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Green trumps gray
Mexico City is erecting green barricades to battle pollution: Lush vegetation on rooftops, in gardens and even on freeway pillars is improving air quality – and life in general.
Gabriela Vargas stands on the hill in Huerto Tlatelolco and surveys her realm. Blossoming cherry trees sway in the breeze, and in their neat beds, bok choy and tomatoes the size of tennis balls wait to be picked. "I didn't even know that a lettuce could flower," says the 47-year-old. That was before she began gardening in the middle of Mexico City 17 years ago. Today, she is harvesting bananas, and runs her hand over the nasturtiums as she breathes in the scent of lavender and sage. Vargas has created a green oasis at the heart of the Mexican capital. Her garden is surrounded by an ocean of buildings, a population of roughly 22 million people in the metropolitan region, and a tangle of access roads and freeways. Mexico City is one of the world's most densely populated areas, but Vargas and her fellow gardeners have conquered a new open space for themselves here.
For decades, D. F. – short for "Distrito Federal" and the name many here use for the city – used to be the very embodiment of a rampantly expanding metropolis bursting at the seams: the ultimate traffic hell, a megacity enveloped in a milky cloud of smog. Mexico City was suffering from chronic shortness of breath, and taking a stroll here was as exhausting as running a marathon.
True, the city has always had its green areas: Chapultepec Park, the floating gardens in the borough of Xochimilco, and the parks in the Roma and Condesa neighborhoods, to name just a few. But given the more than 50 million tons of greenhouse gases still being released into the air by the factory chimneys and millions of cars in 2014, there was always something positively moving, almost ridiculous, about their defiant greenery.
Now, though, activists like Vargas are transforming waste ground into flourishing gardens, turning gray freeway supports into green pillars, and growing vegetables on roof terraces for restaurants in upmarket areas of the city. Even Vargas is amazed at the speed with which this green movement is progressing; it's only been around for about ten years. The Mexican version of urban gardening is not all about pretty ornamental gardens, instead the many major public garden projects currently in progress are all focused on productivity. Vargas alone harvests over 1.5 tons of vegetables and more than 300 kilograms of fruit from her carefully tended beds and trees. She started the project 17 years ago on her balcony before taking it to schools in the neighborhood. She recalls kids who got their first taste of spinach at school and then went home with bits of green between their teeth to demand their parents start a spinach garden. Four years ago, Vargas found the patch of waste ground that has become today's Huerto Tlatelolco. There, she cleared innumerable piles of rubble and garbage, carted it all away before beginning to plant.
We live in a big city. What we make of it is up to us.
"The weather is ideal all year round, so we can basically plant anything," says Vargas. More than 30 volunteers are buzzing around the beds with their neat brick borders, watering, raking and shaking so that the more than 90 different kinds of vegetables, fruits and herbs planted here can thrive. Some people spend hours on the subway traveling in from outlying districts to the huerto, just to plunge their hands into the cool, damp earth. The garden is open to all comers, admission is free, but you do have to pay for what you pick – the price is calculated by weight. In addition to healthy food, the people who come to Huerto Tlatelolco take something else away with them, too: a message. "We want the garden to act as a catalyst, to let visitors see that growing your own produce is worthwhile," Vargas explains, "not just from a health point of view, but financially, too." So she holds regular gardening workshops and invites school classes to visit the garden. She doesn't want the next generation to wait 30 years before finally discovering that a lettuce has blossoms.
The problem is that the city offers precious little space for growth. Vargas' garden itself came to life on a patch of waste ground left by the massive earthquake of 1985, but gaps such as this have disappeared. So if there's no room to expand sideways, another solution must be found, mused architect Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, and directed his gaze upward. "Via Verde" (green street) is what he calls his project, which has since blossomed into a garden at the middle of the Periférico freeway.
A couple of years ago, a second level up to 30 meters high was built over the freeway, turning it into the asphalt monster on stilts it is today and one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city. Resembling moving volcanoes, hundreds of buses and trucks gulch clouds of black fumes into the air every second.
Ortiz' garden defies those fumes. For the past nine months, ivy,foxtail and aralia have been growing on 50 of the highway's pillars, creating a green tapestry along a one-kilometer stretch of road. Over the coming 18 months, another 650 pillars will follow suit, bringing their total green area to more than 40 000 square meters and making for better air – and also for less stress. The mere sight of plants automatically puts people in a better mood, says Ortiz. "Here in D.F., we cannot wait for the government to improve the situation," he says combatively, "we have to take matters into our own hands." The World Health Organization, WHO, states that nine square meters of green space per inhabitant is necessary in order to prevent chronic respiratory problems, but Mexico City has just 5.3 square meters per person. In other words, another 30 million square meters of green area need to be created by 2030. That's a very ambitious target, but Ortiz and his team are keen to do their bit. They are working to create a balance between the environment and the city. "I wanted to exploit my enemy, the concrete, by making it an accomplice for green building," says Ortiz. He discovered the concept of vertical gardens in Madrid and immediately saw its potential for Mexico, where there is "no space to branch outward, but there is space to branch upward." Ortiz held onto the idea for many years, burning the midnight oil, working with engineers and technicians, designing the sensors for light incidence, temperature control and water consumption fundamental to what would become his Via Verde project. "Some of the people living in this city do not have access to even one glass of drinking water a day. That's why we collect rainwater from the freeway drains and purify it for the pillars." As well as water, the pillars are given a three-layer felt carpet with pockets that serve as the individual plants' "homes." All of the technology comes from Mexico. Other countries, such as Japan, the USA and Germany, have been showing an interest in the concept for some time. Ortiz is very proud of it. Via Verde is a long-term project, and Ortiz talks of it enduring 20, 50, or even 100 years. "We can't really make any major mistakes," says Ortiz, "because we have already made them all before in smaller projects."
The campaign for healthy nutrition and better air is gradually gaining momentum across Mexico City, both on the ground and in the air. Even the city council has caught on to the movement and is supporting the transformation from gray to green: "Plan Verde" is the name of the green program the city's environment agency introduced in 2007, along with tax relief measures and subsidies. By 2014, the city had handed out a total of 1.2 million euros in grants. According to the plan, Mexico City should be able to breathe easy again by 2030, thanks also to cultivated roof terraces. So far, 28 roof terraces totaling 60 000 square meters have been planted. Step onto the roof of many a museum, hospital or bank here and you will not necessarily find yourself in a cement desert with water tanks, but more and more often among lime trees, kumquat bushes or zucchini plants.
Chef Roberto "Bobby" Craig, 36, was one of the first to use roof terraces in a big way as kitchen gardens for his restaurants. The son of a U.S. American and a Mexican, he is a native of Mexico City. He now owns over 20 restaurants, spread across several districts – and many of them supply a large portion of their daily produce needs by making a short trip onto the roof.
"The idea was perfectly simple," says Craig, as he picks rosemary and lavender on the terrace of the Porco Rosso in Roma. "A tomato that has traveled 2000 kilometers cannot possibly taste as good as one that's just been freshly picked." Since 2006, he and his business partner have created an infrastructure that guarantees fresh products and short delivery distances. The government's Plan Verde suits them down to the ground. "If we can make the most of the space available in the city, we will be able to offer our guests marvelously fresh products – without the delivery costs and without even more CO2 emissions." Environmental activists, architects or chefs, the people of Mexico City are red-discovering their green thumb. Gabriela Vargas, for one, is highly motivated. "This is where we live, in the big city," she says, "but what we make of it is up to us." So saying, she walks slowly down her hill in the direction of some ripe eggplants that are ready to be picked.


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KDE.org: New Design, New Implementation
The KDE Web Team is proud to present a new and exciting design for the official KDE site! This is the first overhaul of the flagship homepage since Kurt's vastly successful update more than two years ago. The KDE Web Team has maintained a focus on standards-compliance as well as improved the overall usability and accessibility of the site. Also featured prominently is an overhaul of the content as well as the implementation of a whole new design matching the shiny new Keramik/Crystal look from KDE 3.1.
Over the next few weeks and months, even more of the KDE.org family of sites will be migrated over to the new target. Meanwhile, feedback and bug reports are welcome at [email protected]. Maintainers of KDE mirrors: Please take note of the updated requirements for hosting mirrors due to internal changes.
The new maintainers of KDE.org are Christoph Cullmann, Rainer Endres, and Jason Bainbridge. The design of the new website is based on work by Sebastian Faubel.
Chris Howells, Dirk Mueller, Olaf Jan Schmidt, Datschge and Neil Stevens have contributed at various levels performing either invaluable grunt work or contributing designs and ideas.
There are also many people who have also contributed feedback and fixes -- please let us know if we have forgotten anyone who should be listed here.
Huge kudos go out to any and all who have been involved!
A note from Christoph Cullmann:
The whole process of redesigning and restructuring of kde.org began at the end of 2002. After many heated discussions, a multitude of drafts and a lot of fun, we finally reached a state that we felt deserved deployment.
What has been done?
We hope to port over the remaining KDE pages in time. If you wish to help in this process or otherwise contribute new artwork, patches or bug reports, please contact us at [email protected].
As one of the new maintainers of KDE.org I would like to thank the people involved in redesigning process for their invaluable contributions. I sincerely hope that users will enjoy the new website, and find it a worthy replacement to the old one.
Re: This one looks better imo
full ack ! .... horny *g*
By Marc at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
I forgot - to be constructive :
Can't we just get rid of the current page, and replace it with the one the link is pointing to ?
By Marc at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
By Andorsch at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
Full ACK - BUT:
By Martin at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
Yeah, but how big is that compared to the current one? I see a lot of graphics on there. Remember that well over two thirds of net users are dial-up modem users.
By Joeri at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
I commented before on the previous mock-up shot. This is better as it brings back Konqui!!
I am sad to see Konqui gone .. bring him back!!
By Sparky at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
Yeah, we still need some more pictures on the page, that's true.
By Christoph Cullmann at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: This one looks better imo
With "alt" tags and because browsers cache pictures, I don't think that would be a big problem.
By Roland at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Looks very different in every Browser
Just assume that almost nobody will ever change the default font settings.
The standard font and the headlines are too big in Mozilla and Opera 7.0.0. pr1.
Only the underlined links look good in every browser.
I don't like this font color very much:
And then I just klicked into that K-banner on top to find a value that fits into this design.
These link-boxes (awful grey background color #EEEAEE) are much too wide. No link gets close to the border.
Try to make smaller box-headlines and decrease the height of that font background. Then try to use the look of your default KDE-theme!
And then just little spaces between this link boxes.
Thx for reading
By Schugy at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Little bit OT but a good reading.
Due the article from Nicholas Petreley yesterday on Slashdot. Now even Miguel de Icaza writes about GNOME. Even he admits that GNOME has seriously fallen behind KDE. Read more
By AC at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
What's with the licensing FUD from miguel - what is he talking about?
"Those with long-term visions believe strongly that the foundation
"end-users which [sic] do not care about the royalty issue do feel that KDE is a better
Royalty issues???? WTF?
By steve at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
"Royalty issues???? WTF?"
It's just Mr. de Icaza once again voicing his affection for the LGPL over the GPL. His pursuit of encouraging commercial software development on Unix platforms has continually influenced Miguel to spout his appreciation for the LGPL. Since he firmly believes commercial development will not happen using GPL'ed libraries (even though there is plenty of evidence of commercial companies successfully adopting the GPL in the past), he will for the rest of time refer to such things as "royalty issues."
Indeed, Miguel recently refered to the GPL as "tainted":
Judge for yourself where his biases lay.
By Cowardly Anonymous at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
OK, I'm a huge GPL fan, but I actually do see Miguel's point. If you want to attract commercial software to Linux, an LGPL toolkit is clearly preferable to a GPL toolkit.
Personally, I don't care if there is never much commercial software available for Linux; given a choice, I will always choose the Free software alternative! So, to me, the GPL vs. LGPL thing is a total non-issue; however, I can see why someone who wanted to attract commercial vendors would prefer the LGPL.
By LMCBoy at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
It sounds like a good assumption, but the facts indicate that Qt's dual licensing model is superior regarding commercial attraction to Linux. Already, IBM, Adobe, and *many* *many* of the worlds largest software companies are using Qt. This 'royalty/tainted' FUD that Miguel is throwing around is crap.
By anon at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
Actually, I think that has more to do with the quality of the toolkit than the licensing model. A couple of thousand isn't much when you factor in all the other costs of developing an application.
What I don't understand is why businesses don't use the GPLed version to develop with, and buy a single developer's license for the closed-source version, and compile with that.
By Jim Dabell at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
Sure, no one can argue that Qt is excellent and that is the largest factor in it's success ... but I think the dual licensing/cross-platform nature and the knowledge that a real stable company is behind it also probably helps for commercial third-party licensees.
You can't use the GPL version to develop and then switch to a commercial license. That is restricted in the license AFAIK.
By anon at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
> You can't use the GPL version to develop and then switch to a commercial license. That is restricted in the license AFAIK.
Which license? The GPL only covers redistribution - so as long as it's kept within the organisation during development, they don't have to agree to any of the terms in it. And until the end of the development cycle, they don't need the commercial QT, so they don't have to agree to any of the terms in that until that point.
So unless the commercial license has something to the effect of "you may not link code to this version that was previously linked with the GPL version", I'd say somebody doing this would be in the clear.
By Jim Dabell at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
jim u nonce, get out more and stop killing time on this crappy sites!
By ricky martin at Thu, 2003/06/26 - 5:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
too much low level spinning last nite kid and i pulled no one. wish i was like dave the playa. respect to the DBA.
By rob field at Fri, 2003/06/27 - 5:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
Quoting a response Havoc Pennington made to Miguel's message above:
"I hope your mail won't land on Slashdot or some other web site."
By Cowardly Anonymous at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
Looks like Miguel de icaza finally realized that KDE is better than GNOME. I understand that since he runs his own company and like to get monetary to pay his employees he has realized that this is only possible if you work for and on a serious Desktop Plattform which is definately KDE. Why do you think he is working so hard on Mono, just because of the fact that C is not a good language for something like a Desktop or for rapid application development. The reason why many GNOME applications suffer today, they look unesthetical and all differently. I bet that KDE has filled all dreams that Miguel had and now he feels pissed. Look still no GNOME 2.0 or 2.2 final release from Ximian, what are they waiting for ? He likes the way KDE works but wished it was GNOME that works like this. Yeah this problem many people have these days. They stare on KDE and say wow 'my dream Desktop' and then they say 'shit that it isn't GNOME'. Look how many people recently converted from GNOME to KDE and the amount is growing.
By Mogwai AC at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
Yeah he admits that KDE is better. Congratulations guys, you have won the desktop war.
By Stof at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
What to do to get rid of the GNOME trolls? They wont go away.
By anon at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
No offense but I only see 2 trolls here. You and Stof - while the others made good valuable points in their statements. I mean those who call other people trolls are usually those who start trolling. I mean the writings show here have value and wasn't cut out of the ass of someone.
By AC at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
I would like to point out that you yourself have now called 2 people trolls. I don't know how that will affect your 'I mean those who call other people trolls are usually those who start trolling.' theory! ;-)
By ac at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
My excuse is "I haven't started" :)
By Troll at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
This is certainly a much mellower Miguel than in years past, not to mention more pragmatic. That's good to see. Of course old habits die hard so he is still waving the "royalty issue" around. I think it's a dead issue because clearly it has proven to be a winner. We get solid organized development of our toolkit for GPL'd software and commercial entities get that plus a company to support them. As has been pointed out many of Gnome's partners are beginning to adopt QT. Clearly this has been a win for everyone except Gnome. Also Ximian proves bytheir existance that some business entity somewhere being involved can be a benefit. Many company support the Linux kernel in various ways too so what it really comes down to is how a partictular project should be supported. In my opinion IBM and sun can afford to pay for support and if I were going to sell QT based software it would cost me a lot less than to develop M$ .NET.
While I'm sure it was sad for Miguel to see KDE running where Gnome was started it still has some wry humor for others. Miguel seems to be basing the ongoing existance of Gnome on the red herring of his "royalty issue" and the emotional and time investment of it's developers. The second is understandable from a developer perspective but in no way should be made an argument for any reason for people to adopt it. Other factors ought to prevail for users.
It was interesting that he made this statement. "I personally (because of the emotional component described before), would like to see more work be done on the Gnome desktop and less on replicating infrastructure." Petrely's recent article soundly thrashed them for having abandoned their focus on infrastructure. Clearly this is crucial for how it affects your app. With Quanta we sacrificed a lot of little stuff to establish a powerful "infrastucture". The simple fact is you are never going to be fast, clean and powerful without it. KDE has managed to make so much progress precisely because of it. In fact they seem to be changing course to a more spartan development model in the name of "streamlined usability". They acknowledge that they have lost their edge and then they seem to go out and do the exact opposite of what you would think the lesson to learn is...
Users of a product follow their more technically inclined friends. Those people are called in the marketing world "early adoptors" and they want power and configurability because they want to get the most out of their software or they like to play with it. Where are these types of people going to go now? Spending effort to produce product without first focusing on infrastrcture is what marketing departments like M$ do to produce inconsistent and buggy software. I'm not saying that Gnome will do that... I'm saying play the odds. On top of everything else they are coming to their developers telling them they need to work harder to produce what they make and here is how to tell your user he can't have what he wants. My question is, knowing open source development, where is the fun in that?
I've long advocated for two strong desktops to give people a choice. I thought Gnome 2 and 2.2 were going to be addressing a lot of this stuff that Miguel seems to be saying they don't have time for. Is it mostly delivering things we had over a year ago like AA fonts? I don't think it's really a matter of which desktop is better. I think it's more a matter of them needing to somehow learn the right lessons before they are so far behind there isn't another viable desktop besides KDE. Perhaps it is a matter of not admitting somebody else is right even if it means jumping from one lifeboat to another.
Frankly it's just sad. They've gone through three desktops in two major releases and seem to be changing various other aspects of their architecture before they can bear fruit and now Miguel seems to be advocating slapping something on top and worring about the structure later. There's no point in debating. This looks pretty bad to me.
Be kind when developers and users come to you...
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
Not bad
I like it, but I think it could do with a larger, more distinctive KDE logo at the top.
By ac at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
I do like it
Despite the naysayers, I find the new look very nice and it is certainly a very good thing to have a unified look between the desktop and the web sites. Thanks Cristoph and the others for your hard work.
I was wondering if it could be possible to be able to click on the upper left KDE logo to go back to the home page of the web site. It is kind of standard in most websites.
By Charles de Miramon at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Doesn't render right in Konqueror 2.2.2
The search box and 3 dropdown box widgets in the top right are not full height, they look less than half normal height. In the right column the links run over the left side of the box that's supposed to be under them.
At the top there's a short yellow bar with text on the right and left...the text is white, you can't read it. Also the text is slightly taller than that yellow bar. The KDE logo sticks below the the bluish box a bit.
At the very bottom (this may have been intentional, but doesn't look right) there's a light blue bar that goes all the way across the page, with a darker one sitting on top of it in the middle column.
If you want a screenshot, let me know.
By David Walser at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Doesn't render right in Konqueror 2.2.2
Kongratulations, you have found the perfect reason to update to KDE 3.1 now or 3.1.1 in 2 weeks.
Re: Doesn't render right in Konqueror 2.2.2
Duh. I will when that's feasible :P
By David Walser at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Doesn't render right in Konqueror 2.2.2
And whoa, what the hell. The thing flips through like 6 different themes while it's loading.
The first has no colors, is readable.
By David Walser at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
I don't mind the layout, but I do dislike the white background. For people like me with light sensitive eyes, it gets rather grating after reading a lot of text via computer. When web pages don't force their white bg down my throat, I can view it with a nicer background like a dull grey.
Re: Usability
Now the browsers can use specific stylesheet for this.
In konqui you have a "stylesheet" section in the prefernces where you can specifie your own stylesheet or use the GUI to create one.
Use these tools. There are here for that
By Shift at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Usability
That isn't a complete solution. It's limited to the browser supporting it. I also don't know of a way to achieve the same effect of just making the default background a certain color if its white, not all backgrounds.
Even in the case where white could be replaced with something I picked, the color scheme might be at odds and not blend well as the site maintainer made it to look good with only white.
Removing it in the first place is much more polite. Another issue is that the images could be more background friendly if they were made to have transparent backgrounds, instead of being on white. Otherwise they look screwy and out of place when the bg-color is changed.
Re: Usability
More than providing additional style sheets we can't do for you, sorry. The logos will get some rework and get some transparent background then I guess, but changing the background to something more "grey" will perhaps help you but not the people who needs good contrast because of some other kind of eye-problems. I can understand that you have problems with the bright bg, but you must understand that there will ever be some kind of people having problems with some colors or with bright/dark/contrast/color-combinations. Therefor we have the stylesheets and I hope that doesn't make you too much problems. But thx for the feedback, never thought about such problems, thought more of problems like missing contrast.
By Christoph Cullmann at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: Usability
The default stylesheet is mostly there. The middle column only seems to specify a white bg, and the top. The sides don't, so my default bg from KDE is filled in (#E5E5E5 I think).
Even for people who don't have light sensitive eyes, it can be a problem if they've got a really old crappy monitor that has a lot of glare.
(And yeah, I understand there isn't necessarily a best combo color-scheme for everyone at all times. Just pointing something out here.)
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
I like it
Personally I like the new design much better than the old one. All the problems with that old one - tiny text, horrible font, nasty colours has been fixed in this new version.
Now everything is well laid out and clearly readable which makes it look a whole lot more professional and easier to read. Nice one.
By CmdrGravy at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
very nice
I really like the new design ! Good work and thanks you !
By quarus at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Alternate stylesheets
I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll do the job. The new design has support for a set of alternate stylesheets, which effectively decides how kde.org looks in your browser. So if you have differing needs or tastes, just change the style. In mozilla, this is easy. Go to www.kde.org, View -> Use Style in the Mozilla menu, and have a look at the different styles!
By Haakon Nilsen at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Alternate stylesheets
Why Mozilla? Konqueror has it too ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
Re: Alternate stylesheets
The "yellow" stylesheet rules the school!! :)
By LMCBoy at Sun, 2003/03/02 - 6:00am
This is great.
I always thought the old design was rather, well, ugly. I liked the colors and style of the pre-October 2000 design (no offense to anyone intended, I just suspect web design was not the speciality of the ones who made that version of KDE.org), and this new rendition is again a nice looking site. It looks clean and modern, and finally makes KDE.org comparable to GNOME.org again.
Any chance the Dot will get a matching style?
By Timothy R. Butler at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: This is great.
I would need to see samples to decide but I don't think we're going to adopt all this latest technology stuff as it's obviously problematic for many people and backwards compatibility is important.
But yeah, definitely send mock-ups, etc... :)
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
I still prefer the original site
I think the original site looked better and was more functional.
See here: http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/large/kde2b3_1.png
The last design (cira 2000) and this latest revision use large fonts with each link bulleted - not the best way IMHO.
By Ez at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Is the source that builds the content available?
I like the look and feel of kde.org, and would be interested in adapting it for an internal project I am working on. I have downloaded the CVS copy, however, can't see any admin type bits that update the site without modifying pages by hand.
Is the backend available? if so, where do I get a copy?
By Glen Ogilvie at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: Is the source that builds the content available?
We modify the pages per hand ;) As we use the header/footer templates that is even less work than using any content-managment system. Yes, you need to know html but in the end: this page is written and modified mostly by developers, translators and artists which should be able to add some basic html tags into their stuff ;) And as we keep the whole page in cvs we have good control about who and when has changed something and we uses acls to ensure not everybody can change for example the frontpage out of fun ;)
By Christoph Cullmann at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
NEW Design Feedback
The design of KDE's website is definitely a major improvement in every area. It is very usable, cheerful, easy on the eyes, consistent, full of features and takes up little bandwidth. The site reflects the image of what we want people to see in KDE perfectly.
Who wouldn't want a usable, good looking, feature rich, cheerful consistent and not very demanding desktop. I know I would! For those criticizing the fonts, you are greatly mistaking, on my Xandros box with Freetype 2 enabled in Mozilla, those fonts look gorgeous and I do not need to squint or manually change the font size to see it well.
KDE.org vs GNOME.org
In my opinion KDE.org outshines GNOME.org by quite a long shot. First of all it is much easier to read the text without manually changing the size and in the naviagtion panel I can not even change the size. This brings me to the next complaint, GNOME's site is far more resource hungry than KDE's and in effect loads slower and is harder on their server. I also find it does not have good usability or consistency in it. Professional websites need to have their navigation panel on all web pages for easy access to the user and the style should not dramatically change. KDE achieves this well, GNOME is another story entirely. Their website is also gloomy and the contrast between a gray background and black text is nowhere near as good as black text ona white background like on KDE's page. These are only a few apparent problems, but there are many more.
Problems with KDE.org:
- Doesnt display too well in Explorer, navigation panles stretch up mroe than they should.
- Only a part of KDE related websites have adopted the new design and color-scheme.
- At the top right there is a "Choose your location." drop down menu. The idea it conveys is fundamentally wrong, someone's language is not determined by my location in many cases. For example there are many people in the US who prefer to communicate with another language online. Therefore the dropdown menu should be changed like this. "Choose your language" and the countries should be replaced with the language it is meant for.
As a web-designer I have to say you guys have done an outstanding job with your website as long as you convert all your websites to that design and fix a few more minor issues here and there.
A GREAT desktop environment DESERVES a GREAT website!
By Alex Radu at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: NEW Design Feedback
Forgot to add an issue to problems:
- KDE logo should bring user to mains ite
By Alex Radu at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am


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/ Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / 12 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Seafood
Prawn Cakes
Here's a fantastic Prawn Cakes recipe I'd like to share with you. Golden crunchy panko on the outside, the inside is tender and chock full of goodness! The magic mixture here is the chopped prawns, mashed potatoes, coriander, scallions, and Serrano chilies which are all seasoned with fish sauce, sea salt, and some freshly ground white pepper. Sounds good? Even better, it tastes great. I hope you will try making these prawn cakes. Enjoy.
Prawns Cakes
(Printable Recipe)
454 g (1 lb) Frozen Peeled Prawns, thawed and tail off
3 Medium Yellow Flesh Potatoes, peeled, cooked and mashed
3 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Coriander
2 Stalk Scallions, finely sliced
2 Serrano Chilies, seeded and finely chopped
2 Thai Bird's Eye Chilies, finely chopped (optional)
2 Cloves Garlic, peeled and finely chopped
2 Tbsp Fish Sauce
½ tsp Sea Salt
¼ tsp Freshly Ground White Pepper
6 Tbsp Panko (Japanese Bread crumbs)
1 Large Egg
Panko (Japanese Bread crumbs) for coating
Peanut or Vegetable Oil for frying
In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Gently shape the mixture into 24 portions of 1 ½-inch ball. (About the size of a golf ball) Roll in breadcrumbs and flatten each ball to make a round flat cake.
Heat the oil in a large cast-iron pan or non-stick pan until hot. Lower the heat to medium and shallow fry the prawn cakes for about 2 minutes on each side. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels and serve warm. Serve warm.
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They sound delicious!!! thanks for sharing such a great recipe. The serrano chiles and fresh coriander must really liven up the flavours!ReplyDelete
Angie, apa itu Serrano Chillies? Any substitute???ReplyDelete
@Quinn: Any green chilies will do :DReplyDelete
they look great!ReplyDelete
These look YUMMY!ReplyDelete
These sound like a yummy alternative to crabcakes!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I always have frozen shrimp in my pantry -- much easier to come by than good quality crab meat -- so I'm definitely going to try these.ReplyDelete
..look delicous. Usually I made potato cakes (bagedil) or ground beef cakes. I tried crab cakes and salmon cakes too.. Gonna try to make these prawn cakes tonight! Thanks for sharing the recipe. yum-yum!!ReplyDelete
I prepared them last night and were delicious ... thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
Wow! Never would have thought to use mashed potatoes in a seafood cake. What a great idea. Can't wait to try this!ReplyDelete
@Sonia - L'Exquisit: You are most welcome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM
These are amazing, I've made them a number of times now and they turn out awesome every time!ReplyDelete


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... And I'm still kicking myself for those.
Number one is, flush before you use any toilets in China. This is the norm, unfortunately I only got it after the n-th times using their toilets. I was taking a dump when someone enters the toilet stall beside me. Right after I heard the door closed followed by the sound of toilet flushing, I heard her (or him, I don't judge) pee.
I was estatic about that, like having a revelation. That was a short visit about four years ago, and by the second year spent at my own country, I've already forgotten about it.
Again, on my second visit to China this month, I was using their toilet for the n-th times, wondering why it smelled awful, when a mother and her small kid entered the stall beside me. I overheard the mother telling her daughter something like "don't use the toilet yet, flush it first" kind of thing.
-_- I was not a smart person. And no, they generally don't flush after using the toilets. I'm sure there are Chinese people who flush after using the toilets, I just haven't encountered any.
The second thing is handbag choice. If you travel by MTR, you'd want one small compartment, secured by a zipper, accessible from the outside of the bag, not the inside.
As a visitor, you carry significantly more things around while riding a MTR. Your passport for example. And maps. And qingwen flashcards.
What? No, the compartment on the bag is not meant to store passports nor maps nor qingwen cards. You store them in your bag. In the main section of your bag where they belong. The small compartment is meant to store MTR tokens or cards. If earlier this month you saw an overweight foreigner stumbling with her bag in nearly every stations trying to find the tokens between all those documents and maps, you probably saw me.
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- Statistics are vague regarding child abuse in India due to low reporting
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- The gang-rape of an Indian student brought abuse against women to the forefront of media
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's government has failed to curb the rampant sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state-run child care facilities, a rights group said Thursday.
Human Rights Watch cited in its report the recent fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus in December, an attack the shook the conscience of the nation and forced people to introspect on the way women are treated in India.
The outcry forced the government to rush through new laws to protect women. A government panel appointed after the attack to examine the country's treatment of women also shone a light on the high incidence of child sexual abuse and the failure of the government to ensure the implementation of child protection laws.
Child rights activists say the government needs to implement the panel's recommendations on preventing child sexual abuse as well.
The new report from Human Rights Watch said such abuse is disturbingly common, government responses are falling short in protecting children and in treating victims. The report urges the government to ensure rigorous implementation of child protection laws and strict monitoring of child care facilities. It calls for an end to traumatic medical examinations and insensitive treatment by police and other authorities, which subject victims to further distress.
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"The vulnerability of children to sexual abuse is very high, and it becomes worse because there is nobody monitoring these children's homes," said Anuja Gupta of the Recovering and Healing from Incest, or RAHI, Foundation in New Delhi.
She said in many child care facilities, the abuse was committed by the people in charge of taking care of the child.
"When the caretaker himself is the abuser, the situation is especially traumatic because then the child has nowhere to go," Gupta said.
Human Rights Watch said the inspections of state-run child facilities were inadequate, with many facilities not registered with the government as mandated by the law.
"Shockingly the very institutions that should protect vulnerable children can place them at risk of horrific child sexual abuse," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director, Human Rights Watch.
While the government in 2012 passed a comprehensive law to protect children from sexual offenses, its efforts to implement the law remained poor or nonexistent, activists say.
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Younger workers are ready and willing to save for retirement, but a report released Tuesday by Aegon identified several obstacles to their ability to do so.
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What does a buffoon do when his project is utterly out of code space, running late, and rather horribly extremely buggy? Why, he adds more features, of course!
Customer: "We want a log of the temperature readings for the last week, in degrees Fahrenheit _and_ centigrade."
Contractor-Buffoon Figby: "Okay!"
Customer: "A log of the last week's current draw would be neat to have, too."
Contractor Figby: "Yup, gotcha covered!"
Customer: "We'd like to have the following eighteen things done on the wire protocol so that our techs don't have to upgrade their versions of LabView, because that costs money and you always say 'Yes' to us."
Contractor Figby: "Yes! Sure! Whatever you want!"
The problem was that Figby the Contractor couldn't program his way out of a paper bag. His code didn't work (it was riddled with bugs he was in denial about), and he was out of room in his part's code space by a factor of three (and that was just for the boot loader of the code he hadn't written yet).
Figby didn't know how to say "No" . . . so we said it for him.
We tried being gentle ("Why don't you do it this way? You'd save a lot of space and it would be faster and more reliable"). We talked and filled up some whiteboards with reasonable designs. No go; he was addicted to making his management happy by giving them — well, more accurately by PROMISING them — whatever they asked for.
We tried _not_ being gentle ("If you continue the way you're going, you're going to fail and get a lot of people upset at you"). This entered his ears and went into his brain and somehow got processed as "I need to add more features so I don't fail."
Figby had been hired into a group notoriously bad at hiring software people. We tried going through that other group's management ("He's going to fail") and our own management ("That contractor and that management over there are all going to fail"). Nothing worked. We were just the usual high-strung software guys with our shorts in a twist about nothing important. If we'd hired a brass band and done a parade in the parking lot with a big float and Figby in it with garlands holding a banner saying "My code is too big and will be late and it won't work anyway" we'd have been ignored just as all the other software engineers, always Cassandras, have been ignored from the very first big disaster, probably some spec work for Hammurabi involving prayers for rain that didn't deliver on time.
Status: We had tried the talking thing, and failed. The buffoon was going to ruin our project, make our lives miserable, and pile the blame on us. It was time to get out the knives.
A little technical background: The piece of code in question was for a small microcontroller. Not the smallest controller we could buy, but darn close: It could hold 4K of code, and it had comic relief quantities of RAM and some EEPROM. The part didn't need to do very much, but what it had to do was critical; if its code didn't work, the whole product would be a brick because this little fella was responsible for turning the unit's power on and off at the right time.
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We were ignored in meetings. We had trouble getting any of the hardware, much of which was reserved for testing (it was unclear what they were testing, with so little of the code working). The train wreck slid closer and closer to us, with Figby yanking incompetently at the controls and apparently still promising that things would be working fine. After a little dieting and bug fixing, of course.
By late November I'd had enough, and I snapped.
How I Spent My Thanksgiving
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving I went home in a fuggy depression. The next month wasn't going to be fun. The months after that were not going to be fun, either, since we were the poor bastards who were going to have to make the thing work after Figby finished his contract and skated off to his next disaster.
No hardware? Why should a little thing like that stop a software guy?
Thursday morning I downloaded the specs for the microcontroller from the manufacturer's public web site. Then my family drove to my in-law's house, but I'm afraid I wasn't very social. When we got there I found a comfy chair and wrote some perl to extract the opcode tables and assembler syntax from the chip's documentation. I started hacking. By early evening, after a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't beat, I had an emulator for the chip's CPU running some test instructions.
The next day I got a bunch of the chip's hardware registers emulated, as well as emulated RAM, EEPROM and Flash.
The toolchain vendor had license-protected the C compiler so I couldn't use it on my laptop at home, but the assembler ran just fine (otherwise I would have written one; probably would have taken three or four hours with the tables I'd already made). So on Saturday I wrote the boot code and got the emulator to run the code and print "Hello, world!" out a simulated serial port.
On Monday I spent an hour or so getting the code to run on the real hardware (I spent half an hour of this sneaking over to the hardware group to "permanently borrow" some hardware and a JTAG probe from one of the labs they'd forgotten I'd been given access to on a prior project). The code didn't work the first time, but after I set up the baud rate correctly, the second time it ran it printed out "Hello, world!". Carriage return. Motherfucking linefeed. Yeah.
Then I told my boss what I'd done.
"Don't work on this," He said. "It's going to be a big problem and cause a lot of friction." He winked hard. I think he gave himself an injury making that wink.
"Yeah," I said, [WINK], "But it's going to save the project."
"I know, but it's going to cause trouble."
So on Tuesday he called me to his office and said, "I talked to some people. Go go go go, finish that up. Just don't say anything. We'll work it out."
And I wrote the rest of the code in C and assembly in a week or two, redoing what had taken the contractor four or five months.
My cow-orker Nate was jealous. "You're having too much fun," he accused.
"I am." In fact, I did feel bad about it. I was having a grand time writing low-level code in C and assembly, and Nate was working on something in C++ that was definitely not enjoyable.
I checked in some code one evening. The next morning Nate came up to me and said, "Sorry, I couldn't stay away. I fixed a bug in one of your routines last night."
"Okay," I said.
"Then I ran out of space and had to re-code some other routines in assembly to get enough bytes back."
"Sure, feel free."
"Holy crap, this is fun."
And with that, we were a team. It went back and forth like that for a while. I would fix a bug, or Nate would, and we'd need to scavenge bytes by recoding the somewhat fat code that the C compiler emitted, and we'd often wind up with more bytes free than we'd started with. I showed Nate how to multiply by ten, a hundred, and one thousand using a little inline recursion trick, and he called me a sick fuck. Nate rewrote the little build system I'd done and saved even more bytes. It became a contest.
We wound up with six bytes to spare, and Nate said he felt like he'd been on a two year course of anti-depressants.
A few months later we had a last bug fix and had to scavenge more space. We wound up with six bytes free again after the changes, and those bytes were pretty tough to find.
A manager came up to me a few days later and asked for a feature.
"Nope," I said, "We're out of bytes."
"But it's a bug." (I guess the lack of that feature was a bug to him).
"We fixed the last bug on Tuesday. We don't have space to fix any more. We're done."
And that was that. It was nice to be done.
For the entire project, Nate and I never used a debugger; we just did a little strategic output on the serial port. We could have used a JTAG debugger, but after a while it was just easier not to bother.
What happened to Figby?
About a month after we got our version of the firmware working, the other group told him he wasn't needed. That's the way it is with contractors. ->Poof!<-
His code, utterly useless, was simply deleted from the repository. Although we would probably have preferred to nail it against the wall, as a warning to future contractors.
"What's that hard drive doing up there, with the spike through it?"
"Let me tell you a story…."
And the morals of the story are:
1. Crappy and entrenched workers are a fact of life in most big organizations. They can't necessarily be counted on to spontaneously self-immolate, so you have to be prepared to end-run them.
2. When you do that, get management buy-in at the right time. Like, when you have things largely working and you've dealt with (or at least can enumerate) most of the risk.
3. Remember to appear humble and apologetic as you crush their spirits.
4. When you see a software guy walking down the hall holding an oscilloscope, smile.


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While European football moms wait by their Skype phones for word Citroen's seven-seater C4 Picasso minivan/MPV's been unveiled at the Paris motor show, Carscoop procured shots of what looks to be that car's smaller sibling — the five-seater Picasso. Word is the model will see its star turn at next year's Geneva show. The cameraphone shots appear to have been taken inside some manner of Citroen facility, where employees are enjoying a nice absinthe break. At least we'd like to think they are.
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text: The 2013 version of the ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, is scheduled for publication later this year, and 26 proposed addenda are open for public comment. "As we move toward publication of the 2013 standard, the 90.1 committee is considering many changes to reduce building energy use and cost," Steve Skalko, chair of the standard committee, said. "The proposed addenda reflect a variety of changes to the standard, many of which are the result of earlier public review comments. These changes contribute to our goal of making the standard 40% to 50% more stringent than the 2004 standard."


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MWC 15 Special
Huawei yesterday announced the smartphone with the largest screen in the world, the Huawei Ascend Mate. The Huawei Ascend Mate features a huge 6.1" HD display, a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor and a 4050 mAh battery. Together with Huawei's proprietary Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology and fast sharing technology, the Huawei Ascend Mate is proof that bigger is better. The Huawei Ascend Mate has a screen-to-body ratio of 73% - the highest in the industry - maximizing the viewing. The 6.1" 720p HD IPS+ LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 for unsurpassed clarity and color accuracy, and 'Magic Touch' which provides enhanced screen responsiveness even with gloves.
The Ascend Mate is slim and stylish, designed to fit comfortably in a single hand at just 6.5 mm thin at its narrowest part and features a 4050 mAh battery as well as Huawei's very own Hi-Silicon 1.5 GHz quad-core processor. With Huawei's QPC and ADRX smart power-saving technology, the smartphone provides up to two days of ordinary usage on a single charge. It has the fastest battery charging capability of smartphones in its range, which saves over 30% of battery charging time.
Together with global roaming functionality, the Huawei Ascend Mate supports five frequency bands making this smartphone perfect for international travelers. Its dual-antenna design supports high power data transmission and is optimized with maximum ratio combining method, to increase network reception by up to 2.5dB and providing an increase of 20 to 30% of overall network coverage.
Operating on Android 4.1 and featuring an 8 megapixel AF rear-facing camera with HDR and a 1 megapixel front-facing camera, the Huawei Ascend Mate also provides dual MIC noise reduction technology, Dolby sound system and stereo recording. Furthermore, the Huawei Ascend Mate features an Augmented Reality navigation application to help reach your destination, 'smart reading' functionality allowing quick reference to dictionaries, Wikipedia and Google Search pages, and 'swift sharing' to upload pictures, videos and other files two- to three-times faster than other smartphone users in a WiFi environment.
Available in crystal black and pure white, the Huawei Ascend Mate will be on sale in China in February 2013. Further releases weren't confirmed.
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Hello all. New to the forums and DLC but I had a thought about a pretty nice comic. Since its the winter season again and people left and right will turn their toons into snowmen and have massive snowball fights it be cool to see a comic about it. I thought of it this way, one of the characters will be turned into a snowman throwing snowballs at everyone until he finds a warlock to pick on, time goes by and the warlock casts Immolate.
Got somewhat of a rough idea on what the characters would say but my drawing ability is that of a first grader and I've rambled enough .


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The Sims Medieval updates to version 2.0 thanks to the new patch released by EA.
If you have the digital download version of the game and you have some troubles in download and install the patch, you can download it from HERE:
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Free lunches are for kids ages 1-18 years. No registration or application is required. Lunches will be served weekdays from 12pm to 1pm until supplies last from June 17th until August 9th, 2019. No lunches served July 4th - Library closed for holiday observance.Library: Casa de Oro
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Download The Tempest Study Guide
Sample Essay Outlines
The following paper topics are designed to test your understanding of the play as a whole and analyze important themes and literary devices. Following each question is a sample outline to help you get started.
Topic #1
In "Full Fadom Five" the image of Alonso's "sea-change" symbolizes the change he goes through on the island and reflects one of the central themes of the play which is repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Write an essay tracing the progress of Alonso's "sea-change" as his suffering brings him to the realization of his sin and guilt and to his subsequent regeneration.
I. Thesis Statement: Alonso who suffers a "sea-change" on the island as he mourns the loss of his children, reaches an awareness of his sin and guilt, and repents for his past deeds which lead him to a reconciliation with Prospero.
II. Mourns the loss of his children.
A. Mourns the supposed death of Ferdinand.
1. Ferdinand was the heir to the throne.
2. Suffers the loss of his loving son.
B. Regrets the loss of his daughter.
1. He has lost his daughter through her marriage to the
King of Tunis.
2. She has moved so far away that he is afraid he will
never see her again.
C. Alonso becomes despondent.
1. He longs for sleep to shut out his thoughts.
2. He loses hope in his search for his son.
III. Reaches an awareness of his sin and guilt.
A. Alonso becomes aware of his sin against Prospero.
1. His conspiracy with Antonio in the usurpation of
Prospero's dukedom.
2. Prospero and Miranda were left to die at sea.
3. Ariel appears, telling him to repent.
B. Alonso becomes aware of his guilt for his son's death.
1. He feels his son's death is his punishment for his sin
against Prospero.
2. He feels his son's death is his punishment for his sin
against Miranda.
C. Alonso entertains thoughts of suicide.
1. He longs to join his son at the bottom of the sea.
2. Symbolically, the sea will reunite father and son.
IV. Alonso's repentance and reconciliation.
A. Asks Prospero to forgive his sin against him.
1. The sin of the usurpation of Prospero's dukedom.
2. Alonso's sin against Miranda.
3. Prospero forgives Alonso.
B. Restore's Prospero's dukedom.
1. Alonso is regenerated as a result of his repentance.
2. He has lost his madness.
C. Alonso accepts the marriage of his son to Prospero's
1. Is desirous of Miranda's forgiveness.
2. Wishes Ferdinand and Miranda were king and queen
of Naples.
V. Conclusion: Alonso's "sea-change" is symbolic of the inner tempest that rages inside of him as he suffers a period of grief and loss, accompanied by despondency and thoughts of suicide. Because of Ariel's warning, Alonso becomes aware of his sin against Prospero which is followed by his repentance and Prospero's forgiveness. Alonso restores Prospero's dukedom and accepts the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda which leads to his reconciliation with the former duke and makes his change on the island complete.
Topic #2
The Tempest is filled with music, containing more songs than any other Shakespearean play. Write an essay analyzing the function of the songs in the play in relation to theme, dramatic action, characterization, and the natural setting on the island.
I. Thesis Statement: The songs in The Tempest function for the purpose of assisting the dramatic action, delineating character, depicting themes, and lending atmosphere to the island.
II. The songs assist the dramatic action.
A. "Come Unto These Yellow Sands" and "Full Fadom Five"
lead Ferdinand onto the island.
1. The song allays the tempest.
2. The song calms Ferdinand's passion concerning his
drowned father.
B. "While You Here Do Snoring Lie" moves the action along.
1. Wakes the sleepers, Alonso and Gonzalo.
2. Prevents the murder of the king and Gonzalo.
C. "Honor, Riches, Marriage-blessing," the masque song, lifts
the action out of the play. Ferdinand and Miranda are
shown their future life in Naples.
III. The songs delineate character.
A. "The Master, the Swabber, the Boatswain...
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How do you report a scam?
News 8 On Your Side consumer reporter Brian Roche tackles how to report scams
We get many calls and emails from you telling us about scams. And some of you want to know, where should I report the scam?
According to stats from the U.S. Justice Department, scammers are going to target you in one of three ways:
- 56 percent of the time it involves e-mail or the internet -- most of the time it's e-mail.
- 29 percent of the time it's through the phone.
- 15 percent of the time it's though the mail.
So, let's look at the ways to report attempted scams for each category - starting with the internet.
Internet scams
Several years ago, the FBI and a few other federal agencies formed the Internet Crime Complaint Center. It's known as IC3.
If you receive an e-mail scam, you can forward it to them through their website, IC3.gov.
Phone scams
Reporting a phone scam is a little more difficult.
Most of the time phone scams are reported to the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov, especially if it's a telemarketing scam.
If your phone number is on the Do Not Call list and you're getting calls, you should report that to DoNotCall.gov.
U.S. Mail scams
Scams through the U.S. mail should be reported to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Recently, News 8 reported on an investigation conducted by postal inspectors based in Harrisburg. It resulted in a $100 million penalty against the Moneygram wire transfer service. All of that money will be returned to victims.
Mail fraud is a very serious crime and the postal inspectors here in the Susquehanna Valley take their job very seriously.
One final note - if you actually lose money in any kind of scam, you should contact your local police department.
Here are all of the links mentioned above:
Report Internet Scams
Report Phone Scams
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JHyman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 223 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
Empire Infinity - parent company of Empire Surgical - learn more at: http://empiresurgical.com/thedailygrind/
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion" – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We need a CAP logo design: The underpinning of our organization and philosophy in life is powered by the acronym CAP (Commitment plus Action produce Passion). CAP is the path to all things successful in sports, academics, business and arguably in life. It is what separates us from the pack. Without going into too much detail we must first make a Commitment to our goals and then take the necessary Action(s) to achieve them. Actions consist of the 4Ps – Plan, Practice, Prevail, and Perfect. Understanding how doing both while repeating this process by committing to larger and more challenging goals lead to our ability to create our own Passion for the work we pursue.
This logo will become an icon that represents a prescriptive program for people to follow and create their own passion needed to achieve unthinkable results at work and in life. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your design skills because the logo we choose will eventually rank among the Nike and Under Armour logos of the world.
Review The Daily Grind to learn more: http://empiresurgical.com/thedailygrind/
Our role is to inspire and this logo should do the same. Good luck!
Application spans across sports, academics and business but will be exclusive to those willing to commit to achieve (CAP-able to play professional sports, CAP-able to enter and succeed in college, CAP-able to become an executive etc.).
To start we will use this logo in the following two areas:
• Athletics: Sponsoring nationally recognized sports programs to wear this logo on practice jerseys
• A CAP Foundation for High School Students: Sponsoring impoverished public school students pursing a goal to attend college but can't afford it
Please take note of the following:
• No cartoons
• Do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
• Typeface should be clear and legible. This logo will be used for multiple purposes on many surfaces i.e. online, clothing, sports equipment, our book, stationary etc.
• We require print and web file format
Think out of the box and be creative. We will provide prompt feedback on all entries.
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• Too many turnovers and too many missed foul shots, and Fayette still won.
The varsity boys traveled Thursday to Edon and came home with a 49-46 overtime victory.
"It shouldn't have been that close," said Eagle coach Todd Mitchell. "We could have iced it several times, but it was nice to go on the road and beat them."
Fayette (3-6, 3-1) got off to a shaky start with five travel calls in the first quarter and only three points on the scoreboard.
• Fayette's varsity girls scored a decisive win Friday against Edon, but coach Ashley Oyer can only think about what it could have been with a little better ball control and shooting.
They won the game 37-26 despite nine-for-21 shooting from the line and a five-for-23 showing inside the paint in the second half.
"We still aren't shooting the ball well," Oyer said. "We could be good if we could just finish."
The game was tied at half-time, but Coach Oyer made a defensive adjustment that turned the tide. Something had to be done about Edon's Graves.
"She had 10 points at half-time so we used a box-and-one on her," Oyer said. "Dani Wyse played her the whole second half and she didn't get a point."
• Twelve teams—five of them state ranked—and six Bulldogs came home with medals.
Clinton's wrestling tournament Saturday was a tough order, said Morenci coach Scott Clark, especially coming off a long holiday break.
Nevertheless, he saw some good results from his squad.
Kyle McClain (10-6) finished highest for the Bulldogs with a third-place finish at 152 pounds.
He posted big wins against Clinton (17-2) and Michigan Center (16-0), while getting caught in a pin with a second left in the first period against a Tecumseh wrestler.
• Just when it looked like the Bulldogs were going to run away with it, Britton came back to tie the game.
And then the Bulldogs proceeded to run away with it.
Morenci's varsity boys ended a scoring skid to go on top by 14 at half-time and went on to claim a 58-40 TCC victory. That puts their season mark at 2-2 overall and 2-1 in the league.
"We just had a bad stretch," coach Tim Bovee said, "and Britton took advantage of it."
A bucket by Adam Ries made it 20-9 with 1:45 to play in the first quarter, but that was the end of Morenci's scoring for the next three minutes.
Four turn-overs and three missed shots put the Tories back in the game with a 20-20 tie. Bovee called time out—perhaps a little late, he said in retrospect—and the Bulldogs regrouped.
Then it was the complete opposite. Britton scored only two points for the next six and a half minutes while Morenci added 16.
• Morenci's varsity girls needed to save the best for last Thursday at Summerfield, but that's not the way it ended. Summerfield came through with a better overtime session to edge the Bulldogs 44-40.
That makes the second league loss in a row where Morenci almost pulled out a win with chances in the final seconds, but the Bulldogs couldn't quite pull it off.
"I felt we could have won, but we played hard and held our own," said coach Jim Yatzek. "We played a pretty good game overall. I think we just got wore out."
The two teams were near a tie game after three quarters, but both squads had problems in the fourth.
"The fourth quarter killed us," Yatzek said, "but it also killed them."
With Morenci scoring just three points and Summerfield adding two, either team could have easily come through with the win.


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Jeffb1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 208 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
http://www.promohoot.com - new website for our existing company
We sell promotional products and advertising specialty products. These are all different kinds of products that have a logo printed on them. Some people call them trinkets and trash, others chachka, tchotchke (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket , and still others refer to these as SWAG, which is short for "stuff we all get."
The bottom line is that these products can be given directly to your customers and prospects so that they remember you when they are ready to buy your product or service. There is no waste since you control who gets your promotion. Other forms of advertising have lots of waste. This form is very direct and people remember and use the products that you give them.
We are a small company, that will offer some really neat products on our site.
Unlike many other sites that offer thousands of products, we will offer a smaller selection of fun and unique products.
Our products are ordered in volume, not one at a time. We might sell 12 imprinted backpacks at a higher price point of about $ 20 each, or we might sell 1,000 units of a fun pen at $.52 each. So we need to find people who have the ability and authority to make these kinds of purchases for their business or organization.
Our target audience consists of businesses of all sizes, schools and colleges, clubs and sororities and fraternities, Non-Profits and more. We expect this audience to be in the 18 to 35 age group and able to spend $ 250 or more for an order. We can finalize the order via a shopping cart or over the phone, since we are happy to talk to people or email them or use chat or whatever they desire.
We can use a 4 color logo for the web. However, if we use the logo on our own promo items, some products are only printed in 1 color, so ideally, we would like something that can work both ways.
The primary use of the logo is for the website.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .eps vector file
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Several centuries of farming have left the Atlantic rainforest north of Rio de Janeiro scarred and with just a few patches of forest left as havens to rare birds and mammals. Recovery of this forest would seem a tall order. But for Mauricio Ruiz, founder of Instituto Terra de Preservacao Ambiental (ITPA) this has been his life's work.
At age 15 he began ITPA with school friends, investing all his pocket money to start a tree-planting initiative. Now ITPA has 130 employees plus seasonal workers and has planted a host of trees across the state of Rio.
We visited one of ITPA's projects in the dense Atlantic rainforest at Miguel Pereira, located inside the Tinguá Bocaina Corridor. Just north-west of Rio de Janeiro this area represents a significant portion of the Atlantic Forest or Mata Atlântica.
ITPA spokesperson, Aline Cavalcanti, explained what are the main challenges facing them in the region.
ITPA, created in 1998, works on conservation, reforestation and other environmental issues that concern the tropical rain forest on Brazil's Atlantic coast. The main focus has been on the Tinguá Bocaina Corridor which includes important conservation hotspots for water and energy.
Guandu watershed is part of this area which supplies 80% of the water to metropolitan Rio and 30% of the city's energy supplies. Within Miguel Pereira ITPA supports four reforestation projects employing local people in green jobs.
So just how successful has ITPA been in planting trees. Aline tells us more.
The Tinguá-Bocaina is so important because it is part of the Serra do Mar Biodiversity Corridor, which stretches over 18.5 million acres. The Brazilian Ministry of Environment and UNESCO see this as one of the most important priority areas for biodiversity in the Brazilian rain forest.


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Registration PVS St. Pölten
Pre-registration must be made in person at the main office on Tuesdays from 8:30-10:30am (except on school holidays). Appointments are not necessary.
Admission takes places after school enrollment packets have been completed. All registered pupils will be invited to a personal interview and the date and time will be sent to you by mail.
PVS Mary Ward is a private Catholic School which follows the traditional beliefs of Mary Ward and the Congregation Jesu (formerly known as the Englische Fräulein), which has been a school for over 300 years in St. Pölten.
Today the school authority is part of the association of order schools in Austria.
We encourage the integral personal development of each student and promote humanity, attentiveness and openness towards questions of belief. Reflection and practice have significant value. Our school has a family atmosphere and promotes personal attention and companionship.
We Offer:
- Consideration of individual talents and interests through pedagogic focus and non-committal additional lessons
- Performance- and project-oriented education
- Preparation for higher education
- Spiritual festivals (annual church celebrations)
- Social learning, joint group experiences
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