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Diet for a Hot Planet
By now most of us know to choose healthy foods and eat locally, but how often do we think about how our daily food choices contribute to climate change? Food activist Anna Lappé (daughter of author Frances Moore Lappé) connects global warming to the way we eat in Diet for a Hot Planet.
Extensively researched and written in a conversational tone, the book outlines, for example, why eating factory-farmed meat and palm-oil-saturated junk food may be worse for the planet than leaving your lights on at home while rumbling around town in an SUV. Agriculture and livestock-industry emissions are even higher than those in the transportation sector. And the demand for palm oil leads to plantations that destroy millions of acres of rainforests and peatlands, releasing massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
In the end, Lappé gives you a taste of everything, but you'll have to stay at the table to truly get full. To borrow a phrase from its pages, this book is a "resolution to start a revolution." Get informed. Get angry. Get inspired. Figuring out the actual costs of what you're putting into your body is a great place to start.
Kathleen Yale wrote this review for , the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine. Kathleen is the reviews editor at Interested?


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Instance tanking (Tank)
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|Other Roles
Instance leader
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|Class Roles
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See Pull for a more technical overview of pulling.
The Puller Edit
In most cases, the most experienced group member should call the pulls.
Classes: Hunter, Rogue, Mage (for tricky pulls), tank of all varieties, any other CC-skilled class. (situational)
This role might best be suited to a Hunter with their various abilities. Many tanks prefer to be the puller as well. This may lead to problems if a run has 2 pullers not working together. Tanks, Hunters and other pulling classes may find that working together leads to better instance runs. Timing can be difficult. Ventrilo helps, but that's often not available. A goal is a controlled pull, with the strengths of each class complementing each other. Some tanks and Hunters perform less than optimally and have caused problems as they do not agree on how the pulls should go. Competent Hunters and tanks have seen incompetent tanks and Hunters. Both are appreciative of competent players.
What Pullers should do Edit
- Do not pull until you confirm that the group is ready.
- Do not pull if your primary healer doesn't have sufficient mana.
- If you pull and are not tanking then use your least threat-producing effect to pull. (As a Misdirection-wielding hunter, you will want to deal your highest threat-producing effect.)
- If a hunter is in the party consider allowing them to set down a freeze trap for adds and allow their 30-second cooldown to run a little of its course so that they can lay another trap before the prior trap breaks. But it is not by any means necessary to let it run its full 30-second course.
- Never pull with a pet unless you are familiar with how to pull your pet back to you, and all mobs are accounted for, with tanking and CC.
- Respect raid icons if in use. Hit the designated target with the appropriate skill if given one.
- Hunters should learn how to create the Perfect Zone of Ultimate Safety, and lobby that parties they are in to use it
- Be ready to abort a bad pull, preferably with Feign Death or Vanish, simply die if all else fails, but above all, in such a case be sure that the cluster you are pulling will not get close enough to draw the rest of your party into combat, or else your death will be in vain and a wipe will ensue anyways.
What Pullers want others to know Edit
- Do not follow the puller, stay at the planned point of engagement.
- If a ranged mob is being pulled wait until it is in range of the tank before using any aggro-generating skills.
- Do not attack mobs other than those designated for this pull.
- Don't sheep or DoT until the pull is done (else bad pulls cannot be aborted), unless one of those spells is previously announced as the pulling spell.
- Warrior tanks often sit at zero rage before a pull, limiting their ability to react to something not planned.
- DoTs and cleave effects are not our friends.
How to pull Edit
Don't pull from the middle of a group. Each mob has an aggro radius. Other mobs crossing this radius (or in any other way chained to the pulled mob) will pass their (nominal) aggro on and follow into the melee. So always pull the mob closest to you. Try to pull as few mobs as possible. If you are not the tank, keep the group well away from you so that if you have a bad pull, the rest of your group don't fall into the aggro radius of the pulled mobs. If everything fails, it's better to take the death and have the healer resurrect only you, than to wipe the party.
Bring the mobs to the party, not the party to the mobs. If you're pulling a ranged mob or caster, make sure you bring him within melee range of the group by going back beyond the group. In that situation it's also particularly useful to do a line-of-sight pull, whereby you run around a corner or behind an obstacle immediately after attracting the mob's attention: leaving their line of sight forces them to follow you around the corner, which means that you do not have to run very far to get them where you want them. This requires discipline on the part of all other party members, so that they don't pull aggro early from the puller, especially if the puller is the tank. The tank should never do such a ranged pull unless it is by LOS.
Only pull mobs specified by the leader and only once he has given you permission to pull.
Request that the party leader use Lucky Charms to designate who you should pull, and who should be CC'd, to ensure that no one in the party will accidentally target and attack the mob that is designated for crowd control.
Warrior or Druid Charge Edit
Warriors should not use Charge when pulling unless you are familiar with the pulls and know by personal experience that it is acceptable. Even so, it is something you will rarely want to do. In those cases where Charge would be unacceptable, and you are pulling as the tank, use Defensive Stance (with shield), and a ranged weapon to do the actual pulling. It is important to bring the enemy back to you, rather than plunge into it, as this greatly reduces the likelihood of extra adds joining the fray. There are times, however, where it may be the best course of action to use it.
If there is no danger of unwanted adds, Charge is an exceptional tanking ability when done correctly. It places the tank far enough into the mob to achieve the Perfect Zone of Ultimate Safety if the charge draws more mobs than foreseen. The initial rage generation is huge when it comes to gathering up aggro; speeding up the nuking of tough encounters. It is certainly not appropriate to initiate every pull with a charge, but there are quite some situations where a charge is a good idea; especially on Boss Fights. A warrior tank can charge into a mob, immediately use Demoralizing Shout and a Sunder Armor, quickly switch to defensive stance and apply another sunder or revenge. This takes only a fraction of the time needed to build up enough rage for 3 sunders in defensive stance, and it makes it nearly impossible to pull the aggro off of the tank. The casters, cc and healers can almost immediately begin to do what their roles suggest.

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Editor's Note by Rich Keller: This opinion article below is written by Maurice Hladik, author of Demystifying Food from Farm to Fork. He grew up on a farm in western Canada and was an active farmer into his early adult years. He earned two degrees in agricultural economics, served as an agricultural diplomat in several countries and also worked for an international agricultural company. Hladik explains how some activist are completely off base to suggest growing food in urban settings will have real impact on feeding the world as the population increases. It would require a widespread starvation situation in the U.S. and Canada before those who think it would be good for urban gardens to actually try to grow 1/16 of an acre of food crops, and then most of them would fail miserably.
By Maurice Hladik
I recently read an article that waxed eloquently about the virtues of urban farming in the U.S. and Canada, using the example of someone who was growing lettuce in the saddlebags of a rusted, old bicycle leaning against a garage. True, this was the delightful handiwork of a resourceful and imaginative gardener, but the author got carried away and used this as yet another example of how the urban farming movement has a meaningful impact on the nation's overall food supply. As if four heads of lettuce were really going to have an impact on feeding the world!
First a little disclosure – I spend many happy hours in my half-acre urban garden attempting to grow raspberries, cherries, pears, apples, hazelnuts, kiwis, tomatoes, zucchinis, etc. with varying degrees of success where I once had lawns. Unfortunately, natural maples (I also harvest the syrup) have matured and rendered my fruit trees unproductive in recent years. Furthermore, squirrels, groundhogs, and birds, including gold finches and the occasional wild turkey, share my harvest. As enjoyable as my hobby is, highlighted by more tomatoes than we can possibly eat or preserve over six weeks, my efforts have little impact on our family's food requirements, although relatives, friends and neighbors do appreciate my fleeting bounty. This year has been a disaster; a hail storm has left my veggies a tattered mess. Indeed, to compare my gardening effort to farming would be akin to elevating a stamp collector to postmaster.
Taking a look at the big picture of national land use places the movement in perspective. The US landmass is classified at 2.1 percent urban and 19.5 percent cultivated farmland (pasture and rangeland are not included). While the farmland is 100 percent dedicated to and capable of producing food, the urban landscape was originally selected because of a natural harbor or other factors usually related to convenient transportation. Thus, the quality of the urban terrain is often marginal for food production. Indeed, the world is a better place where cities do not spring up on prime farmland. Then there is the clutter of houses, schools, hospitals, roads, railways, office buildings, historic sights, universities, airports, etc. where nothing can be planted. Realistically, I would be surprised if the food production potential of the available urban land would amount to even one percent of that available on conventional farms utilizing open fields, pastures and rangeland.
Then there is the question, 'where are all those urban dwellers with the skills and the inclination to seriously grow food?' I maintain there has been plenty of hype and encouragement in recent years for city folk to get out and grow food. It would be surprising if there is a latent population of closet gardeners who might spontaneously become active and tear up their lawns and make a go with veggies or fruit trees. It is doubtful if even this one percent of potential urban land resource could ever be utilized, given the lack of enthusiastic and capable gardeners. However, it should be noted that in developing countries food security issues, land use patterns, the presence of recent migrants with farming skills and household labor ability are quite different than in North America and, in such an environment, significant quantities of food are produced in urban settings.
What about the sustainability of urban farming in North America? At any garden center there are mountains of topsoil available in convenient plastic bags and by the truckload. That soil does not just "happen; it was once farmland that has forever been removed from productivity in its natural setting. For example, as my urban home is located on a stony ridge, the original owners of the house brought in black soil by the truckload so they could have a lawn and plant some foliage and flowers. This is a classic case of urban land that was unsuitable for agriculture being made somewhat arable at the expense of productive farmland. Does anyone worry about "soil miles?
Another often overlooked factor with urban farming is the water requirement. The water we get delivered to our homes by pipelines is potable and from a sophisticated and costly treatment system that is has little excess capacity for irrigation. For good reason, watering of lawns is frequently banned or restricted during dry periods. Furthermore, the gardener with the saddlebags (where did his soil come from?) and indeed all plants growing in containers face accelerated evaporation and require a lot more water to thrive than those plants growing in conventional soil.
Rooftop gardens for food production are also water guzzlers, given that the thin layer of soil on a cement surface requires much more than naturally provided by rain. This is because such a base for plants leads to higher soil temperature levels, accelerated evaporation and an inability to develop subsurface moisture reserves. Yes, household grey wastewater is a potential resource, but how many homes are realistically capable of capturing the water from showers, washing machines and the kitchen sink? In Toronto, to enhance city beautification, to reduce air conditioning energy requirements and to control waste water run off, all new commercial, industrial and public buildings with a flat roof of over 2,000 square feet must be developed (city bylaw) into some sort of garden. Because of the water issue, food production is out of the question and sedums, with their drought-tolerant waxy leaves, are the plant of choice. The cost of such gardens run at $270 a square foot or over $11 million per acre, which is about 3,000 times more expensive than some of the very best prime farmland. Not much promise here to feed the world.
As hobbies go, gardening arguably tops the list of activities that provide exercise, exposure to nature and a sense of pride in producing fresh nutritious food. Furthermore, as all human indulgences have some impact on the environment, the guilty pleasure of using some topsoil or water from the hose to grow a bit of food is perfectly acceptable. However, the bottom line is that urban farming is a myth when it comes to being a significant contributor to the nation's food supply.
Gardeners everywhere - just get out there and enjoy yourselves and the bounty of your efforts. The burden of feeding the world, or even your community, should not be your concern.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Kenny Miles wasn't sure he wanted to spend another season just getting spot duty when South Carolina star Marcus Lattimore needed a breather. Now, all the eyes are again on Miles when the 12th-ranked Gamecocks face Arkansas.
Miles was South Carolina's leading rusher in 2009, but that was the year before Lattimore came to campus and became one of the Southeastern Conference's top rushers.
Miles went through Senior Day festivities last fall as he considered leaving the program after four seasons. Miles stayed, though, and will start Saturday against the Razorbacks (4-5, 2-3 SEC).
It's the first game for South Carolina (7-2, 5-2) since the gruesome knee injury to Lattimore two weeks ago against Tennessee. Lattimore has had surgery and could need more than a year of recovery.
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Emily Stover DeRocco, Department of Labor assistant secretary for employment and training, recently demanded an immediate response to allegations that a 1999 California law has been used to bar open-shop contractors from starting apprenticeship programs. Shortly thereafter, U.S. Rep. Gary Miller, R-Calif., praised the department's action.
In a Feb. 15 letter to Steven Smith, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, DeRocco indicated that California has failed to respond to the Labor Department's concerns about California Labor Code section 3075(b), which states that a need must be demonstrated before an apprenticeship program can be established. Critics allege the California Apprenticeship Council (CAC) has used this requirement to block open shops from offering apprenticeship programs in areas where union shop apprentice programs already exist.
"Because of the high priority the NAA [National Apprenticeship Act] places on making apprenticeship opportunities widely available," DeRocco wrote, "it is essential that we receive a satisfactory response to these concerns, or we will be obligated to initiate de-recognition proceedings against the CAC."
In a press release Miller issued shortly afterward, he wrote that Gov. Gray Davis and the CAC are trying to prevent nonunion shops from starting programs.
"The California Apprenticeship Council seems to believe that only union-run apprenticeship programs are needed. That's odd, because less than 18% of construction workers belong to unions in California," he wrote.
Groups that have expressed concern about California's actions include the Independent Electrical Contractors, Alexandria, Va., the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association, Falls Church, Va., and the Associated Builders and Contractors, Rosslyn, Va.


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This page is here to answer all things Java related to OpenEmbedded.
- 1 Writing a Java recipe
- 2 Information on specific libraries
- 3 Caveats, known issues, hints, miscellaneous information
- 4 Future plans
Writing a Java recipe
This section is going to tell you, how to write a proper recipe to build a Java library or program.
At the moment this is a stub and you will only find some scattered information which at a later point will be merged into a consistent whole.
If you use the java-library bbclass in a recipe foo and generate a native variant (e.g. foo-native) you should use
inherit java-native
instead of native. By doing so, you make sure, that any jars created by the recipe are properly installed into staging.
If you need Ant to build your recipe add ant-native to your recipes dependencies. This will allow you to call the built-in Ant executable.
Information on specific libraries
swt3.4-gtk and swt3.4-gtk-hildon
Some effort has been done to integrate Gtk+-based SWT 3.4 into the Hildon environment (that is what Maemo provides). Distributions targeting Maemo should set the preferred provider for swt3.4-gtk like this:
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_swt3.4-gtk = "swt3.4-gtk-hildon"
Important: If you do not want the hildon variant it is best to declare
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_swt3.4-gtk = "swt3.4-gtk"
as well. So bitbake will not chose the wrong one by accident (which would otherwise pull in all kinds of unwanted dependencies).
Caveats, known issues, hints, miscellaneous information
Version suggestions
Everyone and his dog knows that combining glibc 2.8, gcc 2.95 and Linux kernel 2.6.26 is not going to work. In the GNU Classpath realm we also have a set of versions that do not fit together. Here are some suggestions for your PREFERRED_VERSIONs. Stick to these if you are unsure. You can always find out which version are supposed to be compatible by reading the READMEs of the VMs.
jamvm-initial and classpath-initial
Use this and nothing else:
PREFERRED_VERSION_jamvm-initial = "1.4.5" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath-initial = "0.93"
cacao-initial and classpath-initial
Use this and nothing else:
PREFERRED_VERSION_cacao-initial = "0.98" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath-initial = "0.93"
jamvm[-native] and classpath[-native]
These are the releases that appear to be stable.
PREFERRED_VERSION_jamvm-native = "1.5.3" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath-native = "0.98"
For the target device:
PREFERRED_VERSION_jamvm = "1.5.2" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath = "0.98"
cacao[-native] and classpath[-native]
These releases appear to be stable:
PREFERRED_VERSION_cacao-native = "0.99.3" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath-native = "0.97.2"
For the target device take these:
PREFERRED_VERSION_cacao = "0.99.4" PREFERRED_VERSION_classpath = "0.98"
PREFERRED_VERSION_libecj-bootstrap = "3.4"
Extra binaries and symlinks
Since both Cacao and JamVM can be installed in staging you can use this and modify the 'java' or 'java-initial' symlink if you want to switch to a certain VM.
Debugging Cacao on the target
You need to debug the Cacao JVM on your target device using GDB and need some pointers on how to get started? Read this page from the Jalimo Wiki.
Future plans
Default Bytecode compliance level
Soon an option will be introduced to set the default bytecode compliance level. For any Java package that does not explicitly provide this level (not many do this) the one you set in your configuration will be used.
OpenJDK + Cacao
The flexibility of the Cacao runtime allows it to run it with OpenJDK's class library. This allows you to use the official class library and a JIT-capable runtime on an ARM device (as of today Hotspot has no JIT on ARM).
Since the middle of August 2008 OpenJDK + Cacao can be build and is included in the Debian armel sid repositories (package cacao-oj6-sdk). Xerxes Rånby is showing some webbapplets running using OpenJDK + CACAO on his blog: http://labb.zafena.se/?p=1
Since December 2008 OpenJDK + Cacao can be crosscompiled with OpenEmbedded as demonstrated by Robert Schuster! Check out http://rschuster.blogs.evolvis.org/2008/12/21/serving-cross-compiled-openjdk-with-icedtea/ and the answers http://rschuster.blogs.evolvis.org/2008/12/23/comments-on-latest-post-on-openjdk/
Ant integration for build recipes
Although ant can be used as a standalone tool there is no direct support for it in the recipe. E.g. the Debian buildsystem (CDBS) has support classes that can be used for Ant-based Java sourcepackages. It would be nice to have this too for OpenEmbedded.
This space is for *your* questions and those that appeared more often on the mailing list. Things will be added here by the Jalimo folk/OE-Java maintainers or by you asking a question.
Q: I do get all these editions, configurations and profiles that exist in the Java world wrong. Any pointer on this?
I found these articles in Wikipedia helpful to clarify the situation Java platform, Java ME.
Q: I need to solve a specific Java problem in OE and want to throw money at this. Whom can I contact?
The Jalimo project has done a lot of Java work in OE and are available for contract work. You can also ask for experienced devs on the openembedded-devel mailing list.


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This gentle step-by-step method of art instruction is designed to help young art enthusiasts bloom creatively by introducing them to the fundamentals of art in a safe, calm environment free of competition and judgment. Since earning a Bachelors Degree of Art at Buffalo State College in 1999, Program Founder and Lead Art Teacher Kim (Greene) Murdock has dedicated her life to teaching hundreds of children ages 5-11 that there are no mistakes in art. Creative problem solving skills are emphasized to empower children with tools that last a life time. Kim's approach to teaching art nurtures individual interpretation while offering relaxed, structured support so everyone can enjoy learning at his or her own pace, thus experiencing the joy of a successful outcome from the very first lesson.
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WHAT: University of Missouri Board of Curators Chair Warren Erdman will announce the 23rd president of the University of Missouri System
WHEN: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
WHERE: Reynolds Alumni Center on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus
Additional details:
For those reporters unable to travel to Columbia, the announcement will be live video-streamed on the University of Missouri System's Web site at www.umsystem.edu beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
A media availability will take place at approximately 10:30 a.m. or immediately upon the conclusion of the announcement in Columns Room C in Reynolds Alumni Center on the MU campus. This session will not be live video streamed, but reporters unable to travel may call in at the number provided below to hear the press conference:
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Campus visits:
University of Missouri System campuses will host a brief program and reception in honor of the 23rd president. Media are invited to attend these events:
- Missouri University of Science and Technology: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, Havener Center Atrium
- University of Missouri-St. Louis: 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, J.C. Penney Conference Center Lobby
- University of Missouri-Kansas City: 12:30-2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, Student Union Multipurpose Room
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Seventy-five years ago this month, Henry Luce, who had launched Time magazine in the 1920s, created his third great magazine: Life. Over the coming years it would come to be known as the weekly with the most and the best photographs. It would show Americans what war and peace looked like. There were photographs in Life of the Spanish Civil War and of V-J Day in Times Square that are rare cases for which the term "iconic" truly makes sense. And there were dozens of others, too.
Of course, Henry Luce's magazines had their detractors. One line went, "Life is for people who can't read; Time is for people who can't think." But in the new, commemorative coffee table book, Life 75 Years: The Very Best Of Life, the pictures, in fact, make you think. And if you're old enough, they make you remember, too.
The very first issue of Life, reprinted in its entirety in the book, told readers about the black widow spider, the actress Helen Hayes and the new actor Robert Taylor. But the cover story is full of lessons about pictures and competitive journalism.
The story, shot by one of Life's original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White, covered the construction of the Fort Peck Dam, a Public Works Administration endeavor to build the largest earth dam in the world during the Great Depression. Luce had read a story by about the raucous frontier lifestyle in the shantytowns surrounding the construction. As Bob Sullivan, managing editor of Life Books explained, it was kind of a sensationalistic piece. "Luce was taken by it," Sullivan says. And so Bourke-White was sent out to Montana to capture the story for Life.
The people of Fort Peck were dismayed to find that of the 17 photos that ran with the story in the first issue of Life, eight were taken inside ramshackle saloons. "It just shows the power of the editors because Bourke-White was a a great photojournalist. ... She went out there and got the whole story, brought it back to New York, Luce looked at it — and he wanted half the story. ... The editors, I'm sure at Luce's instruction, only ran the sexy stuff."
And so began Life's legacy: It lived for decades as a generalist magazine for politics, culture, news and entertainment. From salivating scenes of Hollywood to gruesome sights of war, all walks of life could be found in Life. "It was an American Idol-sized hit overnight," says Sullivan.
At the end of the anniversary book, the Life editors revisit the story of Fort Peck and deliver the other half of the story: "It was about hard-bitten people during the Depression, working themselves dog-tired while trying to survive and raise their kids," the text reads.
One of the very last photos in Life's anniversary book is a contemporary photo of 96-year-old Becky Powell Sterley. She recalls what life was like at the Fort Peck Dam in 1936, when she was a 20-year-old newlywed. But she doesn't recall what it looked like in Life. "We were too poor to buy a magazine," she is quoted as saying. It's a loaded way to end a book about Life's wide reach.
The magazine ran as a weekly until 1972 and as a monthly until 2000, when it fell victim to the economy and finally folded. For decades its pages were home to some of the best photography in the industry. Books like this one provide the last hope for Life photos to remain in America's living rooms. Today, much of the photography has a new home via Life's newest lifeline, the Web.
Seventy-five years ago, in November 1936, Henry Luce, who had started Time magazine in the 1920s and Fortune in 1930, launched a general interest weekly built around photography. For the next 36 years, LIFE magazine showed Americans what the world looked like every week: what war looked like, even what peace looked like. Alfred Eisenstaedt's "V-J Day in Times Square," the famous kiss, was a LIFE photo, so were hundreds of images that really do warrant that overused adjective, iconic.
They've been collected in an anniversary book called "75 Years: The Very Best Of LIFE." It's edited by Bob Sullivan of LIFE Books. Needless to say, it is full of great LIFE photographs, but it has something else. It comes with a reprint of the first issue of LIFE from 1936. And as Bob Sullivan tells it, it turns out that the very first cover story, a nine-page photo spread by a renowned photographer, warranted some checking 75 years later and even an apology.
BOB SULLIVAN: Yeah. It was on the Work Projects Administration project out in Fort Peck, Montana, where they were building the largest earthen dam in the world. And Henry Luce, you know, he's putting together this first issue of LIFE with his editors, and he had read a story by Ernie Pyle, who was a nationally syndicated columnist at the time. And Pyle had gone out and visited the Fort Peck project himself, and he wrote about a rooting-tooting lifestyle, a cowboy lifestyle in the shantytowns out there.
And he wrote about the saloon life and, you know, the grubby kids outside, and it was kind of a sensationalistic piece. Luce, obviously, was taken by it, and as he was inventing a magazine that would be dedicated to the visual, he said, well, boy, this is a terrific photo story, and let's see if it won't work for that first issue. So one of our first four staff photographers in LIFE had shot a lot for Luce's Fortune magazine, and she became, along with Eisenstaedt and others, the first four staff photographers. This was Margaret Bourke-White.
SIEGEL: Well, she went out. The photo spread that runs, I think, nine pages at the beginning of the magazine, tells the story of this dissolute, raucous life out on the new frontier.
SULLIVAN: It's wild, and it just shows the power of the editor because Bourke-White was a great photojournalist. She went out there, and she got the whole story, brought it back to New York. Luce looked at it, and he wanted half the story. He wanted to illustrate the Ernie Pyle half of it. This is old stuff that we've only found out in the last few months in putting this new book together. We thought it would be fun to end the new book - our part of the book - by revisiting Fort Peck.
And the original thought we had was, hey, look, it was 75 years ago. I'll bet a lot of these people are still alive or at least people that remember the scene. You know, they would have been kids at the time, but they, you know, capable of memory, and let's get back in touch with them and see how fondly they remember LIFE magazine hitting the stand back in the day, back in 1936. Well, they didn't remember it fondly at all.
SIEGEL: Their hometown was actually vilified in the pages of this new magazine.
SULLIVAN: Yeah. They liked the fame, but they sure didn't like the notoriety. So we go out, and we started talking to people. I talked to a man named Jim Rae(ph) out there who knew everyone. He's not that old himself, but he's a historian, and he put us in touch with a lot of these people. But we did come away with the impression, hey, LIFE didn't tell the whole story. These were a bunch of hardworking folks. They got to bed at 4 o'clock in the morning if they were on the middle of three shifts out on the dam.
They bowled at the bowling lanes that that they had put up there in one of the shantytowns as often as they went drinking, you know, and only a certain percentage of them did that. They had a more wholesome life as well. They were trying to make ends meet in the Depression. The next step was, of course, to go back to the archives and see if Bourke-White had covered both sides of the story.
SIEGEL: Yeah. There's the bowling alley, people who went bowling. They didn't just go to the saloon, and she had a picture of it.
SULLIVAN: Exactly. And we have pictures of the assembly line making lunch bags for the guys going up to the dam. We have the pictures of the guys going up to the dam. We have this woman who's running her own little business, her own little beauty shop in the shantytown. We fessed up. The title of the story in the book: "The Fort Peck Dam Story We Never Told."
SIEGEL: Well, Mr. Sullivan, thank you very much for talking with us.
SULLIVAN: It's been my pleasure.
SIEGEL: Bob Sullivan of LIFE Books edited the book "75 Years: The Very Best Of LIFE." One more odd twist to that first LIFE magazine, Margaret Bourke-White's photo on the cover was so stunning it was later used on a postage stamp, part of a Celebrate the Century series. Unfortunately, it was mislabeled in the magazine, New Deal, Montana: Fort Peck Dam. The Army Corps of Engineers corrected that. It was actually a shot of a spillway 3 miles east of the dam.
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FLORENCE, AL -- It's always unfortunate when a thief breaks into a machine on location, but the costs are easily calculated and the loss often absorbed without undue strain. The same cannot be said when theft occurs internally. Losses caused by larcenous route personnel are far more costly than those caused by vandals. Even small thefts can substantially affect the bottom line in the long run, if not detected in time. The handful of quarters grabbed out of the collection bag to pay for a fast food meal adds up over months and years.
To prevent such thefts, bookkeepers for bulk vending operations need to perform double duty as forensic accountants, assuming the roles of both bookkeeper and detective. It was a team of eagle-eyed accountants that brought the famed and feared gangster Al Capone to justice.
"I always watch for increases and decreases in collections over a period of time," said Pamela Owens, administrator and cash manager for Capital Vending & Distribution of Florence, AL.
Essential to this scrutiny, Owens explained, are good cash management systems and bookkeeping practices in the back office. At Capital, cash is brought back to the office and the totals keyed into a route management program. A comparison is routinely run against the previous month's collections.
"The collections should be consistent each month -- within $10 to $15 or so," Owens said. "When there are differences among monthly collections, it raises a red flag that possibly there is theft on the route."
Capital's route drivers count money by rack using a scale on site. Moneybags, with sales tickets, are counted again back at the office and the sum is compared against sales tickets before entry into the computer. Onsite count-and-record procedures not only provide an accurate tally, they also give the location managers an idea of the size of the commission they will receive by check, Owens said.
(In the past, bulk route drivers refilled machines on their routes from plastic bags full of product, simply adding enough to a machine to restore it to a "looks-full" condition, and then tying off the bag and throwing it in the trunk until they got to the next similar machine that needed product. As a result, there was no way to accurately match up the number of bags that went out with the value of the collections brought in. And many operators bagged cash by route, and some still do.)
Another signal that something is amiss is a mysterious increase in product sales without a commensurate rise in collections. This could be a tipoff that someone is stealing product, not money. It's a common-sense clue, but one that is often overlooked by operators who tend to review cost of goods sold and collections independently.
"Generally, most people in vending think that theft occurs with cash, but the inventory is just as easily targeted as the money," Owens explained. "The cost of goods is very important to our bottom line. If cost of goods is high, then we start looking at the amount of product being used."
In addition to keeping a close eye on the books, Capital Vending takes a variety of theft-prevention measures. These include carefully monitoring machines in the field, which is a cornerstone practice at Capital. "We add money to the cashbox," Owens said. "So we know what is in the machines, and if that amount does not come back to the office."
Most importantly, suspicion of theft does not mean immediate termination of the suspected employee. After all, even the most scrupulous bookkeeper can make errors. However, suspicion does trigger an additional investigation at Capital. "We generally try to come up with a secondary method to confirm the theft," Owens said. "Without another method, we are skeptical of our own initial findings."
Methods to confirm theft or clear the employee vary, but Owens and other members of Capital's management team have put into place a few that seem to work. One theft confirmation method, she noted, involves changing the routine for collections or handling merchandise. The new routine is designed to provide greater accountability in direct conflict of the suspect.
"Usually, if someone is stealing, they do not like the changes because they are afraid of being caught," she said. "When new systems are put into place, negative attitudes tend to come out. They usually have a problem with the new systems. They 'forget' a new assignment or continue to operate in the old way, which definitely draws attention to them and their job performances."
It is apparent that operators need to remain vigilant against theft. In route operations of any size, vendors cannot rely on "trusting their gut" or their abilities to judge people during the hiring process. As Owens pointed out, some pilferage is not even viewed by the perpetrator as "theft" at all; he might simply regard the cash as loan to be paid back over time, or an informal fringe benefit of a free meal while on the road. But even small amounts can add up quickly.
"If a person gets away with it the first time, they generally think that they will not be caught, so they continue to steal," Owens cautioned. "But with the right systems in place, a thief will be caught. Sometimes it does take longer than expected, but they'll get caught."
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Video threat emerges amid security concerns over Sochi Winter Olympics
(CNN) -- A video surfaces threatening the Winter Olympics. Russia's President vows the Games will be safe. Some U.S. lawmakers warn that they won't be.
One thing was clear as debate over the situation surged on Sunday: security is a top concern, less than three weeks away from the competition.
\"It's a very serious fear,\" Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, told CNN's State of the Union Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the Games, like any high-profile event, could be a target for terrorists.
But, he said, Russia has a \"perfect understanding\" of the threat and how to stop it.
As a transcript of his interview with half a dozen national and international broadcasters was posted on the Kremlin website Sunday, a video that surfaced online again highlighted the security situation.
In the video, posted on a well-known Jihadi forum website, two young men believed to have been suicide bombers in last month's back-to-back bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd speak of those attacks and make an ominous promise.
\"We've prepared a present for you and all tourists who'll come over,\" the video says. \"If you will hold the Olympics, you'll get a present from us for the Muslim blood that's been spilled.\"
Attack on transit hub fuels concerns
In the video, the men are dressed in black and standing in front of a black banner with religious verse that is typically associated with al Qaeda-linked extremists.
Last month's attacks in Volgograd, a major transit hub about 650 kilometers (400 miles) away from Sochi, sparked concerns over security as the Olympics approach.
The explosions targeted a train station and a trolley bus and claimed the lives of more than 30 people.
In addition to the Volgograd attacks, there has also been violence in recent days in the southern republic of Dagestan -- the latest unrest linked to a long-running Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus region.
Putin pledges stepped up security
Putin has pledged that visitors to Sochi for the Winter Olympics will be kept safe.
\"We will try to make certain that the security measures are not intrusive or too conspicuous, so they are not too noticeable for the athletes, the Olympics' guests or journalists,\" Putin said, according to the interview transcript.
\"But at the same time, we will do our utmost to ensure that they are effective.\"
Russia has plenty of experience in keeping international events secure, Putin said, pointing to the G8 and G20 summits as examples.
\"Security is to be ensured by some 40,000 law enforcement and special services officers,\" he said. \"Of course, we will draw on the experience acquired during similar events held in other regions of the world and in other countries. It means that we will protect our air and sea space, as well as the mountain cluster.\"
U.S. lawmakers: Games aren't safe
But several U.S. lawmakers offered a different take Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he wouldn't go to the games himself, \"and I don't think I would send my family.\"
Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, also called on the Russian government to be more cooperative with the United States on intelligence sharing ahead of the games.
\"Their level of concern is great, but we don't seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the Games. I think this needs to change, and it should change soon,\" Rogers said.
When asked whether he thought Americans would be safe at the Games, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said he trusts Russia's ability to provide security.
\"I think Americans will be quite safe,\" he said.
Putin: 'No danger' for gay visitors
Russia's stance on gay rights has been another area of concern for many visitors.
Russia has come under international pressure since its parliament passed a law last summer outlawing \"gay propaganda.\" The legislation makes it illegal to tell children about gay equality and has been widely criticized by Western leaders, who have called it archaic and discriminatory.
But Putin defended it before journalists Friday, saying that the law was about protecting children.
\"We have just recently passed a law prohibiting propaganda, and not of homosexuality, but of homosexuality and child abuse, child sexual abuse. But this has nothing to do with persecuting individuals for their sexual orientation,\" he said.
\"So there is no danger for people of such nontraditional sexual orientation who are planning to come to the Games as guests or participants.\"
Russia has also been criticized over the limitations placed on freedom of speech at Sochi. The official protest site is about a 30-minute drive from the Olympic village and is difficult to find.
But Putin said no visitors should fear problems if they protest, for example, over gay rights.
Putin says gays 'can feel safe' at Sochi Winter Olympics
Putin: No corruption
The Russian leader also dismissed claims that corruption has pushed up the cost of the games, saying there was no proof that had occurred.
When it won the bid in 2007, Russia said the Winter Games would cost $12 billion, but the government's website now cites the total cost as 1.5 trillion rubles ($45 billion.)
\"I do not see serious corruption instances for the moment, but there is a problem with overestimation of construction volumes,\" Putin said.
He suggested the problem was a universal one, where companies underestimate costs in the tendering process in order to win the project, and then push the price back up.
But, he said, there was no evidence of anything that could be considered corruption, or \"theft of public funds with the help of state officials in whose hands these funds fall,\" in Sochi.
\"If anyone has such information, give it to us, please. I repeat once again, we will be grateful. But so far there was nothing but talks,\" he said.
Putin put the cost of preparations for the Winter Olympics at only 214 billion rubles ($6.4 billion) but acknowledged that the total sum, including the cost of major infrastructure projects, was much higher.
The total price tag of $45 billion outstrips the $40 billion China is thought to have spent on the Beijing Summer Games and is more than three times the cost of the London Games in 2012.
Boris Nemtsov, former deputy prime minister of Russia and a vocal critic of Putin, published a report last year describing the Sochi games as one of the most \"outrageous swindles\" in recent Russian history. He claimed that up to 60% of the final cost -- or $30 billion -- has been embezzled.


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Watch this video of a father/filmmaker Daniel Brace playing hide-and-seek with his 2-year-old daughter—who his sporting a helmet-cam atop her noggin—and harken back to your own wobbly, pre-verbal youth. [Yahoo]


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When Leroy Martini's father, Roy, bought this '51 Chevy five-window, it wasn't a custom or a classic. It was practical and proud new wheels for a young professional carpenter. Leroy was still almost a decade away when the truck joined the family, but by the late '70s, Leroy was not only on the scene, but was old enough to appreciate his dad's red Chevy and the fact that it was going to belong to him someday.
As a kid too young to drive, Leroy had to patiently wait for that day, which wasn't easy. When his parents weren't home, he'd sometimes go out and start the truck with a pair of scissors, back it down the driveway and crawl forward-being careful to park exactly where he'd started.
When he was 15, the waiting was finally over, and Leroy's dad handed down the truck. Leroy made a few simple and cheap cosmetic changes, like diamond tuck upholstery, and drove it throughout his high school years. Even then, he was planning how he would build up the '51 into something extraordinary, coming up with ideas that, years later, would earn trophies at shows and a feature in a magazine.
He was 18 when he tore it apart to begin the rebuild. "My dad came unglued when I took it apart," he remembers. His dad may have suspected that it would be many years before the heirloom '51 would be together again. In the interim, Leroy continued to plan, collected parts, and saved his money to build the truck the way he had always wanted to build it: "I wanted it tubbed and blown. I wanted to sound good, and look like it goes 500 mph." His very first purchases were a 6-71 BDS blower and a pair of big, fat Hoosier tires.
The "sitting in parts" phase of the project lasted more than 15 years, but when Leroy finally got after it, he really got after it, and the complete build was done in four years-quick work considering he did practically all of it himself.
He decided to keep the body proportions untouched, shaving the door rain gutters and replacing the glass, and dropping everything with a modified suspension. The big change was behind the cab, where the beat up bed was replaced with a '54 bed, built from new sides and 18-gauge steel floor overlayed on 3/4-inch tubing, and finished with indoor/outdoor carpet. The tubs, dual batteries, and Triangle 20-gallon stainless fuel cell fill the aft half. Leroy added a rear splash pan, along with aftermarket taillights from a swap meet.
He built a rotisserie to work on the stock frame. He boxed the 'rails and added a Mustang II frontend including spindles and brakes, retaining the stock shocks and coils. The rear is '70 Mustang, with coilovers, four-link, and Posi 4.11:1 gears. You can see for yourself how low it goes; any lower and it'd be scraping shadows off the pavement.
The old truck is still red, but now it's a 2000 Viper color, shot by the owner. He did work in trade for Mark Bonham in exchange for the chromework, and wrapped those Hoosier tires (31x18.5-15 and 26x4-15) around 15x12 and 15x8 Weld Draglites.
A wrecking yard late-model bench seat was cover in tan leather by Dante's Upholstery. The rest of the interior is Leroy's work. He built the door panels, cut the steel dash (filled with Pro Comp gauges and a CD player), and fabricated the custom shifter base-then installed the ididit column with a Lecarra billet wheel. The rollcage was built from 1 1/2-inch, 0.120-wall steel.
Now that it's done, Leroy can see with his eyes the truck he'd seen in his imagination since his teenage days. It's definitely the truck he always wanted. His one regret is that his dad, Roy, isn't around to see how well it turned out. But his daughters Megan (age 11) and Marissa (age 10) love the truck, and can look forward to inheriting the hand-me-down pickup someday. Who knows-they may already be making plans.


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I've always felt invisible thoughts becomes visible in the material world. My paintings suggest that a conscious mind pervades the Kingdoms of Nature. The shapes, colors, and patterns of the natural world hint that the atoms themselves are designed and sustained by thought, allowing the physical world to be constantly stable and yet, unfailingly adaptable.
My paintings are intended to be open to interpretation in terms of scale and subject matter. They are both literal and ambiguous, implying the Knower, the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable.
I was born and raised in Baton Rouge, LA where I spent my childhood on LSU's campus where my father was a Chemistry professor. I received my B.A. in Fine Arts from LSU. After graduation, my husband John and I moved to Boulder, CO where John received a Ph.D. and began working for Celestial Seasonings. We have many friends in the natural foods business and their vision was a great inspiration to me. In 1980 we moved back to New Orleans and have lived here ever since. Throughout the years, I've shown my work alongside other artist friends and continue showing my work in various spaces around New Orleans.
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A rally was held at the state Capitol today by the Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project. The organization was founded to help young Latino students pursue roles in state government and higher education.
Anna Caballero, Secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, addressed the need for greater Latino representation in a state with an increasingly Hispanic population.
"According to the census reports the Latino population in California will be the majority by the year 2014. We currently have 24 Latino state legislators serving in California. That's a fifth of the seats available. We should be close to half," said Caballero.
Students participating in the rally spent the day in the Capitol attending mock legislative hearings and meeting with policymakers.


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Providing Wireless Communications Solutions in Iowa and Nebraska For Over 70 Years
With material costs increasing, profit margins decreasing and the battle for bids at an all-time high, construction contractors are looking for innovative ways to compete.
Motorola's flexible portfolio of two-way radios and accessories offers a range of communication solutions that meet your unique needs and help you cut through the communication obstacles you face on a daily basis. Whether your operation involves general industrial construction, commercial and residential construction; infrastructure projects like roads, highways, bridges, and tunnels; or you are an electrical, plumbing, carpentry, or HVAC professional, Motorola has the right-sized and right-featured radio for your unique business. Each radio is designed to withstand the challenges of a construction site, including intrinsically safe radios that can operate in hazardous environments and rugged radios that can withstand weather extremes.
Motorola Solutions' analog two-way radios deliver the essential capabilities your team needs and the value you demand. They also provide things you might not expect, such as dedicated, licensed communication and a wider coverage area. So whether your people are on the job site or out in the field they can communicate more effectively and work more efficiently. All without breaking your budget.
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The MOTOTRBO two-way radio portfolio offers you a wide choice of devices, from simple voice-only models to feature-rich voice and data radios. All work together seamlessly to deliver advanced features to enhance your safety, productivity and efficiency.
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No matter how large or small your enterprise, MOTOTRBO offers a wide range of systems specifically designed for your business – for the days ahead and the years beyond. You get the best of two-way radio with digital technology and enjoy integrated voice and data communication, increased capacity, enhanced features and exceptional voice quality, across the city and around the globe.
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Updated May 15: Exams for the LEED Green Associate, BD+C, ID+C and O+M will feature v4 content in June. Exams for Homes and ND will feature v4 content in 2015.
The LEED Green Associate and LEED AP exams will evolve for the LEED v4 rating system this June.
- The last day to take the credential exams with LEED v2009 content will be June 15, 2014.
- The first day to take the exams with the new LEED v4 content will be June 30, 2014.
- No tests will be administered in between these dates.
For the first time, LEED project experience competency will be assessed within the LEED AP exam. Practitioner experience is critical to the LEED AP designation and, as such, proficiency will be tested objectively within the LEED AP exam itself. The requirement to submit proof of LEED project experience at the time of application is no longer required as of June 30. However, GBCI strongly urges candidates to gain meaningful project experience prior to taking the test, as project skills are critical to successful exam performance. Learn more about this change.
As the gatekeeper of green building knowledge, the U.S. Green Building Council continues to push the boundaries of green building innovation and education, delivering solutions for professionals to highlight advanced knowledge, passion for continued learning and professional growth.
USGBC offers three levels of recognition for green building professionals.
- The LEED Green Associate demonstrates a solid, current understanding of green building principles and practices. It is ideal for both professionals newer to the fields of sustainability or looking to gain experience and exposure to LEED, as well as those working in diverse roles such as product manufacturers, students, real estate professionals, contractors and more. The LEED Green Associate credential is for all.
LEED Green Associate — Prerequisites: none; Exam fee: $250; CE Hours required: 15 hours every two years
- The LEED AP credential affirms advanced knowledge in specialized areas of green building, expertise in particular LEED rating system, and competency in the certification process. It is suited for practitioners actively working on LEED projects to showcase their deep technical knowledge of LEED in both principle and practice. Project teams with LEED APs demonstrate commitment to quality and competency development.
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Packed with hundreds of leading and independent tour operators, over 70 tourist boards from across the globe, cultural entertainment, world flavours, travel celebrities and more Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show is the UK's biggest and longest-running travel show.
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Come chat to us about the latest travel trends, the 'it' destinations for 2017, and all your travel related questions. Our sales team will also be on deck to help you book your next holiday on the day, and take advantage of our exclusive show offer!
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Obama goes rogue on Gitmo
President Barack Obama swore as far back as 2008 he'd close the U.S.-run prison for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay.
Five and a half years later, he finally took a real risk to get that process moving.
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The president defied Congress over the weekend, ignoring a 30-day notice rule required by law to greenlight the transfer to Qatar of five alleged members of the Taliban held at Guantánamo in exchange for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan.
( Also on POLITICO: Criticism of Bergdahl deal mounts)
It's Obama's most assertive move to shrink Guantánamo's population since U.S. embassy bombings suspect Ahmed Ghailani was flown from the island prison to New York City under cover of darkness on June 9, 2009.
And it sends a clear message: As liberals and some conservatives have long urged, Obama is now willing to wield his executive powers to get the job done.
"It was the judgment of the team and the president that there was enough urgency here to ensure that Sgt. Bergdahl was safely recovered that a 30-day window of hoping that that opportunity remained open was not an option. And ultimately, as commander in chief, the president had the responsibility to take the action he did," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday.
( Also on POLITICO: McCain on Bergdahl: 'It's done')
National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the Justice Department and the Pentagon signed off on skipping the legally required notification. Still, that move didn't sit well with some Republicans — with criticism of the swap only growing louder in the days since, particularly as reports resurfaced that Bergdahl may have voluntarily walked off his base unarmed in 2009.
"In executing this transfer, the President … clearly violated laws which require him to notify Congress thirty days before any transfer of terrorists from Guantánamo Bay and to explain how the threat posed by such terrorists has been substantially mitigated," Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said in a statement. "Our joy at Sergeant Bergdahl's release is tempered by the fact that President Obama chose to ignore the law, not to mention sound policy, to achieve it."
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough's response: Members of Congress shouldn't have been shocked by the swap.
( Also on POLITICO: Palin on Bergdahl: Obama 'blew it')
"We have been consulting with members of Congress about this effort, including the potential transfer of five Gitmo detainees, for years," McDonough told a Center for Strategic and International Studies conference Monday. "So this should not have been a surprise to any of the members of Congress who have been … commenting about it. … When you're commander in chief, you have to act when there's an opportunity for action."
The transfer of the five Taliban prisoners fulfilled — to an extent — a fantasy long held by Guantánamo closure advocates: that the president would take an important symbolic step toward closure by ignoring or overriding congressional restrictions piled on by lawmakers in recent years.
"Certainly [there are] practical reasons not to notify in this specific case," said Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress. "But this is the first time they've followed through on their repeated separation-of-powers objections to the transfer restrictions. Hopefully, [there's] more to come."
"The Obama administration's backbone on Gitmo and assertion of its executive branch prerogatives finally seem to have solidified," American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said.
( WATCH: What you don't know about Obama)
Despite the GOP criticism the Bergdahl move has drawn, it's also been relished by some conservatives, who view it as a retreat from the harsh criticisms of executive power Obama leveled at President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the 2008 campaign. Even after Obama took office, his president's team went out of its way to make clear that he wouldn't use his constitutional commander-in-chief authority to hold detainees at Guantánamo or in the United States.
"Some of us said when they were saying those things, 'We'll see,'" said Cully Stimson, who worked on detainee issues in the Department of Defense under Bush. "They're now within the reality of: Where you sit is where you stand."
Closure advocates hoped more such transfers would follow — and perhaps even a presidentially directed mass transfer of prisoners. As opposition to closure grew on Capitol Hill in the months and years that followed, some who favor closing the prison even held out hope for a Bulworth-like outburst of candor, followed by a dramatic move to shut down the facility.
After his reelection, Obama did indulge in a few pained public laments about the terror prison that wouldn't die. But his policy moves toward closing were measured — and the bureaucracy's response even more so.
But while the Berghdal swap demonstrated a willingness on Obama's part to buck Congress on detainee-related issues, it remains unclear whether the president is prepared to do so when the trade-offs don't involve the release of a long-held American soldier but the more amorphous benefits some expect from closing or simply shrinking the population at Guantánamo.
On that front, a year after Obama promised to reinvigorate his efforts to close the island prison, the drive has made only meager progress, and the prospect of shutting down the facility still seems remote.


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The S.W.A.G.A Committee are pleased to announce we will be running the second South Warnborough Off Road Duathlon, kindly sponsored by our local financial planning firm – Buckle, Green & Partners. Find out more on the SWORD page.
The S.W.A.G.A (South Warnborough All Games Area) is a new all-weather tennis and 5-a-side football facility situated alongside the playground and grass football pitch, enjoying some of the best views in the area.
The S.W.A.G.A is a great spot for a serious game of 5-a-side, a 5 set slam or just a kick about and picnic with the family. The facility is available for use by anyone in the village, free of charge.
The S.W.A.G.A Committee, a sub-committee of the SW Parish Council, endeavour to maintain the facility to a high standard, continually improve it and establish the S.W.A.G.A as a focal point for the village, especially for the younger generation.
Priority is given to tennis in the summer and football in the winter although both can be played all year round.
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We needed a product video to show Gym Hero to the world. It's an iPhone workout tracker app we made and we think it kicks ass.
We present to you the result, followed by some words about how we made this and finally a version with explicit lyrics (our favorite version, actually).
Turn on your speakers/headphones :)
The whole story
You know how it is. There was this great idea floating around in your head, you talked about it with friends and finally invested the time and work necessary to realize it. Now you sit there, all happy and proud. But nobody really knows about that cool thing you've created.
Sucks. You need to tell people about it. That's easy. No wait, it's not. People rarely read stuff on webpages (thanks for hanging on, btw.). They scan the text and discard most of it, unless…
Unless there's a video. People like videos. Fun videos especially. They're a great way to show off your product tell people a little bit about it. They're just a little expensive to produce. Especially, when you're on a $5 budget.
We discovered some great stop motion videos and found it would be a great way to present our app. Made deal! Two days and 700 photos later we had a little video about Gym Hero.
And here's how we did it
First step: sit down with your co founder, dribble some ideas and sketch up script ideas for the audio track.
It really helps to put together a rough outline of the movie. Can't stress this enough. It'll give you a goal to work towards, so you don't get lost. Many more ideas came up while we shot the movie, though, but this is how you should start the whole thing.
Next step was creating the set. Since we would shoot the pictures over next two days it was necessary to have a good illumination in order to provide the same light in every picture. Winter is grey in Berlin. It took us quite some time to get everything together (about 10 times as much as we thought). Here you can see our set up:
Finally time to shoot some photos! This meant drawing plus doing little changes to the scene over and over again. After every change we took a picture. We repeated these steps more than 1000 times. After two days, a 'few' bottles of Flensburger and Becks (that's German beer, in case you didn't already know), hundreds of espressos and lots of laughter we were done. The next task was to tranform the 700+ photos we decided to use into motion.
Putting it together - the voice over
Therefore we dumped the pictures into iMovie (too bad we didn't try Premiere Pro before, much better). A few crashes and reimports later we set the time for every picture (between 0.1s and 1.0s) to roughly match it up with the lyrics.
Hey, we're done! Well, almost. A good video needs an audio track.
After this got done we needed a voice! We both speak english but we were looking for a native speaker to do the job. Blessedly we found Will! He turned out to have some kick ass dubber skills. If you ever need someone to do a voice over for you, let us know and we'll direct you to the man. Thanks again, Will.
Experimenting with the right voice and speed we ended up with three versions of the clip. Scroll to the end of this post to check out the other two.
Explicit lyrics - Sean Connery edit
Out of nowhere Will started talking with a scottish accent, so we decided to do a quick Sean Connery edit of our video. This is Mike six months later. Fuck me, did he get big!
Trailer voice edit
Will can also do a movie trailer voice, so we did this version as well. Some people even find it easier to understand than the regular edit.
Lots of work, but a lot of fun as well. Gear we used consisted of
- camera (Nikon D300s, but the macbook webcam does the job as well. See below)
- markers
- paper
- cardboard
- tape
- iMovie,
- MacBook pro
- glass table (thanks mom)
- microphone (again, a macbook does the job)
- light. LOTS OF LOTS OF LIGHT.
All credit for this video goes to Avand Amiri, who inspired us to do this video in the first place. Here's his blog post, where he explained what he did in a lot more detail than us, with more numbers, a site where you can buy music for videos pretty cheap (we even used the same song as he did, he made a damn good choice). Especially if you're a hacker news reader, you'll enjoy the rest of his blog as well. Go check it out!


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Power Sewing Master Series, Volume 1
Disc 1: FABRICS
Learn from the experts and skip the failures! Sandra and Ron show you how to work with knits, shearling and velvet. Plus, they share their favorite and least favorite fabrics. See the ones that created less-than-fabulous results.
Disc 2: NEEDLES AND PRESSER FEET
There are basic needles and specialty needles made to work with specific fabrics. Sandra and Ron will show you some very special needles and presser feet that will make your garments look sharp!
Disc 3: PATTERN ALTERATIONS AND INTERFACING
Create garments that "fit like a glove!" Sandra and Ron share their fool-proof methods to altering for the rounder back and upper arm as well as how to fit dolman sleeves. Plus, learn how to choose and use interfacing for basic and master tailoring.
Disc 4: DETAILS
The secret to creating professional-looking garments is in the details! Sandra and Ron show you how to work with darts, tackle difficult seams and create perfect pleats. Learn to make your elastic waistbands lie flat and sleek and to create collars that are sharp and crisp.
Disc 5: BEHIND THE SEAMS
Sandra and Ron will show you how to work with bias binding to get the best results. Discover how to get 142 in. of continuous bias from a 16 in. square. This technique is amazing! Plus, learn a fool-proof method for lining a dress, how to shorten jeans and make your garments look great inside and out!
Disc 6: HOME DECOR
Create projects that will decorate your life! Sandra shows you how to create placemats and table-runners that look elegant and how to make your own duvet cover with matching European pillow shams!
Disc 7: BONUS FEATURES
Watch as Sandra and Ron share how they got started and what keeps their passion for sewing alive. Have fun with Power Sewing! See what really goes on behind the scenes. Learn about Wild Ginger Pattern Software. Plus, get two bonus episodes: Pressing Know-How and One-Thread Sewing!
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"Jasper, come here." Daisy nuzzled against him and he purred. She wagged her tale then let it slump.
"What's wrong?"
"Same old. I'm not a house pet anymore. The family won't let me inside."
"The outside is good. You taught me the family running our animal sanctuary are nice so they must have a good reason wanting you to live outside. Those hunters shot me and would've skinned me if the family hadn't found me first."
"I like the family, Daisy, they feed me raw meet and sometimes, live rabbit. Also, they let me run in the field and I always return home."
Daisy leaned against Jasper. "When the family found me I didn't trust anyone. The human, Greg, threw me out in a garbage bag, in the trash. I chewed my way out and the boy, Matthew, found me. "
Jasper stretched. "So, what's the problem. You have Matthew and you have me. We're all part of our pack."
"Well, I used to be an indoor dog in a warm house. Sometimes Matthew let's me inside his room, but he's not home a lot."
"I've always live outside. It's better sleeping beneath the stars."
"Yes, but you're a cheetah, Jasper. I'm a dog. Matthew said I was a Dachshund. I love snuggling with the family as much as I love snuggling with you, but I'm not used to the cold."
Jasper laughed. "I forget you're the size of a small cub. I'll keep you warm, Daisy. I think the family keeps you outside for me. Even though your sad, I'm glad you're here so I'm not alone. I even saved you raw meat."
"Oh, boy!" Daisy almost fainted, salivating as Jasper dropped a raw steak in front of her.
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