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Robert "Bob" Franklin Gates

January 12, 2014
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Robert "Bob" Franklin Gates, 94, died at Cornwall Manor on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Born in Durant, Okla., on Aug. 31, 1919, to Wallace Wesley and Dora Albright Gates, he was the third of six children.

Bob was drafted into the Army during World War II while he was at Oklahoma A&M College; he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a pilot. Upon completion of pilot training, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the Ferry Command, delivering all types of aircraft throughout the USA and overseas. He received the Air Medal for the first successful delivery of P-38 aircraft over the North Atlantic. Following this service, he was assigned as captain in the Air Transport Command, flying C-54 transports from Wilmington, Del., to the border of China. It was while stationed at New Castle, Del., that he met Jean Barr Howell, and married her on May 1, 1943.

While in the service, he became interested in working to improve aviation safety, so upon discharge, he moved his family to Kansas City, Mo., in 1945 and joined the Civil Aeronautics Administration as a flight operations inspector assigned to supervise Trans World Airlines (TWA). In 1949, he became section chief in Washington, D.C., for low-visibility runway operations, which later moved to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Technical Center near Atlantic City, N.J. During this time, the family resided in Ocean City, N.J. His work continued for 20 years until his retirement from the FAA in 1972, when he received the prestigious FAA Achievement Award.

In retirement, he organized a consulting business, Gates Associates, which kept him busy advising on airport lighting systems for many domestic and international airports. After six years of consulting, Bob and Jean fully retired to Buck Hill Falls in the Poconos, where they enjoyed golf, tennis, lawn bowling and cross country skiing. After 20 years in Buck Hill, they moved to Cornwall Manor.

Bob was also a popular explorer scoutmaster and Sunday school teacher for many years. He sang in church choirs for more than 75 years and also held several lay positions in various churches.

He was a devoted husband and loving father, having encouraged growth in arts and careers. He leaves behind his wife, Jean Howell Gates, 94, at the Health Center of Cornwall Manor; his son, Henry (Jaqueline) of Cambridge, Mass.; his daughters, Virginia (Frank) May of Buck Hill Falls and Elizabeth (Richard) Petrunis of Mays Landing, N.J.; eight grandchildren, Sandra Cassel, John May, Joshua Gates, Jessica Makovsky, Erica Gates, Kristopher Gates, Evan Petrunis and John Petrunis; and five great-grandchildren, Mason and Gina Cassel, Makalya and Mila Gates, and Ashley Makovsky. Two surviving sisters are Della Craighead and Lois Lenz.

He is predeceased by his eldest son, Robert Jr. (Molly), a prominent documentary filmmaker from Charleston, W.Va. He was also predeceased by his sisters, Rubie Bryant and Dora Mae Yates, and his brother, Walter Gates.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, at Cornwall United Methodist Church, Cornwall Pike and Alden Street, Cornwall, with the Rev. James Heath officiating. The family will receive visitors following the service. Interment will be on a later date at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville.

The family requests in lieu of flowers that a contribution in the name of Robert Gates be made to the charity of choice.

For further information, call 717-272-4634.

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 I don't have nothing really to post right now
 However, I will read your poems first,
 In hopes inspiration follows and falls into place

Please do not think I'm here to drop a bomb
It's just a fair warning on how, I'm here
"To Rock Your World"
Allow me kindly to introduce myself,
I'm as Sweet as they come
I'm not the enemy, but a poet friend
In time you will see, and hunger my name

 I'm not new to any poetry world
 In time you will notice I am not your average girl

I will play fair, If you do
I'll be true to you, if you are true
I'm not here to judge what I can't see
However, I will reply and enjoy the imagery

 This Destroyer is not like a lawyer
 However, mess with me or my sis
 I'll chew you out like the D.E.A.
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Admiring those who love the world of wordplay
Today, I will end my WORDS
With the quote I've always wanted to say
   "I am no poet!"

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  1. Date: 5/28/2014 9:06:00 PM

    Hey beautiful, come to see where the magic began :) Very cool, i can see how true you are even to your begining introduction, I agree with your line "I am not here to judge what I can't see, however I will reply and enjoy the imagery" I like that :) I like your attitude and ur kind and cute heart shows. :)

  1. Date: 4/27/2014 6:31:00 PM

    came to see your very first poem and yes, I sure do remember it, PD. Very good one. soupmail.

  1. Date: 4/12/2014 11:28:00 PM

    I hope you don't mind I've read your first poem "Words." Highly recommended. Definitely worth re-reading and reading out-loud. Thank you for posting your opinions on my writes. Your criticism is very important to me. #1 Soup Member Poet! WOW!

  1. Date: 2/25/2014 4:03:00 PM

    i started out somewhere else too. and had to anounce myself also. this is a good introduction of yourself. any way heres a clue to where i put my next piece. you'll like it.

  1. Date: 1/6/2014 2:27:00 AM

    I think you make a PERFECT* poetess ........Just thought to read and comment your first poem as you are signing off ........ Really , don't leave ,,,,

  1. Date: 1/5/2014 8:25:00 PM

    Not a bad first poem PD! You' ve come far on here. Always, Laura

  1. Date: 1/3/2014 7:54:00 AM

    love it thank you for your (not )poem

  1. Date: 12/12/2013 2:02:00 PM

    ok, stopping by my first post. lol. boy was I silly, no talent at all

  1. Date: 12/2/2013 7:24:00 AM

    Oh, but you are a poet. You are not a destroyer but a creator. This is a wonderful old poem of yours. I enjoyed reading it.....Hugs....Roger

  1. Date: 11/28/2013 12:49:00 PM

    Hahah I have you now to your first poem, I love all your poems i think am fond of your art and counsel thanks for everything Linda

  1. Date: 11/6/2013 5:47:00 PM

    I love this style from you, where did it go?

  1. Date: 11/1/2013 12:57:00 PM

    Just dropping by to say Hi..........Hi! I REALLY appreciate the warm welcome! I hope you like the poem I submitted in your contest! Peaches Thomas

  1. Date: 9/10/2013 5:31:00 AM

    I thought I'd come and see where you started. Not a poet aye? Well I've read your later stuff, and would happen to disagree (holy I've just read the comment below! Really I thought of this all by myself). Ok. I'm also here to thank you for your invite to the competition, but in about 10 days I'll be on the other side of the world. I doubt that gives me time for genius. Thanks again, and I'll be staying in touch.

  1. Date: 8/16/2013 7:41:00 PM

    I thought I'd check out your first poems too. You've written so many I thought surely you had been a souper much longer. "No poet" huh? No one believes that. Your denial speaks for itself... Jack

  1. Date: 8/13/2013 5:48:00 PM

    Hi Linda, Thought i had better start at the begining, cheated slightly, had a look at a few later poems first. You're telling fibs here. This piece draws people in and it is believable, you've written it that way. Reading the comment gives things away a little. You have a nice day.....Michael.

  1. Date: 4/17/2013 9:43:00 AM

    But you are a poet.And a good one at that.

  1. Date: 4/17/2013 9:04:00 AM

    I really enjoy this your first pen on poetrysoup. I can't but ponder over this piece for a while before striking the qwerty for this scanty comment... I hope you like it?... ~A.O

  1. Date: 4/6/2013 8:33:00 PM

    Hello PD, I came to your first, thought I'd go thru from the beginning, I'm glad you did not leave, than you for reading Remember US, ;}

  1. Date: 3/31/2013 7:08:00 PM

    Hi Dark One, 'With the poetry world I love to play', to play to play to play, me too, though "No poet am I". Take care, Regards Richard

  1. Date: 3/15/2013 11:09:00 PM

    Dear Linda, Hope this finds YOU and YOURS Healthy and High in the Spirit. SOUP MAIL CALL or read YOUR "Baby Shower" BLOG Comments before Sunday. Thank-YOU, I LOVE YOU ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry


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This has been weighing heavy on my heart. Reading MSNBC and other news reports. Seeing the pictures. I am from the Caribbean though not from Haiti. There are friends and acquaintances who have relatives in Haiti. This past week has been more than a little difficult for them. Trying to contact family. Trying to find ways down there. I also find myself reflecting on the history of Haiti. It's place in the history of civil rights for people of African descent and civil rights for all people. It's hard not to feel a little depressed.

For those who are interested in contributing to relief being sent to Haiti, I would recommend Oxfam-America. The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee list it as a resource. Both are sending earthquake relief to Haiti.

CharityWatch gave Oxfam-America an A- rating and the organization is among their Top-Rated.

The links below from the Better Business Bureau and Charity Navigator give more in depth information on the UUSC's charity work.

Other suggestions on ways to aid Haiti posted here would be great.

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TORONTO—Geoffrey Rush knows how to close the deal.

It’s a skill he may have learned from playing Sir Francis Walsingham, the Karl Rove-like consigliere who serves as the monarch’s right hand in 1998’s “Elizabeth.” So when the time came three years ago to discuss a hot script for that film’s sequel during a serendipitous meeting at a Los Angeles hotel with its director, an eager Shekhar Kapur, and star, a reluctant Cate Blanchett, Rush got straight to the point.

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“Cate’s standpoint was, `Well, I’ve played that role, and I don’t know if I can bring anything new to it.’ And I suppose from a theatrical perspective—because Cate and I had worked together in the theater—the argument I used was, `Look, I think the script is fantastic. I actually think the script is stronger and more textured and more layered and more resonant than even the first one,’” Rush said in an interview last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“And I said to her, `You know, think of this as a theatrical project. Roles for women like this just don’t come along that often. This is almost unheard of in contemporary cinema. And for that reason, you should really take it on.’”

Ultimately, Blanchett was convinced based on the idea that her character undergoes another major transformation in the second film, much as she does in the first. For Rush, 56, the opportunity was also there to redefine a part that he had already played once. He describes Walsingham’s relationship to the queen as moving from more of a mentor/student pairing in the first film to more like a middle-aged married couple who now have an over-familiarity with one another.

Exploring that changing dynamic was one of the challenges that drew him to the film. But getting to shine a spotlight on Walsingham, who Rush considers on par with Winston Churchill in terms of their historical significance, was another major perk.

“There are new biographies out about him, and people are now starting to say, `Why has Walsingham become history’s forgotten figure?’ Rush says. “He literally within two generations changed and solidified England from being a Catholic country to being a Protestant country, which is no easy feat.”

As for Rush’s career path, he’s settled into a series of meaty supporting parts, from playing a Moussad operative in “Munich” to the feisty Captain Barbossa in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films to his current role in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” He won an Oscar in the lead acting category for 1996’s “Shine,” but being labeled a “character actor” isn’t something that bothers him.

“I think if there are definitions, that’s the category I would come under. I think most actors like to think that they are people who play characters. But by definition there are various schools of thought. There are movie stars and there are film actors. They do different kinds of things,” he says, noting that he most certainly falls into the later category.

A strong supporting cast is important to any film. They are the players who move and shape the story with minimal screen time. It’s a role that Walsingham, a man who didn’t need to be seen to be influential, would no doubt appreciate.

Want to know more about Sir Francis Walsingham, the man credited with laying the foundation for many of today’s spy organizations? A couple of recent biographies explore one of England’s largely overlooked figures.

“Elizabeth’s Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England,” by Robert Hutchinson (St. Martin’s Press, $27.95)

“Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage,” by Stephen Budiansky (Penguin, $15)

“Francis Walsingham, Spymaster,” by Derek Wilson (Basic Books, $25.99)

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At their recent sold-out shows at the Tate Modern in London, Kraftwerk revisited its eight studio albums in neat, chronological order. At first glance, it’s rather jarring to think of such forward-looking sounds having earned a retrospective. But then they were never really about the future, anyway. With songs like Autobahn, Pocket Calculator and Trans-Europe Express, it’s clear that Kraftwerk was actually interested in the technology that already surrounded them.
It was a salutary reminder that some of the most fascinating tropes of sci-fi are those that are closest to home. Sure, it’s a nice conceit to imagine that by 2019 we’d be sending synthetic humans to see burning attack ships off the shoulder of Orion, but the reality is likely to be rather more down to earth, literally and figuratively.

Black Mirror, which has just finished its second season in the UK takes this approach to technology as its focus. A collection of stand-alone stories in the manner of the Twilight Zone, the show addresses our relationship with technology, and does so by extrapolating from the gadgets and tools with which we interact every day, from cellphones to Youtube, and from the developing cultures attendant upon them.

Shorn of jetpacks and protein pills, the show’s fictional technological advances appear incremental and plausible. Cellphones have a rather more swish GUI, PC screens are larger and more visually interactive but they are still cellphones and PCs. That they are items we recognise is quite deliberate. The technology is ultimately incidental and Black Mirror is interested more in people than their toys.

The recognition factor was a crucial element in the show’s genesis. Speaking to the UK edition of Wired, the show’s creator, Charlie Brooker, explained that part of his inspiration is the accelerated pace of change, or more precisely, the more accelerated pace at which we convince ourselves that we’re cool with the change. Comparing an iPhone with a Nokia 3210 might be startling, but the biggest change has been in our attitudes.

He draws a particular comparison between our fears of the Millennium Bug, for which we had years to prepare, and the alacrity with which we adapt to ideas such as ‘the cloud’, which would be difficult even to explain to someone only a few years ago. The very concept would have ‘felt like absolute science fiction’, but now we’re all early adopters, relatively speaking.

Brooker is a self-described ‘underwhelmist’, whose chief shtick, aside from an undoubtable skill with a turn of phrase, is a jaded worldview that has chimed with the mood of the day. He made his name penning some of the most viciously acerbic TV reviews in the British press before expanding into wider topics. He’s particularly known for his violent and scatological imagery, which has been appreciatively lapped up by the type of audience that enjoys sitting through a bad movie and worse TV simply for the joy of sniping at it.

With a column in The Guardian, a new run of his satirical snarkathon Weekly Wipe on the BBC and now this second season of Black Mirror for Channel 4, Brooker may well be said to be in his Imperial Phase. The evidence for this is in the extension of his remit. Weekly Wipe was originally a show called Screenwipe about TV. Brooker then brought out different editions for news (Newswipe) and for games (oh, just guess). Now it’s simply Weekly Wipe and covers anything from the preceding seven days.

This same pattern can be detected in Black Mirror. Its obvious predecessor, Dead Set, was a one-off that followed events in the Big Brother house following a zombie uprising. It was a sharp-tongued and very funny satire of the state of reality TV and the medium in general.

Black Mirror, by contrast, does not limit itself to TV. Of course, the tube remains a key part of it; the title refers to the obsidian panels that we face in our living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens, only it’s not just TV now. Cellphones, laptops, tablets –these things are everywhere, and they’re no longer content to simply throw content at us. We now have to interact with them too. It’s a two-way relationship, a step change that has to have an impact on our behavior.

The result is a triptych of Ballardian fables for modern life, and in particular, our digital lives. They’re uncanny and unsettling but not inhumane. Brooker, like many satirists, has a mile-wide streak of humanity running through his work. A play like Be Right Back, in which a young woman is offered the chance to recreate her dead boyfriend from the accumulation of his old status updates, wouldn’t have any point without an overriding concern for her well-being. Even White Bear, the bleakest of the series so far, is suffused with a passionate concern for its characters.

White Bear wears its influences prominently. Twentysomething Victoria wakes up confused in a world that looks familiar, but has utterly and violently changed, with very little explanation why. It recalls the opening chapter of The Day of the Triffids, which, like the rest of John Wyndham’s work, was dismissed by Brian Aldiss as a ‘cosy catastrophe’. It misses the point. Placing terrifying events at a distance in space and time partly neutralizes their impact. It’s far worse when the world you fear looks similar to the one you’d left behind. It’s why H.G. Wells set The War of the Worlds in comfy suburbia, and why Black Mirror is, at best, just ten minutes into the future.

Confirming the immediacy of the shows’ setting is The Waldo Moment, a gossamer-light satire on modern politics that was made remarkable by its transmission date. Centring on a special election called following the disgrace of a sitting Member of Parliament, (as happened in the UK during the show’s week of broadcast) the drama focuses on the disruption caused when a TV comedian hijacks the election and upsets the status quo, mirroring those events in Italy which also happened while the show was on air.

These confluences could not have been predicted, but all the same, anyone coming to Black Mirror in search of originality may leave disappointed. That many of the conceits of each show have been done before in some way is beside the point. The everyday presence of powerful technology makes them a fraction more plausible, and as such, just that little bit more frightening.

Having crossed the imaginative boundary of the year 2000, we’re living in a version of the future that had always been promised to us. Who would care to admit that their 12-year-old self wouldn’t have been stoked to learn that by 2013 they’d have their own computerised assistant, called an Android no less, who could help you communicate instantly with thousands, even millions of people around the world? We have no teleportation pods and hoverboards are a very long way from market, but we’re here. The future, as Ralf and Florian noted, is already around us and that means facing up to its horrors as much as its delights.

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By now, you’ve probably figured out that I’m not a fan of the RIAA and their disturbing legal tactics.  Rather than keep reminding everyone how bad they are and how detrimental they are to the music biz (which is why I really hate them), I’d also like to note two stories about working around them.  First is this Reuters story about bands and music fans hooking up online, which ain’t necessarily something new now in this Net age but it’s worth repeating this story line if only to remind bands (and listeners) about the great opportunities out there on the web.  The other story is the 2008 RPM Challenge which asks artists to write/record an album next month.  As the article notes, this led hundreds of artists to post thousands of songs and granted that they’re all not gonna be masterpieces, it’s still heartening to see so many performers take up the DIY challenge.

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Get Back

I’d like to declare a moratorium on the term “return to form”, if only because it gets bandied about like some irrefutable descriptive truth: the sky is blue, that house is yellow, this album is a return to form. While I recognize it’s intended as a flattering compliment to the album and/or band upon which it is bestowed, it’s also a rockist thing to say: “return to form” aims to discredit any experimental detours that obscure the fulfillment of some salad-days ideal, and quite often offers praise to a record that doesn’t exactly deserve it in the first place. The sort of reactionary thinking that places crowns atop records like R.E.M.‘s Accelerate would have to define the Beatles’ Let It Be as the very first high-profile return to form, and that’s no example to set for the critically lauded future.

Supergrass is provoking the “return to form” treatment for the release of its sixth studio album, Diamond Hoo Ha, even within its own label’s promotional efforts, and this troubles me. Firstly, the Oxford rock quartet isn’t old enough to be salvaging whatever it is that it supposedly lost along the way—sure, they’ve been around since 1994, when their thrilling debut single “Caught by the Fuzz” was released, but they were barely out of their teens then and are still relatively young for a band that was part of the Britpop class of the 1990s. Secondly, this implies that Supergrass has failed to be itself since the turn of the century, which is patently untrue. The group’s last two albums, Road to Rouen (2005) and Life on Other Planets (2003), pursued bucolic rock and space-glam, respectively, and that willingness to stretch itself around new concepts and eclectic whimsies is what makes an exceptional band.

That said, “Diamond Hoo Ha Man” and “Bad Blood”, the new album’s pair of opening tracks, throw around the kind of foot-to-the-overdrive-pedal punches that Supergrass hasn’t thrown since “Richard III”. Both songs are exactly the sort of blood rushes that define potent rock ‘n’ roll: “Diamond Hoo Ha Man”, with its rudimentary Who riffage and oversexed kink, and “Bad Blood”, a punch-drunk strut with sky-defying imagery (“I don’t believe that man needs God, thank God”), satisfy in the testosterone-hook department. They offer an excuse for drummer Danny Goffey to let his Ringo-meets-Animal fills tumble and singer/guitarist Gaz Coombes to rowdily exclaim “Yeah!” between every other line. (He shouts this roughly 13 times between the two tracks, and if the success of a rock song is directly proportionate to the number of “Yeah!“s peppered within it, I’d say these two are rather successful.) They may not be anything new for Supergrass—this is, after all, ground that the band covered with explosive precision on its 1997 sophomore album, In It for the Money—but still, it’s an undeniable thrill to hear a band kick out its jams with such heroic wit.

Those first two tracks aren’t indicative of Diamond Hoo Ha as a whole. The rest of the album settles into a groove that, while admittedly reliant on fast tempos and ripe tension, is decidedly less hard rock. The Zombies’ psych-pop is at the heart of the blossoming chorus in “The Return of…”, and the faux funk of bands like Talking Heads pulls the strings behind “Rough Knuckles”. Acoustic guitar and shakers accentuate the nervousness of “345”, a song that echoes the aerodynamic whirl of Life on Other Planets even if it doesn’t quite match the infectious pull of that disc’s offerings. “Whiskey & Green Tea”, a fever dream of Stooges sax-skronk freaking and tongue-in-cheek British brass, is an odd but compelling diversion in the record’s more elusive second half, and in effect shakes up what is for all intents and purposes a straight-and-narrow collection of songs.

For all their clearness of purpose, however, the songs do indicate a repeated loss of lucidity. “I always try to walk the line, but I couldn’t see it,” Coombes sings in “345”, and later, in “Rough Knuckles”, he has “lost sight looking for a way out.” Supergrass recorded Diamond Hoo Ha with producer Nick Launay (fresh off recent albums by Grinderman and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) at Hansa in Berlin, best known as the studio where David Bowie made Low and “Heroes”. Just as Road to Rouen was very much a product of the French countryside, Diamond Hoo Ha is a city record through and through: fuzzy and raucous, lit up with neon guitars and drums as crowded as a main urban artery, seedy in thrill and immaculately clean in design. The band stalks this particular terrain, disoriented by noise and movement, dampened by rain or besot by drink, and makes some sense out of it with rock ‘n’ roll—not like it used to, but like it always has.

Zeth Lundy has been writing for PopMatters since 2004. He is the author of Songs in the Key of Life (Continuum, 2007), and has contributed to the Boston Phoenix, Metro Boston, and The Oxford American. He lives in Boston.

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Citizen Advisors Present: Charles Ford, Presiding; Marina Anttila; David Burney, Deborah Haring, Stephen Heck, Shanisse Howard, Emily Simon, Robert Ueland, Marge Wagner, Randy Weisberg, Robert Wells
Citizen Advisors Absent: Emily Simon
City Staff Present: Sgt. Jeff Barker, IAD; Lisa Botsko, PIIAC Staff; Adrianne Brockman, Deputy City Attorney; Capt. C.W. Jensen, IAD; Sgt. Randy Killinger, IAD; Diane Linn, ONA; Julien Minard, Neighborhood Mediation center; Officer Leo Painton, Portland Police Association; Emanuel Parris, Neighborhood Mediation Center; Sgt. John Smith, IAD
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Ford called the meeting to order. He introduced new advisors Stephen Heck, appointed by Commissioner Francesconi, and Shanisse Howard, appointed by Commissioner Kafoury.
[Anttila arrived.]
With no amendments to the April minutes, they were considered accepted.
PIIAC Appeal #97-08: Botsko summarized. IAD had closed the complaint for declination. Advisors had waived the appeal time limit on the case, however, IAD no longer had the complaint intake tape available.
The appellant was arrested for assault, and protested having been taken to the ground and handcuffed roughly. The police reports indicated that the appellant’s neighbor, with whom he had gotten into an altercation, had actually taken him to the ground. By the time police arrived, the appellant was doing yardwork. The neighbor reported that the appellant pushed a lawn tool into his chest and displayed some cuts to the officer. The report reflected an uneventful arrest. IAD contacted the neighbor who corroborated the police report -- no such force was used during the arrest.
The appellant addressed the committee. He explained that he had requested a time waiver because his attorney had advised him to delay filing, and he has a medical condition triggered by stress. He described the ongoing dispute with his neighbor. He said his neighbor assaulted him, not the other way around. Had he wished to assault his neighbor, he would have swung forcefully at him with his garden tool. He simply hit the neighbor back after the neighbor threw him to the ground and was on top of him.
His attorney advised him that officers should not have arrested him and come onto his property without a warrant. He provided advisors with a copy of his summary of events. He also distributed photographs of his injuries to advisors.
Several advisors asked questions about the incident. Ueland said that he saw no evidence that would support the appellant’s allegations that force was used beyond routine handcuffing.
Ueland made a motion to uphold IAD’s declination; ______ seconded. The motion carried [Y-10; Abstain-Ford].
Weisberg said that while he agreed with the outcome of the case, he was concerned about categorizing it as a declination. Botsko said declinations are allowed when the allegations are "fallacious or without merit." Weisberg said that would be all right if the allegations was fallacious or without merit on the face, but in this situation, IAD had conducted some preliminary investigation before doing that. Therefore a formal finding of Exonerated or Unfounded would be warranted. He thought this could be a monitoring issue.
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1. Mediation update
Diane Linn said that the Mayor’s Budget provides for the Neighborhood Mediation Center to be spun off as a non-profit entity. She could not predict what resources would be available for police-citizen mediations, since NMC’s top priorities are critical cases. 50% of NMC’s cases are referred by other city bureaus.
Weisberg suggested having another entity handle police-citizen mediations. He suggested the Multnomah County Courts mediation program could absorb these with a cost savings. This would save the police-citizen mediations from having to compete with priority cases. Linn said that resources are limited, and the city has to be open-minded. Weisberg said he’d do some checking and present more information.
Burney asked if any other entities have offered support; Linn said one has. Heck asked about Metro as a resource, considering that conflict arises from land use issues. He also asked whether any kind of strategic plan has been developed. He added that PSU’s Division of Public Administration recently absorbed a non-profit organization. Linn said that ONA has some assistance for that and is utilizing a transition coordinator.
Ueland commended NMC for the work done on the draft evaluation report. The report was especially helpful in giving a "flavor" of what goes on in mediation. He urged that NMC submit the report to Council as soon as possible.
Ford said that we are starting to witness the declined of citizen involvement. No one realized the devastating impacts of Measure 47. Linn said she had to fight for the money she got. Ueland urged that everyone attend the budget hearings.
Wells commented that the 87% response rate on the police-citizen mediation questionnaires [given to those who participated] was excellent. He especially liked that the evaluation reported on some of those comments. Botsko said that she would be working with Minard on refining some of the language in the report.
Ueland made a motion to adopt the mediation evaluation report as submitted. Heck seconded. The motion carried unanimously [Y-12].
2. Council actions
Botsko updated the panel on recent PIIAC (Council) activities. They accepted advisors’ recommendations on appeal #96-22, in which an overweight woman was dragged to a police car. That case generated a lot of discussion and the vote was close -- 3-2. Now the Chief has 60 days to respond to the recommendation that the finding be changed to sustained.
Council also accepted advisors’ recommendations to support IAD’s declination regarding appeal #97-04, which involved a man arrested for having a marijuana grow operation. He was protesting a discrepancy in amounts seized.
3. Monitoring subcommittee
Ueland mentioned that the 60-day trial period ended for IAD/PIIAC review of use-of-force complaints, with emphasis on potential declinations. Jensen would want to decline. The subcommittee has not finalized criteria for what cases could be declined, but they had agreed on some things.
Capt. Jensen said that advisors’ main concern is that declinations are never entered onto an officer’s complaint history, and therefore use-of-force complaints that are declined would never count for Command Review. He suggested implementing a new category -- Declination with Findings. Therefore, a case that on the surface appears Unfounded or Exonerated could still be declined for full investigation, but it would still go onto an officer’s record and count toward Command Review. Ueland said that the monitoring subcommittee would continue to discuss these issues.
4. Miscellaneous
Capt. Jensen said that he may be demoted. Ford said he was concerned about the turnover within IAD. He wanted to write a letter urging the Chief against another IAD command change.
Capt. Jensen introduced the newest IAD investigator, Sgt. John Smith.
Wagner [Southeast Uplift] said this would be her last meeting, as she was resigning. She enjoyed her work with the committee but needed to reduce the amount of time spent on volunteer activities and concentrate on one or two.
Botsko also announced Robert Peterson’s [North Portland Neighborhood Office] resignation because of a job conflict.
Public Input:
Dan Handelman, People Overseeing Police Study Group (POPSG), distributed copies of the group’s latest newsletter. He commented on the monitoring report most recently submitted to City Council. In the section reflecting IAD’s 1996 statistics, 20% of the complainants come from the African-American population, which is disproportionate to that population at large. Commissioner Francesconi was struck by this.
Handelman likes the idea of putting declination information into an officer’s complaint history. He would like to see a copy of the mediation evaluation and is concerned about privatization of city services. He suggested that a PIIAC advisor testify at the budget hearings. Weisberg reiterated his belief that a different solution was needed for police-citizen mediation. He said that he thought it could be done for $10,000 - $15,000 a year.
Capt. Jensen said that he advocates mediators be specialists. Burney said that he has little confidence in ONA and Diane Linn. He spoke about the problems his appointing group, East Portland District Coalition, had been having.
Ford adjourned the meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Botsko
PIIAC Examiner


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Last year, I supported President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. In an op-ed, I noted that while I knew I would likely disagree with many of Justice Sotomayor's decisions, she was nonetheless worthy of support because objective qualifications should matter more than ideology in the judicial confirmation process.

I stand by that position and maintain that a president's selection should not be thoughtlessly vetoed or filibustered by the Senate based on the nominee's presumed ideology. Rather, the Senate should only deny a nominee if he or she holds positions outside the judicial mainstream or is otherwise hostile to basic constitutional principles.

The Supreme Court nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan presents a more challenging case.

Justice Sotomayor had a 17-year record as a federal appellate judge. I carefully studied that record before concluding that she merited support. Her record, despite being left of center, provided ample evidence of impartiality, respect for the Constitution and mainstream jurisprudence.

Ms. Kagan, lacking any judicial experience, offers no comparable reassurances. In fact, in three important areas, Ms. Kagan's record raises real doubts about her respect for legal and constitutional norms.

The Commerce Clause of the Constitution's Article I permits Congress to regulate economic activity between the states. This is of course necessary for a well-functioning national economy. Regrettably, the clause has become the vehicle of choice for judges and politicians to expand federal power into every manner of human activity, despite extremely attenuated connections to interstate commerce.

In recent years the Supreme Court has shown an encouraging willingness to reign in Commerce Clause abuses. However, in her Judiciary Committee testimony, Ms. Kagan expressed a view that envisions practically no limit to federal power. She would not even rule out the farcical example of a federal power to force citizens to eat three helpings of fruits and vegetables each day, all in the name of "regulating commerce." That view turns the notion of a government of enumerated powers on its head, substituting the anti-constitutional notion that that which is not expressly forbidden to Congress is thereby permitted.

Ms. Kagan's lack of appreciation for limiting federal power is all the more concerning as our politicians in Washington are now attempting to increase government's size and power in unprecedented ways. In the last two years alone, we have witnessed a stunning 25 percent increase in the size and scope of the federal government, and with that has come levels of debt never seen before in our history. In this context, an unlimited judicial view of the Commerce Clause could preclude restoring prudent limits to a rapidly expanding government.

Ms. Kagan's record is equally troubling in an area in which Congress is in fact expressly forbidden to meddle, namely, the First Amendment's guarantee of political free speech.

In arguing a case before the Supreme Court last year on behalf of the Obama administration, Ms. Kagan expressed the view that it was within Congress' power to pass a law that banned a pamphlet or book because of its advocacy of a political viewpoint. Ms. Kagan's position was rejected by the court. However, the very argument in favor of federal power to ban disfavored books is chilling. In her committee testimony, Ms. Kagan defended her action as simply advocating the government's view at the time, but she did not expressly disavow that view when she easily could have and should have.

Third, Ms. Kagan's decision as dean of Harvard Law School to deny military recruiters equal access to students is quite problematic. I share the view that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay servicemen and women has outlived its usefulness and, subject to the military's conclusion of the feasibility of removing it, I support its repeal. However, one's disagreement with a federal law does not give one license to circumvent it. It took the Supreme Court itself unanimously deciding against Ms. Kagan's position to get her to reverse course.

Ms. Kagan unquestionably has a keen intellect and strong legal knowledge, and has earned the respect of many colleagues in the legal profession. But while we should not use ideological litmus tests to reject a Supreme Court nominee, nor should intellectual capacity be the sole qualification.

Ms. Kagan's record lacks the clear evidence of impartiality that Justice Sotomayor's had. Her positions on the Commerce Clause and First Amendment suggest a view of federal power that extends far beyond constitutional boundaries. And her treatment of military recruiters raises doubts about whether her decisions are guided more by policy preferences than respect for the law.

In the U.S. Senate, I would oppose Elena Kagan's nomination.

Pat Toomey is a former congressman from the Lehigh Valley and the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate ( ).

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That transformation has not been reflected in the makeup of the cardinals who will elect the next pope, however.

In fact, the membership of the conclave remains — by its regional breakdowns, at least — more of a look back on what the church was rather than a reflection of where it is headed.

Europeans still dominate the group, representing more than half of the cardinals who will gather in the Sistine Chapel to vote. However, the pressures of the 21st-century church, battered by abuse scandals and losing stature in the West, are likely to exert themselves strongly in the deliberations and the fundamental choices facing the papal electors.

Should they return the papacy to an Italian, stick with a pontiff from elsewhere in Europe or follow the trends in the church and look to Africa or across the Atlantic? Here is a look at the options:

Italian roots

Polish-born Pope John Paul II ended 455 years of Italian papacies with his surprise selection in 1978. Back-to-back popes from outside Italy, however, do not constitute unstoppable momentum toward another non-Italian.

There could be support to swing the papacy back to an Italian at a time when the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the curia, appears in need of a firm hand at the top.

As always, Italians are in control of the network of offices and councils that direct everything from top-level Vatican policies to the daily running of the city-state. The theories in favor of an Italian pope suggest that only someone from within can marshal the allies and influence to bring reforms to the curia, whose leaders have pushed back against attempted reforms by Benedict.

Meanwhile, a scandal last year over embarrassing leaked Vatican documents appeared to expose high-level mismanagement and resistance to pressure for greater financial transparency.

Italians have by far the largest national bloc within the voting cardinals, those under 80 years old, with 28 members. That alone is more than the African and Asian cardinals combined.

A frequently named Italian papal possibility is Cardinal Angelo Scola, the 71-year-old archbishop of Milan. Scola is considered to hold conservative views on social and family issues. But he also has built a reputation as compassionate toward problems such as poverty, seen as influenced by his working-class upbringing in northern Italy. Scola, too, is seen as comfortable with the public persona needed for the modern-day papacy. He famously held open office hours for all comers when he served as patriarch of Venice from 2002-11.

Another possible candidate from Italy is Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican’s culture office.

Homeland Europe

By raw numbers alone, the European cardinals could pretty well dictate that the papacy remains on their continent if that was their only concern. Sixty-one cardinals, more than half of those eligible for the conclave, come from Europe.

While it’s unlikely that geography alone will be the conclave’s deciding factor, it can’t be far from the minds of many with the rising confidence of prelates from Africa and Latin America.

If the powerful Italians, for example, think Scola or another papal candidate will not gain enough support, they possibly could throw their backing behind a fellow European. Such a move would reflect the church’s modern European comfort zone after popes from Poland and Germany.

The trouble is that many European dioceses, like much of the West, have been hit hard by the cleric sex abuse scandals over the past decade. Although none of the possible papal contenders from Europe are directly implicated, there is likely to be careful consideration among the cardinals about how much potential spillover would come with any choice.

Among the names circulating as a possible European choice is Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the 68-year-old archbishop of Vienna who has confronted sex abuse scandals in Austria that included his predecessor. Schoenborn, who comes from aristocratic lineage and studied theology under the future Benedict XVI, is seen as holding strict views on church doctrine and traditions but suggested in 2010 that the Vatican should undertake a deep re-examination of how it trains priests in the wake of the sex abuse crisis.

He also stirred widespread debate among Catholic theologians by acknowledging the possibility of divinely guided evolution, so-called “intelligent design,” that challenged traditional views on creation.

Out to Africa

The relatively small size of the 11-member African bloc among the voting cardinals does not reflect the continent’s growing clout in Vatican affairs. Some demographers predict the number of African Catholics could surpass European ones by 2030, conceivably during the reign of the next pope.

Still, the number of African cardinals has remained steady in the past three decades. The fast-growing African Catholic community underscores an overall trend in Christianity on the continent, where evangelical and other denominations are exerting strong influence on the faith with revival-style worship and strong community outreach.

The African Catholic church has imbued some of this flavor as a cultural reflection as well as to keep followers from drifting to the charismatic groups. The African dioceses and parishes also often carry different priorities than their Western counterparts. They include issues of chronic poverty and trying to reconcile the Vatican’s strict teachings against birth control and condoms with the need to fight the crises of overpopulation and AIDS. Africa is also an important setting for the Vatican’s efforts at outreach to Muslims.

Selecting an African pope would require a conclave willing to make one of the most historic decisions for the church.

One of those mentioned as a possible candidate for pope, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, said he thought the prospect of an African pontiff wasn’t “too far away.” Turkson, 64, was named to head the Vatican’s justice and peace office in 2009. But he suffered a blow to his reputation last year after being forced to apologize over alarmist predictions about the rise of Islam in Europe.

The Americas

In conclave number crunching, one statistic frequently stands out: About 40 percent of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America. That compares with 24 percent for Europe and 16 percent for sub-Saharan Africa, according to a 2011 study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life.

It suggests that if the cardinals are willing to look outside Europe, their first choice might be Central or South America, which brings 19 cardinals to the conclave.

A Latin American pope could be an easier first step from Europe than Africa. In addition, two candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Leonardo Sandri of Argentina, would have the double cachet of being South Americans with Italian ancestry.

Latin America still carries a strong traditionalist strain among the worshippers, and the enthusiasm for a local pontiff would reverberate through the Catholic world. Yet Latin America is also the birthplace of powerful Catholic-based social justice movements, often called “liberation theology,” that has likely put some possible papal contenders out of consideration because of too-liberal leanings.

While several Latin American cardinals are considered possible papal contenders, increased attention is falling on Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, the 63-year-old leader of the Sao Paulo Archdiocese, one of the world’s biggest. On Wednesday, he predicted that neither geography nor age will play a role in determining the next pope.

North America, with 14 papal electors, has held a growing role in Vatican affairs for more than 150 years as big U.S. archdioceses pulled in Catholic immigrants. But America’s role as a superpower is a huge hurdle. It’s highly unlikely the cardinals would favor hitching the Holy See to America’s profile of global political and military might, although New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has been mentioned as a far long shot.

That leaves a Canadian, former Quebec City Archbishop Marc Ouellet, as an intriguing option for the conclave. The 68-year-old now serves as the head of the Vatican’s office for bishops, an influential post that helps select archbishops. He also serves as president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, extending his influence over much of the Western Hemisphere.


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C-SPAN producers are road-tripping this summer and are in Charleston this week.

C-SPAN's 2011 Cities Tour began in May and will end in December. One city across the South will be visited each month for a total of eight.

The network arrived Monday. The producers will document the history and literary scene of the city by visiting various sites and interviewing authors, historians and community leaders all week.

The footage will be used for American History TV/C-SPAN3 and BookTV/C-SPAN2 and is scheduled to air July 30-31. The network partnered with Comcast here to organize the events.

Bill Watson, vice president and general manager for Comcast locally, said that he is excited about C-SPAN being here. The history is so rich here that they could spend months filming, he said.

On Monday, the producers spent the day with College of Charleston historian Bernard Powers visiting African-American heritage sites. Later they went to the Lasch Conservation Center to see the Confederate submarine Hunley.

They also visited Civil War sites with author and historian Robert Rosen, who lectured about South Carolina's secession from the Union on Tuesday at the kick-off event at the Charleston Library Society on King Street.

Opening remarks were given by C-SPAN president Susan Swain. Swain said the network is doing this tour because it wanted to focus on more than Washington, D.C. Charlotte and Tampa are profiled because the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are being held there.

Swain and the rest of her C-SPAN team will be in Charleston until Friday. She said that she has visited Charleston several times over the years as a tourist but has enjoyed learning about the city's rich history.

Charleston was on the way and the timing was great because of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.

While here producers also will visit the Heyward-Washington House (the 1772 home of Revolutionary patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Heyward Jr.), Snee Farm Plantation and the Old Slave Market.

They plan to interview such authors as Susan Miller Williams and Stephen Hoffius ("Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow"), Jason Ryan ("Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting the Launched the War on Drugs") and Edmund L. Drago ("Broke by the Water: Letters of a Slave Trader").

The three LVCs are specially detailed with the C-SPAN logo and are equipped with the latest technology.

Other cities on the tour are Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla.; Savannah; Frankfort, Ky.; Charlotte; Knoxville, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Baton Rouge, La.

For more information and to read their blog go to c-span.org/localcontent.


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Color marketing and manufacturing groups are singing the praises of some version of blue for 2013. So home retailers will be singing the blues in spring, in a good way.

Blues range from energetic to restful, calling to mind the graduated blues of the sky or those of the oceans. Blues play well with most colors, textures and styles.

Rustic woven elements bring indigo home with a tradition-al, often global sensibility. Canadian designer Windsor Shaw pairs indigo silk drapes with a jute rug, for example. Sleek lacquerware and silver accessories take blue into smart city-modern territory.

Sara Peterson, HGTV Magazine’s editor in chief, says, “We love soft blue-grays in master bedrooms, with white linens and dark wood furniture. Light blue is really pretty on painted kitchen cabinets with white countertops. In a kid’s room, cobalt blue is fun when paired with painted white furniture and bursts of bright accent colors, like fuchsia or lime green.”

RH Baby and Child has a reversible navy and natural braided wool rug, while Restoration Hardware offers Ben Soleimani’s heathered navy pinstripe rug; both would be great with other navy touches in a room. (;

Crate & Barrel and CB2 have peppy peacock pieces in the spring collections. The latter’s got the low-slung Avec sofa, skinny John floor lamp, and the Yolo flat-weave rug in a fresh, fun peacock and white circle print. (

At C&B there’s the little Willa wooden chair in perky peacock, and the Kruger patio side table and stool come in a deep ultramarine called Harbor Blue. (

Target’s spring Threshold collection features an array of landscape blues. The collection includes an ikat print shower curtain, a floral door mat and a ceramic lamp in teal. (

Indigo, an inky shade often found in dyed textiles, works with many interior styles. It anchors neutrals less harshly than black, and it’s a sophisticated counterpoint to bright colors or pastels.

HomeGoods has indigo printed upholstered chairs, fabric-covered storage boxes and ikat patterned towels. (

Deep water or blueberries come to mind with Monaco Blue. It pops against many of the season’s more playful shades, such as nectarine, pea green, violet, poppy red and lemony yellow.

Turquoise, which held sway in 2012, stays strong in spring. Modern decor looks great in turquoise: Ikea’s Klippan sofa comes in a version that will have you thinking of the tropics. Pair it with textural white and cream accessories. (


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Charleston Southern will not play many teams this season more well-rounded and talented than the No. 22-ranked New Mexico Lobos.

The Lobos used a big size advantage inside and excellent perimeter shooting to dispatch the Buccaneers, 109-93, on Sunday afternoon at The Pit in Albuquerque, N.M. It was the first of two straight games against ranked opponents as the Bucs (2-2) play at Baylor (3-0) on Wednesday.

Senior forward Cameron Bairstow led all scorers with 29 points, while 7-0 center Alex Kirk added 24 points and 13 rebounds for the Lobos.

New Mexico shot 59.6 percent from the floor for the game and made 32 of 43 free throws, including an 18-of-20 effort from the stripe in the second half.

Junior point guard Saah Nimley led CSU’s effort with 24 points and tied a career-high with 12 assists. Junior forward Paul Gombwer scored a career-high 17 points, while senior guard Sheldon Strickland added 17 points, including five 3-pointers. Junior Arlon Harper finished the night with 15 points.

CSU had a solid second half from the floor, shooting 57 percent and made 11 of their season-high 15 3-pointers in the final 20 minutes. The Bucs also had their best day at the free throw line, converting 22 of 24 attempts.

“They are certainly deserving of their national ranking, probably a top 15 team in the country,” said CSU coach Barclay Radebaugh. “They are a big, tough, skilled basketball team. I thought we did some good things, and I thought our guys really competed for 40 minutes in a tough environment against a very good team. I really believe this game will help us in the long run.”

Charleston Southern led twice, the last time coming with 12:12 remaining in the first half when Harper’s steal and dunk gave the Bucs a 21-19 lead. New Mexico then went on an 18-5 run over the next nine minutes to take a 49-32 lead and led comfortably at the half, 52-36.

Charleston Southern got a pair of 3-pointers from Strickland and trailed 60-45 with 16:55 remaining in the game. However, the Lobos again went on an impressive 16-0 run to open up an 82-51 lead with 12:30 left in the contest.

Charleston Southern battled hard down the stretch, trimming the lead to 17 at 94-77 with 5:25 remaining and Strickland’s fifth 3-pointer with a minute left provided the final margin.


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From: Jyrki Wahlstedt <jyrki(dot)wahlstedt(at)hut(dot)fi>
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Date: 2005-04-19 19:32:56
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wonderful to see a working pgAdmin on OS X. Couple of points, though,
to consider in further development: (I am not sure, how easily one can
modify the user interface on one platform, but) the buttons in dialogs
seem to be in wrong order (OK, the default, should be the rightmost
button), and the current location for quit command is in the
application menu, not in the "File" menu (now, when you press cmd-q,
the wrong menu is highlighted).
However, this is really good work, thanks.
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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
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Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 3)  How does PG compare to Sybase?
We converted to PostgreSQL from Sybase.  We found:
(1)  PostgreSQL is more stable.  We had been having a lot of
problems with Sybase crashing on us with unexplained segfaults.
(2)  PostgreSQL has better support.  In spite of paying hundreds of
thousands of dollars per year for a support contract with Sybase,
they were very slow to fix bugs.  Our runtime environment is unusual
enough that we shook out some corner case bugs in PostgreSQL during
our first few months, but every time we reported a bug we got prompt
attention and were always *running with a fix* within 24 hours!
Getting a bug fix from Sybase usually was on a time-frame of weeks
or months, depending on severity.
(3)  PostgreSQL is faster.  We had duplicate machines with identical
(replicated) databases, so we could compare side-by-side.  I have to
be careful here, because the Sybase license prohibits posting any
benchmarks of their product that they haven't approved by them in
writing in advance.  (I wonder why they include that in their
license agreement?)  I'll just say that PostgreSQL beat the pants
off of Sybase in latency while load-balancing equally between the
two with identical databases on identical hardware in production.
PostgreSQL also performed better in all our saturation tests.  And
that was on PostgreSQL version 8.0.  PostgreSQL performance has gone
through dramatic improvements in several releases since then, and
will again when 9.2 is released next year.  I haven't heard anything
about similar improvements in Sybase performance since then.
(4)  PostgreSQL is easier to manage.  Managing 100 production
databases and 100 development databases under Sybase we had needed
one full-time person just to manage and check backups, and had still
had problems with Sybase backups.  Under PostgreSQL we were able to
script our backups such that we are immediately alerted if
incremental backups are failing to copy or failing to apply to the
base backup.  The "redundancy specialist" we needed for Sybase has
been reassigned to other duties.  So on the "total cost of
ownership" equation, we found lower staff costs with PostgreSQL,
besides the, um, significantly lower license and support costs.
(5)  PostgreSQL is more standard-compliant.  We coded to the
standard and had a thin portability layer in our framework, and
found the lines of code needed to map the standard code to
PostgreSQL was less than half that needed to map to Sybase.
(6)  PostgreSQL has more features.  There are so many nice features
available in PostgreSQL (for example, the text search features),
that we have decided to move from focus on database independence to
taking advantage of these features.
(7)  PostgreSQL is extensible.  We have added features to PostgreSQL
which required the addition of a separate layer with Sybase.  The
flexibility is dramatic -- I'm reluctant to try to illustrate it
with an example, because it wouldn't do it justice.
The fact that there is a free community version (which is what we
use in the Wisconsin Court System) is the icing on the cake.  In my
view, PostgreSQL is just better than the alternatives.  I can speak
to the comparison with Sybase more directly than most alternatives,
but I've worked with and reviewed other products, too.  I just don't
see why anyone would want to use any of the other products when
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From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard(at)brainstorm(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: libpq and libecpg problems on MacOs-X (Panther/10.3.3)
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When trying to use postgresql on my MacOS-X system (10.3.3) I
encountered the problem that the libecpg and libpq dynamic libraries
could not be linked into my applications.

Upon investigation, it turns out that the postgresql libraries on
MacOS-X/Darwin are being built as 'bundles' ... which means that you
can dynamically load them into a running program using the dlopen()
api, but you can't link them at application build time.  This may be
correct behavior for some of the modules in postgres (eg the perl
module), but is certainly wrong for libecpg and libpq ... which are
meant to be linked with C (and other language) applications.

I attach a patch which fixes this for MacOS-X 10.3.3, by altering the
makefiles to understand the two ways of building a library/bundle and
having a variable setting 'BUNDLE=no' to day that the normal dynamic
library should be built rather than a bundle.  The patch alters the
libecpg and libpq makefiles to set this variable, so these two are
built as normal dynamic libraries, while the other code continues to be
built as bundles.

Probably there are other parts of the system which should not be
bundles either ... but I don't use them so I don't know.
Possibly behavior differs in older versions of MacOS-X ... again, I
don't have the old systems so I don't know.

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  • 48" diam, 30" h; seats up to 4
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  • Built from eucalyptus wood with a faux concrete top.

  • Overall: 48" diam, 30" h
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  • Distance Between Legs: 15"
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