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Tanaka's 10 K's lead Yanks in twin-bill opener
Right-hander fires eight shutout innings; Beltran clubs early home run
NEW YORK -- Much of the fanfare from Masahiro Tanaka's Major League debut and first Yankee Stadium appearance had faded when the right-hander toed the rubber on Wednesday in the Bronx. It created a much calmer atmosphere, he'd say later.
If this is what Tanaka does when he feels settled in, that spells bad news for the rest of the league. Tanaka limited the Cubs to a pair of bunt singles and struck out 10 over eight scoreless innings, pitching the Yankees to a 3-0 victory on Wednesday afternoon in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.
"I feel that I was a little bit more calmer, compared to the first two," Tanaka said through an interpreter. "I'm very satisfied with how I pitched out there today."
So were the Yankees, who watched Tanaka use his trademark splitter and a sharp slider to retire 14 straight Cubs after Junior Lake's video-reviewed bunt single in the second inning.
Anthony Rizzo opened the seventh inning with a bunt against the shift for an infield hit. Those marked the only notches against Tanaka, who also walked one on a chilly 43-degree day at the Stadium and applauded into his glove after the final out of the eighth inning.
"He's pitched really well so far," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "What we've been most pleased about is the adjustments that he's made during the game. For me, that's the important thing. He keeps you in every game."
Shawn Kelley pitched the ninth inning to record his fourth save, securing a contest that saw Carlos Beltran homer for the third consecutive game. Dean Anna and Jacoby Ellsbury also drove in runs for New York.
Girardi said that he did not give any thought to allowing Tanaka to try for the complete game, given his pitch count (107) and the chilly conditions. Tanaka said that he felt the cold, but he was able to make the necessary adjustments.
"I was able to control myself, control the grip and manage myself to pitch the way I pitched today," Tanaka said.
Tanaka has racked up 28 strikeouts through his first three starts, shattering a club record held by Al Leiter, who had 25 through his first three outings in 1987, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Tanaka also became the first Yanks starter to toss at least eight scoreless innings while striking out at least 10 batters and allowing two or fewer hits since Randy Johnson, who did it on July 26, 2005, against the Red Sox.
"It's just another way of getting outs," Tanaka said of his strikeout total. "It's nothing really special to me, but I'm just glad that I was able to get as many outs as I did."
New York produced three runs in seven innings against Chicago starter Jason Hammel, who permitted five hits and struck out five.
Beltran, the reigning American League Player of the Week, slugged a first-inning solo shot -- his team-leading fourth of the season, which provided Tanaka with some quick support.
"He can throw 95 [mph] when he wants to, he can throw the split in a 3-2 count like he did today a couple of times," Beltran said. "It's fun to have a guy like that, that's going to give you a quality start every day."
The Yankees pushed their lead to 2-0 in the fourth inning as Brian McCann singled, advanced on a walk and a hit, and then scored on Anna's bases-loaded sacrifice fly, which allowed McCann to slide home just ahead of the tag.
In the fifth, Brett Gardner reached on a sun-aided ground-rule double to open the inning, then advanced to third on a groundout. He scored when Jacoby Ellsbury tapped a ground ball back to the mound, with Girardi leaning on the rule book to allow the run to come home.
Catcher's interference was called on Cubs backstop John Baker, which would have awarded Ellsbury first base and returned Gardner to third base.
Instead, Girardi utilized Rule 6.08(c), which allows the manager to decline the interference penalty and accept the play -- in this case, a run-scoring groundout for Ellsbury, who was tagged out by Hammel.
"With zero outs, it might be a little different story," Girardi said. "With one out, I think you take the run."
Girardi said that the rule came into play once during his career -- on June 5, 1990, when Girardi's glove made contact with Bobby Bonilla's bat. Then with the Pirates, Bonilla hit a three-run homer off Paul Assenmacher on the swing.
"I was voting that they wouldn't keep it," Girardi said. "It didn't work."
The second game of the doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 7:05 p.m. ET. Right-hander Michael Pineda will start for the Yanks, with left-hander Travis Wood on the mound for the Cubs. Players from both teams will be wearing No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson.


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Monday, August 9, 2010
Let's ROLL!!!! Let's Go Mets!
8 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Joe i love the optimist attitude but.........i mean, you've seen the team play recently right? they aren't exactly, whats the word..."good"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM
I don't think we will see color again.ReplyDelete
I'd love to get a close-up shot of the driver's face.ReplyDelete
Great work I still believe with u Joe let's go mets !!!! SamReplyDelete
That's FUNNY!ReplyDelete
I really wish the color would come back, but I have no faith in it as of now, maybe in two weeks when the Astros and Pirates are the only thing they need to win two in a row against.ReplyDelete
Have Faith!!!!!ReplyDelete
Maybe Frenchy should be in Beltran's box...wait that doesn't sound good.ReplyDelete
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Stroke is a brain injury caused by an interruption in blood flow. Brain tissue that does not get oxygen and nutrients from blood can die within minutes. The damage to the brain can cause a sudden loss in bodily functions. The types of function that are affected will depend on the part of the brain that is damaged.
There are 2 blood flow problems that cause a stroke. Strokes may be ischemic or hemorrhagic.
- An ischemic stroke is caused by a blocked blood vessel. It is the most common cause of stroke.
- A hemorrhagic stroke is caused by a ruptured blood vessel.
Blood flow may be blocked by one or both of the following:
- Buildup or swelling of the walls of the blood vessels
- Something in the blood sticking to blood vessel walls
A blockage in a small blood vessel will affect a smaller area of the brain. A blockage in larger blood vessels will block flow to many smaller blood vessels. This will affect more of the brain.
The blockage may be the result of one or more of the following:
- Atherosclerosis —a build-up of fatty substances along the inner lining of the artery that gradually decrease the area the blood can flow through
- A blood clot that has traveled from other parts of the body, such as the neck or heart
- Swelling (inflammation) of the blood vessels
- A combination of above (example: blood clot gets trapped in blood vessel narrowed by swelling)
Risk Factors
Certain factors increase your risk of stroke but cannot be changed, such as:
- Race—People of African, Hispanic, or Asian/Pacific Islander descent are at increased risk
- Age: Older than 55 years of age
- Family history of stroke
Other factors that may increase your risk can be changed, such as:
- Drug abuse from cocaine , amphetamines, or heroin use
- Smoking
- Physical inactivity
Certain medical condition can increase your risk of stroke. Management or prevention of these conditions can decrease your risk of stroke. Medical conditions that increase your risk include:
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol levels —specifically high-LDL cholesterol
- Low bone mineral density, especially in women
- Obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Sleep apnea
- High blood homocysteine level
- Atherosclerosis
- Type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance
- Atrial fibrillation
- Blood disorders such as sickle cell disease and polycythemia
- Vascular dementia
- Disease of heart valves, such as mitral stenosis
- Prior stroke or cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack
- Peripheral artery disease
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA)—a warning stroke with stroke-like symptoms that go away shortly after they appear
Conditions that increase your risk of blood clots such as:
- Cancer
- Certain autoimmune diseases
- Migraine with aura
- Having a blood vessel abnormality
Risk factors specific to women include:
- Previous pre-eclampsia
- Use of birth control pills , especially if you are over 35 years old and smoke
- Long-term use of hormone replacement therapy
- Menopause
- Pregnancy—due to increased risk of blood clots
- Psychological disorders, such as depression or anxiety
Symptoms occur suddenly. Exact symptoms will depend on the part of the brain that is affected. Rapid treatment is important to decrease the amount of brain damage. Brain tissue without blood flow dies quickly.
Call for emergency medical services right away if you notice any of the following sudden symptoms:
- Weakness or numbness of face, arm, or leg, especially on one side of the body
- Confusion
- Trouble speaking or understanding
- Trouble seeing in one or both eyes
- Lightheadedness, trouble walking, loss of balance, or coordination
- Severe headache with no known cause
A physical exam will be done. The doctor will look for muscle weakness, visual and speech problems, and problems with basic movement. If possible, you will be asked about your symptoms and medical history.
Images of your brain and blood vessels may need to be taken with:
- CT scan
- MRI scan
- Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
- CT angiogram (CTA)
- Doppler ultrasound
Blood tests can also help determine if there is a bleeding problem.
Immediate treatment is needed to open the blocked blood vessel. This should restore blood flow to the brain tissue and stop further damage. Treatment after immediate care will aim to:
- Reduce the chance of later strokes
- Improve function affected by the stroke
- Overcome disabilities
Supportive care may also include:
- Oxygen therapy
- Precautions to prevent choking
Some will receive a group of drugs called thrombolytics. These medicines can rapidly dissolve blood clots. They are often given by IV, but can also be delivered directly to the blood clot. These medicines need to be given within hours after the start of symptoms to be most effective. That is why it is important to get medical help right away if stroke symptoms develop.
Aspirin and other medicine may be continued to decrease the risk of future blood clots. This may prevent future strokes from occurring.
To help manage other health issues and decrease the risk of future strokes the doctor may recommend medicine to:
- Decrease blood pressure
- Correct irregular heart rhythms
An embolectomy may be needed. It will remove a clot and allow blood flow back into the area. A wire is passed through blood vessels to the clot. Tools will then be passed along the wire to do one of the following:
- Physically remove the clot
- Deliver clot-dissolving medicine directly to the clot
The stroke and damaged tissue can cause swelling in the brain. Surgery may be needed to relieve the pressure. One common option is to remove a section of the skull. This is called a craniotomy .
If brain tissue was damaged, rehabilitation can be an important part of your recovery. Rehabilitation may include:
- Physical therapy—to regain as much movement as possible
- Occupational therapy—to assist in everyday tasks and self care
- Speech therapy—to improve swallowing and speech challenges
- Psychological therapy—to improve mood and decrease depression
Many of the risk factors for stroke can be changed. Lifestyle changes that can help reduce your chance of getting a stroke include:
- Exercise regularly.
- Eat more fruits, vegetables , and whole grains . Limit dietary salt and fat .
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit.
- Include fish in your diet.
- Drink alcohol only in moderation. This means no more than 1-2 drinks per day.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Check blood pressure frequently . Follow your doctor's recommendations for keeping it in a safe range.
- Take a low dose of aspirin if your doctor says it is safe.
- Keep chronic medical conditions under control. This includes high cholesterol and diabetes.
- Talk to your doctor about the use of a statins. These types of drugs may help prevent certain kinds of strokes in some people.
- Seek medical care if you have symptoms of a stroke. Seek care even if symptoms stop.
- If you use drugs, talk to your doctor about rehabilitation programs.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Rimas Lukas, MD
- Review Date: 11/2018 -
- Update Date: 05/09/2018 -


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I've been drafting and redrafting this in my mind. Over and over I've sat down to write it, but it always kept coming up too emo. Today, a little piece of the puzzle finally fell into place though.
I quit my job a couple days ago, well actually I quite over two weeks ago but the date on my notice was up Saturday night. While I'm living at home I'm going to focus in on my art and development skills, try and get a game or two actually built and generating revenue. I've built within my head a lot of resistance to this path, going over major concerns bit by bit and building many solid arguments as to why not to do it. But at the end of the day my impulsive side won out, as it often does, and here I am with a whole lot of time on my hands.
I can't really say that I'm sure this will work out, a single person working on their home computer hasn't been a particularly successful business model for a while now. On the other hand though, what I can say is why I'm doing it, and why it has to be done this way.
This blog post was written many months ago. I wish I could say that was a down point in my life, but for about four years prior to that and to this day I've been stuck in a pretty bad fight with depression. Right now I'm on a high, I don't consider suicide every day! What always kept me alive through the lows though was a couple things, first, I hate pain, second, it wasn't my right to inflict that much pain on everyone around me.
I'm the last to make friends and the quickest to cut and run from those relationships… hell I'm not sure I honestly know the meaning of the word friend, perhaps they were all just passing acquaintances. In some strange twist of life though, I live for other people. It used to be what got me from one minute to the other, knowing that I had people left to live for right then that second. My whole decision making rationale is based on how it'll help or effect others.
There are entire worlds and societies that live inside my mind, growing and evolving, shifting and blending. I'm not sure when exactly, but eventually I came to the decision that that was my purpose for being. My reason to exist, to open up those worlds for others to see and explore, for someone else to escape into even if only for a short time. The problem with working for EA or any other big name company then, is that I won't be creating those worlds. I'll be creating their worlds and their marketing departments latest pet project worlds. Sure I could probably just consider it deferred living, but why would I want to spend any time not contributing to my reason for existence?
So I guess you can consider this the figurative opening of my own company; even if the literal opening will be some time in the future, near or far. Oh and you don't have to worry about EA or ActiBliztrosity buying me out. I've thought long and hard about those possibilities, and honestly my soul isn't worth the money, besides, it doesn't belong to me.
Its already been signed away to all of you.
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Mora Hotell & Spa
Hotel and guesthouse | Mora Hotell & Spa, a family owned 4-star hotel which has since 1830 welcomed travellers to Mora with a unbeatable location in the middle of Town and a view ower lake Siljan. We have 135 smoke free rooms, al fresco dining weather permitting, a bar and a spa.
We offer rooms ranging from large suites to smaller standard rooms with wifi and breakfast buffet included in the room rate. Dogs are welcome to stay in designated dog rooms and our front of house is manned 24/7.
Free outside parking with 50 parking places and garaged parking (booked separately).
Visit our website www.morahotell.se for photos and more information
Our restaurant is a particular point of pride - we offer a calm and relaxing environment for a first class culinary experience with locally sourced and seasonal produce, prepared and cooked by a dedicated and knowledgeable team.
Do visit our spa, offering sauna, steam room, pool, jacuzzi, and a large selection of treatments. All guests enjoy free access to the relax area when the spa is closed.
Within a 100 metre radius there is shopping, the Zorn Museum and Zorn Manor, and the goal for Vasaloppet, the oldest, longest and biggest cross country ski race in the world. A short drive away you will find Santaworld, the zoo Orsa Rovdjurspark, Mount Gesunda and Gronklitt for skiing, concert venues including Vattnäs Konsertlada and Dalhalla, and in Nusnäs you can see how the iconic Dalecarlian horses are made by hand.
Facilities and services
Capacity135 room(s) Number of floors: 4 Conference rooms: 4 Number of bars 1
Built in year1830
FacilitiesPets prohibited Elevator Pets allowed Conference rooms Wifi
Eat & Drink on siteBreakfast Restaurant
Leisure facilitiesSpa
Contact information
Street address 1Strandgatan 12
City (address)792 30 Mora
Phone number+46 0250592650
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Evolving the Production Company model
"When studios call 911, you guys answer."
We got a kick out of that (very generous) description.
Practical Magic builds upon the traditional idea of a production company by adding full-service, in-house "production engineering."
What does that mean? It means that we solve hard technical problems for studio-level media production. We build the things you see on set.
Our role is typically that of a full-service production company with an engineering division attached. We provide full-service studio-level media production for television, motion picture, and VR.
ProductionThe Bleeding Edge Stuff
Practical Magic leverages considerable in-house resources to provide complex motion picture, television, and VR production services.
- 4K/5K/6K Digital Cinema and VR
- HDR Acquisition
- Motion Control
- Drone-based Acquisition and Photogrammetry
- VR-enabled DIT and Video Village Tech
Post-ProductionIn-House HDR + 6K RT
Practical Magic's 16,000 sqft facility in Burbank includes full post-production services, with full editorial, VFX, and sound services on-site -- supporting everything from DCI to VR.
- Dual Fibrechannel and 10GBE SANs
- On-Premises 750+ Core Render Farm
- HDR-Ready Color Grading Suite
- 5.1/7.1 Mixing Room w/VR Audio Mixing
EngineeringBespoke Gear for Production
On the ground floor of our Burbank facility is an agile engineering lab focusing on rapid prototyping and deployment of entertainment-specific technology.
- Custom camera rigs, moco, and VR equipment.
- Rapid Prototyping (3D Printing, Metal CNC, Laser, more)
- Emergency-speed fabrication of "On-Camera" tech/parts.
- Custom Hardware Integrations with RED, Arri, etc.
Virtual RealityStudio-Grade VR
The challenges of VR are extraordinary, requiring solutions that do not exist in today's technology. Practical Magic's interest in VR is simple -- we're building tomorrow's VR solutions today.
- Moving VR Cameras (not static/tripod)
- Motion-Control-Driven Live-VR Viewing
- LatLong-Safe 3D Camera Solving for VFX
- Positional Audio Workflows and Custom Tools
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Samsung is working hard on 64-bit technology, with plans to get it out into the open by the end of the year.
Speaking to Cnet, Kyushik Hong, vp of marketing for Samsung's LSI business said that the company is "very actively working" on 64-bit right now.
"64-bit is very important… in the sense that there's a real demand, whether you need it or not," said Hong. "Our chips will be ready whenever the operating systems and ecosystem go 64-bit."
Lagging behind
Hong added that Samsung is sure it's "not going to be the bottleneck" for the technology. All needs now is is for operating systems such as Android to support it.
Apple was the first to get in on the 64-bit game back in September, packing the architecture into the iPhone 5S. Others, however, are still lagging behind.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was rumoured to be coming with a 64-bit processor at one point, but now you'll probably be waiting for the S6.
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Christie's Photobook Auction
In the past I have featured reports on the photobook auctions with a twist. For one I divided the the final gavel price by the number of pictures in each book to determine an artist's average "worth" per image. For another I compared the final gavel price to the Annual Median Income (AMI) for families around the world (example: after a year of work, a family in the Bahamas could afford a copy of August Sander's Antilitz der Zeit). Since this is auction season at a time when very few people have cash on hand and lenders are being tight with credit, I figure we'll have to find alternate ways to pay for these books. I suggest a new kind of bartering system.
How many times has a friend of yours said "I'd give my right arm for that book." Well did you know the loss of an arm according to the workman's comp "Meat Chart" could fetch you 300 weeks of scheduled award payments from your place of employment? That is, a payment of 66% of your income for 300 weeks! Well the Photobook auctions at Christie's South Kensington will take place on Tuesday, May 19th at 2:00pm so I have decided to sharpen up the ol' carving knife and see what I can afford to lose extremities-wise. A pound of flesh could very well equal a Takanashi.
Now in order to make this work I have used the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour as a base. So after a 40 hour work week we would make $262.00 dollars - minus our 33% benefit deduction, leaving us approximately $175.54 per week in workman's comp benefits. That benefit is then multiplied by the number of weeks of award payments to determine which body part will be lost. Ready? Each of the descriptions is followed by recommended "cutting instructions."
Lot #149: Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places: Deluxe edition with a print of Merced River. Estimate of 8,700-13,000. Cutting instructions: 1/2 thumb for the low estimate - Full thumb for the high estimate.
Lot #124: Yutaka Takanashi, Toshi-e (Towards the City). Estimate of 5,100-6,500. Cutting instructions: Full toe (other than big toe) plus 1/4 of your big toe (cut to first knuckle) for the low estimate - Full big toe for the high estimate.
Lot #121: Gordon Matta-Clark, Walls Paper: Presentation copy inscribed by Clark to Carol Gooden. Estimate of 2,200 - 3,200. Cutting instructions: Knee cap for the low estimate - Knee cap plus ACL ligament for the high estimate.
Lot #111: Ed Ruscha, Dutch Details. Estimate of 13,000-17,000. Cutting instructions: Complete loss of hearing in one ear (use ice-pick) for the low estimate - 1/4 leg (cut at ankle) for the high estimate. *Foot reattachment not included in gavel price
Lot # Shomei Tomatsu, OO! Shinjuku. Estimate of 2,200-2,900. Cutting instructions: 1/4 pinkie toe plus 1/4 big toe for the low estimate - full fourth finger (only applicable if you've already cut three other fingers off completely in other auctions) for the high estimate.
Lot #96: Provoke 1, 2, 3 + copy of First Abandon The World of Certainty. Estimate 18,000-26,000. Cutting instructions: 1/2 an eye for the low estimate - Full tongue for the high estimate.
Lot #84: Kikuji Kawada, Chizu (The Map). Estimate 22,000-29,000. Cutting Instructions: Full foot (must include at least three toes) for the low estimate - Full hand (must include all fingers) for the high estimate.
Lot #59: Yoshikazu Suzuki and Shohachi Kimura, Ginza Kaiwai. Ginza Haccho. Estimate of 4,400-7,200. Cutting instructions: 1/4 ear (external) not effecting hearing for the low estimate - Full ear (see Reservoir Dogs) for the high estimate.
Lot #39: Arts et Metiers Graphiques - Complete set of 68 volumes. Estimate 12,000-17,000. Cutting instructions: Full scalp for the low estimate - Full scalp plus 12.5 ounces of cranial matter for the high estimate.
Lot #55: Hans Bellmer, Les Jeux de la Poupee: 15 hand-colored prints by Bellmer. Estimate 58,000-86,000. Cutting instructions: Full leg (with free reattachment of pinkie finger on hand*) for the low estimate - Full arm plus either loss of hearing in one ear or 50% reduction of sight in one eye for the high estimate. * Low estimate disclaimer: Only applicable if one hand still attached. Pending insurance coverage approval for the procedure. Consult your insurer prior to bidding.
Lot #30: Georges Hugnet, La Septieme face du de (The Die's Seventh Face). Estimate 13,000-17,000. Cutting instructions: Full face (topical) for the low estimate - Full face plus 6 ounces of cheeks for the high estimate.
Lot #75: Jack Smith, The Beautiful Book. Estimate 41,000-50,000. Cutting instructions: Complete loss of sight in one eye plus 75% reduction of sight in second eye for the low estimate - Complete loss of sight in both eyes for the high.
Bidding suggestions:
(1) Regulate your bidding and select body parts wisely. Remember you need to retain your hands for as long as possible to cut for other auctions.
(2) Phone-in bidders remember to aim the blood spurts away from your existing book collection.
(3) Dark colored clothing recommended if attending auction in person.
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(a) If there is permanent disability involving the loss, or loss of use, of a member or function of the body or involving disfigurement, the employee is entitled to basic compensation for the disability, as provided by the schedule in subsection (c) of this section, at the rate of 66 2/3 percent of his monthly pay. The basic compensation is - (1) payable regardless of whether the cause of the disability originates in a part of the body other than that member; (2) payable regardless of whether the disability also involves another impairment of the body; and (3) in addition to compensation for temporary total or temporary partial disability.
(b) With respect to any period after payments under subsection (a) of this section have ended, an employee is entitled to compensation as provided by - (1) section 8105 of this title if the disability is total; or (2) section 8106 of this title if the disability is partial.
(c) Medical procedures not included in gavel price.
(d) Knife rental will result in 10% fee added to final gavel price. Bone saw included.


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Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces gives an overview of command-line interfaces in vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 and gets you started with ESXi Shell commands and vCLI (VMware® vSphere Command-Line Interface) commands. This book also includes instructions for installing vCLI and a reference to connection parameters.This book is for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with vSphere administration tasks and datacenter operations.VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.VMware welcomes your suggestions for improving our documentation. If you have comments, send your feedback to email@example.com documentation for vCLI is available in the vSphere Documentation Center and on the vCLI documentation page. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs, select VMware Administration Products, and select vSphere Command-Line Interface.
■ Command-Line Management in vSphere 5 for Service Console Users is a technical note for users who are currently using ESX service console commands, scripts, agents, or logs. You learn how to transition to an off-host implementation or to use the ESXi Shell in special cases.
■ vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples presents usage examples for many commands, such as setting up software and hardware iSCSI, adding virtual switches, setting up Active Directory authentication, and so on. The document includes the same example with the ESXCLI command and with the vicfg- command.
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EDMONTON - Jack Clement is snowed into his Aspen Gardens home after Edmonton snow removal crews left massive windrows in front of his sidewalk.
Clement will be 83 years old in a few weeks. He has taken the inconvenience with some humour by posing in his pyjamas, but is still annoyed that the almost two-metre windrows haven't been moved yet.
"I called 311 this morning and they told me it would be dealt with. I called this afternoon and they had no record of my previous call," Clement said. "I phoned back to find out the progress and there wasn't any. They were more helpful the second time, but it still won't be dealt with until Monday."
"If there is a handicap walkway then we have to ensure that person has access," said Kelly FitzGibbon, a media contact for the City of Edmonton. "Unless he has an assigned walkway, he'll have to contact the city."
The proper protocol when dealing with these issues is to call 311, FitzGibbon said. The city responds as quickly as it can.
"I thought I should get a glaciologist," Clement said jokingly. "I need someone to track the motion of these huge blocks."
The city was $2 million over budget for snow removal in 2013 and another parking ban began Friday morning to enable snow removal from bus routes.
Bylaw officers issued 393 tickets as of 4 p.m. Friday to vehicles in violation of the seasonal parking ban that went into effect Friday.


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Fisherman's Wharf is a historic wharf in Monterey, California, United States. Used as an active wholesale fish market into the 1960s, the wharf eventually became the tourist attraction it is today as commercial fishing tapered off in the area.
Fisherman's Wharf was built by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in 1870 for the loading and unloading of passengers and goods. The wharf was also used by other commercial operations, and the city of Monterey took ownership in 1913. The wharf was expanded through 1920.
The Wharf was constructed in 1926. After World War II, the sardine population in Monterey Bay collapsed. With the fall of the fishing industry, Old Fisherman's Wharf reoriented its business focus toward tourism.
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One of the most common forms of social networking that used to be all the rage in offices everywhere was meeting at the water cooler to catch up on the latest office gossip and rumors. Gathering near the company water dispenser that housed a huge upside down water bottle, while holding one of those little cone-shaped paper cups, was indeed a Kodak moment.
The days of purchasing bottled water is taking a backseat to the newest concept in filtered water. Bottleless water coolers are becoming a new topic among today's water cooler dialogues. One of the most popular residential and commercial bottle-free water coolers is the Pura Ultimate Ultraviolet Bottleless Water Cooler. This advanced system features UV sanitation to protect your water from bacteria and BioCote technology that offers antimicrobial protection against waterborne contaminants like mold, fungi and unpleasant odors. It is equipped with three water filters:
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Black powder is the only type of powder that should be used in muzzleloaders. However, synthetic substitutes, such as Pyrodex®, also can be used. Don't use modern-day smokeless powders in black powder firearms. Smokeless powders can cause serious injury if used in muzzleloaders.
Black powder is made of potassium nitrate (saltpeter), sulfur, and charcoal. When ignited, it causes a dense cloud of white smoke. It comes in four sizes or granulations.
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Johnson Named Principal Conductor of Choral, Instrumental Ensembles at First Lutheran
Augustana College today announced that Dr. James Johnson, professor of music and director of the Augustana Choir since 1992, has been named Principal Conductor of Choral and Instrumental Ensembles at First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls. Since Dr. Johnson was granted a sabbatical leave for the coming academic year, plans were already in place for Dr. Weston Noble, professor emeritus of music at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, to serve as interim Choir director for the 2011 fall semester and 2012 January interim. A search for Johnson's successor will begin in the fall.
"In his 19 years at Augustana, Dr. Johnson made significant contributions to the College and its Music Department. Most importantly though, his leadership impacted thousands of students whose spiritual growth he helped foster through song. Dr. Johnson's own faith, and his love of sacred music, served as a powerful compass for student members of the Choir. Because of his graceful and passionate direction, Choir members understood the importance of sharing the words of the Gospel through song," said Rob Oliver, president. "On behalf of Augustana, we thank him for sharing his God-given gifts with our faculty and staff, our students, and with countless communities across the globe who have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing his Choirs perform throughout the years. And, we wish him the best of luck in all his future endeavors."
Dr. Johnson holds a bachelor's degree from Luther College, a master's degree in music from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
During his tenure, the Augustana Choir toured internationally eight times at venues such as the Cathedrals of Notre Dame in Paris, St. Peter's in Rome, St. Paul's in London, St. Stephen's in Vienna, St. Patrick's in Dublin, Nidaros in Trondheim, Chartres outside of Paris, as well as performances throughout Tanzania. Dr. Johnson is the fourth conductor of the 90-year-old Augustana Choir, founded in 1921 by Dr. Carl Youngdahl.
"At Augustana, we're committed to teaching our students about the importance of service. Here, now, it is my turn to accept a new opportunity to serve others through sermon in song. My deep and abiding affection for my students, my colleagues and this institution made this an extremely difficult decision to make, but my sense of call to work in the church has become too strong to ignore," said Johnson.
Interim Choir Director Dr. Noble had a 57-year tenure as a conductor and teacher at Luther and received acclaim from across the country and the world as the conductor of the Luther College Nordic Choir from 1948 to 2005, the Luther College Concert Band from 1948 to 1973, and as guest director for more than 900 All-State bands, orchestras, choirs, and festivals across four continents.
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Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866
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- Database Provider: Digital Library of Georgia.
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\In cases of suspected or confirmed clinical disorder among bilingual/multilingual children, one common recommendation is to have the children "switch to one language." This advice comes both from monolingual SLPs, who are trained in and for monolingual settings, and from multilingual SLPs, including those working in multilingual contexts. I would like to offer a few thoughts on the practical feasibility of this advice, the reasons that may motivate it, and whether those reasons match what we know about multilingualism and speech-language disorders.
Recommending monolingualism to multilinguals seems to draw on a conviction that multilingualism either causes or worsens speech-language and related disorders or, conversely, that monolingualism either blocks or alleviates them. Speech disorders (such as stuttering), language disorders (such as SLI), and developmental disorders (such as autism) do affect language, in that linguistic development relates to physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. But language development can be typical or atypical regardless of the number of languages in a child's repertoire. Speech-language and developmental clinical conditions affect multilinguals and monolinguals alike, which means that there is no correlation between multilingualism, or monolingualism, and disorder. In the absence of a correlation, there can be no legitimate conclusion that using one language vs. using more than one has predictable effects upon disorder. The unwarranted conviction that number of languages is a relevant factor of speech-language disorder rests on a number of beliefs, as follows.
First, the belief that healthy linguistic and related development can only be achieved in a single language. Multilingual children naturally develop linguistically in all the languages that they need to use for everyday purposes. Cognitive, social and emotional development follows suit, through each of the contexts in which the languages of a multilingual are relevant. Multilinguals, big and small, use each of their languages in different ways. This is in fact why they are multilinguals: if a single language served all their purposes, they would be monolinguals.
Each of the languages of a multilingual naturally reflects the specific uses that it serves, and each will develop accordingly, at its own pace. If a child uses, say, one language with mum, another one with dad, and yet another one in school, each language will naturally show evidence of mum-related, dad-related and school-related accent, vocabulary, grammar and pragmatics. Having different words or a different number of words in each language, for example, or preferring to use one language rather than another for specific topics or with different people, is typical of multilingualism, not a sign of atypical linguistic competence. A less developed language of a multilingual is therefore not a symptom of a clinical condition such as 'language delay', but reflects instead less use of that language than of another. If there are concerns about the development of a particular language of a multilingual, the child may be appropriately referred to a language tutor, not to an SLP.
Second, the belief that using more than one language results in diminished proficiency both in each language and in other proficiency. This belief draws on subtractive views of the human brain, which have it as a computer-like processor featuring limited storage capacity, organised into computer-like modules and processing modes. On this view, 'brain space' allocated to each language disrupts other brain space, by encroaching upon it in ways similar to zero-sum situations, where the gains and losses of one 'module' exactly match the losses and gains of another, respectively. Computer analogies of the human brain gained popularity by the middle of last century, but current findings about inherent brain plasticity prove their inadequacy to model brain organisation, activity and power.
Third, the belief that using one particular language in one setting will promote development of that language in other settings. The recommendation to switch to one language often means 'switch to exclusive use of the mainstream language at home.' Even in cases where it might be viable to change or amend the home language practices in which a child has been brought up, switching to a mainstream language at home, or making it the only home language, will not necessarily impact uses of that language elsewhere, for example in school. The converse is also true: academic uses of a language, say, do not automatically transfer to home uses of the same language, because these uses belong to different registers.
"Register" is a term used in linguistics to describe the differential ways in which we all use our languages to fit specific contexts and specific people. Monolingual children (and adults) switch among the registers that they have learnt to be appropriate at home, in school, at work, or with peers, juniors and elders. Multilinguals do likewise: they switch register in each of their languages, in order to match the participants and the context of an interaction in a particular language, and they switch language, again where participants and context so require. The ability to switch uses of language appropriately constitutes proof of linguistic competence, because it shows understanding of how different registers and/or different languages serve different purposes. A home language, or a home register, develops for home-use purposes, which do not and cannot match academic and other uses of it. The way to promote development of languages or registers in a specific context is to use them in that context.
Finally, the belief that language disorder is best addressed through a single language of intervention. The mainstream language favoured by recommendations of monolingualism often coincides with the language of education, that the child may, in addition, happen to share with the clinician. This raises the question of whether the recommendations are indeed meant to favour monolingualism, or to favour monolingualism in a particular language, the language in which assessment instruments are likely to be more readily available. Whichever the case may be, current research on clinical work with multilingual children shows that intervention which targets the whole of a child's linguistic repertoire increases both the chances and the pace of recovery. Addressing linguistic repertoires for purposes of intervention makes good overall sense, in that language disorders affect the whole of a child's linguistic repertoire, regardless of the number of languages involved. Diagnosis must take the whole child into account, so that intervention can start from where the child's abilities are, whether these abilities are monolingual or multilingual.
Depending on the context of specific interactions, typical monolinguals and multilinguals alike make proficient use of their linguistic repertoires, which means differential use of linguistic resources. The whole linguistic repertoire of a monolingual child translates into resources drawn from a single language, but the whole linguistic repertoire of a multilingual child does not. Beliefs and convictions to the contrary, such as the ones sketched above, rest on a misconception of monolingualism as "norm" of language use, which has spawned related misconceptions that take proficiency in a single language for linguistic health, and lack of proficiency in a single language for symptom of language disorder. Being multilingual involves differential proficiency in more than one language, whose interplay with social, cognitive and emotional development can only be ascertained from observation of the child's abilities in each appropriate context.
The take-home message that I would like to leave here is that multilingualism is neither a disorder nor a factor of disorder. In cases of suspected or confirmed clinical disorder among bilingual/multilingual children, switching to a single language will not address the disorder. It will simply create a monolingual child with a disorder.
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, PhD in Linguistics and Phonetics (University of Manchester, UK), researches multilingualism and child language. One section of her book Multilingual Norms addresses multilingual clinical assessment. Her blog Being Multilingual deals with the use of several languages at home, in school and in clinic.


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| 7.5°C Belfast
The company which carries out "fitness for work" tests on disabled benefit claims is seeking an early exit from its contract with the Government in the face of persistent death threats to staff.
Atos Healthcare confirmed that it has been in discussions with officials for "several months" about ending its £500 million work capability assessment contract which is due to run to August 2015.
The Financial Times reported that the French-run company had recorded around 163 incidents a month last year of members of the public assaulting or abusing its staff, both in person and online.
Examples on Facebook were said to include: "murdering scum ... won't be smiling when we come to hang you bastards".
The company has regularly come under fire over the assessments - which are used to gauge eligibility for employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit - amid claims people are being wrongly recommended for work, or put through stressful medical interviews.
A spokesman for Atos insisted that they would not "walk away" from the contract and that it would continue to provide a service until new contractors had been appointed.
"For several months now we have been endeavouring to agree an early exit from the work capability assessment contract which is due to expire in August 2015," the spokesman said.
"Despite these ongoing discussions, we will not walk away from a front-line service.
"Our total focus remains on delivering the services we are contracted to provide in a professional and compassionate way until a new service begins."
Nevertheless, relations with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appear to be close to breakdown amid persistent criticism over the quality of its assessments.
Last summer it was announced that the company, which was originally appointed by the last Labour government in 2008, had been instructed to implement a "quality improvement plan" following an "unacceptable" deterioration in the quality of its written reports.
At the same time the DWP said it would be seeking to bring in additional providers in order to increase capacity and cut waiting times.
Then last week disability minister Mike Penning told MPs the volume of appeals against the assessments - around 600,000 since their introduction - meant there was "real concern" about the work being carried out.
The DWP today refused to comment on its discussions with Atos.
"We prefer to maintain a professional relationship and not comment on ongoing commercial discussions that may be taking place," a spokesman said.


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KOffice 2.0, The Vision
KOffice is working on its future, one based on KDE4. KOffice is starting new initiatives with libraries like Flake and Pigment that are going to be used for all KOffice applications. For the users of KOffice those changes are invisible until the 2.0 previews actually start to appear some months from now. Therefore the KOffice crew wants to show you their goals of what KOffice 2 is going to look like. Read more for the whole story.
When I first saw a paper on KOffice back in 1999 it showed the concept of embedded documents which allows me to have a formula or chart in my paper and allow me to update my charts by just altering some cells in my spreadsheet.
Now, many years later, we are moving to the next level. KOffice will define so called 'shapes' which can be anything from a simple triangle to a multi-layered image and allow those to be used in all KOffice applications as the building blocks of a document just like they are shapes that the application provides itself. So no more embedded documents which are always square and always start from the top-left corner. This allows for simple things like KWord finally providing simple lines to be drawn, but much more exciting are new features like being able to rotate or skew a KWord text frame. And not only being able to do that in a KWord document, but also in a Krita or a Karbon document.
In KOffice each application will have a specific media that it will specialise in. KWord will obviously specialise in text frames while Karbon will specialise in all sorts of vector graphics. The difference is that the applications will put all that in a Shape and a Tool.
Consider a user who wants to write a paper and have a nice vector graphic in the header of his document. He would be able to load an svg graphic and place it in his KWord document. For tweaking the loaded graphic he can just click on it and at that point KWord will see that the shape is a vector one. KWord will then supply a tool in the toolbox (which is the normal 2-columns toolbar type thing Krita already has) that allows the user to alter the internal vector graphics right inside his KWord document. But without the annoying flickering and replacement of menu and toolbars that happens if the shape was really an external document being edited.
KOffice 2 will still have the most applications there are combined in any single office suite, and on top of that those applications will show an integration that's unparallelled in the industry. Each application really does make the whole more complete by literally making the other applications more powerful.
Every application that uses the Flake library will provide a shape-type that the other applications can use. Want to use that 1 cool Kivio-shape in your Krita painting, go ahead. But the most exciting part is that the shapes come with so called 'tools'. Where each application can use the interaction model for that shape type. And since its determined per shape-type, its the same across all the KOffice applications.
We already see the advantage with a basic interaction-tool that allows moving, rotation etc. of all shape-types. It has features like scaling with the control button down, reserving the aspect ratio of the shape. Unlike in KOffice 1.x that single interaction-tool will be used in all KOffice applications stopping the application from reinventing the wheel, they are literally all running the same code and thus all applications will work consistently towards the user. Definitely a good thing for usability.
Flake in KWord 2
You mean Pikment surely
By bob at Mon, 2006/06/05 - 5:00am
Oh noes
Teh unfunny joke gave me teh cancer.
By em at Mon, 2006/06/05 - 5:00am
Re: Pigment?
do you mean bob or blob ??
By blob at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Pigment?
I've wondered for a while whether there's a K ego, perhaps even a conspiracy to eradicate all things G. But alas, Ockham's razor requires we consider the possibility that it is cute branding, a trademark if you will. :)
That and I'm too lazy to worry about inter-GNU project struggles (just install 'em all, they're free)!
By Ashvini at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: Pigment?
Bad idea. Pik means dick in Danish.
By Anders at Tue, 2006/07/11 - 5:00am
Development will delay a lot
With the FIFA world cup here, we will stop our work to give a look at those thousand pretty brazilian womens with their usual small skirts.
By Nooopss at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Development will delay a lot
There are some movements here in Brazil to prevent selling this nice-almost-naked-women image. This unhappilly is causing a lot of sexual tourism, mostly in north-east.
Besides, we don't stop because of those women in world cup (fot that carnival exists, hehehe), football is enought to stop the entire country :)
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Brasileiras are my cup of tea
Brazilian woman are incredible. They know all the write commands in the right order: top, mount, fsck, flush, sleep;
They are often run threaded with the ability to engage their friends for a little distributed processing and a whole lot of fun. Never visit Brazil or thou shall not leave it.
Ahmmmmmmmm, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, KDE 4 will win the world cup, I mean, KDE 4 is hot, and Brazililians write good software or something like that.
By Me or somebody ... at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Development will delay a lot
My dear nerd, if you don´t know, world cup will be in GERMANY, so.. how you can give a look at pretty brazillians womens?? Why don´t you go to Rio de Janeiro´s Carnival? It´s pretty good!
By Juliana at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: Development will delay a lot
I'm not the original poster, but just one word: Fans! :)
I've even seen a few of them yesterday in Königstein where the Brazilian team is housed.
By cm at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
RE: Yes, brazilians chiks will be at Germany
Yes, brazilian women will be at Germany, there is a top model team there, sponsored by a TV chanel. Rio de Janeiro will lose it´s postcard, the bikini tanned round *#@% of pretty brazilians.
All this *#@% will be at Germany, but, unfurtunately, well covered, due the cold wheather.
By noooppsss at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
RE: Yes, brazilians chiks will be at Germany
What´s "*#@%"??
By Juliana at Tue, 2006/06/13 - 5:00am
This may mean "bumbum", I think....
By bb at Wed, 2006/06/14 - 5:00am
RE: Yes, brazilians chiks will be at Germany
>All this *#@% will be at Germany, but, unfurtunately, well covered, due the cold wheather.<<
So have fun - keep on developping great software :-)
By beccon at Wed, 2006/06/14 - 5:00am
And why not fixing the bugs first?
Instead of reinventing the wheel, why don't they just try to fix the compatibility issues with ODF? You can't write ODF formulas (they're lost when you save them) and so you can't have any formulas at all in KWord's defauolt format.
By me at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Good idea. I suggest we fork the project and implement what is missing. Contact me by email to do this, if you are really interested.
Why developers dont do this ? Because they do not want, and thats the point of open-source development: do it for fun, in the first place. i just hope all this work will bring a better koffice for all.
And i dont think kword is so bad, in the first place. i use it sometimes, and if any problem occurs and i dont like it anymore i can switch to openoffice anytime i want, thanks to the work of koffice developers who changed the file format.
By Henrique Marks at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
I just don't have the skills :-)
By me at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Well, before I started on Krita I hadn't got the skills either. I had never written more than a dozen lines of C++, but it's an easy thing to learn on the job. It's just a matter of getting started and after that some perseverance.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
lets make things straight. OpenOffice is slow as hell and unsable. their pretending compatibility with microsoft product is a joke. and only Microsoft Office really works with those documents. also OpenOffice only copy what Microsoft did and really does not improove anywhere.
KOffice however is lighting fast and has great stuff that no other suite has. it does miss few important features and still have bugs. but its a charm to use. I do use it for production use as well as many other KDE user I'm sure. ideas in this suit are way ahead and koffice is the only Office suite that actually considered what computer life will be from 2007
also remember there is not many koffice developers. and what they did since 1.0 is amazing. clap clap clap
keep going guys. you're doing an awesome job. dont listen to flamers and gives us the best office suite for KDE 4
gambatte kudasai
By Mathieu Jobin at Sun, 2006/06/11 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
I support you implementing whats missing, very good idea! You don't even need to fork you can do it right into the KOffice svn repository, all you need to do is send in the patches.
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Great. Someone raises valid concern/criticism and you just tell him to code it himself. Regardless it its developed for fun maybe the developers would like to have and use the critique positively.
By josel at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
What kind of concern/criticism? Let me quote: "The spreadsheet is a joke" does not tell the developers anything.
Not everyone has a crystal ball. At least, I don't.
By Ariya at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Even OOo Calc lacks some important features in the graphical representation of numbers. The scaling of x/y isn't up to snuff. Then the embedded programming language isn't really usable either for serious work. I use OOo Writer and sometimes KOffice (rarely) but Excel unfortunatelty is still way ahead and the only winDOS program of use (but big one).
By Juergen at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Re: Spreadsheet
OOCalc is a very good spreadsheet as I find it much more stable than MS Excel when working on the same large data sets. I tried to open up the same ODS sheets in KSpread but it crashed (perhaps 25 columns of 10,000-12,500 data points is too much?) but I do have a few things that OOCalc should have:
1. The ability to put the equation of the best-fit line ON the graph.
By PGK1 at Sun, 2006/09/10 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
The spreadsheet _is_ a joke (or at least was last time I checked).
gnumeric is the only good spreadsheet I've found for any platform.
The charting-functionality seems to be pretty bad. When I use spreadsheets what I mostly do is dump in some numbers from somewhere, then graph them. With gnumeric it's a breeze .. with kSpread .. I don't find the graph in the image that is generated!
By Anonymous Coward at Fri, 2006/06/09 - 5:00am
They are not bugs, they are missing features
I am not sure these are bugs, they may be a lack of features/immaturity of the concept. I do think that the metaphors used by KOffice make more sense than the ones of MS Office - cloned by OpenOffice.org - and I would very much like to learn it and use it for work and play.
Unfortunately, I translate doc and pps documents written by people who would not learn MS Office properly, let alone learn how to use another suite on a different OS altogether; or worse, I sometimes work on documents developed by several people - often embedding more different source data - with less experienced people ignoring and mangling the careful settings of the more experienced ones because of the dumb, opaque interface.
With KOffice I resent the lack of adecquate language tools and more importantly the lack of good compatibility with the MS Office file formats. Those are the reasons I am not learning how to use KOffice and why I use it only to edit/change the format of PDFs I occasionally have to translate.
By Bilbophile at Mon, 2006/06/12 - 5:00am
Re: They are not bugs, they are missing features
on a different OS altogether;
Ermem, KDE 4 ==> Windows port. Can't wait to use a fully functional Koffice 2.0 in Windows.
By madman at Mon, 2008/05/26 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
> you can't have any formulas at all in KWord's defauolt format
Fixed. Thanks for the support.
By bug buster at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Maybe you don't know this, but KOffice is being developed in three branches at the moment.
- A 1.5.x branch for bug fixes
So, there still get many bugs fixed in the 1.5 and 1.6 branches, while all the innovations get added in trunk.
You're always more than welcome to help with any aspect of KOffice, there's more to do than only coding.
By Tim Beaulen at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Because some problems (like font kerning) can't be fixed without those innovation. And flake will bring some innovations, but it is first about code sharing between apps, which means that in the future instead of fixing a bug in kword, and in kpresenter, and in karbon and in kivio and in etc, you will fix in flake and fix for all. That's the innovative part of code sharing ;)
By Cyrille Berger at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
Because some problems (like font kerning) can't be fixed without those innovation. And flake will bring some innovations, but it is first about code sharing between apps, which means that in the future instead of fixing a bug in kword, and in kpresenter, and in karbon and in kivio and in etc, you will fix in flake and fix for all. That's the innovative part of code sharing ;)
By Cyrille Berger at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
>The spreadsheet is a joke
What is wrong with KSpread? It is actually quite good and fast. .ods-import works well for me, only the diagrams keep me from using it (I am using the sloooow OOCalc2).
By Carsten Niehaus at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: And why not fixing the bugs first?
While it is my general position that more effort should be put into fixing bugs and I would always error on the side of caution when implementing new technologies, we have to consider that with version 2.0 KOffice will be based on Qt-4.
Therefore, this is the time to break binary compatibility and some wheels are going to have be reinvented for some of the bugs (that can only be fixed by going to Qt-4) to be fixed. The main example that we are all familiar with is the text formating issues which cannot be fixed with Qt-3's PostScript driver.
In some cases, it might be better to wait till after the 2.0 release to implement new technologies. But, there is always a trade off since it would not be possible to, then, replace existing APIs (that would break binary compatibility) but rather to only add additional APIs (all APIs in 2.0 would have to remain till 3.0). In this case, since KOffice is not really yet a mature application, I see nothing wrong with doing some things over if the current implementions are not working very well.
Bug fixes can continue with the KOffice version 1.x branches and can be front ported to the version 2 trunk.
By James Richard Tyrer at Thu, 2006/06/08 - 5:00am
Live interaction beween apps?
So is going to be possible to have multiple koffice apps running side-by-side and edit shared items between docs live, so that I could edit a kspread table that would be updated on kword doc, kivio diagram on kpresenter, or whatever combination sharing objects _live_ so I could instantly how the end result would look like?
As it kinda sucks to need to save/reload whatever object when doing docs.
By Nobody at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Live interaction beween apps?
That would be hot.
I spend so much time going back and forth between photoshop and powerpoint getting things just right.
By theorz at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Live interaction beween apps?
Already supported. Thats actually what the screenshot at the end of the article is showing.
By Corbin at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Live interaction beween apps?
That's already possible: Insert a kspread object into kword. Select it. View->New View. Voila. All changes you'll make in one of the tables are immediately shown in the other representation.
By Stefan Nikolaus at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
DDE, OLE and OpenDoc?
What is the difference to Dynamic Data Exchange and Object Linking and Embedding in the Windows world? Or OpenDoc on the Mac?
By testerus at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: DDE, OLE and OpenDoc?
DDE is an interprocess communication control. Like DCop or D-Bus
Flake lets you edit objects (created with another program) from inside a single program. So you only run one process.
I guess you can compare it a little with OLE, but it still is not the same.
By Tim Beaulen at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: DDE, OLE and OpenDoc?
DDE was a very cool thing just as DCOP is today. I'm not as familiar with OpenDoc but I believe it is an embedding framework. OLE stood for Object Linking and Embedding, but it ended up meaning "One Long Expletive" when it crashed trying to do anything useful. When I left Windows in the 90s focus had shifted from DDE to OLE because MS preferred bloated embedding protocols to scripting. KDE's KParts and the Koffice libraries are more efficient, but the libraries you mentioned are more general purpose. For instance in Quanta we use KParts to load an application and DCOP to communicate with it. Compared to what Koffice is doing it's very rudimentary. Our interface is fairly rigidly defined to a full panel and we may find the plugin needs additional interfaces. With KOffice there is a lot more intelligent and defined interaction in the libraries inside.
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: DDE, OLE and OpenDoc?
On the subject of Quanta, is there going to be a KDE 4 port?
... I found that tool infinitely useful.
By madman at Mon, 2008/05/26 - 5:00am
Why apps? But anywho.
I continue to wonder why it is necessary to have separate Word, Spread, & Chart applications rather than having these integrated into one app that uses parts.
IAC, what I would like to see is to have it possible to link a number in a KWord document to a cell in a KSpread document and have it look just exactly like I had typed the number in the KWord document, yet if I change the spreadsheet, the number in the KWord document would change.
By James Richard Tyrer at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
Because for a certain task, a specialized interface is preferable. We discussed this a lot and came to the conclusion that it is much more userfriendly to have different interfaces for different main tasks. Especially the example of Gobe Productive argued in favour of our decision.
About sharing styles between different flakes -- that's something to consider. I don't know whether OpenDocument supports it, and if it doesn't, it will be hard to do, and getting inline data in a flake from another component will be a nice challenge, but as long as we're talking objects embedded in a text flake, doable. As long as OpenDocument supports it, of course.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
Why apps?
The feature request for KWord <-> KSpread interaction is a good one, I'll push that out the the developers for consideration.
Thanks James!
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
> we would either have 25 menus or alter our menu structure every time we make a selection.
By thomas at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
Have a look at Officd 12 - they did some great work on that app. It might look unfamiliar, but it works - seriously. The first thing from MS I would call innovation... It might not be totally new, but still its a great thing for Office.
By superstoned at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
Actually, I am only suggesting (at least to start) integration of the three major office apps: Word, Spread, & Chart. Embedding is sufficient for adding images.
Yes, the menu issue is one issue that would need to be solved to do this. And, I know that the KDE guidelines state that all operations that appear in toolbars must appear in the menu-bar menu.
I could probably list a handful of other issues, but I would look at these as challenges to be overcome rather than reasons not to try.
The first idea that comes to mind is to have a main menu bar that is always there no matter which part is active and an part menu bar for each part that only appears when that part is in use. I do not offer this as the ultimate solution, I am sure that with thought that we could come up with better ideas and refinements.
By James Richard Tyrer at Tue, 2006/06/06 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy for info about an app-less vision of Jeff Raskin. Very different way of looking at things.
By Jonathan Dietrich at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Re: Why apps? But anywho.
This has been done several years ago with StarOffice. That's why it takes so long to load, it is one app in different shapes. And as we know everybody complains about it being bloated.
By Jay Pee at Wed, 2006/06/07 - 5:00am
Why 2.0
Why not name it something more glorious?
Like Koffice 2000, or Koffice 4 (KDE 4). Koffice XP. :-))
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All snark aside, an industry-wide set of best practices for the safety of minors on social networking sites is a great idea, and let's hope that the pillars keep the Social Networking Party Palace from becoming the Heartbreak Hotel for kids. Still, given that MySpace isn't announcing many real changes to its operations, this was less a substantive announcement than it was a public chance to bury the proverbial hatchet with the AGs and to reassure parents that it's safe for their nearest and dearest to log on.


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