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It's gotten so bad in the Jets' locker room that the rookie third-string quarterback is unloading on his teammates.
Greg McElroy, a seventh-round draft pick who spent his first year in the NFL on injured reserve after suffering a thumb injury in the preseason, went back home to Alabama this week and promptly did an interview with 97.3 The Zone in which he trashed the culture of the Jets.
"It's definitely not a fun place to be, I can assure you," McElroy said of the Jets' locker room. "It's the first time I've ever been around extremely selfish individuals. And I think that's maybe the nature of the NFL. But there were people within our locker room that didn't care whether we won or lost as long as they got theirs, they had a good game individually. And that's the disappointing thing."
McElroy didn't mention any of those "extremely selfish individuals" by name, but he was responding to a question about the reports regarding Santonio Holmes being a divisive figure in the locker room, and he didn't say anything to suggest those reports are erroneous.
But McElroy, who was a well-respected team leader with a reputation as a fine scholar-athlete at Alabama, said he loves Jets coach Rex Ryan and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and believes the current coaching staff will turn the team around.
"It's going to take a lot to kind of come together next year," McElroy said. "I think the fact that we struggled at times this year really led to a really corrupt mindset within the locker room. But I think we're going to regroup and I know that we'll be a better team because of the trials and tribulations this year."


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Update - Feedback.
Hello Backers,
Fulfilment is now in full swing with most of the units having been delivered or with various mail / courier services. Our Asia backers will have units sent... Read more
Shipping update.
Hello backers,
All GameSticks are individually packed, stamped, bagged and are ready to go but we have held off from shipping them until we receive a software fix from China... Read more
Delivery Update
Hello backers,
The process of re-packing in Hong Kong has taken a little longer than expected but we have now completed that exercise and all rewards are picked, packed and... Read more
We're Shipping!
Hello backers,
We're really excited to confirm that the Kickstarter units left the factory near Shenzhen yesterday, arriving in Hong Kong this morning. While this seems like a short distance,... Read more
Machines Rolling.
Hello Backers -
A quick update to let you know that we are on track per our last update on the manufacture of the main units with the sticks now... Read more
Production Update.
Dear Backers,
Firstly, thank you for bearing with us during these final stages. As usual, we have been spread very thin these past few weeks with teams in China, the... Read more
The Home Straight.
Pilot Run
A quick update to let you know that we have successfully completed the initial pilot run. The controllers are fantastic – the changes we outlined in the previous... Read more
User Registration Emails
Dear backers,
Today we have started to send out the user registration e-mails which will enable you to reserve your PlayTag as well as determine how you would like to... Read more
GameStick Gets A Thorough Testing
Hello backers,
It's another sunny day here in London at PlayJam Towers. Tim is back in China working hard to keep things on track. The controller is currently going through... Read more
The Golden Sample
Hello Everybody!
Please find below a new production update. it's getting really close and the samples that we have here at PlayJam Towers are seriously cool. It's this stage of... Read more
GameStick - This Time It's Personal!
Hello Backers and happy 4th of July to our US cousins!
To mark the celebrations, we have today launched our Facebook 'Skinit' Competition.
We are working with our good friends... Read more
Demo showing PlayJam's Companion App working the GameStick UI
Hello backers,
A quick update on progress around the companion app technology that we have ported from our Smart TV service to GameStick. Some of you may recall a demo... Read more
GameStick Tooling Video
Hello - GameStick again - we promised you a video on the tooling process in our last production update that we were unable to upload yesterday due to bandwidth restrictions... Read more
Project Update - 158 Days In.
Hello backers,
It had been just 158 days, (including weekends but we often work those, so we count them), since release of finds from Kickstarter and the team continues to... Read more
Fun Friday Update!
Our dear backers!
Just a little something to get you all excited for the portable gaming experience you are soon going to be experiencing!
Let us know what you think... Read more
Final Call For Address Change
Hello backers!
This is our final call for anyone needing to change the address of your GameStick order. Please make any changes to your shipping details by emailing us directly... Read more
GameStick Features on the BBC.
Hello Backers - we have a nice piece on the BBC which is currently the 7th most watched video, (was 4th earlier in the day) - help us climb by... Read more
Shipping Address Inquires
Hello Backers,
A quick update to let you know that we've been working through our email inbox requests containing address changes to shipping details. There are quite a few, so... Read more
It's all about the games.
This week an update from Sameer, our Head of Games who for the past few months has racked up some serious mileage with his team reaching out to developers far... Read more
Happy Friday!
Happy Friday Backers,
Here is an update from our Dear Leader for the weekend. Advanced warning - it's long and detailed and in places even a little weird but he... Read more
GameStick Product Video
Hello everyone,
Just a quick post to give you guys a preview of a short product 'explainer' video we have put together that will be doing the rounds shortly with... Read more
Hello Again From China! (I think).
Hello everyone!
We spent last week on the road in the US before heading back over to China to check on progress where we have been heads down with the... Read more
GameStick DEV kit Unboxing Video
Hi Everyone,
Here is our DEV Kit Unboxing Video.
Have a great weekend!
Love GameStick
P.s. a number of you have requested delivery address changes. We have received them... Read more
GameStick Update #22
The 25 people in our team are working flat out to make this product a great success. Thank you so much for your continued support and please continue to spread... Read more
Tooling and delay
Looking through some of the comments you have been making there is a concern about the quality of the tooling we have selected for GameStick. Lets try... Read more
Production Update.
Huge Momentum.
When we started this project we were unsure how successful it would be. Our expectation was that we would do an initial run of a few thousand units... Read more
GameStick at GDC
Hello Backers,
Last week we sent a contingent to San Francisco to demo the GameStick Dev kits at the annual Games Developer Conference – one of the industry's biggest events... Read more
PlayJam Forms Alliance with Pivos to Bring XBMC support to GameStick
Press Release:
GDC San Francisco, 25th March 2013:PlayJam, operator of the worlds leading Smart TV games network and creator of GameStick, today announces a wide-ranging, official partnership with Pivos... Read more
Dev Kits, Partnerships and Further Updates
Hello everyone,
Jasper has just returned from China and we wanted to give you another update of how things are going in production. The DEV unit is now in production... Read more
40 DAYS and 40 NIGHTS OF HARD WORK
Hi everyone,
40 days ago our project was funded and you made this dream come true. A lot has happened since then and a lot still has to happen.
First... Read more
100 minutes to go people!
For those of you who have pledged $1 - time get get your GameStick and be a part of history!
Love GameStick
Working with Miracast
We promised a little more on this yesterday. If you look ahead a few years we believe that the components required to run a game will sit in the... Read more
GameStick: Designed by Kickstarter
Product Update
by Jasper Smith, CEO
What an amazing month. The Kickstarter campaign has been a hugely rewarding experience for our team and has allowed us to validate our invention,... Read more
Calling all Indies!
We understand the cost of developing games is high so to show our support for the indie developer community, we have launched a one-time, Kickstarter-only offer of 100% rev share... Read more
Insight into the PlayJam SDK Feature Set that Powers GameStick
Hello - this post is one for developers and aims to give a detailed overview of the features powered by the PlayJam SDK that in turn powers the GameStick proposition.... Read more
We have some good news…
Dear backers and supporters,
There has been frenzied chat on the discussion boards around support for MicroSD on the stick itself so we wanted to spread some additional love.
Following... Read more
You spoke and we listened..
Today we passed the $400K mark, which represents a significant milestone for the project.
We simply cannot say it enough but a huge thank you to everyone that has supported... Read more
This week in China....
Hello Backers,
This week Jasper, (CEO), and John, (head of all things technical) flew to China to get a production update on progress with our design partners, led by KJ... Read more
Stretch #1 Reached!
Hello backers,
You may well have already noticed but we passed our Stretch 1 goal in the early hours of last night despite our little hiccup...!
So we took a... Read more
Hello Old Friend! GameStick Kickstarter is back up and running
After a brief, cold spell in the wilderness, we are happy to report that we are back up and running. You may notice that our video is still on vacation,... Read more
Stretch Goals Announced!
Hello Kickstarters. We have been inundated with direct messages offering support and suggestions on GameStick for which we are extremely grateful! We have been listening.
We have recently announced support... Read more
GameStick demo showing support for iOS / Android mobile devices
Hello Kickstarters!
Apologies for the radio silence but we have been busy listening to the comments and suggestions coming through! See below for a cool demo on how you will... Read more
Day 2: Oh My!
Thank you so much to the Kickstarter Community for helping us reach our goal on just Day 2!!
We are humbled and excited! What a start to the New Year!
GameStick Day 1 - Wow.
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As Deportations Rise to Record Levels, Most Latinos Oppose Obama's Policy
IV. Views of Immigration Policy
Immigration Policy Priorities
In recent years, the debate over illegal immigration has often been posed as a choice between two competing priorities—increasing border security and stronger enforcement of the nation's immigration laws versus providing a path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Latinos are nearly twice as likely as the general public (42% versus 24%) to say priority should be given to providing a path to citizenship for the nation's unauthorized immigrants.
When it comes to better border security and stronger enforcement of immigration laws, the general public is nearly three times as likely as Hispanics (29% versus 10%) to say this should be the priority for dealing with illegal immigration.
Even so, there is some common ground between Hispanics and the general public. Some 46% of Latinos and 43% of the general public say both better border security and enforcement and a path to citizenship should be given equal priority when it comes to dealing with illegal immigration.
Overall, there are only minor differences between foreign-born and native-born Latinos in their views about the policy priorities for dealing with illegal immigration.
In-State Tuition for Unauthorized Immigrants
Fully 84% of Latinos favor granting in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants who have attended high school in their states and have been accepted at a public college. By contrast, the general public is split—48% support in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants, while 46% do not (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 2011b).
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 12 states currently offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students while six states have passed laws preventing unauthorized immigrants from receiving in-state tuition at public colleges and universities.7
Support for in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants is greater among foreign-born Hispanics than native-born Hispanics—90% versus 77%. Nonetheless, large majorities of both groups support such laws .
Support for the DREAM Act
More than nine-in-ten (91%) Latinos support the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a proposal to grant legal status to unauthorized immigrant children if they attend college or serve in the U.S. military for two years.
Few differences by nativity are evident. Fully 87% of native-born Latinos and 94% of foreign-born Latinos support such a law. Latinos who are not U.S. citizens or legal residents show the most support for the law (96%).
- States that have laws granting in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants with conditions are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington. States that have passed laws preventing unauthorized immigrants from receiving in-state tuition are Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Indiana. Two states, Alabama and South Carolina, ban unauthorized immigrants from enrollment in its public colleges. See http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=12846 for details. ↩


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There are some who would say the decision to bring former Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends to other platforms was a smart business decision. There are other, slightly crazier people—like those in this video—who would use the word betrayal.
This is 17 minutes of user comments left on Rayman's Miiverse page, showing that, well, fans of the series who also own a Wii U aren't exactly happy about the decision.
I get it, the delay stings, but it's a delay. Not a cancellation. Given other major publisher's stance on the Wii U they're lucky they're getting a promising third-party title at all.
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John said:
"I would appreciate it anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to reconcile this or how you may have done it yourself."
In my opinion, there is no reconciliation. At best, you are given multiple choices. Something like "It could be resolved in way A, B, or C. Ultimately, we won't know until we go to heaven and ask God."
Some dismiss it as "it doesn't matter." And they might add "This is nothing new... it has been discussed for centuries."
Others can say "Go read book X, Y, and Z."
Bottom line, no one really knows what a 'soul' is or the 'imago Dei.' (Unless you want to be relative and postmodern and say that everyones different opinion is correct.) Of course, some evangelical theologians may claim to know the answer... problem is, it conflicts with other evangelical theologians.
-----Original Message-----
From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of John Walley
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:31 AM
To: David Campbell; email@example.com
Subject: Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record
"Actually, I think that Dick places Adam and Eve as ancestors only of
the Semitic people. In general, I think that models that envision
Adam and Eve as representatives selected out of an existing population
usually envision the imago dei condition to be essentially spiritual
rather than genetic (though genetics are involved in producing the
mental capacities that are related to the imago dei)."
If we hold that Imago Dei is what separates from the animals then it appears to me that we should expect some genetic marker for it. This really complicates the whole "First" question. I am not sure I have this totally worked out in my mind yet.
Sure appealing to spiritual only seems to simplify things but you have other issues like how or why this got imputed to others. There is also the issue of the bloodlines in the OT which seem quite important to God and the nephilim which corrupted the bloodlines which supposedly provoked the flood ,and the genealogies which established that Christ was the son of David etc, so I am leaning toward a physical characteristic associated with this.
I would appreciate it anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how to reconcile this or how you may have done it yourself.
----- Original Message ----
From: David Campbell <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "email@example.com" <email@example.com>
Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 5:05:18 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record
> This is great! David is a much elder biologist than is Dennis. It should be
> fun to watch!
Except for my focus on paleobiology, I'm not so sure I can be credited
with elderness. I'm not sure that I have more biological background
nor am I certain which of us is older (I'm about to catch up with Jack
Benny). In fact, if I recall correctly, I believe Dennis is closer to
the field in question than I am, as I deal most closely with mollusks
and mainly work at the species level and above.
If you trace a biological lineage back far enough, it will converge on
a single pair/individual unless there's been very distant lateral
transfer. (Even then, the shared fundamental genetic mechanisms
suggest that all known organisms have a single common ancestor
somewhere rather before the eubacterial-archaean-eukaryote split). In
fact, there is a point where every individual in the ancestral
population is either an ancestor of every extant individual or else
has no living descendants. But this may be very far back. For
example, every direct maternal ancestor of mitochondrial Eve also is
ancestral to every extant human mitochondrial lineage. Likewise,
every direct paternal ancestor of Y chromosome Adam is ancestral to
every extant human Y chromosome lineage. These two lineages, if
traced back far enough, would eventually converge to a single couple
in the course of population dynamics extrapolated backwards. However,
in the case of humans, that single pair may quite easily pre-date the
human-chimp-gorilla splits, and there probably would have been nothing
biologically distinctive about them versus their neighbors or parents,
though it would be hard to absolutely rule out the possibility.
I think that Dennis has followed much more of the human population
genetic work than I have. I would note the caveat that the MHC region
is strongly affected by selection for divergence, making convergence
between human and chimp sequences very likely, but by now there should
be some very large data sets to work with.
The differences with what I am saying are that I am thinking in much
broader phylogenetic and chronological terms and that I am thinking
more "can this be unequivocally ruled out" than "is it very likely".
It's probably impossible genetically to get a single pair as the sole
ancestors of all modern humans unless that single pair is
significantly more apelike than modern humans. Thus, an "Adam and Eve
as physical ancestor of all modern humans" model is very difficult to
maintain. However, if one is willing to accept Adam and Eve as rather
furrier and smaller brained than us, one could produce a scenario that
is not absolutely ruled out by the genetic data. I'm not sure that
one can genetically rule out Glen's idea of Adam and Eve being at an
australopithecine grade and living a bit over 5 million years ago, for
example; the difficulty is more on the genealogy end.
> "but how could we reconcile his [Dick's] historical Adam theory with all
> humanity tracing back to a single couple amid a larger population if that
> was the case? Does that mean we can detect a "humanity" or an "imago dei"
> gene and assess who has it and who doesn't and in what concentrations?
Actually, I think that Dick places Adam and Eve as ancestors only of
the Semitic people. In general, I think that models that envision
Adam and Eve as representatives selected out of an existing population
usually envision the imago dei condition to be essentially spiritual
rather than genetic (though genetics are involved in producing the
mental capacities that are related to the imago dei).
> "Thus, it seems that having an Adam and Eve of some sort within the past
> 10,000 years or so requires them to not be the sole physical direct
> ancestors of all modern humans." - David
> This is what I asked Dennis before, though he didn't respond, preferring
> instead ad hominems on my person. If I understand David properly (due to the
> lack of agreement of verb tense, i.e. unclear language), he is saying that
> there *could* have been an 'Adam' and 'Eve' who were the ancestors
> of/"ancestral to *all modern humans.*" Otherwise, shouldn't the mathematics
> of the converse (impossibility of single pair human ancestry) have been
> obvious long ago (i.e. well before the invent of 'genetics' and 'genomics'?
Not immediately spotting the verb issue, but I would be quite
unsurprised if I didn't write clearly.
Mathematically, single pair human ancestry is a possibility as long as
the single pair lived long enough ago to have the requisite number of
descendants. This involves assumptions about the number of children
per parent and how many survive, as well as a decision on who in the
archaeological/paleontological record count as modern humans. E.g.,
it's fairly simple to work out how many generations it would take to
generate 6.5 billion people today if Adam and Eve and each of their
descendants had on average 10 sons, regarding any extinct lineages
such as Neanderthals as beyond the pale. However, long-known
genealogical data would indicate that some modern people can be traced
back quite a ways, raising problems for such a simplistic model. What
genetic data give us is extensive genealogical data that help us
constrain the possibilities. Now these data must be interpreted using
models of patterns of genetic change, and using a wrong model can give
significantly inaccurate results; on the other hand, we have a decent
idea of the general patterns likely to apply to hominids, and we can
try various models to confirm how well they match the observed
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Former cyclist Laurent Jalabert was seriously injured in a road accident on Monday morning, French police told Reuters.
Jalabert, who won the Tour of Spain in 1995 and was world time trial champion in 1997, was on his bike when he was hit by a car travelling in the opposite direction near Montauban, a town in the south of France.
"He is not in danger," a spokesman said.
The vehicle suddenly turned left, cutting across Jalabert who had the right of way, the police said.
The 44-year-old suffered several fractures and was briefly unconscious when the emergency services arrived.
He was transferred to hospital to undergo surgery, a source close to the former rider told French radio RTL.
(The story makes clear Jalabert is 44 not 41 in paragraph 5)
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The presidential election of 1800 effectively relegated the Federalist party, including Hamilton, to political and popular irrelevance. Jefferson, the "Sage of Monticello," had risen to the nation's highest office and, despite the near-hysterical warnings of Federalists against anarchy and "Jacobinism," went on to preside over an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. The country had entered a new century and had never seemed on such sure footing. In this climate, Hamilton soon retired from the political sphere to pursue his private New York law practice.
During the election, the Federalists, with Hamilton leading the charge, had contributed to their own downfall by embroiling themselves in ugly internecine disputes (which ultimately would result in Hamilton's duel with Burr). Hamilton made known his low opinion of President Adams, who, against Hamilton's strongest wishes, was pursuing a policy of peace with France. On a personal level, Hamilton considered the president an unstable, jealous, vacilliating man prone to unseemly outbursts of temper. Hamilton's plan for the election was to maneuver Federalist electors into choosing Charles Pinckney, a South Carolina Congressman, and leaving Adams to be content with the Vice-Presidential spot on the ticket. Entering into Hamilton's preference, no doubt, was the fact that Pinckney had demonstrated a greater susceptibility to Hamilton's personal influence than had Adams.
In October, 1800, in response to a charge by Adams that he led a faction of "British partisans," Hamilton distributed to Federalist leaders his Letter from Alexander Hamilton concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams. Here, he presented a variety of dubious evidence purporting to show the President's "disgusting egotism," "ungovernable indiscretion," and so on. Rather than swaying opinion against Adams (the letter, after all, conceded the president's patriotism and talent), Hamilton's move redounded to his own discredit. Moderate Federalists rallied behind Adams, and even Noah Webster, a erstwhile admirer of Hamilton's, was inspired to write, "Your ambition, pride and overbearing temper have destined you to be the evil genius of the country!"
In contrast to such divisive intraparty politics, the Republicans put forth Jefferson and Aaron Burr with relativley little fuss. As the election approached and the Federalists saw the writing on the wall, some of them began to support Burr over Jefferson, whom they still regarded as embodying the worst kind of dreamy, agrarian populism. But Hamilton, partly out of personal dislike for Burr and partly out of a desire to keep his party from forming an alliance with any Republican, swallowed his pride and endorsed Jefferson. If Jefferson won, he reasoned, the Federalists would be able to survive as a party by concentrating their fire on their traditional bete noire, rather than being absorbed into a more sympathetic Burr administration.
As it turned out, his reasoning was off the mark. When Jefferson, in his inaugural address, declared that "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists," he signalled not only a conciliatory attitude, but the undermining of the Federalists that Hamilton feared. The Jefferson administration effectively appropriated key aspects of the Federalist platform, and left the Federalists little room in which to form a relevant opposition ideology.
Once in office, Jefferson proved to be a pragmatist who could appreciate the benefits of an energetic central government. He also seemed to have matured in his view of the executive office, saying in 1810 that the people were "looking to the executive to give the proper direction to their affairs, with a confidence as auspicious as it is well founded." Even more significantly, since Jefferson recognized the infeasibility of reversing the Hamiltonian financial system, his administration simply began to use it effectively. The Bank of the United States survived and even thrived, the adminisration aided individual banks with government funds, and business went on much as it had before. Politically, Jefferson made the smart decision to repeal the excise tax, depriving the government of some funds, but winning public favor in the process. Hamilton found himself in the unenviable position of supporting the widely unpopular tax.
As the country surged into the new century and as public support for Jefferson steadily mounted, the Federalists were reduced to harping upon increasingly unpersuasive themes: the rise of demagoguery in the form of a Jacobite regime, the dismantling of republican government, the growing threat to virtue and property. The opposition task was a dreary and not very effective one, and many Federalists retired from politics altogether. Hamilton himself, becoming further separated from the mainstream of public opinion and further isolated in his stale critique of Jeffersonianism, returned to his law practice in the fall of 1801.
In an 1802 letter to his friend and political ally James Bayard, a representative from Delaware, Hamilton spelled out some of the reasons he thought underlay the Federalists' decline. The letter suggests that the Republicans' appeals to reason and enlightened sensibility were self-serving appeals to vanity that would also trump the Federalists' sober emphasis on principle. Hamilton wrote:
"Unluckily ... for us, in the competition of the passions of the people, our opponents have great advantages over us; for the plain reason that the vicious are far more active than the good passions; and that, to win the former to our side, we must renounce our principles and our objects, and united in corrupting public opinion till it becomes fit for nothing but mischief. Yet, unless we can contrive to take hold of, and carry along with us some strong feelings of the mind, we shall in vain calculate upon any substantial or durable results."
Hamilton's diagnosis, while biased, was largely correct, but the Federalists were unable to enact a cure. The image of Jefferson remained unassailable during the decades leading up the Civil War. In the election of 1828, for instance, both the National Republicans, under Henry Clay, and the Jacksonian Democrats invoked Jefferson's memory as the banner under which their respective parties marched.
Jackson, in his gruff populism, was a natural heir to the Jeffersonian legacy. The name of Hamilton was on few people's lips as Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States and the Maysville Road Bill, both of which represented the increasingly discredited Hamiltonian centralism.
A number of historians, however, recognized the implications of the country's adoration for Jefferson: while northern abolitionists seized upon the Declaration of Independence for their denunciations of slavery, southerners insisted upon Jefferson's doctrine of states' rights to resist any interference in their "peculiar institution." Thirty-two years after Jackson's election, the country would be plunged into a violent resolution of this conflict.
Hamilton's public image underwent a dramatic revitalization during the decades following the Civil War. Increasingly, historians and political figures came to regard the Civil War as a validation of Hamilton's major philosophical tenets and a repudiation of Jefferson's. It was the Virginian's doctrine of states' rights, the argument went, that provided the South both the encouragement and the rationale to secede, while his lofty language asserting the equality of mankind denied the South moral authority in the eyes of the North -- a double bind that has been called the "Jeffersonian dilemma."
On the other side of the equation, then, stood Hamilton and his visionary assertion of the necessity of a powerful federal government. Where would the union be, post-war historians and nationalists wondered, were it not for the stability and strength of state that Hamilton insisted upon for his entire career? Moreover, Hamiton's opposition to slavery proved itself the ethic associated with the victorious Union forces, while Jefferson's Southern roots and acquiescence to the forces promoting slavery provided, as it were, comfort to the enemy.
Meanwhile, the whole era reverberated with the sounds of industrialization and modernization. Reconstruction had provided significant economic opportunities for both North and South, while westward expansion and new methods of manufacturing and transportation lay the foundation for booming capitalist enterprises. In this climate, the Hamiltonian virtues of laissez-faire and free trade enjoyed an unprecedented ascendancy, while the simple agrarianism of Jefferson seemed badly outdated. As Hamilton had predicted, the United States was establishing itselt as a preeminent industrial force in the world.
Teddy Roosevelt himself admired Hamilton's reputation for dynamism and, in a 1910 letter to Gouverneur Morris, praised Hamilton's "touch of the heroic, the touch of the purple, the touch of the gallant, the dashing, the picturesque." These years also saw the opening of Chicago's Hamilton Club and the raising of Hamilton statues in Paterson, New Jersesy, a town which Hamilton had founded.
Significantly, the restoration of Hamilton's image took place primarily on the plane of academic history. It is important to note that many of the new scholarly histories published during this time were written by New England historians steeped in Federalist tradition, who tended to see Hamilton as vindicated by the course of American history.
The major works included George Bancroft's History of the United States (1834-1874), John Bach McMaster's The History of the United States (1883-1913), and Henry Adams's History of the United States ... 1801-1817. Hamilton's son, John C. Hamilton, also got into the act with a tome entitled History of the Republic of the United States, which argued that the Civil War could have been avoided altogether, if only the country had more closely followed the elder Hamilton's policies.
The language of these books, to a modern reader, can seem shockingly biased. McMaster, for instance, portrayed Jefferson as a man "saturated with democracy in its rankest form" who "remained to the last day of his life a servile worshipper of the people." On the other hand, wrote McMaster, "Of all men who, in the judgement of posterity, are ranked high among the founders of the republic ... by far the most brilliant and versatile was Hamilton."
Beside the histories, a number of biographies and other writings sympathetic to Hamilton also appeared during the post-bellum years and Gilded Age. Gertrude Atherton, in her romantic novel The Conqueror (1902), wrote that Hamilton with his "inherent philosophy," pursued "measures in whose wisdom he implicitly believed, and which, in every instance, time has vindicated." Similarly, Herbert Croly, the future founder of the New Republic, put a distinctly positive spin on Hamiltonianism when he wrote in The Promise of American Life (1909) that it "implied a conscious and indefatigable attempt on the part of the national leaders to promote the national welfare."
The momentum of the Civil War in the resurrection of Hamilton's image lasted, with natural variations of intensity, all the way through the 1920s. In 1923, President Harding and Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon dedicated a statue of Hamilton placed in fron of the Treasury Building, where it stands to this day. The next year saw a successful movement to save Hamilton's Manhattan residence, The Grange, which had been steadily deteriorating. Later in the decade, President Coolidge invoked Hamilton to praise Mellon, who had managed America's financical system with "a genius and success unmatched since Hamilton."
In retrospect, the praise smacks of irony. The year 1929 would see both the crash of the American economy and the corresponding decline in Hamilton's image -- a decline that has never been significantly reversed.
At first glance, one might expect that the Great Depression would have elevated Hamilton's standing in the public consciousness. After all, the New Deal involved the greatest expansion of federal power that the country had seen, and the vast majority of Americans supported its programs. James M. Beck, in a speech to Congress in 1934, declared that the Roosevelt administration "is realizing beyond any dream of Alexander Hamilton his ideas as to the nature of our government and what its desired form should be."
Yet Hamilton's star faded precipitously during the 1930s, and here we return to the proposition that administrative successes matter much less than emotional populism in the realm of public opinion. The economic foresight and efficiency of Hamilton's policies, their direct relevance to the New Deal, did not change the popular conception of him as an aristocrat unsympathetic to the plight of the "little guy."
Franklin Roosevelt, campaigning in 1932, sounded the theme that stirred many Americans' souls during the 1930s, a theme distinctly non-Hamiltonian in character. Invoking the early struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton, Roosevelt referred to a "a new day" in the nation, "the day of the individual against the system, the day in which individualism was made the great watchword of American life." This formula clearly favored Jefferson's rhetorical emphasis on personal liberty and individual virtue over Hamilton's efforts to construct a potent system of governmental control.
Although political groups ranging from the communists to the Republicans continued to employ Jefferson's image, Roosevelt and the Democrats did so most successfully. They presented Roosevelt as a champion of the common man in the true Jeffersonian tradition. Hamilton, on the other hand, was the man who had warned against the potentially dangerous nature of human ambition, and argued that government must be vigilant against the excesses of human nature.
In 1943, a play by Sydney Kingsley pitted caricatures of Jefferson and Hamilton against each other. The fictional Hamilton boasts, "And when you stir up the mobs, remember -- we who really own America are quite prepared to take it back for ourselves, from your great beast, 'The People'." The portrait of Hamilton that Kingsley drew is not entirely deserved, but not entirely off-the-mark, either, and it captured a persistent image of him as a calculating patrician out to protect the interests of wealthy Americans.
Several developments give a sense of how far Hamilton had fallen. The Hamilton Club of Chicago went bankrupt. The anniversary of Hamilton's birth went unobserved, even at the site of his tomb in Manhattan's Trinity Church. Hamilton Grange in Manhattan sunk into decrepitude and obscurity.
Nonetheless, a collection of scholars and conservative Republicans still carried the Hamiltonian torch and argued that his vision was what had provided the ship of state sufficient ballast to carry it through the turmoil of not only the Civil War but of the early twentieth century as well. Broadus Mitchell, a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins, and two Columbia economists, Joseph Dorfman and Rexford Tugwell, all sought to disentangle Hamilton's reputation from a speciously dichotomous relationship with Jefferon's. They sought to do justice to both men's lives. Mitchell, for example, wrote in Heritage from Hamilton that "the Federalists, pitching their case on the need for order and control, were correct at the outset. They were pragmatic and serviceable in the first formative period."
A dispirited Hamiltonian revival occurred in 1957, the bicentennial of his birth, but it consisted mainly of another round of academic biographies. There was no memorial erected. A national bicentennial commission tried to whip up interest in Hamilton by sending out letters to various publications, libraries, radio stations and such, but garnered little more than statements of support from a variety of organizations including the American Bar Association, the American Dental Association and the Loyal Order of the Moose.
A signal of the dispassion that Hamilton aroused came in a 1956 commemorative speech, in which President Eisenhower gave flaccid acknowledgement to Hamilton's "sincere efforts and inspiring leadership in the work of the men who laid the foundations, raised the structure, and built the sustaining traditions of the Government of the United States."
The last two decades of the 20th century appear unlikely to herald any sort of renewal of interest in or respect for Hamilton. A resonant, even dominant theme, of modern political debate was sounded by Ronald Reagan when he vowed to "get the government off the backs of the people." The expansion during the 1960s of liberal programs in the spirit of the 1930s appears to be screeching to a half. Everyone, including the leadership of the Democratic party, agrees on the necessity of "downsizing" government in the 1990s.
If this situation indicates on one hand that the United States realized or even surpassed Hamilton's vision of a strong federal government, it suggests on the other that many Americans now want to move in the opposite direction. The concept of states' rights is heard more and more often. The image of a "bloated federal bureaucracy" represents a bugbear which everyone recognizes. Few people invoke Hamilton's name in praise, if at all. While visual images of Jefferson and Washington have become nearly ubiquitous, most people would be hard pressed to identify without help the portrait of Hamilton that hangs in the Capitol Building.


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Device Proliferation, BYOD, and Security
It started with the iPhone and really picked up with the iPad. Silver haired gents in corner offices brought their new precious to IT and asked to "get on the network" or "get their email on this." In the past, IT was able to mumble something about unsupported devices and how a random user who brought a random device was out of luck. After all, they had tested solutions in place, nice things like Windows Mobile and Blackberry, solutions that worked well with Enterprise infrastructure. These new things might be better at Angry Birds or Plants vs Zombies, but the whole BYOD/Enterprise interaction was an unknown and thus a threat and a risk. Poor IT guys got trumped though, silver haired guys said jump and eventually the answer changed from "not supported" to a more career preserving "how high?"
Once IT got past the denial and anger, gave up on bargaining, overcame depression and got on with acceptance it became clear that BYOD (and the larger device proliferation trend) was going to bring some good things to the table – better user experience, happier users, and importantly not getting fired by the corner office guy.
Of course, this left challenges. Sure, many BYOD devices support ActiveSync, and thus an IT group running Exchange may be able to remotely lock/wipe the device, enforce password requirements and even require on-device encryption, but there is only so much you can do with the useful but limited device management capabilities that come with Exchange.
Mobile Device Management, in this context sometimes called Enterprise device management, enables things that help make devices enterprise friendly such as password management, inventory management, remote lock/wipe, software distribution etc. These things help, but there are still challenges.
For example, Joe Worker leaves a company. With an Enterprise owned device wiping the device is an easy call, boom, done. However, with an employee liable device, wiping the phone will not only wipe whatever corporate email was on the device, but also wipe personal data and in some cases even render the device unconfigured and unable to connect to the data network until someone goes in and reconfigures APN and other settings.
One way out, an approach that is growing in mindshare and feasibility, is virtualization. Instead of putting corporate data on an employee owned machine, put a corporate virtual machine, already configured and secured, on the employee machine. When the employee leaves the company, the VM leaves the personal device. POOF! Corporate stuff is gone, but personal stuff remains.
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WASHINGTON — As the government struggles to keep up with the changing habits of an increasingly networked citizenry, federal agency technology chiefs need to expand their digital platforms to create app-oriented content custom-tailored for smartphones and tablets.
Senior government technologists, speaking at an event hosted by Adobe, argue that it's no longer sufficient for agencies simply to post regulatory filings, hearing notices, data sets and other information on a static website.
Increasingly, as citizens use a wider array of devices, the presentation of government content needs to adapt to those varied platforms, according to Jacob Parcell, manager of mobile programs at the General Services Administration's Digital Services Innovation Center.
And in a technology environment where change seems to be the only constant, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy for digital content. "The agencies that I see that are most successful are doing multiple things," Parcell says. "Try a bunch of things just to see what's working."
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Many of the government's recent efforts to revamp the production of content and delivery of services for a mobile, digital age have come in response to the digital government strategy the White House released in 2012.
In a government-wide memo directing agency heads to develop a roadmap for implementing the digital strategy, President Barack Obama acknowledged that government services had fallen out of step with the ways that citizens use technology and called on agency CIOs to modernize their online operations with a particular focus on mobile.
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"For far too long, the American people have been forced to navigate a labyrinth of information across different government programs in order to find the services they need," Obama said. "In addition, at a time when Americans increasingly pay bills and buy tickets on mobile devices, government services often are not optimized for smartphones or tablets, assuming the services are even available online."
The mobilization of government content comes as a corollary to agencies' efforts to integrate mobile strategies within the federal workforce. These efforts challenge CIOs with an array of issues familiar to their counterparts in the private sector, including BYOD and developing mobile device management policies.
On the content side, the GSA has set up the >Mobile Apps Gallery, offering more than 200 agency applications that can be filtered by platform. Increasingly, agencies channel their resources into developing specialized mobile apps, rather than the more general production of mobile Web content.
"What agencies are starting to do," Parcell says, " is move up the stack"
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Just as CIOs have been instructed to prioritize cloud computing technologies as they look to new IT procurements, mobile applications are increasingly becoming the default for content production.
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Lakshmi Grama, the senior digital content strategist at the National Cancer Institute, says she's been working with writers and content owners to develop materials that are native to their platform, accounting for the nuances of a traditional Web pages, mobile sites and apps.
More broadly, she notes that a successful content strategy needs to involve more than just making public the vast data sets over which the federal government presides. Instead, she says agencies must take steps to put that content in a usable format so developers can build applications on top of government data.
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Astronomers probe the composition of space objects with spectrometers. These devices split the light shining from or reflecting off the object into its spectrum, or component colors. These colors bear fingerprints of the elements that make up the object. Astronomers cannot directly see HD 189733b because it is too faint and "blinded" by the light of its host star. So the team, which was led by Mark Swain, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, employed a visual trick to capture its light spectrum. They first scanned the light of the planet and its host star together using a spectrometer on the Hubble Space Telescope. They then scanned the star alone when the orbiting planet was hidden from view behind it. The difference between the two scans revealed evidence of carbon dioxide.
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This is my 6th year of Hawkwind reviewing on the progarchives site!
I've said before (and will probably say again) that 2007 was a dismal low-point in the Hawkwind story. They seemed tired and unimaginative, and the accusations from people like Alan Davey that they were a karaoke-type tribute to their former selves carried some weight. The live release from that year, "Knights of Space," was very poorly received... if truth be told, lots of Hawkwind fans just want to forget all about it.
Happily, successive years saw them steadily haul themselves out of that pit, and the question has now become: when will they taper off - when will they plateau out again?
From what I saw and heard last night, the answer is: not yet.
They kicked off with "Sonic Attack," and I immediately thought that either they're taking the piss, or they're laying down a marker. Happily, the latter was the case, and they churned and swooshed through 90 minutes of blanga-style space-rock, where each track was of sufficient duration, and maintained momentum.
I thought it was their best performance for nearly 25 years. I'd have to go back to Treworgey 1989, with Simon House on violin, before I find anything I'd entheuse about to the same degree as last night.
I'll post a couple of youtube links later on, but if you'd like to pre-empt me, just search youtube for Hawkwind Falmouth, and select "uploaded this week."
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It's them there Hawks, banging out "Psychedelic Warlords" and showing they ain't dead yet.
I'll post a few more clips on YT later tonight, or tomorrow... depends how many post-gig beers I have, really.
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