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Published 4 days ago on February 20, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (Ecclesiastes, Ch 3:1-8) And in that context, there is a time to sue. So it goes with the attorneys represented the seriously, and nationally, maligned students of Covington Catholic High School in Lexington, Kentucky, as they filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday. The Post, in an amazing display of denial and delusion, told Fox News in an email that the paper was "reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense." While the court of public opinion must not be brought to bear against The Washington Post, it still seems very surreal that the newspaper would even dare to discuss defending itself when its own articles are available as evidence of its wrongdoing. The Washington Post was the paper that took down President Nixon. Keep in mind that this happened through carefully researched, triple-checked sourcing, but now, the paper has degraded to a mere propaganda hit journal while trying to claim otherwise. The full text of the lawsuit is available for viewing through this linked text. We have chosen some excerpts, hopefully without altering the overall tone and direction of the full document, which we recommend for thorough reading: For truth, for justice, for Nicholas! Today, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post. The lawsuit filed is included below. The suit seeks $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages. Lin and Todd will continue to bring wrongdoers before the court to seek damages in compensation for the harm so many have done to the Sandmann family. This is only the beginning. NOW COMES Nicholas Sandmann, by and through his parents and natural guardians, Ted Sandmann and Julie Sandmann, and by and through his counsel, states his Complaint against Defendant, WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post ("the Post") as follows (the numbering is different in the actual document but we enumerate here for ease of reading): The Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. which is credited with inventing the term "McCarthyism" in an editorial cartoon published in 1950. Depicting buckets of tar, the cartoon made fun of then United States Senator Joseph McCarthy's "tarring" tactics of engaging in smear campaigns and character assassination against citizens whose political views made them targets of his accusations. In a span of three (3) days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Postengaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann ("Nicholas"), an innocent secondary school child. The Post wrongfully targeted and bullied Nicholas because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red "Make America Great Again" souvenir cap on a school field trip to the January 18 March for Life in Washington, D.C. when he was unexpectedly and suddenly confronted by Nathan Phillips ("Phillips"), a known Native American activist, who beat a drum and sang loudly within inches of his face ("the January 18 incident"). In targeting and bullying Nicholas by falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident, the Post conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by "swarming" Phillips, "blocking" his exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. In the lawsuit claim specific note is made to the fact that The Washington Post published no fewer than seven defamatory articles, all alleging racist actions taken by the Covington students, most notably slandering Nicholas Sandmann. And every single one of these news pieces was proven false. The case presented by the attorneys makes many more points, such as these that follow (emphases added): The Post's campaign to target Nicholas in furtherance of its political agenda was carried out by using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles which effectively provided a worldwide megaphone to Phillips and other anti-Trump individuals and entities to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the President. Unlike the Post's abuse of the profession of journalism, Plaintiffs do not bring this lawsuit to use the judicial system to further a political agenda. This lawsuit is brought against the Post to seek legal redress for its negligent, reckless, and malicious attacks on Nicholas which caused permanent damage to his life and reputation. The Post bullied an innocent child with an absolute disregard for the pain and destruction its attacks would cause to his life. Far from the usual nonsense offered in such cases of "pain and suffering", these news pieces and others like them, plus the viral nature of social media posts, caused very real danger to the health and well-being of Mr. Sandmann and his family as well as the other students and their families. Calls for "doxxing" were proclaimed by public figures, such as Nathaniel Friedman of GQ Magazine and Kathy Griffin, the "comedienne" who presented President Trump's bloody decapitated head in effigy… as a joke. Doxxing is mob violence that makes use of the internet and social media to find out where a targeted individual is, and then attack them physically. The Duran has knowledge of one such individual who suffered such an attack in Colorado Springs very recently. He was nearly killed in the attack. He was not an instigator but he was personally dedicated to Christian living and he was a known Trump supporter. Black Lives Matter was the group that doxxed him. We make that point to emphasize that The Washington Post engaged willfully in an act that could have (and may yet still) cost the lives of the kids who were slandered. The paper has not made any effort to fully apologize, nor has it made any general statement about journalistic malpractice that was involved here. This, when other papers that also picked up the false story, such as The New York Times, DID at least acknowledge that their initial reporting was wrong. This is beyond political opposition journalism. This is an attempt to incite violence, using the awesome power of the press, against people who were innocent. The court of public opinion doesn't ascribe to "innocent until proven guilty", either. It ascribes, "you are guilty no matter what the truth is, and we will pound you into the ground because it suits us to do so." Certainly political writing can be fiery and hotly argued. This is the nature of politics, right or wrong. People have their opinions and they cling to them rather passionately. This applies to everyone, and the statement is not directed at any particular party or ideology here. But when such malign fury begins to attack the innocent, and especially, children, then it has gone much too far. No one can buy a life back if a person gets killed by a mob. $250 million will not raise the dead. Seen in the true light of how severe this is, the attorneys are going very light on the Post. But the fact that they even brought this suit does say something about the power of regular people to stand against this sort of action and insist that it be stopped. The attorneys make no bones about saying what they want, so we continue to quote them here: In order to fully compensate Nicholas for his damages and to punish, deter, and teach the Post a lesson it will never forget, this action seeks money damages in excess of Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000.00) – the amount Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, paid in cash for the Post when his company, Nash Holdings, purchased the newspaper in 2013. THE POST PUBLISHED NEGLIGENTLY AND WITH ACTUAL MALICE The Post published its False and Defamatory Accusations negligently and with actual knowledge of falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth. As one of the world's leading news outlets, the Post knew but ignored the importance of verifying damaging, and in this case, incendiary accusations against a minor child prior to publication. The negligence and actual malice of the Post is demonstrated by its utter and knowing disregard for the truth available in the complete video of the January 18 incident which was available contemporaneously with the edited clip the Post chose because it appeared to support its biased narrative. WHEREFORE, Nicholas respectfully prays: That judgment be entered against the Post for substantial compensatory damages in an amount not less than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00); That judgment be entered against the Post for punitive damages in an amount not less than Two Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000.00) That Nicholas recover his reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses from the Post; That all costs of this action be taxed to Post; and That the Court grant all such other and further relief that the Court deems just and proper, including equitable relief. Respectfully submitted this 19th day of February, 2019. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The mainstream media does not want you to think [Video] It is difficult to tell if recent reports like this really represent a realization for the media, but this interview rings true nonetheless. Published 5 days ago on February 19, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch Several recent stories on Fox, Breitbart, and here on The Duran all address the increasingly obvious bias of the mainstream media with regard to news reporting. We discussed on The Duran how Chris Wallace of Fox News refused to hear details from White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller about why the recently declared National Emergency is in fact legitimate. This piece revealed that the media is very actively trying to control and direct what information they want the public to hear, rather than truly reporting the news, or interviewing people to get their takes on things, and to perhaps fully interview all sides in a controversy and then let the American public decide for themselves what to think. This used to exist in more gentlemanly debate programs in some fashion, such as with the TV debate program Point Counterpoint, but now, the bias of the reporter or of the network is the primary operator in determining the outcome of the interview, rather than the information that is available about the story. This has helped create a news and information culture in the United States that is truly insane. As examples, consider these paraphrased headlines, all occurring within the last few years: "Empire" star Jussie Smollett attacked by Trump supporters (even in MAGA hats!) Donald Trump colluded with Russia to interfere with and steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton Russia's Kaspersky Lab is a Kremlin front (because its owner was educated at the KGB academy) President Trump is a racist and all that he does is excite other white racist men "Hands up, don't shoot!" was what Michael Brown of Ferguson begged of the police officer that killed him Covington Catholic High School students abuse Nathan Philips, a Viet Nam veteran and Native American America's withdrawal from the INF means war is coming between the US and Russia. The world is going to end in 12 years if America does not stop using fossil fuels (but everyone else can still do so) All of these are probably familiar to most readers. Many of them are still repeated and acted on as if they were real. But the articles we linked to behind most of these ledes are examples of the disproof, usually 100% disproof, of these. They are hoaxes, or reports built on circumstantial evidence without any proof, or in the worst cases, pure slander and propaganda. One reporter for CBS news, 60 Minutes anchor Lara Logan, discussed this in an interview with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, for his own podcast program, which was picked up by the MediaIte website. The video of her interview is quite lengthy but starting at about 02:14:00 there is a particular segment that the MediaIte writers called to attention. We include this segment in the video. PARENTAL ADVISORY: The video is unrestricted in regards to language and there is some profanity. Parents, please listen first before letting your children watch this video. A major point Mrs Logan makes here is that 85% of the employ of the mainstream media in the USA consist of registered Democrats. She also speaks forcefully against the use of stereotypes, and suggests the best place to start is actual facts. This means that most journalists are coming into this work with a bias, which is not set aside for the sake of the facts of the story. Probably the most key point comes at 2:18:20 in the video is how Lara Logan is taught the way to discern whether or not someone in journalism is lying to you: "Someone very smart told me a long time ago, that, 'how do you know you are being lied to?', 'how do you know you are being manipulated?', 'how do you know there is something not right with the coverage?', when they simplify it all, and there is no gray. There is no gray. It's all one way. "Well, life isn't like that. If it doesn't match real life, it is probably not. Something is wrong." Lara Logan then pointed out the comparison of the mainstream media's constant negative coverage of President Trump against the reality of his work, that, regardless of one's own personal bias, it does not match that everything the President does is bad. She also highlighted the point that one's personal views should not come into how to report a news story. Yet in our days, it not only comes into the story, it drives the narrative for which the story just becomes an example of "proof" that the narrative is "true." Tucker Carlson talked vividly about the same characteristic on his program Monday night on Fox News. He points out that the 3,000 yearly shooting in Chicago get very little news coverage, but that is because these are not as "useful" as the Jussie Smollett story is. This is an example of using an event or a person's actions to satisfy a politically biased propaganda narrative, rather than report the news. This is not occasional, as the list of news headlines given above show. This is a constant practice across most of the mainstream media. Probably no one who gives interviews on the major networks is exempt, for even Mr. Carlson often resorts to cornering tactics when interviewing liberals in an apparent attempt to make the liberal look ridiculous and the point of view he espouses to look vindicated through that ridiculousness. While this is emotionally invigorating for the Carlson fan who wants to see him "eviscerate" the liberal, it is very bad journalism. In fact, it is not journalism at all; it is sensationalism in a nasty sense. It also insults the viewer, perhaps without them knowing it, because such reporting is the same as telling the viewer "WE ARE IN CONTROL!" and that the viewer must simply go along with the narrative given. It is very bad when what should be information reporting, policy discussion, or debate becomes infected with this. Ideas, the product of (hopefully) rational and discursive reasoning, are pushed aside by pure emotion and mass sensationalism. Put metaphorically, it is the new look of bread and circuses, keeping the masses entertained while anything else might be happening. Sometimes the motive for this is not so sinister. After all, we have a 24 hour news cycle now. In the 1970's we didn't. And in those times, the calibre of news reported was much higher. Reporting was far more careful. The Pulitzer Prize winners Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did their incredible exposé on the doings of President Richard Nixon under the directorship of the Washington Post editor, which demanded triple-checking of everything, making sure that all information was factual, accurate and genuine. While the story was indeed sensational, more importantly, it was true. Now we have a lot of sensation, but very little to zero truth. As an example, every one of the ledes linked above is not proven to be true, in fact the truth in many of these stories is the opposite of what the headline says. This would not be much of a problem if the media lies were not absorbed and reacted on by their readers, listeners and viewers. But the fact is that there are a significant number of consumers of mainstream media news that do react to it. The Covington High School incident showed this in perhaps the most frightening way, with open calls for violence against teenagers and high school students, requested by professionals, people that are supposed to be adults, such as Kathy Griffin, Reza Aslan, and GQ writer Nathaniel Friedman, who called for these kids to be "doxxed", which as we reported, is an action that can be deadly. We are in the times where the love of many has gone cold, and all is about expediency and selfishness. While there are a few outlets and a few journalists that still retain interest in recording and disseminating the truth, the reality is that most of what is out there is tainted by the drive for attention and sensationalism. The media that engages in such behavior is actually hurting people, rather than informing and helping them. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Honest liberal says he is NOT INTERESTED in policy explanation [Video] When news anchors try to act like prosecuting attorneys instead of actually interviewing people, we all lose. Published 5 days ago on February 18, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch One characteristic of modern-day television "news reporting" is that the political news is not truly reported. Rather, if the interviewer disagrees with the one being interviewed, the session turns into interviewer grandstanding. Regrettably, this tactic is used by liberal and conservative journalists alike. However, it is usually not admitted, as the interviewer usually chooses to say things like "I want the truth" when he or she really wants to force the other person to admit the correctness of the interviewer. Over the weekend, Fox News' Chris Wallace grandstanded against White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller. However, Chris Wallace at least was honest about his wish: STEPHEN MILLER: … At a fundamental level, we could go down into the details, and you know, Chris, I can go down into details as much as you want to, but the bottom line is this… CHRIS WALLACE: Please don't! (laughs) This is a big problem. The responsibility of any good journalist is to get full and accurate information about a given topic. Isn't it? Not in the press of our day. Chris Wallace is a valued personality for the Fox News Channel. As a former CBS anchor for 60 Minutes, Wallace brings a well-known face and voice of the mainstream media to Fox, even though he is quite liberal politically, as are many in the entertainment and information professions. The problem is that the topic here, the facts justifying President Trump's National Emergency declaration on Friday over the still permeable US-Mexico border, are present in abundance. But Mr. Wallace did not want to know these facts, or perhaps worse, he did not want to let his viewing audience know this information, so he tried to prevent Mr. Miller from talking about those details. Stephen Miller, thankfully, was not having it. He insisted on giving a full and informed response to Mr. Wallace's questions, even though Wallace did not want to hear any information. The rest of the interview is comprised of Mr. Miller trying to dissemimate information and Mr. Wallace trying to block it and refuse it in order to sustain his own preferred narrative. Chris Wallace' point of view is that the President called a National Emergency for no good reason, and that President Trump is breaking the law by appropriating money for the Border Wall, something which only the House of Representatives can do, legislatively. However, the point of view expressed by Mr. Wallace and President Trump is that as Chief Executive of the United States of America, the President is responsible to preserve the country from invasion. For the President, the never-ending waves of illegals coming into the country and not being deported, but rather, released into the US pending trials that they often never attend years later, amounts to a slow invasion. Strictly speaking, President Trump is correct. The illegals are not (usually) armed representatives of a foreign power, but neither do they become American citizens. Many of them take advantage of generous provisions and loopholes in the law (Mexico teaches them how to do this!) and they therefore earn money but usurp the country of resources. It has been exceedingly difficult to move the level of interest in stopping illegal immigration in the US. Rush Limbaugh rightly stated in his program on Friday, February 15, what the problem is, and we include some of the details (as we should) for why Mr. Limbaugh says what he says here: There is a limit on a number of detainees. There is limit on how much of border and fence can be built. There's a limit on what kind can be built. There's a limit on modernization. This bill is filled with congressional edicts telling the president of the United States what he cannot do. Now, it authorizes $23 billion for Homeland Security, but it specifies $1.375 billion for fencing and bordering. But there are so many limits on this as to make this practically irrelevant — by design and on purpose, because I firmly believe that what members of Congress (both parties) actually want with this bill is to send a message that nothing is ever gonna happen as long as Donald Trump is President. The attempt in this budget deal is to send a message to you Trump voters that it's worthless voting for him, that it is a waste of time supporting him, because they are demonstrating that he can't get anything done. This is Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate getting together, because they know when it comes to illegal immigration, these parties are unified, folks. For the most part, the Republicans and Democrats are for open borders. There are exceptions on the Republican side. But there are a lot of Republicans that don't want Trump to succeed even now. There are a lot of Republicans just after he was inaugurated who don't want him to succeed. So they come up with a piece of legislation here that is outrageous. It is outrageous in its denial of the existence of a genuine emergency at the border. They don't care. They will deal with whatever mess they create. They don't care how bad it gets because in their world, the only mess is Donald Trump — and since the Russian effort and the Mueller effort and everything else related to that has failed to get his approval numbers down (and that has been the objective from the get-go), this is the latest effort, and it won't be long… You mark my words on this. There is an emergency at the US-Mexico border. Last year almost half a million people were apprehended by the Border Patrol and ICE. Many, if not most, though, are still in the United States. They were not all sent back. Some were, and some of them probably have come back in yet again. The fact that our nation's borders are unrestricted in this manner is absolute folly. The more American people know the details about what is actually happening at the border, the more they support the wall's construction and President Trump's policies. We have seen evidence for this in polling even by liberal network outlets. President Trump managed to call attention to this topic and bring it into the center of the discussion of US domestic policy. Rasmussen reported that the level of approval of Trump's work to close the border is high – at 59 percent, with only 33 percent disapproving. The President made this an issue. Chris Wallace tried in his own program to deflect and dissuade information from being brought to the attention of the American viewers who watch his program. This is not journalism. It is reinforcement of propaganda on Mr. Wallace's part, defense against facts, and an unwillingness to let the American people have information and therefore to think for themselves. Unfortunately, such practices are not limited to Mr. Wallace. Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others all utilize this form of questioning, and it is a shame, because the news reporter no longer reports the news. When a talking head on TV or radio places himself or herself as the Gatekeeper to allow or prevent information from reaching the American people, this is highly presumptuous, ego driven and almost always, dishonest. Worse, such an approach reinforces this message to American people: "You cannot think for yourself. It is too hard, so we will do your thinking for you. Trust us!" This style of journalism became more and more popular over, under the "appearance" of "tough questioning." However the usual course of "tough questioning" is ideologically aligned with whatever the journalist thinks, and not at all about what is actually important. Chris Wallace is notorious for doing this with conservatives, and he does aggravate them, but he reduces interviews to an argument between the journalist and the person interviewed. And usually, this is not the story. This was made absolutely clear in the interview with Stephen Miller, even to the point that Mr. Wallace actually voiced the request, "please don't (give us all the specifics of this issue.)" Good journalism respects the fact that different people have different points of view. Agreement or disagreement with these points is what Op-Ed writing is for. But when Op-Ed is treated as hard fact journalism, we all lose. We included the whole interview video from the beginning here so that the viewer can take in the whole course of this discussion. It is well worth watching. And as it is well-worth watching, it is also well-worth each person's own personal consideration. People are smarter than the media would like us to be. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. 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An untold number of Americans first met Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) — the GOP's nominee to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) — on Sunday, after he falsely claimed that women have a natural defense against becoming pregnant from what he called a "legitimate rape."
Though the outlandish claim represents a fairly common view in the pro-life movement and the GOP, the backlash was so fast and severe that some GOPers are calling for Akin to abandon his candidacy, so somebody less tainted can take his place.
But even if Akin hadn't exposed that he holds this controversial view, his candidacy wouldn't have been a cakewalk. Although until this weekend he enjoyed a small lead over McCaskill, his record is thick with the sort of fringe views that prevented several GOP challengers from defeating Democrats in 2010. That's why McCaskill, an unpopular incumbent, worked hard to assure Akin won his party's nomination.
Here are some of Akin's greatest hits.Student Loans
In April, Akin cited a law Democrats passed in 2010 that saves billions of dollars by preventing private banks from profiting, risk free, on federally backed student loans as an example of the notion that "America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism, because the federal government is tampering in all kind of stuff it has no business tampering in."
When offered the chance to clarify, he declined, saying "I called a spade a spade."
Social Security
During a CSPAN appearance on March 2011, Akin raised strong objections to one of the nation's most popular federal support programs. "Social Security, through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax is all it is. Social Security is a tax. The government is taking the tax — there's more money coming in than going out — and we spend it. That's not responsible. I don't like it. I didn't design Social Security. It was — it actually came from Bismark. FDR put it in place."
First Amendment
In June 2011, Akin told Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, that "the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God."
Marital Rape
In 1991, as a state legislator, Akin questioned whether anti-marital rape legislation might be used "in a real messy divorce as a tool and a legal weapon to beat up on the husband." He ultimately voted for the bill.
Civil and Voting Rights
Akin recently claimed that elections "historically have always been a state thing." Without expressing opposition to the Civil Rights Act and other federal protections for ethnic minorities, Akin noted "I think we've come a very long way from those days," adding, "I think we need to make sure that everybody has a right to vote — once," a transparent nod to the inaccurate notion that voter impersonation fraud is a persistent problem that requires legal restrictions on voting.
School Lunches
In 2010, he was one of 13 to vote against expressing support for the goals and ideals of the National School Lunch Program.
Missing And Exploited Children
In 2003, he and 13 other Republicans voted against a five year reauthorization of a law that provides support for missing and exploited children.
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Death threats were the last type of phone calls George A. Zimmermann thought he'd get after serving for 55 years as his Pennsylvania community's preacher.
And he never thought he'd be mistaken for the man headlining news these days: George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
Zimmermann, 78, retired to Deland, Fla., 16 years ago from his post at Georgetown United Methodist Church in Paradise, Pa. He said his time in Florida had been relatively peaceful and uneventful—until the phone calls began trickling in.
According to Zimmermann, he started receiving the calls immediately after Zimmerman (with one n), 29, shot the teenager.
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"In the beginning, I received four or five calls," Zimmermann said. "I'd say, 'Hey, you got the wrong person. I don't live in Sanford.' And then it stopped."
Until the first night of the trial.
On June 25, Zimmermann was awakened by two calls in the middle of the night from protesters, although he said they were tame in comparison with the one he received July 14, a day after the verdict was reached.
"Hey (expletive), you're the one who killed Trayvon Martin, when your (expletive) get out, you're dead," the caller said in a message left on the answering machine. "Wherever you go, you're dead. Wherever you're trying to hide, you're dead. Watch your (expletive) move. You think you're free. You're not. You better get ready to dig a 6-foot hole, cause you know you're fixing to go," according to a report by Orlando news station WFVT.
Zimmermann, who was not home at the time of the call, recorded the message on his answering machine. He reported the incident to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
"I know they're venting their emotions, but I had no idea that my name would create such a hassle," he said.
Zimmermann said a couple of the calls he's received have been from out-of-state numbers, but more have been from Florida. He has changed his phone number, and since July 14, he has not received any more intimidating calls.
"They're just shooting in the dark," Zimmermann said. "It doesn' t make sense—I'm in a different town.
"But I guess when you're upset you do things without rationally thinking about it," he said.
Since Martin was killed, a number of individuals with unintentional ties to Zimmerman have been accosted in similar cases of mistaken identity:
• A Florida man who had never owned a cellphone before being released from prison in May 2012 was randomly assigned the number Zimmerman was using when he called 911 the night he killed Martin. Junior Alexander Guy, then 49, received multiple intimidating phone calls before changing his number.
• Lori Tankel of Winter Park, Fla., was forced to change her number after receiving nearly 100 calls from protesters assuming she was Zimmerman, reports WFTV. Her cellphone number was one digit removed from Zimmerman's old number.
• Although he lived thousands of miles away from Sanford, Jorge Zimmerman of Cumberland, R.I., received nearly half a dozen or so angry messages sent to his Facebook page from individuals accusing him of murdering Martin, says Rhode Island news station WPRI. He has deactivated his Facebook account.
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WASHINGTON – Five years after a global financial crisis erupted, the world's biggest economies still need to be propped up.
They're growing and hiring a little faster and creating more jobs, but only with extraordinary aid from central banks or government spending. And economists say major countries may need help for years more.
From the United States to Europe to Japan, central banks are pumping cash into economies and keeping loan rates near record lows.
For now, thanks in part to the intervention, the world economy is improving. The International Monetary Fund expects global growth to rise to 3.6 percent in 2014 from 2.9 percent this year.
Here's a look at how the world's major economies are faring:
The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly solid 2.8 percent annual pace from July through September, though consumers and businesses slowed their spending. And U.S. employers added a surprising strong 204,000 jobs in October.
Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, thinks the U.S. economy will be strong enough to manage without any help from Fed bond purchases by the end of 2014. He sees the Fed raising short-term rates, which it's kept at a record low near zero since late 2008, sometime in 2015.
But weaning the U.S. economy off Fed support, he says, is "tricky ... If you do it too slowly, you could ignite inflation. If you do it too quickly, you run the risk of killing the recovery."
After enduring two recessions since 2009, the 17 countries that use the euro currency are expected to eke out their second straight quarter of growth from July through September. But many economists say the eurozone's growth might not meet even the feeble 0.3 percent quarterly pace achieved from April through June. The latest quarterly figure will be announced Thursday.
The European Central Bank surprised investors last week by cutting its benchmark refinancing rate to a record 0.25 percent. It acted after economic reports exposed the weakness of the recovery. Inflation last month was a scant 0.7 percent. That raised the risk of deflation – a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and homes.
The rate cut "signals that the ECB is not prepared to accept the risk that the euro area falls into deflation," says Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Japan's economic recovery has gained momentum since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in late 2012. Under "Abenomics," the government and central bank have injected money into the economy through stimulus spending and rate cutting. The economy grew at a robust 3.8 percent annual rate from April through June.
But economists worry about whether the recovery can be sustained and whether Japan can grow enough to make up in tax revenue what it's spending on stimulus.
Noriko Hama, a professor at Kyoto's Doshisha University, contends that only higher wages and rates will give people the income and confidence they need to spend more and restore the economy's health.
Like the Fed, the Bank of Japan could struggle with how to time and carry out a reversal of its easy money policy once the economy improves or if inflation or asset bubbles emerge as a threat.
"They have placed themselves in a very difficult situation indeed," Hama says. "It's a double-edged sword."
China's economy grew at a two-decade low of 7.5 percent in the three months that ended in June compared with a year earlier. That's still a vigorous pace compared with the developed economies of Europe, the United States and Japan. But for China, it marked a slowdown, and Beijing launched a mini-stimulus program, spending on railway construction and other public works.
It worked: Growth edged up to 7.8 percent from July through September from a year earlier.
Yet some economists doubt the gains in China will last.
"I can't see the rebound lasting for very much longer, because it has been driven by government projects," says Mark Williams of Capital Economics.
In the latest quarter, more than half the reported growth was due to investment, not trade or consumption. Many economists say China's continued reliance on government-led investment is dangerous. It threatens to produce factories that make goods no one wants and unneeded real estate developments that can't repay loans.
China responded to the 2008 global crisis by ordering its banks to open their lending spigots. The recovery has been underpinned by a surge in borrowing, which is up 20 percent this year.
China's central bank has warned that the aggressive lending is unsustainable and could cause bad loans to pile up dangerously.
"I think we're going to see policymakers try to crack down on credit in the next few months," Williams says.
Kurtenbach reported from Tokyo, McDonald from Beijing.


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MEGA Glass & Sashes
(Re)Branding Brooklyn's Mega Glass & Sashes
(Re)Branding Brooklyn's Mega Glass & Sashes
The focus of this SCAD, Print Studio I project, was to rebrand an existing company. For this, it was necessary to gain working knowledge of the company, do market research and create mood boards based on my desired design direction. While at first I thought, it would be interesting to look into local small businesses around my neighborhood, I ended up focusing on a glass business that has been in my family for over 40 years and in Brooklyn for over 75 years.
It was harder than I anticipated because not only was I going to be judged by classmates, but also family. With the first round of sketches done, my classmates were able to steer me closer to a design direction. I knew my sketches would come to life once they were translated digitally. So I began to crank out digital variations of my sketches, using my type choices and colors from my selected palette. My focused was on three looks. First, was to create a custom "M" based off of the original sign from the shop; It was created by my grandfather, the original owner, and it seemed a proper way to add history to the brand. Second was to create a vintage-inspired lockup that could merge both the visual and historic aspects of the shop with new typography. The last option was to include a holding shape that would give the logotype the vintage vibe that I felt was needed for this brand identity.
I went with the "M" idea. The only reservation was that it was looking too similar to a sports or beer logo as a singular letter, so I needed to incorporate the entire name. In the existing sign, the "Mega" name was created from jig saw cut plastic; It was imperfect, hand done, small and unique. It was never given any real prominence. I wanted to maintain the history of that icon while creating a refreshed and updated version. I customized the "M" based off of the image from the actual awning sign. I cleaned up the letterforms, making them more fluid. I also found a complementary typeface that would accent the "M". It was all coming together. For the finishing touches after the type was completed, I placed it in the hexagon shape.
The new Mega name would become my main icon for the brand. The combination of the icon and the type, created a logo and mark that has the ability to have multiple applications and can be altered depending on any given situation. The mark became the basis for the brand guideline that has been created for the glass store. Mega would no longer be just a name on a sign or on the side of a van. I have elaborated the look and created a brand that would be constantly perceived as local, reliable and familiar. From stationery to ephemera as well as interior and exterior signage, Mega now possesses a visual that links its history to their quality and workmanship.


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There are a number of discovery tools available in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, but the most important tool for conducting California based research is through the Online Archives of California (OAC). [See the link to the right of this message] This resource allows researchers to conduct key word searching to locate archival collections in the state, and one of the nice features is the ability to search by contributing institution. If you search under SJSU you will locate 16 inventories representing a variety of collections documenting the history of the local community, politics, the university, the arts, and literature.
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My college coach at Lipscomb, Don Meyer, said if in your lifetime you had one person that expected greatness out of you then you should be thankful. Most people can live their whole lives and never get pushed or driven to the point of their maximum potential. People can live without ever having someone expecting greatness out of them.
In addition to being pushed by towards greatness by someone there is the chance of being around greatness or someone that would be considered to be outstanding. Some people never get to encounter people that are at the top in their chosen field.
I have spent a lot of my coaching and teaching career seeking out people that are exceptional in their chosen profession. I ask a lot of questions and some people give me a hard time for being so inquisitive, but that is my nature. It must be in the genes because a couple of my own children seem to have the same trait. It has been that way for me been since I was a little kid. Something about me wants to know what makes people tick and especially those that are successful. I try to pass on to my children and players the lessons I have learned from others. Hopefully one golden nugget can help them on their path of life.
In 1990 I was able to be an assistant coach for the Athletes in Action (AIA) basketball team that traveled to Poland and Greece. Mark Gottfried was the head coach of that team. At that time Mark was the graduate assistant coach at UCLA. We developed a close relationship and our families also became close. Being part of the UCLA family Mark was also beginning to get to know Coach John Wooden fairly well.
John Wooden is the leader in the coaching profession. Being two degrees from him made me feel close to him.
Mark would tell me stories about how he and the staff at UCLA would meet with coach Wooden periodically. He also talked of how he was able to spend some one-on-one time with coach Wooden. That was not something I could wrap my brain around. Coach Wooden was an icon to all basketball coaches and probably you could say to coaches of all sports in general.
To be that close to coach Wooden, I thought, must have been the ultimate in coaching.
Mark and I stayed in fairly close contact. One day Mark asked me the date of my birthday. I knew we were close, but guy friends just usually aren't into sharing birthday gifts. (Dec. 21st for anyone interested).
Around the first of December I received a long envelope with Mark's return address. I'm glad I didn't just rip into the envelope. Once I opened it up it was an autographed copy of the "Pyramid of Success" by Coach John Wooden. It was like I held the copy in my hand and for a minute couldn't breathe. I thought how awesome a gift. It was the best birthday gift I had ever received. I couldn't really tell anyone that because I didn't want to offend my mother or my wife. I can remember when I opened the package and just sitting there for a few minutes and staring at the autographed Pyramid by Coach Wooden. It was not just any autograph and it was not just any copy of the "Pyramid of Success". It was the real deal and signed by the Coach himself. This was something that I could tell I was going to a treasure for quite some time. I still have it on my wall in my office and I hope it stays there for a long time. It is a cherished possession.
Years later I was an assistant for Mark at Murray State University and then at the University of Alabama. I had always wanted to go and see Coach Wooden and meet him personally. Mark had said sometime maybe when we were out in California recruiting we could make it happen. Some trips had come and gone to Los Angeles without seeing Coach Wooden. I never pushed Mark about going to see Coach Wooden and I'm not sure why. For some reason I guess I thought if it was meant to be it would all work out.
We were recruiting a young man from Southern California in the spring of 1999. As we made travel plans to go out for our home visit Mark came into my office a couple of days before the trip and said, "If you can get us into Los Angeles early enough in the day maybe we can go see Coach Wooden before the home visit."
That's all I needed to hear. Get us there early enough? I would have had us walking there. We had one other stop before we headed to Los Angeles. I had us on the latest flight into Dallas the night before and getting up for the first flight out the next morning for LA. Mark was surprised this was the best way for us to get to L.A. When we were getting up the next morning with only a few hours of sleep Mark, asked, "Is the best flight we could get to L.A.?" It was selective hearing on my part of course. I didn't say it was the best way. I just said was the way we were getting to Los Angeles.
When he said get there early to see Coach Wooden that was all I needed to hear. Sleep could come later. Once we landed and got the rental car and drove near Coach Wooden's condominium I was bugging Mark to call almost with the anxiety of a seventh grader. We called once around 7:45 a.m. and there was no answer. Coach Wooden goes to eat breakfast usually at the same place every day at the same time I learned later. There we were in early from our flight. Mark is tired and I'm anxious. "Call, call, call", I 'm telling Mark. It is like two kids in junior high. Mark does not want to keep leaving messages so we wait and wait and wait.
Finally around 9 a.m. we get in touch with Coach Wooden and head to his home. If you have read any stories about his home they are true. At the time I had no idea what to expect. What do you expect when you go into the house of a living legend? We walked down the hall toward his condominium and then knocked on the door. There he was. He answered the door alone without the help of anyone else. No maid or butler. Just Coach Wooden, possibly the greatest coach of all time, at the door.
Whatever your chosen profession, imagine how you would go into that meeting with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Billy Graham, any top politician or any top leader in the entertainment field. John Wooden was named by ESPN as the greatest coach of century (1900-1999). As a coach he holds a record that many feel will not be broken in men's college basketball with 88 consecutive victories. His 10 national championships in 12 years are among the few records that will stay for a long time.
One of the first things I saw once I stepped in the front door was a basketball from one of Coach Meyer's Lipscomb University basketball camps. Right there was a gold and purple basketball that had the Bison logo and the phrase "Team Attitude" sitting on the book shelf. Seeing my alma mater's camp basketball made me feel at home right away.
Walking along the hallways you would see a National Championship team photo and then a picture drawn by one of his great grandchildren. You might see a cover photo of Coach Wooden from a Time magazine or Sports Illustrated and then another art project from one of his grandchildren. I felt like I was in the house of my own grandparents or someone's grandparents. It never had the feel of someone that was once named the ESPN "Greatest Coach of the Decade" or Sports Illustrated "Man of the Year".
I looked around at all the pictures amazed by the famous players and teams I have read about and seen on highlights down through the years. Once we sat down in his living room there was a large stack of books on the coffee table that were manuscripts from him to hopefully read and endorse. His living room was like a giant library. There were so many books on the shelves and things to read in that small room.
From 9 a.m. to noon we sat there and talked about a variety of subjects. Most of the issues were basketball related. We talked and talked and when it slowed down I would ask more questions.
Mark was gracefull enough to let me ask a lot of questions. You can imagine growing up watching someone that you probably never would have imagined sitting in their living room having a casual conversation. I remember the Notre Dame loss when their streak was broken. I remember the North Carolina State National Semifinal double overtime loss in 1974. I remember him winning his last game vs. Kentucky in 1975. You are sitting with a national hero and you are also in the presence of one of the most God-fearing humble men I have ever met. Still to this day I have a hard time at comprehending all his patience and wisdom.
The one question I recall more than all the others is when I asked Coach Wooden, "What makes a good teacher?" You have to understand Coach Wooden considered that coaching was really teaching. A "teacher" is what he considered himself. He started out as an English teacher (taught five classes, as well as was the football coach, basketball coach, baseball coach and track coach) at his first job once he graduated from Purdue.
I knew not to ask him what makes a good coach, but by asking what makes a good teacher he might light up and give a more detailed answer. I was sitting to his right on a couch. Mark was more directly in front of him He sat there in what was probably his main chair. While we there as a group it was an almost unreal situation. To coaches it would be like sitting in the Oval Office. I had heard this giant of man so many times and read his books. It is hard to imagine I was sitting there with him.
Despite all the records and distinguished awards he never had an air of arrogance about him. It was just like sitting in the house of a long lost relative who acts as if he has all the time for you and would sit all day long to visit. He sounded in real life just like he did in the interviews I had seen on TV or had listened to on cassettes and CDs.
Once I asked the question he didn't hesitate a second. He grabbed the right arm rest of the chair he was sitting in and leaned closer to me. Almost in a voice that was not as loud as his real voice, but louder than a whisper he said, "a good listener". You have those moments in time when you ask an older person a question and they have an answer that gives you no chance for a comeback or response. We are given those nuggets of wisdom and at that point there is not a follow-up question. I think I hoped Mark would just say something so the silence would not be so loud. When he said that, there was nothing I could say in response. I just had to think about the answer and sit on the couch.
When you have three hours with someone famous or considered great you also want to make sure you ask the right questions. I had to make sure not to say the wrong things or step on any toes. He didn't need me there to tell him how great he was, but I did want to ask some questions about building a program. I read so much about the man I wanted to get some behind the story information. Over all I came out unscathed and didn't offend him or embarrass Mark.
Over and over I have replayed my question about "what makes a good teacher?" and his reply constantly in my mind. I didn't go in with a preset list of questions. The question just came up, but to me it was the most important question on what I could take from him. It took me a while to understand what he meant.
"What makes a good teacher?" I thought was going to bring a deep answer. The response I got was deeper and more difficult to carry out: "a good listener."
People ask about recruiting and how difficult is it in dealing with young student-athletes. My response is if you ask enough questions you will find out what you need to know. Kids will eventually let you know what you need to know. They can play it cool for a while, but they will let you in and give you a couple of key points if you are a good listener. It can save you a lot of time. It is not worth spending a lot of your time and energy on a kid who is not interested in your program. You will be able to pick out the kids that have a serious interest in your program by listening to what they have to say and probably by the questions they ask. If you listen long enough you will find out everything you need to know.
As a parent it can be difficult to get your kids to talk at times. A lot of parents will agree that your kids will want to talk at the most inopportune moments (maybe good for them and bad for you). You have to make time for them. If they don't open up much you have to take whatever chances you can to visit with them whether it fits into your schedule or not. What will your kids say about you as a parent one day? You can fail in some areas, but if you fail in the area of listening I think that is a big one that they remember. As a parent you may not be able to provide everything your kid wants (or needs), but most of us can be good listeners. I think Coach Wooden would say, "A good parent is a good listener."
As a mate you don't always feel like talking. Your better half may feel like talking when you are "talked out". You come home at the end of the day and you are worn out. There are no more words in the tank. That is exactly the time you have to be a good listener. Maybe a stressful situation at work or with extended family keeps us from being engaged when we get home. The tougher the time the more important it is to make time to be a good listener. I think Coach Wooden would say, "A good husband or wife is a good listener."
When you have a friend that has just been given a pink slip and is now out of work is when you have to carve out time to make the call, send the text message or email. It is not the time to bury yourself in your cocoon and worry about your own problems. A friend is there to listen to what others have to say.
The phone call you get out of the blue from a friend that tells you they are going through a divorce or some other type of family difficulty is calling you for a reason. They picked your number for a reason. You answered for a reason. However they contacted or found you, reached out to you for help is for a reason. They need you because they know you will hear what they have to say. That is when your skills as a listening friend are beyond value. You mean more to that friend than you will ever know. Once you end up on the dialing end of the phone call you will understand. A friend that will listen to another friend's problems is more valuable than gold. A friend that calls you because their wife or husband has asked for a divorce called you for a reason. Coach Wooden would say, "A good friend is a good listener."
I think back to my days as high school teacher and I realize how much more effective I could have been had I been a better listener. There are keys to listening. Understanding the kids you are teaching is so important these days. I sometimes would just want to storm through assignments or lesson plans to get them checked off a list.
I never really engaged with the students to listen to them and get a feel if they were tuned in or not. What a mistake to miss out on being taught and being able to teach better by becoming better in the area of listening. There were so many hurting kids in my classes that I didn't take time to listen and see where I could help.
As a coach I am entrusted with young men from a variety of different backgrounds. Players come to us with visions of how their futures are going to look. They have special plans. Their roles will each be unique and how we tailor them to fit our team will determine how successful we can be ultimately as a team. It does not matter how diverse our squad makeup is in a particular season. I know that my job as a head coach comes down to how well I relate with our players.
Talent can win a lot of games, but I think over time how well a coach relates to his players is the most important thing in coaching. Some players won't let you in initially. You have to earn their trust and trust takes time. Every team is different. I have learned in over 20 years of coaching that it is the relationships that matter over the Xs and Os.
If I want to be a good teacher/coach like Coach Wooden talked about I have to be a good listener. Listening can be hard at times, but it is not painful. It does not require a lot of work or an extreme amount of hard labor. What it does require is the desire to move out of a comfort zone. I am always looking for ways to get better whether that means reading books, watching tapes or going to clinics.
When I think back to my time with Coach Wooden he gave me the best advice anyone could have given me. It is advice I give others all the time. For some reason hearing it from the "greatest Coach of all time" gave a little bit of extra zing to the message.
I challenge you to be a great listener. If you have never taken the time to read one of Coach Wooden's books or a book about him take the time to read about ageless wisdom. It has been said he had more books written about him after the age of 90 than any other person.
Here are some other quotes from Coach Wooden that you can share with your family, friends or team:
• "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
• "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
• "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
• " Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
• "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
• "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
• "There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."
• "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
• "Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
"I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere."
This article was written by Tom Kelsey.


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Company News
WASHINGTON, N.C. (January 25, 2011) – U.S. Cellular continues to invest in its high-speed nationwide network with a new cell site in Beaufort County to help residents and businesses stay connected to the web, e-mail and the people who matter most to them. The new site will increase U.S. Cellular's coverage in Beaufort County along River Road, Magnolia School Road and Highway 32. The new cell site is one of more than 560 towers U.S. Cellular has built across the state. The company was recently ranked #1 in service and named the best carrier in the country in a Consumer Reports survey of wireless customers.
The network enhancement follows U.S. Cellular's launch of The Belief Project, an array of innovative initiatives that recognize customer loyalty with bundled national plans that offer customers the freedom to enjoy benefits without signing continuous contracts. With "no contract after the first," new customers who complete a two-year contract will never have to sign another one and will continue to get guaranteed upgrades to the newest phones at promotional prices every 18 months. Customers get valuable rewards just for being customers and can get even faster upgrades in as little as 10 months when they use their rewards.
"The Belief Project is about delighting our customers with services that make their lives easier and providing a reliable network they can count on is a big part of making it possible," said Kimberly Sebastian, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in eastern North Carolina. "It's important to us that every call, text and e-mail gets through so our customers can have everything they need at their fingertips."
To select locations for new towers, U.S. Cellular has teams of system performance engineers who drive through the company's network coverage area, sometimes hundreds of miles a day, to test the signal strength and call quality. U.S. Cellular also listens to customer feedback to find the communities that would benefit from another tower.
With U.S. Cellular's high-speed nationwide network, websites open faster and e-mails download more quickly on the company's line of cutting-edge BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Android-powered smartphones like the BlackBerry Bold, HTC Desire and the Samsung Mesmerize (Galaxy S device).
About The Belief Project
The Belief Project, recently named Frost & Sullivan's Customer Value Enhancement of the Year, recognizes customer loyalty with national bundled plans that offer customers the freedom to enjoy industry-leading benefits without signing continuous contracts.
With "no contract after the first," new customers who complete a two-year contract will never have to sign another one and will continue to get guaranteed upgrades to the newest phones at promotional prices every 18 months. Existing customers who switch to the new Belief Plans can simply finish out their current contract and never sign a contract again.
While some carriers are increasing the time for phone upgrades, U.S. Cellular customers automatically get valuable rewards just for being a customer that can be used for even faster phone upgrades in as little as 10 months. Rewards can also be used to get additional lines, phones, accessories and ringtones. Customers who refer a friend to a Belief Plan get 1,000 reward points, along with the friend who signed up that could be used to get a new phone one month faster.
Customers can save up to 5 percent on their monthly plans for setting up autopay and paperless billing. U.S. Cellular also introduced the industry's only Phone Replacement program for customers on select plans. If a customer's phone accidentally breaks or stops working, U.S. Cellular replaces it with the same or similar model at no additional cost. These innovative initiatives were developed to elevate the customer experience and create a human relationship with customers, not a contractual one. For more information about The Belief Project, visit uscellular.com.
About U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular is committed to fixing wireless one project at a time and recently unveiled The Belief Project, an array of industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier provides the best cell phone service in the country according to survey results released by Consumer Reports, which found that wireless customers are more satisfied with U.S. Cellular than every other major wireless company. U.S. Cellular was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2010 "Most Trustworthy Companies." The Belief Project complements U.S. Cellular's growing catalog of cutting-edge phones that are all backed by its high-speed nationwide network. To learn more about U.S. Cellular, visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. You can also check out U.S. Cellular on Facebook.


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Two Wikipedia Spinoffs In The News
from the more-reliable? deptWired has a roundup of two Wikipedia spinoffs that have been in the news recently. Both sites, Citizendium and Veropedia, were launched because their founders felt that Wikipedia had reliability problems that could only be addressed by an independent project. But their approaches are very different. Citizendium is what the open source software world would call a fork. They launched the site with some Wikipedia articles as the baseline, but they're not contributing their changes back to the Wikipedia project. That means that the two projects are diverging over time, and in a few years the content on the two sites will be quite different. It also means that there's going to be a lot of duplication of effort: the content in Citizendium and Wikipedia will largely be redundant. In contrast, Wikipedia is, in open source terms, "upstream" from Veropedia. Just as distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat take Linux code, improve it, and then package it for public consumption, making a profit in the process, so Veropedia is going to take a subset of Wikipedia, do some additional work to ensure it's reliable, and then publish it on an ad-supported site. Unlike Citizendium, Veropedia is planning to contribute its changes back to Wikipedia. Personally, I'm not convinced that there's a pressing need for either effort, and I'm particularly skeptical of Citizendium. I think Clay Shirky is right to question the underlying rationale for Citizendium, and while founder Larry Sanger has touted some modest successes over the last year, they're going to need some massive growth to catch up to Wikipedia.
Veropedia is more promising, especially since it's contributing to, rather than merely competing with, Wikipedia. It obviously can't hurt to have more people verifying the accuracy of Wikipedia articles, and if Veropedia can find a way to pay people to do that, that obviously helps the overall Wikipedia project. My only concern is that promising "a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information" might lull people into a false sense of security, reinforcing the attitude that if you read something in a "reliable" publication, you can automatically assume it's true without further research. I would much rather that we teach students to approach all published works with a degree of skepticism, to understand that works fall along a broad spectrum of reliability, and that it's often a good idea to double-check important information in multiple sources. Still, it will be great if they find a business model that allows them to offer financial support to some of the dedicated editors who have made Wikipedia such a success.
Filed Under: encyclopedias, wikipedia, wikis
Companies: citizendium, veropedia, wikipedia


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Twitter Alerts: One Emergency System to Aggregate Them All?
Sep 26, 2013 3:14 PM PT
Twitter on Wednesday launched Twitter Alerts, a new emergency notification service.
The feature "brings us one step closer to helping users get important and accurate information from credible organizations during emergencies, natural disasters or moments when other communications services aren't accessible," explained Gaby Peña, a product manager with the company.
Twitter users who sign up to receive an account's Twitter Alerts will get a notification on their phones when the account marks a tweet as an alert, indicated by an orange bell icon. Notifications will be delivered through SMS, and smartphone users with at least Twitter for iPhone 5.10 or Twitter for Android 4.1.6 will get a push notification as well.
About 100 organizations and governmental bodies in the United States, Korea and Japan have signed up for the service, which will ultimately be expanded worldwide.
Twitter declined to provide further details.
Need for Controls
The establishment of Twitter Alerts follows the company's launch last year of Lifeline, a like-minded service released in Japan.
"It will be interesting to see which governments Twitter approves," Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, told TechNewsWorld. "I do not see Twitter letting the Syrian government use this any time soon."
Twitter also "needs to make sure that they strictly limit the information the service is used for," warned Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research. "It is counterproductive to try to expand the scope too far."
Storm Alerts
Government agencies and emergency responders can use the service to deliver critical and timely information and engage with people. For example, Twitter users followed the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Twitter account to get information on Hurricane Sandy as it hit the northeastern United States last year -- an Alerts service could extend this capability further.
U.S. organizations participating in Twitter Alerts include the American Red Cross, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Homeland Security and various regions of FEMA.
Several U.S. city agencies, including the City of Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, subscribe to the service as well.
'Whom Would You Believe?'
It's not clear whether the Alerts service would really be much of an improvement over what is available through a combination of ordinary tweets and existing emergency alert systems already in use.
"Better solutions already exist and are in use in many countries including the United States," Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, told TechNewsWorld. "In addition to emergency alert services on television and radio, many countries are using cellular broadcast technology in cooperation with the phone carriers to alert citizens in a given geographic area to emergencies and instructions."
Twitter Alerts would be an additional feature at best, suggested Ken Pickering, director of engineering at CORE Security.
The Emergency Broadcast System "still exists and now sends texts to my phone," Pickering pointed out. "Why would we trust a company like Twitter with being the authority on all essential broadcasts?"
Another problem is that conflicting information might be sent out during an emergency, the ITIF's Castro suggested.
"Imagine if FEMA says one thing and the Red Cross another," Castro said. "Whom would you believe?"
'Probably Fairly Easy to Abuse'
Security might well be another problem. Imagine what might have happened if the Boston Marathon bombers had hacked into Twitter and lured people to the event before setting off their explosives, for example.
"With all the recent widespread Twitter hacks of legitimate and credible accounts, this sort of system is probably fairly easy to abuse," Pickering told TechNewsWorld.
Twitter has "not shared any security measures they may have put in place," Sophos' Wisniewski noted. "This has been an issue with the existing emergency alert system in the United States, and I think it is fair to say this system could or will be abused similarly."


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The Medical Center employs the latest technologies for the diagnosis of stroke and other diseases of the neurological system.
EEG and Video EEG
EEG and Video EEG (electroencephalogram) are used for the diagnosis and treatment of seizures. Electrical signals of the brain are recorded while a digital video recording captures facial and other involuntary movements that may correlate with seizure activity noted by the electrical brain wave recording. A neurologist will review the EEG and video recording for abnormalities which may indicate diseases of the nervous system such as epilepsy.
EMG and Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS) are used for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy. An EMG records electrical activity in the muscles and help detect muscle weakness due to nerve damage. In additional to peripheral nerve damage, abnormal muscle activity could indicate many diseases and conditions like muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), disc herniation and more.
CT (computed tomography) is the gold standard in stroke detection. A CT scan can help determine the cause and extent of damage to the neurological system. A CT scan can detect if there is bleeding in the brain which help determine if clot-busting drugs like tPA can be administered or if another course of action should be taken.
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is used to detect changes that occur after a stroke. MRI is also used to differentiate strokes from other diseases such as brain tumors.
Angiography is a diagnostic tool to help locate blockages in the vascular system and to assist vascular surgeons during carotid artery stent placement.


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[My friend, and too infrequent guest-blogger, Lulu puts our economic problems in terms the women who voted for Obama might be able to understand.]
Recently I was talking to some bright, educated women about how they wanted to help their children learn the value of money and appreciate receiving things, and to understand that it takes money and work to earn items. One mother complained that her daughter demanded things constantly and the mother, a single mom and not a big earner, simply couldn't afford to provide her daughter with all these goodies — goodies her wealthier friends could afford easily.
The parents talked about strategies to teach their kids that they can't spend everything parents earn. Money has to go to bills, savings for college, and myriad other expenses. "Why can't the kids grasp this?" they pondered.
I made a vague comment alluding to the similarities this had to our national debt situation. Blank and confused faces stared at me. Every one of these women had voted for the man who was driving our nation's economy into a free fall. The expressions on their faces were not showing anger or political resentment. They simply didn't connect the dots between wanton government spending and the kind of behavior they were worried about in their kids.
I concluded that the reason they can see the problem spending with their children is because the issues are real, immediate and tangible. Our government debt is all theoretical. We have been hearing about the debt crisis and the fiscal cliff forever.
When it comes to the debt crises' effect on the economy, besides some minor belt-tightening with higher gas and grocery bills, these folks haven't experienced much of a change in lifestyle. They may know people who lost their jobs, or college kids who can't find work, but these people survive. The college grads move back in with Mom and Dad. Their friend on unemployment and food stamps is doing OK.
The economic reality of a debt-ridden government and economy just hasn't hit their consciousness yet. They are not making rag rugs, soap bars out of soap scraps, and other Depression era survival strategies. They live in California, after all, where voters have never connected the dots between the dismal fiscal situation and the people they vote for.
The only way to convey the situation, I figured, is to explain the macro debt disaster in micro terms, as if it affected only their own family. Here is my parable with these nice ladies in mind:
You finished college and you have started bringing in steady income. Every month with that paycheck coming in, you realize that, in addition to the regular household bills, groceries, gas, health insurance and taxes, you can actually afford some perks. You can eat at restaurants a few times a week and not even feel it. You can buy nice clothes, take a big vacation every year, and, if you use your credit card, you can buy some things you couldn't afford today, but you can pay off.
Eventually, you get a bunch of different credit cards because each one has a limit. You buy a new car, thousand dollar shoes (why not, I deserve them?), a wind surfboard, a new plasma TV, an amazing sound system, a designer dog, a new stove, dishwasher— heck, a whole new kitchen remodel, a backyard pool, a trip to Paris, season tickets to the ballet as well as the LA Kings, and — "I'm sick of these clothes"—a new wardrobe.
Put together, these expenses vastly exceed your income, but you're able to make minimum payments every month on each of these credit cards. OK, there's interest, but you're managing.
Now you marry a really popular guy with a great smile. He likes to spend too, on popular guy necessities such as great clothes, sharp haircuts, and a luxury car.
Your super cool husband has some credit card debt too. He doesn't seem to be struggling to pay it off, though, because he constantly spends money on things other than those credit cards. He goes to Vegas often, although he seldom comes back on top. He invested in a solar company and it went bankrupt and he lost his entire investment. He invested heavily in a car company but hasn't recouped his investments. And he spends, spends, spends.
Wherever your guy goes, he has to treat. He buys dinner for everyone in the restaurant and he insists on paying all the neighbors' and their kids' doctor bills.
You scream. "Why do you need to pay that? Those 'kids' are 25! Why do you want them to be dependent on you?"
He laughs and accuses you of being stingy and not generous. You scream more loudly, "But you don't have the money to be generous! Our bank account is empty. We are spending more than we bring in! Last month our combined salaries were $4000 and you spent $7000. We will never pay off our credit card debt that way."
"Oh, don't worry about it," he says soothingly. "I have a plan. It will be OK."
He goes to Vegas again and lost his shirt. To console himself he takes a luxury trip to Tahiti, golfs and feels much better. He was helped by the fact that he stayed in a 5 star hotel and got massages to calm his nerves. Upon his return from Tahiti, your super cool husband decides to buy a new yacht and puts in the order.
You can't stop screaming. "We can't afford the yacht! We can't afford the vacation! We will already never pay off what we owe!!!"
Hubby reaches over, pats your arm and says, "Stop grumblin'. Mr. Wong down the street has given me a big loan. We are fully covered. He said he has plenty more. And Mr. Mahmoud around the corner was willing to talk. So stop your belly-achin'. Let's live, baby!"
A few weeks later you discover that you are pregnant with twins. You have to cut back on work. Your income drops.
Although your income is significantly less, your husband's spending doesn't go down. In fact, he announces that he has more things he wants to buy.
You plead, "But the babies will need so many things. We need to do their room, buy supplies, begin a college saving program. Let's watch our budget."
Mr. Super Cool is unfazed: "I promise it will be OK. When they get to college, college will be free. Why should we skimp now when things will be different when they grow up? Everything will be free for them." He condescendingly pats you on the head and heads to the golf course with his new set of clubs.
Recently he started hanging out with Beyonce. You sit at home worrying about the two lives that are growing inside you. If you can't pay off your debts, what will happen to your kids?
When your husband comes home, you plead, "I have been thinking about our kids and their future. We need to change our ways."
"Don't worry," he smiles and cuts you off.
Determined, you continue, "If we don't pay off our debt, they will inherit it. It is already so big I don't know if it can ever be paid."
"Stop your grumblin," he snaps. "I've been trying very hard. I can't get it completely fixed because these fat cats at work keep interfering with my plans. They don't get that I can spend as much as I want because our incomes and Mr. Wong's loans cover everything. I have to pay for the neighbors' doctor appointments because I'm a caring guy. They look up to me. They depend on me. Don't you see? So, don't worry. Don't listen to Paul. He's just a blowhard, OK. Smile for me, Sweetie."
Then the roof springs a huge leak and needs to be replaced. The fridge goes on the fritz. The twins are born and one has a costly medical condition needing a supportive treatment not covered by the insurance. Then the house catches on fire and half of it needs to be rebuilt. It is unlivable for months.
Mr. Wong loans your husband more money but he is not smiling anymore. He is starting to complain.
Four years go by and you divorce. Your ex- husband buys a luxury estate in beautiful Hawaii. Meanwhile you have to leave your nice home and move into a small apartment.
You remarry, a man who is a better financial planner, maybe a bit less charming than your last husband, but a solid working man. Every day he struggles to control the credit card debt, maxed out at every card. Mr. Wong refuses to loan you more money, news that your new husband greets with relief.
You have to stop eating at restaurants. You buy your daughters' clothes at thrift stores. They can't take ballet or piano lessons. There is no money for birthday parties and trips to Disneyland.
Every month you pay out an amount that would have once brought you a comfortable, luxurious lifestyle. Instead, it all goes to paying off the credit cards, Mr. Wong, and all the interest.
The twins, growing up in hand- me-downs, knee patches, leftovers and resentments, complain constantly that it isn't fair. "We get nothing and look how much you and dad enjoyed! When I grow up I will get nothing and I will be paying all my life for your shopping sprees! I will work for nothing! Live in this cruddy apartment forever, all because you maxed out and borrowed from Mr. Wong- who now lives in our old house! And when we have kids, if we ever do, they will still be paying off your shopping sprees!!!"
You weep and apologize, hating to see your children suffer and struggle, but the bill collectors are pounding at the door.
I hope this little parable brings our current national financial shape into a clearer picture for those who need to bring the theoretical into the realm of the personal.


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ZampiniTools necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
We are an industrial tool distribution company founded over 20 years ago. Our focus is providing reliable industrial grade air tools for assembly-line driven operations, but we service all sizes of organizations and consumers. We are in the process of building a new website that focuses mainly on impact wrenches for both the consumer and industrial markets.
Our target audience will be anyone looking to purchase an impact wrench online, be it a garage mechanic or the buyer for a large organization.
The logo is to feature the website name "impactwrenches.com" (not "impactwrench.com") as this will be the site name as well. We would like the designers to use their imaginations to come up with something that conveys professionalism and a modern, web 2.0 feeling. The logo needs to incorporate something that relates to impact wrenches (for example a bolt or impact wrench; but please use your imagination here as there are surely other things that would work as well), and it also needs to make corporate buyers feel like they are dealing with a professional company and not a generic, online superstore that has no product expertise. Lastly we would like it to not only look appropriate on the top of our website, but also look just as appropriate on a polo shirt, decal, hat, or other piece of promotional merchandise.
Here are two links for examples of what our impact wrenches look like:
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