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- The Reds should be in on Zack Greinke in a big way. The Reds have tremendous starting pitching depth, but lack a true #1 starter. And, as anyone who watched last year's playoffs knows, pitching talks loudest in October. Prospects are currency in Major League Baseball and the Reds have more than enough set aside for a rainy day. In fact, one could argue that they are failing to properly monetize their prospects by holding on to them too long. Juan Francisco and Todd Frazier are prime examples, as their respective trade values are in danger of falling completely off the table. By themselves, they won't land Greinke, but they could be nice complimentary players in a package deal.The Reds certainly have the pieces to get a deal done and landing a legitimate #1 starter is worth the price, especially one like Greinke who has the stuff and polish to rival any pitcher in baseball. Additionally, Greinke would like be right at home in Cincy, where his social anxiety issues would likely be less problematic than in a large market city. It's fine for the Reds to be less than proactive in free agency, but there's no reason for the Reds not to go after trade targets. The Reds had a nice season in 2010, but if you aren't improving, then you are standing still. And, if you are standing still, then the competition is gaining on you. If the Reds want to repeat, they may want to do more than bank on improvement from the young guys already on the roster.
- I seem to be one of the few who doesn't have a problem with the Nationals contract for Jayson Werth. Of course, I've been a huge Werth fan since his days as a Dodger. I thought the Reds should have snapped him up after the Dodgers non-tendered him way back when. But, I digress, as everyone on Earth now knows, the Nats gave the soon to be 32-year old Werth a 7-year deal worth $126M. Obviously, that's a big investment, but Werth generates tremendous value with a rare combination of tools and skills. That combination should enable him to age well and continue to generate value even if his offense slips a bit. Under the "Dollars" metric created by Fangraphs, Werth's production over the last three seasons has been worth $22.9M, $22.0M, and $20.0M. That metric takes a player's actual production at the end of the season and then determines what it would cost a team to buy that exact production. It doesn't equate to market value because "Dollars" deals with exact production without factoring in risk of any kind (performance, injury, etc). "Dollars" deals with certainty in production, whereas market salary deals with uncertainty. "Dollars" looks backwards, while salary looks forward. In short, market rate salaries are lower than "Dollars" because teams factor in uncertainty, injury, and production risk. So, Werth's Dollar figure doesn't mean that his actual salary is supportable, but I really don't think it's that far off. The final year or two will probably be rough due to his age decline, but the Nats saw the guy they wanted and went hard after him. Salaries are going to escalate because of increasing revenue and inflation. It's the nature of the beast and has been for decades. And, among those wringing their hands and complaining are (I'm sure) the big market teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, etc) and teams who have set the market in previous years (Royals with Meche, Giants with Zito, Astros with Carlos Lee, etc etc). It seems like it's only an "outrageous" deal when it's not a big money team. When the Yanks/Red Sox sign someone for big money, everyone complains about revenue disparity. When a smaller revenue team or a team that rarely makes a big splash throws around big bucks, everyone complains about the contract.
- Reds fans everywhere are already getting worried about keeping Joey Votto around long-term. Votto has given some mixed signals about his willingness to sign a multi-year deal, so maybe there is cause for concern. He recently was quoted as saying he wouldn't accept a hometown discount out of respect for the players who came before him and those to come after him. I'm not sure how genuine that rationale actually is, but regardless I wouldn't expect him to give us a discount. I would, however, expect him to at least consider giving up a couple of free agent years in exchange for a guaranteed multi-year contract that would set him up for life. For me, the time to get an extension done with Votto is now....right now. People complained about the Werth contract because it set the market. It was the first big contract and may have provided a benchmark for other free agents. Personally, I'm concerned about what happens to the Reds chances to sign Votto to an extension after the Cardinals hand out an extension to Albert Pujols. Obviously, Votto isn't in the same position as Pujols due to service time differences, but how willing will Votto be to surrender a couple of free agency seasons after the Cardinals sign Pujols (the player Votto just beat out for the MVP award) to an extension worth $25-30M on an annual basis? I could easily be wrong, but waiting could cost the Reds in a big, big way. The Reds need to work out 5-6 year contract extensions with Jay Bruce and Joey Votto this offseason. I expect Bruce to explode next year and become much more expensive. And, I expect Votto to become much harder to retain after the Pujols deal establishes a new benchmark for MVP first basemen.
- And, as I have alluded to before, I'm not a fan of the Arroyo extension. I don't like taking on unnecessary risk in an area of strength and I don't like Arroyo's chances of maintaining his level of success as he ages. Hopefully Arroyo continues to prove me wrong, but I continue to wonder if that's money that could be more effectively spent in other areas.
- It's hard for me not to think that the Reds missed out on a nice opportunity to improve their outfield by not landing Cameron Maybin. The Maybin acquisition would have been a payroll neutral move, which would fit nicely into the Reds' financial limitations this offseason. As a result, Maybin may have been the best opportunity of the offseason. As of now, Maybin's career is nothing more than a cautionary tale about the perils of rushing prospects up to the majors. However, he still has a tremendous set of tools and the opportunity to refine those skills necessary to utilize them. He still has substantial potential and the time to unlock. Unfortunately, Maybin is out of options, so he can't develop in the minors any longer, but plugging him into leftfield in the righthanded hitters haven of Great American Ballpark could have been a big boost. Additionally, an outfield of Maybin/Stubbs/Bruce would be the best young outfield in baseball and a very strong defensive trio. Maybe Maybin continues to flame out, but I remain a big fan and think he could be a sneaky good value this year. Unfortunately, that value won't be created for the Reds.
- All in all, it seems like the Reds are a tweak or two away from being a serious World Series contender and a perennial playoff team. It could be a real nice 5-year stretch for the Reds if they manage to consolidate the value of their organizational assets into the present 25-man roster. Of course, they won't get there simply by standing pat.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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I completly agree lark, and its really frustrating me.ReplyDelete
I was hoping walt was just playing his "we are fine with standing pat" trick he usually does then surprises us, but thats looking very unlikely right now.
I would go hard after greinke and/or Upton. They both would improve this team substantially, and not just for a year. They would be long term players that would be worth several top prospects.
However, in the first year that my team is in position to actually do something worth talking about; they are more focused on overpaying for arroyo and cairo and probably rhodes. Its really testing my patience, something i have given to this team when they probably didnt deserve it.
Agree on Greinke. They can take him on and make it work if they so chose to but they simply aren't inclined apparently. Love to have him but whatever just do something to improve this team. Sitting on their hands isn't good enough.ReplyDelete
On Werth: Post and Pre PED era the normal decline of a position player starts at around 34 years of age and is toast by the time he is 36-37. Thats 2-3 years (at least) the Nats will be paying Jayson Werth nearly 20 million dollars for nothing. Poor investment and it raises the price on others his age. 5 year I could have understood since they do have to up their bid to get guys. This doesn't even take into consideration Werth's penchant for injury earlier in his career. My guess is they get a good year or 2 out of him and for what, just to raise prices across the board for everyone. Same reasoning I too would have let Bronson walk, unnecessary risk.
On Votto: I don't even know what to say here. My disgust runs deep with the need for these athletes to have loyalty only to each others pocket books. How about some loyalty to the fans who pay to watch them, the game that gives them a stage to make millions of dollars and fame. Whatever, I'm to mad to add anything else on this subject currently. In fact hearing Votto as of late just makes me want to take a break for awhile from anything baseball related.
Well said on giving the team your patience when they didn't deserve it. I agree, it's frustrating. I find it very difficult to believe that Jocketty is actually content with Gomes as the primary leftfielder. Maybe that means Heisey or Frazier will get a long look. Or, maybe Jocketty's disinterest in statistics is coming back to bite the organization. Not sure, but I think Greinke is worth getting.
Hopefully, Jock has something up hi sleeve other than resigning O-Cab in the coming months. We shall see.
Agree on Greinke. He's one of my very favorite pitchers and could be a beast in front of a good defensive team.
As to Werth, I agree on the reemergence of actual aging, but I think he has such a diversified skill set that he'll age better than most. He contributes on offense, on the bases, and on defense. If I'm going to roll the dice on an aging free agent, then Werth would be near the top of my list. As for injuries, I tend to think he's past that. He had his wrist blown up by a big time fastball and took him a couple of seasons to recover. Over the past 3 years, he's played at least 156 per season.
As to Votto, he has made some strange comments as of late. I'm not sure if we can glean anything from them or if he's simply a slightly different kind of cat. He seems somewhat disinclined to cut a multi-year deal, but I'm hoping it's just posturing. I'm not sure where he'd rather play, unless it's Toronto. Still, how eager would you be to leave a city where you just won an MVP? Maybe he's just uncertain, but something seems a bit off with Joey. I'd be content to lock him up for 6 years, which would keep him in Cincy until he's 33. After that, I'd probably be fine if he leaves town. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.


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Whew, what a night. It was loud, raucous, fast paced and furiously fun. And we wrapped up at 8:04 pm, right on schedule, the end. Ha.
Why is it that I always dread that no one will show up to play? It has always been that way, as far as I can remember. Some fears never go away, like the fear of cops, ingrained from a reckless youth all the way to my current esteemed patriarchal self, scanning the horizon as I drive 11 mph over the speed limit. I can't help it, I was born bad, and bad I be. But enough of that, the game is what matters.
As usual I arrived at the store half hour early, talked with fellow dm's a bit (2 dm's had to cancel, leaving us short, and fearing either huge 10+ parties, or having to urn people away, which was an impossibility.) If only I could divide myself into 2 dm's. In the end I think a brand new player stepped up to dm, and a veteran player of 4e offered to assist, and the table had a good time.
I walked downstairs into the dungeon, to find 4 or 5 of my 7 players sitting around our table already, which was another awesome moment. In the next few minutes the rest of the players showed up and my table of 7 was full. We ended up pushing 3 cafeteria tables to fit all 8 of us. Jenna was eating a taco salad (ooh it looked good) and Dana brought out a bag of animal crackers. Almost all of them had their own mini's, and I had a few for the others to choose from, which was this hilarious demon thing for the genasi swordmage, and a bag-carrying minion as the brutal rogue. Both minis were chosen by the players, I will post a picture of these soon, as they are hilarious. Roy and his wife had each painted their own minis, a priestess and a dragonborn, which looked very nice. We chatted a bit and I slowly started mentioning some game bits, pointing out the map, joking about last week (the breath weapon attack was a hoot) and soon the game began in earnest.
I read the opening scene provided in the adventure, then reminded the party of the captured prisoner from the last encounter. They questioned him a bit, and learned the name of the lord, and his 2 siblings who each vied for the hidden chambers. They deduced much of this through skill checks. One player was particularly interested in the scorpions and how they got down here. He learned that the thugs came through the tunnel but the scorpions were kept below. It became somewhat relevant later on. The thug offered to lead them to Downshadow.
When they arrived, the thug escaped into the crowd of the main cavern (the rogue was offered the chance to chase him – he declined) while the party was mobbed by children (and halflings) with their hands out, ready to accept or take. Each player made acrobatics checks or lost a gold coin. OK, it was silly but I thought it was funny. Next they learned that the Downshadow was divided into two factions, the Lord of the Dungeon, who was of exiled or poor nobility, landless but trying to carve out some territory. he posts guards and patrols. The other figure was the Prince of thieves, Lucan Blacknife, who was reported to rule the thieves, cut-throats and assasins of the city above. He was also known to have his own entrance to the dungeon.
I was mostly ad-libbing this section. I wish I had made a list of names ahead of time, as I named one of the npc's (a guardsman of the Dungeon Lord) Marcus. Sheesh. After Marcus I quickly jotted a few names down, Lucan among them. The party spoke to the Lord, who said they should leave, because he has seen too many inexperienced adventurers turned into piles of goo. He also says he protects his people, and offers them employment as guards or patrollers. They briefly consider, but the haste of their mission prohibits them and they decline. They finally make a skill challenge check – diplomacy, and the lord gives them direction to the hall of kings, the first landmark on the map.
The party then debates for a few minutes on whether they should confer with the prince of thieves, finally decide against it, and head off to the hall of kings. They find 14 dwarves sitting in thrones and a voice in the air repeats "the doom is upon us all" every few minutes. They use some more skills here, and dungeoneering finds a safe path through. Before they go through, they notice that the dwarves had been looted and disfigured. With a religion check, the deva recommends spending a few moments to straighten them up a bit. since there are 7 pc's, they decide they can each take 2, and spend 30 minutes in hopes of better fortunes.
– Idea for next week: before the battle begins, each character is going to hear the voice from that hall, and it will say "The doom can be delayed" and each of them will gain a healing surge. Reward for the good deed, it is dwarvish in nature, and the party could really use some surges about now. End idea –
Moving on, In the adventure is described this statue one hand pointing at one door, the other hand pointing at the other door opposite. They had to cross the room. Ozone smell in the air. Perception check revealed thin trails of smoke coming from the wrists where the hands of the statue had been knocked off. Finally the dragonborn stepped into the room. Lightning lanced out, Acrobatics DC 15 to avoid, he fails and takes 2 damage (low I know, but this is part of a lengthy dungeon crawl as skill challenge) Finally everyone jumps through, about half taking damage.
The hairs raise on their arms as they approach the statue, is is sheathed in electricity. Arcana check reveals that thievery will work, he can take -4 penalty to skill check and do it without touching the damaging electricity, or take the damage and get take a check without the negatives. he takes 4 points, and diverts the energy into the ceiling, the trap is disabled for 24 hours, while it recharges. The party can safely exit the far end. This success was the 3rd or 4th, maybe even the 5th.
Next they came to the ice prison. The chamber was too cold to enter, and there was a row of cells, closed off by bars of hissing ice. All except the one on the end, where the bars were gone, only a puddle where they were. (A frozen puddle, duh). They decided to use stealth – a group stealth check – to sneak through this area to the next. I averaged their rolls, (looking back, I should have just went with number of successes vs fails, but I improvised, not remembering the correct way.) Either way, they failed at this challenge, so I showed them the picture of the hook horror, and said it was coming down the hall after them.
They decided to run, good choice. They made their final group skill challenge – Endurance, and got a success. They outran the hook horror and skidded to a halt right outside the hidden chamber. It was amazing, and I threw down the encounter map onto the table. This was the first time of the night we used a map or minis. Right as they caught their breath before going in to examine the secret chamber, the goal of their mission, they were surprised by a completely random legion of skeleton warriors marching past. There were 12 skeleton minions in all. I had to borrow 4 from the DM at the next table who showed me his tacklebox-full before we started and had offered… and I also got to use the 2 Reaper plastic minis I just bought upstairs. The girl was like "I just put those out an hour ago."
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I was returning the borrowed minis moments later, the battle lasted fewer than 15 minutes, and we never got through the whole count. I am sure glad the skeletons rolled a 22 initiative, or they never would have gone at all. The best part of it was that everyone really got into this 15 minute battle. I believe the poor deva was the only one who didnt get a chance to whale on some skeleton, while 3 pc's won the "3 minions in an encounter" award. After the battle, they got to loot some dead adventurers outside the hidden chamber (the unfortunate party who discovered the chamber) and received 2 healing potions and a cloak of resistance. I will bring them cards next week, I wish I had time this week. The party discussed the items and made very reasonable choices about how to divide the loot. I was surprised at how naturally it occured: the cleric got the cloak of resistance, while the two main tanks, the swordmage and the battlemind, got the healing potions. Incidentally those two pc's are the only ones to drop to zero hp in an encounter so far.
They stepped into the chamber and owned the trap like there was no tomorrow. These veterans of Undermountain knew just how to skill it up, and got 6 successes without a single fail. The portal opened to reveal stairs leading downward (Oh goody, heh heh) and then they were attacked! But that can wait until next week.


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Qt 4.5 to Dramatically Improve QtWebKit and QGraphicsView Through Animations and Speed Ups
At Akademy 2008 in Belgium, Qt developers Simon Hausmann and Andreas Aardal Hanssen announced dramatic improvements in the web browser engine in Qt and the canvas that is used by, for example, the Plasma desktop shell. Video support, animations and transitions, optimisations to speed up painting and animations, and new graphical effects open up nearly endless new possibilities for developers to present their user interfaces with. Read on for more details.
Reflecting a video in QtWebKit
Hausmann demonstrated a WebKit based Konqueror web browser displaying video content through the HTML 5 video tag. With only one line of HTML code, video content in Ogg format can be embedded in webpages. Style elements can then display reflections of this video widget. Naturally, the underlying multimedia engine used in QtWebKit for showing video content is KDE's Phonon multimedia layer. Animations will also be possible. By adding simple CSS properties to your webpage elements, you can animate, rotate and fade those elements. Writing rich and animated webpages and of course embedded web content in applications becomes a breeze with QtWebkit.
After Simon's demo of QtWebkit, Andreas Aardal Hanssen entered the stage to show some of the improvements that will be in Qt 4.5 which will be released later this year or in early 2009. After Qt 4.4 brought the goodness of widgets-on-canvas and lots of optimisations that especially speed up Plasma, more breakthroughs in the development of Qt's graphics canvas are coming up. Speed-ups of up to 40 times faster in some cases go along with a set of really nice additions that are unparalleled in today's toolkits and can only be dreamt of in competing offerings. Improvements that will be available in Qt 4.5 include:
Hausmann's and Hanssen's future plans for those components in Qt have been met enthusiastically by the KDE developers. Soon, these new features and optimisations will be available to KDE users around the Free world.
are there any benchmarks? does it partialy solve the nvidia problem? etc
By Beat Wolf at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
That was my first thought as well. The nVidia part, that is. I hope so. I personally have only used KDE4* on Live CDs since KDE4* isn't ready for "me", yet (yes, I like *real* icons on the desktop, and a hideable "kicker"). I was going to jump to 4.1 because, well, I really want to, but the nVidia problems have kept me at bay hoping that by 4.2, nVidia will have gotten their act back together enough.
If these performance boots help make KDE4* on nVidia cards much less painless, then I can work around some of the other limitations of KDE4 until they are implemented.
By Xanadu at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
Why should the KDE or Qt guys fix nvidia bugs ?
By Pinaraf at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
well, my question was actualy if the speedup makes up somewhat for the nvidia slowdown. but i forgott that the new driver will probably be out before i got a kde 4 with qt 4.5
By Beat Wolf at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
I wasn't suggesting that TrollTech or KDE Devs somehow become nVidia gurus and fix their busted module. I was more asking if these tweaks that have been made make life easier for us nVidia users.
I'm not nieve enough to thing that TT/KDE is somehow responsible for nVidia screw ups.
By Xanadu at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
We hope confidently that the nvidia issues are solved *before* 4.5 ships. Qt 4.5 might make some things on nvidia faster, but it's really general optimizations, not nvidia-specific ones. All users should benefit from those optmizations, since they for example improve clipping on graphicsview.
By Sebastian Kuegler at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
Nvidia's problem are more OpenGl oriented so the Nvidia problem can only be fixed by Nvidia. QGV doesn't use Graphics Acceleration.
By Ménard Alexis at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
nvidias opengl driver is fine. their 2d acceleration isn't working with qt4. and graphicsview can actually use opengl for rendering.
By ac at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Benchmarks?b
NVidia's 3D drivers are among the best.
By Michael "tactle... at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Mmm hmm. That's nice.
Should have been here about 10 years ago. I know some SMIL 2.0(HTML+Time 2) and these years waiting for these type of things to go mainstream have made me indifferent. By the way, how old is Adobe's SVG viewer that has 1.0 capabilities? And SVG 1.0 is still not fully available on the 'cool' browser today. The third world war will probably arrive by the time developers get their acts...oh never mind...what's the point.
By charlie at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Mmm hmm. That's nice.
Adobe gave up on their SVG plugin since they bought Macromedia Flash. What else could we expect from them...
Hopefully Firefox is going to make their svg viewer usable on IE (same with canvas and JS2.0).
By Lisz at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Mmm hmm. That's nice.
>>Hopefully Firefox is going to make their svg viewer usable on IE (same with canvas and JS2.0).
Huh? Can you please elaborate? Is there any truth on that or is just a wish?
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Mmm hmm. That's nice.
Uh... What? That statement made no sense. On so many levels.
1) It's not like it's a plugin or something. It's integrated into gecko's rendering engine
2) Why would gecko devs care anything about IE?
3) IE sh!ts it's pants whenever it is handed XML anyway. (SVG is just an XML namespace)
By a-non-a-moose at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: Mmm hmm. That's nice.
I can tell you mean well, but your statement comes off as being very trollish.
Trying to explain in a simple way: IE sucks and it's in M$'s best interests NOT to add cool non-proprietary stuff to IE. There isn't as much motivation to work on SVG and friends because mainstream web can't use it. If IE wasn't the mainstream browser web page authors would be free to use those features, and developers would have more reason to work on them.
By Michael "I'm so... at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Mmm hmm. That's nice.
Ah, how is it a 'troll' when the reality is that the SVG implementation in Firefox is not 100% complete; may I suggest you look at the latest info on it, and you'll find that large chunks of the SVG specification haven't been implemented yet.
All very nice to rave about how great a feature is, but pointless if it isn't implemented properly.
By Kaiwai at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
there's a typo where a sentence is split in two :
"After Qt 4.4 brought the goodness of widgets-on-canvas and lots of optimisations that especially speed up Plasma. More breakthroughs in the development of Qt's graphics canvas are coming up."
should be a single sentence, .->, and M->m
By richlv at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: typo
I think he's right.
By J. M. at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: typo
He's right, but the resulting sentence after the change isn't exactly pretty either... really not pretty.
By PurplePerson at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: typo
"After Qt 4.4 brought the goodness of widgets-on-canvas and lots of optimisations that especially speed up Plasma. More breakthroughs in the development of Qt's graphics canvas are coming up."
This is fine, but to be succinct and proper with English Grammar:
``After Qt 4.4 brought the goodness of widgets-on-canvas and lots of optimisations that especially speed up Plasma--more breakthroughs in the development of Qt's graphics canvas are coming up.''
In LaTeX terminology there should be a \textemdash for the ``dash'' whose purpose is to emphasize interruptions in sentences by:
1. to emphasize explanations, including appositives, examples, and definitions;
By Marc Driftmeyer at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Too bad
Too bad KDE 4.2 will not be based on Qt 4.5, that means we'll have to wait for KDE 4.3 to have a good web experience using Qt/KDE technologies (KHTML is not good enough unfortunately).
By Lisz at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
Aren't there QT 4.5 preview packages available right now? And don't they include a basic QT/Webkit browser?
By T. J. Brumfield at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
We're on a 6 month release cycle though, KDE 4.3 will be released pretty soon after Qt 4.5.
By Ian Monroe at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
You mean July 2009.
By Marc Driftmeyer at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
As far as I know, no decision wether to depend on Qt 4.5 has been taken, so you're "Too bad ..." is a bit premature.
By Sebastian Kuegler at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
> you're "Too bad ..."
it's "your "Too bad...""
and kde4.2 will be based on Qt4.5, it's been said on the ML.
By Lisz at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
Ha yea, I was confused. Right, I don't see why KDE 4.3 wouldn't be based on Qt 4.5...
By Ian Monroe at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
Will the performance-enhancing improvements introduce incompatible API changes? Will it be possible to get some of the performance improvements by building KDE against Qt 4.5, even if it doesn't actually require it?
By Ben Morris at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
From reading the blog where the Troll mentioned the 40x improvement it *sounds* like it doesn't require changes to the applications, so I think (at least that change) could be gotten for free just by upgrading your copy of Qt.
Even if it requires a change it probably won't be too big, and if it would have a large impact the distros could ship a patched version of KDE with a 4.5 dependency.
(mind you, I'm just guessing based on the wording in the blog)
By Kit at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
As far as I know Qt has strict API and ABI policies for forward compatibility so any application written with Qt 4.x should be compatible with Qt 4.y where y > x for the whole life cycle of the Qt 4 series.
By Erunno at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
Not doing so would mean shooting themselves very hard in their commercial foot...
something they probably won't enjoy.
By Mark Hannessen at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
KDE4.0 could easily be built against 4.1, and get many of the improvements (performance stuff, bugfixes, etc). KDE4.1, if built against Qt4.5, would get the performance and WebKit improvements without any source modifications. Even if KDE4.2 isn't dependent on Qt4.5, you can always compile against it and get the improvements.
By Michael "wait!"... at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Too bad
You don't need to recompile. Just install the new Qt libs.
By yoda at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Omg! Omg!
I can't believe my eyes!!! A new animation API too !! That was what I was waiting for :D Please please, post the talks online, some timings, git references or whatever.
By superfan! at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Use of Qt in Mozilla
Great work peeps!
Now I'm sure most of you have heard that a port of Mozilla 1.9 (and Firefox 3) to Qt 4 is underway. On one of the developers' blogs (http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/06/well-isnt-that-qt/), he notes that while Qt is a well-designed modern toolkit, it has a few quirks:
*He notes that a drawGlyphs method on QPainter something that would take a QFont and an array of glyphs and positions - is missing;
Will these quirks be addressed in upcoming Qt releases? It would be awesome to have a better-integrated Firefox (Konqueror is great too, but just doesn't offer the same array of extensions). Thanks!
By Parminder Ramesh at Sun, 2008/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
Actually, having Firefox do its rendering via Qt has little to do with integration. Integration of the webbrowser is about a bookmark system, shared proxy settings, mimetype settings, certificate integration with KIO, password integration with kwallet and of course things like file dialogs from KDE. Using Qt as rendering engine is just one step.
By Sebastian Kuegler at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
File dialogs is the killer thing for me. I can't stand the damned GTK file dialogs. And yet I really love Firefox. And I think on openSUSE which I've been using lately, I set proxy settings in KDE, and Firefox recognizes them. There is an option in Firefox (it may be an openSUSE patch) to recognize system proxy settings.
Web browsers often have separate mime settings from the rest of the system, because you either open it as a plugin, save the file, or pass it to an app. It is more than just saying app x is related to that file.
kioslave and kwallet integration would be nice, but frankly Firefox stores passwords well enough on its own, where as I find the kwallet pop-ups to be a little annoying.
By T. J. Brumfield at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
There is a hack around that makes a lot of GTK applications use the Qt dialogs instead. Works pretty well, and makes GTK apps play a bit nicer in your Qt environment. Of course, don't expect KIO tricks to works all of a sudden.
By Andre at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
How nice of you not to mention what it's called. Just that it exists... buhuuu!
By ac at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
By Emmanuel Lepage... at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
Sorry, yes. I did not have time at that point to look it up. See it as an exercise to hone your Google skills ;-)
By Andre at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
I can't imagine a Qt firefox using a Gtk file dialog, could you ;). Actually, I'd expect it to use the standard QFileDialog. While it's not as awful as the GTK one, it isn't KDE either. Of course you can always use KGtk or KQt, respectively.
By Michael "GTK fi... at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
I've used the latest build and at this moment it does use the Qt file dialog as expected.
It's total pre-alpha material and practically unusable for normal browsing, but it's still sorta cool....
By Jonathan Thomas at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: Use of Qt in Mozilla
Always good to hear. I may be hopelessly addicted to KDE's application-specific file dialog bookmarks and I may be doing fairly well with KGTK, but it'll definitely be a step in the right direction to have native support for Qt file dialogs.
By Stephan Sokolow at Sun, 2008/11/16 - 6:00am
QtWebKit API
I could wait a few more days for the videos to be published (but whats the fun in that? :P), but did the talk cover anything about how the QtWebKit API is going to be extended? The main-snapshot documentation (on doc.trolltech.com) has already been extended to include QNetworkDiskCache but I haven't noticed anything about exposing the DOM (directly via the C++ API) or anything about NS plugin support in a while (I had heard that it was in the svn server upstream a while ago)?
I'm also hoping there'll be more information about the new KJS implementation (Frostbyte, I think it was called?) and some of the other stuff going on in KHTML that I've seen blogs somewhat mentioning in the past.
So far I've really enjoyed developing against QtWebKit (the trolls have done an outstanding job with the API so far!) and loved being a Konqueror+KHTML user for quite a while, both are very nice rendering engines and I hope we get to have both actively developed for a long time to come!
By Kit at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: QtWebKit API
By Morty at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: QtWebKit API
For netscape plugin support I can tell you that QtWebKit in trunk already has this support. And as for public API to control these plugins see this:
Also, squirrelfish is the name of the new JavaScript engine in WebKit. And yes, this will be included in the next version.
I'm not sure that a public DOM API will be ready for the next version. It is a big undertaking and could dramatically increase the size of the public API. What's more, it is important to get it right.
By manyoso at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: QtWebKit API
You won't see much information on KJS from aKademy since neither Harri nor myself are there; nor is the KHTML uber-guru Germain. ...And besides, being old-school KDE guys we're not big on PR and flashy demos anyway. The initial frostbyte version (-41.0) is indeed in 4.1.0, and I've tweaked a few things since then, though nothing major. I tend to work in a funny way where I spend a lot of time thinking over a design problem at odd times, then when I am I finally happy I go ahead and try stuff... Except even on small stuff I tend to sit on patches for a while since something is always bothering me.
Wrt to KHTML stuff: the biggest thing in 4.1 would be contentEditable, though the command set is currently somewhat limited. For 4.2, an ultra-smart SoC student is working on picking up the SVG code from WebCore, and is trying to do so largely through a compatibility layer to keep things from diverging. Though, it is hard since we have a far more minimalistic design philosophy. Can't really give any big KHTML plans from myself, since I tend to just pick off areas which I think need work... Right now e.g. load events from iframes/objects are a bit wonky, though their behavior overall is a lot better after
By SadEagle at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: QtWebKit API
being old-school KDE guys we're not big on PR and flashy demos anyway
That tastes a bit odd: showing of a new feature once in a while or posting short blogs about current development has nothing to do with PR or "flashy" demos. It is another way of communcation with the users.
There are several ways to communicate with users: e-mail, blogs, news, irc, bugzilla, surveys, and so on. Every project picks the set they think fits their style best.
By Whatever at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: QtWebKit API
"That tastes a bit odd"
Speaking of odd, he never said what you imply in your post, he just said he doesn't (often/ever) show up at those big akademy get togethers that KDE has, which is not the same as saying he doesn't talk to "users" at all (heck, he posted here didn't he?). Jeez, lighten up.
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MILAN (AP) - The Calvin Klein man for next summer is an urban dreamer, contemplating his horizons and even the cosmos.
MILAN (AP) � The Calvin Klein man for next summer is an urban dreamer, contemplating his horizons and even the cosmos.
The collection for next summer presented Sunday on the second day of Milan Fashion Week keeps men in their comfort zone, with a solid focus on basics in reassuring blues. There are bomber jackets, suits with cuffed pants and classic shirts.
Designer Italo Zucchelli offers up monochromatic looks for next summer in blues: wake-up royal, soothing sky and down-to-business Navy. Classic double-pocket snap-close shirts are paired with same-color pants that cuff at the ankle. They in turn are worn with a shoe of the matching color and same-color socks � none of the black socks seen on other runways.
Bomber jackets come in white with classic blue vertical stripes, perfect for a day at the ballpark.
On the more daring end of the spectrum, sweatshirts are made of a funky mix of fabrics: One had a neoprene effect, another was chunky knit and finally there were cotton panels. Together, they create a harmonious clash fitting of the heavy metal riffs that down along the runway.
Wrapping up the look: a series of sloping shoulder shirts and sweatshirts with prints of the sky in all its glorious phases; a daytime blue sky filled with fluffy clouds, another at sunset and a star-filled night.
Each includes a door-shaped panel. Some show another sky � it's unclear whether it's a forecast or the past. Another is dark, and open for interpretation.
The collection is for the urban dweller, one whose view of the sky may be otherwise crowded by buildings. He of course would have little need for shorts as active-wear, and there are none in this collection.


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Howto: change andLinux network configuration
From andLinux
andLinux is configured with two network interfaces by default, eth0 and eth1. The eth1 is used to communicate to the Windows host via the TAP-Colinux network interface.
The Windows interface is configured with ip address 192.168.11.1, and the Linux eth1 adapter is configured with 192.168.11.150. The TAP-Colinux interface operates as a router, so from the Windows host you can ping the eth1 interface and access the various network services you have configured.
What needs to be changed?
In order to change the network ip addresses you need to modify the following configuration items:
- andLinux eth1 ip address and subnet
- andLinux /etc/hosts file
- andLinux /etc/profile configuration file
- TAP-Colinux ip address and subnet
- andLinux launcher registry configuration
- add the new ip address to the Xming allowed hosts file
In this example we will change the network to be 169.254.28.0/24. The Windows host will keep the host address 1, andLinux eth1 will retain the host id 150.
andLinux eth1 ip address configuration
The eth1 static ip configuration is stored in the '/etc/network/interfaces' config file. So we are going to edit this file to reflect the following information:
iface eth1 inet static address 169.254.28.150 netmask 255.255.255.0
andLinux /etc/hosts file
The hosts file is used to resolve windows-host used in mounting the host smb share.
169.254.28.1 windows-host
andLinux /etc/profile configuration
In order to ensure that the andLinux components interact properly with their Windows counterpart we need to edit the /etc/profile files content as shown here:
# set DISPLAY env variable export DISPLAY=169.254.28.1:0.0 export ESPEAKER=169.254.28.1:16001 export PULSE_SERVER=169.254.28.1
TAP-Colinux ip address configuration
Change the TAP-Colinux network interface from 192.168.11.1 to 169.254.28.1.
andLinux launcher configuration
Add the following registry key, which is not present by default:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\andLinux\Launcher] "IP"="169.254.28.150" "Port"=dword:00000821
Note: In andLinux Beta 2 the default launcher port changed from 81 (hex: 51) to 2081 (hex: 821). So, if you are using older versions of andLinux, you'll need 51 instead of 821 in the registry setting above.
Xming Configuration on the windows host
Edit the X0.hosts file located in the Xming directory of your andLinux installation. Within the directory you'll find the X0.hosts file. This file controls which hosts on the network will able to connect to the Xming server so we need to tell it about the new ip address we've assigned. Open it and add the ip address you've assigned andLinux. You can remove the existing ip address as it is no longer required.
localhost 169.254.28.150
After restarting andLinux your launcher will connect to the network services providing access to binary files.


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A Different Amigurumi World
I confess to not being very well read on Terry Pratchett. In a geek's world, this is tantamount to blasphemy, but I have at least become familiar with his humor via the requisite Good Omens, which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Just last week I reminded myself that it's been a good long time, years in fact, since I've sat down and had a good read. The book I picked was Pratchett's Feet of Clay, a book in his Discworld series I'd obtained quite by accident about 8 or 9 years ago as a result of not sending the card back to one of those hardcover book clubs I belonged to at the time.
They sent the book and a bill and on the shelf it sat until last week. I picked it up in my attempt to trick myself into reading again by diving into something different and surprising. I got through about 14 pages before I got very sleepy. Not the book's fault, as this epiphany that I should start reading again struck me well after midnight. It got lost in a pile, and distracted with other things I completely forgot about it.
Last night, brainstorming for some ideas on how to bring some regular content along to this show, I remembered what I used to do when stuck for content–scour Etsy and Flickr. The things you stumble into at either of these places is often very unique, interesting, and in this case prescient and inspiring. I ripped through stacks and piles to find the book I'd started just a week ago and set it with my bag to take to work today.
On the bus and subway I read and am thrilled to have had that little jolt to my memory. Good Omens was very clever, and very british. It was sometimes outlandish, but that isn't necessarily uncharacteristic of Gaiman alone. I'm getting a feel for how irreverent, whimsical and absurd Pratchett's work can be. I have to admit that I like it. I like it a lot.


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The U.S. Navy's successors to Ohio-class submarines will feature an electric propulsion system, making them quieter and stealthier than today's versions.
The technology for the ballistic-missile subs is being developed by the Navy and General Dynamics Corp. as part of the Ohio Replacement Program, Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge told Military.com in an interview. Construction of the boats is set to begin in 2021, he said.
Unlike existing versions, which use mechanical propulsion technology, the replacement subs are designed to have an electric-drive system, Navy officials said. The technology still relies on a nuclear reactor to generate heat and create steam to power turbines, they said. However, the electricity produced is transferred to an electric motor rather than so-called reduction gears to spin the boat's propellers, they said.
"We just take the electricity from those high-speed turbines and use that electricity to drive an electric motor that propels the ship," Breckenridge said. "It is quieter than a mechanical drive system."
Evolving global threats require ever more quiet submarines, Navy officials said. The Navy decided to invest in the technology after reaching the limits of trying to silence mechanical propulsion, they said.
"Great minds have figured out how to get those gears whisper quiet," one Navy expert said. "We did not have any more tools in the bag to get the stealth that we knew we needed for this national strategic imperative."
The Navy has experimented with electric drive in the past, but it took 15 years for the service to perfect the technology, officials said.
The system offers a number of potential advantages, including noise reduction, according to Bryan McGrath, managing director at FerryBridge Group LLC, a defense consulting firm based in Easton, Md.
"When you have the motor tied directly to the propulsion shaft, that should eliminate some of the noise," he said.
Electric propulsion can also help ships generate more on-board power for electronics, sensors and weapons systems, McGrath said.
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Other innovations in the submarine program include an X-shaped stern to improve maneuverability and stealth, officials said. As subs evolved from using propellers to more quieter propulsors, they lost some surface maneuverability, they said.
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Similar to the current Ohio-class submarines, the replacements will be equipped to fire the Trident II nuclear missile, Breckenridge said. The missile, designated D5, has proven reliable in testing, with all but one of its 149 test shots successful, he said.
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Sonar technology is of particular importance to a submarine platform whose mission depends upon quietness and detectability, Breckenridge said.
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In addition, the new submarines are being engineered with a new nuclear-reactor core designed to power the ships for 42 years. Unlike the current Ohio-class SSBNs, which require a multi-year refueling process halfway through their service life, the new Ohio Replacement boats will be able to continue their missions without needing a refueling pause, Breckenridge said.
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One of the more disturbing aspects of the U.S. Department of Education is its obsession with data collection. But it all makes perfect sense if you see it from the point of view of the educational totalitarians whose aim it is to use behavioral psychology for the purpose of modifying and controlling human behavior. Thus, the National Center of Education Statistics has been designated by the psycho-educators to be the recipient of the full computer dossiers on every school child and teacher in America.
According to Beverly Eckman's Educating for the New World Order, the super computer already exists. It is called the Elementary and Secondary Integrated Data System, and it is linked with all of the other federal computer networks collecting data on American citizens. It was former Vice President Al Gore, as a Senator, who introduced the Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1985 which Congress enacted into law.
That this data collection program has been in the works for some time is indicated by the existence of a Handbook issued in 1974 by the National Center for Education Statistics on State Educational Records and Reports. In their section on Student/Pupil Accounting, they list the major categories of student information. A three-digit system is used to categorize the data. For example, Personal Identification falls under 1 00: Name 1 01, Student Number 1 02, Sex 1 03, Racial/Ethnic Group 1 04, etc. Note the use of an identification number which will probably be the individual's Social Security Number, which has become the American citizen's all-purpose ID number.
Family and Residence data fall under 2 00, Family Economic Information 2 40, and Family Social/Cultural Information 2 50.
Physical Health, Sensory, and Related Conditions fall under 3 00, starting with the Student Medical Record Number 3 01, and then covering every aspect of the student's physical health and medical life.
Mental, Psychological and Proficiency Test Results and Related Student Characteristics fall under 4 00. All data collected through psychological testing will be placed under that category, with Specific Mental and Psychological Characteristics under 4 30.
Enrollment information falls under 5 00, with Type of Program entered 5 23, and Type of Class for Instructional Grouping 5 24. Performance falls under 6 00, Transportation under 7 00, and Special Assistance under 8 00.
The most recent version of the Student Data Handbook for Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education that we've had a chance to study in depth was released in June of 1994 (NCES 94-303) and the Staff Data Handbook: Elementary, Secondary and Early Childhood Education (NCES 95-327) was released in January 1995. But who will have access to all of this intimate private information, and for what reason? Will potential employers, recruiters, and police departments be given this data? Is the U.S. government now to become involved in dispensing private information about its citizens as a new information service? Suppose that some of the information may lead to emotional harm of the individual? Who will be responsible for that harm?
Indeed, who will own all of this information? If the government is not going to make this private information available to others for whatever reasons, why then are the bureaucrats, at great cost to the taxpayer, collecting it?
The government of a free people does not collect dossiers of personal private information on all of its citizens. A police state does. Have we become a police state? According to the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of government is to secure the unalienable rights of its citizens, which include "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Is not privacy one of the most important rights of a free people?
The 2001 edition of the Data Handbook states its purpose:
To make appropriate, cost-effective and timely decisions about students, educators must have accurate and complete information. Recognizing this need, most education systems have moved from paper documents in filing cabinets to automated student information systems. These systems provide teachers and others concerned with effective program design with day-to-day access to information about the students' background, learning experiences, and performance. They also provide the flexibility necessary to supply aggregate data to school boards, state and federal governments, and other interested parties; and to conduct program evaluations. To be effective, however, these systems must record data accurately and comparably for all students, in all places, and at all times.
The Student Data Handbook for Elementary, Secondary, and Early Childhood Education was developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to provide guidance concerning the consistent maintenance of student information. This handbook is useful to public and private education agencies, schools, early childhood centers, and other educational institutions, as well as to researchers involved in the collection of student data. In addition, the Handbook may be useful to elected officials and members of the public interested in student information. This handbook is not, however, a data collection instrument; nor does it reflect any type of federal data maintenance requirements. It is presented as a tool to help the public and the American school system make information about students more useful and effective in meeting student needs.
The writers of the Handbook seem to contradict their own words. The Data Handbook is indeed a data collection instrument. What else could it possibly be, especially since every individual in the system is identified with his or her own number? Of course, it may also be used for general information gathering purposes. For example, since the religion of a child is part of the data collected, the government can release general information about how many Catholics, or Baptists, or Mormons are in the public schools. But they can also identify the religion of any individual in the system.
The federal government's original rationale for collecting all of this data was that it was needed to see if the nation was reaching the national education goals set by Goals 2000. Well, Goals 2000 have come and gone. The program was a failure. But the government nevertheless keeps collecting more and more data on students and teachers.
To understand how all of this works, you have to get down into the bowels of Washington's educational bureaucracies. For example, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the grand overseer of all of this data collection. In 1991, it awarded a three-year contract to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) "to facilitate the implementation of a national education data system." The project was called the Education Data System Implementation Project (EDSIP). Two years prior to EDSIP, the NCES began constructing "an interstate student records transfer system currently called ExPRESS," an acronym for Exchange of Permanent Records Electronically for Students and Schools. The function of ExPRESS is as follows:
The activity has included the development of standard data elements for inclusion in an electronic student transcript and a pilot exchange of student records across school districts and from districts to institutions of higher education. The system is now ready for further development, including the appointment of a Governing Board, making formal arrangements with a communications network for exchanging the records, and expansion to more sites.
EDSIP also included implementing a Personnel Exchange System for sharing state expertise in solving education data problems, the development of an Information Referral System for sharing information to improve data systems across states, and the development of student and staff data handbooks.
The CCSSO has carried out two other projects for the NCES. The first, the Education Data Improvement Project (1985-88), "analyzed each state's capacity to provide standard, comparable and timely data to NCES on public elementary and secondary school and school district, staff, students, revenues and expenditures." The second project was the New Education Data Improvement Project (1988-91) to provide technical assistance plans for each state, which addressed the state's problems in responding to Common Core Data requirements.
It is obvious that the long-range goal of this linking of all of the states' education data to a central computer in Washington is to further the nationalization of American public education. Public schools have always depended on local real estate taxes for their financial support because the local people technically controlled their local schools and were concerned about their performance. But this quiet building of a national data collection network is just a prelude to the kind of total control the totalitarians in Washington hope to achieve over all the schools in the country.
That is one good reason to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education and return the public schools to local control, where they belong. There is no need for bureaucrats in Washington to control the public schools. Neither Goals 2000 nor No Child Left Behind improved American education. For example, Goal 5 of Goals 2000 stated: "By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship."
Yet, in 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts released its grim survey on the decline of literacy in America. The survey, entitled Reading at Risk, reported that more and more young Americans are reading less and less. The Endowment's Chairman, Dana Gioia, stated:
This report documents a national crisis. Reading develops a capacity for focused attention and imaginative growth that enriches both private and public life. The decline in reading among every segment of the adult population reflects a general collapse in advanced literacy. To lose this human capacity — and all the diverse benefits it fosters — impoverishes both cultural and civic life.
As I have amply documented in my previous articles, the decline of literacy in America is the result of a carefully thought-out plan by the progressives to lower the literacy level of the American people, beginning with John Dewey's 1898 essay "The Primary School Fetich." And there is no one in the federal government education bureaucracy who will acknowledge this. In other words, the only way to address our ongoing education crisis is to get the federal government out of the education business. As soon as this is done, local communities can begin to address the problems of their local schools in a manner that makes sense.


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Shep Goldberg, a top sports agent who guided the careers of Mary Lou Retton and Michelle Kwan, died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 65.
Goldberg also worked with 2010 Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek. Goldberg's death was confirmed by his family.
"Shep lived his life and conducted business with loyalty, compassion, dignity, and ethics … things that are becoming less common in today's world," Lysacek said. "He was a rare man, and a rare friend. I miss him already."
A native of Philadelphia, Goldberg was a public relations director for the Oakland Athletics and Seals when both were owned by Charlie Finley — hardly an easy job. He held the same position for the Lakers and the Los Angeles Forum in the 1970s.
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While I would love to have this as a part of my Scouting collection but it is already out of my price range. (My scoutmaster pension was not as much as I had hoped for. jk) Of course, you never know. Maybe I have a reader of this blog who would like to purchase this set and give it to me as a present.
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