Sun Mar 4 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\bTucson\
124605 KVOA news feed : RSS format http://www.kvoa.com/global/category.asp?

Thu Mar 1 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\
124596 My Diary on the Edwards site : Ok, I'm definitely for Edwards.  He is really the grassroots guy.  Here is a link to my diary on the Johnedwards.com site. http://blog.johnedwards.com/user/gvelez

Thu Mar 1 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Middle East\
124594 So what does Engel say? : Just finished Richard Engel's  'A Fist in the Hornet's Nest', the most honest and insightful thing I've read about Iraq in the last 5 years.  

I've been trying to figure out what I think we should do next.  On the one hand I have no right to say that our kids - young men and women - should stay over there and die even if I thought staying was the right thing to do, on the other hand it might be damn dangerous to pull out.  So I went online to see what Engel thought.  

Not encouraging:    

Matt Lauer: "Americans let congress know, loud and clear, they're not happy with the war in Iraq, but what would happen with the U.S. just packed up and left? NBC's Middle East Bureau Chief Richard Engel has been covering Iraq since before the war began. Richard, nice to have you here in person."

    Richard Engel: "Thanks very much good to be here."

    Lauer: "So what would happen?"

    Engel: "Well, I think what happened in southern Iraq yesterday is a good example of the kind of security situation that would develop. In those provinces in the south where those Americans were kidnaped, British and Italian forces have been pulling back and handing over authority to the Iraqi security forces. But instead of having a stable environment, it was handed over to militia men and highway robbers and a probably a similar pattern would be repeated across the country."

    (Begin Video)

    Engel: "As the debate in the U.S. increasingly focuses on finding an exit strategy from Iraq after the Democrats gains in congress, 7,000 miles away, U.S. troops and Iraqis face tough questions: What will happen on the ground if U.S. Forces leave? What are the options? Analysts say staying the course isn't one of them, but neither is pulling out too quickly."

    Robert Fox, Defense Editor Evening Standard: "The military plans, many of them, are not working, but cutting and running would turn a war which is awful and local into a regional and possibly global war."

    Engel: "So what would happen if U.S. troops just left? Iraqis overwhelmingly say it would push the country deeper into chaos. Three states would claw their way into existence in a civil war, creating an independent Kurdistan, opposed by Turkey, Iran, and Syria, a Shi'ite south allied with Iran and in control of much Iraq's oil and access to the Persian gulf, and a failed Sunni state run by tribunal war lords some backed by al Qaeda."

    Bob Stewart, Military Analyst: "It's quite clear that the biggest danger of all in Iraq is the, for al Qaeda to actually have a state. Iraq would be a perfect state for al Qaeda. It's oil rich. It's right in the middle of the Arab world."

    Engel: "Just last month al Qaeda supporters in Iraq staged a bold daylight demonstration in Ramadi to declare their support for an independent hard line Islamic state. Just a show for the cameras for now, but clear sign of their intentions. Osama bin Laden's deputy, Iman al Zawahari, has said one of al Qaeda's goals is to find a state or part of a state as a new homeland. Leaving Iraq with a power vacuum might just give it to them."

    (End Video)

    Engel: "So there is that danger Matt that a quick pull out could have just the opposite effect of the entire war which is to create an al Qaeda safe haven to launch further attacks." "
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Of course going in was stupid and the way the Bush administration ran the war was criminal in the highest degree, but now we better stop and think before doing any more knee-jerk policy.  That's my only conclusion so far.

Tue Feb 27 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Writing\Zoo\
124588 Baheem and Raja, Tiger Brothers :
Baheem and Raja, the Tiger Brothers

As any mother of boys will tell you, brothers sometimes fight, and twin tiger brothers Baheem and Raja are no exception.  Born in the Cinncinnati zoo May of 2001 and arriving in Tucson at 5 months of age, our tigers have spent their lives together.  Their first years were spent growing rapidly, from 50lb cubs to 234 lb adults [check - is this lbs or kg?  Adult male tigers should be 400lbs].    Fierce predators, they still need consolation - at two, Baheem engaged in tail sucking, and Raja has been spotted pacifying himself with his tail as recently as last month.    But boys will be boys, and upon reaching four years of age Baheem and Raja engaged in fights and scuffles on and off.

Keepers and alert visitors have kept a close eye on the pair, and periodically Baheem and Raja have been separated for a 'cooling-off' period.  Just like human brothers, they are glad to see each other on being reunited, and may be friends again for some time before starting up.  Baheem is the dominant tiger of the two, and has been observed stalking and hunting his brother.  Raja is a tiger too, though, and when feeling good will pick on Baheem!

Indochinese Tigers (Panthera Tigris Corbetti) are highly endangered species - between 1200 - 1700 may exist in the wild, mainly in Malaysia and some in Vietnam.   Little is known about their behaviour in the wild as access to the tigers is strictly controlled.  Perhaps Baheem and Raja can teach us important elements of tiger psychology as well as serving as fathers of their species sometime in the future.

Tue Feb 13 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Edwards\Issues2007\
124537 Immigration Policy Proposal : A Win-Win Solution for Immigration

Using the positive impact of immigration to offset the costs to individuals and municipalities.

Allowing more immigration is essentially allowing more freedom and opportunity for a large number of people.  Those are the real engines - and values - driving the American economy : Freedom and Opportunity.  Economists agree that increasing the number of legal immigrants will spur economic growth.

We propose to greatly increase the number of permanent resident green cards issued and lower the barriers to citizenship.

Some American workers are afraid that increased immigration will lower wages.  This is a legitimate concern.  So lets offset that with increased opportunity from immigration.  Lets offer a low-interest, guaranteed loan to any American  worker (citizen or resident) who applies to start a business that will employ others, in an amount equal to their accumulated social security.  Let the experienced American roofers worried about wage decreases start a roofing company and take advantage of the new influx of labor.   The economic growth and resulting increased tax revenue should easily fund such a loan program.

Municipalities are concerned that an influx of new workers would include many uninsured and place a burden on hospitals.  The OMB should make an estimate of increased revenue due to immigration spurred growth and we should commit 50% of any such revenue increase as block grants to local government and in particular to the health care  and education sectors.

Permanent residents and citizens will be able to unionize, switch jobs, start businesses, make their own choices for housing - all basic rights we take for granted, but which could be denied guest workers.  Guest worker plans create a lower class of residents and is not an American solution.  Immigrants - new Americans, not guest workers - have always been part of America's vibrant history.

Mon Feb 12 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Middle East\
124534 Sandmonkey : no-holds-barred blog of a proUS Egyptian.  Comments are interesting. http://www.sandmonkeyblog.com/

Mon Feb 12 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Middle East\
124535 Arabs for Israel - arab emails : what stands out is the isolation and intimidation of arabs who don't toe the hate-Israel line http://www.arabsforisrael.com/arabemails

Mon Feb 12 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Middle East\
124536 possible source for openness as middle east policy : Mr. Tashbih Sayyed is editor-in-Chief of Pakistan Today and the Muslim World Today, California-based weekly newspapers, President of Council for Democracy and Tolerance and adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute. He can be reached at mail@paktoday.com.

Sat Jan 20 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
124447 SmartComments - and still can't find some things by 'word cloud' approach. : Was looking for architecture for adding comments to page (not necessarily code, as I want to do it with my db and layout).  Searching for 'comment thread implementation' found comments about many other subjects.  On CPAN found SmartComments.pm, will probably use that - but for commenting code, not for adding comments to a web page.  Searching on 'comment thread architecture' was even less useful, as it found Architect-related stuff.  This is why taxonomies still needed...

Mon Jan 8 2007 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\Story Ideas\
124426 'you do math' - scholastic : targeted at jr high/hs kids, curriculum unit showing how kids already use higher math in language and social relationships

Tue Dec 26 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Value Equation\
124400 goal as temp value : Goal-directed behaviour - trying to get something done - requires a temporary valueset with achieving the goal as the highest value.  Then when your child interrupts you or misbehaves in the middle of the work, it is harder to remember ("swap back") the deeper permanent value of the child's feelings and one is more likely to snap...especially if the goal has the feel of an urgent situation.  Calm minds have easier time keeping touch with the permanent underlying valueset, perhaps just because reaction time is slower allowing the swap to occur before reacting to given situation.   Also style values can remain in place during goal-directed behaviour, while specific other goals/focus points may be in the background.

Mon Dec 25 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124398 IT Manager's Journal : can submit articles here -linked from sourceforge and only gets article every few days http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/

Mon Dec 25 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124399 Redhat - Truth Happens : os related blog http://www.redhat.com/truthhappens/

Mon Dec 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Value Equation\
124153 (on importance of confidence) : integrity is result of having confidence in your deepest values.  If you are not sure your basic values are correct, you will act inconsistently.    Confidence in kids is not so much a product of blanket encouragement but in their ability to predict the results of their actions.  So consistency from parents produces confidence in kids.  If you can't predict that effort will have result, people of all levels very logically are less inclined to try.  Modern business is based on taking known procedures with predictable results and modifying only slightly.

Mon Dec 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Value Equation\
124152 (on being judgemental) : Judgemental thinking is ok as a first approximation but not as a first principle...

Mon Dec 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Value Equation\
124154 time- and situation-dependent values : viewing decisionmaking as minimax problem; trivial example of temp value is that the smell of fresh baked cookies may cause you to want one, though you doesn't think of them the rest of the time

Sun Dec 3 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\icons\
124131 ibiblio playing blackcat : probably email webmaster -at- ibiblio.org for permissions http://www.ibiblio.org/gio/iconbrowser/i

Fri Dec 1 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
124127 ok, here is my new motto: gentle but honest :

Sun Nov 26 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\adsense-related\
124115 Drama as an export : Sent to Lynne Duke at Wash Post.  Hope she has time to reply; otherwise will try and find other contacts.
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Hi, I recently finished your book, Mandela, Mobutu and Me, very much appreciate the excellend read and straight perspective.

As a website developer/programmer it seems to me that a new income source for Africa should be available from advertising revenue on first hand reports/blogs.  

I'm sure some folks are already doing this.  Is there a way to make it easier, or a contact who would know what the needs are?  I have a VP-level contact at Google who is willing to help if there is something they can do from their end to facilitate.

Thanks for your time!

Sat Nov 25 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
124114 interview retired staff : the current zoo curators are generally too busy, but if could get in touch with retired curators a really interesting history could be put together..."

791-3204
Scott - x 11 clm Jan 8
head curator -

Marc x24 about to retire
Mike - biz end

Sat Nov 25 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
124094 meditation : actually this is something I thought of some years ago on reading a book on Yoga meditation for pregnancy; in the book you were supposed to just think 'Ram..ram..ram' or something like that."

Please help me find :

a clear mind
a kind heart
a strong will
a calm soul
and a sense of humor

Tue Nov 21 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Fair Trade\
124087 United Students for Fair Trade : "they may have links to students doing community surveys of businesses that carry or are interested in carrying fair trade products.  We should have a global registry of fair trade related businesses, products and notes, organized by location / product type , source country, and a few other criteria. http://www.usft.org

Tue Nov 14 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\Library Materials\
124073 100 Hungry Ants : 2 read: by Pinczes @ Quincie Douglas.  See link for related lesson from Systems Thinking /Waters Foundation http://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cf

Tue Nov 14 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\Library Materials\
124074 One Grain of Rice : mathematical folktale by Demi avail at Quincie Douglas.  Another systems thinking recommended book - see link http://www.watersfoundation.org/index.cf

Mon Nov 13 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Fair Trade\
124070 Fair Trade Research Group at Colorado State University : Found a reference to this group in the Wikipedia article.  Will read more on them now.  I am looking for ways to make sensible policy encouraging fair trade and expanding it; also where is the website for registering all Fair Trade producers and products? Also what about a trust network of individuals to help informally suggest Fair Trade partners?   Certification and trust of certification is key, and it seems to me that the 'many eyes' approach could keep certifying bodies honest." http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Sociology

Mon Nov 13 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Fair Trade\
124071 "Fair Trade and development" : July 6 2006 EU resolution.  Possible source for policy language. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade

Mon Nov 13 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\Fair Trade\
124072 TransFair list of some retailers : but, I'd really like to see a more complete list of producers and cooperatives, including small ones... http://www.transfairusa.org/do/whereToBu

Sat Nov 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Family\Al\
124065 Ramps ready : for Laffs tomorrow.  I haven't seen yet, will get to see 'graduation' night Nov 19

Sat Nov 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\
124066 Values - Democrats are the American Values Party : Lets run a government based on values....cross posted most of this to the Edwards blog, I think John Edwards is my choice for 08...
Lets talk about values - American values.

Honesty
Accountability
Responsibility
Caring
Equality
Freedom

Lets run a government based on values.  Not end-justifies-the-means manipulation to 'cause immigrants to self-deport' by treating people inhumanely and without rights.  No trickle-down economic theories with regressive tax policies (SS tax is regressive, as is sales tax).

Lets open up a window of sunshine onto government activites.  Lets declassify documents and make it policy to respond quickly and openly to Freedom of Information Act requests.  Our government should have nothing to hide from us.

Lets examine every new law, policy and government action and ask what values it represents.  Our strategic interests are a valid goal, but not a fundamental value.  And if we are acting in our selfish interests, we can at least be honest about it.  Lets restore our credibility with ourselves.  

If you have children or animals, you know that trust and credibility are a prerequisite for all else.  With trust, discipline is easy.  Without trust, discipline is achieved only thru fear.  Then the cycle begins - impossible to let up on force for fear of rebellion.  

If we run our country honestly with deep values, trust and credibility will follow.  Then everything else becomes possible.

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Not to say that there is no evil in the world, and that it does not need to be fought.  But most people are just trying to survive, to get by; and if we have the confidence of the average person that we are at least acting in good faith, it becomes easier to focus the necessary force on those few who are truly trying to do us harm.
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Sat Nov 4 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\Library Materials\
124049 How Groundhog's Garden Grew : beautiful drawings of all kinds of garden plants; Amber had me read it about 40 times. by Lynne Cherry.

Sun Oct 29 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Article\Drafts\
124040 Final submitted copy : http://abra.info/article/Mapping.pdf

Sun Oct 29 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\Anti-Spam\
124037 Postini : perimeter / remote filtering service.  Requesting 30-day trial, I think I've talked to them before years ago. http://postini.com

Tue Oct 24 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
124034 words create stable states : ok, so I've been thinking a lot about language - and development of thought, as in my 2 yr old learning words and developing thinking patterns; in information discovery and tagging ; and in programming, since modern programming languages are starting to look a lot like an awkward form of natural language.  Name something and you can get back to it - it burns a small stable state, self-reinforces, in the brain (maybe - this could be checked neurologically, no?)

Thu Oct 19 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124003 Google-analytics : https://www.google.com/analytics

Thu Oct 19 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124005 Google sitemaps : https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitema

Thu Oct 19 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124006 sitemap generator instructions : https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitema

Mon Oct 16 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\language as math\
123993 'smooth' : Being able to say a hill is smooth, a car accelerates smoothly and that a career advanced smoothly shows an intuitive understanding of calculus (smooth = 3rd derivative always small)

Sun Oct 15 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\productivity\
123988 routines 2 : are tweakable ; and sometimes reproducible

Sun Oct 15 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Value Equation\
123989 happiness : is produced by fullfilling expectations while not extinguishing drives.   ie think big act in small steps

Thu Aug 24 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
7443 Multiple file upload example : http://www.bigstockphoto.com/cz_upload_f

Tue Aug 22 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
7432 Prototype docs : http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/pr

Sat Aug 12 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\
7323 Monument Camera & Pawn : Not just your average pawn shop, Monument Camera staff really takes the time to show you how your camera works.  I got a beautiful old SLR (single-lens reflex) Minolta SR-7 camera plus a 50mm lens there for $150.   Works perfectly!

15 East Fort Lowell Road
(520) 690-1484

Sat Aug 12 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
7324 Mozilla Javascript and other Reference : the ONLY place to go for DOM and JS reference http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/

Thu Aug 10 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\
7321 Benarda Veterinary Hospital : Wonderful humane veterinary clinic.  They treat the animal on a low cushion instead of on a high metal table, and combine a holistic approach with modern veterinary care.  Both vets are extremely gentle, patient and understanding!

2555 E Broadway Blvd, (520) 325-2997

Wed Aug 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
7303 CSS column examples : http://www.glish.com/css/

Sun Jul 30 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\Dewey Decimal\
7292 Amigos Library Services : Regional contact for permission to use WebDewey http://www.oclc.org/contacts/data/contac

Wed Jul 26 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
7291 math-riddle : How big is a cube that is 'Too tall' ?  Answer: 8 units"

(well, maybe funny for 8-9 yr olds, especially late at night....)

Fri Jul 21 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
7279 Oobleck : very easy (corn starch & water) but something Einstein was curious about and is still not 100% explained...ask Claire about electron microscopy... http://www.guam.net/planet/oobleck.html

Sun Jun 4 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
7089 cakePHP : " http://cakephp.net

Sun Jun 4 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
7090 Review of multiple frameworks : http://www.h3rald.com/

Thu Jun 1 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\
7085 on the importance of Precincts... : submitted to MoveOn 6/1/06
So we do hand-counting, with observers, paper trail, the whole nine yards.  After it is over, how exactly do we check the honesty of an election?  

Here is one way:

Make sure that election reports by precinct remain public record.  Have at least one precinct worker from each party and perhaps an independent verify and report the results in each precinct.  Encourage the individual precinct workers who reported the tally to check what they reported against the public record; and anyone can add up the precinct totals to make sure the overall result is correct.  

The main idea, is that many individuals should have the ability to verify results in small local areas.  The smaller precincts are, and the more workers involved, the better - it will make it harder to cheat.

Unfortunately Vote by Mail, which generally I would support, circumvents precincts and is probably more subject to fraud.  Any response to this welcome.  Easier to vote is good, but easier to cheat is bad...

Sat May 27 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
7071 Microformats.org : open registry of format standards - hcard (people), events, VoteLinks http://microformats.org/

Wed May 24 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
7068 Montessori stories... : "Sergey, and Google co-founder Lawrence E. Page have both given credit for their success to having attended Montessori schools."

Wed May 24 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
7069 Doroty Fsher Children's Book Award : award voted on by kids http://www.dcfaward.org/

Tue May 9 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
7028 Typepad Widget API : http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/widgets/

Mon May 8 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
7024 tell vim NOT to automatically make # for cut & paste : I think I finally found how to set this...see content
commented out setlocal lines in

/usr/share/vim/vim61/ftplugin/perl.vim

" Set 'formatoptions' to break comment lines but not other lines,
" and insert the comment leader when hitting or using "o".
" --GV - don't do this please dammit
" setlocal fo-=t fo+=croql
" setlocal com=:#

Tue May 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
7006 Otavo : social bookmarking but 'intentions' or 'quests' instead of tags http://blog.otavo.com/

Tue May 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\
7007 Cobert's routine : The greatest thing about [Bush] is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will. As excited as I am to be here wit http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/

Fri Apr 28 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6989 MediaWiki : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Fri Apr 28 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\Tools & Libraries to Use\
6991 YAML : support human-editable data for emailing http://yaml.org

Fri Apr 28 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\Tools & Libraries to Use\
6992 YAML::Parser : installed on qs http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/YAML-Parser

Fri Apr 21 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
6949 php webnotes : from 2002 http://freshmeat.net/projects/webnotes/

Thu Apr 20 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
6944 LOGO for Linux! : This is one of about 6 LOGO projects on Freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net/projects/klogoturtl

Sun Apr 16 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
6943 how php.net does comments : http://www.php.net/source.php?url=/inclu

Tue Apr 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Political\
6940 what cost? : sent as letter to the editor.  Edited 4/28 (toned down) and resent to Az Republic
Current laws affecting undocumented workers create a huge class of people who are treated as though they don't deserve a life.  These laws are inhumane and antithetical to democracy, and provisions of them making criminals of those who give humanitarian aid are reminicient of laws making it criminal to aid runaway slaves.  Not only are the laws inhumane, their the premise is illogical.

Those claiming that undocumented workers are 'costing Arizona' money make no sense.  If you take any group of people and analyze only income taxes versus state expenditures, you will see a net loss - workers also pay sales tax, directly or indirectly pay property taxes, and contribute to the profits of the companies that hire them, which also adds to the state coffers.  In addition, many undocumented workers are paying into Social Security with no ability to ever collect.  

If it were true that a group of mostly young working people were depleting the state's funds, we would have a huge deficit as in that case all the workers in Arizona would be depleting our funds.  There is no logical way in which undocumented workers are more costly to the state than citizens.  It is true they are not able to get health insurance which 'breaks' the normal system for health care and diminishes their ability to receive health care services, but this problem would be easily solved with an amnesty that would allow immigrants to work within the existing systems.  

The numbers exaggerating the supposed 'costs' of immigration come from unreviewed, unscientific 'studies' by propaganda institutions.  The last real study by the National Research Council found that   "Immigrants may be adding as much as $10 billion to the economy each year" overall. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309063566?OpenDocument

I try to teach my five year old daughter to share fairly, respect other people and treat everyone the same.  Its time some of our legislators went back to Kindergarden.  If they can't analyze numbers or do their own research, maybe at least they can learn to be humane.  I wish.

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6936 Is anyone doing an XML namespace registry? : http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/13/name

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6930 Swoogle : Ontology dictionary have collected  156912 terms defined in the Semantic Web. http://swoogle.umbc.edu/2005/modules.php

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6931 Protege's list of ontologies : Protege is an ontology editor in Java; this is a place to get some ontologies.  Kind of very disorganized like WWW in 1995. http://protege.stanford.edu/download/ont

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6937 Webrings : been around the longest... http://dir.webring.com/rw

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
6932 Amaya browser : lets users do exactly what we want to do - say things about a document and see what others said, using distributed Annotea server.  But, you have to use Amaya browser. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
6933 Annotea servers : have comments about pages and can be retrieved http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\As a Widget\
6934 one possible way.. : tiny PHP insert talks to Amaya browser on a gateway that talks to Annotea servers

Sun Apr 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
6938 Preschool-Ed-Homeschool Webring : http://k.webring.com/hub?ring=homebabies

Fri Mar 31 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
6928 mercury and vaccines : Tripedia STILL has thimerisol; now there is apparently DAPTACEL which doesn't (for the DTAP vaccine) - called today to make sure that's what Amber & Ruby will get.

Fri Mar 31 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\PlacesToGo\
6926 Zoo : "highlights: Giraffe feeding 10-10:45, zoo school open most mornings with petable snake/lizard/hedgehog.  Also if you come early not only are the gibbons active and vocalizing but the tiger is usually right up by the fence. http://tucsonzoo.org

Tue Mar 28 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\Technology-Society-Politics\
6920 on privacy and secure id : a stray thought: being able to say with certainty who you are is a good thing; but having the government or any other group able to always find you may not be.  technology for identification should if possible be separate from discovery....

Sat Mar 25 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6919 textmate text editor : for when I try out MacOS http://macromates.com/

Sat Mar 18 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6911 SUMO - Suggested Upper Merged Ontology : http://www.ontologyportal.org/

Sat Mar 18 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6910 ontology-matching.org : http://ontology-matching.org

Sat Mar 18 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\WorldView\
1052 my worldview - text outline : http://cooperation.org/worldviews/golda http://goldavelez.info/wv/

Fri Mar 17 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
6909 why cows chew their cud and sowbugs roll into round balls : fitness advantage - eat fast, chew later (neighbor cows can put away a lot more carrots per second than Bisbee the neighbor horse).  And if you drop a sowbug, it rolls away faster than most bugs can run...the things you notice with kids....

Wed Feb 22 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Internet WorkShop\HR\
6900 Dom Lachowicz : wrote wvHTML http://www.abisource.com/~dom

Mon Feb 13 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Competitors\
6896 mnogosearch : http://mnogosearch.org

Mon Feb 13 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Competitors\
6895 htdig : http://htdig.org

Sat Feb 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6889 gjots : A note jotter that organizes ideas, notes, and facts in a heirarchy. by Bob Hepple http://freshmeat.net/projects/gjots/

Sat Feb 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\3.0\
6888 Bugzilla : http://cpanel.webglimpse.net/bugzilla/

Sun Feb 5 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\3.0\
6883 Beta test instructions : http://cpanel.webglimpse.net/

Sun Feb 5 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\3.0\
6882 Beta test download : http://cpanel.webglimpse.net/wgbeta/inst

Fri Jan 27 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Family\Amber C\Reading\
6866 'Daisy thinks she is a baby' : read whole book to mom for 2nd or 3rd time (only needs help with maybe 2 words)

Sun Jan 15 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6855 TODO : improve security - create separate module and check owner before all DBI operations : update, insert, select

Wed Jan 11 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\RDF\
6849 TBL paper on RDB-RDF : http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDB-RDF.h

Mon Jan 9 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Directory\
6848 Financial Services : indexing all dmoz.org Financial Services sites; check progress at /home/wgdemo/15/wgout http://webglimpse.net/cgibin/wgarcmin.cg

Mon Jan 2 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\WorldView\
6840 WorldView Project : http://cooperation.org/wvproj/intro.html

Sun Jan 1 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Marketing\
58384 Bablove Agency Inc : http://www.bablove.com

Sun Jan 1 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Marketing\
43771 Customers for Life Consulting :

Sun Jan 1 2006 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Webglimpse\Marketing\
42779 Dorgan & Associates :

Thu Dec 29 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
6837 cascading timelines (teaching/learning tool) test : Would be good to have series of timelines that each expand on portions of previous ones, from big bang to student's own lifetime

Thu Dec 1 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6825 check ports : nmap -sT -p 1-65535 216.19.215.80 ; netstat -ap ; ps -fc [pid];lsof -i tcp:[portnum] http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/artic

Thu Dec 1 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6826 Onsight : high quality perl/security/linux links http://www.onsight.com/links/

Wed Nov 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6823 del.icio.us : Social bookmarking tool - open to public to login & use http://del.icio.us/

Wed Nov 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6824 Frassle : Social bookmarking tool released as open source, no longer actively developed http://frassle.rura.org/

Mon Nov 28 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6822 Social Bookmarking : Review paper http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond

Sat Nov 26 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\language as math\
6814 smooth/rough : = understanding of 2nd derivative

Sat Nov 26 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\language as math\
6815 'rut' : thinking in a rut = topology of neural net, excessively stable state

Fri Nov 25 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6813 OWL : Web Ontology Working Group results http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/

Fri Nov 25 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6812 RDF : Resource Description Framework at W3C http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Sun Oct 23 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6756 CPAN module PHP::Session : http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/PHP-Session-0.26/lib/PHP/Session.pm http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/PHP-Ses

Sun Oct 23 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Kidstuff\
6749 Imagine LOGO by Logotron : http://www.logo.com/cat/view/imagine-primary.html http://www.logo.com/cat/view/imagine-pri

Sun Oct 23 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6753 Apache 2.0 Docs : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/

Mon Oct 17 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6745 Login PHP module : http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=10 http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.ph

Thu Oct 13 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6739 Use some features for Webglimpse Directory : needs: ability to add comments and rankings by keyword.  Also needs WG to pull out lexically significant keywords

Thu Oct 13 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6738 Use for Edwards Grassroots : needs: access control at DBI.pm level, user registration (or automatically provide to students4edwards)

Sun Oct 9 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6721 Going public : Goal - have this site (own cats) public by 10/20/05.  Next add other users (family, friends, TCS).

Sun Oct 9 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6724 Drupal cms : http://drupal.org http://drupal.org

Thu Oct 6 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Related Projects to Interface With\
6712 Smarty PHP Template engine : http://smarty.php.net/ http://smarty.php.net/

Wed Oct 5 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6711 Golda Velez :
In addition to below, should have ability to have item pointer to item in external category, and relate notes to it.  That way a pointer shows up in our page, but the item itself is not editable.  (ie if I want to have notes about the zoo or 'LinuxBestPracices', I have a pointer to external item then notes about it)

Should be item, but marked as 'show-only-as-related'

Otherwise, too slow to retrieve.  Also if is item can later be unmarked and used in other ways.  Maybe create category 'related to X item'

This way, comments can be stored and even related to each other.  Otherwise, have no way to related one bit of content to another, only to original item.

Also need: Cardinal item for category.  In some cases categories are related to specific item.  Can be done with relation.

Need to restructure db.  Add fields to items that are small and often used.  Orthogonalize other types.

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6700 How to do Related Notes :
In addition to below, should have ability to have item pointer to item in external category, and relate notes to it.  That way a pointer shows up in our page, but the item itself is not editable.  (ie if I want to have notes about the zoo or 'LinuxBestPracices', I have a pointer to external item then notes about it)

Should be item, but marked as 'show-only-as-related'

Otherwise, too slow to retrieve.  Also if is item can later be unmarked and used in other ways.  Maybe create category 'related to X item'

This way, comments can be stored and even related to each other.  Otherwise, have no way to related one bit of content to another, only to original item.

Also need: Cardinal item for category.  In some cases categories are related to specific item.  Can be done with relation.

Need to restructure db.  Add fields to items that are small and often used.  Orthogonalize other types.

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6693 AntiSpam RBLs :
http://dsbl.org/listing
http://www.ordb.org/lookup/
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml
http://www.spews.org/check.html
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/
http://www.nl.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml
http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?addr=216.19.215.80 (report that your IP is listed?!)
http://www.njabl.org/lookup.html
http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=216.19.215.80

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
6699 practices & styles can be realization of underlying values :
that's why I like the Best Practices book - has deep values about coding, but realizes them in concrete

is also why styles _can_ be important - a person's style of communicating can reflect deep respect or care for another person.  But can also be 'fake' - fake is if the style sounds caring but the value is not there.  Tone of voice, choice of words is often only measure we have of values of other people, though time and actions will eventually show also.

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
6696 people can understand each others feelings a lot easier than thoughts :
because, we all have same basic capability of feeling (from mammalian ancestry, same brain makeup).  But thoughts are built from patterns/building blocks built up over lifetime.  Without common blocks we can't easily comprehend another's thoughts.  So its possible among people with same background, or who studied same subject, even read same books; or had long conversations.  But if have different viewpoints conversation tends to be limited to concrete where at least there has to be some overlap.

Note, Hirsch (who I don't like at all) had this thought in his comprehensive 'what your child needs to know...' books, but he has perspective that HE knows what everyone should know...that would solve problem but wrong way!  Better to give tools for people to communicate what they do think than try to make cookie cutter kids.

This also relates to 'why write' - because, reading is faster than listening, and writing is once and can be done more carefully.  So building blocks are set out for others who are interested, after talking becomes deeper.

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
6697 any proposal that says 'my people are better than your people' should be examined closely for logical fallacies... : its not that I don't like my own people, I jus t suspect this kind of statement!

Fri Sep 30 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Thoughts\
6698 Golda Velez :
because, we all have same basic capability of feeling (from mammalian ancestry, same brain makeup).  But thoughts are built from patterns/building blocks built up over lifetime.  Without common blocks we can't easily comprehend another's thoughts.  So its possible among people with same background, or who studied same subject, even read same books; or had long conversations.  But if have different viewpoints conversation tends to be limited to concrete where at least there has to be some overlap.

Note, Hirsch (who I don't like at all) had this thought in his comprehensive 'what your child needs to know...' books, but he has perspective that HE knows what everyone should know...that would solve problem but wrong way!  Better to give tools for people to communicate what they do think than try to make cookie cutter kids.

This also relates to 'why write' - because, reading is faster than listening, and writing is once and can be done more carefully.  So building blocks are set out for others who are interested, after talking becomes deeper.

Thu Sep 29 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
6692 Teaching Reading Program : Use voice recognition to have computer create story that child dictates.  Although pronunciation might be a problem, limited vocabulary & likelihood of repetition should make training possible

Thu Sep 29 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6688 Got 'Perl Best Practices' : finally, the equiv of Strunk & White for perl programmers.  I like this book.  I think there shoudl be something similar for everything that matters ... family, baby handling - not to standardize, but how to do things is worth thinking about

Wed Sep 28 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6685 to modify all items in given category : update rcatdb_items, rcatdb_categories set ... where LEFT(rcatdb_items.catcode, $lvl) = LEFT(rcatdb_categories.catcode,$lvl) and rcatdb_categories.id = $cid

Tue Sep 27 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\
6684 for blog application : support items with content but without name/value

Mon Sep 19 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6640 Programming books : may want to get - The first is Abelson and Sussman"s "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"; the second, Bird and Wadler"s "Introduction to Functional Programming".

Mon Sep 19 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6642 Pro Perl Parsing : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590595041/ref=pd_sbs_1/102-3786433-5168958?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det

Mon Sep 19 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\TechStuff\
6649 Plone - community software : http://plone.org http://plone.org

Thu Sep 1 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
6632 Learning Games for Toddlers : Class for parks & rec...also booklet produced by TCS...

Thu Sep 1 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
6633 Zoo animal histories : with photos, produced by an elementary/jr high class as a fundraising book

Thu Sep 1 2005 \root\UserDefined\Golda\Ideas\
6635 Voice Notes 2 Email : Can be done now over cell phone with error correction on non-real time transmission
Amy C. 781-565-5000 in Marketing?
start after Jan after have Abra publicly used

Use case: quietly continued conversations, with optional notification

09/-0/20 \root\UserDefined\Golda\ABRA\Marketing\
124004 Google-analytics : https://www.google.com/analytics