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Skip to comments.Eligibility challenge returns to haunt Florida
Posted on 12/01/2012 11:50:51 AM PST by wesagain
A lawsuit challenging Barack Obamas presence on the 2012 presidential election ballot because of questions over his constitutional eligibility that was thrown out by a judge who earlier determined it wasnt timely has returned to haunt election officials in the state with a request that the Obama victory results be quashed.
Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is a direct threat to the safety and security of the United States, and its Constitution, which plaintiff must protect and defend by oath, according to the complaint, which was delivered to Secretary of State Ken Detzner today.
The case earlier this year was dismissed by Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, who said Obamas eligibility could not be challenged at that time because under Florida election law, technically, Obama hadnt been nominated to the position.
As WND reported, Michael Voeltz, who identifies himself as a registered member of the Democratic Party, voter and taxpayer in Broward County, had challenged Obamas eligibility, arguing that the natural born citizen clause was rightly understood in historical context to mean a child not only born in the U.S., but born to two American-citizen parents, so as not to have divided loyalties. Obama, however, readily admits to being born a dual citizen because of his fathers British citizenship.
In his decision then, Lewis noted that the United States Supreme Court has concluded that every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction .......
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It doesn't matter....people that vote for obama don't care if he is an American or not....they outnumber us and the gap is getting larger every day.
It matters not.
Never let the Marxsist/Muslim usurper sob rest.
Keep digging- phony birth certificate, 'Fast and Furious', Benghazi, his sordid hidden past (that he's paid millions to lawyers to keep under wrap)
The Supremes are praying this won't ever get to them... they certainly don't have the fortitude to rule according to the Constitution on this issue...but then that rarely stops them... see Obamacare for example !
State courts in Indiana and Georgia ruled that Obama is a natural born citizen. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Obama is a natural born citizen. (I am talking here only about decisions on the merits, not the 100+ decisions throwing out eligibility suits on standing or other procedural grounds). The Supreme Court has declined to hear appeals from any of these cases, without a single recorded dissent. They are unlikely to ever agree to hear this issue unless there is a split of authority in the lower courts.
Next we'll have people running for president who really don't have any idea who their father is, much less his nationality. So much for two US citizen parents. I suppose that will be fine too.
The supremes will probably say that the election eligibility issue is really a tax levied by congress on behalf of those without genuine paperwork.
Yawn.....Wing Nut Daily promoting irrelevant fantasies again.
Determination of eligibility is up to the states. No court has, nor should have power to remove a Presidential candidate from consideration by electors.
State courts in Indiana and Georgia ruled that Obama is a natural born citizen. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Obama is a natural born citizen. (I am talking here only about decisions on the merits, not the 100+ decisions throwing out eligibility suits on standing or other procedural grounds).
Can you cite specifically when and what was the actual ruling? And, dismissing the case because of some phony "does not have standing" is not a ruling on the merits of a case
Also, any of these judges subpeona and VIEW the official copy of Obama's Hawaii Birth Certificate? And, not the two fake ones Obama's people have produced
Last time I checked there has been ZERO rulings and decisions based on Obama being eligible or Natural Born.
Unfortunately, there are way too many Obama Supporters on FR, and not enough pro-Eligibility people.
None of these courts subpoenaed Obama's original birth certificate, but the Georgia courts heard testimony from supposedly-expert witnesses claiming that what Obama posted on the internet was a forgery; the judge found that the witnesses were not "experts" and that their testimony was not credible.
There is a case pending now in federal court in Mississippi, Taitz v. Democrat [sic] Party, in which the defense has submitted certified documents from Hawaii. That case is awaiting a decision.
Yep....Romney was correct about em.
As I've said previously....we have the best judges that money can buy!
They were "experts" called by Orly Taitz, who were totally unqualified. Neither was a certified document examiner. One was a scanner salesman.
I think this is the goofball that claimed he found "layers" in the document that proved it was a fraud. If it's the same guy he had a bunch of youtube videos.
You don't have to be an "Obama supporter" to believe that: (1) the courts have held that anyone born on U.S. soil is a natural born citizen, and (2) Hawaii has said that Obama was born in Hawaii.
I am far from an "Obama supporter," and I voted for Governor Romney, but pursuing eligibility cases in court after nearly 150 straight losses is just a waste of time.
The state court in Indiana did NOT rule that Obama is a natural-born citizen. The "court" that "ruled" on Obama in Georgia was an administrative law judge who based his "opinion" on the Indiana decision which never said Obama was a natural-born citizen along with an undocumented consideration that Obama was born in Hawaii. I'm pretty sure whatever U.S. court of appeals decision you're referring to is equally deficient in legal foundation.
So is supporting, defending, and relying upon that old piece of trash paper called, "The Constitution"... <SARCASM<
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YORK, PA – For the third consecutive year, the York College Spartans captured the Capital Athletic Conference Men's Commissioner's Award as announced by the conference office recently. The Spartans, after winning the award outright in the last two years, shared the title with Salisbury this season as both teams accumulated 86 points for the year.
The award signifies the most outstanding men's athletic program in the Capital Athletic Conference. The Spartans accumulated their points in the ten CAC sponsored men's sports with men's soccer, men's basketball and men's cross country picking up conference championships.
Salisbury earned their share of the award with championships in men's indoor track & field, men's lacrosse, baseball, and men's outdoor track & field.
The Spartans had another strong year as their ten men's teams (wrestling is not a CAC sponsored sport) combined to post a regular season mark of 160-102-7 (60.5%). In addition to the three championships, the men's track and field squad finished runner-up in their championship meet. The Spartans' men's teams combined to go 38-22-3 (62.7%) in conference play throughout the 2011-12 year.
Assistant Dean for Athletics and Recreation Paul Saikia was happy to see the men's athletic program earn the honor the third straight year.
"I'm really proud of our consistent excellence on the men's side of the CAC," says Saikia. "Considering the outstanding representation our conference has on the national level, it is notable to be at the top. Our women are making strides as well with our goal of challenging for the All-Sports Award soon."
The championship for the men's soccer team was the program's third straight CAC championship and sixth overall. The soccer team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the school-record seventh straight year thanks to the CAC automatic berth. The basketball title was the second overall for the Spartans and the first since the 2004-05 season, a year in which the Spartans advanced to the Division III Final Four. The cross country championship was the first in the history of the program. York has now won 19 Capital Athletic Conference championships overall with 16 of those titles coming from the men's side of the department.
In the overall Richard C. Cook All-Sports Award standings, York finished third with 168.5 points. Salisbury won the overall title with 205.0 points while Mary Washington finished second, just 8.5 points in front of the Spartans. Salisbury captured 12 of the 21 CAC sponsored championships and finished second in three other sports. Salisbury has won the last seven all-sports awards.
On the women's side of the department, the Spartans finished third with 82.5 points. Salisbury captured the Women's Sports Award with 119.0 points while Mary Washington finished second with 103 points. The Spartans had second-place finishes in women's basketball, women's indoor track & field, women's lacrosse, and women's outdoor track & field.

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I've been talking to Retro-Audio (who I think does AMAZING work) about my idea for a very 60's kind of Elvis album. Songs like Edge of Reality, Let Yourself Go... the Viva Elvis mix of Bossa Nova Baby. ....even "Cotton Candy Land" could be psychedelic, the lyrics have much in common with "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". If edited and mixed correctly "Everybody Come Aboard" might make a good short opening to the album, much like "Sgt Pepper" opened. "Sand Castles" has a very "Puff The Magic Dragon" feel as well. I think Elvis's work in the 60s does not get enough credit. Some of the songs on "Harum Scarum" are as weird and eclectic as some of the Beatles most exotic experiments. The song "Wonderful World" sounds like a Disney movie in a very surreal way.
I prefer Elvis to the Beatles easily, but I loved the Beatles Love cd that came out with the Circe de Soleil show and it still bothers me that they did such a terrible job on Viva Elvis (with few exceptions). My idea would be to really take that approach and create an Elvis album that could be Abbey Road or Pink Floyd. Something really immersive.. a concept album. I think the 60's might have been Elvis's richest period, but the songs need to be taken out of the context of those movies and imagine if someone like George Martin had been producing.
It's the kind of thing a lot of Elvis fans would have no interest in because they are purists. I can understand that. This is just a weird little fantasy project of mine.
The cover took me many many days and hours! And I still need to change some things. The Sun label needs a title for the album--which I have not come up with yet.
But I just thought I would preview it here and see what anyone thought of the idea. Go easy on me! even if you hate the album idea, you gotta admit that album cover come out cool
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The picture and the concept.
This should be on the "All Elvis" section.
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Japanese General Social Survey, 2000 (ICPSR 3593)
Published: Apr 5, 2007
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Ichiro Tanioka, Osaka University of Commerce; Noriko Iwai, Osaka University of Commerce; Michio Nitta, University of Tokyo. Institute of Social Science; Hiroki Sato, University of Tokyo. Institute of Social Science
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This survey, based on the General Social Survey in the United States, was designed to solicit political, sociological, and economic information from people living in Japan. Questions on crime and the judicial system queried respondents about the death penalty and the appropriateness of punishments given to juvenile and adult offenders, whether respondents had ever been punched or beaten, whether respondents had been victims of robberies within the last year, and whether there was an area, within one kilometer of their homes, where respondents were afraid to venture. Questions on family issues covered topics such as when divorce was the best course of action for those involved, the frequency that families dined together and performed household chores, the health of respondents' marriages, the roles of spouses within marriage, whether one or both spouses should change their surnames, the ideal number of children a couple should have, whether there was a sex preference for children, whether the respondents had pets and the benefits of pet ownership, where respondents would like to be buried, and whether in some cases, physical punishment of children by parents or teachers was acceptable. Questions on finances included items on the state of respondents' finances during the last few years, how their family's income compared to other Japanese families, how their family's income compared to that of Japanese families 15 years ago, whether the income tax rate was high, the amount of pension respondents would receive upon retirement, how respondents' families organized their finances, and the ease of improving one's standard of living in Japan. Political questions addressed whether the government should be responsible for the livelihood and medical care of the elderly, whether the government was usurping individual responsibilities, whether respondents would vote for a woman gubernatorial candidate, government spending, respondents' commitment and sense of belonging to the political process, and whether one of the government's duties was to reduce family income disparities. Also, respondents were asked to rate their political views on a scale from Conservative (1) to Progressive (5). In terms of health, information was solicited on the health of respondents and their spouses, whether a doctor should be able to painlessly end a patient's life if the patient's condition was terminal, whether respondents had signed organ donation cards, and the frequency of smoking, alcohol consumption, and sexual relations in the last 12 months. Quality of life questions addressed the frequency with which respondents read the newspaper, the average number of books respondents read per month, the average number of hours respondents watched television, whether respondents attended any job- or hobby-related classes, the amount of satisfaction respondents received from life, the frequency respondents went on trips lasting at least two days, and how often respondents participated in leisure activities like fishing, jogging, mahjong, etc. Respondents were asked to give their opinions concerning a married person having sexual relations with someone other than their spouse, sexual relations between two adults of the same sex, whether pornography leads to the breaking down of morals, whether the client, the teen, both, or neither party was responsible for teen prostitution, and whether pornography should be banned completely, not available to anyone under 18, or not be regulated at all. Information gathered on religion included whether respondents believed in life after death and whether they and/or their spouses followed a religion and the extent of their participation. Respondents were polled for information regarding their social status, whether it was desirable for three generations of family to share a home, whether men should learn to cook and care for themselves, the trustworthiness of most people, the general motivations of others, whether respondents were members of any groups like religious, trade, or social service organizations, and to what degree respondents utilized technology like computers, e-mail, and the Internet to perform daily life tasks. Demographic information includes age, sex, employment status, marital status, household income, and religious orientation.
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okay, we get it. This guy is an A-hole who simply gets rid of anyone who doesnt like him. He doesnt have that power here.
Nobody likes how he brags about all his monies and he should really stop that. it doesnt get you anywhere. my dad is a multi millionaire and i will never have to work a day in my life. knowing how to be humble about it is the key.


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TORONTO — In creating an upcoming stage musical about scandal-plagued Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, playwright Brett McCaig couldn't help but think of a certain literary figure.
"Falstaff from Shakespeare," McCaig said in a telephone interview. "He's very Shakespearean or operatic. He's our modern tragic hero — he rode in on his white horse, stallion, to save his village and then through his own weaknesses fell hard."
McCaig will be looking to fill the shoes of such a character on Monday when he and his collaborators hold an open casting call for "Rob Ford The Musical: The Birth of a Ford Nation" at Toronto's Second City Training Center. The show is set to run at Toronto's Factory Theatre from Sept. 16 to Sept. 28, although McCaig said there's a possibility of extending it.
"We've fielded just hundreds and hundreds of calls, so I think it's going to be a bit of a gong show," McCaig said of the audition. "But the more the merrier because then we have a bigger pool to find that perfect Rob Ford."
McCaig said he started working on the show a year ago, writing the book and lyrics with P. Joseph Regan while longtime collaborator Anthony Bastianon penned the music.
As the three sat in a pub discussing Ford's mounting antics — from his admissions of trying crack cocaine and using drugs while in office, to being caught on multiple cellphone videos appearing intoxicated and uttering profanities on national TV — McCaig saw it as "one of the greatest stories that's ever happened."
"I think a lot of folks looked at this poorly and thought it was terrible for Toronto, but I think Toronto has never been more spoken of or thought about in the North American diaspora than ever," said the St. Thomas, Ont., native, who is also an actor and has dabbled in standup comedy.
"The whole story is huge, so we thought, 'How do you make that even bigger?' and the next thing is, of course, singing and dancing."
Writing the story hasn't been cut and dried as Ford's life continues to take unexpected turns, the latest being his treatment for an admitted alcohol problem.
"We have had many drafts, actually, and we've got a draft that we think will be the last one," said McCaig. "We have five blank pages and we're waiting to see what happens."
The main story and characters are in place, though.
McCaig said the show starts out with the character Ford getting knocked out when a camera lens accidentally hits him in the face. The "pseudo-fact-based" story then follows "a little journey of discovery" throughout his tenure.
There are 10 original songs — in the genres of pop, rock and country — including some ballads that the Ford character will sing.
"You don't even have to know Rob Ford to love this story," said McCaig. "It's a timeless story. Actually, it's been written 100 times — it's this rise to greatness and then a huge, huge fall due to your own weaknesses. God, this story has been written 100 years ago, you know what I mean?"
Other characters include brother Doug Ford, a police chief, a prominent lawyer, novelist Margaret Atwood, a newspaper editor and a "spiritual guide" named Transgression (a.k.a. Tranny) who serves as "the voice of reason."
"We thought, 'What better way to take Rob Ford through his life than a transvestite?"' said McCaig. "She's trying to teach him how he should have carried himself throughout this."
The media is also a character "because that was very prominent in his whole rise and fall, was the media," he added.
McCaig said they also wanted to bring a humanistic quality to a mayor who has "become this two-dimensional cartoon character," and he stressed the 90-minute show isn't "Ford bashing because that's too easy."
"We've been doing that for a year and a half, so we wanted to show the whole evolution of the story and how everybody played a part in that — even the people played a part in it."
And "nobody is safe," he said. "We're satirizing everything and everybody."
But will the mayor's admitted drug use be involved?
"You might see a crack pipe mixed with tap shoes," said McCaig.
Yes, that means the person playing Ford in the show has to be able to dance.
"I'm calling it a quadruple threat — he has to kind of look like Rob, he has got to be able to sing, dance and act. Big comedy, a big comedian," said McCaig.
He and the creative team have a couple of actors in mind for the leading role, but they "want the perfect guy," and that's why they're holding the open "colour-blind casting" that will also be looking for performers to play Doug Ford and Tranny.
McCaig said he's never met the mayor and would be happy for him to see the show.
"I would love him to give the opening-night curtain speech. He definitely has an open invitation for him and his family and we can supply him with tickets whenever he makes a call. It would be amazing. I'd love it.
"We have an idea, actually — we'd love to put him in the play, but we'll see. I don't know if he'll be interested in that."


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I thought OSNews would be a good forum to talk about a matter that has been weighing on my mind lately primarily because the site has been so focused on Apple's patents and litigation as of late. The news that HP, the largest PC manufacturer in the world is spinning off or getting out of this business is what really prompted me to write this article.
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Does a tech tour mean exclusive rights? This is what I mean by innuendo. You've implied repeatedly that this deal gives them a certain privileges in the realm of ideas. You also state a court threw out their attempts to assert copyright - does this tell you anything?
"Jobs was so struck by the power inherent to the PARC that he offered Xerox the opportunity to invest a million dollars in Apple computer if the company would agree to let him and his Lisa team study Alto. Xerox felt that it had nothing to lose. After all, they couldn't sell it. They did not believe the world was ready for the advanced PARC technologies. Apple was about to go public and Xerox's investment branch, Xerox Development Corporation, sensed an opportunity to turn a quick profit. Xerox invested $1 million in Apple by purchasing 100,000 shares at $10 each. Furthermore, Xerox signed an agreement with Apple to never purchase more than 5 percent of Apple's outstanding shares. Within a year, these shares split into 800,000 worth $17.6 million when Apple went public."
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Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World (based on Daniel Clowes' comic of the same name) follows two alienated teenage buddies, Rebecca and Enid, who've just graduated high school and drift around their small anonymous American town trying to figure out life stuff. …They don't. Well, Rebecca (a teenage Scarlett Johansson) gets a job and begins taking on new responsibilities, which Enid resents and dyes her hair and then ends up just running away. But Enid is a pretty cool central character when you too are a self-centered, disaffected teenage girl. So, thanks Enid. Thank you and your many animal prints. And thanks for this:


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I think there needs to be a Shiny Spine Theme Song that all E-hellions can hum to themselves when they get the upper hand over the rude and uncouth
Okay - first draft of the EHell Shiny Spine song (to the tune of "We are the Champions" chorus)We are the Hellions, my friend...With spines strong and shiny, 'til the endWe are the Hellions, no rudeness or yelling,No time for users'Cause we are the Hellions... staying strong!
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So the bully just sent me a facebook message saying:"Hey not sure if you're up to it but I was wondering if you had a few minutes to chat. I've been bothered about something and I can't get it off my mind. I tried calling you earlier but I figured you were just busy with the kids. If you can please give me a ring. Thanks"I'm going to ignore it - at least for now. If I do respond, I'll probably say I've been busy. But why does she feel she needs to talk to me about something that's bothering her (I'm assuming about me)? And I'm to ease her mind? I don't think so.If you have any additional advice or another way to handle this, I'm all ears.Thank you
Nope just ignore, ignore, ignore. You are doing great
I'd ignore for now. Maybe forever. But if you do reply, at least give it a day or so, and then something vague "yeah been busy, hope all is resolved!" and that's that. I wouldn't speak to her on the phone though. I think ignoring is the best thing, but because she is your neighbor I understand if you don't want to total cut direct.(I'm betting whats bugging her is she knows your other neighbor had a party and that you and several others went and she is hurt she wasn't invited.)
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Lean Manufacturing: Changing the Way Business Works
By Michelle Marasch Ouellette
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Under Mary Isbister's leadership, GenMet has quadrupled its revenues since 1999.
When asked how, the 1986 alumna and president of the metal fabrication company in Mequon, Wis., credits lean manufacturing — an effort to make business more efficient on all fronts.
Isbister returned to campus last spring as a Distinguished Visiting Alumna and spoke about her experiences, her company and the process that is changing the way businesses work.
A member of the U.S. Manufacturing Council — a committee that advises the U.S. secretary of commerce on the manufacturing sector — Isbister said she was pleased to learn that SUNY Plattsburgh business students are already familiar with the lean trend.
"If you end up in any company in the manufacturing industry today, lean is very much a part of how they do business," she said. "So, if you bring that understanding with you from school, you are already ahead of a lot of people who have been in the industry for awhile, who don't know lean and have to learn it in the setting, as opposed to learning it philosophically at school and then applying it."
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Toni Martinez is barking into a bullhorn across the water at four women who are awkwardly moving backward in a boat. The rowers are sitting on gliding seats in a mix of positions — leaning forward, back or ram-rod straight — and their oar blades are scrambled, too — laying flat, slapping the surface or digging into the water.
This is the first day that new members of the Ashland Rowing Club are in one boat together and there are few moments of synchronized movements. They are trying too hard to propel the boat on Emigrant Lake and they have yet to learn to let go of the fierce grip they have on their oars.
Over the next hour, however, Coach Martinez will reassure them that soon they will be as beautifully in sync as the crew gliding near them. But smoothness is a long way away.
"We can teach anyone to row by the end of summer," says Martinez, a member of the club since it was founded in 2000 and who serves as a coach to novices and the junior rowing team. "It feels really funky for a long time, but after a while, everything feels natural."
The women in the four-person boat, a "quad," already have gone through a boot camp of sorts, three days in the private club's boathouse learning basic techniques on rowing machines (called ergometers) and watching videos on the consequences of falling into cold water and other preventable disasters.
They also have experienced two short sessions on the lake in an eight-person shell, but their newbie skills were matched with rowing veterans, and they were sweep rowing, which means they only had to deal with one 12 1/2-foot-long oar.
On their practice last Saturday, they were put into a quad, each with two 9 1/2-foot-long oars, and set adrift with Coach Martinez circling them in a motorboat, giving them instructions and critiquing their moves to avoid slowing the quad's forward progress, what's called "checking," offsetting it or tipping it over.
As spectators with picnic baskets and fishing poles watched on land, the new members concentrated on correctly executing the stroke.
"Arms away, body over, up the slide. Then push with the legs, swing with the back and arms down," Martinez says, adding a step each time, then starting over again. "If you don't have those six pieces in order, you get clumped up and you have no place to go with the oars and they catch and that's 'the crab,' what throws you into the water."
The new members know to follow the coach's commands and that "weigh enough" means to stop rowing, talking or doing whatever they are doing. But other terms — something like "Bow pair give me a couple strokes" — cause confusion.
Allyson Phelps, 61, of Ashland, is sitting in the hot seat — the bow of the boat — since she has previous rowing experience. When she was 35 and living in Florence, Italy, she tried rowing a single scull on the Arno River, but, she recalls, "I didn't understand anything they were telling me in Italian." She attempted again years later when she was living in Marin County, but she had a baby and couldn't attend the sessions regularly. Now the empty nester is ready to try again.
She assesses her new member group — called "Greens" in this club — optimistically. "We are staying afloat. They say you learn really quick but it takes a long time to be good. There are lots of little things to pull together with other beginners — you can't let your mind wander — but we will make progress each time. It's a perfect opportunity to be on the water if you're not a fisherman or water skier."
On the water, Coach Martinez uses the same patient voice her students at Walker Elementary hear during school days, but her instructions here are more repetitive and woven with humor: "Arms away — wait, Allyson is way ahead of you. Row. Good. Again. Sit up straight. This is a tall girl's sport even if you're short."
Half of the 26 graduates of April's introductory rowing clinic who wanted to continue to row became members, paying $145 dues for three months of thrice-weekly coaching and member privileges that may include reciprocal rights to use equipment owned by other rowing clubs and a chance to meet people here who travel the country with shells on the top of their cars, visiting one rowing club after another.
Rowing is a growing sport, according to FISA, the international rowing federation, because it attracts people from teenagers to octogenarians who enjoy recreational or competitive activities, and who want low-impact exercise.
"People say you have great arms because you row, but it's not about the arms," says Martinez, patting her quads. "These are the muscles you want to use, then you use your second dynamic area, your core."
She then reminds the Greens to relax their hands on the oar handles, to "give up control to get control."
There are a few disbelieving faces. Martinez continues: "Once you swing with the core, the blades come back." To prove her point, she instructs Erin Coke, sitting closest to the stern, to lift her hands after the group completes the drive and the boat glides.
After the group makes it back to the dock, unlocks their oars, lifts the quad out of the water and returns it to the rack, Martinez gives them a pep talk: "If it feels as if you're pulling against it, it's probably wrong. It should feel easy, like you're floating."
That's certainly something to look forward to.
Reach reporter Janet Eastman at 541-776-4465 or email@example.com.
Row with the flow
Toni Martinez is barking into a bullhorn across the water at four women who are awkwardly moving backward in a boat. The rowers are sitting on gliding seats in a mix of positions — leaning forward, back or ram-rod straight — and their oar blades are scrambled, too — laying flat, slapping the surface or digging into the water.


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That was one word many former coworkers and colleagues used to describe coaching legend Rodger Causey, who coached for many years at Leesville Junior High School as well at Leesville High School. Causey passed away Aug. 7 at the age of 64.
Causey was a longtime coach at both the high school and junior high level, including serving many years as head coach of the junior high team, also spending several years as an assistant at the high school level.
Many of his former coworkers and administrators respected Causey both as a coach and an educator, including current Vernon Parish School District Superintendent Jackie Self.
"Roger coached football at Leesville Junior High School while I was the principal there, and Roger displayed all the attributes of a good teacher and a coach," he said earlier this week. "Roger was organized, enthusiastic about his work, and most of all, respected by his students and coworkers.
"Roger was very successful as a coach at Leesville Junior High School," Self said. "His successes were a result of his hard work and his students being able to achieve at their highest level."
"'Coach Causey provided a tremendous service to the kids of the Leesville community, doing it for many years, establishing a record at Leesville Junior High School that will probably never be broken," added Tom Neubert, also of the Vernon Parish School Board.
Others noted that Causey had a hand in developing many of the star players who came out of Leesville, including Cecil Collins and Michael Ford.
Many players honored Causey at his service Saturday morning, serving as honorary pallbearers and wearing their Wampus Cats jerseys.
Causey was known by many names over the years, including as husband, father, colleague, friend and teacher, but one that stuck in Vernon Parish was "Coach."
There's no doubt in anyone's minds that Rodger loved each one of his students and athletes, as well as the Leesville Wampus Cats. Something will be missing from Wampus Cat Stadium this year, but Coach's spirit will live on through each of the players' lives he has touched over his many years of involvement with the Leesville football program.


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David Stockdale endured a nightmare recall in goal for Fulham as he gifted Swansea a 2-1 victory at Craven Cottage and sucked his own side ever closer to the Barclays Premier League drop zone.
Stockdale, making his first top-flight appearance for 11 months in place of the injured Mark Schwarzer, handed late Christmas presents to Danny Graham and Jonathan de Guzman in a shocking all-round display in front of England boss Roy Hodgson.
Fulham pulled a goal back in controversial fashion in a wet and windy rally when Bryan Ruiz's shot went in off an offside Sascha Riether but it was not enough to stop them slipping a defeat which leaves them four points above the drop zone.
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Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, November 8, 2012
Polls drew a lot of eyeballs to media sites this election, but creating a good poll isn't so easy. Despite fickle reputation, the Millennial generation may prove to stay party-loyal. Climate change may regain priority in the Obama administration. One area where the President can act without Congress is supporting the Environmental Protection Agency as it writes new rules limiting emissions. We all waste time in different ways at work -- maybe on Twitter or Facebook -- could it actually be beneficial?


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Rep. Michele Bachmann suspended her campaign. Texas Gov. Rick Perry headed home to reassess his bid after Iowa. And while Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul carry the momentum into New Hampshire and South Carolina, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman promise to continue their campaigns.
The Back Of The Republican Pack Weighs Options
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Submission + - How Icaros Desktop brings the Amiga experience to x86 PCs (computerworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Icaros Desktop is an effort to build a modern Amiga-compatible operating system to standard x86 hardware. It's a distribution built atop AROS, which is an open source effort to create a system compatible at the API level with the AmigaOS 3.x series. I recently had a chat to the creator of Icaros, Paolo Besser, about the creation of the OS and why Amiga continues to inspire people today."


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Courier Article by Pam Locker
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Authors Turn Economics into a Fascinating Subject
Economics is the study of how the world works, or to be more precise, it is "the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management," (from the online lexicon WordNet). Here are some recent popular titles that deal with economic issues.
The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005).
Friedman, best-selling author and foreign affairs columnist for the "New York Times," is the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has made "globalization" a household word.
Here he proclaims that not only have trade and cultural barriers between countries fallen, but the 10-year old World Wide Web revolution has made the world "flat." International corporations, as well as small companies and enterprising individuals all over the world, are on the same level playing field. Outsourcing (contracting out one function, such as call centers to India) and offshoring (moving an entire factory to China) are two of the results.
Friedman says that this isn't a bad thing – it's just an inevitable result of the whole world participating in technology and manufacturing. It's the way capitalism and free market economies work. Every American worker needs to take responsibility for upgrading his skills, and every parent needs to make sure his kids study science and engineering. (I'm exaggerating a bit here – but it is true that we are falling woefully behind some other countries in science degrees).
If you prefer a summary rather than a thick tome, pick up the special August 22-29 double issue of "Newsweek" with the cover story, " China & India: What You Need to Know Now." You'll miss a lot of detail, but get the general idea.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2004).
This underground expose has been creeping up the charts. Perkins, who from 1971 to 1981 worked as an economist for the international consulting firm of Chas. T. Main, paints a very different picture of globalization from Friedman.
Perkins claims that his job was to target resource-owning countries in the third world, make inflated projections about the value of infrastructure improvements, and justify huge loans that would be paid out to contractors like Halliburton and Bechtel. The countries would typically never realize any profit on these projects and would instead become deeply in debt, with no recourse but to pay the debt with their natural resources.
Perkins says he risked his life by writing this book, and there's been some controversy on the Internet about whether Perkins might be a little off his rocker. On the other hand, televangelist and politician Pat Robertson's recent call for President Hugo Chavez of oil-rich Venezuela to be assassinated makes one pause.
Freakanomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow, 2005).
Levitt is a University of Chicago economist who recently received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the best American economist under forty. Dubner is a columnist and author.
Levitt is known for his knack for positing original theories and proving them through statistics. His most controversial contention so far is that legalized abortion is the key reason for the past decade's decrease in crime.
Garbage Land: on the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte (Little, Brown, c2005).
In this witty account, a gifted Brooklyn-based writer chronicles her year-long voyage through recycle recovery centers, landfills, waste and sewage treatment plants in an effort to find out what happens to her personal waste.
In the process, Royte discovered that only two percent of the waste in this country is household waste, so reducing one's personal "waste footprint" is somewhat irrelevant. The rest of the waste is industrial and/or is a result of the production and packaging of commercial goods. The latest bugaboos are the huge amounts of non-recyclable electronics and plastics (Satan's resins) going into landfills.
Royte isn't judgmental, just factual. She has some good suggestions for becoming more environmentally conscious. I, for one, promise to pay more attention to the rules for the Curbside Recycling program posted on the Vanderburgh County website. I haven't been separating my newspapers from magazines.


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Submission + - Review: WAMP Stacks For Web developers (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp provides an in-depth comparison of five WAMP stacks for Web developers, including AMPPS, WAMPStack, MS Web Platform Installer, XAMPP, and WampServer. 'One thing that's clear from having looked at these stacks: They're definitely not created equal. They may be built from the same components (they would scarcely be useful if they weren't!), but how those components are managed and deployed makes a big difference. Stacks with automatic customization are far handier, especially when you want to devote more of your attention to working with the stack than actually setting it up. Second, don't assume these stacks will be production-ready.
... Finally, the differences in deployment styles between each of these stacks means there's a stack for just about every need, application type, or work habit.'"


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Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman made what she said was her 63rd campaign visit to Los Angeles County on Sunday with a get-out-the-vote rally at the Burbank Marriott. Several hundred local supporters packed into the hotel's conference center for a glimpse of the candidate, who bounded onto the stage after a live band and several other GOP ticket members had warmed up the crowd.
"So, just a couple of days out until Nov. 2, and you know what? We're going to win this!" she said with unusual intensity, adding internal polls and some public polls show the race for the governor's office in a dead heat.
"I like to think of this as two more days before a lot of really good things start happening," Whitman said, vowing to pursue job creation and – in a nod to the Burbank area's major industry – a focus on not losing a single entertainment job.
She said she's "a proven job creator" as opposed to "my opponent, who has been a part of the war on jobs in Sacramento for 40 years."
Whitman said former Gov. Gray Davis, who earlier was chief of staff to Jerry Brown while he was governor, recently said Brown will probably try to raise taxes to balance the budget – something she again vowed never to do. And, she said, there are rumors circulating that Brown would pick Davis to head his transition team; this brought a chorus of boos from the audience.
Whitman said she wants to turn around K-12 education. "It is not OK that so many of our kids are in failing schools" with high dropout rates, she said, adding that her goal is to restore California to its place at the top of the nation's school systems.
Brown "has no prayer of ever fixing the school system" because he's supported by California Teachers Association bosses, she said, promising to take those union bosses on and put more money into classrooms to support good teachers.
"We have a chance to make history here, don't we?" she said, a chance to "start the process of real change to take back this state for our children and our grandchildren."
And, she added, a chance to elect California's first woman governor.
"Who has the power in this election? You do. The people of the state of California are going to decide this," Whitman said, calling Tuesday's vote "a battle for the soul of California."
"Our problems are tough, aren't they? But so am I."
Whitman was accompanied to the Burbank rally by Mike Villines, the Republican nominee for insurance commissioner; Mimi Walters, the Republican nominee for state treasurer; and Tony Strickland, the Republican nominee for state controller. Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks, served as emcee.
From Burbank, Whitman was headed to the Santa Barbara area for a "Halloween-themed" campaign event at the home of Tom Deardorff, president of Deardorff Family Farms. On Monday, she'll be in Menlo Park, Woodland Hills, Orange County and San Diego.
She may be campaigning right up until the polls close on Tuesday, but for "Queen Meg" – the mocking, matronly monarch created by the California Nurses Association to stalk the candidate – today was the swan song.
A CNA contingent led by the tiara-topped royal made a brief appearance outside the Burbank Marriott, where Whitman supporters were lining up for a rally with the candidate. Waving union signs, they chanted, "Hey Meg Whitman, get out of our town, so much money and you're still 10 points down" as the bogus candidate yelled about being beset by the riff-raff and so on.
Another person in a skeleton cavorted around Queen Meg – a skeleton from her closet, as it were; Queen Meg demanded its deportation.
CNA has mounted the Queen Meg campaign to underscore its contention that Whitman's policies would disproportionately harm California's women and children – particularly her plan to eliminate the state's capital gains tax, a $5 billion hit to the state's revenue that the union says would come out of education and health-care funding.


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I work on the top floor of an office building without any elevators.
Is this [blogger.com]your office? I think it's in your best interest to start taking some precautions against those pesky androids...
Well, YOU don't have anything to worry about anyway, unless you forgot to include directive 4 in the android's programming.
But competing product lines could potentially cause a mess...
Android developer QQA2504?
Yes master.
Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
(Feet up on desk). And thus once again job security is ensured.
But... what happens if they actually DO IT? Disproving one of humanities eldest and most important mathematical precepts would just be the start of the revolution...
Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
Easy, it's 10, base pi.
Uh, it's been a while since I actually was in math class, but shouldn't it be:
1 base pi
Uh, it's been a while since I actually was in math class, but shouldn't it be:
1 base pi
Nope. 1 base X is 1, 10 base X is X, 100 base X is X*X, and so forth. Oh, and 0.1 base X is 1/X.
Many years ago, before the dawning of the age of calculators, I spent hours in school math classes converting numbers to base pi (or e or phi or gamma or other interesting number) by hand. I was one of the first to finish in-class assignments, which left me with lots of time to kill. Did you know that e base pi is approximately 2.20212010021 for instance?
This is a clear technicality. They're hiring emotionless androids who will do no evil, but also no good. Simply because they won't know the difference.
From Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five:
"This, too, was the title of a book by Trout, The Gutless Wonder. It was about a robot who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what happens to people on the ground. Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race."
Yeah, about two seconds after I clicked "Submit" I remembered the story was about was Motorola, not Google.
Oh well. The Trout story is worth reading anyway.
I think your story is about a red herring...
You joke, but that was a pretty freaky weird headline to someone like me who had no idea what "Android" was. It took me a few seconds to come to the conclusion that "Android" must be some sort of platform or SDK, but before that my brain came up with a few pretty strange scenarios.
Personally, I refuse to call it an Android framework until someone makes a real-life Cutie Honey [wikipedia.org] with it.
Of course, once I have a prototype of that, I'll enjoy her so much I may never visit a website again, and vertainly not to debate silly things like framework names.
Something tells me that CNet needs to hire a professional headline writer. Which headline would get the point of the article across more easily?
The second one leaves almost no room for confusion. You can read it and get on to the article without a second look. That's the point of a headline, you want it to catch people's attention, have them easily read it, and then move on to the article. Confusion
Probably never. Look at Motorola, Ericsson and even Nokia (and Siemens) history - it just keeps repeating. These are the phone companies I have been working in/with over years (30+) and it's always the same pattern, again and again. I'm sure that it is about the same with others too, just don't have any experience of those.
300+ developers for phone software? Plus 300+ managers of course, we are talking about a phone company? And their very expensive, VERY slow process, methods and tools as Six Sigma, ClearC
Lemme guess.... Pune?
Well, according to the job posting linked, Sunnyvale, CA.
um... i really don't think their membership was motivated by "pure desperation" considering how many major industry players are a part of the Open Handset Alliance [openhandsetalliance.com]:
not to mention the more well-known members, such as: Spring Nextel, T-Mobile, Intel, Nvidia, Texas Instruments, Google, eBay, LG, and Samsung. given the purpose of the Open Handset Alliance, it wouldn't make sense for Motorola not to be a member. Microsoft and Apple are pretty much the only industry leaders for it not to make sense for them to join the OHA.
if you want to remain a relevant player in the mobile industry, wouldn't it make sense for you to be a part of the organization that is developing the open standards that are going to be used? unless you have an exclusive contract with Microsoft to only use Windows Mobile, or have your own mobile platform like the iPhone, and thus do not require interoperability with any other technologies.
i agree that Motorola has a lot of problems (i owned a RAZR, and while it was kinda cool at first, the software was terribly crippled), but i don't think this is a bad move on their part.
by joining the OHA and adopting Adroid (and investing in the platform), they are participating the development of the next major mobile platform. not are they going to have the advantages of interoperability with other handset makers and technologies, but they will also have access to the shared resources of this cross-indu
i agree that Motorola has a lot of problems (i owned a RAZR, and while it was kinda cool at first, the software was terribly crippled)
As you speculated later, the software was indeed crippled by your phone service provider. I purchased an unlocked Mobilinux-based Z6 ROKR directly from Motorola and it's not hobbled in any way. There are no restrictions on ring tones, images, transferring or importing any media. The Linux-based music app works quite well, and certainly doesn't suck like the "Digital Music Player" that comes standard on their KRZR and RAZR lines. The user interface is clean and sharp, much more professional than their p
Motorola makes some fairly solid hardware; but their cellphone software has been marked by galling suckitude for some time. If they can use android to give their typically solid lower midrange hardware software with higher end features(real browser, email, not sucking, etc.) they could have a very promising product on their hands.
Well, unless the new Co-CEO has a different vision, Motorola has been trying very hard to divest itself of its mobile division. This move would represent their desire to continue to move towards an "application development only" model when it comes to cell phones.
This just happens when a company buys into an new technology. Same thing is happening with Nokia and Qt right now.
If you look at their job portal (http://nokia.taleo.net/careersection/10120/jobsearch.ftl) for "Qt", you will find that they are hiring people in 46 different Qt-related positions. Those could be well a lot more in total, since some positions will probably awarded to several persons.
Just count yourself lucky that open source related development arrived at the big companies and move along - or apply
Same thing is happening with Nokia and Qt right now
And I'm licking my lips in anticipation of the future Nokia Qt phones. The reason why I haven't got a Nokia smartphone is Symbian. Yes, they work good, have great specs, Nokia even gives away a development environment for them. But it's not Linux.
If I can't have a phone where I can apt-get install whatever I want, create my own applications in kdevelop, then I have no reason to get a smartphone, one of those the phone company gives away will do for me.
And I'm licking my lips in anticipation of the future Nokia Qt phones. The reason why I haven't got a Nokia smartphone is Symbian. Yes, they work good, have great specs, Nokia even gives away a development environment for them. But it's not Linux.
How about a Nokia Maemo (http://maemo.org/) phone, the OS that is used on their N800/N810 Internet Tablets?
And, yes it IS Linux.
Just watch - they'll want "5 yrs exp." on Android hacking, in the manner of HR ads everywhere, and get only the fakes and posers applying...
They can hire 10 people with 6 months Android experience instead...
From TFA:
"Java and Google Android programming experience" is listed as "highly desirable," but not required.
Still, yeah, it would have been funny, and not the first time we've seen that.
"world otherwise coded for Active-X"? Maybe in some decrepit intranet applications, but outside of Microsoft.com I don't think I've seen a need for ActiveX in at least three years. Probably five.
Then again, that might be due to the fact that I've been using !IE since Firefox ~0.80. I think they were still having the naming debates back then, in fact.
Google will make money by having its applications (and thus more chance for advertisement revenue) distributed on as many phones as possible.
probably will develop a line of code that allows developers to place google ads in their apps so developers can offer "free" apps that are ad supported.
Google's Eric Schmidt has stated that they want most consumer (and some business) computing to move to ad-supported revenue.
Most companies have a decidedly narrow view of the pond they want to be king of, that it is a zero sum game and they can only make money at the expense of the other players. Google thinks they can expand the pond and make money that way. Thus Android, maps, mail, everything they do
to Tyrelll corp.for some cheap Nexus 6 labor.
The problem with android developers is that they have to be deactivated after four years, and you have to hire and train new ones.
HTC are using the OKL4 kernel on their phones, which is derived from the L4 kernel that provides the trusted computing base for a number of large-scale European projects based around mobile and embedded trust through the TPM.
I wonder what it all means?
Exceptional candidates with 10 years experience in Android development, In depth knowledge of Android Internals a plus. Must be familiar with all aspects of the Android phone.
The article poster hasn't been paying much attention
Hint: Google for "android g1".
What's the point. Same price as other phones. Same rates.
...creating an application to automatically modify a phone's settings depending on its location, which they say "wouldn't even be possible on an iPhone."
What about creating a trojan which automatically modifies a phone's settings depending on the whim of its creator?
A bazaar-style marketplace sounds all well and good, but the open approach of YouTube doesn't necessarily fly with potentially malicious code.
You're comparing oranges to jet engines.
I had a lab with data acquisition equipment, etc, etc, etc running from an Apple II + specifically because its wealth of plug-in cards made it possible. Then PCs came out - with plug-in cards. Then the Mac came out, without plug-in cards. I was one of those back then saying that Apple lost it because their computer was no longer open - in the sense of open the box and add more. The lab was eventually converted to a Compaq.
Your statement - referencing "decades ago"
Never underestimate the apathy of the average consumer. They don't want an open platform they're never going to develop content for. They want shiny.
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10+ years exp with the Android dev env on Solaris, Unix, MS Windows, hand-held devices a plus.
Recent grads only, please.
I suppose they'll have to grant more Visas because we can't source the talent in the U.S.
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They clearly learned nothing and refused to learn anything or do anything. Lemme guess, SONY is run by copywrite attorneys and Hollywood 'content' types.
Actually this problem is typically caused by MBA "beancounters" that do not have any skills or object knowledge with regard to the things they decide. They are also characterized by a hugely inflated ego and self-assessment. What then happens is best described as "save a penny, lose a million". Add to hat that external and independent security reviews are not done or only companies with no ethics are selected ("the customer is always right" is the road to hell in security evaluations) or reports are blatantly ignored. That is how Fuckupshima happened, that is how RSA was compromised (and why are they still in business????), that is why Sony was conceptually unable to even understand what happened to it.
Only solution: Massive corporate liability (They got your account hacked and cannot prove IT Sec due diligence? $1000 per count to the affected customer, unless the customer can prove even higher damage.) coupled with personal liability on the highest level (No external reviews? Glaring security holes not even looked for or ignored? CTO, CIO and CSO go to jail for a few years. If they can prove being blocked by the CEO and cooperate fully in the investigation, 30% sentence reduction, still at the very least 2 years they have to serve, and CEO goes to jail for a long time. All also have their salary and bonuses impounded for the time they did not perform.) Add to that surprise audits from time to time that have much the same impact if glaring security problems are found.
Of course, this will not happen. It would require a honest and competent government to put something like that in place. They do not exist, except occasionally in small countries.
Right, what we need is a government body determining which computer security holes are worth sending people to jail for three years. Of course, even nuclear programs have been hacked successfully, so basically every single person involved with a computer system needs to become liable for something or another, and sent off to jail.
The question is not whether you get hacked or not. The question is whether you had reasonable security in place or not. If you do not have reasonable security, you should be liable for any and all damage and punished for endangerment. The way some (many) organizations are handling IT security today is like running a nuclear facility without a fence or security guards. Sure, even these do not keep everybody out, but not having them is inviting a catastrophe and should have dire consequences for the bean-coun
I suppose the worst part is well, he's the only one caught.
Remember when Sony shut down PSN? It wasn't because they detected a breach, but because they found a bunch of people getting free DLC. Yes, free DLC. Basically people were turning their retail PS3s into developer PS3s and accessing the developer PSN store, which gives free DLC for testing purposes.
After that, they discovered the breaches. But that was too late - who knew how long the data was accessible. This guy was stupid and bragged. The smart on
SONY is run by copywrite attorneys
Attorneys are working as copywriters now...?
If they hadn't gloated so much and took the proper precautions, they wouldn't have been found. Don't tell anyone, not even anyone on your team, who you are.
If they hadn't gloated so much and took the proper precautions, they wouldn't have been found. Don't tell anyone, not even anyone on your team, who you are.
The ego the size of the planet.
If you are in it for the laughs you talk, you gloat.
When does Sony go to jail, for developing rookits [wikipedia.org]? I bet that affected people on a much larger scale. What about the false advertising regarding the OtherOS feature, which was removed via an updater/backdoor?
Sony screws its customers with DRM and anti-features and attacks software developers. I find it hard to feel sorry for them.
When they bragged to the world, I was convinced that
1. They would be found (law enforcement is pretty incompetent, but they do get the idiots and only idiots brag like that)
2. They would turn on each other as they have no personal honor
3. They would be utterly pathetic
Seems to have been spot-on. Incompetence combined with arrogance and self-aggrandizement. A pity that other fine examples of this personality profile can continue unhindered, e.g. in lots of government, administration, corporations, banks and
I am very specifically referring to Lulzsec. As should be obvious as the story is about Lulzsec, not Anonymous. I do not even remember bragging from anonymous, but Lulzsec was probably the worst offender ever in that category.
I do however not buy into these myths about Anonymous either. It is very much like other things the world has seen before. Quite a few terrorist/freedom fighter (not making a judgment here either way) organizations qualify for example and many of them have never been gotten under contr
None of the important Lulzsec members are behind bars? Anonymous is millions? What are you smoking?
You bought the counterfeit variant. (Possibly made in China.) You should stop using it. It is unhealthy and leads to massive delusions.
I mean, really. So, we're punishing the people who find the holes in the software, while the companies who deploy insecure websites get money because they did something insecurely? I mean, I'm thing of a car analogy and it's odd - the person reaching in (because you left the window down) is at fault, but at the same time why the hell would you leave a window open and expect no one to take your iPad? And you could get compensated (even though he was caught and you lost nothing of value)?
I feel like it's sill
No. There is nothing backwards about punishing low life scumbags like Raynaldo who are the reason companies need to secure their websites in the first place.
What sort of morality is it to suggest that a site being inadequately secured is an invitation to steal? Do you also subscribe to the view that a woman being drunk or dressing provocatively is an invitation for you to rape her?
> admitted that he was the one who launched an SQL injection attack
Ha ha!
To quote Bertram, "Hmmmmmm... Worth it!"
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Microsoft (MSFT) shares today are down 27 cents, or 0.8%, at $36.61, after board member John Thompson, head of the search committee to find Steve Ballmer's replacement, a short while ago posted on the company blog that "We're moving ahead well, and I expect we'll complete our work in the early part of 2014."
Thompson said the board had arrowed its search from over 100 possible candidates initially, but filling the seat of a company that's only had two CEOs in its history is tough:
We identified over 100 possible candidates, talked with several dozen, and then focused our energy intensely on a group of about 20 individuals, all extremely impressive in their own right. As you would expect, as this group has narrowed, we've done deeper research and investigation, including with the full Board. We're moving ahead well, and I expect we'll complete our work in the early part of 2014. At the same time, Microsoft has continued to drive hard. Our employees produced strong quarterly results, announced in October. They released new versions of Windows, our Surface products and many other offerings. And the launch of Xbox One was experienced around the world. All of us on the Board appreciate their continued focus and commitment. At our shareholder meeting in November, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates provided an update on our search process. He noted that this is a complex role to fill, involving a complex business model and the ability to lead a highly technical organization and work with top technical talent. Microsoft has had only two CEOs in its 38-year history. As a Board, we are determined and confident that the company's third CEO will lead Microsoft to renewed and continued success. We're looking forward to 2014 and the opportunities and decisions that lie ahead.
The timing may be something of a disappointment to investors, given hopes something would happen before the end of this year.
But Daniel Ives of FBR & Co., who has a Market Perform rating on the shares, says Microsoft is right to take its time, even if it frustrates investors, and he thinks Ford (F) CEO Alan Mulally is still the right pick.
While some investors may be disappointed that the process will not be completed by year-end, we applaud the company's prudent approach and we are not surprised by the timing given that we believe there is a lot of debate going on among the board around the potential new candidates as this represents only the third CEO in the company's 38 year history. To this point, selecting the right leader comes at a pivotal time for Microsoft as the company drives toward its next stage of growth—which remains a formidable task (regardless of who takes over the reins) in our opinion, given strong headwinds in the overall PC market and Microsoft's lack of success in the mobile/tablet markets […] We believe a handful of candidates are being strongly considered at this point: (1) Alan Mulally, (2) Stephen Elop, (3) Satya Nadella, (4) Tony Bates, and (5) Kevin Turner. Ultimately, we believe Alan Mulally holds the proper mix of ingredients to steer the company in the right direction over the coming years. While we commend his impressive turnaround of the previously struggling automotive manufacturer and note that Microsoft does not come with the dire financial state Mr. Mulally inherited at Ford, we still deem the headwinds that Microsoft's bread-and-butter Windows and Office franchises face in the PC market as a Kilimanjaro-like challenge to overcome. To this point, we believe Mr. Mulally is the clear favorite to lead Microsoft back to being known not just as a technological stalwart but as an innovator and major player in key secular areas (e.g., SaaS, cloud, mobile) on track for consistent top-line and profitability growth.
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WILLIAMSBURG, January 6, 1776.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform the publick, that he has opened the late mr. Elkanah Deane's shop near Palace Street, where he intends to carry on the COACH and CHAIR making business in its various branches. WILLIAM HOLLIDAY.
Virginia Gazette (Purdie) January 26, 1776
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Elkanah Deane was a skilled Irish coachmaker who established his reputation in NYC before coming to VA. While in NY one of his customers was John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore who later became governor of VA. At the time of his death in 1775, his business was in financial trouble and his widow leased the property to various coachmakers (including William Holliday). Elkanah Deane's shop is on Prince George St. and his house faces Palace Green.
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Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910)
Florence Nightingale, pioneer of nursing and health care reform, has strong links with Hampshire. Her family home was located near Romsey, she made regular trips back to Hampshire after the Crimean War and she is buried at St Margaret's Church, East Wellow in the Test Valley.
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Florence Nightingale remembers 'dear old comrades at Balaclava' in a very short recording made just to capture her voice for posterity. Recorded on wax cylinder, 30 July 1890.
Edison employee: 'At Florence Nightingale House, July the thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.'
Florence Nightingale: 'When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades at Balaclava, and bring them safe to shore. Florence Nightingale.'
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Game Day Central: Blue Jackets vs. Lightningby BlueJackets.com Staff / Columbus Blue Jackets
- WIN: Florida Fly Away
- READ: Post game
- READ: By The Numbers
- READ: Game Day Central
- WATCH: Todd Richards post game
- WATCH: Nathan Horton post game
- WATCH: James Wisniewski post game
- WATCH: Full game highlights
- WATCH: Mark Letestu third period PP GWG
- WATCH: Nathan Horton's 200th goal
- WATCH: Second period highlights
- WATCH: Ryan Johansen 2nd period goal
- WATCH: First period highlights
- LISTEN: Todd Richards post game
- LISTEN: Mark Letestu post game
- LISTEN: Nathan Horton post game
- LISTEN: James Wisniewski post game
- LISTEN: Jack Johnson post game
- LISTEN: Mark Letestu 3rd period PP GWG
- LISTEN: Nathan Horton 3rd period PP goal
- LISTEN: Jared Boll 2nd intermission
- LISTEN: RJ Umberger 2nd intermission
- LISTEN: Ryan Johansen 2nd period goal
- LISTEN: James Wisniewski 1st intermission
WATCH: Mark Letestu's PP GWG
GOAL AUDIO: Mark Letestu PP goal
WATCH: Nathan Horton's 200th career goal
SECOND PERIOD ANALYSIS: Time to flush that second period if you're the Blue Jackets. The Lightning woke up and carried the play in the middle frame, and started to push the pace off the rush with a ton of chances. Columbus is fortunate to be down 2-1 through 40 minutes but they've got some work to do to get back in this one. Tampa out-shot the Blue Jackets 12-7 in the second period and got a pair of goals 57 seconds apart to erase a 1-0 deficit. So far, the power play has let the Jackets down; they're 0-for-4 with a lack of true, high-end chances on the man advantage. They're going to have to win this game 5-on-5, but they've been pretty good at that.
FIRST PERIOD ANALYSIS: The Blue Jackets did everything except score in the opening 20 minutes. Their first five minutes were very good, their next five were better and they drew the Lightning into three careless penalties but were unable to convert. Yes, the power play continues to struggle but they got some decent looks - now it's about converting and making opponents pay for taking those penalties. Columbus leads in shots by a 10-9 margin and zone time was fairly lopsided...which means they'll need to work that much harder to break through in the second period.
INSIDE EDGE: Bob & Jody break down tonight's game vs. the Lightning!
WATCH: Nathan Horton, who's played many games against Tampa in his career, breaks down tonight's game with Bob McElligott.
WATCH: Mark Letestu previews tonight's game against the Lightning.
WATCH: Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards' pre-game press conference.
PRE GAME AUDIO: Nathan Horton | Mark Letestu | Todd Richards
UPDATE (12:25 PM): Here's the projected lineup for tonight's game against the Lightning...
Calvert - Dubinsky - Atkinson
Jenner - Anisimov - Horton
Foligno - Johansen - Umberger
Letestu - MacKenzie - Tropp
Tyutin - Johnson
Murray - Wisniewski
Nikitin - Savard
UPDATE (11:22 AM): Richards confirmed during his media scrum that Bobrovsky will start tonight. The Lightning are expected to start Anders Lindback in net.
UPDATE (11:20 AM): One lineup change for Columbus tonight, as Corey Tropp returns to the lineup in place of Dalton Prout.
UPDATE (10:20 AM): Sergei Bobrovsky starting in goal for the Blue Jackets tonight.
UPDATE (10:10 AM): The morning skate is underway at Nationwide Arena and all healthy bodies are present and accounted for. Lots of power play work this morning and a new combination being tried out: Anisimov-Johansen-Horton as a forward unit with Murray-Wisniewski on the back end.
MORNING SKATE: The Blue Jackets are back in Columbus having won their third straight game on Saturday night in Winnipeg. The Blue Jackets are scheduled to take the ice for their morning skate at 10AM Monday at Nationwide Arena, we'll have complete game day coverage for you right here at Game Day Central. Also, look for lineup changes, thoughts on the match-up against the Lightning, storylines from the other side and an interview with coach Todd Richards. Stay tuned to this page for the latest!
The Blue Jackets don't anticipate many changes in terms of the lineup for Monday's game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Corey Tropp, a healthy scratch Saturday night in Winnipeg, could return to the lineup on the fourth line, but we'll know more after the morning skate.
No injury returns to report or any of that nature, which makes this section a bit boring, but hey...that's a good thing!
Look for Sergei Bobrovsky to make the start in goal for the Blue Jackets.
One of the most-followed stories in the NHL this season has been the Lightning's ability to stay not just in playoff position, but in the Atlantic Division race in the absence of superstar Steven Stamkos.
It's a credit to both head coach Jon Cooper and a cast of rookies - many of whom won a Calder Cup championship with Cooper in the AHL - for working together, staying within themselves and playing a simple-yet-aggressive game that's causing problems for opponents.
Their last outing, a 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon, was a prime example of what the Lightning can do. Playing a red-hot team like the Flyers (who had won 10 straight home games) in their building is no easy task, but the Lightning struck early, weathered a storm in the second period, and held down the fort in the third.
Monday's game is the second meeting of the season between Columbus and Tampa Bay, and the first one (Dec. 3 at Nationwide Arena) was certainly eventful.
Nick Foligno stole the show with a highlight-reel, between-the-legs goal - the only goal of the game - in the second period, but that was also the game that saw Bobrovsky leave early due to injury. The Blue Jackets had to hang on in the third period, particularly in the minutes after Bobrovsky departed, but they were able to lock up the two points and stay on a mini-roll.
Tonight, they'll need a similar effort to what they've gotten over the past 10 days. It's the third game in four nights for Columbus, which has three days off after Monday's game before facing the Washington Capitals on Friday night at Nationwide Arena.


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January 26, 2013 11:39:18 PM
Adam Minichino - [email protected]
The Columbus High School baseball team is going to kick off the 2013 season in style.
Former Tupelo High and Mississippi State University standout Chris Stratton will be the guest speaker at 6 p.m. Thursday for Columbus High's First Pitch Banquet in the Columbus High cafeteria. Senior Christian Dale also will hold a ceremony to announce his signing with Jones County Junior College.
The event, which will feature a barbecue dinner and is a fundraiser for the team's trip in March to Orlando for spring break, is open to the public. Tickets are $10 and can be reserved by emailing Columbus High baseball coach Jeffrey Cook at [email protected]
Cook said sports memorabilia, including a baseball signed by Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, a jersey from former MSU standout and current Texas Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland, an item from Stratton, as well as other items will be on sale. Members of the Columbus High and Columbus Middle School baseball team also will be introduced.
Cook couldn't be happier about welcoming Stratton to Columbus.
"He is kind of humble about doing this and so gracious about helping," Cook said. "It is good our guys see success happens to people who work hard and do things the right way with good character, effort, and determination.
"He graciously accepted the invitation and is just looking forward to doing it."
Stratton, a 6-foot-3, 186-pound right-hander, helped MSU win the Southeastern Conference tournament and advance to the NCAA tournament last season. The San Francisco Giants used the 20th pick of the first round to select Stratton last June in the annual Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft. Stratton went 0-1 with a 2.75 ERA in eight games (five starts) last season for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Giants' short-season Class A affiliate in Keizer, Ore. He was struck in the head by a line drive last August nearly two months after he signed with the Giants.
Stratton played against Cook when he was at Tupelo High. Cook coached Stratton as a member of the coaching staff of Team Mississippi at the Junior Sunbelt tournament in McAlester, Okla. He said he was impressed by the ay Stratton took time on the trip to Oklahoma to throw with his son, Jackson. He said he and Jackson continued to support Stratton when he was at MSU, and followed him on his initial steps as a professional.
"He has the highest character, and he always had the respect of all of the guys," Cook said of Stratton. He just worked hard and was a humble, polite player. As a coach, you notice that kind of stuff from players on other teams. We had such good battles when he and (former Columbus High standout) Billy Autrey were here. Even as coaches, you want to be around those type of players.
"The perseverance with what he has done at Mississippi State, when he started great as a freshman, had not so great of a junior year and turned it around to be a first-round pick, that is a success story all our kids at Columbus need to hear. It is good to know that does work for people here in Mississippi, and that is works for people close to us and who have played on our field."
Cook said he contacted Stratton in the fall and asked him if he would be willing to speak at the event. He hopes the banquet helps kick off a promising season for the Falcons, who have advanced to the Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 6A North State playoffs the past two seasons.
"It has been heading in the right direction, and we hope for continued success," Cook said. "It is a great time to show what we have got."
Adam Minichino is the Sports Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.