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Sunday, 30 January 2011
Beatles on "I was there" ITV1
"I Was There…When The Beatles Played The Cavern" tells the story of the underground venue which has become synonymous with The Beatles.
The programme includes rare archive footage of the Cavern Club in the sixties, including film of The Beatles performing 'Some Other Guy' at the club.
On 9 February 1961, having recently returned to Liverpool from performing in Hamburg, The Beatles played at The Cavern for the first of nearly 300 appearances at the club. By the time they played their last gig there, Beatlemania had swept Britain and the band was conquering the world.
The documentary also tells the story of what happened to The Cavern after The Beatles. It lived on until 1973 – with rock legends such as Queen, Elton John and Rod Stewart treading its cramped stage – before it was eventually closed during construction on the Merseyrail underground loop.
But that wasn't the end of The Cavern story. A decade later the club was rebuilt on its original site and today serves a dual purpose as a venue for up and coming bands and a tourist attraction for Beatles fans from across the globe.
In this programme fans, members of other Merseybeat bands and Cavern insiders help separate the facts from the myths that have grown up around the goings on deep beneath the ground at 10 Mathew Street, Liverpool.
Gerry Marsden, who played at The Cavern with Gerry and the Pacemakers, recalls how, above all else, the thing he associates with the club is the smell of disinfectant.
The documentary includes an interview with Pete Best, drummer for The Beatles for much of their Cavern period, and famous Cavernites including playwright Willy Russell relive the heady excitement of their teenage years.
New HMC releases
|"The Beatles - Unforgettable" - aka "The McCartney Christmas Album"
|"The Beatles Christmas Album"
Just too late for Christmas! And a tad disappointing re the rumours of an upcoming release of Paul's Christmas album. Apparantly a tape the used to contain the album was taped over by John and Ringo, and you'll only hear little snippets of what was originally on the underlaying layer of magnetic fields. Click on a cover for further information. These are both coloured vinyl releases with a bonus CD each. The material on the CD's does not mirror the LP's. The 1965 Christmas 26 minute tape is the reel that was auctioned in 2003 but was unsold and later offered on ebay.
Note: These are unauthorised "bootleg" releases from the "His Master's Choice" company, and the releases have not been approved by the recording artists. We do not know where to get them, we are simply passing on information that has been given us.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
The Beatles on a stool
Some photos are rarely seen these days, and can only be found in old magazines and scrap books from the sixties. Most magazines were sent original negatives, after use they filed them away and several such archives have been victims of fire - or just disposed of as the magazine went out of business.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Album covers: White album
|The Beatles (aka White Album) - Richard Hamilton or John Kelly
In June 1968, shortly after the beginning of the sessions for their next album, the Beatles commissioned various designers to come up with sleeve ideas. One was a psychedelic drawing on a gate fold cover. The illustration presented the title on the front and on the back the Beatles' faces in a mountainside overlooking a sea. Another idea was a transparent cover which would reveal a colour photograph as the record was pulled out of the wallet.
Some suggest that a drawing by John Patrick Byrne (Patrick), used in the eighties as the front cover of compilation album called The Beatles Ballads, is one of the rejected covers for the album. It was not.
An early attempt at the album cover, when it was still referred to as A Doll's House.
When in the fall there was enough material for a double album, that possibility was considered. The concept of two vinyl albums housed in a gate fold sleeve had rarely been seen outside the classical field. There were only two precedents: Zappa's "Freak Out" and Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde". It was decided that the cover of the album had to be in stark contrast to the kaleidoscopic covers of their two previous releases.
Again Robert Fraser was asked for an established artist. This time, he suggested Richard Hamilton (45), the inventor of Pop Art. Paul knew his work and a meeting was arranged at Apple. In Blinds And Shutters, the book of Michael Cooper, Richard recalled the meeting with Paul: "Since Sergeant Pepper was so over the top, I explained, I would be inclined to do a very prissy thing, almost like a limited edition. He didn't discourage me so I went on to propose a plain white album; if that were too clean and empty, then maybe we could paint a ring of brown stain to look as if a coffee cup had been left on it – but that was thought a bit too flippant."
As a reference to the Apple label, he suggested to bounce an apple to a bit of paper and create a smudge, "a very light green smear with a bit of pulp." But because that might prove too hard to print, the idea had to go.
In an interview for Beatles Unlimited (BU 98-99) photographer John Kelly claims the idea of a white album was his: "At the time I did a whole lot of fashion and beauty kind of stuff and I was very much into white. Different shades of white and I made a Christmas card which was all white. I printed matte white lettering on it. You couldn't really read it unless you held it at a certain angle …. So white was it for me in that period and John Lennon in particular was fond of white. He used to wear all white during that period. I got this idea to do this cover, also the idea of the numbers on the album sleeve. The Beatles liked the idea."
Paul however remembers it was Richard Hamilton who suggested that each copy was to be individually numbered. "I also suggested that they might number each copy,"agrees Hamilton, "to create the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies."
EMI was not as enthusiastic as the Beatles about the idea, but Paul persuaded them: "Look, records must go through something to put the shrink wrap on or to staple them. Couldn't you just have a little thing at the end of that process that hits the paper and prints numbers on it?"
So every LP got a unique stamped serial number. The numbers 000001 to 000020 were for the Beatles themselves and their friends. "We got the first four," Paul later recalled. "I don't know where mine is, of course. Everything got lost. It's all coming up in Sothebys I imagine. John got 000001 because he shouted the loudest. He said 'Baggy, number one!" He knew the game, you've gotta bagsy it!" George Martin got number 000007 and Derek Taylor 000009.
Each factory numbered differently: there are reportedly twelve copies of number 000001.
They numbered over 3 200 000 of them. Collecting variations in numbering style can be an interesting sideline. Obviously the lower the stamped number the greater the value, so now 0050000 would be about £100, whereas 0000010 could be worth £5,000.
But the album still had no title. Richard Hamilton suggested 'The Beatles'. Because Sgt. Pepper's was named after a fictitious band and the four of them not always played together as a group, it seemed a good joke to name the double album again after a fictitious band: so The Beatles it was.
Another thing that proved to be difficult was the embossing. John Kelley: "The (title) on the album cover was embossed. It was therefore somehow raising the surface of the album cover. The printer said that they could not get a hundred albums, which is the normal standard packing, in a package to send to people. It could only keep 98 or 99. So there was discussion going on to keep or drop the plan of embossing… It all went through at long last, but it proved to be a bit of a struggle."
After a while Richard Hamilton had second thoughts: "… but then I began to feel a bit guilty at putting their double album under plain white wrappers; even the lettering is casual, almost invisible, a blind stamping. I suggested it could be jazzed up with a large edition print, an insert that would be even more glamorous than a normal sleeve."
For a fortnight in October 1968, Paul drove almost daily to Hamilton's house in Highgate, to work together on the collage. Paul: "It was very exciting for me because I was interested in art, and now I could be his assistant for a week… gather the pictures and make new prints. And then I could watch the whole week while he made the collage. It's great to watch someone paint. The fine thing was that he eventually filled the whole collage with pictures and then added the white paper to that he sticked everywhere, to give it some space... He explained that it could breathe that way."
|White album poster - Richard Hamilton/Paul McCartney
Most of the recent pictures were taken by John Kelley, though some of the pictures of Paul were taken by his new lover, Linda Eastman.
On the back of the poster, the lyrics are reprinted.
Gordon House suggested to make four portraits, for the inside of the gate fold cover. That's a job for John Kelly.
Again Kelly states he suggested the idea: "I said: 'If you have a white cover, you should have some pictures of yourselves inside. Not all together like the "head shot" but individual ones, just straight and simple so the fans have something.' They agreed to do that and I did them at Apple. Well three of them. A nice easy picture of them, no incredible lightning or so. That was at the time that Paul couldn't decide to go shaved or unshaven. We had 'words' about that and several attempts. Paul's picture, by the way, was taken at Cavendish Avenue."
|The Beatles individual portraits - John Kelley
The colour photographic prints of the band are also inserted in the sleeves.
The UK issue opened from the top, for the first pressings; the US issue took a more standard approach by opening from the side. Another difference was that the four colour photos were slightly smaller in the US than the UK issue. Early copies were issued with a protector sheet placed on the top of each photo and have custom black inner sleeves.
Taken from Patrick Roefflaer's excellent article on the Beatles' album covers.
Paul McCartney to rock Rio for real
Paul McCartney will perform at the Rock in Rio festival, which runs from September 23rd to October 2nd 2011 in Brazil. Paul was also part of the 2004 "Rock in Rio"-festival, but the festival was held in Lisbon, Portugal that year. The 2004 summer tour, in effect a warm-up for McCartney's appearance at the Glastonbury festival, was the last of his tours to visit Norway so far.
Rock in Rio is a series of rock festivals held in Brazil and later in Portugal and Spain.
Three incarnations of the festival were in Rio de Janeiro, in 1985, 1991 and 2001, four in Lisbon, in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, and two in Madrid in 2008 and 2010. The shows were organized by Brazilian entrepreneur Roberto Medina. In 2011, Rock in Rio will take place in its original home, Rio de Janeiro. Rock in Rio has been the largest rock festival in the world, with 1.5 million people in the first edition, 700,000 in the second, about 1.2 million in the third, and about 350,000 people in each of the 3 Lisbon editions. Apart from Paul McCartney, artists such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Metallica, and many others are due to perform at the 2011 festival.
Read more: Paul McCartney Will Rock Rio This Fall!
Paul McCartney has visited Brazil several times. In 1990, Paul McCartney performed solo at a record breaking concert in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium which attracted a stadium crowd of more than 184,000 fans. He last performed in Brazil in November 2010, a mere two months ago.
Rock in Rio is a series of rock festivals held in Brazil and later in Portugal and Spain.
Three incarnations of the festival were in Rio de Janeiro, in 1985, 1991 and 2001, four in Lisbon, in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, and two in Madrid in 2008 and 2010. The shows were organized by Brazilian entrepreneur Roberto Medina. In 2011, Rock in Rio will take place in its original home, Rio de Janeiro. Rock in Rio has been the largest rock festival in the world, with 1.5 million people in the first edition, 700,000 in the second, about 1.2 million in the third, and about 350,000 people in each of the 3 Lisbon editions. Apart from Paul McCartney, artists such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Metallica, and many others are due to perform at the 2011 festival.
Read more: Paul McCartney Will Rock Rio This Fall!
Paul McCartney has visited Brazil several times. In 1990, Paul McCartney performed solo at a record breaking concert in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium which attracted a stadium crowd of more than 184,000 fans. He last performed in Brazil in November 2010, a mere two months ago.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Alf Bicknell lives on as an app
Alf Bicknell, chauffeur to the Beatles during their glory years. Alf passed away in 2004 but lives on through a new app for the iPhone / iPad / iPod touch. He had a knack for being in the forefront of the technical revolution, Alf. As far as I can tell, his DVD "The Beatles Diary" was the first official Beatles-related release on that medium. This was back when DVDs were still sold in CD cases. Alf kept quiet about his Beatles involvement from 1966 to 1989, and then he published an autobiography, Baby, You Can Drive My Car! After that he went pioneering by reissuing the book as a video package, "Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary", which later became a DVD.
Alf, who narrated and conceived the idea behind Beatles Diary, was the Beatles' chauffeur for three years. From 1964 to 1966 he drove John, Paul, George, and Ringo from gig to gig and airport to hotel. He was with them when they visited Elvis, played Shea and he got beat up in the Philippines.
The new iPhone app version of Beatles Diary is a behind-the-scenes look at the Fab Four's history and meteoric rise to fame, offering never before seen letters, photos and videos. The unique content in Beatles Diary originates from Alf Bicknell's archives. Thanks to Google Maps integration, users can also take a virtual tour of the places that played a part in life of The Beatles in Liverpool. Beatles Diary 1.0.1 is priced at $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide through the iTunes App Store in the Entertainment category. Purchase here or use your iPhone (but beware; it's a heavy 376 MB download)! Beatles Diary is released by Dynamedia of America, a Tampa FL based advertising company.
Alf, who narrated and conceived the idea behind Beatles Diary, was the Beatles' chauffeur for three years. From 1964 to 1966 he drove John, Paul, George, and Ringo from gig to gig and airport to hotel. He was with them when they visited Elvis, played Shea and he got beat up in the Philippines.
The new iPhone app version of Beatles Diary is a behind-the-scenes look at the Fab Four's history and meteoric rise to fame, offering never before seen letters, photos and videos. The unique content in Beatles Diary originates from Alf Bicknell's archives. Thanks to Google Maps integration, users can also take a virtual tour of the places that played a part in life of The Beatles in Liverpool. Beatles Diary 1.0.1 is priced at $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide through the iTunes App Store in the Entertainment category. Purchase here or use your iPhone (but beware; it's a heavy 376 MB download)! Beatles Diary is released by Dynamedia of America, a Tampa FL based advertising company.
|Your's truly behind Alf Bicknell in Studio 2, Abbey Road around 1996.
Get Back to Stavanger
What: Signed The Beatles albums from the Einar Arne Iversen collection
Time: 15.00 - 16.00 Wednesday 16 February 2011
Place: Main reception area, Statoil office, Forusbeen 50, Stavanger, Norway
From the forming of The Beatles in 1960 until its break-up in 1970, the group made a great number of unforgettable hits, now treasured by all generations. The Einar Arne Iversen collection covers their whole production, in addition to special albums made after the break-up, all signed by the original members.
• Welcome by Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of human resources in Statoil and leader of the Statoil art programme
• Opening by Bård Ose, music journalist in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and writer of the book Beatles hele livet (Beatles forever)
• "My passion" by Einar Arne Iversen, the collector
• Guided tour with Bård Ose and Einar Arne Iversen
A light buffet and drinks will be served.
An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Curators: Arnt N Fredheim, Wenche Falkenhaug and Einar Arne
Limited participation, RSVP by 14 February to firstname.lastname@example.com or +4751994519
Saturday, 22 January 2011
A trip to Amsterdam and Hamburg
My friend Gabriëlla van Karsbergen wanted me to mention in my blog about a trip Beatles International is organizing to Amsterdam and Hamburg on April 20th. So if you want to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and visit the sights in Amsterdam, the war memorial near Arnhem, and the Beatles sights in and around Hamburg such as the Kaiserkeller, BeatleMania museum, Indra Club, Reeperbahn, Grosse Freiheit etc., here's an opportunity. For more info and booking details go here or send an email to Gabriella.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
How much is my old vinyl Beatles record worth?
It's the question most people ask themselves when they stumble upon a case of half-forgotten vinyl records in the attic. A lot of them wrongfully assumes that as long as it's got something to do with the Beatles, it must be valuable. Vinyl records are not scarce, and least of all Beatles records. Obscure artists and bands yes, Beatles no. Or at least, that's the general rule. After all, the Beatles was the best selling act in their time - naturally their records were pressed up in giant quantities compared to other artists. And when the first edition of a particular record was sold out, a new edition would instantly be made. And since the Beatles remained popular throughout the seventies and beyond, the record companies made sure they were always stocked up. So in general, all the Beatles standard albums, both in the USA, the UK and in most other countries remained available in record shops until CD's took over most of the market around the early nineties. In the last few years, vinyl albums have come in vogue again and the Beatles' albums have once again been re-pressed. In 2010, more new vinyl records were sold than in any previous year since 1991. And the best selling new vinyl album for the past two years in a row was "Abbey Road" by The Beatles. Even though a vinyl version based on the 2009 remastered CD editions has yet to be released. So if you happen upon a Beatles LP, it's not necessarily a sixties pressing. A 1978 pressing of, say for instance "Meet The Beatles" does not have the number 1978 written anywhere on the record sleeve or label, it still said 1964. Upon the initial release of Beatles albums on CD in 1987, no new pressings were made from the USA albums, only the standard UK releases were allowed further vinyl editions. And of those, only the ones that were released as CD's were allowed to be reissued on vinyl. So records like "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" from 1966 and "The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl" from 1977 fell by the wayside.
As you may have gathered by this blog post so far, you can't ask a Beatles collector if such and such album title is worth a lot. Rarities in Beatles collector's circles are determined not by title but by which pressing it is. Is it a sixties original first edition pressing? Or a later edition but still from the sixties? Is it in mono or stereo? East coast or west coast pressing plant? A seventies pressing? A foreign pressing? Does it come with the original inner sleeve? Is it scratched or does it play nicely? Is there writing anywhere on the sleeve or the label? Is the cover intackt or dog-eared and worn? Most old records are worn and have the original owner's initials or full name or even his full adress written on it. And it will be scratched or worse, and have dirt in the grooves. So if you're sure your old record is from when it was first released AND it's still in a great condition, only then can you speculate whether your record may be worth something.
That's the general information and applies to most Beatles records. And then there are the exceptions to the rule. Yes there still are some real Beatles gems to be discovered. More about real Beatles rarities in upcoming blog posts. One word of advice: If you happen upon an original copy of the US album "Yesterday...And Today", don't try to peel off the paste-on cover to reveal the underlying "butcher" cover. Too many people have done just that, so now it's more valuable unpeeled.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
"Pink" concert Beatles virtual reunion rumours
Just in: this cryptic press release from David Harrison Levi: "Rumors reported by the Daily Star UK, KEarth101, ABC News, NBC News and others regarding my tentative Sir Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr World Peace Breast Cancer Awareness free "Pink concert" at The Hollywood Bowl tentatively scheduled August 27, 2011 will be addressed at our upcoming worldwide press conference scheduled in February in Beverly Hills. Details to follow."
Just a PR stunt?
I certainly hope that the rumours regarding a "virtual" Beatles reunion are just that. A report surfaced last year from Britain's tabloid newspaper Daily Star that The Beatles are to have a "virtual reunion" on stage at the Hollywood Bowl for a special charity show. It was believed that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr would play alongside digital images of John Lennon and George Harrison. There has been no official confirmation from McCartney, Starr or Apple Records.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Cleveland Press Conference 1964
The Beatles' press conference before their September 1964 concert in Cleveland was held at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel (today known at the Renaissance Hotel). Don Webster interviewed John Lennon and George Harrison briefly and then later had a quick second interview with them. The Beatles were on their first U.S. concert tour, which lasted one month. Cleveland was one of their last stops. From newsnet5.com.
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Blake Shelton Reportedly Signs on for 'The Voice' Season 3
Blake Shelton fans will be excited to learn that on Season 3 of NBC's 'The Voice,' when one of those iconic red chairs swivels around, their favorite country papa bear will still be sitting in it. The Wrap is reporting that Shelton has signed on for another season of the show, along with all three of the other celebrity coaches -- Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine.
While the coaches seem to enjoy their time on the show, they're certainly not lending their musical expertise for free, or anything even remotely close to the vicinity of free. The Wrap reports that Aguilera will receive $10 million for returning, while the other three judges will each see their current pay doubled to $6 million.
The show, which is currently in its second season, is gearing up for a third season in the fall. When asked to confirm that the lineup of celebrity coaches will remain the same, a spokeswoman from NBC contended that no final decisions have been made and that there's still room to see different judges enter the mix.
On the current season of the show, Shelton and the other coaches are still trying to craft their perfect teams, listening to each performer during the blind auditions and only hitting that giant button to turn around when someone truly wows them. So far, Shelton has six of his 12 slots filled with hopefuls, including Brian Fuente, Erin Willitt, Gwen Sebastian, Jermaine Paul, Jordis Unga and RaeLynn.
Tune in Mondays at 8 PM ET on NBC to see how this season plays out. And rest assured knowing that, regardless of which contestants are voted off and have to leave, the coaches aren't going anywhere. For those salaries, we don't blame them!


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Google and Apple stopped coming to the Consumer Electronics Show years ago.
But now the annual technolgy conference that descends on Las Vegas is preparing for the loss of another one of its major names.
When Steve Ballmer delivers his keynote Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, it will mark Microsoft's exit from the annual conference.
CES draws more than 140,000 people every year to the Las Vegas Convention Center to get an up close look at everything new in televisions, computers, cars, mobile and more.
But more and more big companies are not coming to CES anymore. Instead choosing to control their own launches, much like Apple has.
Microsoft is being coy when explaining why it will no longer present at CES following this year.
In a statement to CNN, a Microsoft spokesman said, "Are we doing something because it's the right thing to do, or because 'it's the way we've always done it?"
Some major companies feel burnt out and feel its become a chore to present at ces.
And with the likes of Apple showing that you don't need to make an appearance at CES to generate a lot of buzz, why show up at all if you are a big company?
Several smaller companies will be presenting their add-ons for Apple products and some veteran CES reporters are saying that Apple will win the CES media war without even showing up.
Google will have a similar impact. Several new products, including tablets and cell phones, will be introduced during CES that will feature the Google-powered Android operating system.
And some of the larger companies will be creating products, like tablets, that will inevitably be compared to the iPad 2, which will certainly lead to discussion of when Apple will actually introduce the iPad 3.
On its own terms and not at CES -- just in case you were wondering.


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Eight great family recipe books
Nothing inspires and improves your cooking like a great recipe book. Whether you're searching for fresh meal ideas, trying to pull off a Cordon Bleu spread, or want to get your children into cooking, all these classic cookery books, as rated and reviewed by Mumsnetters, will help you up your culinary ante.
Nigella Express
Easy-to-follow instructions, lush illustrations and short ingredient lists. The recipe intros work particularly well because Nigella clearly approaches meals as both a cook and an eater. Not hard to see why it's a well-thumbed essential in so many kitchens. [[www.mumsnet.com/reviews/books/cookery/14461-nigella-express Read Mumsnetters' reviews]]
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Moon Township
Moon Township is in Allegheny County near Pittsburgh.
Moon Township, along with Robinson Township is one of the two suburbs a traveler might find themselves if staying at an airport hotel around Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Though often associated with Coraopolis because of the shared zip code, they are distinct towns bordering each other. It is an upper-middle class town whose original growth was based on the US Airways hub at PIT. The township is most often simply referred to as Moon.
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Though extremely close to the Pittsburgh Airport, there are no direct buses. If arriving at the airport and an airport shuttle is not available, the best options would be a taxi or ride service.
The G3 Moon Flyer bus runs between downtown Pittsburgh and the Park and Ride, located on the top of University Boulevard in Moon Township.
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There is very limited bus service on University Boulevard.
There is heavy traffic and not many sidewalks so walking isn't encouraged.
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Other than standard American suburbia, there is not much to see other than Robert Morris University.
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Besides the fine selection of food, there is little to keep you in Moon.
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It's official: Justin Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl halftime show.
The singer announced in a video with Jimmy Fallon Sunday that he will take the stage Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The announcement comes on the day the New England Patriots faces the Atlanta Falcons, a rematch of Super Bowl LI, on Sunday Night Football.
This will be the third time for Timberlake to perform at halftime, the most for any entertainer. Timberlake performed at the 2001 Super Bowl with N'Sync, and he sang "Rock Your Body" with Janet Jackson in 2004 in Houston. That performance concluded with Timberlake ripping her costume to reveal her right breast bare except for a nipple shield.
Lady Gaga was the last performer of the halftime spectacle when the Patriots won over the Falcons 34-28.
During an interview broadcast at halftime of NBC's "Sunday Night Football," Timberlake laughed off questions about a repeat of the infamous moment, which drew CBS a $550,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission that was later overturned.
"That won't happen this time," he said.
"What I really want to do is take the opportunity to put together a performance that feels like it unifies," Timberlake said. "I feel like that would be the ultimate accomplishment, and then the icing on the cake is at some point within that 12 minutes that everybody is shaking their booty."
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Sarah Palin posted a link on her Facebook page leading to Bristol's Blog in order to encourage her readers to learn more about the plight of an American pastor in Iran. Saeed Abedini is a Christian who has been sentenced to prison for his faith.
From Bristol's Blog:
A few weeks ago my mom tweeted about an American pastor named Saeed Abedini being held and tortured by the radical Iranian regime. He's been sentenced to eight years in Iran's most brutal prison simply because of his Christian faith.
This pastor and father has shown enormous courage, but now Iranians are lying to him in prison — telling him that Americans have forgotten about him.
Yesterday was Save Saeed day, and Christian and country musicians across the U.S., including Toby Mac, Ricky Skaggs, Steven Curtis Chapman, Mercy Me, and many others tweeted for him and signed a petition for his freedom. (In fact, #SaveSaeed was trending on Twitter yesterday! Let's keep it up!) The American Center for Law and Justice represents his family and is organizing a petition on his behalf. Please consider signing and telling this American pastor that he will never be forgotten.
We should never leave an American behind.
How you can help:
1. Sign the petition.
2. Tweet using: #SaveSaeed.
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The summer has gotten away from me. Now, the days are getting shorter, football's in full swing, and normal life as a Northeast Ohioan will soon resume. Now it is time to reflect on some of our fun food adventures of the summer – and there's one morning meal that has been quietly lurking in the back of my mind for far too long.
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Hi Friends! It's time for Dreaming of the Next Bite's first ever giveaway! The Sixth Annual Taste of Canton is coming, May 21st and 22nd, to be held once again in the beautiful Market Square green space downtown. This year's event promises to be crazy delicious, with a ton of new restaurants joining the party. Vendors will include The Canton Club, 91, Baja Pizzafish, Papa Gyros, Deli Ohio, Carpe Diem Coffee, Danny Boys, Two Fat Guy's BBQ, George's Lounge, Tapas 218, Bender's Tavern, Almost Heaven, and Bombshell Cupcakes, just to name a few. Plus, they are adding craft beer, wine, and cocktails from Cleveland Whiskey. Continue reading
Table Six Kitchen + Bar | North Canton, OH
Late last year, a new restaurant opened in my hood. We didn't go right away; I must be getting cynical. All I kept thinking is meh, can't be that great, its a crappy plaza location on Whipple, with a temporary sign and no website – must be another rush job to get open, once again ignoring the finer details. Okay, so maybe that was a little harsh.
Fast forward to now, as I sit on my deck on the first sunny Saturday this year, planning my next lunch at Table Six Kitchen + Bar, which will happen soon if my lunch date ever shows up. Table Six has become the North Canton foodie's answer to the age old question: where can I go for a great cocktail and a bite to eat, that does not involve bar food, a chain, and the same-old-same-old menu. Yes, there's Gervasi, which paves the way for a fancy night out. But I wouldn't exactly classify it as a "neighborhood" spot – it's really more destination, expensive…fussy even. And there's newly-expanded Main Street Grille, but I've never totally loved the atmosphere and the food has its definite highs and lows. So that's where Table Six swooped in and took their place in the North Canton food scene.
Spice Kitchen + Bar | Cleveland, OH
Valentine's Day, for us, translates to an entirely justified excuse to splurge on a fantastic meal. Several weeks before the big day, I was starting my search for the perfect restaurant. Requirements: somewhere we've never been, sexy and modern atmosphere, and obviously, really delicious food from an innovative menu. V-Day also gives us (me) an excuse to drive excessive distances to achieve said requirements. So after a week or so of hemming and hawing between a few various spots on my Urbanspoon wishlist, we decided on Spice Kitchen & Bar, on Detroit Ave in the Gordon Square neighborhood just west of Cleveland.
Smoke | North Canton, OH
Unable to resist the temptation any longer, I recently popped into Smoke, the new burger joint in town, located directly across the street from my place of employment. Then a few days later, I went back. Located in the former Jojutlas location (don't worry, Jojutlas fans, they just moved across the street), Smoke has hit the food scene boasting creative smoked burgers, seasoned fries, hot dogs, and a host of other indulgent calorie cows, like shakes made with real ice cream. (They also have salads, but who really cares.) For Canton natives, Smoke is owned by the same restaurant group responsible for Old Carolina (yummy BBQ joint) and Baja Pizzafish (California themed Mex-Amer-Italian fusion place in North Canton).
Deli Ohio | Canton, OH
In an age when everything must be done first, faster, immediately even, it's so refreshing when a restaurant opens that has actually taken the time to do it all right. This means having a cohesive menu, an obvious niche, and ideally, fills a "hole" in the local cuisine that defines its new home. Add interior design that is clean and modern (a welcome departure from the majority in this town), a cool location, and young, hip owners that (bonus) know how to make really GOOD FOOD, and you have a clear recipe for success. Enter Deli Ohio, a trendy sandwich establishment in the heart of downtown Canton, a stone's throw away from another favorite, Muggwigz. This place is way cool.
Blue Door | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Seemingly out of nowhere sprung a bustling little breakfast/lunch cafe and bakery that is sure to blow your mind. The Blue Door in Cuyahoga Falls, our new fave weekend destination restaurant, is now so familiar that I can barely remember life before it opened. Since it is slightly out of the way for us, we end up stopping in late on a Sunday morning, after developing a laundry list of (mostly imaginary) things we MUST accomplish in Akron. And of course, they are PACKED. Fortunately with only two of us (we opt to roll kid-free on this excursion) there is rarely a wait. This level of culinary intensity is so unique for this area, it's a miracle we can even get a table. Since I've waited so inexcusably long to share with you, I have accumulated far too many food fotos. But before getting to the eye candy, might I share a few reasons why Blue Door is a real success here in Northeast Ohio.


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The Road to KDE 4: Oxygen Artwork and Icons
One of the big visual changes just happened in KDE 4, the
Please keep in mind that the artwork I am showing today is a
Back on the first of January, I wrote an article showing some SVG
Oxygen is a far reaching project, and extends well beyond icons.
We also now have an official icon naming scheme for KDE 4.
So, rather than just talk about Oxygen, I have some screenshots
Below is a screenshot of Dolphin showing Oxygen icons, and a shot
You'll notice in the Dolphin shot that there are still a few old
As the Oxygen Icons have now been made the default, you will be
But, like I said, Oxygen isn't just about the icons. There are a
One of the biggest advantages to using Oxygen artwork in various
So while KDE 4 is not a true, resolution independent desktop, and
There is another two elements of Oxygen currently in development,
There are also other visual elements of KDE 4 underway that do
For those that are interested in helping KDE out through
Individual KDE projects are also looking for artists: Recently,
Also, the Amarok project has recently informed me that they are
Editorial aside: I'm glad that so many people are showing
Re: About Style and Decoration
> It is my hope de Oxygen style and decoration will mimick this as
or maybe provide something nice, fresh and usable. the clearlooks/plastik styles are looking pretty dated, to be honest. it's also interesting that many people seem to have forgotten which desktop went for that look first =)
> They are outlined and this is currently not possible in KDE3
of course it is. it was even the default until 3.5. look in the configure dialog =)
though if you want visual simplicity, more bevels don't add much.
Re: About Style and Decoration
strange, one of the reasons I use KDE is that I can't stand the way gnome looks. :) Plastik was my theme even before it became the kde default.
By Chani at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: About Style and Decoration
+1, though i prefer .NET )
By anonymous-from-... at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: About Style and Decoration
Please DO NOT put this breadcrumb nav bar! or at least allow config for not using it!
This nav bar is everything but usable in a day to day use. Why?:
1) can't go thru chmod 711 directory: exmaple: the /home directory is root.root owned with 711 permission: with breadcrumb: no way to got to ~user
2) can't enter directories starting with a dot
3) Far from bein as fast as autocompletion, and if there are lots of sub directories (example in /home on a filer), then the dropdown menu may exeed the sise of the screen or occupy a large surface and you'd have to find where is what you search for...
4) no way to use widlcard like ~/*.txt to see only files ending with .txt
As for the look, I don't mind a change for default to metacity with clearlooks, but personaly, I don't see much difference with the Plastik them (maybe I'm wrong though).
By olahaye74 at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: About Style and Decoration
> or at least allow config for not using it!
it already is. please try using the software?
> can't enter directories starting with a dot
this isn't true, actually. i fixed this last week.
the rest of your items are indeed something that i as a power user often use. they are mostly useless and irrelevant to the bulk of the desktop computing using public. this is why dolphin uses the breadcrumb with an easy, one-click method for switching to a traditional and fully editable label =)
> I don't see much difference with the Plastik them
iirc, we shipped with plastik and then later gnome shipped clearlooks in response to "the kde theme is much nicer" criticisms. so, yeah. i think the similarity is not coincidental =)
Re: About Style and Decoration
>> or at least allow config for not using it!
> it already is. please try using the software?
I did a little bit and tryed to right click. Silly me, I forgot the aim is to become like a mac and there is no right-click there......
> the rest of your items are indeed something that i as a power user often use.
I disagree, going thru a 711 chmoded directory is not a power user feature. It's a common thing in multiuser environment were sysadmin takes care of security!
By olahaye74 at Sun, 2007/03/11 - 6:00am
Re: About Style and Decoration
just don't have some lame "basic" mode file selector like gnome. Its very annoying to be required to click on "advanced" every time you want to save a file, and to have two different file selectors for saving files. I use KDE mainly because gtk annoys me in this manner.
By kde-user at Sat, 2007/03/10 - 6:00am
I tried to make my application use these fresh new icons. KIcon("document-new") (and a lot of other tries) failed, though.
Then I went on to see how dolphin did it, but my Dolpin uses 100% crystal icons. So i grep:ed the source code tree in kdebase and kdelibs for uses of go-next and the like (which in the screenshot is oxygen), but alas! Nothing turned out.
So I wonder how I actually start using all these goodies in my playground application.
By The noob at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Howto?
Wait a couple of days and that'll all settle down in SVN. You still need to run kcmshell icons and unset the old default.
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Howto?
Hey, now I'm replying to myself. :) What I mentioned above is only part of it.
There is a patch floating around that does the renaming in kdelibs. It hasn't been officially applied to kdelibs and kdebase quite yet, and it didn't even apply cleanly for me. However, it does exist, and will hit SVN very shortly. (I haven't checked SVN today, but I did hear "Thursday" as a possible check-in date. Latest is probably Monday.)
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Howto?
Thus, I will bide my time,
By The noob at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Howto?
They are in SVN now :)
By Troy Unrau at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Howto?
I noticed! :) My app runs them now. Hurray!
By The noob at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Tabs in Dolphin
Please can you implenment it? Is it planned?
By Michal Krenek (... at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Yeh this is the feature I think it is missing. The split view makes up for it a little, but I really like using tabs instead of separate instances of an application.
By Luke Benstead at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
In one of the Dolphin articles a week or two ago, one of the examples given was that tabs were something that fit naturally in a web environment, but (somehow) wasn't considered useful for file browsing. The lack of tabs in Dolphin, as a file manager, was therefore considered an /advantage/ of some sort!!??!!
Personally, it looks to me like someone's trying to GNOMEify/simplify/dumbify things, as I not only regularly use tabs while file browsing, but also regularly use several of the other features the article deigned from the web side and confusing/complex in a file manager/browser app or the reverse (such as the up arrow being only useful while file system browsing, WTF???, that's a major bonus of using Konqueror as a web browser IMO!).
I DO like the breadcrumbs widget, if it works as advertised, and continues to be single-click (and I expect keyboard accel) switchable with the traditional path/URL entry widget. I hope Konqueror gets it as well, again with the condition that it continues to be toggle between that and the path/URL entry textbox with the appropriate click.
However, other than the breadcrumbs widget, I've yet to see a single thing in all the Dolphin previews and feature articles that I'd consider useful, and several things missing that I use all the time, so I'm very hopeful that as promised, Konqueror will continue to be available and configurable as the file manager of choice, and hopefully won't eventually have its file management functionality hollowed out for lack of maintenance as everybody focuses on Dolphin.
However, knowing the way KDE has seemed to be the choice of the power user, precisely /because/ it exposes so much configurability to the user, and /because/ it hasn't GNOMEed/simplified/dumbed itself into uselessness, I'm pretty optimistic the (apparent comparative) power user's choice, Konqueror, will remain and only become stronger.
Here, I expect I'll emerge the KDE4 Dolphin and play around with it for awhile, but unless it gets substantially more functionality than I've seen in the reviews so far, I expect at the first update, I'll unmerge it rather than updating it (unless it turns out to be a dependency of something I DO use, like say Kontact, which I don't use, apparently is at least on Gentoo, for KMail, which I do use).
Back on Oxygen, for icons and widget colors, all too often, desktop defaults seem sickly drab/pale/washed-out/gray to me. The below URL has a now slightly dated (KDE 3.5.1, composite was still pretty new) example of my preferences.
By Duncan at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Well, hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised by the time 4.0 hits the streets. :)
By Troy Unrau at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Indeed. Quite how KDE has managed to create and maintain a desktop environment that is so completely customizable to the way I work, except that they have /not/ been afraid of giving the user those options (unlike other desktops I'm sure most of us have tried), remains somewhat of a mystery to me. Few others even come close, but KDE... once customized, is much like a glove to my hand. It's quite amazing, really, but certainly, given that as past and current history, I'm quite looking forward to KDE 4! =8^)
(OT for this particular article, but the new audio framework by itself, is the single most anticipated improvement here. How many people, both user and developer, have fought the morass that the once great idea that was aRts became over the years? Certainly here, that was the single worst part of KDE to deal with, the /only/ really bad part, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to be glad KDE is finally freeing itself of what unfortunately became a huge millstone dragging it down. That alone is anticipated to be worth the wait for me -- everything else then being just bonuses, but what a huge lot of them! =8^)
By Duncan at Sat, 2007/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Im also missing Tabs very much. What I have seen of Dolphin is quite nice, but it lacks tabs, so i won't use it. What also disturbs me very much that the split view is not extendable to 4 or more parts, and theres NO chance to configure it! Is KDE getting as ugly, unconfigurable and unusable as GNOME?
I want
*Tabs in Dolphin
By blueget at Thu, 2007/06/14 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Why don't you just use Konqueror? Sounds like Dolphin is not for you.
By anon at Thu, 2007/06/14 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
Dolphin is cool, and its a good filemanager, but it is very limited. Konqueror is a Internet Browser, not a filemanager.
By blueget at Sat, 2007/06/16 - 5:00am
Re: Tabs in Dolphin
I too feel the lack of tabs in Dolphin feels very Gnomish. Saying that Konqueror is a Web Browser not a filemanager is just..well... the best I can say is that's one point of view, definitely not shared by many many users.
By skoff at Sun, 2008/01/20 - 6:00am
Oxygen looks great but the folder icon...
It's nice to see how Oxygen is progressing, most of the icons are a lot better than Crystal, with a modern look and feel.
But I cant' say the same for the folder icon, because it appears worst than the one in Crystal, it's so 2D, so simplistic it almost disappears in the middle of the other icons (in the Dolphin screenshot).
Just as a example, the folder icon of this iconset below is a lot better than the current Oxygen one. Maybe you can improve that concept or update the Crystal folder icon...
Anyway, you are doing a great job. ;)
Thanks and sorry for my bad english.
By kde.fan.from.brasil at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
KDE should follow the proposals from Mandriva and implement standard directories in home for
That would be useful in the sense that if you download a ogg file it defaults to the Music folder etc.
The locations described by Dolphin are kind of "devices". What you really want is the document driven approach.
By benk at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Proposals
Thankfully, all of the icons shown on the left in Dolphin are fully configurable :) So distros like Mandriva can simply change those defaults.
That said, I don't disagree with you. :)
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Proposals
That is being discussed as an XDG implementation, with input from Mandriva. We'll hopefully get it in KDE 4.
Which in turn means we need icons for those dirs.
By Thiago Macieira at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Proposals
Nice to hear it. May I ask how will you change the location?
By ben at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Icon of an image, learning from other desktops,etc
I'll be numerating my points, so that they are clearer:
1 - I really like how Gnome (and now windows vista has it as well) uses previews of multimedia files for their icons. So you are dragging pictures around, deleting movies, or hearing previews of sounds on mouse-over.
2 - I also like the minimalistic aproach of Gnome's nautilus, but for new users to computing, I'm seeing a nice feature in the right pane, where it appears dynamic contextual actions that can be done with file selected.
3 - Also, have you guys gone and look at the original nautilus idea? Instead of the minimalistic spatial file browser that it is now, it was intended more as an organizer/finder/browser/player/wathcamacallit document finder program. It introduced emblems back at a time when tags weren't in anybody's mind, previews of multimedia files in the icons themselves, zoom levels, side-pane contextual options, special views, like music view for a directory full of mp3's, etc.
4 - Have you also looked at the Journal idea from the olpc? It seems to be a step forward, in that it won't be as much a media player as the original nautilus ideas was, and will throw away the directory metaphor, and instead use time, and tags for browsing, collecting, and searching documents.
5 - Finally, you might want to head on to conferences where people with proven usability skills hangout, and share/take some ideas from them. For example, you might want to talk with Andy Herzfeld, the leader of the first version of nautilus. He probably has some great insight on what was good about his vision, and what he eventually figured out was not.
6 - Test every other operating system in the world for fresh ideas! Have a MacOSX and a Windows Vista machine nearby, and see how they work, what pleases and displeases you, and what pleases and displeases other people.
7 - The biggest advantage I see KDE has over any other desktop (maybe MacOSX has this as well) is the integration. It's a very well integrated desktop, everything talks to everything, kwallet is beautifull and still unmatched by any other desktop's password system, etc. Now it's time to bring forward those things, so that even the "commons" can have acess to it as well.
By jobezone at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops,etc
As an side: Anyone remember Eazel? Nautilus was made by that company who burnt 17 millions in the process of creating it, well starting it. That was an amazing waste of investor money back then. The company went bankrupt, Nautilus was a mess and not maintained for a long time.
Also, you make suggestions like you would to an individual. Do you really think the KDE project as a whole not already has individuals who do everything they find useful to gather ideas. Ideas can be collected and suggested on their own merits by anybody and reported as wishes on bugs.kde.org and then KDE mailing lists, so why should anybody go out and gather? I mean, there are still people with Amiga experience, lots with OS/2, some know how NextStep was doing things and some yeah, some knew how it was without GUIs. ;-)
It's my understanding that KDE is now creating a file manager, with at most support for emblems on top of managing files in directories. It's a freaking damn file manager to be after all. Obviously Konqueror has always already made previews, I am using that since KDE 2.2 at least.
And furthermore, KDE is having other projects that are aiming at making the desktop be something of a next generation, or semantic desktop, buzzwords there are many. But that's not going to be ripe to be forced into Dolphin.
One reason why Eazel failed with Nautilus was its pushing for integration of not yet possible things, before it even being useable as a file manager. Lets just continue to solve those problems independently, until both are equally well understood.
And yours talking about "proven usability skills". Pardon?
Yours, Kay
By Debian User at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops
Hello fellow Debian user (as I too am one), my suggestions were according to the request made in the main story:
As far as Eazel and Nautilus, you are very correct, the thing was heavy and bloated from the beginning, and took many versions to get to at least be a good file browser (when early on it tried to be many more things). Still, you can learn from other people's mistakes, and that was my point with interacting with the ex-eazel guys.
By jobezone at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops,etc
1. we've had that since 2.x
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops
Thanks aseigo for replying.
1.Yes, I know, but was this the default? Or it was something you choose during the first run on KDE (the ammount of effects, etc) I wondered about this, because the dolphin screenshot in this story doesn't show it like that, but I understand it's still early in its development.
2.Yes, I was complimenting the screenshot of dolphin showing the various options :)
4.Didn't know there was software effort in that part, great!
5.Yep, one of the biggest advantages in free software "world" is that people from "apparent" competing positions, can cooperate with each other.
You should definitely someday meet with Seymour Papert, or Alan Kay, and hear their vision of computing. You can also look up Papert's constructionist theory, which, in a superficial way could be summarized as being Piaget's constructivist theory (you learn by doing), applied to computers.
6.Ok, you guys do, excellent!
7.Commoners was perhaps the proper word, but not meant in any pejorative way :) It was meant as the person from the street, which never had a spectrum when he was a kid. :)
Oh, and the "hot new stuff" is wonderful, and I fully miss it in Gnome.
Keep up the good work, and looking forward to trying out KDE4 (and maybe switching to it).
By jobezone at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops
1) default
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2007/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops
1. It's in View->Previews, the Enable/Disable Previews toggle. And it's by default enabled (unless you moved the eye candy slider way to the right in the first time wizard). I'm sure about that because previews are the first thing I have to deactivate in every OS (big resource hog for minimal gain; and audible previews gotta be the worst "feature" ever dreamt up by man, ymmv)
By ac at Sat, 2007/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Icon of an image, learning from other desktops
7) But if we have a "low floor" won't that mean that everyone will use KDE? You can't want that
Just kidding :)
In a more serious note, I'd say KDE's floor is about as low as its going to get. Any further would require real computer skills to be taught in schools. Right now people just think that because it involves a computer they cannot learn it. So they don't try. Being even easy won't help that, and once the education system fixes it I think we'll all be pleased to see KDE is already easy enough.
By ben at Sun, 2007/03/11 - 6:00am
reminds me somehow to Windows...
Great work! I like the clear and sane look!
By Heiko at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
End Session
In the end session screenshot, the selection method used (putting a dotted rectangle around the edge of the button) seems really out of tune with the rest of the graphics (and a bit ugly).
Have you guys considered making the selection brighter somehow? For instance, in the screenshot you could make the box which is selected have a lass transparent background, and it could stand out in this way.
This would look better and more consistent with the new KDE look.
Keep up the good work, guys!
By Gustavo at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: End Session
The end session artwork is relatively new, so there will likely be some polishing before it's shipped. And also, I only have two buttons in that shot, as I used 'startkde' to launch KDE. If I had launched from kdm, there may have been additional buttons there that aren't shown in my screenie.
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: End Session
Yeah, I'd envision the button focus made evident by a chenge in button tint or, say, an orange halo around the edges.
By jazzuban at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: End Session
Another problem with this screenshot is the icons used to represent the "end current session" and "cancel" actions...
In my opinion, the icon for "end current session" seens to invite the user to back to the session, and not end it;
But were said, the work on KDE 4's new logout dialog is just beginning and I believe that this is going to be revised...
Anyway, congrats for the excellent work on KDE 4, I can't wait to begin using it!!
By Saulo A Moraes at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
An idea about Oxygen - make it look like 3D
I really like this new icons' style but, please, make them look 3D, so that they really have three dimensions.
Right now it looks like they are 'shot' (drawn, of course) as if your standing right in front of them.
On this picture [http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol11_4x_dolphin.png] the selected icon looks very ugly - no one can figure out where from the light comes and the shadow is like an alien ;-)
The red old fashioned "Root" icon looks much prettier.
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: An idea about Oxygen - make it look like 3D
> make them look 3D
heh... some people want usability, others want flash and 3D and ... yeah. it's hard to ballance all these things. in any case, complex icons are actually a downer for general use. still, someone could indeed make such an icon set. i don't see it being the default for kde4.
selection drawing is not finalized for kde4. there are far nicer patches floating around and one of them will undoubtedly be making it in for 4.0
Will performance degrade with the use of SVG graphics?
By Youssef at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Performance
no, they are pre-rendered into png's and those are loaded. i think we can do better than that, but at least at this point it's no worse than it was before.
the icon naming spec and mimetype system may help make it worse, however, now that there is a name based degredation heuristic (e.g. if you can't find foo-bar-baz, the loader is supposed to try foo-bar then foo in certain cases; for mimetypes there's a default icon that one is supposed to fall back to). iow, we'll likely end up doing even more disk seeks in the future...
Cool but what about speed?
I think the new icon set is really cool but a lot of work should be done. The question I have is that the SVG artworks needs time and CPU resources to be rendered; So what are the probable sln to get these eye candy thinks work but without consuming CPU time?
By Landolsi at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Cool but what about speed?
Well, there are a couple of things: KDE pre-renders png images for a few default icon sizes, such as toolbar icons. For the really big ones, it renders on the fly. There is also some discussion about caching icons at various sizes so that they don't need to be rerendered. This of course breaks down for some of the really dynamic, more animated stuff, as you'd have to be caching a high-res, lossless movie...
So, in summary: most icons are drawn from pre-rendered png's that are generated from the SVGs.
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
No way
I like KDE and I have used it for about 5+ years now.
Way too many details! It's almost absurd. (look at the "DEVICES")
Sorry, but those icons look almost useless when "small" or "tiny".
dict.org: icon is a _symbol_, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.
Picture (in absurd detail!) of a camera is NOT a symbol!
By Brrrr at Thu, 2007/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: No way
most of these icons are not meant to be used at 16px or 22px sizes. there are special versions of several icons for those sizes that eliminate much of the detail, but some are plain not expected to be used in those situations.
welcome to the world of sane screen resolutions; 1984's 9 inch black and white monitors are history.
Re: No way
some of us are using itty bitty laptops and need all the screen space we can get for content, not icons :)
By Chani at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am
Re: No way
On my last test, just a view days ago, I saw that GNOME is not really usable in resolutions <= 1024x768. Please don't make the same mistake with KDE!
By birdy at Fri, 2007/03/09 - 6:00am


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IBM XIV Gen3 SSD Caching versus EMC VFCache
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to pick her top three favorites, and tells me that scripts for nearly identical concepts came all the time. Here are a few of my favorite examples:
(I think I made my point with just a few examples. A more complete list can be found on [Sam Greenspan's 11 Points website].)
This is different than copy-cat movies that are re-made or re-imagined many years later based on the previous successes of an original. Ever since my blog post [VPLEX: EMC's Latest Wheel is Round] in 2010 comparing EMC's copy-cat product that came our seven years after IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC), I've noticed EMC doesn't talk about VPLEX that much anymore.
This week, IBM announced [XIV Gen3 Solid-State Drive support] and our friends over at EMC announced [VFCache SSD-based PCIe cards]. Neither of these should be a surprise to anyone who follows the IT industry, as IBM had announced its XIV Gen3 as "SSD-Ready" last year specifically for this purpose, and EMC has been touting its "Project Lightning" since last May.
Fellow blogger Chris Mellor from The Register has a series of articles to cover this, including [EMC crashes the server flash party], [NetApp slaps down Lightning with multi-card Flash flush], [HP may be going the server flash route], and [Now HDS joins the server flash party].
Fellow blogger Chuck Hollis from EMC has a blog post [VFCache means Very Fast Cache indeed] that provides additional detail. Chuck claims the VFCache is faster than popular [Fusion-IO PCIe cards] available for IBM servers. I haven't seen the performance spec sheets, but typically SSD is four to five times slower than the DRAM cache used in the XIV Gen3. The VFCache's SSD is probably similar in performance to the SSD supported in the IBM XIV Gen3, DS8000, DS5000, SVC, N series, and Storwize V7000 disk systems.
Nonetheless, I've been asked my opinions on the comparison between these two announcements, as they both deal with improving application performance through the use of Solid-State Drives as an added layer of read cache.
(FTC Disclosure: I am both a full-time employee and stockholder of the IBM Corporation. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission may consider this blog post as a paid celebrity endorsement of IBM servers and storage systems. This blog post is based on my interpretation and opinions of publicly-available information, as I have no hands-on access to any of these third-party PCIe cards. I have no financial interest in EMC, Fusion-IO, Texas Memory Systems, or any other third party vendor of PCIe cards designed to fit inside IBM servers, and I have not been paid by anyone to mention their name, brands or products on this blog post.)
The solutions are different in that IBM XIV Gen3 the SSD is "storage-side" in the external storage device, and EMC VFCache is "server-side" as a PCI Express [PCIe] card. Aside from that, both implement SSD as an additional read cache layer in front of spinning disk to boost performance. Neither is an industry first, as IBM has offered server-side SSD since 2007, and IBM and EMC have offered storage-side SSD in many of their other external storage devices. The use of SSD as read cache has already been available in IBM N series using [Performance Accelerator Module (PAM)] cards.
IBM has offered cooperative caching synergy between its servers and its storage arrays for some time now. The predecessor to today's POWER7-based were the iSeries i5 servers that used PCI-X IOP cards with cache to connect i5/OS applications to IBM's external disk and tape systems. To compete in this space, EMC created their own PCI-X cards to attach their own disk systems. In 2006, IBM did the right thing for our clients and fostered competition by entering in a [Landmark agreement] with EMC to [license the i5 interfaces]. Today, VIOS on IBM POWER systems allows a much broader choice of disk options for IBM i clients, including the IBM SVC, Storwize V7000 and XIV storage systems.
EMC is not the first to manufacture an SSD-based PCIe card. Last summer, my friends at Texas Memory Systems [TMS] gave away a [RAMsan-70 PCIe card] at an after-party on [Day 2 of the IBM System Storage University].
Can a little SSD really help performance? Yes! An IBM client running a [DB2 Universal Database] cluster across eight System x servers was able to replace an 800-drive EMC Symmetrix by putting eight SSD Fusion-IO cards in each server, for a total of 64 Solid-State drives, saving money and improving performance. DB2 has the Data Partitioning Feature that has multi-system DB2 configurations using a Grid-like architecture similar to how XIV is designed. Most IBM System x and BladeCenter servers support internal SSD storage options, and many offer PCIe slots for third-party SSD cards. Sadly, you can't do this with a VFCache card, since you can have only one VFCache card in each server, the data is unprotected, and only for ephemeral data like transaction logs or other temporary data. With multiple Fusion-IO cards in an IBM server, you can configure a RAID rank across the SSD, and use it for persistent storage like DB2 databases.
Here then is my side-by-side comparison:
IBM has the advantage that it designs and manufactures both servers and storage, and can design optimal solutions for our clients in that regard.
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I don't have any experience with GIS and mapping (other than drawing polygons in Google Earth). I need to create custom territory boundaries on a map, with county lines and street/highways as boundaries. These territories that I want to create will be next to each other, so I want to prevent empty spaces between them also.
Are there free tools that will allow me to do this? I attempted to do this using Google Earth's polygon tool, but tracing the county lines along with major highways over a large area is a massive task, and the result is not clean (i.e. my traces don't "snap" to the streets perfectly).


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Leet Computers necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 530 diseños de 184 diseñadores freelance.
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Building custom computers, upgrading current systems, and your usual troubleshooting, repair and data recovery services.
I'd like the companies personality to come out as friendly and professional but with a sense of humor.
To begin with the target audience is home users but ideally small to medium businesses will be a large focus as the business grows so a logo/style that fit both criteria would be ideal.
I want to give as much freedom to be creative as possible so I will try to limit the do's and don'ts.
To make the contest simpler I will run it as a logo competition however the winner will also need to provide a letterhead/business card style.
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I would prefer a logo that does not incorporate a computer, monitor, or other computer peripheral, although a creative design could change this desire.
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Dave Grohl 'Sound City' Documentary Gets February 1 Release
Audiophiles and Dave Grohl fans, mark your calendars for Feb. 1. That's when the Foo Fighters frontman plans to release his directorial debut, the documentary 'Sound City,' on a worldwide scale.
The film will enjoy a premiere at the vaunted Sundance Film Festival, which takes place Jan. 17 through Jan. 27 in Park City, Utah. It's certainly an impressive way for the film to bow and to generate even more buzz, given the "it" factor implicit in Sundance. So Grohl's first time as a director is being met in the most high profile of ways.
If you are super stoked about this news, you can pre-order the digital version (which is DRM-free) for $10 and be rewarded with some instant gratification. Go here for more details on that.
The film is a look at the Sound City studio complex in Van Nuys, Calif., where many legendary albums were recorded, including Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' so Grohl has a distinctly personal connection to the location. He was inspired to make the film after he purchased the Neve 8028 recording console, considered a true gem in the analog recording world.
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Thanksgiving Day is the bipolar child of my holidays. I've had quiet Thanksgivings, raucous Thanksgivings, and Thanksgivings that have defied description as they were unfolding; Thanksgivings that continue to confound me years after they have passed. My in-laws' Turkey Day celebrations fall into that latter category. But, I am nothing if not fair (and put upon by those in-laws). I feel compelled to briefly describe my own family's Thanksgivings, to lay the foundation for an objective comparison.
My maternal grandfather, under whose roof I was raised, was born not in Italy, but in Boston. He was as all-American as baked beans. A staunch waver of the Stars and Stripes and a retired stevedore, this normally gentle giant was fully capable of decking anyone who uttered an ill word against the United States of America in his presence. Ergo, my family celebrated Thanksgiving in full American style. But for my aunt's famous Italian-American stuffing, there wasn't a hint of Italy's rich, year-round harvest at our table. In my grandparents' basement, a good twenty-five or so relatives gathered to partake of a feast reminiscent of the first Thanksgiving: turkey, yams, mashed potatoes, corn bread, mushrooms, gravy, string beans, and cranberry sauce, all washed down by apple pie, pumpkin pie, a little wine, and "brown coffee" (not espresso).
In adulthood, I was introduced to my now-husband's family, who celebrated in an entirely different manner. Bear with me, read this through to the end, and you'll see just how differently. In those days, before I was married, I was young and idealistic as well as stubborn. The first Thanksgiving spent with my future in-laws should have served as an omen of things to come.
Onto the table came what I will call the "anti-pasta" to what should have been the main course. This was not the traditional Italian platter of delicious marinated vegetables and slivers of luscious cured meats and ripened cheeses. No, this was enough lasagna and baked ziti to feed the entire Israeli Army, plus a heaping plate of meatballs, sausage, pork chops, and ribs cooked in gravy (tomato sauce rich with the meat drippings). To balance out this tottering food pyramid, artichokes also appeared at the table, and not the wonderful stuffed kind that my own family made year-round; these were simply swimming in greasy water.
One look at that groaning board and my heart sank. I'd been asked to bring stuffing to my boyfriend's house, and I had. It wasn't that uninventive cheap bread stuffing redolent of nasty sage and pulled from a plastic bag on a supermarket shelf. It was my aunt's famous recipe, made from scratch and marrying chopped meat with seasoned rice, fresh parsley, sweet onions, an egg or two to bind it, pignoli (pine nuts) lightly toasted in olive oil, and a liberal sprinkling of fresh Locatelli cheese. For a young woman living on her own, it wasn't cheap for me to make this dish. But it had been part of my Thanksgiving tradition since childhood. Besides, my family had always fought over the leftovers.
My future mother-in-law must have seen my face, for she soothed me with, "Don't worry, Karen; the turkey will be served an hour or so after the pasta and meatballs, et cetera; we'll have your stuffing then." An hour or so afterward? I cringed mentally, steeling myself for a stomach pumping at the closest ER. Sure enough, just as the macaroni et al was beginning to work it's way back up my gullet, the turkey appeared, with great pomp and circumstance, on an enormous covered platter. Once the domed cover was whisked away, the bird was revealed in all its vainglorious splendor.
It was slightly larger than a Cornish game hen.
"Christ on a crutch!" one of my future uncles-in-law blasphemed, and for good reason. The man was of Polish descent and knew a worthy bird and trimmings when he saw one. "Maria, you said you were getting a bigger bird this year!"
"I did," my mother-in-law sniffed. "This one is six pounds. Last year's was four."
"Is that thing even legal?" I piped up, earning black looks from everyone but Uncle Bob, who'd asked if my mother-in-law had a permit to take a critter so undersized.
"No one in this family likes turkey, Bob, and you know it!" my future mother-in-law accused. "You've been in this family for thirty years!" "Don't remind me!" he groused, fixing me with a surreptitious look. I swear he muttered, "Run now, Karen," sotto voce. "I'm goin'," I mumbled back, "… to get the stuffing."
The family then dug in to the underage bird and my lovingly prepared stuffing, which had always wowed my own family. Utterings of "crap," "shit," "damn," and worse wafted over the meatball-scented air. "What?!?" I squeaked. "This family doesn't eat pine seeds," I was told by three of my future relatives. "Pine nuts," I corrected, thinking, I see why not. You have enough nuts in this family tree already! "Yeah, we don't like 'em," my future Uncle Tony declared with a cold stare aimed at me. All around the table, like baboons picking nits out of each other's fur, people were sticking their hands into my beautiful stuffing, pulling out the pignoli!
"Next year, don't put the pine seeds in here, ya got it?" I was admonished. Across the table, Uncle Bob shook his head almost imperceptibly. Don't let there be a next year, he mouthed at me silently.
I gritted my teeth and refused to accept these insults. "If I am here next year," I stated in no uncertain terms, "I will be including the pignoli as I do every year. It's a tradition in my family. If you all don't like it," I finally thundered, "don't eat it!" Too bad Uncle Bob forgot himself and clapped. To this day, his left ear is still slightly misshapen where his wife boxed it. For about ten minutes, an uneasy silence reigned, but I would not back down. Which is probably why I wasn't invited to the private party that took place under my future aunt's roof not long afterward.
After dinner, I'd been assigned the task of washing the dishes while the men gathered to holler at the TV and whatever hapless football team was losing. The other women carried the dishes into the kitchen, scraped them out, piled them up for me, made doggie bags for everyone, and Saran wrapped the leftovers. Through the rising steam of the hot water, I wasn't immediately aware that I was suddenly alone in the kitchen.
Peaking around the corner into the dining room, I found that area as deserted as Chernobyl after its horrible nuclear disaster. In the living room, sans women, the men were whopping it up, giving the middle finger salute to the losing team and yelling things like, "My great Aunt Tillie can run a pass better than that and my Aunt Tillie is dead!"
Hurt and angered, I'll be damned, I thought. The other women left me to do the rest of the dirty work while they went where?!? Aloud, I asked, "Anybody know where the other ladies are?" "They're at my house," Uncle Bob answered, feigning a punt at the TV. "Said they were gonna plan Sherri's bridal shower to Vinnie. God help 'er marryin' into this clan. Go on over, Karen; ya know I live right around the corner. Here, take my key."
When I hesitated, Uncle Bob shooed me away, advising me to take a break. Like an invited burglar, I stole into Uncle Bob's and Aunt Rose's house. Laughter hit me full in the face as I stepped into the foyer, full-on, screaming laughter, the kind that put a smile on my face even though I'd been insulted and abandoned by these inconsiderate people.
Quietly, I crept toward the sound of the merriment … coming from Bob's and Rose's living room. Eight woman, seven of them middle aged, and one of them elderly and minus her false teeth, were gathered on the sofa, love seat, and recliner, laughing so hard they could barely breathe. Tears rolled down their reddened cheeks. They were speaking Italian but with the strangled guffaws, the words were nearly indistinguishable. I thought I heard "sausage" and "squash" but wasn't sure.
So merry was this scene that suddenly, the insults and abandonment were forgotten. I wanted in on the laughter. I wanted to be part of the fun. I hadn't even glanced at the TV; I'd just assumed it was some VHS tape captured for eternity, displaying some family function or other where certain family members were doing what they seemed to do naturally — which was, make asses of themselves.
So involved in the tape, not one of the laughing women had even sensed my presence. As I swung my head to the TV, the blood froze in my veins.
There on the screen was a naked couple. The man was the most well-endowed human male I'd ever seen in my life, so endowed that I wondered for one wild moment if he'd been PhotoShopped … but this was years before PhotoShop had been invented! As I watched, dumbfounded, the stud well, gave it to that lucky lady on the screen. "Harder, harder!" screamed one of the women in the room in English, and shock, it was my 72-year-old future mother-in-law! "If my husband looked like that, I'd actually enjoy cooking and cleaning up his shit," one of my future aunts allowed. "Me too!" the other ladies howled.
As I said, I was still young, idealist … and stupid. Without a word, I began to back out of the room. I wasn't a prude, but I'd never seen such behavior from older women, married women, ever, and since I wasn't yet one of the "inner circle" (not knowing that I would never really be), all I wanted was out. But walking backward, I bumped into a small, decorative table and knocked over a vase of pussy willows. As the vase bounced on the thick shag carpet, silence fell over the room. Every face that had been red with laughter was now red with shock and mortification. I didn't say a word. Hell, I wouldn't have known what to say!
And then the room exploded in curses — aimed at me. I was embarrassed as hell but also angry. They'd stuck me with the dishes, lied about planning poor Sherri's shower, and were watching a blue movie starring the Stud of the Universe while their men-folk cussed up a happy storm over a tame football game! "You can't say a word about this to our husbands!" they warned me, "not one single word, Karen, you promise!" These were threats, not supplications.
And then the light dawned. A shit-eatin' grin spread itself over my face. "You ever leave me with all the dishes again, you ever insult my food again, I'm telling!" I countered back with an evil gleam in my eye.
"No, Karen, no, please, we won't, we promise!!!"
But I left the shit-eatin' grin there nonetheless, telling my future family, "You ever screw me again, I mean really screw me, and I'm spilling the beans!"
This story is completely true. I swear it on my dear departed grandparents' heads. Now. If you've read the first three articles in my Managing the In-Laws series, you'll know that I'm writing this series under an assumed name. Why make my life even more miserable than it is, being a part of this whacked out family!?!? But …
I am quickly approaching the point where I'm about to haul this little skeleton out of the closet. And if, by the time this article appears on the Write on New Jersey site, I should change my mind about using a pseudonym, there will not be a happy Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's under my in-laws' roofs, and I mean any of my in-laws!
Some pundit once postulated that "Living well is the best revenge." Baloney. Revenge is the best revenge!" 🙂
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Managing the In-Laws: A Survivor's Guide


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - dhab, check this out for me Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "dhab, check this out for me" Riskjunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 21Location: Colleyville,TX,USA Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 4:37 am Ok guys , dhab and people, give feed back =) I was practicing drawing skin...look at the fingers..screwed huh?? well i wasnt going for shape..i was going for texture..so tell me what you think about the texture,lighting etc on the arm..not the shape [img:847232ac63] ]http://www.swiftness.net/stylz/armor.jpg[/img] Back to top Riskjunior memberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 21Location: Colleyville,TX,USA Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 4:38 am ahhhhh my bad..here it is [img] http://www.swiftness.net/stylz/armor.jpg [/img] Back to top nic-on-flyjunior memberMember #Joined: 03 Nov 1999Posts: 39Location: Munich, Germany Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 4:47 am I like it. Good work. Back to top ShrimpishGuestMember # Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 5:31 am It looks too metal-ish. Like copper or something. Go for a more pinkish color. And try to draw like a more defined arm. It's hard to determine whether the skin looks good if it's not on a bodypart. Good work. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Garland celebrates National Parks and Recreation Month this July. The Parks and Recreation facilities run by the City of Garland offer ample opportunities for residents to Get Out and Play!
Nearly three in ten U.S. adults do not spend time outside on a daily basis and of those who do, almost half spend less than 30 minutes in the fresh air, according to a survey released by the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA). That is why this July, the City of Garland and NRPA are challenging everyone to get out and visit their community parks and recreation centers during National Parks and Recreation Month.
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CATcerto is the a project created by Lithuanian conductor, composer and artist Mindaugas Piecaitis. The world premiere was first performed on 5th June, 2009 by the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra in Klaipeda's Concert Hall (Lithuania). It gained recognition in international media: BBC, Lithuanian TV, Baltic TV and the First Baltic Chanel (russian).
Mindaugas Piecaitis composed and directed the Catcerto for Nora The Piano Cat™ and orchestra, where Nora, the soloist, was brought in via video.
On this site you will find interviews with Mindaugas Piecaitis and Nora The Piano Cat. We also present a selection of videos from the rehearsal, the premiere and links to the people that made this a sucess.
Thank you for visiting catcerto.com. Have fun!
Main themes from CATcerto arranged by Mindaugas Piecaitis, available for download here.
A report about cats in online videos can be read in »Entertainment weekly«. In the report there is mention of Nora and CATcerto. (report as pdf-file)
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Watching: TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley
Chapter 4: Getting Support [6:00]
Support groups can help those with depression, and raise public awareness. Often, symptoms in elders go untreated.
Transcript: Chapter 4 - Getting Support
JANE PAULEY: We've talked about the idea of helping others and sharing and being public. I would like to caution, however, that someone who has depression can't get over themselves, any more than someone with cancer, you know, can--- "Well, now that you know it's cancer, get over it."
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: That's true. We don't want to trivialize depression. It's very serious. We never want to do that. And we don't want our support groups to do that. The support groups are designed to educate and support, so you put the illness in its context. For example, you know, a few weeks ago, I went to a support group for women with breast cancer. And there's no doubt that breast cancer is a medical disease. But the help that the women got from other women, by being, you know, with women who are survivors, who are fighting breast cancer, was enormous. You know? It helped their spirits. So we can do the same thing for patients with depression.
(simultaneous conversation)
DR. KEN DUCKWORTH: This is the tuna casserole problem. People who have psychiatric illnesses don't get tuna casseroles and flowers. They don't. And this is why we still know we have work to do to make these conditions, which are just as legitimate and cause just as much, if not more suffering, on the same basis, on a par with the other processes. And so that's when we'll know, is when you go to a support group and people are loving each other and giving things to each other and providing all sorts of support to each other, and it's happening across the board and it's difficult to get into the room, that you have to fight to join their walk, that if you don't get your bicycle pass in on time, you can't participate. We have work to do. Because we're still not at that point yet where people are competing to participate in the different support groups. And that's just a sign that we have work to do.
JANE PAULEY: I think we're really close. I do.
DR. KEN DUCKWORTH: We're going in the right direction.
JANE PAULEY: You make, remind me of something else. Depression is also associated-- There's relationship between other disease, heart disease diabetes, osteoporosis, so that someone who has depression and it isn't being treated, has got more than one problem [simultaneous conversation]--
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: Yeah, and that gets back to the the idea, the fact that depression is a medical disease. It turns out that the biology of depression relates to the biology of these other medical conditions. So, for example, if you have a heart attack and you're depressed, your chances of dying from heart disease are several-fold higher, because the biology of depression makes the biology of heart disease worse.
JANE PAULEY: You know, older people can be written off. You know, if you'd had a cancer diagnosis, you'd be depressed, too. Or, you know, it might be Alzheimer's. But depression can be treatable in older people, too, that they might have to suffer old age, but they don't need to be depressed, too. And I regret that my father probably had---there was room for more joy in his life than we knew.
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: There's an unfortunate stereotype that, you know, older people being at the end of their life, that they should feel depressed. But that's certainly not the case. And, you know, many older people enjoy joyous lives. So we need to be very cognizant of the fact that depression can occur in that timeframe, and treat it. In fact, older people are some of the underserved that often don't get their mental health needs recognized.
(simultaneous conversation)
JANE PAULEY: Well, 'cause a lot of them are thinkin', like you said earlier in our conversation. Older people are the ones who are real likely to want to just tough it out.
DR. KEN DUCKWORTH: But the elderly are also at the highest risk of suicide. And it's just very important to recognize that there is a series of losses that happen with aging that are tragic and all too human. And if you get a clinical syndrome, if you can have the strength or courage to get help for it, you may avoid becoming a tragedy, you know, in your own family system.
JANE PAULEY: And then you can go out and save your friends.
DR. KEN DUCKWORTH: That's right.
JANE PAULEY: That's right. That's all the time we have. For more information you'll find it at PBS dot org. and links to our outreach partners, NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the YMCA of the U.S.A.
Depression is a painful and complicated disease. But it is a disease and it can be treated. So please find the help you need and take one step to care for depression. Thank you all.
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United Airlines is bringing its pilots into the digital age.
The Chicago-based international airlines announced Tuesday that it will replace its pilots' meaty flight manuals and chart books with Apple iPads.
Want to navigate a plane? Now there's an app for that. Apple's tablet computer will replace the 38 pound books United pilots used to carry with them on flights, according to a statement from the airline.
The iPad's will be pre-loaded with Mobile FliteDeck software app from Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary.
"The paperless flight deck represents the next generation of flying," Captain Fred Abbott, United's senior vice president of flight operations, said in a statement. "The introduction of iPads ensures our pilots have essential and real-time information at their fingertips at all times throughout the flight."
The switch to digital navigation will save 16 million sheets of paper and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year, according to the airline.
United Replaces Paper Navigation With iPads
United Airlines is bringing its pilots into the digital age.