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Democrats not sold on grand bargain
President Barack Obama may be thinking about a "grand bargain" to address spending and the federal deficit, but there's a key constituency he has to persuade to come along.
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The talk of any deal with congressional Republicans — and for now, it's just that: talk — has liberals worried the White House will give in to changes to safety net programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Republicans say such changes are an essential part of any big deal. And Obama previously has been open to a number of reforms that irk the liberals, such as raising the retirement age of Medicare, means-testing and adopting an inflation calculation, known as chained CPI, for Social Security.
Inevitably, if there is an agreement on a big deal, Democrats will have to get on board for it to pass. But the 2012 election brought in new Democratic members of the House and Senate who are more liberal and more outspoken, strengthening the left wing of the caucus.
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One hundred and seven of the 200 House Democrats signed a letter to Obama threatening to vote "against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits — including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and need."
Instead, they want the White House to "rely on economic growth and more fair revenue-raising policies to solve our fiscal problems," like getting rid of subsidies for big businesses and raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
"I only know one thing: I'm against cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid," said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House. "I don't really care who is pushing it. It doesn't matter who says it's a good idea. It's a bad idea."
Ellison said the early resistance from House Democrats to cutting benefits was an indication "they won't be able to do it."
( Also on POLITICO: Dems' big 2014 obstacle: Obama)
A second letter, spearheaded by Reps. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and supported by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, simply states they pledge to vote against any proposal they see as a benefit cut.
The letter has been signed by 25 other members of the Democratic Caucus.
"I had a reporter ask me recently, 'Is this just like the Grover Norquist No Tax Increase Pledge,' and I said, 'Yeah, sure, just like a fish is like a bicycle,'" Grayson said on a conference call with PCCC supporters. "If you promise that you won't raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires and multinational corporations, that shows who you think you really represent. And if you say you won't cut benefits for old people, sick people, poor people, that shows who you care about, too."
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They also have an important ally in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who said at a recent press conference that she's all for making entitlement programs "more fiscally sound," but including things like raising the retirement age or chained CPI would simply be taking "a scalp" or a "trophy" for the GOP.

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The moduli space of CFTs with central charge 26 forms the classical phase space of bosonic string theory, in some sense. Similarily the moduli space of SCFTs with central charge 10 forms the classical phase space of type II superstring theory
We might expect this should make these moduli spaces symplectic, or at least Poisson (super)manifolds. Is there such structure on them?
More generally, the only geometric structure on CFT moduli spaces I encountered is the Zamolodchikov metric. What other structures do they have?


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Mississippi Officially Abolishes Slavery, Ratifies 13th Amendment
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Two medical school colleagues, one an immigrant from India, the other a life-long Mississippian, joined forces to resolve a historical oversight that until this month had never officially been corrected.
The oversight was no small one either. Until February 7, 2013, the state of Mississippi had never submitted the required documentation to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, meaning it never officially had abolished slavery.
The amendment was adopted in December 1865 after the necessary three-fourths of the then-36 states voted in favor of ratification. Mississippi, however, was a holdout; at the time state lawmakers were upset that they had not been compensated for the value of freed slaves.
Dr. Ranjan Batra, professor of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, told ABC News he was inspired to investigate the history of the Thirteenth Amendment in his state after a viewing of the film Lincoln.
"At the end of the story there was an open question about how the ratification process proceeded," he said. "Living in the South as I do, I found that a pretty big open question."
So Batra proceeded to do some investigating of his own, noticing on the website usconstitution.net that there was an asterisk next to the state of Mississippi in connection with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
"Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995, but because the state never officially notified the U.S. Archivist, the ratification is not official," reads the statement on the website. Batra felt compelled to act to rectify the clerical oversight.
"Mississippi gets a lot of bad press about this type of stuff and I just felt that it is something that should be fixed, and I saw every reason that could be done," he said. "Everyone here would like to put this part of Mississippi's past behind us and move on into the 21st century rather than the 19th."
So Batra enlisted the help of University of Mississippi Medical Center colleague Ken Sullivan, who took an immediate interest in the story, calling the national archives to confirm that they had in fact never received the proper paperwork. Sullivan then took a trip to the state archives to acquire a copy of the bill.
"The last paragraph [of the bill] directs the Secretary of State of Mississippi to inform the national archives of the law of the ratification which is exactly the way ratification is supposed to proceed, but that hadn't been done for whatever reason," said Batra.
Sullivan took his family to see Lincoln and told ABC News the film inspired him further to correct this historical oversight. "I had that information when I went to see Lincoln that weekend, I knew really what I was fixing to be a part of and it was overwhelming," he said. "It was humbling to know that such a big part of the nation's history and a huge part of my state's history was involved in this, people stood up and applauded at the end of the movie, the first time I have ever seen that for any movie," said Sullivan.
Sullivan then contacted the office of the Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who quickly agreed to file the required documentation to the National Archives and make the ratification official. On February 7, Director of the Federal Register Charles A. Barth wrote that he had received the notification. "With this action, the State of Mississippi has ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States," he wrote.
"For me it was just important that this part of history was done from our state," said Sullivan. "I know we have some dark spots in our history through the South, it still affects people's opinions about Mississippi today."
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Have you people heard about MSs plans for the inculusion of Palladium in there next OS? It sounds pretty nasty:
It is said to be 'very' secure and should, i have read be a secure platform making it 'impossible' to copy cds, share MP3s and play some of them. Also software will have to be made Palladium certified work correctly on the new platform. Also Music CDs e.t.c will have to be certifed all aiming at anti-piracy.
However MS say that this will be a complete optional feature that can be easily turned off, but that dosnt sound too likly
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There was a question but the old and the new mustangs and I would like to make a statement then I will try to let it go at that. Then question was why would anyone want a classic mustang over the new and more modern mustang of today. To answer that you need only to have been behind the wheel of a big block or a hot small block no computers to help you drive or to stop the tires from spinning. Some things are just for the driver and once you have started with all that untamed power on small tires, theres nothing that can take that place in your heart. So be fore you ask a question like that spin an era not a day in my shoes. Then ask me why the love of Classic Car
explorerx4 Central CTPosts: 13,792there is satisfaction in driving a vehicle with no helpers other than steering, throttle, and brakes.2017 Ford Fusion SE 2017 Ford F-150 Limited0
I like cars that SOUND mechanical. I simply cannot drive, to this day, any car that doesn't make mechanical noises. My Subaru has that wonderful clackety clack of valve lifters that I like, and the whine of the gears. Exhaust note sucks but you can't have everything.
Most older cars do sound mechanical, and you can feel what they are doing. Even the smell is important to me, of hot oil, coolant, exhaust. This is Man + Machine, not Man IN machine.0
Point about how important it is for a car to 'sound mechanical' was well made on a recent episode of Top Gear. They did a drag race between a new Honda Accord and vintage Jaguar XK and Aston Martin DB something. The Accord won easily, much to their disgust.0
Well sure, a new 2008 Minivan could probably have won the 1954 Grand Prix of Monaco, but so what? I fully realize and understand why, in this fast paced stressful world, the appeal of driving a 2008 "isolation chamber" is a strong one, but like all compromises, you gain something and you lose something.
I don't miss dripping convertible tops, whimpy windshield wipers and mushy bias ply tires, but I'm more than tempted to fix up a 60s cars nonetheless as my everyday driving, with "improvements".0
I'm so used to the mild clatter and whine that comes from my fintail much of the time, I can give a good guess of speed simply by sound.
There's something involving about driving a car that makes noises and requires inputs...like you are actually doing something. I suspect this is why many performance oriented drivers of modern cars modify the exhausts, to at least feel there is something going on.0
have just gotten too "good", so that it just becomes increasingly hard to really stand out. I'm sure nowadays it's not hard to get a V-6/automatic Accord, Camry, or Altima to hit 0-60 in the low 6 second range. So if you have some high-profile car that can do it in 5, it just doesn't seem that big of a deal. Even though it takes much more effort to make a car that does 0-60 in 5 seconds, compared to 6!
But back in the day, if you had a musclecar that would do 0-60 in, say, 7 seconds, that was pretty impressive. FWIW, Consumer Reports tested a 1969 or so Charger with a 440-4bbl, relatively mild 3.23:1 rear end, and an automatic tranny. They got 0-60 in 7 seconds, so I'm sure C&D or MT would've been able to get it down to under 6. But in 1969, your typical intermediate or full-sized family car with a small V-8 typically took 10-15 seconds to hit 0-60 (CR got 10 seconds out of a late 60's Coronet 318, and around 14.5 out of a '68 Impala with a 307/automatic), and most 6-cyl domestics were 15 seconds or more. Heck, some foreign cars, like the old VW Bug, could take 30 seconds to hit 0-60!0
garv214 Posts: 162There has been definite progress in the automotive world since the 60s. Modern cars handle infinitely better than those of the muscle car era, they brake far more effectively, they pollute less, they are far more reliable, and the average family sedan would embarrass a number of "muscle cars" of the day.
However, automakers have engineered most of the "character" out of a car (especially Toyota and Lexus). Case in point, the Camry is arguably one of the best sedans produced and gives tremendous Bang for the Buck, but most car enthusiasts wouldn't be caught dead in one, because the car is about as exciting and passionate as watching grass grow...(no offense to the grass...). In their Relentless Pursuit of Perfection, many automakers have gutted out the soul of the car reducing it to a well-built appliance. Some automakers still "get it" however (Mazda for example) and make a car that has all of the benefits of modern design but is still entertaining to drive.
I agree with Shifty about restoring a 60s car, but with improvements. You really are merging the best of both worlds, by taking advantage of modern suspension, braking, and power trains and incorporating it into the design and style of a vintage car.0
It's funny that my fintail with its little FI 2.2l (ca. 140 cubic inch) I6 can do 0-60 in maybe 12 seconds...but it revs a lot higher than an old V8, no doubt.0
yeah but you'd have to thrash it---don't do that! :P Let it take the full 15 seconds.0
Oh, it likes to be revved. Gotta make it kick out some black smoke now and then :blush:
But really, I think it can do 0-60 in under 15, by a couple seconds anyway. I've never really felt the car was having a hard time merging onto a highway...but then again people here like to dawdle their way onto an interstate at 38mph.0
It seems like German hp are different than American hp. Our '84 Jeep Cherokee 4cyl supposedly had about 105 hp, IIRC, but performed nothing like the '84 Audi 5000 with very similar rated hp, and similar weight. The Jeep was a slug!0
Our '84 Jeep Cherokee 4cyl supposedly had about 105 hp, IIRC, but performed nothing like the '84 Audi 5000 with very similar rated hp, and similar weight. The Jeep was a slug!
Was that the old AMC lump of an inline-4, or the Pontiac Iron Duke lump of an inline-4? I think either way, they only had about 85-90 hp. It probably hit that peak around 4000-4400 rpm, and then dropped off fast. I don't know if Jeep was still using Chrysler 3-speed torqueflites by that time, but if they were, that was probably another strike against it. That same transmission could probably handle a 318-4bbl or a 360-2bbl, so a little 2.5 4-cyl probably had to work its little [non-permissible content removed] off to spin that transmission. I think they also had to use an adaptor kit to make the Torqueflite mate up to the 4-cyl, so that probably sapped some power as well.
My 1985 Consumer Guide has a test of an Audi 5000, but I forget what kind of 0-60 time they got out of it. Probably 11-12 seconds. Well they also had a couple Jeeps in there. One was a 2.5/stick shift, while the other was a Chevy 2.8/3-speed auto, and I think the 4-cyl was actually quicker! Both times were around 17-18 seconds, though. (keep in mind that CG is sort of like CR, where their times are more conservative than what you might get with MT or C&D)0
"One was a 2.5/stick shift, while the other was a Chevy 2.8/3-speed auto, and I think the 4-cyl was actually quicker! Both times were around 17-18 seconds, "
17-18 sounds about right. Mine was the 2.5/stick shift, I got it for that exact reason, just as 'fast' as the 2.8/auto. My spreadsheet shows an '84 Audi at about 11 secs 0-60.0
I think the love of a car comes from the sweat and tears and time that are put into it from the repair, the fixing,, the driving. It took one summer of working on my mustang for them to be hooked and mustang lovers for ever. Then came the driving of what they had worked on and there was no going back, so to love something like a car is having that car in your system as well as you understand the systems in the car. Just ask a car lover why he or she love that or any car. They must talk about how they became part of car. This sounds like double talk but if you understand then there nothing else to say and if you don't then theres nothing else I can tell you.0
Them are my kids that are now girl 33 and boy 30 and still classic car lovers from the heart. Sam0
Tell us more about your Stang & what you've done to & with it.
6RO7A169929 has been with me for over 40 years. (66 GT Cpe)0
I am a retired Marine that have loved the mustang from the early 70's and owned my first one in 1974 a 1965 cpe and since then there have been many as my kids were going up.
I have only has two that were close to my heart a 1968 California Special which in Hawaii in 1983 which took me a year to complete but god what a car, Between then and now again there have been many but the 1970 fastback in the one that got under my skin and has been there every since.
The car is not for shows or has matching numbers it's my car not only by ownership but "FOR THE LOVE OF IT". In 1993 I saw the car sitting in back of a machine shop where it had been pawned by a worker at the place to the owner of the business. Well after some intense talk about the cost of the car I took it home where my 18yr old dau and 15 yr old son said dad what is that, was a good question do to the looks of the car that was missing many exter.parts as well as inter. parts.
The 1968 C/S was the first contact that my two kids had with a car of this kind. There first ride was one they would never forget, a 6000 RPM 50 foot burnout from a 350 HP 302 mousetrap if you know the term. By the way my wife did not speak to me for a week and would never ride in the car. At this point the kids were hooked for life at 8 and 5 years old. So when the 70 Mustang came along they were there for the motor building, stero, tranny change (auto to manual) rearend change 8 inch to 9 inch, the gear change to 325 from 280, dis brake change, power brakes. GT interior placement, rack and pin steering and the body work was done by us alone with the spectramaster base coat clear coat Red RM235K.
Dawn and Brian were there every step of the way and are now mustang lover from the heart because they have there blood, sweat, and tears invested. So we are in it for for the love of them "THE MUSTANG"
Thats hot, let us know how you are doing with the car when you get it.0
I think that would depend on what you want to do with the car. If it's going to be your car to drive daily then the crate motor is the way to go but if you want to show the car then stay with the 283. You can put the 283 and the tranny up some where just in case you want to make it a show car later in life. I tend to want to satisfy my own desires when it comes to my cars. My car came with the 302 in it but I had the need for the 351W so thats what I put in the mustang. As I said to each his own.0
I think that would depend on what you want to do with the car. If it's going to be your car to drive daily then the crate motor is the way to go but if you want to show the car then stay with the 283. You can put the 283 and the tranny up some where just in case you want to make it a show car latelr in life. I tend to want to satisfy my own desires when it comes to my cars. My car came with the 302 in it but I had the need for the 351W so thats what I put in the mustang. As I said to each his own.0
It seems that I'm missing the point here, we were talking muscle cars then some how toyota, lexus, camry and mazda became the topic. So where's the classic car talk whats with the import talk , how does that go along with what we are talking about or did I just miss something in the translation.0
The motor in the mustang is kind of an idea with me so I started with the casting with the highest amount of nickel, hyper-tech pistons 0.40 over, 1969/70 heads/w 1.94/1.60 values, 1.6 Crane Roller Rockers, Guide Plates, Stew-in Studs.
After the value job and placement of the seats I got to work with a die grinder and cleaned up the bowls and as much of the runners as possible without beating up the seats to much then back to the machine shop to complete the value job. Then again with the die grinder to gasket match the intake, heads and exhaust ports (about ten hours of work here).
A 670 CFM Street avenger carb, Edelbrock Air Gap Intake, Centerforce Clutch, MSD 8578 pro-billet dist, MSD 6Al control box, Crane hydraulic Roller Cam 563/584 lift and 294/302 advertised duration, Mr. Gasket fuel pump, 4 speed top loader code AV and a 9 inch rear with 3.25 gear, Front wheel disc brakes, rack and pinion steering, GT interior and a good stero, Hooker Competition headers. 10.5'' lightweight externally balanced 157 tooth ford flywheel.
I know that theres something I have missed but oh what the heck.0
I'm impressed with what you've accomplished. My '66 GT Cpe remains stock for the most part. Pertronix ignition, Flowmasters, & aviation lights in the grill are the extent of modifications. It was restored in '95 & has been a show car since, but not a trailer queen as I drive it to all the shows I enter. I doubt the engine will ever blow, but if it does, perhaps a 351 mated to an AOD would be my last fix. Bought it in May '67 with 4900 miles from the first owner. Color = Ivy Green Metallic, WSW tires & the original wire wheel covers. Interior = Pony (White/Light Green)0
If you can give me your email, I will let you see where I am with the car as of today. I am trying to take out all the rust that has run a muck over the last few years0
I am glad you get to enjoy your mustang by driving it. To many mustang owners these days never get to feel what its like to drive what they have worked so hard for. I am working on my stang right now and can't wait to drive it and to see one color on it again. But right now I am working for the life of the car, it has sat to long with out my care for no reason other than I was working and did not have the time, well now I make the time just for the love of it.0
mustangman911 Posts: 7This car has NOT changed since the 70's. Great job, Dodge!! Oh, and this car has a hemi, right?0
Hey what's with the dodge hemi thing here in mustang world but it's ok if you have nowhere else to go. We stangers will talk to you " well for right now anyway.and why would I have a 5.7 when I can have a 5.8 and for us common folk that's a 351W0
gpm2001 Posts: 2Rack and pinion steering, 4 wheel independent suspension, electronic engine and transmission controls even fibre optic terminations are the norm everywhere in life today. These advancements DO PERFORM. Cars today are safer and faster and more comfortable than they were 40 years ago. I drive an 09 VW EOS daily for commuting. BUT I love my 475 HP convertible 69 Camaro with 3 inch exhaust and the fact that i feel wind blown and oily after driving it all day. A roller coaster is thrilling too just like modern hotrods. But you just sit down and get taken for a ride. In an older hot rod you have GIVE yourself a ride.0
Some of what you say is true but there so much more to a classic muscle car. We are not just talking Hi performance, anyone can drive a car that is computer controled and electronics, fibre optics or what ever else is used to assist in driving the car. Do you know the sounds of each gear by RPM, can you tell when you have a low tire by how the car feels. How do you feel when others talk about your car. Can it be said that you know every nut and bolt in you car well most od us true classic car lovers can. And theres so much more!0
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(CNN) – NASCAR driver Tony Stewart hit and killed another driver who was walking on a track during a dirt-track race in upstate New York, authorities said early Sunday.
Kevin Ward Jr., 20, died from injuries suffered in the incident, which occurred Saturday night at the Empire Super Sprints series event at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
The track is about a two-hour drive from Watkins Glen International race track, where Stewart had been scheduled to race in a NASCAR event Sunday.
Stewart's team director Greg Zipadelli said Sunday morning the driver has decided not to drive in the event.
"Our hearts go out to Kevin's family," Zipadelli said. "This is a very tough, very emotional time for everybody — his family, our family at Stewart-Haas Racing."
On Saturday night, Ward's sprint car hit the outside wall during lap 14 of a 25-lap race, Ontario County Sheriff Philip C. Povero said.
A video of the incident shows Ward out of his crashed car, walking on the track toward the race cars, which had slowed for a yellow flag. Ward points a finger and appears to be yelling. One car swerves to avoid Ward on the half-mile dirt track.
Stewart's car passes close to Ward, and it appears that its right rear tire hits him.
An ambulance took Ward to a hospital, but he died before it arrived, Povero told reporters.
"Stewart has fully cooperated" with an investigation, Povero said. "He acknowledges the collision with the driver."
Ward, from Port Leyden, was in his fifth season in the Empire Super Sprints series. He began racing when he was 4 years old, running go-kart events.
Stewart's spokesman said they are trying to sort out the details.
"A tragic accident took place last night during a sprint car race in which Tony Stewart was participating," Mike Arning said. "Tony was unhurt, but a fellow competitor lost his life. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
A competitor, which runs the car that swerved around Ward, expressed sympathy.
"Our deepest condolences go to the entire Ward Family. We are one huge ESS family, you will be truly missed bud! #RIP13," Hebing Racing tweeted.
Stewart is a three-time champion in NASCAR's top division and also won a sprint car championship in 1995.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends, and fellow competitors of Kevin Ward Jr.," NASCAR said in a written statement Sunday. "We support Tony Stewart's decision to miss today's race and we will continue to respect the process and timeline of the local authorities and will continue to monitor this situation moving forward."
Regan Smith will replace Stewart on Sunday, Zipadelli said.
An investigation is under way, police said.


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The family of Audrie Pott - a teen who has now become a national symbol for sexual assault and cyber bullying - spoke publicly for the first time Monday, using their newfound status to urge for tougher laws and implore anyone who knows about their daughter's case to come forward.
"If this could happen to my daughter, this could happen to anyone," Sheila Pott, Audrie's mother, said at a Monday news conference.
The 15-year-old Audrie tried to commit suicide on Sept. 10, eight days after a Labor Day house party where she drank too much, passed out and was allegedly sexually assaulted by three fellow students at Saratoga High - boys she had been friends with since middle school. She actually died on Sept. 12 in the hospital, according to her family's lawsuit.
The 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday on sexual assault charges and are expected to appear in a private juvenile detention hearing on Tuesday. NBC Bay Area was the first to report that news last week.
In a statement, their lawyers called much of the reporting "inaccurate" and distanced their clients from the alleged crime and Audrie's suicide. "Most disturbing is the attempt to link Audrey's [sic] suicide to the specific actions of these three boys," some of the statement read.
NBC Bay Area also learned on Monday after the news conference from attorney Bob Allard that there is a photograph of the girl with writing on her leg. At least one of the boys, Allard said, wrote on her saying something to the effect of "---- was here." Allard has not seen the photograph, but it was described to him. He referened it in a wrongful death lawsuit he filed on Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Cout, which also alleges the parents of the house party are also responsible.
Her parents didn't learn why their daughter killed herself until her memorial service, where some friends told them there was more to the story that they should look into. That's when they hired Allard's law firm to investigate.
NBC Bay Area doesn't normally identify victims of sexual assault or suicide, but have used the girl's name in this report with her parents' permission. They are hoping the story will help prevent something like this from every happening to anyone else.
It was Sheila Pott's idea to use her daughter's name in such a public forum, which has now become a global story.
She and her ex-husband, Larry Pott, and his wife, Lisa Pott, are working on creating a law to stiffen penalties in California for cyber bullying and to treat juveniles as adults in some cases of sexual assault. They said they are now in the research phase of what they hope will be one day called "Audrie's Law."
At the news conference, some new details into Audrie's story were revealed.
According to Allard, the Pott's family attorney, the boys took "at least one photo" of the assault and showed it by email and text to at least ten people. He also alleged the boys harrassed her afterward and "took steps to cover up evidence."
In her mind, Audrie felt as though "the whole school knew," Allard said at news conference, citing Audrie's Facebook page the family scoured after her death.
Allard made a point to say there was a direct cause-and-effect between the party and Audrie's suicide, where hours before she killed herself, she called her mother: "I can't do this anymore Mom. Pick me up." Allard and Pott's parents said they are calling on the District Attorney and the judge involved to try these teens as adults.
Her Facebook page, discovered by her parents only after her memorial service, also showed haunting comments the normally vivacious girl made in private messages to friends, which her family shared publicly. Some of the comments include statements such as:
"I have a reputation for a night I don't remember."
"The whole school is talking about it."
"My life is ruined."
"The boys who did this can die in a hole for all I care."
"I'm in hell."
Still, some evidence - including a cell phone that took the photograph - has not been turned over; at the conference, Lisa Pott said the family learned from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office that one of the boys said he lost or broke it, and the family begged for more information.
Allard filed a 9-count wrongful death lawsuit against the boys and the homeowner where the Labor Day party took place, in large part, to compel some of this information to come forward. The complaint includes allegations of negligence, conspiracy, sexual battery, defamation and false imprisonment.
The school told the family administrators had "disciplined" the boys and expelled them from the football team, but not from school, Allard said, because the alleged assault did not take place at school.
Audrie's parents, on a website dedicated to her, described her as a gifted art student, a writer and a musician who played viola and piano, and she was part of a middle school band that played for Barack Obama's inauguration.
Her father teared up and got very emotional during one point of the news conference in describing his daughter, who used to be "so full of life."
"She was beautiful on the outside," Larry Pott said. "But she was more beautiful on the inside. she was sweet and kind. She was the wittiest and funniest kick in the pants you'd ever seen."
FOR MORE INFORMATION:The Audrie Pott Foundation has been set up to provide information about Audrie and efforts to raise money to provide art and music scholarships to Bay Area students.


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Microsoft today rolled out a "release preview" test version of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7.
This preview, which can be downloaded here, is the last test version that Microsoft will release before issuing the final "general release" of IE 11 for Windows 7, which is expected to appear "later this fall," according to a blog post by Roger Capriotti, senior director of Internet Explorer marketing. IE 11 also will ship with Windows 8.1, and, in that case, its general availability date is already set for Oct. 18.
Installing the preview will replace IE 10 on a user's machine, according to Microsoft's FAQ. Consequently, it's best to try it out on test equipment.
For those developers testing the browser using other platforms than Windows, Microsoft plans to release virtual machine images of IE 11 release preview for Windows 7 at its modern.ie site sometime this week. Announcements of those virtual machine images (for Android, Mac and Windows) will be made at the @IEDevChat Twitter feed, Microsoft indicated.
Microsoft's Windows 7 version of this browser has tended to lag the release of its Windows 8 cousin. The last release of IE 11 for Windows was called a "developer preview," and it was released in late July. There are differences in the features supported on IE 11 for Windows 7 vs. IE 11 for Windows 8. For instance, there's no SPDY support, or support for the Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions standards in IE 11 for Windows 7, although those protocols are supported by IE 11 for Windows 8.
Microsoft's announcement of IE 11 for Windows 7 release preview indicated that some new developing standards are supported with this release. For instance, the release preview adds support for the Pointer Events draft of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), which is working on interfaces for touch, mouse, keyboard and pen that are "hardware agnostic." There's also support for W3C's recommendations on closed captioning in the browser, which lets users change how captions appear in video sources. The W3C's "do not track" draft protocol is supported, which is a method of telling third-party Web advertisers that the user doesn't want his or her clickstream activity monitored (although it's entirely voluntary for advertisers to honor the request or not).
Developers will get updated tools with the release preview, which are accessed via the F12 key. Microsoft claims that it's easier to debug WebGL content with the updated tools. It's faster to find Web content files via an improved file picker in the debugger. Memory leak sources can be better tracked and CSS property edits can be seen "in the Live DOM without having to press the enter key," according to Microsoft.
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Microsoft this week described installation instructions for volume licensing users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to get Extended Security Updates (ESU) activated on PCs.
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Join creative writing facilitator Kathy Dunn and fellow travelers in exploring writing and the world of "Slow" in the ancient and vibrant city of Orvieto Italy.
Beginning and seasoned writers alike will find new ways to approach writing and life in this week-long adventure.
Orvieto Italy, 2013
"Wow! I haven't been seriously writing in years. I am bursting with story. You make me want to write again. Thanks."
-- Annie Kosh
"Cindy and I once traveled through a hurricane to get to workshop, and Peter once held space with a tornado. And if memory serves me correctly, we also traveled through an ice storm - so there's not much that will stop us writers from being in the presence of Kathy's illustrious leadership!"
-- Tanya Shersnow
Everyone has stories; everyone is a storyteller - and writing begins with these stories. I help people build on the natural story-telling abilities they already have.
Helping people write involves knowing that whenever a person puts pen to paper, they are saying something important. Whether it is fiction or fact, dialog or college essay: anything that is worth the effort it takes to write is important.
What I love about my work is the courage people bring to their writing. What I love about my work is what I see when a person first looks up after reading something they have just written – when they have discovered, through their writing, something they hadn't fully understood. Whether the participant is a confident writer or an uncertain beginner, adult or child, writing brings new images, new stories, and new understandings into the world.


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Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times not educating electorate – Research
The Centre for African Elections Media Monitoring Index (CAEMMI) recent media research on the state print media showed the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times did less critical political content reporting than higher critical content political reporting.
The study which was conducted from the 1st of October to the 30th of October to ascertain whether the state –owned print media is analyzing electoral stakes critically and informing the electorates on political issues, revealed both the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times did a 96% political news reporting with no critical analysis.
Daily Graphic newspaper did only 9% critical political content –enquiry reporting while the Ghanaian Times newspaper did a 3% critical political content – inquire reporting during the period of analysis.
The findings also revealed , out of a total of 297 political news published by the state – owned print media , Daily Graphic published 153 stories (94%) political party stories that were event based issue reporting while 147stories (98%) of the Ghanaian Times also had no critical inquiry responses of issues reported.
Commenting on the report, the Executive Director of CAEMMI, Dr. Messan Mawugbe said, during pre –election period, the role of the media was supreme in content and form, to enable citizens have access to sufficient information to make valid and enlightened choice.
He advised the media to "articulate the 'inverted pyramid' effectively and touch on "interrogative-consequences" by using news reporting as a mechanism to seek information and embark on content – inquiry on behalf of the electorates".
Dr. Mawugbe said, "during election period, information flow to the electorates is very paramount to enable appreciable choices". However, the findings reveal our Journalists consistently have failed to "ask" on behalf of the electorate.
He said during election campaign periods, "political parties present to the electorate 'Clichéd' and over-rehearsed campaigns; it is therefore the responsibility of the Journalist to 'cut through the parties hype and spin".
He added that "it is time the media moved away from 'news-reporting' to what CAEMMI refers to as 'Content-Inquiry Reporting' and act as political interrogators and inquirers' than political news reporters.
"Ghanaian Journalist should allow the national aspirations, communal challenges and needs to shape the style of reporting , or what CAEMMI refers to as National Instrumentalization of Political News" to shape the style of political reporting.
He reminded the media of the GJA guideline 7 which stipulates that "Journalists must endeavour to subject manifestoes and programmes to thorough analysis and discussions for the benefit of the electorate" as well as the NMC's national media policy which says "All media services shall be regarded as a public trust…"
The research results are not meant to critique the state-owned media but to draw the media's attention to their style of political reporting.


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The idea behind Girl Walk // All Day emerged from our desire to expand the boundaries around the idea of the traditional music video, which usually spans the length of a single track. This album-length piece will feature a talented group of dancers across a range of public and private spaces around New York City, turning the city's sidewalks and obstacles into part of an evolving improvisational dance routine.
The piece will be available for free online in short, serialized segments and we also plan to screen the full-length film in public spaces, and at festivals, concerts, parties, and beyond — beginning in October 2011 — inspiring an interactive viewing experience that will evolve into a series of dance parties around the globe.
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By Andre Ramshaw
What's the biggest luxury, the most lusted-after perk of long-distance travel these days? Close your eyes, count to 10 and whisper it gently — sleep.
With the indignities of air travel stacking up by the day, savvy travellers are looking to railway sleeper services for a comfortable alternative.
Though VIA Rail discontinued the sleeper car service between Toronto and Montreal in 2005, it still offers cozy cabins on its Montreal to Halifax, Montreal to Gaspé, Que., and Winnipeg to Churchill, Man., lines as well as the famous "Canadian" service from Toronto to Vancouver.
In the U.K., despite periodic talk of scrapping loss-making sleeper cars, the two overnight train services — the Caledonian from London Euston to Scotland, and the Night Riviera from London Paddington to southwest England — remain popular with late-working MPs, tourists and railway romantics.
The Caledonian trundles north through the industrial heart of northern England, the once-thundering dockyards of Glasgow and alongside moody lochs and forests to Fort William and Ben Nevis, the tallest peak in Britain at 1,343 metres.
But being a contrarian, I took it backwards — from teeming Glasgow Central Station to equally teeming London. It's after 10 p.m. when I arrive at Glasgow Central's cavernous platform, and my train is not yet prepared.
Pre-boarding entertainment is provided by two liquored lads swigging from a purloined pitcher of beer, befuddling a pair of Americans with "wee-och-aye" banter decipherable only to Govan stevedores and the utterly hammered.
When the gate opens for the Caledonian, I scuttle behind the McDrunk Brothers and head for the bar car. Glasgow's Clyde River and grim apartment blocks melt into the night as I savour my complimentary merlot.
Morning comes too soon, and I am awakened with the first edition of the The Scotsman newspaper and a hot bacon roll and coffee. I lift the blinds to reveal a whirl of harassed commuters trooping to the office. I let my day unfurl at leisure, enjoying the hour or so when passengers can linger before vacating their cabins.
Though the Caledonian offers the more dramatic scenery, from London to the lochs, the Night Riviera is equally charming — a rocking cradle from the capital to the independent-minded county of Cornwall at England's rocky southwest tip.
This time, I travel from west to east, bedding down at Truro, Cornwall's principal city, for the night train to London Paddington. This time, mercifully, there are no wasted wastrels to serenade the jaded. Just a smattering of passengers, not all of whom are occupying cabins. There are many more stops on this line, and ghostly figures on platforms drift by through my half-opened blinds like so many tumbleweeds.
The cabins on this train have television screens, but I resist their numbing pleasures. Why ruin the effect of timelessness? The beauty of the sleeper, besides the fun of rooting through the free toiletry pack, is in losing any sense of where and when.
The Europeans have given us the most opulent sleeper services (think the Orient Express), but it is the Americans who introduced the concept, as far back as the 1830s, and who refined and commercialized it by the mid-19th century (George Pullman and Ben Field).
Given the advances in air travel since that time, it is a small wonder that the sleeper car still exists at all. But as pullout beds and even first-class cabins attest, the airlines are eager to steal a page from Pullman's enduring invention.
Gently rocked to sleep on the rails or stealing a few cat-naps between outbreaks of turbulence? I know what I'm dreaming of …


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American Gods: Shadow in Prison
Unfolding the Map
My decision to start blogging and mapping American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, is sort of an experiment. It is my first foray into mapping a novel, and there will be places that the characters go that I'm not going to be able to follow on a map. However, this novel is about a man's journey, and like most journeys he not only travels on physical plane but also on the emotional and spiritual plane as well. In this case, the spiritual plane truly lives. I have started the map, the single point you see, at a state prison in Arkansas, and I'm going to be doing some guessing at a couple of places that Gaiman makes up, like Eagle Point, Indiana. So it goes. I'm journeying with Shadow, and I hope you enjoy the journey too.
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The best thing - in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing - about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.
American Gods: Chapter 1
Shadow in Prison, Part 1
Every so often I have moaned and bewailed my life. Why can't things go my way? Why wasn't my childhood perfect? Why does everything seem to go against me? Sometimes I had these little outbursts against the universe even though my own choices had brought me to that low point. During my little pity parties, I had forgotten that at least I had the opportunity to keep struggling against life, and that I still had the freedom to make those little mistakes that seemed to make my life so difficult.
It wasn't until my wife and I started mentoring women newly released from prison that I learned that my little troubles didn't mean anything compared to others. The women I helped mentor had come from worse backgrounds than I did. By "worse" I mean that they were victims of terrible physical and sexual abuse. Their crimes were usually related to drug abuse and alcohol. They also often were mothers, further complicating issues when we tried to help reintegrate them into normal life. One woman we mentored had an ex-husband who had tried to have her killed, and was still trying to track her down.
I've only visited prisons, and fortunately have never had to live in one. Prison is its own society. Some convicted criminals find prison an opportunity for power, and prison gangs provide the vehicle for them to become powerbrokers in an enclosed system. Some find religion, and prison provides a way to explore their lives and give themselves in their brokenness over to a higher power. Some find it a respite from the streets, and if they have been there long enough or enough times, they have learned the system and how to integrate into it. Prisoners also face many of the same problems that they might face outside, but concentrated because it's a closed system. Addictions, predators, abusers (in the form of fellow prisoners but also in the form of sadistic prison officials). Life is hell for them, whether it is on the outside or the inside, and if a prisoner is going to make the most of the scraps of opportunity they have, they must have a lot of inner strength and be able to selectively use a host of personal skills to navigate this unforgiving world.
Musical Interlude
I found this song by Joan Baez for our musical interlude, which tells three different stories of three people in prison.
Shadow in prison, Part 2
In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Shadow is in prison at the beginning of the book. He is determined to do his time, limit his contact with anyone, and get released. His only friend is a fellow convict named Low-Key, who gives him a contraband coin that Shadow uses to practice tricks and illusions. We'll learn more about Low-Key later. We don't know much, if anything, about the offense that landed Shadow in prison, nor do we know his real name. Like his chosen moniker, he wants to remain quiet and unobtrusive. He plans then to go home to his wife, Laura, get a job and never do anything that would risk a return to prison.
Most people who are in prison, except for the most hardened criminals and those who are there for the rest of their lives, have similar dreams. They plan to get out and stay out, and live a normal life. Unfortunately, there are traps all over. My wife and I, once a month, join a small group of people and bring dinner down to a halfway house in Albuquerque where we live. The men in the halfway house are all transitioning out of prison. They live in the house, try to find jobs, and try to get themselves on the right track. Unfortunately, the whiff of prison never leaves them, and makes getting back to normal difficult if not impossible. They must always disclose their offenses when applying for jobs and applying for rental housing, which severely limits what's available to them. They may have lost all of their identification, and therefore must spend hours filling out tedious forms and working their way through the bureaucracy. They must report to a parole or probation officer regularly, and that officer has full discretion to determine that they are in violation and send them back to prison on a moment's notice.
The jobs they are able to get are often minimum wage jobs, even if they happen to have more advanced training. The housing that they are able to get is often located in the worst neighborhoods. Of course, this puts them right back into the very environments that they have been trying to escape. Or perhaps they are released back into dysfunctional support systems. It takes one turn of fate, such as a tragedy or accident, or a series of bad days filled with job rejections and hours of tedium in faceless and uncompromising bureaucratic rule, regulations and red tape, or a troublesome character from that bad former life coming back into contact, to send them back on a spiral into the habits and actions that got them into prison in the first place.
We'll see the same thing happen to Shadow. An unexpected tragedy occurs, and his plans to return to normalcy are dashed. This tragedy, the death of his wife just days before he is to be released from prison, means his life will never be the same. Will this tragedy bring him on a circle that leads him back around to prison?
As I mentioned above, sometimes people find themselves in prison. For Shadow, this tragedy is the opening act of a sort of passion play that will challenge everything he knows about himself. It will be a journey that not only takes him all ove the map, but to places beyond the map. Like Odysseus of Greek legend, he will come face-to-face with himself, despite the pulls of mythology old and new. Shadow will also redefine himself in the process.
If you want to know more about the US prison system and the challenges for ex-convicts
Atlantic Monthly: When They Get Out
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Human Rights Watch World Report 2013: US and prisons
New York Times: After Prison, a Bill to be Paid
Wikipedia: Incarceration in the United States
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Q. What is the Northside Neighborhood Initiative?
A. The Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI) was announced March 9, 2015. It is a partnership among neighborhood residents, UNC, Self-Help, the Jackson Center, the Town of Carrboro, and the Town of Chapel Hill that pursues a shared vision for the historic Northside Neighborhood: a family-friendly, multi-generational community that balances the needs of long-term residents, new residents, homeowners, renters and students.
Durham-based nonprofit Self-Help is utilizing a $3 million no-interest loan from UNC to lead the acquisition and resale of properties in the Northside to create housing opportunities that are consistent with community goals and vision. Self-Help is working closely with the grassroots nonprofit Jackson Center, and in close collaboration with neighborhood residents, non-profit housing providers, local government, UNC, and other partners.
The NNI seeks to build on a long history of creative and courageous leadership among the people who live in Northside. It advances ongoing efforts of non-profit organizations like EmPOWERment, Inc., Habitat for Humanity, and the Community Home Trust, that have worked together over the years to promote and to build affordable housing and to conserve the unique strengths of the neighborhood.
Q. What is the vision?
A. The vision is to maintain and strengthen a vibrant, diverse, family-friendly neighborhood that includes elders, students, families, and others and honors the history of Northside.
Q. What are the goals?
A. The NNI is designed to balance housing types in the neighborhood, in order to preserve the future of Northside as a community that serves homeowners and renters from a wide variety of backgrounds with an emphasis on people who work in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, by pursuing the following specific goals: 1. Helping long-term residents who want to stay in Northside remain in their homes; 2. Attracting new residents – a balance of working families, seniors and students – from diverse backgrounds; and 3. Increasing the availability of housing and financing options for neighborhood properties.
Q. How does the initiative work?
A. Self-Help works alongside the Jackson Center, and in close collaboration with neighborhood residents, in order to identify and acquire properties for renovation and redevelopment. Utilizing the loan from UNC, Self-Help seeks to buy properties for the "Northside land bank", where they are maintained until ready for conversion to homeownership or rental housing consistent with the goals of the community, general in partnership with other housing developers.
Q. What is the Northside land bank?
A. We use the phrase "land bank" to mean a mechanism by which property can be strategically acquired, assembled, and converted to serve a community purpose. Self-Help formed the Northside land bank to gain control of key properties that can help support neighborhood goals. Self-Help looks to acquire properties from owners looking to sell, and makes these properties available for purchase by homeowners, non-profit housing providers, and others responsive to neighborhood interests.
Q. How can I purchase a property from the Northside land bank?
A. If you are an individual buyer or represent an organization, and would like to inquire about property availability, please be in touch with the Jackson Center so they can add you to the contact list.
Q. What if I want to sell my property in Northside?
A. If you own property in Northside and are thinking about selling, please be in touch with the Jackson Center to talk more about your interests.
Q. Does the initiative affect students?
A. Students committed to being invested citizens of Chapel Hill have been leaders in making this effort possible. Students in the future will have an opportunity to live in vibrant, diverse community and expand their education and learn the history underneath their feet. Also, current and former students have for years played an active role by working as fellows, volunteers and full-time employees at the Jackson Center and other organizations active in the neighborhood. The NNI also seeks to reach out to rental property owners to establish intentional housing for undergraduate and graduate students.
Q. Do other town-university-neighborhood initiatives exist in the U.S.?
A. The idea of "town-gown" collaboration with specific neighborhoods is not common but there are examples across the country that help inspire NNI. We believe the NNI is unique in the scope of the vision, as well as in the commitment to authentic grassroots, community-based involvement in planning and implementation. Also, most other such initiatives focus on revitalizing disinvested communities adjacent to campuses, work that is important but in some ways less complex than NNI's aspirations to balance needs in a community that has seen extensive investment in particular types of housing.
Q. Why is the Northside Neighborhood the focus of this unique effort?
A. Northside is not just a geographic area. This community is inclusive of all who live, work, worship, and play here. Residents of Northside have built, sustained, and served Carrboro, Chapel Hill and UNC for generations. The neighborhood remains one of the most diverse, vibrant, and culturally important neighborhoods in Chapel Hill/Carrboro.
Q. How can I get involved?
A. Please be in touch with the Jackson Center if you would like to learn more or offer your time to help the NNI succeed.


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Recently, I've been working as a consultant on a new media project that focuses on citizen journalists. While "professional" journalists may raise an eyebrow at the idea, the reality of the new 24/7 news world – combined with a decline of local coverage in many cities and regions because of cutbacks – is that citizen journalists are no longer just a passing fad. In many places, they are contributing valuable reporting because of their determination to make sure important stories in their communities do not go uncovered.So I thought I would offer a few suggestions about ideas and tools for budding citizen journalists.
The most important thing any reporter can have, of course, is curiosity and the courage to keep digging when you're told to go away or "there's no story here." Those skills are hard to teach. But one good place to look for suggestions is at J-Lab's J-Learning site. J-Lab, located at American University in Washington, D.C., frequently focuses on citizen media. At J-Learning, you'll find suggestions on everything from how to do interviews, or how to do a slideshow, to how to understand site metrics (translation: who is reading you and how often.)
Another good place for tips is the Poynter Institute's training section. Many of their webinars and online courses are free of charge or at relatively small fee.
When it comes to technology, I'm going to recommend two specific tools – an iPhone (Blackberry is good too) and a Flip video camera. (I'm assuming that you have access to a laptop or desktop computer.) These two pieces of equipment can basically fit into one pants pocket or handbag. And they're not that expensive; the 3G iPhone is now $99 (along with a service contract), and a Flip video camera is about $149.
"Why those?" you ask. Let's start with the Flip video camera. Originally sold as a point-and-shoot family video camera (it reminds me a lot of the old Polaroid camera in a way), Flip literally makes shooting video as easy as pushing a button. Make no mistake: this may not be the camera you want to use to make a high quality documentary, but it's a great tool to capture, say, protesters outside a healthcare town hall or quick street interviews or some background footage for a multimedia piece.
Or you can use it to turn the subjects of your story into "assistant" reporters. For instance, earlier this year, CNN armed two new freshmen representatives with Flip video cameras and asked them to record their first steps on Capitol Hill. As Republican Jason Chaffetz of Utah later told the New York Times "The camera makes it doable. I can literally put it in my shirt pocket."
One of my favorite features about the Flip is that it comes complete with its own editing software. OK, it's no Final Cut Pro, but if you need to cut out a quick clip to include in a story, just stick that puppy into a computer's USB slot and the editing software downloads on to the machine.
But for me, it's the iPhone that's the real star of "put it in your pocket" reporting. Thanks to iPhone app's, you can literally do almost anything. But I want to focus on the two or three things that work the best:
The camera built into an iPhone is surprisingly good. When I first used it, I expected yet another poor-quality output – a little too pixilated perhaps or the colors would be off. Nope. Not at all. The digital photos that you can take with an iPhone are surprisingly crisp and clear.
Recently, Melissa Lyttle, a photographer at Poynter's St. Petersburg Times used her iPhone to take photos for one of her paper's weekend features. She noted on her blog that "the best camera is the one you have with you." (Al Tompkins at Poynter has a good piece on using the iPhone for journalism at Poynter.org.)
But the iPhone doesn't just do pictures. I frequently use it to record interviews. I use a free app called Quick Voice. It records the interview, allows me to catalog it, and then download it to my computer. This feature is now standard on new iPhones.
If you're interested in having a real-time conversation with your readers, apps that allow you to send messages to your Twitter or Facebook accounts are readily available (and they are free, I might add).
The new iPhone 3GS has a video feature, but Flip's $149 price tag, no monthly bills, and better editing software give it the edge.
If you don't have the money to purchase these tools, many new citizen journalist sites (and there are lots of them out there) may be able to help. I've found lots of them are already using Flip Video camera. And they are always looking for good citizen journalists.
Also remember, these days it's relatively easy to start up your own citizen-journalist website. Most Internet accounts come with web space. Or if you're more ambitious, sign up for the free service at Live Stream (formerly known as Mogulus) that allows you to create you own TV channel on the Web.
To repeat what I said above: in the days when many local media outlets are cutting back on coverage of things such as school board meetings or county councils, a citizen journalist can really contribute something important to his or her community.


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DUI ARREST — An officer stopped a vehicle in the 100 block of Clara Avenue at 1:21 a.m. Sunday and arrested Jennifer Miller, 23, city of residence unknown, on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was cited and released.
CAR PROWL — Caller on Marshall Street reported at 5:39 a.m. Sunday that someone tried to take the tires off a car and ran away. An officer responded and determined there had been no damage or loss of property.
CAMPERS ALONG RIVER — Caller in the 1200 block of East Gobbi Street reported at 8:27 a.m. Sunday that two women were camping along the river. An officer responded and arrested one woman for a county warrant.
STOLEN CAR — Caller on Cherry Court reported at 6:45 a.m. that a car had been stolen out of a garage when the door was left open and the keys were left in the car.
GAS CAP BROKEN OFF — Caller in the 200 block of East Gobbi Street reported at 9:55 a.m. Sunday that the gas cap was broken off a car. An officer responded and took a report.
DUI ARREST — An officer stopped a vehicle in the 300 block of North Orchard Avenue at 9:33 p.m. Sunday and arrested Craig Anderson, 44, of Ukiah, on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was cited and released.
DRUG ARRESTS — An officer stopped a vehicle on the North State Street and Highway 101 overpass at 10:32 p.m. Monday and arrested Paul Cabeza, 25, of Whittier, and Anthony Novellino, 22, of Torrance, on suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance and criminal conspiracy.
The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department regarding calls handled by the Fort Bragg Police Department.
WINDSHIELD BROKEN — Caller in the 100 block of Dana Street reported at 6:13 a.m. Sunday that the back windshield on a car had been broken out.
Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as having been arrested may contact the Daily Journal once their case has been concluded so the results can be reported. Those who feel the information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case of those arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant: all DUI cases reported by law enforcement agencies are reported by the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes no exceptions.
SOMEONE HANDCUFFED TO POLE — The Ukiah Fire Department responded to the 1300 block of North State Street at 10:34 p.m. Sunday for a person who was handcuffed to a pole on the north side of the lot.
The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this space to correct errors or make clarifications to news articles. Significant errors in obituary notices or birth announcements will result in reprinting the entire article. Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526.


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Congress now is expected to revise NSA, FISA court operations
In the four months since former defense contractor Edward Snowden revealed the National Security Agency's electronic data collection programs, the question of intelligence restructuring has been persistent in Congress. Despite the focus on the government shutdown and the upcoming debt-ceiling fight, a surge in legislation that touches on the surveillance programs suggests that the issue isn't going away without some kind of action from lawmakers.
Twenty-two standalone bills have surfaced on Capitol Hill since Snowden's leaks in June, ranging from minor changes to massive policy overhauls for the NSA and its metadata collection programs. The sheer number signals a collective agreement from lawmakers that some kind of legislative response is needed to curb growing public concern over the nation's intelligence practices.
"Something is absolutely going to happen," said Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "But the question is what. How aggressive will it be?"
Given the wide span of proposed changes, there's no easy answer.
The bills touch on dozens of issues that the NSA controversy has raised. Some address only Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which allows the agency to collect domestic cellphone data from private companies. Others call for changes in the way the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – the secret court that oversees NSA surveillance programs – operates. Still others would levy new reporting requirements on the agency's programs.
The piecemeal legislative approach clouds a clear pathway to changing the programs. But recent weeks have seen the filing of more comprehensive proposals from high-profile voices on Capitol Hill, signaling that an overhaul may be more likely than the programs' defenders once thought.
Last month, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a critic of the agency, unveiled what experts have called the most comprehensive NSA legislation to date. The bill, which also has drawn Republican support, would outlaw the bulk collection of metadata under the agency's 215 program, forbid a program authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from touching domestic data, change the way judges are appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and require more transparent reporting from the NSA and third-party companies.
Similar legislation is in the works from Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who said he was working on a bill with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., that also would outlaw bulk metadata collection, as well as change the FISA court and demand more transparency from the NSA's programs.
Leahy and Sensenbrenner have been highly critical of the agency's interpretation of the Patriot Act, and their calls for change carry extra weight.
"Leahy and Sensenbrenner were the ones who negotiated the first Patriot Act," Richardson said. "It really means a lot to have them leading the reform charge."
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has announced plans to introduce legislation in coming days that would curb some of the NSA's programs and require Senate confirmation for the head of the agency. Although her proposals aren't as comprehensive as those of her Senate colleagues, the fact that Feinstein, a defender of the NSA, is sponsoring revisions at all lifts hope among privacy advocates that the issue won't simply be overwhelmed by other priorities.
"It's a great sign that you have people like Feinstein announce that she's doing her own bill," Richardson said. "That's an acknowledgement that this issue is not going away without some sort of congressional response."
But the moderation in Feinstein's legislation – one provision would expand the NSA's surveillance authorities – also suggests that a cohesive restructuring agenda is still unclear.
Critics have suggested that moderate proposals such as Feinstein's might be an attempt to curb more stringent changes – an effort to respond to public pressure without weakening the NSA's programs. It's a move that senior House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said would be unlikely to work.
"I think there will certainly be a modest reform proposed as a way of demonstrating a response to the concerns that have been raised," said Schiff, who's proposed three of the 22 bills and plans to co-sponsor more. "I don't think a moderate reform is going to be enough for a majority of members in the House or Senate."
Schiff said several comprehensive bills were still in the works. Most notably, the House of Representatives Intelligence and Judiciary committees are working on their own versions to balance those of their Senate counterparts.
Schiff predicted that the Judiciary Committee bill is likely to be more aggressive.
"There are a lot of moving pieces, and it's hard to see where it's all going to shake out," he said.
The moving pieces may come together in the defense authorization bill, which many legislators have agreed is the most likely avenue for changes to NSA practices. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., had Appropriations Committee-approved language added to the bill, which authorizes the Defense Department to spend money, in August that would require more transparency from the NSA and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and lawmakers say there's room for more. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich, the chair of the Senate Armed Service Committee, called the defense bill "the best way to do it."
"Usually, that's a must-pass bill," he said.
Mark Jaycox, a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that advocates for Internet freedom, said calls for changing NSA operations had evolved as more and more details had been revealed about the data collection programs, including the declassification of court decisions indicating errors and abuses of information.
"At first you had a leak, and then you had a bill to address that leak," Jaycox said. "You're now seeing senators develop comprehensive reform, and you're seeing senators grasp the totality of the Section 215 violations, the Section 702 violations and the transparency issue. . . . I think there's a very good chance that we're going to see comprehensive reform."
Jaycox's certainty is a departure from what congressional experts had expected as lawmakers reconvened in early September, when questions about Syria and the federal budget eclipsed calls for addressing the NSA issues. "First they said, 'Oh, it won't survive August recess," Richardson said. "And then they said, 'It won't survive Syria.' "
But the string of proposals in recent weeks suggests that the issue hasn't died.
"It is settled that Congress will pass something," Jaycox predicted. "The question for Congress . . . is how strong will that reform be?"


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chargers coach Norv Turner says Eric Weddle is on the verge of becoming an elite safety in the NFL.
The 26-year-old Weddle will be paid like one after agreeing on a five-year, $40 million deal with San Diego on Wednesday. The pact guarantees Weddle $19 million. He is due $14 million this year, including a $13 million signing bonus.
"It's exciting to think of Eric as being a Charger for his entire career," Turner said.
Weddle drew interest from the Jaguars and Texans, said his agent, David Canter.
Canter said the Vikings and Cowboys also showed interest in Weddle, and the Bengals made a late inquiry. "There was a very deep market for his services," said Canter.
But after working through counterproposals Wednesday morning, the deal with the Chargers was set.
A starter on AFC West champions in 2008 and 2009, Weddle led the secondary in tackles with 72 last season as part of a defense that led the NFL in fewest yards allowed. He has started 48 of the last 51 games.
Weddle has yet to make a Pro Bowl, which Turner says may be a reflection of his career total of six interceptions.
"He would get a lot more recognition," Turner said, "(but) he probably dropped about six interceptions last year. He's been working on that."
Chargers general manager A.J. Smith moved up 22 spots in the 2007 draft to select Weddle 38th out of Utah.
The safety became an unrestricted free agent for the first time this offseason.
"I just know with Eric he's on the verge of taking that next step," Turner said. "Lining up next to (safety) Bob Sanders will help him and bring out some of his strengths also.
"He's a guy that's gotten better every year," Turner said. "He's got great leadership skills. He's got great understanding not only of our defense but of what people are doing. He's got great range. We need to get him to where he catches the ball better."
Also Wednesday, the Chargers signed three of their eight draft picks: linebacker Jonas Mouton, (second round); tackle Stephen Schilling, (sixth round); and linebacker Andrew Gachkar (seventh round.) All three players signed four-year contracts.
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This was looking like early in the season. You know, when the Dodgers were in last place and their disabled list resembled an All-Star roster.
The Dodgers were already without Hanley Ramirez, who was ruled out for the weekend with an irritated nerve in his back. Now, eight innings into the Dodgers' 4-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants, Andre Ethier was being escorted by a trainer off the field at Dodger Stadium.
But whatever fears were spreading through the stands weren't felt in the clubhouse.
Ethier emerged from the trainer's room Friday night without a limp or any ice on his legs. He said he irritated his left ankle, which he sprained last week in Colorado.
"Just a little sore," he said.
Ethier explained that he was removed from the game because he didn't think he could score from second base on a single. He had just doubled off Giants reliever Javier Lopez.
"It just tightened up on me," Ethier said.
Ethier sounded as if he would try to play Saturday, though Manager Don Mattingly said he would probably rest him.
As for Ramirez, the Dodgers said they think he will be able to play next week.
So disaster was averted. At least for now.
Even in defeat, Mattingly was encouraged by what he saw from Clayton Kershaw.
For the first time in several starts, Kershaw looked like his old self again.
Kershaw blanked the Giants over the first six innings, after which the Dodgers led, 2-0, on a two-run home run Juan Uribe hit off Madison Bumgarner. The visitors reversed the deficit in the seventh inning, when they collected four consecutive hits and took advantage of a fielding error to go ahead, 3-2.
The balls the Giants hit off Kershaw were fortunately placed. The lead-off single by Hunter Pence barely got past Kershaw, as well as a diving Nick Punto, who lacks the range of a traditional shortstop.
Pence's hit was followed by one by Pablo Sandoval. Joaquin Arias drove in Pence with a single to left, which was mishandled by Scott Van Slyke. Instead of having men on first and third base, the Giants had men on second and third. Both runners scored when Brett Pill hit a ball just over the head of first baseman Michael Young.
"It's my fault," Kershaw said. "Against a good pitcher like Bumgarner, you get two runs, you have to make it hold up. I made a couple mistakes, they found a couple holes."
But Kershaw himself was pleased by how he didn't walk any batters.
In three of his last four starts, Kershaw walked three batters. In the other, he gave up five runs.
If not for a trademark head-first slide by Punto into first base, the Dodgers might have tied the game in the seventh inning.
Mark Ellis drew a walk to lead off the inning and advanced to second base on a one-out single to left field by Yasiel Puig.
Punto, who started at shortstop in place of Ramirez, grounded into a force out at second base. Arias made an errant throw to first base as he attempted to turn a double play. The ball skipped by reliever Jean Machi, but hit Punto's sliding torso.
Had Punto not stopped the ball, Ellis might have scored from third base.
Pinch hitter Adrian Gonzalez then struck out and the Dodgers still trailed, 3-2.
The Giants extended their lead to 4-2 in the next inning on a solo home run by Pence.
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