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Sep 23, 2013
Bard College Invitational - Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Saturday, September 21st
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's cross country team finished in 16th place out of 22 teams at the Bard College Invitational on Saturday afternoon.
Freshman Jacob Kashani (Roslyn, N.Y.) led the Rams with a team-best 49th place finish in a time of 29:03. Sophomore Dan Barrett (Wantagh, N.Y.) placed 72nd in 30:09, while sophomore Patrick DiMaria (Commack, N.Y.) finished 119th (32:20).
Middlebury University won the team championship and SUNY Cobbleskill finished runner-up.
Due to traveling delays, the women's team was unable to compete in the meet.
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The Museum cannot endorse specific conservators. Excellent information about selecting a conservator is available on the American Institute for Conservation's Web site.
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There are many local matting and framing businesses from which to choose. We cannot recommend any specific one but if you wish to search for one, click here. To learn about what questions to ask regarding the most current conservation methods, click here.
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Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
from the seconded deptWe usually strive to come up with our own headlines for posts on Techdirt, but Joshua Kopstein's post on Motherboard.tv has such a perfect title that we're reusing it here: Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works. The point, which was driving so many of us mad watching the SOPA hearings, is how head-bangingly frustrating it is to see elected officials gleefully admit they don't understand the technology they're about to regulate:
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials' struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to "the internets" or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as "a series of tubes," we would sit back and chortle at our well-meaning but horribly uninformed representatives, confident that the right people would eventually steer them back on course. Well I have news for members of Congress: Those days are over.But this isn't about looking cute and folksy. The internet matters. A lot.
We get it. You think you can be cute and old-fashioned by openly admitting that you don't know what a DNS server is. You relish in the opportunity to put on a half-cocked smile and ask to skip over the techno-jargon, conveniently masking your ignorance by making yourselves seem better aligned with the average American joe or jane — the "non-nerds" among us.
But to anyone of moderate intelligence that tuned in to yesterday's Congressional mark-up of SOPA, the legislation that seeks to fundamentally change how the internet works, you kind of just looked like a bunch of jack-asses.Kopstein goes into a lot more (worthwhile, go read it) detail about the bill, about the gleeful ignorance of some Judiciary Committee members, and then concludes:
This used to be funny, but now it's really just terrifying. We're dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it's just pathetic and sad.This is a key point. Unfortunately, I've see way too many people supporting SOPA (especially among the lobbyist crew) act as if this is just some sort of game, where the goal is to "win." That's how DC politics works, but it doesn't take into account the very real impact of the damage that they're doing. If you're regulating the internet, it should at least be a pre-requisite that you are willing to understand the technology, or that you abstain from taking part in voting on (or writing) bills if you don't understand it. It's not funny. It's not cute. It's terrifying and it impacts us all.
So the real question is what is the way forward on this kind of thing? One would be to elect more technically savvy folks to Congress, but that's always difficult (and lots of tech savvy folks would rather be working in tech). Another would be to better educate those who are in Congress. Some of us are already working on that front with things like Engine Advocacy, but having more help and more voices would be a good thing.
Other than that, I think we should just make it clear to elected officials that people won't tolerate them gleefully displaying ignorance on issues that they're about to vote on. When Rep. Mel Watt declares proudly that he doesn't understand the technology, and then says he just doesn't believe the huge group of internet engineers who warn about the negative impacts of SOPA, he shouldn't get a free pass on that. The public needs to let him know that that's unacceptable from an elected official.
Things like this won't change overnight, but by making it clear that such things won't be tolerated by the voting public, we can at least start to influence the debate in a meaningful way. So speak up. When you see an elected official being purposely ignorant or cracking jokes about their ignorance tell them that they need to be educated and help them get that education.
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Dr. Clifford H. Turen, an internationally know traumatologist and former chief of orthopedics who had worked at Maryland Shock Trauma Center for two decades, was killed Jan. 13 when the private single-engine plane he was flying crashed in dense fog into trees east of Dover, Del.
The Clarksville resident was 55.
According to published news reports, Dr. Turen was en route from Sandersville, Ga., to Summit Airport in Middletown, Del., in his Piper PA-28a Cherokee, when he made an emergency call to air traffic controllers at Dover Air Force Base.
A witness told The Dover Post that as the plane passed over his house he heard its engine sputtering and finally stop. Authorities who found the wreckage several hours later estimated that it crashed about 7:35 p.m.
The accident remains under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"Doc was a very meticulous man, and the incident that took his life was something that he could not possibly have foreseen in that dense fog. He was an unflappable man," said Walter "Butch" Hendrick, a Hurley, N.Y., pilot and a friend for more than 20 years.
The son of a manufacturer of women's apparel and a registered nurse who later became a homemaker, Clifford Henry Turen was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
After graduating in 1975 from the Wheatley School in East Williston, N.Y., Dr. Turen graduated in 1979 from the Johns Hopkins University.
He earned his medical degree in 1983 from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, and completed both an internship and residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Dr. Turen came to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center as a fellow in 1988, and after completing his fellowship, spent four years in the Navy as chief of the orthopedic trauma service at the Portsmouth Naval Regional Medical Center in Virginia.
After completing active duty, he remained as an active Reservist for the next 23 years, attaining the rank of commander.
Dr. Turen returned to Shock Trauma as a part-time consultant and surgeon from 1990 to 1993. He then remained there full time from 1993 to 2009, when he left to become chief of orthopedics and establish a residency program in orthopedics at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon.
From 1993 to 2005, Dr. Turen was director of the orthopedic traumatology fellowship, which contributed to the education of countless fellows and residents who rotated through Shock Trauma. From 1999 to 2001, he was program director of the University of Maryland Orthopedic Surgery residency program.
He was also chief of orthopedics at Shock Trauma from 2002 to 2005.
"I've known Cliff close to 20 years, and he was one of the premier surgeons that I've ever worked with in orthopedics," said Dr. Andrew N. Pollak, professor and acting head of orthopedics at the University of Maryland Medical School, where he also heads the division of orthopedic traumatology.
"He had wonderful hands and was a very competent technical surgeon," said Dr. Pollak. "Orthopedic trauma is putting bones back together, and sometimes the cases are easy and some difficult, but Cliff always knew what to do."
Dr. Pollak described his colleague and friend as an "outstanding educator."
"Cliff could fix problems others had difficulty with and could teach them how to do it," said Dr. Pollak. "It was easy for him to get along with the staff and operating room staff. He was happiest when he was in the operating room and busy and getting a lot of things accomplished."
He added: "As a person, Cliff was larger than life. He was jovial, intense and extremely hard-working."
Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, professor of trauma surgery and director of the trauma program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is another longtime colleague and friend.
"He was more than an orthopedic surgeon. He was a trauma guy who fixed bones," said Dr. Scalea, who said that Dr. Turen had been an active and influential member of AO North America, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of patient care for orthopedic patients.
Dr. Turen had held various offices, including serving as a member of its trauma education committee, and had been a trustee of the AO Foundation.
He also chaired dozens of AO courses, which brought him into contact with other orthopedists around the world.
"His effect was international, and he did a huge amount of work for AO. I remember when we were in Colombia and he was teaching about how to fix pelvic fractures," said Dr. Scalea.
"He crystallized the procedure down to three lines. Cliff told them to 'Bind 'em up, fill 'em up, warm 'em up.' What he was doing was teaching holistic trauma care," said Dr. Scalea.
"He could always see the big picture and had the ability to get to the essence of a problem quickly," he said. "He was dedicated, worked hard and always did the right thing."
Dr. Turen also had studied search and rescue techniques at Mr. Hendrick's Team Lifeguard Systems Inc. in Shokan, N.Y.
"His life was all about taking care of people, and that is why he became one of the leading trauma doctors in the world," said Mr. Hendrick. "If someone needed help, he was always there."
He had served as medical director for both the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the Washington, D.C., Fire Department, and Howard County Fire and Rescue Department. He was a volunteer firefighter with the Clarksville Volunteer Fire Department.
"He was also a member of our 'go team' at Shock Trauma, which is our rapid-response team," said Dr. Pollak. "He was a key component of that team, where we were often dealing with cases of entrapment. All I had to do, whether it was 2 a.m. or noontime, was to pick up the phone and Cliff would be there."
Dr. Turen had also been a special deputy U.S. marshal and led the development of the tactical EMS program for the National Capital Region Anti-terrorism Task Force.
From 2011 until his death, Dr. Turen had been on the staff of Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover, Del.
Dr. Turen was an avid baseball fan.
"He had a great love of baseball. He used to say, 'The Super Bowl is what you do between the World Series and spring training,'" said Dr. Scalea. "He was a Mets fan and I'm a Yankees fan. Every day he'd say something about baseball like, 'It's February, the pitchers have reported.'"
Dr. Turen also was a fan of extreme skiing and had recently learned how to rope cattle while on horseback with Mr. Hendrick.
Graveside services were Jan. 18 at New Montefiore Jewish Cemetery in Babylon, N.Y.
Surviving are his wife of 18 years, the former Bethanne Konschak; two sons, Jonathan Turen of Richmond, Va., and Jason Turen of St. Mary's City; a stepson, Zach Webster of Clarksville; two stepdaughters, Jessica Webster of Westminster and Margaret Sutton of Columbia; his mother, Georgia Lo Prete of Columbia; a sister, Anita Davidson of Seattle; and a step-grandson. An earlier marriage to the former Barbara Jankowski ended in divorce.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — During her final years working for the state tax board, Peggy Robinson went to work afraid of the building mold that she says left her with constant coughing, headaches and skin rashes.
She also recalls water problems culminating in burst pipes flooding floors and forcing employees to relocate. And that's not to mention the near-daily annoyances for nearly 2,000 workers at the Board of Equalization headquarters, where Robinson worked from its 1993 opening until her retirement two years ago.
A malfunctioning heating system forced workers to wear jackets at their desks. Water dripped onto their desks. Elevators stalled mid-flight.
Some of the building's persistent problems even pose a danger to the public. Outside the 24-story office building about five blocks from the state Capitol, scaffolding protects pedestrians from glass panes that have popped out and shattered on the sidewalk.
"It was definitely not conducive to getting your work done on time," Robinson said of being an employee inside the Board of Equalization building. "They made a choice: It was either having to keep paying for the building or let the employees suffer. I believe they let the employees suffer."
With repair bills mounting, the state Legislature is now considering how to resolve the long-festering problem and get the employees into a healthier office environment.
State taxpayers so far have shelled out about $60 million for building repairs and $2.3 million to pay workers' compensation claims and settle lawsuits from fed-up workers.
AB1656 by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, requires that the state find a new building to house the agency, which collects about $50 billion in tax revenue each year.
"Any other landlord would be categorized as a slum lord and forced to fix this problem," said Jerome Horton, the elected chairman of the Board of Equalization.
But advocates for the move say Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has been resistant and is delaying action.
Legislative staff have estimated that planning, designing and building a new headquarters could cost up to $500 million, with an additional $300 million to $400 million in interest payments.
AB1656 would give the Department of General Services, which oversees state government buildings, the authorization to move the tax agency but does not guarantee future funding to do so.
Dickinson and Board of Equalization officials say the governor's office would rather wait until a larger assessment of Sacramento-area government buildings finishes before deciding what to do with a single site. That review could take up to five years.
Jim Evans, a spokesman for the governor, referred questions to the Department of General Services, which says officials are not indifferent to the concerns but face hurdles. For one, the state still owes $77 million to pay off the high-rise, and terms of the bond require the building to be occupied.
The state settled a lawsuit against the building's contractor in 2000, but the statute of limitations for suing over defects ran out more than a decade ago. Meanwhile, the repair costs keep mounting and legal challenges keep coming.
"What they've done is periodically plug the leaks to the dam instead of rebuilding the dam," said Anthony Perez, an attorney who filed a lawsuit in 2008 over the mold issue on behalf of 31 employees, including Robinson, with the state eventually settling it.
Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the Department of General Services, says employees are not exposed to mold and would be evacuated if that was the case.
"It's probably the most tested building in all of the state for air quality," he said.
Perez disputes that and filed a $50 million claim last week, alleging that workers continue to fall ill from mold despite false assurances from management. The agency declined to comment on the claim filed on Wednesday.
At a recent meeting with Board of Equalization employees about AB1656, Dickinson acknowledged it would take another five years for relocation even under the best case scenario. Frowns and sighs spread through the audience of more than 70 employees.
While they wait, the problems persist.
One employee recently found brown water oozing from around a toilet seat cover dispenser as corroding pipes compromise the wastewater system. A state worker has been walking up and down the building checking for smoke because the fire-control system is broken.
Board of Equalization officials say the constant problems damage morale and undermine productivity.
"It's like someone running through the room screaming," said Liz Houser, the deputy director of administration tasked with handling building problems.
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With the future of our nation hanging in the balance and revolution in the air, the need to respond to what is happening in our world RIGHT NOW is more urgent than ever. The Fast and the Furious is a call to arms for artists across all disciplines to make new work about news items and current events that have happened in the week prior.
This evening of performances created in just seven days will be the boldest, most contemporary, fastest and most furious artistic answers to the world we live in today.
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It's almost 2013 already.
I've been telling everyone this is going to be the year of good health.
But I have a cold. My ears are ringing and my sinuses are filled with concrete. It's a perfect still day and I want to go swimming, but instead I shall throw open the doors and windows and sew. Eventually the teenagers will get out of bed.
I started last year with gall bladder surgery and ended it with a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. In between I tore my achilles (just a tiny little bit) and hurt my back twice , including the worst back injury ever. Oh and I'm going to see a cardiologist in Jan and Feb. But I'm pretty sure that will be fine, but good to be sure after 18 years of relentlessly high blood pressure.
I'm pissed off about the diabetes becos I am 'atypical'. I am active, I am not obese. But I can get even more active, and I can lose some middle age spread and stave off the prospect of medication for as long as possible.
So I thought if I wrote that all down I could stop stressing about all the things I want to do, and get on with what I can do.
A couple of new dresses to show you soon.
Kitty is ready to help.
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Inspired by the influential Bauhaus movement, Vivace expresses a pleasing form following function. With a slim and trim profile, the sleek clean lines and subtle curves manifest a simple, elegant minimalism. Every piece in this robustly constructed range sits perfectly within the context of any modern interior design. Vivace, a style of modern simplicity that is always within your reach.


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Fire destroys Bethlehem, NH, home
BETHLEHEM, N.H. (AP) � A late-night fire has destroyed a house in the New Hampshire town of Bethlehem.
The homeowner was not there at the time and no injuries have been reported.
Fire crews fought the fire from midnight until 2 a.m. Monday morning.
WMUR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/Wm8akJ ) that officials are still investigating the cause.
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Today's jobless claims report showed a slight decline to initial claims while also indicating a small increase to the continued claims series while continued claims including extended benefits appear to be continuing to mount.
Seasonally adjusted "initial" unemployment claims declined by 5,000 to 457,000 claims from last week's revised 462,000 claims while "continued" claims increased by 12,000 resulting in an "insured" unemployment rate of 3.5%.
Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored "extended" unemployment benefit programs (the "extended benefits" and "EUC 2008" from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.
Currently there are some 6 million people receiving federal "extended" unemployment benefits.
Taken together with the latest 5.5 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are well over 11 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.
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1. Security Services (Overview)
Part II System, File, and Device Security
2. Managing Machine Security (Overview)
3. Controlling Access to Systems (Tasks)
4. Controlling Access to Devices (Tasks)
5. Using the Basic Audit Reporting Tool (Tasks)
6. Controlling Access to Files (Tasks)
7. Using the Automated Security Enhancement Tool (Tasks)
Part III Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges
8. Using Roles and Privileges (Overview)
9. Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks)
10. Role-Based Access Control (Reference)
Part IV Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Services
13. Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework (Overview)
14. Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework (Tasks)
15. Oracle Solaris Key Management Framework
Part V Authentication Services and Secure Communication
16. Using Authentication Services (Tasks)
19. Using Solaris Secure Shell (Tasks)
20. Solaris Secure Shell (Reference)
21. Introduction to the Kerberos Service
22. Planning for the Kerberos Service
23. Configuring the Kerberos Service (Tasks)
24. Kerberos Error Messages and Troubleshooting
25. Administering Kerberos Principals and Policies (Tasks)
Command-Line Equivalents of the SEAM Tool
The Only File Modified by the SEAM Tool
Print and Online Help Features of the SEAM Tool
Working With Large Lists in the SEAM Tool
Administering Kerberos Principals
Administering Kerberos Principals (Task Map)
Automating the Creation of New Kerberos Principals
How to View the List of Kerberos Principals
How to View a Kerberos Principal's Attributes
How to Create a New Kerberos Principal
How to Duplicate a Kerberos Principal
How to Modify a Kerberos Principal
How to Delete a Kerberos Principal
How to Set Up Defaults for Creating New Kerberos Principals
How to Modify the Kerberos Administration Privileges
Administering Kerberos Policies
Administering Kerberos Policies (Task Map)
How to View the List of Kerberos Policies
How to View a Kerberos Policy's Attributes
How to Create a New Kerberos Policy
How to Duplicate a Kerberos Policy
How to Modify a Kerberos Policy
How to Delete a Kerberos Policy
Using the SEAM Tool With Limited Kerberos Administration Privileges
Administering Keytab Files (Task Map)
How to Add a Kerberos Service Principal to a Keytab File
How to Remove a Service Principal From a Keytab File
How to Display the Keylist (Principals) in a Keytab File
How to Temporarily Disable Authentication for a Service on a Host
26. Using Kerberos Applications (Tasks)
27. The Kerberos Service (Reference)
Part VII Oracle Solaris Auditing
28. Oracle Solaris Auditing (Overview)
29. Planning for Oracle Solaris Auditing
30. Managing Solaris Auditing (Tasks)
31. Solaris Auditing (Reference)
The Kerberos database on the master KDC contains all of your realm's Kerberos principals, their passwords, policies, and other administrative information. To create and delete principals, and to modify their attributes, you can use either the kadmin or gkadmin command.
The kadmin command provides an interactive command-line interface that enables you to maintain Kerberos principals, policies, and keytab files. There are two versions of the kadmin command:
kadmin – Uses Kerberos authentication to operate securely from anywhere on the network
Other than kadmin using Kerberos to authenticate the user, the capabilities of the two versions are identical. The local version is necessary to enable you to set up enough of the database so that you can use the remote version.
Also, the Oracle Solaris release provides the SEAM Tool, gkadmin, which is an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that provides essentially the same capabilities as the kadmin command. See SEAM Tool for more information.


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The Center for Student Development and Health Services offers assistance to students seeking information, services, or resources for their overall well being and development. The Center provides physical and emotional consulting and services to all Bradley University students. Through the Health and Counseling Center, the professional staff offers a holistic approach to student wellness.
Student Health Services provides personal counseling services to aid in the total development of students as well as to enhance the success of their academic achievement. Services are provided by professional counselors and are confidential and free for Bradley students.
Health Services provides primary care for Bradley students. The Center offers care for injuries and short-term illnesses and advises students on medical matters. The physicians may also refer students needing more intensive physical or medical care to the Peoria health community.
The Center for Testing can assist students with assessment of their professional goals. Referrals to the appropriate departments may be made for further information about career and practicum opportunities.
The Wellness Program offers information to students about drug and alcohol prevention, nutritional needs, and sexual awareness.
This is the official catalog for the 2009-2010 academic year. This catalog serves as a contract between a student and Bradley University. Should changes in a program of study become necessary prior to the next academic year every effort will be made to keep students advised of any such changes via the Dean of the College or Chair of the Department concerned, the Registrar's Office, u.Achieve degree audit system, and the Schedule of Classes. It is the responsibility of each student to be aware of the current program and graduation requirements for particular degree programs.


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OK, it is getting just absolutely nuts out there. I am reading some; make that a lot of blogs out there that all have the same theme. By Carter saying that race is playing a part in how Obama is being treated somehow they think that everyone is saying that everyone is playing the race card. Somehow racism can't be a part of people disagreeing with Obama. And all the people hate Obama for what he has done.
One of the blogs I read said that people hated Obama because of what he has done to the country and what he is trying to do. Well, I'll bite. What exactly has Obama done? I personally don't care for Obama as I know for a fact that he cares as much about the black community as McCain or his idiotic sidekick moose hunter Palin. I just haven't seen anything that the guy has done or proposed that would cause all this anger.
Bush enacted the Patriot Bill which actually stole our so called "freedoms" and no one seems to have been out running to a tea party. Bush said that it was OK to wire tap AMERICAN CITIZENS in their homes which takes away my right to privacy and yet not one tea party or outcry from Glen Beck or anyone else who leans right.
Supposedly Obama has run up the deficit, yet where were these so called tea party folks when Bush practically sent this country to the poor house? Where in the hell do these uneducated loons think that this large as hell deficit came from? Trust me it didn't pop into existence the day Obama won the white house. Trust me it was there the day before, the year before. Hell it was there two, three and even four years before and was growing bigger every day.
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder where in the hell were all these people crying give us our country back? Why is it, all of a sudden a black man is in the white house and now we, and in case no one noticed the vast majority of these people are white, want the country back. Back from WHO!? Who in the hell has taken off with the country? Oh, yeah a black man. I get it.
Anyway, these people don't understand that it is one thing to disagree with the president, hell I do. I just really don't like this guy. But, when I am holding signs that say "there is an African lion in the zoo and an African lying in the white house"; I think we have gone far beyond just disagreeing with the president. There is NO need to mention is race or creed in order to make a point about how he is doing a bad job.
But, you see, my problem is that he really hasn't DONE anything that shows he did a bad job. He hasn't raised taxes (YET), he hasn't gotten us into two ridiculous wars, he hasn't sat idly by while a whole state of people practically drowned and starved for five days and he sure hasn't enacted a bunch of laws that strips Americans of their rights. And if he has, then why doesn't someone please list these taxes, wars, catastrophes and laws that he has helped to pass that would show me the reason for such anger.
I didn't support Bush either but I wouldn't jump down his throat if he had done nothing to hurt people. But the problem is he did. So there has to be something that this guy has done that would cause all these people to practically be chomping at the bit to overthrow the government. I have been listening to these people at the tea parties and health care protests and they say things that go against their own interests. So what is their real motive if not health care and taxes?


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The cover of Liber L vel Legis:
Let me go through it:
1. The db next to the man: d=4, b=2 giving 42 which is the English gematria of my surname Bllair.
2. On the right of the man we have some strange scribbles. They are in fact Japanese, the language I did my degree in. We have shi in hiragana, then the Chinese character shiro then An then katakana shi. Shiro means white but it has a homophone which means castle. The shi means city. I live in Ancaster which is An + Castrum, a castle. It's a Roman village.
3. The equation contains all the elements for my name, Justin.
4. The residuals in the equation add to 42, again my surname.
So, you are looking for someone called Justin in the village of Ancaster who speaks Japanese.
That pretty much narrows it down.


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The title says it all; I'm just serving data to coworkers as a courtesy via a series of single-page apps that I basically consolidated under Flask, serving Jinja templates. Presently, I have Apache running, and I just drop static HTML files in the path. But this was before employing Flask or a template engine and I'm unwilling to let it grow to the point that it becomes harder to maintain as a bunch of static HTML.
So in order to make the switch, I can either set up Apache to forward requests to my Flask app, or (b) just turn off Apache, tell my Flask app to
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=80) and then
sudo python myApp.py, done and done.
So is this unsafe? I can't speak to the level of security that our sysadmin employs to prevent outsiders from trolling around our local network, except that "it exists". Our LAN is regarded as inaccessible from the outside, but honestly I don't know anything about this kind of thing. Seems to me that if I can post on Stack Overflow from this computer, Someone Somewhere can see my app running and do Bad Things. I also understand this to be the less preferred practice, especially when something is supposed to be publicly available - but again, I'm just in the office here, and if I don't have to goof around with Apache .conf files then I'm happy to leave them alone and just turn Apache right off.
Am I setting myself up for a giant security fail, or is this fine within this context?


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Trying to move some assets from one database to another. They were uploaded to the wrong one and now I cant find a way of moving them from the one theyre on over to the correct one.
Have tried uploading to the tester and then downloading to the new database, but this doesnt work.
Have also tried dragging and droppping and also ecporting and importing on the new database, but nothing seems to work. Any help or ideas would be greatfully recieved.
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The Awl's Thomas Golianopoulos offers his suggestion for whom to root for as the 2011 U.S. Open plays out its final rounds. The shocker: putting Sam Stosur in his list of "most annoying" players.
Read: "Choosing Who To Root For (And Who To Hate) At The U.S. Open, The Awl.
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FlexiROC T45 proves its superiority
Germany's Mineral Baustoff GmbH, a member of the STRABAG SE Group, is one of Europe's leading raw materials producers.
August 13, 2013
The iron ore mining giant LKAB has been putting the new FlexiROC T45 surface drill rig to the test at its open pit operation in Svappavaara, in northern Sweden. The results were as dramatic as the landscape.
Atlas Copco's new FlexiROC T45 drill rig, introduced at this year at the Bauma fair in Germany, is considerably less "thirsty" and overall more efficient than its predecessor, the ROC F9. That's the conclusion at the open cast Svappavaara mine in the far north of Sweden, which is owned and operated by LKAB, one of the world's largest mining companies.
During tests at the mine, the rig, equipped with the COP 2560 rock drill, logged 500 impact hours, 200 hammer hours and a total of 12 500 drillmeters. It was used to drill 89 mm holes to an average depth of 15 m, mostly in iron-rich rock.
Atlas Copco Service Technician Patrik Lindqvist says: "The biggest advantage with the FlexiROC T45 is undoubtedly the fuel consumption. With its Tier 4 engine and exhaust purification system, it used 20.5 liters of diesel per hour, compared to 35 liters for the ROC F9. That's a big reduction in operational cost as well as CO2 emissions."
Lindqvist explains that the FlexiROC T45 operates on demand. "The operator tells it how much air is required for the compressor and that's exactly the amount of air he gets. Previously, a full air load was always delivered which meant that a lot of diesel was being used as the rig had to be run at a higher rpm. It was the same with hydraulics. However, with the new rig, you simply get the amount of pressure you ask for. There's no waste and you save fuel." Read the full story at Mining and Construction online.
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PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Louis Oosthuizen was worried about his back after losing in the quarterfinals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship to eventual winner Jason Day.
He's not out of the woods yet, though he was pleasantly surprised by how he felt at Doral last week.
Oosthuizen, whose back injury caused him to withdraw from two majors and not play a third one last season, said tests have revealed disk problems in the L-5 and S-1. He had two cortisone injections during his week off between the Accenture Match Play and Doral.
Of greater concern is practice.
Oosthuizen said he has only been able to warm up for about 30 minutes before each round. Even with arguably the sweetest swing in golf, ''You can't be consistent with your swing if you only do that,'' he said.
''But it's a lot better,'' he said. ''And that's a good sign.''
Oosthuizen is playing this week in the Valspar Championship.
MASTER PLAN: Roberto Castro, who went to Georgia Tech, played four rounds at Augusta National before he qualified for his first Masters this year.
He already has played twice in the fall, and plans two more rounds during the week of the Valero Texas Open.
How many times can he go before the Masters?
''Within reason,'' he said with a smile. ''They have been very nice to host me.''
He last went with Chris Kirk, who also lives in Atlanta, the week of Thanksgiving. The Eisenhower Tree was still standing, which Castro said presented a problem because he tends to hit a fade off the tee. What he remembers more is playing the championship tees on a cold, soft day.
''When the ball backs up in the fairway, it's like the longest course in the world,'' he said.
GRADUATION DAY: Even though he is coming up on the one-year anniversary of turning pro, Hideki Matsuyama of Japan already has played in all four majors and every World Golf Championship. As a PGA Tour member, one tournament he looked forward to playing was the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
That will have to wait.
The 22-year-old Matsuyama headed home after Doral for a big occasion. He's graduating from college.
Unlike Ryo Ishikawa, who turned pro as a teenager and played big events while working on a high school diploma, Matsuyama went to college and pursued his degree while competing against the world's best. His field of study was social welfare.
Asked if he was excited to graduate, Matsuyama smiled and said, ''I'm more excited about playing here in America.''
He won't play again until Augusta National, which makes him unusual in one respect. It takes most people at least one full year to go from a college degree to a Masters. For Matsuyama, it will only be a few weeks.
NEW SPONSOR: The LPGA Tour is off to a good start even before it starts its domestic schedule next week. JTBC, a leading broadcasting company in South Korea, has agreed to be the title sponsor of what now will be the JTBC Founders Cup in Phoenix.
The tournament is next week at Wildfire Golf Club.
JTBC is an affiliate of J Golf, which recently signed a contract extension with the LPGA Tour. Along with being a title sponsor in Phoenix, JTBC will be presenting sponsor at three other LPGA events this year. Those four events will be shown on JTBC's network, which is distributed to more than 21 million households in Korea.
Its first order of business for the Founders Cup was to give sponsor exemptions to Cheyenne Woods and former U.S Women's Open champion Birdie Kim.
DIVOTS: Patrick Reed (twice) and Ryan Moore are the only players to go wire-to-wire, including ties, in 16 stroke-play events on the PGA Tour this year. ... Derek Fathauer, who missed the cut last week in Chile, shot a 59 during a practice round for the Web.com Tour event in Brazil on Tuesday. ... Minjee Lee of Australia, the No. 1 amateur in the world, was among nine amateurs awarded exemptions to the Kraft Nabisco Championship on April 3-6, the first LPGA major of the year.
STAT OF THE WEEK: Tiger Woods earned $82,194 in his first three PGA Tour events as a pro in 1996. He has earned $86,919 in his first three PGA Tour events this year.
FINAL WORD: ''There are pretenders on Sunday, contenders and closers. The rarest of all golfers are closers that can actually win tournaments, not win by accident because of other people falling apart.'' – Johnny Miller


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This week in Digital Downloads we've got planes, fireballs, and blobs.
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Publisher's head of core games weighs in on Nintendo's new console, canceled Saints Row projects, and dormant properties.
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GODORT Conference Schedule Annual, 2011
[ALA Annual – New Orleans, LA June 24 – 28, 2011]
Hotel Map With Shuttle Bus Information
Hotels With GODORT Meetings:
- Morial Convention Center – MCC
- Loews New Orleans – LOEWS
- Sheraton New Orleans – SHER
- Westin Canal Place – WEST
GODORT Hotel: Royal Sonesta Hotel
Annual 2011 Conference Information
Friday, June 24, 2011
GODORT Steering1: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. - SHER Bayside A/B
Bylaws and Organization Committee: 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - SHER Oakley
Membership Committee: 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - SHER Crescent Boardroom Membership Agenda
Legislation Committee 1: 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. – SHER Gallier A/B
Nominating Committee: 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. – SHER Salon 824
GODORT Happy Hour: 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. – Bar Uncommon. 817 Common Street New Orleans, LA 70112. Located in the Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel (#22 on your ALA Hotel Map). Happy Hour special - $5 cocktails!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Awards Committee: 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - WEST River I
State and Local Documents Task Force: 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – WEST Ballroom I
CANCELLED - ALA Washington Office Update - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - MCC Rm 283
Program Committee: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – WEST River I]
Legislation Committee 2 Joint with COL/GIS: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. - WEST Azalea I
International Documents Task Force: 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – WEST Ballroom I
There's a Map for That! Maps and Tools you Didn't Know About - MAGERT Program (co-sponsored by GODORT) : 1:30 - 3:30 MCC Room 354
Have you ever felt stumped by a patron asking for a map? Designed for EVERY librarian, this 2-hour program will take through searching for digitized maps, using interactive maps, and creating your own maps online. Whether on the reference desk or for your personal mapping needs, there is a place for maps in every librarians' toolbox.
Development Committee: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – WEST River I
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Publications Committee: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. – LOEWS Acadia
Legislation Committee 3: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – LOEWS Acadia
Cataloging Committee: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – LOEWS Boardroom
Rare and Endangered Government Publications (REGP): 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – LOEWS St. Tammany
Education Committee and Federal Documents Task Force: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. - LOEWS LaFourche
Worried about where you'll find certain census data if/when the Stat Abstract goes away? Wonder which data resources are in the new American Fact Finder versus the legacy version? Want to know how to find focused economic information from the Economic Census and related programs? Find out the answers to the above at GODORT's Federal Documents Task Force and Education Committee joint short program (approximately an hour and a half). Two speakers from different areas of the Census Bureau will share their respective knowledge about Census Bureau products and how to use them to help your patrons. Andrew W. Hait, Survey Statistician/Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, will present "Economic Programs under the Hood—Tips and Tricks for Working with Economic Census Data." Dr. Tai Istre, State Data Resource Officer, Louisiana, will present "Finding Needles in a Haystack—Accessing Census Data and Products." The last half hour FDTF and Education will conduct brief separate business meetings. 2011 Education Annual Agenda, 2011 FDTF Annual Agenda
Government Information Technology Committee (GITCO): 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. – LOEWS Acadia General discussion of the role of GITCO in GODORT, and an update on e-learning.
Web Managers 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - LOEWS Boardroom
Legislation Committee 4: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. – LOEWS Acadia
GODORT Reception: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Louisiana State Supreme Court, 400 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA. 3 blocks north of Canal Street and diagonally across from Royal Sonesta Hotel, the GODORT hotel. UPDATE: cameras are allowed.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Proquest Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - Hilton Riverside Napoleon BR
GODORT Program 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Government Information and Civil Engagement - MCC Rm 348
How does the intersection of electronic publishing of government information and the ephemeral nature of social media change collection development and preservation of these 'documents' in libraries? This program will explore the ideas of obligation and stewardship of government information in libraries. Specifically, how should libraries change roles as people change their civic roles? If people are civically engaged through Facebook, Twitter, et al., what is the library's role in providing access? Whose responsibility is it to preserve the YouTube videos of presidential speeches or mayoral addresses? If these questions pique your interest, plan to attend this engaging panel discussion. Panelists include Amy Rudersdorf (State Library of North Carolina), Lori Donovan (Internet Archive) and Rebecca Troy-Horton (McNeese State University).
General Membership meeting: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - MCC Rm 334
Steering 2: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – MCC Rm 237


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Number 521, May 31, 2009
"There is good news and bad news."
What is the Ruling Class?
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
In giving this paper, I make no pretence to originality of thought. Everything I am saying today has been said alreadyusually better, and always in greater detailby Hans-Hermann Hoppe, by Roderick Long, by Kevin Carson, by Christian Michel, and by many others. If I can contribute anything to the libertarian analysis of class, it is brevity alone.
Libertarians often define a ruling class as that group of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, businessmen, therapists, educators and media people who derive income and position from the State. By definition, so far as such people operate as members of a ruling class, they are parasitic on the efforts of ordinary people. Their position comes from forcing others to act as they would not freely choose, or by excluding them from activities they might freely choose. Their income is based on forced transfers of wealth.
The size and activities of a ruling class will be determined by the physical resources it can extract from the people, by the amount of force it can use against them, and by the nature and acceptance of the ideology that legitimises its existence. None of these determinants by itself will be decisive, but each is a necessary factor. Change any one, and the working of the other two will be limited or wholly checked.
Of these determinants, the ideological are the most open to control and change. In the short term, resources are fixed in quantity. At any time, the amount of force available will be limited. What will always interest ruling classes, therefore, is the nature and acceptance of its legitimising ideology. This will vary according to circumstances that are not fully within the control of any ruling class. It may involve averting the Divine Wrath, or promoting acceptance of the True Faith, or protecting the nation from external or external enemies, or raising the condition of the poor, or making us healthier, or saving the planet from us. The claims of the ideology may, in other times and places, seem unfounded or insane. What they generally have in common is the need for an active state directed by the right sort of people.
Since the function of these ideologies is to justify theft or murder or both, they need to be promoted by endless repetitionwhich is a valid form of argument if truth is less important than winningand by at least the discouragement of dissent. Efficient promotion will produce a discoursethis being the acceptance of a language and of habits of thought in which dissent cannot be expressed without also conceding its immorality. Efficient promotion will also produce a state of almost universal false consciousnessin which ordinary people are brought to accept ideological claims as true that are opposed to their own interests as these might be reasonably considered.
Now, to speak of ruling classes, and in these terms, will often produce a strongly hostile reaction from libertarians and from conservatives. In the first place, it sounds like Marxism. Indeed, in summarising my own beliefs about a ruling class, I have deliberately borrowed terms from the Marxist theory of class"discourse", "false consciousness", "class consciousness". This is sure to disturb manyand perhaps many in this room. For at least three generations, our movement was at ideological war with Marxism. We did all we could to refute its claims and to spread the truth about its consequences wherever it was tried. To use its language to express broadly similar concepts will appear to be making concessions that amount to intellectual surrender.
In the second place, many libertarians deny that the concept of a ruling class has any meaning in our own world. In 1605, for example, Guy Fawks and his fellow conspirators tried to blow up Parliament while it was being opened by the King. If they had succeeded, they would have killed the King and the whole of the senior aristocracy and the leaders of the Established Church andgive or take a few nomineesthe leading men of every shire and town in England. At one stroke, they would have killed around seven hundred men, and this would have snuffed out the whole of the English ruling class.
And this was a ruling class. Its members were largely there by virtue of birth. They were often related to each other. They shared a common education. They dressed differently and spoke differently from those over whom they ruled. Generally, they were cleaner. They were committed to the Protestant faith and to the land settlement of Henry VIII. Their class consciousness was expressed in countless ways, and was reflected in their language. They spoke of "persons of quality" or "persons of gentle birth" or of "gentlemen".
In England or America today, whatever I call the ruling class is far larger and has far less apparent unity. I have defined it as a group of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, businessmen, therapists, educators and media and business people. Perhaps I should just call these a gathering of groups, united only in their competition for power and income via the State, and each with a different legitimising ideology. Perhaps they are best compared not to the undoubted ruling class of Jacobean England, but to the members of a French bus queue. The common defining characteristic of these latter is that they all want to get on the bus. But it plainly serves no analytical or propagandistic purpose to define them on these grounds as a class.
Then there is the problem of collective action. Members of a supposed ruling class, for examplejust as of a cartelhave personal interests as well as group interests. The former will often be more pressing than the latter; and the tendency over time will be for the rich and powerful to preach class solidarity while undermining it in their behaviour.
I will deal with the second of these objections in a moment. The first is easily answered. There is nothing specifically Marxist about the analysis of class and of class conflict. The Wealth of Nations is largely an exercise in class analysis. In France, J.B. Say was the father of a whole school of classical liberal class theory that was developed by, among others, Charles Compte, Charles Dunoyer and Augustin Thierry. In England, Cobden and Bright conceived their struggles against the corn laws and against war in terms of a class struggle. Marxian class theory, when it emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century, was one theory among many, and not at all the most prominent or most widely accepted.
This being said, Marxian class theory has, since then, received by far the most attention, and has been most fully developed. It is natural for many of us to feel uncomfortable about accepting any parts of this theory. But, if understandable, this is to be regretted. Marxism is false as a theory of human behaviour. But it has been developed by men of sometimes considerable talent and insight. To reject the incidental truths found by these men is rather like denouncing motorways because the first person to build them was Hitler. Astrology and alchemy were false sciences. Their claims about prediction and transformation were long ago falsified. Even so, the real sciences of astronomy and chemistry owe many incidental debts that no chemist or astronomer is ashamed to admit.
It should be the same with libertarians and conservatives in their view of Marxian class theory. Marx himself, together with Marxists like Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser and even Michel Foucoult, have much to tell us, and I am not ashamed to use Marxist terminology when I think it suits the needs of a libertarian class theory.
The main difference between Marxist and libertarian theories of class is in where each side locates the source of class power. For the Marxists, class power derives from ownership of the means of production. Standing in the tradition of Rousseau, Marx and his followers believe that mankind lived at first in a state of primitive communism, in which the means of production were held in common. This ended with the rise of a class that was able to take the means of production into its own possession. This class then set up the State as an executive committee to assist in its domination of everyone else. Since then, there have been successive revolutions as changes in the means of production have raised other classes to wealth, and these classes have then consolidated their own leading position by taking over the State.
According to this theory, therefore, the source of class power lies in wealth, and political power follows from wealth. This explains the Marxist belief that a communist revolution, by abolishing class domination, will rid the State of its oppressive nature. The State may then be dispensed from the liberal requirements of limitation and due process, and can be safely used as an instrument for ending such class power as remained. It will then, of itself, wither away.
This theory is manifestly false. Even without the thirty or fifty million corpses piled up by Marxist tyrannies in the twentieth century, it shows a terrible ignorance of human nature. Whether we dismiss the Marxists, in their main theory, as idiots or as villains depends on who is being discussed. But this is not to deny the incidental truths uncovered by Marx and his followers.
And these can be fitted into a libertarian class theory that locates the source of ruling class power in the State. For us, the State is not something created by the already powerful. It is, instead, something captured by those who want to become powerfuland who cannot become powerful by any other means. Without a state, there can be no exploitation. Without a state, the only transactions would be exchanges of value between free individuals from which all parties benefit according to their own conceptions of their interests. It is the State that can steal and kill. It is the State that raises up or calls into being groups that hope to benefit from the use of these powers, and that then constitute a ruling class. Abolish the Stateor severely limit its size and powerand class domination will fall to the ground. The groups that comprise the ruling class will either die like tapeworms in a dead rat, or will be forced to offer their services on terms attractive to willing buyers.
I will now deal with the second libertarian objection to the concept of a ruling class. I accept that there is a problem of collective action. But this does not make an absolute refutation. For some purposes, group solidarity may be weaker than the pursuit of individual interestsbut not always. Anyone who doubts this has only to look at the large number of young men in every generation who allow themselvesor volunteerto be put into uniform and sent out to die for their country. Cartels are generally accepted to be conspiracies against the public interest. Class solidarityso long as based on a legitimising ideology that is as firmly accepted by rulers as by ruledcan generally underpin collective action for many purposes and over long periods. Indeed, one of the sure signs that a ruling class has lost its will to rule is when significant numbers of those within it make fun of their legitimising ideology, or merely cease in private to believe in its truth. It is then that class solidarity becomes a sham, and the rulers begin to act like members of a cartel.
I also accept that ruling classes are, in our societies, much larger and more diverse than in the past. But accepting its size and diversity does not refute the claim that there is a ruling class. It is not necessary for the various groups I have mentioned to agree with each other in all respects. There is no reason for the ruling class to be monolithic. The medical establishment and tax gathering bureaucrats do not agree about state policy on smoking. Big business may disagree with the education establishment about what and how children are taught. Just a few years ago in England, the Government and the state-owned BBC fell out very bitterly over the Iraq War. During such disputes, different groups within the ruling class may even turn for physical or moral support to groups far outside the ruling class. They may even, from time to time, recast themselvesby accepting newly attractive groups, or expelling groups that no longer contribute to the class as a whole, or that endanger the continued existence of the class as a whole.
Even so, there is a general solidarity of interest that holds an effective ruling class together. No matter how they argue over the details of what the State is to do, its constituent groups will extend each other a mutual recognition of legitimacy. They agree that the State is a force for good, and that they are the right people to direct it. Their disputes will not be carried to the point where they knowingly undermine their overall legitimacy as a classor the legitimacy of any of the constituent groups. Roderick Long has likened modern ruling classes to Church and State in old Europe. For the better part of a millennium, these institutions foughtand often bitterlyover which should be the predominant force in their societies. They hardly ever lost sight of the fact that they had a common interest in keeping the rest of the population subject to authority.
Sot it is now. Anyone who has ever taken money from big business will surely have noticed how his paymasters have been willing to use weakened forms of libertarian ideology to make specific pointsbut have never shown interest in promoting libertarianism as a full agenda of attack. In all cases, libertarian defenders are brought in to argue for concessions from the taxing and regulatory groups of the ruling class. They are never permitted to argue against the general legitimacy of taxes or regulations. That would risk undermining the system from which all groupseven if they might lose out in the short termderive income and position in the long term.
This may be the common defining characteristic of a modern ruling classa belief in the State and in the right and fitness of the groups I have described to direct it, and to gain income and status from their positions within the State. And, as in the past, class consciousness is reinforced by more than commonality of interest. I grant that, in America and to a lesser but similar extent in England, individual position is no longer rigidly fixed by birth, and it is common for people, wherever they start in life, to rise or sink according to their abilities. Nevertheless, we can still see families and networks of families that, in generation after generation, turn out individuals who occupy positions within the ruling class. Remember names like Toynbee and Gore and Kennedy and Cecil.
Otherwise, members of the British and American ruling classes share a common outlook on the world that is gained by attending the same schools and universities, and that is maintained by small but significant movements from one group to another that comprise the ruling class. In England, for example, it is common for politicians to begin or to end their careers in the more privileged big business corporations or in other agencies that look for their existence to the State. And it is fairly common for people from these groups to be recruited into senior political or administrative positions. There may be cultural differences between these groups. But these are not so great as to endanger close cooperation between them in the common project of exploiting ordinary people.
I agree that this is not an entirely satisfactory account of the ruling class. If I were a Marxist, it would be much easier. A member of the ruling class is someone who owns the means of production. I cannot supply an equally clear common defining characteristic. I cannot even put too much emphasis on the parasitic nature of a ruling class. The groups comprising a modern ruling class are parasites so far as they act as a ruling class. But they will often act both as members of a ruling class and as members of the productive class.
Companies like Wallmart and Tesco, for example, are privileged organisations. They benefit from incorporation laws that let them exist in the first place, from transport subsidies that externalise their diseconomies of scale, from taxes and regulations that disproportionately harm their smaller competitors, and in many other ways. At the same time, they provide cheaper and better food than their customers might once have thought possible. The media may be a producer or and conduit for propaganda. At the same time, it provides entertainment that people appear to enjoy. The medical establishment wants to coerce us into giving up probably harmful things like tobacco and probably beneficial things like vitamin pills, and procures laws that limit patient choice. At the same time, it does appear to be encouraging rapid medical progress in at least some areas.
Western ruling classes are not like the Soviet Nomenklatura. Many of the groups within these ruling classes have double functions inside and outside reasonably functioning market systems. Their activities are illegitimate only so far as they take place outside the market.
And so, while I do believe that the concept of a ruling class has meaning in our societies, I cannot dispute that it has problems. Nevertheless, in spite of all reservations, I do believe that the concept of a ruling class is not wholly useless, and I do suggest that those of us who have so far paid it little attention might do well to give it some thought.


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The 2016 election may be three still three years away, but Republicans are already starting to audition for a spot in what is shaping up to be a very crowded Republican presidential primary.
Upwards of 15 conservative pols are quietly pondering White House bids, and several — Marco Rubio, Rand Paul— have already made their national ambitions well-known.
But while most of the top-tier candidates are already familiar — including names like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, and Paul Ryan— several rising stars emerged last weekend as potential dark-horse candidates for the 2016 nod.
Below are the top five Republican names you've never heard of — but are bound to hear about soon:
1. Dr. Ben Carson: The renowned pediatric neurosurgeon became an overnight conservative sensation last month, when he gently criticized President Barack Obama — to his face — during the National Prayer Breakfast. Since then, the Wall Street Journal has run an op-ed titled "Ben Carson for President," and BenCarsonForPresident websites, Facebook pages, and merchandise have cropped up across the Internet.
For now, Carson laughs off speculation that he will mount a White House bid.
"It's nothing that I would be interested in in the slightest — it's never been my intention to go into politics," Carson said in an interview with Business Insider before his CPAC speech. But, he added, "I will leave it in God hands."
And Carson definitely left the door open to a possible White House bid during his speech Saturday, when he announced that he will be retiring from medicine — opening up his schedule for more political pursuits.
2. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.): Although the Washington Congresswoman is largely unknown outside of her home district, McMorris Rodgers' star has been rising in the Republican Party, which is generally lacking in female leadership.
As chair of the House Republican Conference, McMorris Rodgers is the only woman on the House GOP leadership, and as such has earned substantial street cred among Establishment Republicans and the party's activist base. She was even floated as a possible running mate for Mitt Romney in 2012.
So far, McMorris Rodgers hasn't generated much 2016 buzz — but that may change if she continues her ascent to the top ranks of the GOP.
3. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: A favorite among Tea Party conservatives, Cuccinelli has been too wrapped up in Virginia's gubernatorial election to generate much 2016 buzz.
But regardless of whether or not he wins in Virginia this year, Cuccinelli may be tempted to at least explore a White House bid, especially if another far-right social conservative doesn't get in the race.
4. U.S. Sen. Tim Scott: As the first black Republican Senator from the South since the Reconstruction, Scott has caused an immediate sensation in the Republican Party. The South Carolina Republican was hand-picked by Jim DeMint to fill South Carolina's vacant Senate seat, and has quickly joined the ranks of other Tea Party insurgents like Paul and Utah Sen. Mike Lee.
At CPAC, Scott was a huge hit among conservatives, delivering a powerful — and surprisingly wonkish — speech that mixed stories of his childhood poverty with powerful criticisms of Obama's economic policies.
And while Scott is still relatively green to pursue a White House bid, a lot can change in three years.
5. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): Although he has only been in the Senate for two months, Cruz has already made an impression among his colleagues, antagonizing high-profile Democrats and Obama administration officials, while winning over the hearts of the the Republican grassroots.
Like Scott, Cruz is generally considered to be too inexperienced to mount a serious White House bid, and he would occupy the same space in the field as Paul, whom he aligns with on many issues. But regardless of whether he mounts a bid in 2016, Cruz will undoubtedly leave his mark on the Republican Party.
*Correction: A reader correctly points out that Cruz was born in Canada, which would appear to make him ineligible to run for President of the United States.
*Correction Update: Apparently, the Cruz eligibility question is not cut-and-dried. The Texas Senator told Fox News this week that he is, in fact, eligible to be president.


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Deeply Concentric: An Interview with Yael Kanarek
Yael Kanarek is interested in the signs and systems that we use to quantify and communicate knowledge, specifically words and numbers. She focuses on the spaces where meaning is conveyed or lost as it passes through cultural and disciplinary frameworks, while her work fluctuates between painting, sculpture, and time-based interactivity. She has exhibited at The Drawing Center and in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and has received numerous awards,[…..]


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The Gunther Report
Have we reached 'peak sustainability'? Thankfully, not...
Have we reached "peak sustainability"? It's both an intriguing and worrisome idea — the notion that the much-hyped green business wave of the late 2000s has come and gone. But a day spent at the GreenBiz Forum in New York, where the idea of peak sustainability was bruited about, leads me to believe — and to hope — that we are nowhere near a peak.
Peak sustainability is a term coined by John Davies, a vice president and senior analyst at GreenBiz, who works with dozens of big companies. As part of the excellent State of Green Business 2013 report, John has tracked the hiring of sustainability professionals by big companies and found that it has leveled off in recent years. He wrote:
It appears the wave of major companies hiring their first full-time sustainability executives crested long ago. ... If hiring a senior executive to champion and coordinate sustainability efforts full-time is a leading indicator of future efforts, there's a case to be made that such efforts may have plateaued. ... Could it be that pretty much everyone who's coming to this party has already arrived?
Meantime, marketing and media devoted to corporate sustainability, as well as to all things green, appears to be slipping. The high-profile greening initiatives at GE, IBM and Walmart are a bit lower profile lately. Remember the cover story on global warming in, of all places, Sports Illustrated? That ran way back in 2007. If SI has returned to the topic, I missed it. Its parent company, Time Inc., laid off its sustainability team as the magazine business slumped.
But as the first day of the GreenBiz Forum unfolded, an array of speakers, including both senior executives from big companies and idealistic, young entrepreneurs, described how they are moving sustainability initiatives forward inside their organizations. Not fast enough, surely not boldly enough, but often in innovative ways that are likely to spread. Some examples:
Microsoft's carbon fee: The technology giant has since last July imposed an internal carbon fee on all its divisions, requiring them to pay a "tax" for each ton of greenhouse gas emissions that they generate, whether by operating data centers, taking business trips or heating and cooling office buildings. Tamara (TJ) DiCaprio, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s senior director of carbon and energy, said the carbon fee is helping to focus executives throughout the company on efficiency, as well as creating a pool of revenue — roughly $10 million this year — that can be deployed to finance efficiency measures and buy renewable energy credits and offsets to help the company achieve its carbon-neutral goal.
Asking each division to pay a cost of carbon, she said, drives environmental accountability through the organization. "Suddenly, on their P&L [profit and loss statement], people see a carbon fee," she said. How much is Microsoft charging per ton? She declined to be specific, saying only that "we started with a price that wouldn't shock the system." But she said the company projects that the $10 million in annual revenues generated by the fee is expected to grow to $50 million by 2020.
This is an innovative notion, and one that other companies — Shell and Disney, among them — have put into place. They'll all be better prepared if governments around the world come to their senses and choose to price carbon. For more, here's a recent GreenBiz interview with TJ.
Sharing is caring: Instead of trying to make big companies "less bad," as they have done for much of their careers, Adam Werbach and Andy Ruben started Yerdle last fall to try to change the way people think about consumption. Yerdle is a platform for giving things away, and getting things you need, all at no cost as a way to discourage wasteful consumption and encouraging sharing. [See Joel Makower's story, "Can yerdle turn consuming less into the next big thing?"]
So far, Adam said in his presentation, things are going well. The website has about 10,000 members, most in San Francisco, where it's growing at a rate of about 6 percent per week. This week, it's rolling out in New York. He talked about his own career trajectory, as he moved from leading the Sierra Club to consulting for Walmart to his startup. Incremental change is valuable, Adam acknowledged — he talked some about the benefits of reducing the materials and energy that go into a plastic fork — but he's more excited by the potential for changing the way that people consume. "It's a lot more fun talking about the good" than it is trying to minimize the bad, he said.
"Sharing will become the new shopping," he said. We can hope.
Wall Street, friend of the planet?: Erika Karp of UBS and Matt Arnold of JPMorganChase are working from the inside out to raise awareness of the environmental risks and opportunities facing the big investment banks and their clients. They're both passionate about sustainability, which made my job — moderating their conversation — easy.
Erika oversees all of the global sector research at UBS, and says she is having some success persuading analysts that research into ESG — environmental, social and governance — provides a valuable window into the quality of corporate management. "Arguably, all these ESG metrics are a proxy for quality," she said. If her hypothesis is right, companies that pay heed to their long-term environmental risks and opportunities will over time outperform their peers. That remains to be seen.
Matt described JPMorgan's extensive efforts to first learn about the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and then to work with nearly 100 of the bank's clients that engage in fracking, in an effort to persuade them to share best practices. That's gone well, he said. Harder, he said, has been making the case that the big banks should turn away from financing companies that build coal plants in the developing world, particularly in places like India where hundreds of millions of people desperately need electricity.
There was much more packed into the day — sober talk about the energy, food and water risks from Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute; an inspiring presentation from Kavita Shukla, the young founder of Fenugreen, which makes paper that keeps fruits and vegetables fresher and longer — check out her story. Also, some sage advice on navigating a CEO transition from two veteran sustainability executives, Tod Arbogast of Avon and Dave Stangis of Campbell's Soup.
More to come tomorrow from Day 2 of GreenBiz Forum New York.
Photo of Dave Stangis, Campbell's Soup vice president of CSR and sustainability, and Tod Arbogast, vice president of sustainability and corporate responsibility, Avon at GreenBiz Forum New York courtesy GreenBiz Group.


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What's Better Than a Hockey Wreck?
That's right: a FREE hockey Wreck.
Now, I know nothing about hockey. I would not even know this cake was hockey-related if the word 'hockey' wasn't on there. So I asked my hubby John, and he was only too happy to explain the whole game for me. And you know what? It's actually kind of interesting! So for the benefit of you other non-sports types, here's a quick rundown:
See, apparently they play this sport on ice - but they have to make sure the ice is really thick, or else their cleats will scuff it all up. The players wear lots of padding and helmets, and carry little butterfly nets on sticks with which to hit the ball around. The object of the game is to score a triple Hail Mary - which is just another name for a running slam dunk - and consists of knocking three other players down while simultaneously dunking the ball through one of the red rings. Players known as running backs try to kick the ball, but the other team's catchers use their heads and butterfly nets to deflect the ball away from their side's field goal. Any running backs who are able to push the other team's running backs out of the big circle in the middle get what's called a free throw, in which they're allowed to chuck the ball at the head of their least favorite player. If they miss, their team only scores a half-down, but if the ball hits the other player, they score a hole-in-one.
There was also some stuff about yard lines, birdies, and triple-axles, but I kind of zoned out at that point. Still, I think I just may have to check out a hockey game some day; John tells me every time the pitcher serves a kill-shot, the mascot serves hot chocolate. How cool is that?!?


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Home Office, EHRC rap top cop knuckles
Over-enthusiastic plodding alienates public
The age-old dilemma of whether the police need more powers in order to carry out their job effectively was back in the public arena this week.
First, there was the publication of advice to police chiefs by Home Office Minister David Hanson warning in no uncertain terms that police over-enthusiasm to use Terror laws to clamp down on photography was counter-productive and undermining the War on Terror. On Monday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its report into recent police "stops", accusing several police forces of getting it wrong and disproportionately targeting members of black and Asian minorities.
While these two issues are not directly connected, the underlying issue is much the same. Do police help their cause by being heavy-handed and potentially alienating large swathes of the public? Or is a softer, gentler form of policing likely to pay dividends in the long run?
Let's start with the Home Office advice. Back in August last year, David Hanson read the riot act to chief constables. He wrote: "Section 44 [of the Terrorism Act 2000] cannot be used to prohibit the taking of photographs in public places nor make members of the public delete images that have been taken. The possible misuse of section 44 powers in this way is having a damaging effect on the credibility of our counter-terror legislation and we must do everything we can to ensure it is stopped."
He added out that s58A cannot be used in this fashion either, and asked police chiefs to ensure that existing guidance is cascaded to all officers on the street.
We know this now, because a copy of Hanson's letter – plus the new guidance – was placed in the House of Commons library last week. Observers of police tactics had already guessed that something of this kind had been put out, as last autumn, various highly-placed coppers, including John Yates, an assistant commissioner at the Met, and Chief Constable Andy Trotter both issued warnings to the rank and file along these lines.
This advice from the Home Office meshes neatly with the recent report by the EHRC that concludes that "a number of forces are using the tactics in a way that is disproportionate and possibly discriminatory".
The EHRC has upped the ante, suggesting that it may be prepared to take legal action against the worst offending police forces. Targets for such action are likely to include Dorset, Hampshire, Leicestershire and Wandsworth.
Of course, we have been here before. In the aftermath of the Brixton riots in the early 80s, Lord Scarman reported that a major factor contributing to racial alienation – and therefore acting as catalyst to the riots – was the discriminatory use of "sus laws". These powers, part of the Vagrancy Act 1824, enabled police to stop and search individuals "on suspicion", and were repealed in 1981.
There have been concerns that anti-Terror laws would be used in a similar way. However, the racial mix of individuals stopped under counter-Terror legislation appears to be more or less in line (pdf) with the racial mix in the UK as a whole – prompting some cynics to suggest an unofficial policy within the police to top up their stats by stopping individuals of non-minority ethnicity in order to make the figures look better.
The current headline figure for police "stops" is derived mostly from stops carried out under PACE.
Critics have argued that the police would be better served by a more selective use of the powers they already have, but politicians from both major parties have taken a tougher line. Back in 2008, the BBC reported that Gordon Brown was planning to give police the power to stop and search people without giving a reason.
Meanwhile, David Cameron was expressing support for measures that would allow police sergeants to authorise the use of stop and search of pedestrians and vehicles in a specific area for up to six hours - or 48 hours if permission is granted by a senior officer. ®