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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on U.S. policy towards North Korea, including testimony from the State Department's special representative for North Korea, Glyn T. Davies.
Earlier Thursday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a fourth round of sanctions against North Korea aimed at slowing down its nuclear programs.
The resolution was drafted by the United States and China, North Korea's closest ally. The council's agreement to put the resolution to a vote just 48 hours later signaled that it would almost certainly have the support of all 15 council members.
The United States does not have normalized diplomatic relations with North Korea. The current leader, Kim Jong Un, came to power after the death of his father in 2011. Since that time, he has given mixed messages about his position on relations with the outside world.
Kim successfully launched a satellite shortly after taking power, which was widely viewed by the foreign policy community as a veiled test for an intercontinental missile system. Earlier this year, the North Koreans detonated a nuclear device in an underground test site, leading experts to believe that they are inching closer to a viable nuclear weapons system.
Davies testimony was follwed by a panel that included: Stephen W. Bosworth, dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; Robert G. Joseph, senior scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy; and Joseph DeTrani, president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
In a hearing on North Korean policy held in the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Mar. 7 (EST), current and former representatives at the six-party talks spoke of the necessity of dialogue with North Korea …
… Stephen Bosworth, Davies' predecessor as special representative for North Korea, and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, also predicted that the US and North Korea will return to the table for talks. "My own personal view is that at some point, I can't say exactly when, but sooner rather than later, we [the US] will come back to an effort to engage with North Korea. In some manner, only because the alternatives are so bleak."
"The question that will exist at that time is, engage on what basis? Do we again seek to engage on the basis of denuclearization, pretty much by itself, at least as a primary objective, or do we seek to engage on a broader basis, going back for example to the Joint Statement negotiated in the six-party process back in September of 2005, in which all parties signed on to a four-goal, four-objective formulation: denuclearization, a peace treaty to replace the armistice of 1953, an establishment of diplomatic relations among all parties concerned, an agreement to provide energy and economic assistance to North Korea."
Bosworth added, "In my view, it would be more productive to seek for the outset to engage with North Korea on the basis of that broader agenda."
Read the full piece (The Hankyoreh) http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/577294.html
Unprecedented international pressure is building up to cripple North Korea's illicit trade in arms, fake currency, and drugs as punishment for its defiant nuclear and missile tests.
At the United Nations on Tuesday, the United States and China agreed on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution which "for the first time ever" will target the illicit activities of North Korea's diplomats, banking relationships, and illicit transfers of bulk cash.
At the U.S. Congress, also on Tuesday, the House of Representatives held a hearing to examine how best to pressure North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the ruling elite by systematically restricting their access to hard currency. …
… At the congressional hearing, a North Korea expert said while the U.N. sanctions are more symbolic, the U.S. should take the lead in enforcing financial regulatory measures against North Korea's illicit activities.
"The U.S. Treasury Department should strengthen its sanctions against North Korean banks and businesses that finance the Kim regime's palace economy," Lee Sung-Yoon, an expert at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University told the hearing.
He called for the Treasury Department to declare the entire North Korean government to be a "Primary Money Laundering Concern," which is a legal term for entities that fail to implement adequate safeguards against money laundering.
Treasury could also apply measures to third-country business partners that finance Pyongyang's economy, Lee said, calling on the U.S. to also ask allied governments to apply corresponding measures to third-country banks, businesses, and nationals doing business with North Korea.
Read the full piece (Radio Free Asia) http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/illicit-03052013150916.html
Lawmakers are pushing for tougher U.S. financial restrictions on North Korea even as the U.N. Security Council moves closer to a new resolution tightening international sanctions in response to Pyongyang's latest nuclear test. ...
... Targeted U.S. financial sanctions have been tried before and have had a significant impact but upset China, the North's main source of economic support and the country where it conducts most of its trade and financial transactions. The U.S. wants Beijing to exert more pressure on North Korea. …
… Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korea studies at Tufts University, who was scheduled to testify, said the North's "shadowy palace economy" makes the Kim regime vulnerable to actions targeting money laundering. He suggests the Treasury Department require American banks to restrict their dealings with foreign individuals, banks, entities and even entire governments that are linked to North Korea's government.
"The Obama administration has apparently not decided on this approach, but the political climate is conducive to trying something like it," Lee said.
Read the full piece (Yahoo! News)
The United States should revive a crackdown on drug trafficking, counterfeiting and other illicit business by North Korea that was succeeding before it was dropped to facilitate a nuclear deal with Pyongyang, architects of that policy said on Tuesday.
A renewal of the 2001-2006 North Korea Illicit Activities Initiative would deprive Pyongyang of funds to advance its nuclear and missile programs and could force it to return to disarmament negotiations, two former George W. Bush administration officials told a House of Representatives panel.
The officials said North Korea's deepening international isolation after the latest of its three nuclear tests makes its meager economy vulnerable to a renewed attack on illicit cash flows that sustain elite and military loyalty to the government. …
… Scholar Sung-Yoon Lee of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy told the panel he estimated that North Korea derived between a third to 40 percent of its income from "criminal activities" and was thus vulnerable to pressure.
"Pyongyang's overdependence on its shadowy palace economy makes the Kim regime particularly vulnerable to tools designed to counter international money laundering," Lee told the panel.
The Obama administration should designate the entire North Korean government as a "primary money laundering concern," extend these sanctions to Chinese entities and other third-country partners, and use presidential executive orders to punish firms that abet Pyongyang's missile proliferation, said Lee.
Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, provides insight into how sanctions would impact alleged illicit business that benefits the North Korean regime.
Watch the video here (NBC News)
Official Website of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - (The full video of the hearing can be found here)
The U.S. government should sanction Chinese banks with ties to North Korea in order to convince the rogue state to finally abandon its nuclear weapons drive, issue experts advised lawmakers on Tuesday.
The United States is "singularly equipped" to deliver harsh economic coercive pressure on the Kim Jong Un regime due to the strength and pervasiveness of the U.S. financial system, according to Tufts University Korean studies professor Sung-Yoon Lee.
"The Treasury Department should declare the entire North Korean government a primary money laundering concern" and require all U.S. financial institutions to take measures that would impact foreign banks' willingness to do business with North Korean entities, Lee told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Pyongyang for years has faced U.N. Security Council penalties that specifically target its nuclear and missile programs, ban the North from engaging in any weapons commerce on the international market, and prohibit the import of a number of luxury goods. Other countries have adopted even more comprehensive domestic sanctions; the United States has a total trade and financial embargo in place against the North.
Read the full piece (NTI)
Hours after the North Korean government threatened to nullify the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the communist country's illegal activities, human rights violations, and nuclear capability.
"Test after test, broken promise after broken promise, successive administrations – both Democrats and Republicans – have clung to an unrealistic hope that one day North Korea will suddenly negotiate away its nuclear program," said Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) in his opening statement this morning. "No, it is perfecting it."
Witnesses who testified offered a variety of different solutions and insight as to how to deal with the new regime in North Korea, and how to address the country's nuclear weapons ambitions, as well as its infamous human rights violations.
Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor at the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation, testified that North Korea would be "uniquely vulnerable" to financial sanctions by the international community, and added that up to forty percent of the regime's finances come from illegal activity such as drug trafficking.
Lee advocated for the United States Treasury Department to have the authority to strengthen sanctions against North Korean banks that contribute to the regime's finances, as well as expanding the department's ability to designate what it deems to be prohibited activity. Lee included illicit activities, import of luxury goods, cash transactions greater than $10 thousand, lethal military equipment, and crimes against humanity.
Read the full piece (TalkRadioNews.com)
US policy has failed to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions and Washington must now seek tighter sanctions to cut off access to hard currency for the country's elite, experts said Tuesday.
While the isolated authoritarian state is already under heavy global sanctions, the experts told US lawmakers that Pyongyang has raised billions of dollars through such things as smuggling arms and precious metals.
"We must go after Kim Jong-un's illicit activities like we went after organized crime in the United States: identify the network, interdict shipments and disrupt the flow of money," said Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"North Korea is uniquely vulnerable to targeted financial sanctions, because unlike any other authoritarian government in the world, the regime is so dependent on such illicit streams of revenue," expert Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University agreed.
"Damming, if not all, even some of those streams of revenue would achieve secondary, tertiary effects... that would lead to a rise in the number of disgruntled men in the North Korean party bureaucracy, military."
Read the full piece (AFP)
Lee Sung-yoon, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, agreed that tougher sanctions are necessary to curb Pyongyang's illicit behaviors.
"The U.S. Treasury Department should strengthen its sanctions against North Korean banks and businesses that finance the Kim regime's palace economy," he said at the hearing. "To this end, the Treasury Department should declare the entire North Korean government to be a primary money laundering concern."
Lee emphasized that the North Korean regime is indeed vulnerable to such financial measures due to its "overdependence on its shadowy palace economy."
He added, "The United States is in a position to take the lead in enforcing financial regulatory measures against North Korea's illicit activities and should immediately seize upon the opportunity."
Read the full piece (Yonhap News)


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Please join KLRU's Overheard with Evan Smith for an interview with Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo.
DATE: April 16
TIME: 7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm.)
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Husband/wife duo Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band Yo La Tengo in 1984 in Hoboken, New Jersey. James McNew joined the band in 1992. Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics band," known for creativity, independence and an eclectic approach to indie rock. Rolling Stone calls them "one of the most restless and most consistently good bands of the past 25 years." The group has recorded 13 albums. Their most recent is Fade, released in 2013. They are in town for "The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller." Yo La Tengo will provide live music accompaniment to Sam Green's latest "live documentary" on April 17 at the Stateside at the Paramount.
We hope you'll be there as Overheard with Evan Smith continues a fourth season of great conversation with fascinating people, always on the news and always with a sense of humor. The show features in-depth interviews with a mix of guests from politics, the arts, literature, journalism, business, sports and more, and reaches PBS viewers from California to Florida. We'd love to see you in the studio for the interview, and for a chance to join the audience Q&A after the interview.

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1. Welcome!
2. Sneak preview of LXF 76
3. In the news...
4. This month on the forum
5. New archive PDFs
6. Special newsletter feature
7. Coming up next issue
8. Receiving this Newsletter
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1. Welcome!
Welcome to issue 8 of the Linux Format newsletters, and welcome to
2006! What does the year ahead hold for Linux? No doubt we can
expect to see more progress on the desktop, especially with X
development ramping up and new technologies such as Mono and Cairo
being rolled into the major distros. And if the first week of 2006
is anything to go by, we can expect more SCO-related news too...
Meanwhile, on the LXF website we've added a page about the
international versions of LXF. Did you know that the mag has Russian
and Greek editions? See http://tinyurl.com/bgfav for the page -- and
no, there are no Klingon or Pig Latin versions in the works.
Although Esperanto would be fun...
Anyway, enjoy the newsletter -- we have some new archive PDFs and
a guide to making CDs/DVDs with mkisofs.
Mike Saunders
Newsletter Editor
2. Sneak preview of LXF 76
Issue 76 of Linux Format hits shop shelves today, ready to take your
hardware to the next level. Our mammoth guide to running devices
with Linux goes right from the basics (multimedia keyboards and
scroll mice) through to wireless networking. We also show you how to
make the most of your printer, scanner and graphics card. If you're
trying to set up a new bit of kit in Linux, or you want to improve
performance/features of your current hardware, take a look.
We also have a feature on modifying Dynebolic, the multimedia
production Live CD (included on our coverdiscs). Tom Russell shows
you how to configure the disc's layout to include your own software
or media -- a great way to distribute Linux-based stuff to friends
and coworkers. Our ever-popular What on Earth series analyses the
implications of GPL 3, the next version of the most popular Free
Software licence, while we pit the most popular spreadsheets
head-to-head in our roundup.
Reviews-wise, we examine Quake 4, Blender 2.4, Cedega 5.0.1, Eternal
Lands, KDE 3.5, and a bunch of the latest book releases. Our
tutorials section walks you through OpenOffice.org's presentation
tool, using the FUSE virtual filesystem, beefing up Ubuntu, running
MySQL 5.0 with PHP, and much more. We met up with Jeremy Allison,
lead developer of the Samba Windows interoperability software --
here are a few of the questions we asked (keep an eye on the website
for his answers):
# How long has development on Samba 4 been going on now?
# Samba 4 is currently in its 'Susan' stage, where Andrew
Tridgell tests it on the server his wife uses, right?
# Will Samba have multiple back-ends?
Grab a copy of LXF 76 for the full interview. Following on from our
crosswords, we have a Sudoku puzzle to tax the old grey matter --
along with the winners of the Sudoku coding challenge! Our regular
HotPicks section looks at the latest open source app releases,
including a retro-style RPG in the form of Dragon Hunt:
# Dragon Hunt -- Adventure game
Graphics do not a good game make, despite what marketdroids would
have us believe. Take Zelda (Link's Awakening) on the original
Game Boy: a vast, captivating, endlessly clever adventure
expressed with only a meagre pixel count and four shades of grey.
It's with the same view we should approach similarly plain
adventure games like Dragon Hunt - no salivatingly fetching
visuals, but the opportunity for serious gameplay to shine
You'll need Python and Imagetk installed, after which you can
enter './Dragon_Hunt_Linux' to begin. Initially, the game
generates your character with random attributes of health points,
attack power, money and so forth - but where you're strong in one
aspect, you'll be weaker than the other. You're then dropped into
the middle of a quiet town, where you can equip yourself with
weapons, armour and medicines to help you on your journey.
Dragon Hunt takes place over an expansive 2D world: monsters,
items and villages litter the map, and as you progress your
fighting ability improves. Battles are turn-based - you can pause
for thought as you decide to attack, heal yourself or scarper.
Sadly, there's no music to establish a more engrossing atmosphere,
nor any cut screens and changes in pace to create the episodic
gameplay that forms the bedrock of classic RPGs. The twee sprites
and monotonous scenery don't help either.
Yet the carefully thought-out design makes up for these
shortcomings, as you juggle your gold reserves, uncover new areas
of the map and scrape through demanding battles. A text box at the
bottom of the screen provides extra details on your situation - it
leaves your imagination open to expand upon the cookie-cutter
graphics. Separate from the main game, also there's a Tk-driven
map editor which lets you customise the game world.
Dragon Hunt would benefit greatly from an artistic overhaul, but
RPGers will still find depth and challenge in the game. Good sense
of progress? Check. Mixture of strategy and action? Yep. Plenty to
explore? Definitely, so if you enjoy traditional adventure capers
with turn-based battles and item-collection aplenty, it'll keep
you occupied for a while.
As usual, there're five and a half more pages of HotPicks in 76,
including a review of the the Japanese novelty KreetingKard, and the
ultimate desktop calculator.
3. In the news...
SCO is back, Debian rumblings, and a new Qt release...
# SCO vs Novell heats up
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=205
SCO is seeking to amend its complaint against Novell, now claiming
copyright infringement "based on, among other things, Novell's'
unauthorized distribution, in its Linux offerings, of UNIX
technology outside of the limited license". This move aims to
prevent Novell from redistributing its variety of Linux-based
operating systems, such as NLD and OpenSUSE. Read more at:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 3205225103
# Shuttleworth: Why the DCC could fail
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=203
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the explosively popular Ubuntu distro,
has written about DCC, the Debian Common Core Alliance that hopes to
improve cooperation between the various Debian-based distros.
Describing the problems inherent in keeping the 'core' system
consistent between distros, Mark states that the DCC's vision won't
work, as evidenced by the United Linux project. But he's optimistic
that it may be able improve collaboration between the distros. See
http://tinyurl.com/ab9ab for the mailing list post.
# Qt 4.1 released
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.ph ... le&sid=192
Trolltech has announced the 4.1 release of Qt, its cross-platform
toolkit famously used throughout KDE. Major new features include SVG
support, a PDF back-end to the printing system, and a lightweight
unit testing framework. See http://tinyurl.com/cs8gj
4. This month on the forum
Will Linux ever supplant Windows as the most popular desktop OS?
That's the question raised by 'rob/80386O', who was having trouble
getting hardware to work on Linux. With the next release of
Microsoft's OS on the horizon, 'lurgee' slyly noted: "People will
realise that a glass can be half full or half empty, but Vista is
just half finished!". As 'Cogar' pointed out, Linux's small market
share isn't enough for major hardware manufacturers to devote much
time to Linux drivers. [1]
Is Firefox 1.5 a step backwards? 'nordle' described his negative
experiences with the latest release of the browser; 'Cogar' pointed
to an article that suggests it could've done with more bugfixing
before going gold. The thread then moved onto managing plugins and
extensions to limit the number of problems. [2]
What type of curry is your favourite Linux distro? 'ggreaves' posted
an on-topic message about Apple software and how it compares to the
freedoms of GNU/Linux, but straight away the discussion turned to
food. Nelz said, "As a Gentoo user, I prefer a bag of rice, some
meat and spices and a recipe" but Nigel thought even that was too
advanced: "Bah! - that's the Slackware version... the Gentoo version
would be a goat, a paddy field, shares in a camel train and the
email address of the brother of a chef in Bombay". 'Nuff said... [3]
[1] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=2084
[2] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=1925
[3] http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/index.php? ... pic&t=1953
5. New archive PDFs
We've added some more PDFs of past articles to the LXF Archives, and
Newsletter readers can see them a week early, before they're added
to the website page:
* Firefox and Thunderbird tutorial:
* Intel C Compiler tutorial: www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/LXF68.tut_icc.pdf
* Interview: Python's Guido van Rossum:
* Spell-checking in PHP: www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/LXF67.tut_php.pdf
* Issue 62 Answers: www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/LXF62.answr.pdf
* VMware review: www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/LXF68.rev_vmware.pdf
These PDFs are copyright Future Publishing and may not be
redistributed. Stay tuned for more updates!
6. Special newsletter feature
Creating CDs and DVDs under Linux can be tricky. There are a handful
of graphical tools around to assist with the job, but they rarely
offer a full range of features -- so it's best to learn the command
line program. Fear ye not, though, as 'mkisofs' is a fairly
straightforward little app once you've mastered the essentials,
and you can make it as simple or as complicated as you like.
mkisofs lets you create ISO9660 filesystems from a directory on your
hard drive, ready to burn to disc. ISO9660 is a standard for
CD-ROMs, so when you create a CD it will be accessible by any
operating system or machine. (There are some tweaks you can make to
the standard -- more on that in a moment.) First off, you'll need to
install mkisofs, either via your distro (most distros include it) or
from http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/mkisofs.html -- it's
part of the 'cdrecord' package.
Using mkisofs at a basic level is very simple:
# mkisofs -o mydisc.iso stuff/
This creates an ISO disc image called 'mydisc.iso', using the
contents of the 'stuff' directory. Note that the 'stuff' directory
name itself won't be on the resulting disc -- just its contents. You
can now burn mydisc.iso to a CD/DVD and pass it around. However,
herein lies a problem: if you have any filenames that are longer
than 8 characters, they may not display properly on other machines.
But two add-on 'standards' come to the rescue here.
The '-J' flag to mkisofs generates Joliet information for the disc,
which tells Windows machines about longer filenames. So if you have
'mylongfilename.ogg' on the disc, and use the -J option, it'll
display properly in Windows (instead of a strange 8-character
contraction). The equivalent for Linux and other UNIX flavours is
the '-r' flag -- this generates Rock Ridge information which, again,
caters for longer filenames. So:
# mkisofs -J -r -o mydisc.iso stuff/
will make an ISO image containing extra filename information for
Windows and UNIX/Linux. But what about bootable discs? If you're
remastering a Linux distro, you'll need to set certain options so
that the disc is bootable -- otherwise it'll just contain a load of
files with no extra information. The flag to use here is '-b',
followed by a filename.
The filename you specify is relative to the directory used to build
the disc -- in our case 'stuff' -- and must be a bootable image
file. Often, the file will be a floppy disk image, so that the
machine emulates floppy booting by reading the image off the CD/DVD.
For example:
# mkisofs -J -r -o mydisc.iso -b boot/floppy stuff/
Here, we've set the resulting disc to boot from the 'boot/floppy'
image, which is in the 'stuff' directory. After burning, you can
drop the CD/DVD in a drive and boot a PC from it. If the boot image
isn't a floppy, you'll need to specify the '-no-emul-boot' flag, and
if the disc contains a boot catalog file you can set it with '-c'.
So that's the general usage of mkisofs -- consult the manual page
with 'man mkisofs' for information on the other parameters. When
burning the disc, you can use 'cdrecord' or 'growisofs' for CD and
DVD recording respectively, or one of the many KDE/GNOME front-ends.
7. Coming up next issue
Linux Format 77 -- on sale Thursday 9th February
# At your service -- All you need to turn your Linux box into
a server. Serve web pages, run a database, host files with
FTP, set up your own chat server, and more...
# The LXF Interview: Chris DiBona on open source at Google
# FreeBSD 6.0 -- On the discs, and full installation guide
# Xen made easy -- System virtualisation hands-on
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Single + Multiplayer
- Fixes an issue that prevents user settings and game progress from being saved if the user's Windows login name contains unicode characters.
- Fixes an issue where users could not add friends whose name contains dot characters.
- Changed network communication port from 1000 to 7917 in order to fix connection issues caused some ISPs' restrictions.


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|Freddie Smith accepted the award for DAYS OF OUR
LIVES - Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for GLAAD
Check out the Los Angeles winners below:
Outstanding Daily Drama: DAYS OF OUR LIVES (NBC)
Presented by Kat Graham, accepted by Freddie Smith
Advocate for Change Award: Bill Clinton, presented by Harvey Weinstein and Jennifer Lawrence
Stephen F. Kolzak Award: Steve Warren, presented by Leonardo DiCaprio and Charlize Theron
Outstanding Film – Wide Release: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Outstanding Comedy Series: THE NEW NORMAL (NBC)
Accepted by co-creators Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler with Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, Georgia King, Jayson Blair, NeNe Leakes
Outstanding Individual Episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do" RAISING HOPE (Fox)
Accepted by show creator Greg Garcia with Cloris Leachman, Shannon Woodward
Outstanding TV Movie or Mini-Series: AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM (FX)
Accepted by show creator Ryan Murphy
Outstanding Talk Show Episode: "At Home with Neil Patrick Harris, His Fiancé David Burtka, & Their Twins" OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER (OWN)
Outstanding Los Angeles Theater: "The Children" by Michael Elyanow
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Episode: "Confirma su identidad como mujer" SHOWBIZ (CNN en Español)
Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: TIE: "Los transexuales buscan su identidad en medio de ignorancia y prejuicios" Encuentro (CNN en Español) and "La vida en rosa" Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Gays y padres excelentes" by Pilar Marrero (La Opinión)
Check out a few other photos from last night's GLAAD Meda Awards:
|THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL's Crystal Chapell
|Double winner Ryan Murphy
|Indie Soap Award winners Brad Bell & Jane Espenson
|Chris Evans and his brother, ONE LIFE TO LIVE
alum Scott Evans. They presented during the ceremony
along with their mom.
|ONCE UPON A TIME's Lana Parrilla
|GLEE's Naya Rivera
|THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS' Melody Thomas Scott
|Daytime alum Sherri Saum who stars in ABC Family's
upcoming drama THE FOSTERS
|Betty White
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Just wondering when we can expect to see either/both for the first time in the Reds system in action?
Just wondering when we can expect to see either/both for the first time in the Reds system in action?
They will both be in the GCL, which starts June 23, I believe.
Domo Arigato, Here Comes Joey Votto
"I do what I want to do and say what I want to say."
--Bronson Arroyo
yorman compares alot to carlos beltran but with more power and juan duran is being compared to vladimir guerrero because of his great power potential and also his ability to hit terrible pitches a very long way
Those are pretty lofty and optimistic projections and I'd be ecstatic if those two reached that type of status. But since they're so young and raw and haven't played any pro games yet I'll be more interested in comparisons later. I'll be happy if they can be above average outfielders for us in four years.
Those comparisons are almost unrealistic in the sense that if it ever seemed likely that either of them reached that point, they would've been signed for a lot more. However, that's not to say that neither of them will have success at some point at the Major League level. I'm a fan of both of them, but they definitely have a long ways to go. At the soonest, I think it'll be 2012 before we see either of them even having a chance of playing with the Reds, let alone being a productive fixture with the club.
Those names are just ideas of what they can be. I wouldnt read too much into it obviously but dropping the names sure makes it easier for people to understand what type of talent the guys have.
Sorry, these "player comparisons" are a joke. If either of these guys come anywhere close to as good as Beltran and Vlad (the Vlad of old, not the roidless Vlad of this season) Reds fans like us will be dancing in the street.
Or at least happy in front of our TVs if you aren't into dancing.
And I know you weren't saying they were definitely going to be as good as those guys, you were just giving examples. But, IMO, instead of saying "Yorman compares a lot to Beltran except with more power" you might want to temper that with "He projects to have similar skills if everything goes right, but obviously that's a best-case scenario and he has a long way to go." Because a Beltran with more power would be the best player in baseball, or at least on the very short list of the game's best. He already has plenty of power and hits well overall (and plays good D).
Ben (Miamisburg, OH)
The Reds made a big splash in the international free agent market last year by signing Yorman Rodriquez for $2.55 million and Juan Duran for $2 million. After extended spring training, the Reds appear to be ready to start both of them in the GCL this year despite being only 16 and 17 respectively until the latter part of the season. Are the Reds moving too fast or do these kids have that much talent that they can compete professionally at an age where they would be juniors in high school if they were American? Any rumors on the Reds in this years international market?
Ben Badler
I do think they are going to be overmatched, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the wrong move to place them in the GCL. They're both raw, but having them find out that they're going to have to make a lot of adjustments to be able to hit even the lowest levels of pitching in pro ball isn't such a bad thing.
Yorman having a good game so far today. The GCL box score is getting updated. Two hits, a stolen base, and an outfield assist for him today.
Rodriguez with another single and stolen base.
I think one of the biggest things is the Kids are 16 and 17 years old right now, but how many kids at 16 and 17 are receiving the coaching and the amount of game time those two are. They did spring training, extended spring training, now GCL, then its instructional ball, and both will go play winter ball. Put it together and it's over 150 games a year, through in the coaching and they will be two years ahead of where almost all American kids are come next spring when they would normally just be graduating high school.
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Ray, you are right about one thing. This game did turn some heads.
I did turn my head away from the screen on that Sanchez INT. And the sack/fumble.
the pats still have a tough schedule ahead
maybe the door is still wide open
we play them again
9-7 or 10 and 6 could win division
this could still get turned around
Ray, you are right about one thing. This game did turn some heads.
I did turn my head away from the screen on that Sanchez INT. And the sack/fumble.
Surprise--Ray Ray spinning for the organization!
Play for the tie against the Pats and you lose.
But other than his mistakes that effectively gave the opponent 9 points and the game, he was great!
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Your anti-Sanchez agenda is obvious, credit lost!
Only a hater watches a game like today and suggest Sanchez lost the game, he had one of hi better ames of his career. He wasn't flawless, he DID make a couple of mistakes, but he was efficient for the most part, he did a LOT of the little things that in the past he didn't do. The INT was a play that he should have put more on the ball, Hill wasn't his first read, but he has to make a better throw, it was both mechanics on that throw, as well as a late read, it was a mistake, but he threw the ball 40 timees, he had a good game.[/QUOTE]
All the above is a paragraph making excuses for a terrible QB and yet I'm the one with the Sanchez agenda?! I swear you have no sense of the obvious.
Put Sanchez's career with the Jets on trial to ANYONE, jets fans and other teams fans alike, and 98% of them would say he sucks and he needs to be relieved of his duties.
It's only cake eaters, Kool-Aid drinkers, like yourself that have NO sense of objectivity that actually still think Sanchez is Johnny Unitas.
It is so predictable to see you start to get nasty and defensive when someone suggests anything even slightly off color about the mighty Jets.
If your mother said something bad about the Jets, would you threaten to beat her senseless? Because that's the feeling I'm getting right now.
we didn't turn any head. ..WTF. ....non-Jets fans say what we say as fans. ..SAME OLD JETS
I get supporting your team, but Sanchez is not the future of this team....sorry Ray. This is coming from a guy who hoped for the best, but never wanted him drafted in the first place.
Why are the trolls still here? Pats game is over you pathetic fkn losers, move on to the next team and get a life.
RahRah.. I agree with you here.
Let's be honest with ourselves.. at 4pm today who thought the Jets had a chance to even cover the spread?
The team played hard. They made it a game.
Sure, they lost (and made mistakes while doing so) but the team showed they belong on the same field as the Pats... which is something the majority of the board didnt believe a few hours ago.
We already know Sanchez isn't a HOF QB. We know Hill can't catch a pass. We know that the Jets can't stop TEs. We know that we dont have much of a pass rush.. but this team showed heart today. The youngsters looked pretty good, and besides some bad play calling, the Jets probably should've won.
After the 49ers game, I thought the season was lost. Now.. after some tough losses to Houston and NE, not so much. Win the games they should win and finally win a game here or there that they shouldn't, and we're looking at the playoffs.
330 yds, passing, 70% comp, a 92 yd critical drive to get the team back into position to get back into the game.
I don't get the Sanchez hate by some unless they are just buying into the media rhetoric. Sanchez has had his faults, he has also had numerous injuries that hampered the offense all year, including tonight with McKnight not 100% and Greene out in the second half, that was critical. Keller being back tonight was HUGE.
Let's give this offense a chance to get healthy, the kids are growing up, Kerley had a huge game, Hill flashed a lot, despite a critical drop.
Sanchez by MOST accounts played a very good game, his mistakes hurt, but all QB's make them, and given the conditions of the game tonight, a game that most didn't even give Sanchez and the team a chance...
Enough of the moral victory crap. The jets are not a team full of rookies. They blew a win they had in their back pocket....there is no pat on the back for that. Close the sale, and turn heads that way.
Would have turned heads if we won. Instead, the story is the Jets were once again not good enough to get past NE. Who cares about moral victories. We've been notching them for years, with what to show for it?
The Jets are a team that is playing with a lot of rookies and younger players at key positions that they will have to rely on this year due to injuries to players like Revis and Holmes. Add the injuries of Pouha and Ellis, this team is playing with a LOT of young players.
Jesus, do some of you think before you post?


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I got nuthin.
The person you should TAKE that request to is one Mr. The-SOOTHSAYER.
In all seriousness, J.I. needs a :Spoiler: tag (often used as a NSFW hider tag) so we can hide stuff of potential offense. It's pretty basic forum functionality, and J.I. could use the upgrade.
In a similar probably NSFW if you have your speakers on full volume, might I suggest one and all check out this Youtube Channel. Funy as hell IMO.
Also, the fact that the very thread title is censored probably should have been a pretty god indicator of the content within the thread, and the Youtubes. Just say'in.
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- 1 Supporting the Linked Data Consumer
Supporting the Linked Data Consumer
This is a potential eGov Demo project to make consuming the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud more user friendly and compelling - it is focused on the consumer of data. Making data consumption more compelling is required to make the LOD story viable – why publish if we can't consume? It is also focused on the web client user, not the programmer. Many of the capabilities we need exist and there is a lot to build on – we are not ignoring the great work that has already been done such as Tabulator and sig-ma but suggesting how we may be able to put it together. We should be able to achieve a state where simple act of publishing uses generic capabilities, configured with RDF resources, to bring any LOD resource into the consumable data cloud that is then directly usable by citizens. We are not suggesting all this can or should be done at once, but that we can build-up a consumer centric capability from a solid foundation. What comes after "tabulator"?
Communicating the LOD Vision
Consider the situation where you have just explained the linked open data vision to a government executive. You have explained the "cloud picture", and all the data that is being made available in data.gov and data.gov.uk. How data linked and accessible as web resources has more value You start to see a glimmer of understanding in their eyes, they look excitedly at you and ask: "This sounds great, can you show me this linked data cloud?" .
You cast your eyes down and say well, not exactly. There are several interesting applications coming on line a few great demos. You take them to this web site or that and show them all the hard work that has gone into LOD applications – but they just look like any web site serving data. You show them the links on data.gov, where the data can be downloaded and some of the other dataset registries – but the difference between this and some CSV files is not evident. You explain that an application really has to be written to get at the data.
The glimmer starts to fade in the eyes of your executive, the vision that they started to see in their mind – of a see of connected data is not something for them, it is for programmers who don't want to convert data from its native format. If they are thinking of publishing data they still need to create an application for the data, just like they did before. If they want to use data they have to go through a specific program or programs for each dataset. There is no cohesive web of data that they can see, touch and get value from directly. Your executive starts checking email on her blackberry.
So, what would we need to have available when someone says "This sounds great, can you show me this linked data cloud?" Our proposition is that we must make the LOD cloud a visible, usable resource for consuming the data that is being published. We should be able to point to one or more well defined URLS where the LOD cloud comes alive – where the data is visible, browsable, searchable and usable for the average web user. While many of the parts and pieces of this exist, it doesn't seem like it has been put together for the data consumer. The next section suggests a vision of what the user experience for consuming the semantic web may be.
Browsing the linked open data cloud
There are multiple ways a user may "enter" the LOD cloud. They may want to browse or search for a particular kind of data, they may be following a link that someone gave them or using a LOD aware application that links externally. In any of these cases they are probably starting with a web page URL and expect to see some data or a data search/query capability. Lets consider a few use cases:
A LOD "Front page"
A LOD front page is an entry point into the LOD cloud. It isn't providing the data consumer with any particular data point but a way to find the data you may be looking for. Some may be general and some more targeted to a specific purpose. The UK HM Government page is an example of such an entry point – from here you can find and search for the data sets that may interest you. Wouldn't it be great if there were more of these and a few that were of very wide scope – where you could point someone and they could start using the semantic web directly? From such a front page you should be able to:
- Do generic searches and queries
- Browse for data sets (raw and processed or mashes up), applications that use that data as well as other "front pages".
- Click on something of interest and see it
- Enter your credentials to see data, if required
- To express some preference as to what data providers you trust and the context of your interest
We have been carful to say "A" front page – not "the" front page. In keeping with web philosophy we don't want to "lock down" the LOD cloud but keep it open. Of course some front pages will emerge as predominant and some technologies will be come commonplace to provide them.
A LOD Entity List
Through a front page or other means you have clicked on am interesting data set. What do you see? If the data set is small perhaps you see a summary list. If the data set is larger perhaps you see a more targeted search/query/taxonomy capability which then returns a summary list. You may also see some general information about the list – such as who maintains it. You may also see links to other resources relevant to the list – such as special analysis programs or viewers. Since we have a list of a particular kind of data you may expect a faceted browsing capability and some analysis capability built in. In summary, the features you would expect on an entity list are:
- To be able to see a summary of the entities, the most important properties in a grid, like excel.
- To be able to click on any entity and see it in more detail
- To be able to search the entities
- To execute canned queries and build queries
- To be able to follow taxonomies and facets
- To be able to understand the source(s) of the data and link to those sources
- To be able to link to other resources relevant to that data – particularly those that analyze and/or query the data, perhaps merged with other data sets.
- To merge other data sources that may provide additional information about entities in the data set
- To be able to see summary information in generic lists or in specifically styled presentations, such as a map or graph
- To be able to export data in various formats
A LOD Entity
Viewing a LOD entity should provide a well organized view of information about something. Of course that view should also be providing links to other information which will bring up other entities or lists. Specific "important" information should be highlighted, other properties shown and, for a large entity, some hidden behind "more detail". Where sub-entities are very tightly coupled, those entities should be visible "in line" with the focus entity, showing their most important properties The result should be a very unsurprising view of a particular data entity – much like you would expect from Microsoft Access or any data oriented web application. Generically the entities would look very much a like, but there should also be the capability to "style" any entity or property with a special-purpose presentation. Other capabilities that should be available from an entity are "faceted browsing" and related queries.
In summary an entity view should:
- Provide differentiation between the entity "summary", properties that should always be visible and those that are hidden. It would be great if this could somehow be sensitive to the users context.
- Show nested data in summary or tabular form, with links to more
- Show where various data elements came from
- Provide faceted browsing to other entities
- Be able to use the entity as a basis for query
- Link to other, special purpose, viewers and analyzers for that entity
Aggregated or Analyzed Data
There is a limit as to what can be done generically – so the LOD consumer should be able to call on special purpose analyzers and viewers, much like the demos done by the Tetherless World Project. These purpose specific applications should be able to link back to the generic data views as their source.
Read/Write and Executable LOD
While read-only access to the LOD cloud provides a lot of value, the next obvious step is write access. A mantra of the semantic web is that "anyone can say anything about anything, anywhere". A unique feature of the LOD design is that augmenting and linking data can be done outside of the original data source - making the data environment much more open. It should be as easy or easier to create and modify LOD data as it is to create or update a spreadsheet. Once modifications to data are done, the next step is to allow for executable models and business rules to be triggered.
Therefore a next step in the support for the linked data consumer is full read/write capability with the management of rights and data ownership that this implies.
Supporting Technologies
A lot of the capabilities outlined above exist or are in development. What seems to be missing is bringing it together into a consumer-centric and cohesive experience. You should be able to experience the global web of data.
Tools and capabilities that can be leveraged include:
- sig-ma
- voiD and RDF catalogs
- Tetherless World Project.
- Various RDF triple stores and SPARQL engines
- Various implementations of federated query
- All the great work at data.gov.uk
- http://www.linkeddata.org
- The EnACKing project and their mapping demonstration
- Semantic Pingback
- http://www.sameAs.org
Technical Issues
- Much of the above requires programming which should be replaced by convention and configuration
- The practice of linked to an entire data set is not practical, all data must be viewed through SPARQL
- Combined queries either need to be federated, brought into a common repository or both. Suspect we will need "trusted sparql end points" that we know provide the capabilities we need and
- Need a consistent registry (or registry of registry) for metadata about datasets, probably use of voiD as the ontology
- Provenance
- Clean generic user interface with "plug in" capability to configure purpose-specific data widgets for types
- Configurations of data sets may need to be merged with other data sets to provide all the information the consumer may want. Links and vocabularies should not have to be tightly coupled with the raw data.
- Context specific views which bind the right views of the data, select desired data and UI widgets based on user & data context. [This is probably a stretch goal]
- Identity and sameAs processing
- Knowing what configuration of data sets is relevant for a specific view or query
- Binding URIs and URLs
- For write access - where to write various kinds of data based on the user and configuration
- Rights management
The "implementation" we have in mind is an out of the box LOD "NODE" that is free and open source. This would enable access to any published LOD data. We would deploy one of these nodes as our "front page" to the web of data. This would be modularized as follows:
- Overall architecture
- Generic but "configurable" and "pluggable" web UI, including:
- Front pages and registries
- Entity Lists
- Queries UI (canned and built)
- Searches
- Entity pages
- Context and contextual biding, Binding of URI and URLs
- Back end that provides a consistent SPAQL for of all data in the web of data. This will probably require cashing a lot of the data that is not accessible via trusted sparql endpoints
- Federated search and query
- Identity and same-as management
- Metadata management
- Event notification to maintain curency between LOD nodes and with other clients
- Server stuff, including user management and authorities
- Content negotiation
- Supporting ontologies for configuration and metadata
The next step will be to look at the existing resources and chart a course.


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In the controversial debate over imposing a soda and sugary beverage tax to fight obesity, the American Medical Association has declined to enter the fray -- at least for now.
At this week's annual meeting of the AMA's policy-making House of Delegates, about 300 delegates debated and ultimately opposed giving AMA support to a sugar-sweetened beverage tax, saying it needed more information on the topic, says AMA Past President Dr. Cecil Wilson.
"They said they were not sure that taxing these products would be appropriate and wanted to know more about the different types of sweeteners and their impact on public health. There will be a report back next year on the topic," he says.
Though the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, has argued in favor of a penny-per-ounce tax on sugared drinks to both decrease consumption and raise sorely needed funds for health care, efforts to impose such a tax have met with staunch opposition by the beverage industry, and some doctors and academics.
"The taxes aren't going to be very effective because people's demand for sugary beverages is resistant to small price changes. When it comes down to it, people will probably just pay the few cents more and buy it anyway ... which only disproportionately hurts those with less economic means," says Richard Williams of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, who has studied the estimated impact of a beverage tax.
The strongest force opposing a soda tax has been, naturally, the American Beverage Association, the trade organization representing the interests of beverage companies in the U.S.
"Taxes don't make people healthier, making smart dietary decisions does," says ABA spokesman Chris Gindlesperger. "Our industry makes products with calories in them. We know that. But we believe that seeking to solve a complex health issue like obesity with discriminatory tax on beverages is not based in sound science," he says.
The ABA has lobbied against such a tax since it was first introduced in the 1990s. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the ABA currently devotes more than $18 million to fund lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
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Many doctors point to sugary beverages as a particularly salient culprit in the mounting rate of obesity in the U.S., especially among children and adolescents.
The American Heart Association has pointed to sugary drinks as the No.1 contributor of added sugars to the American diet, and CDC research has shown that one in four adolescents drinks at least a can of soda a day.
Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, cites the spike in childhood stroke as a particularly egregious public health concern that may benefit from decreased soda consumption:
"Soda is contributing excess calories to the American diet, and excess calories are contributing to obesity, and obesity is contributing to a higher rate of strokes in kids. I can't think of anything more dreadful," says Katz, who supports the tax but recognizes that instituting it might not be feasible.
There are two big road blocks to passing such a tax, Katz says: Americans are largely anti-tax right now given the political and fiscal climate and the research behind the efficacy of a soda tax is lukewarm.
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"The AMA is right to say there's no definitive science showing that lowering soda consumption will lower obesity [levels]," says Katz. "But I support the tax, because I think we should be doing everything we can to improve dietary patterns and promote health."
Requiring data that shows that a soda tax would single-handedly lower obesity is like putting out one sandbag and gathering data on whether it will hold back a flood, he says.
"If you do it that way, when all is said and done you don't build the levy, and it's the collective levy that works. This tax could be one of many strategies to fight off obesity," Katz says.
The AMA reference committee in charge of evaluating support for a soda tax will further investigate research on sugary beverages and obesity, and present their findings at next summer's AMA meeting.
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On December 19, 2013, the PASS board of directors (BoD) proposed a small and targeted set of bylaw changes in response to CA relinquishing the BoD seats they were entitled to as a Founding Partner in the professional association.
You might be wondering "How did a company that doesn't seem to make a lot of SQL Server tools get a seat on the board of this huge, international SQL Server professional association?"
It's a bit of a shaggy-dog story, so I'll sum it up quickly. Back in the late 1990's, there was a large and successful database tools company known as Platinum Technology. Platinum was instrumental in establishing other successful professional associations, such as IDUG, and as an independent software vendor who made add-on tools for database administrators, wanted to encourage similar growth in the SQL Server niche.
Platinum put one of their executives, Steve Vandor, in charge of the initiative to start a SQL Server professional association, who in turn sought out and won additional buy-in Microsoft to get the ball rolling. An initial meeting was convened in early summer (aside, this was only foundational meeting I wasn't present for) with community members, professional association management executives, and executives from Microsoft and Platinum. Papers were signed. Plans were made. Then, Platinum was acquired by CA.
(Feel free to read more about CA and its relationship with PASS, if you like).
It seems pretty obvious to anyone who's ever been to a PASS Summit the sort of contribution that Microsoft makes to the community. They're there in a big way, especially in the last several years. Kudos!
But what about CA? You might be aware the CA sponsors the data architecture virtual chapter monthly meetings. And that certainly makes a lot of sense considering the strength of their great data modeling product, ERwin. And you may recall, if you'd attended PASS Summits in years bygone, that CA used to have a large presence in the exhibit hall. But for the average rank-and-file member of the organization, you probably hadn't seen or heard much from CA of late.
But that doesn't mean the CA wasn't doing good things for PASS. As I described in my blog post Do You Have One of "the Three W's" to Sit on a Board of Directors?, the CA BoD members were particularly strong in the third "W" of wisdom. It's hard to quantify the ROI for PASS by having Rick Bolesta and Neil Buckwalter on the BoD since wisdom doesn't come with an industry standard metric. But let me assure you that it was significant.
The quality of decision-making was always improved by having these two at the table and, perhaps most significantly of all, Rick and Neil provided the greatest degree of continuity that the board had. No one else had served as long on the BoD or been through as many ups and downs as these two. Although I have full confidence in the BoD, there's a certain nostalgia for me that there won't be anyone on the board who was there from the beginning. This is a natural and good thing for organizations, to mature to the point of a new generation of leadership unencumbered by older generations. But I think that the context and historic insight that Rick and Neil could provide will be missed.
Let me start off by saying that I believe that the proposed changes are absolutely appropriate and valuable. They're also very well written to be targeted and directly address the problem at hand.
But there is a hidden issue present in the changes. Say what? Let me explain. While it's not explicitly written anywhere, PASS leadership has always attempted to balance the formulation of the BoD to ensure a good mix among the various stakeholders in the community. That is to say, it's important that the BoD contain a good mix of directors from consulting, corporate IT, the vendor community (full disclosure: I work for a vendor), government/not-for-profit, and other groups. There have been times in the past where most people seeking director positions were independent consultants. This makes a lot of sense for the candidate, since they'd be the most likely type of person to see an upside for their service. But I'm sure you can imagine a scenario where a BoD overly tilted toward one group or another, say a BoD composed entirely of consultants, might set strategy that didn't serve the other constituencies in the best way possible. however those attempts at balancing the board were strictly informal and, basically, not institutionalized. In other words, there's no formal set of checks-and-balances. (The establishment of the Executive Committee was one of the few checks-and-balances written into the Bylaws).
You might point out that the BoD is not intended to be a representative body, like the Congress or the UK House of Commons. True indeed. Directors at-large do not have "constituencies" in the same sense as elected officials. On the other hand, it's an important part of a large, public professional association that the various needs of its constituent parts have a voice in the strategic direction of the organization. PASS certainly recognizes this and is taking steps to create governance structures that will boost is rapid growth around the world, outside of its long-standing base of North America and Europe. A global re-balancing is definitely at the top of the list.
But is that the only modification needed? Now that CA is stepping away from the BoD, it might be time to investigate the merits of allowing specific constituencies within the community of voice in the wider community.
What do you think? Do constituencies need representation in the professional association? Or are we done with this conversation?
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Thanks for the great post Kevin! Very interesting. I agree that it's important to have a voice for all constituencies. Even though I'm a consultant myself now, I think it would be healthier for all facets of our community to keep other parties highly involved.
Good thoughts, Bill.
I'm not proposing that these other parties have voting seats on the board. But it might be useful to have a single non-voting liaison from each of the most important parties such as academia, vendors, or government.
As you are one of the 'Founding Fathers' of PASS it was great to get the history into the make-up of the PASS BoD.
Great analysis! Rick and Neil provided a rich background of experience to draw from. I am sure that they helped PASS avoid some mistakes.
As CA si no longer a proxy for vendors and it is not guaranteed that a BoD member will be coming from that "constituency", what do you think that could be done to give a voice to the vendors? Do we need a non-voting advisory member on the BoD from the vendor community? Or would participation in key committees (perhaps Marketing or event centric committees) suffice?


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We are not responsible for player incompatibility issues. Please, make sure your device supports DVD-R discs.
Please, check out our other listing for more rare and favorite TV shows and movies.
We welcome any questions. Please do not hesitate to ask us anything about any of our products. We all know how awful buying online can be, so we try our best to provide the smoothest, easiest, service possible.
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Always in stock. (New condition)
Norwood, MA [United States]
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