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001. Cor another week down! and another week closer to Christmas. Im not in the spirit at all yet,
002. Tomorrow I'm off to London for a photo shoot at Pure for Violent Lips. A brand which I actually reviewed earlier this week on my other blog. I've never had my makeup done professionally so Im a bit worried as I know how I like it! I feel so awakward when someone else takes photographs of me too, so it may be a bit fail! Cant wait to share the images with you though (only if they are good mind you!!)
003. Cant believe this is 101 of these things! When I started doing them it didn't mean, just my own way to keep a record of what I did that week/plans or anything that was interesting me at the time! Now its a bit of a thing~ (not saying I invented it because I'm sure I probably jacked it off someone else!) but its really exciting! I should go back and collage all my images from the past two and a bit years!
004. Packed and labelled all JWLRY orders placed up until I posted this blog post! They will be going out first thing tomorrow! Plenty of items left with free shipping all month!


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 376 diseños de 97 diseñadores freelance.
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BJP sticks to its demand for special session
Published: 24th December 2012 02:59 PM | Last Updated: 24th December 2012 03:01 PM | A+A A-
BJP today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement promising appropriate steps to prevent heinous crimes against women does not inspire confidence and suggested that the government should call a special Parliament session and an all-party meeting.
"The Prime Minister's statement does not inspire any confidence in the people. It has come too late and is too little. People want tougher laws and time-bound action. The government has failed to gauge the mood of the people," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
The main Opposition reiterated its demand for a special session of Parliament to pass stringent laws to punish those who commit crimes against women.
"Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj has suggested a way forward to the government by saying the Prime Minister should call an all-party meeting and hold a special session. The session can be of just five days," Javadekar told reporters here.
He wondered why the positive and constructive suggestions from the opposition were not being heeded to by Singh.
BJP had earlier condemned the police action against the youths who protested at Rajpath and India Gate. Swaraj had then talked to the Prime Minister and discussed the issue with Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
BJP Parliamentary Party Chief L K Advani had also talked to Shinde and said senior police officials should talk to the protesters instead of indulging in lathi-charge and using tear gas.
"The Home Minister saying we cannot talk to the protesters is ridiculous. They are university students and not Maoists. He should be tough against criminals and not students. Had the government talked to the protesters the tensions would have been reduced," Javadekar said.


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Posts Tagged 'art'
The Cloud
From the middle of the creek. Thank goodness for insulated, waterproof boots. 😉
1/15 second at f/8, ISO 100. Nikon D800E + Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4.
A Walk with the Zeiss 25/2.8 (A Mini Lens Review)
A geeky post today, sorry. If you're not into this stuff, I hope that the images are interesting anyway.
These street images were made while photostrolling with the Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm f/2.8 ZF.2. All were shot with a Nikon D800E body. One of the things I wanted to see was how the optics would stack up against the high resolving power of this body. Even wide open, I was blown away by how sharp the thing is. But with a fair amount of chromatic aberration which even my untrained eye could pick out. However, this was easily take care of by Lightroom or, simply by stopping down.
One of the love-it-or-hate-it characteristics about this lens is the heavy vignetting at f/2.8. I mostly shoot with rather clinical Nikkor glass and thus found the romance imparted by the vignetting to be rather enjoyable.
Dusk on a Rainy Day
It has been one of those typical Seattle winter days. Liquid sunshine had come down all day long, sometimes pelting, sometimes a mere mist. Then, just before sundown, it cleared. I got about 20 minutes to make some images before it started again.
4/5 second at f/13, ISO 640. Nikon D800E + Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4.
Forest Light
1/20 second at f/8, ISO 800. Nikon D800E + Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4.
On Sunday, the fog that had shrouded the region for days lifted long enough for us to enjoy a couple of hours of clear skies and a pleasant sunset. About an hour after I made this image, we were engulfed again.
1/160 second at f/8, ISO 1600. Nikon D800E + Sigma 50-500 f/4.5-6.3.
Winter Monochromes
Some images that I made while messin' around the other day…
1/100 second at f/4, ISO 800. Nikon D600 + Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
1/1000 second at f/2.2, ISO 800. Nikon D600 + Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
1/250 second at f/2.8, ISO 800. Nikon D600 + Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
1/60 second at f/4, ISO 1600. Nikon D600 + Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
Skagit Bay Twilight
Yesterday, we'd gone out to the Skagit River to see the bald eagles. But the combination of patchy light and freezing weather kept them high in the trees, making for a rather disappointing outing. On the way home, we made a "maybe we can salvage the trip" detour through Fir Island to try to catch some snow geese. No luck either. But nonetheless, mother nature was generous with us.
Thank you, Sai, for accompanying me on my oft-nutty adventures!
2 seconds at f/11, ISO 100. Nikon D800E + Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4.


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Sonari Glinton
NPR Business Reporter Sonari Glinton covers the auto industry and transportation. His reports can be heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday.
Glinton came to NPR in August 2007 and worked as a producer for All Things Considered for three years. During that time he produced interviews with everyone from UN Ambassador Susan Rice to Joan Rivers. The highlight for Glinton came when he produced Robert Siegel's 50 Great Voices piece on Nat King Cole.
Prior to NPR, Glinton spent four years at WBEZ working his way up from intern. While in Chicago he covered the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the late legendary Cook County Board President John Stroger.
For his work on a series uncovering abuse at the Cook Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Glinton was honored with the Society of Professional Journalist's Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.
Glinton's first name, Sonari, comes from the southern Nigeria language Ijo and means "God hears our cry." Born and raised in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, Glinton cheers for the White Sox, Bears and the Bulls in that order. He's also a rabid jazz and Frank Sinatra fan who owns every Sinatra-released recording from 1953-1993. He attended Boston University.


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"It's so unfortunate because they're both capable people," said William Coblentz, a San Francisco lawyer who has contributed to both their careers and coffers. "I know them both well, and I love them both, but I believe Nancy felt that Jane was abrasive and aggressive, which she can be."Mmmm... don't you want hear more?
ADDED: Bob Wright and Mickey Kaus's analysis Nancy Pelosi is thoroughly gender-based -- and replete with extensive comparison to chimpanzee behavior!


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Oh my heavens! What a difference a week and a half makes, there was only one vote for "OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE" when I last checked in.
Voting was closed when I tried to cast my vote. No big surprise there. I'm guessing most of the votes were cast illegally and/or you bused in illegal voters from some other cafe.
The way I see it things are changing for the worse and it is going to take at least the next several decades to unscramble the mess. I'll be dead by then and most everyone else will be close behind me as the ocean turns acid, the O2 level drops and the planet starts to shrivel up and die. I guess that's OK since it's what you voted for.


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He hasn't held office since 1989. In fact, he's been dead since 2004. But former President Ronald Reagan has been a regular presence on the campaign trail this year.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has made pilgrimages to Reagan's home town and the factory that makes his favorite candy as he tries to rally conservative voters to his fading campaign. Newt Gingrich regularly calls himself a "bold Reagan conservative." Mitt Romney has proposed a "Reagan economic zone" to boost free trade.
Even Democratic President Barack Obama has gotten in on the act, suggesting that the champion of the modern conservative movement would be viewed as too moderate in today's Republican party.
"Ronald Reagan, who, as I recall, is not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases," Obama told the American Society of News Editors on Tuesday.
"He could not get through a Republican primary today," Obama added.
Romney challenged that notion one day later.
"I actually think Ronald Reagan would win handily in a primary and frankly in all the primaries," he told the same group on Wednesday.
Given Reagan's continued popularity with the public, Romney could be right. Though historians tend to rank him in the middle of the pack of U.S. presidents, recent public opinion polls have found that voters rank him No. 1 -- ahead of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
Reagan's popularity among Republicans isn't surprising, given the Republican presidents who followed.
George H.W. Bush lost his re-election bid in 1992 due to a recession and a tax-raising budget deal that angered conservatives. When his son, George W. Bush, left office in 2009, nearly three out of four voters said they disapproved of the way he had handled his job.
By contrast, Reagan's election in 1980 proved that conservative candidates could appeal to a broad spectrum of voters. The economy boomed as he cut taxes and deregulated, and the Soviet Union crumbled as he pursued an often-confrontational foreign policy. His approval rating was nearly as high when he stepped down as when he took the oath of office.
"Reagan took conservatism from a force of negative politics, and turned it into a force for positive governance," said Craig Shirley, a conservative media consultant who has written several books about Reagan.
Democrats are finding Reagan's legacy useful as well.
Obama's campaign would do well to study Reagan's 1984 re-election as it tries to find a message that will resonate as clearly as the "Morning in America" slogan that allowed an incumbent president to win a landslide victory in the face of high unemployment.
As they grapple with Republicans over fiscal issues, Democrats point out that a president best known for large income-tax cuts also signed off on numerous tax increases, agreed to raise the national debt limit 18 times, and crafted a compromise that put the Social Security retirement program on sound footing.
Obama has praised Reagan as he seeks to buff his bipartisan credentials.
"No matter what political disagreements you may have had with President Reagan — and I certainly had my share — there is no denying his leadership in the world, or his gift for communicating his vision for America" Obama wrote in USA Today in 2011.
As the bitter partisan disputes of the Reagan years recede into history, politicians of all stripes have an incentive to invoke his legacy, said Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.
"When you have a president who's popular in the public imagination, that has a lot of value. Different people are going to take out of him what they can," Zelizer said.
Reagan's legacy has proven to be a tricky challenge for Romney, who was a registered independent in the 1980s and said he was "not trying to return to Reagan-Bush" in his unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat in liberal-leaning Massachusetts in 1994.
Romney supporters point out that Reagan's views evolved over time as well. Reagan was an early supporter of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and, like Romney, came to regret his early support for abortion rights.
Romney has invoked Reagan less often on the campaign trail than his Republican rivals but has emphasized Reagan-like stances on foreign policy and regulation as he paints Obama as not assertive enough overseas and hostile to business.
He's likely to refer to the Gipper more often as the matchup against Obama heats up, Zelizer said.
"I assume when September and October roll around Romney will talk a lot about the Reagan legacy," he said.
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)


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Education Policy Meets Whac‐a‐Mole®
K-12 school choice programs based on education tax credits are receiving a lot of attention after last week's Supreme Court oral arguments in the Winn case. SCOTUS is likely to overturn a lower court ruling in Winn that would have hobbled or killed Arizona's education tax credit program, and that has some folks consternated.
Among the ranks of the tetchy is Kevin Carey of the Quick and the Ed. Jay Greene responds here, and concludes, in essence, that Carey is inconsistently alternating between two criticisms of tax credits whenever one is whacked with a compelling counterargument. Worth a read.


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Bulk Email Marketing Software
Email marketing is a very effective form of marketing, as it involves the construction of a bulk email, which is an email that is sent to a list of individuals simultaneously. In a broader sense, the practice includes any email that can be considered promotional in that it markets products or services to consumers.
There are two types of email marketing. The first is the transactional email, which is the confirmation a person typically receives after some kind of interaction with the company. A purchase confirmation is the perfect example of a transactional email. The second type is the directional email, which involves sending an email for the purpose of communicating a promotional announcement. As for how such emails are sent, bulk email software is what makes it possible.
Best Programs for Effective Mass Mailing Campaigns
The best email marketing software on the market today includes Email Marketing Studio, Bulk Mailer, and Email verifier. The following are short descriptions of each bulk mailing software program:
Email Marketing Studio
This bundle contains free email software used in mass mailing campaigns. The key features include templates, email personalization, HTML editing, built-in database for list management, and flash and embedded image support.
Bulk Mailer
This mass mailing software is free bulk mail software that is used to send out targeted bulk mail to subscriber lists. This is a bulk email marketing software that is easy-to-use, yet it has all of the templates, list management tools, and editing capabilities needed to send effective emails.
Email Verifier
This free email verifier program enables easy management of bulk email lists. It is important to keep lists free from invalid email addresses so that a realistic view of how many individuals are truly receiving each mass mailing is had. Marketers and administrators benefit from the seamless integration with Bulk Mailer, effective content list management, exportation of email addresses from Excel, and the exportation of emails from outside sources, such as Oracle, MS SQL, and other website tools used to capture the emails of subscribers.
Powerful Mass Email Software Features
There are a number of key features to powerful mass email software, which includes:
- Mail merge functions and high personalization
- A built-in SMTP server with special sending modes
- The ability to integrate Flash, Images and attachments into newsletters through the HTML editor
- Contact list management
- Tracking of unsubscribes, opens, clicks, and links
- Opt-in forms that you can customize
- Direct access to a number of external databases
- Email Verifier integration is seamless
In addition, you can easily import and export your contact lists; import from Microsoft Outlook, your Windows Address Book, Text, CSV, or Excel; and import and export to and from external data sources that include MS SQL, MySQL, Access, ODBC/OLE, Paradox, FoxPro, and DBase.
Even sending modes can vary and those modes are delayed, direct, and burst. There is a detailed sending monitor that tracks progress, the ability to resend to addresses that failed, and detailed reports that tell you the sending results and give you a detailed log that outlines every operation.
Lastly, international characters are supported, there are full text and HTML formats to choose from, multiple email accounts that are easy-to-use, styled text support, and you can process fields in subject.
About the Company
We are industry leader in the development of email marketing software and email list building tools that over 1,000 companies around the world have used in their mass mailing campaigns. So many companies have chosen our products because of how easily a company can create email newsletters and personalized html-based emails to a large number of recipients. Easily run campaigns remedy high marketing costs and lead to better time management.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Brad Paisley is going to make a guest appearance on the May 22 episode of Nashville, according to Extra . And we know it will be the show's season finale and that he will portray himself and perform with Rayna and Deacon. But we have no idea what that episode will be about. So, let's brainstorm some plot ideas, shall we? Here are 10 plot twists that would be interesting to watch:
1. Paisley officiates at Rayna and Deacon's inevitable wedding.
2. Rayna's record label files for Chapter 11 after Scarlett's singles fail to chart, so Paisley bails her out.
3. Teddy's homewrecker girlfriend Peggy (Paisley's real life wife) tires of his mayoral ways and sets her sights on Paisley.
4. Deacon's vet girlfriend overcomes her hatred of country music and becomes Paisley's biggest superfan.
5. Paisley abandons his record deal and gets a job playing lead guitar in the house band at a local club.
6. Juliette wants to go Hollywood, so she befriends Paisley in order to get to know his actress wife.
7. Teddy and Peggy get married, then sign up for an episode of Wife Swap with Paisley and his made-for-TV wife.
8. Rayna's daughters want Paisley to produce their debut album, and Rayna becomes the cliche stage mom in Paisley's studio.
9. Gunnar and Will are at odds over Scarlett's love, and the only therapy that works for them is hearing Paisley play.
10. Scarlett leaves Gunnar because she has fallen in love with Paisley, and she tries to romance him with her songbird voice, her strong country lovin' and her Southern cookin'.


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With New Search History Feature, Facebook Gets a Teensy Bit Googley
So this is the kind of search Zuckerberg was talking about.
Facebook announced on Friday that it will add a search history feature to users' Activity Log pages, allowing them to review any and all queries made inside of Facebook.com.
It's minor, basically a drop-down recap of who or what you've been looking for when you type things into that little search box at the top of your news feed. Click the little button on your activity log and you can see everything organized by date and query term, via both desktop and mobile sites. And it's just beginning to roll out today, so don't expect it widely for another few weeks. Also of note: You can delete your search terms at any time, just like you can with the stuff you've shared through Timeline.
But it's also an itty-bitty step over into Google turf, albeit inside of Facebook rather than on the Web at large. Just like Google's drop-down menu of all the search terms you've made inside your Google profile, Facebook wants to make more complete its own user profiles and history. Sort of like what Facebook intended with the launch of Timeline, the complete history of what you've shared with the world through your profile.
In other words: Everything you share and do on Facebook is part of your story — including search.
Zuckerberg talked about just how powerful the company's search capabilities are in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier in September:
"Search is interesting. We do on the order of 1 billion queries a day and we're basically not even trying. Today with search the vast majority of it is people trying to find people, but there's also a meaningful portion of queries where people are trying to find Pages, brand Pages, other business Pages — so there's a bunch of that that actually does link to commercial behavior, and I think there's a big opportunity there and we just need to go do that."
He goes on to hint at larger ambitions in search:
"These are questions that you could potentially do at Facebook if we built out this system that you couldn't do anywhere else. And at some point we'll do it. We have a team working on search."
So perhaps, with this minor first step, this is Facebook moving in that direction. Wonder what Google thinks about it?


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Hurricane Sandy's howling winds and rains lashed precarious shantytowns, stranded travelers and caused rivers to rise dangerously Wednesday as it roared across Jamaica on a course that would take it on to Cuba and then possibly threaten Florida.
At least one person was killed in nearby Haiti after being swept away by a rushing river.
In some southern towns on Jamaica, several crocodiles were caught in rushing floodwaters that carried them out of their homes in mangrove thickets. One big croc took up temporary residence in a family's front yard in the city of Portmore.
By Wednesday evening the storm's eye had crossed Jamaica and emerged off its northern coast near the town of Port Antonio, meteorologists said, but rains and winds continued to pound the Caribbean island.
It was the first direct hit by the eye of a hurricane on Jamaica since Hurricane Gilbert 24 years ago, and fearful authorities closed the island's international airports and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting. Cruise ships changed their itineraries to avoid the storm, which made landfall five miles east of the capital, Kingston.
Flash floods and mudslides were a threat for this debt-shackled tropical island of roughly 2.7 million inhabitants, which has a crumbling infrastructure and sprawling shantytowns built on steep embankments and in gullies.
In the hilly community of Kintyre, on the outskirts of Kingston, Sharon Gayle and a few of her neighbors expected to completely lose the town's bridge over the Hope River, which washed away a section of the span just three weeks ago during a heavy downpour. The shell of a concrete home that collapsed into the river and killed two people several years ago still lies toppled on the sandy banks.
"We've gotten cut off here a whole heap of times. But with a big nasty hurricane on the way, I'm really nervous. We're trying not to show it in front of the children though," the mother of three said, huddling under a sopping white towel as she stared at the rising river.
The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was expected to pass over eastern Cuba early Thursday, missing the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, where pretrial hearings were being held for a suspect in the deadly 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm conditions were possible along the southeastern Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday morning. A tropical storm watch was in effect for the area, the center said.
In southwestern Haiti, a woman died in the town of Camp Perrin after she was swept away by a river she was trying to cross, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country's civil protection office. There were reports of extensive damage to Port Salut on Haiti's far-southwestern coast after a river burst its banks. Mayor Larock Pierre Clervert said a hotel was destroyed by flood waters.
Across Jamaica, the poor and moneyed residents in gated communities hunkered down at home as powerful winds shrieked around buildings and sent sheets of rain sideways.
Stranded business travelers and a smattering of locals rode out the Category 1 hurricane in hotels clustered along a strip in Kingston's financial district. Some read prayer books or novels, while others watched movies or communicated with loved ones on computers.
Cris Hopkinson, a Toronto woman who was on a business trip, said she hoped to catch a flight off the island Friday once the stormy weather cleared.
"For now, I'm just hoping that the glass in the windows don't shatter from the winds," Hopkinson said in the dining room of the Courtleigh Hotel.
About a mile away in the rough neighborhood of Grants Pen, where shops have been ransacked in the past during storms, a number of young men ignored the curfew, riding on bicycles or walking in small groups in the steady rain.
Cecile Graham, a mother of two teenagers, said she was worried about the possibility of burglaries or looting at the small markets and shops that line the main road.
"I hope that all the police are out and we won't have the looting that has taken place before," she said.
Deputy Police Commissioner Glenmore Hinds warned that police "will react swiftly to protect life and property."
Police slowly drove through drenched communities in the coastal capital with their cruisers' lights flashing. A senior police superintendent was shot in troubled West Kingston, but the circumstances were murky.
The storm was predicted to drop as much as 12 inches of rain, especially over central and eastern parts of Jamaica, the country's meteorological service said. Some isolated spots could see as much as 20 inches, according to U.S. forecasters. Battering waves and a strong storm surge were also forecast. By Wednesday afternoon, sea water was washing over the streets of Port Royal, a depressed fishing village at the tip of a spit of land near Kingston's airport.
More than 100 fishermen were stranded in outlying Pedro Cays, a lobster- and conch-rich area about 40 miles off Jamaica's southern coast. Some of them told local media they lacked fuel to get back to the mainland, but authorities said they willfully disobeyed an evacuation order.
On the mainland, nearly 500 people moved to shelters, but others living in low-lying areas on the mainland refused to evacuate their homes because they were fearful that their possessions would be stolen.
Airports in Kingston and Montego Bay shut down for the day and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. announced that its Allure of the Seas megaship would not stop at Jamaica's northern Falmouth terminal on Wednesday, remaining at sea instead. Other cruise lines also rerouted ships from port calls to Montego Bay and Ocho Rios.
While Jamaica was ravaged by bands from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and other powerful hurricanes centered offshore, the eye of a hurricane hasn't carved across the island since Gilbert in 1988, according to Jamaican meteorologist Jacqueline Spence.
A warning siren wailed across the U.S. base at Guantanamo Wednesday as steady rain fell. The military warned the 5,500 people living on the base to begin storm preparations. Officials say there is no threat to the 166 prisoners.
In Cuba, authorities issued a hurricane watch for several provinces and there were intermittent rains over Haiti, where a tropical storm warning was in effect. A hurricane watch was issued for the central and northwestern Bahamas, where the storm was predicted to pass Thursday and Friday morning.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. It was moving north at about 14 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 30 miles from the center.
Far out in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Tony posed no threat to land. The storm had maximum sustained winds of about 50 mph and was moving east-northeast at 25 mph. Its center was 1,060 miles west-southwest of the Azores.


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Everyone will get their hands on the demo for God of War: Ascension on Feb. 26, but some will get access to it on Feb. 20, provided they prevail in some kind of social media sign-up challenge that's been going on for the past 10 days.
The "Rise of the Warrior social challenge," as it's called, will give a winning side ("Spartans" or "Trojans," and your membership appears to be determined randomly when you sign up) once it becomes the first to reach 10 million points in what appears to be a trivia challenge. Obviously, inviting a bunch of your friends to this helps the cause, that's why they're doing it this way.
The big reason for participating, says Sony, is "you will earn exclusive multiplayer treasures from the Gods that can only be attained from this experience," so there's that, too.
Single Player Demo Early Access Date [God of War blog]


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Election Section
Election Stories in Back Issues of the Planet
Are you confused about the upcoming election? Below you'll be able to find all the articles about the November 2012 election that have appeared to date in the Planet, in reverse chronological order, except that the editorial endorsements are at the top so they're easier to find. We've pretty much abandoned the idea of publishing election-related articles in this separate section every week because there are just too many of them, but here's where to search if you're looking for something about the election in back issues.
Editorials:Berkeley Heats Up For the Fall Election Season 08-29-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Yes on Berkeley Measures U, V, N, O. No on Berkeley Measure M. 09-28-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Measure T is a Trojan Horse 09-21-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Sitting Down Should not be Banned in Berkeley 09-14-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Berkeley Mayor and City Council 09-05-2012
Berkeley's Measure U: $1 million for sunshine? That's a stretch! And it would still be a bargain! By Richard Knee 09-28-2012
Measure R: The Name of the Game is POWER by Former Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean 09-28-2012
No on Berkeley Measure T By Sam Greyson 09-28-2012
Is Three-Term Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates Vulnerable? By Ted Friedman 09-28-2012
Ranked Choice Voting Comes to Berkeley: How It Works, How to Do It By Lydia Gans 09-28-2012
Press Release: Cal Berkeley Democrats Endorse 2012 Local Candidates Worthington, Anderson, and Progressive Rent Board Candidates From Sofie Karasek 09-28-2012
Press Release: Berkeley No on S Campaign Grabs Three Democratic Club Endorsements "Clean Sweep" of 3 Berkeley Democratic Clubs Marks Growing No on S Momentum
By Christopher Cook, No on S coalition 09-28-2012
Berkeley Mayor and Council Candidates Debate on Sundays From Nigel Guest 09-28-2012
CENA Candidates' Night is Monday 09-28-2012
Berkeley For All Candidates' Forum
McGee Avenue Baptist Church in Berkeley, Thursday 09-28-2012
Measure S is a Hate Crime By Carol Denney 09-21-2012
New: Grey Panthers Host Berkeley Mayor Candidates in Forum By Helen Rippier Wheeler 09-26-2012
New: Vote No on Alameda County Measure A1 (Opinion) By Laura Baker,East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society 09-26-2012
Press Release: Bookmark and Share Curb-Sit and Kiss-In Protest Against Anti-Sitting Law-- Re-Creation Of Barack And Michelle Obama's First Kiss While Sitting On The Sidewalk By B Sofer 09-26-2012
Press Release: Celebratory "Sitting Olympics" To Highlight Measure S Concerns
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COLORADO (KDVR) -- The Colorado healthcare exchange has processed applications for thousands of people ... and one dog.
Shane Smith, of Fort Collins, says his dog Baxter received a letter informing him that a health insurance account had been opened in his name through Connect for Health Colorado.
"I thought, 'Wow, this is so awesome,'" Smith said with a laugh. "They have gone out of their way to insure my 14-year-old Yorkie."
Smith had called Connect for Health Colorado to sign himself up for insurance because his old plan was cancelled due to Obamacare.
He's not sure exactly how the confirmation letter went to his dog, but he says he thinks it's because of a series of security questions a representative asked him over the phone.
"There was some kind of code or something, so I gave them my dog's name," Smith said. "They must have just put it in the wrong slot or something."
After hearing about all the headaches with Obamacare nationally, Shane says this mistake doesn't seem so bad.
"It was pretty funny. Typical Obamacare, that they would insure your dog by mistake," Smith said.
Smith says he was able to call and correct the mistake fairly quickly.
"They fixed it ... I think they fixed it," he said.
After having his original policy cancelled, followed by this, Smith says he won't believe it until he sees it.
"There's been a lot of headaches that's come from all of this. All the phone calls. All the nonsense. They ended up giving me good coverage I think, but who knows if they're going to take it away," Smith said. "As long as Baxter's covered that's all the counts."
Connect for Health Colorado couldn't comment on the specific letter sent to Baxter, but a spokesperson did release this statement:
"In general, our letters to customers are generated according to information that is provided by the customer into the system either online or over the phone. In other words, our system does not make up a name when generating a letter. As with any new system, mistakes are possible and when notified by customers, we work quickly to resolve the situation."


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HOLLISTER, CA (April 7)A rural county in Central California made access history when it voted 4-0 to reassert its jurisdiction on 25 miles of county roads in an area currently closed by the federal government. The April 6 vote by the San Benito County Board of Supervisors to open roads currently closed to the public is a watershed moment for Californians who are fighting an avalanche of proposed closures on federal lands in the state.
The County also voted to have staff prepare public comments in support of Alternative A in the BLM's Draft Resource Management Plan for the Clear Creek Management Area Environmental Impact Statement. The BLM's preferred Alternative E functionally closes the area to meaningful vehicular access. Alternative A supports public use of all roads and trails that were open for motorized recreation and access before the 2008 interim closure.
Don Amador, Western Representative for the BlueRibbon Coalition, states, "The San Benito County Board of Supervisors earned a place in the history books for taking a stand against a federal bureaucracy that has proposed a closure of historic proportions in their county. It was clear the Supervisors take seriously their constitutional role as a champion of the people and seek to protect the citizenry and the local economy from agenda-driven policies developed by unelected officials."
"When the federal government ignores the will of the people, local voters and users that visit the area have little choice but to look elsewhere for relief. Up and down the state, I see a growing number of counties who are joining with the people in defense of historic access to federal lands. Today's vote to reopen the roads for street-legal vehicles should be a clear signal to the BLM that their effort to make the Hollister Field Office a 'Human Free Zone' is going to be challenged," Amador concluded.
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An excellent thought and action on their part, with two things that come immediately to mind..
1- street legal
2- funding if the county is going to force the issue and take them over as far as maintence. Calif. is in as bad or worse shape for $$$$$ as either Washington or Oregon trying to find money for road maint.
We have an issue here that the county is looking into on an old forest service road that FS let go of since it was primarily a haul road for Willamette, now Weyco. They have gated it and access is tight for folks wanting ti recreate on the river and access for miners.
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We have an issue here with access to the Juniper Dunes OHV area. BLM never saw to access 30 some years ago, so the area is land locked. We're working on it, but we all know how recalcitrant BLM can get.
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Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease
What's hand-foot-and-mouth disease and how do you catch it? A report on WIS-TV tonight revealed that some Midlands day care facilities are seeing an outbreak in children. In this news story, Dr. Brandon Emery of Lexington Pediatric Practice talks about the virus, prevention and treatment.
For more information on hand, foot and mouth disease, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics website by clicking here.
Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease Facts
A viral infection that causes mouth ulcers and tiny blisters on the hands and feet.
~Small, painful ulcers in the mouth, especially on the tongue and sides of the mouth
~Small, thick-walled water blisters (like chicken pox) or red spots located on the palms, soles and webs between the fingers and toes
~1 to 5 water blisters per hand or foot
~Small blisters or red spots on the buttocks
~Low-grade fever less than 102 degrees
~Mainly occurs in children age 6 months to 4 years
Return to School
~Can return to child care or school after the fever is gone (usually 2 to 3 days). The rash is not contagious.
Source: www.healthychildren.org


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- Caption Click on image to watch video interview of Shulamit Aloni, Former Israeli Minister, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now August 14, 2002
A propaganda based on half-truth is more powerful than a full lie. But as the Jewish proverb says, a half-truth is a full lie.
Before I systematically deconstruct the above interview which actually took place nine years ago but its pertinence is so evergreen that being belated is just as timely as if it was back in 2002, I wish to give the readers the chance to take a crack at it themselves first.
Watch the approximately ten minute conversation and see if you are able to call out the lies. It will show you how prepared you really are to tackle the Hasbara – public diplomacy channel of Israel (Hebrew: הסברה) , refers to "public relations" efforts to disseminate information about Israel (see wikipedia) – and the game of deception which is the core basis of Zionism. Waging wars by way of deception is the ab initio basis for the existence of the Jewish State of Israel in Palestine.
First hint: this is a classic example of the Left noble vs. Right ignoble Hegelian Dialectic.
If you can't dismantle it straightforwardly, and are thrown by all the noble goodness that is being uttered by Shulamit Aloni with the complicit silence of Amy Goodman on what any half-decent activist should trivially be able to call out on as basic knowledge, never mind a Harvard graduate of the stature of Amy Goodman, try reading the following article as a second hint:
Palestine: The Illusion of Power and the Calculus of Dispossession By Zahir Ebrahim
Shortly I will meticulously decompose this conversation and separate out what Shulamit Aloni utters is the obvious truth, and what she utters are obvious lies and calculated presuppositions to build a false discourse – typical of all Left conversation on Palestine, especially in the United States. And I will demonstrate where precisely Amy Goodman remained silent on outright lies, indicting herself yet again as a crafty Zionist gate-keeper on the Left.
For now, take a crack at it yourself. If you can't trivially dismantle this interview in its full unglory by mustering historical facts and their interconnectivity on your finger tips, you will automatically know you have a lot of studying to do. This is a typical failing of both, the Palestinians in Diaspora, especially the young activist generation who pursue the injustices inflicted upon them as a part-time extracurricular activity in college (or so it appears), as well as the conscionable others who rise to support the beleaguered Palestinian peoples. Both continually fall victim to the tyranny of their own good intentions borne of ignorance of the real power brokers who have orchestrated the State of Israel and protect it with an "iron wall" which none can breach.
These hidden only in plain-sight power-mongers fashion this artificial Hegelian Dialectic of Left vs. Right, noble Zionism vs. ignoble Zionism, good Zionism vs bad Zionism, with the help of the Mighty Wurlitzer while their main purpose remains to have Zionism outlive the will of the Palestinians to resist. And of course, for their own Jewish populations to be born in Palestine. Who can evict a Jew born in Palestine? Well, who can evict a Californian born on the lands stolen from Mexico? If you cannot unravel the sophistication of their deceit in this test case, you have to go back to taking some powerful intellectual vitamins. In its absence, amidst specious dissent from the conscionable peoples and being led by pied pipers, the Palestinians are rapidly already going by way of the settled indigenous tribes of the Americas.
It is because of this exact modus operandi of conquest that George W. Bush Jr., at the 60th birthday bash of the founding of the Zionist state in Palestine, coldly stated (and this is the third and last hint):
"Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded. And our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God." (Celebrating Israel's 60th Birthday in the 60th year of the Nakba May 15, 2008)
To be continued in Part-II.
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Deconstructing the Interview of Shulamit Aloni, Former Israeli Minister, with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now August 14, 2002 By Zahir Ebrahim


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Business Enablement and Growth
Today's digitally enabled and networked nature of global markets means businesses have an unprecedented opportunity to scale and grow - sometimes at lightning speed, as the appearance of many 'billion dollar startups' in the last few years so aptly exemplifies.
Growth might mean expansion into new geographies and market segments - with a need for scalable, on demand, pay as you go IT services. For others, growth might come via digital transformation - enabling faster time to market and improved collaboration between partners, suppliers and customers.
And for some, including those in the public sector, growth might mean the ability to deliver services more efficiently and effectively via improved data analytics and better availability of information and insight for planners, front line staff and even customers.
With cloud enabled services being integral to Hybrid IT, it is ideally suited to deliver all this and more. Fujitsu's own globally connected public and private cloud along with our portfolio of partner cloud services mean we are well placed to help you leverage cloud effectively..
Importantly, a well managed Hybrid IT infrastructure is the best way of future-proofing the business against the continually accelerating rate of change by deploying tools - e.g. Fujitsu's RunMyProcess - that abstract business processes and enable swift adoption of new developments e.g. wearables and internet of things.


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Topic: Big Bang Theory
[Update: See Fettpedia for a complete log of all Boba Fett appearances on "Big Bang Theory."]
In Season 3, Episode 9 "The Ornithophobia Diffusion," Sheldon attempts to scare off a bluejay from his apartment balcony by coming out of a closet with a Boba Fett helmet, which fails to frighten the bird.
For more discussion of the show, or your favorite shows, check out the other thread on this topic:
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KDE-EDU 4.0 Polishing on Saturday
This Saturday (15.09.) will see the first KDE-EDU 4.0 Polishing Day. The aim is to allow direct communication between users and developers. Issues, doubts and new ideas can be discussed, solved and coded in real time. For this purpose, a meeting will be held in #kde-polishing from 8:00 to 15:00 UTC. KHangMan, KGeography and blinKen will be this first meetings subjects. In order to participate, KDE 4.0 Beta 2 or newer is required, but using the precompiled KDE 4.0 Beta 2 packages for Kubuntu, Mandriva and openSUSE or the "KDE Four Live" CD is fine. Join in — you can make a difference!
Maybe wrong priorities ?
Don't take this as bitching, but ... who cares about KDE-EDU ? I just found out what KGeography is. Anyways, cheers to all ! :)
By Nick L. at Tue, 2007/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
perhaps all the people who use those apps? or the developers who work hard on them? the parents with kids who use Free Software and would like some educational tools to use?
have you even seen kalzium or kstars or marble or kiten any of the other kdeedu apps? they are pretty amazing apps.
remember that this is open source software where people are scratching their itches and having fun. it isn't all about working towards some imaginary Single Vision Approach with a Central Product and Hard Customer Goals. people can and should work on what they want and we, as a community around it, should applaud everyone's efforts.
and if you really, really must find a pragmatic reason for these apps consider that they help make kdelibs better which benefits other apps, introduce free software to young people so that we're not trying to teach them about it when they are adults and allow us to compete it one more software category.
still, i don't think we need a pragmatic reason to do this other than "because the edu developers want to".
peace =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Don't get me wrong. I have no doubt all these are useful applications with a certain target audience and that kdelibs benefits from them. I also agree that the developers of each application can do what they like :D It just seems odd to me that kde 4.0 will lack a few important things, but luckily not state of the art kgeometry and ksudoku :o Still, this is just an observation and not meant to be taken in a bad way. It's just late and I need some company :)
By Nick L. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Instead of replying to yet-another silly posting I'll simply say:
Thanks kdeedu folks. You are great and you create useful, fun, quality, important, neat, educational (not just for kids)... well, simply wonderful software.
Hugs, Allen
By Allen at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
In what way is what I am saying "silly" ? And what position do you hold to judge it and indirectly characterize me in such a way ? Maybe that of "God" ? :/ I won't recycle my opinion, it's right on the above post. If you want to misunderstand it, please do so. The fact is : basic functional requirements > toys & more, but everything should be well accepted. Peace.
By Nick L. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Let's analize why your comment is bad and silly.
1 - You say "who cares about KDE-EDU" and then you say "Anyways, cheers to all", saying something rude and then something "nice" does not make people forgot the rudeness.
2 - You assume that KDE-EDU developers could be "magically" reassigned to "more important parts", as you call them. But actually i am almost sure all KDE-EDU developers are non-paid developers, so you can't just reassign them because they work on what they like.
3 - Your rudeness analized in point 1 will probably make non-paid developers of point 2 sad and maybe they'll loose motivation, that would mean less developers on KDE-EDU and no new developers on "mode important parts", congrats you just made us lose developers!
4 - You assume that KDE-EDU developers are some kind of wizard programmers that can just go to "more important parts", read it's non trivial code they have never seen before and fix the code without any problem. That's not true.
So your comment is bad because of 3 and silly because of 4.
By Albert Astals Cid at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
1. You are right here, I'm sorry if I offended anyone though I didn't mean to.
2. Here you are wrong. I do not assume anything, you make false assumptions about things I didn't say. I just made what is called an "observation", you obviously interpreted it as a "suggestion" or "trying to boss around". Your mistake then.
3. Wow. I can't express my opinion because when I do KDE loses developers ? Lame way of thinking. Although you are right again I should choose my words more carefully.
4. Again, I do not assume and I do not assign people to projects. Everyone is part of this only because of his free will and anything he does is enough.
So, my initial comment expressed a valid OBSERVATION (note the word) in a rude way, for which I apologize. If you choose to look at the finger and miss the moon help yourself ...
By Nick L. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
>So, my initial comment expressed a valid OBSERVATION (note the word) in a rude
An observation with which purpose? Sorry, but IMHO it's worth nothing.
By Long H. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
> basic functional requirements
and for some people, these apps approach being a basic functional requirement.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
I disagree. These are not the basic functional requirements of a windowing system. They are extras, just like a word processor or an image manipulation application is extra.
By Nick L. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Fortunately KDE is not a windowing system, but a desktop environment, and they might very well be basic functional requirements of a desktop environment for some users.
By Marijn Kruisselbrink at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
That's what I actually wanted to say. This board lacks an edit post feature :D Of course KDE is a desktop environment and a variety of applications are supposed to be integrated with it. This doesn't mean it doesn't consist of major and minor components. However, in a distributed development model such as the one deployed by the free software community, putting priorities in every task is a bit hard since developers are not paid workers, but hobbyists. That's why I'm not expecting or demanding things, just pointing out what strikes me as odd :)
By Nick L. at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
> just pointing out what strikes me as odd :)
By Erik at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Well do you think it would be the right priority focussing entirely on yet another text editor, yet another terminal emulator, yet another...? Every desktop has its own functional apps for these purposes. For sure Kate is a great editor and Konsole a great terminal (although I now use Yakuake which in turn is based on konsolepart thanks to KDE's clever design) but do you think I can convince e.g. a Textpad (cute Windows editor) user or a die hard xterm friend using KDE just because of Kate or Konsole?
No. I can only convince people (that don't care about digital freedom initially) using KDE if I can show them _unique_ KDE features.
There is no other free desktop having such a broad range of educational applications (even not third party apps basing on that desktop). Ever wondered why Edubuntu features KDE-Edu apps as their key component although it is based on GNOME? You can be sure that Edubuntu people would have never made KDE-Edu their key component if there would be something remotely comparable to KDE-Edu.
And I am sure the OLPC people will realize sooner or later that there is no way without KDE-Edu if they don't want to provide a really cute hardware with a crappy software. OLPC people are currently stuck with their view that KDE (GNOME as well) is too big, too demanding and too complex for OLPC and thus made the failure not evaluating KDE-Edu. I am sure someday they will realize that KDE is anything else but a big monolitical BLOB you cannot modularize and that it is easier "sugarizing" KDE-Edu than rebuilding everything with their own PyGTK based Sugar environment.
Educational software is not your priority but it definitely is for a huge amount of completly new users. KDE is the world leader in free edu software. So do not understimate KDE-Edu's potential for the KDE world domination (TM).
By Arnomane at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Some apps from KDE-EDU are used at some brazilian educational projects.
There is some great tools for spanish learning, I think is missing more apps, but this is under responsability of regional governments make port to local language and demands.
Maybe you don´t like KDE-EDU due it´s narrow target and this lack of apps, but it may have a briliant future if the community put big efforts at development of this nice edu tool.
By from Brazil at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
i like kalzium alot
also i like that KDE as whole concentrates ALSO on education
its a lot nicer to work somewhat in an integrated manner
By she at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Kalzium was pretty handy last semester when I took Chemistry.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Tanks. We are always open for suggestions :)
By Carsten Niehaus at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Panther :)
By Erwin at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
Why the trolls? WHYYYYYY!?!!!????????
Keep up the good work by the way!
By Jordan K at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
I use KWordQuiz as an important part of my language studies.......which I should get back to instead of websurfing!
I haven't seen KDE4 yet so don't know whether KWordQuiz will be available...but I assume some vocab tool will be, and I'll be using it. So I care!
By another languag... at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
it saves me a lot of grief too. :) Not in the traditional sense of language learning, but similar - I use it to learn the latin counterparts of taxons. There is no way to learn this good than with constant grind and the random both-way multiple choice is perfect for this.
By sorbusaria at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
yay stupid people and their screwed up priorities?
How about "KDE-EDU is a part of KDE from what... 2003 or so? And what is wrong with making applications better? KDElibs are mportant, as well as kdebase, but why should be everything else left behind, huh? Dropping everything else is a good idea? Oh, I know! Let's forget about kdegames, kdenetwork and kdemultimedia. Let's forget about Amarok and all the other nifty gadgets that make KDE what it is today. But let's polish only kdelibs/kdebase. Yes. That sounds like a good idea."
By canine at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
This comment brought out some sensitivity :) I sort of see where you are coming from though. I initially read the headline as "KDE 4 polishing" and when I read further and saw it was limited to KDE-EDU I was a little disappointed. That's my fault for misreading the headline of course!
I certainly wouldn't want to marginalize KDE-EDU. My disappointment wasn't that it was about KDE-EDU, but that it was _only_ about KDE-EDU (there is a distinction there). This is a good idea and will hopefully be a great benefit for KDE-EDU. If it works out well, perhaps we'll see something like it for other KDE components.
By jason at Fri, 2007/09/14 - 5:00am
Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
I am not a developer, that´s why I don´t do it by myself.
Tuxmath is crazy, I love this apps.
I saw o little 9 y.o. girl screaming and asking for help, struggling to solve that math problems. This edu-game is funny and it must be at KDE-EDU. Maybe the same structure could be used with a similar game for keyboard typing, instead of math problems, letters and words falling down.
By from Brazil at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
If tuxmath is good, whats the point in porting it? Just run tuxmath. :)
A decent Maxima KDE frontend would be nice, since Maxima is a good alternative to Mathematica but its GUI isn't all that great. Or some sort of computer algebra system anyways.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
>>Maybe the same structure could be used with a similar game for keyboard
Well... you are describing TuxTyping, isn't? The website is a bit confuse and unmantained, bu the program is generaly good, at least for english.
And don't forget to check out Ktouch: http://ktouch.sourceforge.net/
By Manabu at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
:-D hhhuuaauu great... thanks for TuxTyping link.
My wife used Ktouch for typing training when she had a typing test for a public job. Ktouck is great.
By from Brazil at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
yeah, KTouch rocks.
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
The best free typing program that I ever saw is called hypertype (www.hypertype.org)
It needs some more developers, so HELP MAKE IT POPULAR.
By Kevin Shenk at Fri, 2007/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Please, port tuxmath to KDE 4.0 :-)
Both tuxmath and tuxtype use SDL, so they are independent of the KDE version.
Glad to hear you like tuxmath. You should also know that most distros seem to include pretty old versions of the program, and there have been a whole host of improvements over the last year. The most current versions of both tuxmath and tuxtype are at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/tux4kids/.
By Tim Holy at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Never used KDE-EDU
I've never used the apps personally, but I've always loved the notion that KDE has committed to education software, which is really important. As a parent, I look forward to building my daughter her own KDE-EDU box when she is old enough.
And apps like Marble, Kalzium and Kiten should make inroads into schools for Linux.
By T. J. Brumfield at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
i would like to say that the first thing, that my little brother has used when he touched kde was all those app in edutainement,( of course beside nexuiz ;)
By djouallah mimoune at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
I understand that KDE Edu packages are there. This is a type of software that is coded, software that is sold and requested on the market. But is it really used? I mean the children are supposed to work with these games but educational stuff is boring and how will you lock down that children don't do something else with KDE. I mean as a ten year old I coded programs. Given the overcomplex task of entering programming today, with all the svn, complex documentation and toolkits I wonder what you would recommend a 11 year old today. How can he or she code KDE?
Why do you assume that children like simple stuff? Simple memory games with no real learning factor. What is your educational concept behind it?
My impression always was that Education software is like tomes. You want it but you don't use it.
By Martin at Wed, 2007/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
* You might not be typical - not all 10 year olds want to code programs.
* It's not just "simple stuff" for children.
* "is it really used?" - did you even read the rest of the comments here? "Some apps from KDE-EDU are used at some brazilian educational projects." "Kalzium was pretty handy last semester when I took Chemistry." "I use KWordQuiz as an important part of my language studies." Again, it's not (only) children using this stuff, and it's not (only) simple stuff involved.
What's your "educational concept" behind saying that "simple memory games" do no good? Obviously there's more to learning a language (for instance) than memorizing vocab, but I'm sure you can agree that that's a big part of it, and one of the more boring parts at that. Isn't it nice that someone else has taken the trouble to write software to help with that, and gives it away freely?
"I wonder what you would recommend a 11 year old today" - OK, Mr "I coded programs as a ten year old", what would *you* recommend? Nothing says that 10 year olds are going to be "coding KDE", but there's more tools now than ever to introduce kids to programming.
Yet another example of a "is this really any good" whiner... if you've got useful feedback on the "educational concepts" that could improve specific software, then improve it! If you've got ideas for something new, implement them!
By Anonymous at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
Difficult questions, I mean the point is that we learned a lesson. In the past some actions were perceived as very difficult such as calculation, algebra, logic. But then came AI and we understood that the difficult and complex thing is what we perceive as easy. No wonder, as we are not designed for these tasks. Same for memorizing. You can't avoid it and the real important task it to forget what you don't need. Computers can do "the other stuff". Or go to Africa and find out how much you took for granted and what makes the difference.
I wrote several learning programs but then I found out that the pedagogical concept behind flashcards was bad. And I didn't want to use them myself. Or think of the 70th programmed instructions. KDE stuff performs pretty well in the eLearning landscape. It is possible to learn a language in 3 month but not with education software.
Of course educational software programs are important for schools in a kind of procurement checklist fashion. However, it does not make sense to use them and children will find them boring. Of course, in many nations of the south learning means memorizing.
Good concepts from my perspective are tools which assist children to learn. Tools children want to use. Programming in 1988 was simple. You sit down and write your Hello World in minutes. Programming today is overcomplex.
By Martin at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
First work with script languages - Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. (C64 Basic anyone?).
Unless you want to contribute to a group project, cvs/svn/git, and a bunch of stuff that might make programming harder to get into, isn't necessary.
Much of learning IS memorizing.
There are also other apps in KEDU:
By Soap at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
I use KStars on a regular basis (beside a very small pocket book of stars).
Why do I use such an "irrelevant" application? Well I like astronomy and I love the dark night sky with the milky way across my head. It is a shame that most people even don't know how the night sky looks like cause of light pollution.
Ever wanted to fetch the stars from the sky for a girl? ;-) Previous to your next date with a girl run Kstars and look for some romantic things you can show her later...
So how can you think that Kstars is a children-only application, how can you think that none uses it seriously?
Ah and thee are some much more edu-software. A quick function plotter such KmPlot (provided by KDE-Edu) can safe your day if you have to do some math (but don't have expensive complicated expert apps like Maple/Matematica around).
Or the vocabulary trainer or or...
I'd even say many of the apps are educational apps primarily designed for adult persons and not for kids, because they don't have a silly "kindergarden user interface".
So go and actually test these apps. You will be surprised that they're totally different from your expectations.
By Arnomane at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
ok..... 10 years old,.... coding.. C++
Maybe Quake4 could fill this educational special needs.
By from Brazil at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
This software is coded mainly by parents or teachers or students themselves. All of it was started to fullfill a need. I started KLettres to get my 4 years old prepared to read for example. Since then I have heard that illettrate adults also use it. Are you in the above category (parents or teachers or students)?
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
Very interesting, I didn't know that KLettres was used by illiterate adults.
Of course, being myself a proud contributor to KDE-Edu, I disagree with Martin when he says that education apps are useless. Both the apps for children (KLettres...), and the apps for students (Kig...), are very useful IMO.
By Benoit Jacob at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: KDE EDU
Wow, what a bunch of bunk!!
What is learning if not repetition of known factors using variable inputs? (didn't understand that one? figure it out, it's meant for you)
I am running KDE Unbuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) on a 1996 Intel 32 bit motherboard with a 550MHz CPU. Sure, it's a little slow, but is way more friendly and stable than any of microsofts distro's ever were or could be. (Kudos to the worldwide Linux software production family!!)
I have KStars, G-Comprise, KStitch, KTechLab, ChildsPlay, LinuxLetters&Numbers, TuxPaint, and a multitude of other games, videos, and internet links for youth entertainment and education. All of which are enjoyed and loved by my three nieces and two year old nephew.
Nobody can put a price on !CLEAN! education! The packages released through the KDE distro's are the highest quality, most friendly, and use masterable skills and concepts suited for !EVERYBODY!!
To all involved in releasing such high quality material I give my deepest gratitude and respect. The world will never be able to repay you for the things you do to make computing and learning a better experience for everyone!! And I wait with baited breath for the wonders that are yet to be. 8-)
By MelonDrift at Sun, 2008/03/16 - 5:00am
Missing Project
KDE-EDU have a missing project. a timetabling programm is missing, but a very good already is avalible. view http://www.lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/
By me at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Missing Project
Oh, I've wanted something (but not really searching for it) like that for very long. Thanks for the link, will try it out.
About the whole "Is KDE-EDU useful or not"? I would answer: No, if you don't use it. But there are people who do, even if you don't belong to that group, it's wrong calling the applications useless or saying that the devs should start hacking on another project.
I use the edu apps very seldom, but when I do, they're really life savers.
By Hans Chen at Thu, 2007/09/13 - 5:00am
Re: Missing Project
Even when you don't use them, they're useful. They bring in new contributors, who in time might work on other parts of KDE. And they find and fix bugs, and as they are technologically often ahead of the rest of KDE, they help stability and functionality all over the place.
By Jos Poortvliet at Sun, 2007/09/23 - 5:00am
Don't people have anything better to do then deliver useless criticism?
Thank You !!!
By P. Philipse at Fri, 2007/09/14 - 5:00am
thanks to kde-edu developers
kde-edu apps are really great. thanks to all developers.
btw, what's the status of kworldclock in kde4 ? is it being ported, and maybe it is being finally moved out of games->toys ? :)
it is a realy nice application, and one that attracts people to kde. we had computer available two years ago in the new years eve, and we had it open all the time. "hey, it's new year in kamchatka ! raise your glass !" ;)
and last time people remembered about the nice world map, and asked "hey, is that cool app still there ?" =)
By richlv at Fri, 2007/09/14 - 5:00am
Off topic whinge about the dot's comment system
Another article on the dot, another set of comments. And yet again, because of a troll first post, the entire discussion gets hijacked in responding to a troll who we shouldn't be bothering to humour in the first place. It happens on a very high proportion of stories now.
There are many things I like about the dot, including the way I don't have to have yet another user account for a discussion forum and how you seem to have solved the problem of spam without requiring annoying captcha-solving. But the problem of trolls on here is rapidly making the comments pages not worth reading. Moderation systems always seem to be controversial and get emotional responses but I do wonder whether the dot needs to consider something like that, just to keep the forum worth reading.
Anyway, kudos to all the kdeedu (and other kde) developers who over the years have provided us all with such an excellent desktop.
By Adrian Baugh at Sat, 2007/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: Off topic whinge about the dot's comment system
Agreed. However there's now little chance that your comment will be read by many people, as this story is days old. You should write to some mailing list, though I don't know quite which. Maybe kde-www ?
By Benoit Jacob at Sat, 2007/09/15 - 5:00am
I love kgeography!
Hehe I wonder what most of the people who say kde-edu is useless would score on the kgeography-"click division in world map" test :D
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Hi all
I signed up purely for somewhere to discuss a reasonable subject with some hopefully reasonable people.
I live life by the simple classic philosophy of "live and let live". Whatever you believe, fine - get on with it, don't push it on me, don't push it on anyone else, and don't let it harm anyone. If everyone could stick to that, we'd have no problems.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me tonight was yet another great TV program turning to god. It happened with Sons of Anarchy (episode after episode about finding god and jesus etc) which was infuriating. I don't mind if it's just a part of the plot - part of people's lives etc, that's normal. But when it starts to spread over several episodes, with the main character having some sort of patronising revelation, it becomes condescending.
It happened with Lost too - the final series being the worst thing to ever happen to an awesome TV show ever - and it completely ruined what had been an amazing show for me.
Then tonight I'm watching Dexter (I'm on season 6 now) and he's suddenly transforming from a science-based hardcore atheist, into a believer over night because of some story involving his kid getting ill (I won't ruin it in case you've not seen it). So now they're shoe-horning religion in, using a sick child as leverage, which is emotional blackmail at its finest. It just cheapens the entire show... it's about a scientist who looks at life using only logic - black and white facts. Then in the course of about 3 episodes, he's starting to "see the light" and believe? Absolutely infuriating.
I shouldn't get so wound up about it - it's just a TV show - but do you ever feel like the writers/producer are piggybacking their belief system onto the show? It really gets on my nerves. Whether or not you believe in god, must it be rammed down our necks during EVERY decent TV show?
On a side note, I noticed that when signing up here there's a warning to say that your name will show up in google results, so you can use a pseudonym. Do we really live in a society where people have to hide their status as an atheist? It's just utterly bizarre, we're meant to be an educated advanced civilisation!
Argh, rant over - apologies, I know it's all pointless, I'm just a bit annoyed at another show being spoiled.
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Hi Matt, and welcome to TA
Religion is the motivator that gets the show's scriptwriters off the hook. They can make good people do bad things and yet still be thought of as good, by using the god theme. Its a cheap shot, but it gives the authors a "magic wand" for rationale.
You could do what some Brits do and play the TV show Drinking Game. Every time a pre-set word or action comes up, you take a drink (shots are fun). That way you are kind of eager for the word "god" to come up, for example, as it invites an instant downing of a drink.
It sounds as if you really like to lose yourself in TV shows. I hear your frustration :)
"That way you are kind of eager for the word "god" to come up, for example, as it invites an instant downing of a drink."
Make sure you play that game with Simon if you catch up with him for a drink. Use books. Give him the bible to read from while you read from A Brief History of the Universe. Dont worry - you will still get to have a drink because I think the word God is used in that book just a few times.
Ha! Cheers for the suggestion - I'm not a big drinker though, just the odd glass of wine and an occasional beer. I'll bear it in mind though!
I think it is just a combination of laziness, and the classic "we must educate all of god's children" nonsense. Frustrating.
"Absolutely infuriating."
I agree - I feel your fury
Do we really live in a society where people have to hide their status as an atheist?
I dont hide it because I'm an atheist - I hide it because I like to keep private. I hate the idea that someone can key in my name and find out what I'm up to. It feels like someone peeking through my window.
the public stuff goes on facebook - I dont participate in that either.
That's absolutely fair enough - I respect that. I just initially perceived it as people perhaps feeling they needed to hide it because of some sort of risk if employers/colleagues/family found out etc. I guess that might be the case for some people. It's amazing what people will do in the name of a guy written about in a book.
Oh well, keeps it interesting I guess.
I hide it for the reasons you list, Matt.
Hey the Matt don't forget the movie Excorist the beginning. Starts with an ex Pastor who is an Atheist and by the end of the movie he is a full blown believer and pastor again.
That is nothing but propaganda. Installing the idea that rationality and logical thinking will naturally lead to the belief in god. It is because they know very well that they can't fight against logicality, so the idea it to incorporate religion into logic. Which obviously doesn't work but through propaganda they are going to try to make it work.
I think most here can probably see where you are coming from at least, and agree to a varying degree. It just reflects what a grasp religion still has on our culture. We're making headway I think, but at the same time those that would never believe as we do no matter what happens are also making headway in hardening and deepening their convictions. Sorry for the run-on sentence btw. I didn't think their assholes could get any tighter about it. Turns out they can squash a walnut down there with a blink and next week they are gonna try for a coconut. Now that's fucking crazy. On a side note, as an avid Dexter fan, just let the season play out dude, it's all good.
Sounds to me like they are just trying to beef up their ratings. It also seems to me one more reason why it was a good idea to stop watching television.
DDDDDDisgusting. At least House stayed an atheist. I also found out Hugh Laurie (House) is an atheist in real life.
I loved the part where House and this patient, a theist, had a running argument throughout the show as to the existence of an afterlife. The patient died, and House looked at him on the table in the morgue and said, "See, I told you so --"
Hi Matt, welcome to TA
Just remember that TV is mass media, and you can see why religion is written into shows. People who identify as atheist, agnostic or not religious are still less than 25% of the population.
Regarding pseudonyms, I just googled my TA moniker and surprisingly came up with some interesting results. First, a bunch of pics of convicts from a website called "Busted" which google is adding a separation between melvin and otis. Also pics of headstones, funny enough.
In regards to TA, though, the first references I see are pics of other TA people who have liked or commented on discussions I have posted that they commented on, or perhaps liked. Or maybe I commented on their posts. Surprisingly, @Jeremy Myob's picture and a couple of other TA member pics come up for some reason near the bottom of the first page. Why? beats the heck out of me.
BTW, my definition for melvinotis describes the state you are in when new information comes in and no decisions/assumptions have yet been made. i.e. Your daughter mentions she is bringing a boy home from school for the first time, and mentions no other information. As you wait to find out more information to see how you will feel or react, that is the state of melvinotis. I try to maintain that state as encounter information on this site and in the rest of my life when appropriate. Perhaps there is another term for that, but I've never found it.