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Posted on 10/05/2008 3:38:43 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Branding his opponent as "erratic in a crisis," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.
Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker.
McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesdays debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers.
But Obama isn't waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject.
"Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest 'assaults' against Barack Obama. Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who is this out of touch."
Then Obama says: "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message."
McCain officials told Politico that the new offensive is likely to focus on Rezko and Ayers. The officials said the campaign will not bring up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obamas former pastor, because McCain has forbade them from using that as a weapon. Without being specific, the officials said outside groups may focus on Wright.
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Sixties Lessons and Lore
by Bernardine Dohrn
The sixties were risky, frisky, shattering, chaotic, moral, exhilarating, riotous, international, destructive, communitarian, divisive, vivid, anarchistic, dogmatic, and liberating. Relentlessly commodified in subsequent years, the sixties became a boxed set: music, culture, clothing, academic professions, mythology, and de-fanged pabulum. It takes courage to undertake an interpretive survey of a turbulent recent decade; historians Isserman and Kazins achievement provokes, reminds, and informs. They have produced a valuable reference book, a genre where their uncertain perspective does little damage. Their brilliant opening set piece describes the 1961 Civil War Centennial Commissionwhich decided explicitly to exclude the words Negro, slavery, and Emancipation, from their re-enactment pageantry of white regional rivalry. When a black New Jersey delegate, arriving to participate in the opening Fort Sumter commemoration, was denied a room at the Commissions segregated South Carolina hotel, all hell broke loose. Eventually, in a resolution that foreshadows the 1995 Hiroshima exhibition at the Smithsonian,two separate observances were held, an integrated one on federal property, and a segregated one in downtown Charleston. What a sensational narrative to open an exploration of race, history, and the war to explain the war.
In the post-September-11 world, it appears that the reactionary drumbeat to criminalize, demonize, and marginalize the sixties has taken on renewed life and significance. Domestic opposition to U.S. wars and global strategies are being re-characterizedadding urgency to writing that opens up thinking, clarifies language, and promotes analysis.
That Isserman and Kazin raise urgent questions and stir debate more than they offer definitive analysis is a tribute as much as a flaw. The existing shelf of books about the sixties is largely composed of flawed attempts at definitive analysis; a series of partial views that often speak more of the inevitable distortions in the participant/authors retrospective viewpoint, than of the scene described. This is surely understandablethese authors were also activists and while they aim at more than memoir, they often fall short of history. The Isserman and Kazin book is probably the last of that series and, as a comprehensive reference work, perhaps the best. The next wave of sixties interpretive analysis is about to begin; I predict it will be clearly divided between the more mature memoirs of participants and a virtual tidal wave of new scholarship by young historians on the multiple movements born in the decades that have come to be packaged as the sixties. So get ready for a new generations take on what it all means.
The sixties began in 1954 and the real news is that theyre not over yet. The twin blindspots of pre-sixties American social strugglerace and imperialismblaze as the touchstones of the civil rights, anti-war, student, womens, and black liberation movements, as well as all their propulsive, variegated progeny. But without a persistent focus on white supremacy and U.S. global domination, Isserman and Kazin miss the ethical and political heart of the sixtiesand any significance for the growing movements for social justice today. For, of course, it matters far beyond academic nit-picking or self-justifying squabbles. There is no room for nostalgia or sentimental reminiscences. A truism: we lack a left movement today which integrates distinct, single-issue organizing into a sum greater than the parts. However, there is a contemporary array of serious left organizinglocally, nationally, and globally. Among them are resistance to the prison-industrial complex; the campus anti-sweatshop surge; disarmament and peace; exposure of racial profiling; anti-globalization; environmental justice; womens liberation and equality; human rights; AIDs; solidarity with Chiapas; efforts for peace and justice in Colombia, Ireland, and Palestine; health care; labor; indigenous rights; school reform; lesbian and gay rights; opposition to police violence; and childrens rights.
Where does Americas wealth and prosperity come from? In the first three chapters of America Divided, there is no recognition that U.S. economic and military power had replaced the previous colonial powers of Europe in Africa, Latin America, and much of Asia. There is no U.S. extraction of oil and natural resources, no terms of trade that progressively devalue third world exports, no creation of indebtedness, no theft of labor, no destruction of subsistence culture and its replacement with reliance on imports, no violent suppression by the U.S. military of democratic national interests in Guatemala, Iran, the Congo, or the Philippines. Instead, there is a golden age of economic growth and political stability, tarnished only by the omnipresent Cold War.
But it was the very revelation of U.S. brutality and plunder in the Third World, and the rejection of Cold War ideology and its justifications, which defined and forged the new left. Both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) grappled with and refused to impose the de rigueur anticommunist clause in their founding documentsto the dismay of, and ultimate rupture with, their elder social-democratic godparents.
The U.S.-sponsored assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the U.S. military invasion of the Dominican Republic, and the growing numbers of U.S. advisors in Vietnam alarmed and awoke many young people. And behold, these were bipartisan matters. What was revealed was the consistent Democratic/Republican unity in ruthless U.S. global hegemonynot big power bullying tactics or bellicose foreign policy. Liberal elderswhether socialists, labor leaders, academics, or politiciansalmost all went along with U.S. domination, aggression, and violence in the so-called underdeveloped world. And they welcomed the consequent wealth here. SNCCs reception of Oginga Odinga (a leader of newly independent Kenya), Malcolm Xs revelatory travels to the Mideast, and the student movements participation in international youth congresses (some CIA-sponsored!), opened eyes to a broader political spectrum than narrow Cold War liberalism. Tellingly, the new left also refused to apologize for or defend what had become of socialism in Russia, Eastern Europe, or even China. Protest and domestic opposition grew, from objections to resistance, to the U.S. violations of its own stated principles and laws. While the movement was in that sense homemade, it was also a student of national liberation movements abroad. We discovered our rebellious American ancestors, in large part, after the fact.
Moral outrage at what was being done in our name created a healthy breach, and that led to deeper analyses of the relentless workings of monopoly capitalism and imperialism. It seemed then, and it is as true now, that no one can begin to comprehend world political dynamics without such an effort to understand capital and the creation of wealth and poverty. Of course, analysis does not tell us what to do, but without a Marxist critique, all is chaos and impossible to explain without resort to myths of U.S. superiority or manifest destiny. How do less than 5 percent of the worlds people control more than 60 percent of the worlds wealth? For youth, the rejection of an Americentric worldview was fueled, not primarily by ideology, but by the concrete instances of university complicity with war research, segregation, and corporate power; government and academic lies and cover-ups; and the government/corporate/military/police nexus.
We cut our teeth on liberals. It was the Kennedys and LBJ who revealed the essential unanimity of power, despite some relevant and real differences. This critical edge is obscured by Isserman and Kazin whowhile they point out that Kennedy was a liberal in style rather than substanceseem to write without irony, Americans had long cherished the belief that they had a special role to play in determining the future of Asia, or, The early days of American involvement in Vietnam were almost like an adventure story. Graham Greene, writing in 1955, saw the U.S. role and rationale more clearly.
The Isserman and Kazin book is rich in detail and reminds the reader of the intersecting claims of civil rights, poverty, and Vietnam. We see the timing of Brown v. Board of Education coincide with the lynching of Emmett Till and the actions of Rosa Parks; of Birmingham with the Cuba missile crisis; of the U.S.-sponsored assassination of Diem with Dallas; of Operation Rolling Thunder in Viet Nam with Selma and Watts; and of the Tet offensive with the assassination of Martin Luther King and the resignation of LBJ. Yet pat generalizations rather than dynamic complexities undermine much of the material. For example: (1) the nations brief honeymoon of concern and goodwill with the poor was coming to an end. (2) It was difficult to tell how much racial attitudes had changed since the 60s. (3) The decisions Kennedy was making about Vietnam would soon split Democrats into warring camps, to the lasting detriment of the liberal cause and agenda.
And there is a drumbeat of apologist whitewash: McNamaras personal disillusionment (he kept his doubts to himself); Johnsons misgivings; the Bundy boys signature romance with guesswork statistics; and three pages of exculpation for Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Liberalsfrom Michael Harrington to George Meany to President Kennedywere corrupted by the Cold War and willfully blind to white supremacy. Laments are inappropriate.
While great attention is devoted to the details and strategy of the early Civil Rights movement, it is severed from the two hundred years of effort that preceded it and from the powerful black liberation movement that exploded beneath it. Like most mainstream sixties histories, America Divided romanticizes the early sixties and diminishes the late sixties and seventies, avoiding the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Afrika, black student unions, the Nation of Islam, and their numerous local incarnations. The legislative goal of voting rights was a critical part but never the sum of the great struggles for racial equality and even today, voting rights remains far from assured as conflicts over the census, re-districting, disenfranchisement, and the 2000 elections in Florida reveal. Isserman and Kazin mistakenly reduce the Southern civil rights movement to a struggle for de jure voting rights, rather than an inclusive movement for desegregation, political power, racial justice, economic equality, and liberation. They give it an integration coherence, rather than analyzing it as an effective and temporary coalition of variegated, contending perspectives: religious and nationalist, multiracial and separatist, single issue and radical, legislative and economic. The historic strands of freedom struggle were all present in the South, and they re-awaken as the civil rights movement moves North.
Isserman and Kazin succumb to the peril of nostalgia for the good early days of the sixties and contempt for the later days of militancy, mass struggle, and black liberation. As the demands, rhetoric, and tactics of the black, Latino, and Native American freedom movements and the anti-war movement escalated in 19671969, the movement burst beyond its small band of activists. Tens of thousands joined the Black Panther Party, SDS, the Mobilization against the War, the Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), the Brown Berets, the Young Lords, Resist, the American Indian Movement (AIM), and their hundreds of local equivalents; millions participated in protests or resistance not imaginable a short year before. The authors, noting the simultaneous rise of militancy and the expansion of small protest into widespread popular insurgency, concede the irony, but without re-thinking their assumptions.
Getting it right about race, even for a moment in time, is rare enough in the long effort to complete the U.S. project of democracy to be worthy of much more sober examination. In a book that sweeps through a myriad of details, the core struggle over white supremacy and inequality can get reduced to the weaknesses of great leaders or the tactics of those in struggle. Too often, the authors appear to place responsibility for setbacks on the black struggle. Watts, for example, sounds the death knell for LBJs Great Society and liberal reform. King in Chicago threatens white voters with demands for housing, jobs, education, and political power. Indeed. Has anything changed?
A different yardstick is used with the anti-war movement. In the civil rights movement, confrontation served strategic ends. In contrast, apparently, confrontation in the anti-war movement was media-oriented in an atmosphere of frustration and extremism. Gone are the five years of patient and strategic organizing against the Vietnam War: marches by mothers and veterans; resistance to the draft; legal challenges to an illegal war; community organizing in Detroit and Newark and Chicago; campus teach-ins; and organizing on military bases (coffee houses, GI unions, underground newspapers, and refusal to serve an unjust cause). Unlike the civil rights movement, they write, which until 1965 was organized to achieve a series of concrete political and legislative goals, the antiwar movement could measure success only by one all-encompassing aim, the end of the killing in Vietnam. Ending the U.S. invasion of Vietnam is pretty concrete. But their sentence is wrong on both fronts, simplifying the complex and multi-pronged freedom struggle and making the antiwar movement seem small or linear.
In fact, as they mergedas SNCC, Dr. King, and the Panthers opposed the Vietnam War and as the anti-war movement came to include black GIs, black students, and working class resistersstate repression escalated, assassinations flourished, and COINTELPRO was launched. And, as the authors ruefully concede, the movements became both radical and hugenumber swelled, millions participated, organizations bloomed, and common strategic goals were pursued by a thousand voices. We were bringing the war home, and the war was bringing the black liberation and youth movements to the U.S. army in Vietnam. In important ways, finally, the authors miss the decisive role of both Vietnams political and military strategy and the resistance by American GIs.
What many came to grasp through the civil rights and anti-war movements was that racismthat bedrock recognition of white supremacy, inequality, and privilege (not just prejudice)defined and shaped the new abolitionists. While many students dropped out of a life path of privilege, others fought to expand access and inclusion. Multiple strategies were explored and abandoned: direct action based on your beliefs; confronting power; moral witnessing; community organizing; militant mass movements; coalition efforts; workplace labor organizing; alternative institution-building; grass roots theater; electoral third party politics; cultural renaissance; lawsuits and participatory legal defenseall became tools to win hearts and minds, to challenge the taken-for-granted, to resist the status quo. Students sat-in and seized; demanded open enrollment in privileged universities (Open it Up or Shut it Down!); sought an end to racist or sexist texts and teaching (African-American, womens, and Third World studies); mobilized solidarity with university employees; and challenged the exploitative university/landlord relationship with surrounding poor neighborhoods of people of color. The early stirrings of womens liberation and then gay liberation opened new fronts, innovative organizing and democratizing strategies, and freedom forces. As in all movements, there was an explosion of cultural creativity and there were tragic and painful casualties.
Perhaps looking at ten critical events in some depth might have produced a more nuanced, dynamic and illuminating book about the sixties, avoiding the generalizations in this survey that cloy and irritate. Yet Isserman and Kazin have produced an important reference book, and also begin to describe the rise of the powerful counter-revolution. Most of the events that matter are there. The lessons will be found not in their feeble attempt to sum it up but in Seattles protests and in prison resistance, in reinvented attempts to face challenges of today with exuberant courage, radical vision, and ethical determination.
The propulsive energies unleashed in the sixties animate our lives today in obvious as well as invisible ways. If the mission of the powerful is domination, exploitation and control, and if global domination and racism are centralnot peripheralto our ongoing story, then America divided is not such a bad thing. In fact, its the only choice for humanity.
BERNARDINE DOHRN activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic.
Bill Ayers, ("distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago") Obama's terrorist buddy who doesn't regret bombing the Pentagon and would do it again!
Do you want this guy running the education system in the United States in an Obama administration?!
Struggling families can't turn the page on Obamas Marxism.
LOL!, I mean nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
Bill Ayers in Chicago, 2007
Obama was forced to defend his friendship with former Weather Underground member William Ayers, who never apologized for a series of bomb attacks in the early 1970s. In fact, on September 11, 2001, The New York Times quoted Ayers as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
I have said that on several posts.
Quite simply, show your birth certificate and say where is yours?
Isn't there a form a potential President has to fill out?
You know, the simple stuff like; what is your official name; who is your mother and father; where were you born; now old are you. Have you provided proof of birth?
Damn, you would think so.
It is time for McCain to name names and times and places and use multi-media in his presentations.
QUIT BEING NICE, Senator McCain!!!
Be Truthful, Be Vocal, Be Proud.
It is time for McCain to name names and times and places and use multi-media in his presentations.
QUIT BEING NICE, Senator McCain!!!
Be Truthful, Be Vocal, Be Proud.
School reform crusader Bill Ayers works within the system now, but don't ask the former Weatherman to apologize for his radical past
Ayers was a 1960s radical, a leader in the Weathermen, a group which exploded a few bombs, one of which accidentially killed three of its members. Ayers, along with his wife Bernadine Dohrn, went undergound for years only to eventually reemerge to become a University of Illinois education professor, a Hyde Park neighbor to Obama and, now, a touchpoint in the 2008 presidential race.
They had to remember to use their phony names.
For years, his was "Joe." Hers was "Rose."
"I was at the top of my field," the wife says. "I was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list."
She smiles at her husband.
"He was on the bottom," she adds. "I was most wanted, he was just wanted, sort of wanted."
William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. A school and community activist for over forty years, he also teaches courses in interpretive research, urban school change, and youth and the modern predicament. A graduate of the Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, he has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the political and cultural contexts of schooling, and the meaning-making and ethical purposes of students and families and teachers. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, and The Cambridge Journal of Education.
You would think the feckless GOP would have a lawyer to spare who could competently bring this challenge in a federal court ... and not the same circuit in which Fast Eddie Rendell's wife sits
"After a bomb exploded accidentally and killed three of their colleagues, Ayers and Dohrn "hooked up," in the parlance of the day, and, since 1982, they have been married. This--violence, death, and white-hot rhetoric--is his past and Ayers insists he has no regrets. "I acted appropriately in the context of those times," he said.
In the context of these times, Ayers' association with Obama -- the education professor at the University of Illinois Chicago hosted a reception for Obama's state Senate campaign, and the two have served on a board together -- has drawn attention from campaign critics. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is among those who say that Ayers has become a contributor to the community, and it's long past time to put the tumult of the Sixties in the past.
C BS carrying water for the One!
I'm glad they're not wasting any time reporting on whether the Ayers allegations are true or not.
That would get in the way of being a mouth-piece for the Obama campaign.
William Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist Professor of Education and Senior University Terrorist Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. A school and community activist for over forty years, he also teaches courses in interpretive research, urban school change, and youth and the modern predicament. A graduate of the Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University, he has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the political and cultural contexts of schooling, and the meaning-making and ethical purposes of students and families and teachers. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, and The Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), The Good Preschool Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1989), and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi, and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. Edited books include: To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Childrens Lives (Teachers College Press, 1995); with Janet Miller, A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation (Teachers College Press, 1997); with Pat Ford, City Kids/City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row (The New Press, 1996); with Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn, Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader (The New Press and Teachers College Press, 1998); with Mike Klonsky and Gabrielle Lyon, A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools (Teachers College Press, 2000); and with Rick Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for PunishmentA handbook for parents, students, educators and citizens (The New Press, 2001). Recent books include Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Beacon Press, 2001), On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited (Teachers College Press, 2003), and Teaching the Personal and the Political (Teachers College Press, 2004). His latest book is Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon Press, 2004).
William Ayers should be far removed from school children. Never knew Chicago was such a trash hole. University of Chicago and Northwestern have the trashiest professors in the United States. Obviously he is consulting Obama behind the scenes when it comes to terroism and education.
Not one had an ad for "Community Organizer". What the hell is that for a background? McPain should bring that up.
What McCain should be doing is what he inexplicably has not done:
Point out the genesis of this credit crisis in the CRA, and Clinton's subsequent executive orders to punish the lenders that refuse to write loans to those not credit worthy.
It has to be said that this is 100% a democrat fiasco. (as always) What is going on in his head?
Are you sure? - The polling sure doesn't show that.
Post a thread if you want a poll freeped.
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Legal Challenges to Wolf Delisting in Wyoming Still Possible [AUDIO]
A U.S. Senate hearing held in Colorado Springs today gathered testimony from experts and federal agencies about mitigation. One theory is that "fire plains" much like floodplains could be pinpointed and managed differently in Wyoming and other western states. The federal government plans to announce an end to protections for wolves in Wyoming later this month, but the legal challenges may not be over. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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Automotive history is full of visionaries, people who dreamed up advances in engineering, styling, marketing, and performance, then went out and turned their visions into reality. Stockholm native and industrial designer Ralph Lysell, a lesser-known automotive visionary, came to the United States between the wars with dreams of building his own car. After building one streamlined example in the States, he then returned to Europe, where after World War II he made another attempt at building a car, one that he called the Rally. Sondre Kvipt at Kustomrama has done an excellent job of compiling the story of the Rally, and graciously allowed us to reprint it here.
In 1949, Ralph moved to Oslo, Norway. It is not known why he moved to Oslo, but chances are good that he met his Norwegian wife while living in Paris. Ralph was also very interested in new materials, so it could also be the supply of Norwegian aluminum that brought Ralph to Norway. When Ralph came to Norway, he brought with him some sketches of a futuristic automobile in his luggage. After WWII, there were import restrictions on cars and trucks in Norway. The desperate need for cars and trucks was considered a business opportunity for many Norwegian entrepreneurs at the time, and as Ralph was an engineer and an industrial designer with a background from the auto industry, he saw an opportunity to produce and sell Norwegian made automobiles.
He had plans for a range of cars, including a sports car, a taxi cab and a truck. Ralph started with the sports car. The sports car was called Rally, a name most likely made from Ralph's own name: RALph LYsell. On January 17, 1951, the citizens of Norway were presented with Ralph's automotive plans in a story published in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. The story was titled "Experienced Auto-Man Plans Norwegian Production of Taxi-Cabs." By then he had already started building the Rally prototype at Norwegian Aircraft Industries LTD at Fornebu. Fornebu was the main airport of Norway, located in Oslo. After a failed attempt at building an airplane in the late 1940s, Norwegian Aircraft Industries LTD were seeking new ventures, looking into the auto industry. Their craft was welding and shaping of aluminum, and during the period 1950-1951 at least four, but maybe even five cars were built at Norwegian Aircraft Industries LTD. Two or three of the cars were in-house projects led by three gentlemen named Eriksen, Hannisdal and Skotvedt. In 1950, the trio even went to Earls Court in London to learn more about the auto industry. Ralph's Rally was built by Norwegian Aircraft Industries LTD at their facilities, but it was a project run and operated by Ralph.
Ralph's low-slung sports car featured a streamlined body made mostly from 3mm-thick aluminum plates. As the project progressed, some changes were done to the initial design of the car, and most notable are the more conventional headlights, the shape of the fender skirts and the enlarged front wheel openings. Ralph's design sketches show that he wanted to fit the Rally with a plexiglas bubble top. Ralph was very fond of bubble tops, and the same cockpit design can be found on a boat and an airplane he designed, as well. Ralph's sports car featured two gas fillers on each side of the rear deck that were operated by push-buttons on the gauge panel placed in the middle of the cockpit. He wanted to produce the body and chassis for the production cars in Norway. The engine blocks, clutches, transmissions and rear ends Ralph planned to import from the United States. The prototype was built on a chassis designed by Ralph. The rear end, front suspension transmission and engine were taken from an American Ford or Mercury. According to the newspaper article, the Rally was powered by an English Ford flathead V-8 that had been hopped up from 95 to 160 horsepower. The same story also stated that Ralph wanted to import the engine blocks, clutches, transmissions and rear ends from Germany or England. This was the case for the taxi cabs, but not the Rally. Later on, in April of 1951, the Norwegian television broadcaster NRK visited Ralph at Fornebu to document the event that was taking place on film. The movie clip is still around, and it shows the Rally powered by a Mercury flathead V-8 engine. The engine had been hopped up featuring dual carburetors. Due to the extensive usage of aluminum, the car weighed supposedly only 870 kg. The commentator in the movie mentions that the car will be fitted with a plastic bubble before it will be shown to the public. The body for a Norwegian made race car called The Stousland Special, was handmade out of aluminum next to the Rally at Norsk Flyindustri in 1951 as well.
Ralph was a visionary, and he told Aftenposten that he wanted to produce 15 Rallys in addition to the prototype in 1951. The reason was that he had already received 15 orders on the car from enthusiasts in Norway and Sweden. Ralph also told the journalist that he planned to start building the taxi prototype later on the same year, as well. The real production for the taxi cab was planned to start in 1952, and he wanted to produce 70 of these the first year. Ralph's taxi was designed especially for the conditions in Norway, and he wanted the selling price to be below 18,000 NOK. He wanted the taxi to be powered by an English Ford engine. Just as the Rally, the taxi engine would also feature dual carburetors. These carburetors were specially designed by Ralph, and they were constructed for efficiency and high acceleration in the city. A brand-new steering mechanism would make the car very easy to steer and a specially designed stabilizer would make the car tailored for the narrow and winding roads of Norway. As with the Rally, Ralph wanted to use as much Norwegian aluminum as possible in his taxi cab.
Only one prototype of the Rally was built, and according to a story published in the November 1953 issue of Teknikens Värld, Ralph abandoned his automotive dream to build an aluminum lifeboat called Svelvik, which was designed so it couldn't tip or sink. It is not known whether or not the Rally ever received a plexiglas bubble top. According to rumors, and there are many rumors about Ralph, the car was good for more than 200 kilometers per hour. Ralph eventually sold the Rally to Paul Wiencke. As there were problems getting the car through Norwegian inspection, it took some time before it could be driven legally on the streets. On September 4, 1954, the Rally passed inspection, and it received its first set of Norwegian license plates. It received the chassis number VDN 478. VDN, which stands for "VegDirektoratets Nummer," was a series of numbers created after WWII for homebuilt cars and trailers. According to the registration-title, the registrant was Jack Roar Rollve of Oslo, who actually worked for the government, inspecting cars. When the car passed inspection in 1954 it was still powered by a Mercury V-8 engine, and it rolled on 6.00-16 inch wheels on all four corners. The total weight, according to the registration-title, was 1,050 kilograms. A month later, on October 7, 1954, the car was sold to Willy Will Gundersen of Oslo.
Johan Megaard bought the Rally in 1959. When Johan bought the car, it was parked on a street in Oslo, and it was in need of some love and care. Johan began working on the car. He repainted it, but he never got it back on the road again; so in 1963, he sold it to his good friend, Roger Glans, of Halden, Norway. Roger installed a rear window from a 1950 Studebaker as a windshield on the car, and he made a soft top to go along with it. He also installed a pair of Jaguar bumpers along with taillights from a Volvo PV. Inspired by early Chevrolet Corvettes, the Rally was painted in a two-tone color combination before he got it back on the road again in 1964. Not satisfied with how the car handled on the road, Roger sold the Rally in 1968. Early in the 1970s, the car was taken off the road by its then owner, Johan Johnsen. Kay Minge of Trøgstad, Norway, owned the car for a while after Roger. Around 1980, Kay sold the car to Jan-Odd Jakobsen. Jan-Odd had heard rumors about an early Corvette in Østfold. While looking for the Corvette, he stumbled across Minge's roadster, and he realized that he had found the "Corvette" he was looking for. He bought the car, but sold it further to a guy from Nesodden, Norway, after a while.
In 2007, Pål Heine Torp of Sarpsborg, Norway, found the car advertised for sale. The listing was very anonymous, and Pål understood right away that this had to be a very special car, so he bought it only hours after he first saw the ad. Pål owned the car for about a year, and was able to trace much of the history of the old Norwegian sports car. When Pål became aware of the car's unique legacy, he decided to sell it off to an enthusiast willing to bring it back to its former glory. Pål sold the old sports car to Eirik Bøle of Asker, Norway, in 2008. Eirik is a collector of Norwegian made automobiles, and amongst his collection is also the Stousland Special.
After buying the car, Eirik started a thorough restoration back to how the car appeared in construction photos from 1951. With old paint peeling off the body, the car looked to be in a much worse condition then it actually was. It was free from rust, and due to the solid body made from 3mm-thick aluminum plates, the body was in a very good condition. It had a little dent in the hood, but that was basically it. Eirik went over the driveline, brakes and mechanical parts and replaced broken or worn out parts. The body was straightened and cleaned up before Magnus Ahlqvist at Motorima Coachbuilding began constructing the missing bubble top for the car. The restoration was done after old photographs, but as no photos of the car with a bubble top have surfaced yet, and as nobody knows for sure whether or not the car ever received a bubble top, Eirik decided to have a top similar to the one found on the 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Concept Car made for the car. The bubble top and its framework were completed in January 2012, only days before the car was shown at an exhibit at DesignHall in Hägersten, Sweden, honoring Ralph Lysell, the first industrial designer of Sweden. The exhibit runs from February 3 through April 15, 2012, and at the exhibit, the Rally Special is shown in an almost completed bare aluminum version.
UPDATE (27.August 2012): Sondre sent us a few recent photos of the bubbletop that we thought would be worth including here.:
lot's of hand's on the car,but not much done to it.
I like the taxicab design sketch – it has the anonymous look of a car from a Tex Avery cartoon, maybe "Car of the Future"!
Nice article!
I read about Lysell Streamliner in an old issue of SIA, #178 July\August 2000…here's a (bad) scan of those pages:
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The Lysell Bubbletop is truly an amazing automobile. It is incredible that such a streamlined and stylish vehicle could be built by an individual in the early 1950s.
From the photos it appears that the car found the right new custodian as the restoration work looks absolutely gorgeous.
And I want one in my garage!
Looks like a BugEye Sprite and a Mercedes Gullwing got together one night in the corner of the garage and made a baby.
Great minds think alike. Looks to me to be very similar to a Kurtis sports car that became a Muntz Jet. Kurtis initially used aluminum panels and a hopped up mercury flathead to make a speed record in his class at the first Bonneville meet. Certainly looks more futuristic with the bubble top but basically a proven race car form from the early fifties.
The Bubble Top & Early '50's Sports Car is a revelation. This is what automotive history is all about. The very pleasing design makes it clear that it could have been a race car, suspension, wheels and steering all developing, if the car had been made with the 45 examples as planned. Great job by the automotive journalist. – Alex Ford, Simi Valley
My Dad worked on that car after the war in Norway, I have an original sketch of it. He was a sheet metal worker. Very exciting to see the article
My dad was a tool & die maker, working at Fornibu during, and after WWII. He had the opportunity to work on the original assembly of the Rally. My sister has a original concept photo that hung in my parents dining room. My dad was very proud of having been involved in assembling this car. He went on to be a tool & die maker for GM Truck in Coach after coming to the U.S.


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New business licenses provided by the Hamilton County clerk for Jan. 28-Feb. 1:
Brights Goods and Services, 4015 Berwick Lane, Ooltewah, Peter B. Bright
Diamond Nails Boutique, 7000 Lee Highway, Ste. 800, Chattanooga, Pik Chea
Edwin Thomas Bear Jr., 2765 Aventine Way, Apartment 309, Chattanooga, Edwin Bear
Hope Conner/Splash Salon, 8643 E. Brainerd Road, Chattanooga, Hope Conner
Laxmi Chattanooga Hamilton Inc., 2115 Gunbarrel Road, Ste. 8, Chattanooga, Laxmi Chattanooga Hamilton Inc.
Me Time Skin and Nail Studio, 8117 Ooltewah Georgetown Road, Ooltewah, Renee Parnell
MTC, 1703 E. 48th St., Chattanooga, Thad Bowman
Premier Surfaces of Tennessee, 2601 E. 34 St., Chattanooga, Eric Tryon
S&S Motorsports, 626 Shallowford Road, Chattanooga, Carlos Sweatt
Superior Hand Car Wash, 4115 Shallowford Road, Chattanooga, Tony L. Owens Jr.
Wholesale Auto Shop LLC, 6000 Lee Highway, Ste. C, Chattanooga, Melissa Williams
Allied Management Solutions LLC, 463 Sweet Pecan Lane, Chattanooga, Joel E. Segar
C9 Hookah Lounge, 1101 Hixson Pike, Ste. M., Chattanooga, Marilyn Rampersad
Church Surfer, 702 A Cauthen Way, Signal Mountain, Joshua F. Davis
Clean 4 Me, 4846 Hillsdale Circle, Chattanooga, Brandon L. Diaz
Galher LLC, 5813 Lee Highway, Ste. 43, Chattanooga, Fabian E. Oaveda Herrera
Jeremy S. Hicks Franchise for Snap On Tools, various locations, Chattanooga, Jeremy S. Hicks
Nicholas J. Goebeler, 5830 Brainerd Road, Chattanooga, Nicholas H. Goebler
Rococo, 4918 Tennessee Ave. A, Chattanooga, Michael Kendall
Sitting Solutions LLC, 4995 East View Terrace, Apison, Tenn., Daniel Beaucicot
Zumba Fitness Studio, 739 Ashland Terrace, Ste. 201, Chattanooga, Monica K. James
Boley Custom Woodworks, 1704 Vance Ave., Chattanooga, Jonathan Boley
Southern Roots Salon and Spa, 5716 Ringgold Road, East Ridge, Cynthia Williams
Dortch's Inc., 2618 Ooltewah Ringgold Road, Ooltewah, Gregory T. Dortch
The Family Herb Shop, 5407 Hixson Pike, Ste. 105, Hixson, Allison M. Campbell
Gypsi Rose Tattoo, 5113 Highway 58, Ste. 2A, Chattanooga, James Cannon
Jeff Madaris, 1722 John Ross Road, East Ridge, Brian Russell Gamble
Lets Cook!, 2 Grayswood Hill Road, Signal Mountain, Jennifer Womack Vervile
Alan Chestnutt Graphic Design, 20 Mason Drive, Apartment 707, Chattanooga, Alan A. Chestnutt
Cleveland Construction Inc., various locations, Mark Small
Core Technologies Group LLC, 2288 Gunbarrel Road, Ste. 154-298, Chattanooga, Christopher N. Gross
Family Market, 5601 St. Elmo Ave., Chattanooga, Abdo S. Ahmed
Franklin Tax Pros, 4011 Brainerd Road #151, Chattanooga, Kevin Wellwood
Ideology Films 2621 E. 21st St., Chattanooga, Jerry Lebron Green
Maria's Cleaning Service, 3301 Pinewood Ave., Apartment 49, Chattanooga, Dinah Maria Smith
Mrs. Niecey Apparel, 5509 Orlin Drive, Chattanooga, Vanecia Spencer
Roc City Entertainment, 707 McGowan Road, Chattanooga, Christopher Stewart
Aaron Nunley, 3802 Wiley Ave., Chattanooga, Aaron Nunley
Basic Catering, 1401 S. Highland Park Ave., Chattanooga, Adrea Hill
Daves Shooters Supply, 317 Reads Lake Road, Red Bank, David R. Smith
Janell Adler, 9176 Integra Hills Lane, Apartment 230, Ooltewah, Janell Adler
Juan Flores, 1821 Richmond Lane, Chattanooga, Juan Flores
Me, Myself & My Hair Company, 1664 Greendale Way, Apartment 312, Hixson, Vanessa Johnson
Moore's Roofing Repairs, 643 Ooltewah Georgetown Road, Ooltewah, Daniel Moore
Mudpiez & Crayonz Childcare, 2217 Beeler Ave., Chattanooga, Sabrina Smith Bruce
My Mat My Mantra, 3 Rock Crest Lane, Signal Mountain, Carolyn P. Flower
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INDIANAPOLIS - Gun control supporters gathered Thursday on the eve of the annual National Rifle Association convention in downtown Indianapolis to plead for the gun rights organization's help in stemming a rising tide of homicides in the host city.
"We have too many young people with guns and they're using them to settle disputes," said Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence President Stephen Dunlop.
Dunlop told an audience of about two dozen people that the only answer is to keep guns off the streets. Other speakers said something needs to be done to prevent young black men from shooting other young black men, when both are often teenagers.
Dunlop said that policies endorsed by the NRA haven't worked for Indianapolis and he wants the NRA to know about the rate of homicides that has risen over the past three years in the city.
"The one thing that really works is to remove the guns from the streets," he said.
The audience bowed their heads and listened in silence as Dunlop recited a list of this year's victims.
"The gun supply in our community is obscene," said Regina Marsh, head of the Forest Manor Multi-Service Center. The community center is on Indianapolis' east side, where many fatal shootings this year have occurred.
Democratic state Sen. Jean Breaux of Indianapolis said legislators have preferred expanding gun rights over limiting access to firearms. She noted state laws that have been passed in recent years expanding the area where gun owners can carry concealed weapons and said that a bill she sponsored to require gun buyers to take an eight-hour safety course "went nowhere."
"The NRA is large and organized; we must become large and organized as well," Breaux said.
A message seeking comment was left with an NRA spokesman.
About 70,000 people are expected to attend this weekend's NRA convention, at which several 2016 presidential hopefuls are scheduled to speak.
Several gun control advocacy groups are staging alternative events.


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Bob Woodward, left, and Bucknell Trustee Chair Judge Susan Crawford '69 shake graduate hands.
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell University awarded 820 undergraduate and 25 graduate degrees Sunday at an event featuring as keynote speaker the accomplished journalist Bob Woodward.
It was the University's 157th commencement and, as if on cue, damp and overcast skies gave way to sun-streaked blue just as the Rooke Chapel bells began tolling to commence the processional from the Christy Mathewson Memorial Gateway to the Academic Quadrangle.
Bucknell President Brian C. Mitchell told the estimated 8,000 to 10,000 in attendance that recent events had underscored the importance of close communities of learning.
Responsible for each other
"We saw Bucknell, students, faculty, staff, and alumni extend an outpouring of support to friends and colleagues at Virginia Tech and to one another," Mitchell said. "Our compassionate response to this crisis was swift and genuine. Simply put, we all need each other. We are all responsible for each other. Students, please know you will always be part of the Bucknell community."
Woodward told the celebrants that he and President Mitchell had calculated that the aggregate cost for educating the Class of 2007 was $200 million. "Think about it - $200 million - the best capital investment that has ever been made," he said.
The journalist, who was presented with Bucknell's Award of Merit, which honors exceptional contributions to a profession and exemplifying the highest standards of Bucknell, spoke about his role in covering Watergate in the 1970s, the long-term impact of the Iraq War, and the importance finding work that one loves.
Crucial importance
Of crucial importance, he said, is carefully deciding "who you are going to work with. It makes all the difference in the world."
He recalled that when his reporting on Watergate was being questioned, he was called to a meeting with publisher Katharine Graham. She'd asked when he and fellow reporter Carl Bernstein would get to the bottom of the Watergate story.
Noting the fear and entanglements of the many sources he and Carl Bernstein were researched, he responded."Never. We're never going to learn the full story."
Obligation beyond ourselves
"Never? Don't tell me never," she responded. Woodward called her comment not a threat, but a statement of purpose, realizing, he says, "We had an obligation beyond ourselves to find out what happened here and what it means. That is a moment where I realized that I was working with somebody and for someone who knew precisely what the job was. That the job is to get to the bottom of things."
He said his latest book, State of Denial, showed that the administration "for three and a half years did not tell the truth about what was going on in the war."
The lesson, he said, is that "we have to worry about is secret government. Of all the problems in the world, secret government will do us in. Whoever said it got it right when they said that democracies die in darkness."
Iraq war
Woodward said the world had changed after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, but "we in this country have not changed our lives in my view enough to meet the challenge and the responsibilities of that new era. The most important thing going on in the world right now is the Iraq war. It will define your future."
Woodward told the celebrants to not let the Iraq war "teach you that the United States can't engage the world. Don't let it teach you desperation or cause you to retreat into the bubble. Most importantly, don't let it teach you that our country cannot deal with conflict and cannot deal with evil like Saddam Hussein. Because I think we can and we will."
He concluded by saying that while he felt the world was at a point of peril, his friend David Halberstam, the late journalist, had it right. Woodward recalled Halberstam's being fond of saying at commencements, "You'll be fine. There is a determination, a real resilience and a spirit in this country that will not be snuffed out."
Woodward added, "So we'll fix it, but there is more much for you now to fix."
Woodward shook hands
As the degrees were handed out Woodward shook hands with each of the graduates, asking many what they plan to do next with their lives.
At Sunday's ceremony, the University also awarded honorary degrees to Richard Garman, formerly a Bucknell student, who built a reputation in the construction industry and for his extensive civic and philanthropic activities, and Alan Leshner, president of American Association for the Advancement of Science and former Bucknell professor.
Woodward attends one commencement a year.
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- it is often the default shell on many linux distributions.
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- My only other real shell interactions have been bourne shell, and korn on AIX and HP-UX, which I didn't like too much


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DENVER — The Tulo-CarGo duo is MIA. That has been true for some time.
But stepping out of the shadows cast by the Rockies' ailing stars are two fresh-faced kids. They are providing entertainment during a depressing season while offering hope for a brighter future.
Left fielder Corey Dickerson, 25, a free-swinging slugger, hit two solo home runs Wednesday in the Rockies' 9-2 romp over the San Francisco Giants. Nolan Arenado, 23, the reigning Gold Glove third baseman, added a three-run homer.
"Both of those guys have had tremendous seasons — Nolan and Dickie," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "We still have a few weeks to go, but both of those guys are establishing themselves as premier-type players in this league."
Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong was sailing along through his first four innings on a hot and nearly cloudless afternoon at Coors Field. He didn't know it at the time, but he was in deep trouble, especially with the way Dickerson and Arenado are swinging hot bats.
By the end of his five-plus innings, Vogelsong had given up four homers, the most in one game in his career. In addition to Dickerson's and Arenado's blasts, catcher Michael McKenry led off the Rockies' sixth inning with a drive over the center-field wall. The eight runs he allowed tied a career high.
"It's nice to know that we have some young guys here who can make an impact and help the team win," said Arenado, who went 2-for-4 in connecting for his 15th homer and raising his average to .296.
Wednesday marked the second two-homer day of Dickerson's career, the other coming May 10 at Cincinnati. His first shot, as he led off the second inning, traveled 438 feet, landing deep into the seats beyond right-center field. His second homer, steered to left in the Rockies' four-run fifth inning, was a line drive.
Dickerson also twice flied out deep to center field. He knows he's swinging a hot bat, but did he think he had a chance for three, possibly four, home runs?
"I felt like I hit those balls to center pretty well, but (the balls) got inside on me just a little bit," Dickerson said. "Every at-bat, you want to see progress or get a hit out of it. If not, you're disappointed."
With 22 home runs, Dickerson has overtaken Troy Tulowitzki for the team lead. Dickerson is hitting .311 and has a chance to be factor in the race for the National League batting title down the stretch.
"He gets in great position on contact," Weiss said. "He reminds me of some of those hitters who never decelerate their bat. He always gets his 'A' swing involved. Even if he's not on time or he's fooled, he still gets his 'A' swing involved. That's always been the sign of a good hitter."
Going forward, Dickerson doesn't believe the Rockies can win consistently without Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez, but he said the ability to generate offense without them is a good sign.
"Those guys that are hurt are All-Stars, and they're going to be All-Stars every year," Dickerson said. "For us to be able to produce, and especially produce at this level right now, is good for us. That gives us just that much more confidence going into next year."
Rockies rookie right-handed starter Christian Bergman fared much better than Vogelsong, allowing two runs in six innings to improve to 2-2.
Rockies, De La Rosa reach two-year, $25 million deal
The Rockies announced Wednesday night that they have agreed to a two-year contract extension with left-handed starter Jorge De La Rosa.
According to a league source, the deal is for $25 million with no options.
De La Rosa, the winningest pitcher in Coors Field history, was due to become a free agent at the end of the current season.
De La Rosa's 44 wins at Coors Field are the most all-time and his .759 home win percentage (44-14) since 2008 is the second best in the majors.
Despite the Rockies' 56-84 record, De La Rosa is 13-10 with a 4.20 ERA this season. He is 9-2 with a 3.19 ERA at home, and is a pitcher who has displayed a comfort level pitching at Coors Field.
De La Rosa is making $11 million this season, making him the second-highest paid Rockies player behind shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. He rebounded from Tommy John surgery in 2011 to win 16 games last season. He also won 16 games in 2009, helping lead the Rockies to the playoffs.


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@ Ridwan : Quit bitching and accept it.
Well it seems that they went down the wrong path of Islam and violated its image even more. It is kind of sad how thesw philosophies are easily twisted by megalomanical butthurt anchioves and result in the death of innocent people.
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I fully understand and agree that the vast majority of adherents to Islam are peaceful, normal people who just want to live their lives without any conflict. I also am a firm believer in the fact that many of the Islamic nations have socioeconomic problems and a bone to pick with Western civilization for imperialism and interference in their affairs. I also accept and acknowledge every civilization has its extremists who are violent and can give their peers a bad name.
With all of that in mind, I still wonder if it's a bit easier to "make the leap," as an adherent of Islam, towards violence for religious reasons. We shouldn't completely turn a blind eye to the fact that Islam was built on violent conquest. That's not to say that Christianity, for instance, didn't benefit greatly, at times, from warring armies spreading their texts by the sword. Nonetheless, in Islam, it is a much more tightly interwoven facet of the religion's history. The conquest of Mecca was engineered by Muhammad himself. It was done to 'avenge' the slaughter of Muslims, but even so, that behavior is kind of a far cry from how Buddha or Jesus might have reacted, according to our knowledge of them. After Muhammad's death, the conquests expanded further and further. Of course, balance that with the fact that, as far as we know historically, many of the great Islamic empires were relatively accepting of minority religions (second class status, but acceptance), which we certainly can't claim about medieval Christianity.
So, yes, most Muslims are regular people. Being Muslim doesn't turn you into a hateful person out for blood. I do think, however, there may be some truth to the idea that there is a minor cultural leaning towards warfare within Islam. What that means to me is, IF you decide you want to use your religion to justify violence, it might be a bit easier as a Muslim. This might also make it easier to form radical groups. In the end, though, extremists will find justification for their actions, regardless of what text they observe.
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It's exactly as you said : extremists will find justification for their actions, regardless of whatever they fight for.
Islam is "the other", and it's easy sometimes to make a lot of assumptions and generalizations in lieu of understanding the root causes of the problems.
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Current events bein what they are, nice job Boston! Hope yous can rest easy now.
As for the whole religious talk, as somebody who spent three years in Afghanistan huntin a particular bonafide terrorist/nutcase, I got to meet and talk with those you call Muslims, Arabs, Jihadists, and good old fashioned Mujahadeen.
To put it simple, they are just as curious about us as we are about them, about 50-100 years behind us tech wise, the concept of running water is a new thing! And every damn one if them will greet you with a smile and "Salam Milekum!"(sp?). And yeah they all had guns too! Having a rifle is considered a rite of passage over there, jest like a car over here. Most didn't like the Taliban and the elders considered their ways against the teachings of Allah, and fer the most part the clerics were good at preachin the word of Osama, better than Allah!
In other words a religion can be corrupted to fit a desired plan, and humans can be very underhanded. History has shown how religion can be persecuted by those with an agenda as well, and I don't think I need to retread that path here, since you have the internet at your disposal!
As to the Chechen that is in custody, yeah don't get to comfortable bubba, Russia will be wantin to talk to yas! These clowns were notorious for stirin up shit in Iraq, and hardcore "insurrectionists too.
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Anyways, it's a controversial viewpoint and I can see it's pretty hard to articulate it without giving the impression that I think Islam is 'bad.' I just think it's an interesting idea to ponder that gets buried underneath the debate between xenophobes and politically correct people.
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I am rather disguised at how people quickly jump to this whole discussion about Muslim, terrorism, or even striping the man of his rights as a human and just have him tied to a stake and stoned to death by the masses.
I feel as if people needed an excuse to differentiate themselves from "terrorists" then engage in this giant circlejerk led by the media.
The bible too has many questionable passages if taken literally. Such topics are often avoided and considered taboo when discussed with christians. The christian god is just as unmerciful to his enemies and non-believers as the "demons of Islam" (with a premise of: if you don't believe in me, you are going to hell some day).
All these hatred building up towards things we do not necessary agree with is what sparks more wars in the future and pass on the flames of hatred. End of the day, I think we all brought terrorism onto ourselves.
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This is silly. Regardless of how you try to quibble over whether Islamic texts make it easier to justify violent conquest or not, the fact remains that early and medieval Christians were just as able to use Christianity as a justification for expansionist military conquests as Islam was able to. Christianity didn't go from obscure cult to one of the most dominant religions on the planet by playing nice.
The reason Islam produces so many terrorists today is because the theological center of the Muslim world is a fragmented mess left over from colonialism.
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Two MVCC instructors receive certification from Kellogg Institute
Sep 13, 2012
Two faculty members at Mohawk Valley Community College recently received certification as Developmental Education Specialists from the Kellogg Institute for the Training and Certification of Developmental Educators.
Instructors Erin Severs, of Clayville, and Alexander Haines-Stephan, of Clinton, were selected from educators across the United States to participate in the Kellogg Institute and its certification process during the 2011-12 academic year. Their practicum, which identified topics for workshops and seminars that will help other instructors better understand the developmental student, was listed as "exemplary" and was added to the Kellogg Institute resource library for future attendees to use as a model. The certification as Developmental Education Specialist is awarded through the Kellogg Institute, in conjunction with Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.
The Kellogg Institute, now in its 34th year, offers a unique month-long living and learning experience for the training and certification of educational professionals who work with academically underprepared students on college campuses. Each year, 45 individuals participate in a summer training program, followed by a semester's practicum in which participants implement new techniques on their home campuses.
Severs and Haines-Stephan were awarded certification as a result of their participation in the training program and completion of an implementation project at MVCC, which also implemented best practices for student success that other institutions may find useful. Severs received her master's degree from the University of Maine-Orono. Haines-Stephan is currently completing his master's degree at Utica College.
MVCC is proud to have sponsored these two outstanding faculty members for the Kellogg experience through its commitment to professional development and to students who arrive at the college with developmental education needs.
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Last Saturday virologist PhD student and blogger Anna Kushnir expressed a different view:
For a site that is as vital to scientific progress as PubMed is, their search engine is shamefully bad. It's embarrassingly, frustratingly, painfully bad.
She gave these examples:
I can hold a paper in my hands, search for two authors' last names and have PubMed come up with nothing. My friend searched for microRNAs and her virus of interest. The search engine (can I even call it an engine? It's more like a tricycle) came up with papers dating back to 1997. I am pretty sure no one knew about microRNAs in 1997. Yet another friend was only able to find publications about his compound of choice after empirically defining one of its functions in the cell… which is when he found out this information had been available all along. He couldn't pull up the relevant papers without searching specifically for the compound and that one effect on the cell.
While the issues here may stem from limitations of PubMed they may also reflect a misunderstanding of search strategies.
She asks, for example:
How does it even work? Does it search only the abstract? Does it also search the body of the papers that are available online?
Those answers are readily available and there are two ways to know. You can tell PubMed exactly how to do the search through the use of Boolean operators and PubMed field tags or you can type in a simple free text search word or phrase and let PubMed decide the strategy. In the former case you know what PubMed did because you told it what to do. In the latter case you can find out by clicking the details tab on the results page to see the strategy. The information displayed there is extremely useful because it suggests ways to refine your search for better results.
The details display also reveals some of the hazards of simple free text searching. Here's what PubMed did, for example, when I simply typed "diabetes" (click image to zoom):
It retrieved results for both diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus. Chances are I'd be looking for one or the other, not both. It also tells me it searched text words through the title and abstract in addition to applicable subject headings (MESH terms).
Sound complicated? You can always get help from your medical librarian but you don't have to. You can learn to do it yourself. After some initial effort (take the tutorial) and a little practice it's not that hard. If you can blog you can do PubMed. If you can navigate an electronic medical record you can do PubMed.
That said, I have little experience using PubMed for basic topics in molecular biology and the like, where its performance may not be as suitable as in clinical medicine.
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If any story deserves that tag, its this.
I know you're joking, but Twitter does have a nearly unique architecture that makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to block without blocking the entire Internet. Now, say what you will about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of using it as a protest or organization tool, but at least it keeps the lines of communication open in spite of government interference.
Nothing of value was lost -- social networking is about as important as celebrity gossip.
Cue James Earl Jones:
I find your lack of faith disturbing. The ramifications of social networking have yet to be truly felt in the outer colonies. Communication is key to productivity and morale of the people. The Emperor is a fool to take it away and not realize it for the tool that it is. It is also quite helpful to keep tabs on the new T-17. Hot little number there. If the rebel alliance is to be deterred we must know where they are, what they're doing at all times, what they're currently dining on, when they've returned from the bathroom, and how they're wearing their hair today. Twitter is the key.
Do not fail me again.
1) Millions of people use it
2) It is uses to allow poeple to follow people that are interesting to them. Not just gossip, but science information, events.
3) Nearly instant knowledge of world events.
4) Allows protesters to disseminate information
5) Is allowing for a deeper understanding od human nature in large societies.
6) It's another tool for expression.
So I would say that it does have value.
Yes, I get CDC outbreak updates, political updates, software updates. These are hardly social nonsense. If you don't "get" twitter, that's fine, but don't assume it's useless.
Twitter is like the news ticker with RSS feeds being the newspaper.
1) Millions of people use it
2) It is uses to allow poeple to follow people that are interesting to them. Not just gossip, but science information, events.
3) Nearly instant knowledge of world events.
4) Allows protesters to disseminate information
5) Is allowing for a deeper understanding od human nature in large societies.
6) It's another tool for expression.
So I would say that it does have value.
You need to look at opportunity cost: what is lost in order to gain these benefits?
1) Millions of people could be using something else.
2) "Following" people on Twitter is necessarily superficial compared to other media, which offer the same benefits without the message size limit.
3) Instant knowledge of world events is available in many media, with Twitter again being more superficial than the others.
4) No, it's a means by which protesters disseminate information. It worked in Iran because it's new and the government didn't know how to block it as well as other services at first. It has no inherent advantage in this area.
5) Your point is preposterous. It allows for a deeper understanding of how people use Twitter, sure, but that's not valuable.
6) And an inferior one at that.
2) "Following" people on Twitter is necessarily superficial compared to other media, which offer the same benefits without the message size limit.
And that's exactly the point, following someone on Twitter isn't even close to declaring them a "friend", it merely means that you find their thoughts interesting and would like to subscribe to their newsletter.
Maybe it is different for you, but that seems to be the general trend that I have noticed. People find these old friends on Facebook, but never seem to really communicate with then for very long. I would guess that if it really was so important to talk to someone, you could have called or emailed them; there are a few exceptional cases where a person really did vanish for a few years and nobody knew how to get in touch with them, but that is not as common as people seem to think it is.
As a case-in-point, a friend of mine from high school who had been unreachable for 4 years because of her drug problems contacted me on AIM a few months ago; we reconnected with no social networking site, just using the same communication system we had been using before. I still have hundreds of email addresses, phone numbers, and screen names of people I was friends with at one point or another, most of whom are still reachable through those channels, who I simply do not talk to. Social networking websites do not solve this problem.
With regard to events that you would not have known about...well, unless those events were not happening before the advent of social networking services, I strongly doubt that Facebook really made you more aware of the events or more able to find them. I still manage to find out about relevant events by email, phone calls, and word of mouth, just like people did 10, 50, and 100 years ago. Can you honestly say that you go to events that you would not have heard about except over Facebook? That you did not receive any emails, phone calls, or hear any of your friends (in real life) talking about? Maybe you can; that would make you an exceptional case, at least from what I have encountered over the past few years.
It's not that I am too cool for social networking sites; I just do not use them, and that has not been a problem for me.
Can you honestly say that you go to events that you would not have heard about except over Facebook? That you did not receive any emails, phone calls, or hear any of your friends (in real life) talking about?
Yeah actually that's how I hear about most things first. Then when I see people we might talk about the event,but its a great casual way to organize an event amongst groups of friends. Less intrusive than a phone call or aim. Email could be sort of an alternative, but not as rich.
For most catching up of friends you are right, but you can also discover more common interests than what was possible before through a quick aim chat. You get to listen in on their conversations with other people and see how they interact with their friends and how they react to the days events. I can honestly say that I am now a much closer fired to some people I went through high school with, than when we were in high school.
That, and correcting them for using "tweeters", people who use twitter are called "twits", I thought everyone knew that.
I thought it was "twats".
So did David Cameron apparently.
Nope, twit. Twat shares less letters with twitter, and can be construed as unnecessarily vulgar. Twit gets the point across quite nicely.
I'll file that under "useless facts".
I know we don't RTFA around here, but its only sources are the Twitter blog itself.
This is what happens when you anger the googles.
Might it have had something to do with the Twitter-based HTML demo (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/2348219/HTML-5-Canvas-Experiment-Hints-At-Things-To-Come?art_pos=8) that made Slashdot earlier today? The site in question hits Twitter for a large number of tweets, and I imagine a lot of
So THAT's what Conficker's for.
Now I wish I hadn't patched my machines.
myspace is still holding 32 points of collective IQ, and the medias and entertainments the remaining 78.
Oh well, its a start
Dimwit! 32 and 78 is 110, and everyone knows 100 is the maximum. So I'm quite happy with my 90 score!
You joke, but with Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal all down, I bet workplace productivity will see a bump today.
...what will Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore do?
Say about Defcon what you want. Yes, it lost its edge. Yes, it got watered down. Yes, it's not the top notch hacker con it used to be. Yes, it's been turned into the BH stepchild-still-in-puberty.
But even there nobody is yet so low to consider Twitter a worthy target.
Decentralization is the solution to single-link failures.
Cloud is centralization.
The reason email was such a boon, and the only reason it's lasted so long, is because you didn't need a login on someone else's system in order to communicate with them. Of course, that's also why the folks who came up with it never (directly) made any money off of it. (Finding interviews with the inventor of '@' are left as a googlecise for the reader.)
It's a tough position: the only way to last longer than a flash-in-the-pan fad is to give up your only obvious way to turn a profit... but no flash-in-the-pan fads have ever turned a profit either. So we'll continue to get these cyclical fads, all of us moving from service provider to service provider, like a migrating swarm of locusts, leaving fields of venture capital devastated in our wake, hoping that someone will figure out the magic formula to make money from it.
Compared to Twitter's usual activity load, a slashdotting is not going to be that big a deal.
There was weeping and gnashing of teeth - by tweens everywhere
And there was MUCH rejoicing - By everyone else
is doing it [cnet.com]?
From my comcast connection at home, we've had difficulty accessing:
twitter.com, ezrider.bart.gov, and facebook.com
From my AT&T smartphone, via both the native browser (which uses AT&T's net connection) and Skyfire (which uses Skyfire's net connection -- they effectively proxy), I've had difficulty with:
twitter.com and ezrider.bart.gov
Now I'm finally in the office, on our DSL (sonic.net, copper owned by AT&T), and still can't access:
twitter.com and ezrider.bart.gov
I wonder if twitter.com and ezri
I wonder what the loss of revenue is for companies like Dell who recently posted earnings of $3M from Twitter sales [slashdot.org]. I know for me, it's an inconvenience as I just released mobile versions [bit.ly] of my rpg supplements [morbidgames.com] and twittered about it [twitter.com], which will probably be lost in a see of tweets from various people this morning about twitter being down. I also promote other pdf books [twitter.com] through a second Twitter account that is undoubtedly not gaining any referral fees with no one clicking on the links since the site is down.
There has been no indication that any of these various attacks are connected. But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention.
You mean the one that ended Sunday? Nice. Real nice.
On top of that,
"it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide"
makes me want to break pencils and kick puppies.
I'm wondering if that HTML5 demo http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/2348219/HTML-5-Canvas-Experiment-Hints-At-Things-To-Come?art_pos=8 [slashdot.org] had anything to do with it. If the normal
Twitter's API returns tweets in chunks; it's not one call per tweet.
A slashdotting is not really an appreciable bump in traffic for Twitter. They have a lot of throughput at any given time.
This could be an expensive attack. There are estimates that just a few hours without social networking could lead to billions of dollars in increased productivity.
Imagine if Slashdot went down. Spam would be wiped out in a day, Linux audio would be bug free in a week, and next month we'd see the release of GNU Hurd.
"This could be an expensive attack. There are estimates that just a few hours without social networking could lead to billions of dollars in increased productivity. Imagine if Slashdot went down. Spam would be wiped out in a day"
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state
Nations across the world increase their economic output by 78% as millions of people at work start doing their jobs again, temporarily suspending a world-wise recession.
Stephen Fry has been hospitalised and is queueing messages from his PatientLine text terminal in readiness for the site returning. "Twatter ++ungood sweeties zomg I do believe I'm feeling a little faint."
The source of the attack is unknown, but is hypothesised to be either the Russian Mafia, the Iranian security forces, the Chinese government or Alan Davies recoiling from his latest humiliation on QI.
News agencies around the world condemned the attack, which hits at the root of their online news-gathering processes, and have had to resort to following the Wikipedia "Recent Changes" feed. "Apparently BUSH IS GAY LOLOLOL," says the current CNN front page headline. "Who knew?"
A new site, "Grunter," has attempted to take up the slack. Users of "Grunter" are freed from the wordy excesses of Twitter's 140-character limit and can post one of twelve pre-programmed onomatopoeic noises, such as "mmrph," "huh," "grah" or "tubgirl."
Popular teenage angst poetry blogging and fan fiction site LiveJournal was affected by a similar attack at about the same time, but that attack was considered "just as well, really."
Don't they get most of their stuff from Twitter these days?
Granted, I don't watch CNN and get my impression of them from The Daily Show, but judging by that coverage it seems like CNN is reduced to just reading aloud stuff from Twitter.
I'm still waiting for The Daily Show showing a clip showing a CNN host trying to read out "OMG PWNIES!!1!!111oneONE"
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With the U.S. men's national team of late, it has been a little bit of everything. The same group of players who struggled to get by the likes of Antigua and Barbuda in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying has given way to a more dynamic team that is as deep with options as the U.S. has ever had.
During the current nine-game winning streak, a U.S. record, the Americans have bested a Germany side that may have been vastly shorthanded but also boasted plenty of quality in its own right. They have won a World Cup qualifier on the road. They have taken care of business in meaningful games on home soil.
They have also played with the aggression, flair, chemistry, expression and passion that Jurgen Klinsmann envisioned when taking the reins almost two years ago, and the consistency is starting to follow across two sets of rosters.
Granted, the level of competition at the Gold Cup is hardly World Cup-level, and there is still work to be done before calling the USA a finished product, but just about everything to emanate from the last couple of months has been encouraging. Juxtapose that with Mexico's struggles across its two sets of rosters, and it's a fine time to be donning a U.S. crest.
"Collectively they're a very good team, they almost play by memory," El Salvador manager Agustin Castillo said through a translator after Sunday's 5-1 loss to the Americans in Baltimore. "They can find their spaces. It's almost like every time they pass the ball into a space it's going to nobody until somebody appears and actually meets the ball.
"It's a memory type of movement. They also have a very good small space kind of give-and-go type of play. Every time that they have a play they find two or three different ways to break you down."
One would think that Castillo was talking about a cohesive group of players that has been together for years, but this exact team, save for pre-knockout stage additions, has been together for all of three weeks.
The January training camp may have acted as a bit of a warm-up exercise for a number of the players, but the fact that the 23 players currently in camp have been able to mesh together to such a successful degree reflects well on Klinsmann and his staff. Klinsmann's methods and decisions have not always been conventional or the most popular, but he is getting the most out of his squad on a regular basis.
"Look at the guys and the run they put on in the Gold Cup," U.S. forward Eddie Johnson said following his goal and assist off the bench Sunday. "They've been playing some fantastic football, and it's a lot of guys that were in the January camp, so it's some of the guys that I'm familiar with. These are the guys trying to push themselves -- I wouldn't even say it's an A or a B Team -- just trying to push themselves and put themselves in a good spot to make the World Cup team.
"It's a deep pool, and this is where we want soccer to be in America, where we can put not as many European [based] players on the field and still go out there and still play some good attacking football and get the goals that we did [Sunday]."
During the Gold Cup, the USA has uncovered several players who are World Cup roster discussion-worthy. The likes of Chris Wondolowski, Mix Diskerud, Stuart Holden, Joe Corona, Kyle Beckerman and Jose Torres have all provided reasons to be kept under a watchful eye on the radar going forward.
The USA has scored four or more goals in three of the four games in the competition, with Landon Donovan answering the bell and removing all shreds of doubt that he belongs with the top squad in the coming months. Posting crooked numbers against the likes of Belize, Cuba and El Salvador is not so outrageous, but when thinking back to the struggles the Klinsmann-era USA used to have against inferior competition, the fact that the USA is back in an enforcer position shows growth and a stated confidence.
"We're getting more and more comfortable, and the beauty of it is we can score and create chances in a lot of different ways," Donovan said. "Obviously our set pieces have been very good, when we move the ball quickly and break teams down through the middle of the field we've had chances that way. We've done a very good job of getting chances wide and getting crosses in the box. Counterattacks we're getting chances, so we're scoring in all different ways, and I think for a team to defend against that for 90 minutes is going to be really difficult."
The myriad of scoring opportunities and the amount of players responsible means that, assuming all goes according to plan in the September and October World Cup qualifiers, Klinsmann will have a heck of a time narrowing down his selection for the final spots on the 23-man roster he takes to Brazil. Considering the past alternatives, though, and with qualification looking more and more likely with each passing qualifier, it's certainly a welcome problem.


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BALTIMORE, Jan 6 (Reuters) - With the clock winding down, Ray Lewis walked to the center of the field to soak it all in.
By Steve Ginsburg
BALTIMORE, Jan 6 (Reuters) - With the clock winding down, Ray Lewis walked to the center of the field to soak it all in.
The Baltimore Ravens sent him out there -- on offense -- just so the crowd could pay homage to the first ballot Hall of Fame linebacker one more time.
And they did. As quarterback Joe Flacco took a knee to close out the game, the crowd roared more for Lewis than the Ravens' 24-9 AFC wild-card playoff victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.
It was theater at its finest. And the 71,379 who packed M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday hailed their hero like Sir Laurence Olivier performing on the London stage.
Every time he made a tackle the crowd stood. Every time he graced the large television screens they cheered. When Lewis trotted on the field each time, a city offered its thanks.
"My total focus today was to come in and play my heart out and get my team a win," said Lewis. "Everything else just came with it.
"There was probably no greater moment than seeing my kids, my mom, my dad -- my family right there in the end zone. That was probably when I lost it emotionally because I knew everything I have always done has been for them."
When the game ended, Lewis launched into his signature dance, an inspirational pre-game ritual that fires up the fans as much his teammates. Players from both teams surrounded the 13-time Pro Bowl linebacker in a show of respect.
Even if they continue to win, the Ravens will not have another home game this season, meaning Sunday's victory over the Colts was Lewis's swan song in Baltimore.
The Ravens' 1996 first-round draft choice had announced Wednesday that this year would be his last in the National Football League.
"We're all appreciative, grateful for the opportunity to be here and to witness this historic moment in sports," said Ravens head coach John Harbaugh. And it wasn't just about one guy.
"Nobody understands that more than the guy we're talking about. It was about a team. It was about a city, a fan base, about a great sport about a great career.
"I'm just humbled to be a part of it."
In an era of widespread team-hopping, Lewis played his entire career in Baltimore.
He had missed the last 10 weeks with a torn triceps, but started against the Colts and made 13 tackles. Lewis was widely figured to be lost for the season following his injury but the former Super Bowl MVP did not want to go out that way.
"Everything I did to get back, it wasn't for my team it was for my city," he said. "That's the one thing that I bought into from day one.
"I'm not just here to play football, I'm here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love then so be it.
"I'll give everything I have and today was about me giving everything I have. Showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it." (Editing by Frank Pingue)


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Wii U got plenty of mixed reactions following its launch, and the new Nintendo console certainly didn't enjoy the widespread adoration the mainstream media heaped upon the original Wii, but that didn't stop Time Magazine from naming the Wii U as one of its standout pieces of technology for 2012. In fact, Time honored Wii U with a number two spot on its list, behind Apple's new iPhone 5.
How the hell did iPhone 5 make the top of the list? Still behind the best android phones. All they did was increase the screen size and fuck up their maps.
Would love to know precisely what their criteria is when determining their coveted "gadget of the year" award winner.
They also said Cloud Atlas was the worst movie of the year. TIME is full of it.
iPhone 5... a full 6 months behind Samsung Galaxy SIII.
Gadget of the Year.
Welp, its official. Time magazine is now completely irrelevant.