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|'Destination Freedom' looks at civil rights milestones
|Levine Museum launches two-year series of exhibits, programs
|Published Tuesday, August 27, 2013 2:00 pm
|A young Harvey Gantt, surrounded by reporters as he became the first black student to attend Clemson University in 1963. Gantt made history again by becoming Charlotte's first African-American mayor.
The years 2013-15 mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the most pivotal moments in the civil rights movement, including the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that claimed the lives of four girls in Birmingham, Ala., on September 15, 1963.
Levine Museum of the New South is commemorating these historic milestones among others by launching a two-year series of exhibits, new media, programs and dialogues examining the legacies of the Civil Rights movement and drawing connections to today's struggles.
"We are hoping that folks will look back at that history and consider what's undone and needs to be done still," said Levine Museum historian Tom Hanchett.
"Destination Freedom: Civil Rights Struggles Then and Now" opened to the public Aug. 24.
Exhibits include "Network of Mutuality: 50 years Post-Birmingham," which examines the conditions and components that energized the Civil Rights movement, and "View from the Other Side," a presentation of works by local artists and students inspired by civil and human rights issues.
The third exhibit, "Focus on Justice," documents the regional movement through the eyes of Carolina photographers, including African-American photographer James Peeler.
"He was one of the major people documenting the Civil Rights movement here in Charlotte," said Hanchett. "To me, the highlight photo is one of Rev. Martin Luther King giving a speech here on Sept. 25, 1960. And it actually turns out to be one of the speeches that foreshadowed his 'I have a Dream' speech.
"King said, 'America is essentially a dream, a dream yet unfulfilled. I dream of a land where men of all races, colors and creeds live together.'"
Hanchett said another powerful image from "Focus on Justice" is a photograph of Charlotte's first African-American mayor, Harvey Gantt, on the day he integrated Clemson University. Cecil Williams, an African-American photographer from South Carolina, captured the image.
"You see this young guy in his 20s surrounded by all of this media," said Hanchett. "And he just carried his head high and moved through it."
After viewing the exhibits, Hanchett said the goal is for visitors to ponder two specific questions: What lessons does history offer us today? And what work is still needed to win equality for all?
As part of Destination Freedom project, Levine Museum is screening Spike Lee's "Four Little Girls" about the four families who lost children the day the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed. Two screenings are scheduled for Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. and Sept. 8 at 2:30 p.m. Both are free to attend. RSVP by calling (704) 333-1887 ext. 501 or email@example.com.
September 15 is the actual date of 50th anniversary of the bombing. Levine Museum is commemorating the day with an afternoon of conversation and reflection moderated by North Carolina Central University scholar and "Legal Eagle Review" co-host Irving Joyner starting at 3 p.m.
The day of pubic programming will serve as the official kick-off for Destination Freedom. Hanchett said the date was chosen because the historic tragedy was the catalyst that caused the entire nation to pay attention to the struggle for Civil Rights.
"It's such a powerful important part of Civil Rights history," said Hanchett. "This is a way for people here to express the emotions that are kicked up by something like that."
Panelists for the event include Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee member and Raleigh Hall of Fame inductee David Forbes, United for the Dream activist Juan Carlos-Ramos, KIPP Charlotte Director Tiffany Flowers, LGBT historian Joshua Burford, Latanya Johnson of the Sycamore Project and Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, who participated in the 1957 Desegregation of Harding High School.
The evening's keynote speech will be delivered at 6 p.m. by SNCC co-founder Diane Nash across from the museum at First United Presbyterian Church.
The event is free to attend. RSVP by calling (704) 333-1887 ext. 501 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sept. 30 at 7 p.m., Levine Museum is hosting an evening with noted Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at McGlohon Theater in Spirit Square. Gates will discuss his work and research. He will also show advance highlights from his upcoming television series, "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross." The six-part series chronicles the full trajectory of African-American history and will premier Oct. 22 on PBS.
Admission is free. To reserve tickets, call (704) 333-1887 ext. 250.
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HAWTHORNE, Nev. (AP) — A 21-year-old Marine from Ohio was among the seven who died after a mortar shell explosion during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert.
Marine Lance Cpl. Josh Taylor's grandfather, Larry Stephens, confirmed Wednesday that he was killed in the training exercise Monday night.
Stephens says his grandson fulfilled a nearly lifelong dream when he joined the military right after graduating from high school in Marietta, Ohio in 2010.
Stephens says his grandson had talked about being a Marine since he was about 5, watching the History Channel and studying the military. After joining, he worked with mortars and served tours in Afghanistan and Kuwait, and was preparing for another tour in Afghanistan.
Stephens calls Taylor "polite, respectful," and says he would "do anything for anybody."
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Jamaican sprinter and 100m world record holder Usain Bolt will finally realise his dream of playing for Manchester United next month, reports The Sun.
Bolt, better known for his exploits on the track rather than the football pitch, has spoken openly about his desire to one day live his dream and play for boyhood club, Manchester United.
The 26-year-old said: "I know I could make a difference. I'd be the fastest in the team - but I can play as well."
Now Bolt's pipe dream is on the verge of becoming a reality - he is set to don the famous Red Devils shirt in Rio Ferdinand's testimonial match against La Liga outfit, Sevilla next month.
A source told The Sun: "Usain has finally got his wish and he'll be lining up alongside Rio.
"It should be quite a game. It will be fascinating to see if Usain's speed will be matched by his passing and ball control."
Bolt was due to play a part in United's pre-season friendly with Real Madrid, after Ferdinand convinced Sir Alex Ferguson to give the Olympic 100m and 200m gold medalist a run-out.
But, those plans were seemingly scuppered after Ferguson's retirement, though Ferdinand has convinced new boss David Moyes to give Bolt his chance in August instead.
Bolt's selection for the friendly on August 9 is expected to be announced by the club next week.
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St. Patrick's Parade Sioux Falls
- Downtown Sioux Falls
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The 34th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade will be held in downtown Sioux Falls on Saturday, March 16. The traditional Painting of the Shamrock will take place at 9th Street and Phillips Avenue at 11:45 a.m. to officially kick off the day's events. The parade will begin at 2 p.m.
The parade forms at 5th Street and Main Avenue beginning at 12:30 p.m. Vehicles will be lined up on a first-come, first served basis, and will proceed through the downtown area, starting at 5th Street and Main Avenue.
There is no entry fee to participate in the parade. The only requirement is that each adult (age 16 and older) participating in the parade must purchase and wear an official St. Patrick's Day Parade button. The cost is $3 per button, the proceeds of which are donated to the Special Olympics and other worthwhile charities in the Sioux Falls area. Buttons are available at the Chamber of Commerce office at 200 N. Phillips Ave., Suite 102.
For more information, go to www.siouxfallschamber.com and click on the St. Patrick's Day Parade under the Events & Programs/Annual Events link or call Wendy Neuharth at (605) 336-1620.


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Fri, 02/01/2013 - 7:00pm
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Sun, 02/03/2013 - 1:30pm
Morley Lecture Hall
Event is in the past.
Directed by Paul Lacoste. In this mouth-watering tribute to food and family, master chef Michel Bras decides to turn over his three-Michelin-star restaurant in the south of France to his son Sébastien. "As much about the passing along of a legacy as it is about cooking." -A.V. Club. Cleveland premiere.
France, 2012, color, subtitles, video, 86 min.
Admission is $9; CMA members, seniors 65 & over, and students $7; or one CMA Film Series voucher. Vouchers, in books of ten, can be purchased at the Ticket Center for $70 (CMA members $60).


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I think if this is a one time incident then you're better off letting it go/giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.It's very possible that no one thought to invite you for a myriad of reasons. I can absolutely sympathize with the "Aww man, I would've liked to hang out and do that" feeling. But at this stage, over one picture, it'd be a bit premature to start wondering about every single future event.Do what you do when you normally put something out of your mind. If you see this becoming a pattern (as in more than just this one incident), then my answer changes. I'd likely talk to my closest friend within that group and say something like, "Hey, <friend name>, I feel a little awkward about something. I can see when you and the gang get together and post pictures on facebook. We all have hung out many times before, and I was wondering if there's a reason that I'm no longer invited out to these things."
I also agree not to make too much of it unless it became a pattern. To illustrate how this might easily happen without any malicious intent to exclude:After a brutal-people-left-in-tears-final, my friend and I were going to go get a drink with our friends to celebrate being done with that subject. Two of those girls were in the same class as I was, we ran into a couple more in the hallway as we left and passed on the message. We get to the bar and after 30 minutes, "Where is Sarah?" "Did she say she was stopping at home first?" "Well who told her?" Cue silence. Oops. Sarah never let us forget it and two years later, STILL brings it up. At first I apologized and told her that everyone thought someone else had run into her or texted her and we were so tired that it just didn't click until we were already there. Now I just find it irritating that she won't let it go.
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At the risk of coming off as music bloggers, we're pretty excited about all this Black Keys business.
Blakroc's been getting quite a lot of play around these parts, but they're due for a triumphant return to form. Better yet, the duo trekked down to Alabama's Muscle Shoals to record it, which might be one of our favorite places in America.
Tragically, we'll have to wait until May for anything more than speculation. But we'll think of this as a summer preview.


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There are simply many catchers who hit better than the Reds' guys this past year.
If the Front Office wants to improve that position, as it should, there are plenty of guys to choose from, including a number of free agents.
There are simply many catchers who hit better than the Reds' guys this past year.
If the Front Office wants to improve that position, as it should, there are plenty of guys to choose from, including a number of free agents.
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Rick Ankiel (34)
Coco Crisp (34) - $7.5MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Rajai Davis (33)
Jacoby Ellsbury (30)
Curtis Granderson (33)
Franklin Gutierrez (31) - $7.5MM club option with a $500K buyout
Andres Torres (36)
Chris Young (30) - $11MM club option with a $1.5MM buyout
Henry Blanco (42)
John Buck (33)
Ramon Hernandez (38)
Brian McCann (30)
Jose Molina (38)
Dioner Navarro (30)
Wil Nieves (36)
Miguel Olivo (35)
Brayan Pena (32)
A.J. Pierzynski (37)
Humberto Quintero (34)
Carlos Ruiz (35)
Jarrod Saltalamacchia (29)
Kelly Shoppach (34)
Geovany Soto (31)
Kurt Suzuki (30) - $8.5MM club option with a $650K buyout
Yorvit Torrealba (35)
Where there is power there is swing and miss. Where there is defense there is sub .300 obp. Where there is talent there is old age. Where there is the whole package there is a high price tag, or injury concern. Hannigan is going to be hannigan. If you want to upgrade then trade mez and bring in the surest shot.
RedlegJake (10-17-2013)
I'm no apologist for Mesoraco, he didn't hit much and got a better chance last year. Still, the sentiment on the board is to keep him. If the Reds decide to trade him, so be it, as long as they get a good return.
But if the Reds keep both these catchers they will be taking a huge risk by continuing to use two catchers who hit very poorly in 2013, with an OPS next to last in the NL for their position.
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Hopefully the GM is creative and recognizes that he is not stuck with Heisey, his .18 BB/k ratio, and his .694 OPS.
Sitting still with a third place ballclub is very likely to lead to -- a third place ballclub.
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Ravenlord (10-17-2013)
Put me down for a DFA of Hanigan. He made over $2 Million last year and even in a crummy year, guys get raises in arbitration. With Arroyo gone, there is one less guy who wants him as his personal catcher and he's going to be 34 next year. I'd like to see the Reds go big here and go after Salty. Salty for $9 Million versus Hanigan at $3 Million seems like a good way to spend some of the team's payflex. Salty against RHP and lefty killer Mes against LHP. Catcher would be set set and an actual threat every day.
Heisey is a tougher call, but the Reds need to maximize the war chest to make a run at guys who can really help the team in a bigger role. I'd give his money to whoever ends up being plan A in CF (Hamilton is Plan B at best IMO).
As far as the 40 man goes, the 6 free agents will be off and Corky Miller will be outrighted. That should leave 36 after the 60 day DL guys are back. DFA Hanigan and Heisey would make it 34. Barnhart and Rogers seem like certain adds. One spot should be left open for Parra who I hope is brought back. That makes it 37. Drew Hayes, Josh Smith and Daniel Renken would seem like the strongest candidates on the list posted earlier. I'm not really a fan of Lamarre at this point, but wouldn't want to lose him. Nick Christiani's spot might be lost. Hayes, Smith and Renken would all be on my keeper list ahead of him. H-Rod doesn't look like a guy who we'd miss either. Greg Reynolds might be a guy that gets cut loose with a prearranged deal for a minor league contract that calls for more than the average minor league deal to make another spot. I'd hope for a couple November deals to thin the ranks a bit. Hopefully they could move guys like Hanigan, Heisey, Soto and the like rather than just losing them.
Anyone know if Tim Crabbe needs to be protected? He seems like the kind of hard thrower who could take a step forward as a reliever. He seems a little like Sam Lecure prior to his conversion to relief. Seems like he could at least be a cheaper version of Logan Ondrusek. If he needs to be protected, he'd be a must add IMO.
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it." --BABE RUTH
Hanigan was dinged up all last year. I look for a strong bounce back in 2014.
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But obviously it's for the Reds professionals to make that judgment in the case of Hanigan. His hitting has been in decline, but injuries did impact 2013.
I just hope the Reds don't bank the 2014 team on batting turnarounds from Phillips, Frazier, Cozart, Mesoraco, Hanigan, Heisey, and Hannahan. I think the chances of all that happening are fairly low.
McClouth fa
DeJesus fa
Crisp -has option
Other by trade like Fowler.
The trade route is expensive, or was last year.
In my view Heisey is a decently rare combo of speed, defense and power, and heck, seems like he has a good attitude. He also has a little room to get a higher ceiling, he just needs to be healthy next year. I would rather give him a couple million than worry about Lamarre or Perez tanking like Soto or Lutz did. Heisey is a real vet at this point and in 2015 he will be playing for a contract.
Old school 1983 (10-17-2013)
I like the year Salty had, but it looks like paying a lot for a career year. In some sense he is a bit like Heisey with the bat, lots of k's and lots of power. He is normally .240/.300/.450 from the left side. He is a goner vs lhp, which late in the game doesn't help since pinching for the catcher is rarely done.
His OBP last season was .279. Lifetime it's .308. In the last three seasons, his high OBP was .315. This is the kind of hitter the Reds need to get away from. RH power hitters who don't get on base.
As for alternatives, there are dozens of bench players in the majors who play CF. Many can get on base with a reasonable degree of frequency.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Hey folks - I haven't been around much this past week or so, work has been running me ragged. Sorry if I missed out on any good debates. This week, one of the worst teams in football is coming to ...
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Hey folks - I haven't been around much this past week or so, work has been running me ragged. Sorry if I missed out on any good debates.
This week, one of the worst teams in football is coming to town and for both us and them, this is a very important game. It's a turn-around game. The Saints played better in their loss to Carolina last week. In fact, they were one Michael Lewis (and thus one stopped kickoff return) away from winning against an undefeated division leading team. That's good news.
There's more good news. If we can beat the Bears, we put ourselves in a position to turn this thing around. We then travel to Atlanta, where the Vickless birds are a bad team. Even if Vick comes back, who knows how he'll play. I won't say that I like our chances (b/c I don't really like our chances against anyone right now), but I will say that the Atlanta game is very winable.
Assuming that we could actually pull out those two wins, coming home riding some momentum (and continuing to get more injured players back each week), the Carolina rematch game is one that we could win also.
Yes, I know, we could very easily be 1-7 after 8 games, but the more I think about it, the more I see 4-4 as a distinct possibility. And while 4-4 isn't where most of us saw our Saints at the Season's halfway point, that puts us back in the running for the wild card and boy, what a turn-around that would be.
This Bears game is crucial. We need the ball to bounce our way. We need to make plays. We need to make a statement - We're back! The Saints have shown me little reason for optimism so far this year, but I had a feeling last week, and I have one this week. There's no good reason to think we will win any of the next three games, but you know what, for the first time this season, I believe that we can anyway. I believe boys. So should you.
(PS - Yes Billy, this is really me! ;) )
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I projected us at 10-6 before the season started. After 5 games I had us at 2-3. We are only 1 game behind my own personal schedule on the way to 10-6. My predictions did have us winning 3 of the next 4 though. If we do that we\'ll be at 4-5 at the bye.
If we start playing up to our talent and potential there\'s not a team on our schedule we can\'t beat.
I\'m a little more optimistic after the Carolina game. Its the 1st game I saw in our last 10 where I saw a fire in our belly. I\'ll give Carolina credit. They new we were shorthanded on D and if they kept pounding Davis at us eventually we would wear down.
Every member I know here knew it would take 4-5 games for the defense to start coming around if at all, and that was before all the devastating injuries hit us. We\'re getting some guys back now and we may just right this ship and take off. It helps that most teams now circle a Saints game as a Win. We play better that way.
I think 10-6 is still possible, but 9-7 is a little more likely now. But that may squeak us into the playoffs. Of course if we lose this week to Chicago, we can start our 2004 draft scouting wish lists.
Whether we agree or disagree; its all for Him.
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It seems like everything that could go wrong with the Saints season has gone wrong. There were expected to be SOME problems on the defense. However, the offense and special teams were suppose to be strong areas. The offense has had problems doing anything. The only bright spot has been Deuce McAllister and he\'s even had poor outings at times. The offense desperately needs a breakout game. The passing attack needs to come back if we are to have any chance this season.
Mike McCarthy is ultimately responsible for this offense. If his game plan is working, then fine, stick to it. If it isn\'t working he needs to do something different. He seems hesitant to turn Aaron Brooks loose. I don\'t know if he\'s scared to do it, or he is just intent on playing a ball control offense. These receivers we have aren\'t exactly the best in the world at running short routes into traffic. The Rams sure don\'t use thier speedy receivers that way and I hope that McCarthy will start to stretch the field with our speedy receivers.
For once I would like for McCarthy to focus on passing the passing gamel. I would like to see them come out throwing about 70% of the time to start the game. I think it would be successful and even if it wasn\'t, I feel that it would loosen the defense up for McAllister.
If the Saints can somehow get this offense to start playing like last year, I feel that our defense will be better this year and anything would be possible for this Saints team.
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Saintfan - that is a great freaking signature!!! I love seeing it!
I don\'t know if I would say I was \"downright positive\". I guess it depends on your definition of downright and positive. I would have to disagree Saintfan. Furthermore, I think you have an agenda to turn me into an \"optimist\". HA HA HA. Sorry Saintfan, I didn\'t want to break tradition.
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Each morning we awaken to a present or two from Willy.
He leaves these items beside the bed or at the top of the stairs.
The items he chooses are so different and interesting, that we wonder if he's trying to tell us something. Is he giving us the parts for building something?
Piece of chalk
Magnifying glass in pouch
Piece of sand paper
Box of wood screws
Picture hanging wire
Package of AAA batteries
Package of ear plugs
Small knife
Rubber band
Vaseline lip ointment
Small metal bracket
Assorted business cards
*Note: MacGuyver was a U.S. television show where the main character saved the world each week with common household items. (He once stopped a nuclear waste leak with a bar of milk chocolate). :rolleyes::eek::p


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Lady Dutch soccer ends season with 1-0 win over Smethport
Smethport scored the only goal in Wednesday afternoon's girls' soccer match at the SMAHS soccer field; however, it was the Lady Dutch who came away with the 1-0 win. "We lost to them the first time, so getting a little revenge was nice," said SMA coach Dr. Bob Schmidt. "[They were] some pretty well-matched teams and we've continued to improve. We had a lot of good action up front with Aspyn Wolff, Holly Shields, and Caley Keister, and then in the back with Mia Keener and Shannon Bridges, as well as Haley McGowan. It was a good team effort and a nice way to finish the season."The only goal of the match came with 33:18 remaining in the first half as SMA's Holly Shields took a shot. While the ball was stopped short of the net, a Smethport player attempted to clear it but instead ended up sending it backward into the goal. The own goal gave the Lady Dutch a 1-0 lead that they would maintain for the rest of the contest. In the first half, St. Marys outshot Smethport 9-4. St. Marys dominated possession of the ball in the second half, coming close on several shots but never getting the ball past the Smethport keeper. St. Marys outshot Smethport 16-2. The Lady Dutch also had three corner kicks. The game was the final match for seniors Lauren Challingsworth, Mia Keener and Mackenzie Schatz. The Lady Dutch finished the season with a 3-14-1 record.


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Age 85, of Omaha, Nebraska; was born in Ringsted, Iowa to Philip and Dorothy (Gaylord) Underwood. He was vice president of operations for Pamida. Preceded in death by wife of 60 years, Charlotte Julianne Underwood, and daughter, Jacqueline Sue Underwood.
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Survived by three children: Janet Burnham (Keith), Jim Underwood (Karen), and Jerry Underwood; grandchildren: Jerry Underwood Jr. (Carri), Matthew Burnham, Kristopher Burnham (Ember), Jodi Underwood, and Kimberly Burnham; 5 great-grandchildren: Jack, Mary, and Kate Underwood, Parker and Pierce Burnham.
The family received friends Sunday, Feb. 3, from 3-5 p.m. at the West Center Chapel of Heafey-Hoffmann-Dworak-Cutler in Omaha. SERVICES were held Monday, Feb. 4 at 10 a.m. at Presbyterian Church of the Cross, 1517 S. 114 St. in Omaha. Interment, Forest Lawn Memorial Park with military rites by Millard American Legion Post 374 and VFW Post 8334. In lieu of flowers, memorials will be directed by the family.
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I am conflicted whenever the 17th of March rolls around.
My disenchantment is partly due to my first impression of St. Patrick's Day in conglomeration with my family heritage and all things Irish -- an impression I got on a blustery day in Chicago decades ago.
Early that morning, however, I was as joyous as a 6-year-old on his way to Disney World. I was 6, but Disney World had yet to be built. Instead, I was headed to a Notre Dame football game, privileged to have been chosen over my five brothers by Uncle Ed.
Barely three months into first grade, I did not know exactly what a Notre Dame was. After all, it is a foreign phrase (Our Lady). And there was no college football on any of the three channels on our black-and-white TV in the 1950s. And I had only a vague notion about college, as some sort of school for kids infinitely more advanced than those in Sister Killian's classroom at St. Bernadette.
But how I loved Notre Dame! How could I not? The "Mc" in our surname called for allegiance. There was an ND pennant tacked to the wall in our upstairs bedroom. My uncles and brothers roared about the Fighting Irish over Thanksgiving dinner.
And at the St. Patrick's Day parade, my father had lifted me onto his shoulders as a marching band played the Notre Dame fight song. While my mother, though born Gertrude Cichoszewski, used to sing "Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral" to us every afternoon at nap time.
So finally getting to go to Notre Dame was akin to visiting Riverview or Santa's Village. Only it promised to be even better, since you had to drive hours to get there in Uncle Ed's Buick LeSabre.
Of course, as with nearly everything that's freighted with high expectations, that Saturday proved to be a letdown. The worst day of my life, actually. Mind you, it was a life of only 6 years to that point.
But the trip to South Bend, Ind., turned out to be an all-day headache. For one thing, I discovered I disliked crowds. A bunch of kids at a carnival is fun. But thousands of men in heavy wool coats, smoking cigarettes and shuffling in long lines, when you're the only kid, who can see nothing but knees and shoes and boots, was mostly what I remember. And Uncle Ed was not practiced in how to hold a kid's hand, or keep him buoyed and unjostled.
When we got to our seats, the Notre Dame business was far below and a world away. I ascertained figures in helmets running about, but the distance was such that I could not distinguish individuals. Just blotches of color moving from one part of the grid to the next.
I was fuzzy on the rules of the game and wasn't further enlightened by the detectable action below, like tadpoles darting at intervals in a milky pond.
The only clear picture I have in my memory is of a kickoff near the end of the game. The ball rose above the chaos, high in the air, nearly at eye level. After all the tedium and confusion so far below, the brown distinct oval floating majestically against the blue sky, was the day's single moment of clarity. But it was too late and too cold for exhilaration.
For I was wearing ordinary leather tie shoes and thin socks. My feet grew cold immediately when we arrived. Numb by halftime. Throbbing at the start of the third quarter. Into the fourth, I was sure I could never walk again.
I suppose I could Google the dates of ND home losses in 1955 and discover what the temperature had been in Indiana. But I purposely refrained from doing so, dreading to see any more compelling arguments for filing a lawsuit against Uncle Ed. Why and how I did not succumb to frostbite must have something to do with my tender age and diver's reflex that kicked in to spare my skin tissue. I was too sorrowful -- on the brink of crying frozen tears -- to ask him to leave, to seem ungrateful, to interrupt his concentration on the game, though ND lost.
I had absolutely no defense. I was 6. I wanted my Mom.
The trauma, the pain, the sadness, that interminable ride home, all of it notwithstanding, there are other things Irish, more important, that I commemorate on St. Patrick's Day:
My father-in-law Tom Dunne, the storyteller. He had a hundred, each one ending with his ringing laughter.
Uncle Don's insane generosity. Don McGrath would attend family birthdays and confirmations and hand out $10 bills to all his nephews and nieces. Today, that would be equivalent to passing out $100 bills to every child.
My Uncle Bill's raunchy but colorful jokes, and not treating us like kids.
And Mary Helen Ryan, the head clerk at my first school. "You come again unprepared and you'll get run over." The most blunt and honest person I'd ever met, and later the most fiercely loyal.
St. Patrick's Day, I learned over the years, is not about shamrocks and derby hats or green beer and Notre Dame. It is about something unique associated with the Motherland: the courage to never hide your love, no matter the form it takes. And that's reason enough to celebrate in any culture.
Port Charlotte's David McGrath teaches English at Edison State College.
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New Mexico's State Engineer made his agency's budget request to the Legislative Finance Committee on Tuesday. The requested money would help reduce the state's backlog of water rights adjudication, and deal with current and future droughts.
State Engineer Scott Verhines has only been on the job for 10 months, but his agency just received help with the difficult task of deciding how water rights will be distributed in times of drought. The NM Supreme Court recently reinstated the state engineer's authority to distribute water rights after lower courts took this power away. The lower courts argued that the rule, as originally passed by the Legislature, gave the engineer too much power. Verhines expressed disagreement by saying:
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As she slept Wednesday night, Nena Matol heard the voices of her oldest son and his family. It was the nightmare of a mother who has not been able to get through to the typhoon-devastated area of the Philippines where her son lives.
As she slept Wednesday night, Nena Matol heard the voices of her oldest son and his family.
It was the nightmare of a mother who has not been able to get through to the typhoon-devastated area of the Philippines where her son lives.
�That is my greatest trouble,� the West Side resident, who is in her 90s, said yesterday. �I am really worried. I had the bad dream about them. I hope it doesn�t come true.�
Matol is part of a Catholic prayer group in Columbus affiliated with the international Banal Na Pag-aaral, or BNP, movement. Members of the group who met this week decided to forgo their planned Christmas party and instead collect money to help the Red Cross in the Philippines.
�How can we have a Christmas party when people we know are starving and need something to eat?� said Laura Punzalan of the West Side. She said there are about 200 BNP members in Columbus, Marysville, Dayton and Cleveland.
She said the group also recited Catholic prayers together and will individually pray the rosary for people harmed by Typhoon Haiyan, which hit parts of the country�s midsection on Nov. 8. United Nations figures show that 4,460 people were killed and more than 900,000 are displaced.
Punzalan�s husband, Eduardo, said the local group also prayed for victims on Sunday during its weekly Our Lady of Fatima devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The collection and prayers are just one of the ways central Ohio residents are trying to help.
Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church already has sent $10,000 to the Philippines through a partnership with the faith-based Convoy of Hope nonprofit group, said the Rev. Jeff Greenway, lead pastor. The funds already have provided food in the typhoon-ravaged area, he said, and are expected to feed 1,000 people for a month.
He expects the congregation will raise at least another $10,000 to go to the United Methodist Committee on Relief to help with longer-term reconstruction efforts.
�I think we have the responsibility to use the resources we have for good,� he said. �We really were created to give, and it�s not until we do that that we tap into the greatest part of ourselves.�
A number of other faith-based groups are rallying to help, including Lutheran Disaster Response, the Action for Churches Together Alliance, the Salvation Army, Catholic Relief Services, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, World Jewish Relief, Islamic Relief and the Mennonite Central Committee.
Raul Pepino of Hilliard said efforts are underway by Filipino groups throughout the country to help people in his homeland. His mother, sisters and brother in the Philippines were not injured in the storm.
�I was one of the lucky ones, able to talk to them when the typhoon hit,� he said. �I�m very thankful God was able to protect them.�
Locally, the Philippine American Society of Central Ohio and Ohio State University�s Pilipino Student Association have organized a Saturday event to raise money for the American Red Cross Typhoon Relief fund.
The Catholic BNP group has members from various churches. The Punzalans attend Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Grove City as well as Holy Cross Downtown, which holds monthly Filipino services.
Matol, who attends St. Aloysius Church on the Hilltop, said she is inspired by the people pulling together to help.
�The world is still full of good hearts,� she said. �There are times when our hopes fail, but we always look up.�


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DIAMOND, Ill. — In an effort to combat the senseless gun violence that claims 34 American lives every day, Diamond Mayor Terry Kernc has joined Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the national bipartisan coalition of more than 800 mayors.
These leaders are committed to protecting their communities by keeping illegal guns and military style-weapons off their streets and out of their schools.
Since its inception in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 mayors to more than 800 from across the country. The coalition also has more than 700,000 grassroots supporters, making it the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country.
Its co-chairs are New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
Members include Democrats, Republicans, and Independents in big cities and small towns alike, from a variety of states across the nation. While their backgrounds may differ, on this issue they stand together and speak with one voice — united for the sake of our public safety.
They understand that support for Second Amendment rights goes hand-in-hand with the kind of common-sense gun policies that carry broad public support.
"I strongly endorse sensible gun laws that extend criminal background checks to all U.S. gun sales. And it goes without saying that we must keep military weapons away from our children," Kernc said. "Our bipartisan group of mayors has concrete solutions that will aid in preventing gun violence by criminals."
During the president's next four years in office, 48,000 men, women, and children will fall victim to gun murder. Mayor Kernc and her fellow coalition members are simply not willing to stand idly by.
They have called on Washington to take meaningful action to address the issue of gun violence in America, and they will continue to do so until progress is made.
This includes:
• Requiring every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check.
• Getting military-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines off our streets.
• Making gun trafficking a federal crime.
In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the members of the coalition sent a letter to the White House and to Congress outlining these three concrete proposals.


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U.S. airlines to feds: We need fewer taxes, fees and regulation
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. government should repeal old taxes and roll back new consumer protections and other rules as part of a comprehensive plan to ensure the industry's financial health, major airlines said on Wednesday.
By failing to adopt a "National Airline Policy," the airlines could wind up like the distressed maritime industry.
"We believe that we need a 'National Airline Policy' because it's in the national interest," said Nicholas Calio, president of Airlines for America, the trade association for the biggest commercial carriers.
Airlines have long complained about taxes and fees, especially those paid by passengers for security.
The industry announced the new policy initiative last summer, but addressed specifics this week in meetings with government officials and reporters.
They stressed the importance of the industry's impact on the economy and outlined five priorities: reducing taxes, reforming regulations, modernizing the air traffic system, stabilizing energy prices and making changes to allow U.S. airlines to better compete with foreign carriers.
Executives said a national policy would bring more stability to an industry that has long been financially volatile — ultimately tied to the price of fuel and the ups and downs of the economy.
"If you go back 20 years, every major airline that was in existence 20 years ago is either gone, or gone bankrupt, with American (Airlines) being the last one," said Gary Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer of Southwest Airlines.
American is currently restructuring under Chapter 11 protection.
From 2000 to 2010, the industry lost $55 billion and 150,000 jobs — one-third of its workforce, the group said.
But the news hasn't been all bad for U.S. airlines.
One executive said, the industry is "healthier, but not vibrant." Airlines hired an additional 10,000 people this past year.
The industry has undergone big changes on its own over the past several years through mergers and other tough business decisions to improve overall efficiency and financial prospects.
Although fuel price are higher than last year and continue to pressure their finances, U.S. airlines have aggressively managed capacity and are charging higher fares on flights that are often full. They also collect fees for checked bags and other extras.
Revenues are up overall and a narrow profit is expected for the year for the 10 largest carriers, according to industry data from the first nine months of 2012.
Most items on the proposed National Airline Policy are long-held industry priorities.
Regarding taxes, airlines say they are subject to 17 different taxes and fees, adding about $61 to a typical round-trip ticket.
"We realize no profit off that and the people who are flying think that we're getting that money," Calio said.
Congress should repeal a 4.4 cents per gallon jet-fuel tax and freeze a security fee that funds Transportation Security Administration (TSA) passenger and bag screening at airports, Calio's group said.
On regulations, the industry association lists a number of rules it wants repealed, including consumer protections enacted as part of passenger rights initiatives and pending legislation aimed at improving the ability of passengers to conduct price comparisons.
The airlines also have targeted a popular rule that targets long ground delays.
"Right now we are subject to what is really a hodge-podge of ill-thought-out regulations and taxes," Calio said.
And the industry wants amendments to rules that limit pilot flight time and require student pilots to have at least 1,500 hours of experience before taking the co-pilot seat on a commercial flight.
Though airlines were deregulated in 1978, they "are still one of the most regulated sectors in the economy," Calio said.
The airlines said the Federal Aviation Administration needs to expedite its modernization of the air traffic system — a slow moving and expensive effort to move from radar-based control to one relying on satellites.
The government also can remove obstacles to global competition, the trade group said.
"I would label the creep of the foreign carriers as insidious," Calio said. "As the Middle Eastern carriers keep flying to more American cities … they're taking away the international routes. It's really the international routes in many cases where the greatest profits are. Those profits subsidize small- and medium-size routes within the United States."
A4A said it would seek to have Congress enact legislation for elements of the National Airline Policy.


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Clare Boothe Luce
In 1952, six years after her conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, Clare Boothe Luce edited a remarkable anthology called Saints for Now, published by Sheed and Ward. The company of authors she persuaded to contribute to this volume reminds one of the Luces' famous dinner parties, at which "Winnie" Churchill and "Bernie" Baruch were names as familiar as those of their household pets. Evelyn Waugh was called to perform on Empress Saint Helena, Rebecca West on St. Augustine, Vincent Sheehan on St. Francis of Assisi, D.B. Wyndham Lewis on Pope Pius VI, Whittaker Chambers on St. Benedict. But a still more striking aspect of the book is Mrs. Luce's pious introduction. The saint for whom she expresses the greatest affection in these pages is that most self-effacing of all Catholic role models, St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "Hidden from the world in a Carmelite monastery,… Theresa seeks to become little and helpless and hidden, like the infant Divinity."
The "little" Theresa, paragon of anonymity, patron saint of anticelebrity, is a curious choice for a woman who achieved a greater degree of fame than almost any other woman of her generation, and whose protean career (society hostess, satirical essayist, managing editor of Vanity Fair, popular playwright, war correspondent, congresswoman, ambassador to Italy) was struck by a plague of firsts. First woman to give the keynote address at a majority party convention, first woman member of the House Military Affairs Committee, first woman ambassador to a major nation, first woman to receive West Point's highest honorary award. The proselytizer for St. Thérèse of Lisieux's "little way" would eventually end up number two on the list of The American Woman You Most Admire, nosed out only by Eleanor Roosevelt; and number four on the list of The Ten Women You Admire Most in the World. And she would remain on the Best-Dressed List for several years. Even her conversion to the Church—an event most advocates of anonymity would not splash out to the media—was rendered as public as every other aspect of her life: Clare Luce felt compelled to state in McCall's magazine her reasons for becoming a Catholic in a three-part essay that remains, to this day, one of the most popular reprints that magazine has to offer.
"Une force de la nature," as the French would call her. Her facility and competitiveness seeped awesomely and abundantly into the athletic field, the drawing room. Her skill at swimming once led her to try out for the US Olympic team. She took up scuba diving at the age of fifty-four and descended more than fifty feet, publicizing that experience in a three-part article for Sports Illustrated. She wrote an introduction to a book called Backgammon To Win. Clare Boothe Luce was so skilled at all parlor games that one of the subtler ruses she is said to have employed during her thirty-two-year…
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The only major concern I have is battery life. You don't see any figures from the manufacturers or the hypervisor companies (aka. VMware) as to what this will do to the already short battery life of a smart phone that is heavily used. Additionally, what incentive does a customer have to buy a device that supports this? Granted a company could prefer one or the other, but the days of "You own X device or Y device only (ie. Blackberry - no iPhone)" are over and it defeats the purpose of BYOD.
Some hypervisors are extremely efficient. The one on IBM's POWER7 series is extremely thrifty at watts/CPU usage, especially when handling numerous virtual machines with their virtual processors.
It could also be something as simple as having multiple cores, several being lower speed/lower power, and the virtual machines that are not in use being scheduled to run on those. When they gain the user's attention, the VM in use gets moved to the faster CPU. Combine this with some power management (no apps runn
more ram, more processor speed - these are premium handsets. How many field services / manufacturing / field sales low- mid-tier employees will buy these expensive handsets simply so that the employer can have their version of dual-OS security installed on them?
Corporate data can be contained by many mobile security vendors today. This appears to be an overly complex solution to a problem that is already solved today.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
Err, of course it can run Mer. Sailfish OS is based on Mer. It's also using Xorg and a pretty standard software stack, so multiple user accounts is trivial.
I think you're completely missing the point of the article, unless you can clarify how it is relevant?
Pretty much. Wasn't this feature announced months ago? I see it posted as far back as August on some sites. This isn't even news.
If you have to carry a blackberry, you already have to carry a second device for personal use.
So that does not really help.
What bothers me is if Apple/Google came out with this first, the fanbois would soil themselves screaming how epically awesome the feature was and how they couldn't imagine surviving without it. In fact, I am certain that once Apple/Google comes out with this, they will proceed to do just that, not forgetting to claim that it was an unheard of innovation that their respective object of worship was first to release. Meanwhile, most reliable communication devices, along with most of the innovation that paved t
I think most people will agree a good part of corporate phone making is catching up with blackberry.
Not that their phones don't suck (they do), but Blackberry have known what corporations wanted and have been implementing it for a long time. They only forgot about the users. Oops, bad mistake. And off they go.
BB10 may resolve this a bit.. the question is is bb going to continue catchup, innovate or die?
BB10 may resolve this a bit.. the question is is bb going to continue catchup, innovate or die?
Yeah, I've read a little and saw a little about BB10. However, I find it hard to believe it can gain much market at this point. Not with Apple and Google so entrenched, and with Microsoft trying to carve a niche. Too little too late, if you ask me. But hey, Apple raised from the ashes when everyone was saying the same thing about them, so we have to wait and see. However unlikely, it is still possible.
What I don't understand is why Microsoft didn't zero in on Blackberry and, before anything else, took the c
From corporate stand point, we keep coming back to security and control of a corporate device (i.e BB) or user (desire/useability/shinyness?) of BYOD (Droid iPhone). After a year of allowing BYOD (about 50 percent switched to BYOD). some have actually switched back because the actual phone functionality is better on the BB.
I have a droid and a BB, i use the maps/browser on the droid and use the BB for calls and email. so a BB10 may actually be best of both for this niche... the question i guess is what is t
The consumer market is not "phone and e-mail". It is facebook, twitter, whatsapp, angry birds and instagram. If we are talking purely phone calls, I have a feature phone here (nokia) that does it better than any droid/iPhone/BB around.
I agree with your views regarding the long term goal(s) of BB. It is hard to make technical predictions about public traded companies. Their ultimate "product" is, after all, their stocks.
And no, I don't think MS merging with BB would be they saying ok to Linux. Hotmail was Li
a BB and MS merger? would require MS to say ok Linux has a place
How so? BlackBerry Smartphones don't run Linux, they run a mostly proprietary OS with heavy Java integration. BB10 and PlayBook run QNX, which is an independent micro-kernel with a POSIX interface. Given that Windows itself has a POSIX subsystem (admittedly it's in the process of being depreciated), this wouldn't be a difficult pill for Microsoft to swallow.
I still don;t see it happening... win8phone would be direct in house competition... But I guess MS does have money to burn so they could buy it and eventually do something with it.
I don't think it will happen. Microsoft likes to try their own weight in growing markets. Sometimes they fail (Zune) sometimes they win (Xbox). They only acquire established products (Skype), which BlackBerry is unfortunately no more.
They now lead the way for 1.6% of the market... Meanwhile an IDC study says that for the first time Apple and Android devices are about to beat RIM in the enterprise.
The dude from Morgan Stanley sums it up: "While some of the new features on BB10 seem innovative, we had a similar reaction to Palm's WebOS when we saw it at CES in '09".
(See http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1293791--rim-tumbles-as-blackberry-s-u-s-market-share-drops-to-1-6-per-cent [thestar.com])
You can already do this on android and iphone as well with encrypted containers like Good ( http://www.good.com/ [good.com] ).
The point of virtualising is that it means the OS is COMPLETELY seperate. If you want to upgrade to android 5.3.2 aka "footlong hotdog" (they ran out of dessert names), but your company is still on 4.6.1, you can. If your company image can only send packets via VPN and disallows app installation, you can still do what you want with YOUR image.
Blackberry's seperation is just at the app layer.
My issue with the Good approach (apart from the fact that they sue companies they can't effectively compete against...) is that it takes you out of the native user experience which is the reason the owner chose that device in the first place. Using either an MDM SDK or app wrapping technology to secure the corporate apps and data preserves the native UX, secures the data, and doesn't have the overhead of a virtual OS approach.
BlackBerry also separates the data layer. Save a document to an SD card from your corporate email and try to send it from your personal email? You can't. But you can send it from your corporate email.
It's not the same as fully virtualizing, but it creates a nice data firewall between corporate and personal data.
Seriously, what is so difficult about having a multi-user phone OS when Linux or Darwin is running the underpinnings?
I thought i read somewhere that android is structured to use user accounts for each app as part of their separation model.
If that's accurate than the normal 'multiple-user' model can't also be simultaneously used.
The point is you don't need (or even want) a hypervisor when you have a secure multi-user system with process isolation like Android.
Lack of a hypervisor support baked into the CPU is only a problem for hypervisor vendors.
The point is you don't need (or even want) a hypervisor when you have a secure multi-user system with process isolation like Android.
The processes might be isolated, but data access is not. Did you just give the Twitter app SD Card read/write access to the filesystem where the company data is? What could possibly go wrong?
Devil's advocate here. Having a low level hypervisor on the phone is something I've wanted for a long time. There are reasons that having two OS stacks that don't "see" each other on a level 1 hypervisor system would be , and it is less to deal with technical than legal reasons.
Reason 1: I can fire off a "kill" command from Exchange, and the business part gets zonked. The phone still is trackable and locatable. I can do this with a text message and TouchDown, but this way, all data related to work (or even perhaps a client) is gone, and assuming everything is encrypted with a key, I can be sure that the data is rendered unrecoverable, not just deleted or "wiped" (overwriting three times does not work with flash media due to wear levelling unless the low level controller is told to zap the individual cells themselves.)
Reason 2: Separation. I can sign off on the fact that there is absolutely -zero- mingling of personal and work/client data other than being on the same physical hardware (the same way a mainframe can separate LPARs). Confidential stuff never touches the same filesystem as personal data, so a rogue app that gets root would not be able to rummage inside the latest TPS reports.
With how contacts get slurped up by apps, someone storing work related contacts on their phone is likely going to have them vacuumed up by an app, which will aid greatly for spamming, as well as directed attacks (from a contact list with titles, org structures can be deduced, etc.) So, keeping business contacts completely away from personal ones, or contacts addressible by Facebook [1].
Having stuff completely separate minimizes the chance of "leakage". I can sort of do this with Android, but on the iPhone, there is no app like RoadSync or Touchdown to keep the Exchange stuff separate.
Reason 3: Legal/tax reasons. Having stuff separate also makes the legal eagles happy.
Of course, hypervisors are not perfect, but what they provide is separation that is useful in a legal sense (separate filesystems, separate CPU usage, separate RAM images.) It is easier to explain complete separation/isolation to a jury who hates your guts than to explain how unlikely it would be for a root exploit that would allow user "a" in a multi-user system to access user "b"'s stuff, from happening.
So, even though keeping work stuff in a single app is a working solution, the best from both a technical and legal viewpoint would be a level 1 hypervisor.
[1]: If I remember right, there was a bug in the FB app that might alter contacts about a year ago, and that would not be good with work stuff.
What are you talking about? Any 16mhz, 2mb ram 386 computer from 1985 is capable of running a multi-user OS. There is no penalty performance AT ALL. This is how Linux was built (and don't forget what runs under Android) from day one.
ARM chips have "world" support (TrustZone). This is pretty much most of a hypervisor except for the filesystem redirects. However, it allows two completely separate VMs to run without them seeing or affecting each other on a CPU die basis.
Since this is done at a low level, it is a lot harder to bypass than just having a hypervisor in software.
This "not-that-incredibly-powerful device" is a fucking monster compared to the Unix workstation you used 20 years ago.
Android 4.2 (at least on tablets) supports multiple users. Not sure if this feature is enabled on phones (4.1.2 is the latest I've used).
Not sure why you'd need a hypervisor.
Android 4.2 (at least on tablets) supports multiple users. Not sure if this feature is enabled on phones (4.1.2 is the latest I've used). Not sure why you'd need a hypervisor.
You'd need a hypervisor so that you can have completely separate OS's for the personal and corporate side, so that a user with root access to the personal OS would still have only controlled access to the corporate side and so that software (including OS) updates for the corporate side could be managed completely separately from s
I haven't personally played with the multiple user accounts support in Android 4.2, but from what I've read about it online, it already does everything that you want (with the exception of completely separate OSes).
Each account has their own separate filesystem space that is not accessible to other accounts. Each account has its own Play store account. Each account has their own separate apps installed. Etc.
I haven't personally played with the multiple user accounts support in Android 4.2, but from what I've read about it online, it already does everything that you want (with the exception of completely separate OSes). Each account has their own separate filesystem space that is not accessible to other accounts. Each account has its own Play store account. Each account has their own separate apps installed. Etc.
If you have root on the phone, you can presumably access any account. Having root on a system wi
Thus, I have two mobile phones, two phone numbers, two e-mail inboxes. Work and play are two different spheres, and it stays that way.
2 phones at twice the price to operate. A partitioned phone sounds like it might be a lot cheaper in the long run.
"Thus, I have two mobile phones, two phone numbers, two e-mail inboxes. Work and play are two different spheres, and it stays that way."
Meanwhile I recently bought a cheap chinese dual SIM phone (a JIAYU JY-G2) that rides circles around my previous Samsung Galaxy S and allows those two phone numbers and e-mail inboxes for two different spheres without the hassle of two phones.
Because for the user space they completely reinvented the wheel instead of using what they had. So they have to do like Windows 9x and graft multiple user accounts on to it.
Had Android used existing Linux infrastructure, they would have had the capability from day one, but Google insisted on keeping it all in house.
Seriously, what is so difficult about having a multi-user phone OS when Linux or Darwin is running the underpinnings?
It's a matter of how Android uses Linux.
Android makes very extensive use of Users and Groups for the normal permissions protection. However, instead of using a user/group like you do on your Linux server or desktop, they give one to each individual application (user) or set of applications (group). So only applications by the same developer that the developer has marked as being able to be part of the same group can access the stuff by a given group; and only applications running as the same user - typic
Or, I don't know, just upgrade to Android 4.2 which includes multiple user accounts on a single machine, each with their own apps, data, profiles, etc.
This is the wrong solution to a very real problem - how can a machine get used for personal as well as private access? The answer is, if I have to boot (or even switch to) a separate account to do my personal activities, either they will get done on the work account (compiling - might as well check
The solution is to provide proper incentive, security and usage guid
This is one thing I was curious about.
So I have a phone which has a "business" partition and a "personal" partition. That's great. But if I have to restart the phone to switch between the two, it's not all that useful because--no matter what--I will be in the wrong partition.
Suppose the office calls with some random emergency while I'm at home. Okay, I was home, and my phone was on the "personal" partition. Now I have to restart the phone to get to the "business" partition. So I'll hang up and call you
Okay, I was home, and my phone was on the "personal" partition. Now I have to restart the phone to get to the "business" partition. So I'll hang up and call you back.
No. The point of this is to do better than what you described (which amounts to just having two different sim cards for your phone):
During the demo, if the phone was displaying the private user interface and a phone call came in from a person listed in the phone's corporate contact list, the device automatically changed interfaces to the bu
Until they can have dual SIM cards and run on two networks at the same time, it will be useless. If the company wants me to have a cellphone, they can pay for one. I prefer to keep both lines separate so I can completely ignore work the second I leave the office.
Even with one SIM card, that can be virtualized as well. Skype and Google Voice do a good job at giving one a usable number.
I can see cellphone providers jumping on the bandwagon as well with this and offering a passthrough service, so the only thing the SIM card is used for is authorizing network usage.
Hear, hear. The people who use their personal phones or laptops to do official work confuse me. I've never been asked to do such a thing and have no idea why I would want to. I had a business cell phone once but that was just because it was a small company with no PBX; I just left the phone on my desk like any other office phone. Never had any problems, and I never had any risk that my employer might have any knowledge of my personal email or phone conversation.
"Until they can have dual SIM cards and run on two networks at the same time, it will be useless."
If only it were somehow possible... http://www.pandawill.com/mobile-phone-c1/android-os-phone-c551.html [pandawill.com]
Until they can have dual SIM cards and run on two networks at the same time,
Dual sim phones have existed for the better part of a decade, but never took off in America.
The reason dual and tri sim phones took off overseas is that, in many countries, callling between networks is more expensive than staying in-network.
So everyone just gets multiple phone lines in order to keep in touch with their friends on different networks.
/The first quad sim phone came out in 2010, but there aren't hundreds of models like there are with triple sim phones.
And there are none of them that are decently built or run the latest Android.
Every single multi sim phone I have seen and tried was a huge piece of junk running a fake look alike OS or was running a horribly out of date os like Android 2.2.2
Editors, explaining acronyms would be nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device [wikipedia.org]
I remember reading a tech article long ago, where they showcased an LG Android phone where it was running an a visualised Android instance within the actual phone, which you could switch at the swipe of a button.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/vmware-android-handset-virtualization-hands-on/ [engadget.com]
"... IC makers such as Intel
Does that answer your question?
Need me to use a special device whilst I'm employed by you ? Easy just provide me with the device. Then you can do what you like with it. Lock it down, encrypt it, remote manage it etc. etc.
Need me to access IT infrastructure from home ? No problem, give me a physically separate network to use (via a mobile phone should be fine these days)
My devices will never be connected to any employers network - nor will I use employers devices on my own network. The two things are seperate and should be physically
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.


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The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, by Westoll, Andrew
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/2012
|Chimphouse Floor Plan
|p. x
|Full-Moon Week
|p. 1
|Zihuatanejo, Quebec
|p. 15
|Our Disquieting Doubles
|p. 35
|Blueprints of a Dream
|p. 51
|The Cage Hospital
|p. 65
|Toby and the Hoodlums
|p. 82
|Operation Cucarachas
|p. 115
|Tales from the Campfire
|p. 129
|The Pressure washer
|p. 145
|Inner Sanctuary
|p. 171
|War Memorials
|p. 193
|The Haunted
|p. 224
|The End of an Era
|p. 248
|p. 259
|How You Can Help the Chimps
|p. 263
|Further Reading
|p. 265
|p. 267
|Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.
Chapter 1
I am not interested in why man commits evil.
I want to know why he does good.
— Vàclav Havel
Chimp Art
"Smell my phone," says Gloria Grow as I climb into her Jeep at Montreal's Trudeau Airport. She guns the engine and hands me her cell phone. "Go on. Smell it."
These are Gloria's first words to me in person. We've already had two long phone conversations, between my home in Toronto and her farm in Quebec. By the end of those talks she'd invited me to move in with her family and write a book about them. But at no point did Gloria seem like the sort of person who would ask a virtual stranger to smell her phone.
There is nothing peculiar about the cell, a standard-issue flip phone. But upon closer inspection I notice a constellation of little divots — are they bite marks? — punched into the bright pink casing.
I look at Gloria. She is frowning. A construction detour has sent us in circles.
"Go on," she says again. I raise the phone to my nose.
I smell a swamp. Rotten fruit. Fecal matter. The reek of a tropical jungle.
"I love it," I say.
"Me too. Richard got me pink. I hate pink. But now I can't bear to throw it out. Open it."
I flip the casing open, and the LCD comes to life. But instead of showing an orderly sequence of numbers and icons, the screen is a mess, a muddy squelch of black ink. The phone has been crushed,
or chewed, beyond repair.
"These roads!" says Gloria, making her third consecutive lefthand turn. Then she reaches over and presses her thumb into the phone's screen. The inky cloud morphs into kaleidoscopic rainbows.
"Isn't that beautiful?" she says without looking over. "It's like chimp art."
I fiddle with the cell phone, making a few of my own psychedelic impressions on the screen. As we descend an exit ramp to nowhere, Gloria sighs. She reaches over and tears the phone from my hand. Closing her eyes, she presses the phone to her nose and inhales deeply.
"They only gave it back to me yesterday."
Cat Lady
This is the story of a family of troubled animals who live on a farm in the French Canadian countryside. It is the story of how these animals came to be so troubled and how they are slowly becoming less so, in their own particular ways, through the actions of a small group of people led by Gloria Grow.
When I say these animals are a family, I don't mean they share a mother or father or brothers or sisters (although some of them surely do). They are a family in the sense that any group of beings who have lived together, suffered together, and triumphed together becomes a family. They are related in the way we are all related to one another, and here lies the source of their great misfortune.
I first contacted Gloria in 1998, when I was a college biology student. I wrote to inquire about volunteer opportunities at the Fauna Foundation, the sanctuary for rescued animals that Gloria had recently founded with her partner, a veterinarian named Richard Allan, on their 240-acre hobby farm near Chambly. The foundation had recently been all over the local, national, and international news because it had just become the permanent retirement home for a very special group of chimpanzees.
At the time I was one of thousands of young biology students who, inspired by the usual suspects (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, the breathless David Attenborough), would have done just about anything to get a job either working with or studying great apes — the orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees most of us have seen only in a zoo or in the pages of National Geographic. So when I first heard of Fauna, I couldn't believe it. The place sounded like my own personal Shangri-la. Imagine: an opportunity to experience chimpanzee behavior in the flesh, just a short drive from Canada's most sophisticated and seductive city, thereby removing the need to fund a kamikaze trek to the remote Central African rainforest (something I, at a much younger age, had briefly considered until I did a little reading and learned what the "civil" in "civil war" actually meant).
I didn't know why the chimps had been shipped to Fauna from their home in New York State. I knew nothing of what they'd been subjected to there or of the struggles each one faced in adjusting to retirement in Canada. All I knew was I wanted to work with them. Looking back, I find it unsettling how selfish my curiosity really was.
Unfortunately, life got in the way, and the volunteering idea came to nothing. Soon after that I was offered a dream job of a different sort. After graduating, I spent a year in the jungles of Suriname, just north of the Amazon rainforest, studying wild troops of brown capuchin monkeys. Though they're no great apes, capuchins are known as the chimpanzees of the New World for their intelligence and primitive forms of tool use. I was employed by the University of Florida, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Leakey Foundation. My dreams fulfilled, my interests served, the chimpanzees of Fauna became a distant memory.
Fast-forward more than a decade, then, throw in a career shift from scientist to writer, and here I am with Gloria, searching for a way out of Montreal, struggling to correlate the embarrassing mental image I'd had of her with the real-life version sitting next to me.
The stereotype of the woman who dedicates her life to rescuing animals is a surprisingly powerful cultural image. Often referred to as the Crazy Cat Lady, but by no means limited to felines, she shuffles around in moldy slippers, the backs of her hands are raked with claw marks, and at any moment a minimum of four living creatures are buried somewhere in the folds of her robe. This woman is a walking menagerie of frumpy disillusionment, in desperate need of the unconditional love only an animal can provide. And although that image is a cruel exaggeration, I was half-expecting some variation on it when I climbed into the Jeep and finally met Gloria, more than ten years after my first attempt.
Gloria is nothing like that imaginary Cat Lady. Small but full figured, with shoulder-length dark blond hair worn half up in a clip, she is disarmingly attractive, her face deeply tanned, her makeup tasteful, her smile full of intelligence. She is very fit, her shoulders and upper arms packed with the strength of a farmhand. She wears an elegant beige top, expensive-looking jeans, black sandals, and dark-framed glasses, a chic outfit that belies her age (mid-fifties), her roots (blue-collar Quebec), and her mode of transport (a dusty Jeep that smells vaguely of farm). As our quest for an escape route continues, Gloria speaks about the effects of captivity on animals, while my first impression of her changes to that of a woman caught between opposing worlds — something that could also be said of the Crazy Cat Lady.
"It's like Shawshank Redemption, right?" she says of the difficulties facing rescued animals. "The librarian finally gets out of prison, and what does he do? He kills himself." Gloria pulls a hard right, and we careen onto a packed highway. "Found it. The 20-East." She punches the gas. "We're free!"
Down on the Farm
In fifteen minutes we reach a major crossroad, a huge parcel of former pastureland now inhabited by a dizzying metropolis of big-box stores, movie cinemas, restaurants, and parking lots. Soon enough, we're driving along a pleasant country road, surrounded mostly by fields of corn and alfalfa, with occasional houses backing onto acres of open land. Another turn onto an even quieter road, a few more meanderings past farms and old barns, and we've completed our departure from the hurly-burly. We arrive at a stretch of white picket fencing that looks plucked from the western frontier circa 1890. Gloria slows, and I take in my first glimpse of her home — now my home, too, if only for a few months.
The large farmhouse where Gloria and Richard live is partly hidden behind a copse of trees, but I get a glimpse of its rural heritage — the gabled roof, the pillared veranda. To the left of the drive, in a narrow pasture, two cream-colored llamas are resting in the shade. A few billy goats nibble lazily at the grasses behind them.
We creep down the drive, the gravel crackling under our tires. At a gate, Gloria lowers her window, and I hear the wild barking of dogs, perhaps a whole pack of them. Then, from a small stable, two
impressive horses emerge. One is black with a glint of gray, with white-booted back legs and a white stripe down his muzzle. The other, slightly taller, is a delicious chestnut brown with a gleaming black mane. As the horses get closer, I realize the black one must be fairly old, his gait hobbled in the rear.
"There's Jethro and McLeod, coming to say hello," says Gloria. "Eeyore's around here somewhere."
I spot an elderly gray donkey behind the stable. He stands perfectly still, his ears twitching, his gaze fixed intently on our passing Jeep, as if he's on surveillance, compiling data on our whereabouts and reporting back to some donkey strike force. I've never felt entirely comfortable around donkeys. I consider mentioning this to Gloria but decide it's probably best to keep it to myself for now.
"There he is," says Gloria, waving to Eeyore over her shoulder. "What a grumpy old man."
Continuing down the drive, we pass a small bungalow. This is the Fauna office, where I will be living for the next few months in the basement apartment. Gloria doesn't stop, though, and a beautiful country pond opens up on our left. Families of ducks and Canada geese cruise the surface, and two white swans sit preening on a promontory of rocks. A majestic fountain of water rises up in the center, and in the distance a gray heron high-steps through the shallows, hunting minnows and frogs.
On the far side of the pond are two barns with a tractor parked between them. A raging bonfire coughs a plume of black smoke into the air. Every now and then, an ATV with a payload of lumber zips past the blaze. A cacophony of sounds drifts across the water — the buzz of lawn mowers, the growl of a chain saw, the echoing thuds of a hammer. Fauna is much more than a mere hobby farm, I realize; it is a place of perpetual labor. Since we arrived, the walkie-talkie on Gloria's belt has been humming with the industrious voices of her French Canadian staff.
Between the pond and the driveway are immaculate gardens, with quaint pathways winding through them. A few rustic benches sit among the flowers, just a few weeks from full bloom. At a small clearing, Gloria slows.
A peculiar building comes into sight, three stories high, on maybe an acre of ground. The structure, surrounded by chainlink and electric fencing, resembles a medium-security prison. Above the entrance, a caged balcony looks tacked on, almost as an afterthought.
But this is not what makes the building peculiar. The strange part is the chutelike appendage that protrudes from the second floor and stretches toward the pond we've just passed. Made of steel caging, it is supported by thick pillars reaching fifteen feet to the ground. It looks like some postapocalyptic contraption from the set of Mad Max.
Before I can ask Gloria about this, she directs my attention to our right, where an imposing steel cage sits in a thicket of native sumacs. The cage is about the size of a clothes closet, seven feet high and five feet wide. A small metal box with a hole in the top is affixed to the side. An old truck tire hangs from rusted chains inside the cage. The whole thing looks like something out of a medieval dungeon.
Gloria says nothing about the cage. We just creep past in silence. Then we rumble over a wooden bridge, and she parks in front of the chimphouse.
"Now remember," she says, climbing out of the Jeep, "today's crazy." She throws open a chainlink gate. "It's full-moon week, so everyone's a little off."
I'm a bit astonished. I hadn't expected Gloria to take me inside on my first day. By the time we reach the front door I've understood that by "everyone" she is not referring to her staff.
Full-Moon Week
The first thing I notice upon walking into the Fauna chimphouse is not, as I'd expected, the smell, a brooding stench of compost, urine, flatulence, and feces that apparently makes some visitors vomit. And it is not the sweltering humidity, an absurdity considering our northern locale.
No, the first thing I notice is the fear, which runs up my spine like a silverfish as Gloria leads me down a dark corridor. It is a familiar feeling, reminding me how I felt the first few times I walked alone in the jungles of Suriname, with only a machete to protect myself from the menagerie of rainforest predators. But this is not Suriname, and despite the smell and the heat, it is not a place where a bushmaster or a jaguar might roam. So I begin to wonder: is this my fear, or is it perhaps someone else's?
As we walk, an eerie sound rises, like something large and hollow being dragged across the floor.
Gloria turns to face me. "Rules," she says. "First: take your jacket off. The bigger you look, the more threatening you are. Second: you're tall, so I need you to crouch. Third: do not stand too close to me. They don't interpret it properly. They can't control it. It's threatening. Four: respect the red lines on the floor. They're there for a reason. Inside the red, believe me, they will try to get you."
"What's that sound?"
"The welcoming committee." Gloria smiles. "They already know you're here."
We walk on. The dragging grows louder. Then a terrible boom detonates up ahead. It echoes throughout the building, a crash of something extremely dense slamming into a wall of steel. I stop dead. The crash is followed by eerie silence; I hear birds chirping. But a few seconds later an identical blast goes off, followed by another and another, and I decide no, this fear may have started out as someone else's, but now it's entirely mine. The building fills with the booms. The cement walls seem to shake with the noise.
"Full-moon week," says Gloria between the blasts. "Everyone's in such a good mood."
I think of that machete and how good it would feel in my hand right now. I think of those nineteenth-century explorers who refused to enter the Congo without an arsenal of guns, for fear of attack by the murderous beasts known as kivili-chimpenze (Bantu for "mock-man"). One researcher actually built himself a cage in the jungle so that he could observe chimpanzees in safety. It wasn't until 1960, when the young Jane Goodall entered the Tanzanian rainforest accompanied by her mother, that Western culture slowly began to lose its irrational fear of the chimpanzee.
Easier said than done, I think, as a different sound now emerges above the fray — the chimpanzee pant-hoot. It begins almost imperceptibly, a series of low-pitched hooing sounds, as if someone were panting in and out through their mouth. It builds slowly, the hooing getting faster, louder, the in-breaths growing shorter and the outs longer, uh-hoo, uh-hooo, uh-hoooo, until finally they climax in a sequence of hysterical, near-human shrieks. The silverfish scuttles up my neck. My ears ring. Then silence. The birds. Scraping. Pounding. More howls. I turn a corner and come across a woman.
Her back turned to us, she is folding linens from a towering pile of laundry. When the woman sees me out of the corner of her eye, her body quakes, and she lets loose a terrified scream. For an instant her voice extinguishes the crashes and shrieks, and a flurry of bed sheets parachutes to the floor. A moment later, realizing what species I am, the woman grasps her chest with her hands, rolls her head back, and in a spasm of hysterical French thanks God for sparing her life.
"I thought a chimp was out," she says breathlessly. "I thought you were a chimpanzee."
And that's when I see him. Over the laundry lady's shoulder, past Gloria. A massive black body behind a wall of steel caging, thundering back and forth.
"Come and meet Binky," says Gloria, waving me over. "It's OK. Really. Come and meet the Bub."
Of all the dramatic arrivals and new beginnings that have occurred in the Fauna chimphouse over the years, few can compare with one that happened on a cool September day back in 1997, when the first
members of Gloria's new family arrived at sanctuary.
Late that morning, a black pickup truck towing an ordinary horse trailer pulled into the Fauna Foundation's driveway after a long journey. It had begun before dawn in the Ramapo Mountains,
about an hour's drive north of New York City. But for the animals inside that horse trailer, arrival at Fauna marked the end of a much longer and more difficult journey, one that had lasted their entire lives.
Inside that trailer were seven young chimpanzees. Until that morning they had been the property of New York University and had lived at a biomedical research facility called the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates, or LEMSIP. As research subjects, these animals had endured years of pain and deprivation as living test tubes for the study of human diseases. They'd been torn from their mothers just days after birth. They'd been imprisoned in cages, sometimes in solitary confinement. They'd undergone blood draws, invasive surgeries, and viral experiments. Some had been knocked unconscious with dart guns almost every week.
And when the trailer turned in to the Fauna driveway that morning, these animals were met by a distinctly human welcoming committee and became the sole responsibility of Gloria Grow.
Over the next few months, those seven were joined by eight more chimps from LEMSIP, many of them much older and more troubled, some having been singled out for infection with multiple strains of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in studies aimed at developing a vaccine for AIDS. Upon arriving at Fauna, these animals became the first HIV-positive research chimps on the planet to be retired to a sanctuary.
As the years passed, these apes were joined by four more from nearby zoos. Six members of this assorted family have since died. The day I arrive, the Fauna Foundation is home to thirteen chimpanzees, all of whom bear the psychological and, in some cases, physical wounds of having spent much of their lives either in biomedical research or simply behind the bars of a cage. This is their retirement. This is their Shangri-la. And with Gloria's help, they've slowly begun to heal.


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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called the apparently politically inspired lane closures on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge "immoral."
De Blasio told reporters Thursday that Gov. Chris Christie was right to apologize and take action but said closing lanes is, "not professional, it's not mature, it's absolutely immoral."
The Democratic mayor said New Yorkers were affected by the September traffic jams. He said there are still bigger questions about what happened and called the closures "unacceptable."
The Republican governor fired a top aide Thursday and apologized for what he called his staff's "stupid" behavior.
Emails and text messages released Wednesday suggest Christie's aide arranged the jams to punish the mayor of Fort Lee for not endorsing the governor.
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Arlington — Six Flags over Texas released details on its newest ride the Texas SkyScreamer. The ride will be the world's tallest extreme swing ride standing 400 feet above the ground.
According to the park, the ride will slowly swing as it takes you up to the top of the tower. You will eventually be spun in a 124 wide circle at speeds up to 35 miles per hour. To make room for the ride, the Texas Chute Out and the Flashback will close for good on Monday.
The SkyScreamer is expected to open by next summer.