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Ladies Rhythm and Movement Club: Follow-up interview
Earlier this spring, The Ladies Rhythm and Movement Club (The LRMC), a knowledge bartering collective based in Toronto, wrote a web feature with tips for starting your own radical peer education group. We had more questions for The LRMC, but also wanted to continue the conversation on what it means to operate on an inclusive feminist mandate. How do we ensure that safe, inclusive spaces exist and that mainstream power structures aren't perpetuated? What does inclusivity mean? Locating and engaging with these spaces of difference, overlap, and congruence are all part of this conversation.
We invite you to continue this dialogue in the comments.
Shameless: What has been the biggest lesson learned since launching The LRMC? Why? (Or what has surprised you the most?)
LRMC: The biggest lesson learned? Eyebrow care. No, I'm kidding - but that was a great workshop.
We launched The LRMC with a mandate of radical peer education; that knowledge could be in free exchange with knowledge between women in our community who would act reflexively as teachers and students. I think the biggest thing we've learned since the launch is just that this system really can work when you're lucky enough to meet the kind of dedicated, inspired people that we have since we started this project. Every time The LRMC gets together at a skills workshop or seminar, we also see a little bit more of the incredible capacities of the people around us and the dynamic character of the community to which we're trying to contribute. We wanted to learn new skills without going broke and it turns out, a lot of women feel the same way we do. And now that we've launched our website, we get to learn new skills and hear stories every week from contributors from across the country and the U.S., culminating in a new workshop every month in Toronto led by an expert in their field.
Shameless: The LRMC is Toronto-based. If someone (or several persons) want to start a knowledge bartering collective in a town or rural setting that doesn't have the same population base or resources, what should they know? What tips would you give them?
LRMC: The best tip we could give anyone who wants to start a collective of any kind: do what works. Toronto is a pretty fitting backdrop for The LRMC but it does present its own challenges: there are so many really excellent people, skills, spaces, and inspirations to draw from, but people are busy and often far away from where we hold many of our workshops. We try to embrace what's available, emphatically and graciously accept what contributors can give, and keep playing jazz until we know what works.
Online communities can easily navigate past city lines and break down the divide between urban and rural communities. We've found that since the launch of our blog and website, we're able to expand our reach to cities and towns across the world, and we embrace anyone who wants to reach out to us over the Internet and become part of the fold.
If you're in a rural community, or you don't have Internet access, the same rules apply: do what works. Stir interest with fliers, offer snacks and play loud music until someone talks to you, meet with community leaders; do whatever you can until you have a club of two. It won't stay that way for long.
Every event, every new column on the website, is a new animal. The LRMC started with two women, a lot of wine, and just a few teachable skills between us. If you've got two ideas in free exchange, you're already well on your way. It won't be long before others want to get in on the action.
Shameless: It's not uncommon that groups founded on inclusive principles end up replicating mainstream power structures (what bell hooks calls white supremacist capitalist patriarchy) and don't end up challenging/dismantling privilege as originally hoped. As a group founded on inclusive feminist principles, what steps are or will be taken to acknowledge varying degrees of privilege among members? OR what steps are taken to ensure that The LRMC is a truly safe, accessible space for women of colour, Indigenous folks, individuals with disabilities, trans and non-binary gendered folks, and queer communities?
LRMC: The LRMC was designed to address problems of marginalization and intersectionality by providing a positive outlet for those affected by it. The LRMC works on a sliding scale of contribution - give what you can and participate when you can. This simply means that the sum of The LRMC's reach - as an organization, a community, a radical skill-sharing school, or a political combatant against gendered oppression, or discrimination of any kind - is entirely dependent on those who get involved. We make no claim to advance an agenda that specifically addresses issues of race, accessibility, or other types of marginalization that our peers experience, but we do offer a platform from which to express those experiences in a public arena, be it through co-education, art, protest - it's up to our members.
Shameless: How can The LRMC improve going forward?
LRMC: We're always looking for more hands on deck. The LRMC operates entirely on the knowledge, support, and dedication of our members, and the best way for us to continue to develop and improve is to keep bringing in fresh meat. If you're in Toronto and you'd like to attend or lead a workshop, or if you're anywhere and you want to contribute to the blog, contact us. We'll do everything we can to put your idea in lights, give you an audience, or just connect you with an extraordinary cast of likeminded people.
Learn more about the LRMC on our website, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook! Contact us if you're in the Toronto area and you're interested in participating in our next event, or if you're anywhere and you want to contribute to our blog.


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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is an awesome IDE with tooling for various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.
It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.
It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
It is shipped in Fedora (>= 4). Plug-ins are continuously being added to Fedora. We aim to take care of Eclipse plugin review requests quickly. Packaging guidelines for Eclipse plugins can be found here: Packaging/EclipsePlugins.
Fedora Eclipse
Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK along with many plugins (see below). We are working on making plugin packaging easier (see RPM Stubby.
Would you like to help?
Talk to us on IRC or the fedora-devel-java mailing list. Package a plug-in for Fedora!
Plug-ins We Ship
Autotools (part of CDT SRPM)
CMakeed -- Editor for CMake files
Dynamic Language Toolkit -- Complete with TCL and Ruby IDEs
EclEmma -- Code coverage tool to help you enhance your unit tests.
EGit -- git support
EMF -- Eclipse Modeling Framework
EPIC -- Perl tooling
GEF -- Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (not the Visual Editor )
MoreUnit -- Helper for writing more and better unit tests.
Mylyn -- a task-focused UI for Eclipse with bugzilla and trac integration.
Photran -- Fortran support for Eclipse
PHPEclipse -- PHP tooling
QuickREx -- Regular expression tester
RPM Specfile Generator -- This plugin makes packaging other plugins really easy.
Eclipse SETools -- SELinux policy analysis tools
Shelled -- Editor for shell scripts
SLIDE -- SLIDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) developers and integrators
Subclipse -- support for working with Subversion repositories
Plug-ins We'd Like To Ship
- needs some non-Eclipse deps, all of which may not be in Fedora
- tracker bug: 486369
- old SRPM and .spec uploaded here (most likely won't build, needs work):
- requested here
- development has been re-started upstream
- Mylyn's JIRA plugin
- bug to ship JIRA plugin
- needs axis 1.4 with OSGi metadata (bug #497126)
- needs org.apache.commons.discovery_0.2.0 (hopefully 0.4 we have is acceptable) (bug to add OSGi metadata)
- needs javax.wsdl_1.5.1 (bug to add OSGi metadata)
- needs javax.xml.soap_1.2.0 (bug to add OSGi metadata)
- javax.xml.rpc_1.1.0 (bug to add OSGi metadata)
Plug-ins Which Need Packaging Work
- all of it needs
DTP andWTP
- Tracker bug to get WTP built (filed against BIRT since that's what needs it) 486369
- all of it needs
- Tracker bug to get all of DTP built: 485460
- Package of lpgjavaruntime 497756
Fix build with lucene 2 and submit it upstream 486366 Fix build with java 6 - Fixed in latest build in rawhide. review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484676package built with just a few features
Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on Freenode . There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode. Community around the Eclipse Linux Tools project is emerging now and developers are hanging out on #eclipse-linux on Freenode.
It has automated tests . You can also run individual plug-in tests .
Running the Eclipse SDK automated tests against the installed RPMs can be done using the following steps:
- $ svn co http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools/sdktests/3.4.1/Fedora eclipse-sdk-tests
- $ cd eclipse-sdk-tests
- $ ./build.sh
- (... wait for build)
- # rpm -Uvh RPMS/{x86_64,i386,etc.}/eclipse-tests-3.4*.rpm
- $ cd <somewhere you can write>
- $ /usr/lib (or lib64) /eclipse/dropins/eclipse/runtests
- (... wait for tests to run)
- $ ls /tmp/eclipseSDKtests/results/html
- View results in browser: file:///tmp/eclipseSDKtests/results/html
We appreciate any and all reports of success or failure with the SDK tests. The fedora-devel-java-list mailing list is a fine place to send them.
We plan to ship the Eclipse SDK (eclipse SRPM) version 3.4.2 in Fedora 11. Other Ganymede release train projects should be updated to their Ganymede "Service Release 2" releases when they are available. We are using the following tracker bug for updating to 3.4.2:
Fedora 11 froze before the release of Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo). We would like to avoid having 5 months of a gap between the release of Eclipse 3.5 and it being available in a Fedora release. As such, we hope to do an upgrade to 3.5 some time in the Fedora 11 life cycle. Status as of 2009-06-26 is that eclipse-build project upstream is coming along and we will move our builds to it once it is able to bootstrap itself.
There are also the following tracker bugs for various packages we ship and for upgrading them to their Galileo version:
The other plugins we ship should work with Eclipse 3.5 without problems. We will of course have to coordinate testing them all.
In order to coordinate this effort, we may be requesting a koji tag (and repo?) to use for our builds and so that others can easily consume this work and report errors.
Fedora Eclipse Branding
Up to and including Fedora 11, we shipped a branding plugin with a custom splash screen and product ID. From Fedora 12 onwards, we will no longer be doing this.
Updating the branding for a new version
This section is no longer important but is kept for historical purposes. The splash screen itself was originally done by Diana Fong and given to us as a PSD file. It is kept with the rest of the branding plugin in CVS:
People wishing to commit will have to have a Sourceware account. We should probably move this to Fedora Hosted. In the meantime, use this form to request an account (project: eclipse, sponsor: Andrew Overholt):
When updating the branding to a new version, you will need to:
- update the product file fedoraeclipse.product to include the build ID matching upstream's release build (ex. http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4.2-200902111700 gives a build ID of 20090211-1700)
- be sure to hit the synchronize link on the "Overview" page of the product editor to sync up the various generated files
- make a new splash.bmp (yes, it is an actual BMP):
- open the .psd file in the Gimp
- adjust the visible layers of the numbering in the Gimp to have the correct version shown
- for versions that are not present in the PSD, you will need to use the Gimp to draw a number that looks very close to the font originally used
- export the visible layers you want to splash.bmp; do not include the Fedora logo layer in the resulting splash.bmp
- refresh the splash.bmp file in your workspace and open it to ensure it is what you want
- commit your changes. Comparing two previous tags (ex. fedoraeclipse-3_4_1 vs. fedoraeclipse-3_4_2) is a helpful indicator to guarantee you've made all of the necessary changes.
- do not include the PSD file in build.properties; it should not be shipped in the SRPM/RPM
- branch and tag for the new version; follow previous tags and branch names to be consistent
- update eclipse.spec to reflect the new locations and generate a new org.fedoraproject.ide.platform-%{version}.zip


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Point to a group of toddlers in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the U.S., and it's a good bet that they will go to college, buy nice houses and enjoy white-collar careers.
Point to a group of toddlers in a low-income neighborhood, and -- especially if they're boys -- they're much more likely to end up dropping out of school, struggling in dead-end jobs and having trouble with the law.
Something is profoundly wrong when we can point to 2-year-olds in this country and make a plausible bet about their long-term outcomes -- not based on their brains and capabilities but on their ZIP codes. President Barack Obama spoke movingly in his second Inaugural Address of making equality a practice as well as a principle. So, Mr. President, how about using your second term to tackle this most fundamental inequality?
For starters, this will require a fundamental rethinking of anti-poverty policy. American assistance programs, from housing support to food stamps, have had an impact, and poverty among the elderly has fallen in particular (they vote in high numbers, so government programs tend to cater to them). But, too often, such initiatives have addressed symptoms of poverty, not causes.
Since President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war on poverty," the United States has spent $16 trillion or more on means-tested programs. Yet the proportion of Americans living beneath the poverty line, 15 percent, is higher than in the late 1960s in the Johnson administration.
What accounts for the cycles of poverty that leave so many people mired in the margins, and how can we break these cycles? Some depressing clues emerge from a new book, "Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance," by Susan Neuman and Donna Celano.
Neuman and Celano focus on two neighborhoods in Philadelphia. In largely affluent Chestnut Hill, most children have access to personal computers and the shops have eight children's books or magazines on sale for each child living there.
Take a 20-minute bus ride on Germantown Avenue and you're in the Philadelphia Badlands, a low-income area inhabited mostly by working-class blacks and Hispanics. Here there are few children's books, few private computers and only two public computers for every 100 children.
On top of that, there's a difference in parenting strategies, the writers say. Upper-middle-class parents in the U.S. increasingly engage in competitive child-rearing. Parents send preschoolers to art classes and violin lessons and read "Harry Potter" books to bewildered children who don't yet know what a wizard is.
Meanwhile, partly by necessity, working-class families often have a more hands-off attitude toward child-raising. Neuman and Celano spent 40 hours monitoring parental reading in the public libraries in each neighborhood. That was easy in the Badlands -- on an average day "not one adult entered the preschool area in the Badlands."
When I was a third-grader, a friend struggling in school once went with me to the library, and my mother helped him get a library card. His grandmother then made him return it immediately, for fear that he would run up library fines.
The upshot is that many low-income children never reach the starting line, and poverty becomes self-replicating.
Maybe that's why some of the most cost-effective anti-poverty programs are aimed at the earliest years. For example, the Nurse-Family Partnership has a home-visitation program that encourages new parents of at-risk children to amp up the hugging, talking and reading. It ends at age 2, yet randomized trials show that those children are less likely to be arrested as teenagers and the families require much less government assistance.
Or take Head Start. Critics have noted that the advantage its preschoolers gain in test scores fades by third grade, but scholars also have found that Head Start has important impacts on graduates, including lessening the chance that they will be convicted of a crime years later.
James Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, argues that the most crucial investments we as a country can make are in the first five years of life, and that they pay for themselves. Yet these kinds of initiatives are underfinanced and serve only a tiny fraction of children in need.
We don't have any magic bullets. But randomized trials and long-term data give us a better sense of what works -- and, for the most part, it's what we're not doing, like improved education, starting with early childhood programs for low-income families. Job-training for at-risk teenagers also has an excellent record. Marriage can be a powerful force, too, but there's not much robust evidence about which programs work.
So, Mr. President, to fulfill the vision for your second term, how about redeploying the resources we've spent on the war in Afghanistan to undertake nation-building at home -- starting with children so that they will no longer be limited by their ZIP codes?
Contact Nicholas Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.
A life limited by ZIP codes
Point to a group of toddlers in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the U.S., and it's a good bet that they will go to college, buy nice houses and enjoy white-collar careers.


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HARTFORD, Conn. — A storm hits Connecticut and causes hundreds of thousands to lose power. Utility companies take a week or longer to restore it. Public outrage leads to state investigations. Officials order service improvements.
It's a cycle that repeats itself in the Land of Steady Habits. The problems that arose after the freak October snowstorm and Tropical Storm Irene in August are similar to ones that cropped up after other major storms dating to Hurricane Gloria in 1985, an Associated Press review of state regulatory reports shows.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, legislators and other state officials say it's time to finally fix long-standing problems such as utilities not being quick enough in bringing in out-of-state crews, inadequate tree trimming and poor communication with government officials after storms. They also want to hold utilities companies more responsible for performance troubles, possibly by issuing fines.
"Our state was hit twice in a short period of time by devastating weather events that created a lot of havoc and revealed vulnerabilities that should have been addressed years, if not decades, ago," Malloy said.
Power outages are expected during any big storm. But electricity company officials say the October storm and Irene were highly unusual, historic events that caused unprecedented damage to trees and wires, making the cleanup and power restoration much more difficult and time-consuming compared with other storms.
The Oct. 29 storm downed scores of trees and utility wires, leaving 3 million homes and businesses in the Northeast without power. Hardest hit was Connecticut, where a state record of 850,000 outages was set only two months after Tropical Storm Irene caused a then-record 830,000 power failures.
Many utility customers went more than a week without power after both storms. Government officials and outraged residents called for having more crews in place ready to work before storms hit and better tree trimming. They also wanted the state's largest utility, Connecticut Light & Power Co., to improve how it shares information about restoration work with local officials and to provide better estimates of when the power will be back on.
But it's not the first time Connecticut residents have heard such promises.
Gloria hit New England on Sept. 27, 1985, knocked out power to more than 700,000 Connecticut utility customers at its peak and left many in the dark for a week or longer.
After investigating the response to Gloria, the state Department of Public Utility Control asked both CL&P and The United Illuminating Co., which serves the Bridgeport and New Haven areas, to improve communications. Government officials had complained they were not getting accurate information about power restoration work fast enough. Tree-trimming programs were also questioned.Story: Storm could lead to higher electric rates in Conn.
A year after Gloria, another storm caused nearly 220,000 outages in the state. Another DPUC investigation found problems at CL&P including slow dispatching of damage assessment crews, inaccurate damage assessment and inaccurate estimates of when power would be restored.
After those two storms, regulators launched a broader investigation of the adequacy of the utilities' systems. That probe resulted in a landmark report in 1988 that included a host of new reporting requirements for both companies that still stand today.
CL&P was also told that year to improve tree trimming, which keeps branches from getting tangled in power lines, and to report back on how its new four-year trimming cycle worked, while UI was told to fully complete its five-year trimming cycle. CL&P later switched its trimming cycle to five years and is now considering going back to four years.
And in March 2010, a nor'easter cut power to 100,000 Connecticut homes and businesses. Public criticism of CL&P's response to fix the damage led to yet another investigation.
An independent consultant found that CL&P did many things well, but there were a variety of problems including — again — a need to improve communications with cities and towns and inadequate damage assessments by inexperienced crews. The consultant said underestimating damage leads to longer response times and longer outages.
That report also said CL&P did a good job of bringing in crews from out of state to help fix the damage. But the company was criticized after the two recent storms for being too slow to bring in aid crews.
State officials say they're frustrated that the problems keep popping up.
"Oftentimes it's the same concerns that get repeated," said state Rep. Vickie Nardello, co-chairwoman of the legislature's Energy and Technology Committee. "Let's look at what's the level of regulation in other states, and is it comparable to Connecticut? If it's not, then that tells us that we have to make a change here."
In response to criticism after recent and previous storms, officials at CL&P's parent company, Northeast Utilities, said new lessons are learned after every major weather event.
The company will be reviewing its process for getting help from out-of-state crews and considering other ideas for improving storm response, said Charles Shivery, NU's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
State lawmakers say they want permanent solutions to the long-standing problems and are calling on state regulators to impose performance "benchmarks" — a new concept in Connecticut — on the utilities.
The benchmarks could include minimum staffing levels for power restoration crews and daily conference calls with local leaders about post-storm repairs. Failure to meet the requirements could result in penalties, Nardello said.
CL&P, meanwhile, is now facing at least five investigations into how it responded to the Oct. 29 snowstorm.
Janet Conley, a yoga teacher from West Hartford, lost power for several days after the snowstorm and complained last week about how nothing seems to change after major storms and lengthy outages.
"I thought things would be better after Irene, but all they did was have meetings about it, as far as I can tell," Conley said. "It didn't seem to make a bit of difference this time."
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Walter "Fritz" Mondale
Name at birth: Walter Frederick Mondale
Democrat Walter Mondale has been a U.S. senator, vice president, presidential candidate, and ambassador in his long career in politics. Walter Mondale was born in Minnesota and got involved in Minnesota politics in 1948, when he helped elect Hubert H. Humphrey to the U.S. Senate (1948). He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Political Science in 1951, served in the U.S. Army, and then got a law degree from the same school in 1956. He was appointed state attorney general in 1960, and when Sen. Humphrey was chosen to be Lyndon Johnson's vice president in 1964, Walter Mondale was named to Humphrey's seat in the Senate. Mondale was re-elected in 1966 and 1972, then served as vice president under Jimmy Carter from 1977-81. Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980, and in 1984 Mondale became the Democratic Party's nominee to run against Reagan. Mondale made history by choosing Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making her the first woman ever on a major-party presidential ticket. Mondale made history in a different way on Election Day, winning only 13 electoral votes to Reagan's 525. It remains the greatest margin of victory in U.S. presidential history. Walter Mondale returned to practicing law, and during the administration of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton, Mondale was the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1993-97). In 2002, when Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash 11 days before Election Day, Mondale stepped into the race in his place, but lost to Republican Norm Coleman. Norway named him Honorary Consul General in Minneapolis in 2007.
Walter Mondale's nickname is "Fritz"… He married the former Joan Adams on 27 December 1955. They have three children: Theodore (b. 1957), Eleanor (b. 1960) and William (b. 1962). Eleanor Mondale is a TV and radio personality.
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