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House oversight hearing examines potential updates to 'reinventing government.'
A proposed government transformation commission to overcome Congress' budget stalemate so agencies could proceed to reduce inefficiencies and redundant programs is either "a chance for Congress to do something for the American people" or an "offensive" scheme to allow corporations to win more government contracts.
Both views were on display Tuesday at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on 21st century efforts at "Reinventing Government."
Former Comptroller General David Walker outlined the vision from his nonprofit Government Transformation Initiative for Congress to statutorily create a commission modeled after the Pentagon's Base Closure and Realignment process that "would capitalize on the best practices of past commissions and leverage existing recommendations from the [Government Accountability Office], the inspectors general and many other parties that have yet to be acted on." Unlike the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission, Walker said, this body would avoid discussion of taxation and social policy but focus on operations and management. Noting a doubling of programs on GAO's high-risk list since it began in 1990, Walker lamented that GAO had made the decision "not to recommend policies, seeing that as beyond its purview," the result being an absence of "specific actionable recommendations" from Congress' watchdog and past reform commissions.
Walker stressed that the reforms from such a new commission "would not result in the loss of federal jobs since most employees could be redeployed, though it could result in replacement of contractors with federal employees," he added, which might require civil service reform to "attract and retain the full range of professionals the government must access to discharge its many responsibilities."
J. David Cox, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees said the proposal for a commission of "seven wise men" is "offensive" and "profoundly undemocratic" and urged that it be "stopped in its tracks." Blasting the fiscal advocacy efforts of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which has supported Walker's work, Cox said such a plan "would minimize the role of elected officials and maximize the power of corporate special interests operating behind the scenes to advance their agenda of contracting out; reallocation of salary dollars away from middle and lower graded employees; a reduction in civil service protections and collective bargaining rights; and the constriction of government programs, services, agencies and access."
Cox warned that congressional committees would lose influence over the normal oversight and authorization process, and accused the authors, in seeking to curb duplication, of not respecting the expertise of federal employees such as registered nurses (Cox's own career) at different agencies such as Veterans Affairs, the Bureau of Prisons and the Interior Department's tribal programs.
Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Cox whether he had "evidence for such a conspiracy."
Cox denied he saw a conspiracy, only "an effort to contract out. Federal workers become irritated when a contractor is paid more, delivers less and is less flexible," he added. Asked if the reinventing government effort had any value, Cox said, "I don't see value in having a commission to take another look. The executive branch agencies need to take a responsible look, and Congress would have to pass a budget."
Issa said he called the hearing to seek an "honest broker who doesn't favor the status quo" to reform the executive branch management process to hold Cabinet officers more accountable for spending. "This is not to disparage federal workers because we haven't had a good business model," he said. He commended the military's clear chain of command on spending as a better role model for going beyond the annual release of reports on waste and abuse that produce little corrective action. Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., decried "wasteful spending" on reimbursing contractor executive salaries at a time when federal employees have been through a three-year pay freeze and furloughs. "Sometimes federal employees get a bad rap, which is why I remind us we are all federal employees," Cummings said. "We need a win-win solution, and we need proposals that have federal worker buy-in."
Elaine Kamarck, who led the Reinventing Government effort in the Clinton-Gore administration and who is now a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said the 1990s effort over seven years was "the longest government reform effort in modern American history." It resulted in a 24 percent cut in number of federal employees (a total of 426,000); $136 billion in savings; and cuts in bloated headquarters, field offices, layers of management (78,000 managers were cut) and red tape, she said. The Tea Tasters Board was eliminated. During that time, trust in government rose, Kamarck said, citing the Gallup Poll numbers showing government's approval rate rose from 17 percent in 1993 to 42 percent rate in 2000. (The trust number is now down to 19 percent, she added.)
"Career bureaucrats know the problems better, so successful reform depends on their buy-in," Kamarck said. One reason programs don't get more efficient, she said, is that federal employees often lack clear goals, many of which are created by statute but change over time. She encouraged Congress to "not shortchange" its own authorization committees, but to "reopen and reinvigorate the authorization process and build strong links to the executive branch."
Walker called the union's criticisms "largely fiction" and defended his proposed commission structure as encouraging "trust and accountability -- its members must be capable, independent and nonconflicted." It wouldn't happen unless Congress passed and the president signed the bill, he noted. "It's just a mechanism to get to the table to make decisions that have not been made."
National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley submitted testimony in writing, calling the proposed commission "an unwise and unnecessary duplication of the duties of Congress." What's not being said, she added, "is that many coalition members themselves do a lucrative federal contracting business….Is this just another way to increase market share for their members?"


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Australia and New Zealand History & Genealogy Roadshow Overview
Well it is now a week since I returned home after the 20 day trip around Australia and New Zealand on the Unlock The Past History & Genealogy roadshow. The eleven days of the roadshow were blogged daily and I was surprised at the following the daily blog attracted with many people coming up to me and commenting on my adventures. Statistics show that there were 1800 visits with 1000 unique visitors which is simply amazing.
Many people have also asked for an overview of the whole roadshow and I have given this quite a lot of thought. There are many aspects to cover so this will be my personal view.
All attendees that I spoke to in both countries said they learnt a lot and that it had definitely been worthwhile attending and many would like to see roadshows on a regular basis. One person in Perth said to me after his first talk (me outlining the Treasures of the National Library of Australia (NLA) and its wonderful e-resources) that he had already got 'his money's worth'. I think he is the same person who later emailed me and said that he had received his ecard from NLA and had searched the 19thC British Newpapers at home and found two great reports on his two convict ancestors. It is success stories like this that definitely makes the roadshow worthwhile for both attendees and speakers.
It also highlights the value to organisations to be part of such events because it raises the profile of the organisation and what it has to offer genealogists and family historians. I feel certain that many of the archives and libraries that I mentioned during the roadshow will have spikes on their websites following my talks. Similarly those State archives and libraries who came along and gave talks or staffed displays will also see an increase in visitor numbers and website statistics following the roadshow.
It is hard for me to comment on what the other speakers felt about the roadshow but it is probably safe to say that Dan Lynch was totally thrilled to literally find his relatives down under – such a perfect example of it pays to advertise the names you are researching (see Day Nine for details). Plus he now has lots of Australian and New Zealand references for his Google Your Family Tree talks. Elaine Collins from FindMyPast UK spoke to many attendees and probably has a greater awareness of what the searching issues are for people downunder. There is also a much greater awareness now of the new FindMyPast.com.au website with talks by Elaine and Rosemary Kopittke. Similarly Louise St Denis from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies spoke to lots of attendees interested in doing online genealogy courses and no doubt, she knows more about the Australasian view of the world than she did previously. From my perspective I learnt a lot from all the other speakers, both international and local, and this is reflected in the daily blogs.
What was perhaps disappointing was that there were not more people in attendance at some of the venues. It is always hard to find the right time and venue for an event but I would have thought the opportunity to hear three international speakers plus good local speakers at each roadshow would have attracted more people.
On the other hand some people were superkeen and drove long distances to attend. One lady I spoke to in Christchurch had driven up from Alexandra, a 7 hour drive and there were others from Dunedin a 5 hour drive. In Brisbane we had someone fly down from Cairns and one gentleman who attended in Canberra also went to Sydney so that he could catch the talks he missed the first day. One person from Hervey Bay (central Queensland coast) flew to Adelaide to catch the roadshow. In Perth there were 4 from Geraldton and in Melbourne people from Mildura, Wangaratta and Gippsland. These are just a few examples of those who really wanted to attend and the distance/expense wasn't going to stop them.
Which brings me back to my original point, why didn't more attend when it was easier for them to get to the venue – are they already over catered for with genealogy events? Should we be focussing more on regional areas where people really seem to want us?
The local speakers at every roadshow all added to the richness of the program but also added to the decision making in that people had to choose which session they wanted to go to. Where the roadshow was over two days, this was easier but not on the single day events and people had to make hard decisions. It was good to see the various national/state archives and libraries have displays and give talks at most of the venues. Tom Foley from the National Library of Australia said in Canberra that he didn't expect so many to attend his talk as he assumed that most Canberra folk would be familiar with the Library.
However, what I think we were seeing on the roadshows were people who weren't members of genealogical and family history societies and were trying to do it at home on their own and as such, were probably not as aware of libraries and archives for research. Another confirmation of this is the number of people who actually joined genealogical and family history societies on the day in each of the venues. This was an additional bonus for the societies as they gained new members and more people were aware of their existence and the great resources in their libraries. The provision of handouts by most speakers was also welcome as people could then go home and explore further on their own, even if they had not heard the talk.
Some of the venues were excellent with food and drink onsite or close by while others were a bit more remote and it was harder for the speakers and exhibitors to get refreshments during the day and into the evening when there was an evening session. By the last day we had worked out that all we needed was someone with a car to drive us to the local pizza shop to bring back pizzas, then we could all have a great chat and eat before the evening talks. Something to definitely remember next time, although I wouldn't want pizza every night!
As I wasn't an exhibitor I can't really comment on what they thought, but most seemed to be busy at every venue talking to people during registration and breaks. I have to admire Anthea from Gould Genealogy who was at every session from the start of the day right through to the evening's end. Similarly Aimee staffed the registration desk for all cities except Sydney and New Zealand while Alan and Rosemary perfected set up and take down into a fine art! Those genealogical and family history societies that brought along books and CDs to buy all contributed to my going home with a heavier suitcase despite my mantra each day 'I will not buy anything' but it was all too tempting!
Would I do it again? Last week I would have said never after lugging home a suitcase that got heavier and heavier as the roadshow progressed and I got more tired and weary, some might even say cranky! This week I might be tempted and there are obviously things we would all do differently a second time around.
What I would like to see is more what attendees thought and what they have achieved or followed up since. I have the verbal comments from the roadshows, plus there have been some nice comments on my blogs and I am aware of other blogs particularly from the Sydney and Canberra roadshows, but given that nearly 1000 people attended there must be other success stories out there.
Unlock The Past is doing an evaluation of the roadshow and that will no doubt contain comments from attendees on the day/evening but what is the longer term outcome? Have people gone to society meetings or talked to others about their experiences at the roadshows? Are there people out there now wishing they had gone to a roadshow?
It takes a lot of time, money and organisation to undertake a roadshow, especially one of this size with three international speakers in nine cities across two countries. If roadshows are not supported, then it is unlikely that they will happen in the future which would be a pity. Of course smaller versions are always an option but then there is nothing like a grand venture. I 'm just glad that I was able to be part of this one!
I attended the Auckland roadshow, and the thing I found interesting was that the only reason I knew about the roadshow was thanks to Twitter – but clearly mine wasn't a typical experience as no-one else there apart from speakers/exhibitors were on Twitter.
I'd like to second Alex's comment about only finding out about the roadshow via Twitter – it must have been a #followfriday! However, I have merely followed it on twitter from the comfort of my various office spaces! Despite my interest in Australian and New Zealand genealogy, my motivation for following this event is also because I am involved with the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. http://www.daao.org.au This online database often receives requests, updates and corrections from family members researching their genealogy and biographical details of australian artists. Even though genealogy is not the core aim of this information resource, I'm elated by the enterprising nature of people involved in such endeavours, and reminded that the serendipitous nature of information searching really depends on what you put into it. Do drop by and have a browse!
I was also disappointed in the numbers at the Sydney Roadshow, which was the only one I attended. I think that there were two main reasons:
1. We had had the Unlock The Past Expo a few weeks before, and many people I spoke to that had been to the Expo were not planning on attending the Roadshow as it all sounded the same. Even though there were some different speakers, including the international ones, we had had Elaine Collins from FindMyPast earlier in the year. There had also been the Society of Australian Genealogists' 'Lost In the Internet' weekend in between these two, which is a full two days of presentations. There was just too much in too short a period.
2. It was new, and many people didn't know about it, as has been said by others only finding out through Twitter. Most genealogists, I think it is fair to say, are not on Twitter or Facebook and spend little time on their computers learning about new opportunities. I think if it is better publicised through local FHSs and by word of mouth, it will be better attended next time, if there is a next time.
I hope there is!
Thanks Carole I was aware of all the other events in Sydney and thought that might have been a factor but not necessarily applicable to other capitals.
Also interesting the number of people who only found out via Twitter and of course most genies in Australia aren't on Twitter. I know a number of societies also publicised it but perhaps a much longer lead time is needed. My wish would be for more to take up Twitter!
Thank you Shauna for this excellent summary of the roadshow – and your day by day blog reports. It is interesting the number of people who found out about it late. I can understand that for those who may only have heard about it via Findmypast and Genes Reunited and are not members of societies or readers of magazines or online newsletters. But notice has been given for up to 6 months fairly widely in genealogy circles.
– 40,000 Unlock the Past general and event brochures sent out over many months
– direct mailing of roadshow brochures and online notice to almost every genealogy society and in Australia and New Zealand – and many other organisations.
– four times featuring in ads on the back cover of Australasian Family Tree Connections magazine
– at the Adelaide and Sydney Expos, the NZ Fair plus other fairs, conferences and other events we attended or supported in most Australian states and New Zealand
– at many events Unlock the Past and Gould Genealogy sponsored, but did not attend.
– by others including Dick Eastman, and Findmypast and Genes Reunited
We have published a preliminary organiser's blog report here – http://bit.ly/fMVc9J – with some photos and comment on possible future events.
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Three captains who threatened to jump ship from the hit reality TV show "Deadliest Catch" are back on board.
Captains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, who were sued earlier this month by Discovery for allegedly not performing work on a spinoff, and Capt. Sig Hansen, who joined their holdout in an act of solidarity, have worked out their problems with the show, which is about crab fishing in the treacherous waters off Alaska.
"We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery," the trio told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. "A deal's a deal. We're heading up to Dutch Harbor to start filming the new season of 'Deadliest Catch' and hopefully it will be the best one yet."
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As part of the settlement, Discovery's lawsuit will be dropped and the captains will be back for a seventh season.
"I'm extremely pleased that we were able to resolve our clients' situation with Discovery," the trio's lawyer Jeff Cohen said. "The captains are very excited about the new season."
"Everyone worked really hard on putting together 'Hillstranded' and we're looking forward to wrapping that up," the brothers add in a statement. "It's something new that we hope people will enjoy."
Josh and Jake Harris, the sons of Phil Harris, who skippered the Cornelia Marie before suffering a fatal stroke during last season, are back aboard their late father's ship. Filming is set to being next week.
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Doro Martin enters her first year with the ETSU Buccaneer Track and Field program. Martin will oversee the men's and women's throwers.
Martin comes to ETSU with 12 years of personal track and field experience in both the multis and throws events. Martin spent the last year as the assistant track and field coach at Daniel Boone High School and with the Slipstream Track & Field Club. While at Daniel Boone, Martin was responsible for coaching 20 throwers and sent three to the TSSAA Sectionals. Martin also coached a group of seven throwers and four decathletes at the Slipstream Track & Field Club, while three of her throwers and decathletes qualified for the AAU Junior Olympic Games.
Prior to her time in the states, Martin worked as a trainer for American Football teams as well as a coach for a club based track and field team in Germany. During her stint with the American Football Teams, Martin was responsible for all medical needs and helped develop the junior teams' (16 to 19 year olds) speed/agility workouts, stretching, and strength workouts during the off season. While coaching the track and field club in Germany, Martin oversaw a wide group of athletes – ranging from youth to adult levels of competition. Martin helped send men's and women's teams to the State Championships each season, as well as three individuals in the multi events.
Throughout her athletic career Martin achieved many accomplishments as she competed in regional and state championships, but also on the national level. Martin placed first in the nation at the 1985 shot put event, while also qualifying for nationals in shot put, discus, and heptathlon in 1987. In addition, Martin trained at the state Olympic center for four years with the throwers and heptathlon group.
"Doro should have an immediate impact on our throwers, as well as in our recruiting efforts," added Walker. "Having spent most of her life in Germany, and most recently coaching here in the state of Tennessee, Doro will be able to help us identify coaches and athletes in Germany, as well as within the state."


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MWC 15 Special
While most European football (for the U.S. readers, we are talking about soccer) leagues are coming to its season end soon, the next highlight, the UEFA Euro 2012, which will happens from 08. June to 01. July in Poland and the Ukraine, is just around the corner. And the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is already preparing for it and has recently released its free Android app. According to the description, the official UEFA EURO 2012 app, sponsored by Orange, gives football fans access to the final tournament of the 14th UEFA European Football Championship. It informs about live results, features free customizable alerts, video highlights from midnight after the end of the match (against payment only), news, photos and standings.
It's available in two different versions, one for smartphones and one for tablets and either requires Android 1.6 or higher or Android 3.0 or higher. Unusual for the UEFA (and for sure for the FIFA), it's now available free of charge from Google Play's Android Market.
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A client may visit the financial advisor's office for a financial check-up just twice a year. The advisor's got a lot of stuff on the wall attesting to his credibility. "It's intimidating," says Pat Allen, a digital marketing consultant for financial services firms.
In that brief allotted time, the advisor's personality may not emerge as the discussion focuses on topics such as the client's investment objectives and portfolio allocation.
"If I'm a financial advisor, I'm not going to waste that time on my [recent] kayaking trip," says Allen, whose firm, Rock the Boat Marketing, is noted for Allen's penetrating blog, updated weekly, on financial services social media usage.
"But I can use Twitter to demonstrate that I'm a person [with broad interests]. Because otherwise they're just thinking about performance, about fees—that's an easy relationship to replace," she tells ThinkAdvisor in a phone interview.
"It enriches the relationship," Allen (right) says of Twitter and other social media platforms. "We have more dimension to us than what you see in a 30-minute encounter. Absence does not make the heart grow fonder."
Advisors appear to have gotten that message. American Century Investments' latest annual social media survey showed a significant rise in Twitter usage—34% in 2013 compared to 27% the previous year. LinkedIn continues as advisors' favorite social media outlet (75%), with Facebook (34%) and Twitter (16%) far behind.
These three platforms and the many others (e.g. Google+) all have their uses, but the key, says Allen, is "to show there are people running the account, to show there's a face and a personality."
A GDP announcement is, by itself, just a piece of information.
"But everybody's got a different take on it," Allen says.
It is that personal spin that Allen rates highest among advisor social endeavors. Every advisor must have a LinkedIn profile nowadays, but "blogging is probably the best thing a financial advisor can do."
After blogging, Allen most advocates Twitter use as a means of amplifying an advisor's blog posts. "Twitter has better tools for staying relevant," she says. "Facebook is complicated because it's a real mix between personal and professional." LinkedIn, she adds, is especially valuable as a means of viewing what content is being shared online.
That said, the digital marketing strategist understands social media can be overwhelming for many advisors.
"You don't have to do all of it, but you should master at least one platform — that's a legitimate strategy."
While advisors short on time might wisely choose to concentrate on a single social media outlet, Allen is not a fan of using broker-dealers' preapproved content libraries.
"It's turnkey, but it's not what's going to get the most engagement. What gets the most engagement is something that is timely — commenting on something that's happened today.
"Social media … is a conversation," she says. "Every incremental update continues the conversation. The tweet is additive; it extends the story that you have told me on your blog. It keeps you front of mind."
Allen also cautions, and comforts, advisors not to have a lot of expectations of a single tweet. "It's the body of work…It's all in a stream and the stream passes by…you have to build a reputation that this is somebody worth following."
Apart from keeping content fresh and considering the oeuvre of your social media efforts, Allen stresses the value of diversifying your content.
"People work with financial advisors not just because of performance and what they know of the market—it could be their support of the community; it could be all kinds of softer reasons."
That's where the kayaking trip comes back into this.
"If I talk about kayaking for a while, I'm likely to attract kayakers," Allen says. "You'd never hang up a shingle and say 'I specialize in investors who kayak.'
And yet that interest attracts followers, Allen says, citing a marathon-running advisor who in this way has managed to attract other marathon runners as clients.
"That's why people join clubs," she says.
Finally, Allen points out that a growing use of Twitter among advisors is for networking with other professionals—rather than prospecting, though it can have that benefit as well.
"They want to be part of an ecosystem that includes lawyers [for example] so they can discuss what a tax change could mean. If I'm a retail client and I'm seeing my advisor talk in real time about some kind of tax change, I'm thinking, 'Wow, this guy's earning [his keep].'"
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Homeownership Before the New Deal
The latest canard offered for keeping taxpayers on the hook for mortgage risk is that, without such, homeownership would limited to the wealthy. Sarah Rosen Wartell of the Center for American Progress stated before the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets, "The high cost, limited availability, and high volatility of pre‐New Deal mortgage finance meant that homeownership was effectively limited to the wealthy." Congressman Al Green repeated the point. As I've generally found Sarah to be one of the more reasonable CAP employees, and that this is fundamentally an empirical question, I would have expected her to offer some evidence to support such a claim. Alas, she did not. So I will.
According to the US Census Bureau, at the turn of the century in 1900, the US homeownership rate was 46.5%. I'm pretty sure that even Sarah wouldn't claim that close to half of US households in 1900 were "wealthy." Interestingly enough, homeownership after the first 10 years of the New Deal was lower than before the New Deal.
While 46.5% is about 20 percentage points below the current rate, the population in 1900 was considerably younger, and one thing we do know is that homeownership is positively correlated with age. In 1900, 54% of the US population was under the age of 25, a reasonable cut‐off for homeownership. Today, that number is 35%. I don't think it would be a stretch to say the greatest driver behind the homeownership rate over the last 100 years has been the aging of the US population, probably followed by the increase in household incomes (homeownership and income are also closely correlated).
Hopefully this will put to rest the myth that FDR and the New Deal gave homeownership to the masses. The fact is that homeownership was fairly widespread long before the New Deal. I await the next myth from the Fannie Mae apologists. If they are wise, they will try one that isn't so easily falsified.


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Though rich with African American culture that is lovingly cared for and celebrated, the 100-year–old building itself is in need of improvements.
The building is underutilized and renovations are long overdue, according to vice chair Bill Hargraves. Thanks to some private donation, but mostly through city funding, the theater is set to get a makeover.
The proposed upgrades include a state-of-the-art theater, raising the basement ceiling so it can be used for new programs, installing an elevator, and building new classrooms.
"The best is yet to come," Hargraves said. "We want to keep the doors open and provide an improved modern place for everyone. It will give us a possibility to really make this a vibrant place."
Hargraves said there is no time frame for when the renovations will begin, but he hopes sometime in the fall. During the construction, the organization will move to another location in Jamaica.
The Afrikan Poetry Theatre is a nonprofit organization that provides a range of cultural, educational, recreational and social development programs. It was founded by John Watusi Branch and Yusef Waliyaya, who were both poets associated with the East Cultural Center and its school, Uhuru Sasa (Freedom Now), in Brooklyn in the early 1970's.
Branch, who passed away in December, dedicated himself to making the facility an important place in the community. Originally, it was used for theater and jazz, but Branch helped it evolve into so much more, said Hargraves. Today, there are afterschool and family programs and community events throughout the year.
Branch visited Africa a few times a year. On each trip, he would collect cultural items and artifacts, many of which are on display in the theater today.
"He would go to Africa like he was going to Brooklyn," Hargraves said. "He believed in the African people."


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City boosters made the Metrodome part of their original bid for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Plans changed when the venue's dome collapsed in December.
Now, city officials now are emphasizing other sites that could host the event, including the Target Center.
Mayor R.T. Rybak told television station KSTP that Minneapolis' bid is is still very much alive.
According to the story, "Although some national publications speculate St. Louis and Charlotte are the front runners, Rybak calls them the 'front talkers.'"
Cleveland is the fourth city in the running.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Minneapolis: Did dome deflate bid?
City boosters made the Metrodome part of their original bid for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
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'Waiting is the hardest part'
And so ... we wait.
While most of the political class is waiting for President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight, a lot of people in St. Louis, Charlotte and a pair of other cities are waiting for something else: the announcement of the site for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
On Sunday Politico had the latest story on the wait, which now seems likely to drag into next week.
"And for the cities in convention contention," it said, "there's a lot of civic pride caught up in this very public drama. They're aching for the validation that would come, first, from winning the competition, and second from the chance to showcase their city to the national political and media classes."
Friday, January 21, 2011
DNC announcement in early February?
Charlotte officials may have to wait until early February to learn if the Queen City will host the 2012 Democratic National Convention, according to a Thursday report on POLITICO.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx says he, too, has not received any new indications from the White House about whether the city will get the convention nod. Earlier this week, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said she was worried her state could miss out on the convention, in part, because she hadn't received any insight from the White House.
One Democratic party source said a decision could come as soon as the first few days of the month, wrote POLITICO's David Catanese. Read his piece by clicking here .
Charlotte is among four cities in the hunt for the convention, and is widely believed to be a front-runner along with St. Louis.
A decision on the convention site has been looming for weeks and delayed this month, in part, because in the wake of in the aftermath of the Tucson, Ariz. shootings. The early February timing could ensure the announcement doesn't compete with next week's State of the Union address, the Democratic source told POLITICO.
"But one Democratic operative stressed that making a decision soon is "in the interest of everybody involved" for logistical and fundraising purposes," Catanese writes. - APRIL BETHEA
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St. Louis sells itself as 'Comeback Kid'
It's the final countdown to this month's expected announcement of a site for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The four finalists -- Charlotte, Cleveland, Minneapolis and St. Louis -- are apparently still looking for an edge.
This week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this story that bills its city as the Comeback Kid, a narrative that some Democrats hope mirrors that of President Obama.
Meanwhile, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, co-chair of Charlotte's bid, told the Observer he expects an announcement within 10 days.


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Vision Films has landed worldwide rights to the autobiographical documentary It's So Easy And Other Lies about former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan.
The film is based on the New York Times bestseller and is written and directed by Christopher Duddy, who produced with McKagan and Rainstorm Entertainment's Steven G Kaplan.
It's So Easy And Other Lies recounts McKagan's story from his humble origins in Seattle to worldwide fame and features rare archive footage of his early days with original Guns N' Roses members Slash, Steve Adler, Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose.
Daniel Zirilli, Joe Mundo and Kati Thomson served as executive producers.
"Vision Films is excited to begin sales of It's So Easy And Other Lies," said MD and CEO of worldwide distribution Lise Romanoff, who will show a teaser and footage. "The title is a one of a kind look into one of the most iconic bands in Rock History."


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OAKLAND — A Hayward man prosecuted in early 2013 after a police sweep of a violent East Oakland gang has been charged in the October shooting of a 2-year-old boy, which happened a few months after the man was released from jail, authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities said the boy was wounded in his liver on Oct. 18 by an errant bullet after the suspect, Devonte Hudson, 20, opened fire on a rival gang member who was sitting in an SUV about a block away from where the child was playing outside his home in the 9300 block of Sunnyside Street.
Hudson was charged Monday with assault with a semi-automatic firearm for the shooting of the child, whose name was not released. He was also charged with shooting at an occupied vehicle, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and possession of a firearm by a felon and various enhancements. He faces a term of up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted, authorities said.
The SUV driver was apparently not wounded and never identified.
The shooting happened about 1 p.m. Oct. 18 in the 9400 block of Sunnyside. The boy was among a group of other children and adults outside his home a block away when he was hit. No one else in the group was wounded. Some parked cars and houses were also struck by gunfire, but no injuries were reported.
Officer Phong Tran said police were able to gather leads from people in the area of the shooting, leading to Hudson being identified as the gunman. He was arrested Dec. 13 at his probation officer's office in Hayward. He was held on a probation violation while police built their case against him.
Tran said after his arrest Hudson denied involvement in the shooting and that he was a gang member.
Hudson was among at least 17 reputed members of the notorious Case Gang arrested in March 2013 on a variety of charges during a law enforcement sweep led by Oakland police.
Hudson, known by police to carry an assault pistol, was convicted in June of illegal possession of a firearm and in July was sentenced to five years probation and released from custody.


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The Movies.com Review: 'You're Next' Thrills and Scares
Go see You're Next.
I wish that could be my entire review. I really don't want to tell you anything about it. I just want you to go. I plan to see it again if only to experience it from the position of knowing how a live audience will react to the mounting mayhem, plot craziness and inventive... uh... yeah, I can't say.
It's a home-invasion horror film in which a large family is terrorized for initially unknown reasons by an equally unknown number of animal-masked assailants. And that is every bit of plot detail I'm going to divulge. But what you should know is where it comes from, because that matters. From director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (who collaborated earlier on A Horrible Way to Die) and featuring cast members Joe Swanberg ("mumblecore" director of Drinking Buddies), Ti West (director of the great '80s-inspired Satanic-panic indie The House of the Devil) and Amy Seimetz (director of Sun Don't Shine and star of Upstream Color), it's as close as it gets to a statement of collective purpose from a thoroughly interconnected crew of creative people looking to put their own distinctive stamp on horror.
Bearing all the marks of a "new wave" -- and if you hesitate to call it that then it's at least a strongly identifiable next remix -- it gathers up loose strands of concurrent horror and art house ideas, fusing them into its own organism. It dispenses with played-out mechanics and overly serious tone, ignores the tactics of heavy-doom franchises like Saw and Hostel, moves low-budget narrative out of the creatively stalled found-footage genre and back into the realm of the nonsurveillance camera and appropriates the lighter, offhand, casual, human approach to indie film staked out by Swanberg and people like Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess). The characters here are people before they're horror types. The fictional family's dynamics remain constant and inform all the action, their real human disorientation affecting their decisions and their fate, right down to the archetypal decision of entering vs. avoiding the basement. The sporadic funny moments have their birth not in a winking, Scream-style snarkiness but in more intimate interpersonal tension; it's people first, jokes second here and only when it's called for.
Best, it steals from very cool old stuff in the way filmmakers of the French New Wave took American genre films and pushed their ideas into fresh directions. We get a Halloween-inspired score, the first Friday the 13th's approach to visually surprising death scenes, I Spit on Your Grave's ugly fight-back power and the entire slasher genre's "Final Girl" trope broken into pieces and used to stab less nervy films in the neck, Home Alone style. And in casting Barbara Crampton (Chopping Mall, Re-Animator) as the clan matriarch, what could have been just an inside-baseball stunt becomes a step forward, a respectful and playful nod to the '80s and its influential moves. The bottom line: this clever gut punch is the most important horror film of the year so far. Just go.
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Think what you will about the Thompson family from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, but my heart goes out to teen mom Anna right now. The eldest daughter of June Shannon and "Sugar Bear" made the couple grandparents with the birth of baby Kaitlyn. And now it's out that the baby has a birth defect -- she was born with an extra thumb on her right hand.
Yes, this is the same little girl who was dosed with a pacifier dipped in Mountain Dew recently, but the two things aren't related. The baby girl had the extra finger at birth. And from the way the family is talking, that thumb is there to stay.
Grandmother June told People that they've embraced the extra digit because "it makes Kaitlyn more special to us."
Well, that's one way to look at it. Hold on, I'm not criticizing this family.
I tend to think that if my child was born with an extra finger, I'd have it removed if only because it is so obvious. You can hide a third nipple under your shirt if it makes you uncomfortable. You can keep your six toes in a shoe until you begin to feel comfortable in flip flops. But there's no hiding your hands when you need to use them constantly.
I'd hate to think that my child was being picked on because of something that I could have had fixed.
But I can't fault Honey Boo Boo's sister if she decides that Kaitlyn's polydactyly (the official name for extra digits) is something she wants to just leave alone.
Until you're facing a baby with a birth defect face-to-face, it's easy to imagine what you would do. But when this is your reality, all those snap decisions tend to get lost in a sea of "what if"s.
What if you have surgery to remove an extra limb or digit and something goes wrong? The baby is seemingly healthy, so why put her life at risk? On the other hand, what if this extra thumb is going to turn her into the laughingstock of her classes in elementary school? Kids are cruel, and this could be what bullies choose to pick on to make her life a living hell.
Having all those thoughts running through her head can't be easy for Anna. Then add in the fuss over being on a TV show AND being a new mom? All I can think is that poor girl!
What would you do if your child was born with something "extra"? Would you embrace it or remove it?
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Credit also goes to Les Bill Gates, a very capable mathematics teacher, for these pages.
I have been experimenting with a new way of formatting dy/dx etc, so if you notice any formatting issues could you screen print and post them so I can see (but try Refresh first).
I would value any feedback, ideas for improvement, and error checking!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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The page on Solution of First Order Linear Differential Equations appears much better.
I haven't come across any error.
Further improvement is superfluous.
Marvelous, MathsIsFun!
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A very nice page. Please make another example for this method.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
Les is going to make some questions (with worked answers) for the bottom of the page.
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Betty Who Opens Up About Her Musical Influences + Performs Stripped-Down Version of 'Somebody Loves You' [VIDEOS]by Maggie Malach
After a long winter, New York City was finally embracing warmer spring weather when Betty Who stepped into a sun-drenched Manhattan studio to talk about her influences and songwriting. She also performed a stripped-down version of her hit, 'Somebody Loves You.'
The Australian singer, born Jessica Anne Newham, cites singer-songwriter Missy Higgins as one of her biggest influences.
"I taught myself how to play piano by learning her songs," Betty Who says. "I think that made a huge difference then when I started writing. I already had an idea of how other songs were written, so when I wrote my first song — I think I was fourteen — and I was like, 'Yeah, I get it.' … It all makes sense. So I think I had a head start."
The Aussie also explains that she writes each song differently. Some factors that affect the writing process? The track's vibe, where she is and who she's around!
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Ucore Files Preliminary Economic Assessment 43-101 Technical Document
January 15, 2013 – Halifax, Nova Scotia – Ucore Rare Metals Inc (TSX-V:UCU) ("Ucore" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the filing of the NI 43-101 Technical Report "Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Bokan Mountain Rare Earth Element Project, near Ketchikan, Alaska" on SEDAR. The results of the PEA, prepared by Tetra Tech of Vancouver, BC, were announced by the Company on November 28, 2012. The highlights of the PEA include the following:
- Net Present Value (NPV): $577M at a 10% discount rate, pre-tax.
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR): 43%.
- Payback Period: 2.3 years.
- Capital Cost: $221M, including a complete on-site rare earth oxide (REO) separation plant, and a contingency provision in the amount of $25M.
- Production of REOs at site: Deployment of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) technology to generate high purity individual rare earth oxides at the site.
"The PEA is a detailed analysis of the project economics as set out in late 2012," said Jim McKenzie, President & CEO of Ucore. "The technical report includes an analysis of proposed mining methodologies, mineral processing from mine mouth to market, prospective planning and production timelines, as well as anticipated capital and operating costs, and expected IRR for the project. Remarkably, the PEA supports a very straight-forward mine development plan in combination with a near term production horizon at Bokan. What's more, this affordable, high-return facility will generate product that the US critically requires to sustain competitiveness in multiple high growth fields, including high tech, renewable energy, medical science and defense systems. Every so often, a low cost, right-size facility with a resilient high demand product presents itself in the mining sector. Bokan is such a facility."
A copy of the PEA is available at the following link: http://ucore.com/documents/PEA.pdf
For additional information on the PEA, please visit http://ucore.com/pea
The PEA was prepared based on the Inferred Resource Estimate Technical Report calculated by R.J. Robinson of Aurora Geosciences and filed by the Company on April 21st, 2011. The resource utilized in the PEA omitted the I&L Zone and did not include drilling completed in 2011 with the objective of expanding the size of the resource, and upgrading its status from Inferred to Indicated. The results of this drilling, released by the Company in January of 2012, are currently being modelled by Mr. Robinson, and the Company expects to release the results of that analysis within the next month.
"Beyond representing an important milestone in the development of the Bokan property, this PEA opens the possibility of a complete downstream rare earth industry in Alaska," noted Ken Collison, Chief Operating Officer of Ucore. "We look forward to working with a variety of local constituents who will participate in and benefit from the development of this remarkable property."
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Cautionary Notes
Please note that the PEA is preliminary in nature, that it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA will be realized. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
About Ucore Rare Metals Inc.
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. is a development-phase mining company focused on establishing rare metal resources with near term production potential. With multiple projects across North America, Ucore's primary focus is the 100% owned Bokan – Dotson Ridge REE property in Alaska. The Bokan – Dotson Ridge REE project is located 60 km southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska and 140 km northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and has direct ocean access to the western seaboard and the Pacific Rim, a significant advantage in developing near term production facilities and limiting the capital costs associated with mine construction.
The Bokan property is particularly enriched with heavy rare earth elements, including the critical elements dysprosium, terbium and yttrium. Approximately 40% (by weight) of the rare earth elements contained on the Dotson Ridge property are heavy rare earth elements, as disclosed in the Company's NI43-101 resource estimate technical report, filed on April 21st, 2011. The resource was completed by R. J. Robinson, a consultant from Aurora Geosciences.
For further information, please contact Mr. Jim McKenzie, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ucore Rare Metals Inc. at: (902) 482-5214 or visit http://www.ucore.com


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Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific ImaginarySean Miller 2013
In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable to it as a scientific discourse. While mathematical arguments provide precise prompts for physical intervention in the world, the imaginary that supplements mathematical argument within string theory technical discourse allows theorists to imagine themselves interacting with the cosmos as an abstract space in such a way that strings and branes as phenomena become substantiated and legitimized. And it is precisely this sort of imaginary—which Miller calls a scientific imaginary—duly substantiated and acculturated, that survives the move from string theory technical discourse to popularizations and ultimately to popular and literary discourses. In effect, a string theory imaginary legitimizes the science itself and helps to facilitate a virtual domestication of a cosmos that was heretofore remote, alien, and incomprehensible.
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Courtney Love: 'If I See One More F---ing Flower Crown, I'm Going to Kick Somebody's Ass' (and More Style Musings)
The singer never fails to disappoint
Though Courtney Love turns 50 next month, she certainly hasn't gotten any less outspoken with age. Nor has she become any less ambitious. In an interview with Style.com, the rocker touched on her plans for her own fashion line (she'd like to go to Harvard and become Victoria Beckham-level successful, not necessarily in that order), her passionate love/hate relationship with cheese (she adores it but feels that it's making her fat) and competing with other stars for clothing (she thinks she'd be more successful in the competition if she laid off the cheese). Below, check out a few of Love's most intriguing insights into her relationship with the world of fashion.
On her online shopping addiction: "I hate shopping, so I order off of Net-a-Porter. A girl interviewed me for their magazine — this is so awful — she said, "You're a legend at Net-a-Porter. You're one of the top five American clients for buying." I live on Net-a-Porter. And I hate ordering an Italian 42, which is an American 8. I'm investing money in 8s and even 10s in some cases. It's like, f—, I'll have to tailor all of this when I lose weight."
On hating the flower crown trend: "I'm gonna say something, and I'm gonna stand by it, which is this: Flower crowns are over. F— flower crowns. If I see one more f—ing flower crown, I'm going to kick someone's ass. And let me also say this: If you dig deep enough, you can find a 1986 Details magazine, I'm on the cover in a flower crown, OK?! Talk about ahead of your time! I got thrown a flower crown from an audience member the other day, and I just looked at it and it was plastic flowers and I was like, 'Nooo! God.'"
On Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci abandoning her as his muse for another client: "His first muse out the gate was me! Everyone's putting him on a pedestal right now … I met Riccardo downstairs at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, and he told me he wanted me as his muse. I'm like, 'Givenchy's muses have been Audrey Hepburn and Jackie O!' Then I got fat! Then I got on Atkins and I wasn't fat anymore, so I could wear sample. You know, when the stakes are high, you do lose weight. When you fall in love, if your career's depending on it, you will find a way to lose weight … Riccardo doesn't make stuff for me anymore — he found Kim [Kardashian]! But I still love Riccardo, he's a dear friend."
On competing with other divas for red-carpet clothes: "I was doing the cover of Dazed & Confused, and there was a Prada dress — the kind of iconic one made out of chandelier crystals. But I couldn't use it because Gaga needed it. It's happened to me before, though. When Jennifer Lopez was in her height of movie stardom, she was the only person who was allowed to wear Valentino and/or Dolce for the entire award show season. We were kind of friendly and I met her for brunch. And apparently she told them, 'Courtney can wear whatever she wants,' which was really nice of her."
On the one fashion house who she can rely on: "Marchesa. They are always f—ing there for me, and I can't thank them enough. Tiny, medium, and hopefully never large again, but they've always been there for me. I know I'm not getting the A-list gown … I know the game, I'm not triple A-list, I'm not Rihanna or Jennifer Lawrence, and I'm not getting that gown."
For tons more hilarious insights from Love, check out her whole interview at Style.com, and tell us: What do you think of Love's fashion foibles? Are you surprised to hear whom she competes against for clothes?
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A Blountstown man is behind bars at the Calhoun County Jail accused of felony battery on a public official.
Sources say Steve Mears, Jr. was arrested Thursday night following an incident after a Dixie Youth Baseball League meeting. He is accused of battery on Calhoun County Commissioner Lee Lee Brown.
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It's a bit of a nostalgic day today at Kotaku (or maybe I've just done a poor job of getting out of the historian mindset this weekend), but a post over at Educational Games Research brought back memories of childhood and elementary school — Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (I vaguely remember a PBS television show that we were required to watch once a week), typing teachers (though we used PAWS in the 3rd grade, not the Mavis Beacon mentioned). Ah, memories:
The Eighties were an exciting time for video games, as graphics and computing power increased to the point where games started to become visually appealing and interactive. Educational games from that decade in particular taught teachers, parents, students, and designers things that are still influencing titles today. Thanks to the wonders of the web, the original versions of these games are often available online, and there are discs and ports to other platforms floating around as well. Playing the original versions, while nostalgic, also helps remind us what made these games important. Some things they taught us were good (learning can be fun when presented properly). Some things, not so good (skill and drill only gets you so far, even in a game). Read on for a trip down memory lane, a discussion of each game's significance, and some locations to try out versions for free.
Fun trip back if you're of a certain generation. Stuff like Oregon Trail seems to have taken on a life of its own, and plenty of the other games listed had long lives (and perhaps are still kicking via spiritual successors?). The Top 10 Most Influential Educational Video Games from the 1980s [Educational Games Research via GameSetWatch]


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I was trying to install the duplicate Bookmark remover for the Firefox but for some reasons, was not able to install it. That apart, the point is that I was trying to get a program to do this for me rather than a plugin. So, after some search, finally I found here. This is a ruby script. The script requires ruby gems-json for doing this.
The idea is very simple. Export the bookmarks in json format.
Run the script with ruby on your bookmarks. This will create a new file.
Use the restore feature of the bookmarks to restore the newly created bookmarks file, which ofcourse should not have any duplicates. 🙂
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Digital First Media Names Senior Vice President of Sales
Digital First Media, which operates MediaNews Group, Journal Register Co. and Digital First Ventures, has named Jeannie Parent senior vice president of sales. Working with Digital First Media's publishers and regional vice presidents for sales, she will oversee local advertising and sales initiatives on all platforms.
"Jeannie's experience across all advertising disciplines and her fluency in both print and digital will bring greater depth to Digital First Media. The depth she brings to our sales management team will allow us to accelerate top line revenue growth in 2013 as we work to execute our business plan and closely measure growth in key revenue categories," said Kirk MacDonald, executive vice president of sales for Digital First Media.
Parent will report to MacDonald, who will continue to lead all Digital First Media sales operations, including the company's national sales division and the growing AdTaxi platform.
"Digital First Media's unique market position – that of a national sales organization with strong, local market connections and a highly engaged audience – makes this exciting," said Parent. "The company's ongoing development of new products delivers greater opportunity for growth and I look forward to working closely with local sales teams to ensure we seize those opportunities."
Parent, who most recently served as vice president of national sales for Gannett Corp., brings more than 25 years of international experience in multi-media advertising sales as she has held both local and national positions in the U.S. and Canada. She began her career in Windsor, Ontario as national advertising manager for CanWest Media. She has also held several positions including senior sales director of major retail advertising for the Detroit Media Partnership and advertising director for the Observer and Eccentric Newspaper group in the Detroit market. During her time with Gannett, Parent was integral in the implementation of that company's Sunday Select program.


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Release 4.7 - New Features, Improved Stability and Performance
KDE is delighted to announce its latest releases—Version 4.7—providing major updates to the KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Check out the highlights below, or read the full announcement.
Plasma Workspaces Are More Portable
With extensive work on KDE's compositing window manager, KWin, and new Qt technologies such as Qt Quick, the most advanced user interface is available in more places and on more kinds of devices. Read more...
Akonadi Positions Kontact for the Future
KDE's groupware solution, Kontact, rejoins the main KDE release cycle with all major components ported to Akonadi, a leading personal information management storage service. The Digikam Software Collections comes with a new major version, 2.0. Read more...
Improved Multimedia and Semantic Capabilities
There are major improvements to Phonon and social semantic desktop components in the KDE Platform. Enriched APIs and better stability offer significant benefits to developers. Read more...
New, integrated Instant Messaging
The KDE-Telepathy team is proud to announce the technical preview and historic first release of the new Instant Messaging solution for KDE...still in its early stages. All sorts of accounts are supported, such as GTalk and Facebook Chat. The Presence Plasma widget drops right into the panel for managing online status. As this project is not yet mature enough to be part of the big KDE family, it has been packaged and released separately, and has installation instructions. Give it a try!
Stability + Features
In addition to the many new features described in the detailed release announcements, KDE contributors have closed over 12,000 bug reports since the last major releases of KDE software in January 2011. As a result, KDE software is more stable than ever before.
Help Spread the Word
While it's easy to think of the KDE team as mostly developers, non-technical users are also critical to success. Please help spread the word. Report bugs. Encourage others to join the KDE Community.
Follow what's happening with the new releases on the social web at buzz.kde.org.
Good comment. I really like
Good comment. I really like KWin as well, but for perhaps other reasons than you. I don't care about compositing, wobbling and other effects. In fact, disabling all of them is the first thing I do. Heck, I don't even display contents of moving windows. I like KWin because it's so intuitively productive. It is smart on its own, but also lets me manipulate windows fast and easily, by keyboard or by mouse. It is also very configurable when I need that. I'm excited to hear of improvements in 4.7, and I'm very glad this fundamental component of the desktop is not only not neglected, but actively focused on. Thanks, KDE developers!
By Haakon Nilsen at Fri, 2011/07/29 - 7:46am
kmail1 -> 2 migration problems
I'd be a lot happier with 4.7 if kmail2 worked. So far its been unable to migrate my kmail1 emails. I've been using kde since 1999/2000 and have a large collection of emails to migrate. kmigrate gave up after creating my folders. attempting to import the folders manually causes linux 3.0 to oom... I have yet to find a good migration guide and IMHO its badly needed.
Ed Tomlinson
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/07/29 - 2:24pm
I migrated via evolution.
I migrated via evolution. Evolution was happy to migrate my emails from kmail1 and kmail2 was happy to migrate my emails from evoltion. I never tried the kmail1 -> kmail2 migration so don't know how bad it is.
By hconnellan at Fri, 2011/07/29 - 3:28pm
wow great... will try it on
wow great... will try it on my machine soon.........
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/07/29 - 2:30pm
KDE 4.7 is, as usual, a great
KDE 4.7 is, as usual, a great KDE release but KMail 2 shoul'd have been shipped with so many bugs :-(
I only confide in packagers which will keep to distribute the great KMail 1.
Anyway... great job KDE Team!!!! :-)
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/07/30 - 3:25pm
Unfortunately KMail is severely broken - at least for me
I cheered when 4.7 was released and posted on Facebook as well as Google+ ... a bit too early apparently.
Digikam has new features, that's great. KMail has new features, that's great too.
I can't create a new person tag in Digikam from an address book entry. Don't ask me why, I haven't the faintest idea. Could be because no people are showing up in my address book. I have no idea where all my contacts are now, but the address books that worked fine before the upgrade are still appearing in KAddressBook - there's just no people in them now.
KMail is simply crashing every time after filtering messages and complaining about duplicates (conflicting updates). So I can't access my old e-mail and I can only read and send e-mail using browser-based interfaces or my Android-based telephone (which doesn't have all my accounts defined).
After reporting the KMail crash (bug 278745) I get a "fixed in master/4.7.1" reply slammed in my face and the error report is closed as fixed with no information about which packages the fix influences or any other information which could be useful for anyone reading the bug report and who are trying to solve their problems. I've tried upgrading quite a few packages from the factory repository, but that hasn't helped. So much for assuming that a released version is stable...
Seems the KDE team has learnt one trick too many from the Microsoft people; ship it with known errors, no matter how serious.
The recommendation may be to perform a clean install and import all the data and settings afterwards, and perhaps everything would have worked then - but without a proper tool to migrate settings from a previous version installed (or from a backup of such an install) - how many people are willing to perform clean installs every time? I'm trying to use the computer for work - not just as a toy to waste time on.
We have an iMac in the household - I've cursed it for being unflexible and not very co-operative in a mixed environment. Perhaps I'm going to end up there, just like my neighbour who used to have Linux but said he switched to MacOS because he got tired of having to tinker.
By Kjetil Kilhavn at Sat, 2011/07/30 - 10:55pm
Next month
If they told you that bug was fixed in 4.7.1, then that's it, it's fixed. You'll have the bug fixed in the very next upgrade, next month, and it will be better tested. I'd be happy that it was found and fixed already.
If you have very sensitive information in a production machine, you should be very careful with upgrades, on _any_ system. That's why 4.7.1, 4.7.2, etc. are there, IMO.
Haven't you heard? OSX users have plenty of problems on upgrades, too.
By JanKusanagi at Sun, 2011/07/31 - 12:02am
Upgrade problems in MacOS
Can't say I have heard about an upgrade of MacOS (or Windows) that makes the e-mail completely unusable. I'm sure it is correct that this has been fixed in the 4.7.1 branch - but leaving it at that just isn't good enough in my opinion. Then again, I'm not a KDE hacker myself so I can unfortunately not contribute to help the situation. Guess it will be webmail for me the next month and hoping that the 4.7.1 update fixes it.
By Kjetil Kilhavn at Sun, 2011/07/31 - 1:37pm
If it's tagged as fixed in
If it's tagged as fixed in 4.7.1 then that's the KDE release it will be fixed in. Distros may pick up the patch before then, it may help opening a bug on your distro to request this.
Not to put too fine a point on it, if you're not happy with things breaking on a .0 release then don't install a .0 release, wait for the .2. or .3 bugfix release. Unfortunately we don't have the resources to exhaustively test every possible combination, we don't have the budget or time of a Microsoft or Apple or even a Canonical, we're just a bunch of volunteers and have to accept that we will always ship with some bugs. We try hard to make sure nothing too serious gets out, but we often don't experience the bugs that our users find and have to rely on them to help, it's just part of the process of making open source software. In fact, this seems a perfect example, .0 release went out, user finds problem and files bug, bug gets fixed for next release. Sure, it's not ideal, but for me it beats the alternative.
By odysseus at Sun, 2011/07/31 - 8:27pm
don't boast then
Well I guess he was confused by the title of the release announcement, promising better stability? Why do you promise this then?
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/08/01 - 5:56am
Because it is true
12000 bug reports closed, 2000 specific bugs in the released software resolved since 4.6 - the reference was also in relation to the semantic desktop where a lot of long-term issues have been resolved.
By Stuart Jarvis at Tue, 2011/08/02 - 9:22am
how many of those were
how many of those were originally filed against KDE < 4, and simply closed as "wontfix - obsoleted version"?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2011/08/02 - 1:53pm
not that many actually
of all those bugs, only 7 were from versions prior to 4. There was one from KDE 2 that got fixed with a change to the basic I/O routines and 6 exclusively from KDE 3. These mostly had to do with incompatibility with the old version of Q.T. so it wouldn't do much good to fix them now.
That is quite impressive.
Did the bugs you filed get fixed?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2011/08/02 - 11:51pm
And how much still open
And how much bugs still open...
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/08/05 - 11:52am
Everything pretty but..
Everything pretty but...
I still wait for full funcionality of Kontact. Lack in it, capabilities of simple integrations with Google.Simple system of backup.
Here however, is better Gnome Evolution
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/07/31 - 9:27am
There is basic support for Google's services
Try akonadi-googledata-resource. A bit basic, but works for syncing calender and contacts.
I compiled it from git, see if there's distro support for your system.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/08/01 - 3:54pm
I just installed 4.7 from the kubuntu PPA. It is amazingly fast!
PS: didn't install the new PIM yet. Hope its as great as the rest as kde 4.7.
By Beat Wolf at Mon, 2011/08/01 - 6:25am
took some work...
my Kubuntu upgrade went with one small hitch...Smooth Tasks broke, and the maintainer isn't around. Oh well.
Against my better judgment, I installed the new PIM. It works really well. I am surprised at what an improvement KMail 2 is over 1.
That this upgrade was against my better judgment...
After much forum-ing and other exploring, I discovered in "Akonadi Configuration" (typing in start menu find box) that the place I stuck Mail was not where it was expected. Modifying that to its actual location made KM2 run.
Then I had to check out the rest of the resources. Calendar was funky, cuz there are now several choices for resources to display. Pretty easy to sort out once I had discovered Akonadi Configuration. Just cuz I don't know better, I went to the Akonadi Server Configuration tab and restarted the server after the modifications.
Oh it also took quite a while for the 3000+ messages to become usable in KM2. In the migration, I was re-introduced to my bad email behavior of saving everything. (A message that my password was changed with no indication of the account OR the password. Yeah, gotta keep that one.)
I've been using KMail for a long time. KMail 2 has dramatic improvements.
Thank you so much
And Plasma 4.7...wonderful. No issues (well I miss the Smooth Tasks eye candy). Just fast and solid feel. Activities...after the first load, switching is fast, everything solid.
By the way, none of these issues were resolved by complaining at dot.kde.org. kde-look.org gave the clues about the status of Smooth Tasks and the forums (special thanks to Ben Cooksley, again) pointed the way to Akonadi and proper file locations.
Thank you KDE devs.
By Carl Symons at Tue, 2011/08/02 - 7:12pm
as usual
Installed 4.7, and yet again the desktops effects are broken again.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/08/01 - 6:44am
Yes they do, even if we don't
Yes they do, even if we don't always write back on them.
If you don't open a bug report you should have absolutely no expectation for it to get fixed.
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Phil Padgett said he�s feeling better since he underwent an operation two weeks ago.
Phil Padgett said he�s feeling better since he underwent an operation two weeks ago.
While Southwest�s longtime football coach hasn�t publicly disclosed any details about the surgery, Padgett stressed he�s �excited� to be back with the Stallions this week after missing time the past two weeks, including his team�s 24-20 win over East Columbus on Sept. 17.
�I don�t mind saying I�ve had some issues and I�ve addressed them,� Padgett said. �I�m better, but I�m definitely not 100 percent. But I�m going to give 100 percent every time I walk on the field.�
The 53-year-old Padgett plans to do just that tonight when the Stallions (4-1) visit Dixon (3-2) in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference opener for both teams. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.
His absence in the victory over East Columbus marked the first time he missed a Southwest football in his 25 years as head coach. Defensive coordinator Tommy Barnes was the acting head coach in Padgett�s absence.
�I look back. I�ve coached over 400 football games here as a JV coach, varsity assistant and coach,� Padgett said. �To my knowledge, until this happened, I had missed two practices and never missed a football game.�
Padgett wants the Stallions to play well tonight when he starts what he hopes is a new streak of consecutive games on the sideline. He said Southwest�s open date last week wasn�t too productive, which surprised him given that he usually has liked what he�s seen from the Stallions during bye weeks over the years.
�It didn�t work out like we planned,� he said. �It�s been a little bit with the weather and we�ve just had other issues. They (players) don�t have a game and there was no focus or dedication. All the kids go to tutoring for three hours or find an excuse not to be there. They all have dentist appointments and doctor�s appointments. It�s real frustrating as a coach.�
And while the Stallions enter tonight�s game with Dixon as a heavy favorite, Padgett knows the Bulldogs have played well this season and that they won�t back down to Southwest.
�The school is bigger than ours right now. The school is growing and as you grow, you are going to get more kids who can play a little bit,� Padgett said. �I really think what Dixon has done more than anything is they have bought into making their football program better. They have hired more coaches to help them and they are getting more people who are football coaches, and I think that�s big.�
Dixon coach Ray Swaney knows his squad faces a tough task, but knows his team will play hard.
�We just want to go into every game competiting. That�s what we set out to do,� Swaney said. �We just have to play really well Friday night and we can�t have a lot of mistakes. The games we�ve won we�ve had less penalties and made better tackles.�
Croatan (4-1, 2-0) at Northside (6-0, 2-0)
Northside looks to stay undefeated as the Monarchs host Croatan in a battle between two teams that are 2-0 in the East Central 2-A Conference.
The Monarchs defeated Swansboro 38-0 last week while the Cougars won 14-6 at Clinton.
East Duplin (5-1, 2-0) at Richlands (2-4, 1-1)
It�s taken a little luck, but East Duplin is undefeated in the ECC, while Richlands earned a much-needed win last week.
The Panthers are coming off a 26-21 victory over Topsail, a win that saw East Duplin senior Montell Stallings return his team�s blocked field goal 35 yards for the game-winning score as time expired.
Richlands perhaps played its best game this season last week in a 41-16 win over South Lenoir.
Jones Senior (0-5) at Lejeune (2-4)
Lejeune has been up and down this year.
The Devilpups have looked good at times and not so good at other times.
Lejeune, which lost 42-35 to North Duplin last week, hopes to play well when they host Jones Senior in the CPC opener for both teams.
The Trojans are still winless after last week�s 28-20 loss to Fairmont.
Jacksonville (4-2, 1-1) at West Carteret (4-2, 1-1)
Last week Jacksonville�s offense took a step forward as the Cardinals scored four touchdowns in a 28-20 Coastal 3-A Conference win over South Central.
Jacksonville will likely need to score that many to defeat West Carteret, which beat White Oak 46-7 last week.
Swansboro (3-3, 0-2) at Clinton (3-3, 1-1)
Swansboro looks to get back to its winning ways as the Pirates visit Clinton in an ECC contest.
The Pirates lost 38-0 at Northside last week while the Dark Horses lost 14-6 to Croatan. Swansboro has lost two consecutive games since starting the season 3-1.
White Oak (0-6, 0-2) at D.H. Conley (5-1, 1-1)
The struggles have continued for White Oak, and things don�t look to get easier as the Vikings visit D.H. Conley.
Last week, White Oak lost 46-7 at West Carteret while D.H. Conley suffered its first loss with a 41-14 loss to Havelock.


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RED BUD, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois man has died after falling into a grain bin filled with corn.
Randolph County Coroner Randy Dubenbostel says the victim of the Monday accident is 44-year-old Jeff Guebert of Red Bud. An autopsy is planned for Tuesday. A cause of death is under investigation.
Emergency responders were called to Guebert Farms at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday. Dubenbostel says Guebert's body was found in a grain in. Authorities say Guebert was missing for about 30 minutes.
Red Bud is about 36 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
Police released surveillance video of a suspect sought in robbing three city pizza shops, including Mom's Bake at Home Pizza on 219 E. Willow Grove Ave.
According to the video, the suspect is sought for three robberies between July 29 and August 3. The August 3 robbery was of Mom's where the suspect, a black man wearing a ski mask, entered the shop, pointed a gun at employees and had employees fill a paper bag with $190 from the register. He then fled on foot in each case. The video shows the suspect doing the same at two seperate pizza places, not Mom's.
Police believe the suspect is a black male between the ages of 16 and 20, and between 5'8″ and 5'11"
Anyone with information should call Northwest Detectives at 215-686-3353


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Explosive 6'9" heavyweight contender and former unbeaten, Irish, Commonwealth and British Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury, 20-0, 14 KO's, will make his New York debut on Saturday afternoon, April 20th when he takes on former cruiserweight World Champion Steve USS Cunningham, 25-5, 12 KO's, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
This fight is an official IBF Heavyweight Voluntary Eliminator fight for the #2 position between #9, Tyson Fury and #12, Steve Cunningham. The winner will become #2 and must meet #1 or the leading available contender to establish the mandatory challenger for Heavyweight King Wladimir Klitschko. The fight will be broadcast at 4PM ET on NBC as a special 2 hour afternoon presentation of NBC Sports Fight Night.
"Cunningham's got all the tools; a former World Champion, good fighter, he's got a lot of skill. I'm looking to put on a devastating performance; the best of my career to date." said Fury. "I'm absolutely ecstatic to be fighting at Madison Square Garden; it goes back in history and I can't wait to put my name with a long list of Champions who have fought there - I'm a historian of boxing myself so this is definitely the pinnacle of my career so far."
Mick Hennessy, Hennessy Sports CEO, said, "I'm very proud to say that Tyson Fury's American debut is taking place at Madison Square Garden, New York, this is a dream debut in the US for Tyson as this fight is also being shown live on network TV (NBC). It just doesn't get any better than this.
Steve Cunningham is ecstatic, "I'm looking forward to getting back in the ring on April 20th to face Fury. For the first time in my career I have a guy coming to my country to face me. I am certain he's never faced a fighter like me." He added, "What an amazing opportunity to fight in historic Madison Square Garden and return to NBC again. I am prepared to fight a great fight and come out with a victory."
Kathy Duva, Main Events CEO, "Giving Steve the opportunity to fight on NBC again - in a bigger venue for another shot at the #2 position in the IBF - after his controversial decision loss to Tomasz Adamek in December is what Main Events and Fight Nightare all about.' Duva added, "Steve put on a fantastic performance against Adamek and deserves to be rewarded with this fight. We also get to introduce Tyson Fury, a young heavyweight contender, to the American public in a true crossroads match."
Tickets to the bout, starting at $25, will go on sale next week. Details to follow. The fight is promoted by Hennessy Sports and Main Events.


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Mildura - Ice training for Health & Welfare workers
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Sales Have Ended
360 Edge is delivering face-to-face ice training for frontline workers across multiple workforces as part of the Victorian Government's Ice Action Plan.
The training is designed to build the knowledge and skills of frontline workers, so they can safely and effectively respond to people affected by ice.
Training sessions will run for half a day and cover de-escalation, managing tricky behaviours, and supporting someone to get help.
It is free for workers.
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Your Favorite Subject Next to Bitter Bernie
How about someone asking the follow-up to this question that was asked four years ago?
It has been reported Mr. Villaraigosa that when you were at UCLA you were active in a Latino rights group which among other things says in its constitution that it is in favor of forming a separate republic in the Southwest United States. Do you hold the beliefs of that organization as your own and do you still support the group and what do you tell kids that see this kind of stuff on the Internet?
Villaraigosa didn't answer the question.
Maybe the follow-up could make him tell us what he really thinks.
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