I clearly recall one week my three kids caught the same flu and I spent $900 out of pocket for 3 doctors visits.
Just curious, but why do you go to the doctor for a flu? They can't really do anything about it anyway? Worried about the temperature getting too high?
EXACTLY. And yet the US public school absolutely required a doctor's note if you miss more than one day of school. If they need 2 to sleep it off, I have to pay to show I had my child examined by a doctor and that they can verify the high fever or flu-symptoms. So I spent $900 for 3 pieces of paper to keep the school from slapping me with truancy charges.
If you move to Denmark, doctor and hospital visits will be 100% free no matter what, dental free only up to 18 years (but I think they're looking to change that), if you got something serious I think you can get some money for the medicine, but otherwise you'll have to pay for that yourself. Same with glasses, birth control pills and that sort of thing. If you get old, things change so you can actually some coverage of glasses and hearing aids.
I don't know how things work for foreigners, but I imagine as soon as you get a permit to stay here, you're covered in the same way as Danish citizens.
I'm considering a move to the EU for exactly these reasons.
As I understand it my premiums must be after tax, though a portion can be credited. Also my out of pocket expenses are personal funds and I can only write off a portion if it exceeds 7% of my income.
I've been independent for over 4 years now, and for my family of five including my autistic son with a major genetic disorder our insurance started at $400 per month. Catastrophic only, any doctors bills, RX, etc was strictly out of pocket and always hundreds of dollars. I clearly recall one week my three kids caught the same flu and I spent $900 out of pocket for 3 doctors visits.
Every year the rates went up and covered less. I now spend $620/month on a plan without dental, maternity, or vision. I'm spending about $4000 this month on minor dental work (ie: cleanings and a filling!) for myself and my wife, and new glasses for us and one son.
I expect my rates to exceed $700/mo next summer at the rate it's going. I fully expect that should I get injured or require hospitalization my insurance will weasel out, and I'll be bankrupt in 90 days. I feel that I'd get the same value if I just took the money out back and burned it each month.
As a result, I'm looking to emigrate to a first world nation that does have universal coverage. This system is broken and shows no signs of being fixed, Obamacare or not.
I agree that the spirit of adding/removing tags means they should add and remove to the file.
I tried implementing a workflow for scanned receipt management on top of Digikam and got bit by several of the issues we've discussed (ie: using tags for workflow).
I moved off it to other methods, so I'm not current on the capabilities.
I have found multiple inconsistencies in my testing. Warning, I'm on Debian Lenny using Digikam 0.9.4, so these may be fixed in later releases.
Dates: Date handling doesn't update live in the application, I can enter a new date and until I reload the album the changes don't take effect. According to exiftool Digikam is shotgun updating multiple EXIF date fields too, so it has been difficult for me to know which date Digikam honors on first seeing a file (EXIF timestamp, file mod time date, etc).
Tags: You can add a tag and have it stored in the EXIF/IPTC header in the file, but if you remove a tag from the image the removal is performed in the database only.
Comments: Comments are also stored in multiple EXIF locations.
My experience is simply that Digikam was built around owning a central database. The concept of updating the metadata in the files themselves appears to be an incomplete bolt-on feature. OTOH Mapivi only caches data, but I get frustrated with the UI. If you experiment with using exiftool to examine and change file content and compare against what Digikam does, you may discover more holes.
I would really love to find an app which would allow customization of metadata entry, so far I'm using exiftool on the command line to do it in combination with a shell script which prompts for values with history.
Gary Taubes book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" looks at the science behind it. Having read it, I'm not surprised the researchers came to their conclusion.
You left off several "citation needed" items in that statement, right out of a paragraph labeled "Controversy". One might argue that should be the default state of a human.
I can't say one way or the other on it, but I'm in the middle of Gary Taubes book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories". It isn't as much a diet book as a study on the science of diet. It has been an interesting read, and very disappointing in terms of the junk science and politics involved. I intend to spot check resources when I'm done to verify some of his claims, but feel free to weigh in.
Org-mode contains a great folding outline organizer which flows with your text, and then you can export to Latex later.
It can also generate TOC, include graphics and tables, and the Latex output is very clean and neat.
I use it for all of my technical documentation, and though the Latex/PDF output would be acceptable, I have a techwriter import an HTML exported version of my document into Word and apply a company template. So native is good, or you can easily adapt it into other systems.
I've evaluated it a few times over the years. It has the best IPTC support of all the OSS tools I've looked at.
Like I said, I intend to work on some perl scripts to run queries against images with IPTC data. Mapivi can do searches and output file lists, but inside the GUI. I'd like to automate a tree of symlinks regularly refreshed by an automated query. If you find something that can do that without me reinventing the wheel, let me know.
You should also checkout exiftool for mass file renames and data extraction.
The argument for IPTC is simple: The data is stored in the image.
I'm working on some perl scripts to search IPTC data in images, and create directories of symlinks to the results. That way I could use a tag like Xmas, and then run a query based on the year in the datestamp and the tag Xmas, and end up with subdirs for each year and all the photos symlinked from their original location.
Then I can group upload to Gallery, or just run album on the symlinks.
TWiki has many of the features you mentioned, and is a web based app that you could publish with later.;]
http://www.twiki.org/
keeping personalized sets of metadata about each file, linking files to other files and to entries in bibliography lists, and having some sort of version control.
Each TWiki page can have custom searchable metadata in forms. Pages are linked to other pages by WikiWords. Version control and access lists are on every page.
I'd also like to be able to do a free-text search... I need to build a hierarchical list of topics that are relevant to my thesis and relate specific sections of all these texts
Text searching is integrated. You can arrange TWiki pages into hierarchies with parent topic, and there is automatic crossreferencing.
TWiki uses a pure text format with some simple markup, *bold* for example. HTML can be used as well.
I'd suggest you check it out. No database required.
The discussion we started last night on the Gentoo bugs forum has some good information.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10663
Thanks again to Matt, Scott, and Bruce for the help doublechecking my work and posting the warning.
Demo / Russell
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Nevermind, here's the key:
In your.emacs file, place the line
(global-font-lock-mode t t)
This will force font lock mode (color).
Then the Eterm issue...
Emacs autodetects your terminal from the TERM environment variable. Though Eterm supports color, it defaults to "xterm" for TERM. Setting TERM to "linux" makes colors work perfectly. I'm sure there are other terminal types that might work, but I haven't yet found a problem with "linux".
Try adding this to your.bash_profile:
export TERM=linux
Happy Emacsing
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Has anyone gotten color highlights working on a text terminal? I'm specifically trying to get it working in Eterm... Suggestions?
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I clearly recall one week my three kids caught the same flu and I spent $900 out of pocket for 3 doctors visits.
Just curious, but why do you go to the doctor for a flu? They can't really do anything about it anyway? Worried about the temperature getting too high?
EXACTLY. And yet the US public school absolutely required a doctor's note if you miss more than one day of school. If they need 2 to sleep it off, I have to pay to show I had my child examined by a doctor and that they can verify the high fever or flu-symptoms. So I spent $900 for 3 pieces of paper to keep the school from slapping me with truancy charges.
If you move to Denmark, doctor and hospital visits will be 100% free no matter what, dental free only up to 18 years (but I think they're looking to change that), if you got something serious I think you can get some money for the medicine, but otherwise you'll have to pay for that yourself. Same with glasses, birth control pills and that sort of thing. If you get old, things change so you can actually some coverage of glasses and hearing aids.
I don't know how things work for foreigners, but I imagine as soon as you get a permit to stay here, you're covered in the same way as Danish citizens.
I'm considering a move to the EU for exactly these reasons.
As I understand it my premiums must be after tax, though a portion can be credited. Also my out of pocket expenses are personal funds and I can only write off a portion if it exceeds 7% of my income.
I've been independent for over 4 years now, and for my family of five including my autistic son with a major genetic disorder our insurance started at $400 per month. Catastrophic only, any doctors bills, RX, etc was strictly out of pocket and always hundreds of dollars. I clearly recall one week my three kids caught the same flu and I spent $900 out of pocket for 3 doctors visits.
Every year the rates went up and covered less. I now spend $620/month on a plan without dental, maternity, or vision. I'm spending about $4000 this month on minor dental work (ie: cleanings and a filling!) for myself and my wife, and new glasses for us and one son.
I expect my rates to exceed $700/mo next summer at the rate it's going. I fully expect that should I get injured or require hospitalization my insurance will weasel out, and I'll be bankrupt in 90 days. I feel that I'd get the same value if I just took the money out back and burned it each month.
As a result, I'm looking to emigrate to a first world nation that does have universal coverage. This system is broken and shows no signs of being fixed, Obamacare or not.
I agree that the spirit of adding/removing tags means they should add and remove to the file.
I tried implementing a workflow for scanned receipt management on top of Digikam and got bit by several of the issues we've discussed (ie: using tags for workflow).
I moved off it to other methods, so I'm not current on the capabilities.
I have found multiple inconsistencies in my testing. Warning, I'm on Debian Lenny using Digikam 0.9.4, so these may be fixed in later releases.
Dates: Date handling doesn't update live in the application, I can enter a new date and until I reload the album the changes don't take effect. According to exiftool Digikam is shotgun updating multiple EXIF date fields too, so it has been difficult for me to know which date Digikam honors on first seeing a file (EXIF timestamp, file mod time date, etc).
Tags: You can add a tag and have it stored in the EXIF/IPTC header in the file, but if you remove a tag from the image the removal is performed in the database only.
Comments: Comments are also stored in multiple EXIF locations.
My experience is simply that Digikam was built around owning a central database. The concept of updating the metadata in the files themselves appears to be an incomplete bolt-on feature. OTOH Mapivi only caches data, but I get frustrated with the UI. If you experiment with using exiftool to examine and change file content and compare against what Digikam does, you may discover more holes.
I would really love to find an app which would allow customization of metadata entry, so far I'm using exiftool on the command line to do it in combination with a shell script which prompts for values with history.
I've been searching for the same feature set, a file centric image manager whose metadata is stored exclusively in the file.
One of the best ones I have found is Mapivi:
http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml
I still often use Digikam, but its metadata support is inconsistent at best. On the other hand the front end is more useable than Mapivi.
You should also look at ExifTool, because you can manipulate and query metadata with it on the command line.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
If you find a solution, please share!
Add my vote for org-mode!
I run my business off of org, and my wife (a non-techie) writes her fiction in it.
This was on /. a while ago,
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/20/1748243
Gary Taubes book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" looks at the science behind it. Having read it, I'm not surprised the researchers came to their conclusion.
Worth a read.
Do you drink alcohol?
Kudos to the other poster (different thread) that posted "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", its a great watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Gary Taubes' book is almost the same regarding high carb diets and related topics like ketosis.
Keep up the fiber in your carb diet, cut out refined anything. Eat all the whole wheat and veggies you want.
Good luck!
You left off several "citation needed" items in that statement, right out of a paragraph labeled "Controversy". One might argue that should be the default state of a human.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis#Controversy
I can't say one way or the other on it, but I'm in the middle of Gary Taubes book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories". It isn't as much a diet book as a study on the science of diet. It has been an interesting read, and very disappointing in terms of the junk science and politics involved. I intend to spot check resources when I'm done to verify some of his claims, but feel free to weigh in.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes/dp/1400040787
http://a.abcnews.com/GMA/NewYearNewYou/story?id=3654291&page=1
Use Org-mode w/ flyspell inside Emacs.
Org-mode contains a great folding outline organizer which flows with your text, and then you can export to Latex later.
It can also generate TOC, include graphics and tables, and the Latex output is very clean and neat.
I use it for all of my technical documentation, and though the Latex/PDF output would be acceptable, I have a techwriter import an HTML exported version of my document into Word and apply a company template. So native is good, or you can easily adapt it into other systems.
http://www.orgmode.org/
Blue Order rocks the MUD!
I still login on occasion to poke around.
I've evaluated it a few times over the years. It has the best IPTC support of all the OSS tools I've looked at.
Like I said, I intend to work on some perl scripts to run queries against images with IPTC data. Mapivi can do searches and output file lists, but inside the GUI. I'd like to automate a tree of symlinks regularly refreshed by an automated query. If you find something that can do that without me reinventing the wheel, let me know.
You should also checkout exiftool for mass file renames and data extraction.
Demo
I use Mapivi for photo management, IPTC metadata tagging, searches, etc.
It is quite powerful, and the author is very responsive.
http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/mapivi.shtml
The argument for IPTC is simple: The data is stored in the image.
I'm working on some perl scripts to search IPTC data in images, and create directories of symlinks to the results. That way I could use a tag like Xmas, and then run a query based on the year in the datestamp and the tag Xmas, and end up with subdirs for each year and all the photos symlinked from their original location.
Then I can group upload to Gallery, or just run album on the symlinks.
Demo
TWiki has many of the features you mentioned, and is a web based app that you could publish with later. ;]
... I need to build a hierarchical list of topics that are relevant to my thesis and relate specific sections of all these texts
http://www.twiki.org/
keeping personalized sets of metadata about each file, linking files to other files and to entries in bibliography lists, and having some sort of version control.
Each TWiki page can have custom searchable metadata in forms. Pages are linked to other pages by WikiWords. Version control and access lists are on every page.
I'd also like to be able to do a free-text search
Text searching is integrated. You can arrange TWiki pages into hierarchies with parent topic, and there is automatic crossreferencing.
TWiki uses a pure text format with some simple markup, *bold* for example. HTML can be used as well.
I'd suggest you check it out. No database required.
Demo
I'd think Twiki with a custom skin and several webs would do what you want.
Twiki has some features that aren't in the traditional Wiki like access and revision control.
Check it out at http://www.twiki.org/
Demo
The discussion we started last night on the Gentoo bugs forum has some good information.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10663
Thanks again to Matt, Scott, and Bruce for the help doublechecking my work and posting the warning.
Demo / Russell
Nevermind, here's the key:
.emacs file, place the line
.bash_profile:
In your
(global-font-lock-mode t t)
This will force font lock mode (color).
Then the Eterm issue...
Emacs autodetects your terminal from the TERM environment variable. Though Eterm supports color, it defaults to "xterm" for TERM. Setting TERM to "linux" makes colors work perfectly. I'm sure there are other terminal types that might work, but I haven't yet found a problem with "linux".
Try adding this to your
export TERM=linux
Happy Emacsing
Demo
Has anyone gotten color highlights working on a text terminal? I'm specifically trying to get it working in Eterm... Suggestions?
Demo