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hello and welcome to the GMB.
Regret not really my area, but just a little information until someone knowledgeable looks in.
These vases are in a style/design which was common around the late C19 - something like 1880 - 1890. The clear glass decoration looks possibly to be stylized leaf trails, also the crimped/wavy decoration of the rim is in keeping with Victorian fashion - both of these styles appear very commonly on late Victorian decorative glassware. However, I'm less sure about the colour - it's always possible these are Continental - owning a piece of glass in one country doesn't always mean it was made there, unfortunately. Country of origin is often the Achilles heel when it comes to glass.
Where possible please include pix of the underside of the base, and remember to give dimension of height - this helps people here to better understand what you have, and information about wear (or lack of) is also very useful.
They are an attractive and useable pair of Victorian vases - a good find.
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updated 02:35 am EST, Thu March 1, 2007
Mac WiFi hack demoed
The much publicized Mac WiFi hack from last summer may have been real after all, according to the original researcher who discovered the alleged vulnerability and promised to release the code. The security flaw, which Apple blamed on a third-party WiFi card, appears to affect pre-Mac OS X 10.4.8 systems; it was demonstrated on Wednesday on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.4.6 at the Black Hat DC event, but researchers note that updates to fix the problem have been around since last September. CNET News.com reports that the Mac crashed crashed while scanning for a wireless network and coming across the malicious code researcher David Maynor was using from his Toshiba laptop. Though he demonstrated only caused a crash, Maynor claimed the exploit could also be used to run arbitrary code on the Mac.
In addition, the researcher claims that Apple last year exerted undue pressure to force a publicly apology and threatened his then-employer SecureWorks with a lawsuit, leading to a cancelation of his presentation at event scheduled for San Diego.
Last year Maynor along with another researcher initially touted a similar exploit but later admitted that the Mac laptop was in fact exploited using a third-party wireless device driver, not Apple's own default software. Apple claimed that the researcher did not cooperate and did not provide any details, but its AirPort security updates, released a month after the initial demo, were simply a result of a thorough code review.
Maynor, however, claims that Apple's subsequently released Mac OS X 10.4.8 update included fixes for the problem demonstrated on Wednesday at Black Hat and that he did provide information on the vulnerability as well as packet captures, which helped locate and understand the exploit.
The OS update, he said, was the result of his work to help reveal underlying exploits but Apple refused to admit to the flaws and pressured his previous employer to publicly admit that Macs were not flawed. "Apple released some security patches to address stuff I actually pointed them to and they claimed had nothing to do with me," he told the publication.
A separate WiFi exploit was identified last October in older Macs by other security researchers. The vulnerability affected a small percentage of previous generation AirPort-enabled Macs and does not affect currently shipping or AirPort Extreme enabled Macs, according to a separate report from last fall.
Apple in January addressed the issue with an update to its WiFi drivers and software for some Intel-based Macs: designed for users of both the server and client versions of Mac OS X 10.4.8 Tiger, it patches a vulnerability that enables attackers on the wireless network to cause system crashes.
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Here is an example of what I am trying to put together: What material could I use as a base onto which I can mount the motherboard, hard-disk and other wiring?
I recently took down a ceiling fan/light in order to replace it with track lighting. After disassembling the fan I was left with this fixture box: As you can see there are two holes in which to ...
This image wall-mount setup should give a good idea of the current TV set up on the wall. I wanted to use a SmartStrip to power my TV and all the other devices (receiver, BluRay player, Wii, cable ...
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I was in a building and it was filling up with water. I was trapped and couldn’t get out, even though there was no top to the building. It was open on top but I just couldn’t get out and I died. – Annie 32, Toledo, OH
Lauri: You are good testimony to the fact that if you die in your dreams you do not actually die in real life. That being said, rising water in a dream can often be connected to a situation in waking life that is getting increasingly worse, to the point that it is absolutely overwhelming you. You can’t get out in the dream because you must not feel you can get out of the situation. Your dream is showing you though, that you can get out. "Keep looking up," is the message (hence the open top). In other words, stay positive about it. Dying shows us that this issue has changed you. Perhaps you had enough and decided to make some changes in your own attitude or behavior and let the "woe is me" mindset die off so you can have a new life.
Annie replies: I can’t believe how much this dream fits what’s been going on in my life! My fiancé is a heavy drinker. After we got engaged he seemed to be getting better. But in the last 6 weeks it has gotten worse and worse, to the point that he went missing one night. I’ve tried to get him to go to rehab. I’ve begged, I’ve pleaded. I’ve tried to get his family to help me with an intervention but they won’t. The day before I had that dream I had decided to pack my stuff and leave. I can no longer feel responsible for him. And I am staying positive, for my new life.
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Love Lessons: Turning Valentine's Day Around
Valentine’s Day is, of course, the best holiday if you are in love and the worst if you are not. Which is why I dreaded writing this blog at first. I am not in love at this particular moment (unless you count my new laptop), so I didn’t know what to write about.
Then, in the middle of penning a thank you card to my writing coach for helping me with some difficult work, it hit me. Why not make Valentine’s Day about expressing love and gratitude to the people we generally don’t take the time to gush over?
My Love Fest 2012 began with the purchase of a thirty-pack of Valentine’s Day cards. I wanted to start with writing a card to my brother, but couldn’t find the words, so I wrote one to my spinning teacher instead. Maybe that sounds ridiculous, but it isn’t. My teacher, Jeff Wells, has such a beautiful energy about him; he has a wait list sometimes twenty deep. This is no exaggeration.
Jeff plays a lot of Rihanna (which I greatly appreciate), yells a few encouraging words, and then walks around and pats his loyal spinners on the back. He dances around and sings a little too, but I think it’s mainly the patting and high fives that keep people coming back.
And so I wrote, “Dear Jeff, Thank you for making me want to come to spinning and for making me smile every time I’m around you. Your spirit and encouragement are wonderful, and I lost ten pounds over the last few months, I think because of you.”
I addressed the next card to my boss (I teach). I know a lot of us hate our bosses, but I don’t. This woman actually supports me and could quite possibly be the kindest manager I have ever worked for. She says things like, “You are so valuable to this department.” Working in television news for a decade, I got used to being told, “You are a dime a dozen. There are a hundred people dying to take your position.”
I just wanted to tell my boss how much she means, so mushy card #2 read, “Dear Jan, Thank you for all the opportunity you have given me at the Academy of Art. You always remind me that I matter, and I can not tell you how much that means to me.”
I wrote cards to my gardener (he’s good), these exchange students I taught that brought me beautiful earrings back from China, my co-worker who always has my back, Maria Shriver, my friends who got me a red velvet cake on my birthday, and family members of course, with the exception of my brother. He had to be last.
I sat still, pen in hand over my brother’s card. He and are the least mushy with each other, and I am being honest when I say the card to the gardener was a lot easier to write. But I needed to tell my brother how much he matters, so card #28 read,
“Dear Ryan, I am writing to tell you that you mean a lot in my life. I know that you and I suffered after Dad died, and it took us a while to find our paths again, but we did. I am so proud of all you’ve accomplished. Your wife and baby are beautiful reflections of everything you ever wanted, and my heart explodes thinking about it. You made me feel better the other day when I called you crying about all my goofy problems at that particular moment. You told me that I am strong, and I always kick ass in the long run. In a way, you reminded me of Dad, and I appreciated your guidance. I just wanted to tell you that I value our relationship, and I love you.”
In my thirty-six years, I have never written a card like that to my brother. I am so glad though that he will know how I feel, if he doesn’t already.
What Love Fest 2012 taught me:
Life is short- We don’t know how much time we have on this earth. It is important to not only tell the people who matter that you appreciate them, but show them as well.
No one is excluded from Love Fest 2012- Send a letter to the lady who does your nails, or better yet the one who watches your kids. What have you got to lose? Odds are you will certainly make her day.
Send a card to yourself- While you thank everyone else for his or her specialness, pay close attention to your own. Pat yourself on the back for the good you do, and challenge yourself to do even more good this year.
I encourage you to turn Valentine's Day around and have your own Love Fest this year. Who would you thank?
Michelle Kennedy is a writer and lecturer in the Multimedia Communications Department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She lives in Santa Monica and commutes to San Francisco once a week.
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After realizing her and her daughter’s negative health conditions were a result of consuming products with gluten and dairy, Frazier revamped her diet two years ago eliminating those types of ingredients. In June, she opened Good Karma Coffee House, also in Avondale Estates, which serves up baked goods that are free of gluten, dairy, nuts and soy.
Frazier explained the flour she bakes with has a lot of do with meeting those dietary specifications.
“We still use flour and we still use grains but they’re not grains that are considered containing wheat or gluten,” she said.
One such ingredient is sorghum flour, which Frazier describes as hearty, like the equivalent of eating whole-grain bread.
Good Karma offers muffins, cinnamon rolls, biscuits, breakfast sandwiches, waffles, pancakes and oatmeal.
“We concentrate mainly on breakfast,” she said.
The coffee served is from Counter Culture and is an organic, fair trade product, she added. Although the baked goods are dairy-free, customers can choose to flavor their coffee with milk, if they wish, or non-dairy products.
Regularly baking according to special dietary requirements has taught Frazier how to adjust traditional recipes to substitute for dairy or ingredients with gluten.
“As you do it more, you get very familiar [with what ingredients to use],” she said.
Frazier said she takes suggestions from customers about new goodies to make.
“If people ask us for things, we try to fill that need if the demand is high enough,” she said.
Her customers were the ones who suggested she expand the menu to include breakfast sandwiches. Frazier said the community’s response to the coffee house has been very positive. She gets business from word-of-mouth and customers who want to try to eat gluten-free.
“Once a customer comes in, we usually see them on a pretty regular basis,” she added.
Frazier partners with the Cook’s Warehouse to offer classes demonstrating gluten-free recipes. In February, she will teach a class focused on cupcakes and desserts, and in May, she will teach a class on creating a Mother’s Day breakfast.
She explained she teaches others gluten-free recipes so they can make them at home for their families as well as being able to purchase them at her coffee shop.
If you go:
What: Good Karma Coffee House
Where: 31 N. Avondale Plaza, Avondale Estates
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Information: (404) 499-0999 or visit www.goodkarmacoffee.weebly.com
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When I think of my ancestors, the first name that comes to mind is James Harman. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because if I was to a pick a leader of my ancestors, the boss or the chairperson, I think It would be James.
In the 15 years or so I have got to know my ggg grandfather, I have imagined him as organised, official and proud. He was a leader in the church and the farming community speaking up for what he believed. I can just imagine him standing before my other ancestors, organising and guiding them. Who would be his deputy? I would think either of James’ brothers Jonathon or Walt who, in their own activities in the community, were of the same mould.
James was born in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire in 1830, the son of Joseph and Sarah Harman. He married Susan Reed of Whaddon on August 15, 1852 just two months later on October 20, 1852 they set sail aboard the “Duke of Richmond” bound for Portland, Victoria, Australia. They spent time in Port Fairy before settling at Byaduk in the early 1860s.
James and Susan had 10 children from 1854 to 1875, five boys and five girls. Even that was orderly.
Reuben James Birth: 1854 in Port Fairy, Victoria Marriage: 1877 in Byaduk, Victoria to Elizabeth BISHOP Death: 05 Jan 1937 in Ballarat, Victoria.
Alfred Birth: 1856 in Portland, Victoria Marriage: 1883 to Louisa NEWMAN Death: 06 Nov 1922 in Byaduk, Victoria.
Isabella Birth: 1857 in Port Fairy, Victoria Marriage: 1885 to Stephen WARD Death: 02 Aug 1886 in Port Fairy, Victoria.
George Henry Birth: 1860 in Port Fairy, Victoria Death: 1861 in Hamilton, Victoria.
Julia Birth: 1861 in Muddy Creek, Victoria Marriage: 1882 to George HOLMES Death: 20 Dec 1896 in Casterton, Victoria.
Martha Birth: 1863 in Byaduk, Victoria Marriage: 08 Nov 1888 in Hamilton, Victoria to Frederick Charles HUGHES Death: 28 Dec 1960 in Hamilton, Victoria.
Henrietta Birth: 1866 in Byaduk, Victoria. Death: 1952 in Hamilton, Victoria.
Albert Birth: 1868 in Byaduk, Victoria Marriage: 1907 to Emma CARMICHAEL Death: 26 Nov 1927 in Byaduk, Victoria.
Alice Birth: 1871 in Byaduk, Victoria Marriage: Dec 1896 in Macarthur, Victoria to William James McLEAN Death: 21 Jun 1927 in Hamilton, Victoria.
George Birth: 1875 in Byaduk, Victoria Marriage: 1908 to Hilda May HILL Death: 25 Sep 1947 in Hamilton, Victoria.
It was reading James’ Will, written in 1914, that really defined him for me. In great detail, he had carefully considered his beneficiaries and ensured that Susan and his spinster daughter Henrietta would be looked after once he was gone. It also offered information of James’ property and farm related assets.
The first of James’ last wishes was that his watch and chain be passed on to his grandson, Albert Lionel HARMAN, the eldest son of George HARMAN. Daughter Henrietta was to receive the furniture in the house and all household effects. She was also the beneficiary of James’ poultry. He made provision for Henrietta to stay in the house with James’ grandson Charles, only son of Isabella who died when Charles was a baby.
Farming implements, including a chaff cutter and a set of harrows, were left to son Alfred. He would also receive two horses and their harness, a number of sheep and half of the grain and hay on the farm at the time of James’ death. James had a contingency if there was no grain or hay on the property at the time of his death. If this was to happen, Alfred would receive £30 instead. There were conditions for Alfred however. He had to undertake to give his mother Susan 15 shillings a week and give £100 to each of his sisters, Martha and Alice within a year of his father’s death.
Reuben and Albert shared in a large amount of James’ land at Byaduk and Lake Gorrie, near Macarthur. The description of the property at Byaduk known as the “House Paddock” gives some idea of the out-buildings that existed but also James’ methodical approach to such matters. It read:
“…commencing at the junction of the Hamilton to Byaduk main road with the Louth road running southerly along the said main road to the entrance gate thence Westerly along the wire fence to the corner of the stack yard and including the woolshed and barn thence Northerly along the wire fence to the Louth road thence along the Louth road easterly to the commencing point.”
The partnership of James and Susan Harman was to come to a rapid close in 1916. On April 10, Susan passed away aged 86. Just over four months later on August 14, James himself died also aged 86. Together they had left England as newlyweds, settled themselves in Victoria before starting their large family. They had seen births, deaths and marriages as their family extended and together they witnessed the growth in the country they had arrived in over 60 years before. It seems right they went so close together after 64 years of marriage. They were buried side by side at the Byaduk cemetery.
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Being that the front of most of our smartphones are now covered with glass instead of a thin, flexible plastic, they tend to be a bit more fragile. Unsightly scratches still may occur. But there's nothing quite like how glass will react to concrete or asphalt from a waist-high drop. What you see above is a still from an iPad being thrown at the ground in slow motion.
And it's happened to us all at some point or another. You go to slide your phone in your pant pocket and you somehow miss and straight to the floor your phone goes. Or maybe you pulled your phone out of your pocket and lost your grip. Or, even worse, maybe you were talking on the phone and it slipped right through your fingers to the hard surface below. It can happen at any time, and rest assured, it will happen at the worst time possible.
While every drop is just a gut-wrenching as the last, not every one is fatal. Go watch a few (pointless) drop tests. Devices usually survive the first few drops, even from shoulder height on to tarmac. They'll take a few scuffs and scratches, but few (that I have ever seen at least) are rendered completely useless after the first drop.
Sometimes, however, a seemingly harmless drop can be the worst mistake you make all month; a tiny, two-foot drop to a linoleum floor, or a face-down splat on the table top below may seem harmless. But it's always those that surprise us. Al Sacco, "Mobile Workhorse" at CIO, gave his account of what happened to his Samsung Galaxy S III yesterday, which you can find pictured above:
"Behold the current state of my Galaxy S III. Note the smashed display. You can't see it in this particular image, but the entire screen is spiderwebbed. The slick, slippery device slid right out of my pants pocket as I exited my car, and it landed on its edge on the sidewalk. All it took was a drop from less than two feet. Smash. RIP GSIII."
I've had the same thing – a phone slip out of my pocket or hand as I'm exiting my car – happen to me more than once, and it's a gruesome feeling, but I have never managed to smash a display just yet. No broken glass … yet. And I'm counting my blessings.
I have, however, had oodles of very close calls. I was walking in a Pier Imports one day, which had a tile floor. I was carrying my iPhone naked (without a case) and was bringing it down from my ear to end a call. Rather than just dropping it, I had put some force behind it as I brought it away from my ear with my hand, and as I was going to end the call, I completely lost my grip on the phone. At the last second, my old soccer skills kicked-in and I cradled the phone's fall with my foot. Phew!
I'm lucky to not have had to replace my iPhone. I would estimate that I have dropped it from at least waist-high no less than 10 times. But, somehow, it has survived. In one incident (that I gave an account of before), I dropped my iPhone on to concrete while walking my dog. When the iPhone hit the concrete, the featherlight case shattered and shot shrapnel in al directions, launching my iPhone to an asphalt surface. It suffered some scratches. But, ultimately, it survived.
Each and every drop gives you the same feeling deep down, though. And BuzzFeed's Allison McCann captures the sickening feeling and process perfectly:
"Upon impact, a small amount of elastic energy is converted into acoustic energy — that resounding indication of breaking glass. But the majority of the elastic energy stored in the glass will be converted into two — or more — new surface energies. A crack. Or several cracks. With one eye closed, you’ll reach down gingerly, reluctant to turn it over. There won't be any shards to pick up off the pavement, only a phone with a freshly splintered screen, the jagged lines and spiderwebs forming some kind of painful abstract art.
You've just smashed your phone's screen."
The single most terrifying drop – more like a fling – that I had was with the Galaxy Note. I knew it was through before it ever hit the ground. Once again, I was walking my dog. Stupidly, I was using the same hand to hold the leash and phone. Axle saw something in the distance and took off running, which pulled my arm forward and up before loosening my grip on the phone. I threw it at least eight feet into the air and six feet out and all I could do was watch in terror. When it hit the ground, it bounced twice before skidding over the asphalt. Surprisingly, it only suffered a single scratch to the bottom left corner, which is barely discernible.
The tale of the shattered display is one we're hearing more and more of, despite chemically hardened glass. That's because no glass is perfect and, as McCann explains, each drop makes your phone's display "weaker, sicker, one blow closer to death." Two or three drops is enough to do your phone in sometimes. Other times, a phone can withstand a lifetime of drops.
I've had tons of close calls. I don't know if it's just luck or whether I should be thanking Corning's Gorilla Glass for saving my phones countless times. But I have yet to shatter the glass on my phone.
What about you, folks? Have you ever shattered the glass display on your phone or tablet? Or has the use of cases and screen protectors saved your phone from certain death? Share your gruesome stories below!
Image via BeyondSlowMotion
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Introduction to Windows 7
It’s two months since I got the first introduction to Windows 7 (code named Vienna) at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona, and this week Microsoft released a public beta of their next client operating system. I have installed it on my MacBook Pro, and plan to install it on an office machine in AD and on my home machine.
I have been using Windows Vista for about 3 years now, through some of the betas and later with the released product. At the department where I am the sysadmin, more of then half of our computers are running Windows Vista (three of them x64) and Office 2007. All in all, I can say that we are very satisfied. This is not the situation many other places, as I often hear of companies that have decided to continue with Windows XP and not implement Vista in their organization. At our department we have only ran in to a few problems, most of them have been software not following Microsoft’s coding guidelines.
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer presented Windows 7 during his keynote on CES, and told that the public beta first would be available only for Technet Plus-subscribers and then two days later for the public in general.
I have a Technet subscription and downloaded Windows 7 on the first day it was available, and had to resume the download several times. According to the Windows Team Blog others had the same problems:
Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta. We want to ensure customers have the best possible experience when downloading the beta, and I’ll be posting here again soon once the beta goes live. Stay tuned! We are excited that you are excited!
Microsoft had originally limited the testing to 2.5 million activation keys. But cause of the popular demand the beta program got lifted, so now the beta is freely available until January 24. These keys enable Windows 7 beta to run for more than 30 days. Be also aware of the license, you are not allowed to install the beta on your work machine and that the beta will expire August 1st! Two downloads are available of the build: x86 and x64. I have only downloaded and tested the x86 build. The build can also be said to be equalent to Vista Ultimate, but according to Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President of the Windows and Windows Live engineering group, that doesn’t mean there will the same number of different versions of Windows 7 as there are with Vista.
What does Beta mean?
Windows 7 is a developer release. I find it to be pretty stable, but I have after 4 days ran in to two blue screens (BSOD). The first I ended up with a crashed machine was when I tried to configure Windows Media Center with DVB-T and the second time was when I installed Cisco VPN. And just so that it is said, you should read Larry Osterman’s blog post over on Engineering 7.
Under the hood
The changes that you don’t see, are both many and important.
Many people have predicted that Windows 7 will have a complete new kernel, MinWin. That is not the case. The last thing Microsoft wants to do in Windows 7 is make radical changes at the kernel level, that would require, among other things, that all the drivers had to be rewritten. It is safe to say that the Windows 7 kernel mostly contains changes from the one found in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1.
The driver model
One of Vista’s problem during its release was that some devices didn’t work due to the lack of driver support from OEMs/vendors. Getting third-party hardware to work is the most crucial factor in making Windows 7 a success, and that is perhaps the reason why Microsoft has decided to use the same driver model as in Vista. So if your computer works with Windows Vista, it will most likely also work with Windows 7. This also seems to be the case on the machines I have installed Windows 7 on, all their hardware are fully supported.
But almost more important, is that Microsoft manages to get more 64-bit drivers released. Both end users and enterprises will often choose to buy 4 GB or more in the future. My department never buys computers with less then 4 GB.
Windows 7 can installed on hardware or in your virtualisation software. If you choose to install it on hardware, remember to take backup of all the data you already have on your machine. By choosing the wrong options you risk deleting all excisting files. You are hereby warned!
The beta can be clean installed or upgraded from Vista Service Pack 1, and you need about 16GB of storage to install it. The installation on hardware takes about 30 minutes, and the installation process looks nearly identical to the one of Windows Vista.
Installing it on Macs
I didn’t run in to any major problems when installing Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro. Some of the needed drivers come preinstalled with Windows 7, the ethernet and graphic card driver can be installed from Windows Update, and the rest of the drivers are available on the DVD you installed MacOS X 10.5 from. The drivers on the DVD must be installed one-by-one, and the only driver that I found not to work with Windows 7 was the ATI graphic driver.
Installing it on a “Netbook”
I have a Lenovo X61, so I guess I will not get one of the popular Netbooks available on the market today. Windows 7 is said to be running really well on these stripped down laptops. Windows 7 only need a CPU running at 1 GHz and 1 GB RAM, and that is far less then Windows Vista.
Paul Thurrott posted a video showing how you can install Win7 on netbooks, which do not normally come with a DVD Drive (same goes with my X61, but I have one in my docking station). The video shows you how to prepare a USB drive with the installation bits and install off it.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
The changes to the new Windows 7 user interface are subtle.
The first thing you notice when boot Windows is the new taskbar. It is a result of Microsoft trying to counter the percetion that PCs are difficult to use. The magazine PCPlus shows that in a brilliant way (Jan 2009), with the example of six ways to open an email client in Vista, including icons on the desktop, in the taskbar, system tray and the Start menu. Windows 7 replaces the majority of these with one icon in the taskbar. The same goes for Windows Live Messenger.
The Jump List is a new addition to the user interface, that shows recent documents. If the application supports Jump List, it will provide shortcuts to documents you use often, your most frequently used tasks (as composing mails) and for Windows Media Player the last track played.
If you ask me, this is a 1:1 copy of how Apple implemented the same functionality in MacOS X’s Dock.
Vista Gadgets are not only available in Windows 7, but are also integrated in the context menu. The change is that you won’t see the sidebar anymore, and the widgets can be placed where ever you like on the desktop.
It just took me two, three minutes to realize that Windows 7 was designed for touch screens, and I more or less got that confirmed when reading that Microsoft was investing big in in Israeli startup N-trig. N-trig already provides a range of touchscreen technology to companies like Dell and HP, but the key component — and what Microsoft is most interested in — is multi-touch. Oh, oh, the year has just started and what a fun year it is to be!
This is a fancy mouse gesture, but I guess it is even better with Windows 7′s new touch features. The Aero Shake function will let users clear the desktop of windows while they concentrate on a single application’s window. Doing the same gesture again, brings all the windows back again.
Microsoft has trimmed the fat from Windows 7 by cutting out extra bundled programs such as Windows Messenger and Windows Mail, which users can download in a Windows Live package if they wish. One of the first things I did after having installed Windows 7, was to just that and I chose to install the Messenger, Photo Gallery and Writer. Windows Mail was not installed as I use Outlook with Xobni.
The inbuilt burning software
Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that MacOS X and Linux distros have had for years – the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. Just double-click the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and a disc gets created.
The Libraries provide a view of the filesystem that is tailored to specific content types.
By default, Libraries are created for communications, contacts, documents, downloads, music, pictures, and video. Each Library presents its content in a style that’s most appropriate; the downloads Library lists the URL that each downloaded files came from, the contacts Library shows e-mail addresses and phone numbers, and so on.
These special folders (and their special views) will already be familiar to users of Vista. Where Libraries differ is that they’re not individual folders. Rather, each Library is an aggregate of many different folders. When you connect your home fileserver and/or a removable harddisk, all their content will be automatically sorted in the available Libraries. This is Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Spotlight, and works over Microsoft’s HomeGroup network technology (see below).
Since OpenSearch is based on open standards, and it is said to be very simple to create custom ‘search connectors’ for your own remote repositories. A few search cool connectors are only available for download:
Please let me know in a comment if you find any other cool connector that I can play with!
Update: I have later written the article Windows 7 – Federated Search and Search Connector.
WMP12 makes it easier to play back audio or video on remote devices, a feature dubbed “Play To”, and mediaplayer can also stream to other computers in your HomeGroup.
An annoyance with most media players, Windows Media Player (WMP) included, is that they don’t have the right codec included. WMP12 will reduce this problem considerable, as it includes support for H.264 video, AAC audio, and both Xvid and DivX video, in addition to all the formats supported in WMP11 (MPEG2, WMA, WMV, MP3, etc.). With these new codecs, WMP should support the majority of video found on the Internet out of the box. The AAC support is limited, as Apple won’t license its FairPlay DRM to third parties.
At first look, Media Center (WMC) looks more or less the same as the version shipped in Vista, but there are few things worth noticing.
First thing, WMC comes with an on-screen keyboard and bigger video thumbnails. Again, this could be a result of Windows being completely rewritten for supporting touch screens.
Photo enthusiasts have much to enjoy, the usability of the Photo module has gone up a notch or two. There is a new Ambient Slideshow which will launch as a screen saver as well as when you invoke the new Play Favorites on the Start Menu. This pulls from your pictures rated 3 stars or higher. This slideshow features some nice zoom out and zoom in animations as well as slideshows within slideshows.
Turbo Scroll for those with large libraries. Holding down left or right remote buttons will begin to scroll through libraries at faster speeds, presenting content in alphabetical chunks. Turbo Scroll is also said to be working when browsing the TV listing menu.
A new module called Extras has replaced Online Media.
Charlie Owen has a great blog about Media Center, really worth subscribing to.
H.264 and RiksTV
On July 16th, 2008, Microsoft released an update to the version of Windows Media Center included with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate to our OEM partners.The Update was primarily targeted at adding support for additional international broadcast standards including:
- Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting – Terrestrial (ISDB-T) Digital television standard for Japan
- Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) free-to-air satellite standards in Europe
- Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T) digital television with improved user experience in Europe
- ClearQAM (Unencrypted Digital Cable)in the United States
- Interactive television with integrated Broadcast Markup Language (BML) in Japan and Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group (MHEG) (MHEG5) in Europe
The update did not include native support for subscription-based satellite tuners or the H.264 video standard (which we use here in Norway, H.264). That support was first added with Windows 7.
Another very exciting enhancement of the Media Center is the support of IPTV , with well integrated TV guides, standard and hi-def content. This is sadly something I have not been able to try out. I don’t know of any IPTV provider that can give me access to some of their channels for testing. In Norway there is currently two ISPs, Altibox and Nextgentel, providing IPTV, with Telenor coming with a solution some time this year (in Norwegian).
With all these new functionality Windows 7 and it’s Media Center, Windows should be the obivious choice for the computer in your livingroom. But for now, I don’t mange to get any video or sound in WMC. Other then that very important part, everything work as is should. The channel scan comes up with all the TV channels RiksTV has, both the ones that are open and then ones scrambled. So what did I use? A small USB stick from Pinnacle, PCTV nanoStick. In the Norwegian AVForum only people with Fire DTV are reporting that WMC is working after having installed the latest beta drivers.
Even the EPG is working out of the box (seen people in U.K and Australia complaining), and Windows 7 also lets you use the computer as a PVR. It lets you record an episode or the whole series, just by a few mouse clicks.
Update: I have later written the article Windows 7 and RiksTV (the digital TV provider in Norway).
The changes are many, simplified WiFi connections, built-in mobile broadband stack, better Bluetooth pairing. The best article that I have found summing up the wireless changes got published on techradar.com: In short the biggest wireless changes are:
- When you click the network icon in the taskbar, you don’t get the unhelpful Vista message that there are wireless networks available, but instead a list over available networks.
- For hotspots and hotel connections that make you go to a web page and accept terms and conditions (and most importantly credit card details) Windows 7 pops up a notification to let you know you’re not connected; click it and it opens the log-in page.
- When you resume from standby, the OS reduces the time it takes to reconnect (from about 40 seconds to less than 8 seconds)!
- Wake on LAN now also works over wireless (as long as your Wi-Fi chipset supports it). Great for business laptops!
- More important for me is the improvements in wireless security:
802.11x authentification has been improved. There was especially one small thing that I noticed, that these dialog boxes now didn’t pop up on the middle of the screen, but rather down in the right corner. I find this more intuitive, as you now know that these windows are connected to the wifi icon down in the notification area.
Windows 7 has built-in support for mobile broadband (3G and HSDPA). If you have hardware that uses the new API and driver model, the 3G network will show up in the same list as Wi-Fi access points. Hm (dear boss, if you are reading this, I need a new laptop), I would have loved to test this, but will leave it for now. I have 3-4 professors that have laptops with inbuilt SIM cards, so I guess I will get the chance to test this when Windows 7 is released.
With HomeGroup, you can share files in the home, stream music to your XBOX 360 or other devices, and print to the home printer without worrying about technical setup or even understanding how it all works. This is sadly only reinventing the wheel, Bonjour anyone? So my question with this new technology is: What do users in homes with a mixed computer environment do?
For more information, please read my blog entry: Windows 7 – At Home with HomeGroup.
It’s still there! Well, I have never had any problems accepting UAC, I come from the UNIX world and took the functionality for granted.
Microsoft has tweaked UAC on many fronts. You can now choose on a slider, how much UAC will interrupt you. There are now 4 options, which are as follows:
- Never notify me
- Only notify me when programs try to make changes
- Always notify
- Notify and wait for my approval
I noticed that you cannot turn it off, but I guess that the option Never notify me is more or less the same.
DirectAccess (VPN without the VPN)
IPc6 is coming closer and the days of Cisco VPN clients are finally coming to an end. Yay, I can’t wait!
Direct Connect is like Outlook Anywhere where you connect to the internal Exchange Server from outside the corporate network without a VPN connection, but through RPC over HTTPs. Direct connect uses IPv6 and IPSec to build a tunnel from outside the coprporate network to any resource that needs to access internal network (file shares, LOB applications).
BitLocker To Go
BitLocker was first introduced with Vista, and Microsoft has extended the technology in Windows 7. BitLocker is a whole-disk encryption tool designed to protect your data, and it reaches its full potential on computers with Trusted Protection Module (TPM). The TPM chipset transparently decrypts the drive once you’ve authenticated yourself with a password or smart card. A laptop thief can’t break into the locked drive, even after booting to a different OS or moving the drive to another computer.
With Windows 7 Microsoft extends this protection to cover removable drives. Turning it on for a drive is as simple as choosing BitLocker from the right-click menu. You supply a passphrase or (if you’re totally l33t) a smart card for encryption. You stash away a special 40-digit recovery key in case the passphrase slips your mind or the smart card slips out of your pocket. After a few minutes, the drive is encrypted.
IT-administrators can use Group Policy to enforce passphrase length and ban writing to any removable drive that isn’t BitLocker-protected.
One Windows management problem that has plagued companies for years, is having users that install and run non-standard application. Even standard users can install some types of software, and they can also run applications from USB sticks. With Windows 7, Microsoft hopes that AppLocker, an improvement on software restriction policies, will make this problem a thing of the past.
Unauthorized software issues present a number of problems. It may conflict with an existing application or it may deprive the PC of disk, CPU or memory resources. The corporate network can also be introduced to malware, the users productivity can be reduced and the unauthorized software can increase helpdesk calls. Another issue is the fact that an organization is responsible for having a license for every application installed on each computer in its network. If a user installs an unauthorized application, it is the organization that is ultimately responsible for licensing that application.
AppLocker is built up around a simple rule structure: Allow (white list), Exception and Deny (black list), that can be applied to Publisher Rules: Product Publisher, Name, Filename & Version. Publisher – Path – Hash are different ways of blocking/allowing applications. You can set version number, but also allow higher version number. Then you don’t have to maintain the white list every time there is a patch. You can also allow applications from a Publisher, for instance Microsoft, and you allow one specific application or a suite of applications. You can also allow a specific user or a group of users to use an application that is banned for the rest of the organization.
The “Device Stage” automatically fetches support and set-up information for mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras or other gadgets plugged into the computer. It really changes the way you interact with devices and hardware you attach to your system. Sadly, currently I have no supported hardware.
For a full overview, please visit Neowin – Windows 7: Device Stage.
What a horrible term! I feel that in most cases it’s nothing else then outsourcing a service, like for instance e-mails. But Microsoft is different here, it combines the best from both worlds, desktop and web applications (have you tried Live Mesh?). And with Windows 7 they have included a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code.
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For Seolbin Park, the curator and director of the SB D Gallery in Manhattan, and her husband, Chang W. Lee, a Times photographer, the World Trade Center was a landmark in many ways.
The twin towers were, first of all, a literal landmark on the distant skyline when the couple drove back from their regular fishing trips to New Jersey. “We would see them at night and say, ‘We’re home,’” Mr. Lee said. He recalled looking at the trade center one evening and marveling to his wife that they now lived where there would be no earthquakes, no floods and no enemy missiles. (”When we grew up in Korea, that was a very scary thing,” Mr. Lee said.) “We are in a safe place,” he told Ms. Park that evening, “and we are so blessed.”
The next day was Sept. 11, 2001.
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Downtown Price could get old facelift
|One of the buildings Kim Hyatt has come up with a plan for is the Southeast Paint building. It is actually an old theater that has been remodeled. |
For most people, downtown Price is what it is; a series of business buildings with different store fronts and facades. But if historical architect Kim Hyatt's vision of what some of the buildings in that area could look like comes true, it will be like turning back time.
Hyatt, who was hired with a Utah State Historic Preservation grant by Price City to look at what could be done with historical buildings in town, says that as many as 10 of the downtown structures could be restored to close to original fronts that would make the various kinds of facades that exist now go away.
"One of the best things for building owners is that if the changes are consistent with historical images the remodels could meet standards for some state and federal tax credits," says Price Community Director Nick Tatton. "There might also be some incentives through local funds like the RDA too."
Hyatt, who was in town on Thursday to show officials and some building official what he had come up with after some study of various structures, said he has always had a passion for old buildings and believes if they can be saved and preserved they can be an attractive addition to a city.
While Helper has it's historic district, Price has not had that. Many of Helpers Main Street buildings look like they have since most of them were built in the 1920's and 1930's. Many of Price's downtown structures are older according to Hyatt; turn of the century to about 1920. Yet most have been drastically remodeled with either fake facades or parts replaced by glass tiles and metal coverings. Hyatt took a look at the buildings he could get old photos of and began to draw up some sketches of what he thought they could look like once again if the remodels were reversed.
"There are some buildings where things that have been done that are only cosmetic and could easily be reversed," he said. "In other cases some of the remodels have taken away original features and restoral processes may have to work around those."
The 10 buildings that Hyatt looked at in his report that was presented to a group of city officials and business owners include Breinholt Music, the Crown Theater, Olivetos Furniture, Southeast Paint (which was once the Star Theater, the Silvagni Building, the
Newhouse Hotel, Castle Valley Mall, Hard Hat Furniture and Fitness World.
Hyatt told the group that to follow a comprehensive approach to restoring and maintaining historic buildings, as well as to qualify for historic tax credits that any building owner would need to be sure they followed the United States Secretary of the Interiors standards for the treatment of historic properties.
Hyatt also explained that the problem with old buildings is that often when a structure begins to age, owners will spend money on cosmetic structural alterations, often ones that are not "sympathetic" to the original architectural designs.
"Some of what is done is of course based on the amount of money an owner has," he told the group. "Some of these buildings probably suffered poor maintenance during the depression when people didn't have much money. Others had remodels that were out of character with their original design. It looks like at one time a salesman came through and did a good job of selling a number of people on glass tiles, and so a number of these buildings have those. "
To do his study Hyatt had to poke around in some of the buildings, and also asked local officials to try and find photos of what buildings looked like before the remodels.
"Underneath that metal exterior on the Silvagni Building (on the southeast corner of the Carbon Avenue and Main intersection) I could see some of what is there," says Hyatt.
According to Hyatt's report that building (which is really two buildings) would require the most expense to get it back to a more original form. The large aluminum louver system would be fairly easy to remove, but some of the porcelain tiles that were installed on the first level may have damaged original surfaces. He could not find a good original photo of the building which makes it a little harder to know what it looked like before the remodels.
On the 10 buildings, his cost estimates ranged from a little over $19,000 to over $160,000 for another.
"Of course these are just estimates, and certainly building owners would have to decide if it were worth it to them to do such restorations," stated Hyatt.
The report included a section on each building, with photos, suggestions on what could be done and a drawing of changes that could be made.
Hyatt has been doing architectural work on historic buildings for almost 20 years, and has worked on various buildings across the state. His approach is a keep it simple one.
"It's like the signs people want to put on buildings," he says. "Being in business they want their building to show up, but the simplest of signs, such as a well painted sign on metal attached to the buildings is very attractive and adds to the character of the structure."
Owners of buildings can now look at Hyatt's recommendations and at least see what their buildings could look like. Copies of the report at available from the Price City offices.
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The President of the Australian Bar Association, Tom Bathurst, says the rule of law is under threat in Fiji because the government is ignoring legal rulings. The coup-installed interim government of commodore Frank Bainimarama recently issued a certificate terminating a Court of Appeal ruling that the regime is illegal. Mr Bathurst tells me the Australian Bar Association decided to criticise the Fiji government publicly because without an independent judiciary, the country risks a breakdown in the concept of rule of law, and this could lead to human rights abuses.
Radio Australia's Bruce Hill interviews the president of the Australian Bar Association, Tom Bathurst.
BATHURST: What triggered the press release was the information that we heard that the government was taking on itself to unilaterally overturn appeal decisions and other judicial decisions regularly made. The danger in that is of course that one of the balances on both the executive and the legislature is the judiciary upholding the law as it stands.
HILL: Well what was it that the government did in particular that you regard as being an indicator that the rule of law is under threat in Fiji?
BATHURST: Well the recent Court of Appeals decisions as to the constitutionality of the present administration.
HILL: The Fiji government, in particular the Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khayum, has criticised the Australian Bar Association for saying that, they're saying that you pre-judged the situation and didn't even consult with the government?
BATHURST: We didn't consult with the government; the government's shown that it hasn't really been consulting anybody in relation to its own decisions. But when this question of pre-judgement, on the fact of it we don't see any justification for overruling decisions of this nature, and certainly none's been proffered.
HILL: Is this a technical legal question or is this something a bit broader and deeper?
BATHURST: No we don't regard it as a technical legal matter. Take for example this country there is a constitution and the legislature and the executive are obliged to act within its constraints. If they don't the court is there to declare acts invalid. One can only imagine the outcry if the court having done so the legislature or the executive simply, well the executive more accurately simply say well we're going to just repeal that decision. And it's exactly the same position as in Fiji. It's not just a question of passing amending legislation to overcome a problem in the future, it's ignoring the constitutional constraints and ignoring past acts which wouldn't have been lawful under the existing constitution.
HILL: What could the potential consequences for Fiji be if this continues to be the path they go down?
BATHURST: Well the potential consequences that the government feels that it's unable to act with any of the existing legislative and constitutional restraints. It means in effect that the government doesn't act under what's generally called the rule of law, which people are entitled to namely that the government will act in accordance with the law of the country today as interpreted by the courts. I'm not suggesting for the moment there's been a total breakdown in law and order in Fiji, let me make that clear, but what I'm saying is this type of conduct can have the tendency in the long term will lead to that. The first thing dictators have often done is to abolish or take control of the legal system, and we've seen that consequence in a number of countries.
HILL: There are several lawyers from Australia and New Zealand practicing in Fiji and even taking up positions with the government. Do you think that they should think again before being involved in the Fiji government's legal activities?
BATHURST: Before the recent events I urged caution against people taking up judicial posts in Fiji, that's by and large now become academic. I don't suggest Australian lawyers shouldn't be involved there if only because to keep the legal system or to assist in the maintenance of the legal system. But I think they should be very careful taking judicial appointments in these circumstances.
Pacific Beat, Radio Australia
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ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Former White House Press Secretary Slams Bush Administration; Obama's World War II Gaffe
Aired May 27, 2008 - 22:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We have got breaking news, a pair of political stories tonight. One is a bombshell, the other a gaffe.
The bombshell, a White House insider, the president's former spokesman Scott McClellan lashing out, accusing the White House, in some cases, accusing the president himself, of relying on propaganda to sell the war in Iraq, a war he now says was not necessary.
He also accuses the White House of playing politics with Hurricane Katrina and more. The story is breaking as we speak. We will have all the details in just a few moments.
First, though, the political gaffe that's had the Obama campaign scrambling to set the record straight. It began with comments Senator Obama made during a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I had an uncle who was one of the -- who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and to liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was is that, when he came home, he just went up into the attic, and he didn't leave the house for six months.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Well, it didn't take long after that for critics to pounce. The Red Army liberated Auschwitz, they correctly pointed out. And Obama doesn't have an uncle on his American side.
Then the Republican National Committee send out a statement blasting Obama, saying, in part -- quote -- "Obama's frequent exaggerations and outright distortions raise questions about his judgment and his readiness to lead as commander in chief."
So, was Senator Obama telling a war story to tell impress his audience? CNN checked the facts. The answer is no. He had a great uncle, Charles Payne, still living, who did help liberate a concentration camp. It wasn't Auschwitz, as he said. It was part of the Buchenwald complex.
Mr. Payne, who is still alive, confirms it. And, late today, the Obama campaign had this to say -- quote -- "Yesterday, he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz, instead of Buchenwald, in telling of his personal experience of a story in his who served heroically."
So, a gaffe, a mistake, and a sign of the kind of scrutiny all three candidates are getting these days.
Candy Crowley joins us with the "Raw Politics."
Candy, at the end of the day, does this story have legs, like Hillary Clinton's sniper story?
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I don't think it's the same.
This was not something that didn't happen at all. This is something that is in the details was incorrect, that he confused Auschwitz with Buchenwald, that kind of thing.
The gist of the story was correct. He did have a great uncle who was part of the liberation force that went into a subcamp of Burkenwald, so -- Buchenwald -- sorry. So, you know, I don't think it has the kind of legs that the Bosnia story did, because the Bosnia story, as you remember, was completely incorrect.
It did not happen the way that Senator Clinton said it did. This seems to be slightly different. And they have gotten out in front of it. But, as you noticed, it didn't take much for the Republicans to come after him, because, as you know, what John McCain and the Republicans are trying to do is portray Barack Obama as not commander in chief material, and that's what they went for immediately after this story started to surface.
COOPER: They did hit very hard, you know, not only just saying that -- that Senator Obama had to answer for the discrepancies, that the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, but also saying that this goes to his ability to be commander in chief.
Have they stepped back at all from that? Or are they planning to continue this? Is there anywhere else for this to go?
CROWLEY: I don't think so.
They did sort of push back a little and note that, in his famous Iraq speech that Barack Obama gave before the war, in which he opposed the war, he also mentioned Auschwitz in connection with his grandfather, hearing tales from American comrades who had gone into Auschwitz, which, clearly, they didn't. It was the Red Army. It was the Soviets.
So, they pointed that out. But it just doesn't have the kind of resonance, I don't think, that we have seen before in some of these because it's -- the truth of the matter is, the whole truth of the matter is that it was substantially correct, although it may argue for a little more sleep on the campaign trail.
COOPER: All right, Candy Crowley -- we're going to have more from Candy in a moment.
Now the breaking news bombshell -- former White House spokesman Scott McClellan, the face and voice of the Bush White House for nearly three years, years when American troops were fighting and dying in Iraq, has leveled fresh charges against the White House and the president.
In a new memoir to be released on McClellan, now states that he served in an administration that was driven by politics and propaganda, paid for in human misery, even human lives, after Hurricane Katrina, during the Valerie Plame scandal, and in the run-up to the war in Iraq, a war McClellan now says was not necessary.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, APRIL 19, 2006)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I thank Scott for his service to our country.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER (voice-over): Two years later, the former press secretary stuns his old boss with charges of deception and denial deep inside the White House.
Scott McClellan's accusations against President Bush and some of his most trusted advisers are shocking and spilled out in his new 341- page book.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BUSH: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Some of the strongest attacks against the Bush White House concern Iraq. Listen to what McClellan said to the American people back in 2005.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, NOVEMBER 30, 2005)
SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: And there have been some that have tried to suggest that we don't have a plan. I know some congressional members of Congress have -- Democratic members of Congress have suggested that, and they are flat-out wrong.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: That's what he said then. But, in his new book, McClellan claims Bush and his top lieutenants used propaganda to drum up support for the war, writing: "He and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war. In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security."
McClellan also sharply criticizes the White House over its handling of Hurricane Katrina, writing: "One of the worst disasters in our nation's history became one of the biggest disasters in Bush's presidency. Katrina and the botched federal response to it would largely come to define Bush's second term."
Remember this photo of the president looking down at the destruction from Air Force One? McClellan says it was Karl Rove's idea to take the picture, even though he and former presidential counselor Dan Bartlett opposed it. The book also paints both himself and Bush as victims in the case of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Some accuse former White House advisers Karl Rove, Lewis Scooter Libby and Elliott Abrams of leaking Plame's name to the media.
This was McClellan's response to that allegation in 2003.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, OCTOBER 7, 2003)
MCCLELLAN: There are unsubstantiated accusations that are made. And that's exactly what happened in the case of these three individuals. They are good individuals. They're important members of our White House team. And that's why I spoke with them, so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: McClellan now suspects he and the president may have been tricked by Rove and Libby over the Plame disclosure, writing -- quote -- "I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood. It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively. I didn't learn that what I had said was untrue until the media began to figure it out almost two years later."
COOPER: No official comment tonight from the administration, but sources close to the White House have already started hitting back, one calling the book -- quote -- "a pathetic attempt to restore his reputation."
Digging deeper, we're joined by Fran Townsend, former Bush White House homeland security adviser and Clinton Justice Department staffer. Currently, she's a CNN national security contributor, also Mike Allen of Politico.com, who broke this story, and CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry, who is with the president at a McCain fund- raiser tonight.
We will have more on that fund-raiser later.
Ed, you had an opportunity to speak, both with McClellan tonight, but also you have -- you have -- trying to get some reaction from the White House. What are you hearing from both?
ED HENRY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's interesting.
I had a brief phone conversation with Scott McClellan tonight, and he's standing behind the accuracy of what has already come out in the book. He doesn't want to go on the record yet. He says he's going to do television interviews later in the week. But he wants to let the book speak for itself, and he's ready to stand behind it.
And I have to tell you, he's going to need to be ready to answer this point by point, because the guns are already blazing tonight. In the initial comments from Republicans close to the White House -- the White House not officially commenting, as you noted, but Republicans close to this White House going after Scott McClellan and saying that basically this is a new take from Scott McClellan. They're surprised to hear this. He never raised these objections, whether it was about Iraq or with Katrina or other issues, behind closed doors, according to their account.
And, so, basically they're suggesting that, if he had these concerns about the war in Iraq, for example, he should have aired them a long time ago. And they're raising doubts about the accuracy, Anderson.
COOPER: Mike, you have read the book.
McClellan writes: "The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course," and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, "excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance."
And, on the war in Iraq, he writes: "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now, when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."
What surprised you most about McClellan's criticisms?
MIKE ALLEN, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, POLITICO.COM: Well, Anderson, Scott McClellan says he still likes and respects the president. But what surprised me was how blunt and unvarnished this was, by far the moat scathing memoir to come out of this administration.
And what's fascinating about these two excerpts that you just read, Anderson, is that Scott is adopting both the substance and the rhetoric of some of the president's liberal critics, the permanent campaign. He even talks in this book, Anderson, about how the media were too complicit with the White House, too easy on the administration in the run-up to the war.
COOPER: It's startling. I'm going to read some of those excerpts a little later on.
Frances, I want to get your take.
McClellan wrote that Bush was terribly ill-served by his advisers, especially those in national security. You served in the White House for over three years as homeland security adviser. What's your reaction?
FRANCES TOWNSEND, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I -- first of all, I think people need to understand that, as an adviser to the president, I or Scott have an obligation, a responsibility, to voice concerns on policy issues. Scott never did that on any of these issues, as best I can remember, and as best I know from my White House colleagues.
COOPER: Never spoke out?
And, so, for him to do this now, frankly, strikes me as self- serving, disingenuous, and unprofessional.
COOPER: Ed, I want to read what McClellan writes about -- about the media, which you just mentioned -- which Mike just mentioned.
"If anything, the national press corps," he wrote, "was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq."
It is amazing to hear a former White House spokesman say this from a White House which has accused those who disagree with them or challenge them as being unpatriotic, at times, and liberally biased.
And, in fact, McClellan goes on to say that the "liberal media" -- in quotes -- didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
HENRY: I am surprised to hear that.
Now, I was not covering the White House in the run-up to the war, but I certainly watched those briefings from Capitol Hill. And I know that my colleagues at CNN and other places, people like Mike Allen, were asking Scott McClellan, in fact, some very tough questions at that White House podium.
And when I arrived in 2006, Scott McClellan was still there. And I can tell you, we were still pushing him, not just on the war, but a whole host of foreign policy and domestic issues as well. So, I'm surprised to hear him say that as well.
COOPER: So, Ed, as someone who used to cover the White House, did you get any sense for him that he disagreed with the run-up to the war or that he felt the war wasn't necessary?
HENRY: Never. Never, not once. Certainly, I never picked that up. And from talking to people who have worked with Scott, they did not hear him say that behind closed doors at the White House. We are going to have to see the full context in this book. But it is surprising. And to pick up on what Mike said, Karl Rove was on FOX tonight, saying that this sounds more like a left-wing blogger than the colleague he knew behind closed doors at the White House. It gives you an idea of how angry some people inside and outside of the White House are going to be about this, Anderson.
COOPER: Mike, how much of this -- I mean, to Frances' point, how much of this do you think is score-settling?
ALLEN: Well, I think Scott put on a new hat. He's no longer a White House official. He's now working in this case as a historian.
And I think he tried to take that seriously. And I think this book is much more honest than I think than a lot of people expected. What's most surprising about this is the fact that, Anderson, as you know, Scott is the most loyal of any of the Bush officials. He was literally a member of the family. He's one of the last people who came from Texas with the president.
And he therefore had a lot more leeway because he was considered part of that Texas family. And, so, I think people thought that, in his book, he would maybe take a few swipes at the president or the administration to try to sell books. But no one thought that, cover to cover, he would be saying that fundamental mistakes were made, and to even acknowledge that some of the things that he said from the podium, including those clips that you played earlier, were, in his words, misguided.
COOPER: Mike, you have read the whole book. Does he -- does he apologize for -- I mean, he was essentially carrying water for an administration which he now believes was wrong and, you know, selling -- selling a war based on propaganda, and an unnecessary war, at that.
Does he accept responsibility for his role in all this? Because, I mean, to Frances' point, he could have -- you know, people used to resign. In the old days in Washington, people used to resign when they didn't agree with things. And they resigned out of principle. It doesn't seem like anybody does that anymore.
ALLEN: No, Anderson, that's a good point. And Scott does acknowledge from the very beginning, in the preface, that he did make mistakes. And he said that most of them were things that he realized in retrospect. But you hear him through the book getting more tired.
That great scene you showed earlier about the Katrina photo, he said that his resistance had been worn down. And, as you said, he initially advised against it. But, when they finally said the president was for it, he sort of gave in to that.
An amazing moment, Anderson, in this is when Scott's the one who tells the president that Larry Lindsey, the chief economic adviser, had told "The Wall Street Journal" that the Iraq war was going to cost $100 million to $200 billion -- $100 billion to $200 billion, which, of course, turned out to be a terrible lower estimation.
The president, he said, was hot, steamed about that, because this was a violation of the code of making news in this administration when you weren't supposed to.
And the president said, Larry Lindsey should not have been talking about those things. So, that gives us a little glimpse of this very tight control. As Scott says in the book, that because of the concern about the liberal media, others in the administration put a wall around the press. And he said that, sometimes, the press secretary was outside that wall.
So, he's saying that, sometimes, he was outside the loop.
COOPER: Frances, I mean, no doubt, a lot of folks in the White House, current and former, are going to come out against this guy, saying, he was out of the loop, he didn't know what he was talking about, he never spoke up.
Is -- just to play devil's advocate, isn't it fair, though, if somebody has had -- you know, they leave an administration, they -- they reflect on things, they have some time to reflect, and they change their mind, isn't it fair for him to write a book expressing that?
TOWNSEND: Well, it's fair for him to write about his experience, but I think, Anderson, as people are looking at his factual allegations in this book, I hope that people will ask him about, was he at the meetings in the Oval Office with the president and the secretary of defense when they discussed sensitive Iraq policy issues? Was he at the most sensitive National Security Council policy meetings?
You know, the press secretary has a very distinct role. And it doesn't include being in some of the most highly classified, sensitive policy discussions. And, so, I think his view is limited. And there may -- some of this may be misunderstanding on his part of what he saw and heard.
COOPER: No doubt we're hear a lot more about this in the coming days -- a lot to talk about tonight. And we're going to talk to our panel coming up more.
As always, I'm blogging throughout the hour. Joining the conversation. Go to CNN.com/360.
Also tonight, John McCain, Barack Obama both out West. We have got the lowdown on why Obama thinks he can find something out there few Democrats have, namely, a path to the White House.
And John McCain, why he's running with President Bush and running away with him at the same time.
Later, Bill Clinton saying his wife is being driven out of the race, bullied and dissed simply for running. That's not all he's saying. The allegations and the facts up close -- tonight on 360.
COOPER: President Bush, John McCain tonight at a photo-op after a fund-raiser in Phoenix. Originally scheduled for the local convention center, it was moved to a private home, where media was not invited.
No clear explanation why it was moved, though a local Phoenix business paper reports the event didn't sell out. Bush and McCain haven't met face to face since March, Senator McCain apparently keeping plenty of distance from a president the Democrats hope to tie him to like a boat anchor.
Barack Obama also out West tonight, laying into McCain, and trying to lay the groundwork for victories in states like Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Candy Crowley has the latest on the trail.
CROWLEY (voice-over): The seasoned warrior and the young turk go at it almost daily, circling each other, looking for territorial advantage. McCain wants the election to be about national security, about his senior statesman credentials, and his opponent's naivete.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Many believe all we need to do to end the nuclear programs of hostile governments is have our president talk with leaders in Pyongyang and Tehran, as if we haven't tried talking to these governments repeatedly over the past two decades.
CROWLEY: The operating theory in camp McCain is that national security trumps everything, that gas prices and bank foreclosures pale if the country does not feel protected. So, McCain and company spent the weekend ripping apart the Obama resume, McCain telling the Associated Press, "He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq, and he has wanted to surrender for a long time."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Endless war. Endless war.
CROWLEY: Heckled about the war during a Denver speech on nuclear proliferation, McCain took the opening.
MCCAIN: And, by the way, I will never surrender in Iraq, my friends.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
MCCAIN: I will never surrender.
CROWLEY: And, with more than a hint of condensation, McCain confidant Senator Lindsey Graham suggested on CBS' "Face the Nation" that Obama should go to Iraq with McCain.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "FACE THE NATION")
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: And Senator Obama keeps talking about an immediate withdrawal as soon as he gets to be president. The last time, I understand, he was in Iraq was in 2006. I would recommend that he go back. So much has happened since 2006 on the ground. It's been extraordinary.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CROWLEY: An Obama spokesman called the suggestion of a joint trip a publicity stunt, while Obama stayed the course. He is convinced that voters want out of Iraq and are increasingly frightened about an economy in freefall. Obama wants the territory to be the economy.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have had enough of the can't-do, won't-do and won't-even-try approach from George Bush and John McCain. We can't afford another president who can't be bothered to stand up for working people.
CROWLEY: The young turk vs. the old guard.
OBAMA: And Senator McCain is so out of touch with the struggles of working people that he gave a speech laying out his economic agenda last week, and he couldn't be even bothered to talk about the foreclosure crisis.
CROWLEY: Beneath the general election positioning, the Democratic primary continues. It is the tale of two campaigns, a story told in the geography.
Looking for a final resurrection in a campaign that has survived on them, Hillary Clinton was in Montana, in advance of the primary next Tuesday. Obama campaigned in Nevada. The primary there was last January. It is part of a tristate tour, also including New Mexico and Colorado, Republican states Obama thinks he can pull into the Democratic column this fall.
Forty-eight delegates shy of the nomination, Obama never mentions her. He has turned the page.
CROWLEY: Still, despite what's going on, on the campaign trail between Obama and McCain, that primary is not over yet. This Saturday, on the 31st, the credentials committee for the Democratic national party is going to meet to decide what to do about those disputed delegates in both Michigan and Florida.
Coming out of that, the Clinton campaign is hoping that they can claim the popular vote in both states to further their case that she's the most electable -- Anderson.
COOPER: Candy, for the Clinton campaign, it's really all riding on Michigan and Florida?
CROWLEY: Well, it is in a certain sense. It's really all riding on the superdelegates, because Michigan and Florida will not be seated in a way that will hand her the nomination. It's just not going to happen that way, because, first of all, the Democratic National Committee says they broke the rules, these two states broke the rules, and Barack Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan.
So, they won't be seated in a way that gives her the elected pledged delegate lead. But they do believe that, when they are seated, the Clinton campaign can say, but, look, we are leading in the popular vote. And that, they think, is an argument they can make to the superdelegates who have not yet committed.
COOPER: And that's the argument Bill Clinton is already making. We heard that this weekend. We will have more of his comments coming up.
The war of words over the war in Iraq is heating up, as Candy was talking about, between McCain and Obama. But what really is happening on the ground in Iraq?
Our own Michael Ware has been there really from the beginning. He joins us live from Baghdad with a reality check.
And, later, Bill Clinton and his allegations of a cover-up -- who does he think is covering up the truth to keep his wife out of the White House?
We will take you up close with the former president on the campaign trail -- when 360 continues.
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MCCAIN: I will never surrender in Iraq, my friends.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
MCCAIN: I will never surrender in Iraq.
OBAMA: On issue after issue, John McCain is offering more of the same policies that have failed for the last eight years.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Senators John McCain and Barack Obama speaking out today on the campaign trail, throwing some punches at each other as well.
Senator McCain has been slamming Obama on his Iraq policy. McCain says Obama is out of touch with what is really happening on the ground in Iraq. Obama paints McCain as, well, simply being out of touch.
Time for a reality check with CNN's Michael Ware live in Baghdad, and, once again, Frances Townsend, former White House homeland security adviser and CNN national security contributor.
Michael, Senator McCain invited Obama to travel to -- to Iraq, saying he was looking for the opportunity to -- quote, unquote -- "educate Obama." Realistically -- I mean, obviously, there's a lot of policy involved. But what exactly would the two be able to see? How accurate is the information that is passed -- how beneficial are these kind of -- these kind of trips?
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, I mean, obviously, there's a great need for education about the situation here in Iraq.
You cannot pull out without serious consequences, nor can you stroll the streets of Baghdad. So, there's questions to be raised with both campaigns there.
Now, like any U.S. officials that come to this country, any campaign members, anyone running for office who comes to this country is going to see the rooftops of houses as they fly over them, perhaps some desert as they whisk over the cop of that, and the inside of U.S. bases and the U.S. Embassy, where they're bombarded with briefings and PowerPoint slides.
They will be totally divorced from the Iraqi reality. And any Iraqi officials they will talk to, they're certainly not going to be straight -shooting. They haven't been since the war began. Why would they start now? It's not in their interests to do so.
They certainly won't get a real feel for the fact that 90,000 former insurgents now on the U.S. payroll are protecting large chunks of the country for America, while other large chunks of the country are protected by Iranian-backed militias who are pursuing Iranian interests, as well as their own.
So, really, it's going to be a very skewed picture that anyone could hope to get -- Anderson.
COOPER: Frances, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, says al Qaeda in Iraq -- and I quote -- "has never been closer to defeat than they are now."
At this point, though, how much of the violence is really due to al Qaeda in Iraq, and how much is due to sectarian actors and other forces?
TOWNSEND: Well, Anderson, it's important to be clear about the facts.
All violence, whether it's sectarian or al Qaeda, is down across the board. These are the lowest levels of security incidents in four years that they're seeing right now. This is progress.
Now, al Qaeda has said, in their own statement, that Iraq was the central battle and that they couldn't lose it. Well, they're back on their heels. It will take a sustained effort by Iraqi forces to maintain that. We have seen the recent progress by Iraqi forces. They are conducting clearing and holding operations on their own, without their American advisers. All of this is positive, but they have to do it over the long term. COOPER: Well, I mean, in Basra, they needed serious backup from both British and U.S. forces. In fact, that was really instrumental in turning the tide there in Basra to the degree that it has been turned.
But the question is, I mean, the White House and John McCain and others like to focus on al Qaeda and talk about al Qaeda in Iraq. Do you have a sense of how much al Qaeda is really -- I mean, of a percentage of attacks, how much is al Qaeda? How much are other forces?
TOWNSEND: You know, I'm not really -- I'm not clear on what the actual percentage breakdown is.
TOWNSEND: I will say this to you, though. The large-scale attacks against civilians are down. But the important part to that success is going to be maintaining it.
COOPER: Michael, let me ask you the question. Al Qaeda, compared to the other forces killing folks in Iraq, where does -- what's the percentage; do you know?
WARE: Well, in terms of fighters in the field, they would be lucky to be 2 percent of those carrying weapons in this country, Anderson.
Yes, they're the guys responsible for the spectacular attacks, the suicide bombings and car bombings that just slaughter innocent civilians. That's true. That's got great political impact. But, in terms of the day-to-day grind, they're virtually nonexistent. They're barely attacking U.S. troops. They're more focused on killing other Iraqis. They're too busy trying to launch a war with the Shia. They're too busy, under pressure, to be able to continue operating.
And, look, let's face it. They were given Iraq on a -- on a platter for their next platform after Afghanistan. They had their moment. Now they have been withered down to this gnarly operating series of terrorist cells that they were always designed to be. They're essentially going to be a stone in the shoe of this society. What they are in countless societies across the world.
They're not really the war here, and they haven't been for a long time, if they ever were. The real war here is the competition between America and Iran for influence and an attempt to hold this region together without fracturing it completely, Anderson.
COOPER: Frances, do you agree with Michael?
TOWNSEND: Well, to Michael's point, a successful end to the conflict in Iraq must be that Iraq is a stable democracy that can secure its people and its borders. That includes not only from al Qaeda but from Iran.
COOPER: Frances, we appreciate you being on the show, first time. Thanks for being on.
Michael Ware, always good to talk to you. Stay safe, Michael.
Up next, a new terror threat. Al Qaeda taking aim with deadly ambition. What the terrorists want to do to America, coming up. They're talking about a WMD now. Here are the latest.
Plus, claims of cruelty at a classroom. A kindergarten class, what a 5-year-old went through may make you mad. It's kind of unbelievable. The outrage on that, 360 next.
COOPER: Bill Clinton taking aim, claiming a cover in hiding Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the White House. Who exactly he thinks is covering up isn't exactly clear. We've got an up-close look.
First Erica Hill joins us with a "360 Bulletin" -- Erica.
ERICA HILL, HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Anderson, first up, an eerie report of a new al Qaeda tape tonight. Intelligence sources telling CNN they are expecting a new video from the terrorist group within 24 hours. One source says the group will be calling for jihadists to use weapons of mass destruction against the west. We'll keep a close eye on that.
Meantime in Texas, child welfare authorities say polygamist families with children may flee and move out of state jurisdiction if an appeals court ruling is allowed to stand. They made that argument today when asking the state supreme court to reverse that lower court ruling.
And a 5-year-old boy voted out of his kindergarten class in Florida. The child's mother says the teacher asked every student to tell her son why they hate him. And then took a vote. The classmates apparently cited 14-2 he should go.
But according to the mother, the teacher actually stood her son up in front of the class and asked all of these kids to tell this poor little boy why they didn't like him.
COOPER: Unbelievable. And guess what? The teacher has been reassigned, right?
HILL: She is, but the school district says it is investigating. They say for now the teacher is reassigned to a non-teaching role.
COOPER: Being a kid isn't hard enough. Erica, here's tonight's "Beat 360" photo. Vice President Dick Cheney delivering the commencement address to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, wearing a hat there.
Here's the caption from our staff winner, Barclay: "Go ahead, call it cowboy diplomacy. Make my day."
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Up next tonight, up close with Bill Clinton. The campaigner in chief is back in the spotlight, insisting there's a cover-up, suggesting unnamed forces are bullying super delegates to support Obama and insisting his wife is winning.
Also ahead, gas price pain. You're feeling it, and we have dramatic new numbers to prove you are not alone, coming up on 360. So thousands of other midsize companies run sap software?
COOPER: Well, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Montana tonight. That's a live shot from Billings, where she is expected to talk to the crowd very shortly. We'll try to bring you some of her comments when she does get there.
Her husband was in Puerto Rico earlier, where 63 delegates are up for grabs in Sunday's primary. The former president has been drawing a lot of attention in recent days with his blistering accusations that her critics and the Obama camp, he blasted the media, saying that his wife, Hillary Clinton, is getting a raw deal and claims the wife is the victim of a cover-up. That's just for starters. Here's Bill Clinton up close.
BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In case you haven't noticed, most of the media aren't for her.
COOPER (voice-over): Bill Clinton may have been keeping a low profile of late, but now it seems the gloves are off.
CLINTON: I've never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.
COOPER: Defending his wife from a red truck with old glory as the backdrop, Clinton was in South Dakota this weekend blasting unnamed enemies.
CLINTON: There's this frantic effort to push her out, because she's winning the general election today and he's not. According to all the evidence.
COOPER: His evidence, of course, depends on counting Michigan and Florida and ignoring results in caucus states.
Clinton insists his wife can do what Barack Obama cannot in November: defeat John McCain. He's also claiming there's a plot to intentionally block her chances of winning key states against John McCain. He calls it a cover-up. CLINTON: "Oh, this is so terrible. The people may want her. Oh, this is terrible. She's winning the general election and he's not. Oh, my goodness, we have to cover this up."
COOPER: The former president's charges are exactly what many of Senator Clinton's supporters want to hear.
ROGER SIMON, POLITICO.COM: A lot of her supporters, women supporters, feel that she has definitely not been treated respectfully. And they believe that the best sign of respect that Barack Obama could deliver is to pick her as his vice president.
CLINTON: There's no way of knowing exactly what Mr. Clinton's strategy is, but after weeks of not focusing his criticism on Obama, he now slams the campaign for strong-arming super delegates to make up their minds.
CLINTON: I can't believe it. It's just frantic the way they're trying to push and pressure and bully all these super delegates to come out.
COOPER: Clinton walks a fine line with his forceful opinions, but his motivation for this latest salvo has many political observers guessing.
SUSAN PAGE, "USA TODAY": I think Bill Clinton knows that his own legacy would be bolstered if his wife became president of the United States. And I'm sure he has motivations that deal directly with her, but also that question of his own legacy, the continuation of the things he tried to pursue in eight years in the White House, that's got to be on his mind.
CLINTON: ... better off if she is elected. Thanks.
COOPER: So has Hillary Clinton really been treated more disrespectfully than any candidate ever has, as Bill Clinton now alleges? We'll ask our panel what they think about the former president's charges. We're "Digging Deeper."
Plus, more on our breaking-news bombshell: former spokesman Scott McClellan accusing the White House now of relying on propaganda to sell the war in Iraq, a war he now says was not necessary.
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CLINTON: There's this frantic effort to push her out, because she's winning the general election today, and he's not, according to all the evidence. And I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.
(END VIDEO CLIP) COOPER: Strong words, stronger accusations from the former president as the race draws closer to an end. Bill Clinton appears to be picking up steam, passionately standing by his wife, insisting she's winning the election and claiming she's become the target of a cover-up.
"Digging Deeper" with our panel, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger, Mike Allen, chief political correspondent of Politico.com.
Mike, what do you make of Bill Clinton's comments? We just heard that his wife has been treated more disrespectfully than any other candidate just for running.
MIKE ALLEN, POLITICO.COM: Anderson, what we're seeing here is the incredible frustration that the Clintons have. Somebody said to me that this must seem to them like a bad dream that they're watching their bodies, and they just can't believe this is happening. This is so far from what they've planned.
And I think that in Bill Clinton, President Clinton, over the months, I think we've seen coming out the bitterness and shock that others feel behind doors. So I just feel like he's an external indicator of what they've talking about when they're alone.
COOPER: Candy, they do seem to be fanning these flames of, you know, she's being badly treated. She's been the victim of sexism on the part of the media.
Does painting her -- I mean, I don't know that they're painting her as a victim, but certainly playing into that, does that help her candidacy? Does it -- does it -- is it what her supporters want to hear? Does it help peel (ph) this thing forward?
CANDY CROWLEY, SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: It has in the past, as you know. In the past, when it looked as though people were ganging up on her, and she talked about it or those around her more likely talked about it, it has given her a boost among her core supporters. We're talking about women who tend to empathize with Hillary Clinton and the whole idea of breaking through the glass ceiling, that kind of thing.
I agree with Mike, you are seeing just pure frustration here. Understand that they started out a year ago as the inevitable candidate. And now it looks like the inevitable loser. So this is really a culture shock for the Clintons.
It is not over yet. They are still arguing to those super delegates. You heard that general election argument that Bill Clinton made. They hope to be able to do that when they seat the Florida and Michigan delegations and point out the popular vote again.
So they are not giving up. But I just think this has -- has really been a shock, not just to the Clintons but to the people around them.
COOPER: Gloria, do you buy this, that she's been disrespected more than any other candidate who's ever run?
GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Look, I think as Candy said, you know, clearly as a female candidate she's had more than her share of punches that were -- that were thrown at her, that were sexist.
But this notion that Bill Clinton is putting out there that somehow there's this cover-up, and that there's this frantic bullying of super delegates.
I think every super delegate in America has heard the Clinton argument over and over and over again, as you just heard the president say, that she is the one who is best equipped to beat John McCain. She would win in the battle ground states. That maybe she'll come out of this ahead with the popular vote. She's the one who should be the nominee.
There's -- you know, this -- these are arguments that they've heard from the Clintons time and time again. And clearly, they're still sitting back. And more of them, in fact, have been, like Chinese water torture every day, coming out for Barack Obama. So I'm not quite sure what the cover-up here is.
COOPER: We're going to have more from our panel. Stick around. We want to get your take on the breaking news that we've been following. The president's former spokesman accusing the White House of using propaganda to sell the war in Iraq, a war he now says was not necessary to begin with.
We'll be right back.
COOPER: Scott McClellan back when he was the White House spokesman, so loyal a defender of the administration line, he became something of a running joke on the late-night monologues.
Well, not any more. The breaking news tonight, his tell-all memoir coming out on Monday and some serious allegations against the Bush White House.
We're "Digging Deeper." Joining me again, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley, CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger, and reporter who broke the story, chief political correspondent for Politico.com, Mike Allen.
Candy, we heard from former White House homeland security adviser, Frances Townsend, earlier in the program, that she feels this is pretty self-serving on McClellan's part, that he never voiced any opposition or concern about White House policy when he was actually still working there. Karl Rove made similar statements tonight on another network.
Is this what the general reaction is going to be from those currently in the White House, those who served with McClellan, sort of this "where is he coming from? This guy was out of the loop?" CROWLEY: Sure. I mean, absolutely. And we know from Scott himself that he was out of the loop, because he went out there during the whole Scooter Libby thing and said something that was not true that he didn't know was not true. So obviously, he was out of the loop on some things.
Scott, obviously, is going to come out and do some publicity tours for this book. And so we'll get his side of it.
What is astonishing to me about this story and about this book is that Scott McClellan really was part of that Texas family. He was very close to the Bushes. He has been there from the get-go, from the campaign in 1999. And is one of the nicest fellows around. Very even-keeled. A very sort of easy-come, easy-go kind of guy.
And for -- I think if you had asked in 2000 who's going to write the tell-all, it wouldn't have been Scott McClellan.
CROWLEY: But, you know, the fact is there is always one in every -- in every campaign.
COOPER: Gloria, does this have an impact on the campaign?
BORGER: You know, that's -- that's an interesting question.
COOPER: Well, that's what I get paid, to ask occasionally interesting questions.
BORGER: I think -- I think it has an impact on how some people may talk about this war and about how the campaign is waged.
I mean, Scott McClellan made this really interesting observation. He said, you know, there were too -- too many people in this White House governing the permanent campaign, as did the Clintons during -- during their White House years.
And he said there should be a deputy chief of staff for governing, because people inside administrations tend to just continue to campaign. And so maybe that could give Barack Obama some fodder to talk about how he would govern differently, if he took over the White House.
COOPER: Mike, people knew Scott McClellan was working on a book. Did anybody see this coming?
ALLEN: They didn't. And I think that they thought that it would be much milder than it was. Anderson, we learn in this book that Scott McClellan's Secret Service code game was Matrix. And I can tell you people are calling him other names tonight.
In fact, the joke around the White House, as you viewers saw, the title is "What Happened." They say that it should be "What Happened?", with a question mark after it. COOPER: I just want to read one quote that we'll talk about in the next hour. "History appears poised to confirm" -- this is Scott McClellan writing -- "history appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided, the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do now is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."
Clearly, Candy, a big change of heart for Scott McClellan.
CROWLEY: Well, absolutely. And if we are to believe those still in the White House and those who have come out, like Frances, also not something that he said inside the White House. And we have seen this in recent years. You know, you sort of go back to the Nixon administration, and you saw all these people who resigned when they didn't agree. And you don't -- you don't see that much anymore.
COOPER: No one resigns anymore. I don't understand. No one stands on principle and resigns. Everyone, I guess, waits to write a book.
But we're going to have to leave it there. We're going to have more of this discussion at the top of our hour in about seven minutes from now. Candy, thank you.
Gloria Borger, Mike Allen, thanks.
Let's check some of tonight's other headlines. Erica Hill joins us with a news and business bulletin -- Erica.
HILL: Anderson, a 360 follow in China, where 80,000 people have evacuated downstream of an unstable dam. That dam is holding back 34 billion gallons of water and is in danger of collapsing. The dam was formed by the walls of mud and rubble from the earthquake that devastated central China earlier this month.
Today the death toll there rose to more than 67,000.
The National Weather Service says Sunday's deadly tornado in Eastern Iowa had winds was stronger than first thought with winds of up to 205 miles per hour. The storm killed seven people. It was the most powerful tornado to hit Iowa in 32 years.
Americans drove 11 billion fewer miles this March compared to a year ago. The Department of Transportation says it is the steepest driving decline ever recorded. It may not be the last, since the average price of gasoline this Memorial Day was just a few cents shy of $4. That's actually 70 cents higher than last Memorial Day.
And Earle Hagen, the man who composed and whistled the theme for "The Andy Griffith Show," has died.
COOPER: Aw! HILL: He was 88 years old. Hagen composed themes and music for not just "The Andy Griffith Show" but about 3,000 hours of television in his 60-year career.
COOPER: Aw. He shall be missed.
Up next, the winner of tonight's "Beat 360" contest. That was the crew's salute, by the way.
Plus, Obama's big gaffe. His story about his uncle helping to liberate Auschwitz doesn't quite match the facts. The fallout, the damage control, next on 360.
COOPER: Time for our "Beat 360" winners. This is where our viewers take on our staff, try to come up with a better caption for the picture we post on our blog every morning. We play the cheesy music. Erica occasionally graces us with a little performance.
HILL: Sean told me I wasn't dancing enough.
COOPER: Today, the picture was the vice president, Dick Cheney, delivering the main address during the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement exercises last week.
Our staff winner is Barclay. His caption: "Go ahead, call it cowboy diplomacy. Make my day."
(SOUND EFFECT: Foghorn)
Tonight's viewer winner is Cameron who submitted this: "I told them I'd wear a cap, but no way am I wearing a gown."
(SOUND EFFECT: Cheers)
COOPER: The crowd went wild.
As always, you can check out all the captions that didn't quite make the cut at our blog at CNN.com/360.
Coming up at the top of the hour, Barack Obama on the defensive today for remarks on World War II and the Holocaust. The question is does he really have anything to be sorry about? We're checking the facts.
Also, he stood there day after day repeating the White House line. Tonight, former spokesman Scott McClellan singing a different tune, and his old bosses, well, they don't like it one bit. Details next on 360.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: We've got breaking news. A pair of political stories tonight. One is a bombshell, the other a gaffe.
The bombshell, a White House insider, the president's former spokesman Scott McClellan lashing out, accusing the White House, in some cases accusing the president himself, of relying on propaganda to sell the war in Iraq. A war he now says was not necessary.
He also accuses the White House of playing politics with Hurricane Katrina and more. The story is breaking as we speak. We'll have all the details in just a few moments.
First, though, the political gaffe that's had the Obama campaign scrambling to set the record straight. It began with comments Senator Obama made during a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. Listen.
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(18/11/2007) A festive day for peace: Israel is planning to announce a freeze on construction in the settlements as compensation for refusing to discuss the core issues. The Palestinians are ecstatic at all the good-will gestures Israel is throwing their way. First came the release of prisoners, now a freeze on construction, and the prime minister has already spoken with the settler leaders and informed them of the decision. They said it was a "difficult meeting," as it always is, winking at each other deviously.
Undoubtedly, Israel wants peace. But a tiny detail seems to have been forgotten: Israel has signed a series of binding agreements to freeze settlement activity, which it never intended to fulfill. Of the 40 years of occupation, only during three has construction been stopped despite all the agreements and promises to do so. There is no reason to believe that Israel will behave differently this time.
Of all Israel's iniquities in the occupied territories - the brutality, the assassinations, the siege, the hunger, the blackouts, the checkpoints and the mass arrests - nothing serves as witness to its real intentions than the settlements. Certainly for the future. Every home built in the territories, every light pole and every road are like a thousand witnesses: Israel does not want peace; Israel wants occupation. Whoever is serious about peace and a Palestinian state does not put up even a shed.
From Oslo through Camp David and on to the road map, Israel has not put an end to the most criminal enterprise in its history. A short memory refresher: In article 7 of the Oslo Accords, Israel promised that "no party would undertake unilateral steps to alter the situation on the ground, prior to the completion of negotiations for the final status." That really made an impression on Israel. During the 10 years that followed, the number of settlers doubled. What about the heroic peace efforts of Ehud Barak as prime minister? During the 18 months of his government, Israel began the construction of 6,045 residential units in the territories.
And why did Israel sign up to the road map two years later? "The government of Israel will freeze all its settlement activities, in accordance with the Mitchell report, except for natural growth in the settlements." And what happened in practice? Accusations that the Palestinians are not implementing the agreements, and a boatload of new settlers. This was also the case in 2005, another major "year of peace": the disengagement. And what did Israel do in its own backyard? Another 12,000 new settlers.
This terrible enterprise, whose purpose is to foil any chance for peace, is also a criminal enterprise. According to Peace Now, based on Civil Administration data that have been kept hidden for years, about 40 percent of the settlements were built on privately owned land of Palestinians helpless to safeguard what is in most cases their sole property that was robbed in broad daylight by an occupying state. This took place years after the Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that it is illegal to build on private Palestinian land. Indeed, while Israel is debating whether it is a state of laws, whether the prime minister was given a discount for the house on Cremieux Street, and whether we want a powerful Supreme Court, we should remember that what is happening in the territories is the real corruption that engulfs us.
Now we are on the eve of another peace event, yet during the past year another 3,525 new residential units were built in the territories, under the auspices of a government that talks incessantly about the end of occupation and two states. All the grandiloquent statements are void of substance when we read the data: Construction is at a peak in 88 settlements. Go to the territories and see for yourselves. When the construction firm Heftsiba imploded, suddenly hundreds of new settlers came to light, further proof of the magnitude of the "frozen" enterprise.
The mountains of excuses, "settlement blocs" and "natural growth," as well as "beyond the fence" and "inside the fence," cannot conceal the naked truth: The enterprise has not ceased for a moment. It will not stop now. The hands of a quarter million settlers are soiled by iniquity and felony, but they are not the true guilty party. That belongs to all Israel's governments, with the exception of Yitzhak Rabin's second government. All of them have a hand in the iniquity.
Nowadays, when Ehud Olmert says no, what does he mean? Is the "no" really "no" - perhaps it is only "maybe but not right now?" In view of past experience, the bitter truth is that Olmert's "no," like all those before it, is more inviting than "yes."
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In short, a strategy for all seasonsPUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2013 00:33:01 | UPDATED: 27 Feb 2013 00:33:01PUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2013 PRINT EDITION: 27 Feb 2013
Short sellers of expensive-looking businesses such as steel companies have suffered. Photo: Reuters
As markets rise, it’s easy to assume short selling becomes less relevant as a trading strategy. But experts say shorting is still an appropriate strategy, especially when trying to mitigate the risks to which an investment portfolio is exposed.
Short selling is a strategy that produces an investment return by selling shares or other assets such as currencies and buying them back when the value of the assets has dropped.
Steven Dooley is the head of research at online brokerage ForexCT. “Shorting acts as a hedge for a portfolio. When markets experience several months of gains, it increases the likelihood of a selldown. Shorting can help protect the portfolio in the event there is a market downturn,” he says.
One way to do this, says Dooley, is to have the majority of a portfolio as long positions – that is, when the value of the stock rises, so too does the investor’s return – but maintain a few key short positions in case the market tumbles.
“The market could drop by 5 to 10 per cent if Europe rears its ugly head again, or if there is bad economic news out of China. Having a few short positions will reduce overall losses if the market drops due to these factors,” Dooley says.
When markets are in a downturn, Dooley says up to 50 per cent of a portfolio might be held in short positions.
But when markets are rising, investors might only hold 10 to 20 per cent of their portfolio short.
Dooley says a common mistake investors make when markets rise is to sell outperforming stocks on the basis that “what goes up must come down”.
“Markets don’t operate on a gravity principle and the worst thing you can do is to sell a stock that’s going up,” he says. “The idea is to look for sectors that are performing poorly and short stocks from those areas.”
The head of hedge fund sales at investment bank UBS, Thomas Anglin, acknowledges that recent months have been a painful time for short sellers.
“Short sellers of expensive-looking businesses such as diversified financials and steel companies have suffered. Stocks in those industries have rallied more than many others.”
He says that although the market has risen for six out of the past seven weeks – a feat not seen for 42 years – there’s still considerable shorting activity taking place.
“Lots of professional investors don’t believe the rally and have continued to add to short positions. These investors may still be making money because the positive return on their long positions could be outweighing losses on their shorts.”
Nevertheless, Anglin says market data shows shorting activity has diminished. Only 1.23 per cent of the market is presently held short, as a percentage of total market capitalisation. In early to mid-2012 this figure was 1.5 per cent.
“But there are a number of stocks that have a very high short interest ratio, as high as 15 per cent of their total market capitalisation,” he says.
Standard Life Investments head of multi-asset investing and fixed income Euan Munro says, “Clearly as an isolated position, no one wants to be shorting any asset class or security that is going up, just as no one wants to own something that is falling in value, but most fund managers will be using shorting as one leg of a relative value position.”
For example at the moment Standard Life has a preference for the Nasdaq index over the Taiwanese stockmarket.
“So long as the asset we are long, the Nasdaq stocks, rises by more than the asset we are short, the Taiwanese stocks, we do not mind at all if they both go up,” Munro says.
“The Nasdaq is up about 5.9 per cent this year and Taiwan is up about 3.2 per cent, so this strategy has made us about 2.7 per cent. We have achieved this with minimal risk as we have not had any outright exposure to the ups and downs of the stockmarket, merely to relative movements between these highly correlated markets.”
He says that when it comes to relative value positions, investors are generally happy to be short in almost any market so long as they can find a highly correlated market they prefer.
“It’s worth noting when shorting individual stocks you are taking quite significant idiosyncratic risk,” Munro says. “For example, you will be in big trouble if a pharmaceutical company you are short finds a cure for cancer. That’s why we tend to only short broad segments of the market, such as entire countries or entire sectors.”
He advises investors who are shorting to really understand the risks of this strategy.
“Risk is dramatically reduced if you focus on relative value strategies as these provide the opportunity to make a return in rising and falling markets,” he says. “In the case of our Nasdaq versus Taiwan position, we don’t care if markets rise or fall. We don’t even care whether technology stocks do well or badly.
“What we do need to happen is for American technology stocks to do better than Taiwanese chip manufacturers. This is a very low risk position.”
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My friend Jordan Ballor takes the occasion of this conversation at the American Enterprise Institute to revisit a question he (and we) have canvassed before. His answer, which I find attractive, if not altogether satisfying, is that libertarian political philosophy can be regarded as conservative, but a libertarian Weltanschauung (worldview, for you trendy evangelicals out there) cannot. The former, he says, treats liberty as the highest political goal, while the latter apotheosizes liberty altogether.
Permit me two quibbles with this formulation. First, I’m not so sure that the distinction between political philosophy and worldview is as self-evident as Ballor believes. It presupposes a limit on the claims of politics, which (John Rawls to the contrary notwithstanding) can only be accomplished on the basis of a comprehensive reflection on the human good. Such reflection has typically been undertaken by people I’d call political philosophers.
Now, Ballor (I suspect) would offer a biblical response to this claim, attempting to vindicate his distinction between a merely political (and rational) understanding of human communal life and a religious understanding that subordinates those natural considerations to supernatural ends. (Am I right? I’ll look for a response on Facebook or over at PowerBlog. But not on Twitter.)
I’ll anticipate his response by posing the following question: would the first adjective that comes to mind when describing St. Augustine’s political philosophy be “libertarian”?
My second quibble has to do with the place of liberty as our highest political good. Would not justice, to the extent that it can be promoted by finite, fallen, and fallible beings, come closer to the highest political good (as described by almost every political philosopher)? Liberty might be one of the answers to the question 0f what we deserve in this world, but focusing on justice has the advantage of situating us in a community as bearers of rights and responsibilities and of compelling us to reflect substantively on what the human good is. With these considerations in mind, it would be much easier to draw a line between liberty as a limited political good and the wilfulness too often associated with the “libertarian worldview.”
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[android] How can I configure WLAN and Bluetooth on Android/Freerunner
jim at anconafamily.com
Thu Dec 11 21:10:56 CET 2008
> I'm using Android/Freerunner built by following the instructions
> described in
> That is, I'm using a system image from Koolu, and the kernel from
> Everything looks good until now. However, I can't configure Wi-Fi and
> Bluetooth with it. I wanted to key in each password for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
> When I tried to configure them, the keyboard invoked by the menu button
> wasn't activated because the configuration windows (asking for
> passwords) were positioned at the top-most layer.
> How can I use the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth? Could you give me a hand?
First, please don't cross-post this type of question to multiple lists,
and it's best to prefix your subject line with [android] to make it easy
for people to filter.
You're right that Rui's keyboard doesn't yet work with modal dialogs in
Android, like those the Settings app uses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
configuration. One workaround is to install qad-keyboard.apk, available
at http://code.google.com/p/netgents/downloads/list. With that keybaord
you can compose your text, hit the OK button to copy it to the
clipboard, then launch the dialog and use Android's long-press paste
menu to paste it into the field.
Having said all that, wi-fi doesn't seem to work with the current
source. Scanning has never worked, and while with one of Sean's earlier
builds if you entered your SSID into settings it would connect, that no
longer seems to work. I've played with a bit and haven't come up with a
I don't have a bluetooth device to try with it. You can try the keyboard
trick above and see how it works for you.
More information about the community
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Forward? Barack Obama’s second termPosted: 06/02/2013
By Chris Raggett, Assistant editor
Although foreign policy played a small role in the US presidential campaign late last year, the way Barack Obama handles Iran before 2016 could determine how the president goes down in history. So argues Mark Fitzpatrick, the director of the IISS’s non-proliferation programme, speaking at a discussion meeting last week about Obama’s upcoming second term.
Over the weekend, Iran signalled it might return in late February to talks with the international community over its disputed nuclear programme. However, the country has also recently notified the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, that it will be installing new, more efficient centrifuges at its uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz. This would dramatically shorten the time it would take Tehran to ‘break-out’ and make a nuclear bomb after expelling IAEA inspectors. Fitzpatrick, who believes there is the chance that some sort of military action ‘may come into play’ in the next four years to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, has said the installation of new centrifuges would be a ‘game changer‘.
Obama made key commitments to advancing nuclear disarmament soon after he first came to power in 2009. But the ambitions he outlined in a speech in Prague have met with many obstacles, including Pakistan’s nuclear competitiveness with India in Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty talks, Israeli security concerns that were preventing the Middle East from becoming a WMD-free zone; and Brazil’s principled obstruction of new IAEA safeguards.
In general, Fitzpatrick predicted that Obama’s second-term handling of international affairs ‘will be reactive rather than proactive’. However, he welcomed a recent announcement that US Vice President Joe Biden would soon begin talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov over reducing nuclear weaponry, and he suggested that a separate arrangement on cooperative missile defence would be possible if Russia were to drop its insistence on a legal guarantee that US missile defences would not be directed against its strategic forces.
Obama promised to make US ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty a priority in his Prague speech, and such an achievement would ‘most clearly constitute a tangible step toward disarmament’ for America’s allies, Fitzpatrick said. The ‘technical arguments in support of the treaty are beyond dispute’ as ‘advances in stockpile stewardship make re-testing of US weapons unnecessary’.
However, passing the treaty would require the support of 12 Republican senators, which may not be forthcoming if recent efforts to block a UN bill on disabled rights are any indication. The GOP seems increasingly creative in its attempts to stymie Obama policy.
Although a forthcoming US Department of Defense paper may provide ‘the justification to reduce offensively deployed strategic nuclear weapons to 1,000 warheads, or even fewer’, Fitzpatrick said, efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear programme were not working as Tehran had ‘not been very interested in engagement or negotiation’.
IISS Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs Dana Allin, who also spoke at the event, pointed out that: ‘America’s bitter polarisation does not look like favourable terrain for political action that would require great changes.’
Both speakers agreed that climate change will advance up the president’s foreign-policy agenda in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. If the United States could come close to meeting the provisions for environmental sustainability detailed in the Kyoto Protocol, Allin said, it would be well positioned to lead the international community on energy reform, even if neither Obama nor Romney ‘had been willing to say much on [the subject] while campaigning’.
Allin, the editor of the institute’s journal Survival, described the 2012 presidential elections as putting ‘the status of American society on the ballot’ in a way that was unique in recent years. He pointed to the president’s energetic defence of liberal values in his inauguration speech as suggesting a Democratic realignment comparable to that of the Republican Party in the Nixon–Reagan years.
Obama’s actions in his first term suggest his image as ‘a great conciliator’ was exaggerated, said Allin. The president made progress on issues such as healthcare and tax reform by standing his ground, even saying ‘I’m not going to negotiate again on the debt ceiling’ and refusing to answer calls from Congressional Republicans. His second term will likely be characterised by aggression on both sides of the aisle, with compromises being reached only when one party’s position is untenable.
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Violin Society of America/H.K. Goodkind
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CLASSIFICATION NO: ML31 .G66
PROCESSED BY: Linda Richer, December 1995
Herbert K. Goodkind was born in New York City on April 30, 1905 to Walter and Annie Visanska Goodkind. Musicians in the family included his mother, who was a pianist, and his uncle, Dan Visanska, who played the violin professionally in several orchestras in Europe. Herbert Goodkind grew up in Yonkers, and lived briefly in Florida, South Carolina, and the Bronx before settling in Larchmont, New York in 1933. He attended the Cornell University School of Hotel Management for three years and then spent his career in the real estate business in New York City. During the 1930s and 1940s he sold commercial real estate in Manhattan for Helmsley Spear. He also was an active real estate agent in Larchmont where he maintained a successful business in management, appraisal, and consulting until the 1960s. Goodkind married Mabel Goldhammer (d. 1956) and had two sons, Thomas (b. 1933) and John (b. 1935). He married Virginia Jackson Haggett (b. 1925) in 1957 and had a daughter, Rachel (b. 1958) and a son, Daniel (b. 1961). Rachel continued her father's interest in the history of the violin and managed his estate after his death in 1982 following a one-month illness.
Goodkind's passionate interest in violin history and construction led him to become a dealer and appraiser of violins, an avid collector and dealer in books and other material on the subject, a publisher of his own book on Stradivari, and an early leader in the Violin Society of America. Initially taught by his uncle, Dan Visanska, Goodkind began playing the violin at age 10 and later, as an accomplished violinist, played in numerous chamber music groups. He played many other instruments as well and earned money during his college years by playing the saxophone. Goodkind began collecting materials about the violin in his early years and continued throughout his life.
Goodkind collected, identified, and appraised rare violins. His careful tracking of specific violins prompted him to collect auction catalogs, especially in the last twenty years of his life. In about 1978 he and his close friend Eric Chapman began a business in Larchmont, New York that specialized in new hand-made instruments and that kept rare instruments on consignment. He met Eric Chapman through the Violin Society of America, which was founded in 1973 by a group which included Chapman and Goodkind.
As an independent dealer in books on all subjects, Goodkind was a longtime subscriber to AB Bookman. He specialized in rare books and collected music scores as well. In 1958 he sold 36,000 volumes to the University of Texas at Austin (Goodkind-Bookman Collection), and in 1969 he sold 5,000 books and scores to Hofstra University in Long Island.
The impetus for the Goodkind Collection at Oberlin College came in 1959 upon the death of his New York City friend and fellow collector, Hyman Frankel. His twenty-five year friendship with Frankel centered on their mutual enthusiasm for the violin and collecting. Over the years they exchanged and purchased items from one another. During his fatal illness, Frankel asked Goodkind to care for his collection after his death. Frankel's collection included about 1,000 books and pamphlets with dates of 1659 to 1959, about 1,500 scores, prints and engravings, and violins and bows. Frankel's collection constitutes a large portion of the Goodkind Collection.
In 1972, Goodkind published Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1644-1737, the definitive study of all known (725) Stradivari instruments and their provenance with photographs, illustrations and related articles. Because no publisher wished to take the risk of publishing such an ambitious work, Goodkind himself contracted typesetters (Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont), printers (Meriden Gravure, Meriden, Connecticut), and binders (Horowitz & Co., Clifton, New York) to publish the book on his own. In 1971 Goodkind commissioned Larchmont, New York artist Alton Tobey (b. 1914) to create a painting of Antonio Stradivari at work, which was featured in the book. In an earlier publishing effort in 1960, Goodkind published a 45-year cumulative index of The Musical Quarterly. This experience in self-publishing gave him the needed experience to complete the Stradivari work of 1972.
Goodkind, Herbert K. "20th-century Tarisio: A Rare Violin Book Collector." The Violin Maker's Journal 5 (February-March 1962): 31-32; 5 (April-May 1962): 5-7.
Goodkind, Rachel. Letter of 15 November 1995.
"Goodkind Compiles Definitive Listing of Strads." The Daily Times (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), 11 October 1972.
"Goodkind Adds Another Career to His Life." The Daily Times (Mamaroneck, N.Y.), 29 January 1978.
"Herbert K. Goodkind, Expert on Violins" (obituary). Gannett Westchester Newspapers, 28 July 1982.
Medoff, Eve. "Alton Tobey: The Artist as Researcher." American Artist (May 1976): 52-56, 83-86.
"Reception to Celebrate Violin-book Collection." Oberlin College Observer, February 1987, 1.
The H.K. Goodkind Collection, jointly purchased in 1986 by The Violin Society of America and Oberlin College, includes over 1,200 book, score and periodical titles, more than 550 auction catalogs, miscellaneous research files, a clippings file, photographs, and two paintings.
This collection was amassed over the years with significant help from Hyman Frankel (d. 1959), an amateur musician and an informed book and violin collector in New York City. His valuable collection of materials contained over 1,000 books including many rare titles on the violin from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century; over 1,500 scores for solo violin, violin chamber music, violin methods and treatises; prints and engravings; and violins and bows. Frankel asked Goodkind to handle the disposition of the collection in about 1959.
Hyman Frankel escaped from Russia in the early 1900s, emigrated to Boston at the age of fifteen, and moved to New York City shortly thereafter. He studied violin with Ferdinand Carri. His vocation as fur cutter allowed him to assemble his collection over a period of fifty years. He acquired his collection through catalogs, pawn shops, book stores, and fiddle shops. Many of the rare eighteenth-century materials in the Goodkind Collection were originally part of Frankel's collection.
The book and periodical portion of Goodkind's collection is the most significant, both in size and content. Each title is individually cataloged and the collection is brought together with a local subject heading "VSA—H.K. Goodkind Collection." The collection focuses on the history of the violin, violin construction, the rare violin market through the years, early violin makers and violinists, and early violin treatises. Rare eighteenth-century treatises on violin playing and stringed instrument acoustics include authors such as Francesco Geminiani, Carlo Tessarini, Peter Prelleur, Johan Adam Hiller, Leopold Mozart, and Carlo Taglini. More than fifty books on the early nineteenth-century violin virtuoso and composer Niccolo Paganini, including works published during his lifetime, were collected primarily by Frankel, who was an avid admirer of Paganini. The collection is rich in materials on violin construction and acoustics, with extensive coverage of the bow, varnish, woods, gums and resins, adhesives, and painting techniques. Because the book collection covers these topics with materials from about 1667 to the mid-1980s, it is one of the most significant collections of its kind. The Oberlin College Library is continuing the tradition by collecting newly-published materials on the violin and violin construction.
In addition to the individually cataloged book and serial titles, the Goodkind Collection includes other historical materials and media, divided into the following series: Series I. Catalog collection; Series II. Collected research materials, subseries A-B as follows: A. Herbert K. Goodkind papers; B. Edward Abell papers; Series III. Vertical file; Series IV. Non-textual records, subseries A-C as follows: A. Photographs; B. Reproductions of paintings; C. Paintings.
The Catalog collection (Series I) provides the researcher with a wealth of information about violin sales, pricing, and ownership. Hyman Frankel regularly collected catalogs and provided the foundation for the catalog collection. When Goodkind received the collection in 1959, he actively worked to update this part of the collection. Goodkind carefully followed the rare violin market by collecting catalogs from auction houses, stringed instrument makers, and musical instrument dealers. In collecting the 566 catalogs from 104 companies (1838-1991), he emphasized catalogs from auctions of musical instruments. Goodkind served the researcher well by often noting the selling price of the instrument in the margins of the auction catalog. The auction houses most heavily represented are Bongartz, Christie's, Phillips, Puttick & Simpson, and Sotheby's.
Stringed instrument makers such as Fraser, Gemunder, Muller & Kaplan, Roth, Virzi, and Weisshaar are also represented with price lists and descriptive, historical, or biographical pamphlets. Finally, he collected many musical instrument dealer catalogs, especially those dealing with rare instruments, such as Bein & Fushi, Inc., Ditson, Doring, Fischer, Friedrich, Lewis, Lyon & Healy, Rushworth & Dreaper, Scherl & Roth, and Wurlitzer. A twenty-page inventory of the catalog collection is available as a separate list.
Goodkind's deep interest in photographs of rare violins led him to keep a meticulous notebook that indexed photographs of violins discovered in his readings, the catalogs, and other brochures. Although never published, the index (Violin Iconography) is useful to anyone needing photographs of specific violins. The holograph is individually cataloged in the H.K. Goodkind Collection (ML140.G66 1900z) and often refers to photographs appearing in the Catalog collection.
Over the years, Goodkind collected several sets of research materials to supplement his collection. H.K. Goodkind's own papers (Series II, Subseries A) are a small part of the collection and cover a relatively short time period in his life (1960-1982). Miscellaneous correspondence concerning the collection, along with some research notes, provide only sketchy information about the collection and do not form a complete set of his papers or correspondence.
Edward W. Abell (1864-1957), an early twentieth-century expert and connoisseur of violin history and violin making, was similar to Goodkind in his interests and approaches to his avocation. Abell's papers (Series IV, Subseries B) document his research and writings on the history of the violin and violin construction in The Violinist and other periodicals from 1916 to 1927. His long and involved letters to the editor of The Violinist, Ada Taylor, often responded to articles and queries sent to the magazine and usually concerned the identification of specific violins or information about specific violin makers, especially Italian makers and violins. Abell's career and avocations parallel Goodkind's interests and are an interesting addition to the collection as a whole.
Goodkind's Vertical File (Series III) includes photocopies of articles from periodicals and newspapers (1808-1986) on the subject of violin construction and history. Goodkind carefully collected newspaper clippings and single periodical issues that included articles of interest. Usually these were articles from non-music journals, generalist periodicals, or other non-music specialized journals which musicians would normally not be able to retrieve through a normal literature search in the field of music. All articles and clippings have been photocopied and placed into a subject-organized vertical file. The file includes 168 articles from 83 periodical titles and 107 newspaper articles from 32 newspaper titles. The file is especially strong in articles on violin builders and violin construction.
The non-textual visual materials in the collection shows Goodkind's interest in iconography (Series IV). Two nineteenth-century photo albums include early photographs of Franz Liszt, historical figures, and royalty. Loose photographs of several violin makers are included along with miscellaneous photographs of violins that were enclosed in correspondence to Goodkind. A large black and white photo of Fritz Kreisler and Walter Damrosch playing four-hand piano at the Ruppert Club in the 1930s is included. Also a part of the collection are two paintings, one of H.K. Goodkind (1980) by Ted Koepper, and the other of Antonio Stradivari at work, painted by Alton Tobey and commissioned by Goodkind in 1971.
Series I. Catalog Collection, 1838-1991 (13 l.f.)
Consists of auction catalogs, musical instrument maker catalogs and brochures, and musical instrument dealer catalogs. The collection of 566 catalogs representing 104 companies is inventoried in a separately produced unpublished 20 page document that accompanies the catalog collection. The catalogs are shelved alphabetically by company name.
Series II. Collected Research Materials
Consists of materials collected by Goodkind to support his research, collecting, and writing.
Subseries A. Herbert K. Goodkind Papers, 1895-1954 (.2 l.f.)
Consists primarily of correspondence to Goodkind with some copies of letters sent. Some correspondence of Goodkind's estate in 1984 along with miscellaneous correspondence other than Goodkind's also exists. Miscellaneous research notes and drafts of his article about Hyman Frankel ("20th-century Tarisio" published in 1962 in The Violin Maker's Journal) complete the subseries.
Subseries B. Edward W. Abell Papers, 1909-1928 (.4 l.f.)
Consists of one box of correspondence and research files. Correspondence between Ada E. Taylor and Abell (1916-1927) is followed by folders of general correspondence (1909-1928). The best biographical material on Abell is found in his draft of a letter to Taylor (never sent) of February 21, 1920. His research files are organized by article along with correspondence to and from editors about that specific article. Correspondence with Ada Taylor, editor of The Violinist, is found in these research files as well as in the separate Taylor/Abell correspondence folders. Ephemera folders contain ads for The Violinist, a membership certificate for the Philadelphia Forum, and publications from John A. Gould & Son in Boston. The final folder contains biographical information on Abell.
Series III. Vertical File, 1808-1986 (.9 l.f.)
Consists of individual periodical and newspaper articles on the subject of violin construction, violin history, and violinists or violin makers. The vertical file includes 168 articles from 83 periodical titles and 107 newspaper articles from 32 newspaper titles. Articles are filed by subject.
Series IV. Miscellaneous visual materials (.5 l.f.)
Consists of a variety of materials in various media collected by Goodkind because of his interest in iconography.
Subseries A. Photographs
Consists of two nineteenth-century photo albums: 1) with 60 photographs of Franz Liszt; 2) with 30 photos of historical figures and royalty. Also included are two postcards with Liszt photos; 8 loose plates with portrait photography of late nineteenth-century musical figures (Hector Berlioz, Hans Richter, Arthur Nikisch, Anton Seidl, Theodore Thomas, Arturo Toscanini); photographs of violin makers Fred Haenel and Arthur Bultitude; a photo of Charles E. Farley Model 1900 violin; and miscellaneous photographs (c. 65) of violins enclosed in correspondence to Goodkind. An unidentified series of about 40 black and white photographs of rare instruments is included as well as one large black and white photo of Fritz Kreisler and Walter Damrosch.
Subseries B. Reproductions of paintings
Two reproductions (12.5×16") of the 1971 Tobey painting of Antonio Stradivari at work.
Subseries C. Paintings
1980 painting (36×48") of H.K. Goodkind by Ted Koepper and the 1971 painting (40×47") of Antonio Stradivari at work by Alton S. Tobey and commissioned by Goodkind.
The H.K. Goodkind Collection was jointly purchased by the Violin Society of America and the Oberlin College Library in 1986 after Goodkind's death in 1982. A large portion of this collection came to H.K. Goodkind in 1959 from the estate of Hyman Frankel (d. 1959). The Collection was transferred to the Oberlin College Library by H.K. Goodkind's daughter, Rachel Goodkind, in 1986. At that time the name of the collection officially became the VSA—H.K. Goodkind Collection.
Series I. Catalog Collection (1838-1991) Boxes 1-34 Catalogs in alphabetical order by name of company. Inventory for catalog collection available upon request. Series II. Collected Research Materials Subseries A. Herbert K. Goodkind Papers (1895-1984) Box 35 Correspondence (2f) Frankel article (1962) with correspondence Correspondence —- Goodkind estate Miscellaneous correspondence other than Goodkind Collected research materials Collected biographical information on Goodkind Subseries B. Edward W. Abell Papers (1909-1928) Box 36 Abell-Taylor / Taylor-Abell correspondence 1916-1927 (4f) General correspondence 1909-1928 (4f) Writings and research notes 1915-1925 (13f) Ephemera (2f) Collected biographical information on Abell Series III. Vertical File (1808-1986) Articles and clippings (1808-1988) filed by subject. Box 37 Acoustics / Physics / Chemistry (3f) 1840-1966, 1967-1979, 1980-1988 Construction / Lutherie (including adhesives, bow, gums and resins, painting techniques, strings, varnish, woods, and lutherie instruction and schools) (3f) 1808-1920, 1921-1939, 1940-1985 Box 38 Maintenance and Repair 1957-1966 Restoration / Restorers 1936-1978 Violin Makers (5f) A-H, I-S, Stradivari, T-Z, Collective Biography Bow Makers A-Z Other Instrument Makers A-Z Box 39 Violin Dealers A-Z Collections of Musical Instruments 1968-1974 Exhibitions of Musical Instruments 1877-1984 Rare Instrument Auctions and Auction Houses 1970-1982 Rare Instrument Prices and Pricing 1894-1982 Specific Rare Violins 1881-1982 Violinists and Composers (5f) A-C, D-P, Paganini, P-Z, Collective Biography Box 40 Violin Instruction and Study 1931-1979 Violin Music — Analysis and Appreciation 1965-1971 Competitions 1965 Violin Fiction, Poetry, and Tales 1840-1981 Violin and Music History 1874-1941 Violin Memorabilia, Collectibles, and Inventions 1943-1969 Miscellaneous 1904-1982 Series IV. Miscellaneous visual materials Subseries A. Photographs Box 41 Photos of Liszt housed in original album Photos of historical figures and royalty in original album Other photographs housed in one binder. Subseries B. Reproductions of paintings Box 41 (cont.) Consists of two reproductions of the Tobey painting. Box of b&w reproductions of paintings of literary characters Subseries C. Paintings Tobey painting displayed in Conservatory Library Seminar Room. Goodkind's portrait housed in Special Collections.
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Published in Cancer Weekly, July 6th, 2004
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The measure that prohibits discussion about sexual orientation in the classroom is a long way from passage with little time left in the legislative session.
House floor leader Representative Tim Jones, who schedules floor debates, says it's doubtful the bill will even come up for debate.
"You know, if the bill makes it to my calendar, I'll decide whether or not to bring it up. And if we have time and it depends on when it hits because now we're getting to that home stretch where I'm going to be looking more at Senate bills."
Jones says he does support the concept of the bill.
"You know, it simply stands for the proposition that certain things are appropriate to be taught in schools, and certain things are appropriate to be taught at home."
There's talk that the bill sponsored by south Missouri Representative Steve Cookson won't even make it to its first stage of consideration...that's a hearing before the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee.
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Joe Alper's Caffè Lena Photographs (1960-1968)
Joe Alper (b. 1925, d. 1968) is responsible for widely recognized and historic jazz, folk and blues performance photography. A self-taught freelance photographer, his work includes portraits and candid shots of the folk revival and civil rights era, nature and architecture. His entire portfolio (1958 - 1968) of approximately 80,000 negatives, is in the process of being digitized. Throughout the 1960s his photos were featured on major record company albums and music magazines. Demand for his pictures continues today, with interest from the Library of Congress, the Alan Lomax Archives, and Director Martin Scorcese. Joe and his wife, Jackie Gibson Alper played a key role in supporting Lena Spencer and her Caffè, often housing musicians at their nearby home. Known for thoughtfully clicking his 35mm Minolta camera in time to the music, Joe's candid black and white images used only available light and reveal his reverence for artists, their craft, and their trust in his artistry. The photos from this gallery represent a small selection of Joe's Caffè Lena images and we hope to post more as soon as possible. Photographs by Joe Alper courtesy of the Alper Family. All rights in and to the Photographs are reserved to the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC and may not be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC.
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Fast-food restaurant employees protested in New York City on Thursday, demanding higher pay and the right to form a union - the latest attempt by lower-wage workers in the United States to increase their compensation.
The campaign, called “Fast Food Forward,” seeks to roughly double hourly pay to $15 an hour and is being billed as the largest attempt to unionize U.S. fast-food workers.
Leading the effort is New York Communities for Change, a group that has helped unionize low-wage carwash and grocery workers in New York.
Strikes were scheduled at McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and Domino’s restaurants around the city throughout the day.
READ ON: Fast-food workers in New York protest for higher wages
As I say to both parties in a negotiation: good luck! Play fair, and secure a win / win outcome.
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Listen close and you’ll hear odes to the diamond hitch, balanced pannier loads, and mule strings traversing the mountains. Here are three packer-poets who will perform this month at the 26th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, discussing how the backcountry has influenced their art.
Ross Knox is Elko’s unofficial packer emeritus. He’s been on scene representing the backcountry since the Gathering’s inception in 1985.
“The backcountry is where I’ve spent most of my life,” Knox says. “Practically every job I’ve ever had was out there, whether it was working as a cow puncher in a remote camp, or as a packer on some trail.”
Of the two professions – packer and cow puncher – Knox has been most poetically productive in cow camp. “It’s hard to write a poem holding the lead rope to a string of mules,” he points out. “And consider this: you spend 3-4 months working in cow camp, but only twelve days on a pack trip. It takes time to write a good poem.”
Despite his many experiences at Elko over the years, last year’s 2009 Gathering marked a rare “first” for Ross Knox. He became the subject of someone else’s poem. The release of western singer Ian Tyson’s latest album, Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories, included the song “Ross Knox”. It tells the story of Knox’s protest against the National Park Service, over a rule that mandated Grand Canyon packers wear riding helmets.
“I had safely packed between forty- and sixty-thousand miles, while wearing a cowboy hat. It’s a record nobody will ever touch. But after sixteen years, I quit over that helmet rule.”
Ironically, Ross Knox is packing for the Grand Canyon again, this time as an independent contractor.
“It’s funny how if they need supplies packed in bad enough, they look the other way about my cowboy hat.”
Sandy Seaton Sallee describes outfitting as “living with horses and mules, in the quiet and solitude of the mountains. The backcountry is my cathedral.” Anyone who speaks that eloquently about their profession is sure to write a poem or two. Sallee, owner and operator of Black Mountain Outfitters, has written dozens of poems while leading pack trips into Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.
“Once camp is set up and the chores are finished, I sneak away to sit by a creek and write poetry,” Sallee says. She’s also known to perform poetry for her pack string as she goes down the trail. “Mules are an appreciative and polite audience.”
Beginning in 1990, Sandy took her show on the road to perform at the 6th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
“In Elko, it doesn’t matter if you’re a packer or a cowpuncher. Cowboy poetry creates a bond between all people who work with livestock. Whether you pack mules in the Absarokas where a grizzly could run across the trail, or ride cattle in Texas where a longhorn steer could hook into ya’, the spirit of the work is the same.”
Dave Stamey is not a cowboy poet, per se. He’s a cowboy singer. But they don’t split hairs in Elko, where musical performers the likes of Dave Stamey, Ian Tyson, and Don Edwards take the stage.
“The backcountry has been a tremendous influence on my music,” Stamey says. “I worked for many years as a packer in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, where I found musical inspiration.”
Once, Stamey even wrote a song onboard a horse: “McGee Creek (The Packer’s Song)”. He penned it while leading a four-mule pack string to an alpine drop camp. Since then, Stamey’s musical career has taken off and he doesn’t live off of packer wages. But he maintains his street-cred by taking to the hills in the summer as guest trip leader for Mammoth Lake Pack Outfit in the eastern Sierra Nevada’s. When he sings around a campfire, somewhere in the John Muir Wilderness, Stamey returns his songs to the mountains that bore them.
See Ross Knox, Sandy Seaton Sallee and Dave Stamey perform at the 26th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, January 23-30.
Western Horseman, January 2010
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:37:19 PM
Most cloud computing vendors focus their solutions to accommodate growing enterprise demand for cloud services, but consumers are also increasingly interested in the cloud and its various advantages.
According to a recent Fortune report, numerous members of the entertainment community, including film studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and cable companies, recently developed a cloud-based "digital locker" system named UltraViolet to combat the increasing issue of piracy and subsequent loss of business to streaming services like Netflix. The system enables consumers to store digital rights to movies and television shows on the internet and access the content from several remote devices.
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, a cross-industry initiative to enhance the digital media experience for consumers, launched the service in early January. Forbes said 750,000 households have already signed up for UltraViolet.
"In the coming months, consumers will hear exciting news from DECE Member companies and other UltraViolet licensees about a host of interoperable products and services, ushering in a new era of choice, confidence and freedom in digital entertainment," DECE general manager Mark Teitell said in a statement announcing the completion of the project.
The DECE hopes migrating digital content to the cloud in a legal, user-friendly manner will reduce consumers' desire to illegally download video content, the report said. According to Forbes, DVD sales reached $15.5 billion in 2004, but have since declined as a result of increased interest in Netflix and piracy.
Several experts have recently commented on the trend of consumers using devices with cloud features and electronics companies designing cloud-based products. According to InfoWorld's David Linthicum, the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas demonstrated the rise of cloud computing in consumer devices, such as DVD players, TVs and automobile technology that have internet-based utilities.
-McAfee Cloud Security
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HARRISBURG, PA - Saturday marks the first day of May, and in Pennsylvania, the first day of "Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month."
Officials from the state's department of transportation have launched a campaign known as "Live Free Ride Alive."
Their goal is to reduce the number of motorcycle crashes and fatalities on Pennsylvania roadways each year.
PennDOT's secretary says those figures were lower than average in 2009, the first decrease in several years.
The campaign also features an interactive web site for motorcyclists at www.livefreeridealive.com.
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It may come as a suprise to many that there is such a bowling club in such a place. Many only learn of its existence by chance. In the past the only bowlers associated with the City of London are those which sit upon the heads of the businessmen who worked there.
However take a stroll into the gardens at Finsbury Circus, London EC2 and you may be suprised to encounter bowlers of a very different kind.
Many confuse the club with the bowling green in Finsbury Square, which is not an actual club. But a public bowling green where you can "pay to play or hire a rink and play etc". The green in Finsbury Square is not in the City, but over the border in Islington. The only Bowling green and club within London (City) is the City of London Bowling Club. Based in Finsbury Circus Gardens.
The site was originally known as "Fensbury" and was formed after the Romans had departed, by the blocking of culverts cut into the City wall for the walbrook. Early in the 15th century, the City wall was breached at this point and Moorgate was completed. By the year 1606 the level of the moor had been raised and laid out with elm trees and benches - the area becoming London's first public park.
So in 1606 the land now occupied by the club formed part of the first public park in London. From 1815 - 1817 William Montague built some tall handsome houses - designed by George Dance The Younger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dance_the_Younger) around the rim of the open area
The rest of the land was open fields. Gravel walks had previously been added for walking "promenading". None of the original houses has survived modern times, but over the years they have been replaced by some attractive office buildings. British Petroleum (BP) presently has offices accross from the club.
In 1900 when Finsbury Circus Gardens was the largest open space in the City (Square Mile). The Corporation of London acquired the land by Act of Parliament. The bowling green was laid in 1904 according to Mr Percy Thomspon (who joined the club in 1954, was Captain in 1974 and who was Chairman from 1976-89). However it was by no means the first in the City. There was apparently a Bowling Green in Drapers Gardens, off Throgmorton Street. Which was closed in the late 1800s. A point of trivia, there are no roads within the City only streets.
However details concerning the laying of the green are not clear, as the minutes from the first committee meeting of the City of London Bowling Club taken 2nd October 1924 record a discussion about how funds were to be raised in order to "form" a bowling green. Mr Easton (donated the City of London BC Handicap Singles Cup- Easton Challenge Cup) was influential in securing our green in 1924-26. What is clear from that meeting, is how membership would only be confined to City residents and their families. However, it was resolved that Honorary membership would be conferred to those members who had businesses withn the City boundaries.
At the second committee meeting of the club, tenders were invited for the building of the bowling green and the Rt Hon Lord Mayor of London was approached in order to become President.
1924 Sir Alfred Bower - First President of The City of London Bowling Club
Members of Parliament for the City of London were approached to become Vice Presidents. Funds for the work on the green were to be raised from Livery Companies, Stockbrokers and Investment Banks. The minutes for the next few committee meetings show how little success was encountered over obtaining the money. Committee meeting number seven saw subscription lists discussed. By the tenth committee meeting of the club in May 1925, total subscriptions of £28.20 were handed over to the Hon Treasurer.
Founded in 1924, it was however on Saturday 26th June 1926 that saw the "Official" opening of The City of London Bowling Club. The 26th June is still celebrated in the club diary each year and is known as "Founders Day". The green was officially opened by the Rt Hon Lord Mayor of London, the Club President. The tradition of having the Lord Mayor as President continues to this day. (Not to be confused with Boris Johnson and the new office of "Mayor for London").
Had the club existed in the 1400s we would have had Dick Whittington as President. Richard (Dick) Whittington was a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He was Lord Mayor of London for the years; 1397-98, 1406-07 and 1419-20. Sir Richard Whittington (sometimes Richard Whytyngdone) (c. 1354–1423) was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London. In his lifetime he financed a number of public projects, such as drainage systems in poor areas of medieval London, and a hospital ward for unmarried mothers. He bequeathed his fortune to form the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington, which nearly 600 years later, continues to assist people in need. http://www.mercers.co.uk/netbuildpro/process/223/TheCharityofSirRichardWhittington.php
London's first Lord Mayor was Henry Fitz-Ailwyn in 1189. Before then, it was ruled by Sheriffs and a portreeve. After the Magna Carta in 1215, Freemen of the City could stand for Mayor. In the 15th century the role was limited to liverymen - senior members of 100 City Livery companies. Not every Lord Mayor of London has been active within the club, but one or two have been and have donated cups, still played for today and have attended annual presentation dinners and official openings in the past. After the official opening on 26th June 1926 a match was played between The City of London Bowling Club and The City of London Police. Sadly the result of the match has been lost to the mists of time. The City of London Police were committed sportsmen around this time 1900-28. They won a Gold Medal at the Tug Or War in the 1908 Olympics (Olympic Champions- see picture below).
Throughout the remainder of the 1920s and the early 1930s the members of The City of London Bowling Club continued to enjoy their sport on their Cumberland turf bowling green.
However in 1939 the shadow of World War II loomed large. On 29th August 1939 a "Special Emergency Committee Hearing" was arranged. It was decided to recall the club silverware from the club champion and other tournament winners. It was decided that "in view of the international crisis" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
the Midland Bank be approached as to their willingness to accept the cups for safe storage.
Many members went off and joined the services to serve King and Country.
During World War II the club and green (like many Bowling Greens) was used as a barrage balloon site. (Example of a barrage balloon site pictured below).
World War II accounts for less frequent committee meetings, though why the minutes book records nothing between March 1944 and February 1948 is not known. Since 1948 the club has continued to play and enjoy the game of bowls.
Anyone who has studied the history of The City of London Bowling Club would realise that without the efforts of Dr Arthur Westerman (Club Chairman 1942-59) the club would not have continued post 1948. On 9th March 1963 the British Medical Journal (BMJ) featured the following obituary.
ARTHUR WESTERMAN, M.D.
Dr. Arthur Westerman, who died on January 8 at the
age of 84, had a long and honoured career in the City
Arthur Westerman was born at Wakefield, Yorks, on
February 10, 1878, and was educated at Robert Gordon's
College, Aberdeen. He studied medicine at the University
of Aberdeen, qualifying with honours in 1900. Appointed
to the George Thompson Continental travelling fellowship,
he continued his studies at the Universities of Leipzig,
Munich, and Berlin, where he worked in Professor Krause's
nose and throat clinic. In 1904 he proceeded to the degree
of M.D. with commendation. He had a special interest in
diseases of the ear, nose, and throat and served as an ear
specialist in the R.A.M.C. in the first world war.
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held the appointment of clinical assistant in the Throat
Department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
In 1906 Dr. Westerman began in practice at Snow Hill
in the City of London and continued there in active practice
until 1962. During his long professional life he built up
an extensive practice principally as medical adviser to companies
and institutions in and around the City. To several
of them he was professional adviser for over 50 years, and
he was for 25 years until his death resident medical officer
to Sutton's Hospital, Charterhouse.
Dr. Westerman was also from 1941 an active member of
the Common Council of the Corporation of the City of
London, and was for some years chairman of the Public
Health Committee and other committees. He was a deputy
Alderman for the ward of Farringdon Without and was
re-elected to that office only a few weeks before his death.
He was one of Her Majesty's Lieutenants for the City of London.
He was the Senior Fellow of the Hunterian Society,of which he was president in 1928
He was a past chairman
of the City Division of the British Medical Association.
He was a Past Master of his livery, the Plumbers' Company.
Dr. Westerman had a fund of humour much appreciated
by all who knew him. He retained an alert interest in all
his activities; indeed, his vigour belied his age. His wife,
formerly Miss Mary Davies, died in 1962, three years after
their golden wedding anniversary. They are survived by
a son and three daughters, one of whom is a member of
the medical profession.
The green was looked after by the Corporation of London and it was in 1967 that the green was extended from 39 to 44 yards and a new pavilion was built.
Today from Monday to Friday the City is busy, packed with commuters, stockbrokers, lawyers and office workers.
Up until the 1970s many wore the traditional bowler (coke) hat.
The City (Square Mile) is the hub of the UK economy. The City of London Bowling Club has an elegant setting, trees, bushes, flowerbeds, handsome buildings in the background. Some describe it as an "Oasis of calm, amidst a concrete jungle".
One building in Finsbury Circus Gardens stands on the site of the original Bethlem Royal Hospital, commonly known as "Bedlam". (Hence we have the word "Bedlam" in the English language eg- mayhem-chaos-madness). Bedlam was a place for the mentally ill and upon its demolition at Finsbury Circus it moved / was re-built in Lambeth. Interestingly enough, the site in Lambeth where part of that hospital stood, now also long gone from Lambeth, today serves as the Imperial War Museum.
Finsbury Circus, London EC2M - City of London Bowling Club's home...
The bowls club has a bandstand to its left, which is used in the summer months
an old drinking fountain in the far corner
Also an exclusive wine bar and restaurant next to the clubhouse. The wine bar and restaurant is in fact the old clubhouse, built in 1967 and used by the Bowls Club up until the mid 1980s. The restaurant is called "The Pavillion" a reference to its past. The clubhouse now used by the club is situated next door to the wine bar and restaurant. It is rather cosy with a bar /lounge area and has Ladies and Gentlemans changing rooms.
Until 1978 you had to either work or reside in The City of London in order to become a member. The club no longer has such restrictions and welcomes applications from anyone. Both novice or experienced players are encouraged to join, or anyone who wishes just to become a non-playing social member (Associate Member) and enjoy a drink or two amidst tranquill historical surroundings.
On a summers afternoon, with the club flag hoisted and gently blowing in the wind, the players in their whites, officials in their club tie and blazers and spectators enjoying a cucumber sandwich and a glass of the good stuff. It really is a special piece of England- The Capital City of England !
The following places of interest are very nearby:
The Tower of London & London Bridge,
St Paul's Cathedral,
The Bank of England,
Fenchurch St Station,
Liverpool St Station,
Mansion House (Home to the Rt Hon Lord Mayor of London - President of The City of London Bowling Club),
All these sites are within the City of London and are minutes walk from The City of London Bowling Club. The HQ of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), the oldest regiment in the British Army is also nearby.
Honourable Artillery Company (HAC)
Duke of York
The Keel Row
The Duchess of Kent
Formed in 1537 by His Majesty King Henry VIII by letters patent. From an already established Guild of St George. It was in the HAC's grounds in 1784 that the first ever Hot Air Balloon flight was to take place in the United Kingdom. Mr Vincent Lunardi no doubt flew his balloon over the site where the City of London Bowling Club now stands.
Cricket has also been played within the grounds of the HAC since 1725.
Other attractions that are very nearby (minutes by public transport) in the City of Westminster (not City of London) are the Houses of Parliament & St Stephen's Tower (Big Ben).
Oxford Circus (Oxford Street & Regent St),
London Dungeon, British Museum. The list is endless.
The club celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2004 and the 2004 Annual Presentation Evening was held in the original clubhouse, now known as the Pavilion wine bar and restaurant.
The City of London Bowling Club has been served with an eviction notice (8th February 2010). We will be leaving Finsbury Circus Gardens London EC2M our home for the past 86 years. The City of London Bowling Club will be relocating to the site of Pymmes Park in Edmonton, North London for the 2011 season. On a green and clubhouse share basis with Pymmes Park Bowling Club.
The area known as Pymmes Park dates back to 1327 when William Pymme built a mansion here. Prior to 1578 the estate changed hands several times until Thomas Wilson a statesman bought the estate in 1579. In 1582 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, purchased the estate which remained in the family until 1801. The Ray family owned the estate from 1808 to 1899. The estate was then purchased by the local council to provide public open space following an increase in the local population. The park was opened to the public in 1906.
Pymmes Park - Pictured below.
Pymmes Park is situated in Edmonton, near to the busy Edmonton Green shopping area, with one of entrances in Silver Street. You can get there by buses 34, 102, 444, 149 and 279. The nearest train station is Silver Street, on the Enfield Town to Liverpool Street line.
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UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COALITION (UNAC)
Statement Condemning Amnesty International USA's Campaigns in Support of U.S./NATO Wars
UNAC urges antiwar and community activists across the U.S. to condemn a sharp change in the direction and character of the campaigns of Amnesty International USA, especially since the hiring in January, 2012 of Suzanne Nossel as Executive Director. Nossel is a former State Department official and aide to former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrook. She coined the term “Smart Power,” which embraces the United States’ use of military power as well as other forms of “soft power,” an approach which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at her confirmation as the new basis of State Department policy.
Amnesty International has been well-known for its and its support for human rights and its campaigns to free political prisoners around the world. However, Amnesty International USA’s top two campaigns at the moment openly support U.S. foreign policy and U.S. military propaganda.
During the NATO summit and at the same time as the international rally and march to protest NATO, Amnesty International launched a campaign at a public meeting, headed by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, for Human Rights for Women and Girls in Afghanistan with the slogan “NATO: Keep the Progress Going”. Following an avalanche of negative feedback, they dropped the slogan as a “mistake”, but their pro-war campaign continues. Madeline Albright is a war criminal, notorious for her televised response that the death of half a million children in Iraq from sanctions was “worth it”.
UNAC stands with the courageous Afghan women like former Parliamentarian Malalai Joya who said, “We have many problems in Afghanistan — fundamentalism, warlords, the Taliban. But we will have a better chance to solve them if we have our self-determination, our freedom, our independence. NATO's bombs will never deliver democracy and justice to Afghanistan or any other country”.
Amnesty’s latest campaign, is Russia: No more excuses. Stand up against the bloodshed in Syria which asks people to “urge Russia to end its shameful silence”. This is a campaign to support military intervention at the very time that the U.S. is openly feeding the violence in Syria by providing weapons, foot soldiers and logistical support. Russia has angered U.S. officials, not by silence, but by rejecting foreign intervention.
In opposition to these two Amnesty International USA campaigns:
* UNAC expresses our sincere disappointment to see Amnesty International USA campaigns become a propaganda extension of U.S. goals for global hegemony.
* UNAC condemns the Amnesty International “NATO Keep the Progress Going” campaign and the dishonest formulation of their campaign for Human Rights for Women and Girls in Afghanistan. In fact, conditions of women in Afghanistan have deteriorated, not improved, since the Occupation which the U.S. intends to maintain.
* UNAC expresses our strongest criticism towards Amnesty International’s decision to directly provide support and encouragement to a racist NATO campaign under the leadership of the war criminal Madeline Albright.
* UNAC decries any “human rights” campaign that assumes that a military occupying force is a necessary prerequisite for peace and justice to any member of society.
Further, UNAC demands that Amnesty International USA’s Board of Directors reaffirm its human rights mission and publicly disassociate from the policies and campaigns which support U.S./NATO war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. UNAC demands that AI USA revoke the employment of Suzanne Nossel and other officials and Board Members who support the current pro-war policy.
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New Collaborative Book Criticizes NYU's Planned Expansion
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Opponents of New York University's planned expansion gathered in Manhattan on Sunday to promote a new book that is strongly critical of the proposal.
The book, "While We Were Sleeping: NYU And The Destruction Of New York," is a collaborative effort by writers and artists who oppose the plan.
NYU is looking to add 2-million-square-feet to the campus including classrooms, living space and auditoriums.
The school says the expansion is needed to attract quality students and faculty but opponents say it will ruin the neighborhood's character.
"It would be environmentally calamitous. It would destroy two acres of green space in a part of the city that has the second lowest amount already," said NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller, who opposes the expansion.
"This is not advantageous to to most people in the city. It just isn't," said Fran Lebowitz, another opponent of the expansion. "It's advantageous to real estate interests, which are the number one interests of city government, and perhaps to some people at NYU."
In a statement, the school said the plan allows it to meet its need for more academic space while addressing community concerns.
The plan won approval from the City Planning Commission and goes before a City Council Committee tomorrow.
The full City Council vote is set for July 25.
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May 16, 2012
There is a profound revolution underway in global politics, but it’s happening in America and the West, not in Syria and the Middle East.
Why occupy Bilderberg? Because it has a diabolic influence on world history, and it is the site of a sinister global conspiracy against humanity. For many decades, transnational oligarchical criminals have used the Bildeberg conference as an intellectual and political venue to plot in secrecy and take over the world by stealth.
In May 1979, Bilderberg attendees, inspired by the ideas of Professor Bernard Lewis, plotted against the Shah of Iran and backed the Muslim Brotherhood, Ayatollah Khomeini, pre-Al-Qaeda terrorists, and other Islamic fundamentalist forces in the Middle East. Historian William Engdahl documented this suppressed episode in history in his book, “A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.”You can read the passage in which he mentions the 1979 Bilderberg meeting and explains its significance here.
Thirty three years later, the Bilderberg conspirators are meeting again to advance their secret global agenda. Their plan of world takeover is entering a new phase. The Middle East has been thrown into chaos by the intelligence agencies of America, England, Israel, France, Saudi Arabia, and their Islamist proxies.
In Syria, the Western creators of the mythical Al-Qaeda have set up shop and are waging a campaign of terror against the people of Syria. There is even evidence that foreign-funded Islamic terrorists are using United Nations personnel as a shield to cover their tracks of terror. Journalist Pepe Escobar says that, “World powers are racing against time to plunge Syria into all-out civil war.”
But the foreign-backed violent insurrection in Syria is not succeeding as planned. Public opinion in Syria is still largely pro-Assad. Regardless of what you may think about his rule, it must count for something that the majority of Syrians support the government during this monumental crisis. Noble Syrians are not surrendering their beloved country to war-possessed foreigners and backward terrorists who hate freedom, women, Christians, and Western values.
Dishonest media organizations in the West and the Arab world are crossing the line by equating a small but organized group of foreign-backed armed terrorists with genuine democratic revolutionaries and peacemakers.
Journalists who instigate conflict in Syria by spreading propaganda and demonizing Assad are committing war crimes and should answer for them. It is outrageous when cruel old politicians cry war and tell lies, but it is even more reprehensible when journalists on the payroll of government intelligence agencies use their public platform to popularize unnecessary conflict and indoctrinate the people.
Remember, these are the same journalists that shield Bilderberg conspirators from public view every year and ridiculously pretend that 9/11 was not an inside job. Who are they kidding? What planet are they living on?
Once it becomes public knowledge that Bilderberg conspirators gave birth to the Al-Qaeda meme and the ludicrous war on terror, what will Western journalists and reporters tell their readers and viewers?
Forget an apology.
There will be hell to pay.
How can rational people forgive war criminals, liars, fraudsters, government propagandists, and state terrorists?
The major media has played the most important role in creating the public perception of terrorism in the West, which is not a real threat to the state or society.
Rather than perform its job as a public watchdog, the corporate/state media has covered up mountains of evidence of insider terrorism and insider trading on September 11, 2001. It has also protected the globalist terrorists who convene at Bilderberg, and projected their evil crimes onto the shadowy Al-Qaeda, which is actually a creation of Western intelligence agencies.
But the age of media domination of public discourse is over. Previously mainstream journalists and commentators are now on the fringe. Their fantasy world is crumbling. Belief in the 9/11 lie has collapsed, the myth of Al-Qaeda is dead, and the reality of Bilderberg is coming into public focus. And nothing can change that picture. No amount of brainwashing can stop people from seeing reality and discovering the truths of history.
As the editors of The Intel Hub write:
“Bilderberg is one of the real power structures at the helm of the planet and must be fully exposed to ever have a chance to dethrone the global crime syndicate commonly referred to as the New World Order.
For years respected press agencies such as the Washington Post and the New York Times have attended the meetings, subsequently hiding the truth from the public for over 50 years.
Those times have now come to an end.The alternative media is growing rapidly and it is our duty as free people of the planet earth to OCCUPY and EXPOSE Bilderberg May 31st – June 3rd.”
I want to thank everyone who is going to Virginia to attend the Occupy Bilderberg event and defend the interests of the people of the planet. Your ancestors and your future descendants will thank you for your service to your country, your planet, and humanity.
Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator
This article was posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 2:33 am
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From the report "About Our Family For Our Family" by Lea Wasserman Schwarz
A few weeks after my visa was renewed we received notification that a transport on a sealed train was being put together to leave from Berlin anytime after January 3, by way of France, Spain and Lisbon, where passage on a ship to America would be arranged.
My mother had a girlhood friend from Rzeczow, where she was born, who lived in Berlin. Mama wrote to her and asked if I could stay there until my transport left, as there would be very short notice. The woman was a very nice person and said she would be happy to put me up. Unfortunately, her husband was also in a concentration camp, being a Polish Jew. She had an 18-year-old daughter who was a beautiful girl. While I was living there, the Jewish Federation arranged for me to have private English lessons twice a week.
Our father was arrested again two weeks after his operation, directly from the hospital. They never gave him a chance to recover. At first he was kept at Fuerstenwald Prison near Berlin. When my mother brought me to Berlin to stay with her friend, we were allowed to visit him in the jail yard, and I said good bye to him there.
After a four-week stay in Berlin, I was notified that the transport would leave early in February. My mother came back to Berlin to take me to the station. The group was to gather in an air raid shelter at the Anhalter Bahnhof. Only people who were leaving were allowed inside, and I had to say good bye before going in. I barely got through the door when it hit me that I was actually leaving. I went back outside to see my mother again, but she was gone.
I don't remember how many hours we waited to board the train. While waiting I met a girl who was also travelling alone from Nuernberg. She and I were what made up the "children's transport." Her name was Eva and she was 11, almost three years younger than I. Eva did not have parents. She was raised by a grandmother. We got along well on the trip and of course being the older one, I felt responsible for her. There are only a few things that I remember about that train ride. As we approached the German border, I was concerned that I might have a problem getting across the border with the gold ring my friend gave me. I decided it was not worth the risk and threw it out the window into a field.
As we passed through some of the large cities, the Jewish committee passed some lunch boxes with food through the window. No one was allowed on or off the train. In Paris it stayed in the railroad station all night. French bread was passed to us through the window by the Jewish Federation in Paris. The first time we were allowed off the train was in San Sebastian, Spain. We were put up in the hotel Santa Maria overnight and given dinner. Dinner was rice with clams on the half-shell. I decided to eat the rice only, but then found what must have been a loose clam in my mouth. It was all I could do to keep from heaving right then and there at the table. Early in the morning we had some time to look around the fishing village, and I will never forget the beautiful view. It was the first time I saw the ocean. Although it was only a bay, I was very exited.
Spain at that time was a very poor country, as it was ravaged by a civil war that ended only in 1939. The country was so poor that the dogs we saw from the train were so thin they looked like skeletons. We fed them from what we had left of the stale French bread. Then the children ran after the stale pieces of bread, competing with the dogs.
I do not remember ever feeling hungry. That may be because as a child I had no interest in food. Or one just accepted the fact that one ate what one had. During the past few years certain food items were available based on food stamps only. Jews did not get the same rations Germans did. Meat, especially kosher meat was totally unavailable and I doubt that our mother would have bought any other kind. I do remember standing in line for hours to buy a fish or herring or even to get a bag of potatoes. Sometimes by the time we got to the end of the line they were all sold out. The availability of food in the US really impressed me when I first arrived here. So did the public display of anything Jewish, such as the Yiddish press or kosher butcher signs.
From San Sebastian it was just one more day's travel to get to Lisbon. Once there we were taken to a boarding house which belonged to a Captain Dacumba.
Eva and I shared a room. It was impossible for us to sleep. The bed, which had a straw mattress, was infested with bedbugs, and we found out from experience that bedbugs do bite. I remember taking the blanket and trying to sleep on the floor. That helped somewhat. The next day we complained to our representative of the Jewish committee. The place was fumigated and we got different beds. That took care of that problem ...
I knew my family would know Tante Gisa's address and contact me if they were alive. As news came from the invading Armies on the horrors they found when liberating the concentration camps, my hopes began to dim. The world Jewish congress collected lists of survivors in their New York offices. I went frequently to look for names of any of our relatives, but unfortunately to no avail. A friend of mine was a soldier in an army division that invaded Nuernberg. I asked him to see if he could get any information on my family. The information he got was that my father "died" in Ravensbrueck on May 10th, 1942. (he was forty-four years old). My mother and sister were presumed to have "died" somewhere in Poland.
As the post-war years went by, a very few of the survivors trickled into the United States. Among them were only two people from Nuernberg that I had known. One was Mrs. Stern, who had lived downstairs from us. She was the women who had rung out door bell the morning after "Kristall Nacht." She had been with my mother and sister in Mauthausen until the very end. She told me that only a few weeks before the Russian army liberated that concentration camp, my mother was destined for the gas chamber during the selection process. My sister went with her voluntarily. She was 24 years old. My mother was 50.
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A guidewire for medical use such as in vascular and nonvascular systems. The guidewire made from a titanium molybdenum alloy wire with a composition of approximately 78% titanium 11.5% molybdenum 6% zirconium and 4.5% tin by weight such that it is softer than stainless steel guidewires and stiffer than NiTi alloy guidewires. The distal end of the guidewire is of a smaller diameter and softer than the proximal end and fitted with a coil for springiness such that the distal end will bend when encountering curves in the body passageways. The distal tip may be heat treated for a gradient of softness with the distal tip being the softest. The distal end may also be tapered to provide an additional gradient of softness. A distal tip on the distal end of the guidewire protects the wall of the passageway from being punctured as the guidewire travels through the passageway. The resulting guidewire has properties between those of stainless steel guidewires and NiTi alloy guidewires for better torsion and stiffness characteristics.
1. An intravascular guidewire adapted for insertion into the vascular system of a patient during the course of a catheterization procedure, comprising: a titanium molybdenum alloy wire having approximately 78% titanium, 11.5% molybdenum, 6% zirconium and 4.5% tin by weight, the wire having a diameter in a range of from 0.005 inch and 0.040 inch over a predetermined length dimension thereof, said wire having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion that is tapered to a lesser diameter than the diameter of the proximal end portion and that terminates in a rounded distal tip.
2. The guidewire as in
the distal end portion with a helical coil attached, and where the coil touches a distal tip of the guidewire, the coil providing springiness proximate the distal tip inhibiting kinking of the coil.
3. The guidewire as in
a rounded distal tip member on the end of the distal end portion of the wire to prevent the distal end of the wire from penetrating tissue in the wall of a body lumen upon passage of the guidewire through the body lumen.
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the wire has a lubricious polymer coating.
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the wire has a hydrophilic coating.
6. An intravascular guidewire adapted for insertion into the vascular system of a patient during the course of a catheterization procedure comprising a titanium molybdenum alloy wire having approximately between about 75% and about 83% titanium, between about 8% and about 14% molybdenum, between about 4% and about 8% zirconium and between about 2% and about 6% tin by weight, the wire having a diameter in a range of from 0.005 inch and 0.040 inch over a predetermined length dimension thereof, said wire having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion where the distal end portion is tapered to a lesser diameter than the diameter of the proximal end portion and terminates in a rounded distal tip.
7. The guidewire as in
8. The guidewire as in
a distal tip member on the distal end portion to prevent the distal end of the wire from penetrating tissue in the wall of said body passageway.
9. The guidewire as in
the wire has a lubricious polymer coating thereon.
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the guidewire has a hydrophilic coating thereon.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the field of medical devices and more particularly to guidewires for use primarily in intra vascular procedures. Guidewires made with a titanium molybdenum alloy allow for a flexible and formable tip with reduced kinking, high torque, trackability and high column strength.
2. Description of the Related Art
A major requirement for guidewires and other guiding members, whether they are solid wire or tubular members, is that they have sufficient column strength to be pushed through a passageways in a patient such as the patient's vascular system with minimal kinking or binding. However, the distal section of the guidewire must be flexible enough to avoid damaging the blood vessel or other body lumen through which it is advanced. Efforts have been made to improve both the strength and flexibility of guidewires to make them more suitable for their intended uses, but strength for pushing and flexibility for turning without damaging vascular walls tend to be diametrically opposed to one another, in that an increase in one usually involves a decrease in the other. There has been a gradual decrease in the profiles or transverse dimensions of commercially available intravascular catheters and guidewires particularly for use in coronary arteries. However, concomitant with the decrease in profile has been a loss in pushability and kink resistance.
The distal portion of the guidewires frequently have a spring or coil around a tapered, thinner and therefore softer metal core. The thinner softer core may be too thin to engage the coil and may therefore allow the coil to kink when bent.
Guidewires have been made of many different materials. The most popular materials are stainless steel and NiTi alloys such as Nitinol.
Stainless steel guidewires tend to kink. They have good pushability but are not flexible enough to easily bend inside of the vascular system. Stainless steel has good torque qualities for rotating the guidewire but tends to bind when rotated since it does not readily flex. Once the guidewire is kinked, it must be discarded and replaced with a new guidewire.
NiTi guidewires tend to be too springy, especially when negotiating a tortuous path in vessels, they do not have good pushability because want to straighten out or return to their original shape. NiTi guidewires will readily get hung up when rotated while extending around a curved path. NiTi guidewires can not be torqued as readily as stainless steel because it is springy. NiTi guidewires tend to have good shape memory. The shape memory makes it difficult for a physician to shape the tip of the guidewire with his fingers for accessing difficult to reach portions of the patient's vascular system.
The guidewires need to have distal ends that are soft for bending and turning inside of the blood vessels as they are advanced and so they will not puncture the vessel walls.
The most popular guidewires are made out of stainless steel or NiTi alloys. Both of these materials have advantages and drawbacks. A different guidewire material is required to have the desirable qualities of both without as many drawbacks to enhance the performance of guidewires.
A titanium molybdenum alloy used to make guidewires for use in passages within a body has several advantages over NiTi and stainless steel guidewires. The titanium molybdenum alloy has properties of high springback, and flexability that is, in between the values of stainless steel and NiTi alloys which are the two most widely used metals used for making guidewires.
The titanium molybdenum alloy has moderate stiffness, about 42% of stainless steel and excellent torque transmission and formability. It is softer and more flexible than stainless steel for better bendability while negotiating though passageways in the body and less likely to puncture the walls of the passageways. The titanium molybdenum alloy is also easier to torque than stainless steel, which tends to bind when the guidewire is in nonlinear passageways. The titanium molybdenum alloy is stronger and has a better pushability than NiTi alloys and is easier to torque because it is less springy and will not bind against the walls of a vessel as much on a non linear path allowing easier rotation of the guidewire.
Titanium molybdenum alloys can be easily welded or soldered using standard manufacturing techniques, as opposed to NiTi alloys which are not easy to weld or solder.
The titanium molybdenum alloy can be tapered in steps at the distal end producing a softness gradient with the distal end the softest. This allows the distal tip to be more flexible and bend around curves without puncturing the tissue in the passageway. The titanium molybdenum alloy core is softer so it can be make thicker such that a coil around the core engages at a larger diameter and will not kink as it bends.
The titanium molybdenum alloy guidewire can be coated with a plastic such as Teflon® or a hydrophilic coating to make it slipperier.
The titanium molybdenum alloy is preferably a mixture of about 78% titanium 11.5% molybdenum 6% zirconium and 4.5% tin by weight.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with the right amount of stiffness to easily advance the guidewire.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with the right amount of softness to bend around curves in a passageway without puncturing the walls of the passageway.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with rotatability such that it can be torqued without binding up in a nonlinear passageway.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with a coil at the distal end of the guidewire which is less likely to kink when bent.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with a softness gradient at its distal end.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire which steers better in the passageways of the patient.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire which is easily weldable and solderable.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with an easily shaped tip.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire with a radio opaque tip.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire having a higher kink resistance than a stainless steel guidewire.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire having less springiness than a NiTi alloy guidewire.
It is an object of the invention to provide a guidewire having a coating to make is easier to advance the guidewire though the vascular system of the patient.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawing.
Guidewires used in passageways within patients are used for a large number of medical procedures. Many of the procedures involve the use of the guide as a guidewire for inserting catheters and other devices in the vascular system of the patient. Guidewires have been made from stainless steel, which is stiff and does not readily bend around in the passageways of the patient. Guidewires are also frequently made using a NiTi alloy which is softer and springier than stainless steel and has a better memory but is not as stiff so that it does not have the pushability of stainless steel. Further NiTi alloy is not as easily bendable so that the distal tip can not be as readily shaped.
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Alternatively the guidewires can be made with a range of values for its alloys. The range of values is approximately 75-83% titanium, 8-14% molybdenum 4-8% zirconium and 2-6% tin by weight.
The titanium molybdenum alloy can be deflected more than 42% more than stainless steel with no permanent deformation and has a lower force deflection rate and a higher spring back and flexibility.
Comparing stainless steel to Nitinol, which is a NiTi alloy, stainless steel takes a set which is not a desirable quality for a guidewire and, Nitinol is too springy which is not a desirable quality for a guidewire. If a guidewire is too stiff it takes a set and will not easily bend. The stiffness however makes for good pushability allowing for the guidewire to be inserted into a passageway and allows the guidewire to be rotated at the distal end when turned at the proximal end. However if the guidewire does not bend easily and there is a nonlinear passageway that the guidewire must negotiate, the stiffness of the guidewire will form arches in the guidewire around curves and will not torque as easily since the entire guidewire will tend to push against the wall of the passage. If the guidewire is too springy and the guidewire is torqued the guidewire will bind in the curved portions in the passageways.
A guidewire made from a titanium molybdenum alloy is less springy than NiTi alloys but more springy than stainless steel. Titanium molybdenum alloys are stiffer than NiTi alloys and but not as stiff as stainless steel. Therefore titanium molybdenum alloys have desirable properties when used in guidewires.
In the past coils 18 would tend to kink and not return to their original shape if there was a large space between the inside diameter of coil 18 and the core of the distal end 14 of the guidewire 10. The titanium molybdenum alloy has a softness which allows it to have a larger diameter and still be soft enough at the distal end 14 such that the outside diameter of the distal end of the guidewire 10 engages the coil 18 on the inside diameter reducing the space therebetween and prevents the coil from kinking as the coil 18 and the distal end 14 bend. The coil 18 is wound around the core of the distal end 14 without spaces between the turns and in tight contact with core to prevent kinks from occurring when the guidewire is bent.
The titanium molybdenum alloy is made softer by tapering the distal end 14 to reduce the cross section of the guidewire. The tapering at the distal end 14 provides a gradient of softness with the tip of the distal end 15 being the softest. The gradient of softness helps the tip bend while keeping the remainder of the guidewire 10 straighter. The distal end 14 can have a tapered portion 20 which gradually changes the diameter of the guidewire material and provides for a gradient of softness.
Abrupt changes in the stiffness of the distal end of the guidewire causes kinking at stress points of the coil, when the distal end is bent. By having a larger number of tapered sections with small changes in the diameter the flexibility (bendability) of the guidewire can continually increase toward the distal end of the guidewire 14 without an abrupt change averting kinking.
The proximal end 12 of the guidewire is less flexible and is more uniform and can transmit torque and pushing force with high fidelity.
The titanium molybdenum alloy steers better than stainless steel guidewires or NiTi alloy guidewires because it is more flexible than stainless steel yet stiff enough to have torque and it stiffer than NiTi.
The distal tip 16 and coil 18 are attached to the titanium molybdenum alloy guidewire 10 by welding or soldering. The titanium molybdenum alloy is more easily welded or soldered than NiTi alloys.
The guidewire 10 can be coated with a plastic for making the guidewire slipperier. The guidewire can be coated with Teflon® or a similar material for a hydrophilic coating.
The proximal end 12 of the guidewire 10 can have a coating or surface making it easier to grasp for the doctor to more effectively use the guidewire.
The guidewire 10 can be made with lengths of preferably between 20 cm and 500 cm and between diameters of 0.005 inches and 0.040 inches with a coil length preferably of between 0.5 cm and 100 cm . . . .
The guidewire 10 can be made with lengths of preferably between 20 cm (7.87 inches) and 500 cm (196.85 inches) and between diameters of 0.127 cm (0.005 inches) and 1.02 cm (0.040 inches) with a coil length preferably of between 0.5 cm (0.197 inches) and 100 cm (39.37 inches).
Obviously, many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.
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Toby Talbot / AP Photo Ann Nguyen talks with U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., at the University of Vermont on Monday in Burlington. Welch is collecting stories about student debt.
BURLINGTON — Ann Nguyen, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Vermont, has always had money on her mind.
She comes from a family where her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, work three jobs to make ends meet and help keep Nguyen in school.
“I am trying to get out of the whole poverty cycle,” said Nguyen, who is from Keene, N.H.
Nguyen met with Rep. Peter Welch at UVM’s Dudley H. Davis Center on Monday afternoon to tell her story. Welch will collect stories from students like Nguyen who are struggling with student loan debt and taking those stories to Congress in an upcoming debate over stopping Stafford loan interest rates from doubling as scheduled on July 1.
As the days and years creep closer toward graduation, Nguyen is increasingly aware of her mounting student loan debt.
“It’s just a really scary picture,” said Nguyen, who is studying political science and hopes to work in the private sector.
She has already accumulated $30,000 in private loans and more than $20,000 in federal Stafford loans, mostly from her first two years as an undergraduate at Northeastern University in Boston.
“In high school I was always told, ‘If you work hard your life will figure itself out,’” Nguyen said. “And my parents said, ‘Let’s not worry about the price tag.’
“Unfortunately life is not that way.”
To decrease the financial burden, Nguyen transferred to UVM, where she was offered more scholarships and lower tuition. She said fixed interest rates for loans would ease the fears of her and her classmates that they might go bankrupt trying to pay for an education.
Welch said this is a burden he and many other legislators did not have to deal with, because the cost of education has risen so much since they were in school.
“Most of us who are older just didn’t bear that burden,” said Welch, a Democrat.
Last week, legislators from both sides of the aisle said they would like to keep Stafford loan interest rates low, but they differed on how to pay for it.
“My preference would be to keep the tuition increases from going up,” Welch said. “This should be just about affordability for our kids.”
Welch added that regulatory burdens on colleges should be eased to achieve more affordable tuition.
“Tuition increases should be closer to the rate of inflation,” Welch said. “The one thing we can’t do is shove the burden onto the kids.”
From talking to the students, Welch said he heard that they don’t mind having to repay loans, but they want reasonable interest rates and reasonable tuition.
“I’ve got a pant-load of debt,” said Gavin Laster, a 21-year-old junior at UVM. “I’ve got $70,000 of debt before I can even drink a beer.”
Laster is confident that once he graduates with a degree in economics next year, he will be able to get a well-paying job that will allow him to pay it back. But he said he understands the importance of low-interest loans for those who are not going into a high-paying field.
“As expensive as it is to get the federal government to pull out these no-strings grants,” said Laster, originally from Syracuse, N.Y., “it is important.”
Laster said there is also a feeling of instability in the student loan system. He saw his Pell Grant funding drop from $1,500 one year to $555 the next.
Marquita Williams, a freshman from Philadelphia, could have gone to a local school where she would have graduated with only $8,000 in debt, but she chose UVM, a school she liked much better than the local one. The downside is that in one year her mother has already taken out $14,000 in loans.
“I am going to be paying it off for 20 years,” Williams said. “We want to be here, we really do, but all this makes it so difficult.”
Students like Williams, Laster and Nguyen pay out-of-state undergraduate tuition at UVM, which in the 2011-12 academic year was more than $32,500, compared with in-state tuition of $12,888.
“The cost of going to school here from out of state is ridiculous,” said Julian Golfarini, a 23-year-old senior from New York City.
Golfarini is the former student body president at UVM, and recently he joined other student government presidents from across the country at a conference in Washington, D.C., where the rising tuition costs were issue No. 1.
“You are punishing the wrong people in the students,” said Golfarini, who said he is lucky to graduate with no debt himself, but he sees friends and classmates are struggling.
Students and parents are asked to share their stories about the burden of student loan debt with Welch at a website launched Monday: www.welch.house.gov/studentdebt.
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The report also states that more than half of businesses expect the burden to stay the same or decrease.
Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk said:
“Reducing the burden of regulation for business is at the heart of the Coalition Government’s ambition to make the UK one of best places to start and grow a business. This report suggests that businesses can now see progress, but there is clearly more to do. We are committed to this process.”
Key findings from the report:
· 41% of businesses say that the balance of regulation is about right
· 55% of businesses feel that the level of regulation is an obstacle to their business, but this is a reduction from a peak of 62% in 2009
· 46% of businesses think the burden of regulation will stay the same over the next 12 months
· One-in-nine businesses have made contact with a body or organisation to make a suggestion on improving the regulatory regime.
The fifth Business Perceptions Survey (2012), a report carried out independently for the National Audit Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) indicates that some businesses seem to be finding regulation less of an obstacle.
The survey is the first joint project delivered by the newly formed Better Regulation Delivery Office, which works alongside the Better Regulation Executive in BIS. Both organisations will use the report’s findings to guide regulatory reform activity, looking at the way regulations are designed as well as the way they are delivered.
The report supports the Primary Authority scheme, as a means for businesses to get advice, and also the extension of the scheme to include trade associations, which is part of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
Apart from the reforms in the recently published Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, the Red Tape Challenge and Focus on Enforcement campaigns are also beginning to have an impact, as they continue to give businesses the opportunity to say exactly how they feel about regulations and how they are enforced.
Notes to editors:
1. The Business Perceptions Survey can be accessed at: www.bis.gov.uk/betterregulation
2. This is the first time the Business Perception Survey has been published jointly by BIS and NAO.
3. This is the fifth in a series of such surveys. The survey was not run in 2011.
4. The Better Regulation Delivery Office, a new streamlined independent body that will ensure the voice of business is heard in regulation policy, was created on 2 April 2012 (and was formerly known as the Local Better Regulation Office – LBRO).
5. The National Audit Office (NAO), in collaboration with the then Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) and the Better Regulation Executive (BRE) commissioned a survey to determine businesses’ views on the extent of the burden of regulation, both in general and in specific regulatory areas, and how that burden might be reduced. The survey on which the report is based was conducted by IFF Research in January and February 2012. It comprised 2,294 15-minute telephone interviews with senior business decision-makers.
6. BRDO is based in central Birmingham. Its remit covers the whole of the UK and it liaises with the devolved administrations. More information can be found here: http://www.bis.gov.uk/brdo
7. BRE has been instrumental in putting the coalition's strategy on reducing regulation in place. These are the policies and initiatives which have been designed to:
· bring about a steady change of culture across government, so that regulation is seen as the last resort and alternatives to regulation are first considered.
· reduce the regulatory burden to business and civil society organisations.
8. BIS is currently running the ‘Focus on Enforcement’ campaign which is asking business to tell us where enforcement can be improved, reduced or done differently and to discover and celebrate where it works well, so others can learn from it. More information is available at: http://discuss.bis.gov.uk/focusonenforcement
9. The Government's economic policy objective is to achieve 'strong, sustainable and balanced growth that is more evenly shared across the country and between industries.' It set four ambitions in the ‘Plan for Growth’ (PDF 1.7MB), published at Budget 2011:
· To create the most competitive tax system in the G20
· To make the UK the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a business
· To encourage investment and exports as a route to a more balanced economy
· To create a more educated workforce that is the most flexible in Europe.
Work is underway across Government to achieve these ambitions, including progress on more than 250 measures as part of the Growth Review. Developing an Industrial Strategy gives new impetus to this work by providing businesses, investors and the public with more clarity about the long-term direction in which the Government wants the economy to travel.
10. BIS's online newsroom contains the latest press notices and speeches, as well as video and images for download. It also features an up to date list of BIS press office contacts. See http://www.bis.gov.uk/newsroom for more information.
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The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: The Touch and Feel of Music
Apr 14, 2009 12:00 PM, By Jessaca Gutierrez
The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles
However, integrating donated equipment can sometimes prove difficult, either due to timing or suitability of the equipment for a particular exhibit. The donated equipment included Crown amplifiers, JBL loudspeakers, Lexicon surround processors, and Audio-Technica headphones.
Unlike other installations, where materials and equipment only undergo normal use, museum equipment is in constant use by people of all ages and by people who might not be familiar with its proper use. To make the equipment strong enough to withstand constant use and prolong its lifespan, D&P had to ensure that all the equipment would be ready to withstand the force of children and adults alike. For example, all the Audio-Technica headphones were sent to D&P's shop to be hardened.
"We took them apart and fitted everything with armored cables," says Dale Panning, senior system engineer of media systems at D&P. "All the cords [now have] armored cords and what have you, so it was hardened for the general public."
In the Revolution of Sound exhibit, guests watch a video presentation on audio history in a soundproof booth. The presentation takes them through the generations of sound, starting with an old classical gramophone; moving through the audio quality of a tape deck, CD, and iPod; and finishing with what a proper 5.1 surround-sound system should sound like. To fully realize the audio quality of a 5.1 surround-sound system, D&P installed a complete surround-sound system that was donated by JBL in the booth.
The challenge here again was allowing guests to touch and feel all the technological components without unnecessary damage. But not every part of an exhibit can meet this demand. Initially, JBL wanted one subwoofer in the ceiling, but JBL decided the quality wasn't right and replaced it with two large, custom-tuned subwoofers. JBL wanted to put its best studio—not museum-quality—equipment in the booth, which wasn't conducive to having the public touch and feel it, so these subwoofers were installed out of reach within the walls of the sound booth. "The JBL audio experts felt that the visitor experience could be enhanced by custom-designing a subwoofer, changing its location, and using self-powered studio speakers," says Maurice Morgan, site supervisor. "D&P installed the gear, and JBL came in before opening to tune the room."
Perhaps the most complex and intriguing installation at the museum is the Crossovers area. This exhibit is a 19ft. table that acts as both a projection screen and a touchscreen. The surface of the table is frit-fired glass (frit is ground glass or glaze often used in pottery), which produces a matte-white surface suitable for use as a projection screen for the four Digital Projection iVision 20sx+ XB projectors that are installed in a soffit above the table. Below the table's glass, D&P put multiple capacitive touchscreen foils—made by Visual Planet—that project through and above the glass to make it a touch-sensitive surface. Up to 20 guests at a time can tap an image that's being projected onto the table to listen via headphones to 150 genres of music. Guests interested in one genre of music can use the table to open up photos, songs, and dialogue about that particular genre's importance and history—possibly linking them to other genres and learning about surprising connections between music categories.
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Roland Edward Cissell
Roland Edward Cecil was born November 27, 1867 in Union County, Kentucky and died February 2, 1940 in Christian, Union County, Kentucky.
Occupation : Farmer & Blacksmith
Burial : 1940 in St. Vincent Catholic Church, Union Co., Kentucky
Father: William Alexander T. Cissell was born March 1, 1817 in Nelson County, Kentucky and died February 2, 1880 in Kentucky.
Mother: Harriett Lucinda Lanham (alias "Aunt Fanny") was born November 26, 1832 in Union County, Kentucky and died 1882 in Kentucky.
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Take an attitude of gratitude to set yourself apart
Gratitude is a wonderful thing. The simple act of thanking people for any gesture that has contributed to your success, grand or small, immediately sets you apart from the majority of scholarship candidates. Let me explain.
In my book, I reveal the story of Mary K., a humble woman whose family income increased tremendously due to her husband’s rise in the financial industry. Over the years, her family became “wealthy” by most people’s standards and they began to offer scholarships to local public school students. I met Mary at a local diner to interview her for my book and we had a great conversation. What I will remember most, other than her true generosity, was the number of scholarship awardees who thanked her, compared to the number of scholarships she issued. I will never forget that, and it has forever impacted how I counsel students.
If a complete stranger approached you on the street and handed you $1,000, would you not thank him? If someone said, “I’m going to pay your next three car payments, rent payments, or mortgage payments,” would you offer gratitude? I would hope so.
I think part of the issue is that in the scholarship world, you don’t actually witness the actual cash transaction in the bursar’s office that reduces your tuition bill or cost of attendance. But, believe me, it is real. Scholarships represent free money to reduce your cost of attendance and reduce your reliance on student loans. Every dollar awarded to you is one less dollar you owe. People who feel entitled to scholarships due to their pedigree, lack of pedigree, academic achievements, income status, or any other personal trait have the wrong attitude about scholarships. Scholarships are an act of charity and an investment in the future.
In America, it is your responsibility to pay for your education. Whether that’s right or wrong, is not the issue here. What is the issue is the amazing opportunity that students have to build relationships, build champions, and build their networks by expressing gratitude to the people who helped them become who they are now and who they could be in the future.
Practically speaking, showing gratitude to your current network of supporters reinforces those bonds and may lead to more opportunities in the future. Gratitude is so rare in some circles that it is memorable.
I encourage you to send letters, emails, voicemails, chats, tweets or any other messages to the people who helped you along the way. If you received a scholarship of any kind, tuition reimbursement, or a book stipend, I urge you to thank the people who provided that. The people who offer those opportunities don’t really expect a big “thanks,” but I assure you that you will be remembered if you do.
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World Economic Forum bringing summit to Miami
By Paola Iuspa
Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris this week announced that the World Economic Forum organization will hold a regional summit in Miami.
The group's first Miami Hemispheric Business Summit will take place in October, Ms. Harris said.
"We have two tentative days," she said. "We have to see" when President George W Bush will be able to attend.
Speaking to a crowd of 100 during a reception for World Business Week sponsored by the Association of Bi-National Chambers of Commerce at the Biltmore Hotel, Ms. Harris said it was time to show the world Florida "beyond its beaches and Disney World."
She said Florida has matured into an international trade hub and its representatives need to be involved with others living in democracy and eager to establish partnerships.
The World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland is a nonprofit group in charge of bringing together world leaders in business, politics and intellectuals in an effort to improve the state of the world, according to the forum's website.
The 30-year-old organization holds an annual meeting in Davos and regional meetings and summits throughout the year with the goal of addressing problems facing the world or one region.
The World Economic Forum does not use capital to assist developing countries such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization do, according to the organization.
The nonprofit, which has private companies as it members rather than countries, focuses on ideas that can make a difference. The forum will have nine regional meetings and summits by the end of the year.
Others have been held in regions organizers considered "key markets" and include China, East Asia, Europe, India, South America and South Africa.
Jerry Haar, senior research associate and director of the Inter-American Business & Labor Program at the University of Miami's North-South Center, said the summit would earn South Florida "respectability and visibility" in the international community.
"It will be very good for the service industry," Dr. Haar said. "It will generate visibility, although it may not have much of an economic multiplying effect."
World Economic Forum held a meeting in Mexico last month that was attended by about 600 people. The two-day gathering, organizers said, featured 35 concurrent sessions held over 40 hours at a beachfront resort.
The World Economic Forum's next event will be the "2001 China Business Summit" in mid-April. The objective of that session, said officials, is to analyze some of the issues reshaping the domestic economy and re-examining China's engagement in the global community.
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Court Rebuffs Shipping Industry Attempt to Derail Key Air Pollution Safeguard
Limits to Pollutants Generated by Auxiliary Engines to be Enforced While Lawsuit is Heard
LOS ANGELES (October 24, 2007) – In a major victory for public health, the Ninth Circuit court granted yesterday a request by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other defendants in a lawsuit involving ships and cleaner marine fuels. The stay of an earlier injunction guarantees the enforcement of California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations while the lawsuit is heard. The regulations require ships to reduce their emissions as they approach the California coast. The majority of ships would comply with the rules by using cleaner fuels in their auxiliary engines.
“Emissions from the freight transport industry in California cause 2,400 premature deaths, 360,000 lost workdays, and more than 1,000,000 school absences annually,” said Melissa Lin Perrella, an attorney with NRDC’s Air Quality Program.
In the lawsuit, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) challenged CARB’s regulations adopted in 2005. CARB’s Auxiliary Engine Rules require vessel operators to limit the emissions from ship auxiliary engines within 24 nautical miles of the California coast. The rules also allow CARB to require use of even cleaner fuels by 2010. Auxiliary engines provide power for uses other than propulsion, such as electricity for lighting, refrigeration of cargo and navigation equipment.
CARB estimates that between 2007 and 2020 the new rule will reduce particulate emissions by more than 23,000 tons, nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 15,000 tons, and sulfur oxides (SOx) by 200,000 tons – preventing some 520 premature deaths.
Previously, the Eastern District court granted PMSA’s motion for summary judgment and prevented the enforcement of CARB’s rules asserting that they were preempted under the Clean Air Act. The decision by the Ninth Circuit grants a stay of the Eastern District court’s injunction of the CARB rules pending appeal, while also granting an expedited briefing schedule and hearing.
The other defendants in the lawsuit include CARB, the Coalition for Clean Air, the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the City of Long Beach.
The Auxiliary Engine Rule is one of the first in a series of rules that CARB plans to adopt to reduce pollution from marine vessels, including rules that will reduce emissions from main engines and require ships to plug in to shore power rather than run their diesel engines while docked.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.4 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and follow us on Twitter @NRDC.
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After years of fighting the government from hidden jungle bases in the southern Philippines, an Al-Qaida-linked militant group is facing a new adversary: fellow Muslim insurgents who can match their guerrilla battle tactics and are eager to regain their lost stature by fighting the widely condemned terrorist group.
The emerging enmity between the Abu Sayyaf militants and the Moro rebels could bolster a decade-long campaign by the Philippines and Western countries to isolate the al-Qaida offshoot Abu Sayyaf, which remains one of the most dangerous groups in Southeast Asia.
In their first known major clash, Abu Sayyaf gunmen battled rebels from the larger Moro National Liberation Front in fighting early this week, leaving at least 22 combatants dead in the mountainous jungles on southern Jolo Island. A Moro rebel was beheaded - Abu Sayyaf's signature act.
Bonded by blood ties and war, the two armed groups had co-existed for years on Jolo in a predominantly Muslim region, where abject poverty, guns and weak law enforcement have combined in an explosive mix to fuel their rebellions and pockets of lawlessness.
The trouble began after the Moro rebels - seeking to regain their former dominance in the region - tried to arrange the release of several hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf, including a prominent Jordanian TV journalist and two European tourists. When the Abu Sayyaf commanders refused to free the hostages, Moro rebels launched an attack.
The Moro rebels are now trying to rescue the captives and end the Abu Sayyaf's reign, Moro commander Khabier Malik told The Associated Press.
"We breath the same air, speak the same language and live and fight in the same jungle," he said by telephone. "We're a bigger force and we cannot allow this small group to reign with this brutality."
For years, a shadowy alliance is believed to have existed between the groups. While the Moro rebels signed a limited peace deal with the government years ago, some Moro commanders are suspected of giving sanctuary to Abu Sayyaf men and carrying out kidnappings for ransom with them.
"Collusion between the Abu Sayyaf Group and MNLF members - many of whom are relatives - on Jolo is a major reason why large swaths of the island have been essentially ungovernable for years," said Bryony Lau of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think tank. The government "should consider whether the recent clash has shifted relations between them in a way that could make it easier to isolate senior figures of the Abu Sayyaf Group."
But the rift offers no easy answers for the Philippines. Weaning the Moro rebels from hardened militants would mean a true government alliance with the rebels, some of whom are suspected of involvement in attacks on civilians and government forces.
Walking a tightrope amid the clashes, President Benigno Aquino III said the Moro offensive was not sanctioned by his government. But government officials also are not trying to stop the fighting, presumably hoping each group weakens the other. Police and soldiers have simply set up checkpoints to seal off the area around the fighting, trying to keep it from spilling into other rural areas.
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Introducing Benoit Faucon, Energy Reporter at Dow Jones Newswires
Four-and-a-half years after the event, AIM has lambasted the oil and gas producer for providing “misleading” information about two failed Greek wells, on a scale “unprecedented in terms of the seriousness of the rule breaches involved and the resultant market impact”. [Read the press release.]
Frank Timis, the controversial Romanian businessman, was running Regal at the time claims of a vast oil find in Greece were made.
When the City thought Timis had made the oil discovery of a lifetime, institutional investors piled in, sending the shares soaring. In its heyday Regal was worth a staggering £500 million, making it one of the highest valued companies on AIM.
But when the company admitted, in May 2005, that the wells were in fact dry, the shares went into freefall and the company lost 60% of its value in a day.
Yet, the London Stock Exchange’s 11-page decision raises more questions than answers.
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The "BINZ Brigade" is a growing group of dedicated individuals who have a particular connection to the island as well as the mission of “bringing the wilds of Michigan to the heart of Detroit.” Monthly themed programs with a craft activity, snacks and guest speaker educate families and school children and many other special events are scheduled throughout the year. In addition, volunteers assist with the public feedings at the Deer Encounter and answer questions about the Michigan frogs, toads, turtles, bees and fish that can be seen inside the facility. Weekend shifts are available year-round; daily shifts occur mid-June through Labor Day.
There are 3 steps to becoming a volunteer at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo (BINZ):
Attend BINZ Volunteer Orientation
Complete an Interview with Volunteer Services staff.
Shadow a current BINZ volunteer.
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Robert Fisk articles reporting from Beirut are now open to the public, no payment required.
What in the meanwhile is happening to Lebanon? Bridges and buildings can be reconstructed - with European Union loans, no doubt - but many Lebanese are now questioning the institutions of the democracy for which the US was itself so full of praise last year. What is the point of a democratically elected Lebanese government which cannot protect its people? What is the point of a 75,000-member Lebanese army which cannot protect its nation, which cannot be sent to the border, which does not fire on Lebanon's enemies and which cannot disarm Hizbollah? Indeed, for many Lebanese Shias, Hizbollah is now the Lebanese army.
And do the Israelis realise that they are legitimising Hizbollah, that a rag-tag army of guerrillas is winning its spurs against an Israeli army and air force whose targets - if intended - prove them to be war criminals and if unintended suggest that they are a rif-raff little better than the Arab armies they have been fighting, on and off, for more than half a century? Extraordinary precedents are being set in this Lebanon war.
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speeds should not exceed 20-25 miles per hour here.
Always wished there was enough space at the Whitney and Putnam intersection to put in a traffic circle to slow cars down here. At very least the asphalt here should be raised and marked clearly as a busy intersection shared with foot traffic. It would also help distinguish Whitneyville as a distinct commercial sector. I'll post examples of this type of intersection.
See the following webpages:
A raised intersection in Portland: http://streetswiki.wikispaces.com/Raised+In
Some other effective traffic calming measures: http://www.pps.org/livememtraffic/
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The road should be made wider to fit the population and usage increase from the time it was built. Also Opening Lake street to through traffic would also help greatly. It was never as bad when Lake street was open.
Hi business man, I think widening the road would only make it worse. People already drive way over the speed limit here because it feels and looks like a highway. People drive the way a road makes them feel like driving- fast when it's open and wide, and slow when it's narrow and busy with lots of things to see.
Narrowing down from four to two lanes would make people slow down to the posted speed limit (just like the on street parking on Whitney Ave further down in New Haven forces people to slow down). It might also bring them in for more business, if they have time to look where they're going and see lots of other people walking around this area and frequenting the shops.
If this thread is about wanting less crashes then widening the road and opening Lake street will make it safer with less crashes. As for bringing in more business, doing what whitney food did "IS" the right answer. They made the place look better and more inviting along with having first rate food! (yes it is expensive, but your getting your moneys worth) Now the book store needs to do the same thing! As for parking on Whitney, we already have a town parking lot right their, lets use it! Time to join the 21 century in Whitneyville, not the 1800s.
I agree wholeheartedly that making the businesses look more attractive from the outside and selling quality products inside makes a difference.
At the same time, I do disagree that adding more lanes improves traffic flow. Studies show that it actually makes things worse, is only a short term solution, and is disproportionately expensive. In fact, adding lanes really is the "old-fashioned" way of doing things. The US Dept of Transportation is now purposely reducing lanes on congested highways. Take a look at these links on the topic:
BTW- I'm not necessarily proposing more on-street parking in Whitneyville, although it may also work, but rather finding a way to slow down the cars with some sort of traffic calming measures. They have some really good solutions for this in Europe as well as in some of the more progressive areas of the States. I'll add another picture as an example.
Face it you're on a busy road. Whitney Avenue is a major thoroughfare. You new that when you moved there-whining about it won't change anything.
Hi longtime Whitneyville resident. I think it's important to keep in mind that improving the quality of life for everyone benefits everyone. Making Whitney avenue safer is an excellent idea. At this very point in the road, many families bring young children to the preschool across the street, and lots of elderly folks frequent the grocery store.
It's not at all unreasonable to want to improve things in our neighborhood. It's the neighborhoods with people who are afraid to speak out or don't feel empowered to improve things that have serious problems that only get worse.
Fantastic photographs! I agree that those things would be awesome to see and help build a sense of community in the area. Lower speeds would also significantly reduce noise, making the area more pleasant.
Thanks, Mark! Now that the CT DOT is more interested in these sorts of things, we may start to see some progress: http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-dot-makes-room-for-bikes-1212-20101212,0,6190915.story
I think it is long over due to add turn lanes to both sides of the Putnam & Whitney intersection. The state of CT needes to do a study to verify the need. I have already writen the latter asking for the study. I think others should do the same.
How does increasing ones commute time help improve their quality of life?
what are you Amish? how about speed bumps or spike strips?
I have sent letters to Hartford asking for a study to be done to show the need of installing turn lanes on Putnam and Whitney Ave. It is now time to move on it. We need to widen the road at the corner for the safety of all. This is a state road and the state will pay the bill, not Hamden. This would not be necessary if Lake road was used as it used to be. But that is water under the bridge. Time for the next step in modernization.
Perhaps the frequent crashes have something to do with the frequent number of drivers I see visibly texting while they drive in this area during rush hour. Just a hypothesis.
i saw a crash at the cemetery wall here a couple of weeks back.
someone didn't notice traffic slowed for the light, and tried to pass stopped cars on the right, and ran the red light, only to lose control of his car and crash into the wall.
And that crash had little to NOTHING to do with a need for traffic calming in Whitneyville. It happened a full 1/4 mile away from the corner of Putnam and Whitney. We still need to have a turn lane for cars and truck turning into Putnam Ave because of the closure of Lake street.
businessman: i mentioned it because high travel speeds on whitney make it dangerous for everyone.
Have there been any proposals to address this area?
Has there been any "proof" of more crashes then there have ever been in the past? Did the amout of crashes grow more than the population? We now have many more traffic lights than in the past in Whitneyville. The car speed now is "MUCH" slower near the Whitney barn then it ever was in the past. Cars are stop all the time for no cars and no people crossing the street all day and night long just so we can help people 2 or 3 hours out of 24. You already have your traffic calming and it is burning gas for no good reason at all. This is not a green solutioin to the problem "AS YOU SEE IT"
Yes Mark I would like to propose that we remove the traffic light in front of the Whitney barn and open Lake street to through traffic. Both would help the traffic in Whitneyville as it was in the past. Newer is not better when it comes to traffic in Whitneyville.
Whatever the solution, the State is required to make this a "complete street." It currently isn't. Has anyone talked with ConnDOT and their State Representatives about applying for CMAQ or other routine state transportation funding (e.g., the source recently used to re-do traffic signal infrastructure in most of CT's large cities) in order to address this issue?
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Fifteen transit agencies across Tennessee will get a little help in replacing aging transit vehicles in the new year.
The Federal Transit Administration has awarded a $10 million “State of Good Repair” grant to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, making it one of only five state transportation departments to receive the grant statewide.
Nashville’s Metropolitan Transit Authority was one of the transit agencies in the state to submit a joint application with TDOT to the FTA aimed at replacing transit vehicles past their “useful life based on years in service or mileage,” according to a TDOT release.
Since the $10 million award is 16.5 percent of the amount needed to replace all the vehicles that have exceeded their useful life at participating agencies, TDOT is providing each agency with 16.5 percent of their original request.
Other agencies participating along with TDOT in the statewide application include: Memphis Area Transit Authority, Knoxville Area Transit, Johnson City Transit, Jackson Transit Authority, Murfreesboro Transit, Sevierville (Gatlinburg’s Fun Time Trolley), Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency, Southwest HRA, Southeast Tennessee HRA, Northwest HRA, Upper Cumberland HRA, South Central TN Development District, First TN HRA and East Tennessee HRA.
All of the agencies are members of the Tennessee Public Transportation Association, which includes large urban, small urban and rural transit agencies.
“This joint application reflects the good relationship among Tennessee’s transit agencies, as well as their strong alliance with TDOT,” said TDOT Commissioner John Schroer. “We are excited to assist in this effort and to help these agencies make upgrades that will benefit users in every region of the state.”
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Tags: Don Hudson, Editions FP&CF, From The Archives, photography
Don Hudson is an amateur photographer born in 1950 in Michigan, USA.
From The Archives shows nearly fifteen years of personal archives and presents for the first time these photographs as a collection edited.
Native of Detroit, the Motown (Motor Town), Don Hudson had the heyday of the automobile which was then the Michigan region of global production. Three major U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler also have their headquarters in the Detroit area.
From the early 70s, Don Hudson has documented his personal relationship with the streets of Motown and small towns of Michigan. Over the years, he has compiled a unique visual archive of American daily life.
These photographs, made at political rallies, parades, fairs, or high school football games, tell of a common social landscape of the American Midwest. However, each scenario becomes a personal excuse to allow the camera to suggest alternate meanings to the literal visual world described. Each scene is an excuse to catch a fugitive and incongruous situation.
However, if the book has a certain vision of the American daily life’s style in an era of recklessness and full employment, the collection began in 1973, date of the first oil shock, and also announces that go deep tensions irreversible mark the lives of the americans and dent more the “American Dream.”
Author: Don Hudson
Publisher: Editions FP&CF
Language: English / French
Size: 19 x 26 cm
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This article is from the July 2012 issue of Total Politics
Why put Jacob Rees-Mogg on the cover of this issue? Because he is the most distinctive MP in Parliament.
The double-breasted suit wrapped around that wiry 6ft 3” frame, the round-lensed glasses, the chaise longue pose he adopts in the Commons chamber – here is a man who could sit down in the Carlton Club in 1922 and happily discuss ousting Austen Chamberlain as Conservative leader without having to change his mannerisms one iota.
Rees-Mogg was already a cult figure before his election in 2010. Ali G mocked him back in the late 1990s and, as you will find out in Rob Wilson’s interview on p54, the story about him campaigning with a nanny in a Bentley is already apocryphal legend. Since the moment he first draped himself in his favourite corner of the House of Commons, the MP for North East Somerset has become a star.
He alone would discuss the Latin derivation of the word floccinaucinihilipilification on the BBC and then explain it hadn’t occurred to him to use a shorter word. Not put off by the often-empty chamber, Rees-Mogg will reach back into history to illustrate his points. Why not praise the treatment of an MP thrown in the Tower for criticising Elizabeth I?
The easy conclusion to draw is that Rees-Mogg is simply a fun addition to the Conservative ranks. Unfailingly polite to all, he is a welcome oddity in 21st century British politics. But Rees-Mogg could be much more than that. As fellow Conservative MP Wilson puts it, he is “adored by his colleagues”.
They appreciate his traditional Toryism and belief that following these principles, and rejecting modernisation, will result in electoral victories. If Rees-Mogg wants it, he could become a very powerful backbench figure.
Call it the ‘Boris effect’. As we know from the London mayor, English eccentricity reaches parts of the public other politicians can’t. Instead of downplaying the Eton and Oxford background as David Cameron feels he must, Rees-Mogg happily lives up to our stereotypes of ‘toffness’.
Only two years into his career as an MP, he is already reaching for national treasure status.
Ben Duckworth • Editor | email@example.com
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Now Barack Obama Can Brag About His Klout Score With a (Slightly) Straighter Face
- 7:21 PM
Until now, Klout has been a black box when it comes to figuring out how the company determines your score. You might have an inkling that the week you spent on vacation away from your Twitter account was the reason for the dip in your score, but you can’t be certain. Tuesday, Klout launched a major update it claims boosts score accuracy and makes its scoring process more transparent.
Before Klout, we had no idea how much social influence we had over others, and frankly most of us didn’t care. Along came this service that algorithmically showed how you hold sway on social networks, how influential you are on certain topics, and somehow gave you an overall score. People’s response to the service has been mostly split. There are those that obsess over their scores, trying to dial them up as high as possible, and those that detest the service for its inaccuracy and unclear practices (and probably their low scores).
The company’s first major update in more than a year pulls back the curtain on how it determines your score. Klout says it looks at 400 signals from seven social networks, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Before this update, it only factored in 100 signals.
The new set of signals include Facebook Likes, mentions, comments, and wall posts; Twitter @ mentions, retweets, followers, and replies; and LinkedIn job title, connections, and recommendations. Klout also boasts it’s pulling in 12 billion pieces of information per day from its users, versus 1 billion before the update.
Beyond social signals, Klout uses its own internal signal, called +K. Fellow Klout users can suggest topics they believe others have influence over, and vote for those topics by clicking a +K button. The feature has received a lot of flack from users because many people abuse it by suggesting and voting for obscure and funny topics directed at their friends. Klout says that it caps the amount +Ks can grow your score, to prevent people from gaming the system.
Klout’s other plan to prevent people from undermining the scoring system is to measure real-world influence by adding Wikipedia to the mix. If you happen to be the subject of a Wikipedia page and that page has a high Google PageRank score, your Klout score will go up. If others link to your Wikipedia page, you score will climb higher still. Thanks to Wikipedia, Barack Obama’s score went from 94 to 99 because his Wikipedia page is more influential. Justin Bieber’s Wikipedia page, on the other hand, isn’t as important as the POTUS’s, so his score dropped from a perfect 100 to 92.
Klout is also folding into overall scores something it’s calling a Moments section, sort of a social resume. Moments are posts that generated action from the people in your social networks. That could be a tweet that received a lot of retweets and replies, or a Facebook post that started a discussion among your friends. The new scores became available Tuesday, but it will take a few weeks before everyone sees Klout’s new dashboard with Moments.
Klout has a lot to prove to users and would-be users who feel its scores are arbitrary or plain useless. But if Klout’s additional social signals coupled with Moments start to more accurately reflect influence, or at least get in the ballpark, it might be enough to get Klout itself the influence it craves.
Sarah is a reporter for Wired Business, covering young startups and Silicon Valley culture. Pitch her funding and startup news at sarah_mitroff at wired dot com.
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Below is an SOS sent out from the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, an Israeli human rights activist organization. As Christians we should support our Jewish brothers and sisters that are standing for human rights over and against violence and oppression.
Save Beit Arabiya!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Urgent action required: The Israeli Supreme Court has just ruled that the home of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh in Anata, which has already been demolished by the Israeli authorities four times, can be demolished yet again. The Shawamreh home has become a symbol of resistance to Israel’s house demolition policies and deserves our support. Please forward this to your lists and raise this issue in your advocacy campaigns. Contact your political representatives and the Israeli embassies and consulates in your country. Tell them that the Shawamreh home (Beit Arabiya) cannot be demolished again. Indeed, tell them that NO Palestinian home should ever be demolished again!
Since 1967, the Israeli authorities have demolished more than 24,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, some as “collateral damage” in military operations (4000 homes were demolished in the recent invasion of Gaza), some as collective punishment (the obliteration of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002 being just one example), many others for lack of a building permit, though Israel intentionally withholds building permits from Palestinians. In a particularly cruel twist used by the courts, thousands of Palestinian families have been forced to demolish their own homes under pressure of fines and imprisonment. Tens of thousands of demolition orders remain outstanding in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and can be implemented at any time.
The issue of house demolitions first penetrated the public consciousness on July 9, 1998, when the Civil Administration, Israel’s military government in the West Bank, came to demolish the home of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh and their six children in “Area C” of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem. Mobilized in time by Israeli and Palestinian activists, it was the first opportunity Israelis, diplomats and journalists actually had to witness a home demolition. The courageous resistance of the Shawamreh family and the international attention the demolition received put the issue of house demolitions on the political map. Over the years many local and international NGOs have highlighted this issue, including Amnesty International. Recent reports by OCHA and the EU have also focused on the illegality of house demolitions. Today the obligation of Israel to cease demolishing Palestinian homes is enshrined in the first phase of the Road Map initiative. Much of this success is due to the Shawamreh family’s resistance.
Now they need our help. Last week, after a delay of more than two years, a three judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court (Justices Eliezer Rivlin, Ayala Procaccia and David Cheshin) rejected the Shawamreh family’s second appeal to have the 17-year demolition order on their home rescinded. The Shawamrehs’ petition to the Court to issue them a building permit was also rejected. As of Sunday, June 7th, the Civil Administration is authorized to demolish their home for the fifth time. It is clear that the Shawamrehs cannot find justice in the Israeli court system. One of the family’s chief claims, rejected out of hand by the Court, argues that the Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an Occupying Power from extending its law and administration into an occupied territory, rendering the very process of granting or denying permits to Palestinians patently illegal under international humanitarian law.
Understanding that this argument has no standing in Israeli courts (who rule on the basis that there is no occupation and therefore the Fourth Geneva Convention protecting civilians under occupation is irrelevant), the family then argued that the legal basis accepted by Israel for demolishing their home and thousands of others in the West Bank – RJ-5, a 1942 British-era plan that designated the entire southern portion of the West Bank as “agricultural land” – was itself illegal since it has never been revised over the past 67 years despite significant changes in demography and land use. Besides using the plan to deny the Shawamrehs their fundamental right to housing, RJ-5, they argue, is also used in a discriminatory manner, since the Israeli authorities set it aside when approving dozens of Israeli settlements on the same land denied to Palestinians for building. This argument, too, was rejected by the Court.
The Shawamrehs then argued that their failure to obtain a permit, despite repeated requests for building permits from the Civil Administration (for which they had to spend $15,000 in fees), was based on no substantive reason. Indeed, the Civil Administration itself had declared in an interview in Ha’aretz newspaper that the Shawamrehs would be granted a permit if they provided what the Civil Administration claimed were two missing signatures on their deed of ownership – yet it would not reveal what signatures were required despite repeated queries, finally saying they lost the Shawamreh file altogether.
All this, plus their repeated appeals to the Supreme Court, constituted, the family argued, an unreasonable state of affairs in which all legal channels of redress were denied or closed. They had demonstrated good faith and a willingness to do whatever the Israeli authorities required, despite the illegality of Israeli policies, but were nevertheless refused. Not only did the judges reject this argument, but in their ruling they accused the Shawamrehs of “bad faith” and “unclean hands” since they had rebuilt their home four times without the proper permit. To add insult to injury, the judges then fined them $2000 for having the audacity to bring their case to court.
ICAHD is extremely concerned that the Shawamrehs’ home will be quickly demolished by the Civil Administration. Beit Arabiya, as it has become known, is a central meeting place for Palestinians, Israelis and international peace activists. The Shawamreh family deserves the support of the international community in their time of need. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, residents of occupied territories are supposed to enjoy double protection. The Occupying Power, Israel in this case, is enjoined to protect the rights and well-being of Palestinians under its control, while the international community, through the High Contracting Parties, is required to guarantee the same. In both cases the Shawamrehs and the thousands of families they represent have been let down. When they take steps to actualize their fundamental rights, such as rebuilding their demolished homes, they find they have no effective legal or political protection.
Governments will only act if pushed by the people. We call on you to raise your voices against the impending demolition of the Shawamreh home – and in so doing against Israel’s overall policy of demolishing Palestinian homes as it attempts to drive them from the country.
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Central European Studies: Ramping up International Experience at Rose-Hulman
June 28, 2011
Every four years, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
football team makes a summer trip to Europe, where they play a game
of American football against some European counterparts. Last time,
the team played in Rome. When it was decided that this year's
trip would take the team to Prague in the Czech Republic and
Vienna, Austria, Associate Professor of Geography Mike Kukral was
asked to help prepare the team for their visit.
Kukral was a natural choice, since he knows more than a little
bit about the region the players will be traveling. "I was a
Fulbright scholar and I lived in Prague for a year," Kukral
says. Indeed, he wasn't just there for any normal year,
either. In fact, Kukral lived in Prague during the fall of
1989 amongst the turmoil which would result in the Velvet
Revolution and fall of the country's communist government.
"I was asked to help prepare the team for this trip so they
could appreciate the places they're going," Kukral explains.
He used his historical and cultural knowledge of the area to create
a course within European Studies targeting Central Europe, which
team members could take for credit. The genius of Kukral's Central
Europe course is that it enabled football students to prepare for
the trip while fulfilling a humanities requirement. "This is the
first time we've had an accredited course to prepare for the
football trip," Kukral says.
The response to the course was overwhelming. Kukral's
class was filled to capacity at 32 students. "The football players
have been very enthusiastic," he comments. "I probably could have
had everybody," he says of the team members, had the classroom
space and time been available.
This is Rose-Hulman football's third trip to Europe. The
team traveled to London and Paris in 2002, and traveled to Rome,
Florence and Venice in Italy in the summer of 2007. A total of 85
people, including players, coaches, parents, and Kukral are
included in this year's tour. Kukral's course gave the players
context for the sights they saw during their European tour, before
they met the Austrian National American Football team in Vienna on
"We want to promote more international education at Rose-Hulman
and this is one of the ways to do it," Kukral says of the trip and
its corresponding class. "It's a great experience to educate
Rose-Hulman students about these cities."
The team, which departed on May 30, visited the Hradcany
Quarter, St. Vitus Cathedral and the River Vltava in the Old Town
Castle District of Prague, as well as Vienna's Schobrunn Palace,
before returning home on June 7.
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Yesterday my son and I both experienced something for the first time: Trick-or-treating on Halloween. Halloween is relatively new to my country, and is still very widely attacked here as an unwanted Americanism which is all about rude kids wanting free candy. For many it is simply seen as a way for various high-profile companies to make some extra money, on something which has no meaningful history (compare Christmas, which at least has meaning for many, despite the commercialisation).
But those are adults issues and views, none of them matter to a seven-year old who sees children knocking on our door each year, dressed up in costumes, getting free lollies from us, before the children run off laughing to the next house. So there’s nothing unexpected in my son asking to join in this year. I like that there was something new that he wanted to try, and saw the opportunities in the experience to teach and extend his skills and confidence, so neither should there be anything unexpected in the fact that I agreed to him giving it a go.
Leading up to the day we hit a hurdle: The only thing my son wanted to dress up as was a clock (clocks being one of his central obsessions), and it’s not a readily available costume, nor one I had the time or resources (or skill) to create. As the day neared both I and he became less enamoured with the idea of Halloween; he decided he didn’t like scary things, and I was concerned about taking a child around without a costume, asking for treats that I didn’t even want him to eat.
Then something shared on Facebook changed my mind and lead to our first night trick-or-treating:
It reminded me that there are very many things my son has had trouble doing and has been excluded from, just because of fears and expectations (both mine and his), and that I have prided myself on working to find ways around those fears and expectations. If a friend on Facebook (who doesn’t have an autistic child and who is not autistic) can share this message of acceptance and open-mindedness, then the least I could do was act with the hope and expectation that maybe people could overlook my son’s differences and welcome him just like all the other less-deserving ratbags in our neighbourhood; ratbags who don’t face these issues but present the very face of rudeness that the image is trying to rewrite in people’s minds. Which brings me to this point:
There are rude children on Halloween, we see them every year lately. They don’t bother dressing up in costumes, they don’t say thank you, they knock on doors where people show no interest in Halloween in a country where Halloween is still mostly frowned upon. And they do it in droves (we’re not just talking a few of the kids, this is more like a majority of the kids who knock on our door). So how do you tell the difference between these rude children, and the disabled ones who face verbal and physical challenges that can come off as rudeness, and how do you take those differences into account when teaching the “rules” of Halloween?
Because I looked up the Halloween rules, and what I kept coming upon time after time, was a list of exclusions for disabled children: They must say thank you, they mustn’t using grabbing motions at the candy, they must wear a costume “if they’re not wearing costumes, don’t give them candy.” All of which means that children facing sensory and motor and communication issues are likely to be seen as rude and unwanted on a day which is meant to be fun for all kids.
Then I figured out what the problem was, and why the message about rudeness on Halloween is all garbled and confused: These instructions about rules and rudeness should only be directed at the parents preparing the children for Halloween; it is – as ever – their responsibility to guide and inform their own children in matters of manners and behaviour. By the time that child comes knocking on your door, if they’re not in a costume and forget their words and say or do the wrong things according to the rules, the person handing out the candy should be giving the benefit of the doubt, and blaming the parents (if they must blame someone) instead of punishing the child standing on their doorstep. When you open your door, you have no idea of the history behind the child in front of you; assume the best and help them enjoy their night instead of ticking off a list of rules in your head.
Real and concerning rudeness in this context isn’t hard to spot; children who are mean or actively rude in their words and actions (as opposed to those who don’t follow perfectly correct words and behaviours) are of a very different sort than those who are struggling with disabilities. And quite frankly, even if a child was struggling with disabilities, there is always a line drawn at meanness or intentional rudeness, so the distinction between rudeness and disability melts away at that point anyway.
These same concerns are mirrored in matters of general public behaviour and discipline, and the way the public reacts when they see a parent struggling with a difficult child, and chip in their sarcastic comments and sneers of disapproval: You don’t know the child, you don’t know their history. It is the parent’s responsibility to teach that child manners and good behaviour, it is not your role to pass judgment on absolute strangers and hold them accountable for falling short of your standards. The difference between an abusive or neglectful parent, and one who is struggling with a disabled child (even when it is an invisible disability like autism), is the same sort of difference as between an accidentally and intentionally rude child at your door on Halloween: Withhold the judgment, condemnation and punishment when you don’t know the child and family’s history; save your scorn for the unambiguous cases of rude ratbags.
So for all this musing, what happened with my own family and son on Halloween? That will be in Part Two…
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Both sides expressed frustration Wednesday during a discussion about the future funding of a para-transit service in Johnson County cities that provides rides to the elderly and people with disabilities.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors said during a two-hour public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2014 budget that the county can no longer afford to pay for what supervisors see as subsidies on behalf of Iowa City and Coralville for the SEATS program. They said the cities need to look within their budgets to come up with that money, as the county deals with a difficult budget year.
City leaders from those communities disagree with the characterization that the county is “subsidizing” those city transit services, since it’s money the county collects via a levy from taxpayers living in those cities. The mayors of Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty said they want to work cooperatively with the county to find a solution that results in a fair partnership of government entities to provide SEATS.
Both sides said they are open to negotiation, but any compromise likely will be too late to change the county’s planned funding level for the cities SEATS program in FY 2014, which will be a reduction from nearly $600,000 to $130,000.
Funds from the county levy should go toward county services, Supervisors Chairwoman Janelle Rettig said. She noted nearly 31 percent of the county budget goes toward social services and mental and physical health, programs the supervisors do not want to cut in order to maintain the subsidy to SEATS.
“I set out on this budget trying to protect that number,” she said. “The county just doesn’t have the flexibility in our budget.”
The city leaders said no matter the outcome of negotiations, they are committed to maintaining SEATS.
“Para-transit services will continue for our residents regardless of the status of negotiations, if any, between local governments,” Iowa City Mayor Matt Hayek said. He added city officials are “troubled” that the county now refers to its role in SEATS as that of a contracting entity “and not as the partner it has historically been.”
SEATS, which has been around for 35 years, provides door-t0-door transportation for the elderly, people with disabilities and people who otherwise cannot use the regular bus services in Iowa City, Coralville, University Heights and North Liberty. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires all cities with fixed-route transit systems to provide some form of transportation for people who can’t used fixed busing services. The five-year contracts that Iowa City and Coralville had with the county to provide SEATS expire June 30.
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28 July 2012:
An Artist Book, With Sound, Invites Readers to Look and Listen Along
State of the Arts
- The word “record” has multiple meanings: As a noun, it’s a written document of facts, relationships or agreements, kept for important legal or sentimental reasons. A record is also an organized collection of sounds — say, the Beatles’ first LP or the latest Radiohead CD. As a verb, record is the act of making one of these things. The word is so versatile that it doesn’t have a good synonym.
Rebecca Mack may or may not have thought through these semantics when she chose the word Records as the title of her new “concept piece,” but its subtitle describes the work plainly: Book and a Special Recording. And there’s no doubt that Mack, a 35-year-old Burlington DJ (Mothertrucker), sound and visual artist, preschool teacher, and mother of 5-year-old twins, paid close attention to every detail of her unusual book — an undertaking that she says took her 10 years to complete.Records is an 8-inch-square, 24-page book on heavy, coated paper, with a 7-inch 45- rpm record tucked inside a sleeve at the end.
Records’ colorful pages are filled with photographs — most taken by Mack — and a snippets of text, handwritten or typed by the author. While there are references to Mack’s own life — such as pictures of her children — her book intentionally lacks a narrative. Each “reader” can have a unique experience depending on how he or she responds to the images — including photos of rooftops in Sicily, the innards of a piano, a pair of bare feet. Many of the pages contain multiple images with no apparent connections. As she does in DJ mode, Mack samples and stitches, evoking myriad reactions to their combinations.
And then there is the soundtrack.
Why the 45 format? “It was my explicit choice to put it on 7-inch vinyl — it’s still the preferred format for a lot of people,” Mack declares. Easy for her to say, being a DJ. Mack, who used to work at Pure Pop Records, says there is a clientele for new vinyl, not just vintage. Potential listeners who have put away their turntables may find looking through these pages engaging enough.
Mack intends, however, for the reader to experience visual and auditory stimuli together, remaining on each spread as long as she instructs — a soft “ding” on the soundtrack signals it’s time to turn the page.
The sounds, taken primarily from her field recordings, are diverse. Mack singing from her own composition, Requiem. A choir in Madurai, India. One of Mack’s twins singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Samples from DJ Mothertrucker. These form an aural tapestry with the nonmusical sounds: a creaking door, squawking seagulls, the repetitive crackle of a needle in the final grooves of an LP. Mack’s musical influences could not be broader: from hip-hop to 12th-century abbess/composer Hildegard of Bingen.
How does she hope people will experience the book? “It’s 10 and a half minutes of reflective time,” Mack suggests. “It’s going to be different for each person — and that’s exactly right.” The interval before each “ding” varies; in this way, Mack forces lookers/listeners to slow down, or perhaps to move along before they’re ready to turn the page. Through the simple act of controlling time, she plays with a theme of evanescence.
Like most handcrafted books, Records is a labor of love that is scarcely compensated by its $20 price. Though Mack is happy to sell copies to individuals, “I want to get it into libraries and artists’ books collections,” she says. She already has some fans at the University of Vermont. “It’s one of the most interesting and engaging pieces of art I’ve seen in a while, and we were inspired to think about programming that would feature Becca and her work,” says Selene Colburn, assistant to the dean of libraries for external relations at UVM. “We were really blown away.”
Mack aims to hold listening parties, to which she’ll bring her turntable and up to six sets of headphones for attendees. “It’s very reminiscent of being a kid, when there were records and books to go with them,” Colburn notes.
Mack herself compares her Records project to the current craze for scrapbooking, another example of the “completely human drive to preserve your experience,” she says. “I have outlined my next 10-year project,” Mack adds, revealing only this: “It will involve sound, turntables and orchestral arrangements.”
“Records: Book and a Special Recording by Rebecca Mack.” Self-published, 24 pages. $20. Mack will release “Records” with a listening party on Friday, June 22, 7 p.m. at Pure Pop in Burlington. recordsbookwithsound.wordpress.com
Tonight at Pure Pop Records in Burlington, Vermont, we will celebrate the release of RECORDS, my new artist’s book with read-along-record soundtrack.
This project, begun in 2002, represents both my dearest wish come true and my gift to the world. Though it was conceived whole, in exactly this format, it has undergone a decade’s worth of changes in content. I knew I needed to make a collaged book of my own visual samples of the world (photographs) with a companion soundtrack of collagedfield recordings and samples. To print the full-color books and press 45rpm, 7″ records was a prohibitively expensive project. Yet it was the only acceptable manifestation for me, as I needed to make an explicit reference to the read-along-record story books of my childhood. That I am both a visual and a sound artist, making recordings of the world around me, required this ambi-sensual format. But it took many years to save enough money to allow the project to take this shape.
I owe a great thank-you to the Fools Gold Artists’ Fund, who provided a significant portion of the funding. Without them, I’d still be saving for a few more years! I feel enormously supported by this wonderful community of artists, farmers, and other hard-working revolutionaries in Burlington’s Old North End neighborhood. I am lucky to live, and raise my family, here.
June 4, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
Contact Rebecca Mack: email@example.com
RECORDS book with sound
(Remember those Read-Along Records from when we were kids?)
RECORDS is a 24-page, full color artist’s book filled with photographs, handwritten discographies and lists, found type, liner notes, and album covers, accompanied by a double-sided 7″ vinyl soundtrack record, exploring the themes of love and impermanence. The soundtrack is composed in the spirit of the Hip Hop mixtape, using traditional sampling methods and archivist field recordings to create a textural and rhythmic listening experience. The first printing and pressing produced a 200-item run of the book and record,which will be released from Flying Hen Studio at 7 pm on June 22, 2012 at Pure Pop Records in Burlington, VT.
Record-keeping is an essentially human practice that relates directly to the awareness of our unalterable impermanence. We preserve information because it is important; we archive it so it can live beyond us. I use my photography and sound recording practices to have an active relationship with the unavoidable facts of death, change, and impermanence in my daily life. Inspired by crumbling walls, children’s voices, and natural light, I find beauty and impermanence in the same places.
You will see urban landscapes, moving hands, found type, and vintage vinyl ephemera. You will hear the streets of Palermo and Madras, the calls of Canada geese, turntablist scratches, and music boxes. The project is the distillation of 10 years of captured images and sounds. As an artist working across the senses, the format of the read-along record has always appealed to me. It was born along with Hip Hop culture, in the late 1970′s and 80′s, so it has nostalgic resonance with my generation.
My musical background includes study in music history, theory, composition and performance at Fordham University and University of Vermont. In 2000, I took a second job to earn the funds to purchase two DJ turntables, a mixer, recording equipment, and to begin collecting vinyl records. I began recording and editing mixtapes, playing dance parties, and playing a weekly radio show on Free Radio Burlington. Concurrently, I began to see my work in photography and mixed media as complimentary practices: photographs became visual “samples”; collages became “mixtapes”. Thus, I borrowed the form of the Read-Along-Record to make explicit these connections. As I began to study Buddhism and work in the field of Hospice, both modes of recording and organizing information became significant to me in their relationship to impermanence; our records outlive us.
Rebecca Mack, a.k.a. DJ Mothertrucker, is a visual and sound artist living and working in the Old North End of Burlington, Vermont. Working in photography, collage, sound and fiber arts, and mixed media illustration, Rebecca has been ‘making new things from old things’ at Flying Hen Studio since 2004. This is her first publication.
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RECORDS Release Party
June 22, 2012. 7pm.
Pure Pop Records
Six people at a time can listen to/read the book. RECORDS will be available for purchase at Pure Pop Records henceforth.
July 14 (Saturday), 11 AM to 1 PM.
Fletcher Free Library
RECORDS will be performed and available for sale at the Library during the event.
RECORDS will be released from Flying Hen Studio at 7 pm on June 22, 2012 at Pure Pop Records in Burlington, Vermont.
I am so happy to finally be holding it in my hands! My dream is real.
RECORDS is in the final stages of post-production. I’m finishing the discography; then it can go to print! Today I visited the printer to get a feel for the paper stock choices. The soundtrack has already been sent to press in Detroit. Meanwhile, I’m researching the library science of artist’s books and special collections. It is my dear hope and clear goal to have this audio-visual artist’s book included in public collections of such things. There is a decreasing volume of minutia between me and these goals! Thanks for your support and attention.
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Why is consistent audio so important? Remember this basic premise: Video conveys information; audio conveys emotion. Let that sink in. As wedding videographers, we are in the emotion business, so one would assume we would strive to get the best results using the best equipment available-and using it correctly. Sadly, this is not always the case. Many videographers use substandard equipment with incorrect methods and wonder why they struggle so often with their sound.
Conversely, others may use the best equipment money can buy but still get inconsistent results.
We'll examine the wedding ceremony process first. What is the most important audio in a wedding ceremony? The vows. I would speculate that about 99% of professional videographers who don't rely on an on-camera or a camera-mounted mic use a wireless system to capture the vows. A quality UHF wireless system is essential for getting good sound. However, even the best system may be prone to dropouts and other interference. If something like this happens just as the bride says "I do" and you miss that moments because of it, you're sunk. Most interference sources are beyond our control, but preventing dropouts that result from a poor signal can be a fairly easy thing to do. Without getting into the specifics of radio propagation, remember this simple but very important rule: Always keeps the transmitter antenna and the receiver antenna pointed in the same direction. Mismatched antenna polarization can significantly drop the efficiency of your system. Simply put, if the receiver antenna at the camera is pointed straight up, the antenna of the transmitter you place on the groom or officiate must be pointed in the same direction.
To overcome issues of interference or dropouts with your wireless system, you may want to try an alternative recording process as a backup. For the weddings I shoot, in addition to the wireless mic placed on the groom (which I use only for sync purposes), I also use a flash-based digital audio recorder. In the past I've used IFP Series iRiver recorders. The IFP Series iRivers, which are no longer manufactured, were good low-cost recorders. However, they had some drawbacks. One, they recorded in the highly compressed MP3 format. Two, there wasn't a usable signal monitoring of the recording process. I currently use the Marantz PMD620 recorder. It's a very small form-factor recorder and, coupled with a good lavaliere microphone, is capable of superb 24-bit PCM audio recording.
What is the consistency trick with any of these devices? Once you have successfully set up the recorder and microphone combination and have captured good audio, never change the settings or use it for anything else. Granted, it may be a bit expensive to have multiple devices set up for one type of use, but if you desire consistent audio, this is the way to ensure it.
Some videographers opt to use a camera-mounted shotgun to capture audio. Unless you can get the microphone very close-within a few feet of the sound source-a shotgun is probably the least-effective microphone (besides the one factory-installed on your camera) for getting good and consistent audio. The distance between the microphone and the sound source will have the largest influence on your recording capability. Regardless of the cost or quality of your shotgun microphone, if it's placed too far away or aimed improperly, your sound quality will be diminished.
A common misconception is that a shotgun microphone acts like a parabolic microphone, which is capable of reaching out and recording sound at a considerable distance from the microphone. Shotguns don't have any reach; in fact, they have a narrower angle of acceptance than other microphones. When used improperly, this narrow acceptance angle allows extraneous, ambient sound that is bouncing all around the room to eventually get into the front of the microphone. Unfortunately, this sound will be severely out of phase, producing very thin or weak-sounding audio. In addition, shotguns are very prone to picking up noises, unless they are placed in a good shock mount.
Here's a good rule of thumb to remember: A $50 microphone placed 5' away will sound immensely better than a $500 microphone placed 50' away. If you want good, consistent audio from the microphone on your camera, try to get as close as possible to the sound source.
What if you shoot an event in which you have to record a small group of musicians? The Zoom H2 with its configurable internal microphone is a very good choice. It's capable of recording at 24-bit PCM quality and can be easily attached to a microphone stand and strategically placed among the performers. Again, for consistency, once you have captured a successful recording, lock down the record settings.
Never turn down a source of audio. If you can get a feed from the venue's soundboard, do so. Although opportunities such as this come often, getting good and consistent audio continues to be an ongoing problem with many videographers. I've read many comments in online forums blaming the venue's sound guy when, in fact, I would guess, it was probably the videographer's own fault for using the wrong recorder. There's a simple rule for getting consistent soundboard audio: If you are taking a feed, your recorder must have at least a 1/4" line input. If it has only a 1/8" line input, forget it. Typically, the preamp circuits of these smaller input recorders will not be capable of successfully and consistently handling the signal voltage coming from the board.
Remember, if you record poor-quality sound, it will always be poor quality, no matter how you try to enhance it in post. Don't leave yourself with any excuses; since recording media is cheap, always record at the highest uncompressed setting possible.
Capturing good and consistent audio is not hard to do. If you follow the general processes explained here, chances are you will capture not only good audio but consistent audio as well.
Mark Foley (mark at foleyproductions.net) runs Foley Productions, Inc. of Warner Robins, Ga. Before becoming an event videographer, he spent 26 years in the United States Air Force and has worked as a part-time sound engineer since 1980.
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Dan Appleman is on a campaign to secure every computer in the country. To help in that goal he wrote a book:
Always Use Protection
: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing.
But that's not why we put him here on Channel 9 (he's the first non-Microsoft employee to be interviewed for Channel 9, by the way). He's here because we saw him speak at a local bookstore and realized that he has more knowledge about real-world security (and
the lack thereof) than anyone else we've met and we wanted to share him with you.
Do you think you know something about security?
His experience shows that teenagers generally don't know enough to protect their systems.
Over the next week you'll see more from Dan. It's all part of our push to get people to spend a few minutes making their machines more secure. Another important way? Get the just-released
Windows XP Service Pack 2
What's the official way to get that? Visit
and turn on automatic updating.
We put up two videos today from Dan. The second one asks him "what are some security tips
By the way, Dan Appleman has been a long-time developer and wrote the best selling and technically acclaimed Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows API. He's also the cofounder of
book publishing company.
By the way, regarding Windows XP Service Pack 2, Todd Bishop, journalist with the Seattle Post Intelligencer,
is pointing to "early results."
We'd love to know what your experiences with XPSP2 have been. Post them here!
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The International Theological Commission issued a new document yesterday entitled “Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles and Criteria.” I scanned the text yesterday, and I liked what I was reading. As a reality check, I emailed a friend who, unlike me, is a theologian and asked what he thought of the text. “Good stuff!” he replied, and indeed it is. I woke up early this AM to re-read it, and I like it even better on the second reading.
Welcome to Distinctly Catholic, a blog by Michael Sean Winters that examines politics, religion and the estuary where the two meet, all from a distinctively Catholic point of view. The blog is small "c" catholic as well as big "C" Catholic, examining a wide range of issues but always from the perspective of Catholic history and theology.
No, not THAT Tablet. In a post at Vox Nova, Morning's Minion takes on a recent editorial in the Brooklyn Tablet, the diocesan newspaper, not to be confused with the international Catholic weekly based in London.
I had already called attention the editorial - especially the odd fact that it refers readers to the website of the Heritage Foundation but not, say, to Rerum Novarum, Gaudium et Spes or Caritas in Veritate! Minion goes further and does the heavy lifting, pointing out that this was written by someone with little or no knowledge of Catholic social teaching.
I received one of those mass emails this morning from the Obama campaign, but this one had a difference: It was in Spanish. Unsurprisingly, the Obama campaign has begun what must be for them the enjoyable task of reminding Latinos of all the nasty things Mr. Romney has said about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, immigration reform, the Dream Act, and other issues of importance to Latinos. Here is the text:
Quer'a que supieras que el último ataque de la campaña de Romney fue en contra de la Jueza Sotomayor.
La Jueza Sonia Sotomayor es un orgullo para nuestra comunidad, pero Romney publicó anuncios de radio y televisión que critican a Rick Santorum por apoyar su confirmación para una corte inferior en 1998.
Tal vez Romney no reconoce que a lo largo de su carrera judicial, la Jueza Sotomayor ha recibido un fuerte apoyo bipartidista por su experiencia judicial, su inteligencia, su apego a nuestra Constitución, y su buen juicio. No cabe duda que ella merece ser Jueza de la Corte Suprema de la Nación.
The rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry has reached the floor of the Florida state legislature, which is considering a new law that would bar state courts from considering any "foreign law, legal code or system" in arbitrations in family court, and divorce proceedings. This bill is targeted at Sharia law but Jewish leaders are also worried that it would bar settlements that use beit din in Orthodox Jewish divorce settlements.
St. Augustine is credited with the saying that he who sings prays twice. So, I suspect we will have a quadruplet of orations when the Sistine Chapel Choir joins with the choir of Westminster Abbey at vespers and Masses this summertime in Rome. How fitting that the Abbey Church dedicated to St. Peter will be sending its choir to the See of Peter.
You could see this coming. After he returned from his State visit to the UK, Pope Benedict XVI was reported to have been exceedingly moved by the prayer service at Westminster Abbey, and especially by the extraordinary music. And what was not to love? Here, as a refresher, the Westminster choir and congregation sing Purcell's "Christ is Made the Sure Foundation" as the Holy Father processed up the nave. (Note that the Anglican clergy know all the words!)
Yesterday, I mentioned that some pundits on the right have been comparing the current GOP nominating contest to the 2008 primary fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The longer than usual contest in 2008 – recall that Clinton did not concede until after all the primaries! – turned out to actually help Obama: He had an organization in all 50 states, he had introduced himself to voters, and, importantly, as the first African-American candidate with a real chance at winning, he made his a familiar face.
We have witnessed the power of social media with the Arab Spring. Now, a new Youtube video wants to harness the power of social media to make Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony the most famous man in the world, not to honor him but to call attention to the atrocities he has committed and get him arrested. The video is a half hour long, and once you start you will not be able to start. But, take the time. You will not regret doing so.
Ruy Teixeira has a very informative and smart article up at TNR about "Independent" voters and the myths that surround them. I confess that I have used the term sloppily in the past when a better designation might be "swing voters." But whatever we call them, they are decisive come election time and, as Teixeira demonstrates, part of the political challenge facing the country is that there is no real way for these swing voters to effectively bring about a less partisan, more deal-making political moment.
Most everyone was watching the GOP primary in Ohio, but pro-life Democrats who care about the unborn, the undocumented, and unions can celebrate the fact that Cong. Marcy Kaptur beat Cong. Dennis Kucinich in a newly configured district that placed the two Dems in a primary fight. At last count, with 84 percent of the precincts reporting, Kaptur had a 24-point win, which is about as decisive as it gets. Kucinich not only abandoned his pro-life position, he became one of the whiniest members of Congress who did much harm to the causes he championed with his antics, his Limbaugh-quality rhetoric, and his puerile policy stances. Those who seek purity in politicians love politicians like Kucinich, but I just see the flipside of Santorum. Give me a sane centrist like Kaptur any day of the week.
What rough beast, its hour come round at least, slouches towards Tampa to be nominated?
Mitt Romney’s win in Ohio last night was by the slimmest of margins. With 99.8 percent of precincts reporting, he captured 38 percent of the vote to Rick Santorum’s 37 percent, taking only 12,000 more votes than the former senator out of more than one million votes cast. To achieve his victory, Romney had to follow a method that has worked well in other states: Outspend your rival, in Ohio four-to-one, with heavily negative advertising.
This strategy works, but it has two downsides. First, by angering his opponents, he makes it less likely they will drop out of the race. Santorum and Gingrich, in their speeches last night, complained about Romney’s spending and cast themselves as David’s to his Wall Street-backed Goliath. Santorum and Gingrich both know that if they had not been outspent by such a large margin, they would have won states they have now lost. This does not make them more likely to step aside to allow Romney to begin his pivot to the general election any earlier.
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I wonder how many science blogs there are in Australia. How do the numbers compare with New Zealand?
Anyway it looks like organisers of the Australian National Science Week are taking their local blogger seriously. They have launched a competition to determine the National Science Week 2010 blogger. All Australian-based science blogs are eligible and anyone can nominate their favourite blog (or their own blog).
NOTE: Nominations close 28 June 2010.
Besides being named the official National Science Week 2010 blogger the winner will receive a four-day blogging trip to their choice of events during National Science Week (14 — 22 August). As the official National Science Week 2010 blogger the winner will have the opportunity to blog about the events they attend, the people they meet and some of the interesting things they learn.
Seems like a great idea.
Have a look at Big Blog Theory for more information and the nomination form.
Can anyone suggest suitable blogs to nominate?
Click here to nominate your favourite science blog. Nominations close 28 June 2010.
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A Real Sense of Community--Reston
gallery of deserving targets, one often forgets the very good people around us engaged every day in doing good deeds right here in Reston.
I have to watch my tendency to slip into cynical mode, especially when discussing
politics. Fair game for me includes Fairfax County, the so-called Commonwealth of Virginia, and, heaven help us, our dismal U.S. Congress with entirely too many right-wingers and tea merchants spewing bile and negativity. Given this endless
One recent, modest example of a caring community at work involves a suggested community garden for residents of the affordable Cedar Ridge Apartments. Cedar Ridge Apartments on Becontree Lane rent subsidized units with social services provided by Reston Interfaith.
Over the years, these apartments have been well maintained and serve a diverse, changing population. The demographics have shifted reflecting new waves of immigrants. Initially, residents were majority African-American who were followed by Latin American, Middle Eastern, and more recently, North African and southwest Asian.
A few months ago, one of Reston’s newer nonprofits, the Fairfax Coalition for Smarter Growth’s Sustainable Reston initiative, which promotes local food production among other things, approached Reston Interfaith with a proposal to create a pilot community garden with the residents of Cedar Ridge. Reston Interfaith (RI) was immediately receptive. It turns out that many Cedar Ridge residents come from farming backgrounds—although in very different,
subsistence farming. Kerrie Wilson, RI's CEO, agreed and thought self-help growing of nutritious foods to supplement family diets made sense from more than one point of view.
As it happens, Cedar Ridge is adjacent to the natural gas pipeline right-of-way which runs through Reston. The right-of-way is a broad expanse of good quality land, some of which is already a large community garden on Wiehle Drive. All
one needs to use it is to have an agreement with the pipeline owners not to dig
deep holes or plant trees that threaten their line. The pipeline owners were cooperative and the project quickly began to come together.
Reston Association, the nonprofit Friends of Reston, and the Reston Community Center all stepped up to back the pilot project with the modest financial and in-kind support needed, including deer-proof fencing, top soil, hoses and a rain barrel. Donations of tools, plant seedlings and seeds came from Sustainable Reston volunteers. And, Reston Interfaith, which works on a daily basis with Cedar Ridge families, had no trouble identifying interested gardeners—including several older Sudanese residents among others.
Once a ten-foot tall chain link fence was installed to keep the deer from devouring
the veggies in the modest thirty feet square enclosure, all was ready for the
gardeners and volunteers to clean pathways between individual plots, till the
soil, fill the rain barrel and plant and water the first plantings.
Early on June 6, the Cedar Ridge gardeners, 10 in all, appeared bright and early and literally dug in. It is an interesting group—consisting of six men and four women, most in their 50s and above. Eight of the 10 were originally from the northern Sudan, with some experience in farming back home. Their experience and love of the soil and working it was apparent immediately.
Each gardener works a small, four by thirteen feet, planting bed approached from newly dug, tiny pathways covered now with newspapers under a layer of wood chips to keep out weeds and keep down the mud. Plantings include a dozen varieties of tomato seedlings, egg plant, okra, basil, peppers, squash and cucumbers. And, the gardeners are deciding what additional seeds they need to fill their beds from border stake to border stake.
The preparation of the soil and paths, and the planting and water is hard work by itself. But, a lot more hard work and perseverance, along with a good bit of luck with weather and pests, will be needed over the next two to three months to yield the fresh, nutritious veggies and fruits the growers envision. And, I should note
they will do it without the aid of chemicals--this is an organic garden!
It has been very satisfying for me, a member of Sustainable Reston, to watch this pilot project come together thanks to Sustainable Reston, Reston Association, Friends of Reston, the Reston Community Center and the wonderful folks at Reston Interfaith.
Notice the feature they all have in common? The word Reston
in their names! They are RESTON coming together to make a real difference in people’s lives. Furthermore, if this pilot initiative is successful, these same organizations are ready to look at expanding it in years to come to serve additional families in need.
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In a nation where the rule of law is already fragile on many levels, police officials, judges, litigants and witnesses say they have become increasingly fearful of marauding lawyers in their trademark black pants, coats and ties.
“If police officers don’t submit to their pressure, they abuse and beat them,” said Sadaqat Ullah, the 28-year-old police investigator who alleged that a group of lawyers pummeled him in late September because he refused to share a confidential hospital report with an attorney in the original assault case. “They behave like gangsters.”
Lawyers at the site that day say that only harsh words were exchanged; the provincial bar council is investigating. But at least 15 episodes of “hooliganism” and “high-handedness,” as the media and victims describe them, by lawyers have been reported this year, undermining the heroic reputation they gained from their role in a constitutional standoff that began five years ago.
In a country where militants rule large swaths of territory, corruption is endemic and people are “disappeared” by security agencies, the “black coats” emerged as defenders of the rule of law after then-President Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution, arrested political foes and fired judges. The world beheld incongruous images of men in suits braving police lines and tear gas in the capital, Islamabad, to demand the reinstatement of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.
Lahore was the epicenter of the 2007-09 “Black Revolution,” as it is known. In one raid on the High Court Bar Association, police arrested more than 800 lawyers involved in the movement for judicial independence.
In the end, Musharraf lost power and Chaudhry went on to become a controversial one-man powerhouse who regularly calls to account top elected leaders and army generals for alleged abuses of power. But since those heady days, critics say, lawyers’ arrogance and aggressiveness have wiped out any goodwill they had generated.
“Storm troopers,” Ayaz Amir, a politician and commentator, called them in a June column. “Time was when lawyers did most of their arguing with their tongues. Now they seem to do a better job with their fists.”
“It’s true. We should mend our behavior,” Zulfiqar Ali, president of the Lahore Bar Association, said sheepishly in an interview. He attributed the violence to a lack of emphasis on ethics and courtroom conduct in law schools.
He said the association, which has about 20,000 members, has initiated weekly lectures aimed at improving decorum and overall competence.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney in a hard-fought race in which the economy was the dominant issue.
Web extra: View Election results here (http://www.wgrz.com/news/elections/results/)
Voters decided to give Obama another four years of stewardship over an economy that is slowly recovering from the recession.
Obama captured battleground states including Ohio, Iowa and Colorado on his way to the 270 electoral votes he needed.
Romney unsuccessfully campaigned on the theme that his business background gave him the experience needed to guide the nation out of tough economic times.
Obama will again be dealing with a divided Congress. Democrats maintained control of the Senate and Republicans likely will again control the House. Among the most pressing matters is the so-called fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to hit in January. Economists have warned that if they aren't averted, the nation could face another recession.
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Sat January 12, 2013
Week In News: The Debt Ceiling Whack-A-Mole
Originally published on Sat January 12, 2013 6:37 pm
JACKI LYDEN, HOST:
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
(SOUNDBITE OF NEWS REPORTS)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: The Federal Reserve should knit a trillion dollar platinum coin.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: And the government could use that to pay the debt, avoid default and pre-empt the debt ceiling crisis.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: This is the kind of stuff that happens right before the downgrade. The last days of Rome, this is what happened.
LYDEN: Cable news had a field day with the trillion-dollar coin solution to the debt ceiling standoff. But today, we learned it was a coin tossed. James Fallows of The Atlantic joins us, as he does most Saturdays. Hello there, Jim.
JAMES FALLOWS: Hello, Jacki.
LYDEN: Well, Jim, the Treasury Department finally weighed in on this. I'll mentioned the Federal Reserve as well. I guess we're not going to have a platinum coin solution to the debt ceiling standoff.
FALLOWS: We're not, and it's actual news, you know, late this Saturday afternoon in that the executive branch the Obama administration is saying it's not going to use two of the possible loopholes that would avoid an outright showdown with the Congress over this debt ceiling fight, which we remember from back in 2011. One of them, which was surreal sounding but technically legal, would've been the trillion-dollar coin option where they just would invent money, and now that's not going to happen. We don't need to go into all of its ramifications.
The other is the administration reaffirmed that the president would not do something he is theoretically able to do, which is simply to go ahead and pay bills as they come in under his executive power through the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. He says he's not going to do that either. And that means we're headed for a flat-out showdown - the same kind we had back in 2011 - between a Congress that will not authorize an increase in the debt ceiling and the rest of the government, which has these bills coming due.
LYDEN: Why would the White House and the executive authority have done that, Jim? Pretty bitter fight, August of 2011, a really grueling one just over the holidays, and now another?
FALLOWS: I guess you could argue, number one, that the trillion-dollar coin idea was just too bizarre to pass the straight-face test. And the executive authority option, perhaps the president felt that there was some precedent he did not want to go down if they went that way. And because it was so damaging to the country, to world financial markets and to the president himself that they had the showdown a year and a half ago, the president must have recalculated that his bargaining position is stronger at this time. And that in the end, he can convince members of the Republican majority in the House that they should go ahead and actually pay the bills that have already been authorized by previous legislation the Congress has voted for. So I suppose that must be the reasoning.
LYDEN: Jim, more soberly here now, a young man named Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday. Outside of tech circles, perhaps not so widely known, but inside, a huge dynamic presence. You write about him on your blog today. Would you tell us more?
FALLOWS: Yes. In this past week, there have been two passings of different source that I've paid a lot of attention to. One is the writer Richard Ben Cramer, who was in his early 60s and died of cancer. And one of his most influential works was 20 years ago. Aaron Swartz, on the other hand, was 26. And over the past 12 years, since he was 14, he made an enormous following of - and mentors of people in the technology world who, number one, admired his technological virtuosity.
If you'll look at the founding of Reddit and a lot of other social media, he played an important role there. The other way in which he was seen as more influential and really has provoked this outsurge of tragedy in the technology world - in the last four or five years, he's been one of the most influential figures in talking about technology's social, cultural and political effect - how we can make sure that the communication technologies that have revolutionized all of our lives are used for more individual connection, more individual freedom, more of the good things in life and less of sort of the governmental and corporate controls. And so if people look for Aaron Swartz's obituaries on the Internet, they'll find out more about him.
LYDEN: James Fallows is national correspondent with The Atlantic. And you can read his blog at jamesfallows.theatlantic.com. It's a pleasure, Jim. Thanks.
FALLOWS: My pleasure, Jacki. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Several years ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey uttered these now famous words: “One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters.” As we survey the social media landscape, we can see just how visionary and profound Dorsey’s words have become. Indeed, Twitter has impacted every inch of the globe, and in the process, has become a premier information network.
But where can you connect with businesses and individuals using Twitter to inspire, transform and empower? The best place is 140 The Twitter Conference. In fact, The Parnassus Group organizes these much-anticipated events, with the next conference coming to Seattle on March 8th. From Los Angeles to Mountain View, conference attendees have come away from these gatherings with a better understanding of the keys to Twitter success.
According to the conference organizers, authentic engagement is what makes that success possible. They claim that organizations and individuals can both gain a lot from genuine, ongoing interaction with their online network. Some of the examples they’ve profiled include organizations like Starbucks, and individuals such as LeVar Burton who has garnered a massive following and positive buzz because he listens, responds, and adds genuine value to the conversation.
140 The Twitter Conference is the brainchild of business visionary Steve Broback, who has tracked and invested in emerging Internet platforms since the earliest days of the World Wide Web. His first conference for Web professionals launched in 1995 and he has authored books on a variety of tech topics. His latest book is “Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business” published by Peachpit Press.
Mr. Broback granted me an exclusive interview where he discusses the origin of the conference idea and the future of Twitter itself.
How did the 140 Conference come about, and what does it aim to achieve?
In a nutshell, our aim is to help people get the most they can out of Twitter, meet interesting people, and have some fun while doing so. Prior to the creation of Twitter, we had the opportunity to work with Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone when he was a part of our Blog Business Summit Conferences. Biz was familiar with our ability to support and evangelize new technologies, so when we approached him with the idea of launching the world’s first conference focusing on Twitter, he and the engineering team supported us.
Despite some initial commentary that an entire conference covering a platform limited to 140 characters of text was overkill, we saw Twitter as one of the key architectures enabling the “Real-Time Web.” We knew Twitter had a robust API – for our clients and partners, we developed a system for processing tweets and tagging them with various attributes at very high accuracy — including sentiment, gender and age of the writer, etc. It was clear to us that Twitter embodied a deep editorial topic. Based on the fact that we’ve sold out every event so far, we were proven right.
We launched the conference a year ago in the Bay Area, and by the end of 2010, we will have hosted at least seven major Twitter-centric events in various cities. In addition to our events, Twitter has launched “Chirp” it’s own official conference for developers/coders, to be held in San Francisco this coming April.
2009 was a breakthrough year for Twitter. How can it maintain its tremendous growth, and continue to be a powerful force on the world stage?
Twitter has wisely focused on enhancing the platform so that the end user and developer community get increasing value out of it. As long as they continue to concentrate on making Twitter the best and easiest short messaging platform out there, they will only see more success.
What future projects and events from the 140 Conference can we look forward to?
At the Sundance Film Festival in January, the Parnassus Group launched it’s “Tweet House” series of events which was a resounding success. The Tweet House celebrates Twitter as a platform and features parties, as well as presentations by those who are using Twitter in innovative and useful ways. We’ll see the Tweet House next at SXSW in Austin, and then at the NAB show in Las Vegas.
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This month we’re thrilled to welcome back photorealistic painter Bert Monroy in a three-part series featuring the work he did in his latest impressive (not to mention massive) artwork, Times Square. In this new addition to our Online Training Library®, the Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square series generously shares the Photoshop tools and techniques he developed during this project, so that you can understand how he creates such realistic scenes from nothing but pixels and imagination. Here’s a quick glimpse at what Bert created and what he has in store for you:
A year ago, we featured Bert in an installment of our Creative Inspirations series, during which he showed how this enormous undertaking—featuring over 100 of his friends and industry colleagues walking in one of the world’s iconic intersections—came together over the course of four years.
In the first installment of the new series (released earlier this month), Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square, The Tools, Bert explains how he used the tools inside Photoshop—from brushes, to textures, to layer styles, and more—to recreate his meticulous version of reality. This week, we released part two, Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square, The Techniques, in which he shows you how he uses those tools in combination to create the hundreds of little projects that become parts of his larger work. Finally, at the end of the month, we’ll release The Making of Times Square, the People, in which Bert shares the special approach he needs for creating details—from hair to eyes to clothing—of the over 100 people who are milling about the New York landmark in his painting. Frankly, I think Bert’s inclusion of real friends and family in his work that shows he’s not just talented and generous, but fearless to boot. (And that’s coming from a friend who is honored to appear in the painting; you’ll find some other, more notable lynda.com folk included as well.)
This is a great opportunity to see how the creative impulse turns into a practical workflow from a master of his medium. And it just so happens that Bert is one of those generous spirits who not only enjoys watching his own ideas take shape, but is in his element when sharing what’s he’s done with others. Now you can take the tools, techniques, and fearless rendering of friends and family in Photoshop and see what they can inspire and create in your own work.
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Once, Sudama (Shrikrushna's childhood friend) went to meet Shrikrushna. Sudama's wife had told him to ask Shrikrushna for wealth; however, Sudama did not ask for anything from Him. On meeting Sudama, Shrikrushna's eyes were filled with tears of joy. Sudama thought, 'a true friend never asks for anything; if I ask for anything God will be unhappy'. So, he kept quiet and did not ask for anything. Instead, Sudama gave a handful of rice flakes to the Lord. His only wish was that the Lord should eat the rice flakes offered to Him; as it was everything that Sudama had. God first takes everything from you and then gives you everything that you wish. He did the same with Sudama as well. When Sudama returned home, he saw that God had converted his hut into gold, and thus had given him all the wealth he could have ever imagined.
- Dr. Vasant Balaji Athavale (year 1990)
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BRCP - Radiation Oncology offers high-dose brachytherapy for several types of cancer and interstitial implants for prostate cancer.
- High-dose rate (HDR) implants. In this type of brachytherapy, the radiation source is in place for 10 to 20 minutes at a time and then taken out. You will likely have treatment once a week for two to five weeks, however the schedule will depend on your type of cancer. During the course of treatment, your applicator will be put in place before each treatment and removed at the conclusion of the treatment.
- Permanent interstitial implants. After the radiation sources are in place, the implants will always stay in your body. The radiation gets weaker each day. You may need to limit your time around other people when the radiation is first put in place. Be extra careful not to spend time with children or pregnant women. As time goes by, almost all the radiation will dissipate, even though the implant stays in your body.
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There are multiple dustups brewing in the national election scene as both presidential campaigns aren’t just testing out themes to appeal to voters, but also attacks and rebuttals as well. It’s all about gaining political advantage for their side in the November elections.
That said, the theme that our president’s opponents most want to declare taboo is the issue of race. They seem the most indignant when it's suggested that race could even possibly be an issue in an election where Americans will be asked whether or not they want to re-elect the nation’s first African-American president.
Journalist and former CBS anchorman Dan Rather drew a white-hot reaction from the rabid right for stating the obvious -- race will still be an issue in the 2012 presidential election. The reaction seems hottest by those who have been quickest to use race as an issue in the past, whether it was calling President Obama a "colonial Kenyan," reviving and reveling in Birther controversies, or never truly denying rumors that the president is secretly a Muslim.
The irony is the folks guiltiest of those tactics take the most umbrage at being called to task on it. Sometimes, it smacks of I-think-he-doth-protest-too-much doublespeak.
At the end of the 2008 election cycle, such questions about race did prove to be relevant. From accusations of President Barack Obama hating white America due to his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the subtle insinuations that Birthers still level against him today, there was ample evidence that certain segments of America weren't ready for a black president.
Posters of President Obama dressed as an African witch doctor, continuous “questions” about the man’s birth certificate, and other attempts to prove that he is "not one of us" are evidence that the issue is far from dead, especially with some of the radical’s in the Republican party. Yet, other right-wing activists, even if they don't believe such accusations, still seem willing to use the controversy to their political advantage.
So, Rather's comment that it would be an issue this year barely qualifies as news analysis in my opinion. The rage from those being called out for it is more evidence of how it’s true than any assurance it's not. Is Dan Rather correct? Yep. The issue really is how much and how in-your-face race is going to be over the next few months
There are some ominous signs already. Jeremiah Wright's latest sermons are back on the playlist at Fox News and other right-leaning media outlets, despite the fact that President Obama hasn't had him as a pastor since 2008, cutting ties after the previous controversy. And, while it's harder to tell if birtherism is being pushed front and center again, since it's always been in the news, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's recent press conference on the results of his investigation into the president's birth certificate shows that there's a willingness out there to play upon those fears of a black President being from 'Somewhere Else.'
So, certainly there are people out there who are still ready to make those same sorts of arguments as before, though they are now unable to couch them in the terms of 'Are we ready for a black president?' After all, the results of the 2008 election showed that we were.
However, conversations about race and politics don't have to be considered automatically negative things. That's just our default assumption when racial differences are discussed in the media. Race could play a positive role in the 2012 presidential election. The problem is that all signs point to no for now. Skirmishes between the two campaigns have been economic or social, not racial, and only time can tell if it's going to come up in the future. The nation's imagination is going to be captured by the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman trial, but is that the right atmosphere in which we want to have a healthy conversation about race?
While this election is yet again another historic chance to have a significant conversation about race, it needs to be a conversation that is worthy of America. Otherwise, it's going to be considered an extension of our presidential election pageantry culture, instead of a sincere effort to talk about the real situations that America's melting pot faces today.
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Olin J. Huckabee from Jones, AL, in Autauga County is lucky to be alive after spending two agonizing days pinned under his vehicle in a deep ravine off Hwy. 219 near Centreville.
Lt. Cliff Robinson, a Conservation Enforcement Officer with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, followed up on a tip provided by a student on the school bus his children rode. Robinson found the overturned car in a ravine deep enough that it was not easily seen from the road. Sticking out from under the car were the legs of the accident victim. Seeing one of the legs move, Robinson immediately called the Bibb County Sheriff’s Department and then moved closer to investigate.
Huckabee had been thrown out of the vehicle and then pinned under the car for two days. He was conscious and able to talk with Robinson and other rescue personnel before being taken to
“Our officers are frequently called on to help in situations which are not directly related to wildlife enforcement,” said M. Barnett Lawley, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. “This is just one example of their commitment to serving the public. We’re proud that Officer Robinson was instrumental in this rescue effort.”
The student had spotted the overturned car and reported it to her bus driver. While letting Officer Robinson’s children off the bus, the driver called Robinson over to tell him what the girl had seen.
“Lots of people had passed by that accident scene during those two days,” Robinson said. “I drove by there several times myself and didn’t see anything. The man is really fortunate that the student was observant, and that she reported it.”
Chief Nichols of the Centreville Police commended Lt. Robinson, “The Conservation officer went far beyond his usual job description in saving this man’s life.”
Alabama DCNR employs 134 conservation enforcement officers to serve all 67 counties of the state. Although their primary job is to enforce game and fish laws, they provide valuable assistance to other law enforcement and emergency services agencies.
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- The surprisingly large USDAcorn stocks estimate released Sept. 30 sent December 2010 corn futures to a low of $4.56.
- The November 2010 soybean futures contract traded to $11.295 on Sept. 27, declined to $10.44 on Oct. 4.
- Price declines came to a halt with the release of USDA’s October Crop Production report on Oct. 8. That report contained a unexpectedly small forecast of the size of the U.S. corn and soybean crops.
December 2010 corn futures traded to a high of $5.235 on September 27 and closed at $5.05 on Sept. 29. On Oct. 4, the surprisingly large USDA September 1 corn stocks estimate released on Sept. 30 sent that contract to a low of $4.56, said University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
Similarly, the November 2010 soybean futures contract traded to $11.295 on September 27, closed at $10.99 on September 29, and declined to $10.44 on October 4, he said.
“Price declines came to a halt with the release of USDA’s October Crop Production report on Oct. 8. That report contained a unexpectedly small forecast of the size of the U.S. corn and soybean crops,” he said.
The corn crop is now forecast at 12.664 billion bushels, 496 million smaller than the September forecast and 446 million smaller than the 2009 harvest. Although the estimate of harvested acreage was increased by 258,000 acres, the forecast yield was lowered by 6.7 bushels, to 155.8 bushels, he said.
“The decline from the September forecast was record large, eclipsing the 4.3 bushels of 1974 and the 4.5 bushels of 1995. Yield forecasts declined by 14 bushels in Illinois, 10 bushels in Indiana and Iowa, and 9 bushels in Missouri and Nebraska. The December 2010 futures contract traded to a high of $5.73 on October 11,” he said.
The 2010 soybean crop is now forecast at 3.408 billion bushels, 75 million smaller than the September forecast, but 49 million larger than the 2009 crop, he said.
“The lower forecast this month reflected a reduction of 1.163 million bushels in the estimate of harvested acreage and a 0.3 bushel reduction in the yield forecast. At 44.4 bushels, the 2010 average U.S. yield is still expected to be record large. The November 2010 soybean futures contract traded to a high of $11.89 on October 11,” he said.
In a separate report, the USDA lowered the estimate of feed and residual use of corn during the 2009-10 marketing year as a result of the larger than expected Sept. 1 stocks estimate of Sept. 30, he said.
“For the current year, the forecast of corn exports was reduced by 100 million bushels, reflecting the anticipated impact of higher prices and increased competition from Argentina. Some had expected an increase in the forecast of Chinese imports of U.S. corn, but no changes were made in the projected corn balance sheet for China. The forecast size of the 2011 Argentine harvest was increased by 157 million bushels,” he said.
The forecast of feed and residual use was increased by 150 million bushels, to a total of 5.4 billion bushels, he said.
“The USDA argued that apparent use during the first quarter of the year will be boosted by the early harvest that resulted in consumption of new crop corn before Sept. 1, but the argument is not entirely convincing. The combined estimates of feed and residual use of corn for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 marketing years appear too large,” he said.
“Use during the first quarter will not be revealed until the Dec. 1 stocks estimate is released in early January. Some indication of feed use will be revealed in the monthly cattle on feed reports and the weekly reports of egg sets,” he added.
Stocks of corn at the end of the 2010-11 marketing year are forecast at a 14-year low of 902 million bushels, or 6.7 percent of projected consumption, he noted.
“We consider a 5 percent stocks-to-use ratio, as experienced in 1995-96, to be a minimum carryover level. The USDA expects the 2010-11 marketing year average farm price to be in a range of $4.60 to $5.40, well above the previous record of $4.20 during the 2007-08 marketing year,” he said.
For soybeans, the forecast of the size of the domestic crush during the current year was increased by 15 million bushels and the forecast of exports was increased by 35 million bushels, he said.
“At 1.52 billion bushels, exports are expected to be 22 million bushels larger than in the previous year. While the USDA increased the projected size of the 2011 Brazilian harvest by 73 million bushels, South American production is still expected to be 276 million bushels smaller than the record harvest of 2010. In addition, China is expected to import 2.02 billion bushels of soybeans from all sources during the current marketing year, up from 1.855 billion last year,” he said.
Stocks of U.S. soybeans at the end of the 2010-11 marketing year are projected at 265 million bushels. That is a comfortable level of stocks, but it is 85 million less than last month’s projection. The 2010-11 marketing year average farm price is projected in a range of $10 to $11.50 so the record of $10.10 during the 2007-08 marketing year may be exceeded, he said.
“Corn and soybean prices will now be influenced by expectations about the November production forecasts and the revealed rate of consumption. Chatter about acreage needs in 2011 has already begun, but it is likely premature,” he said.
The actual rate of consumption over the next six months and the size of the South American crops will have significant impacts on U.S. acreage needs in 2011. Early thinking is that more corn acres will be needed in 2011. The degree of acreage competition for spring planted crops will be influenced by winter wheat seeding decisions to be revealed in early January, he said.
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Animal Stories - People Talking About Green-cheeked Amazon
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The pretty Red-crowned Amazon is one of the most agreeable of the Amazon Parrots!
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Rio is my Red Head Amazon. He is 13 yrs old. He loves showers and the spray bottle, whistles to part of that mayberry song from years ago, kisses, talks up a storm like 'pretty boy' and 'good boy', and makes meow sounds. He says outside/Rio Rio Rio and then sometimes he will sound like a male and then change to a female voice, especially when my sweetie is here and we get into a conversation. He joins in with all kinds of jibberish, like he is having a conversation with us. When I get home from work he wants to be with me 24/7. He hangs out with our two cats and our dog during the day, flies around the house, and loves being on the porch listening to the other birds. He stays out of his cage most of the time. The only time he screams is when he sees a stranger walking down the street. The whole neighborhood can hear him (alert). The best watch bird I've ever had, even better than our dog! He is greatly loved and will be spoiled rotten for many more years to come! E LOVE OUR RIO...
I just inhereted one of these birds from my father-in-law. The bird's name is Diablo, and he is roughly 50 years old. My father-in-law got him when he was 8 years old, and they don't know how old the bird was before that! He's sorta crabby, but he's a member of the family! He hates women for some reason...crazy old bird! Just goes to show that these birds ARE a lifelong commitment. Cheers!
yeah did you know that these parrots, there's only about 3000 to 5000 left in the wild.
I've had a Mexican Red Head (or Green Cheek) Amazon for 3 months now. Paco was 15 weeks old when I brought him home. He's already developed quite a vocabulary!! I have 8 other birds and he's adapted well to them and they to him. He definitely prefers females to males, but he will allow my husband to pick him up. He loves to "hang out" with me, no matter what I'm doing. I like to make bird toys for my birds and I have a large plastic bin that I keep the supplies stored in. When I bring the bin up from the basement, Paco knows what I'm going to be doing for the next few hours and wants to "help" too. He sits on the edge of the bin and pokes through all the wood pieces, rawhide strips and bells, as if he's the Quality Control Manager! He loves to take showers! When he's in the shower, he flaps his wings like mad and vocalizes at the top of his lungs. I'm looking forward to many happy years with this dear bird.
We have had our Red Crowned Amazon for almost 30 years. She's quite the lady, although she never was fond of being handled. She was a caught bird, so we never really pushed her. Our Jackie will get on our finger, ride on our shoulders, and give kisses. She had a cage mate, that was a nanday conure for 15 years until he had a stroke and we had to put him to rest. But she adjusted well because we also had a Greater Patagonian, and she liked him too, and they share the cage. Our Groucho is also nearing 30 yrs. old. We also have a Pied Dove, Pywacket, not in the same cage. He is 18 yrs old. We had 2 large dogs that grew up with our birds. When we had to put our Sadie to rest our birds didn't eat well or rest well. But, they adjusted because we still had our first dog, Annie. But, when Annie was put to rest, all 3 birds went into mourning. It took 3 months of vet visits and medicine before they started to get better. They weren't eating, or making their noises, nothing. It took almost 10 months for Groucho to start talking again. It took even longer for him to bark and say "Come here", that is how he would call our girls. Animals do mourn!!! So watch all your pets when there is an absence of a human or another pet in your house for any reason!
I have two Green-Cheeked amazons, Lalo and Paco. Although, judging by their behaviour(it's spring time)now I think now that Lalo is really a girl so I need to call her something else. I am going to get a nesting box just in case. I teach in Mexico and got the birds from a student so I don't know what sex they are. Lalo is the more affectionate of the two. Paco, much like Lolita of the first writer's comment, likes to laugh at me after nipping. I thought that he was the only bird to do that. They both let us know when it's time for dinner by yelling "Karla" (my wife, but the interesting thing is that I am the one that feeds them! They have an array of whistles and say "hello", "cotorro", "cotorrito","Karla" and chatter in a way that is distinctly un-parrot but not really understandable as either Spanish or English.
i have a mexican red head, his name is binkey. he is 12 years old. he likes sunflower seeds and he likes it if you pet him only if you know him really good. he knows how to say alot of words. i love him lots. from marissa
We had a Green Cheeked Amazon given to us about eight years ago. We think he is about 18 years old now. His name is Jerry. He does talk a little. He says Hello, Hi Bud, Hi Jerry. His favorite things to mimick is a rooster crow, clucks like a chicken, cries like a baby, complete with sniffles in between. He is our watch bird sitting in our front window. We always know when someone walks by the house and he lets us know when someone comes into the yard. He loves to have his neck scratched and will cuddle up in my hand and let me pet him. We have to be very careful when we have company because he gets very jealous and will attack someone who hugs my wife. I take him to the school and he loves to show off and make sure he is the center of attention. He is a great pet and a lot of fun.
Well, we were blessed with Manolo, our Mexican Red-Crown Amazon, almost two years ago. Originally, he was with my cousin and her husband who had him for 6 mos. They caught him flying around their neighborhood. They gave him to me, since they did not have the time for him, and felt he would be better in my care. With a lot of patience, Manolo came around and allows me and my partner to handle him. He seems to prefer males, as opposed to females. I estimate that Manolo is probably less than 3 years old. He doesn't talk yet, but loves to mimick our flock of cockatiels. He is the sweetest bird who lives for scritches. I love their sweet smell!
I've had my Mexican Red Head for over 30 years. I call him Tony Baloney and he's from Guadalajara. He doesn't talk much, but whistles and makes cute sounds. I'm the only one that can play with him. My husband is patient and tries though! Very loud when he want's attention! I love him to pieces! He loves apples,carrots,corn and beans along with his seeds and nuts.
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By clicking this link, you’ll be leavingpsoriasis.com and going to a sitesupported by Facebook.
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in-depth look at the types, symptoms, and causes of psoriasis.
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The health insurance system only works right if everyone buys in. If you just have old, sick people buying insurance, every account pays out. Insurers can't earn any money. You could theoretically solve this by just socializing the entire health care industry, and making it a not-for-profit wing of the US Government. But Americans don't really care for that idea. To be honest, though this is probably the version of health care reform I'd prefer, I share some of their concerns.If, instead, you want to base the system on the continued existence of private, for-profit health insurance companies, the only way to make the system solvent and universally applied is to guarantee young, healthy people - who won't actually cost serious money to insure - pay in. I kept hoping that someone would propose a third option - a way to guarantee basic, affordable health coverage to every American through private insurers but without a legal mandate for all who were able to pay in to the system - but I've never heard one. If you have, please suggest it in the comments below. These systems don't exist in a vacuum. Public policy has to work in the real world, not in the hypothetical world of ideological purity. I feel like that's where most Americans, at least the outspoken ones I've been speaking with and reading on Facebook, Twitter and blogs, lose the thread. They begin the discussion based on what's "right," the abstract way in which they would prefer America to function. They speak in moral terms and absolutes. They harken back to particular interpretations of Constitutional law. And, sure, they make compelling points now and again. But unless you're willing to sacrifice living, breathing human beings, suffering from a lack of health coverage or crippling medical debts, to ideology and argumentation, you have to think about how these things actually play out day-to-day.
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The Guardian has some revealing infographics:
Yep, the United States spent a staggering $607bn (£402 bn) on defence in 2008. Currently engaged in what will likely be the longest ground war in US history in Afghanistan. Harbourer of thousands of nuclear weapons. 1.5m soldiers. Fleets of aircrafts, bombs and seemingly endless amounts of military technology.
The defence budgets of the other top nine countries can be neatly accommodated inside the US budget.
So the US is an aggressive, war-mongeringing military machine, right? And the numbers prove it. But is that true? Is that the whole picture?
First of all, the enormity of the US military budget is not just down to a powerful military-industrial complex. America is a rich country. In fact, it’s vastly rich. So its budget is bound to dwarf the others.
It doesn’t seem fair to not factor in the wealth of a country when assessing its military budget. So, if you take military budgets as a proportion of each country’s GDP, a very different picture emerges.
The US is knocked down into 8th place by such nations as Jordan, Burundi and Georgia. The UK plunges to 29th. Why are these other nations spending so much on their military?
Read More in the Guardian
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Where our Nation remembers
Who we are
The National Memorial Arboretum is the UK's year-round centre of Remembrance; a spiritually uplifting place which honours the fallen, recognises service and sacrifice, and fosters pride in our country. It is a living and lasting memorial.
It commemorates and celebrates those who have given their lives in the service of their country, all who have served and suffered as a result of conflict, and others who, for specific or appropriate reasons, are commemorated here.
"I visited the National Memorial Arboretum with a friend visiting from America. We were both very impressed, and much moved.
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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
After Lech Walesa Meeting, Romney Should Call America to a New Birth of Freedom
By Keith A. Fournier
August 2nd, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
The Romney campaign has much to draw from out of this visit. Not only in the optics, but in the substance of the meetings the candidate held with Champions of freedom. For example, his meeting with the iconic Lech Walesa, the former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner. It presents him with an opportunity to call America to a new birth of true freedom in an hour when we are disheartened and ready to respond to just such a positive message. We need leaders unafraid to speak the language of freedom again and rouse us to follow what Abraham Lincoln called our "better angels." Lincoln called us to a "New Birth of Freedom". We need to hear such a call again.
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - On Friday, January 29th, 2010, Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland, traveled to Chicago to endorse a candidate for Governor. He, along with another Polish hero, the late Blessed John Paul II, helped to bring freedom back to Poland at the end of the last century.
Walesa's sincere Catholic faith informed his courageous stand against a totalitarian regime. His hero, Blessed John Paul II, warned in his writings of what he called the "death of true freedom". He also observed that "freedom itself needs to be set free." Lech Walesa responded to those insights and became a true Champion of Freedom.
In an interview during his 2010 visit Walesa offered this observation: "The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we have lost that hope..."
Former Governor Mitt Romney just returned from a foreign policy trip. The spinmasters of the Obama reelection campaign are feverishly attempting to disparage the trip with mocking denigrating assessments. I do not think I am alone in saying, 'Enough!" All of this cynical nonsense is growing old and people are growing very tired of it.
The Romney campaign has much to draw from out of this visit. Not only in the optics, but in the substance of the meetings the candidate held with Champions of freedom. For example, his meeting with the iconic Lech Walesa, the former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize winner. It presents him with an opportunity to call America to a new birth of true freedom in an hour when we are disheartened and ready to respond to just such a positive message.
On Monday, July 30, 2012, in Gdansk, Poland, the very place where a trade union movement was used as a vehicle to topple an oppressive statist system, Mitt Romney was endorsed by one of the historic champions of freedom. Lech Walesa, pounding his strong hand on the table for effect, told the Republican candidate for the US Presidency, "I wish you to be successful because this success is needed to the United States, of course, but to Europe and the rest of the world, too. Governor Romney, get your success, be successful!"
He continued, "Poland and many other countries will certainly do their best for the United States to restore its leadership position. And after our conversation, I'm quite confident that you will be successful in doing that....Individuals who have struggled all their lives really favor the kind of views and perspectives that you share. Thank you very much for accepting my invitation and I wish you to be successful."
This was a strong endorsement from a man who is a champion to people like me, who left the Democratic Party years ago. I was a "Reagan Democrat" who left the Democratic Party when it rejected the values of the blue collar, Catholic home I was raised in - and lost its soul. It also gave up its claim to represent those with no voice when it refused to hear the cry of our youngest neighbors, children in the womb. The same Party which rejected the Right to Life has announced it will reject Marriage within its Party Platform. So, it now embraces a big government statist economic model along with its overt immorality.
We need to hear once again the kind of message which brought us into the Republican Party - a robust call to true freedom with personal and social responsibility. Twenty three years ago, on June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, speaking at the base of the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin wall, cast aside the advice of trained consultants, reached into the courageous heart which propelled his statesmanship and proclaimed "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" That Wall fell like the walls of old Jericho. Freedom removed the stones.
Lech Walesa, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II all understood the power and the irresistable appeal of freedom. They helped to topple the totalitarian threats to freedom's advance. Today, we are at war with new versions of tyranny. The national spirit is heavy. America is in a crisis. A once robust economy is languishing under the boot of an increasingly bloated federal government. We have lost our moral compass. We are disheartened and tired.
However, the world still looks to America. We need leaders unafraid to speak the language of freedom again and rouse us to follow what Abraham Lincoln called our "better angels." At another critical time in our history, when we were disheartened and tired, Lincoln called us to a "New Birth of Freedom". We need to hear such a call again.
We have been weakened by a culture of death and use; indoctrinated by what Pope Benedict XVI called a "Dictatorship of Relativism". Relativism is a philosophy which denies the existence of objective truths upon which we can build our life together. When there are no truths there can be no freedom. The antidote to what ails us is a robust return to truth and leaders unafraid to call us to it again. We need to reach down to the foundation stones upon which this experiment in ordered liberty was built and strengthen freedoms infrastructure by asserting again that "We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident."
The American founders carried a vision of human freedom which they received from the treasury of the Jewish and Christian vision of the human person, marriage and the family founded upon it, and the existence of normative, fundamental moral truths which bind us all together. With those building blocks Western civilization was built. From that foundation we derived the core conviction that we all possess fundamental human rights which were endowed upon us by this God who created us. These rights are not given by any Civil Government; they are, in the words of the American founders, inalienable.
These truths we hold are revealed by the Natural Law and knowable through the exercise of right reason. They have ensured our survival against totalitarianism of every ilk and political persuasion. They have fueled our economy, inspired our national sacrifices when called upon to reach out beyond our borders and give us the principles needed to properly govern our life together. they provide the materials from which we have built a free society. However, freedom is a "good" of the human person - not some ethereal disconnected concept. Freedom also brings along with its promise, obligations to use it rightly, to do what is right and true.
I just participated in a national call in with a leading surogate from the Mitt Romney campaign. Among the matters discussed was the need for the candidate to offer an inspiring vision.I did not get a chance to comment because there were many before me - and the time was limited. However, if I had, I would have echoed the words my hero Lech Walesa offered Mitt Romney, "Get Your Success"! After his Lech Walesa Meeting in Poland, Mitt Romney should call a disheartened America to a new birth of Freedom. We are ready to respond.
Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
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The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, sentenced Zuhdija Tabakovic to three months' imprisonment for contempt of court.
Tabakovic pleaded guilty to three of six counts listed in the indictment and signed a plea agreement with the Prosecution on Friday, March 12.
According to the Trial Chamber's decision, the time that Tabakovic has already spent in custody, since December last year, will be taken into account, and Tabakovic should be released by the end of this week.
Zuhdija Tabakovic admitted that he agreed to give a false statement to the court and in exchange accepted money from one of the former Milan Lukic case managers.
According to the indictment, in October 2008, Tabakovic was approached by Lukic's Defence manager Jelena Rasic and asked to sign a written statement related to the crimes for which Lukic is accused.
Milan Lukic has been sentenced by a first instance verdict to life imprisonment. He was indicted, together with Sredoje Lukic, for crimes committed in Visegrad during the Bosnian war. Sredoje Lukic was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment by a first instance verdict.
Among other crimes, the Lukic cousins were convicted for the murder of more than 100 Bosniaks in Visegrad.
Tabakvic was offered, and he accepted, money in exchange for giving false testimony about Milan Lukic's responsibility for the crimes alleged.
"During the same meeting, it is alleged that Rasic presented Tabakovic with two other pre written statements and asked him to find two other men to sign the false statements and testify," the indictment reads, adding that Tabakovic was offered €1,000 for each man.
According to the indictment, Tabakovic accepted and brought two persons to the case manager several days after the meeting.
All of the meetings were held in Sarajevo. The Prosecution said in court that Tabakovic said he needed money, and that he was told that it had been provided by Lukic himself.
The indictment against Tabakovic was raised on October 30, 2009, and confirmed on November 17, but was not made public until December.
During the trial, the Prosecution said that "no effective damage was done" as a result of Tabakovic's false statement. The prosecution added that Tabakovic had surrendered voluntarily and admitted to everything, explaining that that was why they were willing to accept a lighter punishment without proposing a fine.
Milan and Sredoje Lukic are still in detention in the Hague. They are awaiting the start of their appeals case in the front of the Apellate Chamber. A status conference is scheduled for March 16.
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Continuing on with their "mysqli in PHP5" series, DevShed has posted part two highlighting the commit and rollback functions - their use and functionality.
This is the second part of the series "Using mysqli with PHP 5." Welcome back. In three tutorials, this series shows how to use the most important methods and properties included in the "mysqli" extension that comes with PHP 5, in order to take advantage of the new features bundled with MySQL 4.1 and above.
In part one they introduced the extension, providing the background for those just joining in. In this latest part, they take it to the next level and talk about these new handy functions - one to save the updates/additions you're making to the database and the other to undo those changes quickly and easily. As always, there's plenty of examples, explainations, and code to go around.
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The latest news on medical school
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With an average acceptance rate of just 3.3 percent, these med schools are the toughest to get into.
Spend less than $1,000 on reliable MCAT help with online resources.
With more than 8,000 applications, Tufts University joins the list.
Experts say prospective students should look for schools that support ending health care disparities.
Have an agenda for meetings and meet at least once per term to maximize graduate school advising.
Contribute early to a 529 plan and map out your investment strategy to save for medical school.
A research fellowship is one option for aspiring doctors who don’t match for a residency.
Master the admissions process and find the best medical school for you.
Wellness and social programs are aimed at helping med students achieve work-life balance.
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You remember Lois the Corpse Flower, right? Of course you do. Because no one could forget our favorite stinky plant!
Now, as Zac, our horticulturist, will tell you – corpse flowers are tricky beasts. They are rare outside their native Sumatra for a reason. They require constant, skilled care. And, of course, a habitat capable of maintaining jungle-like humidity levels.
As much as the CultureMappers loved their new flower – their lovely offices do not yet boast a greenhouse. So, they donated it to the museum, making theirs a much happier plant – and giving Lois a new roommate.
It’s going to take a lot – of time, and sass – for this little-sister leaf to live up to Leave-Em-Wanting-More Lois.
And there’s just no way for that to happen as long as our newest corpse flower remains nameless.
Lois, as you may know, is named after the mother of Eddie Holik – the former director of the Butterfly Center who acquired her 7 years ago.
We thought we’d give you the honor this time.
Help Us Name Our New Corpse Flower!
Leave a comment on this post with your suggested name. You have until July 15 to get your entries in, and you can post as many as you can think of – just don’t forget to fill in the “email” field, or we’ll have no way to contact you if you win.
On July 18, we’ll post the finalists here on the blog. Be sure to come back and vote for your favorite!
July 25 – the first anniversary of Lois’ bloomday – we’ll announce the winning name for our new corpse flower!
What’s In It For You?
Bragging rights! And, a private tour of the HMNS Greenhouses (not generally open to the public) with Soni and Zac, our horticulturists + a museum membership (which has some pretty cool benefits).
Ok, ready? Go!
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City Trusts, Board of Directors of[Record group 146]
- The Board of Directors of City Trusts manages all money or other property left in trust to or with the City of Philadelphia and administers these trusts. Altogether the Board administers over 110 separate trusts, including the Stephen Girard Estate, which provides income to support Girard College, and the James Wills, Jr., fund for Wills Eye Hospital. The other trusts are for a wide variety of charitable purposes including the awarding of scholarships, medals and prizes to pupils of Philadelphia public schools; distribution of food and fuel to the poor; care of the sick and convalescent; and maintenance of Independence Hall and Penn Treaty Park.
- Agency History
- Created by an Act of Assembly of June 30, 1869 to exercise all of the duties, rights, and powers of the City concerning legacies for which it was designated trustee and succeeding to and consolidating the functions of the Directors of the Girard College for Orphans and Girard Estate. The Board was composed primarily of twelve appointees of the Court of Common Pleas and of the Mayor and the President(s) of City Council(s) ex officio. The City Treasurer was designated the Board's treasurer; he had served the Board's predecessor bodies in the same manner. In 1957 the administration of the estate of Stephen Girard was removed from the Directors' control by the Orphans Court and transferred to a newly-established board of thirteen private trustees appointed by that court; in 1968 those trustees were abolished and it was restored to the City's Directors.
The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, in Chapter A-1, Section A-100, exempted the Board of City Trusts from all provisions of the Charter, unless specifically mentioned.
- Archival Records
- 146.1 Annual Report (1870-1961, 1967, 1968, 1970-1978, 1986-1995)
146.2 Reports and Publications (1924 - 1970)
146.3 Warrant Stubs. Girard College Expenditures (September 1870 - November 1874)
146.4 Warrant Stubs. Girard Estate Expenditures (October 1870 - June 1876)
146.5 Girard Estate Mining Engineer and Agent. Annual Report (1955)
146.5 Girard Estate. Mining Engineer and Agent. Annual Report
146.6 Board of Directors of City Trusts. General Manager. Annual Report (1953-1955)
146.7 President, Girard College. Annual Report (1949, 1954, 1956)
- Current Records
Click on a folder or file to return to that level...
Current Agency Information Sheet. (Text-only version of this page)
Send your comments to email@example.com
Last updated on November 8, 2000
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Do athletes gain an unfair advantage by using performance enhancing drugs?
David Fairchild, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, wrote the following information in his article titled "Of Cabbages and Kings: Continuing Conversation on Performance Enhancers in Sport," from the Proceedings of the International Symposium for Olympic Research in Feb. 1992:
"[T]he use of performance enhancers is cheating because it violates constitutive rules of the activity. Since such use is cheating, it is wrong and we should expect the disqualification of competitors who are caught doping. This conclusion is established through a simple and straightforward argument. Cheating is the deliberate, knowing, and voluntary violation of certain constitutive rules in order to gain a competitive advantage. Since the violation is knowing, the attempt to gain an advantage is illegitimate and unethical, and the advantage sought is thus unfair. The knowing and voluntary use of proscribed substances is an attempt to gain such an unfair advantage. Some specified performance enhancers, anabolic steroids for example, are listed as proscribed substances in certain sports. The deliberate use of steroids is thus an illegitimate attempt to gain an unfair advantage. We conclude that their use is cheating."
Michael J. Beloff, QC, English barrister (British lawyer), wrote the following information in the article titled "Drugs, Laws and Versapaks," written as chapter four in John O'Leary's book Drugs and Doping In Sport, published in 2001:
"The objects of doping control are clear. The essence of a sporting contest is that it should be fairly conducted, with the competitor's success or failure being the result of natural talents: speed, skill, endurance, tactical awareness - honed, it may be, by instruction, training and body maintenance in its widest sense. The much used metaphor - a level playing field - derives from sport. The use of drugs violates all such notions of equality: the drug taker starts with an unfair advantage. Success becomes the product of the test tube, not the training track. The interests of innocent athletes need protection by punishment of the guilty."
Michael Dillingham, MD, retired San Francisco 49ers football team physician, wrote the following information in the Aug. 25, 2004 article titled "Steroids, Sports and the Ethics of Winning," published by the Markula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University:
"Society cares because steroid use is a form of cheating. Since steroids work so well, they create an unfair advantage for those who take them, and this breaks the social contract athletes have implicitly agreed to: We are going to have a fair contest. There are things we can and cannot do. Even if there were a safe performance-enhancing substance, if it weren't available to everybody, using it would still be cheating."
Richard Pound, BCL, former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency, made the following statements during a Jan. 15, 2008 debate on performance enhancing drugs in sports as part of the debate series titled "Intelligence Squared US," held at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City:
"Remember that athletes don't take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage. And if everyone else is doing what they're doing, then instead of taking 10 grams or 10 cc's or whatever it is, they'll take 20 or 30 or 40, and a vicious circle simply gets bigger. The end game will be an activity that is increasingly violent, extreme, and meaningless, practiced by a class of chemical and or genetic mutant gladiators. The use of performance-enhancing drugs is not accidental; it is planned and deliberate with the sole objective of getting an unfair advantage."
Eric Walker, retired sports consultant for the Oakland A's baseball team, stated the following opinion in his website steroids-and-baseball.com (accessed Dec. 8, 2008):
"If there is an unfairness about PED use, it is that owing to their tabu status, they are not equally available to any who might want them. Those who are willing to risk detection or opprobrium can obtain whatever advantage they may or may not confer in a given sport, while those equally interested but cowed by the regulatory and acceptability climate are denied whatever those gains might or might not be..."
Bennett Foddy, DPhil, Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Julian Savulescu, PhD, Professor and Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, made the following statements in the Aug. 1, 2005 article titled "Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport," published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine:
"There is no difference between elevating your blood count by altitude training, by using a hypoxic air machine, or by taking EPO[erythropoietin]. But the last is illegal. Some competitors have high PCVs [packed cell volumes]and an advantage by luck. Some can afford hypoxic air machines. Is this fair? Nature is not fair. Ian Thorpe has enormous feet which give him an advantage that no other swimmer can get, no matter how much they exercise. Some gymnasts are more flexible, and some basketball players are seven feet tall. By allowing everyone to take performance enhancing drugs, we level the playing field. We remove the effects of genetic inequality. Far from being unfair, allowing performance enhancement promotes equality."
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at the University of Wisconsin, was quoted as having said the following in the article titled "Steroids, Other 'Drugs', and Baseball," published by Eric Walker's website steroids-and-baseball.com (accessed Dec. 12, 2008):
"There is no coherent argument to support the view that
enhancing performance is unfair; if it were, we would ban coaching and
training. Competition can be unfair if there is unequal access to
particular enhancements, but equal access can be achieved more
predictably by deregulation than by prohibition."
Robert Simon, PhD, Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College, wrote the following statements in his 2004 book Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport:
"Many of us share the intuition that use of performance enhancers provides an unfair advantage, but we need to ask whether this intuition can be supported by good arguments... One line of argument suggests an analogy with differences in the equipment available to competitors. For example, if one player in a golf tournament used golf balls that flew significantly further than balls used by opponents even when struck with the same force, the tournament arguably is unfair. One player is able to avoid one of the major challenges of golf not because of skill but simply because of use of a superior product. Perhaps the use of steroids provides a similar unfair advantage.
The problem with this line of argument, however, is that it is at best unclear that the golf tournament is unfair. If the ball is legal and available to other competitors, the user indeed has an advantage over players using ordinary equipment, but what makes the advantage unfair?...[T]here are all sorts of differences in equipment, background, training facilities, coaching, and diet that can affect the performances of athletes but are not regarded as unfair. Until we can say why the advantages provided by such performance enhancers as steroids are illegitimate, and advantages provided by other differences in background conditions are legitimate, the charge of unfairness must be dismissed as lacking adequate support."
Sharon Ryan, PhD, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at West Virginia University, wrote the following information in the Aug. 2008 article titled "What's So Bad About Performance Enhancing Drugs?," published by Philosophy and Football:
"Due to economic circumstances or even luck, some athletes have better nutrition, 'natural' supplements, coaches, trainers, nutritionists, information, lawyers, and equipment than others do. Some athletes have more free time to train than others do. Some athletes are naturally smarter, faster, and stronger than others are. All athletes, whether or not they use PEDs, are not 'playing on a level playing field' and that is...unfair."
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Roofing experts recommend that roofs be inspected at least once a year for damage and wear. Early identification of a roofing problem may head off more costly repairs at a later date. Since most of us are not likely to make a regular habit of climbing up and inspecting our roofs, we typically call on professionals to handle this task. Whether you need a patch job or you need an entire roof, you should use the same caution as hiring any other building professional. Ask friends and neighbors for recommendations. Get the names of several contractors and check them out with the BBB. Obtain local references and examine the finished work, if possible. Get a detailed written estimate of the work, including the labor and materials. When comparing cost estimates, make sure that the bids are based on the same set of specifications and materials. Get a written commitment as to how long the work will take. Be sure that all aspects of the roofing job are detailed in writing before signing any contract; never sign a contract with sections left blank. Finally, determine what sort of guarantees apply to materials and labor and get the guarantees in writing. Make sure the company is properly licensed and that its workers are covered by company insurance. In Lubbock and in most communities, contractors must secure a permit from the building inspection department to replace a roof. Make sure the contractor you choose gets that permit and that the permit has been issued in the company name. If you are repairing or replacing your roof due to storm damage, check your homeowner's indurance policy to determine coverage for roof repair or replacement. The type of roofing you install may also affect your insurance rates, so check with your insurer first.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Assoc. Details Sandy's Toll, from Utility Issues to Gas Prices & What the State's 50+ Think Needs to Be Done Next
On the heels of Congress' approval of billions of dollars in relief for state's hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, like New York, comes a new report from AARP New York taking a local look at the experiences of many of the state's 50+ in the fallout of the storm. From power outages and storm damage to how their utility companies and elected officials handled it all, the survey takes a deep dive into the lives of some of those most impacted by Sandy.
"New Yorkers were hit hard by Sandy, and we wanted to know what the experiences were of the 50+ to get a better idea of what issues, from housing to transportation, needed to be addressed in the state," said Beth Finkel, Sr. Manager for Community Outreach for AARP in New York.
According to the AARP survey of 50+ in New York City and Long Island areas, most New Yorkers gave high marks for storm responses to Governor Cuomo, with nearly 70% saying he did a good or excellent job and President Obama, 57.9%. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) didn't score so highly, with just 37.9% saying the agency did a good or excellent job, and 43% stating FEMA's response was poor to fair.
Purchasing gas proved to be a major problem for just over 60% of the 50+ in the areas impacted by the storm in New York, with 66% reporting inflated gas prices.
While 86.4% lost power, nearly three quarters (72.5%) reported being without power for 4 or more days - and their displeasure with the way electric utilities responded was apparent. 44% of New York's 50+ said their electric utility's response to Sandy was poor, with another 21% stating the response was fair. Electric utilities far outpaced all other utilities in the survey when it came to negative reviews: for internet, 10% said the response was poor; for telephone, 10.8%; and for gas, just 4%.
The survey found 28.7% of respondents saw their homes damaged due to Sandy; with over half (52.5%) saying the damage was moderate to severe. Even though the 50+ age group saw some tough times due to the storm, on a positive note, the majority of those surveyed, 56.3%, volunteered to help others.
"New Yorkers are tough and always willing to step up to the plate to help those in need in the face of a disaster like Sandy," added Finkel. "AARP was glad to be able to join with that spirit and provide some financial assistance to organizations dedicated to aiding those affected by the storm."
The AARP Foundation donated over $350,000 in New York to organizations helping with storm relief, and over $1.4 million across the region.
With utility companies in New York now eyeing rate hikes in the wake of the storm, AARP also gauged the population in regards to utility prices in state finding:
-- Over one quarter reported difficulty paying their electric bill;
-- 69% said their elected officials weren't doing enough to protect people affected by rising energy costs;
-- 73.2% believed their interests aren't taken into consideration when rate increases for gas and electric are proposed; and
-- 76.7% said they thought New York needed to establish an independent consumer advocate office to represent them in rate cases before the Public Service Commission, with nearly 60% supporting Governor Cuomo including the issue in his upcoming budget address.
Establishing an independent consumer advocate office in New York will be a priority for AARP in the coming legislative session.
The full survey is available at: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3IY8WmqQATeYW9WR1FjUVBmaXM
Follow us on Twitter: @AARPNY and Facebook: AARP New York
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a membership that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation magazine with over 35.1 million readers; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for AARP's millions of members and Americans 50+; AARP VIVA, the only bilingual U.S. publication dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; and our website, AARP.org. AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Copyright (C) 2013 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
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It started with a media report in France and in a few days the story had gone around the world. Our private Facebook messages from 2007 and 2008 were being made public on our walls. The story was picked up on U.S. blogs and was rapidly spread through Facebook status updates and on Twitter.
Facebook quickly issued a strong denial, tech journalists drilled deep, and the story was quickly debunked. Yet the message -- the cautionary status updates -- still spread, translated across Facebook's global communities. Even when faced with evidence to the contrary, people still insisted the story was true: They didn't care what Facebook said, they knew they didn't write that on their Wall, they never would have written that in public... More at rferl.
A good write-up.
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If you’re a frequent flyer, you’re probably fed up with having to go through security each time you want to get on a plane and travel, especially when that security involves the potential for X-rays or pat-downs. Don’t you wish there was a quicker way of going through security? Well, the good people at the TSA sympathize with you, and are offering express security screenings to get you on the plane faster if you fly frequently.
This fall, the TSA will be testing out express security in Atlanta, Detroit, Miami, and Dallas. Intended for those who fly often, it will allow certain people to go through security without needing to take off your shoes or taking your laptop out of your bag, saving travelers a fair bit of time, and enabling passengers to zip right through security while everybody else fiddles around with their belongings.
However, this program comes with a catch. To qualify for the program, you need to give the TSA some “added personal information,” such as personal contacts and your travel history, to make sure terrorists aren’t “gaming” the system. What the trade-off comes down to is you give up more of your private information in exchange for speed, and you still might be subject to a pat-down. If this plan goes into effect, travelers will be faced with two options: go through the traditional pat-down x-ray security that takes forever, or go through the speedy, more invasive security that swaps privacy for convenience. It’s better than having just one option, but when the TSA is providing those choices, you’re merely choosing which is the more preferable assault on your civil liberties.
H/T Campaign for Liberty. Originally published at www.silverunderground.com.
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Just outside a small town in Northern New Jersey lies a road with a thousand stories. I myself have visited this road and have been told the old tale that haunts it. Legend has it that one night, back in 1957, a young woman who lived on the road was waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up for a school dance. She wasn’t waiting happily, though, because earlier in the evening her mother, who highly disapproved of the young man, had decided to forbid the daughter to go with him. Upon his arrival, the angry mother greeted the boy, and an argument ensued. He stormed away from the house, hopped in his car, and sped off down the road.
While the mother and daughter continued bickering, they heard a loud explosion in the distance. In a panic, the girl flew out of her front door and ran along the road to where it started downhill. At the bottom, she could see her boyfriend’s car, slammed up against a telephone pole, with flames coming from the engine. Crying hysterically, she ran down the hill and to the car, frantic to free her boyfriend. She managed to pull the driver’s door open and could see that the young man was still conscious, though he seemed dazed and there was blood on his head. What she didn’t see was the slow, steady stream of gas that flowed from beneath the car. She tried to pull the young man up and out of the seat, but he was much larger then she was. She lost her footing and instead fell against him. At that same moment, the fire reached the gas tank and it exploded. The mother, who had followed her daughter down the hill, could only look on in horror as she saw the two young people on the front seat of the car, clinging to each other like lovers, engulfed in flames.
Now they say that on some evenings, if you stop at the bottom of the hill and turn your engine off, you can hear, faintly, what seem to be screams. And they say if you park your car in such a way that perfectly matches the position the young man’s car was in when it came to a rest and put your car in neutral, it will ever so slowly reverse itself. And slowly, steadily, inevitably make its way backward, up the hill and into the driveway of the house where the girl once lived. It is almost as if the girl and the injured young man have climbed into your car with you. The girl, taking the steering wheel from you and is attempting, futilely, to bring her boyfriend back to the house before the fatal accident.
This is the legend that has grown up around what some call “Gravity Hill,” and into this legend, just a few years ago, drove David Urbansky.
One night in the winter of ’85, seventeen-year old David Urbansky was on his way home from his after-school job, where he flipped burgers in the food court of a local mall. He drove his car defensively in a heavy snowstorm that had hit northern New Jersey without warning. Though David had only received his driver’s license, he was already a good driver who respected the roads and the other vehicles on it. This night, he knew he had to be especially alert due to the extreme condition of the roads. Spinouts and locked brakes were easy possibilities even going at fifteen miles per hour.
David was on Route 216 north, where traffic was heavy, and the going slow. If he took Exit 28, it would let him off on Brooks Curve where the traffic would be much lighter. Though he would never normally take that road, he knew he would be home faster than if he waited in the mass of cars that were slowly making their way down the highway. So when Exit 28 came, he took it.
The road was lined with dark trees, and there were very few streetlights. David guessed that it was probably a pretty creepy road even on a clear evening, but it seemed especially threatening on this snow-filled night with menacing gray clouds in the sky above. He passed a service station, but after that there was no sign of life for almost two miles until his headlights caught and froze a scared rabbit crossing the road. He had almost hit rabbit when it suddenly lurched out onto the side and ran off into the trees. A moment later he saw a house to his left, with a single faint light in an upstairs window. As he passed it, he wondered who could live out in this lonely place.
The snow had started to come down more heavily now, and David’s windshield wipers were failing him. Just after passing the house, he stuck his left hand out the window to clear it of the pestering icy obstructions. He didn’t realize that he was heading down a hill until he felt his tires slipping. He tried in vain to straighten out the car, but it turned sideways, continuing to slide down the icy slope, picking up speed.
David woke to a rapping on the window. Not realizing where he was for a second, he then remembered what had happened. He guessed he must have hit his head when his car ended up in a ditch at the bottom of the hill, but felt no pain. He opened his door to get out and found a young woman there to help him.
“My name is Angela,” she said with a smile and a peppy sound to her voice. “Would you like to come up to my house? It’s nice and warm, and you look a bit cold.”
David was a little confused. The girl hadn’t even asked if he was hurt or okay. But she seemed nice enough, friendly, and hospitable. “Yeah I guess so,” he replied. “I’ll never get my car out now anyway, and I’d like to use your phone if that’s okay with you.”
“I’m sure you will find what you need up at the house,” Angela replied, “Let’s get going.”
As David climbed the hill side-by-side with Angela, he noticed she wasn’t wearing a coat, though she didn’t seem the slightest bit cold. She wore only a white blouse and an ankle-length checkered skirt with bobby socks on her ankles. Her saddle shoes looked as if their soles would be slick in the snow, yet she walked up the hill with no trouble.
“Were you on your way somewhere?” David asked as they got to the top of the hill.
“No, not really,” Angela said with a chuckle and a skip, seeming light and airy in the dark night.
A moment later they were at the house, climbing the short rise of the stairs outside. “Well, here we are,” the girl said as she opened the door to the modest little home. “Sit down there,” she said, pointing to the sofa that stood in the corner of the living room. “Would you like to play some records or something?”
“All I could really use is a phone right now,” David said.
Angela just flashed him a smile and walked to a cabinet on which a turntable sat.
David looked around the room, and then saw a black phone sitting on an end table. He went to it, picked up the receiver, and put it to his ear, but there was no dial tone. “Isn’t this great,” he murmured to himself. He turned to the girl, “Listen Angela, if you have a car, maybe you could give me a lift to the service station I passed about two miles back up the road.”
The girl didn’t turn, didn’t acknowledge the fact David was talking. She just stood in the middle of the room, singing to herself and dancing in place.
“Angela!” David shouted over the music. “I really need for you to…” The music suddenly came to a halt, though no one had approached the turntable. He lowered his voice as he saw that Angela had stopped dancing and was staring anxiously to the stairs. “What’s the matter?” he asked.
“She’s coming,” the girl said. “We have to go now.” She walked to David and grabbed his arm.
“What are you doing?” David demanded, pulling his arm back. “Who’s coming?”
The girl turned, ran toward the door, opened it, and disappeared into the snow and wind. As David hurried to the door to see where she had gone, he saw the woman walking slowly down the stairs. She wore a tattered nightgown and appeared to be in her late fifties or early sixties, with long black hair peppered with gray and sad eyes sunk back into her skull. She stopped near the bottom of the stairs, looked at David, and for a moment appeared to gag at the sight of him. Then she began to speak. “Has Angela brought you here? Where is she, boy?”
David stared at the woman for a moment before answering, “She ran away. I guess she thought you would be angry with her for making so much noise. Anyway, I just wanted to use your phone, but it’s dead.”
“Phone won’t do you no good,” she offered. “Nothing will.”
“I guess I should be leaving then,” David said. “Sorry to bother you. If Angela had told me her grandmother was upstairs I would have…”
“Grandmother!” The old woman chuckled. “You see that picture on the mantle there, boy?
David walked to where the woman was pointing, took the frame in his hands, and looked at the picture. “What about it?” he asked.
“Do you recognize the two people in the photo?”
David looked closer. “That’s Angela on the right, and I guess the woman on the left is a relative. She’s very beautiful.”
“Beautiful!” The woman seemed to find this very funny, cackling like a crone. Then her voice abruptly became sad. “Listen boy, you're right, that’s Angela in the picture. And that woman beside her is me. I’m her mother. That’s the both of us 28 years ago. One week before the accident that killed her."
David’s mind went numb as he tried to put sense into the woman’s words, the picture slipping from his hands to shatter on the pine wood floor.
“She found you at the bottom of the hill didn’t she? They usually run off after seeing Angela. But I can see why you didn’t. I can also see why she brought you to the house.” The woman walked down the last of the stairs and then took a few steps toward David. “Tell me something young man, on your walk up the here, did you feel the cold? Did you really feel it? Or was it just the memory of the cold?”
David couldn’t understand what the woman was asking him. “What are you talking about?”
“See that full- length mirror attached to that closet door over there?”
“Why don’t you go take a look in it?”
David walked toward the mirror while starring at the strange woman, then he turned to look at his reflection. He stood in horror; the right side of his face looked as if it had been charred by fire, and his slick blonde hair matted with blood. Along his upper right arm, his shirt was torn above a deep gash, and he could see his right shinbone jackknifing through his flesh and jeans.
His screams echoed through the house. “This is some kind of trick,” he said, turning to the woman who said she was Angela’s mother. “And you’re a crazy old woman!” He then half ran, half stumbled to the door, then through it and down the outside steps.
The old woman watched from a window as he ran out into the road. “Why was I chosen to have this unwanted gift of vision?” she wondered aloud. Then she walked to the front door and closed it.
David ran down the road, breathing heavily, though the cold air showed no sign of his breath. When he got to the top of the hill, he could see, below him, red lights flashing through the heavy snow. He started down, then fell and slid for what seemed an eternity all the way to the bottom. When he picked himself up, he was able to see what the commotion was all about. His car was a mangled wreck, twisted around a tree. There was a policeman surveying the scene, and two paramedics who were at that moment sliding a stretcher through the double doors of an ambulance.
David ran to the rear of the vehicle just before they closed the doors and noticed a technician kneeling by the stretcher’s side. “This is the toughest part of the job,” David heard him say as the man flipped a sheet over the face of the boy who lay still on the stretcher – the face of David himself.
“David,” Angela said as she reached a hand to him, he turned to look at her and saw, for the first time that, behind her bright eyes was an unfathomable sadness. And he knew the same sadness was in his own eyes. “It’s time to go now,” she said.
He took her hand. They slowly walked up the hill and disappeared into the frigid night.
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Nylon, Cotton, and Linen may be a thing of the past!
One of the hottest new developments revolving around the fashion and textile industry is a new material called Crailar. The fiber is quite similar to linen, however the Federal Trade Commission claims it to be a new natural fiber that is created from flax and various bast fibers. The FTC said “The Crailar process involves a manner of obtaining flax fibers that does not chemically alter them,” and that “the attributes of the fibers differ from those of linen.”
Photo Credit: ecouterre
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Certified Bio based Product label was awarded to the newly developed Crailar. This award confirms the product being a renewable bio based created material that satisfies USDA standards.
“Our process results in a pure flax product that feels and can be cared for like cotton, and we believe that articulating that at retail is an important part of the unique brand proposition for Crailar flax, to the merchandising opportunities of our partner brands and to the relationship we intend to build with consumers.” Said Jay Nalbach ,chief marketing officer of Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc., the producer / marketer of Crailar.
Some of the first companies to get their hands on this material for their products include Hanesbrands Inc., Levi Strauss & Co. Georgia-Pacific, Brilliant Global Knitwear, and PVH Corp.
Some of the advantages of the product include its resulting soft, and natural flax-based fiber that easily blends with cotton, wool, and other natural fibers.
Last month the NAT delivered 100,000 pounds of this fiber to Target Corp. introducing it to the ready to wear retail market. Just last week NAT gained a private placement financing for massive production to begin in the later half of 2013.
What will this new product do to the current cotton industries? Only time will tell. Thankfully, it blends well with the other fibers, however time will tell about his and other newly developed fibers such as Abaca ( a type of hemp), NILIT, and NeoShell.
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After the Government opened its consultation on Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of alcohol this week, the TaxPayers’ Alliance can now expose how the introduction of the policy would land taxpayers with a bill in excess of £650 million a year.
The Impact Assessment document produced by the Home Office itself includes an admission that the policy would likely cause a drop in revenue for the Treasury of £200 million in lost receipts from Alcohol Duty.
But buried in the document is a reminder that MUP would have an impact on inflation because sales of off-trade alcohol are taken into consideration for the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).
Since April 2011, the CPI has been used by the Government for the indexing of benefits, tax credits and public service pensions, so the unintended consequence of MUP would be a startling increase in the cost to the taxpayer of those significant items of government spending.
The Impact Assessment reveals the inflationary impact of the policy, based on figures provided by the Treasury, using an HMRC model assuming implementation in 2014-15:
“Implementation of a minimum unit price at any level will increase prices and therefore inflation. As shown in Table 4 the impact of a 45p MUP is estimated to be a +0.2 percentage points, based on the weight of off-trade alcohol sold in the Consumer Prices Index.”
These items are set to cost a total of £227.4 billion in 2014-15, but with +0.2 percentage point increase in CPI, a further £455 million would be added to the cost.
The Impact Assessment suggests that the inflationary effect of MUP could in fact be even larger:
“There are a number of uncertainties about these estimates, as there are likely to be further offsetting effects on inflation if the prices of more expensive alcohols are increased to maintain differentials with cheaper alcohol.”
But even if the increase in CPI is limited to +0.2 percentage points, combined with the loss of receipts in Alcohol Duty, the annual cost to the taxpayer of a 45p MUP would be £655 million.
Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:
“We already knew that forcing retailers to charge more for alcohol would result in higher prices for customers.
“But now we have the Government’s own figures showing that the cost of this ludicrous policy will be borne by taxpayers in higher welfare costs and reduced duty receipts.
“The Government may have only just announced the consultation on Minimum Unit Pricing but the quicker they call time on this policy, the better.”
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The death toll in Sunday’s stampede at Allahabad station rose to 36 but even after 24 hours there was no clarity on what led to the tragedy on one of the biggest days of the Kumbh as the Centre and the state government traded blame.
While two probes — one by the Centre and the other by the Uttar Pradesh government — were ordered, at least three contradictory theories were put out on what caused the accident.
The railing of a footbridge handrail collapsed, sending pilgrims down the stairs, UP home secretary JP Gupta and IG (law and order) BP Singh quoted eyewitnesses as saying. There were claims that some pilgrims slipped, creating panic and possibly a stampede, they added.
A third reason, too, was given. Police deployed on the platform cane-charged the pilgrims, leading to the mishap — the railways too had initially claimed the same. “We have no idea what exactly happened. The presence of a large number of people could have been the reason,” Gupta said.
Owning moral responsibility, Uttar Pradesh’s urban development minister Azam Khan quit as the Kumbh Mela in-charge, while railway minister PK Bansal ordered a probe into the crush on the busiest day of the world’s largest religious festival which saw 30 million take a dip at the Sangam.
Rescue personnel extending all possible help to the the injured after a stampade in Allahabad railway station on Sunday. UNI PHOTO
It was not possible to run trains every 10 minutes to clear the heavy rush of devotees, Bansal said in response to the charge that the railways was ill-prepared. “Altogether, 12,000 trains run on Indian Railways’ 65,000-km-long route system, carrying 2.3 crore passengers a day,” Bansal said.
So there are limitations to carrying crores of passengers on any given day," Bansal, who reached Allahabad Monday, added.
“It was well known that 3 crore passengers would descend on the day. What happened to the “crowd-control management” training of the railways,” a central government official said.
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said he did not want to say who was responsible. “You know better,” he told journalists. Bansal said statements blaming the railways were baseless.
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I would like to introduce to you a whole new twist to fashion in modern day, and that is Armoir Fashion. Firstly, I’d like to introduce you the very talented and founder of Armoir and his name is Sevag Haroutunian. He is Armenian and is raised in Toronto, Canada who is a young and captivating stylist with incredible talent of the art of Fashion. His flavour of fashion is completely fabulous with so many colourful and fresh ideas and adds spice to the studio with his creative thoughts and wisdom which bring his creations to life and inspire many people with his incredible talent. in history his own people were leather masters thousands of years ago, forging the world’s first shoe 3000 years ago out of leather.
Each piece is carefully hand crafted out of cowhide leather and the masters of art are selected with fine designs of historical and ancient manuscripts bringing it to life in modern day fashion. It is made for your comfort each unique piece is hand sanded and softened to avoid irritation and rashes to your skin. It is handmade in the Armenian Highlands of ancient origin and civilization. Each hand crafted material is embossed in unique and different ways and different styles to fit your needs and to what you are interested in.
The return of leather is trending and its designs are compelling, beautiful, and bringing history back to life with these beautiful creations.
*(credit to Armoir)The history of leather work in Armenia is known exclusively through bindings of manuscripts. The practice of protecting a manuscript with boards covered with leather goes back to the very invention of the codex in the first Christian centuries. Before that books were in the form of scrolls or continuous rolls of papyrus. The earliest preserved Armenian leather bindings are from the eleventh century; the earliest binder’s colophons are from the tenth-eleventh centuries. In this period bookbinding had become a specialized and highly developed art in medieval Armenia. Elaborately decorated bindings followed the artistic fashion of the time, for instance borrowing designs used for the ornamentation of memorial cross stones or khach’k'ars. A large variety of geometric forms was used, and later, floral as well as the traditional braided bands were employed. Also typically, Armenian was the affixing of metal studs, often silver, to outline a design. As in all other areas of Armenian art, leather bindings differ from region to region and century to century, but they share the characteristics mentioned above and thereby belong to a single recognizable family.*
*its Peerless collections vary in sizes and shades, Highlighting the human touch in each art piece*
These unique collections can be found in stores in Ontario, Canada in Ma zone, Dana Jordan and Art Gallery of Ontario.
To see visuals, to obtain more information and its beauty please click on this link http://www.armoir.ca
So take and wear a part of history with you today to share with family and friends. Enjoy the masterpiece and when you wear it, I guarantee you will enjoy it and it will catch a lot of eyes and intrigue those who see this beautiful fine art of fashion of Armoir.
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Cures for the world's most devastating diseases. Safe and plentiful food. Sustainable energy.
Ohio State's goals are monumental. But for Ohio State--the university's $2.5 billion fundraising campaign--is the roadmap to take us from excellence to eminence.
"My wish is for this great university to reach beyond our already high attainment and become the country's most vibrant, most engaged, most forward-thinking public institution," says President E. Gordon Gee. (Read Gee's thoughts as the campaign kicks off.)
The campaign, which the university kicks off this week, is a call to Buckeyes to help move forward the world-class academic programs, students and scholars, and research that will change the world, while creating opportunities for Ohioans.
Support the campaign and share your story. And find out more about the five tenets of the campaign--and where they'll take Ohio State:
Placing students first: But for Ohio State seeks to attract the most promising students to Ohio State--and help them afford tuition. The campaign promises a more robust academic program, better places for students to live and learn, and vibrant study abroad opportunities.
Elevating faculty and the academic enterprise: At Ohio State, researchers across the academic spectrum work together to solve the world's most pressing problems--and in the process, they patent their discoveries, launching new companies that bring jobs to Ohio. But for Ohio State will help attract, honor, and retain veteran talent as well as rising stars.
Creating modern learning environments: Through But for Ohio State, the university will become the national model for innovative campus design. That means the right buildings, in the right proximity for teamwork. An example: the Ohio Union, which was built with every audience and every activity in mind.
Emboldening our research agenda: Taking risks, testing bold hypotheses, rethinking traditional approaches. Ohio State researchers work across disciplines and team up with industry to solve problems around the globe. But for Ohio State will allow for a wider range of opportunity--which means more major problems, solved.
Driving high-impact innovation: New ideas at Ohio State have big repercussions. Medical procedures save lives and new technologies make them better. But for Ohio State supports the university's boldest thinkers--those who will truly make a difference.
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President Obama ‘reaches out’ to the business community with a Wall Street Journal op-ed “Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System.” He describes a new Executive Order that initiates “a government-wide review of the rules already on the books to remove outdated regulations that stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive.”
Couldn’t hurt — but it’s very unlikely to find much after 8 years of the uber-antiregulation Cheney-Bush administration. And Obama’s generally strong defense of regulations — particularly the EPA — is not what the anti-science, pro-pollution readership of the WSJ opinion page wants to hear. Here are some excerpts:
For two centuries, America’s free market has not only been the source of dazzling ideas and path-breaking products, it has also been the greatest force for prosperity the world has ever known. That vibrant entrepreneurialism is the key to our continued global leadership and the success of our people.
But throughout our history, one of the reasons the free market has worked is that we have sought the proper balance. We have preserved freedom of commerce while applying those rules and regulations necessary to protect the public against threats to our health and safety and to safeguard people and businesses from abuse.
From child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to our most recent strictures against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies, we have, from time to time, embraced common sense rules of the road that strengthen our country without unduly interfering with the pursuit of progress and the growth of our economy….
One important example of this overall approach is the fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks. When I took office, the country faced years of litigation and confusion because of conflicting rules set by Congress, federal regulators and states.
The EPA and the Department of Transportation worked with auto makers, labor unions, states like California, and environmental advocates this past spring to turn a tangle of rules into one aggressive new standard. It was a victory for car companies that wanted regulatory certainty; for consumers who will pay less at the pump; for our security, as we save 1.8 billion barrels of oil; and for the environment as we reduce pollution. Another example: Tomorrow the FDA will lay out a new effort to improve the process for approving medical devices, to keep patients safer while getting innovative and life-saving products to market faster.
Despite a lot of heated rhetoric, our efforts over the past two years to modernize our regulations have led to smarter””and in some cases tougher””rules to protect our health, safety and environment. Yet according to current estimates of their economic impact, the benefits of these regulations exceed their costs by billions of dollars.
- By “2020 the benefits of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments will exceed the costs of compliance by a factor of 30 to 1“
- For EPA regulations, benefits consistently exceed costs
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Religious organisation calls for the removal of faith's gods from SMITE
The Universal Society of Hinduism has called on game studio Hi-Rez to remove Hindu divinites from god game SMITE.
The game gives players a pantheon of playable gods to choose from in an online arena battle.
The USH president, Rajan Zed, has demanded that the game remove all Hindu gods from the game, claiming their treatment relegates them to a triviality.
Whereas the game gives players control of the gods, Zed says the faithful adherent places themselves in the hands of the deities.
According to the Alpharetta Miltion-Patch, Zed believes that giving a user control of Hindu gods degenerates them and the faith of devotees, and says the gods were meant to be revered in temples and shrines, not reduced to the status of characters in a game.
"SMITE includes deities inspired from a diverse and ever expanding set of pantheons including Greek, Chinese, Egyptian, and Norse," said Hi-Rez chief operating officer Todd Harris.
"Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game."
"In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer."
Zed says he welcomes the entertainment industry to immerse itself in Hinduism, so long as it does so with respect.
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|Annie Dookhan, 34, was charged with obstruction of justice and falsifying her academic record in the crime lab case.|
This story is from BostonGlobe.com, the only place for complete digital access to the Globe.
State drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan labeled the vials as containing THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. But when another chemist ran the vials through a machine to confirm Dookhan’s analysis, one had little THC, and another was mixed with morphine and codeine.
The second chemist sent the vials back to Dookhan to resolve the discrepancies, asking her to repeat the screening test the lab used to tentatively identify the drugs in an evidence bag. When she resubmitted them, the machine showed the vials contained pure THC.
The incident, detailed in a 100-page State Police report obtained by the Globe last week, illustrates one of the many ways Dookhan was able to circumvent safeguards intended to ensure that drug evidence was properly handled and analyzed by workers in a now-closed lab formerly run by the state Department of Public Health.
Forensics specialists interviewed by the Globe say the lab’s procedures appear to have been fairly standard, including having two chemists test every sample, but they were still not enough to prevent an ambitious chemist’s rampant breaches of lab protocol, apparently to boost her performance record. In the process, investigators say, Dookhan has jeopardized the reliability of drug evidence used in 34,000 cases during her nine-year career.
The 34-year-old chemist was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one of falsifying her academic record, in allegedly lying under oath about having a master’s degree in chemistry.
Dookhan was “dry-labbing” her screening tests. Put simply, she was skipping a critical first step, according to her admission to investigators, and instead often made a preliminary identification of drugs simply by how they looked and by the type of suspected drug that was checked off on a control card that accompanied the sample.
Typical lab protocols require an initial screening test, called a color test, in which a chemist applies a specific liquid to each drug sample to determine its identity by the color it turns.
That result is crucial for properly performing a second, more definitive test. It tells the chemist doing that second test what “control” drug to use to compare with the sample being analyzed.
“Dry-labbing is probably the most sinful thing that a chemist can do because it is essentially cheating,” said Thomas E. Workman, a criminal defense lawyer who teaches courses on scientific evidence at the University of Massachusetts Law School.
Workman would like to see cameras added to crime labs to record screening tests, with footage available on the Internet to prosecutors and defense lawyers to help ensure that proper procedures are followed.
Use of cameras is not standard practice in crime labs, said Ralph Keaton, executive director of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, an agency that certifies hundreds of crime labs nationally, including those run by Massachusetts State Police.
Instead, well-run labs use quality managers who check daily to ensure that staff members have properly calibrated machines and that protocols are being followed, said Ralph Timperi, who stepped down in April 2005 after 18 years as director of the Jamaica Plain state lab complex, which included the drug testing lab.
“There are different kinds of checks and balances, and a supervisory one is critical,” Timperi said. “You need someone walking around and observing what people are doing and looking for problems.”
It is not clear whether the drug lab continued to use quality managers after Timperi’s departure. Alec Loftus, a Patrick administration spokesman, declined a request for a copy of the lab’s policy and procedures manual, saying it was protected as part of the criminal investigation of the lab by State Police and Attorney General Martha Coakley.
But the State Police report suggests Dookhan herself may have, at times, served in another quality assurance role, as the lab’s quality control chemist, who typically runs daily tests to ensure scales are calibrated and machines are running properly.
“These machines could have been used by other chemists, who did not even know that the machines were not properly verified,” said Workman.
That possibility, Workman said, would call into question a much larger universe of drug tests beyond the 60,000 Dookhan is believed to have run during her tenure.
Investigators have already identified 1,141 inmates of state prisons and county jails who were convicted based on evidence analyzed by Dookhan. And judges have freed, reduced bail for, or suspended the sentences of at least 20 drug defendants in the scandal.Continued...
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This information is for reference purposes only. It was current when produced and may now be outdated. Archive material is no longer maintained, and some links may not work. Persons with disabilities having difficulty accessing this information should contact us at: https://info.ahrq.gov. Let us know the nature of the problem, the Web address of what you want, and your contact information.
Please go to www.ahrq.gov for current information.
Managed Care, Medicaid, and Public Health: Building Collaborations That Work
Matthew L. Myers, J.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, National Center for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington, DC.
Kenneth T. Segel, Director, Working Together Consortium Healthcare Initiative (sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation), Pittsburgh, PA.
The 1998 settlement between States and major tobacco firms has resulted in substantial amounts of new money for States to spend as they wish. Although 30 legislatures made decisions regarding the initial payment, almost none have made long-term commitments for these funds, preferring annual decisions. The allocations for 1999 funds varied widely among the States and sometimes included non-health-related interests.
Eleven States have not made a major decision regarding these funds: Arkansas,
Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia. Four States may submit the decision to a ballot initiative: Missouri, Montana, Oregon, and Colorado.
As of March 1, 2000, more than 420 bills had been introduced or carried over concerning tobacco funds for this year. Noting the unrestricted nature of the funds, Mr. Myers stressed, "Unless people from both inside and outside State governments who care about healthcare get together and fight for the money, it will go somewhere else." He added that successful efforts require planning; people who want the funds for health-related issues need to be able to make the case to legislators: "This is how this
money will pay dividends."
Some States are considering selling their rights to future payments in return for cash in the form of bond sales. The rationale behind this is the States' fear that future payments will decline as a result of reduced tobacco sales or tobacco firms' bankruptcy. Mr. Myers cautioned that these deals need to be examined carefully, as the States often continue to bear primary risk and receive only a fraction of the payment value. He also pointed out that a lump sum payment could mean no stream of money for health-related purposes over the long haul and that tax rules could require the money to be used for capital projects if the bonds are tax-exempt.
Kenneth Segel noted that new initiatives have multiple possibilities to tap for resources. These include:
- Your own organization (he noted, "You have a lot of resources but typically don't think that way").
- Business and labor, which have indirect but powerful access to resources.
- Foundations, including conversion foundations, community foundations, and national foundations.
- United Ways.
Mr. Segel offered a number of considerations and suggestions for entities seeking help from foundations:
- Think of foundations as "investment brokers" or "venture capitalists."
- Recognize that foundations can provide more than just funding (e.g., act as an independent convener, provide access to other partners and resources, support market research and planning, help in negotiations).
- Understand that foundations need your ideas. Be prepared to discuss how your initiative offers a map to community solutions.
- Recognize recent trends in philanthropy and that foundations are frequently products of health systems change.
- Realize that foundations tend to focus on population-based healthcare.
- Right now, foundations are very interested in safety net demonstrations, safety net policy, safety net advocacy, and moderating the effects of aging.
- Community foundations and United Ways may be overwhelmed by the scale and complexity of health-related issues, so they may focus on collaborations (e.g., with government, national philanthropies).
- National foundations are increasingly interested in partnering with local philanthropies.
Mr. Segel also offered some "do's" and "don'ts" in approaching private funders. The "don'ts" include:
- Assume the foundation hates everything about the "new world" or liked everything about the old.
- Ask the foundation to replace government funding or to fund ongoing gaps unless there is a long-term plan to replace these funds.
- Focus on "kiss up" relationship-building rather than demonstrating that this initiative will get something done.
The "do's" include:
- Develop relationships with funders outside of those times you're approaching them for help.
- Seek ways to integrate with ongoing funding sources, not foundation dependence.
- Recognize the foundation's desire not to "spit in the ocean."
- Look to key funders to organize other investors.
- Do the legwork to show change is possible and to demonstrate your commitment.
- Be open to the foundation's suggestions, but don't "be Gumby."
- Do your homework to find out more about the foundation you'd like to approach through foundation centers, libraries, GrantMakers in Health, the Internet, the foundation's mailing lists, etc.
- When you do approach, present an ambitious plan with partnership commitments. THINK BIG—try to come up with major solutions to problems.
Funds by state, from the tobacco settlement agreement: annual payments to each state. Ann Arbor(MI): The Center for Social Gerontology;1998 Nov. Internet address: www.tcsg.org/tobacco/settlement/totalfunds.htm
Collaborating with government agencies: findings from the GrantMakers in Health resource center. Washington(DC): GrantMakers in Health;1999 Nov.
Strategies for shaping public policy: findings from the GrantMakers in Health resource center. Washington(DC): GrantMakers in Health;1999 Nov.
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Cetirizine Side Effects
While most people have no problems with cetirizine, side effects are possible. In clinical trials, the most common side effects seen in adults included drowsiness, fatigue, and dry mouth. In children, common side effects included headache, sore throat, and cough. If you experience potentially serious side effects of cetirizine, such as breathing problems or difficulty urinating, contact your healthcare provider immediately.
As with any medicine, side effects are possible with cetirizine hydrochloride (Zyrtec®). However, not everyone who takes the drug will experience side effects. In fact, most people tolerate it quite well. If side effects do occur, in most cases, they are minor and either require no treatment or are easily treated by you or your healthcare provider.
(This article covers many, but not all, of the possible side effects with cetirizine. Your healthcare provider can discuss a more complete list of cetirizine side effects with you.)
As with most recently approved non-prescription products, cetirizine is usually safe to use and rarely causes serious side effects. However, potentially serious side effects with cetirizine are possible and should be reported immediately to your healthcare provider. These include but are not limited to:
- Wheezing or other breathing problems
- Difficulty passing urine
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- A rapid heart rate (tachycardia) or a feeling of a rapidly or forcefully beating heart (known as heart palpitations)
- An increase in liver enzymes
- Signs of an allergic reaction, such as:
- An unexplained rash
- Unexplained swelling, especially of the lips, mouth, or throat.
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On the eve of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), we believe that it is the right time to reaffirm the U.S. Government’s commitment to the multistakeholder model as the appropriate process for addressing Internet policy and governance issues. The multistakeholder model has enabled the Internet to flourish. It has promoted freedom of expression, both online and off. It has ensured the Internet is a robust, open platform for innovation, investment, economic growth and the creation of wealth throughout the world, including in developing countries.
There are those who may suggest next week in Dubai - and in future venues where Internet policy is discussed - that the United States controls the Internet. Alternatively, they may suggest that in the future governments alone should run the Internet. Our response is grounded in the reality that this is simply not the case. The Internet is a decentralized network of networks and there is no one party – government or industry – that controls the Internet today. And that’s a good thing.
The Internet’s decentralized, multistakeholder processes enable us all to benefit from the engagement of all interested parties. By encouraging the participation of industry, civil society, technical and academic experts, and governments from around the globe, multistakeholder processes result in broader and more creative problem solving. This is essential when dealing with the Internet, which thrives through the cooperation of many different parties.
The global community has many serious topics to discuss with respect to the Internet. Collectively, we need to ensure that these matters are taken up in suitable multistakeholder venues so that these discussions are well informed by the voices of all interested parties.
Our commitment to the multistakeholder model is based on the fact that transparency, inclusion and participation are the 21st century standards governing discussions related to modern communications. This is a view shared by many around the world and was most recently reiterated by a statement of civil society members and groups from around the world who participated in the “Best Bits” pre-Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting held earlier this month in Baku, Azerbaijan. The U.S. Government wishes to lend its support to the spirit of the recommendations contained in the statement.
We have and will continue to advocate for an Internet that is not dominated by any one player or group of players, and one that is free from bureaucratic layers that cannot keep up with the pace of change. We will work with everyone to ensure that we have a global Internet that allows all voices to be heard.
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The York City School Board decided to scale back a tax increase it had just put in place and restore full-day kindergarten, thanks to an unanticipated influx of state cash.
The final state budget included more than $5 million in additional funding for York City to use as it pleases because of its financial plight.
The board decided Monday to reopen its budget to take advantage of the extra revenue. The results will be tangible for city taxpayers and students.
* The tax increase will now be 8.5 percent instead of 17 percent. The mill rate will be 33.73 mills, about a 2.65 mill increase. For a $50,000 homeowner, that will add just short of $135 to the property tax bill.
* Full-day kindergarten will be restored. The board's previous version of the budget had it cut down to half-day.
* Some music, gym and art teachers will be added at the K-8 level.
* A yet-to-be determined number of teachers will be added throughout the district to cut down on class size.
Board president Margie Orr said class sizes otherwise would have approached 40-50 students in some cases, as the district was going to combine grade levels because of its $19 million deficit. Now the average class size likely will be about 30 students, said Superintendent Deborah Wortham.
Some taxpayers on hand said they thought the district should have used all the extra money to eliminate any tax increase.
But Orr said that wasn't possible, since some of that money from the state was tied to specific programs and couldn't be directly used to reduce the tax rate.
"We don't want our classrooms with 45-50 children. I don't think our teachers can handle that," Orr said.
- Reach Andrew Shaw at email@example.com.
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Richmond-upon-Thames Tourist Information
Richmond is a handsome town on the river Thames and is a most attractive place either to live in or to visit. It has picturesque houses and open spaces, smart shops, two theatres and two cinemas, many restaurants, old pubs and lively bars. The walk by the river has been a favourite outing for Londoners since Victorian times.
Richmond is one of the few English towns to have changed its name since the Middle Ages. Originally called the Manor of Shene, it was a royal residence from the fourteenth century until the fall of King Charles I in 1649. It acquired its new name in 1501 when King Henry VII rebuilt the royal palace on a grand scale and named it after his earldom in Yorkshire - the original Richmond. That is why there is now an East Sheen and no West one.
Only fragments of the great Palace survive at Old Palace Yard - notably the wardrobe and the entrance gateway - but many fine houses remain around the Green to remind us of Richmond's royal past. The Green itself is a beautiful space, lined with trees and big enough to hold a cricket pitch in summer with room to spare. Narrow lanes packed with little specialist shops run from the green, while two pubs look on to it.
On Little Green is Richmond Theatre, one of the most beautiful of all the Frank Matcham theatres. It was built in 1899 then refurbished in 1991. It presents a year-round programme of high quality entertainment, often showing drama productions on their way to the West End, many featuring famous stars. Tucked away near Richmond station is the little Orange Tree - London's only permanent theatre in the round. It presents new plays, re-discoveries, foreign work and even musicals in the round - a miniature National Theatre.
Some of the old antique shops and bookshops have been replaced by designer clothes shops and trendy hairdressers, but a few antique shops survive on Hill Rise and some independent bookshops can still be found. There is an art cinema in Water Lane as well as the big, mainstream cinema. This is still in its 1930 building with further screens in an annexe. There are more shops and restaurants just across the bridge in East Twickenham - Richmond Bridge is a handsome eighteenth-century stone structure, widened in 1937.
Rowing boats can still be hired on the river and are popular in the summer. It is advisable to check the tide tables before setting off, as the river is semi-tidal here and the flow can be strong. Pubs, wine bars and restaurants overlook the river, and you can walk along the riverbanks for many miles, soon getting out into the country. The view down on to the river from Richmond Terrace at the top of the hill is famous, and the terrace is conveniently backed by another old pub. The best hotels are at the top of the hill, but the most impressive building there is the Star and Garter - built as a home for disabled servicemen in 1924 - opposite the gate into Richmond Park.
The park was enclosed by King Charles I as his own hunting park, replacing the Old Deer Park down by the river, and its enclosing wall still stands. Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Paul's Cathedral 12 miles away. It is home to around 650 free roaming red and fallow deer. The pastoral landscape of hills, woodlands, ponds, gardens and grasslands set amongst ancient trees offers a peaceful breathing space to visitors. Entering by Richmond Gate and walking to the top of the slope looking down to Pen Ponds, the woodlands blend with the more distant slopes of Wimbledon Common so that the park seem to go on for ever.
The Park is designated as a National Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is always open to visitors on foot and cars are permitted during daylight hours. Parking is free but is restricted to designated car parks which can get very busy. There are two public golf courses in the park near the Roehampton gate, and refreshments are available there and at Pembroke Lodge with its attractive gardens.
Besides Richmond's own attractions, it makes a convenient base for visiting London, only half an hour by train from the National Theatre and the concert halls on the South Bank, and little further to the Tate and National Galleries.
Description by Jeffrey Darlington
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