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Chiefs' Daboll riding high after opening performance
For now, at least, Chiefs offensive coordinator Brian Daboll is one of the most popular men in Kansas City. He orchestrated an offense than scored 27 points in last week's preseason opener, the Chiefs' highest total in an preseason game in nine years.
This happened his first time out, so it's little wonder Daboll has been elevated to rock star status on Twitter, in bars and wherever people gather to discuss the Chiefs.
If Daboll wants it to continue, the Chiefs need to score a bunch of points again Saturday night when the preseason continues with a game against the Rams in St. Louis. To that end, last week's accomplishments against Arizona were ancient history Monday when the Chiefs returned to training camp at Missouri Western State University.
"Our focus was on today," Daboll said. "Rearview mirror, next practice, day to day deal. We had a pretty good practice out here, I thought.
"That was a start. What we were focused on was getting off to a fast start. It was good to get out there and get a couple of touchdowns."
Not that their quick offensive start wasn't encouraging to the Chiefs. They struggled all of last season to score points and put an emphasis on being more prepared on Sept. 9 when the regular season begins against Atlanta at Arrowhead Stadium.
But this quick start — the starting offense had just two possessions, but they both went for 72 yards and resulted in touchdowns — was beyond what the Chiefs expected.
"Generally, you don't think you're going to drive it 12 plays and score on the first drive," coach Romeo Crennel said. "You figure that if you can get a first down and maybe two first downs, that would be a good start. To drive it all the way down and score, that was better than usual, better than I expected.
"You temper it because this (game) didn't count. But I think you have to acknowledge that what they did was good. The first half was a good half."
The Chiefs found other things to like about the way their offense operated. They were efficient in getting the play calls to quarterback Matt Cassel and having the proper players on the field for the particular play.
Those things have been problems for the Chiefs in recent seasons.
"Obviously you want to see touchdowns, you want to see points," tackle Eric Winston said. "Preseason games, there's an argument to be made whether it matters or not. But what I think does matter is the way we were running the operation of the plays — getting in and out of plays, checking into plays — things that we need to do to be successful. I was more impressed with how on-point we were with that more than anything else."
The Chiefs had some advantages against the Cardinals they won't have this week in St. Louis. Arizona looked like a weary team, having played its first preseason game five days earlier and then having stayed on the road to practice rather than returning him before the game at Arrowhead Stadium.
"There are going to be ebbs and flows," Daboll said, sounding a note of caution.
The Chiefs believe they have built a versatile offense that can cause problems for their opponents each week. As evidence, they point to the differences in the scoring drives on their way to their first two touchdowns against Arizona.
The first drive featured ball control. It consisted of 12 plays and included two conversions on third down and one on fourth down. Other than an Arizona penalty, the longest gain was 11 yards.
The next drive was quick strike. The Chiefs had gains of 28 and 29 yards and scored in just four plays.
The Chiefs are hopeful having that kind of offense will make them more difficult to defend.
"When we game plan, we look at the opponent and try to figure out what we need to do against the opponent," Crennel said. "And then try to take advantage of their weaknesses. Is it ball control this week? It could be an empty, throw the ball all around next week. You just never know from week to week.
"Defensively, you have to cover all your bases all the time. If they can run the ball and have the ability to beat you deep and get some (big) plays, you have to defend everything all the time. You're not able to eliminate anything."


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Appel contributed to a runner-up division finish (photo courtesy DSPics.com).
HANOVER, N.H.--The Harvard sailing team placed seventh at the women's Mrs. Hurst Bowl, the Crimson's top finish on a weekend in which it competed in four events.
Senior captain Liz Powers and sophomore Marie Appel paced Harvard with a second-place finish in the B division at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, hosted by Dartmouth. The duo totaled 61 points to finish just five back of division-winner Brown. Racing in a field of 18 schools, they recorded seven straight top-five finishes including two runner-up showings.
Harvard also placed 12th in the Nevins Trophy at Kings Point, 14th in Central Series Two at Boston College and 18th in the Hatch Brown Trophy at MIT and Boston University.
The Crimson's top coed division finish for the weekend came in the B division at Kings Point, where junior Tedd Himler and senior Michelle Konstadt placed seventh with 109 points. They finished outside the top half of the 20-school field just twice, starting with five straight top-eight showings and finishing with two more.

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Sep 17, 2013 | ISBN 9780307731685
Praise for Raising Boys by Design
"Raising Boys by Design is a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable read. It's marvelously inspiring, well thought out, and academically supported, but it's also an intuitive guide to raising boys. Every parent, teacher, and grandparent could benefit from this work."
—Gary Thomas, author of Sacred Marriage and Sacred Parenting
"Blending biblical truth with brain science, Raising Boys by Design is truly a ground-breaking resource that offers much-needed insights for guiding boys toward health and success in every area of life."
—Tim Clinton, PhD, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors and executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies at Liberty University
"Raising boys in today's world is no easy task. We need to understand how boys process their emotions and deal with bullying, peer pressure, technology and other important issues—all of which are covered here. This must-read resource helps equip families to raise sons who will be well adjusted and heroes for life."
—Linda Mintle, PhD, author of Raising Healthy Kids in an Unhealthy World
"We live in a society where it's dangerous to be a normal, rambunctious, healthy boy. High energy is labeled hyperactive, competitiveness to excel is deemed selfish, and single-mindedness in completion of a task is considered insensitive. Society's constant attack on normal maleness instills a destructive insecurity and sense of inferiority into countless thousands of otherwise normal healthy men. Raising Boys by Design brilliantly exposes this destructive trend while providing meaningful insights and applicable solutions. If you want to protect your sons from the corrosive effects of today's world and empower them to become men after God's own heart, then this book is for you."
—Timothy R. Jennings, MD, author of The God-Shaped Brain, president-elect of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association, and chairman, board of regents, of the Southern Psychiatric Association
"Raising Boys by Design is a clearly written and helpful book that integrates biblical truth and findings from brain science to enable sons to thrive as they grow up into adulthood."
—Siang-Yang Tan, PhD, professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective
"I can't think of two better men to tackle one of the most compelling issues of the twenty-first century: how to raise our sons into Christ-empowered men. Backed by brain-science research, the Bible, personal experience, and a passion to impact boys, Gregg and Michael have created a playbook for Christian parents that will equip them to call their boys to follow Jesus into HEROIC manhood. If you have a son, a grandson, or a significant boy in your life, you will want to have this book by your side as you guide him on his journey to manhood."
—Tim Wright, pastor of Community of Grace in Peoria, Arizona, and author of Searching for Tom Sawyer: How Parents and Congregations Can Stop the Exodus of Boys from Church
"I wish I'd had this book when my three boys were young. Chapter 2 is worth the cost of the whole book. A must-read for every parent, this even has great material for raising girls!"
—David Stoop, PhD, author and psychologist
Praise for the Work of Michael Gurian
"There is no one who understands the development of boys better than Michael Gurian."
—William Damon, PhD, professor of education at Stanford University and author of The Moral Child
"Michael Gurian is America's most passionate advocate for boys."
—Michael Thompson, PhD, author of It's a Boy! and co-author of Raising Cain
Introduction: Joining Together to Raise Strong, Loving Christian Sons
Part I: The Inside Story
Understanding the Divine Design at Work in Your Boy's Life
1 Our Sons Need a New Approach to Boyhood
2 Boys Develop Differently Than Girls
3 What a Boy Learns from Mom
4 What a Boy Learns from Dad
Part II: Putting It to Work
Designing Your Son's Journey to Manhood
5 Building a HERO
6 Building Character and Self-Discipline Effectively
7 Protecting and Supporting a Boy's Emotional Life
8 Developing Healthy Sexuality in Boys and Young Men
9 Helping Our Sons Do Their Best in School
10 Measuring the Impact of Technology
11 Providing Our Sons with Healthy Rites of Passage into Manhood
12 The Journey of Faith and a New Vision of Christian Manhood
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The new Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Bicolore is an unnecessarily long and Italian way of saying this is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 with a black roof. Think of it as en expensive display case for the 560 hp V10.
As we all anxiously await Lamborghini's new Murcielago replacement, the Lamborghini LP-700, the company's squeezing what they can out of the Gallardo. If you're jonesin' for an LP 560-4 with a black roof in the states you're SOL as it's Europe and Asia-Pacific only. However, us Yanks will have the 550-2 to play with, which is the driver's Lamborghini... for drivers who love black roofs.


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Rosemary Beach will soon join the ranks of Seaside and Alys Beach with its own amphitheater.
Rosemary Beach will soon join the ranks of Seaside and Alys Beach with its own amphitheater.
The long-time plan is finally coming to fruition, with the groundbreaking tentatively set for April 1.
�We have greens, but we don�t really have a venue,� Rosemary Beach Town Manager Jim Bagby said of the need for an amphitheater.
The idea was hatched about 10 years ago as a shared facility between Rosemary Beach, Seaside and Alys Beach. The thought was to build a multi-million dollar performing arts center to host productions by the Northwest Florida Ballet and Sinfonia.
�All of South Walton needed a performing arts facility,� said Kathy Kemp, marketing director for Rosemary Beach.
�When we did our feasibility study, it was going to be a performing arts� space like the Mattie Kelly Arts Center in Niceville, Bagby said of what was to be a $20 million state-of-the-art facility. �Things were roaring along.�
But when the housing market tanked, the partnership and plans were scaled back to the current design � a multipurpose amphitheater and pool space for Rosemary Beach owners and guests.
The indoor-outdoor space will be built on the St. Augustine Green abutting U.S. Highway 98.
With preliminary plans in place, Rosemary Beach asked owners for their input at the annual town meeting last July 4.
�We got lots of comments, most of them very positive,� said Bagby.
But there were some criticisms, and the town board took those into account in the subsequent designs.
�You get one shot at it � to make it a very inclusive project,� Bagby said.
The planners replaced the bocce ball courts with a lawn, simplified the pavilion area and came up with the final plan by DAG Architects that was approved Dec. 17.
�It�s been a very collaborative effort,� Kemp said. �I think we have come out better.�
Roger Godwin of DAG and Carey McWhorter of McWhorter Architecture designed facility.
A terraced lawn will lead up to the performance space, which will be a covered platform designed to heighten acoustic quality. Louvered doors from the main and side stages will open onto the pool area and, when opened, the performances will be back-dropped by a water wall.
The pool will have a zero-edge entry, a sun shelf and a 25-meter lap section. The deck will include a large dining area and cabanas.
An upstairs bar complete with a Juliet balcony will overlook the pool.
The entire area will be anchored by a Rosemary Beach tower.
The cost will be about $3 million.
�It will enhance everyone�s experience,� Kemp said of the center, �another layer of a way to enjoy this town.
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Atlanta (AP) --- Clark Atlanta University has lifted a suspension of its marching band after a university review.
The university released a statement Tuesday saying it found no evidence of hazing or any illegal activity. The university began the review Aug. 30 "in response to an allegation regarding the possibility of hazing."
At the time, the university said there was no immediate evidence of hazing, but university officials wanted to take a thorough look at the matter.
A Florida A&M drum major's death last year that investigators attributed to hazing raised the attention that colleges and universities around the country give to such allegations.


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Thomas McCarthy tells Jeremy Kay about using wrestling to explore middle-class life in Win Win.
"It is the bastard sport between the marquee events like basketball, baseball and football." So says Thomas McCarthy of wrestling, an activity prevalent in US high schools that provided the inspiration for Win Win. "The true genesis was when my friend [and co-writer] Joe Tiboni began reminiscing one day. We were both on the team a painfully long time ago."
The first draft — for the story of a cash-strapped lawyer, husband and high-school wrestling coach who gains timely insight into life when he recruits a brilliant youngster to the team — was ready by February 2009. They shot in spring 2010 with Fox Searchlight backing the film, marking the first time a studio has been on board a McCarthy project from the outset — the film-maker broke out with his directorial debut The Station Agent and followed that up with The Visitor. Win Win premiered at Sundance 2011 and went on to gross a little more than $10m in North America.
"I zeroed in on this straight businessman [played by Paul Giamatti] and found the parallels with what was happening on Wall Street," McCarthy says. "Joe worked on Wall Street as a lawyer. We were trying to depict the suburban middle-class family in a way that seemed authentic. We weren't sensationalising it or condescending to the situation."
Giamatti, his on-screen wife Amy Ryan and friend Bobby Cannavale are terrific: however, the ace up the sleeve is newcomer Alex Shaffer, a former New Jersey junior State wrestling champion who left the sport after he broke his back during national trials.
"Some people say he reminded them of Sean Penn," McCarthy says of the budding actor. "He had this unique quality of disconnectedness and this directness — he just possessed that. We brought him in six or seven times and wanted to make sure he had the aptitude for getting there. The thing that made Alex so good as an athlete was his focus and he can bring that to his acting."


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It is time for me to do a bit of an introduction to my own family – the mysterious entity that inspired my interest in genealogy and the pursuit of it as an eventual professional career.
My family history, as I currently know it, only extends as far as my great-grandparents – with two exceptions, this one being one of them. I know this will change in the future, as my research continues, but for now, it is what I have.
Over time, I will introduce you to my great-grandparents, and the information I have on them and their families, if I have been able to find more.
I will start with Augusts Roberts Lūkins – whose birth record appears in the header image of this blog. He was born on August 26, 1898 in Daugavgrīva, Latvia (Dünamünde in German) and baptized in that parish on October 4 (his birthday is sometimes reported as September 11, but the parish register says August 26). Daugavgrīva is now one of the northernmost neighbourhoods of Rīga, the capital city of Latvia. Augusts is the only one of my great-grandparents for whom I have found a birth record in parish registers, as he is one of three great-grandparents of mine for whom I have concrete birth location and approximate birthdate information about (the other two were both born in Rīga proper, which has many parishes, and I have not had the opportunity to examine all of their records yet – thus far, only one possible lead).
Augusts was born to Jēkabs Lūkins (child of Libbis and Līze Lūkins of Jaunate) and Karoline Matilde Baburs (child of Mārtiņš and Ēde Baburs of Rīga). He had a brother named Vilhelms. Jēkabs and Karoline were married in Daugavgrīva in 1892.
Augusts qualified as a judge, and married Lilija Šīrs (date unknown), and they had a daughter Zenta in 1923. At this time, they were living in Krustpils, in the eastern province of Latgale, where Augusts was the district judge. Zenta is my paternal grandmother, but my maternal grandmother, who is also from Krustpils, recalls the family, since they were prominent in the community, and remembers Zenta as a pretty girl with blond braids.
Augusts was a member of the 3rd and 4th Saeima (Latvian Parliament) as a representative of the "Zemnieku savienība" party (Union of Farmers). After the Saeima was dismissed in 1934 following the coup by Kārlis Ulmanis, Augusts returned to Krustpils.
During the Second World War, following the gruesome murder of his secretary at the hands of the Communists, Augusts, Lilija and Zenta fled west, living in a Displaced Persons camp in northern Germany until the late 1940s, when they set sail for Canada.
In Canada, Zenta married and had three children, but died of leukemia several years after the birth of her last child. This had a devastating effect on Augusts and Lilija. Several years later, Lilija also passed away, and Augusts died soon afterwards in Toronto in 1968.
What is the origin of the Lūkins surname? I am currently unsure. It does not have a resemblance to any Latvian word I know, which leads me to believe it is a borrowing from another language. Within Latvia, I have only seen it in parish registers in Vidzeme, the northern province. Outside of Latvia, the name without the "s" (due to Latvian spelling rules, almost all Latvian surnames in their masculine form end in "s" or "š"), "Lukin", appears as a surname of locally-born inhabitants in places as far apart as England, Russia, Germany and Serbia, with a whole host of meanings from "patronymic of Lukas" to "corruption of Lovekin". So the origin of the surname of my Lūkins family is still up for interpretation.
Further research to be done on this family: Continue to utilize parish registers to track the Lūkins and Baburs families. Find revision lists and manorial records, particularly for the Jaunate-based Lūkins family, since I have not been able to find parish records for Jaunate. Or Jaunate itself, really. Maps nebulously show it in the vicinity of Vecate ("Jaunate" means New Ate, "Vecate" means "Old Ate" in Latvian; I have not been able to locate a place just called "Ate"), which is in northern Latvia at the convergence of at least half a dozen different parishes that I could investigate.
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I have the same issue this is a pain especially on the window menus and the "start" button are located.
06-25-2011 02:16 AM - edited 06-25-2011 02:17 AM
Hi guys,
Firstly, I have an X201T, but I just wanted to chime in to add that it's in fact sometimes the drivers that mess the accuracy on some random corners and cause very strange behavior. It might even seem like a hardware fault.
In my case, when approacing the lower left hand corner with the stylus the cursor started to drag, moved slower and slower, as if the corner was repelling it... until I reached the corner with the pen, and that's when the cursor did a sharp parabolic turn and almost snapped to the bottom right corner. Pretty unacceptable behavior.
My thoughs? The digitizer must be aligned wrong, maybe detached a little bit on that corner or something. I tried calibrating it many times but it didn't help. But that's when I decided to boot to my Arch Linux setup and try the same there. That way I could isolate the problem.
In Linux the pen goes all the way to all four corners and is perfectly aligned in relation to the pen. So it has to be the driver in Windows.
Long story short: with all the pressure sensitivity problems I had had plus the calibration being so off I tried the Fujitsu driver and now everything works like a charm. I don't know if you should try the Fujitsu driver because you have the X220T (could momentarily screw up the 3-5-finger gestures), but in case you want to try it: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/X201t-FINALLY-GOT-MT-AND-PRESSURE-SENS-...
I'm having the same problem.
DEAR LENOVO: Please respond!
In desperation, I went into the calibration settings and disabled the "eraser" function of the digitizer.
This seems to have fixed the problem. Perhaps the problem has been caused by the tablet not understanding how to interpret the signals from a pen emitting from both the tip and the "eraser."
Does this help with anyone else?
06-25-2011 01:14 PM - last edited on 06-26-2011 03:40 AM by Maliha
No it did not help. Here is a picture of the distortion I am having. I'm probably getting rid of this. I drew these lines using a piece of stiff folded paper as a ruler. You can see the lines in the middle are straight. The corners and edges of the screen are an entirely different story. The bottom of the picture is the top when in laptop mode and the left side of the screen is the right side of the screen when in laptop mode.
Moderator Note: Image size > 50k, converted to link.
Anyone tried kvirtanen's trick with the Fujitsu driver on the X220t? I haven't received my tablet yet but I'd be interested to know if I can count on that for a short term fix...
I'm having the same issues with my x220i laptop, and it's brand new! This is really disappointing for me as I sold my HP TM2 and got this tablet as an 'upgrade', hoping that I would not have any problems anymore (I had a lot of problems with my TM2). My laptop is otherwise in perfect condition - as far as I can tell, I've only had it two days - it's just the pen that does not work right.
In my opinion, a fix for this should be a top priority for lenovo. Why? Well, what is the point of buying a tablet? To use the digitizer. And if your digitizer does not work right, then what is the point of buying the tablet in the first place!?
This has soured my opinion of Lenovo slightly, as I expected high quality for such a high price, and yet right out of the box I am getting issues.Hopefully there's somone on this forum that works at Lenovo or knows people who do and can get Lenovo working on this issue.
My theory for why this issue is occuring is that either the digitizer panel is simply not big enough for the screen, or its just a bad driver. Either way we need a driver update. In the mean time, that Fujitsu driver might work but I'm hesitant to try it on my laptop considering I have not had time to make backups for it.
06-25-2011 09:24 PM - edited 06-25-2011 09:24 PM
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Anyone tried kvirtanen's trick with the Fujitsu driver on the X220t? I haven't received my tablet yet but I'd be interested to know if I can count on that for a short term fix...
No luck here. Start -> All Programs -> Pen Tablet -> Pen Tablet Properties reports "A supported tablet was not found on the system". Also, Device Manager -> Human Interface Devices -> Wacom Pen -> Properties reports the driver is version 126.96.36.199, which is identical to the basic WIndows 7 version (what you get if you uninstall the ThinkPad MultiTouch Driver / ISD and reboot).
06-25-2011 09:52 PM - edited 06-25-2011 10:19 PM
Good of you to give it a try wjyoung, too bad it didn't result in a quick fix.
HP79 thanks for the video. I watched it and it looks like the angle you employ on the stylus is different at each edge of the screen. This is highlighted particularly well at the 41s mark where it looks like you have your hand completely twisted around. I'm assuming that's not your natural position to write from on the right side. Anyways, is the problem not at least partially alleviated by going through a more intense calibration with the pen in your natural writing position the whole time?
Edit: Grip = angle.


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Let's start by throwing out the "Dream Team" tag. I never liked it to begin with. Dream teams do not have major deficiencies in key positions. Sure the Eagles have three of the best Cornerbacks in the league, but also have Linebackers who cannot cover Tight Ends, or in the case of Casey Mathews on Sunday, the Running Back.
Dream teams do not have safeties who try to tackle the shoulders, a la Kurt Coleman, and let them turn a modest completion into a 70+ yard TD. Dream teams do not get consistently stopped at the goal line. Dream teams also do not have special teams that go offsides on a field goal attempt on 4th and short.
The Giants didn't win that game, the Eagles lost it plain and simple. They were in position to score up to five TDs and only scored one.
The defence overall did a good job, kept them to five of twelve on 3rd down. Kept them to only 14 First Downs for the game. However Mathews and Coleman on two plays undermined the good work allowing two TDs totalling 114 yards, more than a third of the Giants' total yardage.
There were also some horrible plays on offence, such as Steve Smith's dropped catch turning into an interception, and two horrible interceptions by Kafka late.
That was probably one of the most frustrating games I've seen in a long time. Shady McCoy was the standout highlight, finally we saw the Eagles run the ball consistently, at one point ten runs were called out of eleven plays. In total 40 runs and 30 passes, I hope we can keep the run ratio at 50% (or slightly better) for the rest of the season. Now if we can just get Vick to be still in the game in the 4th Quarter we can look forward to some play action passes, hopefully for big plays.
I still think we will win the division, but we need to keep doing all the good things and eliminate the terrible things that are costing us wins.
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Poll: Americans generally optimistic after election
Majorities believe President Obama will be able to accomplish such major policy goals as reducing unemployment, keeping America safe and improving education and the health care system.
WASHINGTON — Confidence has waned in the United States since President Obama's historic election four years ago, but most Americans are still optimistic about the next four years as the president heads into his second term, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
After a bruising election season, and as Obama and Congress head into negotiations on how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, 69% of Americans perceive the U.S. as a country greatly divided when it comes to the most important values. And perhaps because of this perceived divide, a vast majority — 74% — think Obama should emphasize programs that both parties support.
With Election Day now in the rear-view mirror, 54% of respondents said they believe the country will be better off four years from now, while 41 % said they'll be worse off.
Majorities of Americans still say they think Obama will be able to accomplish such major policy goals as reducing unemployment, improving education, keeping the U.S. safe from terrorism and improving the health care system.
On two hot-button issues, however — reducing American dependence on foreign oil and healing nation's political divide — Americans are more dour about Obama's ability to accomplish the goals than they were after his election four years ago.
In the case of reducing U.S. dependence on oil, the percentage thinking the Obama administration would do so slipped to 47% from 57% in November 2008. On the goal of healing political divisions in the country, confidence in Obama dropped to 33% from 54% in November 2008.
Still, the public is much more likely to see Obama and Democrats in Congress as willing to work with the Republicans than they are to see GOP lawmakers as willing to make a sincere effort to work with Obama and his party. However, confidence in both the sincerity of Obama and in the sincerity of Republicans in Congress has plummeted since 2008.
In comments after his Nov. 6 election victory, Obama said the election suggests that a majority of Americans generally agree with his "balanced" approach to solving the country's deficit problem, but he has maintained that he is willing to work with GOP lawmakers to come to a solution.
Political analysts said the poll shows that Obama has some leverage after his victory — and as he sits down for talks with Republicans in Congress on how to avert $600 billion in automatic budget cuts and tax hikes set to go into effect Jan. 1— but the president is wise to be careful not to overplay his hand.
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"Obama has a mandate to move the country forward in a bipartisan sort of way," said Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "The takeaway is that (House Speaker) John Boehner ought to work with the president and make a reasonable deal ... and there are many out there to be made."
Republcians in Congress, including Mitt Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, said that Obama's victory, which was a near electoral landslide but a narrow victory in terms of popular vote, was not a mandate from the American people. Instead, he said, the voters chose a divided government.
A majority still sees Obama more as a uniter than a divider, though the percentage is down to 55% from 66% four years ago.
Much the same is true in terms of his favorability — a majority still has a favorable view, but it's not as high as it was in 2008.
Democrats overall have lost ground in the public's opinion, with a bare majority (51%) now holding a favorable view. They are still ahead of the Republican Party, though the gap between them has shrunk since the last presidential election.
Heading into the fiscal cliff negotiations, Obama has been pressed by labor and progressive organizations to resist raising the eligibility age on Social Security and Medicare, but 88% of poll respondents said it is extremely or very important that Obama take major steps to ensure the long-term stability of both programs.
"Voters think the programs are in trouble, and they want the president to fix them so they are stable and financially secure for the long term — not just defend the status quo, which they see as unsustainable," said Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, a domestic policy analyst at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank.
The nationwide poll of 1,009 adults Nov. 9-12 has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.


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Brussels, 23 January 2013
Antitrust: Commission fines Telefónica and Portugal Telecom € 79 million for illegal non-compete contract clause
The European Commission has imposed fines of € 66 894 000 on Telefónica and of € 12 290 000 on Portugal Telecom for agreeing not to compete with each other on the Iberian telecommunications markets, in breach of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) which prohibits anti-competitive agreements. In July 2010, in the context of the acquisition by Telefónica of the Brazilian mobile operator Vivo, which was until then jointly owned by both parties, the parties inserted a clause in the contract indicating they would not compete with each other in Spain and Portugal as from the end of September 2010. The parties terminated the non-compete agreement in early February 2011, after the Commission opened antitrust proceedings.
Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia said: "The Commission is committed to ensuring the creation of a genuine single market in the telecoms sector. We will not tolerate anticompetitive practices by incumbents to protect their home markets, as they harm consumers and delay market integration."
Instead of competing with each other for offering clients the most advantageous conditions, as is expected in an open and competitive market, Telefónica and Portugal Telecom deliberately agreed to stay out of each other's home markets. By preserving the status quo in Spain and Portugal, the agreement hindered the integration process of the EU telecoms sector. Non-compete agreements are one of the most serious violations of EU competition rules, as they potentially result in higher prices and less choice for consumers.
The fines were set on the basis of the Commission's 2006 Guidelines on fines (see IP/06/857 and MEMO/06/256). In setting the level of fines, the Commission took into account the duration of the infringement (4 months) and its gravity, including the fact that the agreement was not kept secret by the parties. The early termination of the agreement was also taken into account by the Commission as a mitigating circumstance.
Article 101 of the TFEU prohibits agreements that have the object or effect to restrict competition and may affect trade in the EU Single Market.
Both Telefónica and Portugal Telecom are the largest telecoms operators in their home countries. For example, in 2011 Telefónica accounted for almost half of all revenue generated by the Spanish telecoms sector. Each of the parties has a very limited presence in the other party's home country.
The Commission opened an investigation on its own initiative in January 2011 (see IP/11/58) after it became aware of the agreement between Telefónica S.A. and Portugal Telecom SGPS S.A. The Commission has a copy of the agreement concluded on the occasion of the Vivo transaction and of the non-compete clause, which originally was due to run from September 2010 to the end of 2011. The Commission sent the parties a Statement of Objections in October 2011 (see IP/11/1241).
The Vivo transaction itself is not affected by the decision.
Action for damages
Any person or firm affected by anti-competitive behaviour as described in this case may bring the matter before the courts of the Member States and seek damages. The case law of the Court and Council Regulation 1/2003 both confirm that in cases before national courts, a Commission decision is binding proof that the behaviour took place and was illegal. Even though the Commission has fined the companies concerned, damages may be awarded without these being reduced on account of the Commission fine.
The Commission considers that meritorious claims for damages should be aimed at compensating, in a fair way, the victims of an infringement for the harm done. More information on antitrust damages actions, including the public consultation and a citizens' summary, is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/antitrust/actionsdamages/documents.html
More information will be available under the case number 39839 in the Commission's public case registry on the competition website once any confidentiality issues have been resolved. A periodic compilation of antitrust and cartel news is available in the Competition Weekly News Summary.
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Project Tiki
Project Tiki is a new firm focused on creating our own apps for Apple and Android as well as providing services to produce apps for others. This company is an outgrowth of two online marketing companies that have been working in the space for a number of years. Project Tiki will be a very collaborative venture and be pulling the best talent for each project. There is a fair amount of whimsy among the team, but we don't want the image for the company to be "cartoonish".
We will be using this logo to market our own apps in the app stores as well as on our website to attract new customers. We will also be trying to pursue prospective business clients ranging in size from Fortune 25 to medium size businesses to win their business to create their apps. So that means there needs to be a certain level of professionalism for people to take us seriously.
While the name invokes images of surf boards, tiki totem poles, grass huts....we want a fresh, updated look that builds off that, but lives in the digital world. We are not looking for heavy Tiki influence. Ideally the logo will have a small iconic element that could live on it's own (become a little icon stamp that can be used on pages, biz cards, etc...) and then have a strong visual text. Think modern web 2.0, etc...with a tiki twist.
Can be a 4 color design, but want to be able to use black and white if needed.
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Microsoft 365 usage analytics
Microsoft 365 usage analytics is also available for Office 365 US Government Community.
Overview of Microsoft 365 usage analytics
Use Microsoft 365 usage analytics within Power BI to gain insights on how your organization is adopting the various services within Office 365 to communicate and collaborate. You can visualize and analyze Office 365 usage data, create custom reports and share the insights within your organization and gain insights into how specific regions or departments are utilizing Office 365.
Microsoft 365 usage analytics is a content pack that gives you access to a pre-built dashboard that provides a cross-product view of the last 12 months and contains a number of pre-built reports. Each report provides you with specific usage insights. User specific information is available for the last full calendar month.
The data model that powers the content pack includes user attributes from Active Directory, enabling the ability to pivot in certain reports. The following Active Directory attributes are included: location, department and organization.
See Enable Microsoft 365 usage analytics to start collecting data.
Microsoft 365 usage analytics contains a number of reports, including:
Adoption overview report — offers an all-up summary of adoption trends. Use the reports in this section to learn how your users have adopted Office 365 as well as how overall usage of the individual services has changed month-over-month. You can see how many licenses are assigned, how many of those are in active use by people in your organization, how many users are returning users and how many are using the product for the first time.
Product usage report — offers a drill-down view into volume of key activities for each service. Use the reports in this section to learn how your users are utilizing Office 365.
Storage used report — Use this report to track cloud storage for mailboxes, OneDrive and SharePoint sites. You can use this to make sure people in your organization stay within limits, or to decide if you need to purchase more storage resources.
Communication report — You can see at a glance whether people in your organization prefer to stay in touch by using Teams, Yammer, email, or Skype calls. You can observe if there are shifts in patterns of use of communication tools amongst your employees.
Collaboration report — See how people in your organization use OneDrive and SharePoint to store documents and collaborate with each other, and how these trends evolve month over month. You can also see how many people share documents internally or externally and how many SharePoint sites or OneDrive accounts are actively being used.
Office activation report — Track Office 365 ProPlus, Project and Visio activations in your organization. Each person with an Office license can install products on up to five devices. Use reports in this section to see the device types on which people have installed Office apps.
Access from anywhere report — Track which clients and devices people use to connect to email, Skype for Business, or Yammer.
Individual service usage reports — Usage reports are available for certain individual services. These reports provide specific usage details for the respective service. Exchange usage, Teams usage, and Yammer usage are examples of these reports.
Individual service user activity reports — User activity reports are available for certain individual services. These reports provide user level detail usage data joined with Active Directory attributes.
You can access detailed reports for each area by selecting the data tables. You can view all pre-built reports by selecting the tabs at the bottom of the site, once you are viewing the reports. For more detailed instructions, read Navigating and utilizing the reports in Microsoft 365 usage analytics and Customizing the reports in Microsoft 365 usage analytics.
Is this content pack going to be available through purchase or will it be free?
The content pack is available to all customers free of charge. You need to sign up for the free Power BI service to connect to the content pack. You can also customize the dashboards and reports with the free Power BI service.
To share the dashboards with others both the user who is sharing and the user the dashboard is shared with must have Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium.
Who can connect to Microsoft 365 usage analytics?
You have to be either a global administrator, report reader, Exchange administrator, Skype for Business administrator, or SharePoint administrator in order to establish the connection to the content pack. See About admin roles for more information.
Who can customize the usage analytics dashboards and reports?
Only the user who made the initial connection to the content pack can customize the dashboard or create new reports in the Power BI web interface. See Customizing the reports in Microsoft 365 usage analytics for instructions.
Can I only customize the dashboards and reports from the Power BI web interface?
In addition to customizing the dashboard and reports from the Power BI web interface, users can also use Power BI Desktop to connect directly to the Office 365 reporting service to build their own reports.
How can I get the pbit file that this dashboard is associated with?
You can access to the pbit file from the Microsoft Download center.
Who can view the dashboards and reports?
If you connected to the content pack, you can share it with anybody by using the sharing functionality. Power BI licensing requires that both the user sharing and the user with whom a dashboard is shared have Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium.
Can anyone share the dashboard, or does it have to be the person who connected to the dashboard?
When sharing the dashboard, you can either allow users to re-share the dashboard with others or not. You can set this option at the time of sharing.
Is it possible to work on and customize the same content pack with a group of people?
Yes. To enable a group of admins to work together on the same content pack, you can leverage the app workspace functionality of Power BI, for more information, see How should I collaborate and share dashboards and reports?
For which timeframe is data available?
The majority of the reports display data for the previous 12 months. However, some of the charts may show less history since the data collection for different products and reports were started at different times and thus data for the full 12 months might not be available. All the reports will eventually build up to 12 months of history. Reports that show user level details show data for the previous complete month.
What data is included in the content pack?
The data in the content pack currently covers the same set of activity metrics available in the Activity Reports. As reports are added to the activity reports, they will be added to the content pack in a future release.
How does the data in the content pack differ from the data in the usage reports?
The underlying data you see in the content pack matches the data you see in the activity reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The key differences are that in the admin center data is available for the last 7/30/90/180 days while the content pack presents data on a monthly basis for up to 12 months.
In addition, user level details in the content pack are only available for the last complete month for users who were assigned a product license and performed an activity.
When should I use the content pack and when the usage reports?
The Activity Reports are a good starting point to understand usage and adoption of Office 365. The content pack combines the Office 365 usage data and your organization's Active Directory information and enables admins to analyze the data set using the visual analytics capabilities of Power BI. This enables admins to not just visualize and analyze Office 365 usage data, but also slice it by Active Directory properties such as departments, location etc. They can also create custom reports and share the insights within their organization.
How often is the data refreshed?
When you connect to the content pack for the first time, it will automatically populate with your data for the previous 12 months. After that, the content pack data will refresh weekly. Customers can choose to modify the refresh schedule if their use of this data demands a different update rhythm.
The back-end Office 365 service will refresh data on a daily basis and provides data that is between 5-8 days latent from the current date.
The Content date column in each dataset represents the freshness date of the data in the content pack.
How is an active user defined?
The definition of active user is the same as the definition of active user in the activity reports.
What SharePoint site collections are included in the SharePoint reports?
The current version of the content pack includes file activity from SharePoint team sites and SharePoint group sites.
Which groups are included in the Office 365 Groups usage report?
The current version of the content pack includes usage from Outlook groups, Yammer groups, and SharePoint groups. It does not include groups related to Microsoft Teams or Planner.
When will an updated version of the content pack become available?
Major changes to the content pack will be released twice a year which may include new reports or new data. Minor changes to the reports may be released on a more frequent basis.
Is it possible to integrate the data from the content pack into existing solutions?
The data in the content pack can be retrieved through the Office 365 APIs (in preview). When they ship to production they will be merged within the Microsoft Graph reporting APIs.
Are there plans to expand the content pack to show usage data from other Microsoft products?
This is considered for future improvements. Check the Microsoft 365 Roadmap for updates.
How can I pivot by company information in Active Directory?
Company information is included one of the Active Directory fields in the content pack and you can see it as a pre-built filter in the Product User activity reports. It is available as column in the UserState table.
Is it possible to bring in additional fields from Active Directory?
Additional customization on this data is possible by connecting to the Microsoft Graph reporting APIs to pull additional fields from Azure Active Directory and join to the dataset.
Is it possible to aggregate the information in the content pack across multiple subscriptions?
At this time, the content pack is for a single subscription, as it is associated with the credentials that was used to initially connect to it.
Is it possible to see usage by plan (i.e. E1, E3)?
In the content pack, usage is represented at the per product level. Data about the various subscriptions that are assigned to users are provided, however it is not possible to correlate user activity to the subscription assigned to user.
Is it possible to integrate other data sets into the content pack?
You can use Power BI Desktop to connect to the Office 365 APIs (in preview) to bring additional data sources to combine with the content pack data.
For more information see the Customize document.
Is it possible to see the "Top Users" reports for a specific timeframe?
All user level reports present aggregated data for the previous month.
Will the content pack be localized?
This is currently not on the roadmap.
I have a specific question about the data I'm seeing for my organization. Who can I reach out to?
You can use the feedback button in the admin center activity overview page, or you can open a support case to get help with the content pack.
How can partners access the data?
If a partner has delegated admin rights, he or she can connect to the content pack on behalf of their customer.
Can I hide identifiable information such as user, group, and site names in reports?
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Somali pirates free S. Korea sailors 'for ransom'
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Four South Korean sailors held hostage by
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"The four Korean crew members of the MT Gemini have been released," the ministry said in a statement, adding the sailors were being taken to safety aboard a South Korean navy ship.
The release followed an agreement between Singapore firm Glory Ship Management which owns the MT Gemini and the pirates, it said without elaboration.
But Yonhap quoted an unidentified foreign ministry official as saying that the ministry had assisted in ransom talks between the boat's owner and the pirates, but declined to say how much had been paid for their release.
The tanker was carrying 28,000 tonnes of crude palm oil from Indonesia to Kenya when it was hijacked on April 30 last year.
Seven months later, the pirates freed the vessel and released all 21 non-Korean crew members while keeping the four Koreans captive.
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You'll have to wait until Christmas Day to see LES MISERABLES on the silver screen, but in the meantime check out the just-released theatrical trailer for the highly anticipated film below!
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AMTRAK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
La Samba (with the highlight on the word 'SAMBA')
'La Samba' is a brand new retail shop opening shortly in one of Australia's most popular seaside holiday destinations. The shop will carry a range of exclusive designs, including fashion jewellery and accessories, ladies beach wear, beach-orientated giftware, wall-art, surf photos and various other products associated with sun, surf, beaches, lakes, holidays, fashion, fun and glamour. The shop decor will be light, bright and colourful, (predominantly white and yellow), and will feature displays of brightly coloured clothing, jewellery, beach towels and decorator items.
Our main target market is females in the 18-44 years age group. They also represent a significant portion of social media users and we will be capitalising on this via an online shopfront with social media links.
As the name of the dance 'La Samba' suggests, we want to present a bright, colourful, fresh, happy and fun image to consumers, so vibrant colours should be used to reflect this. The logo should comprise just the words 'La Samba', with the accent to be on the word 'Samba', as this is the word that we feel our customers will remember. So the word 'La' should be smaller in the overall design. A carnival of colours, like a rainbow spectrum or alternating colours for each letter may help to create the right image. The business is based in Forster, New South Wales, which is a popular seaside holiday town surrounded by beautiful lakes and pristine beaches, so the design should also evoke the imagery of water, sun and fun if possible.
The logo will be used for all branding purposes, including shop window and building signage, product 'swing tags', in-store signage, customer loyalty cards, print media advertising and on our website. It will also need to have good visual impact when displayed on the shopfront and in an illuminated rectangular sign box. (* see photos attached separately).
Please submit your initial design ideas to us as Jpegs, but understand that at the end of the contest we will require the winner to provide us with high resolution Jpegs in RGB, CMYK and greyscale as well as eps and psd files.
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Tumbleweed Houses necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 131 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
We are the leader in designing and building tiny houses. We want our website to look better! We are starting with one page, but this could lead to ongoing work for us. I have about 10 pages that need to be improved. For now, I am focusing only on this page:
Our audience is from everywhere in the world
Redo this page http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com
I want a new design in the white part. The black wrapper around the white will stay the same.
The background color must remain white.
The new page that you design must include the following
A space for standard size ads (300x250, 728x90, 468x60). Either 1, 2, or 3 ad spots within the white area, and below the fold.
Must include the text currently on the existing page.
Pictures of all 16 of our homes, with the name and sizes (and price if shown).
Do not use
The Polaroid pictures. I'm tired of them and want something different.
You can have the pictures slide like now, or show all 16 on the page at once. Please note there are 2 sections of houses.
You can have a section for a featured house that stands out from the rest.
*This page is mostly about image. The pictures are the most important part of the page.
I've included a zip file with 1 picture of each house.
You can use the picture in the zip file, or you can use any picture of that house on our website ... it is up to you. You can crop the picture, or alter the color, or get creative in other ways.


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When Disney acquired Lucasfilm and the prized Star Wars intellectual property to go with it, the second - and more exciting - part of the deal was the announcement that the saga would continue with Star Wars: Episode VII in summer 2015. Since that time, J.J. Abrams was brought in to direct, leaving the captain's chair of the rebooted Star Trek series to take the Star Wars reins from George Lucas. And then came the delay.
The release date change wasn't a surprise considering the amount of rumors and reports informing us that Star Wars 7 would need a few more months, and the reasoning was solid: the screenplay needed more time, and undoubtedly the pre-production did as well. Episode VII might be one of the most anticipated films ever, but for the new creatives and decision-makers in charge, it's also one of the most challenging projects ever. It needs to be done right.
The original trilogy is beloved, but the prequels left much to be desired, receiving mostly mixed reactions. If the live-action series is not only coming back, but picking up where Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi left off over 30 years ago, there's an absurdly high level of expectations the next film must meet. For fans, it needs to make up for any issues (or disappointment) the prequels presented; it must serve the franchise and its most iconic returning characters justice; and it flat out needs to be awesome to start the franchise up on the right foot again.
And we're not just talking about another three episodes - Disney is planning at least one Star Wars movie every year going forward beginning in 2015. In between episodic installments of the core series will be spinoffs, origin stories for familiar characters, and if some reports are true, even one-off original stories. So how do you bring back one of the biggest entertainment brands in pop culture history? Let the pros take charge. And by that, we mean put Luke, Leia and Han at the forefront. At least, that's what Abrams and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) are attempting in their rewrite of Michael Arndt's screenplay, according to insiders of THR.
Their sources indicate that the primary reason for the writer change was not just for scheduling but for Abrams to get his wish of making the 'big three' returning stars (Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill) the primary focus, for one last hoorah so to speak, instead of having them as supporting players as newbies take the spotlight. Episode VII will therefore make Luke, Leia and Han the stars of the movie, then move them to the background as the newly introduced characters take charge in Episodes VIII & IX.
THR also reveals that because of the story changes to accommodate the rewrites, at least a few of Arndt's new characters have been axed or changed, while new ones from Abrams and Kasdan are being introduced. This also means that while Abrams has met, is meeting and will continue to meet with practically everyone you can think of in Hollywood, some of the names leaked before may no longer be in consideration because the characters they were meeting for no longer exist.
Now for the juicy bits. The report confirms that the recent Jesse Plemons potential casting news is true and explains that Michael Fassbender met with Abrams in December for an unspecified role, although we can't imagine him playing a leading part (at least in Episode 7) due to his upcoming obligations for Assassin's Creed and likely, X-Men: Apocalypse - both of which are equally as massive and time-consuming as Star Wars. Hugo Weaving however, according to multiple informants, met for the specific part of an "Imperial Commander." Thrawn, anyone?
Last but not least, Abrams and co. are seeking out a young actress in her 20s to apparently play the daughter or granddaughter (probably the latter given the timeline) of Obi-Wan Kenobi. With production beginning soon for a late 2015 release, there will be plenty of official announcements in the coming months so stay tuned to Screen Rant and official Disney-Lucasfilm channels for updates.
[Update: the 20-something actress Abrams is looking is said to be "mixed race or black" and as some of our readers pointed out, it could be for the daughter of Lando Calrissian - something he said he wanted in the film back in September 2013, a Jedi daughter. At this point, these are rumors piled on top of hearsay so wait for more info.]
Our big question surrounds whether or not Abrams and co. are pulling in story arcs and key characters from the expanded universe and countless books and video games already out there, practically canon for many of the fans who embraced them. Or are they going completely original? What should they do and what do you want them to do?
Star Wars: Episode VII hits theaters December 18, 2015.
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Sources: ComicBook.com, THR


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We've long been skeptical of the crowds that gather on the sidewalk during the morning shows. Surely those relentlessly cheerful people are paid to be there at that ungodly hour, right? Wrong.
But NBC's "Today" show set up shop at Faneuil Hall Marketplace Friday, and there they were, holding signs and smiling madly, as hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie did their thing.
Guests included Cambridge-bred actress and writer Mindy Kaling, who took one look at the crowd and wondered if they were drunk; celebrated chef Michael Schlow; the Dropkick Murphys; and, of course, Mayor Tom Menino, who had a somewhat bewildering answer when asked what makes Boston a special place.
"Well, we're a young city,'' said Hizzoner, the longest-serving mayor in Boston's 382-year history. (Yes, compared to Beijing, Boston is young. We suspect he meant demographically.)
"Excitement happens in this city every day,'' said Menino, who looked and sounded recovered from his extended stay at Brigham and Women's and Spaulding Rehabilitation hospitals. "It's not a boring city. Things are happening.''
Lauer applauded the Hub for its response to last weekend's blizzicane — a storm, he said, that "hammahd'' the city, mimicking a Boston accent.
"You guys handled it very well,'' Lauer said.
"Well, thank you very much,'' replied Menino. "We did a fairly good job. We had some issues. But I think overall it was an A-plus job.''
Wait, didn't the mayor apologize a few days ago for the slow pace of the clean-up? He clarified his comment later in the day, saying "I just commend the effort of the entire city. The crews were working all weekend. But also the residents. The residents deserve a lot of credit for showing patience and pitching in to dig out their elderly neighbors and looking after those in need."
Schlow, whose restaurants include Via Matta, Radius, Tico, and The Sinclair in Harvard Square, whipped up New England shellfish stew, red flannel hash, Boston crème cupcakes, and he cracked a couple of local beers – Clown Shoes and Whale Tale.
"What was flattering was that after the show, [Lauer and Guthrie] came over and finished their bowls of stew," Schlow said. "Something like this is good for the city."


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One of the early science fiction books I read was one by Robert Heinlein called "The Door into Summer." See Heinlein, Robert A. The Door into Summer. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957. This book is about a protagonist who reinvents himself using time travel. How many of us have wished that we had a little handy time travel to answer some of the apparently unanswerable questions left to us by the impenetrable past. If we could just walk through a Star Gate and talk to the people involved, the mysterious would soon be made plain.
Even though a lot of the ideas of science fiction are now commonplace facts in our future-world of 2012, one of those ideas, time travel, has yet to become commonplace. But if we search carefully and learn from history, we can open our own virtual door into summer.
Here are some of my suggestions for almost achieving time travel:
Suggestion No. 1
Begin at the edge of time and place and work inward.
If you find one of those baffling genealogical mysteries, try working at the problem from the edges rather than the middle of the missing information. If you can't find the family, search for them in the state. If you can't find them in the state, search the county. If you can't find them in the county, search the town and so forth and so on until you have reached the middle of your search and then move outward again, collecting information about the family as you go along. Try both forward and backward in time. Gain an idea of the larger picture where the family or individual may have lived. How did they get to this place? Why would they go there? Many early families moved through common migration routes as a group with family members and friends. Some of the same people may keep appearing throughout the life span of the people you are searching for. Search for friends and relatives. Don't spend all your time looking at the same records in both time and place.
Suggestion No. 2
Walk a mile in their moccasins
There is a common saying that you really cannot know a person until you have walked a mile in their moccasins. You can't really say you have look for an ancestor until you know who the person was and what they did with their life. No one lives in a vacuum. I helped one of my friends with some research a few years ago. He knew nothing about his father and had only a limited amount of information about his mother. We were able to find over 100 individuals on his mother's side of the family, but nothing about his father. My friend did not know if he was living or dead. He recently came up to me and said he had his father's name. For all that time, he had been looking for his father with the wrong name. How did he find his father's name? He asked his mother and his aunt. Walking in your ancestor's moccasins may mean you try to find out about the person you are trying to find from those who knew him, not from himself. Look at the ancestor's life from his or her perspective.
Suggestion No. 3
Walk the streets.
There are few things we can do as genealogists that clarify an ancestors' lives more than visiting the places they lived, the houses they lived in and the streets they walked. You get a more visceral understanding of their lives and challenges when you look at the physical world they lived in. The town may have grown or disappeared, the landscape may have been altered, but there is something about standing where they stood and seeing what they saw that makes a connection we cannot get in any other way.
Suggestion No. 4
Study and Read
What was happening at the time your ancestor lived? Was it peace or war? Was there a famine? A drought? A depression? Much of what seems random in people's lives is really a reflection of the times they lived. I am always amazed at the lack of historical knowledge we have in our country. People are surprised, for example, when I suggest they check the World War II or World War I Draft records. They seem to have forgotten the major world wars.
You get the idea. Traveling in time is really a simple process of learning about the history and geography of our ancestors. This opens our own private door into summer.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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Tester, Rehberg strategies diverge
KALISPELL, Mont. – Sen. Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg are locked in possibly the closest Senate race in the country, but their final weekend of campaigning suggests it's anything but.
Tester is on an 800-mile sprint across this majestic state, energizing his base and trying to persuade Mitt Romney backers to split their ticket and give the Democratic incumbent another six years in the Senate.
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Rehberg, meanwhile, is nowhere to be seen on the campaign trail. He's employing the classic, play-it-safe strategy of a frontrunner running down the clock — even though polls indicate the race is a true tossup.
The six-term GOP congressman and his campaign are convinced they're on the cusp of victory in the Republican-leaning state. So after spending the past week campaigning with Republican big guns like Sen. John McCain, Rehberg is laying low and doing his talking through TV ads, including a rare testimonial spot from Romney.
The idea: Keep the race focused on the national narrative that electing Rehberg would give the GOP a shot at the Senate majority. And don't risk an eleventh-hour gaffe on the campaign trail that could turn the focus back to the candidates' personalities just before Election Day.
Still, Rehberg's public disappearance the weekend before Election Day is unusual in such a close race. He has no public plans to hit the campaign trail the final days and is staying away from the media for the most part. Instead, his team is focusing on getting supporters to the polls and relying on an onslaught of TV ads.
Rehberg declined a request for an interview.
"Over the last few weeks, Denny has crisscrossed the state over 4,300 miles and held more than 35 campaign rallies in towns large and small, and the crowds and energy have been nothing short of amazing," Rehberg spokesman Chris Bond said in an email. "Denny's schedule for this weekend is still fluid but he'll definitely be talking with voters and campaign volunteers in order to get out the vote and encourage folks to keep up the great work in the final days of the race."
Tester, by contrast, kicked off his final barnstorming tour in this growing town nestled near Glacier National Park in mountainous Northwest Montana, crisscrossing the state to convince enough would-be Mitt Romney voters that he's likeable enough to send back to Washington for six more years. The three day-swing will take Tester through the state's seven media markets.
"We need to get out here and make our voices heard," Tester told a packed crowd at a seniors center, with top Montana Democrats standing behind him.
The candidates' diverging strategies come as the Montana race has grown even more crucial in recent days for Republicans, who need to net at least four seats – or three if Romney wins the White House – to take back the Senate. Suddenly, a Republican seat that had been viewed as a lock – Indiana – is in serious danger of slipping away, as is another GOP-held seat in Democratic-leaning Massachusetts.


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Plan would link compensation to deposit insurance assessments
Update: ABA filed its comment letter on this proposal on Feb. 17. To read the letter after reading this article, click here.
ABA Resource: On March 11, ABA will present a two-hour telephone briefing related to this FDIC proposal, the Federal Reserve's pending compensation proposal, and related matters. For further information, click here.
Washington has been focusing hard on pay in the current crisis atmosphere, but the Jan. 12 proposal by FDIC has kicked the issue up many notches. The controversial proposal makes the combination of potential restrictions on and costs of administering compensation an issue of universal industry concern, affecting banks of all sizes.
Up till now, compensation scrutiny has been focused principally on executive bonuses in very large banks and investment banks. There are pay issues in the pending financial reform legislation; special compensation issues for TARP institutions; new compensation disclosure rules for larger companies from the Securities and Exchange Commission; and the Federal Reserve's pending compensation proposal.
Now FDIC has added a new wrinkle: linking compensation issues and deposit insurance assessments.
In a divided vote, FDIC's board approved for 30 days comment an "advance notice of proposed rulemaking" that could result in a system in which a bank's compensation program could affect how much it pays for deposit insurance.
Experts' reaction to FDIC's concept
In the days following the proposal, experts in compensation questioned, during interviews, the methodology, timing, and applicability of FDIC's concept.
ABA believes that it is "entirely appropriate for examiners to review compensation for safety and soundness purposes," said Sarah Miller, the association's senior vice-president, Center for Securities, Trust, and Investments. However, linking compensation directly to deposit insurance assessments would be a bad policy, said Miller, who has handled many of the compensation issues facing banks in the current period.
"If the goal is to focus on risk behavior, let's go after the bad behavior, and not the plans that may or may not incent that behavior," said Miller.
Miller also said ABA finds the FDIC's timing for such a proposal "premature."
"You've got Congress looking at compensation, as well," in the financial reform debate, Miller said. H.R. 4173, the House-passed version of the reform legislation, requires the federal regulators to jointly issue rules addressing bank compensation plans.
Miller said that the association agreed with points made by Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan, and Acting OTS Director John Bowman, in their opposition to the proposal.
Dugan, beyond indicating his feeling that the action was premature, thought FDIC should hold back in favor of the Federal Reserve Board's outstanding proposal. "We should wait until we have the results of the Board's efforts before heading down a path that could be both unnecessary and inconsistent," said Dugan.
Bowman stated that he believed that the Fed's approach, once refined, might be turned into an interagency approach.
(As proposed, the Fed's concept would cover bank holding companies and state member banks, among the community bank fraternity. While it would apply to bank holding companies and not to officers of subsidiary bank holding companies, unless they are employed by state member banks, many such officers are dual employees of holding company and bank, so they would be covered, in that sense. FDIC's concept would cover all insured banks and thrifts. To read past online coverage of the Fed proposal, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. To read ABA's Nov. 25, 2009, comment letter on the Fed proposal, click here. For a podcast concerning the Fed proposal, click here.)
Basics of FDIC's concept
"Compensation has become a lightning rod for the financial crisis, but the financial crisis' roots goes beyond compensation in my opinion," said Susan O'Donnell, managing director at Pearl Meyer & Partners, a leading compensation consulting firm. (O'Donnell will be a featured speaker in the March 11 ABA telephone briefing about compensation issues mentioned above. For a program description, click here.)
"Most of my bank clients are either in a state of panic about this, or are trying to put processes in place without really knowing exactly what they have to do or what the regulators are going to ask for," O'Donnell added, reflecting on the mass of concern over pending legislation, the Fed proposal, and the FDIC announcement. "Everybody is looking to at least get started on it so that they have some response if a regulator happens to be conducting their review, even though no regs are finalized." Examiners have long been permitted to review compensation programs.
The FDIC's notice includes a proposed compensation model, for discussion purposes. It consists of three main elements. The concept is that having compensation programs toe this line would be "voluntary," but that insurance assessments would be adjusted based on meeting or not meeting the three factors. The three elements:
• Pay in restricted stock. A significant portion of compensation for employees whose activities can present significant risk to the bank would be paid in restricted, non-discounted stock.
• Clawbacks and vesting. Significant awards of company stock would only be vested over multi-year periods, subject to potential "clawback" to account for risks assumed in earlier periods.
• Board oversight. The compensation program would be administered by independent directors with input from independent compensation experts.
FDIC noted that compensation programs were cited as a factor in 35% of the staff reports prepared last year in cases where failed banks caused losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund.
"FDIC does not seek to impose a ceiling on the level of compensation that institutions may pay their employees," the proposal stated. "Rather, the criteria should focus on whether an employee compensation system is likely to be successful in aligning employee performance with the long-term interests of the firm and its stakeholders, including FDIC." [Emphasis added.]
"As with many things, the government is throwing out a lot of ideas at once," said Brian Dunn, president of McLagan, a subsidiary of AON Corp., and CEO of Global Compensation.
Compensation, governance experts assail concept
Experts find much to dislike about the FDIC notice and the framework it presents.
"I don't think it's appropriate for a third party to be setting compensation for a private organization," said Prof. Charles Elson of the University of Delaware. He is director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, there, and holder of the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance. A third-party, he continued, cannot know the internal workings of a company and thus can't get it right.
"A bank is not a government agency," said Elson.
"This would set a very bad precedent," said ABA's Sarah Miller (also a speaker in the ABA telephone briefing). She also challenges some of the claims FDIC made in its staff memorandum regarding research on incentive plans. (One point: "Studies almost universally find that poorly designed employee compensation programs provide incentives to take risks that can significantly and adversely affect a firm beyond a period when compensation is earned or awarded.")
Compensation decisions and design belong in the private sector, and "it's better done by a well-functioning board," said Elson. What FDIC is proposing "is a pretty far-reaching move," he added, without any parallel he knew of other than the actions of the federal "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg. Feinberg's actions affected only a handful of very large institutions, while FDIC's concept, as ventured, would be universal.
For Pearl Meyer's Susan O'Donnell, the FDIC's fixation on restricted stock as part of the "safe" structure is puzzling and problematic.
O'Donnell notes that a key element of the concept is compensation through restricted stock with multi-year vesting. The intent is to build in incentives to actions leading to long-term performance, rather than quick kills for short-term gain.
"A large portion of the banks covered by FDIC are not even stock banks and wouldn't even have the capacity to provide a significant portion of compensation in stock," said O'Donnell. "They could in the end decide to create some arrangements that otherwise focus on the long term. You can have cash long-term incentive plans. You can have phantom-stock plans. But again that's putting a requirement on a compensation package that actually many smaller banks don't have the capacity or even the cash to offer."
Compensation programs are best when matched to corporate strategies, O'Donnell said, and many plans, in her experience, are not stock-based and yet don't encourage excessive risk taking. Indeed, she said that balance among compensation forms and between short-term and long-term incentives marks a sound plan. As published, she said, the FDIC concept "is very, very TARPish."
The flip side of not encouraging risky behavior in the short-term, added O'Donnell, is "sustainability of performance in the long-term. And you can get at that through many means."
Stock is a limiting concept
ABA's Sarah Miller points out that for some banking companies, a stock-based plan might be either awkward or impossible. Subchapter S banks, of which there are about 2,500, are restricted in several regards with their stock, for instance. And mutual savings banks don't issue stock, although mutual holding companies do.
"This is one of those things where the devil is in the details," said consultant Brian Dunn. FDIC's suggested approach may cause some accounting headaches, he pointed out, because of the traditional methods used for accounting for shares.
Indeed, closer looks bring up more to deal with. Miller pointed out that banking companies covered by Sarbanes-Oxley have already had difficulties finding sufficient independent directors to meet that law's requirements for Audit Committee service. Adding independence requirements to the Compensation Committee's membership, as FDIC suggested, means yet further burden, according to Miller. BJ
[This article was posted on January 28, 2010, on the website of ABA Banking Journal, www.ababj.com, and is copyright 2010 by the American Bankers Association.]
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. — The White House says President Barack Obama will make a decision within days about whether to send the U.S. military to rescue Iraqi refugees trapped on a mountain.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes says Obama is considering a range of options, including airlifts and trying to establish a safe passage down.
Rhodes says Obama will receive recommendations from a Pentagon team that's gone to northern Iraq to assess the situation.
Thousands of Iraqis fled to Sinjar Mountain after coming under siege from Islamic extremists.
Rhodes says that while the U.S. has been able to provide food and water to the refugees, they can't sustain themselves by staying on the mountain.
Rhodes says the U.S. could coordinate a rescue mission with Kurdish forces as well as allies such as Britain.


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With the win, the Judges improve to 8-4 on the season, while Wellesley falls to 3-9.
In the closest weapon competition of the evening, the Judges came away with a 5-4 win in epee. The match went back and forth through the early goings, and was tied at 3-3 with three bouts to go. Brandeis then pulled away, winning the two of the final three matches to seal the win. Kristen Ha (Bronx, N.Y. / Riverdale CS)picked up two wins for the Judges, while Gwendolyn Mowell (Wyckoff, N.J. / Indian Hills), Alexis Gremillion (Houston, Texas / Awty International) and Rosa Zhang (E. Setauket, N.Y. / Ward Melville) each added wins. For Wellesley, Charlotte Treadwell won twice, while Courtney Collins and Katherine Ledbetter each added victories.
In foil, Brandeis won the first six matches, cruising to the 8-1 victory. Rookies Emilia Dwyer (New York, N.Y. / Hunter H.S.) and Annette Kim (Morganville, N.J. / Freehold) each went 3-0 for the Judges, while Eva Ahmad (Brooklyn, N.Y. / Brooklyn Tech) picked up the other two wins. Wellesley's lone victory came from Camille Samulski.
In the sabre competition, Wellesley was overmatched, with only two eligible fencers in the weapon. Brandeis picked up the first eight victories, including three by forfeit, nabbing the 8-1 win. Zoe Messinger (Short Hills, N.J. / Millburn) and Deborah Abiri (Old Westbury, N.Y. / North Shore) were credited with three wins each to lead the Judges, while Emmily Smith (Stony Brook, N.Y. / Ward-Melville) finished 2-0. Wellesley's win came from Dania Wright in the final contested bout.
Brandeis is back in action on Saturday, traveling to Brown University for Northeast Fencing Conference action. Wellesley will also fence this weekend, hosting the 2013 Wellesley Invitational on Sunday.


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escribing Minneapolis's St. Anthony Falls in 1805, Zebulon Pike wrote that "the great quantity of water . . . forms a spray which in clear weather reflects . . . the colors of the rainbow, and when the sky is overcast covers the falls in gloom and chaotic majesty."¹ By 1860 much of this beauty had been destroyed, as mills on both sides of the river used the power of the falls to turn millions of bushels of wheat into flour.
Much of the wheat needed to feed these mills came from "bonanza" farms hundred of miles to the west on the endless plains of the Red River Valley. Ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 acres, these huge farms needed fleets of harvesters and armies of workers to gather their crops.
Steel rails linked the farms and the mills. The railroads provided the efficient, relatively cheap transportation that made both farming and milling profitable. They also carried the foodstuffs and other products that the men and women living on the single-crop bonanza farms needed to live.
The mills, the farms, and the railroads depended on each other for success; none could function and prosper in isolation. This efficient combination of farms, mills, and railroads dominated flour production in the United States for more than half a century.¹Lucile M. Kane, The Falls of St. Anthony: The Waterfall That Built Minneapolis (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1966), 5.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
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The lesson is based on the St. Anthony Falls Historic District, the Bagg Bonanza Farm District, and the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District, three of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.