text: Next → Is There Much Difference Between the Candidates on Foreign Policy? ← Previous E.J. Dionne: Time to Restore the Balance Between Liberty and Communitarianism You might also like... Which of these presidents thought that "government is the problem?" (07/14/16) Ted Kennedy and the Fight for Civil Rights (07/02/16) Oral History: Oklahoma City Bombing (04/19/16) Anita Hill & Clarence Thomas Seen Through Oral History (04/15/16) Sandy Berger Remembered (12/02/15) Presidential Speech Archive American President: A Reference Resource Presidential Recordings Presidential Oral Histories ← Return to Riding The Tiger October 9, 2012 By Sidney Milkis Progressivism, Conservatism and the Revival of Battle for the Soul of America in 2012 President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 12/6/11. PD. This post is adapted from remarks delivered at a special GAGE Colloquium on "The 2012 Presidential Election in Historical Context." While American democracy is often prosaic, from time to time it gets caught up in an ongoing battle between progressivism and conservatism. Elections, such as 1912, 1936, 1964 and 1980, ask voters to choose between profoundly different visions of the nature's future, raising such fundamental questions about the nature of rights and the meaning of the Constitution. This election year seems to promise, or portend, another surrogate constitutional convention. President Barack Obama and the Democrats and Mitt Romney and the Republicans have invoked and drawn inspiration from the election of 1912, the origins of the contest between Progressivism and Conservatism that has reverberated through our own political time. Last December, President Obama took up the mantle of Progressivism in an address delivered in Osawatomie, Kansas – the same site where in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt delivered the important "New Nationalism" speech that launched his final election battle, as the standard bearer of the Progressive Party, which he famously dubbed the Bull Moose campaign. Although TR did not win the election, the Bull Moose Campaign had the best showing of any third party before or since, garnering 27.4% of the electoral vote, and spearheaded a three-decade progressive advance against the "gilded age" Republican Party– and its "stand pat" defense of industrial capitalism – culminating in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's triumph of 1936. The Progressive Party introduced the idea of economic rights, including national health care, and promised to advance the rights of African-Americans, immigrants, and, especially women. With his December 2011 speech, Obama sought to ensure that he first term would not be judged on his record alone, but also would make clear the historic differences that divided Democrats and Republicans. A "ruthless pragmatist" during the first three years of his presidency, he now echoed TR's Bull Moose Campaign in seeking to rediscover the message of hope and change of his 2008 campaign – and to set the tone for his re-election. Like TR, Obama sought to frame his message as the champion of the middle class: Roosevelt believed that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. It led to a prosperity and a standard of living unmatched by the rest of the world….But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you can from whomever you can…Our country 'means nothing unless it means the triumph…of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that is in him… Like TR, too, Obama sought to defy the charge of his opponents that his call for political and economic reform posed a radical challenge to core American values. With a knowing gesture, he continued: For this, Roosevelt was called a radical, a socialist, even a communist. But today, we are a richer nation and a stronger democracy because of what he fought for in his last campaign: an eight hour work day and a minimum wage for women; insurance for the unemployed, the elderly and those with disabilities; political reform [most notably, campaign finance reform]; and a progressive income tax. If Obama has chosen to play the Bull Moose in this campaign, Mitt Romney and, even more so, Paul Ryan (the newly crowned Philosopher Prince of the GOP) have harked back to the conservatism of William Howard Taft, the GOP incumbent who gave a brave, but failed defense of property and limited constitutional government in 1912, and of Herbert Hoover, the Republican who sought to defy the gale storm of the Great Depression, with a militant defense of "rugged individualism." The Republican platform in 2012 has been animated, in part, by the Tea Party, but with roots in the Reagan "Revolution" and the hard challenges it posed to the liberal administrative state. Traditional constitutional conservatism had been on the defensive since the 1930s, but regained prominence with Ronald Reagan's campaign and ascendance to the presidency, in part due to the excesses and failings of well-intentioned liberal programs. The Romney-Ryan campaign marks a culmination of sorts of this view. The campaign is rooted in the belief that 1912 marked the original sin of the country, the departure from our belief in "natural rights" and limited constitutional government, and that President Obama embodies the false prophet – a sort of apotheosis – of a progressive tradition that is forging a European form of social democracy on American soil. The president's approach, Governor Romney declared in Ohio a few weeks ago, is "foreign to anything this country has ever known." The rhythms of American history are fascinating – a century after progressives and conservatives fought their first battle for the soul of America, another seems to be taking place. I never claim that history is repeating itself. TR's credo in 1912 was biblical: "We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord." In the Book of Revelations, Armageddon is the place where the Messiah will return and defeat the anti-Christ in the final battle between good and evil. This was not simply rhetorical flourish: Socialism, calling for the nationalization of the means of production, led by the popular and effective campaigner, Eugene Debs, was at high tide in 1912 (garnering six percent of the popular vote). With strong movements to his Left, Roosevelt's campaign was much more unapologetically radical than Obama's. While Obama's has criticized the courts in the wake of controversial decisions like Citizens United, TR's assault on a conservative judiciary were much harsher. Scorning the Justices for exalting the right of property, most notably in the notorious Lochner case, which forbade New York from limited the long hours that bakers worked, Roosevelt advocated political reforms that would dramatically reduce the power of courts, including popular referenda and an a more expeditious constitutional amendment process. In turn, conservatives like Taft were stalwarts of an independent judiciary – he called them the "high priests of the Constitution" – for they believed that weakening the constitutional forms that protected the free enterprise system would lead inevitably to the "establishment of a benevolent despotism." Neither Democrats nor Republicans in 2012 believe the age-old conflict between private wealth and commonwealth have brought them to the end of time. In fact, as many political scientists have pointed out in recent years, the expansion of the national state championed by TR at its creation has gone so far, and created such a such a complex universe of "thick" institutions and government commitments – many enshrined as entitlements – so as to seriously constrain the political possibilities of America politics. Obama and his political followers call for economic and political reform that they hope will level the playing field, though there has been deafening silence on the poor and poverty. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney and his supporters want tax cuts and entitlement reform that they hope will restore prosperity and individual responsibility to the country. But they have promised to save, not destroy Medicare: even militant Tea Party supporters do not want the government fooling around with their Medicare. Social Security is even more telling. In 1936, there was a serious debate over the newly created social insurance state, with Franklin Roosevelt championing Social Security as a new fundamental right and Alf Landon proposing to repeal it. In contrast, both presidential candidates have exalted Social Security in the otherwise harsh 2012 campaign. As Obama stated in the presidential debate last week, "I suspect that on Social Security, we've got a somewhat similar position," thus defusing a political weapon that Democrats have hammered the Republicans with since FDR's huge landslide victory in 1936. The presidency-centered nature of our campaigns also deflects attention from the principle differences between Democrats and Republicans. The New Nationalism, Roosevelt insisted in his Osawatomie speech, required that the president become "the steward of the public welfare." Since FDR's long reign, and the consolidation of modern presidency, Americans have looked to presidents to do far more than a republican executive can, or should do. Still, the dramatic events of the past decade – War on Terror and Great Recession – have made parties more relevant than they have been in American politics for a very long time. In the fundamental, constitutional struggles Democrats and Republicans have waged over the Affordable Care Act, women's and gay rights, and the right to vote, we hear echoes of the most important elections of the past one-hundred years. As Mark Twain once said, "history does not repeat itself; but it does rhyme." Or, to invoke our beloved Vice President Joe Biden, this election is a "[friggin] big deal!" Tweet Date edited: 10/09/2012 (3:05PM) Comments Rules for Comments We reserve the right to remove any post or user. Things that will get comments edited/deleted: Offensive or abusive language or behavior Misrepresentation (i.e., claiming to be somebody you're not) – using a "handle" is fine as long as it isn't offensive, abusive, or misrepresentative Posting of copyrighted materials Spam, solicitations, or advertisements of any kind We hope these rules will keep the discussion lively and on topic. Commenting is not available in this channel entry. ← Return to Riding The Tiger


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I'd given up on granola, since I don't handle gluten-free oats well, but roasted buckwheat offers a perfect substitute. Some people recommend soaking buckwheat groats before they're cooked, to make them easier to digest. I skipped this step and bought roasted groats (also called kasha) at my natural foods store. If you have a dehydrator, or 24 hours to monitor a 150-degree oven, you may want to soak (or sprout!) and dry your own buckwheat groats, if that's your thing.
This healthy granola's got it all: protein, fiber, iron, healthy omega-3 oils, and most importantly, flavor and crunch. I've listed my ingredients, but use whatever seeds, nuts, and dried fruit float your boat.
Easy Buckwheat Granola
⅓ cup maple syrup
¼ cup nut or seed butter (I used almond)
2 cups toasted buckwheat groats (kasha)
½ cup finely shredded coconut
½ cup slivered almonds
⅓ cup pepitas (raw pumpkin seeds)
⅓ cup sunflower seeds
⅓ cup raisins
⅓ cup dried cherries
¼ cup dried blueberries
Whisk together maple syrup and nut butter. Add kasha, finely shredded coconut, and almonds. Toss to coat. Spread in a thin layer on a baking sheet. Toast mixture for 20 minutes, tossing halfway through. Remove from oven and cool. Toss with remaining ingredients. Store in an airtight container.Serve dry or with milk, or mixed into yogurt. Makes 6-7 cups.
(If your body is on friendly terms with oats, you might also like this müesli recipe.)

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By Carlie Kollath/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – The BancorpSouth Arena is on track to absorb operations of the BancorpSouth Conference Center.
The Tupelo Redevelopment Agency on Tuesday ended its contract with Master Hospitality Development Services, which has been leasing the conference center from the city and overseeing operations at the facility. Master Hospitality owns the Hilton Garden Inn location in Tupelo.
At the same meeting, TRA board members, which oversee the Fairpark District's development, approved a new agreement for the Tupelo Coliseum Commission to oversee operations of the conference center.
The commission, which is responsible for the operations of the arena, is meeting today to vote on the agreement.
If the new contract is approved, arena staff on Thursday will begin overseeing conference center operations.
"From our perspective, it's a good deal," said TRA Chairman John Oxford.
Master Hospitality is paying a settlement of about $514,500 to end the lease. Oxford said Master Hospitality was behind on its payments to TRA and the settlement will bring the company up to date.
The settlement includes $75,000 worth of fixtures, tables, chairs, linens, office equipment and other supplies inside the conference center.
It's unclear what will happen to the conference center's employees.
"We're still working through that," said Todd Hunt, director of the BancorpSouth Arena.
He said the arena will have to add at least a sales director. He said the current employees of the conference center will not be automatically hired by the arena, but they are welcome to apply.
"It's an open process as we look out for new employees," he said.
Hunt and Oxford both said events already booked with the center will be honored. The deposits will be transferred, and weddings, family reunions and special events at the conference center will go on as planned.
"The consumer won't be able to see any difference," Oxford said.
In the future, catering will change. Previously, the conference center was the sole provider of food at events. Going forward, Oxford said, any restaurant or caterer will be able to do business there.


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Skip to comments.Germanys Green Energy Policy Hit Households Hard
Posted on 06/11/2012 7:05:15 AM PDT by Twotone
Many people in Germany are no longer able to pay their electricity bills. Skyrocketing electricity prices are making electricity unaffordable for a large number of Germans. The past year over 600,000 households had their power switched off in Germany because they cant afford the skyrocketing electric bills.(1)
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
But they feel good (for doing nothing for the environment). That's what is important.
Coming soon to the Obamanation if we fail in November. (although I hear it could be happening in California this summer)
"Skyrocketing electricity prices are making electricity unaffordable for a large number of Germans."
Which is exactly the point of the EnviroNazi agenda.
Your Electricity Bill is About to Necessarily Skyrocket [in USA]
They want us to live in caves.
"The governments planned energy transition was supposed to, among other things, produce environmentally friendly electricity. It turns out, however, that the power gap which was created by the shutdown of eight nuclear power stations, will be largely filled by brown coal."
How ironic, no nukes = more coal. Stupid govt. results in more polution.
I wonder if government offices are charged the same rates.
Freezing human beings to death is an excellent way to reduce the population!
I do not see how the average increase in 3.5 % results in people not being able to pay their bill.
For example, if your bill was $100 and is now $103.50, there must be some other mitigating factor causing the you to not be able to pay it.
Just like the Japanese...they'll be turning their nukes back on real soon. Most enviro-idiots like to talk green, until they have to start writing the checks to pay for it. Especially when many of the greenies lose their jobs, because manufacturing is chased out by high energy costs.
They never learn ...
years ago, Germany introduced a recycling campaign "The Dual System". Instead of throwing away packaging materials (tins, plastic wrap, joghurt cups ...), they *wash* them then dispose of them in special yellow bags / containers. This is then taken to a recycling center / burned.
Sounds great and they became real masters at it in the hopes of saving money AND doing something for the environment!
Then the law of unintended consequences struck. The local refuse removal & disposal companies, which were paid by quantity / weight suddenly could not cover thier core operational expenses - SO they raised the rates. So now the Germans essentially have been hit twice - additional expense of separating & washing packaging AND additional costs for the removal & disposal of the "rest".
Now - the electric companies are raising rates because they can't cover thier core expenses due to the "we must save energy at all costs" meme. So now they pay more for thier light bulbs and most other products, pay additional taxes on energy consumption to stuff holes in the thier Social Security System AND the rates for electricity go UP.
Great Savings, coming to a country near you!
Cheap + plentiful energy = freedom.
And vice versa.
The only time I've heard of people washing packaging material for recycling was in satire (making fun of the over-the-topness of the whole concept). In the real world, not so much. (Though it's probably true that a few nutty individuals would do that.)
WE? So you have figured out to vote for Virgil Goode, too?
4.5 Million people receive "Hartz IV" which is about 400 / month - prices and usage of course vary greatly, but I've seen published averages of between 80 & 100 / month ...
Like Phil Hartman's "Anal-Retentive Chef" on SNL.
A scene from the play-movie BECKET.
King Henry is caught out in a rainstorm and soaked. He and Becket go to a hovel hovel where King Henry makes demands.
Henry: I want fire and warmth!
Becket: You will find no fire here sire.
Henry: And why is that!
Becket: Each hovel is allowed two measures of wood a year. One stick more and they are hanged.
Henry: My edict?
Becket:Your edict sire.
Oh ita quite true - in fact it is even required and you can be fined if caught disposing of unwashed trash in the yellow bags / containers.
Vote for a lifelong democrat? Huh?
Someone please explain how Goode gets so much traction on a conservative website.
Wait until the skyrocketing price of energy hits Japan. Didn't they just shut down 20 some nuclear power plants??? Where will their energy come from now???
Funny how those impressive and intimidating statistics look less so when someone discloses what the actual standard of living there is like.
As usual their goal is not about the environment.
Actually, my town (run by typical green lefties) pushes recycling (althouogh you aren't fined for not complying...yet). To recycle plastics & glass, they have to be clean. They'll take the containers plants come in, & I spent part of my Sunday washing the dirt off the containers after I got my deck plants in.
And if you recycle paper/cardboard, it can't have food residue on it. And I've been told that if any contaminents are found, they have to toss the load. It made me laugh, as my insanely leftie, green sister doesn't bother to rinse out her tin cans.
The only material that is worth recycling is aluminum. Pulling the aluminum cans out is a profit source.
All other materials(glass,tin cans, plastics, paper) have lower removal costs for my town in NH. However, we still have to pay to haul them away. It just costs less/ton than mixed trash.
"The only time Ive heard of people washing packaging material for recycling was in satire"
I actually know quite a few people who wash them. I think they mainly do it because the recycle bin gets disgusting over time.
I am, however, a total slob. I just cleaned my fridge out Sunday and put 1/2 full jars of all kinds of things in the recycle bin.
There is now a much better way around extremes of heat or cold, which is the majority of residential energy consumption.
A synthetic material first made in 1931, aerogel is unsurpassed as a physical heat insulator. A 3mm layer of it is equivalent to about a foot and a half of fiberglass insulation. A house insulated with it would use just a fraction of the energy of a modern house. It could also line ovens and refrigerators.
However, aerogel was just an oddity for many years, because it was both terribly expensive to make and quite brittle, but in 2000, commercial production began of aerogel blankets, in thin, flexible sheets, and at far less cost.
It is still fairly expensive, but no one has yet begun large scale production of it, which would radically change the energy equation.
At mass production cost, though retrofitting an entire home would be expensive, a single, interior room could be kept very warm in winter with just body heat and a light bulb, and very cold in summer with a small air conditioner set on low.
After all that washing, what about the pollutants washing down the drain and eventually into the water supply? Speaking of the water supply, how much water is being wasted from all that washing? How much extra energy are they now having to use to clean up the water? The more that goes through the drains, the more breaks and clogs.
Hmmm, looks like I'm out-voted 3:1.
(But I still find it hard to believe. Any organic matter left in/on the packaging should be easily dealt with at the recycling plant, IMO. Especially if the stuff is incinerated anyway.)
Yep, that's exactly what I meant. Doesn't look like I've got any support for that opinion, though. Sounds like there's actually folks out there who scrub their joghurt cups before discarding them. LOL. Stupid just never dies.
Well, I'm voting for Romney, he's not my first choice but he is the only one to get Obama out of office. Almost anybody is better than Obama and who knows, maybe Romney will surprise us and be a good President.
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I have zero interest in one personality over another.
Even in highschool, I didn't give a crap about personalities.
I only care about Ideologies.
Social issues trump fiscal issues.
Romney is no different than Obonghit on social issues.
Ergo, I will vote for someone better.
It is more important to stand justified before God than to win one office in an election. All nations fail over time, but your soul is eternal and God judges how you hold to his standards.
You may NOT live in caves.
Caves are 'living', and touching any of the formations kills them.
Light from any source encourages the growth of algae, which destroys the pristine nature of the cave.
ALL cave formations, public or private, are protected by federal statute, so it is illegal to alter the interior of the caves in any manner, to make it habitable.
You must live in the open, under the stars, without any artificial heat, light, or shelter; and above all, not in any place, way, shape, or form, that negatively impacts in any way any natural plant, animal, or mineral.
Exceptions will be made for Official Protectors Of The Earth, who may maintain up to 3 residences on each continent; not to exceed 20,000 Square Feet each; nor use more than an average of 12,500 KWH/month each.
We're required to wash glass, plastic & metal containers; and remove the labels, before recycling them.
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BOONEVILLE – A 28-year-old man was arrested after allegedly failing to stop until the end of a 50-minute chase involving several law enforcement agencies last weekend.
Timothy Wayne Tucker of Booneville faces charges of speeding, failure to stop at red light, failure to stop at stop sign, DUI, reckless driving and felony fleeing, according to Baldwyn Assistant Police Chief Greg Boxx.
Tucker's felony bond was set Monday at $2,500 and his bond on misdemeanor charges was $2,500. He was in the Lee County jail as of 2:30 p.m.
Boxx said the chase started about 5 p.m. Saturday in Baldwyn and ended in Tippah County, where Tucker's vehicle allegedly hit a Tippah County deputies car after the tires in his vehicle were shot out. Tucker then exited the vehicle and was arrested in the woods.
No one was injured in the chase.


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When Gabriel Weinberg launched a search engine in 2008, plenty of people thought he was insane. How could DuckDuckGo, a tiny, Philadelphia-based startup, go up against Google? One way, he wagered, was by respecting user privacy. Six years later, we're living in the post-Snowden era, and the idea doesn't seem so crazy.
In fact, DuckDuckGo is exploding.
Looking at a chart of DuckDuckGo's daily search queries, the milestones are obvious. A $3 million investment from Union Square Ventures in 2011. Just prior to that, a San Francisco billboard campaign. Inclusion in Time's 50 Best Websites of 2011. Each of these things moved the traffic needle for DuckDuckGo, but none of them came close to sparking anything like the massive spike in queries the company saw last July. That's when Edward Snowden first revealed the NSA's extensive digital surveillance program to the world. The little blue line on the chart hasn't stopped climbing north since.
"Every year, we've grown 200-500%," Weinberg says. "The numbers keep getting bigger." As of early February, DuckDuckGo was seeing more than 4 million search queries per day. One year ago, that number had just barely broken 1 million.
Surprisingly, the sudden success didn't send the site crashing down. Nor did it change the company's stripped-down, razor-sharp focus. Here's how one small company is slowly, surely beating its way into the most monopolized category in technology.
Three Ideas In One: Where DuckDuckGo Came From
Weinberg didn't originally set out to build a search engine. After shuttering one failed startup and selling another to Classmates.com for $10 million in 2006, the MIT grad found himself exploring several new ideas. Across multiple projects, he focused on structured data, Quora-style Q&A, and programmatically combating spam.
"I started all of these projects independently and none of them really took off," Weinberg says. "Then I realized, maybe if I put them all together, there might be an interesting search experience there."
The result was DuckDuckGo, a search engine offering direct answers to people's queries, rather than merely delivering a list of links. Below these so-called "Instant Answers," the site still displays traditional, link-by-link search results syndicated from third parties like Bing and Yandex but, crucially, they're filtered and reorganized to reduce spam.
Looking at the modern history of the search space, Weinberg noticed that several companies in the early 2000s had tried—and failed—to rival Google by mimicking its method of mass-indexing the web. Instead of following this ambitious (and very expensive) path, Weinberg decided to let other companies' infrastructure do most of the heavy lifting so that his startup—initially, just him coding at home with his newborn son nearby—could focus on building a superior experience for finding information online. The key, as he saw it, would be Instant Answers.
"When you do a search, you generally want an answer. You don't necessarily want to click around links," Weinberg says. "It's our job to try to get an answer. Our grand vision is that that happens for 80% of queries, even for very niche things."
To deliver these answers, DuckDuckGo relies on a mixture of third-party data sources and the deep—sometimes bizarrely arcane—knowledge of its growing community of users and developers.
"We have recipes and Lego parts and other weird stuff that we don't know about as a team," Weinberg says. "The only way that works is if we have a community of people who are interested enough to know about these subjects. And then come up with ideas about what the answer should be, suggest the sources, and even develop them."
With Instant Answers, he was clearly onto something. Today, when you run a Google search for "Galileo" or "How tall is Big Ben?" the usual list of blue links is accompanied by a tidy white box displaying a mini-bio of Galileo or, in the latter case, the answer: 316 feet.
This is the biggest risk for any startup who dares challenge a giant head-on: At any point, the Googles or Facebooks or Apples of the world can just mimic what made you different, slam-dunking your shattered dreams into the wastebin of tech history.
Weinberg and his small team seem undeterred. After all, DuckDuckGo has one asset that Google could never copy, even if it wanted to.
DuckDuckGo's Secret Weapon: Hardcore Privacy
When you do a search from DuckDuckGo's website or one of its mobile apps, it doesn't know who you are. There are no user accounts. Your IP address isn't logged by default. The site doesn't use search cookies to keep track of what you do over time or where else you go online. It doesn't save your search history. When you click on a link in DuckDuckGo's results, those websites won't see which search terms you used. The company even has its own Tor exit relay, allowing Tor users to search DuckDuckGo with less of a performance lag.
Simply put, they're hardcore about privacy.
But things didn't start out that way. Weinberg, who says he has "always been a privacy-minded person," wasn't particularly concerned with search privacy issues when he first started building the service. In fact, he knew very little about the matter at all. Then early users started asking questions.
"Some of the first questions I got were about privacy," Weinberg says. "I had launched and it was on Reddit and Hacker News. So it was tech-heavy and there were a lot of privacy-minded people."
Did the site use tracking cookies? Did it log IP addresses? These are things Weinberg hadn't thought much about, but clearly mattered to his newfound user base. So the self-described tech policy geek decided to dig deeper into the privacy practices of Google and other search engines. He didn't like what he learned.
"If you look at the logs of people's search sessions, they're the most personal thing on the Internet," Weinberg says. "Unlike Facebook, where you choose what to post, with search you're typing in medical and financial problems and all sorts of other things. You're not thinking about the privacy implications of your search history."
This common functionality, combined with the possibility for accidental data leaks and hacks, made Weinberg nervous. At the same time, he realized that it was still possible to build a viable business model around search without tracking users. One might not reach Google-levels of profitability without large-scale targeted advertising, but the fundamental logic of delivering search ads—user searches for motorcycles, you show them a motorcycle ad sold by keyword—is still sound. And, of course, the profitability of such a model only grows as more people search more.
It quickly became clear that taking a no-holds-barred approach to privacy would give DuckDuckGo a unique selling point as Google gobbled up more private user data. So the company positioned itself accordingly and started amassing attention as the issue of online privacy slowly ballooned in the public's consciousness.
"It was extreme at the time," Weinberg says. "And it still may be considered extreme by some people, but I think it's becoming less extreme nowadays. In the last year, it's become obvious why people don't want to be tracked."
How DuckDuckGo's Community Informs Its Product—And Payroll
One person who didn't think the pro-privacy tack was extreme is Caine Tighe. After hearing about DuckDuckGo in 2009, the young programmer decided to reach out to see if Weinberg needed any help.
"I met Gabe like I meet a lot of people: on the Internet," says Tighe. "I thought it was interesting that he was working on a new search engine. He didn't really have that much stuff for me at the time, as he was still fleshing out the idea. Later on, I helped him write the first Android app."
By 2011, armed with its first infusion of venture cash, DuckDuckGo was ready to leave Weinberg's basement and grow into a real company. Having worked on multiple projects with Weinberg, Tighe was an obvious choice to become the company's first full-time employee. He soon became the Director of Core Components, a role in which he oversees DuckDuckGo's infrastructure, from its underlying web technology to the functionality of its mobile apps.
Tighe's trajectory is one that all future employees would follow: One by one, members of the DuckDuckGo community have gradually increased their involvement with the site—building plug-ins, recommending obscure data sources, even contributing code—eventually positioning themselves as no-brainer job applicants the next time the company is hiring.
"If you want to work with us, we find that the most motivated people come directly from the community," says Zac Pappis, DuckDuckGo's Director of Marketing and Community. "Anybody can get their feet wet." Indeed, Pappis himself was heavily involved in the DuckDuckGo community and did part-time work for Weinberg in the evenings before being offered a full-time position in 2012.
It's in this capacity that Pappis helps oversee the growing community of users and developers that contribute to DuckDuckGo. Over time, this community has taken on an increasingly vital role in the evolution of the company's core product. Not only does it pluck new employees from this group of devotees, but a subgroup of it has splintered off into a platform all its own: DuckDuckHack.
Letting Users Hack Their Own Search Engine
"It started very casually," says Weinberg. "I just made some APIs and tried to get these guys involved coding stuff for it. And then it clicked that this could actually be a platform that people could work on."
Branded as an "open source DuckDuckGo," the DuckDuckHack platform lets developers build their own Instant Answer plug-ins using the company's suite of (mostly Perl-based) APIs and documentation. It's essentially a toolkit that lets anybody programmatically define how to interpret whatever people may ask a search engine, as well as where to find the information online.
Some examples are obvious: Information about movies comes from IMBD, or Rotten Tomatoes. A search for "The Beatles" pulls in a biographical blurb from Wikipedia or Last.fm. Simple computations come from Wolfram Alpha. Tighe seems particularly excited about their recent integration with Forecast.io, the data source behind the popular weather prediction app Dark Sky.
Then there's the more obscure, less obvious stuff. That's where the community comes into play.
"The Wolfram Alpha experience really opened my eyes to the fact that you could have answers for really esoteric stuff," says Weinberg. "And we started including them. You could have answers for tons and tons of topics that our team knew absolutely nothing about. Celebrities, for example. We're not big on pop culture here."
One user, for instance, was a big Lego nerd. As Lego enthusiasts know, each piece of the iconic building block set has a unique ID number. To make looking up those pieces easier on DuckDuckGo, he crafted a plug-in that pulls from a database of Lego pieces built by Lego fans every bit as geeky as he is.
Scrolling through the list of existing Instant Answer queries—known as "goodies" on DuckDuckHack—you begin to understand why DuckDuckGo has opened up this part of its process to others: Some of this stuff is just too weird for one company to tackle.
Inside DuckDuckGo: How Its Tiny Team Works
Stepping inside DuckDuckGo's headquarters in Paoli, Pennsylvania, it's hard to imagine that its two modest, sparsely occupied floors could be used to launch an insurgency against one of the biggest tech companies on the planet.
But they are—sort of. Most of DuckDuckGo's 20 or so employees work remotely. Doug Brown, a front-end dev specialist, lives in Toronto, making the trip to the small Philadelphia suburb periodically. The company's newest hire, a developer named Jag Talon, started working for the company from the Philippines before his family relocated to New Jersey last year. When we visited their office in January, fewer than a dozen people roamed the halls. This, we were told, was more than usual.
Day to day, the team's priorities are dictated by what they call their "critical path"—the short list of focal points that prevent them from getting distracted from DuckDuckGo's core mission. Surprisingly, their recent surge in traffic hasn't altered the critical path very much, other than to initially double-check that the site was well-architected enough to handle the load (It was).
One recently checked-off item from the priority list was the consolidation of the company's public-facing community sites into a single Web interface. Next up is a visual redesign of the DuckDuckGo website, which they're aiming to relaunch in the second quarter of this year.
Like any company with a mostly remote team, DuckDuckGo experiments with all the latest online collaboration tools.
Skype. Yammer. HipChat. Asana. "We've tried everything that we know of," says Pappis.
Lately, they've been toying with Sqwiggle, an online collaboration tool that uses persistent video and periodic screenshots to let coworkers see each other—or know who's away from their desk.
"Skype is more like picking up the phone, whereas Sqwiggle is more like texting," says Brown. "You can see people's faces and you can chat with them really quick without having to set up a formal time because you know they're right there. That's pretty much the key to everything. And making sure that everybody knows what you're doing and when you're doing it."
On the tech side, all of the team's code—mostly Perl and JavaScript—is managed and discussed through Git and GitHub Enterprise. Every change, no matter how minute, is pushed through the team's HipChat room so everybody can see what's going on at all times. This practice, everyone seems to agree, is incredibly handy.
"It's interesting because that's a by-product of the fact that the team is remote," says Tighe. "It wouldn't exist if everybody were in this office, because everybody would just be pinging each other about what was going on locally, as opposed to being like: We need to have every single piece of information that goes out available to everybody on the team that could potentially be responsible for it, asynchronously."
When it comes to the tools individual developers use to build out DuckDuckGo's features, Weinberg isn't picky.
"We try not to control people's environments," he says. "People are remote. We give everyone their own dev environment that's a full stack of DuckDuckGo. It's a full machine. Some people are using Emacs. Some people are connecting directly to the machine. Some people are developing locally. People work in all sorts of different ways."
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Miller: Cabrera, Colon prove that cheaters can indeed prosper
The motivation was to clean up the sport, to deflate the absurdity, to make baseball believable again.
As a bonus, the game's caretakers loved to tell us, a message would be sent, sent to players, fans and kids – yeah, especially to kids – about the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Well, like never before, this offseason has sent a message about PEDs, all right, made a statement clear and undeniable.
With the free-agent signings of busted cheats Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon, it would be easy to say that the message isn't don't do PEDs but rather don't get caught doing PEDs.
That, however, would not be fair or accurate.
No, more precisely, the message is this:
Hey, don't worry if you're caught doing PEDs because you'll be rewarded anyway.
Good work, baseball. We have an environment in which the average fan is now immune to the use of steroids, stimulants and HGH, an environment in which most fans don't even care, and now the game has shrugged its shoulders, too, by heaping financial bonuses on the frauds.
The size of the contracts of Cabrera and Colon are two more jokes for a sport that was laughably reluctant to police this stuff in the first place.
Cabrera embarrassed all of baseball when, as the reigning All-Star Game MVP, he was nabbed in mid-August and banned 50 games. The Giants immediately made it known they didn't want him back.
Toronto, though, is suddenly serious about winning again, the Blue Jays spending this offseason reshaping their roster and their projections. In signing Cabrera to the contract they did, however, they left their priorities grossly misshapen.
Cabrera not only received a $2 million raise over his 2012 salary of $6 million, but he also – incredibly – was given a second season at another $8 million. Why, exactly, would a player who just showed himself to be 100-percent untrustworthy be promised a second season?
The two-year, $16 million contract is easily the most lucrative of Cabrera's career. It could not be more pain and simple, folks. A convicted phony was just rewarded for numbers attained artificially and illegally.
Stop laughing, people. This is totally serious here.
Cabrera never batted higher than .280 until hitting .305 and .346 the past two seasons. He averaged one homer every 115 at-bats in 2010. The past two years he averaged a home run every 39 at-bats.
Cabrera is only 28, and baseball still has late bloomers. But baseball no longer has the benefit of the doubt. So we'll continue doubting Cabrera and his production, OK?
That brings us to Colon, who – again, incredibly – was re-signed by Oakland, the very team he abandoned in 2012, the team that won't have him for the start of 2013 because he's still on suspension.
Yet, the A's were compelled to reward Colon, too, with a $1 million raise over last season. The one-year, $3 million contract represents Colon's highest base salary since 2007, when he was still with the Angels.
See how funny this is?
To complete the punch line, Oakland included another $2 million in apparently attainable performance bonuses, assuming Colon is able to dodge another positive test.
Sorry, but this is a player who turns 40 in May. To think Colon, at that age, could stay clean and repeat what he was going in 2012 before getting caught is foolish.
After not reaching 100 innings in four consecutive big-league seasons, Colon pitched 164 1/3 in 2011 and 152 1/3 in 2012. Hard to believe, literally hard to believe.
Both Cabrera and Colon shamed their teams and their sport. Both obviously believed they were incapable of excelling within the rules. Because of their actions, both in essence quit on their teammates.
In a fit of brilliant karma, the A's advanced to the playoffs without Colon and the Giants won the World Series without Cabrera.
Both players did the crime and both will do their time, yes. This is America and we all believe in second chances.
But neither Cabrera nor Colon should be rewarded. They should be given legitimate opportunities, sure, but not fatter pay days.
The Blue Jays and A's would argue that the contracts are the cost of doing business, just a reflection of the market. If that's the case, both teams should have taken their business elsewhere and left the cheaters begging for those second chances.
Another suspension would cost either player 100 games and, yes, all the respective salary would be forfeited.
But what's wrong with making a player with a stained past prove himself step-by-step, game-by-game in the future?
How's about a more novel concept? Cabrera and Colon should take cuts in salary and not receive any one of their paychecks until passing PED tests.
Now that would be a message to send. Sadly, baseball has decided to make a different statement completely, one that could produce anger if it weren't so damn comical.
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Taking a lesson from ABC-TV's very successful iView catch-up service, the Ten Network group has launched its own catch-up site, dubbed Tenplay. It joins iView and Seven's Plus7 catch-up service.
But Ten chief digital officer Rebekah Horne - pictured - is suggesting the other commercial TV channels, Seven and Nine, should get together to launch joint subscription movie and program services ahead of possible new services to be offered Down Under by US streaming giants.
"Our view is that you have to aggregate and come together otherwise the economics don't work," she has said. "There are not enough people in the country to support five or six different attempts at this."
Tenplay will be available on mobile, tablets and via game consoles and smart TVs. Initially it will be compatible with Apple iOS and Sony Bravia TVs, with Google's Android operation system to follow later this year.
Horne says Tenplay will also be deployed on a future hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) service "at a later date".
A continuous-play feature is planned that will enable viewers to move seamlessly from device to device. "You might be watching on a laptop and then you jump on a bus, but you can continue watching on a smartphone," says Rebekah Horne.
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How to Protect Yourself From Java Security Problems if You Can't Uninstall It
For years, Java has been the top source of browser exploits. Even after a recent emergency patch, Java is still vulnerable. To protect ourselves, we should assume that Java is always going to be vulnerable.
We've already recommended disabling Java completely. Most people with Java installed don't need it – it's just sitting on their computers waiting to be exploited. You should uninstall Java now, if you can.
However, some people still need Java installed, whether for playing Minecraft or using an old Java applet on their company's intranet. If you're one of them, these tips will help you stay as safe as possible.
Remove Java Entirely If You Can!
If you don't use Java for anything, you should uninstall it right now. if it's installed, you'll find it in the list of installed programs in your Control Panel. If you're not sure whether you need Java, try uninstalling it anyway. You probably won't even notice that it's gone.
If you can't uninstall Java yet and still need it, we'll give you some strategies for mitigating the security problems you face with Java installed.
If You Only Use Java Desktop Programs
If you need Java installed, there's a good chance you only use it for desktop programs like Minecraft or the Android SDK. If you only need Java installed for desktop applications, you should ensure Java browser integration is disabled. This will prevent malicious websites from loading the Java browser plugin to silently install malware using one of the many Java vulnerabilities that regularly becomes exploited online.
First, open the Java Control Panel by pressing the Windows key, typing Java, and pressing Enter. (On Windows 8, you'll need to select the Settings category after typing Java).
Click the Security tab and uncheck the Enable Java content in the browser checkbox. This will disable the Java plug-in in all browsers on your computer, although downloaded applications will still be able to use Java.
This option is fairly new and was introduced in Java 7 Update 10. Previously, there was no easy way to disable Java in all browsers on your computer.
If You Use Java in Your Browser
If you're one of the minority of people who needs to use Java applets in your browser, there are some steps you can take to lock things down.
You should have multiple browsers installed – your main browser with Java disabled and a secondary browser with Java enabled. Use the secondary browser exclusively for websites where you need Java. This will prevent websites from exploiting Java during your normal browsing.
Follow the steps here to disable Java in your primary browser. Use the secondary browser only to run Java applets on trusted websites, such as your company's intranet. If you don't trust a website, don't run Java content from it.
You may also want to enable click-to-play plugins in Chrome or Firefox. This will prevent Java (and Flash) content from running until you allow it.
Keep Java Updated!
If you do keep Java installed, ensure you keep it updated. To change your Java update settings, open the Java Control Panel from earlier and use the Update tab.
Ensure Java is set to check for updates automatically. (You can also run a manual update by clicking Update Now.)
You should also click the Advanced button and set Java to check for updates once per day. By default, it checks once a month or week – way too infrequently for such as vulnerable piece of software. Whenever you see a Java update balloon appear in your system tray, update Java soon as possible.
Older Java versions left the old, vulnerable versions installed when they updated. Luckily, newer versions of Java clean up older versions properly. However, even the latest security patches won't protect you from everything. The latest version of Java is still vulnerable, even after an emergency patch.
Comments (30)
Good article. I was thinking of uninstalling java but I have minecraft.
yeah Sun and Netscape need belt on their behind while i am giving them a whoop for disrespecting our computers lol :)
so anyways good article though ;)
I use java for minecraft and a lot of JavaScript on websites, but I don't have to worry about security holes. Why? Because I have Linux, so my pc is safe from most viruses that use java as an entrance point as they are windows .exe files. Go linux!
Hey thanks for the article. Somehow I'd forgotten I could access Java through Control Panel, so I was updating the hard way. All fixed up now. :)
My meteo uses java for looped radar scans. I have to use Java to see it. I do this 3 to 7 times a day. I can either not look at the radar, or enable Java. I enabled Java.
Question: What about Google Chrome's built in JavaScript?
Because when you disable that, 90% of the Internet breaks.
eBay, Twitter, banking; you even need enabled to post a comment here.
Does JavaScript not equal Java?
Great just disabled Java, got this message when I tried to use reader.
As others have mentioned to leave a comment on HTG java rears it's leaky head
@Ross: Ah, thanks. I was kind of wondering why they said Java was rare, and yet nothing worked without it :)
I need to Java enabled because some of the websites I regularly visit uses it.
I have applied the latest Javav update and have been trying to change the update frequency but, although it says that it has changed it, the next time I look it has reverted to the default.
Can you suggest what I might have wrong?
i use java just to develop using eclipse ide. but since eclipse only needs the folder where javaw.exe is located, then is very easy. just copy that x86 and 64 versions of that folder, uninstall javas and configure your eclipse to find the javaw.exe files it needs… that makes your eclipse portable/ stand alone without careing for java security holes…
I have found the answer to my earlier query about update frequency not being saved – If anyone interested look here
Youhave to change jre6 to jre7 for version 7 of java.
Even Java SCRIPT can be used to attack a computer. I use "No Script" with Firefox to block a TON of scripts. So if you think Java SCRIPT is somehow safe you really should familiarize yourself with what the developers of the No Script add-on have to say about it. Problem is, a LOT of web sites do need to run scripts. But with No Script you can SELECTIVELY choose which ones to enable. But enabling all of them is just as stupid and installing Java 5/6 – or even Adobe Reader (which is totally unnecessary if you use Chrome or even know about Foxit or Sumatra)!!!
I'd provide a link, but HTG seems to think I'm trying to crack their servers when I do that or something. Meanwhile, HTG continues to post those "Friday Fun" games, all of which require (ta da) JAVA! I mean, WT-F is that about?!
I disabled Java in my browsers a long time ago, the only time I've come close to a virus/malware threat in the last 5-6 years has always been through Java exploits, thankfully each time my antivirus software has caught the threat immediately. In the last 2 years after disabling Java plugins in Firefox, I've had zero issues, to be honest I've not really needed Java in my browser for some time so I really should have disabled it a long time ago
I still keep Java installed but this is only for local desktop programs like Minecraft, and for some reason which I can't fathom, Sega use Java in order to launch some of their games that I've bought from Steam like Sonic 4 Episodes 1 and 2
Drop Java 7 and go back to java 6. It's not as vulnerable to new exploits as we are now seeing in Java 7. These recent vulnerabilities that have been discovered to not affect ANY version of Java 6. The most current version of Java 6 is update 38.
@ Joe Blow
If you're really that stupid (to install and use Java 6) then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
Interestingly, Vuze seems to require Java on your computer – it tells you to put it back.
However, if you do ever use Vuze, Java can still be disabled from your browsers with no problem.
The article forgot to mention OpenOffice. Yes it unfortunately requires Java. I use the latest Java and disabled it for internet use. Some of can't afford Microsoft products and Apache OpenOffice meets my needs and its free. It seems some of us are still stuck with Java on the desktop. No way I'll go on the internet with it though and as I mentioned I shut it down using Java's console and in the browser options too.
I have not received any antivirus alerts from some rogue program getting into my temp folders as I used to get as I browsed the internet. Not saying it won't happen, just not because of Java in my browser.
BTW, you don't have to go on porn sites to get Java based exploits installed in your browser's temp folder. They can be an any site that has not been secured and some lowlife has managed to infiltrate.
Im learning Java development right now and all of this 'good news' doesn't help at all))
Kill all java !!!
@Chris, THANKS for posting this article! I uninstalled Java and so far no issues at all.
I can't believe they didn't mention no-script (again!)…the single greatest addon for those concerned about browser security/privacy. Howtogeek has failed again! Anyone worried about security and/or privacy should be using http://noscript.net/
NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a browser.
NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality…
Watch the "Block scripts in Firefox" video by cnet.
Staying safe has never been so easy!"
Let's call it "Assault Java" and have it banned!
I love the smell of Java in the morning, fresh and hot, just not on my browser or on my keyboard for that matter, lol.
I tried uninstalling Java on both my computer and my wife's.
So much stuff needs Java to work that it just isn't possible.
The list of thing that stopped working was very long.
It even changed the way web pages appeared in forums and ran all the lines together.
Some video wouldn't play etc.
I had to put it back on both computers.
Lawl when for the first time i went to the java control panel i realized i was on java 7 UPDATE 5!!!


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The manhunt for the surviving Boston bomber has kept travelers from entering or leaving the city, forcing hotels to take care of locked down guests and waive penalty fees for those who are canceling their plans.
For the second time this week, most hotels - including Marriott, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Choice chains - have waived penalty fees for travelers who can't or have chosen not to make it to the city.
Travel in the region has come to a virtual standstill. Amtrak has stopped service between New York and Boston indefinitely, airlines are letting travelers cancel plans to fly to Boston without any penalties, and mass transit in the city was shut down until Friday evening. With most restaurants and shops closed, even travelers who have a way to travel to Boston are choosing not to.
Members of the Kansas City Royals team, for instance, were riding out the crisis inside an unidentified hotel, according to MLB.com. So were the Pittsburgh Penguins, who had been in town for a National Hockey League game against the Boston Bruins, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Hotels were stepping up security and taking care of stranded guests during the day-long lockdown. They were doing so with fewer employees because so many were unable to make it into work during the day. Managers were pitching in to clean rooms and run the front desk, said Sarah Lee, a spokeswoman for Choice Hotels.
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David McCaslin, president of Northwood Hospitality, which runs Revere Hotel Boston Common, said the hotel was also operating with a skeleton crew. Because restaurants nearby were closed, the hotel restaurant and lobby bar had to accommodate a steady flow of guests.
"Some people are doing jobs they don't normally do in order to take care of guests," he said.
The hotel has had more cancellations than normal for the weekend and is waiving penalty fees. Those who remained were allowed to leave the hotel, he says. But there was little to do on the streets. Staff members set up more TV's in the lobby so that guests didn't have to stay in their rooms, he says.
"Most people are staying in the hotel and eating in the hotel or just socializing in the hotel," he said. "They're actually very stoic and talking about it. There is not a crisis or panic."
Drinks and yoga
Kimpton's Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Mass., wasn't serving free cocktails, but its nightly wine hour went from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., double the usual time, said general manager Michal Penek. Beer, light refreshments and sandwiches were added to the usual menu.
The hotel put board games out in its living room and lobby so guests could pass the time playing Scrabble, Yahtzee and cards. Light refreshments were available all day, "allowing our guests to hang around if they don't want to hang in their rooms," Penek said.
The XV Beacon in Boston is allowing cancellations without penalties and also offering preferred rates to those who have to extend their stays. Parking fees were being waived for guests whose cars are stuck in the garage. Guests were also getting complimentary beverages and phones calls. The property's Lexus house car was being used to chauffeur employees and guests. And a private yoga instructor was on hand to offer yoga and meditation.
Guests cope
Stranded hotel guests seemed more bored than scared at hotels across the city during the lockdown.
Susan Moerder, science dept chair at Francis Parker High School in San Diego, was on lockdown at the Embassy Suites near Logan Airport with her three students during the day. They had arrived Thursday night for an experimental biology convention. About 30 students and their chaperones from four other high schools were also stuck at the hotel.
"We're just kind of bored," she said. "We're just waiting it out. It's just interesting to see teenagers try to figure out how to be creative with their time when they don't have their toys in front of them or their school books."
The hotel let them use a conference room to practice the presentations they hope to still be able to make this weekend. Then they ordered pizza. By the afternoon, they were trying to figure out what to do next. On the agenda: a game of charades.
"It's just kind of the same people sitting around the lobby all day long," Moerder said.
Ana Luisa Muñoz of Chile was stuck at the Longwood Hotel with about 100 other women in Boston for a global women's leadership conference.
They were all there on a scholarship so their sponsors made sure they were getting food and water throughout the day. The hotel gave them a conference room to hang out in with security watching over them because they are foreigners.
"They were not expecting we were going to spend all day in the hotel," she said. "In the morning they have 100 women asking for food, and some people didn't come to work."
Nonetheless, she says, everyone was in good spirits and the hotel was treating them well. "The hotels are doing their best," she said.
Penalty fees waived
Many other Boston-area hotels have waived penalty fees for cancellations. Among them:
Wyndham: The 12 Boston-area hotels that operate under a Wyndham brand have waived fees, said spokeswoman Christine DaSilva.
InterContinental Hotels Group: The company has stepped up security at its 25 Boston-area properties and is waiving the cancellation policy for guests traveling into and out of the area through April 21. "The safety, security and comfort of our guests are top priorities," IHG said in a statement.
Hilton: The parent of chains such as Hampton Inn, Doubletree by Hilton and Hilton has waived fees for travel to its 36 Boston-area hotels.
Marriott: The company's eight hotels under the Marriott, Renaissance and Ritz-Carlton brands have waived fees. It will review the waiver policy "as the situation unfolds in the Boston area," said Marriott spokeswoman Lucy Slosser.
Choice: All Choice properties in Boston are waiving cancellation fees and relaxing policies "this week and in the coming days," said Lee. Some hotels are allowing flexibility for late check-outs so people won't have to pay for an extra night, she said.
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Hyatt: The chain is waiving cancellation fees for its hotels in Boston and Waltham.
Fairmont: The hotel company waived fees for its Fairmont Copley Plaza.
"Hotels are focused on security and providing whatever comfort and services guests need to get through this," said Bjorn Hanson, dean of New York University's hospitality school. "They're extra aware that their guests are going through stress. They're concerned about their safety."


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But before you cut your cords and opt to splurge on an antenna, we recommend taking a look at TV Fool's TV Signal Analysis tool to view the available stations within your area. TV Fool's analysis provides crucial data such as direction of the transmitters, distance from each transmitter, and transmitter signal power. TV Fool makes reading the analysis simple by color coordinating the probabilities of stations available in your area. For instance, green transmitters work with standard indoor antennae, while yellow or red transmitters might require an attic antenna, or larger hardware mounted to your roof. It's also recommended you take into account the building materials used in your home or apartment, as well as the surrounding terrain, which may block incoming signals. For instance, if you have metal siding on the outside of your home, lack windows, or have several walls between your TV and the outside world, an indoor antenna might not work for you.
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When shopping for a suitable indoor antenna, it's easy to only pay attention to the claims of manufacturers. While these occasionally help when buying, making an informed decision based on actual performance is always best. To help with this, we've combed through the sea of available indoor antennae and found eight of the best — plus one outdoor antenna just for fun — which promise to bring crystal-clear HD programming straight to your home. With a few of these selections, you'll even have the ability to receive quality broadcasts from transmitters 40 to 60 miles away. So get ready to cut those cords for good; here are our picks of the best available indoor antennae.
The Best
Winegard Flatwave ($50)
Though incredibly similar to the Mohu Leaf in terms of performance, Winegard's Flatwave antenna costs (on average) $10 less. Since many cord-cutters detach from cable company contracts to save a bit of dough, saving money on alternatives is also a welcome sight. Discounts aside, the Flatwave antenna boasts some of the strongest performance of any antenna on our list. Capable of receiving broadcasts from towers approximately 30 miles away (depending on the surrounding terrain), it comes with a 15-foot coaxial cable making it easy to install the antenna near the best possible signal reception area. The Flatwave also measures in at just 2/100 of an inch in thickness, making it incredibly inconspicuous no matter where you install it.
The Rest
HD Frequency Cable Cutter Indoor/Outdoor Mini ($40)
Frankly, we've been shocked by what this little antenna can do. It may not look like much more than just a few metal bars screwed together, but the HD Freqency Cable Cutter is a very capable antenna, matching up with Mohu's venerable Leaf antenna very well in many of our location tests. It's super affordable, easy to hide behind a television, and is suitable for outdoor use as well. Need something even larger? Check out the $100 full size version
Available at: Amazon
Channel Master FLATenna ($10)
While testing the FLATenna at our downtown office locations, we found it to routinely beat out a handful of older, more expensive antenna options. During the test, it pulled in almost all of the available stations in our area (albeit from within 3 miles of the broadcast antennae), and proved itself a worthy upgrade over traditional rabbit ear antennae. Better yet, this impressive product costs just $10 making it the most affordable on our list, and the most affordable way to broadcast HD television.
Available at: Amazon
Mohu Leaf Metro ($20)
Perfect for compact living spaces, Mohu designed the Leaf Metro for discreet installation in homes located close to broadcast towers. Though its range only reaches approximately 25 miles, the Leaf Metro still delivers full 1080p HD broadcasts straight to your TV. Not only does the antenna come in either black or white, but it's completely reversible and users have the ability to paint it to match any interior. An included 10-foot coaxial cable allows for installation near the strongest signals.
Available at: Amazon
Terk Trinity HD Antenna ($40)
The Terk Trinity may not look as elegant as the slimmer antennae on our list — actually, it's three-pronged design may look downright goofy — but what the Trinity lacks in style, it makes up for in engineering and power, pulling channels from up to 60 miles away. The Trinity uses what Terk calls a "trimodal" approach, adding amplification to weak stations when needed, and leaving strong stations alone. It even filters out cell signal interference. The Terk Trinity is a strong, inexpensive device, and though you may want to hide it out of sight from guests, remember that the better the exposure, the better the reception.
Available at: Walmart
Mohu Curved 30 ($50 for 30 mile range, $75 for 50 mile range)
If inconspicuous and discreet locations are at a premium in your residence, then you might as well opt for a good-looking antenna. Enter Mohu's Curved line of antennae, which look as good as they pull in HD broadcasts — and they excel at that task. With performance similar to Mohu's Leaf, the Curved model comes in either a 30 mile range edition, or a 50 mile amplified option. An included 10-foot coaxial cable aids in placement flexibility.
Winegard Flatwave Amped ($60)
The strongest indoor antenna of the bunch, Winegard's amplified Flatwave has the abilit to to pull in broadcasts from as far as 50 miles away. This kind of reception range proves perfect for those of you living in smaller communities far from antenna. Further, the included 18-foot coaxial cable is the longest of any on our list, allowing for placement in the best possible location in your home. The Flatwave Amped also features a razor-thin design — like the standard Flatwave — making it both functional and discreet.
Mohu Leaf ($40)
Mohu practically redefined the indoor antenna with the introduction of its Leaf model, which packs technology taken from — where else? — the U.S. military. The Leaf offers an approximated 30 mile range and comes packed with a flexible 10-foot coax cable. Leaf users can also paint the antenna to suit surrounding decor.
Mohu Sky60 ($150)
Does your home fall outside the reception range of the antennae listed? Worry not, Mohu's Sky60 model might do the trick. With a reception range of approximately 60 miles (sometimes more depending on your location), the Sky60 provides incredible performance and crystal-clear signal quality. With its 30-foot precision low loss cable and easy-to-use mounting bracket, this model installs easily either on a rooftop, an upstairs attic, or in a tree. Users also have the ability to power the Sky60's amp using either a USB connection or the provided power cube.
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School officials are busy redesigning a virtual school based in Greenfield, Massachusetts so it complies with a new law requiring stronger state supervision of online schools. The process began after the school committee voted late last month to reverse its own decision to close the school.
The Virtual Academy serves 470 students across the state, and is its first online public school. Susan Hollins is superintendent of Greenfield Public Schools. She says in its first three years the school established its own systems for training teachers remotely and distributing science materials to students. She says these models provide some easy answers in the application for a "new school certificate" — which the state now requires for the school to keep its virtual doors open. But Hollins says trying to fit new parameters is difficult.
"Where we need help is on some of these other issues like um, how do you provide free and reduced lunch which is one of the questions to students from 200 different towns across the state. Does anybody know how to do that?"
Hollins says the certificate would turn the Virtual Academy into an "independent public school." And that means it has to establish a separate board of trustees — rather than rely on the Greenfield School Committee — and hire different administrators. She says the proposal will be similar to the model used at nearby Franklin County Technical School and Four Rivers Charter School.
"They each have their own full time business managers, full time special ed administrators — you know, you have to have all of the services of a central office."
Hollins says the school committee has yet to draft a budget. But she says given all the new staff required, the roughtly 5,000 dollars per student the Academy currently receives in school choice funding will probably not be enough.


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The 24th Annual Settlement of Sanpete will be held on Sept. 17 in Manti. The pioneer Daniel Henrie and his family will be spotlighted and honored. The public is invited to attend this important commemoration and all descendants, relatives and friends are extended a special invitation.
Daniel and Amanda Bradley Henrie's children married into the Funk, Olsen, Cox, Stringham, Snow, Westenskow, Lund, Killpack, Johnson, Ottoson and Curtis families.
Daniel and Susan Coleman Henrie's children married into the Sorensen, Patten, Yorgason, Boyington, Reid, Maylett and Armstrong familes.
This year's Honor Day, sponsored by the Manti Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers will also be celebrating the camp's 100th Birthday. DUP Captain Rebecca Pratt Tollefsen reports, "At this century mark, we are enthused about the early response from descendents of Daniel Henrie from Utah, Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and as far away as Canada."
A new Daniel Henrie family book of 400 plus pages is being compiled and must be pre-ordered to be available at the reunion.
The schedule of events includes: 8:30 a.m. Registration at the Manti Tabernacle (96 S Main); 9 a.m. Drive by tours; 10 a.m. "Placing of the Wreath" ceremony at the DUP Monument (south end of the Manti Cemetery Hwy 89); 11 a.m. Daniel Henrie tribute program at Manti Tabernacle chapel; 12-noon, DUP lunch. Proceeds support DUP Patten House Museum.
Daniel Henrie completed the long Mormon Battalion March and was in Sacramento, Calif. for the 1847 Gold Rush, and traveled to Salt Lake in 1849. There he married Amanda Bradley and the young couple joined an emergency food supply train headed for Manti in January of 1850. Unfortunately near the narrows of Salt Creek Canyon the wagons became stranded for six weeks due to violent, continuing storms, which brought snow 18-20 feet deep in some drifts. In a desperate attempt to save the people, Augustus Dodge and Ute Indian guide Tabinaw were sent on foot to Manti. Near death Tabinaw alone crawled to the edge of the settlement and passed word of the supply train's plight. A rescue party was organized from Manti. Among those rescued was Amanda, expecting her first child. She was pulled 40 miles on a hand sled to the fledgling settlement by her father George Washington Bradley and husband Daniel Henrie.
Daniel helped colonize and protect Manti, and surrounding Sanpete settlements. He had served as a Captain in the Nauvoo Legion and so helped to fight in the Walker and Black Hawk Wars. He became Sanpete County Sheriff, Manti City treasurer, and helped build the Manti Tabernacle and the Manti Temple. He was senior president of the 48th Quorum of Seventies for nearly 40 years.
The Scotch-Irish ancestors of Daniel Henrie, had come to America in the 17th century seeking religious freedom. They produced many leaders for six generations, then helped fight the War of Independence, one ancestor serving as Quartermaster General and another as a member of the Continental Congress in 1784.
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Whitt and Shannon Lovell announce the marriage of their daughter Lynae to Bryan James Christensen, son of Al and Doris Christensen. The couple have chosen Nov. 9 to be married in the Jordan River Temple.
A reception for all family and friends will be held that evening from 7-10 p.m. at The Gathering Place at Gardner Village, 1100 West 7800 South, West Jordan.
An open house for all family and friends will be held Nov. 15 from 7-9 p.m. at the Cleveland LDS Church building, 355 West 100 North.
The bride is currently working as a dental assistant and the groom is completing an international MBA in food and agribusiness at Utah State University. Upon graduation, the couple will be moving to Colombus, Ohio and accepting a job in the futures market.