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Hi, everyone! My name is Jeremy Gilley. Eleven years ago, I had the idea to create an annual day of global ceasefire and nonviolence: Peace Day. I wanted it to be like Mother's Day or Valentine's Day. I just couldn't understand all the fighting and suffering happening around me and I wanted to do something about it. I'm a filmmaker, so I decided to make a film about my journey to get this day recognized. Other people might have written a book, but I see the world through images and stories as told in films, so for me it made perfect sense. I had no idea what would happen, but I knew I had to try.
After traveling the world, speaking to country leaders and school children trying to make this day happen, I actually succeeded. Amazingly, in 2001, every member state of the United Nations adopted the day, September 21, as Peace Day. The UN resolution asks everyone in the world — governments, organizations, and individuals like you and me — to mark September 21 each year. Since the resolution was passed, I have been working hard to spread the message so that everyone around the world knows about Peace Day.
This year, I am more excited than ever about Peace Day and I hope with your help, it will be our best year yet! Lots of wonderful things are happening on THE STACKS including a new Message Board to talk about peace, and a Live Chat on Peace Day itself.
WHEN: Peace Day! Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3 p.m. ET (12 Noon PT)
WHERE: THE STACKS (See below for instructions to join the chat.)
TOPIC: World Peace
Speaking to young people is what inspires me, so make sure you stop by for the Live Chat on September 21. It really is up to you to create a more peaceful world. Please tell your friends, family and teachers and invite them join in the celebrations!
—Jeremy Gilley, Founder of Peace One Day
Thanks for joining the chat about peace! If you missed it, you can read the transcript to hear Jeremy Gilley's inspiring message of peace.

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Volleyball Canada continues Competition Review at National Beach Summit(Ottawa – July 8, 2013)
Since the development of the Volleyball For Life LTAD Manual in 2004, Volleyball in Canada has made significant steps toward implementing the LTAD and working toward international excellence. As this generation of athletes prepare for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Volleyball Canada is moving the toward implementing an LTAD model that will further enhance our pathways and programs to give Canadian athletes the opportunity to reach their full potential.
With the objective to become a world leader in volleyball, Volleyball Canada is pleased to announce a review of the volleyball competition and event systems for Beach Volleyball in Canada. The purpose of the review is to enhance the volleyball playing experience for participants of all ages and to ensure that our system is aligned with the principles espoused in Volleyball Canada's LTAD model found in the www.VCDM.org website. The recommendations will be designed to ensure the Volleyball Canada system is founded on our values and the principles for sport.
The Beach Competition Review was initiated at the National Beach Summit on January 18, 2013 in Toronto as a part of a global review of Canadian Beach development systems. The Beach Summit had representations from each province and territory along with representatives from players, coaches, referees and administrators. The LTAD Working Group, which was established under the umbrella of the Domestic Development Committee (DDC) will consolidate the information gathered at the Beach Summit and set forward priorities for competition restructuring for both the Beach and Indoor disciplines. The members of the LTAD working group are noted below along with the Terms of Reference.
The review of recommendations and related program proposals will be presented at the 2014 Technical and Executive Directors Meeting in January. For more information regarding the review process contact James Sneddon, LTAD Lead at email@example.com
LTAD Working Group team members:
Istvan Balyi – CS4L expert group consultant
Charles Cardinal – CS4L Consultant
Michel Paiement - Directeur de la section collégiale Nouvelles Frontières
Jason Grieve – University of Saskatchewan
James Sneddon – Domestic Development Director
High Performance Consultants:
Julien Boucher – Indoor High Performance Director
Ed Drakich – Beach High Performance Director
Ian Haliday – Sitting Volleyball High Performance Director
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An Emery county teenager was found dead from an ATV accident on stretch of road in Wildcat Canyon west of Emery.
Solomon Jack Gardner, 17, Emery, was found dead Monday by members of the Emery County Search and Rescue after authorities located the teenager's body at the bottom of a 130-foot cliff.
On Monday at approximately 4:30 p.m. a call came into dispatch from Emery stating there was an ATV accident. Three friends, including Gardner, were riding ATVs on the Wildcat Canyon road west of Emery, west of SR-10. Gardner rode ahead and the other two riders were following behind. The two riders behind Gardner were unable to locate him after he left their sight. They then went back down the road and found Gardner at the bottom of a 130 plus foot cliff. They couldn't reach Gardner because of the cliff and ledges and when they called out to him, there was no response. They then road back into Emery where they were able to get cell phone service and called 911.
The Emery ambulance responded to the scene along with deputies and Sheriff LaMar Guymon. The Emery County Search and Rescue and the high angle rope rescue team were among the first to arrive at the scene. Members of the rope team descended into the canyon and determined Gardner had succumbed to his injuries from the fall. Gardner was wearing a helmet and protective riding gear at the time of the accident. It took the recovery team several hours to set-up and descend to retrieve the deceased.
Further investigation leads the Emery County Sheriff's Office to believe that Gardner was going too fast up the road to negotiate a sharp turn causing him to flip over a cedar tree and then over the edge of the cliff. Gardner's body has been sent to the Medical Examiner's office.
Gardner was in Emery for the summer staying with his family and he also lives in Taylorsville. The family is building a home in Emery.


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The Ospreys threw Heineken Cup Pool 2 wide open on Saturday with a well-deserved 17-6 win over Toulouse at Liberty Stadium.
The Ospreys threw Heineken Cup Pool 2 wide open on Saturday with a well-deserved 17-6 win over Toulouse at Liberty Stadium.
The result, combined with Leicester's win in Treviso, means that Toulouse and Tigers are separated by a single point at the top of the pool with the Ospreys still in with a shout of qualifying for the quarter-finals.
An uncharacteristically high error-count from Toulouse allowed Ospreys to lead from start to finish with a wonderful try from Eli Walker proving to be the decisive moment just after the hour mark.
Ospreys were good value for their 9-6 lead at half time having enjoyed the lion's share of both territory and possession.
In fact, the three-point gap was not a fair reflection of the hosts' efforts in the opening stanza but some outstanding defence from Toulouse, spearheaded by Louis Picamoles, and a neat drop goal from Jean-Marc Doussain just before the break meant that the former champions were still very much in the game when the teams swapped ends.
Ospreys drew first blood when Dan Biggar slotted an early penalty. A drop goal from the home fly-half doubled the lead at the end of the first quarter.
Ospreys were struggling against arguably the best scrum in Europe but Biggar has making life difficult for Maxime Medard, peppering the rusty-looking France full-back with high balls.
Despite Patricio Albacete seeing yellow for stupidly shoeing Ian Gough on the deck, Toulouse were able to pull three points back when Doussain found the target from the kicking tee.
Another period of sustained pressure from the Ospreys yielded only three points from a penalty, meaning that Doussain's drop had Toulouse within striking distance at the interval.
But the addition of Adam Jones changed the situation at scrum time and Biggar's third penalty opened the gap back to six points on the hour mark.
Then came the try from Walker, who shrugged off a poor attempted tackle from Yoann Huget, to give the Ospreys some breathing room.
The closing stages were filled with drama as Gael Fickou produced a sublime piece of scrambling defence to deny Ashley Beck in-goal.
The TMO decided that Justin Tipuric had prevented Christopher Tolofua from grounding in ball and Toulouse butchered a clear chance with seconds remaining, sending them back to France without a losing bonus point.
The Scorers
For Ospreys:
Try: Walker
Pens: Biggar 3
Drop: Biggar
Yellow card: A. Jones
For Toulouse:
Pens: Doussain
Drop: Doussain
Yellow cards: Albacete, Bouilhou
Ospreys: 15 Richard Fussell, 14 Ross Jones, 13 Andrew Bishop, 12 Ashley Beck, 11 Eli Walker, 10 Dan Biggar, 9 Kahn Fotuali'i (c), 8 Joe Bearman, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Ryan Jones, 5 James King, 4 Ian Gough, 3 Campbell Johnstone, 2 Richard Hibbard, 1 Ryan Bevington.
Replacements: 16 Scott Baldwin, 17 Duncan Jones, 18 Adam Jones, 19 Lloyd Peers, 20 George Stowers, 21 Rhys Webb, 22 Matthew Morgan, 23 Tom Isaacs.
Toulouse: 15 Maxime Médard, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Yann David, 12 Gael Fickou, 11 Yoann Huget, 10 Jean-Marc Doussain, 9 Luke Burgess, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Thierry Dusautoir (c), 6 Jean Bouilhou, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Yoann Maestri, 3 Cencus Johnston, 2 Gary Botha, 1 Vasil Kakovin.
Replacements: 16 Jean-Baptiste Poux, 17 Yohan Montes, 18 Roman Millo-Chluski, 19 Yannick Nyanga, 20 Gregory Lamboley, 21 Sébastian Bézy, 22 Yannick Jauzion, 23 Christopher Tolofua.
Venue: Liberty Stadium
Kick-off: 13:35
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)


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HUNTINGTON-Our beloved husband, father, brother, and grandpa, Perry J. McArthur, age 80, passed away in Salt Lake City, on June 9, 2010. Perry was born on Feb. 21, 1930 in Lawrence, Utah. He married Olive Jensen on Jan. 2, 1954 in Lawrence, Utah their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple.
Perry served his country during the Korean Conflict in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, serving in many capacities including scout master. Perry belonged to the Blue Ridge Riding Club and was a great cook. He worked for 37 years in the coal mines and was a member of the UMWA. Perry loved farming and his cattle ranch, being in the outdoors, but most of all he loved his family and loved spending time with them especially his grand and great-grandchildren.
He is survived by his loving wife, Olive, children: Mavoreen R. (Gale) Anderson, Foster C. (Debra) McArthur, Terry B. (Sandy) McArthur, Alan K. (Julie) McArthur, Arthur J. (Lori) McArthur, all of Huntington, Charlene (Kevin) Peacock of Orangeville, his best friend Little Joe, and Scott and Debra of Mississippi, 17 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, siblings: Celia (Roy) Oviatt, Dixie (Bill) Allred, Deloris (Lynn) Nelson, Donald (Marlene) Jensen, Evelyn Naillon, and Marian Guhlke,
He is preceded in death by both parents, son: Steven, brothers: Wendel and Foster, sister: Carol Oliver, brother-in-law: John, half brothers: Ken, Jack, Ralph, and Charlie.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. at the Huntington First/fifth Ward Chapel (115 S. 400 E.). A viewing was held on Friday, June 11, 2010 from 6-8 p.m. at Fausett Mortuary in Castle Dale and on Saturday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. prior to the services at the church. Interment was in the Huntington City Cemetery. Services were in the care of Fausett Mortuary. Friends and family may sign the guest book and share memories of Perry at www.fausettmortuary.com.


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Mobile technology's journey from peril to promise
App-centric handhelds are maturing rapidly, and the path to secure adoption is more straightforward than it may seem.
By Galen Gruman
Given the passion for mobile computing among users and the tech industry, it is easy to get swept up in the excitement and see mobile as the solution for everything. It's also not hard to write off the technology as a fad that will run its course. We're betting the first camp is more on target, given the rapid adoption of mobile technology by business users and consumers with fervor reminiscent of the early PC days.
In conversations with CIOs and other IT leaders, PwC sees a sea change in attitude toward mobile devices. Once viewed as an oddity to be kept at arm's length, they're now seen as a platform for enterprise value through their existing functions and ones not yet invented.
The key reason for this change in attitude? The new generation of devices, represented by the Apple iPhone and handhelds that use Google's Android operating system, is evolving from a messaging platform into an application platform, making the devices more versatile for business needs—that is, more like a PC. So much so that Standard Chartered recently switched to the applications-oriented iPhone.
As the mind-set shifts from "containing the newfangled devices" to "getting business value from them," enterprises are discovering they're not yet familiar enough with the technologies they need to understand and exploit. This article sorts them out.
There are also shifts in the interaction between businesses and their employees and customers that will affect the design and management of mobile enterprise applications. This shift involves the acceptance—even the embrace—of a certain amount of device heterogeneity; that is, employees and customers use their preferred tools and businesses seek to exploit the special characteristics of the more popular devices while providing a baseline of enablement for the others.
Heterogeneity extends to each individual device, which due to its personal nature will mix personal and business data and functionality, and will require a different management mentality by IT. Technologies now under development may ease efforts to support this heterogeneity.
The big issue has been control: Can the business ensure information security in mobile devices if they are used for both business and personal matters? This is a real concern, especially because the platforms igniting the most passion— Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating system—have been slow to provide control mechanisms. Recent changes to both indicate the control issue will be resolved in the next year or two. As control issues are resolved, IT will be able to focus on value-creating efforts, exploiting the emerging mobile technologies along the way.
Solving the control requirement with new technologies
When businesses began to use BlackBerry devices (and later Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, and Palm OS devices), IT realized the need to secure the messaging and server access they provided. Management tools similar to those used for PCs were soon available, along with on-device capabilities such as at-rest and in-motion data encryption, remote management, and policy-based administration.
Because the focus was messaging, mail servers were the main conduit between the device and the data center, which simplified the deployment and management effort. Mail servers also tapped into Active Directory and other policymanagement servers, allowing IT to extend those services to mobile usage.
Most companies viewed mobile devices as messaging clients and standardized on the BlackBerry, giving themselves just one platform to manage. Some companies used the ability of Windows Mobile to run specially built applications, such as for field forces, and added that platform as the standard for certain classes of users. Microsoft made it easy to do so by extending its widely deployed Windows Server applications to manage these devices.
This situation remained stable until about 2007, when the debut of the iPhone redefined mobile computing to encompass more than messaging and field force applications. It first skewed toward personal use, with its tie to the Apple iTunes service, but users quickly began to use it for business e-mail if they weren't restricted from doing so.
Now enterprises are taking the next step.
"Everybody wants to tell their employees, 'You don't have to carry a corporate phone and a personal phone,'" says David Goldschlag, vice president of mobile technology at McAfee. "The iPhone changed the whole world, because all of a sudden the people within the enterprise were demanding that the iPhone be used. And then it became the CFO's job or the CIO's job to say yes, rather than to say no."
Security was the stumbling block. Apple was slow to add enterprise-class security capabilities, but it did so in the summer of 2010, providing operating system–level services and application programming interfaces (APIs) that let the mobile management vendors—AirWatch, BoxTone, Good Technology, MobileIron, Symantec, the Afaria unit of SAP Sybase, Tangoe, Trust Digital, and Zenprise, among others—deliver management tools similar to those for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.
Four of the six major platforms can now be managed to the standards of most businesses; in order from most capable to least, they are BlackBerry, Apple iOS, Windows Mobile, and Nokia Symbian. Although, as Forrester Research has noted, Google has not yet focused on security management, and there are tools to give IT assurance over Android devices—such as NitroDesk TouchDown and Good Technology's Good applications for Exchange messaging, and the forthcoming IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Notes messaging. Google is likely to develop competitive management and security capabilities soon. Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 does not yet have such third-party tools to fill in some of its security deficiencies, but Microsoft has said it will enhance its security capabilities in 2011. For enterprises that have the highest security requirements—such as the Pentagon— BlackBerry and Windows Mobile are the two options, due to their militarygrade encryption and support for two-factor device-based authentication.
Another shift easing the control burden is broad adoption of the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol for managing and enforcing device permissions. Microsoft's devices and servers support it, of course, but so do Apple's devices and mail clients, Google's corporate Gmail service, and, to lesser extents, the Google Android, Hewlett-Packard/Palm webOS, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, and Nokia Symbian operating systems. IBM's Lotus Notes recently adopted EAS, and Novell has released a beta mobile server add-on based on EAS for GroupWise. This near-universal adoption of EAS should allow consistent policy definition and management for IT. The "Mobile device management products" sidebar compares the mobile device management options—EAS and otherwise—the main vendors have made available.
Mobile device management products
As smartphones and tablets become commonplace, and as employees make the case to bring various kinds of devices into the workplace, IT faces the challenge of managing access, usage, and security across multiple mobile devices. To address that need, many vendors have developed mobile device management (MDM) tools that provide a central console to manage multiple devices over the air with a common set of policies, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and providing auditing capabilities as well. Common capabilities include remote wipe and lock, password enforcement, device encryption enforcement, restricted access to designated virtual private networks (VPNs) and Wi-Fi networks, and remote policy installation.
These tools use one of two approaches, and sometimes both: they use policy profiles, typically based on the widely used Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol, and they use a client application on each supported device to provide the managed, secured workspace and additional policies. Those that support the BlackBerry work with Research In Motion's own tool, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
Differential management supports mixed devices
The July 2010 release of Apple iOS 4 (for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) also untied iOS management from the natively supported mail server (POP, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange, Google Gmail, and Apple MobileMe), so devices could be managed according to user sign-on—for example, in a hospital where devices are shared but e-mail accounts are not necessarily issued to users.
iOS 4 also introduced differential management in which applications and data are tagged so each server owns whatever it provisions. Thus, on an iOS device that had corporate and personal assets, the corporate server could reach into the device and lock, restrict, or delete the assets it provisioned, leaving other assets untouched. BlackBerry OS 6, released in August 2010, brings the same approach to Research In Motion's newest smartphones. Mobile management vendor MobileIron says the operating system for Google's Android is likely to have similar capabilities in the next year or so.
Even without differential management at the asset level, most smartphone operating systems use the concept of sandboxing, in which applications have private space for their data. Thus, the applications can control access to that data by other applications, and management tools can apply greater controls to such applications than the operating system might provide. This is the case in Google Android, which currently has no on-device encryption and does not have a management API outside of support for a limited set of EAS policies. But individual applications, such as Notes Traveler and TouchDown, can encrypt their sandboxes and allow themselves to be managed by IT-controlled servers (Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange, respectively).
The differential management approach pioneered by iOS and BlackBerry OS is a major step in ensuring security and compliance— and it's more than a corporate laptop or home PC can do today. Although technologies such as client virtualization were proposed in 2006 to give PCs the same level of safe business/personal dual use, they haven't been productized. Mobile's much more intense personal nature and corporate IT's concerns have pushed mobile ahead of desktop in this area. Table 1 compares specific security and management capabilities by operating system.
Virtualization for enhanced security and app delivery
Vendors are working on virtualization technology to let enterprises partition business assets from personal ones on the same smart device. These approaches could also enable IT to deliver single-application instances to multiple mobile operating systems rather than re-creating the application for every supported device.
There are many virtualization approaches, but for mobile vendors the focus is on client virtualization (VMware), thin clients (Citrix Systems), and hypervisors (Open Kernel Labs). These approaches separate applications and their data at a deep level on the device, so that barriers are harder to breach than with sandboxing and source tagging.
Client virtualization creates a runtime environment for applications and their resources—similar to Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Oracle Java, which can run applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and sometimes Linux. Thus, users don't need to switch from one environment to another as they did in early desktop virtualization products. Instead, they can launch an application that happens to run in its own virtual environment, using the host operating system's user interface and shared services.
Client virtualization could be used to develop VMware applications that run natively on iOS, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone 7 (assuming operating system vendors and wireless carriers permit it), so IT would need to create just one version of the application, says Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware's senior director for mobile solutions. Client virtualization also could be used to run native applications in their own environment. Doing so would isolate their data and services from other applications and services on the device, thus providing a high level of security and data protection, he says.
The thin-client approach runs the application using the data from a server; the mobile device is just the screen and input medium for the computing performed in the data center. Data and application components may be temporarily loaded to the mobile device in a cache for processing efficiency, but they are never stored beyond the session. Thin-client applications are already widely used in financial services and other industries that require a strong separation and protection of resources. Typically, Windows applications are run remotely from a desktop PC that never stores the information being used. Citrix is hearing from such firms that they want to extend the use of thin clients to iPad tablets and the coming set of new tablets, says Kim Woodward, vice president of corporate marketing at Citrix.
The flaw with the thin-client approach is that most applications are designed for desktop screens and are difficult to use on a smartphone. That's why Citrix reports most of its mobile usage is on a tablet, the iPad, a trend it expects will accelerate when other tablets begin to appear in 2011, Woodward says.
Web-based applications can more easily auto-reconfigure to fit the user interface of a smartphone, because dynamic HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies provide for such contextual interfaces. As previously noted, such applications and their data are not as fully separated from the rest of the device as a thin-client session is.
The mobile hypervisor approach is similar to client virtualization, except that it doesn't run on a host operating system; it runs underneath the host operating system, communicating directly with the device hardware. That approach offers the greatest possible separation of resources, because the guest operating systems and the applications that run on them are isolated from each other—and from the host operating system and its applications. Figure 1 illustrates the main differences between the three types of mobile device virtualization.
Open Kernel Labs notes that Motorola has shipped the Evoke, which runs the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) and Linux cell phone operating systems simultaneously. Users see a unified interface because the Open Kernel Labs technology allows the device maker to integrate user interface (UI) elements, deciding at a granular level the degree of separation across the operating systems, notes Steve Subar, the company's CEO. Like client virtualization, the hypervisor approach could be used to run multiple operating systems, multiple instances of the same operating system, or a combination of the two on the same device.
All three vendors say current smartphones have the processing power and memory to support these technologies. But they're not yet implemented because mobile operating system makers are deciding to what extent they want to support alien operating systems and whether they want to add the extra layer. PCs don't have this level of internal safeguard, so adding it to mobile has not proven urgent.
Of the three approaches, the thin client most likely will soon be widely available for segregating applications from the mobile device's other applications and data; the Citrix Receiver thin-client application is already popular among mobile users, the company reports.
The path to broad adoption of the other forms of virtualization is less obvious. As the next section explains, Web-based applications can provide similar universality without the overhead of virtualization. It's also not certain that mobile platform providers will support the VMware or Open Kernel approaches; today, for example, Apple prohibits the use of non-native runtimes such as Adobe AIR and Flash and Oracle Java on its iOS.
Extending corporate apps to the mobile environment
Virtualization could help IT tap legacy applications and create new "write once, run all" applications for a heterogeneous environment, but there's a simpler approach in many instances: Web-based applications, including cloud applications. Using Web-based applications has several advantages.
The supporting infrastructure is improving rapidly, as solid-state storage, processing, compression, and bandwidth improvements make Web applications richer. These advances, plus advances in virtualization and user-interface mapping between mobile devices and desktop-oriented server applications, also make the use of thin-client computing—such as through Citrix, Microsoft, or Wyse terminal services—more attractive where the Web application approach is ill suited.
The networking infrastructure also is improving and can support the need most Web applications have for continuous network connectivity. Wi-Fi networks are increasingly available in public and private buildings, and 3G and emerging 4G cellular technologies are approaching availability and speeds that reliably fill most gaps between Wi-Fi networks. The issue of not having reliable connectivity is fast receding. On the provisioning side, highercapacity servers and storage media for general uses, such as thin-client access, and specialized uses, such as video streaming, allow the back-end infrastructure to handle provisioning to hundreds of millions of data-capable mobile devices already deployed.
Third, in many instances, IT can avoid native application development on multiple mobile platforms by using the draft HTML5 specification, which Apple, Google, Hewlett- Packard/Palm, Nokia, and Research In Motion have adopted in their mobile browsers. Microsoft has not joined the HTML5 bandwagon, but says it will add HTML5 support to its new Windows Phone 7 operating system at some point.
The local storage facility in HTML5 can help Web applications continue to function even when disconnected from the Internet, at least using the data cached on the device before the connection is broken. HTML5 also supports location data, which lets Web applications tap into one of mobile devices' key information streams.
Although HTML5 is several years from final status and ratification, major components are already implemented in most popular mobile and desktop browsers, providing an opportunity for IT to test and use the capabilities over time. Box.net CEO Aaron Levie summarizes the ideal scenario: "It would be my preference as a developer that we will do this all in HTML5, and everything is going to be much more Web-based across all these platforms."
HTML5 is not a prerequisite for capable Web applications. Today's mobile Web applications typically use the HTML4 specification and add-on technologies such as JavaScript, but HTML5's adoption will allow developers to offer applications with additional capabilities and richer user experiences.
Futurist and interactive media consultant Mark Pesce figures that 90 percent of mobile application development could take place in HTML. "HTML is your low-hanging fruit," he says. "So you'll think about how to farm out your 10 percent to a tiny little app that's not going to take much development time to deploy, but does just this one thing that you can't do in HTML5." Figure 2 considers that scenario, associating application types with the kind of development needed for that type. According to those such as Pesce who are close to the topic, HTML5 methods can cover the vast majority of application needs.
Current and future HTML technologies are likely to be used by vendors of software as a service. Salesforce.com, SAP, Netflix, Box.net, and others have already created mobile applications with such technologies. So IT can likely extend any cloud service effort to include mobile users.
Other Web-style application approaches include client environments such as Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Oracle Java. However, these clients are not universally supported. And none of these clients has facilities for re-rendering the user interface automatically for the client device, so such applications will require significant redevelopment for mobile, even if the underlying process logic can be used. (The user-interface issue is less acute on tablets, due their larger screen sizes.)
But screen size is not the only user interface mismatch. These client technologies as yet do not support the rich gesturing capabilities of smartphones and tablets. As a result, interactivity generally consists of mouse-style actions, which usually are more limited than gestures and require more precise motions than finger-based gestures allow.
Thus, PwC does not expect such clients to be a significant mechanism for providing multiplatform applications, at least not until they better handle the gesture approach of mobile interfaces. Adobe Systems has said it is working to revise Flash to support such standards, whereas Microsoft has built such capabilities into Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 but not for the desktop version of Silverlight that would play on a Web site.
As an interim step, IT can use such clients to make existing applications available to compatible mobile devices. After all, mobile users are familiar with using regular Web sites on their devices and adjust their expectations accordingly; the same principle applies to using Flash or other client applications.
Web-style applications are particularly suited for information consumption and for lightweight content creation and transactions, what PwC calls "engagement"—the same kinds of use cases for which Web and cloud services make sense. Because mobile devices are best suited for such information consumption and engagement, we expect most businesses to focus on these Web-based application development and delivery technologies to support most mobile users.
The new breed of mobile applications
HTML5 and client environments are useful for porting existing services to mobile devices and for enabling content-consumption and engagement applications, but they are less useful with mobile-specific attributes. One reason for this is that each mobile operating system has unique functional and/or interface capabilities that the more generic Web technologies can't take advantage of. Another is that existing technologies don't have mechanisms to handle common sensor data from the devices—such as acceleration, spatial orientation, ambient light levels, and proximity detection—that could be used for new classes of services and applications.
Thus, developers will also need to create native applications on mobile platforms that users or customers favor. That support means more than simply having a "skinned" Web application for the devices. Users form strong allegiances to the way their smartphones work, and they expect the key applications they use to follow the same approaches and tap into what they consider special about the devices. "A native mobile app should provide a user experience that is difficult or impossible to provide via the Web," says Pesce of FutureSt Consulting.
To go native means to honor each platform's user experience even if it means providing different functionality, says Srini Koushik, CTO of Nationwide. In some cases, such as Apple iOS, the operating system creator enforces adherence to such standards, while in others, the creators promulgate but do not enforce design guidelines. "There's a lot of benefit to that, especially when you get into the customer market, where people use technology but they don't want to worry about the details of technology," Koushik says. "When I started working with my application developers to put out mobile apps on these devices, a key question was, 'How do I make sure that the experience—and the customer's perception of Nationwide—is a good one?'"
PwC sees two additional rationales for developing native mobile applications:
People have their mobile devices in situations where they don't have their PCs, creating the opportunity to apply technology in new domains for employees, partners, and customers. Current examples include scanning bar codes of products to look up more information or check pricing elsewhere, providing maintenance staff current status on work requests when they're in the field, and acting as remote controls for Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as TVs, building automation systems, and security cameras.
Mobile devices have built-in sensors—cameras, microphones, location detectors, accelerometers, ambient light sensors, compasses, and proximity sensors—that provide the opportunity to tap into contextual information for new types of applications. Current examples include pedometers that calculate energy use, routing tools to direct drivers to their destinations based on current conditions, and visual heart-rate monitoring. Sensors can be added via near-field wireless networking for continual blood pressure and glucose monitoring.
Early adopters already see advantages in such novel uses. For example, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), which manages 45,000 hotels globally, has provisioned iPad tablets to concierges so they can help clients get information or book reservations anywhere quickly, and not be tied to a kiosk while doing so. Another IHG application allows guests to book and manage their hotel accounts while on the go, increasing mobile bookings by 500 percent in less than a year, says CIO Tom Conophy. And IHG is testing an application that uses the smartphone's speaker to emit an audio code to unlock a guest-room door, so guests don't even need to check in to get a key.
Conophy says IHG is using different devices for different purposes, based on fit for the job for internal applications and customer demand for external ones, which in turn requires a more flexible planning and deployment process than has been typical.
Nationwide has also deployed several mobile applications. A popular one for its agents lets them take photos of an accident site and upload them to the claims management system, which speeds claims processing, says Koushik.
Standard Chartered is now investigating what applications would benefit its staff. "We don't want to create an app just because it's neat; we want it to be something that will add value to the bank and make people's lives easier," says Todd Schofield, who leads a mobile development unit for the bank. His unit is looking at the use of location-based services to tell what's going on in an office or a city, and at the bar-code-reading feature of the iPhone for asset-management tracking of PCs and to track bar-coded paperwork.
In some cases, multiplatform software development environments, such as the one by the Eclipse Foundation and commercial products from Appcelerator and Rhomobile, will ease the development of multiple native versions of an application. But PwC believes that the richest applications will need to be developed on the native development tools provided by each mobile operating system creator. Even today, a mix of applications exists depending on the degree of desired nativeness, and PwC sees no reason why that fact will change.
The rise of mobile device usage by employees and customers has the potential to introduce transformative capabilities into business, but at a cost of accepting platform heterogeneity and sharing ownership of devices with employees.
Although the current stable of mobile operating systems is daunting, PwC expects the number of viable platforms will shrink to a manageable four to six, and most companies could focus on perhaps three.
Still, that reality will mean being more focused on application functionality, rather than trying to deliver Swiss army knife–style "do it all" applications. And it will require knowing when using a common technology such as HTML5 is a workable approach versus creating native applications for your target platforms.
The heterogeneity of mobile devices and the rapid change in enabling technologies such as HTML5 mean that companies will need to rethink how they adopt and deploy them. Application development and platform adoption time frames need to be flexible and short.
Applications—both client and back end—need to be modifiable to take advantage of new mobile capabilities as they appear, without massive reprogramming.
User interface expertise will become critical, because mobile devices are fundamentally different from PCs on this score. Also, because users and platform developers are still figuring out what works best, best practices are unclear, requiring more ongoing attention on UI issues than is typical for corporate application development.
Above all, experimentation is important because users are just starting to figure out what they can do with these versatile devices that are always at hand, and technologists keep inventing additional capabilities. PwC does not expect this opportunity providing instability to settle down for some time yet. In fact, as the timeline in Figure 3 points out, the series of developments we anticipate over the next decade will likely provide plenty of opportunity, not to mention instability.
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Skip to comments.Schumer On Judicial Appointees: We Will Change the Rules to Fill up The DC Circuit
Posted on 03/20/2013 2:43:15 PM PDT by neverdem
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will fill up the DC circuit one way or another, even it means changing the rules in the Senate to get nominees confirmed.
At a Mar. 10 dinner event, the New York senator criticized the GOP for rejecting President Barack Obamas nomination for judge in the 10th circuit, which currently has four vacancies.
They just rejected on specious grounds a fine New Yorker named Caitlin Halligan for the second time," said Schumer. "Our strategy will be to nominate four more people for each of those vacancies [on the 10th Circuit Court]. And if they filibuster all of them, it will give those of us that want to change the rules and not allow 60 votes to dominate the Senate but require a talking-filibuster to prevail. So we will fill up the DC circuit one way or another.
Earlier this month, Presidents Obamas nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit failed to garner the 60 votes needed to overcome opposition and get a vote.
In January of this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made a move to do away with the requirement of 60 votes to overcome minority opposition and force a talking-filibuster. The move would have required senators to hold the floor and debate in order to prevent votes on matters they oppose. However, the manuever to force a talking-filibuster was removed in the filibuster reform deal between crafted by Reid and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Schumer told the audience at the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats dinner why he felt the need to have Halligan seated as a judge: We have a federal court system and the second most important court in that system is the D.C. Court of Appeals because it controls all kinds of government decisions.
There are now four vacancies on the court and its dominated by the hard right," he said. "Heres what they have done in the last year: they have overturned the EPAs ability to regulate existing coal plants which send their pollution here and kill the Adirondack mountains. They have rendered the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) impotent by saying that the SEC cant pass rulings unless they do what is called a cost-benefit analysis, which ties any rulings to go after our financial institutions in knots.
And third, they have ruled that recess appointments couldnt be taken into account," said Schumer. "Why did they do that? They did that because the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) which has finally begun to swing the pendulum a little bit back so that workers and unions could actually organize people as opposed to the rulings under the Bush administration --which for eight years -- but now they are going to render those decisions moot. So we have to fill the 10th DC circuit.
The D.C. Circuit is not the "Tenth Circuit." The Tenth Circuit covers Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
Go ahead. Pack the courts with leftists. They can't protect all of them.
The last thing I want to do is watch Chuck U. BTW, if I win Lotto/Powerball tonight I am out of NY so fast....
To rescue what little remains of our Constitution.
If Chucky wasn't such an idiot and liar he'd be dangerous.
Don't you just love career politicians, telling those who elected them what do do...
trust me you will love it once you get out of the north east.
Got my wife out and moved here south and she said it was the best move she ever did.
Trying to raise a famliy up there is near impossible , socialism and liberalism all over the local networks, radio, news, papers, talk shows, go to work , where ever and it;s all loons or low info voters.
Hell MA has a school district doing a play with Adam and Steven not Adam and eve.
then there was the father arrested who wanted to kno what his kid was being taught and why this turd poking agenda
Then today we heard about a school which does not want honor students being honored as it would make the other kids feel bad
then another place where they took tax money and gave to to the homosexual domestic violence group
That is in MA nad it just goes on and on with insane agendas.
Hell here we can shoot in our back yard
we can have fires in our back yard as big as you want.
we don;t get our cars inspected
we don;t have emissions checks on our cars here
we have stand your ground,
All which is different to the north east and why I got my wife out of there,
The north east is a different country, anything north of the Potomac is like being in another country.
good luck escaping
Thanks, we have a place just south of here in PA, and it is like Night and Day! Fracking and business...it isn't perfect but it is better than this...
A world with "Adam and Steve" would have scientifically (their preferred screeching cry) speaking, lasted how many generations? One you say?
Thanks neverdem.
Schmukky Chucky Chumer,
What can you expect from a meshugana retard like this?
this guy Schumer....is such a...a...a democRAT.
I have turned the word democRAT into a pejorative. Now when I want to islut someone I say to them...you're such a democRAT.
OK pubbies, grow a spine and some testicles. Remember Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles W. Pickering, Carolyn Kuhl, David W. McKeague, Henry Saad, Richard Allen Griffin, William H. Pryor, William Gerry Myers III and Janice Rogers Brown.
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If the "Rule Change" is a talking filibuster, rather than threatened filibuster being able to prevent up or down votes, whats the downside? this will hurt the dem's when they inevitably fall below 50 Senators. Not sure they have the brass to do this, or they would have rammed it through the first day of the new Session.
Thanks for the ping!
WHen did Chuck Schumer become President?
Has anybody asked Schumer why Estrada, and countless of other picks by George W. Bush, weren't allowed an up or down vote?
That assumes there's someone in the BS media who would ask the question, let alone make sure that Schumer's answer, or lack of it, was reported. I don't expect Schumer to get anywhere near Major Garrett or Jake Tapper.
Of course. The Republicans never have a good, principled reason for anything they do. It's always just petty politics. Projection much?
I'd love to meet this guy in an alley.
#6 Well, Schumer is an idiot, a liar and dangerous. Three reasons why he should drop dead yesterday. I've been around politics since the late 1960's and I rank him as one of the top five slimest pricks I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of them as a Hill correspondent).
Sometimes I think God created people like Schumer just to show the rest of the human race what a real nasty, egotistical asshole looks like.
"We Will Change the Rules to..."
1. Any conservative who can relocate is needed in Texas to help offset their plan of creating a permanent voting bloc of illegal aliens with that "One stroke of the pen, law of the land" crap. Once we lose Texas' electoral votes, it's over for all of us.
2. The Socialist propensity for "changing the rules" is why any further discussion of the "eligibility" of Cruz, Rubio, et al is ridiculous. That ship has left the harbor. That plane has taken off. (Insert favorite euphemism here). WHY on earth should we continue to "play by the rules" with our sanctimonious little heads held high while our mortal enemies are trying to slit our throat?
If the Democrats insist on packing the court with ideological partisans, then the next time conservatives have the presidency + the Senate, then they can do the same.
And, with majorities in both Houses + the Presidency and no filibuster, they can change the number of Scotus justices to suit their needs.
Economic regulation again appeared before the Supreme Court in the Gold Clause Cases.[39] In his first week after taking office, Roosevelt closed the nation's banks, acting from fears that gold hoarding and international speculation posed a danger to the national monetary system. He based his actions on the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.[40] Congress quickly ratified Roosevelt's action with the Emergency Banking Act. A month later, the President issued Executive Order 6102, confiscating all gold coins, bullion, and certificates, requiring they be surrendered to the government by May 1, 1933 in exchange for currency. Congress also passed a joint resolution cancelling all gold clauses in public and private contracts, stating such clauses interfered with its power to regulate U.S. currency.
While the Roosevelt administration waited for the court to return its judgment, contingency plans were made for an unfavorable ruling.[41] Ideas circulated within the White House to withdraw the right to sue the government to enforce gold clauses.[41] Attorney General Cummings suggested the court should be immediately packed to ensure a favorable ruling.[41] Roosevelt himself ordered the Treasury to manipulate the market to give the impression of turmoil, although Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau refused.[41] Roosevelt also drew up executive orders to close all stock exchanges and prepared a radio address to the public.[41]
On February 18, 1935, the Justices' decisions in all three cases were announced; all supported the government's position by a narrow 54 majority.[41] Chief Justice Hughes wrote the opinion for each case, finding the government had plenary power to regulate money. As such, the abrogation of both private and public contractual gold clauses was within congressional reach when such clauses represented a threat to Congress's control of the monetary system.[41] Speaking for the Court in the Perry case, Hughes's opinion was remarkable: in a judicial tongue-lashing not seen since Marbury v. Madison,[42] Hughes chided Congress for an act which, while legal, was regarded as clearly immoral.[36] However, Hughes ultimately found the plaintiff had no cause of action, and thus no standing to sue the government.[43]
Bush's fault!
Dead Red Ted Kennedy is smiling in his grave.
NY is such a great State............so sad that so many of the politicos are such fools, and only want to ruin it through their insipid liberal idiocies.
Anyone that Chuck Schumer likes is probably unfit to sit on the bench.
Senator Charles Schumer takes a stroll down a Manhattan street.
Give it time. The New England States are on the way to bankruptcy and the government funded leftists will be hard put to keep their jobs. Rhode Island is already seeing this.
Why is there not one republican with the gonads to slap Schumer up side the head? In fact, it would only take one slap to hit Schumer, McCain and Graham. Sorta' like the three stooges slap.
...the train has left the station, the other shoe has dropped, the shit has hit the fan...
Come to "Hokie-mama", as one of our grandsons used to say. It's the only state I know of that has an automatic weapons festival every year.
The only requirement is that anyone who moves here must vote conservative.
Thank you. I like those better. lol.
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Tree planting ceremonies will be held across Tennessee Thursday to honor victims of crime. The Department of Correction and the Board of Parole are bringing the service to our area.
The ceremony will be held Thursday morning at 10 a.m. at the Sullivan County Child Advocacy Center, 150 Blountville Bypass, in Blountville, Tennessee. During the tree planting, a local victim advocate will be presented a "Voice for Victims" award for work on behalf of crime victims. This is one of eight ceremonies to be held in Tennessee in observance of National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Additional events are scheduled in Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Jackson, Chattanooga, Springfield and Murfreesboro.


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Davidson is an experienced team that isn't going to be fazed by anything the Mountaineers can throw at them. If anything, it would probably be the opposite, as the Wildcats have seen pretty much everything there is to see as they have progressed through their college careers. With three seniors and two juniors in the starting lineup, this team isn't going to be an easy out for anyone, as their win over Vanderbilt and close loss at New Mexico demonstrates.
Southern Conference preseason player of the year De'Mon Brooks has done nothing to cast any doubt on that selection in the early going. Heading into the Old Spice Classic, the junior was averaging an even 20 points per game, and adds 6.3 rebounds per contest. Fellow forward Jake Cohen, a senior, matches Brooks' rebounding total, and contributes 10 points per game to give the Wildcats a solid inside tandem.
In the backcourt, the experience factor continues to show with a trio of upperclassmen. Senior J.P Kuhlman tosses in 13,3 points per game but also distributes the ball, dealing out 5.3 assists per game. Junior Chris Czerapowicz contributes 11 points, while senior Nick Cochran contributes in a complimentary role with 3.3 points, 2,7 rebounds and 3.6 assists.
Off the bench, the experience factor isn't as pronounced, but the Wildcats are still getting good support. Sophomore guard Tyler Kalinoski is getting almost as much run as the starters, and is scoring 11.7 points in his nearly 25 minutes per appearance, while forward Clint Mann averages 7.0 points and 3.0 rebounds per game as the primary frontcourt sub.
Davidson's experience means that it makes fewer mistakes than the average NCAA squad, and that fact makes them much more efficient on offense. Though three games, the Wildcats had just 30 turnovers while forcing 40 from their foes. They've averaged 80 points per game without burning up the nets, as they are shooting just 42.3% from the field.
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West Virginia has to play with poise against Davidson, something that it hasn't shown yet the year. The Gonzaga game displayed a a team unable to cope with adversity, while the Marist win didn't have any such pressure. At some point in the game, Davidson will likely reel off a run and put the Mountaineers under duress. How West Virginia responds will be one of the big keys in the contest.
WVU shot the ball well from three-point range against Marist, making five of its nine attempts, but those makes came well after the Mountaineers had the game under control. The Mountaineers will probably have to take, and make, a few more threes to knock off Davidson. West Virginia was able to get the ball to the rim repeatedly against the Red Wolves, scoring time and again in transition off turnovers and missed shots. Those chances figure to be far fewer against the Wildcats, which means WVU will need to generate some offense in the halfcourt. With the team still struggling to get the ball to Deniz Kilicli, and the big man fighting to find an effective playing balance, the need to hit a few shots from the perimeter becomes even more important.
Eleven West Virginia players are averaging between 27.5 minutes and 10.5 minutes per game. The only scholarship player not to participate yet is Dominique Rutledge, who is sitting out for reported disciplinary reasons.
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Davidson is in the midst of a stretch of six consecutive games away from home. That's the longest run of road games since the 1999-2000 season, when the Wildcats played seven games away from Belk Arena.
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Despite not starting and playing just one half of the Marist game, Aaric Murray is leading WVU in scoring and blocked shots.
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Davidson has dominated the Southern Conference over the past decade, winning eight of the league's last 11 titles. Part of the reason for that is Davidson's challenging non-conference schedule, which continues this year. The 'Cats are 1-2 so far against New Mexico, Milwaukee and Vanderbilt, and still has games against WVU, Charlotte, UNC-Wilmington, Drexel, Duke and Richmond. They are the preseason pick to win the league again in 2012-13.


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Gail and Scott Hannah
Pineville Cemetery/GA
Great article with photos about this church and cemetery on website of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia. gail
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A suggestion for you Confederate Generals list - buried in Evergreen cemetery, Ocala, FL.
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Pinevlle Baptist in Marion County Ga
We need some information regarding Pineville Baptist. A deserted church located close to the cemetery. We could also use some information about Pineville itself. Nice job on the cemetery. Full of good information. https://firstname.lastname@example.com,-84.6111229,3a,25y,215.04h,87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1su4SBE9ctHZwyZoY-HR2zwQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d32.25359!4d-84.61382
We are Historic Rural Churches of Georgia and we would like to document the old church while we still can. Almost no history available. Can you help?
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Thomas Dixon Ferguson photo
Hi Michael Dover,
Thank you for creating the memorial for Thomas Dixon Ferguson plus taking and posting photos of his grave marker. Since you transferred his memorial to me, I have added a better scan of the photo of him without white showing. Please remove the one you added for me on 12/14/2012 on the second page of the photos. His memorial number is 24761315.
Much appreciation for your time and effort.
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Vernon Giddens
Mr. Dover, Could you please add the parents to Vernon Giddens #41422608? They are James Talley Giddens #82878974 and Bessie Purvis #82879663. The family would be very grateful to you. Thanking you in advance. Mary Clyde Wright (MCW)
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Otha E. Sims
Hi Michael,
I read this story about a grave you took pictures of. I hope you can help find the family. Please see the link below. Thanks you for your service to our country.
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James Hammett that was buried in the Hammett Family Cemetery has a death date listed. Can you tell me where that info came from?
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Thank you so much Michael.
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marc sfe
There were none in teh 50's and 60's living in the midwest and on a farm. Unless you count Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Riley, et al on television – – who were total stereotypes and not what one would call positive role models.
Ah to be young. Life ripe with sex and opportunities. Every day an adventure. Tho I wonder if these young men really understand the concept of a role model. A person who serves as an example, whose behavior is emulated by others? Madonna? Really? Ew! Gross!…. Growing up I had the Village People, Bette Midler and Sylvester. Do women count? Ellen for the girls and Anderson Cooper for the boys I guess. A role model doesn't have to be gender specific, but as we gay folk have next to none who are out there, perhaps we can be each others role model. I have had many friends in our community to whom I looked up to. Is fame a necessary requirement? I feel we should think outside the box on this issue.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Learning about the British 60s famous gangsters and antiheroes the Kray twins, initially by seeing a movie on TV staring Spandau Ballet (ask your mom) brothers in the title role.
They taught me that gay men (one was gay; the other, bisexual — at least in prison) could also be respected and feared and kick ass and therefore could do anything and be anything and couldn't be narrowly defined by a one-size-fits-all definition.
I hasten to add that I in no way approve of their tactics or methods. The suits were impeccable though.
Scott Thompson from Kids In The Hall
@Tom: I love Scott. Every one of his Buddy Cole monologues had me rolling on the floor. He and the Chicken Lady are some of the most funny moments in time.
Bob LaBlah
Role model: Dr. Smith of Lost in Space. I loved calling my jock brother a babbling oaf (amongst the many other names that would roll off Dr. Smith's lips referring to the robot). Sexually, when I was lucky enough to have the house to myself on Saturday mornings I loved to j/o in front of the tv to reruns of Bomba, the jungle boy (Johnny Sheffield). He had a butt to kill for and I always wanted him to sit on my face.
A role model is someone to look up to, not just identify as gay. Most of these people are not even close to being role models. I think these gay characters were/are great, but they are not role models.
@marc sfe: I was thinking the same thing. But kind dreamed that Ricky Nelson was though.
probably Tim Curry , specifically as Dr. Frank N.Furter
what stuck me the most as a kid about him in that role was his confidence, he was weird, scary,strong, cool and gay.
That film had a lot to do with changing my ideas of social norms.
Aaron Fricke. He sued the school district to take a male date to his high school prom, and he won. And this was WAYYYYYY back in the 1980s.
Jonty Coppersmith
Alas, as a child of the 60's and 70's there were no gay role models. I didn't know anyone who was gay at all. I'm reminded of the Anita Bryant crusade against gays which was big in the news back then.
MK Ultra
Growing up, tv wise I looked up to Buffy, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She wasn't gay, of course. But she was a heroic figure that always tried to do the right thing. She was flawed, and the viewer saw character growth from the beginning of the series to the end. She was kind of an outsider, so that made her more relatable. Also the show featured gay characters, like Willow and Tara.
Mine was Dolly Parton as an actress. Almost all of her roles were as a woman that was not afraid to use all her talents (brains, body, personality) to get what she wanted. She also was not affraid to stand her ground and watch out for others. As far as gay role models, my first exposure to gay characters was in Police Academy. They were portrayed so negatively during this time that it was truly scary. I wanted no part of it.
Growing up, I had crushes on the two oldest of "My Three Sons" and on the Beaver's big brother, but I didn't have a gay hero/role model until after I came out and first saw Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter in RHPS when it first came out in 1972.
There was someone who was living a self-defined life! When I came out I tried to question all the things I'd been told were "normal", and Frankie helped me to "Don't Dream It, BE It!"
Bill Paxton from Near Dark.
Might not be a "gay" icon, but considering pretty much everyone listed so far has been mad fucking whack, I'm fine going with Severen.
@Jonty Coppersmith: I concur. I did however have one bit of good fortune – my best friend's neighbor, just a few years older than us, was openly gay at a time when no one else in our school was. And he didn't fit any particular stereotype, either – was just unapologetically himself. He dropped out of school, and headed for California. Wrote me a few letters about the gay scene in L.A. that gave me hope of something better outside my rural environment.
Apart from that, I'd have to say Harvey Fierstein, for Torch Song Trilogy. It's not that I wanted to emulate everything about him, but I have in fact used lines from that show on various people in my life who weren't giving me the love and respect I deserve.
Role models?! There are none! Is QUEERTY that clueless?
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