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Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history
Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber's private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by industry insiders.
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The Attorney-General's Department yesterday confirmed to ZDNet Australia that it had been in discussions with industry on implementing a data retention regime in Australia. Such a regime would require companies providing internet access to log and retain customer's private web browsing history for a certain period of time for law enforcement to access when needed, according to Australian internet service provider sources.
Currently, companies that provide customers with a connection to the internet don't retain or log subscriber's private web browsing history unless they are given an interception warrant by law enforcement, usually approved by a judge. It is only then that companies can legally begin tapping a customer's internet connection.
In March 2006, the European Union formally adopted its data retention directive (PDF), a directive which the Australian Government said it wished to use as an example if it implemented such a regime.
"The Attorney-General's Department has been looking at the European Directive on Data Retention, to consider whether such a regime is appropriate within Australia's law enforcement and security context," a statement from the Attorney-General's Department to ZDNet Australia said yesterday. "It has consulted broadly with the telecommunications industry."
The EU regime requires that the communications providers from certain EU member states retain necessary data as specified in the Directive for a period of between six and 24 months.
One internet service provider (ISP) source told ZDNet Australia that the Australian regime, if implemented, could go as far as recording each URL a customer visited and all emails.
That source said such a regime "would be scary and very expensive".
Another industry source said Australians should "be very f***ing afraid".
They said the regime being considered by the Australian Government could see data held for much longer than EU Directive time of 24 months — it would be more like five or ten years.
"They seem quite intent [on implementing the regime] and they keep throwing up the words 'terrorism' and 'paedophiles'," the source said. "We're talking browsing history and emails, way beyond what I would consider to be normal SMS, retaining full browsing history and everything."
The office of the Attorney General has since denied that the data retention regime would involve recording users' web browsing history.
Internet Industry Association (IIA) chief executive officer (CEO) Peter Coroneos also confirmed that the industry was having discussions with the Attorney-General's Department.
"There has been some preliminary discussions with the Attorney-General's Department about a proposal for a data retention regime in Australia, but I think those discussions are at a very early stage," Coroneos said. He said the IIA hadn't "seen any firm proposals yet from the government".
"It's more along the lines of [the Attorney-General's Department asking] 'What do you see the issues of being if we were to move to a position similar to the EU'," he said.
"But as I say, there wouldn't be any intention, I wouldn't think, to move to any policy position on this unless there was a full public debate about the proposal."
If the idea were to move to a more "serious proposal", Coroneos said the IIA's view would be "to engage not only with the industry but also the community in a proper discussion".
Electronic Frontier Australia (EFA) chair Colin Jacobs said the regime was "a step too far".
"At some point data retention laws can be reasonable, but highly-personal information such as browsing history is a step too far," Jacobs said. "You can't treat everybody like a criminal. That would be like tapping people's phones before they are suspected of doing any crime."
He added that browser history could reveal all sorts of personal information. "And furthermore, the way the internet works, it's a huge amount of data to be kept and it requires some snooping on the part of the ISPs into which [web] pages people are looking at."
In February, the senate passed a Bill allowing ISPs to intercept traffic as part of "network protection activities". According to an ISP source, it's likely another Bill would be required for a data retention regime to be implemented.
"It is likely that new legislation will be required to put any [data retention] obligations in place," the source said. "It seems to be early days yet, and we have an election looming, which means there will be some time required to get any new law in place."
Update at 1:00pm, 14 May 2010: Added "according to Australian internet service provider sources" to the second paragraph to clarify that Australian ISP sources claimed that this is what the Australian version of the Directive could look like. A link to a story with further comment from the Attorney General was also added.

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet to raise the nation's terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election.
Ridge says he objected to raising the security level despite the urgings of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to a publicity release from Ridge's publisher. He said the episode convinced him to follow through with his plans to leave the administration; he resigned on Nov. 30, 2004.
Bush's former homeland security adviser, Frances Townsend, said Thursday that politics never played a role in determining alert levels.
Two tapes were released by al-Qaida in the weeks leading up to the election — one by terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and the other by a man calling himself "Azzam the American." Terrorism experts suspected that "Azzam the American" was Adam Gadahn, a 26-year-old Californian whom the FBI had been urgently seeking.
Townsend said the videotapes contained "very graphic" and "threatening" messages.
Townsend said that anytime there was a discussion of changing the alert level, she first spoke with Ridge and then, if necessary, called a meeting of the Homeland Security council comprising the secretaries of defense and homeland security, the attorney general and CIA and FBI directors. The group then made a recommendation to the president about whether the color-coded threat level should be raised.
"Never were politics ever discussed in this context in my presence," she said.
Asked if there was any reason for Ridge to have felt pressured, Townsend said: "He was certainly not pressured. And, by the way, he didn't object when it was raised and he certainly didn't object when it wasn't raised."
'Security or politics'?
Ridge's publicist, Joe Rinaldi, said Ridge was out of town and was not doing interviews until his book, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege ... and How We Can Be Safe Again," is released on Sept. 1.
Ridge writes in the book that the bin Laden tape alone did not justify a change in the nation's security threat level but describes "a vigorous, some might say dramatic, discussion" on Oct. 30 to do so.
"There was absolutely no support for that position within our department. None," he writes. "I wondered, 'Is this about security or politics?' Post-election analysis demonstrated a significant increase in the president's approval rating in the days after the raising of the threat level."
Rumsfeld, in a statement issued late Thursday by his spokesman Keith Urbahn, dismissed the allegations.
"We have no idea what Tom Ridge's book actually says. The storyline advanced by his publisher seemingly to sell copies of the book is nonsense," the statement said.
In 2004, Ridge explained why he didn't feel the terror alert should be raised. "We don't have to go to (code level) orange to take action in response either to these tapes or just general action to improve security around the country," he said then.
In 2005, months after he resigned, Ridge said his agency has been the most reluctant to raise the alert level. "There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?'" he said during a panel discussion in May 2005. But his book appears to be the first time he publicly attributes some of the pressure to politics.
The Homeland Security Department, which Ridge was the first person to lead, faced criticism in 2004 from Democrats who alleged that raising the alert level was designed to boost support for the Bush administration during an election year.
Ridge, a former Republican congressman and governor of Pennsylvania, was widely named as a potential running mate to John McCain in 2008 before the GOP candidate choice Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.


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The song was originally recorded at Olympic Studio in London with drummer Charlie Watts, bassist Bill Wyman, producer Jimmy Miller on guiro (a hand-held Latin percussion instrument), pianist Nicky Hopkins, and guitarist Keith Richards on the basic track where Richards sang a scratch vocal track. The song was later finished at Sunset Sound in Hollywood with the addition of Mick Jagger's lead vocals and harmonica and Merry Clayton's soaring harmony vocals. Stone's guitarist Brian Jones, who was still in the band at this point, was absent from the sessions.
The addition of Clayton was a spur-of-the-moment idea from producer Miller, who called in Clayton, who was still in curlers in the middle of the night. Upon returning home, she suffered a miscarriage due to her strenuous vocal performance.
"Gimme Shelter" was never released as a single, but it's been a big part of the Stones set in concert and has been used in dozens of movies and television shows, as well as covered by a host of artists.
The movie at the end has most of the parts isolated so that you can hear what they're playing and what they sound like, followed by the album mix version.
The Song
"Gimme Shelter" is interesting from a songwriting standpoint in that it mostly revolves around a single 3 chord pattern that repeats over and over, except for the verse, which stays on the first chord of the pattern. The form looks like this:
Intro, Verse, Chorus, Interlude, Verse Chorus, Solo (Verse and Chorus), Bridge (Chorus), Verse, Chorus, Chorus, Outro
The solo is over a verse and chorus, with the harmonica taking the verse and the lead guitar taking the chorus. The bridge is actually just a change in the energy thanks to the solo vocal by Clayton, which is also over a chorus.
The Arrangement
The arrangement of "Gimme Shelter" seems like there wasn't much thought given to it except for the intro in terms of song dynamics, but it still works out well.
The intro begins with a tremolo rhythm guitar followed by two tom hits (boy, do they sound good), after which Watts plays the hat against the guiro on the 2nd time through the patter. That's where the doubled "Ooo's" enter, as does the lead guitar playing fills. The 3rd time the pattern plays, the kick and bass enter very softly, then the bass enters playing the pedal of the key of the song (C#) at full volume over the 4rth repeat of the pattern. On the 5th time around, the piano enters, also playing a pedal note on both the left and right hands, while the bass alters it's pattern just a bit, sliding up from the flat 7th. The 6th time is when Watts enters with the beat and the bass begins to follow the chord pattern.
On the verse, a second rhythm guitar enters, but without the tremolo, and the piano drops out or is decreased in level so it's barely perceptible. The first and second verses and choruses are basically the same, with Clayton's harmony and Richard's lead guitar fills entering in the choruses.
Maracas enter at the harmonica part of the solo at about 2:00, while a guitar solo plays underneath. It's then featured during the chorus part of the solo. The chorus continues with Clayton's solo vocal part entering. Later in the song, a 3rd vocal harmony (presumably sung by Richards) also enters on the chorus.
At the end of the solo, the harmonica comes back for brief interlude, then the piano enters for the last verse and Clayton adds harmony to the end of Jagger's vocal phrases. The outro after the vocals features dueling solos between harmonica and lead guitar.
* The Foundation: bass, drums
* The Rhythm: guiro, maracas, rhythm guitar, piano
* The Pad: none
* The Lead: lead vocals, lead guitar
* The Fills: lead guitar
The Sound
As you'd expect, the sound of the drums is very 60's, as it's surrounded by a lot of room ambience as the kit was probably miked with only a couple of mics. If you listen to the isolated drum track, you can hear the rhythm guitar leakage, which leads you to believe that the basic tracks might have been only drums, rhythm guitar, percussion and vocals.
One thing that jumps out is how thick and long the reverb on the vocal track is. The verb is delayed so it stays out of way of the lead vocal a bit, but there's a lot more of it than there seems to be on the final mix. Also, notice how low the vocals sit in the mix.
The Production
You always hear stories about what a light hitter drummer Charlie Watts is (he's been known to go years between snare drum heads), but that's not true in this song and he leans into it with some muscle. His performance is very solid with great tempo, especially during the fills. Many drummers have great time except when it comes to fills, but that's not the case here.
The percussion provides movement to the arrangement that's subtle but very real and really pushes the song along. This is a Jimmy Miller trademark and it's used a lot by the Stones during this period.
There are a number of "mistakes" that probably wouldn't have been kept had the song been made today, like the last note of the lead guitar fill right as the vocal enters in the first verse (it's a bit late), or Merry Clayton's voice cracking during her vocal solo in the bridge. Actually, the crack really makes it seem a lot more human and paints the emotion better, but I bet most producer's today would never let it go by and have it fixed.
Another thing to listen for is how loose the bass and drums are. Back in the days when the song was made, bands never concentrated on being tight the way we do today, going instead for feel. "Tightness" as we know it today is a concept that's been refined over time since then. As you listen to the isolated tracks, notice that the bass and drums don't always line up, but they never loose the feel.
Clayton's vocal solo in the bridge is a great example of natural dynamics in a song where the performance itself is the dynamic factor. Her vocal is set up to stand out following the guitar solo, and it probably wouldn't have seemed as intense had it been after a vocal chorus, which illustrates perfectly how important the arrangement is in the production of a song.
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TODD, ISAAC, businessman, office holder, militia officer, and landowner; b. c. 1742 in Ireland; d. 22 May 1819 in Bath, England.
Isaac Todd had been a merchant in Ireland before he came to Canada shortly after the conquest. By February 1765 he was established in business at Montreal, and, following a disastrous fire in the city on 18 May, he submitted a claim for £150 in lost merchandise. On 23 May he received a commission as justice of the peace for the District of Montreal. He was quickly attracted to the fur trade, and his early years in it were characterized by numerous partnerships and considerable misfortune. In 1767 he posted bonds totalling nearly £1,500 as security for three traders going to various points in the interior. The following year he suffered a severe financial loss when two of his hired traders were killed by Indians. By 1769, when he invested about £900, he was in association with James McGill; that year they joined with Benjamin* and Joseph Frobisher. Along with his partners Todd again experienced a reverse when the group's canoes were plundered by Indians at Rainy Lake (Ont.). The next year, however, the same partners succeeded in getting their canoes through to the northwest. A subsequent partnership with Richard McNeall was terminated in October 1772. That year Todd was associated with George McBeath at Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.); they received trade goods from Thomas Walker* through Maurice-Régis Blondeau at Montreal, and in turn supplied the traders Thomas Corry and John Askin. In early 1773 Todd lost two more men killed or starved around Grand Portage (near Grand Portage, Minn.) . That spring he and McGill went together to Michilimackinac, taking with them the independent trader Peter Pond and some of his goods. By 1774 Todd was acting as the business agent at Montreal for Phyn, Ellice and Company of Schenectady, N.Y. [see Alexander Ellice].
Todd was an early leader in the political activities of British merchants in Canada. In 1765 and 1766 he was among those who petitioned Governor Murray* to reduce restrictions on the fur trade. In March 1769 he was a member of the grand jury for the District of Montreal. Considered by the British merchants as the only representative body in the colony, the grand jury was frequently used by them as a forum for criticizing the policies of the governors and recommending political, social, and economic initiatives. In 1770 Todd signed a petition in favour of an elective assembly, and in the fall of 1774 he had, in the words of Simon McTavish, "his hands full of the publick business," having been appointed, along with McGill and others, to a committee charged both with drawing up a petition to the king and British parliament opposing the Quebec Act and with finding means to redress the merchants' grievances. From his position on the committee, Todd was able to advise Phyn, Ellice and Company as to the best method of opposing the Quebec Revenue Act, which threatened that company's profitable supply trade to Montreal merchants by imposing a tax on rum and spirits entering the province from the American colonies; in return Phyn, Ellice gave Todd valuable business information on the state of the fur trade from New York and on the imminent arrival at Quebec of large quantities of rum, which American traders had had shipped there by sea in order to evade the Quebec Revenue Act. Todd's committee corresponded with similar committees in the American colonies but, when the revolution broke out in 1775, Todd remained loyal to Britain and served as a lieutenant in the British militia.
In 1775 Todd and McGill joined Blondeau and the Frobishers to send 12 canoes to Grand Portage in an association that marked the beginning of an extensive trade and presaged the formation of the North West Company. Todd and McGill formalized their association in May or June 1776 when they founded a firm called Todd and McGill; the precedence of Todd's name probably denotes his seniority in the business. Their partnership was cemented by personal friendship. On 2 Dec. 1776 Todd was a witness at McGill's marriage to Charlotte Trottier Desrivières, née Guillimin. The following year Todd and McGill loaded six canoes with merchandise valued at £2,700, and in 1778 Todd alone invested about £6,000. In 1779, when the NWC, a co-partnership of 16 shares, was formed by nine firms trading to Michilimackinac, Todd and McGill obtained the maximum allowable two shares. Two shares in the enterprise were held by each of two partnerships with which Todd and McGill were closely associated, Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher and McGill and Paterson, McGill's brother John being a partner in the latter. In May 1781 Todd and McGill joined the Frobishers and McGill and Paterson in sending to Grand Portage for the northwest trade 12 canoes and 100 men with goods valued at £5,000. That year Todd and McGill became Montreal agents for the Niagara merchants Robert Hamilton and Richard Cartwright.
At the end of 1782, when the nature of the preliminary articles of peace between Britain and her rebellious American colonies became known in Montreal, the city's fur-trade community was alarmed at the prospect of losing to the Americans the fur-trade centres of Detroit and Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.). Todd, who was in London in February 1783, was a member of a small committee promoting the interests of the Montreal merchants among government officials, and he signed memorials protesting the proposed cession of such key posts and forecasting a loss of business for the Montreal merchants if it occurred. Despite Todd's public prognostications Todd and McGill had sufficient faith in the future of the trade on American territory to withdraw from the northwest about 1783 or 1784 and to concentrate their attention on the trade to the Mississippi and Upper Lakes regions.
Todd and McGill, although they equipped expeditions themselves, acted principally as middlemen, importing from various London firms a wide variety of trade goods. These goods arrived at Quebec and were trans-shipped to Montreal, where, they were packed for clients at Detroit, Michilimackinac, and other posts. McGill, who possessed a shrewd judgement but was temperamentally more reserved than Todd, managed affairs at Montreal and conducted most of the correspondence of the partnership. Todd, sociable and cheerful, travelled when business required it, maintaining personal contact with those upon whom depended the success of the company, or of the fur trade in general. He made return voyages to London at least four times between 1778 and 1785; in the latter year, when Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton* sent a petition from the fur traders in the pays d'en haut to the Home secretary, Lord Sydney, he referred Sydney to Todd for an account of the state of the trade.
In the period immediately following the American revolution Todd and McGill, like other companies trading to Detroit, suffered losses as a result of unstable trade conditions created by conflict between the Indians and the American army. By April 1786 the partnership was so indebted to its English suppliers, McGill informed its Detroit agent, Askin, "that Todd [who was again in London] writes me he was under the necessity of relinquishing every Scheme of business except the shipping of a few dry Goods & some Rum, being afraid to run further in debt & perhaps even meet with a refusal of further credit." When the Detroit traders were driven that year to form a co-partnership called the Miamis Company, Todd and McGill, probably through Askin's influence, was named its Montreal agent.
Todd remained active in Montreal's public life. In March 1787 he was a member of the grand jury and a captain in the British militia, but his political activities, unless directly related to commerce, declined as those of McGill intensified. In the 1790s his and McGill's principal commercial pursuits, conducted from warehouses on Rue Saint-Paul, continued to be related to the fur trade. They imported manufactured goods from Britain and tobacco and spirits from the West Indies to sell to other merchants and for their own business. In 1790 they filled 15 canoes and 10 bateaux with goods valued at £11,500. Their activities were still concentrated on the regions south of the Great Lakes. Between 1790 and 1796 they hired at least 518 engagés; of these 57 per cent agreed to go wherever they might be sent, a situation that allowed Todd, McGill and Company (as it was called by 1790) to adjust to fluctuations in an unstable field of enterprise. Of those engagés whose destination was specified in their contract 24 per cent were sent to Michilimackinac, 19 per cent to the Mississippi region, 17 per cent to Detroit, and the rest to a large number of posts. The year 1797 marked a radical departure from former practice, however; of 70 engagés known to have been hired at Montreal, only 14 per cent had no specified destination, while 73 per cent were sent to Michilimackinac.
By the 1790s Todd, McGill and Company had established a contact at St Louis (Mo.) in Auguste Chouteau, who bought their trade goods and shipped to them, via Michilimackinac, peltries gathered along the Missouri and Osage rivers. In 1794, when the Spanish government of Louisiana granted Todd's nephew, Andrew Todd, a monopoly of the upper Mississippi trade, Todd, McGill and Company found itself in a position to monopolize the supply of the entire Mississippi valley. However, the declaration of war between Spain and Britain in October 1796, and Andrew's death later that year, soon dashed grandiose expectations.
The concentration of the trading activities of Todd, McGill and Company on American territory was a source of apprehension to Todd, more so than it was to McGill. In May 1790 Todd, who was in London, and the London merchant John Inglis lobbied Home Secretary William Wyndham Grenville to prevent, or at least delay, the transfer to the United States of western military posts on American territory still garrisoned by British troops. The following year Todd, McGill and Company, along with McTavish, Frobisher and Company [see Simon McTavish] and Forsyth, Richardson and Company, urged Lieutenant Governor Simcoe to impress upon the British government the need to establish an independent Indian territory in the west, open to both British and American traders; in 1792 Todd lobbied for the idea in London. That April Todd, McGill and other firms complained to Simcoe of American interference with communications between Montreal and the American interior, which, if tolerated by the British government, "would be much the same as a total relinquishment of the Trade." A pessimistic Todd wrote to Askin in August, "I have strongly recommended to the House to curtale & Lessen our connections in that Trade, for when I consider the [uncertainty] of our retaining the Posts the Warr between the Indians and Americans, and the evident fall on furrs I am convinced it is an unsafe and unprofitable business, and will continue so for two or 3 years." In 1794 Todd and Simon McTavish submitted a memorandum to the British government stipulating the conditions that should be demanded of the Americans before the western posts could be turned over to them; of first importance was freedom of trade for the British merchants.
At the same time as Todd struggled to ensure free access for his company to the southwest trade, he sought, in case of failure, to open a door on the northwest, largely controlled since 1787 by the NWC. In 1791 John Gregory, a partner in the NWC, informed McTavish that Todd, John Richardson*, and Alexander Henry* were determined to get into the northwest trade if McGill would manage the Montreal business of a new company. McGill was not enthused by the idea of opposing the NWC, and he persuaded the others to let him negotiate entry into it with his friend Joseph Frobisher. Frobisher was soon convinced that if Todd, McGill and Forsyth, Richardson were not allowed a share in the northwest trade through the NWC, they would in combination, and with the financial support of Phyn, Ellices, and Inglis of London, constitute a ruinous opposition. On 14 Sept. 1792 Todd, McGill was accorded two shares in a new 46-share arrangement. Three years later, however, perhaps dissatisfied with proposed new conditions of partnership, Todd and McGill did not sign a revised NWC agreement. Instead they agreed with Forsyth, Richardson and two independent traders to operate for three years in the Nipigon country, but they later withdrew from the agreement under pressure from the NWC.
In the 1780s Todd and McGill had begun diversifying their activities, in part as insurance against the vagaries of the fur trade. In addition to conducting their own banking operations, in March 1792 they joined Phyn, Ellices, and Inglis and Forsyth, Richardson in signing a preliminary agreement for a bank in Lower Canada, but the project was stillborn. In 1789 they had associated with the firms of Forsyth, Richardson, Lester and Morrogh [see Robert Lester], and the merchants Thomas McCord*, George King, and Jean-Baptiste-Amable Durocher in purchasing for £3,050 the Montreal Distillery Company, of which Jacob Jordan* was formerly the principal backer in Canada. This company seems not to have yielded the expected returns; it was dissolved in 1794 and the property sold to Nicholas Montour for £1,166 that October. Todd also began to envision the supply of grain to the government as an eventual replacement for the fur trade, where all would be lost in a few years, he wrote to Askin in April 1793, "unless there is a change in the mode of Trade and expense that I scarcely think will happen." That year Todd and William Robertson lobbied successfully in London to secure for Todd and McGill's Upper Canadian associate Cartwright and others an exclusive sub-contract to victual the military posts on the Great Lakes. As did many other merchants, Todd and McGill moved into land speculation; through Askin in 1796 they acquired several shares in the Cuyahoga Purchase, a large tract of land along the south shore of Lake Erie. They were occasionally obliged to accept land as payment for debt. One of their largest debtors was Askin, who in 1792 owed them £20,217; he acquitted part of the sum by transferring to them land in and around Detroit. In 1798 Todd also acquired by succession all the property of his nephew, Andrew.
Todd's growing disagreement with McGill about the future of the fur trade on American territory was probably a major contributing factor to the dissolution of his partnership with McGill by early April 1797. Five years earlier James's brother Andrew McGill had been brought into Todd, McGill as a partner, and he had probably been groomed as Todd's eventual successor. Todd's ties with the trade were not immediately severed, however, since it took several years for an outfit to turn a profit or loss; in March 1798 he wrote to Askin of the capture by the French of "the richest of our Furr Ships in which we had to the Amot of £12000." Only after August of that year did he begin to withdraw from active participation. He retired with the reputation of an authority on the trade and a father figure in the fur-trade community. In 1795 he had been admitted to the prestigious Beaver Club. The following year Simcoe wrote to one of his correspondents that the information on communications that the latter had requested was "to be gathered from Carver and Hennepin's Voyages or rather from the conversation of such a man as Mr. Todd." In 1804 Todd exerted his considerable influence in the fur-trade fraternity to promote the union of the NWC and the New North West Company (sometimes called the XY Company) [see Sir Alexander Mackenzie], seemingly having been, the Earl of Selkirk [Douglas] noted, "almost the only man who has maintained a constant friendly intercourse with both parties."
From 1800 to about 1807 Todd joined with the Quebec firm of Lester and Morrogh to supply provisions to the British army in Lower Canada. He continued his activities in land speculation, alone and with McGill. In October 1801 they acquired 32,400 acres in Stanbridge Township, Lower Canada, from Hugh Finlay for £3,750. The following August Todd acquired 11,760 acres in Leeds Township through the system of township leaders and associates [see James Caldwell]. As well, by 1805, in conjunction with McGill and Askin, he had acquired other lands in and around Detroit. After the transfer of that post to the United States in 1796, the refusal of the American government to recognize all of Todd's and McGill's land titles, as well as the failure of the American courts to sustain their prosecutions for debt, had embittered Todd, who in 1808 declared himself to Askin "out of patience with your Rascally Country."
Despite deteriorating health Todd led an active social life. In January 1799 Alexander Henry had written to Askin that Todd "is like myself growing old always complaining"; a year later he specified that Todd "is always complaining when his intestines are empty, but after Dinner recovers wonderfully." The British officer George Thomas Landmann* described him about the same time as an old man who entertained "exceedingly" with numerous anecdotes of his experiences at Michilimackinac; Todd was, Landmann added, affectionately known as "By Jove," for his favourite expression. He was sorely tried by the deaths in July 1804 of McTavish, a close friend, and of a housekeeper. "She was only 31 Years Old," he lamented to Askin, "Lived with me near 10 Years & was Mother to a Little Girl that Calls me and truly her father." He placed this girl in school at Quebec and established a trust fund of £1,000 for each of his housekeeper's other two daughters. "I know of no use Money is but to do good, and to enable me to assist others," he told Askin. "I with pleasure deprive Self of comforts I could enjoy."
In March 1805 Todd presided at a dinner given by the Montreal merchants for local deputies in the House of Assembly. The Montreal Gazette reported the tenor of some of the sardonic toasts, including those made by Todd, denouncing a proposal in the assembly to introduce a tax on merchandise for the purpose of funding a new city jail; in February 1806, when the assembly met, those members who supported the tax had the serjeant-at-arms sent from Quebec to arrest Todd, as chairman of the dinner, and Edward Edwards of the Gazette on a charge of libel. By the time the serjeant-at-arms had arrived at Montreal, however, Todd was nowhere to be found.
Between 1806 and 1813 Todd travelled continuously – to Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, to New York, and to England – on business and in search of relief from his numerous ailments; however, he always returned to Montreal, craving the company of old friends. A member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, later known as St Gabriel Street Church, he was elected to its temporal committee in 1809 and later became its president. A trip to New York sparked Henry to observe in February 1810 that Todd's society was missed at Montreal, "he being the only friend, except Mr Frobisher, who has not changed their dispositions, some from geting rich, other from having obtain'd places, &ca [which] has raised them in their own imagination above their old acquaintance." In London the same year the ever gregarious Todd became a founder of the Canada Club, along with Alexander Mackenzie, Edward Ellice*, Simon McGillivray*, and others. By 1812, however, having survived all his friends there, he had returned to Montreal, principally to be with Henry and McGill. "Todd says he is only 68," Henry joked to Askin in February 1811. "Todd was once much older than me but he has grown much younger at present." On 21 Dec. 1813 Todd signed McGill's death certificate; the demise of his friend and former partner prompted him to retire. In May 1815 he was back in England at Bath, taking mineral waters. There he undoubtedly learned of the activities of a NWC ship named in his honour, for in 1813 and 1814 the Isaac Todd had participated in a successful operation by the Royal Navy to clear the Pacific Ocean of American naval presence and to capture Fort Astoria, base of the NWC's major competitor on the Pacific coast, John Jacob Astor. Todd seems never to have returned to Canada, and on 22 May 1819, at the reported age of 77, he died at Bath. The Montreal Herald noted that his death was "very sincerely regretted by a numerous and most respectable circle of friends and acquaintances."
In retrospect, given the gradual American exclusion of Montreal traders from the southwest fur trade after 1800, Todd appears to have been the more prescient of the senior partners in Todd, McGill and Company regarding its main economic activity. He may already have had misgivings about leaving the northwest in 1783 or 1784, but clearly by the early 1790s he had realized that the future of the trade lay there. However, by 1792 when, under his pressure, Todd, McGill and Company did join the NWC, Joseph Frobisher and Simon McTavish had already established their preponderance in the co-partnership. Had Todd and McGill remained in the NWC from the beginning they might have proved serious rivals for the dominance of the fur trade from Montreal.
ANQ-Q, CN1-16, 27 janv., 17 févr. 1809; CN1-26, 18 déc. 1801; CN1-256, 29 May 1792; CN1-262, 2 oct. 1801. NYPL, William Edgar papers (copies at PAC). PAC, MG 11, [CO 42] Q, 74: 234–35; MG 19, A3, 24; 69; MG 30, D1, 20; RG 4, B1, 12: 4586–91; B28, 115. PRO, CO 42/5: 30–31 (copies at PAC). "The British regime in Wisconsin, 1760–1800," ed. R. G. Thwaites, Wis., State Hist. Soc., Coll., 18 (1908): 313, 326. Corr. of Lieut. Governor Simcoe (Cruikshank), 4: 255. Doc. relatifs à l'hist. constitutionnelle, 1759–1791 (Shortt et Doughty; 1921), 1: 397–98, 886–87. Docs. relating to NWC (Wallace). Douglas, Lord Selkirk's diary (White). John Askin papers (Quaife). Landmann, Adventures and recollections, 2: 172. Montreal Herald, 19 June 1819. Quebec Gazette, 1766–1806. Langelier, Liste des terrains concédés, 9. Massicotte, "Repertoire des engagements pour l'Ouest," ANQ Rapport, 1942–43. Quebec almanac, 1788: 52. M. W. Campbell, NWC (1973). R. Campbell, Hist. of Scotch Presbyterian Church. B. M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the northwest coast of North America, 1810–1914: a study of British maritime ascendancy (Vancouver, 1971), 12–24. Innis, Fur trade in Canada (1970). L. P. Kellogg, The British regime in Wisconsin and the northwest (Madison, Wis., 1935). Lanctot, Canada and American revolution (Cameron). M. S. MacSporran, "James McGill: a critical biographical study" (ma thesis, McGill Univ., Montreal, [1930]). Miquelon, "Baby family," 182, 189. P. C. Phillips, The fur trade (2v., Norman, Okla., 1961), 2. Rich, Hist. of HBC (1960), vol. 2. Rumilly, La compagnie du Nord-Ouest. Ivanhoë Caron, "The colonization of Canada under the British dominion, 1800–1815," Quebec, Bureau of Statistics, Statistical year-book (Quebec), 7 (1920). R. H. Fleming, "Phyn, Ellice and Company of Schenectady," Contributions to Canadian Economics (Toronto), 4 (1932): 30–32. Charles Lart, "Fur trade returns, 1767," CHR, 3 (1922): 351–58. E. A. Mitchell, "The North West Company agreement of 1795," CHR, 36 (1955): 128–30. Ouellet, "Dualité économique et changement technologique," SH, 9: 286. W. E. Stevens, "The northwest fur trade, 1763–1800," Univ. of Ill. Studies in the Social Sciences (Urbana), 14 (1926), no.3: 167, 171, 175, 183–84.
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Our individualization as human beings, independent of our gender, race, culture, national origin or religious beliefs, is the main focus of anthroposophy.
While the development of anthroposophy with this focus took form at the end of the 19th and during the first decades of the 20th century, there also developed other discussions in Western culture, including the question of the origin of man, focusing on the problem more from the perspective of our relation to the natural world.
Along with the development of the theory of evolution of the different organisms of nature during the 19th century, humanity as well came to be understood as differentiated into different sub groups, similar to the sub groups of animal species, which were called "races".
In this discussion, Rudolf Steiner addressed a number of aspects of these questions.
In his view, human "races" in two biological senses (see the two sections below) arose at different times in the past but in general started to fade in relevance and as a reality at the end of the last glacial age and will cease to exist completely in the future as the fading realities we experience them, with our increasing individualization as human beings.
As mentioned at another page, the theosophical concept "root race" (which is incorrectly cited in allegations of racism in anthroposophy by some individuals for demagogical purposes) is not a "race" concept in our present meaning.
Instead it just uses the term "race" as often was done in Victorian times to refer to a "group of humans", whether it was humanity as a whole referred to as "the human race", or defined by some form of geographical criteria ("the Irish race") or sociological criteria ("the race of scholars").
As also mentioned, the two first "root races" described in theosophy do not even refer to humanity as it comes to expression on the present planet Earth. Instead they refer to stages in the development of humanity as it existed, according to theosophy and anthroposophy, in a spiritual form from the initial formation of our present solar system up to the formation of the present Earth as a planetary body separate from the sun.
"Sub races of Atlantis"
While the concept "root race" is the first theosophical concept incorrectly cited in allegations of racism in anthroposophy, the concept "sub races of Atlantis", which is used in the theosophical tradition but not in anthroposophy, is the second concept cited in such allegations.
During the time of the mythical "Atlantis", that is, during the time which Steiner later in his life cited as corresponding to the Tertiary and Quaternary periods, a number of groups of peoples developed. These groups, originating far in the past, in the view of theosophy, constituted the origins of a number of later developing peoples.
The theosophical tradition pointed to them as Rmoahals, Tlavatli, original Toltecs, original Turanians, original Semites, original Akkadians and original Mongols. For these groups, the theosophical tradition, but not anthroposophy, used and continues to use the concept "sub-races" of the Atlantean epoch.
The distinction from a present perspective can be understood as a tentative effort among theosophists at the end of the 19th century to understand the origin of the peoples mentioned, from a long term perspective, as well as from a spiritual perspective.
In the view of Steiner, the whole world of plants and animals constitutes living forms that have branched off from the developing form of the human being, at different stages in our long evolutionary development. It was also his view that human beings initially had a form not even recognizable as human in the present sense, and only slowly developed the present human form from the time corresponding to the Paleozoic through the Mesozoic up to the Cenozoic period.
In addition, the developing human form was not dense enough to leave any physical traces as fossils until after the branching off of the anthropoid apes from the developing human form, during the Tertiary period.
While it is a common view that man developed out of anthropoid apes, the markedly human characteristics of young anthropoid apes, before they develop the characteristics of the adult ape, a phenomenon called neoteny (the picture exemplifies this with the young and the mature chimpanzee), points in the opposite direction.
The human-like characteristics indicate that the anthropoid apes have developed as branched off forms from a markedly more human form in the present sense, yet not dense enough to leave physical traces at the time of the branching off of the apes.
Only during the middle phase of "Atlantean" time, that can be understood to correspond to the time of the Pliocene period, marking the transition from Tertiary to Quaternary, did human physical development progress such that fossil traces of human beings would start to remain. This corresponded with an impulse to a new form of self consciousness in man at the time. It is also from this period that the fossil remains of "Lucy" in eastern Africa originate.
In Steiner's view, one can, however, only talk of human "races" in a proper sense of the word from the late "Lemurian" time - that is, the end of the Mesozoic period, when the human form was not yet dense enough to leave fossil traces - up to the end of "Atlantis" (Cenozoic up to the end of the Pleistocene), with the mythical deluge.
After the end of the time of "Atlantis", with what is described in mythology as a deluge, the concept of "race" in a biological sense -- in the view of Steiner -- is continually and increasingly losing its relevance and meaning as a biological concept in human contexts, and will have lost its meaning as we now know it in a foreseeable future, as its last vestiges from the last glacial age are increasingly superseded by our cultural and individual development as humans.
The "five main races" of humanity
The old concept of the "five main races of humanity", now increasingly obsolete, is the third concept incorrectly cited in allegations of racism in anthroposophy.
During the time of the mythical "Atlantis", cited by Steiner as reflecting the development of the human being during the Cenozoic period, there also developed another differentiation into "races" which we still experience today, albeit as increasingly less relevant.
But while Steiner viewed the formation of seven sequential human forms during the "Atlantean epoch" (in theosophy called the "sub races of Atlantis"), paralleling the development reflected in the paleontological remains from the beginning of Cenozoic up to the end of Pleistocene, as part of the "normal" development of humanity, the formation of what we experience as the fading existence of the "five races" of humanity, in his view, took place as an abnormal differentiation of humanity during the period in question.
These group differentiations, that refer to bodily characteristics, in later times have been referred to as "Ethiopians", (Africans), Malayans, Mongols, Caucasians, and American Indians.
The tentative distinction between these five groups of people as the five main "races" of humanity can be found already in 1795 in a work on The Natural Variety of Mankind by the father of anthropology, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who focused, like Steiner later, on the unity of the human species as the grand idea.
In commenting on these "five main races of humanity" in a lecture series in 1910 (Mission of Folk Souls), with regard to their origin and nature, when they were formed far in the past before the end of the last glacial time, Steiner expressly begged his audience not to misunderstand that his characterizations of the "races" in this lecture series referred to bodily characteristics, that they not were descriptions of the inner being of man, which constitutes us as human beings, and that in our age, the racial characteristics in question are generally being overcome.
Steiner's description also made clear how all the five main races of mankind, including the "Caucasians", in their origin and nature before the end of the last glacial age, need to be understood as one-sided in nature, in his view originating in the activity of abnormally developing spiritual beings, and that they only together reflected the whole of the human being.
Against the increasing propaganda for a development into the future based on ideals of races and nations in many countries at the beginning of the 20th century, including by the National Socialists in Germany, Steiner argued that this approach was one which addressed decaying impulses of humanity and that nothing would bring humanity more into decay than if the ideals of races, nations and blood (biological heritage) were to continue.
In a number of lectures, Steiner also described his understanding, based on spiritual research, outlining how we as individuals and groups of people have moved through history between lives in one race and culture and lives in other races and cultures in other parts of the world.
These points show that in Steiner's view - expressed nearly 100 years ago, at a time and in a culture permeated with thinking in terms of "races" - our development as individuals is not determined by, and is less and less connected with "temporary" external characteristics like "race" or nationality or gender.
Instead, our development as individuals is being superseded and ever more purely determined by our increasingly individual paths through history, independent of such external characteristics.
For more, see Rudolf Steiner on
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Do you need to be a vegetarian to lead a healthy life?
Can a vegetarian diet add years to your life?
A new study suggests the answer could be yes. After examining the health records of 73,308 people for an average of nearly six years, researchers discovered that vegetarians were 12% less likely to die during that period than people who ate meat more than once a week.
Researchers from Loma Linda University in California recruited members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, who are strongly encouraged to follow a vegetarian diet. As such, 52% of the sample fit into one of four categories of vegetarians: 7.6% were vegans (avoiding eggs, dairy, fish and other meat), 28.9% were lacto-ovo-vegetarians (who ate dairy and eggs but avoided fish and meat), 9.8% were pesco-vegetarians (who ate eggs, dairy and fish but avoided other meat) and 5.5% were semi-vegetarians (who ate eggs, dairy and fish regularly but ate other meats only once a week). The remaining 48.2% of people in the study were classified as nonvegetarians.
For the vegetarians in the study, the diets were not a passing fad. Pesco-vegetarians had been following that diet for 19 years, on average, and vegans had cut out meat, dairy and eggs for 21 years, on average. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians had not eaten fish or meat for 39 years, on average.
And what were the health benefits of vegetarianism? Compared to the nonvegetarians, those who followed any type of vegetarian diet were 12% less likely to die of any cause during the course of the study. For men, being a vegetarian reduced the overall risk of death by 18%; for women the overall risk of death fell by 7%. Men also reduced their risk of death due to cardiovascular disease or due to ischemic heart disease by 29%. (There was no corresponding benefit for women.)
Different types of vegetarian diets produced different types of benefits. For instance, compared with nonvegetarians, those who followed a pesco-vegetarian diet reduced their risk of death from any cause by 19% during the course of the study. In men, the diet also reduced the risk of death due to cardiovascular causes by 34%; in women, it reduced the risk of death due to ischemic heart disease by 49%.
Men and women who followed a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet reduced their risk of death from any cause by 9% during the study period. And vegan men were 55% less likely to die as a result of ischemic heart disease, 42% less likely to die of cardiovascular causes and 28% less likely to die of any cause compared to nonvegetarians.
The results were published online Monday by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
None of this proves that vegetarians live longer than nonvegetarians – the study volunteers will have to be tracked longer to see if that is true. But the results to date are certainly consistent with the idea.
The study authors speculate that vegetarians had fewer life-threatening health problems because they aet more fiber and avoided saturated fat, factors known to boost heart health. But the researchers didn't know why men were so much more likely to benefit than women.
"The biological effect of dietary factors on mortality may be different in men and women," they speculated. More studies are needed to figure this out, they said.
Also puzzling was why the vegetarian Seventh-day Adventists did better than a group of British vegetarians followed as part of another long-term study. The American vegetarians ate more fiber and vitamin C than their British counterparts, but it's not clear that this explains the difference, they noted.
Does this mean you should become a vegetarian? Not necessarily, writes Dr. Robert Baron, a general internist at UC San Francisco.
In a commentary that accompanies the study, Baron recalls his own conversion to a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet as a graduate student studying nutrition in the 1970s – an effort he abandoned during medical school due to "the lack of vegetarian options in hospital cafeterias," he wrote.
These days, he noted, people who follow a meat-free diet are likely to be motivated by religious, ethical or environmental concerns, not just by health ones. And from a health point of view, whether or not you eat meat isn't as important as limiting your consumption of sugary drinks, foods with added sugar, refined grains and most saturated fats and trans fats. Similarly, everyone can benefit by eating more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts.
"Achieving these goals trumps the more narrow goals of whether to include moderate amounts of dairy, eggs, fish, or even meat," Baron wrote. "Our debates about the superiority of one diet over another have not served the public well."
You can read a summary of the study online here and the commentary here.
Return to Science Now.


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"For the theoretical Discovery and Experimental Identification of Toroidicity Induced Alfven Eigenmodes."
Background:Professor William (Bill) Heidbrink earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977. For the next two years he performed industrial research in pulsed power at Maxwell Laboratories. In 1984, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. After working as a staff member on the TFTR tokamak (Princeton) and the DIII-D tokamak (General Atomics), he joined the UC Irvine Physics Department in 1988. He was the 1995 recipient of the Lauds & Laurels award for Distinguished Teaching and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1996.
Professor Heidbrink studies energetic ions in magnetic fusion experiments. Instabilities that are driven unstable by the free energy in the fast-ion population are a major area of study. Other important topics include diagnostic development and measurements of fast-ion confinement. The work is conducted on four facilities, the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego, the National Spherical Torus Experiment in Princeton, the Large Plasma Device at UCLA, and a small field reversed configuration (FRC) at Irvine.
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[19:27] <alicebarr> Hey Zach
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[19:27] <cheryloakes50> sound is great
[19:27] <alicebarr> Hi Joe
[19:27] <cheryloakes50> I can hear, I clicked on EdTechTalk A,
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[19:28] <cheryloakes50> Alice make sure you hijack
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[19:29] <ScottShelhart> Sound OK on ETTA via iTunes
[19:29] <cheryloakes50> JoeKIng did you click on edtechtalk A?
[19:29] <alicebarr> @Joe King Click on EdTEch Talk A and that will launch iTunes
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[19:29] <BenN__> hey hannah
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[19:31] <sheila> Can only hear Alice right?
[19:31] <zhynes_> yeah
[19:31] <zhynes_> that's what i hear
[19:31] <Sarah__> I think Matt Montagne is starting an "I hate the new edtechtalk chat club"
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[19:32] <PeggyG> Hi everyone!
[19:33] <BenN-Host> yes thank you for attending, whoever is the other BenN-Host, please change your name so we can distingush
[19:33] <BenN-Host> Thank you
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[19:33] <alicebarr> Can you hear us now?
[19:33] <PeggyG> yes hearing you fine
[19:33] <cheryloakes50> I hear you Alice, now I hear Ben!
[19:33] <cheryloakes50> perfect sounds!
[19:33] <ScottShelhart> NOw hear all
[19:33] <BenN-Host_> This is the real Ben N
[19:33] <JoeKing> sounds good
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[19:34] <sheila> On a netbook, how do you change the size of this chat (so I can see it all)?
[19:34] <BenN-Host_> pierce?
[19:34] <cheryloakes50> Shelia, that is a good questions
[19:34] <PeggyG> command + works for me on my Mac
[19:34] <BenN-Host> BenN-Host_ - PLEASE change your name
[19:35] <sheila> Ahhhh, much better! Thanks @PeggyG
[19:35] <cheryloakes50> Wow, a transcontinental call, Well, North to south
[19:35] <PeggyG> for me too :-)
[19:35] <sheila> Third show already!!!
[19:36] <PeggyG> This is exciting that we get to hear about the Youth Forum live from the event!
[19:36] <JoeKing> what happened?
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[19:37] <zhynes_> were they all hs students, I assume?
[19:38] <BenN-Host_> :0
[19:38] <alicebarr> @zhynes Yes all high school
[19:38] <PeggyG> did you do fundraising to be able to pay your way to the Forum?
[19:38] <nanga_> how do we get the audio feed?
[19:39] <benm> @peggyG no...the school paid our way
[19:39] <alicebarr> Coalition is small school reform movement started by Ted and nancy Sizer
[19:39] <PeggyG> click on the icon under EdTechTalk A
[19:39] <cheryloakes50> to get audio click on the Edtechtalk A and one of the audio choices
[19:39] <PeggyG> that's great Ben!
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[19:40] <nanga_> thanks. got it
[19:41] <PeggyG> thanks Cheryl! I knew that right away!
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[19:42] <cheryloakes50> We are so sheltered in Maine with class size, it must be amazing to hear their perspective of their huge schools.
[19:42] <alicebarr_> I know
[19:43] <PeggyG> Can you tell us more about the mission of the Coalition?
[19:44] <nanga_> Ben m How does yarmouth's studetn senate compare with other schools? Have you had a chance to talk with others about what studetns are doing and things they have accomplished?
[19:44] <cheryloakes50> PeggyG, we have very small percentages of other cultures in most maine schools
[19:44] <cheryloakes50> This must be so exciting for all students.
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[19:45] <nanga_> I was asking the real Ben m...is he able to answer chat questions or should I wait til later?
[19:45] <BenM-Host> I can answer
[19:45] <alicebarr> No go ahead and ask
[19:45] <nanga_> see above about student senate
[19:45] <PeggyG> I'll bet it is! They must be very self-confident people to feel comfortable meeting and mixing with so many new people!
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[19:47] <cheryloakes50> Yes Peggy, I think that happens for so many of our students with all the presentations they do today
[19:47] <zhynes_> what is Yarmouth presenting this year?
[19:47] <benm> @zach we're not presenting, just attending this year
[19:47] <BenM-Host> I don't really have a sense for what other Student Senate's are like, but ours is a group of leaders, grades 9-12.
[19:47] <PeggyG> how resourceful!! looking for guests for the show while they're there!
[19:48] <cheryloakes50> they are so smart aren't they PEggy
[19:48] <PeggyG> definitely!!
[19:49] <PeggyG> is the nature of this event changing with so much technology available now? wonder if more students could participate if they didn't have to pay to travel?
[19:50] <cheryloakes50> Peggy, good thought, BenNBen do they allow for virtual attendance or video conference?
[19:51] <BenM-Host> I'm not sure about those capabilities as of now, I'll explore that though cheryloakes
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[19:51] <zhynes_> very cool presentations
[19:51] <PeggyG> that's always such a challenge to try to present without internet access! I've had to do that before and it's hard!
[19:52] <BenM-Host> Yes, we become so accustomed to having the internet. Having to do without it is difficult
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[19:52] <cheryloakes50> good evening carolteach4
[19:53] <carolteach4> Hi, Chery -new interface?
[19:53] <cheryloakes50> nice job zhynes I'll do a reverse look up
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[19:53] <BenN-Host> Mia, hello!
[19:53] <nanga_> the difference at Yarmouth is the tech integrator and staff support..without that they are just laptops
[19:53] <alicebarr> World History http://worldhistoryatyhs.wikispaces.com/
[19:53] <cheryloakes50> tech integrators do help the cause
[19:54] <zhynes_> @cheryloakes: absolutely!
[19:54] <cheryloakes50> Carol, this is a new chat room, not too many liking it now.
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[19:54] <cheryloakes50> Thanks zach
[19:54] <alicebarr> http://yhsartdept.ning.com/
[19:55] <PeggyG> I'll bet it's so interesting to compare stories with so many different students about courses and technology access!
[19:55] <zhynes_> did Yarmouth have it at any point in history (the senior project)?
[19:55] <cheryloakes50> go to participartory!!!
[19:56] <PeggyG> so many wonderful choices!! tought to choose!
[19:56] <cheryloakes50> go to the ELL one too, that is how I became a webhead!
[19:56] <Suzanne> @zach - yarmouth had a senior seminar class, not a senior project
[19:56] <alicebarr> http://yhs-wooten.wikispaces.com/
[19:57] <alicebarr> @zhynes Yes a long time ago and a senior seminar
[19:57] <PeggyG> a "worst" part is not to be able to go to everything :-)
[19:57] <alicebarr> Do you think it would have value?
[19:59] <PeggyG> funny! cheesy :-) icebreaking is a good thing though...
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[20:00] <zhynes_> I always loved poetry...
[20:00] <PeggyG> are students trusted more at Yarmouth to make decisions about things they do? do you have privileges that other students don't have besides laptops?
[20:00] <cheryloakes50> poetry is a good equalizer with young adults
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[20:01] <PeggyG> have you had the opportunity to see any of the devastation caused by Katrina in New Orleans?
[20:03] <zhynes_> how warm is it?
[20:03] <alicebarr> @peggyG We try really hard to give students voice.
[20:03] <PeggyG> I remember there were lots of street corner musicians in NO--are they still there?
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[20:03] <cheryloakes50> watch out for vampires in NO
[20:04] <cheryloakes50> benn what is your tweet
[20:04] <PeggyG> how funny! beautiful sunset and then snow on the ground? strange weather!
[20:04] <zhynes_> @ benm...many strange, unfortunate things have happened in the last 24 hrs
[20:04] <benm> http://www.tinyurl.com/bennben
[20:05] <cheryloakes50> geek of the week, love it
[20:05] <BenN-Host> new york yankees, world series champions! (sorry, off topic)
[20:05] <PeggyG> yes you can copy/paste links and you can copy/paste the chat log without dragging and dropping :-)
[20:05] <zhynes_> yeah, I meant at benn with my comment
[20:05] <cheryloakes50> very excited people at myhouse for NYY
[20:06] <Suzanne> mine too!
[20:06] <zhynes_> very UNEXCITED person in my dorm room here
[20:06] <PeggyG> what a great web page!!!
[20:06] <Cathy> awww yal'll are so cute
[20:06] <cheryloakes50> I like the page too
[20:07] <PeggyG> glad to see you using Google sites for it :-)
[20:07] <cheryloakes50> it easy to use the google sites!
[20:07] <BenN-Host> http://www.widgetbox.com/home/guest/
[20:08] <alicebarr> @zach no class tonight?
[20:08] <PeggyG> I really like widgetbox!! I use it all the time and even decided to pay for it to get rid of the ads :-)
[20:08] <zhynes_> taught on monday and wednesday, so no recitation tonight
[20:08] <cheryloakes50> I never heard of this, thanks.
[20:09] <zhynes_> trying to find a better time for students to come to recitation, hence the change..
[20:09] <alicebarr> @Zhynes So glad you are joining us!
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[20:09] <PeggyG> I use widgetbox to put my blog embedded on the Ning sites I join.
[20:09] <alicebarr> http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/10/25/100-google-tricks-that-will-save-you-time-in-school/
[20:09] <cheryloakes50> what a great idea thanks
[20:10] <PeggyG> you can see an example of what it looks like on my Classroom 20.com Ning page.
[20:10] <benm> http://cesfallforum.ning.com/
[20:10] <PeggyG> what a great site Alice!!
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[20:11] <cheryloakes50> yahoo, my teachers will like it too
[20:11] <cheryloakes50> OH, what a great resource
[20:11] <alicebarr> Looks cool I think it will be useful
[20:11] <PeggyG> that's really exciting that we can see some of the videos from the conference!
[20:12] <zhynes_> @benm you would have a conference blog
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[20:12] <PeggyG> are you uploading things to the Ning too Ben?
[20:13] <PeggyG> what a great point about the conference blog!
[20:14] <cheryloakes50> what a great idea, Mark Twain as a blogger, I love that connection
[20:14] <zhynes_> that's impressive benn!
[20:14] <cheryloakes50> Thanks so much for sharing!!! You guys ROCK
[20:15] <zhynes_> again, he would make business cards
[20:15] <PeggyG> when do you think the recording for this session will be posted? it would be great to feature it in this week's EdTechTalk newsletter :-)
[20:15] <carolteach4> Hi, all - Just a quick message. A terrible virus has disabled all my virus protection. My technician at school tried to clean it, but it's written to the registry. All I can do now is reformat the drive and start all over. I was trying to use it as is, but now it's taken out all my audio devices, so I can't hear anything.
[20:15] <Cathy> I have sent your site to a young man in North Carolina - his name is Randy Nance
[20:15] <cheryloakes50> Oh, Carolteach4, good luck to you.
[20:15] <cheryloakes50> they are wrapping up
[20:15] <PeggyG> wonderful job ben and ben!! great show!!
[20:15] <carolteach4> Beware, everyone. This is nasty. I kept my norton up to date and ran frequent virus checks. Got right by it.
[20:16] <BenN-Host> Thank you everyon!
[20:16] <BenN-Host> e
[20:16] <PeggyG> how frustrating carolteach4!!
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[20:16] <Cathy> Nice job!
[20:16] <BenN-Host> Thank's for coming in and attending Zach
[20:16] <PeggyG> night all!
[20:16] <zhynes_> haha yeah sure
[20:16] <BenN-Host> New guests, Nanga and Nanga_, thank you guys
[20:17] <cheryloakes50> good night. Next week Maria Knee on SEEDLINGS
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[20:17] <zhynes_> check your fb, benn: sox are already making moves
[20:17] <carolteach4> I'll email you, Peggy.
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Editor's note: There is an image in the lower part of this story that may be a concern for some viewers.
Prominent pro-life advocate Bryan Kemper is questioning Facebook after it removed his pro-life message, a move that followed on the heels of the company's decision to allow the posting of directions on how to perform an abortion at home.
Just last month, the popular social media site issued an apology to Rebecca Gomperts for temporarily censoring her do-it-yourself abortion instructions she had posted as her profile picture.
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But this week Kempers' message was shut down and he wants pro-life Facebook users to sound the alarm.
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The instructions, currently posted in several different languages on Gomperts' profile page, encourage girls to "lie" to a pharmacist in order to obtain the necessary abortion producing drugs, give step-by-step instructions on how many pills to take, and then encourage girls to lie about having a miscarriage after an at-home abortion.
The instructions, in part, are as follows:
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"Go to the pharmacy and buy 12 tablets of Misoprostol. (Say it is for your grandmother with arthritis)"
She then advises that if a trip to the doctor is necessary after the self-treatment, "You can tell them you had a miscarriage."
According to the National Institute of Health, the drug in question – Misoprostol – includes side effects in its anti-ulcer purpose including miscarriages, premature labor, and birth defects.
Nowhere in Gomperts' instructions does she warn women performing self-abortions about birth defects.
The instructions posted by Gompert:
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Aware of the abortion instruction apology by Facebook, Kemper, who is director of youth outreach for Priests for Life, was shocked to discover that Facebook had censored his new post, also involving abortion, from a pro-life viewpoint.
Kemper and his associate, Andy Moore, of abortionwiki.org, created a version of the popular "What They Think I Do" graphic that have been going viral on Facebook.
Their graphic was entitled "Abortionist" and the final frame was a photo of a baby killed in an early abortion.
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The image had received thousands of "shares" and "comments" in a matter of hours, but Kemper was informed Facebook had logged his account out and advised, "We removed the content you posted because it violates Facebook's statements of rights and responsibilities."
The image:
"It amazed me," Kemper told WND.
"Facebook will allow girls to learn how to do an abortion themselves at home with no doctor's supervision, and encourages them to lie when obtaining the drugs necessary. But they will not allow them to see what an abortion looks like."
WND left a message with Facebook's press line but did not receive a return call.
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, who filed a lawsuit this week against Obamacare's mandate requiring employers to provide birth control, sterilization, and abortion-producing drugs such as the morning after pill and the week after pill, issued this statement about Facebook:
"I have long said that America will not end abortion until it sees abortion.
"But those who support and profit from abortion work very hard to make sure America does not see abortion."
"I guess it is only considered censorship if you censor the pro-choice side; it's perfectly fine in our culture to censor the pro-life message," Kemper said.
According to a Daily Mail report, "Gompert's group, Women on Waves, performs medical abortions on a boat bearing the Dutch flag, allowing women in countries where abortion is illegal access to the procedure."
"It really worries me that there should be so much censorship on the Internet. Regardless of whether it's Google or Facebook," Gomperts told the Daily Mail.
Kemper, too, is frustrated by the censorship.
"If abortion is such a great thing for women, and an aborted fetus is just a clump of cells, then show everyone," he says.
"But they won't, because then people will start to see the truth, that abortion kills."


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The Myanmar Red Cross Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today began a joint distribution of aid to people displaced by fighting in 2011 and in August 2013 from five villages around Putao, the northernmost town of Kachin state.
Over 200 people receiving the aid now reside in two camps and with host families.
"The Myanmar Red Cross is providing families with food and other items that were funded by public cash donations," explained Bart Vermeiren, the deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Myanmar.
"It made arrangements for transport and shared the cost with our organization, which also donated blankets and winter clothing."
The two partner organisations are now assessing the feasibility of carrying out joint programmes to help displaced people earn a living.
The ICRC began working in northern Kachin state in 2004, when it first visited detainees in the Putao area. It continues to visit detainees throughout Myanmar to monitor the conditions in which they are held and to help them maintain contact with their families.
In Kachin state, the ICRC provides medical facilities with training in the treatment of patients with weapon-related injuries, donates supplies and offers other support. Physical rehabilitation programmes funded by the ICRC and conducted by the Myanmar Red Cross enable amputees to resume a productive life. In addition, ICRC water and sanitation activities are carried out both in prisons and in medical and physical rehabilitation facilities in the state.
In Rakhine state, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the Myanmar Red Cross, the ICRC upgrades state and district health-care facilities, supports specialist staff such as midwives, backs vaccination campaigns, and conducts emergency medical evacuations.
The ICRC and the Myanmar Red Cross also cooperate with the Ministry of Agriculture to improve livelihoods by distributing seed, fertilizer and tools.


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Dame Vera Lynn's image projected on white cliffs of Dover to mark 100th birthday
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn, her image was projected on to the cliffs on the day she officially became a centenarian.
The 350ft image of Dame Vera, who is affectionately known as The Forces' Sweetheart, was also in celebration of the release of her new album, Vera Lynn 100.
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The album also features a previously unreleased version of Sailing - a surprise find as it was not widely known she had recorded the track.
Dame Vera said: "It is an unprecedented honour to have my birthday marked in such a beautiful way and I am truly thrilled by this wonderful gesture.
"As we look to the white cliffs, I will be thinking of all our brave boys - the cliffs were the last thing they saw before heading off to war and, for those fortunate enough to return, the first thing they saw upon returning home.
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Hide Ad"I feel so blessed to have reached this milestone and I can't think of a more meaningful way to mark the occasion."
The record comes eight years after Dame Vera became the oldest living artist to land a UK number one album and also marks the wartime singer's 93 years in the industry as she made her stage debut at the age of seven.


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Prosecutor: Riverside man raped, strangled murder victim with his belt
A 21-year-old Riverside man arrested Wednesday for killing Mirian Yohana Garcia Mancilla of Aquebogue allegedly strangled the woman as he raped her, prosecutors charged in Town Justice Court Thursday.
"During the rape, he strangled her with his belt," assistant district attorney Glenn Kurtzrock said of the suspect, Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc.
Ms. Garcia's body was discovered May 7 in a wooded area behind the Riverhead DMV on Route 58.
Mr. Alvarado-Ajcuc pleaded not guilty Thursday to one count of second-degree murder before Town Justice Allen Smith.
Wearing a brown T-shirt with an image of a robot, a diminutive Mr. Alvarado-Ajcuc — described as a Guatemalan immigrant and non-U.S. citizen — spoke with his head down and through a Spanish-speaking translator during the arraignment.
He said he's lived in the U.S. for the past four years and currently lives with his father. He doesn't have a Green Card, he said, and he didn't know his street address. He lives on Pine Street in Riverside, according to court documents.
The criminal complaint states that at about 2 a.m. on May 6, Mr. Alvarado-Ajcuc "removed [Ms. Garcia's] pants" and "committed or attempted to commit" first-degree rape, criminal sexual act in the first degree and aggravated sexual abuse, as well as robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, and first or second degree escape.
It also states: "As the victim fought and resisted, the defendant removed his belt and wrapped it around her neck and strangled her" until she died.
Mr. Alvarado-Ajuc gave detectives a full confession, according to Mr. Kurtzrock.
He was held without bail and is due back in court next Tuesday, when his case will likely be transferred to Suffolk County Criminal Court.
"We will consider all possible charges when we present the case to the grand jury," Mr. Kurtzrock said outside the courtroom.
Mr. Alvarado-Ajuc's attorney, Eileen Powers of Riverhead, did not request bail for her client because, she said, she was aware Justice Court could not grant bail for a second-degree murder charge.
A woman who answered the door at Mr. Alvarado-Ajuc's home Thursday indicated to a reporter that she did not speak English and was unable to comment.
Ms. Garcia, 29, was last seen at the Sabor Latino bar and restaurant, which is in the same Peconic Plaza shopping center as the DMV, Suffolk police detectives had said.
Originally of Guatemala, Ms. Garcia previously lived on Bell Avenue in Flanders, the address originally provided by police because the ID found on her body had not been updated.
Eswin Adolfo Velasquez, a close friend of the victim's family, said Thursday that he saw Mr. Alvarado-Ajcuc's mug shot online but did not recognize the man.
He did not believe the suspect and Ms. Garcia were friends.
"I'm happy the police is working fast," Mr. Velasquez said, adding that the devastated family would be pleased to learn there was an arrest.
A funeral for Ms. Garcia was held Saturday at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Riverhead.
"She was a wonderful person and a lot of people loved her," Ms. Garcia's sister, Zully Garcia Mancilla, said at the services.
Ms. Garcia, who worked cleaning and detailing boats at Larry's Lighthouse Marina in Aquebogue, was a black belt in karate, a popular DJ who spun records at local parties and an avid soccer player who played goalie for a women's team on the North Fork.
The team, Union Latina, held a moment of silence at its game Sunday in Mattituck, where players also wore black ribbons in remembrance of Yohana, as she was known.