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His latest WWE run and if wrestling is still as fun for him: "If it wasn't fun for me I wouldn't do it, you know? I took time off on the 'Chasing the Grail' tour and once that tour was done it was time to move forward doing a new record and my job as a singer is to write the lyrics and to sing on the record. Lyrics were all done and doing vocals took about 15 days total so other than that I had nine months of nothing really going on. So it was the perfect opportunity to step back into WWE for awhile. But the plan was always when the new record came out, then I would leave and go back full time with Fozzy. So you know, we'll see what happens in the future. I still love doing what I do in the WWE but like I said, Fozzy's kind of taking precedence at this point. With all the momentum and great things we have going on, it's cool to see this second dream come true. But it's good to know too that WWE's always gonna be there and I feel great. I thought this last run was awesome and I feel better than I did, you know, 3,4,5 years ago. So, you know, I'm raring to go for the next round."
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John A. Hobson (1858-1940) was an historian and economic journalist who was one of the so-called "New Liberals" who emerged at the end of the 19th century. The New Liberals advocated much greater state intervention in the economy than the classical liberals had done. One of the things that makes Hobson especially interesting is his support for Cobdenite ideas of peace and free trade. Although his lack of understanding of markets and marginal analysis led to his being ostracized by his contemporary academic economics circles, his thoughtful critique of the justifications of imperialism and his work taking the topic back to first principles stands today as an example of respect for all peoples throughout the world. He was a member of the Fabian Society, and although he wrote for several socialist journals, he was an independent thinker who argued that capitalist goals had been perverted by special interests and misdirected governments. His best known work is Imperialism: A Study (1902).
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Evolutionists try to establish an ancestor-descendent relationship between living creatures on the basis of certain perceived structural similarities between them. But some creatures have organs that perform a similar function, but no evolutionary link can be established between them. This similarity is known as analogy, and such organs are called analogical.
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eReaderJoy: thoughts and news from Eolake Stobblehouse about the wonderful new platform of tablets and e-reading devices. Some say, one of the biggest advances to reading since Gutenberg (Okay, I said that).
In e-form, books have never been wider, cheaper or faster available, easier to understand, use, and carry, or more comfortable to read.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Adam Engst on iPad and ereaders
Do you feel that the success of the iPad has had an impact on your e-publishing arm, Take Control Books?
Adam Engst:
Absolutely. After the iPhone came out, and even after there were apps that enabled ebook reading on the iPhone and iPod touch, we had an occasional query from a reader asking how to get our ebooks onto the iPhone. It wasn't easy or a particularly good experience, due to the limitations of iOS and the available apps, so people were almost apologetic about asking.
Fast forward to the release of the iPad. Within a short while after it came out, we were getting intense demands to know how our ebooks could be read on the iPad. It was frustrating, because until the release of GoodReader, and later, with the release of an iBooks update and iOS 4, it was also quite difficult to work with the iPad. That's gotten a lot easier over the past few months, and we now have much better answers for people who want to read Take Control ebooks on an iPad.
In the past few weeks, in fact, we've figured out a sneaky process to create our own EPUB files via Pages, which allows us to make them look a lot more like our PDF originals (previously we were forced to outsource the task and put up with what we got back). And we're coming close to a site design change that will make it easier for readers to download various formats from their accounts on our Web site, and even to read online.
You said to me back in 2008:
"...it's about reading, not books specifically. People read newspapers and magazines and blogs and email messages and Web sites and all sorts of things..."
I think that along with the screen, this is what makes the iPad so much more useful to me than the kindle. The Kindle does do web, but not very well. And much of my reading is web articles (sent to the iPad via Instapaper) and such. I also like Zinio, color magazines converted to the iPad. Do you think that the Kindle will end up as a niche device if Amazon does not come up with one which has a color screen and does web well?
I remain somewhat surprised that the Kindle has done as well as it seems to. Amazon finally dropped the price, which made a big difference, since the Kindle DX was originally priced the same as the low-end iPad, for a device that wasn't nearly as useful. But we have several Kindles for testing, and I find the user experience just awful in comparison with the iPad.
One thing that I think is potentially helping the Kindle is that Apple has become so large and so dominant that buying a Kindle is almost an act of rebellion. People go on about how the Kindle is great because there are no other distractions and because you can read it in direct sunlight and whatnot, but my feeling is that they're really saying "I'm avoiding the iPad because I don't want to be seen as slavishly buying everything Apple releases."
Apple's iBooks store still has many fewer titles than Amazon's Kindle store. I think you also said that the process of getting books into iBooks is a hassle… can you explain?
Not in a family publication.
Seriously, I can't say that working with Amazon has ever been easy for publishers (and we haven't done much with it), but working with the iBookstore has been the most amazingly horrible, opaque, and frustrating experience I've had. Apple's software is terrible, the iTunes Connect Web site is lousy, and support questions often aren't answered for - and I'm not kidding here - months. It's gotten a little better over time, but mostly it makes my stomach hurt.
I admire Take Control Books and O'Reilly for publishing ebooks without Digital Rights Management, which means the books are portable to other devices easily. I always felt DRM and the big fear of copyright breaches was self-defeating in marketing. I understand that non-DRM publishing has been good to you?
Yes, I think so, though I can't say that I've actually seen any quantifiable sales that wouldn't have happened had DRM been applied. The main thing is that DRM doesn't stop anyone from doing anything really - anyone who wants to break it can - so it's just a waste of time and effort. What it really comes down to for me is that utilizing DRM means that you see your customers as criminals, and when you treat someone like a criminal, they act like it.
How many of the books downloaded from your store are PDF? ePub? Kindle format? (That's mobi, yes?)
We're still selling all our books in PDF format, so when you purchase a book, you'll get PDF at the end of the process. That said, we have EPUB and Mobipocket (which can indeed be loaded onto the Kindle) for a large number of our titles, and pretty much everything for the last couple of years. We didn't bother converting very old titles because, let's face it, no one needs to read about upgrading to Panther on an iPhone. Right now, to get the EPUB and Mobipocket files, after you purchase a book from us, you can log into your Take Control account, which knows what you've bought, and download the alternative formats from there. Or just click the Check for Updates button on the cover of your PDF and get the alternative formats from a link on that page. We'll be making this process even easier in the future, but we're not sure if we'll bundle all the books together so they can be downloaded all at once during the purchase, if only because the extra files might confuse people who just want PDF and don't know what to do with EPUB and Mobipocket, especially since few apps on the Mac will even open those files.
Although a higher-res screen would be cool, about the only weakness of the iPad, to me, is weight. How do you feel about the iPad as a reader device?
Yes, weight is one of the major issues, but I'm not sure how much different a lighter device will really be - the Kindle DX is lighter, but I don't feel that it makes any real difference in actual use. That said, I don't like holding things anyway, and have become quite fond of the Zerochroma case I have on my iPad, which gives me a built-in stand. That lets me prop it up on my lap or on a pillow with less effort.
Thanks to Adam. Find his many-sided work at TidBITS.
21 comments:
- TC [Girl] said...
I'm sure the check is in the mail re: the Apple accolades! lol! That was DELICIOUS to read! (as in: I didn't think they were as "perfect" as Jobs likes their image to appear!) :-D
- February 26, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- Unknown said...
I have both an iPad and a Kindle.
I prefer the Kindle for book & newspaper reading: much lighter, good screen, long battery life. It has weaknesses for sure: klutzy navigation beyond page turns and a cramped keyboard.
The iPad wins hands-down (on a stand) for colour magazines and web access but it's heavy, shows messy screen with any use and the battery life is not great. But I am certain that some of this will be improved in v.2
- March 1, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Eolake Stobblehouse said...
For sure there'll be a fourth kind of Kindle this year. And a new iPad tomorrow, and some say a third kind already in the fall, possibly a different size and higher screen resolution. So I'm very interested to see how all these things will make the landscape change.
- March 1, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- Dave and Nancy Madsen said...
Thank you for noting how the book publishers create various formats, Epub, PDF, etc. for various reading devices, and their reasons for doing so. Yes, iPAD2 is thinner and lighter, faster and has better graphics, the battery life is still about 10hours, not two weeks. However, over night recharge is a reasonable action. I doubt that Apple will provide a smaller display (economies of scale and manufacturing differences, marketing and inventory issues ... these are not trivial.) Would we like 'em, perhaps, but the size and flexibility of the iPAD concept has been an overwhelmingly successful. As software is upgraded, relationships are solidified and built-in to digital publishing ... the world needs for print will shrink rapidly ... not entirely ... but the need to reduce printing, distribution and storage is cumbersome to state it mildly. Thank you for sharing this info... it is definitely helpful
Dave (theoleguy)
- March 7, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Awesome, a ton of these questions are things I myself was wondering about. I want to have EPUB/MOBI/PDF sales later on, and I really appreciate the insight about the respective stores. Thanks.
I'll definitely grab your RSS feed ;)
- March 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- Unknown said...
People go on about how the Kindle is great because there are no other distractions and because you can read it in direct sunlight and whatnot, but my feeling is that they're really saying "I'm avoiding the iPad because I don't want to be seen as slavishly buying everything Apple releases."
Wow, I thought I read books on my Kindle because the screen is better for text, I no longer get eye strain, it weighs less, I can read it in sunlight and the battery life is outstanding.
But now I realize that I'm just a tool who was only using it because I'm anti-Apple.
Thanks for clarifying that for me jackass.
- March 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Peter said...
I was an early iPad owner, but when I realized how I was using the iPad, I sold it on Craig's List and bought a Kindle. I was prepared to sell the Kindle too, if I felt like I wasn't making good use of it, but have it still. (I'm a Mac user at work and at home and even own a few shares in the company, so it would be hard to detect any anti-Apple biases) The advantages of the Kindle to me are the ones you dismissed, plus a few others, like free 3G access and being able to email documents from my Mac to my Kindle. This works quite well getting Mobi versions of Take Control books (of which I own several) to the Kindle by the way, where they are quite readable. I could do this with Mobi or PDF, but Mobi works much better. I'd like to make the obvious point that we live in a multiplatform world and only a very powerful or obstinate publisher (and I'm sure there will be some) would slight the iPad, the Kindle or Android. Interesting interview anyway.
- March 11, 2011 at 5:07 PM
extra files might confuse people who just want PDF and don't know what to do with EPUB and Mobipocket, especially since few apps on the Mac will even open those files
Stanza Desktop and Calibre for Mac OS X both work just fine for reading ePub books on the Mac. Yes, two qualifies as "few" but when it comes to the iPhone or iPad there are more than a few apps that will handle ePub books, not least of which is Apple's iBooks (although I prefer reading in Stanza for a number of reasons).
I much prefer reading a book on my iPhone in ePub rather than PDF format (although I primarily read books made up of words with few pictures -- I assume Take Control books have lots of screengrabs in them). I can't speak to the iPad experience since I don't have one.
Eventually I'm sure Apple will build a desktop reader into the increasingly-misnamed iTunes as well: Stanza Desktop is poorly maintained (even though their iOS app rocks) and Calibre is an exercise in masochism to use, even though right now it's the best of breed.
I just searched both versiontracker and macupdate for "ePub" and neither of them returned either Stanza or Calibre, so perhaps it's no surprise most Mac users don't know there's Mac desktop reader software for ePub books.
- March 11, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Uh, I read on my Kindle because it's ridiculously superior to the iPad for reading books. Considering i spent something like $100,000 on Apple products for my department this past fiscal year, I don't think I'm using the Kindle to avoid buying Apple products.
- March 11, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- Michael McKee said...
Adam, as president of a Mac User Group, I can hardly be accused of being anti Apple. Yet I use one of the small Kindles. If you are going to me carrying something around with you all day that's a huge advantage. My wife has an iPad and leaves it home or in the car when we are out all day. Why? Weight. Oh, size is important, too. I can slip the Kindle in a coat pocket.
- March 11, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- John said...
If you don't find the weight difference between iPad and Kindle relevant, you're unlike almost everyone else who uses them. I have a creaky old 1st generation Kindle and it's still better for reading than my iPad (which I love for many other things). The exception of course is for anything will illustrations, color, etc. where the iPad is much better. But to relax with a novel - Kindle is fantastic.
- March 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Eolake Stobblehouse said...
The interviewer here:
I do admit I have written more than once of my wish for a reader of the K3's size, but the iPhone 4's screen quality. The high res makes a big difference.
(I dislike the greyness of the Kindle screen.)
- March 12, 2011 at 3:47 AM
- Unknown said...
I've never owned a Kindle. But, I did read ebooks on a 'big' PDA, a Palm Tungsten, a few years ago. The experience is far superior on the iPad. Despite being a MacBook Air owner, I prefer carrying the iPad to my 'little' laptop. In fact, I am using it now. It is resting in my lap as I type, so the weight is not an issue. It puzzles me when me complain that the iPad is heavy.
- March 12, 2011 at 4:42 AM
- Unknown said...
Correction: when MEN complain that the iPad is heavy.
- March 12, 2011 at 4:44 AM
I very much enjoy reading on my Kindle and about 90% of my reading time is spent with online articles and blog posts. Instapaper is what makes it actually useful, though, by allowing me to bookmark the things I want to read and then helping to format them for the Kindle display.
I'll admit that I haven't used an iPad for reading, but I prefer the Kindle enough that I will find an article on my iMac and then transfer it to Instapaper to read on my Kindle.
- March 12, 2011 at 5:55 AM
I also thought that it was strange that Adam chose to say that people only buy a kindle to avoid Apple. If there is one thing that I have found helping others with computers is that it is very much each to their own. I much prefer reading on the iPad to the Kindle - bigger screen and the ability to highlight and annotate along with the fact that I (personally) don't find the Kindle screen any easier on the eyes. However, I understand that there are some people who prefer to read on the kindle for very legitimate reasons. It comes down to personal preference and it is a little condescending to dismiss another's preferences as nothing more than a fashion statement.
- March 12, 2011 at 6:37 AM
I had two Kindles before the iPad. Great battery life, lightweight, and ease-of-use (I could buy a book just before the airplane door was closed and read it on the way home).
I also bought an iPad on the first day it was available and the Kindle for the iPad was one of the first apps I installed. That was the last time I ever used my Kindle.
He's right about iBooks. It sucks, though mostly because of the poor selection of books and Apple's klutzy download system. (When will they figure out cloud syncing?)
Interesting to read the comments of the Kindle enthusiasts. De gustibus non est disputandum.
- March 12, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Eolake Stobblehouse said...
Thanks, Anon.
I bought a Kindle 3 when it came out in November, and for a week or two I was very enthusiastic about it. And I still love the form and weight. But the slow interface and the grey screen, and the poor handling of web content means I'm also using the iPad exclusively anyway.
I think Amazon has to come out with a tablet at some point, to not lose the hardware game eventually.
- March 12, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Peter said...
"It puzzles me when me(n) complain that the iPad is heavy."
As usual, I have mixed feelings about the implication that I'm kind of a wuss, which carries both a degree of pride and some residual shame, but there you have it.
In any event, I wonder whether J. has used her/his iPad standing on a commuter train for an hour or so. As I believe Einstein proved, things get heavier over time, especially on a moving object traveling at a fraction of the speed of light :).
- March 14, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Eolake Stobblehouse said...
Also, it seems to me that using an ereader should hardly require proof of your manhood!
Even if it should, children and seniors use them too. :-)
- March 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- Adam C. Engst said...
Boy, I didn't expect Eolake's interview to get quite so much attention (via Daring Fireball) or I might have taken some more time to craft exactly what I was saying.
First off, I think people are reading WAY too much into my statement. I said:
> One thing that I think is potentially helping the Kindle is that Apple has become so large and so dominant that buying a Kindle is almost an act of rebellion.
Note the words "I think" and "potentially" and "almost". I'm not stating this as a fact, I'm proposing it as a possibility, as something that might be true in some cases. In fact, I'm pretty sure it is true in some cases, but it would be madness to suggest that it's true in all cases, or even in a majority of cases.
If you're all really interested, we can explore the question of why people buy one device over another, but I don't think there's any argument that not all people make fully rational decisions all the time. Sometimes they just like one thing more than another, or have a good or bad association. I don't wear or buy Nike running shoes, for instance, and while I can make up various rational justifications for why, the fact is that I'm not a big fan of Nike and buying other brands of running shoes is a small personal rebellion about how big and powerful Nike has become.
It's true I'm not a big fan of the Kindle. I have a Kindle 1 and a Kindle DX, and they sit on my floor unused until I need to test something on them, at which point I generally become fairly frustrated with them since I find the Kindle interface slow and opaque, the keyboard is next to useless, and I really dislike the E-Ink screen redraw time. I'm sure my discomfort with the interface is in part because I use them infrequently, but I could also make a point-by-point criticism of the Kindle on usability grounds.
All that said, if you like your Kindle, great. I'm not an iPad fan boy, and most of the reading I do is on paper, because I like to get books out of the public library.
Everything is more complicated than it seems, and there are always more than two sides to every argument. But it's not always possible, in the time and space available, to present and explore every possibility. When it comes right down to it, Eolake asked me these interview questions via email and I hadn't replied as promptly as I would have liked. So I was writing quickly in an effort to get the message out of my Inbox. And because he's a friend with a blog (as opposed to, say, the Washington Post), I wasn't thinking as carefully as I might about my wording. So it goes.
cheers... -Adam
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- Eco-friendly, because it lasts longer you are generating less electronic waste, plus it comes without a charger so you can reuse any old micro USB charger you have around the house
Operating System
- Android™ 6.0, Marshmallow
Base platform
- Processors: Snapdragon™ 801
- Main SOC: Qualcomm® MSM8974AB
- Application Processor: Quad-Core 2.26 GHz Qualcomm® Krait 400
- GPU: Qualcomm® Adreno 330
- Flash Storage: 32GB eMMC5
- Configuration: Dual-SIM, Dual-Standby (DSDS)
- SIM Sockets: 2x Micro-SIM (3FF)
- Network Technology: 2G / 3G / 4G
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
- WCDMA: Bands 1 (2100 MHz), 2 (1900 MHz), 8 (900 MHz)
- 3G Max Downlink Speed: Cat. 24 - 42.2 Mbps
- 3G Max Uplink Speed: Cat. 6 - 5.76 Mbps (Cat. 7 capable)
- LTE: Bands 3 (1800 MHz), 7 (2600 MHz), 20 (800 MHz)
- 4G Max Downlink Speed: Cat. 4 - 150 Mbps
- 4G Max Uplink Speed: Cat. 4 - 50 Mbps
- Specific Absorption Rate (SAR): 0,288 W/Kg (Head); 0,426 W/Kg (Body)
- WLAN: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac
- WLAN Bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
- WLAN Maximum Data Rate: Up to 433 Mbps (802.11 ac)
- Bluetooth®: 4.0 LE and earlier
- GPS / GNSS: GPS, A-GPS, Glonass
- FM Radio
- Display size: 5 inch Full HD
- Cover Glass: Gorilla Glass 3 - 0.7mm (thick)
- Display Type: LCD TFT/IPS
- Resolution: 1080 × 1920
- Pixel Density: 446 ppi
Main Camera
- Main Camera: 12MP CMOS sensor with dual flash
- Sensor Type: Omnivision OV12870 €" Back Side Illuminated
- Image sensor size: 1/2.8 inch
- Pixel Size: 1.25μm x 1.25μm
- F-number: f2.2
Front Camera
- Front Camera: 5MP CMOS sensor
- Sensor Type: Omnivision OV5670
- Image sensor size:1/5 inch
- Pixel Size: 1.12μm x 1.12μm
- F-number: f2.4
- Speaker: Built-in, Rear-facing
- Headset Jack: 3.5 mm
- Headset Jack configuration: CTIA-Standard (TRRS: LH/RH/GND/MIC)
- Vibration Motor: with Haptics Feedback
- Dual Microphones
Interface and Connectors
- Buttons: Power, Volume, Camera (Programmable)
- USB Port: Micro-B 2.0 with OTG support
- MicroSD Support: SDHC, SDXC, UHS
- Notification LED: 3-colour
- Expansion Port: Backside - connectivity to external case
- Expansion Port Type: USB 2.0 Device I
Dimensions and Weight Slim Case phone
- Length: 144.5 mm
- Width: 74.5 mm
- Thickness: 10.6 mm (back of case to top of glass)
- Weight 164 g
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One of Priest Lake's treasures is the Thorofare, a three mile long slow moving scenic river connecting Upper and Lower Priest Lake. This waterway is one of only a few similar primitive rivers in all of North America and needs to be saved for future generations to enjoy.
A local task force, under the auspices of Bonner County has been working for several years to secure government funding to completely replace the structure with a long lasting and permanent solution. It could take years to gather the funds and meanwhile a treasured natural attraction is being lost by the community and thousands of Priest Lake Friends. If extensive repairs are not made soon and the deterioration continues to be ignored any well aimed storm could see a collapse which would close the channel to any access except paddle craft. Please help us SAVE THE THOROFARE. Read more: Click here


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text: I skipped last week because of certain other events in my life, but this week, I return with the newly christened "Vulcan's View" (thank you to Eruptions reader Cindy for that suggestion). This week I will segue a bit from the Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, so if you want to catch up on all the eruption-related news of the week, be sure to check that out in its entirety. As always, special thanks to the Global Volcanism Program and the NASA Earth Observatory for information and images! Onto the images! Above: Volcanoes of Kamchatka — Shiveluch, Bezymianny and Kliuchevskoi No less than three volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula appear in this week's GVP report, but the image today only has one of them — Shiveluch. However, not to be shortchanged, you also get Tolbachik, Bezymianny and Kliuchevskoi (that, along with Shiveluch, shows a wispy plume drifting eastward). If you have a hankering for even more details about the Kamchatka volcanoes, be sure to check out the weekly updates that KVERT issues for these remote volcanoes. Image: A view of multiple volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula seen on Oct. 16, 2011. Image from the NASA Earth Observatory.El Hierro, Canary Islands I ran a very similar image to this one earlier this week, but here you can clearly see the green/brown plume from the eruption off the southern coast of El Hierro. So far, the eruption has remained subsurface, but an area of strong surface bubbling was seen on Monday. However, the latest reports from Wednesday suggest that the first phase of the eruption might already be over (according to Joan Martí of CSIC). Pieces retrieved from the area of the eruption don't appear to have much juvenile (new) volcanic material but rather might be pieces of the hydrothermally altered seafloor ripped up during the initial eruption. We also have some new data about how the eruption changed the pH and turbidity (how much kicked up material) of the sea to the south of the island. Image: The October 2011 eruption of El Hierro. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory.Puyehue-Cordón Caulle The ongoing eruption at Puyehue-Cordón Caulle on the Chilean-Argentine border is still causing air traffic snarls in South America — some as far away as Brazil. This eruption is producing both the copious ash that is grounding/delaying aircraft but also an impressive lava flow with prominent flow ridges that spreads to the northwest from the vent on Cordón Caulle. Likely this lava flow is a very slow moving andesite, dacite or rhyodacite lava that is typical for the compositionally diverse Puyehue-Cordón Caulle complex. Image: Puyehue-Cordón Caulle complex seen on Oct. 9, 2011. Image from the NASA Earth Observatory.Llullaillaco Here I break from the GVP Report because the NASA EO posted a number of great images from the Andes of Chile/Argentina/Bolivia. The first is Llullaillaco, on the border of Chile and Argentina, a large composite volcano that last erupted in 1877. On the north flank of Llullaillaco is a lava flow (what we'd call a "coulée") that is very reminiscent of the new flow on Puyehue-Cordón Caulle. Llullaillaco also has another common feature to many large Andean volcanoes — a debris avalanche deposit. The best age constraint on this deposit is that it was deposited ~150,000 years ago, but you can clearly see the flow lobe enter the Salar de Llullaillaco (dry lake bed). I also venture to say that Llullaillaco might be one of the few words in Spanish that sports three double L's! Image: Llullaillaco in Chile/Argentina, with the flow directions for the large debris avalanche marked with arrows. Image from the NASA Earth Observatory.Parinacota and Pomerape Another quiet Chilean volcano that makes this week's Vulcan's View is Parinacota, part of the Nevados de Payachata complex. As mentioned for Llullaillaco, Parinacota has both prominent lava flows and debris avalanche deposits. Now, this doesn't mean that volcanoes in the Andes of central and northern Chile are unique — however, what is unique is the climate. The arid environment of the Altiplano and much of the high Andes means a lot of these volcanic features are preserved as if they erupted yesterday. This means we can still clearly see features like avalanche scraps that might have been buried or reworked by weathering in other parts of the world. Image: Parinacota and nearby Pomerape, part of Nevados de Payachata. Image from the NASA Earth Observatory.Cleveland Now to the Aleutians of Alaska. Cleveland has been the most restless over the last few months as a new dome grows in the summit crater. The dome was reported to be close to topping the lip of the crater, but there hasn't been any indications of dome collapse block-and-ash flows or new explosions from the remote island volcano. AVO has kept Cleveland on Orange Alert status in case an explosive eruption does occur if/when the dome might collapse. Image: A view down onto the summit of Cleveland. The small dome can be seen at the summit (gray) and a thin plume drifts off to the east. Image from AVO/USGS.Aniakchak Caldera We finish off with a view of the Aniakchak Caldera. The mostly empty caldera was formed ~3,400 years ago in an eruption that spread pyroclastic flow deposits 50 km from the vent — and was likely very similar to the eruption of Mazama/Crater Lake in Oregon. There are also some post-collapse volcanic features in the caldera as well, including Vent Mt., a small scoria cone, much like Wizard Island in Crater Lake. However, unlike Crater Lake, this caldera has sprung a leak (at the Gates), where water that collects in the caldera can escape, so instead of a large lake forming, only a very small body of water has formed in the caldera (Surprise Lake). The webicorder for Aniakchak is pretty quiet right now and the last known eruption was in 1931 — a VEI 4 that produced both explosive activity and lava flows. The ash from the 1931 eruption took a heavy toll on local reindeer and caribou populations after the ash covered the animals' food supplies. Image: Aniakchak caldera in Alaska. Image from the NASA Earth Observatory


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ALAMEDA, Calif. — As shopping experiences go, this one is about as out there as the product being purchased.
Sitting at a table inside a sun-streaked decommissioned air traffic control tower overlooking San Francisco Bay, Krystal Liu, 22, slowly lifts the lid off a big lily-white box and shrieks.
"Wow, it's so … beautiful," Liu says as she ogles her titanium-and-white-plastic Google Glass, a $1,500 graduation-timed gift that she plans to take on her summer travels to Tibet and China. "My phone is always glued to my hand, so maybe using this will give me an extra one. This is a new chapter in technology."
It's certainly a new chapter for Google. After making its name and fortune in search and software, the California titan is using Glass to leap into both the hardware and retail space.
Some 10,000 Glass Explorers — winners of an online contest who agreed to pay list price — receive the cyborg-like apparatus over the course of this summer, while the rest of the world comes on line in 2014.
Besides being first on their respective blocks with a futuristic wearable computer, Explorers provide feedback to engineers largely through comments collected via an online community dedicated to Glass pioneers.
Google is going to great lengths to ensure that its first consumer marketing effort is a winning one. In New York, Explorers are introduced to Glass by trained guides in an airy Chelsea penthouse buzzing with activity and high-end catering. In Los Angeles, the exclusive scene repeats itself in Google's sleek Venice Beach offices.
USA TODAY recently was invited to attend the Bay Area Glass Basecamp. A few dozen newbie Explorers were ferried over from San Francisco to this former naval air base and shipyard to drink champagne, eat organic boar sandwiches and slip on their personal looking glass to the future.
"People say manufacturing is dead in America, but we wanted to hold our event here where planes flew and ships were built to show that this country can do it again, and Glass is an example of that," says senior program manager Emily Ma. "We're not selling a device as much as we're connecting people. And that starts here."
The Explorers on hand have different backgrounds but share a passion for technology. Some hope to use the product in their professional lives, while others simply want a hands-free way to share photos and videos with friends. And all seem impressed by the VIP treatment that accompanies this kickoff experience.
"My friends and I all pay attention to packaging and design, and while we love what Apple does, this almost seems better than Apple," says Magda Schoeneich, 30, a New Yorker who flew west just for this event. "I expected it to be bulkier and more fragile, but it's solid and very intuitive."
By design. Google looks to have been highlighting pages from the Steve Jobs wow-factor playbook in conjuring Glass, from its all-recycled packaging to its minimalist presentation.
Once unwrapped, Glass is glimpsed under a sheet of translucent velum paper. Peel that back and Glass is revealed, nestled inside a cozy cavern with simple labels and arrows pointing to key features. Remove Glass and one layer down sits a microfiber pouch that took ages to source from a green Japanese manufacturer. Nearby is a power cable and plug crafted in a way that the user can connect the two correctly without looking.
There is a distinct boutique-purchase vibe to this event, one that trickles down to colors. Glass comes in five hues, but please don't use words like blue or orange. Glass guides are instructed to employ the appropriate names: shale, sky, cotton, tangerine and charcoal.
"I had never thought about a wearable computer before this project," says Google's Isabelle Olsson, who leveraged years of industrial design experience to guide Glass. "But quickly our goals became clear. Create an object of desire. Light, simple, and then make the technology go away."
Glass was born three years ago at Google X, a secret lab whose best-known spawn is the company's self-driving car. The first iteration was a pair of ugly white plastic frames with circuit boards and transparent prisms lashed to its temples and bridge respectively. But it evolved quickly into a comparatively streamlined device that does its best to keep the wearer from looking like a Borg extra from Star Trek.
The right temple does the heavy lifting, powering an operating system that allows as-yet limited access to the Web (think iPhone before developers inundated the market with apps) and powers a 5-megapixel camera capable of shooting bursts of 720p video (capturing images hands-free is a leading lure of this tech toy).
"I'm a cyclist, so it's great to be able to make a call (when Glass is tethered to a phone), see my texts or get navigation without my hands coming off the handle bars," says Steve Lee, Glass's product manager.
Lee describes Glass as providing consumers with a "glancing experience" meant for quick updates and communications, and as such is a supplement to, rather than a replacement for, other devices.
"You'll keep your other screens, but this is something that adds an element of ease to our lives," he says. "In time, we'd love for people to think, 'Why would I want dumb glasses? I want smart ones.'"
Designer Olsson took Glass skiing this past winter. "It helped me teach my mom," she says. "I'd film her from behind, then on the chair lift up she'd put on my Glass and watch what she was doing."
New Yorker Schoeneich works in strategy for Johnson & Johnson and in her spare time is a ballroom dancer. She sees applications for Glass in both worlds.
As a researcher looking into children's seizures, she says a patient wearing Glass can record an episode that, in turn, can provide scientists with a personal view of the experience. But it's the thought of using Glass while dancing that makes her eyes light up.
"I always wanted to see and really feel what the dancer was seeing and feeling, and I think recording while you dance will bring you closer to that," she says.
University of California-Berkeley graduate Liu is keen to use Glass on her back-country travels, though she admits she'll likely "have to come up with an elevator pitch to explain to people in these remote places what I'm wearing," she says with a laugh. "I'm not sure they'll understand though."
Liu adds that she's read about privacy concerns surrounding Glass, namely that wearers will be able to photograph and film undetected (although Glass does require a physical or vocal prompt to do either). But her response is a shrug.
"If you're going to do something in public these days, you better think about it first because there are likely security cameras around already," she says.
Also preferring to set Glass' cultural implications aside is Texan Grant Heimbach, 28, who rolled into Basecamp with orders from his Austin scientific-instrument company to hop the first plane home so staff engineers could start dissecting his prized purchase.
"We see this as a paradigm shift," he says, sipping Champagne as the sun sets into the Pacific behind him. "It's like the Wild West right now, like iPhone before anyone knew what it could really do. So we just want to be on the frontier."
Not that his Glass will live at work; he's already got plans to show it off to friends on walks through town, his sunglasses visor accessory clipped solidly in place.
"I've only had it on 10 minutes now, but I'm already comfortable with it," he says. "They feel like my pair of Ray-Bans. I don't notice that I'm wearing anything different."
A few tables down, software engineer Tony Guntharp of Half Moon Bay, Calif., is brushing his right index finger across Glass' right temple.
A burly, brainy man who dives as a hobby, Guntharp requested to be an Explorer so he could see if Glass could be adapted to serve as a visual window into the actions of a radio-controlled submersible for which he is currently writing code.
But he, too, looks forward to the device cutting back on the heads-down, thumb-numbing, keystroke-intensive experience that is the modern smartphone.
"I sit in front of monitors all day coding, but I inevitably get pulled away by my phone, answering a text or call from my wife or a friend," he says, shaking his head. "With Glass, maybe I can keep doing what I really want to be doing."
Whether Glass lives up to its cutting-edge hype only time and consumer tastes will tell. For the moment, the self-selected Basecamp crew who ponied up $1,500 to have the latest and greatest bling from the world's top tech minds feels Google has justified both their expense and expectations.
Says Glass Explorer Schoeneich: "I feel like I just bought the Gucci of technology."


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For those who vacation during peak holiday weeks—which is most of us—rates and crowds are always higher than usual. For skiers and riders, that means blackout dates on most lift ticket deals, long lift lines, and trails packed with other skiers and riders. However, there are two exceptions to this rule for ski areas, and that is Christmas Day and New Year's Day. You may still be charged peak holiday rates for lift tickets, but there will be fewer people on the slopes.
Skiing or riding on Christmas Day may be completely out of the question due to religious beliefs or family commitments for some people. And skiing and riding on New Year's Day may be unrealistic for those who imbibe a little too much bubbly on New Year's Eve. Considering the next two holiday periods, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents' Day, will not offer the same crowd-free experience on the slopes, I say head to the slopes on December 25 and January 1.


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While my family was on vacation last week, I got a text from my Aunt Traci telling me that the brownie cookies she made were a success! Of course it got me thinking about brownie cookies and so that night after everyone had fallen asleep, I sat on my hotel bed googling brownie cookie recipes on my phone. It didn't take long after our arrival home for me to try out this new recipe and they were absolutely a chocolatey brownie cookie success!
Brownie Cookies
16 ounces Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate (60% cacao), chopped
4 tablespoons butter, room temperature
4 eggs
1 1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.
Melt chopped chocolate with the butter in a saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth. Mix eggs, vanilla, and sugar in a medium bowl. Combine thoroughly. Set aside.
Sift flour, salt and baking powder together in a small bowl.
Add melted chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and slowly add dry ingredients. When combined, add the chocolate chips and stir.
Scoop 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough onto prepared sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes or until they are firm on the outside (dough loses its sheen). Leave to cool completely on baking sheets. Oh and I gave them a little sprinkle of Fleur de Sel.
*I used a little more flour than the recipe calls for because the dough/batter seemed a little more like batter than dough. I was worried the cookies would turn into one big cookie. With that being said though, the dough was never like a thick cookie dough it was a little more brownie batter like which seems obvious because they are brownie cookies.
Recipe adapted from the Brown Eyed Baker


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The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® series continues by recognizing one of the most well-respected coaches in Tennessee State history.
In 1963, TSU hired John Merritt to become the school's 14th football head coach. Merritt coached the Tigers for 20 years and amassed over 170 wins for TSU.
Over the course of his career, Merritt continued to enhance the university's rich football tradition- completing four undefeated seasons, winning six national championships and four black college football titles. Along with an excellent staff of assistant coaches which included Joe Gilliam Sr. and Alvin Coleman, who had accompanied Merritt to TSU from Jackson State in 1963, he implemented a wide open pro-type "T" offense with multiple sets.
In 1967, Merritt's team achieved a national defensive record for allowing opponents a paltry average of 2.15 yards per carry, and a year later he was Coach of the Year. Merritt's team received the Associated Press and the United Press International small college championships in 1975, and by 1979 he had a record of 130-25-5. Merritt modestly downplayed his role in the team's success and attributed the team's winning record to "the Good Lord."
The more games Merritt won and the more players he sent to the National Football League, the more attention Tennessee and Tennessee State University gained nationally. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter called to congratulate Merritt for his 200th victory.
The city of Nashville named John A. Merritt Boulevard (old Centennial Boulevard between Twenty-eighth and Forty-fourth Avenues) in his honor in 1982. By then, Merritt was in failing health. From 1963 until 1983, when he resigned, Merritt compiled a record of 172-33-7 at TSU and 232-65-11 overall.
During his career, Merritt built a powerful program that produced NFL stars like "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam (Pittsburgh Steelers), Ed "Too Tall" Jones (Dallas Cowboys), Claude Humphrey (Philadelphia Eagles) and many others.
This season marks the 14th annual John A. Merritt Classic played at LP Field in honor of the late coach.
This year's John Merritt Classic honors all of the players that played under "Big John" from NFL Hall of Famer Richard Dent to one-year letter winners. Every single student-athlete that Merritt coached could speak to his legendary personality and each was a part of Merritt's success. While coaching Merritt instructed his players on how to be winners, the players were ultimately the ones who performed on the field.
For 2012's John Merritt Classic, lets all pay tribute to the man who accomplished so much during his life, but let's also celebrate the successes of the student-athletes whose lives he touched.
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
Sports Information Assistant Alex Mitchell contributed to this article.
Follow TSU Athletics on Facebook.com/TSUTigers and Twitter @TSU_Tigers.


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Activist Russell Means to Speak at Augustana April 27
The Center for Western Studies at Augustana College today announced that American Indian activist Russell Means, widely known for leading the 71-day armed takeover of Wounded Knee on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, will discuss "Wounded Knee, Before, During and After," at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 27, in Augustana's Chapel of Reconciliation.
Means' talk coincides with the Center for Western Studies' Dakota Conference, a national conference on the Northern Plains. Now in its 44th year, the theme for the 2012 conference is "Wounded Knee 1973: Forty Years Later."
- Tickets for Means' discussion are $10 each and will be available at the door before the event.
- Tickets to Means' discussion will be provided to registrants of the full Dakota Conference. Conference registration is $50 before April 16; $55 after April 16. Registration is available at www.augie.edu/cws.
Called the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse by the Los Angeles Times, Means first became a national spokesman for the fledgling American Indian Movement in the early 1970s by confronting costumed Pilgrims during a Thanksgiving re-enactment in Plymouth, Mass. Also in the early 1970s, he organized a protest rally in Gordon, Neb., over the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, who died at the hands of four white men in 1972.
CWS Art Exhibit Features 'Interpretations of Wounded Knee'
Read more about "Interpretations of Wounded Knee 1973 and 1890," an art exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 now on display in the Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Galleries of the Center for Western Studies' Fantle Building.
In 1973, Means organized the Wounded Knee occupation, a 10-week siege which made "AIM" a household word in America. In 1975, he was acquitted of murder charges in the death of a man in a barroom brawl.
In the 1990s, Means began a successful acting career with his role in "The Last of the Mohicans," eventually appearing in at least 32 movies and television shows, including Disney's "Pocahontas" and Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," as well as "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He also published his autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread."
In mid-2011, he announced his diagnosis of esophageal cancer. At the time, Means said the disease had spread to his tongue, lungs and lymph nodes and was too advanced for surgery.
According to a story in the Rapid City Journal, "even if surgery had been an option, he would not have chosen it, Means said, since it meant removing his tongue and losing the ability to speak." In December 2011, Means announced he was cancer-free.
"Mr. Means' ability to share first-hand details of the occupation, and his reflections 40 years later, will no doubt provide fascinating insight into one of the Northern Plains' most significant historical events," said Dr. Harry Thompson, executive director of the Center for Western Studies.
"As part of our balanced examination of the Wounded Knee 1973 occupation, we wanted to reach out to those who had first-hand knowledge of the incident and subsequent events. For example, former Governor William Janklow, who was assistant attorney general at the time, had indicated that he would attend if his health permitted."
On December 29, 1890, Miniconjou Lakota chief Spotted Elk (Big Foot) and 300 of his followers were attacked on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. Eighty-three years later, 200 Oglala Lakota seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee. In observance of the 40th anniversary of the occupation, the 2012 Dakota Conference will address questions related to Wounded Knee 1973, the 1890 massacre, as well as any and all aspects of Northern Plains American Indian history and culture.
Other speakers for the Dakota Conference, April 27-28, include:
- Stew Magnuson, author of "The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder"
- Kevin McKiernan, NPR reporter, the last reporter inside Wounded Knee in 1973
- Joe Trimbach, FBI agent in charge at Wounded Knee in 1973
- Judge David Gienapp and attorney James McMahon, assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting Wounded Knee cases
- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, American Indian scholar
- Michael Her Many Horses, participant in Wounded Knee occupation


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Most dividend investors spend a large portion of their time looking for the perfect dividend stocks, analyzing fundamentals and deciding whether companies have the sustainable economic advantages to continue raising distributions in the long run. Identifying the best dividend stocks and worrying about entry price is just a part of successful dividend investing. Investors should also focus on diversification, in order to ensure that they do not have a major part of their income coming from just a handful of income stocks.
Investors who own a portfolio of income stocks, where a large portion of distributions comes from a handful of stocks could suffer if these securities or the sector they are in experience some turbulence. Financial stocks were some of dividend investor's favorites before the crisis of 2007 – 2009. Investors who derived a large chunk of their income from financial stocks saw their dividend income decrease sharply, even if they had allocation to other companies which raised distributions during this dark period for income investors. As a result, dividend investors should focus on sound portfolio or money management, in order to avoid drastic dividend reductions from just a handful of income stocks they own.
There are several ways that dividend investors use money management in their portfolio building processes. Two methods include weighing your positions by yield or attempting to equal weight your positions. Both methods have advantages as well as shortcomings. There are other methods for weighing individual positions in a dividend portfolio, but the two previously mentioned ones are the most common ones in my discussions with dividend investors.
With equal weighted portfolios, investors have adequate diversification in the their portfolio as well as their distribution incomes. As a result, if one or two positions cut dividends in a given year, the overall impact on annual dividend income would not be detrimental. The negative of equal dividend weighting is that sometimes it would be difficult for investors to maintain the equal weighting for all of their positions, especially since stocks go up and down in value all the time.
Some investors also weight their portfolios based on yield. As a result, companies with high dividends get a higher proportion of the portfolio, which leads to higher current yields. Many companies have higher yields when their stock prices are depressed. Other companies of such sectors as utilities, REITs and MLPs have traditionally paid higher than average dividend yields. The risk of weighting portfolios based on yield is that investors would end up being concentrated in just a handful of high yielding sectors, which could make a portfolio riskier than expected. In addition, an overrepresentation of higher yielding stocks could offer a big blow to total dividend income if these income stocks have unsustainable distributions and end up cutting or eliminating entirely their fat distributions. During the financial crisis, investors who had a higher allocation to high yielding Financials and REITs that cut dividends, suffered huge blows to their dividend incomes. The goal of successful dividend investing is to keep receiving a stable dividend income, and not having to go back to work.
I typically attempt to weigh my positions equally, as long as the underlying valuations make sense. I own more than 40 individual issues in my dividend portfolio, which have been accumulated over a very long period of time. As a result, less than half of the positions I own are underrepresented. This is because I would sometimes purchase shares in a company that temporarily become undervalued. After that the shares would increase in value, making the stock overvalued. As a result I would not increase my position for many years, yet I would keep the stock as long as the dividend is maintained or increased. For example, my position in Family Dollar (FDO) was purchased a few years ago when the stock was trading at much lower valuations than today and was offering a much higher yield. Because I find the stock to be relatively overvalued I have not really added to it in years. This means that it's relative proportion in my income portfolio has been decreasing over time, especially since I add money to work every month.
I would however attempt to keep companies that are attractively valued currently at close to equal dollar values. For example, let's look at a situation where I owned $5,000 worth of Phillip Morris International (PM), and I had a $3000 position in PepsiCo (PEP). Let's assume that I found PepsiCo (PEP) to be attractively valued. I would try to add to my PepsiCo position until I own $5000 worth of PepsiCo (PEP) stock. Currently, the top 30 stocks in my portfolio by weight account for 86% of my total portfolio value. I find 24 of them to be attractive enough to attract new funds from me this year.
Currently, I find both Phillip Morris International (PM) and PepsiCo (PEP) to be attractively valued. In addition I also find United Technologies (UTX) and Kimberly-Clark (KMB) to be priced within my buy range, and I have added to my positions in both stocks over the past month. Unfortunately, my portfolio is already overweight in both PepsiCo(PEP)and Phillip Morris International (PM), which is why I would not be able to add money there for a period ranging from six to twelve months.
United Technologies Corporation (UTX) provides technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. This dividend achiever has raised distributions for 19 years in a row. Over the past decade, United Technologies has managed to boost distributions by 15.30%/year. The company trades at 17.30 times earnings, yields 2.70% and has a sustainable distribution coverage. Check my analysis of the stock.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB), together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing and marketing health care products worldwide. This dividend aristocrat has raised distributions for 40 years in a row. Over the past decade, Kimberly-Clark has managed to boost distributions by 9.70%/year. The company trades at 18.20 times earnings, yields 3.60% and has a sustainable distribution coverage. Check my analysis of the stock.
Full Disclosure: Long PEP, PM, FDO
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- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Perhaps I misunderstood, but I think usually when investors say they are weighting the portfolio by yield, they mean that the higher yield stocks have less weight, thus the high-yield utility and telecom stocks, for example, provide a good dividend comparable to other holdings, but they account for less market value within the account. For instance,ReplyDelete
your dividends received from CL would be similar in size to those from SO or DUK, but your CL holding would be much larger - as it should be - because CL has a superior record of growth in both stock value and dividends.
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When I finally got my package (it was out of stock), I wasn't sure I liked it anymore (though I did love the Cocoa Couture shade – still do 🙂 ). In fact, I've only worn it 3x (this day being the 3rd). Why? I don't know. Maybe it's the clothes color choices that don't go with it? But this time, it seemed to work! Maybe it's because of my bright pink shirt too? I wore it on Mother's Day, but mixed in with a whole bunch of others b/c I didn't initially wear it. The color I initially wore was a pale pink, but I wanted more pink so added this and a gloss, etc.
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Three police officers involved in a dispute with Andrew Mitchell about the "plebgate" affair say they do not owe an apology to the former chief whip.
They told MPs that they stood by their "accurate" account of a meeting with Mr Mitchell in October 2012.
Mr Mitchell, who resigned over the row, has challenged the officers' claim that he was not open about the incident.
But Chris Jones, from West Midlands Police, said he was "not convinced we have done anything wrong".
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But the head of West Mercia Police told the Commons Home Affairs Committee the handling of the affair had been "clumsy" and the report and its recommendations should be independently reviewed.
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Sgt Jones, Insp MacKaill and Det Sgt Hinton's meeting with Mr Mitchell took place weeks after an altercation at the gates of Downing Street where the Tory MP was accused of swearing at police and calling them "plebs" - allegations that he has always denied.
In a briefing after the meeting, the officers - all members of the Police Federation - told journalists that Mr Mitchell had refused to elaborate on what he did or did not say during the original incident.
Mr Mitchell insists a transcript of the meeting, which he secretly recorded, shows that he apologised for swearing and expressly denied that he had used the word "pleb".
Asked by Labour MP Keith Vaz whether he owed an apology to Mr Mitchell, Mr MacKaill said no and insisted he stood by "what I believe was an accurate account of the meeting".
He said he believed he had been right to call for Mr Mitchell to resign - believing at the time that his alleged behaviour in Downing Street represented a "casual dismissal of police integrity".
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But Conservative MP Michael Ellis, a member of the committee, accused the officers of "disgraceful conduct", saying they had "spun a yarn to the press to get someone out of high office".
Mr Vaz said their answers had been "most unsatisfactory" and he would be calling their media adviser, John Gaunt, to answer questions about his role in the affair.
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Earlier, Chief Inspector Jerry Reakes-Williams, who led an inquiry into the October 2012 meeting and whether the officers had tried to discredit Mr Mitchell, said he believed the trio should face disciplinary action.
Mr Reakes-Williams, head of professional standards at Warwickshire and West Mercia Police, said the officers' comments to the media "may have had the impact of misleading the public about what happened" as they had given the impression that Mr Mitchell had not sought to explain what happened outside Downing Street.
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Republicans hold an edge over Democrats in voter enthusiasm. GOP and right-leaning independent voters have an 8-point enthusiasm deficit, with 42 percent of voters more enthusiastic about voting and 50 percent of voters less enthusiastic. But Democrats and left-leaning independents have a far greater deficit, 23 percentage points, with just 32 percent of voters feeling more enthusiastic and 55 percent of voters feeling less so.
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text: dave ziegler Posted January 12, 2011 I just wanted to say that I am so glad I got as many shots as I did inside the 1966 Bottle House and the Old Kinsey bottle house as the vandels have now stolen piping from both,Plus stainless Pump heads even small stainless tanks. In both buildings destroying them.Just before the Holidays a guy called the Realter that for years has offered the Kinsey plant on the market to meet him as He wanted to know the price being asked. They met him there and told him and then all during the Holidays He pretented He was going to buy the place telling neighbors that, while he went in there late at night with battery powered flood lights and stole many things including the Priceless old Hand blender Ludy used in the Old Bottle house and sold the stuff for scrap. I was very suspious as soon as I heard about him walking around all the time and taking stuff, as when you buy a place you Do Not go in there and take things first. So I got someone to call the Realter and ask if he was truely buying the Plant and they said after meeting him there they never heard from him again. Well I was mad as Heck so I told the people that watch the place to watch for him and get the Cops.Yes the Cops got him but he only had wrenches on him and no stuff sadly so they could only arest him for atempting to steal, still since then things are ok again and the buildings are locked tight. Someone Like this is the worse Kind of Criminal stealing historic stuff just to make money never careing about History or what is right. I can only hope His day will truely come when what goes around comes around.If there is one thing I can't stand is someone stealing historic stuff to just take it to the scrap dump. And the fact that he pulled this stunt of pretending he was buying the Place tricking People while stealing like nuts shows that con men are still alive and well! I have lived long enough to smell out a crook like this but He and whoever helped him just plain destroyed anything they touched. I am so glad that I saved as much historic stuff as I have.Dave Z-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-Kinsey The Unhurried WhiskeyFor Unhurried moments Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When not acting in a film, a television show or sharing concerts filled with Appalachian music and comedy, actor/entertainer Randall Franks gives his time to helping others.
"From my earliest memories, my parents gave their time to reach out and help others pull themselves up from challenging circumstances," Franks said. "That same spirit of improving opportunities for others is the benchmark I use for my daily life."
Photo: Randall Franks (second from left) joins Boynton Lions of Ringgold members in its eyeglass recycling effort.
The former NBC and CBS actor returns home from filming his role in the upcoming film "The Crickets Dance," but is he off to a celebrity party or a movie premiere? No, on a Tuesday evening, he is sitting around a table with his fellow Boynton Lions of Ringgold members discussing how to raise additional funds to put more glasses on needy neighbors and planning a special community Christmas film event to raise awareness about Lionism and increase membership. A few days later at 7 a.m., Randall sits down for breakfast with the Ringgold Kiwanis where a couple mention seeing him as "Officer Randy Goode" on "In the Heat of the Night" the day before. He is there to speak about a special Northwest Georgia Joint Economic Development Authority effort to draw film and television projects to his region.
Whether serving to assist his home community of Catoosa County in Georgia and its residents through special projects of civic clubs, his church, or serving with or founding non-profits to help encourage opportunities for youths and families, Franks finds his bliss in making a difference.
Another Tuesday night finds him gathering with yet another charity as the local Habitat for Humanity of Catoosa County board plans their upcoming house build. On Wednesday close to lunch, Franks sits down with members of the Catoosa Citizens for Literacy who assist local residents in achieving their G.E.D. and offers special projects to increase family literacy. That afternoon, he then fields calls to help promote the Share America Foundation's latest fundraising effort to help Appalachian youth with scholarships.
"From food for the needy through Nourishing Children In Catoosa, the Catoosa County Homelessness Committee, Imagination Library for kids, or the safety of our community through the Local Emergency Planning Committee, the people I have been blessed to serve alongside impact the lives of so many," Franks said. "That is what my parents instilled in me, service to others is all we have to give."
Photo: Randall Franks (second from left) receives the Georgia Municipal Association Certificate of Distinction.
The depth of his charitable efforts garnered the attention of Georgia's former Governor Nathan Deal when he recognized him for making a difference in the lives of Georgians commending him as a "model citizen" whose altruism, righteousness, patriotism, goodwill and Commitment to the Golden Rule greatly benefit his home state and community. He also received the Kiwanis International Distinguished Service Award.
One of the biggest humanitarian efforts came in 2011, when his hometown was devastated by a tornado hitting hundreds of homes and businesses. Franks stepped up and served as the Joint Public Information Officer and Coordinator of Volunteers. He brought together a board to form a new non-profit Catoosa Organization Acting in Disaster which responded to the tragedy helping rebuild and repair the homes of the under and non-insured. In addition to his day-to-day efforts to meet the daily needs of his neighbors, he helped the organization raise over 1.3 million for the efforts.
"While I never desire to see such a tragedy again, I hope I never lose in my heart the spirit of community, dedication and earnest service to others that I saw shared during that period," he said. "It re-enforced my faith in the innate goodness of people, and how even someone who lost everything will seek to help others," he said.
He said these opportunities to serve during the crisis came open to Franks because he chose even another path of public service to his community in 2009, when he ran for the Ringgold City Council allowing him the opportunity to train and prepare.
"I cannot believe ten years has passed since I first ran for office," he said. "Working with my fellow councilmembers, we have accomplished so much, improved parks, recreation and public areas, better roads, an economic development resurgence, adding better paying jobs and turning around downward trends in our historic shopping, commercial and industrial opportunity districts. I have also been able to work along side some amazing staff and volunteers to produce numerous events to build upon our community spirit."
Photo: Randall Franks and Share America Scholar Trevor Holder rehearse backstage at the Smith Charitable Endowment Smith and Wesley and Friends concert in Ringgold, Ga. (Share America Foundtion)
No matter its focus, the 2019 Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame inductee said opportunities to serve energize him and help to illuminate what he shares in his performances.
"Opportunities to perform as an actor, musician or comedian allow me to uplift those who see a role, or hear the music or joke," he said. "In a way, the people whose experiences I share and have the opportunity to see their lives improved through all these wonderful organizations only add to my ability to uplift audiences and share that we are all here to encourage others and make a difference."
Franks has scored two # 1 AirPlay Direct Global Albums in 2019 including the charity releases "Americana Youth of Southern Appalachia" and "In the Heat of the Night'a Christmas Time's A Comin'". Radio may find all his music links at his AirPlay Direct Music Page: AirPlayDirect.com/RandallFranks
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Donations to the Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship may be made at www.ShareAmericaFoundation.org.
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