17 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.28.1: + Try harder to use the keyboard layout passed by gdm + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-settings-daemon-try-harder-gdm-layout.patch, upstream included. * Thu Oct 22 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update spec file to add the missing BuildRequire of libcanberra-devel. Fix bnc#547565. * Tue Sep 22 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.28.0: + Fix incomplete function declaration + bgo#578538 - Don't install the dummy plugin whilst keeping the Makefile.am almost intact for copy/paste + bgo#594617 - Fix Touchpad left-handed issues + bgo#404683 - Add sound effect to volume key handling + Remove useless custom eject icon + bgo#594821 - Validate xsettings GConf keys read from the configuration + Fix compiler warnings + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-settings-daemon-build-warning.patch, upstreamed. * Wed Sep 09 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.27.92: + Make 'Locate Pointer a separate process (bgo#524499) + Skip button mappings only for core devices + Updated translations. - Add gnome-settings-daemon-build-warning.patch to fix build. * Tue Aug 25 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.91: + Update gnome-volume-control code + Update cut'n'paste from gnome-media + Update volume control code for new API + Updated translations. * Fri Aug 14 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.27.90: + Update gnome-volume-control from gnome-media (bgo#589825) + Fix crash in gvc_mixer_stream_is_running() (bgo#590073) + Add '-k' option to syndaemon call for 'Disable touchpad while typing' (bgo#590588) + Low disk space warning bug-fixes (bgo#591153) + Updated translations. * Tue Jul 28 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.5: + Only use applicable configurations for switching with the XF86Display hotkey + Only use applicable configurations when auto-configuring outputs during hotplug + Really lay out displays from left to right when using the XF86Display hotkey + For the XF86Display hotkey, preserve the cycle order when sanitizing the configurations + Remove last libglade dependency + Improved low disk space warning (bgo#573980) + Fix compiler warnings + Translation updates. - Remove libglade2-devel BuildRequires. * Mon Jul 20 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.4: + Remove screensaver plugin, it's autostarted now + Don't take too long in RANDR D-Bus method implementation + Add support for Synaptics touchpads + Don't spawn more than one syncdaemon + Depend on gnome-desktop >= 2.26.3 + Update gnome-volume-control code from master + Fix order of arguments to strstr + Depend on libxklavier 4.0 + Remove libglade dependency from media-keys and keyboard plugins + Updated translations. - Respin gnome-settings-daemon-system-proxy-configuration.diff. - Update gnome-settings-daemon-try-harder-gdm-layout.patch for libxklavier API change. * Mon Jun 15 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.3: + Make the RANDR tray icon's per-monitor labels explicitly black (bgo#556050) + Include config.h so that the notifications code in housekeeping plugin can actually be built (bgo#584217) + Use "screen reader" instead of "screenreader" in schema (bgo#572911) + Lots of RANDR fixes and improvements + Nicer handling of broken XKB configuration in gconf (bgo#585259) + Make 'locate pointer' deal with wm/cm changes (bgo#585209) + Be more careful when comparing two key structs (bgo#580616) + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-settings-daemon-filter-invalid-xkb.patch: fixed upstream. - Add gnome-settings-daemon-activate-xkb-with-broken.patch to fix a minor bug in xkb handling on login, with broken config. - Update gnome-settings-daemon-try-harder-gdm-layout.patch to also make sure a keybinding to switch layouts is available, and to not add the gdm layout if we already have a variant for the layout. - Comment out gnome-settings-daemon-bnc461755-randr-rotate-wacom.diff: it needs to be rebased. * Thu Jun 11 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-filter-invalid-xkb.patch: when the xkb config from gconf can't be used, try to remove invalid xkb layouts first before showing an error dialog. The old gdm used to have invalid layouts. * Tue Jun 09 2009 email@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-try-harder-gdm-layout.patch: try harder to use the keyboard layout passed from GDM. * Mon May 25 2009 email@example.com - Added gnome-settings-daemon-bnc461755-randr-rotate-wacom.diff to fix bnc#461755 - Add the option of rotating Wacom tablets when the display is rotated. * Tue May 05 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.27.1: + Use ngettext for the reset dialog (bgo#575409) + Replace deprecated gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip (bgo#578480) + Updated translations. * Tue Apr 14 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.26.1: + Fix crash when closing the lid on some laptops (bgo#576875) + Fix crash when closing a11y notification bubble (bgo#576535) + Fix problems with saving/restoring screen setup + Make the screen resolution confirmation dialog always appear in front of the settings window (bgo#576006) + Increase confirmation timeout to 30 seconds to give slower devices (like projectors) time to adjust + Avoid some GConf roundtrips (bgo#578539, bgo#578542) + Build fixes + Updated translations. * Mon Mar 16 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.26.0: + Make build work with -Wl,-z,defs (bgo#574452) + Updated translations. - Remove -fno-strict-aliasing from CFLAGS. - Remove AutoReqProv: it's default now. - Remove BuildRequires on gnome-control-center and own directories instead, to avoid a build loop. * Tue Mar 10 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Drop gnome-settings-daemon-bnc369263-broken-xkb-layout.patch: we now have a recent enough X server. Fix bnc#483651. * Fri Mar 06 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.25.92: + don't print warnings for disabled custom shortcuts + revert screen resolution change if the user closes the confirmation window using the close icon or by pressing escape (bgo#571492) + add missing keys for a11y shortcut keys to GConf schemas (bgo#572807) + install gnome-settings-daemon-plugin.h for custom plugin developement (bgo#573610) + Updated translations. - Drop gnome-settings-daemon-bnc473980-unknown-media-key.patch: fixed upstream. * Thu Feb 19 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-bnc462640-mute-button-always-mute.patch to make it possible to always mute sound instead of toggling mute status. Part of bnc#462640. The other part is in gconf2-branding, to set the gconf key to actually do that. Patch by Holger Macht. * Wed Feb 11 2009 email@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-bnc473980-unknown-media-key.patch to fix crasher in media keys with unknown keys. Fix bnc#473980. * Thu Feb 05 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add libnotify-devel and libpulse-devel BuildRequires to get all the features. - Remove gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel BuildRequires: it's not needed anymore (replaced by use of libpulse). * Thu Feb 05 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.25.90: + Initialize thread system (bgo#565515) + Better support for Eject and Sleep actions on BSD (bgo#565472) + Spawn screensaver after a 30 second timeout instead of when idle so that it doesn't compete with other processes when the session starts (bgo#564059) + Add low diskspace notification (bgo#557647) + Support hotkeys for a11y tools (bgo#565310) + Quiet xrdb when there are duplicate rules in the .ad files (bgo#566610) + Add debugging output when de/registering media players (bgo#564433) + Add a new sound plugin that tells PulseAudio to drop its sample cache when the sound theme changes (bgo#545386) + Don't pop up an error message when there's no randr configuration file + Ungrab keys when key-related plugins are disabled (bgo#567867) + Use PulseAudio directly to change the volume (bgo#567177) + Don't draw_background immediately when nautilus is disabled, GnomeBG will send a signal + Add crossfade transition when switching backgrounds (bgo#552857) + Use XF86Explorer to launch the file manager + Fix possible crash when pressing Fn-F7 (bgo#568713) + Delay drawing the background until SessionRunning + Ask for confirmation with a timeout after changing the randr configuration (bgo#545115) + Plug leaks + Build fixes + Translation updates - Remove gnome-settings-daemon-low-disk-space.patch. Fixed upstream * Fri Jan 23 2009 email@example.com - Re-enable gnome-settings-daemon-apport-monitor.patch, after fixing some #include in the patch. * Thu Jan 15 2009 email@example.com - Updated gnome-settings-daemon-randr-gerror.diff to fix bnc#465968 - The RANDR plugin was displaying a confusing error message during GDM's startup. * Sat Jan 10 2009 email@example.com - Remove gnome-settings-daemon-randr-gerror.diff. Fixed upstream * Fri Jan 09 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Added gnome-settings-daemon-randr-gerror.diff. This makes the RANDR plugin for gnome-settings-daemon process GError arguments from the GnomeRR API, so that it can give good error reporting. - Removed gnome-settings-daemon-randr-fnf7.diff as it is already contained within the patch above. * Fri Jan 02 2009 email@example.com - Update to version 2.25.3: + Bugs fixed: bgo#562977, bgo#563543, bgo#563796, bgo#559346, bgo#559482, bgo#559564, bgo#559550, bgo#559562, bgo#559558, bgo#559639, bgo#559827, bgo#559695, bgo#553434, bgo#560618, bgo#559797, bgo#522673, bgo#561275, bgo#554951, bgo#555009, bgo#555873, bgo#555553, bgo#556307, bgo#556797, bgo#552383, bgo#557307, bgo#557806, bgo#557808, bgo#549267, bgo#558503, bgo#557807, bgo#559162, bgo#559163, bgo#559164, bgo#559165, bgo#559166, bgo#559167, bgo#559168 + Add support for fn-f7 type keys (Søren Sandmann) + Use D-Bus instead of an X client mesage in the xrandr plugin, so the front-end can get error messages as well + Shut the daemon down properly when the SIGTERM signal is received or the D-Bus bus goes away + Restore AccessX bits to original values on exit, fixes sticky keys coming on when gnome-settings-daemon has exited + Add some performance annotations around libxklavier calls + Reshufle plugin priorities a bit + Listen for DeviceEnabled instead of DeviceAdded to be sure the mouse has + Add debugging output for volume_step + Fix --no-daemon + Depend on libxklavier 3.8 + Fix checks for various X libraries + Fix check for xklavier device discovery + Ignore the 'activate' signal for deselected items so that the rotation + Spawn screensaver process in idle callback + Don't close stderr to not lose warnings + Use a pipe to communicate between children and parent process instead of a signal + Translation updates - Remove gnome-settings-daemon-randr-fnf7.diff. Fixed upstream * Mon Dec 08 2008 email@example.com - Updated gnome-settings-daemon-system-proxy-configuration.diff to fix https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456131 - the system's proxy configuration was not being set in GNOME's proxy configuration. * Mon Oct 27 2008 email@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-apport-monitor.patch, to launching apport-gtk in case a new crash report is available (bnc#439203) * Thu Oct 23 2008 email@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-low-disk-space.patch, to help drop gnome-volume-manager. * Sat Oct 04 2008 email@example.com - Update to version 2.24.0: - Fix the fix for read-only home directories (bgo#530975) - Make the volume popup not crash when invoking it on any screen but the first when using a compositing manager (bgo#551677) - Add GPLv2 copyright notice explicitly so that newer versions of autotools don't declare us GPLv3 (bgo#551956) - Specify GTK modules to load in a GConf directory instead of the single /desktop/gnome/gtk-modules key (bgo#539840) - Also allow linking the module state to other boolean keys by using a string value that is the name of the key to use - Made the housekeeping plugin less aggressive by default (bgo#552680) - Updated translations * Fri Sep 26 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-bnc427745-force-dpi.patch to force the DPI to 96. This fixes huge fonts on login on recent laptops. Fixes bnc#427745. * Thu Sep 18 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to 2.23.92: + Try harder to use the keyboard layout passed by GDM (bgo#551062) + Updated translations * Wed Sep 10 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Added gnome-settings-daemon-randr-fnf7.diff to support switching between display output modes on laptop by using the Fn-F7 hotkey (i.e. XF86Display). * Tue Sep 09 2008 email@example.com - Made gnome-settings-daemon obsolete resapplet, since g-s-d now provides the tray icon to set display settings. * Mon Sep 01 2008 email@example.com - Update to version 2.23.91: - Removed translatable property on stock gtk-close (Claude Paroz) - Fix a constness warning (Jens Granseuer) - Fix a crash due to an incorrect signal handler definition (William Jon McCann) - Use a scale factor instead of a fixed DPI (William Jon McCann) - Use g_warning instead of g_error when setup fails so we don't abort (Jens Granseuer) (bgo#549483) - Updated translations * Mon Sep 01 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Actually remove upstreamed patch from package. * Tue Aug 26 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.23.90: - PulseAudio check to not ouput "no" twice (Jens Granseuer) - Add status icon when a11y hotkeys are enabled, and display Universal Access preferences when it is clicked (William Jon McCann) (bgo#526070) - Simplify libnotify check, fix fontconfig result output (Jens Granseuer) - Put the Glade file where all the others are (jens Granseuer) - Remove some unnecessary boilerplate (Jens Granseuer) - Use g_file_monitor instead of g_file_monitor_file/_directory (Jens Granseuer) (bgo#546372) - Remove warning that isn't (Jens Granseuer) - Fixed crash in randr startup (Jens Granseuer) - Fail xrandr initialization if we couldn't start xrandr (Matthias Clasen) (bgo#546446) - Try harder to clean up xrandr in _stop so we can enable/disable the plugin on the fly (Jens Granseuer) - For LIBSOUNDS, check for libgnomeui, not just libgnome (Federico Mena Quintero) - Add sexy labels when setting up dual monitors (Federico Mena Quintero) - Add a separator to the menu before "Configure display settings" (Federico Mena Quintero) - Use GDK to get DPI (William Jon McCann) - Updated translations - Remove upstreamed patch * Mon Aug 18 2008 email@example.com - fix build * Fri Aug 15 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Updated to gnome-settings-daemon-2.23.6. + Bugs fixed: bgo#544347, bgo#544737, bgo#544733, bgo#165343, bgo#539786, bgo#543289, bgo#543095, bgo#542275, bgo#538699, bgo#533198 - Added gnome-settings-daemon-monitor-labeling.diff to implement labeling of monitors in the tray icon, and monitor rotation support as well. * Fri Jun 20 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.23.4: + Bugs fixed: bgo#523743, bgo#523159, bgo#507386, bgo#525042, bgo#524425, bgo#525426, bgo#530356, bgo#531487, bgo#531589, bgo#530975, bgo#531861, bgo#531862, bgo#522017, bgo#531665, bgo#536177, bgo#490374, bgo#536581, and bgo#531868 + Updated translations - Drop obsolete patches: gnome-settings-daemon-randr-1.2.diff * Thu May 29 2008 email@example.com - Updated gnome-settings-daemon-randr-1.2.diff with the latest fixes from upstream. * Mon May 26 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add gnome-settings-daemon-bnc369263-broken-xkb-layout.patch to unbreak corrupted keymaps on automatic login. This is only a workaround for openSUSE 11.0, unfortunately, since nobody found the right fix yet. Fix bnc#369263. * Tue May 06 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Updated gnome-settings-daemon-system-proxy-configuration.patch to add a missing return in non-void function * Wed Apr 30 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Updated gnome-settings-daemon-system-proxy-configuration.patch to make it apply again * Fri Apr 25 2008 email@example.com - Added gnome-settings-daemon-randr-1.2.diff to integrate the new functionality to configure RandR 1.2. * Fri Apr 11 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.22.1: + Fix segfault when shutting down the typing break monitor (Jens Granseuer) (bgo#521786) + Set window type hint on the volume popup (bgo#522232) + Remove unused properties from actions GUI + Reset opacity when removing the timeout (bgo#522499) + Fix handling of child process + Add a tool to test media keys + Add some profiling code + Fix compiler warnings + Fix leaks (bgo#524183) + Add more stuff to the configuration summary + Don't eat key events (bgo#523676) + Apply keyboard settings on startup (bgo#525440) + Make "Home" keybinding work again + Updated translations. * Fri Mar 14 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.22.0: + Actually link against libXi when building with XInput support (bgo#519488) + Disable debug by default + Don't pass GErrorss if we're not going to use them + Remove obsolete settings for the removed default editor plugin + Updated translations. * Thu Mar 13 2008 email@example.com - Custom look'n'feel gconf keys moved to gconf2-branding-openSUSE. * Tue Feb 19 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 2.21.91: + Use a flat directory instead of a hierarchy to install plugins into (bgo#513246) + Don't scan the plugins directory recursively (#513246) + Install the settings plugin to a versioned directory to fix install with libdir == libexecdir (bgo#504203) + Review short and long descriptions for GConf keys (bgo#514047) + Don't crash when running the screensaver fails (bgo#514385) + Rename src folder to gnome-settings-daemon (bgo#511820) + Add uninstalled.pc file for building against an uninstalled copy of g-s-d (bgo#511820) + Add separate checks for libbackground and use external copy + Use gnome_settings_daemon for the GConf path (bgo#514411) + Release the Glade XML ASAP and keep track of the 2 widgets we need + Make sure we return a GError if initialization fails (bgo#514926) + Load the XKB settings initially (bgo#511771) + Fix leaks + Unref the GConfClient only after done with it + Check for xinput (bgo#514942) + Fix copy'n'paste error (bgo#515426) + Declare variables at the beginning of a block to make older compilers happy + Add back support for defining plugin start order + Assign return value from g_slist_sort to the plugins list variable (bgo#515340) + Replace gnome_vfs usage with GIO (bgo#513990). * Fri Feb 01 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 126.96.36.199: * Use correct binary path in DBus service file * Updated translations * Fri Jan 25 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Added missing unpackaged files - Depend on gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel for the sound module * Wed Jan 16 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - Disabled patches that need rebase. - No need for gnome-patch-translation - Updated BuildRequires * Wed Jan 16 2008 firstname.lastname@example.com - First version of new gnome-settings-daemon package.
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Ignore the Tiny Corpses: America's Powerful Conceal the Monster
You step right over the tiny corpses. Your answer to evil is to keep feeding the evil
Taking a cue from Edmund Burke, all that's necessary for the unthinkable to be accepted is for people to find candor and confrontation of evil more unthinkable. I'm not talking about pronouncing judgment on anyone's soul or limiting God's mercy, but about tolerating evil. Not just tolerating it, but disguising it, concealing it, feeding it.
There was also the day He became justifiably angry, cracked a whip and turned over some tables and was anything but meek. There are things worthy of outrage, things that cry out for a bold confrontation.
When exactly did it become a crime against Love to expose evil and call it evil?
Taking a cue from Edmund Burke, all that's necessary for the unthinkable to be accepted is for people to find candor and confrontation of evil more unthinkable. We have mistaken politeness for Love. We've placed comfort and niceness above the truth and called it our Christian duty. We grow more and more silent, more and more complacent as the evil around us grows braver and more outrageous.
I'm not talking about pronouncing judgment on anyone's soul or limiting God's mercy, but about tolerating evil. Not just tolerating it, but disguising it, concealing it, feeding it.
For the sake of shredding the flimsy veneer of respectability and righteousness covering the stinking pile sitting in our midst, here goes.
There is currently on trial in America a person who fits the definition of a monster. Every bit as evil as Hitler, or the most demented murderer you can imagine. He has a medical degree, so his monstrous actions were done in the name of "health care." His name is Kermit Gosnell, and he has murdered babies for years. He is a human butcher.
He preys on foolish, desperate women, and perhaps some women who are as cold-hearted as he is. He serves no one and cares for no one. He is a killer of the weakest, most vulnerable, most defenseless human beings on the planet. His "work", his actions, his business is nothing but pure evil. (He likes to keep his victim's little feet in jars as trophies.)
He'll rip a near-term living baby from the womb, grab a pair of scissors, and cut the child's spinal column at the neck. He calls it abortion. So do a lot of other people in America.
You would think that every decent citizen in our nation would be so repulsed, so aghast and horrified at the evil this man has done that it would cause soul-searching on a massive scale, and finally, an honest public debate about the reality of abortion.
Thanks to the intentional, shameful silence on the part of major news media, I'll bet that a majority of Americans have no clue about Gosnell or what he's done. This same majority will bristle at the legitimate charges brought against Planned Parenthood and balk at the idea of defunding them. This same majority will go deaf, dumb, and blind when presented with the fact that their stylish, charming President voted four times to deny life-saving medical care to infants who survived an abortion.
I'd bet there are more people who will defend Gosnell's "work" than people who will call him a child killer. In fact, the people most desperate to make Gosnell just disappear are those who want to see his "work" continue, though perhaps not as gruesomely or publicly.
Then again, I don't think the gruesomeness bothers them at all. What bothers them is that Gosnell has made abortion and abortionists look bad and made some people actually feel sorry for the baby.
I don't think taxpayer-funded-Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice, any other pro-abortion lobby or organization, anyone in the mainstream media, or any of our pro-abortion politicians including Obama cares one whit about what Gosnell has done to so many innocent children. They only care that he did it sloppily, left a mess behind him, and got caught.
This murderer's shocking crimes are being ignored by those in power because abortion is more important.
A sadistic and greedy killer is being hidden by people who say they only want women to have freedom of "choice", and they only want the best for children in America. They are the ones who truly care about women, about children, about families, about quality health care, about freedom.
To Planned Parenthood; to PP's guardian and benefactor in the White House; every other political advocate for abortion; and every so-called feminist screaming for "Abortion on demand and without apology!", I'm calling b.s.
You don't give a damn about women, and you certainly don't give a damn about children. You are every bit as invested in the death of the unborn (or born) child as Gosnell, every bit as greedy for the money to be made by killing babies.
Your mission is not women's health or women's freedom or women's choice, but women's coercion, women's manipulation, women's degradation and usage, and if women are sometimes butchered right along with the babies, so be it.
Your mission is dead babies. You don't want fewer abortions, you want more. You're not interested in planning parenthood, but in making sure abortion finally is seen as a necessary, essential, and noble facet of every woman's life. Your goal is that the stigma of abortion should be redirected toward the child in the womb, and to the woman who refuses to believe your bloody lies.
In order to secure future clients and keep the money coming in, you're going after our school children with your perverted version of "sex education" that destroys modesty, normalizes every sort of sexual immorality, mandates condom and Pill distribution and forbids any mention of abstinence. You're making sure Planned Parenthood has access to young girls to "provide" them with "health care" information and abortions without their parent's knowledge or consent. You are actively corrupting our children in the most manipulative and disgusting manner.
Only one thing is sacred to you (beyond the $$) and that is sex -- wherever, with whomever, whenever, and however anyone wants. With no consequences or obligations. You worship genitals and orgasms and every manner of titillation, and the sacrifice you bring to your altar is the child in the womb.
Your scare-tactic speeches about the back-alley abortions of yesteryear are as hollow as your professed concern for the welfare of children. Your insistence that a woman's bodily autonomy is paramount have now been revealed to be nothing but smoke. What you really mean is, babies who have the nerve to survive the first attempt on their lives have no right to medical care, and can quite justifiably be left to die, even made to die, on the table. (It's not infanticide, you say, but post-birth abortion.)
When PP's Florida lobbyist recently said out loud that the decision to give medical care to an infant who survives an abortion should be left to the woman and her doctor, she was merely echoing Barack Obama as an Illinois Senator when he said that caring for the child would "only burden the original decision of the woman". In other words, mom wanted the baby dead, so somebody better make sure the baby dies. That's what we're paid for.
It doesn't matter to any of you when the baby dies, or how the baby dies, or where the baby dies, just as long as the baby dies. That is what you're really all about, and not another breath should be wasted trying to say otherwise. No more soft-peddling with euphemisms and tip-toeing around the truth.
You are all advocates for killing defenseless children. You are not advocates for women's health care, or women's equality, or women's freedom. You are advocates of child murder. If you find that statement harsh, too bad. You have gotten this far only because too many people are too squeamish to call things what they really are. The evil you do has thrived only because people are unwilling to confront you honestly and tear the sympathetic masks off your faces.
You may find Gosnell distasteful and bothersome because he focuses unwanted negative attention on your killing industry, but the best you can do is whine that the monster is in because not enough doctors are willing to be abortionists because of the pesky "stigma" of abortion. Gosnell's "clinic" is proof-positive that America needs more access to abortion, with fewer restrictions and legal oversight so that women won't be "forced" to see a creep like him.
You step right over the tiny corpses. Your answer to evil is to keep feeding the evil.
And you'll keep doing it for as long as we give you the power. You'll keep feeding the evil, and feeding America lies and smokescreens for as long as you can. And we will remain a nation that butchers its own babies.
How long will that be, America? How long will that be, Body of Christ?
(Want to know what the mainstream media isn't reporting?)
Jennifer Hartline is a grateful Catholic, a proud Army wife and homeschooling mother of three children. She is a contributing writer for Catholic Online. Visit her online at Wake Up, Deborah!
Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for December 2013
General Intention: Victimized Children. That children who are victims of abandonment or violence may find the love and protection they need.
Missionary Intention: Prepare the Savior's Coming. That Christians, enlightened by the Word incarnate, may prepare humanity for the Savior's coming.
Keywords: Kermit Gosnell, late term abortion, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, born-alive infants, Jennifer Hartline
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6 months ago
Agreed, nobody can defend these actions - they are contrary to God and it will be contrary to them that anybody who has ever committed them will get to heaven.
Certainly for anyone to get to heaven after committing these heinous crimes, they will have to repent and do penance. Unrepentant murderers go to hell. -
7 months ago
Absolutely no one can defend in any way, what is done to innocents who simply cant say a word in their own defense. Perfect victims, really. And oh-- the big push to keep this bloody, violent slaughter going- only because of so much money involved. Cowards. They all know the truth about abortion, the money matters more and thats the bottom line. Ask around, they will tell you that themselves.
By the way, quoting Catholic doctrine should be checked for accuracy first. -
7 months ago
I don't understand what you mean by: "May God let these Doctors of Death spend their Eternal Life, IN HELL,as they deserve".
That is what I meant........ Joe Donnelly -
7 months ago
As a Devoted Catholic, & Conservative, I am confused by some other "Catholics"
who attend my church, who are Open Democrats, and support all the Democrats
do--Including Abortion. While our Priests condemn Abortion, their hands are tied,
and they are actually threatened through the mail & phone, if they lean Republican.
I believe that One cannot be a Catholic, and a Democrat at the same time. Maybe
in the 1960's it would have worked. Prayers need to be back in the classroom.
Locally, the Democrats who (vocally) support Abortion...............Never attend Mass,
and are basically Atheists. -
7 months ago
Joe Donnelly,
I don't understand what you mean by: "May God let these Doctors of Death spend their Eternal Life as they deserve".
7 months ago
The Obama administration is totally committed to abortions upon demand, and insists that taxpayers pay for them upon demand. This is the Obama policy. Because of this, the "liberal media" stays as far away from any of this as possible and tends to report nothing of any substance about the deaths in the abortion clinics. They simply ignore it!
7 months ago
I'm Mormon, not Catholic, however, this absolute horror story should repulse every decent person, religious or not. No matter how much a person wants to believe that the "fetus" is not a baby, at some point in time before birth every person knows that it is a baby. So a "fetus" taken a few weeks before delivery must be considered a baby by everyone who will consider the situation. I don't know what will happen to our country, we certainly will not be blessed by God by allowing abortion (especially late term) to continue.
7 months ago
Pagan priest? If you have such contempt for the Catholic Church, and Catholicism, what on earth are you doing on a clearly Catholic website?
7 months ago
I wrote this poem because, as father of seven grownup children, I detested the fact that so many wee babys were not given the chance to grow up. Now, after reading about this unholy murderer in your newspaper, I decided to let other people read what I think of such crimes.
May God let these Doctors of Death spend their Eternal Life as they deserve..... Joe Donnelly
Our unborn Dead
Concieved to be murdered, our unborn dead,
Eyes unable to see their plight,
Little souls for whom His Dear Heart bled,
Now wander in a Heavenly Light.
Little bodies carved with heathen skill,
Their blood flows into unknown canals,
Nerves still protesting, twitching still,
Never to be named in the Earth's Annals.
Millions of Angels, made here on Earth,
Millions of voices in a Heavenly Choir,
Praise the Lord who gave them birth,
And sing about His Majestic Power.
Whilst here below, an unwanted soul,
Is placed in a heedless surgeons hand,
A bloody scalpel takes it's toll,
And severs silent, the maternal band.
Another Angel soars on high,
Brings a prayer from a planet of heavenly blue,
From the next whose end is nigh,
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
Joe Donnelly 2002
7 months ago
This is case is utterly reprehensible. Still, it is what some people are pushing for - abortion after birth.
As for pagans - for as much as we respect human beings made in the image and likeness of Christ, there is no reason to defend false religions. For starters there is no singular 'pagan religion'. For example there are plenty that consider murder righteous and good - take for instance the Mayan pagans who thought it apt to bounce sacrifice victims' heads down the steps of pyramids.
To be pagan simply means to be infidel, that is to worship false gods who are ultimately the devil (see the first commandment)! These people are poor deceived victims who Christ came to liberate...not tell to remain in their false idols!
Certainly there are many natural goods found in the religion and culture of pagans, but non-the-less you will find no super natural good (sanctifying grace). The same can be said of all those religions outside the Catholic Church. None of them will lead a person to heaven, rather it will be in spite of them that anyone will get to heaven. There is 'no salvation outside the Catholic Church' to quote a dogma of the Catholic Faith.
Nowadays one could be forgiven for not knowing what Catholic even is when looking at the popes who themselves commit objectively evil actions in their part-taking of pagan rituals. Many Catholic saints have died rather than do this. Many Catholics (then referred to as Christians since there was no ambiguity) were martyred for not giving credence to the Roman gods. Now we have Catholic clergy who mock God and consequently the dignity given by God to mankind by saying it is OK for pagans to remain pagan. Ironically these same clergy still acknowledge the saints of old who died precisely in contradiction to these preachings.
Certainly one must be kind to all peoples, especially to pagans who are amongst the most unfortunate. I have met many who put Catholics to shame with the way they apply themselves, however we can do them and God no greater insult and dishonour than to tell them that they have the true religion. If indeed anyone gets to heaven it is through Christ dying on the cross and through his divine bridegroom Mother Church (Mystical Body of Christ - the Catholic Church) - for pagans it will be in spite of their unwitting worship of devils if they make it to heaven.
The greatest error of our times is to be diplomatic - many saints effected the conversion of pagans by being firm and direct identifying the Catholic Church as the one True Church. Nowadays many will end up in hell thanks to Catholic clergy and laypeople who erroneously tell them the opposite - such Catholics will have a great deal to answer for when they stand before the one true God for leading His peoples away from His Church.
You can give a pagan and all those outside the Catholic Church no greater gift than to tell them that their religion will only lead them to eternal damnation. Likewise nowadays you can also add that the true Catholic faith is seldom found in the churches since the destruction with Vatican II and the introduction of the Novus Ordo Mass. Obviously in so doing, you wont make many friends, but Jesus did precisely this and ask yourself just how many friends did he have in the end? He was hated by most and abandoned by his disciples!
Until the Catholic Clergy and faithful fully restore themselves in Christ these terrors such as this man killing babies will continue to become more common and not before long we will find ourselves again in yet another pagan Roman Empire - this time the USA. Hope we are ready for Martyrdom!
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In the face of a nationwide economic downturn and Ohio unemployment rates higher than the national average, Cleveland's Cuyahoga Community College has experienced years of record enrollments. Thanks to a profound understanding of its community, the college is well positioned to assist students who want to improve their professional skills or learn new ones to take advantage of different job opportunities and careers.
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Crystal Brodis, Director, Information Center, Cuyahoga Community College
"Tri-C really has something to offer everybody," said Crystal Brodis, Director of the Cuyahoga Community College Information Center. "Our administration does a great job of being in tune with the community and business leaders to make sure that we're running the right programs to educate students for the jobs that are available."
The college recently added a number of new programs and buildings, including creative arts and hospitality management centers. It plans to open a health and technology career center, a college center in a neighboring county and a workforce training center to offer emerging technology and energy education programs. The expansion is necessary because of the breadth of the college's curriculum. Each semester Tri-C offers more than 1,000 credit courses in 140 career, technical and liberal arts programs. It serves more than 55,000 students a year in traditional classrooms, on TV, over the Internet and through independent learning programs.
Managing the needs of thousands of students and offering courses at more than 130 locations require not only a strong commitment from college staff, but also a robust infrastructure that enables them to assist students with admissions, financial aid and other aspects of student life.
Doing More with Less
The increasing enrollment – the college has 4,500 more students than a year ago – has created logistical problems. "We are expected to service a lot more students without any new resources," Brodis said. "Student satisfaction is very important, and with our record enrollment numbers it's a challenge to keep everybody happy."
In addition, student expectations have changed dramatically, in part because of technology. "We have experienced a huge increase in the number of students taking classes online and we have begun offering a number of hybrid courses, with in-class meetings and online work," she said. "We have to make resources available online and during non-traditional hours."
Students can use the college's website to apply and register, schedule their classes, apply for financial aid and pay tuition. Most have embraced the technology; 89 percent of Tri-C students registered online this year. "When we see the increased foot traffic on campus we can only imagine what it would have been like if they all had to come in to register at the counter," Brodis said.
Despite the popularity of its online applications, college officials understand that change does not happen quickly. Students who had trouble with online processes sometimes found it difficult to get help quickly when they called the college. To assist them, Tri-C established a temporary call center solution, but soon found that it lacked many of the features the college desired, such as the ability to track the number of calls, how long each caller was on hold and how many transfers were required to answer the caller's questions.
Members of the college's IT department, which had a long relationship with AT&T, began discussing how Tri-C could use the networking expertise from AT&T to further improve customer service.
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AT&T designed and deployed an Integrated Contact Center technology solution using Cisco equipment that delivers intelligent contact routing, network-to-desktop computer telephony integration and multichannel contact management over an IP network. The AT&T network links the college's remote local area networks to support the solution, making it much easier for callers to reach someone who can quickly answer their questions. Calls are distributed based on touch-tone or natural language responses to prompts and routed to the agent best able to handle them. On an average day 3,000 to 4,000 calls are managed. This rises to 8,000 calls during peak times such as at the beginning of a semester.
Helping callers in the past was complicated by the fact that each student service department such as admissions and financial aid at each of Tri-C's three campuses had a different phone number. "There was a lot of transferring calls back and forth between locations to get the student to the right department," Brodis said. Now, with skills-based routing, calls are distributed to functional departments where agents have the expertise to answer a caller's questions. "This makes it much easier to field these calls," she said.
The college has 190 agents on staff, with approximately 60 agents logged in during peak hours. Tri-C decided against a traditional call center model, with agents working together from a single location, opting instead to route calls to specific departments where agents can be assigned to peak hours and complete other tasks when volumes slow down. "They may only be assigned to be on phones from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day if that's our busiest time," Brodis said. "Otherwise they may be in the back room processing documents or at the front counter working with students."
The college also has trained some staff to handle basic inquiries across departments. Previously a student who wanted to make a payment had to wait to speak with someone in the business office. "Now anyone who has that payment skill set is able to take the call," Brodis said, "so it's typically handled a lot faster than before."
Average caller wait time has decreased by 20 percent since Tri-C deployed the contact center solution, and call abandonment has dropped 41 percent. Tri-C now has the ability to track the number of calls and how quickly each call is handled. "It gives us the information we need to allocate resources appropriately," she said. "The solution will grow with us to help us maintain a good level of customer service."
Increased Functionality
The solution incorporates self-service functionality, providing quick access to information. "If students want to check their requirements or loan status they can do it over the phone," Brodis said. "Our student database provides basic information specific to them once they have entered their student ID and password."
On-hold messages give callers their estimated wait time, a welcome feature for people who are careful about using cell phone minutes. The college also provides targeted messages for some departments. A student waiting for help with financial aid may hear answers to frequently asked financial aid questions. "Our goal is to answer their question as they are waiting, or tell them where they can find more information online," she added.
Ready for Continuing Growth
Brodis said agents found it easy to use the Contact Management solution from the first day. "The transition was very smooth. The key for us was making sure that during the design phase we had everyone who was going to be affected by the system at the table," Brodis said. "We got all the buy-in ahead of time, which certainly affected how easily we were able to make the transition."
Preparation was vital to the success of the implementation. When college officials first began considering contact center products, AT&T account representatives met with them to learn as much as possible about their needs. They discussed topics such as the agents' current processes and pain points, back-end data systems and computer telephony integration and then recommended the Cisco solution.
"AT&T has been great," Brodis said. "Our account team was there through the whole process. It was good for us to see that support. I think it's been a perfect partnership."
The future looks very bright for Tri-C, with its record enrollments and ambitious capital improvements, so it's important that the contact center solution can handle increasing volumes. To enable agents to manage the expected growth and further streamline communication with students, Tri-C plans to integrate e-mail and chat functionality into its contact solution. "The system is big enough to allow us to customize it across all the different student entry points," Brodis said.


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This week, we wrote about Lake La Quinta Inn in California's expansive Coachella Valley. Naturally, we found ourselves a little disappointed, as we were too late to attend the area's renowned outdoor music festival (aptly named the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival).
Good thing it's still April, because that means we have a whole summer's worth of festivals to take advantage of, the world over. So, on that note, here are a few events we think are worth checking out.
Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals: Technically these are two festivals, but for two glorious weekends every summer The Fort Adams State Park in beautiful coastal Rhode Island turns into an internationally renowned celebration of some of this country's oldest genres. This year's folk fest features giants like Feist, The Avett Brothers and the Lumineers, while the Jazz lineup later in the summer presents Grammy winners Chick Corea and Esperanza Spaulding.
Lollapalooza: As one of the United States' biggest and most anticipated festivals each year, the Chicago-based Lollapalooza is a welcome destination for those trying to avoid the standard campout festivals. So head to Chicago this year, check out an eclectic lineup (spanning from Mumford & Sons to The Cure to Queens of the Stone Age) and grab yourself a hotel room to spend a little non-festival time exploring the rest of the Windy City.
Glastonbury: Boasting about 150,000 attendees per day (that's right, per day), this epic England fixture turns plenty of heads each year. This time around, headliners include Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, Public Enemy and Phoenix (among many, many others). Talk about an excuse for a trip to Europe.
NXNE: The Canadian counterpart to Austin's SXSW music and film fest, this northern display of entertainment requires very little explanation to attract droves of international film, music and art lovers alike. Sure, there are your standard music headliners (this year: Social Distortion, Big Boi, and the National) but the city-wide event also debuts indie films and modern art exhibitions.
Life is Good Festival: While it may not garner the armies of attendees like some of the others, this festival proves its worth in a much different way. Organized by the lifestyle brand of the same name, this festival puts all of its proceeds (yes, 100% of its profit) toward the Life is Good Playmakers charity to help kids in need. While they haven't announced the lineup this year, with past acts including Dave Matthews Band, Sara Bareilles and Ben Harper & Relentless 7, this is definitely a can't-miss opportunity to give a little back to the community.


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The 2009 elections are over. Voting is done, and the ANC won. No surprises there.
What I am incredibly excited about is that the ANC did not get the two-thirds majority required to alter the constitution. We have a good constitution here in SA (in fact, it could be the best in the world) and I don't think anyone should be changing it anytime soon.
So victory #1 goes to the people who allowed our democracy to stay competitive. Nice going.
I am also extremely impressed with the DA and there outcomes. They won the Western Cape (the only province not won by the ANC).
Victory #2 goes to them for maintaining the position as the main opposition to the ANC.
But for me, the overwhelming excitement of the 2009 elections was a combination of a few things:
Cope winning ± 30 seats in parliament.
The IFP dwindling in to almost nothing.
Smaller parties just about disappearing.
The three things above prove to me that we are in a very active, thriving democracy. The numbers may indicate that the ANC feel a mere 3 seats short of 2/3 majority. But there are indicators that tell us that we are doing OK.
I think that having 18 parties in parliament is a bit ridiculous. That was the last elections. This time round it's been whittled down to ±10 parties. That is a much more manageable number in my opinion.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Bedroom Parlour Chair
19 comments:
- " SHABBY JUNK" said...
so cute. great use of material.
- September 14, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- theoldboathouse said...
Looks wonderful. I think the castors sounds a great idea, some glass ones would be nice,oh and have fun today, will be thinking of you cheers Katherine
- September 14, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- Cindy said...
Hi Sandy,
You really had to have some forsight to see a beauty in that yellow-ish chair. It is a true beauty now, what a great idea, covering it with a bedspread. I would love that one in my bedroom.
Hugs, Cindy - September 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Tina said...
Ange has done an amazing job, as always! Your chair looks so beautiful Sandy:) I love it. Can't wait to see the matching lampshade. Happy Tuesday ~ xx
- September 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- Julienne said...
I like this and the fabric is just right for it. My Mother called these bedroom chairs and they were just right height for my Father to sit on to put his shoes on! Theirs was blue velvet!
- September 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- sissie said...
I love your sweet little chair.
So sweet.
Sissie - September 14, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- cityfarmer said...
adorable ... so bedroom-y
- September 14, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- white cat vintage said...
Looking very good. Megan xx
- September 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Sam said...
Hi Sandy, the chair looks fabulous, I cant wait to see the matching lamp.
- September 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM
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- September 14, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Alison Gibbs said...
Ange has done an amazing job. Wish she would move to melbourne then she could make me some slip covers
Alison - September 14, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Vicki said...
OMG its just stunning!!! what a difference!!!!!!
Vic xxxx - September 14, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Debbie said...
Wow! What an amazing transformation!
Love the fabric!
DEBBIE MOSS - September 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Laura's Rose Garden said...
EXQUISITE!!!! My pink silk damask drapes would match it purrrrfectly!! LOL!!!
I'm looking forward to seeing the lamp shade.
Laura - September 15, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- fashionable palette said...
What a transformation! I love it!
- September 15, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- B is building a house said...
Amazing! Love it :)
- September 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Hi Sandy,
i love the work on the chair & would like to email you & your mate at Chair up. However, my computer won't let me open either emal. Could you tell me what it is so I can contact you.
Wendy - September 16, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- Jenny said...
Oh my, you must have been grinning from ear to ear when you found that in the thrift store - what a beautiful transformation!
Jen xo - September 19, 2010 at 2:53 AM
- Robyn said...
I'm totally serious when I say that the chair made my heart skip a BEAT! It's so gorgeous and unique. WHAT an incredible find and what you've chosen for it is PERFECTION!
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Keynoters Announced for National Conference on Operations & Fulfillment (NCOF) 2008Michael Burchell of New York, NY, December 13, 2007 From a magical inventor to a multi-millionaire shoe salesman, the keynote speakers for the 2008 National Conference on Operations & Fulfillment (NCOF) are one-ofa-kind resources for attendees at the only event focused exclusively on meeting the operations and fulfillment challenges facing todays catalog, online and multichannel retailers. NCOF co-producers Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and Multichannel Merchants O+F magazine are pleased to announce the business leaders who will headline NCOF 2008 from April 710, 2008, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in The NCOF 2008 keynoters are: Michael Burchell, Ed.D., director of client services for research and management consultancy Great Place to Work Institute, Inc; Alfred Lin, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chairman, and director of online shoe retail site Zappos.com; and Jim McCafferty, president and CEO of marketing, promotions, and product development firm JMP Creative. These business leaders personify innovation in todays demanding workplace, said Robin Altman, group show director, Penton Media. Given a turnaround time of 3.5 weeks, Jim McCafferty who coincidentally is an acclaimed illusionist performed a bit of magic by producing the Christmas treetop Guardian Angel fire alarm for the ABC show American Inventor. Executing just one of his job duties, Alfred Lin oversaw the elimination of manufacturer-to-consumer shipping and expansion of Zappos.coms capabilities to directly ship millions of shoes from the company warehouse. And Michael Burchell, day-in and day-out, teaches companies how to optimize production by optimizing employees advising businesses on how to pick the right employees, how to treat them well and how to help them produce. Jim McCafferty, President and CEO of JMP Creative Tuesday, April 8, 2008 8:15 to 9:15 a.m. Magicians may be able to make objects appear out of thin air, but it took visible skill for award-winning illusionist Jim McCafferty to make cold, hard cash appear for his primary job as president and CEO of JMP Creative. McCafferty will open the General Session with his keynote, Re-Invent Your Thinking. The president and CEO of Santa Ana, CA-based JMP Creative is accustomed to accomplishing the impossible leading an agency that generates thousands of concepts each month and has put more than a billion units of products in the marketplace. In his NCOF keynote, he will detail how JMP is also the secret creative resource behind numerous viral and alternative marketing programs. His motto is that the right idea, one thats on-target, on-trend and on-strategy, is business magic and prevails across all business sectors. Alfred Lin, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chairman and Director of Zappos.com Tuesday, April 8 12:15 to 1:40 p.m. After an inventive morning, why not reserve lunch for a bit of shopping? Luncheon speaker Alfred Lin will reveal the know-how behind online shoe giant Zappos.com, in his keynote entitled, Delivering the WOW Customer Experience. Lin joined Zappos.com in 2005 and is responsible for all financial, administrative, and warehouse operations. Prior to joining Zappos, Lin was vice president of finance and business development at Tellme Networks. With Tony Hsieh, Lin co-founded Venture Frogs, which is an incubator and investment firm that invested in Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves (acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft), MyAble (acquired by Openwave Systems), Tellme Networks, and of course, Zappos.com. Prior to Venture Frogs, he served as vice president of finance and administration at LinkExchange, where he managed the sale of the company to Microsoft for $265 million. Michael Burchell, Ed.D., Director of Client Services of Wednesday, April 9 12:15 to 1:40 p.m. Michael Burchells company compiles Fortunes annual 100 Best Companies to Work For. So how did Google garner the top spot in 2007? The company follows Burchells lessons about treating its employees well, benefiting from their talent, and earning their trust. 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