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The concept of risk has been discussed by many, and often, over the past year, as citizens around the world voice their concerns about the global recession. Mortgage risk, loan risk, credit risk, bailout risk, risk assessment, risk of spending too much, risk of spending too little, and on and on. A lot of risky business (and not the underwear dance kind) has been going on and we are paying for it now in all too literal a way.
There is another kind of risk though; one that I think some of you may be familiar with. That's right, it's Risk, as in epic board game, world domination style Risk.
I have been thinking about this particular kind of Risk lately due to the fact that while working with the Kiva field partner BRAC, I cannot escape how much the organization makes me think of the game, with its trademark little army men taking control of continents and sweeping across the globe in the attempt to gain complete domination of the two dimensional board game-world.
Only in BRAC's case, the army is not little plastic figures, but a human, benevolent BRAC army of Bangladeshis, Afghanis, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, Southern Sudanese, Ugandans, and Tanzanians. And this is just the beginning – the army is growing, sweeping the globe, out to conquer the poverty of the world, one country at a time.
Okay, my analogy may be getting out of hand at this point. "Out to conquer the poverty of the world" is definitely too melodramatic, but the quantity and quality of BRAC's global work to improve the lives of those living in poverty is undeniably striking.
Created in 1972 as a small-scale relief and rehabilitation project that was designed as a response to the consequences of the liberation war in Bangladesh, BRAC has since evolved into the largest southern NGO in the world.
With its programs in Asia and Africa, BRAC provides services to more than 110 million people. These services include: microfinance, health, water and sanitation, education, adolescent education and life skills, agriculture, livestock, and other social development programs.
Poverty is a simple word for a complex beast – BRAC works to improve the quality of people's lives using a holistic approach, with strategically linked programs that address the causes of poverty from multiple angles. This might mean that within a microfinance group, there will be a health worker providing medical supplies for her group members or that down the street from a microfinance meeting a client's daughter will be learning about gender issues at an adolescent club.
BRAC focuses on empowering women through these development programs, viewing women as crucial agents of change who will be the ones to lead their families out of intergenerational poverty.
Not only are women the target population for these programs, but women are also the primary workforce behind them. BRAC employs more than 120,000 people worldwide, the majority of whom are women. They are the real life Risk-style BRAC army. From microfinance area managers, branch managers, and loan officers to agricultural workers to health program coordinators to adolescent club mentors, women are the driving force behind BRAC's work in underdeveloped countries.
There are also dedicated men involved. BRAC's head management is staffed by development experts from Bangladesh, men who move to the targeted country for a period of 2 to 3 years in order to implement the programs and train staff to run them. Agriculture and livestock program staffs are also often men, and male guards at the offices provide valuable work to the security of BRAC's operations.
Together, these hardworking BRAC employees spread out across countries, opening branch offices and providing valuable services to citizens who have, until now, lived outside of the reach of other means of assistance.
I served my KF6 Fellowship at K-MET in Kenya, now I am in Tanzania working with BRAC. Moving from a one (albeit super-) man operation to the 85 office strong (and growing) BRAC operation in Tanzania has definitely been an eye opener in terms of scale.
BRAC Tanzania employs more than 800 (77% of whom are women) Tanzanians and reaches over 750,000 citizens across the country. Starting in June 2006, BRAC has expanded from one office to approximately 85 (I say approximately because they seem to be multiplying overnight of their own accord – it's hard to keep track), reaching people in poverty in 17 out of the 26 regions in Tanzania. Over 80,000 women borrowers attend group meetings each week.
As BRAC Tanzania continues to grow, its relationship with Kiva plays an increasingly important role. Though BRAC has an Africa Loan Fund that provides funding for many of their programs, and the microfinance program itself is largely self-sustaining, the organization continues to want to diversify their funding avenues. Kiva's loans are a great way to continue to scale up their programs, enabling them to provide even more Tanzanian women with access to credit.
It is in this way that, you, the lenders, can become a part of the great BRAC army. Welcome. Make a loan to a BRAC Tanzania borrower today. Be a part of opening the door to financial services to women across Tanzania. And with the borrower group guarantee, it's not even a little bit risky.
Sarah Forbes worked as a KF6 with K-MET in Kenya. She is now serving her KF7 and KF8 terms with BRAC in Tanzania. Unfortunately, she has never actually played the game Risk./>


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#5 Caroline Mason
|Mt. Juliet, Tenn./Mt. Juliet HS
|Elementary Education
2011: All-Conference First-Teamer started 48 games, leading the Lady Bisons with a .307 average, nine home runs, 10 doubles and a .586 slugging percentage... Finished ninth in the Atlantic Sun in home runs, seventh in slugging percentage and 10th in total bases (82)... Had 10 multi-hit games, including three games with three hits... Had two multi-home run games, against USC Upstate (Mar. 27) and North Florida (April 9)... Earned her first career A-Sun Player of the Week honor on Mar. 28 after hitting .500 with three home runs, three doubles and seven runs batted in against ETSU (Mar. 25) and Upstate (Mar. 27)... Just against Upstate, went 5-for-9 with two doubles, two home runs, three runs and five runs batted in... Hit .377 with eight home runs and 22 RBI in 20 Atlantic Sun games... Led the conference in home runs, RBI, total bases (53) and doubles (6), was fifth in batting average, second in runs (17), tied for fifth in hits (20) and second in slugging (.869) in A-Sun games... Had third-fewest strike outs among Lipscomb regulars with 19... Against Campbell (Apr. 1), went 4-for-7 with a run scored, a double, a home run and three RBI... In the first game of the Lady Bisons doubleheader with Belmont (Apr. 30), went 2-for-3 with a run scored, a double, a home run and four runs batted in... Member of the Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2010: Played in 38 games, started 36 … Hit .274 with two home runs, 17 RBI and eight runs scored in 95 at-bats … Registered six multi-hit (four 2-hit, two 3-hit) games … Played in six Atlantic Sun Conference games, starting five of them … Hit .500 (7-for-14) with a home run and five RBI in six conference games … Posted a .714 slugging percentage and .500 on-base percentage in league play … Hit .333 (5-for-15) with four RBI in five games of Eagle Classic (Feb. 19-21) … Went 1-for-3 with a pair of RBI vs. Georgia Southern in Eagle Classic (Feb. 20) … Connected on a two-run double vs. Oakland in Eagle Classic (Feb. 20) … Posted first multi-hit game of the season with 2-for-3 effort against Georgia Southern in final game of Eagle Classic (Feb. 21) … Went 2-for-3 with an RBI in win over Murray State (Mar. 5) … Went 1-for-3, with a two-run home run vs. Evansville (Mar. 7) … Drove in a season-high four runs in three-hit effort, including second home run of the season in game one of doubleheader vs. Belmont (Apr. 28) … Went 2-for-2 with an RBI-double and run scored against USC-Upstate (May 15) … Went 3-for-3 with an RBI in NCAA Regional elimination game against UAB (May 22) … Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2009: Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team. …Eight multi-hit games, all with two hits. …Five multi-RBI games. …Seven-game hitting streak (4/18-5/2). …Season-high three RBI vs Virginia Tech (3/11). …Third on team in doubles (10). …Tied for third on team in triples (1). …Fourth on team in slugging percentage (.448). …Fourth on team in home runs (5). …Fifth on team in RBI (21). …Tied for first in sac flies (2). …Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Four- year starter at Mt. Juliet High School for coach Kacey Pedigo. …Two-time TSWA All-State selection. …Two-time All-Midstate First Team. … Two-time All-District Team. …High school team finished as State Runner-Up in 2006 and 2007. …As a junior, led the state of Tennessee with 19 home runs (all as a leadoff hitter) and hit .398 with 27 stolen bases. … Mt. Juliet finished the 2007 season with a 46-11 record and ranked No. 41 nationally by Rivals.com. …As a senior, hit .378 with seven homeruns and 22 RBI. …Also a four-year starter in volleyball.
Personal: Played club softball for Tennessee Xplosion Gold coached by Ken Crook. …Finished third in USFA Nationals in 2008. …Won USFA National Championship in Panama City Beach, Fla., in 2007. …Parents are Cheri and Jimmy Mason. …Has one brother, James (21), and one sister, Ashlee (24). …Plans to major in Elementary Education.

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Set In Stone brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 66 Designs von 20 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Set In Stone Restoration - setinstonerestoration.com
We are a natural stone floor polishing, cleaning, and restoration company serving the San Diego, CA and Phoenix, AZ areas. We specialize in Travertine and Marble for high-end residential clients.
Our target audience is homeowners in need of our service.
We are looking for a classy, timeless, upscale, sleek, elegant logo with these basic requirements:
-The color scheme should be Black and Gold
-"Set In Stone" should be written above with "Restoration" underneath
-The logo should be able to look good in both a small format, such as a letterhead or business card and a large format, such as a banner or large form or advertising
Suggestion: The words "Set In Stone" written in script letters, with the word "Restoration" written in basic lettering underneath
I have attached a logo (Stone Care.jpg) that we like the basic format of, but since this is a local competitor, we don't want ours to look too similar to theirs.
The second attachment (Banner.jpg) is our current website banner with our old logo in the center. This logo is not distinct enough for us therefore we are revamping this logo and our website.
We are not too strict with these rules and guidelines and are open to you using your creative skills.
Thank you for your time and we are excited to see what you come up with!
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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UH Curriculum Research & Development Group researcher awarded $202,089 grantUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Curriculum Research & Development Group
HONOLULU — Dr. Judith Olson, researcher for the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) at UH Mānoa, along with Dr. Melfried Olson and Claire Okazaki, have been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources. Their proposal, "The Role of Gender in Language Used by Children and Parents Working on Mathematical Tasks," received a three-year award for $202,089.
The three-year research project, to be conducted during fiscal years 2005-2008, will involve investigating gender-related differences in the language and behaviors observed among third and fourth-grade children and their parents who are working together on mathematical tasks.
The tasks that have been piloted during Year 1 of the project will use various strategies to foster intense interaction between parents and children. Once the study gets underway in September 2006, each of the child-parent pairs will be videotaped as they are working on three mathematical tasks: number and operations, geometry, and algebraic reasoning.
The videotapes will be coded to determine gender-related differences in how parents and children talk about mathematics. As the subjects work on each task, investigators will use various techniques to secure needed information for identifying gender-related differences in how language is used. These techniques for assessing gender variations range from counting the number of conceptual questions asked to the respective reliance of males and females to use specific mathematical terms.
The theoretical framework for this study is based on prior research on how gender factors can affect children's self-confidence about their mathematical abilities, as well as how parents feel about their competence. Moreover, the theoretical framework considers how these beliefs are translated into the language that is used. Investigators will gather data in these areas of study for four family dyads: daughter-mother, son-mother, daughter-father, son-father.
The researchers hope that their findings will provide an invaluable tool for parents and their children in the educational process. They believe that more effective forms of communication will enhance a better understanding of the role that gender-related language difference play in the process of learning mathematics. Once the study is completed, investigators plan to use the findings to develop recommendations that will ultimately help parents and children talk about mathematics in ways that encourage girls, in particular, to pursue academic study and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Research in this field has traditionally been limited by assumptions that were made about well-educated, middle-class professionals rather than a broader population of underrepresented working class families with diverse ethnic backgrounds. This research is an attempt to bridge the gap in knowledge about variations in language patterns based on the particular gender and demographics of the families involved.
About the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG)
The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) is an organized research unit in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa since 1966. CRDG has served the educational community locally, nationally, and internationally by conducting research and creating, evaluating, disseminating, and supporting educational programs that serve students, teachers, and other educators in grades preK-12; and contributing to the body of professional knowledge and practice in teaching and learning, curriculum development, program dissemination and implementation, evaluation and assessment and school improvement.
CRDG operates the University Laboratory School (ULS), a public charter school as its R & D laboratory under an agreement with the local school board. ULS provides a K-12 student population in a controlled environment where CRDG faculty conducts its research and development work. Additionally, ULS serves as a demonstration site for improving K-12 education while providing a high quality education for its approximately 420 students. The students, randomly selected from among applicants to represent a broad cross section of the state population, provide real-world data on ways all students can succeed.
Since its founding, CRDG has been an integral part of the education community. A research model that combines cutting-edge thinking with real-world application has continued to add to the body of professional knowledge while bringing a large cross-section of the education community into the research process.


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Raymond Parks, one of the founding members of NASCAR and the owner of its first championship team, died Sunday. He was the last surviving NASCAR founder, and he was once jailed for illegally transporting liquor. Say it with us: Sigh.
Parks — he can be seen at left in the picture above, along with crew chief Red Vogt and driver Red Byron* — was a team owner who never drove, but he played a vital role in the evolution of stock-car racing and was present at the December 1947 hotel meeting that marked the sport's official founding. He was also once jailed for operating a fleet of cars that illegally moved booze into dry southern states. Which is cool as hell.
If you have a minute or two, read Parks's New York Times obituary, a short, informative reminder that once, racing personalities were real people, not sanitized caricatures. When you're done, sit back, look out the window, and google the phrase "dirt oval." (There's one near you. I promise.) Seek one out, take a kid with you, and pick the dried mud out of your hair later. NASCAR's golden era may be gone forever, but the building blocks are still there. Enjoy them while you can.
*In other news, we really, really wish we lived in an era where people were given legal names based on their hair color and/or temper. Sigh again.
Photo Credit: Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images


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The college counseling staff provides assistance to each student in planning an academic program of studies for graduation, for transfer or for personal interest. The rapid changes in requirements and prerequisites for institutions and careers make continuing guidance a necessary part of students' academic lives. All students are encouraged to define educational objectives and plan how to achieve them.
Student Success Video – Get the Basics
Check out Navigate!
To qualify for an early registration date, students need to complete all the steps of the following process:
To schedule an appointment for any of these steps, please call 760-384-6219.
Counselors can also provide students with special counseling and guidance in matters pertaining to adjustment to college, help in improving study skills and career planning.
To set up an appointment to meet with a counselor either in person or by telephone, please call:(760) 384-6219 at Ridgecrest / Indian Wells Valley
**NOTICE** For PREREQUISITE HOLDS, fax a copy of your transcript showing successful completion (grade of "C" or better) of the necessary prerequisite course with a cover page including your name, student ID, contact number and the course you wish to be cleared for. Please send your fax to 760-384-6255 ATTN: Counseling. Thank you. Cerro Coso Counseling.
The Transfer Center is available to assist students in making their transition to a four-year college/university a successful one. Among the many services available to students are CSU/UC application workshops, on-campus visits by university representatives, visits to university campuses, articulation information, and agreements with colleges/universities, as well as information on the California Articulation Numbering System (CAN). At the Centers, this information can be acquired from the counselor/counselor technician. For more Information go to the Transfer Center page.
Career Planning/Placement Services assist individuals in making career decisions. These services, located in MB 215 with Access Programs, are open to all students and visitors from the community and include computerized career information and search programs, a career information library, occupational interest inventories, individual counseling and classes in career planning. Job placement and advisory services are provided to students, graduates and former students for off-campus part-time, full-time, temporary, permanent or summer employment opportunities. Materials relating to job seeking skills, interview and resume writing techniques, and current employment opportunities outside the Indian Wells Valley are also available.
At the Eastern Sierra Center location in Bishop, the Career Planning Center offers similar services. Additional services include periodic information programs and assessment services. The Center's staff will also be able to assist you with information concerning the many financial aid programs available to Cerro Coso students.
Please contact the staff at your extension office to determine the availability of career counseling activities available to you.
The goal of the Counseling department at Cerro Coso Community College is to facilitate student development in areas of basic skills, career and academic planning and completion, and transfer preparedness to four-year institutions. The counseling staff is committed to providing quality services and meeting the changing needs of our diverse student populations at all sites by continued involvement in college-wide activities, outreach programs in the community, and implementing new strategies that focus on increasing student retention and success.


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Rennee S necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Company Name: Relavie Tagline: Forward-Thinking Real Estate
We are hip, tech advanced, urban entrepreneurs providing real estate services in the Boston area. Relavie presents a new concept in real estate and is being created to attend internet savvy buyers with a fast, relaxed yet efficient service. Nothing of the traditional way of doing real estate. Relavie wants to portray a W Hotels kind of feel. We are modern, chic and one step ahead of the competition when it comes to connections and information.
Young professionals (25-45 years of age), who are internet savvy, well informed, and appreciate fast service tailored to their needs.
- Look and feel: Chic, modern, attractive, eye-catching, simple.
- Colors: Orange/Gray or Burgundy/Gray (but open for better suggestions). White background and a modern typeface is preferred.
- Original. We welcome and encourage out-of-the-box creativity (with limits of course). Sometimes less is more.
- We believe the name 'Relavie' will become a strong brand in the hands of the right designer. Feel free to be playful with the name. An icon is also welcome, but please refrain from obvious objects such as keys, roofs, houses, etc. BE CREATIVE. We are an urban, young, hip company and sure don't want a 'Traditional' feel attached to our image. Don't forget to include the tagline.
- The logo will be used mostly on the website so please make sure it works.
- Required file formats: Vector software used (photoshop, Illustrator,..), Jpeg, and Tiff.
- I uploaded a couple of logos I like. I found them at logogala.com.
NOTE: This is the first job of many. If you win, we may be working only with you for all the other designs (stationary, Homepage design, web banners, etc..).
Thank you and good luck!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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launchbags brauchte ein neues Flash Animation Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
2 Gewinner wurden aus 68 Designs von 14 Designern ausgewählt.
Need an updated redesign and secondary pages for a couture handbag production company, incorporating flash elements, scripting/html/css as needed.
From concept to sale
Desired Style:
modern, clean, minimalist but attractive
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We are a couture handbag production and marketing company for small- to medium-sized handbag designers all around the world. This project will be for an updated look for our own company website that captures the sleekness and modern feel of the current elements, but perhaps not so dark and ominous and definitely less dependent upon flash, since we'd like to be able to do some search-engine optimization after the design phase.
Task 1: come up with a new look for our site along the lines of what you will see at http://launchbags.com/contest , using some of our elements. We will have better, updated content to provide later, and an additional stipend will be given to the contest winner to complete those housekeeping tasks.
Task 2: weed out the heavy flash dependency and instead use flash elements that don't dominate but enhance. The site should be cross-browser friendly and shouldn't demand too many resources from the viewer's computer.
Task 3: this task is optional, but it may be necessary to update our logo to balance it with the site's new look. An additional stipend will be paid if the best design's look depends on a new look for the logo.
Some photos that you can use to help along with the design:
Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Photo 4 | Photo 5| Photo 6
Good luck, and please contact me with any questions you may have.Â
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Flash Animation
- Web Page Design (Coded)


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A Philadelphia woman survived a vicious attack in the city's subway after she was dragged and thrown onto the tracks.
We want to warn you that the video above may be difficult to watch.
U.S. & World
The attacker and the woman were alone at the SEPTA subway station in Chinatown on Tuesday afternoon when he asked to borrow a light for his cigarette. Without provocation, the man proceeded to atttack the woman, dragging her onto the landing before throwing her onto the tracks.
SEPTA Chief of Police Thomas Nestel tells NBC10 the woman, 23, was very fortunate she walked away with only bumps, bruises and some cuts.
"It's horrifying. And when you see that happen, you think the worst. We all know that there is a tremendous electric source. You touch that, you die," Nestel said.
Why then, didn't SEPTA get the attack video and the man's description out to the public as soon as possible?
Nestel says he made the call not to go public because the attacker had a very distinct jacket on and he was confident that was their best lead.
He admits it was risky, but "it's also risky to put that information out. He gets rid of that coat and I lose my best chance to get a dangerous man off the streets."
The attacker was found two days later — in that very jacket — by a SEPTA officer.
Police say he had the victim's cell phone on him.
Chief Nestel tweeted this praise for the arresting officer:
William Clark, pictured below, faces assault and robbery charges.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb track and field teams returned to the track after a short hiatus for spring break in the Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invitation in Nashville. The two-day meet started on Friday night with eight events, four of which were invite only.
The short first day of action consisted of five field events and four running.
Logan Ray finished on the podium in the triple jump with a leap of 14.04 meters. The senior's third place finish was less than a meter behind winner Douglas Palacious of Southern Illinois who had a jump of 14.05 meters. Sophomore Caleb Love finished in seventh place with a jump of 13.17 meters.
Facing her strongest competition of the year, Dani Walker finished sixth in the 1500-meter run invitational in a time of 4:30.56. The junior finished nine seconds behind winner Lauren Hagans who was running unattached and for Asics, a professional track club.
Kendra Lobley finished 11th overall in 3000-meter run invitational in a time of 10:00.74. The sophomore finished behind Rebecca Addison of Michigan who won the event and seven other BCS conference runners.
Lipscomb continues the Black and Gold Invite Saturday with field events at 10 a.m. and running events at 11 a.m. Admission into the meet is free, which is held on the campus of Vanderbilt.


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KDE Is the "Best Open Source Project"
Moments ago, at LinuxWorld Expo being hosted in San Francisco, CA, the KDE Project was honored as the winner in the "Best Open Source Project" category. On hand to accept the Open Source Product Excellence Award on behalf of the KDE development community were KDE developers Charles Samuels and Rob Kaper, as well as yours truly. Congratulations to the KDE developers, and thanks to IDG for recognizing the excellence of the KDE desktop! Update, Thursday August 30, @1:15AM: Rob Kaper has posted pictures of the award.
Re: *sigh*
Can you call something "really free" if it depends on something, that isn't?
By Spark at Sun, 2001/09/02 - 5:00am
Re: Best desktop
> Who knows ? Not in the same way, not in the same
Oh sure, just because RMS has an opinion, suddenly the entire GNU project is guilty.
If Torvalds disagrees with RMS and calls the entire system just "Linux", RMS will sue him, remove his right to use the GPL, and threaten him to call it "GNU/Linux".
> I cannot say "I work on GNU" or "I work on
Then that is YOUR opinion, seperated from RMS'.
By Stof at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: Best desktop
> Oh sure, just because RMS has an opinion, suddenly the entire GNU project is guilty.
I did not say such a thing. And I do not think it, of course.
> And you have every right to call your system whatever you want.
Some ones want that anybody call it GNU/Linux. But the problem is not at first about my rights, it is about the fact that many medias now speak of KDE as a desktop of the "GNU/Linux OS", because some integrists (it's not "just one man opinion") try to impose GNU by the speech. Here is the agression, the wish to enslave the word Linux.
By Alain at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: Best desktop
1. There are people who try to enforce the term "GNU/Linux" and bash the term "Linux".
Looks more like civil war to me...
By Stof at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: Best desktop
You wrote..."Last year I said that KDE was good but still inferior to Win 98 desktop. Now I think it is superior, even superior to Windows XP desktop in terms of functionnalities. Konqueror, Kmail/KNode, Kicker, KWord are the leaders, Explorer/IE, Outlook Express, Wordpad are behind... And KDE has much more parameters to be adapted in different ways... And it is free..."
This is of course utter nonsense. KDE is significantly slower than NT4. Konq is significantly slower than Opera and IE. NT4 is significantly easier to upgrade (I have trashed two Linux installs now because of installation dependancies (I'm a newbie). With MS, at least you get a Windows Update, and with Gnome you get Red Carpet (which is excellent also). Open Office is at least WYSIWYG unlike KOffice. Outlook express is miles ahead of KMail...
But anyway, keep up the good work guys. I'm looking forward to KDE 3.0.
By Rob at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Best desktop
> KDE is significantly slower than NT4. Konq is significantly slower than Opera and IE
On an old PC with few memory, it is significant. It is less important in many config, for example 350 Mhz, 128 Mo.
A Windows upgrade is esier than a Linux upgrade, yes, but I spoke about the desktop, not the distros upfates.
And, sorry I was a long time a user of Outlook Express and Kmail/Knode is better. Some examples : automatic wrap while typing text, the hierarchy in the mail messsages, a non-proprietary file format, marks for answered mails, the colors in the >, > >... sentences, better tooolbar management and so...
By Alain at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Good job guys! Major rewliness!
PS Looks like we need an awards category. :-)
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
This is wonderful. But i hope the following features would be implemented.
- WINE support
- Better GNOME and Motif support
- Use Gecko in Konqueror.
Best of luck to you guys. Wish you all developers good health and God bless!
By Rajan Rishyakaran at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Kongrats!!
I thought that Codeweaver's WINE bundle already did what you're asking for.
By Psidekick at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
KDE and wine :)
Just define new application shortcut (.desktop file) which executes wine, than (if not defined) define mime type for .exe files and than let newly created application for wine (you may call it Windows Application.desctop) to be default application for the .exe mimetype.
Also about the KDE support for wine, I must tell ya that wine supports kde :) because the windows icons of apps appear correctly in kicker, even apps that use systray icons appear in kicker system tray :)
About the shortcuts in KDE start menu you can simly create .desctop file and place it in your users home or global KDE menu dir. The shortcut command line should be comething like:
enjoy :)
By kde user at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Kongrats!!
- WINE support
Well I have it in 2.2. RMB on a .exe shows a "Wine" entry
By yves at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
... just where are we going to keep that lovely shiny piece of glass? Can we take turns at keeping it perched atop our monitors? Let's see, if everyone gets to hold it for a day, that will take at least how many decades to get around everyone???
By John at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: So...
just make sure KDE get's another one next year...
KDE rocks my world, for the past eight months I've been continually amazed by the functionality and constant blitzkreig (sp?) development.
By Eric Nichlson at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Where's KDE 3.0 wishlist site?
Good job! Now where's KDE 3 wishlist site.. i wanna make wish :P
By deman2k at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Where's KDE 3.0 wishlist site?
go to each projects web page, find a email, and emails galore!
By Rajan Rishyakaran at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Where's KDE 3.0 wishlist site?
> ... and emails galore
By aleXXX at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Where's KDE 3.0 wishlist site?
Wishes can be send through the bug reporting system. All you have to do is go to http://bugs.kde.org and send a bug with severity Wishlist.
By Wilco Greven at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Well deserved!
Kongrats to the pointed glassy thingie and to the nice blue ribbon for Konqi.
I knew this was coming when I first saw KDE 1 beta in SuSE 5.2.
By reihal at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
port vim to KDE?
Wonderful, [email protected] - well deserved, I must say.
Now if only someone took the initiative and made a KDE port of vim (like the current GTK version, gvim)...
By kdeonfreebsd at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
Or KEmacs, rewritten from scratch in a real programming language (and least one with types :-)), with all the features (especially indenting/completion) and binary modules (no guys, elc is just bytecode).
By Henri at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Would be really cool to have! I've heard that a gtk+ version will be built by the XEmacs gang. It would give the KDE project a lot of status if KEmacs can be completed before gtkEmacs :)
By Loranga at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Agree (to KEmacs !)
Yes, I had a look at these, but
By Henri at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: Agree (to KEmacs !)
I just read in the kdevelop mailing list that Gideon has a Emacs KPart :-)
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
That's an interesting suggestion. Personally I don't find the lisp source code to be such a bad thing.. You've gotta admit lisp is a cool language! .. and, I believe it's what's made emacs so customizable and extendable.
This is not to say things couldn't be "better". Certainly your "monolith" argument is *right* on the money. If "they" (I hate it when people use that word!) could decouple the interface (I'm visualizing a generic lisp frontend to various gui toolkits and/or curses, sure, easier said than done), the elisp interpreter, the, uh, doctor, and all the other kitchen sink bits, it would rock. And we'd get several nice programs/libraries for the price of one.
(as I understand it the reason it wasn't originally built this way was the tight memory/disk space requirements 20 years ago .. too bad emacs is still a pig today.)
I don't know how far the xemacs team is going with this kindof thing; personally, if they can redo the customization buffers so they behave like one single other interface on earth, I'll be impressed.
While I'm dreaming, I wish the fsf would finally run info2html on their helpfiles and forget they ever invented the 'info' format. Sometimes oldschool is nice, and sometimes it's just painful..
The amazing thing about emacs is how it's still better than anyting else :-)
By blandry at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
just f.y.i. (i'm not trying to suggest that anyone in particular was ignorant of this fact) but lisp is a very efficient language. most untyped langages are interpereted scripting languages like perl and ruby. recursion also has a bad name in performance, since other languages' compilers do not optimize for tail-recursion (this is one big reason why 'compilers' that turn new languages into C or JVM bytecode are never that good.) lisp and its compiler are very efficient. a well written lisp program will run as fast and sometimes faster than an equivalent C program.
the only problem that lisp has is its lack of familiarity to programmers. but there's a very good reason RMS chose lisp for emacs: functional programming is awesome for text manipulation. ruby's strong and elegant fp implementation is a very big part of its sudden popularity.
i would suggest keeping as much of the lisp code as possible (total rewrites are almost always a recipe for endless project delays, look at what happened to netscape 5.0) and refactor the display code to be independant of the backend and scripting implementation.
there are a lot of libraries out there for making C/C++ get along well with lisp. if this project happens, i'd suggest a restructure & reimplementation of the display, rather than a complete rewrite.
p.s. a complete rewrite would almost certainly break compatibility with at least some of the enormous plethora of plugins out there.
By kartar at Thu, 2006/05/04 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
gvim is nice and all, especially if you have a PDP-11 keyboard. If any editor needs to get a real hard look at for a native KDE port, it's jEdit.
Proper syntax high-lighting that's actually configurable. Ability to install plug-ins on the fly to handle all kinds of stuff. Gobs of features to boot.
Only down side is the memory usage due to running under the Java VM. The reason I'm mentioning all this isn't so much to plug jEdit, but to encourage those folks working on editors for KDE to give the UI on this thing a really hard look.
By Michael Collette at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
Have you suggested it to the vim people? The gtk version of gvim was done internally, not as a port by the gtk people, afaik.
By pants at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: port vim to KDE?
A port of vim to KDE is underway. It can be found in kdenonbeta/kvim. It's not finished yet though.
By Wilco Greven at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
REAL men use vim in console only!
I HATE the Gtk version of Vim! In fact, the main reason I like vim over emacs is because vim, is well, less "graphical" for lack of a better word.
:) Insanity can be a beautiful thing.
By ron at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: REAL men use vim in console only!
i agree. however it would be nice to have vim integegrated seemlessly into kde? like to type out a message in kmail. or even enter text into a text box in konqueror / mozilla ... ?
By gi1242 at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
KDE is better than Windows
Well deserved recognition for the great work you have all done on KDE. I am new to KDE (used to use gnome) and i was mortified when i first installed it to find a well integrated desktop environment. Konqueror and KMail are fantastic apps and fast unlike Mozilla. What is really cool is that at work :< i use win2000 which looks outdated compared to KDE. There is no going back, the future is bright and it's KDE.
By Anthony Enrione at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is better than Windows
I really like KDE and the main reason why I cannot use it more is the lack of support for S/MIME email and good IMAP support. I know Netscape 4 does it but I have always found that rather inferior to the smooth interface and comparatively good functions of Outlook Express.
Does anyone know if S/MIME is going to be more widely supported? I believe Mozilla are going to do something but do not think they have got very far. Unfortunately PGP is not an option because that is not what is used by all the people I have to correspond with.
Look forward to the days when I can justify working all day on a Linux machine with a KDE Desktop.
Congratulations on what has been achieved so far.
By Flemming at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is better than Windows
in this week's KC KDE (not available yet) there is a section on S/MIME development that is going on as we speak for KDE3.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is better than Windows
It's nice to see that KDE is always improving.
OK, anybody don't always may use some programs, because he finds a lack for his personnal usage. But he knows it will come, he tries new versions, he prepares himself to use it. And then the function comes, he is ready... And when he uses the program regularly, he finds some little annoyances, he still does not retrieve a good comfort. And then improving continues, annoyances disappear and some little great things come...
Today what I need about Kmail or KNode ? Nothing, it is perfect for my usage. About Konqueror, still some annoyances, they decrease while great things continue... About KWord, first usage, still some difficulties, already some goodies... KSpread, no, still not ready for me, it will come with next version, and so...
And thank you Aaron for the KC KDE, it is precious to have a good visibility...
By Alain at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KDE is better than Windows
KDE _is_ fantastic; but Mozilla is doing some real progress right now; I used yeterday to browse the web with Mozilla 0.9.4 pre "Nightly" 010909-05/Gecko 010909 compiled for i686 Linux; in my opinion it´s the by far best "non IE" browser yet, and now it's _fast_, very fast, too. And stable :-) Whatch out for the final Mozilla 0.9.4(not to mention the upcoming 1.0):) could be that the code now is so functional; that the team have started doing some real optimizations ? Anyway; as far as webbrowsing is concerned, in my opinion; even KDE would, from now on, benefit by incorparating gecko as default html renderer :-)
By Per at Mon, 2001/09/10 - 5:00am
Kicker needs new Style!
Yes, KDE bits win9.x/win2000 a lot where it comes to look & feel, but don't forget about XP.. in general it's a rip of Mac but you must agree it looks cool...
I've created few themes for KDE (when kde.themes.org will allow to upload new themes again??? grr) and what I've noticed was lack of possibility to control kicker layout via ktheme/kstyle manager. In KDE 2.1, you could at least set the background image, now even this is not possible anymore. :/
Kicker is very important part of KDE, after all most of us look at it all the time, so it should be possible to control its look via new "Kicker styles/themes" like you can do for whole KDE now.
Kicker should have independed style/theme support. Imagine you want to have kicker menu in blue while the rest of the KDE menus are red...
What do you think about such idea?
Anyways KDE ROX and congratulations to you, guys!!!
By [email protected] at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Kicker needs new Style!
I think that it would be best if we could select different themes for each individual application. Who wants a wordprocessor that looks like a CD-player or a CD-player that looks like a CAD program? In a world where all windows do not look the same you can find the right window much faster... but it might look a bit ugly - maybe it's enough to have different colour-settings for different apps, but always the same theme...
By Johan at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Kicker needs new Style!
> it's enough to have different colour-settings for different apps, but always the same theme...
It already exists on many programs : you only have to change the background colour. So Konsole, Kmail, KNode, KEdit, Kate, Quanta Plus and some others have different colours.
As it is said elsewhere, I think that the first look & feel lack is now a blank or coloured cursor...
By Alain at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
KCalc is also a nice example of a program that gets screwed up by many new, oh so beautiful styles/themes. Using Aqua-ish button style wastes an enormous amount of desktop space when you have 20-30 "small" buttons!
Maybe we should introduce the concept of thin-edge buttons to stop thick-edge-themes from wasting space in specific situations? It's wonderful to have large, nice OK / Cancel buttons, but the 20-30 calculator buttons should really be kept just big enough to do their job. But they still have to look good and fit in with the rest, so it's really the theme/style's job to provide these "cheap buttons".
By Johan at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KCalc
Uhm, sorry but your comment's totally wrong. If you've done any checking you'd see that KCalc uses the same sized buttons no matter if your using old styles like the default or new styles like Liquid. Try it and see for yourself. I honestly don't know why people make such comments when it's visibly incorrect...
By Mosfet at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: KCalc
It uses the same amount of space on the desktop, but it loses more space from the buttons. Either way it's kinda bad. I wouldn't mind if KCalc used rows of rounded buttons with squarer sides, instead of them all being the bulgy things.
By Trejkaz at Thu, 2004/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: KCalc
The GIMP suffers from this exact problem too if you use the Geramik theme. The buttons all squish up and don't always look right.
By Trejkaz at Thu, 2004/01/22 - 6:00am
Work needed in the style department
I congratulate the creators of KDE 2.2 as a programmer I can relate to the enormeous effort you have put into the system. I hope it is great fun for you.
As a regular user of KDE 2.2, I have noticed the following which needs to be adressed in the style/theming department of KDE3.X.
1) Kicker's menus, toolbar, applet backgrounds, systray and extensions need a unified style engine model like the rest of the KDE desktop. It needs to allow proper plugins and backgrounds. Right now the image theming of kicker is very bad because of the default border color schemes (try setting any non white-to-white gradient picture as the background and be scared by the pure ugliness of the new look). And the menu's aren't themable at all (at least to a GUI user).
2) The entire control of the look and feel is messy and all over the place. They should be split into Look and Feel. The styling of widgets, windows, fonts, menus, backgrounds and possible kicker should be in one submenu by themselves. In fact the Control Panel could do with a clean up and maybe some kind of user sophistication setting so that simple users like my mother, don't get thrown thousand terms in the face, which they don't need to see at all. Gnome's UI studies shows this clearly and it applies here as well.
3) Kicker from a UI point of view is a little messy. The combination of grips (on the different parts of the GUI), insets on both the systray, clock and taskbar create a lot of visual noise, look to the new Mac OS X bar and the WinXP one as well to see how this is done best, less is more.
On another note:
All entries in the KMenu of Kicker should be editable by drag and drop just like in Windows (i.e. all entries are just files). It boggles my mind how this major usuability feature could be missed. It should however be User and Group respecting, so that people like the city of Largo, could install programs onto a central location and if the file is in the right place, the next time a user logs on or the menu cache updates the program appears on their menu...
These things will be entered into bugs.kde.org as wishlist items soon, and I might even find the time to code some stuff myself.
Best regards ya all
By Mikael H. Kjær at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
I understand that good things may be more good, but here, I don't understand :
> 3) Kicker from a UI point of view is a little messy. The combination of grips (on the different parts of the GUI), insets on both the systray, clock and taskbar create a lot of visual noise,
?? You manage the systray and taskbar as you want. Did you tried the launch bar and task bar applets ? They are very fine.
But, yes, the clock may have more parameter (I think the LED style is not the most readable). Also there are some bugs to memorize applets when Kicker is vertical (+ clock too small)).
> All entries in the KMenu of Kicker should be editable by drag and drop just like in Windows
Yes, here it is an advantage of Windows, the menu management is heavy, and also we have no menu in the right click, so it is not possible to manage files in, the K Menu (but how many Windows users do it ?).
I hope you will code, but, please, carefully, without adding some dysfunction ;-)...
By Alain at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
>Yes, here it is an advantage of Windows, the menu management is heavy, and also we have no menu in the right click, so it is not possible to manage files in, the K Menu (but how many Windows users do it ?).
Most Windows users I know that manage the system them self.
By tomten at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
It should be always possible to turn off such drag'n'drop. I often happens to me to drag some incons out of kicker. It is also much harder to manage other people desktops if they can screw their desktop with a one click !
By Krame at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
On the matter of the taskbar and systray (well mostly the taskbar) the size and look of the grips are a tad too big, and the border within the taskbar I think needs to configurable (so that I could make it go away like I want it to).
On the matter of the drag'n'drop management of the K Menu entries (or any other entries) I know many Windows user, who expect this functionality (I had forgotten about the right click menus, but they can't be too hard to add).
And if I code I most likely will start with something small, but then again I might not. And I always code carefully I have been doing programming (Java and C++) work professionally five years now.
By Mikael H. Kjær at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
> On the matter of the taskbar and systray (well mostly the taskbar) the size and look of the grips are a tad too big,
Perhaps, it is not obvious for me.
> and the border within the taskbar I think needs to configurable (so that I could make it go away like I want it to).
Here I prefer the KDE way (with position left, top...), it offers the same abilities than in Windows and it is less dangerous. I have seen too many persons on Windows changing the place of the bar by an error of mouse moving and unable to put it on the usual place.
> On the matter of the drag'n'drop management of the K Menu entries (or any other entries) I know many Windows user, who expect this functionality
> (I had forgotten about the right click menus, but they can't be too hard to add)
The right menu is important, and a "Move" function may be added (as in kicker) to change the place of the program in the menus. It would be better that the moving by direct mouse drag in Windows (which may be done by error).
I think that on Windows it is too easy to change the menu configuration by a bad mouse moving, I hope that such errors would be less easy on KDE.
Good luck !
By Alain at Sun, 2001/09/02 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
> then it could also be possible that the
kcontrol -> look 'n feel -> key bindings -> application shortcuts tab
as for the style stuf, well, Qt3 introduces a new style engine and this change seems to be bringing about larger changes to KDE's theming capabilities. will be interesting to see what KDE3 holds in the look dpt.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2001/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: Work needed in the style department
Thank you for the tip. A load of my mind and all that. Good I didn't post the wishlist stuff yet.
By Mikael H. Kjær at Fri, 2001/08/31 - 5:00am


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A virtuoso kicking display from fly-half Duncan Weir saw Glasgow break their winning duck at home this term.
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Weir struck early with his first penalty, but the Glasgow lead was overturned moments later among a flurry of early activity.
Quick lineout ball was shifted inside allowing winger Mike Poole to bludgeon his way through the hosts' rearguard. His floated pass was gathered by the onrushing Thomas, who cantered in to score. Fly-half Jones converted before adding a penalty, struck sweetly from well within his own half.
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The Dragons were effective at the breakdown and solid in the backs, without ever reproducing the cutting edge they displayed for their first score, yet it was the visitors who went into the half-time break in control of the scoreboard.
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Rafiki/Seren , did 14 51, about 2 hours quicker than I dreamed of , mostly because I don't run, 13 miles was the most I had ever done / will ever do ,if its not in a race! Run was 6 26, not that much quicker than the bike!
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Hi Ian, and welcome! - I'm planning on doing the Newby Hall half too, if I survive my Oly next Saturday! Are you a northerner, then?
Yes - you do have to be patient with kit, but sometimes there are folk willing to let you borrow theirs in the meantime ...
Britrisky, Hi, some friends at work are slowly following my jouney into triathlon and have done a few sprints and are planning bigger things. One of the encouraged me to do wimbleball last year but had to pull out due to injury on the bike leg. They all supported me at outlaw which was my idea and now their idea is to do Newby hall in 2013, going along to sus it out this year. I don't want to tread on any toes so will probalby just recce it with them this year.
I am from Leeds, since university and Merseyside prior to that , with a couple of years abroad in Canada, couldn't find a canadian flag icon (computers not my thing) The icon is perry the cop from cop versus firefighter on u tube
Hi Ian, think I walked over to registration with you and Mr Zuvai, it's all becoming bit of a blur!
heh , quite possibly, I walked over with about 20 pirates, Mr Zuvai must have been one of them as I ''helped'' him with his tent and a few others camping nearby, everybody seemed very friendly and a lot of people introduced themselves and their name went out of my head in the pre outlaw nerves..
I have posted a kit request on the relevant thread and will go looking in the pirate bazaar to see if I can get anything for the rest of the season
Hi Ian / Citizen 146!
Thanks again for helping me with me tent
Delighted to hear how you got on - i looked for you in the resluts but couldnt remember your race number! That's a fantastic result for your first one & even better considering it was the first time you'd run the distance!
cheers, Mr.Z , was delighted with the result and was proved right in that I told the doubters at work that IM is possible for ordinary people who can't run (long standing knee surgeries mean they swell up at the slightest hint of training) but have applied themselves to getting fitter and are working hard on the bike and swim
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it's all becoming bit of a blur!
and you reckon I was the one who was drunk???
Hi Citizen/Ian. Were you the one that accused Bear and I of being married when we were pitching our tent? We couldn't stop laughing at that one all weekend!
oh yes that was me, am I forgiven?
The funny thing was that it is an ongoing joke at the moment as we keep doing really couply things together, like buying furniture. So for you to say the same thing when you didn't know either of us was really apt.
Hi C146, I was pitched next to you, just before OC squeezed in with his posh contraption of a tent. Instructions were needed for that one .
You buggered off to a posh campsite with swimming pool, was our rather longish pool (approx 3.8k out and back) not good enough .
Good to have met you, but you should have known SuperCaz wasn't married to Bear, they didn't argue .
^^^ watching OC attempt to put that tent up was one of the highlights of the weekend
VT'd , perhaps we can all do it again next year? I would have preferred to stay put as felt pretty rough for an hour or so post massage ( no connection I assume) . The other campsite was twice as expensive and only half as good with 20p required for as shower , and no friendly souls, will not make the same mistake next year


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Massimo Bottura has awakened Italian cuisine from its gentle slumber – we visit the star chef, who also likes to play it for laughs
In the summertime, Modena is a tranquil sort of place. Through its streets of crooked houses that have stoically endured for centuries, Vespas travel at only half the speed they do in Naples and Milan. Modena is in the Emilia-Romagna region and it's a place where people mature cheeses for up to 72 months and age balsamic vinegar for two years before sampling it for the first time.
Into this Italian tranquility burst Massimo Bottura, today considered Italy's best chef. His restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena was awarded three Michelin stars in 2011. Bottura is a fast-paced sort of person, a wiry little man, who drives a Maserati. His hair is graying and his feet always seem to be in a pair of sneakers. His hands, body and mind are in constant motion. He has hardly sat down before a new idea has him back on his feet. Bottura opened his restaurant 20 years ago. At first the townsfolk were outraged at his concept. They criticized the microscopic size of his portions and the brutal changes to traditional recipes. "Totally loopy" was their conclusion. But his neighbors do like Bottura as a person. The postman hands the chef his mail as he rides past on his Vespa. The people walking past the pink building that houses the Osteria greet him warmly. What the residents of Modena did not take to was his style of cooking.
His dishes have names like "An eel swimming up the Po River," "How to burn a sardine," and "Oops, I dropped the lemon tart." For some Italians, everything he does was pure heresy. In Bottura's kitchen, nothing is the way Italians are accustomed to it being. Every time-honored Italian recipe is perfectly in tune with the region's produce – wild Sicilian oregano, lemons from Sorrento. It took the Italians centuries to create these recipes, and every child knows them. The recipes are guarded like family secrets by their grandma and handed down from generation to generation. Five hundred years for the perfect lasagna. Who would dare to suddenly play around with such perfection?
»Memory of a mortadella sandwich«
Bottura is a man of action. He says he wants to drag Italian cooking into the 21st century, and to change its shape without damaging its soul. The lobby of his restaurant, the Osteria Francescana, boasts a work of art by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: a modern candy jar filled with the dust of a 2,000-year-old vase. "This vase symbolizes my past. The ashes of my ancestors are close to me, but they don't define me," says art aficionado Bottura.
I proposed to Lara and she understood that she was marrying a restaurant
He preserves the tradition of Italian cuisine in his own way. Based on the memory of the sandwiches he used to take to school in his childhood, he created a small, angular stack of bread garnished with pink foam. "Memory of a mortadella sandwich" is the name of the dish. It evokes the story of a 14-year-old, soccer-crazy Bottura, who was always rushing off to school late. His mother would run after him and slip the sandwich into his satchel. It took Bottura a lot of thinking and several experiments before he was able to transform these memories into award-winning contemporary cuisine. First, he had to convince his suppliers to stop using synthetic intestines and starting putting the boiled meat into pigs' bladders again. If it improves the taste, tradition is allowed – mortadella in a plastic skin just does not taste right.
»The potato that wants to be a truffel«
He began his career as a chef with an act of defiance. Bottura dropped out of law school, which he had originally entered to please his father, and spent the next eight years hidden away in a trattoria on the edge of town, the Campazzo. It was a bar, tobacconist's shop and bistro all rolled into one. No mortadella foam or foie gras on a stick. It was there that the legendary star chef Alain Ducasse discovered him more or less by accident. Ducasse took Bottura with him to Monte Carlo and introduced him to the world of top chefs. When Bottura returned to Modena, he wanted to become one, too. "I proposed to my wife Lara on the day we opened the Osteria Francescana and she understood that she was marrying a restaurant." In the end, the Michelin guide awarded Bottura the sought-after stars one by one, the third in 2011. Having been among the top five "best restaurants in the world" since 2011, the Osteria today occupies the number two spot, only outdone by the El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain. Even those who care little for the maxims of the Michelin guide must suspect that Bottura's dishes are something very special. A lettuce leaf served with a few petals and a little bit of dressing is called "Caesar salad in bloom". It's like running through a summer meadow with your mouth open. Pure, intense flavors that even nature would find impossible to produce. What did this man do to the food, and how did he do it?
Bottura's cookbook with the self-parodying title "Never trust a skinny Italian chef" provides all the answers. It is a cookbook, but the recipes have been banished to the back of the book, in a sort of glossary. The book is really about the ideas behind the recipes. Bottura tells the stories of what inspired him to create dishes like "Chicken chicken chicken, where are you?" The humorous accounts underline Bottura's passion for free thinking, for art and for food. Many of the recipes are connected to childhood experiences, some are short philosophical musings. One of the dishes is called "The potato that wants to be a truffle." It tells the story of a man who became a chef instead of becoming a lawyer. Bottura comments wittily: "I know my abilities because I know myself. I am not a truffle but a potato, and that's how I like it. I love being a potato." These are the kinds of things he says when giving interviews. And when he is allowed to talk about himself and his ideas, he actually manages to sit still for a while.
»Oops, I dropped the lemon tart«
"We don't do normal here," says Alessandro Laganà, his assistant. Acting as an intermediary between Bottura and the rest of the world takes some effort. Bottura recently wanted to climb onto the roof opposite the Francescana during a photo shoot for the food magazine Fool. On the photo, you only see a small bit of the restaurant and one of his sneakers. A rope connects his foot to the ground, while his sous-chefs are clinging to the end of said rope and try to stop their boss from floating away. It was agreed that a fake leg would be used for the photograph, in order not to expose the master chef to too much danger. What is it like to work with such a visionary? "No problem," says Laganà simply. That's because Bottura is not just a thinker, but a doer. He is definitely someone who lets his employees have their say. "We are a creative team that develops ideas together and shares them with everyone. It's not just about the quality of the ingredients, but also about the quality of the ideas," says Bottura.
And the star chef is always open to ideas, especially crazy and extravagant ones. When one of his colleagues accidentally drops a plated dessert, and it shatters on the floor, Bottura does not see a pile of broken crockery, he sees the beginning of a new creation. "Developing a recipe is an intellectual act. You don't stand in the kitchen, cut and chop ingredients, and then serve up the finished dish. It works like this: You accidentally drop the lemon tart on the floor and squat in front of the upside-down dessert. At that moment, there's a flash in the dark, and you catch it like a ray of light," he says. So in every memory and in every feeling, there are new recipes for Massimo Bottura to uncover.
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From nearly its inception during the gubernatorial primary season last spring, Prop Zero has questioned and criticized Jerry Brown for not offering details of his plans -- and specifically for avoiding the hard question of how to fix California's broken system.
On Tuesday, that began to change -- making Brown's first full day in office the brightest day that California government has seen in a long time.
Brown, after a meeting with leaders of the association that represents counties, told reporters that he intends to pursue a "complex" and extensive realignment of responsibilities and revenues between state and local government. It would include, he said pointedly (and crucially), an unwinding of the centralization of revenue power that has been a feature of California life ever since two signal events of the 1970s: the passage of Prop 13 -- which stripped local governments of some taxing power in the name of conservative anti-tax rhetoric -- and the courts' Serrano decisions -- which stripped school districts of control of their own tax money in the name of liberal rich-and-poor schools-must-be-equal rhetoric.
What does this mean? Brown didn't offer exact details. But he clearly indicated he wanted to give local governments more power not only to make spending decisions on programs but also more power to determine their own revenue.
In providing locals more revenue power, Brown is walking right up to taking on Prop 13--and the system it helped spawn. The question is whether he'll cross that line--and seek to reverse the part of Prop 13 that established the high standard of a two-thirds vote of the people in a particular local area before a tax could be approved. Or whether he'll devise a new formula or rule to overlay the complex, centralied system that has grown up around Prop 13.
Brown didn't say which way he was going, but there is one reason to worry. He described his solution as "complex." If he's being honest about his solution's complexity, that's a problem. The system we have now is very complex, the most complex governing system in the country, in fact -- as you may understand if you've read this far in this post. What California needs a system that is much simpler, so that the public can understand it and hold local and state government officials accountable.
And here's what would make it simpler: a realignment that made sure that all the responsibilities involved with a particular program -- decisions on the taxes and fees that fund it, the spending on that program, and the evaluation of its effectiveness -- are made by the same level of government.
In practice, here's what that means. Right now, for example, in criminal justice, decisions are made on multiple levels of government. Police are often municipal employees. Prosecutors are county employees. And the prisons to which convicted criminals are sent are state. So, for example, county prosecutors have incentive to send more people to expensive state prisons than to cheaper county jails because state taxpayers, not the local taxpayers that elect district attorneys, are paying the freight. In a realignment, municipalities and counties should have to pay the costs of imprisoning the people they arrest and prosecute -- while also having the power to raise taxes and fees they see fit so they can pay those costs.
This makes sense for all kinds of reasons. One of those reasons is California's scale. This is a country of 38 million, with regions and people too diverse to be well governed from afar in Sacramento. In a simpler, realigned system, some counties and cities and school districts would choose to tax themselves less and provide less in services. Other local communities would go the other direction.
Which is why, despite all the early noise from the right that Brown may be taking on Prop 13, the real objections to this may come from two other parts of the political spectrum.
First, Liberals, who care deeply about equality, will complain about the inequalities that will flow from such a change. Poorer places with fewer resources to tax might have less effective public services.
Second, and perhaps most significant, expect to see some cities, counties and school districts resist being given responsibility. Local governments in California complain about budget cuts -- but many of the politicians in them, secretly and not so secretly, like the fact that local governments are just spending entities. They never really have to worry about -- and work hard to build the case for -- raising taxes. When programs are cut, they can simply raise Sacramento. A simpler system would make life more difficult for local politicians -- even as it makes for better governance and more sensible budgeting for all Californians.


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