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The KDE League, Explained
Chris Schlaeger, one of the two core KDE developers most active in the formation of the KDE League, has written a tome explaining the motivation behind creating the League and why it was done in secret. What it all boils down to: have fun and spread the code!
Hi developers, translators, doc-writers and artists!
I just returned from Las Vegas where we announced the creation of the
Since the creation of the KDE Project in October 1996 we have made 5
Moreover, the technology behind KDE 2.0 would not have been possible
Why are we creating KDE? Simply for the fun of it! We spend a
So promoting KDE is almost as important as working on KDE. Recent
This was the motivation for us to create a professional organization
Obviously some of our contacts were as busy as we are, and we were not
In all announcements concerning the KDE League we have emphasized the
Anything that can spoil the fun is potentially dangerous for the
The KDE League is a not-for-profit corporation controlled by a board
The KDE League has a budget of around US$120.000 for the first
You may have noticed that KDE does not depend on any kind of cash flow
A few people have complained that the creation of the KDE League
As you can see, the creation of the KDE League does not affect many of
I hope this will answer some of the questions you might have. You can
-- KDE 2.0: Conquer your Desktop! http://www.kde.org
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I have been a user of KDe since 1.0beta, and a developer for about the past year or so.
One thing I have noticed about KDE developers and users alike is the friendly, warm nature towards new users and developers.
I can remember a number of times goign into #kde and posting to kde-devel about simple introductory questions to KDE development, and I remember getting an amzingly quick and encouraging response from the developers.
These are the reasons I am a KDE user and developer, and do not believe for one second any league or organisation will change that. I know from discussing and hanging out with many of my good friends in KDe that they would *NOT* let any finincial or otherwise organisation screw KDE.
I trust the KDe League and I think it will bring some great things to KDE - mainly publicity and impact on new users, but we can keep the developers weaving the magic that makes KDE so popular.
If some of the less informed members of the critique assume that the KDE League is a bad thing, lets just ignore them and carry on doing what makes KDE great - producing a great desktop envirenment and applications, and providing a nice friendly platform for potential users/developers.
By Jono Bacon at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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On the contrary!
By Smári P. McCarthy at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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How can creating a marketing side of KDE that *doesn't* affect KDE development be a bad thing?
This can only be a good thing by bringing KDE to more desktops and bring more users and developers with it.
Please tell the rational behind your negative feeling?
By Jono at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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Thanks for the great explanation, Chris! Unfortunately it seems that regardless of what we say about the League the media is determined to
The KDE League has made it abundantly clear that our intent is not to harm GNOME. We have repeated this consistently in interviews, in press releases, in our Mission Statement, in answering questions and in other public statements. Instead, the KDE League exists so that all users and developers -- and not just those in the Linux community -- will know about a great choice in the desktop market.
The backers of the KDE League are quite simply supporting an Open Source project. The fact that many, if not most, KDE League members are also members of the GNOME Foundation underscores that these members are not trying to have one project dominate the other. What most are trying to do is support Open Source projects that offer their customers a choice. Yes, it's all about choice. So the media is getting it backwards -- these organizations were not formed to destroy one project or the other; quite to the contrary, they were formed to support both projects to help provide all developers and users with choice.
Not to pick on this article in particular, but the second paragraph states that
In observing this, the author writes, "Such a play makes no sense; each camp seeks to make its project the definitive Linux desktop" and then goes on to write fof the supposed "war" between KDE and GNOME. In case, as it seems, he is writing about the League, the statement is not correct. It is the League's mission to make KDE a, not the, desktop standard. Moreover, KDE is not limited to Linux systems. Maybe it takes some out-of-the-box thinking, but isn't it imaginable that users can actually have a choice over a desktop, much as they do over virtually all other products they use? Of course there
It is fundamental precept of Western (and at this juncture most of the world's) economic systems that choice -- and hence competition -- is good. For some reason, perhaps due to the recent domination of the PC software industry by one company, this truism seems to have been lost on many people. With respect to desktops they can think only in terms of the Highlanders: "There can be only one". But quite to the contrary, no one desktop can or should satisfy all users. There is no intent to make KDE "defeat" GNOME; the League simply wants a level playing field with other desktops -- particularly proprietary variations that have huge marketing budgets and extensive marketing campaigns -- so that developers and users can make an informed choice rather than having to settle on some default imposed by a mega-corporation.
So truly speaking it is not the existence of the KDE League and the GNOME Foundation which "intensif[y] the confrontation and makes coexistence that much harder to achieve".
In short, the members of the League and the Foundation are supporting two Open Source projects that offer users and developers excellent and free (as in speech) choices. And that, my friends, is a very great thing.
Andreas Pour
By Andreas Pour at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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The original raison d'etre of GNOME was to make war on KDE. While RMS has made some public statements effecting reconciliation between the two camps, it is a fact that war sells more ad space than peace. It is also true that ZDNet and many other mainstream tech news outlets are themselves complicit in the wintel duopoly and therefore find that covering the war serves their editorial interests, even if the war is only still being waged by an infinitesimally small minority of extremist wackos on the GNOME side.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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There's already a mailing list for issues of interoperability with KDE and GNOME developers. Those, who don't consider this enough of a statement from both sides, will never be satisfied. Even if you add additional management structure or whatever it is you are proposing.
Making a statement about cease-fire doesn't make more sense either. First, for the reason already stated. Second, it also would mean there WAS a war going on and AFAIK, this simply isn't true. There were outbursts from both sides but by large the big mouths were zealots from both sides. Just as english soccer clubs can't do much about behavior of their fans, KDE (and GNOME) can't do more about behavior of their users.
And it's hard to exclude someone from voluntary project. What would you like to do? Ban their code? Censor their messages? It's hard for me to find a better way to destroy this two projects than this.
I'm sorry if this is going to sound rude, but get real. Not only won't your proposal help a bit with the media, it will just give conspiracy wacos more fuel (you know, "where's smoke, there's fire" sort of thing).
I appreciate your intention, I really do. However, I think it's a very bad solution what you are proposing.
By Marko Samastur at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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You're probably right that the media just won't pay any attention if they haven't already. They have their anti-Free Software axe to grind, and don't show any signs of quitting. The statement about a cease-fire doesn't have to use martial terminology. I am only using those terms because those are the terms being used by the media. A simple statement that {KDE | GNOME} acknowledges the accomplishments of the other and that both are dedicated to the common goal of making Linux easier to use would be sufficient.
By Joe Forbes at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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In fact, I was mildly shocked when I first heard of the Gnome Foundation. In my opinion KDE is an excellent piece of work, based on an equally excellent framework, and I just couldn't understand why so many big companies seemed to think different or ignore it. To see most of those also join the KDE League is very reassuring and just fair. Thanks to the people behind the scenes for this initiative. I think you did it the right way.
By Alexander Kuit at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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1st let me say that it has been a pleasure for me reading Chris' understandable and good explanation of the KDE League.
Unfortunately Andreas Pour seems to be absolutely right when criticizing the 'media' here:
> Unfortunately it seems that regardless of what we say about the League the media is determined
Might it be that /some/ journalists just don't realize their writing being both incorrect and harmful?
Harmful to the Free Software community, to all the people writing and/or supporting free software!
The winner of such articles will not be KDE nor GNOME but those people telling others that Free Software is not reliable.
A few weeks ago Byron Sonne posted his opinion on this to osOpinion, that IMO clarifies the issue very well:
"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" "Because we use vi, son. They use emacs."
By Karl-Heinz Zimmer at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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Might it be that /some/ journalists just don't realize their writing being both incorrect and harmful?
Most important of all, those who hope for KDE and GNOME to succeed must take this issue seriously. If enough of the potential users believe the war exists, it may actually break out again through simple inertia: "I like {KDE | GNOME}, there is a war between KDE and GNOME, therefore I must hate {GNOME | KDE} and do anything I can to make things difficult for them." Such a scenario must be prevented if at all possible.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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Thanx for this explanation.
next thing is to install linux/kde on all computers in our training-centers. teaching linux/kde will be a great fun!
By Gunnar Johannesmeyer at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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Will someone please post more detailed information about the supposed "studies" that indicate KDE owns 70% of the Linux desktop market. I have seen no such "studies."
By Jamin P. Gray at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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Actually this number doesnt matter if you read the above and it was a mistake to mention it.
By Lenny at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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As if anyone really thinks that KDE had conceived of this idea before the GNOME Foundation was announced, but just "forgot" to work on it whilst KDE 2.0 was being developed. Yeah, right, and the moon is made of cheese. Green cheese at that.
The idea of promoting KDE to a non-Linux audience is a worthwhile one, but surely it would be better for Linux as a whole to do this, and not for separate organisations to promote their own devisive agendas. Linux has already suffered in the eyes of corporations for being too fragmented, these people want standards, not multiple and incompatible "choices". Having two separate Foundations or Leagues or whatever is just going to exacerbate the situation.
We need a standard for the desktop, but it's not going to happen whilst KDE and GNOME are busy engaged in a pissing contest over control of the Linux desktop. Time to grow up people, before Microsoft eat your 5% market share for breakfast.
By anti-kupolu at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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By ac at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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So we have learned how to be ignorant. How impressive.
By kupolu at Thu, 2000/11/23 - 6:00am
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A few questions: What exactly do you mean by "grow up"? Are you suggesting that one group or the other should disband? Do you think GNOME will voluntarily break up the GNOME Foundation? If they don't, should KDE unilaterally close down the League? What is so wrong about having a separate PR group for each project, anyway?
I think you have been reading too much of the dishonest and malicious news coverage of the war if you see a pissing contest going on. Either that, or you are paying too much attention to the worst elements on both sides.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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There's no point in trying to reason with him.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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I read Slashdot pretty regularly, too, so careful with the anti-Slashdot comments, please. Not everyone on Slashdot is a jerk. It may be that I can't reason with anti-kupolu, and I appreciate the heads up. However, if you need to tell people he's a troll then it's important to respond to his statements so that those who do not yet know his reputation will not be swayed by his arguments.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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Oops. "...an articulate arguments..." Unfortunate, that. Sorry.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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You're missing the whole point, actually a couple of whole points. First, you speak as if this whole desktop thing is a matter of survival for Linux. Linux survived and even prospered without corporate backing in the past, and I believe it will continue to do so regardless of the existence or lack thereof. Those of us who have been using Linux for a long time had to get used to the fact early on that the corporations who had even heard of it thought of it as a toy that would never amount to anything. That was ok. We were having fun. Most of us are still having fun. Which brings me to another point. If you read the announcement, you'll find it's about the KDE developers having fun. I'll bet they're not sitting in front of the monitor generating stomach acid over whether Corporation X likes them or not. We Linux folks are convinced we have a better way than Windows. We are convinced that if corporations look at what we've got, they'll think it's a better way too. We're more than happy to welcome them aboard. When you say that "these people want standards, not multiple and incompatible 'choices'", it makes me wonder just whose playbook you're reading out of. Sounds like something Ballmer would say. The Linux desktop world is not a zero-sum game. As long as Gnome folks are having fun with Gnome, Gnome will survive and continue to provide them with fun. The same goes for the KDE folks. For those who see it as a pissing contest, well, maybe it's because they're the ones producing the piss. And as for growing up, those of us who have realize that that the real world is not a game of Doom. You don't have to kill everybody else to have fun yourself.
By Rod Wright at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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While I agree that the parent poster sees a pissing contest where there is none, I feel I must differ with you on one point. The desktop thing is not a matter of survival. It is part of a strategy for expansion out of the server market that Linux is currently doing so well in. If we want Linux to continue to be a marginal player *in the desktop market*, the status quo is fine. If we want Linux to push Windows off of more corporate desktops, something must be done to combat the charges that Linux is too fragmented and contains a lot of mutually incompatible products. Anything that makes easier the IT director's job of convincing the pointy-haired bosses that Linux is a safe bet will help the cause of increasing the Linux install base.
By Joe Forbes at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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I don't think Linux as a whole will ever be a completely mutually compatible collection of products. There are just too many people who want too many different things from it. If the goal is to replace Windows on the corporate desktop, then maybe the only thing to do is take Linux away from the hobbyists, put it under some single controlling authority, and appoint a committee to decide how it will look and work. In which case it becomes just another Windows. There is as much chance of getting all the Linux folks one one sheet of paper for the pointy-haired boss as there is of getting them all to cut their hair and put on a shirt and tie to look respectable for him. If you want a cathedral, don't ask the bazaar goers to build it for you. The key really is not uniformity, which will never happen, but interoperability, which is entirely achievable. What businesses don't want is somebody e-mailing a spreadsheet to somebody else in the organization who can't read it because they're not running the same operating system, or because the Gnome spreadsheet app has a certain file format while the KDE spreadsheet app has a different, incompatible one. The e-mail got there successfully, so we know interoperability is possible. What needs standardization is not the desktop, but the ways in which information is exchanged. Let everybody see the same information, but let them choose what desktop they want to see it on.
By Rod Wright at Tue, 2000/11/28 - 6:00am
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Certainly let them choose. I don't think that anyone's choices should be limited. Interoperability is definitely more important than consistency. Granted all of that, it is still critical that Linux do everything it can to take advantage of its flexibility by being able to emulate the user's expected behavior and by not requiring they become experts on finding and editing config files, etc., etc.
By Joe Forbes at Tue, 2000/11/28 - 6:00am
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If you take an even wider view, there are now about 6 billion people on this planet. Those using desktops are a minority (maybe 5% of world population) compared with those using mobile phones (maybe 10% of world population) or those using phones at all (maybe 25% of world population). There is still plenty of scope for growth, assuming world economic growth can continue, and assuming that people will want and need devices of some type to communicate and compute with.
This may explain why is there is so much recent interest in embedded Linux and other embedded software.
See also (eg.) Marketplace Trends in mCommerce
By Paul C. Leopardi at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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By Paul C. Leopardi at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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By kidcat at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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An official KDE-linux might strain relations with the existing distros, which would be bad. It would also take valuable resources away from current and future core KDE projects. I have to say that I think any distribution that doesn't offer packages for both desktop environments is probably a bad thing for KDE in that it might lead to a renewal of the GNOME jihad against KDE.
By Joe Forbes at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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I get your points... But I'm not done whith the KDE-Linux idea however :) Maby I'll just cal it "Office-Linux" and still base it on KDE... that would just piss of all the GNOME fans, and not the other distros. The reason I posted my idea here is because KDE has a very wellworking machinery. And I hoped that everybody wouldt scream, "why didn't we think of that" ;). The only thing important to me is killing M$, and I find it sad that bureaucracy and politics has poisoned the opensouce community ;....( I think we should all gang up on M$, cut it's throat and then let the thousands of flavours flourish :) /kidcat
By kidcat at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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...piss [off] all the GNOME fans...
By Joe Forbes at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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I don't want to piss off the GNOME, ohh no I don't. On the contrary. But as long as there is two horses, I'll have to bet on one of them. And since KDE2 is the easier choise... As I have understood it GNOME is mainly used by the people who still bitch about calling Linux GNUIX. IMHO people who use (badly generalized) Debian/GNOME are the kind that flame newbies to hell on a good day, which is obviously a good thing for M$. I speak of own bad experinces. Now if-if-if GNOME and KDE got together and bouild "K-GNOME-DE" I would clap my little paws :) (That would be so good!). But until then the lamers need a Linux/"DTE" whith pre-configured office+everything that does not install +2GB if you choose Standard Workstation. It would be a bad thing if this was not possible without starting a civil war over it./kidcat
By kidcat at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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Agreed that GNU/Linux is a ridiculous and unwieldy way of referring to Linux, and that those who insist on doing so are a bit silly. Two things, though: Debian is now offering packages for KDE2 in their unstable branch. The only reason they are in the unstable branch is that they were not included in the first release of the current Debian distro. They will be stable in the next major release of Debian. And I would find it easier to swallow the KDE-based single-cd very-few-installation-choices distribution thing if there were a companion distro that used GNOME, or at least packages designed or compatible with the KDE-based distro so that those who wanted to could try out GNOME.
By Joe Forbes at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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It seems that we agree on most points here :) And I am sure that the GNOME's arent lazy, so if dot.kde.org announced that linux.kde.org was comming up they wouldt probably have something equal (or better?) up in say... 3 days :). And if both projects build on the same "skeleton" it would be a huge step towards full inter-compatibillity. And yes, package design should make it easy to install GNOME on "KDE-Linux"... just as anything else should be easy to install. (I think RPMs would do). The goal here is not to make KDE win but to make M$ looooose :). I think it would be a great thing if there were both a GNOME-Linux and a KDE-Linux, which each showed their respective strengths. And it would be even greater if you had one installed and inserted the other cd.. and violá both DT's on the same machine. But as an element of advertizing it would be easier to the lamer if he picked two cds of the shelf, looked on the backsides... and put the one he thought looked the coolest in the basket.I think that the "strategy"-folks from both KDE and GNOME should get together and drink a bunch of beers whilest discussing a stradegy that resembled the above (beerdrinking has let to a lot of concensus in Denmark :).This has been a very fruitfull discussion to me.. thx. And no offence taken on the typô :)/kidcat
By kidcat at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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We do seem to agree on most things, at least on this subject;-)
By Joe Forbes at Sun, 2000/11/26 - 6:00am
KDE Linux
In general, i agree with the entire first article. There _should_ be a kde based distro made from kde only. This is what i would use. And as for the GNOME discent, why not simply make a GNOME based distro as well (or at least propose the idea of an entirely kde based distro and a seperate completely gnome based distro)
Or even if a third party (non kde-dev) makes this distro. I would be the first on the list for it.
The only thing i dont agree with is the lack of command line tools. After all it is unix - there needs to be some cl tools (most notably gcc at least) and many of the graphical tools require command line tools as backends.
By nick at Fri, 2005/08/12 - 5:00am
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Are you aware that you have replied to a very old news article?
On topic, you may want to take a look at the two distributions Ubuntu (GNOME-centric) and Kubuntu (KDE-centric) that both get a lot of hype lately...
Here's the kubuntu homepage: http://www.kubuntu.org/
By cm at Fri, 2005/08/12 - 5:00am
If the tables turned...
I believe the formation of the KDE Leage
By the way, i got my info from recent polls
By Mac+ at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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Polls are not always correct.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2000/11/24 - 6:00am
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I like the choices of desktop I have.
By Scotty Orr at Sat, 2000/11/25 - 6:00am
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KDE sucks!
By gnome-user at Tue, 2000/11/28 - 6:00am


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"We kind of anticipated that with five candidates it would be hard to get that 50 percent, but I feel very good," Ortiz said. "We're still going to work hard for the next two months to make sure we're ready for the runoff."
Ortiz remained confident in his chances for re-election, pointing to accomplishments such as construction of a badly needed parking garage at the jail and installing a high-tech system for remote visitations.
The election results set the stage for a potentially grueling general election fight that could largely be centered on how the Bexar County Jail is run.
"I'm just pleased that we'll get a few days for a breather, and then we're headed towards the November elections," Pamerleau said, adding that the contested primary race had made her a better candidate.
Ortiz's primary competitors, his newly minted Republican rival and several Bexar County Commissioners have criticized his management of the jail — pointing to 41,000 hours of overtime he authorized from December 2010 to December 2011. During the last fiscal year, which ended in September 2011, the overtime bill from jail employees amounted to $1.2 million.
Republican Bexar County Precinct 3 Commissioner Kevin Wolff has even called for privatizing the jail, a position that none of the candidates running for sheriff have adopted.
Ortiz has said the overtime was necessary and could be avoided with more realistic budgeting by commissioners.
The contests for Bexar County Constable positions remained murkier, with three Democratic incumbents headed for runoffs.
In Precinct 1: Democratic constable Ruben Tejeda led his four primary challengers but challenger Ray Lopez was poised to join him in a runoff. No Republican sought the job.
In Precinct 2: Democratic constable Val Flores was ahead in a five-way race but nowhere near a majority, and it was unclear which of his challengers he would face in a runoff. Republicans, meanwhile, picked Jimmy Willborn to run against the eventual Democratic nominee.
In Precinct 3: Republicans backed incumbent Mark Vojvodich over two other candidates, while Democrats only fielded one candidate in the race — Edward Coleman.
In Precinct 4: Incumbent Democrat Robert "Mike" Blount was headed for a runoff against Rebecca Mesa Lopez, the leader of three opponents. Republicans only fielded one candidate in the race — Manolo Valente.
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A Daytona Beach drug dealer who said he was in fear for his life when he shot and killed a customer trying to drive away without paying for marijuana was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
DAYTONA BEACH -- It was a one in a million shot, but it was not a lucky shot.
It certainly was not lucky for 25-year-old LeKeefe Lee, whose heart was pierced by the 9 mm bullet after it traveled through the back window of a moving car and between the seats.
And it was not lucky for Emanuel Laboy, a drug dealer who fired the shot after Lee tried to drive away without paying for drugs.
Laboy's luck did not improve Monday when Circuit Judge Frank Marriott sentenced him to 18 years in state prison after finding him guilty of manslaughter with a firearm for the fatal shooting on Dec. 10, 2010. Assistant State Attorney J. Ryan Will had asked for 20 years, the maximum allowed in a plea agreement.
Will said Laboy was retaliating for being ripped off by Lee, who did not pay the $900 bill for 3 ounces of marijuana.
"Out of anger Mr. Laboy pulled his weapon and fired one shot into the vehicle," Will said. "This is really truly a one in a million kind of shot between the seats and into the victim's body — a terminal round."
Defense Attorney Don Huseman said Laboy panicked because he thought Lee was reaching for a gun. Lee had used his gun as collateral for the drug deal and the firearm was still inside his car.
"It was not out of anger," Huseman said. "It was out of fear. Mr. Laboy believed that Mr. Lee was reaching for a weapon."
Laboy, 28, of Daytona Beach, handcuffed and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, stood before the judge and asked for leniency. Laboy is referred to as Emanuel Laboy Rivera in court documents.
"First of all I would like to say sorry to the family for their loss," Laboy said. "Sorry to my own family for the pain I'm making them go through at this moment."
Laboy said he fired because he was afraid.
"I was in fear for my life. Otherwise I would not have taken the deadly action," Laboy said.
His wife, Selma Laboy, also asked the judge for leniency. She said Laboy worked everyday to support her and their two children.
"He has been a wonderful father for nine years," she said.
The man who Laboy shot was also a father. Lee was a father to three boys and one girl ranging in age from 6 to 10 years old, said Lee's sister, Glomethia Ortiz, of Orlando. She said afterward the 18-year sentence was fair.
"Ain't nobody won in this case," Ortiz said. "And both of them don't have a life with their kids right now. My brother will never see his kids. Whatever time (Laboy) serves he still has a future with his children, while we only carry photos and memories."
Lee's life ebbed away as his car crashed into an oak tree four blocks from Laboy's house. Laboy was initially charged with second-degree murder but prosecutors downgraded it to the manslaughter charge and capped the prison time at 20 years as part of the plea agreement. The manslaughter charge usually has a maximum of 30 years in prison.
Judge Marriott said the situation was not unusual.
"Unfortunately, if you are a person in my position, you see a lot of cases like this," Marriott said. "People are drug dealers and they have guns and gee whiz something goes wrong. Surprise. Surprise."


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Introducing a novel concept: Russian tomfoolery depicted not from a dashcam, but from an office building. An enterprising, camera-wielding Russian had a birdseye view of a front end loader operator playing a game of parking lot dominos with about eight cars.
The cars' owners were pissed, and like good Russians, didn't stand around throwing angry gestures and gang signs at the guy. No sir. They immediately dragged him out of his cab and beat the crap out of him. As he rubbed his bloodied nose and blinked at the mayhem he'd caused, another guy slammed a door in his face. Methinks it's a good thing we never got into a hot war with these guys. (Hat tip to Guntis!)


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Functions not data structures
From HaskellWiki
Revision as of 22:47, 1 November 2010 by Henk-Jan van Tuyl (talk | contribs) (Added Categorie FAQ)
Sometimes the best way to represent data is using a function.
Church encoding can be used to represent any algebraic data type using only functions.
Another example is the following, not very efficient, implementation of a FiniteMap:
type FiniteMap key elt = key -> Maybe elt
emptyFM :: FiniteMap key elt
emptyFM = \k' -> Nothing
addToFM :: (Eq key) => FiniteMap key elt -> key -> elt -> FiniteMap key elt
addToFM m k v = \k' -> if (k == k') then Just v else m k'
delFromFM :: (Eq k) => FiniteMap key elt -> key -> FiniteMap key elt
delFromFM m k = \k' -> if (k == k') then Nothing else m k'
lookupFM :: (Eq k) => FiniteMap key elt -> key -> Maybe elt
lookupFM m k = m k
Runtime compilation uses functions not data structures to implement an interpretation layer.


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Chandrasiri Bandara astrologer arrested
A Popular astrologer of Srilanka Mr. Chandrasiri Bandara arrested by Srilanka Police due to Publicly predicting of President Mahinda Rajapaksa's immediate ouster from office. Police says that they want to investigate the source of information for his prediction police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said.
Police said that Mr Bandara told an opposition meeting that the prime minister would take over as president on 9 September and the opposition leader would become prime minister.
United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake says that Srilanka heading towards a dictatorship, the only crime Chandrasiri Bandara commited was presenting information that are adverse to the government.
Chandrasiri Bandara is currently conducting a Srilanka's popular TV program "Para Kiyana Tharuka" on Derana TV.


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The judge who decides whether yoga may be practiced in the Encinitas public schools will need to base his decision on a working definition of religion, and, since religion means different things to different people, that will not be easy.
The word "religion" comes from two Latin roots, the prefix "re-," meaning again, and the verb "ligio," meaning tie together, as in the English word "ligature." But tie what to what? I understand the word broadly to mean a rejoining of the self to whatever gives life meaning. For many Christians it is their belief in God that gives their lives meaning, so religion, for them, is a re-tying of the soul to God. For them this is chiefly accomplished through prayer.
The word "yoga" is essentially synonymous with "religion." The Sanskrit word is a close cognate with the English word "yoke," used to harness two oxen together. It also means "tie together." As the Bhagavad Gita explains, any practice is a yoga that brings the soul together with God, or with whatever gives life meaning. So, the answer to the question, may yoga be practiced in the public schools, appears to be a simple, "No."
But there is such a wide variety of practices. Some Hindus practice the physical exercises that in the West are called yoga, while other Hindus prefer instead to leave gifts of milk, fruit and flowers at their local temple. Meditation is a yoga. Walking is a yoga. Even breathing is essential to most yogas. If the First Amendment prohibits government sponsorship of any practice that someone in the world considers religious, it would be necessary to prohibit breathing in public schools. This would be absurd. Breathing might be a religious practice for some people, but it has other useful purposes, so people who do not think of it as a religious practice might still wish to engage in it.
So if we are not trying to prohibit any activity that someone deems religious, the question is: what are we trying to prohibit? I thought I might find an answer by asking myself why I find prayer in school objectionable. (By the way, I do not object to other people praying in school; I only object when I am expected to join in.) I consider religious practice to be any practice that ties me closer to life's meaning. Thus, I practice my religion by going to work, thinking and writing, turning my compost, cooking, etc. I find my religion in nearly everything I do. I also attend a church regularly, since my friends there help remind me that my whole life is sacred.
But one thing that does not give my life meaning is prayer. I don't believe in a God who listens to and answers prayers. Prayer feels to me like a waste of my precious time, and I would object to my government sponsoring an activity in which prayer was expected of me. I do not find prayer objectionable because it is a religious practice; I find it objectionable because, for me, it is not one.
But does prayer serve any other useful purpose? Prayer does not improve our ability to think, calculate, write, or engage with others socially. It does not improve our cardiovascular system. It has no purpose other than to tie one closer to God, and in my case it fails to do even that. It is someone else's religious practice – which is why the First Amendment prohibits government sponsorship of it. Yoga exercises, on the other hand, may be religious practice for some people; but, they also have the effect of stretching the muscles, improving strength and flexibility, and inducing relaxation. As with breathing, there are reasons why someone who did not consider them religious might wish to engage in them anyway. It is therefore not clear that the First Amendment would prohibit yoga exercises in public schools, provided they are presented as exercises.


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Affordable gourmet food
Our expert knows where you can enjoy affordable, Michelin-starred food.
let's do lunch!
The rule for keeping down the costs is not to go in the evening. A three-course meal at the Auguste in Paris only costs 37 euros at lunchtime, as opposed to 154 euros for dinner and wine.
Two courses, three stars
You'll have to pay a little more at Jean Georges in New York: 58 dollars for a two-course lunch. But it's still a good investment, as the famous gourmet restaurant boasts three Michelin stars.
As cheap as fast food
Lunch at Shinjuku Kappo Nakajima in Tokyo starts at 800 yen (roughly 6 euros). So it's no wonder that the queues for this Michelin-starred eatery are always long. On the menu: fish, miso soup, rice and green tea.


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Tagged: Edwin Jackson
Twitter: A Baseball Writer's Friend or Foe?
A lot to feel good about tonight for the Yankees, as they routed the White Sox 12-3 to a series split.
Already leading 2-0 heading into the fifth, the Yankees' bats came alive and they scored six runs in the frame. It began with a home run by Brett Gardner and it all snowballed from there.
Curtis Granderson tripled, Nick Swisher and Robinson Cano both singled, Alex Rodriguez doubled, Eric Chavez was intentionally walked, Russell Martin singled and Jorge Posada reached base on a walk. They sent 12 batters to plate in the fifth, which lasted 32 minutes.
The brightest sign for the Yanks was Swisher, who went 3-for-4 tonight with a home run (his first of the year), four RBIs, and three runs scored. The right fielder was 0 for his last 19 coming into the game, but came out of his slump with a solid night at the plate.
CC Sabathia gave the Yanks a nice outing: seven innings pitched, seven hits, three runs (none of them were earned), one walk, and six strikeouts. For his efforts, he picked up his second win of the year and the big man lowered his ERA to 2.25.
Sabathia was countered by Edwin Jackson, who no-hit the Yankees through the first four innings.
But don't let the words "no-hit" fool you. He didn't have it.
Jackson walked four straight batters in the third inning to give up a run, followed by allowing a sacrifice fly to Cano to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead, despite not giving up a hit.
Gardner's homer to start the huge fifth inning was the Yanks' first hit.
But enough about tonight's squash of the ChiSox and onto the reason I am writing.
In the first inning of yesterday's game, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was run by home plate umpire Todd Tichenor after arguing a questionable called strike three on Paul Konerko; the ball was low and inside but the ump rung Konerko up.
The Chicago skipper argued, was thrown out, then continued to scream at the ump as he walked off the field and into the tunnel on the way to the clubhouse.
What did he do next? Well, he tweeted. Twice. First:
This one is going to cost me a lot of money. This is patetic.
Today a tough guy show up at Yankee Stadium.
Major League Baseball is now reviewing his tweets, as they maintain a policy that prevents employees (including players and coaches) from making disparaging remarks about umpires.
And here is where social media and networking can get ugly.
When I first heard about Twitter, I had absolutely no desire to create an account. I was only interested in Facebook as a means to connect with my friends, family, and classmates. A friend of mine kept telling me about all of the celebrity activity on Twitter as well as all of the famous athletes who have verified accounts.
He kept nagging me and nagging me until I finally gave in and created a Twitter. At first I had no idea how to use it; I just started following all the celebrities and athletes I like, not knowing how to communicate using Twitter.
Finally I got the hang of it and figured out how to use the @mention function.
When I did get to know how to use Twitter, I tried to garner some attention. It worked, a little bit. I tweeted a Yankee Yapping investigation to ESPN baseball insider and former Yankee beat writer Buster Olney, and he re-tweeted it, in other words posting it for his followers to see.
Another former beat writer and current YES Network analyst Jack Curry is another person who has re-tweeted me; I asked him some questions and he responded to me.
During a tweet-driven Q & A session with Yankee catcher Russell Martin, I asked him what his walkup music is when he comes to bat. He answered me, saying he hadn't yet chosen it and he would let the fans choose the song soon.
I even got a re-tweet from Comedy Central comedian and TV show host Daniel Tosh. In terms of reaching out to (and possibly hearing back from) celebrities and pro athletes, Twitter can be pretty cool.
Yet, like in Guillen's case, it can hurt you. Anything negative you post on the internet or in an open forum, such as Twitter or Facebook, can be damaging to your reputation. There are people who have gotten fired from their jobs because of content posted on the internet. Kids have gotten in trouble in school for things they have posted on such sites.
The bottom line is, you have to be careful in terms of what you post. There are ways to protect your tweets and posts, but obviously Guillen didn't and now it will cost him.
Another aspect about Twitter I find fascinating (and in a lot of ways scared of) is how often reporters tweet. Every Yankee beat writer tweets before the game, during the game, and after the game. They usually talk about what's happening in the clubhouse, what's going on with daily news, injury updates, and numbers.
All of this raises the question: is this hurting or helping the journalism industry? Is this what's in store for the long future? Instead of game recaps and numbers from the box score, are we just going to be reading old tweets?
It's pretty scary to think Twitter could impact the sports journalism industry in a huge way.
Even right now, in the high school sports reporting game (in which I'm currently playing), Twitter is a huge commodity. Sometimes I'm asked by former editors to tweet them the final scores of the games I'm covering, just to get them out there. I can only hope by the time I start covering professional sports I am not being asked to just tweet the game. I would rather show off my unique writing skills than my tweeting skills.
Also as a reader, I would rather read an educated game recap and be taken through the game than simply look up old posts on a writer's Twitter account.
Not saying it will come to that, but you never know. In this ever-changing environment and the dominance of digital and social media, who knows what the future holds for sports writing.
If you want to follow me on Twitter, my username is @AJ_Martelli.
I oftentimes tweet about the Yankees; that should come as no shock. However, I tweet whimsical sayings, movie and TV quotes, and lots of phrases that have absolutely no context if you're not with me when I tweet them. And in doing that, I garner the attention of random people.
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Performance of Chopin's Last Tour
Date - Friday, 26th February to Saturday 5th March 2016
Place - The German Club, Adelaide 5000, NSW
Information - (08) 8223 2539
Welcome to the book launch of Phil's latest book, The Red Dust.
My childhood was spent on my parent's property, west of Griffith on the edge of the Hay plain. This property was one of sixty that were a part of a soldier settlement scheme. It is dated during the 1960s.
In 65 and 66 there was a severe drought. "The Red Dust' tells the story of the community during this dry time.
Although the novel tackles such issues as isolation, education, distance, social structure, first nation people and the aftermath of WW2 on the settlers, the novel
obsessively deals with the women who followed their husbands into this hash environment.
Marg Stirling, the main character, has difficulty finding her place in this land that offered her little. The story follows her realisation and acceptance of her lot in this
very tough land.
In this novel I have tried to capture the spirit of the outback. It's extremes, it's unpredictability, the constant battle to survive but most importantly it's great peace
and beauty. It is a description of the uniqueness of this land and its effect upon the inhabitants.
It has been written as homage to my parents and the community we were a part of.
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Question: "Why is the dove often used as a symbol for the Holy Spirit?"
Answer: All four Gospel accounts refer to the baptism of Jesus by John at the Jordan river (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32). The Luke account says "And the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily shape, like a dove on Him." Because the Holy Spirit is just that—spirit—He is not visible to us. This occasion, however, was a real visible appearance, and was doubtless seen by the people. The dove is an emblem of purity and harmlessness (Matthew 10:16), and the form of the dove was assumed on this occasion to signify that the spirit with which Jesus would be endowed would be one of purity and innocence.
Another symbolism involving the dove comes from the account of the Flood and Noah's ark in Genesis 6-8. When the earth had been covered with water for some time, Noah wanted to check to see if there was dry land anywhere, so he sent out a dove which came back with an olive branch in her beak (Genesis 8:11). Since that time, the olive branch has been a symbol of peace. Symbolically, the story of the dove tells us that God declared peace with mankind after the flood purged the earth of its wickedness. The dove represented His Spirit bringing the good news of reconciliation with God. Of course, this was only in a temporal sense because true spiritual reconciliation with God only comes through Jesus Christ. But it is significant that the Holy Spirit was pictured as a dove at Jesus' baptism, thereby once again symbolizing peace with God.
The Holy Spirit, when He assumes a visible form, assumes that which will be symbolic of the thing to be represented. At Pentecost, He assumed the form of "tongues of fire" (Acts 2:30) to signify the miraculous powers of language with which the apostles would be endowed and the power of their message. In the same way, His appearance as the dove symbolizes the gentle Savior bringing peace to mankind through His sacrifice.
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Picks: Shareware Industry Awards Winners - Part 2
|Aug 8, 2007
|Michael E, Callahan
|Related OS:
|Software that can help
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|Skype is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world.
|This browser provides pop-up control and a tabbed navigation mode that lets you open...
|Popular Clipboard Extender Holds Thousands of Clips, remembers clips for days, months, or...
|<p>FTP Voyager is a professional FTP client that supports multiple protocols,...
- ClipMate
- Version: 7.1.07
- System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Get more info
- Download ClipMate NOW!
ClipMate Clipboard Enhancer, by Thornsoft Development won the Shareware Industry Award in the Best Application category. This powerful clipboard utility makes your Windows "clipboard" into something truly useful. ClipMate can hold hundreds of clips and you can even create folders to house special clip items. With the default Windows clipboard you can copy or cut one item. With ClipMate everything you copy or cut is saved. You can go back in and paste something multiple times and that includes things like graphics images.
ClipMate can remove junk from text you've copied, lets you give each clip a new title, and has lots of configurable options. The program has grown constantly since 1991 and it's easy to see why it won. Check it out for yourself.
- Mozilla Firefox
- Version:
- System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Get more info
- Download Mozilla Firefox NOW!
Mozilla Firefox, by Mozilla Foundations won the Shareware Industry Award in the Best Web Enhancement category. Mozilla Firefox is loaded with all the features anyone needs for browsing the Web. It imports your bookmarks from Internet Explorer and makes it easy for you use them. And it has a full range of configurable options -- like saving passwords, keeping your history, and even viewing "source" that's color coded!
Mozilla Firefox supports a huge number of add-ons and extensions the cover an amazing range of purposes. There are add-ons for blogs, weather, music, searches, bookmarks, time, and lots, lots more. Easy to see why Mozilla Firefox won.
- FTP Voyager
- Version:11
- System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Get more info
- Download FTP Voyager NOW!
FTP Voyager, by RhinoSoft.com won the Shareware Industry Awards in the Best Internet Enhancement category. This is a powerful FTP client that's also easy-to-use. It has all the extra features that experienced users want, but it's also easy enough for novice users to get going with. No wonder it's won the Shareware Industry Awards multiople times.
FTP Voyager has a built-in scheduler so you can schedule file transfers. This feature lets you automate tasks like updating your Web pages. It has the power to download, upload, delete, and even synchronize files! Give it a try for yourself. For doing FTP transfers it's the perfect solution!
Skype, by Skype Limited won the Shareware Industry Award in the Best Internet Communication category. This powerful communication tool can be used to make free calls from PC to PC via the Internet. You can talk with friends and family all around the world. With Skype you can also do text and video conversations.
Skype is free to use and you can also use it to call land line phones or cell phones around the world. The Skype VOiP service is inexpensive and easy-to-use. You can even do conference calls and have voice mail. A great solution for keeping in touch.
Google Earth, by Google, Inc. won the Shareware Industry Award in the Best Hobby and Personal Interest category. This cool tool is free and lets you "fly" all around the globe. You can look at your house or apartment, look at the neighborhood school, or look at famous landmarks. You can also use Google Earth to find driving directions, find hotels, parks, places to eat, and lots more. You can also share your searches and have "favorites" that you can go back to again and again.
Michael E. Callahan, known around the world by the trademarked name Dr. File Finder, is regarded as the world's leading expert on shareware. Dr. File Finder works with software programs and developers full-time, and in the average year he evaluates 10,000 programs. Since 1982 he has evaluated over 250,000 software and hardware products. Mr. Callahan began evaluating software online in 1982 and no one has been at it longer. He currently works doing online PR and marketing for software companies, and is the Senior Content Producer for Butterscotch.Com.


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A few weeks ago, Wang Yue, a 2 year old girl from Guangdong province in Southern China was run over and left to die at the side of the street by numerous passers-by. She was then run over again, ignored again and eventually moved to the side of the road by a kindly bin man. Wang Yue sadly dying in the care of doctors, who could do nothing to help. This shocking tale of leaving a fellow human being, a child in fact, to bleed to death at the side of the road, shocked all of us with an innate sense of decency. However, this is a common occurrence: every day, thousands of people die in their hospital beds, the doctors at a loss to act due to ordinary healthy people passing by these invisible victims of our own ignorance and apathy. This lack of organ donation is a severe problem and is now, with huge advances in medical science, the only limiting factor in saving another's life. In the US, an average of 18 people die every day waiting for donor organs.
In the caring, sharing, free health service providing UK, the situation is just as dire. Currently only around 15 million people in the UK have opted themselves or their children into organ donation: that's a mere 20% of the population. The situation is so desperate that there is talk of covering the funeral expenses of donors, effectively paving the way for a cash-for-organs culture. This sad state of affairs in our already overly materialistic world seems like a last resort to tempt the ignorant into a tit-for-tat, what's-mine-is-mine exchange. Why should someone give up their precious organs for free after they die?
Despite what you may have heard down the local, none of the major religions forbid organ donation. None of the great religious texts disallow it, probably because major thoracic surgery was not a widely used procedure 2000-5000 years ago. Religious leaders even actively encourage organ donation- and why not? What could pave your way to heaven faster than altruistically saving someone's life by literally giving a part of yourself? The Jewish faith sees it as every follower's active duty to donate their organs after they die and the Catholic Church as well as Islam portray it as an act of charity. The only caveats lie in Islam, where written consent of the donor or next of kin must be provided (which is in accordance with current UK legislation); Jehova's Witnesses, who need the blood drained from donated organs before donating or receiving and the Shinto and Romany beliefs where it is forbidden but still up to the conscience of the individual believer. Since two thirds of the UK claimed to be religious in the 2011 census, then they should do as their God, Pope, Minister, Pundit, Rabbi or Imam commands and sign up for the godly act of organ donation.
As for the rest of the country, who claim to follow no religion, they have no excuse either. The phrase "you can't take it with you" should be ringing in their ears when their pen hovers over the consent form. Some superstitious people may think that they may need their organs after they die. Ricky Gervais's sidekick, Karl "An Idiot Abroad" Pilkington, claimed that he would donate all of his organs after death but would hesitate about donating his eyes as he doesn't want to be "a blind ghost bumping into stuff". Now, I can't tell you what happens to you after you die. I suppose we'd better wait and see (or not). What I do know is that here and now, on this Earth that we share with seven billion other souls, there are people who need our organs, bundles of tissue that will rot in the ground or be burnt in a furnace after our deaths. By not donating, we are effectively waving a tourniquet in front of a bleeding patient, throwing it in the bin and then walking off into the distance, whistling, never to be seen again. If we ask for money for our organs then we are dangling the same tourniquet and saying to our poor bleeding friend, "Ooh, it's going to cost you"
Lack of advertising may also be to blame for the shortfall but everyone is acutely aware of organ donation by some means . Every doctors' surgery has the posters up; every driving licence application form has the option; TV and radio campaigns foghorn it out regularly. The registration process is screamingly easy: write down your name and address and tick a few boxes. If that's too hard, carry a card. I think the only way forward would be to switch to an opt-out system, where anyone who would like to do so would have to write a letter to their GP, stating why they would like to selfishly hang onto their organs and potentially put several lives at grave risk. In the meantime, go to https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk and get on that organ donor register. There is no earthly excuse not to.


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Asian Ethnology is dedicated to the promotion of scholarly research on the peoples and cultures of Asia. It began in China as Folklore Studies in 1942 and later moved to Japan where its name was changed to Asian Folklore Studies. It is edited and published at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, with the cooperation of Boston University. Read More...
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This letter is a response to On the Block of July 6, "Hurry inside: Ignore Square's repetitive exterior."
As condo owners at Walker Square, we are very satisfied with all aspects of the complex, foremost, its convenient location to the Downtown Mall and to UVA's grounds, hospital, and the Corner.
We are car-free a majority of the time. We also enjoy the nostalgic coming and going of the Amtrak trains. Since we are exercisers, the pool and fitness center are a bonus and meet our needs more than adequately. Our condo's interior space is tailor-made for our lifestyle, and lush landscaping provides us beautiful scenery from our patio.
Having downsized from a big center-hall colonial, we find that Walker Square is the perfect way to live a relaxed lifestyle.
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Connecticut project looks to document immigrant past to boost tourism
HARTFORD -- More than a century after waves of Europe's working class left for jobs in New England mills and other prospects in the U.S., their homes, communities and traditions are providing fresh opportunities to promote tourism in Connecticut.
Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, French Canadian, Polish and other immigrants labored in factories that made silk in Manchester, thread in Willimantic, hats in Danbury and numerous other Connecticut mill towns in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Economic development officials now want to tell the immigrants' stories to draw tourists.
Initially costing $100,000, the project stems from an emerging marketing strategy known as cultural or ethnic tourism. With more than 100 heritage or cultural organizations, Connecticut has a strong base of support to launch a cultural tourism initiative, said Kip Bergstrom, deputy economic development commissioner.
Bergstrom said other Northeast states can similarly boast a history of ethnic and national groups, but Connecticut's small size gives visitors the chance to see much in a compact state.
"We have the whole world represented in Connecticut," he said
As states compete fiercely for tourist dollars, marketing officials are looking for any angle to promote their communities. In Connecticut, tourism generates about $11.5 billion in spending, $1.15 billion in state and local tax revenue and employs nearly 111,000 workers, according to 2011 statistics, the most recent.
Two phases are planned for Connecticut's project. The first, which will extend through mid-June 2013, will document the historical links between people of various ethnic communities and their neighborhoods, buildings, shops and other sites.
The second phase will use the stories that have been developed to market communities in materials ranging from brochures to smartphone apps.
Mary Donohue, executive director of the Manchester Historical Society, said historic preservationists in Connecticut have worked with scholars to identify African-American historic sites and partnered with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford to identify historic synagogues, provide tours and highlight Jewish-owned farms and resorts.
European immigrants who arrived during the Industrial Revolution will not be the only focus of cultural tourism. Indian sites dating back centuries or more recently established Latino communities also will be included in efforts promoting Connecticut.
And New Canaan's Modern Homes designed by famed architects such as Philip Johnson are marketed with state money linked to cultural tourism, said Janet Lindstrom, executive director of the New Canaan Historical Society.
In Manchester, where former silk mills have been redeveloped into apartments and are part of a historic district intended to draw visitors interested in New England's industrial past, can be a "gold mine" for tourist-related activities, Donohue said.
"Our job is to heighten our profile and promote it," she said.
Donohue said Manchester's historic sites or New Britain's Polish churches benefit from a proximity to stores and restaurants.
"If you can find someplace to shop, you're good to go," she said.
Mary Dunne, an architectural historian at the state Historic Preservation Office, said history can be interpreted in many ways beyond the factories of Connecticut's manufacturing rust belt.
"It's important to stress that while we want the sites to be historic, we're talking about restaurants, beauty parlors, festival sites that tell the stories of people in the communities," she said.
Dunne said Connecticut tourism officials have looked at what other states are doing. But Bergstrom said the state's Freedom Trail, which celebrates how 19th century black Americans escaped slavery and found freedom in Connecticut, served as a model for other forms of cultural tourism in the state.
Tourism officials could create a "visitor trail" across the state that would draw tourists with descriptions of how communities developed and residents "lived their lives," Dunne said.
Carol Shull, interim keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, said generating tourism revenue has the added benefit of boosting historic preservation because "communities see there's a reason to preserve their historic places."
The National Park Service posts 54 online travel itineraries promoting 2,500 sites of the National Register of Historic Places to tap into a growing interest in cultural and historic tourism, she said.
And Cheryl Hargrove of HTC Partners, a Washington, D.C., consulting group focusing on cultural and heritage tourism, said more than three-quarters of Americans who travel include some kind of cultural or heritage-related attraction to their holiday. For example, literary tourism is used to lure book enthusiasts to authors' homes, she said.
Defining cultural tourism is broad, including food, architecture, festivals or just watching an artist at work, she said.
"People want to go someplace different, they want to learn something different, they want to connect to their roots and their interests," Hargrove said.


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1. General
The Walter Baade Telescope is the first of the twin 6.5 meter Magellan telescopes to be completed. The two telescopes are located 60 meters apart on an isolated peak (Cerro Manqui) at the Las Campanas Observatory. The telescopes are an alt-azimuth design. The principal foci are f/11 at the two Nasmyth locations and f/15 in the Cassegrain position, although at present only the f/11 focus is implemented on the Baade Telescope. In addition, three auxiliary f/11 are provided on the center section. An ADC corrector will be available for f/11 use to provide unvignetted fields up to 24 arcmin. Platforms on either side provide access to the instruments at the principal Nasmyth ports.
The Magellan primary mirrors were cast and polished by the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. The mirrors are made of borosilicate glass with a lightweight honeycomb structure.
The f/11 focus is a Gregorian configuration, which was selected in order to optimize the performance of the collimator optics in the wide-field spectrograph (IMACS) currently under construction. The Gregorian secondary is also considerably less aspheric than the corresponding Cassegrain secondary, and is easier to test.
Active controls are incorporated in the telescope optics. The mirrors have position control for alignment. These are active during observing. Figure control of the primary mirror is used to correct low-order aberrations in the optical system. In addition, the secondary mirror has a tip-tilt mechanism for fast guiding.
Full information on the active optics system at Magellan can be found here
2. Optical Design
Each of the f/11 foci can be configured for wide-field use by inserting a corrector in the beam. The corrector includes atmospheric dispersion compensation (ADC). Use of the corrector shifts the optimum focal surface approximately 115 mm towards the tertiary mirror.
The following sections give the optical specifications.
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2.2 f/11 Narrow Field
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The following is a tiny selection of available papers related to the construction and operation of the Magellan Telescopes:
The Magellan Telescopes (Shectman & Johns 2003)
Optical design of the Magellan Project 6.5-meter telescope (Shectman 1994)
Instrumentation at the Magellan Telescopes 2008 (Osip et al. 2008)
First-generation instruments for the Magellan telescopes: characteristics, operation, and performance (Osip et al. 2004)
Magellan Telescopes operations 2008 (Osip et al. 2008)


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I took a family vacation recently (as those who follow me on Twitter already know; see also here, and here). I haven't talked about it at all, but we were visiting friends in Mexico. We took a day to visit the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza – the day after the Equinox, thankfully; it's massively crowded there due to a light show on the Temple of Kukulkan, the great ziggurat there – and it was spectacular. I promise I will write about that at some point, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
But in the meantime, since it's Caturday, and I've chosen to expand that to any animal, here is a little fella we saw while we were there:
[Click to iguananate.]
We actually saw dozens of iguanas, and my brother-in-law Chris took lots of excellent pictures of them (like this one, too).
We learned the Mayan word for iguana is xtoloc, pronounced SHTO-lok. This is my new favorite word in the whole world (ironically, taking the spot previously held by "Quetzlcoatl"). Whenever we see a lizard on TV, I turn to The Little Astronomer and say, knowingly, "Xtoloc", and it always gets a smile from her.
If I ever write a Star Trek story, I will name a Vulcan character Xtoloc.
I actually learned many Mayan words while down there, and it's just about the coolest spoken language I've ever heard. Plus, they start lots of words with X, which is really just inherently cool as well.
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If you were a degree candidate, include on line 7 only the amounts used for expenses OTHER THAN tuition and course-related expenses. For example, amounts used for room, board, and travel must be reported on line 7.I read this as: Scholarship + Grant - Tuition - Books - Fees - other school expenses = x.
Room, board, and travel are things you do NOT consider against the grant amounts. This may be different if they were integral to her degree program, though. In either case, what do you get for x with the above equation, without considering the room, board, and travel associated with her degree?
If it's negative, put zero, but that means that her scholly was LESS than tuition, fees, and books. If that's the case, then that's fine. But since you mentioned room and board, it's hard to tell. Any schol/grant money you use for room, board and travel DOES have to be reported. "Other school expenses" cited by upgrade should be just stuff that's required, like course materials or lab fees. Living expenses, you're on your own.At least that's my understanding.


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Gunmen kill three including PAF guards in Pasni: officials
[Dawn] Gunmen
rubbed out
two Pakistain Air Force (PAF) security guards and a shopkeeper in Pasni area of
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province on Monday, officials said.
The three were killed in the Pasni area of Gawadar district, 720 kilometres (447 miles) southwest of the
thriving provincial capital
The dear departed
soldiers were identified as Muhammad Ibrahim and Khurram Shahzad while the local shopkeeper was named as Elahi Bukhsh resident of Awaran district," local official Abdul Fatah Bhanger told AFP.
Another official said the security personnel came under attack while buying food at a market.
"The security personnel came to Pasni bazaar for purchase of edible items when unknown
opened indiscriminate fire on them," Akbar Hussain Durrani, the home secretary of Balochistan, told AFP.
"After the attack, the
escaped on a
cycle of violence
," he said.
Later, Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), a rebel group,
grabbed credit
for the attack.
"Security personnel are our targets, but we did not intend to kill the shopkeeper," Gwaram Baloch, a BLF
front man
"We have time and again warned the local people to stay away from the security forces because they are on our target," he added.
Elsewhere, in Lasbela district, some 400 kilometers (248 miles) south of Quetta, two cement factory employees
were maimed
in a hand grenade attack as they travelled home from work on a bus.
Hundreds of people have died in the province since Baloch rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
The area is also plagued by Islamist militancy and sectarian violence.
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ESSAY- Built to bust: How long's that iPod good for?
Good for you. The lesson of how VHS made Betamax obsolete in the '80s is still part of your folk memory, so you didn't buy a Blu-ray or HD DVD player last December. As a video refusenik, unsure which format would win the DVD wars, you demonstrated a sophisticated appreciation of product obsolescence and decided not to buy a new device until you knew it would play movies for years to come. Or perhaps you're still smarting from being burned again and again by audio obsolescence: Albums went to eight-tracks, and then to cassettes, before CDs were introduced. With each change, audiophiles repurchased the classics.
These days, the champion of audio obsolescence is Apple, which successfully combined its iPod with a unique digital format (AAC). By embracing a non-MP3 format, Apple locked you into its world. Now, when your iPod breaks, you have a library of music that you can't use on other players. You have to buy another iPod. Enjoy your music for as long as your iPods lasts. Apple says that will be for years; for us nitpickers that means about 13 months.
Yes, the secret is out. After 13 months of heavy use, the lithium-ion battery of the iPod can lose more than half of its functionality. You'll find that even though you recharge more often, your iPod can fade out by the end of a long day. Simply put, even though an iPod can cost you $350, these digital music players are designed to be disposable.
Then why not get a new battery? Good idea. But Apple deliberately seals the battery inside the iPod. Replacement costs $65 (a new 1-gig iPod shuffle costs $79), takes several weeks, and worst of all– because the new battery comes in a refurbished and wiped-clean iPod– you'll lose all your songs.
Or you can say, "screw Apple," opt for an aftermarket battery kit and repair your own machine. It's easy, cheaper, and more fun than having Apple fix it. The kit from Sonnet Inc. (sonnettech.com) is especially useful. For $19.95, it includes a special iPod opening tool, but– best of all– it comes with a DVD showing exactly what to do. If you're not into do-it-yourself, you could send your iPod to any one of the outfits such as Small Dog Electronics (smalldog.com) that repair or resell these digital throwaways.
But battery decline is only one way Apple encourages speedy obsolescence. Another is by introducing spiffy new models shortly after you've acquired the latest thing. December's iPod looks a little duller since the introduction of the iPhone, doesn't it? The screen is probably already scratched. Time, then, to let you know about the three models of next-generation iPods that, scuttlebutt says, will be available this year. As Steve Jobs said, "If you... want the latest and greatest... you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year." Yes, this is from the same man who wants you to know that "Apple has a really strong environmental policy."
The fact that Apple's cofounder and CEO seems positively gleeful about the amount of waste his product generates is alarming, since the iPod is designed to be all too easy to throw away. Of course, if you live near an Apple store, you can recycle your obsolete iPod for free. But then, the iPod is only one small aspect of an avalanche of electronic waste that will soon overwhelm America.
Microsoft's recent release of its memory-hogging, graphics-intense Vista operating system will effectively render many existing PCs obsolete. Industry analysts say that 95 percent of the household PCs in Great Britain won't be able to run all of Vista's bells and whistles, and that only a third of laptops currently sold will be able to meet even its minimum requirements. Sooner or later, they will all be junked.
By 2009, 300 million analog TVs in the United States will also become obsolete when America's broadcast signal format changes to digital. (Sure, you will be able to get a set-top converter box– yet another gadget– but marketers are salivating at the chance to persuade you to buy a new TV.) Meanwhile, sometime this year, the three billionth cell phone– with its life span of about 18 months– will roll off an assembly line somewhere in Asia.
In this context, the disposability of the iPod and the fight among manufacturers over DVD formats seem irresponsible if not criminally negligent. iPods are crammed with lead, mercury, and flame retardant, and the 70 million already sold represent a sizable amount of toxic chemicals that seep through landfills and contaminate groundwater. Electronic waste accounts for two percent of America's trash in landfills but 70 percent of its toxic garbage. In 2003 alone, three million tons of e-waste were generated in the United States.
The good news is that many consumers are reacting to the greedy tactics of force-fed obsolescence in the best possible way. Few people bought a new-format DVD player for Christmas, and disillusioned consumers are fighting e-waste. Last December, Greenpeace activists bathed Apple's Fifth Avenue New York store in green floodlights to publicize the group's "Green My Apple" campaign that is aimed at shaming the iPod manufacturer into becoming more environmentally responsible.
My best advice is to sit on your money for a few months and think about what you really need. It will cost you at least $200 to replace your iPod, $1,000 or more to replace your PC, and between $400 and $1,500 to upgrade your current DVD player. Take that money and buy something durable, something that will increase in value. Shares in a company like Apple might do the trick. There's no planned obsolescence for rapacious capitalism.
Giles Slade is the author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. This essay originally appeared in Mother Jones.


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