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Pakistan music: Laal and Dehshatgardi Murdabad (Death to Terrorism)
Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Laal is a group which hails from Pakistan and they highlight a vibrant reality which is often neglected in many nations. This applies to a culture which is questioning and challenging normal conventions in society which are keeping people shackled. However, the beauty of Laal is that they do this by connecting their message through catchy tunes, a vibrant message and genuine passion.
The track called "Dehshatgardi Murdabad" (Death to Terrorism) is hitting the right chords and this applies to the mixture of the music on offer alongside powerful lyrics and images. Therefore, the video at the bottom of this article is well worth watching because you will be able to connect with the reasons behind their thinking.
Images in the video of men and women supporting the initial revolution in Afghanistan show sexes mingling together and without any concern about how people dress. This is a far cry from modern day Afghanistan once America, the CIA, ISI (Pakistan – Inter Services Intelligence), Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and others, intervened and supported the forces of terrorism, killing apostates, shackling women, and so forth.
Of course, this may seem like an over simplification and not everything was rosy on the other side. However, the "other side" did not desire to enslave women, kill apostates, support terrorism, destabilize nations, and other barbaric methodologies. Therefore, it is clear that one side was more progressive than the other and clearly the side that the West and conservative Sunni Islamic nations supported, was the real threat to humanity in this part of the world.
However, it is also important to get away from the political side because the music of Laal is extremely catchy. This angle is very powerful because great thought patterns may exist but without the power of the musical side then it won't reach far and wide. Given this, Laal have all the angles covered because their musical style is easy on the ear and you can feel their passion.
It must be remembered that in modern day Pakistan you have many individuals who yearn for the chains to be broken. Also, the beauty of Laal is that they are highlighting the duplicity of past American administrations which supported radical Sunni Islam and international terrorism. Therefore, conservative Sunni Islamic mullahs, terrorists, past American administrations, covert CIA operations supporting Islamism, and others, have all worked to destroy the moderate inner-self of Pakistan. This applies to the spirit of Pakistan which is multi-religious, multi-ethnic, secular, and represents a mosaic of different thinking.
Progressives in the younger generation desire a Pakistan whereby Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Christians, Hindus, non-religious people, women, secularists, socialists, and the entire spectrum of society, can pull together and show the common thread of humanity. It may sound idealistic given the current reality of many nations throughout the world. Yet, the lyrics are noble and with such a vibrant energy, then Laal deserve to have their voice heard and to be taken seriously.
The message of Laal doesn't belong to the streets of any nation because their message belongs to the common thread of humanity. However, with so many "dark forces" and divisions in the world then it is easy to follow the party line.
Irrespective if you are political or apolitical, the track "Death to Terrorism" is extremely powerful and the video highlights many home truths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57elLCPFQ4&feature=related Laal and "Death to Terrorism"
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ICC Offers Java-Optimized ARM Processor-Based Platform To Fabless Consumer Electronics Designers
ARM926EJ processor and ETM9 debugging technology will increase Java performance and time-to-market of consumer devices
SHANGHAI, CHINA AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Apr. 5, 2005 – Shanghai Research Center for IC Design (ICC), the first Chinese IC design industrial center, and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced that ICC has licensed the Java-optimized ARM926EJ-S™ processor and the Embedded Trace Macrocell™ (ETM9™) on-chip debug peripheral. Through the ARM® Foundry Program, the agreement will enable ICC to provide Chinese fabless companies and universities with ARM technologies to design advanced ARM Powered® system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for high-end consumer electronics and communication devices.
The ARM926EJ-S processor features ARM Jazelle® technology and Thumb® instruction set to provide compliant devices, much faster Java application performance and an excellent code-density with limited power and cost penalties. It also includes 16-bit fixed point DSP instructions to enhance performance of many signal processing algorithms and applications applied for multimedia decoding. The ETM9 solution provides comprehensive debug and trace facilities for ARM processor cores.
"With increased demand for advanced consumer electronics, engineers are required to design more complex SoC solutions. The ARM926EJ-S processor is an ideal choice for this purpose," said Mr. Wang Ye, vice director of ICC. "This licensing agreement will enable ICC and ARM to help Chinese fabless companies design such solutions for high-end applications at a low cost by the means of government-sponsored Incubating Service."
"ICC first licensed the ARM7TDMI® processor in 2003 to help Chinese incubated companies design SoC solutions for low-end consumer electronics," said Dr. Jun Tan, president of ARM China. "This new license agreement is an extension of ARM's already strong relationship with ICC and will further enable Chinese fabless companies to meet the growing demand for high-end solutions serving the consumer electronics market."
ICC will offer the ARM926EJ-S processor-based design platform within Q2 2005.
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Shanghai National Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Center (ICC) is the first specialized IC design industrialization center in China. It was set up and authorized by Science & Technology Ministry, PRC and Shanghai Municipality on 21st, Feb, 2000. The Center provides the following services: SoC Design Environment, IC talents training & evaluation, MPW, EDA tools, testing verification and information. The Center supports and serves the enterprises in it, meanwhile radiates services for the development of the IC industry in the whole China mainland, especially in Yangtze Delta Area. For more information, please visit http://www.icc.sh.cn.
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The morning routine started before dawn with a prisoner chanting the Muslim call to prayer through a small opening in the heavy steel door of his cell as soldiers with face shields quietly paced in the dimly lit corridor. The calm did not last long.
Within minutes, troops began rushing about, the words "code yellow" echoing through their handheld radios. The emergency was a prisoner in another cellblock who did not appear to be moving, prompting the urgent call to the medics to come check him, something they have been called upon to do many times in recent weeks, said the Army captain in charge of the maximum-security section of the Guantanamo Bay prison known as Camp 5.
"Recently, it's been happening very frequently," said the captain, whose name the military would not allow to be released for security reasons.
Officials later said the man who sparked the alarm Thursday was OK, merely faint and dizzy, and he did not have to be hospitalized as others have had amid a weeks-old hunger strike at the prison. Still, it was an illustration of just how tense Guantanamo has become of late, with more than a third of prisoners refusing to eat and nearly everyone locked down for most of the day since a violent clash with guards on- April 13. At least two detainees have tried to kill themselves since that confrontation between guards in riot gear and prisoners with broomsticks and metal bars.
Prison officials opened the prison to journalists from The Associated Press and three other news organizations this week, portraying the atmosphere as tense but under control at this detention center that has been open for 11 years and now holds 166 men, most without charge.
The visit came with certain restrictions. Among them was a prohibition on identifying by name certain officials, such as the Muslim cultural affairs adviser who blamed the recent troubles, including the expanding hunger strike, on a small group of jihadist "troublemakers" who he says are trying to make sure at least one fellow prisoner commits suicide.
"Are they done? No, they are not done yet. And there will be more than one death," said the Arab-American adviser, who goes by the name "Zak" and has worked at the prison since September 2005.
Seven prisoners have killed themselves over the years at Guantanamo. The most recent, last September, was Adnan Latif, who took an overdose of prescription psychiatric medicine. Though the government had accused him of training with the Taliban in Afghanistan, he was not being prosecuted nor could he be sent back to his native Yemen, which is considered too unstable to control former Guantanamo prisoners.
It is the uncertainty over when, if ever, the men held at Guantanamo will be released that has caused widespread despair and frustration among prisoners, lawyers for the men say. President Barack Obama ordered the detention center closed upon taking office, but Congress thwarted him and made it harder to move prisoners elsewhere. Releases and transfers have since become rare.
"Until such time as our government starts to do the right thing in connection with Guantanamo Bay, the frustration is only going to continue to build, and I can't imagine what the outcome will be," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki, a military lawyer visiting clients at the base this week.
Journalists are not permitted to interview prisoners and can see them only from afar, passing time in cramped recreation pens under a glaring Caribbean sun or, watched on a security monitor via a camera in each cell, pacing back and forth in beige-walled cells.
Prisoners to Guantanamo were first held in open cages, but conditions improved under President George W. Bush and Obama.
In March 2012, officials were proudly saying that 80 percent of the men were living in a communal setting at the prison's Camp 6, free to spend 22 hours a day roaming about their pods and recreation yards with fellow prisoners, watching more than two dozen satellite television channels and taking language lessons and other classes. The military had begun allowing some to make Skype calls to their families and was about to provide a DVD player to every detainee so they wouldn't have to fight over what to watch.
Things went bad on Feb. 6. That's when troops went into Camp 6 and began a shakedown for contraband and seized a number of personal items. Prisoners soon began complaining that their Qurans had been mishandled and their treatment had suddenly worsened. Then they launched what has become the most sustained hunger strike in years at the prison.
"Zak," the Muslim cultural adviser, said troublemakers convinced other prisoners that they needed to shake things up, to flout the rules, if they wanted to get out. "They said, `What you are doing right now is not going to teach the world about Guantanamo.' They got up and preached, and preached, and preached," he said.
The men have charged through their lawyers that guards have kept them from praying and sleeping by being noisy, denied them water, painfully strapped them down to be force-fed. The military denies those allegations specifically and any mistreatment in general.
Army Col. John Bogdan, who is in charge of the guard force, met with detainees and said he couldn't address their main complaint. "They were asking to be released from Gitmo," he said. "I can't do that."
Officials at the base this week did paint a picture of a Camp 6 that had, in the eyes of some members of the military, grown too lax: Prisoners had hoarded hundreds of bottles of water and food, made weapons out of pieces of exercise equipment and whatever else was at hand. Some threw urine or feces at guards or poked at them with broomsticks through the fence. One managed to secure a contraband iPod, which officials said could have come via a corrupt guard.
The biggest concern was that dozens of men had covered the security cameras in their cells with plastic cereal bowls, making it impossible for guards to monitor them and make sure they weren't attempting suicide, officials said.
The troops, meanwhile, did not risk entering and perhaps setting off a melee with prisoners - at least not until April 13, when commanders decided to move nearly every prisoner back to individual cells.
"We were trying to be patient and work with them and give them an opportunity to comply," Bogdan said. "We hit the point where we were accepting too much risk and it was time to take action."
The raid touched off a clash between guards and several dozen prisoners, but authorities say it lasted only a few minutes, with two guards and five prisoners suffering minor injuries.
All but a handful of the prison's 166 prisoners are now in individual cells, allowed out for only about two hours a day, returning to conditions that human rights groups previously called inhumane, especially for men who have not been convicted of a crime.
Bogdan and other officials said they will gradually allow some detainees - even those participating in the hunger strike - to return to communal living if they follow prison rules.
As of Friday, the military counted 63 prisoners on hunger strike, up from 43 during the confrontation, including four in the detainee hospital for observation.


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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Legal historian on witness list for Kagan hearings
6 comments:
- Alfred Brophy said...
You can view Stephen Presser's comments at the Senate Judiciary Committee's website. They begin about minute 139:30
His comments relate to the use of foreign authority in the Supreme Court.
- July 2, 2010 at 11:30:00 AM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Thanks, Al. Also, finally, the transcripts of the hearings are available via the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/package/supremecourt/2010candidates/elena-kagan.html
Easier than scrolling through video....
- July 2, 2010 at 12:57:00 PM EDT
- Alfred Brophy said...
I think the Post only has the hearing transcripts for Kagan's testimony, not the other witnesses, so for the time being we seem to be limited to the video version of Presser's testimony. I hope the transcripts of the other-than-Kagan witnesses will be up on the judiciary's website sometime soon.
Now that the hearings are over, it's time for ... picking out high points of the hearings for the legal history world.
My vote goes to an off-hand comment that Dean Clark made about divisions on faculties (at minute 167). He said something along the lines of -- faculties divide on issues other than politics; a lot of the division is over methods, like "whether you think historians are worth reading or whether you think economic analysis with a lot of quantitative data means anything."
Another highlight for me (though not so important for legal history) is Senator Sessions' question (at minute 152) of whether Jack Goldsmith considers himself a conservative? Perhaps I'm reading more into this than I ought, but it struck me that Sessions was skeptical about Goldsmith's conservative credentials.
On a more serious point, legal historians may be interested in the Coburn-Kagan exchange about natural rights.
One question: why all this talk of Blackstone? I thought we aren't supposed to cite foreign sources any more.
- July 3, 2010 at 11:52:00 AM EDT
To satisfy Mary's curiosity a little bit; from what I can put together I was asked to testify in the Kagan hearings by the minority counsel to the committee, who indicated they wanted someone to speak on the recent use of foreign authority to interpret the U.S. Constitution. I thought it was an interesting opportunity for a legal historian to comment on that, and contrast it with the use of the law of nations in Constitutional and legal interpretation, something I teach my students about. I thought it was also an opportunity to get on the record some reflection on how far we've come from Hamilton's remarks in Federalist 78 (quoting Montesquieu) that in order to avoid tyranny the judicial function should be separated from the legislative. This was about the tenth time I've testified in a Congressional hearing. My experience is that both members of the House and Senate are open to hearing about the history of interpretive practices.
- July 3, 2010 at 5:29:00 PM EDT
- Mary L. Dudziak said...
Thanks, Stephen!
- July 4, 2010 at 9:23:00 PM EDT
- Dan Ernst said...
Here's another version of Professor Presser's testimony:
- July 8, 2010 at 2:23:00 PM EDT


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A Cool Deburring Technique
Ice blasting is a process that uses ice crystals as impact media to remove contaminants. It is popular in Europe for industrial cleaning work because it uses no detergents, solvents or abrasives.
Secondary operations often are a necessary evil to remove manufacturing blemishes, such as machining burrs and casting flash. Traditionally, techniques such as tumbling, grinding, abrasive blasting and high-pressure water spray have been used to eliminate these flaws. However, some deburring methods can mar or significantly damage part surface finish.
Ice blasting is a process that uses ice crystals as impact media to remove contaminants. It is popular in Europe for industrial cleaning work because it uses no detergents, solvents or abrasives. Universal Ice Blast (Kirkland, Washington) has developed a process based on this environmentally friendly premise that will remove burrs and flash from metal parts without inflicting surface damage. The company's Ice Blast system also takes advantage of the post-impact phase change from ice to water, which serves to scrub and rinse parts in one operation.
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The process is most effective on soft materials, such as aluminum and brass. It also can be used to deburr steel and iron, depending on burr size and how strongly the burr is attached to the part. It is particularly useful for cast parts, such as engine blocks, transmission housings, cylinder heads and intake manifolds, because it removes machining burrs and flash in one step.
In practice, ice particles carried in a blast air stream impact the part as solids, displacing burrs, flash or large contaminants upon contact. As the ice particles begin their phase change to water after impact, they deform and slide along the part surface, scrubbing away minute contaminants. Upon completing the phase change, the ice—now water—rinses the part.
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The system generates its own ice using the reliable immersed rotating cold drum method. The ice particles are vacuumed from the drum and delivered through a venturi-effect blast nozzle. The nozzle provides a blast circle that is approximately 3 inches in diameter and can move up to 6 inches per second for a deburring operation. It can be manipulated by hand within a blast cabinet or automatically, using a robot and part transport system.
Most applications require a dryer module to remove water from the part. Even aluminum parts can oxidize if allowed to air dry. For ferrous materials, a rust inhibitor application module can be installed to further prevent oxidation.
For flash removal on castings, high-pressure water spray is commonly used. However, during casting production, the outer surface of the cast part cools quicker than the inside, forming a laminate shell. A 4,000 to 6,000 psig deflashing water spray can penetrate this shell and delaminate the casting, digging up "divots" of material. This leads to costly rework and higher scrap rates.
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OSPAC Jazz and Latino Music Festival
The Saturday, September 6th performance was cancelled due to torrential rain. However, the show must go on, so it's been rescheduled to Saturday, September 20th, with the same artist lineup as Saturday, September 6th, except for Allen Harris, who performed on Sunday, September 7th. And what a performance he gave. People crowded around the band shelter, spread out on the lawn, frequented the vendors, got massages by beautiful Crystal Lake, painted the music, and cheered Harris, Locke, Lovano, Cecil Brooks , Harry Allen, Kate Baker, Nilson Matta and Brazilian Voyage, while enjoying the warm sun and taking in the good vibes. All and all it was a perfect day and the mixed crowd of Jazz and Latino music aficionados definitely showed their appreciation.
This reporter took a $10.00 roundtrip train ride on New Jersey Transit, where I enjoyed the scenic ride to South Orange, New Jersey. In the train station's back Parking Lot, I hopped into the white shuttle van marked Health instead of OSPAC, wherein I took a leisurely ride out to the Festival located in West Orange. Admittance was only $10.00 for adults and free for children, 12 and under, so it was quite inexpensive for a day of fun, food, sun, and music. I chatted with Kate Baker, the Executive Director, who was very pleased with the turnout, while photographer Donovan Gopie snapped photos of the Jazz and Latino bands. I even got a massage to soothe my "reporters back." You know, those back kinks reporters occasionally get from lugging batteries, cameras, tapes, tape recorders, pads and pencils.
I had the opportunity to chat with Allen Harris who was having a wonderful day meeting his fans and selling his CDs. In fact, I noticed that most of the talent hung around long after their performance. It was just that kind of leisurely day when everyone was in good spirits.
OSPAC is a wonderful venue. Larry Pantirer of Millennium Homes donated the Amphitheater and surrounding three acres of land to the township of West Orange in memory of Oskar Schindler, who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust, including Pantirer's father, Murray Pantirer. OSPAC is the only performing arts theater in the United States named for Oskar Schindler. OSPAC Sponsors were: Commerce Bank; Millennium Homes; Ferential Systems Inc; Leaf, Saltzman, Manganelli Pfeil & Tendler LLP; Reckson Associates Realty Corp.; Matzel & Mumford; PSE&G; and WBGO-FM.
Singer and OSPAC Executive Director, Kate Baker, has been associated with the OPAC Jazz Festival for 6 years. She discussed the OSPAC Jazz Festival Summer Workshop, which offers students of all ages the opportunity to study with an internationally renowned faculty of jazz musicians. The students performed on Sunday with the OSPAC Jazz Workshop Big Band. "These talented musicians, (13 and up) high school, college age and older, learn their craft from the masters. The Summer Workshop emphasizes the mastery of playing and singing jazz and world music. "Our goal is to improve the students' musicianship and help facilitate creativity. Students who attend the workshop will improve in their chosen style of music with a greater appreciation for all types of music, whether it is jazz, rock and roll, pop, funk, fusion, R&B or hip hop. Students receive individual attention to help improve their skills. This workshop is one the students will remember for years to come," stated Baker who is instrumental in assuring the yearly success of the event. "The Festival continues to grow and I consider myself fortunate to be able to get the wonderful talent and assistance from all those whose energy goes into making OSPAC what it is," stated Kate with gratitude.
"We had a wonderful lineup this year of jazz and Latino artists so we invite people to come out on Saturday, September 20th to close out the last remaining warm days within this beautiful environment. It is very conducive to families and music lovers alike. People can stroll throughout the lawn and picnic alongside the beautiful lake. Attendees can bring their own food, chairs, blankets and mats or purchase food from the international food and unique items from vendors who sell their wares at the event," said Kate who has performed at other festivals including the Euro-Meet Jazz Festival, The Texaco Jazz Series in New York City, Liberty State Park Jazz Concert Festival, Berkshire Jazz Festival, the William Paterson Jazz Room Concert Series, The Carini Jazz Festival, and The Pergine Spettacolo Jazz Festival, et al.
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2:00 pm Maucha Adnet Quartet - Celebrating 50 Years of Bossa Nova!
3:00 pm Duke Ellington Legacy Band Featuring Norman Simmons and Nancy Reed
4:00 pm Kate Baker Quintet featuring Vic Juris with special guest Judi Silvano
5:00 pm Dave Stryker and the West Orange All Stars with special guest Billy Hart
6:00 pm Geri Allen Trio
7:00 pm Grupo Latin Vibe
The festival will be emceed by WBGO's Gary Walker, who will present the festivities against an open-air setting, complete with artisans, crafts, a health spa center, entertainment, and activities for children. The weekend will also include "Paint the Music" led by Nitza Horner, who is a teaching artist and freelance educator affiliated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Via the Paint the Music" project anyone can pick up a paint brush and paint the music as it sounds to them. I am very excited about this aspect of the Festival. I think it will be a fun thing to do," claimed Kate.
Driving directions are on the site. The free OPAC shuttle will pick up festival attendees at the South Orange Train station and drive them to the Festival in West Orange, New Jersey. Interested parties can learn more about the festival and shuttle schedule at http://www.ospac.org.
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The Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) doesn't open to the public until tomorrow but today, part of the show floor was filled with automotive journalists waiting for the Green Car Journal Green Car of the Year announcements. Finalists for the 2013 Green Car of the Year included Ford Fusion and C-MAX, the Toyota Prius c, the Dodge Dart Aero and the Mazda CX-5 SkyActiv.
When the curtain opened, a shiny blue 2013 Ford Fusion greeted the crowd, earning the 2013 Green Car of the Year award.
"We are very honored that the all-new Ford Fusion has been recognized as the Green Car of the Year by the Green Car Journal," said David Mondragon, Ford general marketing manager. "From EcoBoost to hybrid and plug-in hybrid offerings, the new Fusion is delivering best-in-class fuel economy all wrapped in a dynamic package." Source: Ford
The 2013 Ford Fusion is available in multiple powertrains, including three traditional gasoline internal combustion engine powered models as well as a hybrid and plug-in hybrid option.
Ford's hybrid Fusion can achieve 47 miles per gallon and operate solely on electric power at speeds of up to 62 miles per hour. The Ford Fusion Energi, a plug-in hybrid model, is capable of up to 20 miles of all-electric driving range. The plug-in Fusion is expected to a fuel-efficient rating of greater than 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe).


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Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay
The virtuosic pas de deux Tarantella showcases two pyrotechnical dancers in an ever growing profusion of steps.
This sprightly music, despite its Italian air, was composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), a New Orleans–born composer and pianist who made a large impact in his brief life. The audacity and wit of his works, along with his brilliance at the keyboard, made his compositions immensely popular — perhaps too popular, as he fell out of favor after his death, considered old-fashioned and clichéd. But Gottschalk was a true American original, and his achievements had a great impact on composers and performers who followed. Balanchine admired this particular composition and choreographed a pas de deux for Patricia McBride and Edward Villella — two virtuosic dancers — in 1964. In his Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, Balanchine wrote of the music, "It is a dazzling display piece, full of speed and high spirits. So, I hope, is the dance, which is 'Neopolitan' if you like and 'demi-caractère.' The costumes are inspired by Italy, anyhow, and there are tambourines."


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NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - After Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, companies scrambled on Tuesday to assess the damage and figure out how to staff up as soon as possible.
Transportation hubs in New York and Washington were closed due to Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the country. The storm bashed the coast for hours with high winds and waves that caused widespread flooding, then Sandy dropped just below hurricane status before making landfall on Monday night in New Jersey.
With the holiday season quickly approaching, retailers in particular hurried to get back to business.
Luxury department store Saks Inc SKS.N said it would reopen on Tuesday three of the stores that it had to close because of Sandy, including stores in greater Washington and Philadelphia.
The retailer's flagship on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, which generates about 20 percent of company sales, along with five other stores in New Jersey and Connecticut, are set to reopen on Wednesday, a spokeswoman said.
Saks said it would not be coordinating transportation for employees.
"In the NYC store, many associates live nearby, and we can operate the store with lower staffing levels if needed," a representative said.
Similarly, Macy's Inc (M.N) said its iconic Herald Square flagship store in Manhattan, and others in the city and in parts of New Jersey, would stay closed on Tuesday. Others in the East will open through the course of the day.
"The determining factor is if the store and shopping center have electricity, and if associates are able to get to work," a Macy's spokesman said, adding that the company had 195 stores closed all or part of the day Monday, about a quarter of its footprint.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) had 267 stores closed as of late Monday night due to the storm. By Tuesday afternoon, that was down to 80 stores in 10 states.
The world's largest retailer said none of its facilities had been seriously damaged and there was no disruption of holiday planning.
The Wal-Mart emergency operations center in Bentonville, Arkansas was running at full speed. Along with the meteorologist on staff, there were people working on issues such as logistics, emergency merchandise and fuel for generators.
"I think the lesson is that the East Coast needs to prepare for hurricanes just like the Gulf Coast needs to because, you know, that's an area that prior to Irene was not an issue," said Mark Cooper, Wal-Mart's senior director of global emergency management.
Ikea, which has nine stores from Maryland to Connecticut, hopes to reopen all but the store in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the decision 10 years ago to elevate the Red Hook store above the parking lot was fortuitous, said spokesman Joseph Roth. "Certainly there is water along the esplanade, the whole waterfront area there, but the store itself appears to have weathered it relatively fine."
New Yorkers searching for a cup of coffee had more luck with small chains or delis, or in some cases, Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN.O), than Starbucks (SBUX.O).
On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, two Starbucks stores on Broadway six blocks apart were both closed with a sign in the window: "Blame the weatherman, not us. Sorry but we are closed to inclement weather. We look forward to seeing you soon."
A nearby Dunkin' Donuts was also closed, no sign in the window. But the French Roast on 85th and Broadway had a long line of customers snaking out the door.
Dunkin' Donuts franchisees are responsible for making the business decision to open their restaurants, a spokesman said, adding that the stores at Rockefeller Center and Penn Station were open.
Sue Chen, who owns three Dunkin' Donut stores on Long Island, where almost a million homes and businesses were powerless, was lucky enough to have power at two of her stores.
"I have to thank my manager," Chen said Tuesday from behind the counter at her store in Sea Cliff, where she was pitching in to help five employees keep up with demand. "Last night, at 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, he came here and started to make the bagels." Chen said workers at the Sea Cliff store all live nearby, so the manager called and told them to come in.
About 250 Starbucks stores from Virginia to Maine were closed, said spokeswoman Haley Drage. "All of our New York metro stores are closed," she said, adding that the company is assessing when they can be safely reopened.
"We're trying to ensure partner safety. We don't want partners traveling if it's not safe," she said, noting that authorities in many localities had urged residents to limit traveling.
Drugmakers, heavily concentrated in New York and New Jersey, were also laid low by the storm. Novartis AG NOVN.VX said all offices in the area would remain closed Tuesday, as did top insulin maker Novo Nordisk. (NOVOb.CO)
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) said it had implemented a continuity plan to ensure medicines would continue to be distributed, especially given the numerous airport closures still in effect. But the company also said there was sufficient inventory in the supply chain to avoid serious disruptions.
Relatively high amounts of pharmaceuticals move by air, since drugs are light and high-value items, meaning companies like GSK have to arrange road transport in the meantime.
Multiply a decision like that by a few dozen or even hundreds of companies, and Sandy could actually end up being a boon to the trucking industry despite the short-term costs of widespread road closures.
"In the long run, however, the effect is clearly positive, perhaps close to $1 billion, because resupply and rebuilding generates freight growth and because trucking is the mode of choice for time-sensitive resupply," said Noel Perry, managing director at transportation consulting firm FTR Associates.
Reporting by Phil Wahba in New York and Jessica Wohl in Chicago; additional reporting by Martinne Geller, Lynn Adler, Alison Frankel and Eileen Daspin in New York, Toni Clarke in Boston, Ben Hirschler in London and Allison Martell in Toronto; writing by Ben Berkowitz and Patricia Kranz; editing by Matthew Lewis and David Gregorio


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She didn't care to hear all of that... all she sees are cute little things. We got these on Saturday and they seem to be growing like crazy. It may be my imagination but I'm sure they are already slightly bigger. They are Rhode Island Reds... I heard the eggs are the best. Hopefully they will survive and grow into chickens and will still let Ireland pet and hold them.
Sunday we spent the day with my family. I took a couple of pics and really love this one
I've been pretty busy so progress on the socks has been slow
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BANGKOK – The British government has issued an alert to airlines around the world, urging them not to allow former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to board flights to the United Kingdom.
The alert, dated Monday on a Home Office letterhead, says carriers should deny Snowden boarding because "the individual is highly likely to be refused entry to the UK."
The Associated Press saw a photograph of the document taken Friday at a Thai airport. A British diplomat confirmed that the document was genuine and was sent out to airlines around the world.
Snowden revealed top-secret documents about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs and is believed to be in Hong Kong. No warrants for his arrest have been issued.


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Apple should buy Disney to create an entertainment powerhouse, according to at least one analyst.
Apple is unlikely to create a new gadget such as the iPhone, so Disney is a way for Apple to "keep growing," according to the Washington Post.
"The logic is so great this could happen tomorrow," Francis McInerney, a consultant at North River Ventures, told the Post. "The two companies have an identical way of thinking in complementary markets. There's nothing they do that competes with another. And yet combined this would be a powerhouse deal in the imagining."
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McInerney said that it's the power of the cloud that has made an Apple-Disney deal imperative. The low cost of storing content could be the catalyst for action because Disney could easily grow in a new platform, much like "Netflix on steroids."
Apple recently announced its new channel lineup on Apple TV which contained ABC News, part of Disney, so perhaps Apple has already been strengthening its partnership. Critics say that Apple would never buy Disney which would likely cost upwards of $140 billion -- although Apple has more than that in its dragon's hoard of cash. McInerney said the deal is nonetheless "frighteningly obvious," according to the Post.
If Apple purchases Disney, the decision would be taking the company into a very different direction -- with Apple becoming a media company rather than just a tech company. This isn't necessarily a bad idea, after all it's what Google has become, but one that will change the very heart of the Cupertino, Calif. company.


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Lost in the budget debate, Connecticut quietly expects a $1 billion surplus
Budget battle: The budget Gov. Malloy signed into law this month projects a $1B cushion, but some are not convinced
HARTFORD -- When he took office in January, Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was faced with having to craft a balanced, two-year budget in the face of a deficit of around $3.3 billion.
The $40.1 billion tax and spend plan Malloy signed into law earlier this month went one step further and contains an anticipated $1 billion surplus.
That figure, Republicans now argue, should in the coming weeks force the Democratic majority to reconsider the $2.6 billion worth of tax increases passed as part of the plan.
Although Malloy signed the budget into law May 4, the General Assembly still has to craft and pass so-called implementer bills.
"I would want to see some of the most hurtful tax increases be repealed," said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield.
But the Malloy administration said that is not going to happen.
"The governor believes the framework is the right one," Roy Occhiogrosso, Malloy's senior adviser, said Friday. "The governor has been very clear that the budget passed will be implemented."
Occhiogrosso said the surplus is needed to continue to stabilize Connecticut's finances, including helping to pay for the ongoing shift to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The wonkish term refers to Malloy's efforts, which have received bipartisan praise, to force elected officials to take a more honest, gimmick-free approach to government finances.
Occhiogrosso said passing a budget with what many observers consider an unprecedented built-in surplus "sends an incredibly strong message to the business community and Wall Street" which ultimately will boost the economy and create jobs.
Sen. Gayle Slossberg, D-Milford, who voted against the budget, said she had problems with the plan, but called the surplus fiscally prudent.
Another fiscally conservative Democrat, Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, said with so much long-term debt on the books Connecticut never truly has a surplus. He hopes the $1 billion will be used to help trim those costs.
But Andrew Roraback, R-Goshen, a ranking Republican on the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, said, "We never should have been constructing a budget with a billion (dollar) surplus when our economy is teetering on the brink. The taxpayer is the victim of a huge over-reliance on tax increases."
Roraback and others speculate the true purpose of the surplus was to provide Malloy cover should he fail to obtain $2 billion worth of union concessions also built into the new, two-year budget.
"It does not take Inspector Clouseau to connect the dots," Roraback said.
The governor a week ago announced he and labor negotiators reached a $1.6 billion concessions deal. Rank-and-file union members are expected to vote on ratification by mid-June.
Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven, acknowledged Friday she always assumed that was one reason for the $1 billion surplus.
"I think we just wanted to make sure if we didn't reach $2 billion ... we'd have some place to go without having to raise more taxes or do a lot more cutting," Harp said.
Asked if Malloy intended to tap into the $1 billion in order to help cover the $400 million he failed to secure in concessions, Occhiogrosso said it "will come from spending cuts and updated revenue estimates."
In that respect, Connecticut is counting on the same increase in tax revenue that has played out recently in other states, such as New Jersey and California. In those states, politicians now are considering whether to adjust tax increases or restore some spending cuts.
Fred Carstensen, director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis at the University of Connecticut, said the governor is relying on unduly optimistic revenue projections.
He attributed recent revenue spikes in some states to wealthy investors cashing out on investments.
Although he had praise for much of Malloy's budget, including some of the concessions obtained from state workers, Carstensen believes the administration is crossing its fingers when it comes to the $1 billion projection.
"The state works with very, very poor data. It doesn't do economic modeling or its own revenue forecasting," Carstensen said. "So they're kind of operating, if not in the complete dark, they're operating in the late evening."
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No, not computer viruses – I'm talking bacteria and viruses. Boffins at MIT have discovered that a genetically modified version of the M13 virus can actually increase the efficiency of solar cells, to as much as a third greater efficiency. This means converting sunlight to electricity wouldn't take so darn long, and perhaps even eke more electricity out of mother nature's rays, as well.
Fooling around with viruses at the microscopic level is only a tiny process, but has extraordinary benefits. In fact, MIT's researchers have only added 0.1 per cent extra weight to the finished solar cells, but as Professor Belcher says, "a little biology goes a long way". [MIT via PhysOrg via Inhabitat]


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Effects of Demographic Variables on Marital Satisfaction
Marital satisfaction is an important aspect to study because it is a global evaluation of the state of one's marriage and a reflection of marital happiness and functioning. This study aimed to ascertain the differences in marital satisfaction based on demographic variables. Subjects for this study were 423 married couples. The instrument used was ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale to measure marital satisfaction. The data were analyzed by inferential statistics using t-test and One-way Analysis of Variance. Results indicated significant differences in marital satisfaction based on the length of marriage and income. This study suggests that marriage counseling, with an emphasis on promoting awareness in marital happiness and satisfaction, would be helpful in addressing marital problems in married couples.
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This little number just went up on my front door …
… with sweet burlap rosettes and a casual white bow.
Perfect for adding some Valentine's love to a front door on a laid-back, snowy day.
Want to make one?
As always I hope you'll Rock What Ya Got and adapt this make it work using what you have on hand.
Grab your nicest case lot sale box and cut out a heart form to use for your wreath. The sides of my heart were about 1.5" wide.
I dug through my fabric stash and found an old, stained polo, … cut it into 1" strips …
… wrapped my heart form and secured the fabric strips with hot glue.
I made a bunch of burlap rosettes from 1" strips of burlap and hot glued them to the heart form …
… working my way around until the whole thing was covered. (Edited to add: You can find a great tutorial for rosettes here.)
I cut two 3" x 36" strips of white muslin to use for the sash and bow.
To hang, I tied the sash in a simple knot around the wreath (or the scrap of cardboard that I'm pretending is my wreath) …
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Summit has released eight hi-res images from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. These images were released last week, but now they're available in high resolution. You know you want to see hi-res Volturi Dakota Fanning being all evil and stuff.
Hit the jump to check out the images and click here for the latest trailer. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Mackenzie Foy, Tracey Heggins, Judith Shekoni, Casey LaBow, MyAnna Buring, Christian Camargo, Mia Maestro, Cameron Bright, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Billy Burke, Rami Malek, and Maggie Grace. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 opens November 16th.


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Granny Smith Apple Sorbet
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 vitamin C tablet (1000 mg)
- 6 medium Granny Smith apples (3 pounds total)
Wash apples and cut them into wedges. Place the wedges in the extractor, collecting juice in the container with the vitamin C powder. You should have approximately 3 cups of extracted juice.
Skim any foam from the surface of the juice. Stir in the cooled sugar syrup, then chill the mixture.
Place the chilled juice mixture in the bowl of an ice-cream machine, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. Store, tightly covered, in the freezer.
Makes approximately 1 quart
Nutritional Analysis: Granny Smith Apple Sorbet : Per Serving: 145 calories, 0 g protein, 39 g carbohydrate, 0 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 1 mg sodium, 0 g fiber.
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In need of a refurbished iPad or Mac? Look no further than eBay, because Apple is using the online store to sell its secondhand goods, according to reports.
There has been a refurbished Apple store on eBay for about a month labeled "Refurbished Outlet," according to 9to5Mac. The online new site began to get suspicious about its 99.7 percent positive reviews but the complete lack of identity.
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Now, apparently it's been decided that it is Apple trying out the refurbished online market on eBay. The outlet's products are the same as refurbished devices at the Apple store such as with a one-year warranty, like-new condition and even a new battery for iPads and iPods. But why would Apple be selling on eBay rather than its online Apple store?
We think the reason is obvious -- more eyes and more new customers. Those on eBay are probably not the same people shopping at the online Apple store. They are, however, looking for Christmas presents and good buys. We don't think it's a coincidence that the refurbished store is showing up a month before Christmas, do you?


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I come from the evangelical branch of the Christian church, and in our neck of the woods we are used to hearing preachers urge their hearers to invite Jesus into their lives.
I come from the evangelical branch of the Christian church, and in our neck of the woods we are used to hearing preachers urge their hearers to invite Jesus into their lives. The exhortation usually comes with an promise: If you invite Jesus into your life, God will forgive your sins and you can go to heaven when you die.
That approach has helped millions of people begin a life of faith — including me. It is, however, not the only way to frame the biblical invitation to life with and for God. It might even be a little misleading.
When people are urged to invite Jesus into their lives, they may get the idea that they are inviting him as a guest rather than as the boss (the biblical word is Lord). This can lead to the erroneous conclusion that I can be a Christian who will go to heaven when I die even though I pay no attention to Jesus while I live. There is nothing that corresponds to this in the Scriptures. Rather than urging people to invite Jesus into their lives, our message would more closely correspond to the biblical pattern if we invited them into his life. And does he have a life! He is changing the world, righting wrongs, and preparing humanity for eternity. And we can be a part of it all.
People sometimes say to one another, "You've gotta get a life!" Well, Jesus already has one, and we have been invited to share it — the most important life in all the world.
It is not a pampered or self-centered life — you would not expect the one who sacrificed himself for the world to live that way. A pampered life will never change the world — it won't even change us or our families.
The kind of life Jesus invited people to — and invites us to — is full of purpose. It is loving and sacrificial, patient and kind. It is peaceful — it's not always getting angry. It is reliable.
This kind of living requires a different kind of life, one that is spiritual in nature, not biological. Biological life is designed for survival; this kind of life is designed for love. The one protects itself, the other gives itself. Succeeding in the life to which Jesus invites us is impossible apart from the presence of this spiritual kind of life.
But even when this spiritual kind of life is present — when we are born again, to use biblical terminology — living the Jesus-way requires practice. Everyone understands that performing a triple axel on the ice requires years of practice, but few seem to realize that being patient or putting others first also requires practice.
The Jesus-way requires me to bless those who curse me. I can no more do that without practice than I can play the Moonlight Sonata without practice. Even a gifted athlete cannot win the downhill if he doesn't train. Neither can the spiritually gifted — those who have received the "gift of life"— live up to their potential without training.
The church was commissioned to train people in the Jesus-way of life. Jesus told his followers: "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
This training is not in evangelism, per se. It is not seminary training. The disciple is someone who is apprenticing to live the Jesus-way, to do everything Jesus commanded. He is not a religious professional, but a person living his or her life as Jesus would if he were living it.
Training exercises for this life include spending time in solitude and silence, reading the Bible, praying, joining others in worship, serving people in need — and there are many others. But for these to be effective one must have the kind of life that can be trained — the spiritual kind that comes through faith in Christ.
Shayne Looper writes for The Daily Reporter in Coldwater, Mich.


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Release Date: 2007 |
Album Rating: 4.0I have just discovered these guys, I love em, good review.
Album Rating: 3.5Wonderful review. Great album/band as well.
Also, their drummer is a straight beast.
When We Were Younger & Better rules.
Great review, great album. I really like the production.
This album is pretty damn great, but I like The Fall of Math a bit more.
Haha, thanks so much for posting this. Extremely well-written review, too.
I agree with your sound-off, but I was disappointed with this album. However, I will admit that the machine work on this album is absolutely brilliant.
Unfortunately, there are a couple tracks on here where 65dos's identity just seems to dissipate and I hear nothing more than an EITS knock-off because none of the electronics are present and the track just kind of saunters until it surpasses the 6:00 mark.
Yet, I have to say that "The Distant & Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties" is fu[font=verdana]c[/font]king AMAZING. I love the guitars in that song that precede the electronic "riff." It's just a killer track.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffI schmell ya man. I was originally disappointed by this but after 7 or 8 listens it turns into good shit.
I may get this partly because of CTTS
I schmell ya man. I was originally disappointed by this but after 7 or 8 listens it turns into good ****.
Album Rating: 4.5this album is excellent though they lost the electromica influence a little bit, ok it's still there but less obvious.
This album got much better after a few more listens; I'm not sure why I was so turned off by it initially.
"The Distant and Mechanised Glow..." is still phenomenal as hell.
just got into these guys in the last coupla weeks (after having stumbled accidentally onto their myspace and liking what i heard). the production on this album is really refreshing - in that there's a huge amount of dynamics, apparently they didn't overcompress it like a lot of bands are prone to doing nowadays (this is done to make it louder, notice how quiet this album is compared to their others. google "the noise war" if you haven't heard about this yet).
also, it's definitely worth picking up the "distant and mechanised..." remix ep they've just put out, it was my introduction to them (in the sense that one of the remixes was the first track i heard on their myspace), and the remixes on there are really good.
Album Rating: 4.0Gets a 4 just for The Conspiracy of Seeds alone, but the rest of the album is well worth a listen.
Album Rating: 4.0Sadly they've become more "normal" on this release, but it's still better than 90% of post-rock out there.
Nice review.
Album Rating: 3.5Conspiracy of Seeds is awesome
most of this album seemed pretty average for 65dos though, production wasn't that great either.
Album Rating: 3.5I agree with Jom, The Distant and Mechanised Glow is the best track on here, and is just simply phenomenal.
Album Rating: 3.5Nevermind, I take that back. Primer's the best on the album. Fucking beautiful!
Album Rating: 4.0really great stuff. i cant get into their older albums yet, gotta give them a few more listens
Album Rating: 4.0The Failsafe... owns... Period... and more periods....
Album Rating: 4.0First track is so good
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 13, 2007) - The ETSU men's soccer team has partnered with US Youth Soccer to promote Youth Soccer Month during the ETSU Fall Invitational presented by Citizens Bank on September 14 and 16.
As the number one youth participation sport in
During the ETSU's women's soccer matches on Friday and Sundy, youth soccer participants will have the opportunity to socialize and get autographs from the ETSU men's soccer team. Also, during halftime of each match there will be small contests and promotions where all youth soccer participants will have the opportunity to test their skills and win prizes.
Following the final match on Sunday the men's soccer team will judge a series of contests for the U-10 and U-15 categories.
All youth soccer players are welcome to attend. Admission is free and free food and drink for all youth soccer participants will be provided on both Friday and Sunday.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 423-439-8397.
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Welcome to a new column about computers, programming, and the philosophy of programming. We'll explore meandering thoughts and views of technology and where it's headed with a developer's perspective on things. Or at least we'll explore whatever it is I feel like writing about at the time. Regardless, I hope you find this column's content stimulating and thought-provoking. I chose the column name because software development requires a clear goal, careful thought, and proper reasoning, regardless of the programming language, methodology, platform, or other technologies you choose to work with. In that sense, the word reason truly has two meanings to developers: thought and purpose. Whether you spend enough time architecting and designing your software, documenting your decisions, or commenting your code, there's one thing every successful software project has in common: reason.
Simple and Elegant
Let's begin our philosophical journey with a discussion on simplicity. The best software designs are often the simplest, even when solving the most complex problems. This can be a challenge when building distributed software systems, but simplicity should still be the goal. In fact, much innovation in the software space is the result of trying to simplify something otherwise complex. For instance, the web makes it easier to navigate the intricacies of the Internet. I recall the days before the web, manually navigating newsgroups and directory trees via anonymous FTP. Web services extended this simplicity to inter application communication, an otherwise complex topic.
However, it seems that complexity still finds its way into our lives, either as a technology consumer or as a software engineer. I've always tried to avoid this complexity, but I've seen others look at it almost as a selling point. I disagree. In fact, I think complexity is a sign of weakness.
In my opinion, if a software package is hard to install, configure, or to otherwise get up and running, I avoid it. I'm not being arrogant, I'm speaking from experience; I've used plenty of overly complex systems, and I've certainly built my share as well. I admit it. That's why I take such a strong view against complexity. Therefore, I strive for simplicity.
Eric's First Rule: Simplicity equals elegance.
I find that simple software design often ensures success, but it also helps to maintain the sanity of those who use that software. How much time have you spent wrestling to get a web server, application server, or database server up and running, and configured properly, for example? It's no accident that the main goal of Java EE 6 was to simplify Java EE development and deployment. Simplicity is also why thousands of developers have moved to other languages and environments such as Ruby to build web applications.
But when you need to connect more than one computer together, and arrange to have software communicate and coordinate activities between them, a certain level of complexity is unavoidable. For instance, a network stack consists of many low-level software components coordinating bits of data transmitted by fluctuations of electricity over a wire and though a network interface card. There's very little simple about that, even at a high level. But computer science offers solutions to help here as well.


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KDE 3.5.8 Release Fixes Hundreds of Bugs
The KDE community today
The main focus of improvements for KDE 3.5.8 is
For a more detailed list of improvements since the
Thank you very much
Thanks for another release of KDE 3.5. I appreciate all work you do to make the existing version more stable and faster while we wait for KDE 4.
BTW, the release announcement has just been Dugg a few minutes ago:
By Boris at Tue, 2007/10/16 - 5:00am
*dances around*
KDE rocks my entire closet of socks! I updated to .8 today on gutsy and things are snappier than ever! Keep the great work up!
By A KDE Advocate at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Long live, KDE3!
I hope KDE 3.x will not be abandoned after KDE4 is out. The former is rock solid nowadays.
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
KDE 3.5 will probably be supported for years, but active development has (and also should have) shifted to KDE 4. That said, there are already some nice things in the pipeline for 3.5.9. :-)
By Sebastian Kügler at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
Thank you, I appreciate knowing that support will not cease.
I find that there are some issues with supporting libraries that are going to need to be addressed if that is going to be a reality. Such issues might be fixed by the maintainers of the libraries or the problems might continue to occur with other libraries.
It appears that the problems with aRts and Glib have been resolved which is good to see although I'm not clear on exactly how it was fixed.
I note that I build from source so some of these problems may have been fixed by your distro. I am still having multimedia issues (not all of them KDE).
Kaboodle and Noatun have simply quit working although the embedded audio player still works. I haven't been able to figure out the cause. This isn't a large issue since Kaffine and KPlayer work fine.
KView and KPat won't open JPEG files. This must be a specific issue with imlib since some other KDE apps have no problems. I also don't seem to get new thumbnails of JPEG files which probably isn't an imlib issue.
KDELibs won't build against the current version of LibArt_LGPL. It is possible that this is only a header issue.
Yes, I need to write bugs for these as well as do further research to find the exact causes.
IAC, continued support is appreciated.
By James Richard Tyrer at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
"Kaboodle and Noatun have simply quit working although the embedded audio player still works. I haven't been able to figure out the cause. This isn't a large issue since Kaffine and KPlayer work fine"
Kaboodle and Noatun both uses aRts while Kaffine and KPlayer don't, so your aRts install is most likely not correct. Or something is preventing aRts from accessing the soundcard.
What you mean by the embedded audio player, im not sure. But if it's something browser embedded, it's most likely handled by Kaffine and KPlayer. If it's system sounds, they may be configured to play directly with alsaplay or something going directly to your soundcard.
By Morty at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
The "Test Sound" button in the "Sound System" plays a sound, so I doubt that aRts is totally broken as you presume. Also, the System Notifications work.
However, this might be an aRts issue. I am using the current SVN branch 1.5.
Actually the name is "Embedded Media Player(Kaboodle Component)". This ships with KDE. I think that the same code is used for the "Navigation Panel" "Media Player" and the "Previews". However, I note that EMP(KC) only works for audio, trying to play a video results in Konqueror hanging.
Originally, all KDE sound went through aRts. I don't know what currently uses aRts and what doesn't if KDE is built "--with-arts". If this works for you, what aRts version are you using and where did you get it?
By James Richard Tyrer at Sat, 2007/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
Yes, you are right your aRts are not totally broken, but your KDE install clearly is. The full name of Embedded Media Player spells it out, Kaboodle Component or in technical terms the Kaboodle kpart. You have the kpart working, but not the standalone player using the kpart. Don't you find theat a little odd? Sounds like you have multiple versions lying around,linking issues, broken Sycoca database, old broken .desktop files or a combination of those issues.
I don't think using Kaboodle(embedded or not) playing video will work very well, the video support in aRts newer reached it's potential. Not sure if it's even works/are enabled anymore. Try using Kaboodles video brother Codeine for that.
As for aRts usage, the programs in the kdemultimedia package uses it. Kaboodle Noatun and JuK(JuK can alsouse direct output with the akode lib). Amarok can use multiple backends, but usually defaults to Xine not aRts. All the video players(Codeine,Kaffeine, KPlayer, KMPlayer etc.) use Xine or MPlayer. One neat but not to commonly used trick is that Xine actually can use aRts as output for sound, and it solves the old problem of applications locking the sound device(I think more use of this would have lesend some of aRts historic bad reputation).
I have never actually had any major problems with aRts, either self compiled or as distribution packages all the wayfrom the KDE2 days. On this machine I'm currently using aRts 1.5.8 and KDE 3.5.8, from backports Suse 10.1.
By Morty at Sat, 2007/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
You are using an aRts binary which was probably patched by SuSE.
So, it appears that the aRts issues have not been resolved and I will have to try going back to a patched copy. If I can find a copy of an SRPM for the SuSE binary, I will try that.
By James Richard Tyrer at Tue, 2007/10/23 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
I'm having this same problem with OpenSUSE. Not all of my sounds work at the moment. Amarok w/gstreamer is fine, but I don't have any system sounds, even tough the "test" buttong in the kde control center module works to play a sound. Any fixes for this yet?
By Jake at Mon, 2007/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
The "longer life" of the 3.5 branch is indeed an excellent news. IMHO, and although the 4.x serie is very promising, this branch is actually the most complete and most convincing alternative to proprietary solutions, for home-users and corporate users.
I want to thank you all KDE guys and girls and allow myself to stress how much KDEPIM (and the synchronization part) is a decisive piece to improve for wider adoption in corporations (with Koffice of course) !
Many thanks folks,
By Jean-Alexandre at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
That are very good news. I use KDE every single day. Thank you for work.
By Yttrium at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Long live, KDE3!
I think it unlikely that KDE 3.x will be abandoned til at earliest 4.1, when things settle down a little bit and 4 gets as solid as 3.
By G2g591 at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Already in Rawhide
It's already in Rawhide. :-) Updates for Fedora 7 and Fedora Core 6 are being prepared and should be ready in about a week.
By Kevin Kofler at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
KDE4 Beta 3
I wonder there is no KDE4 beta 3 released yet. Wasn´t that scheduled to October 15th?
By Duuuhk at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Beta 3
It will be released on Thursday due to some slight schedule changes.
By Erunno at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Bugs resolved
These two bugs (almost the same) seem to be solved, at least for me:
They are related to Kopete, which shouldn't access tv card at startup.
By Me at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Bugs resolved
Ah yes, I ended up with several broken MythTV recordings due to this before I changed the permissions so that Kopete didn't have access to my TV card.
By makomk at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
Holy /crap/, you guys outdid yourselves! So many bugs were fixed, this is most excellent. :) Thank you all for the great work!
By Balinares at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Hey, what is this "favorite folders" a la Outlook? :) Nice addition altough I have too many accounts and too little screen estate to enjoy it.
But is it only my impression or IMAP support has suffered a slow-down in respect to KDE 3.5.7? I'm on Kubuntu Gutsy (well, just dist-upgraded to benefit KDE 3.5.8 new packages)
By Vide at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KMail
I found this favorite folder only on Ubuntu :-(
By xavier at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KMail
Yes, this comes from kdepim-enterprise. You'll see it on Fedora shortly (Fedora 7 updates, Fedora 8).
By Kevin Kofler at Fri, 2007/10/19 - 5:00am
> Bugs in handling HTTP connections have been fixed
Thank god, finally! Does dilbert.com work properly yet?
By anon at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: finally!
I've been reading dilbert.com daily since -- well, must've been KDE 1.12 -- with konqueror. No problems at all...
By Boudewijn Rempt at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: finally!
Yeah, but it doesn't work right. Some clunk with HTTP makes it insanely slow there.
By anon at Thu, 2007/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: finally!
You're missing a word or two -- "for" and "me" -- because I don't doubt it's slow for you, but for me, konqueror loads www.dilbert.com right speedily.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Thu, 2007/10/18 - 5:00am
Re: finally!
I'd say the same as Boudewijn, newer had any problems and the speed is good.
On the other hand I have seen "speed problems" and lots of timeout problems on some sites with Konqueror, while other browsers like Opera or Firefox are ok. But that has always been easily solved by disabling IPv6 support in KDE, still lot of equipment out there not handling it well.
By Morty at Sat, 2007/10/20 - 5:00am
Update this page, please.!
Hy folks,
I'm saving money to send another donation. KDE rocks.!! This release shows how KDE E.V. is professional and responsible with the users. KDE 4 is a huge chalange, but the bug hunting and developing of 3.5 is on the road.
Please, update this page. It stopped at kde 3.3.2 and display Conectiva Linux as a linux distribution with KDE.
By from Brazil at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Konqueror profiles
KDE gets more awesome from release to release :-)
Really, i cant stand all those other Desktops anymore... Whenever i try another Desktop (or operating system without KDE), i begin to miss several features after a short time and then i just feel the urge to throw it all away... Well, no bashing, but the conclusion that KDE is simply perfect for me :-)
One big thing that bothers me for a long time now is Konquerors profile management, and i still hope that this will be fixed somehow...
Its nearly impossible to have independent konqueror profiles, like having different toolbars per profile, at least not without some "hacking" on the config files like described here:
This "hack" works, but not for every setting... It would be optimal to have some sort of profile management like in KDE4's Konsole, where you can edit *every* setting _per profile_, like toolbars, the tabbar and various settings...
THIS is the ONLY reason why i do not use Konqueror for browsing...
By Jan at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror profiles
One other thing that may be worth fixing is some kind of DNS cache built into the kio slaves. You can do this by running pdnsd externally or just using a proxy server, but that's additional work on the user side.
Well I use konqui for browsing but the thing Jan describes is a bit enerving indeed.
By Dunkelstern at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Konqueror 5.0?!
would you mind to tell me what "Konqueror 5.0" is? its marketshare is 0,02% for september 2007.
By twilightzone at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror 5.0?!
Open your Konqueror's Config Dialog and look at How your browser show it's ID. My Konqueror is configured with this ID tag.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.7 (like Gecko)
By from Brazil at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror 5.0?!
mine does not identify itself. it's paranoid. ;-)
By twilightzone at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror 5.0?!
His also says:
Mozilla/5.0 (...) KHTML (like Gecko)
5.0=5.0 :)
As was said before, it's buggy version check. Since the UA includes Gecko, it assumes that it's a Mozilla browser. I guess this was intentional (I rarely see a page that works in FF and not Konqueror), but has some unintentional results.
By riddle at Sat, 2007/10/20 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror 5.0?!
My guess would be buggy method used to check the browser's version.
By Sutoka at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror 5.0?!
these stats are not perfect... they represent only an small sample of the internet population.
looking at browser stats for http://dot.kde.org/ or for http://slashdot.org/ would give totally different results. while those two I just mentionned would give interresting results I'd be happy to look at. The #1 interresting browser stats I'd like to check is those cumulated by the famous http://google.com/ domain ;)
By Mathieu Jobin at Thu, 2007/10/18 - 5:00am
Has anyone information about whether KDM has been ported to qt4 ?
By Frank at Wed, 2007/10/17 - 5:00am
Re: KDM 4 ?
It has in the 4.0 betas (not in 3.5.8 of course), I'm not sure how well the KDE 4 KDM works by now though.
By Kevin Kofler at Fri, 2007/10/19 - 5:00am
But System Settings is borked
Yes, I like the 3.5.8 KDE release. However, it broke System Settings, which when access via K Menu produces a Crash Handler. This problem has been reported to launchpad. This problem was not present until I upgraded to 3.5.8. It would be nice if the problem was identified and fixed ASAP, please????
By Paul Loughman at Tue, 2007/10/30 - 5:00am