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Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King
Cambridge University Press, 23 mag 2005
Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition, a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an important music theorist, and the leader of a powerful Greek city-state. He is famous for sending a trireme to rescue Plato from the clutches of the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in 361 BC. This 2005 study was the first extensive enquiry into Archytas' work in any language. It contains original texts, English translations and a commentary for all the fragments of his writings and for all testimonia concerning his life and work. In addition there are introductory essays on Archytas' life and writings, his philosophy, and the question of authenticity. Carl A. Huffman presents an interpretation of Archytas' significance both for the Pythagorean tradition and also for fourth-century Greek thought, including the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.
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Art School Rejects
Ever wonder what happened to all the people who submitted their drawings of Tippy the Turtle and were rejected by the famous artist school?
Think about it:
How else can you explain someone promising this...
... and then delivering this?
"Square. Dots. Tag. Nailed it!"
Or how about this Mad Hatter's treat?
"Just the two top tiers, you say? In pink, purple, and green? Cool."
"You mad?"
"So this one wants a cake with a big bow and a bald baby? Noooo problem."
"That'll be $49.95."
Of course, sometimes bad art can have consequences. After all, there's a fine line between cute as a button:
... and lifelong therapy.
"Can't sleep; button-eyes will eat me."
Thanks to Adriane D., Cara N., Joana, Anony M., and Tippy for the artful education.

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The SKY78117-14A SkyOne® Ultra 2.0 is a multimode multiband (MMMB) Front-End Module (FEM) that supports 4G handsets and operates efficiently in FDD/TDD LTE modes. The FEM consists of an LTE block operating in the high bands, a logic control block for multiple power control levels. RF I/O ports internally matched to 50 ohms minimize the need for external components. Extremely low leakage current maximizes handset standby time. The InGaP/GaAs die and passive components are mounted on a multi-layer laminate substrate and the assembly encapsulated in plastic overmold.
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Receiver Section: The SKY78117-14A integrated Duplexers support Downlink Carrier Aggregation (CA) for additional Rx data rate and provide 4G Rx paths from antenna to LNA port of RFIC. Carrier Aggregation requirements for noise and harmonics are designed-in for best desense performance. Optimized low insertion-loss Rx paths, matching circuits, and well-grounded guard traces (high Tx–Rx isolation) inside the module mitigate desense problems and enhance sensitivity performance. An integrated RX consolidated switch provides the ability to match different RX port mapping on different platforms.
TRx and Rx Ports: The SKY78117-14A provides three Tx ports and one Antenna port (Band 7).


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with commentary by Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD, MPH; Carol Keohane, RN, BSN, Bar Coding for Medication Safety, September 2008
Medication safety in hospitals depends on the successful execution of a complex system of scores of individual tasks that can be categorized into five stages: ordering or prescribing, preparing, dispensing, transcribing, and monitoring the patient's response. Many of these tasks lend themselves to technologic tools. Over the past 20 years, technology has played an increasingly larger role toward achieving the five rights of medication safety: getting the right dose of the right drug to the right patient using the right route and at the right time. While several of these technologies may incur significant upfront and maintenance costs, the net impact over time may be reduced overall institutional costs and improvements in work efficiency. Examples of technologic tools commonly seen in many hospitals today include computerized provider order entry (CPOE) with decision support and automatic dispensing carts, also known as medication dispensing robots. While outside the scope of this Perspective, it is important to emphasize that many nontechnologic interventions, such as clinical pharmacists on physician rounds, can be equally effective in improving medication safety.


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|Human Computer Interaction in Interactive Information Environments with a focus on Groups - SIG HCI Research Symposium
Half Day Seminar, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, 8:30am-12:30pm (separate fee)
This symposium will focus on the challenges of groups with a view to addressing how technologies support and are used by groups for information access and use. While social computing has emerged as phenomena among distributed communities, we have yet to full understand the social computing at the group level whether face-to-face or in distributed environments. The following specific questions will be discussed:
How do groups use highly interactive computing technologies to access, use, and share information?
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When I attended the PrimeTest course last year we were given some test sequences to enter that may be useful… they were! BUT…
My machine has just been for its hols to seaward HQ as it developed a fault, now it's back firmware updated, fault fixed and working fine but those 'extra' tests are gone I thought I had copied the machines data to my PC but as yet have been unsuccessful in reinstalling it to the tester. Does anyone know these extra test sequences?
The two I use mainly are:-
Alternative class 1 test for a plastic encased appliance where no earth bond is available
And the extended run test for data projectors to allow the bulb to cool after a run test
I think there was a third but as I am now getting old and forgetful I really can't think what (if any) it was!
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Discover business opportunities, in or around Adams County, with well-established brands, who are looking for people like you to help them grow.
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An Introduction to Multicultural Education
Allyn and Bacon, 2002 - Education - 161 pages
In this succinct, yet comprehensive book, leading authority James A. Banks gives readers a forward-reaching look toward increasing their understanding of what multicultural education means for classroom teaching in contemporary classrooms. Here he explores the concepts, principles, theories, and practices of multicultural education in such key areas as: the goals and misconceptions of multicultural education; citizenship education and diversity in a global age; curriculum transformation; curriculum reform; and, school reform and intergroup education. Included are checklists for evaluating informational materials and evaluating multicultural education. An Introduction to Multicultural Education is ideal for pre-service and practicing educators who require a concrete approach but have little time to devote to the topic.
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What sets any temple apart, making it different from all others, bringing pilgrims from afar to admire, even worship, it? Sometimes in India it's history, the place having become known by an enlightened saint's visit or a legendary event. Other times it's a miracle or a power for which the temple is known: healing, visions, yogic insight, wealth or even finding a good husband.
The wish-fulfilling crystal on Kauai has such power, one of a dozen aspects of the Island Temple that conspire to make it extraordinary. Hindu scriptures say that of all the icons permitted in a Siva temple, none is more profound than the Sivalingam, or "mark of Lord Siva," for it represents the timeless, formless, spaceless, causeless Absolute Reality that is the core of all existence. And of all Sivalingams, the texts continue, the greatest is the naturally-formed crystal, called svayambhu sphatika in Sanskrit.
Iraivan's 700-pound, 39-inch tall, perfectly pointed and six-sided gem looks and feels curiously smooth, like cool ice. Yet it was neither carved nor polished, but discovered in 1975 in Arkansas, USA, in a small chamber 65 feet below the surface of the Earth where it took 50 million years to grow. Noted one Indian pilgrim to Kauai: "Of course it's holy. It was made by God, not by man."
The master architect in charge of Kauai's Island Temple, Thiru V. Ganapati Sthapati--whose family has for generations been builders and who is also directing a Statue-of-Liberty-scale stone monument of Saint Tiruvalluvar at Cape Comorin--told Hinduism Today that Iraivan in Hawaii will be his finest masterpiece, the summit of his craft. In speaking of this jewel in the Pacific, tears came to his eyes. He lamented how people have forgotten the old arts, opting for efficiency over art and for economy over beauty. To him, "This temple is not only a place where we worship but is an object of our worship." To him, the stones are not inert. They are alive. They contain a lyrical sound, "They sing their own praises to the Lord." He has termed the several works of art the "wonderments of Iraivan." The island setting is itself a wonderment, as are the grounds on the river bank where the temple will sit. Other uncommon elements include the requirement that Gurudeva has made that the temple be carved entirely by hand. Gurudeva is not permitting any electric tools, hydraulic tools, any modern implements, to be used in its creation. He is asking the team to carve this in the old way, in order to preserve the skills and pass them on to the next generation. Only the hammer and sixty kinds of iron chisels are being used. Iraivan is singular in its purity, too. And he has asked them to quarry the stones in the old manner as well. This means time-consuming work by hand, without the use of dynamite, which Indian builders say "shatters the molecular integrity of the granite, ruining the musicality of the stone." When Gurudeva decreed that only Siva would be enshrined inside, the architect was thrilled, saying that it used to be that way in ancient India, but in recent centuries all the Deities have been added. Lords Ganesha and Muruga will have charming shrines beside the 12-foot-wide entry steps leading up from the Wailua River, but upon entering the Island Temple, visitors will only encounter Lord Siva, in His compassionate, mystical and multifarious manifestations.
Unique is the word for them, the enchanting components of the temple. There are the two monolithic musical pillars, single black stones five feet wide and thirteen feet tall. Craftsmen carefully carve out 16 thin "rods" which when struck with a mallet give a different and precise musical tone. This is by far the most difficult challenge to the sculptors' skills. The only other musical pillars carved this century, less elaborate than Iraivan's, are V.G. Sthapati's work, shown here in New Delhi.
The stone chain and bell that will greet pilgrims at the entry gate look simple enough, but they, too, are rare. In the Island Temple the chain's links and the 32-inch diameter bell are all carved out of the same giant stone, so they are totally interconnected. The bell hangs from a ceiling in which the motto "One God, One World" will be carved in hundreds of languages. The bell is rung with a sandalwood mallet.
Two six-inch-thick sandalwood doors leading to the main sanctum will be elaborately carved with sacred motifs and hung on polished black-granite frames. Ironically, though scriptures require these, they have not been part of any temple for hundreds of years. Asked why, the architect smiled, "These doors are made from the finest heartwood, carved to perfection. The first time they are left unguarded, thieves take them off their hinges. So, long ago temples stopped making them."
The eight lion pillars are special, since a ball is carved inside the lion's mouth. Pilgrims can reach in to twist and turn the ball. Iraivan's are more elaborate than shown here.
Twin time capsules will be installed in the foundation, one high-tech, argon-gas, stainless steel canister and another old-style rock crypt holding sand and etched copper plates. Both will preserve the philosophy, people and culture that gave life to the temple, to be opened 1,000 years from now to inspire and inform generations yet to be born. Imagine their wonderment in opening the chambers!
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The Big Brother house is back and ready for its next batch of contestants ahead of the launch of the new series on Thursday, June 5.
It has been stripped of much of its furniture, but includes a high-tech touch pad that scans housemates' hands before they are allowed in the diary room.
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There is also an interactive LED wall that will change each week to reflect who is nominated for eviction, a swimming pool and a pod set high above the garden letting contestants spy on their housemates on the ground.
The house is also packed with mirrors with cameras behind each one to follow the contestants every move.
Emma Willis is returning as the host of the Channel 5 show with a live special to welcome the new housemates.


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Michael's craft stores offer free crafts
Friday, June 18, 2010
Michael's craft stores have been offering free events for awhile now. It's an easy (and FREE!) way to have fun on a boring afternoon.
The schedule for June and July is as follows:
June 18th - Father's Day T-shirt Event (purchase a T-shirt to participate in this event) - 6 pm-8pm
June 19th - Father's Day Card Event - 10am-2pm
June 25th - Michael's Crop Night - $5 reserves your spot - 5pm-8:45pm
June 26th - FREE Family Event - 4th of July craft - 10am-2pm (there is also a separate event for Canadian stores)
July 17th - Wilton Fondant Fun - free demo - 1pm-3pm
July 30th - Teacher's Crop Night - Teacher Appreciation Event - 1pm-8:45 pm
July 31st - FREE Family Summer Fun powered by Crayola - 10am-2pm
Find your local Baltimore Michael's store to participate in these events!


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The German Federal Office for Information Security's homepage advises that not only your your electrical wiring can be a source of damage caused by power surges. Your connection to the telephone network and Internet (for example over the DSL connection) can also be a source of damage to connected devices. You can avoid damage if you always disconnect your devices from the Internet, telephone network, and the power supply whenever there is a thunderstorm. Do not reconnect them until the thunderstorm is over.
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Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens and said softly, "Behold — the only thing greater than yourself." "Roots," Alex Haley
JUFFURE, Gambia — Her hand clamped over my wrist and dragged me into her dim little shop.
"You buy?" she said, thrusting a tie-dyed shirt toward me. "850 dalasi."
Shaking my head, I tried to leave, dragging her with me like a weight. "OK, lady, 600," she said frantically. "Now you say 400." That was still $16. I shook my head and walked away.
Swarms of children surrounded me, hands out. Then, a local guide sharply scolded the crowd. They quickly melted away, leaving only the heat and the quiet and a strange disquiet, too. This is what Juffure is trying to get away from — its reputation as a hustler haven.
Since writer Alex Haley traced his roots to his Mandinka ancestor Kunta Kinte in this poor Gambian village in the late 1960s, Juffure's residents have come to depend on tourists, sometimes aggressively so. Despite the town's historical importance, many visitors have taken to avoiding the place. "Nowadays people are not showing interest like they did before," says Gambian guide Mojou Jallow of Tours Bijilo. "Most people are interested in the birds and the customs and traditions of the people."
Even the new Rivers of West Africa cruise I'm on has skipped this town, so I've taken a little tour boat back here by myself to check it out. "Roots" sold nearly 6 million copies. It won a 1977 Pulitzer Prize and a 1977 National Book Award. The 1977 miniseries was seen by an estimated 130 million people.
In Gambia, the impact of "Roots" was huge, as well. It made this tiny nation, where hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken, the allegorical home of the estimated 12 million sold into slavery. An annual "Roots" festival was created and still runs each February. Kunta Kinte's home town of Juffure turned into a commercial tourist attraction, as did nearby James Island and the village of Albreda.
"He was a one-man symbol for every person taken from Africa into slavery," is the way Assan Saine, a guide for Gambia Tours, puts it. That is why officials there are trying hard to change the tourism experience from hassle to something more serious and moving.
Locals run the tours
Among the new developments: Local guides now run the tours, not outside guides. That means they are more interested and able to cut down on harassment of tourists, especially by mothers who send their children out to sing and beg when they see tourists arriving. There's a very good small museum about the slave trade in Gambia. There is a replica of an 18th-century slave ship. A children's center has crafts that tourists can buy, helping the schools — and keeping kids from begging in the streets.
Most important is the restoration work done last year on historic James Island, 3 miles offshore from Juffure and Albreda. This important and eerie UNESCO World Heritage site is where slaves were held before being shipped to the Americas, so it's a critical piece of history. In February, the Gambian government renamed it Kunta Kinteh (their spelling) Island.
Still, more work needs to be done to prevent the river from one day swallowing the whole site. Today, I meet Mariama Fofana, known in Juffure as an eighth-generation descendent. Under a covered portico, she sits in a plastic chair next to a cousin. She speaks not at all, just smiles as people shake her hand. Behind her on the wall is taped a big newspaper photograph of Gambia's president and dictator, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh. Omar Taal is selling a book he wrote. It is called "Discovery Guide to Juffureh, the Gambia" ($10).
The guide explains that the book, which uses a different spelling of Juffure, tells the family story from the locals' point of view. I buy it. Taal, who says he's a Kinte relative, autographs it.
The highlight of a visit to this region is newly named Kunta Kinteh Island. A quick 10-minute boat ride from shore, it sits forlornly in the middle of the Gambia River. Nobody lives here. Nobody sells anything. Visitors wander the sad, sinister ruins on the shrinking island covered with naked trees. The island is only one sixth as big as it used to be, as the river rises and washes away the evidence of major slave trading in West Africa.
When the British outlawed slavery in Gambia in 1807, the story goes, there were 90 slaves left on James Island. Officials told them if they could swim to Albreda-Juffure, they could be free. Not a single one made it. Today, as the tour boat Joven Antonio motors back upriver toward Gambia's capital city Banjul, I watch the island and villages vanish in the river's mist.
With a cup of tea, I settle down to read Taal's book about his ancestor. There's an interesting introduction, then a notice of copyright, then a strangely sophisticated account of how Haley found his roots. It is only when I get home and do a quick Google search that I realize Taal has ripped me off. His book is a word-for-word copy of Chapter 5 of a 2005 American book, "Alex Haley: Author" in the Black Americans of Achievement series, by David Shirley (Chelsea House Publications, $35).
Five things about a "Roots" tour
• Before your trip, read (or re-read) Alex Haley's book "Roots" (Vanguard Press, $17.95). Whether Kunta Kinte actually was Haley's real ancestor or not (critics have charged he wasn't), the book is rich and compelling.
• It is possible that next year's Rivers of Africa cruise will include a stop at Juffure. If it does not, you still can go while the M/Y Pegasus is docked in Gambia's capital city, Banjul. Best to go by boat, not by road. Book your tour through the cruise line or from Gambia Tours for about $75. Alternatively, attend the annual "Roots" Festival in February (rootsgambia.gm).
• Do not hand out treats, money or water bottles to children in the villages — it just leads to more begging. It also stirs up jealously between the kids. If you want to contribute, buy a product made by children that benefits the schools.
• Shop for very good woven fans (about $4 for two) or batik (about $10). With temperatures often hovering near 100 degrees, you can't have too many fans.
• Stop at the town's slave museum and James Island (now Kunta Kinteh Island), a UNESCO World Heritage site.


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Hi y'all! I'm Kelly from Kelbysews. I've only been sewing a year and I'm completely addicted to the Moda Bake Shop. Obviously, I was thrilled when they liked my little project! I was gifted some chalk cloth and I had an idea for a kids' project, but then I realized I desperately needed a to-do board. With all my quilt ideas, quilting bee blocks, swaps, etc., I was starting to forget what I was supposed to be working on! Rather than hang one of those boring white dry erase boards, I decided to make my own quilted chalkboard organizer. This is an easy project you can complete in a day and it's a great way to use those charm packs you've been hoarding. Please tell me I'm not the only one who collects charm packs like a squirrel does acorns! Hope you guys like it and find it as cute and practical as I do!
1 Sherbet Pips Charm Pack (you only need 37 squares)
12.5″ square of chalk cloth
1/4 yard for binding (you only need 5″ x WOF)
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fabric origami: Lisa has a great tutorial for this on her blog
You will need 37 charms for this project. Select 3 prints for the outside of the pockets. I chose my favorite charms that also had the print well centered. Select 3 more charms for the inside of the pocket. Choose 20 charms for the back. You will need only 11 charms for the front, but if you'd like a bit more variety in the prints for the front, you may use the remaining 5 charms.
Cut the 11 charms you set aside for the front into (4) 2.5″ squares.
Cut a 12.5″ square of chalk cloth. There are lots of places to buy this online.
Layout the 2.5″ squares and monkey around with the placement until you're happy. I did this somewhat randomly, only making sure I did not have two of the same print right next to each other. It is important if you have directional prints that you sew the rows with the print in the correction direction, so laying all the squares out like this is helpful. Using a 1/4″ seam allowance, sew 4 rows of 6 squares and 2 rows of 10 squares. Chain piecing makes this process go by very quickly. Press seams open.
Sew 3 rows of 6 squares together.
With right sides together, sew the 18 square unit to one side of the chalk cloth. WARNING!!!! Once you put a hole in chalk cloth it is there for life so be careful while sewing. Do not use pins on the chalk cloth!
WARNING!!! Yep, another one! You CANNOT iron chalk cloth. Got that? No ironing! Nada, zip, zilch. Unplug your iron now please! The chalk cloth will no longer work if you iron it! Finger press the chalk cloth toward fabric.
I also finger press the fabric away from the chalk cloth on the front side.
Next, sew the remaining row of 6 squares onto the opposite side from where you just attached the unit of 18. This will be the top. Now sew a row of 10 squares on either side. I use pins only on the areas that do not have chalk cloth. Do you see that blue pin? I made sure it was going through fabric only! The key here is to sew slowly. If you rush, your squares will not line up–trust me, I know!
You should now have something like this. Remember, do NOT iron this!!!! I suppose you could iron the fabric part on the bottom, but I think it's best to play it safe and keep your irons far, far away.
Part of the reason I chose a more random layout is because I can never sew the squares back in the order I laid them out. Hence, I now have a dog with four ears! This was completely unintentional as you can see by my initial layout. Thankfully, any boo-boos on the bottom will most likely be covered by the pockets we will attach later.
Now to piece the backing. Using 1/4″ seam allowance, sew the charms you set aside for the back into 5 rows of 4 charms. Press seams open.
I grouped mine by color just for fun.
Sew the rows together to create a rectangle that is 4 charm squares across and 5 charm squares down.
Cut a piece of batting at least as big as the backing. I cut mine slightly larger. Layer the backing, batting, and chalkboard top. I lifted up the top and batting to make sure the top was well centered on the backing.
The little opening I left at the bottom of the pocket.
Trim the corners, being careful not to clip your stitching.
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My friend James thinks he has the Zuckerberg wedding figured out. James has a distaste for marriage. Long story. He is deeply in love with his girlfriend, though, and making her happy is one of his primary goals. They are both geezers like me and have been married before. So I would just look at it that Zuckerberg is a kid and hasn't been married, so of course he is going to marry his girlfriend. James pointed out to me, though, that the kids nowadays are more into hooking up and cohabiting. James talks to me a lot, because I am one of the few people that can understand him. He has a peculiar mixture of idealism and cynicism and like me has seen too many tax returns, which can warp ones thinking. Here is how our conversation went:
James: I figured it out. Transfer taxes.
Me: What are you talking about?
James: Priscilla Chan. It is about transfer taxes.
Me: Who is Priscilla Chan?
James : The girl he married.
Me: The girl who married?
James: You know Zuckenwhatever - the Facebook kid. (James has trouble with last names of more than two syllables.) You've been screwing around with Dungeon Overlord again instead of paying attention. I don't know why Forbes ever hired you. (I've given up on explaining to James that I am just a contributor to Forbes.com.) Mark Zucksomethingorother, the Facebook kid, just married his girl friend. Her name is Priscilla Chan - Doctor Priscilla Chan. She just graduated from medical school. According to one thing I read she wants to be a pediatrician. That's the medical equivalent of a vow of poverty. On the other hand, they are the nicest people in the world. You know what Tony used to say.
Me: Nobody gets one hundred percent. (James and I had a mutual client many years ago who used to wax philosophical. One of his theories was that nobody could have too much of the good things of life. A surplus in one area probably meant a deficit somewhere else. If Tony heard of someone who was rich, smart, healthy and good looking, he would be afraid to get on the same plane with that person.)
James: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway it is just like that bonus I got. Only he has to worry about transfer taxes.
Me: James, that bonus you got was a hundred grand. Zuckerberg is getting billions from the Facebook IPO.
Me: James, that bonus you got was a hundred grand. Zuckerberg is getting billions from the Facebook IPO.
James: That's where I come out ahead. Few things can make you happier than having your girlfriend be happy. I get a hundred grand I give my girlfriend ten grand to pay off her credit cards and she's happy. Zuckerberg gets ten billion, he wants to give his girlfriend a billion so she can pay off her medical school loans and personally open up some clinics for the little kids. Sure he could do it with a foundation or something, but he wants her to have the satisfaction of doing that with her own money. Or maybe she has a lot of relatives to take care of or something. You give your girlfriend a billion, though. The gift taxes will kill you. It would drive me nuts anyway. I can see why he went ahead and married her.
Me: So you think the reason Zuckerberg married his girlfriend was so that he could give her a billion dollars and not have to pay gift taxes?
James: Absolutely.
Me: Is that what you would have done?
James: Nah. I'd rather pay the gift taxes. I'll tell you something though. The best piece of news in this whole thing is that he married a doc who is going to be a pediatrician. He sits around all day trying to make money figuring out how to trick you into actually paying something to play Dungeon Overlord, while she is out there taking care of sick kids. She'll help him understand what is really important. There are going to be some good things coming out of this.
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An earlier version of this story identified the wrong day when quoting the yen's value on Monday. The story has been corrected.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The dollar rose against the Australian dollar and several emerging-market currencies Tuesday as investors continued to react to recent weak data out of China, which have amplified concerns that the second-biggest economy is losing steam.
"I think that has to do with the perception of the growth rate in China as sort of a lightning rod for all of the other weak numbers," said Lane Newman, director at ING Capital Markets, noting recent subpar data in the U.S.
Over the weekend, Chinese data showed an unexpected 18.1% drop in exports in February from a year ago, which resulted in a monthly trade deficit of $22.98 billion. The saga took another turn with the selloff in copper futures, which tend to be predictive of growth and are correlated with the Aussie, though that correlation has been decreasing, said Newman.
"At the end of the day, I think people look at the selloff in copper and whether it has predictive qualities or not, there's a spillover," he said.
High-grade copper for May delivery US:HGK4 fell 2.6% to end at $2.95 a pound on Tuesday.
The result is a third straight session of declines for the Australian currency. The Aussie AUDUSD, -0.4371% fell to 89.78 U.S. cents from 90.17 U.S. cents late Monday.
Stocks fell Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.28% logging its fourth-straight loss. The dollar rose against several emerging-market currencies Tuesday, including the South African rand, Turkish lira and Brazilian real.
The euro EURUSD, +0.1636% fell to $1.3860 from $1.3872 late Monday.
Comments from ECB President Mario Draghi last week appeared to suggest the central bank wouldn't ease policy further in the short term, even as the region remains mired in low inflation. But ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio said Tuesday the market has misinterpreted the message and emphasized that the central bank could implement quantitative easing or asset purchases, as well as cut rates, if the economic outlook deteriorates, according to Reuters.
The euro, which jumped more than 1 cent after the European Central Bank held rates steady on Thursday, needs a catalyst to test the $1.40 level, said Michael Woolfolk, global markets strategist at BNY Mellon. That catalyst, likely data, could come within the next week, he added.
The dollar USDJPY, +0.03% moved down to ¥102.95 from ¥103.21 late Monday. The Bank of Japan held its policy steady and made few changes in its broad economic assessment.
In its statement released on Tuesday, the BOJ maintained its pledge to expand its monetary base by 60 to 70 trillion yen ($581 billion to $677 billion) annually, saying that "Japan's economy has continued to recover moderately, and a front-loaded increase in demand prior to the consumption tax hike (scheduled in April) has recently been observed."
"Kuroda reiterated that yen weakening was instrumental in pushing inflation higher and once again reaffirmed that the BOJ will not hesitate to adjust policy if obstacles emerge to meeting its price target," said Boris Schlossberg, managing director of foreign-exchange strategy at BK Asset Management, in a note. The Nikkei index NIK, +0.06% (TICKER:GBPUSD)%3c/ticker%3e%c2%a0declined%20to%20$1.6610%20from%20$1.6640%20late%20Monday.%20U.K.%20%3ca%20href=%22http:/www.marketwatch.com/story/uk-industrial-growth-slows-sharply-in-january-2014-03-11-54855233%22%3eindustrial%20production%20rose%200.1%%3c/a%3e%20in%20January%20from%20December,%20slightly%20missing%20expectations." target="_new" class="icon " >closed 0.7% higher Tuesday.
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The ICE dollar index DXY, -0.03%, which pits the U.S. unit against six rivals, rose to 79.790 from 79.769 late Monday. The WSJ dollar index BUXX, +0.09%, a measure of the greenback's strength against a broader basket of currencies, rose to 73.54 from 73.49.
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PITTSBURGH—As recent judicial, political and industry developments appear to continue to move the United States toward a mandatory price for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, new analysis by Carnegie Mellon University researchers provides the clearest picture yet of the possible short-term effects of establishing such a cost. The research, published recently by Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that even a modest price would, almost immediately, result in up to 10 percent reductions in emission levels by prompting changes in both power company investments and consumer behavior.
Simulating the impact of a price on CO2 emissions from the existing fleet of U.S. power plants in three regions using marginal costs for generators and hourly electricity load data from 2006, the researchers considered the short-term effects on electricity price and demand even before any new, more efficient generation facilities could be built. They identified that a price as low as $35 per metric ton of CO2 would likely cause a reduction of consumer electricity use, as well as a change by grid operators in the order in which generators are economically dispatched, depending on their emissions levels and marginal fuel prices.
In fact, the researchers predict that as much as ten percent reduction in emissions would be the result, although the level of reduction is heavily dependent upon the availability of alternative and less carbon-intensive power generation technologies in a particular region. For example, facilities in the Northeast and Midwest would see a higher drop in emissions resulting from the price, while emissions in Texas - with relatively larger numbers of natural gas facilities - would be affected significantly less.
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We had planned 114 ideal hours for this 2 weeks iteration and at the end of the first week we finished the whole Sprint. What do we do now? The "book" says we should, and we will, get the next high priority items from the backlog. Though, how do we add them to the burn down chart? Do we re-write it to account for those stories as if they were there from the begining? Or simply add their estimates to the y axis in the day we start working on them (showing a 90o angle jump)?
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When Pam Massey of West Seattle saw the portrait of Sarah Palin as Miss Wasilla in the New York Times, she couldn't shake the crazy feeling she knew her.
Turns out, she did.
Massey was born and reared in the small town of Sitka, Alaska. In 1984, she competed with the VP candidate-to-be in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant. And she has the pictures to prove it.
"Those things are kind of 'look out for yourself.' But she was very nice to everyone," Massey said of Palin, who won Miss Congeniality. "I remember everybody liking her."
Massey was 19 when she became Miss Sitka and joined Palin and several other contestants in the Anchorage house they shared during the contest.
Though she had fun, Massey said she wasn't really cut out for the pageant thing. "It was a one-time deal," she said.
Massey and her husband, blogger DL Byron (who wrote about this over at BikeHugger), saw the New York Times article in a hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, where they attended the U.S. Pro Cycling Championships. Soon as they got home, Massey searched in her basement and found the photos, which they posted on Flickr.
"It feels like that one degree of separation when you keep coming close to meeting famous people but you have no connection at all," Massey said. "Isn't that wild? I went and did this and she went and did that. Same kind of background, different paths."
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Kort til Balduin Möllhausen's Rejse fra Mississippi til Sydhavets Kyster i Aarene 1853 1854.
Description: Map shows eastern route of Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen across the southwestern United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast during 1853 and 1854. Areas of Native American habitation, military posts, and settlements are noted. Insets: [Map of the mid-western states] and "Profil fra Ft. Smith til Sydhavet" [More of Ft. Smith to the Southern Ocean]. Scale [1:6,015,000].
Date: 1858
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — First-time turkey hunters will get a chance to learn the basics at a free seminar being held in Vermont this spring.
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department staff and two volunteer instructors will hold the seminar on April 23 in Northfield.
The instructors will cover basic turkey hunting topics, including hunting regulations, choosing a location for your hunting blind, using turkey calls, placing decoys and dressing and cooking a turkey.
The seminar, which is limited to 40 participants, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mountain Deer Taxidermy.
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The spring turkey hunting season runs from May 1 to May 31.


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There is a moment in Final Fantasy XIII where everything just clicks.
The intricacies of the completely overhauled combat system come into focus; the meandering, convoluted story begins to take shape; the characters stop being insufferably standoffish and begin to coalesce into an engaging menagerie of heroes; the character progression system begins to offer the player a variety of thought-provoking choices; and the game begins to live up to your (I'm assuming) lofty expectations, and Final Fantasy XIII becomes an experience which can go toe-to-toe with the best entries in the franchise.
The game gets exceptional after this one moment -- but, regrettably, this moment came for me after suffering 15 hours and 30 minutes of pure, unadulterated tedium.
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There is a moment in Final Fantasy XIII where everything just clicks.
Everything you know about Final Fantasy has undergone a massive renovation since Final Fantasy XII for PS2. The tropes of the franchise are all included in some shape or another, but have largely been stripped down and streamlined in an attempt to make XIII accessible to a much wider audience. This isn't as horrific as it sounds -- in some ways, the fast-paced combat and simplified character progression systems represent clever evolutions of ancient gameplay mechanics.
These changes require a thorough indoctrination from the player before they can be truly appreciated, as does the overarching story the game intimates over its massive, 45-hour span. Square Enix has frequently stated its intent to continue exploring the Fabula Nova Crystallis universe throughout the next decade; as such, the necessity for a thorough primer on this new mythology is unquestionable.
Unfortunately, the tempo at which Final Fantasy XIII conducts the player's familiarization with its conventionalized gameplay mechanics and overarching Crystallis mythos is extremely lethargic, turning the first third of the game into an exhausting crawl. Fifteen-and-a-half hours probably demands more from a player's patience than they'll be willing to give -- especially if said player is one of the Final Fantasy newcomers the game is seemingly tailored for. Still, if you can make the time investment, there's a lot to love about the roundabout story.
That story focuses on a timeless conflict between two worlds: the civilized, monarchical society of Cocoon and the beast-riddled, lush landscape of Gran Pulse. Both realms are governed and sustained by the godlike Fal'Cie, entities which are capable of siring ordinary humans, turning them into weapons of mass destruction against the opposing domain.
If you can make the time investment, there's a lot to love about the roundabout story.
In true Final Fantasy fashion, XIII starts you off on an explosive train heist, giving you control over characters you know literally nothing about. Though it does so at a leisurely pace, the game eventually reveals some pretty compelling origins for these characters, mostly through frequent, effective flashbacks that recount the 13 seemingly innocuous days that preceded the events of the game.
Each of these characters become relatable at varying speeds. Sazh, the steadfast airship pilot who offers frequent doses of levity during the game's most melodramatic cutscenes, and who also has a baby chocobo who lives in his hair, will quickly capture your heart. Snow, the forlorn, reckless bruiser who (in every other sentence) reminds everyone within earshot that he is, in fact, a hero -- well, he takes a bit longer to adjust to.
Perplexingly, Final Fantasy XIII keeps its sextuplet of protagonists divided into three groups of two for a large chunk of the game. Though each character appears to have the potential to be interesting, they just don't shine while they're adhering to the game's compartmental introduction. However, once the characters are brought together, and begin to forge engaging relationships between one another, your concern for their well-being increases exponentially -- as does your interest in the mission that has been forced upon them.
If you've got the endurance required, there are 30 or so truly wonderful hours of game to be played.
Each character can fulfill a variety of these roles, allowing players to set up multiple combinations of archetypes that they can switch between at will during a fight. For instance, most of the easier fights can be handily won with a Commando and two Ravagers -- but if things start to get thorny, you can switch to a Commando and two Medics with a couple of swift button-presses.
The game's combat rewards strategy and swift execution with a combo meter. When the meter is filled, combos drastically increase the amount of damage the enemy takes from your attacks. Finding a balance between boosting this meter, doing damage and, you know, not dying presents a fast-paced and refreshing take on the turn-based battles of yore.
However, it takes a while to get to a point where you can start developing strategies for yourself. In those grueling, first 15-and-a-half or so hours, you will have no control over the characters selected for your party. What's more, the game's new character progression engine, the "Crystarium," doesn't offer much room for specialization until later in the game. If you fight every monster placed in front of you, you'll always have enough experience to hit the level cap for each of the roles accessible to your character, no questions asked.
Still, even when you're not entirely in control of the composition of your party, XIII's combat is incredibly exciting. I'd go so far to call it one of the best innovations that's visited the franchise in quite some time, if I hadn't just soundly bestowed that honor on baby chocobos that live in people's hair.
Another noticeable aberration that Final Fantasy XIII brings to the table is its unswerving linearity; though in retrospect, it's difficult to take umbrage with the game's straightforward design. Until one of the game's later chapters -- which offers a massive, open landscape filled with rewarding sidequests -- every area you'll navigate, places you on a narrow beeline toward the next cutscene with few branching paths leading to clandestine treasures. It's jarring, to be certain; though every installment in the Final Fantasy franchise (save, perhaps, for XII) has a linearity about it.
The respective stories presented in Final Fantasy I–X drive the player on a path between towns and dungeons, all leading to the inevitable resolutions. There are sidequests, sure -- though they mostly offer metaphysical bonuses that will aid the player in conquering that conclusive boss fight. Final Fantasy XIII is different in that it exerts that linearity on the player in a much less transparent capacity.
If you've got the endurance required to suffer Final Fantasy XIII's radically unbalanced pacing, there are 30 or so truly wonderful hours of game to be played. It's unfortunate that XIII's plodding introduction requires so much from the player -- 15 hours and 30 minutes is, after all, enough time to play most other games to completion. Still, after viewing the satisfying, Leona Lewis-infused conclusion, I'm of the firm position that the end easily justifies the means.
Editors' note: This review is based on the PS3 review code of the game provided by Square Enix.


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EVERETT — On Friday it looked as if Pedro Celis would be the Republican to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene in the 1st Congressional District.
That's a major turn of events since Tuesday's primary election. Early returns had Celis trailing fellow Republican Robert Sutherland by a handful of votes.
Celis, who is backed by party leaders, now appears to have avoided an upset. By late Friday, he led Sutherland by more than 900 votes, polling approximately 16 percent in a field of seven candidates. The state is scheduled to certify results Aug. 19.
With low turnout in the primary and relatively few ballots left to count, Sutherland saw the gap as increasingly insurmountable, although he wasn't quite ready to concede.
"Realistically," Sutherland said, "this race is probably over, it's probably been decided."
He does take away from the race and his underdog campaign a belief that the Republican Party is becoming too liberal in response to national trends and that the voters who supported him reflect that.
Celis, 55, said that he was now beginning to focus on the race against DelBene and said he believed economic issues were what resonated with his voters.
"The issues that were coming out a lot usually had to do with the economy and the lack of growth, especially for young people," Celis said.
Celis recently retired from Microsoft and once was chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. He is the Washington State Republican Party's preferred candidate to face DelBene in November.
Celis, of Redmond, has raised more than $400,000, most of which he has not spent. Sutherland, a retired scientist and Granite Falls resident, raised just $4,700.
DelBene is seeking her second full term in Congress to represent the 1st District, which stretches from Seattle's eastern suburbs to the Canadian border.
As of Friday, DelBene led the field with approximately 51 percent of the votes.
Other candidates in the race included Republicans John Orlinski with 10 percent and Edwin Moats with 4.5 percent, independent candidate Richard Todd with 1.7 percent and National Union Party candidate Mike the Mover with just over 1 percent.
In other close races, the latest tally for the 1st Legislative District had two-term Democratic Rep. Luis Moscoso trailing Republican challenger Ed Barton by about 150 votes — not changing the fact they will face each other in the general election.
In the 32nd District Senate race, Republican Robert Reedy widened his lead over Democrat Chris Eggen and looked to be heading for the general election, when he would face Democratic Sen. Maralyn Chase, of Shoreline. Reedy now leads Eggen by more than 1,000 votes. The prospect of two Democrats facing each other in the general election seemed remote.
For this primary, in which the top two candidates in each race advance regardless of party affiliation, turnout has been low, with just 25 percent of the electorate in Snohomish County estimated to have cast a ballot.
Of 417,448 registered voters in Snohomish County, little more than 106,000 votes have been counted so far.
By next week, the only ballots the county expects to count are ones with issues such as signatures that need to be confirmed with voters.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A man convicted of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, her young son and her mother 13 years ago at a home in Corpus Christi was executed by Texas prison officials Wednesday evening.
The lethal injection of Jose Villegas, 39, was carried out after his attorneys unsuccessfully argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that he was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty.
"I would like to remind my children once again I love them," Villegas said when asked if he had a statement before being put to death. "Everything is OK. I love you all, and I love my children. I am at peace."
Just as the dose of pentobarbital began taking effect, he said, "It does kind of burn. Goodbye." He gasped several times, then began breathing quietly. Within less than a minute, all movement had stopped.
Villegas was pronounced dead at 7:04 p.m. CDT, 11 minutes after being given a lethal dose of pentobarbital. He became the seventh prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active death penalty state.
His lawyers filed a last-day appeal asking the Supreme Court to stop his punishment, saying testing in February showed he had an IQ of 59. The high court denied it several hours later.
The Supreme Court has prohibited execution of mentally impaired people, although states have been allowed to devise procedures to make their own determinations. Courts also have embraced scientific studies that consider a 70 IQ a threshold for impairment, and the high court justices are reviewing a Florida law stipulating that number for death penalty eligibility.
The Texas Attorney General's office disputed the IQ finding, saying previous examinations of Villegas showed no mental impairment and the number cited in his appeal was based on testing after he received an execution date and had no incentive to do well on the test. State attorneys also argued his lawyers had 10 years to raise impairment claims but didn't do so until days before his scheduled punishment.
Villegas was convicted of fatally stabbing Erida Salazar, 23, her 3-year-old son, Jacob, and Salazar's mother, Alma Perez, 51, in January 2001. Their bodies were discovered by Salazar's father when he returned home after being excused from jury duty. Each had been stabbed at least 19 times.
Villegas, a former cook, dishwasher and laborer, was free on bond for a sexual assault charge and was supposed to go on trial the day of the killings for an incident in which a woman said he punched her in the face.
Police spotted Villegas driving Salazar's stolen car and he led them on a chase that ended with him on foot and urging officers to shoot him. When arresting him, police found three bags of cocaine in his baseball cap.
Following his conviction for capital murder, Villegas was convicted of two counts of indecency with a child related to the daughter of the woman he was accused of punching in the face prior to the slayings. Relatives have said Salazar's mother had urged her daughter to break up with Villegas when she learned of the sex charges against him.
Villegas also had convictions for making terroristic threats to kill women, burglary and possessing inhalants.
Attorneys argued the slayings were not intentional and Villegas was mentally ill. A defense psychiatrist testified Villegas experienced "intermittent explosive disorder," a condition that led to uncontrollable rages.
Villegas became the third Texas inmate executed with a new stock of pentobarbital from a provider corrections officials have refused to identify, citing the possibility of threats of violence against the supplier. The Supreme Court has upheld that stance.


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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I, which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During his time there he met and was influenced by modernist writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the "Lost Generation". His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926.
After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced following Hemingway's return from covering the Spanish Civil War, after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they split when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. During the war he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris.


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Eleanor Holmes Norton was 26 years old when somewhere around 250,000 people descended on the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963.
A native Washingtonian who has represented the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives since 1990, Norton calls the march the "zenith point" of a decade of protests, many of which she witnessed firsthand as an organizer of sit-ins in D.C., Maryland and Ohio.
"There had been no mass march that anyone could remember," Norton says. "We got to the point, especially after you got to Mississippi, there's no place else to go but to the seat of power."
U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Sitting in her Capitol Hill office, Norton reflected on her role in the march – during which she worked side-by-side with the gay man who organized the march, Bayard Rustin – as well as the lessons that can be drawn a half century later.
METRO WEEKLY: How did you come to be at the March on Washington 50 years ago?
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON: I was a law student at Yale Law School. I had gone to the [Mississippi] Delta to work for at least part of the summer on preparation for what was called the '64 Summer when it was planned students would come down. So I was working on the prototype for the workshops for voter registration.
Mississippi was the last place to open. There had been demonstrations throughout the South. Medgar Evers, the state [field officer] of the NAACP, had to lead — he's a grown man — had to lead the sit-ins in Mississippi. There were so few lawyers that Medgar Evers showed me all around Jackson trying to convince me to stay. No lawyers. A law student, which are a dime a dozen now, was a rarity.
I know I'm going to the delta, I promised I'd come there because if Jackson — and [Evers] had been beat terribly at the lunch counter — was like that, you can imagine what a place, which really had no movement. He ultimately took me to the bus station to get the last bus — 10 o'clock or something — he went home and he was shot in the back. That's the night he died. I learned the next morning when they woke me up and told me that. So this is how I was christened in Mississippi and prepared to stay.
I had been in touch with friends, and the talk of the march was all over New York. I'm a native Washingtonian, but lots of my friends were in New York and I knew them and knew Bayard Rustin very well because there was a small clique of us young people who were — What should I call us? — students of Bayard Rustin, who was a one of a kind. He was an activist of the kind none of us had been. He had been a pacifist during World War II, sent to jail for a year, did civil disobedience there, got out in the '40s and did an early Freedom Ride, was a student of Gandhi, deeply involved in the labor movement.
In New York, either you were coming to hear Bayard speak, or Bayard was just hanging around in his apartment, or you were hanging in a bar with him. That was the kind of guy he was.
The most important thing to remember when talking about the March on Washington is you will hear endlessly about, "Oh, I remember this speech or that speech or that sight," and of course I will have those memories. I'm sure they're duplicative of memories others had. But what is less duplicative is the experience I had as a very young woman working for the March on Washington.
I got a call saying, "Eleanor, it's going to happen. It's really going to happen. If you want to do it, this is the time to come." And so I left Mississippi, for then, and went to New York, bunked with a friend in a five-story brownstone where the march was essentially organized by one man. There was one field marshal. And in my judgment [Rustin] was the only person who could have organized the march, and I say that out of some sense of history.
There had been no mass march that anyone could remember. Sure there had been soldiers here and there marching, but no mass march. The important thing to remember about the march, it seems to me, is that this wasn't somebody's bright idea. This was the zenith point of 10 years of protests and demonstrations throughout the South. We got to the point, especially after you got to Mississippi, there's no place else to go but to the seat of power. And the man with the skills who knew how to organize something – Bayard was by then in his 50s – had the experience of a lifetime.
He was, for me, a public intellectual. He was a major master of strategy, having been an adviser to civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King. And the reason he had been such a major adviser is that he knew how to do something. The Civil Rights Movement, like every movement, was an ad hoc affair. What was not an ad hoc matter was the March on Washington. And it wasn't ad hoc, but it was without precedent. And if you're doing something without precedent, somebody smart has to be in charge. Now the umbrella, the overriding grand master of the march, not the organizer of course, but the one who drew everybody together was A. Philip Randolph. And there's a reason why he was, because he was the only black man in America who organized anything. I still don't know how he managed to do it. This was a man who knew something about organization. And Bayard had been his mentor.
So for me, yes, being in the march I can tell you a thousand stories that you've already heard. But it was the anticipation, the understanding that people would come. All we didn't understand was how many people.
MW: Now Bayard Rustin is going to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NORTON: I went to [Rep.] John Lewis (D-Ga.), who was the chairman of [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee], and I said, "John, we got to get this Medal of Freedom for Bayard because he is the man who made it happen, but is least recognized." And so wrote a letter that was signed by everybody in the Black Caucus; called Valerie Jarrett, said, "Look, this is the time to do it." It was very important that it was announced. You can't have this march and have Bayard unrecognized.