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Dreaming of Doomsday for DRM
May 9, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Well, it's been another wild week here in the Linux blogosphere, what with the post-Natty reverberations, the departure of Canonical's CTO, and the ongoing open source debacle that is Oracle.
Then, of course, there was Star Wars Day -- which, as it turned out, coincided with the Free Software Foundation's Day Against DRM. Even more than weak Jedi allusions, in fact, Digital Rights Management -- or should we say Digital Restrictions Management? -- has been a popular focus of conversation over the past few days as a result.
Coverage on The H and PCWorld got the conversation going, and it wasn't long before the rowdy crowds over at Digg got involved.
'DRM Does Need to Go to Computer Hell'
"For the consumer it is Digital RESTRICTIONS Management, since it is all about restricting the user and nothing about giving him more rights," wrote jrepin on Digg, for example. "Just another word trick from the industry to change perceptions."
Indeed, "DRM does need to go to computer hell," agreed waldojim in the comments over at PCWorld.
"I am tired of my purchases being limited the way they are," waldojim explained. "I buy movies on Amazon -- and if I don't download it to my media center that week -- I may never be allowed to watch it again. A movie that I paid full retail price for!"
'Vote with Your Wallets, People'
The movie, book and music industries "don't want to embrace the digital era," waldojim concluded. "This is an issue that will continue as long as we allow companies to place restrictions on how we enjoy the content we pay for."
The only answer, Digg's augment suggested, is to "vote with your wallets, people.
"Don't complain about all the things you buy that are DRM'ed, the industry doesn't care what you think," augment explained. "Just stop buying them, then they'll start to care. You may have to go without for a couple games and movies every year but eventually everyone else will start to do the same."
Will DRM ever go away? Should it? Linux Girl couldn't resist taking such questions down to the Linux blogosphere's seedy Broken Windows Lounge. On the way, she bumped into none other than the FSF's own campaign manager, Joshua Gay.
'Defective by Design'
"The Day Against DRM was a success," Gay told Linux Girl. "There was an event held in Portugal, for instance, which also hosted a radio show online to go along with the event. Some people contributed art, others emailed us some new entries for the 'guide to DRM free Living,' and there were blog posts from people all over the world."
The beauty of the occasion "is that it allows people so many different opportunities to take a few minutes out of their day and be an activist," Gay added. "Some people prefer to do this through actions like tagging Amazon products with the term, 'Defective by Design,' while others use the Day Against DRM as an opportunity to strike up a conversation around the water cooler or when they go out to dinner with friends and family."
More than 14,500 products have been tagged on Amazon already, he noted.
'DRM Is Their Self-Abuse'
Down at the Broken Windows Lounge, meanwhile, bloggers had plenty of their own thoughts to share.
"DRM will go away as soon as we abolish copyright, which comes right after we all link hands and walk into the sunset singing about buying the world a Coke," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza quipped.
"DRM is a device used by producers of content to prevent others from viewing or using the content," blogger Robert Pogson began. "Clearly these folks are insane and DRM is their self-abuse. I and others will stand well back while they self-destruct.
"Fashion-models don't wear the burkah; politicians don't hide in the closet. Why producers of content would want to prevent use is beyond me," Pogson added. "It certainly does not pay M$ to restrict their OS to people who pay... Why does Hollywood etc. think otherwise?"
'They Are Not Entitled to My Money'
Similarly, "I really wish companies would just give up," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack opined. "You can't make a dishonest person honest with DRM since they will just not pay for it anyway, and in the meantime customers who actually pay money for things (like me) get punished.
"Why should Blu-ray movies take close to a minute to load thanks to DRM? Why do they expect me to replace all of my European movies when I move back to Canada?" Mack added.
In media companies' "quest for their 'rights,' they have forgotten that they are not entitled to my money and must convince me to spend my hard earned money on them," he concluded. "Inconveniencing me when I do spend money is not the way to make more."
'DRM Is Neither Good Nor Evil'
Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a different view.
"DRM itself is neither good nor evil," Hudson opined. "The reality is that not everything can be supported by advertising or selling your personal information to others, and consumers have a choice, including 'do without' or using DRM-free alternatives such as the library, advertiser-subsidized TV or games without DRM."
Fortunately, "technology giveth DRM, but technology also taketh away," Hudson added. "In the case of eBooks, the readers are becoming so cheap that libraries can now save money by sticking 10 different eBooks on a reader and loaning out the whole reader, books and all."
'Everyone Saves, Everyone Gets Paid'
Libraries, then, "can create their own anthologies and save over 95 percent on shelf space while nothing ever 'goes out of print,'" she pointed out. "Inter-library transfers are a lot easier, and if an eReader gets lost, stolen or destroyed, DRM allows them to invalidate the contents and download them to a new reader."
Consumers, meanwhile, can "discover new works that are bundled with the eBook they wanted to read," she added, and "independent writers could benefit by marketing directly to library associations. Everyone saves money, and everyone gets paid."
All this, indeed, "is becoming possible thanks to ever-cheaper hardware, and, somewhat ironically, DRM," Hudson asserted.
'Life Is Full of Compromises'
Meanwhile, "the same ever-cheaper, ever-smaller hardware will make things like locking games to a particular console less of a pain, and people will just get into the habit of bringing the console with them when they visit a friend, or lend the console to their niece for the weekend," Hudson predicted.
As for music, "at 99 cents a song, there's enough people buying to sustain the industry," she said. "That leaves movies, and if you're willing to wait a while, you can enjoy plenty of them for free -- just wait until they come to a TV station near you. A $50 antenna works great for HD TV, so you don't even have to worry about cable or satellite subscription fees. You can't get much more free than that."
Finally, for those who want immediate gratification, "pay the price and accept some form of content protection," Hudson advised. "Life is full of compromises. If you don't want the DRM on the copy you 'bought' from Amazon, buy the physical disk, and you can even take it to a friends for a 'movie night,' or sell it when you're finished with it."


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Fire brigade heroes of Otsuchi who died during the tsunami in Iwate
Fire brigade heroes of Otsuchi who died during the tsunami in Iwate
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
The contrast could not be more different; you have people facing little danger who have fled Tokyo on either a whim or a false rumor or because it is all about the self and nothing about supporting Japan.
However, for the fire brigade heroes of Otsuchi they gave everything and sadly some fell while the onrushing force of the tsunami was heading straight towards them. These brave souls, some who died during the tragedy and others who managed to survive, should be honored and remembered for their love of humanity in the face of an unrelenting force which would soon engulf Otsuchi.
The local fire brigade at No. 2 branch in Otsuchi in Iwate could see the tsunami unfolding and they knew that the consequences would be severe and devastating. Therefore, they tried to secure the barrier which was meant to protect the coastal town or to limit the impact of any resulting tsunami.
Yet the power of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake which unleashed such a powerful and deadly tsunami could not be predicted and nor could it be repulsed.
Despite the unfolding tragedy and the limited time available, the No. 2 branch of the fire brigade did not flinch or think about personal survival. Instead they did their best to warn residents about the disaster which was about to engulf Otsuchi because they knew full well that this tsunami was going to sweep away this town.
It is known that four members of the fire brigade died during the disaster which killed so many in Otsuchi and it appears that another seven may also be dead because seven more members have not been found. However, what it not known to many people is that the fire brigade service did everything to help the people of Otsuchi.
It was the duty of the No. 2 branch fire brigade in the Akahama district of Otsuchi to close the storm barrier gates when an earthquake struck the region. Yet their bravery was unforeseen, just like the power of the earthquake and tsunami was unforeseen because the 9.0-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami which was unstoppable.
It is reported that Fujio Koshida was still sounding the warning bell while the waves were about to engulf him and sweep him away from this world.
The earthquake had shut down the power supply therefore the warning system was not functional and Kunio Tobinai had been thwarted by this. When he returned and told Fujio Koshida he was told by him to "get going and evacuate everyone."
The last time Kunio Tobinai saw Fujio Koshida was with him holding a fire bell and this fire bell could be heard from a distance. Takeyasu Tobai, the former head of the same branch of the local fire brigade, stated that he could hear the bell that Fujio Koshida was ringing in order to warn people.
Sadly, Takeyasu Tobai stated, "I guess he could see the sea" and "It was a sad sound. I can still hear it."
Fujio Koshida and other members of the local fire brigade in Otsuchi gave everything. At the moment it would appear that 11 members died but currently only four bodies of the eleven have been found.
It is hoped that these brave individuals, unlike the fleeing members of some embassies in leafy Tokyo, will be honored and always remembered for giving everything.
Fujio Koshida and all members of this fire brigade, irrespective if they died or survived, did everything in their power to help the people of Otsuchi and for this I take my hat off and bow to all the members of this brave and dedicated fire brigade.
http://moderntokyotimes.com (please visit)
http://mainichi.jp/select/weathernews/news/20110323k0000e040075000c.html (Information in Japanese about this tragedy)
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110324p2a00m0na029000c.html (Information in English about this tragedy)
http://www.otsuchi.org/ (Information about Otsuchi)

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Obama Signals Thaw in U.S.-Iran Relationship
President Barack Obama signaled a willingness to work with Iran in his opening remarks to the U.N. General Assembly. Peter Saidel reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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TOMS RIVER - The Hunterdon Central and Voorhees wrestling teams both enjoyed outstanding dual match seasons. It was only their endings that sucked.
On an afternoon in which Hunterdon County's team state title drought was extended to 11 years, both Hunterdon Central and Voorhees were beaten yesterday in the group semifinals at the Pine Belt Arena.
In the case of Hunterdon Central (19-2), it never really got going and lost to Southern, 33-24, in Group IV. Voorhees (23-5), meanwhile, suffered a heartbreaking 26-22 loss to Long Branch in Group II.
Among the other developments yesterday, South Plainfield finished up a glorious 28-0 season with a 40-22 win over Toms River South in the Group III final to assure itself of a second straight No. 1 ranking in the state. High Point won the Group II title by rallying past Long Branch, 33-30, and No. 2 Bergen Catholic smashed Christian Brothers, 64-6, to win the Parochial A title.
After beating Phillipsburg on Friday to win its 19th sectional title, Hunterdon Central was given a good chance to beat Southern and advance into the finals against Brick Memorial. Things started well for the Red Devils when David Fenton (170) and Nestor Crespo (182) posted decisions, but it was pretty much all downhill from there.
Truth be told, Southern outwrestled Central for most of this match and its balance exposed the Red Devil holes that had so often been covered up during their amazing 19-2 season.
When Southern bumped up and swept 195 through heavyweight and then piled up 18 points from 106 to 120, this match was pretty much over right there. It became even more over when Zach Wilhelm beat Collin Boylan, 3-1, at 132 to end any thoughts of Central's usual charge in the middle weights.
'They got the best of us,'' said Central coach Steve Gibbble after the Red Devils came up short for the 18th time in 19 group appearance. 'It's disappointing, but it does not take away from our season.
'When we reached this point the bar was raised, but the reason we made it here was we over achieved. We accomplished more than we were expecting.''
Voorhees' match was much more winnable, especially when you consider it lost one-point decisions at 195 and 220.
Even with those setbacks, however, Voorhees was still very much in the match. As it turned out, the killer came at 120 where Tom Beishke appeared to be cruising. Cruising, that is, until he was hit with a stalling call with :06 remaining to cut his lead to to 3-2. Even worse, Long Branch's Andy Hernandez then scored a takedown with a double at the third period buzzer to rally for an improbable 4-3 win.
This left Voorhees needing to sweep the last three bouts. It got two of them when Tyler Yarnell (126) and Chris Okulicz (132) posted decisions, but then Mike Muscatello came up just short against Nick Menkin, 5-4. Menkin held the lead throughout this match, but Muscatello was able to make it interesting in the end with the aid of a stalling call.
'It's been a six-year project to get here (groups) and now we want to be here every year,'' said Voorhees' fine young coach Eric Hall. 'On this level it's all about winning the close matches. They got it done and we didn't. We didn't take advantage of our opportunities.''
For the record, the last Hunterdon County team to win a group title was North Hunterdon in 2002.
Southern 33, Hunterdon Central (19-2) 24
170: David Fenton (HCR) d. Gerardo Jorge (SR) 5-1; 182: Nester Crepso (HCR) d. Corey Case (SR) 3-2; 195: Connor Case (SR) d. Paul Rallis (HCR) 8-2; 220: Patrick Ferraro (SR) d. Leo Aquino (HCR) 3-0; 285: Jesse Bauta (SR) d. Gabe Barba (HCR) 5-2; 106: James Knoeller (SR) p. Kyle Rodriguez (HCR) 5:20; 113: Chris Crane (SR) wins by forfeit; 120: Patrick Mooney (SR) p. Gabino Careaga (HCR) 3:59; 126: Dylan Nace (HCR) md. Andrew Tonneson (SR) 9-1; 132: Zach Wilhelm (SR) d. Collin Boylan (HCR) 3-1; 138: Gary Dinmore (HCR) md. Nicholas Racanelli (SR) 9-0; 145: Tim Higginson (HCR) md. Matt Wilhelm (SR) 18-5; 152: Jake Campana (SR) d. Dylan Cote (HCR) 7-1; 160: Tyler Cote (HCR) wins by forfeit,
Long Branch 26, Voorhees 22 145: Nick George (LB) d. Will Gonsiewski (V) 6-0; 152: Luke Balina (LB) tf. Josh Hausler (V) 16-1 (4:36); 160: Jacob George (LB) d. Jordan Juliano (V) 9-2; 170: Jaden Bernstein (V) tf. Conor Mullan (LB) 19-4 (5:00); 182: Nick Ruggiero (V) d. Nick Pappayliou (LB) 7-6l; 195: Chris Pappayliou (LB) d. Kyle Levy (V) 3-2 OT; 220: Joey Gadetti (LB) d. Emilio Guevara (V) 2-1 OT; 285: Alex Fischetti (V) d. Gianni Augustine (LB) 1-0; 106: Kyle DiNapoli (V) d. Mike Jones (LB) 9-4; 113: Tom Flannigan (LB) d. Cody Ihling (V) 10-4; 120: Andy Hernandez (LB) d. Tom Beishke (V) 4-3; 126: Tyler Yarnell (V) md. Dan Mullan (LB) 13-4; 132: Chris Okulicz (V) md. Aaron Torres (LB) 8-0; 138: Nick Menkin (LB) d. Mike Muscatello (V) 5-4.


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Solar Orbiter overview
To perform close-up, high-resolution studies of our Sun and inner heliosphere, Solar Orbiter is intended to brave the fierce heat and carry its telescopes to just one-fifth of Earth's distance from our nearest star.
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission is conceived to perform a close-up study of our Sun and inner heliosphere - the uncharted innermost regions of our Solar System- to better understand, and even predict, the unruly behaviour of the star on which our lives depend. At its closest point, the spacecraft will be closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, braving the fierce heat and will carry its telescopes to almost one-quarter of Earth's distance from our nearest star. It will provide unique data and imagery of the Sun.
Solar Orbiter will be the first satellite to provide close-up views of the Sun's polar regions, which are very difficult to see from Earth, providing images from latitudes higher than 25 degrees. It will be able to almost match the Sun's rotation around its axis for several days, and so it will be able for the first time to see solar storms building up over an extended period from the same viewpoint. It will also deliver data of the side of the Sun not visible from Earth.
With a combination of in-situ and remote-sensing instruments and its inner-heliospheric mission design, Solar Orbiter will address the central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the heliosphere? This primary, overarching scientific objective can be expanded into four interrelated top-level scientific questions that will be addressed by Solar Orbiter:
- What drives the solar wind and where does the coronal magnetic field originate from?
- How do solar transients drive heliospheric variability?
- How do solar eruptions produce energetic particle radiation that fills the heliosphere?
- How does the solar dynamo work and drive connections between the Sun and the heliosphere?
What's special?
The challenge of being closer to the Sun than ever before
At nearly one-quarter of Earth's distance from the Sun, Solar Orbiter will be exposed to sunlight 13 times more intense than what we feel on Earth. The spacecraft must also endure powerful bursts of atomic particles from explosions in the solar atmosphere.
To withstand the harsh environment and extreme temperatures, Solar Orbiter must be well equipped. It will exploit new technologies being developed by ESA for the mission BepiColombo to Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. This includes high-temperature solar arrays and a high-temperature high-gain antenna.
Close-up imagery
The close-up pictures of weird solar landscapes, where glowing gas dances and forms loops in the strong magnetic field, will be stunning. They will show 180 km-wide details, (the width of the Sun's visible disc is 1.4 million kilometres). Not only scientists, but also the general public will be enchanted with the frenzied activity on the Sun, which looks so calm to the naked eye.
'Chasing' the Sun
When travelling at its fastest along its orbit around the Sun, Solar Orbiter's speed will approach that of the Sun as it rotates on its axis. It will be the first time in the history of solar exploration that this will be achieved by a solar spacecraft. Solar Orbiter will be able to track the same region of the solar atmosphere for much longer than is possible from Earth. This will allow it to watch storms building up in the atmosphere over several days.
Spacecraft and instruments
Solar Orbiter is specially designed to always point to the Sun, and so, its Sun-facing side is protected by a sunshield. The spacecraft will also be kept cool by the positioning of special radiators, which will dissipate excess heat into space. The solar arrays and the communications system are inherited from the design of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury.
Solar Orbiter will carry a number of highly sophisticated, lightweight instruments, weighing a total of 180 kg. One suite consists of detectors meant to observe particles and events in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft. These include the charged particles and magnetic fields of the solar wind, radio and magnetic waves in the solar wind, and energetic charged particles.
The other set of instruments will observe the Sun's surface and atmosphere. The gas of the atmosphere is best seen by its strong emission of short-wavelength ultraviolet rays. Tuned to these will be a full-Sun and high-resolution imager and a high-resolution spectrometer. The outer atmosphere will be revealed by visible-light and ultraviolet coronagraphs that blot out the bright disc of the Sun. To examine the surface by visible light, and measure local magnetic fields, Solar Orbiter will carry a high-resolution magnetograph.
Following launch, currently foreseen for 2020, Solar Orbiter will begin its journey to the Sun. This will require a cruise phase lasting approximately 3 years. During this time, the instruments will be commissioned, and some in-situ data will be acquired. During the cruise, Solar Orbiter will use gravity assists from Venus and the Earth. These swing-bys will put Solar Orbiter into a 168-day-long orbit around the Sun from which the spacecraft will begin its scientific mission.
Along this orbit, the spacecraft will reach closest approach to the Sun every five months, at around (60 solar radii, or 0.28 AU) and when travelling at its fastest, Solar Orbiter will remain positioned over approximately the same region of the solar atmosphere as the Sun rotates on its axis, allowing unprecedented observations.
During the course of the mission, additional Venus gravity assist manoeuvres will be used to increase the inclination of Solar Orbiter's orbit, helping the instruments see the polar regions of the Sun clearly, for the first time. Solar Orbiter will eventually view the poles from an angle higher than 30 degrees, compared to 7 degrees at best from Earth.
The mission will be controlled from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany, using ESA's Malargüe ground-station. The Science Operations will be managed from the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, Spain
In the past, the six European-built spacecraft of the Ulysses, SOHO, and Cluster missions have made many amazing discoveries about the Sun, and how its storms affect Earth.
In 1998, European scientists met in Tenerife and produced a report called 'A Crossroads For European Solar and Heliospheric Physics'. It took scientific ideas and concepts and by building upon the work begun by the space missions to the Sun, attempted to define how European solar physics would proceed.
One of the ideas in the report was to send a mission to take images of the Sun both in the visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. The imaging equipment would be similar to the SOHO mission, but the coverage of the Sun would be out-of-the-ecliptic, similar to Ulysses.
A second idea was to get closer to the Sun than ever before (about 30 solar radii away, 0.15 AU, half the distance from the Sun to Mercury) and obtain high spatial resolution images. In such an orbit, at perihelion (the closest point of an orbit to the Sun), a spacecraft would be located above one particular point on the Sun for a relatively long period, thus enabling a more detailed look than ever before.
In 1999, a team was set up to study the various options and concluded that these two ideas could be combined in one mission. A few technical issues were found, which meant compromises had to be made with respect to the distance of closest approach that could be achieved. By using the gravity of Venus, the mission could also, over time, change its orbit dramatically.
Following several years of assessment studies by industry and ESA, the mission now called Solar Orbiter, was selected as one of the three candidates for the first two Cosmic Vision M-class mission launch slots (nominally 2017 and 2018) in February 2010. In October 2011, Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected as the Cosmic Vision M1 and M2 missions.
Solar Orbiter is managed and financed mainly by ESA, but with strong international collaboration. NASA will provide the launcher and contribute instruments to the scientific payload in the context of the International Living With a Star initiative.
Solar Orbiter will also coordinate its scientific mission with NASA's Solar Probe Plus to maximise their combined science return.


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MTV's Video Music Awards are this Sunday, September 12th at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST.
B.o.B is nominated in five categories:
*Best Collaboration
*Best Hip-Hop Video
*Best Male Video
*Best Pop Video
*Video of the Year
Do yourself and Bobby Ray a solid and tune in to support him. We're proud of him and you should be too!
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Amber Alerts for a San Diego man wanted for arson and murder and a teenager he allegedly kidnapped have been expanded to include Oregon and Washington.
However, San Diego County sheriff's homicide investigators say several recently reported sightings have not yet been confirmed.
James Lee DiMaggio, 40, of Boulevard and Hannah Anderson, 16, are the subjects of an Amber Alert issued by authorities in San Diego Monday.
DiMaggio is believed to be driving a blue Nissan Versa with California license 6WCU986.
A blue Nissan Versa was reported along Highway 395/299 traveling north from Alturas possibly toward Oregon or Nevada. There was another possible sighting of the car in southern Oregon, near Lakeview.
Then Thursday morning, a Washington radio station learned from the state troopers that a driver near Bremerton reported the car on Highway 101 with a man driving and a woman passenger.
DiMaggio is suspected of killing two people and torching his log-cabin style home in the remote community of Boulevard east of San Diego and just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sheriff's homicide Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said the bodies of Christina Anderson, 42, of Lakeside and an unidentified child were found on the property. Giannantonio said it could be several days before DNA test results will provide a positive identification of the second victim.
For now, Christina's 8-year-old son Ethan is also the subject of the Amber Alert which was expanded Thursday to include California, Oregon and Washington.
Christina's father, Christopher Saincome, said Wednesday that his daughter visited DiMaggio's home last weekend to say goodbye before he moved to Texas.
"He must have had this planned," Saincome told the Associated Press.
Saincome said nothing seemed amiss when he called his daughter at work Friday to let her know she didn't call on his birthday. Anderson, a medical assistant, said she would call back that night but never did.
Christina's longtime friend Angelina Amati said the Dimaggio's infatuation with the 16-year-old Hannah might just keep her alive.
"Jim is sick enough in the head that he has so much love for her that he won't hurt her," Amati said.
The NBC station in Seattle spoke with Dimaggio's ex-wife who asked not to be identified but responded to some questions.
She says never saw anything weird about DiMaggio however their divorce was completely shocking and not the person she married.
She said she was shocked to learn the news since DiMaggio has been best friends with the family for such a long time.
Authorities don't believe the relationship between Christina Anderson and DiMaggio was anything other than platonic, Giannantonio said


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Smart organizations should also be stupid, according to new theory
Critical reflection and shrewdness can help companies to avoid crises, but sometimes good old-fashioned stupidity can serve an important function in raising the efficiency of an organization, claims Mats Alvesson, Professor of Organisation Studies at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden, in a new theory of 'functional stupidity' that has been published in the Journal of Management Studies.
"We see functional stupidity as the absence of critical reflection. It is a state of unity and consensus that makes employees in an organisation avoid questioning decisions, structures and visions", says Mats Alvesson. "Paradoxically, this sometimes helps to raise productivity in an organisation."
Together with colleague André Spicer, Mats Alvesson has written an article entitled 'A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organisations', which was recently published in the renowned Journal of Management Studies and has been featured in the Financial Times. In the article, he expounds the logic behind 'functional stupidity'.
"It is a double-edged sword. It is functional because it has some advantages and makes people concentrate enthusiastically on the task in hand. It is stupid because risks and problems may arise when people do not pose critical questions about what they and the organisation are doing."
The state is partly a consequence of a kind of 'stupidity management', which suppresses and marginalises doubt and blocks open communication within the organisation. The parallels with some companies' sudden financial crashes in recent years are clear.
"Short-term use of intellectual resources, consensus and an absence of disquieting questions about decisions and structures may oil the organisational machinery and contribute to harmony and increased productivity in a company. However, it may also be its downfall."
According to the researchers, some industries are more stupid than others. Organisations that make a virtue of their staff's wisdom and sell intangible services or branded products, such as parts of the mass media, the fashion industry and consultancy firms, are highlighted as being particularly disposed to develop functional stupidity.
"Functional stupidity is prominent in economies that are dominated by persuasion using images and symbolic manipulation. It is preferable that people have an enthusiastic belief in an activity which may not necessarily fulfil a need. New management may be required to manage the fine balance and possible pitfalls of functional stupidity", says Mats Alvesson.
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Link to Andrew Hill's column 'The Quest for the Right Kind of Stupidity' in the Financial Times: www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2cefbab2-5b … a.html#axzz2Ib7RPT95


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A winner was selected from 45 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We're launching a PC Gaming news and forum site that will focus on news and discussion for both the games and hardware used (such as graphics cards) to play those games. We need a quick job done on a logo, not much creativity needed because we want it to look just like the logo there now from a template we're using.
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PANAMA CITY, PANAMA: Activists in Panama are demanding that a career U.S. soldier suspected of killing a local woman be tried in local courts.
Master Sgt. Omar Velez is being held at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in connection with the murder of woman in her mid-20s whose body was found in Panama on June 23. Velez has not yet been charged, but will likely be brought before a U.S. military court, according to Army spokeswoman Kimberly Hanson. Velez has not made any public statements about the case and Hanson said she did not know if he has an attorney.
On Monday, Joyce Araujo, president of the Foundation for Gender Equity in Panama, told The Associated Press that she believes Velez� diplomatic immunity allowed him to evade proper investigation.
Her group is among those in a coalition of women�s rights groups that expressed disappointment on Friday in the handling of the case, and demanded that local leaders reassert sovereignty.
�Diplomatic immunity cannot be an opening for impunity when it involves a crime as profound as the killing of women, especially a Panamanian woman on Panamanian soil,� the coalition wrote.
Velez, who has served in the military since 2000, held a leadership position as a senior non-commissioned officer. He was in Panama conducting training as part of a unit associated with the sale of military equipment when the killing occurred.
Local media report that Velez allegedly had been romantically involved with the woman and was discovered near her body with a shovel after an apparent crime of passion.
The body was found in central Panama on a farm near a river embankment, close to where a firearms training session was being held, according to Panamanian officials. The Army spokeswoman said Panamanian officials detained Velez the same day, then handed him over to U.S. authorities who took him back to North Carolina.
Relations between Panama and the United States have historically snared over issues of sovereignty, and the incident threatens to stir old resentments.
The assertion of immunity is likely to remind Panamanians of the many decades during which the U.S. claimed jurisdiction over the Panama Canal and its surrounding area, which struck many in the country as a vestige of colonial days. Even when Americans committed crimes outside of this zone, local police tended to let them off the hook out of deference to U.S. power, leading Americans in Panama to develop a sense of invincibility, said Alan McPherson, professor of international studies at the University of Oklahoma.
�The 20th century is an almost endless series of spectacular criminal episodes that spoke of the great power differential between Panamanians and Americans,� McPherson said.
The U.S. Army has expressed its �deepest regret� over the woman�s death, and pledged to fully investigate the killing.
Women�s rights groups are planning a vigil in Panama City on Thursday to demand that Panamanian authorities be allowed greater participation in the U.S. military�s investigation.


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May 10th concert features Matthew Barnson's three violin sonatas
— San Francisco Classical Voice
The Yale School of Music presents a Doctor of Musical Arts recital featuring the music of Matthew Barnson on Thursday, May 10, 2012. This performance was rescheduled from January 26th. The program will feature Barnson's three sonatas for violin and piano, as well as a work for solo piano.
The concert opens with Shattered Lines/Points of Horizon, composed in 2009. Barnson writes: "I began Shattered Lines/Points of Horizon as an abstract fantasy on French Baroque ornamentation, but the work evolved into what a listener might hear as a series of six or seven large-scale, highly elaborated ornaments."
This piece will be performed by Taka Kigawa, whom the New York Times called a "formidable pianist [with] the technique and imagination to clarify the structure and musical syntax of difficult works."
Barnson's Violin Sonata No. 1, written in 2008, takes inspiration from the composers Berio and Britten. Listen to a recording of the sonata on Barnson's website. It will be performed by the Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace, violin, and Ishmael Wallace, piano.
"Fixity and motion were my two principal concerns in composing my second violin sonata," writes Barnson of his two-movement piece from 2009. "If my piece were a city, it would have three subway lines that intersect in various places that allow the music to transfer and travel smoothly in various directions." This piece will be performed by violinist Katie Hyun and Jessica Osborne, both graduate of the Yale School of Music. After Osborne's debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Post praised her as a pianist "with a refreshing mellowness and poetic touch.".
Jessica Osborne and violinist Arthur Moeller will perform Barnson's third sonata, written last year, to conclude the concert.
The performance is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. For more information, call the Yale School of Music concert office at 203 432-4158 or visit music.yale.edu.
About the Composer
The music of Matthew Barnson has been celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has been featured at the ISCM World New Music Days in Stuttgart and New York's MATA and Sonic Festivals, and at the Aspen Music Festival, Centre Acanthes, Ostrava Days, and June in Buffalo. In 2002, he became the youngest recipient of a Barlow Commission, and he received a second in 2007. Other honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (UPenn), and the Aaron Copland Prize. He has studied at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Yale School of Music. Barnson's vocal works have been performed by Erin Morley, Ian Howell, and Nicole Cabell, and by Seraphic Fire and the New York Virtuoso Singers. Peter Erös, Sarah Hicks and Jacque Mercier have conducted his instrumental music; the Arditti and JACK Quartets play his three string quartets; and Third Coast Percussion commissioned his percussion quartet. Barnson is the chair of the theory and composition department at the Third Street Music School Settlement and is on the faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Center.


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Three years ago, I attended ACRL's Information Literacy Immersion. The name is corny, but apt. It's intense. Not every hour of it is the Best Experience Ever, in a large part because many of the faculty weren't very good teachers (which is ironic, isn't it?). But the chance to have a full week to really sit back and think about pedagogy was a wonderful thing.
Since then, I've done a lot of teaching, my co-workers and I spent some time teaching each other our best modules and philosophies last year, a friend attended this year's Immersion, a few others and I organized "Mini-Immersion" for the instruction librarians of the 5 liberal arts colleges in the Oberlin Group (more about that later), and I've participated in some great LSW FriendFeed discussions (like this one) that forced me to really think about what I do, what I've learned, and what I still have to work on.
So what did I retain from Immersion '06? In my head, I think of it as both a lot and not much at all. It feels like a lot because a few things fundamentally changed the way I approach instruction, I hope for the better. At the same time, I know that there are a lot of specifics about learning theories, learning styles, and assessment techniques that I've forgotten, and I'm pretty sure there were other things that I don't even remember having learned in the first place. I remember being bored with several sessions (and my notes from those sessions are uselessly dominated with things like "so tired," "kill me now," and "death by handout"), but I don't remember what I was supposed to be learning during those sessions.
And yet, I would recommend the experience to anyone who does instruction because the three things that changed my instruction have been just that valuable to me. Your three things might be different, but hopefully they'll be even half as valuable. My three are:
- Be your authentic self when you teach
First of all, I love Randy Hensley. He was our instructor for the sessions on instruction, and he is A-Maz-Ing. Baruch is lucky to be getting him. But that's not really a learning outcome, just my overwhelming impression from Immersion. Back to what I learned. Lots of what I had read about instruction included becoming a perfect teacher-person. This person was able to make students laugh, gain their trust, be wise, be organized, be spontaneous, be an authority figure… in other words, be one in a million. So I'd go into classes trying to impersonate this amazing teacher. And because I'm pretty good at impersonations, this stood me in good stead for a while, but it left me less willing to try things I was less comfortable with because I was already using up all my energy projecting Perfect Teacher onto everything. Learning to play up my strengths was so freeing. It meant that I could give myself permission to include mini-lectures if that's what the class called for (even though the literature is constantly telling me that it should be Active Learning or nothing), or feel free to start a class on citation with an "I'm such a dork that I actually LOVE citation" attitude, or not feel like a total failure because I'm kind of bad at leading discussions while my co-worker can draw students out like you wouldn't believe. It also gave me permission not to care about things that felt gimmicky to me, because if it felt gimmicky to me, there's no way I'd make it feel important and relevant to my students. Basically, it taught me that just like not all clothes look good on all people, so also all teaching "best practices" will fit into my classroom. And that's ok. What counts is that I interact authentically with my students.
- As you're planning a session, get in the habit of switching from "I will teach" to "I want the students to learn."
If I want to be thorough, I build real learning goals using the formula "The students will" + [verb phrase] + "in order to" [goal]. So, for example, "Students will recognize key functions of a database interface in order to navigate unfamiliar databases by making educated guesses about functionality and options." Then I figure out everything students will have to know it order to do this (it could be quite a lot!). I don't always have time or energy for developing formal learning goals, but at the very least I always consciously switch from "I will teach" to "the students will learn," and suddenly my decisions become easier.
- You can get to 2-4 learning goals in a 50-minute session. Seriously. And usually more like 2 or 3.
There's always so much to teach and so little time, but packing more in there really won't help anyone. Figuring out learning goals helps me to prioritize not on the level of "I'll emphasize x over y and give z the least time," but also by helping me decide what to leave out altogether. Which is always sad, but necessary. (I get around this by making subversive handouts for most of my classes.)
Since Immersion, I've added one more maxim to my list: Shifting the emphasis to active learning and constructivist pedagogy doesn't negate the need for some straight up, potentially boring, pedagogically outdated training. My students need to know the difference between a journal citation and a book chapter citation, and I want that piece to take 3 minutes rather than 15 so that we can get to some actually interesting active learning. But now, I use learning goals to help me make a choice about where this kind of training is important in a class rather than using that as my default.
So yeah, I've learned quite a bit in the last three years, but there's a long way to go. I'd really like to figure out how to draw students out more effectively in discussion. I'd like to think more about how to emphasize the transferable skills in everything they learn. I feel like my active learning components lack creativity. And I'd like to figure out how to work with professors even more closely to make sure that we each reinforce the others' work with the students so that my one-shot session doesn't just wither by itself on the syllabus. I really think library sessions can reinforce or even advance the content piece of the course, and I think the professors can work information literacy pretty innocuously into more than just the one day without sacrificing time or content (I've seen it happen over and over, and I'm hungry for more of that).


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About the Madison Future Commission
Formed in September 2012, the Madison Future Commission is a group of 160 or so faculty, staff, students, alumni, former Board of Visitors members and representatives from our local community who were charged with laying the groundwork for the university's 2014-2020 strategic plan.
The Commission included the University Planning Team, two preparation teams, the town hall planning team and five committees.
The work of research, analysis, and recommendation resulted in a series of proposals for key elements of the strategic plan, which were then forwarded to President Alger and the university's senior leadership team.
The two prep teams submitted their final reports in February 2013. Town hall meetings occurred between February and April. Committee final reports were submitted by September 2013. Objectives and action steps were then developed by deans, AVP's, academic unit heads, and directors by January 2014.
Madison Future Commission Contact Information
Dr. Brian Charette
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Cindy Chiarello, M.A.
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Madison Future Commission Strategic Planning Process
There are many reasons that now is the right time to create a new JMU Strategic Plan.
- JMU's new president, Mr. Jonathan Alger, must be given the opportunity to develop and cast his vision, setting the best new course for JMU.
- The higher education marketplace is undergoing significant change. To be on the leading edge, the institution should take a fresh approach to planning and create a new strategic plan that anticipates change for the university's best success.
- The work of the 2006 Madison Commission is coming to its conclusion.
- The university is required by the Code of Virginia to maintain a continually-updated 6-year plan.
- Each division head expects the university to establish its strategic plan to guide them as they set the respective courses of their divisions.
A task force of key university leaders (and those with experience in the previous planning efforts) met in May 2012 and suggested the following parameters for any new strategic planning effort:
- Rather than a simple update of previous planning efforts, it should start fresh, with a very future-focused approach.
- It should reflect and result in alignment between the university's mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives.
- It should involve all major university stakeholders - faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and alumni.
- The resulting plan should be characterized by a sense of involvement in and ownership by faculty and staff.
- It should have complete and vocal support from the president, division heads, AVP's and deans.
- It should provide students an opportunity for involvement.
- It should be more focused on the breadth and quality of the work rather than speed.
- The resulting strategic plan should be a living, organic concept, the focus of continual updating, change, and adaptation. It should not be a static, "once-now-forever" approach.
- The resulting strategic plan should be communicated frequently and clearly, the subject of a running dialogue.
- The resulting strategic plan should be understood by applicable stakeholders.
How? and When?
The Strategic Planning Process, 2014-2020 proposal represents a suggested roadmap for creating the university's new strategic plan for 2014-2020. The Madison Future Commission (MFC) is the the primary vehicle for creating the new strategic plan under the guidance of a new University Planning Team (UPT).


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Ferrari, Bali and Charity a perfect mix
Bali, May 2012 – 30 Ferrari Owners from around Indonesia gathered at Bali for a special tour around the beautiful and mystical "Island of God".
The Rally was also the occasion for Ferrari Indonesia to raise funds for charity, with a total of 150 million Rupiah (EUR 12,500) donated by the Ferrari owners to six Public Elementary Schools in Pecatu and Tampak Siring and to the Orphanage Foundation in Bangli, Kintamani.
Finally the Rally provided the perfect frame for Ferrari to display the new FF which sparkled as another gem of the tour.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Fresh off a four-game sweep of Wagner College this past weekend, UC Santa Barbara made a jump in four major national polls on Monday morning, headlined by a No. 10 ranking by Collegiate Baseball, the program's first top-10 ranking since the 1986 season.
The Gauchos jumped five spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll after being placed at the No. 15 spot last week. Similarly, Andrew Checketts's squad improved their position in the polls for Perfect Game (No. 14, previously 20), Baseball America (No. 15, previously 19), and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll (No. 23, previously receiving votes).
With a 17-3 overall record and an 11-1 mark at home, the Gauchos are off to their best start in both categories since the 1984 season (19-1 and 11-1, respectively).
UCSB is led offensively by senior Joey Epperson, who with a .493 batting average is leading the NCAA in hitting, and junior Tyler Kuresa, who leads the team and ranks among the top-25 nationally with seven home runs this season.
On the mound, Justin Jacome (4-0, 2.08 ERA), Greg Mahle (4-1, 1.35 ERA), and Dillon Tate (five saves, 0.00 ERA) have done a fine job so far, while 2013 ace Austin Pettibone should be a fixture in the rotation from here on out after making his debut this past Saturday.
This week, the Gauchos travel to 15-9 Fresno State for a Tuesday night showdown before hosting Hawai'i for a three-game series to open Big West conference play starting on Friday.
All four of UCSB's game this week will be broadcasted locally over the air on AM 1290 – Santa Barbara News-Press Radio – as well as on UCSBgauchos.com.
Already affordable, tickets to Gaucho baseball just got even more affordable with the "Bandwagon Plan."
UCSB Athletics is pleased to announce that fans can now purchase tickets for the entire Big West Conference schedule, plus bonus games against UCLA and BYU for as low as $2 per game.
For more information or to purchase the "Bandwagon Plan" for Gaucho baseball, please drop by the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, call 805-893-UCSB (8272) or purchase online by clicking here.


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First, Minnesota Golden Gophers beat No. 9 Louisville Cardinals 70-64 on Saturday in Arizona. Big Ten cred!!
Second, North Dakota States Ben Woodside set the NDSU All-Time Scoring record on Monday night against Northern Arizona.
Woodside scored his 1,814th point with around 13 minutes remaining in the game and then finished with 1820. He surpassed Denver TenBroek you played from 1999 – 2003.
Woodside had a total of 24 points against the Lumberjacks, shooting 7-11 from the field and 10-12 from the foul line. He also dished out 10 assists and had 3 steals.


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A lovely bride and a beautiful day
Our daughter Keely and her fiance Taurus were married October 23, 2010, at Oakland Manor, Hopkinsville, KY. It was a small, simple, informal wedding.
During a chilly spell a couple of weeks before the wedding, I worried that the weather might be too cold to have the wedding outdoors. A few days later, the temperatures rebounded to 80°F, and I worried that people might get hot and sunburned at the wedding. However, we were blessed with a beautiful day. It was about 75°F with a breeze and mostly overcast skies.
A number of family members traveled long distances to share the day. My brother came from Kansas, and my sister was here from Missouri , along with two sons and a fiancee. My aunt, uncle, and cousin came from northern Illinois, and another cousin and her daughter-in-law came from western Tennessee. My husband's sister and niece from Texas were here, as well as two more sisters and a nephew from Missouri.
I don't remember anything at all going wrong at the wedding. The bride and groom were radiant with happiness. It was clear that their vows were spoken from the heart. The pastor spoke eloquent words of wisdom to the bride and groom. The music was beautiful. I thought it was a really lovely ceremony, and many guests told me the same.
Life should settle down some, now. Perhaps I will even be able to gather my thoughts and write in my blog again!


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15 All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.
zGrace be with you all.
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Communicating with your legislator is very important and can be critical at specific points in the legislative process. You can make an appointment to visit them, you can call them on the phone, you can e-mail them, or you can write (and FAX) to them.
This information sheet includes a brief overview of the legislative process in general, tips on communicating with your legislators, and some sample letters.
Don't know which Representative or Senator is yours? Call your local Elections Board to find out your district numbers and names of your state Representative and Senator. Look in your phone book or at your public library, or on the internet (search for your state's Secretary of State website or for an official state government website) for phone numbers and mailing addresses at the State Capitol.
(Process and terminology may vary slightly from state to state)
1. Sponsored: A Representative or Senator decides to sponsor the bill, usually with co-sponsors.
2. Introduced: The sponsor introduces the bill on the floor, and the bill is given a number.
3. To Committee: The bill is assigned to a committee; a subcommittee hears, may amend, and votes to hold or to recommend the bill, then the full committee hears, may amend, and can then vote the bill out of committee or table it (which means the bill is dead for that session). The Committee chair can also decide to do nothing with the bill, in which case it is "dead."
4. To the floor: If voted out of committee, the bill goes to the floor for a vote, or may be required also to go through Rules Committee before it can get onto the agenda for a floor vote.
5. Floor Vote: The bill may be amended on the floor, may be passed or killed.
6. In the other chamber: The bill may simultaneously go through the equivalent process in the other chamber, or may automatically proceed to the other chamber after passage in the first one.
7. Reconciled: If different versions are passed in the House and Senate, the bill goes to a Conference Committee (made of equal numbers of Representative and Senators) which can change the bill however it sees fit. Their version goes back to both chambers for yea or nay votes as is; no floor amendments allowed.
8. Governor's Signature: The final version of the bill as passed by both chambers must be signed by the governor to become law.
9. Lifespan: Each legislative session starts with a clean slate; bills not voted on in the previous session must be reintroduced to be active.
1. Handwritten preferred.
2. Keep it short; one page maximum for a letter.
3. Identify yourself (include your name and address) as a constituent.
4. Refer to a bill by its name and call number (example: "State Midwifery Act" HB 315).
5. Personalize your letter. Put it in your own words, include a sentence or two about your personal experience with the issue, or a sentence or two about the local impact of the legislation in question.
6. Clearly tell the legislator what you want her/him to do ("please vote in favor of HB 315").
7. Be sure to sign your letter!
8. Mail or FAX your letter right away.
9. A postcard is quick and effective. Identify yourself and the bill, say what you want your legislator to do, and mail it!
Address your letters properly:
The Honorable (Senator's name) or The Honorable (Representative's Name).Address (at the state capitol).
Dear Senator (Name) or Dear Representative (Name).
Tips on phone calls:
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2. Always identify yourself by name and as a constituent.
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Light, sturdy, amazingly cheap—and banned. How the humble sack became a victim of its own success.
As of December 2013, cashiers at supermarkets and other large retailers in Brookline will no longer be allowed to provide disposable polyethylene bags to their customers at checkout, under threat of a punishing fine. Instead they'll use bags made from compostable or marine degradable material, including paper, or encourage customers to bring reusable bags from home. The ban puts Brookline at the vanguard of the anti-plastic-bag movement, which has succeeded in getting similar ordinances passed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as in China, India, and South Africa. It also represents what is arguably the biggest victory the movement has yet seen on the East Coast.
Over the past 30 years, the plastic shopping bag has become a potent symbol of human consumption and carelessness. Flapping from trees, blowing against fences, bobbing squalidly in waterways, bags seem both insignificant and indestructible, an encapsulation of humankind's fatal attachment to minor conveniences. According to one estimate, Americans use 100 billion plastic bags per year. It's a number that horrifies environmentalists, who are concerned about the fossil fuels they're made from and who calculate that each bag will continue to haunt the earth, before decomposing, for hundreds of years.
But there's another way to see the plastic bag, and a reason to think a little harder about where the problem with it actually lies. To its fans in the plastics industry, and there are many, the supermarket shopping bag—or "T-shirt bag," as it's known in the business—is a triumph of cost-effective engineering. Weighing just a fraction of an ounce, it has convenient handles, water-resistant walls, and an astonishing ability to carry up to 2,000 times its own weight. From this point of view, the bag is a runaway success that has simply outpaced our ability to contain it.
"The polyethylene plastic bag is a miracle of technology to me," said Diana Twede, a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University and the co-editor of the journal Packaging Technology and Science. "I'm a fan of packaging history, and people in history would not be able to believe that you could make such a strong, light, thin type of material that would actually do some work."
There's a special irony to the fact that the latest skirmish in the plastic bag wars has erupted in Massachusetts, given that the bags' origins can be traced to the work of engineers from communities such as Woburn and Gloucester—and that one of the intellectual nerve centers of the plastics industry is located at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
"The state of Massachusetts was like the Silicon Valley of plastics, in a lot of regards," said Mark Steele, the CEO of Gloucester Engineering, a company that designed some of the earliest plastic-bag-making machines in the 1960s.
For Steele, there is something sad about the people of Brookline launching an attack on a technology so intimately tied to their own local history. But as supporters of the ban prepare to make the case for a statewide ordinance—Marblehead Representative Lori Ehrlich has vowed to raise it on the floor of the Massachusetts Legislature in January—it's unlikely that an appeal to regional pride is going to give them any pause. The plastic bag is both bigger and smaller than any one place, after all. And in many ways, that is the heart of the problem.
There was a time when grocers would pack their customers' purchases in paper cones, tying them at the bottom with a piece of string. Some took a different route, and spent their evenings gluing bags together out of paper. Everything changed in 1883, when a Philadelphia inventor by the name of Charles Stilwell patented an automatic paper bag machine that not only produced paper bags on its own, but fitted them with a square-shaped bottom that made it possible for baggers to stand them upright, leaving both their hands free for loading. Over time, customers came to expect that when they bought apples, or laundry detergent, or even a few pencils, they'd get a bag as well.
As paper sacks became a fixture at grocery store checkout lines across the United States, the seeds of their downfall were being sown here in Massachusetts, where a formidable plastics industry began to take root in the 1960s. As engineers discovered ways to make plastic thinner, stronger, and easier to produce in bulk, the material started being used to make trash bags, dry-cleaning bags, and packaging for bread. "The phones would be ringing off the hook with people wanting to buy bag-making machines," said Bill Bode of Gloucester Engineering, which sold the machines to local manufacturers in Salem, Lynn, and Peabody, as well as to out-of-state companies like Union Carbide and Mobil Chemical.
By that time, round one of the bag wars was well underway, with the paper industry waging an aggressive public relations campaign, with representatives giving quotes to newspapers about how the paper bag ought to be seen as a token of American culture, alongside the flag and apple pie. More practical concerns were raised as well. A spokesman for the International Paper Co. said in 1983: "We've heard from grocers who say people complained of plastic bags bumping into their legs."
None of this proved to be enough to hold back the plastic bag, which wove its way into the American household. Though they never came to be seen as classy—high-end retailers mostly stuck with paper—disposable plastic bags became a fact of life. People realized that you could always use a few bags around the house, whether to contain dirty diapers and dog poop, or carry wet swimsuits from the beach, or line wastebaskets, or pack lunch for work.
But perhaps the biggest reason for the success plastic bags have enjoyed in the United States—by 1996, they made up about 80 percent of the market—has been their low cost, with some estimating that paper bags cost four times as much to produce. This is in part because of the minuscule amount of raw material required to make a plastic bag, but it's also because they take up less space, meaning you need a lot fewer trucks and fuel to transport them. That difference translates to massive savings for retailers: As long as shoppers expect a fresh bag every time they buy something, a big chain of supermarkets can end up saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by supplying them with plastic instead of paper.
Today, environmentalists estimate that the world consumes a trillion disposable plastic bags every year. So extraordinary is the plastic bag's success that the Guinness Book of World Records has named it "the most ubiquitous consumer item in the world."
The anti-plastic-bag movement scored its first big victory in 2002, when officials in Bangladesh banned them because they were found to be clogging storm drains and causing floods. That same year, Ireland tried to stem its litter problem by imposing a tax on plastic bags, leading to a dramatic reduction in their use. As people began to realize just how many plastic bags were out there—and how uniquely suited they were to fly through the air, float out to sea, and sit in landfills for centuries—the movement gained momentum. Bans and tax programs were implemented around the world over the course of the following decade, including in Asia, Europe, and Africa. In 2007, San Francisco became the first American city to enact a ban; it was followed shortly thereafter by Los Angeles and, earlier this year, by Seattle.
These measures have been met with extreme resistance from the plastics industry, as well as some packaging experts, like Michigan State's Diana Twede. "People think the paper bag is environmentally friendly because it looks like nature and it comes from a tree," said Twede. In reality, she added, "You've got all kinds of energy that goes into making a tree into a paper bag—lots more energy than it takes to make a plastic bag out of petrochemicals." The bans we've seen passed around the world, and now in Brookline, said Donna Dempsey, a spokeswoman for a trade group called the American Progressive Bag Alliance, are nothing but "feel-good legislation which has not worked to reduce litter."
It's perfectly true, as people in the plastics industry remind us, that plastic bags are reusable, recyclable, and take up very little space. But it's also true that they're so cheap, and so profuse—think of buying a toothbrush and watching as the cashier double-bags it—that we don't really treat them as objects we need to think about. "If my household is any indication, probably about 10 percent of them get reused at most," said Twede. "It's too bad more of them aren't recycled....But they're so cheap and so thin that it feels like they're not worth recycling."
Or, as Robert Malloy of UMass Lowell put it, "They're a problem because people can afford to throw them away."
The trajectory of the plastic bag, in this light, should perhaps be seen as a cautionary tale: It's possible to build a tool too ideally suited to our needs. A ban on plastic bags is not an indictment of the bags themselves; as Clint Richmond, one of the Brookline residents who pushed for the new law, said, "This is not a 'bags are evil' thing." Rather, it's an admission that if an object is sufficiently cheap, effective, and plentiful, we simply cannot resist abusing it.


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Holiday Inn Bristol - Filton
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The hotel's Academy Conference Centre has capacity for up to 280 delegates, with energising catering menus and a spacious breakout area serving fresh coffee. Visitors to Airbus can be at their offices in 10 minutes by car, while Bristol and Bath Science Park is four miles away.
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June 2013 – BN won the "Grand Prize" in the hardware/appliances category for a claw pole motor core stator used in the DC motor of an electric ceiling fan.Please see About Us for a more detailed list of awards.
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November 23, 2010
My Life | Our Wedding | Seaside, Florida | The Inn By The Sea | Claire Ryser
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Jenny! It was such a wonderful weekend and I loved being a part of your wedding experience! Thank you so much for taking such good care of me and inviting me to be your photographer! (Also! special thanks to Julie Blanner for being my second shooter on the balcony! Love how those turned out :) ) CONGRATS JENNY AND MIKE! Your day was a true reflection of the love and happiness you both share. - Claire RyserReplyDelete
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jenny, your wedding was GORGEOUS!!!!!ReplyDelete
I loved your wedding photos! My favorite was the one with your arms around your husband, dancing. Your expression was priceless. Congrats!ReplyDelete
I am your newest blog follower and have so enjoyed perusing your blog this morning (and last night.) Your wedding was a wedding for a princess. Absolutely lovely...like a dream. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
beautiful photos and beautiful wedding...! love your blog...the elegant simplicity of your recipes, style and charm...thank you! pam from minneapolisReplyDelete
Beautiful! Love the pictures- everything looks amazing..ReplyDelete
Hi there! I was just wondering how you were able to rent out the Inn by the Sea? I keep googling it but there is no website. Did you go through Seaside's cottage rental agency? My fiance and I are planning our wedding in Seaside as well and I absolutely love the venue! Beautiful photos - loved all of your decor!ReplyDelete
Arielle, I have been Googling it, too, and found out today from the Cottage Rental Agency that it has been sold. It is now a private residence and has been dismantled of all things Vera Bradley. So, so sad!ReplyDelete
What a lovely wedding! I visited Seaside, FL a few years ago & fell in love with it! You have a beautiful blog.ReplyDelete
always beautiful photos !!!!!!ReplyDelete
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I am currently planning my wedding at the Inn. I am just wondering if you hired a wedding coordinator for the day? Specifically, I am just wondering where you rented your spotlights, dance floor, chairs and table? And do you happen to remember what DJ you used? Thanks so much for any info! We are just now starting to plan, our date is in October!
Thank you!!
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This lamb curry's a popular restaurant classic that's really easy to make at home
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal386
- fat24g
- saturates9g
- carbs6g
- sugars3g
- fibre0g
- protein37g
- salt0.54g
- 2 onions, quartered
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 4 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
A variety of oils can be used for baking. Sunflower is the one we use most often at Good Food as…
- 4 garlic cloves, finely crushed
- thumb-size piece fresh root ginger, peeled and very finely grated
- 2 tbsp Madras curry paste
- 2 tsp paprika
A spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 6 green cardamom, bashed to break the shells
- 4 cloves
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- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 1kg lean leg of lamb, cut into generous cubes
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- 150ml Greek yogurt
- chopped coriander, to garnish
Put the onions in a food processor and whizz until very finely chopped. Heat the oil in a large heavy-based pan, then fry the onion with the lid on, stirring every now and then, until it is really golden and soft. Add the garlic and ginger, then fry for 5 mins more.
Tip the curry paste, all the spices and the bay leaves into the pan, with the tomato purée. Stir well over the heat for about 30 secs, then add the meat and 300ml water. Stir to mix, turn down the heat, then add the yogurt.
Cover the pan, then gently simmer for 40-60 mins until the meat is tender and the sauce nice and thick. Serve scattered with coriander, with plain basmati or pilau rice.


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Look: Raging fire a dramatic backdrop for wedding photos
Who knew what an impressive backdrop a raging wildfire could make for wedding photos?
When April Hartley and Michael Wolber got married Saturday at Rock Springs Ranch in Oregon, a natural disaster threatened to ruin their big day.
Hartley was about to walk down the aisle when firefighters stopped the wedding. Her father told guests with tears in his eyes that everyone would have to evacuate.
But there's a happy ending to this stressful moment: The firefighters changed their minds, as long as the ceremony was shortened. The guests cheered, and the couple were quickly married.
After the ceremony, photographer Josh Newton pulled the newlyweds aside to grab portraits, while the wedding guests helped to pack up everything and relocated to a nearby park. The resulting photos are breathtaking.
"Every wedding has its little hiccups," Newton shared. "Nothing of this scale has ever happened." Newton has captured images for 200 weddings.
The wedding photo has since gone viral with over 88,000 likes onFacebook to date.
With thousands of shares and likes on social media, people are clearly moved by the unexpected scene. Newton said people think the photo looks like the cover of a romantic novel, or a poster for 'Gone With The Wind.'
Since the images were the couple's first moments alone, away from all the chaos, Newtonwas worried about how they would react. Maybe they wouldn't want photos with the smoke and fire that forced them to abandon their wedding venue.
"I wouldn't blame them if they were bummed about it, but it would have made the photos less awe-inspiring," Newton said. "They were just happy to be married and that's what's important."
He credits Hartley and Wolber for making the photos so powerful, saying they were all smiles, and even excited about the wildfire because they knew they would never forget it.
His advice to couples on their wedding day? "Don't let any hiccups get in the way of the joy."
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1435 Old Forest Rd (Rosebank + Highbrush)
Price: $1,895,000
Status: For Sale
- Community:Highbush
- City:Pickering
- Type:Residential
- Style:Detached (2-Storey)
- Beds:4+1
- Bath:7
- Size:5000+ Sq Ft
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Best Deal In Durham! Luxury Builders Custom Home W Elevator! 4,750Sqft + 1700 Sqft Fully Finished Bsmt. 10Ft Ceilings On M+2nd Flr - Open Conc Prof Chef Kitch W 10Ft Quartz Island + Prof Grade Appl. Grand Lvng Rm W/ Waffle Ceiling + Stone Fireplace W Builtin Wall Unit. Main Flr Spacious Inlaw Suite. M+2nd Dual Sys Heating. Engineered Hardwood Thru. Walkup Finished Bsmt W 9Ft Ceilings, Infloor Heating. Fully Fenced In Prvt Bckyd W/ Lg Deck + R/In Outdoor Kitch
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