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Context-sensitive switching in a computer network environment
A conventional router can be used as a context-sensitive switch by encoding a header (e.g., a source and/or destination field of an address header) of a data packet with information descriptive of the data contained in a payload of the data packet and programming a router to route data packets based on an addressing scheme that corresponds to the encoded information in the packet header. The encoded packets are routed based on the encoded information. The descriptive information can include dynamic pricing information (e.g., bid/ask pricing), for example, for goods/services available in commerce. The addressing scheme can correspond to a classification hierarchy having multiple levels such as a category level, a topic level, and/or a sub-topic level.
This application claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 09/422,058, filed on Oct. 21, 1999, and entitled CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SWITCHING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK ENVIRONMENT(now abandoned).
The present application is directed to Internet navigation paradigms, data organization, click flows and relationships between the source of origin of goods in commerce and web sites that display information about goods and services available on the Internet. More specifically, the apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide a new way to organize and provoke participation in bid/ask or dynamic pricing systems available on the Internet and private networks through taxonomic, branding, navigational and participatory techniques.BACKGROUND
Electronic commerce on the Internet generally can be organized into two categories, database driven applications and indexing or information portal services. Database driven applications can be further categorized as either transactional or non-transactional applications. Auction sites such as ebay™ are non-transactional database driven applications in that transactions are external to the ebay system and between third party participants that use the system, i.e., ebay as a web site and on-line commerce application does not process payment information or require payment information to participate in the system. Ebay type non-transactional systems are a source of dynamic pricing information.
Transactional database driven applications, among others, such as those disclosed, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,845,265 to Woolston, provide that a site may process payment information associated with the transaction and may further provide surety to the Internet customer that the site is providing transactional and/or performance assurances about participants in the system. Transactional database driven applications are also a source of dynamic pricing information.
Both non-transactional and transactional systems are database driven applications that contain dynamic pricing information in a database that is encouraged to rapidly change—that is, the content about the item for sale or offers to buy, or bid are stored in a database and not, for example, in a static web page format. These systems are dynamic in that the database content, for example, a bid at an auction, is or is encouraged to rapidly change. Further dynamic information content is provided by the transient nature of the dynamic transactions themselves, i.e., an auction for a particular item eventually terminates and bid and ask pricing for a particular good or service eventually expires.
The dynamic nature of such database driven web sites present an indexing problem for the second category of electronic commerce related site such as the search engine or information portal. Take for example the Yahoo™ or Altavista™ search engines which, in general, use web crawlers to search the web for indexable content, such as static web pages. Owing, at least in part, to the large and expanding amount of information available on the web, it is understood that its takes even the most efficient web crawler based system several days to crawl and index the resources on the web. Thus, the problems associated with indexing a database driven application are two-fold. First, the database must be subject to a properly formed search request to retrieve the content of the database. Second, the content in database driven applications is dynamically changing, i.e., a link to an auction in progress, for example, may have terminated and may present a dead link soon after a search system indexes the information. Furthermore, the content of the database presents an instance of dynamic pricing which changes too rapidly for an informational portal to index by conventional methods.
Some attempts have been made to ameliorate the problem of indexing dynamic pricing information, such as allowing individual participants to index information at the informational portal site to point to dynamic content at a database driven application. Another attempt to ameliorate the indexing problem is through private arrangement between the operators of a database driven application and the informational portal site to index dynamic content through application program interfaces. This piecemeal approach is not automated outside of private relationships, if they exist, and still presents the problem of dead links and the like after an auction is complete or a bid dynamically changes or expires. Furthermore, the piecemeal solution does not provide a systemic way to solve the fundamental problems that arise in indexing and searching for instances of dynamic data.
Another class of web sites, the so-called comparison shopping sites or bots, attempt to address the dynamic content indexing issue by imposing another layer that purportedly bridges multiple dynamic shopping sites. These sites require a search request be entered at the central site and the search request is parsed and distributed to multiple sites in a predetermined search format. These sites, thus, purport to make the searching process more efficient by automatically searching a plurality of sites. This type of comparison site, however, does not address the fundamental problem of indexing dynamic content to populate search services for indexable searching by participants. In contrast, they merely impose another layer of complexity on top of multiple dynamic pricing systems.
Another class of services that attempts to address the problem of dynamic pricing information is found in the financial art such as U.S. Pat. No. 5,136,501, to Silverman and assigned to Reuters Limited and its family of related patents. This technology does not address the problem of indexing non-financial instances of dynamic pricing and it does not present a consistent navigational or taxonomy scheme to navigate and find pricing information in a heterogeneous computing environment and found on the Internet, i.e., the Reuters system uses private relationships between the parties to exchange information about dynamic pricing.SUMMARY
The systems and techniques described here are capable of addressing these and many other problems presented by dynamic content by placing a dynamic navigational taxonomy between dynamic content sources and conventional search engines and, thus, making available a fixed or stable point of reference for indexing by conventional search engines while organizing dynamic pricing information into a navigation taxonomy. The present systems and techniques may also employ a taxonomic concentration feature, e.g., the ability to concentrate dynamic pricing information from multiple sources into an organized taxonomy of subjects to provide a micro-narrow cast of information for a particular good or class of goods and services that may be of interest to a participant.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a way to establish a "functional brand"—e.g., a function that designates the source of origin of a particular class or type of goods and services associated with the function, that may co-exist with and enhance famous brands or rapidly establish associated niche brands through a consistent functional branding scheme.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a new way to employ conventional telecommunication switch and routing equipment, e.g., conventional routers, to massively parallel process dynamic content into a useful taxonomy of content-sensitive streams of information.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a novel utility for monitoring a particular good or delineated class of goods or services, while the monitored content dynamically changes, and thereby reduce the hit load on the source of dynamic pricing by engrafting a point-to-multipoint communication structure to efficiently monitor and distribute information about dynamic content to multiple users.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a novel revenue stream by providing a prioritized way to stream continued bid/ask information.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a new target channel based on the subject matter of interest for the distribution of electronic coupons and advertisements.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a novel stream of information created by data mining techniques hereafter referred as "broadcast data mining".
The present systems and techniques may also provide novel loyalty programs and contests to keep a participant interested in continuing to participate in the system.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a novel way to index items for sale that utilize the Universal Product Code (UPC) inventory and tracking scheme into the new dynamic taxonomic navigation and provides a further use as a source of information to update conventional search engine databases about the availability and pricing of inventory.
The present systems and techniques may also provide a new way to rapidly compare pricing or bid/ask information from multiple sources.
The system disclosed herein may provide a new way to navigate dynamic content by presenting dynamic data in a streaming navigable and relational format and by building navigational portals based on a building block of modular computer programs called navlets. Thus, the system may provide an organized way to present categorized and navigable information with a new class of application programs built on navlets or employing a single navlet.
Another aspect of the system is a reduced reliance on, or elimination of, databases to access, or access indexes or links to, navigable content or content subject to rapid pricing changes as may be available on the Internet or from private networks. Here, for example, the system may index content and make it available for access through the dynamic mapping and taxonimizing feature of the system by the re-purposing of high speed routers into a taxonomising and content providing engine, thereby eliminating the necessity of separately searching information portals to find instances of dynamic pricing.
Another aspect of the system is its ability to concentrate data from multiple sources based on a dynamic and navigable way to organize and classify dynamic pricing based on the content of the information. Here, for example, the system may concentrate bid and ask information from multiple market makers or markets or auctions into a stream or streams of organized bid/ask data that is navigable down to a useful, or user-desirable, stream of data. In one illustrative example, the over-the-counter (OTC) stock market may have multiple market makers or multiple markets present that maintain different bid/ask prices for the same OTC stock. The system may place the entire OTC market for stocks into a navigational taxonomy based on multiple or single threaded criteria such as industry sector in which the OTC listed company operates as taxonomized by Standard Industry Codes (SIC) as published by the United States Department of Commerce or other well-established ways to organize companies by the respective sectors in which they operate. Here, a taxonomic hierarchy may begin with sector categories followed by sector topics, sector sub-topics, down to individual stocks. Navigating down through the hierarchy, the participant may navigate down to a particular stock of interest. The taxonomic concentration feature of the system may provide streaming bid/ask information from the specific identified stock from multiple markets and multiple market makers in a single stream of bid/ask information. If the user is buying stock they may select the most appropriate ask price. If the user is selling stock they may select the most appropriate bid price.
Another aspect of the system is the ability to program a profile into the system to monitor specific targeted bid/ask occurrences available at private exchanges, public exchanges or database driven applications available on the Internet or through private networks through a navlet queuing system.
Another aspect of the system integrates a loyalty program to encourage participation and use of the navlet.
Another aspect of the system allows one participant to send a navlet to another participant to further encourage use of the navlet.
Functional Branding
Functional branding is a way to associate or otherwise establish the functionality of a recurring functional theme with a way of doing business on the Internet. Here, for example, the recurring functional theme is the vendors' or customers' participation in a dynamic pricing paradigm such as auctions, market maker models of continuous bid/ask pricing, demand driven commerce such as bid.com's dutch auction format, and offer/counter-offer/acceptance type system such as disclosed, inter alia, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,845,265, to Woolston. A method for establishing a functional brand may establish a modular computer functionality to indicate participation by a source of origin of goods in a dynamic pricing system, it may build web sites comprising multiple instances of the modular computer functionality to display goods or services offered in commerce and provide the modular computer functionality to a web site that displays one or more brands. This may be used to create a functional brand awareness in the consumer's mind, e.g., a consistent functionality that indicates participation in a dynamic pricing system where that functionality is a recurring brand theme of a family of web sites. The system may further use the modular computer functionality to provide navigational links to connect to and from the web sites which may use multiple instances of the modular computer functionality provided to the web site that displays a brand. The system may further use multiple instances of the modular computer functionality to provide a navigational taxonomy of subject matter. The system may further provide modular computer functionality in the navlet that undocks the modular computer functionality from a web site that contains the modular computer functionality. The system may further use the navlet or functional branding module to provide a way for a first participant to e-mail the navlet to a second participant. The system may further use functional branding to establish a loyalty program where the navlet can display tokens than encourage entry into contests. The system may further use the navlet or functional branding instances to distribute electronic coupons.
An instance of dynamic bid/ask information may be depicted at 606, 608 and 612. The instance of dynamic bid/ask data may be represented by a short name such as DC-LAX $350 or 98 Mustang $16,995 or other such appropriate short names to inform the participant of the type of item subject to bid/ask dynamic or fixed pricing and/or availability. The instance of dynamic information may stream from right to left across the instance 600 of dynamic pricing or navlet. In one mode of the system, the bid/ask information may be organized by the level on the taxonomy on which the information is displayed, which may provide a further context for the short name for the dynamic or availability information to appear. One such taxonomic indexing aid may be provided by a pictogram or glyph that may represent a category or topic in which the dynamic information appears. The dynamic pricing, availability or "tick" information may provide a URL or URI address, string or link to point or direct a web browser or other suitable application to the web address or web site to retrieve the bid/ask or availability information for the item that is the subject of the short name.
The instance of the dynamic stream, the navlet of bid/ask information, may be further propagated or populated with electronic coupons 610 or advertisements, not shown. The electronic coupon 610 may provide a URL link and access code information to unlock or decode electronic coupon information to provide support for discount or loyalty program participation. In one mode of the system the navlet or dynamic bid/ask pricing streaming display may be vertically scaled to support one-half sized Internet advertising placards. In another mode of the system, the navlet may detect the horizontal size of the display on which it appears to horizontally scale the size of the navlet. The system, as discussed further below, may distribute Internet advertising and coupons based on taxonomic, user profile information, or other routable and distribution schemes provided by the system.
The navigation dynamic instance or navlet may provide further active controls to participate in dynamic pricing systems as shown by the bid and ask 614 and 616 controls. The bid control 614 may provide a link to a web page that allows a participant to place a "buy at" or limit type order to bid into a dynamic pricing system. Here, for example, the navigational dynamic instance may appear at the sub-sub-topic or brand level and the bid control 614 may provide a link to a branded web page 632 of a brand participant that is participating in a dynamic pricing system. The bid control may provide a link to a brand participatory dynamic pricing system. In another mode of the system, the bid control may provide a web page for a participant to place a bid whereby the system may post the bid in a bulletin board format and make the information available to further system participants. In another mode, the navlet may provide an application layer frame, whose description below is hereby incorporated by reference, to encode a bid with taxonomic or subject matter information that may be subsequently routed to subscribers.
The "ask" control 616 may provide a link to a web page that allows a participant to search for "ask" prices 620 from a participating source of origin of items or services, or other data repositories such as cache systems or databases that capture the streaming information. This may allow a participant viewing the navigational dynamic instance to research ask and/or current ask prices at a participating dynamic pricing system with multiple suppliers or to perform a search by passing source parameters to the participating system linked to the supplier at the brand level 620. This may provide the system with access to historical pricing information or as a way to research availability. This may also provide the system with a unique database architecture which dedicates a database to capture data that has been organized by the taxonomic data streams. Thus, a database may be dedicated to a particular taxonomic subject and a plurality of databases may be employed to capture data based on the taxonomically organized data flows where each database may be organized to optimize search and retrieval of information based on the taxonomic organization. Here, a search system front end may be applied to this database architecture to direct a search request or to guide a participant to the appropriate database to issue a search into a database dedicated to the subject matter of the search.
The navlet instance 600 may provide an undock control 618 to provide an ability to quickly undock the navigational instance or navlet from a participating web site to create a stand alone frame or application of the navigational instance that is separate from the web site or browser application. In the un-docked mode, the navigational dynamic instance or navlet may exist without a browser application or within an appropriately sized browser frame while maintaining contact with a server that may provide dynamic content for the navigational dynamic instance or navlet.
The navlet may further provide scrolling tools 615 and 617 to "rewind" or reverse 615 the streaming bid/ask information 614, 616 or speed up the crawl 617 of the streaming dynamic information from a data buffer in the navlet.
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In another use of the system, the first selection/mapping layer 802 may transport sorted and classified bid/ask data to a broadcast layer 804 that may encapsulate and transport the taxonomized data to a client selection layer 814. Here, the client selection layer 814 may be a conventional search engine that may use the streaming taxonimized bid/ask data to rapidly update database information 826 with current dynamic pricing data, thereby providing a way for conventional search engines to rapidly update dynamic pricing data using the system. In another mode, the taxonomic streams of data may be captured by databases dedicated to each category or of topic of information thereby providing a unique database architecture to support massive data storage of dynamic pricing information.
In another interface mode of the system, a satellite broadcast filter layer 808 may be used to select taxonomic bid/ask information at the uplink or land earth station (LES) side of a satellite broadcast path. Here, a client selection application/protocol 820 may be used to select streaming bid/ask information at the LES for broadcast to downlink receiver applications 830. In an alternative mode, the satellite filter application may broadcast popular streaming bid/ask information for an overlay of an instance or multiple instances of navigation dynamic bid/ask information that may be used with navlets executing on devices connected by the satellite transmission.
In another interface mode of the system a TV broadcast/IP broadcast 812 carrier may be used to transport streaming bid/ask data to conventional television or digital television receivers. Here, conventional vertical blanking interval (VBI) communication techniques may provide a carrier for the streaming bid/ask data or MPEG transport protocol techniques may be used to provide a data and transport path for the streaming bid/ask data. A TV viewer/subscriber application 824 may be used to execute a navlet to display and navigate the streaming bid/ask content. A filter/alarm application may be executed in conjunction with the navlet, or integrated in the enhanced navlet, to provide automatic or semiautomatic filter and alarm conditions for the streaming bid/ask content. Invoking the bid/ask content may invoke a World-Wide Web (WWW) browser application on the television enhancement device such as provides by WebTV™ or an integrated browser application as found in digital television receiver/processor designs.
At the concentration layer 1220, a broadcast backbone or a transport fabric that may natively support point-to-multipoint or broadcast transmission may be used to queue and concentrate bid/ask information from a plurality of data sources. Here, for example, the input queues native to a broadcast fabric such as CDMA (code-division multiple access) waits for an open slot for a clear channel on the broadcast fabric. This native queuing and flow control structure may be used by the system to provide flow control for the send application and/or to concentrate bid/ask data from multiple sources.
The configuration of the system in its novel re-purposing of conventional routers may support fault tolerance and scale through the addition of hardware at the concentration layer in redundant fault tolerance nature of the hardware systems that may be employed in the routers. For example, a dual parallel broadcast fabric backbone 1220 may provide fault tolerance and scale by additional broadcast backbones adding redundancy in the broadcast path and may allow the system to scale and handle a massive data load as data is concentrated onto the broadcast point-to-multipoint hardware devices to make streaming bid/ask information available for classification and distribution in a taxonomy of bid/ask information.
The topic selection 1242 layer may use router tables to selectively broadcast bid/ask information into a taxonomic broadcast. Here, router tables may be used to selectively mask bid/ask information into a taxonomy broadcast of category, topic, sub-topic and micro-topical information and further into geographical and other encoded filtering formats.
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Thus, one way to further understand the system is by demonstrating the end-to-end flow of streaming bid/ask information. The streaming bid/ask information may begin at a dynamic or static pricing, transactional or non-transactional systems 1202, 1216, and 1232. The send program functionality may be used to place information about the bid/ask subject into an application layer frame, which may be used by a concentration layer/selection stage 1220 and 1242 to concentrate information from a plurality of sources and provide a way to output bid/ask information based on a pre-determined taxonomy. Bid/ask information from the send application functionality thus may or may not be encapsulated for transport to the concentration layer and the bid/ask information may be repeatably selected, depending on the depth of the predetermined taxonomy, and router mask table programming, for point to multipoint transmission at the IP broadcast stage 1244. A navlet may connect or subscribe to an IP broadcast session and receive the bid/ask information in a stream of bid/ask information at the client selection stage 1248. Here, the client application may further filter the bid/ask information, based on the information encoded in the application layer frame, to capture or display bid/ask information of particular interest to the subscriber. The client may "click" on an instance of the streaming bid/ask information which may provide a URL for which a user application may locate through the internet world wide web 1252 a data record in a dynamic pricing system that was or is the subject of the instance of streaming bid/ask information 1254. In one mode of the system, the URL to the record of the subject of the instance of the streaming bid/ask information is the payload of the SNAP frame. Here, the information for the URL may include a short display name, a URL address and parameters sufficient to access the database to invoke the generation or display of the bid/ask subject of the SNAP frame. The URL request 1230 may pass through a packet network such as the Internet 1252 to access the dynamic content with a URL string 1254 sufficient to access the appropriate content. The dynamic pricing application 1232 may respond with a web page that displays the high bid or ask price 1258. The user, now at the interface provided by the dynamic pricing system may respond with a bid 1256 to which the dynamic pricing system may accept 1254.
The system may insert advertisements for display at navlets based on the taxonomy broadcast or through message queues. Here, for example, an advertisement designated as corresponding to art, such as an advertisement for a scheduled auction may be injected into the concentration layer backbone by creating a SNAP frame that contains the appropriate header taxonomy information and a payload that contains a URL that points to the desired advertising. The data and contest control module may collect account information on the distribution of advertising.
The advertisement control module 1274 may also distribute advertisements by creating a message for use in a channel queue, described further below, and inserting the advertisements into the channel queue. Here, advertisement insertion in the message queue 1288 may also be encoded with a time to live (TTL) or predetermined termination time as used by other messages in the queue to provide a time-limited display of the advertisement at the navlet.
The system may employ communication between the concentration layer 1286 and the respective send modules to provide flow control 1280 to the respective send modules. In this mode of the system the send control module 1280 may use conventional IP flow control techniques to provide flow control instructions to the respective send modules.
The system may employ a contest control module 1282 to distribute pictogram or glyphs to navlets to encourage participation in contest designed to reduce navlet breakage. In the SNAP mode, the system may encapsulate a contest glyph or a URL that points to a contest glyph in the payload of the SNAP frame. In the message queue mode, the system may place the contest glyph into an appropriately formatted channel message for display at navlet(s). Here again the system may encode the contest glyph with a time to live parameter to limit the display of the contest glyph.
Another mode of the system may generate a navigational taxonomy, support participant-designated bid/ask information and function in an environment where a navlet may pull information from a server.
The navlet support server 1420 may be supported by a processing server 1424 that may provide information about the dynamic pricing data and distribute advertising and coupons and support a loyalty program, as discussed further below and incorporated herein by reference. The processing server 1424 may support a plurality of "channels" which may corresponded to a taxonomic organization of data or to user-profiled pages as discussed further below in queues 1426, 1428 and 1430. Reference to dynamic pricing information may, for example, be popped off a channel queue 1431 and placed into an update queue 1432. The processing server may process information from the update queue 1432 to generate a request to fetch 1338 information about the dynamic pricing instance from, for example, an auction system 1442 and retrieve the information 1436 in response to the fetch request 1338. The process message function may parse the response 1436 to extract facts, such as the current bid and whether and when the auction has terminated or is scheduled to terminate to update the channel queue 1430 with current information about the dynamic pricing instance 1433. Thus, the process server may establish an update loop between the channel queue 1426, 1428 and 1430 and the update queue 1432 and the process message function 1434 to continuously update the dynamic information for display at the navlet(s) 1414. In one mode of the system the update queues process message 1434 channel loop may eliminate redundancies in the update queue, thereby unburdening the bid/ask server 1442 of multiple requests for the same information and may further provide a queue method and control through providing information that prioritizes information in the channel queue and update queue and by controlling navlet update frequency through the distribution of frequency information through XML tags to increase the frequency of dynamic pricing data updates, for example, as an auction nears its predetermined termination point.
As previously described, herein incorporated by reference, the instance of dynamic pricing information may contain a short name such as "Sony RX-200 $300" and information about the location of the source of origin of the dynamic pricing information such as a URL for display at the navlet 1414. Here, the user 1408 may select the dynamic pricing instance on the navlet 1414 to provide a way to rapidly link to the source of origin of the dynamic pricing information 1444 to which the user 1408 may receive a response 1446 from the source of origin of the dynamic pricing information 1442 in a URL response 1446.
A taxonomic hierarchy of dynamic pricing information may be provided by a channel programmer 1456 to provide information to populate into pages that contain multiple navlets, navigational web pages or a single navlet instance at, for example, the brand or source of origin of goods level. Here, the channel programmer 1456 may submit candidate information, which may be in the form of a URL to a channel programming web server 1448. The channel programming web server 1448 may present a browser 1452 with a web page of data fields for the channel programmer 1456 to "drop" or input candidate URLs. The candidate URLs may be placed into a candidate queue at the processing server 1424 to provide an input stream to the process manager. Multiple instances of candidate queues and processes may exist to support the multiple instances of predetermined navigational or support channels 1426, 1428 and 1430 whereby the process message process may pop a URL from a candidate queue, verify that the URL for the dynamic data can be fetched 1338 and received 1436 to appropriately place the dynamic data instance into the respective channel queue.
In another mode of the system, the channel programmer 1456 may be replaced by a user so that the user may generate a user-specified instance of pricing data. Here, a user 1456 may use a browser 1452 to access a web page from a server 1448 to establish a user "channel" by receiving a web page 1470 that provides data fields for the user to program a short name for the dynamic pricing instance and a URL address of where the dynamic pricing instance is located. The user may also receive a navlet 1472 that points to a web server that services requests from the navlet as described above and incorporated herein, to establish the loop between the navlet 1454 and the server 1460 to receive 1462 and service 1464 information request from the server 1468. Here, the user-designated instances of dynamic pricing data may be submitted to the candidate queue 1440 which may in turn be serviced by the process message process 1434 to parse and retrieve dynamic pricing data as described above. Here, the dynamic pricing data may be placed into the queue 1458 to generate and establish an update loop as described above to service the user-designated instance of dynamic pricing and to receive the user-designated dynamic pricing at the navlet 1454.
In another mode, the system may display a candidate advertisement form to the system 1516 to a predetermined administrative user of the system or to general user as a way to collect user profile information and as a way for users to place advertisements, distribute coupons or propagate game pieces. User profile information may include what types of advertisements or electronic coupons and contests the user has an interest in participating. Here, the system may allow a user to enter contests as further described below. In the advertisement mode of the system an administrative or other user may submit a URL that points to an advertisement 1516 which may be submitted at a URL submission form 1522. The system may verify that the submission is sufficient for such details as advertising account and billing information through the verification loop 1532 and 1524. In another mode of the system, the advertisement submission task may point to a URL for advertisement insertion by a third party server such as doubleclick™ in which case the submission dialog may be replaced with a procedure which specifies parameters to pass to third party servers. The URL which points to the advertisement may be placed into a queuing format for use by the system 1576 which may in turn place the appropriately formatted reference to the advertisement into the appropriate system queue 1544 for queuing 1548 for subsequent propagation to the appropriate navlet(s). The system may also generate a message to indicate the placement of the reference to the advertisement for system accounting and performance tracking 1542.
The system may use a queue control or channel control program, as described above and incorporated herein by reference, to control the distribution of advertisements and contest tokens in each particular channel 1742. The system may support multiple instances and queue used and supported by the system in
These and other permutations and uses for the system are readily apparent to one skilled in the art upon use and disclosure of the described system.
1. A method for using a router as a context-sensitive processing array wherein a header of a data packet is encoded with information descriptive of data contained in a payload of the data packet and the data packet is encapsulated into another packet for transportation across a network to an ingress point of the context-sensitive processing array, the method comprising:
- un-encapsulating the data packet and placing the data packet onto a broadcast medium connected to one or more routers such that the routers can receive the data packet substantially simultaneously;
- programming at least one router to select data packets from the broadcast medium based on selection criteria that correspond to the encoded information in the packet header; and
- selecting the encoded packets based on the encoded information in the header to organize the encoded information into a predetermined hierarchy of information based on the selection criteria, the resulting organization corresponding to one or more of the following: taxonomic classification, geographic location information, identity of the source of origin of a goods in commerce, type of goods or services offered in commerce, and brand name for a goods or services offered in commerce.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein encoding the data packet header comprises encoding the descriptive information into a source field or a destination field, or both, of the header.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the descriptive information comprises a pointer to the location of a source of dynamic pricing information.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the dynamic pricing information comprises bid or ask pricing data for goods or services available in commerce.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the encoded header is encoded according to a format defined for an internet Protocol (IP) header field.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the descriptive information conforms to a classification scheme for classifying data objects.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the classification scheme classifies dynamic pricing information.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein the classification scheme corresponds to a hierarchy of goods or services available in commerce.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the hierarchy of goods or services includes a plurality of levels including a category level, a topic level and a sub-topic level.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the descriptive information is based on a hierarchical classification of bid or ask information.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein encoding the data packet header comprises encoding taxonomic information into a source field or a destination field, or both, of the header.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the encoded taxonomic information comprises meta-data defining one or more parameters associated with the payload.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein the one or more parameters relate to geography, time and pricing.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein the encoded taxonomic information comprises meta-data describing goods or services, pricing for goods or services, and/or contact information relating to goods or services.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein the contact information relating to goods or services comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) at which the goods or services may be bought, sold and/or investigated.
16. The method of claim 1 wherein the descriptive information relates to goods or services controlled by an electronic market or electronic auction.
17. The method of claim 1 wherein programming a router comprises providing the router with mask values for selectively identifying associated encoded data packer header values.
18. The method of claim 1 further comprising sorting the data packets into channels according to their respective encoded headers.
19. The method of claim 1 further comprising broadcasting to a user of a computer network a channel of data packets organized into the predetermined hierarchy.
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Date of Patent: Sep 15, 2009
Patent Publication Number: 20050262005
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National Traffic Incident Management Training - Stafford County FTC
Commonwealth of Virginia - SHRP2 - Region 2
Thursday, August 29, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
We are proud to announce another session of the SHRP2 - National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With the current amount of traffic on the roadways these days, public service personnel are always reminded of Safe, Quick Clearance. This training is designed to inform attendees of procedures on clearing incident scenes quickly with a well coordinated, multi-disciplinary teams of first responders and transportation personnel, in an effort to reduce the risk of injury to those on-scene, reduce the risk of secondary crashes, and reduce delays due to congestion.
This training has been endorsed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), and the Towing and Recovery Association of America (TRAA).
This is open to ALL Law Enforcement, Fire, Rescue, EMS, Public Works, Transportation, Towing and Recovery, Media, and Communications Personnel. The training will last for 4 hours and attendees will be able to earn in-service hours through DCJS, OEMS, and/or VDFP.
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I know that I shouldn't turn it into a lit review, so I shouldn't cite too much. But is it sometimes a good idea to cite the literature? (especially parts of the literature that really interest me?) What if I propose some ideas as well?
I know that I should mostly talk about what I *did*, but many people do put in a separate section describing what they also want to do.


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Journal tackles aging policy issues raised by White House
In anticipation of the forthcoming 2015 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA), The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has produced a special issue of The Gerontologist that outlines a vision for older adults' economic and retirement security, health, caregiving, and social well-being for the next decade and beyond. And because this year also marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, as well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security, articles within the issue also explore ways to safeguard the continuing success of these programs.
The WHCoA has been held once every decade since the 1960s and offers a unique opportunity to shape the national landscape for policies affecting older Americans. For 2015, four main topic areas have been chosen: ensuring retirement security; promoting healthy aging; providing long-term services and supports; and protecting older Americans from exploitation, abuse, and neglect.
Writing in the opening editorial of the new special issue, GSA Director of Public Policy and Professional Affairs Greg O'Neill, PhD, and The Gerontologist editor Rachel Pruchno, PhD, state the 2015 WHCoA is the catalyst for developing an aging policy designed to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the aging of the U.S. population in the decade to come.
"The papers presented in this special issue highlight these challenges and opportunities, while also showing us several innovative solutions through their thoughtful recommendations," O'Neill and Pruchno write. "We view them as visionary—laying the foundation for effective policies supporting an aging society in the years ahead."
Policy prescriptions for all four topic areas of the WHCoA are included within the articles. They include, but are not limited to, recommendations for a universal private pension system and strengthening Social Security and Medicare through revenue increases rather than benefit cuts; demonstrations of how age-friendly community initiatives can make social and/or physical environments more conducive to older adults' health, well-being, and ability to age in place and in the community; a template for the delivery, supply, and funding of caregiver respite care services; and calls for a coordinated approach to reduce elder mistreatment.


text: Share: Comments Print June 6, 2014 at 12:42 PM Big changes at NW Sinfonietta Posted by Melissa Davis From Seattle Times arts reporter Michael Upchurch: Big changes are afoot at the Northwest Sinfonietta. Christophe Chagnard, the co-founder of the chamber orchestra and its music director since 1991, is leaving the organization. His last performances with the ensemble will be Feb. 20-22, 2015. In a major shift in its organizational structure, Northwest Sinfonietta will be led by "an Christophe Chagnard intentionally diverse group of artistic partners," starting in its 2015-2016 season, according to a news release from the organization. The orchestra's new set-up will be similar to that of London's Academy of St. Martin in the Fields or the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Musicians will collaborate with a roster of three or four conductors, yet to be announced, who will return year after year. Bruce Coppock, president of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, has been advising Northwest Sinfonietta as it makes this transition. Chagnard himself plans to stay in town. He's busy as a composer, working on a major new commission for a symphony addressing climate change, and he continues to write and play with his jazz sextet, Touché. He will also still lead the Lake Union Civic Orchestra, which performs his piece, "Embargo: Suite Cubana," along with Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Lieberman's Flute Concerto on June 13 at Town Hall Seattle. Comments | More in Arts news | Topics: Christophe Chagnard, classical music, Lake Union Civic Orchestra


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We can't wait to see you in Union Square Park this summer. If you can't find the answer to your question below, please fill out the contact form located on the bottom of the page.
Do I need to sign up to attend?
All programs are free and no advance sign up is required for individual attendees.
What happens when it rains?
As long as safety is not an issue, programs will proceed as planned. All weather-related updates will be posted on Twitter and Instagram @UnionSquareNY.
Large Groups
Can I bring my large group (10+) to participate in kids programming?
For large groups, please contact the USP office for guidelines for attending. We ask that you keep groups to less than 20 children to provide enjoyment and safety for all attendees.
Large groups that cause major disruptions during the programming, or are not properly monitored by their caregivers, may be asked to exit the program.
Can I drop off my group of children?
Summer in the Square is not a drop-off program. Children must be monitored by their caregivers at all times.
Do I need to sign a waiver?
All fitness participants must sign a waiver in advance of every class.
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Complimentary bag check is offered at the Paragon Sports tent. USP and Paragon Sports are not responsible for any lost items.
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All classes require sneakers except yoga.
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For the morning yoga class, mats will be provided for the first 20 participants. For the evening yoga class, 25 mats will be provided. Mats are first come, first serve for attendees.
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Version 5.9.0 of Mimi has been released on a slow roll out. It will start with a small percentage of users at first. If things look good, I can release it to everyone.
- Changes:
- The app can save files to any SD card mounted
- Updated Google support libraries
- Updated how cookies are stored for chan pass login
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- Removed legacy captcha support
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English 105i
English 105i is a more specialized variant of the standard English 105 course. Both courses satisfy the Composition and Rhetoric (CR) Foundation requirement, and you are invited to take either course.
Underlying the course is the premise that members of the different communities have different ways of knowing and that these ways of knowing shape the ways members of the communities write. For example, an anthropologist and an English professor may examine the same text, but their interpretations of the text and their presentations of these interpretations to their peers may differ significantly. Assignments in these courses are coordinated so that students receive intensive training in communication within an academic discipline as they develop fundamental writing skills and practice oral communication. These sections are ideal for students who already have decided on a major. To select the appropriate English 105i course, match your major with one of the broad disciplinary areas below.
Writing in Business
A course designed specifically for students who plan to apply to the Business School. Students will be introduced to a variety of forms that serve specific business functions and will practice styles and formats that communicate information clearly and effectively in different business contexts.
Writing in Health and Medicine
This course is designed for students interested in the health sciences, including careers in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry. Students will write case studies, proposals, reviews, and reports common in health science fields, with a focus on communicating clearly and persuasively about health topics.
Writing in the Humanities
A course designed specifically for students majoring in fields such as English, history, communication studies, philosophy, music, art, women's studies, foreign languages, or cultural studies. Students will be introduced to several different disciplines within the humanities and learn their predominant methods of inquiry. Students will practice interpretive and reflective writing tasks that entail culture and its artifacts and will learn the skills and versatility needed to write effectively in the humanities.
Writing in the Digital Humanities
In this course, students learn to write in digital formats, such as websites and digital texts that use adobe creative suite, as well as use digital methods including data analysis and visualization to address how people process and document the human experience. This course is well suited for students majoring in the Humanities as well as Computer Science and Media and Journalism.
Writing in the Law
This course is designed for students interested in pursuing careers in law, politics, or public service. You will study techniques of argumentation, analyze speeches and legal cases, and learn how to harness the persuasive power of language. Assignments are designed to teach effective communication in all academic areas, but they will serve students especially well as they progress to law school.
Writing in the Natural Sciences
In this course, students will write several types of scientific documents common in the natural science disciplines (chemistry, biology, physics, etc.), such as lab reports, journal articles, and grant proposals, along with articles that interpret a scientific issue for the general public. Improving the clarity of their writing will help students throughout their academic careers, whether or not they ultimately enter scientific fields.
Writing in the Social Sciences:
A course designed specifically for students majoring in fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, or education. Students will be introduced to several different disciplines within the social sciences and study their predominant methods of inquiry. Most disciplines in the social sciences focus on the systematic study of human behavior. Students will learn about methods of research, the types of evidence that are valued, and how to write to communicate effectively in the social sciences.
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Capital One Announces $2 Million in Funding for Affordable Housing; Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Grants will Benefit Low-Income Families
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2006--Eight grants totaling more than $2 million have been awarded to Capital One through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLBank Dallas) to support affordable housing initiatives in Louisiana and Texas. The grants will be used to provide assistance to more than 250 low- to moderate-income first-time homebuyers throughout Texas and Louisiana.
The grants include: -- $700,000 to assist 140 very low- to moderate-income first-time homebuyers to purchase homes in Texas and Louisiana. Eligible homebuyers can receive up to $5,000 for down-payment and closing-cost assistance. -- $350,000 to assist 70 very low- to moderate-income first-time homebuyers to purchase homes in rural markets in Texas and Louisiana. -- $350,000 to assist 70 very low- to moderate-income senior citizens in Louisiana and Texas to make home maintenance repairs and upgrades, including those designed to meet the needs of disabled senior citizens. Clients can receive up to $5,000 for rehabilitation and/or closing costs. -- Approximately $625,000 for other affordable-housing projects in Louisiana and Texas.
"The $2 million will enable us to help address affordable-housing needs in the markets we serve," said Laurie Vignaud, vice president and Affordable Housing manager for Capital One.. "It's gratifying for us to be able to offer assistance to those in our communities who need financial support the most. These grants will help people get back on their feet or get a good head start on their way to purchasing their first home."
The FHLBank Dallas Affordable Housing Program grants were announced today at a news conference in Houston's Sunnyside neighborhood. The city of Houston has designated Sunnyside as a Houston Hope community targeted for revitalization through development of affordable housing.
"The devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita displaced tens of thousands of people, many of whom have chosen to permanently relocate to Texas. As a community, we should be proud of efforts like these to help provide them with a safe and stable home," said U.S. Rep. Al Green, who sits on the Housing Subcommittee for the Financial Services Committee and has been a strong supporter of affordable housing initiatives in Sunnyside, which is his district. "Investing in the well-being of our neighbors benefits us all, and these grants will help us to work together to build a stronger community. These grants will go a long way in helping to improve the lives of some of our neediest citizens."
For more information about the FHLBank Dallas grants awarded through Capital One, contact Laurie Vignaud at 713-435-5316 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Capital One
Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding company, with more than 316 locations in Texas and Louisiana. Its principal subsidiaries, Capital One Bank, Capital One, F.S.B., Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., and Capital One Bank, N.A., offer a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Capital One's subsidiaries collectively had $47.8 billion in deposits and $103.9 billion in managed loans outstanding as of March 31, 2006. Capital One, a Fortune 500 company, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "COF" and is included in the S&P 500 index.
CONTACT: Capital One Steven Thorpe, Manager, Media Relations 504-533-2753 SOURCE: Capital One


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...armed security guards to protect them and the Journal News business' property? That is what has been reported by Politico here:
The Poloitco piece is based upon this other one in the Rockland Times:
I almost peed my pants, I was laughing that hard at what I could only see as being the inevitable hypocrisy of media leftists. Pay attention when you read the Rockland Times piece, especially about the so called threat that Journal News Rockland Editor Caryn A. McBride reportedly thought the Journal News had received.
So, while they are against the regular citizen owning firearms for protection, or so it would seem to me, they are apparently all in favor of their own private security force being armed for their own protection. But you must ask, protection from what! There are no reports of threats made against them that I have seen. The only threats it seems, were two emails that McBride reportedly perceived as threats enough to alarm her to the point that she wasted the time of the police by reporting both. The police looked at them and determined they were not threats at all. "However, the police did not find the communications in question actually threatening." (source)
As of yet, all they actually have received is merely a lot of negative feedback about the interactive map they produced, the one that gives out the names and residence locations of pistol license holders in Westchester and Rockland counties in NY. Now they are seemingly trembling in fear because of people, other than the media, who have taken the liberty to exercise their right of free speech. In response to that exercise of free speech, and the fear apparently invoked by that exercise of free speech, the Journal News evidently has hired gun toting security personnel to protect themselves. I ask again, protect them from what? Is it from words or from people who exercise free speech or just from their, so far, unfounded fears over nonexistent email threats?
If all of this is true as reported, then I think that once again, those in the media, who are on the far left, show their absolute hypocrisy when it comes to gun rights and their absolute lack of true grit.
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..The holidays are just around the corner..the stores are already decking the halls, and we will have to once again suffer through two months of holiday music. Actually my favorite in recent years was a CD that a friend sent of Bob Dylan's Christmas music.
In my business I am gearing up for a holiday trunk show in early December hoping that all the women who attend will fall head over heels for my offerings and snatch up every last item on the rack. That would make me very happy and with hope, them very happy. In these days of ratings, and reviews, it is always good to get good feedback, directly or not. I recently asked for that kind of feedback because I am getting a press package ready so I can reach out to a wider audience. Promote myself, garner attention, reveal my best qualities and in essence offer to the world what I see as my gift in this life.
So I suppose that the holidays for me are a mixed bag. On one hand it is a time to do a lot of business, which means being very busy. On the other it is a time for reflection on one's year, and looking toward the new one to come...and finally it is time to be grateful for the gift of living the life of one's choosing.
Here's to the holidays!


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3 Myths About Merlot and the Movie Sideways
Quick! Recite a quote from the movie Sideways about Merlot. Good job if your quote was, "I'm not drinking any f*cking Merlot!" Here's 3 things you might not know about that infamous statement by Miles:
Merlot was Miles' ex-wife's favorite wine – The movie doesn't give context to why Miles so emphatically rejected the idea of drinking Merlot. It wasn't because he didn't like Merlot, it was because it was his ex-wife's favorite wine.
Miles' Special Bottle Was Merlot Based — At the end of the movie when he goes to the burger stand after the wedding and brings his 'special' bottle of Cheval Blanc he had been saving, it was a Merlot and Cabernet Franc dominated wine.
Merlot is Inferior — Miles loves Pinot Noir, which grows plentifully in the Santa Barbara region near his house. There are over 8,000 grape varietals in the world but most wine lovers are aware of only a handful. Merlot is the main grape in some of the most collectable wines in the world including Le Pin and Petrus from Bordeaux and is Cabernet Sauvignon's BFF blended in with many wines on the domestic market.
In the month of October wine lovers will have a chance to discover new Merlot wines, meet wine makers and find new cooler weather recipes to make with Merlot. Just follow the #MerlotMe hash tag online.


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The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List
Week of November 2, 2009
Past transcripts by month
- Colonel Jack Jacobs, MSNBC military analyst
- Suhail Khan, Senior fellow for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. He is also a former senior political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush.
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Former Vice President Al Gore, author, "Our Choice: A plan to solve the climate crisis"
From the Web
- Camp Lejeune Reaction To Fort Hood Shooting
- NEW INFORMATION: Marine In Custody For Homicide At Camp Lejeune
- Fort Campbell soldier and her civilian husband are dead in an apparent murder-suicide
- Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama
- CBO writes to Congressman Boehner with its assessment of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
- Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry: Let states lead the way - "Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage."
- U.S. census bureau: Texas ranks dead last in percent of population covered by some type of health insurance: 74.9 - Table HI05. Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by State and Age for All People: 2008
- A Message From Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Bachmann aide no longer taking care of business
- Sources: Suicide probed in census worker case
- The Preamble of the United States Constitution
- School House Rock: The Preamble
- Let's learn about coal coloring book
- NBC's Charles Hadlock & Jim Miklaszewski on Ft. Hood, Texas shootings
- Salon's Mark Benjamin | Articles
- Rep. Barney Frank on health care reform
- Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winng columnist, Washington Post
- Matthew Hoh, former State Department official in Afghanistan who resigned over Afghan war
- Former Vice President Al Gore, author, "Our Choice"
From the Web
- Lindsey Graham warns GOP against going too far right
- Don't Kill Grandma .com
- AFP buses coming to Washington DC Nov. 5
- Eugene Robinson: A world of change in 287 days
- Must Read, Amazing: Armey says he mastered dual roles of lobbyist, conservative leader
- Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack
- Mr. Cuccinelli's bigotry
- 'Everything but marriage' backers smelling victory
- Parker, Locke in runoff for Houston mayor
- Matthew Hoh resignation letter (pdf)
- Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless
- Al Gore's Journal: Our Choice
- Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review
- RepowerAmerica.org
- Statement by President Barack Obama on Iran
- 82 Endangered Sea Turtles Hatch At San Diego SeaWorld (PHOTOS)
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- Dave Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Jesse Connelly, campaign manager, NO on 1 Protect Maine Equality
- Cleve Jones, human rights activist
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
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- Governor John Baldacci, Maine
- Lawrence O'Donnell, The Huffington Post and MSNBC analyst
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
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- David Weigel: NY-23: 'Doug Rode the 50-Foot Wave'
- David Weigel: NY-23: Hoffman Says Victory Would Be for 'Average People,' Not Necessarily Republicans
- The uprising in NY -- and what it means for Connecticut
- 'Meet the Press' transcript for August 16, 2009 - Dick Armey, Tom Coburn, Tom Daschle, Rachel Maddow, Charlie Rangel, Bruce Josten, Bill Ritter (includes video)
- Reid reassures left Lieberman on board
- Reid, Lieberman Offices Both Strongly Deny Report That Lieberman Won't Filibuster
- Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Ned Lamont, ran as a Democrat against Joe Liberman in 2006 and is a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics
- Matt Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of the book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity"
From the Web
- Hoffman unfamiliar with district issues
- PUblic Policy Polling: Maine 11/2 (pdf)
- The Washington Poll, October 27, 2009 (pdf)
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell: New Orleans still waits for change from Obama
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Will a Racial Divide Swallow Obama?
- Matt Miller: Why the trigger will work
- Left, Right & Center
- Bush favours UNSC seat for India
- Blame it on Macys - Why the Phillies lost
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Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk hammered Barack Obama on Wednesday for what the President later said was a result of misspeaking.
When awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a former Polish anti-Nazi underground officer, Obama mentioned a "Polish death camp." Later, a National Security Council spokesman tried to clarify that Obama was referring to a "Nazi death camp" operated in Poland.
But now Poland is saying that's not good enough. You can read Tusk's full statement here, but here's part of it:
The words uttered yesterday by the President of the United States Barack Obama concerning "Polish death camps" touched all Poles. We always react in the same way when ignorance, lack of knowledge, bad intentions lead to such a distortion of history, so painful for us here in Poland, in a country which suffered like no other in Europe during World War II.
For Poland and for our country, but also for all our fellow citizens, this is something that we cannot ignore. Here, in Poland, we cannot accept such words even if they are spoken by the leader of a friendly power - or perhaps especially in such situations - since we expect diligence, care, and respect from our friends on issues of such importance as World War II remembrance. In Polish-American relations, in friendly relations, respect vis-à-vis the smaller partner should be the most recognizable sign of such relations. But this is not only an issue of justified sensitivity when it comes to Nazi German concentration camps which were placed on Polish soil in order to murder Jews, but also Poles and other nations. Today this is first and foremost the problem of America's reputation. We expect Americans to become involved - in particular in relation to this statement - in our efforts, in our measures which will enable us to eliminate, once and for all, these false phrasings, so immensely unfair for Poland.
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor had offered this statement beforehand:
The President misspoke. He was referring to Nazi death camps in Poland. We regret this misstatement, which should not detract from the clear intention to honor Mr. Karski and those brave citizens who stood on the side of human dignity in the face of tyranny.
But if reaction from the Polish government is any inclination, that statement will do little to satisfy relations between the two countries. Assumedly, Obama read these words, like the rest, off a teleprompter.
In his story, ABC's Jake Tapper points to a story in the Economist that Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted out last night. The opening reads:
FEW things annoy Poles more than being blamed for the crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers of their homeland. For many years, Polish media, diplomats and politicians have tried to persuade outsiders to stop using the phrase "Polish death camps" as a shorthand description of Auschwitz and other exemplars of Nazi brutality and mass murder.
And here's a sampling of some Polish publications' websites today. First, the Polish version of Newsweek:
A couple others, translated: