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The National Carnival season got off to an exciting start on Friday with a packed lineup at the opening ceremony for Sugar Mas 47 at the Circus in downtown Basseterre.
The ceremony featured the reveal of the Talented Teen contestants, a public introduction of the contestants for the National Carnival Queen pageant, National Swimwear pageant and the Mr. GQ contest, as well as registration for junior carnival.
Friday night also saw the hosting of the Female Calypso Show and the crowing of a new calypso queen.
Miss Independent Karisia Willett is the 2018-2019 Calypso Queen as she out sung and outperformed her competitors to amass a total of 246 points.
First runner up went to Sugar Mas 46 Calypso Queen Brown Sugar Kendra Hutton with 243 points. Queen Kibbie, Kibiane Willet was 2nd runner up with 229 points and Charis D, Charis Daniel who made 221 point was 3rd runner up.
The other finalists were Genesis, Laurencia Knight, Queen Diva Kimara Williams, Lil Miss, Anandee Collins-Richards and Singing Sharon, Sharon Cannonier.
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How the Democrats Played at Reform
Dems risk blowing a chance to clean up Congress and win politically.
Art Levine
Photo: AP/Wide World Photos
This was the year that the Democrats were supposed to seize on the public outrage over Republican corruption (and incompetence) as a mandate to clean up Washington and win back Congress. But by the end of last week, Congress moved even closer to passing weak legislation that did little to alter the way business is done in Washington – and, some critics say, Democratic weakness, hypocrisy and ineptness has helped make it all possible. Advocates of the Republican's pseudo-reform bill won a 215-207 procedural vote last Thursday allowing debate on the legislation while barring strong Democratic-supported amendments. Fred Wertheimer, the president of the Democracy 21 advocacy group, commented about the "reform" legislation: "This is based on the premise that you can fool all of the people all of the time. It's an attempt at one of the greatest legislative scams I've seen in my 30 years of working on these issues." A vote on the "sham" Republican bill (PDF) is scheduled for this Wednesday.
Part of the blame falls on the Democrats and their sometimes feckless response to the ethics crisis, according to some watchdog groups and even a few pro-reform Congressional staffers. Melanie Sloan, the head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), among others, argues, "The Democrats' behavior has been absolutely appalling. They want the public to think that they're pushing ethics reform but nobody really wants to give up the perks of their office. They bungled the opportunity and they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Indeed, on the political front, "Democrats haven't done a great job drawing a sharp distinction [on ethics] between themselves and the Republicans," says Norman Ornstein, the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute." They're missing a bit of an opportunity. But it's a risky business: They don't want to call for the toughest imaginable restrictions and then have to live under them." The Democrats also haven't yet effectively convinced the public that there's a connection between sleazy practices in the Republican-led Congress, and the pocketbook issues of skyrocketing gas prices and the chaotic Medicare prescription drug progam, although they're now trying to do so. Matt Hogan, an analyst with the progressive public polling firm Democracy Corps, observes: "There's an opportunity for Democrats to gain traction with corruption if they show how it relates to people's lives" – but that message hasn't really registered yet.
In fact, it's apparently hard enough for legislators of both parties to remember that we're in the midst of a major Congressional corruption scandal. Just two days before the procedural vote that could help assure passage this week of the Republican-sponsored bill widely derided as a "joke," Common Cause President Chellie Pingree pointed out, "It seems hard to believe it was less than four months ago that we were cracking open some of these scandals around Jack Abramoff." She cited the guilty pleas of Abramoff and two Tom DeLay aides for bribery, Rep. Duke Cunningham's imprisonment for receiving $2 million in bribes and an ongoing federal criminal investigation of lawmakers. "Why, when both parties were practically falling all over themselves introducing ethics legislation and lobbying reform proposals, have they come up with such a pathetic piece of legislation?" she asked.
It's all a far cry from reform rhetoric spouted by Congressional leaders after they took office in January. (Even the Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert, was calling for a ban on gifts from lobbyists and privately financed travel before his Republican members pushed back.) And with dreams of Newt Gingrich's 1994 Republican Congressional revolution dancing in their heads, the Democrats started the year auspiciously enough in the high-domed Great Hall of the Library of Congress to proclaim their dedication to real change, just a few weeks after Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe public officials and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in providing evidence against primarily Republican lawmakers. It was a gift from the political gods, and the Democrats marched forward to grab their opportunity. As taped Colonial-era martial music played, snare drums tapping away insistently, dozens of Democratic legislators entered from the wings, including the leaders and stars of the party, from Rep. Nancy Pelosi to Senators Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, all standing on a raised stage before two enormous American flags suspended beneath the gold-leafed ceiling. Between the flags, there was a huge banner proclaiming their new theme: "Honest Leadership, Open Government."
This time, the Democrats were finally going to unite around a common goal and employ the visual theatrics that Republican maestros, starting with Michael Deaver, Reagan's PR whiz, have used to successfully bludgeon Democrats for decades. The rhetoric, whether from pallid speakers such as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) or the party's best orator, Sen. Obama, portrayed the Democrats as champions of bold reform and clean government, while painting Republicans as the evil agents of the "culture of corruption." Rep. Pelosi claimed as she outlined a reform charter that they all signed at the end of the event: "Democrats are leading the effort to turn the most closed, corrupt Congress in history into the most open, honest Congress in history. That is why, with our declaration of honest leadership and open government, we are pledging to enact and enforce legislation that will ban all gifts and travel from lobbyists, period; kill the K Street Project, the Republican plan that trades favors for lobbying jobs, and toughen disclosure of lobbyist activity; remove the revolving door by doubling the amount of time members and staff are prohibited from going from legislating to lobbying…"
But the break-out star of the event, Rep. Louise Slaughter, best underscored the political stakes for Democrats and the public in the fight for ethics reform. She is a feisty grandmother with a soft Appalachian accent and the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee; she fired up the crowd with a blistering attack on corrupt Republicans selling legislation, such as energy policy and Medicare Part D, to corporate fat-cats. She concluded, "We're going to take the country back, and we throw the gauntlet down today!"
Yet only four months later, the Democratic leadership in both the House and Senate had essentially blown the opportunity for meaningful ethics and lobbying reform – while failing so far to capitalize on the reform issue for the mid-term elections. One key reason for this feeble response, as Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 points out, "Many members of Congress love their perks, and this has become a battle to hold on to financial perks and benefits that lobbyists provide." The legislators are especially resistant to any outside investigative office looking into misconduct, even one that merely reports to the current ethics committees its findings for possible action. "Both Republicans and Democrats are against changing the status quo, apparently because they felt the current system protects them from serious ethics investigations. Both parties have failed to take the kind of approach that is necessary to achieve effective lobbying [and ethics] reform in Congress," he says.
So the House bill likely headed for approval, the Orwellian-style "Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006," offers only meager improvements in disclosing lobbying contacts while ignoring any tough reform measures. The Democrats in the House were, by week's end, uniting against the measure, but, in some ways, they have themselves to blame for its probable passage. The bill just temporarily suspends privately-funded travel until after the election, and allows the use of corporate jets, unrestricted lobbyist spending on parties to "honor" legislators, and most gifts and lavish meals to continue unabated from lobbyists. Most critically, it omits a measure to create an independent Office of Public Integrity that would investigate wrongdoing, enforce current rules and make recommendations to the inactive or dysfunctional ethics committees in the House and Senate. As Rep. Lou Doggett (D-Tex.) said on the floor, "Tragically, the party of Abraham Lincoln has become the party of Abramoff."
In fact, this bill, by leaving untouched virtually all current lax ethics rules, would enable another Abramoff to ply legislators with gifts, travel and campaign contributions. "Technically, almost everything he did was legal," notes Public Citizen's legislative representative Craig Holman. "It's the first time the Justice Department is pursuing a bribery case against someone who was mostly operating within the law." It was largely Abramoff's blatant efforts to forge an explicit quid-pro-quo with legislators that got him in trouble (although the extravagant free meals he offered at his restaurant violated Congressional ethics rules.)
On the floor of the House last week, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi complained, "The Republican leadership's so-called Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act holds no one accountable and provides little transparency to the activities of lobbyists or anyone else. It is an embarrassingly trivial response to the culture of corruption that has thrived under this Republican Congress." Yet, as one Democratic staffer points out, "Both parties flinched from taking on real reform."
Earlier, Pelosi even signaled her opposition to an independent office to do the investigative work that hasn't been done by the House Ethics Committee, immobilized by partisan gridlock for 16 months. Spokesperson Jennifer Cryder argues, "The ethics committee has the capacity and responsibility to enforce the rules."
In fact, they rarely have done so in recent years. And the House has been operating for about a decade, experts say, under an unspoken truce in which neither party files ethics complaints against other members — with very rare exceptions, such as the three complaints against Tom DeLay filed by an angry Texas Democrat in 2004 that ultimately led to DeLay's downfall.
The real reason most members oppose a public integrity office? "They don't want to go to anywhere near a Ken Starr-type individual who could possibly destroy Congress," says a Democratic staffer who supports the integrity office, which wouldn't actually have anything like such broad prosecutorial powers. "They say let's keep this process internal."
Last month, Senate Democrats showed their true colors on reform by joining in a 67-30 vote against an office of public integrity, and backing a relatively weak bill that passed in a 90-8 vote. While it did ban gifts and increase disclosure, the bill didn't bar privately-funded travel or lobbyists from hosting lavish parties and fund-raisers honoring members. Senator Obama, an advocate of independent oversight, joined the Senate's most long-standing reformers, John McCain and Russ Feingold, in voting against the mild legislation. While Minority Leader Reid hailed the legislation, Sen. Obama, Reid's anointed "point person" on reform, said after the vote, "Ironically, after learning today that Jack Abramoff will spend nearly six years in prison, the Senate passed a lobbying reform bill that does little to change the culture that allowed him to abuse the system in the first place." The Democrats' abandonment of independent oversight was striking: "The Office of Public Integrity is the real test whether we get substantial lobbying reform," according to Craig Holman.
On that test, Congress has clearly flunked – while undercutting Democrats' efforts to position themselves as reformers. Norman Ornstein of AEI contends, "That one vote [against the ethics office] really is a big setback for any kind of campaign claiming that the problem is on the other side," a position worsened by mounting allegations of financial improprieties against Rep. Alan Mollohan, forced to resign as the ranking chairman of the ethics committee last week. (But Democrats, despite Pelosi's initial defense of him, did soften the damage by pressuring him to leave his post.)
To their credit, most Democrats in the House finally realized last week that approving weak legislation like their Senate counterparts didn't allow them to claim the reform mantle. They voted unanimously against the feeble Republican bill. They also appeared to support most of the stricter reform measures crafted by Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) and Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conan.), except, perhaps, the independent ethics office. At least, they favored allowing floor votes on them, which the Republican leadership refused to permit. As advocated by Public Citizen and other reformers, the proposed amendments aimed not just to create an ethics enforcement office but also restrict the use of corporate jets to fly members of Congress on travel junkets and flatly ban gifts, among other measures. But by the time the House Rules Committee, which routinely rigs the rules to ban Democratic amendments, voted along party lines to prohibit these amendments, Democrats and the broader progressive community had failed to awaken much public interest in the need for reform.
Indeed, on the day of the House Rules Committee vote, Republican leaders explained why they felt little constituent pressure to pass a strong bill. Jo Maney, a spokeswoman for Rep. David Dreier (R-CA.), the Rules Committee chairman honchoing the Republican bill, told the Washington Post, "Many members have told him [Dreier] that they are not hearing about corruption and lobbying reform at home. They hear more about immigration, gas prices."
One major reason for this seeming apathy is that Democrats haven't made the sale to the public that corruption affects people personally, including the skyrocketing gas prices they're paying. Even though reformers such as Rep. Slaughter who, with reports like "America for Sale," have tried to show the connection between shady lobbying and procedural practices, and the resulting pro-business, anti-consumer legislation , they haven't succeeded in driving that point home. (One key reason: major media outlets have viewed such stories as too arcane and "inside-the-Beltway" to be worth much coverage.) More prominent Democrats also haven't incorporated that theme into an effective change message that anyone is noticing. Still, Pelosi sought to make the case last week about the real-world impact of Republican wrong-doing: "This corruption has come at great cost to the American people in terms of higher prices at the pump, a Medicare prescription drug bill that does little to lower spiraling drug costs, and the waste and fraud in the Gulf Coast and Iraq."
But Matt Hogan of Democracy Corps, says, "I haven't really seen the evidence that the cost of corruption has come into the political debate. I don't think corruption is one of the top tier issues now, and it's fallen out of the public eye." Perhaps a bit wistfully, he adds, "I'm hoping that given the increase in gas prices that can help bring the debate back into focus: the Republican-controlled Congress gave billions in subsidies to the oil industries."
Even though Congress has a job approval rating lower than the President's – fewer than 30 percent – the Democrats are seen as only slightly ahead of the Republicans on dealing with government ethics, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The latest non-partisan Pew Research poll found that fewer than half the public is very concerned about corruption in Congress. But when people are asked about it, up to 75 percent of citizens favor sweeping reforms that the Congress has rejected, including the independent office of public integrity. But nobody's really bothering to raise their awareness. With the Democrats offering such half-hearted leadership on ethics reform – although still hoping to use it as an election-year issue against Republicans – they haven't made it a priority. In fact, as one senior Democratic staffer admits, there's little need to file ethics complaints or push for independent oversight because, most Democrats believe, the Republican scandals are doing their political work for them. "Barely a week goes by without the indictment, arraignment or arrest of a Republican," this Congressional source says.
Yet by failing to push for independent, tough oversight, the Democrats have essentially helped turn Congress into an ethics-free zone that is basically unmonitored. Norman Ornstein, the co-author of the forthcoming Broken Branch, a book on Congress, compares the situation to driving on urban Massachusetts Avenue if D.C. police stopped enforcing speeding laws: "You'd have some cars going at 120 miles an hour, some [breaking the law] at 50 miles an hour, but no one would be looking at their speedometers." In Congress, he notes, "Nobody pays any attention to the rules."
And, to some observers of the politics of reform, that's just the way most Democrats like it. Craig Holman points out, "They were very slow and reluctant to come out for sweeping reforms, and they've made it quite clear that if they were the party in power the outcome would be quite similar to what we have now." And, some watchdogs believe, by talking tough on reform before the mid-term election – without actually facing the consequences of any real reforms passing – Democrats hope to create a political win-win situation for themselves. With the exception of a small band of dedicated reformers in both houses of Congress, the Democrats , just like the Republicans, don't want to give up all the lobbyist-linked goodies and donations available to them — but still want to parade as reformers when challenging Republicans. "It's all just pretend, it's just positioning," Melanie Sloan says. "Democrats will campaign on the culture of corruption, but I don't know how successful they will be."
No matter the election results, though, they'll still take comfort in flying on corporate jets, raking in lobbyist-arranged campaign cash and feasting at fund-raisers and parties held in their honor. This reform racket, some cynics believe, never looked so good to the Democrats.

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Was the China corruption website collapse story "newsiness"?
Posted on December 25, 2007	by Will Moss
The greatest contribution that comedian Stephen Colbert has made to modern society is the concept of "truthiness". Reading from the Wikipedia definition, truthiness is:
…a satirical term to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
Miraculously, the entry goes on for another 3400 words on the concept of truthiness, proving not so much that truthiness is an important concept as that Wikipedia is balls-out for pop culture. Nevertheless, "truthiness" has transcended its comic-neologism origins to become a legitimate word, which says something about the zeitgeist.
Imagethief wishes that Colbert had similarly enshrined the concept of "newsiness". Borrowing from the definition above, newsiness could be described as a satirical term to describe things that a person claims is important or newsworthy without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination or facts. It feels like news, whether it really is or not.
This is something that we flacks are familiar with. At our worst PR types trade in newsiness, packaging up bits of corporate dander and passing them off as significant. But we're not exclusively to blame. Sometimes newsiness arises spontaneously in the form of a story that is less than meets the eye. Last week's story concerning the collapse of the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention's new website under apparently heavy traffic strikes me as an example of newsiness.
Foreign coverage of this story can be traced backed to a Beijing Youth Daily article, which I don't have a link for, and a subsequent English-language Xinhua report that was deftlymassaged into final form by our own Chris O'Brien of Beijing Newspeak. The story was that the recently constituted National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, a relatively toothless body set up to "collect and analyze information" on corruption, launched a new website that included a guestbook function enabling members of the public to post semi-anonymous comments. However the website crashed within hours of launch due to a "large number of visitors".
This fits very nicely into one of those social-issue memes that define much foreign news coverage of China, and that often take the form of "a nation struggling with [insert social issue here]". Examples are a nation struggling with pollution; a nation struggling with censorship; a nation struggling with Internet addiction; and so on. The issues are set up via colorful or heartstring-yanking anectodes often involving stoic, salt-of-the-earth 老百姓 types recalling their woes, and rounded out with a mix of quotes from NGOs/overseas experts/local academics/old China hands and the kind of eye-popping statistics that China excels at generating and that make pretty much any problem here seem thoroughly intractable.
In fact, much good journalism is done this way and it works well for the home audience that reads one newspaper. But if, like Imagethief, you are a news junkie living in China and you read vast troughs of China coverage from a range of publications, it's hard not not to notice the formula.
This system also promotes the dissemination of lightweight stories that simply fit into issues established by precedent. This particular story originated via the Xinhua article, which seems to have originated as a "why our website went down" disclosure formality. It plugged nicely into the "nation struggling with corruption" meme and was duly picked up by the foreign press, almost all of which cited the Xinhua article. The tone and detail of the foreign stories vary a bit, but looking at the headlines and ledes a clear mental picture emerges:
Reuters:
China anti-graft Web site felled by "too many hits"
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese government Web site encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.
AFP:
China anti-graft website crashes under public complaints
BEIJING (AFP) — The website of China's new anti-graft bureau crashed shortly after going online due to the huge volume of messages from the public complaining about rampant corruption, state media said Wednesday.
Telegraph:
China's new anti-corruption website crashes
A Chinese government website set up for the public to complain about corruption crashed within a day of launching under the volume of cases reported.
The website was constructed by the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention to collect information on corrupt activities as part of an ongoing purge by the Beijing authorities.
Associated Press:
Anti-graft Web site swamped in China
BEIJING: A new Web site created by China's anti-corruption bureau crashed after barely a day because too many visitors had tried to log on to register complaints, state media reported Wednesday.
Chinese Assail Official Misconduct With Fervor
BEIJING, Dec. 19 — China's new National Bureau of Corruption Prevention thought it would be a good idea to open a Web site for citizens to denounce crooked officials. The idea was so good that the site was immediately deluged this week by irate Chinese, overwhelming the system and causing several crashes during the first two days of operation.
So what did you see in your head? Imagethief saw an image of zillions of oppressed Chinese people desperately clicking on the NBCP's web page. This is image was helped along by the recent, widely publicized woes of BOCOG's Olympic ticket sales website, which really did crash under the fevered clicking of zillions of people. But unlike the Olympic ticketing stories, in which the actual traffic and transaction load on the site was reported, the only figure in any of the stories above is the number of pages of comments, ranging from 16 to "more than 20″. Only the AP story lists a specific number of comments: 250. An NBCP official was quoted in the Xinhua article as saying, "The number of visitors was very large and beyond our expectations."
Well, yes, but what were your expectations?
Hoping to find more information, Imagethief took himself to the site for a first-hand look. As of last Friday there were still about 20 pages of comments, each with fifteen individual posts, for a total of about 300. Anyone who has spent time on a popular Chinese blog or in the forums knows that this is pretty small beer. For comparison, when CCTV 9 anchor Rui Chenggang condemned the Forbidden City Starbucks on his Sina blog just under a year ago, he got 450 comments in 24 hours, on his way to nearly 3000. Sam Flemming's CIC, which monitors Chinese online buzz, tracked over 4 million posts on automobiles in the three-month period from April-June of this year (full report — PDF, registration required).
These are not entirely fair comparisons. The degree of freedom people feel to comment about corruption is not the same as they feel to comment on the Chery QQ or foreign coffee shops, and the overlap of corruption victims with Internet users is smaller than that of car aficionados. But it does introduce some perspective on what constitutes a "hot" online issue in China.
Corruption is a real issue here. The corruption website collapse story is neat enough to tie a Christmas bow around, and the foreign reports are all factually accurate, insofar as they essentially relay the Xinhua report. But what does this incident really say about Chinese society and the problem of corruption? There is a big difference between a site that was designed to support tens or hundreds of thousands of simultaneous visitors and was still overwhelmed by crushing demand, such as the Olympic ticketing site, and a small-potatoes site that fell over under moderate traffic or because it was designed, programmed or tested badly. Imagethief designed and developed e-commerce sites for many years and can assure readers that this a common problem. But "China anti-graft website collapses under public complaints", to borrow one of the headlines above, is going to get many more people reading than, "China anti-graft website collapses because of poor programming".
Fine. That's the news business. Gotta get eyeballs on the page, and Imagethief, a subway commuter who reads on the way to the office, likes a punchy newspaper as much as the next guy. No harm in relaying a vacuous Xinhua story (sorry, Chris — not your fault), especially when it fits so neatly into an existing pigeonhole. It's still "newsiness", but if nothing else it can help keep our minds off of much more worrying things, like the ever dumber things American politicians are saying about China.
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You may already know that CIMCO DNC-Max provides end-to-end functionality designed to make every aspect of CNC communications more reliable and efficient. What you may not know is that to meet the demands in the marketplace for an open and scalable solution CIMCO also offers a Application Programming Interface (API) and remote control application to give users the ability to get more out of the system.
If you are writing an application that needs to use DNC-Max there is also an API that gives more options than using the remote control application. The API documentation can be supplied on request to CIMCO. Feel free to contacts us to make a formal request on your behalf.
Python is an incredibly useful programming language. It is frequently "glue" for some of our projects and customizations of CIMCO Software. In this example we are using Python to send a string to CIMCO DNC max to add a MDC message. This is actually bypassing the DNCMaxCtrl.exe and acting directly over TCP/IP which may be useful in some cases.
Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other micro-controllers/computers are useful devices for prototyping advanced automation or implementing non-mission critical features in your environment. In this example we use a Arduino to read the input from an analog temperature/humidity sensor (DHT11) and present the data as if it were the coolant temperature of a CNC Machine.
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Here is the resulting temperature reading in our demo system with custom values added for Coolant Temp as well as a CT alert button for over temp conditions.
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If you are still reading this page, you probably like to tinker like to come up with creative ways to improve manufacturing environments. We'd love to hear about your small and big dreams using technology and creativity to improve your business. If you are trying to do something and need some "glue" to tie everything together, you came to the right place. We're not big on painting by the numbers, it's fun to dig in and create new innovative solutions to real world problems. Let's talk!


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A woman needs many things to flourish. Her own time. Her own money. Her own dreams. Her own space.
SOHO is an area of lower Manhattan in New York City that is known for its artsy scene, shopping and upscale restaurants. It was named as such because it is the area South of Houston Street, thus the acronym SOHO.
For us, it means Space Of Her Own. Therefore, a woman needs a SOHO to flourish.
I have my own. It is a loft space, formerly our boys' room when they were much smaller. It is attached to our bathroom, and accessible only through our bathroom that is attached to our master bedroom, the only rooms on the upstairs floor of our home. It is highly private, except for the loft side that opens to a TV room downstairs.
When my office moved home, it, too, became my fort. My husband aptly named it "Fort Kathleen." The name stuck, and Fort Kathleen it is. Anyone I'm close to knows what I am talking about when I refer to it as such.
My younger sister had her own room in her old house, she simply called it her lair. She recently moved, and has turned one of her small bedrooms into her space. She hasn't yet named it.
These spaces are highly personal, personalized and privatized. There are no rules of decorating or arranging made or broken in them. There are no outside influences allowed in when decisions about where to put what, how much or how little is the right amount, or if something should stay or go. My beloved, in his never-ending effort to make my life easier, simpler and to share his ideas that are usually good ones, was shot down once in a decision making process, and he hasn't tried again. He did build the house, paint this room a warm, sunny orange color for me, hang pictures, change lightbulbs, suggest the name and will gladly hang out in here with me by invitation, so his contributions are much-appreciated.
My college-era futon occupies the space where blue-blanketed bunk beds once stood. On the floor in front of it is a beautiful rug that came home from my office in town. On top of that is a yoga mat so I can drop and stretch at will. Built-in shelves, stacks of books, my grandfather's wicker chair and small table all call this space home. I even found room for my professional stuff—books, files and supplies make it my official office.
*Talked to both of my sisters on the phone.
*Found the perfect spots for 3 garage sale treasures I picked up this rainy morning.
*Hung the beaded curtain that has been waiting patiently to be hung.
*Took a nap on the futon.
*Read from one of the 17-or-so books I have started and stacked beside the futon.
*Refilled and turned on the oil diffuser.
*Colored in one of my many color books.
I am alone in my castle today, and this room is my preferred hideout, even when there is no one to hide from. I opted out of an informal family gathering in order to languish in my alone-ness, something I don't get enough of. While they kindly requested the pleasure of my company, I politely declined. They understand.
My sisters and I grew up in a tiny, four-bedroom, one-bathroom farmhouse in our family of seven children. Nine people occupying such a small space. Thank God we had the great outdoors to escape to on the farm. I think we have all earned this space.
Our dad turned 65 in the year 1999; he promptly retired from farming and handed the farm over to the capable direction of one of our brothers in 2000. Dad had already called him "The Boss" for some time, and it was a title aptly and respectfully earned. He was ready to get out of the biz, and my brother was ready to take it over. Dad and Mom then moved into a small house in town. Not the grand space Mom had always dreamed of, but it was her new dream home. She promptly staked her claim to the room at the end of the hallway in their new home as her own, filling it with exactly whatever she wanted, however she wanted, whenever she wanted. She had her own TV and a stack of books, as well as a futon. It is only as I write this that I realize the similarities between her space and mine. Perhaps she inspired me without my even realizing it, so that thirteen years after she claimed her space, I claimed mine. Minus much of the stuff, she had her own Fort Liz. She knew for years how important it was for a woman to have her own space. She just never got it—until she was 62 years old.
Many of the decorations and treasures in Fort Kathleen have come from garage sales, the ultimate destination for anyone like myself looking to define such a space as one's own, in one's own style, on one's own budget in the family years. And there are many treasures. There is little space left bare both on the walls and shelves, as well as any nook, floor space, or other flat surface. Even surfaces that are not completely flat are fair game. It is fair to say that I have a lot of stuff in Fort Kathleen. And I want more.
To add a fourth legendary woman to the trifecta of Mom-Mary-Mae, it must be known that this pillow came from the garage sale of one of my dearest former patients—we will call her Mimi. I adored her when I had the privilege of treating her, and she recovered well, regaining her spirit and sweetness. Although she was quiet like Mom, she had that deep sense of knowing what it was all about. After her recovery, she moved away to a larger city with her daughter, thus the garage sale. I got to see her at the sale, and her daughter was there too. I let her know how much I adored her mother. Several months later when Mimi's name was on page 4 of our local newspaper, my heart broke a little. I knew she was a woman of great faith—just like my mom. I knew she was ready for whatever she had to face in life—and death—just like my mom.
I know now they occupy that same space-less space in the great beyond, the ultimate Space Of Her Own.
God bless you Mom and Mimi, Mary and Mae—and thank you for the inspiration. We will enjoy our spaces of our own in your honor.
And, of course, our signature picture, which was taken in Camp Gail last year on Thanksgiving weekend, where we always spend my favorite holiday.
A few more from Fort Kathleen.
So Suzanne has been in her house now for seven months, and she has yet to arrive at a name for her SOHO. Perhaps one of you can offer a name for this beautiful room. Remember, Suzanne is so wisely a minimalist, so she has kept her space relatively bare, in comparison to her older sisters.
*She spends most of her time in this space working puzzles.
*She also loves to color in there, and anywhere.
*She has a tiny little obsession with mermaids.
*Like Gail, she loves bicycles.
*The picture above the shelf is the only possession she would rescue from her house if it were on fire. She only has one print of her daughter at age 3 pictured with Elmo, and it is her greatest material treasure.
*She has no desire to fill (overfill?) it with stuff like her sisters have done in theirs.
Feel free to suggest a name for her SOHO, and thanks so much!
Remember: Good vibes only, and it really IS okay to have too much fun!
May you be blessed with enough time, money, dreams and space to be fulfilled.


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Breaux Bridge's Seth Alexander, Chad Pourciau sweep All-Acadiana boys basketball top honors
After winning the Class 4A basketball state championship, postseason accolades continues for Breaux Bridge's Seth Alexander and coach Chad Pourciau.
Breaux Bridge's Seth Alexander, Chad Pourciau sweep All-Acadiana boys basketball top honors After winning the Class 4A basketball state championship, postseason accolades continues for Breaux Bridge's Seth Alexander and coach Chad Pourciau. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2019/04/21/breaux-bridges-chad-pourciau-named-all-acadiana-boys-basketball-coy/3528464002/
Eric Narcisse, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 1:01 a.m. CT April 21, 2019 | Updated 10:37 a.m. CT April 21, 2019
Scroll down to see the full All-Acadiana Boys Basketball Team.
Seth Alexander named outstanding player of the game as Breaux Bridge beats Bossier 61-58 to win the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Boys' Marsh Madness State Championship. Friday, March 8, 2019. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network)
Four years ago, head coach Chad Pourciau and a freshman named Seth Alexander embarked on a journey together to establish Breaux Bridge as a basketball power.
It wasn't going to be easy.
It was going to be a process that would require patience, trust and the willingness to accept small victories along the way — such as making the playoffs for the first time in 20 years.
That was followed by wanting to get out of the first round, then advancing out of the second round, eventually punching a ticket to the Top 28, advancing to state finals and ultimately being a state champion.
More: Breaux Bridge wins first basketball state title in school history
Their patience and willingness to trust the process was rewarded this past season, as the dreams of being a basketball power came to fruition when the Tigers defeated Bossier, 61-58, to win the Class 4A state championship.
"It's an unbelievable blessing," Pourciau said of being able to share the experience of winning a state championship with Alexander. "He is the only senior that has been with me all four years. We started and finished it together. No one else on the team can say that."
Chad Pourciau of Breaux Bridge has been named All-Acadiana Boys Basketball Coach of the Year. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)
"Winning a state championship in any sport is the best thing you can do for yourself, school and community," Alexander said. "What we did was a tremendous accomplishment. To be able to (do it) with coach made it even better. We have a bond that will never be broken."
For their efforts and the efforts of their team, Pourciau and Alexander have been named The Daily Advertiser's All-Acadiana boys basketball Coach of the Year and Most Valuable Player.
"I'm extremely proud to be named Coach of the Year," Pourciau said. "But there is a lot that goes into the success we had. I had an on-staff assistant coach for the first time in Codey Mire and he was a big reason why we finally broke through. It's more than just me, and I'm proud of what we accomplished as a team."
"I'm shocked to be named MVP because there are so many great players in the area," Alexander said. "I'm honored and this definitely was the best year ever. It doesn't get any better than this. I couldn't think of a better way to end my senior year."
Alexander echoed the sentiments expressed by Pourciau, crediting God, teammates, coaches and parents for his success.
"Glory be to God as he comes through at the right time and all the time," Alexander said. "All of this was made possibly because of my teammates, coaches and my parents. They all believed in me and gave me every opportunity to learn. I'm grateful."
Alexander, who shot 54 percent from the field and 37 percent from the 3-point line, averaged 14.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game.
Seth Alexander makes a free throw to give the lead in the final seconds as Breaux Bridge beats Bossier 61-58 to win the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Boys' Marsh Madness State Championship. Friday, March 8, 2019. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network)
"I'm going to miss him dearly," Pourciau said of Alexander graduating. "He works his tail off. He's a good kid and a good leader. He has every good quality you'd want in a young man."
Knowing they've been doubted every step of the way has made the title run that much greater, but Pourciau said the Tigers never took exception to the lack of belief throughout the season and postseason.
"I think people doubted us because of the way we play," Pourciau said. "We aren't real flashy. People who like teams that go up and down the court and shoot the three, which is what basketball is today, aren't going to like us. We don't play like that. We play a different style than a lot of people do. So, I don't think they were counting us out, I think it is because we play so many close games because of our style."
Although it's been weeks since they've won the state title, Alexander admits he still can't believe it.
"It still hasn't sunk in yet and I've watched the video of the game more than 30 times," Alexander said. "It still feels unreal."
Eric Narcisse covers high school sports for The Daily Advertiser. Email him at enarcisse@theadvertiser.com and follow him on Twitter @eric_narcisse.
2018-19 All-Acadiana Boys Basketball Team
Colby Wilson -- Iota, Sr. Favorite athlete: Odell Beckham. Biggest influence: My dad What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Kevin Hart. Favorite sports movie: Coach Carter. Favorite song/artist: NBA Youngboy. Submitted photo
Deandre Hypolite -- Breaux Bridge, Jr. Biggest influence: Ms. Tara. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: John Wall. Favorite sports movie: Like Mike. Favorite team: Los Angeles Lakers. Post-game meal: Wings. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Derrick Tezeno -- North Central, Soph. Favorite athlete: Kevin Durant. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Idris Elba. Favorite song/artist: Return of Simba- J. Cole Post-game meal: Chicken tenders My All-Acadiana MVP: My mother. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Jaden Shelvin -- STM, Soph. Favorite win of season: De La Salle in championship. Favorite athlete: Drew Brees. Biggest influence: Mom. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Brad Pitt. Favorite team: Boston Red Sox. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Javian Howard -- LCA, Sr. Favorite athlete: LeBron James. Biggest influence: My godparents. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Mike Epps. Favorite sports movie: Above the Rim. Favorite team: Los Angeles Lakers. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Joseph Charles -- Carencro, Soph. Biggest influence: My dad. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Chris Tucker. Favorite sports movie: Thunder Struck. Favorite team: Los Angeles Lakers. Favorite song/artist: Lil Baby. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Julian Landor -- Carencro, Sr. Favorite win of season: Beating Westgate in double overtime. Favorite athlete: Kevin Durant. Biggest influence: Mother. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Denzel Washington. Favorite sports movie: When the Game Stands Tall. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Kendrick Delahoussaye -- Lafayette High, Soph. Favorite athlete: Kobe Bryant. Biggest influence: My family. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Kevin Hart. Favorite sports movie: Thunderstruck. Post-game meal: Subway. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Keon Coleman -- Opelousas Catholic, Soph. Biggest influence: My mother and brothers, Jonathan Fisher. What actor should play me in a movie: Denzel Washington. Favorite sports movie: Kobe Bryant's Muse. Favorite singer or rap artist: Lil Wayne. Post-game meal: Cereal and milk or Raising Cane's. Submitted photo
Keydrain Calligan -- Westgate, Jr. Favorite athlete: Cam Reddish. Biggest influence: My sister. What actor should play me in a movie: Will Smith. Favorite singer or rap artist: Blueface. Post-game meal: Whatever I can get my hands on. Submitted photo
Malik Criner -- North Vermilion, Sr. Favorite win of season: Last home game of the season. Biggest influence: My mom and dad and one of my best friends Cade that just passed away. Favorite sports movie: Coach Carter. Favorite team: Los Angeles Lakers. Favorite song/artist: AstroThunder- Travis Scott. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Nikembe Johnson -- North Central, Jr. Favorite win of season: State championship. Biggest influence: My family. Favorite team: Golden State Warriors. Post-game meal: Chicken tenders. My All-Acadiana MVP: My mom. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Seth Alexander, MVP -- Breaux Bridge, Sr. Favorite win of season: Of course winning the state championship. Favorite athlete: Kyrie Irving. Biggest influence: My mom. Favorite sports movie: Blindside. Favorite team: Milwaukee Bucks. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Terrence Jones -- LCA, Sr. Favorite athlete: Damian Lillard. Biggest influence: My mother. What actor/actress should play me in a movie: Kevin Hart. Favorite team: Trailblazers. Post-game meal: Waffle House. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Tyrese Sam -- Abbeville, Sr. Favorite win of season: When I scored 26 points against a great team to win district. Favorite athlete: Dwyane Wade. Biggest influence: Watching people who inspire me in the NBA working hard. Favorite sports movie: Thunderstruck. Favorite song/artist: Meek Mill. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER
Chad Pourciau of Breaux Bridge has been named All-Acadiana Boys Basketball Coach of the Year. SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER


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Q: Android: Building View with lots of elements is incredibly slow (10+ seconds) First of all: I've started developing for Android only recently, so please don't toss stuff at me for asking stupid / obvious questions! ;D
The problem I am encountering is the following: I want to display a list of clickable items of unknown length - my sample data set is around 300.
Using a LinearLayout and adding them all as TextViews takes like half a second on the emulator, which is totally fine.
To enhance the user experience I have replaced the LinearLayouts now with Relative Layouts, each with a background image, 2 TextViews and 3 ImageViews. All images are included in the resources, so no loss of time for downloading or whatnot.
Problem is: It now takes around 10 seconds to build this view, which is obviously no viable solution.
My assumption would be that the complete UI is completely built despite only always a part of it being visible (using some scroll container)
As I am far too lazy to write logic to manually make sure only the visible part of the UI is actually populated, I was wondering if anyone knows of some simple standard solution for this problem.
Is there some sort of UI proxies I simply have to activate?
Or would you recommend creating the screen with like the first 10 elements and load the others in the background in a separate Thread? (No idea how scroll containers - or android UIs in general for that matter - would react to that)
Thanks for all help in advance! =)
tl;dr:
Building large Views way too slow - need help! puppy eyes

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I want to display a list of clickable items of unknown length - my sample data set is around 300

Use a ListView, or any other subclass of AdapterView.

My assumption would be that the complete UI is completely built despite only always a part of it being visible (using some scroll container)

That's what AdapterView subclasses, like ListView, are for -- only create widgets for what's visible, not the entire data model.

As I am far too lazy to write logic to manually make sure only the visible part of the UI is actually populated, I was wondering if anyone knows of some simple standard solution for this problem.

Use a ListView, or any other subclass of AdapterView.

Is there some sort of UI proxies I simply have to activate?

No.

Or would you recommend creating the screen with like the first 10 elements and load the others in the background in a separate Thread?

No. Mostly because you'll crash. You can only modify the UI from the main application thread, not a background thread that you fork.

A: Obviously Mark's answer is correct and the way you need to go for this particular problem.
However, in the future I suggest give the documentation a quick glance next time you have an issue. The View documentation in particular is often my go-to page for discovering new (to me) Android framework capabilities.
In general, if you need something and think it might be too much effort to do but that it's common enough that it should've already been done by someone, I recommend these steps:

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*Open the view docs and look under "Indirect Subclasses" for something that sounds what you need.

*Open up the API Demos sample app and see if you can find something that looks like what you're trying to achieve. It has quite good coverage of the API and you can easily find the code in the Sample Code section.

*Check out the other sample projects. There are some pretty involved ones in that directory.

Of course, Stack Overflow is a great resource, but sometimes the answers are too specific and don't lend themselves to discovering new features.

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