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Illinois and the Korean War, November 1952
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[November 01, 2012]
SPRINGFIELD -- The state of
Illinois is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War by
supplying information each month about the state's involvement in
the conflict.
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Illinois Department of
Veterans' Affairs, Illinois Korean Memorial Association, and the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, along with media
partners the Illinois Press Association and the Illinois
Broadcasters Association, are sponsoring "Illinois Remembers the
Forgotten War." For more information, visit
Illinoisans killed in action in Korea, November 1952
By county of residence
(Source: U.S. Department of Defense records)
Pvt. R.L. Lindsay,
Army, Nov. 15.
Pvt. Norman C.
Plinske, Army, Nov. 21.
Pfc. Robert E. VanHook, Army, Nov. 16.
Rock Island:
Key events during the Korean War, November 1952
November 1952 began as October had ended in Korea, with yet
another deadly skirmish being fought along the ragged front line
that divided North and South Korea. On Nov. 3, the 14th North Korean
Regiment tried to seize Hill 851 in the Heartbreak Ridge area.
United States troops, anchored by the 2nd Battalion, 160th Infantry
Regiment of the 40th Infantry Division, held against the onslaught.
Later that month, Chinese forces attacked U.N. positions at the
Hook, an aptly named terrain feature defended by Great Britain's
Commonwealth Division. A determined three-day assault by the Chinese
was finally thwarted by a battalion from the famed Black Watch,
along with a contingent of Commonwealth Division tanks.
One of the more bizarre events of the propaganda war the
Communists waged occurred Nov. 15-27. The Communists held what
became known as the "Prisoner of War Olympics," where prisoners from
various camps competed in a variety of "sports." The Communists
continually tried to portray the People's Republic of North Korea as
a paradise and wanted the world to think that captured United
Nations soldiers were well treated and enjoying healthy activities
in the "Communist wonderland." This came at the same time that the
North Koreans interrupted the ongoing armistice talks over the issue
of POWs, since it was apparent to them that large numbers of North
Korean and Chinese POWs wanted to defect to the South if given the
freedom of choice (as some 7,900 North Koreans and 14,700 Chinese
eventually did). Staging these "Olympics" was a transparent
propaganda attempt that largely failed.
Back in the States, the American public was focused on the
presidential election. They wanted little more than to find an
honorable way out of Korea and to bring the troops home, and on Nov.
4 voters expressed as much when they elected World War II hero
Dwight D. Eisenhower as president. Very soon, the man who vowed to
visit Korea if he was elected president would be commander in chief
of United States forces who had been mired in the Korean War for 2
1/2 years.
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Illinois Korean War Memorial
The Illinois Korean War Memorial is located in Springfield's Oak
Ridge Cemetery, the same cemetery that contains the Lincoln Tomb.
Oak Ridge is the nation's second-most visited burial ground, behind
only Arlington National Cemetery.
Dedicated on June 16, 1996, the memorial consists of a
12-foot-tall bronze bell mounted on a granite base. At the
circumference of the base are four niches, each with a
larger-than-life figure representing a branch of the armed services.
Inscribed on the base are the names of 1,754 Illinoisans killed in
The Illinois Korean War Memorial is administered by the Illinois
Historic Preservation Agency and may be visited daily free of
Korean War veterans oral history project
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
The oral history program at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum offers "Veterans
Remember," a collection of interviews with Illinois residents
about their wartime experiences, at the library's website,
www.alplm.org/oral_history/home.html. The interviews concern the
experiences of Illinois veterans who fought in several conflicts,
including the Korean War, as well as the experiences of those on the
home front. Visitors to the website can listen to or watch the
interviews in their entirety. Several of the interviews have
transcripts, and most have still images as well.
Website visitors will need a computer capable of playing MP3
audio files or MPG compressed video files in order to listen to the
interviews. The transcripts and still images are also accessible.
Volunteers conducted and edited many of the interviews and developed
the transcripts that accompany them.
Korean War National Museum
The Korean War National Museum, or KWNM, celebrates the 60th
anniversary of the Korean War with a new board of directors, new
professional staff and a renewed focus on getting a world-class
museum built now, in the lifetime of the Korean War veterans. Media
reports have outlined a proposal of the KWNM to obtain 7,000 square
feet of prime space at Navy Pier in Chicago for a state-of-the-art,
world-class museum where visitors could come to honor and learn
about the service and sacrifices of the Americans, South Koreans and
their U.N. allies in the "forgotten victory." Those plans are
continuing to be developed, and the KWNM hopes to be able to share
more news soon.
Meanwhile, the Denis J. Healy Freedom Center, located at 9 South
Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield, is open Tuesday through
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are
The KWNM welcomes donations of photographs, documents, diaries
and artifacts of those who served in the Korean War. To learn more
about the KWNM, or to volunteer or donate, visit
www.kwnm.org or look for the
museum on Facebook.
Korean War booklet
The Illinois Korean Memorial Association, an all-volunteer
organization, has published a booklet, "A Brief History of the
Korean War," copies of which have been provided free of charge to
public libraries, high schools and junior high schools in Illinois.
Individuals may obtain a copy by sending a $10 check or money order
to: Illinois Korean Memorial Association, P.O. Box 8554,
Springfield, IL 62791.
Tax-deductible donations are welcome. All donations go to the
book project and to the upkeep of the Illinois Korean War Memorial.
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the Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency]
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Satie Ladybug by Lanark
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THE PRESERVING MACHINE adds to the well-received albums of reworkings of classics by Argentian composer and musician Lanark. Some would argue this album is his finest. Once again, he is humble about his talents, this time attributing the compositions to insects and machines.
He writes, "How to preserve music from oblivion... Put the sheet music on the machine. Wait. An insect or similar kind of animal is produced. Let it live and transform. Put it back on the machine. Wait. A new sheet music is produced. Play it. (over an idea by Philip K. Dick)"
Lanark's compositions for this album are based on:
1. Polovtsian Dances (A. Borodin)
2. Nocturne in Eb (F. Chopin)
3. Adagio in G (T. Albinoni)
4. Gnossienne No. 3 (E. Saite)
5. Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 2 in C# (F. Lizt)
6. In the Hall of the Mountain King (E. Grieg)
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The Meeting at the Bar prompt over at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write about creativity in some way. Host Anne Montgomery asks us "to think about a time when you've experienced or championed the immersion of creative flow; the agony, disappointment, or rejuvenation of a creative U-turn; how you incubate new ideas or divergent thinking; or examine creativity as a subject in your poem." It made me think of the many poems that I've lost because I didn't want to get out of bed and let creativity flow.
A Poem Lost
I lie in bed, curl up for sleep
Eyes closed, blankets pulled tight
Sleep eludes me, I lie awake
Words swirling in my head
There's a poem forming line by line
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It's a pretty good one, too
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Empath halted, more out of surprise than respect, her arms heavy with chainmail and her face slick with sweat. "My Queen."
Ophelia lifted the mail from Empath's arms. "I know, it is strange to see me within a city's walls." She carried the mail to one of the carts and draped it over the edge, where a squire hefted as much as he could and threaded it over thick wooden dowels.
Ophelia said, "I dislike the confinement almost as much as the stench of daemon blood. But when the messenger delivered your note, I had to come."
She offered a waterskin and towel.
Empath used both. "You haven't come to talk me out of it, I hope."
"No. To ask why you insist on leading this mission."
"King Jeraziah—"
"I spoke to my brother. We didn't share much, but he did tell me the only reason he named you commander was because he was afraid not to. Apparently he believed if he hadn't, you would have become one with him, issued the order, then left."
"That would be disrespectful," Empath said. "A violation."
"But amusing, no? So tell me. Why is it so important for you to lead that odd band of warriors back into the Great Rift?"
Empath glanced at the Hunter's Guild, those heroes who had been pulled into the Rift and survived—thrived, even—and returned to warn Newerth off the growing Riftspawn threat. They seemed even more uncomfortable than Ophelia, and rightfully so. Ophelia preferred the natural setting of Caldavar to anything man-made, but the Guild was suited to an entirely different realm.
Empath said, "I was there when they emerged. I saw what else came out of that rift, and what it intended for our world. I cannot in good conscience let another carry the responsibility."
"But Jeraziah has granted you every resource you desire. I mean no offense, but there are other warriors better suited to spearhead an assault. The Black Legion comes to mind."
"The mission is mine," Empath said. She turned to collect another load of equipment, but Ophelia caught her arm.
"Tell me why." Her voice was stern, that of a Queen, but her eyes were soft. Appealing. Empath felt within her a true desire to know…to find out if the Great Rift might offer what she hoped it would.
"Relief," Empath said. "For years I have felt the suffering of Newerth. Of every living creature who has been tortured, maimed, killed. I will lead this mission into the Great Rift and close that gateway, because it will save Newerth. But while I am there, perhaps only for a moment…perhaps I won't feel that suffering."
Ophelia nodded.
Empath could not meet her eyes. "It is shameful. But the truth."
"No," Ophelia said. "No truth is shameful. It only is. And I, too, would embrace a moment of silence to avoid hearing my brothers and sisters of the natural world howling for the pain to stop. I wish you luck in your search for silence, even if it is only a moment."
"Please," Empath said. "Do not tell the King."
Ophelia scoffed. "He wouldn't understand. He might not even hear—he's consumed by his dwindling faith. I feared the news of the Great Rift might topple him from his god's altar completely. He cannot fathom an entire realm full of strange creatures, all of it beyond the touch of Sol. But he fears it."
"He should," Empath said.
"Have those Hunter rogues told you what to expect?"
"Chaos. Chaos and blood. They say our abilities will act erratically, as if we could swap them between us like items of clothing."
Ophelia cocked an eyebrow. "So Jeraziah and Maliken could feel as you do, share the suffering of our world?"
"It seems so."
"Maybe then these wars would end." Ophelia considered this for a few moments, then shook her head. "Likely better if you or I borrowed Hammerstorm's brute strength and just caved their fool heads in."
"There is something else the Hunters speak of," Empath said. "They call them Amulets of Rebirth. Activating one further scrambles the unknown Great Rift forces which grant them these new abilities. Use an Amulet, they say, and suddenly your abilities are different again."
"Chaos doesn't begin to describe this," Ophelia said. "It will be anarchy on a level previously unknown."
"The Hunter's Guild claim it's quite fun. Sporting, even."
Ophelia studied the group of hardened soldiers, each one covered in skins, claws, teeth, and other trophies taken from their Rift prey. "I suppose they would."
She put her hands on Empath's shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Lead the way into the Great Rift, warrior of Newerth. We will follow. We will close that cursed gateway. And—most important—we will all return."


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Aprons were tied tight as All Faiths Food Bank welcomed more than 200 guests to the Plantation Golf and Country Club for the charity's annual Cooking with Class food fest.
Attending one of All Faiths' top fundraisers, the guests were all aware of what was expected from them at the Sept. 19 event. They would help create a four-course meal in a Tex Mex-style with assistance from the Plantation's head chef, Scott Harrison.
With the emphasis on simple but delicious, Harrison created four recipes beforehand — Rio Grande Salad, Camarones Can Cun, Carne Mezcal and Dulce Apple Enchiladas.
Each table of eight guests was then expected to delight their friends with their culinary talents.
"I'm just glad I was organizing the salad course," admitted Laura Coyle, director of marketing for All Faiths Food Bank.
As master of ceremonies C.J. Fishman announced that the All Faiths annual turkey drive raised about $18,000, Coyle emphasized the importance the evening.
"The donations to our warehouse are always at a critical amount this time of the year," she said. "Tonight, we want to make sure All Faiths remains very much in people's minds."
Andrea Cooper, past chairwoman of the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce, said her commitment to the food bank is a reflection on her childhood.
"I come from a big family," Cooper said. "Food was hard to come by when I was a child. I remember those days so clearly and remember all too well what it was like when the table was bare. We're all here tonight to have some fun, but also to give back to All Faiths Food Bank, who can hopefully make sure the children of Sarasota have a meal to look forward to every day."
Although Victoria Newman's upbringing has little similarity to Cooper's, Newman was no less committed to helping local families.
"Tonight brings awareness," Newman said. "There's nothing like giving back to the members of our community who lack money to keep themselves and their families fed. Because let's face it, I've been blessed in my life. I've never walked in the shoes some people of Sarasota are forced to walk in. I'm here to help those who have hit hard times."
Audrey Shaw, who runs a small hospice in the Adirondacks, was attending the event at the invitation of her mother-in-law, Veronica Meurs.
"I'm here tonight to learn about the creativity of other organizations," Shaw said.
Working with the House of Grace of the Adirondacks hospice, Shaw admitted she was always on the lookout for new ideas to pour back into her quiet community.
"Tonight is such an inspiring event," Shaw said. "I'm simply overawed by the dedication. I hope I can take some of that passion back to New York."
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Aprons were tied tight as All Faiths Food Bank welcomed more than 200 guests to the Plantation Golf and Country Club for the charity's annual Cooking with Class food fest.


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This morning enjoy a city tour of New York which includes some of the most famous sights of Manhattan. Catch glimpses of the famous skyline as you absorb the bustle and energy of the Big Apple. The rest of today is at leisure.
Day 3 of Land Tour – New York – Finger Lakes – Niagara Falls
Today, drive across New York state through the Finger Lakes Country and towards the Canadian border, arriving at one of the world's natural wonders, breath taking Niagara Falls. Indulge in a spot of wine-tasting at Watkins Glen, on the shores of Lake Seneca, named for the Seneca Indian Nation. Spend the evening at the romantic Niagara Falls.
Day 4 of Land Tour – Niagara Falls – Amish Country
This morning you will have time to explore the Falls. Perhaps take a ride aboard the Maid of the Mist and a lunch overlooking the falls (optional), or stroll along Table Rock to view the thundering waters of the Horseshoe Falls. Depart Niagara and travel into Pennsylvania Dutch country, also known as Amish Country, for your overnight stay.
Day 5 of Land Tour – Washington D.C
This morning travel through the Appalachian Mountains along the picturesque Susquehanna River, the longest river on the American East Coast. Visit the historic Gettysburg Civil War National Battleground, site of the largest battle ever fought on American soil and the location where President Lincoln gave his famous address in 1863. From here, you will arrive in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where you may enjoy a memorable evening tour and dinner (optional).
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Enjoy a city tour with such highlights as the U.S. Capitol Building, Supreme Court, Library of Congress, F.B.I. Building, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, White House and Arlington National Cemetery. Spend the remainder of the day exploring some of the many museums comprising the Smithsonian Institute on the National Mall.
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This morning, continue to Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love" and the birthplace of America. This is where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. Here you will see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell on a comprehensive city tour. Join us this evening for an optional dinner at one of Philadelphia's most famous venues for the local delicacy of Philly Cheese Steak.
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Getting beyond Brad's Paradox
The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all "user-centric". These cautions lie in a paradox: "The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it." The italics are his.
Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress.
So let's start with Brad's explanation:
Today, a site that wants to ask for extra information it doesn't really need has a disincentive it has to push you to a form where you have to type it in manually. This makes it far more likely they will ask for this only if they really need it. It makes it really unlikely that they will demand it unless they truly need it. It still happens (I routinely see sites asking for phone numbers they don't need) but it happens less often than if providing this information required merely a click.
Thats because once you make it trivial to hand over your information, you quickly get to the state where only the privacy zealots put up a fight. And thanks to the fundamental theorem of privacy advocacy most people don't care about their privacy until after its invaded this means most people will hand over far more information than needed, and in many cases the few who complain are few enough that companies can safely decide to refuse to deal with them if they wont hand over the information Thats so easy to hand over.
Then he adds this twister: "its against our intuition to think of ease of use as a bug, rather than a feature, but sometimes this can be the case." The emphasis, again, is his.
I believe that Brad's Paradox lies at the juncture of user-centric identity development and VRM, for Vendor Relationship Management. And I believe that overcoming it is a challenge for the latter on behalf of the former.
There is a big (if not good) reason why so many different forms need to be filled on the web, and why it is so far from easy to fill forms, over and over, on so many different websites: each is a silo. Just about every company does business on its own, by itself. Its relationships with customers, even if they are transitory, are private. And, while we're used to thinking of silos as Bad Things in respect to free software and open source code, silos are the very nature of privacy. While we might have trouble with the word "proprietary" in association with software, we don't when it comes to our own private information, dealings and relationships. Same goes for companies doing business. Hence companies need silos around whatever they keep private. So far so good.
The problems come with what companies might do with our private identity data once they get it.
Managing that data is usually some kind of CRM, or Customer Relationship Management system. For all the good these systems can do for customers, managing goes in just one direction. They're managing you, not vice versa. "Relationships" are at the grace of the vendor. We don't set the terms. They do. If they pointlessly require a phone number, we have to give it to them if we want to do business with them. So, if CRM isn't about a real two-way relationship, what is it really about? DestinationCRM answers this way:
CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, is a company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer loyalty. True CRM brings together information from all data sources within an organization (and where appropriate, from outside the organization) to give one, holistic view of each customer in real time. This allows customer facing employees in such areas as sales, customer support, and marketing to make quick yet informed decisions on everything from cross-selling and upselling opportunities to target marketing strategies to competitive positioning tactics.
Once thought of as a type of software, CRM has evolved into a customer-centric philosophy that must permeate an entire organization. There are three key elements to a successful CRM initiative: people, process, and technology. The people throughout a company-from the CEO to each and every customer service rep-need to buy in to and support CRM. A company's business processes must be reengineered to bolster its CRM initiative, often from the view of, How can this process better serve the customer? Firms must select the right technology to drive these improved processes, provide the best data to the employees, and be easy enough to operate that users won't balk. If one of these three foundations is not sound, the entire CRM structure will crumble.
So it's all about sales and marketing. Not relating, except on the vendor's terms. This is where Brad's concerns come in. If all identity management does for users is ease the path to giving vendors more information for their sales and marketing mills it makes us more subordinate, more dependent, more silo-bound, more exposed to abuse and compromise. And less private all the way.
This is why we need VRM: Vendor Relationship Management. The idea behind VRM is managing relationships with vendors on our terms and not just theirs. VRM works on the customer's side to manage both transitory and enduring relationships, across multiple vendors and their silo'd CRM systems. As we put it at ProjectVRM, VRM needs to support independence from vendors and engagement with vendors — and to do both with tools and methods that operate on the customer's side. If it
In the latter capacity VRM tools need to face and engage CRM systems that are not yet built to handle independent customers. And vendors won't welcome independent customers unless there's a good economic reason to do so.
And we have one: The customer who has money to spend. This is what I was talking about a year ago in The Intention Economy:
The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don't need advertising to make them.
The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don't need marketing to make Intention Markets.
The Intention Economy is built around truly open markets, not a collection of silos. In The Intention Economy, customers don't have to fly from silo to silo, like a bees from flower to flower, collecting deal info (and unavoidable hype) like so much pollen. In The Intention Economy, the buyer notifies the market of the intent to buy, and sellers compete for the buyer's purchase. Simple as that.
The Intention Economy is built around more than transactions. Conversations matter. So do relationships. So do reputation, authority and respect. Those virtues, however, are earned by sellers (as well as buyers) and not just "branded" by sellers on the minds of buyers like the symbols of ranchers burned on the hides of cattle.
The Intention Economy is about buyers finding sellers, not sellers finding (or "capturing") buyers.
VRM serves intention. It's what the customer uses to express and control that intention, and how vendors relate to it. (Among many other things, potentially, but we're talking about intention right now.)
In a VRM system, IDM (identity management) provides (perhaps even defaults) to the choice not to provide data the customer would rather keep private, including names, addresses and every other piece of information not required to do business at hand. And let's face it, in many (if not most) retail transactions there is no reason to give the vendor anything more than our money.
In fact, if we look at markets from the customer perspective, there is little need to burden vendors with knowing all kinds of crap about ourselves unless we buy into the belief system that a free market is your-choice-of-silo, and that all goodness comes only from vendor CRM systems.
In that Intention Economy essay, I gave an example we often use in both IDM and VRM discussions: expressing the intention to rent a car:
In The Intention Economy, a car rental customer should be able to say to the car rental market, "I'll be skiing in Park City from March 20-25. I want to rent a 4-wheel drive SUV. I belong to Avis Wizard, Budget FastBreak and Hertz 1 Club. I don't want to pay up front for gas or get any insurance. What can any of you companies do for me?" and have the sellers compete for the buyer's business.
There are two important new kinds of variables at work here. One is fresh information coming from potential customers that might be useful to car rental agencies information that can serve to inform and expand the scope of their CRM systems and even their product offerings. If lots of customers want SUVs or vans that seat six, that's useful data. Right now CRM systems only allow input on variables that they've pre-selected. That doesn't need to change, but it could stand to be better informed. The other is data limited to all that's required to do business. Even if I say I belong to an agency's club, I may not need to give my membership data until it's time to actually do business. To tie the two together, my membership preferences (e.g. to decline insurance and to return with a full tank of gas) also don't need to live only inside the company CRM. They can be mine to share with any agency.
We've lived many generations in an industrial age that put consumers at the mercy of producers. We're not used to thinking about the customer being fully independent of vendors, much less about putting tools for independence in the hands of customers for the good of the supply as well as the demand side. But it's interesting to start thinking about what it means to actually relate to a marketplace and not merely to respond to pleas for attention and sales.
The other day I was talking with a high-ranking executive at one of the major retail chains. He asked what the payoff of VRM could be for his store. I replied, "Eliminating guesswork about what customers actually want". He said "That's a good one". Think of the billions spent on the guesswork that comprises most of marketing, advertising and PR. And how much less that becomes when customers are no longer just "targets" for hit or miss "messages", when intentions are actually known and served without the vendor needing to maintain databases filled with useless information about phantoms.
In any case, whatever VRM cannot succeed unless it overcomes Brad's Paradox. If it makes that jump, it will bring IDM systems along for the ride.


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ALBANY -- The two men facing terrorism charges for concocting a plot to create a death ray were ordered held without bail by a federal judge Thursday, as more details emerged about their plot. "It is clear by the evidence presented that both men present a real, clear and present danger if they were released," U.S. District Court Judge Christian Hummel said of Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson. In a 122-page criminal complaint, the men are accused of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The charges arose out of a nearly year-long FBI investigation involving undercover agents, confidential informants and a successful sting operation in the town of Schaghticoke. The lead prosecutor in the case, Executive Assistant District Attorney John Duncan, also revealed disturbing details not included in the lengthy criminal complaint about Crawford's actions on the eve of his arrest Tuesday. "Even before the arrest, Crawford escorted agents to a location in the Albany area as a target," Duncan told the court. "It was an area mosque." On the morning of his arrest, Crawford took agents to a second potential target to test his "death ray," an Islamic center located in Schenectady, Duncan said. Later that day Crawford brought his device to the now abandoned Shorty's Auto Body on Route 40 in Schaghticoke, where federal agents had set up a sting operation. "He (Crawford) began the process of connecting the remote device to the X-ray system," Duncan said. "He brought the Feight-built remote triggering device to the location and began to initiate operation." An FBI swat team swarmed in and arrested Crawford before he could fully activate it, Duncan said. The FBI had consulted some of the nation's foremost experts in order to determine the danger Crawford and Feight's device posed, Duncan said. "(They) confirmed that these devices and their systems would be deadly if they were assembled as these defendant's had intended," he said. Crawford's attorney, Kevin Luibrand, took issue with the government's claims of danger. "He's a high school graduate and a car mechanic," Luibrand said. "He's not capable of creating ions that could kill people." Luibrand consulted his own experts, including a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute engineering professor whom he said characterized the scheme as "far-fetched and implausible." Feight's attorney, George Baird, echoed Luibrand's claims. "This was nonsense," he said. "No one could design a machine that could do what the government says it could do." Baird said his client was a valued employee at a Cobleskill quarry, a father, an Elks member, and an owner of his own small business who posed no danger to the community. Duncan rebutted both defense attorney's claims just before Hummel's ruling. "Tuesday he (Crawford) powered up the device," Duncan said, pointing at the defendant. "He did everything except flip the switch to initiate radiation -- which he said was because he was afraid of the potential exposure." At the conclusion of the hearing, U.S. Marshalls escorted both men to the Albany County Correctional facility. In the meantime, Duncan said the government could convene a grand jury in an effort to seek an indictment against both men. The next hearing in the case is set for July 10 at 1:30 p.m. Charles Sweeney may be reached at 270-1291. RELATED STORIES AND VIDEOS:FBI Schaghticoke raid leads to terror plot arrests VIDEO: Terror Arrests Scientists: X-ray weapon 'stuff of comic books'
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The 'Crisis of Life' video project wants to communicate to you the urgent need to recognize that the biodiversity crisis is a global environmental crisis with potentially devastating consequences for human well-being which are on par with the potential threats posed by the water crisis and the pollution crisis.
The continuing decrease of plant and animal populations and the resulting extinction of species and unravelling of ecosystems are still too often considered just sad events happening somewhere far away, like the disappearance of charismatic species like tigers and pandas, but not of a threatening nature to daily life.
However, these interviews with leading biodiversity scientists and activists make clear that these biodiversity crashes are increasingly impacting human well-being directly. Especially the quality of life of poor and rural people, but eventually of everybody will be more and more impacted when, for example:
● fisheries collapse leaving entire communities unemployed,
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We've got a special excerpt from Magnus Flyte's City of Dark Magic, out now from Penguin Books:
Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it's whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven's manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood.
Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved," she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide.
City of Dark Magic could be called a rom-com paranormal suspense novel—or it could simply be called one of the most entertaining novels of the year.
Chapter One
Sarah picked up the envelope and sniffed it. She had an especially sensitive nose, and something about the thick stationery was odd.
"I think it's a letter," said Bailey, with whom Sarah shared a tiny office on the top floor of Exeter Hall. They always gave the music grad students the worst offices. This one was unheated in winter, stiflingly hot in summer, and smelled faintly of mice.
"I can see it's a letter," said Sarah, moving Bailey's troubadour bobblehead an inch to the left, knowing this would drive him nuts. They enjoyed finding ways to outmaneuver each other. Bailey was an expert on madrigals, while Sarah's recent work at Thoreau College in Boston focused on the emerging field of neuromusicology. Sarah had spent most of last week wondering about the differences in the brains of musicians and non-musicians when it came to pitch perception, and whether pitch was something that non-musicians could conceptualize. She had forced Bailey to listen to her musings. It was only fair, since he had been playing a particularly annoying madrigal, "Hail the Buds of Spring," over and over on his recorder.
Sarah ripped open the heavy brown paper envelope, and slid its contents—a thick wad of paper neatly tied in brown string—onto her lap. Bailey picked the discarded envelope up off her desk.
"It's from Lobkowicz Palace, Prague, Czech Republic."
"I can read, Bailey," Sarah said, untying the string. "And it's pronounced: LOB-ko-witz."
The name was intriguing. In the early 1800s a Prince Lobkowicz had been a patron of Haydn and Beethoven, who had each dedicated a number of works to the prince as a thank-you. She hadn't realized that the Lobkowicz family was still around, if these were the same ones.
Sarah looked down. The wad of paper looked like . . . money. Her jaw fell open and she looked more closely.
"Czech crowns," said Bailey, leaning over her shoulder. "You know, it's illegal to send cash through the mail."
Sarah examined the inch-thick pile. A curly bearded king stared intently at something just below the left edge of the banknote.
"What's a hundred worth?" Sarah asked Bailey, who quickly googled the answer. "Five dollars and fifty-seven cents," he said.
"Oh," said Sarah, who had been hoping the crown was worth a bit more. "But there are a lot of them here." She unfolded a letter that had accompanied the currency.
"Well?" prompted Bailey. "What's it all about? Are they trying to smuggle out their money?"
"No," Sarah said, still reading. "They're offering me a job for the summer." Europe. Sarah had never been to Europe, although she had optimistically kept an up-to-date passport since she was sixteen. No one in her family had ever been to Europe, at least since they had fled the great famines of the nineteenth century. She looked up from the letter.
"This is just cab fare from the airport to the palace. They're offering me two hundred thousand crowns for the summer."
"That's almost twelve thousand dollars!" Bailey exclaimed.
Sarah blinked. Her fellowship only covered the basics, which left her in the usual state of doctoral-candidate poverty. She hadn't grown up with money; she was the first person in her family to go to college, let alone pursue a PhD. Twelve thousand dollars sounded to her like a million dollars.
A trip to Europe. To Prague.
Prague. It was too bad it wasn't Vienna, since she had mastered German as an undergrad and Vienna was where Sarah's personal and professional hero, Ludwig van Beethoven, had largely lived and worked. She might be able to finagle a side trip though.
"What do they want you to do?" asked Bailey. "Not that it matters, because you'll do it."
Sarah read further. "It's about a museum the Lobkowicz family is opening," she reported. "They have a huge collection of art, musical instruments, weapons, ceramics, books. A trove of handwritten scores: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven. Letters and other documents to do with music. They need help sorting, deciding which things should go on display, which need restoration work." Sarah leaned forward and started typing at her computer.
"Are you looking up Lobkowicz?" Bailey asked. "'Cause I'm already there. One of the oldest Bohemian families, princes of the Holy Roman Empire, knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, enormous fortune, politically powerful. Joseph Franz Maximilian, 7th Prince Lobkowicz, was a patron of Haydn and Beethoven, who dedicated—"
"Yes, I know about him," Sarah interrupted.
"Hereditary titles were abolished in 1918," Bailey rattled on. "So they're not really princes anymore. That sucks."
"Maximilian Lobkowicz," Sarah said, reading, "1888 to 1967. He was a patriot and a supporter of the newly formed Czechoslovak State. He fled the Nazis in 1939 and they seized the entire family fortune."
"So they lost everything," Bailey said, picking up the story. "Until 1945 when the family returned after the war and got everything restituted back to them! And then . . . oh. Oops."
"And then the communists confiscated it all again in 1948," Sarah said. "The family was forced to flee a second time. It looks like everything stayed lost until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The family has been gathering up the stuff since then, I guess. And now they want to open a museum."
"Well, that's all clear enough," Bailey said. "But why do they want you?"
Sarah didn't take offense at the question. She knew herself to be a gifted student, exceptional even, and she had experience with archival work. But she wasn't a world-class musicologist—not yet. She had been a student of such a person, which was how she knew she wasn't at that level.
Dr. Absalom Sherbatsky's "Music Cognition" seminar was by far the hardest class to get into in Sarah's graduate program. In fact, Sherbatsky had been known to cancel his course altogether if there were no applicants he deemed worthy to receive his wisdom. (He had refused to teach at Harvard after a class there had "failed" him.) When it was announced that Dr. Sherbatsky would be leading a special series of lectures with the disarming title "Beethoven: In One Ear and Out the Other," Sarah was intrigued.
For the first class, Sherbatsky strode in with a boom box circa 1985 and popped in a tape of Beethoven's Fidelio Overture, op. 72.
"You've heard it before?" Sherbatsky smiled, all mock innocence. "Really? You know this one?" He folded his arms and tucked his chin into his Brooks Brothers shirt, closed his eyes. A few of the more sycophantic students copied this pose. Sarah leaned forward, intent on recognizing the recording. Hans Knappertsbusch and Munich's Bavarian State Orchestra most likely.
Sherbatsky played the overture through to the conclusion and then asked for a student to write out the French horn passage in the second theme of the allegro on the chalkboard. Several hands shot up eagerly.
"So you'll all agree?" Sherbatsky asked, when this was done. "This is correct?" Nodding all around. "This is what you heard?" More nodding.
"No," said Sarah. Sherbatsky shot a look her way. "It's what it should be," Sarah said. "But it's not what's on that recording." Sarah approached the chalkboard and made a quick adjustment to the second measure. "The second horn made kind of a silly mistake. The recording is live, obviously, but not performance. Dress rehearsal, I'm thinking."
"Obviously, the presence of the audience changes the sound," someone said. Sherbatsky turned to Sarah.
"Well that," Sarah said. "Yeah. But also the musicians wear different shoes for rehearsal. Sounds like the first violin has on boots. A rainy day in Munich maybe?"
That had been pure invention, that thing with the boots, and she was pretty sure Sherbatsky knew it, but she was right about the second French horn player making a mistake.
Many of the seminars had involved strange "empathic listening" exercises, where you had to play something of Ludwig's later period on the piano or violin while wearing giant sound deprivation headphones. Sherbatsky had made recordings of "simulated noise" as well, his attempts to guess at what Beethoven had been able to hear of his own work at different periods of his life, and different places. The composer had actually had moments, even near the end of his life, where the ability to hear had returned in brief flashes. Sarah was entranced, and became Sherbatsky's star pupil.
For their final project, Sherbatsky had simply said to the class, "Surprise me." Sarah called a friend who worked at Mass General, and the girl had snuck Sarah into her lab and done a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan of Sarah's brain while she thought through the entire Ninth Symphony. When Sarah presented the printout to Sherbatsky, he had wept.
Last winter she asked him to supervise her PhD thesis, even though he was known to loathe overseeing student work. He surprised her by agreeing eagerly, saying that he thought Sarah had exceptional sensory abilities. He actually hugged her brain, which had been awkward but flattering. But, Sherbatsky said, they would have to begin in the fall. He was off on sabbatical for the spring semester. He was vague about his destination, which was not unusual. Sarah wasn't sure if Sherbatsky knew where he was most of the time. She hadn't heard from him since he left in January.
So why hadn't the Lobkowiczes hired someone like him who was recognized the world over as the man who knew Beethoven better than Beethoven knew Beethoven? Or some acknowledged expert from the Royal College of Music or someplace like that?
Why her?
At the bottom of the letter was an e-mail address. If Sarah accepted the offer, she was to send an acknowledgment at once to Miles Wolfmann, head of the Lobkowicz Museum Collection. Travel accommodations would then be made. She should be prepared to leave immediately.
Sarah decided that a brief acceptance message was best. She could have pretended that accepting meant canceling equally glamorous plans, but why bother? However, she needn't tell Miles Wolfmann that the only people she'd be disappointing by her absence this summer were the members of Boston Sports Club, where she moonlighted as a spin-class instructor.
How had the Lobkowicz family even heard of her? True, she had published, but only in academic journals. Had Sherbatsky himself recommended her? That was plausible, and Sarah decided to accept it as the most likely explanation.
She left the office and biked quickly back to the tiny Porter Square apartment she shared with a roommate. Adrenaline and excitement kicked up her pace, and she beat her best time by forty-five seconds.
Sarah knew she should call her mother and tell her the news. Actually, the person she really wanted to tell was her father. Even though it had been thirteen years since his death, she still wanted to tell him things.
Sarah felt a weird mix of dread and resentment when she thought about what her mom's reaction would be to Sarah gallivanting off to Europe for the summer. Her mom, Judy, had grown up very poor and dropped out of high school when her own mom died and she was left to take care of younger siblings. Judy was cleaning houses for a living when she met Sarah's dad, an electrician she let into a fancy mansion on Beacon Hill so he could fix the crystal chandeliers for her employers.
Sarah's dad had been delighted that his daughter loved reading and school. Her mom said all the right things ("We're very proud of you"), but even when Sarah was very little she had the sense that with every book she read, she was somehow distancing herself from her mom. This news wasn't likely to improve matters.
Sarah sighed, stowed her bike away, and climbed the stairs to her apartment. Alessandro, her roommate, greeted her at the door, clad only in a towel and carrying two raspberry-colored cocktails. Sarah accepted one gratefully.
"Campari and pomegranate juice," Alessandro purred in his thick Italian accent. "You will adore me forever."
None of Sarah's friends could believe that Sarah wasn't sleeping with Alessandro, who was hot in both the classical Renaissance sense and in a totally cheesy vampire movie one too. Sarah, who took a scholarly interest in her own healthy libido, could only explain it as a matter of pheromones. When it came to sex, she simply followed her nose, and her nose never led her to Alessandro. "You're spoiled," her friends said. Which was probably true, since Sarah never seemed to have any trouble finding a suitable partner for the mood, and the mood occurred frequently. "What about common interests, intimacy, trust?" other friends said. "Don't you want that?" At this point, Sarah usually had to hide a yawn.
Now she followed her roommate into their cramped but immaculate (that was Alessandro's doing) kitchen and showed him the letter from Prague.
"The first thing you must do when you get there," Alessandro said, "is visit Il Bambino di Praga, and say a prayer to him."
Sarah rolled her eyes. Alessandro was a scientist. He was studying yeast, although Sarah wasn't totally clear on the specifics. Mostly because the way Alessandro pronounced the word "yeast" always cracked her up. She knew his work had something to do with brain functions, but in a way that didn't seem to overlap at all with her own interest in music and the brain.
"What's a bambino of Praga?" she asked.
Alessandro shook his head in mock despair. "What kind of a nice Catholic girl are you?" he asked.
"I'm not," said Sarah. That, too, had been a showdown with her mother. The day she had decided that she wasn't going to mass anymore.
"It's an ancient statue of Gesu Bambino, the baby Jesus, that has magical powers when you pray to him."
"This from the man who stares into an electron microscope all day." It never ceased to amuse and perplex her that Alessandro, a neuroanatomist, freely switched from evil eyes and the magical abilities of saints to Einstein's unfinished unified field theory in a microsecond.
"Sarah," Alessandro said, sternly. "There is much more to this life than what we can see even through an electron microscope. You will learn, when you go to Prague. There is magic there." He crossed himself. "Dark magic. Prague is a threshold."
"Prague is a city," she said firmly. "A place where, just like here, the rules of science apply."
"Rules of science," Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head. "Eighty-six point one billion neurons. And glial cells surround neurons—eighty-four point six billion glia. For over century, cento anni, we know glia are there, but not what they do. Now we know they modulate neurotransmission. But how? We don't know. And universe? Ninety-six percent of the universe is dark matter and dark energy. What are they? Chissá? No one knows. I tell you, rules of science are molto misterioso."
Sarah downed the rest of the Campari. The doorbell rang.
"One of your lovers?" Alessandro raised an eyebrow. "I thought you say no sex till you finish paper on pitch perception in the brain?"
Sarah shook her head. "I'll see who it is," she said, and handed Alessandro her glass. "If we're going to talk about dark matter I think I need another drink."
Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from City of Dark Magic © Magnus Flyte, 2012


text: Just ran across an old photocopy of this Captain Carrot page by Scott Shaw, with an appearance by the JSA in the lower left panel, drawn by me. I guess since DC has put the Captain Carrot showcase back on their publishing schedule, this might be relevant. I did a few things like this that kind of flew under the radar. The photocopy was supplied in two pieces, probably by Roy Thomas, in the days before scanners and home printers.


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Teen charged with creating fake Craigslist ad soliciting another girl for sex
Union Township teenager says random people called, texted her inappropriate messages
A 17-year-old girl is facing charges in juvenile court after police say she set up a fake Craigslist advertisement that contained the cellphone number of another juvenile girl.
Southwest Regional Police Chief John Hartman said the 17-year-old started receiving calls and text messages of a sexual nature, including one photo of a nude male body part. She called police and said she was scared because they knew she lived in Washington County.
"He goes and says 'I saw your ad on Craigslist,' and that's when I started getting freaked out," the victim said of the sender of the first message she received.
For 45 minutes, she said more messages poured in from adult men soliciting her for sex, unaware she was a juvenile.
"Out of nowhere, all these messages started flooding in, and they started getting more graphic. I was receiving pictures, then I started receiving phone calls," she said.
The girl told police an ad was placed on Craigslist advertising sex and using her personal cell number. The ad has since been removed, but police were able to reconstruct the ad. (SLIDESHOW: See screen grabs of the ad & messages to the girl) | (VIDEO: Watch the Video Report from Action News' Ashlie Hardway)
"The problem is it isn't a joke. The problem is, we didn't know what information was divulged or what information whomever had developed on her," said Hartman. "You opened the door up to a lot of problems. There are people out there that are dangerous. There are people out there that mean people harm."
The victim said she suspected her friend, who is a known prankster, so she called her after receiving the first few messages.
"I basically said, 'Listen, is this you doing this to me?' She told me 'No, no, no; I'm out with my other friend. I would never do this to you.' I was like 'Are you sure? Because I'm calling the police. I'm freaking out,'" she said.
The teen called police who began their four-day investigation securing search warrants and tracking down the origin of the ad. Police said it led right to the friend the victim initially suspected.
Hartman said police interviewed the suspect, who confessed to the act. She was charged with dissemination of obscene materials to minors, unlawful communications with minors and harassment.


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Bolton exploit Birmingham errors
Bolton finally clinched their first Sky Bet Championship win of the season at the 11th attempt thanks to two defensive howlers from Birmingham.
The Trotters were enduring their worst start to a league season in 111 years having failed to win any of their opening 10 matches, one of only five teams in England's top four divisions still chasing their first success.
But that changed at St Andrew's as they held strong to claim a narrow 2-1 victory against a Blues side who were chasing a fourth successive triumph on home soil for the first time since 2007.
The hosts were their own worst enemy as Dan Burn misjudged Medo's hopeful clearance upfield after just 12 minutes to allow Jermaine Beckford to race through and open the scoring.
Beckford headed against the crossbar from close range after the interval before former City midfielder Neil Danns capitalised on another glaring error, this time goalkeeper Darren Randolph flapping at Liam Feeney's cross.
Fit-again substitute Nikola Zigic gave Birmingham hope when he headed home his first goal of the season but their rally failed to produce an equaliser, with a late handball appeal against Feeney waved away.
It meant Bolton were left to celebrate heading into the international break, with their mere 375 fans in attendance enjoying a rare victorious trip back up the M6.
No sooner had David Murphy's free-kick tested Bolton goalkeeper Adam Bogdan with the game's first effort than the visitors countered immediately to break the deadlock.
Medo launched a hopeful clearance which Burn, just inside his own half, completely misjudged, allowing Beckford to get in behind and sprint clear before slotting calmly past Randolph.
Chris Burke, as has so often been the case this season, was Birmingham's liveliest outlet and his teasing ball fizzed across the face of goal.
Bogdan dived full stretch to his left in the 40th minute to keep out Callum Reilly's goalbound effort from long range, preserving Bolton's half-time advantage.
Birmingham again quickly imposed their territorial dominance at the start of the second half but once more it was the visitors who posed the biggest threat, this time 11 minutes into the half.
Feeney sent in a right-wing cross and Beckford, having again lost Burn, headed straight against the crossbar from six yards when he really should have scored.
Blues boss Lee Clark turned to Zigic and Lee Novak in a bid to get his side firing, and it immediately added extra impetus.
However, the Blues bubble burst when Randolph failed to collect Feeney's routine cross, allowing Danns to tap home from close range.
The home side immediately gave themselves hope as Zigic made his presence felt, connecting with Burke's deep free-kick to send a looping header over Bogdan.
Blues pressed in search of a leveller but failed to really trouble the Wanderers stopper, with Reilly's penalty appeals for handball against Feeney dismissed.
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As expected, top welterweight contenders Johny Hendricks (13-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) and Martin Kampmann (20-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC) will meet in the co-main event of November's UFC 154 event.
UFC officials confirmed the long-rumored matchup on Tuesday's new edition of FUEL TV's "UFC Tonight."
UFC 154 takes place Nov. 17 at Bell Centre in Montreal, and a Georges St-Pierre vs. Carlos Condit title unification is expected to serve as the main event.
The Hendricks vs. Kampmann fight is expected to serve a No. 1 contender contest, though things could certainly be shuffled if a rumored St-Pierre vs. Anderson Silva superfight comes to fruition following UFC 154.
Hendricks claimed his top spot by besting Josh Koscheck at "UFC on FOX
3: Diaz vs. Miller," which brought his current win streak to four.
Kampmann, meanwhile, continued a stunning career resurgence with a TKO
of Jake Ellenberger at The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale this past June.
Both had reasonable claim to meet the winner of the title-unification
bout planned for November. Now a clear contender should emerge from the crowd.
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Hittite sites
The Hittite sites centred on the village of Boğazkale, 150km east of Ankara, are the most impressive and significant in the whole of Anatolia, and are appropriately located amid rolling countryside that has changed little through the centuries.
This area was once the heart of the Hittite Empire, with Hattuşa, spread south of the modern village, as its capital. The temple site of Yazılıkaya is a few kilometres east, while remote Alacahöyük, 25km north, is worth the trip if you have your own transport.
Excavation on these sites began in earnest in 1905, and many of the objects unearthed are now housed in Ankara's Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. If you've already seen the museum, a visit to the original excavations is doubly interesting; if not, a quick visit to the new archeological museum in nearby Çorum is definitely worthwhile.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly redesigned Sotheby's International Realty SIR.COM, which was built to showcase the network's listings in an immersive and visual way that is unique to the industry.
"The new sir.com was created to tell the story of a home in a more editorial way, not the commoditized approach that can often be found in our industry," said Wendy Purvey, chief marketing officer, Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC. "We believe the art of marketing a home is based on showcasing its soul, so every aspect of the new site works toward this goal."
The design changes include an increased focus on full-screen, high-definition video throughout the site, from the homepage to property detail pages, to allow for a more immersive consumer experience. High-resolution photography also plays a more prominent role. The property detail pages feature: slideshows that tell a home's story via the captions, custom video, location overviews that provide insight into the local area via video and text, and a seller or expert quote that offers a personal view of the property.
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"At the foundation of the Sotheby's International Realty brand is our focus on lifestyle," said John Passerini, vice president of interactive marketing for the brand. "Our lifestyle search is more visual, and our focus on video and photography allows our affiliates to showcase the various lifestyles a home offers that cannot be properly articulated in words only. Our fully responsive site works on any mobile device and allows our network members to do what we believe they do best: uniquely showcase extraordinary homes around the world anytime, anywhere and in any language."
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The streets of Boston, Mass., were deserted today due to a widespread lockdown as police hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Photos of the empty city have been pouring in via social media.
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Dell (DELL) and Virgin Media (VMED) say the exact same thing to me: stocks are cheap and companies want to bring out that value. Oh, and they want to do it now.
I have often heard Michael Dell talk about how his company hasn't gotten enough credit for all of the terrific things it does BESIDES make personal computers. His company did trade like a pure hardware company, as if it offered nothing beyond the box and for anything else you needed another company in there helping.
These days, when you need a solution you don't think of Dell. But a lot of municipalities and smaller to medium-sized businesses do. Michael Dell says that Dell is about trying to help them while the bigger companies, the ones offering integrated software and hardware soup to nuts like Oracle (ORCL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), aren't as interested in their business.
You take the company private and maybe you can position it as one that has more of a consulting shining crown and less of a secular declining personal computer business. It can offer storage deals and it can offer security deals and all sorts of other big-data retrieval help that is proprietary. Yes, Dell's been stung by a lack of a tablet product. But maybe newly-found investor Microsoft (MSFT) can help there because other companies, notably Hewlett-Packard, are trying to do their own tablet and don't welcome Microsoft's competitive entry into the market.
Virgin Media's a case where, like Dell, the cash flow is consistent and growing. It looks to me like they don't cut the cable cord in Europe either, even when times get tough, but the valuation is off kilter vs. the franchise. This deal affords a way to bring out value, although I have to point out that you do have a double since last Summer's low point related to European woes.
Of course these aren't just deals driven by Michael Dell and the current management of Virgin Media. You are getting the smartest guy in the industry, John Malone of Liberty Global, driving the bus on the Virgin Media deal. Malone always makes money for his partners, but also, more importantly, his shareholders.
We've got Glenn Hutchins and Silver Lake ponying up for the massive $25 billion deal that is the going-private transaction of Dell. Again, Silver Lake is a very smart buyer, if not the smartest, and that private equity company has purchased some of the most distressed tech companies out there and made them work.
What does this say about the whole market when you can get these two deals the same day? To me it says that there are plenty more targets out there, targets that are a lot more undervalued than Dell and Virgin Media. Dell was at $9, but it has been down for years and years. But Virgin Media had shot up like a rocket and has been outperforming so many other companies in the business. I like the fact that Malone must believe either that Europe is healing or that it will heal, because if it were still declining and the wealth going away you don't want to own a cable company levered to the continent.
Let's not forget that if you add in the very big tech deal, Acme Packet (APKT), yesterday, you have two tech companies that were regarded as undervalued by Michael Dell and Larry Ellison, two of the deacons of tech, and a third, considered undervalued by the smartest guy in the cable and, some would say, media industry.
Talk about verification of this move. How about maybe that the move's still in its infancy because of the values that have been left behind by the state of the world in general?
Three deals. Three bulls in Ellison, Dell and Malone.
Three knowledgeable buyers who have a history of doing the right thing.
I like it.


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The newly founded Belgian design studio fox and freeze started by James van Vossel and Tom de Vrieze on October 2009 recently presented their first project.
The 'ff1' lounge chair is made from one square sheet of synthetic felt, which is twisted and twisted again, just like a scarf, ending in an asymmetric, stable object. The structure is self-supporting, so beside the flax rope which contracts the chair, there is no additional material needed.
more felt products @ Architonic
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