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Jon Stewart impersonates Glenn Beck; end of the world is near [Video]
Jon Stewart does an excellent Glenn Beck. The Comedy Central host opened his Thursday show with a melodramatic monologue and later donned the thick-framed glasses and surfaced the chalkboard to impersonate the conservative Fox host who recently announced that he will be leaving his show later this year.
Given Stewart's popular parody of the Beck last year, the follow-up spoof was almost inevitable.
Stewart laid out in "crisp fool-proof detail how Glenn Beck's departure from Fox is incontrovertible truth that the world is ending."
Because earthquakes, sinkholes, tsunamis, falling governments, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira leaving their respective programs might not have been enough of an indication. No, no. Beck is the nail in the coffin, ladies and gentleman. Watch the clip above.
"People will tell you Glenn was fired because of plummeting ratings," Stewart stated hysterically, in character as Beck. "Thirty percent of his viewers have abandoned him, his audience's median age is now dead of natural causes. Do we really want to live in an America where what we watch is determined by a shadowy mix-and-match collective of so-called 'Nielsen families'? You know who else had a family that anyone could join? Charles Manson.
"I don't know about you, ladies and gentlemen, but I don't think I want to live in an America where Charles Manson tells our children what they can watch on television."
And the Beck barrage continued. Before showing clips of various end-of-the-world theories, Stewart gave his snarky explanation for the host's departure.
"So what's really going on here?" Stewart pondered. "What I'm about to say to you is going to sound stupid, illogical, moronic, asinine, disembrained. What I'm about to say to you is the kind of thing that will make you wonder how I even dress myself in the morning: Glenn Beck is leaving Fox because Glenn Beck tells the truth."
What do you think of Stewart's Beck impersonation -- spot on, or over the top?
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|"19th Century Filibuster," from U.S. Senate Art and History, www.senate.gov
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Filibuster
4 comments:
- Dan Ernst said...
Fisk & Chemerinsky, Stanford Law Review (1997). http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/772/
- May 19, 2012 at 8:35:00 PM EDT
Thanks for the reference to this very interesting article! As a Dutchman I wondered at first about the assertion that the word filibuster comes originally from a Dutch word. I checked the online version of the "Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal", http://gtb.inl.nl, where you can search in fact simultaneously in a number of dictionaries, and indeed filibuster comes from the word "vrijbuiter", freebooter, a word first attested in the late sixteenth century. This word became in French filibustier which made it into English with only a small change.
- May 20, 2012 at 12:28:00 PM EDT
- Josh Chafetz said...
If I could be immodest, Chafetz, The Unconstitutionality of the Filibuster, 43 Connecticut Law Review 1003 (2011), available at http://uconn.lawreviewnetwork.com/files/documents/JoshChafetz43Conn.L.Rev.1003.pdf.
Pages 1017 to 1028 in particular take on the argument that the filibuster in its current form has a long and distinguished history.
- May 21, 2012 at 9:43:00 AM EDT
- The People's Business said...
What I'd really like to know about is the state of scholarship pre 2009.
Forgive my suspicion of the recent concern about the constitutional integerity of a tool used by both parties for 200 years.
Any Dscholarship complaining about this from 2000-2008 in particular?
- May 22, 2012 at 9:18:00 AM EDT


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The week in review
Highest-level loss: Fortieth President Ronald Reagan dies June 5 at age 93– 10 years after announcing he had Alzheimer's Disease.
Highest-level retirement: CIA Director George Tenet offers his resignation June 2, at a time when intelligence failures in Iraq are under scrutiny.
Worst news for pending retirements: Thousands of soldiers will have to stay in the military if their units are called up to Afghanistan or Iraq under the "stop-loss" program to prevent further erosion of U.S. forces.
Worst setback for pro-lifers: A federal judge rules the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional June 1.
Worst setback for Darrell Rice: The man who was charged in the Shenandoah National Park murders of two women in 1996– until a federal judge dropped those charges earlier this year– is indicted June 7 for the 1996 abduction of Carmelita Shomo in Prince William County.
Biggest buzz in Gordonsville: Graffiti on three streets accusing police of racism inspires further complaints at a town meeting June 3, Olympia Meola reports in the Daily Progress.
Worst off-duty activity: Trying to meet 13-year-old girls on the Internet. State Trooper Travis William Sorrells, who lives in Waynesboro, is arrested May 26. He's charged with four felony counts, including using a computer to solicit a child for a sexual offense.
Coldest hit: A DNA sample from a 1996 rape leads to the conviction of John H. Westbrook III in Buckingham, who pleads for a seven-year sentence because he's now a sober father of three, according to a Liesel Nowak story in the Progress. Despite his apology to the victim, Westbrook gets 15years.
Most tubular influx: After years of having only one network station, Charlottesville will get its third this year. Gray Television already announced plans for a CBS affiliate, WCAV– and will, in August, also launch ABC Channel 16, WVAW-TV, Elizabeth Nelson reports in the Progress. A fourth station, Channel 9, with daily 24-hour local content, goes on the air in late November.
Most sensible idea from the Albemarle Planning Commission: A proposed ordinance that builders drill a well before they get a building permit goes before the Board of Supervisors in August, David Dadurka reports in the Progress.
Most dubious honor: The U.S. 29 bypass has been named one of the 27 most wasteful highways projects in the nation, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense and Friends of the Earth.
Best mouse pathology: An autopsy shows that the mouse found in a bowl of vegetable soup at a Cracker Barrel in Newport News was actually planted by the customer and her son who tried to extort $500,000 from the company. The clues? The mouse died from a fractured skull, had no soup in its lungs, and was not cooked.
Best wine: The King Family Vineyards in Crozet wins Virginia's top prize, the 2004 Governor's Cup.
Best way to get former NBC 29 weather guy Robert Van Winkle back in town: Channel 29's 20th-anniversary telethon to support the UVA Children's Medical Center June 5 and 6.
Best touts in the Washington Post: Crozet Pizza is deemed worthy of a road trip from DC, WNRN is noted as "one of the few truly community radio stations around," and the Inn at Afton is chosen as an under-$200 getaway because of its views and its $70 rooms.


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Jay DeMarcus Shares Sweet Photo of His Happy Baby Boy
It's been almost six months since Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus and his wife, Allison, brought their baby boy home from the hospital. Now that little Dylan is big enough to sit up by himself, his country star daddy is comfortable sharing adorable pictures of him on Twitter.
While some new parents share horror stories of staying up all night for months on end, changing thousands of dirty diapers and dealing with a constantly cranky baby, it seems like fatherhood is treating DeMarcus pretty well.
The Rascal Flatts bass player tweeted a photo of his smiley son on Saturday morning, sharing that his first son is a delight. "Our baby Dylan is the happiest baby ever!!!" he wrote. He's not lying -- Dylan is one happy kid. In the photo, he's sitting on a plush chair, hugging himself and kicking his feet -- all while holding the biggest grin on his face.
It seems like the DeMarcuses are really getting the hang of parenting. The couple had a little practice with their first child, Madeline Leigh, who is 2, and this time around, the singer is used to juggling family time with his busy tour schedule.
In fact, shortly after Dylan was safely delivered and the bassist knew that his wife and son were okay, he hopped on a plane to Detroit to get back to work on tour.
Although having a new baby has kept DeMarcus busy, the 'Why Wait' hitmaker is still pushing full steam ahead with Rascal Flatts. The entire trio decided to take the holiday season off to spend time with their families, and now they are gearing up to resume their rigorous tour schedule with the winter leg of their Changed Tour on Jan. 10 in Green Bay, Wisc.


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Ok, gals. My cute sister-in-law found an adorable PB Kids changing pad for me at DownEast Outfitters for $5 right before Baby #4 hit the scene. It looks like this:
- 1/2 yard of cotton quilting fabric
- 1/2 yard of white terry cloth
- 1/2 yard thin quilt batting
- 7 yards of 1.5 inch bias tape
- matching thread
- pins, scissors, a measuring tape, and a small radius cup for rounding corners
A straight edge ruler and rotary cutter are also helpful. I made my own bias tape, but you can use store bought as well.
Always be sure you prewash your fabrics!
You'll need to cut the following pieces:
For the main body ("body") of the changer
- 18" tall by 22" wide rectangle of fabric
- 18" tall by 22" wide piece of terry
- 18" tall by 22" wide piece of batting.
For the head portion of the changer, ("head")
- 9.75" tall by 11.75" tall piece of fabric
- 9.5" by 11.75" piece of terry
- 9.5" by 11.75" piece of batting
For the pillow,
- 15" by 10" rectangle of terry
- 15" by 10" rectable of batting
For the pocket:
Cut a 8" tall by 23" wide piece of fabric. The bottom two corners are rounded.
Note: if your fabric has a direction, make sure the fabric is facing down...opposite of where the body portion is going. See the one I made my SIL. When it's folded, the fabric is going the wrong way.
For the handle, cut two pieces of fabric and one piece of batting 14.5 inches long, 1.75 inches wide.
Step 3. Make the pillow.
Fold the terry together with the batting sandwiched inbetween. Zigzag stitch everything closed. Next, pin the bias tape to the pillow as shown, leaving ties out as shown.
Sew the bias tape to the pillow using your sewing machine and a medium stitch. Only sew the portion that is attached to the pillow at this time.
Sew the bias tape to the pillow using your sewing machine and a medium stitch. Only sew the portion that is attached to the pillow at this time.
Fold the bias tape measure over, and pin so that the opposite side from where you sewed is covered. Hand sew using a blind hem stitch. My favorite way to do this is using this tutorial.
I want you to hand sew the ties, also.
Lastly, on your machine, sew the bias tape with a top stitch, 1/8" from the edge. Lately, I like to use a decorative stitch. Do what makes you happy.
Just cut the bias tape to the same length as the pocket, then pin to the right side of the fabric as shown. Machine stitch. Flip over, and hand stitch the other side, then topstitch.
Set aside for now.
Step 6. Create six ties.
From your bias tape, cut 6 (six) strips 10.5 inches long. I hand sewed each closed with the baseball stitch, then topstitched each.
Step 7. Prepare the head portion of the changer. Pin all three pieces together, and zigzag stitch. The straight edge should not be sewn together. Set aside for now.
Step 8. Prepare the body.
First, sew two straps to the fabric of the body. Decide which long side is the bottom. From there, measure up 7 inches from the side and 6.75" from the bottom. Mark this place. Repeat for other side.
Lay the pillow at the center of the body, with pockets at the bottom. Use pins to hold two ties in the same place the pillow ties are. Move pillow to the side, and baste the ties to the body.
Next, center the head piece with the body. Pin together, with terry cloth portions touching. Be sure to fold the fabric of the head out of the way. Sew the head securely to the body.
Now, pin the flap closed, and topstitch.
Step 10. Attach the handle.
Place the handle so that one edge is directly over the head seam, and the other is towards the head portion. Topstitch in place along each bias tape, sewing in 4 inches towards the center.
Step 11. Add last set of ties.
The last set of ties will be placed at the top of the head portion. Each tie should be 1.5 inches from the sides of the top. Baste in place.
You can verify the right placement by folding the changing pad, and making sure the ties from the head portion match up to the ties you sewed to the back of the changer.
Step 12. Bind the changing pad.
Pin the bias tape in place, and sew to the changing pad. This time you will be covering the entire perimeter, and will need approximately 90 inches. Follow the same steps as when you put the binding on the pillow.
For a finished look, as you are pinning the bias tape in place go about one inch beyond where you began. Be sure to fold over the end of the bias tape as shown, and you will have a beautifully finished edge. Top stitch all the binding into place.
Now, you are almost done!
To fold the diaper changer, fold the sides of the body in to the middle. Then, fold the bottom to meet the head and fold the head over the body, and tie to close.
Congratulations! I, of course, would love to see what you create! Please email me, or upload to the Pickup Some Creativity Flickr pool.
UPDATE: I had one lady ask how you place a baby on this contraption, and to be more specific on folding. So, here are a few more photos.
Happy sewing! This tutorial was featured on Craft Gossip, One Pretty Thing, and Sew Mama Sew!
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What is Underwater Hockey?
the friggen sweetest sport ever created... yeaaaaah. Played with 2 teams of 6, a hockey puck, fins, masks, snorkel, water polo cat, gloves, and sticks. It is played on the bottom of the pool while holding your breath. More addicting than crack.
Michigan State rocks at underwater hockey.


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Stephen Colbert has a new job — farm worker.
A tongue-in-cheek offer — maybe.
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The day's top national and international news.
But the host of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" teamed up Thursday night with Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of America, in a challenge to unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs.
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Rodriguez says that so far just three have responded and were in the fields.
"Make that four," the comedian replied emphatically.
The U.S. Labor Department says more than half of farm workers are illegal immigrants. The UFW argues they're not taking jobs from Americans because most don't want the work.
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Proponents of tougher immigration laws respond that the problem with the UFW's proposition is that growers don't want to raise wages and improve working conditions enough to attract Americans.
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I am using Visual C++ to write an app. I write CMyObject class and may allocate a lot of instances of CMyObject object, so I want to reduce the size of CMyObject class.
What I can figure out to do is:
1. I can use the following code to get the accurate size used by a single instance of CMyObject object:
CMyObject Object;
// Get the size of memory allocated for CMyObject object
int nSize = sizeof(Object);
is that correct?
2. To reduce the size of CMyObject, I have several ideas:
(1) Change member function to static member function if it is possible, since each member function will take some spaces in the instance of CMyObject.
(2) Change virtual member function to member function if it is possible, since virtual member function may take more spaces.
(3) Eliminate unnecessary member variables to reduce spaces.
(4) Finally, if (1), (2) and (3) does not work well, then change CMyObject from class to a struct that only contains some member variables, thus will eliminate the spaces allocated for constructor and destructor of a class.
is my ideas correct?


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Enter our web site and learn about Fabian's life and career over
more than 40 years. Through the aid of pictures you will meet his
family and friends, recall his movie and TV roles, be able to listen
to original recordings of his most popular songs and have access
to his calendar of performances and events. Fabian's records were
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Second KDE 4 Developers Snapshot Available
The second KDE 4 developers snapshot is now available. This 3.80.2 release includes source from all the KDE modules. Application developers are strongly advised to work primarily on KDE 4 from now on. This release builds with Qt 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 (but not the 4.2 preview). Packages are available for Kubuntu and currently working through the SUSE buildservice.
Hope this is the time for plasma development?
hi all
As I understand from the main developer of plasma the KDE foundations ( QT, KDElibs) was not ready to implement all those revolutionary ideas, but now I hope the needed stack are here so as users we would hopefully expect some concrete code to be shown.
By djouallah mimoune at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
Where did you heard that ?
By JC at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
I am just a fanatic planetkde reader; and the last presentation given by SEIGO about the state of plasma. But as he use a rather an unconventional English for me; perhaps I missed the meaning of his writing.
By djouallah mimoune at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
By Jakob Petsovits at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
heh.. indeed... all things in the time they need to occur, neither before nor later.
(how's that for zen? did i hit it?)
btw, readers of my blog will attest that writing my name in capital letters is highly ironic. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
more help needed for plasma?
By sure at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
#btw, readers of my blog will attest that writing my name in capital letters is highly ironic. =) #
Sorry man just I have a limited access time for the internet where I work ; ( for today I have just 20 minutes) so reading an article, look up some words then making respond is a rather tough task, so no time to polishing my writing.
Again sorry Seigo
By djouallah mimoune at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
i'm sure he doesn't mind... so i hope your response wasn't serious as well, as aaron sure would feel sorry for you feeling sorry...
anyway, i think your first comment was right on track, aaron didn't do very much on plasma because the framework just wasn't there. tough he also uses a lot of time for other stuff - and that's not a bad thing of course.
btw there are other ppl helping out with plasma, or at least they are going to. check plasma.kde.org for a who-is!
By superstoned at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
'and that's not a bad thing of course'.
Sometimes I feel it is dommage that high technical developers, get occupied by less technical affairs (although very important by the way) which can done by other people, I mean with so little resources manpower are so precious.
PS : This is perhaps a drawback of free speech in the internet, every jackass thinks he has ideas.
By djouallah momoune at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
Re: Hope this is the time for plasma development?
What IS the deal with that, anyway? Were your little fingers severed in some crazy Chinese-fingercuff incident, or what?
By Louis at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
This is great! It works, more or less. I was going to post from Konqueror 3.80, but it doesn't work *that* well yet :-)
If you want to try it out, remember to run KDE4 programs _only_ as a separate user (I created the user kde4test) so you don't run the risk of trashing your KDE3 setup.
By Martin at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Are there any visible new features? I'm using OS X so I'm not able to do a test run with KDE4. Has anybody made some screenshots yet?
By Peter O. at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
It is supposed to look equal to kde3 but with KDE4 which makes it much faster and easy to code ;)
By Marc Deop at Thu, 2006/11/02 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
You mean "with Qt 4", right?
Re: Screenshots?
There have been OS X snapshots posted already. Without requiring X11 even. (KDE 4 will support native Qt/Mac, and there are already snapshots of this work.)
Re: Screenshots?
DMGs for you to try out: http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/Home
Re: Screenshots?
am i wrong or are there still font kerning problems on QT4 ? konqueror on that screenshot seems to have bad kerning ...
By anon at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
Yes, the problem is still there. I've been told they are looking for the problem but so far they don't understand what is wrong.
By Med at Sat, 2006/11/04 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
What about the Windows port? I'd love to use Konqueror on Windows!
By AC at Sat, 2006/11/04 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
Maybe that is the way to win the Desktop. First win the Windows Desktop with KDE applications and then convince them that they don't need Windows to run them.
By jupp at Sat, 2006/11/04 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
If you want to convince them of that, you'll first need to explain to them what Windows is, and that's already too complicate. And what KDE is, which is even more complicate (Windows users will probably never know what KDE is, even if they use KDE apps).
And after you've convinced them that it's important for them to know what Windows and KDE are, they will tell you that "they don't need Linux to run them".
Welcome to reality. Reality is cruel, harsh, not made for dreamers.
By ac at Sat, 2006/11/04 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
Crap. The people using windows are not all huge
Many are just gamer freaks, they dont care
Even my windoze friends understand what KDE is.
Just a GUI.
Thats it. Even if its not correct. It is correct
Unless you'd want to make things more complicated by
By shev at Sat, 2006/11/04 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
You don't need to explain what KDE is.
The KDE project consists of many applications which are useful in their own right. You can introduce people to free software one program at a time, as their needs arise.
For example, one of the things I often do when "rescuing" a problematic Windows box is to install Firefox, and give the client a brief overview of its benefits over what they had before - chiefly that it provides safer web browsing with fewer popup adverts and also tabbed browsing. It is also very likely that there will be some extension for Firefox which provides a nifty feature that is very useful for the person in question. Adblock, spell checkers and the flash blocker are good examples.
A good reason to start with the web browser is that it is where a lot of people spend a lot of their time.
I think that if you were to replace the following applications on a Windows PC with free software, cross platform equivalents you would go a long way to easing the transition to a completely free software environment.
- Web Browser (Internet Explorer -> Firefox / Konqueror)
Don't underestimate the importance of the last one. I don't play many non-console games on their PC, but many of my friends do.
By Robert Knight at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
- video editor?
By Hartmut at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
Re: Screenshots?
I was the original poster of the comment wrt Windows port.
Basically I'd say why port to Windows? Because you can! Not only that, also because now with QT4 it is easier and possible. There has been KDE/Cygwin and I ran it before.
(And yes I have ran many KDE and GNOME releases on various OSes from the beginning ages of KDE 1.2.x)
Sure, there are some people who wouldn't switch, nor run it, nor like it, etcetera. Some would though. Some run Linux AND Windows. Some HAVE to run Windows. For their work for example. If you can run Linux for your work, hobby, from your parents basement, good! Not everyone can though. Keep it in mind.
Now, Windows lacks a good browser. There if Firefox, but Konqueror could compete here (as there is Safari which killed IE for Mac). OO.o/GIMP could use competition too. Imagine KOffice on Windows.
Many GTK programs run on Windows (I use them daily). Hardly any QT programs run on Windows though. I feel this is a missed opportunity by the KDE/QT people and I thought that with QT4 for Windows they realized that. Maybe they did and I speak too fast, who knows.
People who run say Firefox on Windows would be familiar with Firefox on Linux. The same would be true for Konqueror. That is just an advantage.
(And Explorer sucks TBH and LiteStep wouldn't cut it.)
By AC at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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>>Hardly any QT programs run on Windows though.
Lots of Qt application run on windows, but as user most of the times you won't notice that your actually using a Qt application.
By AC at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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Yeah of course many QT applications run on Windows. That used to be only proprietary (and usually commercially) ones.
Now we can also get the open source and free ones on Windows. Those are the ones I'm refering to, obviously. E.g. Konqueror, Koffice, KDE.
@ Kevin Kofler, thank you very much for the link! Exactly what I was searching for. Seems its still stuck on KDELibs. The Cygwin/X port was more complete. One could actually run whole KDE using that but is just Cygwin/X of course whereas this is native.
Btw, when I switched to Linux I was happy that I had a familiar browser back then: Netscape Communicator (and a bit later, Mozilla although still Milestones). It meant I didn't have to relearn, and I could use this under both GNOME and KDE (back then I preferred KDE). I believe it really does help/contribute. Although they're different projects one could also check out the websites and FAQs of the Cygwin and WINE projects for arguments involving this concept.
By AC at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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Nah, they don't need to know or want to know.
Basically it started like this:
Then one day, I installed Linux on his laptop,
As long as: he can type and print documents, play his DOS games,
He doesn't really know the difference and that's a good news.
So, to make a point, you can first transpose the user to free applications,
By fp26 at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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They don't need to run Linux to help it, if they use Open-source apps on windows they help Linux anyway, because when they use Open-source apps they use open-standards, and we all know that closed-formats and closed-standards are the only real showstoppers for linux.
By Matthias Logghe at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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Not in all worlds. In the home yes, but in the office (other than the small office) it is IS, in particual the CIO who needs convincing. If they are already running free programs, and they have some linux expertise in house (the latter is easier to get than most people think), switching to linux will happen when someone mentions the word "Budget". Microsoft Windows + office is expensive, when you are talking about thousands of seats. Linux makes more sense in this space.
Don't forget that linux is multi-user from the ground up (Microsoft Windows almost is, but there are missing parts even today). Linux was designed for remote administration, Microsoft Windows wasn't. There are other advantages to linux in a large corporation as well.
Linux doesn't not come with the Microsoft license agreement. This makes things easier legally in some cases. At work I've had to accept several license agreements from Microsoft as part of automatic updates. However I am a contractor, not an employee, and thus not authorised to accept legal agreements. I've always wondered what would happen the above situation when to court for some reason. Not to mention several license agreements might conflict with other laws, but since nothing has been setteled in court, it isn't clear what happens.
When/if any of the above becomes important companies will start moving to linux. KDE is ready, and having versions that run on Microsoft Windows can ease the transisition.
By Hank Miller at Mon, 2006/11/06 - 6:00am
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By Kevin Kofler at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
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People who code linux stuff do so for the fun of it, not for strategic reasons such as "conquering windows".
By ROlf at Fri, 2006/12/22 - 6:00am
Do these (especially the kubuntu ones) packages contain kwin-composite?
By ac at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
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probably not,
By cies breijs at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
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Many of the fancier new developments are actually still in branches at this time.
By Eike Hein at Fri, 2006/11/03 - 6:00am
Kubuntu Live CD with KDE 3.80.2
I am just waiting (lazily) for a Kubuntu Live CD I could try off or even install with the latest KDE developer snapshot.
By Mathieu Jobin at Tue, 2006/11/07 - 6:00am


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Wedding With 25,000 Guests Sounds Ridiculous, But It Actually Happened
Trimming the guest list for a wedding is never easy, so you can only imagine the problem one couple with 25,000 people in attendance faced.
A wedding featured 25,000 guests on Wednesday night in Jerusalem. This was no Bridezilla demanding everyone she's ever met be invited to witness her big moment. Rather, the nuptials were between Shalom Rokeach and Hannah Batya Penet. Who, you say? Well, Rokeach is the descendant of a wealthy dynasty with ties to the Jewish community, so this union turned into such a mammoth affair it made it seem as if Prince William and Kate Middleton swapped "I dos" down at city hall during their lunch hour.
The wedding was like a combination of a city on lockdown and one watching a concert -- streets were closed and video screens were erected so people could see. Heck, by the time the bride and groom were done saying thank you to everyone who came, they'd probably gotten laryngitis.
The wedding festivities went until dawn, which immediately puts this bash in the top 10 of greatest parties ever.
Now, the hard part: how on Earth will the bride write all those thank-you notes without getting carpal tunnel syndrome?
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- 1. The Reality of Dishonesty
by Ms. Julie Smith, a member of the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board elected in November of 2012. Artwork by Miss Natalie Smith, an eighth grade student at Gilbert Classical Academy, a Gilbert Public School.Click here to read more
- 3. Gilbert Public Schools November 3, 2015 Special Tax Increase Election
Gilbert voters will be making some serious decisions in a few days: 1) Should I vote YES or NO to increasing my Primary property taxes through an override? 2) Should I vote YES or NO to increasing my Secondary taxes by helping to pay for a $98 million bond? This article addresses question #1. (Ballots will be mailed in the next few days. For Gilbert Public School's (GPS) extensive publicity on this Special Election, click HERE.)
The Override
If you vote YES to the Gilbert Public Schools override, because you believe the following Pro Argument statement made by Mr. Justin Plumb, you will be casting your vote based on seriously deceptive information.
"...with only one 1.6% raise and no movement on the salary schedule for experience in seven years it's no wonder many teachers are leaving Gilbert and moving to other districts."
Click HERE to read Mr. Plumb's misleading statement, which appears on page 26 in the Publicity Pamphlet.
The Truth is that teachers have had 5 increases in pay in just the last 4 years, as follows:Click here to read more
- 4. Gilbert Schools: Massive Resignations in 2015!
Last year, the media and Gilbert Education Association shouted from the rooftops: "Teachers are fleeing Gilbert Schools, and it's all the fault of the Conservative Board"!
This year, after ginning up Gilbert voters, they got rid of those evil, fiscally responsible Conservatives and replaced them with for-the-public-good Leftists. The result? There are way more resignations. What do we hear from the media and union? Silence.
Except for one thing. Now they are shouting from the rooftops: "We need to pass an override! Yes, that's it. We NEED MORE MONEY"!
The problem is this. Even when GPS has the money, the big-important-highly-paid Grand Poobahs don't reward their teachers.Click here to read more
- 5. How Much Gruesome, Depraved "Truth" is Appropriate in Gilbert Schools?
By the time you read this, the Gilbert School Board may have already voted on whether or not to include certain books on the reading list for K-12. However, if you missed weighing in this time, there will be many more opportunities. Issues relating to the deterioration of virtue and morality in the public schools crop up on a regular basis.
- 6. Please Stand Up for Michelle Anderson!
Ms. Michelle Anderson ran an excellent campaign for Higley School board. She lost by only 93 votes. With the recent resignation of board member Denise Standage, one would think that Ms. Anderson would be the most likely person to fill the position. However, Higley's Superintendent Dr. Birdwell and Board President Venessa Whitener ignored her and submitted three other names to the Maricopa County School Superintendent Don Covey for consideration.
Please read Ms. Anderson's statement below, and then send an email to Dr. Covey and copy Maricopa County Supervisor Denny Barney, asking that Ms. Anderson be chosen. Here are their email addresses: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
Superintendent Covey is not required to select one of the three names submitted. The next step as far as the County is concerned is to hold a Nominee Seminar as a kind of combination training and job interview. Superintendent Covey has to choose the new Board member within a week after the Nominating Seminar.
Superintendent Covey will be inclined to pick from Dr. Birdwell's list. The only way it will turn out differently is if voters let their voices be heard!
Here is a statement from Ms. Anderson:Click here to read more
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For our annual Living Here magazine, I was asked to write a piece about restaurants and a shorter piece recommending five non-chain eateries.
Alas, the magazine (due out any day now as a DB insert) proved smaller than expected because of lagging ad sales and both my pieces were bumped. Oh, the humanity. So the main piece became today's print column and the sidebar is published below. Waste not, want not.
Note that I spread the five choices around geographically. So while these are not (as Nick Hornby would say) my all-time Top 5 restaurants, they're five that I've patronized multiple times over the years and enjoyed, for one reason or another.
Donahoo's Golden Chicken
1074 N. Garey Ave., Pomona (also 1117 N. Grove Ave., Ontario)
The Donahoo's box lunch is to fried chicken fanciers what the bento box is to Japanese food fans, an all-in-one conglomeration of tastes. The box consists of either two pieces of chicken or six chicken strips, perhaps the Inland Valley's best fried chicken, plus a pile of bland thick-cut fries (crinkle-cut at the Ontario location), a fist-sized roll and a small container of cole slaw. A plastic fork is tucked into a side flap. It's to-go only. If you're at the Pomona location, take your box a few blocks east to Lincoln Park and have yourself a picnic.
Fredy's Tacos
1821 E. Fourth St., Ontario
Located in the Ralphs center at Vineyard and Fourth next to a panaderia, Fredy's serves up small, Mexican-style tacos with plenty of onions and cilantro on corn tortillas. A humble place with mighty food, Fredy's draws laborers, journalists and Ontario police. Dine in and listen to ranchera music from the jukebox or watch a telenovela on the TV.
Angelina's Cafe
9135 Archibald Ave., Rancho Cucamonga
Hidden in a business park, Angelina's proves to be a cozy place with high tables, mustard-colored walls and a welcoming atmosphere. The food, mostly sandwiches and salads, is modest and reliable. There's a daily special to spice things up a bit. I like the old-fashioned spaghetti and meatballs, served in a portion large enough to take home half. The burgers are pretty good, you can get a salmon caesar salad for $8 and they make their own potato chips.
Flo's Cafe
7000 Merrill Ave., Chino, and 5650 Riverside Drive, Chino
Flo's is a down-home place, so popular there are two locations. They have the same menu, meaning that your choice of Flo's can be based on where you are at the moment, either physically or psychologically. Downtown Flo's is slightly downscale Coco's; airport Flo's is old-school coffee shop with airplanes, and sometimes flies, outside. I prefer airport Flo's but I visit the other in a pinch. Whatever you order, even if it's biscuits and gravy at breakfast, only the uninitiated make the mistake of not saving room for the homemade pie, cobbler or pudding.
San Biagio's N.Y. Style Pizza
1263 W. Seventh St., Upland
They have pastas here, baked and served in an aluminum tin, and sandwiches too, but the main event is the pizza. It's made in the New York style, a thin crust topped with tomato sauce and a sprinkling of mozzarella, plus whatever toppings you like (a purist would say none). You can order by the slice or get a whole pie. Slices are thin enough you can fold one in half and pretend you're in Brooklyn, even though you're really in a shopping center in Upland. Owner Biagio Pavia doesn't speak a lot of English but his enthusiasm is contagious. He speaks the universal language: a thumb's up or a high-five, accompanied by a big smile.


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After decades of ceding God to the GOP, at least in the public square, Democrats – with President Obama in the lead – are speaking with a fuller religious voice. The watchword? Inclusiveness.
It's a voice that signals openness at a time when diversity in American religious life is rising.
"We know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and nonbelievers," Mr. Obama said in Tuesday's inaugural address.
Wednesday's National Prayer Service, a tradition since George Washington's inauguration, featured faith leaders chosen "to symbolize America's traditions of religious tolerance and freedom," said the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee. It included, for the first time, a sermon delivered by a woman.
For Obama, the broad outreach into the faith community isn't confined to ceremonies but is emerging as a key element in his approach to coalition-building, say religious leaders who worked on the transition.
"Barack Obama is himself a person of faith, but he also believes that the faith community has a real role to play in creating the kind of social change we need now," says the Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a network of Christian social activists.
Indeed, religious groups have been broadly advising the Obama transition team on issues ranging from poverty to criminal justice to foreign policy. "To move from a consuming, polluting, poverty-creating economy to one that conserves, is a good steward of the environment, and focuses on bringing people out of poverty, that's more than a structural crisis, it's a spiritual one," says Mr. Wallis.
Obama's predisposition to stake a big tent that includes a broad range of faith traditions has been evident early.
Who leads the prayers at presidential inaugurations is usually about as controversial as whether to put an American flag near the podium. Preachers such as Billy Graham typically struck a broad, ecumenical tone acceptable to a wide range of religious adherents.
Not so this inaugural cycle. Obama's choice of the Rev. Rick Warren – a popular Evangelical who has campaigned against gay marriage – to deliver the inaugural invocation riled many liberals. Obama's subsequent invitation to V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, fired up the other end of the religious spectrum.
"Bless this nation with anger: anger at discrimination at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people," said the Right Rev. Robinson at Sunday's opening of inaugural ceremonies.
Obama's choice of two spiritual leaders with such distinct and controversial views signals that differences are not to be avoided but are an essential part of the conversation.
"Rick Warren and Gene Robinson are symbols and represent large constituencies – and were in that sense daring choices," says Charles Haynes, a scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington. "But I think the mood of the country is to say: This is what we want. People want to see the president trying to represent the country as a whole. If there ever was a moment when we have to have a cease-fire in the cultural wars, it's now. Given the nature of the problem the country faces, we cannot afford to demonize each other, to tear each other down."
Many presidents have tried to build coalitions, including those involving religious leaders, but Obama is working from an exceptionally inclusive template.
"President Obama, like most presidents, is a coalition-builder, but this president sees a broader end product," says John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. "Obama seems to have a more inclusive view of religion than some people on the right and some people on the left.
"This is a very productive place to be but a very difficult place to be in a pluralistic society," he continues. "It is often difficult to recognize the authentic spirituality of different faiths without bringing them into conflict with each other."
At the same time, boosting religion's prominence in Democratic Party politics could deepen rifts within the party establishment.
"In religion, as in politics, he's trying to include a lot of people, and a lot of people will be upset," says Stephen Prothero, a religion professor at Boston University. "The movements for civil rights, for abolition and temperance, were movements that had religious people behind them, who were there for religious reasons. It makes sense, especially for someone like Obama for whom ideas matter so much. But there's a possibility that Democrats are going to end up being more religious than Republicans."
That prospect alarms activists who work to preserve separation of church and state.
"It remains to be seen what Barack Obama will do with the moral or ethical advice he is getting from religious leaders," says the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United, in Washington. "It would be odd if he were not meeting with people of faith, but he has to temper his religious views with the demands of the Constitution."
These days, at least in America, religious leaders are not the political leaders. But at the National Prayer Service here on Wednesday, Sharon Watkins, general minister and president, Disciples of Christ, noted scriptural advice to kings and leaders of yore:
"We need [the leaders of this nation] to be guided by the counsel that Isaiah gave so long ago: to work for the common good, the public happiness, the well-being of the nation and the world, knowing that our individual well-being depends on a world where liberty and justice prevailed. This is the biblical way. It is also the American way."


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Robertson's comeback attempt with Tigers ends
BOSTON -- Nate Robertson's comeback as a sidearming reliever appears to be over, at least from the Tigers' perspective, and possibly his own. The Tigers granted the 36-year-old left-hander his release on Saturday, about two months after signing him to a Minor League contract.
It could be a tough end to a career that brought Robertson onto the mound as a starting pitcher in the World Series back in 2006, then earned him a three-year contract a year later. After injuries and inconsistency, he tried to make it back out of the bullpen, signing with his old club midway through Spring Training looking for a shot.
While Robertson's early numbers were encouraging, his struggles with command and his struggles to retire left-handed hitters proved to be a problem. He walked 13 batters over 21 innings at Triple-A Toledo, and lefty hitters batted .290 against him.
Robertson's inactivity in recent weeks was a bad sign. He pitched just twice in May, and hadn't pitched in a week since walking three batters over 1 2/3 innings with two earned runs allowed against Rochester.
Robertson told MLB.com in a text message Saturday that this was "most likely" his last stop as a player. He had hinted at that when he talked about his comeback attempt last month.
"All is well," Robertson said. "I'm just too old. Gave it a good run, and I really enjoyed it."
Another Mud Hens reliever, Jhan Marinez, was also released. The 26-year-old right-hander signed as a Minor League free agent this past offseason, but never showed the command he needed. He walked 21 batters with 21 strikeouts over 18 1/3 innings, allowing 18 earned runs on 23 hits. He, too, had been knocked down the pecking order, with just two appearances over the last couple weeks.


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Somewhat lost amidst the news of Twitter's revamped interface is a slightly more interesting tidbit for web developers: Twitter posts can now be embedded in other pages.
The new Embedded Tweet feature works just like a YouTube movie, offering a short HTML snippet that you can copy and paste into any third-party website. Unfortunately using the Embed Tweet feature from Twitter is somewhat awkward since it's buried in the new interface. First you need to click on a tweet, then click "details" and then you'll see the embed option.
The real benefit of the embed feature lies with third party platforms like Twitter's two launch partners WordPress and Posterous. Users of both services can now simply paste a link to a tweet and it will automatically be converted to an embedded tweet, no cut and paste necessary. For example, just drop this code in your WordPress.com blog and it will automatically be converted to an embedded tweet:
[tweet https://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/133640144317198338]
If you'd like to implement something similar on your own site Twitter now has an OEmbed endpoint you can query to convert Twitter links to embedded tweets. Those not familiar with OEmbed can check out our OEmbed tutorial, but, in a nutshell, OEmbed is a standard format where you send a URL and the host site then sends back the necessary embed code.
There are three steps to Twitter's OEmbed process:
- Obtain an URL to or ID number of the Tweet you want to render.
- Make a request to the GET statuses/oembed endpoint, passing the Tweet URL or ID as a query parameter.
- Render the html property of the response, as well as a <script> element pointing to //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js, if you want the embed to be interactive.
If you choose to render the tweet using Twitter's widgets.js, the raw HTML will be converted into an interactive tweet. The fancy embedded tweet script uses Web Intents to allow users to reply, retweet, or follow the user directly from the embedded tweet. See the Twitter developer site for more details on Twitter's widgets.js and how to use OEmbed to embedded tweets to your website.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Do you see all those wonderful crochet creations online and think "I wish I could do that"? What if it's not as difficult as you might think? In a series of lessons which include step-by-step video tutorials and assignments I will help you to master many crochet stitches and make something fun in the process.
Come with me on a crochet journey and learn everything you need to know to make the most beautiful projects yourself.
The written lessons on my blog are currently on hold. On my YouTube channel video tutorials will continue as much as possible. I will update the overview with active links as more lessons and assignments become available.
Lesson overview
- Lesson 1: How to hold your hook and yarn, and make a slip knot
- Lesson 2: US and UK crochet terms, and crochet abbreviations
- Lesson 3: How to make slip, chain, and single crochet stitches
- Lesson 4: How to decrease and increase stitches
- Lesson 5: How to make half double and double crochet stitches
- Lesson 6: How to make treble and double treble crochet stitches
- Lesson 7: How to make front post and back post stitches
- Lesson 8: How to do a magic ring, invisible join and work in the round
- Lesson 9: Making granny squares
- Lesson 10: Why does a granny square's center turn?
- Lesson 11: Corner-to-Corner crochet (C2C)
- Lesson 12: Organize your yarn
- Lesson 13: Blocking your work
- Lesson 14: Make a luxurious wrap
- Lesson 15: Crochet Slang
- Lesson 16: Planned Color Pooling using variegated yarn
- Lesson 17 and further: Work In Progress….
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Broncos, Manning meet halfway to build new offense
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Peyton Manning's longest pass play of the preseason didn't go to one of his towering tight ends or his mammoth wide receivers.
Running back Lance Ball, who packs 215 pounds into his 5-foot-9 frame, lined up wide to the right across from a San Francisco 49ers linebacker and hauled in a 38-yard pass that set up Manning's first TD throw in orange and blue.
"That was a nice route by him," Manning said. "He has shown that ability to run routes like a receiver out of the backfield. Hopefully that's another weapon we can take advantage of if he gets a linebacker or a safety out on him."
Ball played briefly in Indianapolis in 2008, so his history with Manning goes back a little ways, and he knows that if he can get open, the ball will be headed his way.
"I think as a running back that gives us another option out there," said Ball, who bruised his ribs on the big catch. "We're just not dummies out there when we split out wide."
It was the latest example of the hybrid offense the Broncos (No. 10 in the AP Pro32) have installed since signing the four-time MVP in March, which spelled the end of the throwback read-option experiment under Tim Tebow.
Manning told his new coaches he wasn't interested in lugging the Colts' playbook from Indianapolis, offering instead to fit into the Broncos' system just as much as they'd tailor the offense around him.
By meeting offensive coordinator Mike McCoy and quarterbacks coach Adam Gase halfway, Manning has more options at his disposal for his 2012 comeback tour than he did in his 14 seasons in Indy, which came to an end after he missed all of last season with a nerve injury that weakened his throwing arm.
"Everybody thinks that because Peyton is here we're changing everything," McCoy said. "But we have a system in place and that's the first thing Peyton said when he came here was, 'Hey listen, I want to learn your system.' So, there's plenty of other players here who we had to take into consideration as we're building this offense."
The Broncos are a blend of the power formations they used in leading the league in rushing last year with Tebow and some of the spread formations that Manning ran in Indianapolis.
A new twist for the 36-year-old quarterback is the presence of fullback Chris Gronkowski, which means Manning will run at times a two-back offense for the first time in his career. He'll also have rookie running back Ronnie Hillman, who's in the mold of Darren Sproles, to provide a change-of-pace to Willis McGahee and Ball.
In Manning's final tuneup for the regular season Sunday, the Broncos lined up in four- and five-receiver sets, two-tight end sets, ran the no-huddle at altitude, ran the conventional huddle, lined up Gronkowski and other times went with a one-back set or an empty backfield.
"That's what this preseason is for. You want to win the game but you want to get a look at different players," Manning said. "Gronkowski at fullback, look at Lance Ball out at wide receiver out of the backfield. I'm not sure if they accomplished everything the coaches wanted to accomplish, but we knew we were going to mix our personnel groupings today.
"No matter what grouping we were in, we showed we could move the ball."
It was good for defensive coordinators to catch a glimpse of the Broncos' blended offense, although Denver didn't reveal much besides its newfound versatility.
Opponents won't have much film to analyze at first. They can pretty much scrap the final 13 games the Broncos played last year with Tebow under center, and it won't do much good to review the first five games of last season, either, when Kyle Orton was the quarterback.
If they look at Manning's 2010 season in Indy, it will bear only some resemblance to this year's version in Denver.
So, for a while, Manning will have the element of surprise on his side as he embarks on his comeback from the nerve issue that weakened his right triceps and required four neck operations, including a fusion in September.
Manning staked Denver to a 17-0 lead in less than a quarter of work Sunday, then watched his backups fritter away the lead in a 29-24 loss to the Niners (No. 4, AP Pro32).
Coach John Fox was so pleased with Manning's play, he took him out after less than a quarter of work.
"I've seen steady improvement since he got here and that's a tribute to him, his work ethic, his offensive coaches, his teammates," Fox said. "For being a first-year guy, to come in and learn an offense and execute an offense with the precision he has is pretty good."
Manning threw his first two TD passes as a Bronco and led Denver to scores on all three of his drives, diagnosing the defense at the line of scrimmage just as if he's always done.
"I think he knew what we were going to do before the snap even happened," 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks said.
Notes: The Broncos placed DE Jason Hunter on IR with a torn right triceps that required surgery. ... DT Kevin Vickerson had a pair of tackles after missing the previous preseason game with a concussion. "I'm A-1, I'm good to go," Vickerson said. ... WR Eric Decker on his version of the Lambeau Leap after his second TD catch from Manning: "I couldn't slow down, so I had to jump and stop myself."
Follow AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton
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Friday 20 October 2017 - Sunday 21 October 2018
While Australian infantry served in the grim trenches of the Western Front, their comrades in the Australian Light Horse were fighting dynamic campaign of manoeuvre against the Ottoman Turks in the desert wastes of Sinai, Palestine and Syria. This exhibition tells the story of the Sinai-Palestine campaign and explores how it has captured the imagination of Australians ever since.
Saturday 7 April 2018 - Sunday 24 March 2019
This exhibition tells the story of medical care in war and peacekeeping since 1945. Victorian men and women have helped the sick and wounded across the world, including in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Rwanda, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. They have braved sometimes dire conditions and desperate circumstances, often coming under direct threat of death and harm.
The exhibition explores themes of life, death and compassion: what it means to preserve life when those around you are taking it; why enemies need treatment as much as your own do; how the long term health effects of service can become apparent only decades later; and how minds can be wounded and need treatment just as bodies do.
Friday 3 August 2018 - Sunday 4 August 2019
'Resistance' and 'Underground' are names used to describe the various secret organisations that arose in European states under enemy occupation during the Second World War. Many Australian servicemen and women gave aid to the Resistance, other Australians owed their freedom and lives to it. Discover the stories of some of these individuals who, through accident or design, found themselves battling the enemy using unconventional means.
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Previously I wrote about Judge Posner's recent lecture at Chicago-Kent's Symposium on the Supreme Court and the American Public. The judge took members of the Supreme Court to task for what he sees as their excessive and occasionally undignified roles as public intellectuals. Although Judge Posner is certainly right that the frequency of justices participating in public intellectual activities has increased, there is a long and colorful history of members of the Supreme Court inserting themselves, for one reason or another, into public debate.
At the same symposium, I gave a paper entitled "Beyond the Opinion: Why Do Supreme Court Justices Talk to the Public?" My presentation revolved around a case study of Justice Hugo L. Black and his late-career experience as a reluctant but ultimately quite effective public figure.
Justice Black spent most of his career on the High Court conscientiously avoiding making news for his off-the-bench activities. His time on the Court had gotten off to an epically bad start when, just a month after being confirmed by his colleagues in the Senate, a journalist broke the story that the newest justice had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama early in his political life. Black, who was in Europe at the time, cut short his vacation and returned home to defend himself in a nationally broadcast radio address. He basically said that he had been a member of the KKK but was no longer, and that his record in the Senate and his personal relationships with blacks, Catholics, and Jews showed that he was not a bigot. (Newsweek's headline following the speech: "I Did Join, I Resigned; The Case Is Closed.") The speech turned out to be remarkably successful in deflating the controversy.
For at least two decades following this embarrassing episode, Black retreated from the public spotlight. He would, as justices like to say, let his written opinions speak for themselves. Through the 1940s and 1950s, as Black defined for himself in his judicial writings a distinctive approach to constitutional interpretation, as well as a notably accessible language of expression, he was regularly urged to present his views in a more public setting. He refused. "Should I conclude to deliver lectures anywhere," he wrote to a friend in 1959, "it will be over the protests of certain inner voices that keep telling me that the best thing I can do is tend to my knittin' here at home."
Eventually he did begin to accept a few of these invitations, however, and during the 1960s he delivered several much-discussed lectures and public interviews in which he laid out his views on the Constitution and the work of the Supreme Court.
The highlight of Black's late-life career as a public intellectual came in 1968 when the 82-year-old justice became the first justice to sit for a feature-length television interview. CBS broadcast the interview on primetime on December 3, 1968. His wide-ranging remarks made for surprisingly powerful television.
Early in the interview, Black pulled a well-worn copy of the Constitution from his suit pocket. "I don't know it by heart," he confessed. "[M]y memory is not that good. When I say something about it, I want to quote it precisely." When questioned about the attacks on the Court for its decisions protecting the rights of criminal defendants, Black went on the offensive. "Well, the Court didn't do it…. The Constitution-makers did it…. They were the ones that put in every one of these amendments…. And so, when they say the Court did it, that's just a little wrong. The Constitution did it." He suggested that the Court's implementation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1955), with its "all deliberate speed" formula, was ill-advised. (This was the page-one headline story in newspapers the following day.) At one point, the 82-year-old justice picked up a volume of the U.S. Reports to read the concluding lines of his opinion in Chambers v. Florida (1940) in which he wrote that "courts stand against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice and public excitement." It left him wiping away tears. The interview was awarded an Emmy for the year's best cultural documentary.
(Full length audio of the interview is available through Oyez; the transcript of the interview was eventually published in Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 937-951.)
Justice Black could put on quite a show in these off-the-bench settings. In terms of communicating with a general audience, in serving as a spokesperson for the Court, in expressing his deepest commitments about the law and the Constitution and the Court, in putting on display a sense of passionate commitment as well as gravitas, he might very well be unequaled among the Justices who have served on the Court.


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If I have a the class
public class Canvas extends JFrame
and the functions
public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println("Running Canvas.java"); Canvas canvas = new Canvas(); } public Canvas() { setSize(width, height); setVisible(true); } public void paint(Graphics g) { g.setColor(Color.yellow); g.fillRect(0,0, width, height); }
Who calls the function paint() when I run Canvas.java? Is it re-called every time that it finishes? Because that's what seems to be happening with my code.
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public static boolean isDirty (Object pc); public static boolean isTransactional (Object pc); public static boolean isPersistent (Object pc); public static boolean isNew (Object pc); public static boolean isDeleted (Object pc);
JDO recognizes several lifecycle states for persistence-capable
objects. Instances transition between these
states according to strict rules defined in the JDO specification.
State transitions can be triggered by both explicit actions, such
as calling the
deletePersistent method of
PersistenceManager to delete a persistent
object, and by implicit actions, such as reading or writing a
persistent field.
The list below enumerates the lifecycle states for persistence-capable instances. Unless otherwise noted, each state must be supported by all JDO implementations. Do not concern yourself with memorizing the states and transitions presented; you will rarely need to think about them in practice.
Some of the state transitions below occur at transaction boundaries. If you are unfamiliar with transactions, you may want to read the first few paragraphs of Chapter 9, Transaction to become familiar with the concepts involved before continuing.
Transient. Objects that are created via a user-defined constructor and have no association with the persistence framework are called transient objects. Transient objects behave exactly as if JDO does not exist.
Persistent-new. The persistent-new
state is reserved for objects that have been made
persistent within the current transaction.
On flush or transaction commit, the information in the
persistent-new object is inserted into the datastore.
On transaction rollback, a persistent-new instance
returns to the transient state. The datastore is not
affected. If the
RestoreValues property is set to
true, the instance's persistent and
transactional fields will be restored to the values they
had when the transaction began.
Persistent-new-deleted. Objects that
have been both persisted and
then deleted in the current transaction wind up in the
persistent-new-deleted state. When objects are in this state,
you are only allowed to access their primary key fields.
Attempting to access any other persistent field will result
in a
A persistent-new-deleted object transitions to transient
on transaction commit. The values of its persistent fields
are replaced with Java default values. A
persistent-new-deleted object also becomes transient if the
transaction is rolled back. In this case, its persistent
and transactional fields will be restored to the
values they had when the transaction began if the
RestoreValues property is
true, else they will be left untouched.
Persistent-clean. Objects that represent specific state in the datastore and whose persistent fields have not been changed in the current transaction are persistent-clean.
Persistent-dirty. Persistent objects that have been changed within the current transaction are persistent-dirty. On transaction commit, the datastore will be updated to reflect the object's persistent state.
Persistent-deleted. If a persistent
object is the parameter of a call to the
method, is deleted by query, or is orphaned from a dependent
relation, it becomes
persistent-deleted. When an object is in this state, you are
only allowed to access its primary key fields. Attempting to
access any other persistent field may result in a
A persistent-deleted object transitions to transient on transaction commit. The datastore record for the object is removed.
Hollow. Persistent objects whose values have not been loaded from the datastore are in the hollow state. Whenever an instance transitions to hollow, its persistent fields are cleared and replaced with their Java default values. The fields will be re-loaded with their datastore values the first time you access them. Delaying the loading of persistent information until it is needed is known as lazy loading.
JDO implementations use only weak or soft references to track hollow instances, so they may be garbage collected if your application does not hold strong references to them.
Persistent-nontransactional. Persistent-nontransactional objects represent persistent data in the datastore, but are not guaranteed to reflect the most current values of that data. A lifecycle state that allows access to data that may be stale might sound useless; if they are utilized carefully, however, persistent-nontransactional objects can sometimes offer large performance gains, with little danger of employing outdated data in your application.
The persistent-nontransactional state is an
optional feature of JDO, and may not be supported in some
implementations. It is also by far the most complex
lifecycle state. It is governed by the
NontransactionalWrite, RetainValues, and
Optimistic properties of the
Transaction. Implementations may
support any or all of these properties. These properties
are detailed in
Section 7.2.2, "PersistenceManager and Transaction Defaults".
Outside of a transaction, reading and writing persistent fields of a persistent-nontransactional instance does not result in any state change. If the instance enters a datastore transaction, its persistent fields are discarded. Within this type of transaction, reading a persistent field of a persistent-nontransactional instance causes a transition to persistent-clean, and writing a persistent field causes a transition to persistent-dirty.
When a persistent-nontransactional instance enters an optimsitic transaction, on the other hand, its persistent field values are retained. Within an optimistic transaction, reading a persistent field of a persistent-nontransactional instance does not change the instance's state; writing a persistent field causes a transition to persistent-dirty.
Transient-clean. The transient-clean
and transient-dirty states are grouped together in the
transient-transactional lifecycle
category. Transient-transactional objects are not
persistent, but their fields can be restored to their previous
values when a transaction is rolled back. You can make a
transient instance transient-transactional by passing it
to the
makeTransactional method. Some
JDO vendors may not support the transient-transactional
states; they are an optional feature of the JDO
Transient-transactional instances that have been modified
in the current transaction are transient-dirty. On
transaction completion, a transient-dirty object
transitions to transient-clean. If the
Transaction is
rolled back and its
property is
true, the persistent and
transactional fields of a transient-dirty object will be
restored to the values they had when the transaction began.
Kodo supports all JDO lifecycle states, including all optional states.
The following diagram displays the state transitions for persistent
objects. Each arrow represents a change from one state to another,
and the text next to the arrow indicates the event that triggers
change. Method names in blue are methods of the
Transaction interface. Method names in red
are methods of the
PersistenceManager interface.
These interfaces are covered later in this document.
After reviewing the JDO lifecycle states, the purpose of the
JDOHelper's lifecycle operations -
isDirty, isTransactional, isPersistent,
isNew, isDeleted - should be clear. Each one tells
you whether or not the given persistence-capable instance has has
the named property, where these properties are determined by the
lifecycle state of the instance. In fact, you can calculate the exact
state of the instance based on these properties according to the table
below. Once again, however, you will rarely worry about the lifecycle
state of your persistence-capable objects in practice.


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So far, area experiencing mild flu season
The flu hasn't hit the area hard yet, school nurses, hospital, nursing home and county health spokespeople have reported.
"We have only had a handful of students missing a couple of days in a row, last week and this week," wrote Moose Lake school nurse Maureen Gassert in an email message dated January 17. "There are so many viruses going around right now."
The school nurse, Eileen Quittem, at the Willow River school agrees.
"I don't have the exact percentage of kids absent due to influenza," she wrote in a message sent by email on January 18. "The first confirmed case here was on January 7. Influenza-like illness means there is a fever of 100 degrees or more, with a sore throat or cough or both. We have seen an improvement in the number of absences by mid-week this week."
Cathy Mattei, the school nurse at the Barnum schools, sent the same information in an email message on January 18.
"There has been an increase in the absence rate at Barnum schools over the last couple of weeks due to illness but the absence rate is not atypical for this time of year, which is considered to be the cold and flu season," she wrote.
All of the school nurses report that they follow the guidelines from the Minnesota Department of Health in their policies regarding illness and in making recommendations to parents.
"Students and staff with a fever over 100 degrees are to stay home from school and school-based activities and need to stay home until they have been without a fever for 24 hours without using medicine that would reduce a fever (such as Tylenol, Advil, Motrin)," wrote Mattei. "This policy is the same for a student with a vomiting illness — must wait 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting before returning to school. As always we promote activities that to help maintain wellness and prevent the spread of illness. Students are reminded to eat healthy foods, get plenty of rest, cover their coughs and always use good hand-washing techniques."
Gassert listed tips for parents that think their child has the flu:
– Stay home if you are ill and keep your child home from school or daycare if they are ill.
– Rest and drink plenty of fluids.
– Antibiotics will not help a person recover from the flu because the flu is caused by a virus, not by bacteria.
– Children often need help keeping their fever under control. Follow your child's doctor's instructions.
– Take your child to the doctor or emergency room if he or she breathes rapidly or with difficulty or has a bluish skin color.
Quittem asks that parents report the type of symptoms when calling to report a child is ill.
"When parents call to report that their child is home due to illness, it is helpful if they report the specific symptoms, like a fever of 101, sore throat, cough, rather than saying that they have the 'flu,'" she wrote. "Flu can mean stomach flu to one person or it could mean influenza to another. I ask when messages are left to report absences to please include specific symptoms. Being specific with symptoms helps me to prepare other parents if a contagious illness has developed with a student in their classroom. It also helps me to report to the Minnesota Department of Health illnesses school nurses are required to report.
"If a child has a fever of 100 degrees or more, they need to stay home to prevent spreading the illness to other students. They can return once their temperature has remained below 100 degrees for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication like Tylenol or Ibuprofen. The same is true for vomiting or diarrhea. These symptoms need to be gone for 24 hours without the use of medication before they can return. It is also in the best interest of the child to stay home until symptoms are gone and they are feeling better so they aren't being exposed to other viruses when their immunity is already low."
Debra Wolf, the Infection Prevention Coordinator at Mercy Hospital, reports that the number of patients with the flu has remained low.
"We have not had a high increase in the number of patients being seen in the emergency room," she wrote in an email message on January 18. "There have been only six patients with the flu admitted to the hospital. There have not been a lot of employees off with the flu. There have been no deaths in the hospital caused by the flu. We do have visitor restrictions for the obstetrics and emergency departments. Visitors are asked to not visit if they are symptomatic with the flu, and to wear masks if they are coughing and must visit. Visitors and staff are also asked to use good cough etiquette."
Steve Mork, the administrator at Augustana Mercy Care Center, reported that there were no cases of the flu among the 67 residents at the care center and the 11 residents of Kenwood Place Assisted Living.
"We put signs on the door to put everyone on guard," he said in a telephone interview. "The staff is on guard; they have to watch themselves and the patients. Things could change tomorrow."
Jenny Barta, RN/PHN of the Carlton County Public Health Department, said in a telephone interview that there are high levels of influenza activity in northeastern Minnesota.
"There are a number of deaths caused by the flu in the two Duluth hospitals," she said. "And we have seen an increase for the demand of flu vaccine. We have a limited amount of the vaccine for people with a limited income or no insurance coverage."
Barta said that it is recommended that healthy people that care for others, such as the elderly or very young children, have a flu shot. The flu has a greater impact on those groups of people.
The vaccine is a good match for the H3N2 for the influenza A strain, she added.
"In our last report from the Minnesota Department of Health, the East Coast has seen a plateau or decrease in the number of flu cases. We could possibly see it peak here but we won't know for a couple of weeks. The flu came early this year, we saw our first case in October. Every state except Louisiana and California are reporting high flu activity."
Barta said that people that need a flu shot and are not insured should call Carlton County Public Health at (218) 879-4511 for more information. The vaccine will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. A small donation is asked of those receiving the vaccine.
According to information from the Minnesota Department of Health, 476 people were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu during the second week of January (6-12) statewide. Thirty-three deaths were identified during that same time period.
Since the start of the influenza season, 1,842 people were hospitalized. Sixty influenza-related deaths have been reported since the start of the season.
Forty-six long term care facilities have confirmed outbreaks during week two. There have been 107 outbreaks since the start of the season.
There have been 92 school-reported outbreaks in week two.
Gateway Family Health Clinic has plenty of flu vaccine, it was reported by staff members.
A flu shot clinic will be held at Mercy Hospital on Friday, January 25, from 9 a.m. until noon in Community Room 1. The cost is $25 or Medicare B billing.
Pine County Public Health has scheduled a flu vaccine clinic for 1-6 p.m. Wednesday, January 30, at the Sandstone Public Health Building, 1610 Highway 23 North. Contact Pine County Public Health at (320) 591-1597 for more information.


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The Los Angeles Galaxy returned to the Home Depot Center practice field on Tuesday, fresh from 10 days of workouts and scrimmages in Arizona and continuing to make the kind of progress head coach Bruce Arena had been hoping for.
Make no mistake, the Galaxy are far from a finished product heading into their March 27 regular-season opener against the New England Revolution, but there are plenty of positive signs regarding the defending Western Conference champions.
To gauge the state of this year's team, one must go back to this point during preseason a year ago. Arena was deep into his roster makeover -- one that eventually brought in more than a dozen new players -- in March of 2009 and teammates were learning about each other on the fly.
But no longer. Only five players -- Stefani Miglioranzi, Kyle Patterson, Julian Valentin, Tony Sanneh and Leonard Griffin -- did not return from last season and players admitted the continuity has helped tremendously.
"Last year, everyone was trying to come together," said midfielder Mike Magee, who was brought in from New York and went on to tie for the team lead in assists. "Everyone was brand new, nobody really knew their roles and were trying to solidify themselves.
"Everything's kind of taking another step. Last year it was square one."
The Galaxy returned from Arizona, where they went 2-0-1 in scrimmages against Columbus, Colorado and Kansas City. Arena said he's generally pleased with how things are going as they prepare for their next preseason game on March 10 against Costa Rica's Puntarenas FC at nearby Cal State Fullerton's Titan Stadium. The Galaxy's preseason finale will be against 14-time Salvadoran Liga Mayor champion CD Aguila on Sunday, March 21 at The Home Depot Center.
"We were pretty crappy at this time last year," he admitted. "We're only a month in, but obviously I think it's been a better start this year than last year. I think we're farther along in every area ... our goalkeeping is very strong, our back lines are good and we have depth and the midfield is a little bit better.
"Hopefully we can make some progress in March and get ourselves ready for the first game."
Defender Todd Dunivant said the improvement in this year's preseason compared to that of 2009 is unmistakeable.
"It's miles further along," he said. "We have the same group, more or less, from last year, and it gives you such an advantage day in and day out. You can start so much further ahead, and I think that's really helped us. You've seen the results in preseason ... we've beaten pretty much everyone we've played.
"Once the season gets going that will give us our real indication of where we are. You can win all the preseason games in the world, but if you don't get it done in the (regular) season it doesn't really matter. But I like where we are at this point."
Dunivant said the trip to Arizona was informative.
"I learned we have a deep team," he said. "We probably have a fewer amount of guys than most teams at this point, but that's because we have such a deep team. We have a lot of guys that can contribute. We're going to need that, with the Champions League and the heavy schedule we have, especially toward the middle part of the season."
Defender Gregg Berhalter, preparing for his second season in MLS, said the team "is getting there."
"I think we're headed in the right direction," he said. "I'm not ready to say we're 100 percent there yet, but we're getting there.
"It seems like things are a little more settled now and I feel we're pretty far ahead than where we were last year. We still have a ways to go, but it's getting closer."
Larry Morgan is a contributor to MLSnet.com.


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When would-be adventurers get more adventure than they bargained for, who should bear the blame – and the price for bailing them out?
Despite years of ever-riskier adventures and equally elaborate rescue efforts when adventures become misadventures, government agencies and military services generally are reluctant to seek compensation from America's lost hikers, marooned sailors, stranded snowmobilers and fallen spelunkers.
So if there is a tab—most mountain and wilderness rescue is conducted by volunteers—the taxpayer winds up paying it.
The issue has come up following the ocean rescue over the weekend of a family with two young children that was sailing around the world on a 36-foot sailboat when it stalled hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast. After one child fell ill, the Navy, Coast Guard and California Air National Guard mounted an elaborate operation that involved an elite group of commando-medics parachuting to the rescue.
Petty Officer Second Class Barry Bena, a Coast Guard spokesman, said there were no plans to charge the family, even though four members of the rescue unit have spent days at the child's side.
"We're not concerned with that right now,'' he said, "and it's usually not an issue. We're here to provide public service. If U.S. citizens need assistance, that is our main priority.'' He called rescues like the one off Mexico "a public service we provide to U.S. citizens in distress.''
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Lt. Roderick Bersamina, a spokesman for the California Air National Guard, agreed: "Bottom line, you can't put a price on life.''
Only a few states, including Oregon, Maine and Idaho, allow local agencies to bill for rescues in cases of recklessness, deceit or illegal activity. Many outdoor and rescue organizations have lobbied against such search and rescue fees, saying they only make things worse.
Military and civilian experts agreed that collecting for rescue services sounds easier and smarter than it is. They cited these problems:
• It can be hard to prove the adventurer was at fault. As Bersamina put it, "Who wants to put themselves in danger? No one means to do that.'' Adventurers aren't always as foolhardy as they might seem and don't always admit they were wrong. One person's adventure is another's folly – and possibly a question for courts to resolve.
• It can be hard to collect. "They're not going to be writing you a check when you pick them up in the helicopter,'' said Bryan Enberg, chairman of the Appalachian region of the Mountain Rescue Association, a national volunteer group.
• It can scare off those who need help. The fear of being billed may deter people who need help from seeking it until it's too late -- or late enough to create additional risks and challenges for rescuers, as night descends or a storm worsens.
This argument has been used effectively by rescue groups to lobby against state laws allowing agencies to recover costs from those they rescue. "We'd rather have them call for help than not call,'' said Kevin Adam, a lieutenant in the Maine Warden Service and the state search and rescue coordinator.
• Rescue operations are good training. Missions such as the family's rescue in the Pacific "allow us to hone our skills for combat missions,'' Bersamina said.
About 60% of those rescued by the Cal Air Guard's elite Guardian Angel pararescue unit are civilians, ranging from Chinese fisherman in mid-ocean to recreational sailors such as the Kaufmans, the San Diego family rescued over the weekend.
Enberg said military and police organizations routinely write off involvement in such missions as training exercises.
• No matter how negligent or reckless, the rescued usually become sympathetic figures and less appealing targets for dunning.
Consider Nicholas Joy, a 17-year-old high school student from Medford, Mass., who last year survived two frigid nights in the Maine woods by building a snow cave and drinking from an icy stream.
He'd become separated from his father at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort when he skied out of bounds off a marked trail.
Whatever his faults as a navigator, or his weakness for the path less taken, by the time Nicholas was found, no one -- including Maine officials, who estimated the search cost $15,000 – was in the mood to charge the heroic survivor's family.
"He didn't intend to leave the ski area boundaries,'' Sugarloaf spokesman Ethan Austin said. "We'll take him at his word for that."
Contributing: Marisol Bello