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In March 2010, right-wing blogger Mike Vanderboegh made headlines across the country after he urged his followers to respond to health care reform by breaking the windows of Democratic offices and then took credit after it actually happened.
Eighteen months later, Fox News has repeatedly featured the former militia and Minuteman leader as an "authority" on the ATF's failed Operation Fast and Furious.
In January, Vanderboegh was among the first to break the story that ATF agents had knowingly allowed gun trafficking suspects to take weapons across the border into Mexico. According to Republican congressional investigators, the operation was intended to allow law enforcement to identify other members of the trafficking network that for years has directed assault weapons into the hands of Mexican cartels, with the goal of bringing those cartels down.
But according to Vanderboegh, the failed operation was actually part of a secret plot against the Second Amendment directed from the highest levels of government (a theory Fox News itself has at times promoted). He has also pushed bizarre theories linking the program to Hillary Clinton not running for President and to the so-called "Cloward-Piven strategy."
Vanderboegh has been featured in two packaged reports by Fox News correspondent William La Jeunesse, the most recent of which aired on September 27; the blogger was also cited by the correspondent in a FoxNews.com article earlier this month. Fox has identified Vanderboegh as an "online journalist" and an "authority on the Fast and Furious investigation," leaving his extremist past, use of violent rhetoric, and propensity for conspiracy theories unmentioned.
Vanderboegh's extremism is no secret; he was the subject of an 1100-word, front-page Washington Post profile after he responded to the passage of health care reform by writing a blog post headlined: "To all modern Sons of Liberty: THIS is your time. Break their windows. Break them NOW." In the post, he urged his readers that "if you wish to send a message that [then-Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows." As the Post reported in their profile of the former militiaman, "In the days that followed, glass windows and doors were shattered at local Democratic Party offices and the district offices of House Democrats from Arizona to Kansas to New York."
The Post found Vanderboegh "unapologetic," reporting that he told them "he believes throwing bricks through windows sends a warning to Democratic lawmakers that the health-care reform legislation they passed Sunday has caused so much unrest that it could result in a civil war." Asked about an incident in which a brick was hurled into the glass doors of a Democratic office in Rochester, NY, Vanderboegh said, "I guess that guy's one of ours. ... Glad to know people read my blog."
After the Post profile, Vanderboegh drew fire from the left, right, and center. MSNBC's Ed Schultz described him a "whacko," while colleague Rachel Maddow pointed to how Vanderboegh's "efforts to inspire violent action around the country [are] apparently derived from his belief that he leads millions of people who think the same things he does." Jonah Goldberg called him an "idiot" and a "buffoon" whose behavior "is simply wrong, reprehensible, and childish." The Daily Beast's John Avlon wrote that the "parallels, intentional or not, to the Nazis' heinous 1938 kristallnacht ... are hard to ignore."
Vanderbough, an Alabama-based blogger who reportedly "lives on government disability," has a lengthy record of anti-government extremism beyond his call for the vandalism of Democratic offices.
Militia Leader. In the 1990's, Vanderboegh gained a reputation as the moderate face of the militia movement. Identifying himself as a "colonel of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Constitutional Militia," Vandenboegh was often quoted in the media condemning terrorism and racist and anti-Semitic militia groups. He sought to distinguish such groups from his "constitutional militias" which he claimed "are first and foremost defensive formations."
Leader Of "Extremist" Three Percenters. He is currently a leader of the Three Percenters, a group which claims to represent the three percent of gun owners who "who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act" but will instead, "if forced by any would-be oppressor, ... kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution." Vanderboegh has suggested that those who tried to push the licensing and registration of firearms would be "proposing the next American civil war" because the Three Percenters "would kill anyone who tried to further restrict our God-given liberty." The Anti-Defamation League has referred to the Three Percenters as an "anti-government extremist group."
Armed Rally Speaker. Vanderboegh has also appeared at a widely-covered armed rally in Fort Hunt National Park in Virginia. In his speech, he told attendees: "Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary powers, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. Vanderboeugh also said: "We are doing backing up! Done! Not one more inch."
Speaking to the press afterward, he agreed that "more Ruby Ridges, more Wacos" would be the result of the government "pushing people like us any further back." He also reportedly "suggested that an arrest at the hands of the federal government is tantamount to a death sentence, and that he would fight back in such a case."
Minuteman. Between his militia activities and his more recent anti-government extremism, Vanderboegh joined the Minuteman movement. According to the Birmingham News, Vanderboegh was a leader of the Alabama Minuteman Support Team, which planned an effort to send 125 volunteers to the Mexican border in October 2005 to stop undocumented immigration (the group reportedly ultimately only sent "a handful of volunteers" to the border). The group reportedly "plan[ned] to use night-vision and Global Positioning System devices, portable seismic intrusion detectors and ham radios in their surveillance." Vanderboegh later reportedly announced that the group was planning to "begin surveillance activities" in Alabama in order to "identify employers who hire illegal immigrants" and shame them into halting that activity.
Conspiracy Theorist. Vanderboegh's Fast and Furious conspiracies are part of a larger pattern. He has previously claimed that the Oklahoma City bombing was the result of "an ATF sting gone bad" and that the government "had advance knowledge of the bomb plot." And according to the Birmingham News, Vanderboegh reacted to Marine helicopters flying over Birmingham as part of training exercises by asking a reporter, "Are they training to fight against American people?"
But Fox has repeatedly turned to Vanderboegh for commentary. In a July segment that included a Vanderboegh appearance, La Jeunesse cited the blogger to suggest that during Operation Castaway, Tampa's ATF had "knowingly sold guns to criminals" that ended up in the hands of Honduran gangs. But the ATF has denied those claims and the charging documents in the case give no indication that guns were walked. Vanderboegh himself has denied that he definitively said that guns were walked during Operation Castaway, while standing by his report that such activities occurred through Tampa's ATF office.
In this week's segment, La Jeunesse reported on a Fast and Furious story broken by Vanderboegh, then aired a clip of him saying that his story was "a testament really to the power of the Internet and the ability to network."
La Jeunesse did not respond to repeated emails seeking comment about Vanderboegh.
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Below-ground biodiversity in Kenya
Agriculture has changed dramatically, in the world, Kenya inclusive. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labor demands to produce the majority of the food and fiber.
Although these changes have had many positive effects and reduced many risks in fanning, there have also been significant costs. Prominent among these are loss of biodiversity, topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, the decline of family farms, continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm labourers, increasing costs of production, and the disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities.
A growing movement has emerged during the past two decades to question the role of the agricultural establishment in promoting practices that contribute to these social problems. Today this movement for sustainable agriculture is garnering increasing support and acceptance within mainstream agriculture. Not only does sustainable agriculture address many environmental and social concerns, but it offers innovative and economically viable opportunities for growers, labourers, consumers, policymakers and many others in the entire food system.
With increasing global concern about the impact of man's activity on the environment, steps have been taken to counteract and these have been enshrined in international conventions to combat desertification, climate change and the loss of biological diversity. Kenya is a signatory to a number of International Conventions on Biological Diversity (CBD) which is a reflection of the country's commitment to the conservation and sustainable management of above and below ground biodiversity. This further shows the recognition of the ecosystem benefits from soil organisms such as bacteria, fungi and fauna which include nutrient cycling, hydrologic cycles regulation of greenhouse gas emission and soil carbon dynamics. This special issue presents results of a five year GEF/ UNEP project on Sustainable Management of Below-ground Biodiversity which was implemented in two benchmark sites in Kenya.
It is an effort to identify and demonstrate alternative soil management practices that would contribute to sustainable agriculture, practices that would increase yield while at the same time conserve below ground biodiversity. To achieve these results a 5 year collaborative research was implemented by a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Kenya: The University of Nairobi, The National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya Forestry Research Institute, United States International University and Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource - Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing. These institutions were backstopped by staff of the Tropical Soils Biology and Fertility Program of CIAT which was coordinating the activities in the seven countries where this project was being implemented. This issue evaluates selected soil fertility management interventions for suppression of soil born diseases in a maize and beans intercrop and effect of soil fertility management practices on below ground biodiversity and efficacy of bioinoculants. Farmers knowledge, attitudes and practices (kap) in the two benchmark sites before and after the project interventions is analysed.
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•Sam Bruce Road, culvert or bridge, creek crossing, estimated cost: $150,000 to $200,000.
•Madison Oaks Drive, beginning at county road 177, ending at the dead end, .2 miles, resurfacing, estimated cost: $20,000.
•Northwoods Circle, beginning at county road 200, ending at county road 198, .4 new paving, estimated cost: $60,000.
•Shady Lane, beginning at county road 200, ending at county road 500, .1 miles of new paving, estimated cost: $15,000.
•Adams-Duncan Road, beginning at county road 391 to county road 177, 1.274 miles, resurfacing, estimated cost: $120,000.
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•Colbert-Danielsville Road, from county road 221 to Madison Street, 3.5 miles, resurfacing. (Initial estimates were $100,000, but that was when the paving was planned to the South Fork Bridge).
•Sorrow-Patterson Road, beginning at Hwy. 72, ending at county road 228, 2.041 miles, resurfacing, estimated cost: $200,000.
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When talking about a consumer level affordable 3D DLP projectors there are two main types of modes being used for providing support for stereo 3D, these are frame sequential input (can be over a VGA or HDMI interface) or HDMI 1.4 frame packaging. The interface and mode being used by a 3D DLP projector is very essential on what else will you need and how can you use the projector, so you must carefully choose the right interface based on what toy are going to be using the projector for and even depending on what other hardware you have in your PC. You should be well aware of the fact that there are still no affordable consumer level 3D DLP projectors capable of providing 1080p resolution in 3D mode with high-enough refresh rate for comfortable gaming. So regardless of the interface a 3D DLP projector uses and the native resolution it supports you can forget about being able to play games in stereo 3D mode at 1080p resolution for now, but you can still watch 3D movies at Full HD resolution if the projector is with 1080p native resolution. And this is just one of the examples of the limitations and features you should be well aware of when considering to use a 3D DLP projector, especially if you still haven't purchased one. But there are a lot more specific things…
3D DLP Projector with frame sequential support:
– You can supply the frame sequential output over VGA or HDMI 1.3 interface.
– The projector is limited to 720p resolution in stereo 3D mode as maximum.
– In order to use the projector in stereo 3D mode it has to be in its native resolution (can be up to 720p).
– Besides being able to use stereo 3D mode at 60Hz per eye, you can also use 120Hz refresh rate in 2D mode.
– You can use any standard pair of DLP Link glasses with it, there is no need for any kind of emitter as the technology uses special kind of white light flashes embedded in the image being displayed.
– With DLP Link glasses you are good to watch 3D videos with the help of any software player capable of outputting 3D in frame sequential mode such as the Stereoscopic Player for example.
– With DLP Link glasses you are not able to directly play games in stereoscopic 3D mode or watch Blu-ray 3D movies without having to meet some additional hardware requirements and use extra software.
– You can use DLP Link glasses to play games in stereo 3D mode only if you have a compatible AMD-based graphics card supporting AMD's HD3D technology (Radeon HD 5000 series and up) together with the TriDef 3D softare.
– You can use Nvidia's 3D Vision active shutter glasses together with their specific IR emitter to play games in stereo 3D mode if you have a compatible Nvidia-based graphics card (GeForce 8×00 series and up), you can't use DLP Link glasses with 3D Vision.
– Have in mind that both AMD and Nvidia have a list of officially supported 3D DLP projectors, so any model out of that list may or may not work, so there is no guarantee that you would be able to use it.
– If you want to be able to play Blu-ray 3D movies then DLP Link glasses are not an option and if you have AMD-based graphics you are out of luck, all of the software players supporting Blu-ray 3D playback on PC such as PowerDVD have support only for 3D DLP projectors using Nvidia's 3D Vision technology.
3D DLP Projector with HDMI 1.4 frame packaged support:
– You need to use the HDMI 1.4 interface on the projector
– The projector should be either 720p or 1080p native resolution, you will be limited to respectively 720p or be able to use both 720p and 1080p resolutions for stereo 3D, but wit the limitation of using 720p resolution at only 50/60 Hz 3D mode or 1080p at 24Hz 3D mode.
– Even if the projector is with 1080p native resolution, the refresh rate supported at it in 3D mode is limited to 24Hz which is good on for 3D movies, for games you still have to resort back to 720p resolution where you can use either 50Hz or 60Hz in 3D mode.
– With HDMI 1.4 3D DLP projectors you are not able to use 120Hz refresh rate in 2D mode as you can with the frame sequential models.
– These projectors still rely mostly on the standard DLP Link glasses, though there are some models available offering RF glasses as well, but due to the specifics of the HDMI 1.4 3D support the type of glasses used is of not much concern as long as the projector is compatible with them.
– The 3D DLP Projector with HDMI 1.4 frame packaged support do not have support for frame sequential input.
– You cannot use the Nvidia 3D Vision active shutter glasses with these projectors, you either need a generic DLP Link glasses or any other specific model designed for the particular projector (RF glasses for example).
– You can play any kind of 3D videos and movies, including Blu-ray 3D movies as long as you have a software 3D video player and a video card capable of supporting HDMI 1.4 frame packaged output.
– All software players with support for Blu-ray 3D movie playback such as PowerDVD will be able to play 3D movies if you have at least an a second generation Intel Core processor (Sandy Bridge) in order to have support for Intel's InTRU 3D technology, and this means Intel Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 CPU, Pentium processors won't do as they don't feature InTRU 3D support. For owners of AMD-based video cards the minimum is Radeon HD 5000 series (all AMD HD3D capable video cards should work, though some may not support GPU acceleration for Blu-ray 3D) and for owners of Nvidia-based GPUs the minimum is GeForce GTX 260 or GeForce GT 320 according to Nvidia (some of supported GPUs might not have GPU acceleration).
– When talking about gaming in stereo 3D mode, using Intel's integrated GPUs is out of the question as they are simply not powerful enough and regarding the AMD and Nvidia-based GPUs the limitation is the same as with Blu-ray 3D movie playback above – you need ca graphics card supporting either Nvidia's 3DTV Play or AMD's HD3D technology that can supply HDMI 1.4 frame packaged output.
– Owners of compatible AMD-based hardware with AMD HD3D technology supported need to use the TriDef 3D software (the same as frame sequential users would), owners of Nvidia-based graphics cards need to use Nvidia's 3DTV Play software (instead of the 3D Vision for owners of frame sequential capable projectors).
– Have in mind that both AMD and Nvidia have a list of officially supported 3D DLP projectors, so any model out of that list may or may not work, so there is no guarantee that you would be able to use it.
– Projectors relying on HDMI 1.4 frame packaged input do tech do have more input lag than models using frame sequential input for stereo 3D and while this isn't an issue for watching 3D video on them it can be a bit of a problem for some (not all) gamers playing in stereo 3D mode.
You should note that the newer 3D DLP projectors using HDMI 1.4 for 3D support are not suitable for some owners of older Nvidia-based hardware that would work with frame sequential models for example such as the GeForce 8800 which although old is still quite popular and widely used product and quite capable for gaming in the not so demanding 720p resolution even in stereo 3D mode. And with regards to the increased input lag required for the processing of the frame packaged 3D input and the lack of support for 120Hz 2D mode the frame sequential models might still be more attractive for people that are going to be using them mostly for gaming. On the other hand 3D DLP projectors using frame sequential mode are more restrictive and hard to setup for users that are going to be using them mostly for watching movies in 3D whereas the HDMI 1.4 interface makes it much easier. For gaming in stereo 3D mode on a 3D DLP projector there is still not way to get 1080p resolution, so the far that some 3D DLP projectors with HDMI 1.4 interface are with native resolution of 1080p does not help at all as you'd still have to resort to 720p resolution when playing games in stereo 3D mode anyway due to the limited refresh rate at the higher resolution.
DDD is offering a trial version of their TriDef 3D software and Nvidia also does offer you to download a 14-day trial version of the 3DTV Play software from their website, so you can get these to try things out and if everything works then you can buy a license for the software. There is no trial version of the 3D Vision software as it is a part of the Nvidia graphics driver now and it includes only free anaglyph 3D mode, the 3D Vision functionality is tied to hardware requirements as well anyway. If you already have the IR emitter of a 3D Vision kit connected to a PC you get free 3DTV Play functionality, so there is no need to buy a separate license for that.
AMD HD3D supported 3D DLP projectors (frame sequential):
– BenQ MP777, MP776, MP626, MP782 ST, MP772 ST
– Dell S300, M410HD, M210X
– Infocus IN3116, IN2116, DepthQ-WXGA-HD, IN104, IN102
– Mitsubishi EW270U, XD600U, XD280U, EX240U, XD221U
– Optoma GT720, PRO350W, HD67, HD66
– Sharp PG-D45X3D, PG-D3010X, PG-D2500X
– Viewsonic PJD6531W, PDJ6251, PDJ6241, PDJ6221, PDJ6381, PDJ6211, PDJ6220-3D, PDJ6210-3D, PDJ5111-3D
Nvidia 3D Vision supported 3D DLP projectors (frame sequential):
– Acer X1261P, X1261-3D, X1130P, X1111, H5360, X1110
– BenQ W700, W710ST, MS612ST
– Canon LV-8235UST
– LightSpeed Design DepthQ HD 3D Projector, DepthQ HDs3D-1, DQ-3120
– Optoma GT360, GT720, HD67, HD66, HW536, IS500, XE149
– Sanyo PDG-DXL2000, PDG-DWL2500
– ViewSonic PJD6531w, PJD6220-3D, PJD6210-3D, PJD5351, PJD5111, PJD6381, PJD6211, PJD6241, PJD6251, PJD5112
– Panasonic PT-CW230, PT-CX200
Nvidia 3DTV Play supported 3D DLP projectors (HDMI 1.4):
– Acer H5360BD, H6510BD and H9500BD
– BenQ W1070, W1080ST, W7000
– Epson EH-TW6000, Home Cinema 3010, Home Cinema 5010
– Mitsubshi HC7800D
– Optoma GT750, HD33, HD83
– Panasonic PT-AE7000U
– Sharp XV-Z17000
– Sony VPL-HW30ES, VPL-VW90ES, VPL-VW95ES, VPL-VW1000ES
As you can see 3D DLP projector support overlaps quite a bit in the frame sequential models, though there are some models and brands covered by official support only by either AMD or Nvidia. Unlike Nvidia however AMD is much more open to support for projectors supporting HDMI 1.4 frame packaging as there is no official list of devices on their website. Now, if you already own a 3D-capable DLP projector that is not on the list don't worry, there is still some chance that you might be able to make it work via a workaround solution, however you should be warned that things like IR emitter emulators, or EDID override drivers may or may not work in your case and even if they tend to work you might face different issues or problems and you never know if they won't stop working soon. So resort to trying the different workarounds (some of which are also being discussed on this website) as a last resort if you already own a device that is not on the officially compatible list, if you are making the decision on what to buy now, better choose a compatible model fitting your needs and requirements, as this can save you a lot of trouble later on.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A group of Massachusetts lawmakers said they were pushing their congressional counterparts to provide relief for a fishing industry upended by Hurricane Sandy.
Three Massachusetts Democrats said they wanted to secure up to $150 million in disaster funding to help the fishing industry recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, a late 2012 storm that devastated the U.S. East Coast.
"Our fishing communities face real and stark economic concerns and this emergency funding is critical to many of their survival," said U.S. Reps. Bill Keating, John Tierney and Ed Markey in a joint statement. "We urge the Republican-led Rules Committee to recognize the issues facing these small business owners, and allow the House to vote on our amendments."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was criticized by New York and New Jersey leaders for adjourning the previous Congress without taking up a $60.4 billion aid bill the Senate had passed to finance recovery efforts in the hurricane-battered states.
Boehner pledged to take up $51 billion in aid Tuesday in a deal that led to Congress approving $9.7 billion Jan. 4 so the Federal Emergency Management Agency could pay out claims to people with federal flood insurance.


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Hello, Summer. Glad to see you finally made it. You arrived quietly Friday morning, without the thunderous booms that announced Sweet Spring�s departure.
Hello, Summer. Glad to see you finally made it.
You arrived quietly Friday morning, without the thunderous booms that announced Sweet Spring�s departure.
Let�s keep it that way, please. Bring on the hot, sunny days. Keep the rain coming; an afternoon thunderstorm that clears the air is wonderful, though you can go easy on lightning so sharp that it scares the children and knocks out the power that keeps our lives humming. You can call that too much of a good thing.
Spring may be the season when a young man�s � and we�d say many others� � thoughts turn to love, but summer is the season that captures our hearts.
And why not? Carefree days with no school; vacation at the shore; trips to the mountains; weekends at the beach; a plunge in the backyard pool � just sit back, relax, and take it all in.
Does life get any better?
The long summer evenings give us more time to sit outside and gaze heavenward. The skies produce a spectacular show in summer � with free admission.
Smell the gardenias.
Chase the fireflies.
Run barefoot through freshly mown grass.
This is summer, the season that delights with fresh food from the garden: crisp cucumbers; all varieties of squash; and corn, kernels bursting with sweetness that only the summer sun can provide.
Melons, ripe and juicy; hot days make them better.
Even humidity, the plague of summer in Eastern North Carolina, seems worth the suffering when the flavor of a home-grown tomato bursts upon your taste buds.
Turn on a noisy fan on a hot day, even if you are blessed with air conditioning, and take a restful nap. There should be plenty of daylight left when you awake.
Enjoy summer, just beginning � but way too short for the joy it brings.
Savor it while it lasts.
All too soon the leaves will turn. The days will shorten. And another summer will be gone.


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Actress Zooey Deschanel came home from school in tears every day – because her mean-spirited classmates spat on her.
"The New Girl" star, who now counts a slew of celebrity pals among her roster of friends, says was cruelly bullied in high school.
She tells Allure magazine, "Girls spit in my face. People were so mean to me. I'd cry every day."
Deschanel wasn't deterred and she went on to study at Northwestern University in Illinois – however her experience wasn't much better.
She continues, "I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really non-traditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience'. Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'"


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(Reuters) - House and Senate members have reached a bipartisan agreement to delay by at least four years a flood insurance rate hike that would impact more than a million homeowners, according to congressional sources.
The agreement would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to complete an affordability study before increasing future flood insurance premiums, according to a copy of the draft legislation obtained by Reuters.
Legislation delaying the policy increases is due to be filed in the Senate on Tuesday, according to congressional sources.
"Because lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle and both legislative chambers have agreed, it's anticipated their legislation could pass quickly," said Ryan Brown, a spokesman for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, one of the most impacted states.
Nelson said the deal was crafted with Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat and one of the original co-sponsors of the 2012 Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act that forced up premiums.
Among Republican Senators reportedly supporting the deal are Johnny Isakson of Georgia, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, and David Vitter of Louisiana, according to Insurance Journal. Reuters was not immediately able to confirm their support.
Congress passed the Biggert-Waters Act in July 2012 with strong bipartisan support just months before Superstorm Sandy struck the northeastern coast in late October, in an effort to balance a $24 billion deficit in the National Flood Insurance Program, which had growing losses from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 and earlier disasters.
The rate hike is designed to make property owners pay for the true risk of living in high flood hazard areas, including coastal areas of Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Louisiana, and inland states prone to river flooding.
The hike potentially impacted a million homeowners living in older houses along the coastlines and riverbanks of the United States, with the annual flood insurance premium on some homes set to jump tenfold over the next few years.
The Biggert-Waters Act requires FEMA to phase out insurance subsidies enjoyed for decades by owners of homes that were built in high-risk flood zones before the creation of the original federal flood insurance rate maps and building standards, which in most communities occurred in the 1970s and 1980s.
Critics of subsidized federal flood insurance say the benefits disproportionately favor high-risk and wealthy properties.
"Delaying the scheduled phase-out of flood insurance premium subsidies amounts to a gift to mostly wealthy homeowners who get to enjoy cheap insurance on their beach homes thanks to taxpayer support," R.J. Lehmann, a senior fellow with R Street, a free market think tank, said in a statement.
FEMA Director Craig Fugate told a September hearing of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee that the act unfairly hit middle-class homeowners who had not been flooded repeatedly.
Reporting by David Adams in Miami; Editing by Lisa Shumaker


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Harry Reid has no apologies
Republicans think Harry Reid is running the Senate like a dictator: His no-compromise style is almost like Vladimir Putin's, and his inflammatory rhetoric is reminiscent of the Joe McCarthy era.
But Reid doesn't seem to care.
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"Get a brain, OK?" the Senate majority leader snapped at a reporter, when asked why he doesn't permit far more votes on GOP amendments. "You're a smart guy."
In an interview this week in his Senate office, a feisty Reid pushed back aggressively against Republican complaints over his leadership, pinning the blame entirely on the GOP for the gridlock and polarization that define the historically unproductive 113th Congress.
The Nevada Democrat accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of breaking his promise to make the Senate more workable, effectively forcing Democrats to change filibuster rules. The unapologetic majority leader offered no regrets for his jaw-dropping rhetoric on the Senate floor where he's repeatedly lambasted his political enemies and incited GOP charges of McCarthyism for calling the billionaire Koch brothers "un-American."
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Senate Republicans, he said, are no longer led by pragmatic leaders like Bob Dole, Trent Lott or even Bill Frist. Now, McConnell's GOP conference is essentially leaderless and "obviously" run by the "crazies," he said. As he's tried to circumvent McConnell and reach out directly to rank-and-file Republicans to move legislation, Reid says, he's been stymied by GOP senators who are "so afraid" to negotiate with him for fear of tea party backlash from the likes of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
"I like Mitch McConnell; I don't have anything against Mitch McConnell as a person," Reid said. "But you know, I don't have a partner. I just don't. … I'm out here alone."
And despite what Republicans claim, Reid insisted that there "never" was a time when a free-flowing Senate would allow anyone's amendment to get a vote, given that all 100 members must agree to schedule one.
"I am the majority leader, that's my job. What am I supposed to do?" an animated Reid said when asked about his tight control over the Senate floor. "Who's going to control it if I don't?"
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Reid's fierce defense of his leadership style and indictment of Republicans underline the high stakes in this year's midterm elections — and the lengths that each party must go to regain the other's trust.
Reid, 74, now in his 27th year in the Senate, is at the pinnacle of his power. While he's led Senate Democrats since 2005 — becoming majority leader two years later, and even controlling a supermajority of 60 senators early in President Barack Obama's first term — never before has Reid had as much clout within his party. With Obama weak politically and Republicans divided, Reid has been the driving force behind the unyielding strategy that forced the GOP to cave during the 16-day government shutdown last October — while also ramming through a historic filibuster rules change that could forever weaken the power of the Senate minority.
Reid's hardball tactics and coarse rhetoric have quickly made him perhaps the most reviled politician among conservatives. And in Washington, Republican senators say it has only helped tear down an institution meant to foster bipartisanship. McConnell and the GOP are vowing to return order to the Senate if they regain the majority this fall.
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"It's reprehensible the way the United States Senate operates today," said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), before comparing Reid to Putin. "I've come to the conclusion that the United States Senate will not ever function in an appropriate way with the leadership we have in place."
"It's a lack of leadership coming from the majority leader," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) when asked about the state of the Senate. "Poor leadership."
McConnell spokesman John Ashbrook said the GOP leader believes the Senate "should be open to more ideas" from members through amendments, restore the committee process and "work longer hours."
It didn't used to be this way.
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As he rose through the leadership ranks, becoming chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and later Senate whip, Reid had a reputation as the ultimate deal-cutter, finding ways to help both parties save face and move legislation. But as Reid gained more power — first going head to head with George W. Bush (infamously calling him a "loser") and now carrying the water for the Obama White House — his already fierce rhetoric has grown more combative and his patience for GOP demands has evaporated.
In many ways, Reid's shift reflects his younger, more partisan caucus, a vast majority of whose members have never served a day in the minority and are ready to go even further to gut the Senate's filibuster. Not only has the Nevadan sided with the large number of Senate progressives who are less willing to put up with GOP stall tactics, but his politics have grown more liberal on hot-button issues such as immigration, gun control and even abortion rights.
While he's never been an ideological warrior, Reid's evolution on policy and his red-meat approach as leader have made him a hero with the party's liberal base — though his moderate reputation earned him distrust from the left for much of his career.


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'Paper Bullets' mixes Shakespeare, the Beatles at Yale Rep
Playwright Rolin Jones and director Jackson Gay would agree with most theater professionals that Shakespeare reigns as boss among dramatists of all time. And though the Bard, like the Colosseum and The Louvre museum, is tops, neither Jones nor Gay feel that he deserves a free pass on the stickier issues in some of his plays. Their latest collaboration, "These Paper Bullets!," is the result of their desire to fix the flaws in "Much Ado About Nothing."
"These Paper Bullets!," which makes its world premiere Friday through April 5 at Yale Repertory's University Theatre, is baldly dubbed a "a modish ripoff" of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," adapted by Jones, with songs by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, and directed by Gay. Its modish-ness, if you will, is due to the triumvirate's cheeky choice of taking Shakespeare's four bachelor soldiers returning from battle to 16th century Messina, Italy, and transporting them to 1960s London, to become the wildly triumphant rock 'n' rollers The Quartos, whose resemblance to The Beatles is purely intentional.
"'Much Ado' is this weird play," said Jones before a recent rehearsal. "I mean, it's completely funny and then it's completely not. Super dark and quite uneven. We wanted to make it a comedy, first and foremost."
Jones and Gay, who first collaborated together for Yale Rep's 2004 production of "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow," find some of Shakespeare's plotting and character motivation unacceptable to contemporary sensibilities. When the villainous Don John and his flunkies Borachio and Conrad, for instance, smear the virginal Hero's good name on the day she's to wed the gullible Claudio, everyone involved buys into the subterfuge despite the "very flimsy evidence," as Jones puts it.
"Hero doesn't say a word against these tricksters," Jones said. "She's just an agreeable person. Dad says, 'You whore! You should die.' Then later he says, 'Ah, you're still a virgin — I love you!' What can you do about that? So we chucked that right out the window."
"It had to do with the roles and motivations of the female characters not speaking," said Gay, "and being accused of something publicly and then finding out it's not true and everyone's like, 'OK, you didn't sleep around.' And the two women not having enough power over their lives and their bodies."
Hence the move to he 60s, when "Everybody was shagging everybody," as Jones said. Hero becomes Higgy, a super model inspired by Twiggy, and her attendants, Ursula and Margaret, are now "trash bag girls," he said. Beatrice, Hero's quick-witted and silver-tongued bachelorette cousin who spars with Claudio's pal, Benedick, now reigns a queen of the fashion world.
"We made (the women) successful and gave them options similar to our character Ben," Gay said. "They have everything people shoot for in terms of money and power and still have something missing in terms of loneliness or some existential thing that's still not fulfilled."
As for the comic relief, Dogberry, Verges and The Watch are officers of Scotland Yard, "investigating the moral corruption of our youth," Jones said. "So they go undercover throughout the whole play."
Jones said that the seed of his idea to Beatles-ize the play was likely sown while watching Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film, "when they're all sitting there on the estate lollygagging and someone says, 'Hey, look-they're coming!' Then everyone gets prepared. I thought, it's like The Beatles are coming.
"Then Jackson was working with me last year on 'The Jammer' at the Atlantic," he said, referring to The Atlantic Theatre's production of his previous play.
"Yale had called her, asking if she wanted to do some Shakespeare, and she pitched a bunch of tragedies and heard dead silence," he said.
Yale Rep was interested in a comedy, Jones said. So Jones and Gay sat up in her apartment after rehearsals for "The Jammer," sipping milkshakes perhaps, brainstorming Jones' idea.
"At first it was kind of a joke," Gay said, "and it was one of those things that, maybe there's something to this."
"We thought about it and were shocked to see that the idea actually worked," Jones said. "It sort of came through the text that the play's about love and peace, and the metaphor that Shakespeare constantly uses in the play is music."
Jones, who's met with Armstrong several times to discuss his film adaptation of "American Idiot," Green Day's Broadway musical, explained his idea to Armstrong.
"I talked him through 'Much Ado' because he said, 'You know, I barely finished high school'" said Jones. "He leaned back, stared at me and was like, 'OK. Let me get this straight: You're going to rewrite Shakespeare and I'm gonna rewrite The Beatles — right?'
"A few days later, he had the first song," Jones said. "He'd written it, played the drums, the bass, the guitar, crafted a demo. Then three days later, another one came through."
Armstrong wrote eight songs for the show, five of which The Quartos perform live, and three heard over record players and jukeboxes, Jones said.
"This man's crazily gifted," Jones said. "And they sound amazingly like Beatles from, like 'Help!' to 'Rubber Soul.'"
Having overcome Armstrong's apprehension of rewriting Shakespeare, Jones and Gay set about addressing their own reservations with "Much Ado About Nothing," which glare blindingly so through the prism of the 1960s. "Then we came up with motivation for the character of Don John, which he has none," Jones said. "So, he's the guy who got kicked out of the band, and now he's a roadie.
"We gave Balthasar more to do — he's sort of the George Harrison now," he said. "Then Jackson said, 'What are we going to do with the women?' So we gave the women a fashion empire. And we added some stuff to the second act, which can be sort of troublesome that the movie doesn't deal with at all.
"Boris and Colin, the Borachio and Conrad characters, are paparazzo and gossip columnist who conspire to doctor some photos and reveal them at the wedding of the year. The Queen is in attendance, Sean Connery and The Stones — again, everybody who's everybody is there and this photograph comes out.
"And Dad," Jones said, referring to Hero's father, Leonato, "who hasn't been drinking in a while, drinks that day and, because of the pressure, everything gets out of hand."
One might well presume that the 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" was a timely part of Jones' intelligent design. "We got totally lucky," he said. "We had no idea. And it totally worked out. Bully for us."
Jones, who's been living in Southern California and writing nearly nonstop in television on such shows as "Weeds," "Friday Night Lights" and "Boardwalk Empire," feels like he's on a busman's holiday, working again with Gay in theater.
"He's tireless," Gay said. "He's so fast, probably from working in TV, where you have to be very quick. You have to keep up with him; be totally focused.
"Honestly, the thing I love most about working with Rolin — because this our fourth show working together — he loves it so much," she said. "He really comes alive. He makes actual money, but I think if he could ... he would be writing in the theater all the time because, you could see it on his face. He's like a little kid. He makes it fun, he makes stupid jokes, and you realize that in the midst of the stupidity of what he's saying, there something very heart-felt and you connect."
"I'm having a gay, old time," said Jones, whose next project is developing an original series for AMC called "Knifeman," a blood and guts look at a 19th century British surgeon.
"I gotta give Yale credit for agreeing to do this, with 19 actors, 11 months ago, without one word on a sheet of paper," he said. "It's been a godsend — not an assignment.
"I would like to tell you it was easy," he said with a self-deprecating chuckle. "But I had a dark month of the soul last year trying to figure out what to do with this play. But we've come out on the other side."
Meeting Jones on the other side is a cast of David Wilson Barnes, James Barry, Jabari Brisport, Stephen DeRosa, Bryan Fenkart, Ceci Fernandez, Christopher Geary, Brad Heberlee, Anthony Manna, Brian McManamon, Andrew Musselman, Keira Naughton, Adam O'Byrne, Lucas Papaelias, James Lloyd Reynolds, Jeanine Serralles, Greg Stuhr, Ariana Venturi, and Liz Wisan.
The production team includes Monica Bill Barnes (choreography); Julie McBride (music direction); Michael Yeargan (scenic design); Jessica Ford (costumes); Paul Whitaker (lighting); Broken Chord (sound design); Nicholas Hussong (projections); and Tom Kitt (orchestrations and arrangements).
"These Paper Bullets!" still contains "lots of Shakespeare," Jones said. "But it's a real mash-up of Billie Joe's music, 'Much Ado' and Beatles mythology.
"You know the subtitle?" Jones aid, referring to the "modish ripoff" sobriquet. "That's exactly what it is. Like taking some '70s soul tune, putting new lyrics on it. If 'A Hard Day's Night' is what we're aiming for, it's the energy and excitement of whipping this up really quick.
"You can feel it in the writing," he said. "We knocked a lot of time off of it. The play normally comes in at three hours. We come in at two. It's faster, funnier, dirtier.
"There's a lot of energy," Jones said. "This is not your grandparents' 'Much Ado.'"


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Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz demanded answers from Attorney General Eric Holder on a broad range of issues in a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. The topics of their inquiries included the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, enforcement of existing gun laws, the potential use of drones to kill Americans, and the death of Reddit's founder.
The two Republican senators repeatedly expressed frustration with the Attorney General during the Wednesday morning hearing, often accusing him of failing to directly answer their questions.
Holder urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to support increased background checks, ban assault weapons, and punish straw purchasers who provide weapons to those who would fail a background check.
Cornyn probed Holder on a lack of prosecutions for gun buyers who failed background checks.
"So out of 76,000 failed background checks, your department sought a guilty plea or guilty verdict in just 13 cases?" Cornyn asked at the hearing.
Holder responded that they are primarily interested in preventing guns from getting into the wrong hands, but are looking into prosecuting more cases of failed background checks.
Cornyn also asked Holder about a 1995 statement, where he said they needed to "brainwash" people to think differently about guns, turning them off from firearms. Holder responded saying that he was talking specifically about "young black men" and trying to dissuade them from a life of crime.
Cornyn explored the recent case around reddit.com's founder, Aaron Swartz, an online activist who faced prosecution after publicly releasing academic journals from the service J-Stor. Cornyn said the case clearly showed prosecutorial misconduct, citing that the Swartz could have faced up to 35 years in prison. Swartz committed suicide during the investigation.
Holder remarked that the Justice Department was really only seeking a maximum penalty of 6 months from Swartz. This did not satisfy Cornyn.
"It strikes me as disproportionate and one that is basically being used inappropriate in trying to bully someone into pleading guilty to something that strikes me as rather minor," Cornyn said.
Cornyn cited a previous prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, noting that Holder had called that prosecution overzealous.
Cruz used his opportunity to touch on a different kind of prosecutorial misconduct, the legal justification for using drones to kill American citizens within the U.S. Cruz, who has argued cases before the Supreme Court and clerked for former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was interested in Holder's opinion on the constitutionality of drone strikes.
The two went back and forth over a hypothetical—whether the US could kill a citizen in America who was not posing an imminent threat. Holder eventually said he believed that would be unconstitutional.
"After much gymnastics, I am glad to hear that it is the opinion of the Department of Justice that it would be unconstitutional to kill a US citizen on US soil if that individual did not post an imminent threat," Cruz said. "That statement has not been easily forthcoming."
Cruz also demanded to know why the Department of Justice refused to enforce certain laws passed by congress. Cruz said the department had not enforced the Defense of Marriage Act, immigration laws on certain individuals, and voter intimidation laws with regards to the New Black Panthers.
Holder did not respond to every case Cruz cited, but did note that his department concluded the Defense of Marriage Act was not constitutional.
"Courts have subsequently agreed with us," Holder said to Cruz. "Applying that heightened standard of scrutiny that it was unconstitutional."


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Corn ending stocks are at projected at dangerously low levels. Coupled with ongoing drought, scarce stocks could send prices soaring or crashing just as they did in 2008 and 2009, when prices rose to record-highs only to crash following the Great Recession.
In its latest World Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), USDA lowered its corn carryout from 647 million bushels in December to 602 million bushels. Balanced against projected corn demand, the new ending stocks figure puts the stocks-to-use ratio for U.S. corn at only 5.3%, well below the historical average of 12 to 13%, and one of the lowest stocks-to-use ratios ever, says Chad Hart, agricultural economist with Iowa State University. Last year's corn stocks-to-use ratio was 7.9%, and the year before that, the ratio was 8.6%.
The Drought Card
The worrisome thing about having such a low stocks-to-use ratio for corn is that subsoil moisture is short across most of the western Corn Belt, where drought still lingers.
"The potential for price volatility is just as great in 2013 as we saw in 2008," says Hart. "With continued drought we could have record-high corn prices." If drought ends, and the U.S. crop is a bumper, the worry is that corn prices could plunge. "And the threat of recession still hangs over the market as well," he adds.
According to the High Plains Regional Climate Center, drought conditions persist in the portion of the western Corn Belt covered by the center, which includes Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Kansas. Severe or extreme drought conditions now cover 86% of the region, with moderate drought covering 93%.
On-farm corn stocks have also fallen, according to USDA's quarterly Grain Stocks report. Corn stored in all positions on December 1, 2012, stood at 8.03 billion bushels, down 17% from a year earlier. Of those stocks, 4.59 billion bushels were stored on farms, a 26% drop from the previous year. Off-farm stocks, at 3.44 billion bushels, were 1% smaller than last year.
The world stocks-to-use ratio at 12.3% is also dropping, down from last year's 13.5%, according to the latest WASDE report.
"Crop producers don't need to sell right now and livestock producers don't need to buy feed or sell animals," says Hart. Livestock producers want to think seriously about putting a ceiling on feed costs, though, and crop producers want to put a floor under prices through the use of options, futures, forward contracts, and other tools.


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Please read both the Call for Content and Submission pages and follow all of the instructions.
Presentations can cover a wide variety of topics, from application development and usage to interesting ways that you are using the Maemo operating system (as well as variants and/or third-party OS's) to unorthodix uses of the internet tablet(s) to core development, etc. The presentations can be user-based, development-based, or a combination of both. No topic is too trivial — there's always something interesting in how the Maemo Community is using this great open source platform.
Keep in mind that not all content submissions can be accepted. This is primarily due to the fact that there is limited space and time, but also because the Summit organizers would like to create the most interesting and stimulating experience possible. Because of this, a core group of community members have been chosen by the Maemo Communit Council to oversee the approval process for all of the submissions. You will know these people in this Content Committee as maemo.org rockstars, so rest assured that they will do a great job in selecting content for the Summit. Likewise, if you see a submission that you view as a "must have," feel free to voice your opinion in the Community section of the Talk forums. The Content Committee will surely take all discussion about our community's next Summit into consideration.
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- Wayde Schafer: Many communities have rail lines running right through them
- Schafer: North Dakota crude oil loaded onto trains causes a tragedy in Canada
- N.D. oil production rose by 10 times since 2011, more and and heavier trains needed
- It's too dangerous, he says. Trains go through towns and weren't designed for oil
The tragedy of the train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, has brought home just how small our world has become. Oil that was drilled in North Dakota's Bakken oil fields is loaded onto rail cars and passes through a small Canadian community and shatters their world in an instant. All my thoughts and best wishes go out to the families and emergency responders in the midst of this human and environmental catastrophe.
Everyone is touched by this man-made disaster -- 20 killed, 30 missing -- because so many communities have a rail line running right through the middle of town. Here in North Dakota, like all over the U.S. and Canada, towns grew up around the railroad lines. They brought people in to help settle the state and shipped the farm and manufacturing products to other parts of the world.
But the increase in the amount of volatile crude oil being transported by rail from North Dakota's Bakken fields has brought a new and troubling set of problems to the debate about our continued dependency on fossil fuels, and particularly oil, as an energy source.
Railroad engineers did not have transporting oil in mind when they laid out the routes. They did not avoid population centers, rivers, or environmentally sensitive areas. They were only concerned with getting from Point A to Point B in the most efficient manner possible. In fact, trains carrying oil tanker cars run just two blocks from my office, right through the heart of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Rail is the most efficient way to move freight, and Sierra Club is a big fan of rail for transporting people and conventional freight. But moving extreme fossil fuels, like Bakken shale or Alberta tar sands, is a different story entirely.
These fuels are "extreme" because they are more toxic and more carbon intensive than conventional oil. They are also more dangerous to transport than conventional sources of oil. Production in the Bakken fields has increased nearly 10 times since 2011. To move all this crude, oil rail companies are running longer, heavier trains. And they are running them farther than ever before, bringing crude to refineries on the East, West and Gulf coasts.
The regulatory framework for train safety wasn't designed for crude oil trains, and the rail and safety infrastructure is out of date and not up to the task. A state transportation safety spokesman in Maine this week said that the Lac-Magantic disaster is "on the same parallel as a tractor-trailer accident. It's private commerce and we don't get involved." This catastrophe proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that the transportation of Bakken shale requires much more vigilant oversight.
It's too early to draw conclusions from the ongoing catastrophe in Lac-Megantic, but there's one simple lesson that we should not ignore. Bakken shale, tar sands, and other extreme fossil fuels threaten our towns and our communities. We can't afford the additional cost, in safety or pollution that these fuels bring. And with growing efficiency and with renewable sources of energy, we don't need them.
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Your finger as a phone passcode
On the iPhone 5S, Touch ID uses your fingerprint for security
Fingerprint data is encrypted, stored on phone, not Apple servers
Some experts say Apple's tech is nice, but won't be game-changer
(CNN) -- The most impressive feature of the new iPhone 5S may be its ability to turn your finger into a password.
Touch ID is Apple's name for a new fingerprint scanner that would act as a security tool for log-ins and for making purchases from iTunes and other Apple stores.
"Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world," said Dan Riccio, a senior vice president for hardware design at Apple, in a promotional video. "It's always with you and no two are exactly alike."
Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, along with a cheaper, simpler iPhone 5C, at an event Tuesday at the company's California headquarters.
On the new 5S, the Home button will be made of sapphire crystal and act as a reader. According to Apple a fingerprint -- up to five prints from different users, depending on who else shares your phone -- can be read by the sensor from any angle to give access the same way a password does currently.
The fingerprint data is encrypted, Riccio said, and stored internally on the phone.
"It's never available to other software and it's never stored on Apple's servers or backed up to iCloud," he said.
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The iPhone isn't the first phone to have a fingerprint sensor. In 2011, the Motorola ATRIX 4G included one, though adoption among users wasn't particularly high and the company eventually discontinued the feature. And at least one Android phone to be released this year also will have the technology, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Some laptops and PCs have had fingerprint readers for several years now. But the technology has never really caught on, with users often complaining about them being balky and unreliable.
Maybe Apple can change that.
"Fingerprint sensors have come a long way," said Michael Barrett, president of the Fast Identity Online Alliance, an industry group advocating for universal security authentication tools. "They are by and large much better quality now and very readily able to detect 'Is this just an image of a finger or a real-life finger?'"
But while he called Touch ID "an exciting announcement," Barrett still sees some problems.
Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller speaks about security features of the new iPhone 5S.
First, he said, fingerprint scanning still isn't perfect. He mentioned his wife, an artist, who has trouble accessing her PC with a fingerprint scanner when she's been working with plaster, which dries out her hands.
"Like many biometrics, it falls slightly into 'your mileage may vary,'" he said. "If it works for you, great. But it may not work for you all the time."
The former chief information security officer at PayPal, Barrett also sees limitations to using the system for online purchases. While it may work fine on iTunes or in the App Store, it's not likely other Web retailers are going to spend millions of dollars to make their systems accommodate an Apple feature used on fewer than 17 percent of the world's smartphones.
That means iPhone 5S owners who used Touch ID for purchases inside Apple's "walled garden" would still need to use other security tools to shop elsewhere with the same phone.
David Rogers, director of the Columbia Business School's Digital Marketing program and executive director of its Center for Global Brand Leadership, called Touch ID one of several "nice," but ultimately underwhelming, features on the iPhone 5S.
"Touch ID ... could have been that killer app. But so far, it's just a feature that saves you a couple seconds logging in," he said.
"If they can manage to link it to multiple profiles on a device, like the new Google Nexus tablets, or make it a password to controlling smart devices in the home -- your stereo, thermostat, etc. -- that could make for a truly killer feature. But they just didn't get there today."
Paco Hope, principal consultant at software security firm Cigital, said that, if nothing else, Apple will widely expand the public's understanding of the use of biometrics in the digital world.
"People's ideas about biometrics were as informed by Hollywood as they were by real products and experiences," he said. "Now, when someone asks the value of a fingerprint scanner, we can point to the iPhone and use it as a reference, for better or worse.
"Esoteric and academic theories of usability, reliability, false positives, false negatives, and so on will suddenly be tested by millions of real users in real situations."
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