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Republicans pushed back Friday after the White House blamed the GOP for blocking "balanced" alternatives that would raise taxes on the wealthy as a way to avoid automatic budget cuts set to take effect Jan. 2
The administration today released a report - which was required by law and pushed by Republicans - that said the sequester would have "devastating impacts" on military and non-military programs.
"This report confirms that the president's 'sequester' is a serious threat to our national security and must be replaced," Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.
Republicans have repeatedly blamed the president for the sequester, while Democrats pin the blame back on the GOP, noting that Republicans held the debt ceiling hostage before celebrating last year's debt deal, declaring victory and voting for it. The sequester was created as an incentive to last fall's super committee to come up with a broad deficit reduction plan. When the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction failed to develop a plan, the sequester became the law of the land.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the administration report "highlights the crippling effect these reductions will have on our nation's security and underscores the urgent need for the president to work with Congressional Republicans to replace these destructive cuts."
McConnell and other Senate Republicans complained the almost 400-page report lacks details on how exactly the cuts would affect programs. The report lists the effect on more than 1,200 accounts but does not provide much detail on the actual effects from those cuts. McConnell also noted that no lawmakers in Congress have voted to back President Barack Obama's proposals to replace the sequester.
"The president needs to provide the leadership to avoid these reductions that will render his own strategy unsustainable," McConnell said of the defense cuts.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said the report failed to provide the level of detail required under the bipartisan law that Congress passed ordering the administration to write it.
Yet, he said, "the report confirms Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's statement that sequestration will 'do catastrophic damage to the military'" and cause unemployment to rise.
And Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Budget Committee, complained that overall spending would still go up next year even as defense spending would be cut.
"Domestic programs that have seen explosive growth over the last decade - such as the four-fold increase in food stamps - will experience zero reductions under sequestration," he complained.
GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), who have been leading an effort to avert the defense portion of the sequester, complained that the president's report was a week late and lacked the specifics Congress asked for.
"The report claims that more time is needed to provide these necessary details - but that is principally because the Administration has deliberately refused to plan for sequestration for an entire year. This disappointing report provides virtually no new information," the three said in a statement. "With sequestration less than four months away, the President's decision to ignore the specific intent of this law leaves Congress, the Department of Defense, defense suppliers, and the American people in the dark."
The trio also called for the president to immediately begin negotiations on a bipartisan measure to avert the cuts, and they argued that "Congress should not leave town until we have a bipartisan solution."


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For a given integer $n$, how many positive integer $(a,b)$ pairs exist which satisfy $2n^2=a^2+b^2$?
In particular, I'm looking for all $n$s where there are exactly 105 solutions. (One solution is $(n,n)$, and there are $2\cdot 52$ other solutions: $(a,b)$ and $(b,a)$ are two different solutions if $a\ne b$.)
I'm sure that there are theorems about the solutions of this kinds of equations. Where can I find them and read more?

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Guest Post: Selecting a Linux Distribution
If you are planning to learn the ways of using and operating Linux then you should try to gain proper knowledge about it. You must try to decide the type of version that you are planning to utilize, when it comes to Linux as your operating system.
You should know the ways to choose the right kind of Linux distribution for you. It is better to spend some time, when it comes to selection of Linux distribution channel for you. The below mentioned information is a type of check list that will help you to choose the best type of Linux distribution.
It is better to think before you have your Linux distribution. You will have to ensure that your Linux distribution should have the smoothest installation process. The process should guide you to the ways to complete the installation. Make sure that you have a guidance provided by the version at each level for installation. The distribution will be able to guide you the best ways to utilize the commands that has an affect on the hard drive as well.
In case of Windows operating system, you will be automatically diverted towards the desktop that is user friendly as well. However, Linux is tricky to understand. It is true that Linux has various types of desktop. Therefore, you will have to select the require desktop during the boot mode of your system. You will not be automatically diverted towards the desktop.
It is advisable for you to have knowledge about the different types of desktop that are offered by Linux. You can try each of the desktop style that is offered by this useful operating system. This will allow you to get an idea about the options are available for you. At the same time, you will be able to decide the best type of desktop that is required for your needs.
Do not forget to check the capability of your hardware. It is true that some hardware parts might not be able to support Linux. Therefore, it is better to make sure that the components are compatible with Linux.
If you are planning to get some information about the desktops that are offered by Linux then you should explore the World Wide Web. You must know that websites that are offering downloads for Linux desktops will be able to offer you the require information. At the same time, exploring the internet will allow you to look at some tutorials as well. Some tutorials will be a great help, when it comes to gaining knowledge for Linux desktops. On the other hand, if you have a question to ask then discussing with experts will be a great idea. You must know the internet forums are always based to help you. You can be a member of a form that is specifically created to discuss about Linux. Over these forums, you will be able to get the best knowledge about the different options that are available with Linux desktops.
February 18, 2010 at 4:40 am
I thought Ubuntu was specifically designed to be the *most* user friendly distro for those accustomed to MS Windoze. Yet you mention not one whit about Ubuntu. You seem to have an uncomfortably militant about what a newbie *must* do before installing a Linux OS. It's a harsh approach that will only turn potential users away from Linux.
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May 1998 - Newsletter 58
I know, you've only just recovered from last years Yetminster Fair but it will soon be time to get your tickets for the concert and prepare yourselves for another splendid day out in the blazing sunshine on July 11th. For details of camp sites etc. Plus your tickets contact June & Ron Page, 3 Bucklers Mead, Yetminster, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6LA. Telephone: 01935 872940. Sherborne Tourist information will also be delighted to help you if you need accommodation. Their Telephone No is 01935 815341.
We will have our usual get-together at The Weavers Club, Westbury, Sherborne on the 10th for a few songs, a bit of music and a spot of nosebag, These evenings are turning out to be very entertaining. The music nights at The West End Hall are fairly informal but at The Weavers anything goes. Last year we performed a 'Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy' concert in Yetminster church to help raise funds for its renovation and this year we have fixed to do a 'Banks of Newfoundland' one on Friday, October 2nd. Tickets from June & Ron Page as usual or bring some extra cash and you can buy them at Yetminster on fair day.
Our usual run of Tuesday nights in The Ocean Room at the Weymouth Pavilion Complex starts on the 14th of July and runs through to September 29th. If you are around with your family do drop in and see us. We'll have you all singing, dancing, telling jokes and if you are really good Bonny might give away double bike miles. You don't have to book beforehand, just wamble along at 7.45p.m.
I think it's fair to say that we had a right good time at Halsway. Good food, good company, plenty of music and dancing, incredible weather in beautiful surroundings. Terrific. The only complaints I heard were from those who reckoned we had worked them too hard. I know it took me a couple of days to recover so maybe they have a point. many people immediately re-booked for next year, February 26th-28th, and accommodation is limited so if you fancy a bit of a frolic to welcome in the spring please get in touch with Halsway soon and get your name on the list. Telephone 01984 618274.
Over the years I have written quite a few songs, poems and bits of nonsence which have just been languishing in the files so I thought I would show them a bit of daylight and see if I could, by mixing in a few of my other favourite songs, make up a solo album. I suppose it is the ultimate indulgence. It will be called 'A Load of Old Bales' after the song, and I will have copies by the end of May. Other tracks included are 'The Farmers Lament', 'Yeastie Beasties', Reflections On My Birth', 'The Blackbird in the Tree', 'Thomford Village Outing', and 'The Beer Hacket Blues'. Bonny.


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Options are given for each user so that responsibilities can be limited by assigned pages. Click the pages that the user is allowed to edit - as many pages as necessary. Then, click the modules that the user will have access to. Note that in most cases modules would be handled by the site administrator and would not be necessary for additional users. Finally, click the Actions that will be allowed for the user.
This module is a great way to allow others to be allowed in the design of your site, without handing out administrator passwords or otherwise lessening the security of the site.


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Angie Cherubini needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
ECO Ohio or Energy Conservation Organization
The winning team for residential, commercial, and agricultural energy conservation and wealth savings. The Energy Conservation Organization of Ohio- eco 4 OHIO is focused on helping consumers save money while providing practical ideas to achieving a "green" lifestyle through energy conservation. The concept is quite simple, pairing long standing, well established companies with consumers to help in providing new and improving technologies to the mainstream public. The four represents: Earth, Sun, Wind and Water.
Individuals and or companies that want to incorporate energy efficiency.
ECO4OHIO is the main wording for the logo.
the number 4 represents Earth, Sun, Wind, Water
Would like the map of Ohio incorporated into the logo. maybe the use of a green leaf.
earth tones for colors - the greens in this photo are liked by my client.
Must be a design that can be promoted easily so please limit the colors to no more than 5 or 6.
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Anyone who uses a mobile device knows that they are inherently power hogs. Companies have taken notice of this issue and have released a host of contraptions that are capable of recharging those devices, such as small portable battery chargers (Hyper Juice Mini, myCharge Peak, etc.), hand-crank chargers, portable solar panels (Brunton, Goal Zero, etc.), and even a portable thermoelectric generator (Powerpot). What hasn't been widely capitalized on yet is the harnessing of wind power for recharging mobile devices.
Sure, there are a few, such as HYmini's micro-wind power generator; however, those are typically the same size of the devices you are looking to recharge. In an effort to bring recharging power using wind energy on a micro-scale level, UT Arlington researchers have designed and developed incredibly small micro-windmills that are capable of recharging smart devices.
To get a perspective on how small these turbines are, they measure 1.8 mm at their widest point and a single grain of rice can hold roughly 10 of them on its tiny shell.
The researcher's micro-windmill combines MEMS, the Japanese art of origami, and traditional semiconductor device layouts to achieve power generation. They created the tiny power generators using a micro-3D printing technique developed by WinMEMS Technologies, which fabricates the tiny device through planar multilayer electroplating. The durable nickel-based alloy the team used is incredibly strong and maintains a degree of flexibility even when subjected to strong winds, which spin the tiny turbine blades to generate an electrical charge. The art of origami comes into play when deploying the micro-windmills as the structure is inherently 2-dimensional and then "self-unfolds" itself into the 3D windmill shape to harness wind energy.
Much like fabricating CPUs, the micro-windmills can be created in array using the batch process with hundreds or even thousands produced on a single wafer, which makes them relatively inexpensive to make. The researchers envision the tiny devices to be incorporated into a sleeve of sorts that can be deployed from a mobile device case. Users can then wave the sleeve through the air or subject the sleeve to a breeze to recharge their mobile devices.
Power output has not been announced, but I suspect nano-watts. The possibilities are endless, and we are certain to see more companies investing in wind energy harnessing as the technology becomes more efficient and widely known.
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Cold Brewed Coffee: Now in Growlers
Growlers: they're not just for lugging beer anymore. As you may have seen The New York Times, you can now score a growler (64 ounces!) of cold-brewed ice coffee at Nolita Mart and Birch Coffee in New York.
At Birch, the 64-ounce growler costs $20 the first time, though once you own the growler, you can trade in your empty for a filled one for $15. (And yes, you have to buy their growler, you can't bring in a random beer growler for filling.)
Is buying a growler a good deal? At $20, the cold brewed coffee is about 31 cents an ounce for straight coffee. If you bought individual cups instead, you'd pay $3.50 for a small 16 ounce cup, but you have to include the fact that at least 6 ounces of that cup is ice. So you're probably getting 8 to 10 ounces of coffee, and it's costing you about 35 to 44 cents an ounce if you buy it by the cup.
The folks at Birch say the growler is good for up to two months in the fridge, so it may be much more convenient to have the growler around than to stop by the cafe every day. (Or maybe you're just lazy enough to justify it.) If you're getting coffee for the whole office, this is much easier to lug than a tray of cups.
The important part: how does it taste?
It's just about perfect. Birch's Filtron-brewed coffee, made from beans roasted at Coffee Labs, is earthy and smooth, intense, but not at all burnt-tasting, with pleasant chocolate notes. It's happy with milk or black, and it's delicately fruity, without the tart acidity that's too common in lesser iced coffees. It's strong stuff, and delicious enough that you may find yourself a little wired too fast.
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Here are the results from the second survey we conducted during the second class of the course. You can see the procedure for how it was administered here.
Unfortunately, two of our students have still yet to complete the questionnaire, which I suppose tells us something about their motivation and preferences when it comes to homework!
As with the other survey, our analysis will be posted soon.


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Whooping cough cases in Colorado top 1,000
Whooping cough cases in Colorado topped 1,000 for the year in early October, according to state health department statistics, making it the worst year for the disease since 2005.
The count reached 1,026 by Oct. 6, according to statistics from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The average number of cases has been 324 in the past five years. The spike follows a national trend that has prompted repeated CDC warnings about childhood vaccinations and making sure adults are up-to-date on all their shots as well.
Cases reached 1,383 in 2005. The disease, also called pertussis, tends to peak every three to five years for reasons not completely understood by public health officials. Current suspects in the spike include potential upticks in the number of vaccine refusers, and worries that more recent formulations of vaccines might wear off and need a re-boost among adults. Public health officials have hinted in that direction but apparently do not have their statistical backup completely finished yet to nail the argument.
Denver has 165 cases since Jan. 1, with 154 in Jefferson County and 151 in Adams County.
State officials say adults should all make sure they've had the tetanus/pertussis booster, especially any with children at home or at their work site. Those who get whooping cough should avoid contact with others until they've been on an antibiotic for five days, and those who come in close contact with a known case should start an antibiotic course as a prevention measure.


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I hope you guys are ready for some more really cool cartoon characters on the way and I really think you will like them all. For my first lesson I will be showing you "how to draw a cartoon person", step by step. The figure you will be learning is of a really pretty girl. I didn't want to sketch out a typical looking girl standing up facing forward holding a flower or some other stupid typical object. Instead, I will show you "how to draw a cartoon girl" posing in a really cute kneeling position looking pretty. I think that this drawing is one of my favorites out of all the cartoon people I have ever drawn to date. I'm not talking about anime/manga characters, I'm just talking about people in general. I gave this chick nice blond hair that is shoulder length. She also has a pretty green bow holding up one side of her hairdo and then a really cute outfit. Her feet are bare to represent the summer months and a really friendly background. I think you will find this lesson absolutely adorable from head to toe. I hope you guys have fun learning "how to draw a cartoon person", step by step. I will be back peeps, so stay tuned for the return of my presents. Peace out and happy drawing.
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The second to the last leg of the 2010 PKRA Tour happening from November 23 to 28, 2010 is one of the most highly anticipated events in kiteboarding this year. The Tour stop dubbed "Teri Kite Pro 2010" is sponsored in part by Teri, Orangina, Nissan, LVLNC, Sea*Doo, Le Meridien Noumea, RFO Nouvelle Caledonie, Air Austral, Total, and will be held at the beautiful South Pacific Island of New Caledonia at Pointe Magnin, Nouméa home to the world's largest enclosed lagoon with remarkable, crystal clear, and perfectly flat water.
Since this new location's debut last year, its success adds to the excitement of both international and local riders such as Andy Yates (Slingshot, AUS) from Australia, New Zealand stars Marc Jacobs (Switch Kites, NZL) and Torrin Bright (Ozone, NZL), and last but not least New Caledonia superstar Tom Hebert. This year's World Title for the Freestyle discipline is still up for grabs and is being contested by three of the most prolific and extreme riders in the world.
The current PKRA World Tour leader Andy Yates (Flexifoil, AUS) is holding on strong at the top of the overall ranking with 5,114 points and is eager to win his first world title. Kevin Langeree (Naish, NED) has the second highest amount of points, however due to his knee injury which occurred in Fuerteventura, Spain in August this year, he will no longer be able to finish the 2010 tour season which will result in a drop in his current ranking. It's a close fight between Alex Pastor (Airush, ESP) who has 4,639 points and Youri Zoon (Slingshot, NED) who is trailing by only 17 points with a total of 4,622 points. A podium position in New Caledonia is extremely important to both of these riders in order to gain a significant lead towards the PKRA World Title.
In the women's freestyle rankings, Gisela Puildo (Airush, ESP) has a good lead, however Karolina Winkowska (Slingshot, POL) and Bruna Kajiya (Flexifoil, BRA) are following closely behind. It's still anyone's game! The mixture of high intensity kiteboarding action, the eagerness of the riders to capture a lead towards the World Title will surely make this upcoming event a smashing hit in kiteboarding entertainment.


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As Easter eggs roll onto the shelves ahead of the big bank holiday, old favourite Cadbury's Dairy Milk has been named as Northern Ireland's most popular chocolate for Easter.
According to a survey by money-saving site Voucherbox, Cadbury's Dairy Milk has beaten Galaxy into second place and soars away from Snickers, Ferrero Rocher and Caramel who made up the top five.
Dairy Milk, which first rolled off the Cadbury production line in 1905 led the field by some margin, perhaps not surprisingly given that we go through 16 million of them a day.
In the survey those participating were questioned on their love for chocolate, with the full top ten favourites for Easter is as follows:
1 Dairy Milk
2 Galaxy
3 Snickers
4 Ferrero Rocher
5 Caramel
6 Fruit & Nut
7 Maltesers
8 Aero
9 Peanut M&Ms
10 Kit Kat Chunky
The survey also found that one in four people in Northern Ireland are spending approximately £219 a year on chocolate as they get their daily fix.
Yet 41% of those surveyed have no idea how much they're spending, and almost half of respondents (48%) say the cost wouldn't sway their choice anyway.


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Can my server have more than 3 IPs?
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The monthly board meetings of the Butte County Association of Governments and the Butte County Air Quality Management District have been canceled for January.
Both boards, which have largely the same membership — the five county supervisors and a representative of each of the five municipalities — were scheduled to meet the morning of Jan. 24 in the Paradise Town Hall.
A lack of agenda items is cited as the reason for the cancellations.
The next regular meetings would be Feb. 28 in the Chico City Council Chambers.


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The Daily Word in Westboro Baptist Church, NM bankruptcy rates, Penn State penalities.
Westboro Baptist Church appears to have not have actually shown up to the candlelight vigil held last night for the Aurora shooting victims. They were probably too busy being blocked from protesting the funeral of a fallen soldier.
Yay for falling bankruptcy rates in New Mexico!
NCAA doles out intense punishment for Penn State.
More than 100 killed in Iraq after bombings and shootings make for the deadliest day this year.
13 killed in Texas pickup accident.
200-year-old Rancho De Corrales Event Center destroyed by fire.
Which would be more likely to provoke you to stab your husband: An obnoxious facebook post, or the fact that he was high on PCP?
AMC says no more masks at their movie screenings. Sorry superhero cosplayers.
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Corporations Muscle In on App Market
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Last week came word that Edward Snowden, who walked away with a cache of National Security Agency documents and has been leaking them in dribs and drabs ever since, wants the U.S. to drop spying charges against him so he can come home.
And I'm inclined to agree that that is the right thing to do. It's clear now that these documents, much like the embassy cables released by Wikileaks a couple of years ago, haven't had any detrimental impact on the safety and security of the U.S. -- unless you count being really embarrassed.
The fact is that Snowden, with his revelations showing the U.S. government spying on every American every day, while also listening in on heads of state, who happen to be allies, and intercepting traffic from every major Internet service, did us a huge favor by revealing the extent of the surveillance state. He should be applauded as a hero and protected as a whistleblower, not prosecuted as a spy.
If he hadn't leaked those documents, we wouldn't be seeing Congress looking into the behavior of the National Security Agency, a fact that hasn't escaped the NSA's chief, Gen. Keith Alexander, who told Congress recently that we need to find a way to stop journalists from reporting on the Snowden leaks.
Right, because if it weren't for that pesky First Amendment, he wouldn't be having these headaches. Alexander, in his zeal to collect every email, listen to every phone call, follow every GPS-enabled smartphone and read every piece of mail we ever share, has forgotten about the U.S. Constitution. It seems it was not only the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy that was getting in his way, it was the First too. Damn. Wonder if we can change those two to make life easier for him and his group of surveillance-state freaks.
But Alexander is right in a way. We have a free press and it allows us to print those documents even if Snowden may have taken them illegally. When I suggested to a friend that Snowden be allowed to return without fear of prosecution, he said that could be a slippery slope. What if more government employees started leaking documents? Wouldn't forgiving him sanction his activities?
In a way it would, but what he did in this particular case was let us see behind the curtain. And when we peeled back the fabric, what we found was absolutely chilling. In this case, what he did was a good thing because we learned what was happening, and we can now have a very important conversation as a nation and a society on what type of country we want to be and what level of surveillance we are willing to tolerate in the name of protecting us from terrorists.
And ultimately we would need to decide each leak on an individual basis.
Civil rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been documenting the impact of these revelations on civil rights. They have a post on their site on 22 documented cases on the impact of the NSA spying on the right to association. You can be sure, the EFF didn't have to dig that hard to find them either.
And it's not just people worried about civil liberties; the Internet companies that had their security compromised are upset too. In fact, according to an article on Forbes.com, the country's biggest tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and AOL, sent letters to the House and Senate Judiciary committees demanding some reform.
Internet engineers are upset as well, because the NSA is compromising the integrity of the Internet. And let's not forget that the Internet is a major economic engine, not one you want to risk for any reason. According to an article on MIT Technology Review, Internet engineers have been banding together to find ways to build additional security into the Internet backbone that would make this type of spying much more challenging for the government and anyone else who wants to intercept data. As currently constructed, there are just too many places where it's too easy to tap into data as it moves through the Internet pipes.
Prior to Snowden's disclosures, there were those among us who had suspicions about what the government was doing, but how paranoid would you have had to be to imagine the depth of spying going on right here at home on data belonging to U.S. citizens? That is what is outrageous. Spying on people from other countries is, after all, the NSA's job, but systematically and routinely sucking up the communications of U.S. citizens should raise the ire of us all.
We know all of this only because Snowden took those documents, just as, a generation ago, we found out about the extent of government lying in Vietnam only because Daniel Ellsburg had the courage to take a similar step when he released the documents that became known as the Pentagon Papers.
I'm sure that the people in the government who want to punish Snowden are driven mainly by the great humiliation they feel as a result of these revelations. But if you analyze what he's done, you realize that he has not threatened any lives or given away any state secrets that compromise the security of the U.S. All he has done is shared information with us that we as citizens have a right to know.
And for that reason, I say let Snowden come home. Drop the charges and let him testify before Congress. Then let's take steps to fix what's broken here -- which we wouldn't even know about unless one man had had the courage to do what was right and show us the truth about what our government was doing.
Ron Miller is a freelance technology journalist and blogger.
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At halftime of the College Football National Championship Game, Jalen Hurts wasn't just his name; it was an apt description. The Alabama quarterback was just 3-8 with 21 passing yards in a woeful first half that was the main reason the Crimson Tide trailed Georgia 13-0.
Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban had seen enough. Hurts couldn't make easy throws, couldn't move the ball downfield, couldn't win. So Saban pulled him, and obviously, Jalen hurt.
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This was supposed to be his moment. The 19 year-old sophomore had led the Tide to two straight National Championship Games and was the 2016 SEC Offensive Player of the Year. He had thrown 17 touchdowns, rushed for 8 more, and had just one interception all year. He completed 60% of his passing and his quarterback rating was a whopping 150.7. Quarterbacks with those types of numbers never get benched, especially in the second half of a title game.
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The latest round of indictments handed down by San Diego's criminal grand jury is so extensive, people wonder if corruption is just another name for South Bay. Fifteen defendants from three separate South Bay school districts, a construction company CEO, and a bond financier face 256 charges.
In the case of the Sweetwater Union High School District board, four current trustees — James Cartmill, Bertha Lopez, Pearl Quiñones, Arlie Ricasa, and former trustee Gregorio Sandoval — will be arraigned on charges on January 30. The district's former superintendent Jesus Gandara will also be arraigned on that day.
By now many people have read about the lavish meals South Bay trustees and school administrators enjoyed at the contractor's expense. Given what we know about Sweetwater in particular, maybe it's time to ask if dining out is endemic to the district culture.
Well before he was indicted, the U-T was reporting on former superintendent Gandara's dining habits. According to a May 2011 article, Gandara, before having his district credit card yanked, "had charged more than 300 meals to taxpayers over three years, even though his contract paid him $800 a month for expenses."
The same article tells us: "Some $12,560 was charged to Gandara's district credit card for 366 meals from November 2007 to March 16, when he stopped using it.
"The most common meal partners for Gandara were members of the school board, who took part in 238 of the meals.
"Trustee Arlie Ricasa dined with the superintendent 92 times, followed by trustee Pearl Quiñones at 49 times. Former trustee Greg Sandoval met with Gandara 41 times, according to the records, while trustee Jim Cartmill met with him 38 times and Bertha Lopez met with him 11 times.
"Newly appointed board member John McCann appears seven times, including once as a Chula Vista councilman before his job on the school board."
Gandara justified his use of the credit card by saying that without it "community members would have to come to the district office for coffee or water instead of being treated to restaurants."
Many people in the South Bay wonder why taxpayers pay for administrative offices that are not the setting for business meetings — whether with trustees or contractors.
But Gandara did not invent the fine art of dining out.
In 2002, a Sweetwater student began investigating the district. Gordon Siu was a reporter for his Bonita Vista High School paper. In a January 9 interview, Siu, a 2010 Yale graduate, said he began to get a sense that the district administration "was doing things the wrong way." It appeared to Siu that "the trend was that these officials were more concerned with making themselves look good than they were with education."
Before Siu graduated from Bonita Vista in '06, he put in two public record requests: one for then-superintendent Ed Brand's calendar and the other for Brand's credit card receipts spanning 2000–2003. (Brand was superintendent of Sweetwater from 1995–2005. He returned to Sweetwater on the heels of Gandara's buyout in June 2011.)
When he received the record, Siu was taken aback when he saw that Brand ate out almost every day and sometimes twice a day. Siu wondered: "When did he have time for students and teachers?"
Looking at the South Bay scandal today, Siu commented, "I tried to tell everyone years ago what was going on."
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- More stories by Susan Luzzaro
- Gandara to go on 60-day lobster fast — June 27, 2014
- The piper must be paid — June 21, 2014
- Sweetwater underwriters reel in the big one — a grand jury indictment — Aug. 28, 2013
- A Shocking View into Former Sweetwater Superintendent Jesus Gandara's Past — Feb. 6, 2012
- Money for Sweetwater Union HS District Board Members Under Microscope — Feb. 1, 2012
Out of the mouth of babes as the saying goes. Here is a past student that was aware of the culture of Sweetwater way before any of us. Wow this article is a real eye opener. Brand was feeding at the trough long before Gandara came and longer. Someone told me that he also bought his rental car that we supplied him for the time he was with us at a generous discount. Does anyone know about this? Glad to hear from you Susan Luzzaro.
Perhaps NOW the County Board/Office of Education might pay attention? 15 indictments, including at least 3 for extortion, should certainly bring the South County education establishment messes to the attention of the body that is supposed to oversee operations, especially fiscal matters, of the school districts in their jurisdiction. The next meeting of the COE will feature the seating of the new representative from District 2, Lyn Nealon. It will be Wednesday, January 23 at 6 p.m. Perhaps she will be more responsive to matters in South County than the prior representative.
By the way, I see an interesting entry in Brand's old calendar: a meeting with Sandoval and Rudy Castruita, the former CEO of the CBOE. Castruita now pulls down a handsome STRS pension in his retirement, perhaps the highest in the entire county. Seems that Dr. Granger Ward, his successor, should be doing something for his pay.
These districts need a permanent chaperone from the DA office to oversee activities. Still corruption at SWC. Just look at the Prop R oversight committee : mostly political friends of the board members that make political contributions and have a stake in the contracting decisions. The "new" trustees at SWC are just as bad as the old; handing out favors and contracts to political allies.
Susan, we have missed you. When one round of new indictments was announced, I expected a report and there was none. Then the following day five more were indicted, and I was sure you would report. Hope you are back and on the job doing what you do so well, keeping us up to date on this ongoing scandal.
Susan, great to have you back!
Jlbaro: Off topic, but in Ms. Luzzaro's absence I was trolling thru some of her old articles and found I had missed a reply you made to me regarding one of the board members. PLEASE KNOW, my comments were not aimed at you. I was speaking of someone else.
Ms. LUZZARRO: When the South Bay thinks of reporting the news The Reader and you are what we think of. Not sure where you went, hopefully you were having fun, but hip hip hooray YOU ARE BACK!!!!!!!
Eating is not the only thing that brand and "the gandara" have/had in common. It appears that brand has under estimated the resolve of those pesky "antagonists" resolve. They are learning much about many, many things.
Yes Mr. Siu, Brand has consistently focused on "other things" he considers more important than the 7-12th graders. Lets see we had the Funds for Education fiasco (a throw back to the Pepsi Cola deal), the charter ELEMENTARY school (why would anyone trust him to educate their elementary s hool aged child when he is failing to give our 7th-12th graders all of the resources they need to be educated), and most recently the Christian college deal ( perhaps Brand is not aware of the law regarding separation of church and state).
Too bad more were not paying attention to your excellent investigative work back then, maybe if we had, Brand would not be back again, sucking the life out of our District!!!!!
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO REVIEW THE PDF ATTACHED TO THIS STORY - you will not believe what you are reading AND I am not simply talking about the food. Focus in on the auto related charges.
Rumor has it that Brand had an RV at the time- maybe he still does. Allegedly that RV had work done it using district resources. I see a charge here from a company that works on RV's; also I am seeing a HUGE gas bill for one day. Folks back then no one was paying what we are paying for gas now, so why the huge bill?
Am I getting a sense that this is not smelling like roses. Oh, you betcha!!!!!!!!!
The conclusion would be that he filled up the RV on the public's dime.
With all those meals, it's a pity he didn't have a methane conversion system, because he could have powered his own vehicles...
One of the more notable features of Brand, the former PE teacher at Orange Glen High, was his girth, as in obesity. He seems to have slimmed down some in recent months, if the photos we now see of him are current. But for a guy who started out as a sports coach and fitness guru, he sure fell off the wagon. Could all of that eating in restaurants on the expense account a decade or more ago explain the weight gain?
So Bay was never a hotbed of haute cuisine, so maybe that wasn't Brand's downfall. More likely was that "the tortillas an' beans, they taste so good!"
Visduh: Now, now, we have fine culinary establishments down here. Just ask Cartmill, Ricasa, Sandoval, Gandara, And Quinones. While Lopez did attend a few, once she realized there was a price for being part of the "group" and the price was not about leadership she showed up, stood up and spoke up. Why didn't McCann, his voting record (see board docs) well he was one of the 4 in the constant 4 to 1 vote. Lopez, was the 1.
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Ed Brand, greedy and gluttonous, who'd have thought? Yep, Fast Eddy always goes back for more...and the Sweetwater (majority) Board just goes right along. Textbook definition of "self-serving"--and while the documentation of all those meals may not be the most egregious part of the story, it does provide an easy metaphor for 'he who will not be sated'.
And timtim, still haranguing against Bertha Lopez, the one who dares to speak against 'he who will not be sated'? Why exactly are you so offended by her?
Is it perhaps because she has strength of character and the decency to actually try and do a good job as a trustee of Sweetwater, rather than just toadying for Brand? (Aka "the Gaping Maw", aka 'he who will not be sated', aka "Fast Eddy", aka "the Last of the Red-Hot Takers", aka "the All-Consuming Beast").
(And BTW, now we know why he stipulated in his recent contract that he get health coverage but would not have to have a physical...because he wouldn't have passed the physical. Guess his schedule did not indicate any time at the gym).
East laker: Your post reminds me of all of those promises made in so many living rooms by John McCann, remember, he was going to clean the district up. Guess he got side tracked after his alleged meetings with Alvey and others BEFORE he was elected. Guess he liked what he heard and saw nothing wrong with what he observed. Regarding Lopez, SHE AT LEAST HAS VOTED ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENTS AND TAXPAYERS. What has Mccann done? Not a da** thing but promote McCann and attempt to get a permanent restraining order on a well respected member of the group named "the antagonists" -AND WE HAD TO PAY FOR HIS LAYWER about 9 grand worth.
Which reminds of a conversation I had with one of the many complaining administrators "the guy hands me a three page bio and expects me to bore the people in the stands with his bs". " I could not believe it". My reply "and he wonders why we refer to him as 'little man who wants to be king'?
so so right...one of his favorite quotes is "I don't bring you the MOJO but I will leave you with the MOFO".
Tim Tim: What you see nothing wrong with our tax dollars being spent like this? Shame on you!!!!!!!! What about the rest of you? You included JOHNNY boy, you ate right along with them, or did you forget that fact?
Mr. McCann has stated that he " only took 2 dinners and 1 coke ". That is the moment I knew his election was a big mistake.
Jlbaro: Hmmmm, only 2 dinners and a coke???????? Perhaps he might explain why the contractors that plead guilty in the case donated to his campaign so heavily, and helped him pay off his campaign debt?
Can Tim Tim explain the flight on New Years Eve to Vegas? Is there a statute of limitations on this? Is there an attorney in the house? Oh silly me, the DA's office is working on the alleged corruption in our district.
"people wonder if corruption is just another name for South Bay"... no doubt about it. now, will lawyers get them a little slap on the wrist... probably so.
Mngcornala: SIMPLY CAN NOT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!! This group has got to go, not telling them where to go (even though I would like to) just get away from our children's educational funds. Brand, so far not indicted.
Tim Tim, Wow. Lopez, along with 14 others, share over 230 indictments, and you complain that a reporter took the time to investigate a story back to roots in the past, showing a history of entitlement and corruption? Such attempts of distraction remind me of recent board meetings, where certain board members dodged and evaded the issue of adding campaign contribution limitations to an ethics policy. Such limitations that could very easily prevented this whole fiasco. They only looked at how they could force the vote through, or later spent the time arguing whether one recused themselves or abstained.
Although Bertha does have those indictments, she had the courage and character to go to the D.A. and fess up to her deeds, before the D.A. stepped in. The others apparently don't see anything wrong with what they did.
By the way, thank you Susan, for once again bringing such information to light.
Dbdriver: You Sir have just wrapped this matter up AND put a pretty bow on it. If I could have given you 10 thumbs up I would have.
The anti-Brand people are mostly union activists.
Is he perfect? No. Is he as onerous as Lopez, Ricasa, Quiñones, et al? No way.
Schools don't exist for the the staff. They exist for the students.
Schools don't exist for the the staff. They exist for the students.
Hahhahahahaha...is this a joke, or are you serious??? The schools exist and are for the benefit of the TEACHERS FIRST, everyone else second. Has always been that way since the CTA rose to power in the late 1970's after Jerry brown allowed them to unionize, and there is a direct correlation between the rise of the teacher unions and the decline in student test scores and achievement.
Surf Puppy: would like to preface my comment with the fact that I have never belonged to a Union. Having said that, Sweetwater has set itself up as a real indicator as to WHY UNIONS ARE NEEDED. Not to say that Unions do not have their faults, they do, and I take exception with some things I.e. protection of bad educators. I have witnessed the tyrannical reign of "the gandara" and now Brand over employees of the SW district. It has been the teachers, bus drivers, librarians, nurses and others who have waved the cautionary flag that our students are not receiving adequate resources. All the while Brand, "the gandara" and members of the board have feasted off of our hard earned educational tax dollars. As a side note, I know how much a good teacher is worth - a hell of a lot more than they are getting. My issue is this, all of these bond measures, tax increases we are voting in, they are not being spent on education. By the looks of this article they are being spent on the wanna b's. They wanna be something but truth of the matter is they - -!
Annie, SUHSD is an anomaly. They are the exception to the rule in public employment, especially teaching. You are 100% correct, the SUHSD teachers needed a union, but only b/c the admin was corrupted.
I scrolled down the entire the credit card record. It's amazing how often taxpayers' dollars bought so many meals, many quite expensive. Granted, this goes back some years, but to understand how so many could have been caught up in this "culture", you have to trace back to the roots of the problem. It's pretty clear that Brand shall we say, set the table. Very important information in this article. Thank you, Susan and the Reader.
Stores: with all do respect NO the concerned tax payers commenting on this board - maybe 1% work for the district. Now back to the article, comment on the expense reports, compare them to the calendar. What do you have to say about how Brand spent our hard earned tax dollars? This is a VERY SERIOUS SITUATION! VERY SERIOUS. This community will not be led astray by smoke and mirrors. The PDF's this young man provided, they are DISTRICT DOCUMENTS!!!!!!!!! READ THE AND WEEP AS WE ARE!!!!!!!
OMG! So glad you are back, Susan Luzzaro. Your voice in the South Bay is invaluable to those of us who want to know the hard facts. Thank you, Susan and The READER.
Gordon Siu, we must admit, was a remarkable student and journalist and continues to contribute to the community. He has his own website which contains other pieces of journalism related to the school district which may interest those who follow the subject. Thanks for your work, Gordon
Some of the brightest kids in the county go to SUHSD schools, I know b/c I taught them. Gordon is certainly one of them, and near the top for sure.
I would also like to say a warm thank you to all of those who have welcomed me back, and to those who comment though don't necessarily welcome me back. Comments are always good and genuine dialogue is useful.
I will try my best to follow up on all the tips that have been coming through the website. Thank you for those as well.
May we all have a Happy New Year.
SurfPuppy: no doubt mentors like yourself were inspirational for his quest to unveil the truth, no matter how ugly. This story should remind us all, sooner or later all things come full circle. Mr. Sui stands as a living, breathing inspiration to us all. This day I forwarded this story to all of the younger generation in my family - I want them to read and understand the importance of standing up for what is right.
I am in the process of itemizing the expense reports in the attached PDF's. I have downloaded and printed the appropriate monthly calendars for the years in question. I am also researching some of the names of the businesses that Brand used OUR TAX DOLLARS FOR.
A cursory review has done much to enrage me. Brand it appears feasted on the backs of our students. You want to talk about sickening, he starts his morning off at 7 Eleven- coffee and a donut(s) - then proceeds to travel down the coast to the south bay and eats breakfast, lunch and freakin dinner ON OUR DIME!!!!!
I am seeing a charge here for continuing education? What we paid to educate this man? Too bad one of the courses was not on ethics. Ladies and gentlemen, these documents are a reflection of the real Ed Brand - a man so trifling he refused to pay for his own cup of morning coffee at 7 Eleven.
We had/have educators and teachers in debt many thousands of dollars due to their continuing education, we have SW employees taking furlough days - all for the betterment of the kids ------- yet here we sit reading with our own eyes the greed of our superintendent. Tim Tim do not poke the tigress by identifying that these expenses go back a few years as THE BEST PREDICTOR OF PRESENT BEHAVIOR IS PAST BEHAVIOR!!!!!!!!
John McCann, you said you were going to clean up this district -you failed! It is the common citizen who started this ball rolling, it is the DA's office who is left to do what we should have done many years ago DRIVE THEM OUT. Now Mr. McCann put forth a motion DEMAND BRAND RESIGN.
No doubt few, if any, will ever look at Brand the same - BRAND IS AN IMPOSTER!!!!!! It has never been about the kids, it has always been about BRAND.
I believe you when you say Brand is an imposter. I think we need to get a copy of whatever he wrote for his PhD dissertation and run it through one of the programs that scans for plagiarism. I have always doubted his academic bona fides, as he simply never struck me as one who had the rigor to obtain a real doctorate. (Same goes for Gandara, but we know Trujillo coached him through it).
Yes the pattern of excessive consumption has been there for quite some time.
I guess it is little wonder that when it comes to getting cooperation from those who work in the district office, they act as though they are doing the public a favor if they deign to answer their phones. Heaven help you if you actually need them to do something in a timely manner.
Go anniej!!
eastlaker, you are onto something when you mention Brand's academic credentials, but you have missed the mark in part. Brand doesn't have a PhD at all. He has an EdD, commonly called an "ed doc" and that is something else entirely. Many, many of these career administrators now have them, and they earn them while fully employed. The dirty little secret is that they are easy to earn if you want to pay the fees and tuition, and spend some time in classes. Not too long ago, a couple local institutions announced they were establishing a joint local ed doc program for employed administrators, and that the program was designed to get them the degree in three years. Say what? Three years of part-time study and they are granted a degree that is supposed to be the general equivalent of a PhD? That's the deal. Some of them actually earn a degree from a university that is hundreds or thousands of miles distant, and may make only token appearances on campus. Northern Arizona University (jokingly known as "Flagstaff Tech") has a number of its EdD recipients here in San Diego County. The most any of them could have ever done was spend a few weeks on campus during the summer, and where they would find the time to do the research and writing for a rigorous dissertation, is a complete mystery. Oh, and don't forget that they claim to work 60, 70, 80 hours a week while school is in session. Any time you see that honorific "Dr." in front of the name of a school principal or assistant principal, district bureaucrat, or superintendent, remind yourself that he or she is very unlikely to be carrying anything like a PhD in an academic discipline. That is the case with Brand, Gandara, and a host of other local supes.
Thank you for that very complete explication. I'd still like to know what Brand is an "expert" in, outside of gaming the system...a bit more exposure of the "poseur" would be ideal!
You are most welcome. Yes, it would be interesting to know just what his specialty is, and what he did for a dissertation. With some digging, it should be available, just as Gandara's was revealed. I'm too lazy at this point to do the digging.
Visduh: I too Thank You, not sure if you have reviewed the PDF expense reports however there are charges that when researched appear to be for continuing education... Looks like you have given more reason to distrust brand, as if we did not ha e enough.
We had enough already.
Eastlake: I have often stated it is important to remember "they have bills to pay and mortgages to make" - I get that. It is easy for me to expect every single ee of SW to come forward with what they know, yes, easy for me to say because I am not the one with a job on the line. Having said that it is important to give credit to those who have come forward and spoken to the authorities, those who provided information. They are heroes, they understand in order to bring about change one must be willing to ACT!!!!!! Please note when I say spoke to the authorities I am NOT speaking of those who were summoned by the Grand Jury, let us not forget Cartmill, Brand, McCann were summoned and we all know they are part of the broken engine that run SW. No I am talking about those who, day in, and day perform stupendously. They are not part of the inner circle, nor do they want to be.
I want to clarify that I respect the Grand Jury, no doubt they fail to realize that they have helped to uncover illegal activity that is affecting many state wide. They have helped to expose alleged corruption which, I have no doubt will be proven in a court of law. When the last sentence is handed down the South Bay needs to invest in a sky writer that will fly over City Hall "THANK YOU DA's OFFICE, THANK YOU GRAND JURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
When the heads begin to roll and the sentences are handed out and Brand is gone - all of those who stood by and did nothing because they were part of Brand and "the gandara's" inner circle will find themselves gone, outta here, hasta la vista baby (hope I spelled that right). They are known, and they are less than respected.
Interesting how anniej like to defend crooks like Quiñones, Lopez and Ricasa.
Buddies of yours?
Wow! You sure are out of the loop.
Stores: perhaps you are not aware and so I will attempt to define my position. If you had attended any board meetings in the past almost 4 years then you would know Sir/Ms that I have NEVER defended either Ricasa or Quinones. For verification ask Quinones yourself, as a matter of fact she refers to me with an adjective that rhymes with ditch and it AIN'T WITCH. Ricasa, I have no doubt she would not be RSVP ing any dinner party I would host.
Regarding Lopez, I do not defend Ms. Lopez, but what I do do is applaud her efforts and her votes on behalf of the students and taxpayers. I have supported her and did vote for her. Might I recommend that you either begin to attend the board meetings and observe the voting patterns for yourself - 4 - 1; with Lopez being the 1 or if unable to attend I recommend listening to the board meetings on line. Are you aware that she went to the DA about the same time that the "antagonists" did', you know the "antagonists" also went to the FBI? Do you know who the "antagonists" are?
It would help your credibility a bit if you educated yourself on what you speak, check my past posts for verification.
Well put anniej I read your posts and find them very informative and very entertaining as well.
Hey wow, I think this timtim sounds like McCann or Grossman two Republicans pouting because they didn't get their way in the elections. This McCann fellow had the same opportunity to go to the DA as Ms. Lopez but he didn't and based on his voting history both on the CV City Counsel and this board and his total melt downs caught on tape I am surprised he hasn't been charged yet.
Just really pisses me off that greedy people control the money that should be for the kids. They are getting ripped off right and left for sports and extra curricular activities because there is "no money" in the budget but none of these numnut board members can control their "appetite". POLITICIANS SUCK!!!!!


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On 5 August 2006, the Executive Director of UN Environment received a request from the Lebanese Ministry of Environment to undertake a Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment in Lebanon.
The Post-Conflict Branch, in cooperation with the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, the Regional Office for West Asia, UNDP-Beirut, IUCN and local counterparts, consequently conducted a Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment of Lebanon. The fieldwork took place between 30 September and 21 October 2006.
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Now I want to know if there are any that are better.
I'm favourably impressed with the Griffin iPad Stylus that I've bought and below you can find a preliminary product review
However I now want to know more about what's available! If any readers are using a stylus with your iPad can you please get in touch and tell me how you find the stylus you use - see end for more details.
Griffin iPad Stylus
|Tree - produced using an iPad, Brushes app and Griffin Stylus
This is my second stylus. The first one disappeared really fast and I think being light and completely black with just a bit of metal partly accounts for that. They're a bit too expensive to lose on a regular basis so this time I've got to work out a way of:
- being able to see where I've put it down faster (bear in mind I have pencils and pens everywhere!)
- being able to secure it to the iPad so it doesn't get lost
The Griffin website store indicates that they do them in various colours - so all I need to do now is work out where to get one in my favourite colours. However before I do that I want to see if there is a better stylus out there.
The general consensus is that it's easy to use and is particularly helpful for those with fat/large fingers and for those wanting to work creatively by drawing or sketching.
It has an omnidirectional rubber tip which is very sensitive and reproduces every characteristic of the stroke I used in the Brushes app exactly. I use both pastels and pencils in a way which means they are held lightly - and I can do exactly the same with this stylus and get identical results.
I tried it first in line mode and then switched to the pseudo pastel stroke and has a great time varying the transparency of the scumble - see above sketch of an imaginary tree. It all worked as I expected and I had no problems. (Can I just emphasise the marks in the sketch are based on how I use pastels and do not reflect negatively on how the pen works!)
I also found that producing sketches speeded up enormously because now I could see the sketch while sketching rather than having it obscured by my hand. It's also great for keeping your screen free from smears from fingers. The clip on the end means I can fix it to the elasticated closure on my iPad cover. However I'd still like a better way of keeping it secure.
One complaint is that the rubber on the end can disintegrate - and there's no obvious way in which this can be replaced.
I'll see how I can get on with it and will report back. However initial impressions are very favourable - apart from the fact I lost the first one within 24 hours of buying it!
Here's a video of the animated sketching using the Brushes App
Griffin Stylus - Other reviews
Here's some links to reviews of this Griffin Stylus. First a video review by somebody who draws and sketches
- PC Advisor - Griffin Stylus review (November 2010
- Macworld - Griffin Stylus for iPad review (November 2010)
- User reviews of Griffin Stylus pen on revoo.com
- It's had a LOT of reviews on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
- Griffinoids - video review Griffin Stylus Review for iPad iPhone & iPod touch (good first part to see what this looks like. Mine does not have the lanyard hole in the top. Second half focuses on what the reviewer uses it for ie note-taking and ganes)
Is there any other stylus you recommend?
Serenity Caldwell at Macworld.com produced a comprehensive Macworld review Drawing on the iPad: 12 touchscreen styluses reviewed in May 2011. This covers the Griffin Stylus which earns 3.5 stars.
See the charts at the end for details of how each did - plus the video below for an insight into what each looks like and how they work - and whether they are effective.
I know that one other stylus I want to try is the Wacom Bamboo Stylus
Is there any other stylus you've used for DRAWING and SKETCHING that you would like to recommend?
See the charts at the end for details of how each did - plus the video below for an insight into what each looks like and how they work - and whether they are effective.
I know that one other stylus I want to try is the Wacom Bamboo Stylus
Is there any other stylus you've used for DRAWING and SKETCHING that you would like to recommend?
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